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diff --git a/15354.txt b/15354.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..458dedc --- /dev/null +++ b/15354.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2190 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, +1850, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes 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: ASCII + +*** 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. + + + + + + +{417} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 56.] +SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1850. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- + + The Oldenburg Horn 417 + Greek Particles Illustrated by the Eastern Languages 418 + Samuel Rowlands, and his Claim to the Authorship of + "The Choise of Change," by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 419 + Etymology of "Apricot," "Peach," and "Nectarine" 420 + Minor Notes:--Chaucer's Monument Robert Herrick + --Epitaph of a Wine Merchant--Father Blackhal-- + The Nonjurors--Booksellers' Catalogues--Bailie + Nicol Jarvie--Camels in Gaul 420 + + + QUERIES:-- + + Bibliographical Queries 421 + Dryden's "Essay upon Satire" 422 + Minor Queries:--AEnius 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 + Praefectus 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 423 + + + REPLIES:-- + + Licensing of Books, by C.H. Cooper 425 + Remains of James II., by Dr. J.R. Wreford 427 + Judge Cradock, by H.T. Ellacombe 427 + 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" 429 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 430 + Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 431 + Notice to Correspondents 431 + Advertisements 431 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES. + +THE OLDENBURG HORN. + +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:-- + +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: + + "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." + +The painting is apparently of the first part of the seventeenth century. +The ordinary books of reference do not contain the painter's name. + +The same legend as that contained in this inscription, though with fuller +details, is given by the brothers Grimm, in their collection of _Deutsche +Sagen_, 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 {418} 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. + +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. + +The same story is related from Hamelmann's _Oldenburg Chronicle_, by +Buesching, in his _Volksagen_ (Leips. 1820), p. 380., who states that there +is a representation of the horn in p. 20. of the _Chronicle_, as well as in +the title-page of the first volume of the _Wunderhorn_. + +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 _silver gilt_, but a _gold_ 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. + +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 _Deutsche Sagen_, (No.43. vol. i. p. 55.) + +L. + + [Having had an opportunity of inspecting a copy of Hamelmann's + _Chronicle_, 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.] + + * * * * * + +GREEK PARTICLES ILLUSTRATED BY THE EASTERN LANGUAGES. + +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 _Iliad_, where the +hero of the poem is violently abusing Agamemnon for depriving him of his +prize, the fair maid Briseis, he says, + + [Greek: "All' ek toi ereo, kai epi megan horkon homoumai."] + +What is the meaning of [Greek: ek] in the above line? It is commonly +construed with [Greek: ereo], and translated, "I plainly tell thee--I +declare to thee;" [Greek: exereo], "I speak out--proclaim." But may it not +be identical with the Sanscrit _ek_, "one," a word, as most of your readers +are doubtless aware, in universal use throughout India, Persia, &c; the +rendering literally running thus: + + "But _one_ thing I tell thee," &c. + +That this is the original sense of the line appears probable by comparing +it with line 297. of the {419} same book, where in the _second_ speech of +Achilles, that _impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer_, chieftain _again_ +scolds "the king of men,"-- + + "[Greek: Allo de toi ereo, sy d' ene phresi balleo sesi.]" + "And _another_ thing I tell thee." + +This rendering receives additional confirmation by a comparison with the +following: + + "[Greek: Touto de toi ereo.]" + _Il._ iii. 177., and _Od._ vii. 243. + "[Greek: Panta de toi ereo.]" + _Od._ iv. 410., and x. 289. + +In the last three lines [Greek: Allo], [Greek: Touto], and [Greek: Panta] +stand precisely in the same relation to [Greek: ereo] that [Greek: ek] does +in the first, [Greek: All'] merely taking the place of [Greek: de], for the +sake of versification. + + "But _one_ thing I tell thee. + And _another_ thing I tell thee. + But _this_ thing I tell thee. + And _all_ things I tell thee." + +It is not impossible that [Greek: exereo] may be a compound of [Greek: ek], +"one," and [Greek: ereo], "I speak." There is in the Hindostanee an +analogous form of expression, _Ek bat bolo_, "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 [Greek: exereo] in all the passages where it occurs in Homer: +_e.g._ _Il._ i. 212. (where it is employed by Minerva in her solemn address +to Achilles); _Il._ viii. 286., _Od._ ix. 365. (where it is very +characteristically used), &c. + +The word _ace_ (ace of spades, &c.) I suppose you will have no difficulty +in identifying with the Sanscrit _ek_ and the Greek [Greek: eis], the _c_ +sometimes pronounced hard and sometimes soft. The Sanscrit _das_, the Greek +[Greek: dek-a], and the Latin _dec-em_, all signifying _ten_, on the same +principle, have been long identified. + +J. SH. + +Bombay. + + * * * * * + +SAMUEL ROWLANDS, AND HIS CLAIM TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF "THE CHOISE OF CHANGE." + +Mr. T. Jones in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. i., p. 39.), describing a copy of +_The Choise of Change_ 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. + +_The Choise of Change_ 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' _Bibliographer's Manual_, 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. + +Samuel Rowland's earliest publication is supposed to have been _The +Betraying of Christ_, &c., printed in 1598. If it can be proved that he has +any claim to _The Choise of Change_ (first printed in 1585), we make him an +author _thirteen_ 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 +_Humours Ordinarie_, _Martin Mark-all_, _The Four Knaves_, and many others +of the same class, which are known to have been the productions of Samuel +Rowlands. + +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 _Bibliographical Memoranda_, p. +257.) Sir Walter Scott (Preface to his reprint of _The Letting of Humours +Blood in the Head Vaine_) gives us a very different idea of the nature of +his calling. His words are: + + "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 {420} age the subject their study may better + spare a better author than Samuel Rowlands." + + 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 _select_ order, and that he must often have + frequented those "haunts of dissipation" which he so well describes in + those works which are the _known_ production of his muse. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +"APRICOT," "PEACH," AND "NECTARINE," ETYMOLOGY OF. + +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. + +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. + +Plin. N.H., lib. xv. c. 12.: + + "Post autumnum maturescunt Persica, aestate _praecocia_, intra xxx annos + reperta." + +Martial, lib. xiii. Epig. 46.: + + "Vilia maternis fueramus _praecoqua_ ramis, + Nunc in adaptivis Persica care sumus." + +Its only name was given from its ripening earlier than the peach. + +The words used in Galen for the same fruit (evidently Graecised Latin), are +[Greek: prokokkia] and [Greek: prekokkia]. Elsewhere he says of this fruit, +[Greek: tautes ekleleiphthai to palaion onoma]. Dioscorides, with a nearer +approach to the Latin, calls apricots [Greek: praikokia.] + +From _praecox_, though not immediately, _apricot_ seems to be derived. + +Johnson, unable to account for the initial _a_, derives it from _apricus_. +The American lexicographer Webster gives, strangely enough _albus coccus_ +as its derivation. + +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. + +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, [Greek: to palaion onoma], as Galen says, [Greek: +exeleleipto]. + +The Arabs called it [Arabic: brqwq] or, with the article, [Arabic: +albrqwq]. + +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 _albaricoque_. The Italians, again, copy the Spanish, not the Latin, and +call it _albicocco_. The French, from them, have _abricot_. The English, +though they take their word from the French, at first called it _abricock_, +then _apricock_ (restoring the _p_), and lastly, with the French +termination, _apricot_. + +From _malum persicum_ was derived the German _Pfirsiche_, and _Pfirsche_, +whence come the French _peche_, and our _peach_. But in this instance also, +the Spaniards follow the Arabic [Arabic: bryshan], or, with the article +[Arabic: albryshan], in their word _alberchigo_. The Arabic seems to be +derived from the Latin, and the Persians, though the fruit was their own, +give it the same name. + +Johnson says that nectarine is French, but gives no authority. It certainly +is unknown to the French, who call the fruit either _peche lisse_, or +_brugnon_. The Germans also call it _glatte Pfirsche_. + +Can any of your readers inform me what is the Armenian word for _apricot_, +and whether there is any reason to believe that the Arabic words for +_apricot_ and _peach_, are of Armenian and Persian origin? If it is so, the +resemblance of the one to _praecox_, and of the other to _persicum_, will be +a curious coincidence, but hardly more curious than the resemblance of +[Greek: pascha] with [Greek: pascho] which led some of the earlier fathers, +who were not Hebraists, to derive [Greek: pascha] from [Greek: pascho]. + +E.C.H. + + * * * * * + +MINOR NOTES. + +_Chaucer's Monument._--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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ (p. 486.), +so curious an allusion from Warner's _Albion's England_, to + + "---- venerable Chaucer, lost + Had not kind Brigham reared him cost," + +to know that there is evidence in Smith's _Life of Nollekens_, 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, + + "Did you ever notice the remaining colours of the curious little figure + which was painted on the tomb of Chaucer?" + +M.N.S. + + [We have heard one of the lay vicars of Westminster {421} 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.] + +_Robert Herrick_ (Vol. i., p. 291.)--There is a little volume entitled +_Selections from the Hesperides and Works of the Rev. Robert Herrick_. +(_Antient_) _Vicar of Dean-Prior, Devon_. 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. + +J.W.H. + +_Epitaph of a Wine Merchant._--The following is very beautiful, and well +deserves a Note. It is copied from an inscription in All Saints Church, +Cambridge. + + "In Obitum Mri. Johannis Hammond Oenopolae Epitaphium. + Spiritus ascendit generosi Nectaris astra, + Juxta Altare Calix hic jacet ecce sacrum, + Corporum [Greek: anastasei] cum fit Communia magna + Unio tunc fuerit Nectaris et Calicis." + +J.W.H. + +_Father Blackhal._--In the _Brief Narration of Services done to Three noble +Ladies by Gilbert Blackhal_ (Aberdeen, Spalding Club, 1844), the +autobiographer states (p. 43.) that, while at Brussels, he provided for his +necessities by saying mass "at Notre Dame _de bonne successe_, 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 _Aberdeen_ image would be carried in +procession on the approaching festival. He was obliged, however, to leave +Brussels without witnessing the exhibition. + +As to Blackhal himself, _The Catholic Annual Register_ 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. + +J.C.R. + +_The Nonjurors_ (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. + +J.C.R. + +_Booksellers' Catalogues._--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. + +ESTE. + +_Bailie Nicol Jarvie._--Lockhart, in his _Life of Scott_, speaking of the +first representation of _Rob Roy_ on the Edinburgh boards, observes-- + + "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 + _gusto_, and gave the west country dialect in its most racy + perfection." + +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." + +EFFESSA. + +_Camels in Gaul._--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-- + + "invenerunt _camelos_ cum ingenti pondere auri atque argenti, sive + equos quos fessos per vias reliquerat"--_Greg. Turon._, l. vii. c. 35. + +And after Brunichild had fallen into the hands of Chlotair, she was, before +her death, conducted through the army on a camel:-- + + "Jubetque eam _camelum_ per omnem exercitum sedentem + perducere."--_Fredegarius_, c. 42. + +By what people were camels first brought into Gaul? By the Romans; by the +Visigoths; or by the Franks themselves? + +R.J.K. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. + +(_Continued from page 325._) + +(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 _Florentine Pandects_, in three folio {422} volumes, +"magnifice, ac pereleganter, perque accurate impressis," as Fabricius +speaks? (_Bibl. Graec._ xii: 363.) This statement, which may be but a libel, +is found in Tilgner (_Nov. lib. rar. Collect._ Fascic. iv. 710.), Schelhorn +(_Amaen. Lit._ iii. 428.), Vogt (_Catal._ p. 562. Hamb. 1738), and Solger +(_Biblioth._ 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 _Iter Italicum_, p. 183.) is,--"splendidissima, et +stupendae raritatis, quae in tanta est apud Eruditos aestimatione ut pro 100 +Imperialibus saepius divendita fuerit." Would that the race of such +purchasers was not extinct! In Gibbon's notice of this impression (_Decline +and Fall_, iv. 197. ed. Milman), there are two mistakes. He calls the +editor "Taurellus" instead of _Taurellius_; 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? + +(14.) In what year was the improved woodcut of the _Prelum Ascensianum_ +used for the first time? And has it been observed that the small and +separated figures incised on the legs of this _insigne_ 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 Budaeus _De Contemptu Rerum fortuitarum_ is believed to +have been printed in 1520 (Greswell's _Parisian Greek Press_, i. 39.), and +this year is accordingly visible in the title-page on the print of the +_Prelum Ascensianum_. 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 +_expositio_), though it was set forth "postridie Cal. April 1528." + +(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 (_Proleg._ v.) that it was +published in 1523; and the same hallucination is perceptible in the +_Elenchus Scriptorum_ 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. (_Le Long_, by Masch, ii. 475.; _Chronol. of Hist._, by Sir H. +Nicolas, p. 40.) Chevillier informs us (_Orig. de l'Imp._ 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 (_Biblioth._ iv. +147.) takes notice of an impression issued two years previously; and these +bibliographers have been followed by Greswell (_Paris. G. P._ i. 342. +390.). Were they all unacquainted with the antecedent exertions of Sante +Pagnini (See Pettigrew's _Bibl. Sussex._ p. 388.) + +(16.) Why should Panzer have thought that the true date of the _editio +princeps_ 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 _milcinqcens et onze_," +and the dedication of the works by Badius to Guil. Parvus ends with "Ad. +XII Kalendas Decemb. Anni huius M.D.XII." + +(17.) Who was the author of _Peniteas cito_? 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?" + +R.G. + + * * * * * + +DRYDEN'S "ESSAY UPON SATIRE." + +On what evidence does the statement rest, that the Earl of Mulgrave was the +author of the _Essay upon Satire_, 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 _Works_, I find it +headed _An Essay upon Satire, written by Mr. Dryden and the Earl of +Mulgrave_, yet in the _State Poems_, vol. i. p. 179., originally printed in +the lifetime of Dryden, it is attributed solely to him--"_An Essay upon +Satyr._ 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 _always_ 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? + +The internal evidence, too, is strong that Dryden was the author of it. I +do not here refer to the {423} free, flexible, and idiomatic character of +the versification, so exactly like that of Dryden; but principally to the +description the _Essay upon Satire_ contains of the Earl of Mulgrave +himself, beginning, + + "Mulgrave had much ado to scape the snare, + Though learn'd in those ill arts that cheat the fair; + For, after all, his vulgar marriage mocks, + With beauty dazzled Numps was in the stocks;" + +And ending: + + "Him no soft thoughts, no gratitude could move; + To gold he fled, from beauty and from love," &c. + +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 _Absalom and Achitophel_; 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 _the author_ of the _Essay upon Satire_. +Everybody bears in mind the triplet, + + "A fiery soul, which working out its way, + Fretted his pigmy body to decay, + And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay;" + +And what does Dryden (for it must be he who writes) say of Shaftesbury in +the _Essay upon Satire_? + + "As by our little Machiavel we find, + That nimblest creature of the busy kind: + His limbs are crippled, and his body shakes, + Yet his hard mind, which all this bustle makes, + No pity on its poor companion takes." + +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 _beaten_, 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 _Essay upon Satire_. + +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. + +THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_AEneas Silvius (Pope Pius II.)._--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 _Pius II._ This broadsheet, consisting of eighteen lines, and printed on +one side only, appears from the uniformity of its type with the _Rationale_ +of 1459, to be the product of _Fust_ and _Schoeffer_. + +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? + +QUERIST. + +November, 1850. + +"_Please the Pigs_" 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 _pix_." +Will you allow another suggestion? I think it possible that the pigs of the +Gergesenes (Matthew viii. 28. _et seq._) 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: + + "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."--_Writings of Bradford_, Parker Society ed., p.390. + +Again: + + "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. + +Again: + + "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. + +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. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield. + + [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.] + +{424} _To save One's Bacon._--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." + +C.H.M. + +_Arabic Numerals._--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. + +J.W.H. + +_Cardinal._--"_Never did Cardinal bring good to England._"--We read in Dr. +Ligard's _History_ (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? + +O.P.Q. + +"_By the bye," &c._--What is the etymology of the phrases "by the bye," "by +and by," and such like? + +J.R.N. + +_Poisons._--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. + +M. + +_Cabalistic Author._--Who was the author of a chemical and cabalistical +work, not noticed by Lowndes, entitled: + + "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." + +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"? + +T. CR. + +_Brandon the Juggler._--Where is any information to be obtained of Brandon +the Juggler, who lived in the reign of King Henry VIII.? + +T. CR. + +_Jacobus Praefectus Siculus._--I have a beautiful copy of a poem by this +person, entitled _De Verbo DEI Cantica_. 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 _Paradise +Lost_ and _Regained_/ What is known about the author, or any other works of +his? + +J.W.H. + +_The Word "after" in the Rubric--Canons of 1604._-- + +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 _after_ 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 _post_ or _secundum_? + +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. + +T.Y. + +_Hard by._--Is not _hard by_ a corruption of the German _hierbei_? I know +no other similar instance of the word _hard_, that is to say, as signifying +_proximity_, without the conjoint idea of _pressure_ or _pursuit._ + +K. + +_Thomas Rogers of Horninger._--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? + +S.G. + +Corpus Christi Col., Cambridge. + +_Armorial Bearings._--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? + +J.W.H. + +_Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband._--In Bishop Goodman's _Court of King +James 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 _London_ (vol. i. p. 324.), and, if my memory does not deceive me, +in Hewitt's _Visits to Remarkable Places_. 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 {425} whom, and +under what circumstances it was written? + +C.H. COOPER. + +Cambridge, November 15. 1850. + +_Romagnasi's Works._--In a "Life of G.D. Romagnasi," in vol. xviii. _Law +Mag._, 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. + +This is strange after the explicit statement in the _Law Mag._, and I shall +be obliged to receive through the medium of your useful pages any +information regarding the work in question. + +F.R.H. + +_Christopher Barker's Device._--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." + +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:-- + + "Tigre . Reo. + Animale . Del. + Adam . Vecchio. + Figliuolo . Merce. + L'Evangelio . Fatto. + N'Estat . Agnello." + +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." + +I presume _N'Estat_ to be an abbreviation of "ne e stato." Any correction +or illustration of this will oblige. + +C.W. BINGHAM. + +Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +LICENSING OF BOOKS. + +(Vol. ii., p.359.) + +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. +(_Lords' Journal_, 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:-- + + "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. + + "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 + _Documentary Annals_, i. 229. + +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), +{426} 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 _Life of Archbishop Whitgift_, 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 _Historical Collections_, 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. (_Parliamentary +History_, xii. 298.) The names of the licensers appointed are given in +Neal's _History of the Puritans_ (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 _Areopagitica; a +Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, To the Parliament of +England_. After setting out certain Italian imprimaturs, he remarks: + + "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." + +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. (_Parliamentary History_, 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. (_Lords' Journals_, ix. +457.) Gilbert Mabbott was accordingly appointed licenser of such weekly +papers as should be printed, but resigned the situation 22nd May, 1649. +(_Commons' Journals_, 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 _Memorials_, 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 +_Ordinances_, 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 _Ordinances_, 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), {427} 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 _Gazette_ 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 _Flying Post_, 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. (_Commons' Journals_, xi. 765. 767.) This attempt again to +shackle the press seems to have occasioned + + "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 + _Parliamentary History_, v. App. p. cxxx. + +C.H. COOPER. + +Cambridge, October 29. 1850. + + * * * * * + +REMAINS OF JAMES II. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 243. 281.) + +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. + +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. + +The following is the inscription _now_ on his monument in the parish church +of St. Germain: + + "REGIO CINERI PIETAS REGIA. + + "Ferale quisquis hoc monumentum suspicis + Rerum humanarum vices meditare + Magnus in prosperis in adversis major + Jacobus 2. Anglorum Rex. + Insignes aerumnas dolendaque nimium fata + Pio placidoque obitu exsolvit + in hac urbe + Die 16. Septemb. anni 1701. + Et nobiliores quaedam corporis ejus partes + Hic reconditae asservantur." + + * * * * * + + Qui prius augusta gestabat fronte coronam + Exigua nunc pulvereus requiescit in urna + Quid solium--quid et alta juvant! terit omnia lethum, + Verum laus fidei ac morum haud peritura manebit + Tu quoque summe Deus regem quem regius hospes + Infaustum excepit tecum regnare jubebis." + +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: + + "D.O.M. Jussu Georgii IV. Magnae Britanniae &c., Regis, et curante Equite + exc. Carolo Stuart Regis Britanniae Legato, caeteris antea rite peractis + et quo decet honore in stirpem Regiam hic nuper effossae reconditae sunt + Reliquiae Jacobi II., qui in secundo civitatis gradu clarus triumphis in + primo infelicior, post varios fortunae casus in spem melioris vitae et + beatae resurrectionis hic quievit in Domino, anno MDCCI, v. idus + Septemb., MDCCCXXIV." + +At the foot of the monument were the words-- + + "Depouilles mortelles de Jacques 2. Roi d'Angleterre." + +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 _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, vol. vii. + +J. REYNELL WREFORD, D.D. + +Bristol, November 8. 1850. + + * * * * * + +JUDGE CRADOCK. + +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 +_alias_ 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.) + +I happen to have at hand a copy of the Grant {428} 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 _alias_ 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. + +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 (_Itin._ 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, _Thomas_, 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. + +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. + +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. + +In Nichols' _Leicestershire_, 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. + + "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 {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, + France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c. + +H.T. ELLACOMBE. + +Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850. + +_Cradock_--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 _Leicestershire_ (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.). + +H.T.E. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS. + +I beg to encloze ethe following scraps, purposely written on slips, ethat ethe +one may be destroyed and not ethe oether if you should žink fit so to do, and +for eaze ov printing. + +Pleaze to respect my oržography--a _beginning_ to a better system--if you +can and will. Ethe types required will only be ethe Eth, eth, and Ž, ž, ov our +noble Anglo-Saxon moether-tongue, letterz in common use almost down to ethe +time ov _Shakspeare_! + +If you _will_ not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to change it. + +I have a large work in ethe press (translationz from ethe A.-Saxon) printed +entirely in ethis oržography. + +GEORGE STEPHENS. + +Stockholm. + + [Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to + remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of orthography.] + +_On a Passage in "The Tempest"_ (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:-- + + "_Most_ busie _least_, when I doe it." + +The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here of +the word _busy_), and requires the comma after _least_. This is another +proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive texts. + +GEORGE STEPHENS. + +_Saint, Legend of a_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).--The circumstance alluded to is +perhaps that in the legend of _St. Patrick_. It was included by Voragine in +his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" in init. + +GEORGE STEPHENS. + +_Cupid and Psyche_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).--This is probably an old +_Folk-tale_, 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 _not_ derived from him, among the _Swedes_, +_Norwegians_, _Danes_, _Scots_, _Germans_, _French_, _Wallachians_, +_Italians_, and _Hindoos_. See _Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter +muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. Cavallius och G. +Stephens_, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323. + +GEORGE STEPHENS. + +_Kongs Skuggsia_ (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 _Keyser_, _Munch_, and _Unger_, as follows:-- + + "Speculum Regale Konungs-Skuggsja 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. + +GEORGE STEPHENS. + +Stockholm. + +_The disputed Passage in the "Tempest"_ (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 _s_ in labours. The passage +would then read: + + "But these sweet thoughts so refresh my labour + Most busy least, when I do it." + +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-- + +COMMA. + +_Viscount Castlecomer_ (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 _History of +Richmondshire_, written, as we may suppose it would be by so devoted {430} +an admirer of Charles I., with the warmest feelings of respect and +admiration. + + "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." + +J.H.M. + +Bath. + +_Steele's Burial-place_ (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:-- + + "1729. + "Sep. 4. Sr Richard Steel." + +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:-- + + "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:-- + + 'Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale, + Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale; + But more than all the beauties of its site, + Its former owner gives the mind delight. + Is there a heart that can't affection feel + For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele? + Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught, + His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught; + Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys, + T' instruct his Britain to the last of days.'" + +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. + +WM. SPURRELL. + +Caermarthen. + +_Cure for Warts_ (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. + +J.W.H. + +_Etymology of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--Surely _to parse_ is to take +by itself each _pars_, or part of speech. The word does not seem to have +been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his _Posing of the Parts: or, a +most plain and easie Way of examining the Accidence and Grammar_. This work +appears to have been very popular, as I have by me the _twelfth_ edition, +London, 1669. In 1612, the same author issued his _Ludus Literarius: or the +Grammar Schoole_. Both these works interest me in him. Can any of your +readers communicate any particulars of his history? + +J.W.H. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +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 _Hans Holbein's Altes Testament in funfzig +Holzschnitten getreu nach den Originalen copirt. Herausgegeben von Hugo +Burkner, mit einer Einleitung von D.F. Sotymann_, 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. + +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 _Symbolae ad Historiam Antiquiorem Rerum +Norwegicarum_, 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. + +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, _Denkmaeler Niederdeutscher +Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes Banchen_, which +contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play called _Claws Bur_. 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. 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