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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 12, 2008 [EBook #26897] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they +are listed at the end of the text. + + * * * * * + + +{297} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 77.] +SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 1851. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S. W. + Singer 297 + Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty 298 + "After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold 299 + Bishop Thornborough's Monument 299 + + Minor Notes:--King Richard III.--Shakspeare a + thorough Sailor--"A fellow-feeling." &c.--Early + Instances of the Word "News"--Under the Rose 300 + + QUERIES:-- + Portraits of Spenser 301 + The Vendace 301 + + Minor Queries:--Ex Pede Herculem--"To-day we + purpose"--"God takes those soonest whom He loves + the best"--Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope + --Whychcote of St. John's--Meaning of Rechibus-- + Family of Queen Katherine Parr--Skort--Religious + Teaching in the German Universities--Epigram by + Dunbar--Endymion Porter--Sathaniel--The Scoute + Generall--Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Civil War Tract--Trisection + of the Circle--Wolsey's Son--Cardinals and + Abbots in the English Church 303 + + REPLIES:-- + Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304 + The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tobacco in the East-- + Captain John Stevens--MS. Catalogue of Norman + Nobility--Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.-- + Comets--Pope Joan--Abbot Euctacius--The + Vellum-bound Junius--Meaning of Waste-book-- + Cowdray--Solemnisation of Matrimony--Epitaph + on the Countess of Pembroke--Scandal against + Queen Elizabeth--The Tanthony--The Hippopotamus + --Tu autem--Places called purgatory--Swearing + by Swans, &c.--Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office + --Small Words and "Low" Words--Lord + Howard of Effingham--Obeahism, &c. 306 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 310 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 311 + Notices to Correspondents 311 + Advertisements 311 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +LATIN DRINKING SONG BY RICHARD BRAITHWAIT. + +I have been surprised, from the facility with which the author of "Drunken +Barnaby" seems to pour out his Leonine verse, that no other productions of +a similar character are known to have issued from his pen. I am not aware +that the following drinking song, which may fairly be attributed to him, +has ever appeared in print. It was evidently unknown to the worthy +Haslewood, the crowning glory of whose literary career was the happy +discovery of the author, Richard Braithwait. I transcribe it from the MS. +volume from which James Boswell first gave to the world Shakspeare's verses +"On the King." Southey has somewhere said that "the best serious piece of +Latin in modern metre is Sir Francis Kinaston's _Amores Troili et +Cressidae_, a translation of the two first books of Chaucer's Poem[1]; but +it was reserved for _famous_ BARNABY to employ the barbarous ornament of +rhyme, so as to give thereby point and character to good Latinity." + +Southey does not seem to have known those remarkable productions of the +middle ages, which have been made accessible to us by the researches of +Docen, of Grimm, of Schmeller, and of Mr. Wright; and, above all, of that +exquisite gem, "De Phyllide et Flora," first printed by Docen[2], and since +given by Mr. Wright in his collection of _Poems attributed to Walter de +Mapes_. We have, however, a much better text from the hand of Jacob Grimm, +in the _Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin for 1843_, p. 239. Of this poem it +is perhaps not exaggeration to say, that it is an Idyll which would have +done honour to the literature of any age or country; and if it is the +production of Walter de Mapes, we have reason to be proud of it. It is a +dispute between two maidens on the qualities of their lovers, the one being +a soldier, the other a priest. It breathes of the spring, of nature, and of +love: + + "Erant ambae virgines et ambae reginae + Phyllis coma libera Flora comto crine, + Non sunt formae virginum sed formae divinae, + Et respondent facies luci matutinae. + + Nec stirpe, nec facie, nec ornatu viles, + Et annos et animos habent juveniles + Sed sunt parum inpares, et parum hostiles + Nam hinc placet clericus illi vero miles." + +{298} Love is called in to decide the dispute, and it causes no surprise to +find, after due ventilation of the cause, the judgment of the court to be: + + "Secundum scientiam et secundum morem, + AD AMOREM CLERICUM DICUNT APTIOREM." + +Your readers who are not already acquainted with this interesting picture +of ancient manners will, I think, be pleased with having it pointed out to +their notice. + +Should the following song not be already in print, I can also furnish from +the same source a version of the ballad on "Robin Goodfellow" by the same +hand, should it be acceptable.[3] + +S. W. SINGER. + + "CANTIO. + + "O Pampine! quo venisti? + Cur me spectas fronte tristi? + Tolle caput, sis jucundus, + Tolle poculum exue fundus, + Et salutem jam bibamus, + Ad sodales quos amamus; + O Pampine! tibi primum + Haustum summus hunc ad imum. + + Ecce de christallo factum + Purum vas, et hoc intactum, + Lympha nunc et succo plenum, + Nec includit hoc venenum; + Medicamen quod repellit + Omnes malos, nec fefellit, + O Pampine! invito Momo, + Tibi, tu es meus homo. + + Hic est sacer fons et flumen, + Quod qui potant vocant numen, + Iras pellit, demit lites, + Et superbos facit mites; + Et post flumen hoc te amoenum + Annos reparare senum: + O Pampine! tibi habe, + Bibe si sis dignus tabe. + + Hoc si tu gustabit nectar, + Si sis Paris fies Hector, + Iras demit inquietas, + In memento facit laetas; + Pro doloribus est solamen, + Pro pulicibus medicamen; + O Pampine! habe tibi, + Bibe tu cum ego bibi. + + Hic est aqua vera fortis, + Vincula quae solvet mortis, + Aut, si placet, aqua vitae, + Roborans ab atra Dite: + Hinc sunt uti qui potestis + Omnia, cibus, potis, vestis; + O Pampine! tibi cito + Bibe, aut ab hinc abito. + + Si frigistis, sine joco, + Solo hoc utare foco, + Si esuries hic sunt oves, + Pulli, vituli, et boves; + Quod si sitis ecce montem, + Quem si scandes habet fontem; + O Pampine! bibe rursus, + Bibe, tu nam venit cursus. + + Si aegrotas sume potum, + Vis ut valeas tolle totum, + Cape potum hunc paratum, + Sanus eris,--est probatum; + Si in corpore aut in mente + Dolebant in quavis dente; + O Pampine! tibi statim + Sume potum hinc gradatim. + + Bacche jam et jam Silene, + Pocula impleatis plene, + Ope jam adiutus vestra + Domum, feram e fenestra. + AEdes vertunt jam rotundae, + Et succedant res secundae: + O Pampine! tibi bibo, + Bibe, vale! ego abibo." + +[Footnote 1: Southey was not aware that the whole of Chaucer's Poem, and +the "Testament of Cressid," by Henryson, was translated by Kinaston and +accompanied by a copious commentary in English, but only exists in one sole +MS. The press of the Camden Society would be well employed on it.] + +[Footnote 2: In Baron von Aretin's _Beytrage zur Geschichte und Literatur_, +vol. vii. p. 301.; but the copy, though a good text, was defective at the +end.] + +[Footnote 3: [We are sure we are only expressing the opinion of the +majority of our readers when we say it will be _most acceptable_.--ED.]] + + * * * * * + +STRANGE APPEARANCES IN THE SKY. + +Strange appearances in the sky have not been without their ominous +signification from the time that the greater and lesser lights were placed +there at the creation, to the rainbow after the Deluge; and onward to the +"star in the east" which announced our Saviour's birth, and the "light from +heaven" which accompanied St. Paul's conversion. But the question is, +whether there has since been any meaning in other like celestial +illuminations? Some historical credit is claimed for the fiery sword, and +armies fighting in the air, which preceded the siege of Jerusalem: for the +cross of the Emperor Constantine: for the bow about the sun seen by +Augustus Caesar, when he took possession of the Roman empire: and for stars, +or other heavenly lights, which have seemed to herald the births or deaths +of illustrious personages. But are these stories to be believed? and, if +they are, where is the line of credibility to be drawn? People cannot come +together, and talk either on this subject, or on that of ghosts, but every +one "hath a revelation, hath an interpretation." The poet, walking on the +mountains, looked into the sky, and + + "The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, + Was of a mighty city--boldly say + A wilderness of building, sinking far, + And self-withdrawn, into a wondrous depth, + Far sinking into splendour--without end?" + +The two following extracts are from private letters now before me. The +first account was written in 1825 by a physician, still alive, and {299} +who at the time read an account of what he had seen at a meeting of the +Plinian Society. He says, + + "I last evening read a paper upon an extraordinary appearance of + letters, formed by the clouds, seen by a Mr. T. and myself. We had also + with us two little boys, one nine, the other eleven years of age, who + were able to make out each letter equally with ourselves. These + children were at the time walking some distance behind us: but, upon + their coming up, and being shown the letters, they read them without + having heard any observation of ours respecting them. We saw them for + about two minutes, when they gradually changed their form--each letter + changing its perpendicular for a horizontal position, and at length the + whole becoming converted into that form of cloud denominated + cirro-stratus. I will endeavour to give you a faint idea of the + appearance, by forming the letters as well as my memory will enable me. + I make no comment upon the words themselves, as they are too + extraordinary for observation of any kind. It was upon the 12th of last + month: several showers had fallen in the course of the day, but the + afternoon was fine. The time seven in the evening. The letters were + formed upon a fine blue surface, having no other clouds near them, + except very small ones, which tended much to heighten the effect of the + whole. + + [Illustration: (ETERNAL)] + + [Illustration: (MILLENNIUM)] + + "You will observe several deficiencies in the letters of the first + word, viz. in the first 'E;' also in the 'N,' the second part being + short; and a slight defect in the letter 'A.' With respect to the + second word, the first six letters were very perfect: the others, with + the exception of the 'M,' mere strokes; but in number sufficient to + make up the word: and they had the appearance of having been perfect. I + can assure you they were anything but obscure, and required very little + stretch of the imagination. In the first word the letters were + equidistant and beautifully uniform. The second word was not quite + straight, being curved towards its termination. This appeared to me to + arise from the change of position which the letters were undergoing, as + before stated." + +My other extract is from a letter written in 1851. The scene to which it +refers is a sick chamber occupied by an octogenarian grandmother, who is +_in extremis_. Her daughter, who writes the account, is present, together +with a grandchild, who is nearly eleven years old. The nurse has left the +room. + + "We afterwards stood by poor grandmamma's fire, and then we sat at her + window to see the moon rise. There were many clouds about it, and + directly under it was the most marked figure of our Saviour on the + cross. The head was concealed in light, but the arms were outstretched, + and the body quite distinct. M. saw it too, and said, 'How appropriate, + aunt, for the beginning of Lent!' She has never alluded to it since, + nor, of course, have I; nor do I think any more of it, than that _there + it was_: and there is something happy in the fancy, at all events, for + it shone on her dying bed." + +As you admit folk lore into "NOTES AND QUERIES," also well-attested +anecdotes, although these may not absolutely conduce to the advancement of +learning or art, perhaps you will receive this paper for the amusement of +those who, like myself, feel an interest in anything which takes us a +little out of the _hardware facts_ of "the age we live in." + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield. + + * * * * * + +"AFTER ME THE DELUGE." + +If stolen wisdom could be returned to its rightful authors, great, indeed, +would be the transfer of property. Prince Metternich is said to be the +sayer of "After me the Deluge." And yet the Prince took the saying from the +mouth of Madame Pompadour; and she took it--from whom? It may be reasonably +doubted that her brain originated it; for it was not an order of brain that +packs wisdom in few syllables. + + "'After me the Deluge,' said Prince Metternich; a fine saying, but a + false prophecy we trust." + +I quote this from an admirable paper in _The Times_ of to-day (April 10.) +on the Crystal Palace, and quote the subscribed from an _Essai sur la +Marquise de Pompadour_, prefixed to the _Memoires de Madame du Hausset, +Femme de Chambre de Madame Pompadour_, in Barriere's _Bibliotheque des +Memoires_. + + "Madame de Pompadour, dans l'ivresse de la prosperite, repondit a + toutes les menaces de l'avenir par ces trois [_quatre_] mots, "APRES + NOUS, LE DELUGE," qu'elle repetait souvent." + +In this case, "Pompadour _v._ Metternich," surely a verdict must be +returned for the lady, unless Voltaire puts in a future claim. + +DOUGLAS JERROLD. + +West Lodge, Putney Common. + + * * * * * + +BISHOP THORNBOROUGH'S MONUMENT. + + [The writer of the following interesting communication does not appear + to be aware that he is obliging us and a correspondent D. Y., who had + asked (Vol. iii., p. 168.) for an explanation of the phrase _Denarius + Philosophorum_, in the Bishop's Monument.] + +Our local antiquaries have long been puzzled by an inscription in the Lady +chapel of our cathedral. It stands on the monument of Bishop Thornborough, +and was prepared by himself fourteen years before his decease in 1641, at +the age of ninety-four. He was addicted to alchymy, and published a book in +1621, entitled [Greek: Lithotheorikos], _sive_, _Nihil aliquid_, _omnia_, +_&c._ In the course of some recent studies in the Pythagorean philosophy, +my attention was accidentally engaged by this {300} inscription; and it at +once struck me that it was _thence_ that the explanation was to be derived. +The epitaph is as follows: on one side, + + "Denarius Philosophorum, Dum Spiro, Spero." + +on the other, + + "In Uno, 2^o. 3^o. 4^{or} 10. non Spirans Spera_bo_." + +The latter letters are now effaced. + +It is well known that the Pythagoreans found all the modes of space in the +relations of numbers. + +The monad, or unit, was not only the _point_ whence all extension proceeds, +but it further symbolised the First Principle, the origin of all. The duad +represented the line, as being bounded by two points or monads. The triad +stood for surface as length and width. The tetrad for the perfect figure, +the cube, length, depth, and width. The decad, or denarius, indicated +comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost +perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for +the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De +Denario Pythagorico_, which was published four years after the date of the +inscription, and when the philosophy was attracting much attention among +European scholars. To be as concise as possible then, I presume that the +old bishop intended that the tomb on which his effigy lies was his access +to that perfection of existence which philosophers had designated by the +_decas_, or _denarius_. During the present life he was hoping for it, "Dum +Spiro, Spero."--On the other side: "In Him, who is the source, the +beginning, the middle, and the end of all existence and perfection (in Uno, +2^o. 3^o. 4^{or} 10. non Spirans Sperabo), though I breathe no more, yet +shall I hope." + +Such is probably the meaning of his pious conceit, and I offer it as a +solution of what has long served for a riddle to the visitors of our +cathedral. Beyond this, your readers and myself may be equally indifferent +to such cabalistical quaintness. But let us treat it with charity, as the +devout consummation of an aged alchymist. + +O. F. + +College Green, Worcester, March, 1851. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_King Richard III._ (Vol. iii., p. 221.).--On the 14th May, 1491 (6 Henry +VII.), one Master William Burton, the schoolmaster of St. Leonard's +Hospital, in the city of York, was accused before the magistrates of having +said that "King Richard was an hypocrite, a _crocheback_, and buried in a +dike like a dog." This circumstance is recorded in a contemporary document +of unquestionable authenticity (vide extracts from _York Records in the +Fifteenth Century_, p. 220.); and must remove all doubt as to the fact of +Richard's bodily deformity. The conjecture of Dr. Wallis, quoted by +G. F. G., can have no weight when opposed by clear evidence that the word +"crouchback," as a term of reproach or contempt, was applied to King +Richard within a few years after his death, by one to whom his person must +have been familiarly known. + +[Delta]. + +_Shakespeare a thorough Sailor._--Let me point attention to a _genuine_ +nautical expression, in the use of which Shakespeare shows himself _a +thorough sailor_: + + "The wind sits in the _shoulder_ of your sail."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3. + +In a "fore and aft sail" of the present day, the "shoulder" is the +_foremost upper_ corner, and the _last part of the canvass_ on which the +wind fixes its influence when a vessel is "sailing by the wind," or even +"off the wind." The "veriest lout" in the "after-guard" will appreciate the +truthfulness and beauty of the metaphor. + +A. L. + +_"A fellow-feeling," &c._-- + + "A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind." + +This oft-quoted line is from Garrick's Epilogue on quitting the stage. + +[Gamma]. + +_Early Instances of the World "News."_--Without the slightest intention of +re-opening the discussion as to whether the word "newes" be of native +growth or imported, I would beg leave to suggest as a means of completing +_its history_, that should any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES," whose +researches may lead amongst the authorities of the _fifteenth_ century, +meet with instances of the word in familiar use between A.D. 1400 and A.D. +1500, they would notify the same. + +The earliest date of its colloquial use as yet recorded in "NOTES AND +QUERIES," is A.D. 1513: on the other hand, the word, so far as I am aware, +is nowhere used by Chaucer, although his near approach to it in the +following lines is very remarkable: + + "There is right now come into the toune a gest, + A Greek espie, and telleth _newe things_, + For which I come to tell you newe tidings."--_Troilus and Creseide_, b. + ii. 1113. + +After this, the transition to the word itself is so extremely easy, that it +could not be far distant. + +A. E. B. + +_Under the Rose._--It may interest the inquirers into the origin of this +expression to know, that at Lullingston Castle in Kent, the residence of +Sir Percival Dyke, there is in the hall an old picture, or painted carving +(I forget which, as it is many years since I saw it), of a rose, some two +feet in diameter, surrounded by an inscription, which, if I remember right, +runs as follows, or nearly so:-- + + "Kentish true blue; + Take this as a token, + That what is said here + Under the rose is spoken." + +It is now, or was when I saw it, in the hall of that {301} ancient mansion, +but I believe had been brought from an old house in the neighbourhood. + +E. H. Y. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +PORTRAITS OF SPENSER. + +The engraved portraits of Spenser differ so much from each other as to +throw doubts on their resemblance to the poet. + +I have now before me the following: + +1. That prefixed to Bell's edition, 1777, engraved by Cook from "an +original in Lord Chesterfield's collection." + +2. Prefixed to an edition in one volume published by Spiers, 1840. + +3. Prefixed to Moxon's edition, 1845. + +We are not told from what paintings Nos. 2. and 3. are engraved, but they +resemble each other, and are somewhat like that in Bell's edition; so I +shall set these three down as forming one class of portraits. No. 2. has, +however, a curious inscription, _Edmund Spenser_, _obiit 1559_, which would +lead us to reject it altogether, and look on it as an imaginary likeness. + +4. The portrait in Pickering's Aldine edition, 1839: this bears no +resemblance, either in costume or features, to those already mentioned; +but, if I mistake not, is like that in Todd's edition, published in +1805,--we may call these a second class. + +An original portrait of Spenser is said to be in Lord Chesterfield's +collection; another in Duplin Castle, the seat of Lord Kinnoul (of this +there is a copy at Althorpe by Sir Henry Raeburn). Mr. Wright, in his +_Memorials of Cambridge_, mentions a portrait at Pembroke College, "a copy +by Wilson," but he does not say from what original: Mr. Craik, in _Spenser +and his Writings_, speaks of _two_ as being in this college. + +The writer thinks he recollects a law-suit relative to a portrait of the +poet, which had been sold to the late Sir Robert Peel, and which was stated +to have come from Ireland. Perhaps some of your readers could give +information respecting this picture. + +It is clear, if the first three are all from the Chesterfield original, +that this painting, and the one from which Mr. Pickering's is taken, cannot +both be portraits of Spenser. The object of this Query is to ascertain, if +possible, which engraving, or class of engravings, resembles the poet. + +E. M. B. + + * * * * * + +THE VENDACE. + +The very remarkable fish called the _Vendace_ is to be found but in one +place in the three kingdoms,--the Castle Loch of Lochmaben, a parish to the +south of Dumfriesshire in Scotland. The Vendace, it is said, derives its +name from _Vendois_ in France, and was brought to this country by one of +the James's. This, however, is mere conjecture, and, from its habits, +highly improbable--because _they die the moment they are either touched or +exposed to the air_. + +According to Mr. Stewart (_Elements of Natural Hist._), the Vendace belongs +to a species which he calls _Salmo albula_, or the "Juvangis." + + "This species," he adds, "is found in Lochmaben in Scotland, and + _nowhere else_: it is said to have been carried thither from England in + the time of Robert the Bruce." + +Mr. Stewart describes the fish, but from his description it is evident he +has never seen it. The following one is exact:-- + + "This beautiful fish measures from four to six inches in length, and + tapers gradually to the tail. When taken out of the water, it has a + bright silvery white appearance, with a slight tendency to a light blue + along the back and part of the sides. In size it resembles a small + herring or par, but particularly the former, not only in the mouth and + external appearance, but also in the anatomical structure. _Upon the + top of the head_ there is a very distinct _shape of a heart_, covered + with a transparent substance of a brownish colour, resembling a thin + lamina of mica slate, _through which the brain is visible_. This + peculiar mark proves it to be as yet a distinct and undescribed + species. Nothing is ever found visible to the naked eye in the stomach + of the Vendace. They are extremely delicate, and are allowed to be the + most pleasing to the taste of all fish. The general mode of catching + them is with a net, as there is no instance known of their having been + caught either with bait or the artificial fly. The pike, with which + this lake abounds, is their greatest enemy. It has been frequently + stated that no fewer than fifteen distinct species of fish, fit for the + table, have been found in the Castle Loch." + +Dr. Knox, sometime Lecturer upon Anatomy in Edinburgh, states: + + "That he has not only discovered the food of the Vendace, but actually + exhibited it before the Members of the Royal Society, and offers + suggestions for the stocking of the various lakes in Britain with this + exquisite fish; pointing out first the necessity of locating its + natural food, without which it cannot live." + +Allowing, however, that some neighbouring lake could be covered with some +of these invisible and "incredibly minute entomostraceous animals," which +the learned lecturer says constitute their food, we should still find a +difficulty in transferring the fish; as every attempt to do so, though +conducted with the greatest possible care and nicety, _has failed_. + +In the preceding account, I have followed the Rev. John Gardiner of +Lochmaben, who, in 1835, drew up an admirable account of his parish, which +is inserted in the statistical survey of the county. + +The gentlemen of the county have formed a {302} _Vendace Club_, which meets +at Lochmaben annually on the 25th and 26th of July, when they dine off the +fish. I asked one of the members how long it had been in existence, and he +said about thirty years. + +JARLTZBERG. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Ex Pede Herculem._--I shall feel much obliged if any of your +correspondents or readers can inform me of the origin of the proverb "Ex +pede Herculem." In what classical author is it to be found? I have looked +in vain through _Erasmi Adagia_ for it. + +H. H. + +"_To-day we purpose._"--Will any one be good enough to say where these +lines (quoted by Mr. Ruskin, _Modern Painters_, vol. ii. p. 188.) are to be +found:-- + + "To-day we purpose, ay, this hour we mount + To spur three leagues towards the Apennine; + Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count + His dewy rosary on the eglantine" + +G. N. + +"_God takes those soonest whom He loves the best._"--Where shall we find +the origin of this expression, so frequently occurring on tombstones in +almost all parts of the country? Or how far back can it be traced? The +following, in Rainham church, Kent, is of the year 1626: + + "Here slepes my babe in silence, heauen's his rest, + For God takes soonest those he loueth best." + +T. H. K. + +Malew, Man. + +_Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope._--At what period, and in what author +besides Veryard's _Tour in the Low Countries_, is the story of two Quakers +being imprisoned in the Lazzaretto in Rome, for attempting to convert the +Pope, to be found? Were they persons of any standing in the Society? + +B. S. S. + +_Whychcote of St. John's._--In one of the volumes published under the +foregoing title, in 1833, there is a striking story, evidently fictitious +in the main, but assuming, as an element of fact, the remembered existence +of a head-stone over a grave in the little burial-ground, under the shadow +of the venerable ruins of Tynemouth Priory in Northumberland, containing +the single word "Fanny." Does any one of the Tyneside readers of the "NOTES +AND QUERIES" personally recollect the actual existence of such a memorial? +Is the _real name_ of the author of the entertaining work disclosed in any +subsequent publication, or is it generally known? + +J. D. + +_Meaning of Rechibus, &c._--Among the rights claimed by the Esturmys in +Savernak forest, 8 Edw. III., occurs-- + + "Et omnia placita de leporibus, rechibus, heymectis, tessonibus, + vulpibus, murilegis, et perdricibus:" + +which I translate-- + + "And all pleas concerning hares, traps, hedgehogs, badgers, foxes, + wild-cats, and partridges:" + +but I confess I have no confidence in some of these words, as the +glossaries in the British Museum Library fail to explain them. I therefore +solicit your courteous assistance. + +JAMES WAYLEN. + +_Family of Queen Katherine Parr._--The pedigree of the once eminent family +of Parr, as recorded in various printed works--Dugdale, Nicholls, Burke, +&c., is far from being complete or satisfactory. Could any one versed in +the genealogy of the northern counties supply any information on the +following points?-- + +I. The early descent.--Dugdale in his _Baronage_, commences with Sir +William Parr, who married Elizabeth De Ros, 1383; but he states the family +to have been previously "of knightly degree." A MS. pedigree in the +Herald's College also mentions Sir William as "descended from a race of +knights." Where is an account of this race to be found? + +II. The separation between the two lines of Parr and Kendal.--Sir Thomas +Parr, father of Queen Katherine, died 1518, and his _Inq. p. m._ states him +to have held manors, messuages, lands, woods, and rents, in Parr, Wigan, +and Sutton. Ten years afterwards, 1528, Bryan Parr was found by _Inq. p. +m._ to have held the manor, messauges, woods, lands, &c. of Parr. How was +Bryan related to Sir Thomas? + +III. The descendant in the fourth degree of Bryan was Henry Parr, of Parr, +who was, according to a MS. in the college, aged twenty in 1621. Had he any +descendants? + +If no positive information can be afforded, yet a clue to where it might be +sought for would oblige. + +GENEALOGICUS LANCASTRIENSIS. + +_Skort._-- + + "Or wily Cyppus that can wink and snort, + While his wife dallies on Maecenas' skort."--Hall, _Satires_, Book iv. + Sat. 1. (Whittingham's edition, 1824.) + +Of course the general meaning of these two verses is obvious enough. But +how is the latter to be read? Are we to read "dallies on," as one word, +_i.e._ keeps dallying, and "skort" (as a mere abbreviation of the Latin +"scortum") as nominative in apposition with "wife?" If so, the verse is +intelligible, though harsh enough even for Hall. + +If not, the word "skort" must have some other meaning which I am +unacquainted with. I cannot find it at all in Halliwell, the only authority +I have at hand to refer to. + +K. I. P. B. T. + +{303} + +_Religious Teaching in the German Universities._--Will any of your numerous +readers direct me to any book or books containing information on the +_present state_ of religion and religious teaching in the German +Universities? + +ROVERT. + +_Epigram by Dunbar--Endymion Porter._--Can any of your correspondents +supply the deficient verses in the following epigram, addressed by Thomas +Dunbar, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1815 to 1822, to Miss Charlotte +Ness, who required him to explain what was meant by the terms _abstract_ +and _concrete?_ + + "Say what is _abstract_, what _concrete_, + Their difference define? + They both in one fair person meet, + And that fair form is thine. + * * * * + * * * * + For when I lovely Charlotte view, + I then view loveli_ness_." + +Can any one substantiate the local tradition the Endymion Porter was born +at the manor-house of Aston Subedge, in Gloucestershire; or furnish any +particulars of his life before he became gentleman of the bedchamber to +Prince Charles? + +BALLIOLENSIS. + +_Sathaniel._--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what book, play, +poem, or novel, a character named Sathaniel appears? There is a rather +common picture bearing that title; it represents a dark young lady, in +Eastern dishabille, with a turban on her head, reclining on a +many-cushioned divan, and holding up a jewel in one hand. I have seen the +picture so often, that my curiosity as to the origin of the subject has +been completely aroused; and I have never yet found any one able to satisfy +it. + +F. T. C. + +_The Scoute Generall._--I have in my possession a small 4to. MS. of 32 +pages, entitled _The Scoute Generall_, "communicating (impartially) the +martiall affaires and great occurrences of the grand councell (assembled in +the lowest House of Parliament) unto all kingdomes, by rebellion united in +a covenant," &c., which is throughout written in verse, and particularly +satirical against the Roundheads of the period (1646), and remarkable for +the following prognostication of the death of the unfortunate monarch +Charles I.: + + "Roundheads bragge not, since 'tis an old decree, + In time to come from chaines wee should be free: + Traytors shall rule, Injustice then shall sway, + Subjects and nephewes shall their king betray; + And he himselfe, O most unhappy fate! + For kings' examples, kingdomes imitate: + What he maintain'd, I know it was not good, + Brought in by force, and out shall goe by blood," &c. + +It occupies about thirty lines more. At the bottom of the title, and at the +conclusion of the postscript, it has merely the initials S. D. Could any of +your worthy correspondents inform me who S. D. was? + +The MS. is evidently cotemporary, and, according to the introduction, was +"ordered to be forthwith published, [MDCXLVI in apostrophus form].;" and as +I cannot trace that such a production was ever issued, the answer would +confer a favour on + +C. HAMILTON. + +City Road, April 1. 1851. + +_Arthur Pomeroy, Dean of Cork._--Can any one of your genealogical readers +assist me in ascertaining the parentage of Arthur Pomeroy, who was made +Dean of Cork in 1672? He was fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in which +university he graduated as A.B. in 1660, M.A. in 1664, and S.T.P. in 1676. +He is stated in Archdale's edition of Lodge's _Peerage of Ireland_ (article +"Harberton") to have sprung from the Pomeroys of Ingsdon in Devonshire, and +is stated to have gone to Ireland as chaplain to the Earl of Essex, Lord +Lieutenant. + +J. B. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Civil War Tract._-- + + "A Letter sent from a worthy Divine, to the Right Honourable the Lord + Mayor of the City of London. Being a true relation of the battaile + fought betweene His Majesty and his Excellence the Earle of Essex. From + Warwicke Castle, the 24. of October, 1642, at two a clock in the + morning. Together with a Prayer for the happy uniting of the King and + parliament, fit to be used by all good Christians, daily in their + houses. London, Octob. 27. Printed for Robert Wood. 1642." + +The above is the title of a tract now in my possession. Is it known to any +collector of tracts relating to the Battle of Edgehill? Who was the "worthy +divine," the writer? + +P. Q. + + [On the title-page of this tract among the King's pamphlets in the + British Museum, the name of Mr. Bifield has been written. No doubt it + is the production of the Rev. Adoniram Byfield, chaplain to Col. + Cholmondeley's regiment, in the army of the Earl of Essex in 1642, and + who was subsequently one of the scribes to the Assembly of Divines, and + a most zealous Covenanter. See Wood's _Athenae_, by Bliss, vol. iii. p. + 670.] + +_Trisection of the Circle._--Has the problem of the trisection of the angle +been solved? or, if not, is there any reward for its solution; and what +steps should be taken to obtain it? + +JOHN VINCENT LYSTER. + + [The problem of the trisection of the angle by aid of the straight line + and circle, used as in Euclid, has never been solved--no reward was + ever offered for its solution.] + +_Wolsey's Son._--Can any of your readers give an account of a son of +Cardinal Wolsey, whose existence is recorded in a letter from Eustace {304} +Chapuys to the Emperor Charles V., October 25, 1529, in the following +words:-- + + "The cardinal has now retired with a very small train to a place about + ten miles hence. A son of his has been sent for from Paris, who was + there following his studies, and of whom I have formerly made some + mention to your Majesty"--_Correspondence of Charles V._, p. 291. + +Cardinal Beaton had lots of bastards, but I never remember to have seen in +any account of Wolsey mention made of natural children. + +J. M. + + [The existence of a natural son of Cardinal Wolsey is a _fact_ as well + ascertained as any other _fact_ of the Cardinal's history, and referred + to in the various biographies of him that have appeared. His name was + Thomas Winter. In Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_, vol. xxxii. pp. + 255. and 256. _note_, reference is made to a Bull of Pope Julius II., + dated August, 1508, to be found in Kennet's MSS. in the British Museum, + in which he is styled, "dilecti filio Thomae Wulcy," Rector of Lymington + diocese of Bath and Wells, Master of Arts, "_pro dispensatione ad + tertium incompatibile_." This is explained by the passage in Wood's + _Athenae Oxon. Fasti_, part i. p. 73. (Bliss ed.), relating to him. + "This Tho. Winter, who was nephew (or rather nat. son) to Cardinal Tho. + Wolsey, had several dignities confer'd upon him before he was of age, + by the means of the said Cardinal," viz. the archedeaconry of York, + 1523; chancellorship of the church of Sarum; the deanery of Wells, + 1525; the provostship of Beverly; and the archdeaconry of Richmond, + &c.: on which there is a note by Baker, that "this Tho. Winter is said + to have held of the church's goods clearly more than 2000 pds. per an." + Wood adds, that about the time of the Cardinal's fall, he gave up all + or most of his dignities, keeping only the archdeaconry of York, which + he resigned also in 1540. In Grove's _Life and Times of Cardinal + Wolsey_, vol. iv. p. 315., among the "Articles" against the Cardinal, + Article XXVII. expressly charges him, "that he took from his son Winter + his income of 2,700l. a-year, applied it to his own use, and gave him + only 200l. yearly to live on." A reference is made in Sir H. Ellis's + _Letters Illustrative of English History_, 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 70., + to a letter of Edmund Harvel to Dr. Starkey, dated from Venice, April + 1535, in which the writer expresses his obligations to Mr. Winter, for + his "friendly mynde toward him," and begs him to return his thanks. + + In Mr. Galt's _Life of Wolsey_ (Appendix IV. p. 424. of Bogue's + edition) will be found a copy of a letter from John Clusy to Cromwell, + in relation to a natural daughter of Wolsey's in the nunnery of + Shaftesbury.] + +_Cardinals and Abbots in the English Church._--It may not be generally +known, but the fact is so, that the English church numbers two CARDINALS +and a LORD ABBOT amongst her members. In Whitaker's _Clerical Diary_, under +the head of London Diocese, there is attached to St. Paul's a senior and a +junior cardinal; and in Ireland exists the exempt jurisdiction of Newry and +Mourne, under the government of the Lord Abbot, who is the Earl of +Kilmorey. Can any of your readers give me any information respecting these +officials? + +W. J. + + [_Cardinal._--The title of cardinal (_cardinalis_) in early times was + frequently applied to any bishop, priest, or deacon holding an official + post. In France there were many cardinal priests: thus, the curate of + the parish of St. John de Vignes is called, in old charters, the + cardinal priest of that parish. There were also cardinal deacons, who + had the charge of hospitals for the poor, and who ranked above the + other deacons. Thus, two of the minor canons of St. Paul's are called + _cardinals of the choir_, whose duties are to preserve order in Divine + service, administer the Eucharist, and officiate at funerals. In former + times, they heard confessions and enjoined penances. (Newcourt's + _Repertorium_, vol. i. p. 233.) It was not till the twelfth century + that the Sacred College of Cardinals was organised; nor was it till + 1567 that clergymen were forbidden by Pius V. to assume the title of + cardinal unless appointed by the Pope. + + _Lay Abbots._--In early times we frequently find secular persons + denominated "field abbots" and "abbot counts," upon whom the sovereign + had bestowed certain abbeys, for which they were obliged to render + military service, as for common fiefs. In the time of Charles the Bald + many of the nobility in France were abbots, having a dean to officiate + for them. Thus, too, in Scotland, James Stuart, the natural son of + James V., was, at the time of the Reformation, Prior of St. Andrew's, + although a secular person. The Earl of Kilmorey, who is impropriator of + the tithes of St. Mary, Newry, is a lay abbot, or representative of the + preceding abbots of a Cistertian Abbey which formerly existed in that + town. His abbatial functions, however, are confined to convening + ecclesiastical courts, and granting probates of wills, and licenses for + marriages, subject only to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the + Archbishop of Armagh. A remnant of the secularisation of ecclesiastical + dignities has already been noticed in our pages (Vol. ii., pp. 447. + 500.), in the case of the late Duke of York, who was at the same time + Commander-in-chief and Bishop of Osnaburg.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER. + +(Vol. ii., p. 375.) + +Your correspondent J. MT. has great reason to congratulate himself on the +possession of the singularly curious tract which he describes, and which +gives an autobiography of this extraordinary adventurer. I am not aware of +any other copy in any public or private collection. I have a 4to. tract in +nineteen pages, evidently printed abroad, the title of which is-- + +"Balthazar Gerbier, Knight, +to +All Men that love Truth." + +{305} + +This gives a very interesting life of him by himself, perfectly distinct +from, and containing many particulars not given in the tract possessed by +your correspondent, which also contains matter not in the above. I have +likewise another tract, privately printed in Holland in English, French, +and Dutch, in fifteen pages 12mo., the English title to which is-- + +"A true Manifest, +By S^r B. Gerbier. +Anno +1653." + +In this, which gives some curious particulars as to "Mr. Hughe Peeters," +and the book entitled _The Nonsuch Charles_, he refers to another "little +manifest" published on the 2nd day of October, 1652, "that the world might +take notice that he was not at all invested with any foreigne engagement." +Of the tract so referred to, I regret to say no copy is known. None of the +other three tracts appear to have been seen by Horace Walpole, who had +collected a great number of Gerbier's pamphlets, and also the MS. next +mentioned, which, at the Strawberry Hill sale, came together into my +possession. The MS. contains the original appointments of Sir Balthazar to +the offices he held while in England, a pedigree of his family beautifully +emblazoned, and a large quantity of MS., prose and poetry, in his +autograph; including a most extensive collection of projects and proposals, +which seem to have been equally at the service of England or France. The +best account we have of Gerbier is that which Horace Walpole has supplied +in the _Anecdotes of Painting_ (see _Works_, vol. iii. p. 189.); but his +diplomatic negotiations, and his career as an artist and adventurer, never +forgetting his academy at Whitefriars and Bethnal Green, would furnish +matter for a very amusing volume. The general biography, however, to which +he would be most appropriately remitted, and which is still a desideratum +in literature, is that which is proposed by Dr. Johnson, in Chalmers's +admirable parody: + + "I think a good book might be made of scoundrels. I would have a + _Biographia Flagitiosa_, the Lives of Eminent Scoundrels from the + earliest accounts to the present day." + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + + * * * * * + +THE TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. + +(Vol. ii., p. 519.; Vol. iii., p. 117.) + +Is not your correspondent J. ME. in error when he says the original travels +of the Baron were written to ridicule Bruce? I think this will only apply +to the second volume, or "Sequel," seeing that there exists an edition of +_Gulliver Revived_, printed at Oxford, 1786, four years before Bruce +published. J. ME. further remarks, that there was at one time reason to +believe that James Graham was the author of the well-known book in +question, but that circumstances have come to his knowledge altogether +precluding the possibility that the author of _The Sabbath_ and _The +Travels of Baron Munchausen_ are identical. + +To me it appears there were _two_ of these James Grahams, and that from +their being contemporaries, they are usually rolled into one. I have in my +library a volume containing _Wallace, a Tragedy_, Edinburgh, 1799; and +_Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, an Historical Drama_, Edinburgh, 1801, which +appears to have belonged to Mr. George Chalmers, upon the titles of which +that gentleman has written, "by James Graham, Advocate, Edinburgh, son of +T. Graham, a writer of reputation in Glasgow." + +From this one would think Mr. Chalmers had the author of _The Sabbath_ in +his eye: a conclusion, however, difficult to come to in the face of a +critique which thus characterises the tragedy of _Wallace_: + + "The play is not uninteresting, and the author has exhibited occasional + proofs of poetical genius; but there are some passages in the piece + that fall little short of blasphemy:" + +--a charge which, of course, could never apply to this "lovable" and +subsequently _reverend_ author of _The Sabbath_, a poem breathing the +humblest piety, and published only five years after _Wallace_; consequently +here is, in the author of the tragedy of _Wallace_, another James Graham at +the service of J. ME., to whom, if his other proofs are strong, the Baron +may be assigned with more probability. + +I may add, taking it for granted that Chalmers was right in claiming these +two plays for a James Graham, that there is the strongest corroborative +proof of there being two of the name in the existence of _Mary Stewart, a +Dramatic Poem_, the acknowledged performance of the author of _The Sabbath_ +(see his _Poems_, 2 vols. 1809), a production differing in title, and +bearing no resemblance, I should think, to the first named. + +While upon the subject, and presuming that the tragedy of _Wallace_ is +known to J. ME., I may take the opportunity to ask him, as he is _ayont the +Tweed_, whether there is really any authority for the assertion contained +in the Abbotsford Library Catalogue, and also in that of Constable's +Library, sold in 1817, that of this anonymous tragedy of _Wallace_ there +were _only six copies printed_? Upon the face of mine there is nothing to +indicate its rarity, it being an octavo, printed for A. Constable; but the +remarkable book may be some other: your correspondents will, however, I +dare say, be able to enlighten me. + +A COLLECTOR. + +_Baron Munchausen_ (Vol. ii., p. 519.).--As it was nearly thirty years +since I had seen the _Percy Anecdotes_, I was obliged to speak doubtfully +of {306} having derived from that work the statements that the author of +_Munchausen_ was a Mr. "M----," and that he was a prisoner in France. +Accident has within the last few days thrown in my way the very volume of +the _Anecdotes_ in which this is stated (vol. v., _Anecdotes of Captivity_, +p. 103.); and I find that I was mistaken only in supposing "M----'s" place +of confinement to have been the Bastile, whereas the time is said to have +been the Reign of Terror, and therefore of course the Bastile cannot have +been the place. + +J. C. R. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Tobacco in the East_ (vol. ii., pp. 155. 231.).--M. D. asks for "chapter +and verse" of A. C. M.'s reference to Sale's _Koran_ respecting tobacco. + +Had A. C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant, +he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original" +of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, Sec. 5. p. +123. (4to. ed. 1734.) Happily Reland, whom Sale quotes (_Dissert. +Miscell._, vol. ii. p. 280.), gives his authority, the learned orientalist, +Dr. Sike, who received the Hadeth at Leghorn from Ibn Saleh, a young +Muselman. It says, in good Arabic, that in the latter days Moslims, +undeserving of the name, shall drink hashish (hemp), and call it tabak; the +last words, "_yukal lehn tabaku_," are no doubt a modern addition by those +who had heard of _tambako_ (the Romaic [Greek: tanpakon]). As the use of +hashish or _hashishah_ (the herb), more completely _hashishata fukara_, +i.e. Monk's Wort, a technical term for _hemp_, chewed as a narcotic by +fakirs (monks), was not known till A.H. 608 (A.D. 1211), it could not be +mentioned in the Koran unless Mohammed were, as Sale observes, "a prophet +indeed." _Tabakak_, a plate, dish, or shelf, is now sometimes used by +ignorant persons in the East for _tambako_, of which a complete account is +given in the _Karabaden_, or great treatise of Materia Medica in Persian. +Of that work, there is a beautifully written copy, made, probably, for the +late Mr. Colebrooke, by whom it was presented to the library of the Royal +Asiatic Society. I shall conclude by another Query: What is the Greek word +transformed by Asiatic scribes into _Karabaden_? + +ANATOLICUS. + +_Captain John Stevens_ (Vol. ii., p. 359.).--This ingenious man, as to whom +your correspondent inquires, was one of the hard-working translators in the +early part of the last century. The materials for his biography are very +scanty. He was a Roman Catholic, and at the Revolution followed the +fortunes of his abdicating master, in whose service he accepted a +commission, and accompanied him in the wars in Ireland. He was also +employed in several other services, and died October 27, 1726. See +_Biographia Dramatica_, vol. i. p. 691., edit. 1812. He is not noticed in +Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_, though as the continuator of +Dugdale's _Monasticon_ he unquestionably ought to have been. Watt gives a +list (_Bib. Brit._, vol. i. p. 880.) of his books and translations; but it +is, as usual, very defective and erroneous. It does not include his +translation of _Don Quixote_, of _Dupin_, of _An Evening's Intrigue_ (1707, +8vo.), and a great number of other works; and it ascribes to him the +_History of the Wars of Charles XII., King of Sweden_, London, 1715, which +was written, as it needs no great sagacity to discover, by Daniel Defoe, +though Chalmers and Wilson have not noticed it. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_MS. Catalogue of Norman Nobility_ (Vol. iii., p. 266.).--The MS. Catalogue +of Norman Nobility referred to in No. 75., a document of great value, is or +was in the possession of Sir William Betham, having been purchased by him +about six years ago, from Mr. Boone, of New Bond Street. + +Your correspondent will find that Odardus de Loges was infeoffed by Earl +Ranulph the 1st in the barony of Wigton in Cumberland, in which he was +confirmed by Henry I. Bigod, whose name was attached to the charter of +foundation of St. Werburg's Abbey, is elsewhere, according to Ormerod, +called Robert. + +M. J. T. + +_Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III._ (Vol. iii., p. 258.).-- + + "_Fro Venus_ VALANUS _might this palais see._" + (or) volant + ? Might Venus, _volans_ fro this palais, see. + (flying) + +[Greek: Phos]. + +_Comets_ (Vol. iii., pp. 223. 253.).--If your correspondent S. P. O. R. +wish to go fully into the history of comets, and be not alarmed at the +prospect of three thick folios, through which I have gone, I can assure +him, with considerable interest, let me recommend to him _Theatrum +Cometicum, Auctore Stanislao Lubienietz Lubieniecio Rolitsio_, Amst., in 2 +vols. (but generally bound in three) folio. The first contains an immense +correspondence, not merely with astronomers, but with poets, critics, +physicians, and philosophers, to whom the indefatigable editor wrote for +their opinions on the subject of comets. The second vol. gives a history of +comets from the Deluge to 1665, and is a repository of everything bearing +upon the subject. From this work Bayle derived his learning, when he wrote +his most amusing work on comets. + +JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Pope Joan_ (Vol. iii., p. 265.).--NEMO will find much information on the +question, "Whether Pope Joan ever held the keys of St. Peter?" in Alexander +Cooke's _Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist; manifestly proving +that a Woman_ {307} _called Joane was Pope of Rome: against the surmises +and objections made to the contrary by Robert Bellarmini and Caesar +Baronius, Cardinals, Florimondus Raemondus, and other Popish Writers, +impudently denying the same_, 4to, pp. 128, 1610. The work was dedicated to +the Archbishop of York, and was reprinted in 1625 in 4to., and in French, +1633, 8vo. The author, in his address _To the Popish Reader_, says: + + "_I offer unto thee here a discourse touching_ POPE JOANE _(if thou + darest read it, for fear of falling into thy Pope's curse), whose + Popedome I will make good unto thee, not by the testimonies of_ + Pantaleon, _and_ Functius, _and_ Sleidan, _and_ Illyricus, _and_ + Constantinus Phrygio, _and_ John Bale, _and_ Robert Barnes, _because + thou hast condemned their persons, and their books too, to hell; but by + the testimonies of thy brethren, the sonnes of thine own mother; + because, as one saith_, 'Amici contra amicum, et inimici pro inimico, + invincibile testimonium est.'" + +E. C. HARINGTON. + +The Close, Exeter. + +_Abbot Eustacius_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--As J. L.'s inquiry after an abbot +of that name has hitherto been unsuccessful, perhaps he would like to know +that Eustacia was abbess of the monastery at Shaftesbury (founded by King +Alfred), tempore incerto, but probably in the time of Stephen. See Willis's +_History of Abbeys_, and a _History of the Ancient Town of Shaftesbury_, p. +21. + +BLOWEN. + +_The Vellum-bound Junius_ (Vol. iii., p. 262.).--In the Minor Queries of +your Number 75., you have kindly inserted my notice on the vellum-bound +_Junius_. I beg to state further, that the reason of my being so desirous +to procure this copy at the Stowe sale was, that it was not only bound in +vellum, but was also _printed_ on that article. If any of your +correspondents can inform me of another copy _printed_ on vellum, I should +be glad. + +W. D. HAGGARD. + +Bank of England, April 5, 1851. + +_Meaning of Waste-Book_ (Vol. iii., pp. 118. 195. 251.).--Among a list of +"the books printed for, and are to be sold by John Hancock, at the sign of +the Three Bibles in Pope's-head Alley, in Cornhill," I find _The Absolute +Accountant, or London Merchant_, containing instructions and directions for +the methodical keeping of merchant's accounts, after the most exact and +concise way of debtor and creditor; also a _Memorial_, vulgarly called a +waste-book, and a cash-book, with a journal and a ledger, &c., 1670. This +is the first reference I have seen to the correct designation of the book, +which might have received it vulgar name of _waste_ from wast, the second +person of _was_--thus the Memorial or the Wast-book. + +BLOWEN. + +_Cowdray_ (Vol. iii., p. 194.).--There is a misprint here of _Eastbourne_ +for _Easebourne_. There is a curious note on Cowdray, and the superstition +attached to it, in Croker's _Boswell_, p. 711. 8vo. edit. + +C. + +_Solemnisation of Matrimony_ (Vol. ii., p. 464.).--A. A. will find, from +Blackstone's _Commentaries_, vol. ii. p. 135., that in feudal times a +husband had the power of protecting his lands from the wife's claim to +dower, by endowing her, _ad ostium Ecclesiae_, with specific estates to the +exclusion of others; or, if he had no lands at the time of the marriage, by +an endowment in goods, chattels, or money. When special endowments were +thus made, the husband, after affiance made and troth plighted, used to +declare with what specific lands he meant to endow his wife ("_quod dotat +eam de tali manerio_," &c.); and therefore, in the old York ritual (_Seld. +Ux. Hebr._ l. ii. c. 27.) there is at this part of the matrimonial service +the following rubric--"_Sacerdos interroget dotem mulieris; et si terra ei +in dotem detur, tunc dicatur psalmus iste_", &c. When the wife was endowed +_generally_, the husband seems to have said "with all my lands and +tenements I thee endow," and then they all became liable to her dower. When +he endowed her with personalty only, he used to say, "with all my worldly +goods (or, as the Salisbury ritual has it, "with all my worldly chattels") +I thee endow," which entitled the wife to her thirds, or _pars +rationabilis_, of his personal estate, which is provided for by Magna +Charta, cap. 26. The meaning, therefore, of the words noticed in A. A.'s +Query, if they can be said to have any meaning in the present state of the +law, is simply that the wife's dower is to be general, and not specific, +or, in other words, that she is to have her _pars rationabilis_ in _all_ +her husband's goods. + +J. F. M. + +_Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke_ (Vol. iii., p. 262.).--Although +J. H. M. has concluded that William Browne was not the author of this +epitaph, because it is not to be found amongst his _Pastorals_, it would +nevertheless appear that the lines are rightly attributed to him, if the +following extract may be relied on: + + "The well-known epitaph of the celebrated Countess of Pembroke, the + sister of Sir Philip Sidney, has been generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. + The first stanza is printed in Jonson's poems; but it is found in the + manuscript volume of poems by William Browne, the author of + _Britannia's Pastorals_, preserved in the Lansdown Collection, British + Museum, No. 777., and on this evidence may be fairly appropriated to + him, particularly as it is known that he was a great favourite with + William, Earl of Pembroke, son of the Countess."--_Relics of + Literature_: London, Boys, 1823, p. 60. + +ALFRED GATTY. + +_Scandal against Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. +151. 197. 225.).--Your correspondents seem to have overlooked the +celebrated {308} letter of Queen Mary of Scotland, printed in the _State +Trials_, and lately reprinted by Lord Campbell in his _Lives of the +Chancellors_, tit. Sir C. Hatton. I may as well add (though I do not +believe the fact) that my grandmother (herself a Devereux) repeated to me +the tradition of a son of Queen Elizabeth's having been sent to Ireland. + +C. + +_The Tanthony_ (Vol. III., pp. 105. 229.).--I am obliged to A. for the +trouble he has taken in reference to my Query; but perhaps I may be correct +in my suggestion, for on looking into the second volume of the +_Archaeological Journal_ the other day, I accidentally found an account of +the discovery of a figure of St. Anthony at Merthyr, near Truro, in which +it is mentioned that + + "Under the left arm appears to have passed a staff, and the pig, with + _a large bell_ attached to its neck, appears in front of the + figure."--P. 202. + +I shall be much obliged to anybody who will settle the point +satisfactorily. The fair held on old St. Andrew's Day is always called in +Kimbolton and the neighbourhood "Tandrew" fair, so why not "Tanthony" for +"Saint Anthony?" + +ARUN. + +_The Hippopotamus_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your correspondent MR. E. S. +TAYLOR will find in Vol. ii, p. 458, an example of the word [Greek: +hippopotamos] cited from Lucian, a writer anterior both to Horapollo and +Damascius. In the same page is a reference to the story of the wickedness +of the hippopotamus in Plutarch; so that Horapollo and Damascius, +doubtless, borrowed from a common source, or repeated a current fable, to +be found in many writings then extant. + +L. + +_Tu Autem_ (Vol. iii., p. 265).--The words "Tu autem, Domine, miserere +nostri," "But Thou, O Lord! have mercy upon us," were originally a form of +prayer used by the preacher at the end of his discourse, as a supplication +for pardon for any sinful pride or vainglory, into which he might have been +betrayed in addressing his congregation. Hence the words "tu autem," as +Pegge properly says, came to denote a hint to the reader to leave off. + +The custom is still in constant use among the members of the cathedral +church of Durham. At the public dinners given by the canons, in what is +there called "hospitality residence," one of the choristers comes in after +dinner, dressed in his official costume, and, taking his station behind the +canon in residence, reads, in the manner which is now well known as +_intoning_, eight verses of the 119th Psalm, first saying, "Here beginneth +the ---- part of the 119th Psalm." + +When the eight verses are concluded, the canon turns round to the +chorister, saying "tu autem," giving him a shilling; to which the chorister +replies, "Domine miserere nostri," and retires. + +The explanation of the words, as originally employed, is given by Rupertus +_De Divinis Officiis_, lib. i. c. xiv.: + + DE "TU AUTEM DOMINE." + + "Quodque in fine dicit, 'Tu autem Domine miserere nostri,' hoc innuit, + ne ipsum quidem bonum officium praedicandi sine alicujus vel levis culpae + pulvere possa pagi. Nam, ut ait B. Augustinus, 'Verbum praedicationis + securius auditur quam dicitur. Praedicator quippe cum bene dicere se + sentit, difficile nimis est ut non quantulumcunque spiritu elationis + tangat; et quia quasi per terram ambulat et pedes ejus pulvere + sordidantur, idcirco misericordia Dei indiget, ut in hac parte lavetur, + etiamsi mundus sit totus.'" + +From this explanation it is plain, that the Monk of St. Albans, writing to +the abbot-- + + "Si vis, veniam; Sin autem, tu autem," + +would be understood to express-- + + "If you wish, I will come; but if otherwise, there is an end of the + matter." + +T. C. + +Durham, April 8. 1851. + +_Places called Purgatory_ (Vol. iii., p. 241.).--There is a farm-house +still called "Purgatory," about two miles south of Durham, east of the +London road, and close to the left bank of the river Wear. The farm is part +of the estate of a highly respectable family, which has, I believe, always +been Roman Catholic. No reason for the name is known in the neighbourhood. + +T. C. + +Durham, April 8. 1851. + +_Swearing by Swans, &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 392.; Vol. iii., pp. 70. 192.).--In +addition to what has already appeared on this subject, the following +extract from Tyrwhitt's _Glossary to Chaucer_ will, I hope, be acceptable. + + "Ale and Bred. This oath of Sire Thopas on ale and bred was perhaps + intended to ridicule the solemn vows, which were frequently made in the + days of chivalrie, to a peacock, a pheasant, or some other _noble + bird_."--See M. de Sainte Palaye, _Sur l'anc. Cheval._, Mem. iii^{me}. + +This practice is alluded to in "Dunbar's Wish that the King were Johne +Thomsonnis man" (MS. Maitland, st. v.): + + "I would gif all that ever I have + To that condition, so God me saif, + That ye had VOWIT TO THE SWAN + Ane yeir to be John Thomsonnis man." + +And so in the _Prol. to the Contin. of the Canterb. T._, ver. 452., the +Hosteler says: + + "I MAKE A VOWE TO THE PECOCK, ther shall wake a foule mist." + +The instance given in Vol. iii., p. 192., is recorded by Monstrelet, _Hist. +de France, Charles VII._ + +T. J. + +_Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office_ (Vol. iii., pp. 186. 266.).--In a MS. +on parchment, now {309} before me, are contained entries of the dates of +the various letters patent and grants connected with the post-office, to +the latter end of the reign of Charles I., and the names of the persons to +whom the grants were made. The earliest date is the 37th of Henry VIII., +and the last the 13th of Charles I. If an extract from the MS., which gives +a similar index to the appointments in the Courts of Law, the Customs, the +Forests, and a great variety of other offices, will assist your +correspondent, I shall be happy to supply it. I may notice, what seems to +have been overlooked by your two correspondents who have replied to the +inquiry, that some account of Prideaux is given by Wood (Vid. _Fast._ vol. +i. p. 424., edit. Bliss), from which it appears that he was M.A. of +Cambridge, Member of the Inner Temple, Member of Parliament for Lyme in +Dorsetshire, and Recorder of Exeter; and that his death took place on the +19th Aug., 1659 (misprinted 1569 in this edit.), and that-- + + "From his employments gaining a vast estate, he left at the time of his + death an incredible mass of gold (as the credible report then went), + besides lands of very great demesnes." + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + +_Small Words and "Low" Words_ (Vol. ii., pp. 305. 349. 377.).--Apropos to +Pope's use of "low words," in the sense of _short_ words, conf. Boileau, +satire iv. 97. 8. + +[Illustration] + + "Lui faisant voir ses vers et sans force et sans graces, + Montes sur deux grands mots, comme sur deux echasses." + +On which one of his commentators makes the following note: + + "Boileau, pour se moquer des mots gigantesques, citoit ordinairement ce + vers de Chapelain: + + 'De ce sourcilleux roc l'inebranlable cime.' + + Et il disposoit ce vers comme il est ici a cote. Dans cette disposition + il semble que le mot 'roc' soit monte sur deux echasses.' + +I commend to [Phi].'s attention this instance of a "low" word supported on +two "high" ones. + +K. I. P. B. T. + +_Lord Howard of Effingham_ (Vol. iii., pp. 185. 244.).--It has been +supposed that the Earl of Nottingham was a Catholic, and having held office +in the reign of Queen Mary, he probably was so at that time; but he +certainly was a Protestant during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in the +beginning of James I. was at the head of a commission to discover and expel +all Catholic priests. (Vide _Memorials of the Howard Family_.) + +R. R. M. + +_Obeahism.--Ventriloquism_ (Vol. iii., pp. 59. 149.).--T. H. will find, in +the authorities given below, that Obeahism is not only a rite, but a +religion, or rather superstition, viz. _Serpent-worship_. _Modern Universal +History_, fol. vol. vi. p. 600.; 8vo. vol. xvi. p. 411.; which is indebted +for its information to the works of De Marchais, Barbot, Atkyns, and +Bosman: the last of which may be seen in Pinkerton's _Collection_, vol. +xvi., and a review of it in _Acta Eruditor._, Lips. 1705, p. 265., under +the form of an "Essay on Guinea." In Astely's _Collection of Voyages_, +there is an account compiled from every authority then known, and a very +interesting description of the rites and ceremonies connected with this +superstition. According to the same authors, the influence of the Obeist +does not depend on the exercise of any art or natural magic, but on the +apprehensions of evil infused into his victim's mind. See also Lewis's +_Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies_. + +The following references will furnish a reply at once to two Queries; to +that here noticed, and to that on "Ventriloquism" (Vol. ii., p. 88.). + +The name of the sacred serpent, which in the ancient language of Canaan was +variously pronounced, was derived from "ob" (inflare), perhaps from his +peculiarity of inflation when irritated. See Bryant's _Analysis_, vol. i.; +Deane's _Worship of the Serpent_, p. 80. From a notion of the mysterious +inflation produced by the presence of the divine spirit, those who had the +spirit of Ob, or Python, received the names of Ob, or Pythia; according to +the not unusual custom for the priest or priestess of any god to take the +name of the deity they served. See Selden, _De Dis Syris_, Synt. 1. c. 2. +It is a curious coincidence, that as the Witch of Endor is called "Oub," +and the African sorceress "Obi," from the serpent-deity _Oub_, so the old +English name of a witch, "hag," bears apparent relationship to the word +_hak_, the ancient British name of a species of snake. In Yorkshire, +according to Stukeley, they call snakes "hags" and "hag-worms," (Abury, p. +32.). + +In the Breton language, _Belech_ is "Priest," and may similarly indicate a +priest of Bel-the-Dragon. + +From the Hebrew _Ob_, the Greek [Greek: ophis] was probably derived; for +the same word, in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek, which denotes "divination" +denotes a "serpent." "Nachash,"[4] "ilahat,"[5] "[Greek: oionizesthai],"[6] +have the same double signification as if the serpent were recognised as the +grand inspirer of the heathen prophets. See Faber's _Horae Mosaicae_, vol. i. +p. 98. + +The word "Ob" was translated by the LXX. [Greek: engastrimuthos], "a +ventriloquist," in {310} accommodation to the received opinions respecting +the Pythian priestess. See the Notes to Creech's _Lucretius_, book v.; +Jones's (of Nayland) _Physiolog. Disquis._ p. 290. The deception practised +by the Witch of Endor, and by the damsel mentioned in Acts xvi. 16., was of +this description. See Wierus de _Praestig. Daemon._ p. 203.; and Reginald +Scot's _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, p. 148. + +The serpent, which with heathen mythologists had various acceptations (see +Vossius, _Theologia Gent. et Physiologia Christ._), was also understood as +a natural symbol or hieroglyphic of the air. Can any of your learned +correspondents furnish materials illustrative of this figurative relation +between the serpent and the elements? + +T. J. + +[Footnote 4: See Parkhurst.] + +[Footnote 5: Dickinson's _Delphi Phoenic._, p. 10.] + +[Footnote 6: Stillingfleet's _Orig. Sacrae_, book iii. c. iii. s. 18.] + +_Meaning of Peep_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--You have already told us the +meaning of the word _peep_ in the phrase "Wizards that _peep_ and that +mutter;" in confirmation I may add that the noise made by the queen bee in +the hive previous to swarming is in Devonshire called _peeping_. + +J. M. (4.) + +_Venwell or Venville_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--_Venwell_ or _Venville_ appears +to me to be a corruption of the word _fengfield_; and the meaning of it +seems to be, that custom of delivering possession of land to a purchaser by +cutting a piece of turf from the field bought, and delivering it into his +hands. + +I well remember, when a boy, accompanying my father to receive possession +of an outlying field, distant from the main estate which he had bought; the +seller's agent, I think, came with us and cut a small piece of turf from +the ground, and delivered it into my father's hands, saying (if I recollect +right), "By this turf I deliver this field into your possession." By this +means my father "_fenged_" (took) the "_field_" into his own hands, and +became the legal proprietor of it. + +P. + +_Venville._--The peat or black earth of Dartmoor is still called _ven_ or +_fen_. Is it not more probable that the adjoining parishes (or parts of +them) are said to be in Venville or fengfield, from their being within the +peat district, than that an abbreviation of a legal term, _fines +villarum_--_fin. vil._, should become naturalised among the peasantry, as +is the case with the word Venville? + +The second part of the word seems akin to the Scottish _fail_, "a turf, or +that clod covered with grass cut off from the rest of the sward." +(Jamieson.) + +K. + +_Hand-bells at Funerals_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.).--In the _Testamenta +Eboracensia_, p. 163., Johannes Esten de Scardeburgh, le Ankersymth, +bequeaths 2d.-- + + "Clerico ecclesiae pro pulsacione campanarum, et le belman portand' + campanam per villam excitandum populum ad orandum." + +A hand-bell (as I am informed by a Roman Catholic gentleman) often precedes +the Host, when carried in procession to the sick, &c., in order to clear +the way, and remind passengers of the usual reverence paid at such times. + +B. + +Lincoln. + +_Shillings and Sixpences of George III._ (Vol. iii., p. 275.).--R. W. C. +has fallen into a misconception in supposing that these coins present an +erroneous spelling of the Latinized style of the monarch, whilst the +contemporary crowns and half-crowns have the correct orthography. The +spelling of the legend on the sixpences and shillings was intentional, and +with a meaning, being inscribed in an abridged form--GEOR: III. D: G: +BRITT: REX F: D:--the reduplication of the T was designed, after classical +precedent, to represent the plural _Britanniarum_, i.e., Great Britain and +Ireland. + +N. + +_Odour from the Rainbow_ (Vol. iii., p. 224.).--I hope that I have found +JARLTZBERG'S note in the following lines: + + "Like to that smell which oft our sense descries + Within a field which long unploughed lies, + Somewhat before the setting of the sun; + And where the rainbow in the horizon + Doth pitch her tips; or as when in the prime, + The earth being troubled with a drought long time, + The hand of heaven his spongy clouds doth strain, + And throws into her lap a shower of rain; + She sendeth up (conceived from the sun) + A sweet perfume and exhalation." + Browne, _Britannia's Pastorals_, Book i. Song 2. + [Clarke's Cabinet Series, 1845, p. 70.] + +C. FORBES. + +_Odour from the Rainbow._--The following stanzas are from a poem, called +"The Blind Girl," in a publication by Pickering, 1845, of _Memorials of a +Tour, and Miscellaneous Poems_, by Robert Snow, Esq. Lond., 1845:-- + + "Once in our porch whilst I was resting, + To hear the rain-drops in their mirth, + You said you saw the rainbow cresting + The heavens with colour, based on earth: + + And I believe it fills the showers + With music; and when sweeter air + Than common breathes from briar-rose bowers, + Methinks, the Rainbow hath touched there." + + [We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow + neither from Bacon's _Sylva_, nor from any of our English poets, but + from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge + in his _Table Talk_.] + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who is already favourably known as the author of a +_Life of Howard_, has just published _William Penn, an Historical +Biography_. It is unquestionably a book of considerable talent; and even +those who may be most inclined to dissent from the {311} author's views of +the political principles of the Quakers (and we suspect many of the Quakers +themselves will be found among that number), will admit that in treating +him not as a mere Quaker, as preceding biographers had been too much +disposed to do, but as "a great English historical character--the champion +of the Jury Laws--the joint leader, with Algernon Sidney, of the +Commonwealth men--the royal councillor of 1684-8--the courageous defender +of Free Thought--the founder of Pennsylvania"--Mr. Dixon has succeeded in +the task which he had proposed to himself, namely, that of transforming +William Penn "from a myth into a man." His vindication of this great man +from what he designates "The Macaulay Charges" would not, however, have +lost one iota of its efficiency, had it been couched in somewhat more +measured terms. + +Mr. Murray announces _The Grenville Papers; being the Private +Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple, his brother George +Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries_, as in the press. It will +contain some letters from Junius, and Mr. Grenville's Diary, particularly +during his premiership, from 1763 to 1765. The fifth and sixth volumes of +Lord Mahon's _History of England from the Peace of Utrecht_ are also at +press. + +Lady Theresa Lewis is nearly ready with a work which cannot but be of great +interest. It is entitled _Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord +Chancellor Clarendon, illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery; with an +Account of the Origin of the Collection; and a descriptive Catalogue of the +Pictures_. 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Duad (more likely to be misread than +dyad) seems correct. + +page 302, "there is a striking story" - original reads 'strlking'. + +page 304, "a letter from Eustace Chapuys" - original reads 'Chaupys'. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 77, April +19, 1851, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + +***** This file should be named 26897.txt or 26897.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/8/9/26897/ + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +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.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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