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Forbes. 452 + +QUERIES:-- + Purvey of the Apocalypse--Bonner on the Seven Sacraments, + by Sir F. Madden. 452 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Arrangement of a Monastery--Constantine + the Artist--Josias Ibach Stada--Worm of Lambton. 452 + +REPLIES:-- + Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer. 453 + Lines on London Dissenting Ministers. 454 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tracts by Dekker and + Nash--Tureen--English Translations of Erasmus--Court + of Wards--Scala Coeli--Twm Shawn Cattie--Cheshire + Round--Horns to a River--Horns--Coal + Brandy--Howkey or Horkey--Luther's Portrait--Symbolism + of Flowers, &c.--"Where England's + Monarch"--Journeyman--Sydenham or Tidenham--J.B.'s + Treatise on Nature and Art--"A Frog he + would a-wooing go"--"My Love and I, &c."--Teneber + Wednesday--Buckingham Motto--Laerig--Zenobia a + Jewess--Temple Stanyan, &c. 454 + +MISCELLANIES:-- + Spur Money--Note Books--Lady Rachael Russell--Byron + and Taritus--Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Sir + R. Haigh's Letter-Book--A Phonetic Peculiarity. 462 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 463 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 463 + Notices to Correspondents. 463 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES + +ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL. + +Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the +kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the +Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs +between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and +the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), passed hard by. The +road is yet distinctly visible in all its course among the Cheviots, and +in the uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where the plough has +spared it, among the agricultural inclosures. + +The house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or +Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of that +word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the credulity +of a Monkbarns. _Pen_, it is known, signifies in the Celtic language "a +hill". And the word _heil_, in the Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, +rendered _Sol_. In the Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, _heol_ means +"the sun:" hence, _Penheil_, _Penheol_, or _Penniel_, "the hill of the +sun." Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is believed, +yet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid circle, not many +years ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who used the sacred remains +in building his garden wall. A little farther antiquarian conjecture is +necessary to clothe the country with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth +Forest was part of "the forest" which covered Selkirkshire and parts of +the counties around. The Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two +venerable oaks yet flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once +wooded condition of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated +by evidence drawn from the interesting volumes of the _Rotuli +Parliamentorum_. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious establishment in +the neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. Of their buildings, +of the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens existing in the memory +of persons living, not a vestige now remains. In the first volume of the +_Rotuli_, p. 472., there is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop +of Glasgow to Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these +terms:-- + + "Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese + aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de + Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth + de autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] + pour fere une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou + il poet aver recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le + voudrent aver." + +To which the King's answer is,-- + + "Héat Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu in + Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta + quercu." + +Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; and it +was under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets were +composed:-- + + I. + + "'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago, + Amid the silence of its hoary wood + By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow, + The lonely Temple of the Druids stood! {450} + The conquering Roman when he urged his way, + That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain, + And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day, + Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane! + One stone of all its circle now remains, + Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand; + And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns; + And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand; + With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye + The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky. + + II. + + "The Druid-train has moved into the wood, + Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene! + For theirs were offerings of human blood, + With sound of trump and shriek of fear between: + Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone; + And record none remains save this gray stone! + Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years + Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane + Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears + Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain + Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times + Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light + Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes + Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright. + + III. + + "Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song! + And is my dwelling by thy classic streams; + And is the fate so fondly wished and long, + Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,-- + By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam, + To live among thy happy shepherd swains + Where now the peaceful virtues have their home; + A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains + Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered, + To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound + By truest love and gratitude endeared: + The glory of his land, in whom were found + Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul, + Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul." + +F.S.A. L. & E. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON. + +_Soho Square._--Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) has anticipated me +in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. Cornellys' house in this +square; but he has left unnoticed some particulars which deserve to be +recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or _Carlisle House_ as it was called, was +pulled down at the beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and +_two_ houses built upon its site, now _Jeffery's Music Warehouse_ and +_Weston's Printing Office_. Some curious old paintings representing +banqueting scenes, formerly in _Carlisle House_ were carefully preserved +until the last few years, in the drawing-room of the corner house, when +they were removed to make room for some needed "elegancies" of the +modern print shops. The Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the +banquetting-room of Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between +it and the house in Soho Square was originally the "Chinese bridge." + +"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer" appears in the +bankrupt list of _The London Gazette_ of November, 1772; and in December +of the same year, this temple of festivity, and all its gorgeous +contents, were thus advertised to be sold by public auction:-- + + "_Carlisle House, Soho._--At twelve o'clock on Monday the 14th + instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell by + Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive, + commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately + occupied by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of + the Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant + Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too + well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste + to require here any public and extraordinary description + thereof. Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr. + Marshall's, in St. Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see + the house, to prevent improper crowds, and the great damage that + might happen therefrom (and the badness of this season) by + admitting indifferent and disinterested people, must be an + excuse to the public for the Assignees ordering the Catalogues + to be sold at 5s. each, which will admit two to see the house, + &c., from Monday the 7th instant to the time of sale, Sundays + excepted, from ten in the morning to three in the afternoon, and + they hope no person or persons will take amiss being refused + admittance without Catalogues." + +In December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by +advertisement), "That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will commence +soon, under the conduct and direction of a _New_ Manager;" but +notwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find that Mrs. Cornellys +resumed her revels here with great spirit in 1776. In 1778, Carlisle +House was again publicly advertised to be sold by private contract, or +"to be hired as usual;" and subsequently, after having been used as a +common exhibition room of "Monstrosities," a "School of Eloquence," and +"An Infant School of Genius," it closed its public career through the +interference of the magistracy in 1797. + +A full and particular account of the rise and fall of "Mrs. Cornelys' +Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho," was privately printed two or +three years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the firm of Dalmaine and +Co., Soho Square. + +_Carlisle Street, Soho Square._--The large house at the end of this +street, looking into the square, was formerly called _Carlisle House_. +In 1770 it was purchased of Lord Delaval by the elder Angelo; who +resided in it many years, and built a large riding-school at the back. +Bach and Abel, of "Concert" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house. +Carlisle Street was then called _King's Square Court_. {451} + +_Catherine Street, Strand._--In 1714, a tract was published with the +following title:--_The Maypole's New Year's Gift or Thanks returned to +his Benefactors, humbly inscribed to the Two Corners of_ Catherine +Street, Strand; _written by a Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy_. + +_Maiden Lane, Covent Garden._--The well known "Cider Cellar" in this +lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious tract, entitled +_Adventures under Ground_, 1750, which contains some strange notices of +this "Midnight Concert Room." + +_Salisbury Change._--Cibber, in the amusing _Apology for his Life_, has +the following:-- + + "Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from + one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been + informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in + _Salisbury Change_ (then standing where _Cecil Street_ now is), + so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that they were + reduced to petition the king for relief against it." + +_The New Exchange._--A good description of this once popular mart may be +found in Lodwick Rowzee's _Treatise on the Queene's Welles_, Lond. 1632. +It is as follows:-- + + "We went to see the _New Exchange_, which is not far from the + place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the + Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the + Gothic style, which has lost its colour from age, and is + becoming blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, + one above the other, in which are distributed several rows great + numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with + goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful + description. There are, for the most part, under the care of + well-dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although + many are served by young men, called apprentices." + +_The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden._--In 1763 appeared a small +volume under the title of _Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee House, by +Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man alive_. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE. + +The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a herald +painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to the latter, +which came into my possession a few months ago. + +E. HAILSTONE. + + "Mr. Admall, + + "I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West + Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of + Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to + heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore + to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will + usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong + you doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and + making you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard + words, but shal be as good as my word if there is law in England + to restrain you; so chose whether you will due to me good or + evill; you shall find me according your friend or open enemy. + + "PETER LA NEVE, Norroy. + + "College of Arms, in London, + + "28th May, 1719." + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Superstitions of the Midland Counties._--It is believed a sign of "bad +luck" to meet a white horse, unless the person _spits_ at it, which +action is said to avert the ill consequences of the recontre. + +A rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and invariable +consequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that the contrary is +believed, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine Sunday. + +If the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it up, it +is a sign that the _absent_ lover, wife, or husband (as the case may be) +is in good spirits, and in good humour. + +The itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the reception of a +gift; which is rendered more certain if the advice in this distich be +followed:-- + + "Rub it 'gainst wood, + 'Tis sure to come good." + +Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some +future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it, +"are born to be rich." + +HENRY KERSLEY. + +Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone. + + +_A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--"Mr. THOMS" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that +he believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. +Sir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_. + + * * * * * + +ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN. + +In Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp. +128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at +Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike +Obedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the +necessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the +requisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was +"_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical +Obedience_." A reference at the foot of the page to "Rushworth, p. 444," +leads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made +this statement; but not having access to the "Historical Collections," I +am unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_, +Lond., 1671 fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of +the assertion. + +A copy of this now rare sermon before me {452} proves, however, that the +statement is incorrect. At the back of the title is as follows:-- + + "I have read over this sermon upon _Rom._ xiii. 7., preached at + _Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb._ 22, 1626, + by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, + and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly + preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the + _Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to + the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and, + therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of + it, May 8. 1627." + + GEO. LONDON. + +It was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the +sermon. + +JOHN. J. DREDGE. + + * * * * * + +POPE AND PETRONIUS. + +I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I willingly +allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and +discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. "But +yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the +surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms +employed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_." Now the question, +in my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what +_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word +(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot, +without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as +critically and correctly as "Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked +on it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it +"worth," i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality. + +C. FORBES. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN +SACRAMENTS. + +I beg leave to make the two following Queries:-- + +1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniæ +Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, +one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is +mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi +diceret;" and Bayle adds:-- + + "Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi + lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc per + Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini + 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusus. Fuit et + ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea + Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti + capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvæus hunc librum anno Domini + 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet." + +This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of +the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87. +enters the volume thus, "_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos +æditus, cum Præfatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittembergæ, 1528. 8vo." Can +any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, +or in private hands? + +2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p. +25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "_Of the Seven Sacraments_, +1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as +then in his possession, "translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye +almost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and +truly written in parchment." Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. +was the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark +Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by +later writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is +actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains +the Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by +Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in +the _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I +now wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's +work, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to +by Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with +certayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although +one of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments. + +F. MADDEN. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Monastery, Arrangement of One._--Any information and particulars +respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the various buildings +for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine Monks would be +useful to and gratefully received by + +A.P.H. + + [Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, "Description of the + Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in the Ninth Century," + accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he will find in the + _Archæological Journal_, vol. v. p. 85.?] + + +_Constantine the Artist._--Who was "M. Constantine, an Italian architect +to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque at the Earl of +Somerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same Constantine de Servi to +whom the Prince assigned a yearly pension of 200l. in July 1612? If so, +where can more be found respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's +_Anecdotes_. + +J.G.N. + + +_Josias Ibach Stada._--Who was the artist whose name occurs inscribed on +the hoof of the horse of King Charles the Second's equestrian statue at +{453} Windsor, as follows:--"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;" +and is Mr. Hewitt, in his recent _Memoir of Tobias Rustat_, correct in +calling him "Stada, an _Italian_ artist?" + +J.G.N. + + +_Worm of Lambton._--Is there any published notice of the "Knight and +Serpent" tradition regarding this family and parish? + +A.C. + + [A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the immediate + neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately printed in + the year 1530, under the title of _The Worm of Lambton_.] + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. + +Luther's solemn request that his translation should on no account be +altered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the N.T. I find it +on the reverse of the title-page of the edition in 8vo. printed at +Wittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:-- + + "I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and + reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have + fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know + well what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament + shall be Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is + now without measure or end. And be every one cautioned against + other copies, for I have already experienced how negligently and + falsely others reprint us."[1] + +The disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the editions +printed under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; but it has not, +I think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words _auf erde_, found in +later editions, are wanting. The passage stands:-- + + "Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und + das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen." + +In the first edition of the Saxon (Düdesche version of Luther's Bible, +by Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume at Lubeck, by Lo. +Dietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands thus:-- + + "Wente dre synt dede tüchinisse geven, de Geist unde dat Water, + unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander." + +A MS. note of a former possessor remarks:-- + + "The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of + Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort, + 1560 and 1580." + +In the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, Wittemberg, +1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one printed by Hans +Walther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words _up erdeu_ are inserted. + +These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great similarity that +idiom has to our early language; and they, doubtless, influenced much +our own early versions. + +In a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the first +printed in Latin with a translation on the same page, and which is very +similar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich in 1535, 4to., with +a Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the 7th verse is given (as it +was in the Latin); but is distinguished by being printed in brackets, +and in both verses we have-- + + "Unnd die drey dienend in eins." + +Erasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave occasion +perhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times to print both +verses, with this distinction, in editions of the Lutheran version. The +earliest edition, I believe, in which it thus appears, is one at +Wittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, 1604, 1605[2], and 1625. +It also appears, but printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by +Wolder in 1597, in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599. + +In a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, in 4to., +in which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, the Reformed, +a new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch version, are printed in +parallel columns, both verses are given in every instance; but a note +points out that Luther uniformly omitted the 7th verse, and the words +_auf erde_. + +There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is entirely +unwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing to be +_Luther's_ translation. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 25. 1850. + + [Footnote 1: "Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine + Meister Drücker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein + sein, Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens für + sich machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was + andere machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch + Testament sein, Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse + noch ende. Und sey jederman gewarnet für andern Exemplaren, Denn + ich bisher wol erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere + nachdrücken."] + + [Footnote 2: Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a + long and strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse, + exults in the existence of this verse in an edition of the + Bible, Wittemberg, 1606, which is falsely said on the title-page + to be _juxta ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum_.] + + +_Luther's Translation of the Bible_ (No. 25, p. 309.).--De Wette, in his +critical Commentary on the verse 1 John, after stating his opinion that +the controverted passage is a spurious interpolation, gives a list of +the codices and editions in which the passage is not found, and of those +in which it is found. + +The passage is _wanting_ in all Greek Codd. except Codd. 34. 162. 172. +(of his introduction, where it is introduced from the Vulgate), and in +all MS. {454} of the Vulgate before the tenth century; in Erasmus' edit. +of 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. 1518; in all editions of Luther's +translation published by him during his life-time, and up to 1581; in +the edit. Withenb., 1607; Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620. + +The passage is _found_ in all the editions printed of the Vulgate, and +in all translations from it before Luther; and the edit. complut.; in +Erasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the edit. of Rob. Stephens, +1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the Lutheran translations reprinted +by Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. (but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in +brackets; edit. 1597, without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593; +Wittenb. 1596-97, and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in +every edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but +not, of course, in De Wette's translation. + +S.W. + + * * * * * + +LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS. + +In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I transcribe +from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian minister of +Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of a former Day," +which I have never seen entire in print:-- + + "Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride + Directs his haughty eye to either side, + Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod, + And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God. + + "Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find + The fairest pattern of a humble mind; + In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells, + As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales. + + "Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands, + With head uplifted and with dancing hands, + Prone to sedition, and to slander free, + Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee. + + "Mark how the pious matrons flock around, + Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound; + How sweetly each unmeaning period flows + To lull the audience to a gentle doze! + + "Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains + Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains, + Of every hue describes a different cause, + And from each patch a solemn mystery draws. + + "With soundest judgment and with nicest skill, + The learned Hunt explains his Master's will, + So just his meaning, and his sense to true, + He only pleases the discerning few. + + "In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse, + What wond'rous energy! what mighty force! + Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules, + He scorns the censure of unthinking fools. + + "But see the accomplish'd orator appear, + Refined his language, and his reasoning dear, + Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art, + At once to please the ear and mend the heart! + + "Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks, + And on the sober mind impression makes, + The sacred truths with justness he explains, + And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains." + +Of the author of these lines I can give no information. He evidently +belonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not appear to have +been known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of the "Dissenting +Churches" of London, although he quotes a portion of them. But they were +probably composed between 1728 and 1738. In the former year, Dr. James +Foster's London popularity arose, on the occasion of his undertaking the +evening lecture at the Old Jewry. In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge, +one of the subjects of the poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is +told (and to it the poem evidently alludes), that he was employed no +less than four months in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from +Genesis, xxxvii. 3.: "And he made him a coat of many colours." In reply +to the sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (_Hist. and Ant. +of Diss._ ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was composed:-- + + "The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains, + Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains; + Marks every truth, of error shows the cause, + And from each mystery useful doctrine draws." + +The unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening stanza, is at +variance with the general report of biographers. In the copy of the +verses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:--"I think this is too severe +on the Dr." Dr. Wright was admired for his pulpit elocution; and it is +said that Archbishop Herring was, in his younger years, a frequent +hearer of his, with a view to improve in elocution. The notice of the +celebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly unjust. He was a man of wit and +courage, though sometimes boisterous and personal. His unsparing +opponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, wrote admiringly of "his musical voice, and +the flow of his periods, adapting scripture language to every +purpose."--_The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, taken from his +own Pen, &c._ Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35. + +A.B.R. + +Dukinfield. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Tracts by Dekker and Nash._--_The Raven's Almanacke_, 1609, is the +production of Thomas Dekker, the dramatist, and one of the rarest of his +numerous works. A copy sold in the _Gordonstown_ sale for seven guineas; +and another occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I +have not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also +the author of a similar work, entitled _The Owle's Almanacke_, 1618; but +it is not mentioned in the lists furnished by {455} Lowndes and Dr. +Nott. The latter is indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known +productions of the author, and assigning others to him for which he is +not answerable. Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist +mentioning a fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the +notice of bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume, +entitled, _The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should +behave himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with +the Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent_. This is nothing more +than a reprint of Dekker's _Gull's Horn-book_, with some slight +alterations to adapt it to the times. + +Nash's _Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions_, was +printed by John Danter for William Jones, 1594. It is a very interesting +tract, and contains many personal allusions to its unfortunate author. A +copy was sold in Heber's sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5l. 18s. A note +in the handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the +following information:-- + + "Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge + Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the + present, bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and + now (1825) _penes_ me, R.H." + +All things considered, I think your correspondent "J.E." (p. 400.) _may_ +congratulate himself on having "met with a prize." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Nash's Terrors of the Night._--Excessively rare. Boswell had a copy, +and another is in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, described in Mr. +Collier's _Bridgewater Catalogue_ as one of the worst of Nash's tracts. + +L. + + +_Tureen_ (No. 25. p. 407.).--The valuable reference to Knox proves the +etymology from the Latin. _Terrene_, as an adjective, occurs in old +English. See quotation in Halliwell, p. 859. + +L. + + +_English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ_ (No. 24. p. +385.).--Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_ +was first printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent impressions are dated +1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, William Pickering had a license "for +pryntinge of a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by +Erasmus Roterdamus," which possibly might be an impression of the +_Praise of Folly_. (See Collier's _Extracts from the Registers of the +Stationers' Company_, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was again +translated in the latter part of the following century, by White Kennet. +It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of _Wit against +Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly_. This is in all probability the +intermediate translation inquired after by your correspondent. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following +translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_:-- + + "Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the + Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord + Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the + effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from + the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. 1724." + +Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two other +translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the _first_. He does not +mention the name of the second translator, but alludes to him as "_the +modern translator_," and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the +book by having "tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the +Latin." This is his excuse for offering to the public a third +translation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such +"elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the +idiom of the language did invite." + +HERMES. + + +The intermediate translation of the _Moriæ Encomium_ of Erasmus, to +which your correspondent refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London +1661, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian. + +M. + +Oxford. + + +_Court of Wards._--I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. 173.) anything about +Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of Wards; but "J.B." may be glad +to know that there is among the MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on +the Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have not read it. I dare +say it might be usefully published, for we know little in detail about +the Court of Wards. + +C.H. + + +_Scala Coeli_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--In Foxe's _Acts and Mon._, vol. v. p. +364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope +Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them +that any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St. +Botolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, +Ave Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that +visit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli." + +H.W. + + +_Twm Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24, p. 383.).--The following extract from +Cliffe's _Book of South Wales_, furnishes a reply to this Query. + +In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and +Tregaron, he says:-- + + "High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, + where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: + the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed + of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space + between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so {456} + that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure + inclined according to the slanting of the rock. + + "The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti), + alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son + of John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of + Meredydd ap Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of + Gwydir (see _The Heraldic Visitations of Wales_, published by + the Welsh MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at + the age of 61. In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and + highwayman,' and levied black mail on the country within reach + of his mountain abode, with the aid of a small band of + followers. He soon reformed, married a rich heiress, was then + created a justice of peace for Brecon, and ultimately became + sheriff of that county and Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir + S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an antiquarian and poet, but is more + known for the tricks attributed to him as a robber." + +A.B. + + +_Twm Sion Catti._--The noted robber, Twm Sion or Shôn Catti, referred to +at No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman who flourished between the years 1590 +and 1630. He was the natural son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his +surname of Catti from the appellation of his mother Catherine. In early +life he was a brigand of the most audacious character, who plundered and +terrified the rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient +warrant for the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his +unbounded generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate +love of fun and frolic--for he was a very Eulenspiegel--made him the +darling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the almost +inaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction of the Tywi +and the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still bears his name. As +time passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of Ystrad-ffin, in the vale +of Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her property, abandoned his wild +life, and with it the name of Catti; and quietly subsiding into Thomas +Jones, Esq., became a poet and antiquary of high reputation. In addition +to which, and as if to mark their sense of the value of a man so +powerful for good or for evil, the government appointed him high sheriff +for the county of Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a +name which yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage +circle in the long nights of winter. + +His life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was probably the +work to which the "Note" of "MELANION" referred. + +SELEUCUS. + + +_Cheshire Round_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--A dance so called, peculiar to the +county from whence it takes its name. The musical notes of the _Cheshire +Round_ may be seen in _The Dancing Master_, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward +Jones' _Cheshire Melodies_. It was sometimes danced "longways for as +many us will" (as described in _The Dancing Master_), but more +frequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the Third +states, "In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd stones at +Hosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the _Cheshire Rounds_ +to the admiration of all spectators." Michael Root and John Sleepe, two +clever caterers of "Bartlemy," also advertise "a little boy that dances +the _Cheshire Round_ to perfection." There is a portrait of Dogget the +celebrated comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is +not Penkethman?), representing him dancing the _Cheshire Round_, with +the motto "_Ne sutor ultra crepidam_." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Horns to a River._--Why the poets give horns to rivers, must be sought +for in the poet's book, nature. I like the interpretation given by a +glance up some sinuous and shelving valley, where the mighty stream, +more than half lost to the eye, is only seen in one or two of its bolder +reaches, as it tosses itself here to the right, and there to the left, +to find a way for its mountain waters. + +The third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would be +interesting to know where your correspondent has found it in late Greek. + +J.E. + +Oxford, April 16. 1850. + + +_Horns._--For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. 24. p. 383.), I +subscribe the following, from Coleridge:-- + +"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare, + + "'Take thou no scorn + To wear the horn, the lusty horn; + It was a crest ere thou wert born." + +_As You Like It_, Act iv. sc. 2. + +"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance of a +phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all languages, and +yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin."--_Literary +Remains_, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, 1849. + +ROBERT SNOW. + + +_Coal Brandy_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--This is only a contraction of "coaled +brandy," that is, "burnt brandy," and has no reference to the _purity_ +of the spirit. It was the "universal pectoral" of the last century; and +more than once I have seen it prepared by "good housewives" and +"croaking husbands" in the present, pretty much as directed in the +following prescription. It is only necessary to remark, that the +orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was +effected by dropping "a live coal" ("_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into +the brandy. This is copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of +which are written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of +scientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of +Simsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It was +written evidently by some {457} "dropper-in," who found "honest John" +suffering from a severe cold, and upon the first piece of paper that +came to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks age, and the punctuation +and erasures show him to have been a literary man, and a careful though +stilted writer. It is not, however, a hand of which I find any other +exemplars amongst Nourse's correspondence. + + "Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which + may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce + of sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let + it burn till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go + to bed. + + "To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the + brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it." + +This is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for "coughs, +colds, catarrhs, and consumption," from Ford's "Balsam of Horehound" to +Dr. Solomon's "Balm of Gilead." + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, April 4. + + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Does the following passage from +Sir Thomas Overbury's _Witty Descriptions of the Properties of sundry +Persons_, first published, I believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the +etymology of this word? It occurs in the description of a Frankling or +Yeoman:-- + + "He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the + dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country + lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday, + and the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on + Christmas eve, _the hoky or seed-cake_, these he yearly keeps, + yet holds them no relics of Popery." + +As I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an extract, I am +unable to give a more precise reference. + +E.R.J.H. + +Chancery Lane. + + +It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as to the +word _Howkey_ or _Horkey_, if I state, that when in my boyhood I was +accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced as if spelt _Hockey_. As +_Howkey_ I should not have recognised it, nor hardly as _Horkey_. + +AN EAST ANGLIAN. + + +_Hockey_, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the end, is very +likely derived from _hook_, an Anglo-Saxon word too. But we cannot +suppose that anything else was derived from that, and especially when we +come to words apparently more genuine than that. It seems natural to +connect them with a hock-tide, Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.), +a name given to more than one season when it was usual to have games and +festivities. Now surely this is nothing else than _high_ tide, a time of +some high feast; as we vulgarly say, "high days and holidays." So in the +Scripture, "that Sabbath day was a high day." So high Mass. We +Protestants have no conception of the close connection between the +superior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. Among +the heathen Romans, _festicus_ is derived from _festus_.[3] We say high +romps, high jinks. + +See Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and +Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from +_Hogen_, "gaudere," which also see. He says that the lower Saxons "hodie +utuntur '_Höge_'" to mean "gaudium privatum et publicum convivale et +nuptiale." See also Hohen. See Lye, who has also heah, freols summa +festivitas, summum festum. + +Ihre (_Lex. Suio Goth._) says _Hugna_ is "to make glad." But in Hog-tid +he observes, that gladness is only the secondary meaning of +_Hogen_,--"_Hokanat_ vocabatur a Borealibus festum quod media hieme +celebrabatur;" and he shows that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it. + +C.B. + + [Footnote 3: Is not the derivation of "feast" and "fast" originally the + same? that which is appointed, connected with "_fas_," and that from + "_fari_."] + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Is not this word simply a +corruption of _Hockey_? Vide under "Hock-cart," in _Brand's Antiquities_ +by Ellis, where the following quotation from _Poor Robin's Almanack_ for +1676 occurs:-- + + "_Hoacky_ is brought home with hallowing, + Boys with plum-cake the cart following." + +J.M.B. + + +_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle_ (No. 25. p. 400.).--The Portrait +by Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly erroneously stated to be that +of Luther, was, I believe, engraved as such in Knight's _Portrait +Gallery_, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful +Knowledge. I cannot find in any account of Helbein's works a mention of +a portrait of Luther by him. + +S.W. + + +_Symbolism of Flowers, etc._--In reference to works illustrative of +poetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical associations +connected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. 11. p. 173., many +a literary man must equally desire an interpreter,-- + + "T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, + And teach that truth is truest poesy." + +Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of this +description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your learned +correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation by furnishing +illustrations, or references to illustrations, critical and poetical, +collected from the most valuable authors, ancient and modern; and that +this "sacred eloquence," {458} + + "Where'er 'tis found + On Christian or on heathen ground," + +if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, afford much +pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the useful work of +Camerarius on _Symbols and Emblems_. + + "Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily + To the first plant by some kind augury." + +The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely in p. +214, beautifully illustrated[4], but still deserving further +consideration. Schedius (_De Diis Gemanis_) and others have, with much +learning, shown Venus Urania to be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With +erudition not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, Gorop. +Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one +and the same hieroglyphical character. I shall now endeavour to explain +the symbolism and dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers" +adumbrates the highest faculty of human nature--_Reason_, and Silence, +or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the Greek +term [Greek: epistaemae], _science_. (See Harris's _Philosoph. Arrang._ +p. 444., and _Hermes_, p. 369.). To whom, then, could the hieroglyphical +rose have been more appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is +described with his finger pointing to his mouth--_tacito plenus +amore_--a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought to behave in +religious matters. + +T.J. + + [Footnote 4: Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the + _Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them under + "Rosæ," in the _Amphitheatrum sapientiæ_ of Dornavius.] + + +"_Where England's Monarch_" (No. 26. p. 415.).--The two lines inquired +for are in Bramston's _Man of Taste_, a poem printed about the middle of +the last century. I need hardly add, that the poet was misinformed, it +being well known that Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to +plead or _to take off his hat_. + +There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with Barnard in +the _Gentleman's Magazine_, May 1758: but it may be the same as that in +the _Annual Register_. + +BRAYBROOKE + +April 27. + + +_Journeyman_ (No. 19. p. 309.).--"GOMER" may like to know that the old +labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a "_journey +at plough_." + +BRAYBROOKE. + + +_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the +inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being +_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester, +was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this +parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_ +itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it. + +These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets, +were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap. +26. § 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly +circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of +Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a +part. + +GEO. ORMEROD. + +Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850. + + +_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to +which your correspondent "M." refers, is, I believe, "_The Mysteries of +Nature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the +Second of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_." + +I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving +of the author:--"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo +permaneant studium et industria." + +HERMES. + + +"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_."--In answer to the inquiry of "B.G.J." +(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of "'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I +do not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston +sang an altered version of the very old song,-- + + "A frog, he would a-wooing ride, + With sword and buckler by his side," + +and instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted + + "Heigho, says Rowley," + +as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho +Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by C.E.H., +Esq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook. +The first verse is as follows:-- + + "A frog he would a-wooing go; + 'Heigh ho!' says Rowley; + Whether his mother would let him or no, + With a rowly, powly, + Gammon and spinach, + 'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley," + +R.S.S. + +April 23. 1850. + + [Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, I + have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different + melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty + Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.] + + +"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little +_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common +Place Book_:-- + + "My love and I for kisses play'd," + +occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted +"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the +last couplet:-- + + "Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine? + Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe." + +They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses," +and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's +very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe." + +The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:-- + + "Fair stood the wind for France," + +is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes +Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael +Drayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett. +12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.) + +I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of +Drayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection +being in the country. + +The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr. +Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. "The head +and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat +edition of Herrick in 1846. + +S.W.S. + +March 12. 1850. + + ["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of + _A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_, + 1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and + "J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the + _Encyclopædia of Wit_, published about half a century since.] + + +_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen. +VIII., is this passage: + + "When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme + ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next + yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that + whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote + water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard + Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at + the Bishop of Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the + same Acte, was boyled in Smythfelde the _Teneber-Wednysday_ + following, to the terrible example of all other." + +I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before Easter, +of "Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao," and that the name is derived form +the Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the Church of Rome. + + "Erat autem fere hora sexta, et _tenèbroe_ factoe sunt in + universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est sol: et + velum templi seissum est medium."--Luke, xxiii. 44, 45. + +Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it +corrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your correspondents +can supply other instances of the use of the term, or state what are or +were the ceremonies peculiar to the day. + +C.H. COOPER + +Cambridge, April 4. 1850. + +P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that "_Tenable +Wednesday_" occurs three times in the Ordinance for "weshing of all +mannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell" in the Northumberland +Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance it is placed between +Lady Day and Easter Even. + + [If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most useful work, + _Medii ævi Kalendarium_, vol. i. p. 370., to the words + _Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebræ_, he will find them explained + "The three nights before Easter;" and the following among other + illustrations:-- + + "Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch on Wednysday, + Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne service, as + commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And holi chirch + useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, the + service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is + called with divers men _Tenables_, but holi chirch _Tenebras_, + as _Raccionale Divinorum_ seth, that is to say, thieness or + derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord by + night."--_Harl. MS._ 2247. fo. 83.] + + +_The Buckingham Motto._--Permit me to suggest that your correspondents +"S." and "P." (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are labouring under a mistaken +notion in supposing that the line + + _Sovente me sorene_, + +belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase "Forget me not." +Such a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the parting prayer +or injunction of a lover, but does not possess the essential +characteristic of a _motto_, which one selects for the purpose of +declaring his own sentiments of conduct towards _others_, not to +deprecate or direct those of others towards _himself_. + +The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, but +exactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the present day; +and if "S." would again examine the original MS., I make no doubt that +he would find the line written _Sovente mi sooviene (sovene)_, i.e. with +the personal pronoun in the dative instead of the accusative case. The +expression _mi souviene_ is equivalent to _mi ricordo_, but is a more +elegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be "I +seldom forget,"--a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying as much the +memory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be required. + +A. RICH, JUN. {460} + + +_Larig._--I am obliged by the suggestions of your correspondents "B.W." +and "C.I.R." (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I beg leave to offer the +following reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or Netherlandish, as they may be +considered one language until the fifteenth century) _Le'er_ and _Le'ar_ +are simply contractions of _Leder_, as Tenkate observes, _euphonis +gratia_, by the omission of the _d_, which takes place in other similar +words; and what is remarkable in _Ledig_, empty, which becomes _Le'eg_. +_Le'erig_ is of course _leathery_, or _tough_; but _Lederen_ or +_Le'ersen_, would be used for _made_ of _leather_, and in A.-S., most +probably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such contraction in A.-S.: it is +always [A-S: Leðer] and [A-S: Leðern]. The epithet, _leathery_-shields, +could hardly have been used where they are said to _resound_; and the +instance of _vaulted_ shields in Judith is, I think, conclusive. The +root of _Leder_ is possibly _hlid-an_, to cover HIDE? That of _Leer_ +possibly _lieren_, amittere, privari? + +I should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and Schilter, +which were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and indeed I had +not Urry's _Chaucer_ at hand to verify the reference of Junius to the +Tale of Beryn, the only valuable portion of Urry's book. I knew that a +simple reference to the O.H.G. Lâri would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm. + +Thorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has followed Lye, +in rendering _Lind haebbende_, Vexilla habens; and Haldorsen's +explanation of _Lind_ might have taught him better. Mr. Kemble has +rendered it _shield-bearers_, and gives instances in his Glossary of +similar combinations, as _rond-haebbendra_, _bord-haebbende_, +_scaro-haebbendra_. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 15. 1850. + + +_Zenobia a Jewess?_ (No. 24. p. 383.)-- + + "To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add + here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius _took her to be + a Jewess_, meaning, without doubt, _in respect of her religion_; + and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please her that Paul + of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions very like + those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, saying + that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature + superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any + otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine + grace."--Crevier, _Hist. of Rom. Emperors_, Book 27. "Aurelian," + vol. ix. p. 174. + +M. Crevier refers to "Tillem. Aur. art. 5." + +C. FORBES + +Temple, April 16. + + +_Temple Stanyan._--The following notices, relating to _one_ Temple +Stanyan may interest your correspondent "A.G." (No. 24 p. 382.). + + "1725. March 23. Died Mrs. ---- Stanyan, wife of Temple Stanyan, + Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of Secretary of + State."--_Historical Register._ + + "1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His + Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs. + Pauncefort."--Ibid. + +There is a monument in one of the churches at Southampton,-- + + "To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles + Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in + co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument + was erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in + His Majesty's Navy." + +Edward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles Hardy's +will, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780. + +W.H. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was common when +I was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If the question is +biographical, I can say nothing. + +C.B. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--He also published an _Account of +Switzerland_, 8vo. London, 1714. + +M. + + +_"Who was Temple Stanyan?"_ (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple Stanyan was the son +of Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit Kat Club, M.P. for +Buckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of the Admiralty, etc. Mr. +Temple Stanyan was himself also Minister at Constantinople, and at +several other courts; and afterwards Under-Secretary of State under both +Addison and the Duke of Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of +Switzerland; and his Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the +publication of Mitford's, the best in our language. I believe that his +daughter married Adm. Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752. + +C. + + +_Auctorite de Dibil_ (no. 25. p. 205.).--Probably an error of +transcription; read _Auctorite de Bibil_. + +J.M.B. + + +_The Bristol Riots_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--"J.B.M." is informed, that the +volume to which he alludes is generally considered by Bristolians as the +most authentic and fullest narrative that was published of those +disgraceful scenes. + +J.M.G. + +Worcester. + + +_Religious Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.)--The author of the religious +tract which has fallen into the hands of "J.C." is no doubt one of the +early Quakers, and probably Francis Howgill. Howgill was originally a +clergyman of the Church of England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and +in the year 1652 joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of +George Fox. His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes. + +[Greek: Theta]. {461} + + +_Complutensian MSS._--"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will find full answers +to his Queries, and more interesting information on the same subject, in +a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro Saban's Spanish translation of +Prescott's _Ferdinand and Isabella_. Madrid, 1846. + +I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within a month +in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they were removed +from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew manuscripts are all +originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of Zamora among them are 3 +vols. in Latin, translated from the Hebrew. + +The Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection as above; +and of course were not returned to the Vatican. + +H.S. + +Morley's Hotel, April 28. + + +_Tablet to Napoleon_ (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. 406.).--"C.I.R.'s" +interpretation can hardly be admitted. The true meaning will be best +exhibited by the following form:-- + + "Napoleoni, + Ægyptiaco, + Bis Italico, + Semper Invicto." + +_Bis Italico_ alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., in his first +campaign, and again in that of Marengo. + +C. + + +_Malone's Blunder_ (No. 25. p. 403.).--"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY," in his +answer on this subject, says very justly, that "before we censure a +writer, we should consult his own edition." He has, however, not +followed this excellent principle in this case, for he has certainly not +looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on which the question arises. He +has repeated what I had already stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the +mistake was _not_ a blunder of _Malone's_; and he has also pointed out, +what had escaped me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first +_three_ articles of the pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare: but when he +adds that there is "_no fabrication_" and "_no mystery_" in the case, +and that "the blunder of the Irish editor was merely in attempting to +_unite the two fragments_ as published by Malone," it is quite clear +that he has not seen the edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken +the whole affair. The Irish editor did _not_ attempt to unite Malone's +fragments--quite the contrary--he left Malone's first fragment as he +found it; but he took the second fragment, namely, the exordium of the +pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare, and substituted it _bodily_ as the +exordium of the will of _William_ Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the +real exordium of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, "I, _John_ +Shakspeare," &c., and ends, "by me, _William_ Shakspeare." I have no +doubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery altogether; but the +taking three paragraphs of it, and substituting them for the two first +paragraphs of _William_ Shakspeare's genuine will, is what I call, and +what no doubt "Mr. BOLTON CORNEY" will think, on this explanation of the +facts, "an audacious fabrication." The best guess I can make as to how, +or with what design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so +complicated, and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:--Malone printed the +fragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his "Emendations +and additions," as belonging to "_the will before printed_," meaning the +forged will of _John_ Shakspeare, but that the Irish editor understood +him to mean the genuine will of _William_ Shakspeare; and so thought +that he was only restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could +have overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in +the meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly incomprehensible. + +C. + + +_Theses._--Perhaps it may assist your correspondent "M." (No. 25. p. +401.) to be informed that the University of Göttingen is particularly +rich in "_Theses_" (termed _Disputationes et Dissertationes_), to which +there is a large room entirely devoted in the library of that +university; together with the transactions of learned bodies. A special +librarian is attached to this department, which is much consulted. A +Catalogue was begun to be published of this collection, so far as +respects the _Memoirs_ contained in the various transactions, in 1801, +by J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after +which, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues of +Theses, I think the following work is in good esteem:--_Dissert. Acad. +Upsal. habitæ sub Præsid. C.P. Thunberg_, 3 tom. 8vo. Götting. +1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the _Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Thottiauæ_ (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniæ, 1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which +it might be well to consult, of dissertations under the name of the +president or head of the institution or college where they were +delivered, than under the writer's name. At least, in a _collective_ +sense the former method is adopted, as in the following instance: +Schultens, (Alb.) _Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, +adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Præsidio A. Schultens, etc._, 2 tom.: +although, if the author should happen to be distinguished for his other +productions, _all_ that he wrote is anxiously sought out, and placed +under his own name. + +J.M. + +Oxford, April 24. + + ["M." may also be referred to the _Catalogus Dissertationum + Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana_. A + quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University Press in 1834.] + + +_MSS. of Locke_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--"C." is informed {462} that Dr. +Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, in Ireland, during the past year. The +papers of Locke respecting which he inquires are probably still in the +possession of Dr. H.'s son. + +[Greek: Theta] + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Spur Money._--Although I used often, twenty years ago, when a chorister +at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying a fine on all who entered +that place with spurs on, I was not aware of its origin till I saw it +explained in your interesting publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a +custom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should +be glad to learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was +sought to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister +before him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the +spur-bearer was entitled to exemption. + +E.J.H. + + +_Spur Money._--I beg to offer the following humble illustration of +spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of All Saints Church at +Hastings:-- + + 1. + "This is a belfry that is free + For all those that civil be: + And if you please to chime or ring, + It is a very pleasant thing. + + 2. + "There is no musick play'd or sung, + Like unto bells when they're well rung: + Then right your bells well, if you can-- + Silence is best for every man. + + 3. + "But if you ring in _spur or hat_, + Sixpence you pay--be sure of that: + And if a bell you overthrow, + Pray pay a groat before you go." + +(dated) 1756. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850. + + +_Note Books._--Looking at what your correspondent says about "Note +Books," I think the following hint may be useful to others, as it has +been to myself. Many persons never get so far as the formality of a +common-place book, and do not like to write in their books. Let them +follow my plan. The envelope maker will procure them any number of +little slips of white paper, with a touch of isinglass at each of the +four corners. Let the note be written on one of these, and then let the +slip be stuck into any book which is sure to be wanted in connection +with the subject when it comes up again; either by one, two, or four +corners, as convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it +be wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached +to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed +miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is good +as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:-- + + "When made a note of,--find if you can." + +M. + + * * * * * + +LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL. + +Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his _British Poetesses_ +on account of the following verses:-- + + TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND. + + "Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, + Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth; + His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight, + My husband dear, more than this world's light, + Death hath me reft. But I from death will take + His memory, to whom this tomb I make. + John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say), + Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay." + +Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that +these verses could not have come from his widow's pen. Indeed, they are +much older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be found on the monument in +Westminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, in the reign of Queen +Elizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in 1584. + +P. CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +_Byron and Tacitus_ (No. 20. p. 390.).--To your young friend, who +honestly signs himself "A SCHOOLBOY," let an older correspondent say, +that he will do more wisely to let the rules of his teachers keep him +from perusing an author who makes a mock of all moral and all honourable +feelings. But if he wishes to know whether the introduction of the +sentence from Tacitus into a poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," +the reply will properly be, No. The poet expected that the well-known +figure, which he had thus thrown into verse, would be immediately +recognised by every literary reader, and that the recognition would give +pleasure. He was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed +by a master, that _Difficile est proprie communia dicere_. The Schoolboy +knows where to find these words; and I hope that he also knows where to +find the words of one who speaks with greater authority, and has said +most kindly, "Cease, my son, to hear [read] the instruction that causeth +to err." + +H.W. + + +_Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury._--It is proposed to descend some of +the aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near Tilbury in Essex. In +consequence, however, of Camden having named a wrong parish, later +antiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain their precise whereabouts. +Mr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' labour, found them out; and a +brief notice of them was given {463} in an article upon "Primæval +Britain" in the _West Kent Almanack for_ 1849. Hasted mentions similar +pits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is another called "the +Sound Hole," from the echoes, &c., made upon a stone being thrown down. +Mr. S. Laudale intends an examination of it this summer. Tradition +reports that there are three enormous caverns, which communicate with +the central shaft. + +How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of those +chambers which are aloof from the central shaft? + +[Greek: Delta] + + +_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book._--A few days ago, Messrs. Puttick and +Simpson sold a very important manuscript, the original letter-book of +Sir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles II. It fetched 51l., +being bought by a collector whose name has not transpired; but perhaps +this notice, if you kindly insert it, may induce the purchaser to edit +it for the Chetham Society, to whose publications it would for a most +valuable addition. + +R. + + +_A Phonetic Peculiarity._--I venture to note as a very curious phonetic +peculiarity, that we have in the English language a large number of +monosyllabic words ending is _sh_, all of which are expressive of some +violet action or emotion. I quote a few which have occurred without +search, in alphabetical order. "Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash, +gush, hash, gnash, lash, mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash, +squash, thrash." + +J.M.B. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. + +At the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was announced +that a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood had been +determined upon, and the first volume containing six plays was laid upon +the table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's _Essay on the Chandos +Portrait_ had only been delayed from a desire to obtain the most novel +and accurate information. + +The members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at the +Annual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of the +third volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the _Canterbury Tales_ was +announced. + +The plan for the _restoration of Chaucer's tomb_ in Poet's Corner has at +length assumed a practical shape. It has been ascertained that less than +100l. will do every thing that can be desired to repair the ravages of +time, and preserve the monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to +raise this sum by subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share +in the good work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this +scheme, which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle, +the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other +distinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by every +member of the committee, and parties resident in the country may remit +them by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in favour of William +Richard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament Street, the Honorary +Treasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the Honorary Secretary of the +Committee. + +The Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, under the +Presidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general satisfaction. The council +reported the publication during the past year of the _Peterborough +Chronicle_; the _Letters of Elizabeth and James VI._; and the _Chronicle +of Queen Jane_. This last volume was then only on the eve of +circulation; it has since been issued, and found to justify the +announcement of the council that it is work of great historical value, +and an interesting companion to _Machyn's Diary_. + +We have received the following Catalogues:--James Darling's (21. Little +Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books Old and New, +Theological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. 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A Second Volume, +of the same size, will be completed at the end of December, and we shall +then be enabled to judge how far it will be desirable to adopt the +system of Half-Yearly or Yearly volumes._ + +_Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers principally +occupied with_ REPLIES, _as it is obviously desirable that they should, +as far as possible, appear in the same volume as the_ QUERIES _to which +they refer._ + +COLLAR OF SS. _This subject shall be brought forward early in the next +volume._ + +E.S.T. _Thanks._ The Query and Folk Lore _shall appear as soon as +possible_. + +W.M.T. _is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to assure him, +that had we known what he has so kindly informed us, the article he +alludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are sure we may add, +that the friend who sent it would never have handed it to us for +publication_. + + * * * * * {464} + +On the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES KNIGHT, + +PART I. 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Rimbault, +LL.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page450">450</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. +Hailstone</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Folk Lore:—Superstitions of Middle +Counties—Rainbow in the Morning</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Error in Johnson's Life of Selden</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">QUERIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Purvey of the Apocalypse—Bonner on the Seven +Sacraments, by Sir F. Madden</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Replies to Minor Queries:—Arrangement of a +Monastery—Constantine the Artist—Josias Ibach +Stada—Worm of Lambton</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">REPLIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page453">453</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Lines on London Dissenting Ministers</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page454">454</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Replies to Minor Queries:—Tracts by Dekker +and Nash—Tureen—English Translations of +Erasmus—Court of Wards—Scala Coeli—Twm Shawn +Cattie—Cheshire Round—Horns to a +River—Horns—Coal Brandy—Howkey or +Horkey—Luther's Portrait—Symbolism of Flowers, +&c.—"Where England's +Monarch"—Journeyman—Sydenham or Tidenham—J.B.'s +Treatise on Nature and Art—"A Frog he would a-wooing +go"—"My Love and I, &c."—Teneber +Wednesday—Buckingham Motto—Laerig—Zenobia a +Jewess—Temple Stanyan, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page454">454</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Spur Money—Note Books—Lady Rachael +Russell—Byron and Taritus—Aboriginal Chambers near +Tilbury—Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book—A Phonetic +Peculiarity</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page462">462</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>NOTES</h2> +<h3>ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL.</h3> +<p>Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by +the kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks +of the Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road +which runs between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in +Northumberland, and the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General +Roy), passed hard by. The road is yet distinctly visible in all its +course among the Cheviots, and in the uncultivated tracts; and +occasionally also, where the plough has spared it, among the +agricultural inclosures.</p> +<p>The house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or +Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of +that word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the +credulity of a Monkbarns. <i>Pen</i>, it is known, signifies in the +Celtic language "a hill". And the word <i>heil</i>, in the +Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, rendered <i>Sol</i>. In the +Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, <i>heol</i> means "the sun:" +hence, <i>Penheil</i>, <i>Penheol</i>, or <i>Penniel</i>, "the hill +of the sun." Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is +believed, yet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid +circle, not many years ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who +used the sacred remains in building his garden wall. A little +farther antiquarian conjecture is necessary to clothe the country +with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth Forest was part of "the forest" +which covered Selkirkshire and parts of the counties around. The +Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two venerable oaks yet +flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once wooded condition +of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated by evidence +drawn from the interesting volumes of the <i>Rotuli +Parliamentorum</i>. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious +establishment in the neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. +Of their buildings, of the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens +existing in the memory of persons living, not a vestige now +remains. In the first volume of the <i>Rotuli</i>, p. 472., there +is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop of Glasgow to +Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these +terms:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese +aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de +Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth de +autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] pour fere +une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou il poet aver +recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le voudrent aver."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>To which the King's answer is,—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Héat Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu +in Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta +quercu."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; +and it was under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets +were composed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago,</p> +<p>Amid the silence of its hoary wood</p> +<p>By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow,</p> +<p>The lonely Temple of the Druids stood!</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page450" id= +"page450"></a>{450}</span> +<p>The conquering Roman when he urged his way,</p> +<p>That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain,</p> +<p>And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day,</p> +<p>Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane!</p> +<p>One stone of all its circle now remains,</p> +<p>Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand;</p> +<p>And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns;</p> +<p>And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand;</p> +<p>With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye</p> +<p>The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>II.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The Druid-train has moved into the wood,</p> +<p>Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene!</p> +<p>For theirs were offerings of human blood,</p> +<p>With sound of trump and shriek of fear between:</p> +<p>Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone;</p> +<p>And record none remains save this gray stone!</p> +<p>Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years</p> +<p>Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane</p> +<p>Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears</p> +<p>Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain</p> +<p>Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times</p> +<p>Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light</p> +<p>Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes</p> +<p>Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>III.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song!</p> +<p>And is my dwelling by thy classic streams;</p> +<p>And is the fate so fondly wished and long,</p> +<p>Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,—</p> +<p>By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam,</p> +<p>To live among thy happy shepherd swains</p> +<p>Where now the peaceful virtues have their home;</p> +<p>A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains</p> +<p>Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered,</p> +<p>To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound</p> +<p>By truest love and gratitude endeared:</p> +<p>The glory of his land, in whom were found</p> +<p>Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul,</p> +<p>Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">F.S.A. L. & E.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.</h3> +<p><i>Soho Square.</i>—Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) +has anticipated me in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. +Cornellys' house in this square; but he has left unnoticed some +particulars which deserve to be recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or +<i>Carlisle House</i> as it was called, was pulled down at the +beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and <i>two</i> +houses built upon its site, now <i>Jeffery's Music Warehouse</i> +and <i>Weston's Printing Office</i>. Some curious old paintings +representing banqueting scenes, formerly in <i>Carlisle House</i> +were carefully preserved until the last few years, in the +drawing-room of the corner house, when they were removed to make +room for some needed "elegancies" of the modern print shops. The +Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the banquetting-room of +Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between it and the house +in Soho Square was originally the "Chinese bridge."</p> +<p>"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer" appears +in the bankrupt list of <i>The London Gazette</i> of November, +1772; and in December of the same year, this temple of festivity, +and all its gorgeous contents, were thus advertised to be sold by +public auction:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"<i>Carlisle House, Soho.</i>—At twelve o'clock on Monday +the 14th instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell +by Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive, +commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately occupied +by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of the +Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant +Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too +well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste to +require here any public and extraordinary description thereof. +Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr. Marshall's, in St. +Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see the house, to prevent +improper crowds, and the great damage that might happen therefrom +(and the badness of this season) by admitting indifferent and +disinterested people, must be an excuse to the public for the +Assignees ordering the Catalogues to be sold at 5<i>s.</i> each, +which will admit two to see the house, &c., from Monday the 7th +instant to the time of sale, Sundays excepted, from ten in the +morning to three in the afternoon, and they hope no person or +persons will take amiss being refused admittance without +Catalogues."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by +advertisement), "That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will +commence soon, under the conduct and direction of a <i>New</i> +Manager;" but notwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find +that Mrs. Cornellys resumed her revels here with great spirit in +1776. In 1778, Carlisle House was again publicly advertised to be +sold by private contract, or "to be hired as usual;" and +subsequently, after having been used as a common exhibition room of +"Monstrosities," a "School of Eloquence," and "An Infant School of +Genius," it closed its public career through the interference of +the magistracy in 1797.</p> +<p>A full and particular account of the rise and fall of "Mrs. +Cornelys' Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho," was privately +printed two or three years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the +firm of Dalmaine and Co., Soho Square.</p> +<p><i>Carlisle Street, Soho Square.</i>—The large house at +the end of this street, looking into the square, was formerly +called <i>Carlisle House</i>. In 1770 it was purchased of Lord +Delaval by the elder Angelo; who resided in it many years, and +built a large riding-school at the back. Bach and Abel, of +"Concert" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house. Carlisle +Street was then called <i>King's Square Court</i>.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page451" id= +"page451"></a>{451}</span> +<p><i>Catherine Street, Strand.</i>—In 1714, a tract was +published with the following title:—<i>The Maypole's New +Year's Gift or Thanks returned to his Benefactors, humbly inscribed +to the Two Corners of</i> Catherine Street, Strand; <i>written by a +Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy</i>.</p> +<p><i>Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.</i>—The well known "Cider +Cellar" in this lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious +tract, entitled <i>Adventures under Ground</i>, 1750, which +contains some strange notices of this "Midnight Concert Room."</p> +<p><i>Salisbury Change.</i>—Cibber, in the amusing <i>Apology +for his Life</i>, has the following:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from +one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been +informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in +<i>Salisbury Change</i> (then standing where <i>Cecil Street</i> +now is), so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that +they were reduced to petition the king for relief against it."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>The New Exchange.</i>—A good description of this once +popular mart may be found in Lodwick Rowzee's <i>Treatise on the +Queene's Welles</i>, Lond. 1632. It is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We went to see the <i>New Exchange</i>, which is not far from +the place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the +Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the Gothic +style, which has lost its colour from age, and is becoming +blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, one above the +other, in which are distributed several rows great numbers of very +rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with goods of every +kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful description. +There are, for the most part, under the care of well-dressed women, +who are busily employed in work, although many are served by young +men, called apprentices."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden.</i>—In 1763 +appeared a small volume under the title of <i>Memoirs of the +Bedford Coffee House, by Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man +alive</i>.</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE.</h3> +<p>The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a +herald painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to +the latter, which came into my possession a few months ago.</p> +<p class="author">E. HAILSTONE.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Mr. Admall,</p> +<p>"I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West +Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of +Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to +heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore +to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will +usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong you +doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and making +you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard words, but +shal be as good as my word if there is law in England to restrain +you; so chose whether you will due to me good or evill; you shall +find me according your friend or open enemy.</p> +<p>"PETER LA NEVE, Norroy.</p> +<p>"College of Arms, in London,</p> +<p>"28th May, 1719."</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> +<p><i>Superstitions of the Midland Counties.</i>—It is +believed a sign of "bad luck" to meet a white horse, unless the +person <i>spits</i> at it, which action is said to avert the ill +consequences of the recontre.</p> +<p>A rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and +invariable consequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that +the contrary is believed, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine +Sunday.</p> +<p>If the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it +up, it is a sign that the <i>absent</i> lover, wife, or husband (as +the case may be) is in good spirits, and in good humour.</p> +<p>The itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the +reception of a gift; which is rendered more certain if the advice +in this distich be followed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Rub it 'gainst wood,</p> +<p>'Tis sure to come good."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will +at some future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common +expression has it, "are born to be rich."</p> +<p class="author">HENRY KERSLEY.</p> +<p>Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone.</p> +<p><i>A Rainbow in the Morning, &c.</i>—"Mr. THOMS" (No. +26, p. 413.) says that he believes no one has remarked the +philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. Sir Humphry Davy, however, +points it out in his <i>Salmonia</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN.</h3> +<p>In Johnson's (Geo. W.) <i>Memoirs of John Selden</i>, London, +1635, 8vo. pp. 128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated +Sermon preached at Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title +of <i>Apostolike Obedience</i>. After stating the difficult +experienced in obtaining the necessary sanction for its +publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the requisite +<i>imprimatur</i>, the author says that ultimately the licence was +"<i>signed by Land himself</i>, and published under the title of +<i>Apostolical Obedience</i>." A reference at the foot of the page +to "Rushworth, p. 444," leads me to conclude that it is on his +authority Mr. Johnson has made this statement; but not having +access to the "Historical Collections," I am unable to examine. At +any rate, Heylin, in his <i>Cyprianus Anglicus</i>, Lond., 1671 +fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of the +assertion.</p> +<p>A copy of this now rare sermon before me <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page452" id="page452"></a>{452}</span> proves, +however, that the statement is incorrect. At the back of the title +is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I have read over this sermon upon <i>Rom.</i> xiii. 7., +preached at <i>Northampton</i>, at the assises for the county, +<i>Feb.</i> 22, 1626, by <i>Robert Synthorpe</i>, Doctor of +Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, and I doe approve it as a sermon +learnedly and discreetly preached, and agreeable to the <i>ancient +Doctrine</i> of the <i>Primitive Church</i>, both for <i>Faith</i> +and <i>good manners</i>, and to the <i>Doctrine established</i> in +the <i>Church of England</i>, and, therefore, under my hand I give +authority for the printing of it, May 8. 1627."</p> +<p>GEO. LONDON.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>It was therefore Bishop <i>Mountague</i>, and not <i>Laud</i>, +who licensed the sermon.</p> +<p class="author">JOHN. J. DREDGE.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>POPE AND PETRONIUS.</h3> +<p>I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I +willingly allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism +against Pope, and discussed the subject generally with equal +fairness and ability. "But yet," I think that he wanders a little +from the point when he says, "the surmise of the plagiarism +originates in a misconception of the terms employed by the Latin +author, especially <i>corcillum</i>." Now the question, in my +opinion, turns not so much on what <i>Petronius said</i>, as on +what <i>Pope read</i>; i.e. not on the meaning that <i>Petronius +gave</i> to the word (<i>corcillum</i>), but on that which <i>Pope +attributed</i> to it. I cannot, without further proof, give him +credit for having read the words as critically and correctly as +"Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked on it merely as a +simple derivative of <i>cor</i>, and therefore rendered it "worth," +i.e. a <i>moral</i>, not a <i>mental</i> quality.</p> +<p class="author">C. FORBES.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE +SEVEN SACRAMENTS.</h3> +<p>I beg leave to make the two following Queries:—</p> +<p>1. In Bayle's very useful work, <i>Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris +Brytanniæ Catalogus</i>, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings +ascribed to John Purvey, one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as +Walden styles him) <i>Glossator</i>, is mentioned <i>Commentarius +in Apocalypsin</i>, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi diceret;" and +Bayle adds:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi +lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc +per Martinum Lutherum, <i>Ante centum annos</i> intitularus, anno +Domini 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusus. +Fuit et ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum +ea Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti +capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvæus hunc librum anno +Domini 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi +apparet."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the +<i>title</i> of the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his +<i>Annales</i>, vol. ix. p. 87. enters the volume thus, +"<i>Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos æditus, +cum Præfatione Maritini Lutheri</i>. Wittembergæ, 1528. +8vo." Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a +public library, or in private hands?</p> +<p>2. In Lewis's <i>History of the Translations of the Bible</i>, +edit. 1818. p. 25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "<i>Of the +Seven Sacraments</i>, 1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is +cited by the Bishop, as then in his possession, "translated out of +Latyne in tyme of heresye almost eight-score years before that +tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and truly written in parchment." Lewis +proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. was the same which is +preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark Fairfax, 2. And in +this erroneous supposition he has been followed by later writers. +The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is actually in the +Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains the +Pentateuch in the <i>earlier</i> Wycliffite version (made, no +doubt, by Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New +Testament is in the <i>later</i> or revised translation by Purvey +and his coadjutors. What I now wish to inquire about, is, where can +I meet with a copy of Bonner's work, <i>De Septem Sacramentis</i>, +in which the passages occur referred to by Lewis? They are not in +<i>A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with certayne Homelies +adjoyned</i>, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although one of these +homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments.</p> +<p class="author">F. MADDEN.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Monastery, Arrangement of One.</i>—Any information and +particulars respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the +various buildings for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or +Benedictine Monks would be useful to and gratefully received by</p> +<p class="author">A.P.H.</p> +<p class="note">[Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, +"Description of the Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in +the Ninth Century," accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he +will find in the <i>Archæological Journal</i>, vol. v. p. +85.?]</p> +<p><i>Constantine the Artist.</i>—Who was "M. Constantine, an +Italian architect to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque +at the Earl of Somerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same +Constantine de Servi to whom the Prince assigned a yearly pension +of 200<i>l.</i> in July 1612? If so, where can more be found +respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's +<i>Anecdotes</i>.</p> +<p class="author">J.G.N.</p> +<p><i>Josias Ibach Stada.</i>—Who was the artist whose name +occurs inscribed on the hoof of the horse of King Charles the +Second's equestrian statue at <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page453" id="page453"></a>{453}</span> Windsor, as +follows:—"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;" and is +Mr. Hewitt, in his recent <i>Memoir of Tobias Rustat</i>, correct +in calling him "Stada, an <i>Italian</i> artist?"</p> +<p class="author">J.G.N.</p> +<p><i>Worm of Lambton.</i>—Is there any published notice of +the "Knight and Serpent" tradition regarding this family and +parish?</p> +<p class="author">A.C.</p> +<p class="note">[A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the +immediate neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately +printed in the year 1530, under the title of <i>The Worm of +Lambton</i>.]</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>REPLIES.</h2> +<h3>LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.</h3> +<p>Luther's solemn request that his translation should on no +account be altered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the +N.T. I find it on the reverse of the title-page of the edition in +8vo. printed at Wittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and +reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have +fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know well +what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament shall be +Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is now without +measure or end. And be every one cautioned against other copies, +for I have already experienced how negligently and falsely others +reprint us."<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href= +"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p> +</blockquote> +<p>The disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the +editions printed under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; +but it has not, I think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words +<i>auf erde</i>, found in later editions, are wanting. The passage +stands:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und +das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In the first edition of the Saxon (Düdesche version of +Luther's Bible, by Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume +at Lubeck, by Lo. Dietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands +thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Wente dre synt dede tüchinisse geven, de Geist unde dat +Water, unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A MS. note of a former possessor remarks:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of +Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort, 1560 +and 1580."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, +Wittemberg, 1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one +printed by Hans Walther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words <i>up erdeu</i> +are inserted.</p> +<p>These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great +similarity that idiom has to our early language; and they, +doubtless, influenced much our own early versions.</p> +<p>In a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the +first printed in Latin with a translation on the same page, and +which is very similar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich +in 1535, 4to., with a Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the +7th verse is given (as it was in the Latin); but is distinguished +by being printed in brackets, and in both verses we have—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Unnd die drey dienend in eins."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Erasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave +occasion perhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times +to print both verses, with this distinction, in editions of the +Lutheran version. The earliest edition, I believe, in which it thus +appears, is one at Wittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, +1604, 1605<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href= +"#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>, and 1625. It also appears, but +printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by Wolder in 1597, +in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599.</p> +<p>In a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, +in 4to., in which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, +the Reformed, a new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch +version, are printed in parallel columns, both verses are given in +every instance; but a note points out that Luther uniformly omitted +the 7th verse, and the words <i>auf erde</i>.</p> +<p>There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is +entirely unwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing +to be <i>Luther's</i> translation.</p> +<p class="author">S.W. SINGER.</p> +<p>April 25. 1850.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p>"Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine Meister +Drücker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein sein, +Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens für sich +machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was andere +machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch Testament sein, +Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse noch ende. Und sey +jederman gewarnet für andern Exemplaren, Denn ich bisher wol +erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere +nachdrücken."</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name= +"footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<p>Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a long and +strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse, exults in +the existence of this verse in an edition of the Bible, Wittemberg, +1606, which is falsely said on the title-page to be <i>juxta +ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>Luther's Translation of the Bible</i> (No. 25, p. +309.).—De Wette, in his critical Commentary on the verse 1 +John, after stating his opinion that the controverted passage is a +spurious interpolation, gives a list of the codices and editions in +which the passage is not found, and of those in which it is +found.</p> +<p>The passage is <i>wanting</i> in all Greek Codd. except Codd. +34. 162. 172. (of his introduction, where it is introduced from the +Vulgate), and in all MS. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page454" +id="page454"></a>{454}</span> of the Vulgate before the tenth +century; in Erasmus' edit. of 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. +1518; in all editions of Luther's translation published by him +during his life-time, and up to 1581; in the edit. Withenb., 1607; +Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620.</p> +<p>The passage is <i>found</i> in all the editions printed of the +Vulgate, and in all translations from it before Luther; and the +edit. complut.; in Erasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the +edit. of Rob. Stephens, 1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the +Lutheran translations reprinted by Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. +(but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in brackets; edit. 1597, +without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593; Wittenb. 1596-97, +and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in every +edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but +not, of course, in De Wette's translation.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS.</h3> +<p>In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I +transcribe from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian +minister of Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of +a former Day," which I have never seen entire in print:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride</p> +<p>Directs his haughty eye to either side,</p> +<p>Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod,</p> +<p>And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find</p> +<p>The fairest pattern of a humble mind;</p> +<p>In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells,</p> +<p>As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands,</p> +<p>With head uplifted and with dancing hands,</p> +<p>Prone to sedition, and to slander free,</p> +<p>Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Mark how the pious matrons flock around,</p> +<p>Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound;</p> +<p>How sweetly each unmeaning period flows</p> +<p>To lull the audience to a gentle doze!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains</p> +<p>Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains,</p> +<p>Of every hue describes a different cause,</p> +<p>And from each patch a solemn mystery draws.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"With soundest judgment and with nicest skill,</p> +<p>The learned Hunt explains his Master's will,</p> +<p>So just his meaning, and his sense to true,</p> +<p>He only pleases the discerning few.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse,</p> +<p>What wond'rous energy! what mighty force!</p> +<p>Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules,</p> +<p>He scorns the censure of unthinking fools.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"But see the accomplish'd orator appear,</p> +<p>Refined his language, and his reasoning dear,</p> +<p>Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art,</p> +<p>At once to please the ear and mend the heart!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks,</p> +<p>And on the sober mind impression makes,</p> +<p>The sacred truths with justness he explains,</p> +<p>And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Of the author of these lines I can give no information. He +evidently belonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not +appear to have been known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of +the "Dissenting Churches" of London, although he quotes a portion +of them. But they were probably composed between 1728 and 1738. In +the former year, Dr. James Foster's London popularity arose, on the +occasion of his undertaking the evening lecture at the Old Jewry. +In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge, one of the subjects of the +poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is told (and to it the poem +evidently alludes), that he was employed no less than four months +in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from Genesis, xxxvii. +3.: "And he made him a coat of many colours." In reply to the +sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (<i>Hist. and Ant. +of Diss.</i> ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was +composed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains,</p> +<p>Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains;</p> +<p>Marks every truth, of error shows the cause,</p> +<p>And from each mystery useful doctrine draws."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening +stanza, is at variance with the general report of biographers. In +the copy of the verses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:—"I +think this is too severe on the Dr." Dr. Wright was admired for his +pulpit elocution; and it is said that Archbishop Herring was, in +his younger years, a frequent hearer of his, with a view to improve +in elocution. The notice of the celebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly +unjust. He was a man of wit and courage, though sometimes +boisterous and personal. His unsparing opponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, +wrote admiringly of "his musical voice, and the flow of his +periods, adapting scripture language to every +purpose."—<i>The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, +taken from his own Pen, &c.</i> Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35.</p> +<p class="author">A.B.R.</p> +<p>Dukinfield.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Tracts by Dekker and Nash.</i>—<i>The Raven's +Almanacke</i>, 1609, is the production of Thomas Dekker, the +dramatist, and one of the rarest of his numerous works. A copy sold +in the <i>Gordonstown</i> sale for seven guineas; and another +occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I have +not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also +the author of a similar work, entitled <i>The Owle's Almanacke</i>, +1618; but it is not mentioned in the lists furnished by +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page455" id= +"page455"></a>{455}</span> Lowndes and Dr. Nott. The latter is +indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known productions of the +author, and assigning others to him for which he is not answerable. +Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist mentioning a +fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the notice of +bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume, entitled, +<i>The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should behave +himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with +the Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent</i>. This is +nothing more than a reprint of Dekker's <i>Gull's Horn-book</i>, +with some slight alterations to adapt it to the times.</p> +<p>Nash's <i>Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of +Apparitions</i>, was printed by John Danter for William Jones, +1594. It is a very interesting tract, and contains many personal +allusions to its unfortunate author. A copy was sold in Heber's +sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5<i>l.</i> 18<i>s.</i> A note in the +handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the following +information:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge +Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the present, +bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and now (1825) +<i>penes</i> me, R.H."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>All things considered, I think your correspondent "J.E." (p. +400.) <i>may</i> congratulate himself on having "met with a +prize."</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p><i>Nash's Terrors of the Night.</i>—Excessively rare. +Boswell had a copy, and another is in the library of the Earl of +Ellesmere, described in Mr. Collier's <i>Bridgewater Catalogue</i> +as one of the worst of Nash's tracts.</p> +<p class="author">L.</p> +<p><i>Tureen</i> (No. 25. p. 407.).—The valuable reference to +Knox proves the etymology from the Latin. <i>Terrene</i>, as an +adjective, occurs in old English. See quotation in Halliwell, p. +859.</p> +<p class="author">L.</p> +<p><i>English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ</i> +(No. 24. p. 385.).—Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of +Erasmus' <i>Praise of Folly</i> was first printed, I believe, in +1540. Subsequent impressions are dated 1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, +William Pickering had a license "for pryntinge of a mery and +pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by Erasmus Roterdamus," +which possibly might be an impression of the <i>Praise of +Folly</i>. (See Collier's <i>Extracts from the Registers of the +Stationers' Company</i>, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was +again translated in the latter part of the following century, by +White Kennet. It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of +<i>Wit against Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly</i>. This is in +all probability the intermediate translation inquired after by your +correspondent.</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p>In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following +translation of Erasmus' <i>Praise of Folly</i>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from +the Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord +Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the +effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from +the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. +1724."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two +other translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the +<i>first</i>. He does not mention the name of the second +translator, but alludes to him as "<i>the modern translator</i>," +and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the book by having +"tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the Latin." +This is his excuse for offering to the public a third translation, +in which he professes to have allowed himself such "elbow-room of +expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the idiom of +the language did invite."</p> +<p class="author">HERMES.</p> +<p>The intermediate translation of the <i>Moriæ Encomium</i> +of Erasmus, to which your correspondent refers, is that by John +Wilson, 8vo. London 1661, of which there is a copy in the +Bodleian.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p>Oxford.</p> +<p><i>Court of Wards.</i>—I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. +173.) anything about Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of +Wards; but "J.B." may be glad to know that there is among the MSS. +in the British Museum a treatise on the Court of Wards. I remember +seeing it, but have not read it. I dare say it might be usefully +published, for we know little in detail about the Court of +Wards.</p> +<p class="author">C.H.</p> +<p><i>Scala Coeli</i> (No. 23. p. 366.).—In Foxe's <i>Acts +and Mon.</i>, vol. v. p. 364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a +copy of a grant from Pope Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of +a Boston guild, assuring them that any member thereof who should +enter the Lady Chapel in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, once a +quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, Ave Maria, and Creed, shall +have the full remission due to them that visit the Chapel of Scala +Scoeli."</p> +<p class="author">H.W.</p> +<p><i>Twm Shawn Cattie</i> (No. 24, p. 383.).—The following +extract from Cliffe's <i>Book of South Wales</i>, furnishes a reply +to this Query.</p> +<p>In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery +and Tregaron, he says:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, +where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: the +entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed of two +immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space between +them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page456" id="page456"></a>{456}</span> that the +passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure inclined +according to the slanting of the rock.</p> +<p>"The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti), +alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son of +John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of Meredydd ap +Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of Gwydir (see +<i>The Heraldic Visitations of Wales</i>, published by the Welsh +MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at the age of 61. +In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and highwayman,' and +levied black mail on the country within reach of his mountain +abode, with the aid of a small band of followers. He soon reformed, +married a rich heiress, was then created a justice of peace for +Brecon, and ultimately became sheriff of that county and +Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an +antiquarian and poet, but is more known for the tricks attributed +to him as a robber."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">A.B.</p> +<p><i>Twm Sion Catti.</i>—The noted robber, Twm Sion or +Shôn Catti, referred to at No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman +who flourished between the years 1590 and 1630. He was the natural +son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his surname of Catti from the +appellation of his mother Catherine. In early life he was a brigand +of the most audacious character, who plundered and terrified the +rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient warrant for +the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his unbounded +generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate love of +fun and frolic—for he was a very Eulenspiegel—made him +the darling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the +almost inaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction +of the Tywi and the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still +bears his name. As time passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of +Ystrad-ffin, in the vale of Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her +property, abandoned his wild life, and with it the name of Catti; +and quietly subsiding into Thomas Jones, Esq., became a poet and +antiquary of high reputation. In addition to which, and as if to +mark their sense of the value of a man so powerful for good or for +evil, the government appointed him high sheriff for the county of +Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a name which +yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage circle in +the long nights of winter.</p> +<p>His life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was +probably the work to which the "Note" of "MELANION" referred.</p> +<p class="author">SELEUCUS.</p> +<p><i>Cheshire Round</i> (No. 24. p. 383.).—A dance so +called, peculiar to the county from whence it takes its name. The +musical notes of the <i>Cheshire Round</i> may be seen in <i>The +Dancing Master</i>, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward Jones' <i>Cheshire +Melodies</i>. It was sometimes danced "longways for as many us +will" (as described in <i>The Dancing Master</i>), but more +frequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the +Third states, "In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd +stones at Hosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the +<i>Cheshire Rounds</i> to the admiration of all spectators." +Michael Root and John Sleepe, two clever caterers of "Bartlemy," +also advertise "a little boy that dances the <i>Cheshire Round</i> +to perfection." There is a portrait of Dogget the celebrated +comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is not +Penkethman?), representing him dancing the <i>Cheshire Round</i>, +with the motto "<i>Ne sutor ultra crepidam</i>."</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p><i>Horns to a River.</i>—Why the poets give horns to +rivers, must be sought for in the poet's book, nature. I like the +interpretation given by a glance up some sinuous and shelving +valley, where the mighty stream, more than half lost to the eye, is +only seen in one or two of its bolder reaches, as it tosses itself +here to the right, and there to the left, to find a way for its +mountain waters.</p> +<p>The third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would +be interesting to know where your correspondent has found it in +late Greek.</p> +<p class="author">J.E.</p> +<p>Oxford, April 16. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Horns.</i>—For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. +24. p. 383.), I subscribe the following, from Coleridge:—</p> +<p>"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare,</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"'Take thou no scorn</p> +<p>To wear the horn, the lusty horn;</p> +<p>It was a crest ere thou wert born."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p><i>As You Like It</i>, Act iv. sc. 2.</p> +<p>"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance +of a phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all +languages, and yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible +origin."—<i>Literary Remains</i>, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, +1849.</p> +<p class="author">ROBERT SNOW.</p> +<p><i>Coal Brandy</i> (No. 22. p. 352.).—This is only a +contraction of "coaled brandy," that is, "burnt brandy," and has no +reference to the <i>purity</i> of the spirit. It was the "universal +pectoral" of the last century; and more than once I have seen it +prepared by "good housewives" and "croaking husbands" in the +present, pretty much as directed in the following prescription. It +is only necessary to remark, that the orthodox method of "coaling," +or setting the brandy on fire, was effected by dropping "a live +coal" ("<i>gleed</i>") or red-hot cinder into the brandy. This is +copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of which are +written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of +scientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of +Simsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It +was written evidently by some <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page457" id="page457"></a>{457}</span> "dropper-in," who found +"honest John" suffering from a severe cold, and upon the first +piece of paper that came to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks +age, and the punctuation and erasures show him to have been a +literary man, and a careful though stilted writer. It is not, +however, a hand of which I find any other exemplars amongst +Nourse's correspondence.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which +may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce of +sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let it burn +till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go to +bed.</p> +<p>"To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the +brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for +"coughs, colds, catarrhs, and consumption," from Ford's "Balsam of +Horehound" to Dr. Solomon's "Balm of Gilead."</p> +<p class="author">T.S.D.</p> +<p>Shooter's Hill, April 4.</p> +<p><i>Howkey or Horkey</i> (No. 17. p. 263.).—Does the +following passage from Sir Thomas Overbury's <i>Witty Descriptions +of the Properties of sundry Persons</i>, first published, I +believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the etymology of this word? It +occurs in the description of a Frankling or Yeoman:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the +dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country +lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday, and +the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on Christmas eve, +<i>the hoky or seed-cake</i>, these he yearly keeps, yet holds them +no relics of Popery."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>As I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an +extract, I am unable to give a more precise reference.</p> +<p class="author">E.R.J.H.</p> +<p>Chancery Lane.</p> +<p>It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as +to the word <i>Howkey</i> or <i>Horkey</i>, if I state, that when +in my boyhood I was accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced +as if spelt <i>Hockey</i>. As <i>Howkey</i> I should not have +recognised it, nor hardly as <i>Horkey</i>.</p> +<p class="author">AN EAST ANGLIAN.</p> +<p><i>Hockey</i>, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the +end, is very likely derived from <i>hook</i>, an Anglo-Saxon word +too. But we cannot suppose that anything else was derived from +that, and especially when we come to words apparently more genuine +than that. It seems natural to connect them with a hock-tide, +Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.), a name given to more than +one season when it was usual to have games and festivities. Now +surely this is nothing else than <i>high</i> tide, a time of some +high feast; as we vulgarly say, "high days and holidays." So in the +Scripture, "that Sabbath day was a high day." So high Mass. We +Protestants have no conception of the close connection between the +superior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. +Among the heathen Romans, <i>festicus</i> is derived from +<i>festus</i>.<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href= +"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> We say high romps, high jinks.</p> +<p>See Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and +Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from +<i>Hogen</i>, "gaudere," which also see. He says that the lower +Saxons "hodie utuntur '<i>Höge</i>'" to mean "gaudium privatum +et publicum convivale et nuptiale." See also Hohen. See Lye, who +has also heah, freols summa festivitas, summum festum.</p> +<p>Ihre (<i>Lex. Suio Goth.</i>) says <i>Hugna</i> is "to make +glad." But in Hog-tid he observes, that gladness is only the +secondary meaning of <i>Hogen</i>,—"<i>Hokanat</i> vocabatur +a Borealibus festum quod media hieme celebrabatur;" and he shows +that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it.</p> +<p class="author">C.B.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name= +"footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag3">(return)</a> +<p>Is not the derivation of "feast" and "fast" originally the same? +that which is appointed, connected with "<i>fas</i>," and that from +"<i>fari</i>."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>Howkey or Horkey</i> (No. 17. p. 263.).—Is not this +word simply a corruption of <i>Hockey</i>? Vide under "Hock-cart," +in <i>Brand's Antiquities</i> by Ellis, where the following +quotation from <i>Poor Robin's Almanack</i> for 1676 +occurs:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Hoacky</i> is brought home with hallowing,</p> +<p>Boys with plum-cake the cart following."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<p><i>Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle</i> (No. 25. p. +400.).—The Portrait by Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly +erroneously stated to be that of Luther, was, I believe, engraved +as such in Knight's <i>Portrait Gallery</i>, published by the +Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. I cannot find in any +account of Helbein's works a mention of a portrait of Luther by +him.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.</p> +<p><i>Symbolism of Flowers, etc.</i>—In reference to works +illustrative of poetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical +associations connected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. +11. p. 173., many a literary man must equally desire an +interpreter,—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie,</p> +<p>And teach that truth is truest poesy."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of +this description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your +learned correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation +by furnishing illustrations, or references to illustrations, +critical and poetical, collected from the most valuable authors, +ancient and modern; and that this "sacred eloquence,"</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page458" id= +"page458"></a>{458}</span> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Where'er 'tis found</p> +<p>On Christian or on heathen ground,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, +afford much pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the +useful work of Camerarius on <i>Symbols and Emblems</i>.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily</p> +<p>To the first plant by some kind augury."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely +in p. 214, beautifully illustrated<a id="footnotetag4" name= +"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>, but still +deserving further consideration. Schedius (<i>De Diis Gemanis</i>) +and others have, with much learning, shown Venus Urania to be the +same as Isis Myrionyma. With erudition not inferior, but in support +of a peculiar theory, Gorop. Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and +Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one and the same hieroglyphical +character. I shall now endeavour to explain the symbolism and +dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers" adumbrates the +highest faculty of human nature—<i>Reason</i>, and Silence, +or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the +Greek term [Greek: epistaemae], <i>science</i>. (See Harris's +<i>Philosoph. Arrang.</i> p. 444., and <i>Hermes</i>, p. 369.). To +whom, then, could the hieroglyphical rose have been more +appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is described with his +finger pointing to his mouth—<i>tacito plenus +amore</i>—a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought +to behave in religious matters.</p> +<p class="author">T.J.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name= +"footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag4">(return)</a> +<p>Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the +<i>Rhodologia</i> of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them +under "Rosæ," in the <i>Amphitheatrum sapientiæ</i> of +Dornavius.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>"<i>Where England's Monarch</i>" (No. 26. p. 415.).—The +two lines inquired for are in Bramston's <i>Man of Taste</i>, a +poem printed about the middle of the last century. I need hardly +add, that the poet was misinformed, it being well known that +Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to plead or <i>to take +off his hat</i>.</p> +<p>There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with +Barnard in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, May 1758: but it may be +the same as that in the <i>Annual Register</i>.</p> +<p class="author">BRAYBROOKE</p> +<p>April 27.</p> +<p><i>Journeyman</i> (No. 19. p. 309.).—"GOMER" may like to +know that the old labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's +ploughing as a "<i>journey at plough</i>."</p> +<p class="author">BRAYBROOKE.</p> +<p><i>Sydenham or Tidenham.</i>—I have no doubt as to +Sydenham, included in the inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates +(No. 24. p. 389.), being <i>Tidenham</i>; for this manor, the +property of the Marquis of Worcester, was possessed by Cromwell; +and, among my title deeds connected with this parish, I have Court +Rolls <i>in Cromwell's name</i> both for <i>Tidenham</i> itself and +for <i>Beachley</i>, a mesne manor within it.</p> +<p>These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the +Somersets, were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 +Hen. VIII. cap. 26. § 13., and annexed, together with +<i>Woolaston</i>, similarly circumstanced, to the country of +Gloucester and to the hundred of Westbury; of which hundred, in a +legal sense, they still continue a part.</p> +<p class="author">GEO. ORMEROD.</p> +<p>Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850.</p> +<p><i>J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art</i> (No. 25. p. +401.).—The book to which your correspondent "M." refers, is, +I believe, "<i>The Mysteries of Nature and Art, in Foure severall +Parts: The First of Water Works,—the Second of Fire Works, +&c., &c. By John Bate</i>."</p> +<p>I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude +engraving of the author:—"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, +memoria manet, modo permaneant studium et industria."</p> +<p class="author">HERMES.</p> +<p>"<i>A Frog he would a-wooing go</i>."—In answer to the +inquiry of "B.G.J." (in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of +"'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I do not think it is older that thirty +of thirty-five years, when Liston sang an altered version of the +very old song,—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A frog, he would a-wooing ride,</p> +<p>With sword and buckler by his side,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>and instead of the usual chorus<a id="footnotetag5" name= +"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a>, +inserted</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Heigho, says Rowley,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., +Soho Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by +C.E.H., Esq. (<i>qy.</i> Charles Edward Horn?), and an +accompaniment by Thomas Cook. The first verse is as +follows:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A frog he would a-wooing go;</p> +<p class="i2">'Heigh ho!' says Rowley;</p> +<p>Whether his mother would let him or no,</p> +<p class="i2">With a rowly, powly,</p> +<p>Gammon and spinach,</p> +<p class="i2">'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">R.S.S.</p> +<p>April 23. 1850.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name= +"footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag5">(return)</a> +<p>In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's <i>Nursery Rhymes</i>, I +have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different +melodies, and <i>nonsense</i> burthens, as sung by my excellent +nurse, Betty Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your +pages.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>"<i>My Love and I for kisses played, &c.</i>" (No. 19. p. +302.).—The little <i>jeu d'esprit</i> which "Dr. RIMBAULT" +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page459" id= +"page459"></a>{459}</span> has given from Paget's <i>Common Place +Book</i>:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"My love and I for kisses play'd,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted +"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading +of the last couplet:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?</p> +<p>Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for +Kisses," and are there without any name or signature. They remind +us of Lilly's very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe."</p> +<p>The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles +it:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Fair stood the wind for France,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, +<i>Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, +by Michael Drayton, Esquire</i>. At London, printed by R.B. for +N.L. and J. Flaskett. 12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.)</p> +<p>I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early +editions of Drayton's <i>Miscellaneous Poems</i>; but I speak +without book, my collection being in the country.</p> +<p>The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was +made by Dr. Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title +page. "The head and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. +Pickering's neat edition of Herrick in 1846.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.S.</p> +<p>March 12. 1850.</p> +<p class="note">["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. +CCXXXIX. of <i>A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. +Walthoe</i>, 1727, and of which a second volume was published in +1737; and "J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the +<i>Encyclopædia of Wit</i>, published about half a century +since.]</p> +<p><i>Teneber Wednesday.</i>—In Hall's <i>Chronicle</i>, +under the date of 23rd Hen. VIII., is this passage:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme +ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next +yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that whosoeuer +dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote water to the +death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard Roose, int the +Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at the Bishop of +Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the same Acte, was +boyled in Smythfelde the <i>Teneber-Wednysday</i> following, to the +terrible example of all other."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before +Easter, of "Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao," and that the name is +derived form the Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the +Church of Rome.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Erat autem fere hora sexta, et <i>tenèbroe</i> factoe +sunt in universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est +sol: et velum templi seissum est medium."—Luke, xxiii. 44, +45.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it +corrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents can supply other instances of the use of the term, +or state what are or were the ceremonies peculiar to the day.</p> +<p class="author">C.H. COOPER</p> +<p>Cambridge, April 4. 1850.</p> +<p>P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that +"<i>Tenable Wednesday</i>" occurs three times in the Ordinance for +"weshing of all mannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell" in +the Northumberland Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance +it is placed between Lady Day and Easter Even.</p> +<p class="note">[If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most +useful work, <i>Medii ævi Kalendarium</i>, vol. i. p. 370., +to the words <i>Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebræ</i>, he will +find them explained "The three nights before Easter;" and the +following among other illustrations:—</p> +<p class="note">"Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch +on Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne +service, as commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And +holi chirch useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, +the service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is +called with divers men <i>Tenables</i>, but holi chirch +<i>Tenebras</i>, as <i>Raccionale Divinorum</i> seth, that is to +say, thieness or derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord +by night."—<i>Harl. MS.</i> 2247. fo. 83.]</p> +<p><i>The Buckingham Motto.</i>—Permit me to suggest that +your correspondents "S." and "P." (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are +labouring under a mistaken notion in supposing that the line</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>Sovente me sorene</i>,</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase "Forget +me not." Such a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the +parting prayer or injunction of a lover, but does not possess the +essential characteristic of a <i>motto</i>, which one selects for +the purpose of declaring his own sentiments of conduct towards +<i>others</i>, not to deprecate or direct those of others towards +<i>himself</i>.</p> +<p>The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, +but exactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the +present day; and if "S." would again examine the original MS., I +make no doubt that he would find the line written <i>Sovente mi +sooviene (sovene)</i>, <i>i.e.</i> with the personal pronoun in the +dative instead of the accusative case. The expression <i>mi +souviene</i> is equivalent to <i>mi ricordo</i>, but is a more +elegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be +"I seldom forget,"—a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying +as much the memory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be +required.</p> +<p class="author">A. RICH, JUN.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page460" id= +"page460"></a>{460}</span> +<p><i>Larig.</i>—I am obliged by the suggestions of your +correspondents "B.W." and "C.I.R." (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I +beg leave to offer the following reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or +Netherlandish, as they may be considered one language until the +fifteenth century) <i>Le'er</i> and <i>Le'ar</i> are simply +contractions of <i>Leder</i>, as Tenkate observes, <i>euphonis +gratia</i>, by the omission of the <i>d</i>, which takes place in +other similar words; and what is remarkable in <i>Ledig</i>, empty, +which becomes <i>Le'eg</i>. <i>Le'erig</i> is of course +<i>leathery</i>, or <i>tough</i>; but <i>Lederen</i> or +<i>Le'ersen</i>, would be used for <i>made</i> of <i>leather</i>, +and in A.-S., most probably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such +contraction in A.-S.: it is always [A-S: Leðer] and [A-S: +Leðern]. The epithet, <i>leathery</i>-shields, could hardly +have been used where they are said to <i>resound</i>; and the +instance of <i>vaulted</i> shields in Judith is, I think, +conclusive. The root of <i>Leder</i> is possibly <i>hlid-an</i>, to +cover HIDE? That of <i>Leer</i> possibly <i>lieren</i>, amittere, +privari?</p> +<p>I should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and +Schilter, which were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and +indeed I had not Urry's <i>Chaucer</i> at hand to verify the +reference of Junius to the Tale of Beryn, the only valuable portion +of Urry's book. I knew that a simple reference to the O.H.G. +Lâri would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm.</p> +<p>Thorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has +followed Lye, in rendering <i>Lind haebbende</i>, Vexilla habens; +and Haldorsen's explanation of <i>Lind</i> might have taught him +better. Mr. Kemble has rendered it <i>shield-bearers</i>, and gives +instances in his Glossary of similar combinations, as +<i>rond-haebbendra</i>, <i>bord-haebbende</i>, +<i>scaro-haebbendra</i>.</p> +<p class="author">S.W. SINGER.</p> +<p>April 15. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Zenobia a Jewess?</i> (No. 24. p. 383.)—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add +here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius <i>took her to be +a Jewess</i>, meaning, without doubt, <i>in respect of her +religion</i>; and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please +her that Paul of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions +very like those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, +saying that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature +superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any +otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine +grace."—Crevier, <i>Hist. of Rom. Emperors</i>, Book 27. +"Aurelian," vol. ix. p. 174.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>M. Crevier refers to "Tillem. Aur. art. 5."</p> +<p class="author">C. FORBES</p> +<p>Temple, April 16.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan.</i>—The following notices, relating to +<i>one</i> Temple Stanyan may interest your correspondent "A.G." +(No. 24 p. 382.).</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"1725. March 23. Died Mrs. —— Stanyan, wife of +Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of +Secretary of State."—<i>Historical Register.</i></p> +<p>"1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His +Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs. +Pauncefort."—<i>Ibid.</i></p> +</blockquote> +<p>There is a monument in one of the churches at +Southampton,—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles +Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in +co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument was +erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in His +Majesty's Navy."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Edward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles +Hardy's will, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780.</p> +<p class="author">W.H.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan</i> wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was +common when I was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If +the question is biographical, I can say nothing.</p> +<p class="author">C.B.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan</i> (No. 24. p. 382.).—He also published +an <i>Account of Switzerland</i>, 8vo. London, 1714.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p><i>"Who was Temple Stanyan?"</i> (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple +Stanyan was the son of Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit +Kat Club, M.P. for Buckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of +the Admiralty, etc. Mr. Temple Stanyan was himself also Minister at +Constantinople, and at several other courts; and afterwards +Under-Secretary of State under both Addison and the Duke of +Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of Switzerland; and his +Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the publication of Mitford's, +the best in our language. I believe that his daughter married Adm. +Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Auctorite de Dibil</i> (no. 25. p. 205.).—Probably an +error of transcription; read <i>Auctorite de Bibil</i>.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<p><i>The Bristol Riots</i> (No. 22. p. 352.).—"J.B.M." is +informed, that the volume to which he alludes is generally +considered by Bristolians as the most authentic and fullest +narrative that was published of those disgraceful scenes.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.G.</p> +<p>Worcester.</p> +<p><i>Religious Tract by F.H.</i> (No. 25. p. 400.)—The +author of the religious tract which has fallen into the hands of +"J.C." is no doubt one of the early Quakers, and probably Francis +Howgill. Howgill was originally a clergyman of the Church of +England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and in the year 1652 +joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of George Fox. +His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes.</p> +<p class="author">Θ.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page461" id= +"page461"></a>{461}</span> +<p><i>Complutensian MSS.</i>—"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will +find full answers to his Queries, and more interesting information +on the same subject, in a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro +Saban's Spanish translation of Prescott's <i>Ferdinand and +Isabella</i>. Madrid, 1846.</p> +<p>I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within +a month in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they +were removed from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew +manuscripts are all originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of +Zamora among them are 3 vols. in Latin, translated from the +Hebrew.</p> +<p>The Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection +as above; and of course were not returned to the Vatican.</p> +<p class="author">H.S.</p> +<p>Morley's Hotel, April 28.</p> +<p><i>Tablet to Napoleon</i> (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. +406.).—"C.I.R.'s" interpretation can hardly be admitted. The +true meaning will be best exhibited by the following +form:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Napoleoni,</p> +<p class="i2">Ægyptiaco,</p> +<p>Bis Italico,</p> +<p class="i2">Semper Invicto."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p><i>Bis Italico</i> alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., +in his first campaign, and again in that of Marengo.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Malone's Blunder</i> (No. 25. p. 403.).—"Mr. BOLTON +CORNEY," in his answer on this subject, says very justly, that +"before we censure a writer, we should consult his own edition." He +has, however, not followed this excellent principle in this case, +for he has certainly not looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on +which the question arises. He has repeated what I had already +stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the mistake was <i>not</i> a blunder +of <i>Malone's</i>; and he has also pointed out, what had escaped +me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first <i>three</i> +articles of the pretended will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare: but when +he adds that there is "<i>no fabrication</i>" and "<i>no +mystery</i>" in the case, and that "the blunder of the Irish editor +was merely in attempting to <i>unite the two fragments</i> as +published by Malone," it is quite clear that he has not seen the +edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken the whole affair. +The Irish editor did <i>not</i> attempt to unite Malone's +fragments—quite the contrary—he left Malone's first +fragment as he found it; but he took the second fragment, namely, +the exordium of the pretended will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare, and +substituted it <i>bodily</i> as the exordium of the will of +<i>William</i> Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the real exordium +of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, "I, <i>John</i> +Shakspeare," &c., and ends, "by me, <i>William</i> Shakspeare." +I have no doubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery +altogether; but the taking three paragraphs of it, and substituting +them for the two first paragraphs of <i>William</i> Shakspeare's +genuine will, is what I call, and what no doubt "Mr. BOLTON CORNEY" +will think, on this explanation of the facts, "an audacious +fabrication." The best guess I can make as to how, or with what +design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so complicated, +and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:—Malone printed the +fragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his +"Emendations and additions," as belonging to "<i>the will before +printed</i>," meaning the forged will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare, +but that the Irish editor understood him to mean the genuine will +of <i>William</i> Shakspeare; and so thought that he was only +restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could have +overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in +the meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly +incomprehensible.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Theses.</i>—Perhaps it may assist your correspondent +"M." (No. 25. p. 401.) to be informed that the University of +Göttingen is particularly rich in "<i>Theses</i>" (termed +<i>Disputationes et Dissertationes</i>), to which there is a large +room entirely devoted in the library of that university; together +with the transactions of learned bodies. A special librarian is +attached to this department, which is much consulted. A Catalogue +was begun to be published of this collection, so far as respects +the <i>Memoirs</i> contained in the various transactions, in 1801, +by J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after +which, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues +of Theses, I think the following work is in good +esteem:—<i>Dissert. Acad. Upsal. habitæ sub +Præsid. C.P. Thunberg</i>, 3 tom. 8vo. Götting. +1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the <i>Catalogus +Bibliothecæ Thottiauæ</i> (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniæ, +1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which it might be well to +consult, of dissertations under the name of the president or head +of the institution or college where they were delivered, than under +the writer's name. At least, in a <i>collective</i> sense the +former method is adopted, as in the following instance: Schultens, +(Alb.) <i>Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, +adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Præsidio A. Schultens, +etc.</i>, 2 tom.: although, if the author should happen to be +distinguished for his other productions, <i>all</i> that he wrote +is anxiously sought out, and placed under his own name.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.</p> +<p>Oxford, April 24.</p> +<p class="note">["M." may also be referred to the <i>Catalogus +Dissertationum Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca +Bodleiana</i>. A quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University +Press in 1834.]</p> +<p><i>MSS. of Locke</i> (No. 25. p. 401.).—"C." is informed +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page462" id= +"page462"></a>{462}</span> that Dr. Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, +in Ireland, during the past year. The papers of Locke respecting +which he inquires are probably still in the possession of Dr. H.'s +son.</p> +<p class="author">Θ</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2> +<p><i>Spur Money.</i>—Although I used often, twenty years +ago, when a chorister at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying +a fine on all who entered that place with spurs on, I was not aware +of its origin till I saw it explained in your interesting +publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a custom however, +connected with this impost, the origin of which I should be glad to +learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was sought +to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister before +him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the +spur-bearer was entitled to exemption.</p> +<p class="author">E.J.H.</p> +<p><i>Spur Money.</i>—I beg to offer the following humble +illustration of spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of +All Saints Church at Hastings:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">1.</p> +<p>"This is a belfry that is free</p> +<p>For all those that civil be:</p> +<p>And if you please to chime or ring,</p> +<p>It is a very pleasant thing.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">2.</p> +<p>"There is no musick play'd or sung,</p> +<p>Like unto bells when they're well rung:</p> +<p>Then right your bells well, if you can—</p> +<p>Silence is best for every man.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">3.</p> +<p>"But if you ring in <i>spur or hat</i>,</p> +<p>Sixpence you pay—be sure of that:</p> +<p>And if a bell you overthrow,</p> +<p>Pray pay a groat before you go."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>(dated) 1756.</p> +<p class="author">ALFRED GATTY.</p> +<p>Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Note Books.</i>—Looking at what your correspondent says +about "Note Books," I think the following hint may be useful to +others, as it has been to myself. Many persons never get so far as +the formality of a common-place book, and do not like to write in +their books. Let them follow my plan. The envelope maker will +procure them any number of little slips of white paper, with a +touch of isinglass at each of the four corners. Let the note be +written on one of these, and then let the slip be stuck into any +book which is sure to be wanted in connection with the subject when +it comes up again; either by one, two, or four corners, as +convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it be +wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached +to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed +miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is +good as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"When made a note of,—find if you can."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL.</h3> +<p>Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his <i>British +Poetesses</i> on account of the following verses:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth,</p> +<p>Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth;</p> +<p>His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight,</p> +<p>My husband dear, more than this world's light,</p> +<p>Death hath me reft. But I from death will take</p> +<p>His memory, to whom this tomb I make.</p> +<p>John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say),</p> +<p>Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, +so that these verses could not have come from his widow's pen. +Indeed, they are much older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be +found on the monument in Westminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, +in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in +1584.</p> +<p class="author">P. CUNNINGHAM.</p> +<hr /> +<p><i>Byron and Tacitus</i> (No. 20. p. 390.).—To your young +friend, who honestly signs himself "A SCHOOLBOY," let an older +correspondent say, that he will do more wisely to let the rules of +his teachers keep him from perusing an author who makes a mock of +all moral and all honourable feelings. But if he wishes to know +whether the introduction of the sentence from Tacitus into a +poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," the reply will properly +be, No. The poet expected that the well-known figure, which he had +thus thrown into verse, would be immediately recognised by every +literary reader, and that the recognition would give pleasure. He +was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed by a +master, that <i>Difficile est proprie communia dicere</i>. The +Schoolboy knows where to find these words; and I hope that he also +knows where to find the words of one who speaks with greater +authority, and has said most kindly, "Cease, my son, to hear [read] +the instruction that causeth to err."</p> +<p class="author">H.W.</p> +<p><i>Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury.</i>—It is proposed to +descend some of the aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near +Tilbury in Essex. In consequence, however, of Camden having named a +wrong parish, later antiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain +their precise whereabouts. Mr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' +labour, found them out; and a brief notice of them was given +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page463" id= +"page463"></a>{463}</span> in an article upon "Primæval +Britain" in the <i>West Kent Almanack for</i> 1849. Hasted mentions +similar pits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is +another called "the Sound Hole," from the echoes, &c., made +upon a stone being thrown down. Mr. S. Laudale intends an +examination of it this summer. Tradition reports that there are +three enormous caverns, which communicate with the central +shaft.</p> +<p>How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of +those chambers which are aloof from the central shaft?</p> +<p class="author">Δ</p> +<p><i>Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book.</i>—A few days ago, Messrs. +Puttick and Simpson sold a very important manuscript, the original +letter-book of Sir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles +II. It fetched 51<i>l.</i>, being bought by a collector whose name +has not transpired; but perhaps this notice, if you kindly insert +it, may induce the purchaser to edit it for the Chetham Society, to +whose publications it would for a most valuable addition.</p> +<p class="author">R.</p> +<p><i>A Phonetic Peculiarity.</i>—I venture to note as a very +curious phonetic peculiarity, that we have in the English language +a large number of monosyllabic words ending is <i>sh</i>, all of +which are expressive of some violet action or emotion. I quote a +few which have occurred without search, in alphabetical order. +"Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash, gush, hash, gnash, lash, +mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash, squash, thrash."</p> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2> +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.</h3> +<p>At the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was +announced that a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood +had been determined upon, and the first volume containing six plays +was laid upon the table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's +<i>Essay on the Chandos Portrait</i> had only been delayed from a +desire to obtain the most novel and accurate information.</p> +<p>The members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at +the Annual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of +the third volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the <i>Canterbury +Tales</i> was announced.</p> +<p>The plan for the <i>restoration of Chaucer's tomb</i> in Poet's +Corner has at length assumed a practical shape. It has been +ascertained that less than 100<i>l.</i> will do every thing that +can be desired to repair the ravages of time, and preserve the +monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to raise this sum by +subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share in the good +work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this scheme, +which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle, +the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other +distinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by +every member of the committee, and parties resident in the country +may remit them by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in +favour of William Richard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament +Street, the Honorary Treasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the +Honorary Secretary of the Committee.</p> +<p>The Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, +under the Presidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general +satisfaction. The council reported the publication during the past +year of the <i>Peterborough Chronicle</i>; the <i>Letters of +Elizabeth and James VI.</i>; and the <i>Chronicle of Queen +Jane</i>. This last volume was then only on the eve of circulation; +it has since been issued, and found to justify the announcement of +the council that it is work of great historical value, and an +interesting companion to <i>Machyn's Diary</i>.</p> +<p>We have received the following Catalogues:—James Darling's +(21. Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books +Old and New, Theological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. +City Road) Catalogue, No. 8., of Books in English and Foreign +Theology, Literature, Roman Catholic Controversy, Classics, +&c.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES</h3> +<h4>WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h4> +<h4>(<i>In continuation of Lists in former Nos.</i>)</h4> +<p>THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</p> +<p>ROCCHA DE CAMPANIS.</p> +<h4><i>Odd Volumes</i>.</h4> +<p>THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Vol I. 1797.</p> +<p>CALENDAR OF HARLEIAN MSS., Vol. IV.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.</h3> +<p>COMPLETION OF OUR FIRST VOLUME.—<i>Two more numbers will +complete our First Volume, to which a very full Index is preparing. +A Second Volume, of the same size, will be completed at the end of +December, and we shall then be enabled to judge how far it will be +desirable to adopt the system of Half-Yearly or Yearly +volumes.</i></p> +<p><i>Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers +principally occupied with</i> REPLIES, <i>as it is obviously +desirable that they should, as far as possible, appear in the same +volume as the</i> QUERIES <i>to which they refer.</i></p> +<p>COLLAR OF SS. <i>This subject shall be brought forward early in +the next volume.</i></p> +<p>E.S.T. <i>Thanks.</i> The Query and Folk Lore <i>shall appear as +soon as possible</i>.</p> +<p>W.M.T. <i>is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to +assure him, that had we known what he has so kindly informed us, +the article he alludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are +sure we may add, that the friend who sent it would never have +handed it to us for publication</i>.</p> +<hr class="adverts" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page464" id= +"page464"></a>{464}</span> +<p>On the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES +KNIGHT,</p> +<p>PART I. 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Saturday, May 11, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: October 10, 2004 [EBook #13684] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals, Jon Ingram, David +King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 28.] SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {449} + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- + Etymology of Penniel. 449 + Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, + LL.D. 450 + Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. Hailstone. 451 + Folk Lore:--Superstitions of Middle Counties--Rainbow + in the Morning. 451 + Error in Johnson's Life of Selden. 451 + Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes. 452 + +QUERIES:-- + Purvey of the Apocalypse--Bonner on the Seven Sacraments, + by Sir F. Madden. 452 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Arrangement of a Monastery--Constantine + the Artist--Josias Ibach Stada--Worm of Lambton. 452 + +REPLIES:-- + Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer. 453 + Lines on London Dissenting Ministers. 454 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tracts by Dekker and + Nash--Tureen--English Translations of Erasmus--Court + of Wards--Scala Coeli--Twm Shawn Cattie--Cheshire + Round--Horns to a River--Horns--Coal + Brandy--Howkey or Horkey--Luther's Portrait--Symbolism + of Flowers, &c.--"Where England's + Monarch"--Journeyman--Sydenham or Tidenham--J.B.'s + Treatise on Nature and Art--"A Frog he + would a-wooing go"--"My Love and I, &c."--Teneber + Wednesday--Buckingham Motto--Laerig--Zenobia a + Jewess--Temple Stanyan, &c. 454 + +MISCELLANIES:-- + Spur Money--Note Books--Lady Rachael Russell--Byron + and Taritus--Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Sir + R. Haigh's Letter-Book--A Phonetic Peculiarity. 462 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 463 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 463 + Notices to Correspondents. 463 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES + +ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL. + +Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the +kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the +Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs +between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and +the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), passed hard by. The +road is yet distinctly visible in all its course among the Cheviots, and +in the uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where the plough has +spared it, among the agricultural inclosures. + +The house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or +Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of that +word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the credulity +of a Monkbarns. _Pen_, it is known, signifies in the Celtic language "a +hill". And the word _heil_, in the Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, +rendered _Sol_. In the Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, _heol_ means +"the sun:" hence, _Penheil_, _Penheol_, or _Penniel_, "the hill of the +sun." Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is believed, +yet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid circle, not many +years ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who used the sacred remains +in building his garden wall. A little farther antiquarian conjecture is +necessary to clothe the country with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth +Forest was part of "the forest" which covered Selkirkshire and parts of +the counties around. The Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two +venerable oaks yet flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once +wooded condition of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated +by evidence drawn from the interesting volumes of the _Rotuli +Parliamentorum_. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious establishment in +the neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. Of their buildings, +of the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens existing in the memory +of persons living, not a vestige now remains. In the first volume of the +_Rotuli_, p. 472., there is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop +of Glasgow to Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these +terms:-- + + "Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese + aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de + Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth + de autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] + pour fere une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou + il poet aver recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le + voudrent aver." + +To which the King's answer is,-- + + "Héat Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu in + Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta + quercu." + +Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; and it +was under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets were +composed:-- + + I. + + "'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago, + Amid the silence of its hoary wood + By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow, + The lonely Temple of the Druids stood! {450} + The conquering Roman when he urged his way, + That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain, + And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day, + Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane! + One stone of all its circle now remains, + Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand; + And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns; + And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand; + With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye + The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky. + + II. + + "The Druid-train has moved into the wood, + Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene! + For theirs were offerings of human blood, + With sound of trump and shriek of fear between: + Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone; + And record none remains save this gray stone! + Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years + Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane + Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears + Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain + Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times + Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light + Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes + Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright. + + III. + + "Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song! + And is my dwelling by thy classic streams; + And is the fate so fondly wished and long, + Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,-- + By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam, + To live among thy happy shepherd swains + Where now the peaceful virtues have their home; + A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains + Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered, + To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound + By truest love and gratitude endeared: + The glory of his land, in whom were found + Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul, + Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul." + +F.S.A. L. & E. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON. + +_Soho Square._--Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) has anticipated me +in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. Cornellys' house in this +square; but he has left unnoticed some particulars which deserve to be +recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or _Carlisle House_ as it was called, was +pulled down at the beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and +_two_ houses built upon its site, now _Jeffery's Music Warehouse_ and +_Weston's Printing Office_. Some curious old paintings representing +banqueting scenes, formerly in _Carlisle House_ were carefully preserved +until the last few years, in the drawing-room of the corner house, when +they were removed to make room for some needed "elegancies" of the +modern print shops. The Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the +banquetting-room of Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between +it and the house in Soho Square was originally the "Chinese bridge." + +"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer" appears in the +bankrupt list of _The London Gazette_ of November, 1772; and in December +of the same year, this temple of festivity, and all its gorgeous +contents, were thus advertised to be sold by public auction:-- + + "_Carlisle House, Soho._--At twelve o'clock on Monday the 14th + instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell by + Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive, + commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately + occupied by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of + the Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant + Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too + well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste + to require here any public and extraordinary description + thereof. Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr. + Marshall's, in St. Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see + the house, to prevent improper crowds, and the great damage that + might happen therefrom (and the badness of this season) by + admitting indifferent and disinterested people, must be an + excuse to the public for the Assignees ordering the Catalogues + to be sold at 5s. each, which will admit two to see the house, + &c., from Monday the 7th instant to the time of sale, Sundays + excepted, from ten in the morning to three in the afternoon, and + they hope no person or persons will take amiss being refused + admittance without Catalogues." + +In December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by +advertisement), "That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will commence +soon, under the conduct and direction of a _New_ Manager;" but +notwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find that Mrs. Cornellys +resumed her revels here with great spirit in 1776. In 1778, Carlisle +House was again publicly advertised to be sold by private contract, or +"to be hired as usual;" and subsequently, after having been used as a +common exhibition room of "Monstrosities," a "School of Eloquence," and +"An Infant School of Genius," it closed its public career through the +interference of the magistracy in 1797. + +A full and particular account of the rise and fall of "Mrs. Cornelys' +Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho," was privately printed two or +three years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the firm of Dalmaine and +Co., Soho Square. + +_Carlisle Street, Soho Square._--The large house at the end of this +street, looking into the square, was formerly called _Carlisle House_. +In 1770 it was purchased of Lord Delaval by the elder Angelo; who +resided in it many years, and built a large riding-school at the back. +Bach and Abel, of "Concert" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house. +Carlisle Street was then called _King's Square Court_. {451} + +_Catherine Street, Strand._--In 1714, a tract was published with the +following title:--_The Maypole's New Year's Gift or Thanks returned to +his Benefactors, humbly inscribed to the Two Corners of_ Catherine +Street, Strand; _written by a Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy_. + +_Maiden Lane, Covent Garden._--The well known "Cider Cellar" in this +lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious tract, entitled +_Adventures under Ground_, 1750, which contains some strange notices of +this "Midnight Concert Room." + +_Salisbury Change._--Cibber, in the amusing _Apology for his Life_, has +the following:-- + + "Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from + one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been + informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in + _Salisbury Change_ (then standing where _Cecil Street_ now is), + so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that they were + reduced to petition the king for relief against it." + +_The New Exchange._--A good description of this once popular mart may be +found in Lodwick Rowzee's _Treatise on the Queene's Welles_, Lond. 1632. +It is as follows:-- + + "We went to see the _New Exchange_, which is not far from the + place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the + Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the + Gothic style, which has lost its colour from age, and is + becoming blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, + one above the other, in which are distributed several rows great + numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with + goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful + description. There are, for the most part, under the care of + well-dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although + many are served by young men, called apprentices." + +_The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden._--In 1763 appeared a small +volume under the title of _Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee House, by +Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man alive_. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE. + +The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a herald +painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to the latter, +which came into my possession a few months ago. + +E. HAILSTONE. + + "Mr. Admall, + + "I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West + Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of + Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to + heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore + to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will + usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong + you doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and + making you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard + words, but shal be as good as my word if there is law in England + to restrain you; so chose whether you will due to me good or + evill; you shall find me according your friend or open enemy. + + "PETER LA NEVE, Norroy. + + "College of Arms, in London, + + "28th May, 1719." + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Superstitions of the Midland Counties._--It is believed a sign of "bad +luck" to meet a white horse, unless the person _spits_ at it, which +action is said to avert the ill consequences of the recontre. + +A rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and invariable +consequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that the contrary is +believed, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine Sunday. + +If the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it up, it +is a sign that the _absent_ lover, wife, or husband (as the case may be) +is in good spirits, and in good humour. + +The itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the reception of a +gift; which is rendered more certain if the advice in this distich be +followed:-- + + "Rub it 'gainst wood, + 'Tis sure to come good." + +Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some +future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it, +"are born to be rich." + +HENRY KERSLEY. + +Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone. + + +_A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--"Mr. THOMS" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that +he believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. +Sir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_. + + * * * * * + +ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN. + +In Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp. +128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at +Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike +Obedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the +necessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the +requisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was +"_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical +Obedience_." A reference at the foot of the page to "Rushworth, p. 444," +leads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made +this statement; but not having access to the "Historical Collections," I +am unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_, +Lond., 1671 fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of +the assertion. + +A copy of this now rare sermon before me {452} proves, however, that the +statement is incorrect. At the back of the title is as follows:-- + + "I have read over this sermon upon _Rom._ xiii. 7., preached at + _Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb._ 22, 1626, + by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, + and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly + preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the + _Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to + the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and, + therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of + it, May 8. 1627." + + GEO. LONDON. + +It was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the +sermon. + +JOHN. J. DREDGE. + + * * * * * + +POPE AND PETRONIUS. + +I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I willingly +allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and +discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. "But +yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the +surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms +employed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_." Now the question, +in my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what +_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word +(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot, +without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as +critically and correctly as "Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked +on it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it +"worth," i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality. + +C. FORBES. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN +SACRAMENTS. + +I beg leave to make the two following Queries:-- + +1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniæ +Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, +one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is +mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi +diceret;" and Bayle adds:-- + + "Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi + lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc per + Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini + 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusus. Fuit et + ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea + Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti + capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvæus hunc librum anno Domini + 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet." + +This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of +the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87. +enters the volume thus, "_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos +æditus, cum Præfatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittembergæ, 1528. 8vo." Can +any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, +or in private hands? + +2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p. +25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "_Of the Seven Sacraments_, +1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as +then in his possession, "translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye +almost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and +truly written in parchment." Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. +was the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark +Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by +later writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is +actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains +the Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by +Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in +the _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I +now wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's +work, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to +by Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with +certayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although +one of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments. + +F. MADDEN. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Monastery, Arrangement of One._--Any information and particulars +respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the various buildings +for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine Monks would be +useful to and gratefully received by + +A.P.H. + + [Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, "Description of the + Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in the Ninth Century," + accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he will find in the + _Archæological Journal_, vol. v. p. 85.?] + + +_Constantine the Artist._--Who was "M. Constantine, an Italian architect +to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque at the Earl of +Somerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same Constantine de Servi to +whom the Prince assigned a yearly pension of 200l. in July 1612? If so, +where can more be found respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's +_Anecdotes_. + +J.G.N. + + +_Josias Ibach Stada._--Who was the artist whose name occurs inscribed on +the hoof of the horse of King Charles the Second's equestrian statue at +{453} Windsor, as follows:--"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;" +and is Mr. Hewitt, in his recent _Memoir of Tobias Rustat_, correct in +calling him "Stada, an _Italian_ artist?" + +J.G.N. + + +_Worm of Lambton._--Is there any published notice of the "Knight and +Serpent" tradition regarding this family and parish? + +A.C. + + [A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the immediate + neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately printed in + the year 1530, under the title of _The Worm of Lambton_.] + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. + +Luther's solemn request that his translation should on no account be +altered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the N.T. I find it +on the reverse of the title-page of the edition in 8vo. printed at +Wittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:-- + + "I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and + reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have + fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know + well what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament + shall be Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is + now without measure or end. And be every one cautioned against + other copies, for I have already experienced how negligently and + falsely others reprint us."[1] + +The disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the editions +printed under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; but it has not, +I think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words _auf erde_, found in +later editions, are wanting. The passage stands:-- + + "Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und + das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen." + +In the first edition of the Saxon (Düdesche version of Luther's Bible, +by Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume at Lubeck, by Lo. +Dietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands thus:-- + + "Wente dre synt dede tüchinisse geven, de Geist unde dat Water, + unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander." + +A MS. note of a former possessor remarks:-- + + "The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of + Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort, + 1560 and 1580." + +In the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, Wittemberg, +1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one printed by Hans +Walther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words _up erdeu_ are inserted. + +These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great similarity that +idiom has to our early language; and they, doubtless, influenced much +our own early versions. + +In a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the first +printed in Latin with a translation on the same page, and which is very +similar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich in 1535, 4to., with +a Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the 7th verse is given (as it +was in the Latin); but is distinguished by being printed in brackets, +and in both verses we have-- + + "Unnd die drey dienend in eins." + +Erasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave occasion +perhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times to print both +verses, with this distinction, in editions of the Lutheran version. The +earliest edition, I believe, in which it thus appears, is one at +Wittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, 1604, 1605[2], and 1625. +It also appears, but printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by +Wolder in 1597, in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599. + +In a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, in 4to., +in which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, the Reformed, +a new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch version, are printed in +parallel columns, both verses are given in every instance; but a note +points out that Luther uniformly omitted the 7th verse, and the words +_auf erde_. + +There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is entirely +unwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing to be +_Luther's_ translation. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 25. 1850. + + [Footnote 1: "Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine + Meister Drücker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein + sein, Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens für + sich machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was + andere machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch + Testament sein, Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse + noch ende. Und sey jederman gewarnet für andern Exemplaren, Denn + ich bisher wol erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere + nachdrücken."] + + [Footnote 2: Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a + long and strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse, + exults in the existence of this verse in an edition of the + Bible, Wittemberg, 1606, which is falsely said on the title-page + to be _juxta ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum_.] + + +_Luther's Translation of the Bible_ (No. 25, p. 309.).--De Wette, in his +critical Commentary on the verse 1 John, after stating his opinion that +the controverted passage is a spurious interpolation, gives a list of +the codices and editions in which the passage is not found, and of those +in which it is found. + +The passage is _wanting_ in all Greek Codd. except Codd. 34. 162. 172. +(of his introduction, where it is introduced from the Vulgate), and in +all MS. {454} of the Vulgate before the tenth century; in Erasmus' edit. +of 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. 1518; in all editions of Luther's +translation published by him during his life-time, and up to 1581; in +the edit. Withenb., 1607; Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620. + +The passage is _found_ in all the editions printed of the Vulgate, and +in all translations from it before Luther; and the edit. complut.; in +Erasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the edit. of Rob. Stephens, +1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the Lutheran translations reprinted +by Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. (but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in +brackets; edit. 1597, without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593; +Wittenb. 1596-97, and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in +every edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but +not, of course, in De Wette's translation. + +S.W. + + * * * * * + +LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS. + +In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I transcribe +from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian minister of +Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of a former Day," +which I have never seen entire in print:-- + + "Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride + Directs his haughty eye to either side, + Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod, + And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God. + + "Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find + The fairest pattern of a humble mind; + In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells, + As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales. + + "Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands, + With head uplifted and with dancing hands, + Prone to sedition, and to slander free, + Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee. + + "Mark how the pious matrons flock around, + Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound; + How sweetly each unmeaning period flows + To lull the audience to a gentle doze! + + "Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains + Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains, + Of every hue describes a different cause, + And from each patch a solemn mystery draws. + + "With soundest judgment and with nicest skill, + The learned Hunt explains his Master's will, + So just his meaning, and his sense to true, + He only pleases the discerning few. + + "In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse, + What wond'rous energy! what mighty force! + Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules, + He scorns the censure of unthinking fools. + + "But see the accomplish'd orator appear, + Refined his language, and his reasoning dear, + Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art, + At once to please the ear and mend the heart! + + "Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks, + And on the sober mind impression makes, + The sacred truths with justness he explains, + And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains." + +Of the author of these lines I can give no information. He evidently +belonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not appear to have +been known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of the "Dissenting +Churches" of London, although he quotes a portion of them. But they were +probably composed between 1728 and 1738. In the former year, Dr. James +Foster's London popularity arose, on the occasion of his undertaking the +evening lecture at the Old Jewry. In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge, +one of the subjects of the poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is +told (and to it the poem evidently alludes), that he was employed no +less than four months in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from +Genesis, xxxvii. 3.: "And he made him a coat of many colours." In reply +to the sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (_Hist. and Ant. +of Diss._ ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was composed:-- + + "The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains, + Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains; + Marks every truth, of error shows the cause, + And from each mystery useful doctrine draws." + +The unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening stanza, is at +variance with the general report of biographers. In the copy of the +verses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:--"I think this is too severe +on the Dr." Dr. Wright was admired for his pulpit elocution; and it is +said that Archbishop Herring was, in his younger years, a frequent +hearer of his, with a view to improve in elocution. The notice of the +celebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly unjust. He was a man of wit and +courage, though sometimes boisterous and personal. His unsparing +opponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, wrote admiringly of "his musical voice, and +the flow of his periods, adapting scripture language to every +purpose."--_The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, taken from his +own Pen, &c._ Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35. + +A.B.R. + +Dukinfield. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Tracts by Dekker and Nash._--_The Raven's Almanacke_, 1609, is the +production of Thomas Dekker, the dramatist, and one of the rarest of his +numerous works. A copy sold in the _Gordonstown_ sale for seven guineas; +and another occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I +have not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also +the author of a similar work, entitled _The Owle's Almanacke_, 1618; but +it is not mentioned in the lists furnished by {455} Lowndes and Dr. +Nott. The latter is indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known +productions of the author, and assigning others to him for which he is +not answerable. Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist +mentioning a fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the +notice of bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume, +entitled, _The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should +behave himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with +the Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent_. This is nothing more +than a reprint of Dekker's _Gull's Horn-book_, with some slight +alterations to adapt it to the times. + +Nash's _Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions_, was +printed by John Danter for William Jones, 1594. It is a very interesting +tract, and contains many personal allusions to its unfortunate author. A +copy was sold in Heber's sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5l. 18s. A note +in the handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the +following information:-- + + "Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge + Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the + present, bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and + now (1825) _penes_ me, R.H." + +All things considered, I think your correspondent "J.E." (p. 400.) _may_ +congratulate himself on having "met with a prize." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Nash's Terrors of the Night._--Excessively rare. Boswell had a copy, +and another is in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, described in Mr. +Collier's _Bridgewater Catalogue_ as one of the worst of Nash's tracts. + +L. + + +_Tureen_ (No. 25. p. 407.).--The valuable reference to Knox proves the +etymology from the Latin. _Terrene_, as an adjective, occurs in old +English. See quotation in Halliwell, p. 859. + +L. + + +_English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ_ (No. 24. p. +385.).--Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_ +was first printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent impressions are dated +1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, William Pickering had a license "for +pryntinge of a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by +Erasmus Roterdamus," which possibly might be an impression of the +_Praise of Folly_. (See Collier's _Extracts from the Registers of the +Stationers' Company_, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was again +translated in the latter part of the following century, by White Kennet. +It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of _Wit against +Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly_. This is in all probability the +intermediate translation inquired after by your correspondent. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following +translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_:-- + + "Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the + Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord + Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the + effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from + the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. 1724." + +Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two other +translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the _first_. He does not +mention the name of the second translator, but alludes to him as "_the +modern translator_," and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the +book by having "tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the +Latin." This is his excuse for offering to the public a third +translation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such +"elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the +idiom of the language did invite." + +HERMES. + + +The intermediate translation of the _Moriæ Encomium_ of Erasmus, to +which your correspondent refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London +1661, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian. + +M. + +Oxford. + + +_Court of Wards._--I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. 173.) anything about +Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of Wards; but "J.B." may be glad +to know that there is among the MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on +the Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have not read it. I dare +say it might be usefully published, for we know little in detail about +the Court of Wards. + +C.H. + + +_Scala Coeli_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--In Foxe's _Acts and Mon._, vol. v. p. +364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope +Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them +that any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St. +Botolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, +Ave Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that +visit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli." + +H.W. + + +_Twm Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24, p. 383.).--The following extract from +Cliffe's _Book of South Wales_, furnishes a reply to this Query. + +In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and +Tregaron, he says:-- + + "High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, + where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: + the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed + of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space + between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so {456} + that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure + inclined according to the slanting of the rock. + + "The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti), + alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son + of John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of + Meredydd ap Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of + Gwydir (see _The Heraldic Visitations of Wales_, published by + the Welsh MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at + the age of 61. In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and + highwayman,' and levied black mail on the country within reach + of his mountain abode, with the aid of a small band of + followers. He soon reformed, married a rich heiress, was then + created a justice of peace for Brecon, and ultimately became + sheriff of that county and Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir + S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an antiquarian and poet, but is more + known for the tricks attributed to him as a robber." + +A.B. + + +_Twm Sion Catti._--The noted robber, Twm Sion or Shôn Catti, referred to +at No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman who flourished between the years 1590 +and 1630. He was the natural son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his +surname of Catti from the appellation of his mother Catherine. In early +life he was a brigand of the most audacious character, who plundered and +terrified the rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient +warrant for the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his +unbounded generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate +love of fun and frolic--for he was a very Eulenspiegel--made him the +darling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the almost +inaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction of the Tywi +and the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still bears his name. As +time passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of Ystrad-ffin, in the vale +of Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her property, abandoned his wild +life, and with it the name of Catti; and quietly subsiding into Thomas +Jones, Esq., became a poet and antiquary of high reputation. In addition +to which, and as if to mark their sense of the value of a man so +powerful for good or for evil, the government appointed him high sheriff +for the county of Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a +name which yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage +circle in the long nights of winter. + +His life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was probably the +work to which the "Note" of "MELANION" referred. + +SELEUCUS. + + +_Cheshire Round_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--A dance so called, peculiar to the +county from whence it takes its name. The musical notes of the _Cheshire +Round_ may be seen in _The Dancing Master_, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward +Jones' _Cheshire Melodies_. It was sometimes danced "longways for as +many us will" (as described in _The Dancing Master_), but more +frequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the Third +states, "In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd stones at +Hosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the _Cheshire Rounds_ +to the admiration of all spectators." Michael Root and John Sleepe, two +clever caterers of "Bartlemy," also advertise "a little boy that dances +the _Cheshire Round_ to perfection." There is a portrait of Dogget the +celebrated comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is +not Penkethman?), representing him dancing the _Cheshire Round_, with +the motto "_Ne sutor ultra crepidam_." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Horns to a River._--Why the poets give horns to rivers, must be sought +for in the poet's book, nature. I like the interpretation given by a +glance up some sinuous and shelving valley, where the mighty stream, +more than half lost to the eye, is only seen in one or two of its bolder +reaches, as it tosses itself here to the right, and there to the left, +to find a way for its mountain waters. + +The third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would be +interesting to know where your correspondent has found it in late Greek. + +J.E. + +Oxford, April 16. 1850. + + +_Horns._--For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. 24. p. 383.), I +subscribe the following, from Coleridge:-- + +"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare, + + "'Take thou no scorn + To wear the horn, the lusty horn; + It was a crest ere thou wert born." + +_As You Like It_, Act iv. sc. 2. + +"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance of a +phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all languages, and +yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin."--_Literary +Remains_, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, 1849. + +ROBERT SNOW. + + +_Coal Brandy_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--This is only a contraction of "coaled +brandy," that is, "burnt brandy," and has no reference to the _purity_ +of the spirit. It was the "universal pectoral" of the last century; and +more than once I have seen it prepared by "good housewives" and +"croaking husbands" in the present, pretty much as directed in the +following prescription. It is only necessary to remark, that the +orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was +effected by dropping "a live coal" ("_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into +the brandy. This is copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of +which are written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of +scientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of +Simsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It was +written evidently by some {457} "dropper-in," who found "honest John" +suffering from a severe cold, and upon the first piece of paper that +came to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks age, and the punctuation +and erasures show him to have been a literary man, and a careful though +stilted writer. It is not, however, a hand of which I find any other +exemplars amongst Nourse's correspondence. + + "Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which + may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce + of sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let + it burn till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go + to bed. + + "To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the + brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it." + +This is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for "coughs, +colds, catarrhs, and consumption," from Ford's "Balsam of Horehound" to +Dr. Solomon's "Balm of Gilead." + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, April 4. + + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Does the following passage from +Sir Thomas Overbury's _Witty Descriptions of the Properties of sundry +Persons_, first published, I believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the +etymology of this word? It occurs in the description of a Frankling or +Yeoman:-- + + "He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the + dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country + lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday, + and the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on + Christmas eve, _the hoky or seed-cake_, these he yearly keeps, + yet holds them no relics of Popery." + +As I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an extract, I am +unable to give a more precise reference. + +E.R.J.H. + +Chancery Lane. + + +It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as to the +word _Howkey_ or _Horkey_, if I state, that when in my boyhood I was +accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced as if spelt _Hockey_. As +_Howkey_ I should not have recognised it, nor hardly as _Horkey_. + +AN EAST ANGLIAN. + + +_Hockey_, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the end, is very +likely derived from _hook_, an Anglo-Saxon word too. But we cannot +suppose that anything else was derived from that, and especially when we +come to words apparently more genuine than that. It seems natural to +connect them with a hock-tide, Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.), +a name given to more than one season when it was usual to have games and +festivities. Now surely this is nothing else than _high_ tide, a time of +some high feast; as we vulgarly say, "high days and holidays." So in the +Scripture, "that Sabbath day was a high day." So high Mass. We +Protestants have no conception of the close connection between the +superior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. Among +the heathen Romans, _festicus_ is derived from _festus_.[3] We say high +romps, high jinks. + +See Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and +Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from +_Hogen_, "gaudere," which also see. He says that the lower Saxons "hodie +utuntur '_Höge_'" to mean "gaudium privatum et publicum convivale et +nuptiale." See also Hohen. See Lye, who has also heah, freols summa +festivitas, summum festum. + +Ihre (_Lex. Suio Goth._) says _Hugna_ is "to make glad." But in Hog-tid +he observes, that gladness is only the secondary meaning of +_Hogen_,--"_Hokanat_ vocabatur a Borealibus festum quod media hieme +celebrabatur;" and he shows that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it. + +C.B. + + [Footnote 3: Is not the derivation of "feast" and "fast" originally the + same? that which is appointed, connected with "_fas_," and that from + "_fari_."] + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Is not this word simply a +corruption of _Hockey_? Vide under "Hock-cart," in _Brand's Antiquities_ +by Ellis, where the following quotation from _Poor Robin's Almanack_ for +1676 occurs:-- + + "_Hoacky_ is brought home with hallowing, + Boys with plum-cake the cart following." + +J.M.B. + + +_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle_ (No. 25. p. 400.).--The Portrait +by Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly erroneously stated to be that +of Luther, was, I believe, engraved as such in Knight's _Portrait +Gallery_, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful +Knowledge. I cannot find in any account of Helbein's works a mention of +a portrait of Luther by him. + +S.W. + + +_Symbolism of Flowers, etc._--In reference to works illustrative of +poetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical associations +connected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. 11. p. 173., many +a literary man must equally desire an interpreter,-- + + "T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, + And teach that truth is truest poesy." + +Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of this +description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your learned +correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation by furnishing +illustrations, or references to illustrations, critical and poetical, +collected from the most valuable authors, ancient and modern; and that +this "sacred eloquence," {458} + + "Where'er 'tis found + On Christian or on heathen ground," + +if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, afford much +pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the useful work of +Camerarius on _Symbols and Emblems_. + + "Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily + To the first plant by some kind augury." + +The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely in p. +214, beautifully illustrated[4], but still deserving further +consideration. Schedius (_De Diis Gemanis_) and others have, with much +learning, shown Venus Urania to be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With +erudition not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, Gorop. +Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one +and the same hieroglyphical character. I shall now endeavour to explain +the symbolism and dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers" +adumbrates the highest faculty of human nature--_Reason_, and Silence, +or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the Greek +term [Greek: epistaemae], _science_. (See Harris's _Philosoph. Arrang._ +p. 444., and _Hermes_, p. 369.). To whom, then, could the hieroglyphical +rose have been more appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is +described with his finger pointing to his mouth--_tacito plenus +amore_--a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought to behave in +religious matters. + +T.J. + + [Footnote 4: Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the + _Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them under + "Rosæ," in the _Amphitheatrum sapientiæ_ of Dornavius.] + + +"_Where England's Monarch_" (No. 26. p. 415.).--The two lines inquired +for are in Bramston's _Man of Taste_, a poem printed about the middle of +the last century. I need hardly add, that the poet was misinformed, it +being well known that Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to +plead or _to take off his hat_. + +There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with Barnard in +the _Gentleman's Magazine_, May 1758: but it may be the same as that in +the _Annual Register_. + +BRAYBROOKE + +April 27. + + +_Journeyman_ (No. 19. p. 309.).--"GOMER" may like to know that the old +labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a "_journey +at plough_." + +BRAYBROOKE. + + +_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the +inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being +_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester, +was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this +parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_ +itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it. + +These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets, +were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap. +26. § 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly +circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of +Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a +part. + +GEO. ORMEROD. + +Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850. + + +_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to +which your correspondent "M." refers, is, I believe, "_The Mysteries of +Nature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the +Second of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_." + +I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving +of the author:--"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo +permaneant studium et industria." + +HERMES. + + +"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_."--In answer to the inquiry of "B.G.J." +(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of "'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I +do not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston +sang an altered version of the very old song,-- + + "A frog, he would a-wooing ride, + With sword and buckler by his side," + +and instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted + + "Heigho, says Rowley," + +as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho +Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by C.E.H., +Esq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook. +The first verse is as follows:-- + + "A frog he would a-wooing go; + 'Heigh ho!' says Rowley; + Whether his mother would let him or no, + With a rowly, powly, + Gammon and spinach, + 'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley," + +R.S.S. + +April 23. 1850. + + [Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, I + have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different + melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty + Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.] + + +"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little +_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common +Place Book_:-- + + "My love and I for kisses play'd," + +occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted +"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the +last couplet:-- + + "Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine? + Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe." + +They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses," +and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's +very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe." + +The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:-- + + "Fair stood the wind for France," + +is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes +Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael +Drayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett. +12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.) + +I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of +Drayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection +being in the country. + +The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr. +Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. "The head +and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat +edition of Herrick in 1846. + +S.W.S. + +March 12. 1850. + + ["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of + _A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_, + 1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and + "J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the + _Encyclopædia of Wit_, published about half a century since.] + + +_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen. +VIII., is this passage: + + "When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme + ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next + yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that + whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote + water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard + Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at + the Bishop of Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the + same Acte, was boyled in Smythfelde the _Teneber-Wednysday_ + following, to the terrible example of all other." + +I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before Easter, +of "Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao," and that the name is derived form +the Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the Church of Rome. + + "Erat autem fere hora sexta, et _tenèbroe_ factoe sunt in + universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est sol: et + velum templi seissum est medium."--Luke, xxiii. 44, 45. + +Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it +corrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your correspondents +can supply other instances of the use of the term, or state what are or +were the ceremonies peculiar to the day. + +C.H. COOPER + +Cambridge, April 4. 1850. + +P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that "_Tenable +Wednesday_" occurs three times in the Ordinance for "weshing of all +mannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell" in the Northumberland +Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance it is placed between +Lady Day and Easter Even. + + [If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most useful work, + _Medii ævi Kalendarium_, vol. i. p. 370., to the words + _Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebræ_, he will find them explained + "The three nights before Easter;" and the following among other + illustrations:-- + + "Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch on Wednysday, + Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne service, as + commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And holi chirch + useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, the + service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is + called with divers men _Tenables_, but holi chirch _Tenebras_, + as _Raccionale Divinorum_ seth, that is to say, thieness or + derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord by + night."--_Harl. MS._ 2247. fo. 83.] + + +_The Buckingham Motto._--Permit me to suggest that your correspondents +"S." and "P." (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are labouring under a mistaken +notion in supposing that the line + + _Sovente me sorene_, + +belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase "Forget me not." +Such a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the parting prayer +or injunction of a lover, but does not possess the essential +characteristic of a _motto_, which one selects for the purpose of +declaring his own sentiments of conduct towards _others_, not to +deprecate or direct those of others towards _himself_. + +The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, but +exactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the present day; +and if "S." would again examine the original MS., I make no doubt that +he would find the line written _Sovente mi sooviene (sovene)_, i.e. with +the personal pronoun in the dative instead of the accusative case. The +expression _mi souviene_ is equivalent to _mi ricordo_, but is a more +elegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be "I +seldom forget,"--a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying as much the +memory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be required. + +A. RICH, JUN. {460} + + +_Larig._--I am obliged by the suggestions of your correspondents "B.W." +and "C.I.R." (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I beg leave to offer the +following reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or Netherlandish, as they may be +considered one language until the fifteenth century) _Le'er_ and _Le'ar_ +are simply contractions of _Leder_, as Tenkate observes, _euphonis +gratia_, by the omission of the _d_, which takes place in other similar +words; and what is remarkable in _Ledig_, empty, which becomes _Le'eg_. +_Le'erig_ is of course _leathery_, or _tough_; but _Lederen_ or +_Le'ersen_, would be used for _made_ of _leather_, and in A.-S., most +probably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such contraction in A.-S.: it is +always [A-S: Leðer] and [A-S: Leðern]. The epithet, _leathery_-shields, +could hardly have been used where they are said to _resound_; and the +instance of _vaulted_ shields in Judith is, I think, conclusive. The +root of _Leder_ is possibly _hlid-an_, to cover HIDE? That of _Leer_ +possibly _lieren_, amittere, privari? + +I should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and Schilter, +which were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and indeed I had +not Urry's _Chaucer_ at hand to verify the reference of Junius to the +Tale of Beryn, the only valuable portion of Urry's book. I knew that a +simple reference to the O.H.G. Lâri would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm. + +Thorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has followed Lye, +in rendering _Lind haebbende_, Vexilla habens; and Haldorsen's +explanation of _Lind_ might have taught him better. Mr. Kemble has +rendered it _shield-bearers_, and gives instances in his Glossary of +similar combinations, as _rond-haebbendra_, _bord-haebbende_, +_scaro-haebbendra_. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 15. 1850. + + +_Zenobia a Jewess?_ (No. 24. p. 383.)-- + + "To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add + here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius _took her to be + a Jewess_, meaning, without doubt, _in respect of her religion_; + and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please her that Paul + of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions very like + those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, saying + that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature + superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any + otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine + grace."--Crevier, _Hist. of Rom. Emperors_, Book 27. "Aurelian," + vol. ix. p. 174. + +M. Crevier refers to "Tillem. Aur. art. 5." + +C. FORBES + +Temple, April 16. + + +_Temple Stanyan._--The following notices, relating to _one_ Temple +Stanyan may interest your correspondent "A.G." (No. 24 p. 382.). + + "1725. March 23. Died Mrs. ---- Stanyan, wife of Temple Stanyan, + Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of Secretary of + State."--_Historical Register._ + + "1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His + Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs. + Pauncefort."--Ibid. + +There is a monument in one of the churches at Southampton,-- + + "To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles + Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in + co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument + was erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in + His Majesty's Navy." + +Edward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles Hardy's +will, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780. + +W.H. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was common when +I was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If the question is +biographical, I can say nothing. + +C.B. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--He also published an _Account of +Switzerland_, 8vo. London, 1714. + +M. + + +_"Who was Temple Stanyan?"_ (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple Stanyan was the son +of Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit Kat Club, M.P. for +Buckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of the Admiralty, etc. Mr. +Temple Stanyan was himself also Minister at Constantinople, and at +several other courts; and afterwards Under-Secretary of State under both +Addison and the Duke of Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of +Switzerland; and his Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the +publication of Mitford's, the best in our language. I believe that his +daughter married Adm. Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752. + +C. + + +_Auctorite de Dibil_ (no. 25. p. 205.).--Probably an error of +transcription; read _Auctorite de Bibil_. + +J.M.B. + + +_The Bristol Riots_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--"J.B.M." is informed, that the +volume to which he alludes is generally considered by Bristolians as the +most authentic and fullest narrative that was published of those +disgraceful scenes. + +J.M.G. + +Worcester. + + +_Religious Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.)--The author of the religious +tract which has fallen into the hands of "J.C." is no doubt one of the +early Quakers, and probably Francis Howgill. Howgill was originally a +clergyman of the Church of England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and +in the year 1652 joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of +George Fox. His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes. + +[Greek: Theta]. {461} + + +_Complutensian MSS._--"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will find full answers +to his Queries, and more interesting information on the same subject, in +a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro Saban's Spanish translation of +Prescott's _Ferdinand and Isabella_. Madrid, 1846. + +I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within a month +in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they were removed +from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew manuscripts are all +originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of Zamora among them are 3 +vols. in Latin, translated from the Hebrew. + +The Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection as above; +and of course were not returned to the Vatican. + +H.S. + +Morley's Hotel, April 28. + + +_Tablet to Napoleon_ (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. 406.).--"C.I.R.'s" +interpretation can hardly be admitted. The true meaning will be best +exhibited by the following form:-- + + "Napoleoni, + Ægyptiaco, + Bis Italico, + Semper Invicto." + +_Bis Italico_ alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., in his first +campaign, and again in that of Marengo. + +C. + + +_Malone's Blunder_ (No. 25. p. 403.).--"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY," in his +answer on this subject, says very justly, that "before we censure a +writer, we should consult his own edition." He has, however, not +followed this excellent principle in this case, for he has certainly not +looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on which the question arises. He +has repeated what I had already stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the +mistake was _not_ a blunder of _Malone's_; and he has also pointed out, +what had escaped me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first +_three_ articles of the pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare: but when he +adds that there is "_no fabrication_" and "_no mystery_" in the case, +and that "the blunder of the Irish editor was merely in attempting to +_unite the two fragments_ as published by Malone," it is quite clear +that he has not seen the edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken +the whole affair. The Irish editor did _not_ attempt to unite Malone's +fragments--quite the contrary--he left Malone's first fragment as he +found it; but he took the second fragment, namely, the exordium of the +pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare, and substituted it _bodily_ as the +exordium of the will of _William_ Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the +real exordium of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, "I, _John_ +Shakspeare," &c., and ends, "by me, _William_ Shakspeare." I have no +doubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery altogether; but the +taking three paragraphs of it, and substituting them for the two first +paragraphs of _William_ Shakspeare's genuine will, is what I call, and +what no doubt "Mr. BOLTON CORNEY" will think, on this explanation of the +facts, "an audacious fabrication." The best guess I can make as to how, +or with what design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so +complicated, and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:--Malone printed the +fragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his "Emendations +and additions," as belonging to "_the will before printed_," meaning the +forged will of _John_ Shakspeare, but that the Irish editor understood +him to mean the genuine will of _William_ Shakspeare; and so thought +that he was only restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could +have overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in +the meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly incomprehensible. + +C. + + +_Theses._--Perhaps it may assist your correspondent "M." (No. 25. p. +401.) to be informed that the University of Göttingen is particularly +rich in "_Theses_" (termed _Disputationes et Dissertationes_), to which +there is a large room entirely devoted in the library of that +university; together with the transactions of learned bodies. A special +librarian is attached to this department, which is much consulted. A +Catalogue was begun to be published of this collection, so far as +respects the _Memoirs_ contained in the various transactions, in 1801, +by J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after +which, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues of +Theses, I think the following work is in good esteem:--_Dissert. Acad. +Upsal. habitæ sub Præsid. C.P. Thunberg_, 3 tom. 8vo. Götting. +1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the _Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Thottiauæ_ (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniæ, 1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which +it might be well to consult, of dissertations under the name of the +president or head of the institution or college where they were +delivered, than under the writer's name. At least, in a _collective_ +sense the former method is adopted, as in the following instance: +Schultens, (Alb.) _Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, +adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Præsidio A. Schultens, etc._, 2 tom.: +although, if the author should happen to be distinguished for his other +productions, _all_ that he wrote is anxiously sought out, and placed +under his own name. + +J.M. + +Oxford, April 24. + + ["M." may also be referred to the _Catalogus Dissertationum + Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana_. A + quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University Press in 1834.] + + +_MSS. of Locke_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--"C." is informed {462} that Dr. +Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, in Ireland, during the past year. The +papers of Locke respecting which he inquires are probably still in the +possession of Dr. H.'s son. + +[Greek: Theta] + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Spur Money._--Although I used often, twenty years ago, when a chorister +at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying a fine on all who entered +that place with spurs on, I was not aware of its origin till I saw it +explained in your interesting publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a +custom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should +be glad to learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was +sought to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister +before him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the +spur-bearer was entitled to exemption. + +E.J.H. + + +_Spur Money._--I beg to offer the following humble illustration of +spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of All Saints Church at +Hastings:-- + + 1. + "This is a belfry that is free + For all those that civil be: + And if you please to chime or ring, + It is a very pleasant thing. + + 2. + "There is no musick play'd or sung, + Like unto bells when they're well rung: + Then right your bells well, if you can-- + Silence is best for every man. + + 3. + "But if you ring in _spur or hat_, + Sixpence you pay--be sure of that: + And if a bell you overthrow, + Pray pay a groat before you go." + +(dated) 1756. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850. + + +_Note Books._--Looking at what your correspondent says about "Note +Books," I think the following hint may be useful to others, as it has +been to myself. Many persons never get so far as the formality of a +common-place book, and do not like to write in their books. Let them +follow my plan. The envelope maker will procure them any number of +little slips of white paper, with a touch of isinglass at each of the +four corners. Let the note be written on one of these, and then let the +slip be stuck into any book which is sure to be wanted in connection +with the subject when it comes up again; either by one, two, or four +corners, as convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it +be wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached +to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed +miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is good +as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:-- + + "When made a note of,--find if you can." + +M. + + * * * * * + +LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL. + +Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his _British Poetesses_ +on account of the following verses:-- + + TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND. + + "Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, + Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth; + His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight, + My husband dear, more than this world's light, + Death hath me reft. But I from death will take + His memory, to whom this tomb I make. + John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say), + Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay." + +Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that +these verses could not have come from his widow's pen. Indeed, they are +much older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be found on the monument in +Westminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, in the reign of Queen +Elizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in 1584. + +P. CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +_Byron and Tacitus_ (No. 20. p. 390.).--To your young friend, who +honestly signs himself "A SCHOOLBOY," let an older correspondent say, +that he will do more wisely to let the rules of his teachers keep him +from perusing an author who makes a mock of all moral and all honourable +feelings. But if he wishes to know whether the introduction of the +sentence from Tacitus into a poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," +the reply will properly be, No. The poet expected that the well-known +figure, which he had thus thrown into verse, would be immediately +recognised by every literary reader, and that the recognition would give +pleasure. He was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed +by a master, that _Difficile est proprie communia dicere_. The Schoolboy +knows where to find these words; and I hope that he also knows where to +find the words of one who speaks with greater authority, and has said +most kindly, "Cease, my son, to hear [read] the instruction that causeth +to err." + +H.W. + + +_Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury._--It is proposed to descend some of +the aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near Tilbury in Essex. In +consequence, however, of Camden having named a wrong parish, later +antiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain their precise whereabouts. +Mr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' labour, found them out; and a +brief notice of them was given {463} in an article upon "Primæval +Britain" in the _West Kent Almanack for_ 1849. Hasted mentions similar +pits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is another called "the +Sound Hole," from the echoes, &c., made upon a stone being thrown down. +Mr. S. Laudale intends an examination of it this summer. Tradition +reports that there are three enormous caverns, which communicate with +the central shaft. + +How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of those +chambers which are aloof from the central shaft? + +[Greek: Delta] + + +_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book._--A few days ago, Messrs. Puttick and +Simpson sold a very important manuscript, the original letter-book of +Sir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles II. It fetched 51l., +being bought by a collector whose name has not transpired; but perhaps +this notice, if you kindly insert it, may induce the purchaser to edit +it for the Chetham Society, to whose publications it would for a most +valuable addition. + +R. + + +_A Phonetic Peculiarity._--I venture to note as a very curious phonetic +peculiarity, that we have in the English language a large number of +monosyllabic words ending is _sh_, all of which are expressive of some +violet action or emotion. I quote a few which have occurred without +search, in alphabetical order. "Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash, +gush, hash, gnash, lash, mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash, +squash, thrash." + +J.M.B. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. + +At the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was announced +that a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood had been +determined upon, and the first volume containing six plays was laid upon +the table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's _Essay on the Chandos +Portrait_ had only been delayed from a desire to obtain the most novel +and accurate information. + +The members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at the +Annual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of the +third volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the _Canterbury Tales_ was +announced. + +The plan for the _restoration of Chaucer's tomb_ in Poet's Corner has at +length assumed a practical shape. It has been ascertained that less than +100l. will do every thing that can be desired to repair the ravages of +time, and preserve the monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to +raise this sum by subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share +in the good work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this +scheme, which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle, +the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other +distinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by every +member of the committee, and parties resident in the country may remit +them by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in favour of William +Richard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament Street, the Honorary +Treasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the Honorary Secretary of the +Committee. + +The Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, under the +Presidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general satisfaction. The council +reported the publication during the past year of the _Peterborough +Chronicle_; the _Letters of Elizabeth and James VI._; and the _Chronicle +of Queen Jane_. This last volume was then only on the eve of +circulation; it has since been issued, and found to justify the +announcement of the council that it is work of great historical value, +and an interesting companion to _Machyn's Diary_. + +We have received the following Catalogues:--James Darling's (21. Little +Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books Old and New, +Theological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. 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A Second Volume, +of the same size, will be completed at the end of December, and we shall +then be enabled to judge how far it will be desirable to adopt the +system of Half-Yearly or Yearly volumes._ + +_Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers principally +occupied with_ REPLIES, _as it is obviously desirable that they should, +as far as possible, appear in the same volume as the_ QUERIES _to which +they refer._ + +COLLAR OF SS. _This subject shall be brought forward early in the next +volume._ + +E.S.T. _Thanks._ The Query and Folk Lore _shall appear as soon as +possible_. + +W.M.T. _is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to assure him, +that had we known what he has so kindly informed us, the article he +alludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are sure we may add, +that the friend who sent it would never have handed it to us for +publication_. + + * * * * * {464} + +On the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES KNIGHT, + +PART I. 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Saturday, May +11, 1850, 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 and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: October 10, 2004 [EBook #13684] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals, Jon Ingram, David +King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + +</pre> + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page449" name= +"page449"></a>{449}</span> +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, +ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> +<hr class="full" /> +<table summary="masthead" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td align="left" width="25%"><b>No. 28.</b></td> +<td align="center" width="50%"><b>SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1850</b></td> +<td align="right" width="25%"><b>Price Threepence.<br /> +Stamped Edition 4d.</b></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> +<table summary="Contents" align="center"> +<tr> +<td align="left">NOTES:—</td> +<td align="right">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Etymology of Penniel</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page449">449</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, +LL.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page450">450</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. +Hailstone</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Folk Lore:—Superstitions of Middle +Counties—Rainbow in the Morning</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Error in Johnson's Life of Selden</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page451">451</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">QUERIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Purvey of the Apocalypse—Bonner on the Seven +Sacraments, by Sir F. Madden</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Replies to Minor Queries:—Arrangement of a +Monastery—Constantine the Artist—Josias Ibach +Stada—Worm of Lambton</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page452">452</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">REPLIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page453">453</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Lines on London Dissenting Ministers</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page454">454</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Replies to Minor Queries:—Tracts by Dekker +and Nash—Tureen—English Translations of +Erasmus—Court of Wards—Scala Coeli—Twm Shawn +Cattie—Cheshire Round—Horns to a +River—Horns—Coal Brandy—Howkey or +Horkey—Luther's Portrait—Symbolism of Flowers, +&c.—"Where England's +Monarch"—Journeyman—Sydenham or Tidenham—J.B.'s +Treatise on Nature and Art—"A Frog he would a-wooing +go"—"My Love and I, &c."—Teneber +Wednesday—Buckingham Motto—Laerig—Zenobia a +Jewess—Temple Stanyan, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page454">454</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANIES:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Spur Money—Note Books—Lady Rachael +Russell—Byron and Taritus—Aboriginal Chambers near +Tilbury—Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book—A Phonetic +Peculiarity</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page462">462</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page463">463</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>NOTES</h2> +<h3>ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL.</h3> +<p>Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by +the kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks +of the Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road +which runs between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in +Northumberland, and the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General +Roy), passed hard by. The road is yet distinctly visible in all its +course among the Cheviots, and in the uncultivated tracts; and +occasionally also, where the plough has spared it, among the +agricultural inclosures.</p> +<p>The house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or +Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of +that word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the +credulity of a Monkbarns. <i>Pen</i>, it is known, signifies in the +Celtic language "a hill". And the word <i>heil</i>, in the +Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, rendered <i>Sol</i>. In the +Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, <i>heol</i> means "the sun:" +hence, <i>Penheil</i>, <i>Penheol</i>, or <i>Penniel</i>, "the hill +of the sun." Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is +believed, yet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid +circle, not many years ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who +used the sacred remains in building his garden wall. A little +farther antiquarian conjecture is necessary to clothe the country +with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth Forest was part of "the forest" +which covered Selkirkshire and parts of the counties around. The +Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two venerable oaks yet +flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once wooded condition +of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated by evidence +drawn from the interesting volumes of the <i>Rotuli +Parliamentorum</i>. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious +establishment in the neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. +Of their buildings, of the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens +existing in the memory of persons living, not a vestige now +remains. In the first volume of the <i>Rotuli</i>, p. 472., there +is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop of Glasgow to +Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these +terms:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese +aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de +Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth de +autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] pour fere +une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou il poet aver +recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le voudrent aver."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>To which the King's answer is,—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Héat Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu +in Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta +quercu."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; +and it was under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets +were composed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago,</p> +<p>Amid the silence of its hoary wood</p> +<p>By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow,</p> +<p>The lonely Temple of the Druids stood!</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page450" id= +"page450"></a>{450}</span> +<p>The conquering Roman when he urged his way,</p> +<p>That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain,</p> +<p>And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day,</p> +<p>Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane!</p> +<p>One stone of all its circle now remains,</p> +<p>Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand;</p> +<p>And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns;</p> +<p>And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand;</p> +<p>With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye</p> +<p>The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>II.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The Druid-train has moved into the wood,</p> +<p>Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene!</p> +<p>For theirs were offerings of human blood,</p> +<p>With sound of trump and shriek of fear between:</p> +<p>Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone;</p> +<p>And record none remains save this gray stone!</p> +<p>Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years</p> +<p>Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane</p> +<p>Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears</p> +<p>Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain</p> +<p>Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times</p> +<p>Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light</p> +<p>Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes</p> +<p>Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>III.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song!</p> +<p>And is my dwelling by thy classic streams;</p> +<p>And is the fate so fondly wished and long,</p> +<p>Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,—</p> +<p>By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam,</p> +<p>To live among thy happy shepherd swains</p> +<p>Where now the peaceful virtues have their home;</p> +<p>A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains</p> +<p>Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered,</p> +<p>To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound</p> +<p>By truest love and gratitude endeared:</p> +<p>The glory of his land, in whom were found</p> +<p>Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul,</p> +<p>Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">F.S.A. L. & E.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.</h3> +<p><i>Soho Square.</i>—Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) +has anticipated me in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. +Cornellys' house in this square; but he has left unnoticed some +particulars which deserve to be recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or +<i>Carlisle House</i> as it was called, was pulled down at the +beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and <i>two</i> +houses built upon its site, now <i>Jeffery's Music Warehouse</i> +and <i>Weston's Printing Office</i>. Some curious old paintings +representing banqueting scenes, formerly in <i>Carlisle House</i> +were carefully preserved until the last few years, in the +drawing-room of the corner house, when they were removed to make +room for some needed "elegancies" of the modern print shops. The +Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the banquetting-room of +Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between it and the house +in Soho Square was originally the "Chinese bridge."</p> +<p>"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer" appears +in the bankrupt list of <i>The London Gazette</i> of November, +1772; and in December of the same year, this temple of festivity, +and all its gorgeous contents, were thus advertised to be sold by +public auction:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"<i>Carlisle House, Soho.</i>—At twelve o'clock on Monday +the 14th instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell +by Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive, +commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately occupied +by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of the +Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant +Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too +well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste to +require here any public and extraordinary description thereof. +Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr. Marshall's, in St. +Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see the house, to prevent +improper crowds, and the great damage that might happen therefrom +(and the badness of this season) by admitting indifferent and +disinterested people, must be an excuse to the public for the +Assignees ordering the Catalogues to be sold at 5<i>s.</i> each, +which will admit two to see the house, &c., from Monday the 7th +instant to the time of sale, Sundays excepted, from ten in the +morning to three in the afternoon, and they hope no person or +persons will take amiss being refused admittance without +Catalogues."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by +advertisement), "That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will +commence soon, under the conduct and direction of a <i>New</i> +Manager;" but notwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find +that Mrs. Cornellys resumed her revels here with great spirit in +1776. In 1778, Carlisle House was again publicly advertised to be +sold by private contract, or "to be hired as usual;" and +subsequently, after having been used as a common exhibition room of +"Monstrosities," a "School of Eloquence," and "An Infant School of +Genius," it closed its public career through the interference of +the magistracy in 1797.</p> +<p>A full and particular account of the rise and fall of "Mrs. +Cornelys' Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho," was privately +printed two or three years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the +firm of Dalmaine and Co., Soho Square.</p> +<p><i>Carlisle Street, Soho Square.</i>—The large house at +the end of this street, looking into the square, was formerly +called <i>Carlisle House</i>. In 1770 it was purchased of Lord +Delaval by the elder Angelo; who resided in it many years, and +built a large riding-school at the back. Bach and Abel, of +"Concert" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house. Carlisle +Street was then called <i>King's Square Court</i>.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page451" id= +"page451"></a>{451}</span> +<p><i>Catherine Street, Strand.</i>—In 1714, a tract was +published with the following title:—<i>The Maypole's New +Year's Gift or Thanks returned to his Benefactors, humbly inscribed +to the Two Corners of</i> Catherine Street, Strand; <i>written by a +Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy</i>.</p> +<p><i>Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.</i>—The well known "Cider +Cellar" in this lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious +tract, entitled <i>Adventures under Ground</i>, 1750, which +contains some strange notices of this "Midnight Concert Room."</p> +<p><i>Salisbury Change.</i>—Cibber, in the amusing <i>Apology +for his Life</i>, has the following:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from +one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been +informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in +<i>Salisbury Change</i> (then standing where <i>Cecil Street</i> +now is), so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that +they were reduced to petition the king for relief against it."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>The New Exchange.</i>—A good description of this once +popular mart may be found in Lodwick Rowzee's <i>Treatise on the +Queene's Welles</i>, Lond. 1632. It is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"We went to see the <i>New Exchange</i>, which is not far from +the place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the +Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the Gothic +style, which has lost its colour from age, and is becoming +blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, one above the +other, in which are distributed several rows great numbers of very +rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with goods of every +kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful description. +There are, for the most part, under the care of well-dressed women, +who are busily employed in work, although many are served by young +men, called apprentices."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden.</i>—In 1763 +appeared a small volume under the title of <i>Memoirs of the +Bedford Coffee House, by Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man +alive</i>.</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE.</h3> +<p>The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a +herald painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to +the latter, which came into my possession a few months ago.</p> +<p class="author">E. HAILSTONE.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Mr. Admall,</p> +<p>"I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West +Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of +Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to +heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore +to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will +usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong you +doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and making +you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard words, but +shal be as good as my word if there is law in England to restrain +you; so chose whether you will due to me good or evill; you shall +find me according your friend or open enemy.</p> +<p>"PETER LA NEVE, Norroy.</p> +<p>"College of Arms, in London,</p> +<p>"28th May, 1719."</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> +<p><i>Superstitions of the Midland Counties.</i>—It is +believed a sign of "bad luck" to meet a white horse, unless the +person <i>spits</i> at it, which action is said to avert the ill +consequences of the recontre.</p> +<p>A rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and +invariable consequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that +the contrary is believed, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine +Sunday.</p> +<p>If the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it +up, it is a sign that the <i>absent</i> lover, wife, or husband (as +the case may be) is in good spirits, and in good humour.</p> +<p>The itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the +reception of a gift; which is rendered more certain if the advice +in this distich be followed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Rub it 'gainst wood,</p> +<p>'Tis sure to come good."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will +at some future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common +expression has it, "are born to be rich."</p> +<p class="author">HENRY KERSLEY.</p> +<p>Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone.</p> +<p><i>A Rainbow in the Morning, &c.</i>—"Mr. THOMS" (No. +26, p. 413.) says that he believes no one has remarked the +philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. Sir Humphry Davy, however, +points it out in his <i>Salmonia</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN.</h3> +<p>In Johnson's (Geo. W.) <i>Memoirs of John Selden</i>, London, +1635, 8vo. pp. 128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated +Sermon preached at Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title +of <i>Apostolike Obedience</i>. After stating the difficult +experienced in obtaining the necessary sanction for its +publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the requisite +<i>imprimatur</i>, the author says that ultimately the licence was +"<i>signed by Land himself</i>, and published under the title of +<i>Apostolical Obedience</i>." A reference at the foot of the page +to "Rushworth, p. 444," leads me to conclude that it is on his +authority Mr. Johnson has made this statement; but not having +access to the "Historical Collections," I am unable to examine. At +any rate, Heylin, in his <i>Cyprianus Anglicus</i>, Lond., 1671 +fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of the +assertion.</p> +<p>A copy of this now rare sermon before me <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page452" id="page452"></a>{452}</span> proves, +however, that the statement is incorrect. At the back of the title +is as follows:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I have read over this sermon upon <i>Rom.</i> xiii. 7., +preached at <i>Northampton</i>, at the assises for the county, +<i>Feb.</i> 22, 1626, by <i>Robert Synthorpe</i>, Doctor of +Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, and I doe approve it as a sermon +learnedly and discreetly preached, and agreeable to the <i>ancient +Doctrine</i> of the <i>Primitive Church</i>, both for <i>Faith</i> +and <i>good manners</i>, and to the <i>Doctrine established</i> in +the <i>Church of England</i>, and, therefore, under my hand I give +authority for the printing of it, May 8. 1627."</p> +<p>GEO. LONDON.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>It was therefore Bishop <i>Mountague</i>, and not <i>Laud</i>, +who licensed the sermon.</p> +<p class="author">JOHN. J. DREDGE.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>POPE AND PETRONIUS.</h3> +<p>I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I +willingly allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism +against Pope, and discussed the subject generally with equal +fairness and ability. "But yet," I think that he wanders a little +from the point when he says, "the surmise of the plagiarism +originates in a misconception of the terms employed by the Latin +author, especially <i>corcillum</i>." Now the question, in my +opinion, turns not so much on what <i>Petronius said</i>, as on +what <i>Pope read</i>; i.e. not on the meaning that <i>Petronius +gave</i> to the word (<i>corcillum</i>), but on that which <i>Pope +attributed</i> to it. I cannot, without further proof, give him +credit for having read the words as critically and correctly as +"Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked on it merely as a +simple derivative of <i>cor</i>, and therefore rendered it "worth," +i.e. a <i>moral</i>, not a <i>mental</i> quality.</p> +<p class="author">C. FORBES.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE +SEVEN SACRAMENTS.</h3> +<p>I beg leave to make the two following Queries:—</p> +<p>1. In Bayle's very useful work, <i>Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris +Brytanniæ Catalogus</i>, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings +ascribed to John Purvey, one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as +Walden styles him) <i>Glossator</i>, is mentioned <i>Commentarius +in Apocalypsin</i>, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi diceret;" and +Bayle adds:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Prædictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi +lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvæum collectus, et nunc +per Martinum Lutherum, <i>Ante centum annos</i> intitularus, anno +Domini 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergæ fuit excusus. +Fuit et ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum +ea Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti +capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvæus hunc librum anno +Domini 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi +apparet."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the +<i>title</i> of the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his +<i>Annales</i>, vol. ix. p. 87. enters the volume thus, +"<i>Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos æditus, +cum Præfatione Maritini Lutheri</i>. Wittembergæ, 1528. +8vo." Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a +public library, or in private hands?</p> +<p>2. In Lewis's <i>History of the Translations of the Bible</i>, +edit. 1818. p. 25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "<i>Of the +Seven Sacraments</i>, 1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is +cited by the Bishop, as then in his possession, "translated out of +Latyne in tyme of heresye almost eight-score years before that +tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and truly written in parchment." Lewis +proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. was the same which is +preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark Fairfax, 2. And in +this erroneous supposition he has been followed by later writers. +The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is actually in the +Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains the +Pentateuch in the <i>earlier</i> Wycliffite version (made, no +doubt, by Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New +Testament is in the <i>later</i> or revised translation by Purvey +and his coadjutors. What I now wish to inquire about, is, where can +I meet with a copy of Bonner's work, <i>De Septem Sacramentis</i>, +in which the passages occur referred to by Lewis? They are not in +<i>A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with certayne Homelies +adjoyned</i>, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although one of these +homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments.</p> +<p class="author">F. MADDEN.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Monastery, Arrangement of One.</i>—Any information and +particulars respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the +various buildings for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or +Benedictine Monks would be useful to and gratefully received by</p> +<p class="author">A.P.H.</p> +<p class="note">[Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, +"Description of the Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in +the Ninth Century," accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he +will find in the <i>Archæological Journal</i>, vol. v. p. +85.?]</p> +<p><i>Constantine the Artist.</i>—Who was "M. Constantine, an +Italian architect to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque +at the Earl of Somerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same +Constantine de Servi to whom the Prince assigned a yearly pension +of 200<i>l.</i> in July 1612? If so, where can more be found +respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's +<i>Anecdotes</i>.</p> +<p class="author">J.G.N.</p> +<p><i>Josias Ibach Stada.</i>—Who was the artist whose name +occurs inscribed on the hoof of the horse of King Charles the +Second's equestrian statue at <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page453" id="page453"></a>{453}</span> Windsor, as +follows:—"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;" and is +Mr. Hewitt, in his recent <i>Memoir of Tobias Rustat</i>, correct +in calling him "Stada, an <i>Italian</i> artist?"</p> +<p class="author">J.G.N.</p> +<p><i>Worm of Lambton.</i>—Is there any published notice of +the "Knight and Serpent" tradition regarding this family and +parish?</p> +<p class="author">A.C.</p> +<p class="note">[A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the +immediate neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately +printed in the year 1530, under the title of <i>The Worm of +Lambton</i>.]</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>REPLIES.</h2> +<h3>LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.</h3> +<p>Luther's solemn request that his translation should on no +account be altered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the +N.T. I find it on the reverse of the title-page of the edition in +8vo. printed at Wittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and +reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have +fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know well +what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament shall be +Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is now without +measure or end. And be every one cautioned against other copies, +for I have already experienced how negligently and falsely others +reprint us."<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href= +"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p> +</blockquote> +<p>The disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the +editions printed under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; +but it has not, I think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words +<i>auf erde</i>, found in later editions, are wanting. The passage +stands:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und +das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In the first edition of the Saxon (Düdesche version of +Luther's Bible, by Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume +at Lubeck, by Lo. Dietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands +thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Wente dre synt dede tüchinisse geven, de Geist unde dat +Water, unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A MS. note of a former possessor remarks:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of +Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort, 1560 +and 1580."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, +Wittemberg, 1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one +printed by Hans Walther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words <i>up erdeu</i> +are inserted.</p> +<p>These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great +similarity that idiom has to our early language; and they, +doubtless, influenced much our own early versions.</p> +<p>In a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the +first printed in Latin with a translation on the same page, and +which is very similar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich +in 1535, 4to., with a Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the +7th verse is given (as it was in the Latin); but is distinguished +by being printed in brackets, and in both verses we have—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Unnd die drey dienend in eins."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Erasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave +occasion perhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times +to print both verses, with this distinction, in editions of the +Lutheran version. The earliest edition, I believe, in which it thus +appears, is one at Wittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, +1604, 1605<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href= +"#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>, and 1625. It also appears, but +printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by Wolder in 1597, +in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599.</p> +<p>In a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, +in 4to., in which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, +the Reformed, a new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch +version, are printed in parallel columns, both verses are given in +every instance; but a note points out that Luther uniformly omitted +the 7th verse, and the words <i>auf erde</i>.</p> +<p>There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is +entirely unwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing +to be <i>Luther's</i> translation.</p> +<p class="author">S.W. SINGER.</p> +<p>April 25. 1850.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p>"Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine Meister +Drücker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein sein, +Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens für sich +machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was andere +machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch Testament sein, +Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse noch ende. Und sey +jederman gewarnet für andern Exemplaren, Denn ich bisher wol +erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere +nachdrücken."</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name= +"footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<p>Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a long and +strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse, exults in +the existence of this verse in an edition of the Bible, Wittemberg, +1606, which is falsely said on the title-page to be <i>juxta +ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>Luther's Translation of the Bible</i> (No. 25, p. +309.).—De Wette, in his critical Commentary on the verse 1 +John, after stating his opinion that the controverted passage is a +spurious interpolation, gives a list of the codices and editions in +which the passage is not found, and of those in which it is +found.</p> +<p>The passage is <i>wanting</i> in all Greek Codd. except Codd. +34. 162. 172. (of his introduction, where it is introduced from the +Vulgate), and in all MS. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page454" +id="page454"></a>{454}</span> of the Vulgate before the tenth +century; in Erasmus' edit. of 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. +1518; in all editions of Luther's translation published by him +during his life-time, and up to 1581; in the edit. Withenb., 1607; +Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620.</p> +<p>The passage is <i>found</i> in all the editions printed of the +Vulgate, and in all translations from it before Luther; and the +edit. complut.; in Erasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the +edit. of Rob. Stephens, 1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the +Lutheran translations reprinted by Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. +(but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in brackets; edit. 1597, +without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593; Wittenb. 1596-97, +and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in every +edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but +not, of course, in De Wette's translation.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS.</h3> +<p>In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I +transcribe from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian +minister of Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of +a former Day," which I have never seen entire in print:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride</p> +<p>Directs his haughty eye to either side,</p> +<p>Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod,</p> +<p>And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find</p> +<p>The fairest pattern of a humble mind;</p> +<p>In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells,</p> +<p>As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands,</p> +<p>With head uplifted and with dancing hands,</p> +<p>Prone to sedition, and to slander free,</p> +<p>Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Mark how the pious matrons flock around,</p> +<p>Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound;</p> +<p>How sweetly each unmeaning period flows</p> +<p>To lull the audience to a gentle doze!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains</p> +<p>Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains,</p> +<p>Of every hue describes a different cause,</p> +<p>And from each patch a solemn mystery draws.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"With soundest judgment and with nicest skill,</p> +<p>The learned Hunt explains his Master's will,</p> +<p>So just his meaning, and his sense to true,</p> +<p>He only pleases the discerning few.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse,</p> +<p>What wond'rous energy! what mighty force!</p> +<p>Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules,</p> +<p>He scorns the censure of unthinking fools.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"But see the accomplish'd orator appear,</p> +<p>Refined his language, and his reasoning dear,</p> +<p>Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art,</p> +<p>At once to please the ear and mend the heart!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks,</p> +<p>And on the sober mind impression makes,</p> +<p>The sacred truths with justness he explains,</p> +<p>And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Of the author of these lines I can give no information. He +evidently belonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not +appear to have been known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of +the "Dissenting Churches" of London, although he quotes a portion +of them. But they were probably composed between 1728 and 1738. In +the former year, Dr. James Foster's London popularity arose, on the +occasion of his undertaking the evening lecture at the Old Jewry. +In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge, one of the subjects of the +poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is told (and to it the poem +evidently alludes), that he was employed no less than four months +in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from Genesis, xxxvii. +3.: "And he made him a coat of many colours." In reply to the +sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (<i>Hist. and Ant. +of Diss.</i> ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was +composed:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains,</p> +<p>Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains;</p> +<p>Marks every truth, of error shows the cause,</p> +<p>And from each mystery useful doctrine draws."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening +stanza, is at variance with the general report of biographers. In +the copy of the verses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:—"I +think this is too severe on the Dr." Dr. Wright was admired for his +pulpit elocution; and it is said that Archbishop Herring was, in +his younger years, a frequent hearer of his, with a view to improve +in elocution. The notice of the celebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly +unjust. He was a man of wit and courage, though sometimes +boisterous and personal. His unsparing opponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, +wrote admiringly of "his musical voice, and the flow of his +periods, adapting scripture language to every +purpose."—<i>The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, +taken from his own Pen, &c.</i> Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35.</p> +<p class="author">A.B.R.</p> +<p>Dukinfield.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<p><i>Tracts by Dekker and Nash.</i>—<i>The Raven's +Almanacke</i>, 1609, is the production of Thomas Dekker, the +dramatist, and one of the rarest of his numerous works. A copy sold +in the <i>Gordonstown</i> sale for seven guineas; and another +occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I have +not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also +the author of a similar work, entitled <i>The Owle's Almanacke</i>, +1618; but it is not mentioned in the lists furnished by +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page455" id= +"page455"></a>{455}</span> Lowndes and Dr. Nott. The latter is +indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known productions of the +author, and assigning others to him for which he is not answerable. +Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist mentioning a +fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the notice of +bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume, entitled, +<i>The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should behave +himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with +the Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent</i>. This is +nothing more than a reprint of Dekker's <i>Gull's Horn-book</i>, +with some slight alterations to adapt it to the times.</p> +<p>Nash's <i>Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of +Apparitions</i>, was printed by John Danter for William Jones, +1594. It is a very interesting tract, and contains many personal +allusions to its unfortunate author. A copy was sold in Heber's +sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5<i>l.</i> 18<i>s.</i> A note in the +handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the following +information:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge +Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the present, +bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and now (1825) +<i>penes</i> me, R.H."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>All things considered, I think your correspondent "J.E." (p. +400.) <i>may</i> congratulate himself on having "met with a +prize."</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p><i>Nash's Terrors of the Night.</i>—Excessively rare. +Boswell had a copy, and another is in the library of the Earl of +Ellesmere, described in Mr. Collier's <i>Bridgewater Catalogue</i> +as one of the worst of Nash's tracts.</p> +<p class="author">L.</p> +<p><i>Tureen</i> (No. 25. p. 407.).—The valuable reference to +Knox proves the etymology from the Latin. <i>Terrene</i>, as an +adjective, occurs in old English. See quotation in Halliwell, p. +859.</p> +<p class="author">L.</p> +<p><i>English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ</i> +(No. 24. p. 385.).—Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of +Erasmus' <i>Praise of Folly</i> was first printed, I believe, in +1540. Subsequent impressions are dated 1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, +William Pickering had a license "for pryntinge of a mery and +pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by Erasmus Roterdamus," +which possibly might be an impression of the <i>Praise of +Folly</i>. (See Collier's <i>Extracts from the Registers of the +Stationers' Company</i>, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was +again translated in the latter part of the following century, by +White Kennet. It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of +<i>Wit against Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly</i>. This is in +all probability the intermediate translation inquired after by your +correspondent.</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p>In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following +translation of Erasmus' <i>Praise of Folly</i>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from +the Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord +Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the +effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from +the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. +1724."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two +other translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the +<i>first</i>. He does not mention the name of the second +translator, but alludes to him as "<i>the modern translator</i>," +and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the book by having +"tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the Latin." +This is his excuse for offering to the public a third translation, +in which he professes to have allowed himself such "elbow-room of +expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the idiom of +the language did invite."</p> +<p class="author">HERMES.</p> +<p>The intermediate translation of the <i>Moriæ Encomium</i> +of Erasmus, to which your correspondent refers, is that by John +Wilson, 8vo. London 1661, of which there is a copy in the +Bodleian.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p>Oxford.</p> +<p><i>Court of Wards.</i>—I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. +173.) anything about Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of +Wards; but "J.B." may be glad to know that there is among the MSS. +in the British Museum a treatise on the Court of Wards. I remember +seeing it, but have not read it. I dare say it might be usefully +published, for we know little in detail about the Court of +Wards.</p> +<p class="author">C.H.</p> +<p><i>Scala Coeli</i> (No. 23. p. 366.).—In Foxe's <i>Acts +and Mon.</i>, vol. v. p. 364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a +copy of a grant from Pope Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of +a Boston guild, assuring them that any member thereof who should +enter the Lady Chapel in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, once a +quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, Ave Maria, and Creed, shall +have the full remission due to them that visit the Chapel of Scala +Scoeli."</p> +<p class="author">H.W.</p> +<p><i>Twm Shawn Cattie</i> (No. 24, p. 383.).—The following +extract from Cliffe's <i>Book of South Wales</i>, furnishes a reply +to this Query.</p> +<p>In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery +and Tregaron, he says:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, +where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: the +entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed of two +immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space between +them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page456" id="page456"></a>{456}</span> that the +passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure inclined +according to the slanting of the rock.</p> +<p>"The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti), +alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son of +John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of Meredydd ap +Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of Gwydir (see +<i>The Heraldic Visitations of Wales</i>, published by the Welsh +MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at the age of 61. +In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and highwayman,' and +levied black mail on the country within reach of his mountain +abode, with the aid of a small band of followers. He soon reformed, +married a rich heiress, was then created a justice of peace for +Brecon, and ultimately became sheriff of that county and +Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an +antiquarian and poet, but is more known for the tricks attributed +to him as a robber."</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">A.B.</p> +<p><i>Twm Sion Catti.</i>—The noted robber, Twm Sion or +Shôn Catti, referred to at No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman +who flourished between the years 1590 and 1630. He was the natural +son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his surname of Catti from the +appellation of his mother Catherine. In early life he was a brigand +of the most audacious character, who plundered and terrified the +rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient warrant for +the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his unbounded +generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate love of +fun and frolic—for he was a very Eulenspiegel—made him +the darling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the +almost inaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction +of the Tywi and the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still +bears his name. As time passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of +Ystrad-ffin, in the vale of Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her +property, abandoned his wild life, and with it the name of Catti; +and quietly subsiding into Thomas Jones, Esq., became a poet and +antiquary of high reputation. In addition to which, and as if to +mark their sense of the value of a man so powerful for good or for +evil, the government appointed him high sheriff for the county of +Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a name which +yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage circle in +the long nights of winter.</p> +<p>His life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was +probably the work to which the "Note" of "MELANION" referred.</p> +<p class="author">SELEUCUS.</p> +<p><i>Cheshire Round</i> (No. 24. p. 383.).—A dance so +called, peculiar to the county from whence it takes its name. The +musical notes of the <i>Cheshire Round</i> may be seen in <i>The +Dancing Master</i>, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward Jones' <i>Cheshire +Melodies</i>. It was sometimes danced "longways for as many us +will" (as described in <i>The Dancing Master</i>), but more +frequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the +Third states, "In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd +stones at Hosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the +<i>Cheshire Rounds</i> to the admiration of all spectators." +Michael Root and John Sleepe, two clever caterers of "Bartlemy," +also advertise "a little boy that dances the <i>Cheshire Round</i> +to perfection." There is a portrait of Dogget the celebrated +comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is not +Penkethman?), representing him dancing the <i>Cheshire Round</i>, +with the motto "<i>Ne sutor ultra crepidam</i>."</p> +<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> +<p><i>Horns to a River.</i>—Why the poets give horns to +rivers, must be sought for in the poet's book, nature. I like the +interpretation given by a glance up some sinuous and shelving +valley, where the mighty stream, more than half lost to the eye, is +only seen in one or two of its bolder reaches, as it tosses itself +here to the right, and there to the left, to find a way for its +mountain waters.</p> +<p>The third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would +be interesting to know where your correspondent has found it in +late Greek.</p> +<p class="author">J.E.</p> +<p>Oxford, April 16. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Horns.</i>—For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. +24. p. 383.), I subscribe the following, from Coleridge:—</p> +<p>"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare,</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"'Take thou no scorn</p> +<p>To wear the horn, the lusty horn;</p> +<p>It was a crest ere thou wert born."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p><i>As You Like It</i>, Act iv. sc. 2.</p> +<p>"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance +of a phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all +languages, and yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible +origin."—<i>Literary Remains</i>, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, +1849.</p> +<p class="author">ROBERT SNOW.</p> +<p><i>Coal Brandy</i> (No. 22. p. 352.).—This is only a +contraction of "coaled brandy," that is, "burnt brandy," and has no +reference to the <i>purity</i> of the spirit. It was the "universal +pectoral" of the last century; and more than once I have seen it +prepared by "good housewives" and "croaking husbands" in the +present, pretty much as directed in the following prescription. It +is only necessary to remark, that the orthodox method of "coaling," +or setting the brandy on fire, was effected by dropping "a live +coal" ("<i>gleed</i>") or red-hot cinder into the brandy. This is +copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of which are +written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of +scientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of +Simsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It +was written evidently by some <span class="pagenum"><a name= +"page457" id="page457"></a>{457}</span> "dropper-in," who found +"honest John" suffering from a severe cold, and upon the first +piece of paper that came to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks +age, and the punctuation and erasures show him to have been a +literary man, and a careful though stilted writer. It is not, +however, a hand of which I find any other exemplars amongst +Nourse's correspondence.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which +may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce of +sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let it burn +till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go to +bed.</p> +<p>"To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the +brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for +"coughs, colds, catarrhs, and consumption," from Ford's "Balsam of +Horehound" to Dr. Solomon's "Balm of Gilead."</p> +<p class="author">T.S.D.</p> +<p>Shooter's Hill, April 4.</p> +<p><i>Howkey or Horkey</i> (No. 17. p. 263.).—Does the +following passage from Sir Thomas Overbury's <i>Witty Descriptions +of the Properties of sundry Persons</i>, first published, I +believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the etymology of this word? It +occurs in the description of a Frankling or Yeoman:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the +dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country +lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday, and +the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on Christmas eve, +<i>the hoky or seed-cake</i>, these he yearly keeps, yet holds them +no relics of Popery."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>As I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an +extract, I am unable to give a more precise reference.</p> +<p class="author">E.R.J.H.</p> +<p>Chancery Lane.</p> +<p>It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as +to the word <i>Howkey</i> or <i>Horkey</i>, if I state, that when +in my boyhood I was accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced +as if spelt <i>Hockey</i>. As <i>Howkey</i> I should not have +recognised it, nor hardly as <i>Horkey</i>.</p> +<p class="author">AN EAST ANGLIAN.</p> +<p><i>Hockey</i>, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the +end, is very likely derived from <i>hook</i>, an Anglo-Saxon word +too. But we cannot suppose that anything else was derived from +that, and especially when we come to words apparently more genuine +than that. It seems natural to connect them with a hock-tide, +Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.), a name given to more than +one season when it was usual to have games and festivities. Now +surely this is nothing else than <i>high</i> tide, a time of some +high feast; as we vulgarly say, "high days and holidays." So in the +Scripture, "that Sabbath day was a high day." So high Mass. We +Protestants have no conception of the close connection between the +superior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. +Among the heathen Romans, <i>festicus</i> is derived from +<i>festus</i>.<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href= +"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> We say high romps, high jinks.</p> +<p>See Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and +Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from +<i>Hogen</i>, "gaudere," which also see. He says that the lower +Saxons "hodie utuntur '<i>Höge</i>'" to mean "gaudium privatum +et publicum convivale et nuptiale." See also Hohen. See Lye, who +has also heah, freols summa festivitas, summum festum.</p> +<p>Ihre (<i>Lex. Suio Goth.</i>) says <i>Hugna</i> is "to make +glad." But in Hog-tid he observes, that gladness is only the +secondary meaning of <i>Hogen</i>,—"<i>Hokanat</i> vocabatur +a Borealibus festum quod media hieme celebrabatur;" and he shows +that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it.</p> +<p class="author">C.B.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name= +"footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag3">(return)</a> +<p>Is not the derivation of "feast" and "fast" originally the same? +that which is appointed, connected with "<i>fas</i>," and that from +"<i>fari</i>."</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>Howkey or Horkey</i> (No. 17. p. 263.).—Is not this +word simply a corruption of <i>Hockey</i>? Vide under "Hock-cart," +in <i>Brand's Antiquities</i> by Ellis, where the following +quotation from <i>Poor Robin's Almanack</i> for 1676 +occurs:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>Hoacky</i> is brought home with hallowing,</p> +<p>Boys with plum-cake the cart following."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<p><i>Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle</i> (No. 25. p. +400.).—The Portrait by Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly +erroneously stated to be that of Luther, was, I believe, engraved +as such in Knight's <i>Portrait Gallery</i>, published by the +Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. I cannot find in any +account of Helbein's works a mention of a portrait of Luther by +him.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.</p> +<p><i>Symbolism of Flowers, etc.</i>—In reference to works +illustrative of poetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical +associations connected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. +11. p. 173., many a literary man must equally desire an +interpreter,—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie,</p> +<p>And teach that truth is truest poesy."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of +this description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your +learned correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation +by furnishing illustrations, or references to illustrations, +critical and poetical, collected from the most valuable authors, +ancient and modern; and that this "sacred eloquence,"</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page458" id= +"page458"></a>{458}</span> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Where'er 'tis found</p> +<p>On Christian or on heathen ground,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, +afford much pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the +useful work of Camerarius on <i>Symbols and Emblems</i>.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily</p> +<p>To the first plant by some kind augury."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely +in p. 214, beautifully illustrated<a id="footnotetag4" name= +"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>, but still +deserving further consideration. Schedius (<i>De Diis Gemanis</i>) +and others have, with much learning, shown Venus Urania to be the +same as Isis Myrionyma. With erudition not inferior, but in support +of a peculiar theory, Gorop. Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and +Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one and the same hieroglyphical +character. I shall now endeavour to explain the symbolism and +dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers" adumbrates the +highest faculty of human nature—<i>Reason</i>, and Silence, +or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the +Greek term [Greek: epistaemae], <i>science</i>. (See Harris's +<i>Philosoph. Arrang.</i> p. 444., and <i>Hermes</i>, p. 369.). To +whom, then, could the hieroglyphical rose have been more +appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is described with his +finger pointing to his mouth—<i>tacito plenus +amore</i>—a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought +to behave in religious matters.</p> +<p class="author">T.J.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name= +"footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag4">(return)</a> +<p>Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the +<i>Rhodologia</i> of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them +under "Rosæ," in the <i>Amphitheatrum sapientiæ</i> of +Dornavius.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>"<i>Where England's Monarch</i>" (No. 26. p. 415.).—The +two lines inquired for are in Bramston's <i>Man of Taste</i>, a +poem printed about the middle of the last century. I need hardly +add, that the poet was misinformed, it being well known that +Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to plead or <i>to take +off his hat</i>.</p> +<p>There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with +Barnard in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, May 1758: but it may be +the same as that in the <i>Annual Register</i>.</p> +<p class="author">BRAYBROOKE</p> +<p>April 27.</p> +<p><i>Journeyman</i> (No. 19. p. 309.).—"GOMER" may like to +know that the old labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's +ploughing as a "<i>journey at plough</i>."</p> +<p class="author">BRAYBROOKE.</p> +<p><i>Sydenham or Tidenham.</i>—I have no doubt as to +Sydenham, included in the inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates +(No. 24. p. 389.), being <i>Tidenham</i>; for this manor, the +property of the Marquis of Worcester, was possessed by Cromwell; +and, among my title deeds connected with this parish, I have Court +Rolls <i>in Cromwell's name</i> both for <i>Tidenham</i> itself and +for <i>Beachley</i>, a mesne manor within it.</p> +<p>These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the +Somersets, were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 +Hen. VIII. cap. 26. § 13., and annexed, together with +<i>Woolaston</i>, similarly circumstanced, to the country of +Gloucester and to the hundred of Westbury; of which hundred, in a +legal sense, they still continue a part.</p> +<p class="author">GEO. ORMEROD.</p> +<p>Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850.</p> +<p><i>J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art</i> (No. 25. p. +401.).—The book to which your correspondent "M." refers, is, +I believe, "<i>The Mysteries of Nature and Art, in Foure severall +Parts: The First of Water Works,—the Second of Fire Works, +&c., &c. By John Bate</i>."</p> +<p>I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude +engraving of the author:—"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, +memoria manet, modo permaneant studium et industria."</p> +<p class="author">HERMES.</p> +<p>"<i>A Frog he would a-wooing go</i>."—In answer to the +inquiry of "B.G.J." (in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of +"'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I do not think it is older that thirty +of thirty-five years, when Liston sang an altered version of the +very old song,—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A frog, he would a-wooing ride,</p> +<p>With sword and buckler by his side,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>and instead of the usual chorus<a id="footnotetag5" name= +"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a>, +inserted</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Heigho, says Rowley,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., +Soho Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by +C.E.H., Esq. (<i>qy.</i> Charles Edward Horn?), and an +accompaniment by Thomas Cook. The first verse is as +follows:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A frog he would a-wooing go;</p> +<p class="i2">'Heigh ho!' says Rowley;</p> +<p>Whether his mother would let him or no,</p> +<p class="i2">With a rowly, powly,</p> +<p>Gammon and spinach,</p> +<p class="i2">'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">R.S.S.</p> +<p>April 23. 1850.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name= +"footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag5">(return)</a> +<p>In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's <i>Nursery Rhymes</i>, I +have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different +melodies, and <i>nonsense</i> burthens, as sung by my excellent +nurse, Betty Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your +pages.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>"<i>My Love and I for kisses played, &c.</i>" (No. 19. p. +302.).—The little <i>jeu d'esprit</i> which "Dr. RIMBAULT" +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page459" id= +"page459"></a>{459}</span> has given from Paget's <i>Common Place +Book</i>:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"My love and I for kisses play'd,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted +"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading +of the last couplet:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?</p> +<p>Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for +Kisses," and are there without any name or signature. They remind +us of Lilly's very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe."</p> +<p>The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles +it:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Fair stood the wind for France,"</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, +<i>Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, +by Michael Drayton, Esquire</i>. At London, printed by R.B. for +N.L. and J. Flaskett. 12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.)</p> +<p>I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early +editions of Drayton's <i>Miscellaneous Poems</i>; but I speak +without book, my collection being in the country.</p> +<p>The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was +made by Dr. Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title +page. "The head and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. +Pickering's neat edition of Herrick in 1846.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.S.</p> +<p>March 12. 1850.</p> +<p class="note">["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. +CCXXXIX. of <i>A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. +Walthoe</i>, 1727, and of which a second volume was published in +1737; and "J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the +<i>Encyclopædia of Wit</i>, published about half a century +since.]</p> +<p><i>Teneber Wednesday.</i>—In Hall's <i>Chronicle</i>, +under the date of 23rd Hen. VIII., is this passage:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme +ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next +yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that whosoeuer +dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote water to the +death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard Roose, int the +Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at the Bishop of +Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the same Acte, was +boyled in Smythfelde the <i>Teneber-Wednysday</i> following, to the +terrible example of all other."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before +Easter, of "Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao," and that the name is +derived form the Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the +Church of Rome.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Erat autem fere hora sexta, et <i>tenèbroe</i> factoe +sunt in universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est +sol: et velum templi seissum est medium."—Luke, xxiii. 44, +45.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it +corrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents can supply other instances of the use of the term, +or state what are or were the ceremonies peculiar to the day.</p> +<p class="author">C.H. COOPER</p> +<p>Cambridge, April 4. 1850.</p> +<p>P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that +"<i>Tenable Wednesday</i>" occurs three times in the Ordinance for +"weshing of all mannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell" in +the Northumberland Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance +it is placed between Lady Day and Easter Even.</p> +<p class="note">[If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most +useful work, <i>Medii ævi Kalendarium</i>, vol. i. p. 370., +to the words <i>Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebræ</i>, he will +find them explained "The three nights before Easter;" and the +following among other illustrations:—</p> +<p class="note">"Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch +on Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne +service, as commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And +holi chirch useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, +the service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is +called with divers men <i>Tenables</i>, but holi chirch +<i>Tenebras</i>, as <i>Raccionale Divinorum</i> seth, that is to +say, thieness or derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord +by night."—<i>Harl. MS.</i> 2247. fo. 83.]</p> +<p><i>The Buckingham Motto.</i>—Permit me to suggest that +your correspondents "S." and "P." (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are +labouring under a mistaken notion in supposing that the line</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><i>Sovente me sorene</i>,</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase "Forget +me not." Such a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the +parting prayer or injunction of a lover, but does not possess the +essential characteristic of a <i>motto</i>, which one selects for +the purpose of declaring his own sentiments of conduct towards +<i>others</i>, not to deprecate or direct those of others towards +<i>himself</i>.</p> +<p>The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, +but exactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the +present day; and if "S." would again examine the original MS., I +make no doubt that he would find the line written <i>Sovente mi +sooviene (sovene)</i>, <i>i.e.</i> with the personal pronoun in the +dative instead of the accusative case. The expression <i>mi +souviene</i> is equivalent to <i>mi ricordo</i>, but is a more +elegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be +"I seldom forget,"—a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying +as much the memory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be +required.</p> +<p class="author">A. RICH, JUN.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page460" id= +"page460"></a>{460}</span> +<p><i>Larig.</i>—I am obliged by the suggestions of your +correspondents "B.W." and "C.I.R." (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I +beg leave to offer the following reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or +Netherlandish, as they may be considered one language until the +fifteenth century) <i>Le'er</i> and <i>Le'ar</i> are simply +contractions of <i>Leder</i>, as Tenkate observes, <i>euphonis +gratia</i>, by the omission of the <i>d</i>, which takes place in +other similar words; and what is remarkable in <i>Ledig</i>, empty, +which becomes <i>Le'eg</i>. <i>Le'erig</i> is of course +<i>leathery</i>, or <i>tough</i>; but <i>Lederen</i> or +<i>Le'ersen</i>, would be used for <i>made</i> of <i>leather</i>, +and in A.-S., most probably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such +contraction in A.-S.: it is always [A-S: Leðer] and [A-S: +Leðern]. The epithet, <i>leathery</i>-shields, could hardly +have been used where they are said to <i>resound</i>; and the +instance of <i>vaulted</i> shields in Judith is, I think, +conclusive. The root of <i>Leder</i> is possibly <i>hlid-an</i>, to +cover HIDE? That of <i>Leer</i> possibly <i>lieren</i>, amittere, +privari?</p> +<p>I should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and +Schilter, which were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and +indeed I had not Urry's <i>Chaucer</i> at hand to verify the +reference of Junius to the Tale of Beryn, the only valuable portion +of Urry's book. I knew that a simple reference to the O.H.G. +Lâri would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm.</p> +<p>Thorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has +followed Lye, in rendering <i>Lind haebbende</i>, Vexilla habens; +and Haldorsen's explanation of <i>Lind</i> might have taught him +better. Mr. Kemble has rendered it <i>shield-bearers</i>, and gives +instances in his Glossary of similar combinations, as +<i>rond-haebbendra</i>, <i>bord-haebbende</i>, +<i>scaro-haebbendra</i>.</p> +<p class="author">S.W. SINGER.</p> +<p>April 15. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Zenobia a Jewess?</i> (No. 24. p. 383.)—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add +here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius <i>took her to be +a Jewess</i>, meaning, without doubt, <i>in respect of her +religion</i>; and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please +her that Paul of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions +very like those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, +saying that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature +superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any +otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine +grace."—Crevier, <i>Hist. of Rom. Emperors</i>, Book 27. +"Aurelian," vol. ix. p. 174.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>M. Crevier refers to "Tillem. Aur. art. 5."</p> +<p class="author">C. FORBES</p> +<p>Temple, April 16.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan.</i>—The following notices, relating to +<i>one</i> Temple Stanyan may interest your correspondent "A.G." +(No. 24 p. 382.).</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"1725. March 23. Died Mrs. —— Stanyan, wife of +Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of +Secretary of State."—<i>Historical Register.</i></p> +<p>"1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His +Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs. +Pauncefort."—<i>Ibid.</i></p> +</blockquote> +<p>There is a monument in one of the churches at +Southampton,—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles +Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in +co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument was +erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in His +Majesty's Navy."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Edward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles +Hardy's will, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780.</p> +<p class="author">W.H.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan</i> wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was +common when I was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If +the question is biographical, I can say nothing.</p> +<p class="author">C.B.</p> +<p><i>Temple Stanyan</i> (No. 24. p. 382.).—He also published +an <i>Account of Switzerland</i>, 8vo. London, 1714.</p> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<p><i>"Who was Temple Stanyan?"</i> (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple +Stanyan was the son of Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit +Kat Club, M.P. for Buckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of +the Admiralty, etc. Mr. Temple Stanyan was himself also Minister at +Constantinople, and at several other courts; and afterwards +Under-Secretary of State under both Addison and the Duke of +Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of Switzerland; and his +Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the publication of Mitford's, +the best in our language. I believe that his daughter married Adm. +Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Auctorite de Dibil</i> (no. 25. p. 205.).—Probably an +error of transcription; read <i>Auctorite de Bibil</i>.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<p><i>The Bristol Riots</i> (No. 22. p. 352.).—"J.B.M." is +informed, that the volume to which he alludes is generally +considered by Bristolians as the most authentic and fullest +narrative that was published of those disgraceful scenes.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.G.</p> +<p>Worcester.</p> +<p><i>Religious Tract by F.H.</i> (No. 25. p. 400.)—The +author of the religious tract which has fallen into the hands of +"J.C." is no doubt one of the early Quakers, and probably Francis +Howgill. Howgill was originally a clergyman of the Church of +England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and in the year 1652 +joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of George Fox. +His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes.</p> +<p class="author">Θ.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page461" id= +"page461"></a>{461}</span> +<p><i>Complutensian MSS.</i>—"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will +find full answers to his Queries, and more interesting information +on the same subject, in a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro +Saban's Spanish translation of Prescott's <i>Ferdinand and +Isabella</i>. Madrid, 1846.</p> +<p>I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within +a month in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they +were removed from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew +manuscripts are all originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of +Zamora among them are 3 vols. in Latin, translated from the +Hebrew.</p> +<p>The Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection +as above; and of course were not returned to the Vatican.</p> +<p class="author">H.S.</p> +<p>Morley's Hotel, April 28.</p> +<p><i>Tablet to Napoleon</i> (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. +406.).—"C.I.R.'s" interpretation can hardly be admitted. The +true meaning will be best exhibited by the following +form:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Napoleoni,</p> +<p class="i2">Ægyptiaco,</p> +<p>Bis Italico,</p> +<p class="i2">Semper Invicto."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p><i>Bis Italico</i> alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., +in his first campaign, and again in that of Marengo.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Malone's Blunder</i> (No. 25. p. 403.).—"Mr. BOLTON +CORNEY," in his answer on this subject, says very justly, that +"before we censure a writer, we should consult his own edition." He +has, however, not followed this excellent principle in this case, +for he has certainly not looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on +which the question arises. He has repeated what I had already +stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the mistake was <i>not</i> a blunder +of <i>Malone's</i>; and he has also pointed out, what had escaped +me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first <i>three</i> +articles of the pretended will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare: but when +he adds that there is "<i>no fabrication</i>" and "<i>no +mystery</i>" in the case, and that "the blunder of the Irish editor +was merely in attempting to <i>unite the two fragments</i> as +published by Malone," it is quite clear that he has not seen the +edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken the whole affair. +The Irish editor did <i>not</i> attempt to unite Malone's +fragments—quite the contrary—he left Malone's first +fragment as he found it; but he took the second fragment, namely, +the exordium of the pretended will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare, and +substituted it <i>bodily</i> as the exordium of the will of +<i>William</i> Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the real exordium +of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, "I, <i>John</i> +Shakspeare," &c., and ends, "by me, <i>William</i> Shakspeare." +I have no doubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery +altogether; but the taking three paragraphs of it, and substituting +them for the two first paragraphs of <i>William</i> Shakspeare's +genuine will, is what I call, and what no doubt "Mr. BOLTON CORNEY" +will think, on this explanation of the facts, "an audacious +fabrication." The best guess I can make as to how, or with what +design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so complicated, +and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:—Malone printed the +fragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his +"Emendations and additions," as belonging to "<i>the will before +printed</i>," meaning the forged will of <i>John</i> Shakspeare, +but that the Irish editor understood him to mean the genuine will +of <i>William</i> Shakspeare; and so thought that he was only +restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could have +overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in +the meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly +incomprehensible.</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<p><i>Theses.</i>—Perhaps it may assist your correspondent +"M." (No. 25. p. 401.) to be informed that the University of +Göttingen is particularly rich in "<i>Theses</i>" (termed +<i>Disputationes et Dissertationes</i>), to which there is a large +room entirely devoted in the library of that university; together +with the transactions of learned bodies. A special librarian is +attached to this department, which is much consulted. A Catalogue +was begun to be published of this collection, so far as respects +the <i>Memoirs</i> contained in the various transactions, in 1801, +by J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after +which, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues +of Theses, I think the following work is in good +esteem:—<i>Dissert. Acad. Upsal. habitæ sub +Præsid. C.P. Thunberg</i>, 3 tom. 8vo. Götting. +1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the <i>Catalogus +Bibliothecæ Thottiauæ</i> (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniæ, +1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which it might be well to +consult, of dissertations under the name of the president or head +of the institution or college where they were delivered, than under +the writer's name. At least, in a <i>collective</i> sense the +former method is adopted, as in the following instance: Schultens, +(Alb.) <i>Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, +adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Præsidio A. Schultens, +etc.</i>, 2 tom.: although, if the author should happen to be +distinguished for his other productions, <i>all</i> that he wrote +is anxiously sought out, and placed under his own name.</p> +<p class="author">J.M.</p> +<p>Oxford, April 24.</p> +<p class="note">["M." may also be referred to the <i>Catalogus +Dissertationum Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca +Bodleiana</i>. A quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University +Press in 1834.]</p> +<p><i>MSS. of Locke</i> (No. 25. p. 401.).—"C." is informed +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page462" id= +"page462"></a>{462}</span> that Dr. Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, +in Ireland, during the past year. The papers of Locke respecting +which he inquires are probably still in the possession of Dr. H.'s +son.</p> +<p class="author">Θ</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2> +<p><i>Spur Money.</i>—Although I used often, twenty years +ago, when a chorister at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying +a fine on all who entered that place with spurs on, I was not aware +of its origin till I saw it explained in your interesting +publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a custom however, +connected with this impost, the origin of which I should be glad to +learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was sought +to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister before +him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the +spur-bearer was entitled to exemption.</p> +<p class="author">E.J.H.</p> +<p><i>Spur Money.</i>—I beg to offer the following humble +illustration of spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of +All Saints Church at Hastings:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">1.</p> +<p>"This is a belfry that is free</p> +<p>For all those that civil be:</p> +<p>And if you please to chime or ring,</p> +<p>It is a very pleasant thing.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">2.</p> +<p>"There is no musick play'd or sung,</p> +<p>Like unto bells when they're well rung:</p> +<p>Then right your bells well, if you can—</p> +<p>Silence is best for every man.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">3.</p> +<p>"But if you ring in <i>spur or hat</i>,</p> +<p>Sixpence you pay—be sure of that:</p> +<p>And if a bell you overthrow,</p> +<p>Pray pay a groat before you go."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>(dated) 1756.</p> +<p class="author">ALFRED GATTY.</p> +<p>Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850.</p> +<p><i>Note Books.</i>—Looking at what your correspondent says +about "Note Books," I think the following hint may be useful to +others, as it has been to myself. Many persons never get so far as +the formality of a common-place book, and do not like to write in +their books. Let them follow my plan. The envelope maker will +procure them any number of little slips of white paper, with a +touch of isinglass at each of the four corners. Let the note be +written on one of these, and then let the slip be stuck into any +book which is sure to be wanted in connection with the subject when +it comes up again; either by one, two, or four corners, as +convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it be +wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached +to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed +miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is +good as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"When made a note of,—find if you can."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">M.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL.</h3> +<p>Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his <i>British +Poetesses</i> on account of the following verses:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth,</p> +<p>Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth;</p> +<p>His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight,</p> +<p>My husband dear, more than this world's light,</p> +<p>Death hath me reft. But I from death will take</p> +<p>His memory, to whom this tomb I make.</p> +<p>John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say),</p> +<p>Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, +so that these verses could not have come from his widow's pen. +Indeed, they are much older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be +found on the monument in Westminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, +in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in +1584.</p> +<p class="author">P. CUNNINGHAM.</p> +<hr /> +<p><i>Byron and Tacitus</i> (No. 20. p. 390.).—To your young +friend, who honestly signs himself "A SCHOOLBOY," let an older +correspondent say, that he will do more wisely to let the rules of +his teachers keep him from perusing an author who makes a mock of +all moral and all honourable feelings. But if he wishes to know +whether the introduction of the sentence from Tacitus into a +poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," the reply will properly +be, No. The poet expected that the well-known figure, which he had +thus thrown into verse, would be immediately recognised by every +literary reader, and that the recognition would give pleasure. He +was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed by a +master, that <i>Difficile est proprie communia dicere</i>. The +Schoolboy knows where to find these words; and I hope that he also +knows where to find the words of one who speaks with greater +authority, and has said most kindly, "Cease, my son, to hear [read] +the instruction that causeth to err."</p> +<p class="author">H.W.</p> +<p><i>Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury.</i>—It is proposed to +descend some of the aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near +Tilbury in Essex. In consequence, however, of Camden having named a +wrong parish, later antiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain +their precise whereabouts. Mr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' +labour, found them out; and a brief notice of them was given +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page463" id= +"page463"></a>{463}</span> in an article upon "Primæval +Britain" in the <i>West Kent Almanack for</i> 1849. Hasted mentions +similar pits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is +another called "the Sound Hole," from the echoes, &c., made +upon a stone being thrown down. Mr. S. Laudale intends an +examination of it this summer. Tradition reports that there are +three enormous caverns, which communicate with the central +shaft.</p> +<p>How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of +those chambers which are aloof from the central shaft?</p> +<p class="author">Δ</p> +<p><i>Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book.</i>—A few days ago, Messrs. +Puttick and Simpson sold a very important manuscript, the original +letter-book of Sir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles +II. It fetched 51<i>l.</i>, being bought by a collector whose name +has not transpired; but perhaps this notice, if you kindly insert +it, may induce the purchaser to edit it for the Chetham Society, to +whose publications it would for a most valuable addition.</p> +<p class="author">R.</p> +<p><i>A Phonetic Peculiarity.</i>—I venture to note as a very +curious phonetic peculiarity, that we have in the English language +a large number of monosyllabic words ending is <i>sh</i>, all of +which are expressive of some violet action or emotion. I quote a +few which have occurred without search, in alphabetical order. +"Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash, gush, hash, gnash, lash, +mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash, squash, thrash."</p> +<p class="author">J.M.B.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2> +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.</h3> +<p>At the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was +announced that a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood +had been determined upon, and the first volume containing six plays +was laid upon the table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's +<i>Essay on the Chandos Portrait</i> had only been delayed from a +desire to obtain the most novel and accurate information.</p> +<p>The members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at +the Annual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of +the third volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the <i>Canterbury +Tales</i> was announced.</p> +<p>The plan for the <i>restoration of Chaucer's tomb</i> in Poet's +Corner has at length assumed a practical shape. It has been +ascertained that less than 100<i>l.</i> will do every thing that +can be desired to repair the ravages of time, and preserve the +monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to raise this sum by +subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share in the good +work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this scheme, +which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle, +the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other +distinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by +every member of the committee, and parties resident in the country +may remit them by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in +favour of William Richard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament +Street, the Honorary Treasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the +Honorary Secretary of the Committee.</p> +<p>The Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, +under the Presidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general +satisfaction. The council reported the publication during the past +year of the <i>Peterborough Chronicle</i>; the <i>Letters of +Elizabeth and James VI.</i>; and the <i>Chronicle of Queen +Jane</i>. This last volume was then only on the eve of circulation; +it has since been issued, and found to justify the announcement of +the council that it is work of great historical value, and an +interesting companion to <i>Machyn's Diary</i>.</p> +<p>We have received the following Catalogues:—James Darling's +(21. Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books +Old and New, Theological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. +City Road) Catalogue, No. 8., of Books in English and Foreign +Theology, Literature, Roman Catholic Controversy, Classics, +&c.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES</h3> +<h4>WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h4> +<h4>(<i>In continuation of Lists in former Nos.</i>)</h4> +<p>THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</p> +<p>ROCCHA DE CAMPANIS.</p> +<h4><i>Odd Volumes</i>.</h4> +<p>THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Vol I. 1797.</p> +<p>CALENDAR OF HARLEIAN MSS., Vol. IV.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.</h3> +<p>COMPLETION OF OUR FIRST VOLUME.—<i>Two more numbers will +complete our First Volume, to which a very full Index is preparing. +A Second Volume, of the same size, will be completed at the end of +December, and we shall then be enabled to judge how far it will be +desirable to adopt the system of Half-Yearly or Yearly +volumes.</i></p> +<p><i>Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers +principally occupied with</i> REPLIES, <i>as it is obviously +desirable that they should, as far as possible, appear in the same +volume as the</i> QUERIES <i>to which they refer.</i></p> +<p>COLLAR OF SS. <i>This subject shall be brought forward early in +the next volume.</i></p> +<p>E.S.T. <i>Thanks.</i> The Query and Folk Lore <i>shall appear as +soon as possible</i>.</p> +<p>W.M.T. <i>is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to +assure him, that had we known what he has so kindly informed us, +the article he alludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are +sure we may add, that the friend who sent it would never have +handed it to us for publication</i>.</p> +<hr class="adverts" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page464" id= +"page464"></a>{464}</span> +<p>On the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES +KNIGHT,</p> +<p>PART I. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: October 10, 2004 [EBook #13684] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals, Jon Ingram, David +King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 28.] SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * {449} + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- + Etymology of Penniel. 449 + Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, + LL.D. 450 + Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. Hailstone. 451 + Folk Lore:--Superstitions of Middle Counties--Rainbow + in the Morning. 451 + Error in Johnson's Life of Selden. 451 + Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes. 452 + +QUERIES:-- + Purvey of the Apocalypse--Bonner on the Seven Sacraments, + by Sir F. Madden. 452 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Arrangement of a Monastery--Constantine + the Artist--Josias Ibach Stada--Worm of Lambton. 452 + +REPLIES:-- + Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer. 453 + Lines on London Dissenting Ministers. 454 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tracts by Dekker and + Nash--Tureen--English Translations of Erasmus--Court + of Wards--Scala Coeli--Twm Shawn Cattie--Cheshire + Round--Horns to a River--Horns--Coal + Brandy--Howkey or Horkey--Luther's Portrait--Symbolism + of Flowers, &c.--"Where England's + Monarch"--Journeyman--Sydenham or Tidenham--J.B.'s + Treatise on Nature and Art--"A Frog he + would a-wooing go"--"My Love and I, &c."--Teneber + Wednesday--Buckingham Motto--Laerig--Zenobia a + Jewess--Temple Stanyan, &c. 454 + +MISCELLANIES:-- + Spur Money--Note Books--Lady Rachael Russell--Byron + and Taritus--Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Sir + R. Haigh's Letter-Book--A Phonetic Peculiarity. 462 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 463 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 463 + Notices to Correspondents. 463 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES + +ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL. + +Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the +kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the +Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs +between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and +the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), passed hard by. The +road is yet distinctly visible in all its course among the Cheviots, and +in the uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where the plough has +spared it, among the agricultural inclosures. + +The house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or +Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of that +word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the credulity +of a Monkbarns. _Pen_, it is known, signifies in the Celtic language "a +hill". And the word _heil_, in the Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin, +rendered _Sol_. In the Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, _heol_ means +"the sun:" hence, _Penheil_, _Penheol_, or _Penniel_, "the hill of the +sun." Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is believed, +yet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid circle, not many +years ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who used the sacred remains +in building his garden wall. A little farther antiquarian conjecture is +necessary to clothe the country with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth +Forest was part of "the forest" which covered Selkirkshire and parts of +the counties around. The Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two +venerable oaks yet flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once +wooded condition of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated +by evidence drawn from the interesting volumes of the _Rotuli +Parliamentorum_. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious establishment in +the neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. Of their buildings, +of the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens existing in the memory +of persons living, not a vestige now remains. In the first volume of the +_Rotuli_, p. 472., there is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop +of Glasgow to Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these +terms:-- + + "Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese + aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de + Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth + de autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building] + pour fere une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou + il poet aver recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le + voudrent aver." + +To which the King's answer is,-- + + "Heat Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu in + Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta + quercu." + +Thus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; and it +was under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets were +composed:-- + + I. + + "'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago, + Amid the silence of its hoary wood + By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow, + The lonely Temple of the Druids stood! {450} + The conquering Roman when he urged his way, + That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain, + And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day, + Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane! + One stone of all its circle now remains, + Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand; + And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns; + And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand; + With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye + The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky. + + II. + + "The Druid-train has moved into the wood, + Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene! + For theirs were offerings of human blood, + With sound of trump and shriek of fear between: + Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone; + And record none remains save this gray stone! + Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years + Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane + Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears + Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain + Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times + Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light + Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes + Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright. + + III. + + "Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song! + And is my dwelling by thy classic streams; + And is the fate so fondly wished and long, + Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,-- + By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam, + To live among thy happy shepherd swains + Where now the peaceful virtues have their home; + A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains + Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered, + To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound + By truest love and gratitude endeared: + The glory of his land, in whom were found + Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul, + Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul." + +F.S.A. L. & E. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON. + +_Soho Square._--Your correspondent "NASO" (p. 244.) has anticipated me +in noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. Cornellys' house in this +square; but he has left unnoticed some particulars which deserve to be +recorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or _Carlisle House_ as it was called, was +pulled down at the beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and +_two_ houses built upon its site, now _Jeffery's Music Warehouse_ and +_Weston's Printing Office_. Some curious old paintings representing +banqueting scenes, formerly in _Carlisle House_ were carefully preserved +until the last few years, in the drawing-room of the corner house, when +they were removed to make room for some needed "elegancies" of the +modern print shops. The Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the +banquetting-room of Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between +it and the house in Soho Square was originally the "Chinese bridge." + +"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer" appears in the +bankrupt list of _The London Gazette_ of November, 1772; and in December +of the same year, this temple of festivity, and all its gorgeous +contents, were thus advertised to be sold by public auction:-- + + "_Carlisle House, Soho._--At twelve o'clock on Monday the 14th + instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell by + Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive, + commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately + occupied by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of + the Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant + Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too + well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste + to require here any public and extraordinary description + thereof. Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr. + Marshall's, in St. Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see + the house, to prevent improper crowds, and the great damage that + might happen therefrom (and the badness of this season) by + admitting indifferent and disinterested people, must be an + excuse to the public for the Assignees ordering the Catalogues + to be sold at 5s. each, which will admit two to see the house, + &c., from Monday the 7th instant to the time of sale, Sundays + excepted, from ten in the morning to three in the afternoon, and + they hope no person or persons will take amiss being refused + admittance without Catalogues." + +In December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by +advertisement), "That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will commence +soon, under the conduct and direction of a _New_ Manager;" but +notwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find that Mrs. Cornellys +resumed her revels here with great spirit in 1776. In 1778, Carlisle +House was again publicly advertised to be sold by private contract, or +"to be hired as usual;" and subsequently, after having been used as a +common exhibition room of "Monstrosities," a "School of Eloquence," and +"An Infant School of Genius," it closed its public career through the +interference of the magistracy in 1797. + +A full and particular account of the rise and fall of "Mrs. Cornelys' +Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho," was privately printed two or +three years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the firm of Dalmaine and +Co., Soho Square. + +_Carlisle Street, Soho Square._--The large house at the end of this +street, looking into the square, was formerly called _Carlisle House_. +In 1770 it was purchased of Lord Delaval by the elder Angelo; who +resided in it many years, and built a large riding-school at the back. +Bach and Abel, of "Concert" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house. +Carlisle Street was then called _King's Square Court_. {451} + +_Catherine Street, Strand._--In 1714, a tract was published with the +following title:--_The Maypole's New Year's Gift or Thanks returned to +his Benefactors, humbly inscribed to the Two Corners of_ Catherine +Street, Strand; _written by a Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy_. + +_Maiden Lane, Covent Garden._--The well known "Cider Cellar" in this +lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious tract, entitled +_Adventures under Ground_, 1750, which contains some strange notices of +this "Midnight Concert Room." + +_Salisbury Change._--Cibber, in the amusing _Apology for his Life_, has +the following:-- + + "Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from + one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been + informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in + _Salisbury Change_ (then standing where _Cecil Street_ now is), + so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that they were + reduced to petition the king for relief against it." + +_The New Exchange._--A good description of this once popular mart may be +found in Lodwick Rowzee's _Treatise on the Queene's Welles_, Lond. 1632. +It is as follows:-- + + "We went to see the _New Exchange_, which is not far from the + place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the + Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the + Gothic style, which has lost its colour from age, and is + becoming blackish. It contains two long and double galleries, + one above the other, in which are distributed several rows great + numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with + goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful + description. There are, for the most part, under the care of + well-dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although + many are served by young men, called apprentices." + +_The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden._--In 1763 appeared a small +volume under the title of _Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee House, by +Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man alive_. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE. + +The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a herald +painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to the latter, +which came into my possession a few months ago. + +E. HAILSTONE. + + "Mr. Admall, + + "I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West + Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of + Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to + heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore + to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will + usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong + you doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and + making you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard + words, but shal be as good as my word if there is law in England + to restrain you; so chose whether you will due to me good or + evill; you shall find me according your friend or open enemy. + + "PETER LA NEVE, Norroy. + + "College of Arms, in London, + + "28th May, 1719." + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Superstitions of the Midland Counties._--It is believed a sign of "bad +luck" to meet a white horse, unless the person _spits_ at it, which +action is said to avert the ill consequences of the recontre. + +A rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and invariable +consequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that the contrary is +believed, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine Sunday. + +If the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it up, it +is a sign that the _absent_ lover, wife, or husband (as the case may be) +is in good spirits, and in good humour. + +The itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the reception of a +gift; which is rendered more certain if the advice in this distich be +followed:-- + + "Rub it 'gainst wood, + 'Tis sure to come good." + +Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some +future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it, +"are born to be rich." + +HENRY KERSLEY. + +Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone. + + +_A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--"Mr. THOMS" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that +he believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. +Sir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_. + + * * * * * + +ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN. + +In Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp. +128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at +Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike +Obedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the +necessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the +requisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was +"_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical +Obedience_." A reference at the foot of the page to "Rushworth, p. 444," +leads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made +this statement; but not having access to the "Historical Collections," I +am unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_, +Lond., 1671 fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of +the assertion. + +A copy of this now rare sermon before me {452} proves, however, that the +statement is incorrect. At the back of the title is as follows:-- + + "I have read over this sermon upon _Rom._ xiii. 7., preached at + _Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb._ 22, 1626, + by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, + and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly + preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the + _Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to + the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and, + therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of + it, May 8. 1627." + + GEO. LONDON. + +It was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the +sermon. + +JOHN. J. DREDGE. + + * * * * * + +POPE AND PETRONIUS. + +I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I willingly +allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and +discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. "But +yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the +surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms +employed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_." Now the question, +in my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what +_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word +(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot, +without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as +critically and correctly as "Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked +on it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it +"worth," i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality. + +C. FORBES. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN +SACRAMENTS. + +I beg leave to make the two following Queries:-- + +1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniae +Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, +one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is +mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi +diceret;" and Bayle adds:-- + + "Praedictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi + lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvaeum collectus, et nunc per + Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini + 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergae fuit excusus. Fuit et + ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea + Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti + capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvaeus hunc librum anno Domini + 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet." + +This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of +the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87. +enters the volume thus, "_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos +aeditus, cum Praefatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittembergae, 1528. 8vo." Can +any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, +or in private hands? + +2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p. +25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "_Of the Seven Sacraments_, +1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as +then in his possession, "translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye +almost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and +truly written in parchment." Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. +was the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark +Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by +later writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is +actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains +the Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by +Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in +the _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I +now wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's +work, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to +by Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with +certayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although +one of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments. + +F. MADDEN. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Monastery, Arrangement of One._--Any information and particulars +respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the various buildings +for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine Monks would be +useful to and gratefully received by + +A.P.H. + + [Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, "Description of the + Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in the Ninth Century," + accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he will find in the + _Archaeological Journal_, vol. v. p. 85.?] + + +_Constantine the Artist._--Who was "M. Constantine, an Italian architect +to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque at the Earl of +Somerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same Constantine de Servi to +whom the Prince assigned a yearly pension of 200l. in July 1612? If so, +where can more be found respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's +_Anecdotes_. + +J.G.N. + + +_Josias Ibach Stada._--Who was the artist whose name occurs inscribed on +the hoof of the horse of King Charles the Second's equestrian statue at +{453} Windsor, as follows:--"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;" +and is Mr. Hewitt, in his recent _Memoir of Tobias Rustat_, correct in +calling him "Stada, an _Italian_ artist?" + +J.G.N. + + +_Worm of Lambton._--Is there any published notice of the "Knight and +Serpent" tradition regarding this family and parish? + +A.C. + + [A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the immediate + neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately printed in + the year 1530, under the title of _The Worm of Lambton_.] + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. + +Luther's solemn request that his translation should on no account be +altered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the N.T. I find it +on the reverse of the title-page of the edition in 8vo. printed at +Wittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:-- + + "I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and + reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have + fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know + well what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament + shall be Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is + now without measure or end. And be every one cautioned against + other copies, for I have already experienced how negligently and + falsely others reprint us."[1] + +The disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the editions +printed under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; but it has not, +I think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words _auf erde_, found in +later editions, are wanting. The passage stands:-- + + "Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und + das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen." + +In the first edition of the Saxon (Duedesche version of Luther's Bible, +by Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume at Lubeck, by Lo. +Dietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands thus:-- + + "Wente dre synt dede tuechinisse geven, de Geist unde dat Water, + unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander." + +A MS. note of a former possessor remarks:-- + + "The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of + Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort, + 1560 and 1580." + +In the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, Wittemberg, +1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one printed by Hans +Walther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words _up erdeu_ are inserted. + +These Saxon versions are interesting from the very great similarity that +idiom has to our early language; and they, doubtless, influenced much +our own early versions. + +In a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the first +printed in Latin with a translation on the same page, and which is very +similar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich in 1535, 4to., with +a Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the 7th verse is given (as it +was in the Latin); but is distinguished by being printed in brackets, +and in both verses we have-- + + "Unnd die drey dienend in eins." + +Erasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave occasion +perhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times to print both +verses, with this distinction, in editions of the Lutheran version. The +earliest edition, I believe, in which it thus appears, is one at +Wittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, 1604, 1605[2], and 1625. +It also appears, but printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by +Wolder in 1597, in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599. + +In a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, in 4to., +in which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, the Reformed, +a new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch version, are printed in +parallel columns, both verses are given in every instance; but a note +points out that Luther uniformly omitted the 7th verse, and the words +_auf erde_. + +There cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is entirely +unwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing to be +_Luther's_ translation. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 25. 1850. + + [Footnote 1: "Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine + Meister Druecker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein + sein, Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens fuer + sich machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was + andere machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch + Testament sein, Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse + noch ende. Und sey jederman gewarnet fuer andern Exemplaren, Denn + ich bisher wol erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere + nachdruecken."] + + [Footnote 2: Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a + long and strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse, + exults in the existence of this verse in an edition of the + Bible, Wittemberg, 1606, which is falsely said on the title-page + to be _juxta ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum_.] + + +_Luther's Translation of the Bible_ (No. 25, p. 309.).--De Wette, in his +critical Commentary on the verse 1 John, after stating his opinion that +the controverted passage is a spurious interpolation, gives a list of +the codices and editions in which the passage is not found, and of those +in which it is found. + +The passage is _wanting_ in all Greek Codd. except Codd. 34. 162. 172. +(of his introduction, where it is introduced from the Vulgate), and in +all MS. {454} of the Vulgate before the tenth century; in Erasmus' edit. +of 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. 1518; in all editions of Luther's +translation published by him during his life-time, and up to 1581; in +the edit. Withenb., 1607; Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620. + +The passage is _found_ in all the editions printed of the Vulgate, and +in all translations from it before Luther; and the edit. complut.; in +Erasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the edit. of Rob. Stephens, +1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the Lutheran translations reprinted +by Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. (but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in +brackets; edit. 1597, without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593; +Wittenb. 1596-97, and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in +every edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but +not, of course, in De Wette's translation. + +S.W. + + * * * * * + +LINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS. + +In reply to one of the Queries of "W." (No. 24. p. 383.), I transcribe +from the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian minister of +Worcester, the "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of a former Day," +which I have never seen entire in print:-- + + "Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride + Directs his haughty eye to either side, + Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod, + And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God. + + "Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find + The fairest pattern of a humble mind; + In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells, + As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales. + + "Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands, + With head uplifted and with dancing hands, + Prone to sedition, and to slander free, + Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee. + + "Mark how the pious matrons flock around, + Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound; + How sweetly each unmeaning period flows + To lull the audience to a gentle doze! + + "Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains + Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains, + Of every hue describes a different cause, + And from each patch a solemn mystery draws. + + "With soundest judgment and with nicest skill, + The learned Hunt explains his Master's will, + So just his meaning, and his sense to true, + He only pleases the discerning few. + + "In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse, + What wond'rous energy! what mighty force! + Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules, + He scorns the censure of unthinking fools. + + "But see the accomplish'd orator appear, + Refined his language, and his reasoning dear, + Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art, + At once to please the ear and mend the heart! + + "Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks, + And on the sober mind impression makes, + The sacred truths with justness he explains, + And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains." + +Of the author of these lines I can give no information. He evidently +belonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not appear to have +been known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of the "Dissenting +Churches" of London, although he quotes a portion of them. But they were +probably composed between 1728 and 1738. In the former year, Dr. James +Foster's London popularity arose, on the occasion of his undertaking the +evening lecture at the Old Jewry. In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge, +one of the subjects of the poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is +told (and to it the poem evidently alludes), that he was employed no +less than four months in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from +Genesis, xxxvii. 3.: "And he made him a coat of many colours." In reply +to the sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (_Hist. and Ant. +of Diss._ ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was composed:-- + + "The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains, + Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains; + Marks every truth, of error shows the cause, + And from each mystery useful doctrine draws." + +The unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening stanza, is at +variance with the general report of biographers. In the copy of the +verses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:--"I think this is too severe +on the Dr." Dr. Wright was admired for his pulpit elocution; and it is +said that Archbishop Herring was, in his younger years, a frequent +hearer of his, with a view to improve in elocution. The notice of the +celebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly unjust. He was a man of wit and +courage, though sometimes boisterous and personal. His unsparing +opponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, wrote admiringly of "his musical voice, and +the flow of his periods, adapting scripture language to every +purpose."--_The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, taken from his +own Pen, &c._ Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35. + +A.B.R. + +Dukinfield. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Tracts by Dekker and Nash._--_The Raven's Almanacke_, 1609, is the +production of Thomas Dekker, the dramatist, and one of the rarest of his +numerous works. A copy sold in the _Gordonstown_ sale for seven guineas; +and another occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I +have not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also +the author of a similar work, entitled _The Owle's Almanacke_, 1618; but +it is not mentioned in the lists furnished by {455} Lowndes and Dr. +Nott. The latter is indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known +productions of the author, and assigning others to him for which he is +not answerable. Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist +mentioning a fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the +notice of bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume, +entitled, _The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should +behave himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with +the Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent_. This is nothing more +than a reprint of Dekker's _Gull's Horn-book_, with some slight +alterations to adapt it to the times. + +Nash's _Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions_, was +printed by John Danter for William Jones, 1594. It is a very interesting +tract, and contains many personal allusions to its unfortunate author. A +copy was sold in Heber's sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5l. 18s. A note +in the handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the +following information:-- + + "Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge + Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the + present, bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and + now (1825) _penes_ me, R.H." + +All things considered, I think your correspondent "J.E." (p. 400.) _may_ +congratulate himself on having "met with a prize." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Nash's Terrors of the Night._--Excessively rare. Boswell had a copy, +and another is in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, described in Mr. +Collier's _Bridgewater Catalogue_ as one of the worst of Nash's tracts. + +L. + + +_Tureen_ (No. 25. p. 407.).--The valuable reference to Knox proves the +etymology from the Latin. _Terrene_, as an adjective, occurs in old +English. See quotation in Halliwell, p. 859. + +L. + + +_English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriae_ (No. 24. p. +385.).--Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_ +was first printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent impressions are dated +1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, William Pickering had a license "for +pryntinge of a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by +Erasmus Roterdamus," which possibly might be an impression of the +_Praise of Folly_. (See Collier's _Extracts from the Registers of the +Stationers' Company_, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was again +translated in the latter part of the following century, by White Kennet. +It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of _Wit against +Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly_. This is in all probability the +intermediate translation inquired after by your correspondent. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +In answer to "JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following +translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_:-- + + "Moriae Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the + Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord + Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the + effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from + the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. 1724." + +Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two other +translations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the _first_. He does not +mention the name of the second translator, but alludes to him as "_the +modern translator_," and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the +book by having "tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the +Latin." This is his excuse for offering to the public a third +translation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such +"elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the +idiom of the language did invite." + +HERMES. + + +The intermediate translation of the _Moriae Encomium_ of Erasmus, to +which your correspondent refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London +1661, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian. + +M. + +Oxford. + + +_Court of Wards._--I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. 173.) anything about +Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of Wards; but "J.B." may be glad +to know that there is among the MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on +the Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have not read it. I dare +say it might be usefully published, for we know little in detail about +the Court of Wards. + +C.H. + + +_Scala Coeli_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--In Foxe's _Acts and Mon._, vol. v. p. +364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope +Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them +that any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St. +Botolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, +Ave Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that +visit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli." + +H.W. + + +_Twm Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24, p. 383.).--The following extract from +Cliffe's _Book of South Wales_, furnishes a reply to this Query. + +In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and +Tregaron, he says:-- + + "High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, + where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: + the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed + of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space + between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so {456} + that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure + inclined according to the slanting of the rock. + + "The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti), + alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son + of John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of + Meredydd ap Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of + Gwydir (see _The Heraldic Visitations of Wales_, published by + the Welsh MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at + the age of 61. In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and + highwayman,' and levied black mail on the country within reach + of his mountain abode, with the aid of a small band of + followers. He soon reformed, married a rich heiress, was then + created a justice of peace for Brecon, and ultimately became + sheriff of that county and Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir + S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an antiquarian and poet, but is more + known for the tricks attributed to him as a robber." + +A.B. + + +_Twm Sion Catti._--The noted robber, Twm Sion or Shon Catti, referred to +at No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman who flourished between the years 1590 +and 1630. He was the natural son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his +surname of Catti from the appellation of his mother Catherine. In early +life he was a brigand of the most audacious character, who plundered and +terrified the rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient +warrant for the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his +unbounded generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate +love of fun and frolic--for he was a very Eulenspiegel--made him the +darling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the almost +inaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction of the Tywi +and the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still bears his name. As +time passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of Ystrad-ffin, in the vale +of Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her property, abandoned his wild +life, and with it the name of Catti; and quietly subsiding into Thomas +Jones, Esq., became a poet and antiquary of high reputation. In addition +to which, and as if to mark their sense of the value of a man so +powerful for good or for evil, the government appointed him high sheriff +for the county of Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a +name which yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage +circle in the long nights of winter. + +His life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was probably the +work to which the "Note" of "MELANION" referred. + +SELEUCUS. + + +_Cheshire Round_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--A dance so called, peculiar to the +county from whence it takes its name. The musical notes of the _Cheshire +Round_ may be seen in _The Dancing Master_, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward +Jones' _Cheshire Melodies_. It was sometimes danced "longways for as +many us will" (as described in _The Dancing Master_), but more +frequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the Third +states, "In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd stones at +Hosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the _Cheshire Rounds_ +to the admiration of all spectators." Michael Root and John Sleepe, two +clever caterers of "Bartlemy," also advertise "a little boy that dances +the _Cheshire Round_ to perfection." There is a portrait of Dogget the +celebrated comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is +not Penkethman?), representing him dancing the _Cheshire Round_, with +the motto "_Ne sutor ultra crepidam_." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Horns to a River._--Why the poets give horns to rivers, must be sought +for in the poet's book, nature. I like the interpretation given by a +glance up some sinuous and shelving valley, where the mighty stream, +more than half lost to the eye, is only seen in one or two of its bolder +reaches, as it tosses itself here to the right, and there to the left, +to find a way for its mountain waters. + +The third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would be +interesting to know where your correspondent has found it in late Greek. + +J.E. + +Oxford, April 16. 1850. + + +_Horns._--For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. 24. p. 383.), I +subscribe the following, from Coleridge:-- + +"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare, + + "'Take thou no scorn + To wear the horn, the lusty horn; + It was a crest ere thou wert born." + +_As You Like It_, Act iv. sc. 2. + +"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance of a +phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all languages, and +yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin."--_Literary +Remains_, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, 1849. + +ROBERT SNOW. + + +_Coal Brandy_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--This is only a contraction of "coaled +brandy," that is, "burnt brandy," and has no reference to the _purity_ +of the spirit. It was the "universal pectoral" of the last century; and +more than once I have seen it prepared by "good housewives" and +"croaking husbands" in the present, pretty much as directed in the +following prescription. It is only necessary to remark, that the +orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was +effected by dropping "a live coal" ("_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into +the brandy. This is copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of +which are written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of +scientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of +Simsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It was +written evidently by some {457} "dropper-in," who found "honest John" +suffering from a severe cold, and upon the first piece of paper that +came to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks age, and the punctuation +and erasures show him to have been a literary man, and a careful though +stilted writer. It is not, however, a hand of which I find any other +exemplars amongst Nourse's correspondence. + + "Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which + may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce + of sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let + it burn till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go + to bed. + + "To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the + brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it." + +This is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for "coughs, +colds, catarrhs, and consumption," from Ford's "Balsam of Horehound" to +Dr. Solomon's "Balm of Gilead." + +T.S.D. + +Shooter's Hill, April 4. + + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Does the following passage from +Sir Thomas Overbury's _Witty Descriptions of the Properties of sundry +Persons_, first published, I believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the +etymology of this word? It occurs in the description of a Frankling or +Yeoman:-- + + "He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the + dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country + lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday, + and the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on + Christmas eve, _the hoky or seed-cake_, these he yearly keeps, + yet holds them no relics of Popery." + +As I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an extract, I am +unable to give a more precise reference. + +E.R.J.H. + +Chancery Lane. + + +It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as to the +word _Howkey_ or _Horkey_, if I state, that when in my boyhood I was +accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced as if spelt _Hockey_. As +_Howkey_ I should not have recognised it, nor hardly as _Horkey_. + +AN EAST ANGLIAN. + + +_Hockey_, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the end, is very +likely derived from _hook_, an Anglo-Saxon word too. But we cannot +suppose that anything else was derived from that, and especially when we +come to words apparently more genuine than that. It seems natural to +connect them with a hock-tide, Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.), +a name given to more than one season when it was usual to have games and +festivities. Now surely this is nothing else than _high_ tide, a time of +some high feast; as we vulgarly say, "high days and holidays." So in the +Scripture, "that Sabbath day was a high day." So high Mass. We +Protestants have no conception of the close connection between the +superior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. Among +the heathen Romans, _festicus_ is derived from _festus_.[3] We say high +romps, high jinks. + +See Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and +Whitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from +_Hogen_, "gaudere," which also see. He says that the lower Saxons "hodie +utuntur '_Hoege_'" to mean "gaudium privatum et publicum convivale et +nuptiale." See also Hohen. See Lye, who has also heah, freols summa +festivitas, summum festum. + +Ihre (_Lex. Suio Goth._) says _Hugna_ is "to make glad." But in Hog-tid +he observes, that gladness is only the secondary meaning of +_Hogen_,--"_Hokanat_ vocabatur a Borealibus festum quod media hieme +celebrabatur;" and he shows that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it. + +C.B. + + [Footnote 3: Is not the derivation of "feast" and "fast" originally the + same? that which is appointed, connected with "_fas_," and that from + "_fari_."] + +_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Is not this word simply a +corruption of _Hockey_? Vide under "Hock-cart," in _Brand's Antiquities_ +by Ellis, where the following quotation from _Poor Robin's Almanack_ for +1676 occurs:-- + + "_Hoacky_ is brought home with hallowing, + Boys with plum-cake the cart following." + +J.M.B. + + +_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle_ (No. 25. p. 400.).--The Portrait +by Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly erroneously stated to be that +of Luther, was, I believe, engraved as such in Knight's _Portrait +Gallery_, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful +Knowledge. I cannot find in any account of Helbein's works a mention of +a portrait of Luther by him. + +S.W. + + +_Symbolism of Flowers, etc._--In reference to works illustrative of +poetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical associations +connected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. 11. p. 173., many +a literary man must equally desire an interpreter,-- + + "T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, + And teach that truth is truest poesy." + +Yet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of this +description; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your learned +correspondents may contribute to a very useful compilation by furnishing +illustrations, or references to illustrations, critical and poetical, +collected from the most valuable authors, ancient and modern; and that +this "sacred eloquence," {458} + + "Where'er 'tis found + On Christian or on heathen ground," + +if transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, afford much +pleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the useful work of +Camerarius on _Symbols and Emblems_. + + "Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily + To the first plant by some kind augury." + +The proverbial expression, "Under the rose," appears opportunely in p. +214, beautifully illustrated[4], but still deserving further +consideration. Schedius (_De Diis Gemanis_) and others have, with much +learning, shown Venus Urania to be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With +erudition not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, Gorop. +Bacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one +and the same hieroglyphical character. I shall now endeavour to explain +the symbolism and dedication of the Rose. This "flower of flowers" +adumbrates the highest faculty of human nature--_Reason_, and Silence, +or the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the Greek +term [Greek: epistaemae], _science_. (See Harris's _Philosoph. Arrang._ +p. 444., and _Hermes_, p. 369.). To whom, then, could the hieroglyphical +rose have been more appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is +described with his finger pointing to his mouth--_tacito plenus +amore_--a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought to behave in +religious matters. + +T.J. + + [Footnote 4: Has "ARCHILAEUS" looked for these verses into the + _Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them under + "Rosae," in the _Amphitheatrum sapientiae_ of Dornavius.] + + +"_Where England's Monarch_" (No. 26. p. 415.).--The two lines inquired +for are in Bramston's _Man of Taste_, a poem printed about the middle of +the last century. I need hardly add, that the poet was misinformed, it +being well known that Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to +plead or _to take off his hat_. + +There is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with Barnard in +the _Gentleman's Magazine_, May 1758: but it may be the same as that in +the _Annual Register_. + +BRAYBROOKE + +April 27. + + +_Journeyman_ (No. 19. p. 309.).--"GOMER" may like to know that the old +labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a "_journey +at plough_." + +BRAYBROOKE. + + +_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the +inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being +_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester, +was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this +parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_ +itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it. + +These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets, +were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap. +26. Sec. 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly +circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of +Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a +part. + +GEO. ORMEROD. + +Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850. + + +_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to +which your correspondent "M." refers, is, I believe, "_The Mysteries of +Nature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the +Second of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_." + +I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving +of the author:--"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo +permaneant studium et industria." + +HERMES. + + +"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_."--In answer to the inquiry of "B.G.J." +(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of "'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I +do not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston +sang an altered version of the very old song,-- + + "A frog, he would a-wooing ride, + With sword and buckler by his side," + +and instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted + + "Heigho, says Rowley," + +as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho +Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by C.E.H., +Esq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook. +The first verse is as follows:-- + + "A frog he would a-wooing go; + 'Heigh ho!' says Rowley; + Whether his mother would let him or no, + With a rowly, powly, + Gammon and spinach, + 'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley," + +R.S.S. + +April 23. 1850. + + [Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, I + have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different + melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty + Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.] + + +"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little +_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common +Place Book_:-- + + "My love and I for kisses play'd," + +occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted +"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the +last couplet:-- + + "Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine? + Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe." + +They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses," +and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's +very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe." + +The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:-- + + "Fair stood the wind for France," + +is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes +Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael +Drayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett. +12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.) + +I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of +Drayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection +being in the country. + +The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr. +Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. "The head +and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat +edition of Herrick in 1846. + +S.W.S. + +March 12. 1850. + + ["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of + _A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_, + 1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and + "J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the + _Encyclopaedia of Wit_, published about half a century since.] + + +_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen. +VIII., is this passage: + + "When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme + ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next + yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that + whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote + water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard + Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at + the Bishop of Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the + same Acte, was boyled in Smythfelde the _Teneber-Wednysday_ + following, to the terrible example of all other." + +I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before Easter, +of "Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao," and that the name is derived form +the Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the Church of Rome. + + "Erat autem fere hora sexta, et _tenebroe_ factoe sunt in + universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est sol: et + velum templi seissum est medium."--Luke, xxiii. 44, 45. + +Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it +corrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your correspondents +can supply other instances of the use of the term, or state what are or +were the ceremonies peculiar to the day. + +C.H. COOPER + +Cambridge, April 4. 1850. + +P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that "_Tenable +Wednesday_" occurs three times in the Ordinance for "weshing of all +mannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell" in the Northumberland +Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance it is placed between +Lady Day and Easter Even. + + [If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most useful work, + _Medii aevi Kalendarium_, vol. i. p. 370., to the words + _Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebrae_, he will find them explained + "The three nights before Easter;" and the following among other + illustrations:-- + + "Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch on Wednysday, + Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne service, as + commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And holi chirch + useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, the + service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is + called with divers men _Tenables_, but holi chirch _Tenebras_, + as _Raccionale Divinorum_ seth, that is to say, thieness or + derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord by + night."--_Harl. MS._ 2247. fo. 83.] + + +_The Buckingham Motto._--Permit me to suggest that your correspondents +"S." and "P." (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are labouring under a mistaken +notion in supposing that the line + + _Sovente me sorene_, + +belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase "Forget me not." +Such a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the parting prayer +or injunction of a lover, but does not possess the essential +characteristic of a _motto_, which one selects for the purpose of +declaring his own sentiments of conduct towards _others_, not to +deprecate or direct those of others towards _himself_. + +The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, but +exactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the present day; +and if "S." would again examine the original MS., I make no doubt that +he would find the line written _Sovente mi sooviene (sovene)_, i.e. with +the personal pronoun in the dative instead of the accusative case. The +expression _mi souviene_ is equivalent to _mi ricordo_, but is a more +elegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be "I +seldom forget,"--a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying as much the +memory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be required. + +A. RICH, JUN. {460} + + +_Larig._--I am obliged by the suggestions of your correspondents "B.W." +and "C.I.R." (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I beg leave to offer the +following reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or Netherlandish, as they may be +considered one language until the fifteenth century) _Le'er_ and _Le'ar_ +are simply contractions of _Leder_, as Tenkate observes, _euphonis +gratia_, by the omission of the _d_, which takes place in other similar +words; and what is remarkable in _Ledig_, empty, which becomes _Le'eg_. +_Le'erig_ is of course _leathery_, or _tough_; but _Lederen_ or +_Le'ersen_, would be used for _made_ of _leather_, and in A.-S., most +probably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such contraction in A.-S.: it is +always [A-S: Leether] and [A-S: Leethern]. The epithet, _leathery_-shields, +could hardly have been used where they are said to _resound_; and the +instance of _vaulted_ shields in Judith is, I think, conclusive. The +root of _Leder_ is possibly _hlid-an_, to cover HIDE? That of _Leer_ +possibly _lieren_, amittere, privari? + +I should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and Schilter, +which were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and indeed I had +not Urry's _Chaucer_ at hand to verify the reference of Junius to the +Tale of Beryn, the only valuable portion of Urry's book. I knew that a +simple reference to the O.H.G. Lari would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm. + +Thorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has followed Lye, +in rendering _Lind haebbende_, Vexilla habens; and Haldorsen's +explanation of _Lind_ might have taught him better. Mr. Kemble has +rendered it _shield-bearers_, and gives instances in his Glossary of +similar combinations, as _rond-haebbendra_, _bord-haebbende_, +_scaro-haebbendra_. + +S.W. SINGER. + +April 15. 1850. + + +_Zenobia a Jewess?_ (No. 24. p. 383.)-- + + "To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add + here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius _took her to be + a Jewess_, meaning, without doubt, _in respect of her religion_; + and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please her that Paul + of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions very like + those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, saying + that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature + superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any + otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine + grace."--Crevier, _Hist. of Rom. Emperors_, Book 27. "Aurelian," + vol. ix. p. 174. + +M. Crevier refers to "Tillem. Aur. art. 5." + +C. FORBES + +Temple, April 16. + + +_Temple Stanyan._--The following notices, relating to _one_ Temple +Stanyan may interest your correspondent "A.G." (No. 24 p. 382.). + + "1725. March 23. Died Mrs. ---- Stanyan, wife of Temple Stanyan, + Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of Secretary of + State."--_Historical Register._ + + "1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His + Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs. + Pauncefort."--Ibid. + +There is a monument in one of the churches at Southampton,-- + + "To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles + Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in + co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument + was erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in + His Majesty's Navy." + +Edward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles Hardy's +will, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780. + +W.H. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was common when +I was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If the question is +biographical, I can say nothing. + +C.B. + + +_Temple Stanyan_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--He also published an _Account of +Switzerland_, 8vo. London, 1714. + +M. + + +_"Who was Temple Stanyan?"_ (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple Stanyan was the son +of Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit Kat Club, M.P. for +Buckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of the Admiralty, etc. Mr. +Temple Stanyan was himself also Minister at Constantinople, and at +several other courts; and afterwards Under-Secretary of State under both +Addison and the Duke of Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of +Switzerland; and his Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the +publication of Mitford's, the best in our language. I believe that his +daughter married Adm. Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752. + +C. + + +_Auctorite de Dibil_ (no. 25. p. 205.).--Probably an error of +transcription; read _Auctorite de Bibil_. + +J.M.B. + + +_The Bristol Riots_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--"J.B.M." is informed, that the +volume to which he alludes is generally considered by Bristolians as the +most authentic and fullest narrative that was published of those +disgraceful scenes. + +J.M.G. + +Worcester. + + +_Religious Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.)--The author of the religious +tract which has fallen into the hands of "J.C." is no doubt one of the +early Quakers, and probably Francis Howgill. Howgill was originally a +clergyman of the Church of England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and +in the year 1652 joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of +George Fox. His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes. + +[Greek: Theta]. {461} + + +_Complutensian MSS._--"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will find full answers +to his Queries, and more interesting information on the same subject, in +a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro Saban's Spanish translation of +Prescott's _Ferdinand and Isabella_. Madrid, 1846. + +I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within a month +in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they were removed +from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew manuscripts are all +originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of Zamora among them are 3 +vols. in Latin, translated from the Hebrew. + +The Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection as above; +and of course were not returned to the Vatican. + +H.S. + +Morley's Hotel, April 28. + + +_Tablet to Napoleon_ (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. 406.).--"C.I.R.'s" +interpretation can hardly be admitted. The true meaning will be best +exhibited by the following form:-- + + "Napoleoni, + AEgyptiaco, + Bis Italico, + Semper Invicto." + +_Bis Italico_ alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., in his first +campaign, and again in that of Marengo. + +C. + + +_Malone's Blunder_ (No. 25. p. 403.).--"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY," in his +answer on this subject, says very justly, that "before we censure a +writer, we should consult his own edition." He has, however, not +followed this excellent principle in this case, for he has certainly not +looked at the Irish edition of Malone, on which the question arises. He +has repeated what I had already stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the +mistake was _not_ a blunder of _Malone's_; and he has also pointed out, +what had escaped me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first +_three_ articles of the pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare: but when he +adds that there is "_no fabrication_" and "_no mystery_" in the case, +and that "the blunder of the Irish editor was merely in attempting to +_unite the two fragments_ as published by Malone," it is quite clear +that he has not seen the edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken +the whole affair. The Irish editor did _not_ attempt to unite Malone's +fragments--quite the contrary--he left Malone's first fragment as he +found it; but he took the second fragment, namely, the exordium of the +pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare, and substituted it _bodily_ as the +exordium of the will of _William_ Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the +real exordium of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, "I, _John_ +Shakspeare," &c., and ends, "by me, _William_ Shakspeare." I have no +doubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery altogether; but the +taking three paragraphs of it, and substituting them for the two first +paragraphs of _William_ Shakspeare's genuine will, is what I call, and +what no doubt "Mr. BOLTON CORNEY" will think, on this explanation of the +facts, "an audacious fabrication." The best guess I can make as to how, +or with what design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so +complicated, and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:--Malone printed the +fragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his "Emendations +and additions," as belonging to "_the will before printed_," meaning the +forged will of _John_ Shakspeare, but that the Irish editor understood +him to mean the genuine will of _William_ Shakspeare; and so thought +that he was only restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could +have overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in +the meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly incomprehensible. + +C. + + +_Theses._--Perhaps it may assist your correspondent "M." (No. 25. p. +401.) to be informed that the University of Goettingen is particularly +rich in "_Theses_" (termed _Disputationes et Dissertationes_), to which +there is a large room entirely devoted in the library of that +university; together with the transactions of learned bodies. A special +librarian is attached to this department, which is much consulted. A +Catalogue was begun to be published of this collection, so far as +respects the _Memoirs_ contained in the various transactions, in 1801, +by J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after +which, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues of +Theses, I think the following work is in good esteem:--_Dissert. Acad. +Upsal. habitae sub Praesid. C.P. Thunberg_, 3 tom. 8vo. Goetting. +1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the _Catalogus Bibliothecae +Thottiauae_ (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniae, 1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which +it might be well to consult, of dissertations under the name of the +president or head of the institution or college where they were +delivered, than under the writer's name. At least, in a _collective_ +sense the former method is adopted, as in the following instance: +Schultens, (Alb.) _Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, +adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Praesidio A. Schultens, etc._, 2 tom.: +although, if the author should happen to be distinguished for his other +productions, _all_ that he wrote is anxiously sought out, and placed +under his own name. + +J.M. + +Oxford, April 24. + + ["M." may also be referred to the _Catalogus Dissertationum + Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana_. A + quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University Press in 1834.] + + +_MSS. of Locke_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--"C." is informed {462} that Dr. +Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, in Ireland, during the past year. The +papers of Locke respecting which he inquires are probably still in the +possession of Dr. H.'s son. + +[Greek: Theta] + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Spur Money._--Although I used often, twenty years ago, when a chorister +at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying a fine on all who entered +that place with spurs on, I was not aware of its origin till I saw it +explained in your interesting publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a +custom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should +be glad to learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was +sought to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister +before him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the +spur-bearer was entitled to exemption. + +E.J.H. + + +_Spur Money._--I beg to offer the following humble illustration of +spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of All Saints Church at +Hastings:-- + + 1. + "This is a belfry that is free + For all those that civil be: + And if you please to chime or ring, + It is a very pleasant thing. + + 2. + "There is no musick play'd or sung, + Like unto bells when they're well rung: + Then right your bells well, if you can-- + Silence is best for every man. + + 3. + "But if you ring in _spur or hat_, + Sixpence you pay--be sure of that: + And if a bell you overthrow, + Pray pay a groat before you go." + +(dated) 1756. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850. + + +_Note Books._--Looking at what your correspondent says about "Note +Books," I think the following hint may be useful to others, as it has +been to myself. Many persons never get so far as the formality of a +common-place book, and do not like to write in their books. Let them +follow my plan. The envelope maker will procure them any number of +little slips of white paper, with a touch of isinglass at each of the +four corners. Let the note be written on one of these, and then let the +slip be stuck into any book which is sure to be wanted in connection +with the subject when it comes up again; either by one, two, or four +corners, as convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it +be wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached +to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed +miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is good +as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:-- + + "When made a note of,--find if you can." + +M. + + * * * * * + +LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL. + +Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his _British Poetesses_ +on account of the following verses:-- + + TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND. + + "Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, + Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth; + His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight, + My husband dear, more than this world's light, + Death hath me reft. But I from death will take + His memory, to whom this tomb I make. + John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say), + Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay." + +Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that +these verses could not have come from his widow's pen. Indeed, they are +much older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be found on the monument in +Westminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, in the reign of Queen +Elizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in 1584. + +P. CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +_Byron and Tacitus_ (No. 20. p. 390.).--To your young friend, who +honestly signs himself "A SCHOOLBOY," let an older correspondent say, +that he will do more wisely to let the rules of his teachers keep him +from perusing an author who makes a mock of all moral and all honourable +feelings. But if he wishes to know whether the introduction of the +sentence from Tacitus into a poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," +the reply will properly be, No. The poet expected that the well-known +figure, which he had thus thrown into verse, would be immediately +recognised by every literary reader, and that the recognition would give +pleasure. He was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed +by a master, that _Difficile est proprie communia dicere_. The Schoolboy +knows where to find these words; and I hope that he also knows where to +find the words of one who speaks with greater authority, and has said +most kindly, "Cease, my son, to hear [read] the instruction that causeth +to err." + +H.W. + + +_Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury._--It is proposed to descend some of +the aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near Tilbury in Essex. In +consequence, however, of Camden having named a wrong parish, later +antiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain their precise whereabouts. +Mr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' labour, found them out; and a +brief notice of them was given {463} in an article upon "Primaeval +Britain" in the _West Kent Almanack for_ 1849. Hasted mentions similar +pits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is another called "the +Sound Hole," from the echoes, &c., made upon a stone being thrown down. +Mr. S. Laudale intends an examination of it this summer. Tradition +reports that there are three enormous caverns, which communicate with +the central shaft. + +How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of those +chambers which are aloof from the central shaft? + +[Greek: Delta] + + +_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book._--A few days ago, Messrs. Puttick and +Simpson sold a very important manuscript, the original letter-book of +Sir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles II. It fetched 51l., +being bought by a collector whose name has not transpired; but perhaps +this notice, if you kindly insert it, may induce the purchaser to edit +it for the Chetham Society, to whose publications it would for a most +valuable addition. + +R. + + +_A Phonetic Peculiarity._--I venture to note as a very curious phonetic +peculiarity, that we have in the English language a large number of +monosyllabic words ending is _sh_, all of which are expressive of some +violet action or emotion. I quote a few which have occurred without +search, in alphabetical order. "Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash, +gush, hash, gnash, lash, mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash, +squash, thrash." + +J.M.B. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. + +At the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was announced +that a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood had been +determined upon, and the first volume containing six plays was laid upon +the table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's _Essay on the Chandos +Portrait_ had only been delayed from a desire to obtain the most novel +and accurate information. + +The members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at the +Annual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of the +third volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the _Canterbury Tales_ was +announced. + +The plan for the _restoration of Chaucer's tomb_ in Poet's Corner has at +length assumed a practical shape. It has been ascertained that less than +100l. will do every thing that can be desired to repair the ravages of +time, and preserve the monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to +raise this sum by subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share +in the good work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this +scheme, which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle, +the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other +distinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by every +member of the committee, and parties resident in the country may remit +them by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in favour of William +Richard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament Street, the Honorary +Treasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the Honorary Secretary of the +Committee. + +The Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, under the +Presidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general satisfaction. The council +reported the publication during the past year of the _Peterborough +Chronicle_; the _Letters of Elizabeth and James VI._; and the _Chronicle +of Queen Jane_. This last volume was then only on the eve of +circulation; it has since been issued, and found to justify the +announcement of the council that it is work of great historical value, +and an interesting companion to _Machyn's Diary_. + +We have received the following Catalogues:--James Darling's (21. Little +Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books Old and New, +Theological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. 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A Second Volume, +of the same size, will be completed at the end of December, and we shall +then be enabled to judge how far it will be desirable to adopt the +system of Half-Yearly or Yearly volumes._ + +_Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers principally +occupied with_ REPLIES, _as it is obviously desirable that they should, +as far as possible, appear in the same volume as the_ QUERIES _to which +they refer._ + +COLLAR OF SS. _This subject shall be brought forward early in the next +volume._ + +E.S.T. _Thanks._ The Query and Folk Lore _shall appear as soon as +possible_. + +W.M.T. _is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to assure him, +that had we known what he has so kindly informed us, the article he +alludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are sure we may add, +that the friend who sent it would never have handed it to us for +publication_. + + * * * * * {464} + +On the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES KNIGHT, + +PART I. 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