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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: ASCII + +*** 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 + + + + + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, +ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +NO. 32.] SATURDAY, JUNE 8. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- + Presence of Strangers in the House of Commons 17 + The Agapemone, by Richard Greene 17 + London Irish Registers, by Robert Cole 18 + Folk Lore--Divination by Bible and Key--Charm for Warts--Boy or Girl 19 +QUERIES:-- + Poet Laureates 20 + 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 21 +REPLIES:-- + Derivation of "News" and "Noise" by Samuel Hickson 23 + The Dodo Queries, by H.E. Strickland 24 + Bohn's Edition of Milton 24 + Umbrellas 25 + Emancipation of the Jews 25 + 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. 26 +MISCELLANIES:-- + 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 30 +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 31 + Notices to Correspondents 31 + Advertisements 32 + + * * * * * + + + + +NOTES. + + +PRESENCE OF STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. + + +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. + +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:-- + +"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. + +"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." + +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. + +CH. + + * * * * * + + +THE AGAPEMONE. + + +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. + +In the reign of Elizabeth, the following proclamation was issued +against "The Sectaries of the Family of Love:"-- + +"Whereas, by report of sundry of the Bishops of 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 _Family of Love_, 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 _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_, and such +like. + +"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. + +"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. + +"Given at our Mannour of Richmond, the third of October, in the +two-and-twentieth year of our Reign. + +"God Save The Queen." + +RICHARD GREENE. + +Lichfield, May 28. 1850. + + * * * * * + + +LONDON PARISH REGISTERS. + +The interleaving, of a little work in my possession, published by +Kearsley in 1787, intitled _Account of the several Wards, Precincts, +and Parishes in the City of London_, contains MS. notes of the +commencement of the registers of fifty of the London parishes, and of +four of Southwark, the annexed list[1] 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. + +[Footnote 1: 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:-- + + 1538. Allhallows, Bread Street; Allhallows, Honey + Lane; Christ Church; St. Mary-le-bow; + St. Matthew, Friday Street; St. Michael + Bassishaw; St. Pancras, Soper Lane. + 1539. St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane; St. Martin + Ludgate; St. Michael, Crooked Lane. + 1547. St. George, Botolph Lane, at the commencement + of which are 22 entries from tombs, 1390-1410. + 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. + 1559. St. Augustine; St. Margaret, Moses; St. Michael, + Wood Street. + 1560. St. Magnus. + + Allhallows, Barking begins 1558 + ----------- London Wall " 1567 [1559 Pop. ret.] + ----------- Lombard Street " 1550 + ----------- Staining " 1642 + St. Andrew Undershaft " 1558 + St. Antholin " 1538 + St. Bennet Fink " 1538 + ----------- Gracechurch " 1558 + St. Clement, Eastcheap " 1539 + St. Dionis Backchurch " 1538 + St. Dunstan in the East " 1558 + St. Edmund the King " 1670 + St. Gabriel, Fenchurch " 1571 + St. Gregory " 1539 [1559 Pop. ret., + probably an error + of transcriber.] + St. James Garlickhithe " 1535 + St. John Baptist " 1682 [1538 Pop. ret.] + St. Katharine Coleman " 1559 + St. Lawrence, Jewry " 1538 + ------------- Pountney " 1538 + St. Leonard, Eastcheap " 1538 + St. Margaret Lothbury " 1558 + ------------ Pattens " 1653 [1559 Pop. ret.] + St. Martin Orgars " 1625 + ---------- Outwick " 1678 [1670 Pop. ret.] + ---------- Vestry " 1671 [1668 Pop. ret.] + St. Mary, Aldermanbury " 1538 + St. Mary Magdalene, Old + Fish Street " 1712 [1717 Pop. ret.] + St. Mary Mounthaw " 1568 [1711 Pop. ret. + A register evidently + lost.] + St. Mary Somerset " 1558 [1711 Pop. ret. + A register missing.] + St. Mary Woolchurch, and St. + Mary Woolnorth, both in one " 1538 + St. Michael, Cornhill, beg. _before_ 1546 + ------------ Royal begins 1558 + St. Mildred, Poultry " 1538 + St. Nicholas Acons " 1539 + ------------ Coleabby " 1695 [1538 Pop. ret.] + ------------ Olave " 1703 + St. Peter, Cornhill " 1538 + St. Peter le Poor " 1538 [1561 Pop. ret.] + St. Stephen, Coleman Street " 1558 + ------------ Walbrook " 1557 + St. Swithin " 1615 [1754 Pop. ret.] + St. Andrew, Holborn " 1551 [1558 Pop. ret.] + St. Bartholomew the Great " 1616 + --------------- the Less " 1547 + St. Botolph, Aldgate " 1558 + St. Bride " 1653[2] + St. Dunstan in the West " 1554 [1558 Pop. ret.] + St. Sepulchre " 1663 + _Note_.--The register prior burnt at the fire of London. + St. Olave, Southwark. "Register said by + _Bray's Survey_ 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." [1685 Pop. ret.] + St. George, Southwark, beg. abt. 1600 [1602 Pop. ret.] + 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. + St. Saviour, Southwark, begins temp. Eliz. [1570 Pop. ret.] + St. Thomas, Southwark, begins 1614. + +ROB. COLE. + +[Footnote 2: _Note in the Book_--There are registers before this in +the hands of Mr. Pridden.] + + * * * * * + + +FOLK LORE. + + +_Divination by Bible and Key_ seems not merely confined to this +country, but to prevail in Asia. The following passage from +_Peregrinations en Orient_, par Eusebe 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 +_English_ consul. + +"En rentrant dans le salon, je trouvai Mistriss B. assise sur son +divan, pres d'un natif Syrien Chretien. Ils tenaient a eux deux une +Bible, suspendue a une grosse cle par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne +se rappelait pas avoir recu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir +remis. Le Syrien disait une priere, puis prononcait alternativement +les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame +declaree par-la en erreur. Elle se leva a l'instant, et ayant fait des +recherches plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou." + +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. + +E.C. + +Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850. + + +_Charm for Warts_.--Count most carefully the number of warts; take a +corresponding number of nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the +_cerealia_ (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a cloth, and deposit +the packet in the earth; _all the steps of the operation being done +secretly_. As the nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some artists +think it necessary that each wart should be _touched_ by a separate +nodule. + +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 +_post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc_ order in its favour. + +Is this practice prevalent in England? + +It will be remarked that this belongs to the category of _Vicarious +Charms_, 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, _sacrifices_ made on the principle +so widely adopted,--_qui facit per alium facit per se_. 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 _imaged_ 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. + +EMDEE. + + +_Boy or Girl._--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. + +M.E.F. + + * * * * * + + + + +QUERIES. + + +POET LAUREATES. + +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 _Titles of Honour (Works_, 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 _Versifier_ (I suppose Poet Laureate), who received +6d. a day,--4l. 7s., as will be seen in the _Issue Roll_ of Thomas de +Brantingham, edited by Frederick Devon. + +Warton (_History of English Poetry_, vol. ii. p. 129.) gives no +further information, and is the author generally quoted; but the +particular matter sought for is wanting. + +The first patent, according to the _Encyclopaedia Metropolitana_, +article "Laureate," is stated, as regards the existing office, to date +from 5th Charles I., 1630; and assigns as the annual gratuity 100l., +and a tierce of Spanish Canary wine out of the royal cellars. + +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.:-- + + "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." + +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 _pressed_ +then, as it was to satisfy Ben Jonson's want of information Selden +wrote on the subject in his _Titles of Honour_. + +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; e.g., at page 310., +with reference to Gifford's statement, and "my proper rights." + +The Abbe Resnel says,--"L'illustre Dryden l'a porte comme _Poete du +Roy_," which rather reduces its academic dignity; and adds, "Le Sieur +Cyber, comedien de profession, est actuellement en possession du titre +de Poete Laureate, et qu'il jouit en meme tems de deux cens livres +sterling de pension, a la charge de presenter tous les ans, deux +pieces de vers a la famille royale." + +I am afraid, however, the Abbe 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. + +The Abbe, 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 +_Pseudonimia Milano_, 1836, tells us:-- + + "Anche la durezza di alcuni cognomi ha piu volte consigliato + un raddolcimento, che li rendesse piu facili a pronunziarsi. + Percio Macloughlin divenne Macklin; Machloch, Mallet; ed + Elkana Settle fu poi ---- John Dryden!" + +--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. + +S.H. + +Athenaeum. + + * * * * * + + + + +MINOR QUERIES. + + +_Wood Paper_.--The reprint of the _Works of Bishop Wilkins_, 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 nebulae. 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? + +M. + + +_Latin Line_.--I should be very much obliged to anybody who can tell +where this line comes from:-- + + "Exiguum hoc magni pignus amoris habe," + +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. + +C.B. + + +_Milton, New Edition of_.--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? + +CH. + + +_Barum and Sarum_.--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? + +S.S.S. + + +_Roman Roads_.--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? + +BURIENSIS. + + +_John Dutton, of Dutton_.--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? + +B. + + +_Rome, Ancient and Modern_.--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 _underneath_ 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? + +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? + +A.B.M. + + +_Prolocutor of Convocation_.--W.D.M. inquires who was Prolocutor of +the Lower House of Convocation during its session in 1717-18? + + +_Language of Queen Mary's Days_.--In the first vol. of Evelyn's +_Diary_ (the last edition) I find the following notice:-- + + "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 _the language of Queen + Mary's days_, in whose time she was born; she was widow of a + sexton, who had belonged to the church a hundred years." + +Will any of your readers inform me what was the language spoken in +_Queen Mary's_ days, and what peculiarity distinguished it from the +language used in _Evelyn's_ days? + +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. + +FRA. MEWBURN. + +Darlington. + + +_Vault Interments_.--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. + +WALTER LEWIS. + +Edward Street, Portman Square. + + +_Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R.K._--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 _Church Hist._, B. xi. cent. 17.; and in +Hacket's Life of the Archbishop (abridgment), p. 190. + +F.K. + + +_The Sun feminine in English_.--It has been often remarked, that +the northern nations made the sun to be feminine.[3] Do any of your +readers know any instances of the _English_ using this gender of the +sun? I have found the following:-- + +"So it will be at that time with the sun; for though _she_ be the +brightest and clearest creature, above all others, yet, for all that +Christ with His glory and majesty will obscure _her."--Latimer's +Works_, Parker Soc. edit. vol. ii. p. 54. + +"Not that the sun itself, of _her_ substance, shall be darkened; no, +not so; for _she_ shall give _her_ light, but it shall not be seen +for this great light and clearness wherein our Saviour shall +appear."--(Ib. p. 98.) + +THOS. COX. + +[Footnote 3: See Latham's _English Language_, 2nd edition, p. 211] + + +_Construe and translate_.--In my school-days, verbal rendering from +Latin or Greek into English was _construing_; the same on paper was +_translating_. Whence this difference of phrase? + +M. + + +_Men but Children of a larger growth_.--Can you give one the author of +the following line? + + "Men are but children of a larger growth." + +R.G. + + +_Clerical Costume_.--In the Diary of the Rev. Giles Moore, rector of +Hosted Keynes, in Sussex, published in the first volume of the Sussex +Archaeological Collections, there is the following account of his +dress:-- + + "I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black cloth at + 16s. the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet serge for a + waistcoat, 11s. 1d., and 1/4 of an ounce of scarlet silke, + 1s." + +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? + +R.W.B. + + +_Ergh, Er, or Argh_.--In Dr. Whitaker's _History of Whalley_, p. 37., +ed. 1818, are the following observations on the above word:-- + + "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, _excepting the Swedish_ Arf, _terra_ (_vide_ Ihre _in + voce_), which, if the last letter be pronounced gutturally, is + precisely the same with _argh_." + +Can any of your readers give a more satisfactory explanation of this +local term? + +T.W. + +Burnley, May 4. 1850. + + +_Burial Service_.--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. + +CINIS. + + +_Gaol Chaplains_.--When were they first appointed? Did the following +advice of Latimer, in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any +effect? + + "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. + +THOS. COX. + + +_Hanging out the Broom_ (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? + +S.S.S. + + +_George Lord Goring_, 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. + +Can any of your readers inform me _when_ and _where_ he died, and +whether any particulars are known respecting him after his retirement +abroad, 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. + +G. + + +_Bands_.--What is the origin of the clerical and academical custom +of wearing _bands_? 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. + +OXONIENSIS NONDUM-GRADUATUS. + + * * * * * + + + + +REPLIES. + + +DERIVATION OF "NEWS" AND "NOISE." + +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 _christian_ +name, only, _differs_ 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. + +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. + +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. + +Descending now to particulars, let your correspondent show me how +"news" was made out of "new." I have shown him how _I think_ it was +made; but I am open to conviction. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + +St. John's Wood, May 27. 1850. + + +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. + +_Noise_ 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 derived from _noxa_ or _noxia_ in Latin, meaning "strife." They +quote:-- + + "Saepe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos." + +_Ausonius_. + + "In mediam noxiam perfertur." + +_Petronius_. + + "Diligerent alia, et noxas bellumque moverent." + +_Manilius_. + +It is a great pity that we have no book of reference for English +analogy of language. + +C.B. + + +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? + +Have we not in English many similar adjective substantives? Are we +not continually slipping into our _shorts_, or sporting our _tights_, +or parading our _heavies_, or counter-marching our _lights_, or +commiserating _blacks_, or leaving _whites_ to starve; or calculating +the _odds_, or making _expositions_ for _goods_? + +Oh! but, says Mr. Hickson, "in that case the '_s_' would be the sign +of the plural." Not necessarily so, no more than an "_s_" to "mean" +furnishes a "means" of proving the same thing. But granting that it +were so, what then? The word "news" _is_ 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 "_thies_ new_es_." + +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!" + +Is not Mr. Hickson aware that _la noise_ is a French noun-singular +signifying a contention or dispute? and that the same word exists in +the Latin _nisus_, a struggle? + +If mere plausibility be sufficient ground to justify a derivation, +where is there a more plausible one than that "news," _intelligence, +ought_ to be derived from [Greek: nous], _understanding_ or _common +sense_? + +A.E.B. + +Leeds, May 5th. + + +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. + +In a letter from the Cardinal of York (Bainbridge) to Henry VIII. +(Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. vi. p. 50.), + + "After that thies Newes afforesaide ware dyvulgate in the + Citie here." + +Dated from Rome, September, 1513. + +The _Newes_ was of the victory just gained by Henry over the French, +commonly known as "The Battle of the Spurs." + +A.E.B. + + * * * * * + +THE DODO QUERIES. + +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 _Dodo and its Kindred_, p. 8.:-- + + "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 _solitaries_ (De Blainville, _Nouv. Ann. + Mus. Hist. Nat._, and _Penny Cyclopaedia_, 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 _Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathematique de + l'Academie de St. Petersbourg_, vol. iv. p. 53., has devoted + an unnecessary amount of erudition to the refutation of this + obvious mistake. He shows that the name _solitaires_, as + applied to penguins by De Gama's companions, [I should have + said, 'by later compilers,'] is corrupted from _sotilicairos_, + which appears to be a Hottentot word." + +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. + +H.E. STRICKLAND. + + * * * * * + +BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON. + +Mr. Editor,--I have just seen an article in your "NOTES AND QUERIES" +referring to my edition of Milton's prose works. It is stated that, in +my latest catalogue, the book is announced as _complete_ 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. + +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 inquiries on the subject, have always, I +believe, received an explicit answer. + +HENRY GEORGE BOHN. + +May 30. 1850. + + * * * * * + +UMBRELLAS. + +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 _Handbook_, 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 _Trivia, or Art of Walking the Streets of London_, +published 1712:-- + + "Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, + Defended by the ridinghood's disguise; + Or, underneath th' _umbrella's_ oily shade, + Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. + Let Persian dames the _umbrella's_ ribs display, + To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; + Or sweating slaves support the shady load, + When Eastern monarchs show their state abroad; + Britain in winter only knows its aid, + To guard from chilly showers the walking maid." + +Book i. lines 209-218. + +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 "_Musaeum Tradescantianum, or Collection of Rarities_, +preserved at South Lambeth near London, by John Tradescant." 12mo. +1656. It occurs under the head of "Utensils," and is simply mentioned +as "_An Umbrella_." + +E.B. PRICE. + + [Mr. St. Croix has also referred Dr. Rimbault to Gay's + _Trivia_.] + + +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. + +Mr. Hanway was born in 1712. + +J.W. + + +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 "_John Pugh_," 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. + +J.F. + + +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. + +T.G.L. + + +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. + +If I have "spun too long a yarn," the dates, at least, will not be +unacceptable to others like myself. + +G.C. RENOUARD. + +Swanscombe Rectory, May 1. + + +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. + +R.R. + + * * * * * + +EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS. + +(VOL. I, PP. 474, 475.) + +From a scarce collection of pamphlets concerning the naturalisation +of the Jews in England, 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. + +Dean Tucker, in his _Second Letter to a Friend concerning +Naturalisation_, says (p. 29.):-- + + "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." + +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. + +From another pamphlet in the same collection, entitled, _An Answer +to a Pamphlet entitled Considerations on the Bill to permit Persons +professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized_, the following, is +an extract:-- + + "There is a curious anecdote of this affair," (about the Jews + thinking Oliver Cromwell to be the Messiah,) "in Raguenet's + _Histoire d'Oliver Cromwell_, 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 _Cambridge_[4], + 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 _Saints_, he + was forced suddenly to pack them out of the kingdom, without + granting any of their requests." + +J.M. + +[Footnote 4: 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 _Oxford_?] + + * * * * * + + + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + + +_Wellington, Wyrwast, and Cokam_ (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 _Wyrwast_, and should doubt the reading +of the MS. + +S.S.S. + + +_Sir William Skipwyth_ (Vol. i., p. 23.).--Mr. Foss will find some +notices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, 84, 85, of _Rotulorum Pat. & +Claus. Cancellariae Hib. Calendarium_, printed in 1828. + +R.B. + +Trim, May 13. 1850. + + +_Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton_ (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 _Peru_ is +Boileau: + + "De tous les animaux + De Paris au _Perou_, du Japon jusqu'a Rome, + Le plus sot animal, a mon avis, c'est l'homme." + +Warton's Poems appeared in March, 1748. Johnson's _Vanity of Human +Wishes_ was published the 9th January, 1749, and was written probably +in December or November preceding. + +C. + + +_Worm of Lambton_ (Vol. i., p. 453.).--See its history and legend in +Surtees' _History of Durham_, vol. ii. p. 173., and a quarto tract +printed by Sir Cuthbert Sharp. + +G. + + +"A.C." is informed that there is an account of this "Worme" in _The +Bishoprick Garland_, 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 _nonchalance_ down the +throat of the Worme. Only 150 copies of the _Garland_ were printed. + +W.N. + + +_Shakspeare's Will_ (Vol. i., pp. 213, 386, 403, 461, and 469.).--I +fear if I were to adopt Mr. Bolton Corney's _tone_, we should +degenerate into polemics. I will therefore only reply to his +question, "_Have_ I wholly mistaken the whole _affair_?" by one +word, "_Undoubtedly_." The question raised was on an Irish edition of +Malone's _Shakspeare_. Mr. Bolton Corney reproved the querists for not +consulting original sources. It appears that Mr. Bolton Corney had not +himself consulted _the edition_ in question; and by his last letter +I am satisfied that he has not _even yet_ seen it: and it is not +surprising if, in these circumstances, he should have "_mistaken +the whole affair_." 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 _the original +edition_. + +C. + + +_Josias Ibach Stada_ (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 "_Fudit +Josias Ibach Stada Bremensis_" is to be read, Cast by Josias Ibach, +_of the town of Stada, in the duchy of Bremen_. 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. + +WILLIAM BELL. + + +_The Temple, or A Temple._--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 _modern_ 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 _seven_ of the remaining eight, the reading is-- + + "A gentil maunciple was ther of _a_ temple;" + +while _one_ 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 _some_ place of legal resort, which was +not disputed. + +EDWARD FOSS. + + +_Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.).--If your Querist regarding a "Bawn" will +look into Macnevin's _Confiscation of Ulster_ (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 _lime_ and _stone_, of +_stone_ and _clay_, or of _sods_, and twelve to fourteen feet high, +and sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and with the addition of +"flankers." + +W.C. TREVELYAN. + + +"_Heigh ho! says Rowley_" (Vol. i., p. 458.).--The burden of "_Heigh +ho! says Rowley_" is certainly _older_ than R.S.S. conjectures; I will +not say how much, but it occurs in a _jeu d'esprit_ of 1809, on the +installation of Lord Grenville, as Chancellor, at Oxford, as will be +shown by a stanza cited from memory:-- + + "Mr. Chinnery then, an M.A. of great parts, + Sang the praises of Chancellor Grenville. + Oh! he pleased all the ladies and tickled their hearts; + But, then, we all know he's a Master of Arts, + With his rowly powly, + Gammon and spinach, + Heigh ho! says Rowley." + +CHETHAMENSIS. + +Wimpole Street, May 11. 1850. + + +_Arabic Numerals_.--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 _Notices of the +Castle and Priory of Castleacre_, 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:-- + + 1 + 4 x 8 + 0 + +The writer then goes on to show, that this was the regular order of +the letters to one crossing himself after the Romish fashion. + +E.S.T. + + +_Pusan_ (Vol. i., p. 440.)--May not the meaning be a collar in the +form of a serpent? In the old Roman de Blanchardin is this line:-- + + "Cy guer _pison_ tuit Apolin." + +Can _Iklynton_ 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 _Topog. Hist._, 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. + +C.I.R. + + +"_I'd preach as though_" (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 _Puritan Divines_) to be Baxter's +"own immortal lines." Dr. J. quotes them thus:-- + + "I preached as never sure to preach again, + And as a dying man to dying men." + +ED. S. JACKSON. + + +May 18. + +"_Fools rush in_" (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The line in Pope, + + "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread," + +it has been long ago pointed out, is founded upon that of Shakspeare, + + "For wrens make wing where eagles dare not perch." + +I know not why that line of Pope is in your correspondent's list. It +is not a proverb. + +C.B. + + +_Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon_ (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 _Gesta +Romanorum_, for instance: or consider who the Greek king Aulix was, +having dealings with the king of Syria, in the 7th Story of the +_Novelle Antiche_. The passage in the sermon about a Greek king, seems +plainly to be still part of the extract from the _Liber Decalogorum_, +being in Latin. This book was perhaps the _Dialogi decem_, put into +print at Cologne in 1472: Brunet. + +C.B. + + +_Earwig_ (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. + +S.S.S. + + +_Earwig_ (Vol. i., p. 383.).--In the north of England the earwig is +called _twitchbell_. 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. + +G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON. + + +_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-book_ (Vol. i, p. 463.).--This is incorrect; no +such person is known. The baronet intended is _Sir Roger Bradshaigh, +of Haigh_; a very well-known person, whose funeral sermon was +preached by Wroe, the warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, locally +remembered as "silver-mouthed Wroe." + +This name is correctly given in Puttick and Simpson's Catalogue of +a Miscellaneous Sale on April 15, and it is to be _hoped_ that Sir +Roger's collection of letters, ranging from 1662 to 1676, _may have_ +fallen into the hands of the noble earl who represents him, the +present proprietor of Haigh. + +CHETHAMENSIS. + + +_Marescautia_ (Vol. i., p. 94.).--Your correspondent requests +some information as to the meaning of the word "marescautia." +_Mareschaucie_, in old French, means a stable. Pasquier (_Recherches +de la France_, l. viii. ch. 2.) says,-- + + "Pausanias disoit que Mark apud Celtas signifioit un cheual + ... je vous diray qu'en ancien langage allemant Mark se + prenoit pour un cheual." + +In ch. 54. he refers to another etymolygy of "marechal," from +"maire," or "maistre," and "cheval," "comme si on les eust voulu dire +maistre de la cheualerie." "Marechal" still signifies "a farrier." +_Marechaussee_ was the term applied down to the Revolution to the +jurisdiction of Nosseigneurs les Marechaux de France, whose orders +were enforced by a company of horse that patrolled the _high_ways, +la _chaussee_, 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 "_march_, limit, +boundary." + +What the nature of the tenure per serjentiam marescautiae may be I am +not prepared to say. May it not have had some reference to the support +of the royal stud? + +J.B.D. + + +_Memoirs of an American Lady_ (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 _Memoirs +of an American Lady_. 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 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 _Il Peccarone_, 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. + +C.B. + + +_Poem by Sir E. Dyer_ (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 _Helicon_. 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. + + "I see how plenty _surfeits_ oft."--_P._ + suffers.--_Var._ + + "I grudge not at another's _gain_".--_P._ + pain.--_Var._ + + "No worldly _wave_ my mind can toss."--_P._ + wants.--_Var._ + +These seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions. + + "I brook that is another's pain."--_P._ + "My state at one doth still remain."--_Var._ + +Probably altered on account of the slight obscurity; and possibly a +different edition by the author himself. + + "They beg, I give, + They lack, I _lend_."--_P._ + leave.--_Var._ + +In this verse, + + "I fear no foe, I _scorn_ no friend."--_P._ + fawn.--_Var._ + +I think the new copy better. + + "To none of these I yield as thrall, + For why my mind _despiseth_ all."--_P._ + doth serve for.--_Var._ + +The var. much better. + +In this-- + + "I never seek by bribes to please, + Nor by _dessert_ to give offence."--_P._ + deceit.--_Var._ + +I cannot understand either. + +So very beautiful and popular a song it would be well worth getting in +the true version. + +C.B. + + +_Monumental Brasses_.--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 _Monumental Brasses of +England_ 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. + +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 _his_ feet represented his +courage and noble qualities. + +W. SPARROW SIMPSON. + +Queen's College, Cambridge, April 22. 1850. + + +_Fenkle Street_.--A street so called in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lying in +a part of the town formerly much occupied by garden ground, and _in +the immediate vicinity of the house of the Dominican Friars there_. +Also, a way or passage inside the town wall, and leading between that +fortification and the _house of the Carmelites or White Friars_, was +anciently called by the same name. The name of _Fenkle_ or _Finkle +Street_ occurs in several old towns in the North, as Alnwick, +Richmond, York, Kendal, &c. _Fenol_ and _finugl_, as also _finul_, are +Saxon words for _fennel_; which, it is very probable, has in some way +or other given rise to this name. May not the _monastic institutions_ +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 _Wormwood Hill_, from a like circumstance. In +Hawkesworth's _Voyages_, ii. 8., I find it stated that the town of +Funchala, on the island of Madeira, derives its name from _Funcko_, +the Portuguese name for _fennel_, which grows in great plenty upon the +neighbouring rocks. The priory of Finchale (from _Finkel_), upon the +Wear, probably has a similar origin; _sed qu._ + +G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON. + +Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850. + + +_Christian Captives_ (Vol. i., p. 441.)--In reply to your +correspondent R.W.B., I find in the papers published by the Norfolk +and Norwich Archaeological Society, vol. i. p. 98., the following +entries extracted from the Parish Registers of Great Dunham, +Norfolk:-- + + "December, 1670. + L s. d. +Collected for the redemption of y'e English + Captives out of Turkish bondage 04 05 06 + +Feb. 13. p'd the same to M'r. Swift, Minister + of Milcham, by the Bhps appointm't. + + October, 1680. +Collected towards the redemption of English + Captives out of their slavery and + bondage in Algiers 3 16 0 + +Which sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar under Dr. +Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, Octr. 2d. 1680." + +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. + +E.S.T. + + +_Passage in Gibbon_ (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 +_Hampden's Life_ 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. + +C.B. + + +_Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)--_La fameuse_ La Galisse is an +error. The French pleasantly records the exploits of the celebrated +_Monsieur_ de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter poems are +borrowed from the French. + +C. + + +_Sapcote Motto_ (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.). + +The motto stands thus:-- + + "sco toot x vinic [or umic] + x poncs." + +Adopting T.C.'s suggestion that the initial and final _s_ are mere +flourishes (though that makes little difference), and also his +supposition that _c_ may have been used for _s_, and as I fancy, not +unreasonably conjecturing that the x is intended for _dis_, which +is something like the pronunciation of the numeral X, we may then +take the _entire_ motto, without garbling it, and have sounds +representing _que toute disunis dispenses_; 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. + +W.C. + + +_Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston_ (Vol. i., p. 382.).--These lines +have also been attributed to Mason. + +S.S.S. + + +_Shipster_ (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 (_Knight's Tale_, 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. + +I wish we had a dictionary, like that of Hoogeven for Greek, arranging +words according to their terminations. + +C.B. + + * * * * * + + + +MISCELLANIES. + + +_Blue Boar Inn, Holborn_.--The reviewer in the last "Quarterly" of Mr. +Cunningham's _Handbook for London_, makes an error in reference to the +extract from Morrice's _Life of Lord Orrery_, given by Mr. Cunningham +under the head of "Blue Boar Inn, Holborn," and transcribed by the +reviewer (_Qu. Rev._ 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 _Life of Lord Orrery_, +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. + +C.H. + + +_Lady Morgan and Curry_.--An anecdote in the last number of the +_Quarterly Review_, 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 _celebrite_, 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, 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!" + +SCOTUS. + + +_Sir Walter Scott and Erasmus_.--Has it yet been noticed that the +picture of German manners in the middle ages given by Sir W. Scott, in +his _Anne of Geierstein_ (chap. xix.), is taken (in some parts almost +verbally) from Erasmus' dialogue, _Diversoria_? 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. + +W.G.S. + + +_Parallel Passages_.--A correspondent in Vol. i., p. 330, quoted some +parallels to a passage in Shakspeare's _Julius Caesar_. Will you allow +me to add another, I think even more striking than those he cited. The +full passage in Shakspeare is, + + "There is a tide in the affairs of man, + Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. + Omitted, all the voyage of their lives + Is bound in shallows and in miseries." + +In Bacon's _Advancement of Learning_, book 2, occurs the following:-- + + "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." + +E.L.N. + + +_Gray's Ode_.--In return for the information about Gray's _Ode_, I +send an entertaining and very characteristic circumstance told in Mrs. +Bigg's (anonymous) _Residence in France_ (edited by Gifford):-- + + "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-- + + 'Oh, tu severi religio loci,' + + and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de + fanatique.'" + +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. + +C.B. + + +_The Grand Style_.--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?-- + + "_Saecula_ Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, _Attendunt, + oevumque sequens speculatur_ ab omni Orbe ratem."--_Phars._ + viii. 622. + +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 _even to +Calvary_, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them +to shame."--_Mignet's French Revolution_, chap. xii. + +J.F. BOYES. + + +_Hoppesteris_.--The "shippis _hoppesteris_," in Chaucer's _Knight's +Tale_, 2019., is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean _dancing_, and that in +the feminine--a very odd epithet. He tells us that the corresponding +epithet in Boccaccio is _bellatrici_. I have no doubt that Chaucer +mistook it for _ballatrici_. + +C.B. + + +_Sheridan's Last Residence_ (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. + +C. + + * * * * * + + + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. + + +The Devices and Mottoes of the later Middle Ages (_Die Devisen und +Motto des Spaeteren Mittelalters, von J.V. Radowitz_), 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. + +Messrs. 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