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diff --git a/40910-8.txt b/40910-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f4def64..0000000 --- a/40910-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3629 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, -March 20, 1852, by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, March 20, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Bell - -Release Date: October 1, 2012 [EBook #40910] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, MARCH 20, 1852 *** - - - - -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.) - - - - - -[Transcriber's Note: Original spelling variations have not been -standardized. Characters with macrons are shown in brackets with an -equal sign, e.g. [=u] for a letter u with a macron on top. Some scribal -abbreviations may be tentatively expanded: e.g. read "que" for q; and -"verbum" for v'b[=u]. Underscores have been used to indicate italic -fonts. A list of numbers and pages in Notes and Queries has been added -at the end.] - - - - -NOTES AND QUERIES: - -A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION - -FOR - -LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. - -"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. - -VOL. V.--No. 125. SATURDAY, MARCH 20. 1852. - -Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ - - - - -CONTENTS. - - Page - - - NOTES:-- - - The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 265 - - John Tradescant the Younger, an Englishman 266 - - Cowley and his Monument, by Henry Campkin 267 - - Count Königsmark and the Duchess of Somerset, - by D. Jardine 269 - - Folk Lore, by C. D. Lamont 270 - - London Street Characters, by Alfred Gatty 270 - - Minor Notes:--Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels--Joe - Miller--Hints to Book-buyers--Birmingham - Antiquities--Buchanan and Voltaire--Indignities on the - Bodies of Suicides 271 - - QUERIES:-- - - "God's Love," &c., and other Poems 272 - - Praying to the Devil 273 - - Minor Queries:--John Ap Rice's Register--Prideaux's - Doctrine of Conscience--John Adair, Geographer - for Scotland (alive in 1715)--Clergymen first - styled Reverend--Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes--Meaning - of the word "Elvan"--Wiclif--Showing the - White Feather--Gray and Locke--Horses and Sheep, - Remains of in Churches--Archæologia Cambrensis, - Vol. I., Reprint--Presbyterian Oath--"A Pinch of - Snuff from Dean Swift's Box"--Cromwell's Skull--Guy, - Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for - the Borough for Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724--Episcopal - Mitre--John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely--Palace of - Lucifer--Ecclesiastical Geography--History of - Commerce--Merchant Adventurers to Spain--King's - College Chapel Windows--The King's Standard--James - Wilson, M.D. 273 - - MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Prestwich's Respublica--Instance - of Longevity--Solidus Gallicus, &c.--Sept--Essay - towards Catholic Communion--Bigot 276 - - REPLIES:-- - - Age of Trees; Tilford Oak 277 - - St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers; St. Paul - and Plato 278 - - Sir Alexander Cumming 278 - - General Wolfe 279 - - Replies to Minor Queries:--Song of "Miss Bailey"--Fern - Storms--The Last of the Paleologi--"Whipping - Graves"--Rev. John Paget--Old Scots March, &c.--Sir - R. Howard's "Conquest of China"--Mary Howe--Dutch - Chronicle of the World--Thistle of Scotland--Bull - the Barrel--Bishop Kidder's Autobiography--Which - are the Shadows?--Welsh Names "Blaen"--The Verb "to - commit"--Beócera-gent--New Zealand Legend--Twenty-seven - Children--Reeve and Muggleton--Black Book of - Paisley--Pasquinades--Elegy on Coleman--Liber - Conformitatum, &c.--Grimesdyke; Grimes Graves--Junius - and the Quarterly Review again--Ink--Maps of - Africa--Learned Men of the Name of Bacon--Paringthe - Nails--Mottoes on Dials--Mispronounced Names of - Places--"There's ne'er a villain," &c. 280 - - MISCELLANEOUS:-- - - Notes on Books, &c. 285 - - Books and Odd Volumes wanted 286 - - Notices to Correspondents 286 - - Advertisements 287 - - - - -Notes. - - -THE CAXTON COFFER. - -[_Proposals of Mr. Randal Minshull, c. 1742._[1]] - - [Footnote 1: This document, though before printed, is as rare as a - manuscript. Dibdin had not seen it when he wrote his memoir of - Caxton, nor could he prove its existence but by a reference to the - _Bibliotheca Westiana_. It is now reprinted from a copy in the - Grenville collection in the British Museum. The specimen is a - small folio, in pica type, and on thin laid paper. As my - information on Mr. Randal Minshull is at present very scanty, I - reserve it with the hope of more fortunate gleanings.--BOLTON - CORNEY.] - - "Proposals for printing an exact and ample account of all the - books printed by William Caxton, who was the first printer in - England: wherein will be set forth some select chapters from each - book, to shew the nature and diction thereof, with all his proems, - prologues, epilogues, and tables, in his own words. There will be - also interspersed several ancient and curious matters relating to - the history of England, and other curious subjects: with a - vocabulary of the old English words, and an explanation of them, - which will greatly illustrate the ancient English language, as it - was written in the reign of Edward III. and continued down to - Henry VII. kings of England, as contained in the writings of - Thomas Woodstock duke of Glocester, Anthony Woodville earl Rivers, - John Gower, Geoffry Chaucer, John Lydgate, and other famous - persons. - - "By R. Minshull, library-keeper to the right honourable the earl of - Oxford deceas'd. - - "'Ut sylvæ foliis pronos mutantur in annos, - Prima cadunt, ita verborum vetus interit ætas, - Et juvenum ritu, florent modo nata vigentq; - Debemur morti nos, nostraq;!'--HOR. - - "It is proposed by the editor hereof, as follows: viz. - - "I. This work will contain about 200 sheets of paper, printed in - the same form of letter and paper, as this specimen. - - "II. There shall be no more printed than 500 books, suitable to - the proposed number of subscribers. - - "III. That for the more expeditious carrying on, and effecting - thereof, every subscriber shall pay to the editor two guineas; - viz. one guinea at the time of subscribing, and the other guinea - upon the delivery of a perfect book in sheets. - - "N.B. Proposals will be delivered, subscriptions taken, and proper - receipts given for the money, by the editor R. Minshull, at Mrs. - Reffers, in Maddox-street, near St. George's church, - Hanover-square. - - "Received this [...] day of [...] 174[...] from [...] one guinea, - being the first payment [for] The account of the books printed by - William Caxton, according to the above proposals. - - "An exact and ample account of all the books printed by William - Caxton, &c. - - "The first work of William Caxton, appears to be (as he calls it) - The recuyell of the historyes of Troye, divided into three parts, - the whole containing 778 pages (as numbred by my self, they not - being figured in the printing) in a short folio, the paper being - very thick and strong: there are no initial capital letters in - this book, which shews that he had not formed any at that time. In - his preface to this book he declares that he was born in the Weeld - of Kent, where he first learned the rudiments of the English - tongue; a place wherein he doubts not, is spoke as broad and rude - English, as in any part of England: that he never was in France, - but that he continued the space of thirty years, for the most - part, in Brabant, Flanders, Holland and Zealand. - - "He also says, that this history was first translated into French, - from several Latin authors, by a certain worshipful man, named the - right venerable and worthy Raoul le Feure, priest and chaplain to - Philip duke of Burgundy, in 1464; being the fourth year of the - reign of king Edward IV. In which year he was employed by that - king in conjunction with Richard Whetchill, esq.; to treat and - conclude certain actions of commerce between the said king and - Philip duke of Burgundy: their Commission, as set forth in Rymer's - _Foedera_, is as follows; [See Rymer.] - - "It was from the said French translation that Mr. Caxton formed - this history, in the prologue of which he stiles himself mercer of - the city of London; and it was by the command of his royal - patroness, Margaret, sister to king Edward IV. after her marriage - with Charles, duke of Burgundy, that he undertook it and finish'd - it. A description of this noble marriage is largely set forth by - John Stow and Hollingshead, in their chronicles; the latter gives - the following character and description of this royal princess, - viz. 'She was a lady of excellent beauty,'" &c. [See Holinshed.] - - -JOHN TRADESCANT THE YOUNGER, AN ENGLISHMAN. - -Great is the interest attached to the name of Tradescant, and we believe -few articles in our journal have been perused with greater satisfaction -than those by MR. SINGER and other valued correspondents, which appeared -in our third volume (pp. 119. 286. 353. 391. 393.), illustrative of -their history. In the same volume (p. 469.) a correspondent, C. C. R., -after quoting the following mutilated MS. note, written in pencil in a -copy of Dr. Ducarel's Tract on the subject, preserved among the books in -the Ashmolean Museum-- - - "Consult (with certainty of finding information concerning the - Tradescants) the Registers of--apham, Kent,"-- - -suggested that Meopham was the parish referred to, and that search -should be made there by some correspondent resident in that -neighbourhood. The hint was not, however, taken, and the matter dropped -for a time. - -At the close of last year we received a communication from a learned and -much valued friend, now, alas! no more[2], telling us that Meopham _was_ -the place referred to, and suggesting that we should get extracts from -the register for the information of our readers. Upon this hint we -acted; but our endeavours, for reasons to which we need not more -particularly refer, failed, and it was not until our attention was -recalled to the subject by the endeavour that is making, and we trust -successfully making, to procure subscriptions for restoring the -Tradescant Monument at Lambeth, that we applied to another friend -resident in the neighbourhood of Meopham for his assistance in the -business. That assistance was (as it has ever been) rendered most -cheerfully and most effectually; and we are now enabled to lay before -our readers and the Committee of the Tradescant Monument Restoration -Fund, the following evidence that John Tradescant the younger was a Man -of Kent. It is extracted from the baptismal register of Meopham. - - [Footnote 2: That excellent man and ripe scholar, the Rev. - Lancelot Sharpe, who was one of the first, on the appearance of - "N. & Q.," to convey to us his good opinion of our paper, and to - prove it by giving us his communications. For particulars of his - life and literary labours, the reader is referred to the - _Gentleman's Magazine_ for January, 1852, p. 99.] - - "1608 August the iiij daye John the sonne of John Tradescant was - baptised eodem die--" - -Although we are not without hopes of receiving further information from -the same source, we could not refrain from bringing this new fact in the -history of the Tradescants at once before our readers. - - -COWLEY AND HIS MONUMENT. - -If Pope in his time could ask, "Who now reads Cowley?" and if Cowper, at -a later period, could lament that his "splendid wit" should have been -"entangled in the cobwebs of the schools," it may be in our day, when -most good people who cultivate poetry, either as readers or writers, -swear by Wordsworth or Tennyson, that the bare mention of Cowley's name, -in some circles, would be resented as a kind of impertinence. But Pope's -answer to his own question is as apposite now as when the question was -first put. If Cowley-- - - "----pleases yet, - His _moral_ pleases, not his pointed wit; - Forgot his epic, nay pindaric art, - But still I love the language of his _heart_." - -The _Davideis_ and the _Herbs and Plants_ find few readers beyond those -who resort to them for special purposes; but poets of more recent times, -even whilst contemning his "conceits," have (as your volumes have -frequently shown) often borrowed his ideas without improving upon the -phraseology in which they have been clothed. Witness, for instance, -Cowper's transmutation of his noble line: - - "God the first garden made--the first city, Cain," - -into his own smooth generality of-- - - "God made the country, and man made the town." - -And Cowley's love of Nature, and his beautiful lyrics in praise of a -country life, will always keep his name before us. However, to desist -from this "nothing-if-not-critical" strain, let me beg of you to lay the -accompanying transcript [_see the next page_] of a manuscript in my -possession before your readers--that is, if you deem it of sufficient -interest. - -The verses themselves, evidently of a date not long subsequent to the -erection of the Cowley monument in Westminster Abbey, are written on the -back of a damaged copy of Faithorne's engraved portrait of him. They -comprise a not very correct transcript of the Latin inscription on the -monument, a translation and paraphrase of the same, and what is styled a -"burlesque," in which one of the chief features of the monument itself -is ludicrously associated with the profession of Sir Charles -Scarborough, Cowley's friend. The "Per Carolum Scarborough, Militem, -Med. Doctorem," implies, it may be presumed, that Sir Charles was the -author of the Latin epitaph, of which it has always been understood, and -indeed it is so stated in the later biographies of the poet, that -Cowley's close friend and literary executor Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, -was the author. Scarborough published an elegy to Cowley's memory, of -which I am informed there is no copy in the British Museum library; and -being unable to refer to it in any other collection, I have no means of -ascertaining whether this elegy discloses the fact of the authorship of -the epitaph. This is not an unimportant point, since it will be -recollected that Dr. Johnson expends a considerable amount of -indignation upon the epitaph, not on account of its Latinity, but on -account of what he considers as the false sentiments of which it is made -the vehicle. - -The value of the manuscript depends of course upon the possibility of -the chief item of its contents being unpublished. Whatever respect the -writer may have entertained towards Cowley, he certainly seems inclined -to be merry at the expense of Sir Charles Scarborough. The unwieldy urn -which surmounts the monument, is variously designated as a "whimwham urn -as broad as sawcer," and as "the surgeon's gally-pot." These are not -very complimentary epithets, it is true; but if they ever met the -courtly physician's eye he could afford to laugh with the laughers. -Cowley's lack of success in his attempt to obtain the mastership of the -Savoy is not forgotten; but the satirist speaks of the dead poet very -goodhumouredly, and may be said to concur in opinion with those of his -admirers who predicted for his writings an enduring immortality. But -"sugar-candy Cowley," as the burlesquer terms him, is now obliged to be -content with a few pages in the _Selections from British Poets_, where -indeed he is entitled to a very eminent position; whilst "dull Chaucer," -as he is irreverently called, with whom the writer quietly prays that -Cowley may quietly "sleep in beggar's limbo," seems to live almost -bodily amongst us; and his vivid pictures and naïve descriptions are so -acceptable, that it may safely be predicted that an edition of the -_Canterbury Tales_ will always be a more profitable venture for a -publisher than a speculation in a new edition of the _Davideis_. - -But, after all, Cowley's acceptance amongst those who immediately -survived him, is perhaps due quite as much to the recollection of his -amiable personal qualities, as to his poetic abilities; and when Charles -II., "who never _said_ a foolish thing," declared, on being informed of -the poet's death, that "Mr. Cowley had not left a better _man_ behind -him in England," the merry monarch may have intended exactly what he -said, and no more. With these rambling remarks I leave the matter, only -trusting, if I shall be found to have called attention to what may -possibly be an old acquaintance of some of your learned readers, that my -desire to contribute an occasional mite to the pages of a periodical, -from which I gather so much information, will be accepted as an apology. - -The words in brackets are supplied, conjecturally, in consequence of the -manuscript being faulty in those places. - - HENRY CAMPKIN. - - per Carolum Scarborough Militem Med. Doctorem. - - ABRAHAMUS COWLEIUS. - - Anglorum Pindarus, Flaccus Maro, - deliciæ, decus, desiderium, ævi sui - hic juxta situs est. - - Aurea dum volitant late tua scripta per orbem, - Et fama æternum vivis, divine Poeta, - Hic placida jaceas requies custodiat urnam - Cana fides, vigilentq; perennii lampade Musæ. - Sit sacer iste locus, nec quis temerarius ausit - Sacrilegi turbare manu venerabili bustum. - Intacti maneant, maneant per secula dulcis - Cowleii cineres, serventq; immobile saxum. - Sic vovet, votumq; suum apud posteros sacratum esse voluit - Qui viro incomparabili posuit sepulchrale marmor. - - GEORGIUS DUX BUCKINGHAMIÆ - - Excessit e vita anno ætatis 49 magnifica pompa - elatus ex ædibus Buckinghamiis, viris illustribus - omnium ordinum; exequias celebrantibus sepultus est - die tertio Augusti anno 1667. - - Englished-- - - ABRAHAM COWLEY; - - the English Pindar, Horace, Virgil: - the delight, glory and desire of his age, - lies near this place. - - Whilst that thy glorious volumes still survive - And thou (great Poet) art in Fame alive, - Here take thy full repose, free from alarmes, - In th' Churches bosome and the Muses armes. - - Speak and tread softly Passengers, and none - With an unhallowed touch pollute this stone - Let sweet-strained Cowley in death's sleep ne're stir - But rest, rest ever in his sepulchre. - - BURLESQ; - - Here lies, reduc'd to ashes and cinder, - not S'r Paul, but S'r Abraham Pindar. - It is not fierce Horatio Vere, - but Horatio Cowley buried here. - - Nor is this Polydore Virgil's room, - but Cantabrigian Virgil's tomb. - The pleasant'st child e're England bred - The bravest youth e're Cambridge fed - The dearest man e're wore a head. - - Whilst that thy ballads up & down do flutter - and the town gallants of thy town muse mutter - Possesse this church, though thou couldst not y'e Savoy - and in her soft lap let Melpomene have thee. - - Let no Court storm nor tough-lung'd zealot blow - thy neatly angled atomes to and fro - And sleep in beggar's Limbo, by dull Chaucer, - under the whim wham urn as broad as sawcer - Whilst y't thy name doth smell as sweet as May's - and all y'e table talk is of thy Thais - thy miscellany and thy Davideis. - - Rot away here and let the vault endure thee - let the religion of the house secure thee - and let the watching muses here immure thee. - - Avaunt all ye that look profane and vile - Stand off, stand off, a hundred thousand mile - Nor with your thumbs this monument defile. - - Let sugar-candy Cowley sleep in's grotte - let not y'e people wake him, let them not - nor steal away the surgeons gally pot. - - Whilst on wing'd Pegasus thou [Phoebus' Son] - through air and earth and sea & all do ride - Whilst by Orinda's pipe thy praise is blown - And thou in fairy land art deified; - - Whilst thou dost soar aloft leave coyrs behind - to be interrd in antient monast'ry - And to the chimeing rabble safely joyn'd - [To] Draiton, Spencer and old Jeoffery. - - Whilst thou above wear'st a triumphant wreath - And we the Poets militant beneath - Anthems to thy immortal honor breath - - [Fill] the dark chest which for Apollo's heir - Ecclesia Anglicana doth prepare - And let the vestal nunne's watch ever here. - - Let Libitina's selfe think't no disgrace - To be the Angel Guardian of this place - That no rude hand this monument deface. - - Here let seraphic Cowley rest his head - Here let him rest it in this earthy bed - Till we all rise with glory lawrelled. - - Whilst through y'e world thy golden verses passe - more golden than those of Pythagoras - And whilst [sweet lyri]st thy anointed name - is registred in the large rowle of Fame - - Here rest secure and let this minster be - a Sanctuary in that sense to thee, - Let the nine muses bid farewell to sleep - ever to watch the grave thy corps doth keep. - - New consecrated is the holy ground - no crime no guilt must here be found; - Let not the man of vices hither come - and with his breath profane this sacred tomb. - - Let Cowley's dust lie quiet in its urne - till the last trump all things to ashes turn; - Let it its station keep and quiet lie - till the blest dawn of immortality. - - So wisheth - And desires his wish may be - Sacred to posterity - He who erected this monument - To that incomparable person - - GEORGE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM - - He departed this life in the - 49 year of his age - And was buried in great state out of - the Duke of Buckingham's House - Many illustrious persons of all - degrees attending his funeral. - - August 3d. 1667. - - -COUNT KÖNIGSMARK AND THE DUCHESS OF SOMERSET. - -Several notices of Count Königsmark have lately appeared in "N. & Q.," -Walpole's mistake having occasioned a question by MR. MARKLAND -respecting his identity. There can, however, be no doubt that the person -who was tried for being accessory to the assassination of Mr. Thynne in -1681-2, and whose trial is reported at length in the 9th volume of -Howell's _State Trials_, p. 1., was Charles John Count Königsmark, as -stated by MR. BRUCE in Vol. v., p. 115. of "N. & Q.," and whose -biography and genealogy are more fully given by J. R. J. in p. 183. of -the same volume. - -In the Note on this subject by J. R. J. it is stated that "the most -mysterious episode in the life of this Count Königsmark was brought on -by his sueing for England's richest and highest heiress, Elizabeth, -daughter of Josceline, second Earl of Northumberland." This is perfectly -true; but the personal history of this lady, her connexion with -Königsmark, her imputed privity to the murder of Mr. Thynne, and the -savage allusion to these circumstances by Swift thirty years afterwards, -deserve a more particular notice. - -Elizabeth, Baroness Percy, was daughter and heiress of Josceline, Earl -of Northumberland, who died in 1670. According to Collins (_Peerage_, -vol. iv. p. 185.) she was four years old at the time of her father's -death; so that she was born in 1666. In 1679 she was married to Henry -Cavendish, Earl of Ogle, who was only son and heir of the Duke of -Newcastle, and who died in 1680, before either party were of puberty to -consummate the marriage. In 1681 the Lady Ogle was married to Thomas -Thynne, of Longleat, in the county of Wilts, Esquire,--a gentleman of -great wealth, a friend of the Duke of Monmouth, and the Issachar of -Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel." Sir John Reresby, in his _Memoirs_, -p. 135., says "The lady, repenting of the match, fled from her husband -into Holland before they were bedded." Whether this elopement had any -relation to Königsmark does not appear: but a few months afterwards, -namely, in February 1681-2, Mr. Thynne was assassinated in the Haymarket -by foreigners, who were devoted friends of the Count, and who apparently -acted under his direction, or, at all events, with his acquiescence. The -Count was at that time a mere youth, and having been in London a few -months before Lady Ogle's marriage with Mr. Thynne, had then paid his -addresses to her. He returned into England about ten days before the -murder, and was in London at the time it was committed. In endeavouring -to escape beyond sea the day afterwards, he was taken in disguise at -Gravesend, brought to Westminster, and examined before King and Council. -Sir John Reresby says, "I was present upon this occasion, and observed -that he appeared before the king with all the assurance imaginable. He -was a fine person of a man, and I think his hair was the longest I ever -saw." He denied all participation in the murder, but he was committed -and tried with the principals, as an accessory before the fact; and -although acquitted by the jury, a perusal of the trial produces a strong -persuasion that he was privy to the purpose of the assassins. A fact -much pressed against him was his inquiry of the Swedish envoy, "Whether -or no, if he should kill Mr. Thynne in a duel, he could, by the laws of -England, afterwards marry the Lady Ogle?" a question which showed beyond -all doubt that he had in some form entertained a design against Mr. -Thynne's life, and also that the attainment of the lady was the motive. -But whatever may have been the intention of the Count, and whatever may -have been the nature of his intercourse with the Lady Ogle, it is quite -clear that they were not married. On the contrary, this lady of early -nuptial experience, and of romantic but somewhat suspicious -adventure,--who was married three times, and twice a widow, before she -was sixteen years old,--was married on the 30th of May, 1682, and within -four months after the murder of Mr. Thynne, to Charles Seymour, Duke of -Somerset. (Collins's _Peerage_, vol. i. p. 191.) Thus early practised in -_matrimonial_ intrigue, we find her thirty years afterwards the -accomplished organ of _political_ intrigue; the favourite and friend of -Queen Anne, and the zealous partisan of the Whig party. In that -character she became the object of Swift's pasquinade, the "Windsor -Prophecy," which, though aimed at the Duchess of Somerset, and the -destruction of her influence at court, recoiled upon the head of the -author, prevented the queen from making him a bishop, and banished him -from her favour for the remainder of her reign. The meaning of the -"Prophecy," and the keenness of its sarcasm, were of course readily -understood and appreciated by cotemporaries. Swift himself seems to have -been highly pleased with it. He says, in one of his letters to Stella, -"The Prophecy is an admirable good one, and the people are mad for it." -The above recital of the early history of the Duchess of Somerset will -render it fully intelligible at the present day. After mentioning some -incidents and characters of the time, the "Windsor Prophecy" ends thus: - - "And, dear Englond, if aught I understond, - Beware of _Carrots_[3] from Northumberlond! - Carrots, sown _Thynne_, a deep root may get, - If so be they are in _Sommer set_. - Their _conyngs mark_ thou! for I have been told, - They _assassine_ when young, and _poison_ when old. - Root out these _Carrots_, O thou, whose name[4] - Is backwards and forwards always the same! - And keep close to thee always that name[5] - Which backwards or forwards is _almost_ the same. - And, Englond, would'st thou be happy still, - Bury those _Carrots_ under a _Hill_."[6] - - [Footnote 3: Alluding to the Duchess of Somerset's red hair.] - - [Footnote 4: Anna Regina.] - - [Footnote 5: Lady Masham.] - - [Footnote 6: Lady Masham's maiden name.] - - D. JARDINE. - - -FOLK LORE. - -The pages of "N. & Q." have given the most varied and valuable -contributions to the "folk lore" of Britain; your contributors have -unquestionably saved many a scrap from oblivion, illustrated many an -obscure allusion, recorded many an old custom, and generally, by the -interesting nature of their notes (throwing, as they do, the newest and -strongest light on the darkest and most out-of-the-way nooks and corners -of the house and field life, and general turn of thought of the great -mass of the people), paved the way for a higher estimate being formed by -literary men, and the general reading public, of the real worth and -present available use of this hitherto despised branch of inquiry; and -stimulating to some extended and systematic garnering-up of those -precious fragments that still exist in unguessed abundance (sown -broad-cast, as they are, from Land's End to John o'Groat's), though fast -perishing. I am confident that there is no county or district in Great -Britain that would not yield, to a careful, diligent, and qualified -seeker, a rich and valuable harvest; and where quaint memorials of the -people might not be unearthed, to be gathered together and stored up, -ready to the moulding hand of some coming Macaulay, who may there find -illustrations to make clear, and clues to guide the searcher in the -darkest and most entangled mazes of history. - -Pardon, sir, for this most prosy and long-winded preface. I have been -induced to address you by observing what is being done in other -countries, by a desire to point out an example, and stimulate to its -emulation that able and tried body of inquirers in this country, who, -for love of the subject, have _already_ collected such valuable stores. - -In the _Morning Chronicle_ of Monday, the 23rd of February, 1852 (No. -26,571. p. 6.), under the heading _Denmark_, is the following:-- - - "Two young Finnish students are wandering through the districts - round Tammerfors, for the purpose of collecting and preserving old - Finnish folk-tales, legends, songs, runes, riddles, and proverbs, - &c. Their names are B. Paldani and O. Palander. They are not - assisted by the Finnish Literary Society, whose funds at this - moment are not in a condition to bear any extra expenses, but by - two divisions of the students at Helsingfors, namely, the West - Finnish and the Wiborg students, each of which has subscribed - _fifty_ silver rubles for this purpose. The two literary pilgrims - have already collected rich treasures of Finnish folk-lore. _Why - do we not follow their example? When will some of our accomplished - young scholars wander over the hills and dales of merry England, - rescuing from oblivion our rich traditions, before they pass for - ever from among us? Surely the Society of Antiquaries might - arrange similar visits for a similar purpose. There is no want of - men able and willing to undertake the task, only the ARRANGING - HAND is wanting. In the meantime let every man do what he can in - his own neighbourhood._" - -In hopes that the "_arranging hand_" may, through the medium of "N. & -Q.," start out of chaos ready for its work, and the "_men able and -willing_" not be wanting, I beg to state that (being unable to aid the -cause otherwise) I will gladly contribute in the way of money, as far as -my abilities go, should any systematic plan be arranged. - - C. D. LAMONT. - - Greenock. - - -LONDON STREET CHARACTERS. - -Mr. Dickens's graphic description of the Court of Chancery, in his new -work, _Bleak House_, contains the following sketch: - - "Standing on a seat at the side of the hall, ... is a little mad - old woman in a squeezed bonnet, who is always in court ... - expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her - favour. Some say she really is, or was, a party to a suit: but no - one knows for certain, because no one cares. She carries some - small litter in a reticule which she calls her documents: - principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender." - -There is a diminutive creature, somewhat answering to this description, -who limps on a stick and one leg that is shorter than the other, all the -early morning in the still courts of the Temple; and seems to be waiting -the result of some consultation, before she reappears, as is her wont, -in Westminster Hall. Whether this person suggested the victim of _Bleak -House_, is a question of no moment. The story commonly told of her is a -very similar one, namely, that she was ruined and crazed, like Peter -Peebles, by the slow torture of a law-suit. Is anything known of her -real history? - -What were the fortunes and fate of a poor female lunatic, who was called -_Rouge et noir_, from her crape sables and painted cheeks; and who used -to loiter every day about the Royal Exchange at four o'clock; and seemed -to depend for subsistence upon the stray bounty of the "money-changers?" -It was said that she had a brother who was hanged for forgery, and that -this drove her mad. - -About thirty years ago, there might be heard any morning in the smaller -streets of "the city," a cry of "dolls' bedsteads," from a lean lame man -on a crutch; who wore an apron, and carried miniature bedsteads for -sale. Of this man it was generally reported, that he was implicated in -the Cato Street conspiracy, and turned king's evidence. - -Charles Lamb describes a character, whom it is also impossible to -forget: - - "A well-known figure, or part of the figure of a man, who used to - guide his upper half over the pavements of London, wheeling along - with most ingenious celerity upon a machine of wood.... He was of - a robust make, with a florid sailor-like complexion, and his head - was bare to the storm and sunshine.... The accident which brought - him low, took place during the riots of 1780." - -Is this all that is known of this half-giant? - -When the old Houses of Parliament were standing, there used to be at one -of the entrances a dwarf, long past middle age, who persisted in -offering his services as a guide. His countenance was full of grave -wisdom, quite Socratic in expression; but, I believe, he was an idiot. -Does anything of interest attach to the remembrance of him? - -And, lastly, not to "stretch the line out to the crack of doom," what -became of Billy Waters? Do these street heroes die the death of common -men--in bed, and with friends near them; or do they generally find their -fate at last in the workhouse or the gaol; and get buried no one knows -when, or by whom, or where? - -I cannot agree with Mr. Dickens, that "no one knows for certain" about -such persons, "_because_ no one cares." Indeed, Mr. D.'s philosophy and -practice are at variance in this matter. He makes his own sketch of "the -little mad old woman," because he feels that it will interest. How much -more would the original, could we get at it! But the truth is, these -people are as mysterious as the fireman's dog. They "come like shadows, -so depart:" leaving behind them on many minds ineffaceable impressions. -Indeed, some of us could confess with shame, that the feathered cocked -hat and fiddle of Billy Waters had survived the memory of a thousand -things of real importance: which could hardly be, were there not some -psychological force in these street characters--an inexplicable interest -and attraction. - - ALFRED GATTY. - - -Minor Notes. - -_Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels._--In a copy, now in my library, of -Herbert's _Travels in Africa, Asia, &c._, folio, 1634, there is a very -characteristic note in the autograph of Dean Swift, to whom the book -formerly belonged. Thinking that it may not be uninteresting to some of -the readers of "N. & Q.," I send a copy of it: - - "If this book were stript of its impertinence, conceitedness, and - tedious digressions, it would be almost worth reading, and would - then be two-thirds smaller than it is. - - "1720. J. SWIFT." - - "The author published a new edition in his older days, with many - additions, upon the whole more insufferable than this. He lived - several years after the Restoration, and some friends of mine knew - him in Ireland. He seems to have been a coxcomb both ævi vitio et - sui." - - W. SNEYD. - - Denton. - -_Joe Miller._--The remains of this patriarch of puns and jokes, hitherto -peaceably resting in the burial-ground in Portugal Street, will now be -disturbed to make way for the new buildings of King's College Hospital. -Surely "Old Joe" ought not to be carted away, and _shot_ as rubbish. -Some plain memorial of him might soon be raised, if an appeal were made -to the public; and if every one whose conscience told him he had ever -been indebted to Miller, would subscribe only a penny to the memorial -fund, the requisite sum would soon be collected. - - JAYDEE. - -_Hints to Book-buyers._--Inquirers buy books on subjects which they -have, at the time, no particular intention of closely investigating: -when such intention afterwards arises, they begin to collect more -extensively. But it often happens, I suspect, that it does not come into -their heads to examine what they have already got, as to which their -memory is not good, because their acquisitions were not made under any -strong purpose of using them. The warning which suggests itself is as -follows: Always remember to examine the old library as if it were that -of a stranger, when you begin any new subject, and before you buy any -new books. - -Here is another warning, not wholly unconnected with the former: Never -judge of a book, that is, of all which comes between the two boards, by -the title-page, which may be only the _first_ title-page, in spite of -the lettering at the back. Persons who bind their books will not always -be bound themselves, either by law of congruity or convenience. I once -hunted shop and stall for a speech delivered in parliament a century -ago, not knowing that I had long possessed it bound up at the end of a -Latin summary of Leibnitzian philosophy. At the risk of posthumously -revealing my real name, I will add that I wrote on the fly-leaf that I -was not the blockhead who bound the book. - - M. - -_Birmingham Antiquities._--I wish to put on record in your journal a -fact concerning the antiquities of Birmingham. There is a street in this -borough, called Camden Street, which after crossing Worstone Lane, -acquires the name of Lower Camden Street. On the right-hand side of -Lower Camden Street (as you go from Camden Street), is some pasture -ground, bounded on one side by a stream called Chub-brook, which -formerly flowed into the old Hockley Pool. This pasture ground shows the -evident traces of a moat, and the foundations of several walls of a -large building. I apprehend this is the spot referred to in Hutton's -_History of Birmingham_, p. 254., fourth edition: - - "The lord Clinton and his lady seem to have occupied the - Manor-house, and Sir Thomas (de Birmingham), unwilling to quit the - place of his affections and of his nativity, erected a castle for - himself at Worstone; where, though the building is totally gone, - the vestiges of its liquid security are yet complete." - -As the field will probably be built on in a short time, I wish to -identify the spot referred to by Hutton. - - C. M. I. - -_Buchanan and Voltaire._--Voltaire has obtained credit for a very smart -epigram, and one which the _Edinburgh Review_ (vol. xxi. p. 271.) calls -"one of his happiest repartees." It was, however, stolen by him, either -designedly or unwittingly, from the celebrated Buchanan. Here are the -two versions, and the point will be observed to be the same in both: - - "An Englishman visiting Voltaire in his retreat at Ferney, - happened to mention Haller, in whose praise the philosopher - enlarged with great warmth. The other observed that this was very - handsome on the part of M. de Voltaire, as Haller was by no means - so liberal to M. de Voltaire. 'Alas!' said the patriarch, 'I dare - say we are both of us very much mistaken!'" - -Is not this the same as Buchanan's epigram (_Ep._, lib. 1. ed. Wets.)? - - "IN ZOILUM. - - "Frustra ego te laudo, frustra me, Zoile, lædas - Nemo mihi credit, Zoile nemo tibi." - - PHILOBIBLION. - -_Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides._--We are all aware of the -popular repugnance to permitting the bodies of suicides to be interred -within the "consecrated" or "hallowed" precincts of a churchyard. Burial -at cross-roads was the usual mode. In many parts of Scotland such -burials had to take place under cloud of night, to avoid the -interference of the rabble. But it would appear from the extract given -below, that public indignities were inflicted upon such corpses, to -testify public detestation of this crime. The extract is taken from the -_Diarey of Robert Birrel_, Burges of Edinburghe: - - "1598, Feb. 20. The 20 day of Februar, Thomas Dobie drounit - himself in the Quarrel holes besyde the Abbay, and upone the - morne, he wes harlit throw the toune backward, and therafter - hangit on the gallows." - -Perhaps some correspondent of "N. & Q." may be able to point out similar -instances of such a revolting procedure. - -The "Abbay" referred to was the Abbey of Holyrood. - -The "Quarrel," or Quarry holes, seem to have been fatal, in many cases, -both to "man and beast;" for Sir David Lyndsay, in one of his poems, -says: - - "Marry, I lent my gossip my mare, to fetch hame coals, - And he _her drounit into the quarry holes_." - - R. S. F. - - Perth. - - - - -Queries. - - -"GOD'S LOVE," ETC., AND OTHER POEMS. - -I should be very glad if, among the many learned contributors to the "N. -& Q.," there should be any one who can give me information respecting a -rare volume of English poetry, of which I do not recollect to have seen -any notice, or any other copy than that in my own possession. - -It is a 12mo., or rather small 8vo. volume, and, by the type and general -appearance, was probably printed rather before than after 1660. It -consists of three portions: - -1. "God's Love and Man's Unworthiness," which commences thus: - - "GOD! how that word hath thunder-clapt my soul - Into a ravishment; I must condole - My forward weakness. Ah! where shall I find - Sufficient metaphors t' express my mind? - Thou heart-amazing word, how hast thou fill'd - My soul with Hallelujahs, and distill'd - Wonders into me!" - -This poem is in two parts, and extends to p. 82. - -2. "A Dialogue between the Soul and Satan," p. 83 to 124, including a -short supplementary poem entitled "The Soul's Thankfulness and Request -to God." - -3. "Divine Ejaculations." One hundred and forty-nine in all. Each -consists of six lines. I extract the tenth as a specimen: - - "Great God! Thy garden is defaced: - The weeds do thrive, the flowers decay: - O call to mind thy promise past, - Restore thou them, cut these away. - Till then, let not the weeds have power - To starve or taint the poorest flower." - -The copy now before me has no title-page or prefatory matter of any -kind, and it wants the second sheet, p. 17 to 32. Yet I do not think it -imperfect, for though the paging goes from p. 16 to p. 33, yet the -catch-word on the 16th page is answered by the first word on p. 33, and -the sense is consecutive. - -It seems to me, therefore, that the author changed in some degree his -plan, as the work was proceeding at the press, and that the little -volume having thus the appearance of negligence and incompleteness, no -title or preface was ever printed, and the book never issued for sale. - -On this, or any other point, but especially on the question who was the -writer of so much verse, I wish to receive information from some of the -readers of your very entertaining and often instructive miscellany. - - T. S. - - -PRAYING TO THE DEVIL. - -I always thought that this unfashionable sort of worship was confined to -some obscure fanatical sects in the East, and was not prepared to find -an apparent record of its having been practised, amidst the frivolities -and plotting of the French Court, by no less celebrated a lady than -Catharine de Medicis. In the _Secret History of France for the Last -Century_ (London, printed for A. Bell, at the Cross Keys in Cornwel, -(_sic._) &c. 1714), I find such an odious charge advanced. I do not draw -attention to it with the slightest shadow of belief in a story so -ridiculous and incredible; but to ask, whether there existed any -foundation for the following statement regarding the "steel box," and if -so, what were its contents? - - "In the first Civil War, when the Prince of _Conde_ was in all - appearance likely to prevail, and _Katherine_ was thought to be - very near the End of her much desir'd Regency, during the Young - King's Minority, she was known to have been for Two days together, - retir'd to her Closet, without admitting her menial Servants to - her Presence. Some few Days after, having call'd for Monsieur _De - Mesme_, one of the Long Robe, and always firm to her Interest, she - deliver'd him a Steel Box fast lock'd, to whom she said, giving - him the Key, _That in respect she knew not what might come to be - her Fortune, amidst those intestine Broils that then shook_ - France, _she had thought fit to inclose a thing of great Value - within that Box, which she consign'd to his Care, not to open it - upon Oath, but by an Express Order under her own Hand._ The Queen - Dying, without ever calling for the Box, it continued many Years - unopen'd in the Family of _De Mesme_, after both their Deaths, - till at last Curiosity, or the Suspicion of some Treasure from the - heaviness of it, tempted Monsieur _De Mesme's_ Successor to break - it open, which he did. Instead of any Rich Present from so great a - Queen, what Horror must the Lookers on have, when they found a - Copper Plate of the Form and Bigness of one of the Ancient _Roman_ - Votive Shields, on which was Engraven _Queen_ Katherine de Medicis - _on her Knees, in a Praying Posture, offering up to the Devil - sitting upon a Throne, in one of the ugliest Shapes they use to - Paint him,_ Charles the IXth. _then Reigning, the Duke of_ Anjou, - _afterwards_ Henry _the_ IIId., and _the Duke of_ Alanson, _her - Three sons, with this Motto in_ French, _So be it, I but Reign._ - This very Plate continues yet in the Custody of the House of - _Mesme_, of which Monsieur _D'Avaux_, so famous for his Ambassies, - was a Branch, and was not only acknowledged by him to be so, when - Ambassador in _Holland_, but he was also pleas'd at that time, to - promise a Great Man in _England_, a Copy of it; which is a - Terrible Instance of the Power of Ambition in the Minds of - _French_ Princes, and to what Divinity, if one dares give the - Devil that name, even in Irony, they are ready to pay their - adoration, rather than part with their hopes of Empire."--Pp. 6, - 7. - - R. S. F. - - Perth. - - -Minor Queries. - -_John Ap Rice's Register._--Two ancient charters, formerly belonging to -the abbey of Bury St. Edmund's, and now in the possession of the -corporation of King's Lynn, bear the indorsement of J. Rhesensis, _i.e._ -John Ap Rice, the commissioner who was sent by Hen. VIII. to investigate -the affairs of this abbey; and whose letter upon the subject to -secretary Cromwell is published in _Letters relating to the Suppression -of the Monasteries._ On one of the charters the indorsement has been -erased all but the name; on the other it runs thus:--"Relat' in regi[=u] -Registr' ad v'b[=u], 1536, J. Rhesens', Registr'." Is anything known of -the Royal Register referred to? - - C. W. G. - -_Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience._--Who was the author of the address -to the reader in the _Doctrine of Conscience_, by Bishop Prideaux, -published in 1656? it is signed Y. N. Bishop Prideaux died in 1650. - - G. P. P. - -_John Adair, Geographer for Scotland (alive in 1715)._--I am anxious to -obtain some information respecting the ancestry, wife, death, and -descendants of this individual. I am already aware of the notices of him -in Chalmers's _Caledonia_ (ii. 58.), and in the _Bannatyne Miscellany_ -(ii. 347.). - - E. N. - -_Clergymen first styled Reverend._--I should be obliged if any of your -correspondents would inform me when the word "Reverend" first came into -use as distinctive of a clergyman. It never seems to have been applied -to Hooker, who is always called Mr. Hooker in the different editions of -his works. - - QUESTOR. - -_Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes._--Information is requested as to the -descendants of the Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, one of the Nonjuring -divines, who died July 28, 1727. He was rector of Glinton with Peakirk, -Northamptonshire; and it appears from Chalmers's _Biographical -Dictionary_ that he left two children, William Spinckes, Esq., and Anne, -who married Anthony Cope, Esq. - - J. P. JR. - -_Meaning of the Word "Elvan."_--Will any kind philologist come to the -aid of the geologists in ascertaining the meaning of this uncouth word? -In the current number of the _Quarterly Journal of the Geological -Society_ (No. 29.) we read: - - "Certain quartziferous porphyries which occur in the mining - districts of Cornwall as veins, partly in granite, partly in - clay-slate, have been long there known under the name of - 'Elvans.' We have in vain sought for the origin of this term in - English writers. Henwood expressly says (_Trans. Geol. Soc. of - Cornwall_, vol. v.) that the etymology of the word is unknown. May - it not perhaps be derived from a place called 'Elvan?' Reuss says, - in his _Lehrbuch der Geognosie_, that porphyry occurs near Elvan - in Westmoreland." - -On turning to Borlase (_Natural History of Cornwall_, p. 91.), I find -that he gives the derivation as follows: - - "Quasi ab Hel-vaen, _i.e._ the stone generally found in brooks; - unless it be a corruption of An-von, which in Cornish signifies a - smith's anvil, and might fitly represent this very hard stone." - -The term is a Cornish one, and applied to a crystalline rock usually -hard enough to strike fire readily on sharp friction; and may it not -have been derived from the Cornish word "_Elven_, a spark of fire," -given in Borlase's vocabulary. - - S. R. P. - - Launceston. - -_Wiclif._--There are few names of equal celebrity that have been so -variously spelt, the sound remaining the same whether written _Wiclif_, -_Wycliff_, _Wickliffe_, _Wykcliff_, &c. Can any authority be given, to -ascertain the correct spelling? - - J. K. - -_Showing the White Feather._--What is the origin of this periphrasis for -cowardice? Certainly not the words of King Henry: - - "Press where ye see my white plume shine, - Amidst the ranks of war; - And be your Oriflamme to-day - The helmet of Navarre." - - A. A. D. - - Trin. Coll. Dublin. - -_Gray and Locke._--The germ of Gray's-- - - "For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey," - -occurs somewhere in Locke's _Works_. Can any one refer me to the -passage; it commences: - - "Who ever left the precincts of mortality, without," &c. - - H. E. H. - -_Horses and Sheep, Remains of in Churches._--In excavating the chancel -of St. Botolph's parish church, Boston, we have discovered a quantity of -_horse's_ bones, and the jaw-bones of a _sheep_. Can any of your -correspondents enlighten us on this singular case? - - THOMAS COLLIS. - - Boston. - -_Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol I., Reprint._--I have recently purchased a -copy of the above work to complete my set; but before doing so, I -enquired of Mr. Pickering the publisher, if it was in all respects as -well executed as the first copies. The answer, however, gave me no more -information than "that the numbers of vol. i. _Arch. Camb._, which were -destroyed by fire, have been _reprinted_, so as to make up a few copies, -and the price is consequently 21_s._" The "reprint" is not as well -executed as the original copies, inasmuch as nearly a whole page of -interesting matter is omitted, and very few of the reprinted pages -correspond with the good old ones. I have been a long time looking for -the first volume of the _Archæologia Cambrensis_, the greater portion of -which had been so unfortunately destroyed by fire; and though I cannot -consider the "reprint" quite as good as the old copies, still I was very -glad to obtain it. I trouble you with this "Note," not because I am -dissatisfied with the mode of execution of the reprint, but in the hope -that some of your correspondents will favour me with a few words on the -work, and inform me why the page has been omitted, and why the reprinted -pages do not agree with those of the old copies. Are there any other -faults in the "reprint" which may have escaped my notice? - - R. H. - - Dublin. - -_Presbyterian Oath._--The author of the _Faggot of French Sticks_ -remarks, that he never remained ignorant of anything which excited his -attention in the streets of Paris when any one passing by could give him -the information required: so now that there is such a living -encyclopædia to consult as "N. & Q.," no knowledge should be lost for -want of inquiry. In more than one publication it has been lately -asserted, that presbyterian ministers take the following oath: - - "We all subscribe, and with hands uplifted to the most High God do - swear: 1. That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly through - the grace of God, endeavour in our several places and callings to - bring the church of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest - conjunction and uniformity in religion, confession of faith, form - of church government, &c. 2. That we shall in like manner, without - respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of popery and - prelacy (that is, church government by archbishops, bishops, - deans, and others.)" - -The Bishop of Exeter, in a recent pamphlet, inserts this parenthesis: - - "(Whether this actual subscription and oath be still continued, I - know not: but the covenant is still a part of the Kirk's - symbolical book, and published as such for the education of the - people)." - -Will some friend north of the Tweed be kind enough to settle this point? - - C. T. - -"_A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box._"--Some years ago I saw in the -shop of a dealer in curiosities, in London, an old snuff-box, which was -said to have belonged to Dean Swift; it was accompanied with three -printed leaves, of the common octavo size, the first page of which -commenced with "A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Snuff Box," (being a -description of the snuff-box in question). The next subject on the -leaves began with "'Tis a hundred years since." The leaves appeared to -have been extracted from some Irish magazine or periodical, published -about the year 1845-6, and to contain much valuable and amusing matter. -As I have made repeated inquiries among the London booksellers in vain, -for the name of the publication from which the above-mentioned extract -was taken, I shall feel much obliged if you will permit me to make a -similar inquiry through the medium of "N. & Q.," and by so doing you -will confer a great favour upon - - A SUBSCRIBER. - - Gloucester. - -_Cromwell's Skull._--I believe that a skull, maintained by arguments of -considerable weight to be the veritable skull of the Protector, is now -carefully kept in the hands of some person in London. It is understood -that this interesting relic is retained in great secrecy, from the -apprehension that a threat, intimated in the reign of George III., that -if made public, it would be seized by government, as the only party to -which it could properly belong. - -It is to be hoped that the time in which such a threat could be executed -has passed by, and that no danger need now be apprehended by the -possessor for his open avowal of the facts of the case, such as they -are. - -Indeed, it seems desirable that if fair means could lead to such a -result, the skull of one who filled so conspicuous a position amongst -England's most distinguished rulers, should become public property. - -Perhaps some one in possession of the arguments verifying the identity -of the skull in question with that of Cromwell, would, by a -recapitulation of them, favour some readers of the "N. & Q.", and -amongst others - - J. P. - - Dudley. - -_Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for the Borough of -Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724._--Can any of your readers give information as -to the existence of any member of this family in the male line? The -senior line of descent from Guy's maternal uncle, John Voughton, became -extinct in 1843 upon the decease of Elizabeth, the relict of Dr. Clarke -of Weggington, brother of Sir Charles M. Clarke, Bart. - - KT. - -_Episcopal Mitre_ (Vol. iii., p. 62. _et seq._).--In addition to this -Query, which has elicited much to interest one, I beg to know at what -_date_ and _why_ the use of the mitre in England was discontinued? At -the coronation of George IV. I, for one, was grievously disappointed not -to see the whole bench of bishops _mitred_ as well as _robed_. - - S. S. - -_John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely._--In the Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, -published in the _Camden Miscellany_, vol. i. p. 16., occur the -following paragraphs:-- - - "Dec. 23. 1677. I administered the sacrament to the Lord John - Barclay, being not well." - -To the word Barclay, the editor, George Percy Elliott, Esq., has -subjoined the following note:-- - - "Probably Lord John Berkeley; he was afterwards Bishop of - Rochester, and subsequently of Ely, and was deprived for not - taking the oath of allegiance to William and Mary." - -Can any reader of "N. & Q." suggest any authority for the statement in -the editor's note? Francis Turner was Bishop of Ely from 1684 to 1691, -when he was deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to -William and Mary. Turner was succeeded by Simon Patrick, translated from -Chichester. As to the Rochester see, that was filled by Thomas Sprat -from 1684 to 1713. His biography reminds one more of the Vicar of Bray -than the sturdy Nonjuror. - - J. Y. - - Hoxton. - -_Palace of Lucifer._--In Milton's elegy upon the death of Bishop -Andrewes there is an allusion to a fabled _Palace of Lucifer_ which I do -not quite understand. It seems to refer to some romantic description or -other, and I shall be much obliged to any one that will kindly tell me -by whom. It is always important to know something of the train of an -author's reading, as we then can better understand the ordinary train of -his thoughts-- - - "Serpit odoriferas per opes levis aura Favoni, - Aura sub innumeris humida nata rosis, - _Talis in extremis terræ Gangetidis oris - Luciferi regis fingitur esse domus_." - - Eleg. III. _In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis_, l. 47. - -And now I will give Thomas Warton's note in full. He says: - - "I know not where this fiction is to be found. But our author has - given a glorious description of a palace of Lucifer in the - _Paradise Lost_, b. v. 757.: - - "'At length into the limits of the North - They came, and Satan to his _royal seat_ - High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount, - Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers - From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold, - The _Palace of Great Lucifer_, so call - That structure, in the dialect of men - Interpreted; which not long after, he, - Affecting all equality with God, - In imitation of that mount, whereon - Messiah was declar'd in sight of Heaven, - The Mountain of the Congregation call'd,' &c. - - "Here is a mixture of Ariosto and Isaiah. Because Lucifer is - simply said by the prophet 'to sit upon the Mount of the - Congregation on the sides of the North,' Milton builds him a - palace on this mountain, equal in magnificence and brilliancy to - the most superb and romantic castle. In the text, _by the utmost - parts of the Gangetic land_, we are to understand the north; the - river Ganges, which separates India from Scythia, arising from the - mountain Taurus." - -Some of your learned correspondents will, I doubt not, be both able and -willing to throw some light upon a difficulty which may possibly have an -indirect connexion with other difficulties also. - - RT. - - Warmington, Nov. 7. 1851. - -_Ecclesiastical Geography._--Can any of your correspondents direct me to -some works on Ecclesiastical Geography? - - AJAX. - -_History of Commerce._--What work gives a history of the various courses -of commerce between Europe and the East in ancient and modern times, or -in either of them, as I cannot meet with any such book in the various -catalogues and advertisements of the day? - - X. Y. Z. - - Cambria. - -_Merchant Adventurers to Spain._--Where can there be found any account -of a trading company called the "Merchant Adventurers to Spain," who -flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth? - - C. I. P. - -_King's College Chapel Windows._--In _The Blazon of Gentrie_, by John -Ferne, London, 1586, it is said (p. 248.):-- - - "If anie personne doth give, or by his testament shall bequeth - money to build a temple, the walles of a city, port, a causey, - churches, &c., he maye set his armes upon the same. If so be that - he did this, of his owne free will and liberalitie. But if he did - the same by compulsion (beeing for that purpose set unto some - mulcte or fine, for his offence, and so constrained to make his - redemption by the building or repayring of the like things), he - may not set his armes in such publique workes, as that bishop was, - which being condemned in the Præmunire, redeemed the punishment of - that offence, by the glasing of the King's College chappell - windowes in Cambridge, a glasse-work of worthy admiration." - -Is there any foundation for this story, and who was the bishop? - - C. W. G. - -_The King's Standard._--Will some of your correspondents kindly inform -me where I can meet with a drawing of this standard _in blazon_? _The -Relation of the King's setting up his Standard at Nottingham_: 4to. -Lond. 1642, gives an _engraving_ of the same under the title; but I -cannot trace the mode in which the banner in question was _coloured_. - - AMANUENSIS. - -_James Wilson, M.D._--In 1761 James Wilson, M.D., published in two -volumes, octavo, a reprint of the mathematical tracts of his then -deceased friend Benjamin Robins. To them he added an appendix containing -a dissertation on the controversy about the invention of fluxions, which -dissertation is very little cited. He makes various statements on his -own authority, describing himself as having been the friend of Brook -Taylor and of Dr. Pemberton. Among other things he furnishes something -which might be cited in answer to my query in Vol. v., p. 103., -affirming that _all_ Collins's papers fell into Jones's _possession_ -about the year 1708. Dr. Wilson and Martin Folkes were joint executors -of Robins, as the former states. Query, who was James Wilson, M.D.? What -was his probable age in 1712? What means exist for forming an opinion as -to his judgment and veracity, over and above his publications as -aforesaid? - - A. DE MORGAN. - - -Minor Queries Answered. - -_Prestwich's Respublica._--I have a copy of a work called Prestwich's -_Respublica, or a Display of the Honours, Ceremonies, and Ensign of the -Commonwealth_, 1787; in which is an Alphabetical Roll of the Names and -Armorial Bearings of many of the Present Nobility of these Kingdoms. The -volume concludes with John Aspinhall, and a note states that the -remainder of the roll should be given in the second volume. Has the -second volume ever been published, as I cannot ascertain that it has? If -so, how many years after the first? - - G. P. P. - - [It was the intention of Sir John Prestwich to continue this work, - but not having received the encouragement he expected, and - suffering also from ill health, the second volume was not - published. See Nichols' _Literary Anecdotes_, vol. ix. p. 23.] - -_Instance of Longevity._-- - - "In the obituary register for the ancient parish of St. Leonard, - Shoreditch, is to be found the following very singular entry, - viz.: 'Thomas Cam, died on the 28th of January, 1588, at the - astonishing age of 207 years. He was born in the year 1381, in the - reign of King Richard II., and lived in the reigns of twelve kings - and queens.'"--_Times_, Dec.--1848? - -Can this be authenticated; is there any truth in the story? Surely so -venerable a patriarch must have attracted the notice of some of his -cotemporaries. Your correspondent O. C. D. will, I fear, place this -"instance" in the category of "ante-register longevities." - - W. R. DEERE SALMON. - - [At the time the above paragraph was going the round of the - papers, a friend consulted the parish clerk of St. Leonard, - Shoreditch, respecting its authenticity, and was informed that - some mischievous individual had altered the figure 1 into 2. It is - correctly given by Sir Henry Ellis in his _History of Shoreditch_, - p. 77., as follows:--"Thomas Cam, aged 107, 28 January, 1588."] - -_Solidus Gallicus, &c._--Will any of your correspondents kindly construe -for me the following sentences? - - "Valebat siclus sanctuarii tetradrachma Atticum: quod Budaeus - estimat 14 solidis Gallicis, aut circiter: nam didrachma septim - facit solidos, sicuti drachma simplex duos, et sesquialterum, - minus denario turonico." - -What was the value of "solidus Gallicus," or French sol, or sous; for -this I presume to be its meaning in 1573, the date of the passage? And -what was the value of the "denier Tournois," if that be the meaning of -"denarium Turonicum?" - -References are useless, for I have no access to libraries. - - C. W. B. - - [A numismatic friend, to whom we referred this Query, writes, "If - it were not for the context, 'nam didrachma septim facit solidos,' - I should suppose the 14 to be a misprint for 4. Where _could_ this - passage be taken from? The shekel was worth a tetradrachm. The - French 'sol' was the twentieth part of a pound. The 'denier - Tournois' was a penny. The whole passage, after the first line - (which is plain enough), is to me unintelligible."] - -_Sept._--What is the etymology, and what the correct use, of this -Anglo-Irish word? - - A. N. - - [Dr. Ogilvie, in his _Imperial Dictionary_, has suggested the - following derivation: "Qy. _sapia_, in the L. _prosapia_; or Heb. - _shabet_, a clan, race, or family, proceeding from a common - progenitor."] - -_Essay towards Catholic Communion_ (Vol. v., p. 198.).--_An Essay to -procure Catholic Communion on Catholic Principles_, alluded to by J. Y., -has just been republished by Darling, Gt. Queen Street. It is taken from -Deacon's _Complete Collection of Devotions_, 1734, and the editors -attribute its authorship to Dr. Brett, on the authority of Peter Hall's -_Fragmenta Liturgica_, vol. i. p. 42. - -If J. Y. has not seen the reprint, perhaps this note may assist him in -his inquiry. - - R. J. S. - - [The above is not the same work as the one referred to in J. Y.'s - Query, which makes a 12mo. volume of 292 pages (edit. 1781); - whereas the reprint published by Darling is a tract of 16 pages. - There is also a slight difference in the title-pages of each.] - -_Bigot._--What is the derivation of _bigot_? - - C. M. I. - - [Richardson suggests the following:--"The French at this day apply - the word _bigot_ to one superstitiously religious; not certainly - from the oath _be-got_, as Menage thinks, but rather from the - A.-S. _bigan_, colere; and hence also _begine_, a religious woman. - (Wachter in v. _Bein-Gott_.)" - - Cotgrave says, "Bigot, an old Norman word (signifying as much as - '_de par Dieu_,' or our 'for God's sake') made good French, and - signifying an hypocrite, or one that seemeth much more holy than - he is: also, a scrupulous, or superstitious fellow." - - Speight says, "_Begin_, _bigot_, superstitious, hypocrite." Upon - which Thynne remarks, "whiche sence I knowe y't maye somewhat - beare, because y't sauorethe of the dispositione of those _Begins_ - or _Beguines_, for that ys the true wrytinge."] - - - - -Replies. - - -AGE OF TREES; TILFORD OAK. - -(Vol. iv., p. 401., &c.) - -I hope your correspondent L., in his search for ancient trees, will not -overlook the Great Oak at Tilford near Farnham, which is worth a visit -for its size and beauty, if not for its antiquity. Mr. Brayley, in his -_History of Surrey_, vol. v. p. 288., thus speaks of it:-- - - "In the Charter granted by Henry de Blois about the year 1250, to - the monks of Waverley, he gives them leave to inclose their lands - wherever they please, within these bounds, 'which extend,' says - the record, 'from the Oak of Tilford, which is called the Kynghoc - [a quercu de Tyleford quæ vocatur Kynghoc], by the king's highway - towards Farnham, &c.' ... The Tilford Oak is still standing, and - is known by its ancient appellation of the King's Oak: a name - which it could not have obtained unless it had been of - considerable age and growth at the time of the bishop's grant; and - it may therefore be reasonably supposed to be 800 or 900 years - old. It is a noble tree, and still flourishing apparently without - decay." - -I very much doubt the identity of the present tree with the "King's Oak" -of Henry de Blois. _First_, Because the present bounds of Waverley do -not run within 300 yards of the tree; and the bounds are hardly likely -to have been materially changed, inasmuch as the abbey lands are -freehold and tithe-free, whereas the surrounding lands are copyhold and -titheable. _Secondly_, because the tree itself appears still to be -growing and vigorous. Cobbett describes it in his _Rural Rides_, p. 15., -1822, with his usual accuracy of observation: - - "Our direct road was right over the heath, through Tilford, to - Farnham: but we veered a little to the left after we came to - Tilford, at which place, on the green, we stopped to look at an - _oak tree_, which, when I was a little boy, was but a very little - tree, comparatively, and which is now, taken altogether, by far - the finest tree that I ever saw in my life. The stem or shaft is - short, that is to say, it is short before you come to the first - limbs; but it is full thirty feet round at about eight or ten feet - from the ground. Out of the stem there come not less than fifteen - or sixteen limbs, many of which are from five to six feet round, - and each of which would in fact be considered a decent stick of - timber. I am not judge enough of timber to say anything about the - quantity in the whole tree; but my son stepped the ground, and, as - nearly as we could judge, the diameter of the extent of the - branches was upwards of ninety feet, which would make a - circumference of about 300 feet. The tree is in full growth at the - moment. There is a little hole in one of the limbs, but with that - exception, not the smallest sign of decay The tree has made great - shoots in all parts of it this last summer, and there are no - appearances of _white_ on the trunks such as are regarded as the - symptoms of full growth. There are many sorts of oak in England: - two very distinct. One with a pale leaf, and one with a dark leaf; - this is of the pale leaf." - -Any other references to the age or history of this tree would oblige. - - TILFORDIENSIS. - -P.S. As your correspondent asked for information as to the _species_ of -large oaks, I have inclosed some of the acorn-cups. - - -ST. PAUL'S QUOTATION OF HEATHEN WRITERS--ST. PAUL AND PLATO. - -(Vol. v., p. 175.) - -The letter at Vol. v., p. 175. of "N. & Q.," reminds me of a passage in -a _Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles_, by the Rev. W. G. Humphry, -B.D., which it may not be uninteresting to cite, in connexion with what -your correspondent says of St. Paul's practice of quoting the writings -of heathen authors. - -It will be the ground also of an obvious query as to the source from -which the quotation, if such it be, was borrowed by the Apostle. - -In commenting upon v. 17. of chap. xiv., [Greek: ouranothen], &c., he -says: - - "Both the language and the rhythm of this passage lead to the - conjecture (which does not appear to have been proposed before) - that it is a fragment from some lyric poem. Possibly the quotation - is not exact, but even without alteration it may be broken into - four lyric measures, thus: - - "[Greek: Ourano|then hê|min hy|etous - didous kai kairous | karpophorous, - empi|plôn tro|phês kai | - euphrosynês | tas ka|rdias.] - - "1. Iambic; 2. Dochmaic and Choriamb.; 3. Trochaic; 4. Choriamb. - and Iambic." - -Mr. Humphry has some remarks on St. Paul's quotations at v. 28. of chap. -xvii. - - OXONIENSIS. - - Broad Street, Oxford. - -Your correspondent MR. GILL (Vol. v., p. 175.) suggests an inquiry as to -the probable extent to which St. Paul was acquainted with the writings -of Aristotle. His letter reminds me of a similar question of still -greater interest, which has often occurred to me, and to which I should -like to call your readers' attention, "Whether St. Paul had read Plato?" -I think no one who studies the 15th of the First Epistle to the -Corinthians--that sublime chapter in which the Apostle sets forth the -doctrine of the Resurrection--and who is also familiar with the _Phædo_, -can fail to be struck with a remarkable similarity in one portion of the -argument. I allude especially to the 36th verse of the chapter, and -those immediately following, "That which thou sowest is not quickened -except it die," &c. The reasoning, as almost every Christian knows, is -based on analogy, and tends to show that, as in the vegetable world life -springs from death, the seed dies, but out of it comes the perfect -plant; so the dissolution of our present body is only a necessary step -to the more glorified and complete development of our nature. In the -_Phædo_, sect. 16., Socrates is represented as employing the same -argument in defence of his doctrine of the immortality of the soul. In -the course of his discussion with Kebes and Simmius on this subject, a -consideration of the phenomena of animal and vegetable life leads him to -assert the general conclusion, "[Greek: ek tôn tethneôtôn, ta zônta te -kai hoi zôntes gignontai]," and he then proceeds to demonstrate the -probability that in like manner the soul will not only survive the body, -but reach a higher and purer condition after its death. Wetstein, whose -abundant classical illustrations of the sacred text are alluded to by -your correspondent, refers to little else than verbal parallelisms in -his notes on this chapter, and does not quote Plato at all; nor do I -remember seeing any edition of the Greek Testament in which the -coincidence is pointed out. Perhaps some of your correspondents can -elucidate this subject; it is one of great interest, and when pursued in -the reverent and religious spirit indicated by MR. GILL, can hardly fail -to prove a source of profitable investigation. - - JOSHUA G. FITCH. - -My edition of the _Platonic Dialogues_ is that of N. Forster of -Christchurch, Oxford, dated 1745. In it the section I refer to is -numbered 16; but in Stallbaum and some other editors, the arrangement is -different, and the passage occurs in section 43. - - -SIR ALEXANDER CUMMING. - -(Vol. v., p. 257.) - -I have in my possession a manuscript consisting of copies of various -letters, and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cumming. It is of his own -period, but whether of his own handwriting I cannot say. - -They are clearly the compositions of a person of an unsettled intellect; -but we may collect from them the following facts:--His captain's -commission was dated May 29, 1703; he was called by his mother, a few -days before her death, both Jacob and Israel. This is further explained -when he relates that Lady Cumming, his mother, set out from Edinburgh -the first of the "Borrowing Days," towards the end of March, 1709. - - "The three last days of March are called 'the Borrowing Days' in - Scotland, on account of their being generally attended with very - blustering weather, which inclines people to say that they would - wish to _borrow_ three days from the month of April, in exchange - for those three last days of the month of March. This lady was - seventeen days in her journeys upon the road, and lived ten days - after her arrival in London. She died on the Monday se'nnight in - the morning after she came to London. On the Thursday before her - death she called her son, Captain Cumming, to her bed-side, and - gave him her blessing in the terms of the prophet Isaiah, to which - she referred him, and gave him her own new Bible to read over on - the occasion, and to keep for her sake. But this Bible was lost, - with other baggage, taken by the French towards the end of the - campaign, 1709. Colonel Swinton, this lady's eldest brother, was - shot at the battle of Malplaquet, and died upon the field of - battle." - -The lady travelled attended by her daughter Helen Cumming, and her -servant Margaret Rae. - -But I see we have been wrong in writing the name Cumming with two _m_'s. -He writes it invariably _Cuming_. This would appear of little moment, -but the change a little diminishes the probability of the writer's -favourite notion, that the Hebrew word _Cumi_ is in some way obumbrated -in his patronymic _Cuming_. - -The passage of the prophet Isaiah which formed the substance of his -mother's last benediction is chap. xli. verses 8 and 9, and chap. xliii. -verses 2 and 3: "Thou _Israel_ art my servant, _Jacob_ whom I have -chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend," &c. He inclines to think that -"the writer of the book called Isaiah was a friend to the British -nation, and that the islands of Great Britain and Ireland are those -addressed to, in order to renew their strength." - -It was on April 23, 1730, O.S., that "by the unanimous consent of the -people he was made law-giver, commander, leader, and chief of the -Cherokee nation, and witness of the power of God, at a general meeting -at Nequisee, in the Cherokee Mountains." He brought with him to England -six Cherokee chiefs, and on June 18, in that year, he was allowed to -present them to the King in the Royal Chapel at Windsor. This was at the -time of the installation of the Duke of Cumberland and the Earls of -Chesterfield and Burlington. On June 22nd was the ceremony of laying his -crown at the feet of the King, when the Indian chiefs laid also their -four scalps and five eagles' tails. - -In a few years the scene was changed, and in 1737 we find him confined -within the limits of the Fleet Prison; but having a rule of court, on -the 8th of November he was at Knightsbridge, where about ten in the -morning he opened the Bible for an answer to his prayers, and chanced -upon the fifty-first and fifty-second chapters of Isaiah. He feels a -call to a mission to the Jews, and contemplates visiting Poland. With -that disposition of a mind disordered as his was, to turn everything -towards a particular object, he thinks there was some mysterious -connexion between the fact that Queen Caroline was seized with the -illness which proved fatal, in her library, at ten o'clock on the -morning of the 9th of November, the day after his call. - -In 1750 he was still in the Fleet Prison, from whence, on May 15, he -addressed a letter to Lord Halifax, asserting his right to the Cherokee -Mountains, and proposing a scheme for the discharge of eighty millions -of the National Debt; the scheme being, that 300,000 families of Jews -should be settled in that country for the improvement of the lands, as -industrious honest subjects. This letter notices also two facts in the -Cuming history: 1. That Sir Alexander's father had been the means of -saving the life of King George the Second; and 2. That he, Sir -Alexander, had been taken into the secret service of the crown, at -Christmas, 1718, at a salary of 300_l._ a-year, which was discontinued -at Christmas, 1721. - - J. H. - - Torrington Square. - - -GENERAL WOLFE. - -(Vols. iv. and v., _passim._) - -As everything connected with General Wolfe is entitled to notice, the -following names and public positions of his direct or collateral -ancestors may not be uninteresting to your readers. I lately furnished -you, from Ferrar's _History of Limerick_, a statement of the -circumstances under which his great-grandfather, Captain George Woulfe, -sought refuge in Yorkshire (I believe) from the proscription of Ireton, -after the capitulation, in 1651, of Limerick, when his brother Francis, -the superior of the Franciscan friars, not having been equally fortunate -in escaping, was executed, with several others, excepted from the -general pardon. - -The family, of English origin, like the Roches, the Arthurs, Stackpoles, -Sextons, Creaghes, Whites, &c., settled in Limerick between the -thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, and gradually obtained high civil -positions, when their successful commercial pursuits enabled them to -acquire landed property in the adjoining county of Clare, where nearly -all the above-named English families equally became extensive -proprietors. In - - 1470. Garret Woulfe was one of the city bailiffs, as those - subsequently called sheriffs were then named. - - 1476. Thomas Woulfe filled the same office, as did in - - 1520. His son and namesake. - - 1562. Nicholas Woulfe was bailiff. - - 1567. John Woulfe ditto. - - 1578. The same became mayor. - - 1585. } Patrick Woulfe was bailiff these two years, - - 1587. } but not in the intervening 1586. - - 1590. Thomas Woulfe } - - 1591. Richard Woulfe } were successively bailiffs, - - 1592. David Woulfe } as in - - 1605. Was James Woulfe. - -From this date till 1613 scarcely a year passed without the dismissal of -the chosen Catholic magistrates, and substitution by royal mandate of -Protestants. In 1613 George Woulfe, grandfather[7] of the proscribed -Captain of the same name as above, then sheriff (the title assumed since -1609), with his colleagues, John Arthur, and the mayor, David Creagh, -was deposed for refusing the oaths of supremacy, &c. - - [Footnote 7: So I was assured, many years ago, by the late Lord - Chief Baron Wolfe, from whom I also learned that all these - magistrates certainly sprung from the same stem, though how they - should be respectively placed as to constitute a form of - genealogy, I cannot now exactly indicate.] - -In 1647 Patrick Woulfe was sheriff; but from 1654, when the city -surrendered to Ireton, until June 1656, Limerick was ruled by twelve -English aldermen. In 1656 Colonel Henry Ingolsby became mayor, and the -regular order of magistracy was subsequently pursued. - -I cannot at present trace the genealogy in strict deduction, although I -believe it all might be collected from the subsisting papers of the -family in the county of Clare; at least from Garret, the first-named -bailiff in the preceding list. In my boyhood I saw some pedigree of it -in the hands of an antiquary named Stokes, but which it would now be -difficult to discover. If the present Sir Frederick A. G. Ouseley, -Bart., son of my old schoolfellow, the late Sir George, be in possession -of the papers of his grandfather, Captain Ralph Ouseley, I think it -likely that some documents relating to General Wolfe's family, in its -ancient line, will be found, as I recollect hearing Captain Ouseley, a -resident of Limerick, speak of them. - - J. R. - - Cork. - - -Replies to Minor Queries. - -_Song of "Miss Bailey"_ (Vol. v., p. 248.).--I think I am certain that -when I first heard of the song of "Miss Bailey," which was about 1805, -it was as having been sung in the farce of _Love laughs at Locksmiths_. - - C. B. - -_Fern Storms_ (Vol. v., p. 242.).--In Colonel Reid's _Law of Storms_, p. -483. _et seq._, 2nd edition, accounts are given of the violent whirlwind -produced by fires. It maybe supposed that in former times they were on a -larger scale than at present, and, from the great force described, they -might have affected the weather at least, when on the turn already. - - C. B. - -_The last of the Paleologi_ (Vol v., p. 173.).--All that was known -respecting the descendants J. L. C. will find in an article relating to -the family in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries, -_Archæologia_, vol. xviii. pp. 84-104. - - G. - -"_Whipping Graves_" (Vol v., p. 247.).--CYRUS REDDING will find that the -"Ritus Absolvendi jam mortuum" in the _modern Rituale Romanum_ -(Mechliniæ, 1848), is performed exactly according to his description. - - G. A. T. - - Withyham. - -_Rev. John Paget_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.; Vol. v., p. 66.).--CRANMORE'S -inquiry has not been fully answered, nor am I able to point out the -precise degree of relationship between John Paget and the editor of his -works, Thomas Paget. The latter became incumbent of Blackley, near -Manchester, about the year 1605, having been placed in that chapelry -chiefly through the efforts of the Rev. William Bourne, B.D., a native -of Staffordshire, who had married a kinswoman of Lord Burleigh, and who -was for many years an influential Fellow of the Collegiate Church of -Manchester. (See Hollingworth's _Mancuniensis_, pp. 106, 107.) In 1617 -Thomas Paget was cited before Morton, Bishop of Chester, for -nonconformity; and shortly afterwards he was convened before Bishop -Bridgeman on the same ground. He is styled at this time "the good old -man" (Brook's _Lives_, vol. ii. p. 293.), although he lived at least -forty years afterwards. In the delightful _Autobiography of Henry -Newcome, M.A._, the Presbyterian Minister of Manchester, edited for the -Chetham Society by the Rev. Canon Parkinson, D.D. (2 vols. 4to. 1852), -are several interesting notices of Mr. Thomas Paget. He is mentioned as -"old Mr. Pagit, late of Blakeley," in 1658, and seems to have had the -rectory of Stockport in 1659, although Richard Baxter spoke of him in -1656 as "old and sickly," and then living at Shrewsbury. He was well -known, says the amiable Newcome, "as a man of much frowardness," and -able to create "much unquietness;" but Baxter hoped, "not altogether so -morose as some report him." - - F. R. R. - -_Old Scots March, &c._ (Vol. v., p. 235.).--I happen to have the score -of one of the tunes inquired after by E. N., namely, _Port Athol_, as -given by the late Edward Bunting, in his collection of Irish airs, under -the name of the "Hawk of Ballyshannon." It was composed by a famous -Irish harper named Rory Dal O'Cahan, the Rory Dal of Sir Walter Scott's -_Legend of Montrose_, who visited Scotland in the reign of James VI., -and ultimately died there. He was the author of the _Ports_ or tunes -called _Port Gordon_, _Port Lennox_, _M'Leods Supper_, _Port Athol_, -_Give me your hand_, _The Lame Beggar_, &c. &c. It has often struck me -that this last tune is the origin from whence the air called _Jock o' -Hazledean_ was drawn. It is almost the same. - - FRANCIS CROSSLEY. - -_Sir R. Howard's "Conquest of China"_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--Dryden, in -his letters to his sons, writes: - - "After my return to town, I intend to alter a play of Sir Robert - Howard's, written long since, and lately put into my hands: 'tis - called _The Conquest of China by the Tartars_. It will cost me six - weeks' study, with the probable benefit of an hundred pounds." - -The _Biographia Dramatica_ states that this play was never acted or -printed. - - C. I. R. - -_Mary Howe_ (Vol. v., p. 226.).--Mary Howe was probably one of the three -daughters of Scrope, first Viscount Howe, by his second wife, Juliana, -daughter of William Lord Allington. She was, in 1720, appointed a maid -of honour to Caroline, Princess of Wales; and in 1725 married Thomas, -eighth Earl of Pembroke, whom she survived, as well as her second -husband, John Mordaunt, a brother of Charles, Earl of Peterborough. She -died in 1749 _s. p._ - - BRAYBROOKE. - -_Dutch Chronicle of the World_ (Vol. v., p. 54.). - - "_Historische Chronica._ Mit Merianischen Kupfern. viii. Theile. - Frankf. 1630. sqq. in 4. Hæc editio propter elegantiam figurarum - rara est. Bibl. Solger. ii. p. 298."--Bauer. _Bibl. Libror. - Rariorum._ - - "_Historische Chronica_, &c., folio. Francf. 1657. - - "---- 3 vol. fol. Francf. 1743, 45 and 59."--_Bibliothecæ Regiæ - Catalogus_ (_in Mus. Brit._) s. v. _Abelinus_. - - "Abelin John Philip, an historian, born at Strasburgh, died 1646; - often known by the name of John Louis Gottfried, or Gothofredus. - _Historical Chronicle from the beginning of the World to the year - 1619_; being a number of plates by Merian, with letter-press - descriptive of them."--_Watt's Bibl. Brit._ - -The life of Merian is given by Sandrart, in his _Academia Artis -Pictoriæ_. Strutt, in his _Dictionary of Engravers_, neglects to mention -that Matthæus Merianus Basileensis was employed at Nancy, together with -Brentel, A.D. 1608, in designing _Pompæ_ (funebres) _Caroli III. -Lotharingiæ Ducis_. They are etched in a slight style, but with great -spirit. The procession consists of a great many plates: these, bound up -together with the description, make a large folio volume. I bought a -copy six years ago. Can any of your readers inform me whether there is -another in England? - - BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. - -_Thistle of Scotland_ (Vol. i., pp. 24. 90. 166.).--I have just -accidentally stumbled upon my promised note on this subject; and as it -appears to be entirely different from any yet offered to you, I gladly -send it for the information of your correspondents. I copied it from an -old scrap-book: - - "_The Scotch Thistle._--The origin of the national badge is thus - handed down by tradition:--When the Danes invaded Scotland it was - deemed unwarlike to attack an enemy in the darkness of night, - instead of a pitched battle by day: but, on one occasion the - invaders resolved to avail themselves of stratagem; and in order - to prevent their tramp from being heard, they marched barefooted. - They had thus neared the Scottish force unobserved, when a Dane - unluckily stepped with his foot upon a superbly prickled thistle, - and uttered a cry of pain, which discovered the assailants to the - Scots, who ran to their arms, and defeated the foe with great - slaughter. The thistle was immediately adopted as the insignia of - Scotland." - - R. H. - -_Bull the Barrel_ (Vol. v., p. 200.).--The practice of "bulling the -barrel" or "cask," as mentioned by C. FORBES, is an every-day occurrence -in the Navy. As soon as a rum cask is emptied, a few gallons of water -are put into the cask (and it is struck down again into the -spirit-room); this is done to keep the wood moist, and prevent it from -shrinking, so as to keep the cask water-tight: this is called "bulling -the cask;" and from the water receiving after some time a strong -impregnation, which makes it really strong grog, salt water is used, -though even the "salt-water bull," as it is called, when again poured -out, has often proved too attractive for seamen to resist. Again, it is -common to talk in the same way of "bulling a tea-pot," coffee-pot, &c.; -that is, after the first "brew" has been exhausted, by adding fresh -water, and boiling over again, to make a "_second brew_" from the old -materials. This probably was derived from "bulling the cask;" but -whether the "bulling" originally applied to the preserving the -water-tight qualities of the cask, or to the making the "second brew," I -cannot pretend to say, though I should define the present acceptation of -the term "bulling" to be "the obtaining an impregnation from that which -had been already used." - - G. M. T. R. N. - -_Bishop Kidder's Autobiography_ (Vol. v., p. 228.).--Mr. Bowles, in the -introduction to his _Life of Bishop Ken_, vol. i. p. xi. (Lond. 1830), -expresses his thanks to the late Bishop of Bath and Wells "for the -information contained in the MS. life of Ken's successor, Bishop -Kidder;" and adds: - - "This work, never printed, is a very curious and valuable - document, _preserved in the episcopal palace of Wells_." - - J. C. R. - -_Which are the Shadows?_ (Vol. v., p. 196.).--The story is told as of -Wilkie at the Escurial by Southey in _The Doctor_, vol. iii. p. 235.; -also, with a fine compliment to the "British Painter," by Wordsworth, in -one of the pieces published with _Yarrow Revisited_ (1835, pp. 305-6.). -The coincidence with the note by Mr. Rogers--to whom, by the way, -Wordsworth's volume is dedicated--has long perplexed me. One is -unwilling to suppose that the touching words ascribed to the two monks -were a stock speech common to aged monks who have such pictures to show; -but what better explanation is there? I believe that the first edition -of _Italy_ appeared, not in 1830, as your correspondent supposes, but in -1822. Is the story to be found in _that_ edition? - - J. C. R. - -_Welsh Names "Blaen"_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--Although my acquaintance with -the language of the Cymri is very limited, I think that a knowledge of -the cognate Erse or Gaelic enables me to make a shrewd guess at the -meaning of the word _Blaen_, prefixed to the names of so many farms in -Wales. The Gaelic word _Baile_, pronounced _Ballé_, signifies a -town--the Scotch _toun_--or farm, and, with the preposition _an_ or -_na_--Anglicè _of_--is written _Baile'n_, pronounced _Ballen_: this, I -think, is probably the same word as _Blaen_, and means, being -interpreted, "the farm of." In the examples given by your correspondent -[Greek: a], the words affixed to _Blaen_ are descriptive; many of them -scarcely differ in sound from their Gaelic synonyms _e.g._ _Blaen-awen_ -is the Gaelic _Baile'n abhuinn_, pronounced _Ballen avine_, Ang. "the -farm on, or of the river;" _Blaen-argy_--Gaelic, _Baile'n airgiod_, "the -silver farm," or perhaps _'n arguin_, of strife; _Blaen-angell_--Gaelic, -_Baile'n aingeal_, "angel farm"; _Blaen-y-foss_--Gaelic, -_Baile-na-fois_, pronounced _f[=o]sh_, and synonymous with the Dutch -_lust_, "leisure or pleasure farm;" and _Blaen-nefern_--Gaelic, -_Baile-na-fearn_, "alder farm." In England these farms or towns would -have been called respectively, _Riverton_, _Silverton_, _Alderston_, and -so on. The same word, generally spelt _Bally_, forms part of the name of -a very large proportion of the small towns and farms in Ireland. - - W. A. C. - - Ormsary. - -_The Verb "to commit"_ (Vol. v., p. 125.).--The verb _to commit_, in the -sense used by Junius, was employed by Lord Chesterfield so far back as -the year 1757. In a letter to his son (Nov. 26), his lordship, after -instructing Mr. Stanhope what to say to one of the foreign ministers, -directs him to send to his own court an account of what he had done: - - "Tell them you thought the measure of such great importance that - you could not help taking this little step towards bringing it - about, but that you mentioned it only from yourself, and that you - have not _committed_ them by it." - -Lord Chesterfield's _Letters to his Son_ were not published until 1774, -which will account for Walker ascribing to Junius the merit of -introducing into the English language the French signification of the -verb _to commit_. - - WILLIAM CRAMP. - -_Beócera-gent_ (Vol. v., p. 201.).--As I asked a question relating to -the Irish, perhaps I may be allowed the so-called Irish mode of -answering it myself. - -_Beócherie_ is evidently derived from _Beóceraige_, the islet of -bee-hives, or bee-keepers (who were regularly appointed officers in -Saxon England); but as I was utterly at a loss for the word _gent_, I -requested the opinion of Dr. Lèo, from whom I have received the -following satisfactory reply:-- - - "The word _gent_ seems to be the same word as our German _gante_, - and the Scottish _gauntree_; i.e. a _tree_ which forms a stand for - barrels, hives, &c. In several parts of Germany, where the culture - of bees has, from distant periods, been carried on extensively, - the hives are transported from one place to another according to - the seasons: now in the forests, when the pine-trees are in - flower; now in the fields, when the rape blossoms; then again in - the woods, when the heather blossoms; and at last, when winter - approaches, in the barn. A tree forms the stand for the bee-hive, - and thatch protects it from the rain. Such a tree seems to be the - _beócera-gent_. - - "In an old Glossary, the old high-German word, _gantmari_, is - interpreted as _tignarius_ (i.e. _faber tignarius_, a carpenter). - This word presupposes another word _gant_, a beam or a rafter, - probably equivalent to your Ang.-Sax. _gent_; and thus - _beócera-gent_ would be a beam upon which to stand bee-hives." - -The question still remains, Why was the islet in question called Parva -Hibernia? - - B. WILLIAMS. - - The Lodge, Hillingdon. - -_New Zealand Legend_ (Vol. v., p. 27.).--This strange legend reminds me -of the fine passage in _Caractacus_, of which I know not whether it is -an original conception, or taken from any author:-- - - "Masters of wisdom! No: my soul confides - In that all-healing and all-forming Power, - Who, on the radiant day when Time was born, - Cast his broad eye upon the wild of ocean, - And calm'd it with a glance; then, plunging deep - His mighty arm, pluck'd from its dark domain - This throne of freedom, lifted it to light, - Girt it with silver cliffs, and call'd it Britain; - He did, and will preserve it." - - C. B. - -_Twenty-seven Children_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--To E. D.'s Query, "whether -there is any well-authenticated instance of a woman having had more than -twenty-five children?" something like a reply will be found in the -following paragraph, which formed one of a series of "Curious Extracts," -in the _Edinburgh Antiquarian Magazine_ (1848):-- - - "'_Extraordinary Number of Children._--The following - extraordinary, yet well-attested fact, is copied from Brand's - _History of Newcastle_, lately published. The fact is mentioned - and corroborated by a quotation from an Harleian MS. No. 980-87. A - weaver in Scotland had, by one wife, a Scotch woman, _sixty-two_ - children, all living till they were baptized; of whom four - daughters only lived to be women, but forty-six sons attained to - man's estate. In 1630, Joseph Delavel, Esq., of Northumberland, - rode thirty miles beyond Edinburgh, to be satisfied of the truth - of this account, when he found the man and woman both living; but - at that time had no children abiding with them. Sir John Bowes and - three other gentlemen having, at different periods, taken each ten - in order to bring them up; the rest also being disposed of. Three - or four of them were at that period (1630) at - Newcastle.'--_European Magazine_, Dec. 1786." - -But, of course, the question still arises, _can_ this wonderful instance -be recognised as "a well-attested fact?" - - R. S. F. - - Perth. - -In Wanley's _Wonders of the Little Moral World_ (London, 1806), vol. i. -p. 76., will be found several instances of numerous families by one -mother; in one case (No. 27.) fifty-seven children; and in another (No. -6.), no less than seventy-three! Your correspondent can refer to the -authorities, which are also given. The authenticity of one of the cases -mentioned (No. 23.) will probably be easily ascertained, as it is said -to be the copy of an inscription in the churchyard of Heydon in -Yorkshire, to the following effect:-- - - "Here lieth the body of William Strutton of Padrington, buried the - 18th of May, 1734, aged ninety-seven, who had by his first wife - twenty-eight children, and by a second wife seventeen; was father - to forty-five, grandfather to eighty-six, great-grandfather to - ninety-seven, and great-great-grandfather to twenty-three--in all - 251."--_Gent. Mag. Aug. 1731._ - -There appears to be some mistake in the reference, and I may mention -that I have not been able to find the epitaph in Mr. Urban's pages with -the assistance of the general index.[8] - - E. N. - - [Footnote 8: [It occurs in the October number of 1734, p. 571.--ED.]] - -_Reeve and Muggleton_ (Vol. v., pp. 80. 236.).--One of the handsomest -quartos of our day, both in typography and engravings, is, _Two Systems -of Astronomy: first, the Newtonian System ... second, the System in -accordance with the Holy Scriptures_ ... by Isaac Frost, London, 4to., -1846 (Simpkin and Marshall). This work is Muggletonian, and contains -some extracts from _The Divine Looking-Glass of the Third Testament of -our Lord Jesus Christ_, by Reeve and Muggleton. I request your readers -to draw no inference from the letter with which I sign my -communications. - - M. - -_Black Book of Paisley_ (Vol. v., pp. 201.).--In reply to ABERDONIENSIS, -I beg to inform him that the "Maitland Club" (_Glasgow_) circulated as -the contribution of the Earl of Glasgow in the year 1832 a very handsome -volume, entitled _Registrum Monasterii de Passelet_, M.C.LXIII-M.D.XXIX. -to which there was prefixed an highly interesting prefatory notice and -illustrative notes, in which it is there stated-- - - "That it may be proper to correct a popular mistake regarding - _another_ record connected with the Monastery of Paisley. _The - Black Book of Paisley_, quoted by Buchanan and our earlier - historians, and which (having disappeared) was raised by later - antiquaries into undue importance as a distinct and original - chronicle, was nothing more than a copy of Fordun - (_Scotichronicon_), with Bowers' Continuation. It appears to have - been acquired by Thomas Lord Fairfax, but when Gale and Hearne - wrote, had already been deposited in the Royal Library, where it - is still preserved. (13. E. X.) Hearne particularly notices the - inscription on this volume: 'Iste liber est Sancti Jacobi et - Sancti Mirini de Pasleto.'--_Præfatio ad Fordun_, p. lxvi." - - T. G. S. - - Edinburgh. - -_Pasquinades_ (Vol. v., p. 200.).--I have had these Italian lines in my -MS. book for many years as an "Epigram on Bonaparte's Legion of Honor." -If of earlier date, and another origin, they have been made good use of -by the would-be wits of the day, as a quiz upon Napoleon's honorary -badge. - - HERMES. - -_Elegy on Coleman_ (Vol. v., p. 137.).--The Elegy on Coleman I have seen -paraphrased or travestied, and thus attributed to Dryden, who, not being -able to pay his wine-merchant's bill, was told, on dining with this -creditor, in the exhilaration of his cups, that if he (Dryden) would -_improvise_ four lines expressive of pleasure to God, to the Devil, to -the World, and to the Merchant, the debt would be forgiven. Instantly, -therefore, the poet extemporised the following verses, sufficiently -redolent of their inspiring source: - - "God is pleased when we abstain from sin; - The devil is pleas'd when we remain therein; - The world is pleas'd with good wine, - And you're pleased when I pay for mine." - - J. R. - - Cork. - -_Liber Conformitatum, &c._ (Vol. v., p. 202.).--On the _Liber -Conformitatum_, I confidently assert, from accurate inquiry, that no -edition preceded that of 1510, nor is there any authority for the -alleged one of Venice. A long account of this most disedifying volume -will be found in DeBure's _Bibliographie Instructive_, No. 4540. I am in -possession of the second edition in 1511, perfectly identical in the -text. Its absurdity is equal to its obvious, though not intended, -blasphemy; for it is written in genuine simplicity of design. I have -likewise the _Alcorand des Cordeliers_, with the second book by Conrad -Badius, the son of Jodocus Badius Ascencius, a native of Belgium, but -one of the early Parisian printers, and author himself of various works. -The title of my edition of the _Alcoran_, printed at Geneva, 1575, -differs from that of 1586, but necessarily of the same import, and -quite as prolix. - - J. R. - - Cork. - -_Grimesdyke; Grimes Graves_ (Vol. v., p. 231.).--As J. F. F. has -repeated Blomefield's account of these curious pits (commonly known as -_Grimes Graves_, in Weeting parish, Norfolk), it is right to add some -more recent information respecting them. An investigation was made there -last month, by digging a trench through the middle of a pit, and at the -depth of about three feet an oval fire-place of flints was discovered, -containing numerous bones of oxen, &c. One of the smaller pits was then -similarly treated, and we found the same proofs of habitation. No stone -implements were discovered, but further researches may bring some to -light. Blomefield's statement that it is a Danish camp is quite without -foundation, and his "form of a quincunx," in which he supposed the pits -to be, could have existed only in his own imagination, stimulated by the -learned labours of Sir Thomas Browne. There can be no doubt now that -they were dwellings of the British, similar to the pits on the coast at -Weybourne. That _Grime_ was a Danish leader, "Præpositus," &c., is also -open to doubt. When so many British earthworks are designated by this -name, what is more likely than that the Saxons, not knowing whose hands -had erected them, superstitiously ascribed them to the _grim_ spirit, -the Devil?--whence _Grimsdyke_, the Devil's ditch, &c. Neither this -opinion, however, nor Mr. Guest's (a "boundary") seems applicable to a -Hundred, as _Grimeshoo_, unless as being so full of Grime's operations. - - C. R. M. - -_Junius and the Quarterly Review again_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--I confess -that I could draw quite a different conclusion from that of CAROLUS -CURSITOR respecting Junius's single misspelt mention of Lord Lyttleton's -name. If, as the reviewer argues (supposing I remember the article -correctly), the Hon. Thomas Lyttleton only once mentioned his father, in -order to prevent public attention settling on himself as the author of -_Junius's Letters_, it seems to me to be in unison with such artifice, -that he should have purposely made a slight error in spelling the name. -But is the writer, and not the printer, responsible for this blunder? - - ALFRED GATTY. - -_Ink_ (Vol. v., p. 151.).--A learned Cambridge professor, who has been a -V.P.R.S., once related to me the following anecdote, in reference to the -celebrated and most practical philosopher, the late Dr. Wollaston. In -the rooms of the Royal Society the Doctor chanced to mention that he -could not, for the life of him, discover the composition of the rich -black pigment used by the ancient Egyptians in their inscriptions on the -mummy cases. He had analysed it over and over again, and invariably -found animal matter present. How was this? "Why," observed a member, to -the grievous annoyance of the somewhat self-opinioned Doctor, "they used -the ink of the (_Sepia officinalis_) cuttle-fish." This most remarkable -excretion is of the deepest black hue; and that it retains its peculiar -qualities unimpaired, even after being buried beneath the chalk -formation of this earth of our's for unnumbered periods, is proved in -the case of the well-known fossil ink of Dean Buckland. I know not -whether or no this will answer the Query of MR. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. - - COWGILL. - -_Maps of Africa_ (Vol. v., p. 236.).--AJAX is informed that the best map -of Morocco that has probably appeared is given in the volume of the -_Exploration Scientifique de l'Algérie_, entitled "L'Empire de Maroc par -Berbrugger." An excellent map of Algeria by R. H. Dufour, is published -at a moderate price by Longuet, 8. Rue de la Paix, Paris. The date on my -copy is 1850; it forms one of a series of maps issued by the same -parties, and forming an Atlas of Algeria. I add from the _Leipzig -Catalogue_ (1849, viertes Heft) the title of a work which may assist -AJAX in his labours. Though I have not examined the work myself, I know -it to be of some repute. The author now forms one of the mission for -exploring Central Africa: - - "Barth Dr. Heinr. Wanderungen durch die Küstenländer d. - Mittelmeers, ausgeführt in den J. 1845, 1846 u. 1847. In 2 Bdn 1 - Bd A.u.d. T.: Wanderungen durch das Punische u. Kyrenäische - Küstenland od. Màg'reb, Afrik'ia u. Bark'a. Mit 1 (lith. u. - illum.) Karte (in Imp. fol.) gr. 8. Berlin, Hertz." - -The travels of Dr. Barth had especial reference to the discovery and -identification of ancient localities. - - NORTHMAN. - -_Learned Men of the Name of Bacon_ (Vol. iii., pp. 41. 151.; Vol. v., p. -181.).--To this list may be added that of a learned lady, namely, of the -Lady Ann Bacon (Cooke), second wife of the Lord Keeper, and mother of -the Lord Chancellor. She translated, from the Italian of Bernardine -Achine, _Twenty-five Sermons_, published about 1550. - -Sir Nathaniel Bacon, the painter, was the youngest son of Nicholas, the -eldest son of the Lord Keeper, and consequently the latter's grandson. -This Nicholas, of Redgrave, Suffolk, was High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1597, -and represented the same county in the parliament of 1603. He was the -first person created a baronet; and from him are descended the Bacons of -Redgrave, Suffolk, afterwards of Great Ryburgh, Garboldisham, -Gillingham, and now of Raveningham, Norfolk, premier baronets of -England. - -There are engraved portraits of Lady Ann Bacon, and of Sir Nathaniel the -painter. - - COWGILL. - -_Paring the Nails_ (Vol. iii., p. 462.; Vol. v., p 142.).--In reference -to the superstitious practices in question, the readers of the _Prose -Edda_, many of whose traditions still survive amongst us, will remember -what it is therein narrated concerning the ship Naglfar. Amongst the -terror-fraught prodigies preceding Ragnarök, or the Twilight of the -Gods, and the Conflagration of the Universe, we are informed that "on -the waters floats the ship Naglfar, which is constructed of the nails of -dead men. For which reason," it is said, "great care should be taken to -die with pared nails; for he who dies with his nails unpared, supplies -materials for the building of this vessel, which both gods and men wish -may be finished as late as possible." Of this ship, the more ancient and -poetical Völn-spà also speaks in something like the following terms:-- - - "A keel from distant East is nearing, - Pilotted by Loki's hand, - Muspellheimr's children bearing,-- - Sea-borne comes that horrid band! - With the wolf to join, are speeding, - In a grim and gaunt array, - Monster-forms 'neath Loki's leading,-- - Byleist's brother leads the way." - - COWGILL. - -_Mottoes on Dials._--I have not seen the following motto noticed either -in your pages or elsewhere. I quote it from memory, as I recollect -reading it many years ago on the sun-dial in front of the Hospice on the -summit of the Mont Cenis: - - "Tempore nimboso securi sistile gradum--- - Ut mihi sic vobis hora quietis erit." - - J. E. T. - -_Mispronounced Names of Places_ (Vol. v., p. 196.).--Allow me to add to -P. M. M.'s list: - - Spelling. Pronunciation. - - North-brook-end (Cambridgeshire) Nobacken. - Mountnessing (Essex) Moneyseen. - Brookhampton (Glostershire) Brockington. - Barnstaple Barum. - Crediton Kirton. - Penrith Perith. - Brougham Broome. - Birmingham Brummagem. - -It is hardly worth while to mention the larger tribe of contractions, -such as Alsford for Alresford, Wilsden for Willesden, Harfordwest for -Haverfordwest; nor the class of derivations from the Roman Castrum, as -Uxeter for Uttoxeter, Toster for Towcester, and the like. - -The railroads are correcting these grosser errors wherever they fall in -with them. I remember a few years ago, being at Gloster, and intending -to take the train to _Cisiter_, as I had always called it. "Oh!" said -the porter, with quite the air of a _Lingo_, "you mean _Ci-ren-cester_." -But I believe the good folks of the neighbourhood still stick to -_Aberga'ny_ and _Cisiter_. - -P. M. M.'s appeal to your Scotch and Irish correspondents will I think -produce little. In Scotland, names are generally pronounced as written, -with a few exceptions, such as _Enbro'_ and _Lithgow_, and perhaps a few -others: but in Ireland I do not remember a single instance of the -corruption of a name; though certainly the Irish might be forgiven if -they had contracted or mollified such names as _Drumcullagher_, -_Ballaghaddireen_, _Moatagreenoque_, and _Tamnaughtfinlaggan_. The -English are, I believe, the only people who habitually _clip_ proper -names of persons or places, but I think it is also the only language in -which the spelling of words does not afford a general guide for their -pronunciation. No other language that I know anything of can afford such -anomalies as are to be found, for instance, in _rough_, _cough_, -_lough_, _plough_, _dough_, _through_, &c. &c. - - C. - -The following are such names of places as have come within my -observation:-- - - Spelling. Pronunciation. - Happisburgh Ha'sboro'. - Wormegay Rungay. - Sechehithe Setchey. - Wiggenhall St. Mary _Magdalen_.[9] Maudlin. - Babingley Beverley. - Methwold Muell. - Northwold Nordell. - Hockwold cum Wilton Hockold-Wilts. - - [Footnote 9: By the last word this place is named to distinguish - it from others beginning with the word "Wiggenhall."] - - J. N. C. - -_"There's ne'er a villain," &c._ (Vol. v., p. 242.).--In support of A. -E. B., with whose view I entirely concur, it may be added that _villain_ -and _knave_ do not make the proposition such a truism as Horatio (who is -not intended for a conjuror, much less a verbal critic) admits it to be. -Alexander the Great has been called a _villain_ and a _robber_, but -never a _knave_ or a _thief_. By the Rule of Three, villain: robber:: -knave: thief. As a truism, intended by Hamlet before the first line was -spoken, it is not good enough for Hamlet's wit. But, supposing the -second line invented, _pro re natâ_, to cover the retreat of the -disclosure which was advancing in the first line, it is just what might -have suggested itself--for Hamlet's uncle was both villain and knave. - - M. - - - - -Miscellaneous. - - -NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. - -Those who judge of a book's importance by its size will be most -egregiously taken in by _Regal Rome: an Introduction to Roman History by -Francis W. Newman, Professor of Latin in University College, London_. 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Fleet -Street aforesaid.--Saturday, March 20, 1852. - - - - - [Transcriber's Note: List of volumes and content pages in "Notes - and Queries", Vol. I.-V.] - - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | - | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | - | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | - | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | - | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | - | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | - | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | - | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | - | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | - | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | - | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | - | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | - | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | - | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | - | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | - | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | - | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | - | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | - | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | - | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | - | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | - | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | - | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | - | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | - +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ - | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 | - | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 | - | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 | - | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 | - | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 | - | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | - | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | - | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | - | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | - | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | - | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | - | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | - | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | - | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | - | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | - | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | - | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | - | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | - | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | - | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | - | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | - | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | - | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | - | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | - | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | - +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | - | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | - | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | - | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | - | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | - | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | - | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | - | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | - | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | - | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | - | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | - | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | - | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | - | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | - | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | - | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | - | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | - | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | - | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | - | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | - | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 | - +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ - | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | - | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | - | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | - | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | - | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | - | Vol. IV No. 94 | August 16, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 38350 | - | Vol. IV No. 95 | August 23, 1851 | 129-144 | PG # 38386 | - | Vol. IV No. 96 | August 30, 1851 | 145-167 | PG # 38405 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 97 | Sept. 6, 1851 | 169-183 | PG # 38433 | - | Vol. IV No. 98 | Sept. 13, 1851 | 185-200 | PG # 38491 | - | Vol. IV No. 99 | Sept. 20, 1851 | 201-216 | PG # 38574 | - | Vol. IV No. 100 | Sept. 27, 1851 | 217-246 | PG # 38656 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 101 | Oct. 4, 1851 | 249-264 | PG # 38701 | - | Vol. IV No. 102 | Oct. 11, 1851 | 265-287 | PG # 38773 | - | Vol. IV No. 103 | Oct. 18, 1851 | 289-303 | PG # 38864 | - | Vol. IV No. 104 | Oct. 25, 1851 | 305-333 | PG # 38926 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 105 | Nov. 1, 1851 | 337-358 | PG # 39076 | - | Vol. IV No. 106 | Nov. 8, 1851 | 361-374 | PG # 39091 | - | Vol. IV No. 107 | Nov. 15, 1851 | 377-396 | PG # 39135 | - | Vol. IV No. 108 | Nov. 22, 1851 | 401-414 | PG # 39197 | - | Vol. IV No. 109 | Nov. 29, 1851 | 417-430 | PG # 39233 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. IV No. 110 | Dec. 6, 1851 | 433-460 | PG # 39338 | - | Vol. IV No. 111 | Dec. 13, 1851 | 465-478 | PG # 39393 | - | Vol. IV No. 112 | Dec. 20, 1851 | 481-494 | PG # 39438 | - | Vol. IV No. 113 | Dec. 27, 1851 | 497-510 | PG # 39503 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Notes and Queries Vol. V. | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. V No. 114 | January 3, 1852 | 1- 18 | PG # 40171 | - | Vol. V No. 115 | January 10, 1852 | 25- 45 | PG # 40582 | - | Vol. V No. 116 | January 17, 1852 | 49- 70 | PG # 40642 | - | Vol. V No. 117 | January 24, 1852 | 73- 94 | PG # 40678 | - | Vol. V No. 118 | January 31, 1852 | 97-118 | PG # 40716 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. V No. 119 | February 7, 1852 | 121-142 | PG # 40742 | - | Vol. V No. 120 | February 14, 1852 | 145-167 | PG # 40743 | - | Vol. V No. 121 | February 21, 1852 | 170-191 | PG # 40773 | - | Vol. V No. 122 | February 28, 1852 | 193-215 | PG # 40779 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol. V No. 123 | March 6, 1852 | 217-239 | PG # 40804 | - | Vol. V No. 124 | March 13, 1852 | 241-263 | PG # 40843 | - +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ - | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | - | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | - | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. JAN.-JUNE, 1851 | PG # 26770 | - | INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME. 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