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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 32, June 8, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 6, 2005 [EBook #15996] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon +Ingram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page17" id="page17"></a>{17}</span> + + <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>—<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle.</span></h3> + <hr class="full" /> + + <table summary="masthead" width="100%"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b>No. 32.</b></td> + <td align="center" width="50%"><b><span class="sc">Saturday, June 8. 1850.</span></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 summary="" align="center" width="100%"> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> Presence of Strangers in the House of Commons</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> The Agapemone, by Richard Greene </td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> London Irish Registers, by Robert Cole </td><td> <a href="#page18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Folk Lore—Divination by Bible and Key—Charm for Warts—Boy or Girl </td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page19">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><span class="sc">Queries</span>:—</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Poet Laureates</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page20">20</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Minor Queries:—Wood Paper—Latin Line—New Edition of Milton—Barum + and Sarum—Roman Roads—John Dutton, of Dutton—Rome—Prolocutor of + Convocation—Language of Queen Mary's Days—Vault Interments—Archbishop + Williams' Persecutor, R.K.—The Sun feminine in English—Construe and + translate—Men but Children of a Larger Growth—Clerical Costume—Ergh, + Er, or Argh—Burial Service—Gaol Chaplains—Hanging out the + Broom—George Lord Goring—Bands</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><span class="sc">Replies</span>:—</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Derivation of "News" and "Noise" by Samuel Hickson</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> The Dodo Queries, by H.E. Strickland</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Bohn's Edition of Milton</td><td> <a href="#page24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Umbrellas</td><td> <a href="#page25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Emancipation of the Jews</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Replies to Minor Queries:—Wellington, Wyrwast and Cokam—Sir William + Skipwyth—Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton—Worm of Lambton—Shakspeare's + Will—Josias Ibach Stada—The Temple or a Temple—Bawn—"Heigh ho! + says Rowley"—Arabic Numerals—Pusan—"I'd preach as though"—"Fools + rush in"—Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon—Earwig—Sir R. Haigh's + Letter-book—Marescautia—Memoirs of an American Lady—Poem by Sir E. + Dyer, &c.</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><span class="sc">Miscellanies</span>:—</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Blue Boar Inn, Holborn—Lady Morgan and Curry—Sir Walter Scott and + Erasmus—Parallel Passages—Grays Ode—The Grand + Style—Hoppesteris—Sheridan's last Residence</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:—</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Notices to Correspondents</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> Advertisements</td><td valign="bottom"> <a href="#page32">32</a></td></tr> +</table> + +<hr /> + + + + +<h2>NOTES.</h2> + + +<h3>PRESENCE OF STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.</h3> + + +<p>In the late debate on Mr. Grantley Berkeley's +motion for a fixed duty on corn, Sir Benjamin +Hall is reported to have imagined the presence of +a stranger to witness the debate, and to have said +that he was imagining what every one knew the +rules of the House rendered an impossibility. It +is strange that so intelligent a member of the +House of Commons should be ignorant of the fact +that the old sessional orders, which absolutely +prohibited the presence of strangers in the House +of Commons, were abandoned in 1845, and that a +standing order now exists in their place which +recognises and regulates their presence. The +insertion of this "note" may prevent many +"queries" in after times, when the sayings and +doings of 1850 have become matters of antiquarian discussion.</p> + +<p>The following standing orders were made by +the House of Commons on the 5th of February, +1845, on the motion of Mr. Christie, (see Hansard, +and Commons' Journals of that day), and superseded +the old sessional orders, which purported +to exclude strangers entirely from the House of Commons:—</p> + +<p>"That the serjeant at arms attending this House do +from time to time take into his custody any stranger +whom he may see, or who may be reported to him to +be, in any part of the House or gallery appropriated to +the members of this House; and also any stranger +who, having been admitted into any other part of the +House or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall +not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw +while the House, or any committee of the whole House, +is sitting; and that no person so taken into custody +be discharged out of custody without the special order of the House.</p> + +<p>"That no member of this House do presume to +bring any stranger into any part of the House or gallery +appropriated to the members of this House while +the House, or a committee of the whole House, is sitting."</p> + +<p>Now, therefore, strangers are only liable to be +taken into custody if in a part of the House appropriated +to members, or misconducting themselves, +or refusing to withdraw when ordered by +the Speaker to do so; and Sir Benjamin Hall imagined no impossibility.</p> + +<p class="author">CH.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE AGAPEMONE.</h3> + + +<p>Like most other things, the "Agapemone" +wickedness, which has recently disgusted all decent +people, does not appear to be a new thing by +any means. The religion-mongers of the nineteenth +century have a precedent nearly 300 years old for this house of evil repute.</p> + +<p>In the reign of Elizabeth, the following proclamation +was issued against "The Sectaries of the Family of Love:"—</p> + +<p>"Whereas, by report of sundry of the Bishops of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page18" id="page18"></a>{18}</span> +this Realm, and others having care of souls, the Queen's +Majesty is informed, that in sundry places of her said +Realm, in their several Dioceses there are certain +persons which do secretly, in corners, make privy assemblies +of divers simple unlearned people, and after +they have craftily and hypocritically allured them to +esteem them to be more holy and perfect men than +other are, they do then teach them damnable heresies, +directly contrary to divers of the principal Articles of our +Belief and Christian Faith and in some parts so absurd +and fanatical, as by feigning to themselves a monstrous +new kind of speech, never found in the Scriptures, +nor in ancient Father or writer of Christ's Church, by +which they do move ignorant and simple people at the +first rather to marvel at them, than to understand them +but yet to colour their sect withal, they name themselves +to be of the <i>Family of Love</i>, and then as many as +shall be allowed by them to be of that family to be +elect and saved, and all others, of what Church soever +they be, to be rejected and damned. And for that +upon conventing of some of them before the Bishops +and Ordinaries, it is found that the ground of their sect, +is maintained by certain lewd, heretical, and seditious +books first made in the Dutch tongue, and lately translated +into English, and printed beyond the seas, and +secretly brought over into the Realm, the author +whereof they name H.N., without yielding to him, +upon their examination, any other name, in whose +name they have certain books set forth, called <i>Evangelium +Regni, or, A Joyful Message of the Kingdom; +Documental Sentences, The Prophecie of the Spirit of +Love; a Publishing of the Peace upon the Earth</i>, and such like.</p> + +<p>"And considering also it is found, that these Sectaries +hold opinion, that they may before any magistrate, +ecclesiastical or temporal, or any other person not +being professed to be of their sect (which they term +the Family of Love), by oath or otherwise deny any +thing for their advantage, so as though many of them +are well known to be teachers and spreaders abroad of +these dangerous and damnable sects, yet by their own +confession they cannot be condemned, whereby they are +more dangerous in any Christian Realm: Therefore, +her Majesty being very sorry to see so great an evil by +the malice of the Devil, first begun and practised in +other countries, to be now brought into this her +Realm, and that by her Bishops and Ordinaries she +understandeth it very requisite, not only to have these +dangerous Heretics and Sectaries to be severely punished, +but that also all other means be used by her +Majesty's Royal authority, which is given her of God +to defend Christ's Church, to root them out from further +infecting her Realm, she hath thought meet and +convenient, and so by this her Proclamation she willeth +and commandeth, that all her Officers and Ministers +temporal shall, in all their several vocations, assist the +Archbishops and Bishops of her Realm, and all other +persons ecclesiastical, having care of souls, to search +out all persons duly suspected to be either teachers or +professors of the foresaid damnable sects, and by all +good means to proceed severely against them being +found culpable, by order of the Laws either ecclesiastical +or temporal: and that, also, search be made in +all places suspected, for the books and writings maintaining +the said Heresies and Sects, and them to destroy and burn.</p> + +<p>"And wheresoever such Books shall be found after +the publication hereof, in custody of any person, other +than such as the Ordinaries shall permit, to the intent +to peruse the same for confutation thereof, the same +persons to be attached and committed to close prison, +there to remain, or otherwise by Law to be condemned, +until the same shall be purged and cleared of the same +heresies, or shall recant the same, and be thought meet +by the Ordinary of the place to be delivered. And +that whoever in this Realm shall either print, or bring, +or cause to be brought into this Realm, any of the said +Books, the same persons to be attached and committed +to prison, and to receive such bodily punishment and +other mulct as fautors of damnable heresies. And to +the execution hereof, her Majesty chargeth all her +Officers and Ministers, both ecclesiastical and temporal, +to have special regard, as they will answer not +only afore God, whose glory and truth is by these +damnable Sects greatly sought to be defaced, but also +will avoid her Majesty's indignation, which in such +cases as these are, they ought not to escape, if they +shall be found negligent and careless in the execution of their authorities.</p> + +<p>"Given at our Mannour of Richmond, the third of +October, in the two-and-twentieth year of our Reign.</p> + +<p>"God Save The Queen."</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Richard Greene.</span></p> + +<p>Lichfield, May 28. 1850.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LONDON PARISH REGISTERS.</h3> + +<p>The interleaving, of a little work in my possession, +published by Kearsley in 1787, intitled +<i>Account of the several Wards, Precincts, and +Parishes in the City of London</i>, contains MS. +notes of the commencement of the registers of +fifty of the London parishes, and of four of Southwark, +the annexed list<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> of which may be of use +to some of the readers of "Notes and Queries." +The book formerly belonged to Sir George Nayler, +whose signature it bears on a fly-leaf.</p> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page19" id="page19"></a>{19}</span> + +<table summary="churches" align="center" width="100%"> +<tr><td align="left">Allhallows, Barking </td><td align="center">begins</td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— London Wall </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1567 </td><td align="left" valign="top">[1559 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— Lombard Street </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1550</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— Staining </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1642</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Andrew Undershaft </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Antholin </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Bennet Fink </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— Gracechurch </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Clement, Eastcheap </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1539</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Dionis Backchurch </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Dunstan in the East </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Edmund the King </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1670</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Gabriel, Fenchurch </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1571</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top">St. Gregory </td><td align="center" valign="top"> " </td><td align="center" valign="top"> 1539 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1559 Pop. ret., + probably an error + of transcriber.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. James Garlickhithe </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1535</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. John Baptist </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1682 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1538 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Katharine Coleman </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1559</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Lawrence, Jewry </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Pountney </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Leonard, Eastcheap </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Margaret Lothbury </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Pattens </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1653 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1559 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Martin Orgars </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1625</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— Outwick </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1678 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1670 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">————— Vestry </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1671 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1668 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Mary, Aldermanbury </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Mary Magdalene, Old + Fish Street </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1712 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1717 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top">St. Mary Mounthaw </td><td align="center" valign="top"> " </td><td align="center" valign="top"> 1568 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1711 Pop. ret. + A register evidently + lost.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top">St. Mary Somerset </td><td align="center" valign="top"> " </td><td align="center" valign="top"> 1558 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1711 Pop. ret. + A register missing.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Mary Woolchurch, and St. + Mary Woolnorth, both in one </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top">St. Michael, Cornhill, </td><td align="center" valign="top">beg.<br /> <i>before</i></td><td align="center" valign="top"> 1546</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Royal </td><td align="center">begins </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Mildred, Poultry </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Nicholas Acons </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1539</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Coleabby </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1695 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1538 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Olave </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1703</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Peter, Cornhill </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Peter le Poor </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1538 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1561 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Stephen, Coleman Street </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">—————— Walbrook </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1557</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Swithin </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1615 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1754 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Andrew, Holborn </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1551 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1558 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Bartholomew the Great </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1616</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">——————— the Less </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1547</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Botolph, Aldgate </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1558</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Bride </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1653<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Dunstan in the West </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1554 </td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1558 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">St. Sepulchre </td><td align="center"> " </td><td align="center"> 1663</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="4"> <i>Note</i>.—The register prior burnt at the fire of London.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">St. Olave, Southwark. "Register said by + <i>Bray's Survey</i> to be as early as + 1586. Vide vol. i. 111-607; but on a + search made this day it appears that + the register does not begin till + 1685. Qy. if not a book + lost?—5th Oct. 1829." </td><td align="left" valign="bottom"> [1685 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">St. George, Southwark, beg. abt. 1600</td><td align="left"> [1602 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top" colspan="3">St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, begins + 1548 (Lysons); but from end of 1642 + to 1653 only two entries made; viz. + one in Nov. 1643, and another Aug. + 1645, which finishes the first + volume; and the second volume + begins in 1653.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">St. Saviour, Southwark, begins temp. Eliz.</td><td align="left" valign="top"> [1570 Pop. ret.]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top" colspan="3">St. Thomas, Southwark, begins 1614.</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Rob. Cole.</span></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> + + +<p><i>Divination by Bible and Key</i> seems not merely +confined to this country, but to prevail in Asia. +The following passage from <i>Pérégrinations en +Orient</i>, par Eusèbe de Salle, vol. i. p. 167., Paris, +1840, may throw some additional light on this +superstition. The author is speaking of his sojourn +at Antioch, in the house of the <i>English</i> consul.</p> + +<p>"En rentrant dans le salon, je trouvai Mistriss B. +assise sur son divan, près d'un natif Syrien Chrétien. +Ils tenaient à eux deux une Bible, suspendue à une grosse +clé par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne se rappelait +pas avoir reçu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui +avoir remis. Le Syrien disait une prière, puis prononçait +alternativement les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. +La Bible pivota au nom de la dame déclarée par-là en +erreur. Elle se leva à l'instant, et ayant fait des recherches +plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou."</p> + +<p>I hardly think that this would be an English +superstition transplanted to the East; it is more +probable that it was originally derived frown Syria.</p> + +<p class="author">E.C.</p> + +<p>Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850.</p> + + +<p><i>Charm for Warts</i>.—Count most carefully the +number of warts; take a corresponding number of +nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the +<i>cerealia</i> (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a +cloth, and deposit the packet in the earth; <i>all the +steps of the operation being done secretly</i>. As the +nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some +artists think it necessary that each wart should be +<i>touched</i> by a separate nodule.</p> + +<p>This practice was very rife in the north of +Scotland some fifty years since, and no doubt is +so still. It was regarded as very effective, and +certainly had plenty of evidence of the <i>post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc</i> +order in its favour.</p> + +<p>Is this practice prevalent in England?</p> + +<p>It will be remarked that this belongs to the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page20" id="page20"></a>{20}</span> +category of <i>Vicarious Charms</i>, which have in all +times and in all ages, in great things and in small +things, been one of the favourite resources of poor +mortals in their difficulties. Such charms (for all +analogous practices may be so called) are, in point +of fact, <i>sacrifices</i> made on the principle so widely +adopted,—<i>qui facit per alium facit per se</i>. The +common witch-charm of melting an image of wax +stuck full of pins before a slow fire, is a familiar +instance. Everybody knows that the party <i>imaged</i> +by the wax continues to suffer all the tortures of +pin-pricking until he or she finally melts away +(colliquescit), or dies in utter emaciation.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Emdee.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Boy or Girl.</i>—The following mode was adopted +a few years ago in a branch of my family residing +in Denbighshire, with the view of discovering the +sex of an infant previous to its birth. As I do not +remember to have met with it in other localities, +it may, perhaps, be an interesting addition to your +"Folk Lore." An old woman of the village, +strongly attached to the family, asked permission +to use a harmless charm to learn if the expected +infant would be male or female. Accordingly she +joined the servants at their supper, where she +assisted in clearing a shoulder of mutton of every +particle of meat. She then held the blade-bone +to the fire until it was scorched, so as to permit +her to force her thumbs through the thin part. +Through the holes thus made she passed a string, +and having knotted the ends together, she drove +in a nail over the back door and left the house, +giving strict injunctions to the servants to hang +the bone up in that place the last thing at night. +Then they were carefully to observe who should +first enter that door on the following morning, +exclusive of the members of the household, and the +sex of the child would be that of the first comer. +This rather vexed some of the servants, who wished +for a boy, as two or three women came regularly +each morning to the house, and a man was scarcely +ever seen there; but to their delight the first +comer on this occasion proved to be a man, and in +a few weeks the old woman's reputation was established +throughout the neighbourhood by the birth of a boy.</p> + +<p class="author">M.E.F.</p> + +<hr /> + + + + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + + +<h4>POET LAUREATES.</h4> + +<p>Can any of the contributors to your most useful +"NOTES AND QUERIES" favour me with the title +of any work which gives an account of the origin, +office, emoluments, and privileges of Poet Laureate. +Selden, in his <i>Titles of Honour (Works</i>, +vol. iii. p. 451.), shows the Counts Palatine had +the right of conferring the dignity claimed by the +German Emperors. The first payment I am +aware of is to Master Henry de Abrinces, the +<i>Versifier</i> (I suppose Poet Laureate), who received +6<i>d.</i> a day,—4<i>l.</i> 7<i>s.</i>, as will be seen in the <i>Issue Roll</i> +of Thomas de Brantingham, edited by Frederick Devon.</p> + +<p>Warton (<i>History of English Poetry</i>, vol. ii. +p. 129.) gives no further information, and is the +author generally quoted; but the particular matter sought for is wanting.</p> + +<p>The first patent, according to the <i>Encyclopædia +Metropolitana</i>, article "Laureate," is stated, as regards +the existing office, to date from 5th Charles I., +1630; and assigns as the annual gratuity 100<i>l.</i>, +and a tierce of Spanish Canary wine out of the royal cellars.</p> + +<p>Prior to this, the emoluments appear uncertain, +as will be seen by Gifford's statement relative to +the amount paid to B. Jonson, vol. i. cxi.:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"Hitherto the Laureateship appears to have been a +mere trifle, adopted at pleasure by those who were employed +to write for the court, but conveying no privileges, +and establishing no claim to a salary." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>I am inclined to doubt the accuracy of the +phrase "employed to write for the court." Certain +it is, the question I now raise was <i>pressed</i> +then, as it was to satisfy Ben Jonson's want of +information Selden wrote on the subject in his <i>Titles of Honour</i>.</p> + +<p>These emoluments, rights, and privileges have +been matters of Laureate dispute, even to the +days of Southey. In volume iv. of his correspondence, +many hints of this will be found; <i>e.g.</i>, +at page 310., with reference to Gifford's statement, and "my proper rights."</p> + +<p>The Abbé Resnel says,—"L'illustre Dryden l'a +porté comme <i>Poète du Roy</i>," which rather reduces its +academic dignity; and adds, "Le Sieur Cyber, comédien +de profession, est actuellement en possession du +titre de Poète Lauréate, et qu'il jouit en même tems +de deux cens livres sterling de pension, à la charge de +présenter tous les ans, deux pièces de vers à la famille royale."</p> + +<p>I am afraid, however, the Abbé drew upon his +imagination for the amount of the salary; and +that he would find the people were never so hostile +to the court as to sanction so heavy an infliction +upon the royal family, as they would have +met with from the quit-rent ode, the peppercorn +of praise paid by Elkanah Settle, Cibber, or H.J. Pye.</p> + +<p>The Abbé, however, is not so amusing in his +mistake (if mistaken) relative to this point, as I +find another foreign author has been upon two +Poet Laureates, Dryden and Settle. Vincenzo +Lancetti, in his <i>Pseudonimia Milano</i>, 1836, tells us:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"Anche la durezza di alcuni cognomi ha più volte +consigliato un raddolcimento, che li rendesse più facili +a pronunziarsi. Percio Macloughlin divenne Macklin; +Machloch, Mallet; ed Elkana Settle fu poi —— +John Dryden!" +</p></blockquote> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page21" id="page21"></a>{21}</span> + +<p>—a metamorphose greater, I suspect, than any +to be found in Ovid, and a transmigration of soul +far beyond those imagined by the philosophers of the East.</p> + +<p class="author">S.H.</p> + +<p>Athenæum.</p> + +<hr /> + + + + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + +<p><i>Wood Paper</i>.—The reprint of the <i>Works of +Bishop Wilkins</i>, London, 1802, 2 vols. 8vo., is said +to be on paper made from wood pulp. It has all +the appearance of it in roughness, thickness, and +very unequal opacity. Any sheet looked at with +a candle behind it is like a firmament scattered +with luminous nebulæ. I can find mention of +straw paper, as patented about the time; but I +should think it almost impossible (knowing how +light the Indian rice paper is) that the heavy +fabric above mentioned should be of straw. Is it +from wood? If so, what is the history of the invention, +and what other works were printed in it?</p> + +<p class="author">M.</p> + + +<p><i>Latin Line</i>.—I should be very much obliged +to anybody who can tell where this line comes from:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Exiguum hoc magni pignus amoris habe,"</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>which was engraved on a present from a distinguished +person to a relation of mine, who tried +in several quarters to learn where it came from.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Milton, New Edition of</i>.—I observe in Mr. +Mayor's communication (Vol. i. p. 427.), that some +one is engaged in editing Milton. May I ask who, +and whether the contemplated edition includes prose and poetry?</p> + +<p class="author">CH.</p> + + +<p><i>Barum and Sarum</i>.—By what theory, rule, or +analogy, if any, can the contractions be accounted +for of two names so dissimilar, into words terminating +so much alike, as those of Salisbury into Sarum—Barnstaple into Barum?</p> + +<p class="author">S.S.S.</p> + + +<p><i>Roman Roads</i>.—Can you inform me in whose +possession is the MS. essay on "Roman Roads," +written by the late Dr. Charles Mason, to which +I find allusion in a MS. letter of Mr. North's?</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Buriensis.</span></p> + + +<p><i>John Dutton, of Dutton</i>.—In the Vagrant Act, +17 George II., c. 5., the heir and assigns of John +Dutton, of Dutton, co. Chester, deceased, Esq., are +exempt from the pains and penalties of vagrancy. +Query—Who was the said John Dutton, and +why was such a boon conferred on his heirs for ever?</p> + +<p class="author">B.</p> + + +<p><i>Rome, Ancient and Modern</i>.—I observed, in a +shop in Rome, in 1847, a large plan of that city, +in which, on the same surface, both ancient and +modern Rome were represented; the shading of +the streets and buildings being such as to distinguish +the one from the other. Thus, in looking at +the modern Forum, you saw, as it were <i>underneath</i> +it, the ancient Forum; and so in the other parts of +the city. Can any of your readers inform me as +to the name of the designer, and where, if at all, +in England, a copy of this plan may be obtained?</p> + +<p>If I remember rightly, the border to the plan +was composed of the Pianta Capitolina, or fragments +of the ancient plan preserved in the Capitol. +In the event of the map above referred to not +being accessible, can I obtain a copy of this latter plan by itself, and how?</p> + +<p class="author">A.B.M.</p> + + +<p><i>Prolocutor of Convocation</i>.—W.D.M. inquires +who was Prolocutor of the Lower House of +Convocation during its session in 1717-18?</p> + + +<p><i>Language of Queen Mary's Days</i>.—In the first +vol. of Evelyn's <i>Diary</i> (the last edition) I find the following notice:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"18th, Went to Beverley, a large town with two +churches, St. John's and St. Mary's, not much inferior +to the best of our cathedrals. Here a very old woman +showed us the monuments, and being above 100 years +of age, spake <i>the language of Queen Mary's days</i>, in +whose time she was born; she was widow of a sexton, +who had belonged to the church a hundred years." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>Will any of your readers inform me what was +the language spoken in <i>Queen Mary's</i> days, and +what peculiarity distinguished it from the language used in <i>Evelyn's</i> days?</p> + +<p>A learned author has suggested, that the difference +arose from the slow progress in social improvement in the North of England, caused by the difficulty of communication with the court +and its refinements. I am still anxious to ascertain what the difference was.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Fra. Mewburn.</span></p> + +<p>Darlington.</p> + + +<p><i>Vault Interments</i>.—I shall be very glad of any +information as to the origin and date of the practice +of depositing coffins in vaults, and whether +this custom obtains in any other country than our own.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Walter Lewis.</span></p> + +<p>Edward Street, Portman Square.</p> + + +<p><i>Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R.K.</i>—Any +information will be thankfully received of the +ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of the notorious +R.K.—the unprincipled persecutor of +Archbp. Williams, mentioned in Fuller's <i>Church +Hist.</i>, B. xi. cent. 17.; and in Hacket's Life of the +Archbishop (abridgment), p. 190.</p> + +<p class="author">F.K.</p> + + +<p><i>The Sun feminine in English</i>.—It has been +often remarked, that the northern nations made +the sun to be feminine.<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> Do any of your readers +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page22" id="page22"></a>{22}</span> +know any instances of the <i>English</i> using this gender +of the sun? I have found the following:—</p> + +<p>"So it will be at that time with the sun; for though +<i>she</i> be the brightest and clearest creature, above all +others, yet, for all that Christ with His glory and +majesty will obscure <i>her."—Latimer's Works</i>, Parker Soc. edit. vol. ii. p. 54.</p> + +<p>"Not that the sun itself, of <i>her</i> substance, shall be +darkened; no, not so; for <i>she</i> shall give <i>her</i> light, but +it shall not be seen for this great light and clearness +wherein our Saviour shall appear."—(Ib. p. 98.)</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos. Cox.</span></p> + +<p><i>Construe and translate</i>.—In my school-days, +verbal rendering from Latin or Greek into English +was <i>construing</i>; the same on paper was <i>translating</i>. +Whence this difference of phrase?</p> + +<p class="author">M.</p> + + +<p><i>Men but Children of a larger growth</i>.—Can you +give one the author of the following line?</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Men are but children of a larger growth."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p class="author">R.G.</p> + + +<p><i>Clerical Costume</i>.—In the Diary of the Rev. +Giles Moore, rector of Hosted Keynes, in Sussex, +published in the first volume of the Sussex Archæological Collections, there is the following account of his dress:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black +cloth at 16<i>s.</i> the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet +serge for a waistcoat, 11<i>s.</i> 1<i>d.</i>, and 1/4 of an ounce of +scarlet silke, 1<i>s.</i>" +</p></blockquote> + +<p>and this appears to have been his regular dress. +Will any of your correspondents inform me whether +this scarlet serge waistcoat was commonly worn by +the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671?</p> + +<p class="author">R.W.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Ergh, Er, or Argh</i>.—In Dr. Whitaker's <i>History +of Whalley</i>, p. 37., ed. 1818, are the following observations on the above word:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"This is a singular word, which occurs, however +both to the north and south of the Ribble, though +much more frequently to the north. To the south, I +know not that it occurs, but in Angles-ark and Brettargh. +To the north are Battarghes, Ergh-holme, +Stras-ergh, Sir-ergh, Feiz-er, Goosen-ergh. In all the +Teutonic dialects I meet with nothing resembling this +word, <i>excepting the Swedish</i> Arf, <i>terra</i> (<i>vide</i> Ihre <i>in +voce</i>), which, if the last letter be pronounced gutturally, +is precisely the same with <i>argh</i>." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>Can any of your readers give a more satisfactory explanation of this local term?</p> + +<p class="author">T.W.</p> + +<p>Burnley, May 4. 1850.</p> + + +<p><i>Burial Service</i>.—During a conversation on the +various sanitary measures now projecting in the +metropolis, and particularly on the idea lately +started of re-introducing the ancient practice of +burning the bodies of the deceased, one of our +company remarked that the words "ashes to ashes," +used in our present form of burial, would in such +a case be literally applicable; and a question arose +why the word "ashes" should have been introduced +at all, and whether its introduction might +not have been owing to the actual cremation of the +funeral pyre at the burial of Gentile Christians? +We were none of us profound enough to quote or +produce any facts from the monuments and records +of the early converts to account for the expression; +but I conceive it probable that a solution could be +readily given by some of your learned correspondents. +The burning of the dead does not +appear to be in itself an anti-christian ceremony, +nor necessarily connected with Pagan idolatries, +and therefore might have been tolerated in the +case of Gentile believers like any other indifferent usage.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Cinis.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Gaol Chaplains</i>.—When were they first appointed? +Did the following advice of Latimer, +in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any effect?</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"Oh, I would ye would resort to prisons! A commendable +thing in a Christian realm: I would wish +there were curates of prisons, that we might say, the +'curate of Newgate, the curate of the Fleet,' and I +would have them waged for their labour. It is a +holiday work to visit the prisoners, for they be kept from sermons."—Vol. i. p. 180. +</p></blockquote> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos. Cox.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Hanging out the Broom</i> (Vol. i., p. 385.).—This +custom exists in the West of England, but is +oftener talked of than practised. It is jocularly +understood to indicate that the deserted inmate is +in want of a companion, and is really to receive the +visits of his friends. Can it be in any way analogous +to the custom of hoisting broom at the +mast-head of a vessel which is to be disposed of?</p> + +<p class="author">S.S.S.</p> + + +<p><i>George Lord Goring</i>, well known in history as +Colonel Goring and General Goring, until the +elevation of his father to the earldom of Norwich, +in Nov. 1644, is said by Lodge to have left England +in November, 1645, and after passing some time +in France, to have gone into the Netherlands, where +he obtained a commission as Lieutenant-General +in the Spanish army. Lodge adds, upon the +authority of Dugdale, that he closed his singular +life in that country, in the character of a Dominican +friar, and his father surviving him, he never +became Earl of Norwich. A recent publication, +speaking of Lord Goring, says he carried his +genius, his courage, and his villainy to market on +the Continent, served under Spain, and finally +assumed the garb of a Dominican friar, and died in a convent cell.</p> + +<p>Can any of your readers inform me <i>when</i> and +<i>where</i> he died, and whether any particulars are +known respecting him after his retirement abroad, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page23" id="page23"></a>{23}</span> +and when his marriage took place with his wife +Lady Lettice Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork, +who died in 1643? The confusion that is made +between the father and son is very great.</p> + +<p class="author">G.</p> + + +<p><i>Bands</i>.—What is the origin of the clerical and +academical custom of wearing <i>bands</i>? Were they +not originally used for the purpose of preserving +the cassock from being soiled by the beard? This +is the only solution that presents itself to my mind.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Oxoniensis Nondum-Graduatus.</span></p> + +<hr /> + + + + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + + +<h4>DERIVATION OF "NEWS" AND "NOISE."</h4> + +<p>I hasten to repudiate a title to which I have no +claim; a compliment towards the close of the +letter of your correspondent "CH." (Vol. i., p. 487.) +being evidently intended for a gentleman whose +<i>christian</i> name, only, <i>differs</i> from mine. The compliment +in his case is well-deserved; and it will +not lower him in your correspondent's opinion, to +know that he is not answerable for the sins laid +to my charge. And now for a word in my own behalf.</p> + +<p>Indeed, CH. is rather hard upon me, I must +confess. In using the simple form of assertion as +more convenient,—although I intended thereby +merely to express that such was my opinion, and +not dreaming of myself as an authority,—I have +undoubtedly erred. In the single instance in +which I used it, instead of saying "it is," I should +have said "I think it is." Throughout the rest of +my argument I think the terms made use of are +perfectly allowable as expressions of opinion. +Your correspondent has been good enough to give +"the whole" of my "argument" in recapitulating +my "assertions." Singular dogmatism that in +laying down the law should condescend to give +reasons for it! On the other hand, when I turn to +the letter of my friendly censor, I find assertion +without argument, which, to my simple apprehension, +is of much nearer kin to dogmatism than is the sin with which I am charged.</p> + +<p>I cannot help thinking that your correspondent, +from his dislike "to be puzzled on so plain a subject," +has a misapprehension as to the uses of +etymology. I, too, am no etymologist; I am a +simple inquirer, anxious for information; frequently, +without doubt, "most ignorant" of what +I am "most assured;" yet I feel that to treat the +subject scientifically it is not enough to guess at +the origin of a word, not enough even to know it; +that it is important to know not only whence it +came, but how it came, what were its relations, by +what road it travelled; and treated thus, etymology +is of importance, as a branch of a larger science, +to the history of the progress of the human race.</p> + +<p>Descending now to particulars, let your correspondent +show me how "news" was made out of +"new." I have shown him how <i>I think</i> it was made; but I am open to conviction.</p> + +<p>I repeat my opinion that "news is a noun singular, +and as such must have been adopted bodily +into the language;" and if it were a "noun of +plural form and plural meaning," I still think +that the singular form must have preceded it. +The two instances CH. gives, "goods" and +"riches," are more in point than he appears to +suppose, although in support of my argument, and +not his. The first is from the Gothic, and is substantially +a word implying "possessions," older +than the oldest European living languages. +"Riches" is most unquestionably in its original +acceptation in our language a noun singular, being +identically the French "richesse," in which manner +it is spelt in our early writers. From the form +coinciding with that of our plural, it has acquired +also a plural signification. But both words "have +been adopted bodily into the language," and thus +strengthen my argument that the process of manufacture is with us unknown.</p> + +<p>Your correspondent is not quite correct in describing +me as putting forward as instances of the +early communication between the English and the +German languages the derivation of "news" from +"Neues," and the similarity between two poems. +The first I adduced as an instance of the importance +of the inquiry: with regard to the second, +I admitted all that your correspondent now says; +but with the remark, that the mode of treatment +and the measure approaching so near to each +other in England and Germany within one half +century (and, I may add, at no other period in +either of the two nations is the same mode or +measure to be found), there was reasonable ground +for suspicion of direct or indirect communication. +On this subject I asked for information.</p> + +<p>In conclusion, I think I observe something of a +sarcastic tone in reference to my "novelty." I +shall advocate nothing that I do not believe to be +true, "whether it be old or new;" but I have +found that our authorities are sometimes careless, +sometimes unfaithful, and are so given to run in +a groove, that when I am in quest of truth I +generally discard them altogether, and explore, however laboriously, by myself.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Samuel Hickson.</span></p> + +<p>St. John's Wood, May 27. 1850.</p> + + +<p>I do not know the reason for the rule your +correspondent Mr. S. HICKSON lays down, that +such a noun as "news" could not be formed +according to English analogy. Why not as well +as "goods, the shallows, blacks, for mourning, +greens?" There is no singular to any of these as nouns.</p> + +<p><i>Noise</i> is a French word, upon which Menage +has an article. There can be no doubt that he +and others whom he quotes are right, that it is +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page24" id="page24"></a>{24}</span> +derived from <i>noxa</i> or <i>noxia</i> in Latin, meaning "strife." They quote:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Sæpe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos."</p> +<p class="author"><i>Ausonius</i>.</p> + </div> </div> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"In mediam noxiam perfertur."</p> +<p class="author"><i>Petronius</i>.</p> + </div> </div> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Diligerent alia, et noxas bellumque moverent."</p> +<p class="author"><i>Manilius</i>.</p> + </div> </div> + + +<p>It is a great pity that we have no book of +reference for English analogy of language.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p>Why should Mr. Hickson (Vol. i., p. 428.) +attempt to derive "news" indirectly from a German +adjective, when it is so directly attributable +to an English one; and that too without departing +from a practice almost indigenous in the language?</p> + +<p>Have we not in English many similar adjective +substantives? Are we not continually slipping +into our <i>shorts</i>, or sporting our <i>tights</i>, or parading +our <i>heavies</i>, or counter-marching our <i>lights</i>, or +commiserating <i>blacks</i>, or leaving <i>whites</i> to starve; +or calculating the <i>odds</i>, or making <i>expositions</i> for <i>goods</i>?</p> + +<p>Oh! but, says Mr. Hickson, "in that case +the '<i>s</i>' would be the sign of the plural." Not +necessarily so, no more than an "<i>s</i>" to "mean" +furnishes a "means" of proving the same thing. +But granting that it were so, what then? The +word "news" <i>is</i> undoubtedly plural, and has been +so used from the earliest times; as (in the example +I sent for publication last week, of so early +a date as the commencement of Henry VIII.'s +reign) may be seen in "<i>thies</i> new<i>es</i>."</p> + +<p>But a flight still more eccentric would be the +identification of "noise" with "news!" "There +is no process," Mr. Hickson says, "by which noise +could be manufactured without making a plural noun of it!"</p> + +<p>Is not Mr. Hickson aware that <i>la noise</i> is a +French noun-singular signifying a contention or +dispute? and that the same word exists in the Latin <i>nisus</i>, a struggle?</p> + +<p>If mere plausibility be sufficient ground to justify +a derivation, where is there a more plausible +one than that "news," <i>intelligence, ought</i> to be derived +from νους, <i>understanding</i> or <i>common sense</i>?</p> + +<p class="author">A.E.B.</p> + +<p>Leeds, May 5th.</p> + + +<p>Further evidence (see Vol. i., p. 369.) of the +existence and common use of the word "newes" +in its present signification but ancient orthography +anterior to the introduction of newspapers.</p> + +<p>In a letter from the Cardinal of York (Bainbridge) +to Henry VIII. (Rymer's <i>Fœdera</i>, vol. vi. p. 50.),</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"After that thies Newes afforesaide ware dyvulgate +in the Citie here." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>Dated from Rome, September, 1513.</p> + +<p>The <i>Newes</i> was of the victory just gained by +Henry over the French, commonly known as "The Battle of the Spurs."</p> + +<p class="author">A.E.B.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h4>THE DODO QUERIES.</h4> + +<p>I beg to thank Mr. S.W. Singer for the further +notices he has given (Vol. i., p. 485.) in connection +with this subject. I was well acquainted with +the passage which he quotes from Osorio, a passage +which some writers have very inconsiderately +connected with the Dodo history. In reply to +Mr. Singer's Queries, I need only make the following +extract from the <i>Dodo and its Kindred</i>, p. 8.:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"The statement that Vasco de Gama, in 1497, discovered, +sixty leagues beyond the Cape of Good Hope, +a bay called after San Blaz, near an island full of birds +with wings like bats, which the sailors called <i>solitaries</i> +(De Blainville, <i>Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat.</i>, and <i>Penny +Cyclopædia</i>, DODO, p. 47.), is wholly irrelevant. The +birds are evidently penguins, and their wings were +compared to those of bats, from being without developed +feathers. De Gama never went near Mauritius, +but hugged the African coast as far as Melinda, and +then crossed to India, returning by the same route. +This small island inhabited by penguins, near the Cape +of Good Hope, has been gratuitously confounded with +Mauritius. Dr. Hamel, in a memoir in the <i>Bulletin +de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie de +St. Petersbourg</i>, vol. iv. p. 53., has devoted an unnecessary +amount of erudition to the refutation of this obvious +mistake. He shows that the name <i>solitaires</i>, as +applied to penguins by De Gama's companions, [I +should have said, 'by later compilers,'] is corrupted +from <i>sotilicairos</i>, which appears to be a Hottentot +word." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>I may add, that Dr. Hamel shows Osorio's statement +to be taken from Castanheda, who is the +earliest authority for the account of De Gama's voyage.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">H.E. Strickland.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h4>BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON.</h4> + +<p>Mr. Editor,—I have just seen an article in +your "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" referring to my +edition of Milton's prose works. It is stated that, +in my latest catalogue, the book is announced as +<i>complete</i> in 3 vols., although the contrary appears +to be the case, judging by the way in which the +third volume ends, the absence of an index, &c.</p> + +<p>In reply, I beg to say that the insertion of the +word "complete," in some of my catalogues, has +taken place without my privity, and is now expunged. +The fourth volume has long been in +preparation, but the time of its appearance depends +on the health and leisure of a prelate, whose name +I have no right to announce. Those gentlemen +who have taken the trouble to make direct +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page25" id="page25"></a>{25}</span> +inquiries on the subject, have always, I believe, received an explicit answer.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry George Bohn.</span></p> + +<p>May 30. 1850.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h4>UMBRELLAS.</h4> + +<p>Although Dr. Rimbault's Query (Vol. i., p. 415.) +as to the first introduction of umbrellas into +England, is to a certain extent answered in the +following number (p. 436.) by a quotation from +Mr. Cunningham's <i>Handbook</i>, a few additional +remarks may, perhaps, be deemed admissible. +Hanway is there stated to have been "the first +man who ventured to walk the streets of London +with one over his head," and that after continuing +its use nearly thirty years, he saw them come into +general use. As Hanway died in 1786, we may +thus infer that the introduction of umbrellas may +be placed at about 1750. But it is, I think, probable +that their use must have been at least partially +known in London long before that period, +judging from the following extract from Gay's +<i>Trivia, or Art of Walking the Streets of London</i>, published 1712:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,</p> +<p>Defended by the ridinghood's disguise;</p> +<p>Or, underneath th' <i>umbrella's</i> oily shade,</p> +<p>Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread.</p> +<p>Let Persian dames the <i>umbrella's</i> ribs display,</p> +<p>To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;</p> +<p>Or sweating slaves support the shady load,</p> +<p>When Eastern monarchs show their state abroad;</p> +<p>Britain in winter only knows its aid,</p> +<p>To guard from chilly showers the walking maid."</p> +<p class="author">Book i. lines 209-218.</p> + </div> </div> + + +<p>That it was, perhaps, an article of curiosity +rather than use in the middle of the seventeenth +century, is evident in the fact of its being mentioned +in the "<i>Musæum Tradescantianum, or Collection +of Rarities</i>, preserved at South Lambeth +near London, by John Tradescant." 12mo. 1656. +It occurs under the head of "Utensils," and is +simply mentioned as "<i>An Umbrella</i>."</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">E.B. Price.</span></p> + +<p class="note"> +[Mr. St. Croix has also referred Dr. Rimbault to Gay's <i>Trivia</i>.] +</p> + + +<p>Jonas Hanway the philanthropist is reputed +first to have used an "umbrella" in England. I +am the more inclined to think it may be so, as my +own father, who was born in 1744, and lived to +ninety-two years of age, has told me the same thing, +and he lived in the same parish as Mr. Hanway, who resided in Red Lion Square.</p> + +<p>Mr. Hanway was born in 1712.</p> + +<p class="author">J.W.</p> + + +<p>The introduction of this article of general convenience +is attributed, and I believe accurately so, +to Jonas Hanway, the Eastern traveller, who on +his return to his native land rendered himself +justly celebrated by his practical benevolence. In +a little book with a long title, published in 1787, +written by "<i>John Pugh</i>," I find many curious +anecdotes related of Hanway, and apropos of umbrellas, +in describing his dress Mr. Pugh says,—"When +it rained, a small parapluie defended his +face and wig; thus he was always prepared to +enter into any company without impropriety, or +the appearance of neglect. And he (Hanway) +was the first man who ventured to walk the streets +of London with an umbrella over his head: after +carrying one near thirty years, he saw them come +into general use." Hanway died 1786.</p> + +<p class="author">J.F.</p> + + +<p>As far as I remember, there is a portrait of +Hanway with an umbrella as a frontispiece to the +book of Travels published by him about 1753, in +four vols. 4to.; and I have no doubt that he had +used one in his travels through Greece, Turkey, &c.</p> + +<p class="author">T.G.L.</p> + + +<p>In the hall of my father's house, at Stamford in +Lincolnshire, there was, when I was a child, the +wreck of a very large green silk umbrella, apparently +of Chinese manufacture, brought by my +father from Holland, somewhere between 1770 +and 1780, and as I have often heard, the first umbrella +seen at Stamford. I well remember also an +amusing description given by the late Mr. Warry, +so many years consul at Smyrna, of the astonishment +and envy of his mother's neighbours at Sawbridgeworth, +in Herts, where his father had a +country-house, when he ran home and came back +with an umbrella, which he had just brought from +Leghorn, to shelter them from a pelting shower +which detained them in the church-porch, after the +service, on one summer Sunday. From Mr. Warry's +age at the time he mentioned this, and other circumstances +in his history, I conjecture that it +occurred not later than 1775 or 1776. As Sawbridgeworth +is so near London, it is evident that +even there umbrellas were at that time almost unknown.</p> + +<p>If I have "spun too long a yarn," the dates, at +least, will not be unacceptable to others like myself.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">G.C. Renouard.</span></p> + +<p>Swanscombe Rectory, May 1.</p> + + +<p>Dr. Jamieson was the first who introduced umbrellas +to Glasgow in the year 1782; he bought +his in Paris. I remember very well when this +took place. At this time the umbrella was made of +heavy wax cloth, with cane ribs, and was a ponderous article.</p> + +<p class="author">R.R.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS.</h4> + +<h4>(Vol. i, pp. 474, 475.)</h4> + +<p>From a scarce collection of pamphlets concerning +the naturalisation of the Jews in England, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page26" id="page26"></a>{26}</span> +published in 1753, by Dean Tucker and others, +I beg to send the following extracts, which may +be of some use in replying to the inquiry (Vol. i., +p. 401.) respecting the Jews during the Commonwealth.</p> + +<p>Dean Tucker, in his <i>Second Letter to a Friend +concerning Naturalisation</i>, says (p. 29.):—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"The Jews having departed out of the realm in the +year 1290, or being expelled by the authority of parliament +(it matters not which), made no efforts to +return till the Protectorship of Oliver Cromwell; but +this negotiation is known to have proved unsuccessful. +However, the affair was not dropped, for the next application +was to King Charles himself, then in his exile +at Bruges, as appears by a copy of a commission dated +the 24th of September, 1656, granted to Lt.-Gen. Middleton, +to treat with the Jews of Amsterdam:—'That +whereas the Lt.-Gen. had represented to his Majesty +their good affection to him, and disowned the application +lately made to Cromwell in their behalf by some +persons of their nation, as absolutely without their +consent, the king empowers the Lt.-Gen. to treat +with them. That if in that conjunction they shall +assist his Majesty by any money, arms, or ammunition, +they shall find, when God should restore him, that he +would extend that protection to them which they could +reasonably expect, and abate that rigour of the law +which was against them in his several dominions, and repay them." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>This paper, Dean Tucker says, was found +among the original papers of Sir Edward Nicholas, +Secretary of State to King Charles I. and II., and +was communicated to him by a learned and worthy +friend. The Dean goes on to remark, that the +restoration of the royal family of the Stuarts was +attended with the return of the Jews into Great +Britain; and that Lord Chancellor Clarendon +granted to many of them letters of denization under the great seal.</p> + +<p>From another pamphlet in the same collection, +entitled, <i>An Answer to a Pamphlet entitled Considerations +on the Bill to permit Persons professing +the Jewish Religion to be naturalized</i>, the following, is an extract:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"There is a curious anecdote of this affair," (about +the Jews thinking Oliver Cromwell to be the Messiah,) +"in Raguenet's <i>Histoire d'Oliver Cromwell</i>, which I +will give the reader at length. About the time Rabbi +Manasseh Ben Israel came to England to solicit the +Jews' admission, the Asiatic Jews sent hither the noted +Rabbi Jacob Ben Azahel, with several others of his +nation, to make private inquiry whether Cromwell was +not that Messiah, whom they had so long expected. +(Page 33.—I leave the reader to judge what an accomplished +villain he will then be.) Which deputies upon +their arrival pretending other business, were several times +indulging the favour of a private audience from him, and +at one of them proposed buying Hebrew books and +MSS. belonging to the University of <i>Cambridge</i><a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>, in order +to have an opportunity, under pretence of viewing them, +to inquire amongst his relations, in Huntingdonshire, +where he was born, whether any of his ancestors could +be proved of Jewish extract. This project of theirs was +very readily agreed to (the University at that time being +under a cloud, on account of their former loyalty to the +King), and accordingly the ambassadors set forwards +upon their journey. But discovering by their much +longer continuance at Huntingdon than at Cambridge, +that their business at the last place was not such as was +pretended, and by not making their enquiries into +Oliver's pedigree with that caution and secresy which +was necessary in such an affair, the true purpose of +their errand into England became quickly known at +London, and was very much talked of, which causing +great scandal among the <i>Saints</i>, he was forced suddenly +to pack them out of the kingdom, without granting any of their requests." +</p></blockquote> + +<p class="author">J.M.</p> + +<hr /> + + + +<h2>REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Wellington, Wyrwast, and Cokam</i> (Vol. i., +p. 401.).—The garrison in Wellington was, no +doubt, at the large house built by Sir John Topham +in that town, where the rebels, who had +gained possession of it by stratagem, held out for +some time against the king's forces under Sir +Richard Grenville. The house, though of great +strength, was much damaged on that occasion, and +shortly fell into ruin. Cokam probably designates +Colcombe Castle, a mansion of the Courtenays, +near Colyton, in Devonshire, which was occupied +by a detachment of the king's troops under Prince +Maurice in 1644, but soon after fell into the hands +of the rebels. It is now in a state of ruin, but is +in part occupied as a farm-house. I am at a loss +for <i>Wyrwast</i>, and should doubt the reading of the MS.</p> + +<p class="author">S.S.S.</p> + + +<p><i>Sir William Skipwyth</i> (Vol. i., p. 23.).—Mr. Foss +will find some notices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, +84, 85, of <i>Rotulorum Pat. & Claus. Cancellariæ +Hib. Calendarium</i>, printed in 1828.</p> + +<p class="author">R.B.</p> + +<p>Trim, May 13. 1850.</p> + + +<p><i>Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton</i> (Vol. i., p. 481.).—Mr. +Markland is probably right in his conjecture +that Johnson had Warton's lines in his memory; +but the original source of the allusion to <i>Peru</i> is Boileau:</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p class="i8">"De tous les animaux</p> +<p>De Paris au _Pérou_, du Japon jusqu'à Rome,</p> +<p>Le plus sot animal, à mon avis, c'est l'homme."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>Warton's Poems appeared in March, 1748. +Johnson's <i>Vanity of Human Wishes</i> was published +the 9th January, 1749, and was written probably in December or November preceding.</p> + +<p class="author">C.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page27" id="page27"></a>{27}</span> + + +<p><i>Worm of Lambton</i> (Vol. i., p. 453.).—See its +history and legend in Surtees' <i>History of Durham</i>, +vol. ii. p. 173., and a quarto tract printed by Sir Cuthbert Sharp.</p> + +<p class="author">G.</p> + + +<p>"A.C." is informed that there is an account of +this "Worme" in <i>The Bishoprick Garland</i>, published +by the late Sir Cuthbert Sharpe in 1834; +it is illustrated with a view of the Worm Hill, and +a woodcut of the knight thrusting his sword with +great <i>nonchalance</i> down the throat of the Worme. +Only 150 copies of the <i>Garland</i> were printed.</p> + +<p class="author">W.N.</p> + + +<p><i>Shakspeare's Will</i> (Vol. i., pp. 213, 386, 403, +461, and 469.).—I fear if I were to adopt Mr. +Bolton Corney's <i>tone</i>, we should degenerate into +polemics. I will therefore only reply to his question, +"<i>Have</i> I wholly mistaken the whole <i>affair</i>?" +by one word, "<i>Undoubtedly</i>." The question raised +was on an Irish edition of Malone's <i>Shakspeare</i>. +Mr. Bolton Corney reproved the querists for not +consulting original sources. It appears that Mr. +Bolton Corney had not himself consulted <i>the +edition</i> in question; and by his last letter I am +satisfied that he has not <i>even yet</i> seen it: and it is +not surprising if, in these circumstances, he should +have "<i>mistaken the whole affair</i>." But as my last +communication (Vol. i., p. 461.) explains (as I am +now satisfied) the blunder and its cause, I may +take my leave of the matter, only requesting Mr. +Bolton Corney, if he still doubts, to follow his own +good precept, and look at <i>the original edition</i>.</p> + +<p class="author">C.</p> + + +<p><i>Josias Ibach Stada</i> (Vol. i., p. 452.).—In reply +to G.E.N., I would ask, is Mr. Hewitt correct +in calling him Stada, an Italian artist? I have no +hesitation in saying that Stada here is no personal +appellation at all, but the name of a town. The +inscription "<i>Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bremensis</i>" +is to be read, Cast by Josias Ibach, <i>of the town of +Stada, in the duchy of Bremen</i>. All your readers, +particularly mercantile, will know the place well +enough from the discussions raised by Mr. Hutt, +member for Gateshead, in the House of Commons, +on the oppressive duties levied there on all vessels +and their cargoes sailing past it up the Elbe; and +to the year 1150 it was the capital of an independent +graffschaft, when it lapsed to Henry the Lion.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">William Bell.</span></p> + + +<p><i>The Temple, or A Temple.</i>—I have had an +opportunity of seeing the edition of Chaucer referred +to by your correspondent P.H.F. (Vol. i., +p. 420.), and likewise several other black-letter +editions (1523, 1561, 1587, 1598, 1602), and find +that they all agree in reading "the temple," which +Caxton's edition also adopts. The general reading +of "temple" in the <i>modern</i> editions, naturally +induced me to suspect that Tyrwhitt had made the +alteration on the authority of the manuscripts of +the poem. Of these there are no less than ten in +the British Museum, all of which have been kindly +examined for me. One of these wants the prologue, +and another that part of it in which the line +occurs; but in <i>seven</i> of the remaining eight, the reading is—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"A gentil maunciple was ther of <i>a</i> temple;"</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>while <i>one</i> only reads "the temple." The question, +therefore, is involved in the same doubt which I +at first stated; for the subsequent lines quoted by +P.H.F. prove nothing more than that the person +described was a manciple in <i>some</i> place of legal +resort, which was not disputed.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward Foss.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Bawn</i> (Vol. i., p. 440.).—If your Querist regarding +a "Bawn" will look into Macnevin's <i>Confiscation +of Ulster</i> (Duffy: Dublin, 1846, p. 171. +&c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a +sort of court-yard, which might be used on emergency +as a fortification for defence. They were +constructed either of <i>lime</i> and <i>stone</i>, of <i>stone</i> and +<i>clay</i>, or of <i>sods</i>, and twelve to fourteen feet high, +and sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and with the addition of "flankers."</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">W.C. Trevelyan.</span></p> + + +<p>"<i>Heigh ho! says Rowley</i>" (Vol. i., p. 458.).—The +burden of "<i>Heigh ho! says Rowley</i>" is +certainly <i>older</i> than R.S.S. conjectures; I +will not say how much, but it occurs in a <i>jeu +d'esprit</i> of 1809, on the installation of Lord Grenville, +as Chancellor, at Oxford, as will be shown by a stanza cited from memory:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Mr. Chinnery then, an M.A. of great parts,</p> +<p class="i2">Sang the praises of Chancellor Grenville.</p> +<p>Oh! he pleased all the ladies and tickled their hearts;</p> +<p class="i2">But, then, we all know he's a Master of Arts,</p> +<p class="i8">With his rowly powly,</p> +<p class="i6">Gammon and spinach,</p> +<p class="i8">Heigh ho! says Rowley."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Chethamensis.</span></p> + +<p>Wimpole Street, May 11. 1850.</p> + + +<p><i>Arabic Numerals</i>.—As your correspondent +E.V. (Vol. i., p. 230.) is desirous of obtaining any +instance of Arabic numerals of early occurrence, +I would refer him, for one at least, to <i>Notices of +the Castle and Priory of Castleacre</i>, by the Rev. +J.H. Bloom: London; Richardson, 23. Cornhill, +1843. In this work it appears that by the acumen +of Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rochester, the date 1084 +was found impressed in the plaster of the wall of +the priory in the following, form:—</p> + +<table summary="figure" align="center"> +<tr><td align="center">1</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">4 × 8</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">0</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>The writer then goes on to show, that this was +the regular order of the letters to one crossing himself after the Romish fashion.</p> + +<p class="author">E.S.T.</p> + + +<p><i>Pusan</i> (Vol. i., p. 440.)—May not the meaning +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>{28}</span> +be a collar in the form of a serpent? In the old +Roman de Blanchardin is this line:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"Cy guer <i>pison</i> tuit Apolin." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>Can <i>Iklynton</i> again be the place where such an +ornament was made? Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire, +appears to have been of some note in former +days, as, according to Lewis's <i>Topog. Hist.</i>, a nunnery +was founded there by Henry II., and a market +together with a fair granted by Henry III. +As it is only five miles from Linton, it may have +formerly borne the name of Ick-linton.</p> + +<p class="author">C.I.R.</p> + + +<p>"<i>I'd preach as though</i>" (Vol. i., p. 415.).—The +lines quoted by Henry Martyn are said by Dr. +Jenkyn (Introduction to a little vol. of selections +from Baxter—Nelson's <i>Puritan Divines</i>) to be +Baxter's "own immortal lines." Dr. J. quotes them thus:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I preached as never sure to preach again,</p> +<p>And as a dying man to dying men."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Ed. S. Jackson.</span></p> + + +<p>May 18.</p> + +<p>"<i>Fools rush in</i>" (Vol. i., p. 348.).—The line in Pope,</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread," +</p></blockquote> + +<p>it has been long ago pointed out, is founded upon that of Shakspeare,</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"For wrens make wing where eagles dare not perch." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>I know not why that line of Pope is in your correspondent's +list. It is not a proverb.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon</i> (Vol. i., +p. 351.)—It seems vain to inquire who the persons +were of whom stories were told in medieval +books, as if they were really historical. See +the <i>Gesta Romanorum</i>, for instance: or consider +who the Greek king Aulix was, having dealings +with the king of Syria, in the 7th Story of the +<i>Novelle Antiche</i>. The passage in the sermon about +a Greek king, seems plainly to be still part of the +extract from the <i>Liber Decalogorum</i>, being in +Latin. This book was perhaps the <i>Dialogi +decem</i>, put into print at Cologne in 1472: Brunet.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Earwig</i> (Vol. i., p. 383.).—This insect is very +destructive to the petals of some kinds of delicate +flowers. May it not have acquired the title of +"couchbell" from its habit of couching or concealing +itself for rest at night and security from small +birds, of which it is a favourite food, in the pendent +blossoms of bell-shaped flowers? This habit is +often fatal to it in the gardens of cottagers, who +entrap it by means of a lobster's claw suspended on an upright stick.</p> + +<p class="author">S.S.S.</p> + + +<p><i>Earwig</i> (Vol. i., p. 383.).—In the north of +England the earwig is called <i>twitchbell</i>. I know +not whether your correspondent is in error as to +its being called in Scotland the "coach-bell." I +cannot afford any explanation to either of these names.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">G. Bouchier Richardson.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Sir R. Haigh's Letter-book</i> (Vol. i, p. 463.).—This +is incorrect; no such person is known. +The baronet intended is <i>Sir Roger Bradshaigh, +of Haigh</i>; a very well-known person, +whose funeral sermon was preached by Wroe, +the warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, +locally remembered as "silver-mouthed Wroe."</p> + +<p>This name is correctly given in Puttick and +Simpson's Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Sale on +April 15, and it is to be <i>hoped</i> that Sir Roger's +collection of letters, ranging from 1662 to 1676, +<i>may have</i> fallen into the hands of the noble earl +who represents him, the present proprietor of Haigh.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Chethamensis.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Marescautia</i> (Vol. i., p. 94.).—Your correspondent +requests some information as to the meaning +of the word "marescautia." <i>Mareschaucie</i>, in old +French, means a stable. Pasquier (<i>Recherches de +la France</i>, l. viii. ch. 2.) says,—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"Pausanias disoit que Mark apud Celtas signifioit un +cheual ... je vous diray qu'en ancien langage allemant +Mark se prenoit pour un cheual." +</p></blockquote> + +<p>In ch. 54. he refers to another etymolygy of +"maréchal," from "maire," or "maistre," and +"cheval," "comme si on les eust voulu dire maistre +de la cheualerie." "Maréchal" still signifies "a +farrier." <i>Maréchaussée</i> was the term applied +down to the Revolution to the jurisdiction of Nosseigneurs +les Maréchaux de France, whose orders +were enforced by a company of horse that patrolled +the <i>high</i>ways, la <i>chaussée</i>, generally raised +above the level of the surrounding country. +Froissart applies the term to the Marshalsea prison +in London. In D.S.'s first entry there may, +perhaps, be some allusion to another meaning of +the word, namely, that of "<i>march</i>, limit, boundary."</p> + +<p>What the nature of the tenure per serjentiam +marescautiæ may be I am not prepared to say. +May it not have had some reference to the support of the royal stud?</p> + +<p class="author">J.B.D.</p> + + +<p><i>Memoirs of an American Lady</i> (Vol. i., p. 335.).—If +this work cannot now be got it is a great +pity,—it ought to go down to posterity; a more +valuable or interesting account of a particular +state of society now quite extinct, can hardly be +found. Instead of saying that "it is the work of +Mrs. Grant, the author of this and that," I should +say of her other books that they were written by +the author of the <i>Memoirs of an American Lady</i>. +The character of the individual lady, her way of +keeping house on a large scale, the state of the +domestic slaves, threatened, as the only known +punishment and most terrible to them, with being +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page29" id="page29"></a>{29}</span> +sold to Jamaica; the customs of the young men at +Albany, their adventurous outset in life, their +practice of robbing one another in joke (like a +curious story at Venice, in the story-book called +<i>Il Peccarone</i>, and having some connection with +the stories of the Spartan and Circassian youth), +with much of natural scenery, are told without +pretension of style; but unluckily there is too +much interspersed relating to the author herself, then quite young.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Poem by Sir E. Dyer</i> (Vol. i., p. 355.).—"My +mind to me," &c. Neither the births of Breton +nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known; nor, +consequently, how much older the one was than +the other. Mr. S., I conclude, could not mean +much older than Breton's tract, mentioned in +Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's +<i>Helicon</i>. The ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas +more than the present copy, and one stanza less. +Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is, more probable than the new ones.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I see how plenty <i>surfeits</i> oft."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i8"> suffers.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>"I grudge not at another's <i>gain</i>".—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i10"> pain.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>"No worldly <i>wave</i> my mind can toss."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i6"> wants.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>These seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I brook that is another's pain."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p>"My state at one doth still remain."—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>Probably altered on account of the slight obscurity; +and possibly a different edition by the author himself.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"They beg, I give,</p> +<p>They lack, I <i>lend</i>."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i6">leave.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>In this verse,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I fear no foe, I <i>scorn</i> no friend."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i6">fawn.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>I think the new copy better.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"To none of these I yield as thrall,</p> +<p>For why my mind <i>despiseth</i> all."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i8"> doth serve for.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>The var. much better.</p> + +<p>In this—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I never seek by bribes to please,</p> +<p>Nor by <i>dessert</i> to give offence."—<i>P.</i></p> +<p class="i4"> deceit.—<i>Var.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>I cannot understand either.</p> + +<p>So very beautiful and popular a song it would +be well worth getting in the true version.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Monumental Brasses</i>.—In reply to S.S.S. +(Vol. i., p. 405.), I beg to inform him that the +"small dog with a collar and bells" is a device of +very common occurrence on brasses of the fifteenth +and latter part of the fourteenth centuries. The +Rev. C. Boutell's <i>Monumental Brasses of England</i> +contains engravings of no less than twenty-three +on which it is to be found; as well as two examples +without the usual appendages of collar, &c. +In addition to these, the same work contains etchings +of the following brasses:—Gunby, Lincoln., +two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the +lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon., 1403. +Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs +with collars and bells at her feet.</p> + +<p>The same peculiarities are exemplified on brasses +at Harpham, York., 1420; and Spilsby, Lincoln., +1391. I will not further multiply instances, as +my own collection of rubbings would enable me to +do. I should, however, observe, that the hypothesis +of S.S.S. (as to "these figures" being +"the private mark of the artist") is untenable: +since the twenty-three examples above alluded to +are scattered over sixteen different counties, as +distant from each other as Yorkshire and Sussex. +Two examples are well known, in which the dog +so represented was a favourite animal:—Deerhurst, +Gloc., 1400, with the name, "Terri," inscribed; +and Ingham, Norfolk, 1438, with the +name "Jakke." This latter brass is now lost, but +an impression is preserved in the British Museum. +The customary explanation seems to me sufficient: +that the dog was intended to symbolise the fidelity +and attachment of the lady to her lord and master, +as the lion at <i>his</i> feet represented his courage and noble qualities.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Sparrow Simpson.</span></p> + +<p>Queen's College, Cambridge, April 22. 1850.</p> + + +<p><i>Fenkle Street</i>.—A street so called in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, +lying in a part of the town formerly +much occupied by garden ground, and <i>in the immediate +vicinity of the house of the Dominican +Friars there</i>. Also, a way or passage inside the +town wall, and leading between that fortification +and the <i>house of the Carmelites or White Friars</i>, +was anciently called by the same name. The +name of <i>Fenkle</i> or <i>Finkle Street</i> occurs in several +old towns in the North, as Alnwick, Richmond, +York, Kendal, &c. <i>Fenol</i> and <i>finugl</i>, as also <i>finul</i>, +are Saxon words for <i>fennel</i>; which, it is very probable, +has in some way or other given rise to this +name. May not the <i>monastic institutions</i> have used +fennel extensively in their culinary preparations, +and thus planted it in so great quantities as to +have induced the naming of localities therefrom? +I remember a portion of the ramparts of the town +used to be called <i>Wormwood Hill</i>, from a like circumstance. +In Hawkesworth's <i>Voyages</i>, ii. 8., I +find it stated that the town of Funchala, on the +island of Madeira, derives its name from <i>Funcko</i>, +the Portuguese name for <i>fennel</i>, which grows in +great plenty upon the neighbouring rocks. The +priory of Finchale (from <i>Finkel</i>), upon the Wear, +probably has a similar origin; <i>sed qu.</i></p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">G. Bouchier Richardson.</span></p> + +<p>Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page30" id="page30"></a>{30}</span> + + +<p><i>Christian Captives</i> (Vol. i., p. 441.)—In reply to +your correspondent R.W.B., I find in the papers +published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological +Society, vol. i. p. 98., the following entries +extracted from the Parish Registers of Great Dunham, Norfolk:—</p> + +<table summary="" align="center" width="100%"> +<tr><td colspan="4" align="center">"December, 1670.</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> £ </td><td> <i>s.</i></td><td> <i>d.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td>Collected for the redemption of y<sup>e</sup> English + Captives out of Turkish bondage </td><td> 04</td><td> 05</td><td> 06</td></tr> +<tr><td>Feb. 13. p<sup>d</sup> the same to M<sup>r</sup>. Swift, Minister + of Milcham, by the Bhps appointm<sup>t</sup>.</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="4" align="center">October, 1680.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Collected towards the redemption of English + Captives out of their slavery and + bondage in Algiers </td><td> 3</td><td> 16</td><td> 0 </td></tr> +</table> + +<p>Which sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar +under Dr. Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, +Octr. 2d. 1680."</p> + +<p>Probably similar entries will be found in other +registers of the same date, as the collections appear +to have been made by special mandate, and paid +into the hands of the proper authorities.</p> + +<p class="author">E.S.T.</p> + + +<p><i>Passage in Gibbon</i> (Vol. i., p. 348.).—The +passage in Gibbon I should have thought was +well known to be taken from what Clarendon +says of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says +in his preface to <i>Hampden's Life</i> had before been +said of Cinna. Gibbon must either have meant to +put inverted commas, or at least to have intended to take nobody in.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Borrowed Thoughts</i> (Vol. i., p. 482.)—<i>La fameuse</i> +La Galisse is an error. The French pleasantly +records the exploits of the celebrated <i>Monsieur</i> +de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter +poems are borrowed from the French.</p> + +<p class="author">C.</p> + + +<p><i>Sapcote Motto</i> (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.).—Taking +for granted that solutions of the "Sapcote +Motto" are scarce, I send you what seems to me +something nearer the truth than the arbitrary and +unsatisfactory translation of T.C. (Vol. i, p. 476.).</p> + +<p>The motto stands thus:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"sco toot × vinic [or umic]</p> +<p class="i4">× poncs."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>Adopting T.C.'s suggestion that the initial +and final <i>s</i> are mere flourishes (though that makes +little difference), and also his supposition that <i>c</i> +may have been used for <i>s</i>, and as I fancy, not +unreasonably conjecturing that the × is intended +for <i>dis</i>, which is something like the pronunciation +of the numeral X, we may then take the <i>entire</i> +motto, without garbling it, and have sounds representing +<i>que toute disunis dispenses</i>; which, grammatically +and orthographically corrected, would +read literally "all disunions cost," or "destroy," +the equivalent of our "Union is strength." The +motto, with the arms, three dove-cotes, is admirably suggestive of family union.</p> + +<p class="author">W.C.</p> + + +<p><i>Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston</i> (Vol. i., +p. 382.).—These lines have also been attributed to Mason.</p> + +<p class="author">S.S.S.</p> + + +<p><i>Shipster</i> (Vol. i., p. 339.).—That "ster" is a feminine +termination is the notion of Tyrwhitt in a +note upon Hoppesteris in a passage of Chaucer +(<i>Knight's Tale</i>, l. 2019.); but to ignorant persons +it seems not very probable. "Maltster," surely, is +not feminine, still less "whipster;" "dempster," +Scotch, is a judge. Sempstress has another termination +on purpose to make it feminine.</p> + +<p>I wish we had a dictionary, like that of Hoogeven +for Greek, arranging words according to their terminations.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + +<hr /> + + + +<h2>Miscellanies.</h2> + + +<p><i>Blue Boar Inn, Holborn</i>.—The reviewer in the +last "Quarterly" of Mr. Cunningham's <i>Handbook +for London</i>, makes an error in reference to the +extract from Morrice's <i>Life of Lord Orrery</i>, given +by Mr. Cunningham under the head of "Blue +Boar Inn, Holborn," and transcribed by the reviewer +(<i>Qu. Rev.</i> vol. lxxxvi., p. 474.). Morrice, +Lord Orrery's biographer, relates a story which he +says Lord Orrery had told him, that he had been +told by Cromwell and Ireton of their intercepting +a letter from Charles I. to his wife, which was sewn +up in the skirt of a saddle. The story may or may +not be true; this authority for it is not first-rate. +The Quarterly reviewer, in transcribing from Mr. +Cunningham's book the passage in Morrice's <i>Life +of Lord Orrery</i>, introduces it by saying,—"Cromwell, +in a letter to Lord Broghill, narrates circumstantially +how he and Ireton intercept, &c." +This is a mistake; there is no letter from Cromwell +to Lord Broghill on the subject. (Lord Broghill +was Earl of Orrery after the Restoration.) Such +a letter would be excellent authority for the story. +The mistake, which is the Quarterly reviewer's, +and not Mr. Cunningham's, is of some importance.</p> + +<p class="author">C.H.</p> + + +<p><i>Lady Morgan and Curry</i>.—An anecdote in the +last number of the <i>Quarterly Review</i>, p. 477., +"this is the first set down you have given me to-day," +reminds me of an incident in Dublin society +some quarter of a century ago or more. The +good-humoured and accomplished—Curry +(shame to me to have forgotten his christened +name for the moment!) had been engaged in a +contest of wit with Lady Morgan and another +female <i>célébrité</i>, in which Curry had rather the +worst of it. It was the fashion then for ladies to +wear very short sleeves; and Lady Morgan, albeit +not a young woman, with true provincial exaggeration, +wore none, a mere strap over her shoulders. +Curry was walking away from her little coterie, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page31" id="page31"></a>{31}</span> +when she called out, "Ah! come back Mr. Curry, +and acknowledge that you are fairly beaten." +"At any rate," said he, turning round, "I have +this consolation, you can't laugh at me in your sleeve!"</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">Scotus.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Sir Walter Scott and Erasmus</i>.—Has it yet +been noticed that the picture of German manners +in the middle ages given by Sir W. Scott, in his +<i>Anne of Geierstein</i> (chap. xix.), is taken (in some +parts almost verbally) from Erasmus' dialogue, +<i>Diversoria</i>? Although Sir Walter mentions Erasmus +at the beginning of the chapter, he is totally +silent as to any hints he may have got from him; +neither do the notes to my copy of his works at all allude to this circumstance.</p> + +<p class="author">W.G.S.</p> + + +<p><i>Parallel Passages</i>.—A correspondent in Vol. i., +p. 330, quoted some parallels to a passage in +Shakspeare's <i>Julius Cæsar</i>. Will you allow me +to add another, I think even more striking than +those he cited. The full passage in Shakspeare is,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"There is a tide in the affairs of man,</p> +<p>Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.</p> +<p>Omitted, all the voyage of their lives</p> +<p>Is bound in shallows and in miseries."</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>In Bacon's <i>Advancement of Learning</i>, book 2, occurs the following:—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"In the third place, I set down reputation because +of the peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, +if they be not taken in due time, are seldom recovered, +it being extreme hard to play an after game of reputation." +</p></blockquote> + +<p class="author">E.L.N.</p> + + +<p><i>Gray's Ode</i>.—In return for the information +about Gray's <i>Ode</i>, I send an entertaining and very +characteristic circumstance told in Mrs. Bigg's +(anonymous) <i>Residence in France</i> (edited by Gifford):—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"She had a copy of Gray when she was arrested in +the Reign of Terror. The Jacobins who searched her +goods lighted on the line— +</p></blockquote> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p class="i4">'Oh, tu severi religio loci,'</p> + </div> </div> + +<blockquote><p> +and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de +fanatique.'" +</p></blockquote> + +<p>My informant tells me that the monk he saw +was the same as the one mentioned by your correspondent, +and that he had a motto from Lord Bacon over his cell.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>The Grand Style</i>.—Is it not extremely probable +that Bonaparte plagiarised the idea of the centuries +observing the French army from the pyramids from these lines of Lucan?—</p> + +<blockquote><p> +"<i>Sæcula</i> Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, +<i>Attendunt, oevumque sequens speculatur</i> ab omni +Orbe ratem."—<i>Phars.</i> viii. 622. +</p></blockquote> + +<p>One of the recent French revolutionists (I think +Rollin) compared himself with the victim of Calvary. +Even this profane rant is a plagiarism. +Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican +party against the Directory, exclaimed, +on his trial, that his wife, and those of his fellow-conspirators, +"should accompany them <i>even to +Calvary</i>, because the cause of their punishment +should not bring them to shame."—<i>Mignet's French Revolution</i>, chap. xii.</p> + +<p class="author"><span class="sc">J.F. Boyes.</span></p> + + +<p><i>Hoppesteris</i>.—The "shippis <i>hoppesteris</i>," in +Chaucer's <i>Knight's Tale</i>, 2019., is explained by +Tyrwhitt to mean <i>dancing</i>, and that in the feminine—a +very odd epithet. He tells us that the +corresponding epithet in Boccaccio is <i>bellatrici</i>. +I have no doubt that Chaucer mistook it for <i>ballatrici</i>.</p> + +<p class="author">C.B.</p> + + +<p><i>Sheridan's Last Residence</i> (Vol. i., p. 484.).—I +wonder at any doubt about poor Sheridan's having +died in his own house, 17. Saville Row. His remains, +indeed, were removed (I believe for prudential +reasons which I need not specify) to Mr. +Peter Moore's, in Great George Street; but he +was never more than a temporary, though frequent visitor at Mr. Moore's.</p> + +<p class="author">C.</p> + +<hr /> + + + + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + + +<h4>NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.</h4> + + +<p>The Devices and Mottoes of the later Middle Ages +(<i>Die Devisen und Motto des Späteren Mittelalters, von +J.V. Radowitz</i>), just imported by Messrs. Williams and +Norgate, is one of those little volumes which such of +our readers as are interested in the subject to which it +relates should make a note of. They will, in addition +to many novel instances of Devices, Mottoes, Emblems, +&c., find much curious learning upon the subjects, +and many useful bibliographical references.</p> + +<p>Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson still sell, on Saturday +next, the very beautiful collection of Oriental Manuscripts +of the late Dr. Scott; on Monday and Tuesday, +his Medical Library; on Wednesday, his valuable +Collection of Music; and on Thursday, his Philosophical +and Mathematical Instruments, Fire-arms, and +other miscellaneous objects of interest.</p> + +<p>We have received the following catalogues:—John +Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, +Part CXII., No. 6. for 1850 of Old and New Books; +W.S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster +Road) Fifty-Seventh Catalogue of Cheap Second-hand +Books, English and Foreign; James Sage's (4. Newman's +Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Miscellaneous List +of Valuable and Interesting Books; Edward Stibbs' +(331. 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SOUTHEY, M.A., +with Portraits and Landscape Illustrations. 6 vols. post 8vo. 63<i>s.</i></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h4>LONDON:</h4> + +<h3>LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.</h3> + + + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1: </b><a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a><p>We have collated the list with the Population +Returns (Parish Register abstract) 1831, and noted any +difference. In addition to the list given from Sir Geo. +Nayler's MS. the following early registers were extant in 1831:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>1538. Allhallows, Bread Street; Allhallows, Honey</p> +<p class="i6">Lane; Christ Church; St. Mary-le-bow;</p> +<p class="i6">St. Matthew, Friday Street; St. Michael</p> +<p class="i6">Bassishaw; St. Pancras, Soper Lane.</p> +<p>1539. St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane; St. Martin Ludgate; St. Michael, Crooked Lane.</p> +<p>1547. St. George, Botolph Lane, at the commencement of which are 22 entries from tombs, 1390-1410.</p> +<p>1558. Allhallows the Less; St. Andrew, Wardrope; St. Bartholomew, Exchange; St. Christopher-le-Stock; +St. Mary-at-Hill, St. Michael le Quern; +St. Michael, Royal; St. Olave, Jewry; +St. Thomas the Apostle; St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.</p> +<p>1559. St. Augustine; St. Margaret, Moses; St. Michael, Wood Street.</p> +<p>1560. St. Magnus.</p> +</div> </div></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2: </b><a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a><p><i>Note in the Book</i>—There are registers before this in the hands of Mr. Pridden.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3: </b><a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a><p>See Latham's <i>English Language</i>, 2nd edition, p. 211</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4: </b><a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a><p>Query: May not this be another version of the same +story, quoted by your correspondent, B.A., of Christ +Church, Oxford, from Monteith, (in Vol. i. p. 475.), +of the Jews desiring to buy the Library of <i>Oxford</i>?</p></blockquote> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p>Printed by <span class="sc">Thomas Clark Shaw</span>, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. 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Fleet Street +aforesaid.—Saturday, June 8. 1850.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, +1850, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + +***** This file should be named 15996-h.htm or 15996-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/9/15996/ + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon +Ingram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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