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diff --git a/28474.txt b/28474.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c6a1e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/28474.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3583 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 192, July 2, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Other: George Bell + +Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28474] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they +are listed at the end of the text. + + * * * * * + + +{1} + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 192.] +SATURDAY, JULY 2. 1853.. +[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + Oblation of a white Bull 1 + Newstead Abbey, by W. S. Hasleden 2 + On a celebrated Passage in "Romeo and Juliet," + Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer 3 + On the Passage from "King Lear" 4 + Manners of the Irish, by H. T. Ellacombe, &c. 4 + + MINOR NOTES:--Burial in an Erect Posture--The + Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 1571--The + last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in + Canada--National Methods of applauding--Curious + Posthumous Occurrence 5 + + QUERIES:-- + Did Captain Cook first discover the Sandwich Islands? + by J. S. Warden 6 + Superstition of the Cornish Miners 7 + + MINOR QUERIES:--Clerical Duel--Pistol--Council + of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Pennycomequick, adjoining + Plymouth--Park the Antiquary--Honorary D.C.L.'s-- + Battle of Villers en Couche--Dr. Misaubin--Kemble, + Willet, and Forbes--Piccalyly--Post-Office about + 1770--"Carefully examined and well-authenticated"-- + Sir Heister Ryley--Effigies with folded Hands 7 + + MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Passage in + Bishop Horsley--"Marry come up!"--Dover Court-- + Porter--Dr. Whitaker's ingenious Earl--Dissimulate 9 + + REPLIES:-- + Bishop Ken, by the Rev. J. H. Markland 10 + Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by James Graves 11 + Coleridge's Christabel, by J. S. Warden 11 + Its 12 + Family of Milton's Widow, by T. Hughes 12 + Books of Emblems--Jacob Behmen, by C. Mansfield + Ingleby 13 + Raffaelle's Sposalizio 14 + Windfall 14 + Mr. Justice Newton, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and + F. Kyffin Lenthall 15 + + PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Lyte's + Treatment of Positives--Stereoscopic Angles--Query + respecting Mr. Pollock's Process--Gallo-nitrate of + Silver 15 + + REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Verney Note + decyphered--Emblems by John Bunyan--Mr. Cobb's + Diary--"Sat cito si sat bene"--Mythe versus Myth--The + Gilbert Family--Alexander Clark--Christ's Cross--The + Rebellious Prayer--"To the Lords of Convention"-- + Wooden Tombs and Effigies--Lord Clarendon and the + Tubwoman--House-marks--"Amentium haud amantium"-- + The Megatherium in the British Museum--Pictorial + Proverbs--"Hurrah," and other War-cries 17 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, &c. 20 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 21 + Notices to Correspondents 21 + Advertisements 21 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +OBLATION OF A WHITE BULL. + +By lease dated 28th April, 1533, the Abbat of St. Edmund's Bury demised to +John Wright, glazier, and John Anable, pewterer, of Bury, the manor of +Haberdon appurtenant to the office of Sacrist in that monastery, with four +acres in the Vynefeld, for twenty years, at the rent of 5l. 4s. to the +Sacrist; the tenants also to find a white bull every year of their term, as +often as it should happen that any gentlewoman, or any other woman, should, +out of devotion, visit the shrine of the glorious king and martyr of St. +Edmund, and wish to make the oblation of a white bull. (Dodsw. Coll. in +_Bibl. Bodl._, vol. lxxi. f. 72.) + +If we are to understand a white bull of the ancient race of wild white +cattle, it may be inferred, I suppose, that in some forest in the vicinity +of Bury St. Edmund's they had not disappeared in the first half of the +sixteenth century. The wild cattle, probably indigenous to the great +Caledonian forest, seem to have become extinct in a wild state before the +time of Leland, excepting where preserved in certain ancient parks, as +Chillingham Park, Northumberland, Gisburne Park in Craven, &c., where they +were, and in the former at all events still are, maintained in their +original purity of breed. They were preserved on the lands of some abbeys; +for instance, by the Abbats of Whalley, Lancashire. + +Whitaker (_History of Craven_, p. 34.) mentions Gisburne Park as chiefly +remarkable for a herd of wild cattle, descendants of that indigenous race +which once roamed in the great forests of Lancashire, and they are said by +some other writer to have been originally brought to Gisburne from Whalley +after the dissolution. One of the descendants of Robert de Brus, the +founder of Gainsborough Priory, is stated by Matthew Paris to have +conciliated King John with a present of white cattle. The woods of +Chillingham Castle are celebrated at this day for the breed of this +remarkable race, by which they are inhabited; and I believe there are three +or four other places in which they are preserved. + +In the form and direction of the horns, these famous wild white oxen seem +to be living {2} representatives of the race whose bones are found in a +fossil state in England and some parts of the Continent in the "diluvium" +bone-caves, mixed with the bones of bears, hyenas, and other wild animals, +now the cotemporaries of the Bos Gour, or Asiatic Ox, upon mountainous +slopes of Western India. I have read that white cattle resembling the wild +cattle of Chillingham exist in Italy, and that it has been doubted whether +our British wild cattle are descendants of an aboriginal race, or were +imported by ecclesiastics from Italy. But this seems unlikely, because they +were not so easily brought over as the Pope's _bulls_ (the pun is quite +unavoidable), and were undoubtedly inhabitants of our ancient forests at a +very early period. + +However, my present object is only to inquire for any other instances of +the custom of offering a white bull in honour of a Christian saint. Perhaps +some of your correspondents would elucidate this singular oblation. + +I am not able to refer to Col. Hamilton Smith's work on the mythology and +ancient history of the ox, which may possibly notice this kind of offering. + +W. S. G. + +Newcastle-upon-Tyne. + + * * * * * + +NEWSTEAD ABBEY. + +The descent of property, like the family pedigree, occasionally exhibits +the most extraordinary disruptions; and to those who may be ignorant of the +cause, the effect may appear as romance. I have been particularly struck +with the two interesting papers contained in the April number of the +_Archaeological Journal_, having reference to the Newstead Abbey estate, +formerly the property of Lord Byron's family, which, amongst other matters, +contain some severe remarks on the conduct of one of its proprietors, the +great uncle and predecessor of our great poet, and having reference to +dilapidation. Mr. Pettigrew, in his paper, states that-- + + "Family differences, particularly during the time of the fifth Lord + Byron, _of eccentric and unsocial manners_, suffered and even aided the + dilapidations of time. The castellated stables and offices are, + however, yet to be seen." + +And Mr. Ashpitel adds that-- + + "The state of Newstead at the time the poet succeeded to the estate is + not generally known: '_the wicked lord_' had felled all the noble oaks, + destroyed the finest herds of deer, and, in short, had denuded the + estate of everything he could. The hirelings of the attorney did the + rest: they stripped away all the furniture, and everything the law + would permit them to remove. The buildings on the east side were + unroofed; the old Xenodochium, and the grand refectory, were full of + hay; and the entrance-hall and monks' parlour were stable for cattle. + In the only habitable part of the building, a place then used as a sort + of scullery, under the only roof that kept out wet of all this vast + pile, the fifth Lord Byron breathed his last; and to this inheritance + the poet succeeded." + +It is not necessary for me to refer to the lofty expression of the poet's +feelings on such his inheritance, nor to the necessity of his parting from +the estate, which appears now to be happily restored to its former +splendour; but possessing some knowledge of a lamentable fact, that neither +Mr. Pettigrew nor Mr. Ashpitel appears to be aware of, I feel inclined to +soften the asperity of the reflections quoted; and palliate, although I may +not justify, the apparently reckless proceedings of the eccentric fifth +Lord, as he is called. In the years 1796 and 1797, after finishing my +clerkship, I had a seat in the chambers of the late Jas. Hanson, Esq., an +eminent conveyancer of Lincoln's Inn; and while with him, amongst other +peers of the realm who came to consult Mr. Hanson regarding their property, +we had this _eccentric_ fifth Lord Byron, who apparently came up to town +for the purpose, and under the most painful and pitiable load of +distress,--and I must confess that I felt for him exceedingly; but his case +was past remedy, and, after some daily attendance, pouring forth his +lamentations, he appears to have returned home to subside into the reckless +operations reported of him. His case was this:--Upon the marriage of his +son, he, as any other father would do, granted a settlement of his +property, including the Newstead Abbey estate; but by some unaccountable +inadvertence or negligence of the lawyers employed, the ultimate reversion +of the fee-simple of the property, instead of being left, as it ought to +have been, in the father as the owner of the estates, was limited to the +heirs of the son. And upon his death, and failure of the issue of the +marriage, the unfortunate father, _this eccentric lord_, found himself +robbed of the fee-simple of his own inheritance, and left merely the naked +tenant for life, without any legal power of raising money upon it, or even +of cutting down a tree. It is so many years ago, that I now do not remember +the detail of what passed on these consultations, but it would appear, that +if the lawyers were aware of the effect of the final limitation, neither +father nor son appear to have been informed of it, or the result might have +been corrected, and his lordship would probably have kept up the estate in +its proper order. Whether this case was at all a promoting cause of the +alteration of the law, I do not know; but, as the law now stands, the +estate would revert back to the father as heir of this son. This case made +a lasting impression on me, and I once had to correct a similar erroneous +proposition in a large intended settlement; and I quoted this unfortunate +accident as an authority. Now, although this relation may not fully justify +the reckless waste that appears to have been committed, it certainly is a +palliative. I do not recollect whether {3} our fifth lord had any surviving +daughter to provide for; but if he had, his situation would be a still more +aggravated position. + +W. S. HASLEDEN. + + * * * * * + +ON A CELEBRATED PASSAGE IN "ROMEO AND JULIET," ACT III. SC. 2. + +Few passages in Shakspeare have so often and so ineffectually been +"winnowed" as the opening of the beautiful and passionate soliloquy of +Juliet, when ardently and impatiently invoking night's return, which was to +bring her newly betrothed lover to her arms. It stands thus in the first +folio, from which the best quarto differs only in a few unimportant points +of orthography: + + "Gallop apace, you fiery footed steedes, + Towards Phoebus' lodging, such a wagoner + As Phaeton should whip you to the wish, + And bring in cloudie night immediately. + Spred thy close curtaine, Loue-performing night, + That run-awayes eyes may wincke, and Romeo + Leape to these armes, untalkt of and unseene", &c. + +The older commentators do not attempt to change the word _run-awayes_, but +seek to explain it. Warburton says Phoebus is the runaway. Steevens has a +long argument to prove that Night is the runaway. Douce thought Juliet +herself was the runaway; and at a later period the Rev. Mr. Halpin, in a +very elegant and ingenious essay, attempts to prove that by the runaway we +must understand Cupid. + +MR. KNIGHT and MR. COLLIER have both of them adopted Jackson's conjecture +of _unawares_, and have admitted it to the honour of a place in the text, +but MR. DYCE has pronounced it to be "villainous;" and it must be confessed +that it has nothing but a slight similarity to the old word to recommend +it. MR. DYCE himself has favoured us with three suggestions; the first two +in his _Remarks on Collier and Knight's Shakspeare_, in 1844, where he +says-- + + "That _ways_ (the last syllable of _run-aways_) ought to be _days_, I + feel next to certain; but what word originally preceded it I do not + pretend to determine: + + 'Spread thy close curtain, love-performing Night! + That rude/soon (?) Day's eyes may wink, and Romeo + Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen,' &c." + +The correctors of MR. COLLIER's folio having substituted-- + + "That _enemies_ eyes may wink," + +MR. DYCE, in his recent _Few Notes_, properly rejects that reading, and +submits another conjecture of his own, founded on the supposition that the +word _roving_ having been written illegibly, _roavinge_ was mistaken for +_run-awayes_, and proposes to read-- + + "That _roving_ eyes may wink." + +Every suggestion of MR. DYCE, certainly the most competent of living +commentators on Shakspeare, merits attention; but I cannot say that I think +he has succeeded in either of his proposed readings. + +Monck Mason seems to have had the clearest notion of the requirements of +the passage. He saw that "the word, whatever the meaning of it might be, +was intended as a proper name;" but he was not happy in suggesting +_renomy_, a French word with an English termination. + +In the course of his note he mentions that Heath, "the author of the +_Revisal_, reads '_Rumour's_ eyes may wink;' which agrees in sense with the +rest of the passage, but differs widely from _run-aways_ in the trace of +the letters." + +I was not conscious of having seen this suggestion of Heath's, when, in +consequence of a question put to me by a gentleman of distinguished taste +and learning, I turned my thoughts to the passage, and at length came to +the conclusion that the word must have been _rumourers_, and that from its +unfrequent occurrence (the only other example of it at present known to me +being one afforded by the poet) the printer mistook it for _runawayes_; +which, when written indistinctly, it may have strongly resembled. I +therefore think that we may read with some confidence: + + "Spread thy close curtains, love-performing Night, + That _rumourers'_ eyes may wink, and Romeo + Leap to these arms, _untalk'd of_ and _unseen_." + +It fulfils the requirements of both metre and sense, and the words +_untalk'd of_ and _unseen_ make it nearly indisputable. I had at first +thought it might be "_rumorous_ eyes;" but the personification would then +be wanting. Shakspeare has personified _Rumour_ in the Introduction to the +Second Part of _King Henry IV._; and in _Coriolanus_, Act IV. Sc. 6., we +have-- + + "Go see this _rumourer_ whipp'd." + +I am gratified by seeing that I have anticipated your able correspondent, +the REV. MR. ARROWSMITH, in his elucidation of "_clamour_ your tongues," by +citing the same passage from Udall's _Apophthegmes_, in my _Vindication of +the Text of Shakspeare_, p. 79. It is a pleasure which must console me for +having subjected myself to his just animadversion on another occasion. If +those who so egregiously blunder are to be spared the castigation justly +merited, we see by late occurrences to what it may lead; and your +correspondent, in my judgment, is conferring a favour on all true lovers of +our great poet by exposing pretension and error, from whatever quarter it +may come,--a duty which has been sadly neglected in some late partial +reviews of MR. COLLIER's "clever" corrector. MR. ARROWSMITH's +communications have been so truly _ad rem_, that I think I shall be +expressing the sentiments of all your readers interested in such {4} +matters, in expressing an earnest desire for their continuance. + +S. W. SINGER. + +Mickleham. + + * * * * * + +ON THE PASSAGE FROM "KING LEAR." + +(Vol. vii., p. 592.) + +Will you allow me to suggest to your ingenious Leeds correspondent (whose +communications would be read with only the more pleasure if they evinced a +little more respect for the opinions of others) that before he asserts the +existence of a certain error which he points out in a passage in _King +Lear_ to be "undeniable," it would be desirable that he should support this +improved reading by other passages from Shakspeare, or from cotemporary +writers, in which the word he proposes occurs? For my own part, I think +A. E. B.'s suggestion well worthy of consideration, but I cannot admit that +it "demonstrates itself," or "that any attempt to support it by argument +would be absurd," for it would unquestionably strengthen his case to show +that the verb "recuse" was not entirely obsolete in Shakspeare's time. +Neither can I admit that there is an "obvious opposition between _means_ +and _defects_," the two words having no relation to each other. The +question is, which of two words must be altered; and at present I must own +I am inclined to put more faith in the authority of "the old corrector" +than in A. E. B. + +Having taken up my pen on this subject, allow me to remark upon the manner +in which MR. COLLIER's folio is referred to by your correspondent. I have +carefully considered many of the emendations proposed, and feel in my own +mind satisfied that _so great a number_ that, in the words of your +correspondent, _demonstrate themselves_, could not have been otherwise than +adopted from some authority. Even in the instance of the passage from Henry +V., "on a table of green friese," which A. E. B. selects, I presume, as +being especially absurd, I think "the old corrector" right; although I had +frequently cited Theobald's correction as particularly happy, and therefore +the new version was at first to me very distasteful. But, whatever opinion +may be held as to the value of the book, it is surely unbecoming to the +discussion of a literary question to indulge in the unsparing insinuations +that have been thrown out on all sides respecting it. I leave out of +question the circumstance, that the long and great services of MR. COLLIER +ought to protect him at least from such unworthy treatment. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + +P.S.--Since writing the above, I have seen MR. KEIGHTLEY's letter. I hope +he will not deprive the readers of "N. & Q." of the benefit of his valuable +communications for the offences of one or two. He might consider, first, +that his own dignity would suffer least by letting them pass by him "as the +idle wind;" and, secondly, that some allowance should be made for gentlemen +who engage in controversy on a subject which, strangely enough, next to +religion, seems to be most productive of discord. + +S. H. + + "I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; + I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen + Our means _secure_ us; and our mere defects + Prove our commodities." + +Does not Shakspeare here use _secure_ as a verb, in the sense "to make +careless?" If so, the passage would mean, "Our means," that is, our power, +our strength, make us wanting in care and vigilance, and too +self-confident. Gloucester says, "I stumbled when I saw;" meaning, When I +had eyes I walked carelessly; when I had the "means" of seeing and avoiding +stumbling-blocks, I stumbled and fell, because I walked without care and +watchfulness. Then he adds, "And our mere defects prove our commodities." +Our deficiencies, our weaknesses (the sense of them), make us use such care +and exertions as to prove advantages to us. Thus the antithesis is +preserved. + +How scriptural is the first part of the passage! + + "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."--1 Cor. x. + 12. + + "He hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down; there + shall no harm happen unto me."--Ps. x. 6. + +The second part is also scriptural: + + "My strength is made perfect in weakness."--2 Cor. xii. 9. + + "When I am weak then am I strong."--2 Cor. xii. 10. + +In _Timon of Athens_ we find _secure_ used as verb "_Secure_ thy +heart."--Act II. Sc. 2. + +Again, in _Othello_: + + "I do not so _secure_ me in the error."--Act I. Sc. 3. + +In Du Cange's _Gloss._ is the verb "_Securare_ nude pro securum reddere." +In the "Alter Index sive Glossarium" of Ainsworth's _Dictionary_ is the +verb "_Securo_, as ... to live carelessly." In the "Verba partim Graeca +Latine scripta, partim barbara," &c., is "_Securo_, as securum reddo." + +The _means_ of the hare in the fable for the race (that is, her swiftness) +_secured_ her; the defects of the tortoise (her slowness) proved her +_commodity_. + +F. W. J. + + * * * * * + +MANNERS OF THE IRISH. + +The following are extracts from a MS. volume of the sixteenth century, +containing, _inter alia_, notes of the Manners and Superstitions of the {5} +Celtic Irish. Some of our readers may be able to elucidate the obscure +references: + + "The Irish men they have a farme, + They kepp the bread, + And make _boyranne_. + They make butter and eatt _molchan_. + And when they haue donne + They have noe shamm. + They burne the strawe and make _loisbran_. + They eatt the flesh and drinke the broth, + And when they have done they say + _Deo gracias is smar in Doieagh_." + +The next appears to be a scrap of a woman's song: + + "Birch and keyre 'tis wal veyre a spyunyng deye a towme. + I am the geyest mayed of all that brought the somer houme. + Justice Deyruse in my lopp, and senscal in my roame," &c. + +John Devereux was Justiciary of the Palatinate Liberty of Wexford in the +early part of Henry VIII.'s reign. That Palatinate was then governed by a +seneschal or "senscal." The justice would seem to have been a gallant and +_sensual_ man, and the song may have been a little satirical. Among the +notes of the "Manners" of the Irish, it is declared that-- + + "Sett them a farme--the grandfather, father, son, and they clayme it as + their own: if not, they goe to rebellion." + +Will any antiquary versed in Celtic customs explain whether this claim of +possession grew out of any Celtic usage of tenancy? And also point out +authorities bearing upon the customs of Celtic agricultural tenancy? + +The next extract bears upon the communication at Vol. vii., p. 332.: + + "An _Ultagh_ hath three purses. He runneth behind dore to draw his + money: one cutteth the throte of another." + +Now, was an _Ultagh_ an Irish usurer or money-lender? Your correspondent at +page 332. requests information respecting Roger Outlaw. Sir William Betham, +in a note to the "Proceedings against Dame Alice Ugteler," the famous +pseudo-Kilkenny witch, remarks that "the family of Utlagh were seated in +Dublin, and filled several situations in the corporation." Utlagh and +Outlaw are the same surnames. The named Utlagh also occurs in the Calendar +of Printed Irish Patent Rolls. William Utlagh, or Outlaw, was a _banker_ +and _money-lender_ in Kilkenny, in the days of Edward I. He was the first +husband of the witch, and brother of Friar Roger Outlaw. In favour of the +latter, who was Prior of Kilmainham, near Dublin, a mandamus, dated 10 Edw. +II., was issued for arrears due to him since he was "justice and +chancellor, and even lieutenant of the justiciary, as well in the late +king's time as of the present king's." He was appointed Lord Justice, or +deputy to the Lord Lieutenant, by patent dated Mar. 15, 9 Edw. III. + +Many of the Irish records having been lost, your correspondent will do an +obliging service in pointing out the repository of the discovered roll. +Perhaps steps might be taken for its restoration. + +H. + + [The following communication from our valued correspondent, the REV. + H. T. ELLACOMBE, affords at once a satisfactory reply to H's Query, and + a proof of the utility of "N. & Q."] + +_Roger Outlawe_ (Vol. vii., p. 559.).--Thanks to ANON. and others for their +information. + +As for "in viiij mense," I cannot understand it: I copied it as it was sent +to me. B. Etii was an error of the press for R. Etii, but I purposely +avoided noticing it, because my very first communication on the subject to +"N. & Q.," under my own name and address, opened a very pleasing +correspondence, which has since led to the restoration of these Irish +documents to their congeners among the public records in Dublin; a +gentleman having set out most chivalrously from that city at his own cost +to recover them, and I am happy to say he has succeeded; and in the +_English Quarterly Magazine_ there will soon appear, I believe, an account +of the documents in question. It would not, therefore, become me to give in +this place the explanation which has been kindly communicated to me as to +the meaning of the last conquest of Ireland; but I have no doubt it will be +explained in the _English Quarterly_. + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + +Rectory, Clyst St. George. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Burial in an erect Posture._--In the north transept of Stanton Harcourt +Church, Oxon, the burial-place of the Harcourt family, is a circular slab +of blue marble in the pavement, in which is inlaid a shield of brass +bearing the arms of Harcourt,--two bars, dimidiated with those of Beke; the +latter, when entire, forming a cros ancree. The brass is not engraved, but +forms the outline of the shield and arms. It is supposed to be the monument +of Sir John, son of Sir Richard Harcourt and Margaret Beke, who died 1330. +(See extracts from Lord Harcourt's "Account," in the _Oxford Architectural +Guide_, p. 178.) Tradition relates, if my memory does not mislead me, that +the knight was buried beneath this stone in an erect posture, but assigns +no reason for this peculiarity. Is the probability of this being the case +supported by any, and what instances? Or does the legend merely owe its +existence to the circular form of the stone? {6} I think that its diameter +is about two feet. If MR. FRASER has not met with the information already, +he may be interested, with reference to his Query on "Dimidiation" (Vol. +vii., p. 548.), in learning that the above mentioned Margaret was daughter +and coheiress of John Lord Beke of Eresby, who by his will, made the 29th +of Edw. I., devised the remainder of his arms to be divided between Sir +Robert de Willoughby and Sir John de Harcourt. And this may lead to the +farther Query, whether dimidiation was originally or universally resorted +to in the case of coheiresses? + +CHEVERELLS. + +_The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout_, 1571.--Extracted from a +letter from Thomas Lancaster, Archbishop of Armagh, to Lord Burghley, dated +from Dublin, March 25, 1571:-- + + "I am sorofull for that yo^r honor is greved w^{th} the goute, from the + w^{ch} I beseche Almighty God deliver you, and send you health; and yf + (it) shall please y^r honor to prove a medicen for the same w^{ch} I + brought owt of Duchland, and have eased many w^{th} it, I trust in God + it shall also do you good, and this it is. Take ij spaniel whelpes of + ij dayes olde, scald them, and cause the entrells betaken out, but wash + them not. Take 4 ounces brymstone, 4 ounces torpentyn, 1 ounce + parmacete, a handfull nettells, and a quantyte of oyle of balme, and + putt all the aforesayd in them stamped, and sowe them up and rost them, + and take the dropes and anoynt you wheare your grefe is, and by God's + grace yo^r honor shall fynd helpe."--_From the Original in the State + Paper Office._ + +SPES. + +_The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in Canada._--In a recent +number of the _Montreal Herald_, mention is made of more than twenty +persons whose ages exceed one hundred years. The editor remarks that-- + + "The most venerable patriarch now in Canada is Abraham Miller, who + resides in the township of Grey, and is 115 years old. In 1758 he + scaled the cliffs of Quebec with General Wolfe, so that his residence + in Canada is coincident with British rule in the province. He is + attached to the Indians, and lives in all respects like them." + +W. W. + +Malta. + +_National Methods of Applauding._--Clapping with the hands is going out of +use in the United States, and stamping with the feet is taking its place. +When Mr. Combe was lecturing on phrenology at the Museum building in +Philadelphia twelve or thirteen years ago, he and his auditors were much +annoyed by the _pedal_ applause of a company in the room above, who were +listening to the concerts of a negro band. Complaint was made to the +authorities of the Museum Society; but the answer was, that nothing could +be done, as stamping of the feet was "the national method of applauding." + +The crying of "hear him! hear him!" during the delivery of a speech, is not +in use in the United States, as an English gentleman discovered who settled +here a few years ago. He attended a meeting of the members of the church to +which he had attached himself, and hearing something said that pleased him, +he cried out "hear him! hear him!" Upon which the sexton came over to him, +and told him that, unless he kept himself quiet, he would be under the +necessity of turning him out of church. + +M. E. + +Philadelphia. + +_Curious Posthumous Occurrence._--If the following be true, though in ever +so limited a manner, it deserves investigation. Notwithstanding his +twenty-three years' experience, the worthy grave-digger must have been +mistaken, unless there is something peculiar in the bodies of Bath people! +But if the face turns down in any instance, as asserted, it would be right +to ascertain the cause, and why this change is not general. It is now above +twenty years since the paragraph appeared in the London papers:-- + + "A correspondent in the _Bath Herald_ states the following singular + circumstance:--'Having occasion last week to inspect a grave in one of + the parishes of this city, in which two or three members of a family + had been buried some years since, and which lay in very wet ground, I + observed that the upper part of the coffin was rotted away, and had + left the head and bones of the skull exposed to view. On inquiring of + the grave-digger how it came to pass that I did not observe the usual + sockets of the eyes in the skull, he replied that what I saw was the + hind part of the head (termed the _occiput_, I believe, by anatomists), + and that the face was turned, as usual, to the earth!!--Not exactly + understanding his phrase 'as usual,' I inquired if the body had been + buried with the face upwards, as in the ordinary way; to which he + replied to my astonishment, in the affirmative, adding, that in the + course of decomposition the face of every individual turns to the + earth!! and that, in the experience of three-and-twenty years in his + situation, he had never known more than one instance to the contrary.'" + +A. B. C. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +DID CAPTAIN COOK FIRST DISCOVER THE SANDWICH ISLANDS? + +In a French atlas, dated 1762, in my possession, amongst the numerous +non-existing islands laid down in the map of the Pacific, and the still +more numerous cases of omission inevitable at so early a period of +Polynesian discovery, there is inserted an island styled "I. St. Francois," +or "I. S. Francisco," which lies in {7} about 20deg N. and 224deg E. from +the meridian of Ferro, and, of course, almost exactly in the situation of +Owhyhee. That this large and lofty group may have been seen by some other +voyager long before, is far from improbable; but, beyond a question, Cooke +was the first to visit, describe, and lay them down correctly in our maps. +Professor Meyen, however, as quoted in Johnston's _Physical Atlas_, +mentions these islands in terms which would almost lead one to suppose that +he, the Professor, considered them to have been known to the Spaniards in +Anson's time or earlier, and that they had been regular calling places for +the galleons in those days! It is difficult to conceive such a man capable +of such a mistake; but if he did not suppose them to have been discovered +before Cook's voyage in 1778, his words are singularly calculated to +deceive the reader on that point. + +J. S. WARDEN. + + * * * * * + +SUPERSTITION OF THE CORNISH MINERS. + +MR. KINGSLEY records a superstition of the Cornish miners, which I have not +seen noted elsewhere. In reply to the question, "What are the _Knockers_?" +Tregarva answers: + + "They are _the ghosts_, the miners hold, _of the Old Jews that + crucified our Lord, and were sent for slaves by the Roman emperors to + work the mines_: and we find their old smelting-houses, which we call + _Jews' houses_, and their blocks of the bottom of the great bogs, which + we call _Jews' tin_: and then, a town among us, too, which we call + _Market Jew_, but the old name was _Marazion_, that means the + Bitterness of Zion, they tell me; and bitter work it was for them no + doubt, poor souls! We used to break into the old shafts and adits which + they had made, and find old stags-horn pickaxes, that crumbled to + pieces when we brought them to grass. And they say that if a man will + listen of a still night about those old shafts, he may hear the ghosts + of them at working, knocking, and picking, as clear as if there was a + man at work in the next level."--_Yeast; a Problem_: Lond. 1851, p. + 255. + +Miners, as a class, are peculiarly susceptible of impressions of the unseen +world, and the superstitions entertained by them in different parts of the +world would form a curious volume. Is there any work on Cornish folk lore +which alludes to this superstition respecting the Jews? It would be +useless, I dare say, to consult Carew, or Borlase; besides, I have not them +by me. + +Apropos to Cornish matters, a dictionary with a very tempting title was +advertised for publication two or three years ago: + + "Geslevar Cernewac, a Dictionary of the Cornish Dialect of the Cymraeg + or ancient British Language, in which the words are elucidated by + numerous examples from the Cornish works now remaining, with + translations in English: and the synonyms in Welsh, Armoric, Irish, + Gaelic, and Manx, so as to form a Celtic Lexicon. By the Rev. Robert + Williams, M.A., Oxon., to be published in one vol. 4to. price 31s. 6d." + +When shall we see this desirable lexicon? I was reminded of it the other +day by hearing of the subscriptions on foot for the publication of the +great Irish dictionary, which the eminent Irish scholars Messrs. O'Donovan +and Curry have had in hand for many years. + +EIRIONNACH. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Clerical Duel._--I shall be obliged to any correspondent who will supply +the name of the courtier referred to in the following anecdote, which is to +be found in Burckhardt's _Kirchen-Geschichte der Deutschen Gemeinden in +London_, Tub. 1798, p. 77. + +Anton Wilhelm Boehme, who came over as chaplain with Prince George of +Denmark, officiated at the German Chapel, St. James's, from the year 1705 +to 1722. He was a favourite of Queen Anne, and a friend of Isaac Watts. On +one occasion he preached against adultery in a way which gave great offence +to one of the courtiers present, who conceived that a personal attack on +himself was intended. He accordingly sent a challenge to the preacher, +which was without hesitation accepted; and at the time and place appointed +the chaplain made his appearance in full canonicals, with his Bible in his +hand, and gave the challenger a lecture which led to their reconciliation +and friendship. + +I should like also to know whether there is any other authority for the +story than that which I leave quoted. + +S. R. MAITLAND. + +Gloucester + +_Pistol._--What is the date of the original introduction of this word into +our vocabulary in either of the senses in which it is equivocally used by +Falstaff in 1 _Henry IV._, Act. V. Sc. 3.? In the sense of fire-arms, +pistols seem to have been unknown by that name as late as the year 1541; +for the stat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6., after reciting the murders, &c. +committed "with cross-bows, little short hand-guns, and little hagbuts," +prohibits the possession of "any hand-gun other than such as shall be in +the stock and gun of the length of one whole yard, or any hagbut or +demihake other than such as shall be in the stock and gun of the length of +three quarters of one yard." But throughout the act there is no mention of +the word "pistol." + +J. F. M. + +_Council of Laodicca, Canon 35._--Can any of your readers inform me +whether, in any early work on the Councils, the word _angelos_ is in the +text, without having _angulos_ in the margin? If so, oblige me by stating +the editions. + +CLERICUS (D). + +{8} + +_Pennycomequick, adjoining Plymouth._--The Bath and West of England +Agricultural Society held their recent annual meeting here. Will any of +your correspondents oblige me with the derivation of this remarkable word? + +R. H. B. + +_Park the Antiquary._--In a note to the third volume (p. lxxiii.) of the +_Grenville Correspondence_ the following passage: "Barker has printed a +second note, which Junius is supposed to have written to Garrick, upon the +authority of Park the antiquary, _who states_ that he found it in a +_cotemporary newspaper_," &c. This is not strictly correct. Barker says (p. +190.), "The letter was found in a copy of Junius belonging to [Query, which +_had_ belonged to?] T. Park, &c. He had [Query, it is presumed?] cut it out +of a newspaper; but unfortunately has omitted to furnish the date of the +newspaper." [Query, How then known to be cotemporary?] The difference is +important; but where is the copy containing this letter? By whom has it +been seen? By whom and when first discovered? Where did Barker find the +story recorded? When and where first printed? + +P. T. A. + +_Honorary D.C.L.'s._--It was mentioned in a report of proceedings at the +late Installation, that the two _royal personages_ honoured with degrees, +having been doctored by diploma, would be entitled to vote in +Convocation,--a privilege not possessed by the common tribe of honorary +D.C.L.'s. + +Can you inform me whether Dr. Johnson had, or ever exercised, the right +referred to in virtue of his M.A. degree (conferred on the publication of +the _Dictionary_), or of the higher academical dignity to which his name +has given such a world-wide celebrity? + +CANTABRIGIENSIS. + +_Battle of Villers en Couche._--Some of your correspondents, better versed +than myself in military matters, will doubtless render me assistance by +replying to this Query. Where can I find a copious and accurate account of +the battle, or perhaps I should rather say skirmish, of Villers en Couche? +If I am rightly informed, it must be one of the most remarkable actions on +record, when the comparative numbers of the troops engaged are taken into +consideration. We have, as an heirloom in our family, a medal won by an +officer on that occasion: it is suspended from a red and white ribbon, and +is inscribed thus: + + "FORTITUDINE + VILLERS EN COUCHE. + 24th APRIL, + 1794." + +I do not remember to have read any account of the battle; but, as I have +heard from the lips of one who gained his information from the officer +before alluded to, the particulars were these:--General Mansell, with a +force consisting of two squadrons of the 15th Hussars, and one squadron of +the German Legion, _two hundred and seventy-two_ in all, charged a body of +the French army, _ten thousand_ strong. The French were formed in a hollow +square: but five times, as I am informed, did our gallant troops charge +into and out of the square, till the French, struck with a sudden panic, +retreated with a loss of twelve hundred men. I am desirous of +authenticating this almost incredible account, and shall be thankful for +such information as may guide me to an authoritative record of the action +in question. + +W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. + +_Dr. Misaubin._--Will any of your numerous correspondents give me any +information, or refer me to any work where I can find it, respecting Dr. +Misaubin, who appears to have practised in London during the first half of +the last century? What was the peculiarity of his practice? + +GRIFFIN. + +_Kemble, Willet, and Forbes._--What are the two concluding lines of an +epigram published ten or twelve years ago, beginning,-- + + "The case of Kemble, Willet, and Forbes, + Much of the Chancellor's time absorbs; + If I were the Chancellor I should tremble + At the mention of Willet, Forbes, and Kemble"? + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Piccalyly._--The ornament, somewhat between a hood, a scarf, and an +armlet, worn hanging over the right shoulder of judges and serjeants at +law, is called a _piccalyly_. What is the origin of this peculiarity of +judicial costume, what are the earliest examples of it, and what its +etymology? + +NO JUDGE. + +_Post-Office about 1770._--Mr. Smith, in the notes prefixed to the +_Grenville Correspondence_, says several of Junius's letters appear to have +been sent from the same post-office "as the post-mark is '_peny_ post +payd,'"--a peculiarity of spelling not likely to occur often. Have any of +your correspondents letters of that date with a like post-mark? and, if so, +can they tell us _where_ posted? + +P. A. O. + +"_Carefully examined and well-authenticated._"--I agree with MR. CRAMP +(Vol. vii., p. 569.) that "the undecided question of the authorship of +Junius requires that every statement should be carefully examined, and (as +far as possible) only well-authenticated facts be admitted as evidence." I +take leave, therefore, to remind him that my question (Vol. iii., p. 262.) +remains unanswered; that I am anxious that he should authenticate his +statement (p. 63.), and name some of the "many" {9} persons in whose +libraries vellum-bound copies of Junius have been found. + +V. B. + +_Sir Heister Ryley._--Who was the author of the _Visions of Sir Heister +Ryley_, and whence did it derive its name? It was published in 1710, and +consists of papers periodically published on serious subjects. It was one +of the many short-lived periodicals that sprung up in imitation of the +_Tatler_, and appears to have died a natural death at the end of the +so-called first volume. + +H. T. RILEY. + +_Effigies with folded Hands._--On the south side of Llangathen Church, +Carmarthenshire, is a huge monument (of the style well designated as +bedstead) for Dr. Anthony Rudd, Bishop of St. David's, and Anne Dalton, his +wife, 1616, with their recumbent effigies, and those of four sons kneeling +at their head and feet. From all these figures the iconoclasts had smitten +the hands upraised in prayer, and they have been replaced by plaister hands +folded on the bosom. The effect is singular. Is there any other instance of +such restoration? + +E. D. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Passage in Bishop Horsley._--In the Introduction to _Utrum Horum_, a +rather curious work by Henry Care, being a comparison of the Thirty-nine +Articles with the doctrines of Presbyterians on the one hand, and the +tenets of the Church of Rome on the other, is an extract from Dr. +Hakewill's _Answer_ (1616) _to Dr. Carier_, "an apostate to Popery." In it +occurs the following passage: "And so, through Calvin's sides, you strike +at the throat and heart of our religion." Will you allow me to ask if a +similar expression is not used by Bishop Horsley in some one of his +Charges? + +S. S. S. + + [The following passage occurs in the bishop's Charge to the clergy of + St. Asaph in 1806, p. 26. "Take especial care, before you aim your + shafts at Calvinism, that you know what is Calvinism, and what is not: + that in that mass of doctrine, which it is of late become the fashion + to abuse under the name of Calvinism, you can distinguish with + certainty that part of it which is nothing better than Calvinism, and + that which belongs to our common Christianity, and the general faith of + the Reformed Churches; _lest, when you mean only to fall foul of + Calvinism, you should unwarily attack something more sacred and of + higher origin_."] + +"_Marry come up!_"--What is the origin of this expression, found in the old +novelists? It perhaps originates in an adjuration of the Virgin Mary. If +so, how did it gain its present form? + +H. T. RILEY. + + [Halliwell explains it as an interjection equivalent to indeed! _Marry + on us, marry come up, Marry come out_, interjections given by Brockett. + _Marry and shall_, that I will! _Marry come up, my dirty cousin_, a + saying addressed to any one who affects excessive delicacy.] + +_Dover Court._--What is the origin of the expression of a "_Dover Court_, +where all are talkers and none are hearers?" There is a place called by +this name in the vicinity of Harwich? + +H. T. RILEY. + + [There is a legend, that Dover-Court Church in Essex once possessed a + miraculous cross which spoke, thus noticed in the _Collier of Croydon_: + + "And how the rood of _Dovercot_ did speak, + Confirming his opinions to be true." + + So that it is possible, as Nares suggests, that this church was the + scene of confusion alluded to in the proverb: "Dover Court, all + speakers and no hearers." Fox, in his _Martyrology_, vol. ii. p. 302., + states, that "a rumour was spread that no man could shut the door, + which therefore stood open night and day; and that the resort of people + to it was much and very great."] + +_Porter._--In what book is the word _porter_, meaning the malt liquor so +called, first found? I have an impression that the earliest use of it that +I have seen is in Nicholas Amherst's _Terrae Filius_, about 1726. + +H. T. RILEY. + + [We doubt whether an earlier use of this word, as descriptive of a malt + liquor, will be found than the one noticed by our correspondent; for it + was only about 1722 that Harwood, a London brewer, commenced brewing + this liquor, which he called "entire," or "entire butt," implying that + it was drawn from one cask or butt. It subsequently obtained the name + of _porter_, from its consumption by porters and labourers.] + +_Dr. Whitaker's Ingenious Earl._-- + + "To our equal surprise and vexation at times, we find the ancients + possessed of degrees of physical knowledge with which we were mostly or + entirely unacquainted ourselves. I need not appeal in proof of this to + that extraordinary operation of chemistry, by which Moses reduced the + golden calf to powder, and then give it mingled with water as a drink + to the Israelites; an operation the most difficult in all the processes + of chemistry, and concerning which it is a sufficient honour for the + moderns to say, that they have once or twice practised it. I need not + appeal to the mummies of Egypt, in which the art of embalming bodies is + so eminently displayed, that all attempts at imitation have only showed + the infinite superiority of the original to the copy. I need not appeal + to the gilding upon those mummies so fresh in its lustre; to the + stained silk of them, so vivid in its colours after a lapse of 3000 + years; to the ductility and malleability of glass, discovered by an + artist of Rome in the days of Tiberius, but instantly lost by the + immediate murder of the man under the orders of the emperor, and just + now boasted vainly to be re-discovered by the wildly eccentric, yet + vividly vigorous, genius of that earl who professes to teach law to my + lord chancellor, and divinity to my lords the {10} bishops, who + proposes to send ship, by the force of steam, with all the velocity of + a ball from the mouth of a cannon, and who pretends by the power of his + steam-impelled oars to beat the waters of the ocean into the hardness + of adamant; or to the burning-glasses of Archimedes, recorded in their + effects by credible writers, actually imitated by Proclus at the siege + of Constantinople with Archimedes' own success, yet boldly pronounced + by some of our best judges, demonstrably impracticable in themselves, + and lately demonstrated by some faint experiments to be very + practicable, the skill of the moderns only going so far as to render + credible the practices of the ancients."--_The Course of Hannibal___, + by John Whitaker, B.D., 1794, vol. ii. p. 142. + +Who was the earl whose universality of genius is described above by this +"laudator temporis acti?" + +H. J. + + [Charles Earl Stanhope, whose versatility of talent succeeded in + abolishing the old wooden printing-press, with its double pulls, and + substituting in its place the beautiful iron one, called after him the + "Stanhope Press." His lordship's inventive genius, however, failed in + the composing-room; for his transmogrified letter-cases, with his eight + logotypes, once attempted at _The Times'_ office, were soon abandoned, + and the old process of single letters preferred.] + +_Dissimulate._--Where is the earliest use of this word to be found? It is +to be met with in Bernard Mandeville's _Fable of the Bees_, 1723; but is +not to be found, I think, in any dictionary. I was once heavily censured at +school for using it in my theme; but I have more than once of late seen it +used in a leading article of _The Times_. + +H. T. RILEY. + + [_Dissimulate_ occurs in Richardson's Dictionary, with the two + following examples: + + "Under smiling she was _dissimulate_, + Prouocatiue with blinkes amorous." + Chaucer, _The Testament of Creseide_. + + "We commaunde as kynges, and pray as men, that al thyng be forgiuen to + theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty, to + _dissimulate_ for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong + children."--_Golden Boke_, c. ix. + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +BISHOP KEN. + +(Vol. vii., p. 526.) + +By converting a noun into a surname, Dodsley has led J. J. J. into a +natural, but somewhat amusing mistake. The lines quoted are in Horace +Walpole's well-known epistle, from Florence, addressed to his college +friend T[homas] A[shton,] tutor of the Earl of P[lymouth]. + +In Walpole's _Fugitive Pieces_, printed at Strawberry Hill, 1758 (the copy +of which, now before me, was given by Walpole to Cole in 1762, and contains +several notes by the latter), the passage stands correctly thus: + + "Or, with wise ken, judiciously define, + When Pius marks the honorary coin, + Of Carnealla, or of Antonine." + +Your correspondent refers to an edition of the _Collection of Poems_ of +1758. In a much later edition of that work, viz. 1782, the line is again +printed-- + + "Or with wise KEN," &c. + +It is strange that the mistake was not corrected, at the instance of +Walpole himself, during this long interval. + +Turning to Bishop Ken, I would observe that in his excellent Life of this +prelate, Mr. Anderdon has given the three well-known hymns "word for word," +as first penned. These, Mr. A. tells us, are found, for the first time, in +a copy of the _Manual of Prayers For the Use of the Winchester Scholars_, +printed in 1700. The bishop's versions vary so very materially from those +to which we have been accustomed from childhood, that these original copies +are very interesting. Indeed, within five years after their first +appearance, and during the author's life, material changes were made, +several of which are retained to the present hour. It must be admitted that +some of the stanzas, as they first came from the bishop's pen, are +singularly rugged and inharmonious, almost justifying the request made by +the lady to Byrom (as I have stated elsewhere[1]), "to revise and polish +the bishop's poems." How came these hymns, so far the most popular of his +poetical works, to be omitted by Hawkins in the collected edition of the +poems, printed in 4 vols., 1721? + +My present object is, to call your attention to a "Midnight Hymn," by Sir +Thomas Browne, which will be found in his works (vol. ii. p. 113., edit. +Wilkin). Can there be question that to it Ken is indebted for some of the +thoughts and expressions in two of his own hymns? + +The good bishop's fame will not be lessened by his adopting what was good +in the works of the learned physician. He doubtless thought far more of the +benefit which he could render to the youthful Wykehamists, than of either +the originality or smoothness of his own verses. + + _Sir Thomas Browne._ + "While I do rest, my soul advance; + Make my sleep a holy trance: + That I may, my rest being wrought, + Awake into some holy thought, + And with as active vigour run + My course as doth the nimble sun. + + "Sleep is a death: O make me try, + By sleeping, what it is to die! + {11} + And as gently lay my head + On my grave, as now my bed. + + "These are my drowsy days; in vain + I do now wake to sleep again. + O come that hour when I shall never + Sleep again, but wake for ever! + + "Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes, + Whose eyes are open while mine close; + Let no dreams my head infest, + But such as Jacob's temples blest." + + _Bishop Ken._ + "Awake, my soul, and with the sun + Thy daily stage of duty run. + + "Teach me to live that I may dread + The grave as little as my bed. + + "O when shall I in endless day + For ever chase dark sleep away, + And endless praise with th' Heavenly choir, + Incessant sing and never tire. + + "You, my blest Guardian, whilst I sleep, + Close to my bed your vigils keep; + Divine love into me instil, + Stop all the avenues of ill. + + "Thought to thought, with my soul converse + Celestial joys to me rehearse; + And in my stead, all the night long, + Sing to my God a grateful song." + +In the work referred to--one of the most valuable and best edited of modern +days--Mr. Wilkin, when speaking of a fine passage on music in the _Religio +Medici_ (vol. ii. p. 106.), asks whether it may not have suggested to +Addison the beautiful conclusion of his Hymn on the Glories of Creation: + + "What tho' in solemn silence, all," &c. + +This passage in Sir Thomas Browne appears forcibly to have struck the +gifted author of _Confessions of an English Opium-eater_ (see p. 106. of +that work). + +J. H. MARKLAND. + +[Footnote 1: _Sketch of Bishop Ken's Life_, p. 107.] + + * * * * * + +BOHN'S EDITION OF HOVEDEN. + +(Vol. vii., p. 579.) + +MR. RILEY mistakes my purpose if he thinks that my object was to make a +personal attack on him; and for anything in my last communication which may +have appeared to possess that tendency, I hereby freely express my regret. +Still I cannot allow that he has explained away the mistakes of which I +complained, and of which I still have to complain. The kingdom of Cork +_never_ "extended to within a short distance of Waterford;" and the +territory of Desmond was _never_ co-extensive with Cork, having been always +confined to the county of Kerry. MR. RILEY, therefore, is in error when he +uses "Cork" and "Desmond" as synonymous. Again, he falls into the same +mistake by assuming "Crook, Hook Point, or The Crook," to be synonyms. I +never heard that Henry II. landed at Hook Point, which is in the county of +Wexford, and from which a land journey to Waterford would be very +circuitous. At Crook, however, on the opposite side of Waterford Harbour, +and within the shelter of Creden Head, he is said to have done so; and as +that point answers pretty exactly to the _Crock_ of Hoveden, why assume +some indefinite point of the "Kingdom of Cork" as the locality, even +supposing that its boundary _did_ approach Waterford city? Really MR. +RILEY's explanations but make matters worse. + +With regard to "Erupolensis" being an _alias_ of Ossoriensis, I may quote +the authority of the learned De Burgo, who, speaking of the diocese of +Ossory, observes: + + "Quandoque tamen nuncupata erat _Eyrupolensis_ ab _Eyro_ Flumine, vulgo + _Neoro_, quod _Kilkenniam_ alluit."--_Hibernia Dominicana_, p. 205. + note _i_. + +I maintain that the reading public has just cause to complain, not (as I +said on a former occasion) because the editor of such a book as Hoveden's +_Annals_ does not know everything necessary to elucidate his author, but +because baseless conjectures are put forward as elucidations of the text. + +JAMES GRAVES. + +Kilkenny. + + * * * * * + +COLERIDGE'S CHRISTABEL. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292.) + +It is difficult to believe that the third part of _Christabel_, published +in Blackwood for June, 1819, vol. v. p. 286., could have either "perplexed +the public," or "pleased Coleridge." In the first place, it was avowedly +written by "Morgan Odoherty;" and in the next, it is too palpable a parody +to have pleased the original author, who could hardly have been satisfied +with the raving rhapsodies put into his mouth, or with the treatment of his +innocent and virtuous heroine. This will readily be supposed when it is +known that the Lady Geraldine is made out to have been a man in woman's +attire, and that "the mark of Christabel's shame, the seal of her sorrow," +is neither more nor less than the natural consequence of her having shared +her chamber with such a visitor. + +Is your correspondent A. B. R. correct in stating this parody to have been +the composition of Dr. Maginn? In the biography of this brilliant writer in +the twenty-third volume of the _Dublin University Magazine_, Dr. Moir, who +had undoubtedly good opportunities of knowing, mentions that his first +contribution to _Blackwood_ was the Latin translation of "Chevy Chase," in +the number for November 1819; if this be correct, many of the cleverest +papers that appeared under the name of Odoherty, and which are all +popularly attributed {12} to Maginn, must have been the work of other +authors, a circumstance which I had been already led to suspect from the +frequent local allusions to Scotland in general, and to Edinburgh in +particular, which could have scarcely proceeded from the pen of a native of +Cork, who had then never visited Scotland. Since Dr. Moir's own death, it +appears that the _Eve of St. Jerry_, and the _Rhyme of the Auncient +Waggonere_, have been claimed for him, as well as some other similar +pieces; and I believe that the series of _Boxiana_, which also appeared +under the name of the renowned ensign and adjutant, was written by +Professor Wilson. Maginn's contributions were at first under various +signatures, and some time elapsed before he made use of the _nom de guerre_ +of Morgan Odoherty, which eventually became so identified with him. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +Paternoster Row. + + * * * * * + +ITS. + +(Vol. vii., p. 578.) + +I am sorry to intrude upon your valuable space again in reference to this +little word, but the inquiry of MR. RYE (p. 578.), and other reasons, +render it desirable. The truth is that MR. KEIGHTLEY, MR. RYE and myself, +are more or less mistaken. 1. MR. KEIGHTLEY, in his quotation from +Fairfax's _Tasso_ (MR. SINGER's accurate reprint, 1817), has _his_ in both +lines. 2. MR. RYE, in understanding me to refer to any translation proper; +unless Sternhold and Hopkins are to be considered as having produced one. +3. Myself, in supposing the old metrical version in the Book of Common +Prayer originally had the word _its_. I copied from the Oxford edition in +fol. of 1770; but a 4to. edition, "printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling over +Aldersgate, anno 1574," does not exhibit the word in the places specified; +we have instead _her_ in both places. + +Hitherto, then, the oldest examples of the use of this word have been +adduced from Shakspeare. These are to be found in the first folio, but are +in each case printed with the apostrophe after the _t_,--_it's_. This +method of writing the word, however, soon disappeared, for in a treatise of +Pemble's, printed 1635 (the author died in 1623), it appears as we write it +now: + + "If faith alone by _its_ own virtue and force."--_Works_, fol. p. 171. + +I have not observed the fact remarked, that besides the use of _his, her, +hereof, thereof, of it_, and _the_, it was customary to employ the +unchanged word _it_ for the possessive case. I will give an example or two. +In the Genevan version, at Rom. viii. 20., we read "Not of _it_ owne +wille." This passage is thus quoted in 1611 and in 1622, but in a later +edition of the same work, 1656, _its_ is substituted for _it_. I have a +note of one other instance from Perkins on Rev. ii. 28. (ed. 1606): "For as +the sunne in the spring time quickeneth by _it_ warme beames." + +In conclusion, may I request that if any genuine instance of the use of +this word _its_, is observed by any of your many contributors, they will +communicate the fact to you? At present we can only go back to Shakspeare, +in his _Winter's Tale_ and _Henry VIII_. + +B. H. C. + + * * * * * + +FAMILY OF MILTON'S WIDOW. + +(Vol. vii., p. 596.) + +As your correspondent CRANMORE has long been a deserter from the ranks of +"N. & Q.," I may perhaps, without presumption, for once "stand in his +shoes," and reply to the challenge addressed to him by V. M. + +Much obscurity has all along prevailed among the many biographers of +Milton, in reference to the family of Elizabeth Minshull, his third wife, +and eventually, for more than fifty years, his widow. Philips, Warton, +Todd, and numerous others, state her to have been "the daughter of Mr. +Minshull, of Cheshire,"--a very vague assertion when we consider that there +were at least three or four different families of that name then existing +in the county. Pennant, who delighted in particularities, sometimes even at +the expense of historical fact, tells us, for the first time, in 1782, that +she was the daughter of Mr. (or Sir) Edward Minshull, of Stoke, near +Nantwich, and that she died at the latter town in March, 1726, at an +advanced age. Mr. Ormerod, again, whose splendid _History of Cheshire_ will +be the standard authority of the county for ages after he himself is +carried to his fathers, has unfortunately adopted the same conclusion, and +so given a colour, as it were, to this erroneous statement of our Cambrian +antiquary. The Rev. Benjamin Mardon's paper, printed in the _Journal of the +British Archaeological Association for 1849_, is another and more recent +instance of the way in which such errors as this may become perpetuated. +Another writer (Palmer) conjectures her to have been the daughter of +Minshull of Manchester; but this also has been proved to be entirely +destitute of foundation. + +The truth of the matter is (and I am indebted to Mr. Fitchett Marsh's clear +and succinct dissertation in the _Miscellany_ of the Chetham Society for +the information), the poet's widow was daughter of Mr. Randle Minshull, of +Wistaston in the county of Chester, whose great-great-grandfather, a +younger son of Minshull of Minshull, settled on a small estate there in the +reign of Queen Elizabeth, and so founded the house of Minshull of +Wistaston. Milton was introduced to his Cheshire wife by his friend Dr. +Paget; and {13} it was by his advice that the author of _Paradise Lost_ +once more entered into the bonds of wedlock. Mr. Marsh, to clear up all +doubt upon the subject, and having previously established the identity of +the family, examined the parish register at Wistaston, and there found that +"Elizabeth, the daughter of Randolph Mynshull, was baptized the 30th day of +December, 1638;" so that, if baptized shortly after birth, she must have +been about twenty-six years old when united to Milton in 1664, and about +eighty-nine at her death, which occurred in 1727. + +V. M., and all others who desire farther enlightenment on the subject, will +do well to refer to the volume before mentioned, which forms the +twenty-fourth of the series published by the Chetham Society. + +T. HUGHES. + +Chester. + + * * * * * + +BOOKS OF EMBLEMS--JACOB BEHMEN. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 469. 579.) + +Perhaps you will allow poor old Jacob Behmen, the inspired cobbler of +Gorlitz, a niche in your temple of writers of emblems. I think he is +legitimately entitled to that distinction. His works are nearly all couched +in emblems; and, besides his own figures, his principles were pictorially +illustrated by his disciple William Law (the author of _The Way to Divine +Knowledge_, _The Serious Call_, &c.), in some seventeen simple, and four +compound emblematic drawings. Of these the most remarkable, and in fact the +most intelligible, are three compound emblems representing the Creation, +Apostasy, and Redemption of Man. Every phase of each stage in the soul's +history is disclosed to view by means of double and single doors. We are +now concerned only with such of Behmen's emblematic works as have been +translated into English. The following list contains only those in my own +library. I am acquainted with no others: + +(1.) "The Works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher, to which is +prefixed the Life of the Author, with Figures illustrating his Principles, +left by the Rev. William Law, M.A. In four thick Volumes, royal 4to. +London: printed for M. Richardson in Paternoster Row, MDCCLXIV." With a +fine portrait of Behmen facing the title-page of the first volume. This +edition contains the following works: + + 1. Aurora: the Day-spring, or Dawning of the Day in the East; or + Morning-redness in the Rising of the Sun: that is, the Root or Mother + of Philosophy, Astrology, and Theology, from the True Ground; or, A + Description of Nature. + + 2. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence of the Eternal: Dark, + Light, and Temporary World. + + 3. Mysterium Magnum: or an Explanation of the First Book of Moses + called Genesis. + + 4. Four Tables of Divine Revelation. + + 5. The High and Deep-Searching of the Threefold Life of Man, through or + according to the Three Principles. + + 6. Forty Questions concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr. Balthasar + Walter, and answered by Jacob Behmen. + + 7. The Treatise of the Incarnation. + + 8. The Clavis, or an Explanation of some Principal Points and + Expressions. + + 9. Signatura Rerum. + + 10. Of the Election of Grace; or of God's Will towards Man, commonly + called Predestination. + + 11. The Way to Christ discovered in the following Treatises:--I. Of + True Repentance. II. Of True Resignation. III. Of Regeneration. IV. Of + Supernatural Life. + + 12. A Discourse between a Soul hungry and thirsty after the Fountain of + Life, the sweet Love of Jesus Christ, and a Soul enlightened. + + 13. A Treatise of the Four Complexions, or a Consolatory Instruction + for a Sad and Assaulted Heart in the Time of Temptation. + + 14. A Treatise of Christ's Testament, Baptism, and the Supper. + +(2.) "Theosophic Letters, or Epistles of the Man from God enlightened in +Grace, Jacob Behmen, of Old Seidenburgh, wherein everywhere [are?] Divine +Blessed Exhortations to true Repentance and Amendment, as also Plaine +Instructions concerning the highly worthy and precious Knowledge of the +Divine and Natural Wisdome; together with a Right Touchstone or Triall of +these Times, for an Introduction to the Author's other Writings: published +in English for the good of the sincere Lovers of true Christianitie, by +I. S.[2]" (I have only a MS. copy of this publication.) + +(3.) A beautiful MS. translation of "The Way to Christ." This is hardly so +accurate as the one already referred to, though some of the expressions are +better chosen. The date of this MS. is about 1730, or earlier. + +(4.) A fair MS. translation of Jacob Behmen's treatise called "A +Fundamental Instruction concerning the Earthly and concerning the Heavenly +Mystery; how they two stand in one another, and how in the Earthly the +Heavenly becometh manifested or revealed, wherein then you shall see Babell +the great citty upon Earth stand with its Forms and Wonders; and wherefore, +or out of what, Babell is generated, and where Antichrist will stand quite +naked. Comprised in Nine Texts. Written May 8, 1620, in High Dutch." (I +have seen no printed translation of this treatise.) + +(5.) MS. translation of the fourth treatise of "The Way to Christ," viz. +"of the Supersensual Life." This is a less accurate rendering than either +of the others above mentioned. + +Perhaps your mystic correspondents will kindly furnish lists of other +publications and MSS. of {14} "the Teutonick Theosopher." There are sixteen +more of his works, of which fifteen are now extant in High Dutch. As old +Behmen is but little known in this country, save by ill-repute, as having +led astray William Law in his old age, and, through him, having tinctured +the religious philosophy of Coleridge, it way be worth noting, that no less +a philosopher than Schelling (to whom, as we know, Coleridge stood so +greatly indebted) stole from the Lusatian shoemaker the corner-stones of +his _Philosophy of Nature_. + +C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. + +Birmingham. + +[Footnote 2: J. Sparrow.--ED.] + + * * * * * + +RAFFAELLE'S SPOSALIZIO. + +(Vol. vii., p. 595.) + +With regard to your correspondent MR. G. BRINDLEY ACKWORTH's Query +respecting _Raffaelle's Sposalizio_, I am induced to think that the +_custode_ at the church of the Santa Croce at Florence was right as to his +information. In the copy which I have of the "Ordo ad faciendum Sponsalia," +_according to the ancient use of Salisbury_, the ring is undoubtedly to be +placed on the bride's _right_ hand. Wheatly indeed says, that "when the man +espouses his wife with it (_i.e._ the ring), he is to put it _upon the +fourth finger of her_ left _hand_;" and then refers, for _the reason_ of +this, to the rubric of _Salisbury Manual_, which speaks of the vein going +from this finger directly to the heart. + +Now, what are the precise words of this rubric? After giving directions for +the benediction of the ring, provided it has not previously been blessed, +the rubric goes on thus: + + "Si autem antea fuerit annulus ille benedictus tunc statim postquam vir + posuerit annulum super librum, accipiens sacerdos annulum tradat ipsum + viro: quem vir accipiat manu sua dextera cum tribus principalioribus + digitis, et manu sua sinistra tenens dexteram sponsae docente sacerdote + dicat." + +The man is to receive the ring from the priest with the three principal +fingers of the right hand; and then, holding the _right hand_ of the bride +with his own left hand, he shall say, "With this ring," &c. He is then to +place the ring on her thumb, saying, "In nomine Patris;" then on her second +finger, saying "et Filii;" then on the third finger, saying "et Spiritus +Sancti;" then on the fourth finger, saying "Amen;" and there he is to leave +it. There is not a word said about the bride's _left_ hand, the _right_ is +alone mentioned; and why should the man hold her _right_ hand with his +_left_, but that with his _right_ hand he may the more easily place the +ring, _first_ on the _thumb_, then on the other fingers of her _right_ +hand, until it arrives at its ideal destination? + +While I am upon this subject, allow me to point out another singular +direction given in a rubric in this same "Ordo ad faciendum Sponsalia." +When the woman is, as we term it, given away, if she be a spinster, she is +to have her hand _uncovered_; if a widow, _covered_: the words are-- + + "Deinde detur femina a patre suo, vel ab amicis ejus: quod si _puella_ + sit, _discoopertam_ habeat _manum_, si _vidua_, _tectam_." + +There is no reason given for this distinction, nor do I ever remember to +have seen it noticed. + +F. B. W. + +The _Sposalizio_, or "espousals," or betrothing, is certainly a different +ceremony from the marriage. Is not the fact of young ladies popularly +considering and calling the third finger of the _right_ hand the engaged +finger, and wearing a ring on that finger when engaged, a confirmation of +your correspondent's idea, that at this "betrothal" or "espousals" (compare +the phrase "his espoused wife" of Mary before her _marriage_ with Joseph) +the ring was placed in the _right_ hand; at the marriage ceremony on the +left? + +SC. + + * * * * * + +WINDFALL. + +(Vol. vii., p. 285.) + +W. W. is desirous of interpreting _windfall_, as necessarily from its +origin denoting a gain. He is, perhaps, expecting a handsome bequest; I +wish he may get it; but he may rely on it that the _windfall_ of the +bequest will be accompanied by the _windfall_ of the "Succession Act." Let +us hear what our great Doctor says; his first explanation is, "Fruit blown +down from the tree." + +W. W.'s little boys and girls would deem a _windfall_ of unripe apples, at +this time of the year, a good; they will make a pie for dinner. W. W. +himself would call it an evil; the ripe crop is ruined. + +But let us see how Johnson illustrates his explanation: + + "Their _boughs_ were too great for their stem, they became a _windfall_ + upon the sudden."--_Bacon_, Essay 29. + +Webster copies this for his first explanation, as he does also our Dr's. +second for his second; but as it is not his plan to illustrate by examples, +he is saved from the _eccentricity_ of his original. + +If we refer to Bacon we shall be reminded of Johnson's warning, that by +"hasty detruncation the general tendency of a sentence may be changed." The +sentence here so hastily detruncated, stands thus in the Essay: + + "The Spartans were a nice people in point of naturalisation, whereby + while they kept their compasse, they stood firme. But when _they_ did + spread, and _their boughes_ were becommen too great for their stemme, + they became a _windfall_ upon the suddaine. 'Potentia eorum subito + corruit.'" + +_They_, in Johnson's mutilated sentence, refers to the _boughs_; in Bacon, +to the Spartans; so that, in {15} the first place, the Spartans are +transformed into boughs, and, in the next place, the boughs into fruit. +Detruncation, however, had nothing to do with this latter metamorphosis; +and I am afraid this is not a solitary instance of lexicographical +incongruity. + +W. W. may assure himself that a windfall is "whatever _falls_ by the wind, +or with similar suddenness or unexpectedness, whether bringing good or +ill." + +And if he will take the trouble to refer to "The Case of Impeachment of +Waste," quoted by MR. ARROWSMITH, Vol. vii., p. 375., he will find, only a +few lines before that gentleman's quotation begins, a legal question at +issue as to the right of property in _windfalls_. + +Q. + +Bloomsbury. + + * * * * * + +MR. JUSTICE NEWTON. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 528. 600.) + +It would greatly enhance the value of contributions to "N. & Q.," save much +trouble, and often lead to a more direct intercourse between persons of +similar pursuits, if contributors would drop initials, and sign their own +proper name and _habitat_; and in saying this, I believe the Editor will +second me. If C. S. G. had done this, I should have been happy to send him +an envelope full of proofs that Mr. Justice Newton did not die in 1444, for +that a fine was levied before him in 1448; that he is not buried in Bristol +Cathedral, but in the Wyke Aisle in Yatton Church, Somerset, where may be +seen his effigies beautifully carved in alabaster, in his judge's robes, +and his head resting on a wheat-sheaf or garb; that there was _no_ +relationship between the second baronet of Hather, his arms being _cross +bones_, &c., and those of the judge, who was truly a _Cradock_, were three +garbs, &c. I would now beg leave to refer C. S. G. to my former +communications in "N. & Q." about Cradock Newton, particularly Vol. ii., +pp. 248. 427.; _Chronica Judicialia_, 1635; Foss's _Lives of the Judges_; +and a paper of mine in the forthcoming volume of the _Proceedings of the +Archaeological Institute at Bristol_. + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + +Rectory, Clyst St. George. + +From C. S. G.'s reply to my inquiry respecting Mr. Justice Newton I +conclude that at least _two_ individuals of this name have, at different +periods, and at a considerable interval apart, occupied the judicial bench. + +The portrait I wish to trace is of a well-known character of the +Commonwealth era, and could not, of course, have belonged to a judge then +some two centuries deceased. My omission to state this circumstance, in the +first instance, has very naturally occasioned complete misapprehension +throughout. + +Since my Query was written, a duplicate of the drawing in the Bodleian +(_minus_ the inscription), out of the Strawberry Hill collection, has, +curiously enough, appeared in an extensive public sale. It was likewise +said to be by Bulfinch; and farther examination leads me to infer that both +this and the Oxford copy were, in respect of artist, in all probability +_not_ incorrectly described. As Bulfinch lived _temp._ Charles II., and the +Bodleian inscription points to his original painting, as "in the hands of +Mr. Justice Newton," it may fairly be presumed that a second judge of the +name flourished in this reign. + +Substantially, then, my original Query yet remains unanswered, +notwithstanding C. S. G.'s obliging reply. + +F. KYFFIN LENTHALL. + +36. Mount Street, Grosvenor Square. + + * * * * * + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Mr. Lyte's Treatment of Positives._--It would be quite superfluous, after +the very excellent communication of MR. POLLOCK, were I to give a detailed +account of my method of printing albumen positives, as, in the main, we +both follow the process of Mr. Le Gray. But as we both have our own +improvements on the original process, I will ask for space in which to +record our differences in manipulation. + +First, in regard to the chloride of gold, I always find, and I believe such +is the experience of many photographers, that all salts of gold, though +they heighten the effect at first, have a slow, but sure, destructive +action on the picture. + +Next, I find that acetic acid, by generating sulphurous acid, has a similar +effect, and my care was to try and make a solution which should be free +from these defects. I first take my positive, which, as a general rule, I +print at least half as dark again as the shade required. This done, I wash +it well with water, and next with salt and water in the proportion of about +half a grain per gallon, or quite a tasteless solution; this removes all +the nitrate of silver from the paper, or if there is any left, the bath of +salt decomposes it, leaving none in the texture of the paper to unite with +the hypo., which otherwise forms a sticky substance, difficult to remove, +which may be readily seen on looking through a positive which has been too +hastily finished in the usual way, giving a dark shade, and a want of +transparency to the lights. I then place the picture in a bath composed as +follows: + + Sodae hyposul. 3 oz. + Argent. chlorid. 70 grs. + Potassii iodidi 5 grs. + Pyrogallic acid 1-1/2 to 2 grs. + +The iodide of potassium I add on the same principle as MR. POLLOCK's iodide +of silver, but as being {16} more convenient, as immediately on being added +it decomposes some of the chloride of silver, and forms iodide of silver. I +am happy to find that MR. POLLOCK confirms me in the use of this salt; +which I had long thought to improve the tone of my pictures. The liquid, +which will become rapidly very dark coloured, must be set aside in an open +vessel in a warm place for some weeks, _e.g._ till, when a positive is +placed in it, left for a short time, and then washed with water, it shows +clean and not mottled in the light. The solution may be kept always +exposed, and much improves by this: if _much_ used, it should be +replenished with a simple solution of hypo. three ounces or two ounces to +the pint; if little used, it may be filled up as much as evaporates with +pure water. + +The positive is left in this solution till the required tint is obtained, +when it is to be placed in plain hypo. two ounces to the pint, and in about +a quarter of an hour transferred to a basin of pure water, and well washed +in several waters. The other detail of MR. POLLOCK's process is so +admirably and clearly given, and so like that I pursue, that I will not +trouble your columns with it again. + +The after-bath of pure hypo. is not absolutely necessary; and where it is +desired to obtain fine olive, and dark sepia, and black tints, a better +tone results from washing well, long, and frequently, with water alone. + +This bath also gives very rich tints with paper, prepared without albumen: +viz.-- + + Chloride of ammonium 5 grs. + Water 1 oz. + +Lay the paper on this, and then hang it up to dry, and excite with +ammonio-nitrate containing seventy grains of nitrate of silver to one ounce +of water. Should the above solution not give the requisite tints soon after +being made, add more chloride of silver; but bear in mind that the solution +will then soon become saturated when setting positives, and when this +occurs it must be rectified by the addition of a small portion of fresh +hypo. alone. + +F. MAXWELL LYTE. + +P.S.--I may add that I have only lately tried the addition of the iodide of +potassium to my setting liquid, and so must qualify my recommendation of it +by saying so. + +Florian, Torquay. + +_Stereoscopic Angles._--I am obliged to MESSRS. SHADBOLT and WILKINSON for +the information given in reply to my Queries (Vol. vii., p. 505.) My mode +of operation is precisely that of MR. WILKINSON: "I obtain all the +information I can from every source; then try, and judge for myself." Hence +the present letter. + +I regret to be obliged to differ from MR. SHADBOLT, but there is a point in +his communication which appears to me to arise from a misconception of the +stereoscopic problem. He says (p. 557.), "for _distant_ views there is in +nature scarcely any _stereoscopic_ effect." Now, surely visual distance is +merely visual stereosity; for, to see an object solid is merely to see its +parts in relief, some of them appearing to project or recede from the +others. It is the difficulty of producing this effect in landscapes, by the +ordinary camera process, that renders views taken by such means so +deficient in air, or, as the artists term it, aerial perspective, most +distant objects seeming almost as near as those in the foreground. This +indeed is the main defect of all photographs: they are true representations +of nature to one eye--cyclopean pictures, as it were--appearing perfectly +stereoscopic with one eye closed, but seeming absolutely flattened when +viewed by the two eyes. I remember being shown a huge photograph of the +city of Berlin, taken from an eminence; and a more violent caricature of +nature I never set eyes upon. It was almost Chinese in its perspective: the +house-tops appeared to have been mangled. It was a wonderful work of art, +photographically considered; but artistically it was positively hideous. +But the same defect exists in _all_ monophotographic representations, +though in a less degree, and consequently less apparent than in views to +which a sense of distance is essential. In portraits, the features appear +slightly flattened; and until photographers are able to overcome this, the +chief of all obstacles to perfection, it is idle to talk of the art giving +a correct rendering of nature. This is what is wanted, more than colour, +diactinic lenses, multiplication of impressions, or anything else. And when +it is remembered that the law of an ordinary convex lens is, the farther +the object from the lens the nearer the focus, and, _vice versa_, the +nearer the object the farther the focus, it becomes evident that by such an +instrument distant objects must be made to appear near, and near objects +distant, and nature consequently mangled. + +The stereoscope gives us the only demonstrably correct representation of +nature; and when that instrument is rendered more simple, and the peep-show +character of the apparatus disconnected from it, the art of photography +will transcend the productions of the painter--but not till then. + +I am anxious to obtain all the information I can from such of your +photographic readers as are practically acquainted with the stereoscopic +portion of the art relative to the angles under which they find it best to +take their pictures for given distances. + +Mr. Fenton, the secretary of the Photographic Society, takes his +stereoscopic pictures, when the objects are 50 feet and upwards from the +camera, at 1 in 25. This is, as MR. SHADBOLT states, Professor Wheatstone's +rule for distances. {17} + +MR. WILKINSON, on the other hand, asserts that 3 feet in 300 yards is +sufficient separation for the cameras: this is only 1 in 300,--a vast +difference truly. + +"For views across the Thames," says the editor of the _Photographic +Journal_, "the cameras should be placed 12 feet apart, and with this +separation the effect is declared to be astonishing." + +MR. WILKINSON, however, asserts that from 4 to 6 feet in a mile will do +_well enough_! + +Farther, Mr. Latimer Clark (the inventor of an ingenious stereoscopic +camera) states that with regard to the distance between the two positions +of the cameras, he knows no good reason why the natural distance of the +eyes, viz. 2-1/2 inches, should be much exceeded. "A little extra relief is +obtained," he adds, "without visible distortion, by increasing the +separation to about 4 or 5 inches; but if this distance be greatly +exceeded, especially for near objects (I give the gentleman's own words), +they become apparently diminished in size, and have the appearance of +models and dolls rather than natural objects." + +The reason for making the separation between the cameras greater than that +between the two eyes, is exceedingly simple. The stereograph is to be +looked at much _nearer_ than the object itself, and consequently is to be +seen under a much larger angle than it is viewed by the two eyes in nature. +Hence the two pictures should be taken at the angle under which they are to +be observed in the stereoscope. Suppose the object to be 50 feet distant, +then of course it is seen by the two eyes under an angle of 2-1/2 inches in +50 feet, or 1 in 240. But it is intended that the stereograph should be +seen by the two eyes when but a few inches removed from them, or generally +under an angle of 2-1/2 in 12 inches, or nearly 1 in 5. Hence it is +self-evident that the stereoscopic angle should be considerably larger than +that formed by the optic axes of the two eyes when directed to the object +itself. + +But there is great diversity of opinion as to the extent of the angles +requisite for producing the precise stereoscopic or distantial effect of +nature. For myself I prefer Professor Wheatstone's rule, 1 in 25 for +objects beyond 50 feet distant. For portraits I find the best angle 1 in 10 +when the sitter is 10 feet off, and for busts about 1 in 5 when placed +about 5 or 6 feet from the cameras. But I should be happy to receive +information from any of your readers concerning this important branch of +the photographic art. For months past I have been engaged in a series of +experiments in connexion with the subject, and wish for larger experience +than it is possible for any single operator to acquire for himself. + +Mr. Fenton, I may observe, does not keep the cameras parallel in taking +landscapes, but inclines them so that the same object may occupy as nearly +as possible the centre of the ground glass plate. + +Nor is it essential that perfect horizontality or parallelism of the +cameras should be maintained in copying trees. For buildings, however, it +is absolutely necessary that the cameras be kept straight. + +I am sorry thus to trespass on your space, but being anxious, as MR. +WILKINSON says, to collect information from every source, and your +periodical being a happy medium for conveying and receiving instruction, I +am glad to avail myself of such a channel. + +[Phi]. (2) + +P.S.--Mr. Claudet has, I perceive, been awarded the prize given by the +Society of Arts for the best essay on the stereoscope. Can you, or any of +your readers, inform me whether this is likely to be published, and when +and at what price? + +_Query respecting Mr. Pollock's Process._--In MR. POLLOCK's directions for +obtaining positives which appeared in "N. & Q." (Vol. vii, p. 581.), iodide +of silver is to be dissolved in a saturated solution of hypo. Can you give +me the quantity of iodide of silver to be dissolved, and the quantity of +the saturated solution of hypo. in which it is to be dissolved? + +N. T. B. + +_Gallo-nitrate of Silver._--Can you inform me what the true nature of the +decomposition is which takes place after a short time in the gallo-nitrate +solution of silver? and if there be any ready means of rendering the silver +it contains again available for photographic use? + +SIR W. NEWTON, in the description of his calotype process, says: "Bring out +with the saturated solution of gallic acid, and when the subject begins to +appear, add the aceto-nitrate of silver solution." Which way of doing this +is the best,--mixing the two solutions together and applying them to the +paper; or applying the paper, when wetted with the gallic acid, to the +silver solution? + +T. L. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Verney Note decyphered_ (Vol. vii., p. 568.).--I am extremely obliged to +MR. THOMPSON COOPER for his decyphered rendering of Sir Ralph Verney's note +of a speech or proceeding in parliament. The note itself is not now in my +possession, but I have requested the owner to be good enough to re-collate +it with the original, and if any mistakes should appear in the copy, or the +printing (which is very likely), I will give you notice of the fact, that +the doubtful words in MR. COOPER's version may, if possible, be set right. + +Students in the art of decyphering may be pleased to have the key to the +cypher recorded in {18} your pages. I therefore give it you as discovered +by MR. COOPER, and beg, in the strongest way, to reiterate my thanks to +that gentleman. + + 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, + f, r, k, t, b, h, s, w, c, g, p, d, a, e, i, o, u, + + 20, 22, 27, 28. + l, x, m, n. + +The cyphers (if any) for _j, q, y, z_ have not been discovered, and the +numbers 1, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26 remain unappropriated. + +JOHN BRUCE. + +_Emblems by John Bunyan_ (Vol. vii., p. 470.).--This work which MR. CORSER +has not met with, is in the folio edition of his works, forming pp. 849. to +868. of vol. ii. (1768). The plates are small woodcuts of very indifferent +execution. + +E. D. + +_Mr. Cobb's Diary_ (Vol. vii., p. 477.).--This volume was printed solely +for private distribution by the family, who also presented their relatives +and friends (amongst whom the writer was reckoned) with another volume +compiled on the decease of Francis Cobb, Esq., the husband of Mrs. Cobb, +and entitled, _Memoir of the late Francis Cobb, Esq., of Margate, compiled +from his Journals and Letters_: Maidstone, printed by J. V. Hall and Son, +Journal Office, 1835. Both of these are at the service for perusal of your +inquiring correspondent, JOHN MARTIN. + +E. D. + +"_Sat cito si sat bene_" (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--I have not Twiss at hand; +but I think F. W. J. is mistaken in calling it a "favourite maxim" of Lord +Eldon. I remember to have heard Lord Eldon tell the story, which was, that +the Newcastle Fly, in which he came up to town, in I forget how many days, +had on its panel the motto, "Sat cito si sat bene:" he applied it jocularly +in defence of his own habits in Chancery. + +C. + +_Mythe versus Myth_ (Vol. vii., pp. 326. 575.).--It gives me much pleasure +to have afforded MR. THIRIOLD an opportunity for displaying so much +learning and sagacity; but I hope he does not imagine that he has confuted +me. As I only spoke of words which, like [Greek: muthos], had a single +consonant between two vowels, such words as _plinth_, _labyrinth_, &c. have +nothing to do with the question. If _mythe_, differing from the other +examples which are to be found, happens to have _the_ for its termination, +and thus resembles words of Anglo-Saxon origin, I cannot help it, but it +was formed _secundum artem_. As to MR. THERIOLD's _m[=y]th_, unless so +written and printed, it will always be pronounced _m[)y]th_, like the +French _mythe_. + +As to the _hybrid_ adjectives, I only wished to avoid increasing the number +of them. The French, I believe, have only one, _musical_; for though, like +ourselves, they have made substantives of the Greek [Greek: mousike] (sc. +[Greek: techne]), [Greek: phusike], &c., in all other cases they retain the +Greek form of the adjective, as in _physique_, substantive and adjective, +while we generally have pairs of adjectives, as _philosophic, +philosophical_; _extatic, extatical_; &c. Some may think this an advantage; +I do not. + +THOS. KEIGHTLEY. + +_The Gilbert Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 259).--If your correspondent seeking +genealogical information in reference to my ancestors, calls on me, I will +show him a presentation copy of _A Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert +Family in Old and New England_, by J. W. Thornton, LL.B., Boston, U. S., +1850, 8vo. pp. 24, only fifty printed. + +JAMES GILBERT. + +_Alexander Clark_ (Vol. vii., p. 580.).--I should feel obliged if J. O. +could find leisure to communicate to "N. & Q." some particulars relative to +Clark. He is supposed to have been the author of a curious poem: _The +Institution and Progress of the Buttery College of Slains, in the Parish of +Cruden, Aberdeenshire; with a Catalogue of the Books and MSS. in the +Library of that University_: Aberdeen, 1700. Mr. Peter Buchan thus mentions +him in his _Gleanings of Scarce Old Ballads_: + + "Clark, a drunken dominie at Slains, author of a poetical dialogue + between the gardeners and tailors on the origin of their crafts, and a + most curious Latin and English poem called the 'Buttery College of + Slains,' which resembled much in language and style Drummond of + Hawthornden's 'Polemo Middino.'" + +This poem is printed in Watson's _Collection of Scottish Poems_, Edin. +1711; and also noticed in the _Edinburgh Topographical and Antiquarian +Magazine_, 1848, last page. I am anxious to ascertain if the emblem writer, +and the burlesque poet, be one and the same person. The dates, I confess, +are somewhat against this conclusion; but there may have been a previous +edition of the _Emblematical Representation_ (1779). The _University_ Clark +is supposed to have been an Aberdeenshire man. Possibly J. O. may be able +to throw some light on the subject. + +PERTHENSIS. + +_Christ's Cross_ (Vol. iii., pp. 330. 465.).--In Morley's _Introduction to +Practical Music_, originally printed in 1597, and which I quote from a +reprint by William Randall, in 4to., in 1771, eighteen mortal pages +(42-59), which, in my musical ignorance, I humbly confess to be wholly out +of my line, are occupied with the "Cantus," "Tenor," and "Bassus," to the +following words: + + "Christes Crosse be my speed in all vertue to proceede, A, b, c, d, e, + f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, & t, double w, v, x, with y, + ezod, & per se, con per se, tittle tittle est Amen, When you haue done + begin again, begin again." + +J. F. M. + +{19} + +_The Rebellious Prayer_ (Vol. vii., p. 286.).--J. A. may find the poem, of +which he quotes the opening lines, in the _Churchman's Monthly Penny +Magazine_, October, 1851, with the signature L. E. P. The magazine is +published by Wertheim & Macintosh, 24. Paternoster Row. + +M. E. + +"_To the Lords of Convention_" (Vol. vii., p. 596.).--L. EVANS will find +the whole of the ballad of "Bonnie Dundee," the first line of which he +quotes, in Sir Walter Scott's _Doom of Devorgoil_, where it is introduced +as a song. Singularly enough, his best ballad is thus found in his worst +play. + +FICULNUS. + +_Wooden Tombs and Effigies_ (Vol. vii., pp. 528. 607.).--In a chapel +adjoining the church of Heveningham in Suffolk, are (or rather were in +1832) the remains of a good altar tomb, with recumbent effigies carved in +chesnut, of a knight and his lady: it appeared to be, from the armour and +architecture, of the early part of the fifteenth century; and from the +arms, _Quarterly or and gules within a border engrailed sable, charged with +escallops argent_, no doubt belonged to the ancient family of Heveningham +of that place; probably Sir John Heveningham, knight of the shire for the +county of Suffolk in the 1st of Henry IV. + +When I visited this tomb in 1832, it was in a most dilapidated condition: +the slab on which the effigy of the knight once rested was broken in; +within the head of the lady, which was separated from the body, a thrush +had built its nest: notwithstanding, however, the neglect and damp to which +the chapel was exposed, these chesnut effigies remained wonderfully sound +and perfect. + +SPES. + +The monument to Sir Walter Traylli and his lady, in Woodford Church in +Northamptonshire, is of wood. + +There is a wooden effigy in Gayton Church, Northamptonshire, of a knight +templar, recumbent, in a cross-legged position, his feet resting on an +animal: over the armour is a surcoat; the helmet is close fitted to the +head, his right hand is on the hilt of his sword, a shield is on the left +arm. + +There is also a fine wooden effigy of Sir Hugh Bardolph in Burnham Church +in Norfolk. + +J. B. + +In Fersfield Church, in Norfolk, there is a wooden figure to the memory of +Sir Robert Du Bois, Kt., ob. 1311. See Bloomfield's _Norfolk_, vol. i. p. +68. + +J. B. + +_Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman_ (Vol. vii., pp. 133. 211. 634.).--Upon +reference to the story of the "tubwoman" in p. 133., it will be seen that +Mr. Hyde is distinctly stated to have himself married the brewer's widow, +and to have married her for her money. It is farther said that Ann Hyde, +the mother of Queen Mary and Queen Ann, was the only issue of this +marriage; whereas Ann Hyde had four brothers and a sister. No allusion is +made in this account to Sir Thomas Ailesbury. Your correspondent MR. WARDEN +says, that "the story has _usually_ been told of the wife of Sir Thomas +Ailesbury," and that it may be true of her. Will he have the kindness to +furnish a reference to the version of the story in which Sir Thomas +Ailesbury is said to have married the tubwoman? + +L. + +_House-marks_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--I do not know whether [alpha]. +recollects the frequent occurrence of _marks_ upon sheep in this country. +Although I have often seen them, I cannot just now describe one accurately. +Some sheep passed my house yesterday which were marked with a _cross_ +within a circle. + +Riding with a friend, a miller, in Essex, about thirteen years ago, he +jumped out of the gig and over a gate, to seize a sack which was lying in a +field. Seeing no initials upon it, I asked how he knew that it was his; +when he pointed out to me a fish marked upon it, which he told me had been +his own and his father's mark for many years. He also said that most of the +millers in the neighbourhood had a peculiar _mark_ (not their names or +initials), each a different one for his own sacks. + +A. J. N. + +Birmingham. + +"_Amentium haud amantium_" (Vol. vii., p. 595.).--Your correspondent's +Query sent me at once to a queer old _Terence in English_, together with +the text, "_opera ac industria R. B., in Axholmensi insula, Lincolnsherii +Epwortheatis_. [London, Printed by John Legatt, and are to be sold by +Andrew Crooke, at the sign of the Green-Dragon, in Paul's Church Yard. +1641.] 6th Edition." + +Here, as I expected, I found an alliterative translation of the phase in +question "For they are fare as they were _lunaticke, and not love-sicke_." + +The translation, I may add, is in prose. + +OXONIENSIS. + +Walthamstow. + +_The Megatherium in the British Museum_ (Vol. vii., p. 590.).--It is much +to be regretted that A FOREIGN SURGEON should not have examined the +contents of the room which contains the cast of the skeleton of this animal +with a little more attention, before he penned the above article. Had he +done so, he would have found many of the original bones, from casts of +which the restored skeleton has been constructed, in Wall Cases 9 and 10, +and would not have fallen into the error of supposing that it is a +_fac-simile_ of the original skeleton at Madrid. _That_ specimen was +exhumed near Buenos Ayres in 1789; whilst our restoration {20} has been +made from bones of another individual, many of which are, as I have stated, +to be found in the British Museum itself, and others in that of the Royal +College of Surgeons. I are not about to defend the propriety of putting the +trunk of a palm-tree into the claws of the Megatherium, though I do not +suppose that the restorer ever expected, when he did so, that any one would +entertain the idea that this gigantic beast was in the habit of climbing +trees; but I would fain ask your correspondent on what grounds he makes the +dogmatic assertion that "Palms there were none, at that period of telluric +formation." I will simply remind him of the vast numbers of fossil fruits, +and other remains of palms, in the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey. + +W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. + +Temple. + +_Pictorial Proverbs_ (Vol. v., p. 559.).--Perhaps the book here mentioned +is one of the old German _Narrenbuchs_, or _Book of Fools_, which were +generally illustrated with pictures, of which I have a curious set in my +possession. + +Can any of your correspondents give some account of the nature and merits +of these books? Are any of them worth translating at the present day? The +one from which my pictures were taken has the title _Mala Gallina, malum +Ovum_, and was published at Vienna and Nuremburg. It seems to have been a +satire on the female sex; but the text, I am sorry to say, is not in my +possession. + +H. T. RILEY. + +_"Hurrah," and other War-cries_ (Vol. vii., p. 596.).--The following +passage (which I find in my notes with the reference _Menagiana_, vol. ii. +p. 328.) may partially assist your correspondent CAPE: + + "Le cri des anciens Comtes d'Anjou etoit _Rallie_. En voici l'origine. + Eude II., Comte de Blois, marchant avec une armee considerable contre + Foulke Nerra, Comte d'Anjou, ces deux princes se rencontrerent a + Pontlevoi sur le Cher, ou ils se livrerent bataille le 6 Juillet, 1016. + Foulke eut d'abord quelque desavantage; mais Herbert, Comte du Maine + (dit _Eveillechien_), etant venu a son secours, il rallia ses troupes, + and defit absolument, &c. Depuis ce temps-la le cri des anciens Comtes + d'Anjou etoit _Rallie_. Et a ce propos je vous rapporterai ce qu'en dit + Maitre Vace, surnomme _le Clerc de Caen_, dans son Roman de Normandie: + + 'Francois crie _Montjoye_, et Normans _Dex-aye_: + Flamands crie _Aras_, et Angevin _Rallie_: + Et li cuens Thiebaut _Chartre_ et _Passavant_ crie.'" + +This last cry is not unlike the Irish "Faugh-a-Ballagh" in signification. + +J. H. LERESCHE. + +Manchester. + +The following extracts from Sir Francis Palgrave's _History of Normandy and +England_, vol. i. p. 696., explain the origin of the word "Hurrah," +respecting which one of your correspondents inquires: + + "It was a 'wise custom' in Normandy, established by Rollo's decree, + that whoever sustained, or feared to sustain, any damage of goods or + chattels, life or limb, was entitled to raise the country by the cry of + _haro_, or _haron_, upon which cry all the lieges were bound to join in + pursuit of the offender,--_Haron! Ha Raoul!_ justice invoked in Duke + Rollo's name. Whoever failed to aid, made fine to the sovereign; whilst + a heavier mulct was consistently inflicted upon the mocker who raised + the _clameur de haro_ without due and sufficient cause, a disturber of + the commonwealth's tranquillity. + + "The _clameur de haro_ is the English system of 'hue and cry.' The old + English exclamation _Harrow!_ our national vernacular _Hurrah!_ being + only a variation thereof, is identical with the supposed invocation of + the Norman chieftain; and the usage, suggested by common sense, + prevailed under various modifications throughout the greater part of + the Pays Coutumier of France." + +A. M. S. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. + +Among the books which we have for some time intended to bring under the +notice of our readers is a new and cheaper edition of _The Coin Collector's +Manual, or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of +Coins: comprising an Historical and Critical Account of the Origin and +Progress of Coinage, from the Earliest Period to the Fall of the Roman +Empire; with some Account of the Coinages of Modern Europe, more especially +of Great Britain, by_ H. Noel Humphreys: and we have been the more anxious +to do this, because, except among professed collectors, greater ignorance +probably exists on the subject of coins, their date, value, &c., than upon +any other subject with which educated people are supposed to possess some +acquaintance. Yet there are few numismatic questions likely to occur which +ordinary readers would not be enabled to solve by a reference to these two +little volumes, enriched as it is with numerous illustrations; especially +if they would place beside them Akerman's most useful _Numismatic Manual_. + +We are indebted to Mr. Murray for two volumes which will be among the +pleasant additions to the cheap books of the month, namely, the new volume, +being the fourth of the reprint, of Lord Mahon's _History of England to the +Peace of Versailles_, which comprises the interval between the Peace of +Aix-la-Chapelle and that of Hubertsburg; and in the _Railway Reading_, for +half-a-crown! the fourth edition of Lockhart's spirited translations of +_Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic_. Thanks, Mr. Murray, +thanks! + +That Mr. De la Motte, who is so well known as an accomplished draughtsman, +should turn his attention to photography, is no slight testimony to the +value of the art. That he has become a master in it, may be seen by one +glance at his own works on the walls of his Photographic Gallery. The +beginner may therefore receive with confidence the results of that +gentleman's experience; and _The Practice of Photography, a Manual for +Students and Amateurs_, just published by him, will {21} be found a most +useful and instructive companion to every one who is now contemplating an +excursion, armed with a camera, for the purpose of securing for the +gratification of his friends truthful records of his wanderings. Mr. De la +Motte wisely confines his instruction to the paper and glass processes; his +details on these are clear and minute, and the book is well worth the money +for those pages of it alone which are devoted to the "Chemicals used in +Photography." + +BOOKS RECEIVED.--_On the Archaic Mode of expressing Numbers in English, +Saxon, Friesic, &c._, by E. Thomson, Esq.; a learned and ingenious tract, +written originally for insertion in "N. & Q.," but which fact ought not to +prevent our speaking of it in the terms which it deserves.--_A Few Words in +Reply to the Animadversions of the Rev. Mr. Dyce on Mr. Hunter's +"Disquisition on the Tempest," 1839, and his "New Illustrations of the +Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakspeare," 1845, &c._ A short but +interesting contribution to Shakspearian criticism, by one who has already +done good service in the same cause. If we cannot agree with Mr. Hunter in +all that he seeks to establish, we can admire his knowledge of Elizabethan +literature, and appreciate the spirit in which he writes.--_The Antiquary._ +This is the first number of a small work consisting of reprints of +proclamations, curious advertisements from early newspapers, and such odd +matters as paint more forcibly than the gravest historian, the colours of +the times. + + * * * * * + + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. + +THE COMPLAYNTS OF SCOTLAND. 8vo. Edited by Leyden. 1804. + +SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS. Vol. V. of Johnson and Steeven's edition, in 15 vols. +8vo. 1739. + +CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS. 12mo. London, 1828. (Two Copies.) + +JONES' ACCOUNT OF ABERYSTWITH. Trevecka, 8vo. 1779. + +M. C. H. BROEMEL'S FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. Jena, 1705. + +COOPER'S ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC RECORDS. 8vo. 1832. Vol. I. + +PASSIONAEL EFTE DAT LEVENT DER HEILIGEN. Basil, 1522. + +LORD LANSDOWNE'S WORKS. Vol. I. Tonson, 1736. + +JAMES BAKER'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO THE LOCAL BEAUTIES OF WALES. Vol. I. +4to. 1794. + +WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. Vol. II. 4to. 1832. + +WALKER'S PARTICLES. 8vo. old calf, 1683. + +WARNER'S SERMONS. 2 Vols. Longman, about 1818. + +AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT. 12mo., cloth, 1842. + +SANDERS' HISTORY OF SHENSTONE IN STAFFORDSHIRE. J. Nichols, London. 1794. +Two Copies. + +HERBERT'S CAROLINA THRENODIA. 8vo. 1702. + +THEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. 1726. + +*** _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send +their names._ + +*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be +sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. + + * * * * * + + +Notices to Correspondents. + +OUR EIGHTH VOLUME. _We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the +commencement of a new Volume, to state that our attention has been called +to the sharp and somewhat personal tone of several of the recent +contributions to "N. & Q.," and which, we are reminded, is the more +striking from the marked absence of anything of that character in our +earlier Volumes. We are perhaps ourselves somewhat to blame for this, from +our strong indisposition to exercise our editorial privilege of omission. +Our notice of the subject will, we are sure, be sufficient to satisfy our +contributors of the inconvenience which must result to themselves as well +as to us from the indulgence in too great license of the pen. We know that +when men write_ currente calamo, _words and phrases are apt to escape, the +full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said, +"print proves it;" but being conscious that, when treating on the subjects +with which we deal, no one would willingly write anything with design to +give offence, we shall in future "play the tyrant" on all such occasions +with more vigilance than we have done._ + +L. K. _The lines_-- + + "Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; + The rest is all but leather and prunello." + +_are from Pope's_ Essay on Man, _Ep. IV._ 203. _See some curious +illustrations of them in our_ First Volume, pp. 246. 362. &c. + +BLACKAMOOR _will find the_ Cyanogen Soap, _manufactured by Thomas, +excellent for removing Photographic stains. 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