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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13747 ***
+
+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
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+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
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+
+No. 25.] SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {393}
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+Our further Progress. 393
+
+NOTES:--
+  Roger Bacon, Hints for a New Edition of. 393
+  Craik's Romance of the Peerage. 394
+  Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault,
+    LL.D. 395
+  Pope's Revision of Spence, by W.S. Singer. 396
+  Folk Lore:--Charm for the Toothache--Easter Eggs--Cure
+  for Hooping-cough--Gootet. 397
+  Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-book, by C. Ross. 397
+
+QUERIES:--
+  Woolton's Christian Manual. 399
+  Luther's Translation of the New Testament. 399
+  Minor Queries:--Medical Symbols--Charles II. and
+    Lord R.'s Daughter--St. Alban's Day--Black Broth--Deputy
+    Lieutenant of the Tower--Buccaneers--Travelling in
+    1590--Richard Hooker--Decker's Raven's
+    Almanack--Prebendaries--Luther's Portrait--Rawdon
+    Papers--Wellington, Wyrwast, &c.--Blockade of Corfe
+    Castle--Locke's MSS.--Locke's Life of Lord
+    Shaftesbury--Théses--Apocrypha, &c. 399
+
+REPLIES:--
+  Scala Coeli, by C.H. Cooper. 402
+  Watching the Sepulchre. 403
+  Queries Answered, No. 7., by Bolton Corney. 403
+  Replies to Minor Queries:--Compendyous Olde
+    Treatyse--Hurdys--Eachard's Tracts--Masters of St.
+    Cross--Living Dog better than dead Lion--Monumental
+    Brass--Wickliff MSS.--Hever--Steward
+    Family--Gloves--Cromlech--Watewich--By Hook or by
+    Crook--Tablet to Napolean--Lines on Pharaoh--Zachary
+    Boyd--the Welsh Ambassador--Madoc--Poghell--Swingeing
+    Tureen--"A" or "an." 404
+
+MISCELLANEOUS:--
+  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 407
+  Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 407
+  Notices to Correspondents. 407
+  Advertisements. 408
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR FURTHER PROGRESS.
+
+We have again been called upon to reprint our first Four Numbers; that
+is to say, to print a _Third Edition_ of them. No stronger evidence
+could be afforded that our endeavour to do good service to the cause of
+sound learning, by affording to Men of Letters a medium of
+intercommunication, has met with the sympathy and encouragement of those
+for whose sake we made the trial. We thank them heartily for their
+generous support, and trust we shall not be disappointed in our hope and
+expectation that they will find their reward in the growing utility of
+"NOTES AND QUERIES," which, thanks to the readiness with which able
+correspondents pour out their stores of learning, may be said to place
+the judicious inquirer in the condition of Posthumus, and
+
+  "Puts to him all the learnings that _this_ time
+   Could make him the receiver of."
+
+And here we may be permitted to avail ourselves of this opportunity, as,
+indeed, we feel compelled to do, to impress upon our correspondents
+generally, the necessity of confining their communications within the
+narrowest possible limits consistent with a satisfactory explanation of
+the immediate objects of them. "He that questioneth much," says Bacon,
+"shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his
+Questions to the skill of the Persons whom he asketh. For he shall give
+them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall
+continually gather knowledge. But let his Questions not be troublesome,
+for that is fit for a Poser; and let him be sure _to leave other Men
+their turn to speak_." What Bacon has said so wisely and so well, "OF
+DISCOURSE," we would apply to our little Journal; and beg our kind
+friends to remember, that our space is necessarily limited, and that,
+therefore, in our eyes, Brevity will be as much the Soul of a
+communication as it is said to be that of Wit.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+ROGER BACON: HINTS AND QUERIES FOR A NEW EDITION OF HIS WORKS.
+
+Victor Cousin, who has been for many years engaged in researches on the
+scholastic philosophy, with the view of collecting and publishing such
+of its monuments as have escaped the diligence of scholars, or the
+ravages of time, has lately made the discovery in the library at Douay
+of a copy of an inedited MS. of Roger Bacon, entitled _Opus Tertium_, of
+which but two or three other copies are known to exist; and has taken
+occasion, in some elaborate critiques, to enter, at considerable length,
+into the history and character of Roger {394} Bacon and his writings.[1]
+The following is a summary of part of M. Cousin's observations.
+
+The _Opus Tertium_ contains the author's last revision, in the form of
+an abridgment and improvement, of the _Opus Majus_; and was drawn up at
+the command of Pope Clement IV., and so called from being the _third_ of
+three copies forwarded to his holiness; the third copy being not a
+_fac-simile_ of the others, but containing many most important
+additions, particularly with regard to the reformation of the calendar.
+It also throws much light on Bacon's own literary history and studies,
+and the difficulties and persecutions he had to surmount from the
+jealousies and suspicions of his less-enlightened contemporaries and
+rivals. The _Opus Tertium_, according to the sketch given of its
+contents by Bacon himself, is not complete either in the Douay MS. or in
+that in the British Museum, several subjects being left out; and, among
+others, that of Moral Philosophy. This deficiency may arise, either from
+Bacon not having completed his original design, or from no complete MS.
+of this portion of his writings having yet been discovered. M. Cousin
+says, that the _Opus Tertium_, as well as the _Opus Minus_, is still
+inedited; and is only known by what Jebb has said of it in his preface
+to the _Opus Majus_. Jebb quotes it from a copy in the Cottonian
+Library, now in the British Museum; and it was not known that there was
+a copy in France, till M. Cousin was led to the discovery of one, by
+observing in the Catalogue of the public library of Douay, a small MS.
+in 4to. with the following title, _Rog. Baconis Grammatica Græca_.
+Accustomed to suspect the accuracy of such titles to MSS., M. Cousin
+caused a strict examination of the MS. to be made, when the discovery
+was communicated to him that only the first part of the MS. consisted of
+a Greek grammar, and that the remaining portion, which the compiler of
+the Catalogue had not taken the trouble to examine, consisted of many
+fragments of other works of Bacon, and a copy of the _Opus Tertium_.
+This copy of the _Opus Tertium_ is imperfect, but fortunately the
+deficiencies are made up by the British Museum copy, which M. Cousin
+examined, and which also contains a valuable addition to Chapter I., and
+a number of good readings.
+
+The _Opus Majus_, as published by Jebb, contains but six parts; but the
+work in its complete state had originally a seventh part, containing
+Moral Philosophy, which was reproduced, in an abridged and improved
+state, by the renowned author, in the _Opus Tertium_. This is now
+ascertained, says M. Cousin, with unquestionable certainty, and for the
+first time, from the examination of the Douay MS.; which alludes, in the
+most precise terms, to the treatise on that subject. Hence the
+importance of endeavouring to discover what has become of the MS.
+Treatise of Moral Philosophy mentioned by Jebb, on the authority of Bale
+and Pits, as it is very likely to have been the seventh part of the
+_Opus Majus_. Jebb published the _Opus Majus_ from a Dublin MS.,
+collated with other MSS.; but he gives no description of that MS., only
+saying that it contained many other works attributed to Bacon, and in
+such an order that they seemed to form but one and the same work. It
+becomes necessary, therefore, to ascertain what were the different works
+of Bacon included in the Dublin MS.; which is, in all probability, the
+same mentioned as being in Trinity College, in the _Catalogi Codicum
+Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum Collecti_: Folio. Oxon, 1697.
+
+According to this Catalogue, a Treatise on Moral Philosophy forms part
+of Roger Bacon's MSS. there enumerated; and if so, why did Jebb suppress
+it in his edition of the _Opus Majus_? Perhaps some of your
+correspondents in Dublin may think it worth the trouble to endeavour to
+clear up this difficulty, on which M. Cousin lays great stress; and
+recommends, at the same time, a new and complete edition of the _Opus
+Majus_ to the patriotism of some Oxford or Cambridge Savant. He might
+well have included Dublin in his appeal for help in this undertaking;
+which, he says, would throw a better light on that vast, and not very
+intelligible monument of one of the most independent and greatest minds
+of the Middle Ages.
+
+J.M.
+Oxford, April 9th.
+
+    [Footnote 1: See _Journal des Savants_, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin,
+    1848.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CRAIK'S ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.
+
+If I knew where to address Mr. G.L. Craik, I should send him the
+following "Note:" if you think it deserves a place in your columns, it
+may probably meet his eye.
+
+In the article on the Lady Arabella Stuart (_Romance of the Peerage_,
+vol. ii. p. 370.), a letter of Sir Ralph Winwood, dated 1610, is quoted,
+in which he states, that she is "not altogether free from suspicion of
+being collapsed." On this Mr. Craik observes, "It is difficult to
+conjecture what can be here meant by _collapsed_, unless it be fallen
+off to Romanism." Now it is not a little curious, and it proves Mr.
+Craik's capability for the task of illustrating family history from the
+obscure allusions in letters and documents, that there exists
+cotemporary authority for fixing the meaning Mr. Craik has conjectured
+to be the true one, to the word _collapsed_. A pamphlet, with the title
+_A Letter to Mr. T.H., late Minister, now Fugitive_, was published in
+1609, with a dedication to all Romish _collapsed_ "ladies of Great
+Britain;" which bears internal evidence of being addressed to those who
+were converts from the Church of England to Romanism. {395}
+
+Theophilus Higgons, whom the above initials represent, was himself a
+convert to the Church of Rome.
+
+It may be worth while making a further note, that the copy of the
+pamphlet before me belonged to Camden, and is described in his
+autograph, _Guil. Camdenj. Ex. dono Authoris_. It forms one of a large
+collection of tracts and pamphlets, originally the property of Camden,
+which are now in the library of the dean and chapter here.
+
+It is curious that another document quoted by Mr. Craik in the same
+volume (p. 286 _note_), seems to fix the meaning of a word or
+expression, of obscure signification, in the authorised translation of
+the Bible. In Judges, ix. 53., we read, "A certain woman cast a piece of
+a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull." I have
+heard some one, in despair at the grammatical construction of the latter
+clause, suggest that it might be an error for "_also_ brake his skull;"
+and I have been told, that some printer or editor solved the difficulty
+by turning it into "and all to _break_ his skull." But in the Lieutenant
+of the Tower's marginal notes on an inventory of the Countess of
+Hertford's (Lady Katherine Grey) furniture, quoted by Mr. Craik from
+Lands. MS. 5. art. 41., he described the _sparrer_ for the bed as "_all
+to-broken_, not worth ten pence." There seems, therefore, to have been a
+compound, "to-breck, to-brake, to-broken" (_perfrango_), of which the
+word in the "Book of Judges" is the preterite. I may be exposing my
+ignorance, when I say, that the quotation in the _Romance of the
+Peerage_ is the only other instance of its use I ever met with.
+
+WILLIAM H. COPE.
+Cloisters, Westminster
+
+    [The word "to-break," is not to be found in Nares.--Mr.
+    Halliwell, in his _Archaic Dictionary_, has TO-BROKE, broken in
+    pieces:
+
+      "The gates that Neptunus made
+       A thousand wynter theretofore,
+       They have anon _to-broke_ and tore."
+         From the _Gower MS_. Soc. Ant. 134, f. 46.
+
+    The word occurs also in Chaucer (p. 549. ed. Urry):--
+
+      "To-broken ben the Statutes hie in heven;"
+
+    and also in the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_ (p. 156. ed.
+    Wright):
+
+      "The bagges and the bigirdles
+       He hath to-broke them all."
+
+    And Mr. Wright very properly remarks, that "_to_- prefixed in
+    composition to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, has the same force
+    as the German _zu_, giving to the word the idea of destruction
+    or deterioration."]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.
+
+_Lambeth Wells._--A place of public entertainment, first opened in 1697.
+It was celebrated for its mineral water, which was sold at one penny per
+quart. At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was provided with a
+band of music, which played at intervals during the day, and the price
+of admission was threepence. A monthly concert, under the direction of
+Starling Goodwin, organist of St. Saviour's church, Southwark, was held
+here in 1727.
+
+_Hickford's Rooms, Panton Street, Haymarket._--These rooms, under the
+name of "Hickford's Dancing Rooms," were in existence as early as 1710.
+In 1738, they were opened as the "Musick-room." A contemporary account
+says:--
+
+    "The band was selected from the Opera House; but the singularity
+    most attractive consisted of an organ combined with a
+    harpsichord, played by clock-work, which exhibited the movements
+    of an orrery and air-pump, besides solving astronomical and
+    geographical problems on two globes, and showing the moon's age,
+    with the Copernican system in motion."
+
+In 1740, Mr. Galliard's benefit is announced to take place "at Mr.
+Hickford's Great Room in Brewer Street, Golden Square."--See the _Daily
+Post_ of March 31. The "Great Room" is now known as "Willis's Dancing
+Academy."
+
+_The Music Room in Dean Street, Soho._--The Oratorio of Judas Maccabeus
+was performed here in great splendour in 1760. It was afterwards the
+auction room of the elder Christie; and is now "Caldwell's Dancing
+Academy." George III. frequently honoured this "musick-room" with his
+presence.
+
+_The Music Room in Charles Street, Covent Garden_:--
+
+    "The Consort of Musick, lately in Bow Street, is removed next
+    Bedford Gate, in _Charles Street, Covent Garden_, where a room
+    is newly built for that purpose."--_Lond. Gaz._ Feb. 19. 1690.
+
+    "A Consort of Music, with several new voices, to be performed on
+    the 10th instant, at the _Vendu_ in Charles Street, Covent
+    Garden."--Ibid. March 6. 1691.
+
+In 1693 was published _Thesaurus Musicus_, being a Collection of the
+"Newest Songs performed at their Majesties' Theatres, and at the
+Consorts in Villier Street, in York Buildings, and in _Charles Street,
+Covent Garden_."
+
+In the proposals for the establishment of a Royal Academy in 1720, the
+subscription books are advertised as being open, amongst other places,
+"at the Musick Room in Charles Street, Covent Garden."
+
+_Coleman's Music House._--A house of entertainment, with a large and
+well planted garden, known as "Coleman's Musick House," was offered for
+sale in 1682. It was situated near _Lamb's Conduit_, and was demolished
+upon the building of Ormond Street.
+
+_White Conduit House._--The old tavern of this name was erected in the
+reign of Charles I. The workmen are said to have been regaling
+themselves upon the completion of the building, at the instant the king
+was beheaded at Whitehall. {396}
+
+_Goodman's Field Wells._--A place of entertainment established after the
+suppression of the theatre in this locality in 1735.
+
+_Bride Lane, St. Bride's._--The first meetings of the Madrigal Society
+(established in 1741) were held at a public-house in this lane, called
+"The Twelve Bells."
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+POPE'S REVISION OF SPENCE'S ESSAY ON THE ODYSSEY.
+
+Spence's almost idolatrous admiration of, and devotion to, Pope, is
+evident from the pains he took to preserve every little anecdote of him
+that he could elicit from conversation with him, or with those who knew
+him. Unfortunately, he had not Boswell's address and talent for
+recording gossip, or the _Anecdotes_ would have been a much more racy
+book. Spence was certainly an amiable, but I think a very weak man; and
+it appears to me that his learning has been overrated. He might indeed
+have been well designated as "a fiddle-faddle bit of sterling."
+
+I have the original MS. of the two last Dialogues of the _Essay on the
+Odyssey_ as written by Spence, and on the first page is the following
+note:--"The two last Evenings corrected by Mr. Pope." On a blank page at
+the end, Spence has again written:--"MS. of the two last Evenings
+corrected with Mr. Pope's own hand, w'ch serv'd y'e Press, and is so
+mark'd as usual by Litchfield."
+
+This will elucidate Malone's note in his copy of the book, which Mr.
+Bolton Corney has transcribed. I think the first three dialogues were
+published in a little volume before Spence became acquainted with Pope,
+and perhaps led to that acquaintance. Their intercourse afterwards might
+supply some capital illustrations for a new edition of Mr. Corney's
+curious chapter on _Camaraderie Littéraire_. The MS. copy of Spence's
+Essay bears frequent marks of Pope's correcting hand by erasure and
+interlineary correction, silently made. I transcribe the few passages
+where the poet's revision of his critic are accompanied by remarks.
+
+In Evening the Fourth, Spence had written:--"It may be inquired, too,
+how far this translation may make a wrong use of terms borrowed from the
+arts and sciences, &c. [The instances are thus pointed out.] As where we
+read of a ship's crew, Od. 3. 548. The longitude, Od. 19. 350. Doubling
+the Cape, Od. 9. 90. Of Architraves, Colonnades, and the like, Od. 3.
+516." Pope has erased this and the references, and says:--"_These are
+great faults; pray don't point 'em out, but spare your servant_."
+
+At p. 16. Spence had written:--"Yellow is a proper epithet of fruit; but
+not of fruit that we say at the same time is ripening into gold." Upon
+which Pope observes:--"I think yellow may be s'd to ripen into gold, as
+gold is a deeper, fuller colour than yellow." Again: "What is proper in
+one language, may not be so in another. Were Homer to call the sea a
+thousand times by the title of [Greek: porphureos], 'purple deeps' would
+not sound well in English. The reason's evident: the word 'purple' among
+us is confined to one colour, and that not very applicable to the deep.
+Was any one to translate the _purpureis oloribus_ of Horace, 'purple
+swans' would not be so literal as to miss the sense of the author
+entirely." Upon which Pope has remarked:--"The sea is actually of a deep
+purple in many places, and in many views."
+
+Upon a passage in Spence's _Criticism_, at p. 45., Pope says:--"I think
+this too nice." And the couplet objected to by Spence--
+
+  "Deep in my soul the trust shall lodge secur'd,
+   With ribs of steel, and marble heart immur'd,"
+
+he pronounced "very bad." And of some tumid metaphors he says, "All too
+forced and over-charged."
+
+At p. 51. Spence says:--"Does it not sound mean to talk of lopping a
+man? of lopping away all his posterity? or of trimming him with brazen
+sheers? Is there not something mean, where a goddess is represented as
+beck'ning and waving her deathless hands; or, when the gods are dragging
+those that have provok'd them to destruction by the Links of fate?" Of
+the two first instances, Pope says:--"Intended to be comic in a
+sarcastic speech." And of the last:--"I think not at all mean, see the
+Greek." The remarks are, however, expunged.
+
+The longest remonstrance occurs at p. 6. of the Fifth Dialogue. Spence
+had written:--"The _Odyssey_, as a moral poem, exceeds all the writings
+of the ancients: it is perpetual in forming the manners, and in
+instructing the mind; it sets off the duties of life more fully as well
+as more agreeably than the Academy or Lyceum. _Horace ventured to say
+thus much of the Iliad, and certainly it may be more justly said of this
+later production by the same hand_." For the words in Italics Pope has
+substituted:--"Horace, who was so well acquainted with the tenets of
+both, has given Homer's poems the preference to either:" and says in a
+note:--"I think you are mistaken in limiting this commendation and
+judgment of Horace to the _Iliad_. He says it, at the beginning of his
+Epistle, of Homer in general, and afterwards proposes both poems equally
+as examples of morality; though the _Iliad_ be mentioned first: but then
+follows--'_Rursus quid virtus et quid sapientia possit, Utile proposuit
+nobis exemplar Ulyssem_,' &c. of the Odyssey."
+
+At p. 34. Spence says:--"There seems to be something mean and awkward in
+this image:--
+
+  "'His _loose head_ tottering as with wine opprest
+   Obliquely drops, and _nodding_ knocks his breast.'"
+
+Here Pope says:--"Sure these are good lines. {397} They are not mine."
+Of other passages which please him, he occasionally says,--"This is good
+sense." And on one occasion, where Spence had objected, he says
+candidly:--"This is bad, indeed,"--"and this."
+
+At p. 50. Spence writes:--"There's a passage which I remember I was
+mightily pleased with formerly in reading _Cervantes_, without seeing
+any reason for it at that time; tho' I now imagine that which took me in
+it comes under this view. Speaking of Don Quixote, the first time that
+adventurer came in sight of the ocean, he expresses his sentiments on
+this occasion in the following manner:--'He saw the sea, which he had
+never seen before, and thought it much bigger than the river at
+Salamanca.'" On this occasion Pope suggests,--"Dr. Swift's fable to
+Ph----s, of the two asses and Socrates."
+
+S.W. SINGER.
+April 8. 1850.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOLK LORE.
+
+_Charm for the Toothache._--The charm which one of your correspondents
+has proved to be in use in the south-eastern counties of England, and
+another has shown to be practised at Kilkenny, was also known more than
+thirty years ago in the north of Scotland. At that time I was a
+school-boy at Aberdeen, and a sufferer--probably it was in March or
+April, with an easterly wind--from toothache. A worthy Scotchwoman told
+me, that the way to be cured of my toothache was to find a charm for it
+in the Bible. I averred, as your correspondent the curate did, that I
+could not find any such charm. My adviser then repeated to me the charm,
+which I wrote down from her dictation. Kind soul! she could not write
+herself. It was pretty nearly in the words which your correspondent has
+sent you. According to my recollection, it ran thus:--"Peter sat upon a
+stone, weeping. And the Lord said unto him, 'Peter, why weepest thou?'
+And he answered, and said, 'Lord, my tooth acheth.' And the Lord said
+unto him, 'Arise, Peter, thy teeth shall ache no more.'" "Now,"
+continued my instructress, "if you gang home and put yon bit screen into
+your Bible, you'll never be able to say again that you canna find a
+charm agin the toothache i' the Bible." This was her version of the
+matter, and I have no doubt it was the orthodox one; for, although one
+of the most benevolent old souls I ever knew, she was also one of the
+most ignorant and superstitious. I kept the written paper, not in my
+Bible, but in an old pocket-book for many years, but it has disappeared.
+
+JOHN BRUCE.
+
+_Easter Eggs_ (No. 16. p. 244.).--Breakfasting on Easter Monday, some
+years ago, at the George Inn at Ilminster, in the county of Somerset, in
+the palmy days of the Quicksilver Mail, when the table continued to be
+spread for coach travellers at that time from four in the morning till
+ten at night, we were presented with eggs stained in the boiling with a
+variety of colours: a practice which Brande records as being in use in
+his time in the North of England, and among the modern Greeks.
+
+S.S.S.
+
+_Cure for the Hooping-cough._--"I know," said one of my parishioners,
+"what would cure him, but m'appen you woudent believe me." "What is it,
+Mary?" I asked. "Why, I did every thing that every body teld me. One
+teld me to get him breathed on by a pie-bald horse. I took him ever such
+a way, to a horse at ----, and put him under the horse's mouth; but he
+was no better. Then I was teld to drag him backward through a bramble
+bush. I did so; but this didn't cure him. Last of all, I was teld to
+give him nine fried mice, fasting, in a morning, in this way:--three the
+first morning; then wait three mornings, and then give him three more;
+wait three mornings, and then give him three more. When he had eaten
+these nine fried mice he became quite well. This would be sure to cure
+your child, Sir."
+
+W.H.K.
+Drayton Beauchamp.
+
+_Gootet._--In Eccleshall parish, Staffordshire, Shrove Tuesday is called
+Gootet. I am not aware if this be the true spelling, for I have never
+seen it in print. Can any of your readers supply the etymology, or state
+whether it is so called in any other part of England? I have searched
+numerous provincial glossaries, but have hitherto been unsuccessful.
+
+B.G.J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOK.
+
+It is reasonable to conclude, that the article copied from _Chambers'
+Edinburgh Journal_, in No. 13., furnishes the strongest evidence that
+can be adduced in support of the opinion, that the book in the
+possession of Dr. Anster is the one found on the Duke of Monmouth when
+captured, after his defeat at Sedgemoor; and, if so, it is impossible to
+admit the hypothesis, because a portion of the contents of the real book
+has been given to the world and contains matter far too important to
+have been passed over by Dr. Anster, had it existed in his volume. In
+the 6th edition of Dr. Welwood's _Memoirs of the most material
+Transactions in England for the last Hundred Years preceding the
+Revolution in 1688_, printed for "Tim. Goodwin, at the Queen's Head,
+against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, 1718," the following
+passage is to be found at p. 147.:--
+
+    "But of the most things above mentioned there is an infallible
+    proof extant under Monmouth's own hand, in a little pocket-book
+    which was taken with him and delivered to King James; which by
+    an accident, as needless to mention here, I have leave to copy
+    and did {398} it in part. A great many dark passages there are
+    in it, and some clear enough that shall be eternally buried for
+    me: and perhaps it had been for King James's honour to have
+    committed them to the flames, as Julius Cæsar is said to have
+    done on a like occasion. All the use that shall be made of it
+    is, to give in the Appendix some few passages out of it that
+    refer to this subject, and confirm what has been above related."
+
+In the Appendix the following extracts are given from the Duke's book:--
+
+    "_October_ 13. L. came to me at eleven at night from 29, told me
+    29 could never be brought to believe I knew anything of that
+    part of the plot that concern'd _Rye House_; but as things went
+    he must behave himself as if he did believe it, for some reasons
+    that might be for my advantage. L. desired me to write to 29,
+    which I refus'd; but afterwards told me 29 expected it; and I
+    promis'd to write to-morrow if he could call for the letter; at
+    which S.L. shew'd a great concern for me, and I believe him
+    sincere though S is of another mind.
+
+    "14. L. came as he promis'd and receiv'd the letter from 3
+    sealed, refusing to read it himself, tho' I had left it open
+    with S. for that purpose.
+
+    "20. L. came to me at S. with a line or two from 29 very kind,
+    assuring me he believed every word in my letter to be true; and
+    advis'd me to keep hid till he had an opportunity to express his
+    belief of it some other way. L. told me that he was to go out of
+    town next day and that 29 would send 80 to me in a day or two,
+    whom he assured me I might trust.
+
+    "25. L. came for me to ----, where 29 was with 80. He receiv'd
+    me pretty well, and said 30 and 50 were the causes of my
+    misfortune and would ruin me. After some hot words against them
+    and against S., went away in a good humour.
+
+    "26. I went to E---- and was in danger of being discover'd by
+    some of Oglethorpe's men that met me accidentally at the back
+    door of the garden.
+
+    "_Nov_ 2. A letter from 29 to be to-morrow at seven at night at
+    S. and nobody to know it but 80.
+
+    "3. He came not, there being an extraordinary council. But 80
+    brought me a copy of 50's intercepted letter, which made rather
+    for me than against me. Bid me come to-morrow at the same hour,
+   and to say nothing of the letter except 29 spake of it first.
+
+    "4. I came and found 29 and L. there; he was very kind and gave
+    me directions how to manage my business and what words I should
+    say to 39. He appointed 80 to come to me every night until my
+    business was ripe and promised to send with him directions from
+    time to time.
+
+    "9. L. came from 29 and told me my business should be done to my
+    mind next week, and that Q. was my friend, and had spoke to 39
+    and D. in my behalf; which he said 29 took very kindly and had
+    expressed so to her. At parting he told me there should be
+    nothing requir'd of me but what was both safe and honourable.
+    But said there must be something done to blind 39.
+
+    "15. L came to me with a copy of a letter I was to sign to
+    please 39. I desired to know in whose hands it was to be
+    deposited; for I would have it in no hands but 29. He told me it
+    should be so; but if 39 ask'd a copy it could not well be
+    refus'd. I referred myself entirely to 29's pleasure.
+
+    "24. L. came to me from 29 and order'd me to render myself
+    to-morrow. Cautioned me to play my part, to avoid questions as
+    much as possible, and to seem absolutely converted to 39's
+    interest. Bad me bear with some words that might seem harsh.
+
+    "25. I render'd myself. At night 29 could not dissemble his
+    satisfaction; press'd my hand, which I remember not he did
+    before except when I return'd from the French service. 29 acted
+    his part well, and I too. 39 and D. seemed not ill pleas'd.
+
+    "26. 29 took me aside and falling upon the business of L.R. said
+    he inclined to have sav'd him but was forc'd to it, otherwise he
+    must have broke with 39. Bid me think no more on't. Coming home
+    L. told me he fear'd 39 began to smell out 29's carriage. That
+    ---- said to 39 that morning that all that was done was but
+    sham.
+
+    "27. Several told me of the storm that was brewing. Rumsey was
+    with 39 and was seem to come out crying that he must accuse a
+    man he lov'd.
+
+    "_Dec._ 19. A letter from 29 bidding me stay till I heard
+    farther from him.
+
+    "_Jan._ 5. I received a letter from L. marked by 29 in the
+    margin to trust entirely in 10; and that in February I should
+    certainly have leave to return. That matters were concerted
+    towards it; and that 39 had no suspicion, notwithstanding of my
+    reception here.
+
+    "_Feb._ 8. A letter from L. that my business was almost as well
+    as done; but must be so sudden as not to leave room for 39's
+    party to counterplot. That it is probable he would choose
+    Scotland rather than Flanders or this country; which was all one
+    to 29.
+
+    "16. The sad news of his death by L. _O cruel fate!_"
+
+Dr. Welwood cautiously adds, in a note:--
+
+    "That by 29 and 39 King Charles and the Duke of York seem to be
+    meant. But I know not what to make of the other numbers and
+    letters, and must leave the reader to his own conjectures."
+
+There can, I apprehend, be little doubt that the L.R., under the date of
+November 26, were meant to indicate the patriotic Lord Russell.
+
+The whole of these extracts possess the highest interest, establishing
+as they do several points referred to by historians. It is curious to
+remark the complete subjection in which Charles, at this period, stood
+towards his brother; occasioned, perhaps, but the foreign supplies which
+he scrupled not to receive, being dependant on his adhesion to the
+policy of which the Duke of York was the avowed representative. Shortly
+before his death, Charles appears to have meditated emancipation from
+this state of thraldom; and Hume says,--
+
+    "He was determined, it is thought, to send the Duke to Scotland,
+    to recall Monmouth, to summon a parliament, to dismiss all his
+    unpopular ministers, and to throw himself entirely upon the good
+    will and affections of his subjects." {399}
+
+This passage accords with the entries in Monmouth's pocket-book under
+the dates of Jan. 5. and Feb. 3. If the unfortunate Monmouth could have
+foreseen the miserable end, with all its accompanying humiliations and
+horrors, to which a few months were destined to bring him, his
+exclamation, "O cruel fate!" would have acquired additional bitterness.
+
+C. ROSS.
+
+    [We insert the foregoing as serving to complete the series of
+    interesting notices connected with the capture of Monmouth which
+    have appeared in our columns, rather than from an agreement with
+    the views of our valued correspondent. Dr. Anster states, that
+    in the pocket-book in his possession, the Duke's movements up to
+    the 14th March, 1684-5, are given. Would he kindly settle the
+    question by stating whether the passages quoted by Weldon are to
+    be found among them?]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+QUERIES.
+
+WOOLTON'S CHRISTIAN MANUAL.
+
+One important use, I conceive, of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" is, the
+opportunity it presents of ascertaining the existence of rare editions
+of early printed books. Can any of your readers state where a copy or
+copies of the following may be found?
+
+    "The Christian Manuell, or the life and maners of true
+    Christians. A Treatise, wherein is plentifully declared how
+    needeful it is for the servaunts of God to manifest and declare
+    to the world: their faith by their deedes, their words by their
+    work, and their profession by their conversation. Written by
+    Jhon Woolton, Minister of the Gospel, in the cathedral church of
+    Exetor. Imprinted at London by J.C. for Tho. Sturruppe, in
+    Paules Church yarde, at the George, 1576. Dedicated to Sir
+    William Cordell knight, Maister of the Rolles.--At Whymple 20
+    Nouember 1676. N 7, in eights."--Copy formerly in the possession
+    of Herbert. (Herbert, _Typographical Antiquities_, vol. ii. p.
+    1094.)
+
+There is an imperfect copy, I understand, in the Bodleian. Access to
+another copy has been needed for an important public object, in order to
+transcribe the leaf or leaves wanting in the Bodleian copy; and the
+book, so far as I am aware, does not occur in any other public
+libraries.
+
+Woolton was nephew to Nowell, author of the _Catechisms_. He wrote
+several other pieces, and was Bishop of Exeter 1579-1593. (Wood,
+_Athen. Oxon._ ed. Bliss, vol. i. pp. 600, 601.)
+
+T.
+Bath, April 9. 1850.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT:--1 JOHN, v. 7.
+
+In an article of the _Quarterly Review_ (vol. xxxiii. p. 78.) on this
+controverted passage of St. John's Epistles, generally attributed to the
+present learned Bishop of Ely, the following statement is made
+respecting Luther:--
+
+    "Let it also be recollected, to the honour of Luther,
+    Bugenhagius, and other leaders of the Reformation, that in this
+    contest they magnanimously stood by the decision of Erasmus.
+    Luther, in his translation of the New Testament, omitted the
+    passage; and, in the preface to the last edition (in 1546)
+    revised by himself, he solemnly requested that his translation
+    should on no account be altered."
+
+Since such was the injunction of Luther, how does it happen that this
+verse appears in the later editions of his Testament? I have looked into
+five or six editions, and have not found the verse in the two earliest.
+These bear the following titles:--
+
+    "Biblia dat ys. de gantze hillige Schrifft verdüdeschet dorch
+    Doct. Mart. Luth. Wittemberch. Hans Lufft. 1579." (in folio.)
+    "Dat Neu Testamente verdüdeschet dörch D. Mart. Luth. mit den
+    korten Summarien L. Leonharti Hutteri. Gosslar. In Iahre 1619."
+
+The verse appears in an edition of his Bible printed at Halle in 1719;
+in his New Testament, Tubingen, 1793; in one printed at Basel in 1821;
+and is also to be found in that printed by the Christian Knowledge
+Society. In the Basel edition the verse is thus given;--
+
+    "Denn Drey sind, die de zeugen im Himmel; der Vater, das Wort,
+    und der beilige Geist; und diese Drey sind Eins."
+
+Perhaps some of your learned readers can explain when, and by whose
+authority, the verse was inserted in Luther's Testament.
+
+E.M.B.
+
+    [We may add, that the verse also appears in the stereotype
+    edition of Luther's Bible, published by Tauchnitz, at Leipsig,
+    in 1819.--ED.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MINOR QUERIES.
+
+_Medical Symbols._--"A PATIENT" inquires respecting the origin and date
+of the marks used to designate weights in medical prescriptions.
+
+
+_Charles II. and Lord R.'s Daughter._--Can any of your readers inform me
+who was the lady that is referred to in the following passage, from
+Henry Sidney's _Diary_, edited by Mr. Blencowe (March 9. 1610, vol. i.
+p. 298.):--
+
+    "The King hath a new mistress, Lord R----'s daughter: she
+    brought the Duke of Monmouth to the King."
+
+C.
+
+
+_St. Alban's Day._--A friend has asked me the following question, which
+some of your readers may perhaps be able to answer, viz.:--
+
+"Till the reign of Ed. VI. St. Alban's Day was kept in England on June
+22d (the supposed anniversary {400} of his martyrdom). It was then
+erased from the kalendar, but restored to it in the reign of Chas. II.;
+when it was transferred to June 17th. Why was this change made?"
+
+W.C. TREVELYAN.
+
+
+_Black Broth_ (No. 19. p. 300.).--If this were a sauce or condiment, may
+not the colour have been produced by the juice of the Boletus, much used
+in Greece to the present day?
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Deputy-Lieutenants of the Tower of London._--By whom were these
+officers appointed? What was the nature of their duties? Had they a
+salary, or was the office an honorary appointment? They used to meet
+periodically, was it for the transaction of business? if so, what
+business? Does the office still exist?
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Buccaneers--Charles II._--There is a passage in Bryan Edward's _History
+of the West Indies_ (vol. i. p. 164. 4to edit. 1793), in which he gives
+an opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica were not the pirates and
+robbers that they have been commonly represented; and mentions, on the
+authority of a MS. journal of Sir William Beeston, that Charles II. had
+a pecuniary interest in the buccaneering, and continued to receive a
+share of the booty after he had publicly ordered the suppression of
+buccaneering: and also, speaking of Sir Henry Morgan, and the honours he
+received from Charles II., gives an opinion that the stories told of
+Morgan's cruelty are untrue. Can any of your readers tell me who Sir
+William Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or refer me to
+any accessible information about Charles II.'s connection with the
+buccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards's favourable opinion of
+the Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan?
+
+C.
+
+
+_Travelling in 1590.--Richard Hooker._--Could any of your readers give
+me some particulars of travelling at the above period between London and
+Salisbury? I should also feel greatly indebted for any _unpublished_
+particulars in the life of the "Judicious Richard Hooker" after his
+marriage. Answers might be sent, either through "NOTES AND QUERIES," or
+direct to me,
+
+W. HASTINGS KELKE.
+Drayton Beauchamp, Tring.
+
+
+_Decker's Raven's Almanack--Nash's Terrors of the Night, &c._--Having
+lately picked up a volume of old tracts, I am anxious to learn how far I
+may congratulate myself on having met with a prize. Among the contents
+are--
+
+1. "The Rauen's Almanacke," for the year 1609, purporting to be by T.
+Deckers. Is this the same person with Thomas Dekker the dramatist?
+
+2. Nashe's "Terrors of the Night" (wanting eight leaves at the
+beginning.) Of this, Beloe (the only authority within my reach) says,
+that only one copy is known to exist; can his statement be correct?
+
+3. A religious tract, which seems only remarkable for its bad printing,
+obscure wording, and almost invariably using the third person singular
+of the verb, whatever be the nominative. It begins--
+
+    "To all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words, and
+    makes mention of his words, &c."....
+
+And the first division ends--
+
+    "This have I written in love to all your soules, who am one who
+    did drinke of the cup of fornication, and have drunke of the cup
+    of indignation, but now drinkes the cup of salvation, where
+    sorrow and tears is fled away; and yet am a man of sorrows and
+    well acquainted with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and
+    travels that it may be brought forth of captivity; called by the
+    world F.H."
+
+Who is F.H.?
+
+4. Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, and the like, by Thomas
+Tusser; but as the tract is mutilated up to cap. 3.,
+
+  "I have been prayde,
+  To shew mine aide," &c.,
+
+I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's
+_Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry_. Information on any of the above
+points would oblige.
+
+J.E.
+
+
+_Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the
+nature of their duties generally? What is the rank of a prebendary of a
+cathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders?
+Would a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector
+not being one? Where is the best account of prebends to be found?
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle._--There is at Warwick Castle a
+fine half-length portrait of Luther by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary
+portraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a genuine one? Has it
+been engraved?
+
+E.M.B.
+
+
+_Rawdon Papers._--The Rev. Mr. Berwick, in introducing to the public, in
+1819, the interesting volume known by the name of _Rawdon Papers_,
+says,--
+
+    "They are a small part of a correspondence which was left in the
+    Editor's hands after the greater portion had been sent several
+    years before to the Marquis of Hastings, whose absence at this
+    time prevents the Editor's making such additions to his stock as
+    might render it more interesting to the public."
+
+Do these papers still exist in the possession of {401} the Hastings
+family, and is there any chance of a further publication? The volume
+published by Mr. Berwick contains some very interesting incidental
+illustrations of the politics, literature, and society of the
+seventeenth century, and much might be expected from the remaining
+papers. I may add, that this volume has not been so much used by
+historians as it should be; but, as was to be expected, it has not
+escaped Mr. Macaulay. It is not not well edited.
+
+C.
+
+
+_Wellington, Wyrwast, Cokam._--In a MS. letter which I have relating to
+the siege of Taunton in the Civil war, is the following sentence,
+describing the movements of the royal army:--
+
+    "The enemy on Friday last have quitted their garrisions in
+    Wellington Wyrwast and Cokam houses; the two last they have
+    burnt."
+
+I am not certain about the second name, which seems to be Wyrwast; and
+hsould be obliged by any information relative to these three houses.
+
+C.
+
+
+_Blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644._--In Martyn's _Life of Shafetesbury_
+(vol. i. p. 148.) it is stated that a parliamentary force, under Sir
+A.A. Cooper, blockaded Corfe Castle in 1644, after the taking of
+Wareham. I can find no mention any where else of an attack on Corfe
+Castle in 1644. The blockade of that castle, which Lady Bankes's defence
+has made memorable, was in the previous year, and Sir A.A. Cooper had
+not then joined the parliament. I should be glad if any of your readers
+could either corroborate Martyn's account of a blockade of Corfe Castle
+in 1644, or prove it to be, as I am inclined to think it, a
+mis-statement.
+
+I should be very thankful for any information as to Sir Anthony Asteley
+Cooper's proceedings in Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire,
+during the Civil War and Commonwealth, being engaged upon a life of Lord
+Shaftesbury.
+
+C.
+
+
+_MSS. of Locke._--A translation, by Locke, of Nicole's _Essays_ was
+published in 1828 by Harvey and Darton, London; and it is stated in the
+title-page of the book, that it is printed from an autograph MS. of
+Locke, in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D. I wish to know if Dr.
+Hancock, who also edited the volume, is still alive? and, if so, would
+let this querist have access to the other papers of Locke's which he
+speaks of in the preface?
+
+C.
+
+
+_Locke's proposed Life of Lord Shaftesbury._--I perceive that the
+interesting volume of letters of Locke, Algernon Sidney, and Lord
+Shaftesbury, published some years ago, by Mr. Foster, is advertised in
+your columns by your own publisher; and I therefore inquire, with some
+hope of eliciting information, whether the papers in Mr. Foster's
+possession, which he has abstained from publishing, contain any notices
+of the first Earl of Shaftesbury; and I am particularly anxious to know
+whether they contain any references to the Life of Lord Shaftesbury
+which Locke meditated, or throw any light upon the mode in which Locke
+would have become possessed of some suppressed passages of Edmund
+Ludlow's memoirs.
+
+C.
+
+
+_Theses._--Many German works introduced into Catalogues, are _theses_
+defended at the universities. The name of the _President_ is generally
+first, and in larger letters than that of the propounder, who is usually
+the author. Hence, it often happens, that the _Thesis_ is entered as a
+work written by the _Præses_. But is not unfrequently happened, that
+this Præses was _really_ the author; and that, as an easy way of
+publishing his thought, he entrusted an essay to a candidate for a
+degree, to be defended by him. The seventh rule of the Museum Catalogue
+runs thus:--
+
+    "The respondent or defender in a thesis to be considered its
+    author, except when it unequivocally appears to be the work of
+    the Præses."
+
+Now, I would ask, what are the usual signs of the authorship? Are there
+any catalogues of Theses? Any bibliographical works which contain hints
+for guidance in this matter? Any correspondents who can advise generally
+on the whole matter?
+
+M.
+
+
+_Apocrypha._--What editions of the Bible _containing the Apocrypha_ are
+now on sale at the ordinary way?
+
+
+_J.B.'s Treatise on Art and Nature._--By a scrap of a book, apparently
+of the sixteenth century, it seems to be a Treatise by J.B. upon Art and
+Nature: the first book is "of Water-workes." What book is this?
+
+M.
+
+
+_Nursery Games and Rhymes._--In the _Letters and Memoir of Bishop
+Shirley_, allusion is made (p. 415.) to a once popular game called
+"Thread the needle," the first four lines of which are given. Can any of
+your readers supply the remainder, or refer me to any work where they
+may be found? I also should feel obliged by any information respecting
+the age and origin of the popular nursery song, beginning,--
+
+  "A frog he would a-wooing go,
+    Heigho, says Rowley."
+
+Perhaps some of your readers will state where the correct text may be
+met with.
+
+B.G.J.
+
+
+_Emancipation of the Jews._--In Francis' _History of the Bank of
+English_, p. 24., mention is made of an offer on the part of the Jews to
+pay 500,000l. to the state on the following conditions;--1. That the
+laws against them should be repealed; 2. That the Bodleian Library
+should be assigned to them; 3. That they should have permission to use
+St. {402} Paul's Cathedral as a Synagogue. It is stated, on the
+authority of a letter in the Thurloe State Papers, that this proposition
+was actually discussed. The larger sum of 800,000l. was demanded; but,
+being refused, the negotiation was broken off. This proposition is said
+to have been made shortly before the elevation of Cromwell to the
+Protectorate. The subject is an interesting one in these days, when
+Jewish disabilities are under discussion.
+
+I wish to offer two queries:--1. Is this story confirmed by any
+contemporary writer? 2. Is it conceivable that the Jews would have
+consented to worship in a _cruciform_ church, such as was old St.
+Paul's, which was standing at the time this offer is supposed to have
+been made?
+
+H.M. AUSTEN.
+St. Peter's, Thanet.
+
+
+_The Complutensian MSS._--Has not there been an account of these MSS.
+published in London in 1821? My authority for this Query is to be found
+in a work of Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch:--
+
+    "En el año 1821 per encargo que hice desde Madrid _se imprimio
+    mio aca en Londres_, de que es falso este rumor[2], pues en la
+    biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcala quedaban pocos meses
+    antes en gue estune en ella siete manuscritos biblicos en
+    aquellas dos lenguas[3], que son sin duda los mismos siete de
+    que hace mencion en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de
+    Castro, doctor téologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor
+    contemporaneo o de poco tiempo después, parte de los cuales
+    manuscritos, es a saber, los caldéos, son de letra de Alfonso de
+   Zamora, que es uno de los tres judíos conversos editores de la
+   Complutense."--_Opusculos Gramatico-Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio
+   Puigblanch_, Londres [1832], p. 365.
+
+If the Chaldee and Hebrew MSS. of the Complutensian Polyglot were at
+Alcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at
+Madrid are they now? The Greek MSS. are supposed to have been returned
+to the Vatican Library. If the Chaldee MSS. are in the handwriting of
+one of the editors, as stated by Puigblanch, they cannot be of much
+value or authority. I shall add another Query:--Are they paper or
+parchment?
+
+E.M.B.
+
+    [Footnote 2: That the MSS. were destroyed.]
+
+    [Footnote 3: Hebrew and Chaldee.]
+
+
+_Latin Names of Towns._--A correspondent who answered the Query as to
+the "Latin Names of Towns" in titles, referred your readers to the
+Supplement of Lemprière. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have
+obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should
+know that the information therein given must only be taken as
+suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest
+gazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries,
+the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The first
+informs us that "Næostadium _in Palatinatu_" is in "France;" the third
+that "Nellore" is in "_Ceylon_." I am bound to say that I do not find
+errors so thickly scattered throughout, and that the list will be useful
+to me. But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which the accuracy
+can be depended upon?
+
+M.
+Kilkenny.
+
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+
+
+REPLIES.
+
+SCALA COELI.
+
+I incline to think that the testator whose will is referred to in No.
+23. p. 336., by "Scala Coeli," meant King Henry the Seventh's Chapel at
+Westminster.
+
+Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother to King Henry VII., in
+the indenture for founding Chantry Monks in the Abbey of Westminster,
+dated 2. March, 21 Henry VII. (1506-6), states that she had obtained
+papal bulls of indulgence, that all persons saying and hearing her
+chantry masses should have as full remission from sin as in the place
+called _Scala Coeli_ beside Rome, "to the great comfort and relief of
+the said Monasterie and all Cristen people resorting thereto." (_MS.
+Lansd._ 444.)
+
+Henry Lord Marney, by his will, dated 22d Dec., 15 Hen. VIII. (1523),
+directs a trental of masses to be "first at Scala Coeli, in
+Westminster." (_Testamenta Vetusta_, 609.)
+
+Blomefield (_Hist. of Norfolk_, 8vo. edit., iv. 60) speaking of the
+Church of the Augustine Friars at Norwich, observes,--
+
+    "That which brought most profit to the convent, was the chapel
+    of Our Lady in this church, called Scala Celi, to which people
+    were continually coming in pilgrimage, and offering at the altar
+    there; most folks desiring to have masses sung for them here, or
+    to be buried in the cloister of Scala Celi, that they might be
+    partakers of the many pardons and indulgences granted by the
+    Popes to this place; this being the only chapel (except that of
+    the same name at Westminster, and that of Our Lady in St.
+    Buttolph's church at Boston,) that I find to have the same
+    privileges and indulgences as the chapel of Scala Celi at Rome;
+    which were so great as made all the three places aforesaid so
+    much frequented; it being easier to pay their devotions here,
+    than go so long a journey; all which indulgences and pardons may
+    be seen in Fox's _Acts and Monuments_, fo. 1075."
+
+In Bishop Bale's singular play of _Kynge Johan_, published by the Camden
+Society, the King charges the clery with extorting money
+
+  "For legacyes, trentalls with _scalacely_ messys
+  Whereby ye have made the people very assys."
+  (p. 17.)
+
+And Simon of Swineshead, after drinking the poison, says,-- {403}
+
+  "To send me to heaven god rynge the holye belle,
+  And synge for my sowle a masse of _Scala Celi_,
+  That I may clyme up aloft with Enoch and Heli."
+  (p. 82.)
+
+There are bulls of indulgence in Scala Coeli in Rymer's _Fædera_, xii.
+565. 591. 672., xiii. 102.; but I can now only give the reference, as I
+have not that work in hand.
+
+C.H. COOPER.
+Cambridge, April 6, 1850
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WATCHING THE SEPULCHRE.
+
+"T.W." (No. 20. p. 218.) will find no end of "Items" for watching the
+sepulchre, in the "Churchwardens' Accounts" before the Reformation, and
+during the reign of Queen Mary. At Easter it was the custom to erect a
+sepulchre on the north side of the chancel, to represent that of our
+Saviour. This was generally a temporary structure of wood; though in
+some churches there still remain elaborately ornamented ones of stone.
+Sometimes the founder's tomb was used for the purpose. In this sepulchre
+was placed on Good Friday the crucifix, and occasionally the host, with
+other emblems; and a person was employed to watch it till the morning of
+Easter Day, when it was taken out with great ceremony, in imitation of
+our Lord's resurrection. It was the payment for this watching that
+occurs continually in the Churchwardens' Accounts, and of which, it
+appears, Fuller could not understand the meaning. A paper on the subject
+of Easter sepulchres, by Mr. Venables, was read at the meeting of the
+Cambridge Camden Society in March, 1843, but I am not aware whether it
+has been printed. Some very curious "Items" on this subject are given in
+Britton's _Redcliffe Church_, which are quoted in the _Oxford Glossary
+of Architecture_. They are so illustrative, that I subjoin them, to give
+you an opportunity, if you please, of serving them up to your readers:--
+
+    "Item, That Maister Canynge hath deliver'd, this 4th day of
+    July, in the year of Our Lord 1470, to Maister Nicholas Petters,
+    Vicar of St. Mary Redcliffe, Moses Conterin, Philip Barthelmew,
+    Procurators of St. Mary Redcliffe aforesaid, a new sepulchre,
+    well gilt with gold, and a civer thereto.
+
+    "Item, An image of God Almighty rising out of the same
+    sepulchre, with all the ordinance that 'longeth thereto; that is
+    to say, a lathe made of timber and the iron work thereto.
+
+    "Item, Thereto 'longeth Heaven, made of timber and stained
+    clothes.
+
+    "Item, Hell, made of timber, and the iron-work thereto, with
+    Divels to the number of 13.
+
+    "Item, 4 knights, armed, keeping the sepulchre, with their
+    weapons in their hands; that is to say, 2 axes and 2 spears,
+    with 2 pavés.
+
+    "Item, 4 payr of angels' wings for 4 angels, made of timber and
+    well painted.
+
+    "Item, The Fadre, the crown and visage, the ball with a cross
+    upon it, well gilt with fine gould.
+
+    "Item, The Holy Ghost coming out of Heaven into the sepulchre.
+
+    "Item, 'Longeth to the 4 angels 4 chevelers."
+
+Ducange (vol. vi. p. 195. new edit.) gives a detailed account of the
+service performed at the Easter sepulchres on the continent.
+
+E. VEE.
+Cambridge, March 27.
+
+
+"_Watching the Sepulchre_" (No. 20. p. 318.).--At the present day, in
+most Roman Catholic countries it is the custom to exhibit in the
+principal churches at this period, and at Christmas, a kind of _tableau_
+of the entombment and of the birth of the Saviour. The figures are
+sometimes small, and at other times the size of life: generally
+coloured, and formed of wax, wood, stone, or other materials; and when
+artistically arranged, and judiciously lighted, form sometimes beautiful
+objects. I have no doubt the entry in the Churchwardens' Accounts of
+Waltham Abbey refers to a custom of the same kind, prevailing in the
+country before the Reformation. If the date of their entry were sought
+for, I have little doubt but that it would be found to have been about
+Easter. The _sepulchre_ itself was often, I believe, a permanent
+erection of stone, and some of them probably now remain in the churches
+of England on the north side of the chancel, where they may sometimes be
+taken for the tombs of individuals there interred.
+
+W.C. TREVELYAN.
+
+
+_Watching the Sepulchre._--In reply to "T.W.'s" Query in No. 20., I have
+witnessed at Florence the custom of dressing the sepulchre on the
+Thursday before Good Friday with the most beautiful flowers, many of
+which are reared especially for the purpose. The devout attend at the
+sepulchre, and make their prayers there throughout the day, the most
+profound silence being observed. The convents rival each other in the
+beauty of their decorations.
+
+Do you think that the Churchwardens' entries in Fuller can refer to a
+similar custom?
+
+The loveliness of the flowers, and their delightful perfume, which
+pervades the church, present a most soothing and agreeable type of death
+and the grave, under their Christian phase. I was always at a loss to
+understand why this was done on Thursday, instead of on Saturday; the
+latter being the day on which Our Lord rested in the sepulchre.
+
+A.M.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 7.
+
+A new _blunder_ of Mr. Malone.--I love the memory of Edmond Malone,
+albeit he sometimes committed blunders. He committed a pitiable blunder
+when he broke his bow in shooting at the worthless Samuel Ireland; and
+he committed an {404} irreparable blunder when he whitewashed the
+monumental effigy of the matchless Shakspere. Of the blunder ascribed to
+him by a reverend querist (No. 14. p. 213) he was quite innocent.
+
+Before we censure an author or editor, we should consult his _own_
+edition. He cannot be answerable for the errors of any other impression.
+Such, at least, is _my_ notion of critical equity.
+
+I shall now state the plain facts. Malone, in the first instance,
+printed the spurious declaration of John _Shakspear_ in an _imperfect
+state_. (_Plays and Poems of W.S._, 1790, vol. i. part ii. p. 162.) He
+was soon afterwards enabled to complete it. (Ibid. vol. i. part ii. p.
+330.) Steevens reprinted it entire, and without comment. (_Plays of
+W.S._, 1793, vol. ii. p. 300.) Now the editor of the Irish reimpression,
+who must have omitted to consult the edition of Steevens, merely
+committed a _blunder_ in attempting to unite the two fragments as first
+published by Mr. Malone.
+
+There was no _audacious fabrication_ on the occasion--there is no
+_mystery_ in the case! (No. 24. p. 386.) So, to stop the current of
+misconception, and economise space on future occasions, I venture to
+repeat a few words in suggesting as a canon of criticism:--_Before we
+censure an author or editor we should consult his_ own _edition_.
+
+BOLTON CORNEY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
+
+_Compendyous Olde Treatyse._--"F.M." (No. 18. p. 277.) will find this
+tract reprinted (with the exception of the preface and verses) in Foxe's
+_Acts and Monuments_; a portion once peculiar to the first edition of
+1563, p. 452., but now appearing in the reprint of 1843, vol. iv. p.
+671-76., which may be of some service in the absence of the original
+tract.
+
+NOVUS.
+
+
+_Hordys_ (No. 5. p. 157.).--I have waited till now in hopes of seeing an
+answer from some more competent pen than my own to the Query as to the
+meaning of the word "_hordys_," by your correspondent "J.G.;" but having
+been disappointed, I venture a suggestion which occurred to me
+immediately on reading it, viz. that "_hordys_" might be some possible
+or impossible derivation from _hordeum_, and applied "irreverently" to
+the consecrated host, as though it were no better than a common
+barley-cake.
+
+Whether in those early days and in Ireland, the host was really made of
+barley, and whether "hordys" was a name given to some kind of
+barley-cake then in vogue, or (supposing my suggestion to be well
+founded) a word coined for the occasion, may perhaps be worthy of
+investigation.
+
+A.R.
+Kenilworth, April 5.
+
+
+_Eachard's Tracts._--The Rev. George Wyatt, who inquires (No. 20. p.
+320.) about Eachard's _Tracts_, will probably get all the information he
+wants from the Life of Eachard prefixed to the collected edition of his
+_Works_ in three volumes, which I am sorry I have not the means at
+present of referring to.
+
+"I.O.," to whom the last of the tracts is addressed, is Dr. John Owen.
+
+Philatus (what objection is there to Latinising, in the usual way, the
+Greek termination os?) is, of course, intended for Hobbes; and, to
+convey Eachard's opinion of him, his opponent in the Dialogue is
+Timothy, a God-honourer.
+
+Let me add, as you have headed Mr. Wyatt's communication "Tracts
+attributed to Eachard," thereby casting a doubt upon his authorship,
+that there is no doubt about Dr. John Eachard being the author of all
+the tracts which Mr. Wyatt enumerates; nor was there any concealment by
+Eachard. His authorship of the _Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of
+the Clergy_ is notorious. The "Epistle Dedicatory," signed "J.E.,"
+mentioned by Mr. Wyatt as prefixed to the Dialogue on Hobbes' _State of
+Nature_, refers also to the five subsequent letters. These were
+published at the same time with the Dialogue on Hobbes, in one volume,
+and are answers to attacks on the _Grounds and Occasions_, &c. The
+Epistle Dedicatory is addressed to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of
+Canterbury, "and," says Eachard, "I hope my dialogue will not find the
+less acceptance with your Grace for these Letters which follow after."
+
+The second edition of the volume I have by me, published in 1672: the
+title, _Mr. Hobbes's State of Nature considered, &c.; to which are
+added, Five Letters from the Author of "The Grounds and Occasions of the
+Contempt of the Clergy."_
+
+C.
+
+
+_Masters of St. Cross._--In reply to "H. EDWARDS" (No. 22. p. 352.), A
+List of the Masters of St. Cross, I believe, is given in Browne Willis's
+_Mitred Abbies_, vol. i.; but the most correct and perfect list is in
+the _Sketches of Hampshire_, by the late John Duthy, Esq. Henry or
+Humfrey de Milers is the first master whose name is recorded, and
+nothing further is known of him: between Bishop Sherborne and Bishop
+Compton there were thirteen masters.
+
+F.J.B.
+
+
+Has "H. EDWARDS" seen the _History of St. Cross Hospital_, by Mr. Moody,
+published within the last six months? It may materially assist him.
+
+JOHN R. FOX
+
+
+_A living Dog better than a dead Lion._--Your correspondent "MR. JOHN
+SANSOM" may, perhaps, accept the following as an answer to the first
+part of his Query (No. 22. p. 352.). In an ancient MS. preserved in the
+archives of the see of Ossory, at fol. 66., is entered, in a hand of the
+latter part of the fourteenth century, a list of ancient proverbs under
+the following heading:-- {405}
+
+    "Eux sount les proverbes en fraunceys conferme par auctorite del
+    _Dibil_?
+
+      "Chers amys receiuez de moy
+      Un beau present q vo' envoy,
+      Non pas dor ne dargent
+      Mais de bon enseignment,
+      Que en escriptur ai trove
+      E de latin translatee, &c. &c."
+
+Amongst them is the following:--
+
+  "Meux valt un chien sein e fort
+  Qe un leoun freid e mort;
+  E meux valt povert od bountex
+  Qe richeste od malueiste."
+
+Jesus, the Son of Sirak, is not, however, the authority for this
+proverb; it occurs in the 9th chapter of Ecclesiastes and 4th verse.
+
+And now, to ask a question in turn, what is meant by "auctorite _del
+Dibil_?"
+
+JAMES GRAVES.
+Kilkenny.
+
+
+_Monumental Brass_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--On the floor of the Thorncombe
+church, in the co. of Devon, is a splendid brass, representing Sir T.
+Brooke, and Joan, his wife, dated respectively 1419 and 1436. At the
+lower corner of the lady's robe is engraven a small dog, with a collar
+and bells. May not these figures be the private mark of the artist?
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_The Wickliffite Version of the Scriptures._--I have in my possession a
+very fair MS. of Wickliff's translation of the New Testament; and should
+the editors of the Wickliffite Versions like to see my MS., and let me
+know to whom I may send it, I shall be happy to lend it them.
+
+DANIEL ROCK.
+Buckland, Faringdon.
+
+_Hever_ (pp. 269. 342.).--In confirmation of the meaning assigned to
+this word, there is an estate near Westerham, in Kent, called
+"Hever's-wood."
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Steward Family_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--Though not an answer to his
+question, "O.C." may like to be informed that the arms of the impalement
+in the drawing which he describes are (according to Izacke's _Exeter_)
+those which were borne by Ralph Taxall, Sheriff of Devon, in 1519. Pole
+calls him Texshall. Modern heralds give the coat to Pecksall of
+Westminster. If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the
+coat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in
+saltier, between four owls.
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Gloves_ (No. 5. p. 72.).--In connection with the subject of the
+presentation of gloves, I would refer your correspondents to the curious
+scene in Vicar's _Parliamentary Chronicle_, where "Master Prynne," on
+his visit to Archbishop Laud in the Tower in May 1643, accepts "a fair
+pair of gloves, upon the Archbishop's extraordinary pressing
+importunity;" a present which, under the disagreeable circumstances of
+the interview, seems to have been intended to convey an intimation
+beyond that of mere courtesy.
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Cromlech._--As your learned correspondent "Dr. TODD" (No. 20. p. 319.)
+queries this word, I think it is very doubtful whether the word was in
+use, or not, before the period mentioned (16th century). Dr. Owain Pughe
+considered the word "cromlech" (_crwm-llech_, an inclined or flat
+stone,) to be merely a popular name, having no reference to the original
+purpose of the structure. The only Triadic name that will apply to the
+cromlechs, is _maen ketti_ (stone chests, or arks), the raising of which
+is described as one of "The three mighty labours of the Isle of
+Britain."
+
+GOMER.
+
+
+_Watewich_ (pp. 60. 121. 236.).--May not "Watewich" be Waterbeach?
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+"_By Hook or by Crook._"--I imagine that the expression "By hook or by
+crook" is in very general use throughout England. It was familiar to my
+ear forty years ago in Surrey, and within these four years its origin
+was (to my satisfaction at the moment) brought home to my comprehension
+in the North of Devon, where the tenant of a certain farm informed me
+that, by an old custom, he was entitled to take wood from some adjoining
+land "_by hook and crook_;" which, on inquiry, I understood to include,
+first, so much underwood as he could cut with the _hook_ or bill, and,
+secondly, so much of the branches of trees as he could pull down with
+the aid of a _crook_.
+
+Whether this crook originally meant the shepherd's crook (a very
+efficient instrument for the purpose), or simply such a _crook_-ed
+_stick_ as boys use for gathering hazel-nuts, is not very material. It
+seems highly probable that, in the vast forests which once overspread
+this country, the right of taking "_fire bote_" by "hook or crook" was
+recognised; and we can hardly wish for a more apt illustration of the
+idea of gaining a desired object by the ordinary means--"a hook," if it
+lay close to our hand; or, by a method requiring more effort, "a crook,"
+if it were a little beyond our reach.
+
+J.A.S.
+
+
+_By Hook or by Crook_ (pp. 205, 237. 281. &c.).--In confirmation of this
+phrase having reference to forest customs, my hind told me that my
+plantations were plundered by hook or by crook, and he and I once caught
+a man in _flagrante delicto_, with a hook for cutting green wood, and a
+crook at the end of a long pole for breaking off dry branches, which
+could not be otherwise reached. For an early use of the term, see
+Bacon's _Fortress of the Faithful_, 1550.
+
+    "Whatsoever is pleasant or profitable must be theirs by hook or
+    by crook."
+
+S.S.S. {406}
+
+
+_Tablet to Napoleon._--Will it assist "EMDEE's" interpretation of the
+inscription to Napoleon (No. 17 p. 262.) if I suggest that it may
+mean--Ægyptiaco bis, Italico semper invicto?
+
+C.I.R.
+Feb. 25.
+
+
+_Lines on Pharaoh_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--I beg to inform "J.T.," that the
+well-known _couplet_ about Pharaoh, and _rascal_ rhyming to _pascal_,
+are from a certain _History of the Bible_, or _Bible History_, by the
+Rev. Dr. Zachary Boyd, of Todrig, who was either Principal or Professor
+of Divinity at Glasgow in the seventeenth century.
+
+He left considerable property to the College there, on condition that
+his bust should be placed in the quadrangle, and his great work printed
+under the care of the Academical Senatus. The bust was placed
+accordingly, and is, or lately was, to be seen in a niche over the inner
+doorway. The _History_ was also printed, it is said, but never
+published. However, curious visitors have always, I believe, been
+allowed a peep into it--whether the MS. or the solitary printed book, I
+am not sure--and a few choice morsels are current. I recollect one stave
+of the lamentation of Jonah--
+
+  "Lord! what a doleful place is this!
+    There's neither coal nor candle;
+  And nothing I but fishes' tripes
+    And greasy guts do bandle."
+
+I think it a shame that the Maitland Club of Glasgow has not, ere now,
+volunteered an edition of Zachary's immortal performance. The _Senatus_
+would hardly object (if the expense were undertaken), as the circulation
+would be confined to true Scots.
+
+PHILOBODIUS.
+
+    [The following communication from a very competent authority,
+    and the very passage quoted by "PHILOBODIUS" himself, quite
+    justify the non-publication of Zachary's doggrel.]
+
+
+_Zachary Boyd_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Your notice of Zachary Boyd, and his
+extraordinary paraphrase of the Bible in the College at Glasgow, has
+reminded me of my having examined that strange work, and found ample
+cause for its not being published, though a sufficient sum was
+bequeathed for that purpose. The whole doggrel is only calculated to
+bring ridicule and contempt upon the Scriptures; but there are, besides,
+passages such as refer to Job's "Curse God, and die;" to Jeshuram waxing
+fat; to Jonah in the whale's belly; and other parts, which utterly unfit
+the MS. for decent perusal.
+
+W. JERDAN.
+
+
+_Welsh Ambassador._--The origin of the word "Welsh," from the Saxon
+"Wealh," a stranger, and the use of it in this sense by our old writers
+(see Brady's _Introd._, p. 5.: Sir T. Smith's _Commonwealth of England_,
+chap. xiii.), sufficiently explain this designation of the Cuckoo, the
+temporary resident of our cold climate, and the ambassador
+_extraordinary_ in the revolutions of the seasons, in the words of the
+Nursery Rhymes,--
+
+    "She comes as a _stranger_, and stays three months in the year."
+
+    "Quid tibi vis aliud dicam? me _vox mea prodit_."
+
+    _Alciati, Emblema_ lx. _Cuculi, Comment_.
+
+T.J.
+
+
+_Prince Madoc._--I was much gratified on reading "T.T.'s" note,
+commenting on my observations respecting the Mandan language, as he
+proves the existence of Celtic words amongst the American Indians.
+Regarding "T.T.'s" doubts as to the Mandans being descended from the
+followers of Madoc, I confess that my opinions on the point do not
+differ very widely from his own. The circumstances attending Madoc's
+emigration, in the paucity of its numbers and the entire separation from
+the mother country, with the character of the Indians, would almost
+ensure the ultimate destruction of the settlement, or the ultimate
+absorption of its remains by those who might have had friendly relations
+with the Welsh. In this most favourable view, the evidences of the
+presence of the Welsh seven centuries since would be few indeed at the
+present day. The most striking circumstance of this nature that I met
+with in Mr. Catlin's work, is a description of what he calls a
+"bull-boat," from its being covered with a bull's hide, which, in
+construction and form, is perfectly identical with the Welsh "_cwrygl_."
+Yet, strong as this resemblance is, it will have but little weight if
+unsupported by other evidence. In conclusion, I would observe, that I
+never supposed Prince Madoc to be the discover of America, but that his
+voyage was induced by the knowledge that other lands existed in the
+great ocean (_see_ Humboldt's _Examen critique_). The emblems found in
+America, and said to be crosses, are obviously the _tau_ [cross symbol],
+or symbol of life, and can have no connection with Christianity.
+
+GOMER.
+
+
+_Poghell_ (No. 12. p. 186.).--In Cornwall and Devon there are places
+called Poughill or Poghill,--in _Domesday_, Pochelle; and in the
+_Taxatio Ecclesiastica_, Pockehulle and Pogheheulle. The etymology of
+the word, I take to be merely the addition (as is often found) of the
+Anglo-Saxon _hill_, or _hull_, to the old Teutonic word Pock, or Pok, an
+eruption or protrusion. In low Latin, Pogetum is colliculus. (See
+Ducange.)
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_Swingeing Tureen_ (No. 19. p. 211., and No. 21. p. 340.).--How could
+"SELEUCUS" "conclude" that Goldsmith's "Poor Beau Tibbs and Kitty his
+Wife," should have had "a _silver_ tureen" of expensive construction? It
+is evident that "Kitty's" husband, in the "Haunch of Venison," was the
+Beau Tibbs of the "Citizen of the World." There can be no doubt that,
+however the word be spelled, {407} the meaning is _swingeing_, "huge,
+great," which I admit was generally, if not always, in those days
+spelled swinging, as in Johnson--"_Swinging_, from _swinge, huge,
+great_;" but which ought to be, as it is pronounced, _swingeing_.
+
+_Tureen_ (pp. 246. 307. 340.).--"And instead of soup in a China
+terrene." (Knox, Essay 57 _Works_. vol. ii. p. 572.)
+
+S.S.S.
+
+
+_"A" or "An."--Quem Deus vult perdere._--Allow me to refer your
+correspondents "PRISCIAN" and "E.S. JACKSON" (of No. 22.), to the
+_Selections from the Gentleman's Magazine_, London, 1814, vol. ii. pp.
+333. and 162., for some interesting papers on the subjects of their
+respective inquiries.
+
+The paper first referred to, at p. 333., is certainly well worth
+perusal, as the writer, "KUSTER," has examined the question with
+considerable care, and proves, by many curious instances, that most of
+those whom we have been taught to look up to as the greatest authorities
+in English writing--Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and others--seem to
+have had no fixed rule on the subject, but to have used "a" or "an"
+before the same words with the most reckless inconsistency.
+
+The second paper, at p. 162., gives a more detailed account of the
+adage, "Quem Deus (potius _Jupiter_) vult perdere," &c., than "F.C.B."
+(whose object, of course, was rather to compare _results_ than to trace
+_derivations_) has supplied in his interesting communication.
+
+C. FORBES.
+
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+
+
+MISCELLANEOUS.
+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.
+
+Such of our readers as do not possess Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic
+and Provincial Words_, which Mr. Way, a very competent authority, lately
+designated in our columns as Mr. Halliwell's "useful glossarial
+collections," will be glad to learn that Mr. Russell Smith has announced
+a second and cheaper edition of it.
+
+The new number of the _Archæological Journal_ is a very interesting one.
+That portion if it, more particularly, which relates the Proceedings of
+the Meetings of the Archæological Institute, contains a great mass of
+curious and valuable information; made the more available and
+instructive by means of the admirable woodcuts by which it is
+illustrated.
+
+We have received several curious communications on the subject of Parish
+Registers, with reference to the article on "Early Statistics," and the
+"Registers of Chart, Kent," to which we shall endeavour to give early
+insertion. We have also received a copy of _A Letter addressed to R.
+Monckton Milnes, Esq. M.P., on the Condition and unsafe State of Ancient
+Parochial Registers in England and the Colonies_, to which we beg to
+direct the attention of such of our friends as take an interest in this
+important subject.
+
+Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell on Monday,
+the 29th instant, and three following days, a selection from the
+valuable library of the Rev. Dr. Maitland. Although only a selection
+from the library of the learned historian of the Dark Ages, the
+Catalogue exhibits, in addition to numerous Polyglot and other important
+editions of the Scriptures, and the great collections of Baronius,
+Mabillon, Dupin, Martene, and Durand, &c., a vast number of works of the
+highest value in the departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.
+
+We have received the following Catalogues:--Part III. for 1850 of J.
+Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street) Catalogue of Books and
+Autographs, chiefly Old and Curious. Part II. for 1850 of a Catalogue of
+Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books, in fine condition, on sale by
+Waller and Son (188. Fleet Street).
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
+
+WANTED TO PURCHASE.
+
+(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos._)
+
+SACRED SONGS, DUETS, AND TRIOS, Words by Thomas Moore; Music by
+Stephenson and Moore. Power, Strand.
+
+SIR PETER PETT'S DISCOURSE OF THE GROWTH OF ENGLAND, &c. (being the 2nd
+edition of the "Happy Future of England.")
+
+MONK'S LETTERS RELATING TO THE RESTORATION, published by Toland,
+1714-15.
+
+LADY RUSSELL'S LETTERS, edited by Miss Berry.
+
+DU QUESNE'S ACCOUNT OF BOURBON, published in Holland about 1689.
+
+VOYAGE DE L'ARABIE HEUREUSE PAR L'OCEAN ORIENTAL ET LE DETROIT DE LA MER
+ROUGE, 12mo. Paris, 1716.
+
+SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 8vo. Cape Town, 1830 (all that is
+published).
+
+Odd Volumes
+
+HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS, Nos. forming Vol. I. of Longman's 1st edition,
+1847-48.
+
+PERUSSAC'S BULLETIN DES SCIENCES NATURELLES, Vols. XIX. to XXVII.,
+Paris, 1829-31.
+
+SOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS, Vols. IX. and X.
+
+LANGARD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 12mo. edition of 1839. Vols. V. to IX.
+(both inclusive).
+
+PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA. Monthly Parts 82, 84 to 90 (both inclusive), 92, 93,
+94, 96, 97, 99 to 113 (both inclusive).
+
+Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be
+sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+Adolphus' History of England. "INDACATOR" _is informed that the
+continuation of this work is proceeding with, as fast as Mr. L.
+Adolphus' professional duties will admit; and we are sure that gentleman
+would at all times readily explain, to those entitled to ask him what
+progress has been made in it_.
+
+_Our numerous Correspondents will, we trust, excuse our specially
+acknowledging the receipt of their various communications, and agree
+with us in the propriety of economising our limited room, so as to
+insert rather than acknowledge the articles with which they have
+favoured us._
+
+_A Third Edition of Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4., forming Part I., is reprinted,
+so that complete sets of our work may again be had._
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {408}
+
+Theological and Miscellaneous Library of the Rev. S.R. Maitland, DD., A
+noble Mahogany Bookcase, &c.
+
+PUTTICK and SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary property, will SELL by
+AUCTION, at their great Room 191. Piccadilly, on Monday, April 29., and
+three following days, the Library of the Rev. S.R. Maitland, D.D.;
+consisting of Versions of the Scared Scriptures, a fine copy of Walton's
+Polyglott (with the Republican Variations in the Preface), Critical and
+Expository Works, best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the
+Church, Ecclesiastical History, Councils Canon Law, and Miscellaneous
+Literature. Catalogues are now ready, and will be sent on application.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+On a large sheet, price 7s. 6d. plain; 15s. richly coloured; in case
+10s. 6d. plain; 18s. coloured.
+
+A CHART of ANCIENT ARMOUR, from the ELEVENTH to the SEVENTEENTH
+CENTURIES; containing Eighteen Figures, with a Description and a Sketch
+of the Progress of European Armour. By JOHN HEWITT.
+
+"A graphic outline of the subject of military costume during the period
+of its greatest interest to the English antiquary. The author has made a
+judicious selection of the examples, chiefly from the rich series of
+monumental effigies; and, in the brief text which accompanies these
+illustrations, a useful resumé will be found of a subject which, not
+many years since was attainable only through the medium of costly
+publications."--_Archæological Journal._
+
+GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE PRIMÆVAL ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND ILLUSTRATED BY THOSE OF DENMARK.
+
+THE PRIMÆVAL ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK. By J.J.A. WORSAAE, Member of the
+Royal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen. Translated and applied to
+the Illustration of similar Remains in England, by WILLIAM J. THOMS,
+F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society. With numerous Woodcuts. 8vo.
+10s. 6d.
+
+"The best antiquarian handbook we have eve met with--so clear is its
+arrangement and so well and so plainly is each subject illustrated by
+well-executed engravings.... It is the joint production of two men who
+have already distinguished themselves as authors and
+antiquarians."--_Morning Herald._
+
+"A book of remarkable interest and ability.... Mr. Worsaae's book is in
+all ways a valuable addition to our literature.... Mr. Thoms has
+executed the translation in flowing an idiomatic English, and has
+appended many curious and interesting notes and observations of his
+own."--_Guardian._
+
+"This work, which we desire to commend to the attention of our readers,
+is signally interesting to the British antiquary. Highly interesting and
+important work."--_Archæological Journal._
+
+See also _Gentleman's Magazine_ for February, 1850.
+
+JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford, and 377. Strand. London.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEARLY READY.
+
+CHOICE EXAMPLES OF THE WORKMANSHIP Selected from the Exhibition of
+ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL ART at the Society of Arts
+
+A Prospectus, containing a Specimen of the Illustrations, will be sent
+on receipt of two postage stamps.
+
+JOSEPH CUNDALL, 21. Old Bond Street.
+
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+
+THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY.--The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society will
+be held on FRIDAY NEXT, the 26th inst., at the Rooms of the Royal
+Society of Literature, No. 4. St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square, at
+which the attendance of Subscribers is earnestly solicited. The Chair
+will be taken a THREE o'clock precisely.
+
+By Order of the Council,
+F.G. TOMLINS, Secretary
+Agent to the Society, Mr. Skeffington, No. 192. Piccadilly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHURCH WARDER and DOMESTIC MAGAZINE contains Theological, Historical
+and Moral Papers, besides amusing and instructive Tales. Price Twopence.
+Published by GROOMBRIDGE and SONS, Paternoster Row, on the First of
+every Month.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Royal 32mo., cloth 2s.; morocco (Hayday), 7s.
+
+SELDEN'S TABLE TALK
+
+Royal 32mo., price 2s. 6d. cloth, 7s. 6d. morocco (Hayday). THE TEMPLE,
+SACRED POEMS, and PRIVATE EJACULATIONS. By GEORGE HERBERT.
+
+Also, by the same Author, Price 2s. cloth, 7s. morocco (Hayday). A
+PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE; or, THE COUNTRY PARSON: his Character, and rule of
+Holy Life, &c.
+
+London: GEORGE BELL, Fleet Street. Leicester: J.S. CROSSLEY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Next week, 1 vol. 8vo., with etched Frontispiece, by Wehnert, and Eight
+Engravings, price 15s.
+
+SABRINÆ COROLLA: a Volume of Classical Translations with original
+Compositions contributed by Gentlemen educated at Shrewsbury School.
+
+Among the Contributors are the Head Masters of Shewsbury, Stamford,
+Repton, Uppingham, and Birmingham Schools; Andrew Lawson, Esq., late
+M.P.; the Rev. R. Shilleto, Cambridge; the Rev. T.S. Evans, Rugby; J.
+Riddell, Esq., Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford; the Rev. E.M. Cope,
+H.J. Hodgson, Esq., H.A.J. Munro, Esq., W.G. Clark, Esq., Fellows of
+Trinity College, Cambridge, and many other distinguished Scholars from
+both Universities.
+
+The Work is edited by three of the principal Contributors.
+
+Folio, price 30s.
+
+THE CHORAL RESPONSES AND LITANIES OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND
+IRELAND. Collected from Authentic Sources. By the Rev. JOHN JEBB, A.M.,
+Rector of Peterstow.
+
+The present Work contains a full collection of the harmonized
+compositions of ancient date, including nine sets of pieces and
+responses, and fifteen litanies, with a few of the more ancient Psalm
+Chants. They are given in full score, and in their proper cliffs. In the
+upper part, however, the treble is substituted for the "cantus" or
+"medius" cliff: and the whole work is so arranged as to suit the library
+of the musical student, and to be fit for use in the Choir.
+
+MEMOIRS OF MUSIC. By the Hon. ROGER NORTH, Attorney-General to James I.
+Now first printed from the original MS. and edited, with copious Notes,
+by EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, L.L.D., F.S.A., &c. &c. Quarto; with a Portrait;
+handsomely printed in 4to.; half-bound in morocco, 15s.
+
+This interesting MS., so frequently alluded to by Dr. Burney in the
+course of his "History of Music," has been kindly placed at the disposal
+of the Council of the Musical Antiquarian Society, by George Townshend
+Smith, Esq., Organist of Hereford Cathedral. But the Council, not
+feeling authorised to commence a series of literary publications, yet
+impressed with the value of the work, have suggested its independent
+publication to their Secretary, Dr. Rimbault, under whose editorial care
+it accordingly appears.
+
+It abounds with interesting Musical Anecdotes; the Greek Fables
+respecting the origin of Music; the rise and progress of Musical
+Instruments; the early Musical Drama; the origin of our present
+fashionable Concerts; the first performance of the Beggar's Opera, &c.
+
+A limited number having been printed, few copies remain for sale: unsold
+copies will shortly be raised in price to 1l. 11s. 6d.
+
+LONDON: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
+
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+
+Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square,
+at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride,
+in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL,
+of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in
+the West, in the City of London, Publisher,
+at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, April 20. 1850.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 25. Saturday,
+April 20, 1850, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13747 ***