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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 187, May 28, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: January 21, 2007 [EBook #20410] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +{517} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 187.] +Saturday, May 28, 1853. +[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + On Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian 517 + The Rebellion of '45: unpublished Letter 519 + Oliver St. John, by James Crossley 520 + Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. + W. R. Arrowsmith 520 + FOLK LORE:--Weather Rules--Drills presaging Death + --Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day 522 + A Note on Gulliver's Travels, by C. Forbes 522 + Shakspeare Correspondence 523 + The Coenaculum of Lionardo da Vinci, by E. Smirke 524 + MINOR NOTES:--Scotter Register (County Lincoln)-- + "All my Eye:" "Over the Left"--Curious Marriages + --Child-mother 525 + + QUERIES:-- + Further Queries respecting Bishop Ken 526 + The Rev. John Larson and his Mathematical Manuscripts, + by T. T. Wilkinson 526 + MINOR QUERIES:--"Wanderings of Memory"-- + "Wandering Willie's Tale"--Chapel Sunday--Proud + Salopians--George Miller, D.D.--Members of Parliament + --Taret--Jeroboam of Claret, &c.--William Williams + of Geneva--The First of April and "The Cap + awry"--Sir G. Browne, Bart.--Bishop Butler--Oaken + Tombs--Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth--"Pugna + Porcorum"--Parviso--Mr. Justice Newton--Mufti + --Ryming and Cuculling--Custom at the Savoy + Church 527 + MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Faithful Teate-- + Kelway Family--Regatta--Coket and Cler-mantyn 529 + + REPLIES:-- + Curfew 530 + The "Salt-Peter-Man," by C. H. Cooper 530 + Forms of Judicial Oaths, by John Thrupp, &c. 532 + PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Washing Collodion + Pictures--Test for Lenses--Improvement in + Positives--Cheap Portable Tent--Rev. Mr. Sisson's + New Developing Fluid 533 + REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Vanes--Loselerius + Villerius--Westminster Parishes--Hevristic--Creole + --General Monk and the University of Cambridge-- + Ecclesia Anglicana--Gibbon's Library--Golden Bees + --Passage in Orosius--Names first given to Parishes + --Grafts and the Parent Tree--Lord Cliff and Howell's + Letters--The Bouillon Bible--Rhymes on Places-- + Serpents' Tongues--Consecrated Roses, &c. 534 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, &c. 537 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 538 + Notices to Correspondents 538 + Advertisements 538 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +ON CHAUCER'S KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN. + +In the Memoir prefixed to the Aldine edition of the _Poetical Works of +Chaucer_, London, 1845, Sir Harris Nicolas expresses an opinion that Dan +Geoffrey was not acquainted with the Italian language, and therefore not +versed in Italian literature. + + "Though Chaucer undoubtedly knew Latin and French, it is by no means + certain, notwithstanding his supposed obligations to the Decameron, + that he was as well acquainted with Italian. There may have been a + common Latin original of the main incidents of many, if not of all the + tales, for which Chaucer is supposed to have been wholly indebted to + Boccaccio, and from which originals Boccaccio himself may have taken + them. That Chaucer was not acquainted with Italian may be inferred from + his not having introduced any Italian quotation into his works, + redundant as they are with Latin and French words and phrases."--_Life + of Chaucer_, pp. 24, 25. + +To which the following note is subjoined: + + "Though Chaucer's writings have not been examined for the purpose, the + remark in the text is not made altogether from recollection, for at the + end of Speght's edition of Chaucer's _Works_, translations are given of + the Latin and French words in the poems, but not a single Italian word + is mentioned." + +If Sir Harris Nicolas had examined the writings of Chaucer with any care, +he would scarcely have formed or expressed so strange an opinion, for he +must necessarily have discovered that Chaucer was not only well acquainted +with the language, but thoroughly well versed in Italian literature, and +that he paraphrased and translated freely from the works of Dante, +Petrarca, and Boccaccio. Chaucer would naturally quote Latin and French, as +being familiar to his cotemporaries, and would abstain from introducing +Italian, as a knowledge of that language must have been confined to a few +individuals in his day; and he wrote for the many, and not for the +minority. + +The circumstances of Chaucer's life, his missions to Italy, during which he +resided several months in that country, when sent on the king's business to +Genoa, and Florence, and Lombardy, afforded {518} him ample opportunities +of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the language and literature of +Italy; the acquisition of which must have been of easy accomplishment to +Chaucer, already familiar with Latin and French. So that it is not +necessary to endow Chaucer "with all human attainments as proof of his +having spoken Italian." + +Chaucer's own writings, however, afford the strongest evidence against the +opinion entertained by Sir Harris Nicolas, and such evidence as cannot be +controverted. + +Chaucer loves to refer to Dante, and often translates passages from the +_Divine Comedy_. The following lines are very closely rendered from the +_Paradiso_, xiv. 28.:-- + + "Thou one, two, and thre, eterne on live, + That raignest aie in thre, two, and one, + Uncircumscript, and all maist circumscrive." + Last stanza of _Troilus and Creseide_. + + "_Quell' uno e due e tre che sempre vive,_ + _E regna sempre in tre e due ed uno_, + _Non circonscritto, e tutto circonscrive._" + Dante, _Il Paradiso_, xiv. 28. + + "Wel can _the wise poet of Florence_, + That highte _Dant_, speken of this sentence: + Lo, in swiche maner rime is _Dantes_ tale. + _Ful selde up riseth by his branches smale_ + _Prowesse of man, for God of his goodnesse_ + _Wol that we claime of him our gentillesse._" + _Wif of Bathes Tale_, 6707. + + "_Rade volte risurge per li rami_ + _L' umana probita: e questo vuole_ + _Quei che la da, perche da lui si chiami._" + _Purgatorio_, vii. 121. + +After relating the dread story of the Conte Ugolino, Chaucer refers to +Dante, from whom perhaps he derived it. (Conf. _Inferno_, xxxiii.) + + "Who so wol here it in a longer wise, + Redeth the grete poete of Itaille, + That highte _Dante_, for he can it devise + Fro point to point, not o word wol he faille." + _The Monkes Tale_, 14,769. + + "Bet than Vergile, while he was on live, + Or _Dant_ also."--_The Freres Tale_, 7101. + +The following lines refer to the _Inferno_, xiii. 64.: + + "Envie is lavender of the court alway, + For she ne parteth neither night ne day, + Out of the house of Cesar, thus saith _Dant_." + Prologue to the _Legend of Good Women_, 359. + +"_Dant_ that it tellen can" is mentioned in the _House of Fame_, book i.; +and Chaucer is indebted to him for some lines in that fine poem, as in the +description of the "egle, that with feathers shone all of gold" = _un' +aquila nel ciel con penne d'oro_; and the following line: + + "O thought, that wrote all that I met." + _House of Fame_, ii. 18. + + "_O mente, che scrivesti cio ch' io vidi._" + _Inferno_, ii. 8. + +The _Knightes Tale_ exhibits numerous passages, lines, and expressions +verbally translated from the _Teseide_ of Boccaccio, upon which it is +founded; such as _Idio armipotente_ = Mars armipotent; _Eterno admante_ = +Athamant eterne; _Paura palida_ = pale drede; _Le ire rosse come focho_ = +the cruel ire red as any glede. Boccaccio describes the wood in which "Mars +hath his sovereine mansion" as-- + + "_Una selva sterile de robusti_ + _Cerri,_ + _Nodosi aspri e rigidi e vetusti._ + _Vi si sentia grandissimo romore,_ + _Ne vera bestia anchora ne pastore._" + _Teseide_, book vii. + +There is a purposed grisly ruggedness in the corresponding passage of the +_Knightes Tale_, which heightens the horrors of "thilke colde and frosty +region:" + + "First on the wall was peinted _a forest,_ + _In which ther wonneth neyther man ne best,_ + _With knotty knarry barrein trees old_ + _Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold_; + In which ther ran _a romble and a swough_, + As though a storme shuld bresten every bough." + _The Knightes Tale_, 1977. + +The death of Arcite is thus related by Boccaccio: + + "La morte in ciascun membro era venuta + Da piedi in su, venendo verso il petto, + Ed ancor nelle braccia era perduta + La vital forza; sol nello intelletto + E nel cuore era ancora sostenuta + La poca vita, ma gia si ristretto + Eragli 'l tristo cor del mortal gelo + Che agli occhi fe' subitamente velo. + + "Ma po' ch' egli ebbe perduto il vedere, + Con seco comincio a mormorare, + Ognor mancando piu del suo podere: + Ne troppo fece in cio lungo durare; + Ma il mormorare trasportato in vere + Parole, con assai basso parlare + Addio Emilia; e piu oltre non disse, + Che l' anima convenne si partisse." + _Teseide_, book x. 112. + +Chaucer loses nothing of this description in his condensed translation: + + "For from his feet up to his brest was come + The cold of deth, that had him overnome. + And yet moreover in his armes two + The vital strength is lost, and all ago. + Only the intellect, withouten more, + That dwelled in his herte sike and sore, + Gan feillen, when the herte felte deth; + Dusked his eyen two, and failled his breth. + But on his ladie yet cast he his eye; + His laste word was; Mercy, Emelie!" + _The Knightes Tale_, 2301. + +_Troilus and Creseide_ seems to have been translated from the _Filostrato_ +of Boccaccio, when {519} Chaucer was a young man, as we are informed by Dan +John Lydgate in the Prologue to his Translation of Boccaccio's _Fall of +Princes_, where he speaks of his "Maister Chaucer" as the "chefe poete of +Bretayne," and tells us that-- + + "_In youthe he made a translacion_ + Of a boke which called is Trophe, + In Lumbard tongue, as men may rede and se, + _And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde_ + Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde." + +Chaucer's translation is sometimes very close, sometimes rather free and +paraphrastic, as may be seen in the following examples: + + "But right as floures through the cold of night + Yclosed, stoupen in hir stalkes lowe, + Redressen hem ayen the Sunne bright, + And spreaden in hir kinde course by rowe." + _Troilus and Creseide_, b. ii. + + "_Come fioretto dal notturno gelo_ + _Chinato e chiuso, poi che il Sol l' imbianca,_ + _S'apre, e si leva dritto sopra il stelo._" + Boccaccio, _Il Filostrato_, iii. st. 13. + + "She was right soche to sene in her visage + As is that wight that men on bere ybinde." + _Troilus and Creseide_, b. iv. + + "_Essa era tale, a guardarla nel viso,_ + _Qual donna morta alla fossa portata._" + _Il Filostrato_, v. st. 83. + + "As fresh as faucon coming out of mew." + _Troilus and Creseide_, b. iii. + + "_Come falcon ch' uscisse dal cappello._" + _Il Filostrato_, iv. st. 83. + +"The Song of Troilus," in the first book of _Troilus and Creseide_, is a +paraphrase from one of the Sonnets of Petrarca: + + "_S' Amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' i' sento?_ + _Ma s' egli e Amor, per Dio che cosa, e quale?_ + _Se buona, ond' e l' effetto aspro mortale?_" + Petrarca, _Rime in Vita di Laura_, Son. cii. + + "If no love is, O God, what feele I so? + And if love is, what thing and which is he? + If love be good, from whence cometh my wo?" + _Troilus and Creseide_, b. i. + +Chaucer evidently had the following lines of the _Paradiso_ in view when +writing the invocation to the Virgin in _The Second Nonnes Tale_: + + "Vergine Madre, figlia del tuo Figlio, + Umile e alta piu che creatura, + Termine fisso d' eterno consiglio, + Tu se' colei, che l' umana Natura, + _Nobilitasti_ si, che il suo Fattore + Non disdegno di farsi sua fattura." + _Paradiso_, xxxiii, I. + + "Thou maide and mother, doughter of thy Son, + Thou well of mercy, sinful soules cure, + In whom that God of bountee chees to won; + Thou humble and high over every creature, + Thou _nobledest_ so fer forth our nature, + That no desdaine the maker had of kinde + His Son in blood and flesh to clothe and winde." + _The Second Nonnes Tale_, 15,504. + +Traces of Chaucer's proficiency in Italian are discoverable in almost all +his poems; but I shall conclude with two citations from _The Assembly of +Foules_: + + "The day gan failen, and the darke night, + That reveth beastes from hir businesse, + Berafte me my booke for lacke of light." + _The Assembly of Foules_, I. 85. + + "_Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aer bruno_ + _Toglieva gli animai che sono in terra_ + _Dalle fatiche loro._"--_Inf._ ii. 1. + + "With that my hand in his he toke anon, + Of which I comfort caught, and went in fast." + _The Assembly of Foules_, I. 169. + + "_E poiche la sua mano alla mia pose_ + _Con lieto volto, ond' io mi confortai._" + _Inf._ iii. 19. + +By the way, Chaucer commences _The Assembly of Foules_ with part of the +first aphorism of Hippocrates, "[Greek: Ho bios brachus he de techne +makre]" (but this, I suppose, had been noticed before): + + "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne." + +Chaucer was forty years old, or upwards, in 1372, when he was sent as an +envoy to treat with the duke, citizens, and merchants of Genoa; and if, as +is probable, he had translated _Troilus and Creseide_ out of the "Lombarde +tonge" in his youth (according to the testimony of Lydgate), it is not +unreasonable to infer that his knowledge of Italian may have led to his +being chosen to fill that office. But, however this may be, abundant proof +has been adduced that Chaucer was familiarly acquainted with Italian. + +I may briefly remark, in conclusion, that the dates and other circumstances +favour the supposed interview at Padua, between Fraunceis Petrark the +laureate poet, and Dan Chaucer, + + "Floure of poets throughout all Bretaine." + +J. M. B. + +Tunbridge Wells. + + * * * * * + + +THE REBELLION OF '45.--UNPUBLISHED LETTER. + +Inverness, 16th Aprile, 1746. + +Dear Sirs, + +This day about twelve our army came up with the rebels, about a mile above +Lord President's house, in a muir called Drumrossie. They began the +engagement first, by firing from a battery of six guns they had erected +upon their right; but our cannon played so hott upon them, that they were +obliged soon to fly, by which means we gote possession of their artillery, +and so drove them before us for three miles of way. The cavalry gave them +closs chase to the town of Inverness: {520} upon which the French +ambassador (who is not well) sent out an officer, and a drum with him, +offering to surrender at discretion; to which the duke made answer, that +the French officers should be allowed to go about on their parole, and +nothing taken from them. Brigadier Stapleton is among them, and God knows +how many more officers; for we have not gote home to count them yet. Its +thought the rebels have between four and five hundred killed, and as many +taken prisoners already: many more we expect this night, parties having +been sent out after them. Lord Kilmarnock I saw prisoner, and Major +Stewart, with many more. Secretary Murray is very bad: a party is just now +sent for him, intelligence being brought where he is. I don't think we have +lost thirty men, and not above five officers killed, amongst which are Lord +Robert Ker, Captain Grosset: the rest their names I have forgote. We are +now in full possession of this place. Some say the Pretender was in the +battle, and wounded; but others say he was not. Such of them as are left +are gone to Fort Augustus. The duke, God be praised, is in good health, and +all the generalls. His Royal Highness behaved as if he had been inspired, +riding up and down giveing orders himself. + + I am, Gentlemen, + Your most obedt. servant, + DAVID BRUCE. + +After writing y^e above, y^e lists of y^e killed and wounded are as +follows, so far as is yet known:-- + + We have of y^e prisoners 700 + Killed and wounded on y^e field 1800 + +Of y^e duke's army:-- + + Killed, wounded, and amissing 220 + + * * * * * + +Gentlemen, + +I hope you'l pardon y^e confusedness of y^e foregoing line, as I have been +in y^e utmost confusion since I came here. 'Tis said, but not quite +certain, y^t y^e following rebells are killed, viz.:--Lochiel, Capuch +(Keppach), Lord Nairn, Lord Lewis Drummond, D. of Perth, Glengarry, &c. The +French have all surrendered prisoners of war. + +DAVID BRUCE. + + Addressed to + The Governors of + The Town of Aberdeen. + +X. Y. Z. + + * * * * * + + +OLIVER ST. JOHN. + +In giving the lives of the Commonwealth chief justices, Lord Campbell +observes (_Lives of Chief Justices_, vol. i. p. 447.), "in completing the +list with the name of Oliver St. John, I am well pleased with an +opportunity of tracing his career and pourtraying his character." Then +follows a biography of thirty pages. The subject seems to be a favourite +one with his lordship, and he accordingly produces a striking picture, +laying on his colours in the approved historical style of the day, so as to +make the painting an effective one, whether the resemblance be faithful or +not. But how is it that the noble biographer appears to be quite unaware of +what really is the only document we have relating to Oliver St. John of his +own composition, which does give us much light as to his career or +character? I refer to _The Case of Oliver St. John, Esq, concerning his +Actions during the late Troubles_, pp. 14., 4to., n.d. It is a privately +printed tract, emanating from St. John himself, and was no doubt circulated +amongst persons in power at the Restoration, with a view to obtaining +indemnity and pardon. My copy is signed by himself, and has some +corrections in his autograph. His Defence is full of interesting +particulars, some of which are very inconsistent with Lord Campbell's +speculations and statements. It would, however, occupy too much of your +space were I to go through the various articles objected to by him, and to +which he gives his replies and explanations. My object in noticing this +tract at present, is to prevent any future biographer of this Commonwealth +worthy, whose life may well be an historical study, from neglecting an +important source of information. I observe Lord Campbell (p. 473.) doubts +whether he favoured the measure of making Cromwell king. But if we are to +believe the title-page of _Monarchy asserted_, 1660, 12mo., he was one of +the speakers at the conference with Cromwell on the 11th April, 1657, in +favour of his assuming the title of king. On the list of the committee +which follows, the "Lord Chief Justice" only is mentioned, but in the +speeches a difference seems to be made between "Lord Chief Justice" (pp. 6. +7. 15.) and "Lord Chief Justice Glynne" (p. 44.), and they would seem to be +two different speakers. The title-page states distinctly, "the arguments of +Oliver St. John, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Chief Justice Glyn, &c., members +of that committee." + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES ON SEVERAL MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS. + +(_Continued from_ p. 402.) + +_No did, no will, no had, &c._-- + + "_K. John._ . . . I had a mighty cause + To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him. + + _Hubert._ _No had_ (my Lord), why, did you not provoke me?" + _King John_, Act IV. Sc. 2. + +So the first folio edition of Shakspeare. A palpable error, as the +commentators of the present would pleasantly observe, and all the world +would echo the opinion; but here, as in most other {521} instances, +commentators and all the world may be wrong, and the folios right. The +passage has accordingly been corrupted by the editors of Shakspeare into +what was more familiar to their modern ears: "Had none, my Lord!" Though +the mode of speech be very common, yet, to deprive future editors of all +excuse for ever again depraving the genuine text of our national Bible, I +shall make no apology for accumulating a string of examples: + + "_Fort._ Oh, had I such a hat, then were I brave! + Where's he that made it? + + _Sol._ Dead: and the whole world + Yields not a workman that can frame the like. + + _Fort._ _No does?_" + "Old Fortunatus," _Old English Plays_, vol. iii. p. 140., by Dilke: + +who alters "No does?" into _None does?_ thinking, I presume, that he had +thereby simplified the sentence: + + "_John._ I am an elde fellowe of fifty wynter and more, + And yet in all my lyfe I knewe not this before. + + _Parson._ _No dyd_, why sayest thou so, upon thyselfe thou lyest, + Thou haste euer knowen the sacramente to be the body of Christ." + _John Bon and Mast Person._ + + "_Chedsey._ Christ said 'Take, eat, this is my body;' and not 'Take ye, + eat ye.' + + _Philpot._ _No did_, master doctor? Be not these the words of Christ, + 'Accipite, manducate?' And do not these words, in the plural number, + signify 'Take ye, eat ye;' and not 'Take thou, eat thou,' as you would + suppose?"--Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, vol. vii. p. 637., Cattley's + edition. + + "_Philpot._ Master Cosins, I have told my lord already, that I will + answer to none of these articles he hath objected against me: but if + you will with learning answer to that which is in question between my + lord and me, I will gladly hear and commune with you. + + _Cosins._ _No will_ you? Why what is that then, that is in question + between my lord and you?"--_Id._, p. 651. + + "_Philpot._ And as I remember, it is even the saying of St. Bernard + [viz. The Holy Ghost is Christ's vicar on earth (_vic-arius_), and a + saying that I need not to be ashamed of, neither you to be offended at; + as my Lord of Durham and my Lord of Chichester by their learning can + discern, and will not reckon it evil said. + + _London._ _No will?_ Why, take away the first syllable, and it soundeth + Arius."--_Id._ p. 658. + + "_Philpot._ These words of Cyprian do nothing prove your pretensed + assertion; which is, that to the Church of Rome there could come no + misbelief. + + _Christopherson._ Good lord, _no doth_? What can be said more + plainly?"--_Id._, p. 661. + +Again, at p. 663. there occur no less than three more instances and at p. +665. another. + + "_Careless._ No, forsooth: I do not know any such, nor have I heard of + him that I wot of. + + _Martin._ _No have_, forsooth: and it is even he that hath written + against thy faith." + +Then _Martin_ said: + + "Dost thou not know one Master Chamberlain? + + _Careless._ No forsooth; I know him not. + + _Martin._ _No dost!_ and he hath written a book against thy faith + also."--_Id._, vol. iii. p. 164. + + "_Lichfield and Coventry._ We heard of no such order. + + _Lord Keeper._ _No did?_ Yes, and on the first question ye began + willingly. How cometh it to pass that ye will not now do so?"--_Id._, + p. 690. + + "Then said Sir Thomas Moyle: 'Ah! Bland, thou art a stiff-hearted + fellow. Thou wilt not obey the law, nor answer when thou art called.' + '_Nor will_,' quoth Sir John Baker. 'Master Sheriff, take him to your + ward.'"--_Id._, vol. vii. p. 295. + +Is it needful to state, that the original editions have, as they ought to +have, a note of interrogation at "Baker?" I will not tax the reader's +patience with more than two other examples, and they shall be fetched from +the writings of that admirable papist--the gentle, the merry-hearted More: + + "Well, quod Caius, thou wylt graunte me thys fyrste, that euery thynge + that hath two erys is an asse.--Nay, mary mayster, wyll I not, quod the + boy.--_No wylt_ thou? quod Caius. Ah, wyly boy, there thou wentest + beyond me."--The Thyrde Boke, the first chapter, fol. 84. of Sir Thomas + More's _Dialogues_. + + "Why, quod he, what coulde I answere ellys, but clerely graunt hym that + I believe that thyng for none other cause but only bycause the + Scripture so sheweth me?--_No could ye?_ quod I. What yf neuer + Scripture had ben wryten in thys world, should there neuer haue bene + eny chyrch or congregacyon of faythfull and ryght beyleuyng + people?--That wote I nere, quod he. _No do ye?_ quod I."--_Id._, fol. + 85. + +In taking leave of this idiom, it would not perhaps be amiss to remark, +that "ye can," in Duke Humphey's rejoinder to the "blyson begger of St. +Albonys," is not, as usually understood, "you can?" but "yea can?" + + * * * * * + +_To be at point_ = to be at a stay or stop, _i.e._ settled, determined, +nothing farther being to be said or done: a very common phrase. Half a +dozen examples shall suffice: + + " . . . . . What I am truly + Is thine, and my poore countries to command: + Whither indeed before they (thy) heere-approach, + Old Seyward with ten thousand warlike men + Already _at a point_, was setting forth." + _Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 3. 1st Fol. + +No profit to give the commentators' various guesses at the import of the +phrase in the above passage, which will be best gathered from the following +instances of its use elsewhere. But, before passing further, I beg +permission to inform MR. KNIGHT that the original suggester of "sell" for +"self," in an earlier part of this play, whose name {522} he is at a loss +for, was W. S. Landor, whose footnote to vol. ii. p. 273., Moxon's edit. of +his works, is as follows: + + "And here it may be permitted the editor to profit also by the + manuscript, correcting in Shakespeare what is _absolute nonsense_ as + now printed: + + '_Vaulting_ ambition that o'erleaps _itself_, + And falls on the _other side_.' + + Other side of what? It should be _its sell_. _Sell_ is saddle in + Spenser and elsewhere, from the Latin and Italian." + +A correspondent of "N. & Q."., Vol. vii., p. 404., will be delighted to +find his very ingenious discovery brought home, and corroborated by +Landor's valuable manuscript: but it is an old said saw--"Great wits jump." +Now to our examples: + + "_Pasquin._ Saint Luke also affirmeth the same, saying flatly that he + shall not be forgiuen. Beholde, therefore, how well they interprete the + Scriptures. + + _Marforius._ I am alreadie _at a poynt_ with them, but thou shalt doo + me great pleasure to expounde also vnto me certayne other places, vppon + the which they ground this deceit."--_Pasquine in a Traunce_, turned + but lately out of the Italian into this tongue by W. P.: London, 1584. + + "But look, where malice reigneth in men, there reason can take no + place: and, therefore, I see by it, that you are all _at a point_ with + me, that no reason or authority can persuade you to favour my name, who + never meant evil to you, but both your commodity and profit."--Foxe's + _Acts and Monuments_, vol. viii. p. 18. + + "Not so, my lord," said I, "for I am _at a full point_ with myself in + that matter; and am right well able to prove both your + transubstantiation with the real presence to be against the Scriptures + and the ancient Fathers of the primitive Church."--_Id._, p. 587. + + "_Winchester._ No, surely, I am fully determined, and fully _at a + point_ therein, howsoever my brethren do."--_Id._, p. 691. + + "_Brad._ Sir, so that you will define me your church, that under it you + bring not in a false church, you shall not see but that we shall soon + be _at a point_."--_Id._, vol. vii. p. 190. + + "_Latimer._ Truly, my lord, as for my part I require no respite, for I + am _at a point_. You shall give me respite in vain; therefore, I pray + you let me not trouble you to-morrow."--_Id._, p. 534. + + "Unto whom he (Lord Cobham) gave this answer: 'Do as ye shall think + best, for I am _at a point_.' Whatsoever he (Archbishop Arundel) or the + other bishops did ask him after that, he bade them resort to his bill: + for thereby would he stand to the very death."--_Id._, vol. iii. pp. + 327-8. + + "'Et illa et ista vera esse credantur et nulla inter nos contentio + remanebit, quia nec illis veris ista, nec istis veris illa + impediuntur.' Let bothe those truthes and these truthes be beleued, and + we shall be _at appoinct_. For neither these truthes are impaired by + the other, neither the other by these."--_A Fortresse of the Faith_, p. + 50., by Thomas Stapleton: Antwerp, 1565. + + "A poore man that shall haue liued at home in the countrie, and neuer + tasted of honoure and pompe, is alwayes _at a poynt_ with himselfe, + when menne scorne and disdayne him, or shewe any token of contempt + towardes his person."--John Calvin's _CVIII. Sermon on the Thirtieth + Chap. of Job_, p. 554., translated by Golding: London, 1574. + + "As for peace, I am _at a point_."--_Leycester Correspondence_, Camd. + Soc., p. 261. + +W. R. ARROWSMITH. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Weather Rules._--The interesting article on "The Shepherd of Banbury's +Weather Rules" (Vol. vii., p. 373.) has reminded me of two _sayings_ I +heard in Worcestershire a few months back, and upon which my informant +placed the greatest reliance. The first is, "If the moon changes on a +Sunday, there will be a flood before the month is out." My authority +asserted that through a number of years he has never known this fail. The +month in which the change on a Sunday has occurred has been fine until the +last day, when the flood came. The other saying is, "Look at the +weathercock on St. Thomas's day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the +wind is, and there it will stick for the next quarter," that is, three +months. Can any of your readers confirm the above, and add any similar +"weather rules?" + +J. A., JUN. + +Birmingham. + +_Drills presaging Death_ (Vol. vii., p. 353.).--Your correspondent asks if +the superstition he here alludes to in Norfolk is believed in other parts. +I can give him a case in point in Berkshire:--Some twenty years ago an old +gentleman died there, a near relative of my own; and on going down to his +place, I was told by a farm overseer of his, that he was certain some of +his lordship's family would die that season, as, in the last sowing, he had +missed putting the seed in one row, which he showed me! "Who could +disbelieve it now?" quoth the old man. I was then taken to the bee-hives, +and at the door of every one this man knocked with his knuckles, and +informed the occupants that they must now work for a new master, as their +old one was gone to heaven. This, I believe, has been queried in your +invaluable paper some time since. I only send it by the way. I know the +same superstition is still extant in Cheshire, North Wales, and in some +parts of Scotland. + +T. W. N. + +Malta. + +A friend supplies me with the information that before drills were invented, +the labourers {523} considered it unlucky to miss a "bout" in corn or seed +sowing, will sometimes happened when "broadcast" was the only method. The +ill-luck did not relate alone to a _death_ in the family of the farmer or +his dependents, but to losses of cattle or accidents. It is singular, +however, that the superstition should have transferred itself to the drill; +but it will be satisfactory to E. G. R. to learn that the process of +_tradition_ and _superstition-manufacturing_ is not going on in the +nineteenth century. + +E. S. TAYLOR. + +_Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day_ (Vol. v., pp. 55. +148.).--This, according to Forby, vol. ii. p. 403., once formed in Norfolk +a part of the superstitious practices on _St. Mark's Eve_, not St. +Valentine's, as mentioned by J. S. A., when the sheeted ghosts of those who +should die that year (Mrs. Crowe would call them, I suppose, +_Doppelgaengers_) march in grisly array to the parish church. + +The rhyme varies from J. S. A.'s:-- + + "Hempseed I sow: + Hempseed grow; + He that is my true love + Come after me, and mow." + +and the Norfolk spectre is seen with a _scythe_, instead of a rake like his +Devonshire compeer. + +E. S. TAYLOR. + + * * * * * + + +A NOTE ON GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. + +If I may argue from the silence of the latest edition of _Gulliver's +Travels, with Notes_, with which I am acquainted, viz. that by W. C. +Taylor, LL.D., Trinity College, Dublin, the Preface to which is dated May +1st, 1840, I may say that all the commentators on Swift--all, at least, +down to that late date--have omitted to refer to a work containing +incidents closely resembling some of those recorded in the "Voyage to +Lilliput." + +The work to which I allude is a little dramatical composition, the +Bambocciata, or puppet-show, by Martelli, entitled _The Sneezing of +Hercules_. Goldoni, in his _Memoirs_, has given us the following account of +the manner in which he brought it out on the stage: + + "Count Lantieri was very well satisfied with my father, for he was + greatly recovered, and almost completely cured: his kindness was also + extended to me, and to procure amusement for me he caused a + puppet-show, which was almost abandoned, and which was very rich in + figures and decorations, to be refitted. + + "I profited by this, and amused the company by giving them a piece of a + great man, expressly composed for wooden comedians. This was the + _Sneezing of Hercules_, by Peter James Martelli, a Bolognese. + + . . . . . . . . . . + + "The imagination of the author sent Hercules into the country of the + pigmies. Those poor little creatures, frightened at the aspect of an + animated mountain with legs and arms, ran and concealed themselves in + holes. One day as Hercules had stretched himself out in the open field, + and was sleeping tranquilly, the timid inhabitants issued out of their + retreats, and, armed with prickles and rushes, mounted on the monstrous + man, and covered him from head to foot, like flies when they fall on a + piece of rotten meat. Hercules waked, and felt something in his nose, + which made him sneeze; on which, his enemies tumbled down in all + directions. This ends the piece. + + "There is a plan, a progression, an intrigue, a catastrophe, and + winding up; the style is good and well-supported; the thoughts and + sentiments are all proportionate to the size of the personages. The + verses even are short, and everything indicates pigmies. + + "A gigantic puppet was requisite for Hercules; everything was well + executed. The entertainment was productive of much pleasure; and I + could lay a bet, that I am the only person who ever thought of + executing the Bambocciata of Martelli."--_Memoirs of Goldoni_, + translated by John Black, 2 vols., duod. vol. i. chap. 6. + +It is certainly not necessary to point out here in what respects the +adventures of Hercules, the _animated mountain_, and those of Quinbus +Flestrin, the _man mountain_, differ from, or coincide with, each other, as +the only question I wish to raise is, whether a careful analysis of +Martelli's puppet-show ought, or ought not, to have been placed among the +notes on _Gulliver's Travels_. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + + * * * * * + + +SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. + +In reply to J. M. G. of Worcester, who inquires for a MS. volume of English +poetry containing some lines attributed to Shakspeare, and which is +described in Thorpe's _Catalog_ of MSS. for 1831, I can supply some +particulars which may assist him in the research. The MS., which at one +period had belonged to Joseph Hazlewood, was purchased from Thorpe by the +late Lord Viscount Kingsborough; after whose decease it was sold, in +November, 1842, at Charles Sharpe's literary sale room, Anglesea Street, +Dublin. It is No. 574. in the auction catalogue of that part of his +lordship's library which was then brought to auction. + +The volume has been noticed by Patrick Fraser Tytler, in his _Life of Sir +Walter Raleigh_, Edinburgh, 1833 (in Appendix B, p. 436., of 2nd edit.), +where, citing the passage from Collier, which is referred to by J. M. G., +he asserts that the lines are not Shakspeare's, but Jonson's. But he does +not appear to me to have established his case beyond doubt; as the lines, +though found among Jonson's works, may, notwithstanding, be the production +of some other writer: and why not of Shakspeare, to whom they are ascribed +in the MS.? Some verses by Sir J. C. Hobhouse originally appeared as Lord +Byron's: and there are {524} numerous instances, both ancient and modern, +of a similar attribution of works to other than their actual authors. + +ARTERUS. + +Dublin. + +_The Island of Prospero._--We cannot assert that Shakspeare, in the +_Tempest_, had any particular island in view as the scene of his immortal +drama, though by some this has been stoutly maintained. Chalmers prefers +one of the Bermudas. The Rev. J. Hunter, in his _Disquisition on the Scene, +&c. of the Tempest_, endeavours to confer the honour on the Island of +Lampedosa. In reference to this question, a statement of the +pseudo-Aristotle is remarkable. In his work "[Greek: peri thaumasion +akousmaton]," he mentions Lipara, one of the AEolian Islands, lying to the +north of Sicily, and nearly in the course of Shakspeare's Neapolitan fleet +from Tunis to Naples. Among the [Greek: polla teratode] found there, he +tells us: + + "[Greek: Exakouesthai gar tumpanon kai kumbalon echon gelota te meta + thorubou kai krotalon enargos. legousi de ti teratodesteron gegonenai + peri to spelaion.]" + +If we compare this with the aerial music heard by Ferdinand (_Tempest_, I. +2.), especially as the orchestra is represented by the genial burin of M. +Retsch in the fifth plate of his well-known sketches (_Umrisze_), it will +appear probable that Shakspeare was acquainted with the Greek writer either +in the original or through a translation. As far as I am aware, this has +not been observed by any of the commentators.--From _The Navorscher_. + +J. M. + +_Coincident Criticisms._--I shall be obliged if you will allow me through +your pages to anticipate and rebut two charges of plagiarism. When I wrote +my Note on a passage in _The Winter's Tale_ ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. +378.), I had not seen the _Dublin University Magazine_ for March last, +containing some remarks on the same passage in some respects much +resembling mine. I must also declare that my Note on a passage in _All's +Well that ends Well_ ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 426.) was posted for you +some time before the appearance of A. E. B.'s Note on the same passage ("N. +& Q.," Vol. vii., p. 403.). The latter coincidence is more remarkable than +the former, as the integrity of the amended text was in both notes +discussed by means of the same parallel passage. _Apropos_ of A. E. B.'s +clever Note, permit me to say, that though at first it appeared to me +conclusive, I now incline to think that Shakspeare intended Helen to +address the _leaden messengers_ by means of a very hyperbolic figure: +"wound the still-piecing air that sings with piercing" is a consistent +whole. If, as A. E. B. rightly says, _to wound the air_ is an +impossibility, it is equally impossible that the air should utter any sound +expressive of sensibility. The fact of course is, that the cannon-balls +_cleave_ the air, and that by so cleaving it a shrill noise is produced. +The cause and effect may, however, be metaphorically described, by +comparing air to Bertram. I believe it is a known fact that every man who +is struck with a cannon-ball cries out instinctively. Shakspeare therefore +might, I think, have very poetically described the action and effect of a +cannon-ball passing through the air by the strong figure of _wounding the +air that sings with the piercing which it is enduring_. + +In concluding this Note, I beg to express what is not merely my own, but a +very general feeling of disappointment in respect of MR. COLLIER'S new +edition of Shakspeare. To it, with a new force, may be applied the words of +A. E. B. in "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 296.: + + "But the evil of these emendations is not in this instance confined to + the mere suggestion of doubt; the text has absolutely been altered in + all accessible editions, in many cases _silently_, so that the ordinary + reader has no opportunity of judging between _Shakspeare_ and his + improvers." + +That MR. COLLIER should be the greatest of such offenders, is no very +cheering sign of the times. + +C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. + +Birmingham. + +_Dogberry's Losses_ (Vol. vii., p. 377.).--I do not know whether it has +ever been suggested, but I feel inclined to read "lawsuits." He has just +boasted of himself as "one that knows the _law_;" and it seems natural +enough that he should go on to brag of being a rich fellow enough, "and a +fellow that hath had _lawsuits_" of his own, and actually figured as +plaintiff or defendant. Suppose the words taken down from the mouth of an +actor, and the mistake would be easy. + +JOHN DOE. + + * * * * * + + +THE COENACULUM OF LIONARDO DA VINCI. + +I have in my possession a manuscript critique on the celebrated picture of +The Last Supper by Lionardo da Vinci, written many years ago by a deceased +academician; in which the writer has called in question the _point of time_ +usually supposed to have been selected by the celebrated Italian painter. +The criticisms are chiefly founded on the copy by Marco Oggioni, now in the +possession of the Royal Academy of Arts. + +Uniform tradition has assumed that the moment of action is that in which +the Saviour announces the treachery of one of his disciples "Dico vobis +quia unus vestrum me traditurus est." Matth. xxvi. 21., Joan. xiii. 21., +Vulgate edit.; and most of the admirers of this great work have not failed +to find in it decisive proofs of the intention of the painter to represent +that exact point of time. {525} + +The author of the manuscript enters into a very detailed examination of the +several groups of figures which compose the picture, and of the expression +of the heads; and he confesses his inability to find in them anything +decisively indicating the period supposed to be chosen. He remarks that +nine at least of the persons, including the principal one, are evidently +engaged in animated conversation; that instead of that concentrated +attention which the announcement might be supposed to generate, there +appears to be great variety of expressions and of action; and that neither +surprise nor indignation are so generally prominent, as might have been +expected. He inclines to think that the studied diversity of expression, +and the varied attitudes and gestures of the assembled party, are to be +regarded as proofs of the artist's efforts to produce a powerful and +harmonious composition, rather than a natural and truthful representation +of any particular moment of the transaction depicted by him. + +The work in question is now so generally accessible through the medium of +accurate engravings, that any one may easily exercise his own judgment on +the matter, and decide for himself whether the criticism be well founded. + +It must be borne in mind that the subject had long been a familiar +decoration of conventual refectories before the time when Lionardo brought +his profound knowledge of external human nature, and his unsurpassed powers +of executive art, to bear on a subject which had before been treated in the +dry, conventional, inanimate manner of the Middle Ages. The leading +features of the traditional picture are retained: the long table, the linen +cloth, the one-sided arrangement of the figures, the classic drapery, and +the general form and design of the apartment, are all to be found in the +earlier works; and must have been considered, by observers in general, far +more essential to the correct delineation of the scene than any adherence +to the exact description of it in any one of the Evangelists. But as the +subject was usually introduced into refectories for the edification of the +brethren assembled with their superior at their own meals, it does not seem +likely that the treachery of Judas should have been intended to be the +prominent action of the picture. It was a memorial of the institution of +the Eucharist, although the Christ was not represented as dispensing either +bread or wine. In such a case, if any particular point of time was ever +contemplated by the artist, he might judiciously and appropriately select +the moment when the Saviour was announcing, in mysterious words, the close +of his mission--as in St. Matthew and St. Mark; or was teaching them a +lesson of humility when the spirit of rivalry and strife had disclosed +itself among them--as we find in St. Luke and St. John. + +It is not perhaps generally known that the statutes of Queen's College, +Oxford, prescribe the order of sitting at the common table in manner which +evidently refers to the _coenaculum_ of the old church painters. + +E. SMIRKE. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Scotter Register (County Lincoln)._--The following extracts from the +register of the parish of Scotter, in the county of Lincoln, are perhaps +sufficiently interesting to be worth printing in "N. & Q.": + + 1. "Eccelesia parochialis de Scotter comitatu Lincolniae dedicata est + Beatis Apostolis Sancto Petro et Sancto Paulo ut apparet in Antiquo + Scripto viduae Loddington de Scotter, viz. in testamento vltimo Thomae + Dalyson, Gen. de Scotter, qui obiit Junii 19^o, anno Domini 1495. + + "GUL. CARRINGTON, + "Rector ecl[=i]a ibid." + + 2. "_Memorandum_, That on Septuagesima Sunday, being the 19^{th} day of + January, 1667, one Francis Drury, an excommunicate person, came into + the church in time of divine service in y^e morning, and being + admonisht by mee to begon, hee obstinately refused, whereuppon y^e + whole congregation departed; and after the same manner in the + afternoon, the same day, he came again, and refusing againe to go out, + the whole congregation againe went home, soe y^t little or no service + pformed. They prevented his further coming in y^t manner, as hee + threatned, by order from the Justice, uppon the statute of Queene + Elizabeth concerning the molestation and disturbance of publiq + preachers. + + WM. CARRINGTON, Rec." + + "O tempora, O mores." + + 3. "Michael Skinner Senex centum et trium annorum sepultus fuit die + sancti Johannis, viz. Dec. 27, 1673." + +EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun. + +Bottesford Moors, Kirton Lindsey. + +"_All my Eye._"--"_Over the Left._" + + "What benefit a Popish successor can reap from lives and fortunes spent + in defence of the Protestant religion, he may put in his eye: and what + the Protestant religion gets by lives and fortunes spent in the service + of a Popish successor, will be over the left shoulder."--Preface to + _Julian the Apostate_: London, printed for Langley Curtis, on Ludgate + Hill. 1682. + +Is this passage the origin of the above cant phrases? + +GEORGE DANIEL. + +Canonbury. + +_Curious Marriages._--In _Harl. MSS._ 1550, p. 180., is the pedigree of +Irby, where Anthony Irby has two daughters: Margaret, who married Henry +Death, and Dorothy, who married John Domesday. + +E. G. BALLARD. {526} + +_Child-mother._--Four months ago, on board the Brazil packet, the royal +mail steam-vessel Severn, there was an instance of a "child-wife," which +might be worthy of a place among your curiosities of that description. + +She was the wedded wife of a Brazilian travelling from the Brazils to +Lisbon, and her husband applied for permission to pay the "reduced passage +money" for her as being "under twelve years of age!" + +As the regulation on that head speaks of "_children_ under twelve years of +age," this _conscientious_ Brazilian's demand could not be countenanced. + +His wife's age was under eleven years and a half, and (_credat Judaeus_) +_she was a mother_! + +A. L. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +FURTHER QUERIES RESPECTING BISHOP KEN. + +(_Continued from_ Vol. vii., p. 380.) + +In a _Collection of Poems_, in six volumes, by several Hands (Dodsley, 5th +edition, 1758), and in vol. iii. p. 75., is found "An Epistle from Florence +to T. A., Esq., Tutor to the Earl of P----. Written in the year 1740. By +the Honourable ----." Can any one explain an allusion contained in these +three lines of the epistle? + + "Or with wise Ken judiciously define, + When Pius marks the honorary coin + Of Caracalla, or of Antonine." + +It is hardly to be supposed that the Ken here named could mean the bishop, +who died so far back as 1711. Was there a coin-collector of that name +living about 1740? + +We learn (from Ken's _Prose Works_, ed. Round, pp. 93, 94.) that the +Bishop's sister, "my poor sister Ken," most probably then a widow, lost her +only son, who died at Cyprus, in 1707. Was this Mrs. Ken the Rose Vernon, +sister of Sir Thomas Vernon, of Coleman Street, London, and the wife of Jon +Ken, the bishop's eldest brother, and treasurer of the East India Company? +This Jon and Rose Ken are represented, in Mr. Markland's Pedigree of the +Ken family, as still living in 1683. Is there no monumental memorial of +this Treasurer Ken, or his family, in any of the London churches? + +In Mr. Macaulay's _History of England_, 5th ed., vol. ii. p. 365., he +states that "it was well known that one of the most opulent dissenters of +the City had begged that he might have the honour of giving security for +Ken," when the seven bishops were bailed, previous to their trial. On what +authority (for none is cited) does this statement rest? + +Can any one give a clue to this passage from a letter written to Mr. +Harbin, Lord Weymouth's chaplain, by Bishop Ken, and dated "Winton, Jan +22." [1701]: + + "I came to Winchester yesterday, where I stay one post more, and then + go either to Sir R. U. or L. Newton, where you shall hear from + me."--Ken's _Prose Works_, by Round, p. 53. + +Can "Sir R. U." (the _U_ perhaps being a mistake for _W._) designate Sir +Robert Worsley, Bart., of Chilton, in the county of Southampton, married to +Lord Weymouth's daughter? and can "L. Newton" be a mistake for Long Sutton, +in Hants? or may it be Long Newton, in the hundred of Malmesbury? + +J. J. J. + +Temple. + + * * * * * + + +THE REV. JOHN LAWSON AND HIS MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPTS. + +In the year 1774 the Rev. John Lawson, B.D., Rector of Swanscombe in Kent, +published _A Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antients, with +a Collection of Theorems and Problems without solutions for the Exercise of +young Students_. This work was printed anonymously at Canterbury, but the +merits of the essay did not permit the author to remain long in obscurity; +the real writer was immediately known to most of the geometers of the day, +and the elegant character of many of the theorems and problems, led to a +general desire that their solutions should be published in a separate work. +In accordance with this intention, it was announced on a fly-sheet attached +to some copies of the work, that-- + + "The author of this publication being a man of leisure, and living in a + retired situation, remote from any opportunity of conversation with + mathematicians, would be extremely glad of a correspondence with any + such, who are willing to be at the expense of the same; or if this be + thought too much, will pay the postage of his answers to their letters. + But no letters, except post-paid, can be received by him; otherwise a + door would be opened for frolic, imposition, and impertinence. Any new + geometrical propositions, either theorems or problems, would be + received with gratitude, and if sent without solutions, he would use + his best endeavours to return such as might be satisfactory. Any new + solutions of propositions already in print, _especially of those + included in the present collection_, would also be very agreeable. If a + variety of such demonstrations essentially different from those of the + original authors should be communicated, he proposes at some future + time to publish them all, with a fresh collection for further exercise; + and then each author's name shall be affixt to his own solution, or any + other signature which he shall please to direct. Any person who shall + favor the publisher with his correspondence shall have speedily + conveyed to him the solutions of any propositions contained in this + collection, which he may be desirous of seeing. Letters (post-paid) + directed for P. Q., to be left at Mr. Nourse's, Bookseller, in the + {527} Strand, London, will be carefully transmitted on the first day of + each month, and all correspondents may expect answers during the course + of that month." + +In consequence of this appeal, Mr. Lawson was speedily in correspondence +with several of the most able geometers then living, and amongst the rest, +Messrs. Ainsworth, Clarke, Merrit, Power, &c., appear to have furnished him +with original solutions to his collection of theorems and problems. The +manuscript containing these solutions must have been of considerable size, +since a portion of it was sent down to Manchester about July, 1777, for the +purpose of obtaining Mr. Ainsworth's remarks and corrections; and Mr. +Lawson is requested, in a letter bearing date "August 22, 1777," to "send +the next portion when convenient." Whether Mr. Lawson did so or not, I have +not yet been able to ascertain; but this much is certain, the manuscript +was never printed, and would most probably either be disposed of at the +death of its compiler, or previously transferred to the possession of some +geometer of Mr. Lawson's acquaintance. Several of the _original_ letters +which passed between the respective parties relating to this manuscript are +at present in the hands of two or three of the Lancashire geometers, but no +one seems to know anything of the manuscript itself. May I then request +that the fortunate holder of this yet valuable collection will make himself +known through the medium of the widely circulated pages of "N. & Q." + +T. T. WILKINSON. + +Burnley, Lancashire. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_"Wanderings of Memory."_--In Brayley's _Graphic and Historical +Illustrator_, p. 293., is a quotation from the _Wanderings of Memory_, as a +motto to an account of the ancient castle of the Peverils at Castleton, in +Derbyshire: can any of your readers tell me who was the author of the poem +in question? + +W. R. + +Camden Town. + +_"Wandering Willie's Tale."_--Has the scene that presented itself to the +view of Piper Steenie Steenson, when he was ushered by the phantom of his +old friend Dougal M^cCallum into the presence of the ghastly revellers +carousing in the auld oak parlour of the visionary Redgauntlet Castle, ever +been painted? (See _Redgauntlet_, Letter xi.) If it has, is there any +engraving of the picture extant or on sale? + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + +_Chapel Sunday._--I had the pleasure of spending a Sunday in the course of +the last summer in the neighbourhood of Keswick, among the delightful lake +scenery of England. I there learned that in the village of Thornthwaite it +was Chapel Sunday, and on inquiry I was told that there were a few other +villages in the neighbourhood where there was also a Chapel Sunday. Upon +this day it is the custom of young people to come from neighbouring places +to attend worship at the village church or chapel, and the afternoon +partakes of a merry-making character at the village inn. There appeared, as +far as I could see, no excesses attending the anniversary, all being +respectable in their conduct. Can any of your Cambrian readers inform me +the origin of this anniversary? + +PRESTONIENSIS. + +_Proud Salopians._--I have never heard a satisfactory account of the origin +of this title, given to persons belonging to my native county. + +In the neighbourhood the following story is frequently related, but with +what authority I cannot tell, viz. "That upon the king (Query which?) +offering to make Shrewsbury a city, the inhabitants replied that they +preferred its remaining the largest borough in England, rather than it +should be the smallest city; their pride not allowing them to be small +among the great." + +If this history of the term be true, it would appear that the name should +only be applied to _burgesses of Shrewsbury_. + +SALOPIAN. + +_George Miller, D.D._--In the year 1796, George Miller, subsequently the +author of _Modern History Philosophically Illustrated_, and many other +well-known works (of which a list appears in a recent Memoir), was +appointed Donnelan Lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin; and delivered a +course of sermons or lectures on "An Inquiry into the Causes that have +impeded the further Progress of Christianity." I should be very glad indeed +to know whether these Sermons have appeared in print; and if so, when and +where published? I have not been able to procure a copy. + +With regard to the Donnelan Lectureship, I may add, that a legacy of 1243l. +was bequeathed to the College of Dublin by Mrs. Anne Donnelan, of the +parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the county of Middlesex, spinster, +"for the encouragement of religion, learning, and good manners." The +particular mode of application was entrusted to the Provost and Senior +Fellows; and accordingly, amongst other resolutions of the Board, passed +Feb. 22, 1794, are to be found the following: "That a Divinity Lecture, to +which shall be annexed a salary arising from the interest of 1200l., shall +be established for ever, to be called Donnelan's Lecture;" and "That one +moiety of the interest of the said 1200l. shall be paid to the Lecturer as +soon as he shall have delivered the whole number [six] of the lectures; and +the other moiety as soon as he shall have _published_ four of the said +Lectures." + +ABHBA. {528} + +_Members of Parliament._--Pennant, in _The Journey from Chester to London_, +p. 94., says: + + "The ancient owners of Rudgley were of the same name with the town: + some of the family had the honour of being sheriffs of the county in + the reign of Edward III. _Another was knight of the shire in the same + period._" + +Can any reader of "N. & Q." verify the _last portion_ of Pennant's +statement? + +J. W. S. R. + +St. Ives, Hunts. + +_Taret._--I have lately met with mention of a "small insect called the +_Taret_." What may this be? + +TYRO. + +_Jeroboam of Claret, &c._--Could any of your correspondents inform me what +a Jeroboam of Claret is, and from what it is derived: also a Magnum of +Port? + +WINEBIBBER. + +_William Williams of Geneva._--In _Livre des Anglois, a Geneve_, with a few +biographical notes by J. S. Burn, Esq., pages 5, 6. 12, 13., mention is +made of Guillaume--Will[=m] Will[=m]s, and Jane his wife,--Will[=m] +Will[=m]s, a senior of the church there in 1555, 1556, 1557, 1558; and some +of the years he was a godfather. I shall be glad to have some further +account of such William Williams, or references to where to find such? + +GLWYSIG. + +_The First of April and "The Cap awry."_--Tom Moore, in his Diary, 1819, +says: + + "April 1st. Made Bessy turn her cap awry in honour of the day." + +What was the origin of this custom? Was this the way a fool was supposed to +show that his head was turned? + +C. R. + +Paternoster Row. + +_Sir G. Browne, Bart._--Sir George Browne, Bart., of West Stafford, Berks, +and Wickham, is said to have had nineteen children by his wife Eleanor +Blount; and that three of those children were sons, killed in the service +of Charles I. + +Was either of those sons named Richard; and was any of them, and which, +married? If so, where, and to whom? + +NEWBURY. + +_Bishop Butler._--Will any of our Roman Catholic friends tell us on what +authority they assert that Bishop Butler, the author of _The Analogy_, died +in their communion? That he was suspected of a tendency that way during his +life is acknowledged by all, though the grounds, that of setting up a cross +in his chapel, are confessedly unsatisfactory. But, besides this, it is +alleged that he died with a Roman Catholic book of devotion in his hand, +and that the last person in whose company he was seen was a priest of that +persuasion. One would be glad to have this question sifted. + +X. Y. Z. + +_Oaken Tombs._--In Dr. Whitaker's noble history of _Loidis and Elmete_, p. +322., is the following passage: + + "Next in point of time is a very singular memorial, which has evidently + been removed from its original position, between the chapel and the + high altar, to a situation at the south side and west end of the + chapel.... The tomb is a messy frame-work of oak, with quarter-foils + and arms on three sides, and on the table above three statues of the + same material, namely, of a knight bare-headed, with rather youthful + countenance and sharp features, and his two wives. On the filleting is + this rude inscription in Old English: + + 'Bonys emong Stonys, lyes here ful styl, + Quilst the sawle wanders wher God wyl. + Anno D^{ni} MCCCCCXXIX.' + + This commemorates Sir John Savile, who married, &c. + + "Over all has been a canopy, or rather tester, for the whole must have + originally resembled an antique and massy bedstead, exhibiting the very + incongruous appearance of a husband in bed with two wives at once." + +The Doctor adds: + + "Oaken tombs are very rare; that of Aymer de Valence in Westminster + Abbey has been and still is in part coated over with copper, gilt, and + enamelled, and I have seen another in the church of Tickencote in + Rutlandshire. I do not recollect a third specimen." + +Query, How many have been discovered since the great historian's day? + +ST. BEES. + +_Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth._--In the State Paper Office (_Dom. Pap._, +temp. Jac. I.), there is, under date of 1608, a letter from Mr. +Chamberlaine to Sir Dudley Carleton, of October 28, in which Chamberlaine +says: + + "I heare of a Bill put into the Exchequer, concerninge much lande that + sh^d be alienated on account of the alleged bastardy of Queen + Elizabeth." + +P. C. S. S. is desirous to know whether there be any record in the Court of +Exchequer which bears out this singular statement. + +P. C. S. S. + +_"Pugna Porcorum."_--Where may be found some account of the author, object, +&c. of this facetious production? + +P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. + +_Parviso._--Can any of your readers inform me as to the meaning of the word +_parviso_; it occurs in the usual form of the "Testamur" for Responsions. +On reference to Webster's _Dictionary_, I find that _parvis_ is a small +porch or gateway; perhaps this may throw some light upon the question. + +OXONIENSIS. + +_Mr. Justice Newton._--There is a very stiff Indian-ink copy of a portrait +in the _Sutherland Illustrated Clarendon_, in the Bodleian Library, the +original of which I should be glad to trace. It is described in the +Catalogue to be "by Bulfinch," {529} which is probably a mistake. It bears +the following inscription: + + "This is drawn from the painting in the hands of Mr. Justice Newton of + the Middle Temple." + +Can any one inform me when this learned justice lived; or rather, for it +concerns me more, when he died? And farther, if it be not too hopeless an +inquiry to make, who his existing representatives (if any) may be? + +F. KYFFIN LENTHALL. + +36. Mount Street, Grosvenor Square. + +_Mufti._--I hear military men employ this term, "we went in _mufti_:" +meaning, out of uniform. Whence is it derived? + +MARIA. + +_Ryming and Cuculling._--In that very curious volume of extracts from _The +Presbytery Book of Strathbogie_, A.D. 1631-54, which was printed for the +Spalding Club in 1843, occurs the following passage: + + "George Jinkin and John Christie referred from the Session of + Abercherder, for _ryming and cuculling_, called, compeird not. Ordained + to be summonded _pro_ 2^o."--P. 242. + +Accordingly, on-- + + "The said day, George Jinkin in Abercherder, being summonded for his + _ryming and cuculling_, being called, compeired; and being accused of + the foresaid fault, confessed he only spoke three words of _that ryme_. + Being sharpely rebuked, and instructed of the grosnes of that sin, was + ordained to satisfie in sackcloth, which he promised to do."--P. 245. + +What was the "fault" here alluded to, and visited with a species of +discipline with which the presbytery, and those under its jurisdiction, +appear to have been very familiar? + +D. + +_Custom at the Savoy Church._--At the Savoy Church (London), the Sunday +following Christmas Day, there was a chair placed near the door, covered +with a cloth: on the chair was an orange, in a plate. + +Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me the meaning of this? + +CERIDWEN. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Faithfull Teate._--I lately fell in with a small work by this divine, +entitled _Ter Tria_, and on the fly-leaf is a MS. note, stating that some +years ago a copy of the same book was priced, in a bookseller's catalogue +in London, at 1l. 7s. 6d. I wish to learn some particulars relative to the +author, and if the work is valuable, or scarce, or both. + +J. S. + + [Neither Calamy nor Brook has furnished any biographical notices of Dr. + Faithfull Teate. When he wrote _Ter Tria_, in 1658, he was a "Preacher + of the Word at Sudbury in Suffolk." A second edition of it was + published in 1669. In 1665 appeared his _Scripture Map of the + Wildernesse of Sin_," 4to. In a discourse on _Right Thoughts, the + Righteous Man's Evidence_, he has the following passage, accommodated + to his own destitute state after his ejectment: "The righteous man, in + thinking of his present condition of life, thinks it his relief, that + the less money he has he may go the more upon trust; the less he finds + in his purse, seeks the more in the promise of Him that has said, 'I + will never leave thee, nor forsake thee;' so that he thinks no man can + take away his livelihood, unless he can first take away God's truth." + Lowndes has given the following prices of _Ter Tria_: Sir M. M. Sykes, + part iii. 626., 5s.; Nassau, part ii. 682., 8s.; White Knights, 4068., + 1l.; _Bibl. Ang. Poet._, 764., 1l. 11s. 6d.] + +_Kelway Family._--Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." guide me to anything +like a pedigree of the family of _Kelloway_, _Kaloway_, or _Kelway_; which +I find from Lysons' _Devonshire_ possessed the manor of Mokesbean in that +county from the time of Henry II.? + +In the first year of Edward III., when the property of those who suffered +after the battle of Boroughbridge was restored, John de Keilewaye was found +"haeres de integro sanguine" to Lord Gifford of Brimesfield. + +The last of the family appears to have been John Kelloway of Collampton in +Devon, who married Joan Tregarthian; and dying in 1530, left co-heiresses +married to Greville of Penheale, Codrington of Codrington, Harwood, and +Cooke. + +The arms of the family are singular, being, Argent within a bordure +engrailed sable, two groving irons in saltire sable, between four pears Or. + +R. H. C. + + [The pedigree of this family will be found in two copies by Munday of + the "Visitation of Devonshire," A.D. 1564, in the Harleian MSS. 1091. + p. 90., and 1538, p. 2166. The only difference in the arms is, in both + copies, that there is _no bordure engrailed_; but this has probably + been added since as a _difference_, as was often done to distinguish + families. The name is here spelt _Kelloway_, and the pedigree begins + with "Thomas Kelloway of Stowford in County Devon, who married Anne, + daughter of ---- Copleston, of ----, in county Somerset," and ends with + "John Kelloway, who married Margery, daughter of John Arscott of + Dunsland, and left issue Robert, who married ----, and Richard."] + +_Regatta._--What is the etymology of the word _regatta_? From whence is it +derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat-race? + +C. B. N. C. J. S. + + [Baretti says, "Regatta, _palio che si corre sull' acqua_; a race run + on water in boats. The word I take to be corrupted from _Remigata_, the + art of rowing." Florio, in his _Worlde of Wordes_, has "_Regattare_, + Ital. to wrangle, to cope or fight for the mastery." The term, as + denoting a showy species of boat-race, was first used in this {530} + country towards the close of the last century; for the papers of that + time inform us, that on June 23, 1775, a regatta, a _novel_ + entertainment, and the first of the kind, was exhibited in the river + Thames, in imitation of some of those splendid shows exhibited at + Venice on their grand festivals. The whole river, from London Bridge to + the Ship Tavern, Millbank, was covered with boats. About 1200 flags + were flying before four o'clock in the afternoon, and vessels were + moored in the river for the sale of liquors and other refreshments. + Before six o'clock it was a perfect fair on both sides the water, and + bad liquor, with short measure, was plentifully retailed. Plans of the + regatta were sold from a shilling to a penny each, and songs on the + occasion sung, in which "regatta" was the rhyme for "Ranelagh," and + "royal family" echoed to "liberty."] + +_Coket and Cler-mantyn._--Piers Plowman says that when new corn began to be +sold-- + + "Waulde no beggar eat bread that in it beanes were, + But of _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_, or else of cleane wheate." + +What are _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_? Also, what are _coronation flowers_, +and _sops in wine_? + +CERIDWEN. + + [Both _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_ mean a kind of fine bread. _Coronation_ + is the name given by some of our old writers to a species of flower, + the modern appellation of which is not clear. _Sops-in-wine_ were a + species of flowers among the smaller kind of single gilliflowers or + pinks. Both these flowers are noticed by Spenser, in his _Shepherd's + Calendar_ for April, as follows: + + "Bring coronations and sops-in-wine + Worn of paramours."] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +CURFEW. + +(Vol. vi., pp. 53. 112.) + +It will be remembered that when Mr. Webster, one of the greatest of +American statesmen, was on his death-bed, in October last, he requested his +son to read to him that far-famed "Elegy" of Gray: + + "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." + +The editor of the _Boston Journal_, after referring to this circumstance, +which he says has caused an unexampled demand for the works of Gray in the +United States, goes on to give the result of his researches in many old +English works, respecting the origin and meaning of the word _curfew_, +which I trust will interest not only your correspondents who have written +on the subject, but also many of your readers. I glean from the clever +article now before me the following brief notices, which I have not yet met +with in "N. & Q." + +In King Alfred's time the curfew was rung at eight o'clock, and called the +"cover fire bell," because the inhabitants, on hearing its peals, were +obliged to cover their fires, and go to bed. Thomson evidently refers, in +the following lines, to this tyrannical law, which was abolished in England +about the year 1100: + + "The shiv'ring wretches at the curfew sound, + Dejected sunk into their sordid beds, + And through the mournful gloom of ancient time, + Mused sad, or dreamt of better." + +On the people finding that they could put out their fires and go to bed +when they pleased, it would appear, from being recorded in many places, +that the time of ringing the curfew bell was first changed from eight to +nine o'clock, then from nine to ten, and afterwards to the early hours of +the morning. Thus we find in _Romeo and Juliet_: + + "The curfew bell hath rung: + 'Tis _three o'clock_." + +In Shakspeare's works frequent mention is made of the curfew. In the +_Tempest_ he gives the following: + + "You whose pastime + Is to make midnight mushrooms--that rejoice + To hear the solemn curfew." + +In _Measure for Measure_: + + "_Duke._ Who call'd here of late? + _Provost._ None since the curfew rung." + +In _King Lear_: + + "This is the foul fiend Flibertigibbet; + He begins at curfew, and walks to the first cock." + +This old English custom of ringing the curfew bell was carried by the +Puritan fathers to New England; and where is the Bostonian of middle age +who does not well recollect the ringing of the church bell at nine o'clock, +which was the willing signal for labourers to retire to bed, and for +shopmen to close their shops? + +Before closing this Note, may I be allowed to inform MR. SANSOM, that +_Charlestown_ is in Massachusetts, and only separated from Boston by +Charles River, which runs between the two cities. The place to which he +refers is _Charleston_, and in South Carolina. + +W. W. + +Malta. + + * * * * * + + +THE "SALT-PETER-MAN." + +(Vol. vii., pp. 377. 433. 460.) + +The statute against monopolies (21 Jac. I. c. 3.) contains a clause (sec. +10.) that its provisions should not extend to any commission grant or +letters patent theretofore made, or thereafter to be made, of, for, or +concerning the digging, making, or compounding of saltpetre or gunpowder, +which were to be of the like force and effect, _and no other_, as if that +act had never been made. + +In the famous "Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom" agreed upon by the +House of Commons in November, 1641, there is special allusion to the +vexation and oppression of the {531} subject by purveyors, clerks of the +market, and saltpetre men. (_Parliamentary History_, x. 67.) + +Shortly afterwards was passed an act (which obtained the royal assent) +giving liberty for importing gunpowder and saltpetre, and for making of +gunpowder. The preamble asserts that the importation of gunpowder from +foreign parts had of late times been against law prohibited, and the making +thereof within this realm ingrossed; whereby the price of gunpowder had +been excessively raised, many powder works decayed, this kingdom very much +weakened and endangered, the merchants thereof much damnified, many +mariners and others taken prisoners and brought into miserable captivity +and slavery, many ships taken by Turkish and other pirates, and many other +inconveniences had from thence ensued, and more were likely to ensue, if +not timely prevented. (17 _Car. I._ c. 21.) + +Lord Clarendon, in reviewing the various "important laws" of the Long +Parliament to which the king assented, makes the following observations +with reference to this particular act: + + "'An Act for the free making Saltpetre and Gunpowder within the + Kingdom:' which was a part of the prerogative; and not only + considerable, as it restrained that precious and dangerous commodity + from vulgar hands; but, as in truth it brought a considerable revenue + to the crown, and more to those whom the crown gratified and obliged by + that license. The pretence for this exemption was, 'the unjustifiable + proceeding of those (or of inferior persons qualified by them) who had + been trusted in that employment,' by whom, it cannot be denied, many + men suffered: but the true reason was, that thereby they might be sure + to have in readiness a good stock in that commodity, against the time + their occasions should call upon them."--_History of Rebellion_, book + iii. + +On the 3rd April, 1644, the Lords and Commons passed an ordinance for the +making of saltpetre, &c. This was grounded on the following allegations: + + "1. The great expence of gunpowder, occasioned by the then war within + his Majesty's dominions, had well near consumed the old store, and did + exhaust the magazines so fast, that without a larger supply, the navy + forts and the land armies could not be furnished. + + "2. Foreign saltpetre was not in equal goodness with that of our own + country, and the foreign gunpowder far worse conditioned and less + forcible than that which is made in England. + + "3. Divers foreign estates had of date prohibited the exportation of + salt-peter and gunpowder out of their own dominions and countries, so + that there could be but little hope or future expectation of any peter + or powder to be brought into this kingdom, as in former times, which + would enforce us to make use of our own materials." + +From these circumstances, it was held most necessary that the digging of +saltpetre and making of gunpowder should by all fit means be encouraged, at +that time when it so much concerned the public safety; nevertheless, to +prevent the reviving of those _oppressions and exactions_ exercised upon +the people, under the colourable authority of commissions granted to +_salt-peter-men_; which burden had been eased since the sitting of that +Parliament. To the end there might not be any pretence to interrupt the +work, it was ordained that the committee of safety, their factors, workmen, +and servants, should have power and authority, (within prescribed hours) to +search and dig for saltpetre in all pigeon-houses, stables, cellars, +vaults, empty warehouses, and other outhouses, yards, and places likely to +afford that earth. + +The _salt-peter-men_ were to level the ground and repair damage done by +them; or might be compelled to do so by the deputy-lieutenants, justices of +the peace, or committees of parliament. + +The _salt-peter-men_ were also empowered to take carts, by the known +officers, for carriage of the liquor, vessels, and other utensils, from +place to place, at specified prices, and under limitations as to weight and +distance; and they were freed from taxes and tolls for carriages used about +their works, and empowered to take outhouses, &c., for their workhouses, +making satisfaction to the owners. + +This ordinance was to continue for two years, from 25th March, 1644. + +An ordinance of a similar character was passed 9th February, 1652, to be in +force till 25th March, 1656 (_Scobell_, 231.). + +By an act of the Lord Protector and Parliament, made in 1656, it was +enacted that no person or persons should dig within the houses or lands of +any person or persons of the commonwealth for the finding of saltpetre, nor +take the carriages of any person or persons for the carrying of their +materials or vessels, without their leave first obtained or had. +(_Scobell_, 377.) This is the act referred to by BROCTUNA ("N. & Q.," Vol. +vii., p. 434.), and by my friend MR. ISAIAH DECK ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. +460.), though I am not certain that MR. DECK'S inference be correct, that +this act was passed in consequence of the new and uncertain process for +obtaining the constituents of nitre having failed; and it is quite clear +that Lord Coke could not have referred to this act. The enactment referred +to is introduced by way of proviso in an act allowing the exportation of +goods of English manufacture (_inter alia_, of gunpowder, when the price +did not exceed 5l. per cwt.). + +Allow me, in connexion, with this subject, to refer to Cullum's _History of +Hawsted_, 1st edition, pp. 150. and 151., also to the statute 1 Jac. II. c. +8. s. 3., by which persons obtaining any letters patent for the sole making +or importing gunpowder are subjected to the pains and penalties of +praemunire. + +C. H. COOPER. + +Cambridge. {532} + + * * * * * + + +FORMS OF JUDICIAL OATHS. + +(Vol. vii., p. 458.) + +Will you permit me to make a few observations in reply to the Queries of +MR. H. H. BREEN on this subject? + +There is hardly any custom more ancient than for a person imposing a +promise on another to call on him to bind himself by an oath to the due +performance of it. In this oath the person swearing calls on God, the king, +his father, or some person or thing to whom he attaches authority or value, +to inflict on him punishment or loss in case he breaks his oath. The mode +of swearing is, in one particular, almost everywhere and in every age the +same. + +When a father, a friend, a sword, or any corporeal object is sworn by, _the +swearer places his hand upon it_, and then swears. When a man, however, +swore by the Deity, on whom he cannot place his hand, he raised his hand to +heaven towards the God by whom he swore. + +When Abraham made Abimelech swear to obey him, he caused him to place his +hand under his thigh, and then imposed the oath; and when Jacob, by his +authority as a father, compelled his son Joseph to swear to perform his +promise, he ordered him to go through a similar ceremony. (Genesis, ch. +xxiv. v. 5., and ch. xlvii. v. 29.) + +In the prophet Daniel we read that-- + + "The man clothed in linen which was upon the waters, held up his right + hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for + ever and ever," &c.--Daniel, ch. xii. v. 7. + +In the Revelation we also find-- + + "And the angel, which I saw stand upon the sea and the earth, lifted up + his hand to heaven and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever," + &c.--Revelation, ch. x. v. 5, 6. + +Your correspondent inquires how oaths were taken prior to their being taken +on the Gospel. + +Among the nations who overthrew the Roman empire, the most common mode of +swearing was on the relics of the saints. In England, I think, the most +common mode was to swear on the corporalia or eucharistic elements, whence +we still have the common phrase "upon your corporal oath." In each case the +hand was placed on the thing sworn by. + +The laws of the Alamanni as to conjurators, direct that the sacrament shall +be so arranged that all the conjurators shall place their hands upon the +coffer (containing the relics), and that the principal party shall place +his hand on all theirs, and then they are to swear on the relics. (_Ll. +Alam._ cap. 657.) + +The custom of swearing on the Gospels is repeatedly mentioned in the laws +of the Lombards. (_Ll. Longo._ 1 tit. 21. c. 25.; _Ll. Longo._ 2. tit. 55. +c. 2., and c. 2. tit. 34. _et al._) + +In the _Formularies of Marculphus_, two forms of oaths are given, one says +that-- + + "In palatio nostro super capella domini Martini ubi reliqua sacramenta + percurrunt debeat conjurare." + +In the other we read-- + + "Posita manu supra sacrosanctium altare sancti ... sic juratus dixit. + Juro per hunc locum sanctum et Deum altissimum et virtutis sancti ... + quod," &c. + +In the laws of Cnut of England, two forms of oath are given. They both +begin with "By the Lord before whom this relic is holy." (_Ancient Laws and +Justice of England_, p. 179.) + +Your correspondent asks "what form of Judicial oath was first sanctioned by +Christians as a body?" + +In the history of the Council of Constantinople, it is stated that-- + + "George, the well beloved of God, a deacon and keeper of the records, + having touched the Holy Gospels of God, swore in this manner, 'By these + Holy Scriptures, and by the God who by them has spoken,'" &c. + +At the Council of Nice it is said that-- + + "Prayer having been offered up, every one saluted the Holy Gospels, the + venerated cross and image of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and of + our Lady the mother of God, and placed his hands upon them in + confirmation of what he had said." + +From these I infer that the custom of swearing on the Gospels received the +sanction of the church at a very early period. + +In reply to the question as to other modes of swearing, it may be said +briefly, that men swore by anything to which they attached any importance, +and generally by that to which they attached most importance. + +By the laws of the Alamanni, a wife could claim her _Morgen-gabe_ (or the +gift of the morning after the wedding night) by swearing to its amount on +her breast; and by the Droits d'Augsbourg, by swearing to it on her two +breasts and two tresses. + +Nothing was more common than for a man to swear by his beard. This custom +is alluded to by one of Shakspeare's fools, who suggests that if a certain +knight swore by his honour, and his mistress by her beard, neither of them +_could_ be forsworn. + +In the canons of the Fourth Council of Orleans, we read-- + + "Le Roi lui-meme, ou le plus renomme des chevaliers presents, ayant + decoupe le paon, se leva, et mettant la main sur l'oiseau, fit un voeu + hardi; Ensuite il passa le plat, et chacun de ceux qui le recurent fit + un voeu semblable." + +In the year 1306, Edward I. of England swore an oath on two swans. + +It was also very common from an early period, both in England and abroad, +to swear by one, two, seven, or twelve churches. The deponent went {533} to +the appointed number of churches, and at each, taking the ring of the +church door in his hand, repeated the oath. + +One of the most curious specimens of the practice of swearing men by that +to which they attached most importance, is to be found in an Hindoo law. It +says, let a judge swear a Brahmin by his veracity; a soldier by his horses, +his elephants, or his arms; an agriculturist by his cows, his grain, or his +money; and a Soudra by all his crimes. + +JOHN THRUPP. + +Surbiton. + +I know nothing about judicial oaths: but the origin of the form MR. BREEN +states to be used by the Roman Catholics of the Continent, and the Scotch +Presbyterians, may be seen in Dan. xii. 7.: "When he held up his right hand +and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever." And +in Revelation x. 5, 6.: "And the angel ... lifted up his hand to heaven, +and sware by him," &c. See also Genesis xiv. 22. + +MARIA. + + * * * * * + + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Washing Collodion Pictures--Test for Lens._--As I was indebted to the +kindness of DR. DIAMOND, amongst other friends, for my original initiation +into the mysteries of photography, it may appear somewhat presumptuous in +me to differ from one who has had so much more experience in a point of +practice. I allude to that of _washing_ the collodion negative after +developing, previously to fixing with the hyposulphite of soda; but, +probably, the reasons I urge may have some weight. As the hyposulphite +solution is intended to be used repeatedly, it appears to me not advisable +to introduce into it _any free acid_ (which must occur if the negative be +not washed, although the quantity at each operation may be small), because +it causes a decomposition of the salt, setting free _sulphurous_ acid, and +also sulphur; which last is slightly soluble in the hyposulphite of soda, +and thus the sulphur is brought in contact with the reduced silver, and +forms a sulphuret of that metal. But the change does not stop here: for, by +the lapse of time, oxygen is absorbed, and thus a _sulphate of silver_ is +formed, and the colour changed from black to white. That sulphur is set +free by the addition of an acid to the solution of hyposulphite of soda, is +fact so easily demonstrable both to the eyes and nose of the operator, that +no one need remain long in doubt who is desirous of trying the experiment. + +A correspondent desires to know how to test the coincidence or otherwise of +the visual and actinic foci of a combination: this is very readily +accomplished by the aid of a _focimeter_, which can be easily made thus: + +Procure a piece of stout card-board, or thin wood covered with white paper, +on which draw a considerable number of fine black lines, or cover it with +some fine black net (what I believe the ladies call _blond_), which may be +pasted on. Cut up the whole into a dozen good-sized pieces of any +convenient form, so that about four square inches of surface at least be +allowed to each piece. Paste over the _net_ a circular or square label +about the size of a shilling, bearing a distinctly printed number one on +each piece, from 1 upwards; and arrange the pieces in any convenient manner +by means of wires inserted into a slip of wood; but they must be so placed +that the _whole_ can be seen from one point of view, although each piece +must be placed so that it is _one inch_ farther from the operator than the +next lowest number. Having placed the camera eight or ten feet from the +cards, carefully focus to any one of the numbers, 4 or 5 for instance and +observe, not that the _number_ is distinct, but that the minute lines or +threads of the net are visible: then take a picture, exposing it a very +short time, and the threads of the card bearing the number that was most +perfectly in focus visually _ought_ to be most distinct; but, if otherwise, +that which is most distinct will not only show whether the lens is over or +under corrected, but will indicate the _amount_ of error. If under +corrected, a lower number will be most distinct; if over corrected, a +higher. + +GEO. SHADBOLT. + +_Test for Lenses._--I beg to submit to a COUNTRY PRACTITIONER the following +very simple test for the coincidence of the chemical and visual foci of an +achromatic lens: + +Take a common hand-bill or other sheet of printed paper, and having +stretched it on a board, place it before the lens in an oblique position, +so that the plane of the board may make an angle with a vertical plane of +about thirty or forty degrees. Bring any line of type about the middle of +the sheet into the true visual focus, and take a copy of the sheet by +collodion or otherwise. Then, if the line of type focussed upon be +reproduced clearly and sharply on the plate, the lens is correct; but if +any other line be found sharper than the test one, the foci disagree; and +the amount of error will depend on the distance of the two lines of type +one from the other on the hand-bill. + +J. A. MILES. + +Fakenham, Norfolk. + +_Improvement in Positives._--I have great pleasure in communicating to you +an improvement in the process of taking positives, which may not be +uninteresting to some of your readers, and which ensures by far the most +beautiful tints I have yet seen. I take three ounces of the hyposulphite of +soda, and dissolve it in one pint of distilled or rain water; and to this I +add about one or one and a half grains of pyrogallic acid, and seventy +grains {534} of chloride of silver; which must be squeezed up between the +finders facilitate its solution and separate the lumps, which, in their dry +state, are tough, and not easily pulverised. The whole is then to be set +aside for a week or two in a warm place. The solution, at first colourless, +becomes brown, and ultimately quite opaque; in this state it is fit for +use, and the longer kept the better it becomes. I generally use French +paper for this process, and, according to the time of immersion, obtain +fine sepia or black tints; the latter requiring long over-exposure to the +light, and proportionately long exposure to the action of the liquid; which +however will be found, particularly when old, to have a more rapid action +than most other setting liquids, and has the merit of always affording fine +tints, whatever the paper used. I imagine the pyrogallic acid to possess a +reducing influence on the salts of silver employed; but this effect is only +produced by its combination with the hyposulphite of soda and chloride of +silver. I may add, that in any case the pictures should be much overdone +before immersion, as the liquid exerts a rapid bleaching action on them; +and when the liquid becomes saturated, a few crystals of fresh hyposulphite +will renew its action. + +F. MAXWELL LYTE. + +Florian, Torquay. + +P. S.--In answer to a COUNTRY PRACTITIONER, he will find great assistance +in choosing his lens by laying it on a sheet of blue wove post paper, when +he will immediately perceive the slightest yellow tinge in the glass, this +being the fault which frequently affects many well-ground and well-made +lenses. Of course, for sharpness of outline he must be guided entirely by +experiment in the camera; but where weakness of action exists, it most +frequently arises from this yellow colouration, and which the manufacturers +say is very difficult to avoid. + + [MR. LYTE having sent with his communication a positive prepared in the + manner described, we are enabled to corroborate all he says as to the + richness and beauty of its tints.] + +_Cheap Portable Tent._--M. F. M. inquires for a cheap and portable tent for +working collodion out of doors. I have been using one lately constructed on +the principle of Francis's camera stand. It has a good size table, made +like the rolling patent shutters; and it is not necessary to stoop, or sit +down at your work, which is a great consideration on a hot day: you may get +them of any respectable dealer in photographic apparatus; it is called +Francis's Collodion Tent. + +H. D. FRANCIS. + +_Rev. Mr. Sisson's New Developing Fluid_ (Vol. vii., p. 462.).--The REV. +MR. SISSON's developing fluid for collodion positives, the formula for +which was published in the last Number of "N. & Q.," is merely a weak +solution of the protonitrate and protosulphate of iron. It does not, as he +seems to think, contain any lead; for the whole of the latter is +precipitated as sulphate, which the acetic acid does not dissolve even to +the smallest extent: and MR. SISSON will find that an equivalent proportion +of the nitrate of baryta will answer equally as well as the nitrate of +lead. + +I have myself for a long time been in the habit of using a weak solution of +the protonitrate of iron in conjunction with acetic acid for positive +pictures; for, although I do not consider it so good a developer as that +made according to the formula of DR. DIAMOND, it produces very good +pictures; occupies very little time in preparing, and will moreover keep +good for a much longer time than a more concentrated solution would. + +J. LEACHMAN. + +20. Compton Terrace, Islington. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Vanes_ (Vol. v., p. 490.).--Taking up by accident the other day your fifth +volume, I saw what I believe is a still unanswered Query respecting the +earliest notice of vanes as indicators of the wind; and turning to my notes +I found the following extract from Beckman's _Inventions, &c._: + + "In Ughelli Italia Sacra, Romae 1652, fol. iv., p 735., we find the + following inscription on a weathercock then existing at Brixen; + '_Dominus Rampertus Episc. gallum hunc fieri praecepit an. 820._'" + +L. A. M. + +_Loselerius Villerius_ (Vol. vii., p. 454.).--I beg to inform S. A. S. that +his copy of the New Testament, which wants the title-page, was printed by +Henry Stephens the second, at Geneva, in the year 1580. As to it being +"valuable," I should not consider him unfortunate if he could exchange it +for a shilling. + +Loselerius Villerius was Pierre l'Oyseleur de Villiers, a professor of +Genevan divinity, who came over to London, and there published Beza's Latin +version of the New Testament, in 1574. He was not, however, as your +correspondent supposed him to be, the editor of the decapitated volume in +question; but Beza transferred his notes to an impression completed by +himself. + +S. A. S. has, in the next place, inquired for any satisfactory "list of +editions of the Bible." It appears that, so far as he is concerned, Le +Long, Boerner, Masch, and Cotton have lived and laboured in vain. + +The folio Bible lastly described by your correspondent is _not_ "so great a +curiosity" as family tradition maintained. The annotations "placed in due +order" are merely the Genevan notes.--See {535} the Archdeacon of Cashel's +very accurate and excellent work, _Editions of the Bible, and Parts +thereof, in English_, p. 75.: Oxford, 1852. + +R. G. + +_Westminster Parishes_ (Vol. vii., p. 454.).--In 1630 the City and +Liberties of Westminster contained the churches of St. Margaret, St. +Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Clement Danes, and St. John Baptist Savoy. + +The registers of burials, marriages, and christenings, of St. Margaret's +Church, began January 1, 1538. + +The Fire of London did not destroy any church in Westminster. + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + +_Hevristic_ (Vol. vii., p. 237.).--The term _hevristisch_, in the first +edition of the translation of Kant's _Critik_, is not given in the +vocabulary appended to the translation; but under the word _ostensiv_ it is +stated that in its meaning it stands opposed to the word _euristic_ +(_hevristisch_ in German). But in the second edition, published in 1818, it +is remarked, under the words _evristic_, _euristic_, _hevristisch_, that +the term should, in Sir Wm. Hamilton's opinion, be _euretic_ or _heuretic_; +the word _hevristisch_ being an error of long standing in German +philosophy. The derivation of _euretic_ would be from [Greek: heuretikos]. + +In Tissot's translation, _hevristisch_ is rendered by _heuristique_; in +Mantovani's, by _evristico_; in Born's, by _heuristicus_. In Krug's +_Lexicon_, _hevristik_ is given as derived from [Greek: heurisko, heurein]. +The _hevristic_ method, Krug remarks, is also called the _analytical_. It +may be added, that in the first edition of the _Critik_ (Riga, 1781), the +word is _hevristisch_. In the fourth edition (Riga, 1794), published also +in Kant's lifetime, it is _hevristisch_. In Rosenkranz's edition (Leipzig, +1838), the word is changed into _heuristisch_; and also, in another edition +of the same year, published also at Leipzig, it is written _heuristisch_, +and not _hevristisch_. + +In respect to the Leipzig edition of 1818, which is that now before me, the +term _hevristisch_, in speaking of _hevristich_ principles, is particularly +alluded to. (See page 512. line 10.) I do not find, after a hasty +inspection, this word changed, in any of the editions I possess, to +_empirisch_. + +FRANCIS HAYWOOD. + +Liverpool. + +_Creole_ (Vol. vii., p. 381.).--The word appears to be a French form of the +Spanish _criollo_, which in the dictionary of Nunez de Taboada is defined, +"El hijo de padres Europeos nacido en America;" whilst in the old +dictionary of Stevens (1726) it is translated, "Son of a Spaniard and a +West India woman." In Brande's _Dictionary of Science_, &c. Creole is said +to mean the descendants of whites born in Mexico, South America, or the +West Indies, the blood remaining unmixed with that of other races, &c. + +Von Tschudi says, that in South America the Spaniards apply the term +_Creole_ not only to the human race, but also to horses, bullocks, and even +to poultry. + +A. C. M. + +Exeter. + +_General Monk and the University of Cambridge_ (Vol. vii., pp. 427. +486.).--LEICESTRIENSIS begs to thank MR. C. H. COOPER and MR. J. P. ORD for +their replies to his Query on this subject. He avails himself of this, the +earliest opportunity, of assuring MR. ORD of his readiness to afford him +what slight information is in his power respecting the MS. in question +(which only came into his possession within the last two or three months), +if he will communicate with him as below. + +WILLIAM KELLY. + +Town Hall, Leicester. + +_Ecclesia Anglicana_ (Vol. ii., pp. 12. 440.).--I am much obliged to your +correspondent W. FRASER for his answer to my Query, and the references with +which he supplies me. I shall be glad to ask a still more extensive +question, which will probably explain the object of the former more limited +one. Is it _usual_, in any of the unreformed branches of the church on the +continent, to find a similar appellation (implying distinct nationality) +employed in authoritative documents, _e.g._ would it be possible to find in +the title-pages of any Missal, &c., such words as "in usum Ecclesiae +Hispanicae, Lusitanae, Gallicanae?" If not now, was it more customary in +mediaeval times, and when did it cease? + +Should we be justified in saying, that at _every_ period of her existence, +with rare exceptions, the _Anglican church_, consciously or unconsciously, +maintained the theory of her nationality with greater distinctness than any +of the continental churches? I fancy I have heard, though I cannot state on +what authority, that this assertion might be made most truly of the +Portuguese church, and should be very glad to have any light thrown on the +subject by your able correspondent. Certain it is, that amongst the various +complaints made against Cardinal Wiseman and the Papal aggressors, it has +never been laid to their charge, that they arrogated to themselves the +title of members of the _Anglican church_. + +G. R. M. + +_Gibbon's Library_ (Vol. vii., p. 485.).--In 1838 I purchased some of +Gibbon's books at Lausanne, out of a basketful on sale at a small shop, the +depot of the Religious Tract Society! Edward Gibbon, printed on a small +slip of paper, was pasted in them. + +A. HOLT WHITE. + +_Golden Bees_ (Vol. vii., p. 478.).--When the tomb of Childeric, father of +Clovis, was opened in 1653, there were found, besides the skeletons of his +horse and page, his arms, crystal orb, &c., {536} "more than three hundred +little bees of the purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a red stone +like cornelian." + +CERIDWEN. + +_Passage in Orosius_ (Vol. vii., p. 399.).--May not the "twam tyncenum," +between which Cyrus the Great's officer attempted to cross a river, be the +inflated skins which the Arabs still use, as the ancient inhabitants of +Assyria did, for crossing the Tigris and Euphrates, and of which the +Nimroud sculptures give so many illustrations? + +CERIDWEN. + +_Names first given to Parishes_ (Vol. iv., p. 153.).--I wish to repeat this +Query in another form, and particularly in reference to the termination +_-by_. I suspect that wherever a cluster of villages, like that given by +F. B., occurs with this Danish suffix, it is a proof that the district was +originally a colony of Danes. The one in which I reside (the hundreds of +Flegg), from its situation is particularly likely to have been so. Its +original form was evidently that of a large island in the estuary of the +Yare, which formed numerous inlets in its shores; and this was flanked on +each aisle by a Roman garrison, one the celebrated fortress of Garianonum, +now Burgh Castle, and the other Caistor-next-Yarmouth, in which a camp, +burying-ground, &c., besides its name, sufficiently attest its Roman +origin. The two hundreds of Flegg, (or Fleyg, as appears on its common +seal) comprise twenty villages, thirteen of which terminate in _-by_. These +are Ormesby, Hemesby, Filby, Mauteby, Stokesby, Herringby, Thrigby, +Billockby, Ashby or Askeby, Clippesby, Rollesby, Oby, and Scratby or +Scroteby. + +Professor WORSAAE, I believe, considers Ormesby to have been originally +Gormsby, _i.e._ Gorm's or Guthrum's village, but I have not his work at +hand to refer to. Thrigby, or Trigby as it is vernacularly pronounced, and +Rollesby, may take their names from Trigge or Tricga, and Rollo, names +occurring in Scandinavian history. I should feel obliged if Professors +WORSAAE and STEPHENS, or other Scandinavian antiquaries and scholars, would +kindly inform me if my surmises are correct, and if the rest of the names +may be similarly derived. I should add that Stokesby fully hears out the +suggestion of C. (Vol. v., p. 161.), as there is even now a ferry over the +Bure at that point. The district is entirely surrounded by rivers and +extensive tracts of marshes, and intersected by large inland lakes, locally +termed "Broads," which undoubtedly were all comprised in the estuary, and +which would form safe anchorages for the long galleys of the Northmen. + +E. S. TAYLOR. + +Ormesby, St. Margaret, Norfolk. + +_Grafts and the Parent Tree_ (Vol. vii., p. 436.).--In order to insure the +success of grafts, it is material that they be inserted on congenial +stocks: delicate-growing fruits require dwarf-growing stocks; and free +luxuriant-growing trees require strong stocks. To graft scions of delicate +wooded trees on strong stocks, occasions an over-supply of sap to the +grafts; and though at first they seem to flourish, yet they do not endure. +A few examples of this sort may lead to an opinion, that "grafts, after +some fifteen years, wear themselves out;" but the opinion is not (generally +speaking) well founded. I have for many years grafted the old _Golden +Pippin_ on the _Paradise_ or _Doucin_ stock, and found it to answer very +well, and produce excellent fruit. Taunton has long been famous for its +_Nonpareils_, which are there produced in great excellence and abundance. +The Cornish _Gilliflower_, one of our very best apples, was well known in +the time of King Charles I.; and, as yet, shows no symptoms of decay: that +fruit requires a strong stock. + +The ancient _Ribston Pippin_ was a seedling: + + "It has been doubted by some, whether the tree at Ribston Hall was an + original from the seed: the fact of its not being a grafted tree has + been satisfactorily ascertained by Sir Henry Goodricke, the present + proprietor, by causing suckers from its root to be planted out--which + have set the matter at rest that it was not a grafted tree. One of + these suckers has produced fruit in the Horticultural Garden at + Chiswick."--Lindley's _Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden_, 1831, + p. 81. + +J. G. + +Exon. + +_Lord Cliff and Howell's Letters_ (Vol. vii., p. 455.).--The Lord Cliff, as +to whom your correspondent inquires, and to whom James Howell addresses +some of his letters, is intended for Henry Lord Clifford, and afterwards, +on the decease of his father, fifth and last Earl of Cumberland. He died in +December, 1643. Amongst the many republications of modern times, I regret +that we have no new edition, with illustrative notes, of Howell's +_Letters_. It is the more necessary, as one at least of the later editions +of this most entertaining book is very much abridged and mutilated. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + +Y. S. M. asks "Who was Lord Cliff?" He might as well have added, "Who was +Lord Viscount Col, Sir Thomas Sa, or End. Por?" who also figure in +_Epistolae Ho-Elianiae_. Had he looked over that entertaining book more +attentively, Y. S. M. would have seen that all these were mere contractions +of Howell's correspondents, Lord Clifford, Lord Colchester, Sir Thomas +Savage, and Endymion Porter. + +J. O. + +_The Bouillon Bible_ (Vol. vii., p. 296.).--H. W., who was good enough to +answer my Query respecting Philip D'Auvergne, has probably seen that the +Bible of which he inquires has turned up. {537} It seems to have been +pawned (if I rightly understand the report in the newspapers) to a Mr. +Broughton of the Foreign Office, who had advanced money to the prince to +enable him to prosecute his claim to the dukedom. It has now been ordered +by Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood to be offered for sale as part of Mr. +Broughton's estate, for the benefit of that gentleman's creditors. It was +stated in court, that on a former occasion, when the late Archbishop of +Canterbury wished to purchase it, 1500l. was asked for it. I was much +obliged to H. W. for the information he gave me, as I took some little +interest in Philip D'Auvergne from having heard that he was a friend of my +grandfather. They were, I find, both of them officers in the Racehorse +during Lord Mulgrave's discovery voyage to the North Pole. + +E. H. A. + +_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. vii., p. 143.).--Northamptonshire: + + "Armston on the hill, + Polebrook in the hole, + Ashton turns the mill, + Oundle burns the coal." + +Repeated to me by poor old drunken Jem White the sexton, many years since, +when on the "battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being the market town +for the three villages in the rhymes quoted. + +BRICK. + +_Serpents' Tongues_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.; Vol. vii., p. 316.).--May I be +allowed to inform MR. PINKERTON that the sharks' teeth (fossils), now so +frequently found imbedded in this tufa rock, and cheaply sold, are not +known as "the tongues of vipers," but, on the contrary, from time +immemorial, as the "tongues of St. Paul." In proof of this, I would refer +MR. PINKERTON to the following extract, which I have taken from an Italian +letter now in the Maltese Library; which was published on August 28, 1668, +by Dr. Francis Buonamico, a native of this island, and addressed to +Agostino Scilla of Messina. Page 5., the writer remarks: + + "Che avanti de partire da questa isolde dovesse farle una raccolta di + glossopietre, _O lingue come que le chiamiamo di S. Paolo_." + +W. W. + +Malta. + +_Consecrated Roses, &c._ (Vol. vii., pp. 407. 480.).--An instance of the +_Golden Rose_ being conferred on an English baron, will be found related in +Davidson's _History of Newenham Abbey in the County of Devon_, p. 208. + +J. D. S. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. + +That well-worn quotation, "who shall decide when doctors disagree," must, +we should think, invariably suggest itself to the reader of every new book +upon the subject of Shakspeare's text. A few months since MR. COLLIER gave +to the world a volume of _Notes and Emendations from Early Manuscript +Corrections in a Copy of the Folio 1632_[1], which was hailed by many, +ourselves among the number, as a most valuable contribution to Shakspearian +literature. From this favourable view of these manuscript emendations, many +whose opinions upon such matters deserve the highest respect at once avowed +their dissent; and we now find that we have to add to this number MR. +SINGER, who has given us the result of his examination of them in a volume +entitled _The Text of Shakspeare vindicated from the Interpolations and +Corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier, Esq., in his Notes and +Emendations_. No one can put forth higher claims to speak with authority on +any points connected with Shakspeare than MR. SINGER, who has devoted a +life to the study of his writings; and none can rise from a perusal of his +book without recognising in it evidence of MR. SINGER'S fitness for editing +the works of our great dramatist, and feeling anxious for his revised +edition of them. But we think many will regret that, while pointing out the +Notes and Emendations from which he dissents, MR. SINGER should not have +noticed those which he regards with favour; and that, in his anxiety to +vindicate the purity of Shakspeare's text from the anonymous emendator, he +should have embodied that vindication in language, which, though we are +quite sure it is unintentional on his part, gives his book almost a +personal character, instead of one purely critical. + +BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Records of the Roman Inquisition, Case of a Minorite +Friar who was sentenced by S. Charles Borromeo to be walled up, and who, +having escaped, was burned in effigy: edited, with an English Translation, +Notes, &c., by_ Rev. Richard Gibbings. 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