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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Other: George Bell + +Release Date: November 2, 2010 [EBook #34195] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, MARCH 18, 1854 *** + + + + +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 Archive/Canadian +Libraries) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="10" style="background-color: #ccccff;"> +<tr> +<td style="width:25%; vertical-align:top"> +Transcriber's note: +</td> +<td> +A few typographical errors have been corrected. They +appear in the text <span class="correction" title="explanation will pop up">like this</span>, and the +explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked +passage.<br /><br /> + +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><!-- Page 237 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page237"></a>{237}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle</span>.</h3> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:25%"> + <p><b>No. 229.</b></p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, March 18. 1854</span></b></p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:25%"> + <p><b>Price Fourpence<br />Stamped Edition 5<i>d.</i></b></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="Contents" title="Contents"> + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:94%"> + <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Gossiping History</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:5%"> + <p><a href="#page239">239</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Works on Bells, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page240">240</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Inedited Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. W. Jacob</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page241">241</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Folk Lore</span>:—Herefordshire Folk + Lore—Greenock Fair—Dragons' Blood—Charm for the + Ague</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page242">242</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Psalms for the Chief Musician: Hebrew Music, by T. J. Buckton</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page242">242</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes:</span>—"Garble"—Deaths + in the Society of Friends—The Eastern Question—Jonathan + Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin—English + Literature—Irish Legislation—Anecdote of George IV. and + the Duke of York</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page243">243</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Queries:—</span></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Anonymous Works: "Posthumous Parodies," "Adventures in the Moon," + &c.</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page244">244</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Blind Mackerel</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page245">245</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries:</span>—Original Words of old + Scotch Airs—Royal Salutes—"The Negro's + Complaint"—"The Cow Doctor"—Soomarokoff's + "Demetrius"—Polygamy—Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Longobardic, and + Old English Letters—Description of Battles—Do Martyrs + always feel Pain?—Carronade—Darcy, of Platten, co. + Meath—Dorset—"Vanitatem observare"—King's + Prerogative—Quotations in Cowper—Cawley the Regicide</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page245">245</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with Answers:</span>—Dr. John + Pocklington—Last Marquis of Annandale—Heralds' + College—Teddy the Tiler—Duchess of Mazarin's + Monument—Halcyon Days</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page247">247</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies:—</span></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dogs in Monumental Brasses, by the Rev. W. S. Simpson, &c.</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page249">249</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Sneezing, by C. W. Bingham</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page250">250</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Sir John de Morant</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page250">250</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Inn Signs</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page251">251</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>"Concilium Delectorum Cardinalium"</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page252">252</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Pulpit Hour-glasses, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c.</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page253">253</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Photographic Correspondence:</span>—A Prize + for the best Collodion—Double Iodide of Silver and + Potassium—Albumenized Paper—Cyanide of Potassium</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page254">254</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies To Minor Queries:</span>—Sawdust + Recipe—Brydone the Tourist—Etymology of + "Page"—Longfellow—Canting Arms—Holy Loaf + Money—"Could we with Ink," &c.—Mount Mill, and the + Fortifications of London—Standing while the Lord's Prayer is + read—A dead Sultan, with his Shirt for an Ensign—"Hovd + maet of laet"—Captain Eyre's Drawings—Sir Thos. Browne + and Bishop Ken, &c.</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page255">255</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous:—</span></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Books and Odd Volumes wanted</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page258">258</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notices to Correspondents</p> + </td> + <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page259">259</a></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p class="cenhead">Just published, price 6<i>d.</i></p> + +<p class="cenhead">OXFORD REFORMERS.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">A LETTER TO ENDEMUS +AND ECDEMUS. 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The Work will be published in Quarterly Parts + of royal 4to., with each Part containing 4 Plates, one of which will be + in Chromolithography; representing Jewellery, Antique Plate, Arms and + Armour, and Miscellaneous Antiquities.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">London: CHAPMAN & HALL,<br /> +193. Piccadilly.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><!-- Page 239 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page239"></a>{239}</span></p> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1854</i></p> + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>GOSSIPING HISTORY.</h3> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"This is the Jew</p> + <p>That Shakspeare drew."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>I do not know by whom or when the above couplet was first imputed to + Pope. The following extracts will show how a story grows, and the + parasites which, under unwholesome cultivation, adhere to it. The + restoration of Shakspeare's text, and the performance of Shylock as a + serious part, are told as usual.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"In the dumb action of the trial scene he was amazingly descriptive, + and through the whole displayed such unequalled merit, as justly entitled + him to that very comprehensive, though concise, compliment paid to him by + Mr. Pope, who sat in the stage-box on the third night of the + reproduction, and who emphatically exclaimed,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'This is the Jew</p> + <p>That Shakspeare drew.'"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p><i>Life of Macklin</i>, by J. T. Kirkman, vol. i. p. 264.: London, + 1799, 2 vols. 8vo.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The book is ill-written, and no authorities are cited.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A few days after, Macklin received an invitation to dine with Lord + Bolingbroke at Battersea. He attended the rendezvous, and there found + Pope and a select party, who complimented him very much on the part of + Shylock, and questioned him about many little particulars, relative to + his getting up the play, &c. Pope particularly asked him why he wore + a <i>red hat</i>, and he answered, because he had read that Jews in + Italy, particularly in Venice, wore hats of that colour.</p> + + <p>'And pray, Mr. Macklin,' said Pope, 'do players in general take such + pains?' 'I do not know, sir, that they do; but as I had staked my + reputation on the character, I was determined to spare no trouble in + getting at the best information.' Pope nodded, and said, 'It was very + laudable.'"—<i>Memoirs of Macklin</i>, p. 94., Lond. 1804.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The above work has not the author's name, and is as defective in + references as Mr. Kirkman's. It is, however, not quite so trashy. Being + published five years later, the author must have seen the preceding + <i>Life</i>, and his not repeating the story about the couplet is strong + presumption that it was not then believed. It appears again in the + <i>Biographia Dramatica</i>, vol. i. p. 469., London, 1812:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Macklin's performance of this character (Shylock) so forcibly struck + a gentleman in the pit, that he as it were involuntarily exclaimed, 'This + is,' &c. It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I am not aware of its alteration during the next forty years, but this + was the state of the anecdote in 1853:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Macklin was a tragedian, and the personal friend of Alexander Pope. + He had a daughter, a beautiful and accomplished girl, who was likewise on + the stage. On one occasion Macklin's daughter was about to take a benefit + at Drury Lane Theatre, and on the morning of that evening, whilst the + father and daughter were at breakfast, a young nobleman entered the + apartment, and, with the most undisguised ruffianism, made overtures of a + dishonourable character to Macklin for his daughter. The exasperated + father, seizing a knife from the table, rushed at the fellow, who on the + instant fled, on which Macklin pursued him along the street with the + knife in his hand. The cause of the tragedian's wild appearance in the + street soon got vent in the city. Evening came, and Old Drury seldom saw + so crowded a house. The play was the <i>Merchant of Venice</i>, Macklin + sustaining the part of Shylock, and his interesting daughter that of + Jessica. Their reception was most enthusiastic; but in that scene where + the Jew is informed of his daughter being carried off, the whole audience + seemed to be quite carried away by Macklin's acting. The applause was + immense, and Pope, who was standing in the pit, exclaimed,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'That's the Jew that Shakspeare drew.'</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>Macklin was much respected in London. He was a native of Monaghan, and + a Protestant. His father was a Catholic, and died when he was a child; + and his mother being a Protestant, he was educated as + such."—<i>Dublin Weekly Telegraph</i>, Feb. 9, 1853.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>One more version is given in the <i>Irish Quarterly Review</i>, and + quoted approvingly in <i>The Leader</i>, Dec. 17, 1853.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The house was crowded from the opening of the doors, and the curtain + rose amidst the most dreadful of all awful silence, the stillness of a + multitude. The Jew enters in the third scene, and from that point, to the + famous scene with Tubal, all passed off with considerable applause. Here, + however, and in the trial scene, the actor was triumphant, and in the + applause of a thousand voices the curtain dropped. The play was repeated + for nineteen successive nights with increased success. On the third night + of representation all eyes were directed to the stage-box, where sat a + little deformed man; and whilst others watched <i>his</i> gestures, as if + to learn his opinion of the performers, he was gazing intently upon + Shylock, and as the actor panted, in broken accents of rage, and sorrow, + and avarice—'Go, Tubal, fee me an officer, bespeak him a fortnight + before: I will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for were he out of + Venice, I can make what merchandise I will: go, Tubal, and meet me at our + synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.'—the little man + was seen to rise, and leaning from the box, as Macklin passed it, he + whispered,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'This is the Jew,</p> + <p>That Shakspeare drew.'</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>The speaker was Alexander Pope, and, in that age, from his judgment in + criticism there was no appeal."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 240 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page240"></a>{240}</span></p> + + <p>No reference to cotemporary testimony is given by these + historians.</p> + + <p>Galt, in his <i>Lives of the Players</i>, Lond. 1831, does not notice + the story.</p> + + <p>Pope was at Bath on the 4th of February, 1741, as appears from his + letter to Warburton of that date; but as he mentions his intention to + return to London, he may have been there on the 14th. That he was not in + the pit we may be confident; that he was in the boxes is unlikely. His + health was declining in 1739. In his letter to Swift, quoted in Croly's + edition, vol. i. p. lxxx., he says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Having nothing to tell you of my poetry, I come to what is now my + chief care, my health and amusement; the first is better as to headaches, + worse as to weakness and nerves. The changes of weather affect me much; + the mornings are my life, <i>in the evenings I am not dead indeed, but + sleepy and stupid enough</i>. I love reading still better than + conversation, but my eyes fail, and the hours when most people indulge in + company, I am tired, and find the labour of the past day sufficient to + weigh me down; <i>so I hide myself in bed, as a bird in the nest, much + about the same time</i>, and rise and chirp in the morning."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I hope I have said enough to stop the farther growth of this story; + but before laying down my pen, I wish to call attention to the practice + of giving anecdotes without authorities. This is encouraged by the + newspapers devoting a column to "varieties," which are often amusing, but + oftener stale. A paragraph is now commencing the round, telling how a + lady took a linendraper to a barber's, and on pretence of his being a mad + relative, had his head shaved, while she absconded with his goods. It is + a bad version of an excellent scene in Foote's <i>Cozeners</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">H. B. C.</p> + + <p class="address">Garrick Club.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>WORKS ON BELLS.</h3> + + <p>I have a Note of many books on bells, which may be acceptable to + readers of "N. & Q." Those marked *, Cancellieri, in his work, calls + Protestant writers on the subject.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>* Anon. Recueil curieux et édifiant sur les Cloches de l'Eglise, avec + les Cérémonies de leur Bénédiction. Cologne, 1757.</p> + + <p>Barraud (Abb.). Notice sur les Cloches. 8vo., Caen, 1844.</p> + + <p>Boemeri (G. L.). Programma de Feudo Campanario. Gottingĉ, 1755.</p> + + <p>Buonmattei (Ben.). Declamazione delle Campane, dopo le sue Cicalate + delle tre Sirocchie. Pisa, 1635.</p> + + <p>Campani (Gio. Ant.). Opera. The frontispiece a large bell. Roma, + 1495.</p> + + <p>Cancellieri (F.). Descrizione della nuova Campana Magiore della + Basilica Vaticana. Roma, 1786.</p> + + <p>Cancellieri (F.). Descrizione delle due nuove Campane di Campidoglio + beneditte del Pio VII. Roma, 1806, 4to.</p> + + <p>* Cave (G. G.). An Turrium et Campanarum Usus in Repub. Christ. Deo + displiceat? Leipsiĉ, 1709, 4to.</p> + + <p>Conrad (Dietericus). De Campanis. Germanice.</p> + + <p>* Eggers (Nic.). Dissertatio de Campanarum Materia et Forma.</p> + + <p>Eggers (Nic.). Dissertatio de Origine et Nomine Campanarum. Ienĉ, + 1684.</p> + + <p>Eschenwecker. De eo quod justum est circa Campanas.</p> + + <p>Fesc (Laberanus du). Des Cloches. 12mo., Paris, 1607-19.</p> + + <p>* Goezii. Diatriba de Baptismo Campanarum, Lubecĉ, 1612.</p> + + <p>Grimaud (Gilb.). Liturgie Sacrée, avec un Traité des Cloches. Lyons, + 1666, 4to. Pavia, 1678, 12mo.</p> + + <p>* Hilschen (Gio.). Dissertatio de Campanis Templorum. Leipsiĉ, + 1690.</p> + + <p>* Homberg (Gas.). De Superstitiosis Campanarum pulsibus, ad eliciendas + preces, quibus placentur fulmina, excogitatis. 4to., Frankfortiĉ, + 1577.</p> + + <p>Lazzarini (Alex.). De vario Tintinnabulorum Usu apud veteres Hebrĉos + et Ethnicos. 2 vols. 8vo., Romĉ, 1822.</p> + + <p>Ludovici (G. F.). De eo quod justum est circa Campanas. Halĉ, 1708 et + 1739.</p> + + <p>Magii (Hier.). De Tintinnabulis, cum notis F. Swertii et Jungermanni. + 12mo., Amstelodamĉ et Hanoviĉ, 1608, 1664, 1689. "A learned + work."—Parr.</p> + + <p>Martène. De Ritibus Ecclesiĉ.</p> + + <p>* Medelii (Geo.). An Campanarum Sonitus Fulmina, Tonitura, et Fulgura + impedire possit. 4to. 1703.</p> + + <p>Mitzler (B. A.). De Campanis.</p> + + <p>* Nerturgii (Mar.). Campanula Penitentiĉ. 4to., Dresden, 1644.</p> + + <p>Paciaudi. Dissertazione su due Campane di Capua. Neapoli, 1750.</p> + + <p>Pacichelli (Ab. J. B.). De Tintinnabulo Nolano Lucubratio Autumnalis. + Neapoli, 1693. Dr. Parr calls this "a great curiosity."</p> + + <p>Pagii. De Campanis Dissertatio.</p> + + <p>Rocca (Ang.). De Campanis Commentarius. 4to. Romĉ, 1612.</p> + + <p>* Reimanni (Geo. Chris.). De Campanis earumque Origine, vario Usu, + Abusu, et Juribus. 4to., Isenaci, 1769.</p> + + <p>Saponti (G. M.). Notificazione per la solenne Benedizione della nuova + Campana da Collocarsi nella Metropolitana di S. Lorenzo. Geneva, + 1750.</p> + + <p>Seligmann (Got. Fr). De Campana Urinatoria. Leipsiĉ, 1677, 4to.</p> + + <p>* Stockflet (Ar.). Dissertatio de Campanarum Usu. 4to., Altdorfii, + 1665, 1666.</p> + + <p>* Storius (G. M.). De Campanis Templorum. 4to., Leipsiĉ, 1692.</p> + + <p>Swertius (Fran.).</p> + + <p>Thiers (G. B.). Des Cloches. 12mo., Paris, 1602, 1619.</p> + + <p>Thiers (J. B). Traité des Cloches. Paris, 1721.</p> + + <p>* Walleri (Ar.). De Campanis et prĉcipuis earum Usibus. 8vo. Holmiĉ, + 1694.</p> + + <p>Willietti (Car.) Ragguaglio delle Campane di Viliglia. 4to., Roma, + 1601.</p> + + <p>Zech (F. S.). De Campanis et Instrumentis Musicis.</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 241 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page241"></a>{241}</span></p> + + <p>Without enumerating any Encyclopĉdias (in most of which may be found + very able and interesting articles on the subject), in the following + works the best treatises for all <i>practical</i> purposes will be + found:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Pirotechnia, del Vannuccio Biringuccio, nobile Senese, 1540, 1550, + 1559, 1678. There is a French translation of it by Jasper Vincent, + 1556—1572, 1627. The tenth chapter is about bells. Magius refers to + it in these words:—"In illa, perscriptum in Italico Sermone, et + delineatum quisque reperiet, quicquid ad artem ediscendam conducit, usque + adeo, ut et quo pacto, Campanĉ in turribus constituantur ac moveantur, + edoceat, optimeque figuris delineatis commonstret."</p> + + <p>Ducange in Glossario, in vocibus Ĉs, Campana, Codon, Cloca, Crotalum, + Glogga, Lebes, Nola, Petasus, Signum, Squilla, Tintinnabulum.</p> + + <p>Mersenni (F. M.). Harmonicorum Libri XII. Paris, 1629, 1643. (Liber + Quartus de Campanis.) This and Biringuccio contain all the art and + mystery of bell-casting, &c. &c.</p> + + <p>Puffendorff. De Campanarum Usu in obitu Parochiani publice + significando, in ejus Observationibus. Jur. Univers., p. iv. No. 104.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>And now with regard to our English authors; their productions seem to + be confined chiefly to the <i>Art of Ringing</i>, as the following list + will show:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Tintinalogia, or the Art of Ringing improved, by T. W[hite]. 18mo., + 1668. This is the book alluded to by Dr. Burney, in his <i>History of + Music</i>, vol. iv. p. 413.</p> + + <p>Campanalogia, or the Art of Ringing improved. 18mo., 1677. This was by + <i>Fabian Steadman</i>.</p> + + <p>Campanalogia, improved by I. D. and C. M., London scholars. 18mo., + 1702.</p> + + <p>Ditto 2nd edition 18mo., 1705.</p> + + <p>Ditto 3rd edition 18mo., 1733.</p> + + <p>Ditto 4th edition 18mo., 1753.</p> + + <p>Ditto 5th edition, by J. Monk. 18mo., 1766.</p> + + <p>The School of Recreation, or Gentleman's Tutor in various Exercises, + one of which is <i>Ringing</i>. 1684.</p> + + <p>Clavis Campanalogia, by Jones, Reeves, and Blackmore. 12mo., 1788. + Reprinted in 1796 and 1800?</p> + + <p>The Ringer's True Guide, by S. Beaufoy. 12mo., 1804.</p> + + <p>The Campanalogia, or Universal Instructor in the Art of Ringing, by + William Shipway. 12mo., 1816.</p> + + <p>Elements of Campanalogia, by H. Hubbard. 12mo., 1845.</p> + + <p>The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses, by Rev. A. Gatty. 12mo., + 1847.</p> + + <p>Ditto, enlarged. 1848.</p> + + <p>Blunt's Use and Abuse of Church Bells. 8vo., 1846.</p> + + <p>Ellacombe's Practical Remarks on Belfries and Ringers. 8vo., 1850.</p> + + <p>Ellacombe's Paper on Bells, with Illustrations, in the Report of + Bristol Architectural Society. 1850.</p> + + <p>Croome's Few Words on Bells and Bell-ringing. 8vo., 1851.</p> + + <p>Woolf's Address on the Science of Campanology. Tract. 1851.</p> + + <p>Plain Hints to Bell-ringers. No. 47. of <i>Parochial Tracts</i>. + 1852?</p> + + <p>The Art of Change-ringing, by B. Thackrah. 12mo., 1852.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>To these may be added, as single poetical productions,</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>The Legend of the Limerick Bell Founder, published in the <i>Dublin + University Mag.</i>, Sept. 1847.</p> + + <p>The Bell, by Schiller.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Perhaps some courteous reader of "N. & Q." may be able to correct + any error there may be in the list, or to add to it.</p> + + <p>There is a curious collection of MSS. on the subject by the late Mr. + Osborn, among the <i>Additional MSS.</i>, Nos. 19,368 and 19,373.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. T. Ellacombe.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Rectory, Clyst St. George.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>INEDITED LETTER OF LORD NELSON.</h3> + + <p>I have in my possession a long letter written by Lord Nelson, sixteen + days before the battle of Trafalgar, to the Right Hon. Lord Barham, who + was at that time First Lord of the Admiralty. As an autograph collector, + I prize it much; and I think that the readers of "N. & Q." might be + glad to see it. It has not yet, as far as I am aware, been published:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Victory, Oct. 5th, 1805.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>My Dear Lord,</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>On Monday the French and Spanish ships took their troops on board + which had been landed on their arrival, and it is said that they mean to + sail the first fresh Levant wind. And as the Carthagena ships are ready, + and, when seen a few days ago, had their topsail yards hoisted up, this + looks like a junction. The position I have taken for this month, is from + sixteen to eighteen leagues west of Cadiz; for, although it is most + desirable that the fleet should be well up in the easterly winds, yet I + must guard against being caught with a westerly wind near Cadiz: for a + fleet of ships, with so many three-deckers, would inevitably be forced + into the Straits, and then Cadiz would be perfectly free for them to come + out with a westerly wind—as they served Lord Keith in the late war. + I am most anxious for the arrival of frigates: less than eight, with the + brigs, &c., as we settled, I find are absolutely inadequate for this + service and to be with the fleet; and Spartel, Cape Cantin, or Blanco, + and the Salvages, must be watched by fast-sailing vessels, in case any + squadron should escape.</p> + + <p>I have been obliged to send six sail of the line to water and get + stores, &c. at Tetuan and Gibraltar; for if I did not begin, I should + very <!-- Page 242 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page242"></a>{242}</span>soon be obliged to take the whole fleet + into the Straits. I have twenty-three sail with me, and should they come + out, I shall immediately bring them to battle; but although I should not + doubt of spoiling any voyage they may attempt, yet I hope for the arrival + of the ships from England, that, as an enemy's fleet, they may be + annihilated. Your Lordship may rely upon every exertion from</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Your very faithful and obedient servant,</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span class="sc">Nelson and Bronte.</span></p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>I find the Guerrier is reduced to the command of a Lieutenant; I hope + your Lordship will allow me to seek Sir William Bolton, and to place him + in the first vacant frigate; he will be acting in a ship when the + Captains go home with Sir Robert Calder. This will much oblige + <i>me</i>.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p> </p> + + <p>If any valuable autographs come into my possession hereafter, you may + expect to receive some account of them.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Eustace W. Jacob.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Crawley, Winchester.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> + + <p><i>Herefordshire Folk Lore.</i>—Pray make an imperishable Note + of the following concentration of Herefordshire folk lore, extracted from + the "Report of the Secretary of the Diocesan Board of Education," as + published in <i>The Times</i> of Jan. 28, 1854:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The observation of unlucky days and seasons is by no means unusual. + The phases of the moon are regarded with great respect: in one medicine + may be taken; in another it is advisable to kill a pig; over the doors of + many houses may be found twigs placed crosswise, and never suffered to + lose their cruciform position; and the horse-shoe preserves its old + station on many a stable-door. Charms are devoutly believed in. A ring + made from a shilling offered at the Communion is an undoubted cure for + fits; hair plucked from the crop of an ass's shoulder, and woven into a + chain, to be put round a child's neck, is powerful for the same purpose; + and the hand of a corpse applied to a neck is believed to disperse a wen. + Not long since, a boy was met running hastily to a neighbour's for some + holy water, as the only hope of preserving a sick pig. The 'evil eye,' so + long dreaded in uneducated countries, has its terrors amongst us; and if + a person of ill life be suddenly called away, there are generally some + who hear his 'tokens,' or see his ghost. There exists, besides, the + custom of communicating deaths to hives of bees, in the belief that they + invariably abandon their owners if the intelligence be withheld."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>May not any one exclaim:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cĉca!</p> + <p>Qualibus in tenebris vitĉ, quantisque periclis</p> + <p>Degitur hoc ĉvi, quodcunque est!"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">S. G. C.</p> + + <p><i>Greenock Fair.</i>—A very curious custom existed in this + town, and in the neighbouring town of Port-Glasgow, within forty years; + it has now entirely disappeared. I cannot but look upon it as a last + remnant of the troublous times when arms were in all hands, and property + liable to be openly and forcibly seized by bands of armed men. This + custom was, that the whole trades of the town, in the dresses of their + guilds, with flags and music, each man armed, made a grand rendezvous at + the place where the fair was to be held, and with drawn swords and array + of guns and pistols, surrounded the booths, and greeted the baillie's + announcement by tuck of drum, "that Greenock fair was open," by a + tremendous shout, and a straggling fire from every serviceable barrel in + the crowd, and retired, bands playing and flags flying, &c., home. + Does any such <i>wappenschau</i> occur in England on such occasions + now?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. D. Lamont.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Greenock.</p> + + <p><i>Dragons' Blood.</i>—A peculiar custom exists amongst a class, + with whom unfortunately the schoolmaster has not yet come very much in + contact, when supposed to be deserted or slighted by a lover, of + procuring dragons' blood; which being carefully wrapped in paper, is + thrown on the fire, and the following lines said:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"May he no pleasure or profit see,</p> + <p>Till he comes back again to me."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">B. J. S.</p> + + <p><i>Charm for the Ague.—</i></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Cut a few hairs from the cross marked on a donkey's shoulders. + Enclose these hairs in a small bag, and wear it on your breast, next to + the skin. If you keep your purpose secret, a speedy cure will be the + result."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The foregoing charm was told to me a short time since by the agent of + a large landed proprietor in a fen county. My informant gravely added, + that he had known numerous instances of this charm being practised, and + that in every case a cure had been effected. From my own knowledge, I can + speak of another charm for the ague, in which the fen people put great + faith, viz. a spider, covered with dough, and taken as a pill.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Cuthert Bede, B.A.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PSALMS FOR THE CHIEF MUSICIAN—HEBREW +MUSIC.</h3> + + <p>The words <span lang="he" class="heb" title="LMNTSCH BNGYNWT" ><bdo + dir="rtl">למנצח + בנגינות</bdo></span>‎, + at the head of Psalms iv., liv., lv., lxvii., and lxxvi., are rendered in + the Septuagint and Vulgate <span title="eis to telos" class="grk" + >εἰς τὸ + τέλος</span>, <i>in finem</i>, as if + they had read <span lang="he" class="heb" title="LANETSACH" ><bdo + dir="rtl">לָנֶצֲח</bdo></span>‎, + omitting the <span lang="he" class="heb" title="M" ><bdo + dir="rtl">ם</bdo></span>‎ formative. The Syriac and Arabic + versions omit this superscription altogether, from ignorance of the <!-- + Page 243 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page243"></a>{243}</span>musical sense of the words. The Chaldee + reads <span lang="he" class="heb" title="LSHBCH' `L CHNGYT'" ><bdo + dir="rtl">לשבחא על + חנגיתא</bdo></span>‎, "to be + sung on the pipe." The word <span lang="he" class="heb" title="LMNTSCH" + ><bdo dir="rtl">למנצח</bdo></span>‎ + is (from <span lang="he" class="heb" title="NTSCH" ><bdo + dir="rtl">נצח</bdo></span>‎, to overcome, excel, + or accomplish) a performance, and Aquila translates the entire title, + <span title="tôi nikopoiôi en psalmois melôdêma tôi Dauid" class="grk" + >τῷ νικοποιῷ + ἐν ψαλμοῖς + μελώδημα τῷ + Δαυιδ</span>; and Jerome, <i>Victori in + Canticis, Psalmus David</i>. But Symmachus, <span title="epinikios dia psaltêriôn ôidê" class="grk" + >ἐπινίκιος + διὰ + ψαλτηρίων + ᾠδή</span>; and Theodotius, <span title="eis to nikos humnois" class="grk" + >εἰς τὸ + νῖκος + ὕμνοις</span>, who must have read <span + lang="he" class="heb" title="LNTSCH" ><bdo + dir="rtl">לנצח</bdo></span>‎. The best + reading is that of the present text, <span lang="he" class="heb" + title="LMNTSCH" ><bdo + dir="rtl">למנצח</bdo></span>‎, which + Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi render chief singer, or leader of the band + (=<i>moderatorem chori musici</i>), as appropriate for a psalm to sung + and played in divine service. Therefore the proper translation is, "For + the leading performer upon the neginoth." The neginoth appear from the + Greek translations, <span title="dia psaltêriôn" class="grk" + >δὶα + ψαλτηρίων</span> and <span + title="en psalmois" class="grk">ἐν + ψαλμοῖς</span> (<span + title="psallein" class="grk" + >ψάλλειν</span> = playing on + strings). and from its root, <span lang="he" class="heb" title="NGN" + ><bdo dir="rtl">נגן</bdo></span>‎, <i>to + strike</i>, to be stringed instruments, struck by the fingers or + hand.</p> + + <p>The words <span lang="he" class="heb" title="LMNTSCH 'L HNCHYLWT" + ><bdo dir="rtl">למנצח אל + הנחילות</bdo></span>‎ at + the head of Psalm v. (for this is the only one so superscribed) should, + perhaps, be read with <span lang="he" class="heb" title="`L" ><bdo + dir="rtl">על</bdo></span>‎ instead of <span lang="he" + class="heb" title="'L" ><bdo + dir="rtl">אל</bdo></span>‎ meaning, "For the leading + performer on the nehiloth." The nehiloth appear from the root <span + lang="he" class="heb" title="CHLL" ><bdo + dir="rtl">חלל</bdo></span>‎, <i>to bore + through</i>, and in Piel, <i>to play the flute</i>, to be the same + instruments as the <i>ná-y</i> of the Arabs, similar to the English + flute, blown, not transversely as the German flute, but at the end, as + the oboe. But the Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotius translate + <span title="huper tês klêronomousês" class="grk" + >ὑπερ τῆς + κληρονομούσης</span>: + and hence the Vulgate <i>pro ea, quĉ hereditatem consequitur</i>; and + Jerome, <i>pro hereditatibus</i>. Suidas explains <span + title="klêronomousa" class="grk" + >κληρονομοῦσα</span> + by <span title="ekklêsia" class="grk" + >ἐκκλησία</span>, which + is the sense of the Syriac.</p> + + <p>Psalm vi. is headed <span lang="he" class="heb" title="BNGYNWT `L HSHMYNYT" + ><bdo dir="rtl">בנגינות + על + השמינית</bdo></span>‎, + and Psalm vi. <span lang="he" class="heb" title="`L SHMYNYT" ><bdo + dir="rtl">על + שמינית</bdo></span>‎, without + the "neginoth;" and the "sheminith" is also mentioned (Chron. xv. 21.). + The Chaldee and Jarchi translate "Harps of eight strings." The + Septuagint, Vulgate, Aquila, and Jerome, <span title="huper tês ogdoês" class="grk" + >ὑπὲρ τῆς + ὀγδοής</span>, appear also to + have understood an instrument of eight strings.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. J. Buckton.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Birmingham.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h3>Minor Notes.</h3> + + <p>"<i>Garble.</i>"—<span class="sc">Mr. C. Mansfield + Ingleby</span> has called attention to a growing corruption in the use of + the word "eliminate," and I trust he may be able to check its progress. + The word <i>garble</i> has met with very similar usage, but the corrupt + meaning is now the only one in which it is ever used, and it would be + hopeless to try and restore it to its original sense.</p> + + <p>The original sense of "to <i>garble</i>" was a good one, not a bad + one; it meant a selection of the good, and a discarding of the bad parts + of anything: its present meaning is exactly the reverse of this. By the + statute 1 Rich. III. c. 11., it is provided that no bow-staves shall be + sold "ungarbled:" that is (as Sir E. Coke explains it), until the good + and sufficient be severed from the bad and insufficient. By statute 1 + Jac. I. c. 19., a penalty is imposed on the sale of spices and drugs not + "garbled;" and an officer called the <i>garbler</i> of spices is + authorised to enter shops, and view the spices and drugs, "and to + <i>garble</i> and make clean the same." Coke derives the word either from + the French <i>garber</i>, to make fine, neat, clean; or from + <i>cribler</i>, and that from <i>cribrare</i>, to sift, &c. (4 Inst. + 264.)</p> + + <p>It is easy to see how the corruption of this word has taken place; but + it is not the less curious to compare the opposite meanings given to it + at different times.</p> + + <p class="author">E. S. T. T.</p> + + <p><i>Deaths in the Society of Friends, 1852-3.</i>—In "N. & + Q.," Vol. viii., p. 488., appeared a communication on the great longevity + of persons at Cleveland in Yorkshire. I send you for comparison a + statement of the deaths in the Society of Friends in Great Britain and + Ireland, from the year 1852 to 1853, the accuracy of which may be + depended on; from which it appears that one in three have attained from + 70 to 100 years, the average being about 74½; and that thirty-seven + attain from 80 to 90, and eight from 90 to 100. It would be useful to + ascertain to what the longevity of the inhabitants of Cleveland may be + attributed, whether to the situation where they reside, or to their + social habits.</p> + + <p>The total number of the Society was computed to be from 19,000 to + 20,000, showing the deaths to be rather more than 1½ per cent. per annum. + Great numbers are total abstainers from strong drink.</p> + +<table class="allbctr" summary="Deaths in the Society of Friends" title="Deaths in the Society of Friends"> +<tr><td class="allb" style="text-align:center"> Ages. </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:center"> Male. </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:center"> Female. </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:center"> Total. </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> Under 1 year </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 13 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 8 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 21 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> Under 5 years </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 18 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 13 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 31 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> From 5 to 10 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 4 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 2 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 6 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 10 to 15 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 5 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 6 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 11 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 15 to 20 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 5 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 3 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 8 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 20 to 30 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 7 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 10 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 17 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 30 to 40 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 8 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 8 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 16 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 40 to 50 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 7 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 14 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 21 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 50 to 60 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 16 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 14 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 30 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 60 to 70 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 26 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 34 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 60 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 70 to 80 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 20 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 46 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 66 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 80 to 90 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 13 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 24 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 37 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="vertb"> ,, 90 to 100 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 2 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 6 </td><td class="vertb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 8 </td></tr> +<tr><td class="allb"> All ages </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 144 </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 188 </td><td class="allb" style="text-align:right; padding-right:1em;"> 332 </td></tr> +</table> + + <p class="author">W. C.</p> + + <p class="address">Plymouth.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 244 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page244"></a>{244}</span></p> + + <p><i>The Eastern Question.</i>—The following extract from + <i>Tatler</i>, No. 155., April 6, 1710, appears remarkable, considering + the events of the present day:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The chief politician of the Bench was a great assertor of paradoxes. + He told us, with a seeming concern, 'that by some news he had lately read + from Muscovy, it appeared to him there was a storm gathering in the Black + Sea, which might in time do hurt to the naval forces of this nation.' To + this he added, 'that, for his part, he could not wish to see the Turk + driven out of Europe, which he believed could not but be prejudicial to + our woollen manufacture.' He then told us, 'that he looked upon those + extraordinary revolutions which had lately happened in those parts of the + world, to have risen chiefly from two persons who were not much talked + of; and those,' says he, 'are Prince Menzicoff and the Duchess of + Mirandola.' He backed his assertions with so many broken hints, and such + a show of depth and wisdom, that we gave ourselves up to his + opinions."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. B. Relton.</span></p> + + <p><i>Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.</i>—It is + remarkable (and yet it has not been noticed, I believe, by his + biographers) that Dean Swift was suspended from his degree of B.A. in + Trinity College, Dublin, for exciting disturbances within the college, + and insulting the junior dean. He and another were sentenced by the Board + to ask pardon publicly of the junior dean, on their knees, as having + offended more atrociously than the rest. These facts afford the true + solution of Swift's animosity towards the University of Dublin, and + account for his determination to take the degree of M.A. at Oxford; and + the solution receives confirmation from this, that the junior dean, for + insulting whom he was punished, was the same Mr. Owen Lloyd (afterwards + professor of divinity and Dean of Down) whom Swift has treated with so + much severity in his account of Lord Wharton.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Abhba.</span></p> + + <p><i>English Literature.</i>—Some French writer (Victor Hugo, I + believe) has said that English literature consists of four distinct + literatures, English, American, Scottish, and Irish, each having a + different character. Has this view of our literature been taken, and + exhibited in all its aspects, by any English writer and if so, by + whom?</p> + + <p class="author">J. M.</p> + + <p class="address">Oxford.</p> + + <p><i>Irish Legislation.</i>—I have met with the following + statement: is it to be received as true? In May, 1784, a bill, intended + to limit the privilege of franking, was sent from Ireland for the royal + sanction; and in it was a clause enacting that any member who, from + illness or other cause, should be unable to write, might authorise some + other person to frank for him, provided that on the back of the letter so + franked the member gave at the same time, under his hand, a full + certificate of his inability to write.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Abhba.</span></p> + + <p><i>Anecdote of George IV. and the Duke of York.</i>—The + following letter was written in a boy's round hand, and sent with some + China cups:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Dear Old Mother Batten,</p> + + <p>Prepare a junket for us, as Fred. and I are coming this evening. I + send you these cups, which we have stolen from the old woman [the queen]. + Don't you say anything about it.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span class="sc">George.</span></p> + </div> + </div> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The above was found in the bottom of one of the cups, which were sold + for five guineas on the death of Mr. Nichols, who married Mother Batten. + The cups are now in possession of a Mr. Toby, No. 10. York Buildings, St. + Sidwells, Exeter.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Julia R. Bockett.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Southcote Lodge.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + +<h3> +ANONYMOUS WORKS: "POSTHUMOUS PARODIES," +"ADVENTURES IN THE MOON," ETC. +</h3> + + <p>A remote correspondent finds all help to fail him from bibliographers + and cotemporary reviewers in giving any clue to the authorship of the + works described below. But he has been conversant enough with the "N. + & Q." to perceive that no Query, that he is aware, has yet been + started in its pages involving a problem, for which somebody among its + readers and contributors has not proved a match. Encouraged thereby, he + tenders the three following titles, in the full faith that his curiosity, + which is pretty strong, will not have been transmitted over the waste of + waters but to good result.</p> + + <p>1. <i>Posthumous Parodies, and other Pieces</i>, by several of our + most celebrated poets, but not before published in any former edition of + their works: John Miller, London, 12mo., 1814. This contains some twenty + imitations or over, of the more celebrated minor poems, all of a + political cast, and breathing strongly the tone of the anti-Jacobin + verse; executed for the most part, and several of them in particular, + with great felicity. Among that sort of <i>jeux d'esprit</i> they hardly + take second place to <i>The Knife Grinder</i>, the mention of which + reminds me to add that it is manifest enough, from half-a-dozen places in + the volume, that Canning is the "magnus Apollo" of the satirist. The + final piece (in which the writer drops his former vein) is written in the + spirit of sad earnest, in odd contrast with the preceding <i>facetiĉ</i>, + and betokening, in some lines, a disappointed man. Yet, strange to tell, + through all the range of British criticism of that year, there is an + utter unconsciousness of its existence. Whether there be another copy on + this side the Atlantic, besides the one which enables me to <!-- Page 245 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page245"></a>{245}</span>make these few + comments, your correspondent greatly doubts. One living person there is + on the other side, it is believed, who could throw light on this + question, if these lines should be so fortunate as to meet his eye; since + he is referred to, like many others, by initials and terminals, if not in + full—Mr. John Wilson Croker.</p> + + <p>2. <i>Adventures in the Moon and other Worlds</i>: Longman & Co., + sm. 8vo., 1836. Of this work, a friend of the writer (who has but + partially read it as yet himself), of keen discernment, says: "It is a + work of very marked character. The author is an uncommonly skilful and + practical writer, a philosophical thinker, and a scholar familiar with + foreign literature and wide reaches of learning. He has great ingenuity + and fancy withal; so that he is at the same time exceedingly amusing, and + suggestive of weighty and subtle thoughts." This, too, is neglected by + all the reviews.</p> + + <p>3. <i>Lights, Shadows, and Reflections of Whigs and Tories</i>: Lond. + 12mo., 1841. This is a retrospective survey of the several + administrations of George III. from 1760 (his accession) to the regency + in 1811; evincing much political insight, with some spirited portraits, + and indicative both of a close observation of public measures and events, + and of personal connexion or intercourse with men in high place. There is + a notice of this in the <i>London Spectator</i> of 1841 (May 29th), and + in the old <i>Monthly Review</i>; but neither, it is plain, had the + author's secret.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Harvardiensis.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Cambridge, Massachusetts, N.E.</p> + + <p>P.S.—Two articles of recent time in the <i>London Quarterly + Review</i>, the writer would fain trace to their source; "The Life and + Correspondence of Robert Southey," edited by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert + Southey, No. 175. (1851), and "Physiognomy," No. 179. (1852), having + three works as the caption of the article, Sir Charles Bell's celebrated + work being one.</p> + +<h3>BLIND MACKEREL.</h3> + + <p>Can any of your numerous contributors, who may be lovers of + ichthyology, inform me whether or not the mackerel is blind when it first + arrives on our coasts? I believe it to be blind, and for the following + reasons:—A few years ago, while beating up channel early in June, + on our homeward-bound voyage from the West Indies, some of the other + passengers and myself were endeavouring to kill time by fishing for + mackerel, but without success.</p> + + <p>When the pilot came on board and saw what we were about, he laughed at + us, and said, "Oh, gentlemen, you will not take them with the hook, + because the fish is blind." We laughed in our turn, thinking he took us + for flat-fish, and wished to amuse himself at our expense. Observing this + he said, "I will convince you that it is so," and brought from his boat + several mackerel he had taken by net. He then pointed out a film over the + eye, which he said prevented the fish seeing when it first made our + coast, and explained that this film gradually disappeared, and that + towards the middle of June the eye was perfectly clear, and that the fish + could then take the bait.</p> + + <p>I have watched this fish for some years past, and have invariably + observed this film quite over the eye in the early part of the mackerel + season, and that it gradually disappears until the eye is left quite + clear. This film appears like an ill-cleared piece of calf's-foot jelly + spread over the eye, but does not strike you as a natural part of the + fish, but rather as something extraneous. I have also remarked that when + the fish is boiled, that this patch separates, and then resembles a piece + of discoloured white of egg. This film may be observed by any one who + takes the trouble of looking at the eye of the mackerel.</p> + + <p>I have looked into every book on natural history I could get hold of, + and in none is the slightest notice taken of this; therefore I suppose my + conclusion as to its blindness is wrong; but I do not consider this to be + conclusive, as all we can learn from books is, "<i>Scomber</i> is the + mackerel genus, and is too well known to require description." I believe + less is known about fish than any other animals; and should you think + this question on natural history worthy a place in your "N. & Q.," I + will feel obliged by your giving it insertion.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">An Odd Fish.</span></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Original Words of old Scotch Airs.</i>—Can any one tell me + where the original words of many fine old Scotch airs are to be found? + The wretched verses of Allan Ramsay, and others of the same school, are + adapted to the "Yellow-haired Laddie," "Ettrick Banks," "The Bush aboon + Traquair," "Mary Scott," and hundreds of others. There must exist old + words to many of these airs, which at least will possess some local + characteristics, and be a blessed change from the "nymphs" and "swains," + the "Stephens" and "Lythias," which now pollute and degrade them. Any + information on this subject will be received most thankfully. I + particularly wish to recover some old words to the air of "Mary Scott." + The only verse I remember is this,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Mary's black, and Mary's white,</p> + <p>Mary is the king's delight;</p> + <p>The king's delight, and the prince's marrow,</p> + <p>Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">L. M. M. R.</p> + + <p><i>Royal Salutes.</i>—When the Queen arrives at any time in + Edinburgh after sunset, it has been <!-- Page 246 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page246"></a>{246}</span>remarked that the + Castle guns are never fired in salute, in consequence, it is said, of the + existence of a general order which forbids the firing of salutes after + sunset. Is there such an order in existence? I would farther ask why + twenty-one was the number fixed for a royal salute?</p> + + <p class="author">S.</p> + + <p><i>"The Negro's Complaint."</i>—Who was the author of this short + poem, to be found in all the earlier collection of poetry for the use of + schools? It begins thus:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Wide o'er the tremulous sea,</p> + <p class="i1">The moon spread her mantle of light;</p> + <p>And the gale gently dying away,</p> + <p class="i1">Breath'd soft on the bosom of night."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Stephens.</span></p> + + <p>"<i>The Cow Doctor.</i>"—Who is the author of the following + piece?—<i>The Cow Doctor</i>, a Comedy in Three Acts, 1810. + Dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Pennington, Rector of Thorley, Herts, and + Kingsdown, Kent; author of <i>Continental Excursions</i>, &c.</p> + + <p>This satire is addressed to the Friends of Vaccination.<a + name="footnotetag1" href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></p> + + <p class="author">S. N.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a + href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p>On the title-page of a copy of this comedy now before us is written, + "With the author's compliments to Dr. Lettsom;" and on the fly-leaf + occurs the following riddle in MS.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Who is that learned man, who the secret disclos'd</p> + <p>Of a book that was printed before 'twas composed?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Answer.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>He is harder than iron, and as soft as a snail,</p> + <p>Has the head of a viper, and a file in his tail."—<span class="sc">Ed.</span></p> + </div> + </div> + +</div> + <p><i>Soomarokoff's</i> "<i>Demetrius.</i>"—Who translated the + following drama from the Russian?</p> + + <p><i>Demetrius</i>, a Tragedy, 8vo., 1806, translated by Eustaphiere. + This piece, which is a translation from a tragedy of Soomarokoff, one of + the most eminent dramatic authors of Russia, is said to be the first (and + I think it is still the only) Russian drama of which there is an English + translation.</p> + + <p class="author">S. N.</p> + + <p><i>Polygamy.</i>—1. Do the Jews at present, in any country, + practise polygamy? 2. If not, when and why was that practice discontinued + among them? 3. Is there any religious sect which forbids polygamy, + besides the Christians (and the Jews, if the Jews do forbid it)? 4. Was + Polygamy permitted among the early Christians? Paul's direction to + Timothy, that a bishop should be "the husband of one wife," seems to show + that it was; though I am aware that the phrase has been interpreted + otherwise. 5. On what ground has polygamy become forbidden among + Christians? I am not aware that it is directly forbidden by + Scripture.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Stylites.</span></p> + + <p><i>Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Longobardic, and Old English + Letters.</i>—I would be glad to know the earliest date in which the + Irish language has been discovered inscribed on stone or in manuscript; + also the earliest date in which the Anglo-Saxon, Longobardic, and Old + English letter has been known in England and Ireland.</p> + + <p class="author">E. F.</p> + + <p class="address">Youghal.</p> + + <p><i>Description of Battles.</i>—Judging from my own experience, + historical details of battles are comparatively unintelligible to + non-military readers. Now that, unhappily, we shall probably be compelled + to "hear of battles," would not some of our enterprising publishers do + well to furnish to the readers of history and of the bulletins, a popular + "Guide to the Battle Field," drawn up some talented military officer? It + must contain demonstratively clear diagrams, and such explanations of all + that needs to be known, as an officer would give, on the spot, to his + nonprofessional friend. The effects of eminences, rivers, roads, woods, + marshes, &c., should be made plain; in short, nothing should be + omitted which is necessary to render an account of a battle intelligible + to ordinary readers, instead of being, as is too often the case, a mere + chaotic assemblage of words.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thinks I to Myself.</span></p> + + <p><i>Do Martyrs always feel Pain?</i>—Is it not possible that an + exalted state of feeling—approaching perhaps to the mesmeric + state—may be attained, which will render the religious or political + martyr insensible to pain? It would be agreeable to think that the pangs + of martyrdom were ever thus alleviated. It is certainly possible, by a + strong mental effort, to keep pain in subjection during a dental + operation. A firmly fixed tooth, under a bungling operator, may be + wrenched from the jaw without pain to the patient, if he will only + determine not to feel. At least, I know of one such case, and that the + effort was very exhausting. In the excitement of battle, wounds are often + not felt. One would be glad to hope that Joan of Arc was insensible to + the flames which consumed her: and that the recovered nerve which enabled + Cranmer to submit his right hand to the fire, raised him above + suffering.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Gatty.</span></p> + + <p><i>Carronade.</i>—What is the derivation of the term + <i>carronade</i>, applied to pieces of ordnance shorter and thicker in + the chamber than usual? Here the idea is that they took their name from + the Carron foundries, where they were cast. In the early years of the old + war-time, there were carron pieces or carron guns, and only some + considerable time thereafter carronades. How does this stand? and is + there any likelihood of the folk story being true?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. D. Landry.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Greenock.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 247 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page247"></a>{247}</span></p> + + <p><i>Darcy, of Platten, co. Meath.</i>—It is on record that, in + the year 1486, the citizens of Dublin, encouraged by the Earl of Kildare + and the Archbishop, received Lambert Simnel, and actually crowned him + King of England and Ireland in Christ's Church; and that to make the + solemnity more imposing, they not only borrowed a crown for the occasion + from the head of the image of the Virgin that stood in the church + dedicated to her service at Dame's Gate, but carried the young impostor + on the shoulders of "a monstrous man, one Darcy, of Platten, in the + county of Meath."</p> + + <p>Did this "monstrous man" leave any descendants? And if so, is there + any representative, and where, at the present day? Platten has long since + passed into other hands.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Abhba.</span></p> + + <p><i>Dorset.</i>—In Byrom's MS. Journal, about to be printed for + the Chetham Society, I find the following entry:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"May 18, 1725. I found the effect of last night drinking that foolish + Dorset, which was pleasant enough, but did not at all agree with me, for + it made me very stupid all day."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Query, What is Dorset?</p> + + <p class="author">R. P.</p> + + <p><i>"Vanitatem observare."</i>—Can any of your readers explain + the following extract from the Council of Ancyra, <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 314? I quote from a Latin translation:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Mulieribus quoque Christianis non liceat in suis lanificiis vanitatem + observare: sed Deum invocent adjutorem, qui eis sapientiam texendi + donavit."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>What is meant by "vanitatem observare?"</p> + + <p class="author">R. H. G.</p> + + <p><i>King's Prerogative.</i>—A writer in the <i>Edinburgh + Review</i>, vol. lxxiv. p. 77., asserts, on the authority of Blackstone + (but he does not refer to the volume and page of the <i>Commentaries</i>, + and I have in vain sought for the passages), that it is to <i>this + day</i> a branch of the king's prerogative, at the death of <i>every + bishop</i>, to have his kennel of hounds, or a compensation in lieu of + it. Does the writer mean, and is it the fact, that if a bishop die + without having a kennel of hounds, his executors are to pay the king a + compensation in lieu thereof? And if it is, what is the amount of that + compensation? Is it merely nominal? I can understand the king claiming a + bishop's kennel of hounds or compensation in feudal times, when bishops + were hunters (vide Raine's <i>Auckland Castle</i>, a work of great merit, + and abounding with much curious information); but to say, to <i>this + day</i> it is a branch of the king's prerogative, is an insult alike to + our bishops and to religious practices in the nineteenth century. Of + hunting bishops in feudal times, I beg to refer your readers, in addition + to Mr. Raine's work, to an article in the fifty-eighth volume of the + <i>Quarterly Review</i>, p. 433., for an extract from a letter of Peter + of Blois to Walter, Bishop of Rochester, who at the age of eighty was a + great hunter. Peter was shocked at his lordship's indulgence in so + unclerical a sport. It is obvious neither Peter nor the Pope could have + heard of the hunting Bishops of Durham.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fra. Mewburn.</span></p> + + <p><i>Quotations in Cowper.</i>—Can any of your correspondents + indicate the sources of the following quotations, which occur in Cowper's + Letters (Hayley's <i>Life and Letters of Cowper</i>, 4 vols., 1812)? In + vol. iii. p. 278. the following verses, referring to the Atonement, are + cited:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span title="'Tou de kath' haima rheen kai soi kai emoi kai adelphois" class="grk">"Τοῦ δὲ καθ' ἁῖμα ῥέεν καὶ σοὶ καὶ ἐμοὶ καὶ ἀδελφοῖς</span></p> + <p><span title=" Hêmeterois, autou sôzomenois thanatôi.'" class="grk"> Ἡμετέροις, αὐτοῦ σωζομένοις θανάτῳ."</span></p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>In vol. iv. p. 240. it is stated that Twining applied to Pope's + translation of Homer the Latin verse—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">L.</p> + + <p><i>Cawley the Regicide.</i>—Mr. Waylen, in his <i>History of + Marlborough</i>, just published, shows that Cawley of Chichester, the + regicide, has in Burke's <i>Commoners</i> been confounded with Cawley of + Burderop, in Wiltshire; and he adds, "the fact that a son of the real + regicide (the Rev. John Cawley) became a rector of the neighbouring + parish of Didcot," &c. has helped to confound the families. May I ask + what is the authority for stating that the Rev. J. Cawley was a son of + the regicide?</p> + + <p class="author">C. T. R.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h3>Minor Queries with Answers.</h3> + + <p><i>Dr. John Pocklington.</i>—Can any of your correspondents + oblige me with information respecting the family, or the armorial + bearings of Dr. John Pocklington? He wrote <i>Altare Christianum</i> and + <i>Sunday no Sabbath</i>. The parliament deprived him of his dignities + <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1640; and he died Nov. 14, 1642. Dr. + Pocklington descended from Ralph Pocklington, who, with his brother + Roger, followed Margaret of Anjou after the battle of Wakefield, <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 1460. He is said to have settled in the west, + where he lived to have three sons. The family is mentioned in connexion + with the county of York, as early as <span class="scac">A.D.</span> + 1253.</p> + + <p class="author">X. Y. Z.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[John Pocklington was first a scholar at Sidney Sussex College, B.D. + in 1621, and afterwards a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He + subsequently became Rector of Yelden in Bedfordshire, Vicar of Waresley + in Huntingdonshire, prebend of Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor; and + was also one of the chaplains to Charles I. "On the 15th May, 1611, the + Earl of Kent, with consent of Lord Harington, wrote to Sidney College to + dispense with Mr. Pocklington's holding a small living with cure of + souls. <!-- Page 248 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page248"></a>{248}</span>See the original letter in the college + treasury, box 1 or 6." (Cole's MSS., vol. xlvi. p.207.). Among the King's + Pamphlets in the British Museum is "The Petition and Articles exhibited + in Parliament against John Pocklington, D.D., Parson of Yelden, in + Bedfordshire, anno 1641." The petition "humbly sheweth, That John + Pocklington, D.D., Rector of the parish of Yelden in the county of + Bedford, Vicar of Waresley in the county of Huntingdon, Prebend of + Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor, hath been a chief author and + ringleader in all those innovations which have of late flowed into the + Church of England." The Articles exhibited (too long to quote) are + singularly illustrative of the ecclesiastical usages in the reign of + Charles I., and would make a curious appendix to the <span + class="sc">Rev. H. T. Ellacombe's</span> article at p. 257. of the + present Number. Having rendered himself obnoxious to the popular faction + by the publication of his <i>Altare Christianum</i> and <i>Sunday no + Sabbath</i>, the parliament that met on Nov. 3, 1640, ordered these two + works to be burnt by the common hangman in both the Universities, and in + the city of London. He died on November 14, and was buried Nov. 16, 1642, + in the churchyard of Peterborough Cathedral. On his monumental slab is + the following inscription: "John Pocklington, S.S. Theologia Doctor, + obiit Nov. 14, 1642." A copy of his will is in the British Museum + (Lansdown, 990, p. 74.). It is dated Sept. 6, 1642; and in it bequests + are made to his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth, and his sons John and + Oliver. His wife Anne was made sole executrix. He orders his body "to be + buried in Monk's churchyard, at the foot of those monks martyrs whose + monument is well known: let there be a fair stone with a great crosse cut + upon it laid on my grave." For notices of Dr. Pocklington, see Willis's + <i>Survey of Cathedrals</i>, vol. iii. p. 521.; Walker's <i>Sufferings of + the Clergy</i>, Part II. p. 95.; and Fuller's <i>Church History</i>, book + xi. cent. xvii. sect. 30-33.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Last Marquis of Annandale.</i>—1. When and where did he die? + 2. Any particulars regarding his history? 3. When and why was Lochwood, + the family residence, abandoned? 4. How many marquisses were there, and + were any of them men of any note in their day and generation?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Annandale.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The first marquis was William Johnstone, third Earl of Annandale and + Hartfell, who was advanced 4th June, 1701, to the Marquisate of + Annandale. He died at Bath, 14th January, 1721, and was succeeded by his + son James, who died 21st February, 1730. George, his half-brother, born + 29th May, 1720, was the third and last Marquis of Annandale. An inquest + from the Court of Chancery, 5th March, 1748, found this marquis a + lunatic, and incapable of governing himself and his estate, and that he + had been so from the 12th December, 1744. He died at Turnham Green on the + 29th April, 1792, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was buried + at Chiswick, 7th May following. (<i>Gent. Mag.</i>, May, 1792, p. 481.) + Since his decease the honours of the house of Annandale have remained + dormant, although they have been claimed by several branches of the + family. (Burke's <i>Extinct Peerages</i>.) Before the union of the two + crowns the Johnstones were frequently wardens of the west borders, and + were held in enthusiastic admiration for their exploits against the + English, the Douglasses, and other borderers. During the wars between the + two nations, they effectually suppressed the plunderers on the borders; + hence their device, a winged spur, and their motto, "Alight thieves all," + to denote their authority in commanding them to surrender. Lochwood, the + ancient seat of the Marquisses of Annandale, was inhabited till 1724, + three years after the death of the first marquis, when it was finally + abandoned by the family, and suffered gradually to fall into decay. In + <i>The New Statistical Account of Scotland</i>, vol. iv. p. 112., we read + "that the principal estate in the parish of Moffat has descended to Mr. + Hope Johnstone of Annandale, to whom it is believed the titles also, in + so far as claimed, of right belong, and whose restoration to the dormant + honours of the family would afford universal satisfaction in this part of + Scotland; because it is the general feeling that he has a right to them, + and that in his family they would not only be supported, but graced." + Some farther particulars of the three marquisses will be found in + Douglass' <i>Peerage of Scotland</i> (by Wood), vol. i. p. 75., and in + <i>The Scots Compendium</i>, edit. 1764, p. 151.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Heralds' College.</i>—Richard III. incorporated the College + of Arms in 1483, and that body consisted of three kings of arms, six + heralds, and four pursuivants. Can you inform me of the names of these + <i>first</i> members of that Heraldic body?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Escutcheon.</span></p> + + <p class="address">—— Vicarage.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Mark Noble, in his <i>History of the College of Arms</i>, p. 57., + remarks, "There is nothing more difficult than to obtain a true and + authentic series of the heralds, previous to the foundation of the + College of Arms, or, to speak more properly, the incorporation of that + body. Mr. Lant, Mr. Anstis, Mr. Edmondson, and other gentlemen, who had + the best opportunities, and whose industry was equal to their advantage, + have not been able to accomplish it; and from that time, especially in + Richard's reign, it is not practicable. Some idea may be formed of the + heraldic body at the commencement of this reign, by observing the names + of those who attended the funeral of Edward IV. Sandford and other + writers mention Garter, Clarenceux, Norroy, March, and Ireland, + <i>kings</i> at arms; Chester, Leicester, Gloucester, and Buckingham, + <i>heralds</i>; and Rouge-Croix, Rose-Blanch, Calais, Guisnes, and + Harrington, <i>pursuivants</i>."]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Teddy the Tiler.</i>—Who was Teddy the Tiler?</p> + + <p class="author">W. P. E.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[This is a fire-and-water farce, taken from the French by G. Herbert + Rodwell, Esq., ending with one element and beginning with the other. Mr. + Power's performance of Teddy, as many of our readers will remember, kept + the audience in one broad grin from beginning to end. It will be found in + Cumberland's <i>British Theatre</i>, vol. xxv., with remarks, + biographical and critical.]</p> + +</div> + +<p><!-- Page 249 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page249"></a>{249}</span></p> + + <p><i>Duchess of Mazarin's Monument.</i>—I read yesterday, in an + interesting French work, that the beautiful Hortense Mancini, a niece of + Mazarin, and sister to Mary Mancini, the early love of Louis XIV., after + various peregrinations, died at Chelsea, in England, on July 2, 1699. + Although not an important question, I think I may venture to ask whether + any monument or memorial of this remarkable beauty exists at Chelsea, or + in its neighbourhood?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Robson.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Neither Faulkner nor Lysons notices any monumental memorial to the + Duchess of Mazarin, whose finances after the death of Charles II. (who + allowed her a pension of 4,000<i>l.</i> per annum) were very slender, so + much so that, according to Lysons, it was usual for the nobility and + others, who dined at her house, to leave money under the plates to pay + for their entertainment. She appears to have been in arrear for the + parish rates during the whole time of her residence at Chelsea.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Halcyon Days.</i>—What is the derivation of "halcyon + days?"</p> + + <p class="author">W. P. E.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The halcyon, or king's fisher, a bird said to breed in the sea, and + that there is always a calm during her incubation; hence the adjective + figuratively signifies placid, quiet, still, peaceful: as Dryden + says,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be,</p> + <p>As halcyons brooding on a winter's sea."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>"The halcyon," says Willsford, in his <i>Nature's Secrets</i>, p. + 134., "at the time of breeding, which is about fourteen days before the + winter solstice, foreshews a quiet and tranquil time, as it is observed + about the coast of Sicily, from whence the proverb is transported, the + halcyon days."]</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>DOGS IN MONUMENTAL BRASSES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., p. 126.)</p> + + <p>I may refer <span class="sc">Mr. B. H. Alford</span> to the Oxford + <i>Manual of Monumental Brasses</i>, p. 56., for an answer to his + Query:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Knights have no peculiar devices besides their arms, unless we are to + consider the lions and dogs beneath their feet as emblematical of the + virtues of courage, generosity, and fidelity, indispensable to their + profession. One or two dogs are often at the feet of the lady. They are + probably intended for some favourite animal, as the name is occasionally + inscribed," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Neither dog nor lion occurs at the feet of the following knights + represented on brasses prior to 1460:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"c. 1450. Sir John Peryent, Jun., Digswell, Herts. (engd. + Boutell.)</p> + + <p>1455. John Daundelyon, Esq., Margate. (ditto.)</p> + + <p>c. 1360. William de Aldeburgh, Aldborough, Yorkshire. (engd. + <i>Manual</i>.)</p> + + <p>c. 1380. Sir Edward Cerue, Draycot Cerue, Wiltshire. (engd. + Boutell.)</p> + + <p>1413. c. 1420. John Cressy, Esq., Dodford, Northants. (ditto.)</p> + + <p>1445. Thomas de St. Quintin, Esq., Harpham, Yorkshire. (ditto.)"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Whilst a dog is seen in the following:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"1462. Sir Thomas Grene, Green's Norton, Northants. (ditto.)</p> + + <p>1510. John Leventhorpe, Esq., St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. + (<i>Manual.</i>)</p> + + <p>1471. Wife of Thomas Colte, Esq., Roydon, Essex.</p> + + <p>c. 1480. Brass at Grendon, Northants.</p> + + <p>c. 1485. Brass, Latton, Essex.</p> + + <p>1501. Robert Baynard, Esq., Laycock, Wilts."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>These examples are described or engraved in the works of the Rev. C. + Boutell, or in the Oxford <i>Manual</i>, and I have little doubt that my + own collection of rubbings (if I had leisure to examine it) would supply + other examples under both of these sections.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Sparrow Simpson.</span></p> + + <p>It is usually asserted that the dog appears at the feet of the lady in + monumental brasses as a symbol of fidelity; while the lion accompanies + her lord as the emblem of strength and courage. These distinctions, + however, do not appear to have been much attended to. The dog, in most + cases a greyhound, very frequently appears at the feet of a knight or + civilian, as on the brasses of the Earl of Warwick, 1401, Sir John + Falstolf at Oulton, 1445, Sir John Leventhorpe at Sawbridgeworth, 1433, + Sir Reginald de Cobham at Lingfield, 1403, Richard Purdaunce, Mayor of + Norwich, 1436, and Peter Halle, Esquire, at Herne, Kent, 1420. Sir John + Botiler, at St. Bride's, Glamorganshire, 1285, has a dragon; and on the + brass of Alan Fleming, at Newark, 1361, appears a lion with a human face + seizing a smaller lion. On a very late brass of Sir Edward Warner, at + Little Plumstead, Norfolk, 1565, appears a greyhound, a full century + after the date assigned by <span class="sc">B. H. Alford</span> for the + cessation of these symbolical figures.</p> + + <p>Sometimes the lady has two little dogs, as Lady Bagot, at Baginton, + Warwickshire, 1407; and in one instance, that of Lady Peryent, at + Digswell, Herts, 1415, there is a hedgehog, the meaning of which is + sufficiently obvious. <span class="sc">B. H. Alford</span>, in noticing + the omission of the dog in the brass of Lady Camoys at Trotton, 1424, has + not mentioned a singular substitute which is found for it, namely, the + figure of a boy or young man, standing by the lady's right foot: but what + this means I cannot attempt to determine; perhaps her only son.</p> + + <p>It may be interesting to add that some brasses of ecclesiastics + exhibit strange figures, not easy to interpret, if meant as symbolical. + The brass at <!-- Page 250 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page250"></a>{250}</span>Oulton, of the priest —— de + Bacon, 1310, has a lion; that of the Abbot Delamere, at St. Albans, 1375, + two dragons; that of a priest at North Mimms, about 1360, a stag; and, + still more extraordinary, that of Laurence Seymour, a priest, at Higham + Ferrers, 1337, two dogs contending for a bone.</p> + + <p class="author">F. C. H.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>SNEEZING.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 366. 624.; Vol. ix., p. 63.)</p> + + <p>I can add another item of the folk lore to those already quoted. One + of the salutations, by which a sneezer is greeted amongst the lower class + of Romans at the present day, is <i>Figli maschi</i>, "May you have male + children!"</p> + + <p>The best essay on <i>sneezing</i>, that I am acquainted with, is to be + found in Strada's <i>Prolusions</i>, book iii. Prol. 4., in which he + replies at some length, and not unamusingly, to the Query, "Why are + sneezers saluted?" It seems to have arisen out of an occurrence which had + recently taken place at Rome, that a certain <i>Pistor Suburranus</i>, + after having sneezed twenty-three times consecutively, had expired at the + twenty-fourth sneeze: and his object is to prove that Sigonius was + mistaken in supposing that the custom of saluting a sneezer had only + dated from the days of Gregory the Great, when many had died of the + plague in the act of sneezing. In opposition to this notion, he adduces + passages from Apuleius and Petronius Arbiter, besides those from + Ammianus, Athenĉus, Aristotle, and Homer, already quoted in your pages by + <span class="sc">Mr. F. J. Scott</span>. He then proceeds to give five + causes from which the custom may have sprung, and classifies them as + religious, medical, facetious, poetical, and augural.</p> + + <p>Under the first head, he argues that the salutation given to sneezers + is not a mere expression of good wishes, but a kind of veneration: "for," + says he, "we rise to a person sneezing, and humbly uncover our heads, and + deal reverently with him." In proof of this position, he tells us that in + Ethiopia, when the emperor sneezed, the salutations of his adoring + gentlemen of the privy chamber were so loudly uttered as to be heard and + re-echoed by the whole of his court; and thence repeated in the streets, + so that the whole city was in simultaneous commotion.</p> + + <p>The other heads are then pursued with considerable learning, and some + humour; and, under the last, he refers us to St. Augustin, <i>De Doctr. + Christ.</i> ii. 20., as recording that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"When the ancients were getting up in the morning, if they chanced to + sneeze whilst putting on their shoes, they immediately went back to bed + again, in order that they might get up more auspiciously, and escape the + misfortunes which were likely to occur on that day."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>One almost wishes that people now-a-days would sometimes consent to + follow their example, when they have "got out of bed the wrong way."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. W. Bingham.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>SIR JOHN DE MORANT.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., p. 56.)</p> + + <p>In answer to the Query of H. H. M., I beg to state that the Sir John + de Morant chronicled by Froissart was Jean de Morant, Chevalier, Seigneur + d'Escours, and other lordships in Normandy. He was fourth in descent from + Etienne de Morant, Chevalier, living <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1245, + and son of Etienne de Morant and his wife Marie de Pottier. His posterity + branched off into many noble Houses; as the Marquis de Morant, and + Mesnil-Garnier, the Count de Panzès, the Barons of Fontenay, Rupierre, + Biéville, Coulonces, the Seigneurs de Courseulles, Brequigny, &c.</p> + + <p>The Sire Jean de Morant, born <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 1346, was + the hero of the following adventure, quoted from an ancient chronicle of + Brittany, by Chesnaye-Desbois. It appears that the Sire de Morant was one + of five French knights, who fought a combat <i>à l'outrance</i> against + an equal number of English challengers, with the sanction, and in the + presence, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, A.D. 1381-2. The result + was in favour of the French. The chronicle proceeds:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Le Sire de Morant s'étant principalement distingué dans cette action, + un Chevalier Anglois lui propose de venger, tête-à-tête, la défaite de + ses compatriotes, et qu'ils en vinrent aux mains; mais que l'Anglois, + qu'une indisposition aux genouils avoit forcé de combattre sans bottes + garnies, avoit engagé son adversaire de quitter les siennes, en + promettant, parole d'honneur, de ne point abuser de cette condescendance, + à quoi le Sire de Morant consentit: le perfide Anglois ne lui tint pas + parole, et lui porta trois coups d'épée dans la jambe. Le Duc de + Lancastre, qui en fut témoin, fit arrêter ce lâche, et le fit mettre + entre les mains du Sire de Morant, pour tirer telle vengeance qu'il + jugeroit à propos, ou du moins le contraindre à lui payer une forte + rançon. Le Seigneur de Morant remercia ce Prince, en lui disant 'qu'il + étoit venu de Bretagne non pour de l'or, mais pour l'honneur' et le + supplia de recevoir en grace l'Anglois, attribuant à son peu d'adresse ce + qui n'étoit que l'effet de sa trahison. Le Duc de Lancastre, charmé d'une + si belle réponse, lui envoya une coupe d'or et une somme considérable. + Morant refusa la somme, et se contenta de la coupe d'or, par respect pour + le Prince."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>There is a short account of the branch of Morant de Mesnil-Garnier in + the <i>Généalogie de France</i>, by Le Père Anselme, vol. ix.; but a very + full and complete pedigree is contained in the eighth volume of the + <i>Dict. de la Noblesse Française</i>, by M. de la Chesnaye-Desbois. <!-- + Page 251 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page251"></a>{251}</span></p> + + <p>As the Rev. Philip Morant was a native of Jersey, it is more than + probable that he was an offset of the ancient Norman stock, though their + armorial bearings are widely different. The latter bore, Azure, three + cormorants argent; but the family of Astle, of Colne Park in Essex, are + said to quarter for Morant, Gules, on a chevron argent, three talbots + passant sable.</p> + + <p>Having only a daughter and heiress, married to Thomas Astle, Keeper of + the Records in the Tower of London, the reverend historian of Essex could + hardly have been the ancestor of the Morants of Brockenhurst.</p> + + <p>There was also another family in Normandy, named Morant de + Bois-ricard, in no way connected with the first, who bore Gules, a bend + ermine.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John o' the Ford.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Malta.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>INN SIGNS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., p. 148.)</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Alphege</span> will find a good paper on the origin + of signs in the <i>Mirror</i>, vol. ii. p. 387.; also an article on the + present specimens of country ale-house signs, in the first volume of the + same interesting periodical, p. 101. In Hone's <i>Every-Day Book</i>, + vol. i., are notices of curious signs at pp. 1262. and 1385. In vol. ii. + some very amusing specimens are given at p. 789. Others occur in Hone's + <i>Table-Book</i>, at pp. 448. 504. and 756.</p> + + <p class="author">F. C. H.</p> + + <p>I can answer <span class="sc">Alphege</span>'s Query, having some + notes by me on the subject. He will pardon my throwing them, in a + shapeless heap, jolting out as you unload stones.</p> + + <p>The Romans had signs; and at Pompeii a pig over the door represents a + wine-shop within. The Middle Ages adopted a bush. "Good wine needs no + bush," &c., answering to the gilded grapes at a modern vintner's. The + bush is still a common sign. At Charles I.'s death, a cavalier landlord + painted his bush black. Then came the modern square sign, formerly common + to all trades. Old signs are generally heraldic, and represent royal + bearings, or the blazonings of great families. The White Hart was + peculiar to Richard II; the White Swan of Henry IV. and Edward III.; the + Blue Boar of Richard III.; the Red Dragon came in with the Tudors. Then + we have the Bear and Ragged Staff of Leicester, &c. Monograms are + common; as Bolt and Tun for <i>Bolton</i>; Hare and Tun for + <i>Harrington</i>. The Three Suns is the favourite bearing of Edward IV.; + and all Roses, white or red (as at Tewkesbury), are indications of + political predilection. Other signs commemorate historical events; as the + Bull and Mouth, Bull and Gate (the Boulogne engagement in Henry VIII.'s + time, and alluded to by Shakspeare). The Pilgrim, Cross Keys, Salutation, + Catherine Wheel, Angel, Three Kings, Seven Stars, St. Francis, &c., + are medieval signs. Many are curiously corrupted; as the Cœur Doré + (Golden Heart) to the Queer Door; Bacchanals (the Bag of Nails); Pig and + Whistle (Peg and Wassail Bowl); the Swan and Two Necks (literally Two + <i>Nicks</i>); Goat and Compasses (God encompasseth us); The Bell Savage + (La Belle Sauvage, or Isabel Savage); the Goat in the Golden Boots (from + the Dutch, Goed in der Gooden Boote), Mercury, or the God in the Golden + Boots. The Puritans altered many of the monastic signs; as the Angel and + Lady, to the Soldier and Citizen. In signs we may read every phase of + ministerial popularity, and all the ebbs and flows of war in the Sir Home + Popham, Rodney, Shovel, Duke of York, Wellington's Head, &c. At + Chelsea, a sign called the "Snow Shoes," I believe, still indicates the + excitement of the American war.</p> + + <p>I shall be happy to send <span class="sc">Alphege</span> more + instances, or to answer any conjectures.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">G. W. Thornbury.</span></p> + + <p>A century ago, when the houses in streets were unnumbered, they were + distinguished by sign-boards. The chemist had the dragon (some + astrological device); the pawnbroker the three golden pills, the arms of + the Medici and Lombardy, as the descendant of the ancient bankers of + England; the barber-chirurgeon the pole for the wig, and the + parti-coloured ribands to bind up the patient's wounds after + blood-letting; the haberdasher and wool-draper the golden fleece; the + tobacconist the snuff-taking Highlander; the vintner the bunch of grapes + and ivy-bush; and the Church and State bookseller the Bible and crown. + The Crusaders brought in the signs of the Saracen's Head, the Turk's + Head, and the Golden Cross. Near the church were found the Lamb and Flag, + The Bell, the Cock of St. Peter, the Maiden's Head, and the Salutation of + St. Mary. The Chequers commemorated the licence granted by the Earls of + Arundel, or Lords Warrenne. The Blue Boar was the cognizance of the House + of Oxford (and so The Talbots, The Bears, White Lions, &c. may + usually be reasonably referred to the supporters of the arms of noble + families, whose tenants the tavern landlords were). The Bull and Mouth, + the hostelry of the voyager to Boulogne Harbour. The Castle, The Spread + Eagle, and The Globe (Alphonso's), were probably adopted from the arms of + Spain, Germany, and Portugal, by inns which were the resort of merchants + from those countries. The Belle Sauvage recalled some show of the day; + the St. George and Dragon commemorated the badge of the Garter, the Rose + and Fleur-de-Lys, the Tudors; The Bull, The Falcon, <!-- Page 252 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page252"></a>{252}</span>and Plume of + Feathers, Edward IV.; the Swan and Antelope were the arms of Henry V.; + the chained or White Hart of Richard II.; the Sun and Boar of King + Richard III.; the Greyhound and Green Dragon of Henry VII. The Bag o' + Nails disguised the former Bacchanals; the Cat and Fiddle the Caton + Fidele; the Goat and Compasses was the rebus of the Puritan motto "God + encompasseth us." The Swan with Two Nicks represented the Thames swans, + so marked on their bills under the "conservatory" of the Goldsmiths' + Company. The Cocoa Tree and Thatched House tell their own tale; so the + Coach and Horses, reminding us of the times when the superior inns were + the only posting-houses, in distinction to such as bore the sign of the + Pack-Horse. The Fox and Goose denoted the games played within; the + country inn, the Hare and Hounds, the vicinity of a sporting squire.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.</span></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Alphege</span> will find some information on this + subject in Lower's <i>Curiosities of Heraldry</i>, <i>The Beaufoy + Tokens</i> (printed by the Corporation of London), and the <i>Journal of + the Archĉological Association</i> for April, 1853.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Kelly.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Leicester.</p> + + <p>There are a series of articles on this subject in the <i>Gentleman's + Magazine</i>, vol. lxxxviii., parts i. and ii., and vol. lxxxix. parts i. + and ii. Taylor the Water-poet wrote <i>A Catalogue of Memorable Places + and Taverns within Ten Shires of England</i>, London, 1636, 8vo. Much + information will also be found in Akerman's <i>Tokens</i>, and Burn's + <i>Catalogue of the Beaufoy Cabinet</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Zeus.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>"CONSILIUM DELECTORUM CARDINALIUM."</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., p. 54. Vol. ix., pp. 127-29.)</p> + + <p>Novus did not require correction; but <span class="sc">Mr. B. B. + Woodward</span> has elaborately confounded the genuine <i>Consilium</i> + of 1537 with Vergerio's spurious Letter of Advice, written in 1549. + <i>Four</i> cardinals, and not <i>nine</i> (as <span class="sc">Mr. + Woodward</span> supposes), subscribed the authentic document; but perhaps + <i>novem</i> may have been a corruption of <i>novum</i>, applied to the + later Bolognese <i>Consilium</i>; or else the word was intended to denote + the number of <i>all</i> the dignitaries who addressed Pope Paul III.</p> + + <p class="author">R. G.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"This Consilium was the result of an assembly of four cardinals, among + whom was our Pole, and five prelates, by Paul III. in 1537, charged to + give him their best advice relative to a reformation of the church. The + corruptions of that community were detailed and denounced with more + freedom than might have been expected, or was probably desired; so much + so, that when one of the body, Cardinal Caraffa, assumed the tiara as + Paul IV., he transferred his own <i>advice</i> into his own list of + prohibited books. The Consilium became the subject of an animated + controversy. M‘Crie in his <i>History of the Reformation in + Italy</i>, has given a satisfactory account of the whole, pp. 83, &c. + The candid Quirini could maintain neither the spuriousness of this + important document, nor its non-identity with the one condemned in the + Index. (See Schelborn's Two Epistles on the subject, Tiguri, 1748.) And + now observe, gentle reader, the pontifical artifice which this discussion + has produced. Not in the Index following the year 1748, namely, that of + 1750 (that was too soon), but in the next, that of 1758, the article + appears thus: 'Consilium de emendanda Ecclesia. <i>Cum Notis vel + Prĉfationibus Hĉreticorum. Ind. Trid.</i>' The whole, particularly the + Ind. Trid., is an implied and real falsehood."— Mendham's + <i>Literary Policy of the Church of Rome</i>, pp. 48, 49.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>M. Barbier, in his <i>Dictionnaire des Pseudoynmes</i>, has given his + opinion of the genuineness of the Consilium in the following note, in + reply to some queries on the subject:</p> + + <p>"Monsieur.—Le <i>Consilium quorundam Episcoporum</i>, &c., + me paraît une pièce bien authentique, puisque Brown déclare l'avoir + trouvé non-seulement dans les œuvres de Vergerio, mais encore dans + les <i>Lectiones Memorabiles</i>, en 2 vol. in fol. par Wolphius. <i>Je + ne connais rien contre</i> cette pièce.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"J'ai l'honneur, &c.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<span class="sc">Barbier.</span>"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>The learned Lorente has reprinted the "Concilium" also in his work + entitled <i>Monumens Historiques concernant les deux Pragmatiques + Sanctions</i>. There can, therefore, be no just grounds for doubting the + character of this precious article.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Bibliothecar. Chetham.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h3>PULPIT HOUR-GLASSES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. viii., pp. 82. 209. 279. 328. 454. 525.)</p> + + <p>I should be glad to see some more information in your pages relative + to the <i>early</i> use of the pulpit hour-glass. It is said that the + ancient fathers preached, as the old Greek and Roman orators declaimed, + by this instrument; but were the sermons of the ancient fathers an hour + long? Many of those in St. Augustine's ten volumes might be delivered + with distinctness in seven or eight minutes; and some of those of Latimer + and his contemporaries, in about the same time. But, Query, are not the + <i>printed</i> sermons of these divines merely outlines, to be filled up + by the preacher <i>extempore</i>? Dyos, in a sermon preached at Paul's + Cross, in 1570, speaking of the walking and profane talking in the church + at sermon time, also laments how they grudged the preacher his + <i>customary hour</i>. So that an hour seems to have been the practice at + the Reformation. <!-- Page 253 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page253"></a>{253}</span></p> + + <p>The hour-glass was used equally by the Catholics and Protestants. In + an account of the fall of the house in Blackfriars, where a party of + Romanists were assembled to hear one of their preachers, in 1623, the + preacher is described as—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Having on a surplice, girt about his middle with a linnen girdle, and + a tippet of scarlet on both his shoulders. He was attended by a man that + brought after him his book and <i>hour-glass</i>."—See <i>The Fatal + Vespers</i>, by Samuel Clark, London, 1657.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In the Preface to the Bishops' <i>Bible</i>, printed by John Day in + 1569, Archbishop Parker is represented with an <i>hour-glass</i> at his + right hand. And in a work by Franchinus Gaffurius, entitled <i>Angelicum + ac Divinum opus Musice</i>, printed at Milan in 1508, is a curious + representation of the author seated in a pulpit, with a book in his hand; + an <i>hour-glass</i> on one side, and a bottle on the other; lecturing to + an audience of twelve persons. This woodcut is engraved in the second + volume of Hawkins' <i>History of Music</i>, p. 333.</p> + + <p>Hour-glasses were often very elegantly formed, and of rich materials. + Shaw, in his <i>Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages</i>, has given + an engraving of one in the cabinet of M. Debruge at Paris. It is richly + enamelled, and set with jewels. In the churchwardens' accounts of Lambeth + Church are two entries respecting the hour-glass: the first is in 1579, + when 1<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> was "payd to Yorke for the frame in which the + <i>hower</i> standeth;" and the second in 1615, when 6<i>s.</i> + 8<i>d.</i> was "payd for an iron for the <i>hour-glasse</i>." In an + inventory of the goods and implements belonging to the church of All + Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, taken about 1632, mention is made of "one + <i>whole</i> hour-glasse," and of "one <i>halfe</i> hour-glasse." (See + Brand's <i>Newcastle</i>, vol. i. p. 370.).</p> + + <p>Fosbroke says, "Preaching by the <i>hour-glass</i> was put an end to + by the Puritans" (<i>Ency. of Antiq.</i>, vol. i. pp. 273. 307.). But the + account given by a correspondent of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> + (1804, p. 201.) is probably more correct:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Hour-glasses, in the puritanical days of Cromwell, were made use of + by the preachers; who, on first getting into the pulpit, and naming the + text, turned up the glass; and if the sermon did not hold till the glass + was out, it was said by the congregation that the preacher was lazy: and + if he continued to preach much longer, they would yawn and stretch, and + by these signs signify to the preacher that they began to be weary of his + discourse, and wanted to be dismissed."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Butler speaks of "gifted brethren preaching by a carnal + <i>hour-glass</i>" (<i>Hudibras</i>, Part I., canto III., v. 1061.). And + in the frontispiece of Dr. Young's book, entitled <i>England's Shame, or + a Relation of the Life and Death of Hugh Peters</i>, London, 1663, Peters + is represented preaching, and holding an <i>hour-glass</i> in his left + hand, in the act of saying: "I know you are good fellows, so let's have + another <i>glass</i>." The same words, or something very similar, are + attributed to the Nonconformist minister, Daniel Burgess. Mr. Maidment, + in a note to "The New Litany," printed in his <i>Third Book of Scottish + Pasquils</i> (Edin., 1828, p. 49.), also gives the following version of + the same:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A humorous story has been preserved of one of the Earls of Airly, who + entertained at his table a clergyman, who was to preach before the + Commissioner next day. The glass circulated, perhaps too freely; and + whenever the divine attempted to rise, his Lordship prevented him, + saying, 'Another glass, and then.' After 'flooring' (if the expression + may be allowed) his Lordship, the guest went home. He next day selected a + text: 'The wicked shall be punished, and that <span class="scac">RIGHT + EARLY</span>.' Inspired by the subject, he was by no means sparing of his + oratory, and the hour-glass was disregarded, although repeatedly warned + by the precentor; who, in common with Lord Airly, thought the discourse + rather lengthy. The latter soon knew why he was thus punished by the + reverend gentleman, when reminded, always exclaiming, <i>not</i> sotto + voce, 'Another glass, and then.'"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Hogarth, in his "Sleeping Congregation," has introduced an hour-glass + on the left side of the preacher; and Mr. Ireland observes, in his + description of this plate, that they are "still placed on some of the + pulpits in the provinces." At Waltham, in Leicestershire, by the side of + the pulpit was (or is) an hour-glass in an iron frame, mounted on three + high wooden brackets. (See Nichols' <i>Leicestershire</i>, vol. ii p. + 382.) A bracket for the support of an hour-glass is still preserved, + affixed to the pulpit of Hurst Church, in Berkshire: it is of iron, + painted and gilt. An interesting notice, accompanied by woodcuts, of a + number of existing specimens of hour-glass frames, was contributed to the + <i>Journal of the British Archĉological Association</i>, vol. iii., 1848, + by Mr. Fairholt, to which I refer the reader for farther information.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault.</span></p> + + <p>I remember to have seen it stated in some antiquarian journal, that + there are only three hour-glass stands in England where any portion of + the glass is remaining. In Cowden Church, in Kent, the glass is nearly + entire. Perhaps some of your readers will be able to mention the two + other places.</p> + + <p class="author">W. D. H.</p> + + <p>In Salhouse Church, near Norwich, an iron hour-glass stand still + remains fixed to the pulpit; and a bell on the screen, between the nave + and the chancel.</p> + + <p class="author">C—s. T. P.</p> + + <p>At Berne, in the autumn of last year, I saw an hour-glass stand + <i>still</i> attached to the pulpit in the minster.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. Sparrow Simpson.</span></p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><!-- Page 254 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page254"></a>{254}</span></p> + +<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> + + <p><i>A Prize for the best Collodion.</i>—Your "Hint to the + Photographic Society" (Feb. 25) I much approve of, but I have always + found more promptness from individuals than from associated bodies; and + all photographers I deem to be under great obligations to <i>you</i> in + affording us a medium of communication before a Photographic Society was + in existence. During the past month your valuable articles, from some of + our most esteemed photographists, show that your pages are the agreeable + medium of publishing their researches. I would therefore respectfully + suggest that you should yourself offer a prize for the best mode of + making a good useful collodion, and that that prize should be a complete + set of your valuable journal, which now, I believe, is progressing with + its ninth volume. You might associate two independent names with your + own, in testing the merits of any sample supplied to you, and a condition + should be that the formula should be published in "N. & Q." Your + observations upon the manufacturers of paper, respecting the intrinsic + value of a premium, are equally applicable to this proposition, because, + should the collodion prepared by any of the various dealers who at + present advertise in your columns be deemed to be the most satisfactory, + your sanction and that of your friends alone would be an ample + recompense. I would also suggest that samples sent to you should be + labelled with a motto, and a corresponding motto, <i>sealed</i>, should + contain the name and address, the name and address of the successful + sample <i>alone</i> to be opened: this would effectually preclude all + preconceived notions entertained by the testing manipulators who are to + decide on the merits of what is submitted to them.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Reader of "N. & Q." and a Photographer.</span></p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[We are obliged to our correspondent not only for the compliment he + has paid to our services to photography, but also for his suggestion. + There are many reasons, and some sufficiently obvious, why <i>we</i> + should not undertake the task proposed; and there are as obvious reasons + why it should be undertaken by the Photographic Society. That body has + not only the means of securing the best judges of such matters, but an + invitation from such a body would probably call into the field of + competition all the best photographers, whether professional or + amateur.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Double Iodide of Silver and Potassium.</i>—I shall feel + greatly indebted to you, or to any correspondent of "N. & Q.," for + information as to the proportion of iodide of silver to the ounce of + water, to be afterwards taken up by a <i>saturated solution</i> of iodide + of potassium, and converted into the double iodide of silver and + potassium.</p> + + <p>I generally pour all waste solution of silver into a jar of iodide of + potassium solution; and last year, having washed some of the precipitated + iodide of silver, I redissolved it in a solution of iodide of potassium + of an unknown strength. Paper prepared with this solution answered very + satisfactorily, kept well after excitation, and was very clear and + intense; but this was purely accidental: and if you can tell me how to + insure like success this summer, without a series of experiments, for + which I have but little time just now, the information will be very + acceptable to me, and probably to many others.</p> + + <p>I excite my paper with equal proportions of saturated solution of + gallic acid and aceto-nitrate of silver, one or two drops of each to the + drachm of distilled water. I always plunge the bottle of gallic acid + solution into hot water when first made, which enables it to take up more + of the acid; on cooling, the excess crystallises at the bottom. This + ensures an even strength of solution: it will keep any length of time, if + a small piece of camphor be allowed to float in it.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. W. Walrond.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Wellington.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The resultant iodide from fifteen grains of nitrate of silver, + precipitated by means of the iodide of potassium, will give the requisite + quantity of iodide for every ounce of water; or about twenty-seven grains + of the dried iodide will produce the same effect. It is however far + preferable, and more economical, to convert all waste into chloride of + silver, from which the pure metal may be again so readily obtained. + Iodide of silver, collected in the manner described by our correspondent, + is very likely to lead to disappointment.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Albumenized Paper.</i>—I have by careful observation found + that the cause of the albumen settling and drying in waving lines and + blotches on my paper, arose from some parts of the paper being more + absorbent than others, the gelatinous-like nature of the albumen + assisting to retard its ready ingress into the unequal parts, and, + consequently, that those places becoming the first dried, prevented the + albumen, still slowly dripping over the now more wetted parts, from + running down equally and smoothly, thereby causing a check to its + progress; and as at last these become also dry, thicker and irregular + patches of albumen were deposited, forming the mischief in question.</p> + + <p>The discovery of the cause suggested to me the propriety of either + giving each sheet a prolonged floating of from ten to fifteen minutes on + the salted albumen, or until every part had become fully and equally + saturated; or, as a preliminary to the floating and hanging up by one + corner on a line, of putting overnight between each sheet a damped piece + of bibulous paper, and placing the whole between two smooth plates of + stone, or other non-absorbent material.</p> + + <p>Either method produces equally good results; but I now always use the + latter, thereby avoiding the necessity of otherwise having several dishes + of albumen at work at once.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry H. Hele.</span></p> + + <p><i>Cyanide of Potassium</i> (Vol. ix., p. 230.).—I have for a + long time been in the habit of using a solution of the above-named + substance for fixing collodion <i>positives</i>, because the reduced + silver has a much <i>whiter</i> appearance when thus fixed, than when the + hyposulphite of soda is used for the same purpose; but I cannot quite + agree with <span class="sc">Mr. Hockin</span> that it is <i>equally</i> + applicable to negatives, though in many cases it will do very well. I + find the reduced metal is more pervious to light when fixed with the + cyanide solution, particularly in weak negatives. Lastly, I find that a + small quantity of the <!-- Page 255 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page255"></a>{255}</span>silver salts being added to the solution + before using, produces less injury to the half-tones, and this not by + merely weakening the solution, as one of double the strength with the + silver is better than one without it, though only half as powerful.</p> + + <p>Your correspondent C. E. F. (<i>ibid.</i>) will find his positives + will not stand a saturated solution of hyposulphite of soda, unless he + prints them so intensely dark that all traces of a picture by reflected + light are obliterated; but I have sometimes accidentally exposed my + positives a <i>whole day</i>, and retained a fair proof by soaking the + apparently useless impressions in such a solution.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Geo. Shadbolt.</span></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Saw-dust Recipe</i> (Vol. ix., p. 148.).—See Herschel's + <i>Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy</i>, published in + Lardner's <i>Cyclopĉdia</i>, p. 64., where he says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"That sawdust itself is susceptible of conversion into a substance + bearing no remote analogy to bread; and though certainly less palatable + than that of flour, yet no way disagreeable, and both wholesome and + digestible, as well as highly nutritive."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>To which passage the following note is appended:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"See Dr. Prout's account of the experiments of Professor Autenrieth of + Tubingen, <i>Phil. Trans.</i>, 1827, p. 331. This discovery, which + renders famine next to <i>impossible</i>, deserves a higher degree of + celebrity than it has obtained."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">J. M. W.</p> + + <p>Though not exactly the recipe for <i>saw-dust biscuits</i> which I + have heard of, there is an account of the process of making bread from + bark in Laing's "Norway" (Longman's <i>Traveller's Lib.</i>), part ii. p. + 219., where, on the subject of pine-trees, it is stated:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Many were standing with all their branches dead, stripped of the bark + to make bread, and blanched by the weather, resembling white + marble,—mere ghosts of trees. The bread is made of the inner rind + next the wood, taken off in flakes like a sheet of foolscap paper, and is + steeped or washed in warm water, to clear off its astringent principle. + It is then hung across a rope to dry in the sun, and looks exactly like + sheets of parchment. When dry it is pounded into small pieces mixed with + corn, and ground into meal on the hand-mill or quern. It is much more + generally used than I supposed. There are districts in which the forests + suffered very considerable damage in the years 1812 and 1814, when bad + crops and the war, then raging, reduced many to bark bread. The Fjelde + bonder use it, more or less, every year. It is not very unpalatable; nor + is there any good reason for supposing it unwholesome, if well prepared; + but it is very costly. The value of the tree, which is left to perish on + its root, would buy a sack of flour, if the English market were + open."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Now, if G. D., or any enterprising individual, could succeed in + converting saw-dust into wholesome food, or fit for admixture with flour, + somewhat after the above manner, it would indeed be a "happy discovery," + considering the present high price of "the staff of life." Bread has also + been made from the horse-chesnut; but the expense of preparation, + removing the strong bitter flavour, is no doubt the obstacle to its + success. What could be done with the Spanish chesnut?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Willo.</span></p> + + <p>The saw-dust recipe is to be found in the <i>Saturday Magazine</i>, + Jan. 3, 1835, taken from No. 104. of the <i>Quarterly Review</i>. It is + entitled, "How to make a Quartern Loaf out of a Deal Board."</p> + + <p class="author">J. C.</p> + + <p>Your correspondent G. D. may find something to his purpose in a little + German work, entitled <i>Wie kann man, bey grosser Theuerung und + Hungersnoth, ohne Getreid, gesundes Brod verschaffen?</i> Von Dr. + Oberlechner: Xav. Duyle, Salzburg, 1817.</p> + + <p class="author">W. T.</p> + + <p><i>Brydone the Tourist</i> (Vol. ix., p. 138.).—The literary + world would feel obliged to <span class="sc">J. Macray</span> to tell us + the name of the writer of the criticism who says, "Brydone never was on + the Summit of Etna." Did the scholars of Italy know more of what was done + by Englishmen in Sicily in Brydone's day than they do at present? How are + the dates reconciled? Brydone would be 113 years old. Mr. Beckford, I + think, must have been some thirteen or fourteen years younger. Brydone + was always considered to be in his relations in life a man of probity and + honour. I used to hear much of him from one nearly related to me, whose + father was first cousin to Brydone's wife.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. R., née F.</span></p> + + <p><i>Etymology of "Page"</i> (Vol. ix., p. 106.).—<i>Paggio</i> + Italian, <i>page</i> French and Spanish, <i>pagi</i> Provençal, is + derived by Diez, <i>Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Romanischen + Sprachen</i> (Bonn, 1853), p. 249., from the Greek <span title="paidion" class="grk" + >παιδίον</span>. This derivation is + evidently the true one. I may take this opportunity of recommending the + above-cited work to all persons who feel an interest in the etymology of + the Romance languages. It is not only more scientific and learned, but + more comprehensive, than any other work of the kind.</p> + + <p class="author">L.</p> + + <p><i>Longfellow</i> (Vol. ix., p. 174.).—There was a family of the + name of Longfellow resident in Brecon, South Wales, about fifty or sixty + years ago, who were large landowners in the county; and one of them (Tom + Longfellow, alluded to in the lines below) kept the principal inn, "The + Golden Lion," in that town. His son occupied a farm a few miles from + Brecon, about thirty years ago; and two of his sisters resided in the + town. The family was frequently engaged in law suits (perhaps from the + <i>proverbially</i> litigious disposition <!-- Page 256 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page256"></a>{256}</span>of their Welsh + neighbours), and was ultimately ruined. Many of the old inhabitants of + that part of the Principality could, no doubt, give a better and fuller + account of them.</p> + + <p>The following lines (not very flattering to the landlord, certainly), + said to have been written by a commercial traveller on an inside-window + shutter of "The Golden Lion," when Mr. Longfellow was the proprietor, may + not be out of place in "N. & Q.:"</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Tom Longfellow's name is most justly his due,</p> + <p>Long his neck, long his bill, which is very long too;</p> + <p>Long the time ere your horse to the stable is led,</p> + <p>Long before he's rubbed down, and much longer till fed;</p> + <p>Long indeed may you sit in a comfortless room,</p> + <p>Till from kitchen, long dirty, your dinner shall come;</p> + <p>Long the often-told tale that your host will relate,</p> + <p>Long his face whilst complaining how long people eat;</p> + <p>Long may Longfellow long ere he see me again,—</p> + <p>Long 'twill be ere I long for Tom Longfellow's inn."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">C. H. (2)</p> + + <p>Yesterday I happened to be looking over an old Bristol paper (Sarah + Farley's <i>Bristol Journal</i>, Saturday, June 11, 1791), and the name + of Longfellow, which I had before only known as borne by the poet, caught + my eye. At the end of the paper there is a notice in these words:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Advertisements are taken in for this paper by agents in various + places, and by Mr. Longfellow, Brecon," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Geo. Tomkins.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare.</p> + + <p>There is now living at Beaufort Iron Works, Breconshire, a respectable + tradesman, bearing the name of Longfellow. He himself is a native of the + town of Brecon, as was his father also. But his grandfather was a + settler; though from what part of the country this last-named relative + originally came, he is unfortunately unable to say. He has the + impression, however, that it was from Cornwall or Devonshire. Perhaps + this information will partly answer the question of <span + class="sc">Oxoniensis</span>.</p> + + <p class="author">E. W. I.</p> + + <p>It is by no means improbable that the name is a corruption of + <i>Longvillers</i>, found in Northamptonshire as early as the reign of + Edward I., and derived, I imagine, from the town of Longueville in + Normandy. There is a Newton Longville in this county.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. P. Storer.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Olney, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Canting Arms</i> (Vol. ix., p. 146.).—The introduction to the + collection of arms alluded to was <i>not</i> written by Sir George + Naylor, but by the Rev. James Dallaway, who had previously published his + <i>Historical Enquiries</i>, a work well known.</p> + + <p class="author">G.</p> + + <p><i>Holy Loaf Money</i> (Vol. ix., p. 150.).—At some time before + the date of present rubrics, it was the custom for every house in the + parish to provide in rotation bread (and wine) for the Holy Communion. By + the first book of King Edward VI., this duty was devolved upon those who + had the cure of souls, with a provision "that the parishioners of every + parish should offer every Sunday, at the time of the offertory, <i>the + just value and price of the holy loaf</i> ... to the use of the pastors + and curates" who had provided it; "and that in such order and course as + they were wont to find, and pay the said holy loaf." This is, I think, + the correct answer to the Query of T. J. W.</p> + + <p class="author">J. H. B.</p> + + <p>"<i>Could we with ink</i>," <i>&c.</i> (Vol. viii., pp. 127. + 180.).—The idea embodied in these lines was well known in the + seventeenth century. The following "rhyme," extracted from a rare + miscellany entitled <i>Wits Recreations</i>, 12mo., 1640, has reference + to the subject.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<i>Interrogativa Cantilena.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If all the world were paper,</p> + <p class="i1">And all the sea were inke;</p> + <p>If all the trees were bread and cheese,</p> + <p class="i1">How should we do for drinke?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If all the world were sand'o,</p> + <p class="i1">Oh then what should we lack'o;</p> + <p>If as they say there were no clay,</p> + <p class="i1">How should we take tobacco?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If all our vessels ran'a,</p> + <p class="i1">If none but had a crack'a;</p> + <p>If Spanish apes eat all the grapes,</p> + <p class="i1">How should we do for sack'a?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If fryers had no bald pates,</p> + <p class="i1">Nor nuns had no dark cloysters;</p> + <p>If all the seas were beans and pease,</p> + <p class="i1">How should we do for oysters?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If there had been no projects,</p> + <p class="i1">Nor none that did great wrongs;</p> + <p>If fiddlers shall turne players all,</p> + <p class="i1">How should we doe for songs?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"If all things were eternall,</p> + <p class="i1">And nothing their end bringing;</p> + <p>If this should be, then how should we</p> + <p class="i1">Here make an end of singing?"</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault.</span></p> + + <p><i>Mount Mill, and the Fortifications of London</i> (Vol. ix., p. + 174.).—B. R. A. Y. will find that the name is still applied to an + obscure locality in the parish of St. Luke, situated close to the west + end of Seward Street on the north side. The parliamentary fortifications + of London are described in Maitland's <i>Hist.</i>, and Mount Mill is + noticed in Cromwell's <i>Clerkenwell</i>, pp. 33. 396. This writer + supposes that the <i>Mount</i> (long since levelled) originated in the + interment of a great number of persons during the plague of 1665; but + <!-- Page 257 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page257"></a>{257}</span>this, I think, is a mistake, for the Mount + is mentioned in a printed broadside which, if I remember rightly, bears + an earlier date. I cannot furnish its title, but it will be found in the + British Museum, with the press-mark 669. f. 8/22. A plan of the city and + suburbs, as fortified by order of the parliament in 1642 and 1643, was + engraved by George Vertue, 1738; and a small plan of the same works + appeared in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> a few years afterwards + (1749?).</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">W.P. Storer.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Olney, Bucks.</p> + + <p><i>Standing while the Lord's Prayer is read</i> (Vol. ix., p. + 127.).—A custom noted to prevail at Bristol: in connexion with it, + it would be interesting to ascertain in what churches there still remain + <i>any</i> usages of by-gone days, but which have generally got into + desuetude. It is probable that in some one or other church there may + still exist a usage handed down by tradition, which is not generally + recognised nor authorised in the present day. Perhaps by means of our + widely spread "N. & Q.," and the notes of its able contributors, this + may be ascertained. By way of example, and as a beginning, I would + mention the following:—</p> + + <p>At St. Sampson's, Cricklade (it was so before 1820), the people say, + "Thanks be to Thee, O God!" after the reading of the Gospel; a usage said + to be as old as St. Chrysostom.</p> + + <p>At Talaton, Devon, where the congregation turn towards the singing + gallery at the west end, during the singing of the "Magnificat" and other + psalms, at the "Gloria" they all turn round to the <i>east</i>.</p> + + <p>At Bitton, Gloucestershire, two parishioners, natives of Lincolnshire, + always gave me notice before they came to Holy Communion, as it was their + <i>custom</i> always to do.</p> + + <p>When a boy, I remember an old gentleman, who came from one of the + Midland Counties, always stood up at the "Glory" in the Litany. In many + country churches, the old women make a courtesy.</p> + + <p>In many country churches, the old men bow and smooth down their hair + when they enter the church; and women make a courtesy.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. T. Ellacombe.</span></p> + + <p class="address">Rectory, Clyst St. George.</p> + + <p>In a late Number of your miscellany, you say it is a general practice + for congregations in churches to <i>stand</i> during the reading of the + Lord's Prayer, when it occurs in the order of Morning Lessons. In my + experience, I do not remember any such custom prevalent in this part of + the country; but may mention, as a curious and (as far as I know, or ever + heard of) singular example of kneeling at the reading of St Matt. vi. and + St. Luke xi., that at Formby, a retired village on the Lancashire coast, + my first cure, the people observed this usage. The children in the + schools were instructed to kneel whenever they read the section of these + chapters which contains the Lord's Prayer. And at the "Burial of the + Dead," as soon as the minister came to that portion of the ceremony where + the use of the Lord's Prayer is enjoined, all the assembled mourners (old + and young, and however cold or damp the day) would devoutly kneel down in + the chapel yard, and remain in this posture of reverence until the + conclusion of the service. I observed that their Roman Catholic + neighbours, who often attended at funerals, when they happened to be + present, did the same. So that it seemed to be "a tradition derived from + their fathers," and handed down "from one generation to another."</p> + + <p class="author">R. L.</p> + + <p class="address">Great Lever, Bolton.</p> + + <p>This custom is observed in the Cathedral at Norwich, but not (I + believe) in the other churches in that city. I remember seeing it noticed + in a very old number of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, and should be + glad if any of your correspondents could tell me which number it is. I + have looked through the Index in vain. The writer denounced it as a + <i>Popish</i> custom!</p> + + <p class="author">W.</p> + + <p><i>A dead Sultan, with his Shirt for an Ensign</i> (Vol. ix., p. + 76.).—<span class="sc">Mr. Warden</span> will find a long and + interesting description of Saladin in Knolles' <i>Turkish History</i>, + pp. 33. 57., published in London by Adam Islip in 1603. I take from this + learned work the following curious anecdote:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"About this time (but the exact period is not stated) died the great + Sultan Saladin, the greatest terrour of the Christians; who, mindfull of + man's fragilitie, and the vanitie of worldly honours, commanded at the + time of his death no solemnitie to be vsed at his buriall, but only his + shirt in manner of an ensigne, made fast vnto the point of a lance, to be + carried before his dead bodie as an ensigne. A plaine priest going before + and crying aloud vnto the people in this sort: '<i>Saladin Conquerour of + the East, of all the greatnesse and riches hee had in this life, carrieth + not with him after his death anything more than his shirt.</i>'"—"A + sight (says Knolles) woorthie so great a king, as wanted nothing to his + eternall commendation, more than the true knowledge of his salvation in + Christ Jesu."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">W. W.</p> + + <p class="address">Malta.</p> + + <p>"<i>Houd maet of laet</i>" (Vol. ix., p. 148.).—One of your + correspondents desires an explanation of <i>this</i> phrase, which he + found in the corner of an old Dutch picture. It is a Flemish proverb; I + translate it thus:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Keep within bounds, though 'tis late."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>It may either be the motto which the artist adopted to identify his + work while he concealed <!-- Page 258 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page258"></a>{258}</span>his name; or it may be descriptive of the + picture, which then would be an illustration of <i>this</i> proverb. + Inscribed either by the artist himself, or by some officious person, who + thus "tacked the moral full in sight."</p> + + <p>I think I have seen a similar inscription somewhere in Flanders on an + antique drinking-cup, a very appropriate place for such wholesome + counsel.</p> + + <p>I should like to know the subject of the picture your correspondent + refers to. In modern Dutch the proverb reads thus:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Houd maat of laat."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. F. Woodman.</span></p> + + <p>The above Dutch proverb means, in English:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Keep within bounds, or leave off."</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author"><span title="Halieus." class="grk">Ἁλιεύς.</span></p> + + <p><i>Captain Eyre's Drawings</i> (Vol. ix., p. 207.).—The mention + of Captain Eyre's drawings of the Fortifications in London, and the + editorial note appended thereto, remind me of an inquiry I have long been + desirous of making respecting the curious, if authentic, drawings by this + same Captain Eyre, illustrative of Shakspeare's residence in London, + described in one of your earlier volumes (Vol. vii., p. 545.). I have not + myself had an opportunity of consulting Mr. Halliwell's first volume, but + a friend who looked at it for me says he could not find any account of + them there. In whose possession are they now?</p> + + <p class="author">M. A.</p> + + <p class="address">Shrewsbury.</p> + + <p><i>Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Ken</i> (Vol. ix., p. 220.).—Had + <span class="sc">Mr. Mackenzie Walcott</span> referred to a preceding + volume of "N. & Q." (Vol. viii., p. 10.), he would have seen that the + "coincidences" between these writers had been already noticed in your + pages by one of the bishop's biographers.</p> + + <p>The life of Ken, from the pen of your correspondent, is omitted in + <span class="sc">Mr. Mackenzie Walcott's</span> list, and may be equally + unknown to that gentleman as the note before mentioned; but in the + <i>Quarterly Review</i> (vol. lxxxix. p. 278.), and in many pages of Mr. + Anderdon's valuable volume, <span class="sc">Mr. Mackenzie Walcott</span> + will find ample mention of the work in question.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. H. Markland.</span></p> + + <p><i>Unfinished Works</i> (Vol. ix., p. 148.).—J. M. is informed + that Dr. Shirley Palmer's <i>Medical Dictionary</i> is finished. From the + Preface it appears to have been finished in 1841; but not published (in a + complete form) till 1845, with the title <i>A Pentaglot Dictionary of the + Terms employed in Anatomy</i>, &c.; London, Longman & Co.; + Birmingham, Langbridge.</p> + + <p class="author">M. D.</p> + + <p>"<i>The Lounger's Common-place Book</i>" (Vol. ix., p. + 174.).—The editor of this publication was Jeremiah Whitaker Newman, + who died July 27, 1839, aged eighty years. Some information respecting + him and his work, supplied by me, appeared in the <i>Gentleman's + Magazine</i>, June, 1846.</p> + + <p class="author">J. R. W.</p> + + <p class="address">Bristol.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES +WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">London Labour and London Poor.</span> Nos. 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It is obvious that anonymous testimony can have little + weight in such a case, when opposed to that of</i> known and competent + authorities.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Working Man</span> <i>will find the English + equivalents for French weights and measures, and much of the information + he desires, in Walich's</i> Popular Tables.</p> + + <p>Bb. (Bradford) <i>will probably find in the </i>Journal of a + Naturalist<i>, White's </i>Selborne<i>, and the valuable series of works + illustrative of the </i>Natural History of England<i>, published by Van + Voorst of Paternoster Row, the materials of which he stands in need, and + references to other authorities.</i></p> + + <p>C. 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ROBINSON, ESQ., <i>Deputy-Chairman</i>.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">——</p> + + <p>The SCALE OF PREMIUMS adopted by this Office will be found of a very + moderate character, but at the same time quite adequate to the risk + incurred.</p> + + <p>FOUR-FIFTHS, or 80 per cent. of the Profits, are assigned to Policies + <i>every fifth year</i>, and may be applied to increase the sum insured, + to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction and ultimate + extinction of future Premiums.</p> + + <p>ONE-THIRD of the Premium on Insurances of 500<i>l.</i> and upwards, + for the whole term of life, may remain as a debt upon the Policy, to be + paid off at convenience; or the Directors will lend sums of 50<i>l.</i> + and upwards, on the security of Policies effected with this Company for + the whole term of life, when they have acquired an adequate value.</p> + + <p>SECURITY.—Those who effect Insurances with this Company are + protected by its Subscribed Capital of 750,000<i>l.</i>, of which nearly + 140,000<i>l.</i> is invested, from the risk incurred by Members of Mutual + Societies.</p> + + <p>The satisfactory financial condition of the Company, exclusive of the + Subscribed and Invested Capital, will be seen by the following + Statement:</p> + +<table class="nobctr" summary="Acrostic." title="Acrostic."> +<tr><td class="spacsingle">On the 31st October, 1853, the sums Assured, including Bonus added, amounted to </td><td class="spacsingle" style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom;">£2,500,000</td></tr> +<tr><td class="spacsingle">The Premium Fund to more than </td><td class="spacsingle" style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom;"> 800,000</td></tr> +<tr><td class="spacsingle">And the Annual Income from the same source, to </td><td class="spacsingle" style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom;"> 109,000</td></tr> +</table> + + <p>Insurances, without participation in Profits, may be effected at + reduced rates.</p> + + <p class="author">SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>CHUBB'S LOCKS, with all the recent improvements. 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HART, RECORD AGENT and LEGAL ANTIQUARIAN (who is in the + possession of Indices to many of the early Public Records whereby his + Inquiries are greatly facilitated) begs to inform Authors and Gentlemen + engaged in Antiquarian or Literary Pursuits, that he is prepared to + undertake searches among the Public Records, MSS. in the British Museum, + Ancient Wills, or other Depositories of a similar Nature in any Branch of + Literature, History, Topography, Genealogy, or the like, and in which he + has had considerable experience.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">1. ALBERT TERRACE, NEW CROSS, +HATCHAM, SURREY.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h3>WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE +AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">Founded A.D. 1842.</p> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Directors.</i></p> + + +<table class="nobctr" summary="directors" title="directors"> + <tr> + <td class="rightbsing" style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> + <p>H. E. Bicknell, Esq.<br /> + T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.<br /> + G. H. Drew, Esq.<br /> + W. Evans, Esq.<br /> + W. Freeman, Esq.<br /> + F. Fuller, Esq.<br /> + J. H. Goodhart, Esq.</p> + + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> + <p>T. Grissell, Esq.<br /> + J. Hunt, Esq.<br /> + J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.<br /> + E. Lucas, Esq.<br /> + J. Lys Seager, Esq.<br /> + J. B. White, Esq.<br /> + J. Carter Wood, Esq.</p> + + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<p class="cenhead"><i>Trustees.</i>—W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq., T. Grissell, Esq.<br /> +<i>Physician.</i>—William Rich. Basham, M.D.<br /> +<i>Bankers.</i>—Messrs. 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With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and + Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life + Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.—OTTEWILL & MORGAN'S Manufactory, 24. + & 25. Charlotte Terrace, Caledonian Road, Islington. OTTEWILL'S + Registered Double Body Folding Camera, adapted for Landscapes or + Portraits, may be had of A. ROSS, Featherstone Buildings, Holborn: the + Photographic Institution, Bond Street: and at the Manufactory as above, + where every description of Cameras, Slides, and Tripods may be had. The + Trade supplied.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>PHOTOGRAPHY.—HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining + Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds, + according to light.</p> + + <p>Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the + choicest Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their + Establishment.</p> + + <p>Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used + in this beautiful Art.—123. and 121. Newgate Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>IMPROVEMENT IN COLLODION.—J. B. HOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 289. + Strand. have, by an improved mode of Iodizing, succeeded in producing a + Collodion equal, they may say superior, in sensitiveness and density of + Negative, to any other hitherto published; without diminishing the + keeping properties and appreciation of half-tint for which their + manufacture has been esteemed.</p> + + <p>Apparatus, pure Chemicals, and all the requirements for the practice + of Photography. Instruction in the Art.</p> + + <p>THE COLLODION AND POSITIVE PAPER PROCESS. By J. B. HOCKIN. Price + 1<i>s.</i>, per Post, 1<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p class="cenhead">PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION.</p> + + <p>THE EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, by the most eminent English and + Continental Artists, is OPEN DAILY from Ten till Five. Free + Admission.</p> + + +<table class="nobctr" summary="Prices." title="Prices."> + <tr> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>£ </p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><i>s.</i></p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p><i>d.</i></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>A Portrait by Mr. Talbot's Patent Process</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>1</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>1</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>0</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>Additional Copies (each)</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>0</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>5</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>0</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>A Coloured Portrait, highly finished (small size)</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>3</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>3</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>0</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>A Coloured Portrait, highly finished (larger size)</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>5</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>5</p> + </td> + <td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left"> + <p>0</p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + + <p>Miniatures, Oil Paintings, Water-Colour, and Chalk Drawings, + Photographed and Coloured in imitation of the Originals. Views of Country + Mansions, Churches, &c., taken at a short notice.</p> + + <p>Cameras, Lenses, and all the necessary Photographic Apparatus and + Chemicals, are supplied, tested, and guaranteed.</p> + + <p>Gratuitous Instruction is given to Purchasers of Sets of + Apparatus.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION,<br /> +168. New Bond Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, MATERIALS, AND PURE CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS.</p> + + <p>KNIGHT & SONS' Illustrated Catalogue, containing Description and + Price of the best forms of Cameras and other Apparatus. Voightlander and + Son's Lenses for Portraits and Views, together with the various + Materials, and pure Chemical Preparations required in practising the + Photographic Art. Forwarded free on receipt of Six Postage Stamps.</p> + + <p>Instructions given in every branch of the Art.</p> + + <p>An extensive Collection of Stereoscopic and other Photographic + Specimens.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, +London.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>COLLODION PORTRAITS AND VIEWS obtained with the greatest ease and + certainty by using BLAND & LONG'S preparation of Soluble Cotton; + certainty and uniformity of action over a lengthened period, combined + with the most faithful rendering of the half-tones, constitute this a + most valuable agent in the hands of the photographer.</p> + + <p>Albumenized paper, for printing from glass or paper negatives, giving + a minuteness of detail unattained by any other method, 5<i>s.</i> per + Quire.</p> + + <p>Waxed and Iodized Papers of tried quality.</p> + + <p>Instruction in the Processes.</p> + + <p>BLAND & LONG, Opticians and Photographical Instrument Makers, and + Operative Chemists, 153. Fleet Street, London.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">*** Catalogues sent on application.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>THE SIGHT preserved by the Use of SPECTACLES adapted to meet every + variety of Vision by means of SMEE'S OPTOMETER, which effectually + prevents Injury to the Eyes from the Selection of Improper Glasses, and + is extensively employed by</p> + +<p class="cenhead">BLAND & LONG, Opticians, 153. Fleet +Street, London.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS manufactured by MESSRS. TOWGOOD, of St. Neot's + Mills, as mentioned in "Notes and Queries," No. 220., Jan. 14. Commercial + and Family Stationery, &c.</p> + + <p>Depôt for all Works on Physiology, Phrenology, Hydropathy, &c. + Catalogues sent free on application.</p> + +<p class="cenhead">London: HORTELL & SHIRRESS,<br /> +492. New Oxford Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + <p>Printed by <span class="sc">Thomas Clark Shaw</span>, of No. 10. + Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New + Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and + published by <span class="sc">George Bell</span>, of No. 186. Fleet + Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, + Publisher, at No. 186. 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