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Rich, Jun. 414 + +QUERIES:-- + When were Umbrellas introduced into England? by + E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 414 + Minor Queries:--Duke of Marlborough--"M. or N."--Song + of the Bees--William Godwin--Regimental + Badges--Mother of Thomas à Becket--Swords worn + in public--Emblem and National Motto of Ireland--Latin + Distich--Verbum Græcum--Pope Felix--"Where England's + Monarch." 415 + +REPLIES:-- + Gray's Alcaic Ode. 416 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Chapels--Beaver--Poins + and Bardolph--God tempers the Wind--Sterne's + Koran--Lollius--Bishop Ryder--Brown Study--Seven + Champions--Tempora mutantur, &c.--Vox Populi Vox + Dei--Cuckoo--Ancient Tiles--Daysman--Safeguard--Finkel--Gourders + of Rain--Urbanus Regius--Horns--_The_ or _A_ Temple--Ecclestiastical + Year--Paying through the Nose--Quem Deus--Shrew--Zenobia--Cromwell's + Estates--Vox et præterea Nihil--Law of Horses--Christ's + Hospital--Tickhill, God help me! 417 + +MISCELLANIES:-- + MSS. of Casaubon--Latin Epigram--"Nec pluribus + impar"--Close Translation--St. Antholin's Parish + Books. 422 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 423 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 423 + Notices to Correspondents. 423 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES + +NICHOLAS BRETON. + +Like Mr. COLLIER (No. 23. p. 364.), I have for many years felt "a +peculiar interest about Nicholas Breton," and an anxious desire to learn +something more of him, not only from being a sincere lover of many of +his beautiful lyrical and pastoral poems, as exhibited in _England's +Helicon_, _Davison's Poetical Rhapsodie_, and other numerous works of +his own, and from possessing several pieces of his which are not +generally known, but also from my intimate connection with the parish in +which he is supposed to have lived and died. From this latter +circumstance, especially, I had been most anxious to connect his name +with Norton, and have frequently cast a reverential and thoughtful eye +on the simple monument which has been supposed to record his name; +hoping, yet not without doubts, that some evidence would still be found +which would prove it to be really that of the poet. It was therefore +with the utmost pleasure that I read Mr. Collier's concluding paragraph, +that he is "in possession of undoubted proof that he was the Nicholas +Breton whose epitaph is on the chancel-wall of the church of Norton in +Northamptonshire." + +It seems strange that, notwithstanding the number and variety of his +writings, the length of time he was before the public, and the +estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries, so little should +be known concerning Breton, and the circumstances of his life be still +involved in such great obscurity. In looking over his various +publications, it is remarkable how little is to be gleaned in the +preliminary prefixes which relate to his own personal history, and how +very rarely he touches on any thing referring to himself. There is a +plaintive and melancholy strain running through many of his works, and I +am inclined to the opinion entertained by Sir Egerton Bridges and +others, that cares, and misfortunes, and continued disappointments had +brought on melancholy and despair, and that the plaintive and touching +nature of his writings were occasioned by real sorrows and sufferings. +This seems at variance with his being the purchaser of the manor and +lordship of Norton, and in the possession and enjoyment of this world's +goods. Thus in his _Auspicante Jehova Maries Exercise_, 8vo. 1597, one +of the rarest of his works, in the dedication to Mary, Countess of +Pembroke, speaking of his temporal condition, he remarks, "I have soncke +my fortune in the worlde, hauing only the light of vertue to leade my +hope unto Heauen:" and signs himself "Your La. sometime unworthy Poet, +and now, and ever poore Beadman, Nich. Breton." And the "Address" after +it is signed, "Your poore friend or servant N.B." I am aware that these +phrases are sometimes used in a figurative sense, but am disposed to +think that here they are intended for something real. And I am at a loss +how to reconcile these expressions of poverty with his being the +purchaser and enjoyer of such an estate. I shall wait, therefore, with +considerable anxiety till it may suit the pleasure or convenience {410} +of Mr. Collier to communicate to the world the proofs he has obtained of +the poet's identification with the Norton monument. I would, however, +further add, that so late as 1606, the Dedication to _the Praise of +Vertuous Ladies_ is dated "From my Chamber in the Blacke-Fryers," and +that not one of his later productions is dated from Norton, which +probably would have been the case had he been resident there. + +I regret that I am unable to afford Mr. Collier any information +respecting the "Crossing of Proverbs," beyond the fact of the late Mr. +Rodd being the purchaser of Mr. Heber's fragment, but whether on +commission or not, I cannot say, nor where it now is. The same kind of +proverbs are given in _Wit's Private Wealth_, 1603, and in some other of +his works. + +Nicholas Breton, besides being a pleasing and polished writer of lyric +and pastoral poetry, appears to have been a close and attentive observer +of nature and manners,--abounding in wit and humour,--and a pious and +religious man. He was also a soldier, a good fisherman, and a warm +admirer of Queen Elizabeth, of whom he gives a beautiful character in +"_A Dialogue full of pithe and pleasure, upon the Dignitie or Indignitie +of Man_," 4to., 1603, on the reverse of Sig. c. iii. + +As it is sometimes desirable to know where copies of the rarer +productions of a writer are to be met with, I may state, that among some +five or six-and-twenty of this author's pieces, besides the _Auspicante +Jehova Maries Exercise_, 8vo. 1597, already mentioned, of which I know +of no other copy than my own, I possess also the only one of _A small +handfull of Fragrant Flowers_, 8vo. 1575, and _A Floorish upon Fancie_, +4to. 1582, both reprinted in the Heliconia; _Marie Magdalen's Loue_, +with _A Solemne Passion of the Soules Loue_, 8vo. 1595, the first part +in prose, the latter in six-line stanzas, and very rare; _Fantastics: +seruing for a Perpetual Prognostication_, 4to. 1626; and _Wit's +Trenchmour, In a conference had betwixt a Scholler and an Angler. +Written by Nich. Breton, Gentleman_, 4to. bl. lett. 1597, the only copy +known and not included in Lowndes's list, which, from the style of its +composition and the similarity of some of the remarks, is supposed to +have been the original work from which Izaac Walton first took the idea +of his _Complete Angler_. + +THOMAS CORSER. +Stand Rectory, April 16. 1850. + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON. + +_Baldwin's Gardens._--A passage upon the east side of Gray's Inn Lane, +leading into Leather Lane. Tom Brown dates some introductory verses, +prefixed to Playford's _Pleasant Musical Companion_, 1698, "from Mr. +Steward's, at the Hole-in-the-Wall, in _Baldwin's Gardens_." There is +extant a single sheet with an engraved head, published by J. Applebee, +1707, and called,-- + + "The English and French Prophets mad, or bewitcht, at their + assemblies in _Baldwin's Gardens_." + +A Letter of Anthony Wood's, in the writer's collection, is thus +addressed:-- + + "For John Aubrey, Esq. To be left at Mr. Caley's house, in + _Baldwin's Gardens_, neare Gray's Inne Lane, London." + +_The White Hart, Bishopsgate Street._--A tavern said to be of very +ancient date. In front of the present building, the writer of the +present notice observed (in 1838) the date cut in stone, 1480. + +_The Nag's Head, Cheapside._--A view of this tavern is preserved in a +print of the entry of Mary de Medici, when she paid a visit to her +son-in-law and daughter, the unfortunate Charles I. and his queen. + +_St. Paul's Alley._-- + + "Whereas, the yearly meeting of the name of Adam hath of late, + through the deficiency of the last stewards, been neglected, + these are to give notice to all gentlemen, and others that are + of that name, that, at William Adams', commonly called 'The + Northern Alehouse,' in _St. Paul's Alley_, in St. Paul's Church + Yard, there will be a weekly meeting, every Monday night, of our + namesakes, between the hours of 6 and 8 of the clock in the + evening, in order to choose stewards to revive our antient and + annual feast."--_Domestic Intelligence_, 1681. + +_St. Paul's Churchyard._-- + + "In St. Paul's Church Yard were formerly many shops where music + and musical instruments were sold, for which, at this time, no + better reason can be given than that the service at that + Cathedral drew together, twice a day, all the lovers of music in + London; not to mention that the chairmen were wont to assemble + there, where they were met by their friends and acquaintance."-- + _Sir John Hawkins' History of Music_, vol. v. p. 108. + +_The French Change, Soho._--A place so called in the reign of Queen +Anne. Gough, in a MS. note, now before us, thought it stood on the site +of the present bazaar. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON THE DODO. + +I have to thank "Mr. S.W. SINGER" (No. 22. p. 353.) for giving some +interesting replies to my "Dodo Queries" (No. 17. p. 261.). I trust that +Mr. S. will be induced to pursue the inquiry further, and especially to +seek for some _Portuguese_ account of the Mascarene Islands, prior to +the Dutch expedition of 1598. I am now able to state that the supposed +proof of the discovery of Bourbon by the Portuguese in 1545, on the +authority of a stone pillar, the figure of which Leguat has copied {411} +from Du Qesne, who copied it from Flacourt, turns out to be inaccurate. +On referring to Flacourt's _Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar_, +4to., Paris, 1658, p. 344, where the original figure of this monument is +given, I find that the stone was not found in Bourbon at all, but in +"l'Islet des Portugais," a small island at the mouth of the river +Fanshere (see Flacourt, p. 32.), near the S.E. extremity of Madagascar. +From this place Flacourt removed it to the neighbouring settlement of +Fort Dauphin in 1653, and engraved the arms of France on the opposite +side to those of Portugal. We are therefore still without any historical +record of the first discovery of Bourbon and Mauritius, though, from the +unanimous consent of later compilers, we may fairly presume that the +Portuguese were the discoverers. + +The references which Mr. Singer has given to two works which mention the +_Oiseau bleu_ of Bourbon, are very important, as the only other known +authority for this extinct bird is the MS. Journal of Sieur D.B., which +thus receives full confirmation. May I ask Mr. Singer whether either of +these writers mentions the _Solitaire_ as inhabiting Bourbon? + +The "Oiseaux appelez _Flamands_" quoted by Mr. S., are merely +_Flamingos_, and are devoid of interest as regards the present question. + +The history of the Dodo's head at Copenhagen, referred to by Mr. Singer, +is fully recorded in the _Dodo and its Kindred_, pp. 25. 33. + +The name _Dodo_ seems to have been first applied to the bird by Sir +Thomas Herbert, in 1634, who adds, in his edition of 1638, "a Portuguese +name it is, and has reference to her simpleness." Before that time the +Dutch were in the habit of calling it _Dodars_, _Dodaers_, _Toters_, and +_Dronte_. I had already made the same guesses at the etymology of these +words as those which Mr. Singer has suggested, but not feeling fully +satisfied with them, I put forth my Query VII. for the chance of +obtaining some further elucidation. + +Mr. Singer's reasonings on the improbability of Tradescant's specimen of +the Dodo having been a fabrication are superfluous, seeing that the head +and foot of this individual are, as is well known, still in existence, +and form the subjects of six plates in the _Dodo and its Kindred_. + +In regard to my Query IX. as to the local habitation of the family of +_Dronte_, who bore a Dodo on their shield, it has been suggested to me +by the Rev. Richard Hooper (who first drew my attention to this armorial +bearing), that the family was probably foreign to Britain. It appears +that there was a family named _Dodo_, in Friesland, a member of which +(Augustin Dodo, deceased in 1501) was the first editor of St. +Augustine's works. Mr. Hooper suggests that possibly this family may +have subsequently adopted the Dodo as their arms, and that Randle Holme +may, by a natural mistake, have changed the name of the family, in his +_Academy of Armory_, from _Dodo_ to the synonymous word _Dronte_. Can +none of your genealogical readers clear up this point? + +H.E. Strickland. + + * * * * * + +DERIVATION OF "STERLING" AND "PENNY". + +Your correspondent suggests (No. 24. p. 384.) an ingenious derivation +for the word _Sterling_; but one which perhaps he has been too ready to +adopt, inasmuch as it helped his other derivation of _peny_, from +_pecunia_ or _pecus_. I quote the following from _A short Treatise +touching Sheriff's Accompts_, by Sir Matthew Hale: London, 1683: + + "Concerning the second, _viz._ the matter or species whereof the + current coin of this kingdom hath been made, it is gold or + silver, but not altogether pure, but with an allay of copper, at + least from the time of King H. I. and H. II., though possibly in + ancienter times the species whereof the coin was made might be + pure gold or silver; and this allay was that which gave the + denomination of Sterling to that coin, _viz._ Sterling Gold, or + Sterling Silver. Wherein there will be inquirable, + + "1. Whence that denomination came? + + "2. How ancient that denomination was? + + "3. What was the allay that gave silver that denomination? + + "For the former of these there are various conjectures, and + nothing of certainty. + + "_Spelman_ supposeth it to take that denomination from the + Esterlings, who, as he supposeth, came over and reformed our + coin to that allay. Of this opinion was _Camden. A Germanis, + quos Angli_ Esterlings, _aborientali situ, vocarunt, facta est + appellatio; quos_ Johannes _Rex, ad argentum in suam puritatem + redigendam, primus evocavit; et ejus modi nummi_ Esterlingi, _in + antiquis scripturis semper reperiuntur_. Some suppose that it + might be taken up from the _Starre Judæorum_, who, being the + great brokers for money, accepted and allowed money of that + allay for current payment of their stars or obligations; others + from the impression of a starling, or an asterisk upon the coin. + _Pur ceo que le form d'un Stare, dont le diminutive est + Sterling, fuit impressit on stamp sur ceo. Auters pur ceo que le + primer de cest Standard fuit coyn en le Castle de Sterlin in_ + Scotland _pur le Roy_ Edw. I. And possibly as the proper name of + the fourth part of a Peny was called a Farthing, ordinarily a + Ferling; so in truth the proper name of a Peny in those times + was called a Sterling, without any other reason of it than the + use of the times and arbitrary imposition, as other names + usually grow. For the old Act of 51 H. III., called _Compositio + Mensurarum_, tells us that _Denarius Anglice Sterlingus + dicitur_; and because this was the root of the measure, + especially of Silver Coin, therefore all our Coin of the same + allay was also called Sterling, as five Shillings Sterling, five + Pounds Sterling. + + "When this name of Sterling came first in is uncertain, only we + are certain it was a denomination in use in the time of H. III. + or Ed. I. and after ages. But it was not in use at the time of + the compiling of {412} Doomsday, for if it were we should have + found it there where there is so great occasion of mention of + Firmes, Rents, and Payments. Hovended in _Rich. I fol. 377. b._ + Nummus _a_ Numa, _que fuit le primer Roy que fesoit moneies en_ + Rome. _Issint Sterlings, alias Esterlings, queux primes fesoient + le money de cest Standard en_ Engleterre."--_Sheriffs' + Accompts_, p. 5-9. + +So much for the derivation of _Sterling_, which evidently applied +originally to the metal rather than to a coin. May I be allowed to +hazard a suggestion as to the origin of _peny_, its synonym? They were +each equivalent to the Denarius. + + "_Denarius Angliæ, qui nominatur Sterlingus, rotundus sine + tonsura, ponderabit 32 grana in medio spicæ. Sterlingus et + Denarius sont tout un. Le Shilling consistoit de 12 sterlings. + Le substance de cest denier ou sterling peny al primes fuit + vicessima pars unicæ._"--_Indentures of the Mint_, Ed. I and VI. + +May we not derive it from Denarius by means of either a typographical or +clerical error in the initial letter. This would at once give a new +name--the very thing they were in want of--and we may very easily +understand its being shortened into Penny. + +G. +Milford, April 15. + + * * * * * + +HANNO'S PERIPLUS. + +"Mr. Hampson" has served the cause of truth in defending Hanno and the +Carthaginians from the charge of cruelty, brought against them by Mr. +Attorney-General Bannister. A very slender investigation of the bearings +of the narration would have prevented it. I know not how Dr. Falconer +deals with it, not having his little volume at hand; but in so common a +book as the _History of Maritime Discovery_, which forms part of +Lardner's _Cabinet Cyclopædia_, it is stated that these _Gorillæ_ were +probably some species of _ourang-outang_. Purchas says they might be the +_baboons_ or _Pongos_ of those parts. + +The amusing, and always interesting, Italian, Hakluyt, in the middle of +the sixteenth century, gives a very good version of the [Greek: ANNONOS +PERIPLOUS], with a preliminary discourse, which would also have +undeceived Mr. Bannister, had he been acquainted with it, and prevented +Mr. Hampson's pleasant exposure of his error. + +Ramusio says, "Seeing that in the Voyage of Hanno there are many parts +worthy of considerate attention, I have judged that it would be highly +gratifying to the studious if I were here to write down a few extracts +from certain memoranda which I formerly noted on hearing a respectable +Portugese pilot, in frequent conversations with the Count Raimondo della +Torre, at Venice, illustrate this Voyage of Hanno, when read to him, +from his own experience." There are, of course, some erroneous notions +in the information of the pilot, and in the deductions made from it by +Ramusio; but the former had the sagacity to see the truth respecting +this _Gorgon Island full of hairy men and women_. I will not spoil the +_naïveté_ of the narration by attempting a translation; merely premising +that he judged the Island to be that of Fernando Po. + + "E tutta la descrittione de questo Capitano era simile a quella + per alcun Scrittore Greci, quale parlande dell' isola delle + Gorgone, dicono quella esser un isola in mezzo d'una palude. E + conciacosa che havea inteso che li poeti dicevan le Gorgone + esser femine terribili, però scrisse che le erano pelose.... Ma + a detto pilotto pareva più verisimile di pensare, che havendo + Hannone inteso ne'i libri de' poeti come Perseo era stato per + ære a questa isola, e di quivi reportata la testa di Medusa, + essendo egli ambitioso di far creder al mondo che lui vi fasse + audato per mare; e dar riputation a questo suo viaggio, di esser + penetrato fuio dove era stato Perseo; volesse portar due pelli + di Gorgone, e dedicarla nel tempio di Ginnone. Il che li fu + facil cosa da fare, conciosia cosa che IN TUTTA QUELLA COSTA SI + TRUOVINO INFINITE DI QUELLE SIMIE GRANDE, CHE FARENO PERSONE + HUMANE, DELLE BABUINE, le pelle delle quali poteva far egli + credere ad ogniuno che fussero state di femine." + +Gopelin, also, in his _Recherches sur la Géographie des Anciens_, +speaking of this part of Hanno's voyage, says: + + "Hanno encountered a troop of _Ourang-outangs_, which he took + for savages, because these animals walk erect, often having a + staff in their hands to support themselves, as well as for + attack or defence; and they throw stones when they are pursued. + They are the Satyrs and the Argipani with which Pliny says Atlas + was peopled. It would be useless to say more on this subject, as + it is avowed _by all the modern commentators of the Periplus_." + +The relation we have is evidently only an abridgment or summary made by +some Greek, studious of Carthaginian affairs, long subsequent to the +time of Hanno; and judging from a passage in Pliny (I. ii. c. 67.), it +appears that the ancients were acquainted with other extracts from the +original, yet, though its authenticity has been doubted by Strabo and +others, there seems to be little reason to question that it is a correct +_outline_ of the voyage. That the Carthaginians were oppressors of the +people they subjugated may be probable; yet we must not, on such slender +grounds as this narration affords, presume that they would wantonly kill +and flay _human beings_ to possess themselves of their skins! + +S.W. Singer +April 10. 1850. + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Cook-eels._--Forby derives this from _coquille_, in allusion to their +being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by +Cotgrave, who has "_Pain coquillé_, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, +somewhat like our stillyard bunne." I have always taken the word to be +"coquerells," from {413} the vending of such buns at the barbarous sport +of "throwing at the cock" on Shrove Tuesday. The cock is still commonly +called a cockerell in E. Anglia. Perhaps Mr. Wodderspoon will say +whether the buns of the present day are fashioned in any particular +manner, or whether any "the oldest inhabitant" has any recollection of +their being differently fashioned or at all impressed. What, too, are +the "_stillyard buns_" of Cotgrave? Are they tea-cakes? The apartment in +which tea was formerly made was called the _still_-room. + +Buriensis. + + +_Divination by the Bible and Key._--This superstition is very prevalent +amongst the peasantry of this and adjoining parishes. When any article +is suspected to have been stolen, a Bible is procured, and opened at the +1st chap. of Ruth: the stock of a street-door key is then laid on the +16th verse of the above chapter, and the key is secured in this position +by a string, bound tightly round the book. The person who works the +charm then places his two middle fingers under the handle of the key, +and this keeps the Bible suspended. He then repeats in succession the +names of the parties suspected of the theft; repeating at each name a +portion of the verse on which the key is placed, commencing, "Whither +thou goest, I will go," &c. When the name of the guilty is pronounced, +the key turns off the fingers, the Bible falls to the ground, and the +guilt of the party is determined. The belief of some the more ignorant +of the lower orders in this charm is unbounded. I have seen it practiced +in other counties, the key being laid over the 5th verse of the 19th +chap. of Proverbs, instead of the 1st chap. of Ruth. + +David Stevens. +Godalming, April 11. 1850. + + [In Brand's _Popular Antiquities_ (ed. Ellis). vol. iii. 188-9, + it is stated that the key is placed upon the 50th Psalm.] + + +_Weather Proverb._--Weather proverbs are among the most curious portions +of popular literature. That foul or fair weather is betokened according +as the rainbow is seen in the morning or evening, is recorded in the +following German "saw," which is nearly identical with our well-known +English Proverb: + + Regenbogen am Morgen + Macht dem Schäfer sorgen; + Regenbogen am Abend + Ist dem Schäfer labend. + +In Mr. Akerman's recently published volume called _Spring Tide_, a +pleasant intermixture of fly-fishing and philology, we have a Wiltshire +version of this proverb, curious for its old Saxon language and its +comparatively modern allusion to a "great coat" in the third and sixth +lines, which must be interpolations. + + "The Rainbow in th' marnin' + Gies the Shepherd warning' + To car' his girt cwoat on his back + The Rainbow at night + Is the Shepherd's delight, + For then no girt cwoat he lack." + +No one, we believe, has yet remarked the philosophy of this saying; +namely that in the morning the rainbow is seen in the clouds in the +west, the quarter from which we get most rain, and of course, in the +evening, in the opposite quarter of the heavens. + +William J. Thoms. + + * * * * * + +BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. + +1. A pleasant Dialogue between a Soldier of Barwicke and an English +Chaplain; wherein are largely handed such reasons as are brought in for +maintenance of Popish traditions in our English Church. 8vo. _circa_ +1581. + +This work is frequently attributed to Barnaby Rich; but from Bancroft's +_Dangerous Positions_, p. 42, the author is ascertained to have been +Anthony Gilby. + +2. The Trumpet of Fame; or Sir Francis Drake's and Sir John Hawkin's +Farewell: with an encouragement to all Sailors and Souldiers that are +minded to go in this worthie enterprise, &c. 12mo. London, by T. Creede, +1595. + +This poetical tract is of the greatest rarity, and was unknown to Ames, +Herbert, Warton and Ritson. A MS. note, in a contemporary hand, says the +author was one Henry Roberts, whose initials are appended to the work. + +3. The Mastive, or Young Whelpe of the Olde Dogge. Epigrams and Satyrs, +by H.P. 4to. London, by T. Creede, _circa_ 1600. + +As an Epigram in this collection also appears in Henry Peacham's +_Minerva Britanna_, with a slight variation, it is fair to surmise that +he was the author of this very rare volume, in preference to Henry +Parrott. + +4. Pasquil's Jests, mixed with Mother Bunch's Merriments. Whereunto is +added a dozen of Gulles. Pretty and pleasant to drive away the +tediousnesse of a winter's evening. 4to. 1608. + +In the _British Bibliographer_, vol i., may be seen an account of the +edition of 1609, with extracts from it, and a statement that "an earlier +edition is without the Gulls." The present copy (which passed through my +hands some years ago), although earlier, has the Gulls. + +5. Holie Historie of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Nativitie, +Life, Actes, Miracles, Doctrine, Death, Passion, Resurrection, and +Ascension. Gathered into English Meeter, and published to withdraw all +vajne wits from all unsaverie and wicked rimes and fables &c. 12mo. +London, by R. Field, 1594. + +Ames and Herbert say this book was written by _Henry_ Holland; but the +author's name {414} was Robert Holland. It is not mentioned by Warton. + +6. News from the Stars; or, Erra Pater's Ghost, by Meriton Latroon. +12mo. 1673. + +"Richard Head, a broken bookseller, and the author of the _English +Rogue_, writ this. He turned Papist, and in his voyage to Spain was +drowned."--_MS. note in a contemporary hand._ + +Edward F. Rimbault. + + * * * * * + +POPE, PETRONIUS, AND HIS TRANSLATORS. + +The vindication of Pope from the charge of borrowing his well-known +sentiment--"_Worth_ makes a man," &c.--from Petronius, is not so +completely made out by "P.C.S.S." as it might be; for surely there is a +sufficient similitude of idea, if not of expression, between the couplet +of Pope and the sentence of Petronius, as given in all four of the +translations cited by him (No. 23. p. 362.)--"The _heart_ makes the +man," &c.--to warrant a notion that the one was suggested by the other. +But the surmise of plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms +employed by the Latin author--_virtus_, _frugalitas_, and more +especially _corcillum_,--which have been misunderstood by every one of +these translators. _Virtus_ is applied to mental as well as bodily +superiority (_Cic. Fin._ v. 13.).--The sense in which _frugalitas_ is +employed by Petronius may be collected from a preceding passage in the +same chapter, where Trimalchio calls his pet _puerum frugalissimum_--a +very _clever_ lad--as he explains the epithet by adding that "he can +read at sight, repeat from memory, cast up accounts, and turn a penny to +his own profit." _Corcillum_ is a diminutive of _corculum_ (like +_oscillum_, from _osculum_), itself a diminutive of _cor_, which word, +though commonly put for "the heart," is also used by the best authors, +Lucretius, Horace, Terence, &c, in the same sense as our _wit_, +_wisdom_, _intellect_. The entire passage, if correctly translated, +might then be expressed as follows: + + "The time has been, my friends, when I myself was no better off + than you are; but I gained my present position solely by my own + talents (_virtute_). Wit (_corcillum_) makes the man--(or, + literally, It is wisdom that makes men of us)--everything else + is worthless lumber. I buy in the cheapest and sell in the + dearest market. But, as I said before, my own shrewdness + (_frugalitas_) made my fortune. I came from Asia no taller than + that lamp stand; and used to measure my height against it day by + day, and grease my muzzle (_rostrum_) with oil from the lamp to + make a beard come." + +Then follow some additional examples of the youth's sagacity, not +adapted for translation, but equally instances of worldly wisdom. Thus +every one of the actions which Trimalchio enumerated as the causes of +his prosperity are emanations from the _head_, not the _heart_; the +results of a crafty intellect, not of moral feeling; so that the +sentiment he professes, instead of being similar to, is exactly the +reverse of that expressed by Pope. + +This explanation seems so satisfactory that we might be well contented +to rest here. But some MSS. have the reading _coricillum_ instead of +_corcillum_. If that be received as the genuine one, and some editors +prefer it, the interpretation above given will only be slightly +modified, but not destroyed, by the introduction of another image, the +essential point remaining the same. The insertion of a vowel, _i_, +precludes all connection with _cor_ and its diminutives, but suggests a +derivation from [Greek: korukos], dim. [Greek: korukion], a leathern +sack or bag, which, when well stuffed, the Greeks used to suspend in the +gymnasium, like the pendulum of a clock (as may be seem on a fictile +vase), to buffet to and fro with blows of the fist. The stuffed bag will +represent the human head on the end of its trunk; and the word may have +been a slang one of the day, or coined by the Asiatic Trimalchio, whose +general language is filled with provincial patois. The translation would +then be, in the familiar style of the original,--"The _noddle_ makes the +man," &c. + +Anthony Rich, Jun. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +WHEN WERE UMBRELLAS INTRODUCED INTO ENGLAND? + +Thomas Coryat, in his _Crudities_, vol. i. p. 134., gives us a curious +notice of the early use of the umbrella in Italy. Speaking of fans, he +says: + + "These fans are of a mean price, for a man may buy one of the + fairest of them for so much money as countervaileth one English + groat. Also many of them (the Italians) do carry other fine + things of a far greater price, that will cost at the least a + ducat, which they commonly call in the Italian tongue + _umbrellaes_, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for + shelter against the scorching heat of the sun. These are made of + leather, something answerable to the form of a little canopy, + and hooped in the inside with diverse little wooden hoops that + extend the _umbrella_ in a pretty large compass. They are used + especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they + ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs: + and they impart so long a shadow unto them, that it keepeth the + heat of the sun from the upper parts of their bodies." + +Lt.-Col. (afterwards Gen.) Wolfe, writing from Paris, in the year 1752, +says: + + "The people here use umbrellas in hot weather to defend them + from the sun, and something of the same kind to secure them from + snow and rain. I wonder a practice so useful is not introduced + in England, (where there are such frequent showers,) and + especially in the country, where they can be expanded without + any inconveniency." {415} + +Query, what is the date of the first introduction of the _umbrella_ into +England? + +Edward F. Rimbault + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Duke of Marlborough._--The Annual Register for the year 1758 (pp. +121-127.) contains an account of the circumstances connected with the +trial of one Barnard, son of a surveyor in Abingdon Buildings, +Westminster, on a charge of sending letters to the Duke of Marlborough, +threatening his life by means "too fatal to be eluded by the power of +physic," unless his grace "procured him a genteel support for his life." +The incidents are truly remarkable, pointing most suspiciously toward +Barnard; but he escaped. Can any of your readers refer me to where I can +find any further account or elucidation of this affair? + +Buriensis. + + +"_M. or N._"--Of what words are "M. or N." the initials? Vide the +answers to be given in the Church Catechism, and some of the occasional +offices in he liturgy. + +J.C. + + [It has been suggested that "M. or N." originated in a + misreading of "NOM," a contraction for "_nomen_." This is + certainly an ingenious explanation, though not a satisfactory + one.] + + +_Song of the Bees._--Who was the author of the lines under this title +beginning, + + "We watch for the light of the moon to break + and colour the grey eastern sky + With its blended hues of saffron and lake," &c. + +I have always understood them to be Dr. Aikin's, but latterly that has +been contradicted. + +Buriensis. + + +_William Godwin._--Can any of your correspondents tell me where I can +find an account of the leading events of the life of William Godwin, +author of _Caleb Williams, St. Leon, Mandeville_ &c., or any reference +to his last hours? His sentiments, political and religious, are said to +have been _peculiar_. + +N. +Woodbridge, April 15. + + +_Regimental Badges._--When were the regimental badges granted to the +first nine infantry corps of the line, and under what circumstances were +they so granted? + +J.C. +London, April 15. 1850. + + +_Mother of Thomas à Becket._--The well-known romantic legend of the +origin of this lady has been introduced into the _Pictorial History of +England_, on the authority of "Brompton in X. Scriptores." And on the +same page (552. vol. i.) is a pictorial representation of the "Baptism +of the Mother of Becket, from the Royal MS. 2 B. vii." + +Now, Lord Campbell, in his _Lives of the Chancellors_, repudiates the +story in toto; but without assigning any other reason for doing so, than +an inference from the silence of Becket himself and his secretary, +Fitzstephen, on the point. + +Can any of the learned gentlemen, whose distinguished names adorn your +valuable pages, direct an humble student to the fountain of truth, for +the settlement of this _verata questio_? + +W. Franks Mathews. +Kidderminster, April 7. 1850. + + +_Swords worn in public._--Can any of your correspondents say when swords +ceased to be worn as an article of ordinary dress, and whether the +practice was abolished by act of parliament, or that they gradually went +out of fashion. + +J.D.A. +April 17. 1850. + + +_Emblem and National Motto of Ireland._--How long has the _harp_ been +the emblem, and _Erin-go-bragh_ the national motto of Ireland? To this I +give another query,--What is the national motto of England? + +E.M.B. + + +_Latin Distich and Translation._--Who were the authors of the following +Latin Distich, and its English translation? + + "Mittitur in disco mihi piscis ab archiepisco-- + --Po non ponatur, quia potus non mihi datur." + "I had sent me a fish in a great dish by the archbish-- + --Hop is not here, for he gave me no beer." + +E.M.B. + + +_Verbum Græcum._--Who was the author of + + "Like the _verbum Græcum_ + Spermagoraiolekitholukanopolides, + Words that should only be said upon holidays, + When one has nothing else to do." + +The _verbum Græcum_ itself is in Aristophanes' _Lysistrata_, 457. + +E.M.B. + + +_Pope Felix._--Who is "Pope Felix," mentioned in Ælfric's _Homily on the +Birthday of St. Gregory_? Ælfric, in speaking of the ancestors of St. +Gregory, states that "_Felix_ se eawfaesta _papa_ waes his fifta +faeder,"--"Felix the pious pope was his fifth father," (i.e. great +grandfather's grandfather). + +E.M.B. +April 15. 1850. + + +"_Where England's Monarch," and "I'd preach as though._"--Will any of +your subscribers have the kindness to inform me who was the author of +the lines + + "Where England's monarch all uncovered sat + And Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimm'd hat." + +And also of these, quoted by Henry Martyn as "well-known:" + + "I'd preach as though I ne'er should preach again, + I'd preach as dying unto dying men." + +H.G. +Milford, April 15. 1850. {416} + + +_Latin Epigram._--I should be much obliged to any of your readers who +can inform me who was the author and what is the date of the following +epigram. The peculiarity of it, your readers will observe, consists in +the fact, that while read directly it contains a strong compliment; yet +it is capable of being read backwards, still forming the same +description of verse, but conveying a perfect reverse of the +compliment:-- + + "Laus tua, non tua fraus; virtus non copia rerum, + Scandere te fecit hoc decus eximium, + Pauperibus tua das; nunquam stat janua clausa; + Fundere res quæris, nec tua multiplicas. + Conditio tua sit stabilis! non tempore parvo + Vivere te faciat hic Deus omnipotens." + +When reversed, it reads thus:-- + + "Omnipotens Deus hic faciat te vivere parvo + Tempore! Non stabilis sit tua conditio. + Multiplicas tua, nec quæris res fundere; clausa + Janua stat, nunquam das tua pauperibus. + Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere rerum + Copia, non virtus; fraus tua, non tua laus." + +Any additional information would much oblige. + +O. +April 15. 1850. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +GRAY'S ALCAIC ODE. + +Circumstances enable me to give a reply, which I believe will be found +correct, to the inquiry of "C.B." in p. 382. of your 24th Number, +"Whether Gray's celebrated Latin Ode is actually to be found entered at +the Grande Chartreuse?" The fact is, that the French Revolution--that +whirlwind which swept from the earth all that came within its reach and +seemed elevated enough to offer opposition--spared not the poor monks of +the Chartreuse. A rabble from Grenoble and other places, attacked the +monastery; burnt, plundered, or destroyed their books, papers, and +property, and dispersed the inmates; while the buildings were left +standing, not from motives of respect, but because they would have been +troublesome and laborious to pull down, and were not sufficiently +combustible to burn. + +In travelling on the Continent with a friend, during the summer of 1817, +we made a pilgrimage to the Grande Chartreuse, reaching it from the side +of the Echelles. It was an interesting moment; for at that very time the +scattered remains of the society had collected together, and were just +come again to take possession of and reinhabit their old abode. And +being their _jour de spaciment_, the whole society was before us, as +they returned from their little pilgrimage up the mountain, where they +had been visiting St. Bruno's chapel and spring; and it was impossible +not to think with respect of the self-devotion of these men, who, after +having for many years partaken (in a greater or less degree) of the +habits and comforts of a civilised life, had thus voluntarily withdrawn +themselves once more to their stern yet beautiful solitude (truly, as +Gray calls it, a _locus severus_), there to practise the severities of +their order, without, it may be supposed, any possessions or means, +except what they were themselves enabled to throw into a common stock; +for nearly the whole of their property had been seized by the government +during the Revolution, and was still held by it. + +Our conversation was almost wholly with two of the fathers (they use the +prefix _Dom_), whose names I forget, and have mislaid my memorandum of +them. One of these had been in England, when driven out; and was there +protected by the Weld family in Dorsetshire, of whom he spoke in terms +of sincere gratitude and respect. The other told us that he was a native +of Chambery, and had done no more than cross the mountains to get home. +On asking him for Gray's Ode, he shook his head, saying, the Revolution +had robbed them of that, and every thing else; but repeated the first +line of it, so that there was no mistake as to the object of my inquiry. +From what occurred afterwards, it appears, however, to be questionable +whether he knew more than the first line; for I was informed that later +English travellers had been attempting, from a laudable desire of +diffusing information, to write out the whole in the present Album of +the Chartreuse, by contributing a line or stanza, as their recollection +served; but that, after all, this pic-nic composition was not exactly +what Gray wrote. Of course, had our friend the Dom known how to supply +the deficiencies, he would have done it. + +There is a translation of the Ode by James Hay Beattie, son of the +professor and poet, printed amongst his poems, which is much less known +than its merits deserve. And I would beg to suggest to such of your +readers as may in the course of their travels visit this monastery, that +books (need I say _proper_ ones?) would be a most acceptable present to +the library; also, that there is a regular Album kept, in which those +who, in this age of "talent" and "intelligence," consider themselves +able to write better lines than Gray's, are at liberty to do so if they +please. + +A very happy conjecture appeared in the _European Magazine_ some time +between 1804 and 1808, as to the conclusion of the stanzas to Mr. +Beattie. The corner of the paper on which they had been written as torn +off; and Mr. Mason supplies what is deficient in the following manner, +the words added by him being printed in Italics:-- + + "Enough for me, if to some feeling breast + My lines a secret sympathy _impart_; + And as their pleasing influence _flows confest_, + A sign of soft reflection _heave the heart_." {417} + +This, it will be seen, is prosaic enough; but the correspondent of the +_E. Mag._ supposes the lines to have ended differently; and that the +poet, in some peculiar fit of modesty, tore off the name. His version is +this:-- + + "Enough for me, if to some feeling breast, + My lines a secret sympathy _convey_; + And as their pleasing influence _is imprest_, + A sigh of soft reflection _heave for Gray_." + +One word upon another poet, Byron _v_. Tacitus, in p. 390. of your 24th +Number. There can be no doubt that the noble writer had this passage of +Tacitus in his mind, when he committed the couplet in question to paper; +but, in all probability, he considered it so well known as not to need +acknowledgment. Others have alluded to it in the same way. The late Rev. +W. Crowe, B.C.L., of New College, Oxford, and public orator of that +University, in some lines recited by his son at the installation of Lord +Grenville, has the following:-- + + "And when he bids the din of war to cease, + He calls the silent desolation--peace." + +I wonder where Lord Byron stole stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4, of the second canto +of _The Bride of Abydos_; to say nothing of some more splendid passages +in the first and second cantos of _Childe Harold_? + +W. (1.) + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Chapels._--Perhaps the following remarks will be of service to "Mr. +GATTY" in the solution of his Queries touching the word _Chapel_ (No. +21.). + +Spelman (_Glossary, sub voce_) endeavours to convince us that _capella_ +is the same as _capsella_, the diminutive of _capsa_; thus making +_chapel_, in the first instance, "a small repository" (_sc._ of relics). +Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its +harshness and insipidity. I think the common derivation (from _capella_, +diminutive of _capa_) very much preferable to any other, both on the +score of philology and of history. Ducange has quoted several passages, +all tending to evince that _capella_ (explained by the Teutonic +_voccus_) was specially applied to the famous vestment of St. Martin, +comprising his cloak and hood (not merely his _hat_, as some writers +mention). The name was then metonymically transferred to the repository +in which that relic was preserved, and afterwards, by a natural +expansion, became the ordinary designation of the smaller sanctuaries. +This derivation is distinctly affirmed by Walafred Strabo about 842, and +by a monk of St. Gall, placed by Basnage about 884. The earliest +instance where the word _capella_ is used for the vestment of St. Martin +appears to be in a "Placitum" of Theodoric, King of France, who ascended +the throne A.D. 672--"in oratorio nostro super capella Domini Martini +... hæc dibiret conjurare." In a second "Placitum," also quoted by +Ducange, of Childebert, King of France (_circa_ 695), the word _capella_ +seems to mean a _sacred building_--"in oratorio suo seu capella Sancti +Marthini." And in a charter of Charles the Simple, _circ._ 900, the term +unquestionably occurs in this latter signification, disconnected from +St. Martin. Other illustrations may be seen in Ducange, who has bestowed +especial industry on the words _capa_ and _capella_. + +With respect to the _legal_ definition of the modern _chapel_, I may +mention that, in stat. 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 29. s. 10., it signifies, +according to Mr. Stephens (_Eccl. Statutes_, p. 1357.), "a chapel where +the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England are performed, and +does not include the chapels of Dissenters." In stat. 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. +30., we read, notwithstanding, of "any _chapel_ for the religious +worship of persons dissenting from the United Church of England and +Ireland." + +C.H. +St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. + + +_Chapels_ (No. 20. p. 333., and No. 23. p. 371.).--The opinion of the +"BARRISTER" that this term had come into use as a designation of +dissenting places of worship from no "idea of either assistance or +opposition to the Church of England," but only as a supposed means of +security to the property, is probably correct. Yet it is likely +different reasons may have had weight in different places. + +However, he is mistaken in "believing that we must date the adoption of +that term from about" forty years ago. I am seventy-six years old, and I +can bear testimony, that from my infancy it was the term universally +employed in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and, I think +probable, in the more northern counties. In common speech, it was used +as the word of discrimination from the Methodist places of worship, +which bore the name of _Meeting-houses_, or, more generally, _Meetings_. +But within the period (forty years) assigned by your learned +correspondent, I think that I have observed the habit to have +extensively obtained of applying the term _Chapels_ to the latter class +of places. + +I have abundant evidence of the general use of the term for dissenting +buildings, back to the seventeenth century. From my early life, I +remember the current opinion to have been that _Chapel_ was the word in +use north of the Trent, and _Meeting-house_ in Nottingham and +southwards. + +An eminent antiquary, the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., could cast a full +light upon this subject. + +J.P.S. +Homerton, April 15. + + +_Beaver_ (No. 21. p. 338.).--The earliest form of this word is _fiber_, +which is used to signify the animal, the _Castor_, by Varro and Pliny. +The fabulous story of the self-emasculation by which the beaver eludes +pursuit, is thus introduced by Silius, in illustrating the flight of +Hasdrubal:-- {418} + + "Fluminei veluti deprensus gurgitis undis, + Avulsâ parte inguinibus caussaque pericli, + Enatat intento prædæ _fibor_ avius hoste." + + _Punica_, IV. 485-8, where see Ruperti. + +The scholiast on Juvenal, xii. 34., has the low Latin _vebrus_. (See +Forcellini, Lex. in _Fiber_ et _Castor_, Ducange in _Bever_, and Adelung +in _Biber_.) Derivations of the word _bebrus_ occur in all the languages +of Europe, both Romanic and Teutonic; and denote the Castor. _Beaver_, +in the sense of a _hat_ or _cap_, is a secondary application, derived +from the material of which the hat or cap was made. + +W. + + +_Poins and Bardolph_ (No. 24. p. 385.)--Mr. Collier (Life prefixed to +the edit. of _Shakspeare_, p. 139.) was the first to notice that +Bardolph, Fluellen, and Awdrey, were names of persons living at +Stratford in the lifetime of the poet; and Mr. Halliwell (_Life of +Shakspeare_, pp. 126-7) has carried the subject still further, and shown +that the names of ten characters in the plays are also found in the +early records of that town. Poins was, I believe, a common Welsh name. + +S. + + +_God tempers the Wind_ (No. 22. p. 357.)--Le Roux de Liney, _Livre des +Proverbes Français_ (Paris, 1842), tom. i. p. 11., cites the following +proverbs-- + + "Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue, + ou, + Dieu donne le froid selon la robbe," + +from Henri Estienne, _Prémices_, &c., p. 47., a collection of proverbs +published in 1594. He also quotes from Gabriel Meurier, _Trésor des +Sentences_, of the sixteenth century:-- + + "Dieu aide les mal vestus." + +SIWEL. +April 5. 1850. + + +_Sterne's Koran_ (No. 14. p. 216.)--An inquiry respecting this work +appeared in the _Gent. Mag._, vol. lxvii. pt. ii. p. 565.; and at p. +755. we are told by a writer under the signature of "Normanus," that in +_his_ edition of Sterne, printed at Dublin, 1775, 5 vols. 12mo., the +Koran was placed at the end, the editor honestly confessing that it was +_not_ the production of Sterne, but of Mr. Richard Griffith (son of Mrs. +Griffith, the _Novellettist_), then a gentleman of large fortune seated +at Millecent, co. Kildare, and married to a daughter of the late Ld. +C.B. Burgh. + +I possess a copy of an indifferent edition of Sterne's works, in point +of paper and type, "Printed for J. Mozley, Gainsbrough, 1795. 8 vols. +12mo." The Koran is in the sixth vol., termed "The Posthumous Works of +L. Sterne," dedicated to the Earl of Charlemont by the editor, who, in +his address to the reader, professes to have received the MS. from the +hands of the author some time before his untimely death. + +This I hope will answer the Query of "E.L.N.:" and at the same time I +wish to express my regret, that we do not possess a really good and +complete edition of Sterne's Works, with a Life and literary history of +them, incorporating the amusing illustrations by Dr. Ferriar. + +F.R.A. +April 12. 1850. + + +_Lollius._--In answer to "J.M.B." (No. 19. p. 303.) as to who was the +Lollius spoken of by Chaucer, I send you the following. _Lollius_ was +the real or fictitious name of the author or translator of many of our +Gothic prose romances. D'Israeli, in his admirable _Amenities of +Literature_, vol. i. p. 141., says:-- + + "In some colophons of the prose romances the names of real + persons are assigned as the writers; but the same romance is + equally ascribed to different persons, and works are given as + translations which in fact are originals. Amid this prevailing + confusion, and these contradictory statements, we must agree + with the editor of Warton, that we cannot with any confidence + name the author of any of these prose romances. Ritson has aptly + treated these pseudonymous translators as 'men of straw.' We may + say of them all, as the antiquary Douce, in the agony of his + baffled researches after one of their favourite authorities, a + Will o' the Wisp named LOLLIUS, exclaimed, somewhat + gravely,--'Of Lollius it will become every one to speak with + diffidence.'" + +Perhaps this "scrap" of information may lead to something more +extensive. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe_ (No. 24. p. 383).--Henry Ryder, D.D., +a native of Paris, and Bishop of Killaloe, after whose paternity +"W.D.R." inquires, was advanced to that see by patent dated June 5. 1693 +(not 1692), and consecrated on the Sunday following in the church of +Dunboyne, in the co. Meath. See Archdeacon Cotton's _Fasti Ecclesiæ +Hibernicæ_, vol. i. p. 404., who gives an account of his family. + +W.(I.) + + +_Brown Study_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--Surely a corruption of brow-study, +brow being derived from to old German, _braun_, in its compound form +_ang-braun_, an eyebrow. (Vide Wachter, _Gloss. Germ._) + +HENNES + + +_Seven Champions of Christendom._--Who was the author of _The Seven +Champions of Christendom_? + +R.F. JOHNSON. + + [_The Seven Champions of Christendom_, which Ritson describes as + "containing all the lies of Christendom in one lie," was written + by the well-known Richard Johnson. Our correspondent will find + many curious particulars of his various works in the + Introduction which Mr. Chappell has prefixed to one of them, + viz. _The Crown Garland of Golden Roses_, edited by him from the + edition of 1612 for the Percy Society.] {419} + + +"_Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis_."--"E.V." (p. 215.) is +referred to Cicero _De Officiis_, lib. i. cap. 10., and Ovid, _Met_. +lib. xv. 165. et seqq. + +"_Vox Præterea nihil_."--"C.W.G." (p. 247.) is also referred to Ovid, +_Met_. lib. iii. 397., and Lactantius, lib. iii. Fab. v. These are the +nearest approximations I know. + +A.W. + + +_Vox Populi Vox Dei._--The words "Populi vox, vox Dei," stand as No. 97. +among the "Aphorismi Politici ex Ph. Cominoeo," in a small volume in my +possession, entitled,-- + + "Aphorismi Politici et Militares, etc. par Lambertum Danæum + collecti. Lugduni Batavorum. CID IDC XXX IX." + +There is no reference given to book or chapter; and, judging from the +manner in which the aphorisms of Thucydides and Tacitus (which I have +been able to examine) are quoted, I fear it may be found that the words +in question are rather a condensation of some paragraph by Des Comines +that the _ipsissima verba_ that he employed. + +C. FORBES. +Temple. + + +_The Cuckoo._--In respect to the Query of "G." (No. 15. p. 230.), on the +cuckoo, as the Welsh Ambassador, I would suggest that it was in allusion +to the annual arrival of Welshmen in search of summer and other +employment. As those wanderers may have entered England about the time +of the cuckoo's appearance, the idea that the bird was the precursor of +the Welsh might thus become prevalent. Also, on the quotation given by +"PETIT ANDRÉ" (No. 18. p. 283.) of Welsh parsley, or hempen halters, it +may have derived its origin from the severity practised on the Welsh, in +the time of their independence, when captured on the English side of the +border,--the death of the prisoner being inevitable. + +GOMER. + + +_Ancient Titles_ (No. 11. p. 173.).--It may be interesting to your +querist "B." to know that the seal of the borough of Chard, in the +county of Somerset, has two birds in the position which he describes, +with the date 1570. + +S.S.S. + + +_Daysman_ (No. 12. p. 188., No. 17. p. 267.).--For quoted instances of +this, and other obsolete words, see Jameson's _Bible Glossary_, just +published by Wertheim in Paternoster Row. + +S.S.S. + + +_Safeguard_ (No. 17. p. 267.).--The article of dress for the purpose +described is still used by farmers' wives and daughters in the west of +England, and is known by the same name. + +S.S.S. + + +_Finkle_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--means _fennel_. Mr. Halliwell (_Dict._ p. +357.) quotes from a MS. of the _Nominale_, "fynkylsede, _feniculum_." + +L. + + +_Gourders of Rain_ (No. 21. p. 335., No. 22. p. 357.).--Has the word +"Gourders" any connection with _Gourtes_, a stream, or pool? See +Cotgrave's _Dict._, and Kelham's _Dict. of the Norman Language_. + +_Geotere_ is the A.-S. word for "melter;" but may not the term be +applied to the pourer out of anything? Gourd is used by Chaucer in the +sense of a vessel. (See _Prol. to the Manciple's Tale_.) + +C.I.R. + + +_Urbanus Regius_ (No. 23. p. 367.).--The "delightful old lady" is +informed that "Urbanus Regius" (or Urban le Roi) was one of the +reformers, a native of Langenargen, in Germany. His works were published +under the title of _Vitet et Opera Urbani Regii, &c._, Norib. 1562. His +theological works have been translated into English, as the lady is +aware. + +W. FRANKS MATHEWS. +Kidderminster, April 7. 1850. + + +_Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Rosenmüller ad Exodum xxxiv. 29. + + "_Ignorabat quods plenderet entis faciei ejus_. Vulgatus + interpres reddidit. _Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua_, + quia verbum _Karan_ denominativum nominis _Keren, cornu_; + opinatus est denotare, _cornua habere_; hine nata opinio, Mosis + faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob + similitudinem et ad _radios_ transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi + de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat _emisit radias_, i.e. + splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, _shone_. + +R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like +metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews +also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power, +as elsewhere. + +_Tauriformis._--The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always +represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum." + + "Corniger Hesperidum fluvius." + +An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis," +rather applies to its two æstuaries. + +When Milton says (xi. 831.) "push'd by the horned flood," he seems +rather to mean, as Newton explains him, that "rivers, when they meet +with anything to obstruct their passage, divide themselves and become +_horned_ as it were, and hence the ancients have compared them to +bulls." + +C.B. + + ["M." (Oxford) refers our correspondent to Facciolati, + _Lexicon_, ed. Bailey, voc. _Corun_.] + + +_Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--1. Moses' face, Ex. ch. xxxiv. (_karan_, +Heb.), shot out beams or _horns_ of light (from _keren_, Heb.); so the +first beams of the rising sun are by the Arabian poets compared to +horns. Absurdly rendered by Aqu. and Vulg. (facies) _cornuta erat_. +Whence painters represent Moses as having horns.--Gesenius, _Heb. Lex._ +{420} + +2. There appear many reasons for likening rivers to bulls. Euripides +calls Cephisus taumomorphos, and Horace gives Aufidus the same epithet, +for the same reason probably, as makes him call it also "longe sonans," +"violentus," and "acer;" viz., the bull-like roaring of its waters, and +the blind fury of its course, especially in flood time. Other +interpretations may be given: thus, Milton, Dryden, and others, speak of +the "horned flood," i.e., a body of water which, when it meets with any +obstruction, divides itself and becomes _horned_, as it were. See Milt. +P.L. xi. 831., and notes on the passage by Newton and Todd. Dryden +speaks of "the seven-fold _horns_ of the Nile," using the word as +equivalent to winding stream. It would be tedious to multiply examples. + +3. Of this phrase I have never seen a satisfactory explanation. "Coruna +nasci" is said by Petronius, in a general sense, of one in great +distress. As applied to a cuckold, it is common to most of the modern +European languages. The Italian phrase is "becco cornuto" (horned goat), +which the Accademici della Crusca explain by averring that that animal, +unlike others can without anger bear a rival in his female's love. + +"Dr. Burn, in his _History of Westmoreland_, would trace this _crest_ of +_cuckoldom_ to horns worn as crests by those who went to the Crusades, +as their armorial distinctions; to the infidelity of consorts during +their absence, and to the finger of scorn pointed at them on their +return; crested indeed, but abused."--_Todd's Johnson's Dictionary_. + +R.T.H.G. + + +_Why Moses represented with Horns._--You may inform your querist "L.C." +(No. 24 p. 383.), that the strange practice of making Moses appear +horned, which is not confined to statues, arose from the mistranslation +of Exod. xxxiv. 30. & 35. in the Vulgate, which is to the Romanist his +authenticated scripture. For there he reads "faciem Moysi cornutum," +instead of "the skin of Moses' face shone." The Hebrew verb put into our +type is _coran_, very possibly the root of the Latin _cornu_: and its +primary signification is to put forth horns; its secondary, to shoot +forth rays, to shine. The participle is used in its primary sense in +Psalms, xix. 31.; but the Greek Septuagint, and all translators _from +the Hebrew_ into modern European languages, have assigned to the verb +its secondary meaning in Exod. xxxiv. In that chapter the nominative to +_coran_ is, in both verses, undeniably _skin_, not _head_ nor _face_. +Now it would obviously be absurd to write "his skin was horned," so that +common sense, and the authority of the Septuagint, supported by the +language of St. Paul in his paraphrase and comment on this passage in 2 +Cor. iii. 7-13., ought to have been sufficient to guide any Christian +translator as to the sense to be attached to _coran_ in the mention of +Moses. + +H.W. +Oxford, April 16, 1850. + + [We have since received replies to a similar effect, from "SIR + EDMUND FILMER," "J.E.," &c. "R.G." refers our Querist to Leigh's + _Critica Særa_, part I. p. 219. London, 1662; and "M." refers + him to the note on this passage in Exodus in M. Polus' _Synopsis + Criticorum_. To "T.E." we are indebted for Notes on other + portions of "L.C.'s" Queries.] + + +_The Temple or A Temple._--"Mr. Foss" says (No. 21. p. 335.) that in +Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer and in all other copies he has seen, the +reading is-- + + "A gentil manciple was there of a temple." + +In an imperfect black-letter folio copy of Chaucer in my possession +(with curious wood-cuts, but without title-page, or any indications of +its date, printer, &c.), the reading is-- + + "A gentyl mancyple was there of _the_ temple." + +That the above is the true reading ("the real passage"), and that it is +to be applied to _the_ temple, appears to me from what follows, in the +description of the manciple. + + "Of maysters had he moo than thryes ten + That were of lawe expirte and curyous, + Of whyche there were a dosen in that hous + Worthy to be," &c.; + +P.H.F. +March 23, 1850. + + +_Ecclesiastical Year_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--The following note on the +calendar is authority for the statement respecting the beginning of the +ecclesiastical year:-- + + "Note that the Golden Number and the Dominicall letter doeth + change euery yeere the first day of January. Note also, that the + yeere of our Lord beginneth the xxv. day of March, the same + supposed to be the first day upon which the world was created, + and the day when Christ was conceived in the womb of the Virgin + Mary." + +As in the Book of Common Prayer, Lond. 1614, p. 2. Bishop Cosins +remarks, "beginneth the 25th day of March." + + "Romani annum suum auspicantur ad calendas Januarias. Idem + faciunt hodierni Romani et qui in aliis regnis papæ authoritatem + agnoseunt. Ecclesia autem Anglicana sequitur suppotationem + antiquam a Dionysio Exiguo inchoatum, anno Christi 532." + +Nicholl's Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer, additional notes, p. +10. Fol. Lond. 1712, vid. loe. + +In the Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1716, the note is,-- + + "_Note._--The supputation of the year of our Lord in the Church + of England beginneth the five-and-twentieth day of March." + +This note does not now appear in our Prayer Books, being omitted, I +suppose, in consequence {421} of the adoption of the new style in +England in 1752. The daily course of lessons used to begin, as it does +now, with the Book of Genesis and of St. Matthew, in January; the +collects, epistles, and gospels with those for Advent. + +M. +Oxford. + + +_Paying through the Nose_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--I have always understood +this to be merely a degenerated pronunciation of the last word. Paying +through _the noose_ gives the idea so exactly, that, as far as the +etymology goes, it is explanatory enough. But whether _that_ reading has +an historical origin may be another question. It scarcely seems to need +one. + +C.W.H. + + +_Quem Deus vult perdere, &c._ (No. 22. p. 351.).--The correct reading +is, "Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius." See Duport's +_Gnomologia Homerica_, p. 282. (Cantab. 1660.) Athenagoras quotes Greek +lines, and renders them in Latin (p. 121. Oxon. 1682): + + "At dæmon homini quum struit aliquid malum, + Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam." + +The word "dementat" is not to be met with, I believe, in the works of +any real classical author. Butler has employed the idea in part 3. canto +2. line 565. of _Hudibras_: + + "Like men condemned to thunderbolts, + Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts." + +C.I.R. + + +_Shrew_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--The word, I apprehend, means sharp. The +mouse, which is not the field-mouse, as Halliwell states, but an animal +of a different order of quadrupeds, has a very sharp snout. Shrewd means +sharp generally. Its bad sense is only incidental. They seem connected +with scratch; screw; shrags, the end of sticks or furze (Halliwell); to +shred (A.-S., screadan, but which must be a secondary form of the verb). +That the shrew-mouse is called in Latin _sorex_, seems to be an +accidental coincidence. That is said to be derived from [Greek: urax]. +The French have confounded the two, and give the name _souris_ to the +common mouse, but _not_ to the shrew-mouse. + +I protest, for one, against admitting that Broc is derived from _broc_, +persecution, which of course is participle from break. We say "to +badger" for to annoy, to teaze. I suppose two centuries hence will think +the name of the animal is derived from that verb, and not the verb from +it. It means also, in A.-S., _equus vilis_, a horse that is worn out or +"broken down." + +C.B. + + +_Zenobia_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Zenobia is said to be "gente Judaea," in +Hoffman's _Lexicon Universale_, and Facciolati, ed. Bailey, Appendix, +voc. _Zenobia_. + +M. +Oxford. + + +_Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 24. p. 389.).--There is Woolaston, in +Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now to the +Duke of Beaufort. + +C.B. + + +_Vox et præterea Nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247., and No. 24. p. 387.).--This +saying is to be found in Plutarch's _Laconic Apophthegms_ ([Greek: +Apophthegmata Lakonika]), Plutarchi _Opera Moralia_, ed. Dan. +Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649. + +Philemon Holland has "turned it into English" thus:-- + + "Another [Laconian] having plucked all the feathers off from a + nightingale, and seeing what a little body it had: 'Surely,' + quoth he, 'thou art all voice, and nothing else.'"--_Plutarch's + Morals_, fol. 1603. p. 470. + +W.B.R. + + +_Law of Horses._--The following is from Oliphant's _Law of Horses, &c._, +p. 75. Will any of your readers kindly tell me whether the view is +correct? + + "It is said in _Southerene_ v. _Howe_ (2 Rol. Rep. 5.), _Si home + vend chivall que est lame, null action gist peur ceo, mes_ + caveat emptor: _lou jeo vend chivall que ad null oculus la null + action gist; autrement lou il ad un conterfeit faux et_ bright + eye." "If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for + that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_ + eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit, + false, and _bright eye_." + +Thus it appears that a distinction is here made between a horse having +_no_ eye at all, and having a counterfeit, false or _bright_ one. And +probably by _bright eye_ is meant _glass eye_, or _gutta serena_; and +the words "counterfeit" and "false" may be an attempt of the reporter to +explain an expression which he did not understand. Because putting a +false eye into a horse is far in advance of the sharpest practices of +the present day, or of any former period. + +Note.--_Gutta Serena_, commonly called glass-eye, is a species of +blindness; the pupil is unusually dilated; it is immovable, bright, and +glassy. + +G.H. HEWIT OLIPHANT. +April 16. 1850. + + +_Christ's Hospital._--In reply to "NEMO" (No. 20. p. 318.), a +contemporary of the eminent Blues there enumerated, informs him, that +although he has not a perfect recollection of the ballads then popular +at Christ's Hospital, yet "NEMO" may be pleased to learn, that on making +search at the Society of Antiquaries for Robin Hood Ballads, he found in +a folio volume of Broadsides, &c., one of the much interest and +considerable length in relation to that school. The Ballad must also be +rare, as it is not among those in the two large volumes which have been +for many years in the British Museum, nor is it in the three volumes of +Roxburgh Ballads recently purchased for that noble library. {422} + +The undersigned believes that the only survivor of the scholars at +Christ's Hospital mentioned by "NEMO," is the Rev. Charles Valentine Le +Grice, now residing at Trerieffe, near Penzance. + +J.M.G. +Worcester, March 22. 1850. + + [We are happy to say that one other, at least, of the Christ + Hospital worthies enumerated by "NEMO" still survives--Mr. Leigh + Hunt, whose kindly criticism and real poetic feeling have + enriched our literature with so many volumes of pleasant + reading, and won for him the esteem of a large circle of + admirers.] + + +_Tickhill, God help me!_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--"H.C. ST. CROIX" informs us +that a similar expression is in use in Lincolnshire. Near to the town of +"merry Lincoln" is a large heath celebrated for its cherries. If a +person meets one of the cherry-growers on his way to market, and asks +him where he comes from, the answer will be, if the season is +favourable, "From Lincoln Heath, where should 'un?" but if, on the +contrary, there is a scarcity of cherries, the reply will be, "From +Lincoln Heath, God help 'un." + +"DISS" informs us, too, that this saying is not confined to Tickhill, +Melverly, or Pershore, but is also current at Letton, on the banks of +the Wye, between Hereford and Hay. And "H.C.P." says the same story is +told of the inhabitants of Tadley, in the north of Hampshire, on the +borders of Berkshire. + +_Robert Long_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--Rear-Admiral Robert Long died 4th +_July_, 1771, having been superannuated on the half-pay of rear-admiral +some time before his death. His seniority in the navy was dated from +21st March, 1726, and he was posted in the Shoreham. He never was _Sir_ +Robert. An account of the charity he founded may be seen in the +_Commissioners' Reports on Charities_, vol. iii. iv. vi. + +G. + + +_Transposition of Letters_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Instances of shortened +names of places. Bensington, Oxfordshire, now called Benson; +Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, now called Stadham; and in Suffolk the +following changes have taken place; Thelnetham is called Feltam; Hoxney, +Oxen. + +C.I.R. + + +_The Complaynt of Scotland_.--I believe there has not been discovered +recently any fact relative to the authorship of above-mentioned poem, +and that the author is, + + "Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, + Lord Lyon King-at-Arms." + +W.B. + + +_Note Books_ (No. 3. p. 43., and No. 7. p. 104.)--I beg to state my own +mode, than which I know of none better. I have _several_ books, viz., +for History, Topography, Personal and Family History, Ecclesiastical +Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria. At the end of each volume is an alphabet, +with six columns, one for each vowel; in one or other of which the word +is entered according to the vowel which first appears in it, with a +reference to the page. Thus, _bray_ would come under B.a; _church_ under +C.u.; and so forth. + +S.S.S. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_MSS. of Casaubon._--There is a short statement respecting certain MSS., +now existing, of the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the +Parker Society--Whitaker's _Disputation on Holy Scripture_, edited and +translated by Professor Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, +Dublin, which I conceive is one of those facts which might be of service +at some future time to scholars, from having been recorded in your +columns:-- + +Whitaker having observed-- + + "One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures + are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the + testimony of the church."--(Parker Soc. transl., p. 276.) + +Professor Fitzgerald appends the following "note:"-- + + "Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully, + attributed this to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in + Primate Marsh's library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, he corrects + himself thus: 'Non est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus + in Præfat. Controvers. I. Quæst. S. p. 314.' If a new edition of + those Exercitations be ever printed, let not these MSS. of that + great man, which, with many other valuable records, we owe to + the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence of Marsh, be + forgotten." + +T. +Bath + + * * * * * + +ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED "LONG." + + Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum, + Dic mihi, te quæso, num _Breve_ quicquid habes? + +W.(1.) + + * * * * * + +"NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR." + +_On a very bad book: from the Latin of Melancthon_. + + A thousand blots would never cure this stuff; + One might, I own, if it were large enough. + +RUFUS. + + * * * * * + +_Close Translation._--The following is a remarkable instance; for it is +impossible to say which is the original and which the translation, they +are so nearly equivalent:-- + + "Boys and girls, come out to play; + The moon doth shine as bright as day; + Come with a whoop, come with a call, + Come with a good will, or come not at all." {423} + + "Garçons et filles, venez toujours; + La lune fait clarté comme le jour; + Venez au bruit d'un joyeux éclat; + Venez de bon coeur, ou ne venez pas." + +W.(1.) + + +_St. Antholin's Parish Books._--In common with many of your antiquarian +readers, I look forward with great pleasure to the selection from the +entries in the St. Antholin's Parish Books, which are kindly promised by +their present guardian, and, I may add, intelligent expositor, "W.C." + +St. Antholin's is, on several accounts, one of the most interesting of +our London churches; it was here, Strype tells us (_Annals_, I. i. p. +199.), "the new morning prayer," i.e., according to the new reformed +service-book, first began in September, 1559, the bell beginning to ring +at five, when a psalm was sung after the Geneva fashion, all the +congregation, men, women, and boys, singing together. It is much to be +regretted that these registers do not extend so far back as this year, +as we might have found in them entries of interest to the Church +historian; but as "W.C." tells us the volumes are kept regularly up to +the year 1708, I cannot but hope he may be able to produce some notices +of what Mr. P. Cunningham calls, "the Puritanical fervour" of this +little parish. "St. Antling's bell," and "St. Antling's preachers," were +proverbial for shrillness and prolixity, and the name is a familiar one +to the students of our old dramatists. Let "W.C." bear in mind, that the +chaplains of the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland, with Alexander +Henderson at their head, preached here in 1640, commanding crowded +audiences, and that a passage was formed from the house where they +lodged into a gallery of this church; and that the pulpit of St. +Antholin's seems, for many years, to have been the focus of schism, +faction, and sedition, and he may be able to bring forward from these +happily preserved registers much interesting and valuable information. + +D.S. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, &C. + +No one can have visited Edinburgh, and gazed upon + + "The height +Where the huge Castle holds its state," + +without having felt a strong desire to learn the history of that +venerable pile, and the stirring tales which its grey walls could tell. +What so many must have wished done, has at length been accomplished by +Mr. James Grant, the biographer of Kirkaldy of Grange, the gallant +governor of that castle, who was so treacherously executed by the Regent +Morton. His work, just published under the title of _Memorials of the +Castle of Edinburgh_, contains its varied history, ably and pleasantly +narrated, and intermixed with so much illustrative anecdote as to render +it an indispensable companion to all who may hereafter visit one of the +most interesting, as well as most remarkable monuments of the metropolis +of Scotland. + +The lovers of fine engravings and exquisite drawings will have a rare +opportunity of enriching their portfolios in the course of the next and +following week, as Messrs. 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