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diff --git a/16409.txt b/16409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..680b5c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/16409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2264 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: August 1, 2005 [EBook #16409] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, Internet Library of Early Journals, +Jeremy Weatherford, 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. 20.] +SATURDAY, MARCH 16. 1850. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- Page + Alfred's Geography of Europe, by S.W. Singer 313 + The First Coffee Houses in England, by E.F. + Rimbault, LL.D. 314 + True Tragedy of Richard III. 315 + Folk-Lore--Merry Lwyd--Deathbed Superstition 315 + Passage in L'Allegro--Milton's Minor Poems 315 + Doctor Dobbs--Golden Age of Magazines 316 + Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E.F. + Rimbault, LL.D. 317 + Extracts from Old Records, by R. Cole 317 + +QUERIES:-- + Queries on Outline 318 + Christ's Hospital--Old Songs once popular there 318 + Watching the Sepulchre, &c. 318 + Minor Queries:--Conrad of Salisbury--Peruse or + Pervise--Cromlech--Meaning of Grummett--Vertue's + MSS.--Loscop--Ormonde House--As Morse caught + the Mare--Dustpot, Forthlot--Tracts attributed to + Eachard--Queen of Hearts--Guildhalls--Vox + Populi--Use of Coffins--Rococo--Howlet the + Engraver--The Bear, &c. 319 + +REPLIES:-- + Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole 321 + College Salting 321 + Junius 322 + White Hart Inn, Scole 323 + Parkership, Porkership, Pokership 323 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's Christabel-- + Sir William Rider--God tempers the Wind-- + Complutensian Polyglot--Tickhill--Bishop Blaise-- + Sangred--Judas Bell--La Mer des Histoires 324 + +MISCELLANIES:-- + Tale of a Tub--A Genius--Dedications 326 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 326 + Notices to Correspondents 326 + Advertisements 327 + + * * * * * + +KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE. + +There is no other printed copy of the A.-S. _Orosius_ than the very +imperfect edition of Daines Barrington, which is perhaps the most +striking example of incompetent editorship which could be adduced. The +text was printed from a transcript of a transcript, without much pains +bestowed on collation, as he tells us himself. How much it is to be +lamented that the materials for a more complete edition are diminished +by the disappearance of the _Lauderdale MS._, which, I believe, when Mr. +Kemble wished to consult it, could not be found in the Library at Ham. + +Perhaps no more important illustration of the Geography of the Middle +Ages exists than Alfred's very interesting description of the _Geography +of Europe_, and the _Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan_; and this portion +of the _Hormesta_ has received considerable attention from continental +scholars, of which it appears Mr. Hampson is not aware. As long since as +1815 Erasmus Rask (to whom, after Jacob Grimm, Anglo-Saxon students are +most deeply indebted) published in the _Journal of the Scandinavian +Literary Society_ (ii. 106. sq.) the Anglo-Saxon Text, with a Danish +translation, introduction, and notes, in which many of the errors of +Barrington and Forster are pointed out and corrected. This was reprinted +by Rask's son in the _Collection_ he gave of his father's +_Dissertation_, in 2 vols. Copenhagen, 1834. + +Mr. Thorpe, in the 2nd edit. of his _Analecta_, has given "Alfred's +Geography," &c., no doubt accurately printed from the Cotton MS., and +has rightly explained _Apdrede_ and _Wylte_ in his Glossary, but does +not mention _AEfeldan_; and Dr. Leo, in his _Sprachproben_, has given a +small portion from Rask, with a few geographical notes. Dr. Ingram says: +"I hope on some future occasion to publish the whole of 'Alfred's +Geography,' accompanied with accurate maps." + +Rask has anticipated Mr. Hampson's correction respecting the _Wilti_, +and thus translates the passage: "men norden for Oldsakserne er +Obotriternes Land, og i Nordost Vilterne, som man kalder AEfelder." The +mistake of Barrington and Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it +is recollected that no people are so frequently mentioned in the +chronicles of the Middle Ages as this Sclavonic tribe: citations might +be given out of number, in which their contests with their neighbours +the Obotriti, _Abodriti_, or _Apdrede_ of Alfred are noticed. Why the +Wilti were sometimes called _AEfeldi_ or _Heveldi_, will appear from +their location, as pointed out by Ubbo Emmius: "_Wilsos_, Henetorum +gentem, ad _Havelam_ trans Albim sedes habentem." (Rer. Fris. Hist. l. +iv. p. 67.) Schaffarik remarks, "Die Stoderaner und _Havelaner_ waren +ein und derselbe, nur durch zwei namen interscheiden zweige des +_Weleten_ stammes;" and Albinus says: "Es sein aber die riehten _Wilzen_ +Wender sonderlich an der _Havel_ wonhaft." They were frequently +designated by the name of _Lutici_, {314} as appears from Adam of Bremen, +Helmond, and others, and the Sclavonic word _liuti_ signified _wild, +fierce_, &c. Being a _wild_ and contentious people, not easily brought +under the gentle yoke of Christianity, they figure in some of the old +Russian sagas, much as the Jutes do in those of Scandinavia; and it is +remarkable that the names of both should have signified giants or +monsters. Notker, in his Teutonic paraphrase of Martianus Capella, +speaking of other Anthropophagi, relates that the _Wilti_ were not +ashamed to say that they had more right to eat their parents than the +worms.[1] Mone wrote a Dissertation upon the Weleti, which is printed in +the _Anzeigen fuer Kunde des Mittelalters_, 1834, but with very +inconclusive and erroneous results; some remarks on these Sclavonic +people, and a map, will be found in Count Ossolinski's _Vincent +Kadlubek_, Warsaw, 1822; and in Count Potocki's _Fragments Histor. sur +la Scythie, la Sarmatie, et les Slaves_, Brunsw., 1796, &c. 4 vols. +4to.; who has also printed Wulfstan's _Voyage_, with a French +translation. The recent works of Zeuss, of Schaffarik, and above all the +_Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache_, of Jacob Grimm, throw much light on +the subject. + +On the names _Horithi_ and _Maegtha Land_ Rask has a long note, in which +he states the different opinions that have been advanced; his own +conclusions differ from Mr. Hampson's suggestion. He assigns reasons +for thinking that the initial _H_ in _Horithi_ should be _P_, and that +we should read _Porithi_ for _Porizzi_, the old name for _Prussians_. +Some imagined that _Maegtha Land_ was identical with _Cwen Land_, with +reference to the fabulous Northern Amazons; but Alfred has placed +Cwenland in another locality; and Rask conjectures that _Maegth_ +signifies here _provincia, natio gens_, and that it stood for +_Gardariki_, of which it appears to be a direct translation. + +It appears to me that the _Horiti_ of Alfred are undoubtedly the +_Croati_, or _Chrowati_, of Pomerania, who still pronounce their name +_Horuati_, the _H_ supplying, as in numerous other instances, the +place of the aspirate _Ch_. Nor does it seem unreasonable to presume +that the _Harudes_ of Caesar (_De Bell. Gall._ b. i. 31. 37. 51.) were +also _Croats_; for they must have been a numerous and widely spread +race, and are all called _Ch_arudes, [Greek: Aroudes]. The following +passage from the _Annales Fuldensis_, A. 852., will strengthen this +supposition:--"Inde transiens per Angros, _Harudos_, Suabos, et Hosingos +... Thuringiam ingreditur." + +Mr. Kemble[2], with his wonted acumen, has not failed to perceive that +our _Coritavi_ derived their name in the same manner; but his derivation +of the word from Hor, _lutum_, Horilit, _lutosus_, is singularly at +issue with Herr Leo's, who derives it from the Bohemian Hora, a +mountain, Horet a mountaineer, and he places the _Horiti_ in the Ober +Lanbitz and part of the Silesian mountains. + +Schaffarik again, says that _Maegtha Land_ is, according to its proper +signification, unknown; but that as Adam of Bremen places Amazons on the +Baltic coast, probably from mistaking of the _Mazovians_? it is possible +that _Maegthaland_ has thus arisen. In 1822 Dahlmann (_Forschungen auf +dem Gebiete der Geschichte_, t. i. 422.) gave a German version of King +Alfred's narration, where the passage is also correctly translated; but +as regards the illustration of the names of the people of Sclavonic +race, much yet remains to be done. + +It is to be hoped that some competent northern scholar among us may +still remove, what I must consider to be a national reproach--the want +of a correct and well illustrated edition of the _Hormesta_, or at any +rate of this singularly interesting and valuable portion of it. + +S.W. SINGER. + +Feb. 21. 1850. + +[Footnote 1: "Aber _Welitabi_, die in Germania sizzent, tie wir _Wilze_ +heizen, die ni scament sih niche ze chedenne, daz sih iro parentes mit +merem rehte ezen sulin danne die wurme." Albinus, in his _Meissnische +Chronicle_, says they had their name from their _wolfish_ nature.] + +[Footnote 2: _The Saxons in England_, vol. i. p. 9. note.] + + * * * * * + +THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND. + +As a Supplement to your "NOTES ON COFFEE," I send you the following +extracts. + +Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian +Library), says of this worthy knight, + + "When coffee first came in he was a great upholder of it, and hath + ever since been a constant frequenter of coffee-houses, especially + Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John's + Coffee-house, in Fuller's Rents. The first coffee-house in London + was in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the church, + which was set up by one ---- Bowman (coachman to Mr. Hodges, a + Turkey merchant, who putt him upon it) in or about the yeare 1652. + 'Twas about 4 yeares before any other was sett up, and that was by + Mr. Farr. Jonathan Paynter, over against to St. Michael's Church, + was the first apprentice to the trade, viz. to Bowman.--Mem. The + Bagneo, in Newgate Street, was built and first opened in Decemb. + 1679: built by ... Turkish merchants." + +Of this James Farr, Edward Hatton, in his _New View of London_, 1708, +(vol. i. p. 30) says:-- + + "I find it recorded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the + coffee-house which is now the Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate, + (one of the first in England), was in the year 1657, prosecuted by + the inquest of St. Dunstan's in the West, for making and selling a + sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice to + the neighbourhood, &c., and who would then have thought London + would ever have had near three thousand such nuisances, and that + coffee would have been, as now, so much drank by the best of + quality and physicians." {315} + +Howel, in noticing Sir Henry Blount's _Organon Salutis_, 1659, observes +that-- + + "This coffe-drink hath caused a great sobriety among all nations: + formerly apprentices, clerks, &c., used to take their morning + draughts in ale, beer, or wine, which often made them unfit for + business. Now they play the good-fellows in this wakeful and civil + drink. The worthy gentleman, Sir James Muddiford, who introduced + the practice hereof first in London, deserves much respect of the + whole nation." + +From these extracts it appears that the use of this berry was introduced +by other Turkey merchants besides Edwards and his servant Pasqua. + +Anthony Wood in his _Diary_, records, under the year 1654, that-- + + "Coffey, which had been drank by some persons in Oxon. 1650, was + this yeare publickly sold at or neare the Angel, within the Easte + Gate of Oxon., as also chocolate, by an outlander or Jew." + +And in another place he says-- + + "This yeere Jacob a Jew opened a Coffey-house at the Angel, in the + parish of St. Peter in the East, Oxon., and there it was by some, + who delighted in noveltie, drank. When he left Oxon. he sold it in + Old Southampton Buildings in Holborne, near London, and was living + there 1671." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +TRUE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD III. + +In _The True Tragedy of Richard the Third_, the following passage-- + + "His treacherous father hath neglect his word, + And done imparshall past by dint of sword." + +is considered by Mr. Baron Field as unintelligible. It seems to me that +the correction of it is obvious, and the explanation probable, though +not exactly fitting what had been said before, which is merely that Lord +Stanley had refused to come to Richard, not that he had actually joined +Richmond, much less fought for him. I read-- + + "And dome imparshall;" + +_i.e._ and _doom impartial_, and interpret, "pass'd upon himself impartial +judgment," or rather on his son, as is said just before:-- + + "The father's fact condemns the son to die." + +It is possible that doom by dint of sword may mean, to be executed by +dint of sword; that is, on the son. The _doom_ in the Scotch court, in +the _Heart of Mid Lothian_, is not the verdict, but the punishment. + +Immediately before, we have this passage, also described as +unintelligible:-- + + "_King._ Did not your selves, in presence, see the bondes sealde + and assignde? + + "_Lo._ What tho my lord, the _vardits own_, the titles doth resign. + + "_King._ The bond is broke, and I will sue the fine." + +I see no emendation for this but the _vardits own_ to mean, "the party +who has the verdict in his favour," and the speech to be a question. The +King tries to persuade himself that there is, _ipso facto_, no room for +forgiveness. Lovel answers, upon the principle of the rule of law, "Qui +vis potest renunciare juri pro se introducto." + +C.B. + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Merry-Lwyd._--My attention has been called to an inquiry in No. 11. p. +173., as to the origin and etymology of the Merry-Lwyd, still kept up in +Wales. + +I believe that all these mummings may be traced to the disguisings which +formed so popular an amusement in the Middle Ages, and that the name +applied in Wales to this remnant of our ancient pastimes is nothing more +than a compound of our English adjective "merry" and a corruption of the +Latin word "Ludi," which these masquings were formerly termed. + +Strutt, in his _Sports and Pastimes_, Book iii. chap. 13., speaks of +Christmas Spectacles in the time of Edward III., as known by the name of +Ludi; and in Warton's _History of English Poetry_, it is said of these +representations that "by the ridiculous and exaggerated oddity of the +Vizors, and by the singularity and splendour of the dresses, every thing +was out of nature and propriety." In Strutt's 16th Plate, specimens will +be found of the whimsical habit and attire in which the mummers were +wont to appear. + +My impression that the Merry-Lwyd was by no means a diversion +exclusively Welsh is corroborated by the fact noticed in your Number of +the 23rd of Feb., of its being found to exist in Cheshire. And we know +that many ancient customs lingered in the principality long after they +fell into disuse in England. + +GWYNN AB NUDD. + +Glamorganshire, March 1. 1850. + + +_Death-bed Superstition._--When a curate in Exeter I met with the +following superstition, which I do not remember to have seen noticed +before. I had long visited a poor man, who was dying of a very painful +disease, and was daily expecting his death. Upon calling one morning to +see my poor friend, his wife informed me that she thought he would have +died during the night, and consequently she and her friends unfastened +_every lock in the house_. On my inquiring the reason, I was told that +any bolt or lock fastened was supposed to cause uneasiness to, and +hinder the departure of the soul, and consequently upon the approach of +death all the boxes, doors, &c., in the house were unlocked. Can any of +your readers tell me whether this is in any way a general superstition +amongst the lower orders, or is it confined to the West of England? + +R.H. {316} + +[This remarkable superstition forms the subject of a communication of +the _Athenaeum_ (No. 990.) of 17th Oct. 1846: in a comment upon which it +is there stated "that it originates from the belief which formerly +prevailed that the soul flew out of the mouth of the dying in the +likeness of a bird."] + + * * * * * + +PASSAGE IN L'ALLEGRO--NOTES ON MILTON'S MINOR POEMS. + +The suggestion of your correspondent B.H.K. (No. 18. p. 286.) has been +anticipated by Mr. Warton, who, in his 1st edition of _Milton's Poems_, +notices a similar interpretation of the passage, as the suggestion of an +unknown correspondent. In the 2nd edition this correspondent is +mentioned to have been Mr. Headley; and the editor discusses the point +in a note of upwards of a page, illustrating it with parallel passages, +and an analysis of the context. As the book is one of ready access, I +need not trouble you with a quotation; but I may mention that Mr. +Gilchrist has added, in a MS. note in my copy, that "Among the poems +appended to those of Lord Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, is one of +considerable elegance in the same measure as those of Milton, nor is it +unlike in its subject: the following lines may throw some light on the +present inquiry (p. 200. ed. 1717):-- + + 'On hills then shewe the ewe and lambe + And every young one with his damme; + Then lovers walke and _tell their tale_ + Both of their bliss and of their bale.'" + +[The passage is at p. 57. of the 1st vol. of Dr. Nott's edition.] + +I am glad of the present opportunity of mentioning, for the benefit of +all whom it may concern, that my copy of the 1st edition of Warton's +_Milton_ is enriched with numerous notes and parallel passages by Mr. +Gilchrist; and a copy of the 2nd edition has been similarly, but less +copiously, illustrated by Mr. Dunston. I shall be glad if my mention of +them should lead to their being made useful--or, if you wish it, I shall +be happy to transcribe the notes for occasional insertion in your +Journal. + +May I be allowed to suggest that similar notifications _to_ intending +editors would have some tendency to do the same good results which may +be expected from the announcements _by_ intending editors suggested by +your correspondent R.R. at p. 243? There must be hundreds of volumes +enriched by the notes of scholars, such as those I have had occasion to +mention, which are dispersed in private libraries, and might, by means +of similar announcements, be made available to the cause of literature. + +J.F.M. + +[We are much indebted to our valued correspondent for the offer he has +so kindly made us of the MS. Notes in question, which we shall gladly +receive; and also for his extremely useful suggestion of the advantage +of such notifications to intending editors, as he describes.] + + +_Milton's L'Allegro._--Your correspondent (No. 18. p. 286.) has been +anticipated by Headley, who suggested, long ago, that the word _tale_ +here implied the _numbering_ sheep. When Handel composed his beautiful +air, "Let me wander not unseen," he plainly regarded this word in the +more poetical sense. The song breathes the shepherd's tale of _love_ +(perhaps addressed to "the milkmaid singing blithe") far more than it +conveys a dull computation of the _number_ of "his fleecy care." Despite +of that excellent commentator, Tom Warton, who adopted Headley's +suggestion, it is to be hoped that readers will continue, though it may +be in error, to understand the line as your correspondent _used_ to do: +an amatory _tete-a-tete_ is surely better suited to "the hawthorn in the +dale," than either mental arithmetic, or the study of Cocker. + +J.H.M. + + * * * * * + +DOCTOR DANIEL DOVE OF DONCASTER AND HIS HORSE NOBS--GOLDEN AGE OF +MAGAZINES. + +It appears from the preface to the last edition of _The Doctor, &c._ +that the story of Dr. Daniel Dove and his horse was one well known in +Southey's domestic circle. + +A letter is there quoted from Mrs. Southey (then Miss Caroline Bowles), +in which she says:-- + + "There is a story of Dr. D.D. of D. and of his horse Nobs, which + has I believe been made into a Hawker's Book. Coleridge used to + tell it, and the humour lay in making it as long-winded as + possible; it suited, however, my long-windedness better than his, + and I was frequently called upon for it by those who enjoyed it, + and sometimes I volunteered it, when Coleridge protested against + its being told." + +While upon the subject of _The Doctor_, may I direct your attention to +the following passage on p. 269. of the one volume edition, which you +will admit in many respects accurately describes your "NOTES AND +QUERIES"? + + "Our Doctor flourished in the golden age of magazines, when their + pages were filled with voluntary contributions from men who never + aimed at dazzling the public, but each came with his scrap of + information or his humble question, or his hard problem, or his + attempt in verse. + + "In those days A was an antiquary, and wrote articles upon altars + and abbeys, and architecture. B made a blunder, which C corrected. + D demonstrated that E was in error, and that F was wrong in + philology, and neither philosopher nor physician, though he + affected to be both. G was a genealogist. H was an herald who + helped him. I was an inquisitive inquirer who found reason for + suspecting J to be a Jesuit. M was a mathematician. N noted the + weather. O observed the stars. P was a poet who peddled in + pastorals, {317} and prayed Mr. Urban to print them. Q came in the + corner of the page with his query. R arrogated to himself the right + of reprehending every one who differed from him. S sighed and sued + in song. T told an old tale, and when he was wrong, U used to set + him right. V was a virtuoso. W warred against Warburton. X excelled + in algebra. Y yearned for immortality in rhyme, and Z in his zeal + was always in a puzzle." + +Surely, Sir, you have revived the Golden Age of magazines, and long may +you flourish. + +Q.D. + + * * * * * + +THE USE OF BEAVER HATS IN ENGLAND. + +The notice from Fairholt's _Costume in England_, concerning the earliest +use of a beaver hat in England, is not very satisfactory. Beaver hats +were certainly used in this country long before Stubbes's time. They +were originally, like many other articles of dress, manufactured abroad, +and imported here. Indeed, this was a great source of complaint by the +English artizan until a comparatively late period. The author of _A +Brief Discourse of English Poesy_, n.d. (temp. Eliz.) says:-- + + "I merveil no man taketh heed to it, what number of trifles come + hither from beyond the seas, that we might clean spare, or else + make them within our realme. For the which we either pay + inestimable treasure every year, or else exchange substantial wares + and necessaries for them, for the which we might receive great + treasure." + + "The _beaver_ or felt hats (says J.H. Burn, in his interesting + _History of the Foreign Refugees_, p. 257.) worn in the reign of + Edward III., and for a long time afterwards, were made in Flanders. + The refugees in Norfolk introduced the manufacture of felts and + thrummed hats into that country; and by a statute of 5 and 6 Edward + VI., that trade was confined to Norwich, and all other corporate + and market towns in the country." + + "About that time (says a _History of Trade_, published in 1702) we + suffered a great herd of French tradesmen to come in, and + particularly hat-makers, who brought with them the fashion of + making a slight, coarse, mean commodity, viz. felt hats, now called + _Carolinas_; a very inferior article to beavers and demicastors, + the former of which then sold at from 24s. to 48s. a piece." + +In the _Privy-Purse Expenses of Henry VIII._, we read, under the date +1532:-- + + "Item the xxiij day [October] paied for a hatte + and a plume for the King in Boleyn [_i.e._ + Boulogue] ... xvs." + +And again-- + + "Item the same day paied for the garnisshing of ij + bonetts, and for the said hatte ... xxiijs. iiijd." + +These entries are curious, as the purchase of the hat was made in a +foreign country. It was probably something that took the King's fancy, +as we can hardly suppose that his majesty had neglected to provide +himself with this necessary appendage before he left England. + +Several interesting notices concerning hats, and apparel generally, may +be seen in Roger Ascham's _Schoolmaster_, 1570, which I do not remember +to have seen quoted; but the literature of this period abounds in +illustration of costume which has been but imperfectly gleaned. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +EXTRACTS FROM OLD RECORDS. + +If you think the insertion of scraps from the mutilated Exchequer +records useful, I shall be most happy, from time to time, to contribute +a few. The following are extracted from fragments of a book of entries, +temp. Charles I.: the book appears to have been a large folio, and each +leaf torn into at least four pieces. It is much to be regretted that the +work of selection and mutilation was not assigned to more competent +persons than the ignorant porters who I am told were entrusted with it. + +ROBERT COLE. + +_Fragment dated 1640._ + + John de Critz, Serjeant Painter, p't of + 2158. 13, for a debt in the great + wardrobe 60 0 0 + { 200 0 0 + S'r James Palmer, Kn't, for the Tapestrie { 362 10 0 + makers and painters at Mortlach { 300 0 0 + { 262 10 0 + { 300 0 0 + +_Fragment dated 1637._ + + ..........hony Vandike Kn't p't of 1200_li._ + for......... 300 0 0 + + ..........le Seur Sculpter p't of 720_li._ + .................Statues and Images 300 0 0 + +_Fragment dated 1640._ + + ..........in satisfaction for his greate + Losses by his greate and extraordinary + disbursem'ts vpon assignem'ts and + other charges 4000 0 0 + + S'r Job Harby and S'r John Nulles, + Kn'ts, for soe much paid to the King + of Denmke for redempion of a greate + Jewell, and to liquidate the accompts + betwixt his Ma'ty and the said King 25000 0 0 + + Hubrecht le Seur in full of 340_li._ for } + 2 statues in brasse, the one of his late } 100 0 0 + Ma'ty, and the other of our now } 70 0 3 + Souerainge lo: King Charles[3] } + + More to him 60_li._, in p't of 120li. for a + bust of brasse of his late Ma'ty, and + 40_li._ for carrying and erecting 2 + figures at Winchester 100 0 0 + + Richard Delamair for making divers } + Mathematicall Instruments, and } 100 0 0 + other services } 68 0 0 + +[Footnote 3: Qy. the statue now at Charing Cross.] + + * * * * *{318} + + +QUERIES. + +QUERIES ON OUTLINE. + +The boundary between a surface represented and its background received +two different treatments in the hands of artists who have the highest +claims on our respect. Some, following the older painters as they were +followed by Raphael and Albert Durer, bring the surface of the figure +abruptly against its background. Others, like Murillo and Titian, melt +the one into the other, so that no pencil could trace the absolute limit +of either. Curiously enough, though for very obvious reasons, the +Daguerreotype seems to favour one method, the Calotype the other. Yet, +two Calotypes, in which the outlines are quite undefined, coalesce in +the Stereoscope, giving a sharp outline; and as soon as the mind has +been thus taught to expect a relievo, either eye will see it. + +But if you look at your face in the glass, you cannot at once (say at +three feet distance) see the outlines of the eye and cheek. They +disappear every where, except in the focus common to both eyes. Then +nothing is seen absolutely at rest. The act of breathing imparts +perpetual motion to the artist and the model. The aspen leaf is +trembling in the stillest air. Whatever difference of opinion may exist +as to Turner's use or abuse of his great faculties, no one will doubt +that he has never been excelled in the art of giving space and relative +distance to all parts of his canvas. Certainly no one ever carried +confusion of outline in every part not supposed to be in the focus of +the eye so far. + +On the other hand, every portion of a large picture, however severe its +execution, acquires this morbid outline wherever the eye quits one +detail for another. Is, then, the law governing small and large surface +different? Do these instances imply that a definite boundary, a modern +German style, is indefensible? or only indefensible in miniature? Or, is +such a picture as the Van Eyh in the National Gallery a vindication of +the practice in small works? + +I can answer that it is not; and this last question I merely ask to +avoid all answers on the score of authority. No doubt that strange work +is one of the most realising pictures ever painted,--more so than any +neighbouring Rembrandt,--whose masses of light and shade were used as a +"creative power." I want to know whether there is a right and wrong in +the case, apart from every thing men call taste. Whether, whenever a +work of art passes from suggestion to imitation, _some_ liberty must not +be given at the lines whence the rays are supposed to diverge to the two +eyes from two different surfaces. Every advance in art and science +removes something from the realms of opinion, and this appears to be a +question on which science must some day legislate for art. + +J.O.W.H. + + * * * * * + +CHRIST'S HOSPITAL--OLD SONGS ONCE POPULAR THERE. + +Amongst the numerous correspondents and readers of your very interesting +little work, there may yet be living some who were scholars in the above +institution during the last ten or fifteen years of the last century, +coevals, or nearly so, with Richards, afterwards of Oriel College, +author of a prize poem, _Aboriginal Britons_, and one of the Bampton +Lecturers; Middleton, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta; Trollope, +afterwards Master of the Grammar School; Barnes, afterwards connected +with the _Times_; Stevens, Scott (poor Scott!), Coleridge, Lamb, Allen, +White, Leigh Hunt, the two brothers Le G. Favell, Thompson, Franklin, +&c., pupils of old James Boyer, of flogging celebrity. + +If so, can any of them furnish me with the words of an old song, then +current in the school, relating to the execution of the Earl of +Derwentwater in the rebellion of 1715, of which the four following lines +are all that I remember: + + "There's fifty pounds in my right pocket, + To be given to the poor; + There's fifty pounds in my left pocket, + To be given from door to door." + +Of another song, equally popular, less pathetic, but of more +spirit-stirring character, can any one supply the remainder? + + "As our king lay musing on his bed, + He bethought himself once on a time + Of a tribute that was due from France, + That had not been paid for so long a time. + + "Oh! then he called his trusty page, + His trusty page then called he, + Saying, 'You must go to the king of France, + To the king of France right speedily.'" + +NEMO. + + * * * * * + +WATCHING THE SEPULCHRE--DOMINUS FACTOTUM--ROBERT PASSELLEW. + +Allow me to offer a query or two respecting which I shall be glad of any +information your numerous correspondents may be able to furnish. + +1. In Fuller's _History of Waltham Abbey_, pp. 269. 274., Nichol's +edition, 1840, we have the following entries from the churchwarden's +accounts: + + "Anno 1542, the thirty-fourth of Henry viii. _Imprimis_. For + watching the sepulchre, a groat." + + "_Item_, for watching the sepulchre, eight pence." + +The last entry occurs in "Anno 1554, Mariae primo," but Fuller adds, +"though what meant thereby, I know not." Can any satisfactory +information be furnished which will explain the custom here alluded to? +{319} + +2. In the same work, page 278., a passage occurs, which not only +explains the meaning of the term _factotum_, but furnishes matter for +another query. The passage is this; speaking of "eminent persons buried" +at Waltham Abbey, he says: "we spoil all, if we forget Robert Passellew, +who was _dominus fac totum_ in the middle--and _fac nihil_ towards the +end--of the reign of Henry III." Some parasites extolled him by allusion +to his name, _pass-le-eau_, (that is "passing the pure water,") the wits +of those days thus descanting upon him: + + "Est aqua lenis, et est aqua dulcis, et est aqua clara, + Tu praecellis aquam, nam leni lenior es tu, + Dulci dulcior es tu, clara clarior es tu; + Mente quidem lenis, re dulcis, sanguine clarus." + _Camden's MSS._ Cott. Lib. + +The learned Dr. Whitaker, in his _History of Whalley_, says, that "the +word Paslew was of Norman origin (Pass-le-eau), and afforded a subject +for some rhyming monkish verses, not devoid of ingenuity, which the +curious reader may find in Weever's _Funeral Monuments_, p. 645;" and a +question now arises whether the _Passellew_ mentioned by Fuller belongs +to the same family as the "Paslews of Wiswall," alluded to by Dr. +Whitaker, one of whom, "John, Abbot of Whalley" was executed for the +part he took in the "Pilgrimage of Grace." when it is stated that the +Paslews of Wiswall bore "Argent a fess between three mullets Sable +pierced of the field, a crescent for difference," probably some of your +readers will be able to give some particulars respecting "Robert +Passelew," and also identify the families if possible. + +T.W. + +Burnley, Lancashire, Feb. 23, 1850. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Conrad of Salisbury's Descritio utriusque Britanniae._--A good many +years since I had a communication from the Baron de Penhouet, a Breton +Antiquary, respecting a work which I have never yet been able to +discover. I may ascertain, through the medium of your very useful +publication, whether there exists a work under the title of a +"Descriptio utriusque Britanniae," by Conrad of Salisbury, from a MS. of +the time of Henry I. I should feel much obliged to any one who would +favour me with this information. + +JAMES LOGAN. + + +_Peruse or Pervise--Passage in Frith's Works._--Your correspondent T.J. +rightly conjectured that the _peruse_ of a modern reprint of Frith was +an error. I have been able since to consult two black-letter editions, +and have found, as I suspected, "pervise" and "pervyse." + +If your same correspondent, or any other, can help me to correct, or to +understand another erroneous clause in Russell's edit. of Frith, vol. +iii. p. 227., I shall be still further obliged. + +It is probably meant for some old rule in logic, but is printed there, +"Ab inferiori ad suis superius confuse distribue." Foxe, however, has +"suum" instead of "suis." + +H.W. + + +_Cromlech._--I shall feel much obliged if any of your readers will +kindly refer me to any authority for the use of the word _Cromlech_, +prior to the sixteenth century, whether in the Welsh or English +language. + +JAS. H. TODD. + +Trin. Coll. Dublin, Jan. 31, 1850. + + +_Meaning of "Grummett."_--A Constant Reader is desirous of addressing +such of your correspondents as are well versed in maritime history,--Mr. +Bolton Corney to wit,--on the following subject. In the early ages of +our Navy there was a distinct rating, called "Grummett," on board each +man-of-war, and he was generally, as may be seen in the Cottonian MSS., +placed after the "maryners and gonners." Now, the reader will be highly +obliged to any one who will trace the designation to its source, and +give information as to what were the special duties of the Grummett, or +Gromet. + +[Greek: Sigma]. + + +_Vertue's Manuscripts._--Steevens and Malone, in fixing the dates of +Shakspeare's Dramas, frequently quote from _Vertue's_ MSS. George +Chalmers, in his _Supplemental Apology_, says, "On making some +inquiries, by a friend, what manuscript of _Vertue's_ it were, which I +saw so often quoted about scenic matters, Mr. Steevens was so obliging +as to say, 'The books, from which those extracts were made, with several +others lost, belonged to Secretary Pepys, and afterwards to Dr. +Rawlinson, who lent them to Mr. Vertue.' When the said MSS. were +consulted by the two commentators, they were, I believe, in the +possession of Garrick." Chalmers adds, "Much is it to be lamented, that +any MS. or book, which furnished an illustration of Shakespeare, and +having once been seen, should ever disappear." Every true lover of our +great poet will heartily agree with this remark. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + +_Loscop._--The Patent Roll, 1 Edw. III. part I, membrane 27, contains +the exemplification or copy of a grant by Henry I. to his butler William +de Albini of--"Manerium de Snetesham cum duobus hundredis et dimidio +scil. Fredebruge et Smethedune cum wreck et cum omnibus pertinentiis +suis et misteria de Luna cum medietate fori et theloneis et cum ceteris +consuetudinibus et portu cum applicacione navium et _loscop_ et viam +ipsius aquae et transitu cum omnibus querelis." I should be greatly +obliged to any of your learned correspondents who would explain the word +_loscop_. Luna is the town or port of King's Lynn. _Misteria_ {320} may +probably be translated "offices." See Ducange (Paris Edit. 1845) under +the words misterium and ministerium. _Loscop_ appears to be a word of +similar formation to Laudcop and Lahcop, which occur in the Laws of +Ethelred (Thorpe's _Ancient Laws_, vol. i. pp. 294, 295.). Can it mean a +fee paid on _loosing_ the vessel in order to leave the port? + +C.W.G. + + +_Ormonde House._--Perhaps some of your annotators on Cunningham's +_Hand-book of London_, will be so kind as to inform me whereabouts +"Ormonde House" stood in St. James's Square; also to state any +particulars respecting its history before and after it was occupied by +that noble family. + +J.G. + + +_As Morse caught the Mare._--I shall be glad to be informed the meaning +of this expression--it is to be met with in the translation of Rabelais. +There is also a song sung among the farmers of South Devon, of which the +last line of each verse is "As Morse caught the Mare." + +R.S.B. + + +_Dustpot--Forthlot._--In a Manorial Compotus, temp. Hen. V., I find the +following entry, under the head of Out-goings:-- + + "In custodes carucarum et carectarum nil quia per firmarium. Item + pro eorum _duspot_ (xij'd) nil, causa predicta. Item pro eorum + _forlot_ (iiij'd) nil, causa predicta," &c. + +I have in vain consulted the glossaries within my reach,--Ducange, +Spelman, Halliwell, for the meaning of the terms _dustpot_ and _forlot_ +(or, as spelt in another Compotus, _dustpot_ and _forthlot_). They +appear to have been customary payments to the servants who had the care +of the carts and carriages belonging to the manor, which, at the time of +this particular Compotus, were not payable by the lord, because the +demesne lands were in farm; and these dues were paid by the tenant. A +reference to the _Promptorinm Parvulorum_ (a further instalment of which +I rejoice to learn, from Mr. Way's communication, in No. 15., is in a +state of progress) has been equally unproductive. The editorial note to +the communications inserted in No. 17., on the interpretation of +_Pokership_, induces me to send you this query, in the hope of eliciting +information, if not from the gentleman you there refer to, at least from +some one or other of your numerous readers learned in Archaic words. + +I may, at a future period trouble you with some further remarks arising +out of the same Compotus. + +G.A.C. + + +_Tracts attributed to Eachard._--The writer of this article has long had +in his possession an old volume (among many others of a like kind in his +collection) published in 1685; and containing the following +tracts:--1st. "The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the +Clergy,... in a letter written to R.L., 9th edition." This letter is +signed T.B. 2nd. "Observations upon the Answer to the Inquiry, &c., in a +second Letter from T.B. to R.L." 3rd. "Hobbes' State of Nature, +considered, in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy;" the "Epistle +Dedicatory" is signed, J.E. 4th. "A Letter to his Old Dear Friend R.L. +from T.B." 5th. "A Letter to B.D.," the publisher of Mr. Herbert's +_Country Parson_, from T.B. 6th. "A Letter to the Author of the +Vindication of the Clergy," from T.B. 7th. "A Letter to T.D.," the +Author of _Hieragonisticon_, or _Corah's Doom_, from T.B. 8th. "A Letter +to I.O. from T.B." + +Now, it is mentioned in Dr. Hooke's _Ecclesiastical Biography_ (vol. +iv., art. Eachard), that Eachard was the author of these tracts. But the +queries I would beg to propose, if any of your correspondents can answer +them, are these:--1st. Why does Eachard sign himself T.B.; does that +signature allude to any matter in particular? 2nd. Who are meant by the +other letters, R.L., B.D., L.O., &c.; and who, if any persons in +particular, by Philautus; and Timothy; and who was the author of +_Hieragonisticon_. + +Perhaps "Philau_tus_" should be rather be "Philau_tos_," and may mean +"Hobbes" himself, as a self-sufficient person, and a great admirer or +lover of himself. I wish these queries may not be thought too +insignificant for your periodical, which to me, and so many others, is +of peculiar interest and value. + +GEO. WYATT (Clerk.) + +Burghwallis, 1850. + + +_Queen of Hearts._--Permit me to request some explanation of a passage +in Miss Strickland's _Life of Queen Elizabeth_ (vol. vii. p. 292.), +where we are told that-- + + "Lady Southwell affirms that the two ladies in waiting discovered + the _Queen of Hearts_, with a nail of Iron knocked through the + forehead, and thus fastened to the bottom of the chair: they durst + not pull it out, remembering that her like thing was used to the + old Countess of Sussex, and afterwards proved a witchcraft, for + which certain persons were hanged." + +The author moralises upon this, but does not refer us to any authority, +or tell where the affirmation of Lady Southwell is to be found, or where +the account of the old countess is given; defects which I hope some of +your correspondents will be good enough to supply. + +F.R.A. + + +_Guildhalls._--There are in most villages in this neighbourhood houses +which from time immemorial have been called Guildhalls. These are +situate among such small populations that they are manifestly +unconnected with trade. Will any of your correspondents tell me-- + +1st. Why are they called Guildhalls? + +2nd. For what purpose were they anciently used? {321} + +3rd. Are they common in other counties besides Suffolk? + +Also: What is the origin of the Friday Streets so common in most +villages in this neighbourhood? + +A SUBSCRIBER AB INITIO. + +Guildhall, Framlingham, Suffolk, Feb. 6. 1850. + + +_Vox Populi_--_Monody on Sir John Moore._--Can any reader give me the +origin of the saying "_Vox Populi, Vox Dei_?"--and has any one of your +correspondents ever heard of any doubts being raised as to the original +author of the _Monody upon Sir John Moore_, which is now always assigned +to the Rev. Dr. Wolfe? I saw it stated in an English paper, published in +France some few years back, that Wolfe had taken them from a poem at the +end of the _Memoirs of Lally Tottendal_, the French governor of +Pondicherry, in 1756, and subsequently executed in 1766. In the Paper I +refer to, the French poem was given; and certainly one of the two must +be a translation of the other. I have not been able to get a copy of +Tottendal's _Memoirs_, or of the Paper I refer to, or I would not +trouble you with this Query; but perhaps some one can inform me which is +the Merchant here, and which the Jew. + +QUAESITOR. + +Reg. Coll. London. + + +_Use of Coffins._--How long has it been the custom to inter the dead in +coffins? "In a table of Dutyes" dated 11th Dec. 1664, and preserved at +Shoreditch Church, it is mentioned:-- + + "For a buryall in the New Church Yard without a coffin, 00 00 08. + + "For a buryall in ye Old Church Yard without a coffin seauen pence + 00 00 07. + + "For the grave marking and attendance of ye Vicar and Clarke on + ye enterment of a corps uncoffined the churchwardens to pay the + ordinary duteys (and no more) of this table." + +H.E. + + +_Rococo._--Would any correspondent of "NOTES AND QUERIES" give the +history of this word, or indicate where it is to be found? or, if the +history is not known, state when, and by whom, it appears to have been +_first_ used? + +T. + +Oxford. + + +_Howlett the Engraver._--Can any of your readers furnish me with an +account of the "Publications of Bartholomew Howlett," who was an +engraver of some note, and about forty-five or fifty years ago resided +in London? He was a native of Louth in Lincolnshire, and about +forty-five years ago, being then resident (as appears from his book) +somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Blackfriars' Road, published by +subscription a book containing a series of engravings, entitled "Views +in Lincolnshire." + +L.L.L. + + +_The Bear, the Louse, and Religion._--I should be much obliged to any of +your correspondents who will inform me where I can find _The Bear, the +Louse, and Religion_: a fable. It commences-- + + "A surly Bear, in college bred, + Determin'd to attack Religion; + A Louse, who crawl'd from head to head, + Defended her--as Hawk does pidgeon. + Bruin Subscription discommended; + The Louse determin'd to support it--" + +I know no more. When was it written?--upon what occasion?--who are meant +by the Bear and the Louse? + +GRIFFIN. + +Mar. 5. 1850. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + +LETTER ATTRIBUTED TO SIR R. WALPOLE. + +There are many reasons, drawn from style and other internal evidence, +which induce P.C.S.S. to entertain strong doubts as to the authenticity +of the letter attributed to Sir Robert Walpole (and reprinted from +Bankes) in No. 19. Among others it seems very unlikely that a prime +minister, confidentially addressing his sovereign (and that sovereign +George II.!) on a matter of the greatest import, would indulge in a +poetical quotation. And it is remarkable that neither the quotation in +question, not any thing at all resembling it, in thought or expression, +is to be found in any part of Fenton's printed works. P.C.S.S. has +carefully looked them over, in the editions of London, 1717, and of +1810 (Chalmer's _Collection_, vol. x.), and he cannot discover a trace +of it. He had at first imagined that it might be successfully sought +for in Fenton's admirable _Epistle to William Lamborde_ (the Kentish +antiquary), where there is a remarkably fine passage respecting flattery +and its influences; but nothing at all like the quotation cited in the +letter is to be found in that poem, which (_par parenthese_) seems to +have met with much more neglect than it deserves. + +P.C.S.S. would further notice the great improbability that Walpole would +committed himself _in writing_, even to his royal master, by such a +display of perilous frankness, in treating of the private character and +principles of his great rival. He must have been aware that the letter +would, most probably, at the decease of the king (then advanced in life) +have been found among his majesty's papers, and, with them, have passed +into the hands of his successor, by whom it would undoubtedly have been +communicated to the very individual with whom it so hardly dealt. + +P.C.S.S. + + * * * * * + +COLLEGE SALTING. + +The money collected at the Eton Montem, now wisely abolished, was called +"salt." In the {322} _Consuetudinarium vetus Scholae Etonensis_, taken from +a MS. in the library of Corpus, Cambridge, and the Harleian MS. 7044, p. +167., and printed by Professor Creasy in his _Account of Eton College_, +p. 73. (from whose work I take the extract), the following passage +occurs, under the head "Mense Januario." I would remark, that Montem was +changed from January to Whit-Tuesday, about a hundred years since:-- + + "'Circiter festum Conversionis Divi Pauli ad horam nonam quodam die + pro arbitrio moderatoris' (ex consueto modo quo eunt collectum + Avellanas Mense Septembri), itur a pueris ad Montem. Mons puerili + religione Etonensium sacer locus est; hunc ob pulchritudinem agri, + amoenitatem graminis, umbraculorum temperationem, et Apollini et + Musis venerabilem sedem faciunt, carminibus celebrant, Tempe + vocant, Heliconi praeferunt. Hic Novitii seu recentes, qui annum + nondum viriliter et nervose in acie Etonensi ad verbera steterunt + _sale primo_ condiuntur, tum versiculis qui habeant _salem_ ac + leporem, quoad fieri potest egregie depinguntur. Deinde in recentes + epigrammata faciunt, omni suavitate sermonis, et facetiis alter + alterum superare contendentes. Quicquid in buccam venit libere + licet effutire, modo Latine fiat, modo habeat urbanitatem, modo + caveat obscoena verborum scurrilitate, postremo et lacrymis + _salsis_ humectant ora genasque' et tune demum veteranorum ritibus + initiantur. Sequuntur orationes et parvi triumphi, et serio + laetantur, cum ob praeteritos labores tum ob cooptationem in tam + lepidorum commilitonum societatem." + +It seems that "salting" was a sort of initiation, like that which +prevails among our Teutonic brethren, where the "Fuchs" is raised to the +sublime degree of a "Brandfuchs," "junge Bursch," "bemorstes Haupt," by +successive promotions. Not improbably in after times, especially at the +Universities, like "passing the Line," it admitted of being commuted for +a money payment. The exact nature of the "salting" at Eton I cannot +explain; perhaps your able correspondent, R.O., may afford information +on this head. + +C.R. SOC. + +_College Salting_ (no. 17. p. 261.).--I cannot but think that the asking +for salt at the now abolished ceremony of the Eton Montem (whence also, +as it is said, "Salt Hill" was named) must have been connected with the +"College Salting." The salt, or money, then collected belonged, as is +well known, to the head-boy who had "got Montem," as it (alas!) _was_ +called, and who was about to enter on his career (of course as a +freshman) at Cambridge. + +I would gladly, if permitted, draw the attention of your correspondents, +who are considering the original subject, to the latter, by placing it +in juxtaposition with "College Salting." + +G.W. + +Hamilton Terrace. + + * * * * * + +JUNIUS. + +The questions asked by your correspondent "P." (No. 18. p. 172.) +perplexed by their simplicity. The answer, if answer can be seriously +required, was obvious. All that was ever urged in favour of every other +claimant was against the claim of Sir George Jackson. Beyond this I know +not what reply could be given. Emboldened by silence, "P." now proceeds +(p. 276.) to adduce certain evidence which he supposes has some bearing +on the question. "I possess," he says, "an unpublished letter by Junius +_to_ Woodfall, which once belonged to Sir George Jackson. My query is, +'Is it likely he would have obtained it from Junius, if he were neither +Junius himself nor a party concerned?'" What can be the meaning of this, +obtain _from Junius_ a letter which Junius had sent to Woodfall? Why, it +is obvious that Sir George must have obtained it as "P." obtained it--as +all autograph collectors obtain their treasures--directly or indirectly, +by gift or by purchase, mediately or immediately from one of the +Woodfalls--probably from Henry Sampson Woodfall--probably from George +Woodfall, who has recorded the fact that he lent one letter to a Mr. +Duppa, which was never returned. "P." then proceeds a step further, and +observes--"The manner in which Burke evades the question, as to himself +being the author of Junius, makes me think two or three were concerned +in these letters." Well, and it made others think so half a century or +more since. The three Burkes have often been named--the Burkes again, +with the assistance of Samuel Dyer: and Mr. Prior put forth a very +reputable argument in favour of the claims of the Burkes, but it was +delicate and died young. If your correspondent has nothing to urge in +favour of this conjecture, why disinter it? "P.," however, has it +in his power to do some service to the cause: let him send you, for +publication, an exact copy of the Junius' letter, following carefully +the spelling, the capital letters, the instructions, and even the +punctuation. + +Mr. John Sudlow's conjectures are still more simple. He evidently is not +aware that when a public writer assumes a character he is bound to hold +to it consistently; and that as "ATTICUS" was then writing on the +subject of the national debt, and objecting to the financial policy of +the minister, he naturally affected to be a fundholder, to be +frightened, and to have, in consequence, removed his property. What a +strange notion Mr. Sudlow must have of Steele and Addison, if he has +read the _The Spectator_ and _The Tatler_ after this literal fashion. +But I will not speculate on his speculations, but come to facts. + +It is true that "amongst the letters attributed to Junius, and, in the +opinion of Dr. Good, most certainly his production, is one signed +Atticus," {323} which your correspondent proceeds to quote, adding that +it is "believed to be the first which appeared signed Atticus." This is +really a little "too bad." It is known, and ought to have been known to +your correspondent before he intermeddled, that Good, though he wrote +so confidently in public, had "most certainly" very great doubts in +private; that others who have examined the question have no doubt at +all; and have, indeed, adduced such strong proofs against Good's +conjectures, that the gentleman now engaged in producing a new edition +of Good's work speaks, in the first volume, the only one yet published, +of Good's "unhesitating affiliation" of these letters, and announces his +intention of offering hereafter "strong proof" that the letters signed +Poplicola, _Atticus_, and others, "_were not written by Junius_." That +there may be persons who _believe_ that the letter quoted was the first +which appeared signed Atticus, I cannot deny; but all who are reasonably +informed on the subject _know_ that it is not so;--know, as stated not +long since in the _Athenaeum_, that letters signed Atticus appeared +in the _Public Advertizer_ from 1766 to 1773--possibly before and +after--and that within that period there were at least thirty-seven +letters published, from which Good was pleased to select four. + +W. + + * * * * * + +WHITE HART INN, SCOLE. + +Having an engraving of this sign, I am enabled satisfactorily to reply +to Mr. Cooper's query (No. 16. p. 245.) respecting its existence. The +engraving measures 17 inches and a half long, by 22 wide; it was +"Published according to Act of Parliament May the 1st 1740." In the +right-hand bottom corner appears "Jno Fessey Sculp.," and in the left +"Joshua Kirby Delin't." It is entitled, "The North East Side of ye Sign +of ye White Hart at Schoale Inn in Norfolk, built in the year 1655 by +James Peck, a Merchant of Norwich, which cost 1057l., humbly Dedicated +to James Betts Gent by his most Obed't Serv't Harwin Martin." The sign +springs on one side from a mass of masonry, and was joined to the house +on the other: it was sufficiently high to enable carriages to drive +under it. As it would trespass too much on your columns were I to +particularise each of the figures, I will content myself with giving +the printed explanation of them from the engraving, premising that each +figure is numbered:--"1. Jonah coming out of the Fishes Mouth. 2. A +Lion supporting the Arms of Great Yarmouth. 3. A Bacchus. 4. The Arms of +Lindley. 5. The Arms of Hobart, now Lord Hobart. 6. A Shepherd playing +on his Pipe. 7. An Angel supporting the Arms of Mr. Peck's Lady. +8. An Angel supporting the Arms of Mr. Peck. 9. A White Hart, with +this Motto (this is the one which 'hangs down carved in a stately +wreath')--'Implentur veteris Bacchi pinguisque ferinae Anno Dom 1655.' +10. The Arms of the late Earl of Yarmouth. 11. The Arms of the Duke of +Norfolk. 12. Neptune on a Dolphin. 13. A Lion supporting the Arms of +Norwich. 14. Charon carrying a reputed Witch to Hell. 15. Cerberus. 16. +An Huntsman. 17. Actaeon [with three dogs, and this legend, 'Actaeon ego +sum Dominum cognoscite vestrum']. 18. A White Hart couchant [underneath +appears in the engraving the artist's name--Johannes Fairchild struxit]. +19. Prudence. 20. Fortitude. 21. Temperance. 22. Justice. 23. Diana +[with two greyhounds, one of whom is chasing a hare]. 24. Time devouring +an Infant [with the legend, 'Tempus edax rerum,' below]. 25. An +Astronomer, who is seated on a Circumferenter, and by some Chymical +Preparation is so Affected that in the fine Weather he faces that +Quarter from whence it is about to come." The whole sign is drawn by a +scale of half an inch to a food, and most of the figures are of the size +of life. On both sides of the engraving, but distinct from the sign, are +seven coats of arms. Those on the right hand are: 1. Earl of Yarmouth. +2. Cornwallis impaling 1st and 4th Buckton, 2nd Unknown, 3rd Teye. 3. +Castleton. 4. Unknown. 5. Mrs. Peck [these arms are wrongly blazoned by +Blomefield; they are _gules_ a fesse _argent_, between, in chief, two +crescents, and in base, a lion _passant guardant_ of the same]. 6. Great +Yarmouth. 7. Unknown. The arms on the opposite side are: 1. Duke of +Norfolk. 2. Hobart. 3. Bacon. 4. Thurston. 5. Mr. Peck impaling his wife +[his arms, too, are wrongly blazoned; they should be--Or, on a chevron +engrailed gules three crosslets pattee argent]. 6. Lindley. 7. Norwich. + +Mr. Cooper will find a slight notice of this sign, both in Gough's +_Camden_ and in _The Beauties of England and Wales_; but both these are +of later date than Mr. Cruttwell's _Tour_. I have only to add, that I +should wish Mr. Cooper to _see_ the engraving. I shall be very happy to +send it by post for his inspection. + +CRANMORE. + + * * * * * + +_Parkership, Porkership, Pokership._--With every deference to the +ingenious suggestions of Mr. Bolton Corney (No. 15. p. 218.), I think it +will be found, on reference to the original documents, that "Pokership" +is a misreading of the ancient writing for "Parkership." This question +might be determined if any correspondent, acquainted with the present +excellent arrangement of our records, could inform us whether the +appointments under the old Earldom of March are extant. A large portion +of Herefordshire was held under his tenure. Thomas Croft, of Croft, was, +in 1473, "Parker" of Pembrugge, in that county: _Rot. Parl_. vi. 342. In +1485 John Amyas {324} was, by the act of settlement made on the accession +of Henry VII., continued in his office "of the kepyng of our chase of +Moketree in Wigmoresland under the Erledom of Marche," and Thomas Grove +"in the keepying of our chase of the Boryngwood in Wigmoresland and of +the 'Poulterership' and keping of the ditch of the same." + +In _An Abstract of the late King's Revenues_ (printed 1651, 4to.) is +this entry relating to Bringwood:-- + + "To Sir Robert Harley for keeping Boringwood alias Bringwood Forest + Com. Heref. 6l. 2s. 8d. per ann., for the Pokership 30s. 5d. by the + year, and for the keeping the forest of Prestwood 18s. by the + year." + +In a survey made of mocktree and Bringwood Forests in 1633, it is +stated, that "these Forests are stately grounds, and do feed a great and +large Deer, and will keep of Red and Fallow Deer two or three thousand +at the least." + +These enclosures were disafforested temp. Charles II., and they now form +part of the Downton Castle Estate. + +W.H.C. + +Temple. + + +_Porkership_-Accept my best thanks for your ready insertion of my +observations in No. 18.; but I regret to say that the printer has +unfortunately made a mistake in one word, and that, as it mostly +happens, the principal one, on which the gist of my illustration in +regard to the Pokership depends. The error occurs in the extract from +the Pipe Roll, where the word has been printed Parcario instead of +Porcario; added to which the abbreviations in the other words are +wanting, which renders the meaning doubtful. It should have been printed +thus:--"Et [i+] li[b+]ae const Porcario de [h+]eford,"--being, _in +extenso_, "Et in liberatione constat Porcario de Hereford." Showing that +in early times there was a hog warden, or person who collected the +king's hog-rent in Hereford. And further, Mr. Smirke's extract in No. +17. p. 269., shows that in Henry VIII.'s time the Porcarius had become +Pocarius, the fee being within 1d. of the same amount as that paid in +John's reign. + +May I, under these circumstances, crave a short note in your next +Number, correcting the oversight, so that my Porker may be set on his +legs again? + +P.S.--In reference to the claim, the name of the place should be +Burnford, not Barnford. + +T.R.F. + +Spring Gardens, March 4, 1850. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Coleridge's Christabel and Byron's Lara_ (No. 17. p. 262.).--What +Christabel saw is plain enough. The lady was a being like Duessa, a +Spenser; a horrible-looking witch, who could, to a certain degree, put +on an appearance of beauty. The difference is, that this lady had both +forms at once; the one in her face, the other concealed. This is quite +plain from the very words of Coleridge. + +The lifting her over the sill seems to be something like the same +superstition that we have in Scott's _Eve of St. John_:-- + + "But I had not had pow'r to come to thy bow'r, + If Though had'st not charm'd me so." + +I have no doubt that Lara is the Corsair; and Kaled Gulnare, from the +Corsair: the least inspection is enough to show this. Ezzelin must also +be Seyd; but that does not answer quite so well. All that there is to +prepare it is, that Seyd is only left for dead, in a great hurry, and +therefore might recover; and that he drank wine, and therefore might be +of Christian extraction. In Lara he is described as dark; but his +appearance is rather confusedly related, as if he never appeared but +once, and yet Otho knows him, and he has a dwelling. The shriek is more +difficult. There could be no meeting, then, between Ezzelin and Lara, +because Ezzelin is surprised by meeting him at Otho's. Whether the +shriek may not be owing to a meeting between Kaled and Ezzelin, is in +not so clear. From the splendid description of her looking down upon +him, it is not proved that she there saw him first; and Ezzelin never +sees her at all there. + +Nothing is more interesting than these mysteries left in narrative +fictions. The story of Gertude, in that first of romances, the _Promessi +Sposi_, is a very great instance; and the bad taste, of bringing her up +again to the subject of a story by another writer, is so extreme, that I +never could look into the book. That Mazoni has left the character, whom +he calls the _Innominato_, in mystery, is historical, and not of his own +contrivance. + +I used to think that Scott had left the part of Clara, in _St. Ronan's +Well_, intentionally mysterious, as to a most important circumstance; +but we learn, from his _Life_, that he meant to have made that +circumstance a part of the story, but was prevented by the publisher. It +is natural that the altered novel, therefore, should retain some +impressions of it. I refer particularly to the latter part of the +communications between her and her brother. But the meeting between her +and Tyrell in the woods, and their conversation there, I now think, +forbid the reader to suspect any thing like what I speak of. In such +cases I do not myself wish to know too much about the matter. Sometimes +the author wishes you to have the pleasure of guessing, as I think, in +Lara; sometimes he means to be more mysterious; sometimes he does not +know himself. It would have been idle to have asked Johnson where Ajeet +went to. + +C.B. {325} + + +_Sir William Rider_ (No. 12. p. 186).--"H.F." will find some account of +the acts and deeds of Sir Thomas Lake and Dame Mary Lake his wife in the +_13th Report on Charities_, p. 280, as to their gifts to Muccleston in +Staffordshire. In the _24th Report_, p. 300, as to Drayton in the same +county. Dame Mary Lake was also a benefactor to the parish of Little +Stanmore, see _9th Report_, p. 271. See also Stow's _Survey_ 593. (ed. +1633.) + +H.E. + + +_God tempers the Wind_ (No. 14. p. 211.; No. 15. p 236.).--The proverb +is French: "A brebis tondue Dieu mesure le vent;" but I cannot tell now +where to find it in print, except in Chambaud's _Dictionary_. That is +why Sterne puts it into the mouth of Maria. + +C.B. + + +_Complutensian Polyglot._--"Mr. JEBB" asks (No. 14. p. 213.), "In what +review or periodical did there appear a notice of the supposed discovery +of the MSS. from which the _Complutensian Polyglot_ was compiled?" + +He will find an article on this subject in the _Irish Ecclesiastical +Journal_ for April, 1847; from which I learn that there was a previous +article, by Dr. James Thomson, one of the agents of the British and +Foreign Bible Society, in the _Biblical Review_, a London periodical +publication. Dr. Thomson, if I understand the matter aright, professed +to have found at Madrid the MSS., so long supposed to have been lost. + +There is also an article on the same subject by Dr. Bowring, in the +_Monthly Repository_, vol. xvi. (1821), p. 203. + + +_Tickhill, God help me_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--Of Tickhill I know nothing; +but Melverley in this county goes by the soubriquet of "Melverley, God +help;" and the folk-lore on the subject is this:--Melverley lies by +Severn side, where that river flows under the Breiddon hills from the +county of Montgomery into that of Salop. It is frequently inundated in +winter, and, consequently, very productive in summer. They say that if a +Melverley man is asked in winter where he belongs, the doleful and +downcast reply is, "Melverley, God help me;" but asked the same question +in summer, he answers quite jauntily, "Melverley, and what do you +think?" A friend informs me that the same story appertains to Pershore +in the vale of Evesham. Perhaps the analogy may assist Mr. Johnson in +respect to Tickhill. + +Let me take this opportunity to add to my flim-flam on pet-names in your +late Number, that Jack appears to have been a common term to designate a +low person, as "every Jack;" "every man-jack;" "Jack-of-all-trades?" +"Jackanapes;" &c. + +B.H. KENNEDY. + +Shrewsbury, Feb. 18. + + +_Bishop Blaise_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--Four lives of the martyr Blasius, +Bishop of Sebaste in Cappadocia, are to be found in the Bollandine _Acta +Sanctorum_, under the 3rd of February. It appears that the relics and +worship of this saint were very widely spread through Europe, and some +places seem to have claimed him as indigenous on the strength merely of +possessing one of his toes or teeth. The wool-comb was one of the +instruments with which he was tortured, and having become a symbol of +his martyrdom, gave occasion, it would seem, to the wool-combers to +claim him as their patron, and to ascribe to him the invention of their +art. See Ellis's Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, vol. i. pp. 29, 30; and +query whether the veneration of St. Blaise by these artizans were not +peculiar to England. Blasius of Sebaste is said to have been a +physician; in consequence of the persecution raised by Diocletian, he +retired to a mountain named Argaeus, whither all the wild beasts of the +country resorted to him, and reverentially attended him. But there is a +legend of another Blasius of Caesarea in Cappadocia, who is represented +as an owner of herds ([Greek: boukolos]), and remarkable for his charity +to the poor. His herdsman's staff was planted over the spot where he was +martyred, and grew into an umbrageous tree. + +This variation of legends favours the idea that the cultus of Blasius +was founded upon that of some deity worshipped in Cappadocia, whose +rites and attributes may have varied in different localities. + +C.W.G. + + +_Sangred--Judas Bell._--"BURIENSIS" inquires (p. 124.) what _sangred_ +is. This term is noticed in Rock's _Church of Our Fathers_, t. ii. p. +372. In the very interesting, "Extracts from Church-warden's Accounts," +p. 195., it is asked what "Judas' bell" was. I presume it to have been a +bell named after, because blessed in honour of the apostle St. Jude, +who, in the Greek Testament, in the Vulgate, and our own early English +translations, as well as old calendars, is always called Judas, and not +Jude, as a difference from Judas Iscariot. + +CEPHAS. + + +_La Mer des Histoires._--"MR. SANSOM" (No. 18. p. 286.) has inquired, +What is known of Columna's book, entitled _Mare Historiarum_? Trithemius +has made mention of the work (_De Script. Eccles_. DL.), and two +manuscript copies of it are preserved in the Royal Library at Paris. (B. +de Montfaucon, _Biblioth. Bibliothecar. MSS._ tom ii. p. 751. Par. +1739.) Douce very properly distinguished it from _La Mer des Histoires_; +but, if he wrote "Mochartus," he was in error; for _Brochart_ was the +author of the Latin original, called _Rudimentum Novitiorum_, and +published in 1475. As to the statement of Genebrard, that Joannes de +Columna was the writer of the "_Mater_ Historiarum," I should say that +the mistake was produced by confounding the words _Mer_ and _Mere_. Mr. +Sansom may find all the information {326} that need be desired on this +subject in Quetif et Echard, _Scriptores Ord. Praed._ tom. i. pp. 418-20. +Lut. Paris, 1719. (Vid. etiam Amb. de Altamura, _Biblioth. Dominican_. +p. 45. Romae, 1677; Fabricii, _Bibl. Med. et Inf. Latin._ i. 1133. Hamb. +1734.) + +R.G. + + +"What are _depenings_?" (No. 18. p. 277.) + +The nets used by the Yarmouth herring busses were made in breadths of +six feet. The necessary _depth_ was obtained by sewing together +successive breadths, and each breadth was therefore called a +_deepening_.[4] + +ED. + +[Footnote 4: From a pamphlet written about 1615, not now before us. ED.] + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Tale of a Tub._--It is generally supposed that the title of Swift's +_Tale of a Tub_ was a jest originally levelled at the Puritan pulpit. It +probably had served a more ancient purpose. In Bale's _Comedye +concerning Three Laws_, compiled in 1538, Infidelitas says: + + "Ye say they follow your law, + And vary not a shaw, + Which is a tale of a tub." + +J.O.W.H. + + * * * * * + +A GENIUS. + +(_From the German of Claudius_.) + + "Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day, + "What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?" + "No, I don't," said the Ass; "nor I don't care, not I." + "Why, they say you're a GENIUS," was Reynard's reply. + "My stars!" muttered Jack, quite appall'd by the word, + "What can I have done that's so very absurd?" + + * * * * * + +_Dedications_ (No. 17. p. 259.).--In Villaneuva's Dedication to the Duke +of Medinaceli of his _Origen Epocas y Progressos del Teatro Espanol_ +(Madrid, 1802, sm. 4to.), the enumeration of the names, titles, and +offices of his patron occupies three entire pages, and five lines of a +fourth. + +F.C.B. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +The Percy Society have just issued a reprint of a black letter tract, +entitled "A manifest Detection of the most Vyle and Detestable Use of +Dice Play," which exhibits a curious picture of the tricks in vogue +amongst the gamesters of the sixteenth century, and, as the Editor very +justly observes, "comprises fuller explanations of terms used by +Shakspeare and other old dramatists than are to be found in the notes of +the commentators. The mysteries of _gowrds_ and _fullams_, _high men_ +and _low men_, stumbling-blocks to many intelligent readers of the works +of the Stratford Poet, are here satisfactorily revealed." + +Whatever hope the projectors of the approaching _Exhibition of Works of +Ancient and Mediaeval Art_ entertained of forming such a collection of +objects as might deserve the attention of the public generally, and +accomplish the great end in view, have been more than realised. Thanks +to the liberality with which the possessors of works of early art of +this description, from the most distinguished personages of the realm, +have placed their stores at the disposal of the committee, the very +novel exhibition which will open to the public on Thursday next, will be +as remarkable for its intrinsic beauty, as for its instructive and +suggestive character. + +We need scarcely remind lovers of fine editions of first class books +that Messrs. 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