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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, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: September 23, 2011 [EBook #37516] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 28, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ +fonts. Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of +volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. III.--No. 87. SATURDAY, JUNE 28. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing + Monuments 513 + + NOTES:-- + + Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence + of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage 515 + + Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell 515 + + Folk Lore:--Popular Superstitions in Lancashire--Folk Lore + in Lancashire--Lancashire Customs--Od--Pigeons 516 + + Minor Notes:--Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at + Trafalgar--Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots--Jonah + and the Whale--Anachronisms of Painters 517 + + QUERIES:-- + + Minor Queries:--Rifles--Stanbridge Earls--Montchesni + or Muncey Family--Epitaph on Voltaire--Passage in + Coleridge's Table Talk--"Men may live Fools, but Fools + they cannot die"--Etymology of Bicêtre--Theobald + Anguilbert and Michael Scott--"Suum cuique tribuere," &c. 518 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Organs first put up in + Churches--Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c.--Drake's Historia + Anglo-Scotica 518 + + REPLIES:-- + + Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 519 + + Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman 520 + + Mosaic 521 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Prenzie--Lady Flora Hastings' + Bequest--Arches of Pelaga--Engraved Warming-pans--St. + Pancras--Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez--Mind your + P's and Q's--Banks Family--National Debts--Monte di + Pietà--Registry of Dissenting Baptisms--Eisell--English + Sapphics--Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs--Voltaire, + where situated--Meaning of Pilcher--Catalogues of Coins + of Canute--Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway--The + First Panorama--Written Sermons--Bogatsky 522 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 526 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 527 + + Notices to Correspondents 527 + + Advertisements 527 + + + + +ON THE PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. + + + The following letters, which we have received since we last + brought the proposed scheme for preserving a record of existing + monuments under the notice of our readers, afford a striking proof + how widely the interest in the subject is extending. + + We print them now, partly because the Number of "NOTES AND + QUERIES" now in the reader's hands completes the present volume, + and it is desirable that the various communications upon this + point should, as far as possible, be found together; and partly + because the time is at hand when many of our readers may have the + opportunity, during their summer excursions, of following out the + plan described by our valued correspondent YORK HERALD in the + following letter:-- + +References to this subject having appeared in your valuable miscellany, +I am unwilling to lose an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my +mite of contribution towards the means of preserving monumental +inscriptions. It may be better perhaps, to state the humble method I +adopt in attempting to rescue from oblivion those memorials of the dead, +than to suggest any. I avail myself of occasions, whenever I visit the +country, to take notes of monumental inscriptions in churches and other +places of sepulture; generally of all within the walls of the sacred +edifice, and those of the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. +Time very often will not allow me to take _verbatim_ copies of +inscriptions; so I merely transcribe faithfully every date, genealogical +note, and prominent event recorded upon monuments; omitting all +circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. By this means, much time +and labour are saved, and much useful and valuable information is +secured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or even drawings of the +most remarkable monuments; but this would occupy much time, and narrow +the means of collecting; and by which I should have lost much that is +valuable and interesting; copies, howsoever much they would have been +desirable, would not possess the character of legal evidence. Thus, upon +mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from +many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, +all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. I +have frequently found also that preserving an account of the relative +positions of gravestones is important; especially when groups of family +memorials occur in the same locality. I need scarcely add that I +preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found upon tombs and +hatchments, forming a collection of arms borne by various families; and +whether they stand the test of authority or not, at all events such +information is useful. + +What store of information might be obtained, by persons having leisure +and inclination to pursue such an object, by the simple means of an +ordinary pocket-memorandum-book! + + Thomas William King. + + Our next communication, from the Rev. Canon Raines, is valuable, + as showing that unless some limit is placed to the antiquarian + ardour of those who would "collect and record every existing + monumental inscription," the historical and genealogical inquirer + will be embarrassed by a mass of materials in which, like + Gratiano's reasons, the two grains of wheat will be hid in two + bushels of chaff--a mass, indeed, which, from its extent, would + require to be deposited with the Registrar-General, and arranged + by the practised hands of his official staff. + +MR. DUNKIN'S proposed record of existing monuments will be, if carried +into effect, a very useful contribution to genealogists. Many years +since I transcribed all the inscriptions _inside_ the parish church of +Rochdale, in Lancashire; but I never contemplated the possibility of any +antiquary having the ardour to undertake a similar _task outside_. There +are many thousands of gravestones, covering some _acres_; and I have +understood that when one side of a grave-stone has been covered with +inscriptions, the stone has been turned upside down, and the sculptor +has again commenced his endless work on the smooth surface. In a great +majority of these frail records nothing would be obtained which the +parish register could not supply. + + F. R. RAINES. + + Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale, June 4. + + Our correspondent from Bruges furnishes, like YORK HERALD, + valuable evidence as to what individual exertion may accomplish; + and we are sure, that if he will take the trouble of securing, + while he has the opportunity, a copy of the inscriptions in the + cemetery allotted to the English at Bruges, confining himself + merely to the names, dates, and genealogical information contained + in them, and will then deposit his collections either in the + Library of the Society of Antiquaries, or the Manuscript + Department of the British Museum, he will not only be setting a + good example to all antiquaries who may reside in any of the + cities of the Continent, but earn for himself hereafter the thanks + of many an anxious inquirer after genealogical truth. + +The communications made in your interesting "NOTES AND QUERIES" have +occasioned me much gratification, and if it be in my power to contribute +but a mite to this rich treasury of information, I should consider it a +privilege to be allowed to do so. To show that I am actuated by a +kindred spirit, permit me to inform you, that a few years ago I +undertook the formation of a desultory collection of "memorials of the +ancient dead," and with that view corresponded with several hundred +clergymen, inviting their local assistance; and I need scarcely add that +a prompt and courteous attention to my wishes, encouraged my labours, +and accomplished (so far as time and opportunity permitted) my object. +It will be obvious that I had no intention of aiming at specimens in the +higher department of monumental art, which have been so ably executed by +Gough, Stothard, Neale, and others, but to content myself with those +humbler efforts of skill which lay neglected and sometimes buried in +holes and corners in many a rural church in remote districts. + +The result has put me in possession of a collection of about three +hundred illustrations, consisting of pen-and-ink outlines, pencil +sketches, Indian ink drawings, and some more highly finished paintings +in water colour; and in addition to these, upwards of two hundred +autograph letters from clergymen, many of which contain not only +inscriptions, but interesting parochial and topographical information. + +The illustrations I have arranged (as well as I am able) in centuries, +commencing with the plain cope lid of the eleventh century, according to +the plan adopted by M. H. Bloxam, Esq., in his admirable treatise +modestly intitled _A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and +Sculpture of Great Britain_. The volume made for their reception is an +atlas-folio, guarded; on one leaf is inserted the drawing, on the other +the letter (if any) which accompanied it, to which are added a few brief +memoranda of my own: it is still, however, in an unfinished state. + +The book is a very cumbrous one, so that its transmission would be no +very easy task; if, however, it should be thought desirable, and the +practicability explained, I shall have much pleasure in placing its +contents at the disposal of any one engaged in following out the plan +proposed. + +Allow me to add that, about a mile distant from the quaint and +interesting city from whence this "note" is dated (and in which I have +resided for some time), we come to the cemetery, a portion of which is +allotted to the interment of those English residents, or visitors, who +may have terminated their earthly career at this place. Should a copy of +the inscriptions in this receptacle (which are numerous) be acceptable, +I will endeavour to procure one; but in this case I should be glad to +know whether these extracts should be confined to names, dates, and +genealogical information only, or include the various tributes of +affection or of friendship, by which they are generally accompanied. + + M. W. B. + + Bruges. + + + + +Notes. + + +ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. IX. + +_The Astronomical Evidence of the True Date of the Canterbury +Pilgrimage._ + +As a conclusion to my investigation of this subject, I wish to place +upon record the astronomical results on which I have relied in the +course of my observations; in order that their correctness may be open +to challenge, and that each reader may compare the actual phenomena, +rigidly ascertained with all the helps that modern science affords, with +the several approximations arrived at by Chaucer. And when it is +recollected that some at least of the facts recorded by him must have +been theoretical--incapable of the test of actual observation--it must +be admitted that his near approach to truth is remarkable: not the less +so that his ideas on some points were certainly erroneous; as, for +example, his adoption, in the _Treatise on the Astrolabe_, of Ptolemy's +determination of the obliquity of the ecliptic in preference to the more +correct value assigned to it by the Arabians of the middle ages. + +Assuming that the true date intended by Chaucer was Saturday the 18th of +April, 1388, the following particulars of that day are those which have +reference to his description:-- + + H. M. + + Right { Of the Sun at noon - 2 . 17·2 + Ascension { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 12 . 5·7 + { Of the star (δ. Virginis) 12 . 25 + + ° ′ + North { Of the Sun at noon - 13 . 47·5 + Declination { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 49·8 + { Of the star (δ. Virginis) 6 . 43·3 + + ° ′ + + { Of the Sun at 10 a. m. 45 . 15 + Altitude { Of the Sun at 4 p. m. 29 . 15 + { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 53 + { Of the star at 4 p. m. 4 . 20 + + Azimuth - Of the Sun at rising - 112 . 30 + + H. M. + + { Of the Sun at half Azimuth 9 . 17 a. m. + { Of the Sun at altitude 45° 9 . 58 a. m. + Apparent { Of the Sun at altitude 29° 4 . 2 p. m. + Time { Of apparent entrance + { of Moon's centre into Libra 3 . 45 p. m. + +It will be seen that, if the place here assigned to the moon be correct, +Chaucer could not have described it more appropriately than by the +phrase "In méné Libra:" providing (of which there can be little doubt) +that he used those words as synonymous with "in hedde of Libra." "Hedde +of Libra," "hedde of Aries," are expressions constantly used by him to +describe the equinoctial points; and the analogy that exists between +"head," in the sense head-land or promontory, as, for example, "Orme's +Head," "Holyhead," "Lizard Head," and the like; and "menez" in the same +sense, need not be further insisted upon. Evidence fully sufficient to +justify a much less obvious inference has been already produced, and I +am enabled to strengthen it still further by the following reference, +for which I am indebted to a private communication from H. B. C. + + "Menez, _s. m._ Grande masse de terre, ou de roche, fort élevée + au-dessus du sol de la terre. + + "Mean, ou Maen, _s. m._ Pierre, corps dur et solide qui se forme + dans la terre. + + "(En Treguier et Cornouailes), MÉNÉ." + + (Gonidec, _Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_. + Angoulême, 1821.) + +This last reference is doubly valuable, in referring the word _méné_ to +the very neighbourhood of the scene of Chaucer's "Frankleine's Tale," +and in dispensing with the terminal letter _z_, thereby giving us the +_verbum ipsissimum_ used by Chaucer. + +I must not be understood as entertaining the opinion that Chaucer's +knowledge of astronomy--although undoubtedly great, considering the age +in which he lived and the nature of his pursuits--would have enabled him +to determine the moon's true place, with such correctness, wholly from +theory; on the contrary, I look upon it as more probably the result of +real observation at the time named, and, as such, adding another link to +the chain of presumptive evidence that renders it more probable that +Chaucer wrote the prologues to his _Canterbury Tales_ more as a +narration (_with some embellishments_) of events that really took place, +than that they were altogether the work of his imagination. + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, June, 1851. + + +CURIOUS EPIGRAMS ON OLIVER CROMWELL. + +Looking carefully over a curious copy of the _Flagellum, or the Life and +Death, Birth and Buriall of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper_, printed for +Randal Taylor, 1672, I found on the back of the title the following +epigrams, written in a handwriting and ink corresponding to the date of +the book (which, by the way, is a late edition of the "little brown +lying book," by Heath, which Carlyle notices): as they are curious and +worth preserving, and I believe not to be met with elsewhere, I presume +they may be of some interest to your readers. The book is also full of +MS. marginal notes and remarks, evidently by some red-hot royalist, +which are also curious in themselves, and with a selection of which I +may some day trouble you should you wish it. + + _Under Gen. Cromwell's Picture, hung up in the Royal Exchange, + these Lines were written._ + + "Ascend ye Throne Greate Captaine and Divine + By th' will of God, oh Lyon, for they'r thine; + Come priest of God, bring oyle, bring Robes, bring Golde, + Bring crowns, bring scepters, 'tis high time t' unfold + Yor cloyster'd Buggs, yor State cheates, Lifte ye Rod + Of Steele, of Iron, of the King of God,-- + Pay all in wrath with interest. Kneeling pray + To Olivr Torch of Syon, Starr of Day. + Shoute then you Townds and Cyties, loudly Sing, + And all bare-headed cry, God save ye King!" + + _The Repartee, unto this Blasphemie._ + + "Descende thou great Usurper from ye throne, + Thou, throughe thy pride, tooke what was not thine owne; + A Rope did better fitte thee than a Crowne, + Come Carnifex, and put ye Traytor downe, + For crownes and sceptres, and such sacred things + Doe not belong to Traytors, but to Kings; + Let therefoe all true Loyall subjects sing, + Vive le Roy! Long Live! God bless ye King!" + +In regard to the little controversy which I started regarding Bunyan's +claim to be author of the _Visions of Heaven and Hell_, I hope soon to +decide it, as I am on the scent of a copy of, I believe, a first +edition, which does not claim him for author. + + JAMES FRISWELL. + + 12. Brooke Street, Holborn. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Popular Superstitions in Lancashire._--That a man must never "go a +courting" on a Friday. If an unlucky fellow is caught with his lady-love +on that day, he is followed home by a band of musicians playing on +pokers, tongs, pan-lids, &c., unless he can rid himself of his +tormentors by giving them money to drink with. + +That hooping-cough will never be taken by any child which has ridden +upon a bear. While bear baiting was in fashion, great part of the +owner's profits arose from the money given by parents whose children had +had a ride. The writer knows of cases in which the charm is said +certainly to have been effectual. + +That hooping-cough may be cured by tying a hairy caterpillar in a small +bag round the child's neck, and as the caterpillar dies the cough goes. + +That Good Friday is the best day of all the year to begin weaning +children, which ought if possible to be put off till that day; and a +strong hope is sometimes entertained that a very cross child will "be +better" after it has been christened. + +That May cats are unlucky, and will suck the breath of children. + +That crickets are lucky about a house, and will do no harm to those who +use them well; but that they eat holes in the worsted stockings of such +members of the family as kill them. I was assured of this on the +experience of a respectable farmer's family. + +The belief in ghosts, or bogards, as they are termed, is universal. + +In my neighbourhood I hardly know a dell where a running stream crosses +a road by a small bridge or stone plat, where there is not frectnin +(frightening) to be expected. Wells, ponds, gates, &c., have often this +bad repute. I have heard of a calf with eyes like a saucer, a woman +without a head, a white greyhound, a column of white foam like a large +sugar-loaf in the midst of a pond, a group of little cats, &c., &c., as +the shape of the bogard, and sometimes a lady who jumped behind hapless +passengers on horseback. It is supposed that a Romish priest can lay +them, and that it is best to cheat them to consent to being laid while +hollies are green. Hollies being evergreens, the ghosts can reappear no +more. + + P. P. + +_Folk Lore in Lancashire_ (Vol. iii., p. 55.).--Most of, if not all the +instances mentioned under this head by Mr. Wilkinson are, as might be +expected, current also in the adjacent district of the West Riding of +Yorkshire; and, by his leave, I will add a few more, which are familiar +to me: + +1. If a cock near the door crows with his face towards it, it is a sure +prediction of the arrival of a stranger. + +2. If the cat frisks about the house in an unusually lively manner, +windy or stormy weather is approaching. + +3. If a dog howls under a window at night, a death will shortly happen +in that house. + +4. If a _female_ be the first to enter a house on Christmas or New +Year's day, she brings ill luck to that house for the coming year. + +5. For hooping-cough, pass the child nine times over the back and under +the belly of an ass. (This ceremony I once witnessed, but cannot vouch +for its having had the desired effect.) + +6. For warts, rub them with a cinder, and this tied up in paper and +dropped where four roads meet, will transfer the warts to whoever opens +the packet. + + J. EASTWOOD. + + Ecclesfield. + +_Lancashire Customs._--The curfew is continued in many of the villages, +and until the last ten or fifteen years it was usual at a Roman Catholic +funeral to ring a merry peal on the bells as soon as the interment was +over. The Roman Catholics seem now to have discontinued this practice. + +Carol singing and hand-bell ringing prevail at Christmas, and troops of +men and children calling themselves _pace eggers_, go about in Passion +Week, and especially Good Friday, as mummers in the south of England do +at Christmas. Large tallow candles may often be seen decorated with +evergreens, hanging up in the houses of the poor at Christmas time. + + P. P. + +_Od._--One of the experiments by which the existence of this agency is +tested, consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the +forefinger, and suspending to it a smooth gold ring. When the elbow is +rested on the table, and the finger held in a horizontal position, the +ring begins to oscillate in the plane of the direction of the finger; +but if a female takes hold of the left hand of the person thus +experimenting, the ring begins forthwith to oscillate in a plane at +right angles to that of its former direction. I have never tried the +experiment, for the simple reason that I have not been able to prevail +upon any married lady of my acquaintance to lend me her wedding-ring for +the purpose; and even if I had found it come true, I should still doubt +whether the motion were not owing to the pulsations of the finger veins; +but whatever be the cause, the fact is not new. My father recently told +me, that in his boyhood he had often seen it tried as a charm. For this +purpose it is essential, as may be supposed, that the ring be a +wedding-ring, and of course the lady towards whom it oscillates is set +down as the future spouse of the gentleman experimenting. + + R. D. H. + +_Pigeons._--The popular belief, that a person cannot die with his head +resting on a pillow containing pigeons' feathers, is well known; but the +following will probably be as new to many of your readers as it was to +myself. On applying the other day to a highly respectable farmer's wife +to know if she had any pigeons ready to eat, as a sick person had +expressed a longing for one, she said, "Ah! poor fellow! is he so far +gone? A pigeon is generally almost the last thing they want; I have +supplied many a one for the like purpose." + + J. EASTWOOD. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar._--Perhaps you may think it +worth while to preserve a note written by the late Rev. Dr. Scott on the +498th page of the second volume of Harrison's _Life of Lord Nelson_, in +contradiction of a bombastic description therein given of the admiral's +dress and appearance at the battle of Trafalgar. + + "This is wrong, he wore the same coat he did the day before; nor + was there the smallest alteration in his dress whatsoever from + other days. In this action he had not his sword with him on deck, + which in other actions he had always carried.--_A. J. Scott._" + +Dr. Scott was the chaplain and friend in whose arms Lord Nelson died. + +When the late Sir N. Harris Nicolas was engaged in a controversy in _The +Times_, respecting the sale of Lord Nelson's sword, I sent him a copy of +the above note, and told him I had heard Dr. Scott say that "the sword +was left hanging in the admiral's cabin." It was not found necessary to +make use of this testimony, as the dispute had subsided. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots._--The crucifix that belonged to this +unfortunate queen, and which she is said to have held in her hands on +the scaffold, is still preserved with great care by its present owners +(a titled family in the neighbourhood of Winchester), and at whose seat +I have frequently seen it. If I mistake not, the figure of our Saviour +is of ivory, and the cross of ebony. + + THE WHITE ROSE. + +_Jonah and the Whale._--In No. 76., p. 275., Mr. Gallatly calls +attention to the popular error in misquoting the expression from +Genesis: "In the sweat of thy face," &c. There is another popular error +which may not be known to some of your correspondents: it is generally +supposed that Jonah is recorded in the book bearing his name as having +been swallowed by a _whale_,--this is quite an error. The expressions is +"a great fish," and no such word as _whale_ occurs in the entire "Book +of Jonah." + + E. J. K. + +_Anachronisms of Painters._--I send you a further addition to the +"Anachronisms of Painters," mentioned in Vol. iii., p. 369., and, like +them, not in D'Israeli's list. + +My father (R. Robinson, of the Heath House, Wombourne) has in his +collection a picture by Steenwyk, of the "Woman taken in Adultery," in +which our Lord is made to write in _Dutch_! The scene also takes place +in a church of the architecture of the thirteenth century! + + G. T. R. + + Wombourne, near Wolverhampton. + + + + +Queries. + + +Minor Queries. + +_Rifles._--"_We_ make the best rifles, and you follow us," said the +exhibitor of Colt's revolvers, in my hearing, with a most satisfied +assurance, in a way "particularly communicative and easy," as _The +Times_ of the 9th of June says of his general manner. I am always +desirous of information, but desire the highest authority and evidence +before I believe. I would therefore ask the opinion of all experienced +sportsmen, such as Mr. Gordon Cumming, or of travelled officers of our +Rifle Brigade. I may say, that if the above unqualified remark came from +the mouth of an English maker, I should be equally incredulous. Is there +any use for which an American rifle is to be preferred to an English +one? + + A. C. + +_Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls._--Can any of your correspondents give +me any information respecting Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls, near +Romsey, Hants? There are the remains of a palace of the Saxon kings +still there, many parts of which are in good preservation, the chapel +being now used as the kitchen of Stanbridge House? + +I have also read that one of the kings was buried in this chapel, and +afterwards removed to Winchester; but, having no note of the book, +should be glad to be referred to it. + + COLLY WOBBLES. + +_Montchesni, or Muncey Family._--Can any of your correspondents inform +us what has become of the Norman line of Montchesni, or Muncey, a family +which, like those of Maldebauge and De Loges, held baronial rank in +England for several generations after the Conquest, though it is now +forgotten? + + P. + +_Epitaph on Voltaire._--The late Sir F. Jeffrey, in a review of the +correspondence of Baron de Grimm, quotes an epitaph on Voltaire, which +he states to have been made by a lady of Lausanne: + + "Ci gît l'enfant gaté du monde qu'il gata." + +Has the name of this lady been ascertained? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk._--In _Specimens of Coleridge's Table +Talk_ (p. 165., Murray, 1851) appears the following:-- + + "So little did the early bishops and preachers think their + Christian faith wrapped up in, and solely to be learned from, the + New Testament, that I remember a letter from ----[1] to a friend + of his, a bishop in the East, in which he most evidently speaks of + the _Christian_ scriptures as of works of which the bishop knew + little or nothing." + + [Footnote 1: "I have lost the name which Mr. Coleridge + mentioned."--_Editor's Note._] + +My object is to know how this blank is to be filled up--probably by the +name of some well-known father of the Church. + + GEORGE LEWES. + + Oxford, May 28. + +_"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."_--These words are +given in Young's _Night Thoughts_ as a quotation. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whence they are taken? + + E. J. K. + +_Etymology of Bicêtre._--In a work entitled _Description routière et +géographique de l'Empire Français_, by R. V., Paris, 1813, the following +notice of Bicêtre occurs in vol. i. p. 84.:-- + + "On voit bientôt, à peu de distance à droite, d'abord dans un + bas-fond, arrosé par la petite rivière de Bièvre ou des Gobelins, + le village de Gentilly, qui se vante de quelqu'ancienneté, et d'un + Concile tenu en 767; ensuite, sur une éminence, au bout d'une + jolie avenue en berceau, l'hôpital de Bicêtre, qui, fondé en 1290 + par un Evêque de Paris, appartint depuis, dit-on, à un Evêque de + Wincester ou Wincestre, d'où par corruption on a fait Bicêtre. + + "C'est une chose assez piquante que cette étymologie anglaise. Les + auteurs qui nous l'apprennent eussent bien dû nous en apprendre + aussi les circonstances. J'ai consulté à cet égard tout ce qui + était à consulter, sans faire d'autre découverte que quelques + contradictions dans les dates, et sans pouvoir offrir aucun + éclaircissement historique à mes lecteurs, aussi curieux que moi, + sans doute, de savoir comment un prélat anglais est venu donner le + nom de son évêché à un château de France." + +Is there any warrant in English history for this derivation of Bicêtre; +and if so, who was the Bishop of Winchester that gave the name of his +diocese to that celebrated hospital? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, June, 1851. + +_Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott._--M. Barbier, in his +_Dictionnaire des Ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes_, says that Michael +Scott is a pseudonyme for Theobald Anguilbert, and ascribes the _Mensa +philosophica_ to the latter as the real author. Can any one tell me who +is Theobald Anguilbert, for I can find no account of him anywhere? and +if there ever was such a person, whether _all_ the writings bearing the +name of Michael Scott, who, by all accounts, appears to have been a real +person, are to be assigned to the said Anguilbert? + + TYRO. + + Dublin. + +_"Suum cuique tribuere," &c._--Can any of your readers tell me where the +following passage is to be found? + + "Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est." + +All persons of whom I have inquired, tell me it is from Cicero, but no +one can inform me _where_ it is to be found. + + M. D. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Organs first put up in Churches._--In the parish register of Buxted, in +Sussex, allusion is made to the time when the organs were put up in the +church, but which had been taken down. This entry was made in the year +1558. Any information as to the earliest period when organs were placed +in our churches will much oblige. + + R. W. B. + + [Our correspondent will find some interesting matter on the early + use of organs in churches in the Rev. F. D. Wackerbath's _Music + and the Anglo-Saxons_, pp. 6-24. London. 8vo. 1837.] + +_Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c._--Perhaps some of your correspondents can +enlighten me on the following points. + +1. Who was the author of this play? The Latin is sufficiently +ultra-canine for his pedantic majesty himself. + +2. Do the words "coram Regia Maiestate _Jacobi, Regis Angliæ_," &c., +mean that the play was acted in the presence of the king? I am inclined +to give them that interpretation from some allusions at the end of the +last act, as well as from its being written in Latin. + +3. Are any of the race-courses therein mentioned still used as such? + + "In Stadio Roystoniensi, Brackliensi, Gatterliensi, Coddington." + +This is the earliest mention of _fixed_ English race-courses that I have +met with, and not being much versed in the secrets of the modern +"cespite vivo," I am obliged to inquire of those who are better informed +on that subject. + + F. J. + + [The author of _Ignoramus_ was George Ruggles, A. M., of Clare + Hall, Cambridge. This comedy, as well as that of _Albumazar_, were + both acted before King James I. and the Prince of Wales, during a + visit to Cambridge in March, 1614-15. The edition of _Ignoramus_, + edited by J. S. Hawkins, 8vo., 1787, contains a Life of Ruggles, + and a valuable Glossary to his "ultra-canine Latin" legal terms. + There is also a translation of this comedy, with the following + title: "_Ignoramus: a Comedy as it was several times acted with + extraordinary applause before the Majesty of King James._ With a + Supplement, which (out of respect to the Students of the Common + Law) was hitherto wanting. Written in Latine by R. Ruggles, + sometime Master of Arts in Clare Hall, in Cambridge, and + translated into English by R. C. [Robert Codrington, A. M.] of + Magdalen Colledge, in Oxford. London. 4to. 1662."] + +_Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica._--Will any of your learned readers +inform me, for what reason and by what authority Drake's _Historia +Anglo-Scotica_, published in 1703, was ordered to be burned by the +hangman? And where I can meet with a report of the proceedings relating +to it? + + FRA. MEWBURN. + + Darlington. + + [Dr. Drake was not the author, but merely the editor of _Historia + Anglo-Scotica_. In the dedication he says, "Upon a diligent + revisal, in order, if possible, to discover the name of the + author, and the age of his writing, he found that it was written + in, or at least not finished till, the time of Charles I." It is + singular, however, that he does not give the least intimation by + what mysterious influence the manuscript came to be wafted into + his library. It was ordered by the parliament of Scotland, on the + 30th of June, 1703, to be burned by the common hangman.] + + + + +Replies. + + +CORPSE PASSING MAKES A RIGHT WAY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 477.) + +The fact of the passage of a funeral procession over land, from being an +act of user of a very public character, must always have had some +influence on the trial of the question whether the owner of the land had +dedicated the same to the public; and it is not improbable that in early +times very great weight was attached to evidence of this kind: so that +the passage of a corpse across land came to be considered in the popular +mind as conclusive and incontrovertible evidence of a public right of +way over that land. With the reverence for the dead which is so pleasing +a characteristic of modern refinement, it is probable that acts of user +of this description would now have little weight, inasmuch as no man of +right feeling would be disposed to interrupt parties assembled on so +mournful and solemn an occasion. I recollect, however, having read a +trial in modern times for a riot, arising out of a forcible attempt to +carry a corpse over a field against the will of the landowner; the +object of the parties in care of the corpse was believed to be the +establishment of a public right of way over the field in question, the +owner of which, with a body of partisans, forcibly resisted the attempt, +on the apparent belief that the act of carrying a corpse across the +field would certainly have established the right claimed. I regret I did +not "make a Note" of the case, so as to be able to specify the time, +place, and circumstances with certainty. + +That the notion in question is of great antiquity may I think be +inferred from the following passage in _Prynne's Records_, iii. 213., +referring to Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280 (and as the +authority for which, Prynne cites Holinshed's _Chronicle_, 1303, 1304; +and Godwin's _Catalogue of Bishops_, 326.):-- + + "He did by a Policy purchase the Lordship and House of Clift + Sachfeld, and enlarged the Barton thereof by gaining of Cornish + Wood from the Dean and Chapter fraudulently; building then a very + fair and sumptuous house there; he called it Bishop's Clift, and + left the same to his successors. Likewise he got the Patronage of + Clift Fomesone, now called Sowton, and annexed the same to his new + Lordship, which (as it was said) he procured by this means. He had + a Frier to be his Chaplain and Confessor, which died in his said + House of Clift, and should have been buried at the Parish Church + of Faringdon, because the said House was and is in that Parish; + but because the Parish Church was somewhat farre off, the wayes + foul, and the weather rainy, or for some other causes, the Bishop + commanded the corps to be carryed to the parish church of Sowton, + then called Clift Fomeson, which is very near, and bordereth upon + the Bishop's Lordship; the two Parishes being then divided by a + little Lake called Clift. At this time one Fomeson, a Gentleman, + was Lord and Patron of Clift Fomeson; and he, being advertised of + such a Burial towards in his Parish, and a leech way to be made + over to his Land, without his leave or consent required therein; + calleth his Tenants together, goeth to the Bridge over the lake + between the Bishop's Land and his; there meeteth the Bishop's men, + bringing the said Corps, and forbiddeth them to come over the + water. The men nothing regarding the Prohibition, do press + forwards to come over the water, and the others do withstand, so + long, that in the end, my Lord's Fryer is fallen into the Water. + The Bishop taketh this matter in such grief, that a holy Fryer, a + Religious man, his own Chaplain and Confessor, should be so + unreverently cast into the Water, that he falleth out with the + Gentleman, and upon what occasion I know not, he sueth him in the + Law (in his own Ecclesiastical Court, where he was both party and + Judge), and so vexeth and tormenteth him, that in the end he was + fain to yeeld himself to the Bishop's devotion, and seeketh all + the wayes he could to carry the Bishop's good will, which he could + not obtain, until for redemption he had given up and surrendered + his patronage of Sowton, with a piece of land; all which the said + Bishop annexed to his new Lordship." + +In "An Exhortation, to be spoken to such Parishes where they use their +Perambulation in Rogation Week; for the Oversight of the Bounds and +Limits of their Town," is a curious passage, which I subjoin: + + "It is a shame to behold the insatiableness of some covetous + persons in their doings; that where their ancestors left of their + land a broad and sufficient bier-balk, to carry the corpse to the + Christian sepulture, how men pinch at such bier-balks, which by + long use and custom ought to be inviolably kept for that purpose; + and now they quite eat them up, and turn the dead body to be borne + farther about in the high streets; or else, if they leave any such + meer, it is too straight for two to walk on."--_Homilies_, ed. + Corrie, p. 499. + +It may perhaps be considered not quite irrelevant here to state that +there seems once to have been an opinion, that the passage of the +sovereign across land had the effect of making a highway thereon. The +only allusion, however, to this opinion which I can call to mind, occurs +in Peck's _Antiquarian Annals of Stanford_, lib. xi. s. xii.; an extract +from which follows:-- + + "From Stanford King Edward, as I conceive, went to Huntingdon; for + in a letter of one of our kings dated at that town the 12th of + July (without any year or king's name to ascertain the time and + person it belongs to), the King writes to the aldermen and + bailiffs of Stanford, acquainting them, that, when he came to + Stanford, he went through Pilsgate field (coming then I suppose + from Peterborough), and, it being usual it seems that whatever way + the King rides to any place (though the same was no public way + before) for everybody else to claim the same liberty afterwards, + and thenceforth to call any such new passage the King's highway; + being followed to Huntingdon by divers of his own tenants, + inhabitants of Pilsgate, who then and there represented the damage + they should sustain by such a practice, the King by his letters + immediately commanded that his passing that way should not be made + a precedent for other people's so doing, but did utterly forbid + and discharge them therefrom. His letter, directed 'to our dearly + beloved the alderman, bailiffs, and good people of our Town of + Stanford,' upon this occasion, is thus worded:--'Dear and + well-beloved friends, by the grievous complaint of our beloved + lieges and tenents of the town of Pillesyate near our town of + Staunford, we have understood, that, in as much as, on Tuesday + last, we passed through the middle of a meadow and a certain + pasture there called Pillesyate meadow appertaining to the said + town of Pillesyate, you, and others of the country circumjacent, + claim to have and use an high way royal to pass through the middle + of the said meadow and pasture, to the great damage and disseisin + of our said lieges and tenents, whereupon they have supplicated + for a remedy; so we will, if it be so, and we command and charge + firmly, that you neither make nor use, nor suffer to be made nor + used by others of our said town of Staunford, nor others + whatsoever, no high road through the middle of the said meadow and + pasture; but that you forbear from it entirely, and that you cause + it to be openly proclaimed in our said town, that all others of + our said town and the country round it, do likewise; to the end + that our said tenents may have and peaceably enjoy the said meadow + and pasture, so, and in the manner, as they have done before these + times, without disturbance or impeachment of you or others, of + what estate or condition soever they be, notwithstanding that we + passed that way in manner as is said. And this in no manner fail + ye. Given under our signet at Huntyngdon the 12th day of July.'" + +I am unable to say whether the opinion it was the object of the above +royal letter to refute was general, or was peculiar to the "good people" +of Stanford, "and others of the country circumjacent." + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, June 18. 1851. + + +DOZEN OF BREAD; BAKER'S DOZEN + +(Vol. ii., p. 298.; Vol iii., p. 153.). + +From the following extracts from two of the "Bury Wills" recently +published by the Camden Society, it would appear that a dozen of bread +always consisted of _twelve_ loaves; and that the term "Baker's dozen" +arose from the practice of giving, in addition to the _twelve_ loaves, a +further quantity as "_inbread_," in the same manner as it is (or until +recently was) the custom to give an extra bushel of coals as "ingrain" +upon the sale of a large quantity; a chaldron, I believe. + +Francis Pynner, of Bury, Gent., by will, dated April 26, 1639, gave to +feoffees certain property upon trust (_inter alia_) out of the rents, +upon the last Friday in every month in the year, to provide one twopenny +loaf for each of forty poor people in Bury, to be distributed by the +clerk, sexton, and beadle of St. Mary's parish, who were to have the +"_inbread of the said bread_." And the testator also bequeathed certain +other property to feoffees upon trust to employ the rents as follows +(that is to say):-- + + "The yerely sūme of ffiue pounds p'cell of the said yerely + rents to be bestowed in wheaten bread, to be made into _penny_ + loaves, and upon eu'y Lord's day, called Sonday, throughout eu'y + yere of the said terme [40 years or thereabouts], _fowre_ and + _twenty_ loaves of the said bread, with the _inbread_ allowed by + the baker for those _twoe dosens_ of bread, to be timely brought + and sett vpon a forme towards the vpp' end of the chancell of the + said p'ish church of St. Marie, and ... the same _twoe dosens_ of + bread to be giuen and distributed ... to and amongst fowre and + twentie poore people ... the p'ish clarke and sexton of the said + church, and the beadle of the said p'ish of St. Marie for the time + then being, shall alwaies be three which from time to time shall + haue their shares and parts in the said bread. And they, the said + clarke, sexton, and bedell, shall alwaies haue the _inbread_ of + all the bread aforesaid ovr and besides their shares in the said + twoe dosens of bread from time to time----" + +And William Fiske, of Pakenham, Gent., by will, dated March 20, 1648, +provided twelvepence a week to pay weekly for _one dozen_ of bread which +his mind was, should "be weekly given vnto twelue _or thirteene_" +persons therein referred to. + + J. B. COLMAN. + + Eye, June 16. 1851. + + +MOSAIC. + +(Vol. iii., p. 389.) + +Among the various kinds of picturesque representation, practised by the +Greeks and Romans, and transmitted by them to after times, is that of +_Mosaic_, a mode of execution which, in its durability of form, and +permanency of colour, possesses distinguished advantages, being +unaffected by heat or cold, drought or moisture, and perishing only with +the building to which it has been originally attached. This art has been +known in Rome since the days of the Republic. The severer rulers of that +period forbade the introduction of foreign marbles, and the republican +mosaics are all in black and white. Under the Empire the art was greatly +improved, and not merely by the introduction of marbles of various +colours, but by the invention of artificial stones, termed by the +Italians _Smalti_, which can be made of every variety of tint. This art +was never entirely lost. On the introduction of pictures into Christian +temples, they were first made of _mosaic_: remaining specimens of them +are rude, but profoundly interesting in an historical point of view. +When art was restored in Italy, mosaic also was improved; but it +attained its greatest perfection in the last and present century. _Roman +mosaic, as now practised, may be described as being the production of +pictures by connecting together numerous minute pieces of coloured +marble or artificial stones. These are attached to a ground of copper, +by means of a strong cement of gum mastic, and other materials, and are +afterwards ground and polished, as a stone would be, to a perfectly +level surface._ By this art not only are ornaments made on a small +scale, but pictures of the largest size are copied. The most remarkable +modern works are the copies which have been executed of some of the most +important works of the great masters, for the altars in St. Peter's. +These are, in every respect, perfect imitations of the originals; and +when the originals, in spite of every care, must change and perish, +these mosaics will still convey to distant ages a perfect idea of the +triumphs of art achieved in the fifteenth century. _Twenty years_ were +employed in making one of the copies I have mentioned. The pieces of +mosaic vary in size from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch, and eleven +men were employed for that time on each picture. A great improvement was +introduced into the art in 1775, by Signor Raffaeli, who thought of +preparing the _smalti_ in what may be termed fine threads. _The pastes +or smalti are manufactured at Venice, in the shape of crayons, or like +sticks of sealing-wax, and are afterwards drawn out by the workman, by a +blowpipe, into the thickness he requires, often almost to an hair, and +are seldom thicker than the finest grass stalk._ For tables, and large +articles, of course, the pieces are thicker; but the beauty of the +workmanship, the soft gradation of the tints, and the cost, depend upon +the _minuteness_ of the pieces, and the skill displayed by the artist. A +ruin, a group of flowers or figures, will employ a good artist about two +months, when only two inches square; and a specimen of such a +description costs from 5_l._ to 20_l._, according to the execution: a +landscape, six inches by four, would require eighteen months, and would +cost from 40_l._ to 50_l._ For a picture of Pæstum, eight feet long by +twenty inches broad, on which four men were occupied for three years, +1000_l._ sterling was asked. The mosaic work of Florence differs +entirely from Roman mosaic, being composed of stones inserted in +comparatively large masses. It is called work in _pietra dura_; the +stones used are all of a more or less precious nature. In old specimens, +the most beautiful works are those in which the designs are of an +arabesque character. The most remarkable specimen of this description of +_pietra dura_, is an octagonal table, in the _Gubinetto di Baroccio_, in +the Florence Gallery. It is valued at 20,000_l._ sterling, and was +commenced in 1623 by Jacopo Detelli, from designs by Ligozzi. Twenty-two +artists worked upon it without interruption till it was terminated, in +the year 1649. + +One principal distinction between the ancient and modern mosaic is, I +believe, that the former was arranged in _patterns_, the latter +_coloured in shades_. I shall not take up your columns by dwelling on +the ancient mosaic, which, as all know was in use among the Orientals, +especially the Persians and Assyrians; and from the Easterns the Greeks +received the art. In the Book of Esther, i. 6., we have an allusion to a +mosaic pavement; and Schleusner understands the Λιθόστρωτον of +St. John, xix. 13., to mean a sort of elevated mosaic pavement. Andrea +Tafi, towards the close of the thirteenth century, is said to have +revived this art in Italy, having learned it from a Greek named +Apollonius, who worked at the church of St. Mark at Venice, and to have +been the founder of the modern mosaic. + +Now for the derivation. The Lithostrata, or tesselated pavements of the +Romans, being worked in a regular and mechanical manner, were called +_opus musivum, opera qua ad amussim facta sunt_. Hence the Italian +_musaico_, from whence is derived our appellation of _mosaic_; but, like +most of our arts, through the channel of the French _mosaïque_. (Vide +Pitisci _Lexicon_, ii. 242.; Roscoe's _Life of Lorenzo de Medici_; +Winkelman; _Pompeiana_, by Gell; Smith's _Greek and Roman Antiq._; +Beckman's _Inventions_; and _Récherches sur la Peinture en Mosaïque chez +les Anciens_, &c., annexed to his _Description d'un Pavé en Mosaïque_, +&c.: Paris, 1802.) + + GERONIMO. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Prenzie_ (Vol. iii., p. 401.)--Several words have been suggested to +take the place of the unintelligible "_prenzie_" in _Measure for +Measure_; but none of them appear to me to satisfy all the four +conditions justly required by Leges. + +I would suggest _phrensied_ or _phrenzied_, a word extremely like +_prenzie_ both in sound and appearance, and of the proper metre, thus +perfectly satisfying two of the conditions. + +With respect to the propriety of using this word in the two instances +where _prenzie_ occurs, Claudio, in the first place, when informed by +his sister of the villany of Angelo, may well exclaim in astonishment-- + + "The _phrenzied_ Angelo?" + +_i.e._ "What, is he mad?" or, with a note of admiration, "Why, Angelo +must be mad!" Then, I think, naturally follows Isabella's reply:-- + + "O 'tis the cunning livery of Hell, + The damned'st body to invest and cover + In _phrenzied_ guards!" + +that is, in the disguise or under the cloak of madness. + +Johnson defines Frenzy to be + + "Madness; distraction of mind; alienation of understanding; any + violent passion approaching to madness." + +and surely Angelo's _violent passion_ for Isabella, and his +determination to gratify it at all risks, may, properly be said to +_approach to madness_. + + W. G. M. + +There is a Scotch word so nearly resembling this, and at the same time +so exactly answering to the sense which the passage in _Measure for +Measure_ requires, that it may be worth while calling the attention of +the Shakspearian commentators to it. In Allan Cunningham's Glossary to +Burns, I find _Primsie_, which he defines to mean _demure_, _precise_. +An old Scotch proverb is quoted, in which the word is used: + + "A _primsie_ damsel makes a laidlae dame." + +The term is evidently connected with, or formed from, the English +_prim_, which has the same sense. It seems this was formerly sometimes +written _prin_. Halliwell cites from Fletcher's poems the lines-- + + "He looks as gaunt and prin, as he that spent + A tedious twelve years in an eager Lent." + +Now if from _prim_ be formed the secondary adjective _primsie_, so from +_prin_ we get _prinsie_ or _prinzie_. But without resorting to the +supposition of the existence of this latter word, it is evident that in +_primzie_, which does or did exist, we have a word answering all the +conditions laid down by Leges for determining the true reading, more +nearly than any other that has been suggested. + + CEBES. + + [Dr. Jamieson, in his _Scottish Dictionary_, defines Primsie, + demure, precise, S. from E. _prim_. + + "Poor Willie, wi' his bow-kail runt + Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie." + + Burns, iii. 129.] + +_Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest_ (Vol. iii., p. 443.).--Were the beautiful +lines entitled "Lady Flora's Bequest" in reality written by that +lamented lady? They are not to be found in the volume of her Poems +published after her death by her sister, the Marchioness of Bute; and +they did appear in _The Christian Lady's Magazine_ for September, 1839, +with the signature of Miss M. A. S. Barber appended to them. + +In the preceding Number of the same magazine there is a very touching +account of Lady Flora, from the pen of its talented editress, who +mentions the fact of Lady Flora having with her _dying hand_ "delivered +to her fond brother a little Bible, the gift of her mother, requesting +him to restore it to that beloved parent with the assurance that from +the age of seven years, when she received it from her, it had been her +best treasure; and, she added, her sole support under all her recent +afflictions." + +If your correspondent Erza has never seen that obituary notice (Seeleys, +publishers) I think she will be glad to meet with it. + + L. H. K. + +_Arches of Pelaga_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--This term is in common use +among sailors, meaning the Mediterranean Archipelago, and they may very +often be heard saying--"When I was up the Arches." + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 16. 1851. + +_Engraved Warming-Pans_ (Vol. iii., pp. 84. 115.).--I beg to add to the +lists of H. G. T., and E. B. Price. + +Some years ago I purchased one in Bradford, Wilts, and several at +Bedwyn Magna in the same county. The Bradford one bears an heraldic +nondescript animal with horns on its head and nose, and a coronet round +its neck, surrounded by-- + + "The . Lord . reseve . us . into . His . kingdom . 1616." + +One of the Bedwyn ones bears a lion passant holding a scimitar, with the +motto: + + "Feare . God . and . obay . the . king . 161--." + +The last figure of the date is obliterated. Another has a shield bearing +three tuns, surrounded by-- + + "The Vintners' arms." + +One in the possession of a farmer in the parish of Barton Turf, Norfolk, +bears an eagle with a human head at its feet, surrounded by-- + + "The . Erl . of . Darbeyes . arms." 1660. + + W. C. LUKIS. + + Great Bedwyn, June, 1851. + +_St. Pancras_ (Vol. iii., pp. 285. 397.).--St. Pancras was a native of +the province of Phrygia, the son of a nobleman of the name of Cledonius; +who, when at the point of death, strongly recommended this his only son, +together with his fortune, which was very great, to the care of his +brother Dionysius, he being the only near relative in being, the mother +having previously deceased. + +This trust Dionysius faithfully fulfilled, bringing up and loving his +nephew as he would have done his own son; and when, three years after +the death of Cledonius, he quitted his native country and proceeded to +Rome, the youthful Pancras accompanied him. Upon reaching the imperial +city, the uncle and nephew took up their residence in the same suburb +where the Pope Marcellinus had fled for concealment from the persecution +which had been raised against the Christians by the Emperors Diocletian +and Maximianus. Here they had not been long resident before the fame of +the great sanctity and virtue of Marcellinus reached their ears, and +caused an ardent desire in both to see and converse with one so highly +spoken of. A convenient opportunity was soon found, and in a short time +both the uncle and nephew, renouncing their idolatry, became converted +to the Christian faith. + +So strong was the effect produced upon them by this change, that the +chief desire of both was to die for their religion; and, without waiting +for the arrival of the officers who were continually searching for the +hidden Christians, they voluntarily surrendered themselves to the +ministers of justice. + +A few days after this event, however, Dionysius was called hence by a +natural death. + +Diocletian, who is said to have been a friend of Cledonius, and moved +perhaps by the youth and graceful appearance of Pancras, strove by +flattery and caresses to induce him to do sacrifice to the heathen gods; +to this proposition Pancras absolutely refused to consent, and +reproached the Emperor for his weakness in believing to be gods, men, +who, while on earth, had been remarkable for their vices. Diocletian, +stung by these reproaches, commanded that the youth should be instantly +beheaded, which sentence was immediately carried into execution. His +death is said to have taken place on 12th May, 303; the martyr being +then but fourteen years of age. + +The gate in Rome, rendered so remarkable lately as having been the chief +point attacked by the French troops, was formerly called Porta Aurelia; +but was subsequently named Porta Pancrazio, after this youthful +sufferer. + + R. R. M. + +_Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--Ferrante +Pallavicino was descended from a noble family, seated in Placenza. He +entered the monastery of Augustine Friars at Milan, where he became a +regular canon of the Lateran congregation. He was a man of fine genius, +and possessed great wit, but having employed it in writing several +satirical pieces against Urban VIII. during the war between the +Barberini and the Duke of Parma and Placenza, he became so detested at +the court of Rome, that a price was set on his head. One Charles Morfu, +a French villain, was bribed to ensnare him, and pretending to pass for +his friend and pity his misfortunes, persuaded him to go to France, +which he said would be much to his advantage. Pallavicino gave himself +up entirely to the direction of this false friend, who conducted him +over the bridge at Sorgues into the territory of Venaissin, where he was +arrested by people suborned for that purpose, was carried to Avignon, +thrown into a dungeon, from which he tried to make his escape, and in +the year 1644, after a fourteen months' imprisonment, was beheaded in +the flower of his age. He was the author of a number of small pieces, +all of which are marked by the lively genius of the author. They were +collected and published at Venice in 1655, and amongst them I found one +entitled "La disgracia del Conte d'Olivarez," which, perhaps, may be the +work Mr. Souley has in MS. + +For a more lengthy account of this unhappy and extraordinary man, I +would refer Mr. Souley to the life prefixed to his collected works, and +to that prefixed to a French translation of his _Divortio celeste_, +printed at Amsterdam in 1696; and also to the preface to the English +translation of that same very curious work, printed at London in 1718. + + WILLIAM BROWN, JUN. + +_Mind your P's and Q's_ (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 357. 463.).--When I +proposed this Query, I mentioned that I had heard one derivation of the +phrase. As it is different from either of those which have been sent, +it may, perhaps, be worth insertion. I was told by a printer that the +phrase had originated among those of his craft, since young compositors +experience great difficulty in discriminating between the types of the +two letters. + + R. D. H. + +[A correspondent has kindly suggested a new version of this saying, and +suggests that for the future our readers should be reminded to mind, not +their P's and Q's, but their N's and Q's.] + +_Banks, Family of_ (Vol. iii., pp. 390. 458.).--In No. 81. R. C. H. H. +asks if John Banks the philosopher was descended from Sir John Banks, +Lord Chief Justice in Charles I.'s reign. + +As a grandson of the former, I take great interest in this, but am sorry +to say that I can give no information at present on that branch of the +subject. The philosopher's family were settled for some generations at +Grange, near Keswick. I should be obliged if R. C. H. H. would +communicate the name and publisher of the book on the Lakes which he +quotes from, as I am exceedingly anxious to trace the genealogy. + + BAY. + + Liverpool, June 19. 1851. + +_National Debts_ (Vol. iii., p. 374.).--The following extract from _La +Cronica di Giovanni Villani_, lib. xii. c. 35., appears to have some +reference to the Query made by F. E. M.: + + "E nel detto mese di Febbraio, 1344, per lo comune si fece ordine, + che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere dal comune per le prestanze + fatte al tempo de' venti della balia, come addieto facemmo + menzione, che si trovarono fiorini cinquecento-settantamila d'oro, + sanza il debito di Messer Mastino della Scala, ch' erano presso a + centomila fiorini d'oro, che si mettessono in uno registro + ordinatemente; e dare il comune ogni anno di provvisione e + usufrutto cinque per centinaio, dando ogni mese la paga per rata; + e diputossi a fornire il detto guiderdone parte alla gabella delle + parti, e parte ad altre gabelle, che montava l'anno da fiorini + venticinque mila d'oro, dov' erano assegnate le paghe di Messer + Mastino; e pagato lui, fossone assignati alla detta satisfazione; + il quale Messer Mastino fu pagato del mese di Dicembre per lo modo + che diremo innanzi. E cominciossi la paga della detta provvisione + del mese d'Ottobre 1345." + + R. R. M. + +_Monte di Pietà_ (Vol. iii., p. 372.)--In reply to your correspondent W. +B. H., requesting to be informed of the connexion between a "Pietà" and +a "Monte di Pietà," it may be observed that there does not appear to be +any necessary connexion between the two expressions. The term "a Pietà" +is generally used to denote the figure of the dead Saviour attended by +His Blessed Mother: for example, the celebrated one in St. Peter's at +Rome. The word "Monte," besides its signification of "montagna," +expresses also "luogo publico ove si danno oi si pigliano denari ad +interesse;" also "luogo publico altresì dove col pegno si prestano +denari con piccolo interesse." + +"Pietà," in addition to its signification of "devozione," or "virtù per +cui si ama ed onora Dia," &c., which would apply to the figure of the +dead Saviour, expresses "compassione amorevole verso il suo simile." + +Monte di Pietà would therefore be a place where money was lent at +interest, on such terms as were in unison with a kind and compassionate +feeling towards our neighbour. This species of establishment was first +commenced in Italy towards the end of the fifteenth century, by Il Beato +Bernardino da Feltri, who carried his opposition to the Jews so far as +to preach a crusade against them. The earliest Monte of which any record +appears to exist was founded in the city of Padua in 1491; the effect of +which was to cause the closing of twelve loan banks belonging to the +Jews. + +From Italy they were shortly afterwards introduced into France. + +The first legal sanction given to these establishments was granted by +Pope Leo X. in 1551. + + R. R. M. + +_Registry of Dissenting Baptisms_ (Vol. iii., pp. 370. 460.).--From the +replies to my Query on this subject that have been published, it is +plain that in all parts of England Dissenters have wished to procure the +registry of their children's births or baptisms in their parish +churches. In some instances they have been registered _as dissenting +baptisms_; and then the fact appears from the Registry itself. In other +instances, and probably far the more numerous (though this would be +difficult to _prove_), they were registered among the canonical +baptisms; and the fact of their being performed by Dissenting Ministers +is only discoverable by reference to the Dissenting Register, when it +happens to have been preserved. So in the instances referred to in p. +370., the baptisms are registered without distinction from others in the +Registry of St. Peter's Church, Chester; but a duplicate registry _as on +the same day_ was made at Cross Lane Meeting House, which is, I believe, +not in St. Peter's parish; though, I presume, the residence of the +parents was in it. + + D. X. + +_Eisell_ (Vol. iii., pp. 66. 397.).--I am not aware that the following +passage has been quoted by any of the disputants in the late "Eisell" +controversy. It occurs in Jewel's _Controversy with Harding_, pp. 651-2. +of vol. ii. of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel's works. + + "A Christian man removeth his household, and, having there an + image of Christ, equal unto him in length, and breadth, and all + proportion, by forgetfulness leaveth it there in a secret place + behind him. A Jew after him inhabiteth the same house a long + while, and seeth it not; another strange Jew, sitting there at + dinner, immediately espieth it standing open against a wall.... + Afterward the priests and rulers of the Jews come together, and + abuse it with all villany. They crown it with a thorn, make it + drink _esel_ and gall, and stick it to the heart with a spear. Out + issueth blood in great quantity, the powers of Heaven are shaken; + the sun is darkened; the moon loseth her light." + + CUDYN GWYN. + +_English Sapphics_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--A beautiful specimen of this +measure, far superior in rhythm to the attempt of Dr. Watts, appeared in +the _Youth's Magazine_ twenty-five years ago. It consisted of the Psalm +"By the Waters of Babylon." I remember the last verse only. + + "Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever + Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion; + Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, + Land of my fathers." + H. E. H. + +_Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs_ (Vol. iii., p. 447.).--I beg to inform +Cowgill that the operation of the Mint of the Great Recoinage of 1696-7 +was performed in a room at St. Andrew's Hall, in this city; but the +amount there coined, or at any of the other places mentioned, I am not +able to inform him. The total amount said to be recoined was +6,882,908_l._ 19_s._ 7_d._ + + £ _s._ _d._ + + The amount at the Tower 5,091,121 7 7 + + And in the Country Mints 1,791,787 12 0 + + -------------------------- + + £6,882,908 19 7 + +The following are the names of persons employed in the Mint at +Norwich:-- + + Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer. + + Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder; Thomas Allen, his clerk. + + Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker; Mr. Beaser, his clerk. + + William Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, his clerk. + + Heneage Price, Gent., King's clerk. + + Mr. Rapier, Weigher and Teller. + + Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings. + + Mr. John Young, Deputy Graver. + + John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the Moneyers. + + Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Master, and his servant.--His brother, + Edger, and Lotterer of the Half-Crowns, Shillings, and Sixpences. + It is said crowns were not struck here, and I have never seen one + of this Mint. + +The whole of the work was finished here, September 29, 1698. + +In pulling up the floor of an old house, in Tombland, in 1847, a +quantity of the silver coin minted here was discovered, which, from the +appearance of the coins, were never in circulation: they were sold to +Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, for about 20_l._ No doubt the +coins were abstracted from the Mint during the process of coining. + +In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is the following entry, A. +D. 1717: + + "Joseph Nobbs, Parish Clerk of St. Gregory's, aged 89, was buried + November. 4, 1717, being the year following the last entry in his + Chronology. He was then 89 years of age, and, what is somewhat + remarkable, that is the age of the present Clerk of St. + Gregory's." + + G. H. I. + +P. S. Some other matters relative to this Mint are among my memoranda. + + Norwich, June 16. 1851. + +_Voltaire, where situated_ (Vol. iii., p. 329.).--Your correspondent V. +is informed, that the following particulars on the subject of his Query +are given in a note to the article "Voltaire," in Quérard's _France +Littéraire_, vol. x. p. 276.:-- + + "Voltaire est le nom d'un petit bien de famille, qui appartenait à + la mère de l'auteur de la '_Henriade_,'--Marie Catherine Daumart, + d'une famille noble du Poitou." + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476).--I must say I can see no +difficulty at all about _pilcher_. If the _r_ at the end makes it so +strange a word, leave that out, and then you will have a word, as it +seems, quite well established--_pylche_, toga pellice: Lye. Skinner +thinks _pilchard_ may be derived from it. + +"Pilch, an outer garment generally worn in cold weather, and made of +skins of fur. 'Pelicium, a pylche.' (_Nominale MS._) The term is still +retained in connected senses in our dialects. 'A piece of flannel, or +other woollen, put under a child next the clout is, in Kent, called a +_pilch_; a coarse shagged piece of rug laid over a saddle, for ease of a +rider, is, in our midland parts, called a pilch.' (_MS. Lansd._ 1033.) +'Warme pilche and warme shon.' (_MS. Digby_, 86.) 'In our old dramatists +the term is applied to a buff or leather jerkin; and Shakspeare has +_pilcher_ for the sheath of a sword." (Halliwell's _Dictionary_.) + +"_Pilche_, or _pilcher_, a scabbard, from _pylche_, a skin coat, Saxon. +A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a +carman. Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that +it was an external covering, and probably of leather. Kersey also calls +it a covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the sense of 'a +piece of flannel to be wrapt about a young child.' It seems, therefore, +to have been used for any covering." (Nares' _Glossary_.) + + C. B. + +_Catalogues of Coins of Canute_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--The following is +a copy of the title-page of the work referred to by Βορεας:--_A +Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England; with +Specimens._ London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 4to. 1777. It +consists of twenty-four pages, and was compiled by Richard Gough, Esq. + + J. Y. + +_Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--An +interesting notice of this work occurs in the _Retrospective Review_, +vol. xiii., pp. 181-213.; but neither in that article nor in any +bibliographical or biographical dictionary is the name of the translator +given. + + J. Y. + +_The First Panorama_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.).--I have often heard my father +say, that the first panorama exhibited was painted by Thomas Girtin, and +was a semicircular view of London, from the top of the Albion Mills, +near Blackfriars Bridge. It was exhibited in St. Martin's Lane, where, +not many years back, I saw it, it having been found rolled up in a loft +over a carpenter's shop. It was painted about 1793 or 1794, and my +father has some of the original sketches. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 2. + +_Written Sermons_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--If M. C. L. asks, when and why +written sermons took the place of extemporaneous discourses, I believe +it may be said that written sermons were first in vogue. Certainly, the +inability of most men to preach "without book," would be sufficient to +ensure their early introduction. According to Bingham (see _Ant. of the +Christian Church_, book xiv. chap. 4.), Origen was the first who +preached extemporaneously, and not until after he was sixty years old. +The great divines of the time of the English Reformation preached both +written and oral sermons: many of these, especially of the former, are +included in their printed works. The same remark also applies to the +early Fathers of the Church. The use of the homilies, which were drawn +up for the ignorant clergy at the Reformation, at once gave a sanction +to the practice of _writing_ sermons. The story of the preacher turning +over his hour-glass at Paul's Cross, and starting afresh, must of course +refer to an _unwritten_ discourse. Sermons, being explications of +scripture, used to follow the reading of the psalms and lessons: now, +for the same reason, they come after the epistle and gospel. In olden +time, the bishop was the only preacher, going from church to church, as +now-a-days[2], with the same sermon or charge; and he addressed the +people from the altar steps: afterwards the priest, as his deputy, +preached in the pulpit, but the deacons were not allowed to preach at +all. + + [Footnote 2: One of the highest dignitaries in our Church recently + declined to print a sermon, as requested; because, he frankly + said, he should want to preach it again.] + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Bogatsky_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--The little work, so justly popular in +England, under the title of Bogatsky's _Golden Treasury_, is by no means +a literal translation of the original; but was almost entirely +re-written by Venn, the author of the _Complete Duty of Man_. This I +state on good authority, as I believe; but I have never seen the +original. + + R. D. H. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Under the title of a _Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy: +First Course--Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Sound, +Optics_, Dr. Lardner has just issued a small closely printed volume with +the object of supplying that "information relating to physical and +mechanical science, which is required by the medical and law student, +the engineer and artisan, by those who are preparing for the +universities, and, in short, by those who, having already entered upon +the active pursuits of business, are still desirous to sustain and +improve their knowledge of the general truths of physics, and of those +laws by which the order and stability of the material world are +maintained." 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Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, June 28, 1851. + + + + + List of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-III: + + + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | + | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | + | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | + | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | + | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | + | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | + | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | + | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | + | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | + | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | + | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | + | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | + | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | + | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | + | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | + | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | + | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1-15 | PG # 12589 | + | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17-32 | PG # 15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33-48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49-64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65-79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81-96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1-15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17-31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33-47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49-78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81-95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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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, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: September 23, 2011 [EBook #37516] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 28, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Characters with macrons have been marked in +brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on +top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Original +spelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of volumes and +pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. III.--No. 87. SATURDAY, JUNE 28. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing + Monuments 513 + + NOTES:-- + + Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence + of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage 515 + + Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell 515 + + Folk Lore:--Popular Superstitions in Lancashire--Folk Lore + in Lancashire--Lancashire Customs--Od--Pigeons 516 + + Minor Notes:--Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at + Trafalgar--Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots--Jonah + and the Whale--Anachronisms of Painters 517 + + QUERIES:-- + + Minor Queries:--Rifles--Stanbridge Earls--Montchesni + or Muncey Family--Epitaph on Voltaire--Passage in + Coleridge's Table Talk--"Men may live Fools, but Fools + they cannot die"--Etymology of Bictre--Theobald + Anguilbert and Michael Scott--"Suum cuique tribuere," &c. 518 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Organs first put up in + Churches--Ignoramus, Comoedia, &c.--Drake's Historia + Anglo-Scotica 518 + + REPLIES:-- + + Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 519 + + Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman 520 + + Mosaic 521 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Prenzie--Lady Flora Hastings' + Bequest--Arches of Pelaga--Engraved Warming-pans--St. + Pancras--Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez--Mind your + P's and Q's--Banks Family--National Debts--Monte di + Piet--Registry of Dissenting Baptisms--Eisell--English + Sapphics--Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs--Voltaire, + where situated--Meaning of Pilcher--Catalogues of Coins + of Canute--Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway--The + First Panorama--Written Sermons--Bogatsky 522 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 526 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 527 + + Notices to Correspondents 527 + + Advertisements 527 + + + + +ON THE PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. + + + The following letters, which we have received since we last + brought the proposed scheme for preserving a record of existing + monuments under the notice of our readers, afford a striking proof + how widely the interest in the subject is extending. + + We print them now, partly because the Number of "NOTES AND + QUERIES" now in the reader's hands completes the present volume, + and it is desirable that the various communications upon this + point should, as far as possible, be found together; and partly + because the time is at hand when many of our readers may have the + opportunity, during their summer excursions, of following out the + plan described by our valued correspondent YORK HERALD in the + following letter:-- + +References to this subject having appeared in your valuable miscellany, +I am unwilling to lose an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my +mite of contribution towards the means of preserving monumental +inscriptions. It may be better perhaps, to state the humble method I +adopt in attempting to rescue from oblivion those memorials of the dead, +than to suggest any. I avail myself of occasions, whenever I visit the +country, to take notes of monumental inscriptions in churches and other +places of sepulture; generally of all within the walls of the sacred +edifice, and those of the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. +Time very often will not allow me to take _verbatim_ copies of +inscriptions; so I merely transcribe faithfully every date, genealogical +note, and prominent event recorded upon monuments; omitting all +circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. By this means, much time +and labour are saved, and much useful and valuable information is +secured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or even drawings of the +most remarkable monuments; but this would occupy much time, and narrow +the means of collecting; and by which I should have lost much that is +valuable and interesting; copies, howsoever much they would have been +desirable, would not possess the character of legal evidence. Thus, upon +mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from +many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, +all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. I +have frequently found also that preserving an account of the relative +positions of gravestones is important; especially when groups of family +memorials occur in the same locality. I need scarcely add that I +preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found upon tombs and +hatchments, forming a collection of arms borne by various families; and +whether they stand the test of authority or not, at all events such +information is useful. + +What store of information might be obtained, by persons having leisure +and inclination to pursue such an object, by the simple means of an +ordinary pocket-memorandum-book! + + Thomas William King. + + Our next communication, from the Rev. Canon Raines, is valuable, + as showing that unless some limit is placed to the antiquarian + ardour of those who would "collect and record every existing + monumental inscription," the historical and genealogical inquirer + will be embarrassed by a mass of materials in which, like + Gratiano's reasons, the two grains of wheat will be hid in two + bushels of chaff--a mass, indeed, which, from its extent, would + require to be deposited with the Registrar-General, and arranged + by the practised hands of his official staff. + +MR. DUNKIN'S proposed record of existing monuments will be, if carried +into effect, a very useful contribution to genealogists. Many years +since I transcribed all the inscriptions _inside_ the parish church of +Rochdale, in Lancashire; but I never contemplated the possibility of any +antiquary having the ardour to undertake a similar _task outside_. There +are many thousands of gravestones, covering some _acres_; and I have +understood that when one side of a grave-stone has been covered with +inscriptions, the stone has been turned upside down, and the sculptor +has again commenced his endless work on the smooth surface. In a great +majority of these frail records nothing would be obtained which the +parish register could not supply. + + F. R. RAINES. + + Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale, June 4. + + Our correspondent from Bruges furnishes, like YORK HERALD, + valuable evidence as to what individual exertion may accomplish; + and we are sure, that if he will take the trouble of securing, + while he has the opportunity, a copy of the inscriptions in the + cemetery allotted to the English at Bruges, confining himself + merely to the names, dates, and genealogical information contained + in them, and will then deposit his collections either in the + Library of the Society of Antiquaries, or the Manuscript + Department of the British Museum, he will not only be setting a + good example to all antiquaries who may reside in any of the + cities of the Continent, but earn for himself hereafter the thanks + of many an anxious inquirer after genealogical truth. + +The communications made in your interesting "NOTES AND QUERIES" have +occasioned me much gratification, and if it be in my power to contribute +but a mite to this rich treasury of information, I should consider it a +privilege to be allowed to do so. To show that I am actuated by a +kindred spirit, permit me to inform you, that a few years ago I +undertook the formation of a desultory collection of "memorials of the +ancient dead," and with that view corresponded with several hundred +clergymen, inviting their local assistance; and I need scarcely add that +a prompt and courteous attention to my wishes, encouraged my labours, +and accomplished (so far as time and opportunity permitted) my object. +It will be obvious that I had no intention of aiming at specimens in the +higher department of monumental art, which have been so ably executed by +Gough, Stothard, Neale, and others, but to content myself with those +humbler efforts of skill which lay neglected and sometimes buried in +holes and corners in many a rural church in remote districts. + +The result has put me in possession of a collection of about three +hundred illustrations, consisting of pen-and-ink outlines, pencil +sketches, Indian ink drawings, and some more highly finished paintings +in water colour; and in addition to these, upwards of two hundred +autograph letters from clergymen, many of which contain not only +inscriptions, but interesting parochial and topographical information. + +The illustrations I have arranged (as well as I am able) in centuries, +commencing with the plain cope lid of the eleventh century, according to +the plan adopted by M. H. Bloxam, Esq., in his admirable treatise +modestly intitled _A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and +Sculpture of Great Britain_. The volume made for their reception is an +atlas-folio, guarded; on one leaf is inserted the drawing, on the other +the letter (if any) which accompanied it, to which are added a few brief +memoranda of my own: it is still, however, in an unfinished state. + +The book is a very cumbrous one, so that its transmission would be no +very easy task; if, however, it should be thought desirable, and the +practicability explained, I shall have much pleasure in placing its +contents at the disposal of any one engaged in following out the plan +proposed. + +Allow me to add that, about a mile distant from the quaint and +interesting city from whence this "note" is dated (and in which I have +resided for some time), we come to the cemetery, a portion of which is +allotted to the interment of those English residents, or visitors, who +may have terminated their earthly career at this place. Should a copy of +the inscriptions in this receptacle (which are numerous) be acceptable, +I will endeavour to procure one; but in this case I should be glad to +know whether these extracts should be confined to names, dates, and +genealogical information only, or include the various tributes of +affection or of friendship, by which they are generally accompanied. + + M. W. B. + + Bruges. + + + + +Notes. + + +ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. IX. + +_The Astronomical Evidence of the True Date of the Canterbury +Pilgrimage._ + +As a conclusion to my investigation of this subject, I wish to place +upon record the astronomical results on which I have relied in the +course of my observations; in order that their correctness may be open +to challenge, and that each reader may compare the actual phenomena, +rigidly ascertained with all the helps that modern science affords, with +the several approximations arrived at by Chaucer. And when it is +recollected that some at least of the facts recorded by him must have +been theoretical--incapable of the test of actual observation--it must +be admitted that his near approach to truth is remarkable: not the less +so that his ideas on some points were certainly erroneous; as, for +example, his adoption, in the _Treatise on the Astrolabe_, of Ptolemy's +determination of the obliquity of the ecliptic in preference to the more +correct value assigned to it by the Arabians of the middle ages. + +Assuming that the true date intended by Chaucer was Saturday the 18th of +April, 1388, the following particulars of that day are those which have +reference to his description:-- + + H. M. + + Right { Of the Sun at noon - 2 . 172 + Ascension { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 12 . 57 + { Of the star ([Greek: delta] Virginis) 12 . 25 + + + North { Of the Sun at noon - 13 . 475 + Declination { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 498 + { Of the star ([Greek: delta] Virginis) 6 . 433 + + + + { Of the Sun at 10 a. m. 45 . 15 + Altitude { Of the Sun at 4 p. m. 29 . 15 + { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 53 + { Of the star at 4 p. m. 4 . 20 + + Azimuth - Of the Sun at rising - 112 . 30 + + H. M. + + { Of the Sun at half Azimuth 9 . 17 a. m. + { Of the Sun at altitude 45 9 . 58 a. m. + Apparent { Of the Sun at altitude 29 4 . 2 p. m. + Time { Of apparent entrance + { of Moon's centre into Libra 3 . 45 p. m. + +It will be seen that, if the place here assigned to the moon be correct, +Chaucer could not have described it more appropriately than by the +phrase "In mn Libra:" providing (of which there can be little doubt) +that he used those words as synonymous with "in hedde of Libra." "Hedde +of Libra," "hedde of Aries," are expressions constantly used by him to +describe the equinoctial points; and the analogy that exists between +"head," in the sense head-land or promontory, as, for example, "Orme's +Head," "Holyhead," "Lizard Head," and the like; and "menez" in the same +sense, need not be further insisted upon. Evidence fully sufficient to +justify a much less obvious inference has been already produced, and I +am enabled to strengthen it still further by the following reference, +for which I am indebted to a private communication from H. B. C. + + "Menez, _s. m._ Grande masse de terre, ou de roche, fort leve + au-dessus du sol de la terre. + + "Mean, ou Maen, _s. m._ Pierre, corps dur et solide qui se forme + dans la terre. + + "(En Treguier et Cornouailes), MN." + + (Gonidec, _Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_. + Angoulme, 1821.) + +This last reference is doubly valuable, in referring the word _mn_ to +the very neighbourhood of the scene of Chaucer's "Frankleine's Tale," +and in dispensing with the terminal letter _z_, thereby giving us the +_verbum ipsissimum_ used by Chaucer. + +I must not be understood as entertaining the opinion that Chaucer's +knowledge of astronomy--although undoubtedly great, considering the age +in which he lived and the nature of his pursuits--would have enabled him +to determine the moon's true place, with such correctness, wholly from +theory; on the contrary, I look upon it as more probably the result of +real observation at the time named, and, as such, adding another link to +the chain of presumptive evidence that renders it more probable that +Chaucer wrote the prologues to his _Canterbury Tales_ more as a +narration (_with some embellishments_) of events that really took place, +than that they were altogether the work of his imagination. + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, June, 1851. + + +CURIOUS EPIGRAMS ON OLIVER CROMWELL. + +Looking carefully over a curious copy of the _Flagellum, or the Life and +Death, Birth and Buriall of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper_, printed for +Randal Taylor, 1672, I found on the back of the title the following +epigrams, written in a handwriting and ink corresponding to the date of +the book (which, by the way, is a late edition of the "little brown +lying book," by Heath, which Carlyle notices): as they are curious and +worth preserving, and I believe not to be met with elsewhere, I presume +they may be of some interest to your readers. The book is also full of +MS. marginal notes and remarks, evidently by some red-hot royalist, +which are also curious in themselves, and with a selection of which I +may some day trouble you should you wish it. + + _Under Gen. Cromwell's Picture, hung up in the Royal Exchange, + these Lines were written._ + + "Ascend ye Throne Greate Captaine and Divine + By th' will of God, oh Lyon, for they'r thine; + Come priest of God, bring oyle, bring Robes, bring Golde, + Bring crowns, bring scepters, 'tis high time t' unfold + Yor cloyster'd Buggs, yor State cheates, Lifte ye Rod + Of Steele, of Iron, of the King of God,-- + Pay all in wrath with interest. Kneeling pray + To Olivr Torch of Syon, Starr of Day. + Shoute then you Townds and Cyties, loudly Sing, + And all bare-headed cry, God save ye King!" + + _The Repartee, unto this Blasphemie._ + + "Descende thou great Usurper from ye throne, + Thou, throughe thy pride, tooke what was not thine owne; + A Rope did better fitte thee than a Crowne, + Come Carnifex, and put ye Traytor downe, + For crownes and sceptres, and such sacred things + Doe not belong to Traytors, but to Kings; + Let therefoe all true Loyall subjects sing, + Vive le Roy! Long Live! God bless ye King!" + +In regard to the little controversy which I started regarding Bunyan's +claim to be author of the _Visions of Heaven and Hell_, I hope soon to +decide it, as I am on the scent of a copy of, I believe, a first +edition, which does not claim him for author. + + JAMES FRISWELL. + + 12. Brooke Street, Holborn. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Popular Superstitions in Lancashire._--That a man must never "go a +courting" on a Friday. If an unlucky fellow is caught with his lady-love +on that day, he is followed home by a band of musicians playing on +pokers, tongs, pan-lids, &c., unless he can rid himself of his +tormentors by giving them money to drink with. + +That hooping-cough will never be taken by any child which has ridden +upon a bear. While bear baiting was in fashion, great part of the +owner's profits arose from the money given by parents whose children had +had a ride. The writer knows of cases in which the charm is said +certainly to have been effectual. + +That hooping-cough may be cured by tying a hairy caterpillar in a small +bag round the child's neck, and as the caterpillar dies the cough goes. + +That Good Friday is the best day of all the year to begin weaning +children, which ought if possible to be put off till that day; and a +strong hope is sometimes entertained that a very cross child will "be +better" after it has been christened. + +That May cats are unlucky, and will suck the breath of children. + +That crickets are lucky about a house, and will do no harm to those who +use them well; but that they eat holes in the worsted stockings of such +members of the family as kill them. I was assured of this on the +experience of a respectable farmer's family. + +The belief in ghosts, or bogards, as they are termed, is universal. + +In my neighbourhood I hardly know a dell where a running stream crosses +a road by a small bridge or stone plat, where there is not frectnin +(frightening) to be expected. Wells, ponds, gates, &c., have often this +bad repute. I have heard of a calf with eyes like a saucer, a woman +without a head, a white greyhound, a column of white foam like a large +sugar-loaf in the midst of a pond, a group of little cats, &c., &c., as +the shape of the bogard, and sometimes a lady who jumped behind hapless +passengers on horseback. It is supposed that a Romish priest can lay +them, and that it is best to cheat them to consent to being laid while +hollies are green. Hollies being evergreens, the ghosts can reappear no +more. + + P. P. + +_Folk Lore in Lancashire_ (Vol. iii., p. 55.).--Most of, if not all the +instances mentioned under this head by Mr. Wilkinson are, as might be +expected, current also in the adjacent district of the West Riding of +Yorkshire; and, by his leave, I will add a few more, which are familiar +to me: + +1. If a cock near the door crows with his face towards it, it is a sure +prediction of the arrival of a stranger. + +2. If the cat frisks about the house in an unusually lively manner, +windy or stormy weather is approaching. + +3. If a dog howls under a window at night, a death will shortly happen +in that house. + +4. If a _female_ be the first to enter a house on Christmas or New +Year's day, she brings ill luck to that house for the coming year. + +5. For hooping-cough, pass the child nine times over the back and under +the belly of an ass. (This ceremony I once witnessed, but cannot vouch +for its having had the desired effect.) + +6. For warts, rub them with a cinder, and this tied up in paper and +dropped where four roads meet, will transfer the warts to whoever opens +the packet. + + J. EASTWOOD. + + Ecclesfield. + +_Lancashire Customs._--The curfew is continued in many of the villages, +and until the last ten or fifteen years it was usual at a Roman Catholic +funeral to ring a merry peal on the bells as soon as the interment was +over. The Roman Catholics seem now to have discontinued this practice. + +Carol singing and hand-bell ringing prevail at Christmas, and troops of +men and children calling themselves _pace eggers_, go about in Passion +Week, and especially Good Friday, as mummers in the south of England do +at Christmas. Large tallow candles may often be seen decorated with +evergreens, hanging up in the houses of the poor at Christmas time. + + P. P. + +_Od._--One of the experiments by which the existence of this agency is +tested, consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the +forefinger, and suspending to it a smooth gold ring. When the elbow is +rested on the table, and the finger held in a horizontal position, the +ring begins to oscillate in the plane of the direction of the finger; +but if a female takes hold of the left hand of the person thus +experimenting, the ring begins forthwith to oscillate in a plane at +right angles to that of its former direction. I have never tried the +experiment, for the simple reason that I have not been able to prevail +upon any married lady of my acquaintance to lend me her wedding-ring for +the purpose; and even if I had found it come true, I should still doubt +whether the motion were not owing to the pulsations of the finger veins; +but whatever be the cause, the fact is not new. My father recently told +me, that in his boyhood he had often seen it tried as a charm. For this +purpose it is essential, as may be supposed, that the ring be a +wedding-ring, and of course the lady towards whom it oscillates is set +down as the future spouse of the gentleman experimenting. + + R. D. H. + +_Pigeons._--The popular belief, that a person cannot die with his head +resting on a pillow containing pigeons' feathers, is well known; but the +following will probably be as new to many of your readers as it was to +myself. On applying the other day to a highly respectable farmer's wife +to know if she had any pigeons ready to eat, as a sick person had +expressed a longing for one, she said, "Ah! poor fellow! is he so far +gone? A pigeon is generally almost the last thing they want; I have +supplied many a one for the like purpose." + + J. EASTWOOD. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar._--Perhaps you may think it +worth while to preserve a note written by the late Rev. Dr. Scott on the +498th page of the second volume of Harrison's _Life of Lord Nelson_, in +contradiction of a bombastic description therein given of the admiral's +dress and appearance at the battle of Trafalgar. + + "This is wrong, he wore the same coat he did the day before; nor + was there the smallest alteration in his dress whatsoever from + other days. In this action he had not his sword with him on deck, + which in other actions he had always carried.--_A. J. Scott._" + +Dr. Scott was the chaplain and friend in whose arms Lord Nelson died. + +When the late Sir N. Harris Nicolas was engaged in a controversy in _The +Times_, respecting the sale of Lord Nelson's sword, I sent him a copy of +the above note, and told him I had heard Dr. Scott say that "the sword +was left hanging in the admiral's cabin." It was not found necessary to +make use of this testimony, as the dispute had subsided. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots._--The crucifix that belonged to this +unfortunate queen, and which she is said to have held in her hands on +the scaffold, is still preserved with great care by its present owners +(a titled family in the neighbourhood of Winchester), and at whose seat +I have frequently seen it. If I mistake not, the figure of our Saviour +is of ivory, and the cross of ebony. + + THE WHITE ROSE. + +_Jonah and the Whale._--In No. 76., p. 275., Mr. Gallatly calls +attention to the popular error in misquoting the expression from +Genesis: "In the sweat of thy face," &c. There is another popular error +which may not be known to some of your correspondents: it is generally +supposed that Jonah is recorded in the book bearing his name as having +been swallowed by a _whale_,--this is quite an error. The expressions is +"a great fish," and no such word as _whale_ occurs in the entire "Book +of Jonah." + + E. J. K. + +_Anachronisms of Painters._--I send you a further addition to the +"Anachronisms of Painters," mentioned in Vol. iii., p. 369., and, like +them, not in D'Israeli's list. + +My father (R. Robinson, of the Heath House, Wombourne) has in his +collection a picture by Steenwyk, of the "Woman taken in Adultery," in +which our Lord is made to write in _Dutch_! The scene also takes place +in a church of the architecture of the thirteenth century! + + G. T. R. + + Wombourne, near Wolverhampton. + + + + +Queries. + + +Minor Queries. + +_Rifles._--"_We_ make the best rifles, and you follow us," said the +exhibitor of Colt's revolvers, in my hearing, with a most satisfied +assurance, in a way "particularly communicative and easy," as _The +Times_ of the 9th of June says of his general manner. I am always +desirous of information, but desire the highest authority and evidence +before I believe. I would therefore ask the opinion of all experienced +sportsmen, such as Mr. Gordon Cumming, or of travelled officers of our +Rifle Brigade. I may say, that if the above unqualified remark came from +the mouth of an English maker, I should be equally incredulous. Is there +any use for which an American rifle is to be preferred to an English +one? + + A. C. + +_Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls._--Can any of your correspondents give +me any information respecting Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls, near +Romsey, Hants? There are the remains of a palace of the Saxon kings +still there, many parts of which are in good preservation, the chapel +being now used as the kitchen of Stanbridge House? + +I have also read that one of the kings was buried in this chapel, and +afterwards removed to Winchester; but, having no note of the book, +should be glad to be referred to it. + + COLLY WOBBLES. + +_Montchesni, or Muncey Family._--Can any of your correspondents inform +us what has become of the Norman line of Montchesni, or Muncey, a family +which, like those of Maldebauge and De Loges, held baronial rank in +England for several generations after the Conquest, though it is now +forgotten? + + P. + +_Epitaph on Voltaire._--The late Sir F. Jeffrey, in a review of the +correspondence of Baron de Grimm, quotes an epitaph on Voltaire, which +he states to have been made by a lady of Lausanne: + + "Ci gt l'enfant gat du monde qu'il gata." + +Has the name of this lady been ascertained? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk._--In _Specimens of Coleridge's Table +Talk_ (p. 165., Murray, 1851) appears the following:-- + + "So little did the early bishops and preachers think their + Christian faith wrapped up in, and solely to be learned from, the + New Testament, that I remember a letter from ----[1] to a friend + of his, a bishop in the East, in which he most evidently speaks of + the _Christian_ scriptures as of works of which the bishop knew + little or nothing." + + [Footnote 1: "I have lost the name which Mr. Coleridge + mentioned."--_Editor's Note._] + +My object is to know how this blank is to be filled up--probably by the +name of some well-known father of the Church. + + GEORGE LEWES. + + Oxford, May 28. + +_"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."_--These words are +given in Young's _Night Thoughts_ as a quotation. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whence they are taken? + + E. J. K. + +_Etymology of Bictre._--In a work entitled _Description routire et +gographique de l'Empire Franais_, by R. V., Paris, 1813, the following +notice of Bictre occurs in vol. i. p. 84.:-- + + "On voit bientt, peu de distance droite, d'abord dans un + bas-fond, arros par la petite rivire de Bivre ou des Gobelins, + le village de Gentilly, qui se vante de quelqu'anciennet, et d'un + Concile tenu en 767; ensuite, sur une minence, au bout d'une + jolie avenue en berceau, l'hpital de Bictre, qui, fond en 1290 + par un Evque de Paris, appartint depuis, dit-on, un Evque de + Wincester ou Wincestre, d'o par corruption on a fait Bictre. + + "C'est une chose assez piquante que cette tymologie anglaise. Les + auteurs qui nous l'apprennent eussent bien d nous en apprendre + aussi les circonstances. J'ai consult cet gard tout ce qui + tait consulter, sans faire d'autre dcouverte que quelques + contradictions dans les dates, et sans pouvoir offrir aucun + claircissement historique mes lecteurs, aussi curieux que moi, + sans doute, de savoir comment un prlat anglais est venu donner le + nom de son vch un chteau de France." + +Is there any warrant in English history for this derivation of Bictre; +and if so, who was the Bishop of Winchester that gave the name of his +diocese to that celebrated hospital? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, June, 1851. + +_Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott._--M. Barbier, in his +_Dictionnaire des Ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes_, says that Michael +Scott is a pseudonyme for Theobald Anguilbert, and ascribes the _Mensa +philosophica_ to the latter as the real author. Can any one tell me who +is Theobald Anguilbert, for I can find no account of him anywhere? and +if there ever was such a person, whether _all_ the writings bearing the +name of Michael Scott, who, by all accounts, appears to have been a real +person, are to be assigned to the said Anguilbert? + + TYRO. + + Dublin. + +_"Suum cuique tribuere," &c._--Can any of your readers tell me where the +following passage is to be found? + + "Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est." + +All persons of whom I have inquired, tell me it is from Cicero, but no +one can inform me _where_ it is to be found. + + M. D. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Organs first put up in Churches._--In the parish register of Buxted, in +Sussex, allusion is made to the time when the organs were put up in the +church, but which had been taken down. This entry was made in the year +1558. Any information as to the earliest period when organs were placed +in our churches will much oblige. + + R. W. B. + + [Our correspondent will find some interesting matter on the early + use of organs in churches in the Rev. F. D. Wackerbath's _Music + and the Anglo-Saxons_, pp. 6-24. London. 8vo. 1837.] + +_Ignoramus, Comoedia, &c._--Perhaps some of your correspondents can +enlighten me on the following points. + +1. Who was the author of this play? The Latin is sufficiently +ultra-canine for his pedantic majesty himself. + +2. Do the words "coram Regia Maiestate _Jacobi, Regis Angli_," &c., +mean that the play was acted in the presence of the king? I am inclined +to give them that interpretation from some allusions at the end of the +last act, as well as from its being written in Latin. + +3. Are any of the race-courses therein mentioned still used as such? + + "In Stadio Roystoniensi, Brackliensi, Gatterliensi, Coddington." + +This is the earliest mention of _fixed_ English race-courses that I have +met with, and not being much versed in the secrets of the modern +"cespite vivo," I am obliged to inquire of those who are better informed +on that subject. + + F. J. + + [The author of _Ignoramus_ was George Ruggles, A. M., of Clare + Hall, Cambridge. This comedy, as well as that of _Albumazar_, were + both acted before King James I. and the Prince of Wales, during a + visit to Cambridge in March, 1614-15. The edition of _Ignoramus_, + edited by J. S. Hawkins, 8vo., 1787, contains a Life of Ruggles, + and a valuable Glossary to his "ultra-canine Latin" legal terms. + There is also a translation of this comedy, with the following + title: "_Ignoramus: a Comedy as it was several times acted with + extraordinary applause before the Majesty of King James._ With a + Supplement, which (out of respect to the Students of the Common + Law) was hitherto wanting. Written in Latine by R. Ruggles, + sometime Master of Arts in Clare Hall, in Cambridge, and + translated into English by R. C. [Robert Codrington, A. M.] of + Magdalen Colledge, in Oxford. London. 4to. 1662."] + +_Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica._--Will any of your learned readers +inform me, for what reason and by what authority Drake's _Historia +Anglo-Scotica_, published in 1703, was ordered to be burned by the +hangman? And where I can meet with a report of the proceedings relating +to it? + + FRA. MEWBURN. + + Darlington. + + [Dr. Drake was not the author, but merely the editor of _Historia + Anglo-Scotica_. In the dedication he says, "Upon a diligent + revisal, in order, if possible, to discover the name of the + author, and the age of his writing, he found that it was written + in, or at least not finished till, the time of Charles I." It is + singular, however, that he does not give the least intimation by + what mysterious influence the manuscript came to be wafted into + his library. It was ordered by the parliament of Scotland, on the + 30th of June, 1703, to be burned by the common hangman.] + + + + +Replies. + + +CORPSE PASSING MAKES A RIGHT WAY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 477.) + +The fact of the passage of a funeral procession over land, from being an +act of user of a very public character, must always have had some +influence on the trial of the question whether the owner of the land had +dedicated the same to the public; and it is not improbable that in early +times very great weight was attached to evidence of this kind: so that +the passage of a corpse across land came to be considered in the popular +mind as conclusive and incontrovertible evidence of a public right of +way over that land. With the reverence for the dead which is so pleasing +a characteristic of modern refinement, it is probable that acts of user +of this description would now have little weight, inasmuch as no man of +right feeling would be disposed to interrupt parties assembled on so +mournful and solemn an occasion. I recollect, however, having read a +trial in modern times for a riot, arising out of a forcible attempt to +carry a corpse over a field against the will of the landowner; the +object of the parties in care of the corpse was believed to be the +establishment of a public right of way over the field in question, the +owner of which, with a body of partisans, forcibly resisted the attempt, +on the apparent belief that the act of carrying a corpse across the +field would certainly have established the right claimed. I regret I did +not "make a Note" of the case, so as to be able to specify the time, +place, and circumstances with certainty. + +That the notion in question is of great antiquity may I think be +inferred from the following passage in _Prynne's Records_, iii. 213., +referring to Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280 (and as the +authority for which, Prynne cites Holinshed's _Chronicle_, 1303, 1304; +and Godwin's _Catalogue of Bishops_, 326.):-- + + "He did by a Policy purchase the Lordship and House of Clift + Sachfeld, and enlarged the Barton thereof by gaining of Cornish + Wood from the Dean and Chapter fraudulently; building then a very + fair and sumptuous house there; he called it Bishop's Clift, and + left the same to his successors. Likewise he got the Patronage of + Clift Fomesone, now called Sowton, and annexed the same to his new + Lordship, which (as it was said) he procured by this means. He had + a Frier to be his Chaplain and Confessor, which died in his said + House of Clift, and should have been buried at the Parish Church + of Faringdon, because the said House was and is in that Parish; + but because the Parish Church was somewhat farre off, the wayes + foul, and the weather rainy, or for some other causes, the Bishop + commanded the corps to be carryed to the parish church of Sowton, + then called Clift Fomeson, which is very near, and bordereth upon + the Bishop's Lordship; the two Parishes being then divided by a + little Lake called Clift. At this time one Fomeson, a Gentleman, + was Lord and Patron of Clift Fomeson; and he, being advertised of + such a Burial towards in his Parish, and a leech way to be made + over to his Land, without his leave or consent required therein; + calleth his Tenants together, goeth to the Bridge over the lake + between the Bishop's Land and his; there meeteth the Bishop's men, + bringing the said Corps, and forbiddeth them to come over the + water. The men nothing regarding the Prohibition, do press + forwards to come over the water, and the others do withstand, so + long, that in the end, my Lord's Fryer is fallen into the Water. + The Bishop taketh this matter in such grief, that a holy Fryer, a + Religious man, his own Chaplain and Confessor, should be so + unreverently cast into the Water, that he falleth out with the + Gentleman, and upon what occasion I know not, he sueth him in the + Law (in his own Ecclesiastical Court, where he was both party and + Judge), and so vexeth and tormenteth him, that in the end he was + fain to yeeld himself to the Bishop's devotion, and seeketh all + the wayes he could to carry the Bishop's good will, which he could + not obtain, until for redemption he had given up and surrendered + his patronage of Sowton, with a piece of land; all which the said + Bishop annexed to his new Lordship." + +In "An Exhortation, to be spoken to such Parishes where they use their +Perambulation in Rogation Week; for the Oversight of the Bounds and +Limits of their Town," is a curious passage, which I subjoin: + + "It is a shame to behold the insatiableness of some covetous + persons in their doings; that where their ancestors left of their + land a broad and sufficient bier-balk, to carry the corpse to the + Christian sepulture, how men pinch at such bier-balks, which by + long use and custom ought to be inviolably kept for that purpose; + and now they quite eat them up, and turn the dead body to be borne + farther about in the high streets; or else, if they leave any such + meer, it is too straight for two to walk on."--_Homilies_, ed. + Corrie, p. 499. + +It may perhaps be considered not quite irrelevant here to state that +there seems once to have been an opinion, that the passage of the +sovereign across land had the effect of making a highway thereon. The +only allusion, however, to this opinion which I can call to mind, occurs +in Peck's _Antiquarian Annals of Stanford_, lib. xi. s. xii.; an extract +from which follows:-- + + "From Stanford King Edward, as I conceive, went to Huntingdon; for + in a letter of one of our kings dated at that town the 12th of + July (without any year or king's name to ascertain the time and + person it belongs to), the King writes to the aldermen and + bailiffs of Stanford, acquainting them, that, when he came to + Stanford, he went through Pilsgate field (coming then I suppose + from Peterborough), and, it being usual it seems that whatever way + the King rides to any place (though the same was no public way + before) for everybody else to claim the same liberty afterwards, + and thenceforth to call any such new passage the King's highway; + being followed to Huntingdon by divers of his own tenants, + inhabitants of Pilsgate, who then and there represented the damage + they should sustain by such a practice, the King by his letters + immediately commanded that his passing that way should not be made + a precedent for other people's so doing, but did utterly forbid + and discharge them therefrom. His letter, directed 'to our dearly + beloved the alderman, bailiffs, and good people of our Town of + Stanford,' upon this occasion, is thus worded:--'Dear and + well-beloved friends, by the grievous complaint of our beloved + lieges and tenents of the town of Pillesyate near our town of + Staunford, we have understood, that, in as much as, on Tuesday + last, we passed through the middle of a meadow and a certain + pasture there called Pillesyate meadow appertaining to the said + town of Pillesyate, you, and others of the country circumjacent, + claim to have and use an high way royal to pass through the middle + of the said meadow and pasture, to the great damage and disseisin + of our said lieges and tenents, whereupon they have supplicated + for a remedy; so we will, if it be so, and we command and charge + firmly, that you neither make nor use, nor suffer to be made nor + used by others of our said town of Staunford, nor others + whatsoever, no high road through the middle of the said meadow and + pasture; but that you forbear from it entirely, and that you cause + it to be openly proclaimed in our said town, that all others of + our said town and the country round it, do likewise; to the end + that our said tenents may have and peaceably enjoy the said meadow + and pasture, so, and in the manner, as they have done before these + times, without disturbance or impeachment of you or others, of + what estate or condition soever they be, notwithstanding that we + passed that way in manner as is said. And this in no manner fail + ye. Given under our signet at Huntyngdon the 12th day of July.'" + +I am unable to say whether the opinion it was the object of the above +royal letter to refute was general, or was peculiar to the "good people" +of Stanford, "and others of the country circumjacent." + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, June 18. 1851. + + +DOZEN OF BREAD; BAKER'S DOZEN + +(Vol. ii., p. 298.; Vol iii., p. 153.). + +From the following extracts from two of the "Bury Wills" recently +published by the Camden Society, it would appear that a dozen of bread +always consisted of _twelve_ loaves; and that the term "Baker's dozen" +arose from the practice of giving, in addition to the _twelve_ loaves, a +further quantity as "_inbread_," in the same manner as it is (or until +recently was) the custom to give an extra bushel of coals as "ingrain" +upon the sale of a large quantity; a chaldron, I believe. + +Francis Pynner, of Bury, Gent., by will, dated April 26, 1639, gave to +feoffees certain property upon trust (_inter alia_) out of the rents, +upon the last Friday in every month in the year, to provide one twopenny +loaf for each of forty poor people in Bury, to be distributed by the +clerk, sexton, and beadle of St. Mary's parish, who were to have the +"_inbread of the said bread_." And the testator also bequeathed certain +other property to feoffees upon trust to employ the rents as follows +(that is to say):-- + + "The yerely s[=u]me of ffiue pounds p'cell of the said yerely + rents to be bestowed in wheaten bread, to be made into _penny_ + loaves, and upon eu'y Lord's day, called Sonday, throughout eu'y + yere of the said terme [40 years or thereabouts], _fowre_ and + _twenty_ loaves of the said bread, with the _inbread_ allowed by + the baker for those _twoe dosens_ of bread, to be timely brought + and sett vpon a forme towards the vpp' end of the chancell of the + said p'ish church of St. Marie, and ... the same _twoe dosens_ of + bread to be giuen and distributed ... to and amongst fowre and + twentie poore people ... the p'ish clarke and sexton of the said + church, and the beadle of the said p'ish of St. Marie for the time + then being, shall alwaies be three which from time to time shall + haue their shares and parts in the said bread. And they, the said + clarke, sexton, and bedell, shall alwaies haue the _inbread_ of + all the bread aforesaid ovr and besides their shares in the said + twoe dosens of bread from time to time----" + +And William Fiske, of Pakenham, Gent., by will, dated March 20, 1648, +provided twelvepence a week to pay weekly for _one dozen_ of bread which +his mind was, should "be weekly given vnto twelue _or thirteene_" +persons therein referred to. + + J. B. COLMAN. + + Eye, June 16. 1851. + + +MOSAIC. + +(Vol. iii., p. 389.) + +Among the various kinds of picturesque representation, practised by the +Greeks and Romans, and transmitted by them to after times, is that of +_Mosaic_, a mode of execution which, in its durability of form, and +permanency of colour, possesses distinguished advantages, being +unaffected by heat or cold, drought or moisture, and perishing only with +the building to which it has been originally attached. This art has been +known in Rome since the days of the Republic. The severer rulers of that +period forbade the introduction of foreign marbles, and the republican +mosaics are all in black and white. Under the Empire the art was greatly +improved, and not merely by the introduction of marbles of various +colours, but by the invention of artificial stones, termed by the +Italians _Smalti_, which can be made of every variety of tint. This art +was never entirely lost. On the introduction of pictures into Christian +temples, they were first made of _mosaic_: remaining specimens of them +are rude, but profoundly interesting in an historical point of view. +When art was restored in Italy, mosaic also was improved; but it +attained its greatest perfection in the last and present century. _Roman +mosaic, as now practised, may be described as being the production of +pictures by connecting together numerous minute pieces of coloured +marble or artificial stones. These are attached to a ground of copper, +by means of a strong cement of gum mastic, and other materials, and are +afterwards ground and polished, as a stone would be, to a perfectly +level surface._ By this art not only are ornaments made on a small +scale, but pictures of the largest size are copied. The most remarkable +modern works are the copies which have been executed of some of the most +important works of the great masters, for the altars in St. Peter's. +These are, in every respect, perfect imitations of the originals; and +when the originals, in spite of every care, must change and perish, +these mosaics will still convey to distant ages a perfect idea of the +triumphs of art achieved in the fifteenth century. _Twenty years_ were +employed in making one of the copies I have mentioned. The pieces of +mosaic vary in size from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch, and eleven +men were employed for that time on each picture. A great improvement was +introduced into the art in 1775, by Signor Raffaeli, who thought of +preparing the _smalti_ in what may be termed fine threads. _The pastes +or smalti are manufactured at Venice, in the shape of crayons, or like +sticks of sealing-wax, and are afterwards drawn out by the workman, by a +blowpipe, into the thickness he requires, often almost to an hair, and +are seldom thicker than the finest grass stalk._ For tables, and large +articles, of course, the pieces are thicker; but the beauty of the +workmanship, the soft gradation of the tints, and the cost, depend upon +the _minuteness_ of the pieces, and the skill displayed by the artist. A +ruin, a group of flowers or figures, will employ a good artist about two +months, when only two inches square; and a specimen of such a +description costs from 5_l._ to 20_l._, according to the execution: a +landscape, six inches by four, would require eighteen months, and would +cost from 40_l._ to 50_l._ For a picture of Pstum, eight feet long by +twenty inches broad, on which four men were occupied for three years, +1000_l._ sterling was asked. The mosaic work of Florence differs +entirely from Roman mosaic, being composed of stones inserted in +comparatively large masses. It is called work in _pietra dura_; the +stones used are all of a more or less precious nature. In old specimens, +the most beautiful works are those in which the designs are of an +arabesque character. The most remarkable specimen of this description of +_pietra dura_, is an octagonal table, in the _Gubinetto di Baroccio_, in +the Florence Gallery. It is valued at 20,000_l._ sterling, and was +commenced in 1623 by Jacopo Detelli, from designs by Ligozzi. Twenty-two +artists worked upon it without interruption till it was terminated, in +the year 1649. + +One principal distinction between the ancient and modern mosaic is, I +believe, that the former was arranged in _patterns_, the latter +_coloured in shades_. I shall not take up your columns by dwelling on +the ancient mosaic, which, as all know was in use among the Orientals, +especially the Persians and Assyrians; and from the Easterns the Greeks +received the art. In the Book of Esther, i. 6., we have an allusion to a +mosaic pavement; and Schleusner understands the [Greek: Lithostrton] of +St. John, xix. 13., to mean a sort of elevated mosaic pavement. Andrea +Tafi, towards the close of the thirteenth century, is said to have +revived this art in Italy, having learned it from a Greek named +Apollonius, who worked at the church of St. Mark at Venice, and to have +been the founder of the modern mosaic. + +Now for the derivation. The Lithostrata, or tesselated pavements of the +Romans, being worked in a regular and mechanical manner, were called +_opus musivum, opera qua ad amussim facta sunt_. Hence the Italian +_musaico_, from whence is derived our appellation of _mosaic_; but, like +most of our arts, through the channel of the French _mosaque_. (Vide +Pitisci _Lexicon_, ii. 242.; Roscoe's _Life of Lorenzo de Medici_; +Winkelman; _Pompeiana_, by Gell; Smith's _Greek and Roman Antiq._; +Beckman's _Inventions_; and _Rcherches sur la Peinture en Mosaque chez +les Anciens_, &c., annexed to his _Description d'un Pav en Mosaque_, +&c.: Paris, 1802.) + + GERONIMO. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Prenzie_ (Vol. iii., p. 401.)--Several words have been suggested to +take the place of the unintelligible "_prenzie_" in _Measure for +Measure_; but none of them appear to me to satisfy all the four +conditions justly required by Leges. + +I would suggest _phrensied_ or _phrenzied_, a word extremely like +_prenzie_ both in sound and appearance, and of the proper metre, thus +perfectly satisfying two of the conditions. + +With respect to the propriety of using this word in the two instances +where _prenzie_ occurs, Claudio, in the first place, when informed by +his sister of the villany of Angelo, may well exclaim in astonishment-- + + "The _phrenzied_ Angelo?" + +_i.e._ "What, is he mad?" or, with a note of admiration, "Why, Angelo +must be mad!" Then, I think, naturally follows Isabella's reply:-- + + "O 'tis the cunning livery of Hell, + The damned'st body to invest and cover + In _phrenzied_ guards!" + +that is, in the disguise or under the cloak of madness. + +Johnson defines Frenzy to be + + "Madness; distraction of mind; alienation of understanding; any + violent passion approaching to madness." + +and surely Angelo's _violent passion_ for Isabella, and his +determination to gratify it at all risks, may, properly be said to +_approach to madness_. + + W. G. M. + +There is a Scotch word so nearly resembling this, and at the same time +so exactly answering to the sense which the passage in _Measure for +Measure_ requires, that it may be worth while calling the attention of +the Shakspearian commentators to it. In Allan Cunningham's Glossary to +Burns, I find _Primsie_, which he defines to mean _demure_, _precise_. +An old Scotch proverb is quoted, in which the word is used: + + "A _primsie_ damsel makes a laidlae dame." + +The term is evidently connected with, or formed from, the English +_prim_, which has the same sense. It seems this was formerly sometimes +written _prin_. Halliwell cites from Fletcher's poems the lines-- + + "He looks as gaunt and prin, as he that spent + A tedious twelve years in an eager Lent." + +Now if from _prim_ be formed the secondary adjective _primsie_, so from +_prin_ we get _prinsie_ or _prinzie_. But without resorting to the +supposition of the existence of this latter word, it is evident that in +_primzie_, which does or did exist, we have a word answering all the +conditions laid down by Leges for determining the true reading, more +nearly than any other that has been suggested. + + CEBES. + + [Dr. Jamieson, in his _Scottish Dictionary_, defines Primsie, + demure, precise, S. from E. _prim_. + + "Poor Willie, wi' his bow-kail runt + Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie." + + Burns, iii. 129.] + +_Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest_ (Vol. iii., p. 443.).--Were the beautiful +lines entitled "Lady Flora's Bequest" in reality written by that +lamented lady? They are not to be found in the volume of her Poems +published after her death by her sister, the Marchioness of Bute; and +they did appear in _The Christian Lady's Magazine_ for September, 1839, +with the signature of Miss M. A. S. Barber appended to them. + +In the preceding Number of the same magazine there is a very touching +account of Lady Flora, from the pen of its talented editress, who +mentions the fact of Lady Flora having with her _dying hand_ "delivered +to her fond brother a little Bible, the gift of her mother, requesting +him to restore it to that beloved parent with the assurance that from +the age of seven years, when she received it from her, it had been her +best treasure; and, she added, her sole support under all her recent +afflictions." + +If your correspondent Erza has never seen that obituary notice (Seeleys, +publishers) I think she will be glad to meet with it. + + L. H. K. + +_Arches of Pelaga_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--This term is in common use +among sailors, meaning the Mediterranean Archipelago, and they may very +often be heard saying--"When I was up the Arches." + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 16. 1851. + +_Engraved Warming-Pans_ (Vol. iii., pp. 84. 115.).--I beg to add to the +lists of H. G. T., and E. B. Price. + +Some years ago I purchased one in Bradford, Wilts, and several at +Bedwyn Magna in the same county. The Bradford one bears an heraldic +nondescript animal with horns on its head and nose, and a coronet round +its neck, surrounded by-- + + "The . Lord . reseve . us . into . His . kingdom . 1616." + +One of the Bedwyn ones bears a lion passant holding a scimitar, with the +motto: + + "Feare . God . and . obay . the . king . 161--." + +The last figure of the date is obliterated. Another has a shield bearing +three tuns, surrounded by-- + + "The Vintners' arms." + +One in the possession of a farmer in the parish of Barton Turf, Norfolk, +bears an eagle with a human head at its feet, surrounded by-- + + "The . Erl . of . Darbeyes . arms." 1660. + + W. C. LUKIS. + + Great Bedwyn, June, 1851. + +_St. Pancras_ (Vol. iii., pp. 285. 397.).--St. Pancras was a native of +the province of Phrygia, the son of a nobleman of the name of Cledonius; +who, when at the point of death, strongly recommended this his only son, +together with his fortune, which was very great, to the care of his +brother Dionysius, he being the only near relative in being, the mother +having previously deceased. + +This trust Dionysius faithfully fulfilled, bringing up and loving his +nephew as he would have done his own son; and when, three years after +the death of Cledonius, he quitted his native country and proceeded to +Rome, the youthful Pancras accompanied him. Upon reaching the imperial +city, the uncle and nephew took up their residence in the same suburb +where the Pope Marcellinus had fled for concealment from the persecution +which had been raised against the Christians by the Emperors Diocletian +and Maximianus. Here they had not been long resident before the fame of +the great sanctity and virtue of Marcellinus reached their ears, and +caused an ardent desire in both to see and converse with one so highly +spoken of. A convenient opportunity was soon found, and in a short time +both the uncle and nephew, renouncing their idolatry, became converted +to the Christian faith. + +So strong was the effect produced upon them by this change, that the +chief desire of both was to die for their religion; and, without waiting +for the arrival of the officers who were continually searching for the +hidden Christians, they voluntarily surrendered themselves to the +ministers of justice. + +A few days after this event, however, Dionysius was called hence by a +natural death. + +Diocletian, who is said to have been a friend of Cledonius, and moved +perhaps by the youth and graceful appearance of Pancras, strove by +flattery and caresses to induce him to do sacrifice to the heathen gods; +to this proposition Pancras absolutely refused to consent, and +reproached the Emperor for his weakness in believing to be gods, men, +who, while on earth, had been remarkable for their vices. Diocletian, +stung by these reproaches, commanded that the youth should be instantly +beheaded, which sentence was immediately carried into execution. His +death is said to have taken place on 12th May, 303; the martyr being +then but fourteen years of age. + +The gate in Rome, rendered so remarkable lately as having been the chief +point attacked by the French troops, was formerly called Porta Aurelia; +but was subsequently named Porta Pancrazio, after this youthful +sufferer. + + R. R. M. + +_Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--Ferrante +Pallavicino was descended from a noble family, seated in Placenza. He +entered the monastery of Augustine Friars at Milan, where he became a +regular canon of the Lateran congregation. He was a man of fine genius, +and possessed great wit, but having employed it in writing several +satirical pieces against Urban VIII. during the war between the +Barberini and the Duke of Parma and Placenza, he became so detested at +the court of Rome, that a price was set on his head. One Charles Morfu, +a French villain, was bribed to ensnare him, and pretending to pass for +his friend and pity his misfortunes, persuaded him to go to France, +which he said would be much to his advantage. Pallavicino gave himself +up entirely to the direction of this false friend, who conducted him +over the bridge at Sorgues into the territory of Venaissin, where he was +arrested by people suborned for that purpose, was carried to Avignon, +thrown into a dungeon, from which he tried to make his escape, and in +the year 1644, after a fourteen months' imprisonment, was beheaded in +the flower of his age. He was the author of a number of small pieces, +all of which are marked by the lively genius of the author. They were +collected and published at Venice in 1655, and amongst them I found one +entitled "La disgracia del Conte d'Olivarez," which, perhaps, may be the +work Mr. Souley has in MS. + +For a more lengthy account of this unhappy and extraordinary man, I +would refer Mr. Souley to the life prefixed to his collected works, and +to that prefixed to a French translation of his _Divortio celeste_, +printed at Amsterdam in 1696; and also to the preface to the English +translation of that same very curious work, printed at London in 1718. + + WILLIAM BROWN, JUN. + +_Mind your P's and Q's_ (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 357. 463.).--When I +proposed this Query, I mentioned that I had heard one derivation of the +phrase. As it is different from either of those which have been sent, +it may, perhaps, be worth insertion. I was told by a printer that the +phrase had originated among those of his craft, since young compositors +experience great difficulty in discriminating between the types of the +two letters. + + R. D. H. + +[A correspondent has kindly suggested a new version of this saying, and +suggests that for the future our readers should be reminded to mind, not +their P's and Q's, but their N's and Q's.] + +_Banks, Family of_ (Vol. iii., pp. 390. 458.).--In No. 81. R. C. H. H. +asks if John Banks the philosopher was descended from Sir John Banks, +Lord Chief Justice in Charles I.'s reign. + +As a grandson of the former, I take great interest in this, but am sorry +to say that I can give no information at present on that branch of the +subject. The philosopher's family were settled for some generations at +Grange, near Keswick. I should be obliged if R. C. H. H. would +communicate the name and publisher of the book on the Lakes which he +quotes from, as I am exceedingly anxious to trace the genealogy. + + BAY. + + Liverpool, June 19. 1851. + +_National Debts_ (Vol. iii., p. 374.).--The following extract from _La +Cronica di Giovanni Villani_, lib. xii. c. 35., appears to have some +reference to the Query made by F. E. M.: + + "E nel detto mese di Febbraio, 1344, per lo comune si fece ordine, + che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere dal comune per le prestanze + fatte al tempo de' venti della balia, come addieto facemmo + menzione, che si trovarono fiorini cinquecento-settantamila d'oro, + sanza il debito di Messer Mastino della Scala, ch' erano presso a + centomila fiorini d'oro, che si mettessono in uno registro + ordinatemente; e dare il comune ogni anno di provvisione e + usufrutto cinque per centinaio, dando ogni mese la paga per rata; + e diputossi a fornire il detto guiderdone parte alla gabella delle + parti, e parte ad altre gabelle, che montava l'anno da fiorini + venticinque mila d'oro, dov' erano assegnate le paghe di Messer + Mastino; e pagato lui, fossone assignati alla detta satisfazione; + il quale Messer Mastino fu pagato del mese di Dicembre per lo modo + che diremo innanzi. E cominciossi la paga della detta provvisione + del mese d'Ottobre 1345." + + R. R. M. + +_Monte di Piet_ (Vol. iii., p. 372.)--In reply to your correspondent W. +B. H., requesting to be informed of the connexion between a "Piet" and +a "Monte di Piet," it may be observed that there does not appear to be +any necessary connexion between the two expressions. The term "a Piet" +is generally used to denote the figure of the dead Saviour attended by +His Blessed Mother: for example, the celebrated one in St. Peter's at +Rome. The word "Monte," besides its signification of "montagna," +expresses also "luogo publico ove si danno oi si pigliano denari ad +interesse;" also "luogo publico altres dove col pegno si prestano +denari con piccolo interesse." + +"Piet," in addition to its signification of "devozione," or "virt per +cui si ama ed onora Dia," &c., which would apply to the figure of the +dead Saviour, expresses "compassione amorevole verso il suo simile." + +Monte di Piet would therefore be a place where money was lent at +interest, on such terms as were in unison with a kind and compassionate +feeling towards our neighbour. This species of establishment was first +commenced in Italy towards the end of the fifteenth century, by Il Beato +Bernardino da Feltri, who carried his opposition to the Jews so far as +to preach a crusade against them. The earliest Monte of which any record +appears to exist was founded in the city of Padua in 1491; the effect of +which was to cause the closing of twelve loan banks belonging to the +Jews. + +From Italy they were shortly afterwards introduced into France. + +The first legal sanction given to these establishments was granted by +Pope Leo X. in 1551. + + R. R. M. + +_Registry of Dissenting Baptisms_ (Vol. iii., pp. 370. 460.).--From the +replies to my Query on this subject that have been published, it is +plain that in all parts of England Dissenters have wished to procure the +registry of their children's births or baptisms in their parish +churches. In some instances they have been registered _as dissenting +baptisms_; and then the fact appears from the Registry itself. In other +instances, and probably far the more numerous (though this would be +difficult to _prove_), they were registered among the canonical +baptisms; and the fact of their being performed by Dissenting Ministers +is only discoverable by reference to the Dissenting Register, when it +happens to have been preserved. So in the instances referred to in p. +370., the baptisms are registered without distinction from others in the +Registry of St. Peter's Church, Chester; but a duplicate registry _as on +the same day_ was made at Cross Lane Meeting House, which is, I believe, +not in St. Peter's parish; though, I presume, the residence of the +parents was in it. + + D. X. + +_Eisell_ (Vol. iii., pp. 66. 397.).--I am not aware that the following +passage has been quoted by any of the disputants in the late "Eisell" +controversy. It occurs in Jewel's _Controversy with Harding_, pp. 651-2. +of vol. ii. of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel's works. + + "A Christian man removeth his household, and, having there an + image of Christ, equal unto him in length, and breadth, and all + proportion, by forgetfulness leaveth it there in a secret place + behind him. A Jew after him inhabiteth the same house a long + while, and seeth it not; another strange Jew, sitting there at + dinner, immediately espieth it standing open against a wall.... + Afterward the priests and rulers of the Jews come together, and + abuse it with all villany. They crown it with a thorn, make it + drink _esel_ and gall, and stick it to the heart with a spear. Out + issueth blood in great quantity, the powers of Heaven are shaken; + the sun is darkened; the moon loseth her light." + + CUDYN GWYN. + +_English Sapphics_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--A beautiful specimen of this +measure, far superior in rhythm to the attempt of Dr. Watts, appeared in +the _Youth's Magazine_ twenty-five years ago. It consisted of the Psalm +"By the Waters of Babylon." I remember the last verse only. + + "Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever + Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion; + Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, + Land of my fathers." + H. E. H. + +_Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs_ (Vol. iii., p. 447.).--I beg to inform +Cowgill that the operation of the Mint of the Great Recoinage of 1696-7 +was performed in a room at St. Andrew's Hall, in this city; but the +amount there coined, or at any of the other places mentioned, I am not +able to inform him. The total amount said to be recoined was +6,882,908_l._ 19_s._ 7_d._ + + _s._ _d._ + + The amount at the Tower 5,091,121 7 7 + + And in the Country Mints 1,791,787 12 0 + + -------------------------- + + 6,882,908 19 7 + +The following are the names of persons employed in the Mint at +Norwich:-- + + Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer. + + Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder; Thomas Allen, his clerk. + + Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker; Mr. Beaser, his clerk. + + William Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, his clerk. + + Heneage Price, Gent., King's clerk. + + Mr. Rapier, Weigher and Teller. + + Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings. + + Mr. John Young, Deputy Graver. + + John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the Moneyers. + + Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Master, and his servant.--His brother, + Edger, and Lotterer of the Half-Crowns, Shillings, and Sixpences. + It is said crowns were not struck here, and I have never seen one + of this Mint. + +The whole of the work was finished here, September 29, 1698. + +In pulling up the floor of an old house, in Tombland, in 1847, a +quantity of the silver coin minted here was discovered, which, from the +appearance of the coins, were never in circulation: they were sold to +Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, for about 20_l._ No doubt the +coins were abstracted from the Mint during the process of coining. + +In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is the following entry, A. +D. 1717: + + "Joseph Nobbs, Parish Clerk of St. Gregory's, aged 89, was buried + November. 4, 1717, being the year following the last entry in his + Chronology. He was then 89 years of age, and, what is somewhat + remarkable, that is the age of the present Clerk of St. + Gregory's." + + G. H. I. + +P. S. Some other matters relative to this Mint are among my memoranda. + + Norwich, June 16. 1851. + +_Voltaire, where situated_ (Vol. iii., p. 329.).--Your correspondent V. +is informed, that the following particulars on the subject of his Query +are given in a note to the article "Voltaire," in Qurard's _France +Littraire_, vol. x. p. 276.:-- + + "Voltaire est le nom d'un petit bien de famille, qui appartenait + la mre de l'auteur de la '_Henriade_,'--Marie Catherine Daumart, + d'une famille noble du Poitou." + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476).--I must say I can see no +difficulty at all about _pilcher_. If the _r_ at the end makes it so +strange a word, leave that out, and then you will have a word, as it +seems, quite well established--_pylche_, toga pellice: Lye. Skinner +thinks _pilchard_ may be derived from it. + +"Pilch, an outer garment generally worn in cold weather, and made of +skins of fur. 'Pelicium, a pylche.' (_Nominale MS._) The term is still +retained in connected senses in our dialects. 'A piece of flannel, or +other woollen, put under a child next the clout is, in Kent, called a +_pilch_; a coarse shagged piece of rug laid over a saddle, for ease of a +rider, is, in our midland parts, called a pilch.' (_MS. Lansd._ 1033.) +'Warme pilche and warme shon.' (_MS. Digby_, 86.) 'In our old dramatists +the term is applied to a buff or leather jerkin; and Shakspeare has +_pilcher_ for the sheath of a sword." (Halliwell's _Dictionary_.) + +"_Pilche_, or _pilcher_, a scabbard, from _pylche_, a skin coat, Saxon. +A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a +carman. Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that +it was an external covering, and probably of leather. Kersey also calls +it a covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the sense of 'a +piece of flannel to be wrapt about a young child.' It seems, therefore, +to have been used for any covering." (Nares' _Glossary_.) + + C. B. + +_Catalogues of Coins of Canute_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--The following is +a copy of the title-page of the work referred to by [Greek: Boreas]:--_A +Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England; with +Specimens._ London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 4to. 1777. It +consists of twenty-four pages, and was compiled by Richard Gough, Esq. + + J. Y. + +_Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--An +interesting notice of this work occurs in the _Retrospective Review_, +vol. xiii., pp. 181-213.; but neither in that article nor in any +bibliographical or biographical dictionary is the name of the translator +given. + + J. Y. + +_The First Panorama_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.).--I have often heard my father +say, that the first panorama exhibited was painted by Thomas Girtin, and +was a semicircular view of London, from the top of the Albion Mills, +near Blackfriars Bridge. It was exhibited in St. Martin's Lane, where, +not many years back, I saw it, it having been found rolled up in a loft +over a carpenter's shop. It was painted about 1793 or 1794, and my +father has some of the original sketches. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 2. + +_Written Sermons_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--If M. C. L. asks, when and why +written sermons took the place of extemporaneous discourses, I believe +it may be said that written sermons were first in vogue. Certainly, the +inability of most men to preach "without book," would be sufficient to +ensure their early introduction. According to Bingham (see _Ant. of the +Christian Church_, book xiv. chap. 4.), Origen was the first who +preached extemporaneously, and not until after he was sixty years old. +The great divines of the time of the English Reformation preached both +written and oral sermons: many of these, especially of the former, are +included in their printed works. The same remark also applies to the +early Fathers of the Church. The use of the homilies, which were drawn +up for the ignorant clergy at the Reformation, at once gave a sanction +to the practice of _writing_ sermons. The story of the preacher turning +over his hour-glass at Paul's Cross, and starting afresh, must of course +refer to an _unwritten_ discourse. Sermons, being explications of +scripture, used to follow the reading of the psalms and lessons: now, +for the same reason, they come after the epistle and gospel. In olden +time, the bishop was the only preacher, going from church to church, as +now-a-days[2], with the same sermon or charge; and he addressed the +people from the altar steps: afterwards the priest, as his deputy, +preached in the pulpit, but the deacons were not allowed to preach at +all. + + [Footnote 2: One of the highest dignitaries in our Church recently + declined to print a sermon, as requested; because, he frankly + said, he should want to preach it again.] + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Bogatsky_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--The little work, so justly popular in +England, under the title of Bogatsky's _Golden Treasury_, is by no means +a literal translation of the original; but was almost entirely +re-written by Venn, the author of the _Complete Duty of Man_. This I +state on good authority, as I believe; but I have never seen the +original. + + R. D. H. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Under the title of a _Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy: +First Course--Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Sound, +Optics_, Dr. Lardner has just issued a small closely printed volume with +the object of supplying that "information relating to physical and +mechanical science, which is required by the medical and law student, +the engineer and artisan, by those who are preparing for the +universities, and, in short, by those who, having already entered upon +the active pursuits of business, are still desirous to sustain and +improve their knowledge of the general truths of physics, and of those +laws by which the order and stability of the material world are +maintained." The work, which is illustrated with upwards of four hundred +woodcuts, is extremely well adapted for the object in question; and +will, we have no doubt, obtain, as it deserves, a very extensive +circulation among the various classes of readers for whose use it has +been composed; and, in short, among all readers who desire to obtain a +knowledge of the elements of physics without pursuing them through their +mathematical consequences and details. The illustrations are generally +of a popular character, and therefore the better calculated to impress +upon the mind of the student the principles they are intended to +explain. + +The new volume of Mr. Bohn's _Standard Library_ consists of the third of +Mr. Torrey's translation of Dr. Neander's _General History of the +Christian Religion and Church_. 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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, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: September 23, 2011 [EBook #37516] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 28, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1> +<span id="idno">Vol. III.—No. 87.</span> + +<span>NOTES <small>AND</small> QUERIES:</span> + +<span id="id1"> A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION</span> +<span id="id2"> FOR</span> +<span id="id3"> LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</span> +</h1> + +<div class="center1"> +<p class="noindent"><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—C<span class="smcap lowercase">APTAIN</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">UTTLE.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">V<span class="smcap lowercase">OL</span>. III.—No. 87.</p> +<p class="noindent center smaller">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ATURDAY</span>, J<span class="smcap lowercase">UNE</span> 28. 1851.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4<i>d.</i></p> + + + + + +<h2><span>CONTENTS.</span></h2> + + + + <div class="toc"> +<p class="indh i5"> On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing + Monuments <a href="#monuments513">513</a></p> +</div> + +<p class="larger"> N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES</span>:— </p> + + <div class="toc"> + <p class="indh i5"> Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence + of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage <a href="#Bruges515">515</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5"> Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell <a href="#Bruges515">515</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5"> Folk Lore:—Popular Superstitions in Lancashire—Folk lore + in Lancashire—Lancashire Customs—Od—Pigeons <a href="#wish516"> 516</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5"> Minor Notes:—Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at + Trafalgar—Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots—Jonah + and the Whale—Anachronisms of Painters <a href="#calling517"> 517</a></p> + </div> + + +<p class="larger">Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>:—</p> + + <div class="toc"> +<p class="indh i5"> Minor Queries:—Rifles—Stanbridge Earls—Montchesni + or Muncey Family—Epitaph on Voltaire—Passage + in Coleridge's Table Talk—"Men may live + Fools, but Fools they cannot die"—Etymology of + Bictre—Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott—"Suum + cuique tribuere," &c. <a href="#Earls518">518</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">M<span class="smcap lowercase">INOR</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span> +A<span class="smcap lowercase">NSWERED</span>:—Organs first put up in + Churches—Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c.—Drake's Historia + Anglo-Scotica <a href="#Earls518">518</a></p> +</div> + +<p class="larger"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPLIES</span>:—</p> + + <div class="toc"> +<p class="indh i5"> Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper <a href="#majesty519">519</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5"> Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman <a href="#forbiddeth520">520</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Mosaic <a href="#loaves521">521</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Replies to Minor Queries:—Prenzie—Lady Flora + Hastings' Bequest—Arches of Pelaga—Engraved + Warming-pans—St. Pancras—Pallavicino and Count + d'Olivarez—Mind your P's and Q's—Banks Family—National + Debts—Monte di Piet—Registry of Dissenting + Baptisms—Eisell—English Sapphics—Mints + at Norwich—Joseph Nobbs—Voltaire, where situated—Meaning + of Pilcher—Catalogues of Coins of Canute—Pontoppidan's + Natural History of Norway—The + First Panorama—Written Sermons—Bogatsky <a href="#elevated522"> 522</a></p> +</div> + + +<p class="larger">M<span class="smcap lowercase">ISCELLANEOUS</span>:—</p> + + <div class="toc"> +<p class="indh i5"> Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. <a href="#referred526">526</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5"> Books and Odd Volumes wanted <a href="#illustrated527"> 527</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Notices to Correspondents <a href="#illustrated527"> 527</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Advertisements <a href="#illustrated527">527</a></p> +<p class="indh i5"> <a id="was_added1"></a><a title="Go to list of vol. numbers + and pages" href="#pageslist1" class="fnanchor">List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages</a> +<span class="pagenum">[513]</span><a id="monuments513"></a></p> +</div> + + + +<h3><span>ON THE PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS.</span></h3> + + + +<p class="blockquot"> The following letters, which we have received since we last + brought the proposed scheme for preserving a record of existing + monuments under the notice of our readers, afford a striking + proof how widely the interest in the subject is extending.</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> We print them now, partly because the Number of "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES +AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" now in the reader's hands completes the present volume, + and it is desirable that the various communications upon this + point should, as far as possible, be found together; and partly + because the time is at hand when many of our readers may have the + opportunity, during their summer excursions, of following out the + plan described by our valued +correspondent Y<span class="smcap lowercase">ORK</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ERALD</span> in the + following letter:— +</p> + +<p>References to this subject having appeared in your valuable miscellany, +I am unwilling to lose an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my +mite of contribution towards the means of preserving monumental +inscriptions. It may be better perhaps, to state the humble method I +adopt in attempting to rescue from oblivion those memorials of the dead, +than to suggest any. I avail myself of occasions, whenever I visit the +country, to take notes of monumental inscriptions in churches and other +places of sepulture; generally of all within the walls of the sacred +edifice, and those of the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. +Time very often will not allow me to take <i>verbatim</i> copies of +inscriptions; so I merely transcribe faithfully every date, genealogical +note, and prominent event recorded upon monuments; omitting all +circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. By this means, much time +and labour are saved, and much useful and valuable information is +secured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or even drawings of the +most remarkable monuments; but this would occupy much time, and narrow +the means of collecting; and by which I should have lost much that is +valuable and interesting; copies, howsoever much they would have been +desirable, would not possess the character of legal evidence. Thus, upon +mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from +many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, +all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. I +have frequently found also that preserving an account of the relative +positions of gravestones is important; especially when groups of family +memorials occur in the same locality. I need scarcely add that I +preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found upon tombs and +hatchments, forming a collection of arms borne by various families; and +whether they stand the test of authority or not, at all events such +information is useful. +<span class="pagenum">[514]</span><a id="useful514"></a> +</p> + +<p>What store of information might be obtained, by persons having leisure +and inclination to pursue such an object, by the simple means of an +ordinary pocket-memorandum-book!</p> + + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HOMAS</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILLIAM</span> K<span class="smcap lowercase">ING</span>. +</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> Our next communication, from the R<span class="smcap lowercase">EV</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">ANON</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">AINES</span>, is valuable, + as showing that unless some limit is placed to the antiquarian + ardour of those who would "collect and record every existing + monumental inscription," the historical and genealogical inquirer + will be embarrassed by a mass of materials in which, like + Gratiano's reasons, the two grains of wheat will be hid in two + bushels of chaff—a mass, indeed, which, from its extent, would + require to be deposited with the Registrar-General, and arranged + by the practised hands of his official staff.</p> + + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. D<span class="smcap lowercase">UNKIN'S</span> proposed record of existing monuments will be, if carried +into effect, a very useful contribution to genealogists. Many years +since I transcribed all the inscriptions <i>inside</i> the parish church of +Rochdale, in Lancashire; but I never contemplated the possibility of any +antiquary having the ardour to undertake a similar <i>task outside</i>. There +are many thousands of gravestones, covering some <i>acres</i>; and I have +understood that when one side of a grave-stone has been covered with +inscriptions, the stone has been turned upside down, and the sculptor +has again commenced his endless work on the smooth surface. In a great +majority of these frail records nothing would be obtained which the +parish register could not supply.</p> + + <p class="right">F. R. R<span class="smcap lowercase">AINES</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale, June 4.</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> Our correspondent from Bruges furnishes, like + Y<span class="smcap lowercase">ORK</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ERALD</span>, + valuable evidence as to what individual exertion may accomplish; + and we are sure, that if he will take the trouble of securing, + while he has the opportunity, a copy of the inscriptions in the + cemetery allotted to the English at Bruges, confining himself + merely to the names, dates, and genealogical information + contained in them, and will then deposit his collections either + in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries, or the Manuscript + Department of the British Museum, he will not only be setting a + good example to all antiquaries who may reside in any of the + cities of the Continent, but earn for himself hereafter the + thanks of many an anxious inquirer after genealogical truth.</p> + +<p>The communications made in your interesting "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span> " have +occasioned me much gratification, and if it be in my power to contribute +but a mite to this rich treasury of information, I should consider it a +privilege to be allowed to do so. To show that I am actuated by a +kindred spirit, permit me to inform you, that a few years ago I +undertook the formation of a desultory collection of "memorials of the +ancient dead," and with that view corresponded with several hundred +clergymen, inviting their local assistance; and I need scarcely add that +a prompt and courteous attention to my wishes, encouraged my labours, +and accomplished (so far as time and opportunity permitted) my object. +It will be obvious that I had no intention of aiming at specimens in the +higher department of monumental art, which have been so ably executed by +Gough, Stothard, Neale, and others, but to content myself with those +humbler efforts of skill which lay neglected and sometimes buried in +holes and corners in many a rural church in remote districts.</p> + +<p>The result has put me in possession of a collection of about three +hundred illustrations, consisting of pen-and-ink outlines, pencil +sketches, Indian ink drawings, and some more highly finished paintings +in water colour; and in addition to these, upwards of two hundred +autograph letters from clergymen, many of which contain not only +inscriptions, but interesting parochial and topographical information.</p> + +<p>The illustrations I have arranged (as well as I am able) in centuries, +commencing with the plain cope lid of the eleventh century, according to +the plan adopted by M. H. Bloxam, Esq., in his admirable treatise +modestly intitled <i>A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and +Sculpture of Great Britain</i>. The volume made for their reception is an +atlas-folio, guarded; on one leaf is inserted the drawing, on the other +the letter (if any) which accompanied it, to which are added a few brief +memoranda of my own: it is still, however, in an unfinished state.</p> + +<p>The book is a very cumbrous one, so that its transmission would be no +very easy task; if, however, it should be thought desirable, and the +practicability explained, I shall have much pleasure in placing its +contents at the disposal of any one engaged in following out the plan +proposed.</p> + +<p>Allow me to add that, about a mile distant from the quaint and +interesting city from whence this "note" is dated (and in which I have +resided for some time), we come to the cemetery, a portion of which is +allotted to the interment of those English residents, or visitors, who +may have terminated their earthly career at this place. Should a copy of +the inscriptions in this receptacle (which are numerous) be acceptable, +I will endeavour to procure one; but in this case I should be glad to +know whether these extracts should be confined to names, dates, and +genealogical information only, or include the various tributes of +affection or of friendship, by which they are generally accompanied.</p> + + + <p class="right"> M. W. B.</p> + + <p class="left"> Bruges. +<span class="pagenum">[515]</span><a id="Bruges515"></a> +</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Notes.</span></h2> + +<h3><span>ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. IX.<br /> +<i>The Astronomical Evidence of the True Date of the Canterbury +Pilgrimage.</i></span></h3> + + +<p>As a conclusion to my investigation of this subject, I wish to place +upon record the astronomical results on which I have relied in the +course of my observations; in order that their correctness may be open +to challenge, and that each reader may compare the actual phenomena, +rigidly ascertained with all the helps that modern science affords, with +the several approximations arrived at by Chaucer. And when it is +recollected that some at least of the facts recorded by him must have +been theoretical—incapable of the test of actual observation—it must +be admitted that his near approach to truth is remarkable: not the less +so that his ideas on some points were certainly erroneous; as, for +example, his adoption, in the <i>Treatise on the Astrolabe</i>, of Ptolemy's +determination of the obliquity of the ecliptic in preference to the more +correct value assigned to it by the Arabians of the middle ages.</p> + +<p>Assuming that the true date intended by Chaucer was Saturday the 18th of +April, 1388, the following particulars of that day are those which have +reference to his description:—</p> + +<table summary="Particulars of the day April 18, 1388"> + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th class="center"> H.</th> +<th class="center"> M.</th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td>Right Ascension</td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at noon -</td> +<td class="right"> 2 .</td> +<td class="right">172</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Moon at 4 p. m.</td> +<td class="right">12 .</td> +<td class="right"> 57</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the star (<ins title="Greek: delta">δ.</ins> Virginis) </td> +<td class="right">12 .</td> +<td class="right">25 </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th class="center"> </th> +<th class="center"> ′</th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td>North Declination</td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at noon -</td> +<td class="right">13 .</td> +<td class="right">475</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Moon at 4 p. m. </td> +<td class="right"> 4 .</td> +<td class="right">498</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the star (<ins title="Greek: delta">δ.</ins> Virginis) </td> +<td class="right"> 6 .</td> +<td class="right">433</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th class="center"> </th> +<th class="center"> ′</th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td>Altitude</td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at noon -</td> +<td class="right">45 .</td> +<td class="right">15</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at 4 p. m. </td> +<td class="right"> 29 .</td> +<td class="right"> 15</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Moon at 4 p. m. </td> +<td class="right"> 4 .</td> +<td class="right">53</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the star at 4 p. m.</td> +<td class="right"> 4 .</td> +<td class="right">20</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td>Azimuth</td> +<td class="left">-</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at rising -</td> +<td class="right">112 .</td> +<td class="right">30</td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> + +<th> </th> +<th class="center"> H.</th> +<th class="center"> M.</th> +<th> </th> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td>Apparent Time</td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at half Azimuth</td> +<td class="right">9 .</td> +<td class="right">17</td> +<td class="right">a. m.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at altitude 45</td> +<td class="right">9 .</td> +<td class="right">58</td> +<td class="right">a. m.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of the Sun at altitude 29 </td> +<td class="right">4 .</td> +<td class="right"> 2</td> +<td class="right">p. m.</td> +</tr> + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left">Of apparent entrance of </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="left">{</td> + +<td class="left"> Moon's centre into Libra</td> +<td class="right">3 .</td> +<td class="right">45</td> +<td class="right">a. m.</td> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> + +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> + + + +</table> + + +<p>It will be seen that, if the place here assigned to the moon be correct, +Chaucer could not have described it more appropriately than by the +phrase "In mn Libra:" providing (of which there can be little doubt) +that he used those words as synonymous with "in hedde of Libra." "Hedde +of Libra," "hedde of Aries," are expressions constantly used by him to +describe the equinoctial points; and the analogy that exists between +"head," in the sense head-land or promontory, as, for example, "Orme's +Head," "Holyhead," "Lizard Head," and the like; and "menez" in the same +sense, need not be further insisted upon. Evidence fully sufficient to +justify a much less obvious inference has been already produced, and I +am enabled to strengthen it still further by the following reference, +for which I am indebted to a private communication from H. B. C.</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "M<span class="smcap lowercase">ENEZ</span>, <i>s. m.</i> Grande masse de terre, ou de roche, fort leve + au-dessus du sol de la terre.</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "M<span class="smcap lowercase">EAN</span>, ou M<span class="smcap lowercase">AEN</span>, <i>s. m.</i> Pierre, corps dur et solide qui se forme + dans la terre.</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "(En Treguier et Cornouailes), <span class="smcap lowercase">MN</span>."</p> + + + <p class="author2"> (Gonidec, <i>Dictionnaire Celto-Breton</i>. Angoulme, 1821.)</p> + + + +<p>This last reference is doubly valuable, in referring the word <i>mn</i> to +the very neighbourhood of the scene of Chaucer's "Frankleine's Tale," +and in dispensing with the terminal letter <i>z</i>, thereby giving us the +<i>verbum ipsissimum</i> used by Chaucer.</p> + +<p>I must not be understood as entertaining the opinion that Chaucer's +knowledge of astronomy—although undoubtedly great, considering the age +in which he lived and the nature of his pursuits—would have enabled him +to determine the moon's true place, with such correctness, wholly from +theory; on the contrary, I look upon it as more probably the result of +real observation at the time named, and, as such, adding another link to +the chain of presumptive evidence that renders it more probable that +Chaucer wrote the prologues to his <i>Canterbury Tales</i> more as a +narration (<i>with some embellishments</i>) of events that really took place, +than that they were altogether the work of his imagination.</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. E. B.</p> + + <p class="left"> Leeds, June, 1851.</p> + + + +<h3><span>CURIOUS EPIGRAMS ON OLIVER CROMWELL.</span></h3> + + +<p>Looking carefully over a curious copy of the <i>Flagellum, or the Life and +Death, Birth and Buriall of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper</i>, printed for +Randal Taylor, 1672, I found on the back of the title the following +epigrams, written in a handwriting and ink corresponding to the date of +the book (which, by the way, is a late edition of the "little brown +lying book," by Heath, which Carlyle notices): as they are curious and +worth preserving, and I believe not to be met with elsewhere, I presume +they may be of some interest to your readers. The book is also full of +MS. marginal notes and remarks, evidently by some red-hot royalist, +which are also curious in themselves, and with a selection of which I +may some day trouble you should you wish it. +<span class="pagenum">[516]</span><a id="wish516"></a> +</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + +<p class="indh"><i>Under Gen. Cromwell's Picture, hung up in the Royal Exchange, these +Lines were written.</i></p> + + <p> "Ascend y<span class="topnum">e</span> Throne Greate Captaine and Divine</p> + <p>By th' will of God, oh Lyon, for they'r thine;</p> + <p> Come priest of God, bring oyle, bring Robes, bring Golde,</p> + <p> Bring crowns, bring scepters, 'tis high time t' unfold</p> + <p>Yo<span class="topnum">r</span> cloyster'd Buggs, yo<span class="topnum">r</span> + State cheates, Lifte y<span class="topnum">e</span> Rod</p> + <p> Of Steele, of Iron, of the King of God,—</p> + <p> Pay all in wrath with interest. Kneeling pray</p> + <p> To Oliv<span class="topnum">r</span> Torch of Syon, Starr of Day.</p> + <p> Shoute then you Townds and Cyties, loudly Sing,</p> + <p> And all bare-headed cry, God save y<span class="topnum">e</span> King!"</p> +</div> + + + +<div class="poem"> + +<p class="i3"><i>The Repartee, unto this Blasphemie.</i></p> + <p> "Descende thou great Usurper from y<span class="topnum">e</span> throne,</p> + <p> Thou, throughe thy pride, tooke what was not thine owne;</p> + <p>A Rope did better fitte thee than a Crowne,</p> + <p> Come Carnifex, and put y<span class="topnum">e</span> + Trayto<span class="topnum">r</span> downe,</p> + <p> For crownes and sceptres, and such sacred things</p> + <p>Doe not belong to Trayto<span class="topnum">rs</span>, but to Kings;</p> + <p> Let therefo<span class="topnum">e</span> all true Loyall subjects sing,</p> + <p>Vive le Roy! Long Live! God bless y<span class="topnum">e</span> King!"</p> +</div> + +<p>In regard to the little controversy which I started regarding Bunyan's +claim to be author of the <i>Visions of Heaven and Hell</i>, I hope soon to +decide it, as I am on the scent of a copy of, I believe, a first +edition, which does not claim him for author.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">RISWELL</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> 12. Brooke Street, Holborn.</p> + + + + + +<h3><span>FOLK LORE.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Popular Superstitions in Lancashire.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—That a man must never "go a +courting" on a Friday. If an unlucky fellow is caught with his lady-love +on that day, he is followed home by a band of musicians playing on +pokers, tongs, pan-lids, &c., unless he can rid himself of his +tormentors by giving them money to drink with.</p> + +<p>That hooping-cough will never be taken by any child which has ridden +upon a bear. While bear baiting was in fashion, great part of the +owner's profits arose from the money given by parents whose children had +had a ride. The writer knows of cases in which the charm is said +certainly to have been effectual.</p> + +<p>That hooping-cough may be cured by tying a hairy caterpillar in a small +bag round the child's neck, and as the caterpillar dies the cough goes.</p> + +<p>That Good Friday is the best day of all the year to begin weaning +children, which ought if possible to be put off till that day; and a +strong hope is sometimes entertained that a very cross child will "be +better" after it has been christened.</p> + +<p>That May cats are unlucky, and will suck the breath of children.</p> + +<p>That crickets are lucky about a house, and will do no harm to those who +use them well; but that they eat holes in the worsted stockings of such +members of the family as kill them. I was assured of this on the +experience of a respectable farmer's family.</p> + +<p>The belief in ghosts, or bogards, as they are termed, is universal.</p> + +<p>In my neighbourhood I hardly know a dell where a running stream crosses +a road by a small bridge or stone plat, where there is not frectnin +(frightening) to be expected. Wells, ponds, gates, &c., have often this +bad repute. I have heard of a calf with eyes like a saucer, a woman +without a head, a white greyhound, a column of white foam like a large +sugar-loaf in the midst of a pond, a group of little cats, &c., &c., as +the shape of the bogard, and sometimes a lady who jumped behind hapless +passengers on horseback. It is supposed that a Romish priest can lay +them, and that it is best to cheat them to consent to being laid while +hollies are green. Hollies being evergreens, the ghosts can reappear no +more.</p> + + + <p class="right"> P. P.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Folk lore in Lancashire</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iii., p. 55.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Most of, if not all the +instances mentioned under this head by + M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILKINSON</span> are, as might be +expected, current also in the adjacent district of the West Riding of +Yorkshire; and, by his leave, I will add a few more, which are familiar +to me:</p> + +<p>1. If a cock near the door crows with his face towards it, it is a sure +prediction of the arrival of a stranger.</p> + +<p>2. If the cat frisks about the house in an unusually lively manner, +windy or stormy weather is approaching.</p> + +<p>3. If a dog howls under a window at night, a death will shortly happen +in that house.</p> + +<p>4. If a <i>female</i> be the first to enter a house on Christmas or New +Year's day, she brings ill luck to that house for the coming year.</p> + +<p>5. For hooping-cough, pass the child nine times over the back and under +the belly of an ass. (This ceremony I once witnessed, but cannot vouch +for its having had the desired effect.)</p> + +<p>6. For warts, rub them with a cinder, and this tied up in paper and +dropped where four roads meet, will transfer the warts to whoever opens +the packet.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. E<span class="smcap lowercase">ASTWOOD</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Ecclesfield.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Lancashire Customs.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—The curfew is continued in many of the villages, +and until the last ten or fifteen years it was usual at a Roman Catholic +funeral to ring a merry peal on the bells as soon as the interment was +over. The Roman Catholics seem now to have discontinued this practice.</p> + +<p>Carol singing and hand-bell ringing prevail at Christmas, and troops of +men and children calling +<span class="pagenum">[517]</span><a id="calling517"></a> + themselves <i>pace eggers</i>, go about in +Passion Week, and especially Good Friday, as mummers in the south of +England do at Christmas. Large tallow candles may often be seen +decorated with evergreens, hanging up in the houses of the poor at +Christmas time.</p> + + + <p class="right">P. P.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Od.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—One of the experiments by which the existence of this agency is +tested, consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the +forefinger, and suspending to it a smooth gold ring. When the elbow is +rested on the table, and the finger held in a horizontal position, the +ring begins to oscillate in the plane of the direction of the finger; +but if a female takes hold of the left hand of the person thus +experimenting, the ring begins forthwith to oscillate in a plane at +right angles to that of its former direction. I have never tried the +experiment, for the simple reason that I have not been able to prevail +upon any married lady of my acquaintance to lend me her wedding-ring for +the purpose; and even if I had found it come true, I should still doubt +whether the motion were not owing to the pulsations of the finger veins; +but whatever be the cause, the fact is not new. My father recently told +me, that in his boyhood he had often seen it tried as a charm. For this +purpose it is essential, as may be supposed, that the ring be a +wedding-ring, and of course the lady towards whom it oscillates is set +down as the future spouse of the gentleman experimenting.</p> + + <p class="right"> R. D. H.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Pigeons.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—The popular belief, that a person cannot die with his head +resting on a pillow containing pigeons' feathers, is well known; but the +following will probably be as new to many of your readers as it was to +myself. On applying the other day to a highly respectable farmer's wife +to know if she had any pigeons ready to eat, as a sick person had +expressed a longing for one, she said, "Ah! poor fellow! is he so far +gone? A pigeon is generally almost the last thing they want; I have +supplied many a one for the like purpose."</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. E<span class="smcap lowercase">ASTWOOD</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Notes.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Perhaps you may think it +worth while to preserve a note written by the late Rev. Dr. Scott on the +498th page of the second volume of Harrison's <i>Life of Lord Nelson</i>, in +contradiction of a bombastic description therein given of the admiral's +dress and appearance at the battle of Trafalgar.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "This is wrong, he wore the same coat he did the day before; nor + was there the smallest alteration in his dress whatsoever from + other days. In this action he had not his sword with him on deck, + which in other actions he had always carried.—<i>A. J. Scott.</i>"</p> + + +<p>Dr. Scott was the chaplain and friend in whose arms Lord Nelson died.</p> + +<p>When the late Sir N. Harris Nicolas was engaged in a controversy in <i>The +Times</i>, respecting the sale of Lord Nelson's sword, I sent him a copy of +the above note, and told him I had heard Dr. Scott say that "the sword +was left hanging in the admiral's cabin." It was not found necessary to +make use of this testimony, as the dispute had subsided.</p> + + + <p class="right"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LFRED</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTY</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—The crucifix that belonged to this +unfortunate queen, and which she is said to have held in her hands on +the scaffold, is still preserved with great care by its present owners +(a titled family in the neighbourhood of Winchester), and at whose seat +I have frequently seen it. If I mistake not, the figure of our Saviour +is of ivory, and the cross of ebony.</p> + + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HE</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">HITE</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">OSE</span>. +</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Jonah and the Whale.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In No. 76., p. 275., MR. GALLATLY calls +attention to the popular error in misquoting the expression from +Genesis: "In the sweat of thy face," &c. There is another popular error +which may not be known to some of your correspondents: it is generally +supposed that Jonah is recorded in the book bearing his name as having +been swallowed by a <i>whale</i>,—this is quite an error. The expressions is +"a great fish," and no such word as <i>whale</i> occurs in the entire "Book +of Jonah."</p> + + + <p class="right"> E. J. K.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Anachronisms of Painters.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—I send you a further addition to the +"Anachronisms of Painters," mentioned in Vol. iii., p. 369., and, like +them, not in D'Israeli's list.</p> + +<p>My father (R. Robinson, of the Heath House, Wombourne) has in his +collection a picture by Steenwyk, of the "Woman taken in Adultery," in +which our Lord is made to write in <i>Dutch</i>! The scene also takes place +in a church of the architecture of the thirteenth century!</p> + + + <p class="right"> G. T. R.</p> + + <p class="left"> Wombourne, near Wolverhampton.</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Queries.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Queries.</span></h3> + + +<h4><span><i>Rifles.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—"<i>We</i> make the best rifles, and you follow us," said the +exhibitor of Colt's revolvers, in my hearing, with a most satisfied +assurance, in a way "particularly communicative and easy," as <i>The +Times</i> of the 9th of June says of his general manner. I am always +desirous of information, but desire the highest authority and evidence +before I believe. I would therefore ask the opinion of all experienced +sportsmen, such as Mr. Gordon Cumming, or of travelled officers of our +Rifle Brigade. I may say, that if the above unqualified remark came from +the mouth of an English maker, I should be equally incredulous. Is there +any use for which an American rifle is to be preferred to an English +one? +<span class="pagenum">[518]</span><a id="Earls518"></a> +</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. C.</p> + + + + + +<h4><span><i>Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents +give me any information respecting Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls, near +Romsey, Hants? There are the remains of a palace of the Saxon kings +still there, many parts of which are in good preservation, the chapel +being now used as the kitchen of Stanbridge House?</p> + +<p>I have also read that one of the kings was buried in this chapel, and +afterwards removed to Winchester; but, having no note of the book, +should be glad to be referred to it.</p> + + + <p class="right"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLY</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">OBBLES</span>. +</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Montchesni, or Muncey Family.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents inform +us what has become of the Norman line of Montchesni, or Muncey, a family +which, like those of Maldebauge and De Loges, held baronial rank in +England for several generations after the Conquest, though it is now +forgotten?</p> + + <p class="right"> P.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Epitaph on Voltaire.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—The late Sir F. Jeffrey, in a review of the +correspondence of Baron de Grimm, quotes an epitaph on Voltaire, which +he states to have been made by a lady of Lausanne:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Ci gt l'enfant gat du monde qu'il gata."</p> +</div> + +<p>Has the name of this lady been ascertained?</p> + + + <p class="right"> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ENRY</span> H. B<span class="smcap lowercase">REEN</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> St. Lucia, May, 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In <i>Specimens of Coleridge's Table +Talk</i> (p. 165., Murray, 1851) appears the following:—</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "So little did the early bishops and preachers think their + Christian faith wrapped up in, and solely to be learned from, the + New Testament, that I remember a letter from<a id="from1"></a> ——<a title="Go to footnote 1." href="#fn1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> to a friend + of his, a bishop in the East, in which he most evidently speaks + of the <i>Christian</i> scriptures as of works of which the bishop + knew little or nothing."</p> + + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn1"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#from1" class="label">[1]</a> "I have lost the name which Mr. Coleridge +mentioned."—<i>Editor's Note.</i></p> + +<p>My object is to know how this blank is to be filled up—probably by the +name of some well-known father of the Church.</p> + + <p class="right"> G<span class="smcap lowercase">EORGE</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">EWES</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Oxford, May 28.</p> + + + +<h4><span>"<i>Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.</i>"</span></h4> + +<p>—These words are +given in Young's <i>Night Thoughts</i> as a quotation. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whence they are taken?</p> + + + <p class="right"> E. J. K.</p> + + + +<h4><span> +<i>Etymology of Bictre.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In a work entitled <i>Description routire et +gographique de l'Empire Franais</i>, by R. V., Paris, 1813, the following +notice of Bictre occurs in vol. i. p. 84.:—</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "On voit bientt, peu de distance droite, d'abord dans un + bas-fond, arros par la petite rivire de Bivre ou des Gobelins, + le village de Gentilly, qui se vante de quelqu'anciennet, et + d'un Concile tenu en 767; ensuite, sur une minence, au bout + d'une jolie avenue en berceau, l'hpital de Bictre, qui, fond + en 1290 par un Evque de Paris, appartint depuis, dit-on, un + Evque de Wincester ou Wincestre, d'o par corruption on a fait + Bictre.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"C'est une chose assez piquante que cette tymologie anglaise. + Les auteurs qui nous l'apprennent eussent bien d nous en + apprendre aussi les circonstances. J'ai consult cet gard tout + ce qui tait consulter, sans faire d'autre dcouverte que + quelques contradictions dans les dates, et sans pouvoir offrir + aucun claircissement historique mes lecteurs, aussi curieux + que moi, sans doute, de savoir comment un prlat anglais est venu + donner le nom de son vch un chteau de France."</p> + + +<p>Is there any warrant in English history for this derivation of Bictre; +and if so, who was the Bishop of Winchester that gave the name of his +diocese to that celebrated hospital?</p> + + + <p class="right">H<span class="smcap lowercase">ENRY</span> H. B<span class="smcap lowercase">REEN</span>. +</p> + <p class="left"> St. Lucia, June, 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—M. Barbier, in his +<i>Dictionnaire des Ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes</i>, says that Michael +Scott is a pseudonyme for Theobald Anguilbert, and ascribes the <i>Mensa +philosophica</i> to the latter as the real author. Can any one tell me who +is Theobald Anguilbert, for I can find no account of him anywhere? and +if there ever was such a person, whether <i>all</i> the writings bearing the +name of Michael Scott, who, by all accounts, appears to have been a real +person, are to be assigned to the said Anguilbert?</p> + + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">YRO</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Dublin.</p> + + + + +<h4><span>"<i>Suum cuique tribuere,</i>" <i>&c.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of your readers tell me where the +following passage is to be found?</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est."</p> + + +<p>All persons of whom I have inquired, tell me it is from Cicero, but no +one can inform me <i>where</i> it is to be found.</p> + + + <p class="right"> M. D.</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Queries Answered.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Organs first put up in Churches.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the parish register of Buxted, in +Sussex, allusion is made to the time when the organs were put up in the +church, but which had been taken down. This entry was made in the year +1558. Any information as to the earliest period when organs were placed +in our churches will much oblige.</p> + + + <p class="right"> R. W. B.</p> + + + + <p class="blockquot"> [Our correspondent will find some interesting matter on the early + use of organs in churches in the Rev. F. D. Wackerbath's <i>Music + and the Anglo-Saxons</i>, pp. 6-24. London. 8vo. 1837.]</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Perhaps some of your correspondents can +enlighten me on the following points.</p> + +<p>1. Who was the author of this play? The Latin is sufficiently +ultra-canine for his pedantic majesty himself. +<span class="pagenum">[519]</span><a id="majesty519"></a> +</p> + +<p>2. Do the words "coram Regia Maiestate <i>Jacobi, Regis Angli</i>," &c., +mean that the play was acted in the presence of the king? I am inclined +to give them that interpretation from some allusions at the end of the +last act, as well as from its being written in Latin.</p> + +<p>3. Are any of the race-courses therein mentioned still used as such?</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "In Stadio Roystoniensi, Brackliensi, Gatterliensi, Coddington."</p> + + +<p>This is the earliest mention of <i>fixed</i> English race-courses that I have +met with, and not being much versed in the secrets of the modern +"cespite vivo," I am obliged to inquire of those who are better informed +on that subject.</p> + + + <p class="right"> F. J.</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> [The author of <i>Ignoramus</i> was George Ruggles, A. M., of Clare + Hall, Cambridge. This comedy, as well as that of <i>Albumazar</i>, + were both acted before King James I. and the Prince of Wales, + during a visit to Cambridge in March, 1614-15. The edition of + <i>Ignoramus</i>, edited by J. S. Hawkins, 8vo., 1787, contains a Life + of Ruggles, and a valuable Glossary to his "ultra-canine Latin" + legal terms. There is also a translation of this comedy, with the + following title: "<i>Ignoramus: a Comedy as it was several times + acted with extraordinary applause before the Majesty of King + James.</i> With a Supplement, which (out of respect to the Students + of the Common Law) was hitherto wanting. Written in Latine by R. + Ruggles, sometime Master of Arts in Clare Hall, in Cambridge, and + translated into English by R. C. [Robert Codrington, A. M.] of + Magdalen Colledge, in Oxford. London. 4to. 1662."]</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Will any of your learned readers +inform me, for what reason and by what authority Drake's <i>Historia +Anglo-Scotica</i>, published in 1703, was ordered to be burned by the +hangman? And where I can meet with a report of the proceedings relating +to it?</p> + + + <p class="right"> F<span class="smcap lowercase">RA</span>. M<span class="smcap lowercase">EWBURN</span>. +</p> + <p class="left">Darlington.</p> + + + + <p class="blockquot"> [Dr. Drake was not the author, but merely the editor of <i>Historia + Anglo-Scotica</i>. In the dedication he says, "Upon a diligent + revisal, in order, if possible, to discover the name of the + author, and the age of his writing, he found that it was written + in, or at least not finished till, the time of Charles I." It is + singular, however, that he does not give the least intimation by + what mysterious influence the manuscript came to be wafted into + his library. It was ordered by the parliament of Scotland, on the + 30th of June, 1703, to be burned by the common hangman.]</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Replies.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>CORPSE PASSING MAKES A RIGHT WAY.<br /> +(Vol. iii., p. 477.)</span></h3> + +<p>The fact of the passage of a funeral procession over land, from being an +act of user of a very public character, must always have had some +influence on the trial of the question whether the owner of the land had +dedicated the same to the public; and it is not improbable that in early +times very great weight was attached to evidence of this kind: so that +the passage of a corpse across land came to be considered in the popular +mind as conclusive and incontrovertible evidence of a public right of +way over that land. With the reverence for the dead which is so pleasing +a characteristic of modern refinement, it is probable that acts of user +of this description would now have little weight, inasmuch as no man of +right feeling would be disposed to interrupt parties assembled on so +mournful and solemn an occasion. I recollect, however, having read a +trial in modern times for a riot, arising out of a forcible attempt to +carry a corpse over a field against the will of the landowner; the +object of the parties in care of the corpse was believed to be the +establishment of a public right of way over the field in question, the +owner of which, with a body of partisans, forcibly resisted the attempt, +on the apparent belief that the act of carrying a corpse across the +field would certainly have established the right claimed. I regret I did +not "make a Note" of the case, so as to be able to specify the time, +place, and circumstances with certainty.</p> + +<p>That the notion in question is of great antiquity may I think be +inferred from the following passage in <i>Prynne's Records</i>, iii. 213., +referring to Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280 (and as the +authority for which, Prynne cites Holinshed's <i>Chronicle</i>, 1303, 1304; +and Godwin's <i>Catalogue of Bishops</i>, 326.):—</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "He did by a Policy purchase the Lordship and House of Clift + Sachfeld, and enlarged the Barton thereof by gaining of Cornish + Wood from the Dean and Chapter fraudulently; building then a very + fair and sumptuous house there; he called it Bishop's Clift, and + left the same to his successors. Likewise he got the Patronage of + Clift Fomesone, now called Sowton, and annexed the same to his + new Lordship, which (as it was said) he procured by this means. + He had a Frier to be his Chaplain and Confessor, which died in + his said House of Clift, and should have been buried at the + Parish Church of Faringdon, because the said House was and is in + that Parish; but because the Parish Church was somewhat farre + off, the wayes foul, and the weather rainy, or for some other + causes, the Bishop commanded the corps to be carryed to the + parish church of Sowton, then called Clift Fomeson, which is very + near, and bordereth upon the Bishop's Lordship; the two Parishes + being then divided by a little Lake called Clift. At this time + one Fomeson, a Gentleman, was Lord and Patron of Clift Fomeson; + and he, being advertised of such a Burial towards in his Parish, + and a leech way to be made over to his Land, without his leave or + consent required therein; calleth his Tenants together, goeth to + the Bridge over the lake between the Bishop's Land and his; there + meeteth the Bishop's men, bringing the said Corps, and forbiddeth + them to come over the +<span class="pagenum">[520]</span><a id="forbiddeth520"></a> + water. The men nothing regarding the + Prohibition, do press forwards to come over the water, and the + others do withstand, so long, that in the end, my Lord's Fryer is + fallen into the Water. The Bishop taketh this matter in such + grief, that a holy Fryer, a Religious man, his own Chaplain and + Confessor, should be so unreverently cast into the Water, that he + falleth out with the Gentleman, and upon what occasion I know + not, he sueth him in the Law (in his own Ecclesiastical Court, + where he was both party and Judge), and so vexeth and tormenteth + him, that in the end he was fain to yeeld himself to the Bishop's + devotion, and seeketh all the wayes he could to carry the + Bishop's good will, which he could not obtain, until for + redemption he had given up and surrendered his patronage of + Sowton, with a piece of land; all which the said Bishop annexed + to his new Lordship."</p> + + +<p>In "An Exhortation, to be spoken to such Parishes where they use their +Perambulation in Rogation Week; for the Oversight of the Bounds and +Limits of their Town," is a curious passage, which I subjoin:</p> + + + <p class="blockquot">"It is a shame to behold the insatiableness of some covetous + persons in their doings; that where their ancestors left of their + land a broad and sufficient bier-balk, to carry the corpse to the + Christian sepulture, how men pinch at such bier-balks, which by + long use and custom ought to be inviolably kept for that purpose; + and now they quite eat them up, and turn the dead body to be + borne farther about in the high streets; or else, if they leave + any such meer, it is too straight for two to walk + on."—<i>Homilies</i>, ed. Corrie, p. 499.</p> + + +<p>It may perhaps be considered not quite irrelevant here to state that +there seems once to have been an opinion, that the passage of the +sovereign across land had the effect of making a highway thereon. The +only allusion, however, to this opinion which I can call to mind, occurs +in Peck's <i>Antiquarian Annals of Stanford</i>, lib. xi. s. xii.; an extract +from which follows:—</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "From Stanford King Edward, as I conceive, went to Huntingdon; + for in a letter of one of our kings dated at that town the 12th + of July (without any year or king's name to ascertain the time + and person it belongs to), the King writes to the aldermen and + bailiffs of Stanford, acquainting them, that, when he came to + Stanford, he went through Pilsgate field (coming then I suppose + from Peterborough), and, it being usual it seems that whatever + way the King rides to any place (though the same was no public + way before) for everybody else to claim the same liberty + afterwards, and thenceforth to call any such new passage the + King's highway; being followed to Huntingdon by divers of his own + tenants, inhabitants of Pilsgate, who then and there represented + the damage they should sustain by such a practice, the King by + his letters immediately commanded that his passing that way + should not be made a precedent for other people's so doing, but + did utterly forbid and discharge them therefrom. His letter, + directed 'to our dearly beloved the alderman, bailiffs, and good + people of our Town of Stanford,' upon this occasion, is thus + worded:—'Dear and well-beloved friends, by the grievous + complaint of our beloved lieges and tenents of the town of + Pillesyate near our town of Staunford, we have understood, that, + in as much as, on Tuesday last, we passed through the middle of a + meadow and a certain pasture there called Pillesyate meadow + appertaining to the said town of Pillesyate, you, and others of + the country circumjacent, claim to have and use an high way royal + to pass through the middle of the said meadow and pasture, to the + great damage and disseisin of our said lieges and tenents, + whereupon they have supplicated for a remedy; so we will, if it + be so, and we command and charge firmly, that you neither make + nor use, nor suffer to be made nor used by others of our said + town of Staunford, nor others whatsoever, no high road through + the middle of the said meadow and pasture; but that you forbear + from it entirely, and that you cause it to be openly proclaimed + in our said town, that all others of our said town and the + country round it, do likewise; to the end that our said tenents + may have and peaceably enjoy the said meadow and pasture, so, and + in the manner, as they have done before these times, without + disturbance or impeachment of you or others, of what estate or + condition soever they be, notwithstanding that we passed that way + in manner as is said. And this in no manner fail ye. Given under + our signet at Huntyngdon the 12th day of July.'"</p> + +<p>I am unable to say whether the opinion it was the object of the above +royal letter to refute was general, or was peculiar to the "good people" +of Stanford, "and others of the country circumjacent."</p> + + + <p class="right"> C. H. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OOPER</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Cambridge, June 18. 1851.</p> + + + + + +<h3><span>DOZEN OF BREAD; BAKER'S DOZEN<br /> +(Vol. ii., p. 298.; Vol iii., p. 153.).</span></h3> + +<p>From the following extracts from two of the "Bury Wills" recently +published by the Camden Society, it would appear that a dozen of bread +always consisted of <i>twelve</i> loaves; and that the term "Baker's dozen" +arose from the practice of giving, in addition to the <i>twelve</i> loaves, a +further quantity as "<i>inbread</i>," in the same manner as it is (or until +recently was) the custom to give an extra bushel of coals as "ingrain" +upon the sale of a large quantity; a chaldron, I believe.</p> + +<p>Francis Pynner, of Bury, Gent., by will, dated April 26, 1639, gave to +feoffees certain property upon trust (<i>inter alia</i>) out of the rents, +upon the last Friday in every month in the year, to provide one twopenny +loaf for each of forty poor people in Bury, to be distributed by the +clerk, sexton, and beadle of St. Mary's parish, who were to have the +"<i>inbread of the said bread</i>." And the testator also bequeathed certain +other property to feoffees upon trust to employ the rents as follows +(that is to say):—</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "The yerely sūme of ffiue pounds p'cell of the said yerely + rents to be bestowed in wheaten bread, to be made into <i>penny</i> + loaves, and upon eu'y Lord's day, +<span class="pagenum">[521]</span><a id="loaves521"></a> + called Sonday, + throughout eu'y yere of the said terme [40 years or thereabouts], + <i>fowre</i> and <i>twenty</i> loaves of the said bread, w<span class="topnum">th</span> the + <i>inbread</i> allowed by the baker for those <i>twoe dosens</i> of bread, + to be timely brought and sett vpon a forme towards the vpp' end + of the chancell of the said p'ish church of St. Marie, and ... + the same <i>twoe dosens</i> of bread to be giuen and distributed ... + to and amongst fowre and twentie poore people ... the p'ish + clarke and sexton of the said church, and the beadle of the said + p'ish of St. Marie for the time then being, shall alwaies be + three w<span class="topnum">ch</span> from time to time shall haue their shares and parts + in the said bread. And they, the said clarke, sexton, and bedell, + shall alwaies haue the <i>inbread</i> of all the bread aforesaid + ov<span class="topnum">r</span> and besides their shares in the said twoe dosens of bread + from time to time——"</p> + + +<p>And William Fiske, of Pakenham, Gent., by will, dated March 20, 1648, +provided twelvepence a week to pay weekly for <i>one dozen</i> of bread which +his mind was, should "be weekly given vnto twelue <i>or thirteene</i>" +persons therein referred to.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. B. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLMAN</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Eye, June 16. 1851.</p> + + + +<h3><span>MOSAIC.<br /> +(Vol. iii., p. 389.)</span></h3> + +<p>Among the various kinds of picturesque representation, practised by the +Greeks and Romans, and transmitted by them to after times, is that of +<i>Mosaic</i>, a mode of execution which, in its durability of form, and +permanency of colour, possesses distinguished advantages, being +unaffected by heat or cold, drought or moisture, and perishing only with +the building to which it has been originally attached. This art has been +known in Rome since the days of the Republic. The severer rulers of that +period forbade the introduction of foreign marbles, and the republican +mosaics are all in black and white. Under the Empire the art was greatly +improved, and not merely by the introduction of marbles of various +colours, but by the invention of artificial stones, termed by the +Italians <i>Smalti</i>, which can be made of every variety of tint. This art +was never entirely lost. On the introduction of pictures into Christian +temples, they were first made of <i>mosaic</i>: remaining specimens of them +are rude, but profoundly interesting in an historical point of view. +When art was restored in Italy, mosaic also was improved; but it +attained its greatest perfection in the last and present century. <i>Roman +mosaic, as now practised, may be described as being the production of +pictures by connecting together numerous minute pieces of coloured +marble or artificial stones. These are attached to a ground of copper, +by means of a strong cement of gum mastic, and other materials, and are +afterwards ground and polished, as a stone would be, to a perfectly +level surface.</i> By this art not only are ornaments made on a small +scale, but pictures of the largest size are copied. The most remarkable +modern works are the copies which have been executed of some of the most +important works of the great masters, for the altars in St. Peter's. +These are, in every respect, perfect imitations of the originals; and +when the originals, in spite of every care, must change and perish, +these mosaics will still convey to distant ages a perfect idea of the +triumphs of art achieved in the fifteenth century. <i>Twenty years</i> were +employed in making one of the copies I have mentioned. The pieces of +mosaic vary in size from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch, and eleven +men were employed for that time on each picture. A great improvement was +introduced into the art in 1775, by Signor Raffaeli, who thought of +preparing the <i>smalti</i> in what may be termed fine threads. <i>The pastes +or smalti are manufactured at Venice, in the shape of crayons, or like +sticks of sealing-wax, and are afterwards drawn out by the workman, by a +blowpipe, into the thickness he requires, often almost to an hair, and +are seldom thicker than the finest grass stalk.</i> For tables, and large +articles, of course, the pieces are thicker; but the beauty of the +workmanship, the soft gradation of the tints, and the cost, depend upon +the <i>minuteness</i> of the pieces, and the skill displayed by the artist. A +ruin, a group of flowers or figures, will employ a good artist about two +months, when only two inches square; and a specimen of such a +description costs from 5<i>l.</i> to 20<i>l.</i>, according to the execution: a +landscape, six inches by four, would require eighteen months, and would +cost from 40<i>l.</i> to 50<i>l.</i> For a picture of Pstum, eight feet long by +twenty inches broad, on which four men were occupied for three years, +1000<i>l.</i> sterling was asked. The mosaic work of Florence differs +entirely from Roman mosaic, being composed of stones inserted in +comparatively large masses. It is called work in <i>pietra dura</i>; the +stones used are all of a more or less precious nature. In old specimens, +the most beautiful works are those in which the designs are of an +arabesque character. The most remarkable specimen of this description of +<i>pietra dura</i>, is an octagonal table, in the <i>Gubinetto di Baroccio</i>, in +the Florence Gallery. It is valued at 20,000<i>l.</i> sterling, and was +commenced in 1623 by Jacopo Detelli, from designs by Ligozzi. Twenty-two +artists worked upon it without interruption till it was terminated, in +the year 1649.</p> + +<p>One principal distinction between the ancient and modern mosaic is, I +believe, that the former was arranged in <i>patterns</i>, the latter +<i>coloured in shades</i>. I shall not take up your columns by dwelling on +the ancient mosaic, which, as all know was in use among the Orientals, +especially the Persians and Assyrians; and from the Easterns the Greeks +received the art. In the Book of Esther, i. 6., we have an allusion to a +mosaic pavement; and Schleusner understands the +<ins title="[Greek: Lithostrton]">Λιθόστρωτον</ins> of +St. John, xix. 13., to mean a sort of elevated +<span class="pagenum">[522]</span><a id="elevated522"></a> + mosaic pavement. +Andrea Tafi, towards the close of the thirteenth century, is said to +have revived this art in Italy, having learned it from a Greek named +Apollonius, who worked at the church of St. Mark at Venice, and to have +been the founder of the modern mosaic.</p> + +<p>Now for the derivation. The Lithostrata, or tesselated pavements of the +Romans, being worked in a regular and mechanical manner, were called +<i>opus musivum, opera qua ad amussim facta sunt</i>. Hence the Italian +<i>musaico</i>, from whence is derived our appellation of <i>mosaic</i>; but, like +most of our arts, through the channel of the French <i>mosaque</i>. (Vide +Pitisci <i>Lexicon</i>, ii. 242.; Roscoe's <i>Life of Lorenzo de Medici</i>; +Winkelman; <i>Pompeiana</i>, by Gell; Smith's <i>Greek and Roman Antiq.</i>; +Beckman's <i>Inventions</i>; and <i>Rcherches sur la Peinture en Mosaque chez +les Anciens</i>, &c., annexed to his <i>Description d'un Pav en Mosaque</i>, +&c.: Paris, 1802.)</p> + + + <p class="right"> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ERONIMO</span>.</p> + + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Replies to Minor Queries.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Prenzie</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 401.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Several words have been suggested to +take the place of the unintelligible "<i>prenzie</i>" in <i>Measure for +Measure</i>; but none of them appear to me to satisfy all the four +conditions justly required by L<span class="smcap lowercase">EGES</span>.</p> + +<p>I would suggest <i>phrensied</i> or <i>phrenzied</i>, a word extremely like +<i>prenzie</i> both in sound and appearance, and of the proper metre, thus +perfectly satisfying two of the conditions.</p> + +<p>With respect to the propriety of using this word in the two instances +where <i>prenzie</i> occurs, Claudio, in the first place, when informed by +his sister of the villany of Angelo, may well exclaim in astonishment— +</p> + + <div class="poem"> +<p> "The <i>phrenzied</i> Angelo?"</p> +</div> + + +<p class="noindent"><i>i.e.</i> "What, is he mad?" or, with a note of admiration, "Why, Angelo +must be mad!" Then, I think, naturally follows Isabella's reply:—</p> + + + <div class="poem"> + <p> "O 'tis the cunning livery of Hell,</p> + <p> The damned'st body to invest and cover</p> + <p> In <i>phrenzied</i> guards!"</p> +</div> + + +<p class="noindent">that is, in the disguise or under the cloak of madness.</p> + +<p>Johnson defines Frenzy to be</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "Madness; distraction of mind; alienation of understanding; any + violent passion approaching to madness."</p> + + +<p class="noindent">and surely Angelo's <i>violent passion</i> for Isabella, and his +determination to gratify it at all risks, may, properly be said to +<i>approach to madness</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. G. M.</p> + + +<p>There is a Scotch word so nearly resembling this, and at the same time +so exactly answering to the sense which the passage in <i>Measure for +Measure</i> requires, that it may be worth while calling the attention of +the Shakspearian commentators to it. In Allan Cunningham's Glossary to +Burns, I find <i>Primsie</i>, which he defines to mean <i>demure</i>, <i>precise</i>. +An old Scotch proverb is quoted, in which the word is used:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "A <i>primsie</i> damsel makes a laidlae dame."</p> +</div> + +<p>The term is evidently connected with, or formed from, the English +<i>prim</i>, which has the same sense. It seems this was formerly sometimes +written <i>prin</i>. Halliwell cites from Fletcher's poems the lines—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "He looks as gaunt and prin, as he that spent</p> + <p> A tedious twelve years in an eager Lent."</p> +</div> + +<p class="noindent">Now if from <i>prim</i> be formed the secondary adjective <i>primsie</i>, so from +<i>prin</i> we get <i>prinsie</i> or <i>prinzie</i>. But without resorting to the +supposition of the existence of this latter word, it is evident that in +<i>primzie</i>, which does or did exist, we have a word answering all the +conditions laid down by L<span class="smcap lowercase">EGES</span> for determining the true reading, more +nearly than any other that has been suggested.</p> + + + <p class="right"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">EBES</span>.</p> + + + + <p class="blockquot"> [Dr. Jamieson, in his <i>Scottish Dictionary</i>, defines PRIMSIE, + demure, precise, S. from E. <i>prim</i>.</p> + + + + <div class="poem"> <p> "Poor Willie, wi' his bow-kail runt</p> + <p> Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie."</p> + + <p class="author">Burns, iii. 129.]</p> +</div> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest</i></span> <span> (Vol. iii., p. 443.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Were the beautiful +lines entitled "Lady Flora's Bequest" in reality written by that +lamented lady? They are not to be found in the volume of her Poems +published after her death by her sister, the Marchioness of Bute; and +they did appear in <i>The Christian Lady's Magazine</i> for September, 1839, +with the signature of Miss M. A. S. Barber appended to them.</p> + +<p>In the preceding Number of the same magazine there is a very touching +account of Lady Flora, from the pen of its talented editress, who +mentions the fact of Lady Flora having with her <i>dying hand</i> "delivered +to her fond brother a little Bible, the gift of her mother, requesting +him to restore it to that beloved parent with the assurance that from +the age of seven years, when she received it from her, it had been her +best treasure; and, she added, her sole support under all her recent +afflictions."</p> + +<p>If your correspondent E<span class="smcap lowercase">RZA</span> has never seen that obituary notice (Seeleys, +publishers) I think she will be glad to meet with it.</p> + + + <p class="right"> L. H. K.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Arches of Pelaga</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 478.)</span></h4> + +<p>—This term is in common use +among sailors, meaning the Mediterranean Archipelago, and they may very +often be heard saying—"When I was up the Arches."</p> + + + <p class="right"> E. N. W.</p> + + <p class="left"> Southwark, June 16. 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Engraved Warming-Pans</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 84. 115.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I beg to add to the +lists of H. G. T., and E. B. P<span class="smcap lowercase">RICE</span>.</p> + +<p>Some years ago I purchased one in Bradford, +<span class="pagenum">[523]</span><a id="purchased523"></a> +[~523] Wilts, and several at +Bedwyn Magna in the same county. The Bradford one bears an heraldic +nondescript animal with horns on its head and nose, and a coronet round +its neck, surrounded by—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "The . Lord . reseve . us . into . His . kingdom . 1616."</p> +</div> + +<p>One of the Bedwyn ones bears a lion passant holding a scimitar, with the +motto:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Feare . God . and . obay . the . king . 161—."</p> +</div> + +<p>The last figure of the date is obliterated. Another has a shield bearing +three tuns, surrounded by—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "The Vintners' arms."</p> +</div> + +<p>One in the possession of a farmer in the parish of Barton Turf, Norfolk, +bears an eagle with a human head at its feet, surrounded by—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "The . Erl . of . Darbeyes . arms." 1660.</p> +</div> + + + <p class="right"> W. C. L<span class="smcap lowercase">UKIS</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Great Bedwyn, June, 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>St. Pancras</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 285. 397.).</span></h4> + +<p>—St. Pancras was a native of +the province of Phrygia, the son of a nobleman of the name of Cledonius; +who, when at the point of death, strongly recommended this his only son, +together with his fortune, which was very great, to the care of his +brother Dionysius, he being the only near relative in being, the mother +having previously deceased.</p> + +<p>This trust Dionysius faithfully fulfilled, bringing up and loving his +nephew as he would have done his own son; and when, three years after +the death of Cledonius, he quitted his native country and proceeded to +Rome, the youthful Pancras accompanied him. Upon reaching the imperial +city, the uncle and nephew took up their residence in the same suburb +where the Pope Marcellinus had fled for concealment from the persecution +which had been raised against the Christians by the Emperors Diocletian +and Maximianus. Here they had not been long resident before the fame of +the great sanctity and virtue of Marcellinus reached their ears, and +caused an ardent desire in both to see and converse with one so highly +spoken of. A convenient opportunity was soon found, and in a short time +both the uncle and nephew, renouncing their idolatry, became converted +to the Christian faith.</p> + +<p>So strong was the effect produced upon them by this change, that the +chief desire of both was to die for their religion; and, without waiting +for the arrival of the officers who were continually searching for the +hidden Christians, they voluntarily surrendered themselves to the +ministers of justice.</p> + +<p>A few days after this event, however, Dionysius was called hence by a +natural death.</p> + +<p>Diocletian, who is said to have been a friend of Cledonius, and moved +perhaps by the youth and graceful appearance of Pancras, strove by +flattery and caresses to induce him to do sacrifice to the heathen gods; +to this proposition Pancras absolutely refused to consent, and +reproached the Emperor for his weakness in believing to be gods, men, +who, while on earth, had been remarkable for their vices. Diocletian, +stung by these reproaches, commanded that the youth should be instantly +beheaded, which sentence was immediately carried into execution. His +death is said to have taken place on 12th May, 303; the martyr being +then but fourteen years of age.</p> + +<p>The gate in Rome, rendered so remarkable lately as having been the chief +point attacked by the French troops, was formerly called Porta Aurelia; +but was subsequently named Porta Pancrazio, after this youthful +sufferer.</p> + + + <p class="right"> R. R. M.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez</i></span><span> (Vol. iii., p. 478.)</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Ferrante +Pallavicino was descended from a noble family, seated in Placenza. He +entered the monastery of Augustine Friars at Milan, where he became a +regular canon of the Lateran congregation. He was a man of fine genius, +and possessed great wit, but having employed it in writing several +satirical pieces against Urban VIII. during the war between the +Barberini and the Duke of Parma and Placenza, he became so detested at +the court of Rome, that a price was set on his head. One Charles Morfu, +a French villain, was bribed to ensnare him, and pretending to pass for +his friend and pity his misfortunes, persuaded him to go to France, +which he said would be much to his advantage. Pallavicino gave himself +up entirely to the direction of this false friend, who conducted him +over the bridge at Sorgues into the territory of Venaissin, where he was +arrested by people suborned for that purpose, was carried to Avignon, +thrown into a dungeon, from which he tried to make his escape, and in +the year 1644, after a fourteen months' imprisonment, was beheaded in +the flower of his age. He was the author of a number of small pieces, +all of which are marked by the lively genius of the author. They were +collected and published at Venice in 1655, and amongst them I found one +entitled "La disgracia del Conte d'Olivarez," which, perhaps, may be the +work +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. S<span class="smcap lowercase">OULEY</span> has in MS.</p> + +<p>For a more lengthy account of this unhappy and extraordinary man, I +would refer + M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. S<span class="smcap lowercase">OULEY</span> to the life prefixed to his collected works, and +to that prefixed to a French translation of his <i>Divortio celeste</i>, +printed at Amsterdam in 1696; and also to the preface to the English +translation of that same very curious work, printed at London in 1718. +</p> + + + <p class="right"> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILLIAM</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">ROWN</span>, Jun. +</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Mind your P's and Q's</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 328. 357. 463.).</span></h4> + +<p>—When I +proposed this Query, I mentioned that I had heard one derivation of the +phrase. As it is different from either of those +<span class="pagenum">[524]</span><a id="either524"></a> + which have been +sent, it may, perhaps, be worth insertion. I was told by a printer that +the phrase had originated among those of his craft, since young +compositors experience great difficulty in discriminating between the +types of the two letters.</p> + + + <p class="right"> R. D. H.</p> + + +<p>[A correspondent has kindly suggested a new version of this saying, and +suggests that for the future our readers should be reminded to mind, not +their P's and Q's, but their N's and Q's.]</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Banks, Family of</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 390. 458.).</span></h4> + + +<p>—In No. 81. R. C. H. H. +asks if John Banks the philosopher was descended from Sir John Banks, +Lord Chief Justice in Charles I.'s reign. + +As a grandson of the former, I take great interest in this, but am sorry +to say that I can give no information at present on that branch of the +subject. The philosopher's family were settled for some generations at +Grange, near Keswick. I should be obliged if R. C. H. H. would +communicate the name and publisher of the book on the Lakes which he +quotes from, as I am exceedingly anxious to trace the genealogy.</p> + + + <p class="right"> B<span class="smcap lowercase">AY</span>.</p> + + + <p class="left">Liverpool, June 19. 1851.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>National Debts</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 374.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The following extract from <i>La +Cronica di Giovanni Villani</i>, lib. xii. c. 35., appears to have some +reference to the Query made by F. E. M.:</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "E nel detto mese di Febbraio, 1344, per lo comune si fece ordine, + che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere dal comune per le prestanze + fatte al tempo de' venti della balia, come addieto facemmo + menzione, che si trovarono fiorini cinquecento-settantamila + d'oro, sanza il debito di Messer Mastino della Scala, ch' erano + presso a centomila fiorini d'oro, che si mettessono in uno + registro ordinatemente; e dare il comune ogni anno di provvisione + e usufrutto cinque per centinaio, dando ogni mese la paga per + rata; e diputossi a fornire il detto guiderdone parte alla + gabella delle parti, e parte ad altre gabelle, che montava l'anno + da fiorini venticinque mila d'oro, dov' erano assegnate le paghe + di Messer Mastino; e pagato lui, fossone assignati alla detta + satisfazione; il quale Messer Mastino fu pagato del mese di + Dicembre per lo modo che diremo innanzi. E cominciossi la paga + della detta provvisione del mese d'Ottobre 1345."</p> + + + <p class="right"> R. R. M.</p> + + + + + +<h4><span><i>Monte di Piet</i></span><span> (Vol. iii., p. 372.)</span></h4> + +<p>—In reply to your correspondent W. +B. H., requesting to be informed of the connexion between a "Piet" and +a "Monte di Piet," it may be observed that there does not appear to be +any necessary connexion between the two expressions. The term "a Piet" +is generally used to denote the figure of the dead Saviour attended by +His Blessed Mother: for example, the celebrated one in St. Peter's at +Rome. The word "Monte," besides its signification of "montagna," +expresses also "luogo publico ove si danno oi si pigliano denari ad +interesse;" also "luogo publico altres dove col pegno si prestano +denari con piccolo interesse."</p> + +<p>"Piet," in addition to its signification of "devozione," or "virt per +cui si ama ed onora Dia," &c., which would apply to the figure of the +dead Saviour, expresses "compassione amorevole verso il suo simile."</p> + + +<p>Monte di Piet would therefore be a place where money was lent at +interest, on such terms as were in unison with a kind and compassionate +feeling towards our neighbour. This species of establishment was first +commenced in Italy towards the end of the fifteenth century, by Il Beato +Bernardino da Feltri, who carried his opposition to the Jews so far as +to preach a crusade against them. The earliest Monte of which any record +appears to exist was founded in the city of Padua in 1491; the effect of +which was to cause the closing of twelve loan banks belonging to the +Jews.</p> + +<p>From Italy they were shortly afterwards introduced into France.</p> + +<p>The first legal sanction given to these establishments was granted by +Pope Leo X. in 1551.</p> + + + <p class="right"> R. R. M.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Registry of Dissenting Baptisms</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 370. 460.).</span></h4> + +<p>—From the +replies to my Query on this subject that have been published, it is +plain that in all parts of England Dissenters have wished to procure the +registry of their children's births or baptisms in their parish +churches. In some instances they have been registered <i>as dissenting +baptisms</i>; and then the fact appears from the Registry itself. In other +instances, and probably far the more numerous (though this would be +difficult to <i>prove</i>), they were registered among the canonical +baptisms; and the fact of their being performed by Dissenting Ministers +is only discoverable by reference to the Dissenting Register, when it +happens to have been preserved. So in the instances referred to in p. +370., the baptisms are registered without distinction from others in the +Registry of St. Peter's Church, Chester; but a duplicate registry <i>as on +the same day</i> was made at Cross Lane Meeting House, which is, I believe, +not in St. Peter's parish; though, I presume, the residence of the +parents was in it.</p> + + + <p class="right"> D. X.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Eisell</i></span><span> (Vol. iii., pp. 66. 397.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I am not aware that the following +passage has been quoted by any of the disputants in the late "Eisell" +controversy. It occurs in Jewel's <i>Controversy with Harding</i>, pp. 651-2. +of vol. ii. of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel's works.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "A Christian man removeth his household, and, having there an + image of Christ, equal unto him in length, and breadth, and all + proportion, by forgetfulness leaveth it there in a secret place + behind him. A Jew after him inhabiteth the same house a long + while, and seeth it not; another strange Jew, sitting there at + dinner, immediately espieth it standing open against a +<span class="pagenum">[525]</span><a id="against525"></a> + wall.... Afterward the priests and rulers of the Jews come + together, and abuse it with all villany. They crown it with a + thorn, make it drink <i>esel</i> and gall, and stick it to the heart + with a spear. Out issueth blood in great quantity, the powers of + Heaven are shaken; the sun is darkened; the moon loseth her + light." +</p> + + + <p class="right"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">UDYN</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">WYN</span>. +</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>English Sapphics</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 494.).</span></h4> + +<p>—A beautiful specimen of this +measure, far superior in rhythm to the attempt of Dr. Watts, appeared in +the <i>Youth's Magazine</i> twenty-five years ago. It consisted of the Psalm +"By the Waters of Babylon." I remember the last verse only.</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever</p> + <p>Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion;</p> + <p>Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee,</p> + <p class="i9"> Land of my fathers."</p> +</div> + + + <p class="right"> H. E. H.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Mints at Norwich—Joseph Nobbs</i> </span><span>(Vol. iii., p. 447.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I beg to inform +<span class="smcap lowercase">COWGILL</span> that the operation of the Mint of the Great Recoinage of 1696-7 +was performed in a room at St. Andrew's Hall, in this city; but the +amount there coined, or at any of the other places mentioned, I am not +able to inform him. The total amount said to be recoined was +6,882,908<i>l.</i> 19<i>s.</i> 7<i>d.</i> +</p> + +<table summary="Tower and Country Mints total amount of the Great Recoinage 1696-7"> + +<tr> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th> </th> +<th class="center"> </th> +<th class="center"><i> s.</i></th> +<th class="center"><i> d.</i></th> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="tdhang">The amount at the Tower</td> +<td class="center"> 5,091,121</td> +<td class="center"> 7</td> +<td class="center"> 7</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="tdhang">And in the Country Mints</td> +<td class="center"> 1,791,787 </td> +<td class="center">12</td> +<td class="center"> 0</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td colspan="3" class="center">------------------------------------------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td class="center">6,882,908 </td> +<td class="center">19</td> +<td class="center"> 7</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +<td> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + + + + +<p>The following are the names of persons employed in the Mint at +Norwich:— +</p> +<p>Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer.</p> + +<p>Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder; Thomas Allen, his clerk.</p> + +<p>Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker; Mr. Beaser, his clerk.</p> + +<p>William Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, his clerk.</p> + +<p>Heneage Price, Gent., King's clerk.</p> + +<p>Mr. Rapier, Weigher and Teller.</p> + +<p>Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings.</p> + +<p>Mr. John Young, Deputy Graver.</p> + +<p>John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the Moneyers.</p> + +<p>Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Master, and his servant.—His brother, Edger, and +Lotterer of the Half-Crowns, Shillings, and Sixpences. It is said crowns +were not struck here, and I have never seen one of this Mint.</p> + +<p>The whole of the work was finished here, September 29, 1698.</p> + +<p>In pulling up the floor of an old house, in Tombland, in 1847, a +quantity of the silver coin minted here was discovered, which, from the +appearance of the coins, were never in circulation: they were sold to +Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, for about 20<i>l.</i> No doubt the +coins were abstracted from the Mint during the process of coining.</p> + +<p>In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is the following entry, <span class="smcap lowercase">A. D.</span> 1717:</p> + + + <p class="blockquot"> "Joseph Nobbs, Parish Clerk of S<span class="topnum">t</span>. Gregory's, aged 89, was + buried Nov<span class="topnum">r</span>. 4, 1717, being the year following the last entry + in his Chronology. He was then 89 years of age, and, what is + somewhat remarkable, that is the age of the present Clerk of + S<span class="topnum">t</span> Gregory's."</p> + + <p class="right"> G. H. I.</p> +<p>P. S. Some other matters relative to this Mint are among my memoranda.</p> +<p class="left">Norwich, June 16. 1851.</p> + + + + + +<h4><span><i>Voltaire, where situated</i> </span><span>(Vol. iii., p. 329.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Your correspondent V. +is informed, that the following particulars on the subject of his Query +are given in a note to the article "Voltaire," in Qurard's <i>France +Littraire</i>, vol. x. p. 276.:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "Voltaire est le nom d'un petit bien de famille, qui appartenait + la mre de l'auteur de la '<i>Henriade</i>,'—Marie Catherine + Daumart, d'une famille noble du Poitou."</p> + + + <p class="right"> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ENRY</span> H. B<span class="smcap lowercase">REEN</span>.</p> + <p class="left"> St. Lucia, May, 1851.</p> + + + + + +<h4><span><i>Meaning of Pilcher</i></span><span> (Vol. iii., p. 476).</span></h4> + +<p>—I must say I can see no +difficulty at all about <i>pilcher</i>. If the <i>r</i> at the end makes it so +strange a word, leave that out, and then you will have a word, as it +seems, quite well established—<i>pylche</i>, toga pellice: Lye. Skinner +thinks <i>pilchard</i> may be derived from it.</p> + +<p>"Pilch, an outer garment generally worn in cold weather, and made of +skins of fur. 'Pelicium, a pylche.' (<i>Nominale MS.</i>) The term is still +retained in connected senses in our dialects. 'A piece of flannel, or +other woollen, put under a child next the clout is, in Kent, called a +<i>pilch</i>; a coarse shagged piece of rug laid over a saddle, for ease of a +rider, is, in our midland parts, called a pilch.' (<i>MS. Lansd.</i> 1033.) +'Warme pilche and warme shon.' (<i>MS. Digby</i>, 86.) 'In our old dramatists +the term is applied to a buff or leather jerkin; and Shakspeare has +<i>pilcher</i> for the sheath of a sword." (Halliwell's <i>Dictionary</i>.)</p> + +<p>"<i>Pilche</i>, or <i>pilcher</i>, a scabbard, from <i>pylche</i>, a skin coat, Saxon. +A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a +carman. Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that +it was an external covering, and probably of leather. Kersey also calls +it a covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the sense of 'a +piece of flannel to be wrapt about a young child.' It seems, therefore, +to have been used for any covering." (Nares' <i>Glossary</i>.)</p> + + <p class="right"> C. B.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Catalogues of Coins of Canute</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 326.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The following is +a copy of the title-page of the work referred to by +<span class="pagenum">[526]</span><a id="referred526"></a> + <ins title="[Greek: +Boreas]">Βορεας</ins>:—<i>A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and +England; with Specimens.</i> London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. +4to. 1777. It consists of twenty-four pages, and was compiled by Richard +Gough, Esq.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. Y.</p> + + + + + +<h4><span><i>Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway</i> </span><span>(Vol. iii., p. 326.).</span></h4> + + <p class="blockquot"> —An +interesting notice of this work occurs in the <i>Retrospective Review</i>, +vol. xiii., pp. 181-213.; but neither in that article nor in any +bibliographical or biographical dictionary is the name of the translator +given.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. Y.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>The First Panorama</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 406.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I have often heard my father +say, that the first panorama exhibited was painted by Thomas Girtin, and +was a semicircular view of London, from the top of the Albion Mills, +near Blackfriars Bridge. It was exhibited in St. Martin's Lane, where, +not many years back, I saw it, it having been found rolled up in a loft +over a carpenter's shop. It was painted about 1793 or 1794, and my +father has some of the original sketches.</p> + + <p class="right"> E. N. W.</p> + + + <p class="left"> Southwark, June 2.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Written Sermons</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 478.).</span></h4> + +<p>—If M. C. L. asks, when and why +written sermons took the place of extemporaneous discourses, I believe +it may be said that written sermons were first in vogue. Certainly, the +inability of most men to preach "without book," would be sufficient to +ensure their early introduction. According to Bingham (see <i>Ant. of the +Christian Church</i>, book xiv. chap. 4.), Origen was the first who +preached extemporaneously, and not until after he was sixty years old. +The great divines of the time of the English Reformation preached both +written and oral sermons: many of these, especially of the former, are +included in their printed works. The same remark also applies to the +early Fathers of the Church. The use of the homilies, which were drawn +up for the ignorant clergy at the Reformation, at once gave a sanction +to the practice of <i>writing</i> sermons. The story of the preacher turning +over his hour-glass at Paul's Cross, and starting afresh, must of course +refer to an <i>unwritten</i> discourse. Sermons, being explications of +scripture, used to follow the reading of the psalms and lessons: now, +for the same reason, they come after the epistle and gospel. In olden +time, the bishop was the only preacher, going from church to church, as +now-a-days<a id="days2"></a><a title="Go to footnote 2." href="#fn2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>, with the same sermon or charge; and he addressed the +people from the altar steps: afterwards the priest, as his deputy, +preached in the pulpit, but the deacons were not allowed to preach at +all.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn2"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#days2" class="label">[2]</a> One of the highest dignitaries in our Church recently +declined to print a sermon, as requested; because, he frankly said, he +should want to preach it again.</p> + + <p class="right"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LFRED</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTY</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Bogatsky</i> </span><span>(Vol. iii., p. 478.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The little work, so justly popular in +England, under the title of Bogatsky's <i>Golden Treasury</i>, is by no means +a literal translation of the original; but was almost entirely +re-written by Venn, the author of the <i>Complete Duty of Man</i>. This I +state on good authority, as I believe; but I have never seen the +original.</p> + + <p class="right"> R. D. H.</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Miscellaneous.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</span></h3> + +<p>Under the title of a <i>Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy: +First Course—Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Sound, +Optics</i>, Dr. Lardner has just issued a small closely printed volume with +the object of supplying that "information relating to physical and +mechanical science, which is required by the medical and law student, +the engineer and artisan, by those who are preparing for the +universities, and, in short, by those who, having already entered upon +the active pursuits of business, are still desirous to sustain and +improve their knowledge of the general truths of physics, and of those +laws by which the order and stability of the material world are +maintained." The work, which is illustrated with upwards of four hundred +woodcuts, is extremely well adapted for the object in question; and +will, we have no doubt, obtain, as it deserves, a very extensive +circulation among the various classes of readers for whose use it has +been composed; and, in short, among all readers who desire to obtain a +knowledge of the elements of physics without pursuing them through their +mathematical consequences and details. The illustrations are generally +of a popular character, and therefore the better calculated to impress +upon the mind of the student the principles they are intended to +explain.</p> + +<p>The new volume of Mr. Bohn's <i>Standard Library</i> consists of the third of +Mr. Torrey's translation of Dr. Neander's <i>General History of the +Christian Religion and Church</i>. The period included in the present +division of this important contribution to ecclesiastical history +extends from the end of the Diocletian persecution to the time of +Gregory the Great, or from the year 312 to 590. A translation of <i>The +Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis and Halieuticon of Ovid</i>, with +copious notes by Henry T. Riley, B.A., is the last addition made by Mr. +Bohn to his <i>Classical Library</i>. Though these translations furnish very +imperfect pictures of the manner and style of the original writers, they +supply the mere English reader with a good general notion of their +matter, especially when they are as copiously annotated as the work +before us.</p> + +<p>We are informed that, in consequence of the great care and delicacy +which is found to be required in the presswork of the <i>Lansdowne +Shakspeare</i>, a beautiful volume, unique as a specimen of the art of +typography, the publication will be unavoidably postponed for a few +weeks.</p> + +<p>Messrs. Sotheby and Co. (3. Wellington Street, Strand) will commence, on +Wednesday next, a seven days' sale of the valuable Library of the date +Rev. 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Fleet +Street aforesaid.—Saturday, June 28, 1851.</p> + + + + +<div class="tnbox"> +<p>Transcriber's Note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized.</p> + +<p><a id="pageslist1"></a><a title="Return to top" href="#was_added1"> Pages + in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-III</a> </p> + + +<pre> + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | + | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | + | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | + | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | + | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | + | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | + | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | + | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | + | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | + | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | + | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | + | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | + | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | + | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | + | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | + | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | + | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1-15 | PG # 12589 | + | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17-32 | PG # 15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33-48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49-64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65-79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81-96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1-15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17-31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33-47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49-78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81-95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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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, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: September 23, 2011 [EBook #37516] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 28, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Characters with macrons have been marked in +brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on +top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Original +spelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of volumes and +pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. III.--No. 87. SATURDAY, JUNE 28. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing + Monuments 513 + + NOTES:-- + + Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence + of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage 515 + + Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell 515 + + Folk Lore:--Popular Superstitions in Lancashire--Folk Lore + in Lancashire--Lancashire Customs--Od--Pigeons 516 + + Minor Notes:--Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at + Trafalgar--Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots--Jonah + and the Whale--Anachronisms of Painters 517 + + QUERIES:-- + + Minor Queries:--Rifles--Stanbridge Earls--Montchesni + or Muncey Family--Epitaph on Voltaire--Passage in + Coleridge's Table Talk--"Men may live Fools, but Fools + they cannot die"--Etymology of Bicetre--Theobald + Anguilbert and Michael Scott--"Suum cuique tribuere," &c. 518 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Organs first put up in + Churches--Ignoramus, Comoedia, &c.--Drake's Historia + Anglo-Scotica 518 + + REPLIES:-- + + Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 519 + + Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman 520 + + Mosaic 521 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Prenzie--Lady Flora Hastings' + Bequest--Arches of Pelaga--Engraved Warming-pans--St. + Pancras--Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez--Mind your + P's and Q's--Banks Family--National Debts--Monte di + Pieta--Registry of Dissenting Baptisms--Eisell--English + Sapphics--Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs--Voltaire, + where situated--Meaning of Pilcher--Catalogues of Coins + of Canute--Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway--The + First Panorama--Written Sermons--Bogatsky 522 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 526 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 527 + + Notices to Correspondents 527 + + Advertisements 527 + + + + +ON THE PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. + + + The following letters, which we have received since we last + brought the proposed scheme for preserving a record of existing + monuments under the notice of our readers, afford a striking proof + how widely the interest in the subject is extending. + + We print them now, partly because the Number of "NOTES AND + QUERIES" now in the reader's hands completes the present volume, + and it is desirable that the various communications upon this + point should, as far as possible, be found together; and partly + because the time is at hand when many of our readers may have the + opportunity, during their summer excursions, of following out the + plan described by our valued correspondent YORK HERALD in the + following letter:-- + +References to this subject having appeared in your valuable miscellany, +I am unwilling to lose an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my +mite of contribution towards the means of preserving monumental +inscriptions. It may be better perhaps, to state the humble method I +adopt in attempting to rescue from oblivion those memorials of the dead, +than to suggest any. I avail myself of occasions, whenever I visit the +country, to take notes of monumental inscriptions in churches and other +places of sepulture; generally of all within the walls of the sacred +edifice, and those of the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. +Time very often will not allow me to take _verbatim_ copies of +inscriptions; so I merely transcribe faithfully every date, genealogical +note, and prominent event recorded upon monuments; omitting all +circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. By this means, much time +and labour are saved, and much useful and valuable information is +secured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or even drawings of the +most remarkable monuments; but this would occupy much time, and narrow +the means of collecting; and by which I should have lost much that is +valuable and interesting; copies, howsoever much they would have been +desirable, would not possess the character of legal evidence. Thus, upon +mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from +many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, +all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. I +have frequently found also that preserving an account of the relative +positions of gravestones is important; especially when groups of family +memorials occur in the same locality. I need scarcely add that I +preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found upon tombs and +hatchments, forming a collection of arms borne by various families; and +whether they stand the test of authority or not, at all events such +information is useful. + +What store of information might be obtained, by persons having leisure +and inclination to pursue such an object, by the simple means of an +ordinary pocket-memorandum-book! + + Thomas William King. + + Our next communication, from the Rev. Canon Raines, is valuable, + as showing that unless some limit is placed to the antiquarian + ardour of those who would "collect and record every existing + monumental inscription," the historical and genealogical inquirer + will be embarrassed by a mass of materials in which, like + Gratiano's reasons, the two grains of wheat will be hid in two + bushels of chaff--a mass, indeed, which, from its extent, would + require to be deposited with the Registrar-General, and arranged + by the practised hands of his official staff. + +MR. DUNKIN'S proposed record of existing monuments will be, if carried +into effect, a very useful contribution to genealogists. Many years +since I transcribed all the inscriptions _inside_ the parish church of +Rochdale, in Lancashire; but I never contemplated the possibility of any +antiquary having the ardour to undertake a similar _task outside_. There +are many thousands of gravestones, covering some _acres_; and I have +understood that when one side of a grave-stone has been covered with +inscriptions, the stone has been turned upside down, and the sculptor +has again commenced his endless work on the smooth surface. In a great +majority of these frail records nothing would be obtained which the +parish register could not supply. + + F. R. RAINES. + + Milnrow Parsonage, Rochdale, June 4. + + Our correspondent from Bruges furnishes, like YORK HERALD, + valuable evidence as to what individual exertion may accomplish; + and we are sure, that if he will take the trouble of securing, + while he has the opportunity, a copy of the inscriptions in the + cemetery allotted to the English at Bruges, confining himself + merely to the names, dates, and genealogical information contained + in them, and will then deposit his collections either in the + Library of the Society of Antiquaries, or the Manuscript + Department of the British Museum, he will not only be setting a + good example to all antiquaries who may reside in any of the + cities of the Continent, but earn for himself hereafter the thanks + of many an anxious inquirer after genealogical truth. + +The communications made in your interesting "NOTES AND QUERIES" have +occasioned me much gratification, and if it be in my power to contribute +but a mite to this rich treasury of information, I should consider it a +privilege to be allowed to do so. To show that I am actuated by a +kindred spirit, permit me to inform you, that a few years ago I +undertook the formation of a desultory collection of "memorials of the +ancient dead," and with that view corresponded with several hundred +clergymen, inviting their local assistance; and I need scarcely add that +a prompt and courteous attention to my wishes, encouraged my labours, +and accomplished (so far as time and opportunity permitted) my object. +It will be obvious that I had no intention of aiming at specimens in the +higher department of monumental art, which have been so ably executed by +Gough, Stothard, Neale, and others, but to content myself with those +humbler efforts of skill which lay neglected and sometimes buried in +holes and corners in many a rural church in remote districts. + +The result has put me in possession of a collection of about three +hundred illustrations, consisting of pen-and-ink outlines, pencil +sketches, Indian ink drawings, and some more highly finished paintings +in water colour; and in addition to these, upwards of two hundred +autograph letters from clergymen, many of which contain not only +inscriptions, but interesting parochial and topographical information. + +The illustrations I have arranged (as well as I am able) in centuries, +commencing with the plain cope lid of the eleventh century, according to +the plan adopted by M. H. Bloxam, Esq., in his admirable treatise +modestly intitled _A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and +Sculpture of Great Britain_. The volume made for their reception is an +atlas-folio, guarded; on one leaf is inserted the drawing, on the other +the letter (if any) which accompanied it, to which are added a few brief +memoranda of my own: it is still, however, in an unfinished state. + +The book is a very cumbrous one, so that its transmission would be no +very easy task; if, however, it should be thought desirable, and the +practicability explained, I shall have much pleasure in placing its +contents at the disposal of any one engaged in following out the plan +proposed. + +Allow me to add that, about a mile distant from the quaint and +interesting city from whence this "note" is dated (and in which I have +resided for some time), we come to the cemetery, a portion of which is +allotted to the interment of those English residents, or visitors, who +may have terminated their earthly career at this place. Should a copy of +the inscriptions in this receptacle (which are numerous) be acceptable, +I will endeavour to procure one; but in this case I should be glad to +know whether these extracts should be confined to names, dates, and +genealogical information only, or include the various tributes of +affection or of friendship, by which they are generally accompanied. + + M. W. B. + + Bruges. + + + + +Notes. + + +ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. IX. + +_The Astronomical Evidence of the True Date of the Canterbury +Pilgrimage._ + +As a conclusion to my investigation of this subject, I wish to place +upon record the astronomical results on which I have relied in the +course of my observations; in order that their correctness may be open +to challenge, and that each reader may compare the actual phenomena, +rigidly ascertained with all the helps that modern science affords, with +the several approximations arrived at by Chaucer. And when it is +recollected that some at least of the facts recorded by him must have +been theoretical--incapable of the test of actual observation--it must +be admitted that his near approach to truth is remarkable: not the less +so that his ideas on some points were certainly erroneous; as, for +example, his adoption, in the _Treatise on the Astrolabe_, of Ptolemy's +determination of the obliquity of the ecliptic in preference to the more +correct value assigned to it by the Arabians of the middle ages. + +Assuming that the true date intended by Chaucer was Saturday the 18th of +April, 1388, the following particulars of that day are those which have +reference to his description:-- + + H. M. + + Right { Of the Sun at noon - 2 . 17.2 + Ascension { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 12 . 5.7 + { Of the star ([Greek: delta] Virginis) 12 . 25 + + deg. ' + North { Of the Sun at noon - 13 . 47.5 + Declination { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 49.8 + { Of the star ([Greek: delta] Virginis) 6 . 43.3 + + deg. ' + + { Of the Sun at 10 a. m. 45 . 15 + Altitude { Of the Sun at 4 p. m. 29 . 15 + { Of the Moon at 4 p. m. 4 . 53 + { Of the star at 4 p. m. 4 . 20 + + Azimuth - Of the Sun at rising - 112 . 30 + + H. M. + + { Of the Sun at half Azimuth 9 . 17 a. m. + { Of the Sun at altitude 45 deg. 9 . 58 a. m. + Apparent { Of the Sun at altitude 29 deg. 4 . 2 p. m. + Time { Of apparent entrance + { of Moon's centre into Libra 3 . 45 p. m. + +It will be seen that, if the place here assigned to the moon be correct, +Chaucer could not have described it more appropriately than by the +phrase "In mene Libra:" providing (of which there can be little doubt) +that he used those words as synonymous with "in hedde of Libra." "Hedde +of Libra," "hedde of Aries," are expressions constantly used by him to +describe the equinoctial points; and the analogy that exists between +"head," in the sense head-land or promontory, as, for example, "Orme's +Head," "Holyhead," "Lizard Head," and the like; and "menez" in the same +sense, need not be further insisted upon. Evidence fully sufficient to +justify a much less obvious inference has been already produced, and I +am enabled to strengthen it still further by the following reference, +for which I am indebted to a private communication from H. B. C. + + "Menez, _s. m._ Grande masse de terre, ou de roche, fort elevee + au-dessus du sol de la terre. + + "Mean, ou Maen, _s. m._ Pierre, corps dur et solide qui se forme + dans la terre. + + "(En Treguier et Cornouailes), MENE." + + (Gonidec, _Dictionnaire Celto-Breton_. + Angouleme, 1821.) + +This last reference is doubly valuable, in referring the word _mene_ to +the very neighbourhood of the scene of Chaucer's "Frankleine's Tale," +and in dispensing with the terminal letter _z_, thereby giving us the +_verbum ipsissimum_ used by Chaucer. + +I must not be understood as entertaining the opinion that Chaucer's +knowledge of astronomy--although undoubtedly great, considering the age +in which he lived and the nature of his pursuits--would have enabled him +to determine the moon's true place, with such correctness, wholly from +theory; on the contrary, I look upon it as more probably the result of +real observation at the time named, and, as such, adding another link to +the chain of presumptive evidence that renders it more probable that +Chaucer wrote the prologues to his _Canterbury Tales_ more as a +narration (_with some embellishments_) of events that really took place, +than that they were altogether the work of his imagination. + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, June, 1851. + + +CURIOUS EPIGRAMS ON OLIVER CROMWELL. + +Looking carefully over a curious copy of the _Flagellum, or the Life and +Death, Birth and Buriall of O. Cromwell, the late Usurper_, printed for +Randal Taylor, 1672, I found on the back of the title the following +epigrams, written in a handwriting and ink corresponding to the date of +the book (which, by the way, is a late edition of the "little brown +lying book," by Heath, which Carlyle notices): as they are curious and +worth preserving, and I believe not to be met with elsewhere, I presume +they may be of some interest to your readers. The book is also full of +MS. marginal notes and remarks, evidently by some red-hot royalist, +which are also curious in themselves, and with a selection of which I +may some day trouble you should you wish it. + + _Under Gen. Cromwell's Picture, hung up in the Royal Exchange, + these Lines were written._ + + "Ascend ye Throne Greate Captaine and Divine + By th' will of God, oh Lyon, for they'r thine; + Come priest of God, bring oyle, bring Robes, bring Golde, + Bring crowns, bring scepters, 'tis high time t' unfold + Yor cloyster'd Buggs, yor State cheates, Lifte ye Rod + Of Steele, of Iron, of the King of God,-- + Pay all in wrath with interest. Kneeling pray + To Olivr Torch of Syon, Starr of Day. + Shoute then you Townds and Cyties, loudly Sing, + And all bare-headed cry, God save ye King!" + + _The Repartee, unto this Blasphemie._ + + "Descende thou great Usurper from ye throne, + Thou, throughe thy pride, tooke what was not thine owne; + A Rope did better fitte thee than a Crowne, + Come Carnifex, and put ye Traytor downe, + For crownes and sceptres, and such sacred things + Doe not belong to Traytors, but to Kings; + Let therefoe all true Loyall subjects sing, + Vive le Roy! Long Live! God bless ye King!" + +In regard to the little controversy which I started regarding Bunyan's +claim to be author of the _Visions of Heaven and Hell_, I hope soon to +decide it, as I am on the scent of a copy of, I believe, a first +edition, which does not claim him for author. + + JAMES FRISWELL. + + 12. Brooke Street, Holborn. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Popular Superstitions in Lancashire._--That a man must never "go a +courting" on a Friday. If an unlucky fellow is caught with his lady-love +on that day, he is followed home by a band of musicians playing on +pokers, tongs, pan-lids, &c., unless he can rid himself of his +tormentors by giving them money to drink with. + +That hooping-cough will never be taken by any child which has ridden +upon a bear. While bear baiting was in fashion, great part of the +owner's profits arose from the money given by parents whose children had +had a ride. The writer knows of cases in which the charm is said +certainly to have been effectual. + +That hooping-cough may be cured by tying a hairy caterpillar in a small +bag round the child's neck, and as the caterpillar dies the cough goes. + +That Good Friday is the best day of all the year to begin weaning +children, which ought if possible to be put off till that day; and a +strong hope is sometimes entertained that a very cross child will "be +better" after it has been christened. + +That May cats are unlucky, and will suck the breath of children. + +That crickets are lucky about a house, and will do no harm to those who +use them well; but that they eat holes in the worsted stockings of such +members of the family as kill them. I was assured of this on the +experience of a respectable farmer's family. + +The belief in ghosts, or bogards, as they are termed, is universal. + +In my neighbourhood I hardly know a dell where a running stream crosses +a road by a small bridge or stone plat, where there is not frectnin +(frightening) to be expected. Wells, ponds, gates, &c., have often this +bad repute. I have heard of a calf with eyes like a saucer, a woman +without a head, a white greyhound, a column of white foam like a large +sugar-loaf in the midst of a pond, a group of little cats, &c., &c., as +the shape of the bogard, and sometimes a lady who jumped behind hapless +passengers on horseback. It is supposed that a Romish priest can lay +them, and that it is best to cheat them to consent to being laid while +hollies are green. Hollies being evergreens, the ghosts can reappear no +more. + + P. P. + +_Folk Lore in Lancashire_ (Vol. iii., p. 55.).--Most of, if not all the +instances mentioned under this head by Mr. Wilkinson are, as might be +expected, current also in the adjacent district of the West Riding of +Yorkshire; and, by his leave, I will add a few more, which are familiar +to me: + +1. If a cock near the door crows with his face towards it, it is a sure +prediction of the arrival of a stranger. + +2. If the cat frisks about the house in an unusually lively manner, +windy or stormy weather is approaching. + +3. If a dog howls under a window at night, a death will shortly happen +in that house. + +4. If a _female_ be the first to enter a house on Christmas or New +Year's day, she brings ill luck to that house for the coming year. + +5. For hooping-cough, pass the child nine times over the back and under +the belly of an ass. (This ceremony I once witnessed, but cannot vouch +for its having had the desired effect.) + +6. For warts, rub them with a cinder, and this tied up in paper and +dropped where four roads meet, will transfer the warts to whoever opens +the packet. + + J. EASTWOOD. + + Ecclesfield. + +_Lancashire Customs._--The curfew is continued in many of the villages, +and until the last ten or fifteen years it was usual at a Roman Catholic +funeral to ring a merry peal on the bells as soon as the interment was +over. The Roman Catholics seem now to have discontinued this practice. + +Carol singing and hand-bell ringing prevail at Christmas, and troops of +men and children calling themselves _pace eggers_, go about in Passion +Week, and especially Good Friday, as mummers in the south of England do +at Christmas. Large tallow candles may often be seen decorated with +evergreens, hanging up in the houses of the poor at Christmas time. + + P. P. + +_Od._--One of the experiments by which the existence of this agency is +tested, consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the +forefinger, and suspending to it a smooth gold ring. When the elbow is +rested on the table, and the finger held in a horizontal position, the +ring begins to oscillate in the plane of the direction of the finger; +but if a female takes hold of the left hand of the person thus +experimenting, the ring begins forthwith to oscillate in a plane at +right angles to that of its former direction. I have never tried the +experiment, for the simple reason that I have not been able to prevail +upon any married lady of my acquaintance to lend me her wedding-ring for +the purpose; and even if I had found it come true, I should still doubt +whether the motion were not owing to the pulsations of the finger veins; +but whatever be the cause, the fact is not new. My father recently told +me, that in his boyhood he had often seen it tried as a charm. For this +purpose it is essential, as may be supposed, that the ring be a +wedding-ring, and of course the lady towards whom it oscillates is set +down as the future spouse of the gentleman experimenting. + + R. D. H. + +_Pigeons._--The popular belief, that a person cannot die with his head +resting on a pillow containing pigeons' feathers, is well known; but the +following will probably be as new to many of your readers as it was to +myself. On applying the other day to a highly respectable farmer's wife +to know if she had any pigeons ready to eat, as a sick person had +expressed a longing for one, she said, "Ah! poor fellow! is he so far +gone? A pigeon is generally almost the last thing they want; I have +supplied many a one for the like purpose." + + J. EASTWOOD. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar._--Perhaps you may think it +worth while to preserve a note written by the late Rev. Dr. Scott on the +498th page of the second volume of Harrison's _Life of Lord Nelson_, in +contradiction of a bombastic description therein given of the admiral's +dress and appearance at the battle of Trafalgar. + + "This is wrong, he wore the same coat he did the day before; nor + was there the smallest alteration in his dress whatsoever from + other days. In this action he had not his sword with him on deck, + which in other actions he had always carried.--_A. J. Scott._" + +Dr. Scott was the chaplain and friend in whose arms Lord Nelson died. + +When the late Sir N. Harris Nicolas was engaged in a controversy in _The +Times_, respecting the sale of Lord Nelson's sword, I sent him a copy of +the above note, and told him I had heard Dr. Scott say that "the sword +was left hanging in the admiral's cabin." It was not found necessary to +make use of this testimony, as the dispute had subsided. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots._--The crucifix that belonged to this +unfortunate queen, and which she is said to have held in her hands on +the scaffold, is still preserved with great care by its present owners +(a titled family in the neighbourhood of Winchester), and at whose seat +I have frequently seen it. If I mistake not, the figure of our Saviour +is of ivory, and the cross of ebony. + + THE WHITE ROSE. + +_Jonah and the Whale._--In No. 76., p. 275., Mr. Gallatly calls +attention to the popular error in misquoting the expression from +Genesis: "In the sweat of thy face," &c. There is another popular error +which may not be known to some of your correspondents: it is generally +supposed that Jonah is recorded in the book bearing his name as having +been swallowed by a _whale_,--this is quite an error. The expressions is +"a great fish," and no such word as _whale_ occurs in the entire "Book +of Jonah." + + E. J. K. + +_Anachronisms of Painters._--I send you a further addition to the +"Anachronisms of Painters," mentioned in Vol. iii., p. 369., and, like +them, not in D'Israeli's list. + +My father (R. Robinson, of the Heath House, Wombourne) has in his +collection a picture by Steenwyk, of the "Woman taken in Adultery," in +which our Lord is made to write in _Dutch_! The scene also takes place +in a church of the architecture of the thirteenth century! + + G. T. R. + + Wombourne, near Wolverhampton. + + + + +Queries. + + +Minor Queries. + +_Rifles._--"_We_ make the best rifles, and you follow us," said the +exhibitor of Colt's revolvers, in my hearing, with a most satisfied +assurance, in a way "particularly communicative and easy," as _The +Times_ of the 9th of June says of his general manner. I am always +desirous of information, but desire the highest authority and evidence +before I believe. I would therefore ask the opinion of all experienced +sportsmen, such as Mr. Gordon Cumming, or of travelled officers of our +Rifle Brigade. I may say, that if the above unqualified remark came from +the mouth of an English maker, I should be equally incredulous. Is there +any use for which an American rifle is to be preferred to an English +one? + + A. C. + +_Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls._--Can any of your correspondents give +me any information respecting Stanbridge or Standbridge Earls, near +Romsey, Hants? There are the remains of a palace of the Saxon kings +still there, many parts of which are in good preservation, the chapel +being now used as the kitchen of Stanbridge House? + +I have also read that one of the kings was buried in this chapel, and +afterwards removed to Winchester; but, having no note of the book, +should be glad to be referred to it. + + COLLY WOBBLES. + +_Montchesni, or Muncey Family._--Can any of your correspondents inform +us what has become of the Norman line of Montchesni, or Muncey, a family +which, like those of Maldebauge and De Loges, held baronial rank in +England for several generations after the Conquest, though it is now +forgotten? + + P. + +_Epitaph on Voltaire._--The late Sir F. Jeffrey, in a review of the +correspondence of Baron de Grimm, quotes an epitaph on Voltaire, which +he states to have been made by a lady of Lausanne: + + "Ci git l'enfant gate du monde qu'il gata." + +Has the name of this lady been ascertained? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk._--In _Specimens of Coleridge's Table +Talk_ (p. 165., Murray, 1851) appears the following:-- + + "So little did the early bishops and preachers think their + Christian faith wrapped up in, and solely to be learned from, the + New Testament, that I remember a letter from ----[1] to a friend + of his, a bishop in the East, in which he most evidently speaks of + the _Christian_ scriptures as of works of which the bishop knew + little or nothing." + + [Footnote 1: "I have lost the name which Mr. Coleridge + mentioned."--_Editor's Note._] + +My object is to know how this blank is to be filled up--probably by the +name of some well-known father of the Church. + + GEORGE LEWES. + + Oxford, May 28. + +_"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."_--These words are +given in Young's _Night Thoughts_ as a quotation. Can any of your +correspondents inform me whence they are taken? + + E. J. K. + +_Etymology of Bicetre._--In a work entitled _Description routiere et +geographique de l'Empire Francais_, by R. V., Paris, 1813, the following +notice of Bicetre occurs in vol. i. p. 84.:-- + + "On voit bientot, a peu de distance a droite, d'abord dans un + bas-fond, arrose par la petite riviere de Bievre ou des Gobelins, + le village de Gentilly, qui se vante de quelqu'anciennete, et d'un + Concile tenu en 767; ensuite, sur une eminence, au bout d'une + jolie avenue en berceau, l'hopital de Bicetre, qui, fonde en 1290 + par un Eveque de Paris, appartint depuis, dit-on, a un Eveque de + Wincester ou Wincestre, d'ou par corruption on a fait Bicetre. + + "C'est une chose assez piquante que cette etymologie anglaise. Les + auteurs qui nous l'apprennent eussent bien du nous en apprendre + aussi les circonstances. J'ai consulte a cet egard tout ce qui + etait a consulter, sans faire d'autre decouverte que quelques + contradictions dans les dates, et sans pouvoir offrir aucun + eclaircissement historique a mes lecteurs, aussi curieux que moi, + sans doute, de savoir comment un prelat anglais est venu donner le + nom de son eveche a un chateau de France." + +Is there any warrant in English history for this derivation of Bicetre; +and if so, who was the Bishop of Winchester that gave the name of his +diocese to that celebrated hospital? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, June, 1851. + +_Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott._--M. Barbier, in his +_Dictionnaire des Ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes_, says that Michael +Scott is a pseudonyme for Theobald Anguilbert, and ascribes the _Mensa +philosophica_ to the latter as the real author. Can any one tell me who +is Theobald Anguilbert, for I can find no account of him anywhere? and +if there ever was such a person, whether _all_ the writings bearing the +name of Michael Scott, who, by all accounts, appears to have been a real +person, are to be assigned to the said Anguilbert? + + TYRO. + + Dublin. + +_"Suum cuique tribuere," &c._--Can any of your readers tell me where the +following passage is to be found? + + "Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est." + +All persons of whom I have inquired, tell me it is from Cicero, but no +one can inform me _where_ it is to be found. + + M. D. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Organs first put up in Churches._--In the parish register of Buxted, in +Sussex, allusion is made to the time when the organs were put up in the +church, but which had been taken down. This entry was made in the year +1558. Any information as to the earliest period when organs were placed +in our churches will much oblige. + + R. W. B. + + [Our correspondent will find some interesting matter on the early + use of organs in churches in the Rev. F. D. Wackerbath's _Music + and the Anglo-Saxons_, pp. 6-24. London. 8vo. 1837.] + +_Ignoramus, Comoedia, &c._--Perhaps some of your correspondents can +enlighten me on the following points. + +1. Who was the author of this play? The Latin is sufficiently +ultra-canine for his pedantic majesty himself. + +2. Do the words "coram Regia Maiestate _Jacobi, Regis Angliae_," &c., +mean that the play was acted in the presence of the king? I am inclined +to give them that interpretation from some allusions at the end of the +last act, as well as from its being written in Latin. + +3. Are any of the race-courses therein mentioned still used as such? + + "In Stadio Roystoniensi, Brackliensi, Gatterliensi, Coddington." + +This is the earliest mention of _fixed_ English race-courses that I have +met with, and not being much versed in the secrets of the modern +"cespite vivo," I am obliged to inquire of those who are better informed +on that subject. + + F. J. + + [The author of _Ignoramus_ was George Ruggles, A. M., of Clare + Hall, Cambridge. This comedy, as well as that of _Albumazar_, were + both acted before King James I. and the Prince of Wales, during a + visit to Cambridge in March, 1614-15. The edition of _Ignoramus_, + edited by J. S. Hawkins, 8vo., 1787, contains a Life of Ruggles, + and a valuable Glossary to his "ultra-canine Latin" legal terms. + There is also a translation of this comedy, with the following + title: "_Ignoramus: a Comedy as it was several times acted with + extraordinary applause before the Majesty of King James._ With a + Supplement, which (out of respect to the Students of the Common + Law) was hitherto wanting. Written in Latine by R. Ruggles, + sometime Master of Arts in Clare Hall, in Cambridge, and + translated into English by R. C. [Robert Codrington, A. M.] of + Magdalen Colledge, in Oxford. London. 4to. 1662."] + +_Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica._--Will any of your learned readers +inform me, for what reason and by what authority Drake's _Historia +Anglo-Scotica_, published in 1703, was ordered to be burned by the +hangman? And where I can meet with a report of the proceedings relating +to it? + + FRA. MEWBURN. + + Darlington. + + [Dr. Drake was not the author, but merely the editor of _Historia + Anglo-Scotica_. In the dedication he says, "Upon a diligent + revisal, in order, if possible, to discover the name of the + author, and the age of his writing, he found that it was written + in, or at least not finished till, the time of Charles I." It is + singular, however, that he does not give the least intimation by + what mysterious influence the manuscript came to be wafted into + his library. It was ordered by the parliament of Scotland, on the + 30th of June, 1703, to be burned by the common hangman.] + + + + +Replies. + + +CORPSE PASSING MAKES A RIGHT WAY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 477.) + +The fact of the passage of a funeral procession over land, from being an +act of user of a very public character, must always have had some +influence on the trial of the question whether the owner of the land had +dedicated the same to the public; and it is not improbable that in early +times very great weight was attached to evidence of this kind: so that +the passage of a corpse across land came to be considered in the popular +mind as conclusive and incontrovertible evidence of a public right of +way over that land. With the reverence for the dead which is so pleasing +a characteristic of modern refinement, it is probable that acts of user +of this description would now have little weight, inasmuch as no man of +right feeling would be disposed to interrupt parties assembled on so +mournful and solemn an occasion. I recollect, however, having read a +trial in modern times for a riot, arising out of a forcible attempt to +carry a corpse over a field against the will of the landowner; the +object of the parties in care of the corpse was believed to be the +establishment of a public right of way over the field in question, the +owner of which, with a body of partisans, forcibly resisted the attempt, +on the apparent belief that the act of carrying a corpse across the +field would certainly have established the right claimed. I regret I did +not "make a Note" of the case, so as to be able to specify the time, +place, and circumstances with certainty. + +That the notion in question is of great antiquity may I think be +inferred from the following passage in _Prynne's Records_, iii. 213., +referring to Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280 (and as the +authority for which, Prynne cites Holinshed's _Chronicle_, 1303, 1304; +and Godwin's _Catalogue of Bishops_, 326.):-- + + "He did by a Policy purchase the Lordship and House of Clift + Sachfeld, and enlarged the Barton thereof by gaining of Cornish + Wood from the Dean and Chapter fraudulently; building then a very + fair and sumptuous house there; he called it Bishop's Clift, and + left the same to his successors. Likewise he got the Patronage of + Clift Fomesone, now called Sowton, and annexed the same to his new + Lordship, which (as it was said) he procured by this means. He had + a Frier to be his Chaplain and Confessor, which died in his said + House of Clift, and should have been buried at the Parish Church + of Faringdon, because the said House was and is in that Parish; + but because the Parish Church was somewhat farre off, the wayes + foul, and the weather rainy, or for some other causes, the Bishop + commanded the corps to be carryed to the parish church of Sowton, + then called Clift Fomeson, which is very near, and bordereth upon + the Bishop's Lordship; the two Parishes being then divided by a + little Lake called Clift. At this time one Fomeson, a Gentleman, + was Lord and Patron of Clift Fomeson; and he, being advertised of + such a Burial towards in his Parish, and a leech way to be made + over to his Land, without his leave or consent required therein; + calleth his Tenants together, goeth to the Bridge over the lake + between the Bishop's Land and his; there meeteth the Bishop's men, + bringing the said Corps, and forbiddeth them to come over the + water. The men nothing regarding the Prohibition, do press + forwards to come over the water, and the others do withstand, so + long, that in the end, my Lord's Fryer is fallen into the Water. + The Bishop taketh this matter in such grief, that a holy Fryer, a + Religious man, his own Chaplain and Confessor, should be so + unreverently cast into the Water, that he falleth out with the + Gentleman, and upon what occasion I know not, he sueth him in the + Law (in his own Ecclesiastical Court, where he was both party and + Judge), and so vexeth and tormenteth him, that in the end he was + fain to yeeld himself to the Bishop's devotion, and seeketh all + the wayes he could to carry the Bishop's good will, which he could + not obtain, until for redemption he had given up and surrendered + his patronage of Sowton, with a piece of land; all which the said + Bishop annexed to his new Lordship." + +In "An Exhortation, to be spoken to such Parishes where they use their +Perambulation in Rogation Week; for the Oversight of the Bounds and +Limits of their Town," is a curious passage, which I subjoin: + + "It is a shame to behold the insatiableness of some covetous + persons in their doings; that where their ancestors left of their + land a broad and sufficient bier-balk, to carry the corpse to the + Christian sepulture, how men pinch at such bier-balks, which by + long use and custom ought to be inviolably kept for that purpose; + and now they quite eat them up, and turn the dead body to be borne + farther about in the high streets; or else, if they leave any such + meer, it is too straight for two to walk on."--_Homilies_, ed. + Corrie, p. 499. + +It may perhaps be considered not quite irrelevant here to state that +there seems once to have been an opinion, that the passage of the +sovereign across land had the effect of making a highway thereon. The +only allusion, however, to this opinion which I can call to mind, occurs +in Peck's _Antiquarian Annals of Stanford_, lib. xi. s. xii.; an extract +from which follows:-- + + "From Stanford King Edward, as I conceive, went to Huntingdon; for + in a letter of one of our kings dated at that town the 12th of + July (without any year or king's name to ascertain the time and + person it belongs to), the King writes to the aldermen and + bailiffs of Stanford, acquainting them, that, when he came to + Stanford, he went through Pilsgate field (coming then I suppose + from Peterborough), and, it being usual it seems that whatever way + the King rides to any place (though the same was no public way + before) for everybody else to claim the same liberty afterwards, + and thenceforth to call any such new passage the King's highway; + being followed to Huntingdon by divers of his own tenants, + inhabitants of Pilsgate, who then and there represented the damage + they should sustain by such a practice, the King by his letters + immediately commanded that his passing that way should not be made + a precedent for other people's so doing, but did utterly forbid + and discharge them therefrom. His letter, directed 'to our dearly + beloved the alderman, bailiffs, and good people of our Town of + Stanford,' upon this occasion, is thus worded:--'Dear and + well-beloved friends, by the grievous complaint of our beloved + lieges and tenents of the town of Pillesyate near our town of + Staunford, we have understood, that, in as much as, on Tuesday + last, we passed through the middle of a meadow and a certain + pasture there called Pillesyate meadow appertaining to the said + town of Pillesyate, you, and others of the country circumjacent, + claim to have and use an high way royal to pass through the middle + of the said meadow and pasture, to the great damage and disseisin + of our said lieges and tenents, whereupon they have supplicated + for a remedy; so we will, if it be so, and we command and charge + firmly, that you neither make nor use, nor suffer to be made nor + used by others of our said town of Staunford, nor others + whatsoever, no high road through the middle of the said meadow and + pasture; but that you forbear from it entirely, and that you cause + it to be openly proclaimed in our said town, that all others of + our said town and the country round it, do likewise; to the end + that our said tenents may have and peaceably enjoy the said meadow + and pasture, so, and in the manner, as they have done before these + times, without disturbance or impeachment of you or others, of + what estate or condition soever they be, notwithstanding that we + passed that way in manner as is said. And this in no manner fail + ye. Given under our signet at Huntyngdon the 12th day of July.'" + +I am unable to say whether the opinion it was the object of the above +royal letter to refute was general, or was peculiar to the "good people" +of Stanford, "and others of the country circumjacent." + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, June 18. 1851. + + +DOZEN OF BREAD; BAKER'S DOZEN + +(Vol. ii., p. 298.; Vol iii., p. 153.). + +From the following extracts from two of the "Bury Wills" recently +published by the Camden Society, it would appear that a dozen of bread +always consisted of _twelve_ loaves; and that the term "Baker's dozen" +arose from the practice of giving, in addition to the _twelve_ loaves, a +further quantity as "_inbread_," in the same manner as it is (or until +recently was) the custom to give an extra bushel of coals as "ingrain" +upon the sale of a large quantity; a chaldron, I believe. + +Francis Pynner, of Bury, Gent., by will, dated April 26, 1639, gave to +feoffees certain property upon trust (_inter alia_) out of the rents, +upon the last Friday in every month in the year, to provide one twopenny +loaf for each of forty poor people in Bury, to be distributed by the +clerk, sexton, and beadle of St. Mary's parish, who were to have the +"_inbread of the said bread_." And the testator also bequeathed certain +other property to feoffees upon trust to employ the rents as follows +(that is to say):-- + + "The yerely s[=u]me of ffiue pounds p'cell of the said yerely + rents to be bestowed in wheaten bread, to be made into _penny_ + loaves, and upon eu'y Lord's day, called Sonday, throughout eu'y + yere of the said terme [40 years or thereabouts], _fowre_ and + _twenty_ loaves of the said bread, with the _inbread_ allowed by + the baker for those _twoe dosens_ of bread, to be timely brought + and sett vpon a forme towards the vpp' end of the chancell of the + said p'ish church of St. Marie, and ... the same _twoe dosens_ of + bread to be giuen and distributed ... to and amongst fowre and + twentie poore people ... the p'ish clarke and sexton of the said + church, and the beadle of the said p'ish of St. Marie for the time + then being, shall alwaies be three which from time to time shall + haue their shares and parts in the said bread. And they, the said + clarke, sexton, and bedell, shall alwaies haue the _inbread_ of + all the bread aforesaid ovr and besides their shares in the said + twoe dosens of bread from time to time----" + +And William Fiske, of Pakenham, Gent., by will, dated March 20, 1648, +provided twelvepence a week to pay weekly for _one dozen_ of bread which +his mind was, should "be weekly given vnto twelue _or thirteene_" +persons therein referred to. + + J. B. COLMAN. + + Eye, June 16. 1851. + + +MOSAIC. + +(Vol. iii., p. 389.) + +Among the various kinds of picturesque representation, practised by the +Greeks and Romans, and transmitted by them to after times, is that of +_Mosaic_, a mode of execution which, in its durability of form, and +permanency of colour, possesses distinguished advantages, being +unaffected by heat or cold, drought or moisture, and perishing only with +the building to which it has been originally attached. This art has been +known in Rome since the days of the Republic. The severer rulers of that +period forbade the introduction of foreign marbles, and the republican +mosaics are all in black and white. Under the Empire the art was greatly +improved, and not merely by the introduction of marbles of various +colours, but by the invention of artificial stones, termed by the +Italians _Smalti_, which can be made of every variety of tint. This art +was never entirely lost. On the introduction of pictures into Christian +temples, they were first made of _mosaic_: remaining specimens of them +are rude, but profoundly interesting in an historical point of view. +When art was restored in Italy, mosaic also was improved; but it +attained its greatest perfection in the last and present century. _Roman +mosaic, as now practised, may be described as being the production of +pictures by connecting together numerous minute pieces of coloured +marble or artificial stones. These are attached to a ground of copper, +by means of a strong cement of gum mastic, and other materials, and are +afterwards ground and polished, as a stone would be, to a perfectly +level surface._ By this art not only are ornaments made on a small +scale, but pictures of the largest size are copied. The most remarkable +modern works are the copies which have been executed of some of the most +important works of the great masters, for the altars in St. Peter's. +These are, in every respect, perfect imitations of the originals; and +when the originals, in spite of every care, must change and perish, +these mosaics will still convey to distant ages a perfect idea of the +triumphs of art achieved in the fifteenth century. _Twenty years_ were +employed in making one of the copies I have mentioned. The pieces of +mosaic vary in size from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch, and eleven +men were employed for that time on each picture. A great improvement was +introduced into the art in 1775, by Signor Raffaeli, who thought of +preparing the _smalti_ in what may be termed fine threads. _The pastes +or smalti are manufactured at Venice, in the shape of crayons, or like +sticks of sealing-wax, and are afterwards drawn out by the workman, by a +blowpipe, into the thickness he requires, often almost to an hair, and +are seldom thicker than the finest grass stalk._ For tables, and large +articles, of course, the pieces are thicker; but the beauty of the +workmanship, the soft gradation of the tints, and the cost, depend upon +the _minuteness_ of the pieces, and the skill displayed by the artist. A +ruin, a group of flowers or figures, will employ a good artist about two +months, when only two inches square; and a specimen of such a +description costs from 5_l._ to 20_l._, according to the execution: a +landscape, six inches by four, would require eighteen months, and would +cost from 40_l._ to 50_l._ For a picture of Paestum, eight feet long by +twenty inches broad, on which four men were occupied for three years, +1000_l._ sterling was asked. The mosaic work of Florence differs +entirely from Roman mosaic, being composed of stones inserted in +comparatively large masses. It is called work in _pietra dura_; the +stones used are all of a more or less precious nature. In old specimens, +the most beautiful works are those in which the designs are of an +arabesque character. The most remarkable specimen of this description of +_pietra dura_, is an octagonal table, in the _Gubinetto di Baroccio_, in +the Florence Gallery. It is valued at 20,000_l._ sterling, and was +commenced in 1623 by Jacopo Detelli, from designs by Ligozzi. Twenty-two +artists worked upon it without interruption till it was terminated, in +the year 1649. + +One principal distinction between the ancient and modern mosaic is, I +believe, that the former was arranged in _patterns_, the latter +_coloured in shades_. I shall not take up your columns by dwelling on +the ancient mosaic, which, as all know was in use among the Orientals, +especially the Persians and Assyrians; and from the Easterns the Greeks +received the art. In the Book of Esther, i. 6., we have an allusion to a +mosaic pavement; and Schleusner understands the [Greek: Lithostroton] of +St. John, xix. 13., to mean a sort of elevated mosaic pavement. Andrea +Tafi, towards the close of the thirteenth century, is said to have +revived this art in Italy, having learned it from a Greek named +Apollonius, who worked at the church of St. Mark at Venice, and to have +been the founder of the modern mosaic. + +Now for the derivation. The Lithostrata, or tesselated pavements of the +Romans, being worked in a regular and mechanical manner, were called +_opus musivum, opera qua ad amussim facta sunt_. Hence the Italian +_musaico_, from whence is derived our appellation of _mosaic_; but, like +most of our arts, through the channel of the French _mosaique_. (Vide +Pitisci _Lexicon_, ii. 242.; Roscoe's _Life of Lorenzo de Medici_; +Winkelman; _Pompeiana_, by Gell; Smith's _Greek and Roman Antiq._; +Beckman's _Inventions_; and _Recherches sur la Peinture en Mosaique chez +les Anciens_, &c., annexed to his _Description d'un Pave en Mosaique_, +&c.: Paris, 1802.) + + GERONIMO. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Prenzie_ (Vol. iii., p. 401.)--Several words have been suggested to +take the place of the unintelligible "_prenzie_" in _Measure for +Measure_; but none of them appear to me to satisfy all the four +conditions justly required by Leges. + +I would suggest _phrensied_ or _phrenzied_, a word extremely like +_prenzie_ both in sound and appearance, and of the proper metre, thus +perfectly satisfying two of the conditions. + +With respect to the propriety of using this word in the two instances +where _prenzie_ occurs, Claudio, in the first place, when informed by +his sister of the villany of Angelo, may well exclaim in astonishment-- + + "The _phrenzied_ Angelo?" + +_i.e._ "What, is he mad?" or, with a note of admiration, "Why, Angelo +must be mad!" Then, I think, naturally follows Isabella's reply:-- + + "O 'tis the cunning livery of Hell, + The damned'st body to invest and cover + In _phrenzied_ guards!" + +that is, in the disguise or under the cloak of madness. + +Johnson defines Frenzy to be + + "Madness; distraction of mind; alienation of understanding; any + violent passion approaching to madness." + +and surely Angelo's _violent passion_ for Isabella, and his +determination to gratify it at all risks, may, properly be said to +_approach to madness_. + + W. G. M. + +There is a Scotch word so nearly resembling this, and at the same time +so exactly answering to the sense which the passage in _Measure for +Measure_ requires, that it may be worth while calling the attention of +the Shakspearian commentators to it. In Allan Cunningham's Glossary to +Burns, I find _Primsie_, which he defines to mean _demure_, _precise_. +An old Scotch proverb is quoted, in which the word is used: + + "A _primsie_ damsel makes a laidlae dame." + +The term is evidently connected with, or formed from, the English +_prim_, which has the same sense. It seems this was formerly sometimes +written _prin_. Halliwell cites from Fletcher's poems the lines-- + + "He looks as gaunt and prin, as he that spent + A tedious twelve years in an eager Lent." + +Now if from _prim_ be formed the secondary adjective _primsie_, so from +_prin_ we get _prinsie_ or _prinzie_. But without resorting to the +supposition of the existence of this latter word, it is evident that in +_primzie_, which does or did exist, we have a word answering all the +conditions laid down by Leges for determining the true reading, more +nearly than any other that has been suggested. + + CEBES. + + [Dr. Jamieson, in his _Scottish Dictionary_, defines Primsie, + demure, precise, S. from E. _prim_. + + "Poor Willie, wi' his bow-kail runt + Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie." + + Burns, iii. 129.] + +_Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest_ (Vol. iii., p. 443.).--Were the beautiful +lines entitled "Lady Flora's Bequest" in reality written by that +lamented lady? They are not to be found in the volume of her Poems +published after her death by her sister, the Marchioness of Bute; and +they did appear in _The Christian Lady's Magazine_ for September, 1839, +with the signature of Miss M. A. S. Barber appended to them. + +In the preceding Number of the same magazine there is a very touching +account of Lady Flora, from the pen of its talented editress, who +mentions the fact of Lady Flora having with her _dying hand_ "delivered +to her fond brother a little Bible, the gift of her mother, requesting +him to restore it to that beloved parent with the assurance that from +the age of seven years, when she received it from her, it had been her +best treasure; and, she added, her sole support under all her recent +afflictions." + +If your correspondent Erza has never seen that obituary notice (Seeleys, +publishers) I think she will be glad to meet with it. + + L. H. K. + +_Arches of Pelaga_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--This term is in common use +among sailors, meaning the Mediterranean Archipelago, and they may very +often be heard saying--"When I was up the Arches." + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 16. 1851. + +_Engraved Warming-Pans_ (Vol. iii., pp. 84. 115.).--I beg to add to the +lists of H. G. T., and E. B. Price. + +Some years ago I purchased one in Bradford, Wilts, and several at +Bedwyn Magna in the same county. The Bradford one bears an heraldic +nondescript animal with horns on its head and nose, and a coronet round +its neck, surrounded by-- + + "The . Lord . reseve . us . into . His . kingdom . 1616." + +One of the Bedwyn ones bears a lion passant holding a scimitar, with the +motto: + + "Feare . God . and . obay . the . king . 161--." + +The last figure of the date is obliterated. Another has a shield bearing +three tuns, surrounded by-- + + "The Vintners' arms." + +One in the possession of a farmer in the parish of Barton Turf, Norfolk, +bears an eagle with a human head at its feet, surrounded by-- + + "The . Erl . of . Darbeyes . arms." 1660. + + W. C. LUKIS. + + Great Bedwyn, June, 1851. + +_St. Pancras_ (Vol. iii., pp. 285. 397.).--St. Pancras was a native of +the province of Phrygia, the son of a nobleman of the name of Cledonius; +who, when at the point of death, strongly recommended this his only son, +together with his fortune, which was very great, to the care of his +brother Dionysius, he being the only near relative in being, the mother +having previously deceased. + +This trust Dionysius faithfully fulfilled, bringing up and loving his +nephew as he would have done his own son; and when, three years after +the death of Cledonius, he quitted his native country and proceeded to +Rome, the youthful Pancras accompanied him. Upon reaching the imperial +city, the uncle and nephew took up their residence in the same suburb +where the Pope Marcellinus had fled for concealment from the persecution +which had been raised against the Christians by the Emperors Diocletian +and Maximianus. Here they had not been long resident before the fame of +the great sanctity and virtue of Marcellinus reached their ears, and +caused an ardent desire in both to see and converse with one so highly +spoken of. A convenient opportunity was soon found, and in a short time +both the uncle and nephew, renouncing their idolatry, became converted +to the Christian faith. + +So strong was the effect produced upon them by this change, that the +chief desire of both was to die for their religion; and, without waiting +for the arrival of the officers who were continually searching for the +hidden Christians, they voluntarily surrendered themselves to the +ministers of justice. + +A few days after this event, however, Dionysius was called hence by a +natural death. + +Diocletian, who is said to have been a friend of Cledonius, and moved +perhaps by the youth and graceful appearance of Pancras, strove by +flattery and caresses to induce him to do sacrifice to the heathen gods; +to this proposition Pancras absolutely refused to consent, and +reproached the Emperor for his weakness in believing to be gods, men, +who, while on earth, had been remarkable for their vices. Diocletian, +stung by these reproaches, commanded that the youth should be instantly +beheaded, which sentence was immediately carried into execution. His +death is said to have taken place on 12th May, 303; the martyr being +then but fourteen years of age. + +The gate in Rome, rendered so remarkable lately as having been the chief +point attacked by the French troops, was formerly called Porta Aurelia; +but was subsequently named Porta Pancrazio, after this youthful +sufferer. + + R. R. M. + +_Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.)--Ferrante +Pallavicino was descended from a noble family, seated in Placenza. He +entered the monastery of Augustine Friars at Milan, where he became a +regular canon of the Lateran congregation. He was a man of fine genius, +and possessed great wit, but having employed it in writing several +satirical pieces against Urban VIII. during the war between the +Barberini and the Duke of Parma and Placenza, he became so detested at +the court of Rome, that a price was set on his head. One Charles Morfu, +a French villain, was bribed to ensnare him, and pretending to pass for +his friend and pity his misfortunes, persuaded him to go to France, +which he said would be much to his advantage. Pallavicino gave himself +up entirely to the direction of this false friend, who conducted him +over the bridge at Sorgues into the territory of Venaissin, where he was +arrested by people suborned for that purpose, was carried to Avignon, +thrown into a dungeon, from which he tried to make his escape, and in +the year 1644, after a fourteen months' imprisonment, was beheaded in +the flower of his age. He was the author of a number of small pieces, +all of which are marked by the lively genius of the author. They were +collected and published at Venice in 1655, and amongst them I found one +entitled "La disgracia del Conte d'Olivarez," which, perhaps, may be the +work Mr. Souley has in MS. + +For a more lengthy account of this unhappy and extraordinary man, I +would refer Mr. Souley to the life prefixed to his collected works, and +to that prefixed to a French translation of his _Divortio celeste_, +printed at Amsterdam in 1696; and also to the preface to the English +translation of that same very curious work, printed at London in 1718. + + WILLIAM BROWN, JUN. + +_Mind your P's and Q's_ (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 357. 463.).--When I +proposed this Query, I mentioned that I had heard one derivation of the +phrase. As it is different from either of those which have been sent, +it may, perhaps, be worth insertion. I was told by a printer that the +phrase had originated among those of his craft, since young compositors +experience great difficulty in discriminating between the types of the +two letters. + + R. D. H. + +[A correspondent has kindly suggested a new version of this saying, and +suggests that for the future our readers should be reminded to mind, not +their P's and Q's, but their N's and Q's.] + +_Banks, Family of_ (Vol. iii., pp. 390. 458.).--In No. 81. R. C. H. H. +asks if John Banks the philosopher was descended from Sir John Banks, +Lord Chief Justice in Charles I.'s reign. + +As a grandson of the former, I take great interest in this, but am sorry +to say that I can give no information at present on that branch of the +subject. The philosopher's family were settled for some generations at +Grange, near Keswick. I should be obliged if R. C. H. H. would +communicate the name and publisher of the book on the Lakes which he +quotes from, as I am exceedingly anxious to trace the genealogy. + + BAY. + + Liverpool, June 19. 1851. + +_National Debts_ (Vol. iii., p. 374.).--The following extract from _La +Cronica di Giovanni Villani_, lib. xii. c. 35., appears to have some +reference to the Query made by F. E. M.: + + "E nel detto mese di Febbraio, 1344, per lo comune si fece ordine, + che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere dal comune per le prestanze + fatte al tempo de' venti della balia, come addieto facemmo + menzione, che si trovarono fiorini cinquecento-settantamila d'oro, + sanza il debito di Messer Mastino della Scala, ch' erano presso a + centomila fiorini d'oro, che si mettessono in uno registro + ordinatemente; e dare il comune ogni anno di provvisione e + usufrutto cinque per centinaio, dando ogni mese la paga per rata; + e diputossi a fornire il detto guiderdone parte alla gabella delle + parti, e parte ad altre gabelle, che montava l'anno da fiorini + venticinque mila d'oro, dov' erano assegnate le paghe di Messer + Mastino; e pagato lui, fossone assignati alla detta satisfazione; + il quale Messer Mastino fu pagato del mese di Dicembre per lo modo + che diremo innanzi. E cominciossi la paga della detta provvisione + del mese d'Ottobre 1345." + + R. R. M. + +_Monte di Pieta_ (Vol. iii., p. 372.)--In reply to your correspondent W. +B. H., requesting to be informed of the connexion between a "Pieta" and +a "Monte di Pieta," it may be observed that there does not appear to be +any necessary connexion between the two expressions. The term "a Pieta" +is generally used to denote the figure of the dead Saviour attended by +His Blessed Mother: for example, the celebrated one in St. Peter's at +Rome. The word "Monte," besides its signification of "montagna," +expresses also "luogo publico ove si danno oi si pigliano denari ad +interesse;" also "luogo publico altresi dove col pegno si prestano +denari con piccolo interesse." + +"Pieta," in addition to its signification of "devozione," or "virtu per +cui si ama ed onora Dia," &c., which would apply to the figure of the +dead Saviour, expresses "compassione amorevole verso il suo simile." + +Monte di Pieta would therefore be a place where money was lent at +interest, on such terms as were in unison with a kind and compassionate +feeling towards our neighbour. This species of establishment was first +commenced in Italy towards the end of the fifteenth century, by Il Beato +Bernardino da Feltri, who carried his opposition to the Jews so far as +to preach a crusade against them. The earliest Monte of which any record +appears to exist was founded in the city of Padua in 1491; the effect of +which was to cause the closing of twelve loan banks belonging to the +Jews. + +From Italy they were shortly afterwards introduced into France. + +The first legal sanction given to these establishments was granted by +Pope Leo X. in 1551. + + R. R. M. + +_Registry of Dissenting Baptisms_ (Vol. iii., pp. 370. 460.).--From the +replies to my Query on this subject that have been published, it is +plain that in all parts of England Dissenters have wished to procure the +registry of their children's births or baptisms in their parish +churches. In some instances they have been registered _as dissenting +baptisms_; and then the fact appears from the Registry itself. In other +instances, and probably far the more numerous (though this would be +difficult to _prove_), they were registered among the canonical +baptisms; and the fact of their being performed by Dissenting Ministers +is only discoverable by reference to the Dissenting Register, when it +happens to have been preserved. So in the instances referred to in p. +370., the baptisms are registered without distinction from others in the +Registry of St. Peter's Church, Chester; but a duplicate registry _as on +the same day_ was made at Cross Lane Meeting House, which is, I believe, +not in St. Peter's parish; though, I presume, the residence of the +parents was in it. + + D. X. + +_Eisell_ (Vol. iii., pp. 66. 397.).--I am not aware that the following +passage has been quoted by any of the disputants in the late "Eisell" +controversy. It occurs in Jewel's _Controversy with Harding_, pp. 651-2. +of vol. ii. of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel's works. + + "A Christian man removeth his household, and, having there an + image of Christ, equal unto him in length, and breadth, and all + proportion, by forgetfulness leaveth it there in a secret place + behind him. A Jew after him inhabiteth the same house a long + while, and seeth it not; another strange Jew, sitting there at + dinner, immediately espieth it standing open against a wall.... + Afterward the priests and rulers of the Jews come together, and + abuse it with all villany. They crown it with a thorn, make it + drink _esel_ and gall, and stick it to the heart with a spear. Out + issueth blood in great quantity, the powers of Heaven are shaken; + the sun is darkened; the moon loseth her light." + + CUDYN GWYN. + +_English Sapphics_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--A beautiful specimen of this +measure, far superior in rhythm to the attempt of Dr. Watts, appeared in +the _Youth's Magazine_ twenty-five years ago. It consisted of the Psalm +"By the Waters of Babylon." I remember the last verse only. + + "Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever + Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion; + Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, + Land of my fathers." + H. E. H. + +_Mints at Norwich--Joseph Nobbs_ (Vol. iii., p. 447.).--I beg to inform +Cowgill that the operation of the Mint of the Great Recoinage of 1696-7 +was performed in a room at St. Andrew's Hall, in this city; but the +amount there coined, or at any of the other places mentioned, I am not +able to inform him. The total amount said to be recoined was +6,882,908_l._ 19_s._ 7_d._ + + L _s._ _d._ + + The amount at the Tower 5,091,121 7 7 + + And in the Country Mints 1,791,787 12 0 + + -------------------------- + + L6,882,908 19 7 + +The following are the names of persons employed in the Mint at +Norwich:-- + + Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer. + + Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder; Thomas Allen, his clerk. + + Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker; Mr. Beaser, his clerk. + + William Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, his clerk. + + Heneage Price, Gent., King's clerk. + + Mr. Rapier, Weigher and Teller. + + Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings. + + Mr. John Young, Deputy Graver. + + John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the Moneyers. + + Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Master, and his servant.--His brother, + Edger, and Lotterer of the Half-Crowns, Shillings, and Sixpences. + It is said crowns were not struck here, and I have never seen one + of this Mint. + +The whole of the work was finished here, September 29, 1698. + +In pulling up the floor of an old house, in Tombland, in 1847, a +quantity of the silver coin minted here was discovered, which, from the +appearance of the coins, were never in circulation: they were sold to +Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, for about 20_l._ No doubt the +coins were abstracted from the Mint during the process of coining. + +In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is the following entry, A. +D. 1717: + + "Joseph Nobbs, Parish Clerk of St. Gregory's, aged 89, was buried + November. 4, 1717, being the year following the last entry in his + Chronology. He was then 89 years of age, and, what is somewhat + remarkable, that is the age of the present Clerk of St. + Gregory's." + + G. H. I. + +P. S. Some other matters relative to this Mint are among my memoranda. + + Norwich, June 16. 1851. + +_Voltaire, where situated_ (Vol. iii., p. 329.).--Your correspondent V. +is informed, that the following particulars on the subject of his Query +are given in a note to the article "Voltaire," in Querard's _France +Litteraire_, vol. x. p. 276.:-- + + "Voltaire est le nom d'un petit bien de famille, qui appartenait a + la mere de l'auteur de la '_Henriade_,'--Marie Catherine Daumart, + d'une famille noble du Poitou." + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia, May, 1851. + +_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476).--I must say I can see no +difficulty at all about _pilcher_. If the _r_ at the end makes it so +strange a word, leave that out, and then you will have a word, as it +seems, quite well established--_pylche_, toga pellice: Lye. Skinner +thinks _pilchard_ may be derived from it. + +"Pilch, an outer garment generally worn in cold weather, and made of +skins of fur. 'Pelicium, a pylche.' (_Nominale MS._) The term is still +retained in connected senses in our dialects. 'A piece of flannel, or +other woollen, put under a child next the clout is, in Kent, called a +_pilch_; a coarse shagged piece of rug laid over a saddle, for ease of a +rider, is, in our midland parts, called a pilch.' (_MS. Lansd._ 1033.) +'Warme pilche and warme shon.' (_MS. Digby_, 86.) 'In our old dramatists +the term is applied to a buff or leather jerkin; and Shakspeare has +_pilcher_ for the sheath of a sword." (Halliwell's _Dictionary_.) + +"_Pilche_, or _pilcher_, a scabbard, from _pylche_, a skin coat, Saxon. +A pilche, or leather coat, seems to have been the common dress for a +carman. Coles has 'a pilch for a saddle, instratum,' which explains that +it was an external covering, and probably of leather. Kersey also calls +it a covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the sense of 'a +piece of flannel to be wrapt about a young child.' It seems, therefore, +to have been used for any covering." (Nares' _Glossary_.) + + C. B. + +_Catalogues of Coins of Canute_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--The following is +a copy of the title-page of the work referred to by [Greek: Boreas]:--_A +Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England; with +Specimens._ London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 4to. 1777. It +consists of twenty-four pages, and was compiled by Richard Gough, Esq. + + J. Y. + +_Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--An +interesting notice of this work occurs in the _Retrospective Review_, +vol. xiii., pp. 181-213.; but neither in that article nor in any +bibliographical or biographical dictionary is the name of the translator +given. + + J. Y. + +_The First Panorama_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.).--I have often heard my father +say, that the first panorama exhibited was painted by Thomas Girtin, and +was a semicircular view of London, from the top of the Albion Mills, +near Blackfriars Bridge. It was exhibited in St. Martin's Lane, where, +not many years back, I saw it, it having been found rolled up in a loft +over a carpenter's shop. It was painted about 1793 or 1794, and my +father has some of the original sketches. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, June 2. + +_Written Sermons_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--If M. C. L. asks, when and why +written sermons took the place of extemporaneous discourses, I believe +it may be said that written sermons were first in vogue. Certainly, the +inability of most men to preach "without book," would be sufficient to +ensure their early introduction. According to Bingham (see _Ant. of the +Christian Church_, book xiv. chap. 4.), Origen was the first who +preached extemporaneously, and not until after he was sixty years old. +The great divines of the time of the English Reformation preached both +written and oral sermons: many of these, especially of the former, are +included in their printed works. The same remark also applies to the +early Fathers of the Church. The use of the homilies, which were drawn +up for the ignorant clergy at the Reformation, at once gave a sanction +to the practice of _writing_ sermons. The story of the preacher turning +over his hour-glass at Paul's Cross, and starting afresh, must of course +refer to an _unwritten_ discourse. Sermons, being explications of +scripture, used to follow the reading of the psalms and lessons: now, +for the same reason, they come after the epistle and gospel. In olden +time, the bishop was the only preacher, going from church to church, as +now-a-days[2], with the same sermon or charge; and he addressed the +people from the altar steps: afterwards the priest, as his deputy, +preached in the pulpit, but the deacons were not allowed to preach at +all. + + [Footnote 2: One of the highest dignitaries in our Church recently + declined to print a sermon, as requested; because, he frankly + said, he should want to preach it again.] + + ALFRED GATTY. + +_Bogatsky_ (Vol. iii., p. 478.).--The little work, so justly popular in +England, under the title of Bogatsky's _Golden Treasury_, is by no means +a literal translation of the original; but was almost entirely +re-written by Venn, the author of the _Complete Duty of Man_. This I +state on good authority, as I believe; but I have never seen the +original. + + R. D. H. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Under the title of a _Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy: +First Course--Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Sound, +Optics_, Dr. Lardner has just issued a small closely printed volume with +the object of supplying that "information relating to physical and +mechanical science, which is required by the medical and law student, +the engineer and artisan, by those who are preparing for the +universities, and, in short, by those who, having already entered upon +the active pursuits of business, are still desirous to sustain and +improve their knowledge of the general truths of physics, and of those +laws by which the order and stability of the material world are +maintained." 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Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, June 28, 1851. + + + + + List of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-III: + + + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | + | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | + | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | + | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | + | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | + | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | + | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | + | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | + | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | + | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | + | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | + | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | + | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | + | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | + | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | + | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | + | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1-15 | PG # 12589 | + | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17-32 | PG # 15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33-48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49-64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65-79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81-96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1-15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17-31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33-47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49-78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81-95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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