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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 210, November 5, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27007] + +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> + +<p><!-- Page 429 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page429"></a>{429}</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. 210.</b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, November 5. 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>Lord Halifax and Mrs. Catherine Barton, by Professor De Morgan</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page429">429</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dr. Parr on Milton</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page433">433</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Parts of MSS., by John Macray</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page434">434</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>William Blake</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page435">435</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Folk Lore</span>:—Legends of the County + Clare—The Seven Whisperers</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page436">436</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Italian-English, German-English, and the Refugee Style, by + Philarète Chasles</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page436">436</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thos. Keightley, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page437">437</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes</span>:—Decomposed + Cloth—First and Last—Cucumber Time—MS. Sermons of + the Eighteenth Century—Boswell's "Johnson"—Stage + Coaches—Antecedents—The Letter X—A Crow-bar</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page438">438</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><span class="sc">Minor Queries</span>:—Bishop + Grehan—Doxology—Arrow-mark—Gabriel + Poyntz—Queen Elizabeth's and Queen Anne's Motto, "Semper + eadem"—Bees—Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher—"Homo + unius libri"—"Now the fierce bear," &c.—Prejudice + against Holy Confirmation—Epigram on MacAdam—Jane + Scrimshaw—The Word "Quadrille"—The Hungarians in + Paules—Ferns Wanted—Craton the Philosopher—The + Solar Annual Eclipse in the Year 1263—D'Israeli: how + spelt?—Richard Oswald—Cromwell's Descendants—Letter + of Archbishop Curwen to Archbishop Parker</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page440">440</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with Answers</span>:—Margaret + Patten—Etymology of "Coin"—Inscription at + Aylesbury—"Guardian Angels, now protect me," + &c.—K. C. B.'s—Danish and Swedish + Ballads—Etymology of "Conger"—"Si vis me flere, dolendum + est primum tibi"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page442">442</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>Medal and Relic of Mary Queen of Scots, by John Evans, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page444">444</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Early Use of Tin.—Derivation of the Name of Britain</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page445">445</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Pictorial Editions of the Book of Common Prayer</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page446">446</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Yew-Trees in Churchyards, by Fras. Crossley, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page447">447</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Osborn Family</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page448">448</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson and J. L. Sisson</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page448">448</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page448">448</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>The Myrtle Bee, by C. Brown</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page450">450</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Captain John Davis, by Bolton Corney</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page450">450</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Photographic Correspondence</span>:—Clouds + in Photographs—"The Stereoscope considered in relation to the + Philosophy of Binocular Vision"—Muller's + Processes—Positives on Glass</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page451">451</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies to Minor Queries</span>:—Peculiar + Ornament in Crosthwaite Church—Nursery Rhymes—Milton's + Widow—Watch-paper Inscriptions—Poetical Tavern + Signs—Parish Clerks' Company—"Elijah's + Mantle"—Histories of Literature—Birthplace of General + Monk—Books chained to Desks in Churches, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page452">452</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="#page455">455</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="#page456">456</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notices to Correspondents</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page456">456</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Advertisements</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page456">456</a></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>LORD HALIFAX AND MRS. CATHERINE BARTON.</h3> + + <p>Those who have written on the life of Newton have touched with the + utmost reserve upon the connexion which existed between his half-niece + Catherine Barton, and his friend Charles Montague, who died Earl of + Halifax. They seem as if they were afraid that, by going fairly into the + matter, they should find something they would rather not tell. The + consequence is, that when a writer at home or abroad, Voltaire or + another, hints with a sneer that a pretty niece had more to do with + Newton's appointment to the Mint than the theory of gravitation, those + who would like to know as much as can be known of the whole truth find + nothing in any attainable biography except either total silence or a very + awkward and hesitating account of half something.</p> + + <p>On looking again into the matter, the juxtaposition of all the + circumstances induced in my mind a strong suspicion that Mrs. C. Barton + was <i>privately married</i> to Lord Halifax, probably before his + elevation to the peerage, and that the marriage was no very great secret + among their friends. As yet I can but say that the hypothesis of a + private marriage is, to me, the most probable of those among which a + choice must be made: farther information may be obtained by publication + of the case in "N. & Q.," the most appropriate place of deposit for + the provisional result of unfinished inquiries.</p> + + <p>Charles Montague (born April, 1661, died May 19, 1715) made + acquaintance with Newton when both were at Trinity College in 1680 and + 1681. Newton was nineteen years older than Montague, and had been twelve + years Lucasian professor. At the beginning of their friendship, the + Lucasian professor must be called the patron of the young undergraduate, + who was looking for a fellowship with the intention of taking orders, a + design which he did not find sufficient encouragement to abandon until + after he had sat in the Convention. By 1690, the rising politician had + become the patron of the author of the <i>Principia</i>, who in that <!-- + Page 430 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page430"></a>{430}</span>year + or the next became an aspirant for public employment. The friendship of + Newton and Montague lasted until the death of the latter, interrupted + only by a coolness (on Newton's side at least) in 1691, arising out of a + suspicion in Newton's mind that Montague was not sincere in his + intentions towards his friend.</p> + + <p>Catherine Barton (born 1680, died 1739) was the daughter of Robert + Barton and Newton's half-sister, Hannah Smith (Baily's <i>Flamsteed, + Supplement</i>, p. 750.). Lieut.-Col. Barton, usually called her husband, + was her brother. The pedigrees published by Turnor recognise this fact: + Swift distinctly states it, and Rigaud proves it in various ways in + letters to Baily, which lately passed through my hands on their way to + the Observatory at Greenwich. The mistake ought never to have been made, + for <i>Mrs. C. Barton</i> (as she was usually denominated) must, + according to usage, have been reputed single so long as her Christian + name was introduced.</p> + + <p>Mrs. C. Barton married Mr. Conduitt, then or afterwards Newton's + assistant, and his successor: this marriage probably took place in 1718, + the year in which Newton introduced Conduitt into the Royal Society. + Among the Turnor memorials of Newton, now in possession of the Royal + Society, is a watch leaving the inscription "Mrs. C. Conduitt to Sir + Isaac Newton, January, 1708." This date cannot be correct, for Swift in + 1710, Halifax in 1712, Flamsteed in 1715, and Monmort in 1716, call her + Barton: all but Flamsteed were intimate acquaintances. Any one who looks + at the inscription will see that it is not as old as the watch: it is + neither ornamented nor placed in a shield or other envelope, while the + case is beautifully chased, and has an elaborate design, representing + Fame and Britannia examining the portrait of Newton. Moreover, "Mrs. + Conduitt" would never have described herself as "Mrs. C. Conduitt."</p> + + <p>Montague was not, so far as usual accounts state, what even in our day + would be called a libertine. He married the Countess of Manchester (the + widow of a relative) before his entry into public life, and was deeply + occupied in party politics and fiscal administration. I am told that + Davenant impugns his morals: this may be the exception which proves the + rule; some of the lampoons directed against the Whig minister are + preserved, and these do not attack his private character in the matter + under allusion, so far as I can learn.</p> + + <p>All the cotemporary evidence yet adduced as to the relation between + Lord Halifax and Catherine Barton, is contained in one sentence in the + <i>Life</i> of the former, two codicils of his will, and one allusion of + Flamsteed's. The <i>Life</i>, with the will attached, was appended to two + different publications of the works of Halifax, in 1715 and 1716. The + passage from the <i>Life</i> is as follows (p. 195.):</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I am likewise to account for another Omission in the Course of this + History, which is that of the Death of the Lord <i>Halifax's</i> Lady; + upon whose Decease his Lordship took a Resolution of living single thence + forward, and cast his Eye upon the Widow of one Colonel <i>Barton</i>, + and Neice to the famous Sir <i>Isaac Newton</i>, to be Super-intendent of + his domestick Affairs. But as this Lady was young, beautiful, and gay, so + those that were given to censure, pass'd a Judgment upon her which she no + Ways merited, since she was a Woman of strict Honour and Virtue; and tho' + she might be agreeable to his Lordship in every Particular, that noble + Peer's Complaisance to her, proceeded wholly from the great Esteem he had + for her Wit and most exquisite Understanding, as will appear from what + relates to her in his Will at the Close of these Memoirs."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This sentence is an insertion (the <i>first</i> omission is as far + back as p. 64.). It speaks of Mrs. C. Barton as if she were dead: and it + is worthy of note that this lady, who lived to communicate to Fontenelle + materials for his <i>éloge</i> of Newton, had excellent opportunity, had + it pleased her, to have contradicted or varied any part of the account + given by Halifax's biographer; and this without appearing. The actual + communication made to Fontenelle by her husband, Mr. Conduitt, is in + existence, and was printed by Mr. Turnor; it contains no allusion to the + subject. Farther, it appears by the biographer's account that she had + passed as a widow, which is not to be wondered at: the <i>Colonel</i> + Barton who was the son of circumstances, must have been created before + her brother (who died in 1711) attained such rank, perhaps before he + entered the army at all.</p> + + <p>The will gives very different evidence from that for which it is + subpœnaed: it is dated April 10, 1706. In the first codicil (dated + April 12, 1706) Lord Halifax leaves Mrs. Barton all his jewels and + 3000<i>l.</i> "as a small token," he says, "of the great love and + affection I have long had for her." In a second codicil (dated February + 1, 1712) the first codicil is revoked, and the bequest is augmented to + 5000<i>l.</i>, the rangership, lodge, and household furniture of Bushey + Park, and the manor of Apscourt, for her life. These are given, says Lord + Halifax, "as a token of the sincere love, affection, and esteem, I have + long had for her person, and as a small recompense for the pleasure and + happiness I have had in her conversation." In this same codicil "Mrs. + Catherine Barton" is described as Newton's niece, and 100<i>l.</i> is + left to Newton "as a mark of the great honour and esteem I have for so + great a man." The concluding sentence of the codicil is as follows:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"And I strictly charge and command my executor to give all aid, help, + and assistance to her in possessing and enjoying what I have hereby given + her; and also <!-- Page 431 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page431"></a>{431}</span>in doing any act or acts necessary to + transfer her an annuity of two hundred pounds <i>per annum</i>, purchased + in Sir Isaac Newton's name, which I hold for her in trust, as appears by + a declaration of trust in that behalf."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This codicil immediately became the subject of remark, and the terms + of it seem to have been understood as they would be now. Flamsteed, + writing in July, 1715 (Halifax died in May), says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"If common fame be true, he died worth 150,000<i>l.</i>; out of which + he gave Mrs. Barton, Sir I. Newton's niece, for her <i>excellent + conversation</i> [the Italics are Baily's, the original, I suppose, + underlined], a curious house, 5000<i>l.</i> with lands, jewels, plate, + money, and household furniture, to the value of 20,000<i>l.</i> or + more."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I pay no attention to the statement that (<i>Biogr. Brit.</i>, + Montague, note BB.) Lord Halifax was disappointed in a second marriage. + It amounts only to this, that Lord Shaftsbury, having a certain lady in + his heart and in his eye, was afraid he had a rival, and described the + person talked of in terms which make it pretty certain that Halifax was + intended. But it by no means follows that because a certain person is + "talked of" for a lady, and a lover put in fear by the rumour, the person + is really a rival: and not even a biographer would have shown himself so + unfit for a novelist as to have drawn such a conclusion, unless he had + been biassed by the wish to show that Halifax was attached to another + than Mrs. Barton.</p> + + <p>It must of course be supposed that the introduction of Montague to + Newton's niece was a consequence of his acquaintance with Newton, and + took place in or near 1696, when Newton came to London, where his niece + soon began to reside with him. And since, in 1706, the connexion, + whatever it was, had been of long standing, we may infer that it had + probably commenced in 1700. The case is then as follows. Montague + received into his house, as "superintendent of his domestic affairs" + after the death of his wife, the niece of his old and revered friend + Newton, a conspicuous officer of the crown, a member of Parliament, and + otherwise one of the most famous men living. This niece had been partly + educated by Newton; she had lived in his house; we know of no other + protector that she could have had, in London; and the supposition that + she left any roof except Newton's to take shelter under that of Montague, + would be purely gratuitous. She was unmarried, beautiful, and gay; and + probably not so much as, certainly not much more then, twenty years old. + A handsome annuity was bought for her in Newton's name, and held in trust + by Halifax: if it had been bought <i>by Newton</i>, Conduitt would have + mentioned it in his list of the benefactions which Newton's relatives + received from him, especially after the publicity which it had obtained + from Halifax's will. That she did not tenant the housekeeper's room while + the friends of Halifax were round his table, may be inferred from the + epigrams, poor as they are, which were made in her honour as a celebrated + beauty and wit, in a collection of verses (reprinted in Dryden's + <i>Miscellanies</i>) on the best known toasts of the day. Halifax + bequeathed her a provision which might have suited his widow, in terms + which must have been intended to show that she had been either his wife + or his mistress; while in the same document he brought prominently + forward his respect for Newton, the fact of her being Newton's niece, and + the annuity which he had bought for her in Newton's name. An + uncontradicted paragraph in the life of Halifax, published immediately + after the will, and evidently not intended to bring forward any fact not + perfectly well known, records her residence in the house of that nobleman + and the consequent rumours concerning her character, affirms that she was + a virtuous woman, and refers to the will to prove it: though the will + denies it in the plainest English, on any supposition except that of a + private marriage. Finally, the lady married a respectable man after the + death of Lord Halifax, and lived with him in the house of her illustrious + uncle.</p> + + <p>That she was either the wife or the mistress of Halifax, I take to be + established; it is the natural conclusion from the facts above stated, + all made public during her life, all left uncontradicted by herself, by + her husband, by her daughter, by Lord Lymington her son-in-law, and by + the uncle who had stood to her in the place of a father. It is impossible + that Newton could have been ignorant that his niece was living in + Montague's house, enjoyed an annuity bought in his own name, and was + regarded by the world as the mistress of his friend and political patron. + The language of the codicil shows that, be the nature of the connexion + what it might, Halifax meant to tell the world that it might be + proclaimed in all its relation to the name of Newton. To those who + cannot, under all the circumstances, believe the connexion to have been + what is called platonic, the probability that there was a private + marriage is precisely the probability that Newton would not have + sanctioned the dishonour of his own niece: and even if the connexion were + only that of friendship, Newton must have sanctioned the appearance and + the forms of a dishonourable intimacy: the co-habitation, the settlement, + and the defiance of opinion. Now there is no reason to suppose of Newton + that he would be a party to either proceeding, which would not apply as + well to any man then alive: to Locke, for instance. Looking at the morals + of the day, we are by no means justified in throwing off at once, with + disgust, the bare idea of the possibility of a distinguished philosopher + consenting to an illicit intercourse between his friend and his niece: we + are bound, <!-- Page 432 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page432"></a>{432}</span>in discussing probabilities, to + distinguish 1850 from 1700. But, even putting out of view the purity of + Newton's private life, and of the lives of his most intimate friends, + there is that in the weaker part of his character which is of itself + almost conclusive. Right or wrong, Newton never faced opinion. As soon as + he found that publication involved opposition, from that time forward he + published only with the utmost reluctance, and under the strongest + persuasions; except when, as in the case of some of his theological + writings, he confided the manuscript to a friend, to be anonymously + published abroad. The <i>Principia</i> was extorted from him by the Royal + Society; the first publication on fluxions was under the name of Wallis; + the <i>Optics</i> were delayed until the death of Hooke; the first + appearance against Leibnitz was anonymous; the second originated in a + hint from the King. This morbid fear, which is often represented as + modesty, would have made him, had he acted a part with regard to his + niece which he could not avow, conduct it with the utmost reserve. The + philosopher who would have let the theory of gravitation die in silence + rather than encounter the opposition which a discovery almost always + creates, would not have allowed his <i>name</i> to be connected with the + annuity which was the price of his niece's honour, or which carried all + the appearance of it, even supposing him base enough to have connived at + the purchase. And in such a case, Halifax would have taken care to + respect the secrecy which he would have known to have been essential to + Newton's comfort: he would not have published to the world that his + mistress was Newton's niece, and that Newton was a party to a settlement + upon her. There seems to me, about the codicil as it stands, a + declaration that the connexion with Newton's niece was such as, if people + knew all, Newton might have sanctioned. And the supposition of a private + marriage, generally understood among the friends of the parties, seems to + me to make all the circumstances take an air of likelihood which no other + hypothesis will give them: and this is all my conclusion.</p> + + <p>If there were a marriage, the most probable reason for the concealment + was, that it was contracted at a time when the birth and station of Mrs. + Barton would have rendered her production at court as the wife of + Montague an impediment to his career. He was raised to the peerage in + 1700, and as the connexion was of long standing in 1706, it may well be + supposed that it commenced at the time when (in his own opinion at least) + his prospects of such elevation might have been compromised by a decided + misalliance. The lower the tone of morals, the greater the ridicule which + attaches to unequal <i>marriages</i>. Montague, though of noble family, + was the younger son of a younger son, and not rich: it was common among + the Tories to sneer at him as a <i>parvenu</i>. He had made his first + appearance in the great world as the husband of a countess-dowager, and + it may be that the <i>parvenu</i> was weak enough to shrink from + producing, as his second wife, a woman of very much lower rank, the + granddaughter of a country clergyman, and the daughter of a man of no + pretension to station. That Mr. Macaulay has not underrated the position + of the country clergy, is known to all who have dipped into the writings + of the seventeenth century. It is not, however, necessary to explain why + the supposed marriage should have been private. As the world is + constituted, no rules of inference can be laid down in reference to the + irregular relations of the sexes.</p> + + <p>With reference to the insinuation that Newton owed his official + position rather to his niece than to his ability, it can be completely + shown that, on the worst possible supposition, the office in the Mint + could have had nothing to do with Mrs. C. Barton. Newton was appointed to + the lower office (the <i>Wardenship</i>) in March, 1695-96, when the + young lady was not sixteen years old, and before she could have been a + resident under her uncle's roof. The state of the coinage had caused much + uneasiness; it was one of the difficulties, and its restoration was one + of the successes, of the day. The best scientific advice was taken: + Locke, Newton, and Halley were consulted, and all were placed in office + nearly at the same time; Newton in the London Mint, Halley in the Chester + Mint, Locke in the Council of Trade. Neither Locke nor Halley had any + nieces. Before Newton's appointment there was some negociation of a + public character: the Wardenship was not vacant, and the government seems + to have tried to induce Newton to take something subordinate. March 14, + Newton wrote to Halley, in reference to a current rumour,—"I + neither put in for any place in the Mint, nor would meddle with Mr. + Hoar's [the comptroller's] place, were it offered me." On the 19th, + Montague informs Newton that he is to have the <i>Wardenship</i>, vacant + by the removal of Mr. Overton to the Customs. Four years afterwards, when + the great operation on the coinage, by many declared impracticable, had + completely succeeded, Newton, a principal adviser and the principal + administrator, obtained the Mastership in the course of promotion. + Montague was raised to the peerage in the following year, and mainly, as + the patent states, for the same service. So that, though Montague was the + patron as to the Wardenship, yet scientific assistance was then so sorely + needed, that no hypothesis relative to any niece would be necessary to + explain the phenomenon of Newton's appointment: while, as to the + Mastership it may almost be said that Montague was more indebted to + Newton for his peerage, than Newton to Montague for that promotion which + any minister must, under the circumstances, have granted. <!-- Page 433 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page433"></a>{433}</span></p> + + <p>In no account of Newton that I ever read is it stated that Mrs. Barton + was an intimate friend of Swift, probably through Halifax. Having been + told that there is frequent mention of her in Swift's <i>Journal to + Stella</i>, I examined that series and the rest of the correspondence, in + which her name occurs about twenty times. One letter from herself, under + the name of Conduitt (November 29, 1733), is indorsed by the Dean, "My + old friend Mrs. Barton, now Mrs. Conduitt," and establishes the identity + of Swift's friend with Newton's niece: otherwise, it proves nothing here. + The other points to be noticed are as follows.</p> + + <p>1710, September 28, November 30, March 7; 1711, April 3, July 18, + October 14 and 25, Swift visited or dined with Mrs. Barton at her + <i>lodgings</i>. He was also at this time on good terms with Halifax, and + dined with him November 28, 1710, and with Mrs. Barton on November 30. + According to the idiom of the day, <i>lodgings</i> was a name for every + kind of residence, and even for the apartments of a guest in the house of + his host. For anything to the contrary in the mere word, the lodgings + might have been in the house of Lord Halifax, or of Newton himself. But, + on the other hand, the future Dean, much as he writes to Stella of every + kind of small talk, never mentions Halifax and Mrs. Barton together, + never makes the slightest allusion to either in connexion with the other, + though in one and the same letter he minutes his having dined with + Halifax on the 28th, and with Mrs. Barton on the 30th. There must have + been intentional suppression in this. All the world knew that there was + some <i>liaison</i> between the two; yet when Swift (1711, Nov. 20) + records his having been "teased with whiggish discourse" by Mrs. Barton, + he does not even drop a sarcasm about her politics having been learnt + from Halifax. This is the more remarkable as the two seem to have been + almost the only persons who are mentioned as talking whiggery to him. To + this list, however, may be added Lady Betty Germain, well known to the + readers of Swift's poetry, who joined Mrs. Barton in inflicting the + vexation, and at whose house the conversation took place. It thus appears + that Mrs. Barton was received in a manner which shows that she was + regarded as a respectable woman. The suppression on the part of Swift may + indicate respect for his two friends (that he highly respected Mrs. + Barton appears clear), and observance of a convention established in + their circle. But perhaps it is rather to be attributed to his own + position with respect to Stella, which was certainly peculiar, though no + one can say what their understanding was at the date of the journal. This + journal came again into Swift's hands before it was published; so that we + can only treat it as containing what he finally chose to preserve. + Allusions may have been struck out.</p> + + <p>There is another point which our modern manners will not allow to be + very closely handled in print, but on which I am disposed to lay some + stress. On September 28, 1710, and April 3, 1711, Swift visited Mrs. + Barton at her lodgings. On each of these occasions she regaled him with a + good story, which there is no need to repeat: there is no harm in either, + and they are far from being the most singular communications which he + made to Stella; but they go beyond what, even in that day, will be + considered as the probable conversation of a maiden lady of thirty-one, + with a bachelor man of the world of forty-three. But they by no means + exceed what we know to be the license then taken by married women; and + Swift's tone with respect to the stories, combined with his obvious + respect for Mrs. Barton, may make any one lean to the supposition that he + believed himself to be talking to a married woman.</p> + + <p>The reserve of Swift puts us quite at fault as to the locality of Mrs. + Barton's <i>lodgings</i>. They may have been in Lord Halifax's house; but + if not, it requires some supposition to explain why they were not in that + of Newton, with whom she had lived, and with whom she certainly lived + after the death of Halifax. Perhaps, when farther research is made in + such directions as may be indicated by the only unreserved statement of + the existing case which has ever been printed, the conclusion I arrive + at, as to me the <i>most probable</i>, may either be reinforced, or + another substituted for it. Be this as it may, such points as I have + discussed, relating to such men as Newton, will not remain in abeyance + for ever, let biographers be as timid as they will.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. De Morgan.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>DR. PARR ON MILTON.</h3> + + <p>Amongst my autographs I find the inclosed letter frown Dr. Parr. It is + written upon a half-sheet of paper, and in a very cramp and illegible + hand. To whom it is addressed, or when written, I am unable to say. As it + relates to the opinions held by Milton, perhaps you may think it worth + insertion in your work, particularly as Milton has been the subject of + some papers in "N. & Q." lately.</p> + + <p class="author">W. M. F.</p> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Copy of Letter from Dr. Parr, without date or +address.</i></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Dear Sir,</p> + + <p>I send you Johnson's <i>Life of Milton</i>. My former feelings again + return upon me, that Johnson did not mean to affirm that Milton prayed + not upon any occasion or in any manner; but that he was engaged in no + visible worship; that he prayed at no stated time; that he had not what + we may call any regular return of family or private devotion. Pray read + the sequel. That he lived without prayer can hardly be affirmed, this + <!-- Page 434 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page434"></a>{434}</span>surely is decided in my favour: it may + wear the appearance of contradiction to the former passage, that omitting + public prayer he omitted all; in truth, the expression just quoted is too + peremptory and too general. But the sense of Johnson cannot be mistaken, + if you attend to the different views he had in each sentence; and I + repeat my former assertion, that Johnson did not think Milton destitute + of a devout spirit, or totally negligent of prayer in some form or + other.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">Yours, very truly and respectfully,<br /> +<span class="sc">J. Parr.</span></p> + +</blockquote> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PARTS OF MSS.</h3> + + <p>As an instance of the unfortunate dispersion of the parts of valuable + MSS. through different countries, occasioned probably, in the case now to + be mentioned, by public convulsions and the wild fury of revolutionary + mobs in France, will you afford me space to quote an interesting + description of a MS. from the catalogue of a library to be sold at Paris + in December next? The MSS. and printed books in this library belonged to + the eminent bookseller J. J. De Bure, whose ancestor was the + distinguished and well-known bibliographer Guillaume de Bure. The + publicity given to descriptions like the present through the medium of + "N. & Q." may ultimately lead, on some occasions, to the scattered + volumes being brought together again, either by way of purchase, or in + exchange for other works.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Macray.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Oxford.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p><i>"Catalogue des Livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, de + la Bibliothèque de feu M. J. J. De Bure, ancien libraire du Roi et de la + Bibliothèque Royale, etc.</i></p> + + <p>"No. 1395. Le Second Livre des Commentaires de la Guerre Gallèque, par + Caius Julius Cæsar, traduict en françois. In-8, mar. noir, avec des + fermoirs en argent.</p> + + <p>"Manuscrit sur vélin.</p> + + <p>"L'ouvrage ne porte pas de titre; on lit seulement sur le plat du + volume, Tomus Secundus, et au verso du 21 feuillet; c'y commence le + Second livre des Commentaires de la Guerre Gallèque.</p> + + <p>"Ce manuscrit a été fait pour François I<sup>er</sup>; le chiffre de + ce Prince se trouve au premier feuillet. Le Vol. se compose de 94 + feuillets de texte, et de 4 feuillets de table. L'Ecriture est + très-belle, et paraît être de l'un des meilleurs calligraphes de l'époque + de Francois I<sup>er</sup>; beaucoup de mots sont en or et en azur.</p> + + <p>"On remarque 22 miniatures, 15 médaillons d'Empereurs et d'autres + personnages Romains, 12 figures d'engins ou machines de guerre, et 2 + fleurons; en tout 58 peintures.</p> + + <p>"Ce n'est point, à proprement parler, une traduction des Commentaires. + L'auteur suppose, dans le préambule de cette partie de l'ouvrage, que + Francis I<sup>er</sup> au <i>Commencement du Moys d'Auguste, l'an 1519, + allant courir le cerf en la fourest de Byevre, y fait la rencontre de + César</i>.</p> + + <p>"De là, il établit un dialogue entre les deux personnages. François + I<sup>er</sup> s'enquiert des circonstances de la guerre des Gaules, et + César lui en donne les détails tels qu'ils out été écrits par + lui-même.</p> + + <p>"On ne présente malheureusement ici qu'un Tome ii. Le Tome i. est au + Musée Britannique: on le trouve indiqué sous le No. 6205. dans le + <i>Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum</i>, London, + 1808, Tome iii. in folio. Ce Tome i. est décrit dans l'ouvrage de M. + Waagen, <i>Kunstwerke and Künstler in England und Paris</i>, Berlin, + 1837, Tome i. p. 148.</p> + + <p>"Le Tome iii. était à vendre dans ces dernières années, au prix de + 3000 francs, chez M. Techener (<i>Bulletin du Bibliophile</i>, année + 1850, No. 1222. et p. 910.); nous ne savons où il est actuellement.</p> + + <p>"Notre volume est le plus précieux des trois. Il l'emporte sur les + deux autres par le nombre des peintures (le Tome i. n'en a que 14, et le + Tome iii. seulement 12) et par l'intérêt qu'offrent ces peintures + elles-mêmes.</p> + + <p>"La première, charmante miniature en camaïeu gris et or, représente + François I<sup>er</sup> à cheval, courant le cerf; la dernière montre la + prise du cerf.</p> + + <p>"Parmi les autres sujets, également traités en grisaille, on remarque + plusieurs batailles entre les Romains et les Gaulois, rendues dans leurs + divers détails avec une finesse admirable d'exécution. Mais ce qui, + par-dessus tout, donne un prix infini à ce manuscrit, ce sont sept + portraits, en médaillons, qui reproduisent les traits de quelques hommes + de guerre du temps de François I<sup>er</sup>. Ils sont peints avec une + vérité et une délicatesse vraiment merveilleuses; des noms Romains, qui + figurent dans les Commentaries de César, sont écrits à côté des + portraits; les noms véritables ont été tracées au-dessous, mais un peu + plus tard, et par une main différente. Voici ces noms:—</p> + + <p>"1<sup>o</sup>. <i>Quintus Pedius</i>, le grand-maistre de Boisy, âgé + de 41 ans; 2<sup>o</sup>. <i>le Fiable Divitiacus d'Autun</i>, l'Amiral + de Boisy, Seigneur de Bonivet, âgé de 34 ans; 3<sup>o</sup>. <i>Quintus + Titurius Sabinus</i>, Odet de Fones (Foix), Sieur de Lautrec, âgé de 41 + ans; 4<sup>o</sup>. <i>Iccius</i>, le Mareschal de Chabanes, Seigneur de + la Palice, âgé de 57 ans; 5<sup>o</sup>. <i>Lucius Arunculeius Cotta</i>, + Anne de Montmorency, âgé de 22 ans, et depuis Connestable de France; + 6<sup>o</sup>. <i>Publ. Sextius Baculus</i>, le Mareschal de Fleuranges, + Seigneur de la Marche (Mark), premier Seigneur de Sédan, âgé de 24 ans; + 7<sup>o</sup>. <i>Publius Crassus</i>, le Sieur de Tournon, qui fust tué + à la bataille de Pavie, âgé de 36 ans.</p> + + <p>"La plupart des miniatures du volume sont signées G., 1519. La + perfection qui les distingue les avait d'abord fait attribuer au célèbre + miniaturiste <i>Guilo Clovio</i>; maintenant on croit pouvoir affirmer + qu'elles appartiennent à un peintre nommé Godefroy. Il se trouve à la + bibliothèque de l'Arsenal une traduction française des Triomphes de + Pétrarque, avec des miniatures qui sont incontestablement de la même main + et de la même époque. Or, l'une de ces miniatures est signée + <i>Godefroy</i>.</p> + + <p>"On peut voir le rapprochement que fait entre les deux manuscrits M. + Waagen, dans l'ouvrage cité ci-dessus, Tome iii. p. 395. Il ne saurait, + du reste, y avoir aucun doute sur le nom de l'artiste, lorsqu'on lit dans + le <i>Bulletin du Bibliophile</i> (pages déjà citées) que <!-- Page 435 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page435"></a>{435}</span>plusieurs des + miniatures du Tome iii. sont signées <i>Godofredi pictoris</i>, 1520.</p> + + <p>"Ce précieux manuscrit ne sera pas vendu; il a été légué par M. de + Bure au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>WILLIAM BLAKE.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(<i>Continued from</i> p. 71.)</p> + + <p>I venture to send you another Note regarding William Blake, claiming + for that humble individual the honour of being the pioneer in the + establishment of charity-schools in Britain, from which department of our + social system who can calculate the benefits accrued, and constantly + accruing, to this country!</p> + + <p>We look in vain through the <i>Silver Drops</i> of William Blake for + any record of an existing institution, such as he would have his "noble + ladies" rear at Highgate. Among the many incentives he uses to prompt the + charitable, we do not find him holding up for their example any model + (unless it be "Old Sutton's brave hospital"); in all his amusing + "Charity-school Sticks," his tone is that of a man trying to persuade + people that the thing he proposes is feasible. "Some of them," says the + sanguine Blake, "have scarce faith enough to believe in the success of + this great and good design. Nay, your brother Cornish himself," continues + he, in addressing one of his ladies, although full of good works, "would + have persuaded me to lay it down" upon the ground of its + impracticability. The language of Blake is everywhere advocating this + "<i>new</i> way of charity." "If it be <i>new</i>," says he to an + objector, "the more's the pity;" and, with reference to the possibility + of failure, he would thus shame them into liberality. Speaking of his + "fine, handsome, and well cloathed boys; not too fine, because they are + the ladies'!" our enthusiast adds to this <i>soft sawdur</i>:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"But now, if a year or two hence they should be grown, which God + forbid! poor ragged, half-starved, and no cloaths, country folks would + say, who ride or go that way, Were there not good ladies enough in and + about London to maintain <i>one</i> little school?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Here then is <i>primâ facie</i> evidence, I think, that my subject, + poor crazy William Blake, was the originator of one of the greatest + social improvements of modern times.</p> + + <p>The charity-school movement had obtained a strong hold upon the public + mind early in the past century; but although I have sought for the name + of Blake through many books professing to give an account of the early + history of such institutions, I have not yet met with the slightest + allusion to him, his school, or his <i>Silver Drops</i>.</p> + + <p>The superficial inquirer into the history of English charity-schools + will be told that the honour of the first erecting such, and caring for + destitute children, is popularly considered due to the parishes of St. + Botulph, Aldgate, and St. Margaret's, Westminster: and if he would + farther satisfy himself upon that point, he will see it claimed by the + first named; a slab in front of their schools, adjoining the Royal Mint, + bearing an inscription to the purport that it was the first Protestant + charity-school, erected by voluntary contributions in 1693.</p> + + <p>If it comes to the earliest London school for poor children, perhaps + the Catholics take the lead; for we find that it was part of the tactics + of the Jesuits, in the reign of James II., to promote their design of + subverting the Protestant religion by infusing their Romish tenets into + the minds of the children of the poor by providing schools for them in + the Savoy and Westminster.</p> + + <p>Blake says, with reference to this movement:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"That the scheme he was engaged upon was a good work, because it will + in some measure stop the mouths of Papists, who are prone to say, Where + are your works, and how few are your hospitals, and how small is your + charity, notwithstanding your great preaching?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>A remarkable little book, and a very fit companion for the <i>Silver + Drops</i> of William Blake, to which it bears a striking similarity, is + the <i>Pietas Hallensis</i> of Dr. Franck. In this, the German divine + relates, in a style which bears more than an accidental resemblance to + the work of the Covent Garden Philanthropist, how, little by little, by + importunity and perseverance, he nursed his own charitable plans, of a + like kind, into full life and vigour; and both Drs. Woodward and Kennett + endorse and command the "miraculous footsteps of Divine Providence" in + the labours of Dr. Franck. "Could we," says Dr. Kennett, "trace the + obscurer footsteps of our own charity-schools, the finger of God would be + as evidently in them." Why the Bishop of Peterborough should be ignorant + of these earlier efforts to the same end in his own country, is somewhat + marvellous. Franck began his charitable work at Glaucha in 1698; while + Blake was labouring to establish his Highgate School in 1685. That Franck + should know nothing about our pioneer in charitable education, is + probable enough; but that the English divines I have mentioned, with + Wodrow, Gillies, and a host of others, should be unaware that the + proceedings at Halle were only the counterpart of those done fourteen + years before by Blake in their own land, is certainly surprising, and + affords another proof of the proneness of Britons to extol everything + foreign to the neglect of what is native and at their own doors.</p> + + <p>Perhaps some of your readers will think I over-estimate the importance + of the question, whether the charity-school movement is of British or + foreign growth; or whether the honour of its application to the poor (for + all <i>charity</i>-schools are not for such) belongs to my subject + William Blake, or <!-- Page 436 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page436"></a>{436}</span>some other philanthropic individual; if + such there be, let them repair to our Metropolitan Cathedral on the day + of the annual assemblage of the London charity children: and if, on + contemplating the spectacle which will there meet their eye, they do not + think it an object of interest to discover who, as Dr. Kennett says, + "first cast in the <i>salt</i> at the fountain-head to heal the + <i>waters</i>, and broke the ground that was before barren," I pity + them.</p> + + <p>In concocting this Note, I have had before me the following:</p> + + <p>1. Lysons's <i>Environs of London</i>, 1795, where will be found a + short notice of Blake. The author, following Gough, makes my subject a + madman, and says his scheme "failed after laying out 5000<i>l.</i> upon + it."</p> + + <p>2. <i>Sermon preached for Charity-schools</i>, by Dr. Kennett, + 1706.</p> + + <p>3. <i>Sermons of Dr. Smalridge and T. Yulden</i>, 1710 and 1728. These + divines give the precedence to Westminster School, "erected 1688."</p> + + <p>4. <i>Wodrow's Letters</i>, edited by Dr. M<sup>c</sup>Crie, 3 vols., + Edin. 1843.</p> + + <p>5. <i>Pietas Hallensis</i>: or an Abstract of the Marvellous Footsteps + of Divine Providence, in the building of a very large Hospital, or rather + a Spacious College, for Charitable and Excellent Uses; and in the + maintaining of many Orphans, and other Poor People therein at Glaucha, + near Halle in Prussia, related by the Rev. A. H. Franck, 3 parts, 12mo., + London, 1707-16. Let the curious reader compare this with Blake's + book.</p> + + <p class="author">J. O.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> + + <p><i>Legends of the County Clare.</i>—About nine miles westward + from the town of Ennis, in the midst of some of the wildest scenery in + Ireland, lies the small but very beautiful Lake of Inchiquin, famous + throughout the neighbouring country for its red trout, and for being in + winter the haunt of almost all the various kinds of waterfowl, including + the wild swan, that are to be found in Ireland, while the woods that + border one of its sides are amply stocked with woodcocks. At one + extremity of the lake are the ruins of the Castle of Inchiquin, part of + which is built on a rock projecting into the lake, there about one + hundred feet deep, and this legend is related of the old + castle:—Once upon a time, the chieftain of the Quins, whose + stronghold it was, found in one of the caves (many of which are in the + limestone hills that surround the lake) a lady of great beauty, fast + asleep. While gazing on her in rapt admiration she awoke, and, according + to the customs of the Heroic Age, soon consented to become his bride, + merely stipulating that no one bearing the name of O'Brien should be + allowed to enter the castle gate: this being agreed to, the wedding was + celebrated with all due pomp, and in process of time one lovely boy + blessed their union. Among the other rejoicings at the birth of an heir + to the chief of the clan, a grand hunting-match took place, and the chase + having terminated near the castle, the chieftain, as in duty bound, + requested the assembled nobles to partake of his hospitality. To this a + ready assent was given, and the chiefs were ushered into the great hall + with all becoming state; and then for the first time did their host + discover that one bearing the forbidden name was among them The banquet + was served, and now the absence of the lady of the castle alone delayed + the onslaught on the good things spread before them. Surprised and half + afraid at her absence, her husband sought her chamber: on entering, he + saw her sitting pensively with her child at the window which overlooked + the lake; raising her head as he approached, he saw she was weeping, and + as he advanced towards her with words of apology for having broken his + promise, she sprang through the window with her child into the lake. The + wretched man rushed forward with a cry of horror: for one moment he saw + her gliding over the waters, now fearfully disturbed, chanting a wild + dirge, and then, with a mingled look of grief and reproach, she + disappeared for ever! And the castle and the lordship, with many a broad + acre besides, passed from the Quins, and are now the property of the + O'Briens to this day; and while the rest of the castle is little better + than a heap of ruins, the fatal window still remains nearly as perfect as + when the lady sprang through it, an irrefragable proof of the truth of + the legend in the eyes of the peasantry.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Francis Robert Davies</span>.</p> + + <p><i>The Seven Whisperers.</i>—I have been informed by an old and + trustworthy servant that about twenty years ago, as he was walking one + clear starlight night with two other persons, they heard, for the space + of several minutes, high up in the air, beautiful sounds like music, + which gradually died away towards the north. He spoke of it as an + occurrence not very uncommon, and said it was always called "The Seven + Whisperers." On inquiry I found the name well known amongst the poorer + classes.</p> + + <p>Is it not an electrical phenomenon?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Metaouo</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Essex.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>ITALIAN-ENGLISH, GERMAN-ENGLISH, AND THE REFUGEE STYLE.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. vii., p. 149.)</p> + + <p>Every one has admired the odd bits of Italian-English which "N. & + Q." lately published, a true <!-- Page 437 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page437"></a>{437}</span>philological curiosity. Such queer medleys + have been the result whenever two opposite idioms have been thrown + together and unskilfully stirred up. Very few foreigners indeed, + Sclavonic nations being excepted, and particularly the Russians, write + French tolerably well. The present Lord Mahon and Lady Montaigne, in an + excellent <i>Essay on Marriage</i>, are exceptions to the rule. Voltaire + used to say,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Faites tous vos vers à Paris;</p> + <p>Et n'allez pas en Allemagne!"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>And very right he was. His kingly disciple committed more than once + such Irish rhymes as these:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Je vais cueillir dans leurs sentiers (des Muses)</p> + <p>De fraîches et charmantes roses;</p> + <p>Et je dédaigne les lauriers,</p> + <p>En exceptant les lauriers <i>sauces</i>."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Forgetting the difference of pronunciation between the soft <i>s</i> + of <i>rose (roze)</i> and the lisping sound of the <i>c</i> in <i>sauce + (sôss)</i>. As I have not by me the ponderous and voluminous works of the + poetical monarch, I may have altered some of the words of the quotation; + but the rhymes <i>sauce</i> and <i>rose</i> I aver to be true to the + primitive copy. Even Protestant refugees, born of French parents, brought + up amongst their co-religionists and countrymen, wrote a strange + gibberish, often ungrammatical, always unidiomatic, of which traces may + be found even in Basnage and Ancillon. A recent French theologian, the + clever author of a Life of Spinosa, written in Germany and published in + Paris with some success, has such expressions as these:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Les villes protestantes preferent la liberté avec Calvin <span + class="scac">QUE</span> la tyrannique concorde avec + Luther."—<i>Hist. Crit. du Rationalisme</i>, p. 49.</p> + + <p>"Et ailleuz: Stuttgard Dontil etait conservateur <span class="scac">DE + LA</span> Bibliothèque."-<i>Ib</i>.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>And M. Amand Saintes is a Frenchman, and a most erudite man. The + Celebrated Frau Bettina von Arnim, who dared to translate into English + and to print in Berlin (apud Trowitzsch and Son, 1838), under the new + title of <i>Diary of a Child</i>, her own untranslateable letters to + Göthe, had at least the very good excuse of her nationality for her + peculiar English, the choicest, funniest, maddest, and saddest English + ever penned on this planet or in any other, and of which I hope "N. & + Q." will accept some small specimens, taken at random among thousands + such. To begin with the opening address:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + +<p class="cenhead">"<i>To the English Bards</i>.</p> + + <p>"Gentlemen!—The noble cup of your mellifluous tongue so often + brimmed with immortality, here filled with odd but pure and fiery + draught, do not refuse to taste if you relish its spirit to be homefelt, + though not home-born."</p> + +<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">Bettina Arnim</span>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>We will next pass to the "Preamble":</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The translating of Göthe's Correspondence with a Child into English + was generally disapproved of. Previous to its publication in Germany, the + well-renowned Mrs. Austin, by regard for the great German poet, proposed + to translate it; but after having perused it with attention, the literate + and the most famed bookseller of London thought unadvisable the + publication of a book that in every way widely differed from the spirit + and feelings of the English, and therefore it could not be depended upon + for exciting their interest. Mrs. Austin, by her gracious mind to comply + with my wishes, proposed to publish some fragments of it, but as no + musician ever likes to have only those passages of his composition + executed that blandish the ear, I likewise refused my assent to the + maiming of a work, that not by my own merit, but by chance and nature + became a work of art, that only in the untouched development of its + genius might judiciously be enjoyed and appraised."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Our next and last is taken from p. 133.:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"From those venturesome and spirit-night-wanderings I came home with + garments wet with melted snow; they believed I had been in the garden. + When night I forgot all; on the next evening at the same time it came + back to my mind, and the fear too I had suffered; I could not conceive, + how I had ventured to walk alone on that desolate road in the night, and + to stay on such a waste dreadful spot; I stood leaning at the court gate; + to-day it was not so mild and still as yesterday; the gales rose high and + roared along; they sighed up at my feet and hastened on yonder side, the + fluttering poplars in the garden bowed and flung off their snow-burden, + the clouds drove away in a great hurry, what rooted fast wavered yonder, + and what could ever be loosened, was swept away by the hastening + breezes." (!!!).</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>P. S.—Excuse my French-English.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Philarète Chasles</span>, Mazarianæus</p> + + <p class="address">Paris, Palais de l'Institut.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>Meaning of "Delighted" in some Places of Shakspeare.</i>—I am + sorry to be obliged to differ so often in opinion with H. C. K., but as + we are both, I trust, solely actuated by the love of truth, he no doubt + will excuse me. My difference now with him is about "<i>delighted</i> + spirit," by which he understands the "tender <i>delicate</i> spirit," + while I take it to be the "<i>delectable</i>" or "<i>delightful</i> + spirit." As I think this is founded on the Latin, I beg permission to + quote the following portion of my note on Jug. ii. 3. in my edition of + Sallust:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<i>Incorruptus</i>, <span title="aphthartos" class="grk" + >ἄφθαρτος</span> , + <i>i. e.</i> incapable of dissolution, the <i>incorruptibilis</i> of the + Fathers of the Church. In imitation probably of the Greek verbal + adjective in <span title="tos" class="grk">τος</span>, + as <span title="hairetos" class="grk" + >αἱρετός</span>, <span + title="streptos" class="grk" + >στρεπτός</span>, etc., the + Latins, especially Sallust, sometimes used the past part. as equivalent + to an adj. in <i>bilis</i>: comp. xliii, 5.; lxxvi. 1.; xci. 7.; Cat. + <span class="scac">I</span>. 4.,</p> + +<p><!-- Page 438 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page438"></a>{438}</span></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'Non <i>exorato</i> stant adamante viæ;' Propert. <span class="scac">IV</span>. 11. 4.,</p> + <p class="hg1">'Mare scopulis <i>inaccessum</i>;' Plin. <i>Nat. Hist.</i>, <span class="scac">XII</span>. 14.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>It is in this sense that <i>flexus</i> is to be understood in Virg. + <i>Æn.</i>, v. 500."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The same employment of the past part. is frequent in our old English + writers, and I rather think that they adopted it from the Latin. The + earliest instance which I find in my notes is from Golding, who renders + the <i>tonitrus et inevitabile fulmen</i> of Ovid (<i>Met.</i> <span + class="scac">III</span>. 301.):</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"With dry and dreadful thunderclaps and lightning to the same,</p> + <p>Of deadly and <i>unavoided</i> dint."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In Milton I have noticed the following participles used in this sense: + <i>unmoved</i>, <i>abhorred</i>, <i>unnumbered</i>, <i>unapproached</i>, + <i>dismayed</i>, <i>unreproved</i>, <i>unremoved</i>, <i>unsucceeded</i>, + <i>preferred</i>. But as Milton was addicted to Latinising, I will give + some examples from Shakspeare himself:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Now thou art come unto a feast of death</p> + <p>A terrible and <i>unavoided</i> danger."—<i>1 Hen. VI.</i>, Act IV. Sc. 5.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"We see the very wreck that we must suffer,</p> + <p>And <i>unavoided</i> the danger now,</p> + <p>For suffering so the causes of our wreck."—<i>Rich. II.</i>, Act II. Sc. 1.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"All <i>unavoided</i> is the doom of destiny."—<i>Rich. III.</i>, Act IV. Sc. 4.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Inestimable stones, <i>unvalued</i> jewels."—<i>Ib.</i>, Act I. Sc. 4.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Tell them that when my mother went with child</p> + <p>Of that <i>insatiate</i> Edward."—<i>Ib.</i>, Act III. Sc. 5.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"I am not glad that such a sore of time</p> + <p>Should seek a plaster by <i>contemned</i> revolt."—<i>King John</i>, Act V. Sc 2.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i8hg3">"The murmuring surge</p> + <p>That on the <i>unnumber'd</i> idle pebbles chafes."—<i>Lear</i>, Act IV. Sc. 6.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"O, <i>undistinguished</i> space of woman's will."—<i>Ib.</i></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>I could give instances from Spenser and even from Pope, but shall only + observe that when we say "an <i>undoubted</i> fact" we mean an + <i>indubitable</i> one.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos. Keightley.</span></p> + + <p>P.S.—I am not disposed to quarrel with H. C. K.'s derivation of + <i>awkward</i> (Vol. viii., p. 310.), but I must observe that the more + exact correlative of <i>toward</i> seems to be <i>wayward</i>. The + Anglo-Saxons appear to have pronounced their ȝ as <i>g</i>; but + after the Conquest it was pronounced hard in some cases, and so + <i>wayward</i> and <i>awkward</i> may have the same origin.</p> + + <p><i>Shakspeare Portrait.</i>—Can any of your correspondents state + whether the sign of Shakspeare, said to have been painted at a cost of + 150<i>l.</i>, and which in 1764 graced a tavern then in Drury Lane, + called "The Shakspeare," and in that year was taken down and removed into + the country, and used for a similar purpose, still exists, add where? and + is the artist who painted such known?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Charlecott.</span></p> + + <p><i>"Taming of the Shrew."</i>—I cannot help thinking that + Christopher Sly merely means that he is fourteenpence on the score for + <i>sheer</i> ale,—nothing but ale; neither bread nor meat, horse + housing, or bed.</p> + + <p>He has <i>drunk</i> the entire amount, and glories in his iniquity, + like a true tippler.</p> + + <p class="author">G. H. K.</p> + + <p><i>Lord Bacon and Shakspeare.</i>—Can any of those + correspondents of "N. & Q." who have devoted attention to the lives + of two of England's greatest worthies, Francis Bacon and William + Shakspeare, account for the extraordinary fact that, although these two + highly gifted men were cotemporaries, no mention of or allusion to the + other is to be found in the writings of either? Bacon was born in 1561, + and died in 1626; Shakspeare, who was born in 1563, and died ten years + before the great chancellor, not only loved</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy,"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>but breathes throughout every page of his wondrous writings a spirit + of philosophy as profound as his imagination is unlimited; yet nowhere, + it is believed, can he be traced as making the slight allusion to the + great father of modern philosophy. Bacon, on the other hand, whom one can + scarcely suppose to have been ignorant of the writings of the dramatist, + but who indeed may rather be believed to have known him personally, seems + altogether to ignore his existence, or the existence of any of his + matchless works. As the solution of this problem could not but throw much + light on that most interesting subject,—the history of the minds of + Shakespeare and Bacon,—I venture to throw it out as a fit subject + for the research of some of your contributors versed in the writings of + these great spirits of their own age, no less than of all time.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Theta.</span></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Notes.</h2> + + <p><i>Decomposed Cloth.</i>—In Mr. Wright's valuable work on <i>The + Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon</i>, p. 308., is mentioned the discovery + at York of a Roman coffin, in which were distinctly visible "the colour, + a rich purple," as well as texture of the cloth with which the body it + had contained had been covered.</p> + + <p>I should think that the colour observed was not that of the ancient + dye, but rather was caused by phosphate of iron, formed by the + combination of iron contained in the soil or water, with phosphoric acid, + arising from the decomposition of animal matter. It may often be observed + in similar cases, as about animal remains found in bogs, and about + ancient leather articles found in <!-- Page 439 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page439"></a>{439}</span>excavations, especially + when any iron is in contact with them, or in the soles of shoes or + sandals studded with nails.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. C. Trevelyan.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Wallington.</p> + + <p><i>First and Last.</i>—There cannot be two words more different + in meaning than these, and yet they are both used to express the same + sense! Of two authors equally eminent, one shall write that a thing is of + the <i>first</i> and the other of the <i>last</i> importance, though each + means the <i>greatest</i> or <i>utmost</i>. How is this? To me + <i>first</i> appears preferable, though <i>last</i> may be justifiable. + Being on the subject of words, I am reminded of <i>obnoxious</i>, which + is applied in the strangest ways by different authors. It is true that + the Roman writers used <i>obnoxius</i> in various senses; but it does not + seem so pliable or smooth in English. Generally it is held to indicate + <i>disagreeable</i> or <i>inimical</i>, though our dictionaries do not + admit it to have either of those meanings!</p> + + <p class="author">A. B. C.</p> + + <p><i>Cucumber Time.</i>—This term, which the working-tailors of + England use to denote that which their masters call "the flat season," + has been imported from a country which periodically sends many hundreds + of its tailors to seek employment in our metropolis. The German phrase is + "Die saure Gurken Zeit," or pickled gherkin time. A misunderstanding of + the meaning of the phrase may have given rise to the vulgar witticism, + that tailors are vegetarians, who "live on cucumber" while at play, and + on "cabbage" while at work.</p> + + <p class="author">N. W. S.</p> + + <p><i>MS. Sermons of the Eighteenth Century.</i>—Having lately + become possessed, at the sale of an an old library, of some MS. Sermons + by the Rev. J. Harris, Rector of Abbotsbury, Dorset, from the year 1741 + to 1763, I shall be happy to place them in the hands of any descendant of + that gentleman.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Ewart.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Pimperne, Dorset.</p> + + <p><i>Boswell's "Johnson."</i>—In vol. v. p. 272. of <i>my</i> + favourite edition, and p. 784. of the edition in one volume, Johnson, + writing to Brocklesby, under date Sept. 2, 1784, calls Windham "inter + stellas Luna minores." Boswell, in a note, says, "It is remarkable that + so good a Latin scholar as Johnson should have been so inattentive to the + metre, as by mistake to have written <i>stellas</i> instead of + <i>ignes</i>." Now, with all due deference, a Captain of Native Infantry + ventures to suggest that both <i>stellas</i> and <i>ignes</i> are wrong, + and that Johnson was thinking of the noble opening of Horace's 15th + Epode:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Nox erat, et cœlo fulgebat <i>Luna</i> sereno,</p> + <p class="i1"><i>Inter minora</i> sidera."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">F. C.</p> + + <p class="address">Bangalore.</p> + + <p><i>Stage Coaches.</i>—It occurs to me as highly desirable that, + before the recollection of the old stage coach has faded from the memory + of all but the oldest inhabitant, an authentic statement should be placed + on record of the length of the stages, and the speed that was obtained, + by this mode of conveyance, in which England was for so many years + without a rival.</p> + + <p>The speed of mail coaches is, I believe chronicled in the British + Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; but their + speed, if I mistake not, was surpassed by that of the "Rival," which + travelled (from Monmouth, I think) to London after the opening of the + Great Western Railway.</p> + + <p>Could any of your correspondents favour us with the time-bill of that + coach, detailing the length of the several stages, and the time of + performance? It would also be interesting to chronicle the period during + which this rivalry with the railway was maintained.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Geo. E. Frere.</span></p> + + <p><i>Antecedents.</i>—The word "antecedents," as a plural, and in + the sense attached to it by the French, is not to be found in any English + dictionary that I have the means of consulting. And yet it seems now to + be commonly used as an English expression, even by some of our best + writers.</p> + + <p>When was this word first imported, and by whom? I have just met with + an instance of it in Jerdan's <i>Autobiography</i>, vol. i. p. 131.:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I got him (Hammon), with a full knowledge of his antecedents, into + the employment of a humane and worthy wine merchant of Bordeaux."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry H. Breen.</span></p> + + <p class="address">St. Lucia.</p> + + <p><i>The Letter X.</i>—The letter X on brewers' casks is probably + thus derived:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Simplex</i> = single x, or X.</p> + <p><i>Duplex</i> = double x, or XX.</p> + <p><i>Triplex</i> = treble x, or XXX.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>This was suggested by Owen's <i>Epigram</i>, lib. xii. 34.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Laudatur vinum <i>simplex</i>, cervisia <i>duplex</i>,</p> + <p>Est bona duplicitas, optima simplicitas."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">B. H. C.</p> + + <p><i>A Crow-bar.</i>—In Johnson's <i>Dictionary</i> the + explanation given of this word is "piece of iron used as a lever to force + open doors, as the Latins called a hook <i>corvus</i>." In Walters' + <i>English and Welsh Dictionary</i>, the first part of which was + published about the year 1770, this word is printed "<i>Croe</i>-bar." Is + it probable that the word <i>crow</i> has been derived front the + Camb.-Brit. word <i>cro</i>, a curve? and that the name has been given + from the circumstance of one end of a crow-bar being curved for the + purpose of making it more efficient as lever?</p> + + <p class="author">N. W. S.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><!-- Page 440 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page440"></a>{440}</span></p> + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Bishop Grehan.</i>—I want any information obtainable with + reference to a Roman Catholic bishop in Ireland named Grehan; his + Christian name, family, date of his bishopric, and name of it. Where can + I find such particulars?</p> + + <p class="author">O. L. R. G.</p> + + <p><i>Doxology.</i>—In his "Christmas Caroll" to the tune of "King + Solomon," old Tusser has the following:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"To God the Son and Holy Ghost,</p> + <p class="i1">Let man give thanks, rejoice, and sing,</p> + <p>From world to world, from coast to coast,</p> + <p class="i1">For all good gifts so many ways,</p> + <p class="i2">That God doth send.</p> + <p class="i1">Let us in Christ give God the praise,</p> + <p class="i2">Till life shall end!"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Query, Is this the origin of our own doxologies?</p> + + <p class="author">L. A. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Great Yarmouth.</p> + + <p><i>Arrow-mark.</i>—On an ancient pump of wood, extracted from + the Poltimore mine in North Devon, I perceive a deeply cut arrow-mark. + What is the inference as to the age of this relic from the mark referred + to? The fragment is that of a large oak tree hollowed out, and now + decomposing from exposure after its long burial.</p> + + <p class="author">J. R. P.</p> + + <p><i>Gabriel Poyntz.</i>—There is a portrait here inscribed + "Gabriel Poyntz, an. Domini 1568, ætatis suæ 36:" and having a coat of + arms painted on it, Barry of eight, or and gules, with a crest very + indistinct; but apparently a lion's head, and the motto "Clainte + refrainte."</p> + + <p>Can any of your correspondents inform me of the meaning of this motto, + and the language in which it is expressed; and also what the crest + is?</p> + + <p>G. Poyntz was of South Okendon in Essex, and there is an account of + his family in Morant's <i>Essex</i>; from which it appears that he was + descended from the family of Poyntz of Tockington in + <i>Gloucestershire</i>, of which there is an account in Atkins' + Gloucestershire. He was afterwards knighted.—Any information as to + him, in addition to that which is contained in Morant, would be very + acceptable.</p> + + <p class="author">S. G. C.</p> + + <p class="address">Bradley, Ashbourne.</p> + + <p><i>Queen Elizabeth's and Queen Anne's Motto, "Semper + eadem."</i>—Upon what occasion, and by what authority was the motto + "Semper eadem" used as the royal motto in the reign of Elizabeth?</p> + + <p>The authority for Queen Anne's motto has been afforded by your + correspondent G. (Vol. viii., p. 255.); though he has not fully answered + the original Query (Vol. viii., p. 174.), as the motto in question was + signified to the public in the <i>London Gazette</i>, Dec. 21-24, 1702; + was ordered to be <i>continued</i> in 1707, and to be <i>discontinued</i> + (by an order in council) on the accession of the House of Hanover in + 1714, when the old motto "Dieu et mon droit" was resumed.</p> + + <p class="author">Z. Z. Z.</p> + + <p><i>Bees.</i>—In these parts the increase of the apiary is known + by the three following names:—The first migration from the parent + hive is (as all your country readers are aware) a <i>swarm</i>; the next + is called a <i>cast</i>; while the third increase, in the same season, + goes under the name of a <i>cote</i>. Perhaps some one will kindly inform + me if these names are common in other parts of England; and if there are + any other local designations for the different departures of these insect + colonists.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John P. Stilwell.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Dorking.</p> + + <p><i>Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher.</i>—Perhaps some of the + readers of "N. & Q." can tell me where information is to be found + respecting these two celebrated women, who have been immortalised by Sir + Joshua Reynolds, and whose portraits are sometimes to be met with.</p> + + <p>"Cleopatra dissolving the Pearl" is a portrait of Kitty, and he + probably introduced them both into some of his fancy pictures.</p> + + <p>As I happen to possess a good portrait of one of them, I should like + to know something of their history.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Cantab.</span></p> + + <p class="address">University Club.</p> + + <p><i>"Homo unius libri."</i>—To whom does this saying ing + originally belong? The <i>British Critic</i> gives it to St. Thomas + Aquinas:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"When asked on one occasion who is in the way to become learned, he + answered, 'Whoever will content himself with the reading of a single + book."—<i>The British Critic</i>, No. <span + class="scac">LIX</span>. p. 202.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Fraser.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Tor-Mohun.</p> + + <p><i>"Now the fierce bear," &c.</i>—Can any of your readers + inform me who is the author of the following lines?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Now the fierce bear and leopard keen,</p> + <p>All perished as they ne'er had been;</p> + <p>Oblivion's their best home.</p> + <p> . . . .</p> + <p>There is an oath on high,</p> + <p>That ne'er on brow of mortal birth,</p> + <p>Shall blend again the crowns of earth."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="grk">θ</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Prejudice against Holy Confirmation.</i>—I have found among + my rural parishioners an idea very prevalent, that it is wrong, or at + least highly improper, for a married woman to become a candidate for, or + to receive holy confirmation; and this quite apart from any sectarian + views on the matter. I should like to know if any of my <!-- Page 441 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page441"></a>{441}</span>clerical + brethren have noticed the same superstition as I must call it. Labourers' + wives in some cases have at once stated their being married as a valid + objection; and in others their husbands, although Churchmen, have at once + entered their <i>veto</i> on their being confirmed. Can it arise from any + vague reminiscence of the practical rule of the Church of England on the + subject, which has been so long ignored?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Fraser.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Tor-Mohun.</p> + + <p><i>Epigram on MacAdam.</i>—Who was the author of the following + epigram?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"My Essay on Roads, quoth MacAdam, lies there,</p> + <p class="i1">The result of a life's lucubration;</p> + <p>But does not the title page look rather bare?</p> + <p class="i1">I long for a Latin quotation.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"A Delphin edition of Virgil stood nigh,</p> + <p class="i1">To second his classic desire;</p> + <p>When the road-maker hit on the shepherd's reply,</p> + <p class="i1hg1">'<i>Miror Magis</i>,' I rather <i>add</i>-mire."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><a href="images/oldewn.png"><img src="images/oldewn.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="Old English W. N." /></a></p> + + <p><i>Jane Scrimshaw.</i>—Can any of your numerous correspondents + inform me if there is any other biographical notice of Jane Scrimshaw, + who attained the advanced age of 127, and resided for upwards of eighty + years in the Merchant Taylors' Almshouse, near Little Tower Hill, than + that recorded in Caulfield's <i>Memoirs of Remarkable Characters</i>?</p> + + <p class="author">J. T. M.</p> + + <p><i>The Word "Quadrille."</i>—May I trouble some kind reader to + give me the origin, derivation, full and literal meaning, and the several + senses, in their regular succession, of the above word <i>Quadrille</i>? + There seems to be much uncertainty attached to the word.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Veritatis Amicus.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Oxon.</p> + + <p><i>The Hungarians in Paules.</i>—Perhaps some of the ingenious + contributors to "N. & Q." may be able to assist P. C. S. S. to + explain the following passage in the dedication of a rare little book + <i>Dekker's Dreame</i> (Lond. 4to. 1620). It is inscribed:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"To the truly accomplished gentleman, and worthy deserver of all men's + loves, Master Endymion Porter. Sir, if you aske why, from the heapes of + men, I picke you out only to be that <i>Murus ahæneus</i> which must + defend me, lett me tell you (what you knowe allready) that bookes are + like the Hungarians in Paules, who have a priviledge to holde out their + Turkish history for anie one to reade. They beg nothing: the texted + past-bord talkes all—and if nothing be given, nothing is spoken, + but God knowes what they thinke!"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>An explanation of the above passage is very earnestly desired by</p> + + <p class="author">P. C. S. S.</p> + + <p><i>Ferns Wanted.</i>—Specimens of the following rare ferns are + much wanted to complete a collection:—<i>Woodsia ilvensis</i>, + <i>Woodsia alpina</i>, <i>Cystopteris montana</i>, <i>Lastrea + cristata</i>, <i>Lastrea recurva</i>, <i>Lastrea multiflora</i>, + <i>Asplenium alterniflorum</i>, <i>Trichomanes speciosum</i>.</p> + + <p>The undersigned will feel very much obliged to any charitable person, + residing near the <i>habitat</i> of any of the above-mentioned ferns, who + would take the trouble to forward to him, if not a root, at least a + specimen for drying, he need scarcely say that any expenses will be most + cheerfully defrayed.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Cooper Key.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Stretton Rectory, near Hereford.</p> + + <p><i>Craton the Philosopher.</i>—Two of the figures on the brass + font in the church of St. Bartholomew at Liège are superscribed Johannes + Evangelista et Craton Philosophus.—Can any reader of "N. & Q." + say if anything is known about the latter, who is represented as being + baptized by the Evangelist?</p> + + <p class="author">R. H. C.</p> + + <p><i>The Solar Annual Eclipse in the Year 1263.</i>—In the + Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 1263, published in the original Islandic from + the Flateyan and Frisian MSS., with a literal English version by the Rev. + James Johnstone, I read as follows:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"While King Haco lay in Ronaldsvo, a great darkness drew over the sun; + so that only a little ring was bright round the sun, and it continued so + for some hours."—P. 45.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>King Haco, according to the account, left Bergen on his expedition + "three nights before the 'Selian' vigils ... with all his fleet," and, + "having got a gentle breeze, was two nights at sea when he reached that + harbour of Shetland called Breydeyiar Sound (Bressay Sound, I presume) + with a great part of his navy." Here he remained "near half a month, and + from thence sailed to the Orkneys; and continued some time at Elidarwick, + which is near Kirkwall.... After St. Olave's wake (July 18, O. S.) King + Haco, leaving Elidarwick, sailed south before the Mull of Ronaldsha, with + all the navy;" and being joined by Ronald from the Orkneys, with the + ships that had followed him, he "led the whole armament into Ronaldsha, + which he left upon the vigil of St. Lawrence (July 30, O. S.)."</p> + + <p>Now I wish to know, 1. On what day in August this eclipse took place, + the day of the week, commencement of the eclipse, &c.</p> + + <p>2. Whether any cotemporary, or other writer besides the Icelandic + historian, has recorded this eclipse?</p> + + <p class="author">S.</p> + + <p class="address">Fitzroy Street.</p> + + <p><i>D'Israeli—how spelt?</i>—<span + class="sc">Caucasus</span> is so fortunate as to possess all the + acknowledged works of D'Israeli the elder, as published by himself. In + the title-page of every one of them, the name <!-- Page 442 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page442"></a>{442}</span>of the elegant and + accomplished author is spelt (as above) <i>with</i> an apostrophe. In the + late edition of his collected works, by his no less accomplished son, the + name is printed <i>without</i> the apostrophe. Indeed the name so appears + in all the works of Mr. D'Israeli the younger; a practice which he seems + to have taken up even in the lifetime of his father, who spelt it + differently. Can any of your readers inform <span + class="sc">Caucasus</span> of the reason of this difference, and of the + authority for it, and which is the correct mode? He has vainly sought for + information in the Heralds' Visitation books for Buckinghamshire, + preserved in the British Museum.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Caucasus.</span></p> + + <p><i>Richard Oswald.</i>—Could any of your correspondents give me + any information respecting Mr. Richard Oswald, the commissioner who + negociated the Treaty of 1782 at Paris, with Franklin, and his other + colleagues, representing the United States? Is there any obituary or + biographical notice of him in existence?</p> + + <p class="author">L.</p> + + <p><i>Cromwell's Descendants.</i>—Oliver Cromwell's daughter + Bridget was baptized August 4, 1624; married to Ireton January 15, + 1646-7; a widow Nov. 26, 1651; married to General Fleetwood, Lord + President in Ireland, before 1652; died at Stoke, near London, + 1681.—Can any of your correspondents furnish the date of this + lady's marriage with Fleetwood; also, a list of her children and + grandchildren by Fleetwood? It is supposed that Captain Fleetwood's + daughter, <i>i. e.</i> the General's granddaughter, married a Berry.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Erin.</span></p> + + <p><i>Letter of Archbishop Curwen to Archbishop Parker.</i>—In + <i>The Hunting of the Romish Fox</i>, collected by Sir James Ware, and + edited by Robert Ware (8vo., Dublin, 1683), there is a long account of an + image of the Saviour which, to the astonishment of the good people of + Dublin, and by the contrivance of one Father Leigh, sweated blood in the + year 1559. It is added, at p. 90.:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The Archbishop of Dublin wrote <i>this relation and to this + effect</i>, to his brother, Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker, who + was very joyful at the receipt thereof, by reason," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The whole chapter in which this occurs is stated to be "taken out of + the Lord Cecil's <i>Memorials</i>." Can any of your readers give me + assistance in finding these <i>Memorials</i>, or this letter to + Archbishop Parker, or a copy of it? I intended to have made it an object + of inquiry and search in Dublin, but I have been prevented accomplishing + my design of visiting that country. Perhaps some of your Irish readers + may be able to help me.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Bruce.</span></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries with Answers.</h2> + + <p><i>Margaret Patten.</i>—I have just seen a curious old picture, + executed at least a century ago, and which was lately found amongst some + family papers. It is a half-length of an old woman in homely looking + garments; a dark blue stuff gown, the sleeves partially rolled up, and + white sleeving protruding from under, not unlike the fashion of to-day; a + white and blue checked apron; around her neck a white tippet and a + handkerchief, on her head a "mutch," or close linen cap, and a lace or + embroidered band across her forehead to hide the absence of hair. She + holds something undistinguishable in one hand.</p> + + <p>The picture is about 10 × 8 inches, and is done on glass, evidently + transferred from an engraving on steel. The colours have been laid on + with hand, and then, to preserve and make an opaque back, it has received + a coating of plaster of Paris; altogether in its treatment resembling a + coloured photograph.</p> + + <p>By-the-bye, I am sorry I could not get a copy (photographic) of it, or + that would have rendered intelligible what I fear my lame descriptions + cannot. Beneath the figure is the following inscription:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + +<p class="cenhead">"<span class="sc">Margaret Patten</span>,</p> + + <p>Born in the Parish of Lochnugh, near Pairsley in Scotland, now Liveing + in the Work House of St. Marg<sup>ts</sup>, Westminsster, aged 138."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>There is no date appended.</p> + + <p>The word "Lochnugh" in the inscription is evidently spelt from the + Scotch pronunciation of Lochwinnoch, near Paisley.</p> + + <p>I should be very glad if any of your readers or correspondents in + London could ascertain if the name, &c. is to be found in the records + of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and also give me some facts as to the + history of this poor old Scotch woman, left destitute so far from home + and kindred.</p> + + <p>If it can be authenticated, it will make another item for your list of + longevals.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James B. Murdoch.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Glasgow.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[In the Board-room of the workhouse of St. Margaret's, Westminster, is + a portrait of Margaret Patten, which corresponds with the picture just + described, and bears the following inscription:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Margaret Patten</span>, aged 136: the Gift of John + Dowsell, William Goff, Matthew Burnett, Thomas Parker, Robert Wright, + John Parquot, Overseers, anno 1737."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Margaret Patten was buried in the burial-ground of what was then + called the Broadway Church, now Christ Church, and there is a stone on + the eastern boundary wall inscribed, "Near this place lieth <span + class="sc">Margaret Patten</span>, who died June 26, 1739, in the Parish + Workhouse, aged 136." In Walcott's <i>Memorials of <!-- Page 443 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page443"></a>{443}</span>Westminster</i>, p. + 288., we are told "she was a native of Lochborough, near Paisley. She was + brought to England to prepare Scotch broth for King James II., but, owing + to the abdication of that monarch, fell into poverty and died in St. + Margaret's workhouse, where her portrait is still preserved. Her body was + followed to the grave by the parochial authorities and many of the + principal inhabitants, while the children sang a hymn before it reached + its last resting-place."]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Etymology of "Coin."</i>—What is the etymology of our noun + and verb <i>coin</i> and <i>to coin</i>? I do not know if I have been + anticipated, but beg to suggest the following:—<i>Coin</i>, a piece + of cornered metal; <i>To coin</i>, the act of cornering such block of + metal.</p> + + <p>In Cornwall, the blocks of tin, when first run into moulds from the + smelting furnace, are <i>square</i>; and when the metal is to be fined or + assayed, the miner's phrase is, that it is to be <i>coined</i>; for the + <i>corners</i> of the moulded block are <i>cut off</i>, and subjected to + the <i>assay</i>; and the decree of fineness proved is stamped on the now + cornerless block—thereafter called a <i>coin of tin</i>. It is, I + conceive, by no means a violent supposition that such <i>coins of tin</i> + were current as money very many ages before either silver, gold, copper, + bronze, lead, tin, or any other metal moulded, stamped, engraved, or + fashioned into such coins as we now know had come into use. We know to + what far-back ages the finding of tin carries us, its find being entirely + confined to Cornwall; its presence near the surface in an ore readily + reduced and easily melted making its reduction into the metallic state + possible in the very rudest state of society and of the arts.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. D. Lamont.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Greenock.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[See Dr. Richardson for the following derivation:—"Fr. + <i>coigner</i>, It. <i>cuniare</i>, Sp. <i>cunar</i>, <i>acuñar</i>, to + wedge, and also to coin. Menage and Spelman agree from the Latin + <i>cuneus</i>. '<i>Cuneus</i>; sigillum ferreum, quo nummus + <i>cuditur</i>; a forma dictum: atque inde <i>coin</i> quasi <i>cune</i> + pro monetâ.' An iron seal with which metal is stamped; so called from the + shape. And hence money is called <i>coin</i> (q. <i>cune</i>, + wedge).—<i>Spelman.</i>" The Rev. T. R. Brown, in an unpublished + <i>Dictionary of Difficult Etymology</i><a name="footnotetag1" + href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, suggests the following:—"Fr. + <i>coign</i>, a coin, stamp, &c.; Gaelic, <i>cuin</i>, a coin. + Probably from the Sanscrit <i>kan</i>, to shine, desire, covet; + <i>kanaka</i>, gold, &c. The Hebrew <i>ceseph</i>, money, coin, is + derived in like manner from the verb <i>casaph</i>, to desire, covet. The + other meaning attached to the French word <i>coign</i>, viz. a wedge, + appears to be derived from quite a different root."]</p> + +</div> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a + href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p>This useful work makes two volumes 8vo.: but how is it the learned + Vicar of Southwick printed only <i>nine</i> copies? Was he thinking of + the sacred <i>Nine</i>?</p> + +</div> + <p><i>Inscription at Aylesbury.</i>—In the north transept of St. + Mary's Church, Aylesbury, occurs the following curious inscription on a + tomb of the date of 1584:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Yf, passing by this place, thou doe desire</p> + <p class="i1">To knowe what corpse here shry'd in marble lie,</p> + <p>The somme of that whiche now thou dost require</p> + <p class="i1">This slender verse shall sone to thee descrie.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Entombed here doth rest a worthie Dame,</p> + <p class="i1">Extract and born of noble house and bloud,</p> + <p>Her sire, Lord Paget, hight of worthie fame</p> + <p class="i1">Whose virtues cannot sink in Lethe floud.</p> + <p>Two brethern had she, barons of this realme,</p> + <p class="i1">A knight her freere, Sir Henry Lee, he hight,</p> + <p>To whom she bare three <i>impes</i>, which had to name,</p> + <p class="i1">John, Henry, Mary, slayn by fortune spight,</p> + <p>First two being yong, which cavs'd their parents mone,</p> + <p class="i1">The third in flower and prime of all her yeares:</p> + <p>All three do rest within this marble stone,</p> + <p class="i1">By which the fickleness of worldly joyes appears.</p> + <p>Good Frend sticke not to strew with crimson flowers</p> + <p class="i1">This marble stone, wherein her cindres rest,</p> + <p>For sure her ghost lives with the heavenly powers,</p> + <p class="i1">And guerdon hathe of virtuous life possest."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Can any of your readers give me any other instances of children being + called <i>imps</i>? and also tell me wherefore the name was given them? + and how long it continued in use?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. W. D. Brooks.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Cropredy, Banbury.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The inscription is given in Lipscomb's <i>Buckinghamshire</i>. Horne + Tooke says <i>imp</i> is the past participle of the A.-S. <i>impan</i>, + to graft, to plant. Mr. Steevens (Note on <i>2 Henry IV.</i>, Act V. Sc. + 5.) tells us, "An <i>imp</i> is a shoot in its primitive sense, but means + a son in Shakspeare." In Hollinshed, p. 951., the last words of Lord + Cromwell are preserved, who says, "And after him that his sonne Prince + Edward, that goodlie <i>impe</i>, may long reign over you." The word + <i>imp</i> is perpetually used by Ulpian Fulwell, and other ancient + writers, for progeny:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"And were it not thy royal <i>impe</i></p> + <p>Did mitigate our pain."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Again, in the <i>Battle of Alcazar</i>, 1594:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Amurath, mighty emperor of the East,</p> + <p>That shall receive the <i>imp</i> of royal race."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>See other examples in Todd's Johnson and Dr. Richardson's + Dictionaries. Shakspeare uses the word only in jocular and burlesque + passages, which, says Nares, is the natural course of a word growing + obsolete.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>"Guardian Angels now protect me," &c.</i>—I remember John + Wesley, and also his saying the "Devil should not have the best tunes." + There was a pretty love-song, a great favourite when I was a boy:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Guardian angels, now protect me,</p> + <p>Send to me the youth I love."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>the music of which Wesley introduced to his congregation as a hymn + tune. The music I have, and I shall be glad if any of your correspondents + <!-- Page 444 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page444"></a>{444}</span>can oblige me with the first verse of this + love-song; I only recollect the above lines.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Gardiner.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Leicester.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The following is the song referred to by our correspondent:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"><i>The Forsaken Nymph.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Guardian angels, now protect me,</p> + <p class="i1">Send to me the swain I love;</p> + <p>Cupid, with thy bow direct me;</p> + <p class="i1">Help me, all ye pow'rs above.</p> + <p>Bear him my sighs, ye gentle breezes,</p> + <p class="i1">Tell him I love and I despair,</p> + <p>Tell him for him I grieve, say 'tis for him I live;</p> + <p class="i1">O may the shepherd be sincere!</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Through the shady grove I'll wander,</p> + <p class="i1">Silent as the bird of night,</p> + <p>Near the brink of yonder fountain,</p> + <p class="i1">First Leander bless'd my sight.</p> + <p>Witness ye groves and falls of water,</p> + <p class="i1">Echos repeat the vows he swore:</p> + <p>Can he forget me? will he neglect me?</p> + <p class="i1">Shall I never see him more?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Does he love, and yet forsake me,</p> + <p class="i1">To admire a nymph more fair?</p> + <p>If 'tis so, I'll wear the willow,</p> + <p class="i1">And esteem the happy pair.</p> + <p>Some lonely cave I'll make my dwelling,</p> + <p class="i1">Ne'er more the cares of life pursue;</p> + <p>The lark and Philomel only shall hear me tell,</p> + <p class="i1">What bids me bid the world adieu."]</p> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + <p><i>K. C. B.'s.</i>—I observe that in the <i>London Gazette</i> + of January 2, 1815, which regulates the existing order of the Bath, it is + commanded by the sovereign that "there shall be affixed in the church of + St. Peter at Westminster escutcheons and banners of the arms of each + K. C. B." Has this command been regularly fulfilled on the creation of + each K. C. B.? I believe that on each creation fees are demanded by the + Heralds' College, for the professed purpose of exemplifying the knight's + arms, and affixing his escutcheon; but I never remember to have seen the + escutcheons in Westminster Abbey.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Tewars.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The order <i>never</i> was fulfilled. If the knights were entitled to + armorial bearings, no fees whatever were demanded by or paid to the + Heralds' College. The statutes of 1815 were, however, abrogated and + annulled by the statutes of 1847, and the banners are not required to be + suspended in the Abbey. The erection of the banners and plates, however, + rested with the officers of the order, and the Heralds' College had + nothing to do with the matter.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Danish and Swedish Ballads.</i>—What are the best and most + recent collections of ancient Danish and Swedish ballad poetry?</p> + + <p class="author">J. M. B.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[We believe the best and most recent collection of Danish ballads is + the edition of <i>Udvalgte Danske Viser fra Middelalderen</i>, by + Abrahamson, Nyerup, Rabbek, &c., in five small 8vo. volumes, + Copenhagen, 1812. The best Swedish collection was <i>Svenska Folk-Visor + fran Forteden</i>, collected and edited by Geijer and Afzelius, and + published at Stockholm, 1814; but the more recent collection published by + Arwidson in 1834 is certainly superior. It is in three octavo volumes, + and is entitled <i>Svenska Fornsänger. En Samling of Kämp-visor, + Folk-visor, Lekar och Dansar, samt Barn- och Vall-Sänger</i>.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Etymology of "Conger."</i>—What is the etymology of the word + <i>Conger</i>, as applied to the larger kind of deep sea eels by our + fishermen (who, be it remarked, never add eel. <i>Conger-eel</i> is + entirely used by shore-folk)?</p> + + <p>I imagine that it may be traced from the Danish <i>Kongr</i>, a king, + or kings; for being the greatest of eels, the fishermen, whose nets he + tore, and whose take he seriously reduced, might well call him in size, + in strength, and voracity—<i>Kongr</i>, the king.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. D. Lamont.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Greenock.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Todd and Webster derive it from the Latin <i>conger</i> or + <i>congrus</i>; Gr. <span title="gongros" class="grk" + >γόγγρος</span>, formed of + <span title="graô" class="grk">γράω</span>, to + eat, the fish being very voracious; It. <i>gongro</i>; Fr. + <i>congre</i>.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum tibi."</i>—This is, I + think, the ordinary form of a saying cited somewhere by Goldsmith, who + calls it "so trite a quotation that it almost demands an apology to + repeat it." Whence comes it originally? I am unable to give the exact + reference to the passage in Goldsmith, but in his <i>Citizen of the + World</i>, letter 53rd, he has a cognate idea:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"As in common conversation the best way to make the audience laugh is + by first laughing yourself, so in writing," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">W. T. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Horace, <i>De Arte Poetica</i>, 102.]</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>MEDAL AND RELIC OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 293.)</p> + + <p>I possess a cast of this medal as described by your correspondent + <span class="sc">W. Fraser</span>, but which is a little indistinct in + some of the letters of its inscriptions. The yew-tree represented on it + is generally supposed to be that which stood at Cruikston Castle nearly + Paisley; and its motto "Vires" may perhaps have been intended to denote + its natural strength and durability. The date of the medal being 1566, + and Mary's marriage with Lord Darnly having taken place on July 29, 1565, + the yew-tree may have been introduced to commemorate some incident of + their courtship, and gives likelihood to the common tradition. I once had + a small box composed partly of its wood, and of <!-- Page 445 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page445"></a>{445}</span>that of the "Torwood + Oak" near Stirling, which was presented to me about thirty-five years ago + by an aged lady, whose property it had been for a long time previously, + and who placed much value on it as a relic. Though visiting Cruikston + Castle in early life, I never heard of there being any feeling of + "superstition" connected with such little objects as the crosses, &c. + which were long made from the wood of the yew-tree. They are all, I + think, to be viewed simply as curiosities associated with the historical + interest of the place, and similar examples are to be found among our + people in the numerous <i>quaichs</i> (drinking-cups) and other articles + which have been formed from the "Torwood Oak" that protected the + illustrious Sir William Wallace from his enemies; from his oak at + Elderslie, said to have been planted by his hand, two miles to the west + of Paisley; and lately from such scraps of the old oaken rafters of the + Glasgow Cathedral as could be obtained in the course of its modern + repairs.</p> + + <p>As respects the yew-tree immediately concerned, some notices of its + remains may be found in a work entitled <i>The Severn Delineated</i>, by + Charles Taylor, Glasgow, 1831, at page 82. The author, who was a very + curious local antiquary, died in 1837, aged forty-two. As his book is now + scarce, I may be excused from subjoining rather a long extract, but which + also throws some light on other particulars of this subject:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Retreating from Househill (a seat in the vicinity) to Cruikston + Castle, the country is rich, and the scenery delightful. The castle + itself might be the subject of volumes, as it has been the theme of many + a poet, and the subject of many a painter's pencil. Its name is known all + over the world, or may be so, from the circumstance of its once having + been the residence of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Lord Darnly; and + though the famed yew-tree decks not now the 'hallowed mould,' as the poet + expresses himself,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'Is there an eye that tearless could behold</p> + <p>This lov'd retreat of beauty's fairest flower?'</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>About three years ago a large fragment fell from the south wing of + this ruin, despite of all the attention Sir John Maywell paid to keep it + up. The founder of this castle was one De Croc; hence the name Crockston, + Crocston, or Cruikston. This family (says Crawfurd), failing in ane + heiress, she was married to Sir Alexander Stewart of Torbolton, second + son to Walter, the second of that name, Great Stewart of Scotland, and of + this marriage are descended the families of Darnly and Lorn."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Cruikston is now the property of Sir John Maywell of Nether Pollock. + Of the trunk of the once—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">" . . . . . green yew,</p> + <p>The first that met the royal Mary's view;</p> + <p>When bright in charms the youthful princess led</p> + <p>The graceful Darnly to her throne and bed."—</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Lady Maywell ordered to be made by an ingenious individual, at + Pollockshaws, an exact model of the castle, and some table and other + utensils, which are still in preservation at Pollock. Before its removal, + many are the snuff-boxes, toddy ladles, &c. that have been made of + it, and are still in preservation by the curious. The following couplet, + composed by the late Mr. W. Craig, surgeon, is inscribed on one of these + ladles, which has seen no little service:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Near Cruikston Castle's stately tower,</p> + <p class="i1">For many a year I stood;</p> + <p>My shade was of the hallow'd bower;</p> + <p class="i1">Where Scotland's queen was woo'd."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Another medal of Queen Mary's, of considerable size, of which I have + seen a cast many years since, contained the following inscriptions:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"O God graunt patience in that I suffer vrang."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The reverse has in the centre:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Quho can compare with me in grief,</p> + <p>I die and dar nocht seek relief."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>With this legend around:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Hourt not the <a href="images/210_017.png"><img src="images/210_017.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="heart symbol" /></a> quhais [heart whose] joy thou art."</p> + </div> + </div> +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"They all appear [says Mr. Pinkerton] to have been done in France by + Mary's directions, who was fond of devices. Her cruel captivity could not + debar her from intercourse with her friends in France; who must with + pleasure have executed her orders as affording her a little + consolation."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">G. N.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Fraser's</span> supposed medal is a ryal (or + possibly a ¾ ryal) of Mary and Henry, commonly known as a Cruickstown + dollar; from the idea that the tree upon them is a representation of the + famous yew-tree at Cruickstown Castle. It appears, however, from the + ordinance for coining these pieces, that the tree is a "palm-tree crowned + with a shell paddock (lizard) creeping up the stem of the same." The + motto across the tree is "<span class="scac">DAT GLORIA VIRES</span>." + (See Lindsay's <i>Scotch Coinage</i>, p. 51.)</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Evans</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>EARLY USE OF TIN.—DERIVATION OF THE NAME +OF BRITAIN.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 344.)</p> + + <p>The reply of Dr. Hincks appears to require the following. While + seeking information upon the first of these matters, I took up one of my + old school-books, and at the foot of a page found the following note: + "Britannia is from <i>Barat-anac</i>, the land of tin." I do not + recollect to have seen it elsewhere; but it appeared to me so apt and + correct that I adopted it at once.</p> + + <p>That the Shirutana of the Egyptian inscriptions, <!-- Page 446 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page446"></a>{446}</span>or Shairetana, + will be found to be the same people as the Cirátas of the Hindu Puranas, + I have little doubt.</p> + + <p>Cirátas is there applied as a name to the people who were afterwards + known to us as the Phœnicians; but that either the Shirutana or the + Cirátas will be found to have discovered Britain, though they may have + given it a name, I do not expect. The Cirátas were a people of a later + age to that of the first inhabitants of Britain. The first inhabitants of + Britain I call the Celtæ, as I know no other name for them; but there + seems reason for thinking that this island was visited by an earlier + tribe, though probably they were of the same race.</p> + + <p>The origin of the Cirátas and first inhabitants of Britain is + this:—A powerful monarchy appears to have been established at the + earliest dawn of history in the country we now call Persia, long before + there was any Assyrian government, and under this monarchy that country + was the true centre of population, of knowledge, of languages, and of + arts. Three distinct races of men appear to have migrated in different + directions from this their common country. One of these divides into two + parts, one proceeding to the west, the other to the south-east of the + place where the division took place. The western party passed through + Asia Minor, and also by the north of the Black Sea, carrying with it all + that was then known of the different arts and sciences, until we find the + descendants at this day in the British Isles. The south-eastern party, + also, continued its progress to the part now known to us as India, where + its descendants may be found at this day. Long after the settlement in + India, various tribes, all proceeding from it, migrated from that country + to the parts now known to us as Egypt and Syria; and one of these tribes + was the Cirátas.</p> + + <p>That the Cirátas, Shirutana, or Phœnicians, call them as you + may, were the first who passed the Pillar of Hercules in ships on their + way to obtain tin here at first-hand, is almost certain; and that the + western party, as described above, had broken ground to supply it long + before their customers came for it, is scarcely less so. They all had a + common origin, and used nearly the same language, religion, and laws.</p> + + <p>My Query has brought out a highly satisfactory elucidation of the + origin of the term <i>Britain</i>; and this, looking at the position in + which that term stood on the day the last Number of "N. & Q." was + published is by no means a slight acquisition. I now leave it.</p> + + <p class="author">G. W.</p> + + <p class="address">Stansted, Montfichet.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PICTORIAL EDITIONS OF THE BOOK OF COMMON +PRAYER.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. vii., pp. 18. 91. 321.; Vol. viii., p. 318.)</p> + + <p>The following list may prove an acceptable addition to those already + printed in your pages. Some of your correspondents perhaps will make it + more complete:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>1707. Oxford. 8vo. Plates by John Sturt.</p> + <p>1710. London. 8vo. Forty-four plates, with no engraver's name.</p> + <p>1712. Oxford. 8vo. Plates by Sturt.</p> + <p>1717. London. 8vo. Ruled with double red lines. Plates by Sturt.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Lowndes speaks of a large paper impression in quarto of this same + edition: "The volume consists of one hundred and sixty-six plates, + besides twenty-two containing dedication, table, &c. Prefixed is a + bust of King George I.; and facing it, those of the Prince and Princess + of Wales. Sturt likewise published a set of fifty-five historical cuts + for Common Prayer in small 8vo."</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>1738. London. 8vo. With Old Version of the Psalms; and forty-four + curious plates, including Gunpowder Treason, the Martyrdom of Charles I., + and Restoration of Charles II. (Booksellers' Catal.)</p> + + <p>1794. London. Published by J. Good and E. Harding, with plates after + Stothard by Bartolozzi and others (Lowndes).</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Lowndes also mentions "Illustrations to the Book of Common Prayer by + Richard Westall, London, 1813, 8 vo. (proofs) 4to.," and "Twelve + illustrations to ditto, engraved by John Scott, from designs by Burney + and Thurston, royal 8vo."</p> + + <p>I have reserved for more particular description two editions in my own + possession:—One is a small 8vo., ruled with red lines: "In the + Savoy, printed by the assignees of John Bill and Christopher Barker, + Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1667." It contains + fifty-nine plates: these are identical with those in the <i>Antiquitates + Christianæ</i>, or Bishop Taylor's <i>Life of Christ</i>, and Cave's + <i>Lives of the Apostles</i> (folio editions), which, if I mistake not, + were engraved by William Faithorn. The Act of Uniformity is given in + black-letter. The Ordinal is wanting. The three State Services are not + enumerated in the Table of Contents, but are added at the end of the + book. The Old Version of the Psalms (with its usual quaint title), a + tract of 104 pp., is appended: "London: printed by Thos. Newcomb for the + Company of Stationers, 1671." The other edition is a 12mo.: "London, + printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased, + Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1708" (ruled with red + lines). In the frontispiece is represented a female figure kneeling with + a prayer book open before her: an angel <!-- Page 447 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page447"></a>{447}</span>in the air holds a + scroll, on which is inscribed, "The Liturgy of the Church of England, + adorned with fifty-five historical cuts, P. La Vergne del., M. Van der + Gucht sc." Beneath the picture, "Sold by Robt. Whitledge at the Bible in + Ave Maria Lane, near Stationers' Hall."</p> + + <p>Some of the cuts are very curious, as No. 16., which represents the + Devil (adorned with a crown, sceptre, and tail) standing on the top of a + high conical rock, and our Blessed Lord at a little distance from him. + The appearance and attitude of the Apostles are somewhat grotesque. One + of the best is St. Philip (No. 39.), who is represented as a wrinkled, + bearded old man, contemplating a crucifix in his hand.</p> + + <p>No. 51. is a picture of Guy Fawkes approaching the Parliament House, + with a lantern in his hand. A large eye is depicted in the clouds above, + which sheds a stream of light on the hand of the conspirator. No. 52. is + "The Martyrdom of King Charles I." No. 53. "The Restoration of Monarchy + and King Charles II." A number of cavaliers on horseback, with their + conical hats and long tresses, occupy the foreground of this picture; the + army appears in the background. This is the last, though the scroll + advertises fifty-five cuts.</p> + + <p>The Prefaces and Calendar are printed in very small bad type. The four + State Services are enumerated in the Table of Contents. After the State + Services follow, "At the Healing;" the Thirty-nine Articles, and a Table + of Kindred and Affinity. This edition neither contains the Ordinal nor a + metrical version of the Psalms. Notwithstanding the date on the + title-page, <i>King George</i> is prayed for throughout the book, except + in the service "For the Eighth Day of March," when Queen Anne's name + occurs.</p> + + <p>Of the modern pictorial editions of the Book of Common Prayer may be + mentioned that of Charles Knight "illustrated by nearly seven hundred + beautiful woodcuts by Jackson, from drawings by Harvey, and six + illuminated titles; with Explanatory Notes by the Rev. H. Stebbing," + royal 8vo., London, 1838; reprinted in 1846. That of Murray, "illuminated + by Owen Jones, and illustrated with engravings from the works of the + great masters," royal 8vo., London, 1845; reprinted in 1850 in med. 8vo. + That of Whittaker in 12mo. and 8vo., "with notes and illuminations." The + last, and by far the best, pictorial edition is that of J. H. Parker of + Oxford, "with fifty illustrations; selected from the finest examples of + the early Italian and modern German schools, by the Rev. H. J. Rose and + Rev. J. W. Burgon."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Jarltzberg</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>YEW-TREES IN CHURCHYARDS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 346.)</p> + + <p>This has long been to me a vexed question, and I fear that none of + your correspondents have given a satisfactory answer.</p> + + <p>I have seen in London sprigs of yew and palm willow offered for sale + before Palm Sunday. At this period they may, I think, be always found in + Covent Garden Market. I saw them last year also in the greengrocers' + shops at Brighton. To me these are evident traces of an old custom of + using the yew as well as the willow. The origin is to be found in the + Jewish custom of carrying "branches of palm-trees, and boughs of <i>thick + trees</i>, and willows from the brook" (Leviticus xxiii. 39, 40.).</p> + + <p>Wordsworth alludes to this in his sonnet on seeing a procession at + Chamouny:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"The Hebrews thus carrying in joyful state</p> + <p>Thick boughs of palm and willows from the brook,</p> + <p>March'd round the altar—to commemorate</p> + <p>How, when their course they from the desert took,</p> + <p>Guided by signs which ne'er the sky forsook,</p> + <p>They lodged in leafy tents and cabins low,</p> + <p>Green boughs were borne."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In <i>A Voyage from Leith to Lapland</i>, 1851, vol. i. p. 132., there + is an account of the funeral of the poet Oehlenschläger. The author + states,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The entire avenue was strewn, according to the old Scandinavian + custom, with evergreen boughs of fir, and bunches of fir and box, mingled + in some instances with artificial flowers. It is customary at all + funerals to strew evergreens before the door of the house where the body + lies, but it is only for some very distinguished person indeed they are + strewn all the way to the burial place."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Forby, in his <i>East Anglican Vocabulary</i>, says it is a + superstitious notion that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"If you bring yew into the house at Christmas amongst the evergreens + used to dress it, you will have a death in the family before the end of + the year."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I believe the yew will be found generally on the south side of the + church, but always near the principal entrance, easy of access for the + procession on Palm Sunday, and perhaps for funerals, and that it was used + as a substitute for the palm, and coupled with "the willow from the + brook," hence called the palm willow.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Holt White</span>.</p> + + <p>P. S.—I cannot agree with your correspondent <span + class="sc">J. G. Cumming</span>, that the yew is one of "our few + evergreens." I doubt our having in England any native evergreen but the + holly.</p> + + <p>The etymology of the name of the yew-tree clearly shows that it was + not planted in churchyards as an emblem of evil, but one of immortality. + The name of the tree in Celtic is <i>jubar</i>, pronounced <i>yewar</i>, + <i>i. e.</i> "the evergreen head." The town of <!-- Page 448 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page448"></a>{448}</span>Newry in Ireland took + its name from two yew-trees which St. Patrick planted: + <i>A-Niubaride</i>, pronounced <i>A-Newery</i>, <i>i. e.</i> "the + yew-trees," which stood until Cromwell's time, when some soldiers + ruthlessly cut them down.</p> + + <p>In the Note by <span class="sc">Mr. J. G. Cumming</span>, a derivation + is evidently required for the English word <i>yeoman</i>, which he + suggests is taken from "yokeman." Yeoman is from <i>eō</i>, + pronounced <i>yo</i>, <i>i. e.</i> free, worthy, respectable, as opposed + to the terms <i>villein</i>, serf, &c.; so that yeoman means a + freeman, a respectable person.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fras. Crossley</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>OSBORN FAMILY.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 270.)</p> + + <p>Mr. H. T. Griffith asks where may any pedigree of the <i>Osborne</i> + family, previous to Edward Osborne, the ancestor of the Dukes of Leeds, + be seen. In reply, I am in possession of large collections relating to + the Norman Osbornes, from whom I have reasons to believe him to have been + descended. Those Osbornes can be proved to have been settled in certain + of the midland counties of England from the time of the attainder and + downfall of the son of William Fitzosborne, Earl of Hereford and premier + peer, down to a comparatively late period. A branch of them was possessed + of the manor of Kelmarsh in Northamptonshire; and their pedigree, + beginning in 1461, may be seen in Whalley's <i>Northamptonshire</i>: but + this is necessarily very imperfect, on account of the author's want of + access to documents which have subsequently been opened to the + public.</p> + + <p>I may here notice that an inexcusable error has been committed and + repeated in several of the collections of records published by the + Parliamentary Commission, who have, in numerous instances, and without + any warrant, interpreted <i>Osb.</i> of the MSS. as "Osbert." Thus they + have deprived <i>Fitzosborne</i>, Bishop of Exeter (<span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 1102), of some of his manors, and within his own + diocese, and conferred them on <i>Osbert the Bishop</i>, although there + never was a bishop of that name in England. I took the liberty of + pointing out this error to one of the chief editors concerned in these + works; but as he has taken no notice of my observations, I must infer + that he thinks it most prudent to excite no farther inquiry.</p> + + <p>The <i>Osborns</i>, now so numerous in London, appear to have come + from the Danish stem from which the Norman branch was originally derived. + Their number, which has increased even beyond the ordinary ratio of the + population, may perhaps be dated from the wife of one of them who (temp. + Jac. I.) had twenty-four sons, and was interred in old St. Paul's.</p> + + <p>I shall be very happy to afford any assistance in my power to the + gentleman who has occasioned these remarks.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Omicron</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. vi., p. 554.; Vol. vii., pp. 454. 603.; Vol. viii., +pp. 108. 248.)</p> + + <p>Many thanks are due to your correspondent <span class="sc">Cuthbert + Bede</span>, B.A., for his interesting series of inscriptions on bells. + The following are, I think, sufficiently curious to be added to your + collection:—</p> + + <p>Rouen Cathedral:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In the steeple of the great church, in the citie of Roane in + Normandy, is one great bell with the like inscription." [Like, that is, + to the inscription at St. Stephen's, Westminster: see "N. & Q." Vol. + viii., p. 108.]</p> + +</blockquote> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Je suis George de Ambois,</p> + <p>Qui trente-cinque mille pois;</p> + <p>Mes luis qui me pesera,</p> + <p>Trente-six mille me trouvera."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"I am <i>George of Ambois</i>,</p> + <p>Thirtie-five thousand in pois;</p> + <p>But he that shall weigh me,</p> + <p>Thirty-six thousand shall find me."—Weever, <i>Fun. Mon</i>., edit. fol. 1631, p. 492.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>St. Matthew, Great Milton, Oxfordshire:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>1. "I as treble begin.</p> + <p>3. "I was third ring.</p> + <p>8. (Great bell) "I to church the living call, and to the grave do summons."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Inscription suggested as being suitable for six bells, in the + <i>Ecclesiologist</i> (New Series), vol. i. p. 209.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>1. "Ave Pater, Rex, Creator:</p> + <p>2. Ave Fili, Lux, Salvator:</p> + <p class="i2">3. Ave Pax et Charitas.</p> + <p>4. Ave Simplex, Ave Trine;</p> + <p>5. Ave Regnans sine fine,</p> + <p class="i2">6. Ave Sancta Trinitas."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Inscriptions are often to be found in Lombardic characters, and on + bells of great antiquity. Can any of your ecclesiological correspondents + furnish me with the date of the earliest known example?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Sparrow Simpson</span>.</p> + + <p>On bells in Southrepps Church, Norfolk:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Tuba ad Juditium. Campana ad Ecclesiam, 1641."</p> + + <p>"Miserere mei Jhesus Nazarenus Rex Judæorum."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. L. Sisson</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>LADIES' ARMS BORNE IN A LOZENGE.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.)</p> + + <p>I broached a theory with a concluding remark that it would give me + great pleasure to see one more reasonable take its place. I fear that, if + all your readers anxious to clear up an obscure point in an interesting + science take no more trouble than P. P., we shall find ourselves no <!-- + Page 449 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page449"></a>{449}</span>nearer our object in the middle of your + eightieth volume than we are now in your eighth.</p> + + <p>What P. P. is pleased to term the "routine" reason is after all but + one among many, and is not better substantiated than some of the others + quoted by me; for though the lozenge has a "supposed" resemblance to the + distaff or fusil, heraldically it is but a supposed one, and by most + writers the difference is very distinctly indicated.</p> + + <p>Boyer says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with + its yarn or thread wound about it. <i>Fusils are longer than + lozenges</i>, and taper or pointed at both ends."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The same author thus describes a lozenge:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A Rhimbus, in geometry, is a figure of four equal and parallel sides, + but not rectangular."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Robson says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Fusil, a kind of spindle used in spinning. Its formation should be + particularly attended to, <i>as few painters or engravers make a + sufficient distinction between the fusil and lozenge</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Nisbet describes a lozenge to be—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A figure that has equal sides and unequal angles, as the quarry of a + glass window placed erect pointways."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>He adds:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The Latins say, 'Lozengæ factæ sunt ad modum lozangiorum in vitreis.' + Heralds tell us that their use in armories came from the pavement of + marble stones of churches, fine palaces and houses, cut after the form of + lozenges, which pavings the French and Italians call loze and the + Spaniards <i>loza</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Sylvester de Petra-Sancta of the lozenge says much the same:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Scutulas oxigonias scu acutangulus erectas, et quasi gradiles, + referri debere ad latericias et antiquas domus olim, viz. Nobilium quia + vulgus, et infamiæ sortis homines, intra humiles casus, vet antra + inhabitantur."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Of the fusil Nisbet writes:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long + than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two + side points."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>He adds that:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Chassanus and others make their sides round, as in his description of + them: 'Fusæ sunt acutæ in superiore et inferiore partibus, et rotundæ ex + utroque latere;' which description has occasioned some English heralds, + when so painted or engraven, to call them millers' picks, as Sir John + Boswell, in his <i>Concords of Armory</i>, and others, to call them + weavers' shuttles."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Menestrier says of lozenges:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Lozange est une figure de quatre pointes, dont deux sont un peu plus + étendues que les autres, et assise sur une de ces pointes. C'est le Rhomb + des mathématiciens, et les quarreaux des vitres ordinaires en ont la + figure."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Of fusils:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Fusées sont plus étendues en longue que les lozanges, et affilées en + point comme les fuseaux. Elles sont pièces d'architecture où l'on se sert + pour ornement de fusées et de pesons."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The celebrated <i>Boke of St. Albans</i> (1486) thus describes the + difference between a lozenge and fusil:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Knaw ye y<sup>e</sup> differans betwix ffusillis and losyng. + Wherefore it is to be knaw that ffusillis ar euermore long, also fusyllis + ar strattyr ouerwart in the baly then ar mascules. And mascules ar larger + ou'wartt in the baly, and shorter in length than be fusyllis."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The mascle is afterwards explained to be the lozenge pierced. + Again:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"And ye most take thys for a general enformacion and instruccion that + certanli losyng eu'more stand upright ... and so withowte dowte we have + the differans of the foresayd signes, that is to wete of mascules and + losynges."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Dallaway, an elegant writer on Heraldry, says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Of the lozenge the following extraordinary description is given in a + MS. of Glover, 'Lozenga est pars vitri in vitrea fenestra.' But it may be + more satisfactory to observe that the lozenge, with its diminutive, are + given to females instead of an escocheon for the insertion of their + armorial bearings, one of which is supposed to have been a cushion of + that shape, and the other is evidently the spindle used in spinning; both + demonstrative of the sedentary employments of women. On a very splendid + brass for Eleanor, relict of Thomas of Woodstocke, who died 1384, she is + delineated as resting her head upon two cushions, the upper of which is + placed lozenge-wise."—P. 140.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The above is taken from his <i>Miscellaneous Observations on Heraldic + Ensigns</i>, the following from the body of his great work:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Females being heirs, or conveying feodal lordships to their husbands, + had, as early as the thirteenth century, the privilege of armorial seals. + The variations were progressive and frequent; at first the female effigy + had the kirtle or inner garment emblazoned, or held the escocheon over + her head, or in her right hand; then three escocheons met in the centre, + or four were joined at their bases, if the alliance admitted of so many. + Dimidiation, accollation, and impalement succeeded each other at short + intervals. But the modern practice of placing the arms of females upon a + lozenge appears to have originated about the middle of the fourteenth + century, when we have an instance of five lozenges conjoined upon one + seal; that of the heir female in the centre impaling the arms of her + husband, and surrounded by those of her ancestors."—P. 400.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I think this quotation from so learned a writer goes far towards + settling the whole question. I confess myself willing to have my theory + placed second to this, while I must discard the "distaff" <!-- Page 450 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page450"></a>{450}</span>notion, unless + better substantiated than by the French saying from their Salique law, + which I here give for P. P.'s information: "Nunquam corona a lance + transibit ad fusum." I am willing to admit the antiquity of this notion; + for while the shape of the man's shield is traced by Sylvanus Morgan to + Adam's spade, he takes the woman's from Eve's spindle!</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"When Adam delved, and Eve span,</p> + <p>Who was then the gentleman?"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>In Geoffry Chaucer's time the lozenge appears to have been an ornament + worn by heralds in their dress or crown. In describing the habit of one, + he says:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"They crowned were as kinges</p> + <p>With crowns wrought full of lozenges</p> + <p>And many ribbons and many fringes."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>As for the difference between the lozenge and fusil, I could multiply + opinions and examples, but hope those given will be sufficient.</p> + + <p>I cannot conclude these few hasty remarks without expressing a wish + that one of your correspondents in particular would take up this subject, + to handle which in a masterly manner, his position is a guaranty of his + ability. I refer to the gentleman holding the office of York Herald.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Broctuna.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Bury, Lancashire.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>THE MYRTLE BEE.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 173.)</p> + + <p>From a very early period, and throughout life, I have been accustomed + to shooting, and well remember the bird in question, but whether the term + was local or general, I am unable to state, never having met with it save + in one locality; and many years have elapsed since I saw one, although in + the habit of frequenting the neighbourhood where it was originally to be + seen. I attribute its disappearance to local causes. I met with it during + a series of years, ending about twenty-five years since, at which period + I lost sight of it. It was to be met with during the autumn and winter in + bogs scattered over with bog myrtle, on Chobham and the adjacent common; + I never met with it elsewhere. It is solitary. I am unacquainted with its + food, and only in a single instance had I ever one in my hand. Its tongue + is pointed, sharp, and appearing capable of penetration. Its colour + throughout dusky light blue, slightly tinged with yellow about the vent. + Tail about one inch, being rather long in proportion to the body, causing + the wings to appear forward, with a miniature pheasant-like appearance as + it flew, or rather darted, from bush to bush, with amazing quickness, its + wings moving with rapidity, straight in its flight, keeping near the + ground, appearing loth to wing, never passing an intervening bush if ever + so near; and I never saw one fly over eight or ten yards, and never wing + a second time, which induced our dogs (using a sporting phrase) to puzzle + them, causing a belief that they were in most instances trodden under the + water and grass in which the myrtle grew, and which nothing but a dog + could approach. I never saw one sitting or light on a branch of the + myrtle, but invariably flying from the <i>base</i> of one plant to that + of another. I am not aware that any cabinet contains a preserved + specimen, or that the bird has ever been noticed by any naturalist as a + British or foreign bird.</p> + + <p>Should W. R. D. S. covet farther information as to the probable cause + of its disappearance, and my never having met with it elsewhere, perhaps + he will favour me with his address. I cannot think the bird extinct.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Brown.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Egham, Surrey.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>CAPTAIN JOHN DAVIS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 385.)</p> + + <p>The earliest memoir of captain John Davis, the celebrated arctic + navigator, is that given by the reverend John Prince in his <span + class="sc">Danmonii orientales illustres</span>, <i>or the worthies of + Devon</i>, Exeter, 1701, folio. It is, however, erroneous and defective + in important particulars, and has misled some eminent writers, as + Campbell, Eyriès, Barrow, &c.</p> + + <p>Despite the assertions of master Prince, I <i>question</i> if captain + Davis married a daughter of sir John Fulford; I am <i>sure</i> he was not + the first pilot who conducted the Hollanders to the East-Indies; I am + sure the journal of the voyage is not printed in Hakluyt; I am sure the + narrative of his voyage with sir Edward Michelborne is neither dedicated + to the earl of Essex nor printed in Hakluyt; I am sure he did not write + the <i>Rutter, or brief directions for sailing into the East-Indies</i>; + I am sure he wrote two works of which Prince says nothing; I am sure he + did not make <i>five</i> voyages to the East-Indies; and I am sure, to + omit other oversights, that he did not "return home safe again." To the + latter point I shall now confine myself.</p> + + <p>In 1604 king James, regardless of the charter held by the East-India + company, granted a license to sir Edward Michelborne, one of his + gentlemen-pensioners, to discover and trade with the "countries and + domynions of Cathaia, China, Japan," &c. This license, preserved in + the Rolls-chapel, is dated the twenty-fifth of June. On the fifth of + December sir Edward set sail from Cowes with the Tiger, a ship of 240 + tons, and a pinnace—captain Davis being, as I conceive, the + <i>second</i> in command. In December 1605, being near the island of + Bintang, they fell in with a junk of 70 tons, carrying ninety Japanese, + most of them <!-- Page 451 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page451"></a>{451}</span>"in too gallant a habit for saylers:" in + fact, they were pirates! The unfortunate result shall now be stated in + the words of the <i>pirate</i> Michelborne:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Vpon mutuall courtesies with gifts and feastings betweene vs, + sometimes fiue and twentie or sixe and twentie of their chiefest came + aboord: whereof I vould not suffer aboue sixe to have weapons. Their was + neuer the like number of our men aboord their iunke. I willed captaine + John Dauis in the morning [the twenty-seventh of December] to possesse + himselfe of their weapons, and to put the companie before mast, and to + leave some guard on their weapons, while they searched in the rice, + doubting that by searching and finding that which would dislike them, + they might suddenly set vpon my men, and put them to the sword: as the + sequell prooued. Captaine Dauis being beguiled with their humble + semblance, would not possesse himselfe of their weapons, though I sent + twice of purpose from my shippe to will him to doe it. They passed all + the day, my men searching in the rice, and they looking on: at the + sunne-setting, after long search and nothing found, saue a little storax + and beniamin: they seeing oportunitie, and talking to the rest of their + companie which were in my ship, being neere to their iunke, they + resolued, at a watch-word betweene them, to set vpon vs resolutely in + both ships. This being concluded, they suddenly killed and droue + ouer-boord, all my men that were in their ship; and those which were + aboord my ship sallied out of my cabbin, where they were put, with such + weapons as they had, finding certaine targets in my cabbin, and other + things that they vsed as weapons. My selfe being aloft on the decke, + knowing what was likely to follow, leapt into the waste, where, with the + boate swaines, carpenter and some few more, wee kept them vnder the + halfe-decke. At their first comming forth of the cabbin, they met captain + Dauis comming out of the gun-roome, whom they pulled into the cabbin, and + giuing him sixe or seuen mortall wounds, they thrust him out of the + cabbin before them. His wounds were so mortall, that he dyed assoone as + he came into the waste."—Purchas, i. 137.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Bolton Corney</span>.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>Clouds in Photographs.</i>—I wish one of your photographic + correspondents would inform me, how <i>clouds</i> can be put into + photographs taken on paper? Mr. Buckle's photographs all contain + <i>clouds</i>?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">Σ</span>.</p> + + <p>"<i>The Stereoscope considered in relation to the Philosophy of + Binocular Vision</i>" is the title of a small pamphlet written by a + frequent contributor to this journal, Mr. C. <span class="sc">Mansfield + Ingleby</span>, in which he has "attempted to sketch out such + modifications of the theory of double vision as appear to him to be + entailed on the rationale of the stereoscope." The corroboration thus + indirectly afforded to the principles of Sir William Hamilton's + <i>Philosophy of Perception</i> has induced <span class="sc">Mr. + Ingleby</span> to dedicate his word to that distinguished metaphysician. + The essay will, we have no doubt, be perused with great interest by many + of our photographic friends, for whose gratification we shall borrow its + concluding paragraph.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In conclusion we must not forget to acknowledge our obligations to + the photographic art, not merely as one of the most suggestive results of + natural science, but as a means of the widest and soundest utility. To + antiquaries the services of photography have a unique value, for, by + perpetuating in the form of negatives those monuments of nature and art + which, though exempt from common accident, are still subject to gradual + decay from time, it places in the hands of us all microscopically exact + antitypes of objects which, from change or distance, are otherwise + inaccessible. To the artist they afford the means of facilitating the + otherwise laborious, and often mechanical, task of drawing in detail from + nature and from the human figure.</p> + + <p>"To the physician, to the naturalist, and to the man of science, the + uses of photography are various and important, and already the + discoveries which have been directly due to this modern art are of + stupendous utility.</p> + + <p>"To the metaphysician, its uses may be sufficiently gleaned from the + applications considered in the preceding pages. But to all these classes + of men the photographic art derives its chief glory from its application + to the stereoscope; and if, for elucidating the principles of vision by + means of this application, we have in any degree given a stimulus to the + practice and improvement of the photographic processes, our pains have + been happily and fruitfully bestowed."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p><i>Muller's Processes.</i>—Would you inform me, through the + medium of "N. & Q.," what manufacture of paper is best adapted to the + two processes of Mr. Muller? I have tried several: with some I find that + the combination of their starch with the iodide of iron causes a dark + precipitate upon the face of the paper; and with those papers prepared + with size, there appears to me great difficulty (in his improved process + after the paper is moistened with aceto-nitrate of silver) to procure an + equal distribution of the iodide over its surface, as it invariably dries + or runs off parts of the paper, or is repelled by spots of size on the + paper when dipped in the iodide of iron bath.—A reply to the + foregoing question would greatly oblige</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Constant Reader</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Essex.</p> + + <p><i>Positives on Glass.</i>—Sometimes, when your sitter is gone, + and you hold your portrait up to the light to examine its density, you + find in the face and other parts which are dark, so viewed, minute + <i>transparent</i> specks, scarcely bigger than a pin's point. When the + picture is backed with black lacquer, you have consequently small + <i>black</i> spots, which deform the positive, especially when viewed + through a lens of short focus. A friend of mine <!-- Page 452 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page452"></a>{452}</span>cures this defect very + easily. After having applied the amber varnish, he stops out the spots + with a little oil-paint that matches the lights of the picture; of course + the paint is put upon the varnished side of the glass. When the paint is + dry, the black lacquer is carried over the whole as usual.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. D. Eaton</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Norwich.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Peculiar Ornament in Crosthwaite Church</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 200.).—I am exceedingly obliged to <span + class="sc">Cheverells</span> for his reply to any Query. I am sorry to + say that I failed to make a note of the number of the circles; but, as + far as I can remember, there are six windows in each aisle, so in all + there would be twenty-four, each window having two carved upon it, one on + the right jamb without, and the other on the left within.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">R. W. Elliot</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Clifton.</p> + + <p><i>Nursery Rhymes</i> (Vol. viii., p. 455.).—I would suggest to + L. that a consideration of <i>rhymes</i> may sometimes indicate, by the + change in the pronunciation, the antiquity of the verse e.g.,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Hush aby, baby, on the green <i>bough</i>,</p> + <p>When the wind blows the cradle will <i>rock</i>,</p> + <p>And when the bough breaks," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Here, according to modern pronunciation, the rhymes of the first + couplet are imperfect, so that it was probably composed in the Saxon era, + or while the word <i>bough</i> was still pronounced <i>bog</i> or + <i>bock</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">J. R.</p> + + <p><i>Milton's Widow</i> (Vol. vii., p. 596.; Vol. viii., pp. 12. 134. + 200.).—Reading up my arrears of "N. & Q.," which a long absence + from England has caused to accumulate, I find frequent inquiries made for + some information which I once promised, relative to Milton's widow. I + fear that your correspondents on this subject have formed an exaggerated + idea of the importance of the expected note, and that they will see but a + "ridiculus mus" after all. As I have no means at hand at the present + moment wherewith to attempt to elucidate the Minshull genealogy, I shall + content myself by simply sending my original notes, namely, brief + abstracts of the wills of Thomas and Nathan Paget preserved at Doctors' + Commons.</p> + + <p>Thomas Paget, minister of the gospel at Stockport, in Cheshire, makes + his will May 23, 1660; mentions his three daughters Dorothy, Elizabeth, + and Mary; and leaves estates at different places in Shropshire to his two + sons, Dr. Nathan and Thomas, whom he appoints his executors. He entreats + <i>his cousin Minshull, apothecarie in Manchester</i>, to be overseer of + his will, which was proved October 16, 1660.</p> + + <p>[I have before (Vol. v., p. 327.) shown the connexion between the + Pagets and Manchester.]</p> + + <p>Nathan Paget, Doctor in Medicine, will dated January 7, 1678, was then + living in the parish of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, London, leaves + certain estates, and his house in London where he resided, to his brother + Thomas Paget, clerk. Bequests to his cousin John Goldsmith of the Middle + Temple, gent., and <i>his cousin Elizabeth Milton</i>, to the Society of + Physicians, and the poor of the parish of St. Stephen's. Will proved + January 15, 1678.</p> + + <p>I have omitted to note <i>what</i> the bequests were. I will only add, + that some time ago I dropped my <i>alias</i> of <span + class="sc">Cranmore</span>, and have occasionally appeared in your sixth + Volume as</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Arthur Paget</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Watch-paper Inscriptions</i> (Vol. viii., p. 316.).—-I + recollect, when at school, having an old silver watch with the following + printed lines inside the case:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Time is—the present moment well employ;</p> + <p>Time was—is past—thou canst not it enjoy;</p> + <p>Time future—is not, and may never be;</p> + <p>Time present—is the only time for thee."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Jno. D. Allcroft</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Poetical Tavern Signs</i> (Vol. viii., p. 242.).—May I add to + those mentioned by your correspondent <span class="sc">Mr. Warde</span>, + one at Chatham. On the sign-board is painted "an arm embowed, holding a + malt-shovel," underneath which is written,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Good malt makes good beer,</p> + <p>Walk in, and you'll find it here."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">G. Brindley Acworth</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Star Hill, Rochester.</p> + + <p>At a small inn in Castleton, near Whitby, the sign represents Robin + Hood and Little John in their usual forest costume, and underneath appear + the following doggerel lines:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"To gentlemen and yeomen good,</p> + <p>Come in and drink with Robin Hood;</p> + <p>If Robin Hood is not at home,</p> + <p>Come in and drink with Little John."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">F. M.</p> + + <p><i>Parish Clerks' Company</i> (Vol. viii., p. 341.).—The hall is + in Silver Street, Wood Street; the beadle is Mr. Bullard, No. 9. Grocers' + Hall Court, Poultry.</p> + + <p>If the circulars of the company were attended to, a great service + would be rendered to the public; but as there are about one hundred and + sixty churches in the metropolis, the chance of a parish clerk finding + any particular marriage, &c. is, at the best, but as one to one + hundred and sixty. Besides this, the parish registers are generally in + the custody of the clergyman, and it is therefore feared that the + searches are but too often <!-- Page 453 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page453"></a>{453}</span>neglected, unless the reward is + sufficiently tempting to induce the loss of time and the probability of + an unsuccessful examination.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John S. Burn.</span></p> + + <p>"<i>Elijah's Mantle</i>" (Vol. viii., p. 295.).—James Sayers, + Esq., a solicitor of Staple Inn, was the author of this beautiful poem, + and he was also the reputed author of some of Gilray's best + caricatures.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Suum Cuique.</span></p> + + <p><i>Histories of Literature</i> (Vol. viii., p. 222.).—In + addition to the works of Hallam, Maitland, and Berrington mentioned by + you, I would recommend your correspondent <span + class="sc">Ilmonasteriensis</span> to procure an <i>anonymous</i> + publication, entitled <i>An Introduction to the Literary History of the + Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries</i>, London, 1798, 8vo. It is a much + neglected work, replete with interesting information relative to the + state of literature during the dark ages. I observe a copy in calf, + marked 4<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> in a bookseller's catalogue published lately + in this city.</p> + + <p class="author">T. G. S.</p> + + <p class="address">Edinburgh.</p> + + <p><i>Birthplace of General Monk</i> (Vol. viii., p. 316.).—I + regret to find I am in error in saying that Lysons positively assigns + Landcross as Monk's birthplace in the <i>Magna Britannia</i>.</p> + + <p>The mistake is of slight import as respects the Query, but accuracy in + citing authorities is at least desirable, and ought (in common justice) + to be ever most scrupulously regarded.</p> + + <p>"General Monk <i>appears</i> to have been a native of this village; he + was baptised at Lancras, December 11, 1608," is, I find, the actual + passage, the substance of which (writing in Germany, far from any means + of reference), at the time believed I was more correctly quoting.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. Kyffin Lenthall.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Reform Club.</p> + + <p><i>Books chained to Desks in Churches</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 93. + 273.).—In the library of St. Walburg's Church at Zutphen, + consisting chiefly of Bibles and other Latin works, the books are + fastened to the desks by iron chains. This was done, it is said, to + prevent the Evil One from stealing them, a crime of which he had been + repeatedly guilty. The proof of this is found in the stone-floor, where + his foot-marks are impressed, and still show the direction of his march: + they also teach us the important fact, that the feet of his tenebrious + majesty are very like those of a large dog, and do not, as is generally + supposed, resemble those of a horse.—From the + <i>Navorscher</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">L. v. H.</span></p> + + <p>In the chancel of Leyland Church, Lancashire, are four folio books + chained to a window seat which makes a sloping desk for them: they are + Foxe's <i>Martyrs</i> and Jewell's <i>Apology</i>, both in black-letter, + title-pages torn, and much worn; and a <i>Preservative against + Popery</i>, in 2 vols., dated 1738.</p> + + <p class="author">P. P.</p> + + <p>A copy of the Bible was formerly affixed by a chain in Wimborne + Minster, Dorset, but has been removed to a certain library.</p> + + <p>The covers of a book are chained to a desk in the church of Kettering; + the book itself is gone.</p> + + <p class="author">B. H. C.</p> + + <p>In the parish church of Borden, near Sittingbourne, Kent, a copy of + <i>Comber on the Common Prayer</i> is chained to a stand in the + chancel.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Esta.</span></p> + + <p><i>Pedigree Indices</i> (Vol. viii., p. 317.).—If <span + class="sc">Captain</span> wishes to make a search for a pedigree in the + libraries at Cambridge, he will learn from the MSS. Catalogue of 1697 in + which of the libraries MS. volumes of heraldry and genealogy ought to be + found; he should then apply, either through some master of arts, or with + a proper letter of introduction in his hand, to the librarian for leave + to search the volumes. He will find that generally every facility is + afforded him which the safe keeping of historical evidences allows. He + will do well to select term-time for the period of making a search; and + before seeking admission to a college librarian, it will be found + convenient to both parties for him to give a day's notice, by letter or + card, to the librarian, who has often occupations and engagements that + cannot always be got rid of at the call of a chance visitor.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Cantab.</span></p> + + <p>There are not any published genealogical tables showing the various + kindred of William of Wykeham or Sir Thomas White similar to those + contained in the <i>Stemmata Chicheliana</i>. A few descents of kindred + of Sir Thomas White may be seen in Ashmole's <i>History of Berkshire</i>, + 3 vols. 8vo.</p> + + <p class="author">G.</p> + + <p><i>Portrait of Hobbes</i> (Vol. viii. p 368.).—I have an etching + (size about 6½ in. by 8½ in.) inscribed:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Vera et Viva Effigies <span class="sc">Thomæ Hobbes</span>, + Malmesburiensis."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>and under this:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I. Bapt. Caspar pinxit; W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, 1665."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>It is a half-length portrait, and represents Hobbes uncovered, with + his hands folded in his robe; and is without any arch or other + ornament.</p> + + <p>Did Caspar paint more than one portrait of Hobbes? Is this the one + mentioned by Hollar, in his letter dated 1661, quoted by <span + class="sc">Mr. Singer</span>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Wm. M<sup>c</sup>Cree.</span></p> + + <p><i>Tenets or Tenents</i> (Vol. vii., p.205.; Vol. viii., p. + 330.).—Were there two editions of the <i>Vulgar Errors</i> + published in the same year, 1646? For my copy, "printed by T. H. for + Edward Dod, and <!-- Page 454 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page454"></a>{454}</span>are to be sold in Ivie Lane, 1646," and + which I have always supposed to be of the first edition, has "Tenents," + very distinctly, on the title-page. On the fly-leaf, opposite to the + title-page, is the approbation of John Downame, dated March 14, 1645, and + commencing thus:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I have perused these learned animadversions upon the common tenets + and opinions of men," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">H. T. G.</p> + + <p class="address">Hull.</p> + + <p><i>Door-head Inscriptions</i> (Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 588.; Vol. + viii., pp. 38. 162.).—Over a house in Hexham, in the street called + Gilligate, is the following inscription:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"C. D. 1683. J. D.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Reason doth wonder, but Faith he tell can,</p> + <p>That a maid was a mother, and God was a man.</p> + <p>Let Reason look down, and Faith see the wonder;</p> + <p>For Faith sees above, and Reason sees under.</p> + <p>Reason doth wonder what by Scripture is meant,</p> + <p>Which says that Christ's body is our Sacrament:</p> + <p>That our bread is His body, and our drink is His blood,</p> + <p>Which cannot by Reason be well understood;</p> + <p>For Faith sees above, and Reason below,</p> + <p>For Faith can see more than Reason doth know."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ceyrep</span>.</p> + + <p>The following is reported to have been inscribed by the Pope (1725) + over the gate of the Apostolical Chancery:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Fide Deo—dic sæpe preces—peccare caveto—</p> + <p class="i1">Sit humilis—pacem delige—magna fuge—</p> + <p>Multa audi—dic pauca—tace secreta—minori</p> + <p class="i1">Parcito—majori cedito—ferto parem.</p> + <p>Propria fac—non differ opus—sis æquas egeno—</p> + <p class="i1">Parta tuere—pati disce—memento mori."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. T. Ellacombe</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Hour-glass Stand</i> (Vol. vii., p. 489.; Vol. viii., pp. 82. 209. + 328.).—There is an hour-glass stand attached to the right-hand side + of the pulpit of Edingthorpe Church, Norfolk. The date of the pulpit is + 1632.</p> + + <p class="author">I. L. S.</p> + + <p><i>Bulstrode Whitlock and Whitelocke Bulstrode</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 293.).—Bulstrode Whitlock was the son of Sir James Whitlock, Kt., + by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Bulstrode, of Hedgley-Bulstrode, in the + county of Buckingham; and Whitelocke Bulstrode was the son of Sir + Richard, eldest son of the above-mentioned Edward Bulstrode. (See + <i>Lives of the Lords Chancellors, &c</i>., by an Impartial Hand, + vol. ii p. 1.; and Chalmers's <i>Biographical Dictionary</i>.)</p> + + <p class="author"><span title="Halieus" class="grk">Ἁλιεύς</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Dublin.</p> + + <p><i>Movable Metal Types anno 1435</i> (Vol. vii., p. + 405.).—Although I am not able to give any information concerning + Sister Margarite, or the convent at Mur, I yet may observe, 1st, that the + last three letters of the legend - - <span class="scac">K</span> can + hardly refer to Laurens Janzroon Coster, for his name in 1435 was never + spelt with <span class="scac">K</span>, but always with <span + class="scac">C</span>; and, besides, if a proper name be here intended, + it will certainly be that of the binder. 2ndly, that in the catalogue of + the Haarlem City Library, from p. 77. to 112., mention is made of six + works, which, though bearing no date, were, it is more than probable, + printed with movable metal types before 1435. One of these, <i>Aelii + Donati Grammaticæ Latinæ Fragmenta duo</i>, was printed before 1425, and + the writer of the catalogue adds in his notes:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Ipsos typos, quibus hæ lamellæ sunt excusæ, fuisse <i>mobiles</i>, + cum nonnullæ literæ inversæ evidenter testantur, tum omnium + expertissimorum typographorum reique typographicæ peritissimorum + arbitrûm, qui has lacinias contemplati sunt, unanima et constans + affirmavit sententia. Quin et <i>fusos</i> eos esse perhibuerunt plurimi, + et in his Koningius, magno quamvis studio negaverat typorum ligneorum + mobilium acerrimus propugnator Meermannus."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">From the <i>Navorscher</i>. <span class="sc">Constantee</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Oaken Tombs</i> (Vol. vii., p. 528.; Vol. viii., p. 179.).—In + the chancel of Brancepeth Church, co. Durham, are oaken effigies of a + Lord and Lady Neville, of which the following is a description. The + figure of the man is in a coat of mail, the hands elevated with + gauntlets, wearing his casque, which rests on a bull's or buffalo's head, + a collar round his neck studded with gems, and on the breast a shield + with the arms of Neville. The female figure has a high crowned bonnet, + and the mantle is drawn close over the feet, which rest on two dogs + couchant. The tomb is ornamented with small figures of ecclesiastics at + prayer, but is without inscription. Leland (<i>Itin.</i>, i. 80.) + says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In the paroche church of Saint Brandon, at Branspeth, be dyvers + tumbes of the Nevilles. In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them + porturid with his wife. This Neville lakkid heires male, wherapoan great + concertation rose betwixt the next heire male, and one the + Gascoynes."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Cuthbert Bede</span>, B.A.</p> + + <p><i>Stafford Knot</i> (Vol. viii., p. 220.).—It was the badge or + cognisance of the house of Stafford, Earls of Stafford.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Gough</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Emberton, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Hand in Bishop's Cannings Church</i> (Vol. viii., p. + 269.).—See an article on this "Manus Meditationis," with a copy of + the inscription, in the <i>Ecclesiologist</i>, vol. v. p. 150.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Gough</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Emberton, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Arms of Richard, King of the Romans</i> (Vol. viii, + p.265.).—I think it might be proved that the border refers not to + Poitou (which is represented <!-- Page 455 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page455"></a>{455}</span>by the crowned lion), but to Cornwall, the + ancient feudal arms of which are <i>Sable, fifteen bezants</i>, + referring, as it would seem, to its metallic treasures. See an article on + the numerous arms derived from those of this Richard, in the appendix to + Mr. Lower's <i>Curiosities of Heraldry</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Gough</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Emberton, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Burial in an erect Position</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 59. + 233.).—So Ben Jonson was buried at Westminster, probably on account + of the large fee demanded for a full-sized grave. It was long supposed by + many that the story was invented to account for the smallness of the + gravestone; but the grave being opened a few years ago, the dramatist's + remains were discovered in the attitude indicated by tradition.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Gough</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Emberton, Bucks.</p> + + <p>In the <i>Ingoldsby Legends</i>, vol. i. p. 106., we have:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"No!—Tray's humble tomb would look but shabby</p> + <p class="hg1">'Mid the sculptured shrines of that gorgeous Abbey.</p> + <p class="i2">Besides, in the place</p> + <p class="i2">They say there's not space</p> + <p>To bury what wet-nurses call 'a Babby.'</p> + <p>Even 'rare Ben Jonson,' that famous wight,</p> + <p>I am told, is interr'd there bolt upright,</p> + <p>In just such a posture, beneath his bust,</p> + <p>As Tray used to sit in to beg for a crust."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Is there any authority for the statement?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Erica</span>.</p> + + <p><i>Wooden Effigies</i> (Vol. viii., p. 255.).—These are by no + means uncommon, though it is to be feared that many have perished within + comparatively recent times. In the church of Clifton Reynes, Bucks, there + are wooden effigies of two knights of the Reynes family with their + wives.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Gough</span>.</p> + + <p class="address">Emberton, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Wedding Divination</i> (Vol. vii., p. 545.).—The following + mediæval superstition may be quoted as a pretty exact parallel of the + <i>wedding divination</i> alluded to by <span + class="sc">Oxoniensis</span>. It is from Wright's selection of Latin + stories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Harl. MS. + 463.:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Vidi in quibusdam partibus, quando mulieres nubebant, et de ecclesiâ + redibant, in ingressu domus in faciem corum frumentum projiciebant, + clamantes: 'Abundantia! Abundantia!' quod Gallicè dicitur <i>plentè</i>, + <i>plentè</i>; et tamen plerumque, antequam annus transiret, pauperes + mendici remanebant et abundantià omni bonorum carebant."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">H. C. K.</p> + + <p class="address">—— Rectory, Hereford.</p> + + <p><i>Old Fogie</i> (Vol. viii., p. 154.).—If it will throw any + additional light on the controversy as to "fogie," I may add that for a + long period of years I have heard it applied only to the discharged + invalided pensioners of the army. On a late Queen's birthday review on + the <i>Green</i>, the boys and girls were in ecstasies at seeing the "old + fogies" dressed out in new suits. It is very often spoken derisively to a + thick-headed stupid person, but which cannot determine accurately its + primary signification.</p> + + <p class="author">G. N.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>Notes on Books, Etc.</h3> + + <p>The noble President of the Society of Antiquaries is fast bringing to + completion the cheaper and revised edition of his <i>History of England + from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles</i>, 1713-1783. The + sixth volume, which is now before us, embraces the eventful six years + 1774-1780, which saw the commencement of the great struggle with America, + which ended in the independence of the United States. In this, as in his + preceding volumes, the new materials which Lord Mahon has been so + fortunate as to collect from the family papers of the representatives of + the political leaders of the period, and which he has inserted in his + appendix, contribute very materially to the value and importance of his + history.</p> + + <p><i>Cheshire; its Historical and Literary Associations, illustrated in + a series of Biographical Sketches;</i> and <i>The Cheshire and Lancashire + Historical Collector</i>, a small 8vo. sheet originally issued every + month, but now every fortnight, in consequence of increase of materials, + and the great encouragement which the undertaking has received, are two + contributions towards Cheshire topography, local history, bibliography, + &c., for which the good men of the Palatinate are indebted to the + zeal of Mr. T. Worthington Barlow, of the Society of Gray's Inn.</p> + + <p>It is always a subject of gratification to us when we see cheap yet + handsome reprints of our standard authors; for no better proof can be + given of the increase among us not only of a reading public, but of a + public who are disposed to read well. It is therefore with no small + pleasure that we have received from Mr. Routledge copies of his five + shilling edition of <i>The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, from + the Text, and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, condensed + and arranged under the Text</i>. It is obvious that considerable labour + has been taken by the editor in its preparation, for he has not contented + himself with merely transferring the contents of Tyrwhitt's Notes and + Glossary to their proper places beneath the text; but has availed himself + of the labours of Messrs. Craik, Saunders, Sir H. Nicolas, and our able + correspondent A. E. B., to give completeness to what is a very useful + edition of old Dan Chaucer's masterpiece. We have to thank the same + publisher for a corresponding edition of Spenser's <i>Faerie Queene</i>; + so that no lover of those two glorious old poets need any longer want a + cheap and compact edition of them.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>—<i>History of the + Guillotine, revised from the Quarterly Review</i>, by the Right Hon. + J. W. Croker, which forms the new part of Murray's <i>Railway <!-- Page + 456 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page456"></a>{456}</span>Reading</i>, is not only valuable as a + <i>précis</i> of all that is known upon this very obscure subject, but + for all its illustration of the difficulty of arriving at historical + truth.—<i>A Love Story; being the History of the Courtship and + Marriage of Dr. Dove of Doncaster</i>, that delightful episode in + Southey's most delightful book, <i>The Doctor</i>, forms Part L. of + Longman's <i>Traveller's Library</i>.—<i>The First Italian Book</i> + appears a very successful attempt on the part of Signor Pifferi and Mr. + Dawson W. Turner to furnish a companion to the <i>First French Book</i> + of that accomplished scholar, the late Rev. T. K. Arnold.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">Torriano Piazza Universale di Proverbi + Italiani</span>. London, 1668. 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