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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. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: March 14, 2012 [EBook #39135] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NOV 15, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h1> +<span id="idno">Vol. IV.—No. 107.</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>. IV.—No. 107.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ATURDAY</span>, N<span class="smcap lowercase">OVEMBER</span> 15. 1851.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller"> Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4<i>d.</i></p> + + + + + +<h2><span>CONTENTS.</span></h2> + + + +<p class="larger"> N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES</span>:— </p> +<div class="toc"> + + +<p class="indh i5">Perkin Warbeck, by Sir F. Madden <a title="Go to page 377" href="#Page_377">377</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">A Hebrew Sermon in English Stone, by Rev. Moses + Margoliouth <a title="Go to page 378" href="#Page_378">378</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Value of Shakspeare's League—Meaning + of Ship—Log-ship <a title="Go to page 379" href="#Page_379">379</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Donizetti <a title="Go to page 380" href="#Page_380">380</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Folk Lore:—Ash +Sap—The Ash—Souling <a title="Go to page 380" href="#Page_380">380</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor Notes:—Pasquinade—Monk + and Cromwell Families—D'Israeli +and Byron <a title="Go to page 381" href="#Page_381">381</a></p> + + + +</div> +<p class="larger">Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>:—</p> +<div class="toc"> + + +<p class="indh i5">Roman Funeral Pile <a title="Go to page 381" href="#Page_381">381</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5">Dacres of the North <a title="Go to page 382" href="#Page_382">382</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor Queries:—Etymology of Salter—Chattes of + Haselle—"Truth is that which a man troweth"—Religious + Statistics—Cross-legged Effigies—Verses + accidentally occur in Classical Prose often—Count + Maurice Tanner de Lacy, &c. <a title="Go to page 382" href="#Page_382">382</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>:—Derivation of Æra—Tudur + Aled—Tonges of Tonge—Robert Hues on + the Use of the Globes <a title="Go to page 383" href="#Page_383">383</a></p> + + +</div> + <p class="larger"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPLIES</span>:—</p> +<div class="toc"> + + +<p class="indh i5">The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton +Corney, &c. <a title="Go to page 384" href="#Page_384">384</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Epigram ascribed to Mary + Queen of Scots, by Rev. James + H. Todd <a title="Go to page 385" href="#Page_385">385</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Stanzas in Childe Harold, by + Samuel Hickson, &c. <a title="Go to page 386" href="#Page_386">386</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Cagots <a title="Go to page 387" href="#Page_387">387</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Texts before Sermons <a title="Go to page 387" href="#Page_387">387</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">The Rev. —— Gay <a title="Go to page 388" href="#Page_388">388</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Vermin, Payments for +Destruction of, and Ancient + Names <a title="Go to page 389" href="#Page_389">389</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Claims of Literature <a title="Go to page 390" href="#Page_390">390</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Replies to Minor Queries:—Arbor + Lowe—Stanton + Moor—Ayre Family—The Duke of +Monmouth's + Pocket-books—Buxtorf's Translation of + Elias Levita's + "Tov Taam"—Burke's "Mighty Boar of the +Forest"—"Son + of the Morning"—"Perhaps it was right to + dissemble your love"—Anecdote of + Curran—Sibi—Cassek + Gwenwyn—The Monumental Inscriptions + of the Bourchier Family, &c. <a title="Go to page 390" href="#Page_390">390</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 title="Go to page 395" href="#Page_395">395</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Books and Odd Volumes wanted <a title="Go to page 396" href="#Page_396">396</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Notices to Correspondents <a title="Go to page 396" href="#Page_396">396</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Advertisements <a title="Go to page 396" href="#Page_396">396</a><a id="Page_377"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[377]</span></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></p> + +</div> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Notes.</span> +</h2> + + +<h3> +<span>PERKIN WARBECK.</span> +</h3> + + +<p>In the <i>Minutes of Evidence</i> taken by the Select Committee on the +British Museum, in May, 1836, p. 308., mention is made of "a paper +giving an account of the landing of Perkin Warbeck, signed by Sir Henry +Wentworth, and dated 16th [17th] Sept. 1497," as of historical value. +This "paper" was at that time in the possession of the late Mr. Upcott; +and when I drew up for the society of Antiquaries the article on "Perkin +Warbeck's History," printed in the <i>Archæologia</i>, vol. xxvii. pp. +153-210., I had no opportunity of seeing it, and therefore merely made a +brief reference to it in a foot-note. The document subsequently passed, +together with a large and valuable portion of Upcott's collection, into +the hands of M. Donnadieu, and at the recent sale of that gentleman's +collection of autographs was purchased for the British Museum. It is a +letter from Sir Harry Wentworth of Nettlested, co. Suffolk (ancestor of +the Barons Wentworth), addressed to Sir William Calverley, of Calverley +in Yorkshire, from whom descended the extinct baronets of that name. The +letter is not of great historical importance, yet, as furnishing some +notices of the measures taken by the king, on learning that Perkin had +landed in Cornwall, on the 7th of September (only ten days previous), it +will not be read without interest. The letter is written on a strip of +paper measuring eleven inches by four inches, and is signed only by Sir +Harry Wentworth.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"Right wourshipfulle cosin, I recommend me vnto you. And where<a id="where1"></a><a title="Go to footnote 1." href="#fn1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> + it fortuned me in my retourne home frome Westchestre, to meit my + lord Darby, my lord Strange, and other at Whalley abbey, by whome + I had the sight of suche lettres as were directed vnto theme + frome the kinges grace; apperceyuing by the same that Perkin + Warbeke is londid in the west parties, in Cornevelle, wherfore I + wolle pray you, and allso in the kinges name aduertise you, to be + in aredynes<a id="dynes2"></a><a title="Go to footnote 2." href="#fn2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> in your owin persone, with suche company as you + make, to serue his highnes, vpon an our<a id="our3"></a><a title="Go to footnote 3." href="#fn3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> warnyng, whan his + grace shalle calle vpone you. For the which I doubte not but his + highnes shalle geve you thankes accordinge. As our lord knoith, + who preserue you! Wretin in the kinges castelle of Knaresburght, + the xvij dey of Septembre.</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"><p>your [frend] and cosyne, syr</p> + <p>Harry Wentworth.</p></div> + + <div class="stanza"> <p>Addressed</p> + <p>To his wourshipfulle cosin syr William</p> + <p>Caluerly, knight, in haste."</p></div> + +</div> + + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn1"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#where1" class="label">[1]</a> whereas.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn2"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#dynes2" class="label">[2]</a> readiness.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn3"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#our3" class="label">[3]</a> hour's.</p> + +<p>The Lord Strange mentioned in the above letter was the third son of the +Earl of Derby, and died at Derby House, London, on the 5th Dec. 1497, +less than three months after the letter was written.</p> + + + <p class="right"> F. M<span class="smcap lowercase">ADDEN</span>.<a id="Page_378"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[378]</span></p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>A HEBREW SERMON IN ENGLISH STONE<br /> +(<i>Alias, A Puzzle of long standing solved</i>).</span> +</h3> + +<p>Some of the readers of the "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" may have chanced, as was +the case with the writer, to have enjoyed a ramble through the park and +village of Wentworth, in Yorkshire, one of Earl Fitzwilliam's estates. +Should such be the case, the ramblers could not have failed to halt half +an hour, probably an hour, before a neat house, now inhabited by one of +his lordship's agents, and wonder and ponder over the intent and purport +of a curious inscription, on a stone sun-dial, which is placed over the +door of the house. Such I have learned to be the case with every new +passer-by. Having spent some time in musing over the hitherto +inexplicable puzzle, I think that I am enabled at last to offer a sort +of solution of the same. I shall therefore at first give a simple +description of the contents of the stone, and then my version of it.</p> + +<p>In the centre of the slab, a dial plate is inserted; on its left are +carved three lines, running thus:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p class="i5"> "Bezaleel Benevent</p> + <p class="i3">Sculptor Israelite. Isaiah xliv. 5.</p> + <p class="i5">Maker. I am 58 years old.</p> +</div> + +<p class="noindent">On its right, eight lines are carved, and run thus:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p class="i5"> "1740 years of</p> + <p class="i7"> <span title="[Hebrew: mem, mem, shin, yod, resh]">ממשיר</span></p> + <p class="i3"> A stone of stumbling.</p> + <p class="i3"> See Isaiah viii. 14, 15.</p> + <p class="i3">Ps. cxix. 165. Ezek. iii. 20</p> + <p class="i5">A stumbling-block.</p> + <p class="i5">Beware of Him.</p> + <p class="i7">Mal. i. 11."</p> + +</div> + +<p>There is scarcely any difficulty as regards the inscription on the left; +the purport being a brief and clumsy account of the sculptor himself. +The reason of the reference at the end of the second line may be a sort +of justification for suffixing "Israelite" to his name; the following +being the passage referred to: "One shall say, I am the Lord's; and +another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall +subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and <i>surname himself by the name +of Israel</i>." The principal perplexity is presented by the inscription on +the right, and especially in the second line; containing, as it does, a +group of five Hebrew letters, so arranged as to defy the ingenuity of +the most erudite lexicographer; there being no word of such construction +in the whole range of Hebrew literature.</p> + +<p>I must premise, before I proceed any further, by stating that I +apprehend the sculptor to have been a zealous, though very eccentric, +Jewish convert to Christianity; to whom it seemed good to put up that +enigmatical sun-dial, with a view to attract the attention, and conduce +the inquiry of his Hebrew brethren; which would afford him an +opportunity of propounding his Christian views from his own design.</p> + +<p>I take the Hebrew letters +<span title="[Hebrew: mem, mem, shin, yod, resh]"> מ מ ש י ר </span> + to be the initials of the +following words:<a id="words4"></a><a title="Go to footnote 4." href="#fn4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> </p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/image01.jpg" width="200" height="25" alt="Hebrew words" /> </p> + + + + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn4"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#words4" class="label">[4]</a> According to the first canon of cabbalistical +interpretation, called <i>Notricon</i>. See <i>The Fundamental Principles of +Modern Judaism Investigated</i>, pp. 13, 14.</p> + +<p>"The King Messiah, the Shiloh, the Lord my Shepherd." Hence those +characters follow the <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D.</span> date of + the first line, and are followed by +the appropriate words in the third line, viz. "A stone of stumbling." +The fourth line then comes as a sort of explanation of the preceding +one: "And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and +for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel; for a gin and for a +snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall +stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken." "See +Isaiah viii. 14, 15." The fifth line, "Ps. cxix. 165. Ezek. iii. 20." +consists of scriptural references as to the cause and effect of loving +the law, and <i>vice versâ</i>; the first reference being, "Great peace have +they which love thy law, and no stumbling-block for them" [according to +the original]. The second reference being, "Again, when a righteous man +doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a +stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given +him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he +hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine +hand." The words in the sixth line, "A stumbling-block," evidently refer +to 1 Cor. i. 23.: "But we preach Christ crucified; unto the Jews a +stumbling-block." The "sculptor Israelite" may have feared that a +reference to the New Testament would betray his motive, and therefore +judged it prudent and expedient to omit it. The supposition that +Bezaleel had 1 Cor. i. 23. in view is supported by the seventh line, +"Beware of Him." The last line appears to be an appropriate conclusion; +as the passage referred to describes the extent of the Lord's kingdom, +as well as his reception by "all nations, tongues, and kindreds." "For +from the rising of the sun, even unto the going down of the same, my +name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall +be offered unto my name, and a peace offering; for my name shall be +great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts." Mal. i. 11.</p> + +<p>One may well imagine an Israelite or two observing from the road the +Hebrew characters <span title="[Hebrew: mem, mem, shin, resh]">ר ש מ מ</span>—for they are very large, and are seen +afar off—and after puzzling over their intent and purport for some +time, proceed to ask for an explanation from the major-domo. The +master,<a id="Page_379"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[379]</span> delighted that the bait caught, vouchsafes, in his +peculiarly eccentric style, to lecture on his own device, and thus reads +to his brethren A SERMON IN STONE.<a id="stone5"></a><a title="Go to footnote 5." href="#fn5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a></p> + + + <p class="right">M<span class="smcap lowercase">OSES</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARGOLIOUTH</span>.</p> + + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn5"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#stone5" class="label">[5]</a> The + writer was anxious to obtain some information +respecting that curious relic from the inhabitants of the place: he was +induced, therefore, to address a note of query to the present resident, +of the house in question, Mr. G. C. Hague; but the following was the +extent of the reply received:—"All I know of the sun-dial is this: It +is told that a Jew, who was a mason, and assisted in putting up the +front of Wentworth House, the mansion of the Earl Fitzwilliam, made the +thing, and put it up during his leisure hours. This is all that I ever +learned about it. I should be greatly obliged to you If you would inform +me what the translation of the Hebrew characters is.—I am, Sir, yours, +&c.<br /> +<span class="i5 smaller">"G. C. HAGUE</span>."</p> + + + + + + +<h3> +<span>VALUE OF SHAKSPEARE'S LEAGUE.—MEANING OF SHIP.—LOG-SHIP.</span> +</h3> + +<p>So universal was Shakspeare's knowledge even of the arcana of other +men's pursuits, that his commentators, in their anxiety to reduce his +attainments to an ordinary standard, have attributed to him a sort of +ubiquitous apprenticeship to all manner of trades and callings,—now a +butcher,—now an attorney's clerk,—now a schoolmaster,—and anon a +holder of horses at the theatre door, where doubtless he acquired that +farrier-knowledge so profusely lavished upon Petruchio's charger in <i>The +Taming of the Shrew</i>. Dr. Farmer, amongst other atrocities which have +earned for him an unenviable immortality in connexion with Shakspeare's +name, had the incredible folly to recognise, in the splendid image—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "There's a divinity that shapes our ends,</p> + <p> Rough-hew them how we will,"</p> + +</div> +<p>an allusion to <i>skewer making</i>! in which the rough-hewing was +Shakspeare's, while his more skilful sire <i>shaped the ends</i>! Even Dr. +Johnson cried "shop" at that passage of <i>The Winter's Tale</i> where +Perdita, fearing lest Florizel's father might discover him "obscured +with a swain's wearing," exclaims—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "How would he look to see his work so noble</p> + <p> Vilely bound up."</p> +</div> + +<p>Whereupon the great critic utters this sapient apothegm, "It is +impossible for any man to rid his mind of his profession"—meaning of +course Shakspeare's profession of <i>book making</i>!</p> + +<p>It is therefore surprising that none of them should have discovered a +trace of Shakspeare in the occupation of <i>ship-boy</i>; since in no calling +has he shown a more accurate knowledge of technicalities; and his +seamanship has satisfied the strictest professional criticism. It is to +this circumstance my attention is more especially directed at present by +a singular blunder which I have observed in one of the illustrations to +Knight's <i>Illustrated Shakspeare</i>.</p> + +<p>The artist, W. Dicks, professes to illustrate Ægeon's description of his +shipwreck, taking for his text these lines in the first scene of the +<i>Comedy of Errors</i>:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"We were encounter'd by a mighty rock,</p> + <p> Which being violently borne upon</p> + <p> Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst."</p> +</div> + +<p>But if he had studied the context he would have perceived that the +"helpful ship" was not a goodly argosy, as he has depicted it, but "a +small spare mast, such as seafaring men provide for storms."</p> + +<p>Now, it must not be said that the inadvertence is Shakspeare's, because +the term <i>helpful</i>, indicative of sudden resource, and these lines +immediately following—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "So, that in this unjust divorce of us</p> + <p> Fortune had left to both of us alike</p> + <p> What to delight in—what to sorrow for"—</p> + +</div> +<p>prove that Shakspeare never for a moment lost sight of the circumstances +he was describing.</p> + +<p>I was endeavouring to discover what particular nautical technicality +might justify this application of <i>ship</i> in the sense of <i>raft</i> or +<i>float</i>, when I recollected that sailors call the little float by which +the log-line is held stationary in the water, by the term <i>log-ship</i>; +and, by a rather singular coincidence, the origin of this very word +<i>log-ship</i> is made the subject of comment in a recent number of +"N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" (p. 254.), by a West Indian correspondent, A. L., who +thinks the term log-<i>chip</i>.</p> + +<p>His story, however, if it be not altogether the offspring of his own +ingenuity, appears quite unsupported by evidence; nor, even if +authenticated, would it be conclusive of the inference he draws from it. +For, surely, the same origin might be attributed to <i>log</i> itself, with +equal, or even with greater probability. The very nature of log is, not +only to float, but to remain sluggish or stationary in the water: and as +it might not be convenient to provide a fresh log (or chip) for every +occasion, there would be a clear advantage in tying a string to it, for +the purpose of hauling it inboard again, to serve another turn. +Moreover, I must remind A. L. that sailors do not say, "Heave the +<i>chip</i>," but "Heave the <i>log</i>."</p> + +<p>This same passage in the <i>Comedy of Errors</i> suggests another +consideration; which is, that Shakspeare appears to have used <i>league</i> +and <i>mile</i> synonymously. When Ægeon's "helpful ship" was "splitted in +the midst," it was "ere the ships" (approaching to his rescue) "could +meet by thrice five leagues;" so that each ship must have been at least +five leagues distant when discovered. Now Shakspeare was too good a +sailor to suppose that a ship could be visible to a man on the +surface<a id="Page_380"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[380]</span> of the water a distance of <i>fifteen</i> miles; but at +<i>one-third</i> of that distance it might be so. Therefore it would be +necessary to take <i>league</i> as synonymous with <i>mile</i> in this instance, +even if it were not corroborated by the necessity for a similar +understanding in other places.</p> + +<p>But wherever Shakspeare uses the word <i>league</i>, its equivalence with +<i>mile</i> is not only consistent with the sense, but, in some cases, +absolutely necessary to it.</p> + +<p>Thus, in the opening scene of the <i>Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, Lysander +appoints to meet Hermia "in the wood, a <i>league</i> without the town," but, +in the next scene, Quince appoints the same place for the rehearsal, +calling it "the palace wood, a <i>mile</i> without the town."</p> + +<p>Again, in the <i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i>, when Silvia escapes with +Eglamour, the latter reassures her by reminding her that they will be +safe if they can "gain the forest, not three leagues off," which would +be but poor comfort if by three leagues the lady was to understand nine +miles.</p> + +<p>By the way, this forest is described in all the "stage directions," upon +what authority I cannot guess, as "a forest near Mantua;" whereas all +the circumstances concur to place it in the immediate vicinity of Milan. +There is nothing to warrant the supposition that any of the characters +had journeyed far from Milan when they were seized upon by the outlaws; +and it is to the Duke of Milan that the outlaws apply for pardon for +misdeeds done in his territories.</p> + + <p class="right"> A. E. B.</p> + + <p class="left"> Leeds.</p> + + + + + +<h3> +<span>DONIZETTI.</span> +</h3> + + +<p>The following very curious account of the ancestry of this very talented +individual is copied from the <i>Berwick Advertiser</i>—a paper confined to +the provinces, and not likely to reach the metropolis. It appeared +somewhere about four years ago; but in cutting the scrap from the paper +I incautiously omitted inserting the date.</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"<span class="smaller">NEW FACTS CONCERNING DONIZETTI THE COMPOSER.</span>—We have learned + from authority not to be questioned, that the late Donizetti, + whose great talents as a composer are now beginning to be + appreciated, was of Scotch origin. His grandfather was a native + of Perthshire, of the name of Izett (or rather, I should think, + Izatt). He was a farmer under the Earl of Breadalbane, and his + son Donald was born at the farm. When very young the sprightly + Donald left his paternal home, having been enticed by the + fascinating address of a recruiting serjeant to enlist in the + united services of Mars and his Majesty, to the great grief of + his mother, who did not survive his departure many months. Young + Donald soon got discontented with his military duties; and having + been taken prisoner by General La Hoche during his invasion of + Ireland, was quite delighted with the easy mode which presented + itself of liberation from the unpleasant thraldom which he had + been suffering, and quickly embraced an offer made to him to + enter the General's service. With him he remained as private + secretary till his untimely death. Subsequently he married an + Italian lady of some fortune, and his name of <i>Donald Izett</i> was + easily metamorphosed into <i>Donizetti</i>. The composer was the + offspring of this marriage; and it is remarkable that evidence of + his Scottish origin may be traced in many of his beautiful + melodies. Thus, for instance, in 'Don Pasquale,' the exquisite + air of 'O Summer Night' reminds us of some Highland strains sung + to the bagpipe; and the entire score of 'Lucia di Lammermoor' is + replete with snatches and fragments of the minstrelsy of + Scotland."</p> + + +<p>There is then added a few lines relative to Rossini, whose family is +also alleged to be Scotch.</p> + +<p>How far this legend is true I know not; but perhaps some of your +correspondents might throw light on the subject. But assuredly there +<i>did</i> exist a Scotch family called <i>Izett</i>; and a lady of that name is +at present living in, or near, the romantic town of Stirling. What is +remarkable is this: that in the list of subscribers to the Edinburgh +Circus, afterwards better known as Corri's Rooms, and now the Adelphi +Theatre, occurs the name of <i>Izatt</i> or <i>Izett</i>, who followed the calling +of a hatter. This was in 1790. On making inquiry, it has been +ascertained that he came from Perthshire; that his father was a farmer +there; and what is still more striking, that, having realised an ample +fortune, he retired from business and purchased an estate in that +county. It was also said, that he corresponded with some relative on the +Continent. All this is very inconclusive, but still it is worth +noticing.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. G. S.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>FOLK LORE.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Ash Sap—The Ash</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 273.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The reason for giving ash sap +to new-born children in the Highlands of Scotland is, first, because it +acts as a powerful astringent, and, secondly, because the ash, in common +with the rowan, is supposed to possess the property of resisting the +attacks of witches, fairies, and other imps of darkness. Without some +precaution of this kind, they would change the child, or possibly steal +it away altogether. The herd boys in the district of Buchan, in +Aberdeenshire, always prefer a herding stick of ash to any other wood, +as in throwing it at their cattle, it is <i>sure</i> not to strike on a vital +part, and so kill or injure the animal, which they say a stick of any +other wood <i>might</i> do.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Rowan, ash, and red thread,</p> + <p> Keep the devils frae their speed."</p> +</div> + +<p>It is common practice with the housewives in the same district, to tie a +piece of red worsted thread round their cows' tails, previous to turning +them out to grass for the first time in the spring.<a id="Page_381"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[381]</span> It secures +their cattle, they say, from an evil eye, from being elf-shot by +fairies, &c. &c.</p> + + + <p class="right"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">BERDONIENSIS</span>.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Souling.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—On the 2nd of November, All Souls' Day, it is in Shropshire +the custom for the village children to go round to all their neighbours +souling, as they call it, collecting small contributions, and singing +the following verses, which I took down from two of the children +themselves:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Soul! soul! for a soul-cake;</p> + <p>Pray, good mistress, for a soul-cake.</p> + <p>One for Peter, two for Paul,</p> + <p>Three for Them who made us all.</p> +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> +<p>Soul! soul! for an apple or two;</p> + <p>If you've got no apples, pears will do.</p> + <p>Up with your kettle, and down with your pan;</p> + <p>Give me a good big one, and I'll be gone.</p> + <p class="i7">Soul! soul! for a soul-cake;</p> + <p class="i7">Pray, good mistress, a soul-cake, &c.</p> +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>An apple or pear, a plum or a cherry,</p> + <p>Is a very good thing to make us merry.</p> + <p class="i7">Soul! soul! &c.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p>The soul-cake referred to in the verses is a sort of bun, which until +lately it was an almost general custom for persons to make, and to give +to one another on the 2nd of November. Perhaps some of your readers can +state whether this custom prevails in other counties in England. It +seems to be a remnant of the practice of collecting alms, to be applied +to the benefit of the souls of the departed, for which especial masses +and services were formerly sung on All Souls' Day.</p> + + <p class="right"> W. F<span class="smcap lowercase">RASER.</span></p> + + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Minor Notes.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Pasquinade.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—To the "Pasquinades" adduced in Vol. iv., p. 292., I may +add one of a different character, though of older date, on a former +Cardinal. On the decease of Pope Clement IX. in 1669, Cardinal Bona was +named amongst those worthy of the tiara, when a French Jesuit (Père +Dangières), in reply to a line inscribed, as usual upon those occasions, +on the statue of Pasquin, "Papa Bona sarebbe un solecisma," made the +following epigram:</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Grammaticæ leges plerumque Ecclesia spernit:</p> + <p class="i3">Forte erit ut liceat dicere Papa Bona.</p> + <p> Vana solæcismi ne te conturbat imago,</p> + <p class="i3">Esset Papa bonus, si Bona Papa erit."</p> +</div> + + +<p>The successful candidate, however, was Cardinal Emilio Altieri, who +assumed the name of Clement X., in April, 1670: Bona (Giov.) died in +October, 1674.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. R. (Cork.)</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Monk and Cromwell Families.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—It is a singular fact, that an estate +granted to George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, for <i>restoring the monarchy</i>, +was by intermarriage eventually vested in Oliver Cromwell, Esq., of +Cheshunt, who died in 1821; being then the last male descendant of the +Protector.</p> + + <p class="right"> A S<span class="smcap lowercase">UBSCRIBER.</span></p> + + +<h4> +<span><i>D'Israeli and Byron.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Lord Byron not only "deeply underscored," in +admiration, M. D'Israeli's sentence, as quoted Vol. iv., p. 99., but he +also reproduced the same idea in his Monody on Sheridan:</p> + + + <div class="poem"> +<p>"And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame."</p> +</div> + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">LFRED</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTY.</span></p> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Queries.</span> +</h2> + + +<h3> +<span>ROMAN FUNERAL PILE.</span> +</h3> + + +<p>Did the Romans throw corn, pulse, or beans on the flames of the funeral +pile (<i>rogus</i>), or deposit them with the bones and ashes of the deceased +in their sepulchres? The Query is suggested by a quantity of, to all +appearance, calcined small field beans having recently been found by me, +in small heaps, among a deposit of ashes embedded in sand, in the +perpendicular cutting of a sand-pit at Comb Wood, near Kingston. The +deposit is black, reduced to a fine powder, and, with the exception of +the beans, homogeneous: it was perfectly distinct from the surrounding +sand, and was about two feet under the surface of the soil. For +centuries past Roman remains have been from time to time discovered at +Comb Wood, and it is known to have been a Roman station. The locality in +which I found the deposit is said to have been the sepulchre of the +station; and from an intelligent person, engaged in excavating the sand, +I learned that he occasionally came upon deposits similar to that in +question, containing baked, but unglazed, clay vessels; some, of an oval +form, about a yard in circumference and nearly a foot in depth, and +others of the size and somewhat of the form of a flower-pot. These +vessels fall to pieces after two or three days, through exposure to the +air. He had also found pieces of copper or brass about an inch square, +and of the thickness of a penny, as also coins.</p> + +<p>Authorities (Virg. <i>Æn.</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">VI.</span> 225.; + <i>Stat. Theb.</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">VI.</span> 126.; +Lucan, <span class="smcap lowercase">IX.</span> +175.) may be cited, showing that perfumes, cups of oil, ornaments, +clothes, dishes of food, and other things supposed to be agreeable to +the deceased, were thrown upon the flames; but I do not find corn or +beans specifically mentioned as having been used on these occasions.</p> + +<p>I may add, that the field containing the sand-pit (which is the property +of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge) is close to the road +leading by Putney Heath to Kingston, and on the brow of the declivity of +Comb Hill, overlooking that ancient Saxon seat of royalty which is +stated to have been built out of the remains of the adjoining Roman +station.</p> + + + <p class="right">J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN AP</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILLIAM AP</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN.</span></p> + + <p class="left"> Inner Temple, Nov. 1. 1851.<a id="Page_382"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[382]</span></p> + + + + + +<h3> +<span>DACRES OF THE NORTH.</span> +</h3> + + + +<p>William Lord Dacre, of the North, had four sons: 1. Thomas; 2. Leonard; +3. Edward; 4. Francis. The eldest son Thomas married, and died in his +father's lifetime; leaving a son George, and three daughters, all under +age. This George, on his grandfather's death, became Lord Dacre; and was +in ward to the Duke of Norfolk during his minority, and his mother +became the Duke's second wife. George Lord Dacre was accidentally killed +before he attained his majority, leaving his three sisters his +coheiresses-at-law. Two of the coheiresses were married to the Duke's +two sons, the Earl of Arundel and Lord William Howard. Can any of your +readers state what became of the third sister?</p> + +<p>On the death of George Lord Dacre, the title and estates were claimed by +Leonard, the second son of William Lord Dacre, by virtue of an alleged +entail on the heirs male of William. Leonard, taking part in the +rebellion of 1569, was attainted and fled abroad; and soon afterwards +died, and is buried at Brussels, I think. The next brother, Edward, was +also implicated, and fled. Is it known when and where he died; and did +he leave any issue?</p> + +<p>Francis, the fourth son of William Lord Dacre, carried on a long contest +at law with the Earl of Arundel and the Lord William Howard for the +Dacre's estates; claiming, under the entail of his father William Lord +Dacre on the male line. He married, and had a son and a daughter. He +fell under suspicion of the government, and retired abroad about the +year 1588, and died there. His son is stated to have compromised his +claims to the estates with the Howards.</p> + +<p>I wish to ascertain, and possibly some of your readers may be able to +state, whom did Francis Dacre marry? What was the name of his son, and +was he married; and the name of his daughter, and whom did she marry; +and whether there are any descendants of this branch of the Dacre family +now in existence?</p> + + + <p class="right"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">RCAD.</span></p> + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Minor Queries.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span>270. <i>Etymology of Salter.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—I wish to ascertain the precise etymology +of the word <i>salter</i> as applied to localities far removed from the sea, +and from those districts in which the making of salt is carried on. It +seems to be applied in the north of England to places adjoining ancient +roads, or where these pass: <i>e.g.</i> part of the old highway from Rochdale +to Burnley is called the Salter's Gate. The old road from Rochdale to +Hebden Bridge crosses Salter Edge, on Blackstone Edge. The road from +Rochdale to Middleton crosses Salter Edge in Hopwood. The road from +Ashton to Peniston passes Salter's Brook in the woodlands of Cheshire. +It is somewhat remarkable that all these roads lead in direct lines to +the Cheshire salt works.</p> + + <p class="right"> F. R. R.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>271. <i>Chattes of Haselle.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Sir John Mandeville, in giving the account +of the growth of pepper in India, says:</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "The long Peper comethe first, whan the Lef begynnethe to come; + and it is lyche the <i>Chattes</i> of Haselle, that cometh before the + Lef, and it hangethe lowe."</p> + +<p>Is this old name for "catkins" retained in any part of England, or is it +the same word?</p> + + <p class="right"> H. N. E.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>272. "<i>Truth is that which a man troweth.</i>"</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Would some one of your +correspondents furnish the authority for the saying, "Truth is that +which a man troweth?"</p> + + <p class="right"> <span title="[Greek: G.]">Γ.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>273. <i>Religious Statistics.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is there any work published, on which +reliance may be placed, which would give me the numbers, or supposed +numbers, of persons professing the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, +Episcopal, and other varieties of religious worship? The number of +professing members of the Greek Church is given in various works, but I +have never seen any complete list of the numbers professing other +religions.</p> + + + <p class="right">Q. E. D.</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span>274. <i>Cross-legged Effigies.</i></span> +</h4> + + +<p>—What is the date of the <i>latest</i> +cross-legged effigy known, and is the person commemorated known to have +been connected with the Crusades? Is there any cross-legged memorial +effigy with the hands in the attitude of drawing the sword of so late a +date as the fourteenth century?</p> + +<p>Dugdale and others say that persons pledged to join a crusade were +marked with the cross. How was this ceremony performed?</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. H. K.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>275. <i>Verses accidentally occur in Classical Prose often.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Has a +collection of these ever been made? (I have a "Note" on the subject, but +do not send it, feeling sure I must have been anticipated.)</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. A. D.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>276. <i>Count Maurice Tanner de Lacy.</i></span> +</h4> + + +<p>—From what family connexion did +"Count Maurice Tanner de Lacy," general in the Austrian service, and who +died in 1819, take the name of "Tanner?" What relative was General M. de +Lacy to Joseph Francis Maurice Count de Lacy, field marshal under Joseph +II., and who distinguished himself so highly during the Seven Years' +War; also who was mother of the latter?</p> + + <p class="right"> <span title="[Greek: Potheô.]">Ποθέω.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>277. <i>The Sinaitic Inscriptions.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Your correspondent E. H. D. D. (Vol. +iv., p. 332.) says that the Sinaitic inscriptions have been already +deciphered. May I ask, by whom?</p> + + + <p class="right"> T. D.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>278. <i>Portrait of Dr. Bray.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is any authentic portrait in existence of +Dr. Bray, to whom the venerable Society for the Propagation of the +Gospel owes its origin?</p> + + + <p class="right"> C.<a id="Page_383"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[383]</span></p> + + + + +<h4> +<span>279. <i>Peter Plancius' Map of the World.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—In <i>M. Blundevill his +Exercises, containing Eight Treatises</i>, 6th edition, 4to., 1622, one of +the eight is described thus: +</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> Item. A plaine and full description of Peter Plancius his + universall Mappe lately set forth in the yeare of our Lord 1592, + containing more places newly found, as well in the East and West + Indies, as also towards the North Pole, which no other Mappe + heretofore hath."</p> + + +<p>Where is this Peter Plancius' map to be found?</p> + + + <p class="right">J. O. M.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>280. <i>Derivation of Theodolite.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents give +the derivation of <i>theodolite</i>? I fear that +<span title="[Greek: theaomai dolos]">θεάομαι +δολος</span> might be considered a libel.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. S. W<span class="smcap lowercase">OOD.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>281. <i>Lycian Inscriptions.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—I should be glad to hear what attempts have +been made, and with what success, to decipher the inscriptions upon the +Lycian monuments in the British Museum. Col. Mure, in his <i>History of +Grecian Literature</i>, vol. i. p. 84., speaks of them as at present +unintelligible. The character, he says, is a variety of the +Græco-Phœnician. I find several, if not the greater part, of the +letters in Gesenius's <i>Monumenta Phœnicia</i>, especially Tab. 11. and +12. What is the language in which they are written? And if an aboriginal +tongue, over what portion of Asia did the stock to which it belongs +extend in the historical period, and what is that stock? Is it to that +class of dialects that the language of the Gods, as Homer distinguishes +a certain tongue from the language of men, belongs: which called the +"night-jar" +<span title="[Greek: chalkis]">χαλκίς,</span> named by men +<span title="[Greek: kymindis]">κύμινδις</span> + (<i>Il.</i> 14. +291.); and "the giant" +<span title="[Greek: Briareôs]">Βριάρεως,</span> instead of +<span title="[Greek: Aigaiôn]">Αἰγαίων</span> +(<i>Il.</i> 1. 403.); and "the Xanthus, +<span title="[Greek: Xanthos]">Ξάνθος,</span> instead of +<span title="[Greek: Skamandros]">Σκάμανδρος</span>; +and, which is more remarkable still, "the hillock" on the +plain of Troy, the +<span title="[Greek: sêma polyskarthmoio Myrinês]">σῆμα + πολυσκάρθμοιο +Μυρίνης,</span> while men named +it +<span title="[Greek: Batieia]">Βατίεια</span> + (<i>Il.</i> 2. 813.) I have hitherto been accustomed to +consider these names which the gods use to be the old Pelasgian names, +assured as I feel that the Pelasgi occupied the north-west corner of +Asia Minor before the Greeks (Hellenes) took Troy, which event I have +looked upon as one of many in which the energies and [ ... ] of the +young and vigorous Hellenic family were successfully exerted against +their contemporaries of the other less powerful descendants of the old +Pelasgic settlers in that part of the world. But I shall be thankful for +the information which others wiser than I can give, even if it be but a +theory: accompanied with the <i>facts</i> on which it is based, it will be +worth attention.</p> + + + <p class="right">T<span class="smcap lowercase">HEOPHYLACT.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>282. <i>Maltese Dialect.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is it more reasonable to assign the Arabic +character of the Maltese dialect to the fact of its early occupation by +the Hebrew-speaking Phœnicians, or to the subsequent Saracen +occupation? or may its difference from Hebrew and from Arabic be +explained by the circumstances of its history, as having been twice, at +two very different periods, occupied by invaders belonging to two +branches of the same stock? Bochart, <i>Canaan</i>, i. 26., says that the +name "Melete" is Hebrew, meaning <i>refugium</i>; and Diodorus Siculus, v. +cap. 12., uses the term +<span title="[Greek: kataphygê]">καταφυγή</span> +concerning it so pointedly, +that it would almost seem as though he knew that to be the reason why +the Phœnicians gave it its name.</p> + + + <p class="right">T<span class="smcap lowercase">HEOPHYLACT.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>283. <i>Hobbes's "Leviathan"</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 314.).</span> +</h4> + + +<p>—You have inserted my +inquiry respecting the frontispiece to Hobbes's <i>Leviathan</i>; I should +also be glad to know the interpretation put by any of your readers on +the various other symbols in that plate. They are, on one side of the +title, a castle, a crown, a cannon, a pile of arms, and a field of +battle, in compartments one below another; and on the other side, a +church, a mitre, a thunderbolt, a collection of implements marked +<i>syllogism</i>, <i>dilemma</i>, &c., and a tribunal.</p> + +<p>I have my own view of the meaning of each part of this, which is at your +service when required.</p> + + <p class="right">W. W.</p> + + <p class="left"> Cambridge.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>284. <i>Wigtoun Peerage.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your legal correspondents inform me +whether there exist any reports of the addresses of the Lord Advocate +for Scotland, the king's Attorney-General, or the Lord Chancellor, on +the hearing or decision of this case in the year 1782?</p> + +<p>The Lord Chancellor was Lord Thurlow; the Lord Advocate, Sir Henry +Dundas; the Attorney-General, Mr. Wallace.</p> + + <p class="right"> S. E. G.</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span>285. <i>Sale by Candle.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Forty or fifty years ago goods were advertised +for public sale "by the candle." Can any of your readers inform me of +the origin of this?</p> + +<p>I may remark that it was the custom then at some sales to have candles +marked with red circles; and the moment the candle burned down to the +mark, the lot put up was knocked down to the highest bidder; and, at +some sales, a common candle was burned during the sale.</p> + + + + <p class="right"> J. S. A.</p> + + <p class="left"> Old Broad Street.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Minor Queries Answered.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Derivation of Æra.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Will any of your correspondents inform me of the +derivation of the word <i>æra</i>, as, if derived from the Latin word <i>æra</i>, +no classical authority that I know of can be adduced. In Ainsworth I +find <i>æra</i> signifies a kind of weed amongst corn; a mark upon money to +show the value; a remarkable period of time.</p> + + + <p class="right">J. N. G. G.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> [In Andrews' <i>Latin-English Lexicon</i> our correspondent will find + the following as the second definition of <i>Æra</i>, "<span class="smcap lowercase">ÆRA</span>, <span class="smcap lowercase">Æ</span>, f. + (from <i>Æra</i>, the plural of <i>Æs</i>), a word belonging to Later + Latin. 1. In Mathem. <i>The</i><a id="Page_384"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[384]</span> <i>given number, according to + which a calculation is to be made.</i> Vitruvius (Vetrubius) Rufus + in Salmas. Exerc. <span class="smcap lowercase">I.</span> p. 483. 2. <i>The item of an account</i> for + which in the class. <i>per æra</i>, as plur. of <i>æs</i>, came into use. + Ruf. Fest. in Breviar. <i>in</i>. The passage of Lucil. cited by + Nonius, 2, 42., <i>æra perversa</i>, is prob. also plur. 3. <i>The era + or epoch</i> from which time is reckoned."]</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Tudur Aled.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your Cambrian correspondents inform me when +Tudur Aled, a Welsh poet, flourished; and in what collection his works +are to be found?</p> + + + <p class="right">A S<span class="smcap lowercase">TUDENT.</span></p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> [Tudur Aled, so called on account of his residence on the banks + of the Aled, in the county of Denbigh, flourished about the year + 1490, and was a friar of the Order of St. Francis. He wrote a + poetical account of the miracles reported to have been performed + at St. Winifred's Well, in the town of Holywell, as well as the + life of that saint. He was also one of the followers of Sir Rhys + ab Thomas, of Dinevor in Carmarthenshire, and wrote several poems + in praise of his great achievements. Some of our Cambrian readers + can probably state where his pieces are to be found.]</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Tonges of Tonge.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your Lancashire correspondents furnish me +with information respecting the genealogy and family history of the +Tonges of Tonge, near Middleton in that county? This family appears to +have been of some consideration at an early period, and to have become +extinct at the commencement of the last century.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. B. (Manchester.)</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">[Some notices of this family will be found in Baines's <i>History + of Lancaster</i>, vol. iii. p. 86.]</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Robert Hues on the Use of Globes.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is there any edition of this book +in English or Latin as early as 1595?</p> + + <p class="right"> J. O. M.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">[The Bodleian contains a copy printed in 1594:—"Robertus Hues, + Tractatus de globis et eorum usu, accommodatus iis qui Londini + editi sunt anno 1593, sumptibus Gul. Sandersoni. 8vo. Lond. in æd + Thomæ Dawson, 1594." Also another copy, "8vo. typ. G. Voegelini, + <i>s.a.</i>"]</p> + + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Replies.</span> +</h2> + + +<h3> +<span>THE CAXTON MEMORIAL.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 283.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>In forming a literary project, whether extensive or otherwise, it is +advisable to keep in view the humble science of arithmetic. Without that +precaution, it may become a source of vexation both to its projector and +its promoters; and, in some cases, the non-completion of it may be a +real injury to literature.</p> + +<p>When I proposed a typographic memorial of William Caxton, in preference +to an architectural memorial, and intimated that it might be compressed +into an octavo volume, and produced at a very moderate price, I +flattered myself with having made a more correct estimate than is +commonly made by designers and architects—Paxton, Cubitt, and Fox, +always excepted—and I venture to announce, on more mature reflection, +the same decided opinion.</p> + +<p>With thanks to M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">OTFIELD</span> for his enumeration of the translated works +of Caxton, I must remind him that the proposal was a collection of his +<i>original compositions</i>, with <i>specimens of his translations</i>. To +reprint the entire works which proceeded from his press was never my +project. I could not have entertained such an idea for one moment; nor +should I think the realisation of it desirable, even if it could be +effected by magic. I readily admit, however, that I have a liking for +<i>Fayts of armes and chyvalrye</i>—that <i>Thystorye of Reynard the foxe</i> is +very attractive—and that the <i>Boke for travellers</i> would be a choice +<i>morçeau philologique</i>.</p> + +<p>The publications of Caxton are about sixty in number, and I am sure that +more than six pages would seldom be required for any one work, and that +many articles might be properly treated in less than two pages each. A +short memoir of Caxton, a glossary of obsolete words and phrases, an +appendix of documents, and an index, are the only additions which I +should consider as essential to the completeness of the design. All this +might be comprised in an octavo volume of moderate extent.</p> + +<p>The <i>Typographical antiquities</i> of Ames, as augmented by Dibdin, being +the accredited source of information on Caxton, and having misled some +superior writers, I shall presume to deliver my opinion of the <i>first</i> +volume of that work—not having much acquaintance with the subsequent +volumes. Dibdin had formed, at the very outset, a most injudicious +resolution. Caxton was his hero; and he resolved, as he tells us in his +autobiography, to "devote the first volume entirely to the productions +of his press." In order to carry out this plan, he was led to introduce +much extraneous and useless matter. We have endless repetitions of what +<i>Lewis says</i>, and what <i>Ames says</i>, and what <i>Herbert says</i>, and even +what the dreamer <i>Bagford says</i>, instead of such information as should +have been derived from an examination of the books themselves. Moreover, +he is very deficient in the <i>logic of history</i>, in point of method, and +in point of accuracy; and the extracts, being in modern orthography, are +to philological students UTTERLY WORTHLESS.</p> + +<p>This, and perhaps more than this, I may hereafter have occasion to +prove; and should it seem to others that I express myself harshly, due +consideration shall be given to their objections.</p> + +<p>I must now assure M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">OTFIELD</span> that it gives me satisfaction to observe +him somewhat disposed to view my project with favour, and that I am not +less disposed to make such modifications of the<a id="Page_385"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[385]</span> conditions of +publication as may meet the wishes of himself and the other contributors +toward <i>The Caxton Testimonial</i>. Two modes of union suggest themselves, +which I submit to his consideration in the form of queries.</p> + +<p>1. If the preparation and impression of the intended volume should be +undertaken by a certain literary society, honourably distinguished by +the substantial character of the works which have been edited under its +sanction, would the committee of <i>The Caxton Testimonial</i> engage to take +a certain number of copies, in case the council of the society alluded +to should assent to such a deviation from its usual course?</p> + +<p>2. If this arrangement should be objected to on either side, would the +committee of <i>The Caxton Testimonial</i> undertake to produce a literary +memorial of Caxton on the plan before-described, or not much differing +from it, and under the editorship of persons to be named by themselves?</p> + +<p>If neither plan should be approved, I shall not abate <i>one jot of hope</i> +as to the success of the project; but, by permission of the editor of +"N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>," proceed with my humble contributions to <i>The Caxton +Coffer</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right">B<span class="smcap lowercase">OLTON</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY.</span></p> + + +<p>Might not the purpose be attained by the establishment of a club (on the +same principles as the Bannatyne, Maitland, and Spalding Clubs), for the +republication of the works of the first English printer? His works are +of such excessive rarity that they are inaccessible even to the most +devoted antiquary, and indeed many of them are scarcely known even by +name. They are principally thin quartos, and the actual expense of +reprinting them could not be heavy. The only trouble would be in +collating them; and if the matter was once set on foot, we have many +able typographical antiquaries who, I have no doubt, would assist in +editing them. Such a plan appears preferable, because in making the Club +open to any party who chose to pay the agreed-on subscription, it would +thus become better known throughout the kingdom, and consequently stand +a much better chance of support and, of course, success.</p> + +<p>The great object of the memorial, in addition to a just recognition of +the important services of Caxton, appears to be to revive his memory; +and this end can only be effectually gained by a republication of his +works, and the plan of a club appears to be the only way by which they +can be extensively circulated.</p> + + + <p class="right"> P<span class="smcap lowercase">ETRO</span>-P<span class="smcap lowercase">ROMONTORIENSIS.</span></p> + + + +<p class="blockquot"> [Our correspondent has, he will perceive, misapprehended +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY'S</span> suggestion; which is a far more practical one, than a + reprint of all the works which issued from the press of Caxton. + In the first of the modes which M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY</span> now suggests for + carrying out his views he appears to us to have hit upon a very + happy expedient; which we think may easily be accomplished in a + way to do credit to all parties concerned in it, and really to do + honour to the memory of William Caxton.]</p> + + + +<h3> +<span>EPIGRAM ASCRIBED TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.<br /> +(Vol. iv., pp. 316. 356.)</span> +</h3> + + +<p>As your correspondent C. has noticed the copy of Sallust containing the +autograph of Mary Queen of Scots, which was presented to the library of +this University by our illustrious +alumnus J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILSON</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROKER</span>, I think +it right to send you the following account of it.</p> + +<p>The full title is as follows:—</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + +<div class="stanza"> <p> <i>Opera Sallustiana.</i></p> +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Caij Crispi Sallustij inter historicos</i><br /> + nominatissimi, ac veri cum <i>Iodoci Badij<br /> + Ascensij</i> expositione perq[ue] familiari opera post nouā<br /> + limam et nonnulla nuperrime addita recēter: et subjecta + continēt<br /> + ¶ <i>Pomponij leti</i> Sallustiana recognitio + <i>et ejusdem + vita</i> et explanatis.<br /> + <i>Historicq[ue]</i> descriptio: species et utilitas <i>ac viginti<br /> + styli historici precepta</i>.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<p>The words here printed in Italics are in rubric in the original. Then +follows on the title-page a table of contents of the volume, with +reference to the folio in which each piece is to be found.</p> + +<p>Then follows a small square woodcut, representing SS. Peter and Paul +holding the sacred handkerchief with the face of Christ impressed upon +it; and on each side of this is the date in rubric, thus,</p> + + + +<div class="poem"> + +<p> <span class="topnum">M. CCCCC.</span> + <span class="xx-large">□</span> +<span class="topnum"> XXIII.</span></p> + +</div> + + + +<p>The whole is surrounded with a framework formed of various woodcut +ornaments. One of these (on the left) represents Judas betraying our +Lord with a kiss; the other (on the right) our Lord bearing His cross.</p> + +<p>On the reverse of the title is a dedicatory letter from Iodocus Badius +Ascensius to Franciscus de Roban, Archbishop of Lyons.</p> + +<p>Then follows Tabula Alphabetica, occupying four pages.</p> + +<p>Then (on fol. A. iiij) a letter, "Aug. Mapheo rerū Ro. Thesaur. +Pōp. letus. S." beginning "Marcus Valerius probus unice vetustatis +amator."</p> + +<p>On the next page is 'Caij Crispi Sallustij vita per Pōpo. letū."</p> + +<p>On the next page begins "De historia et ea concernentibus collecta per +ascensium;" and in the blanks round the heading of this page is one of +the autographs of the unfortunate queen, in her large bold hand,</p> + + <div class="poem"> + +<p> <i>Maria</i> <span class="i11"> <i>Regina</i>.</span></p> + +</div> + + +<p>On the next page begin "Viginti precepta pro historica lege," which are +continued on the next two pages. In the blank spaces left round +the<a id="Page_386"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[386]</span> titles of the ninth and tenth precepta, the queen has again +written,</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> <i>Ex libris</i> <span class="i11"> <i>Mariæ</i></span></p> + <p> <i>Scotorum</i> <span class="i9"> <i>Reginæ</i></span></p> +</div> + +<p>On the next leaf begin the works of Sallust, with the commentaries and +other apparatus. The sheets are in eights, so that the book is more +properly large 8<span class="topnum">o</span> than 4<span class="topnum">o</span>, signatures A—S(but S is only a +half-sheet). The prefatory matter (including the title) is contained on +a single sheet, sig. A, of six leaves only. This is expressed by the +printer's register at the end—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p class="i5">"Regestum huius operis</p> + <p> A . a . b . c . d . e . f . g . h . i . k . l . m . n . o . p . q . r . s .</p> + <p> Oēs sunt quaterniones preter A [q]. est ternio . s . vero duernio."</p> +</div> + +<p>The colophon has not been completely given by C.; it is as follows:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "¶ Crispi Sallustii Catilina (<i>sic</i>) et Jugurthina cum reliquis + collectaneis ab Ascensio: ut cum[que] explanatis: hic suum capit + finem. Lugduni diligenti recognitione Impressus per Antoniū + Blachard<a id="chard6"></a><a title="Go to footnote 6." href="#fn6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> anno + domini M. quingētesimo. xxiii. pridie Calend. Sextiles."</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn6"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#chard6" class="label">[6]</a> Not + Blanchard, as C. has printed the name.</p> + +<p>These particulars may enable your readers to identify this edition, +which is, I believe, very rare.</p> + +<p>After the colophon are two pages occupied by remarks on Sallust by +"Jacobus a cruce Bononiensis:" leaving the last page in the volume +blank, except that in the centre is a woodcut of larger size than that +already mentioned, which is on the title-page, but representing the same +subject, viz. SS. Peter and Paul holding the sacred handkerchief.</p> + +<p>On the upper right-hand corner of this last page are the verses quoted +by C., and correctly quoted, except that <i>meæ</i> and <i>puellæ</i> in the first +line are <i>mee</i> and <i>puelle</i> in the original.</p> + +<p>There is not the smallest shadow of probability for supposing these +verses, or any of the other MS. annotations which occur in the volume, +to be in the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots. She wrote a large and +not by any means a scholarlike hand, which is very well known; whereas +these verses and the other annotations, are in a small and crampt +scholarlike hand of the sixteenth century, as unlike the handwriting of +Mary as any that can be imagined. In fact I was not aware, until I read +C.'s letter in "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>," that anybody had ever supposed it to +be hers.</p> + +<p>The note recording the donation of this book by James I. to Bishop Hall, +occurs fol. xc. It is in a large schoolboylike hand, and is correctly +quoted by C.</p> + +<p>The book contains numerous woodcuts, which have no discoverable relation +to the text, and are inserted merely to mark the commencement of the +books, or different pieces of which the volume consists. Many of these +are repeated several times.</p> + +<p>The ornamental letter to which C. refers is the letter O, the first in +the book. The grotesque character of it noticed by C. would not be +easily observed except it were specially pointed out. C. may be assured +that it was not particularly pointed out to Her Majesty when she did us +the honour of inspecting this and some other literary treasures of our +library in 1849.</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> H. T<span class="smcap lowercase">ODD.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Trinity Coll. Dublin.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>STANZAS IN CHILDE HAROLD.<br /> +(Vol. iv., pp. 223. 285. 323.)</span> +</h3> + + +<p>I trust that a few words more will not be deemed overmuch in pointing +out what I think will be found to be the source of T. W.'s difficulty. +We need not go to French or German translators, because it is reasonable +to suppose that where any sense can be made out of the text as it +stands, the last thing a foreigner would do would be to complete an +elliptical expression. I agree with M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLINS</span>, who says the expression +"is very good sense;" and from his adding "much more Byronic," I expect +he will agree with me in adding also, "but very bad taste." T. W. seems +to have felt this; and nothing can be more conclusive than his criticism +upon this point. I trust that there are few men of taste who have not as +utter an abhorrence of tyranny as Lord Byron; but I think that, strongly +as men of genius may be supposed to feel, few would have lugged in the +tyrants on such an occasion; as it seems to me it was just in the nature +of the noble poet, with or without cause, to do. What Byron says is +perfectly true; it is simply out of place: nevertheless, as the text +stands, it is said with force. But adopt T. W.'s variation, and can a +<i>flatter</i> truism be conceived? And, after all, the objection not +removed; for the allusion would be equally out of place: unless, indeed, +your correspondent could make out of the text that</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"Thy waters wasted them while they were free,"</p> + <p> And <i>wasted them</i>, <i>afterwards</i>, during their slavery,</p> + <p>Or, has continued <i>to waste them since</i>.</p> + +</div> + + + <p class="right"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">AMUEL</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ICKSON.</span></p> + + + +<p>I will not dwell on T. W.'s last remarks about Byron's "Address to the +Ocean," farther than to observe, that it is difficult to conceive how he +can understand the French translation which he quotes, in such a way +that it shall tally with the view which he has put forward. The +translation says, "the waves wasted their shores in the days of liberty, +as they have done since under many a tyrant." This is very different +from making the line mean either "the waves wasted the tyrants,"<a id="Page_387"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[387]</span> +as T. W. thinks it means with Byron's punctuation, or "the shores obey +the tyrants," as T. W. would make it mean with his <i>amended</i> +punctuation.</p> + +<p>In a recent number (p. 325.) M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> M. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLINS</span> objects to—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in <i>vain</i>!"</p> + +</div> + +<p>and exclaims, "<i>In vain!</i>" Why, did not Columbus, &c.? But this +criticism also overlooks the meaning of the passage. The fleets traverse +the ocean quite in vain, as to producing any permanent traces, as is +explained in the very next words:</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Man marks <i>the earth</i> with ruin: his control</p> + <p> Stops with the shore," &c.</p> + +</div> + + + <p class="right"> W. W.</p> + + <p class="left"> Cambridge.</p> + + +<h3> +<span>CAGOTS.<br /> +(Vol. iv., pp. 190. 331.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>A reference to Dr. Guggenbühl's <i>Letter to Lord Ashley on Cretinism</i>, +and to the reviews of the subject, of which I can name two in the +<i>Athenæum</i>, one in 1848, p. 1077., and another on June 21, 1851, will, I +think, show that there are no "races of Cretins," though the +disease—for it is nothing but a disease—will sometimes largely affect +even families. One of the principal characteristics of the disease is a +disgusting goître, enlarging the neck to such a size, that a part of it +becomes pendulous to the length of upwards of a foot, and can even be +flung over the shoulder, and is, indeed, often carried there. It is very +commonly accompanied by idiocy; and, in fact, the Cretin is one of the +most distressing objects that can be seen. The disease is very common in +some parts of Switzerland, especially, I believe, the Valais; some +attribute it to the water: and probably climatic influences, in +conjunction with the deleterious elements contained in the water, and +the frequent intermarriage of the villagers, and deficient or +unwholesome diet, are the chief sources to which it must be traced. It +is curable; at the institution on the Abendberg the treatment is very +successful. The disease never appears above a certain level, and +disappears when, under favourable circumstances, the patient is raised +to that level. Cases have been found in Lancashire, and at Chiselborough +in Somersetshire, and at other places which present predisposing causes +resembling those of Switzerland.</p> + +<p>I do not think that A<span class="smcap lowercase">JAX'S</span> suggestion "credentes" as the derivation of +Cretin can be substantiated. Is it a term at all connected with +diversity of religious opinion and consequent persecution? In the Alps, +Cretinism is regarded with pity and kindness, + as R<span class="smcap lowercase">USTICUS</span> truly remarks. +The term <i>cagot</i> is current in the French with the meaning of an +impostor, a hypocrite; "celui qui a une dévotion fausse ou +mal-entendue," is the meaning in the <i>Dictionnaire de l'Académie</i>; also +a bigot.</p> + +<p>It is altogether a religious term. May I suggest that they are a relique +of the old population of the mountain vallies imperfectly Christianised, +therefore despised by the more enlightened population of the +neighbourhood,—half-civilised, perhaps, and physically degraded by the +same causes which have given the goître and the idiocy of the Cretin to +the inhabitants of the Valais. If so, they may be Iberian, or what is +commonly called Celtiberian, a term which I think there is reason for +abandoning. I shall be glad to hear more of these <i>Cagots</i>; about the +Cretins a good deal is known, and with much certainty, but nothing, as +far as I can learn, that tends to identify them historically with any +religious sect.</p> + +<p>I am able to add further information concerning the <i>Cagots</i>. They are a +miserable race, mostly beggars, or employed only about the meanest and +filthiest work, abounding in leprosy and other cutaneous diseases, and +in the most loathsome vermin; houseless, half-clad, inhabiting stables, +barns, or any casual place of shelter, generally mutilated and lame, +outcasts from society, reputed to lead infamous lives, indulging in the +most horrible practices, even of cannibalism, and worse offences than +that. Their brand used to be an eggshell on their clothes, and the +custom was to pierce their feet with an iron. Scaliger derived their +name from "Canis Gottus," and their origin has been assigned to some one +of the northern nations which penetrated into the south of France and +north of Spain in the third and fourth centuries before our era.</p> + +<p>On this may I be allowed to forward a Query or two? What is their +language? What are their own traditions concerning their origin? I am +confirmed in my opinion that they are no way analogous to the Cretins; +the latter being diseased, and Cretins because they are diseased; the +<i>Cagot</i> being diseased and filthy, and despised because he is a <i>Cagot</i>, +an individual of a degraded and outcast race of men.</p> + + + <p class="right">T<span class="smcap lowercase">HEOPHYLACT.</span></p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>TEXTS BEFORE SERMONS.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 344.)</span> +</h3> + + +<p>In the early church the sermon was delivered immediately after the +reading of the Scriptures (<i>Const. Apost.</i> lib. viii. c. 5.), and +sometimes preached without any text; at other times, upon more texts +than one; but most commonly the text was taken out of some paragraph of +the Psalms or Lessons, as they were read. Origen expressly calls +Sermons, <i>explanations of the Lessons</i> (Orig. <i>cont. Cels.</i>, lib. iii.). +The Fathers sometimes so ordered the matter, as to preach upon the +Psalm, the Epistle, and the Gospel all together, when they happened to +be on<a id="Page_388"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[388]</span> the same subject. Thus St. Augustine (<i>Serm.</i> x. t. x. p. +112.) preached upon the subject of praise and thanksgiving, out of the +Epistle, the Psalm, and the Gospel together, because they each had +something relating to his subject. (<i>Bingham</i>, book xiv. ch. iv. § 17.) +This may have given rise to the present plan of textual preaching. +During the middle ages we frequently meet with the terms <i>postilla</i>, +<i>postillæ</i>, <i>postillare</i>, and the like (from <i>post illa verba Scripturæ +sacræ</i>), denoting sometimes merely expositions of Scripture, and +sometimes popular discourses founded upon a passage just before read.</p> + +<p>In England, about the year 957, Elfric, afterwards Archbishop of +Canterbury, required the priest in each parish to explain the Gospel of +the day, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer, on Sundays and holydays. +(Canon <span class="smcap lowercase">XXIII.</span> Ælfrica, Wilkins, <i>Concil.</i> tom. i. p. 253.) The same +person afterwards compiled Homilies in the Anglo-Saxon language, which +for some time continued to be read in the English Church. (Cave, +<i>Historia Literaria</i>, tom. ii.)</p> + +<p>During the reign of King John, <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D.</span> 1204, the custom of preaching from +a text appears to have originated with Stephen Langton, Archbishop of +Canterbury, and adopted by some of the divines of the University of +Oxford. The practice, however, met with some opposition by the sages and +seniors of that seat of learning, as related by the author [Sir John +Peshall] of <i>The History of the University of Oxford, from the Death of +William the Conqueror to the Demise of Queen Elizabeth</i>, 4to. 1773, p. +7.:—</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "The ancient practice of explaining considerable portions of + Scripture first showed itself openly in this University. This was + to name a thesis or text from the Scripture, and make divisions + upon it; which method is said to have been adopted by Stephen + Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, who therefore divided the + Scriptures into chapters. The people at their religious + assemblies much approved of this way, in preference to the raw + discourses of young and ignorant preachers. Yet others, rejecting + new customs and innovations, chose to follow their old way, which + was that of the Saints Austin, Jerome, Barnard, &c.; and Robert + Grostest, D.D. (whose word was a law with the university), was + among the opposers. This was <i>postillando</i>, i.e. by expounding + the words of Scripture as they stood in order, by inferences + drawn from them. They took no text, but began in this manner: 'I + intend, by the grace of God, in my following discourse, to treat + of certain matters; and in these matters I intend to draw certain + and true conclusions, for I intend now to speak of the fear of + God. First, concerning fear,' &c. And so far down as the + fifteenth century this kind of preaching continued: for so + Vascanius, doctor and chancellor of the university, relates of + himself: 'Anno 1450, in the octaves of St. John the Evangelist, + on the Lord's Day, I showed in my sermon, preached at Oxford, in + St. Martin's Church at Carfax, that Dr. Augustine preached four + hundred sermons to the clergy and people without any thesis, and + without taking a text at the beginning of his discourse. And so I + (says he) preached the day and year above mentioned, in Oxford, + by taking no theme or text; but I administered to the people + profitable matters, without repeating of any text, but only words + pertinent to matters proposed or declared.'"</p> + + +<p>The ancient practice of explaining considerable portions of Scripture to +the people was revived by our reformers. Before them Colet had employed +many years in publicly expounding all the Epistles of St. Paul. +Archbishop Cranmer expounded Hebrews; as Bishops Hooper, Latimer, and +Jewel, did Jonah, the Lord's Prayer, many of the Epistles, and all the +Epistles and Gospels on Sundays and holydays.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"From the practice of Ambrose, Origen, Chrysostom, and Austin, + among the ancients, and of our reformers, and more modern + divines, we may safely affirm (says Mr. Shepherd in his + <i>Elucidation of the Morning and Evening Prayer</i>) that explaining + and applying portions of Scripture read in the Lessons, is a very + beneficial mode of preaching to ordinary congregations."</p> + + + + <p class="right">J. Y.</p> + + <p class="left">Hoxton.</p> + + + +<h3><span> +THE REV. —— GAY.<br /> +(Vol. iii., pp. 424. 508.) +</span></h3> + + +<p>Through the kindness of a friend, who takes an interest in the pedigree +of the <i>Gay</i> family, I am enabled to offer the following information to +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> T<span class="smcap lowercase">AGART</span>.</p> + +<p>In Paley's Life of Law, prefixed to the <i>Theory of Religion</i>, mention is +made of Gay's dissertation; and the author is there stated to be of +"Sidney College." Inquiry was accordingly made in that quarter, and the +following answer was returned:—</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"I find there have been four persons of the name of Gay educated + at Sidney College; three of them <i>certainly</i>—and in <i>all + probability</i> the fourth—members of the same family. As I shall + have occasion to refer to them subsequently, I will give you + their several entries in the College Register:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "'1. <i>Johannes</i>, fil. Jacobi <i>Gay</i>, clerici, natus apud Meath in + com. Devon. lit. gram. instit. per quinquennium apud Torrington + sub M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Reynolds, deinde per biennium sub M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Rayner, apud + Tiverton in com. prædicto. Adm. est Pens. min. anno æt. 18<span class="topnum">mo</span> + sub tut. M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Nath. Popple, S.T.B., et M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Laur. Jackson, + M.A., 7<span class="topnum">mo</span> Nov. 1717.'</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"'2. <i>Nicholas</i>, fil Jacobi <i>Gay</i>, clerici, natus apud Meath in + com. Devon. lit. gram. instit. per quinquennium apud Torrington + sub M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Reynolds, deinde per triennium sub M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Rayner apud + Tiverton, in com. prædicto. Adm. est Sizator 20<span class="topnum">mo</span> Oct. 1718, + anno æt. 17<span class="topnum">mo</span>, Tut. Laurentio Jackson, A.M.'</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"'3. <i>Jacobus</i>, fil. natû max. + Rev<span class="topnum">di</span> Joannis <i>Gay</i>,<a id="Page_389"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[389]</span> + hujus Coll<span class="topnum">ii</span> quondam Socii, posteà Vicarii de Wilshamstead, + natus apud Wilshamstead, in com. Bedf. lit. gr. instructus apud + Bampton in com. Devon. sub M<span class="topnum">ro</span> Wood. Adm. est Sizator 24<span class="topnum">to</span> + Aug. 1752, annum agens 17<span class="topnum">mo</span>, Tut. J. Lawson et J. Cranwell.'</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"'4. <i>Johannes</i>, fil. natû max. Nicolai <i>Gay</i>, de Newton St. + Cyres in com. Devon. Vicarii, ibidem natus, lit. verò gram. inst. + apud South-Molton per sexennium, et apud Ottery St. Mary per + triennium sub viro rev<span class="topnum">do</span> Joanne Colridge. Adm. est Sizator + 15<span class="topnum">to</span> Junii 1762, annum agens 19<span class="topnum">mo</span>, Tut. Gul. Elliston, + M<span class="topnum">ro</span> C<span class="topnum">i</span> et Joh. Hey.'</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "Gay (1.) was a scholar of Peter Blundell's foundation, and in + 1724 succeeded to a fellowship on the same foundation. This + fellowship, of which there are two at this college, is tenable + for ten years; and all our fellows are compelled to proceed + regularly to the degree of B.D. (seven years after they have + taken that of M.A.). Mr. Gay was M.A. in 1725, and might have + proceeded to B.D. in 1732: but he never took any higher degree + than M.A. He must therefore have vacated his fellowship before + 1732. I find no mention of his name in our College Office-book + later than 7th May, 1730. He was probably presented during that + year to the vicarage of Wilshamstead (which of course would + render void his fellowship), and subsequently entered upon + another kind of fellowship, one of the results of which was Gay + (3.).</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"Of Gay (2.) I find it recorded that he was appointed Chapel + Clerk in 1719; that he was B.A. 1722, and M.A. 1731. As far as + dates are concerned, it might be questioned which of the brothers + (1. or 2.) was the author of the 'Preliminary Dissertation.' In + our University Library I can find only two editions of Law's + translation of Archbishop King's work, viz. the 2nd edit., 1732, + which contains the 'Preliminary Dissertation,' but no mention of + its author; and the 4th edit., Camb. 1758, at the end of the + Preface to which are these words: 'The following Dissertation was + composed chiefly by the <i>late</i> Rev. Mr. Gay.' The author of the + Dissertation must therefore have died in or before 1758. But in + the entry of Gay (4.) 1762 (who was without doubt nephew of 1.), + I do not find 'defuncti' attached to his father's name, which it + has always been usual to add, in the case of the father being + deceased.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"I am convinced in my own mind that the Mr. Gay of Sidney + College, mentioned by Paley in his life of Bishop Law, was Gay + (1.). There would be no difficulty, I should think, in + ascertaining the time of Mr. John Gay's decease. The present + vicar of Wilshamstead could no doubt readily inform you. If it + should be found that Mr. John Gay died before 1758, then there + can be no question but that he is Bishop Law's <i>late</i> Mr. Gay.</p> + + + <p class="i7">"Fellow of Sidney College."</p> + + + +<h3> +<span>VERMIN, PAYMENTS FOR DESTRUCTION OF, AND ANCIENT NAMES.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 208.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>The 8 Eliz. c. 15. and 14 Eliz. c. 11. provide that in every parish the +churchwardens with six other parishioners shall yearly on one of the +holydays in Easter week, and at every other time when needful, tax and +assess every land and tithe-owner within the parish to pay such sums of +money as they shall think meet according to the quantity of such their +lands or tithes, and on nonpayment thereof within fourteen days after +demand to forfeit five shillings, which, together with the sum assessed +shall be levied by distress on the goods and chattels of such land or +tithe-owner; and as well the said sums as penalties shall be delivered +to two honest and substantial persons of the parish eligible by the +churchwardens, to be named "The distribution of the provisions for the +destruction of noisome fowl and vermin." Such is the authority required +by J. B. (Manchester), by which churchwardens in old times paid sums of +money for the destruction of vermin in the several parishes of England. +It will, however, be observed that their authority was not confined to +"vermin," but extended to the "fowls of the air;" and the "old volumes +of churchwardens' accounts," to which your correspondent has access, +amply testify to the fact that those churchwardens were fully alive to +their duty, powers, and authority, under the above-named statutes; +inasmuch as two, at least, of the <i>ancient names</i> belong to the +<i>feathered tribe</i>; <i>glead</i> being identical with <i>kite</i>, and <i>ringteal</i> +or <i>ringtail</i> (<i>subbuteo</i>) with a species of <i>hawk</i>, in some districts +more commonly called the <i>hobby</i>. <i>Greas' head</i> I must leave to some +other <i>head</i> to determine, unless indeed is meant the <i>great-shrike</i> or +<i>butcher-bird</i> belonging to the same order (<i>accipitres</i>) as the <i>kite</i> +and <i>ringtail</i> or <i>hobby</i>. Notwithstanding J. B.'s diffidence, I am much +inclined to adopt his surmise, that the worthy churchwarden really +intended <i>badger</i> when he wrote <i>baggar</i>.</p> + + +<p class="right">F<span class="smcap lowercase">RANCISCUS.</span></p> + + + + +<p>It is hardly so impossible to identify the animals mentioned by your +correspondent J. B. as he supposes. <i>Glead</i> is the A.-S. <i>glida</i> or +<i>kite</i>, though, in our version of Deut. xiv. 13., both <i>glede</i> and +<i>kite</i> are mentioned. <i>Ringteal</i> or <i>ringtail</i> is the female of the +<i>Circus cyaneus</i> or hen-harrier, another species of falcon. <i>Greas' +head</i> and <i>baggar</i> refer to the same animal (the badger), for there is +no wonder that a scribe who writes <i>greas' head</i> for <i>gray's head</i> +should write also <i>baggar</i> for <i>badger</i>. This latter animal has a +variety of names by which he is known in one and the same district, e.g. +<i>gray</i> or <i>graye</i>, <i>bawson</i> or <i>bowson</i>, <i>brock</i> and <i>badger</i>, and in +<i>our</i> churchwardens' accounts these names occur indiscriminately. I hope +some one will be able to point out the origin of paying for the +destruction of these animals out of the parochial funds; I have +frequently searched without success such authorities as I have access +to. The earliest entry of the kind in the books of this parish (which +date from 1520) is in 1583.<a id="Page_390"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[390]</span></p> + +<p>I subjoin a few extracts, which afford a curious instance of the +respective prices put upon the heads of these animals at a time when +such entries occur; as,</p> + + +<table summary="Prices of animals"> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft1">1587 for ij dyverse p'achers</td><td class="tdleft1"> for iij sermones</td><td class="tdleft1"> iij<span class="topnum">s</span>iiij<span class="topnum">d</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">———</td><td class="tdleft">———</td><td class="tdleft">———</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1583 It[=m] for</td><td class="tdleft"> iiij fox heads</td><td class="tdleft">xvj<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1586 — </td><td class="tdleft">ij fox heads</td><td class="tdleft">ij<span class="topnum">s</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1589 — </td><td class="tdleft">catte heades</td><td class="tdleft">iiij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1590 — </td><td class="tdleft">xij bulspyncke (bulfinch) heades.</td><td class="tdleft">vj<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft"> " — </td><td class="tdleft">vj crowe heades</td><td class="tdleft">j<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft"> " — </td><td class="tdleft">an urchen (hedghog) heade</td><td class="tdleft">ij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1596 — </td><td class="tdleft">a grayes head</td><td class="tdleft">vj<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1620 — </td><td class="tdleft">a bawson head</td><td class="tdleft">xij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1621 — </td><td class="tdleft">tow fox cub heads</td><td class="tdleft">xij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft"> " — </td><td class="tdleft">vij hedghoge heads</td><td class="tdleft">xiiij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1626 — </td><td class="tdleft">a wylde catt head</td><td class="tdleft">ij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1736 — </td><td class="tdleft">an otter head</td><td class="tdleft">xij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1741 — </td><td class="tdleft">a fulmart's head</td><td class="tdleft">iiij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft"> " — </td><td class="tdleft">a ffoomard's head</td><td class="tdleft">iiij<span class="topnum">d</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">1744 — </td><td class="tdleft">3 marts heads</td><td class="tdleft">i<span class="topnum">s</span>"</td></tr> +</table> + + +<p>These entries are very numerous in our books with every variety of +spelling, though the prices remain very much the same. I have found no +entries of the kind after 1744, but that may be owing to the accounts +being not entered fully in every case after that period; but I cannot +agree with J. B. in his assertion that these animals are now considered +innocuous; witness the vulgar error with regard to the hedgehog's +sucking the teats of cows, an error which no process of reasoning can +induce the farmers about here to renounce; moreover, I know for a fact +that not more than a dozen years ago the farmers near Wakefield used to +give a halfpenny per head for every unlucky sparrow (fledged or +unfledged) that was brought to them by any bird-nesting youngster.</p> + + <p class="right">J. E<span class="smcap lowercase">ASTWOOD.</span></p> + + <p class="left"> Ecclesfield, Sheffield.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>THE CLAIMS OF LITERATURE.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 337.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>There is the more pressing need, in our day, of an <i>Order of Victoria</i>, +or <i>of Civil Merit</i>—such as you justly and feelingly contend for and +describe in the "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>"—from the great and increasing +numbers of our literary and scientific men, who are acutely sensible of +the undeserved stigma and ban under which they lie, by being often +excluded from the intellectual society so congenial to them, owing to +their not possessing some recognised badge of honour and passport in +life, equivalent to the degrees or distinctions so justly conferred upon +those who have studied at our Universities, or are awarded to men who +have won eminence in the Naval, Military, or Civil Service of the Crown. +An honourable title, proceeding from the Sovereign herself, and bestowed +alike on <i>both sexes</i> (for who would think—certainly not our beloved +Queen—of wounding the delicate female mind by excluding a Somerville, a +Hannah More, a Joanna Baillie, or a Felicia Hemans—the three latter not +needing now our poor applause—from the cheering honours due to their +genius, their talents, and their virtues?) would be a fitting tribute +from a British, a Christian Monarch to that intellectual superiority and +moral worth which are the immortal distinctions of our race. At present +many individuals who have raised themselves by their native force of +mind and acquirements to a position of honour and respectability as +literary and scientific men, are yet looked upon and treated as pariahs +by those who are the bestowers and guardians of national distinctions. +The just pride and self-respect of such men will forbid their courting, +by any unworthy advances, an introduction to society, from which, by +their position, they stand excluded; and it would be a truly royal +exercise of her sovereign rights, for Queen Victoria to extend, beyond +the present line of demarcation, the barriers that now prevent those +from meeting together, who, if they were better acquainted, would learn +to value and esteem each other: while society at large would be an +immense gainer in all its relations—scientific, literary, and +artistic—by the honours and distinctions thus conferred upon a most +worthy, but most contemned and neglected portion of the educated +community.</p> + + <p class="right">A C<span class="smcap lowercase">ONTRIBUTOR TO</span> "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES.</span>"</p> + + + + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Replies to Minor Queries.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Arbor Lowe—Stanton Moor—Ayre Family</i></span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 274.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—In +Rhodes's <i>Peak Scenery</i>, p. 228, it is said:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"Near Middleton, by Youlgrave, we found the celebrated Druidical + monument of Arbor Low, one of the most striking remains of + antiquity in any part of Derbyshire. This circle includes an area + of from forty to fifty yards diameter, formed by a series of + large unhewn stones, not standing upright, but all laid on the + ground, with an inclination towards the centre; round these the + remains of a ditch, circumscribed by a high embankment, may be + traced. Near the south entrance into this circle there is a + mound, or burial-place, in which some fragments of an urn, some + half-burnt bones, and the horns of a stag, were found."</p> + + +<p>In the same work, at pages 236, 237., is an account of the Druidical +remains at Stanton Moor. And at page 224. are the following remarks:—</p> + + + <p class="blockquot">"The Eyres is one of the oldest families in Derbyshire, where + they have continued to reside through the long lapse of more than + seven hundred years, as appears from the following curious + extract from an old pedigree which is preserved at Hassop. 'The + first of the Eyres came in with King William the Conqueror, and + his name was Truelove; but in the battle of Hastings (14 Oct. + 1066) this Truelove, seeing the king unhorsed,<a id="Page_391"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[391]</span> and his + helmet beat so close that he could not breathe, pulled off his + helmet and horsed him again. The king said, Thou shalt hereafter + from Truelove be called <i>Air</i> or <i>Eyre</i>, because thou hast given + me the air I breathe. After the battle the king called for him, + and being found with his thigh cut off, he ordered him to be + taken care of; and being recovered, he gave him lands in the + county of Derby, in reward for his services, and the seat he + lived at he called Hope, because he had hope in the greatest + extremity; and the king gave the leg and thigh cut off in armour + for his crest, and which is still the crest of all the Eyres in + England.'"</p> + + +<p>A descendant of this person is the present Earl of Newburgh, of Hassop +Hall.</p> + +<p>At page 240. is an account of the village of Birchover, and also of the +Rowter Rocks, but no mention is made of the family of the Ayres, or of +the ruins of any house formerly belonging to them.</p> + + + <p class="right">J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LGOR.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Sheffield.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 3.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The paragraph +quoted by S<span class="smcap lowercase">IR</span> F. M<span class="smcap lowercase">ADDEN</span> out of <i>Prayers after the confession of sins, +and the sense of pardon obtained</i>, and well called by him "striking," is +a <i>verbatim</i> copy of a passage in "A Guide for the Penitent," published +at the end of Jeremy Taylor's <i>Golden Grove</i>.</p> + +<p>The short preface, by a nameless hand, which precedes this division of +the <i>Golden Grove</i>, would lead one to suppose that "A Guide for the +Penitent" was a posthumous work of Jeremy Taylor; but this is not +exactly stated. The prayers, however, have the same spirit and grandeur +of piety which characterise those which are the acknowledged +compositions of Bishop Taylor. Monmouth was beheaded eighteen years +after Taylor died. It would be interesting to identify the author of "A +Guide for the Penitent" (should there be any doubt on the subject): +also, to ascertain how far Monmouth <i>quoted</i>, in his "prayers," from +Taylor or any other divine.</p> + + <p class="right"> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARGARET</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTY.</span></p> + + <p class="left"> Ecclesfield.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tov Taam.</i>"</span> +</h4> + + +<p>—Your +correspondent T. T., in reply to my Query respecting this work, says +(Vol. iv., p. 328.) that it "was printed in Venice, 1538, in 4to." This +is impossible: for the elder Buxtorf was born in 1564; and it would be +singular if he had translated R. Elias' work, and printed it at Venice, +twenty-six years before he was born.</p> + +<p>T. T. seems not to have observed that my inquiry related to Buxtorf's +<i>translation</i>, not to the original work of Elias Levita, which, although +now rare, is sufficiently well known to Rabbinical scholars. I must +therefore renew my inquiry (Vol. iv., p. 272.): has Buxtorf's +<i>translation</i> ever been printed, or does it now exist in MS.?</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> H. T<span class="smcap lowercase">ODD.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Trin. Coll. Dub.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iii., p. 493.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Idomeneus +awaiting the attack of Æneas could hardly be compared with Junius +attacking every body in his way. Burke more probably borrowed his boar +from even a greater poet than Homer. See Psalm lxxx. verses 8 to 13 +(Common Prayer Version), and the context before and following, which +contains perhaps the most picturesque and beautiful, as well as +practical, allegory in the compass even of sacred literature. "The wild +boar out of the wood doth root it up, and the wild beasts of the field +devour it."</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. M. G.</p> + + <p class="left"> Hallamshire.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>"<i>Son of the Morning</i>"</span> +<span> (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 330.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I have always +understood Byron's apostrophe "Son of the morning, rise! approach you +here!" to be merely an appeal to one of the <i>Orientals</i> who then ruled +in that region. And this appears to me to be confirmed by the suggestion +which follows that the creed of Mahomet shall pass away as that of Jove +has done. The words "Come—but molest not yon defenceless urn," did not +appear to me to have any reference to the iconoclastic propensities of +the person addressed. But this notice of your correspondent is +ingenious.</p> + + + <p class="right">W. W.</p> + + <p class="left">Cambridge.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>"<i>Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love</i>" </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 72.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—This quotation, the author of which was inquired for,—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"When first I attempted your pity to move," &c.</p> + +</div> + +<p>is from a comedy in three acts called the <i>Panel</i>, altered from +Bickerstaff's comedy <i>'Tis well it's no worse</i>.</p> + + <p class="right"> M. W. B.</p> + + <p class="left"> Burges, Sept. 26. 1851.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Anecdote of Curran</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 173.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—This anecdote, I beg to +observe, is incorrectly represented; and surely presents to the reader +no adequate provocation for the sharp retort on him attributed to the +hostess, on his offering her a glass of wine. But the fact is, that the +circumstance occurred, not at a small country inn, but in the city of +Galway; nor solely in company with a brother advocate, as stated by +M.W.B., but at the general bar-mess. The Connaught circuit was not +Curran's, who had been called there <i>specially</i>, and who, having heard +of the barmaid's ready wit, was determined to test it. Her name, I well +recollect, was Honor Slaven; and her quick repartee to the not very +delicate jokes constantly practised on her by the gentlemen (?) of the +bar, had spread her fame beyond the province. Curran, however, was far +superior to those whom she had foiled in these too often unseemly +combats, and was expected to prove that superiority in this contest. +Among the customary toasts of that time was a succession of three +alliterative ones, of which the last was of flagrant indecency; and this +Curran resolved should fall to Honor's turn to<a id="Page_392"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[392]</span> give in due +rotation. Making her take a seat, with one interposed between them, he +began with the first:—"Honor (directing himself to <i>her</i>) and Honesty," +followed by "Love and Loyalty" from his next neighbour; when, ordering a +bumper, he said, "Come Honor, you know the next toast; be not squeamish, +and let us have it." "No, Sir," replied she, with an arch smile, "but I +will pledge you in your own toast—'Honor and Honesty, or, <i>your absent +friends</i>.'" These last words were uttered with special emphasis, and, in +their provoked application, well sustained the barmaid's reported +character; as, indeed, promptly acknowledged by Curran himself. I have +more than once heard similar retorts from her when thus assailed.</p> + + <p class="right">J. R.</p> + + <p class="left">Cork.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Sibi</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 327.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The erroneous use of the reflective +pronoun, of which M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">ORBES</span> gives an example in a quotation from the +<i>Legenda Aurea</i>, is common in monkish writings. I have an instance +before me, in a charter of Cnut (Kemble's <i>Codex Dipl. Anglo-Sax.</i>, vol. +iv. p. 28.):</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "Eius (<i>i.e.</i> Christi) quippe largiflua bonitate regia dignitate + subtronizatus, ego Knu[d] rex Angligenæ nationis, pro nauciscendo + eius immensitatis misericordiæ dono, concedo <i>sibi</i> de suo + proprio quæ mihi gratuito concessit, villam," &c.</p> + + <p class="right">C. W. G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Cassek Gwenwyn</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 269.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I learn from the dictionaries of +Walters and Owen, that <i>casec gwanwyn</i>, mare of spring, means a +woodpecker. And the more curious part of the name is confirmed by Llwyd, +who calls a woodpecker <i>casec drychin</i>, mare of storms. But here I read +that <i>casec gwenwyn</i>, mare of poison, means a screech-owl. Of this I +have not elsewhere found anything. Therefore I ask for more information; +to save me from the heresy of thinking that that woman was turned into a +woodpecker. In what country and language does <i>mara</i> mean a screech-owl?</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. N.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>The Monumental Inscriptions of the Bourchier Family</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 233.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Your inquirer L. M. M. will most probably meet with the +information he desires in the county of Essex, of which portion of the +kingdom they were Earls, and held immense possessions from the early +part of the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Their principal estates +were in the parishes of Moreton, Tollesbury, Chingford, Little Laver, +Greensted, Ramsden, South Church, Wakering, Maldon, North Farnbridge, +Lachingdon, Mayland, Langford, Great Totham, Bentley, Wickes, Tendring, +Great Holland, Beaumont, Ramsey, Bromfield, Rivenhall, Halsted, +Hanningfield, Chicknall, Ulting, Messing, Hedingham Sibil, Ballington, +Foxearth, Belchamp, Toppesfield, Braintree, Little Easton, Chickney; +Broxted, Roding Aythorp, Little Hallingbury, Walden, and Farnham. In all +these parishes they held manors, with the advowsons of several of the +churches. Many of the manors are called after the family, <i>Bourchier's +Hall</i>; some members of the family were buried in Bilegh Abbey, which +stood in the west part of the town of Maldon. In Halsted they founded a +chantry for a master and eight priests; and adjoining Little Easton +church still remains a fine chapel, known as Bourchier's chapel, where +there are tombs to some of the family in fine preservation. By a visit +to the churches of the parishes above enumerated, much information may +probably be obtained, for there can be little doubt but so powerful a +family were great benefactors to the churches of the several parishes +where their estates and mansions were situated; and most probably many +members of the family were interred in them, and had tombs to their +memory.</p> + + + <p class="right">J. R. J.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Test of the Strength of a Bow</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 56.).</span> +</h4> + + +<p>—T<span class="smcap lowercase">OXOPHILUS</span> will +find all his Queries well answered in Hansard's <i>Book of Archery</i>. The +modern method of proving a bow is very different from that quoted by +P<span class="smcap lowercase">HILOSOPHUS</span> from Ascham, p. 211. A bow is now, I believe, tested by +placing the bow across a piece of stout timber made for the purpose, and +hanging weights to the string till it reaches about twenty-seven or +twenty-eight inches. The weight necessary to do this determines the +power of the bow.</p> + + <p class="right"> H. N. E.</p> + + <p class="left">Bitton Vicarage, Oct. 1851.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 274.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is it worth +while, in reference to S<span class="smcap lowercase">IGMA'S</span> inquiry as to the name of the author of +one of the Bishop of Worcester's works, to tell you a droll mistake on +that point, which I have before my eyes? I have the work in a fine old +binding, which in the gilt <i>lettering</i> on the back, states it to be by +<i>Ed. Wigorn</i>. This reminds me of another similar <i>naïveté</i>. When the +late Bishop Prettyman, then Bishop of Winchester, wrote to propose to +Mr. Murray to publish his life of Pitt, Mr. Murray, following the +signature too literally, addressed his answer to <i>George Winton, Esq.</i></p> + + + <p class="right">C.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Yankee Doodle</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 344.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—During the attacks upon the French +outposts in 1755 in America, Governor Shirley and General Jackson led +the force directed against the enemy lying at Niagara and Frontenac. In +the early part of June, whilst these troops were stationed on the banks +of the Hudson, near Albany, the descendants of the "Pilgrim fathers" +flocked in from the eastern provinces; never was seen such a motley +regiment as took up its position on the left wing of the British army. +The band played music some two centuries of age, officers and privates +had adopted regimentals each man after his own<a id="Page_393"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[393]</span> fashion; one wore +a flowing wig, while his neighbour rejoiced in hair cropped closely to +the head; this one had a coat with wonderful long skirts, his fellow +marched without his upper garment; various as the colours of the rainbow +were the clothes worn by the gallant band. It so happened that there was +a certain Dr. Shuckburgh, wit, musician, and surgeon, and one evening +after mess he produced a tune, which he earnestly commended as a +well-known piece of military music, to the officers of the militia. The +joke succeeded, and Yankee Doodle was hailed by acclamation "their own +march." During the unhappy war between the American colonies and the +mother country, that quaint merry tune animated the soldiers of +Washington; it is now the national air of the United States.</p> + + + <p class="right"> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ACKENZIE</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ALCOTT</span>, M.A.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>General Wolfe</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 323.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Some of the inquiries made +at p. 271. respecting General Wolfe have been subsequently answered, I +find, in p. 323., but no mention appears of his family beyond his father +and mother; a deficiency which I can in some degree supply by ascending +to his great-grandfather, Captain George Wo<i>u</i>lfe (sic), of whom we are +told by Ferrar, in his <i>History of Limerick</i>, there printed by A. +Watson, in 1787,—</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"That on the capitulation of the city of Limerick in October, + 1651, to the Parliamentarian general Ireton, twenty of the most + distinguished of its defenders were excepted from pardon, and + reserved for execution. Amongst them were two brothers, George + and Francis Woulfe: the former, a military officer; the latter, a + friar, who was hanged,—but the captain made his escape. He + fled," says Ferrar (p. 350.), "to the north of England, where he + settled; and his grandson, General Edward Woulfe, was appointed + colonel of the 8th regiment of foot in the year 1745. He + transmitted his virtues with additional lustre to his son + Major-General James Woulfe, whose memory will be for ever dear to + his country, and whose name will be immortalised in history."</p> + + +<p>Captain Woulfe married, and changed his religion; to which his brother +the friar fell a martyr, exhibiting on the scaffold, it is related, far +more intrepidity than many of his fellow sufferers of military rank. +Ireton, however, finally pardoned several of those originally excepted +from the capitulation. Woulfe's family was at that period one of the +most eminent in the county of Clare, where it still retains a +respectable rank; and one of its members was the late Chief Baron, +Stephen Woulfe, a gentleman equally beloved in society as respected on +the bench. Another was a chemist of some eminence in London, at the +close of the past century. They retained the <i>u</i> in the name, which most +others, like the captain's descendants, laid aside; as Bonaparte did +during his triumphant campaign in Italy, in order to un-Italianise and +Frenchify his patronymic B<i>u</i>onaparte. The Chief Justice Wolfe, who was +so barbarously murdered in Dublin at the outbreak of young Emmet's +rebellion in 1803, was of a different branch. Edward, the general's +father, had distinguished himself under Marlborough, as did the son in +1747, at the battle of Lawfelst on the continent. My own family, I may +add, has been brought into close connexion with that of the subsisting +Irish branch of the general's stock by intermarriage.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. R. (Cork.)</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>The Violin</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 101.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—This article reminds me of a distich +said to have been inscribed on the violin of Palestrina, the "Musicæ +Princeps" of the sixteenth century:—</p> + + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Viva fui in sylvis; sum dura occisa securi;</p> + <p> Dum vixi tacui; mortua dulce sona."</p> +</div> + +<p>Thus translated into French:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "La hache m'arracha mourant du ford des bois;</p> + <p>Vivant, j'étais muet; mort, on vante ma voix."</p> +</div> + +<p>Palestrina's violin was made by a great musical instrument maker at +Bologna, who had the same lines graven on his lutes, bass-viols, &c.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. R. (Cork.)</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Earwig</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 274.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The allusion to the word "Earwig" induces +me to repeat a <i>charade</i> on it, not without merit, though the last lines +appear more responsive to the rhyme than to the fact:— +</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"My <i>first</i>, if lost, is a disgrace,</p> + <p class="i3"> Unless misfortunes bear the blame;</p> + <p> My <i>second</i>, though it can't efface,</p> + <p class="i3"> The dreadful loss, yet hides the shame.</p> +</div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> "My <i>whole</i> has life, and breathes the air,</p> + <p class="i3">Delights in softness and repose;</p> + <p> Oft, when unseen, attends the fair,</p> + <p class="i3"> And lives on honey, and the rose."</p> +</div> +</div> + + <p class="right">J. R. (Cork.)</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Prophecies of Nostradamus</i></span> + <span>(Vol. iv., pp. 86. 140. 258. 329.).</span> +</h4> + + +<p>—In +answer to M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">E</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">T.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROIX'S</span> fair inquiry of the source whence I derived +my assertion of the existence of the first edition of Nostradamus (at p. +329.), I have to say, that it was from the very intelligent +bibliographer, A. A. Renouard. I had known him in Paris at his dwelling +in the <i>Rue de Tournon</i> (where my friend, the celebrated Arthur +O'Connor, with his wife, the daughter of Condorcat, had apartments), and +I afterwards had some interviews with him in London at my own house; +when, on observing in his <i>Catalogue d'un Amateur</i> the Elzevir edition +of 1668, we entered into some conversation on the subject; and, in +reference to the original edition, not much valued indeed as very +imperfect, he said, that though now rare, because long, as not worth +preserving, neglected, it still may, and must be, in the Royal Library; +"il doit nécessairement s'y trouver, et non-seulement là, mais +ailleurs." I too certainly thought that the great national +repository<a id="Page_394"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[394]</span> must contain it, but I made no inquiry; and as + M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">E</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">T.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROIX</span> so diligently pursued the search without discovering it, I +conclude, of course, that it is not there; but if he authorises M. +Renouard's son, who resides in the <i>Rue Garancière</i>, or any respectable +bookseller, to provide the little volume for him, I feel confident of +his success. Nor do I apprehend that the price will correspond with its +rarity, like the works of so many other writers; such even as the +prophecies of Merlin, as stated in the article referred to by + M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">E</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">T.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROIX</span>, without recurring to our Shakspeare's early editions, or to those +of Ariosto, Cervantes, Boccacio, Molière, Froissart, Le Roman de la +Rose, Amadis de Gaule, the <i>Romances of Chivalry</i> in various languages, +and the editiones principes of the classics, &c. &c., a comparison of +the value of which two centuries or less ago, as we find them in old +catalogues, with their present cost, so strikes the reader. Numerous +books, on the other hand, have experienced a proportionally equal +depreciation:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Sic volvenda ætas commutat tempora rerum;</p> + <p> Quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore," &c.</p> + + <p class="author"><i>Lucretius</i>, lib. v. 1276.</p> +</div> + + + <p class="right"> J. R. (Cork.)</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Expressions in Milton</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iii., p. 241.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—If this Query has already +met with an answer, my apology for troubling you with this must be, that +it has escaped my notice.</p> + +<p>R. is undoubtedly right in supposing that a "toothed sleck stone" means +a toothed or jagged whetstone; the word <i>sleck</i> preserving a greater +resemblance to its Danish cousin <i>slecht</i> than the modern <i>slick</i>.</p> + +<p>For "bullish," Milton shall be his own interpreter. "I affirm it to be a +<i>bull, taking away the essence of that which it calls itself</i>."</p> + +<p>The phrase "bid you the base" is apparently taken from the old game of +Prisoner's Base, for which, if necessary, reference may be made to the +<i>Boy's Own Book</i>. I am inclined to think that the very phrase was, in my +school days, used in the game; but if wrong in any remembrance, I may +still be right in my conjecture, and then the phrase would be equivalent +to, "I challenge you to follow me," as one boy follows another in +Prisoner's Base; and we should then have a curious illustration of the +antiquity of the game.</p> + + + <p class="right"> P<span class="smcap lowercase">HILIP</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">EDGELAND.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>The Termination "-ship"</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 153.).</span> +</h4> + + +<p>—A. W. H. is referred to +Dr. Latham's <i>English Language</i>, § 294. p. 372., ed. 2. The Dutch +termination <i>-schap</i>, e.g. <i>vriendschap</i>, may be added.</p> + + <p class="right"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">HARLES</span> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HIRIOLD.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>"<i>A little Bird told me</i>" </span> +<span>(Vol. iv. p. 232.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The following are merely +a few rough notes made from time to time on this saying. I have tried to +put them into some kind of order but they are too trivial, and too +easily verified by reference, to deserve more space in print than they +have hitherto had in writing:—</p> + +<p>1. Last lines of <i>King Henry IV.</i> Part II., and Steevens's note.</p> + +<p>2. The "pious lie" of Mahomet's pigeon. See Gibbon, <i>Decline and Fall</i>, +chap. 1. Marg. lemma—"His character," the note beginning—"The +Christians, rashly enough," &c. And—"Life of Mahomet" [<i>Library of +Useful Knowledge</i>] note on p. 19. For line from—<i>Dunciad</i>—[a slovenly +reference] see book iv. 358.</p> + +<p>3. From the Greek? See Potter's <i>Gr. Antiquities</i>, book ii. chap. +xv.—or Robinson's <i>Antiq. Greece</i>, book iii. chap. xv. <i>ad init.</i> as +both refer to <i>Aristoph. Aves.</i> [600. 601. Bekker.]</p> + +<p>4. <i>Ecclesiastes</i>, chap. x. 20.</p> + +<p>To these I may add the origin assigned to the saying by Mr. Bellenden +Ker, in his <i>Essay on the Archæology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery +Rhymes</i>, 1837, vol. i. p. 63., viz.:—</p> + + +<p class="i5"> <span class="smaller">"A LITTLE BIRD.</span></p> + +<p class="blockquot">"A good humoured way of replying to, <i>who told you this story?</i> + And imparting you don't mean to inform him, that you have a good + reason for not letting him know. <i>Er lij t'el baerd</i>; q. e. <i>by + so doing</i> [telling] <i>I should betray</i> [do wrong to] <i>another</i>," + &c.</p> + + <p class="right"> C. F<span class="smcap lowercase">ORBES.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Mark of Reference in Bible</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 57.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—May not this originate +in the Hebrew Keri, used for the same purpose, and of nearly the same +shape?</p> + + + <p class="right"> F. J.</p> + + <p class="left"> Bradford.</p> + + +<p>For the purpose of expounding the law in the Jewish assemblies, the +Pentateuch was divided into fifty-four sections (on account of the +intercalary year), that the whole might be read over once annually. The +sections were distinguished, as they still continue to be, in the Hebrew +copies, by the letter <i>Pe</i>, or <i>Phe</i>, the initial of <i>Pharasha</i>, which +signifies separation or division. This probably was the original reason +for adopting the inverted black P [¶] which is retained in our +translation of the Bible to mark paragraphs or transitions. The division +of the Old and New Testament into chapters is a modern practice, and the +subdivision of chapters into verses still more modern. See Shepherd on +the <i>Morning and Evening Prayer</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. Y.</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>King Charles II. and Written Sermons</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 9.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The document +inserted at this place is quoted with some variations, and the omission +of the part referring to periwigs by the late Mr. Grimshawe, in his +<i>Life of the Rev. Leigh Richmond</i>, p. 157. 4th edit. There is added the +date, "Oct. 8, 1674;" and the following foot-note is appended, "See +<i>Statute Book of the University of Cambridge</i>,<a id="Page_395"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[395]</span> p. 301." Car. II., +Rex. Mr. Grimshawe's version is printed without any break or asterisks, +as if entire.</p> + + <p class="right"> W. S. T.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Walpole and Junius</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 161.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—C<span class="smcap lowercase">LERICUS</span> quotes some +paragraphs from the letters of Horace Walpole, dated 1764, wherein +Walpole threatens vengeance for the dismissal of Conway; + and C<span class="smcap lowercase">LERICUS</span> +concludes by asking, "If these extracts do not <i>prove</i> Horace Walpole to +be Junius, &c., &c., <i>what can</i> he allude to?" Why, to the pamphlet +which he was then writing, and which he immediately published, entitled +<i>A Counter Address to the Public, on the late Dismission of a General +Officer</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. J.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Fermilodum</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 345).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I suspect H. E. has not read his seal +quite correctly. I surmise it is <i>Fermelioduni</i>. However, no doubt +Dunferline is meant; and the literal translation of the legend is, "Seal +of the city of Dunferline." This place was a royal burgh, with a palace; +and the word <i>civitas</i> was not then confined to towns which were +Bishop's sees.</p> + + + <p class="right">W. S. W.</p> + + <p class="left"> Middle Temple.</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Finger Stocks</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 315.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—In Littlecote Hall, the fine old +seat of the Pophams, in Wiltshire, one of these machines was preserved, +and I doubt not but that it is still to be seen there.</p> + +<p>It is of oak, and stands upon a pillar and base like those of a small +round table. I always understood that it was employed as an instrument +of domestic punishment.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. J. B<span class="smcap lowercase">ERNHARD</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">MITH.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Temple.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Lord Hungerford</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 345.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—The story of the device of a +toad having been introduced into the armorial bearings of the +Hungerfords, in memory of the degradation of some member of the family, +is, in every way, nonsensical. "Argent, three toads sable" is certainly +one of their old quarterings; as may be seen upon one of the monuments +in the chapel at Farleigh Castle near Bath. But it was borne by the +Hungerfords for a very different reason. Robert, the second Lord, who +died <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D.</span> 1459, had married the wealthy heiress of the Cornish family of +<i>Botreaux</i>: and this has one of the shields used by <i>her</i> family, being +in fact nothing more than an allusion, not uncommon in heraldry, to the +name. This was spelled variously, <i>Botreaux</i> or <i>Boterelles</i>: and the +device was probably assumed from the similarity of the name of the old +French word <i>Botterol</i>, a toad: (see Cotgrave) or the old Latin word +<i>Botterella</i>. The marriage with the Botreaux heiress and the assumption +of her arms, having taken place <i>many years before</i> any member of the +Hungerford family was attainted or executed (as some of them afterwards +were), Defoe's story falls to the ground.</p> + +<p>I take this opportunity of adding, that, having been for many years a +collector of materials for a more methodical and accurate account of the +Hungerford family and their property, than has hitherto appeared, and +having completed the arrangement of what I have been able to collect, if +any of your readers or correspondents should have it in his power to +refer me to any sources of illustration, or to inform me of the +existence of anything that might throw light on the subject—such as old +deeds, seals, wills, entries in parish registers, family portraits, or +the like—they would be rendering a kind service.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. E. J<span class="smcap lowercase">ACKSON.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Rectory, Leigh-Delamere, Chippenham.</p> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Miscellaneous.</span> +</h2> + +<h3> +<span>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</span> +</h3> + +<p>The <i>Salisbury Volume</i> of the Archæological Institute, which has just +been issued, contains some extremely interesting communications, among +which we must particularise for its agreeable character Mr. Hunter's +Reminiscences of the <i>Topographical Gatherings at Stourhead</i>,—for its +learning and originality, Mr. Guest's Memoir on the <i>Early English +Settlements in South Britain</i>.<a id="tain7"></a><a title="Go to footnote 7." href="#fn7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable +notice of the <i>Custumal of Bleadon</i>,—Mr. Newton, <i>Notes on the +Sculptures at Wilton</i>,—Mr. Hawkins on <i>The Mints of Wiltshire</i>; and not +the least interesting portion of the volume consists of notices +respecting <i>Silbury and Avebury</i>, by the late excellent and lamented +Dean of Hereford. The volume contains many other instructive memoirs, +and is well calculated to advance archæological knowledge.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn7"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#tain7" class="label">[7]</a> Mr. + Guest's suggestion (p. 30.), that <i>Grimsditch</i> means a +boundary, deserves the attention of our correspondents.</p> + +<p>The new volume of Bohn's <i>Standard Library</i> is the fourth of Mrs. +Foster's excellent translations of <i>Vasari's Lives of the most Eminent +Painters, Sculptors, and Architects</i>. It contains no fewer than nineteen +lives, including, among many whose names are less familiar to English +amateurs, those of Sebastian del Piombo, and that admirable scholar of +Raphael, whom Shakespeare has helped to immortalise by designating him +that "rare Italian master Giulio Romano." All lovers of art are under +great obligations to the publisher for placing this translation within +their reach.—Mr. Cyrus Redding's <i>History and Description of Modern +Wines</i> is the new volume of Bohn's <i>Illustrated Library</i>; and, as the +author describes "the art of taking wine" as "the science of exciting +agreeable conversation and eliciting brilliant thoughts," and discourses +learnedly upon the subject, his book may well find friends.—<i>Lucretius +on the Nature of Things, literally translated into English Prose</i>, by +the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., <i>to which is added the Poetical Version</i>, +by J. M. Good, is another volume of Bohn's <i>Classical Library</i>; and the +scholarship of Mr. Watson affords a sufficient justification for his +prefatory remark, "that he who wishes to know what is in Lucretius +without perusing the original, will learn it from this volume with +greater certainty<a id="Page_396"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[396]</span> than from any other previously offered to the +English reader." Every page bears evidence of the pains and ability +displayed by Mr. Watson in his endeavour to clothe Lucretius in an +English garb.</p> + +<p>There is no Query so frequently put and so rarely answered to the +satisfaction of the Querist as <i>What is the fare?</i> Walker's <i>Cab Fare +and Guide Map of London</i>, in which all the leading streets and +thoroughfares are marked off in half-miles, being so small that it may +be carried in a pocket-book, yet so distinct as to admit of no doubt, +will however put an end to the very unpleasant state of uncertainty and +dispute in which all who ride in cabs are apt to find themselves +involved.</p> + +<p>C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATALOGUES</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">ECEIVED.</span>—W. Waller & Son's (188. Fleet Street) Catalogue of +Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books; W. Heath's (497. New Oxford +Street) Catalogue No. 6. for 1851 of Valuable Second-hand Books; G. +Honnor's (304. 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Pages 65 - 80 PG # 11636 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 6 December 8, 1849. Pages 81 - 95 PG # 13550 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 7 December 15, 1849. Pages 97 - 112 PG # 11651 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 8 December 22, 1849. Pages 113 - 128 PG # 11652 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 9 December 29, 1849. Pages 130 - 144 PG # 13521 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 10 January 5, 1850. Pages 145 - 160 PG # </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 11 January 12, 1850. Pages 161 - 176 PG # 11653 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 12 January 19, 1850. Pages 177 - 192 PG # 11575 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 13 January 26, 1850. Pages 193 - 208 PG # 11707 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 14 February 2, 1850. Pages 209 - 224 PG # 13558 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 15 February 9, 1850. Pages 225 - 238 PG # 11929 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 16 February 16, 1850. Pages 241 - 256 PG # 16193 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 17 February 23, 1850. Pages 257 - 271 PG # 12018 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 18 March 2, 1850. Pages 273 - 288 PG # 13544 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 19 March 9, 1850. Pages 289 - 309 PG # 13638 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 20 March 16, 1850. Pages 313 - 328 PG # 16409 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 21 March 23, 1850. Pages 329 - 343 PG # 11958 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 22 March 30, 1850. Pages 345 - 359 PG # 12198 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 23 April 6, 1850. Pages 361 - 376 PG # 12505 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 24 April 13, 1850. Pages 377 - 392 PG # 13925 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 25 April 20, 1850. Pages 393 - 408 PG # 13747 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 26 April 27, 1850. Pages 409 - 423 PG # 13822 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 27 May 4, 1850. Pages 425 - 447 PG # 13712 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 28 May 11, 1850. Pages 449 - 463 PG # 13684 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 29 May 18, 1850. Pages 465 - 479 PG # 15197 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 30 May 25, 1850. Pages 481 - 495 PG # 13713 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. II. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 31 June 1, 1850. Pages 1- 15 PG # 12589 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 32 June 8, 1850. Pages 17- 32 PG # 15996 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 33 June 15, 1850. Pages 33- 48 PG # 26121 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 34 June 22, 1850. Pages 49- 64 PG # 22127 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 35 June 29, 1850. Pages 65- 79 PG # 22126 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 36 July 6, 1850. Pages 81- 96 PG # 13361 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 37 July 13, 1850. Pages 97-112 PG # 13729 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 38 July 20, 1850. Pages 113-128 PG # 13362 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 39 July 27, 1850. Pages 129-143 PG # 13736 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 40 August 3, 1850. Pages 145-159 PG # 13389 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 41 August 10, 1850. Pages 161-176 PG # 13393 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 42 August 17, 1850. Pages 177-191 PG # 13411 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 43 August 24, 1850. Pages 193-207 PG # 13406 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 44 August 31, 1850. Pages 209-223 PG # 13426 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 45 September 7, 1850. Pages 225-240 PG # 13427 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 46 September 14, 1850. Pages 241-256 PG # 13462 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 47 September 21, 1850. Pages 257-272 PG # 13936 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 48 September 28, 1850. Pages 273-288 PG # 13463 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 49 October 5, 1850. Pages 289-304 PG # 13480 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 50 October 12, 1850. Pages 305-320 PG # 13551 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 51 October 19, 1850. Pages 321-351 PG # 15232 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 52 October 26, 1850. Pages 353-367 PG # 22624 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 53 November 2, 1850. Pages 369-383 PG # 13540 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 54 November 9, 1850. Pages 385-399 PG # 22138 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 55 November 16, 1850. Pages 401-415 PG # 15216 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 56 November 23, 1850. Pages 417-431 PG # 15354 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 57 November 30, 1850. Pages 433-454 PG # 15405 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 58 December 7, 1850. Pages 457-470 PG # 21503 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 59 December 14, 1850. Pages 473-486 PG # 15427 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 60 December 21, 1850. Pages 489-502 PG # 24803 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 61 December 28, 1850. Pages 505-524 PG # 16404 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. III. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 62 January 4, 1851. Pages 1- 15 PG # 15638 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 63 January 11, 1851. Pages 17- 31 PG # 15639 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 64 January 18, 1851. Pages 33- 47 PG # 15640 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 65 January 25, 1851. Pages 49- 78 PG # 15641 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 66 February 1, 1851. Pages 81- 95 PG # 22339 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 67 February 8, 1851. Pages 97-111 PG # 22625 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 68 February 15, 1851. Pages 113-127 PG # 22639 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 69 February 22, 1851. Pages 129-159 PG # 23027 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 70 March 1, 1851. Pages 161-174 PG # 23204 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 71 March 8, 1851. Pages 177-200 PG # 23205 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 72 March 15, 1851. Pages 201-215 PG # 23212 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 73 March 22, 1851. Pages 217-231 PG # 23225 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 74 March 29, 1851. Pages 233-255 PG # 23282 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 75 April 5, 1851. Pages 257-271 PG # 23402 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 76 April 12, 1851. Pages 273-294 PG # 26896 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 77 April 19, 1851. Pages 297-311 PG # 26897 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 78 April 26, 1851. Pages 313-342 PG # 26898 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 79 May 3, 1851. Pages 345-359 PG # 26899 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 80 May 10, 1851. Pages 361-382 PG # 32495 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 81 May 17, 1851. Pages 385-399 PG # 29318 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 82 May 24, 1851. Pages 401-415 PG # 28311 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 83 May 31, 1851. Pages 417-440 PG # 36835 </p> +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 84 June 7, 1851. Pages 441-472 PG # 37379 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 85 June 14, 1851. Pages 473-488 PG # 37403 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 86 June 21, 1851. Pages 489-511 PG # 37496 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 87 June 28, 1851. Pages 513-528 PG # 37516 </p> +</div> + + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. IV. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 88 July 5, 1851. Pages 1- 15 PG # 37548 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 89 July 12, 1851. Pages 17- 31 PG # 37568 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 90 July 19, 1851. Pages 33- 47 PG # 37593 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 91 July 26, 1851. Pages 49- 79 PG # 37778 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 92 August 2, 1851. Pages 81- 94 PG # 38324 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 93 August 9, 1851. Pages 97-112 PG # 38337 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 94 August 16, 1851. Pages 113-127 PG # 38350 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 95 August 23, 1851. Pages 129-144 PG # 38386 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 96 August 30, 1851. Pages 145-167 PG # 38405 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 97 September 6, 1851. Pages 169-183 PG # 38433 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 98 September 13, 1851. Pages 185-200 PG # 38491 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 99 September 20, 1851. Pages 201-216 PG # 38574 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 100 September 27, 1851. Pages 217-246 PG # 38656 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 101 October 4, 1851. Pages 249-264 PG # 38701 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 102 October 11, 1851. Pages 265-287 PG # 38773 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 103 October 18, 1851. Pages 289-303 PG # 38864 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 104 October 25, 1851. Pages 305-333 PG # 38926 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 105 November 1, 1851. Pages 337-359 PG # 39076 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 106 November 8, 1851. Pages 361-374 PG # 39091 </p> + +</div> + + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] PG # 13536 </p> +<p class="noindent"> INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 PG # 13571 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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