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diff --git a/29664.txt b/29664.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ceadada --- /dev/null +++ b/29664.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3669 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, +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 218, December 31, 1853 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Other: George Bell + +Release Date: August 10, 2009 [EBook #29664] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, DEC 31, 1853 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +{637} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 218.] +SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1853. +[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + St. Stephen's Day and Riley's Hoveden, by J. S. Warden 637 + + The Holy Trinity Church, Hull, by R. W. Elliot 638 + + MINOR NOTES:--Italian-English--American Names-- + Rulers of the World in 1853--Revocation of the Edict of + Nantes 638 + + QUERIES:-- + + Derivation of Silo, by Augustus Strong 639 + + MINOR QUERIES:--Handwriting--Rev. Joshua Brooks--"New + Universal Magazine"--Francis Browne--Advent Hymn--Milton's + Correspondence--"Begging the Question"--Passage of Cicero 639 + + MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Goldsmith's "Haunch of Venison" 640 + + REPLIES:-- + + School Libraries, by Weld Taylor, P. H. Fisher, &c. 640 + + Trench on Proverbs, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 641 + + Major Andre 643 + + Passage in Whiston 645 + + Helmets 645 + + Hampden's Death 646 + + Peter Allan, by Shirley Hibberd 647 + + "Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. 648 + + What Day is it at our Antipodes? 648 + + PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Aceto-Nitrate of + Silver--On the Restoration of old Collodion 649 + + REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court-- + Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain-- + Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"-- + Cash--"Antiquitas Saeculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle, + Yorkshire--Character of the Song of the Nightingale-- + Inscriptions in Books--Door-head Inscription--Fogie--Sir W. + Hewet--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge--The Crescent-- + Abigail--Handbook to the Library of the British Museum--The + Arms of Richard, King of the Romans--Greek and Roman + Fortifications--Osbernus filius Herfasti--Devonianisms--Gentile + Names of the Jews--Longevity--Reversible Names--Etymology of + Eve--Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas--Binometrical + Verse--Gale of Rent 650 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, &c 655 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 656 + + Notices to Correspondents 656 + + Advertisements 657 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +ST. STEPHEN'S DAY AND RILEY'S HOVEDEN. + +In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident which proved fatal to +Leopold, Duke of Austria, the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii. +p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, is twice stated to be +_before_ Christmas Day, instead of after it. Is this an error of the +author, or of translator?[1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen's +martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now +is? I cannot find, on reference to the authorities within my reach, that +this last was the case. Mr. Riley does not notice the discrepancy at all. + +In the translation of this Volume, a few errors have come under my +observation, to which I beg to call Mr. R.'s attention: 1. In his note on +Corumphira's prophecy, at p. 36., he seems to forget that the Mahometan +year differs from the Julian by eleven or twelve days, and that in +consequence A. D. 1186 does not correspond to A. H. 564; in fact, the old +astrologer is perfectly correct in his chronology, more so than in his +predictions, many of which were signally falsified in the course of the +next few years. 2. A mountain frequently mentioned by his author as +projecting into the sea at the boundary of Catalonia and Valencia, and +called "Muncian," he says in a note at p. 151. is "probably Montserrat," +which is far from either the sea or the frontier; the maps of Spain all +show, near the town of Vinaros on the east coast, a hill on the sea-shore +called "Monte Sia," which still, as then, forms the boundary in that +direction between the two provinces. 3. In his note at p. 156. on "Mount +Gebel," the translator says, "he (the author) probably means Stromboli;" +surely the name of Mongibello, and the mention of Catania a few lines +farther down should have shown him that Etna only could be meant, although +part of the mistake is due to Hoveden himself, who talks of it as a +separate island from Sicily. Mr. Riley's other geographical notes are +generally {638} correct, though a little more pains might have greatly +increased their number, to the elucidation of his author's account of the +Crusaders' proceedings in the East. 4. At p. 249. a well-known passage from +Horace is ascribed to Juvenal. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +[Footnote 1: The text in the _Scriptores post Bedam_ reads:--"Eodam anno +die S. Stephani protomartyris _infra_ natale Domini."] + + * * * * * + +THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL. + +There is an error in the heading of one of the architectural notes appended +to the _Proceedings of the Arch. Inst._ held at York in 1846. From the +description which is given (p. 38.), it is plain that the above church is +the one to which the note refers; not that of St. Mary's, which is the +title of the article. + +The material of the whole church is not, also, "brick with stone +dressings," as the note informs us, only the chancel, south porch, and +south transept; all the rest is of stone, and in a very sad state of +repair. A few years ago, the south transept was restored; but the +ornamental part was worked in such bad stone, that the crockets of the +pinnacles have already begun to moulder away. It is a curious fact, that +Bishop Lyttleton, who visited Hull in 1756 for the express purpose of +"examining the walls of the town, and the materials of which the Holy +Trinity Church is constructed," should have stated in the _Archaeologia_ +(vol. i. p. 146.) that there did not appear to be "_a single brick_ in or +about the whole fabric, except a few in the south porch, placed there of +late years." + +There is a matter of great archaeological interest connected with the part +of the church which is built of brick; for, as there is reason to believe +that the chancel was raised in the year 1285, there is good foundation for +the supposition, that Hull was "the first town to restore in this country +the useful art of brickmaking" (Frost's _Hull_, p. 138.). The walls of the +town, which were erected by royal licence in 1322, and still standing with +their gates and towers in the time of Leland and Camden, are described by +them as being of brick. Leland also says (_Itin._, edit. Hearne, fol. 53.) +that the greater part of the "houses of the town at that tyme (Richard II.) +was made al of brike." + +R. W. ELLIOT. + +Clifton. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Italian-English_ (Vol. viii., p. 436.).--The following wholesale +assassination of the English language was perpetrated in the form of a +circular, and distributed among the British residents at Naples in 1832: + + "Joseph the Cook, he offer to one illuminated public and most + particular for British knowing men in general one remarkable, pretty, + famous, and splendid collection of old goods, all quite new, excavated + from private personal diggings. He sells cooked clays, old marble + stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass sacrificing pots, + and antik lamps. Here is a stocking of calves heads and feets for + single ladies and amateurs travelling. Also old coppers and + candlesticks; with Nola jugs, Etruscan saucers, and much more + intellectual minds articles; all entitling him to learned man's + inspection to examine him, and supply it with illustrious protection, + of which he hope full and valorous satisfaction. + + "N. B.--He make all the old thing brand new for gentlemans who has + collections, and wishes to change him. He have also one manner quite + original for make join two sides of different monies; producing one + medallion, all indeed unique, and advantage him to sell by exportation + for strange cabinets and museums of the exterior potentates." + +V. T. STERNBERG. + +_American Names._--In the Journal of Thomas Moore, lately published in Lord +John Russell's memoirs of the poet, is the following passage, under date of +October 18, 1818: + + "Some traveller in America mentions having met a man called Romulus + Riggs; whether true or not, very like their mixture of the classical + and the low." + +The name was borne by a very respectable man, who, in the year 1801, was in +partnership with his brother Remus Riggs, as a broker in Georgetown, in the +district of Columbia. Romulus, who survived his brother, afterwards became +an eminent merchant in Philadelphia, where he died a few years ago. + +UNEDA. + +Philadelphia. + +_Rulers of the World in 1853._--Perhaps the following table, which I have +recently met with in a foreign journal, may be thought of sufficient +interest to make a Note of. In these unsettled times, and in case of a +general war, how much might it be changed! + +There are at present eighty-three empires, monarchies, republics, +principalities, duchies, and electorates. + +There are six emperors, including his sable highness, Faustin I. of St. +Domingo; sixteen kings, numbering among them Jamaco, King of all the +Mosquitoes, and also those of Dahomey and the Sandwich Islands; five +queens, including Ranavalona of Madagascar, and Pomare of the Society +Islands; eighteen presidents, ten reigning princes, seven grand dukes, ten +dukes, one pope, two sultans, of Borneo and Turkey; two governors, of Entre +Rios and Corrientes; one viceroy, of Egypt; one shah, of Persia; one imaun, +of Muscat; one ameer, of Cabul; one bey, of Tunis; and lastly; one +director, of Nicaragua. + +W. W. + +Malta. + +{639} + +_Revocation of the Edict of Nantes._--The immense loss sustained by France +in all her great interests, as affecting her civil and religious liberties, +her commerce, trade, arts, sciences, not to speak of the unutterable +anguish inflicted upon hundred of thousands of individuals (among whom were +the writer's maternal ancestors,--their name, Courage), by the revocation +of the Edict of Nantes, has lately called into action the pens of some +industrious and talented men of letters, among whom M. Weiss is one of the +most meritorious. His interesting work, I observe, is about to receive an +English dress. In the shape of a Note through your medium, in order that +the translator may avail himself of information which, possibly, may not +have reached him, it should be known that Mr. William Jones, one of the +highly respected and accomplished _employes_ of the British Museum, has +written a letter to the _Journal des Debats_ (inserted in its number of +Nov. 30, and signed with his name), containing farther information of a +painfully-absorbing nature, from documents in the Museum, respecting the +_dragonnades_, and the sufferings and persecutions of a French pastor. + +JOHN MACRAY. + +Oxford. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +DERIVATION OF SILO. + +Can you or any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of +the word _silo_? + +For many years after the colony of New South Wales was founded, it was +almost wholly dependent upon the mother country for such supplies of grain, +&c. as were necessary for the life and health of its inhabitants; and, +consequently, store ships were regularly despatched from our shores to +Sydney. + +It happened however that, in consequence of wrecks and other disasters, the +colonists were, on more than one occasion, reduced to the greatest +distress, and starvation almost began to stare them in the face. Under +these circumstances, one of the early governors of Sydney, to prevent the +recurrence of famine, gathered a large supply of corn and deposited it in +granaries which he had excavated out of the solid rock at the head of the +bay, near the mouth of the Paramatta River. These were termed _silos_ or +_siloes_: they were hermetically sealed up, and from time to time the old +corn was exchanged for new. + +The supply of corn in these remarkable storehouses is still kept up; nor as +late as the time of my departure from those colonies last year, did I hear +of any intention of discontinuing this old custom. + +Now the termination of this word in _o_ marks it as Spanish; and +accordingly, on reference to Baretti's dictionary of that language, I find +the word "SILO, a subterraneous granary." But, Sir, this discovery only +raises another question, and one which I wish much to see solved. A Spanish +substantive must be for the most part the name of something existing at +some time or other in Spain. + +_When_, therefore, did such granaries exist in Spain, _in what part_ of the +country, and _under what circumstances_? + +AUGUSTUS STRONG. + +Walcot Rectory, Bath. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Handwriting._--I should be much obliged if any of your correspondents +could inform me (and that soon) whether there be published, in English, +French, German, or Spanish (though it is most desired in English), a manual +giving a standard alphabet for the various kinds of writing now in use, +viz. English hand, engrossing, Italian, German text, &c., with directions +for teaching the same; in fact, a sort of writing-master's key: and if so, +what is its title, and where it can be procured. + +A friend believes to have seen such a work advertised in _The Athenaeum_ +(probably three or four years ago), but has no recollection of the name. + +E. B. + +_Rev. Joshua Brooks_.--Can any of your numerous readers inform me as to the +early history of the late Rev. Joshua Brooks, who was for many years +chaplain of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, and who died in 1821? + +C. (1.) + +"_New Universal Magazine._"--I wish to know the time of the commencement +and termination of the _The New Universal Magazine, or Lady's Polite +Instructor_. + +A few volumes are in the British Museum. Vol. vi. is for July 1754 to +January 1755. + +D. + +_Francis Browne._--Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague, married, +secondly, Magdalen, daughter of Lord Dacre of Gillesland, from whom +descended (amongst others) Sir Henry Browne of Kiddington. This Sir Henry +married twice: his second wife was Mary Anne, daughter of Sir P. Hungate; +by her he had issue Sir Peter Browne, who died of wounds at Naseby. Sir +Peter married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Knollys, and had two sons, +Henry and _Francis_. Did this Francis Browne ever marry? and if so, whom, +and when, and where? + +NEWBURIENSIS. + +_Advent Hymn._--Why is this hymn not included amongst those at the end of +the Book of Common Prayer? + +Might it not be added to those already given for the other festivals of the +Church, &c.? It {640} would be an advantage in those churches where the +Prayer Book Psalms are used, and might avoid the necessity of having +separate Psalm and Hymn Books; a custom much to be objected to, differing +as they do in different churches, as well as preventing strangers from +taking part in them. + +WILLO. + +_Milton's Correspondence._--Has any English translation of Milton's _Latin +familiar Correspondence_ been published; and if so, when and by whom? + +CRANSTON. + +"_Begging the Question._"--Will any correspondent explain this phrase, and +give its origin? + +CARNATIC. + +_Passage of Cicero._--I lately met with a writer of some deep learning and +research, who, amongst other topics, entered into the subject of musical +inflection by orators, &c. Now, unfortunately, the title and preface of the +book is absent without leave, nor is there any heading to it, so I can do +no more than say, the author refers to a passage in these words: + + "Cicero declares that only three tones or variations of sound, or + interval, were used in speaking in his time; whereas now our preachers, + orators, and elocutionists take in a range of eight at least." + +Will some indulgent reader of "N. & Q." tell me where such a passage +occurs? + +SEMI-TONE. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Goldsmith's "Haunch of Venison._"--What is the name in this poem beginning +with H, which Goldsmith makes to rhyme with "beef?" The metre requires it +to be a monosyllable, but there is no name that I have ever heard of that +would answer in this place. Is the H a mistake for K, which would give a +well-known Irish name? + +J. S. WARDEN. + + [A variation in the Aldine edition gives the line-- + + "There's Coley and Williams, and Howard and Hiff." + + MR. BOLTON CORNEY, in his unrivalled edition of Goldsmith's _Poetical + Works_, 1846, has furnished the following note:--"_Howard_=H. Howard? + author of _The Choice Spirits Museum_, 1765; _Coley_=Colman, says + Horace Walpole; _H--rth_=Hogarth? a surgeon of Golden Square; + _Hiff_=Paul Hiffernan, M.D., author of _Dramatic Genius_, &c." Mr. + Peter Cunningham, in his forthcoming edition of _Goldsmith_, will + probably tell us more. + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +SCHOOL LIBRARIES. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 220. 395. 498.) + +When I mentioned the above subject in "N. & Q.," I admit that my meaning +may have taken too wide a signification. I, however, wrote advisedly, my +object being to draw the attention of those schools that were in fault, and +in the hope of benefiting those that desired to do more. I suppose I must +exonerate Tonbridge, therefore, from any aspersion; and as it appears they +are well provided, from Bacon and Newton to _Punch_ and the _Family +Friend_, I am at a loss to know how I can be of service. + +Of the defects in popular education I am as sensible as the rest of the +multitude appear to be, and my particular view of the case would, I fear, +be too lengthy a subject for these columns. It is quite clear, however, +that education is partial, and in some sort a monopoly; its valuable +branches being altogether out of the reach of more than half the +population, and the staple industry of the people not sufficiently +represented,--as, for instance, the steam-engine. In them there is not +sufficient concentration, if I may use the term, of instruction; and the +requirements of many arts and trades insufficiently carried out; the old +schools and old colleges much too classical and mathematical. If this +position is untrue, no popular scheme can be adopted at present; but it +appears more than probable that before long the subject will be brought +before the House of Commons, and education made accessible to all. As to +the money for the purpose, the country will never grudge that. The obstacle +appears to lie more in persuading the endless religious sects into which we +are divided to shake hands over the matter. + +At present my only desire is, that boys at public schools should have +plenty of books, being assured that reading while we are young leaves a +very strong and permanent impression, and cannot be estimated too highly; +besides which, if a youth has access to works suited to his natural bent, +he will unconsciously lay in a store of valuable information adapted to his +future career. + +WELD TAYLOR. + +When I was at the College school, Gloucester, in 1794, there was a +considerable library in a room adjoining the upper school. I never knew the +books used by the boys, though the room was unlocked: in fact, it was used +by the upper master as a place of chastisement; for there was kept the +block (as it was called) on which the unfortunate culprits were horsed and +whipped. The library, no doubt, contained many valuable and excellent +works; but the only book of which I know the name as having been in it (and +that {641} only by a report in the newspapers of the day) was Oldham's +_Poems_, which, after a fire which occurred in the school-room, was said to +have been the only book returned of the many which had been taken away. + +P. H. FISHER. + +Stroud. + +In Knight's _Life of Dean Colet_ (8vo., London, 1724), founder of St. +Paul's School, there is a catalogue of the books in the library of the +school at the date specified. The number of the volumes is added up at the +end of the catalogue, in MS., and the total amount is 663 volumes. The +latest purchases bear the date of 1723, and are:--Pierson (sic) _On the +Creed_, Greenwood's _English Grammar_, and Terentius _In usum Delphini_. +The books for the most part are of a highly valuable and standard +character. Does the library still exist? have many additions been made to +it up to the present time? and is there a printed catalogue of it? + +J. M. + +Oxford. + + * * * * * + +TRENCH ON PROVERBS. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 387. 519.) + +The error, which Luther was the first to fall into, in departing from the +anciently received version of Ps. cxxvii. 2., Mendelsohn adopted; but no +translator of eminence has followed these two Hebraists; although some +critics have been carried away by their authority to the proper Jewish +notion of "gain," and not sleep, being the subject. Luther's version--"Denn +seinen Freunden gibt er _es_ schlafend"--was certainly before the revisers +of our authorised version of James I.; but was rejected, I consider, as +ungrammatical and false: _ungrammatical_, because the transitive verb +"give" (_gibt_) has no accusative noun; and _false_, because he supplies, +without authority, the place of the missing noun by the pronoun "it" +(_es_), there being no antecedent to which this _it_ refers. Mendelsohn +omits the _it_ in his Hebrew comment, supplied however unauthorisedly by +MR. MARGOLIOUTH in his translation of such comment. But Mendelsohn +introduces the "_es_" (it), in his German version (Berlin, 1788, dedicated +to Ramler), without however any authority from the Hebrew original of this +Psalm. He is therefore at variance with himself. And, farther, he has +omitted altogether the important word [Hebrew: KEIN] (_so_ or _thus_), +rendered "_denn_" (for) by Luther. + +As to the "unintelligible authorised version," I must premise that no +version has yet had so large an amount of learning bestowed on it as the +English one; indeed it has fairly beaten out of the field all the versions +of all other sections of Christians. The difficulty of the English version +arises from its close adherence to the oriental letter; but if we put the +scope of this Psalm into the vernacular, such difficulty is eliminated. + +Solomon says, in this Psalm: "Without Jehovah's support, my house will +fall: if He keep this city, the watch, with its early-risings, +late-resting, and ill-feeding, is useless: _thus He_ (by so keeping or +watching the city himself) _gives sleep to him whom He loves_." The +remainder of the Psalm refers to the increase of population as Jehovah's +gift, wherein Solomon considers the strength of the city to consist. The +words in Italics correspond precisely in sense with those of the authorised +version--"_For_ so He giveth His beloved sleep;" and the latter is +supported fully by all the ancient versions, and, as far as I can at +present ascertain, by all the best modern ones. + +T. J. BUCKTON. + +Lichfield. + +What is there _unintelligible_ in the authorised translation of Psalm +cxxvii. 2., "He giveth His beloved sleep?" It is a literal translation of +three very plain words, of the simplest grammatical construction, made in +accordance with all the ancient versions. A difficulty there does indeed +exist in the passage, viz. in the commencing word [Hebrew: KN]; but this +word, though capable of many _intelligible_ meanings, does not enter into +the present question. Since the great majority of critics have been +contented to see no objection to the received translations, it is perfectly +allowable to maintain that the proposed rendering makes, instead of +removing, a difficulty, and obscures a passage which, as generally +understood, is sufficiently lucid. Hengstenberg's difficulty is, that the +subject is not about the _sleep_, but the _gain_. But is not sleep a gain? +Can we forget the [Greek: hupnou doron] of Homer? that is, sufficient, +undisturbed sleep, rest. Hengstenberg's remark, that all, even the beloved, +must labour, is a mere truism. The Psalmist evidently opposes excessive and +over-anxious labours, interfering with natural rest, to ordinary labour +accompanied with refreshing sleep. The object of his censure is precisely +the [Greek: merimna] which forms the subject of our Lord's warning; who +censures not due care and providence, but over-anxiety. Burkius rightly +remarks, that [Hebrew: SHN'] is antithetical to _surgere, sedere, dolorum_. +Hammond observes, with far more clearness and good sense than Hengstenberg, + + "For as to the former of these, wicked men that incessantly moil, and + cark, and drudge for the acquiring of it, and never enjoy any of the + comforts of this life, through the vehement pursuit of riches, are + generally frustrated and disappointed in their aims: whereas, on the + contrary, those who have God's blessing thrive insensibly, become very + prosperous, _and yet never lose any sleep in the pursuit of it_." + +Bishop Horne agrees; his remarks having evident reference to Hammond's. So +Bishop {642} Horsley, more briefly, but with his usual force: "You take all +this trouble for your security in vain, whilst He gives His beloved sleep." +Dr. French and Mr. Skinner adhere to the same sense in their translation, +and pertinently refer to Psalms iii. and iv., in which the Psalmist, though +beset by enemies, lies down and takes his rest, defended by God his Keeper. +So far, indeed, from seeing anything unintelligible, I see no obscurity, +either of expression or connexion, in this view, but very great obscurity +in the double ellipsis now proposed. In the received translation we have a +transitive verb, and a noun, obviously its accusative, according to the +natural sequence and simple construction of the Hebrew language. In the +proposed rendering we must understand an accusative case after _giveth_ +(i.e. _bread_, as Rosenmueller and others observe), and a particle before +_sleep_. The transitive verb has no subject; the noun nothing to govern it. +We must guess at both. + +As for the alleged instances of ellipses, I maintain they are not +analogous. I cannot call to mind any which are; and if any of your +correspondents would show some they would do good service. Hengstenberg's +examples of [Hebrew: TSRB], [Hebrew: BQR], &c. are surely not in point. We +have a similar ellipsis, often used in idiomatic English, _morning_, +_noon_, and _night_; but who would say _sleep_, instead of _in sleep_, or +_while asleep_? The ellipses in the Psalms, in the Songs of Degrees +themselves, are very numerous, but they are of a different nature; and +neither the position nor the nature of the word [Hebrew: SHN'] warrants +that now defended, as far I can remember. + +May I remark, by the way, that the Psalm falls rather into three strophes +than into two. The first speaks of the raising up of the house, and of the +city (an aggregation of houses), protected by the Almighty. The last is in +parallelism to the first, though, as often happens, expanded; and speaks of +the raising up of the family, and of the family arrived at maturity, the +defenders of the city, through the same protecting Providence. The central +portion is the main and cardinal sentiment, viz. the vanity of mere human +labour, and the peace of those who are beloved of God. + +JOHN JEBB. + +There is a proverb which foretells peril to such as interpose in the +quarrels of others. But as neither Mr. Trench, nor E. M. B., nor MR. +MARGOLIOUTH, have as yet betrayed any disposition to quarrel about the +question in dispute, a looker-on need not be afraid of interposing. + +The Query, about the solution of which they differ, is the proper mode of +rendering the last clause of v. 2. Ps. cxxvii. In our Liturgy and Bible it +is rendered, "_For_ so He giveth His beloved sleep;" of which E. M. B. +says, "It seems to me to be correct;" though he justly observes that "He +will give" would be more close. Mr. Trench appears to have rendered it, "He +giveth His beloved _in their_ sleep." MR. MARGOLIOUTH says "the words +should be, He will give to His beloved _whilst he_ [the beloved] _is_ +asleep." In each case the Italics, as usual, designate words not existing +in the Hebrew text. + +When expositors would get through a difficult passage, their readers have, +not unfrequently, the vexation of finding that a word of some importance +has been ignored. Such has been the case here with the little word [Hebrew: +KN], which introduces the clause. Its ordinary meaning is _so_; and the +office of the word _so_, in such a position, is to lead the remind to +revert to what has been previously said, as necessary to the proper +application of what follows. Now, the Psalmist's theme was the vanity of +all care and labour, unless the Lord both provide for and watch over His +people; _for_ so He will give His beloved sleep--that happy, confiding +repose which the solicitude of the worldly cannot procure. This is, surely, +intelligible enough and even if [Hebrew: KN] may be translated _for_ (which +Noldius, in his _Concordantia Particularum_, affirms that it here may, +adducing however but one dubious instance of its being so used elsewhere, +viz. Jeremiah xiv. 10.), or if the various reading, [Hebrew: KY], be +accepted, which would mean _for_, our version of the clause will be quite +compatible with either alteration. + +In this concentrated proposition are contained, the mode of giving, _so_; +the character of the recipient, _his beloved_; and we reasonably expect to +be next told what the Lord will give, and the text accordingly proceeds to +say, _sleep_. Whereas, if either Mr. Trench's or MR. MARGOLIOUTH's version +of the clause could properly be accepted, the gift would remain entirely +unmentioned; after attention had been called to the giver, to his mode of +giving, and to the recipient who might expect his bounty. But whilst Mr. +Trench is constrained to interpolate _in their_, apparently unconscious +that the Hebrew requires _beloved_ to be in the singular number, MR. +MARGOLIOUTH translates [Hebrew: SHN'] as if it were a participle, which +Luther seems also to have heedlessly done. Yet unless [Hebrew: SHN'] be a +noun, derived with a little irregularity from [Hebrew: YSHN], _he slept_, +it has nothing to do with sleep. It cannot be the participle of [Hebrew: +YSHN], for that verb has a participle in the usual form, not wanting the +initial [Hebrew: Y], which occurs in several places in the Old Testament, +and is used by Mendelsohn in the very sentence MR. MARGOLIOUTH has quoted +from that Jewish expositor. The critic who will not acknowledge [Hebrew: +SHN'] to be a noun in this clause, is therefore tied up to translating it +as either the participle or the preterite of [Hebrew: SHN'], _to change_, +or _to repeal_, and would thus make the clause really unintelligible. + +HENRY WALTER. + +{643} + +N. B. inquires, whether the translation of Psalm cxxvii. 2. adopted by Mr. +Trench has the sanction of any version but that of Luther. I beg leave to +inform him that the passage was translated in the same manner by Coverdale: +"For look, to whom it pleaseth Him He giveth it in sleep." De Wette also, +in modern times, has "Giebt er seinen Geliebten im Schlafe." + +Vatablus, in his Annotations, approves of such a rendering: "Dabit in somno +dilectis suis." It has also been suggested in the notes of several modern +critics. + +Not one of the ancient versions sanctions this translation. + +The sense of the passage will be much the same whichever of these +translations be adopted. But the common rendering appears to me to +harmonise best with the preceding portion of it. + +S. D. + + * * * * * + +MAJOR ANDRE. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 174. 604.) + +The following extracts and cuttings from newspapers, relative to the +unfortunate Major Andre, may interest your correspondent SERVIENS. I +believe I have some others, which I will send when I can lay my hand upon +them. I inclose a pencil copy of the scarce print of a sketch from a +pen-and-ink drawing, made by Andre himself on Oct. 1, 1780, of his crossing +the river when he was taken: + + "_Visit to the Grave of Andre._--We stopped at Piermont, on the widest + part of Tappan Bay, where the Hudson extends itself to the width of + three miles. On the opposite side, in full view from the hotel, is + Tarrytown, where poor Andre was captured. Tradition says that a very + large white-wood tree, under which he was taken, was struck by + lightning on the very day that news of Andre's death was received at + Tarrytown. As I sat gazing on the opposite woods, dark in the shadows + of moonlight, I thought upon how very slight a circumstance often + depends the fate of individuals and the destiny of nations. In the + autumn of 1780, a farmer chanced to be making cider at a mill on the + east bank of the Hudson, near that part of Haverstraw Bay called + 'Mother's Lap.' Two young men, carrying muskets, as usual in those + troubled times, stopped for a draught of sweet cider, and seated + themselves on a log to wait for it. The farmer found them looking very + intently on some distant object, and inquired what they saw. 'Hush, + hush!' they replied; 'the red coats are yonder, just within the Lap,' + pointing to an English gun-boat, with twenty-four men, lying on their + oars. Behind the shelter of a rock, they fired into the boat, and + killed two persons. The British returned a random shot; but ignorant of + the number of their opponents, and seeing that it was useless to waste + ammunition on a hidden foe, they returned whence they came with all + possible speed. This boat had been sent to convey Major Andre to the + British sloop-of-war Vulture, then lying at anchor off Teller's Point. + Shortly after Andre arrived, and finding the boat gone, he, in + attempting to pass through the interior, was captured. Had not those + men stopped to drink sweet cider, it is probable that Andre would not + have been hung; the American revolution might have terminated in quite + a different fashion; men now deified as heroes might have been handed + down to posterity as traitors; our citizens might be proud of claiming + descent from Tories, and slavery have been abolished eight years ago, + by virtue of our being British Colonies. So much may depend on a + draught of cider! But would England herself have abolished slavery had + it not been for the impulse given to free principles by the American + revolution? Probably not. It is not easy to calculate the consequences + involved even in a draught of cider, for no fact stands alone; each has + infinite relations. A very pleasant ride at sunset brought us to Orange + Town, to the lone field where Major Andre was executed. It is planted + with potatoes, but the plough spares the spot on which was once his + gallows and his grave. A rude heap of stones, with the remains of a + dead fir tree in the midst, are all that mark it; but tree and stones + are covered with names. It is on an eminence commanding a view of the + country for miles. I gazed on the surrounding woods, and remembered + that on this selfsame spot, the beautiful and accomplished young man + walked back and forth, a few minutes preceding his execution, taking an + earnest farewell look of earth and sky. My heart was sad within me. Our + guide pointed to a house in full view, at half a mile's distance, which + he told us was at that time the head-quarters of General Washington. I + turned my back suddenly upon it. The last place on earth where I would + wish to think of Washington is at the grave of Andre. I know that + military men not only sanction but applaud the deed; and, reasoning + according to the maxims of war, I am well aware how much can be said in + his defence. That Washington considered it a duty, the discharge of + which was most painful to him, I doubt not. But, thank God, the + instincts of any childhood are unvitiated by any such maxims. From the + first hour I read of the deed, until the present day, I never did, and + never could, look upon it as otherwise than cool, deliberate murder. + That the theory and practice of war commends the transaction, only + serves to prove the infernal nature of war itself.... A few years ago, + the Duke of York requested the British Consul to send the remains of + Major Andre to England. At that time two thriving firs were found near + the grave, and a peach-tree; which a lady in the neighbourhood had + planted there, in the kindness of her heart. The farmers who came to + witness the interesting ceremony generally evinced the most respectful + tenderness for the memory of the unfortunate dead, and many of the + children wept. A few idlers, educated by militia trainings and Fourth + of July declaration, began to murmur that the memory of General + Washington was insulted by any respect shown to the remains of Andre; + but the offer of a treat lured them to the tavern, where they soon + became too drunk to guard the character of Washington. It was a + beautiful day, and these disturbing spirits being removed, the + impressive ceremony proceeded in solemn silence. {644} The coffin was + in good preservation, and contained all the bones, with a small + quantity of dust. The roots of the peach-tree had entirely interwoven + the skull with their fine network. His hair, so much praised for its + uncommon beauty, was tied, on the day of his execution, according to + the fashion of the times. When his grave was opened, half a century + afterwards, the riband was found in perfect preservation, and sent to + his sister in England. When it was known that the sarcophagus + containing his remains had arrived in New York, for London, many ladies + sent garlands and emblematic devices, to be wreathed around it, in + memory of the 'beloved and lamented Andre.' In their compassionate + hearts, the teachings of nature were unperverted by maxims of war, or + that selfish jealousy which dignifies itself with the name of + patriotism. Blessed be God, that custom forbids women to electioneer or + fight. May the sentiment remain till war and politics have passed away! + Had not women and children been kept free from their polluting + influence, the medium of communication between earth and heaven would + have been completely cut off. At the foot of the eminence where the + gallows had been erected, we found an old Dutch farm-house, occupied by + a man who witnessed the execution, and whose father often sold peaches + to the unhappy prisoner. He confirmed the account of Andre's uncommon + personal beauty, and had a vivid remembrance of the pale but calm + heroism with which he met his untimely death."--From Miss Child's + _Letters from New York_. + + "_Andre._--At the little town of Tappan, the unfortunate Major Andre, + condemned by the council of war as a spy, was executed and buried. His + remains were disinterred a few years ago, by order of the English + Government, carried to England, and, if I mistake not, deposited in + Westminster Abbey; whilst the remains of General Frazer, who fell like + a hero, at the head of the King's troops, lie without a monument in the + old redoubt near Still Water. The tree that grew over Andre's grave was + likewise sent to England; and, as I was told, planted in the King's + Garden, behind Carlton Palace."--Duke of Weimar's _Travels_. + + "_Disinterment of Major Andre_.--This event took place at Tappan on + Friday, 10th inst., at one p. m., amidst a considerable concourse of + ladies and gentlemen that assembled to witness this interesting + ceremony. The British Consul, with several gentlemen, accompanied by + the proprietor of the ground and his labourers, commenced their + operations at eleven o'clock, by removing the heap of loose stones that + surrounded and partly covered the grave. Great caution was observed in + taking up a small peach-tree that was growing out of the grave, as the + Consul stated his intention of sending it to his Majesty, to be placed + in one of the Royal Gardens. Considerable anxiety was felt lest the + coffin could not be found, as various rumours existed of its having + been removed many years ago. However, when at the depth of three feet, + the labourers came to it. The lid was broken in the centre, and had + partly fallen in, but was kept up by resting on the skull. The lid + being raised, the skeleton of the brave Andre appeared entire; bone to + bone, each in its place, without a vestige of any other part of his + remains, save some of his hair, which appeared in small tufts; and the + only part of his dress was the leather string which tied it. + + "As soon as the curiosity of the spectators was gratified, a large + circle was formed; when Mr. Eggleso, the undertaker, with his + assistants, uncovered the sarcophagus, into which the remains were + carefully removed. This superb depository, in imitation of those used + in Europe for the remains of the illustrious dead, was made by Mr. + Eggleso, of Broadway, of mahogany; the pannels covered with rich + crimson velvet, surrounded by a gold bordering; the rings of deep + burnished gold; the pannel also crimson velvet, edged with gold; the + inside lined with black velvet; the whole supported by four gilt balls. + + "The sarcophagus, with the remains, has been removed on board his + Majesty's packet; where, it is understood, as soon as some repairs on + board are completed, an opportunity will be afforded of viewing + it."--From the _New York Evening Post_ of Aug. 11. + + "The remains of the lamented Major Andre have (as our readers already + know) been lately removed from the spot where they were originally + interred in the year 1780, at Tappan, New York, and brought to England + in the Phaeton frigate by order of his Royal Highness the Duke of York. + Yesterday the sarcophagus was deposited in front of the cenotaph in + Westminster Abbey, which was erected by his late Majesty to the memory + of this gallant officer. The reinterment took place in the most private + manner, the Dean of Westminster superintending in person, Major-Gen. + Sir Herbert Taylor attending on the part of his Royal Highness the + Commander-in-Chief and Mr. Locker, Secretary to Greenwich Hospital, on + behalf of the three surviving sisters of the deceased."--From newspaper + of which the name and date have not been preserved. + +G. C. + +With many thanks for the obliging replies to my Query for information +concerning this gentleman, I would desire to repeat it in a more specific +form. Can none of your readers inform me whether there do not remain +papers, &c. of or concerning Major Andre, which might without impropriety +be at this late day given to the world; and if so, by what means access +could be had thereto? Are there none such in the British Museum, or in the +State Paper Offices? My name and address are placed with the Editor of this +journal, at the service of any correspondent who may prefer to communicate +with me privately. + +SERVIENS. + +Major Andre occupied Dr. Franklin's house when the British army was in +Philadelphia in 1777 and 1778. When it evacuated the city, Andre carried +off with him a portrait of the Doctor, which has never been heard of since. +The British officers amused themselves with amateur theatricals at the +South Street Theatre in Southwark, then the only one in Philadelphia, +theatres being prohibited in the city. The tradition here is, that Andre +painted the scenes. They were {645} destroyed with the theatre by fire +about thirty-two years ago. + +M. E. + +Philadelphia. + + * * * * * + +PASSAGE IN WHISTON. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 244. 397.) + +The book for which J.T. inquires is: + + "The Important Doctrines of Original Sin, Justification by Faith and + Regeneration, clearly stated from Scripture and Reason, and vindicated + from the Doctrines of the Methodists; with Remarks on Mr. Law's late + Tract on New Birth. By _Thomas_ Whiston, A.B. Printed for John Whiston, + at the Boyle's Head, Fleet Street. Pp. 70." + +I do not know who the author was. Perhaps a son of the celebrated _William_ +Whiston, six of whose works are advertised on the back of the title-page; +and whose _Memoirs_, Lond. 1749, are "sold by Mr. Whiston in Fleet Street." +If the passage cited by J. T. is all that Taylor says of Thomas Whiston, it +conveys an erroneous notion of his pamphlet, which from pp. 49. to 70. is +occupied by the question of regeneration. I think his doctrine may be +shortly stated thus: Regeneration accompanies the baptism of adults, and +follows that of infants. In the latter case, the time is uncertain; but the +fact is ascertainable by the recipients becoming spiritually minded. + +Afterwards he says: + + "I cannot dismiss this subject without observing _another sense of + regeneration_ in the Gospel. However, _this makes no alteration in the + doctrine I have before established_; because, with us, regeneration and + new birth are terms that bear the same exact meaning. What I before + delivered of the spiritual new birth or regeneration is strictly true, + though the word regeneration _is sometimes used in another sense_. It + is not to be there understood of a spiritual or figurative birth, but + of a literal and actual revival of the body from corruption. But _this + is not that new birth we have before inquired after_, but only the + assured and certain consequence of our preserving ourselves to the end + in that spiritual state or birth we have entered into in this world. + That I do not represent the sense of the word regeneration unfairly, + may be gathered from Matt. xix. 28., rightly pointed and distinguished: + + "'And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye which have + followed me (in the _regeneration_, when the Son of Man shall sit upon + the throne of his glory), ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, + judging the twelve tribes of Israel.' Here regeneration _is not to be + understood in the same sense as the new birth or regeneration mentioned + by our Saviour_ (John iii.), from whence the new birth is to be derived + and stated; but, as I before observed, must be referred to a literal + restoration to life, _i. e_. either to the general resurrection, or + rather to the Millennium, when Christ is to reign upon earth over the + Saints for a thousand years, after the dissolution of the present form + of it. I make no doubt that this latter opinion is the genuine sense of + the text I have quoted from St. Matthew; and consequently, that + regeneration, _in this passage_, is to be applied to the first + resurrection of the dead, or to the supposed Millennium."--Pp. 67, 68. + +The above will show that Thomas Whiston did not "_maintain_ that +regeneration is a literal and physical being born again," in the sense +which the passage quoted by J. T. conveys. I have not seen Taylor's work +with the date 1746. As the name is common, and the pamphlets and sermons of +that time on original sin are innumerable, many Taylors may have written +besides the one mentioned by [Greek: Halieus]. J. T.'s Taylor cannot be +excused even on the ground of having read only a part of the book he +misrepresented: for he refers to p. 68., from which he must have seen that +Thomas Whiston there explained only an isolated passage. + +H. B. C. + +Garrick Club. + + * * * * * + +HELMETS. + +(Vol. viii., p. 538.) + +The following observations upon the helmet, by Stephen Martin Leake, Esq., +Garter, may be acceptable to your querist S. N. + + "The helmet, called _galea_ by the Greeks, _cassis_ by the Romans, is + called _helm_ (which signifies the head) by the Germans; whence the + French _heaume_, and our _helmet_. It is of great account with the + Germans: the helm and crest deriving their use from tournaments, whence + arms took their origin; and this being with them the most essential + mark of noblesse, neither the Germans nor French allow a new made + gentleman to bear a helmet, but only a wreath of his colours; and when + he is a gentleman of three descents, to bear a helmet with three barrs + for his three descents (Menestrier, _Abrege methodique des Armoiries_, + 1672, p. 28.; _Origine des Ornemens des Armoiries_, p. 2.). _Tymbre_ is + the general word used for the casque or helm by the French. Menestrier, + in his _Origine des Ornemens des Armoiries_, p. 13., says the modern + heralds observe three things with regard to the _tymbre_: the matter, + the form, and the situation. That kings should have their helmets of + gold open, and in full front; princes and lords of silver, and somewhat + turned with a certain number of barrs, according to their degree; + gentlemen to have their helmets of steel, and in profile. Colombiere + assigns a knight a helmet bordered with silver, barons with gold, + counts and viscounts the like, and the barrs gold; marquisses the helm + same, and damasked with gold; dukes and princes the gold helmet, + damasked. And as to the barrs, new gentlemen without any; gentlemen of + three descents, three barrs; knights and ancient gentlemen, five; + barons seven; counts and viscounts nine; marquisses eleven. But Moreau, + who first propagated these inventions (_Origine des Ornemens des + Armoiries_, p. 17.), assigns to an emperor or king eleven, a prince or + duke nine, a marquis and count seven, a baron five: whence it seems + there is no {646} certain rule or uniform practice observed herein, + unless in the situation of the helmet, wherein both the Germans and + French account it more noble to bear an open helmet than a close one; + but these are novel distinctions. Anciently, the helmets were all + turned to the right, and close; and it is but some years since, says + Menestrier (_Abrege Methodique_, 1672, p. 28.), that they began to + observe the number of grilles or barrs, to distinguish the different + degrees. But however ingenious these inventions are, it is certain that + they are useless (as gold and silver helmets would be) because every + rank of nobility is distinguished by the coronet proper to his degree. + Whatever honour may be attributed to the helmet, the use of it with the + arms is but modern; and upon the coins of kings and sovereign princes, + where they are chiefly to be met with, the helmets are barred, and + either full or in profile, as best suited the occasion; and upon the + Garter plates of Christian Duke of Brunswick (1625), Gustavus Adolphus + King of Sweden (1628), and Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine (1633 + and 1680), they are full fronted with seven barrs. + + "In Great Britain we have but four kinds of helmets, according to the + four different degrees in the state--the king, the nobility, knights, + and gentry. The sovereign helmet full fronted, having seven barrs or + guards, visure without any bever; the nobilities the same, but half + turned to the right, and usually showing four barrs; the knight's + helmet full fronted, with the bever turned up; and the gentleman's in + profile, the bever or visor close; using steel helmets for all as the + only proper metal for a helmet common to all. Foreigners condemn us for + attributing that helmet to a knight, which they give to a king; and + more proper, says Mackensie, for a king without guard-visure than for a + knight (_Science of Heraldry_, p. 87.), because knights are in danger, + and have less need to command. But it must be observed, the knight's + helmet has a visor, and no barrs; the sovereign's barrs, because no + visor. And this kind of helmet, with barrs instead of a visor, seems to + have been contrived for princes and great commanders, who would have + been incommoded by the visor, and too much exposed without anything, + therefore had barrs: whereas knights being, according to Mackensie, in + more danger and having less need to command, had their helmet for + action; and are represented with the bever up, ready to receive the + king or general's command. As to the resemblance of the one to the + other, both being in full front, the connexion was not anciently so + remote as seems at this day. Knighthood is the first and most ancient + military honour, and therefore at this day sovereign princes and + knights are the only two honours universally acknowledged. Knighthood + is the source of all honours, and of all military glory, and an honour + esteemed by and conferred upon kings; without which they were + heretofore thought incomplete, and could not confer that honour on + others, no more than ordination could be conferred by one unordained: + so that there was a very near connexion between sovereignty and + knighthood. And besides, the propriety of the open helmet with a visor + for a knight, and the helmet guard-visure for a king, the latter is + more ornamental, especially if, according to the modern practice, the + barrs are gold. As the king's helmet is without a visor, and barred, so + is that of the nobility in imitation of it, but turned to the right as + a proper distinction as, in like manner, that of the gentry differs + from the knights. As there are in fact but two orders of men, nobility + of which the king is the first degree, and gentry of which knights are + the first, so they are by this means sufficiently distinguished + according to their respective orders and degrees: the first order + distinguished by the barred helmet, the gentry by the visored helmet + with proper differences of the second degrees of each class from the + first; and all other distinctions more than this are unnecessary and + useless. + + "The helmet does not seem to have been formerly used but in a military + way, and affairs of chivalry. I do not find any helmets upon the + monuments of our Kings of England, nor upon other ancient monuments, + nor upon any of the Great Seals, coins, or medals. Upon the plates of + the Knights of the Garter at Windsor, all degrees used the old profile + close helmet till about 1588, some few excepted; and soon after, the + helmet with barrs came into fashion, and was used for all degrees of + nobility, and it has continued ever since; and the same has been used + for all degrees of nobility upon the plates of the Knights of the Bath, + those that are knights only using a knight's helmet. And the same may + be observed in Sir Edward Walker's _Books of the Nobility from the + Restoration to the Revolution_, wherein all degrees have the helmet + turned towards the right, showing four barrs; the sovereign's being + full with seven barrs." + +G. + + * * * * * + +HAMPDEN'S DEATH. + +(Vol. viii., p. 495.) + +"On the 21st of July, 1828, the corpse of John Hampden was disinterred by +the late Lord Nugent for the purpose of settling the disputed point of +history as to the manner in which the patriot received his death-wound. The +examination seems to have been conducted after a somewhat bungling fashion +for a scientific object, and the facts disclosed were these: 'On lifting up +the right arm we found that it was dispossessed of its hand. We might +therefore naturally conjecture that it had been amputated, as the bone +presented a perfectly flat appearance, as if sawn off by some sharp +instrument. On searching under the cloths, to our no small astonishment we +found the hand, or rather a number of small bones, inclosed in a separate +cloth. For about six inches up the arm the flesh had wasted away, being +evidently smaller than the lower part of the left arm, to which the hand +was very firmly united, and which presented no symptoms of decay further +than the two bones of the forefinger loose. Even the nails remained entire, +of which we saw no appearance in the cloth containing the remains of the +right hand.... The clavicle of the right shoulder was firmly united to the +scapula, nor did there appear any contusion or indentation that evinced +symptoms of any wound ever having been inflicted. The left shoulder, on the +contrary, was smaller and sunken in, as if the clavicle had been displaced. +To {647} remove all doubts, it was adjudged necessary to remove the arms, +which were amputated with a penknife (!). The socket of the left (_sic_) +arm was perfectly white and healthy, and the clavicle firmly united to the +scapula, nor was there the least appearance of contusion or wound. The +socket of the right (_sic_) shoulder, on the contrary, was of a brownish +cast, and the clavicle being found quite loose and disunited from the +scapula, proved that dislocation had taken place. The bones, however, were +quite perfect.' These appearances indicated that injuries had been received +both in the hand and shoulder, the former justifying the belief in Sir +Robert Pye's statement to the Harleys, that the pistol which had been +presented to him by Sir Robert, his son-in-law, had burst and shattered his +hand in a terrible manner at the action of Chalgrave Field; the latter +indicating that he had either been wounded in the shoulder by a spent ball, +or had received an injury there by falling from his horse after his hand +was shattered. Of these wounds he died three or four days after, according +to Sir Philip Warwick. According to Clarendon, 'three weeks after being +shot into the shoulder with a brace of bullets, which broke the bone.' The +bone, however, was not found broken, and the 'brace of bullets' is equally +imaginary." + +This account is from a newspaper cutting of _The News_, August 3, 1828. + +W. S. + +Northiam. + + * * * * * + +PETER ALLAN. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 539. 630.) + +Peter Allan deserves more than a brief notice. His history is so full of +romance, the relics of his name and fame are so many, and he is withal so +little known, that I presume I may on this occasion trespass on more than +the ordinary space allotted to a "minor," but which should be a "major" +Query. + +Peter Allan was born at Selkirk (?) in the year 1798. His parents were +peasants, and Peter in early life became valet to Mr. Williamson, brother +of Sir Hedworth Williamson. He afterwards became gamekeeper to the Marquis +of Londonderry, and in that capacity acquired a reputation as an unerring +shot, and a man of unusual physical strength and courage. He afterwards +married, and became a publican at Whitburn, and in the course of few years +purchased a little property, and occupied himself in the superintendence of +dock works and stone quarries. In this latter capacity he acquired the +skill in quarrying, on which his fame chiefly rests. Having a turn for a +romantic life, he conceived the strange project of founding a colony at +Marsden, a wild, rocky bay below the mouth of the Tyne, five miles from +Sunderland, and three from South Shields. The spot chosen by Peter as his +future home had been colonised some years before by one "Jack the Blaster," +who had performed a series of excavations, and amongst them a huge round +perforation from the high land above to the beach below, through which it +is said many a cargo has passed ashore without being entered in the books +of the excise. Here the cliff is formed of hard magnesian limestone, and +rises perpendicularly from the beach more than a hundred feet. When Peter +set to work, the only habitable portions were two wild caves opening to the +sea, into which at high tide the breakers tumbled, and where during rough +weather it was impossible to continue with safety. On the face of the rock +Peter built a homestead of timber, and set up farm and tavern. In the rock +itself he excavated fifteen rooms, to each of which he gave an appropriate +name; the most interesting are the "Gaol Room," the "Devil's Chamber," the +"Circular Room," the "Dining Room," and the "Ball Room." The height of the +entire excavation is twenty feet, its breadth thirty, and its length, from +the ball room to the cottage, one hundred and twenty. Several parts of the +cave are lighted by windows hewn in the face of the rock, and these give +the cave a picturesque appearance as viewed frown the beach below. In +addition to these labours, Peter took possession of a huge table-rock, +which stands some distance from the cliffs opposite to the grotto. By dint +of extraordinary exertions he excavated a passage from the land side of +this rock through its substance to the surface, and by placing scaling +ladders against its face, made provision for ascent and descent at high +water. The three-quarters of an acre of surface he colonised with rabbits, +and built a shanty for himself and companions, where they dwelt for some +time thinning the wild fowl with their deadly shots, and raising many an +echo with their shouts of revelry. + +To describe the strange scene presented by the grotto itself, the +farm-buildings on the face of the cliff, the huge table-rock and flagstaff, +the many quaint blocks, pillars and wild escarpments, and the numerous +domestic animals, such as mastiffs, pigs, ravens, and goats, all +congregated together in a small bay, and literally separated from the world +by the barren waste land above, and the huge cliffs and restless sea below, +would be beyond the scope of "N. & Q.," though it is worth a note in +passing, that for the tourist a visit to Marsden would be highly +remunerative. + +Peter Allan endured many hardships in his cave at Marsden. He was accused +of smuggling, and annoyed by the excise. He and his family were once shut +in for six weeks by the snow, during the whole of which time it was +impossible for any human being to approach them. Yet in spite of many +hardships, Peter reared in the grotto a family of eight children, three +daughters and five sons, all of whom are living and prospering in the +world. The grotto is still kept by his widow, his {648} eldest son William, +and one daughter, assisting Mrs. Allan in the management The son William is +an experienced blaster, and occupies himself in excavations and +improvements; the daughter, a brunette, is a first-rate shot, and a girl of +extraordinary spirit and gaiety. She is the Grace Darling of the +neighbourhood, and both her and her mother have saved many lives by their +dexterity in boating and extraordinary courage. Peter himself was a bold, +determined, and honest man, fond of a joke, and passionately devoted to +bees, birds, pigs, and dogs, many of whom (pigs especially) used to follow +him to Shields and Sunderland, when he went thither. After twenty-two +years' possession of the caverns, the proprietor of the adjoining land +served him with a process of ejectment; Peter refused to leave the +habitation which he had formed by twenty years' unremitting toil, and which +he had actually won from the sea, without encroachment on an inch of the +mainland. After a tedious law-suit, judgment was given in his favour, but +he had to pay costs. The anxieties of this lawsuit broke his heart, and he +never recovered either health or spirits. He died on the 31st of August, +1849, in the 51st year of his age, leaving his wife and eight children to +lament him. He was buried in Whitburn churchyard, and over his grave was +placed a stone with the inscription: + + "The Lord is my rock and my salvation." + +Numerous memorials of Peter exist at the grotto, and in the neighbourhood +of Marsden. Particulars of these and other matters touching this romantic +history, may be obtained in No. 2. of _Summer Excursions to the North_, +published by Ward, of Newcastle; and in a paper entitled _A Visit to +Marsden Rocks_, contributed by myself to the _Peoples Illustrated Journal_, +No. XIV. + +SHIRLEY HIBBERD. + + * * * * * + +"COULD WE WITH INK," ETC. + +(Vol. viii., pp. 127. 180. 422.) + +I think that your well-read correspondent J. W. THOMAS will agree with me +that the _bona fide_ authorship of the beautiful lines alluded to must be +ascertained, not by a single expression, but by the whole of the charming +poem. The striking expression of Mohammed, quoted by J. W. THOMAS, is quite +common amongst the Easterns even at the present day. I remember, when at +Malta, in March, 1848, whilst walking in company of the most accomplished +Arabian of the day, the conversation turned upon a certain individual who +had since acquired a most unenviable notoriety in the annals of British +jurisprudence, my companion abruptly turned upon me, whilst at the shore of +the Mediterranean, and said, in his fascinating Arabic, "Behold this great +sea! were all its water turned into ink, it would be insufficient to +describe the villany of the individual you speak of." + +Rabbi Mayir ben Isaac's poem corresponds not merely in a single expression, +but in every one. The Chaldee hymn has the ink and ocean, parchment and +heavens, stalks and quills, mankind and scribes, &c. Pray do me the favour +to insert the original lines. I assure you that they are well worthy of a +place in "N. & Q." Here they are: + + [Hebrew: GBWRAN `ALMIYN LEIYH WLA' SIPEIQ PRIYSHWTA':] + [Hebrew: GWIYL 'ILW RQIY`EIY QNY KAL CHWRSHATA':] + [Hebrew: DYWO 'ILW YAMEIY WKAL MEIY KNIYSHWTA':] + [Hebrew: DAYREIY 'AR`A' SAPREIY WRASHMEIY RASHWATA':] + + + +MOSES MARGOLIOUTH. + +Wybunbury. + +In the _Des Knaben Wunderhorn_ there is something of the same idea, though +not quite to the same purpose: + + "Und wenn der Himmel papyrige waer, + Und e jede Sterne Schryber waer, + Und jedere Schryber hat siebesiebe Hand, + Ei schriebe doch alli mir Liebi Kesend! + Dursli und Babeli." + +G. H. R. + + * * * * * + +WHAT DAY IS IT AT OUR ANTIPODES? + +(Vol. viii., p. 102.) + +This question was asked by H., and at p. 479. an answer to it was +undertaken by ESTE. But, probably from over-anxiety to be very brief, ESTE +was betrayed into a most strange and unaccountable misstatement, which +ought to be set right before the conclusion of the volume; since, if +correctness be generally desirable in all communications to "N. & Q.," it +is absolutely indispensable in professed answers to required information. +ESTE says: + + "A person sailing to our Antipodes westward will lose twelve hours; by + sailing thither eastward he will gain twelve hours." + +This is quite correct. But if one person lose twelve, and another gain +twelve, the manifest difference between them is twenty-four; and yet ESTE +goes on to say: + + "If both meet together at the same hour, say eleven o'clock, the one + will reckon 11 A.M., the other 11 P.M." + +This is the misstatement. No two persons, by any correct system of +reckoning, could arrive at a result which would imply a physical +impossibility; and it is needless to say that the concurrence of A.M. and +P.M. at the same time and place would come under that designation. What +ESTE should have said is, that both persons meeting {649} together on the +same day, if it be reckoned Monday by the one, it will be reckoned Tuesday +by the other. They may differ as to Monday or Tuesday, but they cannot +rationally differ as to whether it is day or night. + +It may be added that, no matter where these two persons might meet, whether +at the Antipodes or at any other place, still, upon comparing their +journals, there would always appear a day's difference between them; and if +they were to keep continually sailing on, one always towards the west, and +the other always towards the east, every time they might meet or cross each +other, they would increase the difference between them by an additional +day. + +Whence it follows, that if two ships were to leave England on the same day, +one sailing east by the Cape of Good Hope, and the other west by Cape Horn, +returning home respectively by the opposite capes; and if both were to +arrive again in England at the same time, there would be found in the +reckoning of the eastern vessel two entire days more than in that of the +western vessel. Nor would this difference be merely theoretic or imaginary; +on the contrary, it would be a real and substantial gain on the part of the +eastern vessel: her crew would have consumed two whole rations of +breakfast, dinner, and supper, and swallowed two days' allowance of grog +more than the other crew; and they would have enjoyed two nights more +sleep. + +But all this is not an answer to H's question; what he wants to know is +whether the day at the Antipodes is twelve hours in advance or in arrear of +our day and, whichever it is, why is it? + +But here H. is not sufficiently explicit. His question relates to a +practical fact, and therefore he should have been more particular in +designating the exact habitable place to which it referred. Our Antipodes, +strictly speaking, or rather the antipodal point to Greenwich Observatory, +is 180deg of east (or west) longitude, and 51deg 28' &c. of south latitude. +But this is not the only point that differs by exactly twelve hours in time +from Greenwich; all places lying beneath the meridian of 180deg, "our +Periaeci" as well as "our Antipodes," are similarly affected, and to them +the same question would be applicable. H. is right, however, in assuming +that, with respect to that meridian, the decision must be purely arbitrary. +It is as though two men were to keep moving round a circle in the same +direction, with the same speed, and at diametrically opposite points; it +must be an arbitrary decision which would pronounce that either was in +advance, or in arrear, of the other. + +Regarding, then, the meridian of 180deg as the neutral point, the most +rational system, so far as British settlements are concerned, is to reckon +longitude both ways, from 0deg to 180deg, east and west from Greenwich; and +to regard all west longitude as in arrear of British time, and all east +longitude as in advance of it. And this is the method practised by modern +navigators. + +It is not, however, in obedience to any preconceived system, but by pure +accident, that our settlements in Australia and New Zealand happen to be in +accordance with this rule. The last-named country is very close upon the +verge of eastern longitude, but still it is within it, and its day is +rightly in advance of our day. But the first settlers to Botany Bay, in +1788, were actually under orders to go out by Cape Horn, and were only +forced by stress of weather to adopt the opposite course by the Cape of +Good Hope. Had they kept to their prescribed route, there cannot be a doubt +that the day of the week and month in Australia would now be a day later +than it is. + +The best proof of the truth of this assertion is, that a few years +afterwards a missionary expedition was sent out to Otaheite, with respect +to which a precisely similar accident occurred; they could not weather Cape +Horn, and were forced to go round, some twice the distance out of their +way, by the Cape of Good Hope; consequently they carried with them what may +be called the eastern day, and since then that is the day observed at +Otaheite, although fully two hours within the western limit of longitude. + +From this cause an actual practical anomaly has recently arisen. The French +authorities in Tahiti, in accordance with the before-mentioned rule, have +arranged their day by _western longitude_; consequently, in addition to +other points of dissent, they observe the Sabbath and other festivals one +day later than the resident English missionaries. + +I have extended this explanation to a greater length than I intended, but +the subject is interesting, and not generally well understood; to do it +justice, therefore, is not compatible with brevity. Much of what I have +said is doubtless already known to your readers; nevertheless I hope it may +be useful in affording to H. the information he required, and to ESTE more +fixed notions on the subject than he seems to have entertained when he +wrote the answer referred to. + +A. E. B. + +Leeds. + + * * * * * + + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Aceto-Nitrate of Silver._--I have collected together several ounces of +aceto-nitrate of silver that has been used to excite waxed paper (iodized +by MR. CROOKES' method), and should be glad to know whether it can be used +again for the same purpose. + +JOHN LEACHMAN. + + [The aceto-nitrate _may_ be used, but in our own practice we do not do + so. It is apt to give an unpleasant brownish colour. The solutions of + silver, {650} whether used for albumenising or otherwise, being reduced + to a state of chloride by the addition of common salt so long as any + precipitate is formed: fine silver may then be readily obtained by + heating a crucible, the chloride consisting of three-fourths of pure + metal. It is a false economy to use dirty or doubtful solutions, and by + adopting the above course the pecuniary loss is very trifling. Our + ordinary stoves will not always give a sufficient heat, but any working + jeweller or chemist having the ordinary furnace would accomplish it.] + +_On the Restoration of old Collodion._--Many plans have been suggested for +the restoration of collodion when it has lost its sensitiveness by age. In +the last Number of the _Photographic Journal_, p. 147., MR. CROOKES +proposes "to remove the free iodine from the collodion by means of a piece +of pure silver. For two ounces of liquid I should recommend a sheet of +stout silver foil, about two inches long and half an inch broad. It will +require to remain in contact with the collodion for about two days, or even +longer if the latter be very dark-coloured; and in this case it will +sometimes be found advantageous to clean the surface of the silver, as it +becomes protected with a coating of iodide, by means of cyanide of +potassium or hyposulphite of soda. + +"When thus renovated, the collodion will be found as sensitive and good as +it was originally." + +This plan is certainly more simple than any that has yet been recommended. +The action of the silver being its mere combination with the free iodine, +thereby producing the reduction of the collodion to its original colourless +condition, I would venture to put this question to MR. CROOKES (to whom the +readers of "N. & Q." are already under great obligations): Does he consider +that it is the mere presence of free iodine which causes the want of +sensitiveness in the collodion? This is all which appears to be +accomplished by the process which Mr. Crookes recommends. + +Now, as one who has had some experience, both in the manufacture and uses +of collodion, such a view does not agree with my practice and observation. +Occasionally, upon sensitising collodion, I have found it assume a deep +sherry colour a few hours after being made. This must have depended upon +the free iodide it contained, and yet such collodion has worked most +admirably. I have now before me a large body of collodion almost red, and +which has been made some three or four months; yet the last time I used +this, about a week since, it was just as good as when it was first made. +Undoubtedly collodion does more or less deteriorate with age; but here I +would observe, that there is an immense difference in the different +manufactures of collodion, and which can be ascertained by use only, and +not by appearance. + +But Mr. Hennah, who has had much practical experience, recommends the +collodion to be made sensitive merely by the iodide of potassium; and he +said, "if it did not work quite clearly and well, a little tincture of +iodine brought it right." Here, then, is added the very thing which MR. +CROOKES proposes to abstract. + +Again, MR. CROOKES considers the free iodine to be the cause of the +colouring of the collodion; will he then kindly explain its _modus +operandi_? + +As he has on several occasions given your readers the benefit of his great +chemical knowledge, I trust they may be favoured by him with a solution of +these difficulties, which have puzzled + +AN AMATEUR. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Admissions to Inns of Court_ (Vol. viii., p. 540.).--The following +particulars may be of service to your correspondent who requires +information upon the subject of the matriculations at the inns of court. + +The books of Lincoln's Inn, which record the calls to the bar and other +proceedings of the Society, commence in the second year of the reign of +Henry VI., 1423. Those of the Inner Temple, which contain the admittances +in 1547, and the calls to the bar in 1590; of the Middle Temple, which +contain a regular series of admissions and calls, about the year 1600; and +of Gray's Inn, about the year 1650. The earlier records of Gray's Inn were +destroyed by fire, but the Harleian MS. No. 1912., in the British Museum, +contains: + +An alphabetical list of gentlemen admitted to that society, with the dates +of their admission, from 1521 to 1674. + +Table of the admittances into Gray's Inn, declaring the names of the +gentlemen, the town and country whence they came, and the day, month, and +year when admitted, from the year 1626 to 1677. + +Arms and names of noblemen and knights admitted to the said society. + +An alphabetical list of all persons called to the bar by the said society. + +The Lansdowne MS. No. 106., which is also in the British Museum, contains: + +Names of benchers, associates, utter barristers, &c. of Lincoln's Inn, and +the same of the Inner Temple; and of the students of the several Inns of +Court, apparently about the end of the reign of Elizabeth. + +JAS. WHISHAW. + +Gower Street. + +The MS. Harl. 1912. contains the admissions to Gray's Inn. + +G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. + +_Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans_ (Vol. viii., p. 629.)--A surviving +relative of the authoress in question begs to answer to the correspondent +of "N. & Q." who has produced this lyric from an imperfect MS. original, +that the piece has not remained inedited, but is to be found in the several +complete editions of Mrs. Hemans's works published by Blackwood. The +playful signature of the letter alluded to, as well as the subject of the +lyric, it may be added, was suggested by some conversation respecting the +fanciful creatures of {651} fairy-land, with whose ideal queen the +authoress affected sportively to identify herself, and hence signed the +little poem, produced rather as a _jeu d'esprit_ than anything else, "Mab." +In its subsequently corrected form, as admitted in the editions of her +works, it is here subjoined: + + _Water Lilies: A Fairy Song._ + + "Come away, Elves! while the dew is sweet, + Come to the dingles where fairies meet; + Know that the lilies have spread their bells + O'er all the pools in our forest dells; + Stilly and lightly their vases rest + On the quivering sleep of the water's breast, + Catching the sunshine through the leaves that throw + To their scented bosoms an emerald glow; + And a star from the depths of each pearly cup, + A golden star, unto heav'n looks up, + As if seeking its kindred where bright they lie, + Set in the blue of the summer sky. + Come away, under arching boughs we'll float, + Making those urns each a fairy boat; + We'll row them with reeds o'er the fountains free, + And a tall flag-leaf shall our streamer be. + And we'll send out wild music so sweet and low, + It shall seem from the bright flower's heart to flow; + As if 'twere a breeze with a flute's low sigh, + Or water-drops train'd into melody, + Come away! for the midsummer sun grows strong, + And the life of the lily may not be long." + +ANON. + +_Derivation of Britain_ (Vol. viii., p. 344.).--Since my last reference to +this matter (Vol. viii., p. 445.) I find that the derivation of the name of +_Britain_ from _Barat-anach_ or _Brat-anach_, a land of tin, originated in +conjecture with Bochart, an oriental scholar and French protestant divine +in the first half of the seventeenth century. It certainly is a very +remarkable circumstance that the conjecture of a Frenchman as to the origin +of the name of _Britain_ should have been so curiously confirmed, as has +been shown by DR. HINCKS, through an Assyrian medium. + +G. W. + +Stansted, Montfichet. + +_Derivation of the Word Celt_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--If C. R. M. has +access to a copy of the Latin Vulgate, he will find the word which our +translators have rendered "an iron pen," in the book of Job, chap. xix. v. +24., there translated _Celte_. Not having the book in my possession, I will +not pretend to give the verse as a quotation.[2] + +T. B. B. H. + +[Footnote 2: 24. Stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel _celte_ sculpantur in +silice?] + +"_Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira_" (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--I happen +to have by me a transcript of the record in which this word occurs; and it +is followed immediately by another almost equally astounding, which +F. J. G. should, I think, have asked one of your correspondents to +translate while about the other. The following is the word: +_Arademaravasadeloovaradooyou_. They both appear to be names of estates. + +H. M. + +Peckham. + +_Cash_ (Vol. viii., pp. 386. 524.).--In _The Adventures of the Gooroo +Paramartan_, a tale in the Tamul language, accompanied by a translation and +a vocabulary, &c., by Benjamin Babington London, 1822, is the following: +"Fanam or casoo is unnecessary, I give it to you gratis." To which the +translator subjoins: "The latter word is usually pronounced _cash_ by +Europeans, but the Tamul orthography is used in the text, that the reader +may not take it for an English word." + + "Christmas-boxes are said to be an ancient custom here, and I would + almost fancy that our name of box for this particular kind of present, + the derivation of which is not very easy to trace in the European + languages, is a corruption of buckshish, a gift or gratuity, in + Turkish, Persian, and Hindoostanee. There have been undoubtedly more + words brought into our language from the East than I used to suspect. + _Cash_, which here means small money, is one of these; but of the + process of such transplantation I can form no conjecture."--Heber's + _Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India_. vol. i. + p. 52. + +Angelo, in his _Gazophylaceum Linguae Persarum_, gives a Persian word of +the same signification and sound, as Italice _cassa_, Latine _capsa_, +Gallice _caisse_. + +BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. + +"_Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi_" (Vol. viii., p. 502., &c.).--The +authority of Fuller ought, I think, to be sufficient to establish that this +saying was Bacon's own and not a quotation. + +Fuller thus introduces it: "As _one_ excellently observes, 'Antiquitas +saeculi juventus mundi,'" &c., giving the remainder of the paragraph from +the _Advancement of Learning_; and refers in a note to Sir Frances Bacon's +_Advancement of Learning_ (_Holy and Profane State_, ch. vi.). + +E. S. T. T. + +_Caves at Settle, Yorkshire_ (Vol. viii., p. 412.).--BRIGANTIA will find a +very circumstantial and interesting account of these caves, and their +Romano-British contents, in vol. i. of Mr. Roach Smith's _Collectanea_. + +G. J. DE WILDE. + +_Character of the Song of the Nightingale_ (Vol. vii., p. 397.; Vol. viii., +pp. 112. 475.).--One poet, not so well known as he deserves, has escaped +the observation of those who have contributed to your valuable pages the +one hundred and seventy-five epithets which others of his craft have +applied to the "Midnight Minstrel." I allude to the Rev. F. W. Faber, in +his poem of the _Cherwell Water Lily_. This poem his now become scarce, so +I send you the lines to which I refer, as the "summary of epithets" which +they contain, as {652} well as their intrinsic beauty, render them worthy +of notice: + + "I heard the raptured nightingale, + Tell from yon elmy grove, his tale + Of jealousy and love, + In thronging notes that seem'd to fall, + As faultless and as musical, + As angels' strains above. + So sweet, they cast on all things round, + A spell of melody profound: + They charm'd the river in his flowing, + They stay'd the night-wind in its blowing, + They lull'd the lily to her rest, + Upon the Cherwell's heaving breast." + +To those interested in this subject, so full of historical and classical, +as well as poetical associations, I would mention that a late Master of +Caius College, Cambridge, the Rev. Dr. Davy, printed some years since, for +private circulation, a small pamphlet entitled _Observations on Mr. Fox's +Letter to Mr. Grey_, in which he refutes that eminent statesman's theory of +the _merry_ note of the nightingale. This pamphlet is so full of elegance +and classical research, that it is much to be regretted, not only that it +has never been published, but that it is the _only work_ of the learned +author--the friend and associate of Porson, of Parr, and of Maltby. I +possess a presentation copy, which, as only a very few copies were printed, +I would gladly lend to any of your readers interested in this curious and +long-pending controversy. + +NORRIS DECK. + +Cambridge. + +Add to the already long list, this from Spenser: + + "That blessed bird, that spends her time of sleep + In songs and plaintive pleas, the more t'augment + The memory of his misdeed that bred her woe." + +And this exquisite little song, written by I know not whom, but set to +music by Thomas Bateson in 1604: + + "The Nightingale, as soon as April bringeth + Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, + While late bare earth proud of her clothing springeth, + Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making; + And mournfully bewailing, + Her throat in tunes expresseth, + While grief her heart oppresseth, + For Tereus' force o'er her chaste will prevailing." + +H. GARDINER. + +_Inscriptions in Books_ (Vol. viii., p. 64. &c.).--John Bostock, sometime +Abbat of St. Alban's, gave some valuable books to the library of Gloucester +Hall, Oxford, with these lines in the commencement: + + "Quem si quis rapiat raptim, titulumve retractet, + Vel Judae laqueum, vel furcas sentiat. Amen." + +ANON. + +_Door-head Inscription_ (Vol. viii., p. 454.).--A friend has kindly sent me +an improved version of the inscription over the gate of the Apostolical +Chancery, which, with his permission, I beg to forward to you:-- + + "Fide Deo, dic saepe preces, peccare caveto, + Sis humilis, pacem dilige, magna fuge, + Multa audi, dic pauca, tace abdita, scito minori + Parcere, majori cedere, ferre parem, + Propria fac, persolve fidem, sis aequus egenis, + Parta tuere, pati disce, memento mori." + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + +_Fogie_ (Vol. viii., pp. 154. 256.).--In the citadel of Plymouth, some +twenty or twenty-five years since, there was a band of old soldiers +(principally men of small stature) who went by this name. They were said to +be the only men acquainted with all the windings and outlets of the +subterranean passages of this fortification. + +The cognomen "old fogie" is in this neighbourhood frequently applied to old +men remarkable for shrewdness, cunning, quaintness, or eccentricity. This +use of the term is evidently figurative, borrowed from its application to +veteran soldiers. Cannot some of the military correspondents of "N. & Q." +give the origin of the word? + +ISAIAH W. N. KEYS. + +Plymouth. + +_Sir W. Hewet_ (Vol. viii., p. 270.).--MR. GRIFFITH will find in Thoresby's +_Ducatus Leodinensis_, p. 2. (Whittaker's edit.), a pedigree of the family +of Osborne, which gives two generations previous to Edward Osborne, who +married Ann Hewet, namely,-- + +Richard Osborne, who married Elizabeth, daughter of ---- Fyldene, by whom +he had Richard, who married Jane, daughter of John Broughton of Broughton, +Esq., and sister and heir to Edward and Lancelyn Broughton. + +Sir Edward Osborne, Knight, Citizen, and Lord Mayor of London (1582), who +died in 1591, married Ann, daughter and sole heir of Sir William Hewet, +Lord Mayor of London, 1559, by whom he had Sir Hewet Osborne, born 1567, +died 1614. Sir Edward had a second wife, Margaret, daughter of ----, who +died in 1602. + +There is a note at the bottom of the page, quoted from a MS. in the College +of Arms, E 1. fol. 190., "That this descent was registered the 30th March, +1568, when Hewet Osborne was the age of one year and ... days." + +EDWARD PEACOCK. + +Bottesford Moors, Kirton in Lindsey. + +_Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge_ (Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.).--The +difference between the fusil and the lozenge is well known to all heralds, +though coach-painters and silversmiths do not {653} always sufficiently +describe it. If BROCTUNA, however, be a _practical_ herald, he must often +have experienced the difficulty of placing impalements or quarterings +correctly, even on a lozenge. On the long and narrow fusil it would be +impossible. When the fusil, instead of being a mere heraldic bearing, has +to be used as the shape of a shield for the actual use of the painter or +engraver, it must of necessity be widened into the lozenge; and as the +latter is probably only the same distaff with little more wool upon it, +there seems no objection to the arrangement. BROCTUNA is too good an +antiquary not to know on recollection that the "vyings of widows" had +little to do with funeral arrangements in those days. Procrustes, the +herald, came down at all great funerals, and regulated everything with just +so much pomp, and no more, as the precise rank of the deceased entitled him +to. + +P. P. had not the smallest intention of giving BROCTUNA offence by pointing +out what seems a fatal objection to his theory. + + + +Hugh Clark, a well-known modern writer upon Heraldry, gives the following +definition of the word lozenge: + + "Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old + casements: some suppose it a physical composition given for colds, and + was invented to reward eminent physicians." + +Plutarch says, in the _Life of Theseus_, that at Megara, an ancient town of +Greece, the tombstones, under which the bodies of the Amazons lay, were +shaped after that form, which some conjecture to be the cause why ladies +have their arms on lozenges. + +RUBY. + +_The Crescent_ (Vol. viii., p. 319.).--Be so good as to insert in "N. & +Q.," for the information of J. W. THOMAS, that the Iceni (a people of +England, whose territory consisted of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, +Essex, &c.) struck coins both in gold and silver; having on their reverses +crescents placed back to back generally, except where a rude profile is on +a few of them. + +Two of the gold coins have fallen into my possession; one of which, found +at Oxnead in this county, I supplied to the British Museum some years +since. Twelve of the silver coins are figured on a plate in Part LVII. of +the _Numismatic Chronicle_. MR. THOMAS observing (at p. 321.) he has no +work on numismatics, induces me to make this communication to him through +your very useful and instructive publication. + +GODDARD JOHNSON. + +Norfolk. + +_Abigail_ (Vol. iv., p. 424. Vol. v., pp. 38. 94. 450.).--The inquiry +suggested in the first of the above references, "Whence, or when, +originated the application of Abigail, as applied to a lady's maid?" has +not yet, to my mind, been satisfactorily answered. It occurs to me that it +may have been derived from the notorious Abigail Hill, better known as Mrs. +Masham, a poor relative of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and by her +introduced to a subordinate place about the person of Queen Anne. She +rapidly acquired sufficient influence to supplant her benefactress. The +intrigues of the Tory party received sufficient furtherance from this +bedchamber official to effect ultimately the downfall of the Whig ministry; +and the use of the term by Dean Swift, of which your original Querist MR. +WARDEN speaks, would suffice to give currency and to associate the name of +so famous an _intriguante_ with the office which she filled. It must be +matter of opinion whether the Dean (as MR. W. thinks) employed the term as +_not new in those_ days, or as one which had _taken_ so rapidly in the +current conversation of the day, as to require but his putting it in print +to establish it in its new sense so long as the language shall be spoken or +written. + +BALLIOLENSIS. + +_Handbook to the Library of the British Museum_ (Vol. viii., p. +511.).--Neither Lord Seymour, nor MR. BOLTON CORNEY, nor Mr. Richard Sims, +can with justice claim originality in the suggestion carried out by the +latter gentleman in the publication of his _Handbook to the Library of the +British Museum_. + +In my own collection is a book entitled,-- + + "A Critical and Historical Account of all the celebrated Libraries in + Foreign Countries, as well ancient as modern, with general Reflections + on the choice of Books," &c.... "A work of great use to all men of + letters. By a Gentleman of the Temple. London, printed for J. Jolliffe, + in St James's Street, MDCCXXXIX." + +In the preface to which work the author says: + + "It will be highly useful to such noblemen and gentlemen as visit + foreign countries, _by instructing them in the manner of perusing + whatever is curious in the Vatican and other famous libraries_." + +And in which he promises that-- + + "If it should meet with the approbation of the public, he (the author) + will proceed with the _libraries of these kingdoms_," &c. + +F. SEYMOUR HADEN. + +Chelsea. + +_The Arms of Richard, King of the Romans_ (Vol. viii., pp. 265. 454.). With +every respect for such heraldic authorities as MR. GOUGH and MR. LOVER, I +think the question as to whether the so-called bezants in the arms of +Richard, King of the Romans, referred to his earldom of Poictou or of +Cornwall, inclines in favour of the former: for instance, in 1253 he +granted to the {654} monks of Okebury a release of suit and service within +his manor of Wallingford, which charter has a seal appended bearing an +impress of the earl armed on horseback, with a _lion rampant crowned_ on +his surcoat, inscribed "Sigillum Richardi Comitis Cornubiae." Now this +inscription seems to identify the lion as pertaining to the earldom of +Cornwall; surely, if the bezants represented this earldom, they would not +have been omitted on his seal as _Comes Cornubiae_. + +Again, a very high heraldic authority, one of deep research, Mr. J. R. +Planche, gives this opinion on the subject: + + "The border bezantee, or talentee, of Richard, King of the Romans, is + no representation of coins but of peas (_poix_), being the arms of + Poitiers or Poictou (Menestrier, _Orig._, p. 147.), of which he was + earl, and not of his other earldom of Cornwall, as imagined by Sandford + and others. The adoption of bezants as the arms of Cornwall, and by so + many Cornish families on that account, are all subsequent assumptions + derived from the arms of Earl Richard aforesaid, the peas having been + promoted into bezants by being gilt, and become identified with the + Cornish escutcheon as the garbs of Blundeville are with that of + Chester, or the coat of Cantelupe with that of the see of + Hereford."--_The Pursuivant at Arms_, p. 136. + +A simple Query then would seem to settle this matter. Is any instance known +of bezants occurring as the arms of Cornell previous to the time of Earl +Richard, or earlier than the commencement of the thirteenth century? + +NORRIS DECK. + +Cambridge. + +_Greek and Roman Fortifications_ (Vol. viii., p. 469.).--J. H. J. will find +some information on this subject in Fosbroke's _Grecian and Roman +Antiquities_ (Longman, 1833). + +JOHN SCRIBE. + +_Osbernus filius Herfasti_ (Vol. viii., p. 515.).--In reply to the Query of +MR. SANSOM, "Whether Osborn de Crespon, the brother of the Duchess of +Normandy, had a brother of the same name?" I beg to reply that there +appears to be distinct evidence that he had; for in a grant of lands by +Richard II., Duke of Normandy, who died in 1026, to the monks of St. +Michael, there are, along with the signatures of his son Richard and +several other witnesses, those of _Osbernus frater Comitissae_, and +_Osbernus filius Arfast_ (_Lobineau_, tom. ii. p. 97.). One of those may +probably have become Abbot of S. Evroult. No doubt MR. SANSOM is well aware +that one of the same family was Osborn, Bishop of Exeter. He was a son of +Osborn de Crespon, and brother of the Earl of Hereford, premier peer of +England. In 1066 he forbad the monks to be buried in the cloisters of their +monasteries; but they resisted his injunction, and, on an appeal to the +Pope, obtained a decision against him (_Mabillon_). For an eulogium on him +see Godwin, _De presul. Angl_. He died in 1104, and was buried in the +cathedral at Exeter. + +I would observe that the ancient orthography of the name is Osbern, which +was continued for many centuries, and may even now be seen in Maidwell +Church, Northamptonshire, on the monument of Lady Gorges, the daughter of +Sir John Osbern, who died in 1633. + +OMICRON. + +I think there can be little doubt that Herfastus "the Dane" was the father +of Gunnora, wife of Rich. I., Duke of Normandy; of Aveline, wife of +Osbernus de Bolebec, Lord of Bolbec and Count of Longueville; and of Weira, +wife of Turolf de Pont Audomere. The brother of these three sisters was +another Herfastus, Abbot of St. Evrau; who was the father of Osbernus de +Crepon, Steward of the Household, and Sewer to the Conqueror. + +H. C. C. + +_Devonianisms_ (Vol. viii., p. 65.).--Your correspondent MR. KEYS is at a +loss for the origin of the word _plum_, as used in Devonshire. Surely it is +the same word as _plump_, although employed in a somewhat different sense. +_Plum_ or _plump_, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea of +softness or downiness. As to the employment of the word as a verb, I +conceive that it is analogous to an expression which I have often heard +used by cooks, in speaking of meat or poultry, "to plump up." A cook will +say of a fowl which appears deficient in flesh, "It is a young bird; it +will plump up when it comes to the fire." A native of Devonshire would +simply say, "It will plum." + +As to the word _clunk_, it is in use throughout Cornwall in the sense of +"to swallow," and is undoubtedly Celtic. On referring to Le Gonidec's +_Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_, I find "_Lonka_, or _Lounka_, v.a. _avaler_." + +I have neither a Welsh dictionary nor one of the ancient Cornish language +at hand, but I have no doubt that the same word, with the same +signification, will be found in both those dialects of the Celtic, probably +with some difference of spelling, which would bring it nearer to the word +_clunk_. + +It is not wonderful that a word, the sound of which is so expressive of the +action, should have continued in use among an illiterate peasantry long +after the language from which it is derived was forgotten; but many pure +Celtic words, which have not this recommendation, are still in common use +in Cornwall, and a collection of them would be highly interesting. Could +not some of your antiquarian correspondents in the west, MR. BOASE of +Penzance for example, furnish such a list? I will mention one or two words +which I chance to remember: _mabyer_, a chicken, Breton _mab_, a son, +_iar_, a hen; _vean_, little, Breton _vihan_. {655} + +To persons acquainted with the Welsh or Breton, the names of places in +Cornwall, though sometimes strangely corrupted, are almost all significant. +The dialect of Celtic spoken in Cornwall appears to have approached more +closely to the latter than to the former of these tongues; or perhaps, +speaking more correctly, it formed a connecting link between them, as +Cornwall itself lies about midway between Wales and Brittany. + +EDGAR MACCULLOCH. + +Guernsey. + +_Gentile Names of the Jews_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--The names of +Rothschild, Montefiore, and Davis are family names, and not _noms de +guerre_. + +It is possible that the honoured names of Rothschild and Montefiore date +from a purchase by some one of their ancestry of _Gentile castles or +lands_, and with it the purchase right of name. + +Davis is legitimately Jewish, but probably the Gentile name of Davis cannot +boast of its pure source, and no doubt where Gentile pedigree loses trace, +Jewish descent commences, either by a left-handed Jew connexion with a +Gentile fair one, or a renegade ancestry. + +ISRAEL BEN ISAAC. + +Red Lion Square. + +_Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--On October 15, Judy, a slave, died on +the plantation of Edmund B. Richardson, in Bladen county, North Carolina, +aged 110 years. She was one of eight slaves who nearly sixty years ago were +the first settlers on the plantation, where she died. Of the seven others, +one died over 90 years of age, another 93, and a third 81; two are living, +one 75 and the other over 60 years of age. + +Within five miles of the place where Judy died, William Pridgen lived, who +died about five years ago, aged 122 years. + +David Kennison, a soldier of the Revolution, died near Albany (N. Y.) on +the 24th of February, 1852, aged 117 years. + +M. E. + +Philadelphia. + +_Reversible Names_ (Vol. viii., p. 244.).--Emme might have been added to +your correspondent's list, a female name which, when first known in +England, was spelt as above written, and not Emma, as at the present time. +In an old book I have seen the name and its meaning thus recorded,--in +English, _Emme_; in French, _Emme, bonne nourrice_. + +I must beg to differ in opinion from your correspondent, even with his +epicene restriction, who states "that _varium et mutabile semper femina_ +only means that whatever reads backwards and forwards, the same is _always +feminine_." + +If M. will take the trouble to look in Boyle's _Court Guide_ for 1845, p. +358., he will find the name of a late very distinguished general officer, +Sir Burges Camac. A wealthy branch of this family is now established in the +United States, and one of its members bears the name of Camac Camac. + +I am unable to give M. another instance, and doubt if one can be easily +found where the Christian and surnames of a gentleman are alike, and both +reversible. + +W. W. + +Malta. + +_Etymology of Eve_.--Only one instance of a reversible name seems to me at +present among the _propria quae maribus_, and that is Bob. As, however, the +name of our universal mother has been brought forward, you will, perhaps, +allow me to transcribe the following remarkable etymology: + + "Omnes nascimur ejulantes, ut nostram miseriam exprimamus. Masculus + enim recenter natus dicit A; foemina vero E; dicentes E vel A quotquot + nascuntur ab Eva. Quid est igitur _Eva_ nisi _heu ha_? Utrumque + dolentis est interjectio doloris exprimens magnitudinem. Hinc enim ante + peccatum virago, post peccatum _Era_ meruit appellari.... Mulier autem + ut naufragus, cum parit tristitiam habet," &c.--_De Contemptu Mundi_, + lib. i. c. 6., a Lothario, diacono cardinali, S.S. Sergii et Bacchi, + editus, qui postea Innocentius Papa III. appellatus est. + +BALLIOLENSIS. + +_Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas_ (Vol. viii., p. 585.).--Allow me to +correct a gross error into which I have been led, by an imperfect +concordance, in hastily concluding that the words "In te Domine speravi, +non confundar in aeternum," were not in the Psalms, as I have found them in +the Vulgate, Psalms xxxi. 1. and lxxi. 1. + +T. J. BUCKTON. + +Lichfield. + +_Binometrical Verse_ (Vol. viii., pp. 292. 375.).--In answer to these +inquiries, the copyright of this united hexameter and pentameter belongs to +Mr. De la Pryme, of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, who is also the author of +another line which is both an alcaic and sapphic: + + "Quando nigrescit sacra latro patrat." + +X. + +_Gale of Rent_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--Gale [_Gavel_, Sax., a rent or +duty,] a periodical payment of rent. The Latin form of the word is +_gabellum_, and the French _gabelle_. (See Wharton's _Law Lexicon_.) + +[Greek: Halieus]. + +Dublin. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. + +_The History of Millwall, commonly called the Isle of Dogs, including +Notices of the West India Docks and City Canal, and Notes on Poplar, +Blackwall, Limehouse,_ {656} _and Stepney_, by B. H. Cowper, is +unquestionably one of the most carefully compiled, and judiciously +arranged, little topographical works, which we have ever been called upon +to notice. The intelligent M.P. who is recorded to have asked a witness +before a select committee for the _precise_ locality of the Isle of Dogs, +and to have been satisfied with the answer "Between London Bridge and +Gravesend," may, if inclined to pursue his inquiries, find its history told +most fully and most agreeably in the little volume now before us. + +In our Number for the 21st of May last, we called attention to, and spoke +in terms of fitting approbation of, the First Part of _The English Bible_; +containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version; +newly divided into paragraphs, with concise Introductions to the several +Books, and with Maps and Notes illustrative of the Chronology, History, and +Geography of the Holy Scriptures; containing also the most remarkable +variations of the Ancient Versions, and the chief results of Modern +Criticism. Part II., comprising _Exodus_ and _Leviticus_, is now before us, +and exhibits the same merits as its predecessor. + +Mr. Miller, of Chandos Street, who during the past year added to the value +of the Monthly Catalogues by the addition to each of them of several pages +of literary and bibliographical miscellanies, has just collected these into +a little volume, under the title of _Fly Leaves, or Scraps and Sketches, +Literary, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous_, which may find a fitting +place beside Davis's _Olio_, and other works of that class. + +We regret to learn, as we do from the _Literary Gazette_ of Saturday last, +that the Trustees of the British Museum, in defiance of the earnest +recommendation of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Archaeological +Institute, and with a total disregard of the feelings and opinions of those +best qualified to advise them upon the subject, have declined to purchase +the Faussett Collection of Early Antiquities, and consequently will lose +the Fairford Collection offered to them as a free gift by Mr. Wylie: so +that the enlightened foreigner, who visits this great national +establishment, and admiring its noble collections of Greek, Roman, +Egyptian, and Assyrian antiquities, asks, "but where are your own national +antiquities?" must still be answered, "We have not got one!" 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