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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 204, September 24, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27004] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="10" style="background-color: #ccccff;"> +<tr> +<td style="width:25%; vertical-align:top"> +Transcriber's note: +</td> +<td> +A few typographical errors have been corrected. They +appear in the text <span class="correction" title="explanation will pop up">like this</span>, and the +explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked +passage. +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><!-- Page 285 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page285"></a>{285}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle</span>.</h3> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:25%"> + <p><b>No. 204.</b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, September 24. 1853.</span></b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:25%"> + <p><b>Price Fourpence.<br />Stamped Edition 5<i>d.</i></b></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="Contents" title="Contents"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:94%"> + <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:5%"> + <p>Page</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Extinct Volcanos and Mountains of Gold in Scotland</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page285">285</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Thomas Blount, Author of "Fragmenta Antiquitatis," &c., by J. + B. Whitborne</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page286">286</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>"Give him a Roll."—A Plea for the Horse, by C. Forbes</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page287">287</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dream Testimony, by C. H. Cooper</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page287">287</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Shakspeare Correspondence</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page288">288</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes</span>:—Epitaph from + Stalbridge—Curious Extracts: Dean Nowell: Bottled Beer—A + Collection of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the Lord + Bacon—Law and Usage—Manichĉan Games—Bohn's + Hoveden—Milton at Eyford House</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page289">289</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Earl of Leicester's Portrait, 1585</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page290">290</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Early Use of Tin</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page291">291</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>St. Patrick—Maune and Man, by J. G. Cumming</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page291">291</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Passage in Bingham, by Richard Bingham</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page291">291</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries</span>:—"Terrĉ + filius"—Daughter pronounced Dafter—Administration of the + Holy Communion—Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead—A + Scrape—"Plus occidit Gula," &c.—Anecdote of + Napoleon—Canonisation in the Greek Church—Binometrical + Verses—Dictionary of English Phrases—Lines on + Woman—Collections for Poor Slaves—The Earl of Oxford and + the Creation of Peers—"Like one who wakes," &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page292">292</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with + Answers</span>:—Glossarial Queries—Military Knights of + Windsor—"Elijah's Mantle"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page294">294</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Milton and Malatesti, by S. W. Singer</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page295">295</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Attainment of Majority</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page296">296</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>John Frewen</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page296">296</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>"Voiding Knife," "Voider," and "Alms-Basket," by W. Chaffers</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page297">297</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>The Letter "h" in Humble</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page298">298</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>School Libraries, by Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page298">298</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dr. John Taylor</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page299">299</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Portrait of Sir Anthony Wingfield, by John Wodderspoon, + &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page299">299</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Barnacles</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page300">300</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Photographic + Correspondence</span>:—Precision in Photographic + Processes—Tent for Collodion—Mr. Sisson's Developing + Solution—Mr. Stewart's Pantograph</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page301">301</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies to Minor Queries</span>:—George + Browne of Shefford—Wheale—Sir Arthur Aston—"A + Mockery," &c.—Norman of Winster—Arms of the See of + York—Roger Wilbraham Esq.'s, Cheshire + Collection—Pierrepont—Passage in Bacon—Monumental + Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral—Lord North—Land of + Green Ginger—Sheer, and Shear Hulk—Serpent with a Human + Head—"When the maggot bites"—Definition of a + Proverb—Gilbert White of Selborne, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page301">301</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notes on Books, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page306">306</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Books and Odd Volumes wanted</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page306">306</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notices to Correspondents</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page306">306</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Advertisements</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page307">307</a></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>EXTINCT VOLCANOS AND MOUNTAINS OF GOLD IN +SCOTLAND.</h3> + + <p>It is by some supposed that the Hill of Noth, in the parish of Rhynie, + Aberdeenshire, had at one time been a volcano in full operation: others, + again, maintain that the scoria found on and in the neighbourhood are + portions of a vitrified fort, which had at one time stood on its summit. + I am not aware that the matter has been investigated since our + advancement in the science of geology has enabled us to have a more + intimate knowledge of these things than formerly. The last statistical + account of Scotland has suffered severely in its Aberdeenshire volume, in + consequence of the temporary deposition of the "seven Strathbogie + clergymen." The accounts of their several parishes were written by + parties only newly come to reside in them, and who appear to have taken + little interest in it; and Rhynie is one of these. Those who argue for + its having been a volcano, say that it is very possible that there may at + one time have been an electric or magnetic chain connecting it with + subterranean fire in some other quarter of the world; and that by some + convulsion of nature, the spinal cord of its existence had been broken, + and life became extinct. This hypothesis has been acted on, in accounting + for the earthquakes which occur at Comrie in Perthshire. The great storm + which devastated the princely estates of Earl Goodwin in Kent (circa anno + 1098), and now so well known to mariners as the Goodwin Sands, is also + said to have laid waste the parish of Forvie, in Aberdeenshire. On the + occasion of the great earthquake at Lisbon in 1755, a flock of sheep were + drowned in their cot in the neighbourhood of Lossiemouth, near Elgin, by + the overflowing of the tide, although far removed from ordinary + high-water-mark. Assuming this mountain to have been a volcano, are there + any others in Great Britain? While on the subject of mountains in that + quarter, there is another which also demands attention for quite a + different reason, the Hill of Dun-o-Deer, in the parish of Insch: a + conical hill of no great elevation, on the top of which stand the remains + of a vitrified fort <!-- Page 286 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page286"></a>{286}</span>or castle, said to have been built by King + Gregory about the year 880, and was used by that monarch as a + hunting-seat and where, combining business with pleasure, he is said to + have meted out even-handed justice to his subjects in the Garioch. It has + long been the popular belief that this hill contains gold; and that the + teeth of sheep fed on it assume a yellower tinge, and also that their fat + is of the same colour. Notwithstanding this, no attempt at scientific + investigation has ever been made. The operations on the line of the Great + North of Scotland Railway, now in progress in the immediate + neighbourhood, may possibly bring something to light. This line passes + for many miles through a country particularly rich in recollections of + the "olden time"—cairns, camps, old chapels, druidical circles, + sculptured stones, &c. and where ancient coins, battle-axes of all + the three periods, urns and elf-arrow heads, Roman armour, &c., have + been disinterred by the ordinary labours of the field. Within a short + distance of its route lies the Hill of Barra, where the famous battle was + fought, anno 1308, between the "Bruce" and the "Comyn;" the Bass at + Inverary, the Hill of Benachie, with the remains of a fortification on + its summit, said to have been erected by the Picts; the field of Harlaw, + famed in song, where the battle was fought in 1411, in which Donald of + the Isles was defeated. There are many traditional ballads and stories + relating to Benachie and Noth. There is a ballad called "John O'Benachie" + and another, "John O'Rhynie, or Jock O'Noth" and they do not appear in + any collection of ancient ballads I have seen. It is said that long + "before King Robert rang," two giants inhabited these mountains, and are + supposed to be the respective heroes of the two ballads. These two sons + of Anak appear to have lived on pretty friendly terms, and to have + enjoyed a social crack together, each at his own residence, although + distant some ten or twelve miles. These worthies had another amusement, + that of throwing stones at each other; not small pebbles you may believe, + but large boulders. On one occasion, however, there appears to have been + a coolness between them; for one morning, as he of Noth was returning + from a foraging excursion in the district of Buchan, his friend of + Benachie, not relishing what he considered an intrusion on his legitimate + beat, took up a large stone and threw at him as he was passing. Noth, on + hearing it rebounding, coolly turned round, and putting himself in a + posture of defence, received the ponderous mass on the sole of his foot: + and I believe that the stone, with a deeply indented foot-mark on it, is, + like the bricks in Jack Cade's chimney, "alive at this day to testify." + Legendary lore and fabulous ballads aside, it would indeed be strange if + something interesting to the antiquary does not turn up in such a mine as + this. It is curious, however, that in all the operations antecedent to + covering Great Britain with, as it were, a network of iron, so very few + discoveries should have been made of any importance, either to the + antiquary or geologist.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Abredonensis</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THOMAS BLOUNT, AUTHOR OF "FRAGMENTA ANTIQUITATIS," ETC.</h3> + + <p>Being on a visit to some friends on the confines of the county of + Salop, bordering on Herefordshire, I took the opportunity long cherished + of visiting the spot where lie the remains of the author of <i>Boscobel; + Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Ancient Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs + of Manors, &c.</i>, and copied the following inscription from his + monument, in the chancel of the ancient church of Orleton in the latter + county. I believe it has never been published; and although neither Note + nor Query is connected with it, it may serve to fill up a corner in your + valuable miscellany, and thus preserve from the oblivion of a retired + country church, a memorial of one well known to the antiquarian world of + literature. It is on a brass plate inserted in a stone monument against + the wall of the chancel:</p> + +<p class="cenhead">"D.O.M.<br /> +Hic seminatur Corpus Animale<br /> +Spiritale resurrecturum<br /> +<span class="sc">Thomĉ Blount</span>.<br /> +De Orleton in agro Herefordiensi Armigeri,<br /> +Ex interiori Templo Londini J Cti.<br /> +Viri priscis Moribus avitĉ Fidei,<br /> +Vitĉ integerrimĉ, Pietatis solidĉ,<br /> +Fidelitatem, Dilectionem, Amorem, Charitatem,<br /> +In Principem, Suos, Amicos, Omnes,<br /> +Illibate coluit.<br /> +Uxorem duxit<br /> +Annam<br /> +Filiam Eadmundi Church Armigeri<br /> +E Maldoniâ East Saxonum.<br /> +Unicâ Corporis prole.<br /> +(Elizabetha)<br /> +Mentis multiplici<br /> +(Libris utilissimis)<br /> +Familiam propagavit, perennavit Famam.<br /> +Requiem, Lector, si fas ducis, huic apprecare<br /> +Et melior abi.<br /> +Obiit Decembris 26, 1679. Ĉtatis 61.<br /> +——<br /> +Pientissima Coniunx<br /> +mœrens<br /> +Posuit."</p> + + <p>The village of Orleton is celebrated for a very large annual fair, + which occurs on April 23; and a saying is connected therewith: "That the + cuckoo always comes on Orleton fair-day;" which has doubtless arisen from + the circumstance, that this "messenger of spring" generally arrives in + this country by that day.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. B. Whitborne</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 287 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page287"></a>{287}</span></p> + +<h3>"GIVE HIM A ROLL."—A PLEA FOR THE HORSE.</h3> + + <p>We learn, from the comedy of the <i>The Clouds</i>, that the Athenians + were accustomed to refresh their horses after a race by allowing then to + roll on the ground; for Pheidippides, the wild young man of the play, who + spent much of his own time and of his father's money on the "turf," and + who is shown in the opening scene fast asleep in bed, dreaming of his + favourite amusement, says very quietly,</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span title="Apage ton hippon exalisas oikade'" class="grk" + >Ἀπαγε τὸν + ἵππον + ἐξαλίσας + οἴκαδε"</span> [32]—</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>an order which he had probably often given to his groom at the + Hippodrome, the Newmarket or Ascot of Athens.</p> + + <p>I have often seen racing, I have often seen hunters brought home after + a hard day's work, and I have read of forced marches, &c. made by + cavalry and artillery; but never yet have I heard of an English + Houyhnhnm, either at home or abroad, who was invited to refresh himself + after his labours, civil or military, classically, with a + <i>roll</i>.</p> + + <p>Dobbin, that four-footed Ofellus,</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Rusticus, abnormis sapiens, crassâque Minervâ,"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>whenever he has the luck to spend his summer Sunday's <i>otium cum + dignitate</i> in a paddock, invariably indulges in a baker's dozen, + without waiting for an invitation to do so, and without saying "with your + leave" or "by your leave."</p> + + <p>They ordered this matter better in Africa some fifty years ago, and I + hope they still continue so to order it.</p> + + <p>By one of the stipulations of the hollow Peace of Amiens, the colony + of the Cape of Good Hope was restored by Great Britain to the Batavian + Republic, which immediately appointed Mr. J. A. de Mist its + Commissary-General, and despatched him to receive the ceded territory + from the hands of the English, to instal the new Governor, General J. W. + Janssens, into his high office, and to reorganise the constitution of the + colony.</p> + + <p>Having fulfilled these duties, Mr. De Mist determined to make a tour + of inspection, and he accordingly travelled <i>on horseback</i> nearly + 4500 English miles through the interior. Among his suite was a Dr. + Lichtenstein, the physician and <i>savant</i> of the party, who + afterwards published an account of the expedition.</p> + + <p>The extract that I am about to make from his work may at first sight + appear unnecessarily long; but I wish the "courteous reader" to bear in + mind that I do not cite it for the sake of parading a long rambling + comment on five short words of Aristophanes, but for that of bringing + forward additional evidence, to prove that a dry roll may occasionally be + of as much service in recruiting the strength and spirits of that noble + animal, the horse, when jaded by violent exertion or long-protracted + toil, as our English nostrums, a warm mash or a bottle of water. Dr. + Lichtenstein says,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Our road led us soon again over the Vogel river and here we were + obliged to supply ourselves with water for the whole day, since not a + drop was to be met with again till the Melk river, a distance of ten + hours [ = 50 English miles]. When we had filled our vessels, and our + cattle had drunk plentifully, we proceeded on our way.</p> + + <p>"It is difficult for an European to form an idea of the hardships that + are to be encountered in a journey over such a dry plain at the hottest + season of the year. All vegetation seems utterly destroyed; not a blade + of grass, not a green leaf, is anywhere to be seen; and the soil, a stiff + loam, reflects back the heat of the sun with redoubled force; a man may + congratulate himself that, being on horseback, he is raised some feet + above it. Nor is any rest from these fatigues to be thought of, since to + stop where there is neither shade, water, or grass, would be only to + increase the evil, rather than to diminish it.</p> + + <p>"Yet the African horses are so well accustomed to hardships, although + they have in fact much less innate strength than the European, that it is + incredible what a length of way they will go, in the most intense heat, + without either food or drink. It is, however, customary for the riders to + dismount at intervals, when the saddles are taken off, and the animals + are suffered to roll upon the ground and stretch out their limbs for a + short time. This they do with evident delight, and after they have well + rolled, stretched, and shaken themselves, they rise up and go on as much + refreshed as if they had had food and drink given them. On arriving at a + farm, the invitation of the host, who comes immediately to the door, is, + 'Get off, Sir, and let him roll.' A slave then appears, takes the horse, + and leads him backwards and forwards for a few minutes, to recover his + breath, and he is then unsaddled and left to roll.</p> + + <p>"These rollings were then the only refreshment we could offer our + horses, and both they and their riders were, when towards evening they + arrived at the Melk river, exceedingly exhausted."—<i>Travels in + Southern Africa in the Years 1803-1806</i>. By Henry Lichtenstein, Doctor + in Medicine and Philosophy, &c. &c. Translated from the original + German by Anne Plumptre: London, Henry Colburn, 1812; vol. i. chap. + xxv.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Forbes</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Temple.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>DREAM TESTIMONY.</h3> + + <p>On Saturday the 30th of July, 1853, the dead body of a young woman was + discovered in a field at Littleport, in the Isle of Ely. The body has not + yet been identified, and there can be little doubt that the young woman + was murdered. At the adjourned inquest, held on the 29th of August, + before Mr. William Marshall, one of the coroners for the isle, the + following extraordinary evidence was given:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"James Jessop, an elderly, respectable-looking labourer, with a face + of the most perfect stolidity, and <!-- Page 288 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page288"></a>{288}</span>who possessed a most + curiously-shaped skull, broad and flat at the top, and projecting greatly + on each side over the ears, deposed: 'I live about a furlong and a half + from where the body was found. I have seen the body of the deceased. I + had never seen her before her death. On the night of Friday, the 29th of + July, I dreamt three successive times that I heard the cry of murder + issuing from near the bottom of a close called Little Ditchment Close + (the place where the body was found). The first time I dreamt I heard the + cry it woke me. I fell asleep again, and dreamt the same again. I then + woke again, and told my wife. I could not rest; but I dreamt it again + after that. I got up between four and five o'clock, but I did not go down + to the close, the wheat and barley in which have since been cut. I dreamt + once, about twenty years ago, that I saw a woman hanging in a barn, and + on passing the next morning the barn which appeared to me in my dream I + entered, and did find a woman there hanging, and cut her down just in + time to save her life. I never told my wife I heard any cries of murder, + but I have mentioned it to several persons since. I saw the body on the + Saturday it was found. I did not mention my dream to any one till a day + or two after that. I saw the field distinctly in my dream and the trees + thereon, but I saw no person in it. On the night of the murder the wind + lay from that spot to my house.'</p> + + <p>"Rhoda Jessop, wife of the last witness, stated that her husband + related his dreams to her on the evening of the day the body was + found."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In Mr. John Hill Burton's <i>Narratives from Criminal Trials in + Scotland</i>, is a chapter entitled "Spectral and Dream Testimony," to + which the above evidence will be a curious addition.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. H. Cooper</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Cambridge.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>"Priam's six-gated city," &c.</i>—In the prologue to + Troilus and Cressida occurs—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">" . . . Priam's six-gated city,</p> + <p>Dardan and Tymbria, Ilias, Chetas, Trojan,</p> + <p>And Antenorides, with massy staples,</p> + <p>And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>What struck me here was the omission of the only gate of Troy really + known to fame, <i>the Scĉan</i>, which looked on the tomb of the founder + Laomedon; before which stood Hector, "full and fixed," awaiting the fatal + onslaught of Achilles; where Achilles, in turn, received his death-wound + from the shaft of Paris; and through which, finally, the wooden horse was + triumphantly conveyed into the doomed city.</p> + + <p>The six names are shown to be taken by Shakspeare in part from Caxton, + and in part from Lydgate: and in Knight's edition we are told that they + are "pure inventions of the middle age of romance-writers."</p> + + <p>Let us examine this assertion. The names are to be found pretty nearly + as above, but with one important difference, in Dares' <i>History of the + Trojan War</i>. My authority is Ruĉus, the Delphine editor of Virgil (see + his note at <i>Ĉn.</i> <span class="scac">II.</span> 612.). Now Dares + (perhaps the oldest of the profane writers whom we know) was a Phrygian, + who took part in the Trojan war, and wrote its history in Greek: and the + Greek original was still extant in the time of Ĉlian, from <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 80 to 140. Of this, now lost, a Latin + translation still survives, by some attributed to Cornelius Nepos, and by + some regarded as spurious; but, either way, its date must be long + antecedent to "the middle age of romance-writers." It was doubtless from + this Latin history that Caxton or Lydgate, or both, derived directly or + indirectly the names they adopted; and yet it is to be noted that they + give respectively the names of <i>Chetas</i> and <i>Cetheas</i> to one of + their gates, and omit the well-known <i>Scĉan</i>, which Dares expressly + mentions; for I presume that no principle of philology will sanction the + identification of <i>Scĉan</i> with either of the terms used by these two + writers.</p> + + <p>I have trespassed somewhat on your space, but let me hope the subject + may be farther elucidated. The points I wish to put forward are, + Shakspeare's omission of the Scĉan gate, and the proposition by Knight + (for a proposition it is, though in a participular form), that these six + names are "pure inventions of the middle age of romance-writers."</p> + + <p class="author">W. T. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p> + + <p><i>On the Word "delighted" in "Measure for Measure," &c.</i> (Vol. + viii., p. 241.).—Inasmuch as the controversy respecting this word + seems to be over, and no one of the critics and commentators on + Shakspeare's text appears to have the slightest clue to the real meaning + and derivation, I will enlighten them. But, first, I must say, I am + surprised that <span class="sc">Dr. Kennedy</span> should (though he has + certainly hit on the right meaning) be unable to give a better account of + the word than that in Vol. ii., pp. 139. 250. And as to the passage + quoted (Vol. ii., p. 200) by <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> from + Sidney's <i>Arcadia</i>, I beg to inform him that the word + <i>delight</i>, which occurs therein, is a misprint for + <i>daylight</i>!</p> + + <p>We find, in the Latin, the substantive <i>deliciĉ</i>, delight, + pleasure, enjoyment; and the adjective (derived from the same root, and + <i>guiding us to the original meaning of the substantive</i>) + <i>delicatus</i>, which amongst other meanings, has that of tender, soft, + gentle, delicate, dainty.</p> + + <p>As the early English scholars were not very particular about the + <i>form</i> of the words they introduced from the Latin, or indeed of + those which were purely English, for they changed them at their + pleasure,—and that this is the case, I presume no one at all versed + in the literature of the time of Henry VIII. will dispute,—it + requires no great exertion of fancy to believe, that, finding <!-- Page + 289 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page289"></a>{289}</span>the + substantive <i>deliciĉ</i> Englished <i>delight</i>, they rendered the + adjective <i>delicatus</i> delighted. The <i>fact</i> that they + <i>did</i> use the words <i>delight</i> and <i>delicate</i> as + synonymous, is proved by a passage in "a boke named the <i>Gouernour</i> + deuised by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyght, Londini, 1557;" in which, at folio + 203., p. 1., we find Titus, the son of Vespasian, who was ordinarily + termed "the delight of mankind," called "the delicate of the world."</p> + + <p>We are therefore to conclude that the words <i>delicate</i> and + <i>delighted</i> were used indifferently by writers of the age of + Shakspeare, as well as by those previous to him, to express the same + thing; and that by the phrase "delighted spirit" in <i>Measure for + Measure</i>, "delighted beauty" in <i>Othello</i>, "delighted gifts" in + <i>Cymbeline</i>, we are to understand, exquisitely tender, delicate, or + precious.</p> + + <p>I cannot agree with <span class="sc">Dr. Kennedy</span> that + <i>deliciĉ</i>, <i>delicatus</i> come from <i>deligere</i> rather than + <i>delicere</i>; since, if my memory does not deceive me, the former is + as often, if not oftener, used by good writers to express to drive away, + to upset, to remove from, or detach—as to select or + choose—which is the only meaning the word has akin to + <i>deliciĉ</i>; whereas <i>delicere</i> is actually used by one of the + earlier Latin poets for to delight.</p> + + <p>The word <i>dainty</i>, I may inform <span class="sc">Dr. + Kennedy</span>, is from the obsolete French <i>dein</i> or <i>dain</i>, + delicate; which probably came from the still older Teut. <i>deinin</i>, + <i>minuta</i> (vid. Schilter).</p> + + <p class="author">H. C. K.</p> + + <p class="address">—— Rectory, Hereford.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Notes.</h2> + + <p><i>Epitaph from Stalbridge.</i>—The following epitaph from the + churchyard of Stalbridge, Dorsetshire, may perhaps be thought worthy of + preservation, if it be not a hackneyed one:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"So fond, so young, so gentle, so sincere,</p> + <p>So loved, so early lost, may claim a tear:</p> + <p>Yet mourn not, if the life, resumed by heaven,</p> + <p>Was spent to ev'ry end for which 'twas given.</p> + <p>Could he too soon escape this world of sin?</p> + <p>Or could eternal life too soon begin?</p> + <p>Then cease his death too fondly to deplore,</p> + <p>What could the longest life have added more?"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">C. W. B.</p> + + <p><i>Curious Extracts.—Dean Nowell—Bottled Beer.</i>—I + was somewhat hasty in assuming (see Vol. vii., p. 135.) that bottled beer + was an unknown department in early times, as the following extract will + show. It is from Fuller's <i>Worthies of England</i>, under "<span + class="sc">Lancashire</span>," the subject of the notice being no less a + person than the grave divine Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, author + of the Catechism, whose fondness for angling is also commemorated by + Izaak Walton. Fuller, having noticed the narrow escape which Nowell had + from arrest by some of Bishop Bonner's emissaries in Queen Mary's reign, + having had a hint to fly whilst fishing in the Thames, "whilst Nowell was + catching of fishes, Bonner was catching of Nowell," proceeds to + say,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Without offence it may be remembered that, leaving a bottle of ale, + when fishing, in the grass, he found it some days after no bottle, but a + gun, such the sound at the opening thereof: and this is believed + (casualty is the mother of more inventions than industry<a + name="footnotetag1" href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>) the original of + bottled ale in England."—Nuttall's edit., vol. ii. p. 205.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Balliolensis</span>.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a + href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p>Fuller might have quoted the Greek proverb, <span title="Tuchê technês esterxe kai technê tuchês." class="grk" + >Τύχη τέχνης + ἔστερξε καὶ + τέχνη τύχης.</span></p> + +</div> + <p><i>A Collection of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the Lord + Bacon</i> (i. 422. edit. Montagu), with the ensuing exceptions, is taken + out of the <i>Essays</i>, and in regular order:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>No. 1. p. 33. of the same volume. <br /> + No. 2. p. 21. <br /> + No. 3. p. 5. <br /> + No. 4. p. 8. <br /> + No. 51. My reference is illegible: the words are,—"Men seem neither + well to understand their riches nor their strength: of the former they + believe greater things than they should; and of the latter, much less. + And from hence, certain fatal pillars have bounded the progress of + learning." <br /> + No. 68. pp. 173. 272. 321. <br /> + No. 69. p. 185. <br /> + No. 70. p. 176. <br /> + No. 71. Vol. vi., p. 172. The Charge of Owen, &c. <br /> + Nos. 72, 73. Vol. vii., p. 261. The Speech before the Summer Circuits, + 1617.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">S. Z. Z. S.</p> + + <p><i>Law and Usage.</i>—In <i>The Times</i> of September 1, the + Turkish correspondent writes as follows:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Mahmoud Pasha declared in the Divan of the 17th that 'he would + divorce his wife, but would not advise a dishonourable peace with + Russia.' This is an expression of the strongest kind in use amongst the + Turks."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>It is worth a Note that, in spite of polygamy and divorce, a common + proverb is monogamic, and divorce is spoken of as the greatest of + unlikelihoods.</p> + + <p class="author">M.</p> + + <p><i>Manichĉan Games.</i>—Take any game played by two persons, + such as draughts, and let the play be as follows: each plays his best for + himself, and follows it by playing the worst he can for the other. Thus, + when it is the turn of the white to play, he first plays the white as + well as he can; and then the black as badly (for the other player) as he + can. The black then does the best he can with the black, and follows it + by the worst he can <!-- Page 290 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page290"></a>{290}</span>do for the white. Of course, by separating + the good and evil principles, four persons might play.</p> + + <p class="author">M.</p> + + <p><i>Bohn's Hoveden.</i>—By way of expressing my sense of + obligation to Mr. Bohn and his editors for the <i>Antiquarian + Library</i>, perhaps you will suffer me to point out what appears to be + an inaccuracy in the translation of Roger de Hoveden's <i>Annals</i>? At + p. 123. of vol. ii., the word <i>Suuelle</i> (as it appears to stand in + the original text) is translated into <i>Swale</i>: but surely no other + place is here meant than the church of St. Mary's at <i>Southwell</i><a + name="footnotetag2" href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> (or + <i>Suthwell</i>, <i>Sudwell</i>, <i>Suwell</i>, or <i>Suell</i>, as + variously spelt, but never <i>Swale</i>), in Nottinghamshire.</p> + + <p>I would also notice a trifling error (perhaps only a misprint) at p. + 125.; where we are informed in a note, that the Galilee of Durham + Cathedral is at the <i>east</i> end, whereas its real position is at the + <i>west</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Oxford.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a + href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + <p>The seal of the vicars of Southwell, ann. 1262, had in its + circumference the words "Commune sigillum Vicariorum Suuell."—Vid. + Thoroton's <i>Nottinghamshire, North Muskham</i>, ed. 1796, vol. iii. p. + 156.</p> + +</div> + <p><i>Milton at Eyford House, Gloster.</i>—In the British Museum + (says Wilson in his description of Christ's College, Cambridge) is the + original proclamation for Milton's appearance after the Restoration. + Where was he secreted? I find this note in my book:—At Eyford + House, Gloucestershire, within two miles of Stow-on-the-Wold, on the road + to Cheltenham, a spring of beautiful water is called "Milton's Well," + running into a tributary of the Thames. The old house, &c., at the + time would be out of the way of common information.</p> + + <p class="author">P. J.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + +<h3>EARL OF LEICESTER'S PORTRAIT, 1585.</h3> + + <p>There is at Penshurst, among many other interesting memorials of the + Dudleys, an original portrait of Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, with the + following painted upon it: "Robert, E. of Leicester, Stadtholder of + Holland, <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1585." After this comes the + ragged staff, but without its usual accompaniment, the bear. Under the + staff follow these enigmatical lines, which I request any of your + correspondents to translate and explain. I send you a translation in + rhyme; I should thank them the more if they would do the same: as to + explanation, the longer the better.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Principis hic Baculus, patriĉ columenque, decusque,</p> + <p>Hoc uno, ingratos quo beet, ipse miser."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>This ragged staff by Leicester's potent hand,</p> + <p>Brought succour, safety, to this threaten'd land:</p> + <p>One thing alone embitters every thought,</p> + <p>He to ungrateful men these blessings brought.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Now for a word of commentary: and first as to "Stadtholder of Holland, + <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1585." The good woman who showed the + picture informed us that it was painted by order of the stadtholder, and + presented to Leicester; if so, there would have been a <i>jussu + provinciarum fœderatarum depictus</i>, or something of that sort; + but no such compliment was to be expected from the Dutch, for they hated + him, complained of his conduct, memorialised the queen against him: see + the pamphlets in the British Museum, 4to. 1587, C. 32. a. 2. But though + it was most unlikely that the Dutch or their stadtholder should have + presented this picture to Leicester, it well accorded with Leicester's + vanity and presumption, and still more with that vanity and presumption + as displayed in his conduct as commander-in-chief of the forces in + Holland, to call himself <i>The Stadtholder</i>, and to order his painter + to put that title under his portrait.</p> + + <p>The verses may now be referred to in support of this view of the + subject. Leicester therein represents himself as unhappy, because he had + bestowed blessings on the ungrateful Dutch.</p> + + <p>In conclusion, take the following full-length portrait of Leicester's + indignation (<i>Leicester, a Belgis vituperatus, loquitur</i>):</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"This ragged staff my resolution shows,</p> + <p>To save my Queen and Holland from their foes:</p> + <p>Still deeply seated in my heart remains</p> + <p>One cause, one fruitful cause, of all my pains;</p> + <p class="hg1">'Tis base ingratitude—'tis Holland's hate.</p> + <p>My presence sav'd that country, chang'd its fate.</p> + <p>But the base pedlars gain'd my sov'reign's ear,</p> + <p>And at my counsels and my courage sneer;</p> + <p>They call me tyrant, breaker of my word,</p> + <p>Fond of a warrior's garb without his sword.</p> + <p>A servile courtier, saucy cavalier,</p> + <p>Bold as a lion when no danger's near,</p> + <p>They say I seek their country for myself,</p> + <p>To fill my bursting bags with plunder'd pelf;</p> + <p>They say with goose's, not with eagle's wing,</p> + <p>I wish to soar, and make myself a king.</p> + <p>Dutchmen! to you I came, I saw, I sav'd:</p> + <p>Where'er my staff, my bear, my banner wav'd,</p> + <p>The daunted Spaniard fled without a blow,</p> + <p>And bloodless chaplets crown'd my conquering brow.</p> + <p>Dutchmen! with minds more stagnant than your pools,</p> + <p>(But in reproachful words more knaves than fools),</p> + <p>You will not see, nor own the debt you owe</p> + <p>To him who conquers a retreating foe.</p> + <p>Such base ingratitude as this alloys</p> + <p>My triumph's glory, and my bosom's joys."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">V. T.</p> + + <p class="address">Tunbridge Wells.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 291 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page291"></a>{291}</span></p> + +<h3>EARLY USE OF TIN.</h3> + + <p>Mr. Layard, in his work upon Nineveh and Babylon, in reference to the + articles of bronze from Assyria now in the British Museum, states, that + the <i>tin</i> used in the composition was probably obtained from + Phœnicia; and, consequently, that <i>that</i> used in the Assyrian + bronze may actually have been <i>exported</i> nearly <i>three + thousand</i> years ago from the British Isles.</p> + + <p>The Assyrians appear to have made an extensive use of this metal; and + the degree of perfection which the making of bronze had then reached, + clearly shows that they must have been long experienced in the use of it. + <i>They</i> appear to have received what they used from the + Phœnicians. <i>When</i> and <i>by whom</i> was tin first discovered + in our island? Were the <i>Celtic tribes</i> acquainted with it + <i>previously</i> to the arrival of the Phœnicians upon our + shores?</p> + + <p>It is said that the Phœnicians were indebted to the Tyrian + Hercules for their trade in tin; and that this island owed them its name + of <i>Baratanac</i>, or Britain, the land of tin. Was the <i>Tyrian + Hercules</i>, or, as he was afterwards known and worshipped, as the + Melkart of Tyre, and the Moloch of the Bible, was <i>he</i> the + <i>merchant-leader</i> of the first band of Phœnicians who visited + this island? <i>When</i> did <i>he</i> live?</p> + + <p class="author">G. W.</p> + + <p class="address">Stansted, Montfichet.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>ST. PATRICK—MAUNE AND MAN.</h3> + + <p>Amongst the many strange derivations given of the name of Mona or Man + (the island), I find one in an old unpublished MS. by an unknown author, + of the date about 1658, noticed by Feltham (<i>Tour through the Isle of + Man</i>, p. 8.), on which I venture to ground a Query. The name of the + island is there said to have been derived from Maune, the name of the + great apostle of the Mann, before he received that of Patricius from Pope + Celestine.</p> + + <p>Now if St. Patrick ever had the name Maune, he could not have given it + to the island, which was called Mona, Monabia, and Menavia, as far back + as the days of Cĉsar, Tacitus, and Pliny. I have not access to any life + of St. Patrick in which the name Maune occurs; but in the <i>Penny + Cyclopĉdia</i>, under the head "Patrick," I find it said, "According to + Nennius, St. Patrick's original name was Maur," and I find the same + stated in Rose's <i>Biographical Dictionary</i>. But the article in the + latter is evidently taken from the former, and I suspect the Mau<i>r</i> + may in both be a misprint for Mau<i>n</i>.<a name="footnotetag3" + href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> Can "N. & Q." set me right, or + give me any information likely to solve the difficulty?</p> + + <p>I may as well notice here that amongst the many ways in which the name + of this island has been pronounced and spelt, that of <i>Maun</i> seems + to have prevailed at the period of the Norwegian occupation. On a Runic + monument at Kirk Michael, we have it very distinctly so spelt.</p> + + <p>With regard to the name Mona, applied both to Man and Anglesea, I have + little doubt we may find its root in the Sanscrit <i>man</i>, to know, + worship, &c., whence we have Manu the son of Brahma, Menu, Menes, + Minos, Moonshee, and Monk. The name Mona would seem to have been applied + to both islands, as being specially the habitation of the Druids, whose + name probably came either from the Celtic <i>Trow-wys</i>, wisemen, or + the Saxon <i>dru</i>, a soothsayer, very close in signification to the + Sanscrit <i>mooni</i>, a holy sage, learned person. As connected with + this idea I may ground another Query: Might not these two Monas, the + abode of piety and wisdom, be the true, <span title="makarôn nêsoi" class="grk" + >μακαρων + νησοι</span>, the <i>Fortunatĉ Insulĉ</i> of + the ancients?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. G. Cumming</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Castletown.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a + href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + <p>In <i>Monumenta Historica Britannica</i> the passage reads "Quia + <i>Maun</i> prius vocabatur." In a note from another MS. the word is + spelt <i>Mauun</i>.—<span class="sc">Ed.</span></p> + +</div> +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PASSAGE IN BINGHAM.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Richard Bingham</span>, whose new and improved + edition of his ancestor's works is now printing at the Oxford University + Press, would feel sincerely obliged to any literary friend who should + become instrumental in discovering the following passage from one of the + sermons of Augustine:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Non mirari debetis, fratres carissimi, quod inter ipsa mysteria de + mysteriis nihil diximus, quod non statim ea, quĉ tradidimus, interpretati + sumus. Adhibuimus enim tam sanctis rebus atque divinis honorem + silentii."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Joseph Bingham (b. x. ch. v. s. 11.) cites those words as from "Serm. + I., inter 40. a Sirmondo editos," which corresponds with Serm. V. + according to the Benedictine edition, Paris, 1689—1700, tom. v. p. + 28.; but no such words occur in that sermon. The passage is daggered by + Grishovius, who first gave the citations at length; neither has <span + class="sc">Mr. R. Bingham</span> hitherto been able to meet with it, + though a great many similar desiderata in former editions he has + discovered and corrected.</p> + + <p>An answer through "N. & Q." will oblige; still more so if sent + direct to his present address, 57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, + London.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Bingham</span> would also be glad to be informed + where Athanasius uses the term <span title="diakonos" class="grk" + >διάκονος</span>, + generally for any minister of the church, whether deacon, presbyter, or + bishop? Joseph Bingham (b. ii. ch. xx. s. 1.) cites the tract <i>Contra + Gentes</i>, but the expression is not there.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 292 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page292"></a>{292}</span></p> + + <p>The earlier a reply comes the more acceptable will it be.</p> + + <p>57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>"Terrĉ filius."</i>—When was the last "Terrĉ filius" spoken + at Oxford; and what was the origin of the name?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Fraser</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Tor-Mohun.</p> + + <p><i>Daughter pronounced Dafter.</i>—In the Verney Papers lately + printed by the Camden Society is a letter from a Mistress Wiseman, in + which she spells <i>daughter</i> "daftere." It is evident that she + pronounced the <i>-augh</i> as we do in laughter. Is this pronunciation + known to prevail anywhere at the present day?</p> + + <p class="author">C. W. G.</p> + + <p><i>Administration of the Holy Communion.</i>—Which side, + <i>north</i> or <i>south</i>, is the more correct for the priest to + commence administering the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper? Give the + authority or reasons in support of your opinion. I cannot find any + allusion in Hook's <i>Church Dictionary</i>, or in Wheatly's <i>Common + Prayer</i>; and I have seen some clergymen begin one end, some the + other.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Clericus (A.)</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead.</i>—I have searched some + time, but in vain, in order to find out what the <i>lump</i> or <i>love + charm</i>, taken out of a foal's forehead, was called. Virgil mentions it + in <i>Ĉneid</i>, lib. iv. 515., where Dido is preparing her funeral pile, + &c.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Quĉritur et nascentis equi de fronte revulsus,</p> + <p>Et matri prĉreptus, <i>amor</i>."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Tacitus also makes mention of it continually. I have no doubt but that + through your interesting and learned columns I shall obtain an answer. It + was not <i>philtrum</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">H. P.</p> + + <p><i>A Scrape.</i>—What is the origin of the expression "Getting + into a scrape?"</p> + + <p class="author">Y. B. N. J.</p> + + <p><i>"Plus occidit Gula," &c.</i>—Can any of your + correspondents direct me where the following passage is to be + found?—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Plus occidit gula, quam gladius."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">T.</p> + + <p><i>Anecdote of Napoleon.</i>—I remember to have heard of a young + lady, one of the <i>detenus</i> in France after the Peace of Amiens, + having obtained her liberation through a very affecting copy of verses of + her composition, which, by some means, came under the notice of Napoleon. + The Emperor was so struck with the strain of this lament, that he + forwarded passports, with an order for the immediate liberation of the + fair writer. Can any of your correspondents verify this anecdote, and + supply a copy of the verses?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Balliolensis</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Canonisation in the Greek Church.</i>—Does the Greek Church + ever now canonise, or add the names of the saints to the Calendar?</p> + + <p>If so, by whom is the ceremony performed?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Antony Close</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Woodhouse Eaves.</p> + + <p><i>Binometrical Verses.</i>—Who made the following + verse?—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Quando nigrescit nox, rem latro patrat atrox."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Mansfield Ingleby</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + + <p><i>Dictionary of English Phrases.</i>—Is there in English any + good dictionary of phrases similar to the excellent <i>Frasologia + Italiana</i> of P. Daniele?</p> + + <p class="author">G. K.</p> + + <p><i>Lines on Woman.</i>—W. V. will be glad to know if any of the + correspondents of "N. & Q." can tell where the following lines are to + be found?—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Not she with traitrous kiss her master stung,</p> + <p>Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue;</p> + <p><i>She</i>, when apostles fled, could danger brave,</p> + <p>Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Collections for Poor Slaves.</i>—I have met with the + following memorandum in a parish register, and have seen notices of + similar entries in others:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"1680. Collected for the redemption of poor slaves in Turkey, the sum + of 2<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Can you refer me to the king's letter authorising such collections to + be made?</p> + + <p class="author">W. S.</p> + + <p class="address">Northiam.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Some information upon this point will be found in "N. & Q.," Vol. + i., p. 441.; Vol. ii., p 12.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers.</i>—Where will + be found the answer made by the Earl of Oxford when impeached in the + reign of Queen Anne for creating in one day twelve peers?</p> + + <p class="author">S. N.</p> + + <p><i>"Like one who wakes," &c.</i>—Can any of your readers + supply the authorship and connexion of the following lines?—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep,</p> + <p class="i1">Unto the cares of morning."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">C. W. B.</p> + + <p><i>Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed.</i>—Can any one favour me with a + parallel or similar case, in respect to bells, to what I recently met + with at Berwick-upon-Tweed? The parish church, which is the only one in + the town, and a mean structure of Cromwell's time, is without either + tower or <!-- Page 293 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page293"></a>{293}</span>bell; and the people are summoned to + divine service from the belfry of the town-hall, which has a very + respectable steeple. Indeed, so much more ecclesiastical in appearance is + the town-hall than the Church, that (as I was told) a regiment of + soldiers, on the first Sunday after their arrival at Berwick, marched to + the former building for divine service, although the church stood + opposite the barrack gate. My kind informant also told me that he found a + strange clergyman one Sunday morning trying the town-hall door, and + rating the absent sexton; having undertaken to preach a missionary + sermon, and become involved in the same mistake as the soldiers.</p> + + <p>But more curious still was the news that there is a meeting-house in + Berwick belonging to the anti-burghers, who are dissenters from the + Church of Scotland, which has a bell, for the ringing of which, as a + summons to worship, Barrington, Bishop of Durham, granted a licence, + which still exists. I was not aware that bishops either had, or + exercised, the power of licensing bells; but my informant will, I doubt + not, on reading this, either verify or correct the statement. At the time + when the bell was licensed, the congregation were in communion with the + Church of Scotland.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Gatty</span>.</p> + + <p><i>The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts.</i>—I shall be obliged + to any of your readers for information respecting the <i>Sir Jonathan + Keate, Bart.</i>, of the Hoo, Hertfordshire, who was living in the year + 1683; also for any particulars respecting his family? I especially desire + to know what were his relations to the religious parties of the time, as + I have in my possession the journal of a nonconformist minister, who was + his domestic chaplain from 1683 to 1688.</p> + + <p class="author">G. B. B.</p> + + <p class="address">Cambridge.</p> + + <p><i>Divining-rod.</i>—Can any of the correspondents of "N. & + Q." supply instances of the use of the divining-rod for finding water? I + know several circumstances which might incline one, in these + table-turning days, to inquire seriously whether there be any truth in + the popular notion.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">G. W. Skyring</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Medal and Relic of Mary Queen of Scots.</i>—I have in my + possession a medal, the size of a crown piece, of base metal, with + perhaps some admixture of silver. On one side of this are the arms of + Scotland with two thistles, and the legend—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>MARIA ET HENRICUS DEI GRATIA R: ET R: SCOTORUM,</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>and the reverse, a yew-tree with a motto of three words, of which the + last seems to be <span class="scac">VIRES</span>, the date 1566, and the + legend—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>EXURGAT DEUS ET DISSIPANTUR INIMICI.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Associated with this for a very considerable period has been a small + wooden cross, which is said to have been made from the yew-tree under + which Mary and Darnley had been accustomed to meet.</p> + + <p>I have been told that there is some farther tradition or superstition + connected with these relics: if there be, I shall be glad to be informed + of it, or of any other particulars concerning them.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Fraser</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Tor-Mohun.</p> + + <p><i>Bulstrode's Portrait.</i>—Prefixed to a copy in my possession + of <i>Essays upon the following Subjects: 1. Generosity, &c.</i>, by + Whitelock Bulstrode, Esq., 8vo. Lond. 1724, there is a portrait of the + author, bearing this note in MS.: "This scarce portrait has sold for + 7<i>l.</i>" It is engraved by Cole from a picture by Kneller, in oval + with armorial bearings below, and is subscribed "Anno Salutis 1723, + ĉtatis 72." I am at a loss to suppose it ever could have fetched the + price assigned to my impression by its previous owner, and should feel + obliged if any of your correspondents would state whether, from any + peculiar circumstances, it may have become rare, and so acquired an + adventitious value. It does not appear to have been known to Granger.</p> + + <p>While the two names are before me, I venture to inquire how the + remarkable interchange occurred between that of <i>Whitelock + Bulstrode</i> the Essayist, and <i>Bulstrode Whitelock</i> the + Memorialist, of the parliamentary period. Was there any family + connexion?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Balliolensis</span>.</p> + + <p><i>The Assembly House, Kentish Town.</i>—Can any of your + antiquarian correspondents give me a clue as to the date, or probable + date, of the erection of this well-known roadside public-house (I beg + pardon, tavern), which is now being pulled down? I am desirous of + obtaining some slight account of the old building, having just completed + an etching, from a sketch taken as it appeared in its dismantled state. + Possibly some anecdotes may be current regarding it. I learn from a rare + little tome, entitled <i>Some Account of Kentish Town</i>, published at + that place in 1821, and written, I believe, by a Mr. Elliot, that the + Assembly House was formerly called the Black Bull. The writer of this + Query asked "one of the oldest inhabitants," who was seated on a + door-step opposite the house, <i>his</i> opinion concerning its age: + considering a little, the old gentleman seriously said he thought it + might be two or three <i>thousand</i> years at least! This opinion I am + afraid to accept as correct, and I would therefore seek, through the + medium of "N. & Q.," some information which may be more depended + upon.</p> + + <p class="author">W. B. R.</p> + + <p class="address">Camden New Town.</p> + + <p><i>Letters respecting Hougomont.</i>—Could any reader of "N. + & Q." kindly furnish the undersigned with certain Letters, which have + recently <!-- Page 294 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page294"></a>{294}</span>appeared in <i>The Times</i>, on "The + Defence of Hougomont?" Such letters, extracted, would be of much service + to him, as they are wanted for a specific purpose. The letters from + Saturday, Sept. 10, <i>inclusive</i>, are <i>already</i> obtained: but + the letters on the subject previous to that date are wanting, and would + greatly favour, if it were possible to have them,</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Aran</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Swillington.</p> + + <p><i>Peter Lombard.</i>—Mr. Hallam, in his <i>Literature of + Europe</i> (vol. i. p. 128.), says, on the authority of Meiners (vol. + iii. p. 11.):</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Peter Lombard, in his <i>Liber Sententiarum</i>, the systematic basis + of scholastic theology, introduces <i>many</i> Greek words, and explains + them rightly."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Having, however, examined this work for the purpose of ascertaining + Peter Lombard's knowledge of Greek, I must, out of regard to strict + truth, deny the statement of Meiners; for only one Greek word in Greek + letters is to be found in the <i>Liber Sententiarum</i>, and that is + <span title="metanoia" class="grk" + >μετάνοια</span>: and so far + frown Peter explaining this word rightly, he says, 'Pœnitentia + dicitur a puniendo" (lib. <span class="scac">IV</span>. dist. xiv.); an + etymological notion which caused Luther to think wrongly of the nature of + repentance, till he learnt the meaning of the Greek word, which he + received with joy as the solution of one of his greatest difficulties in + Romanism. I do not consider the introduction of such Latinized church + words as <i>ecclesia</i>, <i>episcopus</i>, <i>presbyter</i>, or even + <i>homoöusius</i>, as evincing any knowledge of Greek on the part of + Peter Lombard, wherein he appears to have been lamentably deficient, as + the great teacher and authority for centuries in Christian dogmatics. + Your correspondents will greatly oblige me by showing anything to the + contrary of my charge against Peter Lombard of being ignorant of + Greek.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. J. Buckton</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + + <p><i>Life of Savigny.</i>—Is there in French or English any life + or memoir of Savigny?</p> + + <p class="author">C. H.</p> + + <p><i>Picture by Hogarth.</i>—Some years since a gentleman + purchased at Bath the first sketch of a picture said to be by Hogarth, of + "Fortune distributing her favours." Shortly afterwards a gentleman called + on the purchaser of it, and mentioned to him that he knew the finished + painting, and that it was in the panelling of some house with which he + was acquainted.</p> + + <p>I am desirous of finding out for the family of the purchaser, who died + recently, 1st, whether there is any history that can be attached to this + picture and 2ndly, to discover, if possible, in whose possession, and + where, the finished painting is preserved.</p> + + <p class="author">J. K. R. W.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries with Answers.</h2> + + <p><i>Glossarial Queries.</i>—In a Subsidy Roll of 25 Edward I., in + an enumeration of property in the parish of Skirbeck, near Boston, + Lincolnshire, upon which a <i>ninth</i> was granted to the king, I find + the following articles and their respective value. What <span + class="correction" title="Original reads `where'.">were</span> + they?—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"3 alece, 18<i>s.</i></p> + <p>1 bacell cum arment. 15<i>s.</i>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In the taxation of <i>Leake</i> I find—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"9 hocast<span class="over">r</span>. 6<i>s.</i>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In that of <i>Leverton</i>—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"4 hocast<span class="over">r</span>. 4<i>s.</i>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In <i>Butterwick</i>—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"1 pull. 12<i>d.</i>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In <i>Wrangle</i>—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"1 stag<span class="over">g</span>. 2<i>s.</i>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Pishey Thompson</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Stoke Newington.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[It is very desirable that in all cases Querists desirous of + explanations of words, phrases, or passages, should give the context.</p> + + <p>3 <i>Alece</i>, were it not for the price, one would render + "herrings;" but the price, 18<i>s.</i>, forbids such interpretation. + Perhaps <i>alece</i> is a misreading for <i>vacce</i>, cows; which might + well occur in a carelessly written roll temp. Edward I.</p> + + <p>1 <i>bacell cum arme<span class="over">n</span>t</i>. is 1 <i>bacellus + cum armamentis</i>, one ass (or pack-horse) with its furniture.</p> + + <p>9 <i>hocast<span class="over">r</span></i>. is 9 <i>pigs</i>. + "Hogaster, porcellus."—Du Cange.</p> + + <p>1 <i>pull</i>. (i.e. <i>pullulus</i>), 1 colt.</p> + + <p>1 <i>stag<span class="over">g</span></i>., a yearling ox.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Military Knights of Windsor.</i>—I shall feel obliged to any + of your correspondents who will furnish some account, or refer me to any + work in which notices may be found of this foundation, its statutes, mode + of appointment, endowments, &c.? Up to the reign of William IV. they + were known, I believe, as Poor Knights of Windsor.</p> + + <p class="author">Y. B. N. J.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Consult Ashmole's <i>History of the Order of the Garter</i>, pp. + 99-104., edit. 1715. Among the Birch and Sloane MSS. in the British + Museum are the following articles: No. 4845. Statutes for the Poor + Knights of Windsor, 1 Eliz. Orders and rules for the establishment and + good government of the said thirteen poor knights. The Queen's Majestie's + ordinances for the continual charges. No. 4847. Articles of complaint + exhibited by the Poor Knights (to the Knights of the Garter) against the + Dean and Canons. The Dean and Canons' answer to the Poor Knights' second + replication. The complaint of the Poor Knights to King Richard II. A + petition of the Poor Knights to the king and parliament for a repeal of + the act of incorporation, A. 22 Edw. IV. The petition of the Poor Knights + of Windsor to George II., Jan. 28, 1735. This petition was drawn up by + Mr. Fortescue, <!-- Page 295 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page295"></a>{295}</span>afterwards Master of the Rolls. The Poor + Knights' rejoinder to their former petition. The memorial of the Poor + Knights to John Willes, Esq., Attorney-General. Another petition to J. + Willes, Esq. Copy of an indenture between Queen Elizabeth and the Dean + and Chapter of Lands, to the value of 600<i>l.</i> a year and upwards, + for the maintenance of the Poor Knights, 1 Eliz. Orders and rules for the + establishment and good government of the said thirteen Poor Knights. The + case of the Poor Knights (printed), with several other papers relating to + them.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>"Elijah's Mantle."</i>—Who was the author of <i>Elijah's + Mantle</i>? And are there any grounds for ascribing it to Canning?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Fraser.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Tor-Mohun.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[This poem was attributed to Canning, as noticed by Mr. Bell, in his + <i>Life of George Canning</i>, p. 206. He says, "Mr. Canning's reputation + was again put into requisition as sponsor for certain verses that + appeared at this time in the public journals. The best of these is a + piece called <i>Elijah's Mantle</i>."]</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>MILTON AND MALATESTI.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ii., p. 146.; Vol. viii., p. 237.)</p> + + <p>When I gave some account of <i>La Tina</i> of Antonio Malatesti, and + its dedication to Milton, two years since, I was not aware that it had + been printed, as I had no other edition of Gamba's <i>Serie dell' + Edizioni de' Testi di Lingua</i>, than the first printed in 1812. That + account was derived from the original MS. which formerly passed through + my hands. I fear that my friend <span class="sc">Mr. Bolton Corney</span> + will be disappointed if he should meet with a copy of the printed book, + for the MS. contained no other dedication than the inscription on the + title-page, of which I made a tracing. It represents an inscribed stone + tablet, in the following arrangement:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"LA</p> + <p>Tina Equiuoci Rusticali</p> + <p>di Antonio Malatesti cō-</p> + <p> posti nella sua Villa di</p> + <p>Taiano il Settembre dell'</p> + <p class="i2">L'Anno, 1637.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Sonetti Ciquanta</p> + <p>Dedicati all' Ill<sup>mo</sup> Signore</p> + <p>Et Padrone Oss<sup>mo</sup> Il Signor'</p> + <p>Giouanni Milton Nobil'</p> + <p class="i3">Inghilese."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>I copied at the time eight of these equivocal sonnets, and in my + former notice gave one as a specimen. They are certainly very ingenious, + and may be "graziosissimi" to an Italian ear and imagination; but I + cannot think that the pure mind of Milton would take much delight in + obscene allusions, however neatly wrapped up.</p> + + <p>Milton seems to have dwelt with pleasure on his intercourse with these + witty, ingenious, and learned men, during his two-months' sojourn at + Florence; and it is remarkable that Nicolas Heinsius has spoken of the + same men, in much the same terms, in his dedication to Carlo Dati of the + second book of his <i>Italici Componimenti</i>:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Sanctum mehercules habebo semper Jo. Bapt. Donij memoriam, non tam + suo nomine (et si hoc quoque) aut quod Frescobaldos, Cavalcantes, + Gaddios, Cultellinos, alios urbis vestrĉ viros precipuos mihi + conciliarit, quorum amicitiam feci hactenus, et faciam porrò maximi, quam + quod tibi me conjunxerit, mi Date; cujus opera in notitiam, ac + familiaritatem plurimorum apud vos hominum eximiorum mox irreperem."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>And, after mentioning others, he adds:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Quid de Valerio Chimentellio, homine omni literatura perpolita, + dicam? Quid de Joanne Pricĉo? qui ingens civitati vestrĉ ornamentum ex + ultima nuper accessit Britannia."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>One feels some decree of disappointment at not meeting here with the + name of Milton.</p> + + <p>Of the distinguished men mentioned by Milton, some interesting notices + occur in that curious little volume, the <i>Bibliotheca Aprosiana</i>. + Benedetto Buommattei and Carlo Dati are well known from their important + labours; and of the others there are scattered notices in <i>Rilli + Notizie degli Uomini Illustre Fiorentine</i>, and in <i>Salvini Fasti + Consolari dell' Accademia Fiorentina</i>. I have an interesting little + volume of Latin verses by Jacopo Gaddi, with the following title + <i>Poetica Jacobi Gaddii Corona e Selectis Poematiis, Notis Allegoriis + contexta</i>, Bononiĉ, 1637, 4to.</p> + + <p>There is a good deal of ingenious and pleasing burlesque poetry extant + by Antonio Malatesti. I have before mentioned his <i>Sphinx</i>: of this + I have a dateless edition, apparently printed about the middle of the + last century at Florence: the title is <i>La Sfinge Enimmi del Signor + Antonio Malatesti</i>. Commendatory verses are prefixed by Chimentelli, + Coltellini, and Galileo Galilei. The last, from the celebrity of the + writer, may deserve the small space it will occupy in your pages. It is + itself an enigma:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2hg3">"<span class="sc">Del Signor Galileo Galilei</span></p> + <p class="i6"><span class="sc">Sonetto</span>.</p> + <p>Mostro son' io più strano, e più difforme,</p> + <p>Che l'Arpià, la Sirena, o la Chimera;</p> + <p>Nè in terra, in aria, in acqua è alcuna fiera,</p> + <p>Ch' abbia di membra così varie forme.</p> + <p>Parte a parte non hô che sia conforme,</p> + <p>Più che s' una sia bianca, e l' altra nera;</p> + <p>Spesso di Cacciator dietro hô una schiera,</p> + <p>Che de' miei piè van ritracciando l' orme.</p> + <p>Nelle tenebre oscure è il mio soggiorno;</p> + <p>Che se dall' ombre al chiaro lume passo,</p> + <p>Tosto l' alma da me sen fugge, come</p> + <p>Sen fugge il sogno all' apparir del giorno,</p> + <p>E le mie membra disunito lasso,</p> + <p>E l' esser perdo con la vita, è l nome."</p> + </div> + </div> +<p><!-- Page 296 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page296"></a>{296}</span></p> + + <p>Three more sonnets by this illustrious man are printed by Salvini in + his <i>Fasti</i>, of which he says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I quali esendo parto di si gran mente, mi concederà la gloria il + benigno lettore, che io, ad honore della Toscana Poesia, gli esponga il + primo alla publica luce."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Dr. Fellowes was not singular in confounding Dati and Deodati; it has + been done by Fenton and others: but that Dr. Symmons, in his <i>Life of + Milton</i> (p. 133.), should transform <i>La Tina</i> into a + <i>wine-press</i>, is ludicrously amusing. <i>La Tina</i> is the rustic + mistress to whom the sonnets are supposed to be addressed; and every one + knows that <i>rusticale</i> and <i>contadinesca</i> is that naïve and + pleasing rustic style in which the Florentine poets delighted, from the + expressive nature of the patois of the Tuscan peasantry; and it might + have been said of Malatesti's sonnets, as of another rustic poet:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Ipsa Venus lĉtos jam nunc migravit in agros</p> + <p class="i1">Verbaque Aratoris Rustica discit Amor."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>I may just remark that the <i>Clementillo</i> of Milton should not be + rendered <i>Clementini</i>, but <i>Chimentelli</i>. As Rolli tells + us,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Clementillus fu quel Dottore <i>Valerio Chimentelli</i> di cui + leggesi una vaghissima Cicalata nel sesto volume delle Prose + Fiorentine."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. W. Singer</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Mickleham.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>ATTAINMENT OF MAJORITY.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 198. 250.)</p> + + <p>I greatly regret that there should be anything in the matter or manner + of my Query on this subject to induce <span class="sc">Mr. De + Morgan</span> to reply to it more as if repelling an offence, than + assisting in the investigation of an interesting question on a subject + with which he is supposed to be especially conversant. I can assure him + that I had no other object in writing <i>ninth</i> numerically instead of + literally, or in omitting the words he has restored in brackets, or in + italicising two words to which I wished my question more particularly to + refer, than that of economising space and avoiding needless repetition; + and in the use of the word "usage" rather than "law," of which he also + complains, I was perhaps unduly influenced by the title of his own + treatise, from which I was quoting. But however I may have erred from + exact quotation, it is manifest I did not misunderstand the sense of the + passage, since <span class="sc">Mr. De Morgan</span> now repeats its + substance in these words,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I cannot make out that the law ever recognised a day of twenty-four + hours, beginning at any hour except midnight."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This is clearly at direct issue with Ben Jonson, whose introduced + phrases, "pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to + smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of + poetic license.</p> + + <p>But had I not accidentally met with an interesting confirmation of Ben + Jonson's law of usage, or usage of law, I should not have put forth my + Query at all, nor presumed to address it to <span class="sc">Professor De + Morgan</span>; my principal reason for so doing being that the interest + attaching to discovered evidence of a forgotten usage in legal reckoning, + must of course be increased tenfold if it should appear to have been + unknown to a gentleman of such deep and acknowledged research into that + and kindred subjects.</p> + + <p>In a black-letter octavo entitled <i>A Concordancie of Yeares</i>, + published in and for the year 1615, and therefore about the very time + when Ben Jonson was writing, I find the following in chap. xiii.:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The day is of two sorts, natural and artificiall: the natural day is + the space of 24 hours, in which time the sunne is carried by the first + Mover, from the east into the west, and so round about the world into the + east againe."</p> + + <p>"The artificiall day continues from sunne-rising to sunne-setting: and + the artificiall night is from the sunne's setting to his rising. And you + must note that this natural day, according to divers, hath divers + beginnings: As the Romanes count it from mid-night to mid-night, because + at that time our Lorde was borne, being Sunday; and so do we account it + for fasting dayes. The Arabians begin their day at noone, and end at + noone the next day; for because they say the sunne was made in the + meridian; and so do all astronomers account the day, because it alwayes + falleth at one certaine time. The Umbrians, the Tuscans, the Jewes, the + Athenians, Italians, and Egyptians, do begin their day at sunne-set, and + so do we celebrate festivall dayes. The Babylonians, Persians, and + Bohemians begin their day at sunne-rising, holding till sunne-setting; + <i>and so do our lawyers count it in England</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Here, at least, there can be no supposition of dramatic fiction; the + book from which I have made this extract was written by Arthur Hopton, a + distinguished mathematician, a scholar of Oxford, a student in the + Temple; and the volume itself is dedicated to "The Right Honourable Sir + Edward Coke, Knight, Lord Chiefe Justice of England," &c.</p> + + <p class="author">A. E. B.</p> + + <p class="address">Leeds, Sept. 10.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>JOHN FREWEN.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 222.)</p> + + <p>He is supposed to have been the son of Richard Frewen, of Earl's Court + in Worcestershire, and was born either at that place or in its immediate + vicinity in the early part of the year 1558. Richard Frewen purchased the + presentation to Northiam rectory, in Sussex, of Viscount Montague, and + presented John Frewen to it in Nov. 1583; and <!-- Page 297 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page297"></a>{297}</span>he continued to hold + that living till his death, which took place at the end of April, 1628. + He was buried in the chancel of his own church, May 2nd; and a plain + stone on the floor, with an inscription, marks the place of his + interment. He was a learned and pious Puritan divine, and wrote:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>1. "Certaine Fruitfull Instructions and necessary Doctrine meete to + edify in the feare of God." 1587, 18mo.</p> + + <p>2. "Certaine Fruitfull Instructions for the generall Cause of + Reformation against the Slanders of the Pope and League, &c." 1589, + small 4to.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>3. He edited and wrote the preface to—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A Courteous Conference with the English Catholickes Romane, about the + Six Articles administered unto the Seminarie Priestes, wherein it is + apparently proved by theire own divinitie, and the principles of their + owne religion, that the Pope cannot depose her Majestie, or release her + subjects of their alleageance unto her, &c.; written by John Bishop, + a recusant Papist." 1598. Small 4to.</p> + + <p>4. "Certaine Sermons on the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 verses of the + Eleventh chapter of S. Paule his Epistle to the Romanes." 1612, 12mo.</p> + + <p>5. "Certaine choise Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion." + 1621, 12mo.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>6. A large unpublished work in MS. entitled "Grounds and Principles of + Christian Religion," left unfinished (probably age and infirmity + prevented him from completing it): it consisted of seven books, of which + two only (the fourth and fifth, of 95 and 98 folio pages respectively) + have been preserved.</p> + + <p>John Frewen had three wives, and by each of the first two several + children, of whom the following lived to grow up, viz. by Eleanor his + first wife, (1.) Accepted Frewen, Archbp. of York; (2.) Thankful F., + Purse Bearer and Secretary of Petitions to Lord Keeper Coventry; (3.) + John F., Rector of Northiam; (4.) Stephen F., Alderman of the Vintry + Ward, London; (5.) Mary, wife of John Bigg of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; (6.) + Joseph F. By his second wife, Helen, daughter of —— Hunt, + J. F. had (7.) Benjamin, Citizen of London; (8.) Thomas F.; (9.) Samuel, + Joseph, Thomas, and Samuel joined Cromwell's army for invading Ireland; + and one of them (Captain Frewen) fell at the storming of Kilkenny; + another of them died at Limerick of the plague, which carried off General + Freton; the other (Thomas) founded a family at Castle Connel, near + Limerick.</p> + + <p>John Frewen's <i>Sermons</i> in 1612 are in some respects rare; but + the following copies are extant, viz. one in the Bodleian at Oxford; one + in the University Library at Cambridge; one in possession of Mr. Frewen + at Brickwall, Northiam; and one sold by Kerslake of Bristol, for + 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, to the Rev. John Frewen Moor, of Bradfield, + Berks.</p> + + <p>If <span class="sc">R. C. Warde</span>, of Kidderminster, has a copy + which he would dispose of, he may communicate with T. F., Post-office, + Northiam, who would be glad to purchase it.</p> + + <p class="author">J. F.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>"VOIDING KNIFE," "VOIDER," AND "ALMS-BASKET."</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. vi., pp. 150. 280.; Vol. viii., p. 232.)</p> + + <p>In later times (the sixteenth century) the good old custom of placing + an <i>alms-dish</i> on the table was discontinued, and with less + charitable intentions came the less refined custom of removing the broken + victuals after a meal by means of a <i>voiding-knife</i> and + <i>voider</i>: the latter was a basket into which were swept by a large + wand, usually of wood, or <i>voiding-knife</i>, as it was termed, all the + bones and scraps left upon the trenchers or scattered about the table. + Thus, in the old plays, <i>Lingua</i>, Act V. Sc. 13.: "Enter Gustus with + a <i>voiding-knife</i>;" and in <i>A Woman killed with Kindness</i>, + "Enter three or four serving men, one with a <i>voider</i> and <i>wooden + knife</i> to take away."</p> + + <p>The voider was still sometimes called the <i>alms-basket</i>, and had + its charitable uses in great and rich men's houses: one of which was to + supply those confined in gaols for debt, and such prisoners as had no + means to purchase any food.</p> + + <p>In Green's <i>Tu Quoque</i>, a spendthrift is cast into prison; the + jailer says to him:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"If you have no money, you had best remove into some cheaper ward; to + the twopenny ward, it is likeliest to hold out with your means; or, if + you will, you may go into the <i>hole</i>, and there you may feed for + nothing."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>To which he replies:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Ay, out of the <i>alms-basket</i>, where charity appears in likeness + of a piece of stinking fish."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Even this poor allowance to the distressed prisoners passed through + several ordeals before it came to them; and the best and most wholesome + portions were filched from the <i>alms-basket</i>, and sold by the + jailers at a low price to people out of the prison. In the same play it + is related of a miser, that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"He never saw a joint of mutton in his own house these four-and-twenty + years, but always cozened the poor prisoners, for he brought his victuals + out of the <i>alms-basket</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In the ordinances of Charles II. (<i>Ord. and Reg. Soc. Ant.</i> + 367.), it is commanded—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"That no gentleman whatsoever shall send away my meat or wine from the + table, or out of the chamber, upon any pretence whatsoever; and that the + gentlemen-ushers take particular care herein, that all the meate that is + taken off the table upon trencher-plates be put into a basket for the + poore, and not undecently eaten by any servant in the roome; and if any + person shall presume to do otherwise, he shall be prohibited <!-- Page + 298 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page298"></a>{298}</span>immediately to remaine in the chamber, or + to come there again, until further order."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The <i>alms-basket</i> was also called a <i>maund</i>, and those who + partook of its contents <i>maunders</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Chaffers</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Old Bond Street.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THE LETTER "H" IN HUMBLE.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 229.)</p> + + <p>The recent attempt to introduce a mispronunciation of the word + <i>humble</i> should be resisted by every one who has learned the plain + and simple rule of grammar, that "<i>a</i> becomes <i>an</i> before a + vowel or a silent <i>h</i>." That the rule obtained a considerable time + ago, we have only to look into the Book of Common Prayer to prove, where + the congregation are exhorted to come "with an humble, lowly, penitent, + and obedient heart," and I believe it will be admitted that the compilers + of that work fully understood the right pronunciation.</p> + + <p>It may assist to settle the question by giving the etymology of the + word <i>humble</i>. It is derived from the Celtic <i>uim</i>, the ground, + Latin <i>humus</i>. <i>Umal</i> in Celtic is humble, lowly, obedient; and + the word signifies the bending of the mind or disposition, just as a man + would kneel or become prostrate before a superior.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fras. Crossley</span>.</p> + + <p>In the course of a somewhat long life I have resided in the North of + England, in the West, and in London, upwards of twenty years each, and my + experience is directly the reverse of that of <span class="sc">Mr. + Dawson</span>. I have very rarely heard the <i>h</i> omitted in + <i>humble</i>, and when I have heard it, always considered a vulgarity. + The <i>u</i> at the beginning of a word is always aspirated. I believe + the only words in which the initial <i>h</i> is not pronounced are + derived from the Latin. If that were the general rule, which, however, it + is not, as in <i>habit</i>, <i>herb</i>, &c., still, where <i>h</i> + precedes <i>u</i>, it would be pronounced according to the universal rule + for the aspiration of <i>u</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">E. H.</p> + + <p><i>The letter "h" to be passed unsounded in those words which are of + Latin origin.</i>—Try it:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Ha! 'tis a horrible hallucination</p> + <p>To grudge our hymns their halcyon harmonies,</p> + <p>When in just homage our rapt voices rise</p> + <p>To celebrate our heroes in meet fashion;</p> + <p>Whose hosts each heritage and habitation,</p> + <p>Within these realms of hospitable joy,</p> + <p>Protect securely 'gainst humiliation,</p> + <p>When hostile foes, like harpies, would annoy.</p> + <p>Habituated to the sound of <i>h</i></p> + <p>In history and histrionic art,</p> + <p>We deem the man a homicide of speech,</p> + <p>Maiming humanity in a vital part,</p> + <p>Whose humorous hilarity would treat us,</p> + <p>In lieu of <i>h</i>, with a supposed hiatus."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">* *.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>SCHOOL LIBRARIES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 220.)</p> + + <p>I have great pleasure in removing from the mind of your correspondent + an erroneous impression which must materially affect his good opinion of + a school to which I am sincerely attached. He asks if in any of the + public schools there are libraries of books giving general information + accessible to the scholars. Now my information only refers to one, that + of Eton. There is a library at Eton consisting of some thousand volumes, + filled with books of all kinds, ancient and modern, valuable and + valueless. It is open to the 150 first in the school on payment of + eighteen shillings per annum, and on their refusal the option of becoming + subscribers descends to the next in gradation. The list, however, is + never full. The money collected goes to the support of a librarian, and + to buy pens, ink, and paper, and the surplus (necessarily small) to the + purchase of books. The basis of the library is the set of Delphin + classics, presented by George I. The late head master (now provost) has + been a most munificent contributor; Prince Albert has also presented + several valuable volumes. Whenever the Prince has come to Eton he has + always visited the library, and taken great interest in its welfare; and + on his last visit said to the provost that he should be quite ready and + willing to obey the call whenever he was asked to lay the first stone of + a museum in connexion with the library.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Etonensis</span>.</p> + + <p>The free grammar school at Macclesfield, Cheshire, has always had a + library. It <i>did</i> contain some rare volumes of the olden time; it + was at various times more or less supported by a small payment from the + scholars. Some years since Mr. Osborn, the then head master, solicited + subscriptions from former pupils, and with some success. Of the present + state of the school library I know nothing.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward Hawkins</span>.</p> + + <p>At Winchester there are libraries for the commoners and scholars + containing books for general reading: they are under the several charge + of the commoner-prefects and the prefect of library, who lend them on + application to the juniors.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.</span></p> + + <p>Christ's Hospital has a library such as inquired after by <span + class="sc">Mr. Weld Taylor</span>. The late Mr. Thackeray, of the Priory, + Lewisham (who died about two years ago), bequeathed to this school his + valuable library of books on general literature for the use of the boys. + Previously to this bequest the collection of books was small.</p> + + <p class="author">N.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 299 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page299"></a>{299}</span></p> + +<h3>DR. JOHN TAYLOR.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. i., p. 466.)</p> + + <p>My attention has been caught by some remarks in the early volumes of + your work upon my learned ancestor Dr. John Taylor, minister at Norwich, + and subsequently divinity tutor at Warrington. Whatever opinion may have + been attributed to Dr. Parr concerning Dr. Taylor, this I know, that on + revisiting Norwich he desired my father (the Dr.'s grandson) to show him + the house inhabited by him while he was the minister of the Octagon + Chapel.</p> + + <p>Dr. Parr looked serious and solemn, and in his usual energetic manner + pronounced, "He was a <i>great</i> scholar."</p> + + <p>Dr. John Taylor was buried at Kirkstead<a name="footnotetag4" + href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a>, Lancashire, where his tomb is + distinguished by the following simple inscription:</p> + +<p class="cenhead">"Near to this place lies interr'd<br /> +what was mortal of<br /> +<span class="sc">Iohn Taylor, D.D.</span><br /> +<br /> +Reader,<br /> +Expect no eulogium from this Stone.<br /> +Enquire amongst the friends of<br /> +<span class="sc">Learning</span>, <span class="sc">Liberty</span>, and <span class="sc">Truth</span>;<br /> +These will do him justice.<br /> +Whilst taking his natural rest, he fell<br /> +asleep in <span class="sc">Jesus</span>, the 5th of March, 1761,<br /> +Aged 66."</p> + + <p>The following inscription, in Latin, was composed by Dr. Parr for a + monumental stone erected by grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the + Octagon Chapel, Norwich:</p> + +<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">Joanni Taylor, S.T.P.</span><br /> +Langovici nato<br /> +Albi ostii in agro Cumbriensi<br /> +bonis disciplinis instituto<br /> +Norvici<br /> +Ad exequendum munus pastoris delecto <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1733.<br /> +Rigoduni quo in oppido<br /> +Senex quotidie aliquid addiscens<br /> +Theologiam et philosophiam moralem docuit<br /> +Mortuo<br /> +Tert. non. Mart.<br /> +Anno Domini <span class="scac">MDCCLXI</span>.<br /> +Ĉtat. <span class="scac">LXVI</span>.<br /> +Viro integro innocenti pio<br /> +Scriptori Grĉcis et Hebraicis litteris<br /> +probe erudito<br /> +Verbi divini gravissimo interpreti<br /> +Religionis simplicis et incorruptĉ<br /> +Acerrimo propugnatori<br /> +Nepotes ejus et pronepotes<br /> +In hac Capella<br /> +Cujus ille fundamenta olim jecerat<br /> +Monumentum hocce honorarium<br /> +Poni curaverunt."</p> + + <p class="author">S. R.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a + href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a> + <p>His first appointment, as minister of the Gospel, was at Kirkstead + Chapel.</p> + +</div> +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PORTRAIT OF SIR ANTHONY WINGFIELD.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 245.)</p> + + <p>It is most likely that Q., who inquired relative to a picture of Sir + Anthony Wingfield, may occasionally meet with an engraving of this + worthy, though the depository of the original portrait is unknown. The + tale told Horace Walpole by the housekeeper at the house of the Nauntons + at Letheringham, Suffolk, is not correct. Sir Anthony was a favourite of + the monarch, and was knighted by him for his brave conduct at Terouenne + and Tournay. A private plate of Sir Anthony exists, the original portrait + from which it was taken being at Letheringham at the time the engraving + was made. The position of the hand in the girdle only indicates the + fashion of portraiture at the time, and is akin to the frequent custom of + placing one arm a-kimbo in modern paintings.</p> + + <p>The Query of your correspondent opens a tale of despoliation perhaps + unparalleled even in the days of iconoclastic fury, and but very + imperfectly known.</p> + + <p>The estate of Letheringham devolved, about the middle of the last + century, upon William Leman, Esq., who, being obliged to maintain his + right against claimants stating they descended from a branch of the + Naunton family who had migrated into Normandy at the end of the preceding + century, was placed in a position of considerable difficulty to defend + his occupation of the house and lands. I will not say by whom, but in + 1770 down came the residence in which the author of the well-known + <i>Fragmenta Regalia</i> had resided, and, what is far worse, the Priory + Church, which, after the Dissolution, was made parochial, and which was + filled with tombs, effigies, and brasses to members of the + family—Bovilles, Wingfields, and Nauntons—was also levelled + with the ground. It was stated at the time that the sacred edifice had + only become dilapidated from age, and that the parishioners were + therefore obliged to do something. What <i>was done</i>, however, was no + re-edification of the fabric, but its entire destruction, and the + erection of a new church. Fortunately, Horace Walpole saw the edifice + before the contractor for the new building had cast his "desiring eyes" + upon it, and has recorded his impressions in one of his letters. More + fortunate still, the late Mr. Gough and Mr. Nichols visited it, and the + former employed the well-known topographical draughtsman, the late James + Johnson of Woodbridge, Suffolk, to copy some of the effigies, which were + afterwards engraved and inserted in the second volume of the + <i>Sepulchral Monuments</i>. The zeal of Johnson, however, led him to + preserve, by his minute delineation, not only <i>every</i> monument (only + two, I think, are given by Gough), but also the interior and exterior of + the church, with the <!-- Page 300 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page300"></a>{300}</span>position of the tombs. The interior view + may be seen among Craven Ord's drawings in the library of the British + Museum; and I am happy to say I possess Johnson's original sketches of + all the monuments, and of the exterior of the building. A fair idea of + the extent of the destruction may be gained by the mention of the fact, + that six hundred-weight of alabaster effigies were beaten into powder, + and sold to line water-cisterns. Some of the figures were rescued by the + late Dr. W. Clubbe, and erected into a pyramid in his garden at + Brandeston Vicarage, with this inscription:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<i>Fuimus.</i> Indignant Reader, these monumental remains are not (as + thou mayest suppose) the ruins of Time, but were destroyed in an + irruption of the Goths so late in the Christian era as the year 1789. + <i>Credite posteri.</i>"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Wodderspoon</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Norwich.</p> + + <p>William Naunton, son and heir of Thomas Naunton (temp. Hen. VII.), and + Margery, daughter and heiress of Richard Busiarde, married Elizabeth, + daughter of Sir Anthony Wingfield. Their only child, Henry Naunton, was + the father of two sons, viz. Robert the <i>secretary</i> (temp. James + I.), whose son died unmarried, and daughter, married to Paul Viscount + Bayning, died without issue; and William Naunton (fil. 2<sup>s</sup>). + His son and heir, who married a Coke, had one daughter, Theophila, + married to William Leman (ancestor of the family whose great estates are + in search of an owner): their only issue, Theophila, married Thomas Rede, + who thereby became possessed of Letheringham in Suffolk, and the whole of + the Naunton property. His estates went to his son Robert, who, dying + without issue in 1822, left them much diminished to his nephew, the Rev. + Robert Rede Cooper, second son of the Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper and Sarah + Leman, youngest daughter, and eventually heiress, of the above Thomas + Rede. The Rev. Robert Rede Rede (for he assumed that name) died a few + years ago possessed of Ashmans Park, Suff., which was independent of the + Naunton property, and of certain heir-looms, the sole remains of the + great estates of the "Nauntons of Letheringham," which continue in the + possession of the descendants of that family. It is at <i>Ashmans</i> + that the portrait inquired for by your correspondent Q. will probably be + found. Whether that estate has already been sold by the daughters of the + late possessor (four co-heiresses) I am unable to say.</p> + + <p class="author">H. C. K.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>BARNACLES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 223.)</p> + + <p>In reference to the article on the barnacle bird in "N. & Q." as + above, I send you a paper which I lately put in our local journal (<i>The + Tralee Chronicle</i>), containing a collection of notices of the curious + errors and <i>gradual</i> correction of them, on the subject of the + barnacle. I fear it may be long for your columns, but don't know how to + shorten it; nor can I well omit another amusing notice of the subject, to + which, since I published it, an intelligent friend called my attention; + it is from the <i>Memoirs of Lady Fanshaw</i>:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"When we came to Calais, we met the Earl of Strafford and Sir Kenelm + Digby, with some others of our countrymen; we were all feasted at the + Governor's of the castle, and much excellent discourse passed; but, as + was reason, most share was Sir Kenelm Digby's, who had enlarged somewhat + more in extraordinary stories than might be averred, and all of them + passed with great applause and wonder of the French then at table; but + the concluding one was—that barnacles, a bird in Jersey, was first + a shell-fish to appearance, and from that sticking upon old wood, became + in time a bird. After some consideration, they unanimously burst out into + laughter, believing it altogether false, and, to say the truth, it was + the only thing true he had discoursed with them!—that was his + infirmity, tho' otherwise a person of most excellent parts, and a very + free bred gentleman."—Lady Fanshaw's <i>Memoirs</i>, pp. 72-3.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">A. B. R.</p> + + <p class="address">Belmont.</p> + + <p>As a tail-piece to the curious information communicated respecting + these strange creatures in Vol. i., pp. 117. 169. 254. 340., Vol. viii., + pp. 124. 223., may be added an advertisement, extracted from the monthly + compendium annexed to <i>La Belle Assemblée</i>, or Bell's <i>Court and + Fashionable Magazine</i>, for June, 1807, in the following terms:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Wonderful natural curiosity, called the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or + Tree bearing Geese, taken up at sea, on the 12th of January, 1807, by + Captain Bytheway, and was more than twenty men could raise out of the + water, which may be seen at the Exhibition Rooms, Spring Gardens, from + ten o'clock in the morning till ten at night, every day. Admission, one + shilling; children half-price.</p> + + <p>"The Barnacles which form the present Exhibition, possess a neck + upwards of two feet in length, resembling the windpipe of a chicken; each + shell contains five pieces, and notwithstanding the many thousands which + hang to eight inches of the tree, part of the fowl may be seen from each + shell. Sir Robert Moxay, in the Wonders of Nature and Art, speaking of + this singularly curious production, says, in every shell he opened he + found a perfect sea-fowl, with a bill like that of a goose, feet like + those of water-fowl, and the feathers all plainly formed.</p> + + <p>"The above wonderful and almost indescribable curiosity, is the only + exhibition of the kind in the world."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">μ</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 301 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page301"></a>{301}</span></p> + +<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>Precision in Photographic Processes.</i>—I have for a long + period observed, and been much annoyed at the circumstance, that many of + your photographic correspondents are very remiss when they favour you + with recipes for certain processes, in not stating the specific gravity + of the articles used; also, in giving the quantities, in not stating if + it is by weight or measure.</p> + + <p>To illustrate my meaning more fully, I will refer to Vol. viii., p. + 252., where a correspondent, in his albumen process, adds "chloride of + barium, 7ĵ dr." Now, as this article is prepared and sold both in + crystals and in a liquid state, it would be desirable to know which of + the two is meant before his disciples run the risk of spoiling their + paper and losing their time.</p> + + <p>How easy would it be to prefix the letter <i>f</i> where fluid oz., + dr., or other quantity is meant.</p> + + <p>Trusting that this hint may in future induce your correspondents to be + as explicit as possible on all points, believe me to be an</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Amateur Photographer</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Tent for Collodion.</i>—As I have frequently benefited from + the hints of your correspondents, I in my turn hasten to communicate a + very simple plan I have contrived for a portable tent for the collodion + process, in the hope it may be found to answer with others as well as it + has done with me: it is as follows.</p> + + <p>Round the legs of my camera stand (a tripod one) I have made a + covering for two of the sides, of a double lining of glazed yellow + calico, with a few loops at the foot to stake to the ground; the third + side is made of thick dark cloth, much wider and larger than to cover the + side, which is fastened at one leg of the stand to the calico. The other + side is provided with loops to fasten to corresponding buttons on the + other leg, and by bending on my knees I can easily pull the dark cloth + over my head and back, fasten the loops to the buttons, and then I can + perfectly perform any manipulation required, without the risk of any ray + of white light entering; and certainly nothing can be more + <i>portable</i>.</p> + + <p>The simplicity of the thing makes any farther description of it + unnecessary, to say nothing of your valuable space.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Jan</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Mr. Sisson's Developing Solution.</i>—The <span + class="sc">Rev. Mr. Sisson</span>, in a letter I received from him a few + days ago, stated that he had been trying, at the recommendation of a + gentleman who had written to him upon the subject, a stronger developing + solution than that the formula for which he published some time back in + your pages, and that it gave splendid positive pictures with very short + exposure in the camera.</p> + + <p>Since I received his letter I have been able to corroborate his + testimony in favour of the stronger solution, and have much pleasure in + sending you the formula for the benefit of your readers. It is this: 1½ + drachms of protosulphate of iron in five ounces of water, 1 drachm of + nitrate of lead, letting it settle for some hours; pour off the clear + liquid, and then add to it 2 drachms of acetic acid.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Leachman</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">20. Compton Terrace, Islington.</p> + + <p><i>Mr. Stewart's Pantograph.</i>—Will some of your photographic + readers, who may know the proper size of <span class="sc">Mr. + Stewart's</span> pantograph, give a detailed description of it? We should + have focal length of lens, size of box, and the length of the sliding, + parts of it. Cannot the lens be made fast in the middle of the box, + provided the frames can be adjusted for different-sized pictures?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">R. Elliott</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>George Browne of Shefford</i> (Vol. viii., p. 243.).—I + observe that in your interesting publication you have inserted the Query + which I sent you long since. A somewhat similar Query of mine has already + appeared, and been answered by your correspondents H. C. C. and <span + class="sc">T. Hughes</span>; the latter stating that my particulars are + not strictly correct, inasmuch as the individual styled by me as "Sir + George Browne, <i>Bart.</i>," was in reality simple "George Browne, + <i>Esq.</i>" I admit this error; but if I was wrong, <span class="sc">Mr. + Hughes</span> was so too, for George Browne's wife was Eleanor, and + <i>not</i> Elizabeth, Blount, as appears by his affidavit in the State + Paper Office, wherein he deposes that he "had by <i>Ellinor</i>, his late + wife, deceased daughter of Sir Richard Blount, eight sons, namely, + George, Richard, Anthony, John, William, Henry, Francis, and Robert, and + seven daughters."</p> + + <p>The sons are thus disposed of:</p> + + <p>1. George, created K. B. at the coronation of Charles II.; married + Elizabeth Englefield; had issue two daughters; died 1678.</p> + + <p>2. Richard, a captain in the king's army, 1649, and was dead in + 1650.</p> + + <p>3. Anthony, who was "preferred to the trade of a M<i>a</i>rchant," + 1650.</p> + + <p>4. John, a page to Prince Thomas, uncle to the Duke of Savoy; created + Bart. 1665; married Mrs. Bradley; had issue.</p> + + <p>5. William, had a "reversion of a copyhold in Shefford."</p> + + <p>6. Henry, died unmarried, 1668; buried at Shefford.</p> + + <p>7. Francis, nine years old in 1651; and</p> + + <p>8. Robert, four years old in 1651.</p> + + <p>In that year (1651) Henry, Francis, and Robert were living with their + guardian, Mr. <!-- Page 302 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page302"></a>{302}</span>Libb, of Hardwick, Oxon; and soon + afterwards we find them placed under the care of a clergyman at + Appleshaw. But here we seem to lose sight of them altogether.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Hughes</span> says that the only sons who married + were George, the heir, and John, the younger brother; but we have no + evidence of this; and as it is probable that some of the others, namely, + Richard, Anthony, William, Francis, and Robert, married, I wish to + procure proof either that they did or did not. If any of these married, I + wish to know which of them, to whom, and when and where.</p> + + <p>Perhaps some of your correspondents can tell me where Richard, + Anthony, and William resided, and what became of Francis and Robert after + they had left their tutor, the minister of Appleshaw.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Newburiensis</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Wheale</i> (Vol. vi., p. 579.; Vol. vii., p. 96.).—Since this + word is once more brought forward in "N. & Q." (Vol. viii., p. 208.), + I will answer the Query respecting it. I was prepared to do so shortly + after it first appeared, but I had reason to expect a reply from one more + conversant with such archaisms. If the Querist, or either respondent, had + examined the context, he could not have failed to discover a clue to the + meaning, as the words "gall of dragons" instead of "wine," and "wheale" + instead of "milk," are evidently translations of sound expressions in the + preface of Pope Sixtus (or Xystus) V., to his edition of the Vulgate. The + words there are "fel draconum pro vino, pro lacte sanies obtruderetur." + Wheale more commonly signified, in later times, a pustule or boil; but it + is from the Ang.-Sax. <i>hwele</i>, putrefaction. The bad taste of such + language is too manifest to require farther comment.</p> + + <p>If I were disposed to conclude with a Query, I might ask where Q. + found that <i>wheale</i> ever meant <i>whey</i>?</p> + + <p class="author">W. S. W.</p> + + <p class="address">Middle Temple.</p> + + <p><i>Sir Arthur Aston</i> (Vol. viii., p. 126.).—He was appointed + Governor of Reading, November 29, 1642; that his relative, Geo. + Tattershall, Esq., was of Stapleford, Wilts, and only purchased the + estate, West Court in Finchampstead, which went, on the marriage of his + daughter, to the Hon. Chas. Howard, fourth son of the Earl of Arundel, + and was sold by him.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Reader</span>.</p> + + <p><i>"A Mockery," &c.</i> (Vol. viii., p. 244).—Thomas Lord + Denman is the author of the phrase in question. That noble lord, in + giving his judgment in the case of O'Connell and others against the + Queen, in the House of Lords, September 4, 1844, thus alluded to the + judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, overruling the + challenge by the traversers to the array, on account of the fraudulent + omission of fifty-nine names from the list of jurors of the county of the + city of Dublin:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"If it is possible that such a practice as that which has taken place + in the present instance should be allowed to pass without a remedy (and + no other remedy has been suggested), trial by jury itself, instead of + being a security to persons who are accused, will be <i>a delusion, a + mockery, and a snare</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>See Clark and Finnelly's <i>Reports of Cases in the House of + Lords</i>, vol. xi. p. 351.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. H. Cooper</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Cambridge.</p> + + <p><i>Norman of Winster</i> (Vol. viii., p. 126).—I do not know if + W. is aware that there was a family of Norman who was possessed of a + share of the manor of Beeley, in the parish of Ashford, Derbyshire, which + came from the Savilles, the said manor having been purchased by Wm. + Saville, Esq., 1687.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Reader</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Arms of the See of York</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 34. 111. + 233.).—Thoroton has a curious note on this subject in his + <i>History of Nottinghamshire</i> (South Muskham, in the east window of + the chancel), from which it would appear that neither Thoroton himself, + nor his after-editor Thoresby, could be aware of the change that had + taken place. The note, however, may help to complete the <i>catena</i> of + those incumbents of the see of York who (prior to Cardinal Wolsey) bore + the same arms as the see of Canterbury:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"There are the arms of the see of <i>Canterbury</i>, impaling <i>Arg. + three boars' heads erased and erected sable</i>, Booth, I doubt mistaken + for the arms of <i>York</i>, as they are with Archbishop Lee's again in + the same window; and in the hall window at <i>Newstede</i> the see of + <i>Canterbury</i> impales <i>Savage</i>, who was Archbishop of + <i>York</i> also, but not of <i>Canterbury</i> that I know + of."—Vol. iii. p. 152., ed. Notts, 1796.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Can any of your antiquarian contributors say why the sees of + Canterbury and York bore originally the same arms? Had it any relation to + the struggle for precedence carried on for so many years between the two + sees?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom</span>.</p> + + <p>Mr. Waller, in his volume on <i>Monumental Brasses</i>, in describing + that of William de Grenfeld, Archbishop of York, says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The arms of the two archiepiscopal sees were formerly the same, and + continued to be so till the Reformation, when the pall surmounting a + crozier was retained by Canterbury, and the cross keys and tiara + (emblematic of St. Peter, to whom the minster is dedicated), which until + then had been used only for the church of York, were adopted as the + armorial bearings of the see."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>To the word "tiara" he appends a note:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Or rather at this period a regal crown, the tiara having been + superseded in the reign of Henry VIII."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 303 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page303"></a>{303}</span></p> + + <p>He gives no authority for the statement, but the note appears + contradictory, and implies two changes in the first to the cross-keys and + tiara, which may corroborate the notion of its having been adopted by + Cardinal Wolsey; secondly, the substitution of the crown for the tiara. + Can this be proved?</p> + + <p class="author">F. H.</p> + + <p><i>Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 270.).—It is probable these MSS. are still at the family seat of + the Wilbrahams, Delamere Lodge, Northwitch. When Ormerod published his + <i>History of Cheshire</i>, in 1819, they were in the custody of the + family. He says (vol. iii. p. 232.):</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In the possession of the family is a curious series of journals + commenced by Richard Wilbraham of Nantwich, who died in 1612, and + continued regularly to the time of his great-great-grandson, who died in + 1732. As a genealogical document, such a memorial is invaluable; and it + contains many curious incidental notices of passing events, and of minute + particulars relating to the town of Nantwich, of whose rights the + Wilbrahams of Townsend were the never-failing and active guardians."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Yeowell</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Pierrepont</i> (Vol. vii., p. 606.).—A descendant thanks + C. J. The information wanted is parentage and descent of John Pierrepont + of Wadworth, who in a family mem. by his great-great-granddaughter is + called "Uncle to Evelyn, Earl of P." Any information respecting John + Pierrepont or his descendants through Margaret Stevens will much + oblige.</p> + + <p class="author">A. F. B.</p> + + <p class="address">Diss.</p> + + <p><i>Passage in Bacon</i> (Vol. viii., p. 141.).—In the Notes on + Bacon's Essay II. "On Death," there appears the following:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In the passage of Juvenal, the words are 'Qui spatium vitĉ,' and not + 'Qui finem vitĉ,' as quoted by Lord Bacon. Length of days is meant."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>His lordship's memory and <i>ear</i> too certainly misled him with + respect to the <i>wording</i>, but he has correctly given us the + <i>sense</i>. Juvenal has been arguing (l. iv. Sat. x.) on the vanity of + earthly blessings, so called, in quite a philosophic way; it is hardly + possible to suppose him closing his sermon with—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Fortem posce animum, mortis terrore carentem,</p> + <p>Qui spatium vitĉ extremum inter munera ponat</p> + <p>Naturĉ, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,</p> + <p>Nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil, et potiores</p> + <p>Herculis ĉrumnas credat, sĉvosque labores,</p> + <p>Et Venere, et cœnis, et plume Sardanapali."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>if by <i>spatium</i> he meant "length;" but how apt and beautiful in + Lord Bacon's sense! A note on the passage in the Var. Ed. of 1684 has + "Qui sciat <i>mortem</i> munus aliquod naturĉ esse."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Emmanuel Cantab</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral</i> (Vol. viii., + p. 215.).—In consequence of the very curious Notes communicated by + <span class="sc">H. Thos. Wake</span>, I would beg to draw that + gentleman's attention to the very important MS. collections of Bp. White + Kennet on the subject of this cathedral in the Lansd. MSS., British + Museum, to which I shall be happy to give him the references in a private + letter, if he will favour me with his address.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. G. Ballard</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Lord North</i> (Vol. vii., p. 207).—I feel much obliged to + your correspondent C. for his courtesy in replying to my inquiry + concerning this nobleman. His remembrance of the personal appearance of + George III., and his remarks on the subject, are in my opinion + conclusive; but the appearance of the statement in the <i>Life of + Goldsmith</i> was such as to provoke inquiry. May I ask our correspondent + C. (who appears to be acquainted with the North genealogy) whether a + sister of the premier North, by the some mother, was not alive some years + after the year 1734? Collins records the birth of an infant daughter, but + the fact is overlooked in modern peerages.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Observer</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Land of Green Ginger</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 34. 160. 227.).—Mr. + Frost, in his <i>History</i>, p. 71., &c., has shown many instances + of alteration in the names of streets in Hull from the names of persons, + as from Aldegate to Scale Lane, from Schayl, a Dutchman; and <span + class="sc">Mr. Richardson</span> has made it most probable that the + designation "Land of Green Ginger" took place betwixt 1640 and 1735. It + has occurred to me, that a family of the Dutch name of Lindegreen (green + lime-trees) resided at Hull within the last fifty years or more. Now the + "junior" of this name would be called in Dutch "Lindegroen jonger," which + may have originated the corruption "Land o' green ginger." This + conjecture would amount to solution of the question, if the Lindegreens + had about 150 years ago any property or occupation in this lane. The + Dutch had necessarily much intercourse with Hull: one of their imports + was the lamprey, chiefly as bait for turbot, cod, &c. obtained in the + Ouse near the mouth of the Derwent; which fish was conveyed in boats in + Ouse Water, and was kept alive and lively by means of poles made to + revolve in these floating fish-ponds, as I was informed by an alderman + prior to the reform of that ancient borough. But lamprey has now either + migrated, or been exterminated by clearing the Ouse of stones<a + name="footnotetag5" href="#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a>, or by the + excessive cupidity of the fisherman or gastronomer.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. J. Buckton</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a + href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a> + <p>The Petromyzon by attaching itself to a stone forms a drill, by which + it furrows the shoal for the deposit of its spawn.</p> + +</div> +<p><!-- Page 304 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page304"></a>{304}</span></p> + + <p><i>Sheer, and Shear Hulk</i> (Vol. vii., p. 126.)—A <i>sheer</i> + hulk is a mere hulk, simply the hull of a vessel unfurnished with masts + and rigging. A <i>shear</i> hulk, on the contrary, is the hull of a + vessel fitted with <i>shears</i> (so termed from their resemblance to the + blades of a pair of shears when opened), for the purpose of masting and + dismasting other vessels.</p> + + <p>The use of the word <i>buckle</i>, in the signification of bend, is + exceedingly common both among seamen and builders. For its use among the + former I can vouch; and among the latter, see the evidence at the + coroner's inquest on the late melancholy and mysterious accident at the + Crystal Palace.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Pinkerton</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Ham.</p> + + <p><i>Serpent with a Human Head</i> (Vol. iv., p. 191.).—The + following passage from Gervasius Tilberiensis (<i>Otia Imperialia</i>, + lib. i sect. 15.) shows that the idea of the serpent which tempted Eve, + having a woman's head, was current in the time of Bede. I having not had + an opportunity of finding whereabouts in Bede's writings the passage + quoted by Gervasius occurs:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Nec erit omittendum, quod ait Beda, loquens de serpente qui Evam + seduxit: 'Elegit enim diabolus quoddam genus serpentis fœmineum + vultum habentis, quia similes similibus applaudunt, et movit ad loquendum + linguam ejus."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">C. W. G.</p> + + <p><i>"When the maggot bites"</i> (Vol. viii., p 244.).—An <span + class="sc">Anon</span> correspondent asks for a note to explain the + origin of the saying that thing done on the spur of the moment is done + "when the maggot bites." Perhaps the best explanation is that afforded in + the following passage from Swift's <i>Discourse on the Mechanical + Operation of the Spirit</i>:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"It is the opinion of choice <i>virtuosi</i> that the brain is only a + crowd of little animals with teeth and claws extremely sharp, and which + cling together in the contexture we behold, like the picture of Hobbes's + Leviathan; or like bees in perpendicular swarm on a tree; or like a + carrion corrupted into vermin, still preserving the shape and figure of + the mother animal: that all invention is formed by the morsure of two or + more of these animals upon certain capillary nerves which proceed from + thence, whereof three branches spring into the tongue and two into the + right hand. They hold also that these animals are of a constitution + extremely cold: that their food is the air we attract, their excrement + phlegm. And that what we vulgarly call rheums, and colds, and + distillations, is nothing else but an epidemical looseness to which that + little commonwealth is very subject from the climate it lies under. + Farther, that nothing less than a violent heat can disentangle these + creatures from their hamated station in life; or give them vigour and + humour, to imprint the marks of their little teeth. That if the morsure + be hexagonal, it produces poetry; the circular gives eloquence. If the + bite hath been conical, the person whose nerve is so affected shall be + disposed to write upon politics; and so of the rest."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Emerson Tennent</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Definition of a Proverb</i> (Vol. viii., p. 242.).—The + proverb, "Wit of one man, the wisdom of many," has been attributed to + Lord John Russell: I think in a recent number of the <i>Quarterly + Review</i>. The foundation was laid most probably by Bacon:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their + proverbs."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>It may not be perhaps generally known to your readers, that in a small + volume, called <i>Origines de la Lengua Espanola, &c., por Don + Gregorio Mayans y Siscar, Bibliothecario del Rei nuestro Señor</i>, en + Madrid, Año 1737, will be found a numerous collection of Spanish + proverbs. A MS. note in my copy has a note, stating that the MS. made for + Mayans, from the original, in the national library at Madrid, is now in + the British Museum, Additional MSS., No. 9939.</p> + + <p>The work is divided into dialogues; and in the copy in question are + some remarks by a Spanish gentleman, I fear too long for your pages: but + I send you an English version by a friend, of one of the couplets in the + dialogues, "Diez marcos tengo de oro:"</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Ten marks of gold for the telling,</p> + <p>And of silver I have nine score,</p> + <p>Good houses are mine to dwell in,</p> + <p>And I have a rent-roll more:</p> + <p>My line and lineage please me:</p> + <p>Ten squires to come at my call,</p> + <p>And no lord who flatters or fees me,</p> + <p>Which pleases me most of them all."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Martin</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Woburn Abbey.</p> + + <p><i>Gilbert White of Selborne</i> (Vol. viii., p. 244.).—Oriel + College, of which Gilbert White was for more than fifty years a Fellow, + some years since offered to have a portrait of him painted for their + hall. An inquiry was then made of all the members of his family; but no + portrait of any description could be found. I have heard my father say + that Gilbert White was much pressed by his brother Thomas (my + grandfather) to have his portrait painted, and that he talked of it; but + it was never done.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. Holt White</span>.</p> + + <p><i>"A Tub to the Whale"</i> (Vol. viii., p. 220.).—In the + Appendix B. to Sir James Macintosh's <i>Life of Sir Thomas More</i> is + the following passage:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The learned Mr. Douce has informed a friend of mine, that in + Sebastian Munster's <i>Cosmography</i> there is a cut of a ship, to which + a whale was coming too close for her safety; and of the sailors throwing + a tub <!-- Page 305 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page305"></a>{305}</span>to the whale, evidently to play with. The + practice of throwing a tub or barrel to a large fish, to divert the + animal from gambols dangerous to a vessel, is also mentioned in an old + prose translation of the <i>Ship of Fools</i>. These passages + satisfactorily explain the common phrase of throwing a tub to a + whale."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Sir James Macintosh conjectures that the phrase "the tale of a tub" + (which was familiarly known in Sir Thomas More's time) had reference to + the tub thrown to the whale.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. H. Cooper</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Cambridge.</p> + + <p><i>The Number Nine</i> (Vol. viii., p. 149.).—The property of + numbers enunciated and illustrated by <span class="sc">Mr. Lammens</span> + resolves itself into two.</p> + + <p>1. If from any number above nine be subtracted the number expressed by + writing the same digits backwards, the remainder is divisible by + nine.</p> + + <p>2. If the number nine measure a given number, it measures the sum of + its digits.</p> + + <p>As the latter is proved in most elementary books on Algebra, I confine + my proof to the former.</p> + + <p>Let the number in question be—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>a</i><sub>0</sub> + <i>a</i><sub>1</sub> . 10 + <i>a</i><sub>2</sub> . 10<sup>2</sup> + ... + <i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>-1</sub> . 10<sup><i>n</i>-1</sup> + <i>a</i><sub><i>n</i></sub> . <span class="correction" title="n printed as subscript in original.">10<sup><i>n</i></sup></span></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Then</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>a</i><sub><i>n</i></sub> + <i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>-1</sub> . 10 + <i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>-2</sub> . 10<sup>2</sup> + ... + <i>a</i><sub>1</sub> . 10<sup><i>n</i>-1</sup> + <i>a</i><sub>0</sub> . <span class="correction" title="n printed as subscript in original.">10<sup><i>n</i></sup></span></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>is "the same number written backwards." The difference is—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>(<i>a</i><sub><i>n</i></sub> - <i>a</i><sub>0</sub>)(10<sup><i>n</i></sup> - 1) + (<i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>-1</sub> - <i>a</i><sub>1</sub>)(10<sup><i>n</i>-2</sup> - 1) . 10 + ...</p> + <p class="i2">+ (<i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>/2+1</sub> - <i>a</i><sub><i>n</i>/2-1</sub>)(10<sup>2</sup>-1) . 10<sup><i>n</i>/2-1</sup> if <i>n</i> be even, but</p> + <p class="i2">+ (<i>a</i><sub>(<i>n</i>+1)/2</sub> - <i>a</i><sub>(<i>n</i>-1)/2</sub>)(10-1) . 10<sup>(n-1)/2</sup> if <i>n</i> be odd.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>And every term of this difference, as involving a factor of the form + (1 - 10<sup><i>n</i></sup>), is divisible by 9; and therefore the + difference is divisible by 9.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Mansfield Ingleby.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + + <p><i>The Willingham Boy.</i>—<span class="sc">Abredonensis</span> + will find full information on all the points he appears from your Notices + to Correspondents (Vol. viii., p. 66.) to have inquired after + in—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Prodigium Willinghamense, or Authentic Memoirs of the Life of a Boy + born at Willingham, near Cambridge, with some Reflections on his + Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius, and Knowledge, by Thos. + Dawkes, Surgeon."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">W. P.</p> + + <p><i>Unlucky Days</i> (Vol. vii., p. 232.).—The Latin verses + contained in the old Spanish breviary, adverted to by <span class="sc">W. + Pinkerton</span>, bear a close resemblance to those which are to be found + in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer. The latter form part of a + calendar which is supposed to have been written either during the reign + of John or Henry III. A similar calendar, with like verses, has been + printed by the Archĉological Society, Dublin. As the lines in the Red + Book vary in some respects from those which have appeared in "N. & + Q.," I have taken the liberty of inclosing a transcript of them.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<i>January.</i> Prima dies mensis, et septima truncat ut ensis.</p> + <p><i>February.</i> Quarta subit mortem, prosternit tertia fortem.</p> + <p><i>March.</i> Primus mandantem, dirumpit quarta bibentem.</p> + <p><i>April.</i> Denus et undenus, est mortis vulnere plenus.</p> + <p><i>May.</i> Tertius occidit, et septimus hora relidit.</p> + <p><i>June.</i> Denus pallescit, quindenus federa nescit.</p> + <p><i>July.</i> Terdecimus mactat, Julii denus labefactat.</p> + <p><i>August.</i> Prima necat fortem, perditque secunda choortem.</p> + <p><i>September.</i> Tertia Septembris, et denus fert mala membris.</p> + <p><i>October.</i> Tertia cum dena, clamat sit integra vena.</p> + <p><i>November.</i> Scorpius est quintus, et tertius est nece cinctus.</p> + <p><i>December.</i> Septimus exanguis, virosus denus ut anguis."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James F. Ferguson</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Dublin.</p> + + <p><i>Rhymes on Places</i> (Vol. vii. + <i>passim</i>.).—Midlothian:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Musselboro' was a boro',</p> + <p class="i1">Whan Edinboro' was nane;</p> + <p>An Musselboro' 'll be a boro',</p> + <p class="i1">Whan Edinboro's gane."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">W. T. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p> + + <p>Cambridgeshire folks say,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Hungry Hardwick,</p> + <p class="i1">Greedy Toft,</p> + <p>Hang-up Kingston,</p> + <p class="i1">Caldecott<a name="footnotetag6" href="#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a> naught."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6:</b><a + href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a> + <p>Pronounced <i>Cawcote</i>.</p> + +</div> + <p><i>Quotation Wanted</i> (Vol. vi., p. 421.).—See Byron's + <i>Dream</i>, stanza ii. v. 30.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i6hg3">"She was his life,</p> + <p>The ocean to the river of his thoughts."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.</span></p> + + <p><i>Lamech</i> (Vol. vii., p. 432.).—For "Lamech," see Mr. + Browne's excellent <i>Ordo Sĉclorum</i>, ch. vii. § 302., 1844—a + book deserving to be much more widely known.</p> + + <p class="author">S. Z. Z. S.</p> + + <p><i>Muggers</i> (Vol. viii., p. 34.).—The names <i>muggers</i> + and <i>potters</i>, betokening dealers in mugs and pots, are, in the + north of England, applied indiscriminately to hawkers of earthenware, + whether of gipsy blood or not. Indeed, the majority are evidently not + gipsies.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. D. Ridley</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><!-- Page 306 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page306"></a>{306}</span></p> + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.</h3> + + <p>We have received from Messrs. Williams and Norgate copies of the first + number of two new German periodicals, with which, when they know their + nature, some of our readers may desire better acquaintance. Our + antiquarian friends, for instance, may be glad to know, that the opening + number of one of these, the <i>Anzeige für Kunde des Deutschen Vorzeit, + Organ des Germanischen Museums</i> (which is to appear monthly), + contains, among other articles of antiquarian interest, notes on the + earliest known MS. of the Nuremburg Chronicle, and on an early MS. of the + Nibelungen; notice of an original Letter of Pirkheimer, relative to the + wars of Maximilian against the Swiss; and also of a remarkable, and + hitherto unknown, old copper-plate engraving on six sheets by an unknown + artist, apparently of the school of Martin Schon, illustrative of that + campaign; and an account of an early miscellaneous MS., in which is a + List of Masons' Marks. The second is one which will interest all lovers + of folk lore. It is edited by J. W. Wolf, and entitled <i>Zeitschrift für + Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde</i>, and numbers among its + contributors, W. Grimm, Nordnagel, Kuhn, and many other good men and + true, who have devoted their talents to the study of popular antiquities. + We hope shortly to find room for a specimen or two of the "Old World" + stories and customs which they have here recorded.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Books Received</span>.—<i>A Guide containing a + Short Historical Sketch of Lynton and Places adjacent in North Devon, + including Ilfracombe</i>, by T. H. Cooper: a well-timed guide to the most + picturesque portion of one of the most beautiful parts of North Devon, + pleasantly interlarded with scraps of folk lore and historical + anecdote.—In Bohn's <i>Standard Library</i>, we have a farther + issue of Miss Bremer's works, comprising <i>A Diary</i>; <i>The + H—— Family</i>; <i>Axel and Anna</i>, and other Tales: and + the second volume of Mr. Hickie's translation of <i>The Comedies of + Aristophanes</i> forms the issue for the present month of the same + publisher's <i>Classical Library</i>.—Mr. Darling proceeds with + great regularity in the publication of his <i>Cyclopœdia + Bibliographica</i>, of which we have received No. XII., which extends + from Bernard Lancy to Martin Madan.—<i>The Irish Quarterly + Review</i>, No. XI. for September, contains, among other articles of + general interest, such as those on <i>French Social Life and Fashion in + Poetry, and the Poets of Fashion</i>, a farther portion of the amusing + anecdotical paper, entitled <i>The Streets of Dublin</i>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">The Builder</span>, No. 520.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Oswalli Crollii Opera</span>. 12mo. Geneva, 1635.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Gaffarell's Unheard-of Curiosities</span>. Translate + by Chelmead. London, 12mo. 1650.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Beaumont's Psyche</span>. 2nd Edit. folio. Camb. + 1702.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">The Monthly Army List</span> from 1797 to 1800 + inclusive. Published by Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street. Square + 12mo.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Jer. Collier's Ecclesiastical History of + England</span>. Folio Edition. Vol II.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">London Labour and the London Poor.</span></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Proceedings of the London Geological + Society.</span></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico</span>. + 3 Vols. London. Vol. III.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mrs. Ellis's Social Distinctions</span>. Tallis's + Edition. Vols. II. and III. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">PAMPHLETS.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Junius Discovered</span>. By P. T. Published about + 1789.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Reasons for Rejecting the Evidence of Mr. + Almon</span>, &c. 1807.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Another Guess at Junius</span>. Hookham. 1809.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">The Author of Junius Discovered</span>. Longmans. + 1821.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">The Claims of Sir P. Francis refuted</span>. + Longmans. 1822.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Who was Junius?</span> Glynn. 1837.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Some New Facts</span>, &c., by Sir F. Dwarris. + 1850.</p> + + <p>*** <i>Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to + send their names.</i></p> + + <p>*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, <i>carriage + free</i>, to be sent to <span class="sc">Mr. Bell</span>, Publisher of + "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Notices to Correspondents.</h2> + + <p>G. T. (Reading). <i>We are happy to be able to assure our + Correspondent that that venerable antiquary</i> <span class="sc">John + Britton</span> <i>is still among us, and, when we last saw him, as hale + as his best friends could wish.</i></p> + + <p>H. H. R. <i>will find in our earlier volumes several Notes on the + subject of his Query.</i></p> + + <p>W. M. <i>The line</i>—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>is from</i> lib. v. 301. <i>of the</i> Alexandreis <i>of Philip + Gualtier: and not</i> Tempora, <i>but</i></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>is from a poem by Matthew Borbonius in the</i> Delitiĉ Poetarum + Germanorum, vol. i. p. 683.</p> + + <p>H. C. C. <i>Will this Correspondent favour us with his address in + exchange for that of</i> <span class="sc">Newbury</span>, <i>which we + have, and who wishes to correspond with him?</i></p> + + <p>J. O. <i>May we insert the interesting Reply sent by this + Correspondent, or is it his wish that we should forward it?</i></p> + + <p>W. S. F. <i>will find an interesting article on the loss of Gray's + original MS. from La Grande Chartreuse, in our</i> First Volume, p. + 416.</p> + + <p>J. M. G. <i>Is not the translation of</i> The Ode, <i>spoken of in the + article alluded to as being by James Hay Beattie, the one respecting + which our Querist inquires?</i></p> + + <p>F. M. (A Maltese). 1. <i>We should recommend our Correspondent to make + his gun cotton with the nitrate of potash and sulphuric acid, as + originally recommended in</i> "N. & Q.," <i>taking care that they are + both thoroughly incorporated before the addition of the cotton. Much + vexation often occurs in consequence of the various strengths of nitric + acid. But the gun cotton can now be procured at some of the photographic + houses quite as reasonably as it can be prepared.</i> 2. <i>Acetic acid + is added to the pyrogallic acid to prevent its too rapid decomposition, + and to facilitate the more easy flowing of the fluid over the plate. But + the more acetic acid is used, the more slow will be the development.</i> + 3. <i>Is not the cracking of the albumen the result of the climate of + Malta?</i></p> + + <p>F. (Manchester). <i>We do not think that you can do better than adopt + strictly the mode of obtaining positives recommended by</i> <span + class="sc">Mr. Pollock</span>, <i>and which we printed some time since; + or that pursued by</i> <span class="sc">Dr. Diamond</span>, <i>which we + have in type, but have been compelled to postpone until next + week.</i></p> + + <p>A. B. C. <i>Having ourselves practised the</i> Paper Process, + <i>according to the directions given in our first Number for the present + year (with the correction of using the gallic acid, which, as stated in a + subsequent Number, was by accident omitted), we would advise our + Correspondent to adhere </i>strictly<i> to those rules rather than any + other with which we have since become acquainted. We are of opinion that + sufficient care is very rarely used in the preparation of the iodized + paper, and upon which all future success must depend.</i></p> + + <p><i>A few complete sets of</i> "<span class="sc">Notes and + Queries</span>," Vols. i. <i>to</i> vii., <i>price Three Guineas and a + Half, may now be had; for which early application is desirable.</i></p> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" <i>is published at noon on + Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that + night's parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the + Saturday.</i></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><!-- Page 307 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page307"></a>{307}</span></p> + + <p>INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, NERVOUSNESS, &c.—BARRY, DU BARRY + & CO.'S HEALTH-RESTORING FOOD for INVALIDS and INFANTS.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + + <p>THE REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, the only natural, pleasant, and effectual + remedy (without medicine, purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves + fifty times its cost in other remedies) for nervous, stomachic, + intestinal, liver and bilious complaints, however deeply rooted, + dyspepsia (indigestion), habitual constipation, diarrhœa, acidity, + heartburn, flatulency, oppression, distension, palpitation, eruption of + the skin, rheumatism, gout, dropsy, sickness at the stomach during + pregnancy, at sea, and under all other circumstances, debility in the + aged as well as infants, fits, spasms, cramps, paralysis, &c.</p> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>A few out of 50,000 Cures:—</i></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Cure, No. 71, of dyspepsia; from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de + Decies:—"I have derived considerable benefits from your Revalenta + Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to + authorise the publication of these lines.—<span class="sc">Stuart + de Decies.</span>"</p> + +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Cure, No. 49,832:—"Fifty years' indescribable agony from + dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, + sickness at the stomach, and vomitings have been removed by Du Barry's + excellent food.—<span class="sc">Maria Jolly</span>, Wortham Ling, + near Diss, Norfolk."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Cure, No. 180:—"Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, + indigestion, and debility, from which I had suffered great misery, and + which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by + Du Barry's food in a very short time.—<span class="sc">W. R. + Reeves</span>, Pool Anthony, Tiverton."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Cure, No. 4,208:—"Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, + with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the + advice of many, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's delicious + food in a very short time. I shall be happy to answer any + inquiries.—<span class="sc">Rev. John W. Flavell</span>, Ridlington + Rectory, Norfolk."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Dr. Wurzer's Testimonial.</i></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p class="author">"Bonn, July 19. 1852.</p> + + <p>"This light and pleasant Farina is one of the most excellent, + nourishing, and restorative remedies, and supersedes, in many cases, all + kinds of medicines. It is particularly useful in confined habit of body, + as also diarrhœa, bowel complaints, affections of the kidneys and + bladder, such as stone or gravel; inflammatory irritation and cramp of + the urethra, cramp of the kidneys and bladder, strictures, and + hemorrhoids. This really invaluable remedy is employed with the most + satisfactory result, not only in bronchial and pulmonary complaints, + where irritation and pain are to be removed, but also in pulmonary and + bronchial consumption, in which it counteracts effectually the + troublesome cough; and I am enabled with perfect truth to express the + conviction that Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica is adapted to the cure of + incipient hectic complaints and consumption.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">Dr. Rud Wurzer.</span><br /> +"Counsel of Medicine, and practical M.D. in Bonn."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>London Agents:—Fortnum, Mason & Co., 182. Piccadilly, + purveyors to Her Majesty the Queen; Hedges & Butler, 155. 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