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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13551 ***
+
+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 50.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {305}
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+NOTES:--Page
+
+  A Note on "Small Words". 305
+  Gray's Elegy, by Bolton Corney. 306
+  Gray's Elegy in Portuguese. 306
+  Further Notes on the Authorship of Henry VIII. 306
+  Queen Elizabeth and Sir Henry Nevill, by Lord
+    Braybrooke. 307
+  Minor Notes:--Whales--Bookbinding--Scott's
+    Waverley--Satyayrata. 307
+
+QUERIES:--
+  The Black Rood of Scotland. 308
+  Minor Queries:--Trogus Pompeius--Mortuary
+    Stanzas--Laird of Grant--Bastille, Records of,--Orkney
+    under Norwegians--Swift's Works--Pride of the
+    Morning--Bishop Durdent and the Staffordshire Historians--Pope and
+    Bishop Burgess--Daniel's Irish New Testament--Ale Draper--Eugene
+    Aram--Latin Epigram--Couplet in Defoe--Books
+    wanted to refer to--Watermarks in
+    Writing-paper--Puzzling Epitaph--Cornish MSS.--Bilderdijk
+    the Poet--Egyptian MSS.--Scandinavian
+    Priesthood--Thomas Volusemus. 309
+
+REPLIES:--
+  Curfew. 311
+  Engelmann's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum. 312
+  Crozier and Pastoral Staff, by Rev. M. Walcott. 313
+  Parsons, the Staffordshire Giant, by E.F. Rimbault,
+    L.L.D. 314
+  Wormwood Wine, by S.W. Singer, &c. 315
+  Replies to Minor Queries:--Feltham's Works--Harefinder--Fool
+    or a Physician--Papers of Perjury--Pilgrim's
+    Road--Capture of Henry VI.--Andrew
+    Beckett--Passage in Vida--Quem Deus--Countess
+    of Desmond--Confession--Cayell, Meaning of,--Lord
+    Kingsborough's Mexico--Aërostation--Concolinel--Andrewes's
+    Tortura Torti, &c. 315
+
+MISCELLANEOUS:--
+  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 319
+  Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 319
+  Notices to Correspondents. 319
+  Advertisements. 320
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+A NOTE ON "SMALL WORDS."
+
+    "And ten small words creep on in one dull line."
+
+Most ingenious! most felicitous! but let no man despise little words,
+despite of the little man of Twickenham. He himself knew better, but
+there was no resisting the temptation of such a line as that. Small
+words he says, in plain prosaic criticism, are generally "stiff and
+languishing, but they may be beautiful to express melancholy."
+
+The English language is a language of small words. It is, says Swift,
+"overstocked with monosyllables." It cuts down all its words to the
+shortest possible dimensions: a sort of half-Procrustes, which lops but
+never stretches. In one of the most magnificent passages in Holy Writ,
+that, namely, which describes the death of Sisera:--
+
+    "At her feet he bowed, he fell: at her feet he bowed, he fell,
+    he lay down: where he bowed, there he fell down dead."
+
+There are twenty-two monosyllables to three of greater length, or rather
+to the same dissyllable thrice repeated; and that too in common parlance
+proncounced as a monosyllable. The passage in the Book of Ezekiel, which
+Coleride is said to have considered the most sublime in the whole
+Bible,--
+
+    "And He said unto me, son of man, can these bones live? And I
+    answered, O Lord God, though knowest,"--
+
+contains seventeen monosyllables to three others. And in the most grand
+passage which commences the Gospel of St. John, from the first to the
+fourteenth verses, inclusive, there are polysyllables twenty-eight,
+monosyllables two hundred and one. This it may be said is poetry, but
+not verse, and therefore makes but little against the critic. Well then,
+out of his own mouth shall he be confuted. In the fourth epistle of his
+_Essay on Man_, a specimen selected purely at random from his works, and
+extending altogether to three hundred and ninety-eight lines, there are
+no less than twenty-seven (that is, a trifle more than one out of every
+fifteen,) made up _entirely_ of monosyllables: and over and above these,
+there are one hundred and fifteen which have in them only one word of
+greater length; and yet there are few dull creepers among the lines of
+Pope.
+
+The early writers, the "pure wells of English undefiled," are full of
+"small words."
+
+Hall, in one of the most exquisite of his satires, speaking of the
+vanity of "adding house to house, and field to field," has these most
+beautiful lines,--
+
+  "Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store,
+  And he that cares for most shall find no more!"
+
+"What harmonious monosyllables!" says Mr. Gifford; and what critic will
+refuse to echo his exclamation? The same writer is full of monosyllabic
+lines, and he is among the most energetic {306} of satirists. By the
+way, it is not a little curious, that in George Webster's _White Devil,
+or Vittoria Corombona_, almost the same thought is also clothed in two
+monosyllabic lines:--
+
+  "His wealth is summed, and this is all his store:
+  This poor men get, and great men get no more."
+
+Was Young dull? Listen, for it is indeed a "solemn sound:"--
+
+  "The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
+  Save by its loss, to give it then a tongue
+  Was wise in man."
+
+Was Milton tame? Hear the "lost archangel" calling upon Hell to receive
+its new possessor:--
+
+        "One who brings
+  A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.
+  The mind is its own place, and in _itself_
+  Can make a heav'n of hell,--a hell of heav'n.
+  What _matter_ where, if I be still the same,
+  And what I should be; all but less than he
+  Whom _thunder_ hath made _greater_? Here at least
+  We shall be free; the _Almighty_ hath not built
+  Here for his _envy_; will not drive us hence:
+  Here we may reign _secure_; and in my choice
+  To reign is worth _ambition_, though in hell:
+  _Better_ to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n!"
+
+A great conjunction of little words! Are monosyllables passionless?
+Listen to the widowed Constance:--
+
+  "Thou mayst, thou shalt! I will not go with thee!
+  I will _instruct_ my _sorrows_ to be proud;
+  For grief is proud, and makes his _owner_ stout;
+  To me, and to the state of my great grief,
+  Let kings _assemble_; for my grief's so great,
+  That no _supporter_ but the huge firm earth
+  Can hold it up: here I and _sorrow_ sit;
+  Here is my throne: bid kings come bow to it."
+
+Six polysyllables only in eight lines!
+
+The ingenuity of Pope's line is great, but the criticism false. We
+applaud it only because we have never taken the trouble to think about
+the matter, and take it for granted that all monosyllabic lines must
+"creep" like that which he puts forward as a specimen. The very
+frequency of monosyllables in the compositions of our language is one
+grand cause of that frequency passing uncommented upon by the general
+reader. The investigation prompted by the criticism will serve only to
+show its unsoundness.
+
+K.I.P.B.T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ON GRAY'S ELEGY.
+
+If required to name the most popular English poem of the last century, I
+should perhaps fix on the _Elegy_ of Gray. According to Mason, it "ran
+through eleven editions in a very short space of time." If he means
+_separate_ editions, I can point out six other impressions in the
+life-time of the poet, besides those in miscellaneous collections viz.
+In _Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray_, London, 1753. Folio--1765. Folio--and in
+_Poems by Mr. Gray_, London, 1768. small 8o.--Glasgow 1768. 4o.--London.
+A new edition, 1768. small 8o. A new edition, 1770. small 8o. So much
+has been said of translations and imitations, that I shall confine
+myself to the text.
+
+Of the _first_ separate edition I am so fortunate as to possess a copy.
+It is thus entitled:--
+
+    "_An elegy wrote in a country church-yard_. LONDON: printed for
+    R. Dodsley in Pal-mall; and sold by M. Cooper in
+    Pater-noster-row, 1751. Price six-pense. 4o six leaves.
+
+    "Advertisement.
+
+    "The following POEM came into my hands by accident, if the
+    general approbation with which this little piece has been
+    spread, may be call'd by so slight a term as accident. It is
+    this approbation which makes it unnecessary for me to make any
+    apology but to the author: as he cannot but feel some
+    satisfaction in having pleas'd so many readers already, I
+    flatter myself he will forgive my communicating that pleasure to
+    many more.
+
+    "The EDITOR."
+
+The history of this publication is given by Gray himself, in a letter to
+Walpole, dated in 1751, and needs no repetition; but I must observe, as
+a remarkable circumstance, that the poem was reprinted _anonymously_, in
+its separate form, as late as 1763.
+
+I have collated the editions of 1751 and 1770, and find variations in
+stanzas 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 23, 24, and 27. All the amendments, however,
+were adopted as early as 1753, except the correction of a grammatical
+peccadillo in the ninth stanza.
+
+I make this communication in the shape of a note, as it may interest men
+of the world not less than certain _hermits_.
+
+BOLTON CORNEY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GRAY'S ELEGY IN PORTUGUESE.
+
+In several numbers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" mention is made of various
+translations into foreign languages of GRAY'S _Elegy in a Country
+Church-yard_. P.C.S.S. begs leave to add to the list a very elegant
+translation into Portuguese, by the Chevalier Antonio de Aracejo
+(afterwards Minister of Foreign Affairs at Lisbon and at Rio de
+Janeiro), to whose friendship he was indebted many years ago for a copy
+of it. It was privately printed at Lisbon towards the close of the last
+century, and was subsequently reprinted at Paris in 1802, in a work
+called _Traductions interlinéaires, en six Langues_, by A.M.H. Boulard.
+
+P.C.S.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FURTHER NOTES ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF SHAKSPEARE'S HENRY VIII.
+
+The Gentleman's Magazine for the present month contains a letter from
+Mr. Spedding, the author of the essay which appeared in the August {307}
+number of that magazine on the authorship of _Henry VIII._ After
+expressing himself "gratified but not surprised" by the coincidence
+between his views and those of Mr. Hickson in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol.
+ii., p. 198.), Mr. Spedding proceeds:
+
+    "The resemblance of the style, in some parts of the play, to
+    Fletcher's, was pointed out to me several years ago by Alfred
+    Tennyson (for I do not know why I should not mention his name);
+    and long before that, the general distinctions between
+    Shakspeare's manner and Fletcher's had been admirably explained
+    by Charles Lamb in his note on the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, and by
+    Mr. Spalding in his Essay. And in respect to this I had myself
+    derived additional light, more, perhaps, than I am aware of,
+    from Mr. Hickson himself, if he be (as I suppose he is) the S.H.
+    of the _Westminster Review_. But having been thus put upon the
+    scent and furnished with principles, I followed the inquiry out
+    by myself, without help or communication. That two independent
+    inquirers should thus have arrived at the same conclusions upon
+    so many particulars, must certainly be considered very singular,
+    except upon one supposition; viz., that the conclusions are
+    according to reason. Upon that supposition, nothing is more
+    natural; and I must confess, for my own part, that I should have
+    been more surprised if the coincidence had been less exact."
+
+We will borrow one more paragraph from Mr. Spedding's communication
+(which is distinguished throughout by the liberality of tone of a true
+scholar), and we doubt not that the wish expressed at its conclusion is
+one in which our readers join as heartily as ourselves:--
+
+    "I hope, however, that Mr. Hickson may be induced to pursue his
+    own investigation further, and to develop more fully the
+    suggestion which he throws out as to a difference of style
+    discernible in the scenes which he attributes to Shakspeare. If
+    I understand him rightly, he sees traces in this play of the
+    earlier as well as the later hand of both poets. I cannot say
+    that I perceive any indications of this myself, nor, if it be
+    so, can I well make out how it should have come to pass. But I
+    should be glad to hear more about it."
+
+It will be seen by the following extract from Mr. Emerson's
+_Representative Men_, for which we are indebted to our correspondent
+A.R., that the subject had attracted the attention of that distinguished
+writer.--
+
+    "In _Henry VIII._, I think I see plainly the cropping out of the
+    original rock on which his (Shakspeare's) own finer stratum was
+    laid. The first play was written by a superior, thoughtful man,
+    with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their
+    cadence. See Wolsey's Soliloquy, and the following scene with
+    Cromwell, where, instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose
+    secret is, that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading
+    for the sense will best bring out the rhythm; here the lines are
+    constructed on a given tune, and the verse has even a trace of
+    pulpit eloquence. But the play contains, through all its length,
+    unmistakeable traits of Shakspeare's hand; and some passages, as
+    the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd,
+    the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH AND SIR HENRY NEVILL.
+
+Many years ago I copied the following note from a volume of Berkshire
+pedigrees in the British Museum, my reference to which is unluckily
+lost.
+
+    "Queen Elizabeth, in her first progress at Maidenhithe Bridge,
+    being mett by all the Nobility, Kn'ts, and Esquires of Berks,
+    they kneeling on both sides of her way, shee alighted at the
+    bridge foot, and walked on foote through the midst, and coming
+    just agaynst Sir Henry Nevill of Billingbear, made a stay, and
+    leyd her glove on his head, saying, 'I am glad to see thee,
+    _Brother Henry_.' Hee, not pleased with the expression, swore
+    she would make the court believe hee was a bastard, at which
+    shee laughed, and passed on."
+
+The masquing scene in _Henry VIII._, as described by Holinshed, perhaps
+furnishes a clue to the Queen's pleasantry, though Shakspeare has
+omitted the particular incident relating to Sir Henry Nevill. The old
+chronicler, after giving an account of Wolsey's banquet, and the
+entrance of a noble troop of strangers in masks, amongst whom he
+suspected that the king made one, proceeds as follows:--
+
+    "Then the Lord Chamberlain said to the Cardinal, Sir, they
+    confesse that among them there is such a noble personage whom,
+    if your Grace can appointe out 'from the rest, he is content to
+    disclose himself and to accept your place.' Whereupon the
+    Cardinal, taking good advisement among them, at the last quoth
+    he, 'Me seemeth the gentleman in the black beard should be even
+    he.' And with that he arose out of his chaire and offered the
+    same to the gentleman in the black beard, with his cap in his
+    hand. The person to whom he offered the chaire was Sir Edward
+    Nevill, a comelie knight, that much more resembled the king's
+    person in that mask than anie other. The King perceiving the
+    Cardinal so deceived, could not forbear laughing, and pulled
+    down his visor and Maister Nevill's too."
+
+Sir Edward Nevill of Aldington, in Kent, was the second surviving son of
+George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, and the father of Sir Henry Nevill
+above mentioned, who laid the foundation-stone and built the body and
+one wing of Billingbear House, which still belongs to his descendant.
+Sir Edward Nevill was beheaded for high treason in 1538, his likeness to
+Henry VIII. not saving him from the fate which befell so many of that
+king's unhappy favourites.
+
+BRATHBROOKE.
+
+Audley End.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MINOR NOTES.
+
+_Whales._--Tychsen thinks the stories of whales mistaken for islands
+originated in the perplexities of inexperienced sailors when first
+venturing from {308} the Mediterranean into a sea exposed to the tides.
+I think Dr. Whewell mentions that in particular situations the turn of
+the current occurs at a sufficient interval from the time of high or low
+water to perplex even the most experienced sailors.
+
+F.Q.
+
+
+_Bookbinding._--While the mischief of _mildew_ on the _inside_ of books
+has engaged some correspondents to seek for a remedy (Vol. ii., 103.
+173.), a word may be put in on behalf of the _outside_, the binding. The
+present material used in binding is so soft, flabby, and unsound, that
+it will not endure a week's service. I have seen a bound volume lately,
+with a name of repute attached to it; and certainly the _workmanship_ is
+creditable enough, but the _leather_ is just as miserable as any from
+the commonest workshop. The volume cannot have been bound many months,
+and yet even now, though in good hands, it is beginning to rub _smooth_,
+and to look, what best expresses it emphatically, _shabby_, contrasting
+most grievously with the leather of another volume, just then in use,
+bound some fifty or seventy years ago, and as sound and firm as a drum's
+head--_common_ binding too, be it observed--as the modern _cover_ is
+flabby and washy. Pray, sir, raise a voice against this wretched
+_material_, for that is the thing in fault, not the workmanship; and if
+more must be paid for undoctored outsides, let it be so.
+
+NOVUS.
+
+
+_Scott's Waverley._--Some years ago, a gentleman of my acquaintance, now
+residing in foreign parts, told me the following story:--
+
+    "Once upon a time," the great unknown being engaged in a
+    shooting-match near his dwelling, it came to pass that all the
+    gun-wadding was spent, so that he was obliged to fetch _paper_
+    instead. After Sir Walter had come back, his fellow-shooter
+    chanced to look at the succedaneum, and was not a little
+    astonished to see it formed part of a tale written by his
+    entertainer's hand. By his friend's urgent inquiries, the Scotch
+    romancer was compelled to acknowledge himself the author, and to
+    save the well nigh destroyed manuscript of _Waverley_.
+
+I do not know whether Sir Walter Scott was induced by _this_ incident to
+publish the first of his tales or not; perhaps it occurred after several
+of his novels had been printed. Now, if any body acquainted with the
+anecdote I relate should perchance hit upon my endeavour to give it an
+English garb, he would do me a pleasure by noting down the particulars I
+might have omitted or mis-stated. I never saw the fact recorded.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+_Satyavrata._--Mr. Kemble, _Salomon and Saturn_, p. 129., does not seem
+to be aware that the Satyavrata in question was one of the forgeries
+imposed on, and afterwards detected, by Wilford.
+
+F.Q.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+QUERIES.
+
+BLACK ROOD OF SCOTLAND.
+
+Can any of your correspondents give me any information on the following
+points connected with "the Black Rood of Scotland?"
+
+1. What was the history of this cross before it was taken into Scotland
+by St. Margaret, on the occasion of her marriage with Malcolm, king of
+Scotland? Did she get it in England or in Germany?
+
+2. What was its size and make? One account describes it as made of gold,
+and another (_Rites of Durham_, p. 16.) as of silver.
+
+3. Was the "Black Rood of Scotland" the same as the "Holy Cross of
+Holyrood House?" One account seems to make them the same: for in the
+_Rites of Durham_, p. 16., we read,--
+
+    "At the east end of the south aisle of the choir, was a most
+    fair rood, or picture of our Saviour, _in silver_, called the
+    _Black Rood of Scotland_, brought out of Holyrood House by King
+    David Bruce, and was won at the battle of Durham, with the
+    picture of our Lady on the one side, and St. John on the other
+    side, very richly wrought in silver, all three having crowns of
+    gold," &c. &c.
+
+Another account, in p. 21 of the same work, seems to make them
+different; for, speaking of the battle of Neville's Cross (18th October,
+1346), it says--
+
+    "In which said battle a _holy Cross_, which was taken out of
+    Holyrood House, in Scotland, by King David Bruce, was won and
+    taken," &c., p. 21.
+
+And adds,--
+
+    "In which battle were slain seven earls of Scotland.... and also
+    lost _the said cross_, and many other most worthy and excellent
+    jewels ... together with the Black Rood of Scotland (so termed)
+    with Mary and John, made of silver, being, as it were, smoked
+    all over," &c., p. 22.
+
+4. If they were the same, how is the legend concerning its discovery by
+the king, upon Holyrood day, when hunting in a forest near Edinburgh, to
+be reconciled with the fact of its being taken by St. Margaret into
+Scotland? If they were not the same, what was the previous history of
+each, and which was the cross of St. Margaret?
+
+5. How is the account of Simeon of Durham, that the Black Rood was
+bequeathed to Durham Priory by St. Margaret, to be reconciled with the
+history of its being taken from the Scotch at the battle of Neville's
+Cross?
+
+6. May there not be a connexion between the legend of the discovery of
+the "Holy Cross" between the horns of a wild hart (_Rites of Durham_, p.
+21.), and the practice that existed of an offering of a stag annually
+made, on St. Cuthbert's day, in September, by the Nevilles of Raby, to
+the Priory of Durham? May it not have been an acknowledgement {309} that
+the cross won at the battle of Neville's Cross was believed to have been
+taken by King David from the hart in the forest of Edinburgh? In the
+"Lament for Robert Neville," called by Surtees "the very oldest rhyme of
+the North" we read--
+
+  "Wel, qwa sal thir hornes blaw
+     Haly rod thi day?
+   Nou is he dede and lies law
+     Was wont to blaw thaim ay."
+
+7. Is it known what became of the "Holy Cross" or "Black Rood" at the
+dissolution of Durham Priory?
+
+P.A.F.
+
+Newcastle-on-Tyne.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MINOR QUERIES.
+
+_Trogus Pompeius._--In Hannay and Dietrichsen's _Almanuck for the Year_
+1849, I find the following statement under the head of "Remarkable
+Occurrences of the Year 1847:"--
+
+    "July 21. A portion of the history of Trogus Pompeius (the
+    author abridged by Justin) is discovered in the library of
+    Ossolinski at Berlin."
+
+Not having noticed any contemporary account of this occurrence, I should
+be glad of any information respecting the nature and extent of the
+discovery.
+
+E.L.N.
+
+
+_Mortuary Stanzas._--Could any of your readers supply me with
+information respecting the practice of appending mortuary stanzas to the
+yearly bills of mortality, published in many parishes; whether there are
+any extant specimens of such stanzas besides those memorable poems of
+Cowper written for the parish clerk of Northampton; and whether, also,
+the practice is still kept up in any parts of the country?
+
+[Greek: Philopatris].
+
+
+_Laird of Grant._--In the north of England, I have repeatedly heard the
+_auld wife_ remark, on observing any unwonted act of extravagance, such
+as burning more than the ordinary number of candles, &c. &c.,--"Who is
+to be Laird of Grant next year?" As this saying appears to be used only
+in the north, I have no other medium at present than to seek a reply
+through the aid of your valuable little work.
+
+SENEX.
+
+
+    [A similar "saw" was formerly current in the metropolis,--"What,
+    three candles burning! we shall be Lord Mayor next year."]
+
+
+_Bastille, MS. Records of._--Are there amongst the MSS. of the British
+Museum any documents relating to spies, or political agents, employed by
+the French and English governments from 1643 to 1715, who were
+incarcerated in the Bastille?
+
+M.V.
+
+
+_Orkney under the Norwegians._--Torfæus (_Orcades_), under the
+transactions of the year 1430 (p. 182-3.), has an incidental mention of
+the Orkneys as among the forbidden islands, "vetitæ insulas," of which
+the commerce was forbidden to strangers, and confined to the mother
+country, as to this day it is with Denmark and her possessions of the
+Faroe Islands and Iceland, both mentioned in the paragraph of the
+historian among the islands whose commerce was restricted. It would be
+very desirable to know of the social state of Orkney under the
+government of Norway and its native Jarls of the Norwegian race, and or
+its connexion with Norway and Denmark; and some of your correspondents
+may take the trouble to point out sources of information on the subject
+of this Query.
+
+W.H.F.
+
+Kirkwall
+
+
+_Swift's Works._--In Wilde's _Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life_ (2d
+edit. p. 78.) is mentioned an autograph letter from Sir Walter Scott to
+C.G. Gavelin, Esq., of Dublin, in the MS. library. T.C.D., in which he
+states he had nothing whatever to do with the publication or revision of
+the second edition of the _Works of Jonathan Swift_. This does not agree
+with the statement given in Mr. Lockhart's _Life of Sir Walter Scott_,
+2d edit. vol. vii. p. 215. Who was the editor, and in what does the
+second edition differ from the first?
+
+W.H.F.
+
+
+"_Pride of the Morning_."--Why is the small rain which falls in the
+morning, at some seasons of the year, called "the pride of the morning?"
+
+P.H.F.
+
+
+_Bishop Durdent and the Staffordshire Historians._--It is stated by
+Sampson Erdeswich, Esq., in his _Survey of Staffordshire_, p. 164, 12mo.
+1717, that--
+
+    "Not far from Tame, Roger Durdent held Fisherwicke of the
+    bishop, 24 Ed. I. And 4 Ed. II. Nicholas Durdent was lord of it,
+    which I suppose was procured to some of his ancestors of the
+    same name by their kinsman Walter Durdent, Bishop of Litchfield,
+    in Henry II.'s time."
+
+but no authority is given for this statement.
+
+In Shaw's _History of Staffordshire_, p. 365., fol., 1798, it is further
+recorded that--
+
+    "Walter Durdent, in the beginning of Henry II., appears to have
+    granted it (Fisherwicke) to some of his relations, for we find
+    William Durdent of Fisherwicke temp. Henry II.; and in the 40th
+    of Hen. III. Roger Durdent occurs, who held Fisherwicke of the
+    bishop, 24 Ed. I. In the 4 Ed. II. Nicholas Durdent was lord of
+    it."
+
+Shaw refers to Erdeswick, and to the _Annals of Burton Abbey_, p. 364.
+
+In Dr. Harwood's edition of Erdeswick, 8vo., 1844, the same statements
+are repeated, but no authority is adduced. Could any of your
+correspondents obligingly furnish me with the original {310} sources of
+information to which Erdeswick had access, and also with any
+biographical notices of Bishop Durdent besides those which are recorded
+in Godwin and Shaw? The bishop had the privilege of coining money. (See
+Shaw's _Staffordshire_, pp. 233. 265.) Are any of his coins known to
+numismatists?
+
+F.R.R.
+
+
+_Pope and Bishop Burgess._--To what passage in Pope's writings does the
+conclusion of the following extract refer?[1]
+
+    "Digammaticæ doctrinæ idem accidit. In his _Popius_ eam in
+    ludibrium vertit, &c. Sed eximius Poeta neque in veteribus suæ
+    ipsius linguæ, nedum Græcæ monumentis versatus, tantum scilicet
+    de antiqua illa litera vidit, quantum _de Shakespearii_
+    SAGITTARIO."
+
+W.W.
+
+[Footnote 1: 3d ed. of Dawes's _Mis. Critic_, p. xviii, note x.]
+
+
+_Daniel's Irish New Testament._--F.G.X. will be much obliged for
+information on the following points:--
+
+1. Which is the most correct edition, as to printing and orthography, of
+Daniel's Irish New Testament?
+
+2. Does the edition now on sale by the Bible Society bear the character
+for incorrectness as to these points, which, judged by itself, it
+appears to deserve, or is it really, though "bad, the best?"
+
+3. F.G.X. is far advanced with an Irish Testament Concordance. Can any
+one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the
+acceptableness of such a publication? He should expect it to be chiefly
+useful to clerical Irish students in acquiring a knowledge of words and
+construction; but the lists of Irish Bibles disposed of of late years
+would lead to the supposition of its being desirable also as pointing
+out the place of passages to the native reader.
+
+4. Does the Cambridge University Library contain a copy of the first
+edition of Daniel's translation?
+
+_Ale Draper--Eugene Aram._--In Hargrove's well-known history of Eugene
+Aram, the hero of Bulwer's still better known novel, one of the guilty
+associates of the Knaresborough murderer is designated as an "Ale
+Draper." As this epithet never presented itself in my reading, and as I
+am not aware that _draper_ properly admits of any other definition than
+that given by Johnson, "one who deals in cloth," may I ask whether the
+word was ever in "good use" in the above sense?
+
+My main purpose in writing, is to propound the foregoing Query; but
+while I have the pen in hand permit me to ask,--
+
+1. Whether it be possible to read the celebrated "defence," so called,
+which was delivered by Aram on his trial at York, without concurring
+with the jury in their verdict, and with the judge in his sentence? In
+short, without a strong feeling that the prisoner would not have been
+hanged, but for that over-ingenious, and obviously evasive, address, in
+which the plain averment of "not guilty" does not occur.
+
+2. Has not the literary character, especially the philological
+attainments, of this noted malefactor been vastly over-rated? And
+
+3. Ought not the "memoirs" of "this great man" by Mr. Scatcherd to be
+ranked among the most remarkable attempts ever made, and surely made
+
+  "--in vain,
+  To wash the murderer from blood-guilty stain?"
+
+D.
+
+Rotherfield
+
+
+_Latin Epigram._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the
+author of the following epigram:--
+
+  IN MEMORIAM G.B.M.D.
+
+  "Te tandem tuus Oreus habet, quo civibus Orei
+  Gratius haud unquam misit Apollo caput;
+  Quippe tuo jussu terras liquere, putantque
+  Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo."
+
+The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, M.D., the founder of the Browne
+medals in the University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of King's College
+may be able to inform me.
+
+The medals were first given about the year 1780, and in the first year,
+I presume, out of respect to the memory of the donor, no subject was
+given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, that perhaps some wag on that
+occasion sent the lines as a quiz.
+
+W.S.
+
+Richmond, Surrey
+
+
+_Couplet in De Foe_--
+
+  "Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
+  And good men wicked liberties despise."
+
+This couplet is at the end of the second letter in De Foe's _Great Law
+of Subordination_, p. 42. Is it his own? If not, where did he get it?
+
+N.B.
+
+
+_Books wanted to refer to_.--
+
+    "Hollard's Travels (1715), by a French Protestant Minister,
+    afterwards suppressed by the author."
+
+    "Thomas Bonnell, Mayor of Norwich, Life of."
+
+    "Canterbury, Letters and Memoirs on the Excommunication of two
+    Heretics, 1698."
+
+    "The Book of Seventy-seven French Protestant Ministers,
+    presented to Will'm III."
+
+If any of your readers can refer me to the above works I shall be glad.
+They may be in the British Museum, although I have searched there in
+vain for them.
+
+J.S.B.
+
+
+_Water-marks in Writing-paper._--Can any of your correspondents indicate
+any guide to the dating of {311} paper by the water-mark. I think I have
+read of some work on that subject, but have no precise recollection
+about it. I have now before me several undated MSS. written on paper of
+which it would be very desirable to fix the exact date. They evidently
+belonged to Pope, Swift, and Lady M.W. Montague, as they contain their
+autographs. They are all of that size called _Pro Patria_, and two of
+them have as water-mark a figure of Britannia with a lion brandishing a
+sword within a paling, and the motto _Pro Patria_ over the sword. Of one
+of these the opposite page has the initials GR, and the other has IX;
+but the paper has been cut off in the middle of the water-mark and only
+exhibits half the figure IV. Another sheet has the royal arms (1.
+England and Scotland impaled, 2. France, 3. Ireland, 4. the white horse
+of Hanover,) within the garter, and surmounted by the crown, and on the
+opposite page GR. within a crowned wreath. There is no doubt that they
+were all manufactured between 1715 and 1740; but is there any means of
+arriving at a more precise date?
+
+C.
+
+
+_Puzzling Epitaph._--The following curious epitaph was found in a
+foreign cathedral:--
+
+  EPITAPHIUM.
+
+  "O quid tuæ
+   be est biæ;
+   ra ra ra
+   es et in
+   ram ram ram
+   ii."
+
+The following is plainly the solution of the last four lines:--
+
+  _ra, ra, ra_, is thrice _ra_, i.e. _ter-ra=terra_.
+  _ram, ram, ram_, is thrice _ram_, i.e. _ter-ram=terram_.
+  _ii_ is _i_ twice, _i.e. i-bis=ibis_.
+
+Thus the last four lines are,--
+
+  "Terra es et in terram ibis."
+
+Can any one furnish a solution of the two first lines?
+
+J. BDN.
+
+
+    [We would suggest that the first two lines are to be read "O
+    _super_ be, quid _super_ est, tuæ _super_ biæ," and the
+    epitaph will then be--
+
+      "O superbe quid superest tuæ superbiæ
+      Terra es, et in terram ibis."--ED.]
+
+
+_MSS. of Cornish Language._--Are there any ancient MSS. of the Cornish
+language, or are there any works remaining in that language, besides the
+_Calvary_ and _Christmas Carol_ published by the late Davies Gilbert?
+
+J.A. GILES.
+
+
+_Bilderdijk the Poet._--Banished from his native country, disowned by
+his own countrymen, the Dutch poet Willem Bilderdijk pitched his tent
+for a while on the hospitable soil of Old England. Prince William V.
+residing in 1795 at Hampton Court, he resolved to stay there; but,
+possessing no income at all, and, like the sage of antiquity, having
+saved nothing from the shipwreck but his genius, he shifted his
+dwelling-place to London, where he gave lessons in drawing, languages,
+and various, even medical, sciences. He was married in England to
+Katharine Wilhelmina Schweickhardt, on the 18th of May, 1797. His
+residence in the birthplace of "NOTES AND QUERIES" makes me ask, if
+there be still persons living, who remember him as teacher, friend, or
+poet? A presentation-copy of Mrs. Bilderdijk's translation of _Rodrick,
+the Last of the Goths_, was offered to Southey, accompanied by a Latin
+letter from her spouse. The poet-laureate visiting Leyden in the summer
+of 1825, Bilderdijk would not suffer him to remain lodged in the inn,
+where an injury to his leg urged him to favour the landlord with a
+protracted stay. Southey was transported accordingly to the Dutch poet's
+house; and did not leave it before he was cured, several weeks having
+elapsed in the meanwhile. Mention of this fact is made in a poem the
+British bard addresses to Cuninghame. I do not know whether it is
+alluded to in Southey's _Life_.
+
+Bilderdijk's foot was crushed accidentally, in the sixth year of his
+age, by one of his play-fellows; and thus he, who, by his natural
+disposition seemed to be destined to a military career, was obliged to
+enlist in the _militia togata_. He fought the good fight in verse. It is
+remarkable that Byron and Sir Walter Scott, his cotemporaries, were also
+lame or limping.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+_Egyptian MSS._--What is the age of the oldest MS. found in Egypt? Are
+there any earlier than the age of Alexander?
+
+J.A. GILES.
+
+
+_Scandinavian Priesthood._--Will one of your correspondents do me the
+favour to let me know the best authority I can refer to for information
+as to the priesthood of the Scandinavians; the mode of their election,
+the rank from which they were generally chosen, whether they were
+allowed to marry, &c.?
+
+MAX BRANDESON.
+
+
+_Thomas Volusemus (or Wilson?)._--Is anything known of Thomas Volusemus
+(Wilson?) who edited the works of his father-in-law, Patrick Adamson,
+titular Archbishop of St. Andrew's, which were published in London A.D.
+1619?
+
+H.A.E.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+REPLIES.
+
+CURFEW.
+
+We have received the following Replies to NABOC'S inquiry (Vol. ii., p.
+103.) as to where the custom of ringing the curfew still remains.
+
+_Bingley in Yorkshire._--In the town of Bingley, {312} in Yorkshire, the
+custom of ringing the curfew existed in the year 1824. It may have been
+discontinued since that year, but I do not know that it has.
+
+It is also the custom at Blackburn, in Lancashire; and it was, if it is
+not now, at Bakewell in Derbyshire.
+
+H.J.
+
+
+_Bromyard, Herefordshire._--The curfew is still rung at Bromyard,
+Herefordshire, at nine P.M., from the 5th of November, until Christmas
+Day; and the bell is afterwards tolled the number of the day of the
+month. Why it is merely confined to within the above days, I could never
+ascertain.
+
+G.F.C.
+
+
+_Waltham-on-the-Wolds._--The curfew is still rung at
+Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, at five A.M., eight P.M. in
+summer, and at six A.M., seven P.M. in winter; the bell also tolling the
+day of the month.
+
+R.J.S.
+
+
+_Oxfordshire._--I see that NABOC's inquiry about the curfew is answered
+at p. 175. by a reference to the _Journal of the British Archæological
+Association_. The list there is probably complete: but lest it should
+omit any, I may as well mention, from my own knowledge, Woodstock, Oxon,
+where it rings from eight to half-past eight in the evening, from
+October to March; Bampton and Witney, Oxon, and Stow, in Gloucester; at
+some of which places it is also rung at four in the morning.
+
+C.
+
+
+_Chertsey, Surrey._--In the town of Chertsey in Surrey, the curfew is
+regularly tolled for a certain time at eight every evening, but only
+through the winter months. There is also a curious, if not an uncommon,
+custom kept up with regard to it. After the conclusion of the curfew,
+and a pause of half a minute, the day of the month is tolled out: one
+stroke for the 1st, two for the 2nd, and so on.
+
+H.C. DE ST. CROIX.
+
+
+_Penrith._--The curfew bell continues to be rung at Penrith, in
+Cumberland, at eight o'clock in the evening, and is the signal for
+closing shops, &c.
+
+_Newcastle-upon-Tyne._--The curfew is still rung by all the churches of
+Newcastle-upon-Tyne at eight in the evening; and its original use may be
+said to be preserved to a considerable extent, for the greater bulk of
+the shops make it a signal for closing.
+
+G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON.
+
+
+_Morpeth._--The curfew bell is still rung at eight P.M. at Morpeth in
+Northumberland.
+
+E.H.A.
+
+
+_Exeter._--The curfew is rung in Exeter Cathedral at eight P.M.
+
+The present practice is to toll the bell thirty strokes, and after a
+short interval to toll eight more; the latter, I presume, denoting the
+hour.
+
+G.T.
+
+
+_Winchester._--Curfew is still rung at Winchester.
+
+AN OLD COMMONER PREFECT.
+
+
+_Over, near Winsford, Cheshire._--The custom of ringing the curfew is
+still kept up at Over, near Winsford, Cheshire; and the parish church,
+St. Chads, is nightly visited for that purpose at eight o'clock. This
+bell is the signal amongst the farmers in the neighbourhood for "looking
+up" their cattle in the winter evenings; and was, before the
+establishment of a public clock in the tower of the Weaver Church at
+Winsford, considered the standard time by which to regulate their
+movements.
+
+A READER.
+
+
+    [We are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the _Liverpool
+    Albion_ for this Reply, which was originally communicated to
+    that paper.]
+
+
+_The Curfew_, of which some inquiries have appeared in the "NOTES AND
+QUERIES," is generally rung in the north of England. But then it is also
+common in the south of Scotland. I have heard it in Kelso, and other
+towns in Roxburghshire. The latter circumstance would appear to prove
+that it cannot have originated with the Norman conqueror, to whom it is
+attributed.
+
+W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM.
+(Vol. ii., p. 296.)
+
+The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign
+bookseller would be, that _Engelmann himself_ printed for any of the
+purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR.
+DE MORGAN objects so much.
+
+Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE
+MORGAN'S strictures?
+
+1. Engelmann is not, strictly speaking, a bookseller, and his catalogues
+are not booksellers' catalogues in the sense in which that term is
+generally received here. He is a publisher and compiler (and an
+admirable one) of general classified catalogues for the use of the trade
+and of students, without any reference to his stock, or, in many
+instances, to the possibility of easily acquiring copies of the books
+enumerated: and although he _might_ execute an order from his
+catalogues, getting orders is _not_ the end for which _he_ publishes
+them.
+
+2. Some foreign houses in London, as well as in other countries, bought
+a large number of his Catalogues, not as a _book_ but as a _catalogue_,
+to be supplied to their customers at the bare cost, or, where it appears
+advisable, to be delivered gratis to purchasers of a certain amount.
+
+3. It appears to me pardonable if, under these circumstances, a notice
+is inserted on the title, that orders may be directed to the house which
+has purchased a number, and supplies them without any immediate profit;
+and I may add that I do {313} not believe any of the houses concerned
+would object to a notice being taken of such a proceeding in your paper.
+
+4. The error in omitting the words "from 1700" on the title-page, is one
+to which MR. DE MORGAN'S notice first directed my attention, classics
+printed before that date not being commonly in demand among foreign
+booksellers.
+
+5. The practice of compiling catalogues for general use, with the names
+of the purchasers of any number of copies of the catalogue inserted on
+the title or wrapper, is very common in Germany.
+
+Hinrichs of Leipsic issues--
+
+1. A Six-monthly Alphabetical Catalogue, with a systematic index;
+
+2. A Quarterly Catalogue, systematically arranged, with an alphabetical
+index;
+
+Vandenhoeck of Gottigen issues _half-yearly_--
+
+1. A Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica et Pharmaceuto-Chemica;
+
+2. A Bibliotheca Theologica, for Protestant theology;
+
+3. A Bibliotheca Classica et Philologica;
+
+4. A Bibliotheca Juridica;
+
+and Engelmann, from time to time, numerous general catalogues;--
+
+all of which are not only supplied to London houses, with English
+titles, but may be had all over Germany, with the firms of different
+booksellers inserted as publishers of the catalogue.
+
+Will you make use of the above in any way in which you may think it of
+advantage to your readers?
+
+ANOTHER FOREIGN BOOKSELLER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CROZIER AND PASTORAL STAFF.
+
+(Vol. ii., p. 248.)
+
+A correspondent inquires what was the difference between a crozier and a
+pastoral staff. The crozier (_Crocia_, Mediæval Latin), Fr. _Crosse_,
+Ital. _Rocco Pastorale_, German. _Bischofstab_, is the ornamental staff
+used by archbishops and legates, and derives its name from the cross
+which surmounts it. A crozier behind a pall is borne on the primatial
+arms of Canterbury. The use of the crozier can only be traced back to
+the 12th century. _Cavendish_ mentions "two great crosses of silver,
+whereof one of them was for his archbishoprick and the other for his
+legatry, always before" Cardinal Wolsey. The fact did not escape Master
+_Roy_, who sings thus:--
+
+  "Before him rydeth two Prestes stronge,
+  And they beare two Crosses right longe,
+    Gapinge in every man's face."
+
+_Hall_ says that he removed from Whitehall "with one cross." In the
+Eastern Church patriarchs only have a crozier; a patriarch has two
+transverse bars upon his crozier, the Pope carries three.
+
+The pastoral staff was the ensign of bishops. Honorius describes it as
+in the form of a shepherd's crook, made of wood or bone, united by a
+ball of gold or crystal, the lower part of the staff being pointed.
+
+    "In Evangelio Dominus Apostolis præcepit, ut in prædcatione
+    nihil præter virgam tollerent. Et quià Episcopi pastores gregis
+    Dominici sunt, ideò baculum in custodiâ præferunt: per baculum,
+    quo infirmi sustentatur, auctoritas doctrinæ designatur; per
+    virgam, quà improbi emendantur, potestas regiminis figuratur.
+    Baculum ergò Pontifices portant, ut infirmos in Fide per
+    doctrinam erigant. Virgam bajulant, ut per potestatem inquietos
+    corrigant: quæ virga vel baculus est recurvus, ut aberrantes à
+    grege docendo ad poenitetiam trabat; in extremo est acutus, ut
+    rebelles excommunicando retrudat; hæreticos, velut lupos, ab
+    ovili Christi potestativè exterreat."--_In Gemmâ Animæ_, lib. i.
+    cap. 218, 219., _apud Hitterpium_.
+
+In its primitive form it appears to have been a staff shaped like a T,
+and used to lean upon. It was gradually lengthened, and in some cases
+was finished at the top like a mace. The pastoral staff is mentioned in
+the _Life of S. Cæsarius of Arles_. Gough says that the pastoral staff
+found in the coffin of Grostete, Bp. of Lincoln, who died in 1254, was
+made of red wood ending in a rudely shaped ram's horn. It was inscribed:
+
+  "Per baculi formam
+  Prælati discite normam."
+
+In the first prayer-book of the Reformed English Church, 2 Edward VI.,
+at the time of the holy communion the bishop is directed to have "_his
+pastoral staff in his hand, or else borne by his chaplain_." It was used
+in solemn benedictions; and so lately as at the coronation of Queen
+Elizabeth. The second book of King Edward VI., published A.D. 1552,
+being revived in that reign, the use of the staff was discontinued, as
+we find by the consecration service of Archbishop Parker.
+
+    "Postq' hæc dixissent, ad reliqua Communionis solemnia permit
+    Cicestren. nullu. Archie'po tradens Pastorale
+    baculum."--_Bramhall_, vol. iii. p. 205., Part i. Disc. 5. App.,
+    Oxon. 1844.
+
+A crozier was borne at the funerals of Brian Duppa, of Winton, A.D.
+1662; Juxon of London, 1663; Frewen of York, 1664; Wren of Ely, 1667;
+Cosin of Dunelm, 1671; Trelawney of Winton, 1721; Lindsay of Armagh,
+1724. It is engraven on the monuments of Goodrich of Ely, 1552; Magrath
+of Cashel, 1622; Hacket of Lichfield, 1670; Creggleton of Wells,
+Lamplugh of York, 1691; Sheldon, 1677; Hoadley of Winton, and Porteus of
+London. Their croziers (made of gilt metal) were suspended over the
+tombs of Morley, 1684, and Mews, 1706. The bishop's staff had its crook
+bent outwards to signify that his jurisdiction extended over his
+diocese; that of the abbot inwards, as his authority was limited to his
+house. The crozier of Matthew Wren was of silver {314} with the head
+gilt. When Bp. Fox's tomb was opened at Winchester some few years since,
+his staff of oak was found in perfect preservation. A staff of wood
+painted in azure and gilt, hangs over Trelawney's tomb in Pelynt Church,
+Cornwall. The superb staff of the pious and munificent founder of the
+two St. Marie Winton Colleges is still preserved at Oxford, as is also
+that of the illustrious Wykehamist, Bp. Fox, to whose devotion we owe
+Corpus Christi College in that university. One of the earliest tombs
+bearing a staff incised, is that of Abbot Vitalis, who died in 1082, and
+may be seen in the south cloister of St. Peter's Abbey in Westminster.
+There were croziered as well as mitred abbots: for instance, the
+superior of the Benedictine abbey at Bourges had a right to the crozier,
+but not to the mitre. The Abbot of Westminster was croziered and mitred.
+I intended to write a reply, but have enabled with a note.
+
+MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
+
+7. College Street, Westminster
+
+
+J.Z.P. will find a fully satisfactory answer to his Query, in regard to
+the real difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff, on
+referring to the article headed "Crozier," in the _Glossary of
+Architecture_. It is there stated, that "the crozier of an archbishop is
+surmounted by a cross; but it was only at a comparatively late time,
+about the 12th century, that the archbishop laid aside the pastoral
+staff, to assume the cross as an appropriate portion of his personal
+insignia." From which it may be inferred, that the only existent real
+difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff is, that the
+former is surmounted by a cross, and the latter is as it was before the
+12th century, viz., surmounted by "a head curled round something in the
+manner of a shepherd's crook;" and the difference in regard to their
+use, that the crozier pertains to the archbishops, and the pastoral
+staff to the bishops.
+
+R.W. ELLIOT
+
+Cheltenham, Sept. 16. 1850.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PARSONS, THE STAFFORDSHIRE GIANT.
+
+(Vol. ii., p. 135.)
+
+Harwood's note in Erdeswick's _Staffordshire_, quoted by your
+correspondent C.H.B., is incorrect, inasmuch as the writer has confused
+the biographies of two distinct "giants"--WALTER PARSONS, porter to King
+James I., and WILLIAM EVANS, who filled the same office in the
+succeeding reign.
+
+The best account of these two "worthies" is that found in Fuller, and
+which I extract from the original edition now before me:--
+
+    WALTER PARSONS, born in this county [Staffordshire], was first
+    apprenticed to a smith, when he grew so tall in stature, that a
+    hole was made for him in the ground to stand therein up to the
+    knees, so to make him adequate with his fellow-workmen. He
+    afterwards was porter to King _James_; seeing as gates generally
+    are higher than the rest of the building, so it was sightly that
+    the porter should be taller than other persons. He was
+    proportionable in all parts, and had strength equal to height,
+    valour to his strength, temper to his valour, so that he
+    disdained to do an injury to any single person. He would make
+    nothing to take two of the tallest _yeomen_ of the _guard_ (like
+    the _Gizard_ and _Liver_) under his arms at once, and order them
+    as he pleased.
+
+    "Yet were his parents (for aught I do understand to the
+    contrary) but of an ordinary stature, whereat none will wonder
+    who have read what _St. Augustine_ (_De Civitate Dei_, lib. xv.
+    cap. 23.) reports of a woman which came to _Rome_ (a little
+    before the sacking thereof by the _Goths_), of so giant-like a
+    height, that she was far above all who saw her, though infinite
+    troopes came to behold the spectacle. And yet he addeth, _Et hoc
+    erat maximæ admirationis, quod ambo parentes ejus, &c_. This
+    made men most admire, that both her parents were but of ordinary
+    stature. This _Parsons_ is produced for proof, that all ages
+    afford some of extraordinary height, and that there is no
+    general decay of mankind in their _dimensions_, which, if there
+    were, we had ere this time shrunk to be lower than _Pigmyes_,
+    not to instance in a lesse proportion. This _Parsons_ died Anno
+    Dom. 1620."--Fuller's _History of the Worthies of England_, 1662
+    (_Staffordshire_), p. 48.
+
+    "WILLIAM EVANS was born in this county [Monmouthshire], and may
+    justly be accounted the _Giant_ of our age for his stature,
+    being, full two yards and a half in height. He was porter to
+    King _Charles I._, succeeding, _Walter Persons_ [sic] in his
+    place, and exceeding him two inches in height, but far beneath
+    him in an equal proportion of body; for he was not onely what
+    the _Latines_ call _compernis_, knocking his knees together, and
+    going out squalling with his feet, but also haulted a little;
+    yet made a shift to dance in an antimask at court, where he drew
+    little Jeffrey, the dwarf, out of his pocket, first to the
+    wonder, then to the laughter, of the beholders. He dyed _Anno
+    Dom_. 1630." _Ibid. (Monmouthshire)_, p. 54.
+
+From these extracts it will be seen that the Christian name of Parsons
+was _Walter_, not William, as stated by Harwood. _William_ was the
+Christian name of Evans, Parsons' successor. The bas-relief mentioned by
+the same writer represents William Evans and Jeffrey Hudson, his
+diminutive fellow-servant. It is over the entrance of _Bull-head Court_,
+Newgate Street; not "a bagnio-court," which is nonsense. On the stone
+these words are cut: "The King's Porter, and the Dwarf," with the date
+1660. This bas-relief is engraved in Pennant.
+
+There is a picture of Queen Elizabeth's giant porter at Hampton Court
+but I am not aware that any portrait of Parsons is preserved in the
+Royal Collections.
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {315}
+
+EISELL AND WORMWOOD WINE.
+
+(Vol. ii., p. 249.)
+
+If Pepys' friends actually did _drink up_ the two quarts of _wormwood
+wine_ which he gave them, it must, as LORD BRAYBROOKE suggests, have
+been rendered more palatable than the _propoma_ which was in use in
+Shakspeare's time. I have been furnished by a distinguished friend with
+the following, among other Notes, corroborative of my explanation of
+_eisell_:
+
+    "I have found no better recipe for making wormwood wine than
+    that given by old Langham in his _Garden of Health_; and as he
+    directs its use to be confined to 'Streine out a _little_
+    spoonful, and drinke it with a draught of ale or wine,' I think
+    it must have been so atrociously unpalatable, that to _drink it
+    up_, as Hamlet challenged Laertes to do, would have been as
+    strong an argumentum ad stomachum as to digest a crocodile, even
+    when appetised by a slice of the loaf."
+
+It is evident, therefore, that but small doses of this nauseously bitter
+medicament were taken at once, and to take a large draught, _to drink
+up_ a quantity, "would be an extreme pass of amorous demonstration
+sufficient, one would think, to have satisfied even Hamlet." Our
+ancestors seem to have been partial to medicated wines; and it is most
+probable that the wormwood wine Pepys gave his friends had only a slight
+infusion of the bitter principle; for we can hardly conceive that such
+"pottle draughts" as two quarts could be taken as a treat, of such a
+nostrum as the _Absinthites_, or wormwood wine, mentioned by Stuckius,
+or that prescribed by the worthy Langham.
+
+S.W. SINGER.
+
+Mickleham, Sept. 30. 1850.
+
+
+_Eisell_ (Vol. ii., p. 242.).--The attempt of your very learned
+correspondent, MR. SINGER, to show that "eisell" was _wormwood_, is, I
+fear, more ingenious than satisfactory. It is quite true that wormwood
+wine and beer were ordinary beverages, as wormwood bitters are now; but
+Hamlet would have done little in challenging Laertes to a draught of
+wormwood. As to "eisell," we have the following account of it in the
+"Via Recta ad Vitam longam, or a Plaine Philosophical Discourse of the
+Nature, Faculties, and Effects of all such Things as by way of
+Nourishments, and Dieteticale Observations make for the Preservation of
+Health, &c. &c. By Jo. Venner, Doctor of Physicke at Bathe in the Spring
+and Fall, and at other Times in the Burrough of North-Petherton, neere
+to the Ancient Haven Towne of Bridgewater in Somersetshire. London,
+1620."
+
+    "Eisell, or the vinegar which is made of cyder, is also a good
+    sauce, it is of a very penetrating nature and is like to
+    verjuice in operation, but it is not so astringent, nor
+    altogether so cold," p. 97.
+
+J.R.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
+
+
+_Feltham's Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 133.).--In addition to the works
+enumerated by E.N.W., Feltham wrote _A Discourse upon Ecclesiastes_ ii.
+11.; _A Discourse upon St. Luke_ xiv. 20.; and _A Form of Prayer
+composed for the Family of the Right Honourable the Countess of
+Thomond_. These two lists, I believe, comprise the whole of his
+writings. The meaning of the passage in his _Remarks on the Low
+Countries_, appears to be this, that a person "courtly or gentle" would
+receive as little kindness from the inhabitants, and show as great a
+contrast to their boorishness, as the handsome and docile merlin (which
+is the smallest of the falcon tribe, anciently denominated "noble"),
+among a crowd of noisy, cunning, thievish crows; neither remarkable for
+their beauty nor their politeness. The words "after Michaelmas" are used
+because "the merlin does not breed here, but visits us in October."
+_Bewick's British Birds_, vol. i. p. 43.
+
+T.H. KERSLEY.
+
+King William's College, Isle of Man.
+
+
+_Harefinder_ (Vol. ii., p. 216.).--The following lines from Drayton's
+_Polyolbion_, Song 23., sufficiently illustrates this term:--
+
+  "The man whose vacant mind prepares him to the sport
+  The _Finder_ sendeth out, to seeke out nimble _Wat_,--
+  Which crosseth in the field, each furlong every flat,
+  Till he this pretty beast upon the form hath found:
+  Then viewing for the course which is the fairest ground,
+  The greyhounds forth are brought, for coursing then in case,
+  And, choycely in the slip, one leading forth a brace;
+  The Finder puts her up, and gives her coursers' law,"
+  &c.
+
+In the margin, at the second line, are the words, _The Harefinder_. What
+other instances are there of _Wat_, as a name of the hare? It does not
+occur in the very curious list in the _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, i. 133.
+
+K.
+
+
+_Fool or a Physician--Rising and Setting Sun_ (Vol. i., p. 157.).--The
+inquiry of your correspondent C. FORBES, respecting the authorship of
+the two well-known sayings on these subjects, seems to have received no
+reply. He thinks that we owe them both to that "imperial Macchiavel,
+Tiberius." He is right with respect to the one, and wrong with regard to
+the other. The saying, "that a man after thirty must be either a fool or
+a physician," had, as it appears, its origin from Tiberius; but the
+observation that "more worship the rising than the setting sun," is to
+be attributed to Pompey.
+
+Tacitus says of Tiberius, that he was "solitus eludere medicorum artes,
+atque eos qui post tricesimum ætatis annum ad internoscenda corpori
+{316} suo utilia vel noxia alieni consilia indigerent." _Annal_. vi. 46.
+Suetonius says: "Valetudine prosperrimâ usus est,--quamvis a tricesimo
+ætatis anno arbitratu eam suo rexerit, sine adjumento consiliove
+medicorum." _Tib._ c. 68. And Plutarch, in his precepts _de Valetudine
+tuendâ_, c. 49., says--
+
+    [Greek: "Aekousa Tiberion pote Kaisara eipein, hos anaer huper
+    hexaekonta [sic vulgò, sed bene corrigit Lipsius ad Tac. loc.
+    cit. triakonta] gegonos etae, kai proteinon iatro cheira,
+    katagelastos estin."]
+
+These passages sufficiently indicate the origin of the saying; but who
+first gave it the pointed form in which we now have it, by coupling
+_fool_ with _physician_, I am not able to tell.
+
+The authority for giving the other saying to Pompey, is Plutarch, who
+says that when Pompey, after his return from Africa, applied to the
+senate for the honour of a triumph, he was opposed by Sylla, to whom he
+observed, [Greek: "Oti ton aelion anatellonta pleiones ae duomenon
+proskunousin,"] that more worship the rising than the setting
+sun--intimating that his own power was increasing, and that of Sylla
+verging to its fall. (_Vit. Pomp_. c. 22.)
+
+J.S.W.
+
+Stockwell, Sept. 7.
+
+
+_Papers of Perjury_ (Vol. ii., p. 182.).--In the absence of a "graphic
+account," it may interest your correspondent S.R. to be referred to the
+two following instances of "perjurers wearing papers denoting their
+crime." In _Machyn's Diary_, edited by the accomplished antiquary, John
+Gough Nichols, Esq., and published by the Camden Society, at p. 104.
+occurs the following:--
+
+    "A.D. 1556, April 28th.... The sam day was sett on the pelere in
+    Chepe iij. [men; two] was for the preuerment of wyllfull
+    perjure, the iij. was for wyllfull perjure, with _paper sett
+    over their hedes_."
+
+In the same works at p. 250., we have also this additional illustration:
+
+    "A.D. 1560--I. The xij. day of Feybruary xj. men of the North was
+    of a quest; because they gayff a wrong evyde [nee, and] thay
+    ware paper _a-pon their hedes_ for perjure."
+
+J. GOODWIN.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+
+_Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury._--Being acquainted with the road to which
+your correspondent S.H. (Vol. ii., p. 237.) alludes, he will, perhaps,
+allow me to say, that in the neighbourhood of Kemsing a tradition is
+current, that a certain line of road, which may be traced from Otford to
+Wrotham, was the pilgrims' road from _Winchester_ to Canterbury. How far
+this may be correct I know not.
+
+I have not been able to discover any road in the neighbourhood of this
+city which goes by the name of the _pilgrims'_ road.
+
+If any of your correspondents would furnish any particulars respecting
+this road, I shall feel much obliged.
+
+R.V.
+
+Winchester.
+
+
+_Capture of Henry VI._ (Vol. ii., p. 228.).--In his correction of your
+correspondent, CLERICUS CRAVENSIS, MR. NICHOLS states:--
+
+    "Both Sir John Tempest and Sir James Harrington of Brierley,
+    near Barnesley, were concerned in the king's capture, and each
+    received 100 marks reward; but the fact of Sir Thomas Talbot
+    being the chief actor, is shown by his having received the
+    larger reward of 100l."
+
+In this statement appears entirely to have been overlooked the grant of
+lands made by King Edward IV. to Sir James Harrington--
+
+    "For his services in taking prisoner, and withholding as such in
+    diligence and valour, his enemy Henry, lately called King Henry
+    VI."
+
+This grant, which was confirmed in Parliament, embraced the castle,
+manor, and domain of Thurland; a park, called Fayzet Whayte Park, with
+lands, &c. in six townships in the county of Lancaster; lands at Burton
+in Lonsdale, co. York; and Holme, in Kendal, co. Westmoreland, the
+forfeited lands of Sir Richard Tunstell, and other "rebels." So
+considerable a recognition of the services of Sir James Harrington would
+seem to demand something more than the second-rate position given to
+them by your correspondent. The order to give Sir James Harrington
+possession of the lands under his grant will be found in Rymer. The
+grant itself is printed in the _Nugæ Antiquæ_, by Henry Harrington, 1775
+(vol. ii. p. 121.), and will, I believe, be found in Baines'
+_Lancashire_. Mr. Henry Harrington observes that the lands were
+afterwards lost to his family by the misfortune of Sir James and his
+brother being on the wrong side at Bosworth Field; after which they were
+both attainted for serving Richard III. and Edward IV., "and commanding
+the party which seized Henry VI. and conducted him to the Tower."
+
+H.K.S.C.
+
+Brixton.
+
+
+_Andrew Becket_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.), about whom A.W. HAMMOND inquires,
+when I knew him, about twelve years ago, was a strange whimsical old
+gentleman, full of "odd crotchets," and abounding in theatrical anecdote
+and the "gossip of the green-room." But as to his ever having been "a
+_profound_ commentator on the dramatic works of Shakspeare," I must beg
+leave to express my doubts. At one period he filled the post of
+sublibrarian to the Prince Regent; and that he was "ardently devoted to
+the pursuits of literature" cannot be a question.
+
+His published works, as far as I can learn, are as follows:-- {317}
+
+    1. A Trip to Holland, 1801.
+
+    2. Socrates, a dramatic poem, 8vo. 1806.
+
+    3. Lucianus Redivivus, or Dialogues concerning Men, Manners, and
+    Opinions, 8vo. 1812.
+
+    4. Shakspeare's Himself, or the Language of the Poet asserted;
+    being a full but dispassionate Examin of the Readings and
+    Interpretations of the several Editors, 2 vols. 8vo. 1815.
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
+
+_Passage in Vida_ (Vol. i., p. 384.).--Your correspondent A.W. asks for
+some light on the lines of Vida, _Christiad_, i. 67.:
+
+  "Quin age, te incolumi potius....
+  ...
+  Perficias quodcumque tibi nunc instat agendum."
+
+He cannot construe "te incolumi." No wonder. Will not all be set right
+by reading, "Quin age, et incolumi," &c.?
+
+J.S.W.
+
+Stockwell, Sept. 7.
+
+
+"_Quem Deus vult perdere_" (Vol. i., p. 347., &c.).--To the
+illustrations of the saying "_Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat_,"
+which have been given, may be added the following from the _Fragments of
+Constantinus Manasses_ (edited with _Nicet. Eugen_., by Boissonade.
+Paris, 1819), book viii. line 40.:--
+
+  [Greek: "Ho gar theos aptomenos anthropou dianoias
+  Haenika to dusdaimoni kirnaesi penthous poma,
+  Ouden pollakis sugchorei bouleusasthai sumpheron."]
+
+J.E.B. MAYOR.
+
+Marlborough College.
+
+
+_Countess of Desmond_ (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 186.).--R. is referred to
+Smith's _History of Cork_, and _European Magazine_, vol. viii., for
+particulars respecting the Countess of Desmond. They show her picture at
+Knowle House, Kent, or Penshurst (I forget which); and tell the story of
+the fall from the cherry (or plum) tree, adding that she cut three sets
+of teeth!
+
+WEDSECNARF.
+
+
+_Confession_ (Vol. ii., p. 296.).--The name asked for by U.J.B. of the
+Catholic priest, who, sooner than break the seal of confession, suffered
+death, is John of Nepomuc, Canon of Prague. By order of the Emperor
+Wenceslas, he was thrown off a bridge into the Muldaw, because he would
+not tell that profligate prince the confession of his religious empress.
+This holy man is honoured as St. John Nepomucen on the 16th of May, in
+the kalendar of Saints.
+
+D. ROCK.
+
+
+    [U.J.B., if desirous of further particulars respecting St. John
+    Nepomuc, may consult Mrs. Jameson's interesting _Legends of the
+    Monastic Orders_, pp. 214. 217.--ED.]
+
+
+_Cavell, meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 473.).--I concur entirely with the
+etymology of the word _cavell_ given at p. 473. A lake having been
+drained in my country, the land is still divided into _Kavelingen_; as
+lots of land were formerly measured by strings of cord, _kavel_,
+_kabel_, _cable_. Vide Tuinman _Trakkel_, d. n. t. p. 165. _Kavelloten_
+is to receive a cavell by _lot._ cf. _Idem, Verrolg_, p. 97.
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+_Lord Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico._--Has Lord Kingsborough's
+splendid work on Mexican hieroglyphics ever been completed or not?
+
+J.A. GILES.
+
+
+    [This magnificent work has been recently completed by the
+    publication of the eighth volume, which may, we believe, be
+    procured from Mr. Henry Bohn.--ED.]
+
+
+_Aërostation_ (Vol. ii., p. 199.).--The article BALLOON, in the _Penny
+Cyclopædia_, would give C.B.M. a good many references. The early works
+there mentioned are those of Faujas de St. Fond, Bourgeois, and Cavallo;
+to which I add the following: Thomas Baldwin, _Airopaidia, containing
+the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester, Sept_. 8. 1785.
+Chester, 1786, 8vo. (pp. 360.).
+
+Vincent Lunardi published the account of his voyage (the first made in
+England) in a series of letters to a friend. The title is torn out in my
+copy. The first page begins, "An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in
+England. Letter I. London, July 15. 1784." (8vo. pp. 66 + ii. with a
+plate.) It ends with a poetical epistle to Lunardi by "a gentleman well
+known in the literary world" (query, the same who is thus cited in our
+day?) from which the following extracts are taken as a specimen of the
+original balloon jokes:--
+
+  "The multitude scarcely believed that a man,
+  With his senses about him could form such a plan,
+  And thought that as Bedlam was so very nigh,
+  You had better been there than turned loose in the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  "In their own way of thinking, all felt and all reasoned,
+  Greedy aldermen judged that your flight was ill-seasoned,
+  That you'd better have taken a good dinner first,
+  Nor have pinched your poor stomach by hunger or thirst.
+
+  "In perfect indifference the beau yawned a blessing,
+  And feared before night that your hair would want dressing;
+  But the ladies, all zeal, sent their wishes in air,
+  For a man of such spirit is ever their care.
+
+  "Attornies were puzzled how now they could sue you,
+  Underwriters, what premium they'd now take to do you;
+  While the sallow-faced Jew, of his monies so fond,
+  Thanked Moses he never had taken your bond."
+
+Mr. Baldwin ascended in Lunardi's balloon, the latter being present at
+the start, though not taking part in the voyage.
+
+M.
+
+
+_Concolinel_ (Vol. ii., p. 217.).--I have been many years engaged in
+researches connected with {318} the _original_ music of Shakspeare's
+Plays, but it has not been my good fortune to meet with the air of
+_Concolinel_. The communication of your correspondent R. is of the
+greatest interest, and I should be for ever grateful if he would allow
+me to see the manuscript in question, in order that I might test the
+_genuineness_ of the air "stated, in a recent hand, to be the tune of
+_Concolinel_ mentioned by Shakspeare."
+
+This air has double claims on our attention, as its existence, in any
+shape, is placed amongst the "doubtful" points by the following note
+extracted from the Rev. J. Hunter's _New Illustrations of Shakspeare_,
+vol. i. p. 268.:--
+
+    "Concolinel. In the absence of any thing like sufficient
+    explanation or justification of this word, if word it is, I will
+    venture to suggest the possibility that it is a corruption of a
+    stage direction, _Cantat Ital._, for _Cantat Italicé_; meaning
+    that here Moth sings an Italian song. It is quite evident, from
+    what Armado says, when the song was ended, 'Sweet air!' that a
+    song of some sort was sung, and one which Shakespeare was
+    pleased with, and meant to praise. If Moth's song had been an
+    English song, it would have been found in its place as the other
+    songs are."
+
+I, for one, cannot subscribe to Mr. Hunter's suggestion that our great
+poet intended an _Italian_ song to be sung in his play and for this
+reason, that Italian music for a _single voice_ was almost unknown in
+this country in 1597, at which date we know _Love's Labour's Lost_ was
+in existence. Surely _Concolinel_ is just as likely to be the burden of
+a song as _Calen o Custure me_, mentioned in _Henry the Fifth_ (Act iv.
+sc. 4.), of which there is now no doubt.
+
+I may just mention, in passing, that I have discovered the air of _Calen
+o Custure me_ in a manuscript that once belonged to Queen Elizabeth, and
+have ample proof that it was an especial favourite with her maiden
+majesty. The commentators were at fault when they pointed out the more
+modern tune of the same name in Playford's _Musical Companion_, 1667.
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
+S. Augustus Square, Regent's Park.
+
+
+_Andrewes's Tortura Torti_ (Vol. ii., p. 295.).--On what forms Mr.
+Bliss's third quotation, which _does_ appear in some shape in Bernard,
+_De Consid. ad Eugen._, iii. 4. 18., the _Bibliotheca Juridica_, &c., of
+Ferraris observes, under the head of _Dispensatio_: "Hinc dispensatio
+sine justa causa non dispensatio sed dissipatio dicitur communiter a
+doctoribus, ut observant et tenent Sperell;" then referring to several
+Romish canonists, &c., the last being Reiffenstuel, lib. i., _Decretal_,
+tit. 2., n. 450., of which I give the full reference, his volumes being
+accessible in the British Museum, if not elsewhere.
+
+NOVUS.
+
+
+_Swords worn in Public_ (Vol. ii., p. 218.)--A very respected and old
+friend of mine, now deceased, used to relate that he had often seen the
+celebrated Wilkes, of political notoriety, walking in the public
+streets, dressed in what is usually termed court dress, wearing his
+sword. Wilkes died in 1797. In connexion with this subject it may be
+interesting to your readers to know that in 1701 it was found necessary
+to prohibit footmen wearing swords. An order was issued by the Earl
+Marshal in that year, declaring that--
+
+    "Whereas many mischiefs and dangerous accidents, tending not
+    onely to the highest breach of the peace, but also to the
+    destruction of the lives of his Ma'ties subjects, have happend
+    and been occasioned by Footmen wearing of Swords, for the
+    prevention of the like evill accidents and disturbance for the
+    future, I doe hereby order that no Foot-man attending any of the
+    Nobilitye or Gentry of his Ma'ties Realms, during such time as
+    they or any of them shall reside or bee within the Cities of
+    London or Westm'r, and the Liberties and Precincts of the same,
+    shall wear any Sword, Hanger, Bagonet, or other such like
+    offensive weapon, as they will answer the Contempt hereof."
+    Dated 30th Dec. 1701.
+
+F.E.
+
+
+_Speech given to Man to conceal his Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The
+maxim quoted by your correspondent F.R.A. was invented, if I may rely
+upon the _notebook_ of memory, by the Florentine Machiavelli. The German
+writer Ludwig Börne says:--
+
+    "Macchiavelli, der die Freiheit liebte, schrieb seinem Prinzen
+    so, dass er alle rechtschaffenen Psychologen in Verlegenheit und
+    in solche Verwirrung gebracht, dass sie gar nicht mehr wussten,
+    was sie sprachen und sie behaupteten, Macchiavelli habe eine
+    politische Satyre geschrieben."
+
+Le style c'est l'homme!
+
+JANUS DOUSA.
+
+
+_The Character "&,", and Meaning of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 230.
+284.).--This character, being different from any of the twenty-four
+letters, was placed at the end of the alphabet, and children, after
+repeating their letters, were taught to indicate this symbol as
+_and-per-se-and_. Instead of spelling the word _and_, as composed of
+three letters, it was denoted by a special symbol, which was "_and by
+itself, and_." Hence the corruption, an _ampussy and_.
+
+The word _parse_ is also derived from the Latin _per se_. To _parse_ a
+sentence is to take the words _per se_, and to explain their grammatical
+form and etymology.
+
+L.
+
+
+_Wife of Edward the Outlaw_ (Vol. ii., p. 279.).--With reference to the
+Query of E.H.Y. (Vol. ii., p. 279.), there seems to be much confusion in
+all the accounts of Edward's marriage. I think it is evident, from an
+attentive consideration of the various authorities, that the Lady Agatha
+was {319} either sister to Giselle, wife of _Stephen_, King of Hungary
+(to whom the young princes must have been sent, as _he_ reigned from
+A.D. 1000 till A.D. 1038), and sister also to the Emperor Henry II., or,
+as some writers seem to think, she was the daughter of Bruno, that
+emperor's brother. (See a note in Dr. Lingard's _History_, vol. i. p.
+349.)
+
+That she was not the _daughter_ of either Henry II., Henry III., or
+Henry IV., is very certain; in the first case, for the reason stated by
+your correspondent; and in the second, because Henry III. was only
+twelve years old when he succeeded his father Conrad II. (in the year
+1039), which of course puts his son Henry IV. quite out of the question,
+who was born A.D. 1049. It strikes me (and perhaps some of your
+correspondents will correct me if I am wrong) that the two English
+princes _may_ have respectively married the two ladies to whom I have
+referred, and that hence may have arisen the discrepancies in the
+different histories: but that the wife of Edward the Outlaw was _one_ of
+these two I have no doubt.
+
+O.P.Q.
+
+
+_Translations of the Scriptures_ (Vol. ii., p. 229.).--C.F.S. may
+perhaps find _The Bible of every Land_, now publishing by Messrs.
+Bagster, serviceable in his inquiries respecting Roman Catholic
+translations of the Scriptures. The saying of the Duke of Lancaster is
+found in the first edition of Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, and in the
+modern reprint, iv. 674.; the original of the treatise from which it is
+taken being in C.C. College, Cambridge. (See Nasmith's _Catalogue_, p.
+333.)
+
+NOVUS.
+
+
+_Scalping_ (Vol. ii., p. 220.).--W.B.D. confounds beheading with
+scalping. In the American war many British soldiers, it was said, walked
+about without their _scalps_, but not without their heads.
+
+SANDVICENSIS.
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+of the _Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
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+predecessor, have been called for and exhausted. The fifth edition is
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+same extended patronage and success. When we announce that in this fifth
+edition the text has been considerably augmented by the enlargement of
+many of the old articles, as well as by the addition of many new ones,
+among which Professor Willis has embodied a great part of his
+_Architectural Nomenclature of the Middle Ages_; that the number of
+woodcuts has been increased from eleven hundred to seventeen hundred;
+and lastly, that the Index has been rendered far more complete, by
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+we have done more to show its increased value than any mere words of
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+namely, that of the utensils and ornaments of the Mediæval Church (with
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+sedilias, which belong to architectural structure and decoration), is a
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+
+It abounds with interesting Musical Anecdotes; the Greek Fables
+respecting the origin of Music; the rise and progress of Musical
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+THE CHORAL RESPONSES AND LITANIES
+OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND
+AND IRELAND. Collected from Authentic Sources. By the
+Rev. JOHN JEBB, A.M., Rector of Peterstow.
+
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+compositions of ancient date, including nine sets of pieces and
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+Chants. They are given in full score, and in their proper cliffs. In the
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+
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+
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+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 50. Saturday,
+October 12, 1850, by Various
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