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diff --git a/old/13747.txt b/old/13747.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acd0f4b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/13747.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2341 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 25. Saturday, April +20, 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 & Queries, No. 25. Saturday, April 20, 1850 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: October 14, 2004 [EBook #13747] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 25. *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team, and The Internet Library of Early Journals + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 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--Theses--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 Graeca_. +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 Angliae et Hiberniae 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 Litteraire_. 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 Caesar 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 verduedeschet dorch + Doct. Mart. Luth. Wittemberch. Hans Lufft. 1579." (in folio.) + "Dat Neu Testamente verduedeschet doerch 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 _Praeses_. But is not unfrequently happened, that +this Praeses 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 Praeses." + +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 ano 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 teologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor + contemporaneo o de poco tiempo despues, parte de los cuales + manuscritos, es a saber, los caldeos, son de letra de Alfonso de + Zamora, que es uno de los tres judios 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 Lempriere. 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 "Naeostadium _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. + + * * * * * + + +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 _Faedera_, 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 paves. + + "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--AEgyptiaco 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. 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