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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, No. 181, April 16, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21445] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NO. 181 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Pat A Benoy +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + + ++--------------------------------------------------------------+ +| | +| Transcriber's Note: Italicized words, phrases, etc. are | +| surrounded by _underline characters_. Greek transliterations | +| are surrounded by ~tildes~. Diacritical marks over | +| characters are bracketed: [=x] indicates a macron over the | +| letter, [(x] indicates a breve. Archaic spellings and | +| hypenation inconsistancies have been retained. | ++--------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +{373} +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 181.] +SATURDAY, APRIL 16. 1853. +[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- Page + "The Shepherd of Banbury's Weather-Rules," by + W. B. Rye 373 + Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. + R. Arrowsmith 375 + Lord Coke 376 + Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, + &c. 377 + + MINOR NOTES:--Alleged Cure for Hydrophobia--Epitaph + at Mickleton--Charade attributed to Sheridan-- + Suggested Reprint of Hearne--Suggestions of Books + worthy of being reprinted--Epigram all the Way from + Belgium--Derivation of "Canada"--Railway Signals + --A Centenarian Trading Vessel 379 +QUERIES:-- + Bishop Ken 380 + MINOR QUERIES:--Canute's Reproof to his Courtiers + --The Sign of the Cross in the Greek Church--Rev. + Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale, temp. Eliz.-- + Huet's Navigations of Solomon--Sheriff of Worcestershire + in 1781--Tree of the Thousand Images--De + Burgh Family--Witchcraft Sermons at Huntingdon-- + Consort--Creole--Shearman Family--Traitors' Ford + --"Your most obedient humble Servant"--Version + of a Proverb--Ellis Walker--"The Northerne Castle" + --Prayer-Book in French--"Navita Erythraeum," &c. + --Edmund Burke--Plan of London--Minchin 380 + + MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Leapor's "Unhappy + Father"--Meaning of "the Litten" or "Litton" + --St. James' Market House 382 + +REPLIES:-- + Grub Street Journal, by James Crossley 383 + Stone Pillar Worship 383 + Autographs in Books 384 + Grindle 384 + Roger Outlawe, by Dr. J. H. Todd, &c. 385 + Prospectus to Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," by James + Crossley 386 + Pic-nic, by John Anthony, M.D., and Henry H. Breen 387 + Peter Sterry and Jeremiah White, by James Crossley 388 + + PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Colouring Collodion + Portraits--On some Points in the Collodion + Process--Economical Iodizing Process 388 + + REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Juxon's Account + of Vendible Books in England--Dutensiana--Vicars-Apostolic + --Tombstone in Churchyard--"Her face is + like," &c.--Annuellarius--Ship's Painter--True Blue + --"Quod fuit esse"--Subterranean Bells--Spontaneous + Combustion--Muffs worn by Gentlemen-- + Crescent--The Author of "The Family Journal"-- + Parochial Libraries--Sidney as a Christian Name-- + "Rather"--Lady High Sheriff--Nugget--Epigrams + --Editions of the Prayer-Book--Portrait of Pope-- + Passage in Coleridge--Lowbell--Burn at Croydon 390 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, &c. 394 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 394 + Notices to Correspondents 394 + Advertisements 395 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES. + + +"THE SHEPHERD OF BANBURY'S WEATHER-RULES." + +_The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to judge of the Changes of the +Weather_, first printed in 1670, was long a favourite book with the +country gentleman, the farmer, and the peasant. They were accustomed to +regard it with the consideration and confidence which were due to the +authority of so experienced a master of the art of prognostication, and +dismissing every sceptical thought, received his maxims with the same +implicit faith as led them to believe that if their cat chanced to wash +her face, rainy weather would be the certain and inevitable result. +Moreover, this valuable little manual instructed them how to keep their +horses, sheep, and oxen sound, and prescribed cures for them when +distempered. No wonder, then, if it has passed through many editions. +Yet it has been invariably stated that _The Banbury Shepherd_ in fact +had no existence; was purely an imaginary creation; and that the work +which passes under his name, "John Claridge," was written by Dr. John +Campbell, the Scottish historian, who died in 1775. The statements made +in connexion with this book are curious enough; and it is with a view of +placing the matter in a clear and correct light that I now trouble you +with a Note, which will, I hope, tend to restore to this poor +weather-wise old shepherd his long-lost rank and station among the rural +authors of England. + +I believe that the source of the error is to be traced to the second +edition of the _Biographia Britannica_, in a memoir of Dr. Campbell by +Kippis, in which, when enumerating the works of the learned Doctor, +Kippis says, "He was also the author of _The Shepherd of Banbury's +Rules_,--a favourite pamphlet with the common people." We next find the +book down to Campbell as the "author" in Watt's _Bibliotheca +Britannica_, which is copied both by Chalmers and Lowndes. And so the +error has been perpetuated, even up to the time of the publication of a +meritorious _History of Banbury_, by the late Mr. Alfred Beesley, in +1841. This writer thus speaks of the work: + + "The far-famed shepherd of Banbury is only an apocryphal + personage. In 1744 there was published {374} _The Shepherd of + Banbury's Rules to judge of the Changes of the Weather, grounded + on forty Years' Experience. To which is added, a rational + Account of the Causes of such Alterations, the Nature of Wind, + Rain, Snow, &c., on the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy. + By John Claridge. London: printed for W. Bickerton, in the + Temple Exchange, Fleet Street. Price 1s._ The work attracted a + large share of public attention, and deserved it. A second + edition appeared in 1748.... It is stated in Kippis's + _Biographia Britannica_ that, the real author was Dr. John + Campbell, a Scotchman." + +In 1770 there appeared _An Essay on the Weather, with Remarks on "The +Shepherd of Banbury's Rules, &c."_: by John Mills, Esq., F.R.S. Mr. +Mills observes: + + "Who the shepherd of Banbury was, we know not; nor indeed have + we any proof that the rules called his were penned by a real + shepherd. Both these points are, however, immaterial; their + truth is their best voucher.... Mr. Claridge published them in + the year 1744, since which time they are become very scarce, + having long been out of print." + +Now all these blundering attempts at annihilating the poor shepherd may, +I think, be accounted for by neither of the above-mentioned writers +having a knowledge of the original edition, published in 1670, of the +real shepherd's book (the title of which I will presently give), which +any one may see in the British Museum library. It has on the title-page +a slight disfigurement of name, viz. John _Clearidge_; but it is +_Claridge_ in the Preface. The truth is, that Dr. John Campbell +_re-published_ the book in 1744, but without affixing his own name, or +giving any information of its author or of previous editions. The part, +however, which he bore in this edition is explained by the latter +portion of the title already given; and still more clearly in the +Preface. We find authorities added, to give weight to the shepherd's +remarks; and likewise additional rules in relation to the weather, +derived from the common sayings and proverbs of the country people, and +from old English books of husbandry. It may, in short, be called a +clever scientific commentary on the shepherd's observations. After what +has been stated, your readers will not be surprised to learn that one +edition of the work appears in Watt's very inaccurate book under +CLARIDGE, another under CLEARIDGE, and a third under CAMPBELL. I will +now speak of the original work: it is a small octavo volume of +thirty-two pages, rudely printed, with an amusing Preface "To the +Reader," in which the shepherd dwells with much satisfaction on his +peculiar vaticinating talents. As this Preface has been omitted in all +subsequent editions, and as the book itself is extremely scarce, I +conceive that a reprint of it in your pages may be acceptable to your +Folk-lore readers. The "Rules" are interlarded with scraps of poetry, +somewhat after the manner of old Tusser, and bear the unmistakeable +impress of a "plain, unlettered Muse." The author concludes his work +with a poetical address "to the antiquity and honour of shepheards." The +title is rather a droll one, and is as follows: + + "The Shepheard's Legacy: or John Clearidge his forty Years' + Experience of the Weather: being an excellent Treatise, wherein + is shewed the Knowledge of the Weather. First, by the Rising and + Setting of the Sun. 2. How the Weather is known by the Moon. 3. + By the Stars. 4. By the Clouds. 5. By the Mists. 6. By the + Rainbow. 7. And especially by the Winds. Whereby the Weather may + be exactly known from Time to Time: which Observation was never + heretofore published by any Author. 8. Also, how to keep your + Sheep sound when they be sound. 9. And how to cure them if they + be rotten. 10. Is shewed the Antiquity and Honour of Shepheards. + With some certain and assured Cures for thy Horse, Cow, and + Sheep. + + An Almanack is out at twelve months day, + My Legacy it doth endure for aye. + But take you notice, though 'tis but a hint, + It far excels some books of greater print. + + London: printed and are to be sold by John Hancock, Junior, at + the Three Bibles in Popes-head Ally, next Cornhill, 1670." + +In the Preface he tells us that-- + + "Having been importun'd by sundry friends (some of them being + worthy persons) to make publique for their further benefit what + they have found by experience to be useful for themselves and + others, I could not deny their requests; but was willing to + satisfie them, as also my own self, to do others good as well as + myself; lest I should hide my talent in a napkin, and my skill + be rak'd up with me in the dust. Therefore I have left it to + posterity, that they may have the fruit when the old tree is + dead and rotten. And because I would not be tedious, I shall + descend to some few particular instances of my skill and + foreknowledge of the weather, and I shall have done. + + "First, in the year 1665, at the 1st of January, I told several + credible persons that the then frost would hold till March, that + men could not plow, and so it came to pass directly. + + "2. I also told them that present March, that it would be a very + dry summer, which likewise came to pass. + + "3. The same year, in November, I told them it would be a very + open winter, which also came to pass, although at that time it + was a great snow: but it lasted not a week. + + "4. In the year 1666, I told them that year in March, that it + would be a very dry spring; which also came to pass. + + "5. In the year 1667, certaine shepheards ask'd my councel + whether they might venture their sheep any more in the + Low-fields? I told them they might safely venture them till + August next; and they sped very well, without any loss. + + "6. I told them, in the beginning of September the same year, + that it would be a south-west wind for two or {375} three months + together, and also great store of rain, so that wheat sowing + would be very difficult in the Low-fields, by reason of wet; + which we have found by sad experience. And further, I told them + that they should have not above three or four perfect fair days + together till the shortest day. + + "7. In the year 1668, in March, although it was a very dry + season then, I told my neighbours that it would be an + extraordinary fruitful summer for hay and grass, and I knew it + by reason there was so much rain in the latter end of February + and beginning of March: for by that I ever judge of the summers, + and I look that the winter will be dry and frosty for the most + part, by reason that this November was mild: for by that I do + ever judge of the winters. + + "Now, I refer you unto the book itself, which will sufficiently + inform you of sundry other of my observations. For in the + ensuing discourse I have set you down the same rules which I go + by myself. And if any one shall question the truth of what is + here set down, let them come to me, and I will give them further + satisfaction. + + JOHN CLARIDGE, SEN. + + "Hanwell, near Banbury." + +It appears, from inquiries made in the neighbourhood, that the name of +Claridge is still common at Hanwell, a small village near Banbury--that +"land o'cakes,"--and that last century there was a John Claridge, a +small farmer, resident there, who died in 1758, and who might have been +a grandson of the "far-famed," but unjustly defamed, "shepherd of +Banbury." + +_Apropos_ of the "cakes" for which this flourishing town has long been +celebrated, I beg to inform your correspondent ERICA (Vol. vii., p. +106.) and J. R. M., M.A. (p. 310.) that there is a receipt "how to make +a very good Banbury cake," printed as early as 1615, in Gervase +Markham's _English Hus-wife_. + +W. B. RYE. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES ON SEVERAL MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS. + +(_Continued from_ p. 353.) + +_To miss_, to dispense with. This usage of the verb being of such +ordinary occurrence, I should have deemed it superfluous to illustrate, +were it not that the editors of Shakspeare, according to custom, are at +a loss for examples: + + + "We cannot _miss_ him." + + _The Tempest_, Act I. Sc. 2. (where see Mr. Collier's note, and + also Mr. Halliwell's, Tallis's edition). + + "All which things being much admirable, yet this is most, that + they are so profitable; bringing vnto man both honey and wax, + each so wholesome that we all desire it, both so necessary that + we cannot _misse_ them."--_Euphues and his England._ + + "I will have honest valiant souls about me; + I cannot _miss_ thee." + + Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Mad Lover_, Act II. Sc. 1. + + "The blackness of this season cannot _miss_ me." + + The second _Maiden's Tragedy_, Act V. Sc. 1. + + "All three are to be had, we cannot _miss_ any of them."--Bishop + Andrewes, "A Sermon prepared to be preached on Whit Sunday, A.D. + 1622," _Library of Ang.-Cath. Theology_, vol. iii. p. 383. + + "For these, for every day's dangers we cannot _miss_ the + hand."--"A Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at + Burleigh, near Oldham, A.D. 1614," _Id._, vol. iv. p. 86. + + "We cannot _miss_ one of them; they be necessary all."--_Id._, + vol. i. p. 73. + +It is hardly necessary to occupy further room with more instances of so +familiar a phrase, though perhaps it may not be out of the way to +remark, that _miss_ is used by Andrewes as a substantive in the same +sense as the verb, namely, in vol. v. p. 176.: the more usual form being +_misture_, or, earlier, _mister_. Mr. Halliwell, in his _Dictionary_, +most unaccountably treats these two forms as distinct words; and yet, +more unaccountably, collecting the import of _misture_ for the context, +gives it the signification of misfortune!! He quotes Nash's _Pierce +Pennilesse_; the reader will find the passage at p. 47. of the +Shakspeare Society's reprint. I subjoin another instance from vol. viii. +p. 288. of Cattley's edition of Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_: + + "Therefore all men evidently declared at that time, both how + sore they took his death to heart; and also how hardly they + could away with the _misture_ of such a man." + +In Latin, _desidero_ and _desiderium_ best convey the import of this +word. + +_To buckle_, bend or bow. Here again, to their great discredit be it +spoken, the editors of Shakspeare (Second Part of _Hen. IV._, Act I. Sc. +1.) are at fault for an example. Mr. Halliwell gives one in his +_Dictionary_ of the passive participle, which see. In Shakspeare it +occurs as a neuter verb: + + "... And teach this body, + To bend, and these my aged knees to _buckle_, + In adoration and just worship to you." + Ben Jonson, _Staple of News_, Act II. Sc. 1. + + "For, certainly, like as great stature in a natural body is some + advantage in youth, but is but burden in age: so it is with + great territory, which, when a state beginneth to decline, doth + make it stoop and _buckle_ so much the faster."--Lord Bacon, "Of + the True Greatness of Great Britain," vol. i. p. 504. (Bohn's + edition of the _Works_). + +And again, as a transitive verb: + + "Sear trees, standing or felled, belong to the lessee, and you + have a special replication in the book of 44 E. III., that the + wind did but rend them and _buckle_ them."--_Case of Impeachment + of Waste_, vol. i. p. 620. + +_On the hip_, at advantage. A term of wrestling. So said Dr. Johnson at +first; but, on second {376} thoughts, referred it to _venery_, with +which Mr. Dyce consents: both erroneously. Several instances are adduced +by the latter, in his _Critique of Knight and Collier's Shakspeare_; any +one of which, besides the passage in _The Merchant of Venice_, should +have confuted that origin of the phrase. The hip of a chase is no term +of woodman's craft: the haunch is. Moreover, what a marvellous +expression, to say, A hound has a chase _on_ the hip, instead of _by_. +Still more prodigious to say, that a hound _gets_ a chase _on_ the hip. +One would be loth to impute to the only judicious dramatic commentator +of the day, a love of contradiction as the motive for quarrelling with +Mr. Collier's note on this idiom. To the examples alleged by Mr. Dyce, +the three following may be added; whereof the last, after the opinion of +Sir John Harington, rightly refers the origin of the metaphor to +wrestling: + + "The Divell hath them _on the hip_, he may easily bring them to + anything."--_Michael and the Dragon_, by D. Dike, p. 328. + (_Workes_, London, 1635). + + "If he have us at the advantage, _on the hip_ as we say, it is + no great matter then to get service at our hands."--Andrewes, "A + Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Whitehall, 1617," + _Library of Ang.-Cath. Theology_, vol. iv. p. 365. + + "Full oft the valiant knight his hold doth shift, + And with much prettie sleight, the same doth slippe; + In fine he doth applie one speciall drift, + Which was to get the Pagan on the _hippe_: + And hauing caught him right, he doth him lift, + By nimble sleight, and in such wise doth trippe: + That downe he threw him, and his fall was such, + His head-piece was the first that ground did tuch." + Sir John Harington's Translation of _Orlando + Furioso_, Booke xlvi. Stanza 117. + +In some editions, the fourth line is printed "_namely_ to get," &c., +with other variations in the spelling of the rest of the stanza. + +W. R. ARROWSMITH. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + + +LORD COKE. + +Turning over some old books recently, my attention was strongly drawn to +the following: + + "The Lord Coke, his Speech and Charge, with a Discouerie of the + Abuses and Corruptions of Officers. 8vo. Lond. N. Butter, 1607." + +This curious piece appears to have been published by one R. P.[1], who +describes himself, in his dedication to the Earl of Exeter, as a "poore, +dispised, pouertie-stricken, hated, scorned, and vnrespected souldier," +of which there were, doubtless, many in the reign of James the Pacific. +Lord Coke, in his address to the jury at the Norwich Assizes, gives an +account of the various plottings of the Papists, from the Reformation to +the Gunpowder Treason, to bring the land again under subjection to Rome, +and characterises the schemes and the actors therein as he goes along in +the good round terms of an out-and-out Protestant. He has also a fling +at the Puritans, and all such as would disturb the church and hierarchy +as by law established. But the most remarkable part of the book is that +which comes under the head of "A Discouerie of the Abuses and Corruption +of Officers;" and believing an abstract might interest your readers, and +furnish the antiquary with a reference, I herewith present you with a +list of the officials and others whom my Lord Coke recommends the +_Jurie_ to present, assuring them, at the same time, that "by God's +grace they, the offenders, shall not goe unpunished for their abuses; +for we have," says he, "a COYFE, which signifies a _scull_, whereby, in +the execution of justice, wee are defended against all oppositions, bee +they never so violent." + +1. The first gentleman introduced by Lord Coke to the Norwich jury is +the _Escheator_, who had power to demand upon what tenure a poor yeoman +held his lands, and is an officer in great disfavour with the judge. He +gives some curious instances of his imposition, and concludes by +remarking that, for his rogueries, he were better described by striking +away the first syllable of his name, the rest truly representing him a +_cheator_. + +2. _The Clarke of the Market_ comes in for his share of Lord Coke's +denouncements. "It was once," he says, "my hap to take a clarke of the +market in his trickes; but I aduanst him higher than his father's sonne, +by so much as from the ground to the toppe of the pillorie" for his +bribery. + +3. "A certaine ruffling officer" called a _Purveyor_, who is +occasionally found _purveying money_ out of your purses, and is +therefore, says Lord Coke, "on the highway to the gallowes." + +4. As the next officer is unknown in the present day, I give his +character _in extenso_: + + "There is also a Salt-peter-man, whose commission is not to + break vp any man's house or ground without leaue. And not to + deale with any house, but such as is vnused for any necessarie + imployment by the owner. And not to digge in any place without + leauing it smooth and leuell: in such case as he found it. This + Salt-peter-man vnder shew of his authoritie, though being no + more than is specified, will make plaine and simple people + beleeue, that hee will without their leaue breake vp the floore + of their dwelling house, vnlesse they will compound with him to + the contrary. Any such fellow, if you can meete with all, let + his misdemenor be presented, that he may be taught better to + vnderstand his office: For by their abuse the country is + oftentimes troubled." + +5. There is another troublesome fellow called a _Concealor_, who could +easily be proved no better {377} than a _cosioner_, and whose +pretensions are to be resisted. + +6. A _Promoter_, generally both a beggar and a knave. This is the modern +informer, "a necessarie office," says Lord Coke, "but rarely filled by +an honest man." + +7. The _Monopolitane_ or _Monopolist_; with these the country was +overrun in James' reign. "To annoy and hinder the public weale, these +for their own benefit have sold their lands, and then come to beggarie +by a _starch_, _vinegar_, or _aqua vitae_ monopoly, and justly too," adds +his lordship. + +8. Lord Coke has no objection to those _golden fooles_, the _Alcumists_, +so long as they keep to their _metaphisicall_ and _Paracelsian_ studies; +but _science is felony committed by any comixture to multiply either +gold or silver_; the alchymist is therefore a suspected character, and +to be looked after by the jury. + +9. Vagrants to be resolutely put down, the Statute against whom had +worked well. + +10. The stage-players find no favour with this stern judge, who tells +the jury that as they, the players, cannot perform without leave, it is +easy to be rid of them, remarking, _that the country is much troubled by +them_. + +11. Taverns, Inns, Ale-houses, Bowling Allies, and such like thriftless +places of resort for tradesmen and artificers, to be under strict +surveillance. + +12. Gallants, or riotous young gents, to be sharply looked after, and +their proceedings controlled. + +13. Gentlemen with greyhounds and birding-pieces, who would elude the +_statutes against gunnes_, to be called to account "for the +shallow-brain'd idlenesse of their ridiculous foolery." + +14. The statute against _ryotous expence in apparel_ to be put in force +against _unthriftie infractors_. + +There is room here for a few Queries, but I content myself with asking +for a further reference to No. 4., "The Salt-peter-man." + +J. O. + + [Footnote 1: No doubt the author of an ultra-Protestant poem, + entitled _Times Anatomie, made by Robert Prickett, a Souldier_. + Imprinted, 1606.] + + * * * * * + + +SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Dogberry's Losses or Leases._--_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act IV. Sc. +4.: + + "_Dogberry._ A rich fellow enough, go to: and a fellow that hath + had losses; and one that hath two gowns, and everything handsome + about him." + +I can quite sympathise with the indignation of some of my cotemporaries +at the alteration by MR. PAYNE COLLIER'S mysterious corrector, of +"losses" into "leases." I am sorry to see a reading which we had +cherished without any misgiving as a bit of Shaksperian quaintness, and +consecrated by the humour of Gray and Charles Lamb, turned into a clumsy +misprint. But we must look at real probabilities, not at fancies and +predilections. I am afraid "leases" is the likelier word. It has also a +special fitness, which has not been hitherto remarked. Many of the +wealthy people of Elizabeth's reign, particularly in the middle class, +were "fellows that had had leases." It will be recollected that +extravagant leases or fines were among the methods by which the +possessions of the church were so grievously dilapidated in the age of +the Reformation. Those who had a little money to invest, could not do so +on more advantageous terms than by obtaining such leases as the +necessity or avarice of clerical and other corporations induced them to +grant; and the coincident fall in the value of money increased the gain +of the lessees, and loss of the corporations, to an extraordinary +amount. Throughout Elizabeth's reign parliament was at work in +restraining this abuse, by the well-known "disabling acts," restricting +the power of bishops and corporations to lease their property. The last +was passed, I think, only in 1601. And therefore a "rich fellow" of +Dogberry's class was described, to the thorough comprehension and +enjoyment of an audience of that day, as one who "had _had_ leases." + +SCRUTATOR. + +May I be allowed a little space in the pages of "N. & Q." to draw MR. +COLLIER'S attention to some passages in which the old corrector appears +to me to have corrupted, rather than improved, the text? Possibly on +second thoughts MR. COLLIER may be induced to withdraw these readings +from the text of his forthcoming edition of our great poet. I give the +pages of MR. COLLIER'S recent volume, and quote according to the old +corrector. + +_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, Act II. Sc. 2., p. 21.: + + "That I, unworthy body, as I _can_, + Should censure thus a _loving_ gentleman." + +_Can_ for _am_ spoils the sense; it was introduced unnecessarily to make +a perfect rhyme, but such rhymes as _am_ and _man_ were common in +Shakspeare's time. _Loving_ for _lovely_ is another modernism; _lovely_ +is equivalent to the French _aimable_. "Saul and Jonathan were _lovely_ +and pleasant in their lives," &c. The whole passage, which is indeed +faulty in the old copies, should, I think, be read thus: + + "'Tis a passing shame + That I, unworthy body that I am, + Should censure _on a_ lovely _gentleman_. + + _Jul._ Why not on Proteus as _on_ all the rest? + + _Luc._ Then thus,--of many good I think him best." + +_Thus_ crept in after _censure_ from the next line but one. In Julia's +speech, grammar requires _on_ for _of_. + +_Measure for Measure_, Act IV. Sc. 5., p. 52.: + + "For my authority bears _such_ a credent bulk," &c. + +Fols. "_of_ a credent bulk," read "_so_ credent bulk." + +{378} +_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act IV. Sc. 1., p 72.: + + "Myself would on the _hazard_ of reproaches + Strike at thy life." + +When fathers kill their children, they run the risk not merely of being +reproached, but of being hanged; but this reading is a mere +sophistication by some one who did not understand the true reading, +_rearward_. Leonato threatens to take his daughter's life _after having_ +reproached her. + +_Taming of the Shrew_, p. 145.: + + "O, yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face, + Such as the daughter of _Agenor's race_," &c. + +"The daughter of Agenor's race" for "the daughter of Agenor" is awkward, +but there is a far more decisive objection to this alteration. To +compare the beauty of Bianca with the beauty of Europa is a legitimate +comparison; but to compare the beauty of Bianca with Europa herself, is +of course inadmissible. Here is another corruption introduced in order +to produce rhyming couplet; restore the old reading, "the daughter of +Agenor _had_." + +_The Winter's Tale_, Act IV. Sc. 2., p. 191.: + + "If, &c., let me be _enrolled_, and any name put in the book of + virtue." + +We have here an abortive attempt to correct the nonsensical reading of +the old copies, _unrolled_; but if _enrolled_ itself makes sense, it +does so only by introducing tautology. Besides, it leads us away from +what I believe to be the true reading, _unrogued_. + +_King John_, Act V. Sc. 7., p. 212.: + + "Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts, + Leaves them _unvisited_; and his siege is now + Against the mind." + +How could death prey upon the king's outward parts without visiting +them? Perhaps, however, we have here only a corruption of a genuine +text. Query, "_ill_-visited." + +_Troilus and Cressida_, Act I. Sc. 3., p. 331.: + + "And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, + Replies to chiding fortune." + +This, which is also Hanmer's reading, certainly makes sense. Pope read +_returns_. The old copies have _retires_. I believe Shakspeare wrote +"_Rechides_ to chiding fortune." This puzzled the compositor, who gave +the nearest common word without regard to the sense. + +_Troilus and Cressida_, Act V. Sc. 1., p. 342.--The disgusting speeches +of Thersites are scarcely worth correcting, much less dwelling upon; but +there can be little doubt that we should read "male _harlot_" for "male +_varlet_;" and "preposterous _discoverers_" (not discolourers) for +"preposterous discoveries." + +_Coriolanus_, Act V. Sc. 5., p. 364.: + + "I... holp to reap the fame + Which he did _ear_ all his." + +To _ear_ is to _plough_. Aufidius complains that he had a share in the +harvest, while Coriolanus took all the ploughing to himself. We have +only, however, to transpose _reap_ and _ear_, and this nonsense is at +once converted into excellent sense. The old corrector blindly copied +the blunder of a corrupt, but not sophisticated, manuscript. This has +occurred elsewhere in this collection. + +_Antony and Cleopatra_, Act I. Sc. 5., p. 467.: + + "And soberly did mount an _arm-girt_ steed." + +This reading was also conjectured by Hanmer. The folios read +_arme-gaunt_. This appears to me a mere misprint for _rampaunt_, but +whether _rampaunt_ was Shakspeare's word, or a transcriber's +sophistication for _ramping_, is more than I can undertake to determine. +I believe, however, that one of them is the true reading. At one period +to _ramp_ and to _prance_ seem to have been synonymous. Spenser makes +the horses of night "fiercely _ramp_," and Surrey exhibits a _prancing_ +lion. + +This communication is, I am afraid, already too long for "N. & Q.;" I +will therefore only add my opinion, that, though the old corrector has +reported many bad readings, they are far outnumbered by the good ones in +the collection. + +W. N. L. + + +_Mr. Collier's "Notes and Emendations:" Passage in "The Winter's +Tale."_--At p. 192. of MR. PAYNE COLLIER'S new volume, he cites a +passage in _The Winter's Tale_, ending-- + + "... I should blush + To see you so attir'd, sworn, I think + To show myself a glass." + +The MS. emendator, he says, reads _so worn_ for _sworn_; and adds: + + "The meaning therefore is, that Florizel's plain attire was 'so + worn,' to show Perdita, as in a glass, how simply she ought to + have been dressed." + +Now MR. COLLIER, in this instance, has not, according to his usual +practice, alluded to any commentator who has suggested the same +emendation. The inference would be, that this emendation is a novelty. +This it is not. It has been before the world for thirty-four years, and +its merits have failed to give it currency. At p. 142. of Z. Jackson's +miscalled _Restorations_, 1819, we find this emendation, with the +following note: + + "_So worn_, i. e. _so reduced_, in your external appearance, + that I should think you intended to remind me of my own + condition; for, by looking at you thus attired, I behold myself, + as it were, reflected in a glass, habited in robes becoming my + obscure birth, and equally obscure fortune." + +{379} +Jackson's emendations are invariably bad; but whatever may be thought of +the sense of Florizel being _so worn_ (instead of his dress), it is but +fair to give a certain person his due. The passage has long seemed to me +to have this meaning: + + "But that we are acquiescing in a custom, I should blush to see + you, who are a prince, attired like a swain; and still more + should I blush to look at myself in the glass, and see a peasant + girl pranked up like a princess." + +_& more_, in MS., might very easily have been mistaken for _sworn_ by +the compositor. Accordingly, I would read the complete passage thus: + + "... But that our feasts + In every mess have folly, and the feeders + Digest it with a custom, I should blush + To see you so attir'd, and more, I think, + To show myself a glass." + +C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. + +Birmingham. + + * * * * * + + +MINOR NOTES. + + +_Alleged Cure for Hydrophobia._--From time to time articles have +appeared in "N. & Q." as to the cure of hydrophobia, a specific for +which seems still to be a desideratum. + +In the _Miscellanea Curiosa_ (vol. iii. p. 346.) is a paper on Virginia, +from the Rev. John Clayton, rector of Crofton in Wakefield, in which he +states the particulars of several cures which he had effected of persons +bitten by mad dogs. His principal remedy seems to have been the +"volatile salt of amber" every four hours, and in the intervals, "Spec. +Pleres Archonticon and Rue powdered ana gr. 15." I am not learned enough +to understand what these drugs are called in the modern nomenclature of +druggists. + +C. T. W. + + +_Epitaph at Mickleton._--The following inscription is copied from a +monument on the north wall of the chancel of Mickleton Church, co. +Gloucester: + + "_The Ephitath of John Bonner._ + + Heare lyeth in tomed John Bonner by name, + Sonne of Bonner of Pebworth, from thence he came. + The :17: of October he ended his daies, + Pray God that wee leveing may follow his wayes. + 1618 by the yeare. + Scarce are such Men to be found in this shere. + Made and set up by his loveing frend + Evens his kindesman and [so I] doe end. + John Bonner, Senior. Thomas Evens, Junior. + 1618." + +The words in brackets are conjectural, the stone at that point being +much corroded. + +BALLIOLENSIS. + + +_Charade attributed to Sheridan._--You have given a place to enigmas in +"N. & Q.," and therefore the following, which has been attributed to R. +B. Sheridan, may be acceptable. Was he the author? + + "There is a spot, say, Traveller, where it lies, + And mark the clime, the limits, and the size, + Where grows no grass, nor springs the yellow grain, + Nor hill nor dale diversify the plain; + Perpetual green, without the farmer's toil, + Through all the seasons clothes the favor'd soil, + Fair pools, in which the finny race abound, + By human art prepar'd, enrich the ground. + Not India's lands produce a richer store, + Pearl, ivory, gold and silver ore. + Yet, Britons, envy not these boasted climes, + Incessant war distracts, and endless crimes + Pollute the soil:--Pale Avarice triumphs there, + Hate, Envy, Rage, and heart-corroding Care, + With Fraud and Fear, and comfortless Despair. + There government not long remains the same, + Nor they, like us, revere a monarch's name. + Britons, beware! Let avarice tempt no more; + Spite of the wealth, avoid the tempting shore; + The daily bread which Providence has given, + Eat with content, and leave the rest to heaven." + +BALLIOLENSIS. + + +_Suggested Reprint of Hearne._--It has often occurred to me to inquire +whether an association might not be formed for the republication of the +works edited by Tom Hearne? An attempt was made some years ago by a +bookseller; and, as only Robert of Gloucester and Peter Langtoft +appeared, "Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1810," we must +infer that the spirited publisher was too far in advance of the age, and +that the attempt did not pay. Probably it never would _as a bookseller's +speculation_. But might not a society like the Camden be formed for the +purpose with some probability, in these altered times and by such an +improved method of proceeding, of placing these curious and valuable +volumes once more within reach of men of ordinary means? At present the +works edited by Hearne are rarely to be met with in catalogues, and when +they do occur, the prices are almost fabulous, quite on the scale of +those affixed to ancient MSS. + +BALLIOLENSIS. + + +_Suggestions of Books worthy of being reprinted._--Fabricius, +_Bibliotheca Latina Mediae et Infimae AEtatis_, 6 vols. 8vo. (Recommended +in _The Guardian_ newspaper.) + +J. M. + + +_Epigram all the way from Belgium._--Should you think the following +epigram, written in the travellers' book at Hans-sur-Lesse, in Belgium, +worth preserving, it is at your service: + + "Old Euclid may go to the wall, + For we've solved what he never could guess, + How the fish in the river are _small_, + But the river they live in is _Lesse_." + +H. A. B. + + +{380} +_Derivation of "Canada."_--I send you a cutting from an old newspaper, +on the derivation of this word: + + "The name of Canada, according to Sir John Barrow, originated in + the following circumstances. When the Portuguese, under Gasper + Cortcreal, in the year 1500, first ascended the great river St. + Lawrence, they believed it was the strait of which they were in + search, and through which a passage might be discovered into the + Indian Sea. But on arriving at the point whence they could + clearly ascertain it was not a strait but a river, they, with + all the emphasis of disappointed hopes, exclaimed repeatedly + 'Canada!'--Here nothing; words which were remembered and + repeated by the natives on seeing Europeans arrive in 1534, who + naturally conjectured that the word they heard employed so often + must denote the name of the country." + +HENRY H. BREEN. + +St. Lucia. + + +_Railway Signals._--An effective communication from the guard to the +engineman, for the prevention of railway accidents, seems to be an +important desideratum, which has hitherto baffled the ingenuity of +philosophers. The only proposed plan likely to be adopted, is that of a +cord passing below the foot-boards, and placing the valve of the steam +whistle under the control of the guard. The trouble attending this +scheme, and the liability to neglect and disarrangement, render its +success doubtful. What I humbly suggest is, that the guard should be +provided with an independent instrument which would produce a sound +sufficiently loud to catch the ear of the engineman. Suppose, for +instance, that the mouth-piece of a clarionet, or the windpipe of a +duck, or a metallic imitation, were affixed to the muzzle of an air-gun, +and the condensed air discharged through the confined aperture; a shrill +sound would be emitted. Surely, then, a small instrument might be +contrived upon this principle, powerful enough to arrest the attention +of the engineer, if not equal to the familiar shriek of the present +whistle. + +It is hoped that this hint will be followed up; that your publication +will sustain its character by thus providing a medium of +intercommunication for these worthies, who can respectively lay claim to +the titles of men of science and men of _letters_, and that some +experimenter "when found will make a _note_"--a stunning one. + +T. C. + + +_A Centenarian Trading Vessel._--There is a small smack now trading in +the Bristol Channel, in excellent condition and repair, and likely to +last for many years, called the "Fanny," which was built in 1753. This +vessel belongs to Porlock, in the port of Bridgewater, and was +originally built at Aberthaw in South Wales. Can any of your readers +refer to any other _trading_ vessel so old as this? + +ANON. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + + +BISHOP KEN. + +At what place, and by what bishop, was he ordained, in 1661? His +ordination probably took place in the diocese of Oxford, London, +Winchester, or Worcester. The discovery of it has hitherto baffled much +research. + +Jon Ken, an elder brother of the Bishop, was Treasurer of the East India +Company in 1683. Where can anything be learned of him? Is there any +mention of him in the books of the East India Company? Was he the Ken +mentioned in Roger North's _Lives of the Norths_, as one of the +court-rakes? When did he die, and where was he buried? This Jon Ken +married Rose, the daughter of Sir Thomas Vernon, of Coleman Street, and +by her is said (by Hawkins) to have had a daughter, married to the +Honorable Christopher Frederick Kreienberg, Hanoverian Resident in +London. Did M. Kreienberg die in this country, or can anything be +ascertained of him or his wife? + +The Bishop wrote to James II. a letter of intercession on behalf of the +rebels in 1685. Can this letter be found in the State-Paper Office, or +elsewhere? + +In answer to a sermon preached by Bishop Ken, on 5th May, 1687, one F. +I. R., designating himself "a most loyal Irish subject of the _Company +of Jesuits_," wrote some "Animadversions." Could this be the "fath. Jo. +Reed," a _Benedictine_, mentioned in the Life of A. Wood, under date of +July 21, 1671? Father Reed was author of _Votiva Tabula_. Can any one +throw any light on this? + +J. J. J. + + * * * * * + + +MINOR QUERIES. + + +_Canute's Reproof to his Courtiers._--Opposite the Southampton Docks, in +the Canute Road, is the Canute Hotel, with this inscription in front: +"Near this spot, A.D. 1028, Canute reproved his courtiers." The building +is of very recent date. + +Query, Is there any and what authority for the statement? + +SALOPIAN. + + +_The Sign of the Cross in the Greek Church._--The members of the Greek +Church sign themselves with the sign of the cross in a different manner +from those of the Western Church. What is the difference? + +J. C. B. + + +_Reverend Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale, temp. Eliz._--Dr. T. D. +Whitaker mentions, in a note in his _Life of Sir George Radcliffe, +Knt._, p. 4., 4to. 1810, that at an obscure inn in North Wales he once +met with a very interesting account of Midgley in a collection of lives +of pious persons, {381} made about the time of Charles I.; but adds, +that he had forgotten the title, and had never since been able to obtain +the book. Can any reader of "N. & Q." identify this "collection," or +furnish any particulars of Midgley not recorded by Brook, Calamy, or +Hunter? + +F. R. R. + + +_Huet's Navigations of Solomon._--Can you or any of your readers inform +me if the treatise referred to in the accompanying extract was ever +published? and, if so, what was the result as to the assertions there +made? + +_The History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients. Written in +French by Monsieur Huet, Bishop of Avranches. Made English from the +Paris Edition. London: Printed for B. Lintot, between the Temple Gates, +in Fleet Street, and Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple Bar._ 1717. + + "2dly. It is here we must lay down the most important remark, in + point of commerce; and I shall undeniably establish the truth of + it in a treatise which I have begun concerning the navigations + of Solomon, that the Cape of Good Hope was known, often + frequented, and doubled in Solomon's time, and so it was + likewise for many years after; and that the Portuguese, to whom + the glory of this discovery has been attributed, were not the + first that found out this place, but mere secondary + discoverers."--P. 20. + +EDINA. + +Edinburgh. + + +_Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1781._--Will any one of your +correspondents inform me who was sheriff of Worcestershire in the year +1781*, and give his arms, stating the source of his knowledge on these +points, to much oblige + +Y. + + [* John Darke of Breedon, Esq. See Nash's _Worcestershire_, + Supplement, p. 102.--ED.] + +_Tree of the Thousand Images._--Father Huc, in his journey to Thibet, +gives an account of a singular tree, bearing this title, and of which +the peculiarity is that its leaves and bark are covered with +well-defined characters of the Thibetian alphabet. The tree seen by MM. +Huc and Gabet appeared to them to be of great {385} age, and is said by +the inhabitants to be the only one of its kind known in the country. +According to the account given by these travellers, the letters would +appear to be formed by the veins of the leaves; the resemblance to +Thibetian characters was such as to strike them with astonishment, and +they were inclined at first to suspect fraud, but, after repeated + +observations, arrived at the conclusion that none existed. Do botanists +know or conjecture anything about this tree? + +C. W. G. + + +_De Burgh Family._--I shall feel much obliged for references to the +early seals of the English branch of the family of De Burgh, descended +from Harlowen De Burgh, and Arlotta, mother of William the Conqueror, +especially of that English branch whose armorial bearings were--Or a +cross gules: also for information whether the practice, in reference to +the spelling of names, was such as to render _Barow_, of the latter part +of the fifteenth century, Aborough some fifty years afterwards. + +E. D. B. + + +_Witchcraft Sermons at Huntingdon._--In an article on Witchcraft in the +_Retrospective Review_ (vol. v. p. 121.), it is stated that, in 1593-- + + "An old man, his wife and daughter, were accused of bewitching + the five children of a Mr. Throgmorton, several servants, the + lady of Sir Samuel Cromwell, and other persons.... They were + executed, and their goods, which were of the value of forty + pounds, being escheated to Sir S. Cromwell, as lord of the + manor, he gave the amount to the mayor and aldermen of + Huntingdon, for a rent-charge of forty shillings yearly, to be + paid out of their town lands, for an annual lecture upon the + subject of witchcraft, to be preached at their town every + Lady-Day, by a doctor or bachelor of divinity, of Queen's + College, Cambridge." + +Is this sum yet paid, and the sermon still preached, or has it fallen +into disuse now that it is unpopular to believe in witchcraft and +diabolic possession? Have any of the sermons been published? + +EDWARD PEACOCK, Junior. + +Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey. + + +_Consort._--A former correspondent applied for a notice of Mons. +Consort, said to have been a mystical impostor similar to the famous +Cagliostro. I beg to renew the same inquiry. + +A. N. + + +_Creole._--This word is variously represented in my Lexicons. Bailey +says, "The descendant of an European, born in America," and with him +agree the rest, with the exception of the _Metropolitana_; that +Encyclopaedia gives the meaning, "The descendant of an European and an +American Indian." A friend advocating the first meaning derives the word +from the Spanish. Another friend, in favour of the second meaning, +derives it originally from ~kerannumi~, _to mix_; which word is +fetched, perhaps far-fetched, from ~keras~, the horn in which +liquors are _mixed_. Light on this word would be acceptable. + +GILBERT N. SMITH. + + +_Shearman Family._--Is there a family named _Shearman_ or _Sherman_ in +Yorkshire, or in the city of York? What are their arms? Is there any +record of any of that family settling in Ireland, in the county or city +of Kilkenny, about the middle of the seventeenth century, or at an +earlier period in Cork? Are there any genealogical records of them? Was +Robert Shearman, warden of the hospital of St. Cross in Winchester, of +that family? Was Roger Shearman, who signed the Declaration {382} of +American Independence, a member of same? Is there any record of three +brothers, Robert, Oliver, and Francis Shearman, coming to England in the +army of William the Conqueror? + +JOHN F. SHEARMAN. + +Kilkenny. + + +_Traitors' Ford._--There is a place called Traitors' Ford on the borders +of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, near the source of the little river +Stour, about two miles from the village of Whichford, in the former +county. What is the origin of the name? There is no notice of it in +Dugdale's _Warwickshire_, nor is it mentioned in the older maps of the +county of Warwick. The vicinity to the field of Edge-Hill would lead one +to suppose it may be connected with some event of the period of the +Civil Wars. + +SPES. + + +"_Your most obedient humble Servant._"--In Beloe's _Anecdotes of +Literature_, vol. ii. p. 93., mention is made of a poem entitled _The +Historie of Edward the Second, surnamed Carnarvon_. The author, Sir +Francis Hubert, in 1629, when closing the dedication of this poem to his +brother, Mr. Richard Hubert, thus remarks: + + "And so, humbly desiring the Almighty to blesse you both in + soule, body, and estate, I rest not your _servant_, according to + the _new_, and fine, but false phrase of the time, but in honest + old English, your loving brother and true friend for ever." + +Query, At what time, and with whom did this very common and most +unmeaning term in English correspondence have its origin? + +W. W. + +Malta. + + +_Version of a Proverb._--What, and where to be found, is the true +version of "Qui facit per alium, facit per se?" + +P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. + + +_Ellis Walker._--Can any reader of "N. & Q." give any information as to +Ellis Walker, who made a _Poetical Paraphrase of the Enchiridion of +Epictetus_? He dedicates it to "his honoured uncle, Mr. Samuel Walker of +York," and speaks of having taken Epictetus for his companion when he +fled from the "present troubles in Ireland." My edition is printed in +London, 1716, but of what edition is not mentioned; but I presume the +work to have been of earlier date, probably in 1690-1, as indeed I find +it to have been, by inserted addresses to the author, of date in the +latter year. Any information as to the translator will oblige. + +A. B. R. + +Belmont. + + +"_The Northerne Castle._"--Pepys, in his _Diary_, 14th September, 1667, +says, "To the King's playhouse, to see _The Northerne Castle_, which I +think I never did see before." Is anything known of this play and its +authorship? or was it _The Northern Lass_, by Richard Brome, first +published in 1632? Perhaps Pepys has quoted the second title of some +play. + +J. Y. + + +_Prayer-Book in French._--Can any of your readers give some satisfactory +information respecting the earliest translations of the English +Prayer-Book into French? By whom, when, for whom, were they first made? +Does any copy still exist of one (which I have seen somewhere alluded +to) published before Dean Durel's editions? By what authority have they +been put forth? Is there any information to be found collected by any +writer on this subject? + +O. W. J. + + +_"Navita Erythraeum," &c._--Running the risk of being smiled at for my +ignorance, I wish to have a reference to the following lines: + + "Navita Erythraeum pavidus qui navigat aequor, + In prorae et puppis summo resonantia pendet + Tintinnabula; eo sonitu praegrandia Cete, + Balenas, et monstra marina a navibus arcet." + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + + +_Edmund Burke._--Can any of your correspondents tell me when and where +he was married? + +B. E. B. + + +_Plan of London._--Is there any good plan of London, showing its present +extent? The answer is, None. What is more, there never was a decent plan +of this vast metropolis. There is published occasionally, on a small +sheet of paper, a wretched and disgraceful pretence to one, bedaubed +with paint. Can you explain the cause of this? Every other capital in +Europe has handsome plans, easy to be obtained: nay more, almost every +provincial town, whether in this country or on the Continent, possesses +better engraved and more accurate plans than this great capital can +pretend to. Try and use your influence to get this defect supplied. + +L. S. W. + + +_Minchin._--Could any of your Irish correspondents give me any +information with regard to the sons of Col. Thomas Walcot (c. 1683), or +the families of Minchin and Fitzgerald, co. Tipperary, he would much +oblige + +M. + + * * * * * + + +MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS. + + +_Leapor's "Unhappy Father."_--Can you tell me where the scene of this +play, a tragedy by Mary Leapor, is laid, and the names of the _dramatis +personae_? It is to be found in the second volume of _Poems_, by Mary +Leapor, 8vo. 1751. This authoress was the daughter of a gardener in +Northamptonshire, and the only education she received consisted in being +taught reading and writing. She was born in 1722, and died in 1746, at +the early age of twenty-four. Her poetical {383} merit is commemorated +in the Rev. John Duncombe's poem of the _Feminead_. + +A.Z. + + [The scene, a gentleman's country house. The _dramatis personae_: + Dycarbas, the unhappy father; Lycander and Polonius, sons of + Dycarbas, in love with Terentia; Eustathius, nephew of Dycarbas, + and husband of Emilia; Leonardo, cousin of Eustathius; Paulus, + servant of Dycarbas; Plynus, servant to Eustathius; Timnus, + servant to Polonius; Emilia, daughter of Dycarbas; Terentia, a + young lady under the guardianship of Dycarbas; Claudia, servant + to Terentia.] + + +_Meaning of "The Litten" or "Litton."_--This name is given to a small +piece of land, now pasture, inclosed within the moat of the ancient +manor of Marwell, formerly Merewelle, in Hants, once the property of the +see of Winchester. It does not appear to have been ever covered by +buildings. What is the meaning or derivation of the term? Does the name +exist in any other place, as applied to a piece of land situated as the +above-described piece? I have spelt it as pronounced by the bailiff of +the farm. + +W. H. G. + +Winchester. + + [Junius and Ray derive it from the Anglo-Saxon lictun, + _coemiterium_, a burying-place. Our correspondent, however, will + find its etymology discussed in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. + lxxviii. pp. 216. 303. and 319.] + + +_St. James' Market House._--In a biography of Richard Baxter, the +Nonconformist divine, about 1671: + + "Mr. Baxter came up to London, and was one of the Tuesday + lecturers at Pinner's Hall, and a Friday lecturer at Fetter + Lane; but on Sundays he for some time preached only + occasionally, and afterwards more statedly in St. James's Market + House." + +Where was the Market House situate? + +P. T. + + [Cunningham, in his _Handbook of London_, under the head of St. + James' Market, Jermyn Street, St. James', tells us that "here, + in a room over the Market House, preached Richard Baxter, the + celebrated Nonconformist. On the occasion of his first Sermon, + the main beam of the building cracked beneath the weight of the + congregation." We recollect the old market and Market House, + which must have stood on the ground now occupied by Waterloo + Place.] + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES. + + +GRUB STREET JOURNAL. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 108. 268.) + +REGINENSIS has been referred by F. R. A. to Drake's _Essays_ for an +account of this journal. Drake's account is, however, very incorrect. +The _Grub Street Journal_ did not terminate, as he states, on the 24th +August, 1732, but was continued in the original folio size to the 29th +Dec., 1737; the last No. being 418., instead of 138., as he incorrectly +gives it. He appears to have supposed that the 12mo. abridgment in two +volumes contained all the essays in the paper; whereas it did not +comprise more than a third of them. He mentions as the principal writers +Dr. Richard Russel and Dr. John Martyn. Budgell, however, in _The Bee_ +(February, 1733) says, "The person thought to be at the head of the +paper is Mr. R--l (Russel), a nonjuring clergyman, Mr. P--e (Pope), and +some other gentlemen." Whether Pope wrote in it or not, it seems to have +been used as a vehicle by his friends for their attacks upon his foes, +and the war against the Dunces is carried on with great wit and spirit +in its pages. It is by far the most entertaining of the old newspapers, +and throws no small light upon the literary history of the time. I have +a complete series of the journal in folio, as well as of the +continuation, in a large 4to. form, under the title of _The Literary +Courier of Grub Street_, which commenced January 5, 1738, and appears to +have terminated at the 30th No., on the 27th July, 1738. I never saw +another complete copy. _The Grub Street Journal_ would afford materials +for many curious and amusing extracts. One very entertaining part of it +is the "Domestic News," under which head it gives the various and often +contradictory accounts of the daily newspapers, with a most humorous +running commentary. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + + * * * * * + + +STONE PILLAR WORSHIP. + +(Vol. v., p. 122.) + +SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT, in his learned and curious Note on stone +worship in Ireland, desires information as to the present existence of +worship of stone pillars in Orkney. When he says it continued till a +late period, I suppose he must allude to the standing stone at Stenness, +perforated by a hole, with the sanctity attached to promises confirmed +by the junction of hands through the hole, called the promise of Odin. +Dr. Daniel Wilson enters into this fully in _Praehistoric Annals of +Scotland_, pp. 99, 100, 101. It has been told myself that if a lad and +lass promised marriage with joined hands through the hole, the promise +was held to be binding. Whence the sanctity attached to such a promise I +could not ascertain to be known, and I did not hear of any other +superstition connected with this stone, which was destroyed in 1814. In +the remote island of North Ronaldshay is another standing stone, +perforated by a hole, but there is no superstition of this nature +attached to it. At the Yule time the inhabitants danced about it, and +when there were yule dancings in neighbouring houses, they began the +dancing at the stone, and danced from the stone all the road to what was +called to {384} me the dancing-house. The sword dance, with a great +deal of intricate crossing, and its peculiar simple tune, still exists +in Orkney, but is not danced with swords, though I heard of clubs or +sticks having been substituted. There are found in these islands the two +circles of stones at Stenness, and single standing stones. One of these, +at Swannay in Birsay, is said by tradition to have been raised to mark +the spot where the procession rested when carrying the body of St. + +Magnus after his murder in Egilshay in 1110, from that island to +Christ's Kirk in Birsay, where it was first interred. Here is a date and +a purpose. The single standing stones, in accordance with SIR JAMES'S +opinion, and to use nearly his expressions, are said to mark the +burial-places of distinguished men, to commemorate battles and great +events, and to denote boundaries; and these, and still more the circles, +are objects of respect as belonging to ages gone by, but principally +with the educated classes, and there is no superstition remaining with +any. Such a thing as the swathing stone of South Inchkea is not known to +have existed. The stones in the two circles, and the single standing +stones, are all plain; but there was found lately a stone of the +sculptured symbolical class, inserted to form the base of a window in +St. Peter's Kirk, South Ronaldshay, and another of the same class in the +island of Bressay, in Zetland. The first is now in the Museum of +Scottish Antiquaries in Edinburgh; and the Zetland stone, understood to +be very curious, is either there or in Newcastle, and both are forming +the subject of antiquarian inquiry. + +W. H. F. + + * * * * * + + +AUTOGRAPHS IN BOOKS. + +(_Continued from_ Vol. vii., p. 255.) + +The following are probably trifling, but may be considered worth +recording. Facing the title-page to _The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope_, +London, W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, &c., 1717, 8vo., no date at end +of preface, is in (no doubt) his own hand: + + "To the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, from his + ever-oblig'd, most faithfull, and affectionate servant, ALEX. + POPE." + +Cranmer's _Bible_, title gone, but at end, Maye 1541: + + "This Bible was given to me by my ffather Coke when I went to + keepe Christmas with him at Holckam, anno Domini 1658. WILL. + COBBE." + +Sir William Cobbe of Beverley, York, knight, married Winifred, sixth +daughter of John (fourth son of the chief justice), who was born 9th +May, 1589. + +This copy has, before Joshua and Psalms, a page of engravings, being the +"seconde" and "thyrde parte;" also before the New Testament, the +well-known one of Henry VIII. giving the Bible, but the space for +Cromwell's arms is left blank or white. Cromwell was executed July 1540; +but do his arms appear in the 1540 impressions? + +Cranmer's quarterings are, 1 and 4, Cranmer; 2, six lions r.; 3, fusils +of Aslacton. In the _Gent. Mag._, vol. lxii. pp. 976. 991., is an +engraving of a stone of Cranmer's father, with the fusils on his right, +and Cranmer on his left. The note at p. 991. calls the birds cranes, but +states that Glover's Yorkshire and other pedigrees have pelicans; and +Southey (_Book of the Church_, ii. p. 97.) states that Henry VIII. +altered the cranes to pelicans, telling him that he, like them, should +be ready to shed his blood. The engraving, however, clearly represents +drops of blood falling, and those in the Bible appear to be pelicans +also. + +This Bible has the days of the month in MS. against the proper psalms, +and where a leaf has been repaired, "A.D. 1608, per me Davidem Winsdon +curate." + +A. C. + + * * * * * + + +GRINDLE. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 107. 307.) + +I think I can supply I. E. with another example of the application of +this name to a place. A few miles east or south-east of Exeter, on the +borders of a waste tract of down extending from Woodbury towards the +sea, there is a village which is spelt on the ordnance map, and is +commonly called, _Greendale_. In strictness there are, I believe, two +Greendales, an upper and a lower Greendale. A small stream, tributary to +the Clyst river, flows past them. + +Now this place formerly belonged to the family of Aumerle, or Alba +Marla, as part of the manor of Woodbury. From that family it passed to +William Briwere, the founder of Tor Abbey, and was by him made part of +the endowment of that monastery in the reign of Richard I. In the two +cartularies of that house, of which abstracts will be found in Oliver's +_Monasticon_, there are many instruments relating to this place, which +is there called Grendel, Grindel, and Gryndell. In none of them does the +name of Greendale occur, which appears to be a very recent form. Even +Lysons, in his _Devonshire_, does not seem to be aware of this mode of +spelling it, but always adopts one of the old ways of writing the word. + +I have not seen the spot very lately, but, according to the best of my +recollection, it has not now any feature in keeping with the +mythological character of the fiend of the moor and fen. The +neighbouring district of down and common land would not be an +inappropriate habitat for such a personage. It has few trees of any +pretension to age, and is still covered in great part with a dark and +scanty vegetation, which is sufficiently dreary except at those seasons +when the brilliant colours of the blooming heath and dwarf furze give it +an aspect of remarkable beauty. + +Whether the present name of Greendale be a mere corruption of the +earliest name, or be not, in fact, a restoration of it to its original +meaning, is a matter which I am not prepared to discuss. As a general +rule, a sound etymologist will not hastily desert an obvious and trite +explanation to go in search of a more recondite import. He will not have +recourse to the devil for the solution of a _nodus_, till he has +exhausted more legitimate sources of assistance. + +The "N. & Q." have readers nearer to the spot in question than I am, who +may, perhaps, be able to throw some light on the subject, and inform us +whether Greendale still possesses the trace of any of those natural +features which would justify the demoniacal derivation proposed by I. E. +It must not, however, be forgotten that three centuries and a half of +laborious culture bestowed upon the property by the monks of Tor, must +have gone far to exorcise and reclaim it. + +E. S. + +Some years ago I asked the meaning of _Grindle_ or _Grundle_, as applied +to a deep, narrow watercourse at Wattisfield in Suffolk. The Grundle +lies between the high road and the "Croft," adjoining a mansion which +once belonged to the Abbots of Bury. The clear and rapid water was +almost hidden by brambles and underwood; and the roots of a row of fine +trees standing in the Croft were washed bare by its winter fury. The +bank on that side was high and broken; the bed of the Grundle I observed +to lie above the surface of the road, on the opposite side of which the +ground rises rapidly to the table land of clay. My fancy instantly +suggested a river flowing through this hollow, and the idea was +strengthened by the appearance of the landscape. The village stands on +irregular ground, descending by steep slopes into narrow valleys and +contracted meadows. I can well imagine that water was an enemy or +"fiend" to the first settlers, and I was told that in winter the Grundle +is still a roaring brook. + +I find I have a Note that "in Charters, places bearing the name Grendel +are always connected with water." + +F. C. B. + +Diss. + + * * * * * + + +ROGER OUTLAWE. + +(Vol. vii., p. 332.) + +MR. ELLACOMBE will find some account of this personage, who was Prior of +Kilmainham, and for several years served the office of Lord Justice of +Ireland, in Holinshed's _Chronicles of Ireland_, sub anno 1325, _et +seq._: also in "The Annals of Ireland," in the second volume of Gibson's +_Camden_, 3rd edition, sub eod. anno. He was nearly related to the lady +Alice Kettle, and her son William Utlawe, al. Outlaw; against whom that +singular charge of sorcery was brought by Richard Lederede, Bishop of +Ossory. The account of this charge is so curious that, for the benefit +of those readers of "N. & Q." who may not have the means of referring to +the books above cited, I am tempted to extract it from Holinshed: + + "In these daies lived, in the Diocese of Ossorie, the Ladie + Alice Kettle, whome the Bishop ascited to purge hir selfe of the + fame of inchantment and witchcraft imposed unto hir, and to one + Petronill and Basill, hir complices. She was charged to have + nightlie conference with a spirit called Robin Artisson, to + whome she sacrificed in the high waie nine red cocks, and nine + peacocks' eies. Also, that she swept the streets of Kilkennie + betweene compleine and twilight, raking all the filth towards + the doores of hir sonne William Outlaw, murmuring and muttering + secretlie with hir selfe these words: + + "'To the house of William my sonne + Hie all the wealth of Kilkennie towne.' + + "At the first conviction, they abjured and did penance; but + shortlie after, they were found in relapse, and then was + Petronill burnt at Kilkennie: the other twaine might not be + heard of. She, at the hour of hir death, accused the said + William as privie to their sorceries, whome the bishop held in + durance nine weeks; forbidding his keepers to eat or to drinke + with him, or to speake to him more than once in the daie. But at + length, thorough the sute and instance of Arnold le Powre, then + seneschall of Kilkennie, he was delivered, and after corrupted + with bribes the seneschall to persecute the bishop: so that he + thrust him into prison for three moneths. In rifling the closet + of the ladie, they found a wafer of sacramentall bread, having + the divel's name stamped thereon insteed of Jesus Christ's; and + a pipe of ointment, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon which + she ambled and gallopped thorough thicke and thin when and in + what maner she listed. This businesse about these witches + troubled all the state of Ireland the more; for that the ladie + was supported by certeine of the nobilitie, and lastlie conveied + over into England; since which time it could never be understood + what became of hir." + +Roger Outlawe, the Prior of Kilmainham, was made Lord Justice for the +first time in 1327. The Bishop of Ossory was then seeking his revenge on +Arnold le Powre, for he had given information against him as being-- + + "Convented and convicted in his consistorie of certeine + hereticall opinions; but because the beginning of Powres + accusation concerned the justice's kinsman, and the bishop was + mistrusted to prosecute his owne wrong, and the person of the + man, rather than the fault, a daie was limited for the + justifieing of the bill, the partie being apprehended and + respited thereunto. This dealing the bishop (who durst not + stirre out of {386} Kilkennie to prosecute his accusation) was + reputed parciall: and when by meanes hereof the matter hanged in + suspense, he infamed the said prior as an abettor and favourer + of Arnold's heresie. The Prior submitted himselfe to the trial." + +Proclamation was made, "That it should be lawful for anie man ... to +accuse, &c. the Lord Justice; but none came." In the end, six +inquisitors were appointed to examine the bishops and other persons, and +they-- + + "All with universal consent deposed for the Prior, affirming + that (to their judgements) he was a zelous and a faithfull child + of the Catholike Church. In the meane time, Arnold le Powre, the + prisoner, deceased in the castell; and because he stood + unpurged, long he laie unburied." + +In 1332, William Outlawe is said to have been Prior of Kilmainham, and +lieutenant of John Lord Darcie, Lord Justice. + +This Bishop of Ossorie, Richard Lederede, was a minorite of London: he +had a troubled episcopate, and was long in banishment in England. I have +met with his name in the Register of Adam de Orlton, Bishop of +Winchester, where he is recorded as assisting that prelate in some of +his duties, A.D. 1336. He died however peaceably in his see, and was a +benefactor to his cathedral. (See Ware's _History of Ireland_.) + +W. H. G. + +Winchester. + + [It may be added, that much information respecting both Roger + Outlawe and the trial of Alice Kyteler would be found in the + interesting volume published by the Camden society in 1842, + under the editorship of Mr. Wright, entitled _Proceedings + against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324_.] + +Your correspondent H. T. ELLACOMBE asks who this Roger Outlawe was, and +expresses his surprise that a prior of a religious house should "sit as +_locum tenens_ of a judge in a law court." + +But the words "tenens locum Johannis Darcy le cosyn justiciarii +Hiberniae" do not imply that Outlawe sat as _locum tenens_ of a judge in +a law court. For this Sir John Darcy was Lord Justice, or Lord +Lieutenant (as we would now say), of Ireland, and Roger Outlawe was his +_locum tenens_. + +Nothing, however, was more common at that period than for ecclesiastics +to be judges in law courts; and it happens that this very Roger was Lord +Chancellor of Ireland in 1321 to 1325, and again, 1326--1330: again, +1333: again (a fourth time), 1335: and a fifth time in 1339: for even +then, as now, we were cursed in Ireland by perpetual changes of +administration and of law officers, so that we have scarcely had any +uniform practice, and our respect for law has been proportionally small. + +Sir John Darcy was Lord Justice, or Lord Lieutenant, in 1322, in 1324, +in 1328 (in which year Roger Outlawe was his _locum tenens_ during his +absence), in 1322, and on to 1340. + +Roger Outlawe was Lord Justice, either in his own right or as _locum +tenens_ for others, in 1328, 1330, and 1340, in which last year he died +in office. His death is thus recorded in Clyn's _Annals_ (edited by Dean +Butler for the Irish Archaeological Society), p. 29.: + + "Item die Martis, in crastino beatae Agathae virginis, obiit + frater Rogerus Outlawe, prior hospitalis in Hibernia, apud Any, + tunc locum justiciarii tenens: et etiam Cancellarius Domini + Regis, trium simul functus officio. Vir prudens et graciosus, + qui multas possessiones, ecclesias, et redditus ordini suo + adquisivit sua industria, et regis Angliae gratia speciali et + licentia." + +To this day, in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, _Lords +Justices_ are appointed. + +J. H. TODD. + +Trin. Coll., Dublin. + + * * * * * + + +PROSPECTUS TO CIBBER'S "LIVES OF THE POETS." + +(Vol. v., pp. 25. 65.; Vol. vii., p. 341.) + +I am obliged to DR. RIMBAULT for noticing, what had escaped me, that +this Prospectus has been reprinted in the _Censura Literaria_, vol. vi. +p. 352. With respect to my ground for attributing it to Johnson, it +will, I think, be obvious enough to any one who reads my remarks, that +it was on the internal evidence alone, on which, as every one is aware, +many additions have been made to his acknowledged compositions. Your +correspondent C., with whom I always regret to differ, is so far at +variance with me as to state it as his opinion that "nothing can be less +like Johnson's peculiar style," and refers me to a note, with which I +was perfectly familiar, to show--but which I must say I cannot see that +it does in the slightest degree--"that it is impossible that Johnson +could have written this Prospectus." Another correspondent, whose +communication I am unable immediately to refer to, likewise recorded his +dissent from my conclusion. Next follows DR. RIMBAULT, whom I understand +to differ from me also, and who says (but where is the authority for the +statement?) "Haslewood believed it to have been the production of +Messrs. Cibber and Shields." I have every respect for Haslewood as a +diligent antiquary, but I confess I do not attach much weight to his +opinion on a question of critical taste or nice discrimination of style. +I had, as I have observed, assigned the Prospectus to Dr. Johnson on the +internal evidence alone; but since it appeared in "N. & Q." I have +become aware of an important corroboration of my opinion in a copy of +Cibber's _Lives_ which formerly belonged to Isaac Reed, and which I have +recently purchased. At the beginning of the first volume he has pasted +in the Prospectus, and under it is the following note in his {387} +handwriting: "The above advertisement was written or revised by Dr. +Johnson.--J. R." Reed's general correctness and capacity of judging in +literary matters are too well known to render it necessary for me to +enlarge upon them; and with this support I am quite content to leave the +point in issue between your correspondents and myself to the decision of +that part of your readers who take an interest in similar literary +questions. + +It will be observed that I have confined myself in my remarks to the +Prospectus exclusively. The authorship of the _Lives_ themselves is +another question, and a very curious one, and not, by any means, as your +correspondent C. appears to think, "settled." Perhaps I may, on a future +occasion, trouble you with some remarks upon the _Lives_ in detail, +endeavouring to assign the respective portions to the several +contributors. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + + * * * * * + + +PIC-NIC. + +(Vol. vii., p. 23.) + +As I consider that the true origin of _pic-nic_ remains yet to be +discovered, permit me to try and trace the word through France into +Italy, and to endeavour to show that the land with the "fatal gift of +beauty" was its birthplace; and that when the Medici married into +France, the august ladies probably imported, together with fans, gloves, +and poisons, a pastime which, under the name of _pique-nique_, became, +as Leroux says in his _Dictionnaire Comique_, "un divertissement fort a +la mode a Paris." + +I will not occupy space by quoting the article "at length" from Leroux, +but the substance is this:--Persons of quality, of both sexes, who +wished to enjoy themselves, and feast together, either in the open air +or in the house of one of the number, imposed upon each one the task of +bringing some particular article, or doing some particular duty in +connexion with the feast. And to show how stringent was the expression +_pique-nique_ in imposing a specific task, Leroux quotes "considerant +que chacun avait besoin de ses pieces, prononca un _arret_ de +pique-nique." (_Rec. de Piec. Com._) + +Thus, I think Leroux and also Cotgrave show that the word _pique-nique_ +involves the idea of a task, or particular office, undertaken by each +individual for the general benefit. + +Let us now go to Italian, and look at the word _nicchia_. Both from +Alberti and from Baretti we find it to bear the meaning of "a charge, a +duty, or an employment;" and if before this word we place the adjective +_piccola_, we have _piccola nicchia_, "a small task, or trifling service +to be performed." Now I think no one can fail to see the identity of the +_meanings_ of the expressions _piccola nicchia_ and _pique-nique_; but +it remains to show how the words themselves may be identical. Those who +have been in the habit of reading much of the older Italian authors +(subsequent to Boccacio) will bear me out in my statement of the +frequency of contraction of words in familiar use: the plays, +particularly, show it, from the dialogues in Machiavelli or Goldoni to +the libretto of a modern opera; so much as to render it very probable +that _piccola nicchia_ might stand as _picc' nicc'_, just as we +ourselves have been in the habit of degrading _scandalum magnatum_ into +_scan. mag._ It only remains now to carry this _picc' nicc'_ into +France, and, according to what is usual in Gallicising Italian words, to +change the _c_ or _ch_ into _que_, to have what I started with, viz. the +_divertissement_ concerning which Leroux enlarges, and in which, I am +afraid, it may be said I have followed his example. + +However, I consider the _Decameron_ of Boccacio as a probable period +where the temporary queen of the day would impose the _arret_ of +_pique-nique_ upon her subjects; and when I look over the engravings of +the manners and customs of the Italians of the Middle Ages, all +indicating the frequency of the _al fresco_ banquets, and find that +subsequently Watteau and Lancret revel in similar amusements in France, +where the personages of the _fete_ manifestly wear Italian-fashioned +garments; and when we are taught that such parties of pleasure were +called _pique-niques_, I think it is fair to infer that the expression +is a Gallicised one from an Italian phrase of the same signification. + +I do not know if it will be conceded that I have proved my case +_positively_, but I might go so far _negatively_ as to show that in no +other European language can I find any word or words which, having a +similar sound, will bear an analysis of adaptation; and though there is +every probability that the custom of _pic-nic_ing obtained in preference +in the sunny south, there are few, I think, that would rush for an +explanation into the Eastern languages, on the plea that the Crusaders, +being in the habit of _al fresco_ banquetting, might have brought home +the expression _pic-nic_. + +JOHN ANTHONY, M.D. + +Washwood, Birmingham. + +This word would seem to be derived from the French. Wailly, in his +_Nouveau Vocabulaire_, describes it as "repas ou chacun paye son ecot," +a feast towards which each guest contributes a portion of the expense. +Its etymology is thus explained by Girault-Duvivier, in his _Grammaire +des Grammaires_: + + "_Pique-nique_, plur. des _pique-nique_: des repas ou ceux qui + _piquent_, qui _mangent_, font signe de la tete qu'ils paieront. + + "Les Allemands, dit M. Lemare, ont aussi leur _picknick_, qui a + le meme sens que le notre. _Picken_ signifie _piquer_, + _becqueter_, et _nicken_ signifie _faire signe de la {388} tete_. + _Pique-nique_ est donc, comme _passe-passe_, un compose de deux + verbes; Il est dans l'analogie de cette phrase, 'Qui touche, + mouille.'" + +HENRY H. BREEN. + + * * * * * + + +PETER STERRY AND JEREMIAH WHITE. + +(Vol. iii., p. 38.) + +Your correspondent's inquiry with respect to the missing MSS. of Peter +Sterry, which were intended to form a second volume of his posthumous +works, published without printer's name in 1710, 4to., and of which MSS. +a list is given in vol. i., does not seem to have led to any result. As +I feel equal interest with himself in every production of Sterry, I am +tempted again to repeat the Query, in the hope of some discovery being +made of these valuable remains. I have no doubt the editor of the +"Appearance of God to Man," and the other discourses printed in the +first volume, was R. Roach, who edited Jeremiah White's _Persuasion to +Moderation_, Lond., 1708, 8vo.; and afterwards published _The Great +Crisis_, and _The Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant_, 1727, 8vo.; +and probably Sterry's MSS. may be found if Roach's papers can be traced. +It is curious that a similar loss of MSS. seems to have occurred with +regard to several of the works of Jeremiah White, who, like Sterry, was +a chaplain of Cromwell (how well that great man knew how to select +them!), and, like Sterry, was of that admirable Cambridge theological +school which Whichcot, John Smith, and Cudworth have made so renowned. +Neither of these distinguished men have yet, that I am aware of, found +their way into any biographical dictionary. White is slightly noticed by +Calamy (vol. ii. p. 57.; vol. iv. p. 85.). Sterry, it appears, died on +Nov. 19, 1672. White survived him many years, and died in the +seventy-eighth year of his age, 1707. Of the latter, there is an +engraved portrait; of the former, none that I know of; nor am I aware of +the burial-place of either. The works which I have met with of Sterry +are his seven sermons preached before Parliament, &c., and published in +different years; his _Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of God in +the Soul of Man_, 1683, 4to.; his _Discourse of the Freedom of the Will_ +(a title which does not by any means convey the character of the book), +Lond., 1675, fol.; and the 4to. before mentioned, being vol. i. of his +_Remains_, published in 1710. Of White I only knew a Funeral Sermon on +Mr. Francis Fuller; his _Persuasion to Moderation_, above noticed, which +is an enlargement of part of his preface to Sterry's _Rise, &c._; and +his _Treatise on the Restoration of all Things_, 1712, 8vo., which has +recently been republished by Dr. Thom. To his _Persuasion_ is appended +an advertisement: + + "There being a design of publishing the rest of Mr. White's + works, any that have either Letters or other Manuscripts of his + by them are desired to communicate them to Mr. John Tarrey, + distiller, at the Golden Fleece, near Shadwick Dock." + +This design, with the exception of the publication of _The Restoration_, +seems to have proved abortive. White entertained many opinions in common +with Sterry, which he advocates with great power. He does not however, +like his fellow chaplain, soar into the pure empyrean of theology with +unfailing pinions. Sterry has frequently sentences which Milton might +not have been ashamed to own. His _Discourse of the Freedom of the Will_ +is a noble performance, and the preface will well bear a comparison with +Cudworth's famous sermon on the same subject. + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + + * * * * * + + +PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES. + + +_Colouring Collodion Portraits._--I shall be obliged if any brother +photographer will kindly inform me, through the medium of "N. & Q.," the +best method of colouring collodion portraits and views in a style +similar to the hyalotypes shown at the Great Exhibition. + +We country photographers are much indebted to DR. DIAMOND for the +valuable information we have obtained through his excellent papers in +"N. & Q.," and perceiving he is shortly about to give us the benefit of +his experience in a compact form, under the modest title of +_Photographic Notes_, I suggest that, if one of his Notes should contain +the best method of colouring collodion proofs, so as to render them +applicable for dissolving views, &c., he will be conferring a benefit on +many of your subscribers; and, as one of your oldest, allow me to +subscribe myself + +PHOTO. + + +_On some Points in the Collodion Process._--In your impression of this +day's date (Vol. vii., p. 363.), the Rev. J. L. SISSON desires the +opinion of other photographers relative to lifting the plate with the +film of collodion up and down several times in the bath of nit. silv. +solution; and as my experience on this point is diametrically opposed to +his own, I venture to state it with the view of eliciting a discussion. + +The _evenness_ of the film is not at all dependent upon this practice; +but its sensibility to light appears to be considerably increased. + +The plate, after being plunged in, should be allowed to repose quietly +from twenty to thirty minutes, _and then rapidly_ slid in and out +several times, until the liquid flows off in one continuous and even +_sheet_ of liquid; and this also has a beneficial effect in washing off +any little particles of collodion, dust, oxide, or any foreign matter +which, if adherent, would form centres of chemical action, and cause +spottiness in the negative. + +{389} +I find that the plate is more sensitive also, if not exposed before all +the exciting fluid that can be _drained off_ is got rid of; that is, +while still quite moist, but without any _flowing_ liquid. + +As to redipping the plate before development, it is, I believe, _in +general_ useless; but when the plate has got _very_ dry it may be dipped +again, but should be then _well drained_ before the developing solution +is applied. + +MR. F. MAXWELL LYTE (p. 364.) quotes the price of the purest iodide of +potassium at 1s. 3d. per oz. I should be glad to know where it can +be obtained, as I find the price constantly varies, and upon the last +occasion I paid 4s. per oz., and I think never less than 1s. 8d. + +MR. L. MERRITT will probably succeed in applying the cement for a glass +bath thus:--Place the pieces of glass upon wood of any kind in an oven +with the door open until he can only just handle them; then, with a roll +of the cement, melting the end in the flame of a spirit-lamp, apply it +as if for sealing a letter. This should be done as quickly as possible. +The glasses may then be passed over the flame of the lamp (in contact +with it), so as to raise the temperature, until the cement is quite soft +and nearly boiling (this can be done without heating the parts near the +fingers); and while hot the two separate pieces should be applied by +putting one down on a piece of wood covered with flannel, and pressing +the other with any wooden instrument: metal in contact would cause an +instantaneous fracture. + +MR. MERRITT's difficulty with the developing solutions depends most +probably in the case of the pyrogallic acid mixture not having enough +acetic acid. The protonitrate of iron, if made according to DR. +DIAMOND's formula, does _not_ require any acetic acid, and flows quite +readily; but the protosulphate solution requires a bath, and the same +solution may be used over and over again. + +GEO. SHADBOLT. + +London, April 9, 1853. + + +_Economical Iodizing Process._--MR. MAXWELL LYTE is probably as good a +judge as myself, as to where any weak point or difficulty is found in +iodizing paper with the carbonate of potass: if any chemical is likely +to be the cause of unusual activity, it is the carbonic acid, and not +the cyanide of potash. I still continue to use that formula, and have +not iodized paper with any other: though I have made some variations +which may perhaps be of use. I found that the nitrate of potash is +almost the same in its effects as the carbonate. I would as soon use the +one as the other; but the state I conceive to be the most effective, is +the diluted liquor potassae: that would be with iodine about the same +state as the iodide of potash, but hitherto I have not tried it, though +mean to do so. + +I am not quite certain as to whether, theoretically, this position is +right; but I find in iodide of potash, and in the above formula, that +the iodine is absorbed in greater quantities by the silver, than the +alkaline potash by the nitric acid. Thus, by using a solution for some +time, it will at last contain but very little iodine at all, and not +enough for the purpose of the photographer; hence it requires renewing. +And I have lately observed that paper is much more effective, in every +way, if it is floated on free iodine twice before it is used in the +camera, viz. once when it is made, and again when it is dry: the last +time containing a little bromine water and glacial acetic acid. It +appears to me that the paper will absorb its proper dose of iodine +better when dry, and the glacial acetic acid will set free any small +amount of alkaline potash there may be on the surface; so that it will +not embrown on applying gallic acid. By using the ammonio-nitrate of +silver in iodizing, and proceeding as above, I find it all I can wish as +far as regards the power of my camera. With this paper I can use an +aperture of half an inch diameter, and take anything in the shade and +open air in five or six minutes, in the sun in less time. The yellow +colour also comes off better in the hypo. sulph. + +I think MR. MAXWELL LYTE has made a mistake as to the price he quotes: +about here I cannot get any iodide of potash under 2s. per ounce, and +the five grains to the ounce added to the common dose of nitrate of +silver is hardly worth speaking of; it would amount, in fact, to about +fifteen grains in a quire of Whatman's paper,--no great hardship, +because many use much higher doses of silver for iodizing; forty grains +to the ounce is not uncommonly used, but I believe twenty-five grains +quite enough. + +I presume, in SIR WM. NEWTON's mode of treating positives, the acid of +the alum decomposes the alkali of the hypo. sulph. And it would be, I +suppose, better for the picture, if its state were entirely neutral when +put away or framed; but if alum is added, acid must remain, since SIR +WM. says it combines with the size. What I should imagine is, that the +idea is good; but experience can only decide if the picture is better +put away in an acid condition. I should think there are more available +acids for the purpose, for alum has an injurious effect upon colour; and +a positive is nothing but colour, the organic matter of the paper +stained as it were by the silver: for, after all its washings and +application of re-agents, no silver can possibly remain in the paper. +The safest state therefore of putting away ought to be ascertained and +decided upon; as it is no use doing them if they fade, or even lose +their tones. + +WELD TAYLOR. + +N.B.--The iodized ammonio-nitrate paper will not bear exposure to the +sun; it will keep any {390} length of time, but should be kept in a +paper, and away from any considerable degree of light. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + + +_Bishop Juxon's Account of Vendible Books in England_ (Vol. vi., pp. +515. 592.).--The following note in Wilson's _History of the Merchant +Taylors' School_, p. 783., solves the Query respecting the authorship of +this bibliographical work. + + "_The Catalogue of Books in England alphabetically digested_, + printed at London, 1658, 4to., is ascribed to Bishop Juxon in + Osborne's _Catalogue_ for 1755, p. 40. But, as Mr. Watts, the + judicious librarian of Sion College, has observed to me, this is + no authority, the Epistle Dedicatory bearing internal evidence + against it. The author's name was _William London_, whence arose + the mistake!" + +J. YEOWELL. + +Hoxton. + + +_Dutensiana_ (Vol. vi., p. 376.; Vol. vii., p. 26.).--The following +statement, extracted from Querard's _France Litteraire_, sub voce +Dutens, will account for the discrepancies mentioned by your +correspondents with reference to the works of Louis Dutens. + +Dutens published three volumes of _Memoirs_, which he afterwards +committed to the flames, out of consideration for certain living +characters. He then published, in three volumes, his _Memoires d'un +Voyageur qui se repose_, the two first containing the author's life, and +the third being the _Dutensiana_. + +Your correspondent W. (Vol. vi., p. 376.) says that Dutens published at +Geneva, in six volumes 4to., with prefaces, the entire works of +Leibnitz. This statement is thus qualified by the _Biographie +Universelle_: + + "L. Dutens est l'Editeur de _Leibnitii opera omnia_, mais c'est + a tort que quelques bibliographes lui attribuent les + _Institutions Leibnitiennes_. Cet ouvrage est de l'Abbe + Sigorgne." + +The same correspondent inquires whether Dutens was not also the author +of _Correspondence inteceptee_: and SIR W. C. TREVELYAN (Vol. vii., p. +26.) says he had seen a presentation copy of it, although it is not +included in the list of Dutens' _Works_ given by Lowndes. + +This is explained by the fact that the work, originally published under +the title of _Correspondence interceptee_, was afterwards embodied in +the _Memoires d'un Voyageur_. Lowndes seems to have had no knowledge of +it as a separate publication. + +HENRY H. BREEN. + +St. Lucia. + + +_Vicars-Apostolic_ (Vol. vii., pp. 309, 310.).--Allow me to correct an +error or two in my list of the vicars-apostolic, which appeared in your +178th Number, p 309. The three archpriests were _appointed_ to their +office, not _consecrated_. + +P. 309.--_Northern District._ Bishop Witham was consecrated 1703, not +1716. He was _translated_ from the Midland to the Northern District in +1716. + +P. 310.--In the list of the present Roman Catholic prelates in England +and Wales, the bishops--from Archbishop Wiseman to Bishop Hendren +inclusive--were _translated_ in 1850, not _consecrated_. + +J. R. W. + +Bristol. + + +_Tombstone in Churchyard_ (Vol. vii., p. 331.).--In Ecclesfield +churchyard is the following inscription, cut in bold capitals, and as +legible as when the slab was first laid down: + + "Here lieth the bodie of Richard Lord, late Vicar of + Ecclesfield, 1600." + +If, however, A. C.'s Query be not limited to slabs in the open air, he +will probably be interested by the following, copied by me from the +floors of the respective churches, which are all in this neighbourhood. +The first is from the unused church of St. John at Laughton-le-Morthing, +near Roche Abbey, and is, according to Mr. Hunter, one of the earliest +specimens of a monumental inscription in the vernacular: + + "Here lyeth Robt. Dinningto' and Alis his wyfe. Robert dyed [=i] + y'e fest of San James M'mo ccc iiij'xx xiij'mo. Alis dyed o' + Tisday [=i] Pas. Woke, a'o D[=n]i M'o ccc'mo xxx'o whose saules + God assoyl for is m'cy. Ame'." + +The next three are partly pewed over; but the uncovered parts are +perfectly legible. The first two are from Tankersley, the third from +Wentworth: + + "Hic jacet d[=n]s Thomas Toykyl ... die mensis Aprilis anno + d[=n]i M. cccc. lxxxx. sc[=d]o...." + + " ... Mensis Octob. an[=o] dni Milli[=m]o cccc. xxx. quinto." + + " ... An[=o] d[=n]i Millesimo cccc. xxxx. vi. cuius ai[=e] deus + propitietur." + +Also in Ecclesfield Church is a slab bearing the dates 1571, and J. W. +1593; and the remains of two others, with dates "M'o ccccc'o xix'o," and +"M'o ccccc'o xxx'o vi'o." + +J. EASTWOOD. + +Ecclesfield Hall, Sheffield. + + +"_Her face is like," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 305.).-- + + "Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,-- + A meeting of gentle lights without a name." + +These lines are from Act III. of Sir John Suckling's tragedy of +_Brennoralt_, and are uttered by a lover contemplating his _sleeping_ +mistress; a circumstance which it is important to mention, as the truth +and beauty of the comparison depend on it. + +B. R. I. + + +{391} +_Annuellarius_ (Vol. vii., p. 358.).--_Annuellarius_, sometimes written +_Annivellarius_, is a chantry priest, so called from his receiving the +_annualia_, or yearly stipend, for keeping the anniversary, or saying +continued masses for one year for the soul of a deceased person. + +J. G. + +Exon. + + +_Ship's Painter_ (Vol. vii., p. 178.).--Your correspondent J. C. G. may +find a rational derivation of the word _painter_, the rope by which a +boat is attached to a ship, in the Saxon word _punt_, a boat. The +corruption from _punter_, or boat-rope, to _painter_, seems obvious. + +J. S. C. + + +_True Blue_ (Vol. iii., _passim_).--The occurrence of this expression in +the following passage in Dryden, and its application to the Order of the +Garter, seem to have escaped the notice of the several correspondents +who have addressed you on the subject. I quote from _The Flower and the +Leaf_, Dryden's version of one of Chaucer's tales: + + "Who bear the bows were knights in Arthur's reign, + Twelve they, and twelve the peers of Charlemain; + For bows the strength of brawny arms imply, + Emblems of valour and of victory. + Behold an order yet of newer date, + Doubling their number, equal in their state; + Our England's ornament, the Crown's defence, + In battle brave, protectors of their prince; + Unchang'd by fortune, to their sovereign _true_, + _For which_ their manly legs are bound with _blue_. + These of the Garter call'd, of faith unstain'd. + In fighting fields the laurel have obtain'd, + And well repaid the honors which they gain'd." + +HENRY H. BREEN. + +St. Lucia. + + +"_Quod fuit esse_" (Vol. vii., pp. 235. 342.).--In one of Dr. Byrom's +Common-place Books now in the possession of his respected descendant, +Miss Atherton, of Kersal Cell, is the following arrangement and +translation of this enigmatical inscription, probably made by the Doctor +himself: + + "Quod fuit esse quod est quod non fuit esse quod esse + Esse quod est non esse quod est non est erit esse. + Quod fuit esse quod, + Est quod non fuit esse quod, + Esse esse quod est, + Non esse quod est non est + Erit esse. + + What was John Wiles is what John Wiles was not, + The mortal Being has immortal got. + The Wiles that was but a non Ens is gone, + And now remains the true eternal John." + +I take this opportunity of mentioning that my friend, the Rev. Dr. +Parkinson, Canon of Manchester, and Principal of St. Bees, is at present +engaged in editing, for the Chetham Society, the Diary and unpublished +remains of Dr. Byrom; and he will, I am sure, feel greatly indebted to +any of your correspondents who will favour him with an addition to his +present materials. O. G. ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 179. art. Townshend) +seems to have some memoranda relating to Byrom, and would perhaps be +good enough to communicate them to Dr. Parkinson. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + +I have seen the above thus paraphrased: + + "What we have been, and what we are, + The present and the time that's past, + We cannot properly compare + With what we are to be at last. + + "Tho' we ourselves have fancied Forms, + And Beings that have never been; + We into something shall be turn'd, + Which we have not conceived or seen." + +C. H. (a Subscriber.) + + +_Subterranean Bells_ (Vol. vii., pp. 128. 200. 328.).--In a most +interesting paper by the Rev. W. Thornber, A.B., Blackpool, published in +the _Proceedings of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire_, +1851-2, there is mention of a similar tradition to that quoted by your +correspondent J. J. S. + +Speaking of the cemetery of Kilgrimol, two miles on the south shore from +Blackpool, the learned gentleman says: + + "The ditch and cross have disappeared, either obliterated by the + sand, or overwhelmed by the inroads of the sea; but, with + tradition, the locality is a favourite still. The _superstitio + loci_ marks the site: 'The church,' it says, 'was swallowed up + by an earthquake, together with the Jean la Cairne of Stonyhill; + but on Christmas eve every one, since that time, on bending his + ear to the ground, may distinguish clearly its bells pealing + most merrily.'" + +BROCTUNA. + +Bury, Lancashire. + + +_Spontaneous Combustion_ (Vol. vii., p. 286.).--I presume H. A. B.'s +question refers to the human body only, because the possibility of +spontaneous combustion in several other substances is, I believe, not +disputed. On that of the human body Taylor says: + + "The hypothesis of those who advocate _spontaneous_ combustion, + is, it appears to me, perfectly untenable. So far as I have been + able to examine this subject, there is not a single + well-authenticated instance of such an event occurring: in the + cases reported which are worthy of any credit, a candle or some + other ignited body has been at hand, and the accidental ignition + of the clothes was highly probable, if not absolutely certain." + +He admits that, under certain circumstances, the human body, though in +general "highly difficult of combustion," may acquire increased +combustible properties. But this is another question {392} from that of +the possibility of its purely spontaneous combustion. (See Taylor's +_Medical Jurisprudence_, pages 424-7. edit. 1846.) + +W. W. T. + + +_Muffs worn by Gentlemen_ (Vol. vi., _passim_; Vol. vii., p. 320.).--The +writer of a series of papers in the _New Monthly Magazine_, entitled +"Parr in his later Years," thus (vol. xvi. p. 482.) describes the +appearance of that learned Theban: + + "He had on his dressing-gown, which I think was flannel, or + cotton, and the skirts dangled round his ankles. Over this he + had drawn his great-coat, buttoned close; and his hands, for he + had been attacked with erysipelas not long before, were kept + warm in a _silk muff_, not much larger than the poll of a common + hat." + +In an anonymous poetical pamphlet (_Thoughts in Verse concerning +Feasting and Dancing_, 12mo. London, 1800), is a little poem, entitled +"The Muff," in the course of which the following lines occur: + + "A time there was (that time is now no more, + At least in England 'tis not now observ'd!) + When muffs were worn by _beaux_ as well as belles. + Scarce has a century of time elaps'd, + Since such an article was much in vogue; + Which, when it was not on the arm sustain'd, + Hung, pendant by a silken ribbon loop + From button of the coat of well-dress'd beau. + 'Tis well for manhood that the use has ceased! + For what to _woman_ might be well allow'd, + As suited to the softness of her sex, + Would seem effeminate and wrong in _man_." + +WILLIAM BATES. + +Birmingham. + + +_Crescent_ (Vol. vii., p. 235.).--In Judges, ch. viii. ver. 21., Gideon +is recorded to have taken away from Zeba and Zalmunna, kings of Midian, +"the ornaments that were on their camels' necks." The marginal +translation has "ornaments like the moon;" and in verse 24. it is stated +that the Midianites were _Ishmaelites_. If, therefore, it be borne in +mind that Mohammed was an Arabian, and that the Arabians were +Ishmaelites, we may perhaps be allowed to infer that the origin of the +use of the crescent was not as a symbol of Mohammed's religion, but that +it was adopted by his countrymen and followers from their ancestors, and +may be referred to at least as far back as 1249 B.C., when Zeba and +Zalmunna were slain, and when it seems to have been the customary +ornament of the Ishmaelites. + +W. W. T. + + +_The Author of "The Family Journal"_ (Vol. vii., p. 313.).--The author +of the very clever series of papers in the _New Monthly Magazine_, to +which MR. BEDE refers, is Mr. Leigh Hunt. The particular one in which +Swift's Latin-English is quoted, has been republished in a charming +little volume, full of original thinking, expressed with the felicity of +genius, called _Table Talk_, and published in 1851 by Messrs. Smith and +Elder, of Cornhill. + +G. J. DE WILDE. + + +_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., p. 432. &c.).--I fear that there is +little doubt that these collections of books have very often been +unfairly dispersed. It is by no means uncommon, in looking over the +stock of an old divinity bookseller, to meet with works with the names +of parochial libraries written in them. I have met with many such: they +appear chiefly to have consisted of the works of the Fathers, and of our +seventeenth century divines. As a case in point, I recollect, about ten +years since, being at a sale at the rectory of Reepham, Norfolk, +consequent upon the death of the rector, and noticing several works with +the inscription "Reepham Church Library" written inside: these were sold +indiscriminately with the rector's books. At this distance of time I +cannot recollect the titles of many of the works; but I perfectly +remember a copy of Sir H. Savile's edition of _Chrysostom_, 8 vols. +folio; _Constantini Lexicon_, folio; and some pieces of Bishop Andrewes. +These were probably intended for the use of the rector, as in the case +reported by your correspondent CHEVERELLS (Vol. vii., p. 369.). + +I may also mention having seen a small parochial library of old divinity +kept in the room over the porch in the church of Sutton Courtenay, near +Abingdon, Berks. With the history and purpose of this collection I am +unacquainted. + +NORRIS DECK. + +Great Malvern. + + +_Sidney as a Christian Name_ (Vol. vii., pp. 39. 318.).--Lady Morgan the +authoress was, before her marriage, Miss _Sidney_ Owenson. See Chambers' +_Encyclop. of Eng. Lit._, ii. 580. + +P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. + + +_"Rather"_ (Vol. vii., p. 282.).--The root of the word _rather_ is +Celtic, in which language _raith_ means "inclination," "on account of," +"for the sake of," &c. Thus, in the line quoted from Chaucer, + + "What aileth you so _rathe_ for to arise," + +it clearly signifies "what aileth you that you _so incline_ to arise," +and so on, in the various uses to which the comparative of the word is +put: as, I had rather do so and so, _i. e._ "I feel _more inclined_;" I +am rather tired, _i. e._ "I am fatigued _on account of_ the walk," &c. I +am glad that you are come, the rather that I have work for you to do, +_i. e._ "_more on account of_ the work which I have for you to do, or +_for the sake_ of the work," &c. Any obscurity that is attached to the +use of the word, has arisen from the abuse of it, or rather from its +right signification being not properly understood. + +FRAS. CROSSLEY. + + +{393} +_Lady High Sheriff_ (Vol. vii., pp. 236. 340.).--Another instance may be +seen in Foss's _Judges of England_, vol. ii. p. 51.--In speaking of +Reginald de Cornhill, who held the Sheriffalty of Kent from 5 Richard I. +to 5 Henry III., he says: + + "His seat at Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, acquired the name + of 'Sheriff's Court,' which it still retains; and he himself, + discontinuing his own name, was styled Reginald le Viscount, + even his widow being designated Vicecomitessa Cantii." + +D. S. + + +_Nugget_ (Vol. vi., p. 171.; Vol. vii., pp. 143. 272.).--Nugget _may_ be +derived from the Persian, but it is also used in Scotland, and means a +lump,--a nugget of sugar, for instance. And as Scotchmen are to be found +everywhere, its importation into Australia and California is easily +accounted for. + +R. S. N. + + +_Epigrams_ (Vol. vii., p. 180.).--I beg to confirm the statement of +SCRAPIANA as to the reading John instead of Thomas in the line + + "'Twixt Footman John and Dr. Toe." + +It may not be generally known that this epigram came from the pen of +Reginald Heber, late Bishop of Calcutta, who was then a commoner of +Brazenoze College, and who wrote that extremely clever satire called +_The Whippiad_ of which the same Dr. Toe (the Rev. Henry Halliwell, Dean +and Tutor) was the hero. _The Whippiad_ was printed for the first time a +few years ago, in _Blackwood's Magazine_. + +I fancy the other facetious epigram given by SCRAPIANA has no connexion +with this, but was merely inserted on the same page as being "similis +materiae." + +B. N. C. + + +_Editions of the Prayer-Book_ (Vol. vii., p. 91.).--The following small +addition is offered to MR. SPARROW SIMPSON's list: + +1592. fol. Deputies of Chr. Barker. Trinity College, Dublin. +1607. 4to. Robert Barker. Trin. Coll., Dublin. +1611. folio. Robert Barker. Marsh's Library, Dubl. +1632. 8vo. R. Barker and the assignes of John Bill. Trin. Coll., + Dublin. +1634. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. +1634. 12mo. Same Printers. Marsh's Library. +1638. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. +1639. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. +1616. There is a Latin version, in Dr. Mockett's _Doctrina et + Politeia Ecclesiae Anglicanae_. 4to. Londoni. Marsh's + Library, Dublin. + +H. COTTON. + +Thurles. + + +_Portrait of Pope_ (Vol. vii., p. 294.).--Dr. Falconer's portrait of +Pope could not have been painted by _Joseph_ Wright of Derby, as that +celebrated artist was only fourteen when Pope died; consequently, the +anecdote told of the painter, and of his meeting the poet at dinner, +must apply to the artist named by Dr. Falconer, and of course correctly, +_Edward_ Wright. + +S. D. D. + + +_Passage in Coleridge_ (Vol. vii., p. 330.).--The paper referred to by +Coleridge will be found in the _Transactions of the Manchester Literary +and Philosophical Society_, vol. iii. p. 463. It is the "Description of +a Glory," witnessed by Dr. Haygarth on Feb. 13th, 1780, when "returning +to Chester, and ascending the mountain which forms the eastern boundary +of the Vale of Clwyd." As your correspondent asks for a copy of the +description, the volume being scarce, I will give the following extract: + + "I was struck with the peculiar appearance of a very white + shining cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The sun + was nearly setting, but shone extremely bright. I walked up to + the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; when a very + unexpected and beautiful scene was presented to my view. The + head of my shadow was surrounded, at some distance, by a circle + of various colours; whose centre appeared to be near the + situation of the eye, and whose circumference extended to the + shoulders. The circle was complete, except what the shadow of my + body intercepted. It resembled, very exactly, what in pictures + is termed a _glory_, around the head of our Saviour and of + saints: not, indeed, that luminous radiance which is painted + close to the head, but an arch of concentric colours. As I + walked forward, this _glory_ approached or retired, just as the + inequality of the ground shortened or lengthened my shadow." + +A plate "by the writer's friend, Mr. Falconer," accompanies the paper. + +In my copy of the _Transactions_, the following MS. note is attached to +this paper: + + "See Juan's and De Ulloa's _Voyage to South America_, book vi. + ch. ix., where phaenomena, nearly similar, are described." + +I. H. M. + + +_Lowbell_ (Vol. vii., pp. 181. 272.).--This is also surely a Scotch +word, _low_ meaning a light, a flame. + + "A smith's hause is aye lowin."--_Scots. Prov._ + +R. S. N. + + +_Burn at Croydon_ (Vol. vii., p. 283.).--This seems to be of the same +nature as the "nailburns" mentioned by Halliwell (_Arch. Dict._). In +Lambarde's _Perambulation of Kent_, p. 221., 2nd edit., mention is made +of a stream running under ground. But it seems very difficult to account +for these phenomena, and any geologist who would give a satisfactory +explanation of these _burns_, _nailburns_, subterraneous streams, and +those which in Lincolnshire are termed "blow wells," would confer a +favour on several of your readers. + +E. G. R. + + * * * * *{394} + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. + +Our learned, grave, and potent cotemporary, _The Quarterly Review_, has, +in the number just issued, a very pleasant gossiping article on _The Old +Countess of Desmond_. The writer, who pays "N. & Q." a passing +compliment for which we are obliged, although he very clearly +establishes the fact of the existence of a Countess of Desmond, who was +well known and remarkable for her _extreme_ longevity, certainly does +not prove that the old Countess actually lived to the great age of 140 +years. + +The publisher of _Men of the Time, or Sketches of Living Notables_, has +just put forth a new edition of what will eventually become a valuable +and interesting little volume. There are so many difficulties in the way +of making such a book accurate and complete, that it is no wonder if +this second edition, although it contains upwards of sixty additional +articles, has yet many omissions. Its present aspect is too political. +Men of the pen are too lightly passed over, unless they are professed +journalists; many of the greatest scholars of the present day being +entirely omitted. This must and doubtless will be amended. + +It is with great regret that we have to announce the death of one whose +facile pen and well-stored memory furnished many a pleasant note to our +readers,--J. R. of Cork, under which signature that able scholar, and +kindly hearted gentleman, MR. JAMES ROCHE, happily designated by Father +Prout the "Roscoe of Cork," was pleased to contribute to our columns. +_The Athenaeum_ well observes that "his death will leave a blank in the +intellectual society of the South of Ireland, and the readers of 'N. & +Q.' will miss his genial and instructive gossip on books and men." + +_The Photographic Society_ is rapidly increasing. The meeting on the 7th +for the exhibition and explanation of cameras was a decided failure, +from the want of due preparation; but that failure will be fully +compensated by the promised exhibition of them in the rooms of the +_Society of Arts_. While on the subject of Photography, we may call the +attention of our readers to a curious paper on Photographic Engraving, +in _The Athenaeum_ of Saturday last, by a gentleman to whom the art is +already under so much obligation, Mr. Fox Talbot. + +BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Wellington, his Character, his Actions, and his +Writings_, by Jules Maurel, is well described by its editor, Lord +Ellesmere, as "among the most accurate, discriminating, and felicitous +tributes which have evaluated from any country in any language to the +memory of the great Duke."--_Temple Bar, the City Golgotha, a Narrative +of the Historical Occurrences of a Criminal Character associated with +the present Bar_, by a Member of the Inner Temple. A chatty and +anecdotical history of this last remaining gate of the city, under +certainly its most revolting aspect. 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