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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May
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-Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852
- A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
- Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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-_italic_ fonts. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has
-been added at the end.]
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-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. 134. SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1852.
-
-Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS.
-
- Page
-
-
- NOTES:--
-
- A few Things about Richard Baxter, by H. M. Bealby 481
-
- Latin Song by Andrew Boorde, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 482
-
- Shakspeare Notes 483
-
- Publications of the Stuttgart Society, by F. Norgate 484
-
- Manuscript Shakspeare Emendations, by J. O. Halliwell 484
-
- The Grave-stone of Joe Miller 485
-
- Folk Lore:--Swearing on a Skull--New Moon--Rust 485
-
- Minor Notes:--Epitaph at Low Moor--Sir Thomas Overbury's
- Epitaph--Bibliotheca Literaria--Inscription at Dundrah
- Castle--Derivation of Charing 486
-
- QUERIES:--
-
- Poem by Nicholas Breton 487
-
- The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club 487
-
- The Rabbit as a Symbol 487
-
- Is Wyld's Great Globe a Plagiarism from Molenax? by
- John Petheram 488
-
- Minor Queries:--Poem on the Burning of the Houses of
- Parliament--Newton's Library--Meaning of Royd--The
- Cromwell Family--Sir John Darnell, Knt.--Royal
- "We"--Gondomar--Wallington's Journal--Epistola
- Lucifera, &c.--Cambrian Literature--"VCRIMDR" on
- Coins of Vabalathus--Lines on Woman--Penkenol--Fairfax
- Family Mansion--Postman and Tubman in the Court of
- Exchequer--Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains,
- &c. 488
-
- MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Welsh Women's Hats--Pancakes
- on Shrove Tuesday--Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian 491
-
- REPLIES:--
-
- The Ring Finger 492
-
- The Moravian Hymns 492
-
- Cagots 493
-
- Sheriffs and Lords Lieutenant 494
-
- St. Christopher 494
-
- General Pardons: Sir John Trenchard, by E. S. Taylor 496
-
- Replies to Minor Queries:--Dayesman--Bull; Dun--Algernon
- Sidney--Age of Trees--Emaciated Monumental Effigies--Bee
- Park--Sally Lunn--Baxter's Pulpit--Lothian's Scottish
- Historical Maps--British Ambassadors--Knollys
- Family--'Prentice Pillars; 'Prentice Windows--St.
- Bartholomew--Sun-dial Inscription--History of
- Faction--Barnacles--Family Likenesses--Merchant
- Adventurers to Spain--Exeter Controversy--Corrupted
- Names of Places--Poison--Vikingr Skotar--Rhymes on
- Places--"We three"--Burning Fern brings Rain--Plague
- Stones--Sneezing--Abbot of Croyland's Motto--Derivation
- of the Word "Azores"--Scologlandis and Scologi 497
-
- MISCELLANEOUS:--
-
- Notes on Books, &c. 501
-
- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 502
-
- Notices to Correspondents 502
-
- Advertisements 503
-
-
-
-
-Notes.
-
-
-A FEW THINGS ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER.
-
-In the year 1836, I visited Kidderminster for the purpose of seeing the
-place where Richard Baxter spent fourteen of the most valuable years of
-his life; and of ascertaining if any relics were to be found connected
-with the history of this remarkable man. Baxter thought much of
-Kidderminster, for with strong feeling he says, respecting this place,
-in his poem on "Love breathing Thanks and Praise" (_Poetical Fragments_,
-1st edit. 1681):--
-
- "But among all, none did so much abound,
- With fruitful mercies, as that barren ground,
- Where I did make my best and longest stay,
- And bore the heat and burden of the day;
- Mercies grew thicker there than summer flowers:
- They over-numbered my daies and hours.
- There was my dearest flock, and special charge,
- Our hearts in mutual love thou didst enlarge:
- 'Twas there that mercy did my labours bless,
- With the most great and wonderful success."
-
-While prosecuting my inquiries, I was shown the house in which he is
-said to have resided. It is situated in the High Street, and was, at the
-time of my visit, inhabited by a grocer; but I had my doubts, from a
-difference of opinion I heard stated as to this being the actual house.
-After looking at this house, I visited the vestry of the Unitarian
-Chapel, and examined the pulpit; the description of which given by your
-correspondent is very correct. He omits to mention Job Orton's chair,
-which was shown me, as well as that of Bishop Hall. From all I could
-learn at the time, and since, I should say that there is not the
-slightest probability of any engraving having been published of this
-pulpit. Sketches may have been made by private hands, but nothing I
-believe in this way has ever been given to the public. I have long taken
-a deep interest in everything, pertaining to Richard Baxter. I some
-years ago collected ninety-seven out of the one hundred and sixty-eight
-works which he wrote, most of them the original editions, and
-principally on controversial subjects. After they had served the purpose
-for which I purchased them, I parted with them, reserving to myself the
-first editions of the choicest of his practical writings. The folio
-edition of his works contains only his practical treatises. One of the
-most remarkable facts connected with the history of Baxter, is the
-prodigious amount of mechanical drudgery to which he must have patiently
-submitted in the production of his varied publications. He had a very
-delicate frame: he was continually unwell, and often greatly afflicted.
-To this constant ailment of body he refers in a very affecting note in
-his _Paraphrase on the New Testament_ under the fifth verse in the fifth
-chapter of the Gospel of St. John. The reference is to the impotent man
-at the pool of Bethesda, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
-
- _Note._ "How great a mercy is it, to live eight and thirty years
- under God's wholesome discipline? How inexcusable was this man, if
- he had been proud, or worldly, or careless of his everlasting
- state? O my God! I thank thee for the like discipline of eight and
- fifty years. How safe a life is this, in comparison of full
- prosperity and pleasure."
-
-His ministerial duties were of an arduous nature, and yet he found time
-to write largely on theological subjects, and to plunge perpetually into
-theological controversy. The _Saint's Rest_, by which his fame will ever
-be perpetuated, was published in 1619, 4to. It is in four parts, and
-dedicated respectively to the inhabitants of Kidderminster, Bridgenorth,
-Coventry, and Shrewsbury. It was the first book he wrote, and the second
-he published (_The Aphorisms of Justification_ being the first
-published): it was written under the daily expectation of dying. The
-names of Brook, Hampden, and Pym, which have a place in the first
-edition, are, singularly enough, omitted in the later ones. Fifty years
-after the appearance of the _Saint's Rest_, and a few months only before
-his death, he published the strangest of all his productions; it is--
-
- "The Certainty of the World of Spirits, fully evinced by
- unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts,
- Operations, Voices, &c. Proving the Immortality of Souls, the
- Malice and Misery of Devils and the Damned, and the Blessedness of
- the Justified. Written for the Conviction of Sadducees and
- Infidels."
-
- 12mo. 1691.
-
-His _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, folio, 1686, is the text-book for the actual
-every-day life of this eminent divine.
-
- H. M. BEALBY.
-
- North Brixton.
-
-
-LATIN SONG BY ANDREW BOORDE.
-
-The life of this "progenitor of Merry Andrew," as he is termed, would,
-if minutely examined, doubtless prove a curious piece of biography. Wood
-furnishes many particulars, but some of his statements want
-confirmation. He tells us that Boorde was borne at Pevensey in Sussex;
-but Hearne corrects him, and says it was at Bounds Hill in the same
-county. It then becomes a question whether he was educated at Winchester
-school. Certain it is that he was of Oxford, although he left without
-taking a degree, and became a brother of the Carthusian order in London.
-We next find him studying physic in his old university, and subsequently
-travelling through most parts of Europe, and even of Africa. On his
-return to England, he settled at Winchester, and practised as a
-physician. Afterwards we find him in London occupying a tenement in the
-parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This appears to have been the period
-when, in his professional capacity, King Henry VIII. is said to have
-consulted him. How long he remained in London is uncertain, but in 1541
-he was living at Montpelier in France, where he is supposed to have
-taken the degree of doctor in physic, in which he was afterwards
-incorporated at Oxford. He subsequently lived at Pevensey, and again at
-Winchester. At last we find him a prisoner in the Fleet--the cause has
-yet to be learned,--at which place he died in April, 1549. The following
-curious relic is transcribed from the flyleaf of a copy of _The Breviary
-of Health_, 4to., London, 1547. It is signed "Andrew Boord," and if not
-the handwriting of the facetious author himself, is certainly that of
-some one of his cotemporaries:
-
- "Nos vagabunduli,
- Laeti, jucunduli,
- Tara, tantara teino.
- Edimus libere,
- Canimus lepide,
- Tara, &c.
- Risu dissolvimur,
- Pannis obvolvimur,
- Tara, &c.
- Multum in joculis,
- Crebro in poculis,
- Tara, &c.
- Dolo consuimus,
- Nihil metuimus,
- Tara, &c.
- Pennus non deficit,
- Praeda nos reficit,
- Tara, &c.
- Frater Catholice,
- Vir apostolice,
- Tara, &c.
- Dic quae volueris
- Fient quae jusseris,
- Tara, &c.
- Omnes metuite
- Partes gramaticae,
- Tara, &c.
- Quadruplex nebulo
- Adest, et spolio,
- Tara, &c.
- Data licencia,
- Crescit amentia,
- Tara, &c.
- Papa sic praecipit
- Frater non decipit
- Tara, &c.
- Chare fratercule,
- Vale et tempore,
- Tara, &c.
- Quando revititur,
- Congratulabimur,
- Tara, &c.
- Nosmet respicimus,
- Et vale dicimus,
- Tara, &c.
- Corporum noxibus
- Cordium amplexibus,
- Tara tantara teino."
-
-Andrew Boorde's printed works are as follows:
-
-1. _A Book of the Introduction to Knowledge_, 4to., London, 1542.
-
-2. _A Compendious Regiment or Dietary of Health, made at Mountpyller_,
-8vo., 1542.
-
-3. _The Breviary of Health_, 4to., London, 1547.
-
-4. _The Princyples of Astronomye_, 12mo., R. Copland, London, n. d.
-
-Wood tells us he wrote "a book on prognosticks," and another "of
-urines." _The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham_ are also ascribed
-to him, as well as _A Right Pleasant and Merry History of the Mylner of
-Abington_, &c.
-
-The origin of the _Merry Tales_ is pointed out by Horsfield, in his
-_History of Lewes_, vol. i. p. 239.:--
-
- "At a _last_, holden at Pevensey, Oct. 3, 24 Hen. VIII., for the
- purpose of preventing unauthorised persons 'from setting nettes,
- pottes, or innyances,' or anywise taking fish within the
- privileges of the Marsh of Pevensey, the king's commission was
- directed to John, Prior of Lewes; Richard, Abbot of Begham; John,
- Prior of Mychillym; Thomas, Lord Dacre, and others ... Dr. Boorde
- (the original Merry Andrew) founds his tale of the 'Wise Men of
- Gotham' upon the proceedings of this meeting, Gotham being the
- property of Lord Dacre, and near his residence."
-
-The inhabitants of Gotham in Nottinghamshire have hitherto been
-considered the "biggest fools in christendom;" but if the above extract
-is to be depended upon, the _Gothamites_ of Sussex have a fair claim to
-a share of this honourable distinction.
-
-The quotation from the _History of Lewes_ was first pointed out by your
-learned correspondent, MR. M. A. LOWER, in a communication to Mr.
-Halliwell's _Archaeologist_, 1842, p. 129. The investigation of the
-origin of this popular collection of old _Joe Millerisms_ is of some
-importance, because upon them rests Dr. Boorde's title to be the
-"progenitor of Merry Andrew."
-
- EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
-
-
-SHAKSPEARE NOTES.
-
-Who was the editor of _The Poems and Plays of William Shakspeare_, eight
-vols. 8vo., published by Scott and Webster in 1833?
-
-In that edition the following passage from _The Merchant of Venice_, Act
-III. Sc. 2., is _pointed_ in this way:--
-
- "Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
- To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
- Veiling an Indian; beauty's, in a word,
- The seeming truth which cunning times put on
- To entrap the wisest."
-
-To which the anonymous editor appends the following note:--
-
- "I have deviated slightly from the folio--the ordinary reading
- represents ornament as '_the beauteous scarf veiling an Indian
- beauty_,' a sentence which by no means serves to illustrate the
- reflexion which Bassanio wishes to enforce. Sir Thomas Hanmer
- proposed to read _dowdy_ for beauty!"
-
-My object in this quotation is not that of commending the emendation,
-but of affording an opportunity of recording the following reasons which
-induce me to reject it; not only as no improvement to the sense, but as
-a positive injury to it.
-
-1st. The argument of Bassanio is directed against the deceptiveness of
-ornament in general, of which seeming beauty is only one of the
-subordinate illustrations. These illustrations are drawn from _law_,
-_religion_, _valour_, and _beauty_; all of which are finally summed up
-in the passage in question, beginning "_Thus ornament_," &c. and still
-further concentrated in the phrase "_in a word_." Therefore this summing
-up cannot refer singly to _beauty_, no more than to any other of the
-subordinate illustrations, but it must have general reference to
-adventitious ornament, against which _the collected argument_ is
-directed.
-
-2ndly. The word _beauty_ is necessarily attached to Indian as
-designative _of sex_: "an Indian," unqualified by any other distinction,
-would imply a male; but an "Indian beauty" is at once understood to be a
-female.
-
-3rdly. The repetition, or rather _the opposition_, of "_beauteous_" and
-"_beauty_," cannot seriously be objected to by any one conversant with
-the phraseology of Shakspeare. Were it at all necessary, many similar
-examples might be cited. How the anonymous annotator, already quoted,
-could say that the sentence, as it stands in the folio, "_by no means
-serves to illustrate Bassanio's reflexion_," I cannot conceive. "The
-beauteous scarf" is the deceptive ornament which leads to the
-expectation of something beneath it _better_ than an _Indian_ beauty!
-Indian is used adjectively, in the sense of wild, savage, hideous--just
-as we, at the present day, might say a Hottentot beauty; or as
-Shakspeare himself in other places uses the word "Ethiop:"
-
- "Thou for whom Jove would swear
- Juno but an Ethiop were."
-
-"_Her mother was her painting._"--_Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.--I have
-read Mr. Halliwell's pamphlet upon this expression, noticed in "N. & Q."
-of the 10th of April (p. 358.) I would beg to suggest to that gentleman
-that he has overlooked one text in Shakspeare that would tell more for
-his argument than the whole of those he has cited. All his examples are
-drawn from the word _father_, metaphorically applied in the sense of
-_creator_ to inanimate objects; and the same sense he extends, by
-analogy, to _mother_. But in the following lines from _As You Like It_
-(Act III. Sc. 5.), _mother_ is directly used as a sort of warranty of
-female beauty! Rosalind is reproving Phebe for her contempt of her
-lover, and in derision of her beauty, she asks:
-
- "Who might be your mother?
- That you insult, exult, and all at once,
- Over the wretched?"
-
-Now if Phebe had been one who _smothered her in painting_, an
-appropriate answer to Rosalind's question might have been--her mother
-was _her painting_!
-
-Most certainly, this latter phrase is the more graceful mode of
-expressing the idea--far more in unison with the language one would
-expect from the refined, the delicate, the bewitching Imogen--from her
-who wished to set "_that parting kiss betwixt two charming words_."
-
- A. E. B.
-
- Leeds.
-
-
-PUBLICATIONS OF THE STUTTGART SOCIETY.
-
-The following is a list of the works which have appeared under the
-auspices of the Stuttgart Society, referred to in my Note respecting
-Felix Faber:--
-
-I. 1. Closener's Strassburgische Chronik.
-
-2. Des Ritters Georg von Ehingen Reisen.
-
-(_a_). Nach der Ritterschaft.
-
-(_b_). Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomineus de Viris illustribus.
-
-(_c_). Ott Ruland's Handlungsbuch.
-
-(_d_). Codex Hirsaugiensis.
-
-II.-IV. Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium, 3 vols.
-
-V. (_a_). Die Weingartner Liederhandschrift.
-
-(_b_). Italiaenische Lieder des Hohenstaufischen Hofes in Sicilien.
-
-VI. Briefe der Prinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte v. Orleans an die
-Raugraefin Louise (1676-1722).
-
-VII. (_a_). Des Boehmischen Herrn Leo's von Rozmital Reise durch die
-Abendlaender in den Jahren 1465, 1466, und 1467.
-
-(_b_). Die Livlaendische Reimchronik.
-
-VIII. Chronik des Edlen En Ramon Muntaner.
-
-IX. (_a_). Bruchstueck ueber den Kreuzzug Friederichs I.
-
-(_b_). Ein Buch von guter Speise.
-
-(_c_). Die alte Heidelberger Liederhandschrift.
-
-X. Urkunden, Briefe und Actenstuecke zur Geschichte Maximilians I. und
-seiner Zeit.
-
-XI. Staatspapiere zur Geschichte des Kaisers Karl V.
-
-XII. Das Ambraser Liederbuch vom Jahre 1582.
-
-XIII. Li Romans d'Alixandre par Lambert, Li Tors et Alexandre de Bernay.
-
-XIV. Urkunden zur Geschichte des Schwaebischen Bundes (1488-1533), Erster
-Theil, 1488-1506.
-
-XV. Cancionero Geral I.
-
-XVI. (_a_). Carmina Burana (from a MS. of thirteenth century).
-
-(_b_). Albert v. Beham u. Regerten Papst Innocenz IV.
-
-XVII. Cancionero Geral II.
-
-XVIII. Konrads von Weinsberg Einnahmen- und Ausgaben-Register.
-
-XIX. Das Habsburg.-Oesterreichische Urbarbuch.
-
-XX. Hadamars v. Laber Jagd.
-
-XXI. Meister Altswert.
-
-XXII. Meinauer Naturlehre (_circa_ 1300).
-
-XXIII. Der Ring, von Heinrich Wittenweiler.
-
-XXV. Ludolfi de Itinere terrae sanctae liber (_circa_ 1350).
-
-Vol. XXIV. is in the press.
-
- F. NORGATE.
-
-
-MANUSCRIPT SHAKSPEARE EMENDATIONS.
-
-Your able correspondent MR. S. W. SINGER, in Vol. v., p. 436., gives his
-positive adhesion to MR. COLLIER'S emendation of the corruption "bosom
-multiplied" in _Coriolanus_, Act III. Sc. 1. Agreeing with MR. SINGER in
-his opinion of the value of this emendation, there is yet an importance
-attached to it which I feel sure MR. COLLIER will not object to have
-pointed out, although doubtlessly all the argument respecting the
-_sources_ of his early MS. corrections will be carefully considered in
-the volume he so liberally intends presenting to the Shakspeare Society.
-Shakspearian criticism is a field so open to varied opinions, and is a
-subject on which so few can be brought exactly to agree, it is a mere
-chance if, in addressing these few lines, I in any degree anticipate MR.
-COLLIER'S conclusions.
-
-MR. COLLIER'S discovery was, perhaps, of even greater interest to myself
-than to others, not merely on account of its being an important evidence
-for the state of the text, _but because I had long since had the
-opportunity of using a volume of precisely similar character_, namely,
-the copy of the third folio, with numerous MS. emendations in a coeval
-hand, mentioned by Lowndes, p. 1646., as having some years since sold
-for 65_l._, on account of those MS. emendations. This volume contains
-several hundred very curious and important corrections, amongst which I
-may mention an entirely new reading of the difficult passage at the
-commencement of _Measure for Measure_, which carries conviction with it,
-and shows, what might have been reasonably expected, that _that to_ is a
-misprint _for a verb_. There are numerous other corrections of equal
-importance, but I forbear at present to notice them, under the
-conviction it is not safe to adopt MS. corrections, unless we know on
-what authority they are made. It was on this account I ventured to
-indicate the extreme danger of adopting any of the MS. readings of MR.
-COLLIER'S second folio, without a most rigid examination, or until their
-authority was unquestionably ascertained. Now, in MR. COLLIER'S first
-two communications to the _Athenaeum_ there was scarcely a single example
-which indicated it was derived from an authentic source, but many, on
-the other hand, which could be well believed to be mere guess-work; and
-it was rather alarming to see the readiness with which they were
-received, threatening the loss of Shakspeare's genuine text.
-
-A ray of light, however, at length appears in the new reading in
-_Coriolanus_. This, more than any other, gives hopes of important
-results; and it does something more than this: it opens a reasonable
-expectation that the MS. corrector had, in some cases, recollection of
-the passages as they were delivered in representation. Once establish a
-probability of this, and although many of the corrections must still be
-looked upon as conjectural, the volume will be of high value. The
-correction "_bisson multitude_" seems to me to be clearly one of those
-alterations that no conjectural ingenuity could have suggested. The
-volume has evidently been used for stage purposes; and it may be taken
-as almost beyond a doubt that that particular correction was made on
-authority. We can scarcely imagine that authority to be a MS. of the
-play, and are therefore thrown on the supposition the corrector
-sometimes altered from memory, and sometimes from conjecture, writing as
-he thought Shakspeare _ought_ to have written, even if he did not.
-
-It is scarcely necessary to say these observations are grounded solely
-on what is already before the public. The appearance of MR. COLLIER'S
-volume may modify their effect either one way or the other; and perhaps
-I am committing a literary trespass on my friend's manor in thus
-prematurely entering into an argument on the subject. But MR. COLLIER,
-with his usual liberality, has invited rather than deprecated
-discussion; and having expressed in print opinions grounded on his first
-two communications, it would be uncandid in me not to acknowledge they
-are in some degree modified by the very important correction since
-published.
-
- J. O. HALLIWELL.
-
-
-THE GRAVE-STONE OF JOE MILLER.
-
-In consequence of the disfranchisement of St. Clement's burial-ground,
-Portugal Street, Clare Market, the last memorial of "honest Jo" is
-condemned for removal; and this being the case, I have forwarded for "N.
-& Q." a copy of the inscription. The epitaph written by Stephen Duck,
-and the stone itself, were, about the beginning of the present century,
-in jeopardy of obliteration, but for the compassion of Mr. Bulgen, the
-grave-digger; and being still in a very bad condition, Mr. Buck a few
-years afterwards repaired it. The following is the inscription:
-
- "Here Lye the Remains of
- honest Jo. Miller
- who was
- a tender Husband,
- a sincere Friend,
- a facetious Companion,
- and an excellent Comedian.
- He departed this Life the 15th day of
- August 1738, aged 54 years.
-
- If humour, wit, and honesty could save
- The humorous, witty, honest from the grave,
- The grave had not so soon this tenant found,
- Whom honesty, and wit, and humour crowned;
- Could but esteem and love preserve our breath,
- And guard us longer from this stroke of death,
- The stroke of death on him had later fell,
- Whom all mankind esteemed and loved so well.
-
- S. DUCK.
-
- From respect to social worth,
- mirthful qualities, and histrionic excellence,
- commemorated by poetic talent, humble life,
- the above inscription, which Time
- had nearly obliterated, has been restored
- and transferred to this stone by order of
-
- MR. JARVIS BUCK, Churchwarden.
-
- A.D. 1816."
-
- UNICORN.
-
-
-FOLK LORE.
-
-_Swearing on a Skull._--In April, 1851, a man was committed to Mayo
-prison for cutting off the head of a corpse but a few days interred. His
-object in severing the head was that of clearing himself of some imputed
-crime by swearing on a skull, a superstition said to be very common in
-that part of Ireland.
-
- PHILIP S. KING.
-
-_New Moon._--If, when you look at the new moon for the first time, you
-think of one particular thing which you greatly desire to have, or to
-have accomplished, your wishes on that same point will be realised
-before the close of the year.
-
- R. VINCENT.
-
-_Rust._--If, without any neglect on your part, but even with care,
-articles of steel belonging to you, such as keys, knives, &c.,
-continually become rusty, some kindhearted person is laying up money for
-_your_ benefit.
-
-This superstitious notion is very prevalent in Wales.
-
- R. VINCENT.
-
-
-Minor Notes.
-
-_Epitaph at Low Moor._--The following curious epitaph is on a tombstone
-in the Low Moor churchyard, near this town:--
-
- "In Memory of Christopher Barlow, Blacksmith, of Raw Nook, who
- died Oct. 9th, 1824, aged 56.
-
- "My stithy and my hammer I reclin'd;
- My bellows, too, have lost their wind;
- My fire's extinguish'd, and my forge decay'd,
- And in the silent dust my vice is laid.
- My coal is spent, my stock of iron's gone,
- My last nail driven, and my work is done."
-
- C. WILLIAMS.
-
- Bradford, Yorkshire.
-
-_Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph._--I do not think that the epitaph of the
-unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury, poisoned by Carr, Earl of Somerset, in
-1613-14, has ever been published. I send it to you, copied from a
-manuscript on a blank leaf of a black-letter copy of Howe's _Abridgement
-of Stow's Chronicle_ in my possession.
-
- "1614.
- SR. THOMAS OVERBURY HIS EPITAPH.
-
- "The Span of my daies measured, heare I rest
- That is my body, but my Soule his Guest
- Is hence assended whither neither Tyme
- Nor Fayth nor Hope: but only Love can Clyme.
- Wheare beinge nowe enlightned Shee doeth knowe
- The trueth of all men argue of belowe.
- Only this Dust doeth heare in pawne remaine,
- That when the Worlde dissolves, Shee com againe.
- THOMAS OVERBURY,
- 1614."
-
- RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE.
-
- Dublin.
-
-_Bibliotheca Literaria._--I possess a copy of the _Bibliotheca
-Literaria_, 1722-4, in which the names of some of the authors are
-appended in manuscript to various papers, as follows:
-
-In No. 4., Dr. Brett's name is appended to the first paper.
-
-In No. 5., the first paper, concerning the pillar of fire and cloud, has
-the name "Sam. Jebb."
-
-In No. 6., the third paper has the name of Dr. Brett; also, the first in
-
-No. 7., continuation of it.
-
-In No. 8., the first and third papers have "Carol. Ashton;" the second,
-Dr. Brett.
-
-In No. 9. the first and second papers have "Thos. Wagstaffe."
-
-Finally, the second in No. 10. has the name of Dr. Brett.
-
-In the hope that this may be of some utility, I send it, on the chance
-that these names may not have been published already, which I have not
-time to ascertain.
-
- W. H. S.
-
- Edinburgh.
-
- [All the above contributors to this valuable literary journal were
- Nonjurors. It may not be generally known that the principal editor
- was Samuel Jebb, M.D., of Peter House, Cambridge, who subsequently
- attached himself to the Nonjurors, and accepted the office of
- librarian to the celebrated Jeremy Collier. Dr. Jebb was also
- assisted by Mr. Wasse, Dr. Wotton, Dr. Jortin, Dr. Pearce, and
- others.--ED.]
-
-_Inscription at Dundrah Castle._--In the course of a summer spent in
-Argyleshire, I paid a visit to old Dundrah, or Dundarrow Castle, which
-stands between Inverary and Cairndhu, on the southwest. It is now a
-small farm-house. The tenant refused me admission under half-a-crown, so
-I contented myself with a survey of the exterior. Over the doorway I
-found the following inscription carved in the stone:
-
- "I ' MAN ' BEHALD ' THE ' END ' DE ' NOCHT '
- VISER ' NOR ' HEIEST ' HOIP ' IN ' GOD."
-
-The meaning is evident, though what connexion it has with the old castle
-I am not able to say. I send it you, as I have not seen it noted in any
-book.
-
- C. M. I.
-
-_Derivation of Charing._--Mr. Peter Cunningham, in his most entertaining
-work, _The Handbook of London_, tells us that the origin of _Charing
-Cross_ has never been discovered.
-
-It lies buried in the venerable pages of Somner and Skinner. It was
-first propounded by the former in his Notes on Lipsius, appended to
-Meric Causaubon's _Commentatio de Quatuor Linguis_, in v. SCURGI. The
-A.-S. _cyrrung_ (from _cyrran_, avertere) is, as he tells us, _aversio_:
-
- "Atque hinc, a viarum (scil.) et platearum diverticulis, ut in
- compitis, pluribus apud nostrates locis hoc nomen olim inditum,
- quod postea in _Cerring_ mutatum, tandem transiit (ut nunc dierum)
- in _Charing_; quomodo quadrivium sive compitum illud nuncupatur in
- suburbiis Londinensibus, ab occidente, prope Westmonasterium,
- _Charing Crosse_, vulgo dictum; _Crosse_ addito, ob crucem ibidem,
- ut in compitis solitum, olim erectam."
-
- Q.
-
-
-
-
-Queries.
-
-
-POEM BY NICHOLAS BRETON.
-
-I have recently purchased a small manuscript in quarto, containing
-fifteen leaves, written about the year 1590, which consists of a poem in
-six cantos, without title or name of the author, but which, I feel
-convinced, from the style, is one of the numerous works of Nicholas
-Breton. In the hope that some of your correspondents may be able to
-identify the poem, which may possibly be printed in some of Breton's
-very rare works, I subjoin the commencing stanzas:
-
- "Where should I finde that melancholy muse,
- That never hard of any thinge but mone,
- And reade the passiones that her pen doth use,
- When she and sorrow sadlye sitt alone
- To tell the world more then the world can tell
- What fits indeed most fitlye figure hell.
-
- "Lett me not thinke once of the smalest thought
- May speake of less then of the greatest gref,
- Wher every sence with sorrowes overwrought
- Lives but in death, dispayring of relef,
- While thus the harte with torments torne asunder
- Maye of the worlde be cal'd the wofull wonder."
-
-These two stanzas are by no means favourable specimens of the entire
-poem, but I prefer to give them, because the work itself may be printed.
-If it appears, on inquiry, to be still inedited, I may venture to submit
-a few other extracts from it of a more illustrative character. Our
-bibliographers would be more useful guides, were they always to give the
-first lines of old poems. I have a tolerably good library, but can find
-no work sufficiently descriptive of Breton's works to enable me to trace
-the above.
-
- H.
-
-
-THE VIRTUOSI, OR ST. LUKE'S CLUB.
-
-Where is to be found that intensely interesting MS. Lot 120., Sixth
-Day's Sale, at Strawberry Hill, a _folio tract_ entitled _The
-"Virtuosi," or St. Luke's Club, held at the Rose Tavern, first
-established by Sir Anthony Vandyke; with Autographs of all the eminent
-Artists of the day_?
-
-Such is the account of Mr. George Robins, to the sound of whose hammer
-it fell, let us hope, into worthy hands.
-
-By the aid of a note made whilst the several precious contents of that
-"Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome," as I think Pope described it, were
-on view, I hope to whet the appetite of some of our literary vultures:
-
- "Rose Tavern, Mar. 5. 1697.
-
- "An order for raising an annual fund for pictures; with twenty
- names of stewards."
-
-What say you, Mr. Editor, to such subscribing parties as, among others,
-"Grinling Gibbons, Michael Dahl, J. Closterman, and Christopher Wren?" I
-cannot remember more, but I think "Alex. Verrio" was among them.
-
-Mem. the second: as entries in a sort of journal:
-
- "That our steward, John Chicheley, Esquire, gave us this day a
- Westphalia Ham, which had been omitted in his entertainment on St.
- Luke's day."
-
-Again:
-
- "Paid and spent at Spring Gardens, by Knightsbridge, forfeiture
- _l._3 15_shgs._"
-
-Why, Mr. Editor, here are the new Roxburgh Revels of the Knights of the
-Brush and Palette. And now that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the
-day is expected to take out his diploma, and the ex-Premier is to be the
-new Professor of Perspective, _vice_ the author of the _Fallacies of
-Hope_, it becomes a question of prevailing interest, which I commend to
-the research of your dilettanti querists. It may be a thread of
-connexion with those stores of precious materials obtained by Walpole
-from the widow of that persevering investigator George Virtue.
-
- J. H. A.
-
-
-THE RABBIT AS A SYMBOL.
-
-The 29th vol. of the _Archaeologia_ contains an interesting "description
-of a monumental effigy of Richard Coeur de Lion, recently discovered in
-the cathedral of Notre Dame at Rouen," by Alfred Way, Esq., who, with
-his usual precision, has noticed what he very properly calls "some
-singular details" beneath the figure of the lion crouching at the king's
-feet; among these details is "the head of _a rabbit_[1] peeping out of
-its burrow, and, a little above, a dog warily watching the mouth of the
-hole." Mr. Way adds:
-
- "I have met with nothing among the accessory ornaments of
- monumental sculpture analogous to this; and though convinced that
- what in itself may appear a trifling detail, _was not placed here
- without design_, I am quite at a loss to conjecture what could
- have been its import."
-
- [Footnote 1: Mr. Way says _a hare_ or rabbit, forgetting that the
- hare does not burrow.]
-
-The same symbol or device, well known to all lovers of ancient
-wood-engraving, appears in some of the earliest specimens of that art.
-It is found in an impression of one of the oldest known playing-cards,
-representing the knave of diamonds, now in the print-room of the British
-Museum, of which a fac-simile is inserted at p. 214. of Chatto's
-_History of Playing Cards_. Another instance of this device occurs
-(without the dog) in an old woodcut, dated 1418, discovered a few years
-ago at Malines, of which a copy appeared in the _Athenaeum_ of Oct. 4,
-1845. And a third example is contained in that celebrated and unique
-woodcut of St. Christopher, dated 1423, in the possession of Earl
-Spencer, copies of which may be found in Janson's _Essai sur l'Origine
-de la Gravure_, and in Ottley's work. Being as fully convinced as Mr.
-Way that the symbols he observed on the effigy of Richard at Rouen were
-_never introduced without design_, but that they were meant to convey
-some esoteric signification, I have for many years consulted both books
-and friends to obtain an explanation of this allegorical device, but
-without success. As a last resource, I address myself to the "N. & Q.,"
-in hopes, from their having now obtained so wide a circulation, that I
-may receive through their medium, and the kindness of a more learned
-correspondent, a solution of this enigma.
-
-P.S.--In addition to the above _four_ instances of the device of _a
-rabbit_ occurring in ancient sculpture and wood-engraving, a French
-writer, M. Th. Gautier, in the feuilleton of _La Presse_ of the 27th
-September, 1851, describes the Madonna of Albert Durer as being "presque
-toujours accompagnee _d'un lapin_," derived (in his opinion) from a
-"vague ressouvenir du pantheisme Germanique."
-
- SYMBOL.
-
-
-IS WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE A PLAGIARISM FROM MOLENAX?
-
-(Vol. v., p. 467.)
-
-Some time ago I made the following Notes, which, though they throw some
-light on the subject of Molineux's globe, yet they do not bear out MR.
-EASTWOOD'S conjecture. The first is from Richard Hakluyt's Address to
-the Reader in _The Principal Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of
-the English Nation_, folio, 1589:
-
- "Nowe, because peraduenture it would bee expected as necessarie,
- that the descriptions of so many parts of the world would farre
- more easily be conceiued of the Reader, by adding Geographicall
- and Hydrographicall tables thereunto, thou art by the way to be
- admonished that I haue contented myselfe with inserting into the
- worke one of the best generall mappes of the world onely, vntill
- the comming out of a very large and most exact terrestriall Globe,
- collected and reformed according to the newest, secretest, and
- latest discoueries, both Spanish, Portugall, and English, composed
- by M. _Emmerie Mollineux_ of Lambeth, a rare Gentleman in his
- profession, being therein for divers yeeres greatly supported by
- the purse and liberalitie of the worshipfull marchant M. _William
- Sanderson_."
-
-My second Note is from the rare little volume by John Davis, entitled,
-_The Worlde's Hydrographical Discription_, 12mo., London, 1595:
-
- "The cause why I vse this particular relation of all my
- proceedinges for this discouery, is to stay this obiection, why
- hath not _Dauis_ discouered this passage [the North-west] being
- thrise that waies imploied, and how far I proceeded, and in what
- fourme this discouery lyeth, doth appeare vpon the Globe which
- Master _Sanderson_ to his verye great charge hath published, whose
- labouring indevour for the good of his countrie deserueth great
- fauour and commendations, made by Master _Emery Mullineux_, a man
- wel qualited, of a good iudgement and verye expert in many
- excellent practises, in myselfe being the onely meane with Master
- _Sanderson_ to imploy Master Mullineux therein, whereby he is nowe
- growne to a most exquisite perfection."
-
- P. 25.
-
-And here a Query may not be out of place. Whose account of Iceland does
-Nash refer to?
-
-In the writings of our early navigators, there is frequent allusion to
-terrestrial globes. This of Mollineux's, for instance, contains Davis's
-own discoveries, and should therefore be of some importance. In the
-tract just quoted, Davis says:
-
- "It is wel knowne that we haue globes in the most excellent
- perfection of arte, and haue the vse of them in as exquisite sort,
- as Master _Robert Hues_ in his book of the globes vse, lately
- published, hath at large made known."
-
- P. 41.
-
-And in an unpublished MS. relating to Sir Thomas Button's voyage,
-addressed to King James I. in 1610, the writer says:
-
- "I haue left wth Mr. Wright in yor librarie att St James, _a hand
- globe terrestriall_ for demonstra[=c]on of these."
-
-Do any of the globes exist, and where?
-
-As I am about to reprint Davis's tract with additional illustrations,
-including the MS. above referred to, I shall be glad to receive any
-particulars of the life of Davis, and of his connexion with that great
-patron of discovery, William Sanderson; of his death, any reference to
-his autograph, and to any authentic portrait of him.
-
- JOHN PETHERAM.
-
-
-Minor Queries.
-
-_Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament._--On the 17th of
-October, 1834, the houses of parliament were burnt down, and I believe
-you will recollect that very soon afterwards a long serio-comic poem was
-published, detailing the event; the following stray morsels of which
-just occur to me:
-
- "And poor Mrs. Wright,
- Was in a great fright,
- For she swore that night,
- She saw a great light."
-
-Again--
-
- "She felt a great heat
- Come thro' to her feet,
- As she sat herself down
- In the black rod seat."
-
-I wish very much to find out this poem, or whatever else it may be
-called; can you assist me? I am told it was published in one of the
-weekly papers at the time, probably the _Sunday Times_ or _Dispatch_.
-
- T. B.
-
- Exeter.
-
-
-_Newton's Library._--In 1813, Leigh and Sotheby sold the books of Mrs.
-Anne Newton, professing to contain the collection of Newton's own books.
-As it is fully believed that no _personal_ property of Newton descended
-to any relatives of his name, how is this pretension explained? The
-statement is copied from Sotheby's catalogue of sales into Hartwell
-Horne's _Bibliography_, and will be credited at a future time, if not
-now called in question.
-
- M.
-
-_Meaning of Royd._--What is the meaning of the word _Royd_, which is
-attached to the names of so many persons and places in Yorkshire, as
-Ackroyd, Learoyd, Brownroyd, and Boltonroyd?
-
- C. W.
-
-_The Cromwell Family._--I have in my possession a document, which shows
-that my great-grandfather, "William Cromwell of London," mason, was
-admitted into
-
- "The freedom aforesaid, and sworn in the Mayoralty of Thomas
- Wright, Esq., Mayor, and John Wilkes, Esq., Chamberlain; and is
- entered in the book signed with the letter A., relating to the
- purchasing of freedom and the admission of freemen, (to wit) the
- 4th day of April, in the 26th year of the reign of King George the
- Third, and in the year of our Lord 1786. In witness whereof," &c.
-
-The parchment bears the initials "J. W."
-
-I am anxious to learn, from some of your numerous correspondents,
-whether this person once lived near Bath, and then at Hammersmith? and,
-secondly, whether he was descended from the Protector?
-
- J. G. C.
-
-_Sir John Darnell, Knt._--Who was Sir John Darnell, whom did he marry,
-who were his father and mother, and what arms did he bear? His daughter
-Mary was married to the Hon. Robert Ord, Lord Chief Baron of Scotland
-(alive in 1773). Any other particulars regarding his family will be
-gratefully received by
-
- E. N.
-
-_Royal "We."_--Can you inform me when, and under what circumstances, the
-use by royalty in Europe sprung up, of using the plural "we" instead of
-"I," the first person singular?
-
- FRANCIS J. GRUBB.
-
-_Gondomar._--Mr. Macaulay, in one of his "Essays," remarks,
-
- "The skill of the Spanish diplomatists was renowned throughout
- Europe. In England the name of Gondomar is still remembered."
-
-True, oft have I heard of thee, Count Gondomar, and have read from time
-to time divers anecdotes of thy wit and wisdom, quips and quiddities.
-But is it not passing strange that this man, this Spanish Don, who, as
-is well known, exercised such a powerful influence over the weak-minded
-"Solomon of Whitehall," and who, moreover, bore so large a share in the
-murder of the brave and highly gifted Raleigh, should be excluded from a
-niche in the biographical temple; for such I am told is the case. Having
-deputed a friend to make search for me in the several biographical
-dictionaries, he reports that the name of Gondomar is _not_ to be found
-in the best book of the kind, the _Biographie Universelle_, nor in the
-dictionaries of Rose and Chalmers. This desideratum will, I confidently
-hope, ere long be supplied through the medium of "N. & Q.," by some of
-its learned contributors.
-
- W. STANLEY SIMMONDS.
-
-_Wallington's Journal._--At the sale of the library of Mr. Joseph
-Gulston, 1784, was sold a Journal of Mr. Nehemiah Wallington, a Puritan
-divine, written in the year 1630. This volume probably contains some
-curious matters respecting the Puritans of the day; and, as it is much
-desired, should any person know of its whereabouts, I should feel much
-obliged by a note of it.
-
- R.
-
-_Epistola Luciferi, &c._--Nicolas Oresmius, or d'Oresme, bishop of
-Lisieux, who died in 1382, wrote _Epistola Luciferi ad praelatos
-Ecclesiae_, afterwards printed, Magd. 1549, 8vo., and in Wolf's _Lect.
-Memor._, vol. i. p. 654. So far Fabricius. Who was Lucifer? I mean, was
-he the potentate who goes by the opposite name of the Prince of
-Darkness? And what is the tenor of his letter? The bishop was a quiet
-man, of orthodox fame, and tutor to a king of France.
-
- M.
-
-_Cambrian Literature._--Being a collector of works on Druidical remains
-and Cambrian history, I shall feel greatly favoured if any of your
-numerous readers will answer me the following questions, viz.:--
-
-1st. The name of the first book or commentary _printed_ in any language
-abroad, _previous_ to the introduction of printing into England,
-actually written by a _Cambrian_?
-
-2nd. The first book _printed_ in the English language, _actually
-written_ by a Cambrian then living?
-
-3rd. The first and second books _printed_ in England in the _Welsh_
-language?
-
-4th. The first book printed in the Welsh language abroad?
-
-5th. The first book printed in the Welsh language in Wales?
-
-6th. The most _ancient author_ in MSS. and in print who mentions
-Stonehenge and Aubury; also the monument called Cromlech?
-
-7th. Who has on sale the most extensive collection of Welsh books, and
-those relating to British history?
-
- P. B. W
-
- 7. Harrington Street, Regent's Park.
-
-"VCRIMDR" _on Coins of Vabalathus_ (Vol. v., p. 148.).--As no professed
-Oriental scholar has directed any attention to this word yet, and as,
-although root in the words Karimat and Akram appears the same, the
-analogy to VCRIMDR is not very obvious, I may mention that on searching
-further I have found the adjective _Ucr_, with the various meanings,
-_weighty_, _precious_, _esteemed_, _honourable_. I leave it to
-Orientalists to tell us if VCRIMDR is a compound or an inflexion of
-_Ucr_. I regret that owing to a peculiarity in my handwriting, De Gauley
-was twice substituted for De Sauley in my last note, Vol. v., p. 149.
-
- W. H. S.
-
- Edinburgh.
-
-_Lines on Woman._--
-
- "Oh, woman! thou wert born to bless
- The heart of restless man; to chase his care;
- To charm existence by thy loveliness,
- Bright as a sunbeam--as the morning fair.
- If but thy foot trample on a wilderness,
- Flowers spring up and shed their roseate blossoms there."
-
-Will any of your readers be kind enough to favour me with the completion
-of the above stanza, as well as to state who is the author of the same?
-
- J. T.
-
-_Penkenol._--John Aubrey, the antiquary, in his _Collections for North
-Wilts_, Part I. p. 51. (Sir Thomas Phillips's edition), describing the
-stained glass in Dauntsey Church, uses the following expression:
-
- "Memorandum. The crescents in these coats: Therefore Sir John
- [Danvers] was not the _penkenol_."
-
-The word is correctly printed from the original MS. Can any of your
-readers explain its meaning?
-
- J. E. J.
-
-_Fairfax Family Mansion._--On the right-hand side of the road between
-Tadcaster and Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire, extends the domain of the Fairfax
-family. The mansion, a comfortable old fashioned red-brick Tudor-looking
-structure, stands some two hundred yards back in the grounds through
-which, from the road to the front door of the house, extends a fine
-avenue of chestnuts, terminated at the roadside by a pair of venerable,
-rusty, and decaying iron gates _which are kept closed_; the entrance to
-the park being by a sort of side gateway of insignificant and field-like
-appearance further on. Can any of your readers give me the facts, or the
-local tradition which accounts for this peculiarity? I believe it is a
-family incident of somewhat historical interest, and a subject on which
-I am desirous of information.
-
- G. W.
-
-_Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer._--In the _Legal Observer_
-of the 24th April, I find the following:
-
- "LAW PROMOTION.--Mr. James Wilde has been appointed to the office
- of _Postman_, in the Court of Exchequer. The _Postman_ is the
- senior counsel without the bar attending the court, and has
- pre-audience of the attorney and solicitor-general in making the
- first motion upon the opening of the court. The _Tubman_ is the
- next senior counsel without the bar. The _Postman_ and _Tubman_
- have particular places assigned them by the Chief Baron in open
- court."
-
-My Query is, from whence and at what date these two offices sprang into
-existence, with a list of the persons who have occupied them. And it
-would be as well to inquire what their duties are: for although
-Stephen's _Blackstone_ derives the names from the _places_ in which the
-individuals themselves _sit_, still the explanation hardly conveys
-sufficient to gather what their duties are.
-
- JOHN NURSE CHADWICK.
-
-_Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains._--What chronicle narrates
-the circumstances of the _second_ disinterment of King Arthur's bones in
-Glastonbury, temp. Edw. I. (A.D. 1298)?
-
- H. G. T.
-
-_Stukeley the Antiquary, and Boston._--In _Anecdotes of British
-Topography, &c._ (Lond. 1768), occurs the following, speaking of
-Boston:--
-
- "The Churchwardens' account from 1453 to 1597, and the town-book,
- wrote by Mr. John Stukeley, 1676, one of his (Dr. Stukeley's)
- ancestors, are in the hands of the Doctor's son-in-law, Mr.
- Fleming."
-
-Query, into whose hands have the above records fallen? Did Stukeley
-leave a family?
-
-The name of "Wm. Stukeley" is appended to sundry parish records, anno
-1713, at Boston. I believe he practised here for some years.
-
- THOMAS COLLIS.
-
-_Letters of Arthur Lord Balmerino._--Can any one inform me if there are
-any letters extant of Arthur, seventh Lord Balmerino, and where they are
-deposited?
-
- W. PELHAM A.
-
- Rochester.
-
-_Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland._--Is any portrait
-known of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who was beheaded at York,
-A.D. 1572, for the part he took in the "Rising in the North?"
-
- E. PEACOCK, Jr.
-
-_Newtonian System._--Is it known who was the author of a satirical
-pamphlet against Newton: _The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero's
-"Somnium Scipionis" explained_, London, 1751, 8vo.? And has an absurd
-story which it contains, relative to Newton, Locke, and Lord Pembroke
-visiting Patrick, the barometer-maker, to be shown that the mercurial
-vacuum was not a perfect one, ever been told elsewhere?
-
- M.
-
-_Antiquity of Vanes._--We are informed by Baron Maseres, as quoted by
-Lingard, that the Danes, in the last invasion by Sweyn, 1013, had vanes
-in the shape of birds or dragons fixed on their masts, to point out the
-direction of the wind. Is there any record of an earlier adoption of
-this method of ascertaining the way of the wind?
-
- B. B.
-
-_Richard of Cirencester de Situ Britanniae._--Is this work a forgery or
-not? Charles Julius Bertram, Professor of English in the Royal Marine
-Academy at Copenhagen, wrote to Dr. Stukeley in 1747 that such a
-manuscript was in the hands of a friend of his. It was not until some
-time had elapsed, and after Dr. Stukeley was presented to St. George's
-Church, Queen Square, that he "pressed Mr. Bertram to get the manuscript
-into his own hands, if possible; which, at length, with some difficulty,
-he accomplished;" and sent to Dr. Stukeley, in letters, a transcript of
-the whole. Authors go on quoting from this work as genuine authority,
-and therefore are perhaps misleading themselves and their readers; and
-it would be conferring a great boon if "N. & Q." could clear up the
-doubt as to its authenticity.
-
-Mr. Worsaae, the eminent Danish author, or his English translator, are
-exactly in the position to render this further service to antiquarian
-literature; and, as relating to the subject of Roman Britain, the
-question is of so much interest that a little trouble would not,
-probably, be deemed uselessly expended in the inquiry.
-
- G. I.
-
-_Spanish Vessels wrecked on the Irish Coast._--Is it true that sixteen
-Spanish vessels, with 5300 men on board, were wrecked on the coast of
-Ireland in 1589, and all put to the sword or hanged by the executioner,
-at the command of the Lord Deputy; who found that they had saved and got
-on shore a good deal of their treasure which he wanted to secure for
-himself. Where is any account of it to be found? How came Spanish ships
-so far north?
-
- CYRUS REDDING.
-
-_Analysis of Newton's Principia._--In the _Journal des Savants_ for
-April of this year, the celebrated mathematician Biot, in a review of
-the _Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Cotes_ (Cambridge, 1850),
-makes mention, with the highest praise, of an analysis of Sir Isaac's
-_Principia_ contained in the _Acta Eruditorum_ for 1688. Mons. Biot says
-that at that time there were only two men who could have written such an
-analysis, Halley and Newton himself; but adds, that the style is not
-Halley's, being too concise and simple for him. His admiration could not
-have been contained within such bounds. M. Biot firmly believes that the
-writer of this analysis was no other than Newton himself (_ex ungue
-Leonem_), and earnestly calls on the learned of England and Germany to
-assist in discovering the origin of the analysis; should there perhaps
-be any means left for doing so in the literary depots of the two
-countries. Permit a contributor to "N. & Q." to repeat M. Biot's inquiry
-through the medium of a publication far more extensively circulated in
-England than the _Journal des Savants_.
-
- J. M.
-
-
-Minor Queries Answered.
-
-_Welsh Women's Hats._--What was the origin of the peculiar hat so
-universally worn by women of the lower orders in Wales; and at what
-period did it come into use?
-
- TREBOR.
-
- [A gentleman who has resided for the last half century in the
- Principality, and to whom we submitted our correspondent's Query,
- has kindly forwarded the following reply:--"I have consulted
- bards, Welsh scholars, &c., and am sorry that I cannot forward any
- satisfactory account of the custom alluded to by TREBOR. Some say,
- we remember the time when the women wore ordinary _felt_ hats
- manufactured from their own wool: one or two travelling hatters
- occasionally settled at Bangor, who made and sold _beaver_ hats.
- We do not think that the women here intended to adopt any
- particular costume; but retained the hat as agreeing with the
- peculiar close cap, and _projecting_ border, which it leaves in
- view, and in _possession of its own uprightness_! The fashion is
- going out; all our young people adopt the English bonnet with the
- English language. The flat hat, with a broad brim, is still
- retained in the mountain regions."]
-
-_Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday._--Perhaps some of your readers will kindly
-inform the Pancake Eating Public as to the period "when," and the reason
-"why" such a custom grew into existence?
-
-I have frequently heard the question mooted upon this anniversary,
-without ever hearing, or being able to give, a satisfactory elucidation
-of it; but it is to be hoped that "N. & Q." will supply the desideratum
-ere long, and confer a favour on
-
- A LOVER OF PANCAKES AND AN UPHOLDER OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS.
-
- Temple, Shrove Tuesday, 1852.
-
- [Fosbrooke, in his _Encyclopaedia of Antiquities_, vol. ii. p.
- 572., informs us that "Pancakes, the Norman _Crispellae_, are taken
- from the Fornacalia, on Feb. 18, in memory of the practice in use
- before the goddess Fornax invented ovens." The Saxons called
- February "Solmonath," which Dr. Frank Sayers, in his
- _Disquisitions_, says is explained by Bede "Mensis placentarum,"
- and rendered by Spelman, in an inedited manuscript, "Pancake
- Month," because in the course of it cakes were offered by the
- Pagan Saxons to the sun. So much for the "when:" now for the
- reason "why" the custom was adopted by the Christian church.
-
- Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday, as it is sometimes called,
- from being the vigil of Ash Wednesday, was a day when every one
- was bound to confess, and be shrove or shriven. That none might
- plead forgetfulness of this duty, the great bell was rung at an
- early hour in every parish, called the Pancake Bell, for the
- following reasons given by Taylor, the Water Poet, in his
- _Jacke-a-Lent_ (_Works_, p. 115. fol. 1630). He tells us, "On
- Shrove Tuesday there is a bell rung, called the Pancake Bell, the
- sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetful
- either of manner or humanitie. Then there is a thinge called
- wheaten floure, which the sulphory, necromanticke cookes doe
- mingle with water, egges, spice, and other tragicall, magicall
- inchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a
- frying-pan of boyling suet, where it makes a confused dismal
- hissing, like the Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or
- Phlegeton, until at last by the skill of the cooke it is
- transformed into the forme of a _Flap-Jack_, which in our
- translation is called a _Pancake_, which ominous incantation the
- ignorant people doe devoure very greedily, having for the most
- part well dined before; but they have no sooner swallowed that
- sweet-candied baite, but straight their wits forsake them, and
- they runne starke mad, assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse
- of ungovernable numbers, with uncivill civill commotions." In the
- "Forme of Cury," published with other cookery in Warner's
- _Antiquitates Culinariae_, p. 33., and written in 1390, we find a
- kind of fried cakes called "comadore," composed of figs, raisins,
- and other fruits, steeped in wine, and folded up in paste, to be
- fried in oil. This suggests another savoury Query, Whether this is
- not an improvement on our apple fritters?]
-
-_Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian._--
-
- "Lay her i' the earth,
- And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
- May violets spring!"
-
- Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.
-
- "'Tis well; 'tis something we may stand
- Where he in English earth is laid,
- And from his ashes may be made
- The violet of his native land."
-
- _In Memoriam_, XVIII.
-
-I remember having seen quoted, _a propos_ of the lines of Shakspeare, a
-passage from some Latin poet (Claudian, I think) which contained the
-same idea. Can you, or any of your correspondents, favour me with it; as
-also where they are to be found? And can they give me the origin and
-reason of the idea.
-
- H. JOHNSTON.
-
- Liverpool.
-
- [The passage to which our correspondent refers is most probably
- that already quoted by Steevens, from Persius, _Sat._ I.
-
- "---- e tumulo, fortunataque favilla
- Nascentur violae?"]
-
-
-
-
-Replies.
-
-
-THE RING FINGER.
-
-(Vol. v., pp. 114. 371.)
-
-My subsequent reading has not only confirmed, but added to the
-information conveyed in the reference quoted. I there surmised that the
-third was the ring finger, because the thumb and first two fingers have
-always been reserved as symbols of the blessed Trinity, and consequently
-the third was the first vacant finger. Both the Greek and Latin church
-agree in this, that the thumb and first two fingers signify the blessed
-Trinity. And whilst these three fingers signify the Trinity, the third
-and fourth fingers are emblematic of the two natures of Christ, the
-human and divine. As then the third finger served to symbolise the human
-nature, and marriage was instituted to propagate the human race, that
-was made the wedding finger. The right hand is the hand of power: hence
-the wife wears the ring on the ring finger of the _left hand_. The
-Greeks make each of the first three fingers, _i.e._ the thumb and two
-fingers, symbolise one of the divine persons. M. Didron informs us that,
-during his visit to Greece in 1839, the Archbishop of Mistra--
-
- "Whom I interrogated on the subject, informed me that the thumb,
- from its strength, indicated the Creator, the Father Eternal, the
- Almighty; that the middle finger was dedicated to Jesus Christ,
- who redeemed us; and that the forefinger, between the thumb and
- middle finger, figured the Holy Ghost, who proceeds from the
- Father and the Son, and in representations of the blessed Trinity
- is placed between those two persons."
-
-A bishop's ring is emblematic of the gifts of the Holy Ghost: and
-formerly bishops wore their ring on the forefinger of the right hand.
-
- CEYREP.
-
- "And the priest, taking the ring, shall deliver it unto the man,
- to put it upon _the fourth finger_ of the woman's left-hand."
-
- _Rubric, Marriage Service._
-
-Pray let the lady be comforted! Surely the most punctilious Rubrician
-will make no impertinent inquiries about the missing finger, so long as
-_a fourth_ remains. But even if all be wanting, I will engage to find
-her a priest whose conscience will not be hurt at allowing the stump to
-pass muster.
-
- DIGITALIS.
-
-
-THE MORAVIAN HYMNS.
-
-(Vol. v., pp. 30. 474.)
-
-Having followed with interest the late discussion in your pages upon the
-earlier specimens of those strange productions, the Moravian Hymns, it
-seems to me, that although much that is curious has been elicited, the
-Query of P. H., touching the genuineness of the extraordinary sample
-reproduced by him from the _Oxford Magazine_ for 1769, remains
-unanswered. It is therefore with a view to supply some information
-directly to this point, that I now beg to introduce to your readers _my_
-earliest edition, which looks very like the _editio princeps_ of Part
-III.: at all events it takes precedence of that described by H. C. B.
-Its title is, _A Collection of Hymns, consisting chiefly of Translations
-from the German Hymn-book of the Moravian Brethren_. Part III. Small
-8vo. pp. 168. London, printed for James Hutton, 1748.
-
-At first sight there would appear to be no difference between H. C. B.'s
-volume and mine, beyond the latter being the earlier by one year; that
-year, however, seems to have been the exact period when the Brethren
-deemed it advisable, to avoid scandal, to revise and prune their
-hymn-book.
-
-"In this part (especially) of our hymn-book," says the Preface, "a good
-deal of liberty has been taken in dispensing with what otherwise is
-customary and ornamental: and that for different reasons." Then follow
-these three reasons: the hymns being printed in prose, to save room; the
-retention of German diminutives which, although scarcely known in the
-English tongue, "have a certain elegance and effect" in the former
-language; and the use of "more antique, prosaic, and less polished
-diction, out of tenderness for the main point, the expressing more
-faithfully the doctrines of the congregation, rather than seek better at
-the expense of the sense."
-
-"So much," continues the Preface, "seemed proper to mention to exempt
-this Book (which though calculated for our own congregation, will no
-doubt come into the hands of strangers) from the imputation of a
-needless singularity. Now we only wish that every Reader may also feel
-something of that solid and happy Bottom, from whence these free,
-familiar, and perhaps abrupt Aspirations, both in the composing and
-using of them, do sparkle forth: And so we commit this _Third Part_ of
-our Hymn-book to the Providence and Blessing of that dear Redeemer, who
-with his Ever-blessed Atonement, is everywhere the subject thereof."
-
-As to the hymns themselves, I need say little more to describe them than
-to observe that the present edition contains not only the one quoted by
-P. H. from the _Oxford Magazine_, but all the others which are there to
-be found, and which have raised doubt in your correspondent's mind
-whether they are not rather the fabrications of Anti-Moravians than
-genuine productions, and at the periods in use among the Brethren. Here,
-too, is to be found the "Chicken Blessed" of Anstey: in his _Bath Guide_
-he correctly quotes it as "No. 33. in Count Zinzendorf's
-Hymn-book,"--that being its position in the present volume. The satirist
-has, however, given only half of "the learned Moravian's ode," but that
-faithfully. Besides these there are some of the hymns enumerated by
-Rimius in his _Candid Narrative of the Herrnhuters_ (London, 1753), in
-support of his charges against them.
-
-Probably your readers are content with the specimens which have already
-appeared in your columns. Had it been otherwise, this curious volume
-would have supplied some of a singular character: as it is, I cannot
-resist extracting No. 77. and a part of No. 110.; the former relating an
-adventure between the Arch-Enemy and Saint Martin; the latter,
-"Concerning the happy little Birds in the Cross's-air, or in the
-Atmosphere of the Corpse of Jesus:"
-
- "Once on a time a man there was,
- A saint whose name was Martin,
- Concerning whom, Severus says,
- Satan came to him darting
- As Lightning quick and bright array'd;
- 'I am thy Jesus dear,' he said,
- 'Me thou wilt surely worship.'
-
- "Martin looks straight towards his side,
- No Side-hole met his vision:
- 'Let me,' says he, 'in Peace abide,
- Thou hast no side's Incision;
- Thou art the Devil, my Good Friend!
- The place where Jesus' sign does stand
- Blindfold I could discover.'
-
- "The same's the case ev'n at this Day
- With Jesu's congregation:
- For Larks who round his Body play,
- Have of his wounds sensation;
- Because our dear incarnate God,
- Will with his wounds as man be view'd,
- Be felt, and so believ'd on."
-
- "How does a cross-air Bird behave,
- When of the Tent it will take leave?
- The Body grows a little sick,
- The soul may find it long or quick
- Till she the Bridegroom see;
- There stands he presently.
- She views the Side, Hands, Feet, each Part;
- The Lamb upon her weary Heart
- A kiss then gives her:
- This kiss Extracts the soul quite out,
- And on his dear Mouth home 'tis brought,
- The Kiss's Print the Body shews,
- Which to its Fining-place then goes;
- When done the Soul does fetch it,
- And to the wound-hole snatch it."
-
-Parts I. and II. of these hymns I have never seen; but besides the above
-described, I have the following editions: _A Collection of Hymns of the
-Children of God, in all Ages from the beginning till now: in Two Parts.
-Designed chiefly for the use of the Congregations in union with the
-Brethren's Church._ Thick 8vo. London, printed in the year 1754: this is
-the larger hymn-book alluded to by SIGMA. _A Collection of Hymns,
-chiefly extracted from the larger Hymn-book of the Brethren's
-Congregation_: London, printed and sold at the Brethren's chapels,
-1769,--noticed by H. C. B. These are both extraordinary productions, but
-yield to the edition of 1748: it having already been observed of these
-hymns, that the later impression is always the _tamer_.
-
- J. O.
-
-
-CAGOTS.
-
-(Vol. iv., p. 190.)
-
-I arrive at the conclusion, that the Cacosi of Latin writers, Cacous, or
-Cagous, represent the true name from which Cagots, the _t_ being mute,
-is but a slight deviation; while some other forms have scarcely retained
-more than the initial _Ca_. The etymology from the Goths (most absurd
-_in substance_, and worthy of the days when Languedoc was fetched from
-_Land-got_, Land of the Goths,) has reference only to one of the French
-spellings.
-
-_Cacosus_, meaning a leper, as well as a Cacous or Cagot, was from
-[Greek: kakon], [Greek: kakosis], in Greek; and from it came
-_cacosomium_, contracted for _cacoso-comium_, not a mere _noso-comium_,
-but an asylum for lepers. See Ducange.
-
-But the Cacous in question were not only lepers, but families in which
-leprosy was considered hereditary. For this reason they are called
-Giezites, les Gezits, les Gesitains, from Giezi, servant of Elisha and
-his posterity. (See Michel, vol. i. pp. 56. 148. 238. &c.) A simple
-leper was Lazarius or ladre. The latter were, like Lazarus, merely
-afflicted; but the former were deemed to be under an abiding curse, like
-Giezi.
-
-But those who were Giezites by condition, as inheriting and transmitting
-the disease, were by many of the vulgar imagined to be Giezites by
-blood, and the real posterity of Elisha's servant, "Cagots de Chanaan."
-By an equally natural result, persons actually free from disease were
-shunned as Cacous; since the stigma attached to the race, not to the
-individual. Indeed, the wearing out of the malady has created the whole
-obscurity of the case.
-
-Their most curious title, Crestiaas or Christians, was not given them in
-direct affirmation, but in denial of a negative, "not non-christian."
-Because, being considered of Giezi's lineage, not only Jews, but Jews
-under a curse, many would be disposed to repell them from communion. See
-Dom Lepelletier's _Dict. Bretonne_, in CACOUS.
-
-Whether hereditary lepra was rightly thought to exist, or whether the
-negligence of the more abject and squalid families in communicating it
-to each other falsely raised that idea, is a separate question, which I
-must leave to physicians.
-
- A. N.
-
-
-SHERIFFS AND LORDS LIEUTENANT.
-
-(Vol. v., p. 394.)
-
-Dalton saith:
-
- "Vice comites have the same authority that the antient comites
- had; and at this day there are some relicts of that dignity, for
- he hath _album baculum_, and the grant of the office is commisimus
- vobis [comitatum]. And also he takes place of every nobleman
- during the time that he is in office."
-
-The Writ of Assistance ran thus:
-
- "To archbishops, bishops, dukes, earls, barons, knights,
- freeholders, and all others of our county of C. Whereas we have
- committed to our well-beloved A. B. the custody of our said
- county, with the appurtenances, during our pleasure, We command
- you that ye be aiding, answering, and assisting to the said A. B.
- as our sheriff of our said county in all things which appertain to
- the said office."
-
-This form was abolished in 1833. The Lord Lieutenant is a military
-officer, who appears to have grown into permanence under the Tudors. The
-office of Custos Rotulorum, which, though quite distinct, is usually
-joined with it, is much more ancient; its duties are to keep the records
-of the sessions, which involve the appointment of the clerk of the
-peace, and the power of recommending to the Great Seal of persons to be
-inserted in the commission of the peace.
-
-As for instances of such precedence being _claimed_, it is not easy to
-recollect what is usually taken as a thing so much of course. Perhaps
-the instance of a Duke, who had been Lord Lieutenant forty years,
-apologising to a Sheriff for having inadvertently taken precedence, may
-serve.
-
- VICE. COM. DEPUTAT.
-
-In answer to L. J.'s inquiry, upon what authority the precedency of the
-Sheriff over the Lord Lieutenant is maintained; may it not partly be
-founded on the office of Sheriff being of greater antiquity, and on this
-officer having the command over, and the power of summoning all the
-people of the county above the age of fifteen, and under the degree of a
-peer? The office of Lord Lieutenant was first created in the third year
-of King Edward VI., to suppress, as Strype tells us, "the routs and
-uproars" in most of the counties. We might suppose that the Sheriff
-already possessed sufficient power for this purpose: the means then
-adopted to promote tranquillity were not well calculated to be popular
-among the people. No drum or pipe was to be struck or sounded. Plays
-were forbidden. In the churches of Devonshire and Cornwall, Lord Russell
-was to take down every bell in a steeple but one, so as to prevent a
-peal being rung.
-
-The precedency in question is acted upon to the present hour; and a Lord
-Lieutenant, however high his rank in the peerage, gives place to the
-Sheriff as a matter of course. But do not both these officers yield
-precedence to her Majesty's justices of assize, when actually engaged on
-the circuit?
-
- J. H. M.
-
-
-ST. CHRISTOPHER.
-
-(Vol. v., pp. 295. 334. 372.)
-
-Two questions are asked by E. A. H. L. concerning St. Christopher: 1.
-_Are there any known representations of St. Christopher in painted
-glass?_ There is a very interesting example in a window in _St. Neot's
-Church, Cornwall_. It represents St. Christopher with the child Jesus on
-his back, and below has the legend: "Sante Christophere, ora pro me."
-This ancient window was presented to the church by three members of the
-Borlase family. Their benefaction is recorded in the inscription along
-the cill of the window:
-
- "Orate pro animabus Catherine Burlas, Nicolai Burlas, et Johannis
- Vyvian, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt."
-
-Another example of St. Christopher, bearing the divine infant, is in one
-of the lights of the three-light window over the altar of _All Saints'
-Church, North Street, York_. It is the work of the fifteenth century.
-
-In the same city, _St. John's Church, Micklegate_, has two
-representations of St. Christopher in glass. One is the window north of
-the altar, but it is only a portion of the figure; the other is in the
-window south of the altar, and of perpendicular character. In _St.
-Martin-le-Grand, Coney Street_, in the sixth or eastern window of the
-north aisle, is a figure of St. Christopher, of date about 1450. _St.
-Michael-le-Belfroy_, in the same city, has two figures of the saint:
-one, of perpendicular character, in the window north of the altar; the
-other, a fragment, in the fourth window from the east end on the south
-side, of date between 1540 and 1550. _Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate_,
-possesses a very beautiful figure of the saint. It forms the fifth of a
-series of five large figures in the east window of the church, and seems
-to bear the date 1470.
-
-The second question is, "What is the real meaning of the representations
-of St. Christopher that are so frequently found on the north walls of
-churches?" I cannot agree with MR. J. EASTWOOD in thinking that the
-explanation he gives from _Sacred and Legendary Art is sufficiently
-satisfactory_. It appears to me that the figures of St. Christopher were
-meant to symbolise the privilege enjoyed by the faithful of receiving
-the body and blood of Christ, and thus becoming _Christo-feri_. The
-emblem may have had its origin in the earliest ages, when the
-_disciplina arcani_ was carried out. This opinion receives strength from
-the circumstance, that Christopher was a name assumed by the saint, and
-not his baptismal name. The extraordinary powers of cure spoken of in
-verses often inscribed below the figures of this saint, were understood
-by the faithful to allude to the efficacy of the Holy Communion, that
-made them _Christopher's_, i.e. persons bearing their blessed Saviour,
-not on their shoulders, but within their breasts. His figures in
-sculpture and painting are always represented as colossal, to signify
-that this heavenly food makes each of the faithful "as a giant to run
-the way" (Ps. xix. 5.) This explanation will probably satisfy E. A. H.
-L. that the important position occupied by St. Christopher in the
-iconography of the mediaeval church is to be solved by its symbolical
-signification.
-
-In addition to the representations of this saint in painted glass
-mentioned above, E. A. H. L. will find mention of another specimen in
-the last number of the _Archaeological Journal_. It is in private hands,
-being the property of Mr. Lucas, who purchased a collection of specimens
-of old glass some years since at Guildford, said to have come from an
-old mansion in Surrey. The specimen in question is described as "St.
-Christopher carrying our Saviour--an octagonal piece of glass."--P. 101.
-
-He will also find, in the same place, that a mural painting of St.
-Christopher has been lately discovered in the chancel of Gawsworth
-Church, Cheshire, of which a description is given in p. 103.
-
- CEYREP.
-
-E. A. H. L. asks if there is any known representation of St. Christopher
-in painted glass. There is one in All Saints, York, engraved in Weale's
-_Papers_; and there is a small one on a brass in Tattershall Church.
-
- C. T.
-
-For information on this subject, I would refer E. A. H. L. to Warton,
-_Poetry_, vol. i. p. 451.; Coryatt's _Crudities_, vol. i. p. 29.;
-Rudder's _Gloucestershire_, p. 286.; Gage's _Hengrave_, p. 64.;
-_Winckelm. Stosch_, ch. i. n. 103.
-
-On a loose print of "Painted Glass at Leicester," Throsby del. 1788, now
-before me, is a representation of him who was once Psychicus the savage,
-but now the holy Saint Christopher, figured, as usual, under the
-likeness of a man of gigantic stature, carrying on his shoulder the
-little child Jesus, through the broad and deep waters of a turbulent
-river, and steadying his steps with an uprooted palm-tree laden with
-fruit, which he bears in his hands by way of staff. He is here exhibited
-in more seemly habiliments, and as a personage of much more dignified
-and venerable appearance, than in the well-known picture on the walls of
-Wotton Church. The latter, however, is a portraiture of superior
-antiquarian interest, on account of its accessories, wherein St.
-Christopher's especial office, as patron of field sports, is, with much
-rudeness it is true, but most efficiently and fully illustrated.
-
-In the extract given by J. EASTWOOD from _Sacred and Legendary Art_, we
-have merely the supposititious conclusions of an ingenious imagination,
-introduced to supply a void which the accomplished writer was unable
-otherwise to fill up. There is a pretty little work published by Burns,
-and entitled _St. Christopher; a Painting in Fordholme Church_, which
-contains, much too much, however, in the suspicious form of a modern
-religious allegory, what professes to be the authentic "Legend" of this
-saint.
-
- COWGILL.
-
-E. A. H. L. makes the inquiry whether "there are any known
-representations of St. Christopher in _painted glass_; if so, where?"
-This I am unable to answer; but your learned correspondent JARLTZBERG
-having sent you one version of the legend attached to this saint, may I
-venture to remind you of another? This is the one attached to the
-celebrated picture, "The Descent from the Cross," by Rubens, in the
-cathedral of Antwerp, in which the painter, adopting the Greek
-derivation of the name as given by JARLTZBERG, represents the saint
-supporting Christ on his removal from the crucifix. The picture was
-painted for the Arquebusiers of Antwerp, whose patron was St.
-Christopher; but they were dissatisfied with it, and refused Rubens his
-promised reward, a piece of land in their possession contiguous to his
-own, for which he had accomplished this, certainly one of his most
-beautiful paintings.
-
- T. W. P.
-
-
-GENERAL PARDONS--SIR JOHN TRENCHARD.
-
-(Vol. iii., p. 279.)
-
-I am not aware of any general pardon under the great seal having been
-printed; but the following transcript of one (the original with the seal
-attached is in the collection of my friend, R. Rising, Esq., of Horsey)
-is very much at J. G. N.'s service, and is especially interesting, as
-being one of the last acts of James II. before he quitted England for
-ever.
-
- "{Jacobus Secundus Dei grati:} Anglie, Scocie, ffrancie &
- hib[=n]ie Rex, fidei defensor, &c. {Omnibus} ad quos p'sentes he
- n're [p=]veniu't sa[=lt]em. Sciatis q[=d] Nos pietate moti, ac
- gr'a n'ra sp'iali ac ex certa scientia & mero motu n'ris
- {Pardonabimus} relaxavims et remisims ac [p=] p'sentes [p=] Nobis
- heredibus, & successoribus n'ris, Pardonams relaxams et remittims
- Jo[=h]i Trenchard nu[p=] de medio Templo Londin' armigero seu
- quocunque alio nomine vel cognomine artis, misterii, loci vel
- locor' idem Jo[=h]es Trenchard sciatr censeatr vocetr vel
- nuncupetr aut nup' sciebatr, censebatr, vocabatr seu nuncupa batr
- omn' et omni'od' Prodic'ones crimina lese maiestatis, mispris'ones
- Prodic'onis, Conspirac'ones, Sedic'ones, Insurrecc'ones,
- Concelament' Bellor', gestiones Bellor', machinac'ones,
- Imaginac'ones, et attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones verbor',
- p'palac'ones ac om'ia & singula ffelon', et al' malefi'a crimina
- Transgressiones, contempt' et offens' quecunq: [p=] ip'um Jo[=h]em
- Trenchard [p=] se solum sive cum aliqua alia p'sona, seu aliquib'
- aliis [p=]'sonis qualicunq:, quandocunq:, seu ubicunq: antehac
- contra [p=]sonam n'ram Regal' vel Gub'nac'onem n'ram, vel contra
- Person' D[=n]i Caroli s[=e]di nu[p=] Regis Anglie preclarissimi
- ffratris n'ri vel Regimen suu' vel leges & statut' regni n'ri
- Anglie fact' co[=m]iss' sive [p=]petrat'.--Necnon fugam & fugas
- su[p=]inde fact'. Et licet p'fat' Jo[=h]es Trenchard [p=]inde
- arrestat', ind'cat', impetit', utlagat', rectat' appellat'
- condemnat' convict' attinct' seu adiudicat' existit vel non
- existit aut inde arrestari, adiudicari, impetiri, utlagari
- rectari, appellari, condemnari, convinci, attingi seu adiudicari
- contigerit in futuro. Ac om'ia & singula Jud'camenta,
- convic'cones, judicia, condempnac'onas attinctur', execuc'ones
- imprisonamenta, Penas mortis, Penas corporales, fforisfutur',
- punic'ones & om'es al' Penas ac penalitates quascunq: de, [p=],
- sive concernen' [p=]'missa, vel aliqua [p=]'missor' insu[p=] vel
- versus [p=]'fat Jo[=h]em Trenchard habit' fact' reddit' sive
- adiudicat' vel imposter' h'end' f'iend' reddend', sive adiudicand'
- aut que nos versus ip'um Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=] p'missis vel
- aliquo p'missor' h'uimus h'emus seu imposter' h'ere poterimus, ac
- heredes seu successores n'ri ullo modo he're poterint in futuro.
- Necnon omnes et singul' utlagar' versus p'fat' Jo[=h]em Trenchard
- rac'one seu occac'one [p=]missor' seu eor' alicuius [p=]mulgat'
- seu imposter' [p=]'mulgand' At om'es & om'iod' sect', Querel',
- fforisfutur' impetic'ones & Demand' quecunq: que nos versus
- [p=]'fat' Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=] p'missis vel aliquo [p=]'missor'
- h'uim' h'emus seu infuturo h'ere poterimus. Sectamq: pacis n're
- que ad nos versus [p=]'fat Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=]tinet seu
- [p=]tinere poterit, rac'one seu occac'one [p=]'missor' seu eor'
- alicui. Et firmam pacem n'ram ei inde dam' et concedim' [p=]
- p'sentes. {Nolentes} q'd ip'e idem Jo[=h]es Trenchard [p=]
- Justitiar' Vice Comites Mariscallos Escaetor', Coronator',
- Ballivos seu aliquos al' ministros n're heredum vel successor'
- n'ror' quoscunq: rac'onib' seu occac'onib' p'd'tis seu eor' aliqu'
- molestetr [p=]'turbetr seu in aliquo gravetr {Volentes} q'd he
- l're n're patentes quoad om'ia singul' p'missa su[p=]ind
- menc'onat' bene, firme, valide, sufficien' et effectual' in lege
- erunt et existent licet Prodic'ones, crimina lese maiestatis,
- misprisiones Prodic'onis, conspirac'ones, sedic'ones,
- Insurecc'ones, concelament' Bellor', Gestion' Bellor',
- machinac'ones, Imaginac'ones, vel attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones
- verbor', Propalac'ones & ffelon' crimina, & offens' p'dict', minus
- certe specificat' existim't. Q'dq: hec Pardonaco' n'ra in om'ib'
- curiis n'ris et alibi interpretetr et adiudicetr in
- beneficentissimo sensu [p=] firmiore exonerac'one relaxac'one &
- Pardonac'one [p=]'fat' Jo[=h]is Trenchard ac etiam p'litetr
- allocetr in om'ib: Curiis n'ris absq: aliquo Brevi de Allocac'one
- mea parte pr'm's obtent' sive obtinend'. Et non obstante aliqua
- def'tu vel aliquib' def'tibus in his l'ris n'ris patentib'
- content' aut aliquo statuto, acto, ordinac'one provisione seu
- Restricc'one aut aliqua al' re, causa, vel materia quacunq: in
- contrar' inde ullo modo non obstante.
-
- In Cuius rei testimoniu' has l'ras n'ras fier' fecimus Patentes.
-
- Teste me ip'o apud West' decimo sept'o die Decembris anno regni
- n'ri tertio.
-
- Per Breve de p'rato Sigillo
- BARKER."
-
-This was in the year 1688, just seven days after, according to Macaulay,
-that he had fled secretly from the kingdom, having previously thrown the
-great seal into the Thames, whence it was dredged up some months after
-by a fisherman. Being driven back by stress of weather, he returned to
-London, and on the 17th Pepys states,
-
- "That night was a council; his Ma'ty refuses to assent to all the
- proposals, goes away again to Rochester."
-
-and _on that very night_ was this pardon granted, James probably
-endeavouring to prop up his tottering cause by attaching as many as
-possible to his own party. There were several documents in the
-collection of the late Josiah Trench, Esq., of Windsor (1648-1652)
-signed by John Trenchard, among the other regicides. Ewing, in his
-_Norfolk Lists_, states that a portrait of him is in existence, and that
-he was a serjeant-at-law, and at this date (1688) M. P. for Thetford,
-being at that date merely an esquire. In 1692, according to the same
-authority, Sir John Trenchard was Secretary of State; and his death took
-place in 1694. I should be glad to add to these scanty notices,
-especially as regards the reason which rendered a pardon necessary at
-this time.
-
- E. S. TAYLOR.
-
-
-Replies to Minor Queries.
-
-_Dayesman_ (Vol. i., p. 189.).--Bishop Jewell writes:
-
- "M. Harding would have had us put God's word to _daying_ (i.e. to
- _trial_), and none otherwise to be obedient to Christ's
- commandment, than if a few bishops gathered at Trident shall allow
- it."
-
- _Replie to Harding_, _Works_, vol. ii. p. 424. (Dr. Jelf's edit.)
-
- "The _Ger._ TAGEN, to appoint a day.
- The _D._ DAGHEN, to cite or summon on a day appointed."
-
- (Wachter and Kilian.)
-
-And _Dayesman_ is he, the man, "who fixes the _day_, who is present, or
-sits as judge, arbiter, or umpire on the _day_ fixed or appointed."
-
-It is evident that Richardson made much use of Jewell; but this word
-"daying" has escaped him: his explanation of _dayesman_ accords well
-with it.
-
- Q.
-
-_Bull_; _Dun_ (Vol. ii., p. 143.).--We certainly do not want the aid of
-Obadiah Bull and Joe Dun to account for these words. Milton writes, "I
-affirm it to be a _bull_, taking away the essence of that, which it
-calls itself." And a _bull_ is, "that which expresses something in
-opposition to what is intended, wished, or felt;" and so named "from the
-contrast of humble profession with despotic commands of Papal bulls."
-
-"A _dun_ is one who has _dinned_ another for money or anything."--See
-Tooke, vol. ii. p. 305.
-
- Q.
-
-_Algernon Sidney_ (Vol. v., p. 447.).--I do not intend to enter the
-lists in defence of this "illustrious patriot." The pages of "N. & Q."
-are not a fit battle ground. But I request you to insert the whole
-quotation, that your readers may judge with what amount of fairness C.
-has made his note from Macaulay's _History_.
-
- "Communications were opened between Barillon, the ambassador of
- Lewis, and those English politicians who had always professed, and
- who indeed sincerely felt, the greatest dread and dislike of the
- French ascendancy. The most upright member of the country party,
- William Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, did not scruple
- to concert with a foreign mission schemes for embarrassing his own
- sovereign. This was the whole extent of Russell's offence. His
- principles and his fortune alike raised him above all temptations
- of a sordid kind: but there is too much reason to believe that
- some of his associates were less scrupulous. It would be unjust to
- impute to them the extreme wickedness of taking bribes to injure
- their country. On the contrary, they meant to serve her: but it is
- impossible to deny that they were mean and indelicate enough to
- let a foreign prince pay them for serving her. Among those who
- cannot be acquitted of this degrading charge was one man who is
- popularly considered as the personification of public spirit, and
- who, in spite of some great moral and intellectual faults, has a
- just claim to be called a hero, a philosopher, and a patriot. It
- is impossible to see without pain such a name in the list of the
- pensioners of France. Yet it is some consolation to reflect that
- in our own time a public man would be thought lost to all sense of
- duty and shame who should not spurn from him a temptation which
- conquered the virtue and the pride of Algernon Sidney."
-
- _History of England_, vol. i. p. 228.
-
- ALGERNON HOLT WHITE.
-
- Brighton.
-
-_Age of Trees_ (Vol. iv., pp. 401. 488.).--At Neustadt, in Wirtemberg,
-there is a prodigious lime-tree, which gives its name to the town, which
-is called _Neustadt an der Linden_. The age of this tree is said to be
-1000 years. According to a German writer, it required the support of
-sixty pillars in the year 1392, and attained its present size in 1541.
-It now rests, says the same authority, on above one hundred props, and
-spreads out so far that a market can be held under its shade. It is of
-this tree that Evelyn says it was--
-
- "Set about with divers columns and monuments of stone (eighty-two
- in number, and formerly above one hundred more), which several
- princes and nobles have adorned, and which as so many pillars
- serve likewise to support the umbrageous and venerable boughs; and
- that even the tree had been much ampler the ruins and distances of
- the columns declare, which the rude soldiers have greatly
- impaired."
-
-There is another colossal specimen of the same species in the churchyard
-of the village of Cadiz, near Dresden. The circumference of the trunk is
-forty feet. Singularly, though it is completely hollow through age, its
-inner surface is coated with a fresh and healthy bark.
-
- UNICORN.
-
-_Emaciated Monumental Effigies_ (Vol. v., p. 427.).--In reference to
-your correspondents' observations on skeleton monuments, I may mention
-that there is one inserted in the wall of the yard of St. Peter's
-Church, Drogheda. It is in high relief, cut in a dark stone and the
-skeleton figure half shrouded by grave clothes is a sufficiently
-appalling object. Beside it stands another figure still "in the flesh."
-It is many years since I saw the monument, and whether there be any
-inscription legible upon it, or whether it be generally known to whom it
-belongs, I cannot inform you.
-
- URSULA.
-
-There is a very good instance of an "altar tomb," bearing on it an
-ordinary effigy, and containing within it a skeleton figure, visible
-through pierced panel work, in Fyfield Church, Berks. It is the monument
-of Sir John Golafre, temp. Hen. V. Another fine instance I remember to
-have seen (I believe) in the parish church of Ewelme, Oxon.
-
- HENRY G. TOMKINS.
-
- Weston-super-Mare.
-
-_Bee Park_ (Vol. v., p. 322.).--In this neighbourhood is an ancient
-farm-house called Bee Hall, where I doubt not that bees were kept in
-great quantities in bygone ages; and am the more led to believe this
-because they always flourish best upon thyme, which grows here as freely
-and luxuriantly as I ever elsewhere observed it. About four miles from
-said Bee Hall, the other day, I was looking over a genteel residence,
-and noticing a shady enclosure, asked the gardener what it was for. He
-told me, to protect the bees from the sun: it was upon a much larger
-scale than we generally now see, indicating that the soil, &c. suit
-apiaries. Looking to the frequent mention of _honey_, and its vast
-consumption formerly, as you instance in royal inventories, to which may
-be added documents in cathedral archives, &c., is it not remarkable that
-we should witness so few memorials of the ancient management of this
-interesting insect? I certainly remember one well-built "bee-house," at
-the edge of Lord Portsmouth's park, Hurstbourne, Hants, large enough for
-a good cottage, now deserted. While on the subject I will solicit
-information on a custom well known to those resident in the country,
-viz. of making a great noise with a house key, or other small knocker,
-against a metal dish or kettle while bees are swarming? Of course
-farmers' wives, peasants, &c., who do not reason, adopt this because
-their fathers before them did so. It is urged by intelligent naturalists
-that it is utterly useless, as bees have no sense of hearing. What does
-the clamour mean,--whence derived?
-
- B. B.
-
- Pembroke.
-
-_Sally Lunn_ (Vol. v., p. 371.).--In reply to the Query, "Is anything
-known of Sally Lunn? is she a personage or a myth?" I refer your
-inquirer to Hone's _Every-day Book_, vol. ii. p. 1561.:
-
- "The bun so fashionable, called the _Sally Lunn_, originated with
- a young woman of that name at Bath, about thirty years ago." [This
- was written in 1826.] "She first cried them in a basket, with a
- white cloth over it, morning and evening. Dalmer, a respectable
- baker and musician, noticed her, bought her business, and made a
- song and set it to music in behalf of Sally Lunn. This composition
- became the street favourite, barrows were made to distribute the
- nice cakes, Dalmer profited thereby and retired, and to this day
- the _Sally Lunn Cake_ claims pre-eminence in all the cities of
- England."
-
- J. R. W.
-
- Bristol.
-
-_Baxter's Pulpit_ (Vol. v., p. 363.).--An engraving of Baxter's pulpit
-will be found in a work entitled _Footsteps of our Forefathers: what
-they suffered and what they sought_. By James G. Miall, 1851, p. 232.
-
- J. R. W.
-
- Bristol.
-
-_Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps_ (Vol. v., p. 371.).--Although this
-work is now out of print, and thereby scarce, your correspondent
-ELGINENSIS will, I have no doubt, on application to Stevenson, the
-"well-known" antiquarian and historical bookseller in Edinburgh, be put
-in possession of a copy for 12_s._
-
- T. G. P.
-
- Edinburgh.
-
-_British Ambassadors_ (Vol. iv., pp. 442. 477.).--Some time ago a
-correspondent asked where he could obtain a list or lists of the
-ambassadors sent from this court. I do not recollect that an answer has
-appeared in your columns, nor do I know how far the following may suit
-his purpose:
-
- "12. An Alphabetical Index of the Names and Dates of Employment of
- English Ambassadors and Diplomatic Agents resident in Foreign
- Courts, from the Reign of King Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne
- inclusive. One volume, folio."
-
-This is extracted from the letter of the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, keeper
-of His Majesty's State Papers, in reply to the Secretary of the
-Commissioners of Public Records, dated "State Paper Office, Sept. 19,
-1832." (See the Appendix to the _Commissioners' Report_, 1837, p. 78.)
-
- TEE BEE.
-
-_Knollys Family_ (Vol. v., p. 397.).--Lt.-General William Knollys,
-eighth Earl of Banbury, married Charlotte Martha, second daughter of the
-Ebenezer Blackwell, Esq., banker, of Lombard Street, and Lewisham, Kent.
-
-The present Col. Knollys, of the Fusileer Guards, is his representative.
-
-A. Blackwell, sister or daughter of John Blackwell, the father of
-Ebenezer, married an Etheridge.
-
- W. BLACKWELL, Curate of Mells.
-
-_'Prentice Pillars--'Prentice Windows_ (Vol. v., p. 395.).--I am
-reminded of a similar story connected with the two rose windows in the
-transept of the beautiful cathedral of Rouen. They were described to me
-by the old Swiss in charge, as the work of two artists, master and
-pupil; and he also pointed out the spot where the master killed the
-pupil, from jealousy of the splendid production of the _north_ window by
-the latter: and, as the _Guide Book_ truly says, "La rose du nord est
-plus belle que celle du midi"--the master's work.
-
- BENBOW.
-
- Birmingham.
-
-_St. Bartholomew_ (Vol. v., p. 129.).--Thanking you for the information
-given, may I further inquire if any of your correspondents are aware of
-the existence of any copy or print from the picture in the Church of
-Notre Dame, at Paris, of St. Bartholomew healing the Princess of Armenia
-(see Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_); and where such may be seen?
-
- REGEDONUM.
-
-_Sun-dial Inscription_ (Vol. v., p. 79.).--The following inscription is
-painted in huge letters over the sun-dial in front of an old farm-house
-near Farnworth in Lancashire:
-
- "Horas non numero nisi serenas."
-
-Where are these words to be found?
-
- Y.
-
-_History of Faction_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--In my copy of this work,
-published in 1705, 8vo., formerly Isaac Reed's, he attributes it to
-Colonel Sackville Tufton. I observe also that Wilson (_Life of De Foe_,
-vol. ii. p. 335.) states, that in his copy it is ascribed, in an old
-handwriting, to the same author.
-
- JAS. CROSSLEY.
-
-_Barnacles_ (Vol. v., p. 13.).--May not the use of this word in the
-sense of _spectacles_ be a corruption of _binoculis_; and has not
-_binnacle_ (part of a ship) a similar origin?
-
- J. S. WARDEN.
-
-_Family Likenesses_ (Vol. v., p. 7.).--Any one who mixed in the society
-of the Scottish metropolis a few years ago must have met with two very
-handsome and accomplished brothers, who generally wore the Highland
-dress, and were known by the name of "The Princes." I do not mean to
-enter into the question as to whether or not they were the true
-representatives of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," which most persons consider
-to have been conclusively settled in the negative by an article which
-appeared in the _Quarterly Review_: but most assuredly a very strong
-point of evidence in favour of their having the royal blood of Scotland
-in their veins, was the remarkable resemblance which they
-bore--especially the younger brother--to various portraits of the Stuart
-family, and, among the rest, to those of the "Merry Monarch," as well as
-of his father Charles I.
-
- E. N.
-
-_Merchant Adventurers to Spain_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--C.J.P. may possibly
-be assisted in his inquiries by referring to De Castros' _Jews in
-Spain_, translated by Kirwan, pp. 190-196. This interesting work was
-published by G. Bell, 186. Fleet Street, London, 1851.
-
- W. W.
-
- La Valetta, Malta.
-
-_Exeter Controversy_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--This controversy was one of
-the many discussions relating to the Trinity which have engaged the
-theological activity of England during the last two hundred years. It
-arose in consequence of the imputed Arianism of some Presbyterian
-ministers of Exeter, the most conspicuous of whom were James Peirce and
-Joseph Hallet. It began in 1717, and terminated in 1719, when these two
-ministers were ejected from their pulpits. Your correspondent who put
-the question will find some account of this controversy in Murch's
-_History of the Presbyterian Churches in the West of England_,--a work
-well worth the attention of those who take interest in the antiquities
-of Non-conformity.
-
- T. H. GILL.
-
-_Corrupted Names of Places_ (Vol. v., p. 375.).--When my father was at
-one time engaged in collecting the numbers drawn for the Sussex militia,
-he began by calling out for those men who belonged to the hundred of
-_Mayfield_; and though he three times repeated his call, not a single
-man came forward. A person standing by suggested that he should say "the
-hundred of _Mearvel_," and give it as broad a twang as possible. He did
-so; when _nineteen_ out of _twenty-three_ present answered to the
-summons. _Hurstmonceaux_ is commonly pronounced _Harsmouncy_; and I have
-heard _Sompting_ called _Summut_.
-
- G. BLINK.
-
-_Poison_ (Vol. v., p. 394.).--Junius, Bailey, and Johnson seem all to
-agree that our word _poison_ comes from the French _poison_. I am
-inclined to think, with the two first-mentioned lexicographers, that the
-etymon is [Greek: posis], or _potio_. Junius adds, that "Ita Belgis
-venenum dicitur _gift_, donum;" and it is curious that in Icelandic
-_eitr_ means both poison and gift. In the _Antiquitates Celto-Scandicae_
-(p. 13.), I find the following expressions:--"Sva er sagt, at Froda vaeri
-gefinn banadryckr." "Mixta portioni veneno sublatum e vivis tradunt
-Frotonem." Should it not be _potioni_, inasmuch as "bana," in Icelandic,
-signifies to kill, if I do not err, and "dryckr" is drink? Certainly, in
-Anglo-Saxon, "bana" (whence our _bane_) and "drycian" have similar
-significations.
-
- C. I. R.
-
-Is there any possible doubt that _poison_ is _potion_? Menage quotes
-Suetonius, that Caligula was _potionatus_ by his wife. It is a French
-word undoubtedly.
-
- C. B.
-
-_Vikingr Skotar_ (Vol. v., p. 394.).--In the _Antiquitates
-Celto-Scandicae_ it is stated (p. 5.), that after the death of Guthormr,
-and subsequently to the departure of Harald (Harfagr) from the Hebrides,
-"Sidan settug i londin vikingar margir Danir oc Nordmenn. Posthac sedes
-ibi occupant piratae plurimi, Dani aequa ac Normanni." The word
-_vikingar_, the true Icelandic word for pirate, often occurs in the same
-saga, but not combined with _skotar_, though this latter term is
-repeated, signifying "the Scotch," and also in composition with
-_konungr_, &c.
-
- C. I. R.
-
-_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374.).--A complete collection of
-local rhymes would certainly be both curious and interesting. Those
-cited by Chambers in his amusing work are exclusively Scotch; for a
-collection relating to English towns, I would refer your Querist MR.
-FRASER to Grose's _Provincial Glossary_, where, interspersed among the
-"Local Proverbs," he will find an extensive gathering of characteristic
-rhymes. I conclude with appending a few not to be found in either of
-these works:
-
- "RICHMOND.
-
- "Nomen habes _mundi_, nec erit sine jure, secundi,
- Namque situs titulum comprobat ipse tuum.
- From thy rich mound thy appellation came,
- And thy rich seat proves it a proper name."
-
- _Drunken Barnaby's Journal._
-
- "Anglia, mons, fons, pons, ecclesia, foemina, lana.
- England amongst all nations is most full,
- Of hills, wells, bridges, churches, women, wool."
-
- _Ibid._
-
- "Cornwall swab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings,
- And Leicester beans, and bacon fit for kings."
-
- Dr. King's _Art of Cookery_. See _Spectator_.
-
-In Belgium I am perhaps beyond bounds, but may cite in conclusion:
-
- "Nobilibus Bruxella viris, Antverpia nummis,
- Gandavum laqueis, formosis Burga puellis,
- Lovanium doctis, gaudet Mechlinia stultis."
-
- WILLIAM BATES.
-
-You may perhaps think the accompanying, "Rhymes on Places" worthy of
-insertion, on the districts of the county of Ayr, viz.:
-
- "Carrick for a man,
- Kyle for a cou,
- Cunninghame for butter and cheese,
- And Galloway for woo."
-
- F. J. H.
-
-_"We three"_ (Vol. v., p. 338.).--It may interest your correspondent to
-learn that a public-house exists in London with the sign he mentions. It
-is situate in Virginia Row, Bethnal Green, is styled "The Three
-Loggerheads," and has a signboard ornamented with a couple of busts: one
-of somewhat Caesarian aspect, laureated; the other a formidable-looking
-personage with something on his head, probably intended for the dog-skin
-helmet of the ancient Greeks,--but as the style of art strongly reminds
-one of that adopted for the figure-heads of ships, I confess my doubts
-on the subject. Under each bust appears the distich:
-
- "WE THREE
- LOGGERHEADS BE."
-
-The sign appears a "notability" in the neighbourhood, as I have more
-than once in passing seen some apparent new comer set to guess its
-meaning; and when he confessed his inability, informed, in language more
-forcible than elegant, that he made the third Loggerhead.
-
- W. E. F.
-
-_Burning Fern brings Rain_ (Vol. v., p. 242.).--In some parts of
-America, but more particularly in the New England States, there was a
-popular belief, in former times, that immediately after a large fire in
-a town, or of wood in a forest, there would be a "fall of rain." Whether
-this opinion exists among the people at present, or whether it was
-entertained by John Winthrop, the first governor of the colony of
-Massachusetts Bay, and the Pilgrim Fathers, on their landing at
-Plymouth, as they most unfortunately did, their superstitious belief in
-witchcraft, and some other "strange notions," may be a subject of future
-inquiry.
-
- W. W.
-
- La Valetta, Malta.
-
-_Plague Stones_ (Vol. v., pp. 226. 374.).--I have often seen the stone
-which G. J. R. G. mentions as "to be seen close to Gresford, in
-Denbighshire, about a quarter of a mile from the town, on the road to
-Wrexham, under a wide-spreading tree, on an open space, where three
-roads meet." It is, I conjecture, the base of a cross. This stone may be
-the remnant of the last of a succession of crosses, the first of which
-may have given its Welsh name, _Croes ffordd_, the way of the cross, to
-the village. There is no tradition of any visitation of the plague at
-Gresford; but there is reason to suppose that it once prevailed at
-Wrexham, which is about three miles distant. Near that town, and on the
-side of a hill near the footpath leading from Wrexham vechan to
-Marchwiel Hall, there is a field called _Bryn y cabanau_, the brow of
-the cabins; the tradition respecting which is, that, during the
-prevalence of the plague in Wrexham, the inhabitants constructed wooden
-huts in this place for their temporary residences.
-
- A QUONDAM GRESFORDITE.
-
-I do not think the "Plague Stone" a mile or two out of Hereford has been
-mentioned in the Notes on that subject. If my memory is correct, there
-is a good deal of ornament, and it is surrounded by a short flight of
-stone steps.
-
- F. J. H.
-
-_Sneezing_ (Vol. v., p. 364.).--Having occasion to look at the first
-edition of the _Golden Legend_, printed by Caxton, I met with the
-following passage, which may perhaps prove interesting to your
-correspondent, as showing that the custom of blessing persons when they
-sneeze "endured" in the fifteenth century. The institution of the
-"Litany the more and the lasse," we are told, was justified,--
-
- "For a right grete and grevous maladye: for as the Romayns had in
- the lenton lyued sobrely and in contynence, and after at Ester had
- receyud theyr Sauyour; after they disordered them in etyng, in
- drynkyng, in playes, and in lecherye. And therfore our Lord was
- meuyed ayenst them and sente them a grete pestelence, which was
- called the Botche of impedymye, and that was cruell and sodayne,
- and caused peple to dye in goyng by the waye, in pleying, in
- leeyng atte table, and in spekyng one with another sodeynly they
- deyed. In this manere somtyme snesyng they deyed; so that whan any
- persone was herd snesyng, anone they that were by said to hym, God
- helpe you, or Cryst helpe, _and yet endureth the custome_. And
- also when he sneseth or gapeth he maketh to fore his face the
- signe of the crosse and blessith hym. And yet endureth this
- custome."
-
- _Golden Legende_, edit. 1483, fo. xxi. b.
-
- F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER.
-
- Kentish Town.
-
-_Abbot of Croyland's Motto_ (Vol. v., p. 395.).--MR. FORBES is quite
-correct with regard to the motto of Abbot Wells, which should be
-"Benedicite Fontes Domin_o_." The sentence, "Bless the Wells, O Lord!"
-which is placed in so awkward a juxtaposition with it, is really a
-distinct motto for the name of Wells, and, so far from being a
-translation of the abbot's, is almost an inversion of it; and this
-should, as MR. FORBES justly remarks, have had "some editorial notice"
-from me.
-
- M. A. LOWER.
-
-_Derivation of the Word "Azores"_ (Vol. v., p. 439.).--The group of
-islands called the _Azores_, first discovered in 1439, by Joshua
-Vanderburg, a merchant of Bruges, and taken possession of by the
-Portuguese in 1448, were so named by Martin Behem, from the Portuguese
-word _Acor_, a hawk; Behem observing a great number of hawks there. The
-three species most frequently seen now are the Kestril, called
-_Francelho_; the Sparrowhawk, _Furobardo_; and the Buzzard, _Manta_; but
-whether very numerous or not, I am unable to state. From the
-geographical position of these islands, correct lists of the birds and
-fishes would be of great interest, and, as far as I am aware, are yet
-wanting.
-
-Martin Behem found one of these islands covered with beech-trees, and
-called it therefore _Fayal_, from the Portuguese word _Faya_, a
-beech-tree. Another island, abounding in sweet flowers, he called
-_Flores_, from the Portuguese, _Flor_, a flower. _Terceira_, one of the
-nine islands forming the group, is said to have been so called, because,
-in the order of succession, it was the third island discovered (from
-_Ter_ and _ceira_, a bank). _Graciosa_, as a name, was conferred upon
-one of peculiar beauty, a sort of paradise. _Pico_ derived its name from
-its sugar-loaf form. The raven found at Madeira and the Canary Islands
-is probably also a native of the Azores, and might have suggested the
-Portuguese name of _Corvo_ for one of the nine. St. Mary, St. Michael,
-and St. George complete the names of the group, of which St. Michael is
-the largest and Corvo the smallest.
-
- WM. YARRELL.
-
- Rider Street.
-
-_Scologlandis and Scologi_ (Vol. v., p. 416.).--As these names occur in
-a Celtic country, we are justified in seeking their explanation in the
-Celtic language. I therefore write to inform G. J. R. G. that the word
-_scolog_ is a living word in the Irish language, and that it signifies a
-_farmer_ or _husbandman_. It is the word used in the Irish Bible at
-Matt. xxi. 33., "he let it out to _husbandmen_"--tug se do _scologaibh_
-ar chios i.
-
-I may also mention that the name _Mac Scoloige_ is very common in the
-co. Fermanagh in Ireland, where it is very generally anglicised
-_Farmer_, according to a usual practice of the Irish. Thus it is not
-uncommon even now to find a man known by the name of John or Thomas
-_Farmer_, whose father or grandfather is John or Thomas Mac Scoloige,
-the name Mac Scoloige signifying "son of a farmer."
-
-The _Scologlandis_, in the documents quoted by G. J. R. G., must
-therefore have taken their name from the _scologs_ or farmers, by whom
-they were cultivated, unless we suppose that they were anciently the
-patrimony of some branch of the family of Mac Scoloige, whose remains
-are now settled in Fermanagh.
-
-In Scotland the word is now usually written _sgalag_, and is explained
-by Armstrong in his _Gaelic Dictionary_ "a farm servant." And the word
-does certainly seem to have been used in ancient Irish to denote a
-_servant_ or menial attendant, although the notion of a _farm_ servant
-seems to have grown out of its other significations. Thus in a very
-ancient historical romance (probably as old as the ninth or tenth
-century), which is preserved in the curious volume called _Leabhar
-breac_, or _Speckled Book_, in the library of the Royal Irish Academy,
-the word _scolog_ is used to designate _the servant_ of the Abbot of St.
-Finbar's, Cork.
-
- J. H. T.
-
-
-
-
-Miscellaneous.
-
-
-NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
-
-If there be any one class of documents from which, more than from any
-other, we may hope to draw evidence of the accuracy of Byron's
-assertion, that "Truth is strange, stranger than fiction!" they are
-surely the records of judicial proceedings both in civil and criminal
-matters; while, as Mr. Burton well observes in the preface to the two
-volumes which have called forth this remark, _Narratives from Criminal
-Trials in Scotland_, "there can be no source of information more
-fruitful in incidents which have the attraction of picturesqueness,
-along with the usefulness of truth." In submitting therefore to the
-public the materials of this nature--some drawn from manuscript
-authorities, some again from those works which, being printed for
-Subscription Clubs, may be considered as privately printed, and
-inaccessible to the majority of readers--which had accumulated on his
-hands while in the pursuit of other inquiries connected with the history
-of Scotland, Mr. Burton has produced two volumes which will be read
-with the deepest interest. The narratives are of the most varied
-character; and while some give us strange glimpses of the workings of
-the human heart, and show us how truly the Prophet spoke when he
-described it as being "deceitful above all things, and desperately
-wicked;" and some exhibit humiliating pictures of the fallibility of
-human judgment, others derive their chief interest from revealing
-collaterally "the social secrets of the day,--from the state mysteries,
-guarded by the etiquette and policy of courts, down to those
-characteristics of humble life which are removed from ordinary notice by
-their native obscurity." Greater dramatic power on the part of Mr.
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-though the want of this power is obvious, they form two volumes which
-will be perused with great curiosity and interest even by the most
-passionless of readers.
-
-Speaking of the use of Records reminds us that our valued cotemporary
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-of calling the attention of historical inquirers to the vast amount of
-new material for illustrating English history to be found in Sir F.
-Palgrave's _Calendar of the "Baga de Secretis,"_ printed by him in
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-
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- | 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 |
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- | 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. |
- +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+
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