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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 + A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. + + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 13, 2005 [EBook #15354] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Keith +Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><!-- Page 417 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page417" id="page417"></a>{417}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<table width="100%" class="single" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"> + <b>No. 56.</b> + </td> + <td align="center" width="50%"> + <b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1850.</b> + </td> + <td align="right" width="25%"> + <b>Price Threepence.<br />Stamped Edition 4d.</b> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table width="100%" class="single" summary="Contents" title="Contents"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="94%"> + NOTES:— + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + The Oldenburg Horn + </td> + <td align="right" width="5%"> + <a href="#page417">417</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Greek Particles Illustrated by the Eastern Languages + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page418">418</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Samuel Rowlands, and his Claim to the Authorship of "The Choise of + Change," by Dr. E.F. Rimbault + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page419">419</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Etymology of "Apricot," "Peach," and "Nectarine" + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page420">420</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Minor Notes:—Chaucer's Monument Robert Herrick—Epitaph of + a Wine Merchant—Father Blackhal—The + Nonjurors—Booksellers' Catalogues—Bailie Nicol + Jarvie—Camels in Gaul + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page420">420</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + QUERIES:— + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Bibliographical Queries + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page421">421</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Dryden's "Essay upon Satire" + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page422">422</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Minor Queries:—Ænius Silvius (Pope Pius II.)—"Please the + Pigs"—To save one's Bacon—Arabic + Numerals—Cardinal—"By the + bye"—Poisons—Cabalistic Author—Brandon the + Juggler—Jacobus Præfectus Siculus—The Word "after" in the + Rubric—Hard by—Thomas Rogers of Horminger—Armorial + Bearings—Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband—Romagnasi's + Works—Christopher Barker's Device + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page423">423</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + REPLIES:— + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Licensing of Books, by C.H. Cooper + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page425">425</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Remains of James II., by Dr. J.R. Wreford + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page427">427</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Judge Cradock, by H.T. Ellacombe + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page427">427</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Replies to Minor Queries:—Replies by George Stephens: On a + Passage in the "Tempest;" Legend of a Saint; Cupid and Psyche; Kongs + Skuggsia—Disputed Passage in the "Tempest"—Viscount + Castlecomer—Steele's Burial-place—Cure for + Warts—Etymology of "Parse" + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page429">429</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + MISCELLANEOUS:— + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page430">430</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Books and Odd Volumes Wanted + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page431">431</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Notice to Correspondents + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page431">431</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td align="left"> + Advertisements + </td> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#page431">431</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>NOTES.</h2> + +<h3>THE OLDENBURG HORN.</h3> + + <p>The highly interesting collection of pictures at Combe Abbey, the seat + of the Earl of Craven, in Warwickshire, was, for the most part, + bequeathed by Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, the daughter of James I., to + her faithful attendant, William, Earl of Craven. The collection has + remained, entire and undisturbed, up to the present time. Near the upper + end of the long gallery is a picture which doubtless formed a part of the + bequest of the Queen of Bohemia, and of which the following is a + description:—</p> + + <p>Three quarters length: a female figure, standing, with long curling + light hair, and a wreath of flowers round the head. She wears a white + satin gown, with a yellow edge; gold chain on the stomacher, and pearl + buttons down the front. She has a pearl necklace and earrings, with a + high plaited chemisette up to the necklace; and four rows of pearls, with + a yellow bow, round the sleeve. She holds in her hands a large highly + ornamented gold horn. The back-ground consists of mountains. Underneath + the picture is this inscription:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Anno post natum Christum 939. Ottoni comiti Oldenburgico in venatione + vehementer sitibundo virgo elegantissima ex monte Osen prodiens cornu + argenteum deauratum plenum liquore ut biberet obtulit. Inspecto is + liquore adhorruit, ac eundum bibere recusavit. Quo facto, subito Comes a + virgine discedens liquorem retro super equum quem mox depilavit effudit, + cornuque hic depictum secum Oldenburgum in perpetuam illius memoriam + reportavit. Lucretio de Sainct Simon pinxit."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The painting is apparently of the first part of the seventeenth + century. The ordinary books of reference do not contain the painter's + name.</p> + + <p>The same legend as that contained in this inscription, though with + fuller details, is given by the brothers Grimm, in their collection of + <i>Deutsche Sagen</i>, No. 541. vol. ii. p. 317., from two Oldenburg + chronicles. According to this version Otto was Count of Oldenburg in the + year 990 or 967. [The chronicles appear to differ as to his date: the + inscription of the Combe Abbey picture furnishes a third date.] Being a + good hunter, and fond of hunting, he went, on the 20th of July, in this + year, attended by his nobles and servants, to hunt in the forest of + Bernefeuer. Here he found a deer, and chased it alone from this wood to + Mount Osen: but in the pursuit he left his companions and even his dogs + behind; and he stood alone, on his white horse, in the middle of the + mountain. Being now exhausted by the great heat, he exclaimed: "Would to + God that some one had a draught of cold water!" As soon as the count had + uttered these words, the mountain opened, and from the <!-- Page 418 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page418" id="page418"></a>{418}</span> + chasm there came a beautiful damsel, dressed in fine clothes, with her + hair divided over her shoulders, and a wreath of flowers on her head. In + her hand she held a precious silver-gilt hunting-horn, filled with some + liquid; which she offered to the count, in order that he might drink. The + count took the horn, and examined the liquid, but declined to drink it. + Whereupon the damsel said: "My dear lord, drink it upon my assurance; for + it will do you no harm, but will tend to your good." She added that, if + he would drink, he and his family, and all his descendants, and the whole + territory of Oldenburg, would prosper: but that, if he refused, there + would be discord in the race of the Counts of Oldenburg. The count, as + was natural, mistrusted her assurances, and feared to drink out of the + horn: however, he retained it in his hand, and swung it behind his back. + While it was in this position some of the liquid escaped; and where it + fell on the back of the white horse, it took off the hair. When the + damsel saw this, she asked him to restore the horn; but the count, with + the horn in his hand, hastened away from the mountain, and, on looking + back, observed that the damsel had returned into the earth. The count, + terrified at the sight, spurred on his horse, and speedily rejoined his + attendants: he then recounted to them his adventure, and showed them the + silver-gilt horn, which he took with him to Oldenburg. And because this + horn was obtained in so wonderful a manner, it was kept as a precious + relic by him and all his successors in the reigning house of + Oldenburg.</p> + + <p>The editors state that richly decorated drinking-horn was formerly + preserved, with great care, in the family of Oldenburg; but that, at the + present time [1818], it is at Copenhagen.</p> + + <p>The same story is related from Hamelmann's <i>Oldenburg Chronicle</i>, + by Büsching, in his <i>Volksagen</i> (Leips. 1820), p. 380., who states + that there is a representation of the horn in p. 20. of the + <i>Chronicle</i>, as well as in the title-page of the first volume of the + <i>Wunderhorn</i>.</p> + + <p>Those who are accustomed to the interpretation of mythological + fictions will at once recognise in this story an explanatory legend, + invented for the purpose of giving an interest to a valuable + drinking-horn, of ancient work, which belonged to the Counts of + Oldenburg. Had the story not started from a basis of real fact, but had + been pure fiction, the mountain-spirit would probably have left, not + <i>silver gilt</i>, but a <i>gold</i> horn, with the count. Moreover, the + manner in which she suffers herself to be outwitted, and her acquiescence + in the loss of her horn, without exacting some vengeance from the + incredulous count, are not in the spirit of such fictions, nor do they + suit the malignant character which the legend itself gives her. If the + Oldenburg horn is still preserved at Copenhagen, its date might doubtless + be determined by the style of the work.</p> + + <p>Mount Osen seems to have been a place which abounded in supernatural + beings. Some elves who came from this mountain to take fresh-brewed beer, + and left good, though unknown money, to pay for it, are mentioned in + another story in the <i>Deutsche Sagen</i>, (No.43. vol. i. p. 55.)</p> + + <p class="author">L.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>[Having had an opportunity of inspecting a copy of Hamelmann's + <i>Chronicle</i>, at present belonging to Mr. Quaritch, in which there is + a very interesting engraving of the horn in question (which may possibly + have been a Charter Horn), we are not disposed to pronounce it older than + the latter end of the fifteenth century. If, however, it is still + preserved at Copenhagen, some correspondent there will perhaps do us the + favour to furnish us with a precise description of it, and with the + various legends which are inscribed upon it.—ED.]</p> + +</blockquote> + +<hr /> + +<h3>GREEK PARTICLES ILLUSTRATED BY THE EASTERN LANGUAGES.</h3> + + <p>The affinity which exists between such of the vernacular languages of + India as are offshoots of the Sanscrit, as the Hindostanee, Mahratta, + Guzeratee, &c., and the Greek, Latin, German, and English languages, + is now well known to European scholars, more especially since the + publication of the researches of Vans Kennedy, Professor Bopp of Berlin, + &c. Indeed, scarcely a day passes in which the European resident in + India may not recognise, in his intercourse with the natives, many + familiar words in all those languages, clothed in an oriental dress. I am + inclined also to think that new light may be thrown upon some of the + impracticable Greek particles by a reference to the languages of the + East; and without wishing to be understood as laying down anything + dogmatically in the present communication, I hope, through the medium of + your valuable publication, to attract attention to this subject, and + invite discussion on it. Taking, as an illustration, the 233d line of the + first book of the <i>Iliad</i>, where the hero of the poem is violently + abusing Agamemnon for depriving him of his prize, the fair maid Briseis, + he says,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span lang="el" title="'All' ek toi ereô, kai epi megan horkon homoumai.'" >"Αλλ' εκ τοι ερεω, και επι μεγαν ‛ορκον ‛ομουμαι."</span></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>What is the meaning of <span lang="el" title="ek" >εκ</span> + in the above line? It is commonly construed with <span lang="el" + title="ereô" >ερεω</span>, and translated, "I plainly + tell thee—I declare to thee;" <span lang="el" title="exereô" + >εξερεω</span>, "I speak + out—proclaim." But may it not be identical with the Sanscrit + <i>ek</i>, "one," a word, as most of your readers are doubtless aware, in + universal use throughout India, Persia, &c; the rendering literally + running thus:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"But <i>one</i> thing I tell thee," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>That this is the original sense of the line appears probable by + comparing it with line 297. of the <!-- Page 419 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page419" id="page419"></a>{419}</span> same + book, where in the <i>second</i> speech of Achilles, that <i>impiger, + iracundus, inexorabilis, acer</i>, chieftain <i>again</i> scolds "the + king of men,"—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"<span lang="el" title="Allo de toi ereô, sy d' ene phresi balleo sêsi." >Αλλο δε τοι ερεω, συ δ' ενε φρεσι βαλλεο σησι.</span>"</p> + <p class="i4">"And <i>another</i> thing I tell thee."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>This rendering receives additional confirmation by a comparison with + the following:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"<span lang="el" title="Touto de toi ereô." >Τουτο δε τοι ερεω.</span>"</p> + <p class="i4"><i>Il.</i> iii. 177., and <i>Od.</i> vii. 243.</p> + <p>"<span lang="el" title="Panta de toi ereô." >Παντα δε τοι ερεω.</span>"</p> + <p class="i4"><i>Od.</i> iv. 410., and x. 289.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In the last three lines <span lang="el" title="Allo" + >Αλλο</span>, <span lang="el" title="Touto" + >Τουτο</span>, and <span lang="el" title="Panta" + >Παντα</span> stand precisely in the same + relation to <span lang="el" title="ereô" >ερεω</span> + that <span lang="el" title="ek" >εκ</span> does in the first, + <span lang="el" title="All'" >Αλλ'</span> merely taking + the place of <span lang="el" title="de" >δε</span>, for the + sake of versification.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"But <i>one</i> thing I tell thee.</p> + <p>And <i>another</i> thing I tell thee.</p> + <p>But <i>this</i> thing I tell thee.</p> + <p>And <i>all</i> things I tell thee."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>It is not impossible that <span lang="el" title="exereô" + >εξερεω</span> may be a compound of <span + lang="el" title="ek" >εκ</span>, "one," and <span lang="el" + title="ereô" >ερεω</span>, "I speak." There is in the + Hindostanee an analogous form of expression, <i>Ek bat bolo</i>, "one + word speak." This is constantly used to denote, speaking plainly; to + speak decidedly; one word only; no display of unnecessary verbiage to + conceal thought; no humbug; I tell thee plainly; I speak + solemnly—once for all; which is precisely the meaning of <span + lang="el" title="exereô" >εξερεω</span> in + all the passages where it occurs in Homer: <i>e.g.</i> <i>Il.</i> i. 212. + (where it is employed by Minerva in her solemn address to Achilles); + <i>Il.</i> viii. 286., <i>Od.</i> ix. 365. (where it is very + characteristically used), &c.</p> + + <p>The word <i>ace</i> (ace of spades, &c.) I suppose you will have + no difficulty in identifying with the Sanscrit <i>ek</i> and the Greek + <span lang="el" title="eis" >εις</span>, the <i>c</i> + sometimes pronounced hard and sometimes soft. The Sanscrit <i>das</i>, + the Greek <span lang="el" title="dek-a" + >δεκ-α</span>, and the Latin <i>dec-em</i>, all + signifying <i>ten</i>, on the same principle, have been long + identified.</p> + + <p class="author">J. SH.</p> + + <p>Bombay.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>SAMUEL ROWLANDS, AND HIS CLAIM TO THE +AUTHORSHIP OF "THE CHOISE OF CHANGE."</h3> + + <p>Mr. T. Jones in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. i., p. 39.), describing a + copy of <i>The Choise of Change</i> in the Chetham Library, + unhesitatingly ascribes its authorship to the well-known satirist, Samuel + Rowlands, whom he says, "appears to have been a Welshman from his love of + Triads." Mr. JONES'S dictum, that the letters "S.R.," on the title-page + "are the well-known initials of Samuel Rowlands," may well, I think, be + questioned. Great caution should be used in these matters. Bibliographers + and catalogue-makers are constantly making confusion by assigning works, + which bear the initials only, to wrong authors.</p> + + <p><i>The Choise of Change</i> may with much more probability be given to + a very different author. I have a copy of the edition of 1598 now before + me, in which the name is filled up, in a cotemporary hand, S[imon], + R[obson]. And I find in Lowndes' <i>Bibliographer's Manual</i>, that the + work in question is entered under the latter name. The compiler + adds,—"This piece is by some attributed to Dr. Simon Robson, Dean + of Bristol in 1598; by others, most probably erroneously, to Samuel + Rowland." An examination of the biography of Dr. Robson, who died in + 1617, might tend to elucidate some particulars concerning his claim to + the authorship of this and several other works of similar character.</p> + + <p>Samuel Rowland's earliest publication is supposed to have been <i>The + Betraying of Christ</i>, &c., printed in 1598. If it can be proved + that he has any claim to <i>The Choise of Change</i> (first printed in + 1585), we make him an author <i>thirteen</i> years earlier. In the + title-page of the latter, the writer, whoever he was, is styled "Gent and + Student in the Universitie of Cambridge." This is a fact of some + importance towards the elucidation of authorship and has, I believe, + escaped the notice of those writers who have touched upon Samuel + Rowland's scanty biography. But I can hardly conceive that either of the + publications above alluded to came from the same pen as <i>Humours + Ordinarie</i>, <i>Martin Mark-all</i>, <i>The Four Knaves</i>, and many + others of the same class, which are known to have been the productions of + Samuel Rowlands.</p> + + <p>Respecting Samuel Rowlands it may be regarded as extraordinary that no + account has been discovered; and though his pamphlets almost rival in + number those of Greene, Taylor, and Prynne, their prefaces—those + fruitful sources of information—throw no light upon the life or + circumstances of their author. The late Mr. Octavius Gilchrist considered + that "Rowlands was an ecclesiastic [?] by profession;" and, inferring his + zeal in the pulpit from his labours through the press, adds, "it should + seem that he was an active servant of the church." (See Fry's + <i>Bibliographical Memoranda</i>, p. 257.) Sir Walter Scott (Preface to + his reprint of <i>The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head Vaine</i>) + gives us a very different idea of the nature of his calling. His words + are:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Excepting that he lived and wrote, none of those industrious + antiquaries have pointed out any particulars respecting Rowland[s]. It + has been remarked that his muse is seldom found in the best company; and + to have become so well acquainted with the bullies, drunkards, gamesters, + and cheats, whom he describes, he must have frequented the haunts of + dissipation in which such characters are to be found. But the humorous + descriptions of low-life exhibited in his satires are more precious to + antiquaries than more grave works, and those who make the manners of + Shakspeare's <!-- Page 420 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page420" + id="page420"></a>{420}</span> age the subject their study may better + spare a better author than Samuel Rowlands."</p> + + <p>The opinions of both these writers are entitled to some respect, but + they certainly looked upon two very different sides of the question. + Gilchrist's conjecture that he was an ecclesiastic is quite untenable, + and I am fully inclined to agree with Sir Walter Scott, that Rowlands' + company was not of the most <i>select</i> order, and that he must often + have frequented those "haunts of dissipation" which he so well describes + in those works which are the <i>known</i> production of his muse.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>"APRICOT," "PEACH," AND "NECTARINE," ETYMOLOGY OF.</h3> + + <p>There is something curious in the etymology of the words "apricot," + "peach," and "nectarine," and in their equivalents in several languages, + which may amuse your readers.</p> + + <p>The apricot is an Armenian or Persian fruit, and was known to the + Romans later than the peach. It is spoken of by Pliny and by Martial.</p> + + <p>Plin. N.H., lib. xv. c. 12.:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Post autumnum maturescunt Persica, æstate <i>præcocia</i>, intra xxx + annos reperta."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Martial, lib. xiii. Epig. 46.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Vilia maternis fueramus <i>præcoqua</i> ramis,</p> + <p class="i2">Nunc in adaptivis Persica care sumus."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Its only name was given from its ripening earlier than the peach.</p> + + <p>The words used in Galen for the same fruit (evidently Græcised Latin), + are <span lang="el" title="prokokkia" + >προκοκκια</span> and <span + lang="el" title="prekokkia" + >πρεκοκκια</span>. Elsewhere + he says of this fruit, <span lang="el" title="tautês ekleleiphthai to palaion onoma" + >ταυτης + εκλελειφθαι + το παλαιον + ονομα</span>. Dioscorides, with a nearer + approach to the Latin, calls apricots <span lang="el" title="praikokia." + >πραικοκια.</span></p> + + <p>From <i>præcox</i>, though not immediately, <i>apricot</i> seems to be + derived.</p> + + <p>Johnson, unable to account for the initial <i>a</i>, derives it from + <i>apricus</i>. The American lexicographer Webster gives, strangely + enough <i>albus coccus</i> as its derivation.</p> + + <p>The progress of the word from west to east, and then from east to + south-west, and from thence northwards, and its various changes in that + progress, are rather strange.</p> + + <p>One would have supposed that the Arabs, living near the region of + which the fruit was a native, might have either had a name of their own + for it, or at least have borrowed one from Armenia. But they apparently + adopted a slight variation of the Latin, <span lang="el" title="to palaion onoma" + >το παλαιον + ονομα</span>, as Galen says, <span lang="el" + title="exeleleiptô" + >εξελελειπτω</span>.</p> + + <p>The Arabs called it <span lang="ar" title="brqwq" ><bdo + dir="rtl">برقوق</bdo></span> or, with the + article, <span lang="ar" title="albrqwq" ><bdo + dir="rtl">البرقوق</bdo></span>.</p> + + <p>The Spaniards must have had the fruit in Martial's time, but they do + not take the name immediately from the Latin, but through the Arabic, and + call it <i>albaricoque</i>. The Italians, again, copy the Spanish, not + the Latin, and call it <i>albicocco</i>. The French, from them, have + <i>abricot</i>. The English, though they take their word from the French, + at first called it <i>abricock</i>, then <i>apricock</i> (restoring the + <i>p</i>), and lastly, with the French termination, <i>apricot</i>.</p> + + <p>From <i>malum persicum</i> was derived the German <i>Pfirsiche</i>, + and <i>Pfirsche</i>, whence come the French <i>pêche</i>, and our + <i>peach</i>. But in this instance also, the Spaniards follow the Arabic + <span lang="ar" title="bryshan" ><bdo + dir="rtl">بريشان</bdo></span>, or, + with the article <span lang="ar" title="albryshan" ><bdo + dir="rtl">البريشان</bdo></span>, + in their word <i>alberchigo</i>. The Arabic seems to be derived from the + Latin, and the Persians, though the fruit was their own, give it the same + name.</p> + + <p>Johnson says that nectarine is French, but gives no authority. It + certainly is unknown to the French, who call the fruit either <i>pêche + lisse</i>, or <i>brugnon</i>. The Germans also call it <i>glatte + Pfirsche</i>.</p> + + <p>Can any of your readers inform me what is the Armenian word for + <i>apricot</i>, and whether there is any reason to believe that the + Arabic words for <i>apricot</i> and <i>peach</i>, are of Armenian and + Persian origin? If it is so, the resemblance of the one to <i>præcox</i>, + and of the other to <i>persicum</i>, will be a curious coincidence, but + hardly more curious than the resemblance of <span lang="el" + title="pascha" >πασχα</span> with <span + lang="el" title="paschô" >πασχω</span> which led + some of the earlier fathers, who were not Hebraists, to derive <span + lang="el" title="pascha" >πασχα</span> from + <span lang="el" title="paschô" + >πασχω</span>.</p> + + <p class="author">E.C.H.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>MINOR NOTES.</h3> + + <p><i>Chaucer's Monument.</i>—It may interest those of your readers + who are busying themselves in the praiseworthy endeavour to procure the + means of repairing Chaucer's Monument, especially Mr. Payne Collier, who + has furnished, in the November Number of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> + (p. 486.), so curious an allusion from Warner's <i>Albion's England</i>, + to</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"—— venerable Chaucer, lost</p> + <p>Had not kind Brigham reared him cost,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>to know that there is evidence in Smith's <i>Life of Nollekens</i>, + vol. i. p. 79., that remains of the painted figure of Chaucer were to be + seen in Nolleken's times. Smith reports a conversation between the artist + and Catlin, so many years the principal verger of the abbey, in which + Catlin inquires,</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Did you ever notice the remaining colours of the curious little + figure which was painted on the tomb of Chaucer?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">M.N.S.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>[We have heard one of the lay vicars of Westminster <!-- Page 421 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page421" id="page421"></a>{421}</span> + Abbey, now deceased, say, that when he was a choir boy, some sixty-five + or seventy years since, the figure of Chaucer might be made out by + rubbing a wet finger over it.]</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p><i>Robert Herrick</i> (Vol. i., p. 291.)—There is a little + volume entitled <i>Selections from the Hesperides and Works of the Rev. + Robert Herrick</i>. (<i>Antient</i>) <i>Vicar of Dean-Prior, Devon</i>. + By the late Charles Short, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A., published by Murray + in 1839. I believe it was recalled or suppressed, and that copies are + rare.</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>Epitaph of a Wine Merchant.</i>—The following is very + beautiful, and well deserves a Note. It is copied from an inscription in + All Saints Church, Cambridge.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"In Obitum Mri. Johannis Hammond Oenopolae Epitaphium.</p> + <p>Spiritus ascendit generosi Nectaris astra,</p> + <p class="i2">Juxta Altare Calix hic jacet ecce sacrum,</p> + <p>Corporū <span lang="el" title="anastasei" >αναστασει</span> cū fit Communia magna</p> + <p class="i2">Unio tunc fuerit Nectaris et Calicis."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>Father Blackhal.</i>—In the <i>Brief Narration of Services + done to Three noble Ladies by Gilbert Blackhal</i> (Aberdeen, Spalding + Club, 1844), the autobiographer states (p. 43.) that, while at Brussels, + he provided for his necessities by saying mass "at Notre Dame <i>de bonne + successe</i>, a chapel of great devotion, so called from a statue of Our + Lady, which was brought from Aberdeen to Ostend," &c. It may be + interesting to such of your readers as are acquainted with this very + amusing volume, to know that the statue is still held in honour. A friend + of mine (who had never heard of Blackhal) told me, that being at Brussels + on the eve of the Assumption (Aug. 14), 1847, he saw announcements that + the <i>Aberdeen</i> image would be carried in procession on the + approaching festival. He was obliged, however, to leave Brussels without + witnessing the exhibition.</p> + + <p>As to Blackhal himself, <i>The Catholic Annual Register</i> for the + present year (p. 207.) supplies two facts which were not known to his + editor—that he was at last principal of the Scots College at Paris, + and that he died July 1. 1671.</p> + + <p class="author">J.C.R.</p> + + <p><i>The Nonjurors</i> (Vol. ii., p. 354.).—May I take the liberty + of suggesting to MR. YEOWELL that his interesting paper on "The Oratories + of the Nonjurors," would have been far more valuable if he had given the + authorities for his statements.</p> + + <p class="author">J.C.R.</p> + + <p><i>Booksellers' Catalogues.</i>—Allow me to suggest the + propriety and utility of stating the weight or cost of postage to + second-hand and other books. It would be a great convenience to many + country book-buyers to know the entire cost, carriage-free, of the + volumes they require, but have never seen.</p> + + <p class="author">ESTE.</p> + + <p><i>Bailie Nicol Jarvie.</i>—Lockhart, in his <i>Life of + Scott</i>, speaking of the first representation of <i>Rob Roy</i> on the + Edinburgh boards, observes—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"The great and unrivalled attraction was the personification of Bailie + Jarvie by Charles Mackay, who, being himself a native of Glasgow, entered + into the minutest peculiarities of the character with high <i>gusto</i>, + and gave the west country dialect in its most racy perfection."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>But in the sweetest cup of praise, there is generally one small drop + of bitterness. The drop, in honest Mackay's case, is that by calling him + a "native of Glasgow," and, therefore, "to the manner born," he is, by + implication, deprived of the credit of speaking the "foreign tongue" like + a native. So after wearing his laurels for a quarter of a century with + this one withered leaf in them, he has plucked it off, and by a formal + affidavit sworn before an Edinburgh bailie, the Glasgow bailie has put it + on record that he is really by birth "one of the same class whom King + Jamie denominated a real Edinburgh Gutter-Bluid." If there is something + droll in the notion of such an affidavit, there is, assuredly, something + to move our respect in the earnestness and love of truth which led the + bailie to make it, and to prove him a good honest man, as we have no + doubt, "his father, the deacon, was before him."</p> + + <p class="author">EFFESSA.</p> + + <p><i>Camels in Gaul.</i>—The use of camels by the Franks in Gaul + is more than once referred to by the chroniclers. In the year 585, the + treasures of Mummolus and the friends of Gondovald were carried from + Bordeaux to Convennes on camels. The troops of Gontran who were pursuing + them—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"invenerunt <i>camelos</i> cum ingenti pondere auri atque argenti, + sive equos quos fessos per vias reliquerat"—<i>Greg. Turon.</i>, l. + vii. c. 35.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>And after Brunichild had fallen into the hands of Chlotair, she was, + before her death, conducted through the army on a camel:—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Jubetque eam <i>camelum</i> per omnem exercitum sedentem + perducere."—<i>Fredegarius</i>, c. 42.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>By what people were camels first brought into Gaul? By the Romans; by + the Visigoths; or by the Franks themselves?</p> + + <p class="author">R.J.K.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>QUERIES.</h2> + +<h3>BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.</h3> + + <p>(<i>Continued from page 325.</i>)</p> + + <p>(13.) Is it not a grievous and calumnious charge against the principal + libraries of England, Germany, and France, that not one of them contains + a copy of the <i>Florentine Pandects</i>, in three folio <!-- Page 422 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page422" id="page422"></a>{422}</span> + volumes, "magnifice, ac pereleganter, perque accurate impressis," as + Fabricius speaks? (<i>Bibl. Græc.</i> xii: 363.) This statement, which + may be but a libel, is found in Tilgner (<i>Nov. lib. rar. Collect.</i> + Fascic. iv. 710.), Schelhorn (<i>Amæn. Lit.</i> iii. 428.), Vogt + (<i>Catal.</i> p. 562. Hamb. 1738), and Solger (<i>Biblioth.</i> i 163.). + According to the last writer, the edition in question, Florent. 1553, + (for a fac-simile of the letters of the original MS. see Mabillon's + <i>Iter Italicum</i>, p. 183.) is,—"splendidissima, et stupendæ + raritatis, quæ in tanta est apud Eruditos æstimatione ut pro 100 + Imperialibus sæpius divendita fuerit." Would that the race of such + purchasers was not extinct! In Gibbon's notice of this impression + (<i>Decline and Fall</i>, iv. 197. ed. Milman), there are two mistakes. + He calls the editor "Taurellus" instead of <i>Taurellius</i>; and makes + the date "1551", when it should have been 1553. These errors, however, + are scarcely surprising in a sentence in which Antonius Augustinus is + named "Antoninus." The Archbishop of Tarragona had received a still more + exalted title in p. 193., for there he was styled "Antoninus Augustus." + Are these the author's faults, or are they merely editorial + embellishments?</p> + + <p>(14.) In what year was the improved woodcut of the <i>Prelum + Ascensianum</i> used for the first time? And has it been observed that + the small and separated figures incised on the legs of this + <i>insigne</i> of Jodocus Badius may sometimes be taken as a safe guide + with reference to the exact date of the works in which this mark appears? + As an argument serving to justify the occasional adoption of this + criterion I would adduce the fact, that the earliest edition of Budæus + <i>De Contemptu Rerum fortuitarum</i> is believed to have been printed in + 1520 (Greswell's <i>Parisian Greek Press</i>, i. 39.), and this year is + accordingly visible in the title-page on the print of the <i>Prelum + Ascensianum</i>. That recourse must, however, be had with caution to this + method of discovering a date, is manifest; from the circumstance, that + 1521, or perhaps I should say an injured 1520, appears on the Badian + Device in the third impression of the same treatise (the second with the + <i>expositio</i>), though it was set forth "postridie Cal. April + 1528."</p> + + <p>(15.) Is it owing to the extreme rarity of copies of the first edition + of the Pagninian version of the Scriptures that so many writers are + perplexed and ignorant concerning it? One might have expected that such a + very remarkable impression in all respects would have been so well known + to Bishop Walton, that he could not have asserted (<i>Proleg.</i> v.) + that it was published in 1523; and the same hallucination is perceptible + in the <i>Elenchus Scriptorum</i> by Crowe (p. 4.) It is certain that + Pope Leo X. directed that Pagnini's translation should be printed at his + expense (Roscoe, ii. 282.), and the Diploma of Adrian VI. is dated "die, + xj. Maij. M.D.XXIII.," but the labours of the eminent Dominican were not + put forth until the 29th of January, 1527. This is the date in the + colophon; and though "1528" is obvious on the title-page, the apparent + variation may be accounted for by remembering the several ways of marking + the commencement of the year. (<i>Le Long</i>, by Masch, ii. 475.; + <i>Chronol. of Hist.</i>, by Sir H. Nicolas, p. 40.) Chevillier informs + us (<i>Orig. de l'Imp.</i> p. 143.) that the earliest Latin Bible, in + which he had seen the verses distinguished by ciphers, was that of Robert + Stephens in 1557. Clement (<i>Biblioth.</i> iv. 147.) takes notice of an + impression issued two years previously; and these bibliographers have + been followed by Greswell (<i>Paris. G. P.</i> i. 342. 390.). Were they + all unacquainted with the antecedent exertions of Sante Pagnini (See + Pettigrew's <i>Bibl. Sussex.</i> p. 388.)</p> + + <p>(16.) Why should Panzer have thought that the true date of the + <i>editio princeps</i> of Gregorius Turonensis and Ado Viennensis, + comprised in the same small folio volume, was 1516? (Greswell, i. 35.) If + he had said 1522, he might have had the assistance of a misprint in the + colophon, in which "M.D.XXII." was inserted instead of M.D.XII.; but the + royal privilege for the book is dated, "le douziesme iour de mars lan + <i>milcinqcens et onze</i>," and the dedication of the works by Badius to + Guil. Parvus ends with "Ad. XII Kalendas Decemb. Anni huius M.D.XII."</p> + + <p>(17.) Who was the author of <i>Peniteas cito</i>? And is it not + evident that the impression at Cologne by Martinus de Werdena, in 1511, + is considerably later than that which is adorned on the title-page with a + different woodcut, and which exhibits the following words proceeding from + the teacher: "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancta?"</p> + + <p class="author">R.G.</p> + +<hr /> + + <p>DRYDEN'S "ESSAY UPON SATIRE."</p> + + <p>On what evidence does the statement rest, that the Earl of Mulgrave + was the author of the <i>Essay upon Satire</i>, and that Dryden merely + corrected and polished it? As at present advised, I have considerable + doubt upon the point: and although, in modern editions of Dryden's + <i>Works</i>, I find it headed <i>An Essay upon Satire, written by Mr. + Dryden and the Earl of Mulgrave</i>, yet in the <i>State Poems</i>, vol. + i. p. 179., originally printed in the lifetime of Dryden, it is + attributed solely to him—"<i>An Essay upon Satyr.</i> By J. Dryden, + Esq." This gets rid of the assertion in the note of "D.," in the Aldine + edition of Dryden (i. 105.), that "the Earl of Mulgrave's name has been + <i>always</i> joined with Dryden's, as concerned in the composition." Was + it not first published without notice that any other person was concerned + in it but Dryden?</p> + + <p>The internal evidence, too, is strong that Dryden was the author of + it. I do not here refer to the <!-- Page 423 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page423" id="page423"></a>{423}</span> free, flexible, and + idiomatic character of the versification, so exactly like that of Dryden; + but principally to the description the <i>Essay upon Satire</i> contains + of the Earl of Mulgrave himself, beginning,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Mulgrave had much ado to scape the snare,</p> + <p>Though learn'd in those ill arts that cheat the fair;</p> + <p>For, after all, his vulgar marriage mocks,</p> + <p>With beauty dazzled Numps was in the stocks;"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>And ending:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Him no soft thoughts, no gratitude could move;</p> + <p>To gold he fled, from beauty and from love," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Could Mulgrave have so written of himself; or could he have allowed + Dryden to interpolate the character. Earlier in the poem we meet with a + description of Shaftesbury, which cannot fail to call to mind Dryden's + character of him in <i>Absalom and Achitophel</i>; which, as we know, did + not make its appearance, even in its first shape, until two years after + Dryden was cudgelled in Rose Street as <i>the author</i> of the <i>Essay + upon Satire</i>. Everybody bears in mind the triplet,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"A fiery soul, which working out its way,</p> + <p>Fretted his pigmy body to decay,</p> + <p>And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay;"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>And what does Dryden (for it must be he who writes) say of Shaftesbury + in the <i>Essay upon Satire</i>?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"As by our little Machiavel we find,</p> + <p>That nimblest creature of the busy kind:</p> + <p>His limbs are crippled, and his body shakes,</p> + <p>Yet his hard mind, which all this bustle makes,</p> + <p>No pity on its poor companion takes."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>If Mulgrave wrote these lines, and Dryden only corrected them, Dryden + was at all events indebted to Mulgrave for the thought of the inequality, + and disproportion between the mind and body of Shaftesbury. Moreover, we + know that Pope expunged the assertion subsequently made, that Dryden had + been "punished" (not <i>beaten</i>, as "D." quotes the passage) "for + another's rhimes," when he was bastinadoed, in 1679, at the instigation + of Rochester, for the character of him in the <i>Essay upon + Satire</i>.</p> + + <p>It might suit Mulgrave's purpose afterwards to claim a share in this + production; but the evidence, as far as I am acquainted with it, seems + all against it. There may be much evidence on the point with which I am + not acquainted, and perhaps some of your readers will be so good as to + point it out to me. The question is one that I am, at this moment, + especially interested in.</p> + + <p class="author">THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3> + + <p><i>Æneas Silvius (Pope Pius II.).</i>—A broadsheet was published + in 1461, containing the excommunication and dethronement of the + Archbishop and Elector Dietrich of Mayence, issued and styled in the most + formidable terms by <i>Pius II.</i> This broadsheet, consisting of + eighteen lines, and printed on one side only, appears from the uniformity + of its type with the <i>Rationale</i> of 1459, to be the product of + <i>Fust</i> and <i>Schöffer</i>.</p> + + <p>No mention whatever is made of this typographical curiosity in any of + the standard bibliographical manuals, from which it seems, that this + broadsheet is UNIQUE. Can any information, throwing light upon this + subject, be given?</p> + + <p class="author">QUERIST.</p> + + <p>November, 1850.</p> + + <p>"<i>Please the Pigs</i>" is a phrase too vulgarly common not to be + well known to your readers. But whence has it arisen? Either in "NOTES + AND QUERIES," or elsewhere, it has been explained as a corruption of + "Please the <i>pix</i>." Will you allow another suggestion? I think it + possible that the pigs of the Gergesenes (Matthew viii. 28. <i>et + seq.</i>) may be those appealed to, and that the invocation may be of + somewhat impious meaning. John Bradford, the martyr of 1555, has within a + few consecutive pages of his writings the following expressions:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"And so by this means, as they save their pigs, which they would not + lose, (I mean their worldly pelf), so they would please the Protestants, + and be counted with them for gospellers, yea, marry, would + they."—<i>Writings of Bradford</i>, Parker Society ed., p.390.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Again:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Now are they willing to drink of God's cup of afflictions, which He + offereth common with His son Christ our Lord, lest they should love their + pigs with the Gergenites." p. 409.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Again:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"This is a hard sermon: 'Who is able to abide it?' Therefore, Christ + must be prayed to depart, lest all their pigs be drowned. The devil shall + have his dwelling again in themselves, rather than in their pigs." p. + 409.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>These, and similar expressions in the same writer, without reference + to any text upon the subject, seem to show, that men loving their pigs + more than God, was a theological phrase of the day, descriptive of their + too great worldliness. Hence, just as St. Paul said, "if the Lord will," + or as we say, "please God," or, as it is sometimes written, "D.V.," + worldly men would exclaim, "please the pigs," and thereby mean that, + provided it suited their present interest, they would do this or that + thing.</p> + + <p class="author">ALFRED GATTY.</p> + + <p>Ecclesfield.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>[We subjoin the following Query, as one so closely connected with the + foregoing, that the explanation of the one will probably clear up the + obscurity in which the other is involved.]</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 424 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page424" id="page424"></a>{424}</span></p> + + <p><i>To save One's Bacon.</i>—Can you or any of your + correspondents inform me of the origin of the common saying, "He's just + saved his bacon?" It has puzzled me considerably, and I really can form + no conjecture why "bacon" should be the article "saved."</p> + + <p class="author">C.H.M.</p> + + <p><i>Arabic Numerals.</i>—I should be glad to know something about + the projected work of Brugsh, Berlin, referred to in Vol. ii., p. + 294.,—its size and price.</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>Cardinal.</i>—"<i>Never did Cardinal bring good to + England.</i>"—We read in Dr. Ligard's <i>History</i> (vol. iv. p. + 527.), on the authority of Cavendish, that when the Cardinals Campeggio + and Wolsey adjourned the inquiry into the legality of Henry VIII.'s + marriage with Catharine of Arragon, "the Duke of Suffolk, striking the + table, exclaimed with vehemence, that the 'old saw' was now + verified,—'Never did Cardinal bring good to England.'" I should be + glad to know if this saying is to be met with elsewhere, and what gave + rise to it?</p> + + <p class="author">O.P.Q.</p> + + <p>"<i>By the bye," &c.</i>—What is the etymology of the + phrases "by the bye," "by and by," and such like?</p> + + <p class="author">J.R.N.</p> + + <p><i>Poisons.</i>—Our ancestors believed in the existence of + poisons made so artfully that they did not operate till several years + after they were administered. I should be greatly obliged by any + information on this subject obtained from English books published + previously to 1600.</p> + + <p class="author">M.</p> + + <p><i>Cabalistic Author.</i>—Who was the author of a chemical and + cabalistical work, not noticed by Lowndes, entitled:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"A philosophicall epitaph in hierogliphicall figures. A briefe of the + golden calf (the world's idol). The golden ass well managed, and Midas + restored to reason. Written by J. Rod, Glauber, and Jehior, the three + principles or originall of all things. Published by W.C., Esquire, 8vo. + Lond. Printed for William Cooper, at the Pellican, in Little Britain, + 1673."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>With a long catalogue of chemical books, in three parts, at the end. + My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small + circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved + frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. + There are two dedications, one to Robert Boyle, Esq., and the other to + Elias Ashmole, Esq.; both signed "W.C. or twice five hundred," which + signature is repeated in other parts of the book. What is the meaning of + "W.C. or twice five hundred"?</p> + + <p class="author">T. CR.</p> + + <p><i>Brandon the Juggler.</i>—Where is any information to be + obtained of Brandon the Juggler, who lived in the reign of King Henry + VIII.?</p> + + <p class="author">T. CR.</p> + + <p><i>Jacobus Præfectus Siculus.</i>—I have a beautiful copy of a + poem by this person, entitled <i>De Verbo DEI Cantica</i>. The binding + expresses its date: "Neapoli, 1537." It is not, I believe, the work which + suggested to Milton his greater songs, though it is a pretty complete + outline of the <i>Paradise Lost</i> and <i>Regained</i>/ What is known + about the author, or any other works of his?</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>The Word "after" in the Rubric—Canons of 1604.</i>—</p> + + <p>1. Can any of your correspondents who may have in their possession any + old Greek, or Latin, or other versions, of the Book of Common Prayer, + kindly inform me how the word <i>after</i> is rendered in the rubrics of + the General Confession, the Lord's Prayer in the Post Communion, and the + last prayer of the Commination Service? Is it in the sense of <i>post</i> + or <i>secundum</i>?</p> + + <p>2. Where can any account of the translation of the Canons of 1604 into + English be found? It is apprehended the question is one more difficult to + answer than might be supposed.</p> + + <p class="author">T.Y.</p> + + <p><i>Hard by.</i>—Is not <i>hard by</i> a corruption of the German + <i>hierbei</i>? I know no other similar instance of the word <i>hard</i>, + that is to say, as signifying <i>proximity</i>, without the conjoint idea + of <i>pressure</i> or <i>pursuit.</i></p> + + <p class="author">K.</p> + + <p><i>Thomas Rogers of Horninger.</i>—Can any of the readers of + your valuable publication give me, or put me in the way of obtaining, any + information about one Thomas Rogers, who was in some way connected with + the village of Horninger or Horringer, near Bury St. Edmunds, was author + of a work on the Thirty-nine Articles, and died in the year 1616?</p> + + <p class="author">S.G.</p> + + <p>Corpus Christi Col., Cambridge.</p> + + <p><i>Armorial Bearings.</i>—Three barrulets charged with six + church bells, three, two, and one, is a shield occurring in the Speke + Chauntry, in Exeter Cathedral. Can this coat be assigned?</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband.</i>—In Bishop Goodman's + <i>Court of King James I.,</i> edited by John S. Brewer, M.A. (vol. ii. + p. 127..), is a letter from Lady Compton to her husband, William Lord + Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton, written upon occasion of his + coming into possession of a large fortune. This letter, with some + important variations, is also given in Knight's <i>London</i> (vol. i. p. + 324.), and, if my memory does not deceive me, in Hewitt's <i>Visits to + Remarkable Places</i>. This letter is very curious, but I can hardly + think it genuine. Can any of your correspondents throw any light on the + matter? Was it printed before 1839, when Mr. Brewer's work appeared? + Where is the original, or supposed original, to be seen? Above all, is it + authentic? If not, is it known when, and by <!-- Page 425 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page425" id="page425"></a>{425}</span> whom, and + under what circumstances it was written?</p> + + <p class="author">C.H. COOPER.</p> + + <p>Cambridge, November 15. 1850.</p> + + <p><i>Romagnasi's Works.</i>—In a "Life of G.D. Romagnasi," in vol. + xviii. <i>Law Mag.</i>, p. 340., after enumerating several of his works, + it is added, "All these are comprised in a single volume, Florentine + edit. of 1835." I have in vain endeavoured to procure the work, and have + recently received an answer from the first book establishment in + Florence, to the effect that no such edition ever appeared either at + Florence or elsewhere.</p> + + <p>This is strange after the explicit statement in the <i>Law Mag.</i>, + and I shall be obliged to receive through the medium of your useful pages + any information regarding the work in question.</p> + + <p class="author">F.R.H.</p> + + <p><i>Christopher Barker's Device.</i>—I have often been puzzled to + understand the precise meaning of the inscription on Christopher Barker's + device. Whether this arises from my own ignorance, or from any essential + difficulty in it, I cannot tell; but I should be glad of an explanation. + I copy from a folio edition of the Geneva Bible, "imprinted at London by + Christopher Barker, printer to the Queene's Majesty, 1578."</p> + + <p>The device consists of a boar's head rising from a mural crown, with a + scroll proceeding from its mouth, and embracing a lamb in the lowest + fold. The inscription on this scroll is as follows:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Tigre . Reo.</p> + <p>Animale . Del.</p> + <p>Adam . Vecchio.</p> + <p>Figliuolo . Merce.</p> + <p>L'Evangelio . Fatto.</p> + <p>N'Estat . Agnello."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>I venture my own solution:—The tiger, the wicked animal, of the + old Adam, being made, thanks to the Gospel, a son, is hence become a + lamb."</p> + + <p>I presume <i>N'Estat</i> to be an abbreviation of "ne è stato." Any + correction or illustration of this will oblige.</p> + + <p class="author">C.W. BINGHAM.</p> + + <p>Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>REPLIES.</h2> + +<h3>LICENSING OF BOOKS.</h3> + +<p class="center">(Vol. ii., p.359.)</p> + + <p>On the 12th November, 5 & 6 Philip and Mary, 1558, a bill "That no + man shall print any book or ballad, &c., unless he be authorized + thereunto by the king and queen's majesties licence, under the Great Seal + of Englande," was read for the first time in the House of Lords, where it + was read again a second time on the 14th. On the 16th it was read for the + third time, but it did not pass, and probably never reached the Commons; + for Queen Mary died on the following day, and thereby the Parliament was + dissolved. (<i>Lords' Journal</i>, i. 539, 540.) Queen Elizabeth, however + did by her high prerogative what her sister had sought to effect by + legislative sanction. In the first year of her reign, 1559, she issued + injunctions concerning both the clergy and the laity: the 51st Injunction + was in the following terms:—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Item, because there is great abuse in the printers of books, which + for covetousness chiefly regard not what they print, so they may have + gain, whereby ariseth the great disorder by publication of unfruitful, + vain, and infamous books and papers; the queen's majesty straitly + chargeth and commandeth, that no manner of person shall print any manner + of book or paper, of what sort, nature, or in what language soever it be, + except the same be first licensed by Her Majesty by express words in + writing, or by six of her privy council; or be perused and licensed by + the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the + chancellors of both universities, the bishop being ordinary, and the + archdeacon also of the place, where any such shall be printed, or by two + of them, whereof the ordinary of the place to be always one. And that the + names of such, as shall allow the same, to be added in the end of every + such work, for a testimony of the allowance thereof. And because many + pamphlets, plays, and ballads be oftentimes printed, wherein regard would + be had that nothing therein should be either heretical, seditious, or + unseemly for Christian ears; Her Majesty likewise commandeth that no + manner of person shall enterprise to print any such, except the same be + to him licensed by such Her Majesty's commissioners, or three of them, as + be appointed in the city of London to hear and determine divers clauses + ecclesiastical, tending to the execution of certain statutes made the + last parliament for uniformity of order in religion. And if any shall + sell or utter any manner of books or papers, being not licensed as is + abovesaid, that the same party shall be punished by order of the said + commissioners, as to the quality of the fault shall be thought meet. And + touching all other books of matters of religion, or policy, or + governance, that have been printed, either on this side the seas, or on + the other side, because the diversity of them is great, and that there + needeth good consideration to be had of the particularities thereof, Her + Majesty referreth the prohibition or permission thereof to the order, + which her said commissioners within the city of London shall take and + notify. According to the which, Her Majesty straitly chargeth and + commandeth all manner her subjects, and especially the wardens and + company of stationers, to be obedient.</p> + + <p>"Provided that these orders do not extend to any profane authors and + works in any language, that have been heretofore commonly received or + allowed in any of the universities or schools, but the same may be + printed, and used as by good order they were + accustomed."—Cardswell's <i>Documentary Annals</i>, i. 229.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This injunction was, I take it, the origin of the licensing of the + press of this country. On the 23d June, 28 Eliz. 1586 (not 1585, as in + Strype), <!-- Page 426 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page426" + id="page426"></a>{426}</span> Archbishop Whitgift and the Lords of the + Privy Council in the Star Chamber made rules and ordinances for + redressing abuses in printing. No printing-press was to be allowed + elsewhere than in London (except one in each University); and no book was + to be printed until first seen and perused by the Archbishop of + Canterbury or Bishop of London; with an exception in favour of the + queen's printer, and books of the common law, which were to be allowed by + the Chief Justices and Chief Baron, or one of them. Extensive and + arbitrary powers of search for unlicensed books and presses were also + given to the wardens of the Stationers' Company. (Strype's <i>Life of + Archbishop Whitgift</i>, 222.; Records, No.XXIV.) On the 1st July, 1637, + another decree of a similar character was made by the Court of Star + Chamber. (Rushworth's <i>Historical Collections</i>, Part ii. p.450.) The + Long Parliament, although it dissolved the Star Chamber, seems to have + had no more enlightened views as respects the freedom of the press than + Queen Elizabeth or the Archbishops Whitgift and Laud; for on the 14th + June, 1643, the two Houses made an ordinance prohibiting the printing of + any order or declaration of either House, without order of one or both + Houses; or the printing or sale of any book, pamphlet, or paper, unless + the same were approved and licensed under the hands of such persons as + both or either House should appoint for licensing the same. + (<i>Parliamentary History</i>, xii. 298.) The names of the licensers + appointed are given in Neal's <i>History of the Puritans</i> (ed. 1837, + ii. 205.). It was this ordinance which occasioned the publication, in or + about 1644, of Milton's most noble defence of the liberty of the press, + entitled <i>Areopagitica; a Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed + Printing, To the Parliament of England</i>. After setting out certain + Italian imprimaturs, he remarks:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"These are the pretty responsories, these are the dear antiphonies + that so bewitched of late our prelates and their chaplains with the godly + echo they made and besotted, as to the gay imitation of a lordly + imprimatur, one from Lambeth House, another from the west end of Paul's; + so apishly romanising, that the word of command still was set down in + Latin, as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would cast no ink + without Latin; or, perhaps, as they thought, because no vulgar tongue was + worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur; but rather, as I + hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost + in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow + to spell such a dictatory presumption englished."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>On the 28th September, 1647, the Lords and Commons passed a still more + severe ordinance, which imposed pains and penalties on all persons + printing, publishing, selling, or uttering any book, pamphlet, treatise, + ballad, libel, or sheet of news, without the licence of both, or either + House of Parliament, or such persons as should be thereunto authorised by + one or both Houses. Offending hawkers, pedlars, and ballad-chappers were + to be whipped as common rogues. (<i>Parliamentary History</i>, xvi. 309.) + We get some insight into the probable cause of this ordinance from a + letter of Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Earl of Manchester, dated "Putney, + 20th Sept., 1647." He complains of some printed pamphlets, very + scandalous and abusive, to the army in particular, and the whole kingdom + in general; and expresses his desire that these, and all of the like + nature, might be suppressed for the future. In order, however, to satisfy + the kingdom's expectation for intelligence, he advises that, till a firm + peace be settled, two or three sheets might be permitted to come out + weekly, which might be licensed; and as Mr. Mabbott had approved himself + faithful in that service of licensing, and likewise in the service of the + House and the army, he requested that he might be continued in the said + place of licenser. (<i>Lords' Journals</i>, ix. 457.) Gilbert Mabbott was + accordingly appointed licenser of such weekly papers as should be + printed, but resigned the situation 22nd May, 1649. (<i>Commons' + Journals</i>, vi. 214.) It seems he had conscientious objections to the + service, for elsewhere it is recorded, under the same date, "Upon Mr. + Mabbott's desire and reasons against licensing of books to be printed, he + was discharged of that imployment." (Whitelock's <i>Memorials</i>, 389.) + On the 20th September, 1649, was passed a parliamentary ordinance + prohibiting printing elsewhere than in London, the two Universities, + York, and Finsbury, without the licence of the Council of State + (Scobell's <i>Ordinances</i>, Part ii. 90.); and on the 7th January, + 1652-3, the Parliament passed another ordinance for the suppression of + unlicensed and scandalous books. (Scobell's <i>Ordinances</i>, Part ii. + 231.) In 1661 a bill for the regulation of printing passed the Lords, but + was rejected by the Commons on account of the peers having inserted a + clause exempting their own houses from search; but in 1662 was passed the + statute 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 33., which required all books to be + licensed as follows:—Law books by the Lord Chancellor, or one of + the Chief Justices, or Chief Baron; books of history and state, by one of + the Secretaries of State; of heraldry, by the Earl Marshal, or the + King-at-Arms; of divinity, physic, philosophy, or whatsoever other + science or art, by the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London: + or if printed at either University, by the chancellor thereof. The number + of master printers (exclusive of the king's printers and the printers of + the Universities) was to be reduced to twenty, and then vacancies were to + be filled up by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London, and + printing was not to be allowed elsewhere than in London, York (where the + Archbishop of York was to license all books), <!-- Page 427 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page427" id="page427"></a>{427}</span> and the + two Universities. This Act was to continue for two years, from 10th June, + 1662. It was renewed by the 16 Car. II. c. 8.; 16 & 17 Car. II. c. + 7.; and 17 Car. II. c. 4., and expired on the 26th May, 1679,—a day + rendered ever memorable by the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act: but in + less than a year afterwards the judges unanimously advised the king that + he might by law prohibit the printing and publishing of all news-books + and pamphlets of news not licensed by His Majesty's authority; and + accordingly on the 17th May, 1680, appeared in the <i>Gazette</i> a + proclamation restraining the printing of such books and pamphlets without + license. The Act of 1662 was revived for seven years, from 24th June, + 1685, by 1 Jac. II. c. 17. s. 15., and, even after the Revolution, was + continued for a year longer by 4 & 5 Wm. and Mary, c. 24. s. 14. When + that year expired, the press of England became free; but on the 1st of + April, 1697, the House of Commons, after passing a vote against John + Salusbury, printer of the <i>Flying Post</i>, for a paragraph inserted in + that journal tending to destroy the credit and currency of Exchequer + Bills, ordered that leave should be given to bring in a bill to prevent + the writing, printing, and publishing any news without licence. Mr. + Poultney accordingly presented such a bill on the 3rd of April. It was + read a first time; but a motion to read it a second time was negatived. + (<i>Commons' Journals</i>, xi. 765. 767.) This attempt again to shackle + the press seems to have occasioned</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"A Letter to a Member of Parliament showing that a restraint on the + Press is inconsistent with the Protestant Religion and dangerous to the + Liberties of the Nation." Printed 1697, and reprinted in Cobbett's + <i>Parliamentary History</i>, v. App. p. cxxx.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">C.H. COOPER.</p> + + <p>Cambridge, October 29. 1850.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>REMAINS OF JAMES II.</h3> + +<p class="center">(Vol. ii., pp. 243. 281.)</p> + + <p>To the information which has recently been furnished in your pages + respecting the remains of James II., it may be not uninteresting to add + the inscription which is on his monument in the church of St. + Germain-en-Laye, and which I copied, on occasion of my last visit to + France.</p> + + <p>The body of the king, or a considerable portion of it, which had + remained unburied, was, I believe, interred at St. Germain soon after the + termination of the war in 1814; but it being necessary to rebuild the + church, the remains were exhumed and re-interred in 1824. Vicissitudes as + strange in death as in life seem to have attended this unhappy king.</p> + + <p>The following is the inscription <i>now</i> on his monument in the + parish church of St. Germain:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"REGIO CINERI PIETAS REGIA.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Ferale quisquis hoc monumentum suspicis</p> + <p class="i2">Rerum humanarum vices meditare</p> + <p>Magnus in prosperis in adversis major</p> + <p class="i2">Jacobus 2. Anglorum Rex.</p> + <p>Insignes ærumnas dolendaque nimium fata</p> + <p class="i2">Pio placidoque obitu exsolvit</p> + <p class="i4">in hac urbe</p> + <p class="i2">Die 16. Septemb. anni 1701.</p> + <p>Et nobiliores quædam corporis ejus partes</p> + <p class="i2">Hic reconditæ asservantur."</p> + </div> + </div> +<hr /> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Qui prius augustâ gestabat fronte coronam</p> + <p>Exiguâ nunc pulvereus requiescit in urnâ</p> + <p>Quid solium—quid et alta juvant! terit omnia lethum,</p> + <p>Verum laus fidei ac morum haud peritura manebit</p> + <p>Tu quoque summe Deus regem quem regius hospes</p> + <p>Infaustum excepit tecum regnare jubebis."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>But a different inscription formerly was placed over the king's + remains in this church, which has now disappeared; at all events, I could + not discover it; and I suppose that the foregoing was preferred and + substituted for that, a copy of which I subjoin:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"D.O.M. Jussu Georgii IV. Magnæ Britanniæ &c., Regis, et curante + Equite exc. Carolo Stuart Regis Britanniæ Legato, cæteris antea rite + peractis et quo decet honore in stirpem Regiam hic nuper effossæ + reconditæ sunt Reliquiæ Jacobi II., qui in secundo civitatis gradu clarus + triumphis in primo infelicior, post varios fortunæ casus in spem melioris + vitæ et beatæ resurrectionis hic quievit in Domino, anno MDCCI, v. idus + Septemb., MDCCCXXIV."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>At the foot of the monument were the words—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Depouilles mortelles de Jacques 2. Roi d'Angleterre."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>A third monumental inscription to the memory of James II., in Latin, + is to be seen in the chapel of the Scotch College in Paris. This memorial + was erected in 1703, by James, Duke of Perth. An urn, containing the + brains of the king, formerly stood on the top of it. A copy of this + inscription is preserved in the <i>Collectanea Topographica et + Genealogica</i>, vol. vii.</p> + + <p class="author">J. REYNELL WREFORD, D.D.</p> + + <p>Bristol, November 8. 1850.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>JUDGE CRADOCK.</h3> + + <p>My transplantation from Gloucester to Devonshire, and the consequent + unapproachable state of my books, prevents my referring to authorities at + the moment in support of what I have said about the arms of Judge Cradock + <i>alias</i> Newton: still I wish to notice the subject at once that I + may not appear to shrink from the Query of S.A.Y. (Vol. ii., p. 371.)</p> + + <p>I happen to have at hand a copy of the Grant <!-- Page 428 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page428" id="page428"></a>{428}</span> of Arms + to Sir John of East Harptree, Somerset, in 1567 in which, on the + authority of the heralds of the day, arg. on a chevron az. 3 garbs or, + are granted to him in the first quarter as the arms of Robert Cradock + <i>alias</i> Newton. The Judge seems to have been the first of the family + who dropped the name of Cradock. His forefathers, for several generations + (from Howel ap Grononye, who was Lord of Newton, in Rouse or Trenewith, + in Poursland), went by the name of Cradog Dom. de Newton.</p> + + <p>Robert Cradock, mentioned in the Grant I have quoted, married Margaret + Sherborne. He was the Judge's great-great-grandfather. Sir John Newton, + to whom the grant was made, lies buried at East Harptree; and on his tomb + may be seen (besides his effigies as large as life) the twelve + quarterings in their original (?) blazoning, impaled with those of his + wife, one of the Pointz family. The same arms (of Newton) are still + discernible on a beautifully wrought, though now much mutilated shield, + over one of the doors of Barres Court, at East Hanham, in Bitton, + Gloucestershire, where Newton also had a residence, where John Leland on + his itinerary visited him, and says (<i>Itin.</i> vol. vii. p. 87.) "his + very propre name is Caradoc," &c. This property Newton inherited as a + descendant from the De Bittons or Button (through Hampton), a family of + great note in their day, and residents on the site of Barres Court, a + "fayr manner place of stone," which evidently took its name from Sir John + Barre, who married Joan, the relict of Robert Greyndon, and daughter of + Thomas Roug by Catherine, who was the last heiress of that branch of De + Bittons—(she died 1485, and is buried with her first husband at + Newlond). Of the same family were the three bishops of that name, in the + reigns of the early Edwards; one of which, <i>Thomas</i>, Bishop of + Exeter in 1299, was the pious founder of a chantry chapel adjoining + Bitton Church, over the bodies of his father and another, who were buried + there; the building itself is quite an architectural gem. The said bishop + must also have resided there, for in 1287, when Dean of Wells, the Lord + of the Manor of that part of Bitton where his estate lay, impounded some + of his cattle, and had a trial thereon at Gloucester, as appears by a + Placite Roll of that date.</p> + + <p>I send you a copy of the Grant of Arms, as it may be interesting, to + publish—besides, it is a reply to the latter part of S.A.Y.'s + Query. It is copied from the Ashmol. MSS. No. 834. p. 34.</p> + + <p>Of the Newtons of Yorkshire I know nothing; but if S.A.Y. wishes to + question me further, I shall be happy to receive his communication under + his own proper sign-manual.</p> + + <p>In Nichols' <i>Leicestershire</i>, vol. iv. pt. 2. p. 807., is a + pedigree of Cradock bearing the same arms, and it is there laid down that + Howel ap Gronow was slain by the French in 1096, and buried at Llandilo + Vawr; also that the Judge was called Newton from his birth-place. (It is + in Montgomeryshire, I believe.) Matthew Cradock, who lies in Swansea + Church, bore different arms.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"To all and singular as well nobles and gentills as others to whom + these presents shall come, we, Sir Gilbert Dethicke, knight, alias + Garter, principall kinge of armes for the Order of the Garter, Robte. + Cooke, alias Clarenciault, kinge of armes of the south, William Flower + alias Norroy, kinge of armes of the northe, and all others the hereauldes + of armes send humble commendacion and gretinge: that whereas we being + required by Sir John Newton, of Richmond Castill, in the countie of + Somersett, knight, to make serche for the ancient armes descendinge to + him from his ancetors [sic], at whose requeste we, the said kinges and + hereauldes of armes have not only made diligent serche in our regesters, + but also therewithall perused diverse of his ancient evidence and other + monumentes, whereuppon we doe fynd that the said Sir John Newton, knight, + maye beare twelve severall cotes, that is to say, the armes of Robte. + Cradocke alias Newton, the armes of Robte. Sherborne, the arms of Steven + Angle, the armes of Steven Pirot, the armes of John Harvie, the armes of + Sir John Sheder, knight, the armes of Richard Hampton, the armes of Sir + John Bitton, knight, the armes of Sir Matthewe Ffurneault, knight, the + armes of Walter Cawdecot, the armes of Sir Aunsell Corney, knight, and + the armes of Sir Henry Harterie, knight. All which armes doth plainlie + appere depicted in the Margent; and for that the said Sir John Newton is + yncertaine of any creaste which he ought to beare by his owne proper + name, he therefore hath also required vs, the said kings and hereauldes + of armes, to assigne and confirme vnto him and his posteritie for ever, + the creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, which Sir Auncell Corney, as + it doth appere by divers ancient evidence and other monuments of the said + Sir John Newton, was at the winnynge of Acom with Kinge Richard the + First, where he toke prisoner a kinge of the Mores: and farther, the said + Sir John Newton, knight, hath made goode proofe for the bearinge of the + same creaste, that the heires male of the said Sir Auncell Corney is + extingueshed, and the heires generall do only remaine in him. In + consideracion whereof wee, the said kinges and herehauldes of arms, do + give, confirme, and grant vnto the said Sir John Newton and his + posteritie for ever, the said creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, that + is to say, vppon his helme on a torce silver and asure, a kinge of the + Mores armed in male, crowned gold, knelinge vpon his left knee rendring + vppe his sworde, as more plainly aperith depicted in this Margent, to + have and to horold the said creast to him and his posteretie, with there + due difference to vse, beare, and show in shelde, cote armour, or + otherwise, for ever, at his or their libertie and pleasure, without + impediment, let, or interruption of any parson or parsons. In witnesse + whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of arms, have caused these + letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto our common seale of + corporation, given at the office of arms in London, the twelvethe of + December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our sovereign <!-- + Page 429 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page429" + id="page429"></a>{429}</span> ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene + of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">H.T. ELLACOMBE.</p> + + <p>Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850.</p> + + <p><i>Cradock</i>—I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle + Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are + still accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's + pedigree, as laid down in his <i>Leicestershire</i> (vol. iv. part ii. p. + 807.).</p> + + <p class="author">H.T.E.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.</h3> + +<p class="center">REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p>I beg to encloze ðe following scraps, purposely written on slips, ðat + ðe one may be destroyed and not ðe oðer if you should þink fit so to do, + and for eaze ov printing.</p> + + <p>Pleaze to respect my orþography—a <i>beginning</i> to a better + system—if you can and will. Ðe types required will only be ðe Ð, ð, + and Þ, þ, ov our noble Anglo-Saxon moðer-tongue, letterz in common use + almost down to ðe time ov <i>Shakspeare</i>!</p> + + <p>If you <i>will</i> not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to + change it.</p> + + <p>I have a large work in ðe press (translationz from ðe A.-Saxon) + printed entirely in ðis orþography.</p> + + <p class="author">GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p>Stockholm.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>[Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to + remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of + orthography.]</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p><i>On a Passage in "The Tempest"</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. + 337.).—Will you allow me to suggest that the reading of the + original edition is perfectly correct as it stands, as will be seen by + simply italicising the emphatic words:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"<i>Most</i> busie <i>least</i>, when I doe it."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here + of the word <i>busy</i>), and requires the comma after <i>least</i>. This + is another proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive + texts.</p> + + <p class="author">GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p><i>Saint, Legend of a</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).—The circumstance + alluded to is perhaps that in the legend of <i>St. Patrick</i>. It was + included by Voragine in his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" + in init.</p> + + <p class="author">GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p><i>Cupid and Psyche</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).—This is probably + an old <i>Folk-tale</i>, originally perhaps an antique philosophical + temple-allegory. Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new + shape. The tale is still current, but in a form <i>not</i> derived from + him, among the <i>Swedes</i>, <i>Norwegians</i>, <i>Danes</i>, + <i>Scots</i>, <i>Germans</i>, <i>French</i>, <i>Wallachians</i>, + <i>Italians</i>, and <i>Hindoos</i>. See <i>Svenska Folk-sagor och + Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. + Cavallius och G. Stephens</i>, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323.</p> + + <p class="author">GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p><i>Kongs Skuggsia</i> (Vol. ii., pp 296. 335.).—This noble + monument of Old Norse literature was written at the close of the twelfth + century by a Norwegian of high rank, but who expresses his resolution to + remain unknown, in which he has perfectly succeeded. He probably resided + near Trondhjem. See, for other information, the preface to the last + excellent edition lately published by <i>Keyser</i>, <i>Munch</i>, and + <i>Unger</i>, as follows:—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"Speculum Regale Konungs-Skuggsjá Konge-Speilet et + philosophisk-didaktisk Skrift, forfattet i Norge mod slutningen af det + tolfte aarhundrede. Tilligemed et samtidigt Skrift om den norske kirkes + Stilling til Statem. Med to lithographerede Blade + Facsimile-Aftryck."—Christiana, 1848. 8vo.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">GEORGE STEPHENS.</p> + + <p>Stockholm.</p> + + <p><i>The disputed Passage in the "Tempest"</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. + 337.).—I am the "COMMA" which MR. COLLIER claims the merit of + having removed, and I humbly protest against the removal. I adhere to the + reading of the folio of 1632, except that I would strike out the final + <i>s</i> in labours. The passage would then read:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"But these sweet thoughts so refresh my labour</p> + <p>Most busy least, when I do it."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that I am "most busy + least" (an emphatic way of saying least busy), "when I do it," to wit, + the labour. MR. HICKSON is ingenious, but he takes no notice + of—</p> + + <p class="author">COMMA.</p> + + <p><i>Viscount Castlecomer</i> (Vol. ii., p. 376.).—S.A.Y. asks + whether Lord Deputy Wandesford (not Wanderforde) "ever took up this + title, and what became of it afterwards?" He never did; for on the + receipt of the patent, in the summer of 1640, Wandesford exclaimed, "Is + this a time for a faithful subject to be exalted, when his king, the + fountain of honours, is likely to be reduced lower than ever." A few + months afterwards he died of a broken heart. We are told that he + concealed the patent, and his grandson was the first of the + family—apparently by a fresh creation in 1706—who assumed the + title. The neglect of sixty-six years, perhaps, rendered this necessary: + Beatson does not notice the first creation. The life of this active and + useful statesman, the friend and relative of Strafford, was compiled from + his daughter's papers, by his descendant, Thomas Comber, LL.D. Of this + work Dr. Whitaker availed himself in the very interesting memoir which he + has given of the Lord Deputy, in his <i>History of Richmondshire</i>, + written, as we may suppose it would be by so devoted <!-- Page 430 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page430" id="page430"></a>{430}</span> + an admirer of Charles I., with the warmest feelings of respect and + admiration.</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"The death of my cousin Wandesford," said Lord Strafford, "more + affects me than the prospect of my own; for in him is lost the richest + magazine of learning, wisdom, and piety that these times could + boast."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">J.H.M.</p> + + <p>Bath.</p> + + <p><i>Steele's Burial-place</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 375, 441.).—I have + been able to get the following particulars respecting Steele's + burial-place. Steele was buried in the chancel of St. Peter's church, + Caermarthen. The entry stands thus in the Register:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"1729.</p> + <p>"Sep. 4. S<sup>r</sup> Richard Steel."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>There is no monument to his memory in St. Peter's Church; but in + Llangunnor church, about two miles from Caermarthen, there is a plain + monumental tablet with the following inscription:—</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>"This stone was erected at the instance of William Williams, of Ivy + Tower, owner of Penddaylwn Vawr, in Llangunnor; part of the estate there + once belonging to the deservedly celebrated Sir Richard Steele, knight, + chief author of the essays named Tatlers, Guardians, and Spectators; and + he wrote The Christian Hero, The Englishman, and The Crisis, The + Conscious Lovers, and other fine plays. He represented several places in + parliament; was a staunch and able patriot; finally, an incomparable + writer on morality and Christianity. Hence the ensuing lines in a poem, + called The Head of the Rock:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>'Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale,</p> + <p>Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale;</p> + <p>But more than all the beauties of its site,</p> + <p>Its former owner gives the mind delight.</p> + <p>Is there a heart that can't affection feel</p> + <p>For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele?</p> + <p>Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught,</p> + <p>His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught;</p> + <p>Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys,</p> + <p>T' instruct his Britain to the last of days.'"</p> + </div> + </div> +</blockquote> + + <p>Steele resided at White House (Ty Gwyn, as it is called in Welsh), a + clean farm-house half way between Caermarthen and Llangunnor church, + which is situate on a hill commanding extensive views of one of the + prettiest values in Wales. A field near the house is pointed out as the + site of Steele's garden, in the bower of which he is said to have written + his "Conscious Lovers." The Ivy Bush, formerly a private house, and said + to be the house where Steele died, is now the principal inn in + Caermarthen.</p> + + <p class="author">WM. SPURRELL.</p> + + <p>Caermarthen.</p> + + <p><i>Cure for Warts</i> (Vol. i., p. 482.)— In Buckinghamshire I + have heard of the charming away of warts by touching each wart with a + separate green pea. Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself, and + buried, the wart will vanish as the pea decays.</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + + <p><i>Etymology of "Parse"</i> (Vol. ii., p. 118.).—Surely <i>to + parse</i> is to take by itself each <i>pars</i>, or part of speech. The + word does not seem to have been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his + <i>Posing of the Parts: or, a most plain and easie Way of examining the + Accidence and Grammar</i>. This work appears to have been very popular, + as I have by me the <i>twelfth</i> edition, London, 1669. In 1612, the + same author issued his <i>Ludus Literarius: or the Grammar Schoole</i>. + Both these works interest me in him. Can any of your readers communicate + any particulars of his history?</p> + + <p class="author">J.W.H.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2> + +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</h3> + + <p>Admiration of the works of Holbein in Germany, as in this country, + seems to increase with increasing years. We have received from Messrs. + Williams and Norgate a copy of a new edition of his Bible Cuts lately + published at Leipsic, under the title <i>Hans Holbein's Altes Testament + in funfzig Holzschnitten getreu nach den Originalen copirt. Herausgegeben + von Hugo Burkner, mit einer Einleitung von D.F. Sotymann</i>, to which we + direct the attention of our readers, no less on account of the beauty and + fidelity with which these admirable specimens of Holbein's genius have + been copied, than of the interesting account of them prefixed by their + new editor.</p> + + <p>We beg to call the attention of such of our antiquaries as are + interested in the history of the Orkneys to a valuable contribution to + our knowledge of them, lately published by our accomplished friend, + Professor Munch, of the Christiana, under the title of <i>Symbolæ ad + Historiam Antiquiorem Rerum Norwegicarum</i>, which contains, I. A short + Chronicle of Norway; II. Genealogy of the Earls of Orkney; III. Catalogue + of the Kings of Norway—from a MS., for the most part hitherto + inedited, and which appears to have been written in Orkney about the + middle of the fifteenth century.</p> + + <p>While on the subject of foreign works of interest to English readers, + we may mention two or three others which we have been for some time + intending to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may + be thrown upon our early language and literature by a study of the + contemporary literature of the Low Countries. The first is, <i>Denkmaeler + Niederdeutscher Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes + Banchen</i>, which contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play + called <i>Claws Bur</i>. The next is a larger, more elaborately edited, + and from its introduction and extensive notes and various illustrations, + a yet more interesting work to English philologists. It is entitled + <i>Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare</i>, an old Dutch poem, now + first edited from a MS. of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, by + Professor Bormans.</p> + + <p>We have received the following Catalogues:—Thomas Kerslake's (3. + Park Street, Bristol) Books, including valuable late Purchases; John + Wheldon's <!-- Page 431 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page431" + id="page431"></a>{431}</span> (4. Paternoster Row) Catalogue of valuable + Collection of Scentific Books; W.H. McKeay's (11. Vinegar Yard, Covent + Garden) Catalogue of a Portion of Stock.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p>EPISTOLAE OBSCURORUM VIRORUM.</p> + + <p>CHOIX D'ANECDOTES ORIENTALES. Vol. 11. Paris, 1775.</p> + + <p>*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, <i>carriage + free</i> to be sent to MR. 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