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Saturday, April 13. 1850 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 2, 2004 [EBook #13925] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 24. *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, William Flis, 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. 24.] SATURDAY, APRIL 13. 1850. Price, Threepence. Stamped Edition, +4d. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + Skinner's Life of Monk, by W.D. Christie 377 + Cunningham's Lives of Whitgift and Cartwright 378 + Inedited Letter of Duke of Monmouth 379 + Lydgate and Coverdale, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 379 + + QUERIES:-- + Speculum Exemplorum, &c. 380 + The Second Duke of Ormonde, by Rev. James Graves 380 + Mayors--What is their correct Prefix? 380 + Quevedo and Spanish Bull-fights, by C. Forbes 381 + Minor Queries:--Gilbert Browne--The Badger--Ecclesiastical + Year--Sir William Coventry--The Shrew--Chip in + Porridge--Temple Stanyan--Tandem--As lazy as Ludlum's + Dog--Peal of Bells--Sir Robert Long--Dr. Whichcot + and Lord Shaftesbury--Lines attributed to Lord + Palmerston--Gray's Alcaic Ode--Abbey of St. + Wandrille--London Dissenting Ministers--Dutch + Language--Marylebone Gardens--Toom Shawn Cattie--Love's + Last Shift--Cheshire-round--Why is an Earwig called a + "Coach-bell?"--Chrysopolis--Pimlico, &c. 381 + + REPLIES:-- + Blunder in Malone's Shakspeare 386 + Hints to intending Editors 386 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Depinges--Laerig--Vox et praeterea + Nihil--Havior--Mowbray Coheirs--Sir R. Walpole--Line quoted by + De Quincey--Quem Jupiter, &c.--Bernicia--Caesar's Wife, &c. 387 + + MISCELLANIES:-- + Franz von Sickingen--Body and Soul--Laissez faire--College + Salting--Byron and Tacitus--Pardonere and Frere--Mistake in + Gibbon 389 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 390 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 390 + Notices to Correspondents 391 + Advertisements 392 + + * * * * * + +SKINNER'S LIFE OF MONK. + +Reading for a different purpose in the domestic papers of Charles +II.'s reign in the State Paper Office, I came upon a letter from +Thomas Skinner, dated Colchester, Jan. 30. 1677, of which I will give +you what I have preserved in my notes; and that is all that is of any +interest. + +It is a letter to the Secretary of State, asking for employment, and +recommending himself by what he had done for Monk's memory. He had +previously written some account of Monk, and he describes an interview +with Lord Bath (the Sir John Grenville of the Restoration); in which +his Lordship expressed his approval of the book. + + "He [Lord Bath] professed himself so well satisfied, that he + was pleased to tell me there were two persons, viz. the King + and the Duke of Albemarle, that would find some reason to + reflect upon me." + +Lord Bath gives Skinner a letter to the Duke of Albemarle (Monk's +son), who receives him very kindly, and gives him a handsome present. + + "I have since waited on his Grace again, and then he proposed + to me (whether upon his own inclination or the suggestion of + some about him) to use my poor talent in writing his father's + life apart in the universal language; to which end, he would + furnish me with all his papers that belonged to his late + father and his secretaries. The like favour it pleased my Lord + of Bath to offer me from his own papers, some whereof I had a + sight of in his study." + +Now if any of your readers who are interested in Monk's biography, +will refer to the author's and editor's prefaces of _Skinner's Life +of Monk_, edited in 1723, by the Rev. William Webster; and to Lord +Wharncliffe's introduction to his Translation of M. Guizot's _Essay +on Monk_, they will see the use of this letter of Skinner's. + +1. The life is ascribed to Skinner only on circumstantial evidence, +which is certainly strong, but to which this letter of Skinner's is +a very important edition. This letter is indeed direct proof, and the +first we have, of Skinner's having been employed on a life of Monk, in +which he had access to his son's and his relative Lord Bath's papers; +and there can be no serious doubt that the life edited by Mr. Webster +was a result of his labours. + +2. This letter would show that Skinner was not on intimate terms with +Monk, nor so closely connected with him as would be implied in Mr. +Webster's and Morant's, the historian of Colchester, description of +him, that he was a physician to Monk. Else he would not have required +Lord Bath's letter of introduction to the son. Lord Wharncliffe has, +I have no doubt, hit the mark, when he says that Skinner was probably +Monk's Colchester apothecary. Skinner says himself, in his preface, +that "he had the honour to know Monk only in the last years of his +life." + +3. The previous account of Monk, which gained Lord Bath's approval, +and led to Monk's son soliciting him to write a life, is probably +Skinner's addition of a third part to Bate's _Elenchus Motuum_, to +which he also probably refers in the opening of his Preface to the +_Life of Monk_:-- + + "I have heretofore published something of a like nature with + the following sheets, though in another language, wherein + several things, through want of better information, were + imperfectly described." + +4. It appears from Skinner's letter, that his original intention was +to write a Life in Latin. Webster edited the Life which we have, +from a copy in English found in the study of Mr. Owen, late curate at +Bocking in Essex, and supposed to be in Skinner's handwriting; and +he had seen another copy, agreeing literally with the former, which +had been transcribed by Shelton, formerly rector of St. James's in +Colchester; and which, after Mr. Shelton's death, became the property +of Mr. Great, an apothecary in Colchester. (Webster published in +1723.) + +Now, Query, as these may have been copies of a translation, can any +Colchester reader help to settle affirmatively or negatively the +question of a Latin _Life of Monk_ by Skinner? + +I add two other Queries:-- + +It appears from a passage in the _Life_ (p. 333.), that Skinner +appended, or intended to append, a collection of papers:-- + + "As appears from His Majesty's royal grant or warrant to + him (Sir John Grenville), which we have transcribed from the + original, and have added in the collection at the end of this + history." + +Webster says he never could get any account of this collection of +papers. Can Colchester now produce any information about them? + +Can any of your readers give any information about those papers of +the second Duke of Albemarle, and of Grenville, Earl of Bath, to which +Skinner had access? Lord Bath's papers were probably afterwards in the +hands of his nephew Lord Lansdowne, who vindicated Monk in answer to +Burnet. + +W.D. CHRISTIE. + + * * * * * + +CUNNINGHAM'S LIVES OF EMINENT ENGLISHMEN.--WHITGIFT AND CARTWRIGHT. + +In a modern publication, entitled _Lives of Eminent Englishmen_, +edited by G.G. Cunningham, 8 vols. 8vo. Glasgow, 1840, we meet with +a memoir of Archbishop Whitgift, which contains the following +paragraph:-- + + "While Whitgift was footing to an archbishopric, poor + Cartwright was consigned to poverty and exile; and at length + died in obscurity and wretchedness. How pleasant would it + have been to say that none of his sufferings were inflicted + by his great antagonist, but that he was treated by him with + a generous magnanimity! Instead of this, Whitgift followed + him through life with inflexible animosity."--_Cunningham's + Lives_, ii. 212. + +Mr. Cunningham gives no authority for these statements; but I will +furnish him with my authorities for the contradiction of them. + + "After some years (writes Walton, in his _Life of Hooker_), + the Doctor [Whitgift] being preferred to the see, first of + Worcester and then of Canterbury, Mr. Cartwright, after + his share of trouble and imprisonment (for setting up new + presbyteries in divers places against the established order), + having received from the Archbishop many personal favours, + retired himself to a more private living, which was at + Warwick, where he became master of an hospital, and lived + quietly and grew rich;... the Archbishop surviving him but + one year, _each ending his days in perfect charity with the + other_." + +To the same effect is the statement in Strype, which I borrow from Dr. +Zouch's second edition of _Walton's Lives_, p. 217.:-- + + "Thomas Cartwright, the Archbishop's old antagonist, was alive + in 1601, and grew rich at his hospital at Warwick, preaching + at the chapel there, saith my author, very temperately, + according to the promise made by him to the Archbishop; + which mildness of his some ascribed to his old age and more + experience. But the latter end of next year he deceased. And + now, at the end of Cartwright's life, to take our leave of + him with a fairer character, it is remarkable what a noble + and learned man, Sir H. Yelverton, writes of some of his last + words--'_that he seriously lamented the unnecessary troubles + he had caused in the Church, by the schism he had been the + great fomenter of, and wished to begin his life again, that + he might testify to the world the dislike he had of his former + ways_;' and in this opinion he died." + +I find it stated, moreover, on the authority of Sir G. Paul's _Life +of Whitgift_, that Cartwright acknowledged the generosity of Whitgift, +and admitted "his bond of duty to the Archbishop to be so much the +straiter, as it was without any desert of his own."--_Carwithen's +History of the Church of England_, i. 527. 2nd edit. + +Lest this should not suffice to convict Mr. Cunningham of error, I +will adduce two extracts from _The Life of Master Thomas Cartwright_, +written by the Presbyterian Sa. Clarke, in 1651, and appended to his +_Martyrologie_. + + "About the same time [viz. 1580], the Earl of Leicester + preferred him [Cartwright] to be master of his hospital + at Warwick, which place was worth to him about one hundred + pounds."--Clarke, p. 370. + + "For riches, he sought them not; yea, he rejected many + opportunities whereby he might have enriched himself. His + usual manner was, when he had good sums of gold sent him, + to take only one piece, lest he should seem to slight his + friend's kindness, and to send back the rest with a thankful + acknowledgement of their love and his acceptance of it; + _professing that, for that condition wherein God had set him, + he was as well furnished as they for their high and great + places_."--Ib. p. 372. + +So much for the "poverty," the "wretchedness," of Cartwright, and the +"inflexible animosity" of Whitgift. The very reverse of all this is +the truth. + +J.K. + + * * * * * + +INEDITED LETTER OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. + +Several notices of the Duke of Monmouth having appeared in "NOTES AND +QUERIES," you may be glad to have the following letter, which I copied +_literatim_ some years ago in the State Paper Office from the domestic +papers of the year 1672. The letter was written to Lord Arlington, +then Secretary of State. Monmouth was at the time commanding the +English force serving under Louis XIV. against the Dutch, and was in +his twenty-third year. Mr. Ross had been his tutor; and was at this +time, I believe, employed in the Secretary of State's office. + + "ffrom the Camp nigh + "Renalle the 29 Jun + + "M'r Ross has tolld mee how mutch I am obliged to you for + your kindness w'ch I am very sensible of and shall try to sho + it upon all occations. I will asur you the effects of your + kindness will make me live within compas for as long as I + receave my mony beforehand I shall do it w'th a greadell of + easse. + + "I wont trouble you w'th news becaus Mr. Aston will tell you + all ther is. I will try to instrokt him all as well as I can. + I wont trouble you no longer, only I doe asur you ther is + nobody mor your humble servant than I am. + + "MONMOUTH." + +C. + + * * * * * + +LYDGATE AND COVERDALE, AND THEIR BIOGRAPHERS. + +Dan John Lydgate, as Warton truly observes, was not only the poet +of his monastery, but of the world in general. Yet how has he been +treated by his biographers? Ritson, in his _Bibliographia Poetica_, +says, "he died at an advanced age, after 1446." Thomson, in his +_Chronicles of London Bridge_, 2nd edition, p. 11., says, "Lydgate +died in the year 1440, at the age of sixty;" and again, at p. 164. of +the same work, he says, "Lydgate was born about 1375, and died about +1461!" Pitt says that he died in 1482; and the author of the _Suffolk +Garland_, p. 247., prolongs his life (evidently by a typographical +blunder), to about the year 1641! From these conflicting statements, +it is evident that the true dates of Lydgate's birth and decease are +unknown. Mr. Halliwell, in the preface to his _Selection from the +Minor Poems_ of John Lydgate, arrives at the conclusion from the +MSS. which remain of his writings, that he died before the accession +of Edward IV., and there appears to be every adjunct of external +probability; but surely, if our record offices were carefully +examined, some light might be thrown upon the life of this industrious +monk. I am not inclined to rest satisfied with the dictum of the +Birch MS., No. 4245. fo. 60., that no memorials of him exist in those +repositories. + +The only authenticated circumstances in Lydgate's biography (excepting +a few dates to poems), are the following:--He was ordained subdeacon, +1389; deacon, 1393; and priest, 1397. In 1423 he left the Benedictine +Abbey of Bury, in Suffolk, to which he was attached, and was elected +prior of Hatfield Brodhook; but the following year had license to +return to his monastery again. These dates are derived from the +Register of Abbott Cratfield, preserved among the Cotton MSS. Tiber, +B. ix. + +My object in calling the attention of your readers to the state of +Lydgate's biography is, to draw forth new facts. Information of +a novel kind may be in their hands without appreciation as to its +importance. + +I take this opportunity of noticing the different dates given of Myles +Coverdale's death. + +Strype says he died 20th May, 1565, (_Annals of Reformation_, vol. +i. pt. ii. p. 43., Oxf. ed.), although elsewhere he speaks of his as +being alive in 1566. Neale (_Hist of Pur._, vol. i. p. 185.) says, the +20th May, 1567. Fuller (_Church Hist._, p. 65. ed. 1655) says he died +on the 20th of January, 1568, and "Anno 1588," in his _Worthies of +England_, p. 198., ed. 1662. + +The following extract from "The Register of Burials in the Parish +Church of St. Bartholomew's by the Exchange" sets the matter at rest. +"Miles Coverdall, doctor of divinity, was buried anno 1568., the 19th +of February." + +That the person thus mentioned in the register is Miles Coverdale, +Bishop of Exeter, there can be no doubt, since the epitaph inscribed +on the tomb-stone, copied in _Stow's Survey_, clearly states him to be +so. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to observe that the date mentioned in +the extract is the old style, and, therefore, according to our present +computation, he was buried the 19th of February, 1569. + +Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon the authorship of +a work frequently attributed to Myles Coverdale, and thus entitled, +"A Brieff discours off the Troubles begonne at Frankford in Germany, +Anno Domini, 1554. Abowte the Booke off common prayer and Ceremonies, +and continued by the Englishe Men theyre, to the ende off Q. Maries +Raigne, in the which discours, the gentle reader shall see the verry +originall and beginninge off all the contention that hathe byn, and +what was the cause off the same?" A text from "Marc 4." with the +date MDLXXV. Some copies are said to have the initials "M.C." on the +title-page, and the name in full, "Myles Coverdale," at the end of the +preface; but no notice is taken of this impression in the excellent +introductory remarks prefixed by Mr. Petheram to the reprint of 1846. +If the valuable work was really written by Myles Coverdale (and it +is much in his style), it must have been interspersed with remarks by +another party, for in the preface, signed, as it is said by Coverdale, +allusion is made to things occuring in 1573, four years after his +death. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + + + + +QUERIES. + +SPECULUM EXEMPLORUM:--EPISTOLA DE MISERIA CURATORUM. + +Who was the compiler of the _Speculum Exemplorum_, printed for the +first time at Deventer, in 1481? A copy of the fourth edition, Argent, +1490, does not afford any information about this matter; and I think +that Panzer (v. 195.) will be consulted in vain. Agreeing in opinion +with your correspondent "GASTROS" (No. 21. p. 338.) that a querist +should invariably give an idea of the extent of his acquaintance with +the subject proposed, I think it right to say, that I have examined +the list of authors of _Exempla_, which is to be found in the appendix +to Possevin's _Apparatus Sacer_, tom. i. sig. [Greek: b] 2., and that +I have read Ribadeneira's notice of the improvements made in this +_Speculum_ by the Jesuit Joannes Major. + +Who was the writer of the _Epistola de Miseria Curatorum?_ My copy +consists of eight leaves, and a large bird's-cage on the verse of the +last leaf is evidently the printer's device. Seemiller makes mention +of an Augsburg edition of this curious tract. (_Biblioth. Acad. +Ingolstad. Incunab. typog._ Fascic. ii. p. 142. Ingolst. 1788.) + +R.G. + + * * * * * + +THE SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE. + +The review of Mr. Wright's _England under the House of Hanover, +illustrated by the Caricatures and Satires of the Day_, given in +the _Athenaeum_ (No. 1090.), cites a popular ballad on the flight +and attainder of the second Duke of Ormonde, as taken down from the +mouth of an Isle of Wight fishmonger. This review elicited from a +correspondent (_Athenaeum_, No. 1092.) another version of the same +ballad as prevalent in Northumberland. I made a note of these at the +time; and was lately much interested at receiving from an esteemed +correspondent (the Rev. P. Moore, Rochenon, co. Kilkenny), a fragment +of another version of the same ballad, which he (being at the time +ignorant of the existence of any other version of the song) had taken +down from the lips of a very old man of the neighbourhood, viz.:-- + + "My name is Ormond; have you not heard of me? + For I have lately forsaken my own counterie; + I fought for my life, and they plundered my estate, + For being so loyal to Queen Anne the great. + Queen Anne's darling, and cavalier's delight, + And the Presbyterian crew, they shall never have their flight. + I am afraid of my calendry; my monasteries are all sold, + And my subjects are bartered for the sake of English gold. + * * * * * + * * * * * + But, as I am Ormond, I vow and declare, + I'll curb the heartless Whigs of their wigs, never fear." + +I do not quote the versions given in the _Athenaeum_, but, on a +comparison, it will be seen that they all must have been derived from +the same original. + +The success of your queries concerning the Duke of Monmouth impel me +to propose a few concerning the almost as unfortunate, and nearly as +celebrated, second Duke of Ormonde. Many scraps of traditionary lore +relative to the latter nobleman must linger in and about London, where +he was the idol of the populace, as well as the leader of what we +should now call the "legitimist" party. + +With your leave. I shall therefore propose the following Queries, +viz.:-- + +1. Who was the author of the anonymous life of the second Duke +of Ormonde, published in one volume octavo, some years after his +attainder? + +2. Was the ballad, of which the above is a fragment, printed at the +time; and if so, does it exist? + +3. What pamphlets, ballads, or fugitive pieces, were issued from the +press, or privately printed, on the occasion of the Duke's flight and +subsequent attainder? + +4. Does any contemporary writer mention facts or incidents relative to +the matter in question, between the period of the accession of George +I., and the Duke's final departure from his residence at Richmond? + +5. Does any traditionary or unpublished information on the subject +exist in or about London or Richmond. + +JAMES GRAVES. + +Kilkenny. + + * * * * * + +MAYORS.--WHAT IS THEIR CORRECT PREFIX? + +I wish to ask, of any of your numerous readers, what may be considered +the most proper official prefix for Mayors, whether Right Worshipful +or Worshipful? Opinions, I find, differ upon the subject. In the +_Secretary's Guide_, 5th ed. p. 95. it is said that Mayors are Right +Worshipful; the late Mr. Beltz, _Lancaster Herald_, was of opinion +that they were Worshipful only; and Mr. Dod, the author of a work on +Precedence, &c., in answer to an inquiry on the point, thought that +Mayors of _cities_ were Right Worshipful, and those of _towns_ were +only Worshipful. With due deference, however, I am rather inclined to +think that all Mayors, whether of cities, or of towns, ought properly +to be styled "the _Right_ Worshipful" for the following reason:--all +Magistrates are Worshipful, I believe, although not always in these +days so designated, and a mayor being the chief magistrate ought to +have the distinctive "_Right_" appended to his style. And this view of +the subject derives some support from the fact of a difference being +made with regard to the Aldermen of London (who are all of them +magistrates), those who have passed the chair being distinguished +as the Right Worshipful, whilst those below the chair are styled the +worshipful only; thus showing that the circumstance of being Mayor is +considered worthy of an especial distinction. Probably it may be said +that custom is the proper guide in a case like this, but I believe +that there is no particular custom in some towns, both prefixes being +sometimes used, and more frequently none at all. It seems desirable, +however, that some rule should be laid down, if possible, by common +consent, that it may be understood in future what the appropriate +Prefix is. I shall be glad if some of your heraldic or antiquarian +readers will give their opinions, and if they know of any authorities, +to quote them. + +J. + + * * * * * + +QUEVEDO--SPANISH BULL-FIGHTS. + +The clear and satisfactory reply that "MELANION" received in No. 11. +to his query on the contradictions in _Don Quixote_, tempts me to +ask for some information respecting another standard work of Spanish +literature, written by a cotemporary of the great Cervantes. + +How is it, that in the _Visions of Don Quevedo_, a work which passes +in review every amusement and occupation of the Spanish people, _the +national sport of bull-fighting_ remains _entirely unnoticed_? + +The amusement was, I presume, in vogue during the 16th and 17th +centuries; and the assignations made, and the intrugues carried +on, within the walls of the amphitheatre would have supplied many +an amusing, moralising penitent, male and female, to the shades +below--the "fabulae manes" with whom Quevedo held converse. As my copy +of the _Visions_ is an anonymous translation, and evidently far from +being a first-rate one, I shall not be surprised if I receive as an +answer,--"_Mistaken as to your fact, read a better translation_:" +but as in spite of its manifold, glaring defects, I have no reason to +suspect that the text is _garbled_, I think I may venture to send the +query. + +In "Vision 7." I find Nero accusing Seneca of having had the insolence +to use the words, "I and my king." I have often heard of Henry VIII., +Wolsey, and "Ego et rex meus;" but as I never heard Quevedo quoted as +an illustration, I look upon this as one of the suspicious passages in +my copy of his work. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + + * * * * * + + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Gilbert Browne_.--"G.C.B." is desirous of information respecting +the family from which was descended Gilbert Browne of the Inner +Temple, who died about a century ago, and was buried in North Mymms +Church, Herts, where there is a monument to him (vide Clutterbuck's +_History_); also as to the arms, crest, and motto, as borne by him, +and whether he was in any way related to Michael Browne of Hampton +Court, Herefordshire, who married Elizabeth Philippa, daughter of +Lord Coningsby, as stated in Collins's _Peerage_. He also desires +information as to any enrolment of arms previous to the Visitations, +by which the bearings of families who had grants of land from the +Conqueror may be ascertained; as, for instance, a family who began +to decay about the end of the 14th century, having previously been of +great rank and position. + + +_The Badger_.--Can any body point out to me any allusion, earlier than +that in Sir T. Browne's _Vulgar Errors_, to the popular idea that the +legs of the badger were shorter on one side than on the other, whence +Mr. Macaulay says, "I think that Titus Oates was as uneven as a +badger?" + +W.R.F. + + +_Ecclesiastical Year_.--_Note_ in an old parish register, A.D. 1706. +"Annus Domini Secundum Ecclesiae Anglicanae Supputationem incipit 25to +Mensis Martij." + +_Query_ the _authority_ for this? the _reason_ seems easy to define. + +NATHAN. + + +_Sir William Coventry_.--Pepys mentions in his _Diary_, that Sir +William Conventry kept a journal of public events. Is anything known +of this journal? It is not known of at Longleat, where are several +papers of Sir William Conventry's. + +A MS. letter from Lord Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell, giving an +account of Sir W. Conventry's death, was sold at the sale of Lord de +Clifford's papers in 1834. Can any of your readers inform me where +this letter now is? + +C. + + +_Shrew_.--Is _shrew_, as applied to the shrew-mouse, and as applied to +a scolding woman, the same word? If so, what is its derivation? + +The following derivations of the word are cited by Mr. Bell. _Saxon_, +"Schreadan," to cut; "Schrif," to censure; "Scheorfian," to bite; +"Schyrvan," to beguile. _German_, "Schreiven," to clamour; none of +which, it is obvious, come very near to "Schreava," the undoubted +Saxon origin of the word shrew. + +Now it was a custom amongst our forefathers to endeavour to provide +a remedy against the baneful influence of the shrew-mouse by plugging +the wretched animal alive in a hole made in the body of an ash tree, +any branch of which was thenceforth held to be possessed of a power to +cure the disease caused by the mouse. It thereupon occurred to me that +just as _brock_, a still existing name for the badger, is clearly from +the Saxon _broc_, persecution, in allusion to the custom of baiting +the animal; so _schreava_ might be from _schraef_, a hollow, in +allusion to the hole in the ash tree; and on that supposition I +considered "shrew," as applied to a woman, to be a different word, +perhaps from the German _schreyen_, to clamour. I have, however, found +mentioned in Bailey's Dictionary a Teutonic word, which may reconcile +both senses of "shrew,"--I mean _beschreyen_, to bewitch. I shall +be obliged to any of your subscribers who will enlighten me upon the +subject. + +W.R.F. + + +_A Chip in Porridge_.--What is the origin and exact force of this +phrase? Sir Charles Napier, in his recent general order, informs the +Bengal army that + + "The reviews which the Commander-in-Chief makes of the troops + are not to be taken as so many 'chips in porridge.'" + +I heard a witness, a short time since, say, on entering the +witness-box-- + + "My Lord, I am like a 'chip in porridge'; I can + say nothing either for or against the plaintiff." + +Q.D. + + +_Temple Stanyan_.--Who was Temple Stanyan, concerning whom I find in +an old note-book the following quaint entry? + + "Written on a window at College, by Mr. Temple Stanyan, the + author of a _History of Greece_:-- + + "Temple Stanyan, his window. + God give him grace thereout to look! + And, when the folk walk to and fro', + To study man instead of book!" + +A.G. + + +_Tandem_.--You are aware that we have a practical pun now +naturalised in our language, in the word "_tandem_." Are any of your +correspondents acquainted with another instance? + +[Greek: Sigma]. + + +"_As lazy as Ludlum's dog, as laid him down to bark._"--This +comparison is so general and familiar in South Yorkshire (Sheffield +especially) as to be frequently quoted by the first half, the other +being mentally supplied by the hearer. There must, of course, be +some legend of Ludlum and his dog, or they must have been a pair of +well-known characters, to give piquancy to the phrase. Will any of +your readers who are familiar with the district favour me with an +explanation? + +D.V.S. + + +_Anecdote of a Peal of Bells_.--There is a story, that a person had +long been absent from the land of his nativity, where in early life, +he had assisted in setting up a singularly fine peal of bells. On his +return home, after a lapse of many years, he had to be rowed over some +water, when it happened that the bells struck out in peal; the sound +of which so affected him, that he fell back in the boat and died! Can +any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met +with? + +H.T.E. + + +_Sir Robert Long._--"ROSH." inquires the date of the death of +_Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Long_, who founded, in 1760, a Free School at +Burnt-Yates, in the Parish of Ripley, co. Yorks., and is said to have +died in Wigmore Street, London, it is supposed some years after that +period. + +_Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury._--It is stated in Mr. Martyn's +_Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, that Dr. Whichcot was one of +Shaftesbury's most constant companions, and preached most of his +sermons before him; and that the third Earl of Shaftesbury, the +author of the Characteristics, is said to have published a volume +of Whichcot's sermons from a manuscript copy of the first Lord +Shaftesbury's wife. Can any of your readers give any further +information as to the intimacy between Whichcot and Shaftesbury, of +which no mention is made in any memoir of Whichcot that I have seen? + +C. + + +_Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston._--Permit me to inquire +whether there is any better authority than the common conjecture that +the beautiful verses, commencing,-- + + "Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings + His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs," + +were written by Henry Viscount Palmerston, on the death of his lady at +the Hot-wells, June 1 or 2, 1769. They first appeared p. 240. of the +47th vol. of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1777. + +They also have been attributed to Dr. Hawkeworth, but his wife +survived him. There is a mural tablet under the west window of Romsey +Church, containing some lines to the memory of Lady Palmerston, +but they are not the same. Perhaps some of your correspondents are +competent to discover the truth. + +INDAGATOR. + + +_Gray's Alcaic Ode_.--Can any of your readers say whether Gray's +celebrated Latin ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande +Chartreuse? A friend of mine informs me that he could not find it +there on searching. + +C.B. + + +_Abbey of St. Wandrille_.--Will "GASTROS" kindly allow me to ask him +a question? Does the _Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Wandrille_, which +he mentions (No. 21. p. 338.), include notices of any of the branches +of that establishment which settled in England about the time of the +Conquest; and one of which, the subject of my query, formed a colony +at Ecclesfield, near Sheffield? + +I feel an interest in this little colony, because my early +predecessors in this vicarage were elected from its monks. Moreover, +some remains of their convent, now incorporated into what is called +"the hall," and forming an abutment which overlooks my garden, are +affording an appropriate domicile to the curate of the parish. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield, March 26. 1850. + + +_Queries as to "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers" of a former +Day_.--Not having made _Notes_ of the verses so entitled, I beg to +submit the following _Queries_:-- + +1. Does there exist any printed or manuscript copy of lines of the +above description, in the course of which Pope's "Modest Foster" is +thus introduced and apostrophised:-- + + "But see the accomplish'd orator appear, + Refined in judgment, and in language clear: + Thou only, Foster, hast the pleasing art + At once to charm the ear and mend the heart!" + +Other conspicuous portraits are those of THOMAS BRADBURY, ISAAC +WATTS, and SAMUEL CHANDLER. The date of the composition must be placed +between 1704 and 1748, but I have to solicit information as to who was +its author. + +2. Has there been preserved, in print or manuscript, verses which +circulated from about 1782-1784, on the same body of men, as +characterised, severally, by productions of the vegetable world, +and, in particular, by _flowers_? The _bouquet_ is curious, nor +ill-selected and arranged. One individual, for example, finds his +emblem in a _sweet-briar_; another, in a _hollyhock_; and a third, in +a _tulip_. RICHARD WINTER, JAMES JOUYCE, HUGH WASHINGTON, are parts +of the fragrant, yet somewhat thorny and flaunting nosegay. These +intimations of it may perhaps aid recollection, and lead to the +wished-for disclosure. It came from the hand, and seemed to indicate +at least the theological partialities of the lady[1] who culled and +bound together the various portions of the wreath. + +W. + +[Footnote 1: A daughter of the late Joseph Shrimpton, Esq., of High +Wycombe.] + + +_Dutch Language_.--"E. VEE" will be indebted to "ROTTERODAMUS," or any +other correspondent, who can point out to him the best _modern_ books +for acquiring a knowledge of the Dutch language,--an Anglo-Dutch +Grammar and Dictionary. + + +_Horns_.--1. Why is Moses represented in statues with horns? The idea +is not, I think, taken from the Bible. + +2. What is the reason for assigning horns to a river, as in the +"Tauriformis Aufidus." + +3. What is the origin of the expression "to give a man horns," for +grossly dishonouring him? It is met with in late Greek. + +L.C. + +Cambridge, March 27. + + +_Marylebone Gardens_.--In what year did Marylebone Gardens finally +close? + +NASO. + + +_Toom Shawn Cattie_.--I find these words (Gaelic, I believe, from +_Tom John Gattie_) in an old Diary, followed by certain hieroglyphics, +wherewith I was wont to express "_recommended for perusal_." I have +lost all trace of the recommender, and have hunted in vain through +many a circulating library list for the name, which I believe to +be that of some book or song illustrating the domestic life of our +Western Highlanders. Can any of your readers assist me in deciphering +my own note? + +MELANION. + + +_Love's Last Shift_.--In the first edition of Peignot's _Manuel du +Biblioplide_, published in 1800, the title of Congreve's "Mourning +Bride" is rendered "L'Epouse du Matin." Can any of your readers inform +me whether it is in the same work that the title of "Love's Last +Shift" is translated by "Le dernier Chemise de l'Amour?" if not, in +what other book is it? + +H.C. DE ST. CROIX. + + +_Cheshire-round_.--"W.P.A." asks the meaning of the above phrase, and +where it is described. + + +_Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"_--Your correspondents, +although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any +satisfactory answer to my former query--why a lady-bird is called +Bishop Barnaby? Probably there will be less difficulty in answering +another entomological question--Why do the country-people in the south +of Scotland call an earwig a "coach-bell?" The name "earwig" itself is +sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more +utterly unintelligible. + +LEGOUR. + + +_Chrysopolis_.--Chrysopolis is the Latin name for the town of Parma, +also for that of Scutari, in Turkey. Is the etymological connection of +the two names accidental? and how did either of them come to be called +the "Golden City?" + +R.M.M. + + +_Pimlico_.--In Aubrey's _Surrey_, he mentions that he went to +a _Pimlico_ Garden, somewhere on Bankside. Can any of your +correspondents inform me of the derivation of the word "Pimlico," +and why that portion of land now built on near to Buckingham House, +through which the road now runs to Chelsea, is called Pimlico? + +R.H. + +April 1. 1850. + + +_Zenobia_.--I have read somewhere that Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, was +of Jewish origin, but am now at a loss to retrace it. Could any of +your correspondents inform me where I have read it? + +A. FISCHEL. + + +_Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe_.--"W.D.R." requests information +in reference to the paternity of Henry Ryder, D.D., who was born in +Paris, and consecrated Bishop of Killaloe in 1692. + + +_Belvoir Castle._--In the _Harleian Miscellany_, vol. iv. p. 527., is +a Pindaric Ode upon Belvoir Castle, which Mr. Nichols reprinted in his +_History of the Hundred of Framland._ Can any of your readers inform +me who was the author of this very singular production? + +T.R. Potter. + + +_St. Winifreda._--Can any of your readers refer me to any history or +recent discoveries relative to St. Winifreda? + +B. + + +_Savile, Marquis of Halifax._--It is stated in Tyers's _Political +Conferences_ (1781), that a Diary of his was supposed to be among the +Duke of Shrewsbury's MSS.; and when Mr. Tyers wrote, in the hands of +Dr. Robertson. Can any of your readers give information about this +Diary? + +C. + + +_Salt at Montem._--Will you allow me, as an old Etonian, to ask the +derivation of "salt," as it used to be applied to the money collected +at Eton Montem for the Captain of the Colleges? Towards investigating +the subject, I can only get as far as _Salt_ Hill, near Slough, where +there was a mount, on which, if I remember rightly, the Captain waved +a flag on Montem day. A brief account of the origin of Montem would be +interesting; and it is especially worth noting now that the pageant is +suppressed. + +A.G. + +Ecclesfield, March 14, 1850. + + +_Ludlow's Memoirs._--"C." is anxious to learn if the manuscript of +Ludlow's Memoirs is known to exist, or to receive any information as +to where it might probably be found. + +Ludlow died at Vevay, in Switzerland, in 1693, and the Memoirs were +published at Vevay shortly after. + +There is no will of Ludlow's in Doctor's Commons. + +_Finkle or Finkel._--I should be glad if any of your numerous +correspondents could give me the derivation and meaning of the word +_Finkle_, or _Finkel_, as applied to the name of a street. There is a +street so designated in Carlisle, York, Richmond in Yorkshire, Kendal, +Sedberg, Norwich (in 1508 spelt Fenkyl, and in 1702 Fenkel), and, I +believe, in many other of our more ancient cities and towns. In the +township of Gildersome, a village some few miles from Leeds, there is +an ancient way, till lately wholly unbuilt upon, called Finkle Lane; +and in London we have the parish of St. Benedict Finck, though I do +not imagine that the latter is any way synonymous with the word in +question. The appellation of Finkle is, without doubt, a descriptive +one; but the character of the lane so styled in Gildersome seems to +negative the idea that it has any reference to the peculiarity of +trade or class of persons carried on or inhabiting the locality +distinguished by this title. + +W.M. + +Cowgill, March 13. 1850. + + +_Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley, &c._--In Lewis's _Biography of +Philosophy_ (vol. iv. p. 7.) occurs the following quotation:-- + + "And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin." + +Who is the author of this line? for I cannot find it in Pope, to whom +a note refers it. + +R.F. Johnson. + + +_Derivation of Sterling._--What is the derivation of _Sterling_? Some +authors say from "Easterling," a race of German or Dutch traders; +but is it not more likely from "steer," a bull, or ox, viz. a coin +originally stamped with a figure of that animal? Of this, and parallel +cases, we have many instances among the ancients. I find also, that, +in a decree issued in the time of Richard I., the word is used, and +explained by "peny" as a synonym. Now peny or penny is clearly from +_pecunia_, and that from _pecus_, so that we have the two words +brought side by side, one through the Latin, and the other through the +Saxon language. + +R.F. Johnson. + + +_Hanging out the Broom._--In some parts of England a singular custom +prevails. When a married woman leaves home for a few days, the husband +hangs a broom or besom from the window. When, how, and where did this +originate, and what does it signify? + +R.F. Johnson. + + +_Trunck Breeches.--Barba Longa.--Mercenary Preacher._--In reading +Smith's _Obituary_, edited by Sir H. Ellis for the Camden Society, I +find the following entries:-- + + "1640. May 29th, old M'r Grice, in Aldersgate S't, who wore + _trunck_ breeches, died." + + "1646. Oc'r 1. William Young, Chandler, within Aldersgate, a + discreet Juryman, and _Barba Longa_, died." + + "Fe'r 21., old M'r Lewis, the _Mercenary Preacher_, buried." + +Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning of "_Trunck_ +Breeches," "_Barba Longa_," and "_Mercenary Preacher_?" + +X.Y.Z. + +Suffolk, March 4. + + +_Apposition._--Can any one give me a little information upon the +following passage?-- + + "Quin age, te incolumi potius (potes omnia quando, + Nec tibi nequiequam pater est qui sidera torquet) + Perficias quodcunque tibi nunc instat agendum." + + _Hieronym. Vid. Christ._ lib. i. 67. + +I want to know in what case _te incolumi_ is; and, if in the ablative +absolute, can any one bring a parallel construction from the writers +of the Augustan age, where the law of _apposition_ appears to be so +far violated? + +A.W. + + +_Pamphlets respecting Ireland._--"J." wishes to be informed where +copies may be found of the following pamphlets, described in Ware's +_Irish Writers_, under the head "Colonel Richard Laurence," and +"Vincent Gookin, Esq.," son of Sir Vincent Gookin, who, in the year +1634, published "a bitter invective, by way of letter, against the +nation." Vincent Gookin's pamphlet is dated London, 1655, 4to. Any +particulars relative to _his_ family and descendants will oblige. + +The title of Col. R. Laurence's book is,-- + + "The interest of Ireland in the first Transplantation stated; + wherein it set forth the benefit of the Irish Transplantation: + intended as an Answer to the scandalous seditious Pamphlet, + entitled 'The Great Case of Transplantation Discussed.' + London, 1655." + +The author of the pamphlet was Vincent Gookin, Esq., Surveyor-General +of Ireland. He did _not_, at first, put his name to it; but when +Laurence's answer appeared, he then owned himself as the author of it, +and published a pamphlet under this title:-- + + "The Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught + Vindicated from the unjust Aspersion of Colonel Richard + Laurence and Vincent Gookin, Esq. London, 1655." + + +_Portrait of Sir John Poley._--Perhaps some of your numerous +correspondents can answer whether the portrait of Sir John Poley in +Bexstead Hall, alluded to No. 14. p. 214., has been engraved. + +J. + +February 5. + + +"_Tace is Latin for a candle._"--Whence is this expression derived, +and what is its meaning? I met with it, many years ago, in a +story-book, and, more lately, in one of the Waverley Novels, in which +particular one I do not just now recollect. It seems to be used as an +adage, coupled with an admonition to observe silence or secrecy. + +W.A.F. + + +_Poins and Bardolph._--Can any of your correspondents skilled in +Shakspearian lore inform me whence Shakspeare took the names _Poins_ +and _Bardolph_ for the followers of Prince Hal and Falstaff? + +C.W.S. + + +_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Francis._--Can any of your +correspondents tell me any thing about, or enable me to procure a +copy of, a book on the order of St. Francis, named, _Den Wijngaert van +Sinte Franciscus va Schoonte Historien Legenden, &c._ A folio of 424 +leaves, beautifully printed. The last page has,-- + + "Gheprent Thantwerpen binnen die Camer poorte Int huys va + delft bi mi, Hendrich Eckert van Homberch. Int iaer ons heeren + M.CCCCC. efi XVIII. op den XII. dach va December." + +The only copy I ever saw of it, which belonged to a friend of mine, +had the following note on a fly-leaf in an old and scarcely legible +hand:-- + + "Raer boeck ende seer curieus als gebouwt synde op de Wijsen + voor meesten deel op de fondamenten van den fameus ende extra + raer boeck genoempt _Conformitatis Vita S. Francisci cum + Vita Jesu Christi_, de welch in dese diehwils grateert wordt + gelijck gij in lesen sult andesvinden maer onthout wer dese + latijn spreckwoordt, _Risum teneatis amici_." + +Jarlzberg. + + +_Le Petit Albert._--Can any of your correspondents give me any +information respecting a book entitled _Secrets Merveilleux de la +Magie Naturelle et Cabalistique du Petit Albert, et enrichi du fig. +mysterieuses, et de la Maniere de les faire. Nouvelle Edition, cor. +et aug. A Lion_, 1743. 32mo.? The _avertissement_ says,-- + + "Voici une nouvelle edition du _Livres des merveilleux + Secrets_ du Petit Albert, connu en Latin sous le titre + d'Alberte Parvi Lucii, _Libellus de Mirabilibus Naturae + Arcanis_. L'auteur a qui on l'attribue, a ete un de ces + grands-hommmes qui par le peuple ignorant ont ete accusez de + magie. C'etoit autrefois le sort de tous les grands esprits + qui possedoient quelque chose d'extraordinaire dans les + sciences, de les traiter de magiciens. C'est peut-etre par + cette raison, que le petit tresor est devenu tres rare, + parceque les superstitieux ont fait scrupule de s'en servir; + il s'est presque comme perdu, car une personne distinguee dans + le monde a eu la curiosite (a ce qu'on assure) d'en offrir + plus de mille florins pour un seul exemplaire, encore ne + l'a-t-on pu decouvrir que depuis peu dans la bibliotheque + d'un tres-grand homme, qui l'a bien voulu donner pour ne plus + priver le public d'un si riche tresor," &c. + +Who was Albertus Parvus? when and where was his work published? + +Jarlzberg. + + +_English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriae._--An English +translation of _The Praise of Folly_ (with Holbein's plates), I think +by Denham, Lond. 1709, alludes to _two_ previous translations; one by +Sir Thomas Challoner, 1549; the other it does not name. I should like +to know whose is the intermediate translation, and also what other +translations have been made of that curious work? + +Jarlzberg. + + +_Symbols of the Four Evangelists_.--St. Matthew _an angel_; St. Mark, +_a lion_; St. Luke, _an ox_; St. John, _an eagle_. It is on account +of its being a symbol of the Resurrection that the _lion_ is assigned +to St. Mark as an emblem; St. Mark being called the historian of the +Resurrection. (This title he probably obtained from his gospel being +used on Easter Day.) The reason why the lion is taken as a symbol +of the Resurrection is to be found in the fabulous history of the +animal; according to which the whelp is born dead, and only receives +life at the expiration of three days, on being breathed on by +its father.--What are the reasons assigned for the other three +Evangelists' emblems? + +Jarlzberg. + + +_Portrait by Boonen._--Can any of your correspondents state the +precise time when Boonen, said to be a pupil of Schalcken, flourished? +And what eminent geographer, Dutch or English, lived during such +period? This question is asked with reference to a picture by +Boonen,--a portrait of a singular visaged man, with his hand on a +globe, now at Mr. Peel's in Golden Square; the subject of which is +desired to be ascertained. It may be the portrait of an astrologer, if +the globe is celestial. + +Z. + + +_Beaver Hats._--On the subject of beaver hats, I would ask what was +the price or value of a beaver hat in the time of Charles II.? I +find that Giles Davis of London, merchant, offered Timothy Wade, +Esq., "five pounds to buy a beaver hat," that he might he permitted +to surrender a lease of a piece of ground in Aldermanbury. (Vide +_Judicial Decree, Fire of London, dated 13. Dec. 1668. Add. MS. 5085._ +No. 22.) + +F.E. + + * * * * * + + + + +REPLIES. + +BLUNDER IN MALONE'S SHAKSPEARE. + +I regret that no further notice has been taken of the very curious +matter suggested by "Mr. Jebb" (No 14. p. 213.), one of the many +forgeries of which Shakspeare has been the object, which ought to be +cleared up, but which I have neither leisure nor materials to attempt; +but I can afford a hint or two for other inquirers. + +1. This strange intermixture of some _John_ Shakspeare's confession +of the Romish faith with _William_ Shakspeare's will, is, as Mr. Jebb +states to be found in the _Dublin_ edition of Malone's _Shakspeare_, +1794, v. i. p. 154. It is generally supposed that this Dublin edition +is a copy (I believe a piracy) of the London one of 1790; but by what +means the _three_ introductory paragraphs of John Shakspeare's popish +confession were foisted into the real will of William is a complete +mystery. + +2. Malone, in a subsequent part of his prolegomena to both of those +editions (Lond. v. i. part II. 162., and Dublin, v. ii. p. 139.), +printed a pretended will or confession of the faith of _John_ +Shakspeare, found in a strange, incredible way, and evidently a +forgery. This consisted of fourteen articles, of which the first +_three_ were missing. Now the _three_ paragraphs foisted into +_William's_ will would be the kind of paragraphs that would complete +_John's_ confession; but they are not in confession. Who, then, forged +_them_? and foisted _them_--_which Malone had never seen_--into so +prominent a place in the Dublin reprint of Malone's work? + +3. Malone, in his inquiry into the _Ireland_ forgeries, alludes to +this confession of faith, admits that he was mistaken about it, and +intimates that he had been imposed on, which he evidently was; but +he does not seem to know any thing of the second forgery of the three +introductory paragraphs, or of their bold introduction into William +Shakspeare's will in the Dublin edition of his own work. + +It is therefore clear that Mr. Jebb is mistaken in thinking that it +was "a blunder of _Malone's_." It seems, as far as we can see, to have +been, not a blunder, but an audacious fabrication; and how it came +into the Irish edition, seems to me incomprehensible. The printer of +the Dublin edition, Exshaw, was a respectable man, an alderman and a +Protestant, and _he_ could have no design to make William Shakspeare +pass for a papist; nor indeed does the author of the fraud, whoever +he was, attempt _that_; for the three paragraphs profess to be the +confession of _John_. So that, on the whole, the matter is to me quite +inexplicable; it is certain that it must have been a premeditated +forgery and fraud, but by whom or for what possible purpose, I cannot +conceive. + +C. + + * * * * * + +HINTS TO INTENDING EDITORS. + +_Beaumont and Fletcher; Gray; Seward; Milton._--By way of carrying +out the suggestion which you thought fit to print at page 316, as to +the advantages likely to arise from intimations in your pages of the +existence of the MS. annotations, and other materials suitable to the +purposes of intending editors of standard works, I beg to mention the +following books in my possession, which are much at the service of any +editor who may apply to you for my address, viz.:-- + +1. A copy of Tonson's 10 vol. edit. of Beaumont and Fletcher (8vo. +1750), interleaved and copiously annotated, to the extent of about +half the plays, by Dr. Hoadly. + +2. Mr. Haslewood's collection of materials for an edit. of Gray, +consisting of several works and parts of works, MS. notes, newspaper +cuttings, &c., bound in 6 vols. + +3. A collection of works of Miss Anne Seward, Mr. Park's copy, with +his MS. notes, newspaper cuttings, &c. + +As a first instalment of my promised notes on Milton's _Minor Poems_, +I have transcribed the following from my two copies, premising that +"G." stands for the name of Mr. Gilchrist, and "D." for that of Mr. +Dunster, whose name is misprinted in your 316th page, as "Duns_ton_." + +_Notes on Lycidas._ + +On l. 2. (G.):-- + + "O'er head sat a raven, on a _sere_ bough." + +_Jonson's Sad Shepherd_, Act. I. Sc. 6. + +On l. 26. (D.):-- + + "Whose so early lay + Prevents _the eyelids of the blushing day_." + +_Crashaw's Music's Duel._ + +On l. 27. (D.):-- + + "Each sheapherd's daughter, with her cleanly peale, + was come _afield_ to milke the morning's meale." + +_Brown's Britannia's Pastorals_, B. iv. Sc. 4. p. 75. ed. 1616. + +On l. 29. (G.):-- + + "And in the _deep fog batten_ all the day." + +_Drayton_, vol. ii. p. 512. ed. 1753. + +On l. 40. (G.):-- + + "The _gadding_ winde." + +_Phineas Fletcher's_ 1st _Piscatorie Eclogue_, st. 21. + +On l. 40. (D.):-- + + "This black den, which rocks emboss, + _Overgrown_ with eldest moss." + +_Wither's Shepherd's Hunting_, Eclogue 4. + +On l. 68. (D.) the names of Amaryllis and Neaera are combined together +with other classical names of beautiful nymphs by Ariosto (_Orl. Fur._ +xi. st. 12.) + +On l. 78. (D.) The reference intended by Warton is to _Pindar, Nem._ +Ode vii. l. 46. + +On l. 122. (G.):-- + + "Of night or loneliness _it recks me_ not." + +_Comus_, l. 404. + +On l. 142. (G.):-- + + "So _rathe_ a song." + +_Wither's Shepherd's Hunting_, p. 430. ed. 1633. + +On l. 165. (G.):-- + + "Sigh no more, ladies; ladies, sigh no more." + +_Shakspeare's Much Ado_, ii. 3. + +On l. 171. (G.):-- + + "Whatever makes _Heaven's forehead_ fine." + +_Crashaw's Weeper_, st. 2. + +J.F.M. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Depinges_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 20. p. 326.).--I have received +the following information upon this subject from Yarmouth. Herring +nets are usually made in four parts or widths,--one width, when they +are in actual use, being fastened above another. The whole is shot +overboard in very great lengths, and forms, as it were, a wall in +the sea, by which the boat rides as by an anchor. These widths are +technically called "_lints_" (Sax. lind?); the uppermost of them +(connected by short ropes with a row of corks) being also called the +"_hoddy_" (Sax. hod?), and the lowest, for an obvious reason, the +"_deepying_" or "_depynges_," and sometimes "_angles_." + +At other parts of the coast than Yarmouth, it seems that the uppermost +width of net bears exclusively the name of _hoddy_, the second width +being called the first _lint_, the third width the second lint, and +the fourth the third lint, or, as before, "depynges." + +W.R.F. + + +_Laerig_.--Without contraverting Mr. Singer's learned and interesting +paper on this word (No. 19. p. 292.), I hope I shall not be thought +presumptuous in remarking that there must have been some other root +in the Teutonic language for the two following nouns, leer (Dutch) and +lear (Flemish), which both signify leather (lorum, Lat.), and their +diminutives or derivatives leer-ig and lear-ig, both used in the sense +of _tough_. + +Supposing the Ang.-Sax. "laerig" to be derived from the same root, +it would denote in "ofer linde laerig," the leather covering of the +shields, or their capability to resist a blow. + +I will thank you to correct two misprints in my last communication, p. +299.; pisan for pison, and [Greek: 'Ioannaes [o=omicron]] for [Greek: +'Ioannaes [o=omega]]. + +By the by, the word "pison" is oddly suggestive of a covering for the +breast (_pys_, Nor. Fr.). See _Foulques Fitzwarin_, &c. + +B.W. + +March 16th. + + +_Laerig_ (No. 19. p. 292.).--The able elucidation given by Mr. +Singer of the meaning of this word, renders, perhaps, any futher +communication on the point unnecessary. Still I send the following +notes in case they should be deemed worthy of notice. + + "Ler, leer--vacuus. Berini Fabulae, v. 1219. A.-S. ge-laer." + +_Junii Etymol. Anglicanum._ + + "Lar, laer--vacuus." + +_Schilteri Glossarium Teutonicum._ + +Respecting "Lind," I find in the version by Thorkelin of _De Danorum +Rebus Gestis Poema Danicum Dialecto Anglo-Saxonica_ (Havniae, 1815), +that "Lind haebbendra" is rendered "Vesilla habens;" but then, on the +other hand, in Biorn Haldorsen's _Islandske Lexicon_ (Havniae, 1814), +"Lind" (v. ii. p. 33) is translated "Scutum tiligneum." + +C.I.R. + + +_Vox et praeterea nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--The allusion to this +proverb, quoted as if from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, by "C.W.G." +(No. 16. p. 247.), may be found in Addison's _Spectator_, No. 61, +where it is as follows:-- + + "In short, one may say of the pun as the countryman described + his nightingale--that it is '_vox et praeterea nihil_.'" + +The origin of the proverb is still a desideratum. + +Nathan. + + +_Vox et praeterea nihil_ (No. 16. p 247.).--In a work entitled +_Proverbiorum et Sententiarum Persicarum Centuria_, a Levino Warnero, +published at Amsterdam, 1644, the XCVII. proverb, which is given in +the Persian character, is thus rendered in Latin,-- + + "Tympanum magnum edit clangorem, sed intus vacuum est." + +And the note upon it is as follows:-- + + "Dicitur de iis, qui pleno ore vanas suas laudes ebuccinant. + Eleganter Lacon quidam de luscinia dixit,-- + + [Greek: Ph_ona tu tis essi kai ouden allo,] + Vox tu quidem es et aliud nihil." + +This must be the phrase quoted by Burton. + +HERMES. + + +_Supposed Etymology of Havior_ (No. 15. p. 230., and No. 17. p. +269.).--The following etymology of "heaviers" will probably be +considered as not satisfactory, but this extract will show that +the term itself is in use amongst the Scotch deerstalkers in the +neighbourhood of Loch Lomond. + + "Ox-deer, or 'heaviers,' as the foresters call them (most + likely a corruption from the French 'hiver'), are wilder than + either hart or hind. They often take post upon a height, that + gives a look-out all round, which makes them very difficult + to stalk. Although not so good when December is past, still + they are in season all the winter; hence their French + designation."--_Colquhoun's Rocks and Rivers_, p. 137. + (London, 8vo. 1849.) + +C.I.R. + + +_Havior_.--Without offering an opinion as to the relative probability +of the etymology of this word, offered by your various correspondents +(No. 17. p. 269.), I think it right that the use of the word in +Scotland should not be overlooked. + +In Jamieson's admirable _Dictionary_, the following varieties of +spelling and meaning (all evidently of the same word) occur:-- + + "_Aver_ or _Aiver_, a horse used for labour; commonly an old + horse; as in Burns-- + + "'Yet aft a ragged cowte's been kenn'd To mak a noble + _aiver_.' + + "'This man wyl not obey.... Nochtheles I sall gar hym draw lik + an _avir_ in ane cart'--_Bellend. Chron._ + + "'_Aiver_, a he-goat after he has been gelded: till then he is + denominated a _buck_. + + "_Haiver_, _haivrel_, _haverel_, a gelded goat (East Lothian, + Lanarkshire, Sotherland). + + "_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes. + + "_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c. + + "'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties' + house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._ + + "'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque + animalia quae agriculturae inserviunt.'"--Ducange. + +Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies +ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse +_aver_ or _afer_. + +See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently +congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson. + +EMDEE. + + +_Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may +obtain a clue to his researches on reference to the _private_ act +of parliament of the 19th Henry VII., No. 7., intituled, "An Act for +Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made between _William_ Marquis +Barkley and Thomas Earl of Surrey."--Vide _Statutes at Large_. + +W.H. LAMMIN. + + +_Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole_ (No. 19. p. 304.)--"P.C.S.S." +(No. 20. p. 321.) and "LORD BRAYBROOKE" (No. 21. p. 336.) will find +their opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by the appendix +to _Lord Hervey's Memoirs_, (vol. ii. p. 582.), and the editor's +note, which proves the inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the +inventor of the letter founded his fabrication. In addition to Lord +Braybrooke's proofs that Sir Robert was not disabled by the stone, for +some days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the king, let me add +also, from Horace Walpole's authority, two conclusive facts; the first +is, that it was not till _Sunday night_, the 31st _January_ (_a week +after_ the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made up his mind to +resign; and, secondly, that he had at least two personal interviews +with the king on that subject. + +C. + + +_Line quoted by De Quincey_.--"S.P.S." (No. 22. p. 351.) is informed +that + + "With battlements that on their restless fronts + Bore stars"... + +is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by +Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the +Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably +remembers. + +A.G. + +Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850. + + +_Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat_.--Malone, in a note in +_Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that +a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of +Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic. + + "[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]" + +The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in +Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to +be found? It is much nearer to the Latin. + +C. + + +_Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.), +"P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon +Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p. +797., the following passage:-- + + "But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the + English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the + other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by + a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric] + that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name, + notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of + the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in + Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome + stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_, + which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River + Tees to Edenborough Frith." + +At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_. + +P.C.S.S. + + +_Caesar's Wife_.--If the object of "NASO'S" Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be +merely to ascertain the origin of the proverb, "Caesar's wife must be +above suspicion," he will find in Suetonius (Jul. Caes. 74.) to the +following effect:-- + + "The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Caesar, + having been mixed up with an accusation against + P. Clodius, her husband divorced her; not, as he said, + because he believed the charge against her, but because + he would have those belonging to him as free from + suspicion as from crime." + +J.E. + + [We have received a similar replay, with the addition of a + reference to Plutarch (Julius Caesar, cap. 10.), from several + other kind correspondents.] + + +_Nomade_ (No. 21. p. 342.).--There can be no doubt at all that the +word "nomades" is Greek, and means pastoral nations. It is so used +in Herodotus more than once, derived from [Greek: nomos], pasture: +[Greek: nem_o], to graze, is generally supposed to be the derivation +of the name of Numidians. + +C.B. + + +_Gray's Elegy_.--In reply to the Query of your correspondent "J.F.M." +(No. 7. p. 101.), as well as in allusion to remarks made by others +among your readers in the following numbers on the subject of Gray's +_Elegy_, I beg to state that, in addition to the versions in foreign +languages of this fine composition therein enumerated, there is one +printed among the poem, original and translated, by C.A. Wheelwright, +B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, published by Longman & Co. 1811. +(2d. edition, 1812.) If I mistake not, the three beautiful stanzas, +given by Mason in his notes to Gray, viz. those beginning,-- + + "The thoughtless world to majesty may bow," + "Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around," + "Him have we seen," &c. + +(the last of which is so remarkable for its Doric simplicity, as well +as being essential to mark the concluding period of the contemplative +man's day) have not been admitted into any edition of the _Elegy_. + +With the regard to the last stanza of the epitaph, its meaning is +certainly involved in some degree of obscurity, though it is, I think, +hardly to be charged with irreverence, according to the opinion of +your correspondent "S.W." (No. 10. p. 150.). By the words _trembling +hope_, there can be no doubt, that Petrarch's similar expression, +_paventosa speme_, quoted in Mason's note, was embodied by the English +poet. In the omitted version, mentioned in the beginning of this +notice, the epitaph is rendered into Alcaics. The concluding stanza is +as follows:-- + + "Utra sepulti ne meritis fane, + Et parce culpas, invide, proloqui, + Spe nunc et incerto timore + Numinis in gremio quiescunt." + +ARCHAEUS. + +Wiesbaden, Feb. 16. 1850. + + +_Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 21. p. 339.).--I am +much obliged to "SELEUCUS" for his answer to this inquiry, as far as +regards the seignory of Gower. It also throws a strong light on the +remaining names; by the aid of which, looking in Gloucestershire and +Monmouthshire, I have identified _Margore_ with the parish of Magor +(St. Mary's), hundred of Caldecott, co. Monmouth: and guess, that +for Chepstall we must read _Chepstow_, which is in the same hundred, +and the population of which we know was stout in the royal cause, as +tenants of the Marquis of Worcester would be. + +Then I guess Woolaston may be _Woolston_ (hundred of Dewhurst), co. +Gloucester; and Chaulton, one of the _Charltons_ in the same county, +perhaps _Charlton Kings_, near Cheltenham; where again we read, that +many of the residents were slain in the civil war, _fighting on the +king's side_. + +This leaves only Sydenham without something like a probable +conjecture, at least: unless here, too, we may guess it was miswritten +for Siddington, near Cirencester. The names, it is to be observed, +are only recorded by Noble; whose inaccuracy as a transcriber has been +shown abundantly by Carlyle. The record to which he refers as extant +in the House of Commons papers, is not to be found, I am told. + +Now, if it could be ascertained, either that the name in question +had been Cromwell's, or even that they were a part of the Worcester +estates, before the civil war, we should have the whole list +cleared,--thanks to the aid so effectually given by "SELEUCUS'S" +apposite explanations of one of its items. + +Will your correspondents complete the illustrations thus well begun? + +V. + +Belgravia, March 26. + + * * * * * + + + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Franz von Sickingen_.--Your correspondent "S.W.S." (No. 21. p. 336.) +speaks of his having had some difficulty in finding a portrait of +Franz Von Sickingen; it may not therefore, by uninteresting to him to +know (if not already aware of it) that upon the north side of the nave +of the cathedral of Treves, is a monument of Richard Von Greifenklan, +who defended Treves against the said Franz; and upon the entablature +are portraits of the said archbishop on the one side, and his enemy +Franz on the other. Why placed there it is difficult to conceive, +unless to show that death had made the prelate and the robber equals. + +W.C. + + * * * * * + +BODY AND SOUL. + +(_FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN._) + + The sacred writers to express the whole, + Name but a part, and call the man a _soul_. + We frame our speech upon a different plan, + And say "some_body_," when we mean a man. + No_body_ heeds what every_body_ says, + And yet how sad the secret it betrays! + +RUFUS. + + * * * * * + +"_Laissez faire, laissez passer._"--I think your correspondent "A MAN +IN A GARRET" (No. 19. p. 308.) is not warranted in stating that M. de +Gournay was the author of the above axiom of political economy. Last +session Lord J. Russell related an anecdote in the House of Commons +which referred the phrase to an earlier date. In the _Times_ of the +2nd of April, 1849, his Lordship is reported to have said, on the +preceding day, in a debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill, that Colbert, with +the intention of fostering the manufactures of France, established +regulations which limited the webs woven in looms to a particular +size. He also prohibited the introduction of foreign manufactures +into France. The French vine-growers, finding that under this system +they could no longer exchange their wine for foreign goods, began to +grumble. "It was then," said his Lordship, "that Colbert, having asked +a merchant what he should do, he (the merchant), with great justice +and great sagacity, said, 'Laissez faire et laissez passer'--do +not interfere as to the size and mode of your manufactures, do not +interfere with the entrance of foreign imports, but let them compete +with your own manufactures." + +Colbert died twenty-nine years before M. de Gournay was born. Lord +J. Russell omitted to state whether Colbert followed the merchant's +advice. + +C. ROSS. + + +_College Salting and Tucking of Freshmen_ (No. 17. p. 261., No. 19. +p. 306.).--A circumstantial account of the tucking of freshmen, as +practised in Exeter College, oxford, in 1636, is given in Mr. Martyn's +_Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, vol. i. p. 42. + + "On a particular day, the senior under-graduates, in the + evening, called the freshmen to the fire, and made them hold + out their chins; whilst one of the seniors, with the nail of + his thumb (which was left long for that purpose), grated off + all the skin from the lip to the chin, and then obliged him to + drink a beer-glass of water and salt." + +Lord Shaftesbury was a freshman at Exeter in 1636; and the story told +by his biographer is, that he organised a resistance among his fellow +freshmen to the practice, and that a row took place in the college +hall, which led to the interference of the master, Dr. Prideaux, and +to the abolition of the practice in Exeter College. The custom is +there said to have been of great antiquity in the college. + +The authority cited by Mr. Martyn for the story is a Mr. Stringer, who +was a confidential friend of Lord Shaftesbury's, and made collections +for a Life of him; and it probably comes from Lord Shaftesbury +himself. + +C. + + +_Byron and Tacitus_.--Although Byron is, by our school rules, a +forbidden author, I sometimes contrive to indulge myself in reading +his works by stealth. Among the passages that have struck my (boyish) +fancy is the couplet in "_The Bride of Abydos_" (line 912),-- + + "Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! + He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace!" + +Engaged this morning in a more legitimate study, that of Tacitus, I +stumbled upon this passage in the speech of Galgacus (Ag. xxx.),-- + + "Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem adpellant." + +Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?" If you +think so, by adding it to the other plagiarisms of the same author, +noted in some of your former numbers, you will confer a great honour +on + +A SCHOOLBOY. + + +_The Pardonere and Frere_.--If Mr. J.P. Collier would, at some leisure +moment, forward, for your pages, a complete list of the variations +from the original, in Smeeton's reprint of _The Pardonere and Frere_, +he would confer a favour which would be duly appreciated by the +possessors of that rare tract, small as their number must be; since, +in my copy (once in the library of Thomas Jolley, Esq.), there is +an autograph attestation by Mr. Rodd, that "there were no more than +twenty copies printed." + +G.A.S. + + +_Mistake in Gibbon_ (No. 21. p. 341.).--The passage in Gibbon has an +error more interesting than the mere mistake of the author. That a +senator should make a motion to be repeated and chanted by the rest, +would be rather a strange thing; but the tumultuous acclamations +chanted by the senators as parodies of those in praise of Commodus, +which had been usual at the Theatres (Dio), were one thing; the vote +or decree itself, which follows, is another. + +There are many errors, no doubt, to be found in Gibbon. I will mention +one which may be entertaining, though I dare say Mr. Milman has found +it out. In chap. 47. (and _see_ note 26.), Gibbon was too happy to +make the most of the murder of the female philosopher Hypatia, by a +Christian mob at Alexandria. But the account which he gives is more +shocking than the fact. He seems not to have been familiar enough with +Greek to recollect that [Greek: haneilon] means _killed_. Her throat +was cut with an oyster-shell, because, for a reason which he has very +acutely pointed out, oyster-shells were at hand; but she was clearly +not "cut in pieces," nor, "her flesh scraped off the bones," till +after she was dead. Indeed, there was no scraping from the bones at +all. That they used oyster-shells is a proof that the act was not +premeditated. Neither did she deserve the title of modest which +Gibbon gives her. Her way of rejecting suitors is disgusting enough +in Suidas. + +C.B. + + +_Public Libraries_.--In looking through the Parliamentary Report +on Libraries, I missed, though they may have escaped my notice, any +mention of a valuable one in _Newcastle-on-Tyne_, "Dr. Thomlinson's;" +for which a handsome building was erected early last century, near St. +Nicholas Church, and a Catalogue of its contents has been published. +I saw also, some years ago, a library attached to _Wimborne Minster_, +which appeared to contained some curious books. + +The Garrison Library at _Gibraltar_ is, I believe, one of the most +valuable English libraries on the continent of Europe. + +W.C.T. + +Edinburgh, March 30. 1850. + + * * * * * + +NOSCE TEIPSUM,--AN EXCEPTION. + +(_FROM THE CHINESE OF CONFUCIUS, OR ELSEWHERE._) + + I've not said so to _you_, my friend--and I'm not going-- + _You_ may find so many people better worth knowing. + +RUFUS. + + * * * * * + + + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. + +Mr. Thorpe is preparing for publication a Collection of the Popular +Traditions or Folk Lore of Scandinavia and Belgium, as a continuation +of his _Northern Mythology and Superstitions_, now ready for the +press. + +Mr. Wykeham Archer's _Vestiges of Old London_, of which the Second +Part is now before us, maintains its character as an interesting +record of localities fast disappearing. The contents of the present +number are, the "House of Sir Paul Pindar, in Bishopgate Without," +once the residence of that merchant prince, and now a public-house +bearing his name; "Remains of the East Gate, Bermondsey Abbey;" which +is followed by a handsome staircase, one of the few vestiges still +remaining of "Southhampton House," the residence of the Wriothesleys, +Earls of Southampton. A plate of "Street Monuments, Signs, +Badges, &c.," gives at once variety to the subjects, and a curious +illustration of what was once one of the marked features of the +metropolis. "Interior of a Tower belonging to the wall of London," +in the premises of Mr. Burt, in the Old Bailey, presents us with a +curious memorial of ancient London in its fortified state; it being +the only vestige of a tower belonging to the wall in its entire +height, and with its original roof existing. The last plate exhibits +some "Old Houses, with the open part of Fleet Ditch, near Field Lane;" +and the letter-press illustration of this plate describes a state of +filth and profligacy which we hope will soon only be known among us as +a thing that _has been_. + +We have received the following Catalogues:--Messrs. Williams and +Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street) German Catalogue, Part I. comprising +Theology, Ecclesiastical History, and Philosophy; John Petheram's +(94. High Holborn) Catalogue, Part CX. No. 4. for 1850, of Old and New +Books; John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue, Number Four for +1850 of Books Old and New; and E. Palmer and Son's (18. 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