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Littledale 508 + + Forged Papal Seal 508 + + A Passage in "All's Well that ends Well," by + J. Payne Collier 509 + + Surnames, by Mark Antony Lower 509 + + Minor Queries:--Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph--St. Wilfrid's + Needle in Yorkshire--Governor of St. Christopher in + 1662--The Amber Witch--Coffins for General Use--The + Surname Bywater--Robert Forbes--Gold Chair found in + Jersey--Alternation in Oxford Edition of the Bible-- + When did Sir Gilbert Gerrard die?--Market Crosses-- + Spy Wednesday--Passemer's "Antiquities of Devonshire"-- + Will o' Wisp--Mother of Richard Fitzjohn--Quotations + Wanted--Sons of the Conqueror: William Rufus and Walter + Tyrell--Brass of Lady Gore 510 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Smyth's MSS. relating to + Gloucestershire--Origin of Terms in Change-ringing-- + Keseph's Bible--Proclamations to prohibit the Use of + Coal, as Fuel, in London 512 + + REPLIES:-- + + Addison and his Hymns, by J. H. Markland 513 + + Witchcraft: Mrs. Hickes and her Daughter, by James Crossley 514 + + Dodo Queries, by J. M. van Maanen 515 + + The Heavy Shove 515 + + Ground Ice, by William Bates 516 + + Character of Algernon Sydney, by S. Walton 516 + + Monument to the Memory of Mary Queen of Scots at Antwerp 517 + + Lord King; the Sclaters; Dr. Kellet, &c. 518 + + Birthplace of St. Patrick 520 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Cabal--Portrait of Charles + Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough--The Word "Oasis"-- + Frightened out of his Seven Senses--Eagles' Feathers-- + Arms of Thompson--Spick and Span-new--Junius Rumours-- + Cuddy, the Ass--The Authorship of the Epigram upon the + Letter "H"--John Rogers, Protomartyr, &c.--"Gee-ho"-- + Twises--Ancient Timber Town-halls--Johnny Crapaud--Juba + Issham--Optical Phenomenon--Bishop of London's House-- + "Inveni Portum"--"Cane Decane"--Fides Carbonarii--The + Book of Jasher--Sites of Buildings mysteriously + changed--Wyned--Sweet Willy O 520 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, &c. 524 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 525 + + Notices to Correspondents 525 + + Advertisements 526 + + * * * * * + +Notes. + +JOURNAL OF THE EXPENSES OF JOHN, KING OF FRANCE, IN ENGLAND, 1359-60. + +Possibly some of the readers of "N. & Q." may remember that King John II. +of France was taken prisoner by Edward the Black Prince at the battle of +Poitiers, fought September 20, 1356. If not, I would refer them to the +delightful pages of old Froissart, where, in the version of Lord Berners, +they will see chronicled at length,-- + + "How Kyng John of Fraunce was taken prisoner at the Batayle of + Poyeters; how the Englyshmen wan greatly thereat, and how the Prince + conveyed the Frenche Kyng fro Burdeaux into Englande." + +I am induced to bring under the notice of your readers a curious roll, +containing one year's expenditure (July 1, 1359, to July 8, 1360) incurred +by the French king during his captivity in England. This important document +has been very recently printed in the _Comptes de l'Argenterie_, and edited +from a MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale by M. Douët d'Arcq for the +_Société de l'Histoire de France_. It may perhaps be well to state, that +after the battle of Poitiers the heroic Prince Edward conducted his royal +prisoner to Bordeaux, where he remained till the end of April, 1357. On the +24th of May following they both made their entry into London, "the Frenche +Kynge mounted on a large whyte courser well aparelled, and the Prince on a +lytell blacke hobbey (_haquenée_) by hym." John was lodged at first at the +Savoy Palace, but was removed shortly afterwards to Windsor Castle, at +which place he was allowed to "go a huntynge and a haukynge at hys +pleasure, and the lorde Phylyp his son with him." The document in question +refers to the years 1359 and 1360, when the king was confined at Hertford +Castle, at Somerton Castle in Lincolnshire, and lastly in the Tower of +London. As this document, which is so intimately connected with a favourite +portion of our history, has, I believe, received no notice from any English +journal, and as it moreover affords many valuable illustrations of domestic +manners, and of the personal character of the royal captive, I have made a +few extracts from it for insertion in "N. & Q.," in the {506} hope that +they may prove interesting to the numerous readers of that useful and +entertaining work. + + "_Pigeons._--A 'varlet Anglois' presents the king with '2 paire de + pijons blans,' and receives in reward 1 noble, value 6s. 8d. + + _A dainty dish of Venison and Whale._--Pour le marinier qui admena par + mer, à Londres, venoisons et balainne pour le Roy, 4 escuz. + + _A present of Venison from Queen Philippa._--Un varlet de la royne + d'Angleterre qui asporta au Roy venoison que elle li envoioit, pour + don, 13s. 4d. + + _The Baker's Bill._--Jehan le boulenger, qui servi de pain à Londres le + Roy, par 2 mois ou environ, 5s. 2d. + + _Sugar._--32 livres de sucre, à 10d. ob. livre=33s. 4d. _N. B._ The + grocer's bills for spiceries 'confitures et sucreries' are very + numerous. + + _Honey._--Miel, 3 galons et demi, 16d. le galon=4s. 8d. + + _The King's Breviary._--Climent, Clerk of the Chapel, is paid 6d. for a + 'chemise au Bréviaire du Roy.' + + _Do. Missal._--Jassin, pour cendal à doubler la couverture du Messal du + Roy, et pour doubler et broder ycelle avecques la soie qui y convenoit, + 13s. 5d.=Li, pour 2 clos d'argent à mettre audit livre, 4d. + + _Do. Psalter._--Jehan, le libraire de Lincole [Lincoln], pour 1 petit + Sautier acheté pour le Roy, 6s. 8d. + + _Romances._--Tassin, pour 1 _Romans de Renart_ [a burlesque poem, by + Perrot de Saint Cloot or Saint-Cloud?] acheté par li, à Lincole, pour + le Roy, 4s. 4d.--Maistre Guillaume Racine, pour un _Romans de Loherenc + Garin_ [a metrical romance, by Jehan de Flagy] acheté par li pour le + Roy, et de son comandement, 6s. 8d.--Li, pour 1 autre Romans du + _Tournoiement d'Antecrist_ [a poem, by Huon de Méry], 10s.[1] + + _Parchment._--Wile, le parcheminier de Lincoln, pour une douzainne de + parchemin, 3s. + + _Paper and Ink._--5 quaiers de papier, 3s. 4d. Pour encre, 4d. + + _Sealing Wax._--Une livre de cire vermeille, 10d. + + _Chess-board._--Jehan Perrot, qui apporta au Roy, 1 instrument appellé + l'eschequier, qu'il avoit fait, le Roy d'Angleterre avoit donné au Roy, + et li envoioit par ledit Jean, pour don à li fait, 20 nobles=6l. 13s. + 4d. + + _Organs._--Maistre Jehan, l'organier, pour appareiller les orgues du + Roy:--Pour 1 homme qui souffla par 3 jours, 18d., &c. Pour tout, 58s. + + _Harp._--Le roy des menestereulx, pour une harpe achetée du + commandement du Roy, 13s. 4d. + + _Clock._--Le roy des menestereulx, sur la façon de l'auloge (horloge) + qu'il fait pour le Roy, 17 nobles, valent 113s. 4d. + + _Leather Bottles._--Pour 2 boteilles de cuir achetées à Londres pour + Monseigneur Philippe, 9s. 8d. + + _Knives._--Pour 1 paire de coustiaux pour le Roy, 2s. + + _Gloves._--Pour fourrer 2 paires de gans, 12d. + + _Shoes._--Pour 12 paires de solers (souliers) pour le Roy, 7s. + + _Carpenter's Bill for windows of King's Prison in the Tower._--Denys le + Lombart, de Londres, charpentier, pour la façon de 4 fenestres pour la + chambre du Roy en la Tour de Londres. C'est assavoir: pour le bois des + 4 châssis, 3s. 2d. Item, pour cloux, 2s. 2d. Item, pour une peau de + cuir, 5d. Item, pour 6 livres et demie de terbentine, 4s. 4d. Item, + pour oile, 3d. Item, pour 7 aunes et demie de toile, 9s. 4d. Item, pour + toute la façon de dictes fenestres, 10s. Pour tout, 29s. 8d. + + _Saddle._--Godefroy le sellier, pour une selle dorée pour le Roy, + estoffé de sengles et de tout le hernois, 4l. + + _Minstrels._--Le Roy des menestreulx pour don fait à li par le Roy pour + quérir ses necessitez, 4 escuz=13s. 4d. Les menestereulx du Roy + d'Angleterre, du Prince de Gales et du Duc de Lencastre, qui firent + mestier devant le Roy, 40 nobles, valent 13l. 6s. 8d. Un menestrel qui + joua d'un chien et d'un singe devant le Roy qui aloit aus champs ce + jour, 3s. 4d. + + _Lions in the Tower._--Le garde des lions du Roy d'Angleterre, pour don + à li fait par le Roy qui ala veoir lesdiz lions, 3 nobles=20s. + + _Visit to Queen Philippa._--Un batelier de Londres qui mena le Roy et + aucun de ses genz d'emprès le pont de Londres jusques à Westmontier, + devers la Royne d'Angleterre, que le Roy ala veoir, et y souppa; et le + ramena ledit batelier. Pour ce, 3 nobles=20s. + + _Dinner with Edward III._--Les bateliers qui menèrent, en 2 barges, le + Roy et ses genz à Westmonster, ce jour qu'il disna avec le Roy + d'Angleterre, 66s. 8d. + + _A Row on the River Thames._--Plusieurs bateliers de Londres qui + menèrent le Roy esbatre à _Ride-Ride_ [Redriff _alias_ Rotherhithe?] et + ailleurs, par le rivière de Tamise, pour don fait à eulx, 8 nobles, + valent 53s. 3d. + + _The King's great Ship._--Les ouvriers de la grant nef du Roy + d'Angleterre, que le Roy ala veoir en venant d'esbatre des champs, pour + don à eulx fait, 33s. 4d. + + _A Climbing Feat on Dover Heights._--Un homme de Douvre, appelé _le + Rampeur_, qui rampa devent le Roy contremont la roche devant l'ermitage + de Douvre, pour don, &c., 5 nobles=33s. 4d. + + _Presents._--At Dover on July 6th, 1360, John dined at the Castle with + the Black Prince, when an 'esquire' of the King of England brought to + the King of France 'le propre gobelet à quoy ledit Roy d'Angleterre + buvoit, que il li envoioit en don;' and the French King sent Edward as + a present 'le propre henap à quoy il buvoit, qui fu Monseigneur St. + Loys.' _N.B._ This hanap was a famous drinking cup which had belonged + to St. Louis. + + _Newgate Prisoners._--Pour aumosne faite à eulx, 66s. 8d. + + _Pembroke Palace._--Un varlet qui garde l'ostel Madame de Pannebroc' + [Marie de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke] à Londres, où le Roy fist + petit disper ce jour, 2 nobles=13s. 4d. + + _Horse-dealing._--Lite Wace, Marchant de chevaur, pour 1 corsier acheté + de li pour le Roy, 60 nobles=20l. + + _Cock-fighting._--Jacques de la Sausserie, pour 1 coc acheté du + commandement Mons. Philippe à faire jouster, 2s. 8d." + +W. M. R. E. + +[Footnote 1: Among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum is Guiart des +Moulin's translation of Pet. Comestor's _Historia Scholastica_, which was +found in the tent of John at the battle of Poitiers. (Vide Warton's _Eng. +Poetry_, vol. i. p. 90.)] + +{507} + + * * * * * + +WAY OF INDICATING TIME IN MUSIC. + +The following rough mixture of Notes and Queries may serve to excite +attention to the subject. The merest beginner is aware that the letter C, +with a vertical line drawn through it, denotes _common time_; in which he +will take the C for the first letter of _common_. The symbols of old music +are four: the circle, the semicircle, and the two with vertical lines drawn +through them. After these were written 2 or 3, according as the time was +double or triple. And instead of a bar drawn through the circle or +semicircle, a central point was sometimes inserted. All these are true +facts, whether connected or unconnected, and whether any implication +conveyed in any way of stating them be true or false. The C, with a line +through it, certainly did not distinguish common time from triple. Alsted, +in his _Encyclopædia_ (1649), says that it means the _beginning of the +music_; without any reference to time. Solomon de Caus, known as having had +the steam-engine claimed for him, but who certainly wrote on music in 1615, +found the circles, &c. so variously used by different writers, that he +abandons all attempt at description or reconciliation. + +May I suggest an origin for the crossed C? In the oldest church music, it +often happens that the lines are made to begin with a vertical line +impaling two lozenges, with a third lozenge between them, but on one side. +It is as if in the three of diamonds the middle lozenge were removed a +little to the left, the upper and lower ones sliding on a vertical line +until they nearly touch the removed middle one. Now if this figure were +imitated _currente calamo_, as in rapid writing, it would certainly become +an angle crossed by a vertical line; which angle would perhaps be rounded, +thus giving the crossed semicircle. Has this derivation been suggested? Or +can any one suggest a better? + +But, it will be said, whence comes the full circle? It is possible that +there may have happened in this case what has happened in others: namely, +that a symbol invented, and firmly established, before the partial disuse +of Latin, may have been extended in different ways by the vernacular +writers of different countries. This has happened in the case of the words +_million_, _billion_, _trillion_, &c. The first, and the root of all, was +established early, and while no vernacular works existed, and it has only +one meaning. The others, certainly introduced at a later time, mean +different things in different countries. May it not have been that the +variety of usage which De Caus notes, may have arisen from different +writers, ignorant of each other, choosing each his own mode of deriving +other symbols from the crossed semicircle, obtained as suggested by me? I +am fully aware of the risk of such suggestions--but they have often led to +something better. + +M. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_A smart Saying of Baxter._--In his _Aggravations of Vain Babbling_, +speaking of gossips, Baxter says: + + "If I had one to send to school that were sick of the talking evil--the + _morbus loquendi_--I would give (as Isocrates required) a double pay to + the schoolmaster willingly; one part for teaching him to hold his + tongue, and the other half for teaching him to speak. I should think + many such men and women half cured if they were half as weary of + speaking as I am of hearing them. _He that lets such twattling swallows + build in his chimney may look to have his pottage savour of their + dung._" + +B. B. + +_Latin Hexameters on the Bible._--The verses given under this title by LORD +BRAYBROOKE, in Vol. v., p. 414., remind me of a similar method which I +adopted, when at school, in order to impress upon my memory the names of +the Jewish months. The lines run thus:-- + + "Nisan Abib, Iyar Zif, Sivan, Thammuz, Ab, Elul; + Tisri, Marchesvan, Chisleu, Thebeth, Sebat, Adar." + +The first verse commences with the first month of the ecclesiastical year, +the second with the first month of the civil year. + +A. W. + +_Ancient Connexion of Cornwall and Phoenicia._--The effort to trace the +ancient connexion of countries by the relics of their different customs, +would be amusing if not useful. The fragment of the voyage of Hamilcar the +Carthaginian confirms the trade of the Phoenicians with Cornwall for tin. +The Roman writers still extant confirm it. The traffic was carried on by +way of Gades or Cadiz, the Carthaginians being the carriers for the +Phoenicians. In Andalusia to this day, middle-aged and old men are +addressed _Tio_, or uncle; as _Tio Gorgè_, "Uncle George." This custom +prevails in Cornwall also, and only there besides. Is not that a trace of +the old intercourse? Again, clouted cream, known only in the duchy of +Cornwall, which once extended as far as the river Exe in Devon, is only +found besides in Syria and near modern Tyre, whence the same tin trade was +carried on. These are curious coincidences. Many of the old Cornish words +are evidently of Spanish origin: as _cariad_, _caridad_, charity or +benevolence; _Egloz_ or _Eglez_, a church; _Iglesia_ or _Yglezia_, and many +others, which seem to bear a relation to the same intercourse. + +The notice respecting the word _cot_ or _cote_,--termination of proper +names in a particular district in Cornwall,--already mentioned in these +pages, supposed to be Saxon from the idea that its use was confined to one +district, which I have shown to be a mistake, may be from the Cornish word +_icot_, "below," in place of the Saxon _cote_ or _cot_, "cottage." Thus, +_goracot_ is probably from _gora_ or _gorra_, and _icot_, i. e. "down +below." {508} _Trelacot_ from _Tre_, "a town," and _icot_, "below." The _l_ +was often prefixed for sound sake: as _lavalu_ for _avalu_, "an apple;" +_quedhan lavalu_, "an apple tree;" _Callacot_, from _cala_, or _calla_, +"straw," and _icot_. The introduction of the vowel _a_ for _i_ might be a +corruption in spelling after the sound. This is only surmise, but it has an +appearance of probability. + +CYRUS REDDING. + +_Portrait of John Rogers, the Proto-Martyr._--Should you think the +following minor Note interesting to your correspondent KT., perhaps you +will find a corner for it in your miscellany. + +Living some time ago on the picturesque coast of Dorsetshire, I had the +good fortune to have for a neighbour a lady of cultivated taste and +literary acquirements; among other specimens of antiquity and art to which +she drew my attention, was a portrait, in oil, of John Rogers; it was of +the size called "Kit Cat," and was well painted. This portrait she held in +great veneration and esteem, declaring herself to be (if my memory does not +deceive me) a descendant of this champion of Christianity, whose name +stands on the "muster roll" of the "noble army of martyrs." + +In case KT. should wish to push his inquiries in this quarter, I inclose +you the name and address of the lady above alluded to. + +M. W. B. + +"_Brallaghan, or the Deipnosophists._"--Edward Kenealey, Esq., reprinted +under the above sonorous title (London: E. Churton, 1845) some amusing +contributions of his to _Fraser_ and other Magazines. At pp. 94. and 97. he +gives us, however, the "Uxor non est ducenda" and the "Uxor est ducenda" of +the celebrated Walter Haddon; and that too without the slightest intimation +that he himself was not their author. It is not, I think, fair for any man +thus to shine in borrowed plumes, or at least transcribe verbatim, and +without acknowledgment, from a writer so little known and old-fashioned as +Haddon. Let me therefore give the reference, for the benefit of the +curious: _D. Gualteri Haddoni Poemata_, pp. 70-3. Londini, 1567, 4to. + +RT. + +_Stilts used by the Irish._--We have all heard of the use of stilts by the +shepherds of the Landes; but I have met with _only one_ passage which +speaks of their use in Ireland. I have crossed rivers, both in Scotland and +in Ireland, on stilts, when the water was not deep, and have seen them kept +instead of a ferryboat, when there was no bridge, but do not think they are +in common use at the present day. The passage in question is quoted in +Ledwich's _Antiquities_, p. 300.: + + "I had almost forgotten to notice a very remarkable particular recorded + by Strada (Strada, _Belg._, 1. viii. p. 404., Borlase's Reduction, + 132.). He tells us that Sir Wm. Pelham, who had been Lord Justice of + Ireland, led into the Low Countries in 1586 fourteen hundred wild + Irish, clad only below the navel, and mounted on _stilts_, which they + used in passing rivers: they were armed with bows and arrows. Having + never met with this use of stilts among any other people, it seemed a + matter of curiosity to notice it here." + +EIRIONNACH. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "DEVIL." + +What is the etymology of the word _devil_? This may appear an unnecessary +question, since we have a regular chain of etyma, [Greek: diabolos,] +_diabolus_, _diavolo_, _devil_. But it is the first of this chain that +puzzles me. I am aware that it is considered a translation of [Hebrew: +SAT`AN], and is derived usually from [Greek: diaballein], _calumniare_. But +[Hebrew: SAT`AN] means _adversarius_, consequently the rendering would not +be accurate. As the word in classical writers always means a false accuser, +and never a supernatural agent of evil, I doubt the correctness of the +usual derivations in the case of ecclesiastical usage; and am inclined to +consider it one of the oriental words, in a Hellenistic dress, with which +the Septuagint and Greek Testament are replete. Mr. Borrow, in _Lavengro_, +instances as a reason for believing that divine and devilish were +originally the same words, the similarity of the gypsy word _Un-debel_, +God, and our word _devil_. Struck with this remark, on consideration of the +subject, I perceived that there were several other coincidences of the same +kind, as follows:--The Greek [Greek: daimôn] means either a good or bad +spirit of superhuman power. The Zend word _afrîtî_, "blessed," corresponds +to the Arabic _afrît_, "a rebellious angel." The Latin _divus_, "a god," +(and of course [Greek: Dios], with all its variations,) belongs to the same +family as the Persian _dîv_, "a wizard or demon;" while the _jin_ or _jan_ +of the _Arabian Nights_ answer to the forms _Zan_, _Zêna_, _Zeus_, _Janus_, +_Djana_ or _Diana_. All words denoting deified power, and employed by the +inhabitants of Greece and Umbria. + +These singular resemblances may prove that fetish worship was more widely +spread than is generally believed, and I think justify my doubts as to the +etymology of the word in question. + +RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE. + +Dublin. + + * * * * * + +FORGED PAPAL SEAL. + +An old seal was discovered some years ago by accident in the ruins of an +abbey in the south of Ireland, of which the followings is a description. +The workmanship is rude, the material a species of bronze. The impression +consists of a circle of raised spots: on either side are two venerable +human faces, both bearded; there is a rude cross between them. Above them +are the letters-- + + "S - P - A - S - P - E." + +{509} These are supposed to stand for "St. Paul" and "St. Peter." It is +said that this seal was used for the purpose of affixing an impression to +an instrument which pretended to be a Papal Bull: in fact, that it was used +for forging Pope's Bulls. One of the objects of such forgeries (if they +really occurred) would be, to grant dispensations for marriages on account +of consanguinity. Some noble families in Ireland had very ancient Papal +dispensations of this nature. It would often be convenient that +extraordinary despatch should be used in obtaining a dispensation. + +Can any of your correspondents compare the seals on those dispensations +with the above, or throw any light on the practice of dispensing with the +ecclesiastical law against consanguineous marriages? + +H. F. H. + +Wexford. + + * * * * * + +A PASSAGE IN "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL." + +Will MR. SINGER favour me with the information where the proposed +emendation, referred to by him in "N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 436., in _All's +Well that ends Well_, _infinite cunning_ for "insuite comming," of the +folio 1623, is to be met with? If it be in the _Athenæum_ it has escaped my +observation, although I have turned over the pages of that able periodical +carefully to find it. I have a particular reason for wishing to trace the +suggestion, if I can, to the source where it originated. Owing to an +accident, which it is needless to explain, the number of "N. & Q." +containing MR. SINGER'S communication did not meet my eye until this +morning. + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +May 22. 1852. + + * * * * * + +SURNAMES. + +I have to thank many of your readers who have favoured me with private +letters on this subject since the printing of the prospectus of my +_Dictionary of Surnames_ in your columns; and before troubling you with a +string of Queries, I would briefly refer to two or three points in the kind +communications under this head in "N. & Q." of May 1. E. H. Y. will find +the question, _sur_name or _sir_name, slightly touched upon in my _English +Surnames_ (3rd edit., vol. i. p. 13.), and argued at length in the +_Literary Gazette_ for Nov. 1842, in a correspondence originating out of a +notice of the first edition of my book. I think the balance of evidence is +in favour of _sur_name; that is, a name superadded to the personal or +baptismal appellation, which applies with equal propriety to the sobriquets +given to monarchs and distinguished men, and to the hereditary designations +of people of humble rank. Alexander _Mitchell_, your groom, is no other +than Alexander the Great; and Bill _Rowse_, your errand-boy, is the +namesake of the Red King who fell in the New Forest; the only difference +being, that the plebeians inherit their second name from their ancestors, +while the magnates enjoy theirs by exclusive right. I do not think, +therefore, that the distinction contended for by E. H. Y. is either +necessary or desirable: indeed I consider _sire_name as a mere play upon a +mis-spelt word. In saying this, I would by no means disparage your +excellent correspondent, whose communications I always read with pleasure I +might add, that the distinction of "nomen patris additum proprio," +_sire_name, and "nomen supra nomen additum," surname, is by no means new. + +I cannot quite agree with E. S.'s suggestion as to the desirableness of +omitting the names derived from Christian names, this being one of the most +interesting branches of my inquiry. I have already shown that from ten to +thirty family names are occasionally found to proceed from _one_ baptismal +appellation; and at least half a dozen of the names to which E. S. calls my +attention for explanation are so derived. To the termination _-cock_, +occurring in so many names, I have already given attention, and the result +may be seen in _Eng. Surn._, vol. i. pp. 160. to 165., both inclusive. + +To the surnames derived from extinct or provincial words designating +employments, I am paying considerable attention; but although I am +tolerably well acquainted with our mediæval writers, and their glossarists, +there are many names ending in _er_ (generally having in old records the +prefix _le_), which have hitherto baffled my etymological skill. + +W. L.'s remarks support the statements made in _Eng. Surn._, vol. i., p. +38. _et seq._, to show that family names have scarcely become hereditary, +in some parts of England, even now, in the middle of the nineteenth +century. Without occupying your valuable space unduly, I would now submit +the following Queries:-- + +1. What book gives any rational account of the origin of the Scottish +clans, and their distinctive or family names? I know Buchanan's work, but +it gives very little information of the kind desired. _Any_ authentic +particulars regarding Scottish names will be acceptable. + +2. What is the real meaning of _worth_, which forms the final syllable of +so many surnames? I have seen no less than six explanations of it, which +cannot all be correct. + +3. Are there any works (besides dictionaries) in the Dutch, German, and +Scandinavian languages which would throw light upon the family names of +this country? + +4. What is the best compendious gazetteer or topographical dictionary of +Normandy extant? + +5. Is anything known of a collection of surnames made by Mr. Cole, the +antiquary, in the last century? It is mentioned in Collet's _Relics of +Literature_, 1823. {510} + +6. Can any reader of "N. & Q." explain the following surnames, which are +principally to be found so early as the reign of Edward I.?--Alfox, Colfox, +Astor, Fricher, Grix, Biber, Bakepuz, Le Chalouner, Le Cayser, Le Cacherel, +Trelfer, Metcalfe, Baird, Aird, Chagge, Le Carun, at Bight. + +MARK ANTONY LOWER. + +Lewes. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph._--To what family belonged John Owen, Bishop of +St. Asaph, mentioned in Winkle's _Cathedrals_ with so much honour? His +father Owen Owen was Archdeacon of Anglesea, rector of Burton Latymer. I +cannot find either name in the printed pedigrees of the various families of +Owen, nor in such of the Harl. MSS. as I had time to examine. Wanted, the +bishop's arms and crest, and any reference to his pedigree. It is said by +Winkle that his monument is under the episcopal throne in St. Asaph's +cathedral. He died 1651, and his father 1592. + +URSULA. + +_St. Wilfrid's Needle in Yorkshire_,--"where they used to try maids, +whether they were honest." (_Burton._) Does this stone exist? "Ancient +writers do not mention," says Lingard, "Stonehenge, Abury, &c., as +appendages to _places of worship_ among the Celtæ," therefore may it not be +that these remains of antiquity were devoted to vain superstitions of the +ignorant people, if not to gloomy rites of the officiating priests of the +British Druids? The gigantic obelisks of single stones, called the "Devil's +Arrows," near Boroughbridge, and the assemblage of rocks called Bramham +Crags, a few miles north-west of Ripon, are considered to have been +Druidical. Is St. Wilfrid's either of these? and can farther information +about this rock be afforded? + +B. B. + +_Governor of St. Christopher in 1662._--Will any one be so kind as to +inform me who was the governor of the island of St. Christopher in the year +1662? I have an original, but unsigned letter, from him to the contemporary +Dutch governor of St. Martin's, demanding reparation for an outrage of most +extraordinary nature. He complains that the Dutch had seized and _reduced +to slavery_ the crew and passengers of an English ship during a time of +peace. Is anything known of this affair, or is there any means of +discovering the names of the colonial governors of that age? The letter is +dated Sept. 1, 1662, and is endorsed, "A Coppie of my letter to the Gov. of +St. Martin's." + +URSULA. + +_The Amber Witch._--I am anxious to learn whether this be a pure fiction or +a genuine document dressed up. Its strongest appearance of authenticity +arises from the tedious pedantry of the ancient Lutheran pastor, its +supposed author, which not only renders the perusal heavy, but also lets in +various things unsuited to the decorum of modern manners. If a pure +forgery, my inquiry extends to _the motives_ of a fabrication, tedious to +both reader and writer. + +A. N. + +_Coffins for General Use._--In the parish church of Easingwold, Yorkshire, +there was within the last few years an old _oaken shell_ or _coffin_, +asserted to have been used by the inhabitants for the interment of their +dead. After the burial, the coffin was again deposited in the church. Are +there any other well-authenticated instances of a similar usage? And do the +words of the rubric in the Order for "the Burial of the Dead," "When they +come to the grave, while the corpse is _made ready to be laid_ INTO _the +earth_," render it probable that such a custom was generally prevalent in +the Anglican church _since_ the Reformation? + +I have met with one corroborative circumstance, in which numbers of bodies +were disinterred in a piece of ground _supposed_ to have been consecrated, +and not a vestige of a coffin was found. + +INCOGNITUS. + +_The Surname Bywater._--Can any of your correspondents furnish me with +particulars relating to the surname "_Bywater_?" + +The earliest period from which I can trace it _direct_ to the present day, +and then only by family tradition, is about the close of the seventeenth +century, or say 1680, about which time "---- Bywater" married Miss Witham, +and resided at Towton Hall, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, a place celebrated +as being the field of a battle fought between the York and Lancaster forces +on Palm Sunday, 1461. + +Stow mentions, in his _Survey_, that "_John Bywater_" was a Sheriff of +London in 1424. + +Perhaps some of your readers, in Yorkshire or elsewhere, can throw a light +on the subject, or can refer me to a book or MS. where information may be +obtained? + +W. M. B. + +_Robert Forbes._--I should be glad if any of your correspondents could +furnish me with any particulars relative to this talented and eccentric +individual. He was the author of _The Dominie Deposed_, in the Buchan +dialect. On the title-page of that piece he is described as "Robert Forbes, +A.M., Schoolmaster of Peterculter," near Aberdeen. On application, however, +to the Session Clerk of Peterculter, that functionary states that no such +person was ever schoolmaster of that parish. Be this as it may, Forbes was +obliged to leave Scotland on account of an intrigue, which he has +humorously described in his _Dominie Deposed_. He appears to have removed +to London, where he commenced the business of a hosier, in a shop on Tower +Hill, at the sign of the "Book." Here he composed that {511} celebrated +travestie on the _Speech of Ajax to the Grecian Chiefs_, also in the Buchan +dialect: + + "The wight an' doughty captains a', + Upo' their doups sat down; + A rangel o' the commoun fouk + In bourachs a' stood roun." + +I think Forbes states that his place of business on Tower Hill was "hard by +the shop of Robbie Mill." (See Chalmers' _Life of Ruddiman_.) Forbes is +supposed to have died about the year 1750. + +HYPADIDASCULUS. + +_Gold Chair found in Jersey._--I find in Lowndes' _Bibliographer's Manual_ +the following: + + "The most wonderfull and strange Finding of a Chayre of Gold, neare the + Isle of Iarsie, with the true Discourse of the Death of eight seuerall + Men: and other most rare Accidents thereby proceeding. London, 1595, + 4to. 14 pages, including not only the title-page, but a blank leaf + before it, as was frequent about this time." + +Can any one inform me where I can obtain a sight of this tract? I have +searched the multivoluminous catalogue of the British Museum, that of the +Bodleian, Grenville, Douce, and other collections, but in vain; and can +find no trace of it anywhere. + +R. P. M. + +_Alteration in Oxford Edition of the Bible._--In the stereotype edition of +the Bible, in 8vo., printed at Cambridge, for the British and Foreign Bible +Society, I find the word _Judah_, 2 Chron. xxi. 2., substituted for +_Israel_. This latter word is the reading of every copy of the authorized +English version that I have been able to consult, including the 12mo. +edition printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society at Oxford. + +No doubt _Judah_ is the right word in this passage. The context requires +it; and it is the reading of forty Hebrew MSS., and of all the ancient +versions, except the Chaldee. It is also the reading of the old English +version by Coverdale. But it has not been adopted by King James's +translators. How has this deviation from their text crept into an edition +emanating from a University press? + +JEROME. + +_When did Sir Gilbert Gerrard die?_--A warrant was issued on the 1st of +July, 1594, to the Lord Treasurer and Sir John Fortescue (see Burghley's +_Diary_) "to inquire what profits had been taken for the office of the +Rolls _betwixt the time of the death of Sir Gilbert Gerrard and the entry +of Sir Thomas Egerton_." Now Sir Thomas Egerton entered on the 10th of +April, 1594, and I have reason to believe that the office had been vacant +for about a year. But I can find no notice of Sir Gilbert's death. He was a +member of Gray's Inn; admitted in 1537, barrister 1539, ancient 1547, +reader 1554, serjeant 1558, attorney-general 1559, Master of the Rolls +1581; and during the interval between the death of Lord Chancellor Hatton +(Nov. 22, 1591) and the appointment of Lord Keeper Puckering (May 28, 1592) +one of the commissioners for hearing causes in chancery. + +JAMES SPEDDING. + +_Market Crosses._--Have these interesting crosses occupied the attention of +any one? Is there any work exclusively upon them? When was the old Market +Cross, at Bury St. Edmunds, taken down? Is there any view of it extant, and +where is it to be seen? What is the meaning of the passage from Gage's +valuable _History of Thingoe Hundred_, page 205.: + + "Henry Gage, &c., _married at the Market Cross_, in the parish of St. + James, St. Edmund's-bury, 11th February, 1655." + +Was any religious edifice standing on this spot at that period? + +C. G. + +Paddington. + +_Spy Wednesday._--I observed the other day, under the Spanish News in _The +Times_ of Wednesday, the 14th April, 1852, the following paragraph: + + "It being _Spy Wednesday_, the Bourse remained closed." + +Can any correspondent inform me the meaning of "Spy Wednesday," it being a +term I have never yet heard so applied? + +JOHN NURSE CHADWICK. + +King's Lyn. + +PASSEMER'S "ANTIQUITIES OF DEVONSHIRE."--In Bagford's MS. Collections on +Writing, Printing, &c., in the British Museum (_Ayscough's Cat._, No. +885.), at fo. 102., among writers on Devonshire appears the following: + + "Id. Ye antiquitates of ye same countey is collected out of ye antient + bookes belonging to ye Bishopprick of Exeter, by one Mr. George + Passemer, vicar of Awliscombe, in ye said countey." + +Can either of your correspondents state whether Mr. Passemer's work is +known to be in existence? + +J. D. S. + +_Will O' Wisp._--Notwithstanding the steam-engine may be said to have done +almost as much towards destroying the gaseous exhalations of our bog-lands +by the means of drainage, as it has done towards the amelioration of the +stagnant moors and intellectual morasses of society, it can hardly have +dispelled every _Ignis Fatuus_ from every quagmire, any more than it has +even yet chased the ignorance from every dull head. The object of this +communication is to ask for the names of a few specific localities where +that noted misleader of the benighted--_Will O' Wisp_--still continues to +manifest his presence? + +D. + +_Mother of Richard Fitzjohn._--Can any of your readers inform me who was +_the mother_ of Richard {512} Fitzjohn, Lord Fitzjohn, who was summoned to +parliament in 23 Edward I., and died two years after in France? He was the +son of John Fitzjohn Fitzgeoffrey, who died near Guildford in 1258, and who +was the son and heir of John Fitzgeoffrey, Justiciary of Ireland in 1246. +His mother's name is not mentioned in any authorities I have been able to +consult, and I should feel particularly obliged by any one communicating to +me _his mother's name_, and also his _maternal grandmother's name_, if they +have ever been ascertained. + +TEWARS. + +_Quotations wanted._--Can any of your numerous correspondents oblige me +with the information as to where the following may be found: + + "The difficult passages they shun, + And hold their farthing rushlight to the sun." + +Again, this: + + "And like unholy men + Quote scripture for the deed." + +Again, this: The entire epigram said to have been made by Porson on a +Fellow of his college, who habitually pronounced Euphr_[)a]_tes (short) +instead of Euphr[=a]tes. The only words I remember--it is now near thirty +years since I heard it--are + + "Et corripuit fluxeum;" + +and Jekyll, the celebrated wit, rendered the epigram into English, and part +of it thus: + + "He abridged the river." + +H. M. + +_Sons of the Conqueror--William Rufus and Walter Tyrell._--Sir N. W. +Wraxall (_Posthumous Memoirs_, vol. i., p. 425.) says of the Duke of +Dorset: + + "His only son perished at twenty-one in an Irish foxchase: a mode of + dying not the most glorious or distinguished, though two sons of + William the Conqueror, one of whom was a King of England, terminated + their lives in a similar occupation." + +Who are these _two_ sons? William Rufus would be one of them; but who is +the other? And whilst I am on this subject, I would inquire, _on what +authority_ does the commonly received story of William II.'s death by the +hand of Sir Walter Tyrrell rest? + +TEWARS. + +_Brass of Lady Gore._--Moody, in his _Sketches of Hampshire_, states that +there is a brass of an _Abbess_, 1434, Lady Gore by name, in the church of +Nether Wallop. But in the _Oxford Manual_ it is stated (Introduction, p. +xxxix.) that only two brasses of Abbesses are known, one at Elstow, Beds, +to Elizabeth Hervey, and the other at Denham, Bucks, to Agnes Jordan, +Abbess of Syon, both _c._ 1530. Which is correct of these two authorities? + +UNICORN. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Smyth's MSS. relating to Gloucestershire._--In Rudder's _History of +Gloucestershire_, title "Nibley," p. 575., is the following passage: + + "John Smyth, of Nibley, ancestor to the present proprietor, was very + eminent for his great assiduity in collecting every kind of information + respecting this county and its inhabitants. He wrote the Genealogical + History of the Berkeley Family, in three folio MSS., which Sir William + Dugdale abridged and published in his _Baronage of England_. In three + other folio MSS. he has registered with great exactness _the names of + the lords of manors in the county in the year 1608_, _the number of men + in each parish able to bear arms, with their names, age, stature, + professions, armour, and weapons_. _The sums each landholder paid to + subsidies granted in a certain year_ are set down in another MS. He + likewise committed to writing a very particular account of the customs + of the several manors in the hundred of Berkeley, and _the pedigrees of + their respective lords_. These and some other MSS., which cost him + forty years in compiling, are now (1779) in the possession of Nicholas + Smyth, Esq., the fifth from him in lineal descent." + +I shall feel much obliged to any of your readers who will inform me where +these MSS., or any of them, may now be seen. Those that I particularly want +to inspect are printed in Italics in the above quotation. + +JULIUS PARTRIGE. + +Birmingham. + + [Atkyns, in his _Gloucestershire_, p. 579., states that Smythe's MSS. + were at the time he wrote, A.D. 1712, in the custody of his + great-grandson, Sir George Smith, who generously communicated them to + all that desired a perusal of them. Fosbrooke, however, in the preface + to his _History of Gloucestershire_, published in 1807, speaks of them + as being in the possession of the Earl of Berkeley. He says, "Of the + noblemen and gentlemen who honoured me with support and information, + the Earl of Berkeley's permission to use Mr. Smythe's MSS. in every + important extent has been of essential service." Fosbrooke subsequently + published, in 1821, a quarto volume of _Abstracts and Extracts of + Smythe's Lives of the Berkeleys_ from these manuscripts.] + +_Origin of Terms in Change-ringing._--I shall be obliged by any one +informing me as to the origin and derivation of the terms "plain bob," +"grandsire bob," "single bob minor," "grandsire treble," "caters," +"cinques," _et hoc genus omne_, so well known to campanologists. + +ALFRED GATTY. + + [Our correspondent may probably get some clue to the derivation of + these terms in a work entitled _Campanologia Improved; or the Art of + Ringing made Easy_, third edition, 12mo. 1733. We may also mention, + that some Notes of Dedications of Churches and Bells in the Diocese of + Gloucester will be found in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 5836. f. 189 + b.] + +_Keseph's Bible._--About the year 1828, there was issued a thin duodecimo +pamphlet by some one who took the cognomen of Keseph, and who {513} +proposed to publish an edition of the authorised version under the title of +"Keseph's Bible," with the substitution of the Hebrew terms _Alehim_, +_Aleh_, _Al_, _Adon_, _Adonai_, &c. &c. for our English ones _God_, _Lord_, +&c. &c. + +Can any of your readers inform me if this was ever published? and can they +also favour me with the loan of the pamphlet for a month? + +THE EDITOR OF THE "CHRONOLOGICAL NEW TESTAMENT." + +36. Trinity Square, Southwark. + + [This Bible was published in 1830, as far as chap. xix. of the Second + Book of Kings, with the following title: _The Holy Bible, according to + the Established Version: with the Exception of the Substitution of the + Original Hebrew Names, in place of the English Words, Lord and God, and + of a few corrections thereby rendered necessary. With Notes._ London: + Westley and Davis, 4to. It contains a Preface of four pages, and a list + of the Meaning or Signification of the Sacred Names substituted in this + edition, of nine pages. A copy of it is in the British Museum, the + press mark 1276 h.] + +_Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, as Fuel, in London._--Dr. +Bachoffner, in the lecture which he is now delivering at the Royal +Polytechnic Institution, mentions the fact that three separate +proclamations were issued for this purpose, and that it was at last made a +capital offence; and a man was actually accused, tried, condemned, and +executed for burning coal within the metropolis. Now what I want to +ascertain relative to the above facts, is: 1. The date of each; 2. Any +particulars that you or any of your correspondents may be kind enough to +furnish; 3. The name, and station, trade, or profession of the person so +executed. + +As Dr. Bachoffner has now often reiterated the above statement at the +Polytechnic, and as it has always been received (at least when I have been +there) with acclamations of surprise, I have no doubt that the particulars +will interest many of your readers. + +ARTHUR C. WILSON. + + [We have not been able to find any account of the execution for burning + coal noticed by Dr. Bachoffner, which probably took place during the + reign of Edward I., when the use of coal was prohibited by proclamation + at London in the year 1306. These proclamations are noticed in Prynne's + _Animadversions on the Fourth Part of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes_, p. + 182., where it is said, that "in the latter part of the reign of Edward + I., when brewers, dyers, and other artificers using great fires, began + to use sea-coals instead of dry wood and charcoal, in and near the city + of London, the prelates, nobles, commons, and other people of the + realm, resorting thither to parliaments, and upon other occasions, with + the inhabitants of the city, Southwark, Wapping, and East Smithfield, + complained thereof twice one after another to the king as a public + nuisance, corrupting the air with its stink and smoke, to the great + prejudice and detriment of their health. Whereupon the king first + prohibited the burning of sea-coal by his proclamation; which being + disobeyed by many for their private lucre, the king upon their second + complaint issued a commission of Oyer and Terminer to inquire of all + such who burned sea-coals against his proclamation within the city, or + parts adjoining to it, and to punish them for their first offence by + great fines and ransoms; and for the second offence to demolish their + furnaces, kilns wherein they burnt sea-coals, and to see his + proclamation strictly observed for times to come, as the Record of 35 + Edw. I. informs us." On this subject our correspondent should consult + Edington's _Treatise on the Coal Trade_; Ralph Gardiner's _England's + Grievance discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade_; and Anderson's + _Origin of Commerce_.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +ADDISON AND HIS HYMNS. + +(Vol. v., p. 439.) + +Any attempt to divorce Addison from his hymns in the _Spectator_, and to +ascribe them to any other writer, is so great a wrench to the feelings of a +sexagenarian like myself, that the question must at once be set at rest. + +In reply to J. G. F.'s inquiry, these hymns, or a portion of them, were +claimed for Andrew Marvell by Captain Edward Thompson, the editor of +Marvell's works; but a writer in Kippis's edition of the _Biographia +Britannica_ remarks: + + "We shall content ourselves with observing, that any man who can + suppose that the ease, eloquence, and harmony of the ode, 'The Spacious + Firmament,' &c., could flow from Marvell's pen, must be very deficient + in taste and judgment." + +This claim on Captain Thompson's part was to have been considered under the +article "Marvell," but the second edition of the _Biographia_ did not, as +we well know, extend beyond the letter F. + +But though we cannot concede these hymns to Marvell, he must not be +underrated. His downright honesty of character and purpose must ever excite +respect. His biographer strangely introduces him to us as "A witty droll in +the seventeenth century, the son of a facetious gentleman at Hull." In one +respect he resembled our gifted essayist; his style in prose was so +captivating that we are told + + "From the King down to the Tradesman, his _Rehearsal Transposed_ was + read with great pleasure; he had all the men of wit on his side." + +To return to the hymns and the just claims of Addison to the whole of them. + +In the _Spectator_, No. 453., Addison says, + + "I have _already_ communicated to the public some pieces of divine + poetry, and as they have met with a very favourable reception, _I shall + from time to time publish any work of the same nature which has not yet + appeared in print_, and may be acceptable to my readers." + +Then follows the hymn "When all Thy Mercies," &c. Coming from such a man as +Addison, this {514} must be considered as pretty strong evidence of +authorship. + +In the _Spectator_, No. 441., when introducing the hymn "The Lord my +Pasture," &c., Addison observes-- + + "As the poetry of the original is very exquisite, I shall present my + readers with the following translation of it." + +With respect to this composition Bishop Hurd remarks, that Addison's + + "True judgment suggested to him that what he drew from Scripture was + best preserved in a pure and simple expression, and the fervour of his + piety made that simplicity pathetic." + +No doubt seems to have crossed the Bishop's mind as to the authorship. +Sometimes Addison thought fit to throw a little mystery over these hymns. +In _Spectator_, No. 489., after alluding to Psalm cvii. v. 23., "They that +go down to the sea," &c. (which Addison says gives a description of a ship +in a storm, preferable to any other that he has met with), he subjoins his +"divine Ode made by a _Gentleman_ on the conclusion of his travels," "How +are Thy servants blest," &c. + +The verses 4 to 8 are said to refer to the storm which Allison himself +encountered on the Mediterranean, after he embarked at Marseilles in 1700. + +The hymn "When rising from the bed of death," _Spectator_, No. 513, "a +thought in sickness," is contained in a supposed letter from a _Clergyman_, +viz. one of the club, "who assist me in my speculations." + +Tickell, in his exquisite elegy, so worthy of its subject, when asking, + + "What new employments please the unbody'd mind?" + +adds, + + "Or mixed with milder cherubim to glow, + In _hymns of love, not ill essayed below_." + +Were not the very hymns which we are speaking of in Tickell's mind? + +Addison's piety, we may well gather from his writings, was, as Mr. Macaulay +observes, of a cheerful character. The feeling which predominates in all +his devotional papers, is that of gratitude; do we not find it also +strikingly developed in his hymns? We all remember the beautiful lines, + + "Ten thousand thousand precious gifts + My daily thanks employ, + Nor is the least a cheerful heart, + That tastes those gifts with joy." + +Let Bishop Ken and Addison retain their divine hymns--dear as they are, and +let us hope ever will be, to man, woman, and child--whilst the English +language is read or spoken. How greatly is their sublimity heightened, and +their beauty enhanced, when we associate with them the purity of character +and the assemblage of virtues which distinguished their excellent authors! + +J. H. MARKLAND. + + * * * * * + +WITCHCRAFT--MRS. HICKES AND HER DAUGHTER. + +(Vol. v., p. 394.) + +The particulars your correspondent asks for have not been furnished; but on +what authority, _to move the previous question_, does the alleged fact of +such a trial and execution at Huntingdon in 1716 for witchcraft, stated by +Mr. Wills, and adopted by the _Quarterly Rev._, rest? Mr. Wills (_Sir Roger +de Coverley_, Notes, p. 126.) mentions also the execution of two women at +Northampton for witchcraft just before the _Spectator_ began to be +published (March 1, 1710-11), but gives no reference to any original source +to support his statement. On the other hand, Hutchinson, the first edition +of whose _Essay concerning Witchcraft_ was published in 1718, and the +second in 1720, who gives a chronological table of facts, informs us that +the last execution in England for witchcraft was that at Exeter of Susan +Edwards, Mary Trembles, and Temperance Lloyd in 1682 (vid. _Essay_, p. 41., +1st edit.). He was too painstaking a writer to be in ignorance of cases +which had occurred so recently; and he had the assistance, in collecting +his materials, of the two chief justices Parker and King, and Chief Baron +Bury, to whom the work is dedicated. Through their means he must have been +informed of what had taken place on the circuits, if any cases of +witchcraft on which convictions had arisen had actually come before the +judges. When it is remembered what attention was directed to the trial of +Jane Wenham in 1712, who, though condemned, was not executed, and on whose +case a great number of pamphlets were written, it can scarcely be supposed +that in four years after two persons, one only nine years old (I take the +account in Mackay's _Popular Delusions_, vol. iii.), should have been tried +and executed for witchcraft without public attention being called to the +circumstance. I may add that in the _Historical Register_ for 1716, which +notices in the domestic occurrences all trials of interest, there is no +mention of such a case; and that in two London newspapers for 1716, which I +have in a complete series, though enumerating other convictions on the +circuit, I have equally searched without success. As it is a matter of +considerable historical interest to ascertain accurately when the last +execution for witchcraft took place in England, I should be glad if any of +your correspondents would refer me to the authority on which the statements +of the trials circ. 1710 and in 1716 are founded. Mr. Wright, I observe, +does not notice them, and his words are-- + + "The case of Jane Wenham is the last instance of a witch being + condemned by the verdict of an English jury."--_Narratives of Sorcery + and Magic_, vol. ii. p. 326. + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + +{515} + + * * * * * + +DODO QUERIES. + +(Vol. i., p. 261.) + +In answer to MR. STRICKLAND'S third Query, I beg to inform him that among +the original authors who speak of the Dodo as a living bird, Johan Nieuhof +merits a place. His work is entitled: + + "Johan Nieuhofs gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee en Lantreize, + behelsende alhetgeen op dezelve is voorgevallen: beneffens een bondige + beschrijving van gantsch Neerlants Brasil, zoo van lantschappen, + steden, dieren, gewassen, als draghten, zeden en godsdienst der + inwoonders; en insonderheit, een wijtloopig verhael der merkwaardigste + voorvallen en geschiedenissen, die zich, geduurende zijn negenjarigh + verblijf in Brasil, in d'oorlogen en opstant der Portugesen, tegen + d'onzen, zich sedert het jaer 1640-1649 hebben toegedragen. Doorgaens + verciert met verscheide afbeeldingen, na't leven aldaer getekent. Te + Amsterdam, voor de Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizersgracht, + anno 1682." + +This work, although published in six languages, and several times +reprinted, adorned with a hundred exquisite engravings, and portrait of the +author, seems to be no longer generally known. It was dedicated to Nikolaes +Witsen, burgomaster and councillor of Amsterdam; and the licence granted to +Jacob van Meurs, the 14th Dec. 1671, by the states of Hollandt en +Westvrieslandt, is signed "Johan de Wit." + +The copy in my possession consists of two parts in folio, bound together in +parchment, furnished with two indexes, which however do not mention all the +volume contains, for we look in vain for the name _Dodaers_, _Dodo_, or +_Dronte_ in the indexes; and yet we find in the second part, p. 282., a +well-executed representation of this bird, and on the following page we +read: + + "_Dronte of Dodaers._ + + "Op het eilant Mauritius inzonderheit, houdt zeker vogel van een + wonderlijke gestalte, Dronte, en by d'onzen Dodaers genoemt. Hy is van + groote tusschen een vogel-struis en Indische Hoen; en verschilt in + gestalte, en komt ten deele daer mee over-een, ten aenzien van de + veeren, pluimen en staert. Hy heeft een groot en wanstaltigh hooft met + een vel bedekt, en verbeelt dat van een koekoek: d'oogen zijn groot en + zwart: de hals krom, vet, en steekt voor uit. De bek is boven mate + lang, sterk en blaeuwachtigh wit: behalve d'einden: waer van d'onderste + zwartachtigh, een bovenste geelachtig zijn, en beide spits en krom. Hy + spert den bek leelijk en zeer wijt open, is ront en vet van lijf, dat + met zachte en graeuwe pluimen, als die van den struisvogel, bedekt is. + De buik en aers is dik, die byna op d'aerde hangt: waerom, en van wegen + hunnen loomen gang, deez vogel Dodaers by d'onzen genoemt wort. Aen + beide zijden zitten eenige kleine pluymige pennen, in plaetse van + vleugels, uit den gelen witachtigh, en achter aen den stuit, in plaetse + van de steert, vijf gekrulde penne-veeren van een zelve kleure. De + beenen zijn geelachtigh en dik; maer zeer kort: doch met vier vaste en + lange pooten. Deze vogel is langzaem van gang en dom, en laet zich + lichtelijk vangen. Het vleesch, inzonderheit dat van den borst, is vet + en eetbaer. Hy is zoo zwaer, dat hondert menschen aen drie of vier + Dronten genoegh t'eeten hebben. Het vleesch van d'ouden is, zoo niet + gaer gekookt is, zwaer om te verteeren. Het wort ook ingezouten. + Veelijts hebben zy een grooten en herden steen in de mage, die + holachtigh en evenwel hart is." + +Should MR. STRICKLAND wish further information concerning the work of Johan +Nieuhof, I shall ever be happy to oblige him. + +J. M. VAN MAANEN. + +Amsterdam. + + [From our Dutch cotemporary, _De Navorscher_, by whom similar replies + have been received from H--G and G. P. ROOS.] + + * * * * * + +THE HEAVY SHOVE. + +(Vol. v., p. 416.) + +Like your correspondent MR. CLARK, I too have kept a sharp look-out for +this curious piece ascribed to Baxter; but having been unable to track it, +I had long since come to the conclusion that its existence was apocryphal. + +The Rev. James Graves, in his _Spiritual Quixote_, written to ridicule +Moravians and Methodists, notes it "as a very good book of old Baxter's," +among several others of questionable identity, forming the library of +Geoffrey Wildgoose's grandmother. + +When we recollect the temptation offered in the quaint and uncouth titles +of the old Presbyterians, we can hardly wonder at their enemies improving +upon them; and in this way, it appears to me, we are to account for the +respectable name of Baxter being popularly attached to a book which +everybody talks about, but which nobody has seen. + +It is again mentioned by Richard Cooksey, in his _Life of Lord Somers_, +Worcester, 1791, and, taking its existence for granted, the author is +astonished that Baxter, whom he extols to the skies, "could so far +condescend to the temper and debased humour of the times as to entitle one +of his tracts _A Shove_, &c. Commenting upon this, Wilson, in his _History +of Dissenting Churches_, London, 1808, is the next who alludes to the book +in question, but merely to shift its authorship from "the famous Richard +Baxter of Kidderminster" to a more obscure individual of the same +name,--described as "an elder (in 1692) of the Particular Baptist +congregation worshipping in Winchester House." Of this person he says, "I +know nothing excepting that he appears to have been a Fifth Monarchy man, +and to have been far gone in enthusiasm." + +Although thus doubting that the author of the _Saints' Rest_ wrote such a +book as that described, I {516} do not deny that there is a piece bearing +the title in existence; but upon it the name of "_William_ Bunyan" figures +as the author. A copy of this was in the Theological Portion of the late +Mr. Rodd's books, sold by Sotheby & Co. in 1850, and bears the imprint of +"London, 1768." This, I am inclined to think, is the only _Shove_ MR. CLARK +is likely to meet with; and although I can give no further account of it, I +am disposed to consider it the spurious catchpenny of some ignorant +scoffer, who, taking his _cue_ from Graves, or rather from some earlier +writer who has noticed it, thought it would be a good _spec._, and +therefore launched into the world _his_ "_Effectual Shove_." + +J. O. + + * * * * * + +GROUND ICE. + +(Vol. v., p. 370.) + +Your Querist J. C. E. is informed that the singular phenomenon of the +formation of ice in the beds of running rivers has not escaped the notice +of scientific observers. M. Arago has devoted a paper to its investigation +in the _Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes_ for 1832 or 1833, in which he +specifies the rivers in which it has been observed. Indeed, although from +its nature it is likely to escape notice, it is probably of not infrequent +occurrence. Ireland, in his _Picturesque Views of the Thames_, quoting Dr. +Plot, speaks of the subaqueous ice of that river. Colonel Jackson, in the +fifth volume of the _Journal of the Royal Geographical Society_, alludes to +its formation in the Neva, in a paper on the congelation of that river; and +in the following volume of the same Journal is an article by Mr. Weitz, +especially devoted to the ground ice of the rivers of Siberia. More +recently, Mr. Eisdale has contributed the result of his researches upon the +same subject to the _Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal_, vol. xvii.; and, +finally, Dr. Farquharson has made public his observations upon the +ground-gru of the rivers Don and Leochal, in Lincolnshire, in the +_Philosophical Transactions_ for 1835. There is also an article on the +subject in one of the later volumes of the _Penny_ or _Saturday_ Magazines. + +That bodies of running, water, the surface of which solidifies when exposed +to a diminished temperature, should have a tendency to congelate in their +sheltered depths, seems an anomaly which demands inquiry and explanation; +and accordingly each of the above-mentioned writers has raised an +hypothesis more or less probable, to account for the phenomenon. Dr. +Farquharson would attribute it to the radiation of heat from the bottom, as +dew is formed by radiation from the surface of the earth; but a +consideration of the supervening obstacles to radiation--a body of moving +water thickly coated with ice and even snow--destroys the plausibility of +his theory. That of Mr. Eisdale, that the frozen _spiculæ_ of the +atmosphere falling into the water become _nuclei_, around which the water +at the bottom freezes, seems merely frivolous. The explanation of M. Arago +is more satisfactory, viz. that the lower currents of water being less +rapid in motion than those intermediate, or at the surface, congelation may +be expected at a lower temperature (say 32° Fahr.), the process of +crystallisation being favoured by the pebbles, fragments of wood, and the +uneven surface of the river's bed. After all, however, the phenomenon has +been but imperfectly investigated under its various manifestations, and its +real cause probably remains yet to be discovered. + +WILLIAM BATES. + +Birmingham. + +For an explanation of this occurrence, I would refer J. C. E. to Whewell's +_Astronomy, Bridgewater Treatise_. + +UNICORN. + + * * * * * + +CHARACTER OF ALGERNON SYDNEY. + +(Vol. v., pp. 426. 447.) + +Your two correspondents C. E. D. (p. 426.) and C. (p. 447.) appear to have +read MR. HEPWORTH DIXON'S Query about Algernon Sydney either very hastily +or very carelessly. Yet it seems to me plain enough. There is not one word +in it about Barillon or Dalrymple; no inquiry about the home life of +Sydney. As every one knows a great part of his time was spent abroad, it is +probable MR. DIXON thinks that anecdotes and allusions to so conspicuous a +person may occur in the cotemporary letters and memoirs of France, Germany, +Italy, &c., and he asks for references to any such anecdotes or allusions +as may have fallen in the way of readers of "N. & Q." Surely this is +explicit. But what has Dalrymple or Mr. Croker to say in answer to a +question about Sydney's way of life when abroad? That, as I take it, was +the point, and a general discussion as to the character of the author of +the _Discourses on Government_ is _à-propos_ of nothing. As the subject has +been opened, and as I know of none more interesting in the whole range of +English history, I cannot refrain from at least entering one protest +against C.'s description of the "illustrious patriot" as a "corrupt traitor +of the worst class." + +That MR. DIXON is not single in his admiration of the character of Sydney I +could quote many "instances," from our late prime minister downwards. But +the title "illustrious" can scarcely be denied to a man who, besides being +of the best blood in England, played a leading part in the Revolution, and +was one of the closest thinkers and most masculine writers our language has +to show. What makes a man illustrious? Birth, commanding position, +intellect, learning, literary genius? Sydney had them all. But C. thinks +{517} he ought not to be called a patriot. What, do his wisdom and +moderation in the civil war; his opposition to the extreme measures of +Cromwell; his long solitary exile; his glorious death, count for nothing? +There is, however, the charge of taking money from the King of France. No +doubt this is a very "curious case," and I too shall be anxious to see +"what light MR. DIXON may be able to throw on it." The accusation rests on +the sole authority of Dalrymple; and Dalrymple is _not_ a man who can be +taken on his mere word. He was a violent partisan. He hated the Whigs, and +is convicted of having suppressed the truth, when it suited his party or +his passions to misrepresent. The Barillon Correspondence should be again +examined, and, if possible, further particulars of the money payments to +our party leaders obtained. + +S. WALTON. + +Belgrave Square. + + * * * * * + +MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AT ANTWERP. + +(Vol. v., p. 415.) + +Having visited the interesting city of Antwerp in the autumn of 1846, I can +answer the Query of your correspondent C. E. D. from personal inspection. +The monument to Mary Queen of Scots is still in existence; and consists of +a richly ornamented slab, placed at a considerable height from the +pavement, against a pillar in (I think) the southern transept of the church +of St. Andrew. I was told on the spot that it was erected by two English +ladies, but my informant was silent as to the tradition respecting the +head. In the centre of the carvings which adorn the upper part of the +monument, is inserted a medallion portrait of the beautiful but unfortunate +queen; it is extremely well painted, and represents her in that peculiar +costume so familiar to those acquainted with her accustomed style of dress. +I inclose a copy of the inscription:-- + + "MARIA STUARTA, + Scot. et Gall. Reg. + Jacob. Magn. Britan. Reg. Mater. + Anno 1568, in. Angl. Refugii causâ descendens. + Cogna. Elisab. ibi regnavit. + Perfidiâ senat. et Hæret. post xix. Captivit. Annos. + Relig. ergo. cap. obtrunc. + Martyrium consumavit. Anno D. N. 1587. + Æta. Regy. 45." + +The wood-carvings, with which this church abounds (especially those of the +pulpit and its accessories), are marvellous efforts of Art. + +M. W. B. + +Having visited the church of St. Andrew at Antwerp during the autumn of +last year, I am able to inform your correspondent C. E. D. (Vol. v., p. +415.) that the monument to which he alludes still exists. + +The portrait of Mary Queen of Scots is above the tablet, which was, I +believe, erected to the memory of Elizabeth Curle; who, after the execution +of her mistress, resided at Antwerp, and was buried in that church. + +F. H. + +The monument dedicated to the memory of their beloved mistress by the two +noble ladies of the household of Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Barbara Mowbray, +the wife, and Elizabeth Curle, the sister, of Gilbert Curle, the queen's +confidential secretary, still exists in the church of St. Andrew at +Antwerp. The history, or rather _story_ of the decapitated head having been +borne away by these ladies, and buried at the foot of the pillar on which +the monument is placed, which is alluded to by your correspondent, is too +apocryphal for belief. There is no reason to suppose that any _head_ of the +queen was carried away by these devoted women into exile, excepting in the +shape of her portrait painted on copper; which, instead of being interred +_beneath_ the monument, is still to be seen placed above the dedicatory +inscription. It is true that in the edition of Descamps' _Voyage +Pittoresque de la Flandre_, published at _Paris_ and _Rouen_ in 1769, it is +stated that the monument was surmounted by "_son buste en marbre_;" but +this error was corrected in the _Antwerp_ edition of 1792, where it is +correctly affirmed to be "_son portrait peint_." + +Mention is made of this crowned portrait, of a circular form, in Mackie's +_Castles and Prisons of Queen Mary_, and of the close resemblance it bears +to another in the possession of Lady Cathcart; who assured Mr. Mackie that +the two portraits were painted by order of the queen, and presented by her +to _two Scottish ladies_, but whose names are not mentioned. + +The following epitaph to the memory of these two faithful servants of the +unhappy queen, has also been preserved by Jacques Le Roy in his _Théâtre +Sacré du Brabant_, tom. ii. p. 90. It was copied by him from a blue marble +slab placed over the entrance to the vault in which they were deposited:-- + + "D. O. M. + + _Sub hoc lapide duarum feminarum vere piarum conduntur corpora_ D. + BARBARÆ MOUBRAY _et_ D. ELISABETHÆ CURLE _utræque Scotæ, nobilissimæ + Mariæ Reginæ à cubiculis, quarum monumentum superiori affigitur + columnæ. Illa vidua mortalium legi cessit_ XXXI. _Julii anno 1616 + ætatis_ LVII., _dum hæc semper cælebs_ XXIX. _Maii, ætatis_ LX. _Dni_ + M.DC.XX." + +In the inscription placed against the pillar, dedicated to the memory of +Queen Mary, Lady Barbara is said to be a daughter of Lord John +Mowbray--_Barbara Moubray, D. Johan Moubray, Baronis F._ + +The writer of this note is desirous of obtaining some authentic information +respecting these two noble Scottish families, and hopes this {518} +communication may serve to elicit what he has long sought to trace. The +armorial bearings of both families (originally affixed to the monument) +have been effaced. + +He would be glad also to be referred to any documents tending to throw +light on the obscure history of poor Mary's intriguing _French_ secretary, +Nau; as to where he was born, his connexions and avocations in early life; +how, and by what secret influence he entered into the service of the queen; +and, lastly, how he came to be pardoned, and what became of him afterwards? +She declared, in her last hours, that _he was the cause of her death_? + +NHRSL. + + * * * * * + +LORD KING; THE SCLATERS; DR. KELLET, ETC. + +(Vol. v., p. 457.) + +If BALLIOLENSIS wishes for a more particular account of the Sclater family +than that which follows, I shall be happy to correspond with him upon the +subject. + +_Anthony Sclater, D.D._, was vicar of Leighton Buzzard for fifty years, and +died, aged 100, about 1620. His son-- + +_William Sclater, D.D._, Fellow of King's, and vicar of Pitminster in +Somersetshire, is the person mentioned by Dr. Kellet. He was an exceedingly +learned man, and the author of many theological works (for a list, see +_Bib. Bod. Cat._), some of which were published after his death, _which +occurred in 1627_. There is a curious and interesting account of him in +Fuller's _Worthies_, vol. i. p. 119. (see also _Athenæ Oxonienses_). His +son-- + +_William Sclater, also D.D. and Fellow of King's_, was vicar of Collumpton, +Devon, and prebend of Exeter, and appears to have kept up by several works +and sermons the reputation of the family for doctrinal theology.[2] His +son-- + +_Francis Sclater, B.D._ (Fellow of C. C. C. Oxon. May 17, 1667, æt. 17), +was likewise a person of extraordinary learning and abilities, as appears +from several notices, and more particularly from the inscription on a +silver-gilt cup presented to C. C. C. in memory of him by his father; and +from an elegant Latin epitaph which was placed on the south wall of St. +James's, Clerkenwell.[3] He died in 1685, æt. 35, leaving a son-- + +_Christopher Sclater, M.A._, born 1679, rector of Loughton in Essex, and +afterwards of Chingford in the same county. His eldest son-- + +_William Sclater, D.D._, seems (from MSS. still existing) to have inherited +the theological talent of his ancestors, but o. s. p. Richard Sclater, +Esq., the second son of Christopher, was grandfather to William Lutley +Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, Hants, the present representative of +the family. By a third son, Christopher Sclater was grandfather to Eliza +Sclater, wife of ---- Draper, Esq., and celebrated for her Platonic +attachment to Lawrence Sterne. From MSS. preserved in the family, it is +clear that she must have been a woman of considerable talent. + +I had always supposed _William Sclater_, the Nonjuror, and author of _An +Original Draught_, &c., to have been a brother of _Francis Sclater_; but, +if it be true that his work was a posthumous publication (as I learn for +the first time from the Note by the EDITOR of "N. & Q."), I think it most +probable that it was his father (the vicar of Collumpton above mentioned), +who would have been about sixty years of age in 1688, and who was certainly +a man of learning and scholarship. + +I have no doubt that Edward Sclater, the pervert of Putney, belonged to the +same family, though I know not in how near relationship. + +The name of Sclater, which is curious, seems to have originated in a place +called Slaughter (olim Sclostre or Sclaughtre, _temp._ King John) in +Gloucestershire, where a family of Sclaughters flourished as lords of the +manor for upwards of 300 years. The arms of both families are: arg. a +saltier az.; crest, an eagle sa. rising out of a ducal coronet. The motto +of the Sclater family (which they owe, no doubt to one of their learned +ancestors) is a Greek quotation from Gal. vi. 14.: "[Greek: ei mê en tôi +staurôi]." + +About the commencement of the seventeenth century, another branch of the +same family (whose patronymic was Thomas) was settled in Cambridgeshire. +The last male representative of these, Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart., died +without issue in 1684 (see Burke's _Ext. Baronetages_). + +I should be glad of any information respecting the connexion of these two +branches with each other, or of either with the parent stem in +Gloucestershire. I should also be glad of information respecting one Will. +Slatyer, D.D. (whose name is sometimes, I _believe_ erroneously, spelt +Sclater) a very learned person, chaplain to James I., the {519} author of +some curious historical and genealogical works, and a celebrated Hebraist +in those times. He was a cotemporary of Sclater of Pitminster, and died at +Ottenden in Kent about the same time; but it is doubtful whether they were +relations. + +S. L. P. + +Oxford and Cambridge Club. + +[Footnote 2: This Dr. Sclater appears to have been at one time minister of +St. James, Clerkenwell, from the following work in the Bodleian Catalogue. +"_The Royal Pay, and Pay-master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort; a +Sermon before the Military Company, on Rev._ ii. 10. By William Sclater, +D.D., Minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, 4to. Lond. 1671."--ED.] + +[Footnote 3: F. Sclater, S. T. B. C. C. C., Oxon. olim socius, Eccl. +Anglicanæ Spes, academiæ gloria, Eruditorum desiderium, Sanæ doctrinæ +contrà omnes regnantes errores, etiam inter iniquissima tempora propugnator +acerrimus. Vir fuit ingenio acri ac vivido judicio sagaci candore animi +egregio. Quibus accessit eloquentia singularis atque doctrina omnibus +numeris absoluta. Ideoque sive dissererit, sive concionaretur, ab illius +ore non populus magis quam clerus et literati avidè pendebant.... Obit. +Maii. 12. d. A.D. 1685. æt 35. Deflendus quidem multum, sed magis imitandus +Gulielmus SS. T.P. moestissimus Pater P.] + +The following Notes are very much at the service of your correspondent +BALLIOLENSIS. It is true that they do not afford a precise answer to his +immediate Query, but they comprise particulars which may very probably lead +to it, and will at least be interesting in compliance with his request for +any notices respecting the family of Sclater. + +Anthony Sclater was minister of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for about +fifty years, and died at the age of nearly one hundred. His son, William +Sclater, was born there in 1577; educated at Eton and King's College, +Cambridge, B.D. and D.D., preacher at Walsall, co. Staffordshire; presented +to the vicarage of Pitminster, near Taunton, co. Somerset, by John Coles, +Esq.; and to a rectory in the same county by John, afterwards Lord Powlett. +Died at Pitminster, 1627. He was the author of the following works, and of +others unpublished:-- + + "A Key to the Key of Scripture, or an Exposition, with Notes, on the + Epistle to the Romans, &c. 4to, London, 1611. Dedicated to Sir Henry + Hawley, Knt., and four other Gentlemen." + + "The Minister's Portion, a Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14. 4to. Oxford, + 1612. Dedicated to Thomas Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery in + Devonshire." + + "The Sick Soul's Salve, a Sermon on Prov. xviii. 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. + Dedicated to John Horner, Esq., and to the devout Anna his wife, at + Melles in Somerset." + + "The Christian's Strength, a Sermon at Oxford on Philip. iv. 13. 4to. + Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to William Hill, Esq., of Pitminster." + + "An Exposition upon the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. + London, 1619. Dedicated to the Lord Stanhope, Baron of Haringdon." + + "The Question of Tythes revised, &c. 4to. London, 1623. Dedicated to + Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells." + + "A Briefe Exposition upon the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. + London, 1629. Dedicated to 'John Pawlet, Esq., his very honourable good + Patron, and Elisabeth his Wife, his much honoured Patronesse.'" + + "Utriusque Epistolæ ad Corinthios Explicatio, &c. Edited by his Son. + 4to. Oxon. 1633. Dedicated to 'Edvardo Keletto, S. T. D. Sancti Petri + apud Exoniensis residentiario, nec non M. Georgio Goadio coll. Regalis + in Academia Cantabrig. Socio, suo non ita pridem tutori dilectissimo.'" + + "A Brief and Plain Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy, &c. Published + by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to Mr. Henry Walrond of + Bradfield, Devon." + + "An Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the Romans, &c. Published by + his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to 'John Bampfield of Poltimore + in Devon, Esq., a most eximious and exemplary Worthy of the West.'" + +William Sclater, son of the above, was born at Pitminster; admitted member +of King's College, Cambridge, in 1626; Fellow of that College; Chaplain to +the Bishop of Exeter's Barony of St. Stephen's in Exeter, and preacher at +St. Martin's in that city, 1639; Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral; admitted +Vicar of Collumpton, co. Devon, 4th Feb. 1644, on the presentation of Roger +Mallack of Exeter, Esq. Living there in 1650, then styled B.D., and late +Fellow of King's College; D.D.; minister of St. Peter's-le-Poor, Broad +Street, London, in 1654. Died before 1660. + +The following were his published works: + + "The Worthy Communicant rewarded, &c.; a Sermon in Exeter Cathedral, + 21st April, 1639. 4to. London, 1639. Dedicated to Dr. Peterson, Dean of + Exeter." + + "Papisto-Mastix: or Deborah's Prayer against God's Enemies, a Sermon on + Judges, v. 31. 4to. London, 1642." + + "The Crowne of Righteousness, &c.; a Funeral Sermon at St. Botolph's + Aldersgate, Sept. 25, 1653, for Mr. Abraham Wheelock, B.D., &c. 4to. + London, 1654." + +The registers of Pitminster and Collumpton would perhaps assist in tracing +the descendants of these worthies, whose name still exists near Exeter. +Fuller, under "BEDFORDSHIRE," gives some further particulars. The works +above-mentioned may almost all, I think, be found in the Bodleian. + +J. D. S. + +BALLIOLENSIS will find an account of "William Sclater," whom he rightly +supposes to have been at Eton and King's, in Harwood's _Alumni Etonensis_, +p. 200., under the year 1593, 35 Eliz. He will there see that he died 1627, +in the fifty-first year of his age, and was the author of _Comment on the +Romans and Thessalonians_; _Sermons at St. Paul's Cross_; and the _Treatise +on Tithes_, styled _The Minister's Portion_. + +Under 1598 occurs "John Sclater." From a MS. account it is stated, "John +Sclater, B.D., 1613, Rector of Holford, Somerset; then of Church Lawford, +Warwick. (See _Dugdale_.) Query, If ejected 1662? if so, his farewell +sermon in Collection A." (See too _Harwood_, p. 203.) + +Under 1626 occurs "William Sclater," at p. 227. of _Harwood_, probably a +mistake for 1625. In MS. under 1625 appears "William Sclater, son of W. S. +of 1593, of Pitminster, Somerset, where his father was V.; R. of St. +Steph., Exon.; D.D. 1651; Minister of St. Peter le Poor, Broad Street. (See +_Engl. Worth._, 8vo., p. 21.) Pr. of Exon., Sept. 18, 1641. (See _Walker_, +ob. 1656. See _Wood_.)" + +Edward Kellet occurs in _Harwood_ under 1598, {520} p. 204. The account of +his works given there agrees with the extract from the _Gentleman's +Magazine_. It is also stated that he was the author of a sermon entitled _A +Return from Argier, preached at Minehead, March 16, 1627, on the +Re-admission of a relapsed Christian into our Church, on Gal._ v. 2.: +London, 1628, 4to, and that he was a sufferer from the rebellion. In +Harwood he is described as Rector of Bagborough and Crocombe, and Canon of +Exeter. The MS. account is very short. He is there described as "R. of +Rowbarrow, Som.; Can. of Exon.--See his works in _Wood_." + +J. H. L. + + * * * * * + +BIRTHPLACE OF ST. PATRICK. + +(Vol. v., p. 344.). + +From the following extracts I send in answer to your correspondent CEYREP, +there seems to be very great doubt if St. Patrick ever existed in reality, +but that we ought rather to place him in the same category with St. +Amphibalus, St. Denis, &c. Dr. Ledwich relates that-- + + "In Usuard's, and the _Roman Martyrology_, Bishop Patrick, of Auvergne, + is placed at the 16th day of March, and on the same day the office of + the Lateran canons, approved by Pius V., celebrates the festival of a + Patrick, the apostle of Ireland. The 17th of March is dedicated to + Patrick, Bishop of Nola. Had not Dr. Maurice, then, the best reasons + for supposing that Patricus Auvernensis sunk a day lower in the + calendar, and made for the Irish a Patricius Hibernensis? This seems + exactly to be the case. It is very extraordinary the 16th and 17th of + March should have three Patricks, one of Auvergne, another of Ireland, + and a third of Nola! The antiquities of Glastonbury record three + Patricks, one of Auvergne, another archbishop of Ireland, and a third + an abbot. The last, according to a martyrology cited by Usher, went on + the mission to Ireland, A.D. 850, but was unsuccessful: he returned and + died at Glastonbury. If all that is now advanced be not a fardel of + monkish fictions, which it certainly is, the last Patrick was the man + who was beatified by the bigoted Anglo-Saxons, for his endeavours to + bring the Irish to a conformity with the Romish church." + +Dr. Aikin remarks upon this-- + + "The author now ventures upon the bold attempt of annihilating St. + Patrick. It is an undoubted fact, that this saint is not mentioned in + any author, or in any work of veracity, in the fifth, sixth, seventh or + eighth centuries. His name is in Bede's _Martyrology_; but it is more + than probable that that martyrology is not Bede's: nor can it be + conceived that Bede, in his other works, should never notice the signal + service rendered by Patrick to the Roman church, and the signal + miracles wrought by him in its behalf, if he had ever heard of them; + for the old venerabilis was zealously devoted to that church and its + mythology." + +The saint certainly vanishes into "an airy nothing," if we are to credit +the above authors. I have also consulted Ware, a Roman Catholic writer, +author of the _Antiquitates Hibernicæ_, and nowhere can I find a trace of +St. Patrick's birthplace, although he is frequently mentioned. In his +seventh chapter he says, "Sancti præcipui Hibernici Seculi quinti, qui +Euangelium in Hibernia prædicærunt, fuerunt Palladius, Patricius," and many +others. The twenty-sixth chapter entitled "Monasteriologia Hibernica, sive +Diatriba de Hiberniæ Coenobiis, in qua Origines eorum et aliæ Antiquitates +aperiuntur," gives the names and titles of the founders of monasteries, as +also their dates, and, in speaking of one of them, but in this case +specifying no date, relates a curious circumstance as to the building of a +church. It may perhaps interest your readers, and I will therefore quote +the passage (p. 212.): + + "Sanctus Patricius construxit hoc coenobium Canonicis regularibus, + eique præfecit Abbatem S. Dunnium: Ecclesiam verò adjecit (juxta + Jocelinum Furnessensem), contra morem receptum, non ab Occidente in + Orientem, sed à Septentrione in Austrum protensam." + +This nevertheless hangs upon the reality of a St. Patrick. In another part +of the same work it is said of a monastery (p. 219.): + + "S. Dabeocum fundâsse ferunt Seculo 5, vivente S. Patricio. Alii S. + Patricium fundatorem volunt." + +From these quotations it is clear Ware treated him as a real actor in Irish +ecclesiastical affairs; but the two first-named authors appear to set the +matter at rest. + +E. M. R. + +Grantham. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Cabal_ (Vol. iv., p. 507.).--The two quotations from _Hudibras_ evidently +refer to two different meanings of this word _Cabal_. The first, alluding +to the ancient Cabala, or Mysteries, or Secrets, from whence _Cabalistic_; +the second, to its more modern, or political acceptation,--both, however, +including the idea of _secrecy_ or _privity_, as opposed to a general +participation of knowledge or purpose. It is the latter application of the +word to which the inquiry of E. H. D. D., at p. 443., Vol. iv., refers: and +MR. KERSLEY's quotation from a book printed in 1655 (p. 139., Vol. v.), +proves its usage in this sense at least seven years before Burnet's +derivation of the word from the initials of the five chief ministers of +Charles II. I do not think that Pepys could use the word _Cabal_, as +applicable to the "king's confidential advisers," _several_ years before +Burnet derived it from their initials; the ministers in question having +been appointed circa 1670. Burnet's definition was published in 1672, and +Pepys was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty in 1673. Blount, in his +_Glossographia_, 3rd edition, 1670, says, "We use to say he is not of our +_cabal_, that is, he is not received into our {521} council, or is not +privy to our secrets." Cole, in his _English Dictionary_, 1685, defines +_Cabal_, "a secret council:" and Bailey derives _Caballer_ from _cabaleur_ +(French), "a party man" and _To cabal_, from _cabaler_ (French), "to plot +together privately, to make parties;" and _Cabal_, from "a junto, or +private council, a particular party, a set, or gang." + +I find among my papers a scrap relating to the derivation of the word +_Whig_. I do not know where I took it from; but the origin which it gives +to this much-used word is new to me, and may be to some others of your +readers also: + + "The word Whig was given to the Liberal party in England by the + Royalists in Cromwell's days, from the initial letters of their motto, + 'We hope in God.'" + +P. T. + +Stoke Newington. + +_Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough_ (Vol. v., p. +441.).--There is very fine portrait of Charles Earl of Peterborough (the +famous Earl) at Drayton House, in Northamptonshire, the ancient seat of the +Mordaunt family, and which is now in the possession of Wm. Bruce Stopford, +Esq. + +J. B. + +A full-length portrait of the Earl of Peterborough, by J. B. Vanloo, is in +the collection of the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley. The picture belonged +to the father-in-law of the present owner, the late W. S. Poyntz, Esq., of +Midgham. + +J. P., JR. + +_The Word "Oasis"_ (Vol. v., p. 465.).--I beg to inclose MR. TEMPLE an +instance of the use of the above word in English poetry, it will be found +in a poem entitled _Hopes of Matrimony_, by John Holland, author of +_Sheffield Park_, published by Francis Westley, 1822, and now lies before +me. + + "Is there a manly bosom can enfold, + A human heart, so withered, dead, and cold, + As not to feel, or never to have felt, + At genial Love's approach, its ices melt? + No--in the desert of the dreariest breast, + Some verdant spot, its presence have contest; + Though parch'd and bloomless, and as wild as bare, + A rill of nature once meander'd there; + E'en where Arabia's arid waste entombs + Whole caravans, the green oasis blooms." + +O[)a]sis will be found also in Lemprière's _Classical Dictionary_, but not +in the same sense as above. + +M. C. R. + +The word Oasis, about which your correspondent H. L. TEMPLE inquires, is +marked in Bailey's edition of Facciolati's _Latin Dictionary_ (in the +Appendix) O[)a]sis, making the _a_ short. + +[Hebrew: K] + +_Frightened out of his Seven Senses_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--A passage +containing the words "seven senses" occurs in the poem of Taliesin called +_Y Byd Mawr_, or the Macrocosm, of which a translation may be found in vol. +xxi. p. 30. of _The British Magazine_. The writer of the paper in which it +is quoted refers also to the _Mysterium Magnum_ of Jacob Boehmen, which +teaches "how the soul of man, or his 'inward holy body,' was compounded of +_the seven properties_ under the influence of the seven planets:"-- + + "I will adore my Father, + My God, my Supporter, + Who placed, throughout my head + The soul of my reason, + And made for my perception + _My seven faculties_, + Of fire, and earth, and water, and air, + And mist, and flowers, + And the southerly wind, + _As it were seven senses of reason_ + For my Father to impel me: + With the first I shall be animated, + With the second I shall touch, + With the third I shall cry out, + With the fourth I shall taste, + With the fifth I shall see, + With the sixth I shall hear, + With the seventh I shall smell; + And I will maintain + That _seven_ skies there are + Over the astrologer's head," &c. + +W. FRASER. + +_Eagles' Feathers_ (Vol. v., p. 462.).--The author quoted alludes to Pliny, +_Nat. Hist._ b. x. c. 4.: + + "Aquilarum pennæ mixtas reliquarum alitum pennas devorant." + +K. + +The allusion concerning which _Arncliffe_ inquires is explained by the +following passage in _A Thousand Notable Things of Sundarie Sorts, &c._, +printed by John Haviland, MDCXXX. + + "Æligus writes, that the quilles or pennes of an Eagle, mixt with the + quilles or pennes of other Fowles or Birds, doth consume or waste them + with their odour, smell or aire."--P. 48. + +EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun. + +Bottesford Moors. + +_Arms of Thompson_ (Vol. v., p. 468.).--It may be interesting perhaps to +JAYTEE to know that I have a book-plate with the arms described: "Per pale, +ardent and sable, a fess embattled between three falcons, countercharged, +belled or." Underneath is engraved, "William Thompson, of Humbleton, in +Yorkshire, Esq., 1708." The crest, a sinister arm in armour, grasping a +broken lance, on a torse of the colours. + +SPES. + +_Spick and Span-new_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--In Dutch, _spyker_ means a +warehouse, a magazine: and _spange_ (spangle) means anything shining {522} +and thus _spick_ and _span-new_ means, shining new from the _warehouse_. +(See Tooke's _Div. of Purley_, vol. i. p. 527.) This, with the guesses of +Wachter and Ihre, may be seen by your correspondent in Richardson. + +Q. + +_Junius Rumours_ (Vol. v., pp. 125. 159. 474.).--"N. & Q." contains +abundant speculation about the "Vellum-bound" to which your correspondent +refers (p. 474.). Some persons, I know, consider it doubtful whether the +printer did have a copy bound in vellum as Junius directed, and they +strengthen their doubts by, as they assert, no such copy having ever been +met with. MR. CRAMP, on the contrary, maintains that such copies are so +common that the printer must have taken the Junius copy as a pattern. As +MR. CRAMP, I observe, is become a correspondent of "N. & Q.," I will take +leave to direct his attention to the question asked by V. B. (Vol. iii., p. +262.) Others, again, assuming that the printer did have a copy specially +bound for Junius, think it doubtful whether it ever reached him. Of these +differences and speculations your correspondent is evidently unaware; and +he therefore raises a question as if it were new, which has been under +discussion for thirty years. As a set-off, however, he favours us with an +entirely original anecdote, so original, that neither the anecdote nor the +tea-service were ever heard of by H. S. Woodfall's family. Yet it must be +admitted that his story has all the characteristics of authenticity--names, +dates, places. I know, indeed, but one objection, viz. that Mr. Woodfall +never was "in prison on account of the publication of these redoubtable +letters." He was tried, but _acquitted_, under the somewhat celebrated +verdict of "guilty of printing and publishing _only_." + +T. S. W. + +_Cuddy, the Ass_ (Vol. v., p. 419.).--Jamieson is sometimes very absurd; +but in my edition of his _Dictionary_ (Edinburgh, 1808), I do not find the +_Hindoo_ root for _cuddy_ which you attribute to him. I only find: "CUDDIE, +an ass--probably a cant term;" with a reference to the _Lothian_ dialect. + +But if it be worth while to answer such questions, I would remind the +inquirer that in Northumberland, and the adjoining districts of Scotland, +_cuddie_ is the contraction of the very common name of _Cuthbert_ (_teste_ +"Cuddie Headrig"); and that as the ass is called in other districts "Ned" +and "Neddy," and in others again "Dick" and "Dicky," so he is called in +Northumberland _Cuddie_ by a name familiar in the locality. Everywhere the +male is called "Jack," and the female "Jenny;" are these also derived from +the Hindoostanee? + +C. + +_The Authorship of the Epigram upon the Letter "H"_ (Vol. v., p. 258.).--I +observe that a controversy has lately been carried on in your columns upon +the authorship of the celebrated enigma on the letter _H_. Permit me, as +one well acquainted with the circumstances, to corroborate the statement of +E. H. Y. The epigram in question was written at the Deepdene, the seat of +the late Thomas Hope, Esq., by Miss Catharine Fanshawe, in the year 1816, +as is recorded in the heading of the original MS. of it contained in a +contemporary _Deepdene Album_ still existing. + +You may rely upon the authenticity of this information, which proceeds from +one acquainted with the volume in question and its history. + +B. P. + +_John Rogers, Protomartyr, &c._--The reply to my inquiry, as to the present +descendants of this celebrated divine, which appeared in "N. & Q," Vol. v., +p. 307., is scarcely sufficient for the genealogical purpose for which I +required the information; but I am not the less obliged to E. D. for the +attention given to my request; and I should esteem it a favour to be +further informed where I could procure a complete genealogical account of +the family--to what county the martyr belonged, or if other descendants +survive besides those mentioned by E. D.? John Rogers, Gentleman, buried in +the nave of St. Sepulchre's Church, London, 1775, was a native of Wales. + +I should feel grateful for any information, either in "N. & Q." or directed +to me. + +JOSEPH KNIGHT. + +Aylestone Hall, Leicestershire. + +"_Gee-ho_" (Vol. ii., p. 500.).--_Ge_ is undoubtedly "go;" and _a-hit_ or +_hayt_ (common with waggoners in Notts) is "yate," "gyate," or "gate." Gang +your gate. + +Q. + +_Twises_ (Vol. ii., p. 327.).--"Fr. _estuy_; a sheath case, or box to put +things in, and more particularly a case of little instruments, or sizzars, +bodkin, penknife, &c., now commonly called _ettwee_."--_Cotgrave._ +Shenstone enumerates, among the temptations to drain the purse: + + "The cloud-wrought canes, the gorgeous snuff-boxes, + The twinkling jewels, the gold _etwee_, + With all its bright inhabitants." + _Economy_, Part II. + +Q. + +_Ancient Timber Town-halls_ (Vol. v., pp. 257. 295. 470.).--During a visit +to Sudbury in Suffolk in 1828, I was much struck with the old +quaint-looking timber building used for corporate purposes, called the Moot +Hall; I made a rude pen-and-ink sketch of the principal front. On a +subsequent visit I found this building was standing, but that it had ceased +to be used, a new town-hall having been erected. Since then I hear that the +Moot Hall has been pulled down and its site thrown into the market-place. +If I recollect rightly, the principal window of twelve lights was unglazed. + +C. H. COOPER. + +{523} + +_Johnny Crapaud_ (Vol. v., p. 439.).--When the French took the city of Aras +from the Spaniards, under Louis XIV., after a long and a most desperate +siege, it was remembered that Nostradamus had said: + + "Les anciens crapauds prendront Sara. + The ancient toads shall Sara take." + +This line was then applied to that event in this very roundabout manner. +Sara is Aras backward. By the ancient toads were meant the French: as that +nation formerly had for its armorial bearings three of those odious +reptiles, instead of the three flowers de luce which it now bears. +(Seward's _Anecdotes_, vol. i. p. 78.) Nostradamus died in 1566. + +C. B. + +_Juba Issham_ (Vol. v., p. 435.).--The signature is two names. The first +needs no explanation; Juba, in _Cato_, is the lover of Marcia: the second +may merely mean that the first is assumed, or false. We have such a surname +as Isham, but it is spelt with one _s_ only. + +C. B. + +_Optical Phenomenon_ (Vol. v., p. 441.).--The circumstance mentioned by +your correspondent is only one instance of a very familiar fact, that sight +is rendered clearer by diminishing the quantity of rays, which might +confuse one another. Some for that purpose look between two fingers brought +near. Others nearly close their eyes, &c. + +C. B. + +_Bishop of London's House_ (Vol. v., p. 371.).--In the _Wards of London_, +by H. Thomas, 1828, vol. i. p. 7., we are told that-- + + "The great fire of London having destroyed the Palace of the Bishop of + London, which was near St. Paul's Cathedral, this house [Peter House, + which stood on the west side, about the middle of Aldersgate Street] + was purchased for the city mansion of the prelates of the diocese, one + of whom only resided there, Bishop Henchman, who died there, and was + buried at Fulham, A.D. 1675. It was then called London House, and, + being subsequently deserted, was let out into private tenements until + 1768; when it was entirely destroyed by fire while in the occupation of + Mr. Seddon, an upholsterer and cabinet-maker." + +A large brick building now covers the site, and retains the name of "London +House." It is occupied by Mr. H. Burton, builder. + +In the work above quoted I find no mention of a residence of the Bishops of +London in Bishopsgate. I therefore conclude that the one I have alluded to, +is that respecting which your correspondent wishes to learn. + +TEE BEE. + +"_Inveni Portum_" (Vol. v., pp. 10. 64.).--"Actum ne agas" is generally a +safe motto, and a particularly safe one when so learned a scholar as MR. +SINGER has preceded. However, it may do no harm to mention, that since the +Query occurred in the "N. & Q." I have met with two quotations of a very +analogous kind. + +The first is given as a quotation, and may be found at the end of George +Sandys' _Divine Poems_, 1648,--"Jam tetigi Portum ---- valete." The second +may be found amongst the _Poems_ of Walter Haddon, and refers to something +more ancient still: + + "_In obitum N. Pointzi Equitis,_ + _Ex Anglico clarissimi viri Th. Henneagii._ + + Per medios mundi strepitus, cæcosque tumultus, + Turbida transegi tempora, Pointzus eques. + Nullus erat terror, qui pectora frangere posset, + Mens mea perpetuo quod quereretur, erat. + _Nunc teneo portum, valeant ludibria mundi_, + Vita perennis ave, vita caduca vale." + +RT. + +Warmington. + +_"Cane Decane," &c._ (Vol. v., p. 440).--I cannot inform your correspondent +who was the author of the punning couplet-- + + "Cane Decane, canis; sed ne cane, cane Decane, + De cane, de canis, cane Decane, cane." + +But I think that he has injured the spirit of the original in his "_free_ +translation." + +_Decanus_ means a "Dean," not a Deacon: and the word _canis_, which is both +masculine and _feminine_, was often used by the poets in a _metaphorical_ +sense. It seems to me that the author was alluding to some aged _dignitary_ +of his day, who had been in the habit of singing songs upon _the ladies_. I +therefore submit to you my _more free_ translation: + + 1. + "Dean Hoare! + You sung, of yore, + O'er and o'er, + Molly ashore. + + 2. + Now, shut the door; + And of such lore + Sing no more, + Dean Hoare!" + +BAVIUS. + +These lines are cited by Mr. Sandys in the Introduction to his _Specimens +of Macaronic Poetry_, and are there attributed to Professor Porson. + +WILLIAM BATES. + +Birmingham. + +_Fides Carbonarii_ (Vol. iv., pp. 233. 283.).--In reply to QUERIST as to +this saying, E. H. D. D. states that it originated in an anecdote told by +Dr. Milner, or some other controversial writer. A coal-porter being asked +what he believed, replied, "What the church believes:" and being asked what +the church believed, replied, "What I believe." + +Now I find the same meaning given by Henry {524} de Bellingen, in his +_Etym. des Prov. Français_, printed at the Hague, 1656. His words, as +quoted by Leroux de Lincy, are as follow: + + "On fait un conte qui a donné l'origine à ce proverbe. Un charbonnier + estant enquis par le diable de ce qu'il croyait, luy respondit: + 'Toujours je crois ce que l'église croit.' De là est venu que lorsqu'on + a voulu marquer qu'un homme avait une foi ferme, mais sans science, on + a dit: 'La foi du charbonnier.'" + +Also, in P. J. Le Roux's _Dictionnaire Comique_, 1750: + + "_La foi du charbonnier._ Quand on parle d'une foi implicite, qui fait + croire à un Chrétien en général tout ce que l'église croit." + +In Landais' _Dictionary_, 4to.: + + "_La foi du charbonnier_, foi simple et aveugle qui ne raisonne pas." + +PHILIP S. KING. + +_The Book of Jasher_ (Vol. v., p. 415.).--I have a translation of a work +thus named. It was published by Noah and Gould, 144. Nassau Street, New +York, 1840. The publisher's preface mentions Illive's work as "a miserable +fabrication;" claims, as the original of his own, a book "said to have been +discovered in Jerusalem at its capture by Titus," and preserved at Venice, +1613. It also speaks of the "owner and translator" as resident in England. +I have a vague idea that I heard from New York, at the time I received my +volume, that the Duke of Sussex had possessed a copy of the Book of Jasher, +and that some steps had been taken towards the translation by order of His +Royal Highness. I mention this merely to lead inquiry: I cannot trust my +memory as to the verbal expression of a friend so many years ago. + +I have long wished the Book of Jasher to obtain a fair hearing, and a more +critical examination than I am qualified to make; and I shall be happy to +lend it to your correspondent L. L. L. in furtherance of what I think an +act of justice. + +F. C. B. + +_Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed_ (Vol. v., p. 436.).--Perhaps W. +H. K. may deem the following account of the foundation of Bideford _Bridge_ +near enough to his purpose: + + "Before whose erection the breadth and roughness of the river was such, + as it put many in jeopardy: some were drowned, to the great grief of + the inhabitants, who did therefore divers times, and in sundry places, + begin to build a bridge; but no firm foundation, after often proof + being found, their attempts came to no effect. At which time Sir + Richard Gornard was priest of the place, who (as the story of that town + hath it) was admonished by a vision in his sleep, to set on the + foundation of a bridge near a rock, which he should find rowled from + the higher grounds upon the strand. This he esteemed but a dream; yet, + to second the same with some art, in the morning he found a huge rock + there fixed, whose greatness argued it the work of God; which not only + bred admiration, but incited him to set forwards so charitable a work: + who eftsoons, with Sir Theobald Grenvile, knight, lord of the land, an + especial furtherer and benefactor of that work, founded the bridge + there, now to be seen, which for length, and number of arches, + equalizeth, if not excelleth, all others in England," &c.--Risdon's + _Survey of Devon_, s. v. BIDEFORD. + +The traditions relating to St. Cuthbert and the foundation of Durham +Cathedral are too well known to find a place in "N. & Q." + +J. SANSOM. + +_Wyned_ (Vol. v., pp. 321. 474.).--Read _joined_ for _wyned_: "divers +parcels of joined waynescott, windowes, and other implements of household," +_i. e._ wainscot of joiner's work. I have no doubt this is the true +reading, having once made the very same mistake myself in reading and +printing an inventory of this period. + +SPES. + +_Sweet Willy O_ (Vol. v., p. 466).--This song was written by Garrick for +the jubilee in honour of Shakspere, which was held at Stratford-upon-Avon +in 1769, and was sung on that occasion by Mrs. Baddeley. It is printed in +_Shakespeare's garland_, 1769; in the _Poetical works of David Garrick_, +1785; and in the _History of Stratford_, 1806. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. + +We have received from Messrs. 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Considering, therefore, not only +the profoundly philosophical character of his political works, but also the +elevated tone of political morality which is displayed in the writings of +Edmund Burke--a wisdom and a morality rendered still more attractive by the +unrivalled eloquence with which they are enunciated--the present handsome +and cheap collection of {525} those writings is alike creditable to the +enterprise of the publishers, and well calculated to exercise a beneficial +influence upon the political condition of the country. It would indeed be +well if all who aspire to seats in the new parliament would fit themselves +for such positions by a study of the writings of Edmund Burke. + +Mr. Willis has just issued a neat reprint of what has now become a very +scarce volume, _The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_, a work which may be +regarded as a model of political satire. 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