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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Notes and Queries, Number 136, June 5, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc - -Author: Various - -Release Date: February 7, 2013 [EBook #42038] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 5, 1852 *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian -Libraries) - - - - - -{529} - -NOTES AND QUERIES: - -A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, -GENEALOGISTS, ETC. - -"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. - - * * * * * - - -Vol. V.--No. 136.] -SATURDAY, JUNE 5. 1852 -[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. - - * * * * * - - -CONTENTS. - - NOTES:-- Page - - Autobiography of William Oldys, by Charles Bridger 529 - - On Cosin's "History of Popish Transubstantiation," edited - by the Rev. J. S. Brewer 531 - - Ancient Guildhalls in England 532 - - The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, by Henry Edwards 532 - - Robert Drury 533 - - Folk Lore:--Gabriel Hounds--Weather Prophecy--Origin of - Moles--Mistletoe 534 - - Minor Notes:--Byron's "Siege of Corinth"--Goldsmith's - "Poetical Dictionary"--Corrupted Names 534 - - QUERIES:-- - - Mr. Halliwell's Annotated Shakspeare Folio 535 - - Restive 535 - - Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge, by - C. Mansfield Ingleby 535 - - Minor Queries:--Banning or Bayning Family--Ladies styled - Baronets--St. Christopher and the Doree--Custom of - Women wearing Masks in the Theatre--Brass of Abbot - Kirton; Matrices--Lines on Chaucer--The Nacar--Cilgerran - Castle--Use of Slings by the Early Britons--"Squire - Vernon's Fox Chase"--The Death Watch--Genealogical - Queries--Ben Jonson's adopted Sons--Kyrle's Tankard at - Balliol--Irish Language in the West Indies--"Battle of - Neville's Cross"--Sir Walter Raleigh's Ring--"Narne; or, - Pearle of Prayer"--Sir George Howard--"Love me, love my - Dog"--Mummy Wheat--A Photographic Query--"Stunt with - false Care"--Winchester College--Old Royal Irish Academy - House, Grafton Street--Quotations wanted--Shakspeare's - Seal--The long-lived Countess of Desmond 536 - - MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Temple Church and Lincoln's Inn - Chapel--Edmund Bohun--"Nimrod" 539 - - REPLIES:-- - - The Three Estates of the Realm, by William Fraser 539 - - Burials in Woollen, by John Booker and J. B. Colman 542 - - Braem's MS. "Memoires touchant le Commerce" 543 - - General Pardons, by John Gough Nichols 544 - - The Dodo, by A. D. Bartlett 544 - - Whipping of Princes by Proxy 545 - - Replies to Minor Queries:--Penkenol--Johnny Crapaud--Sir - John Darnall--Bastides--Compositions under the - Protectorate--Hoax on Sir Walter Scott--Statute of - Limitations abroad--Lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie-- - Swearing on a Skull--Rhymes on Places--The Silent - Woman--Serpent with a human Head--Poem on the Burning - of the Houses of Parliament--Large Families--Frebord-- - Milton's (?) Epitaph--Can Bishops vacate their Sees?-- - Sleekstone, Meaning of--Poems in the Spectator--Line on - Franklin--St. Christopher--Lines on Woman--Burial-- - Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland 545 - - MISCELLANEOUS:-- - - Notes on Books, &c. 549 - - Books and Odd Volumes wanted 550 - - Notices to Correspondents 550 - - Advertisements 551 - - * * * * * - - -Notes. - -AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM OLDYS. - -Previous to receiving the appointment of Norroy King at Arms, Oldys wrote a -short account of his own life, which is now in my possession; and as it -contains some interesting particulars of his connexion with the Earl of -Oxford, in the formation of the magnificent collection of manuscripts now -in the British Museum, I have forwarded a copy of it, which you are at -liberty to make use of, if suited to the pages of "N. & Q." - - "After my unfortunate adventures in the South Sea, my long and - expensive law-suits for the recovery of my right, and five years' - retirement to a nobleman's in the country, with whom I had been - intimate in my youth, I became, in less than two years after my return - to London, first known to the Earl of Oxford in the year 1731; when he - invited me to show him my collections of MSS. Historical and Political, - which had been the Earl of Clarendon's; my collections of Royal - Letters, and other Papers of State; together with a very large - collection of English heads in sculpture, which alone had taken me up - some years to collect, at the expense of at least threescore pounds. - All these, with the catalogues I drew up of them, at his lordship's - request, I parted with to him for forty pounds, and the frequent - intimations he gave me of a more substantial recompense hereafter, - which intimations induced me to continue my historical researches, as - what would render me most acceptable to him. Therefore I left off - writing in the _Universal Spectator_, in which I had then published - about twenty papers, and was proffered the sole supply thereof; which - would have returned me fifty-two guineas per annum. - - "Further, when his lordship understood that my printed books consisted - chiefly of personal history, he desired catalogues of them also: which - I drew out, and he had several large parcels of the most scarce and - curious amongst them, in the two years following; for which, though I - never received more than five guineas, not the fourth part of their - value, yet his friendly deportment towards me increased my attachment - and zeal to oblige him. This friendship he further exerted, in the - {530} assistance he afforded me out of his own library, and procured of - his friends, towards completing my _Life of Sir Walter Raleigh_; and - his opinion of the further encouragement I therein deserved may appear - in the letters he honoured me with upon that occasion. But as to money, - the five guineas more he gave me upon my presenting him with the - _Life_, and the _History of the World_ annexed to it, in 1736, was all - that I ever received from him in five years. In the latter end of the - year 1737 I published my _British Librarian_; and when his lordship - understood how unproportionate the advantages it produced were to the - time and labour bestowed upon it, he said he would find me employment - better worth my while. Also, when he heard that I was making interest - with Sir Robert Walpole, through the means of Commissioner Hill, to - present him with an abstract of some ancient deeds I had relating to - his ancestors, and which I have still, his lordship induced me to - decline that application, saying, though he could not do as grand - things as Sir Robert, he would do that which might be as agreeable to - me, if I would disengage myself from all other persons and pursuits. I - had then also had, for several years, some dependence upon a nobleman, - who might have served me in the government, and had, upon certain - motives, settled an annuity upon me of twenty pounds a year. This I - resigned to the said nobleman for an incompetent consideration, and - signed a general release to him, in May, 1738, that I might be wholly - independent, and absolutely at my Lord Oxford's command. I was likewise - then under an engagement with the undertakers of the _Supplement to - Bayle's Dictionary_. I refused to digest the materials I then had for - this work under an hundred pounds a year, till it was finished; but - complied to take forty shillings a sheet for what I should write, at - such intervals as my business would permit: for this clause I was - obliged to insert, in the articles then executed between them and - myself, in March the year aforesaid whereby I reserved myself free for - his lordship's service. And though I proposed, their said offer would - be more profitable to me than my own, yet my lord's employment of me, - from that time, grew so constant, that I never finished above three or - four lives for that work, to the time of his death. All these - advantages did I thus relinquish, and all other dependence, to serve - his lordship. And now was I employed at auctions, sales, and in writing - at home, in transcribing my own collections or others for his lordship, - till the latter part of the year 1739; for which services I received of - him about 150 pounds. In November the same year I first entered his - library of manuscripts, whereunto I came daily, sorted and methodised - his vast collection of letters, to be bound in many volumes; made - abstracts of them, and tables to each volume; besides working at home, - mornings and evenings, for the said library. Then, indeed, his - lordship, considering what beneficial prospects and possessions I had - given up, to serve him, and what communications I voluntarily made to - his library almost every day, by purchases which I never charged, and - presents out of whatever was most worthy of publication among my own - collections, of which he also chose what he pleased, whenever he came - to my chambers, which I have since greatly wanted, I did thenceforward - receive of him two hundred pounds a-year, for the short remainder of - his life. Notwithstanding this allowance, he would often declare in - company before me, and in the hearing of those now alive, that he - wished I had been some years sooner known to him than I was; because I - should have saved him many hundred pounds. - - "The sum of this case is, that for the profit of about 500l. I devoted - the best part of ten years' service to, and in his lordship's library; - impoverished my own stores to enrich the same; disabled myself in my - studies, and the advantages they might have produced from the publick; - deserted the pursuits which might have obtained me a permanent - accommodation and procured the prejudice and misconceit of his - lordship's surviving relations. But the profits I received were - certainly too inconsiderable to raise any envy or ill will; tho' they - might probably be conceived much greater than they were. No, it was - what his lordship made me more happy in, than his money, which has been - the cause of my greatest unhappiness with them; his favour, his - friendly reception and treatment of me; his many visits at my chambers; - his many invitations by letters, and otherwise, to dine with him, and - pass whole evenings with him; for no other end, but such intelligence - and communications, as might answer the inquiries wherein he wanted to - be satisfied, in relation to matters of literature, all for the benefit - of his library. Had I declined those invitations, I must, with great - ingratitude, have created his displeasure; and my acceptance of them - has displeased others. Some survivors would surely, in respect to the - memory of such a noble and honourable person, not totally disregard - what he had so distinguished; but think a man worthy of being - recommended to some provision, whom he, after a very deliberate - experience, had seen reason so decently to provide for. I look upon - most places of attendance at Court to be an idle, loytering, empty - course of life; in which a man is obliged to dress expensively, keep - frothy, vain, or vicious company, and to have the salary more - backwardly paid than in other places. Therefore I should prefer some - office in the Revenue, rather than to be upon the Civil List. - - "Any clerkship, that must double a man down to a desk for a set of - hours, morning and afternoon, he should be inured to from his youth, to - be {531} anything dextrous or easy in; but one, who has been the - greatest part of his life master of his own time and thoughts, has his - head pre-occupied; at least is commonly fitter for the direction than - the execution of business; unless it be such in which his head will - concur with his hand. Besides, not to mention other incongruities, how - would it fit a man, growing in years, to be company for a pack of young - clerks? or, how could he hope to be continued, of such honourable - persons, as should recommend him even to that situation, but might with - the same trouble to something more convenient for him? - - "I have been assured by persons of experience, that an handsome post is - not only sooner procured as having less candidates, but a man's - pretension is more regarded. Whereas, in business of ordinary or mean - account, his merits and abilities are thought proportionable, and - therefore his pretension or request is less regarded. Besides, places - that are something considerable, are generally less slavish and - engrossing of a man's time; which, God knows, I desire not to be better - employed than mine is, and may be by myself; only, a part of it more - profitably: and yet, the convenience of such leisure, with the credit - attending such a place, I should more value than the profit. - - "There is a common advice, that a man should not put in for everything, - because it implys too high thoughts of his own sufficiency, as if he - thought himself fit for everything: which is the character of an - arrogant and conceited coxcomb. This offering of one's self, without - latitude or limitation, is indeed one extreme; but the other is, to - nail one's self down to some one individual place, like a dainty guest, - that can taste but of one dish, and so wait for the vacancy; wherein he - is led, by his own election, first to go barefoot (perhaps to his - grave) in waiting for a dead man's shoes; and when he is dead, then he - shall probably see another wear them. So that any vacancy which will - accommodate the candidate with a competency suitable to his condition - and qualifications; or, at least, equal to what he has appeared in, and - decently enjoyed, cannot, 'tis presumed, be thought unreasonable. - - "Two or three hundred a year may be thought a very liberal allowance - from a single person; in places of the government 'tis thought no - burden, because the publick contributions are settled for the payment: - there is no new charge or salary created, and they have stood the test - of various changes or revolutions in the administrations. If I were to - be restored to a place of two hundred a year now, it would not be by - one fourth part of the advantage to me that it might have been five - years since: for I should look upon myself in conscience obliged to - sequester so much, even though I should live long enough to enjoy such - a place ten years, to re-imburse such friends as have assisted me in - all that time, but can no longer now. So that this one act of - accommodation would indeed save more persons than one from ruin." - -If it is not already known that Oldys obtained the appointment of Norroy -through the intercession of Sir Peter Thompson, to whom the above -autobiographic sketch was addressed, I think I can confidently assert such -was the fact. I am collecting materials for biographical notices of the -King's Heralds and Pursuivants-at-Arms. Will you permit me, through the -medium of "N. & Q.," to make known to your correspondents that I have such -a work in hand; and that I should be obliged for any unpublished -particulars, either relative to Oldys, or any other members of the College -of Arms. - -CHARLES BRIDGER. - - * * * * * - -ON COSIN'S "HISTORY OF POPISH TRANSUBSTANTIATION," EDITED BY THE REV. J. S. -BREWER. - -As every work of value, and likely to live, should be made as correct as -possible, I beg insertion in "N. & Q." of some remarks on a note in Mr. -Brewer's very satisfactory edition of so important a volume as that of -Cosin on the papal doctrine of transubstantiation. The note occurs in p. -130., and is as follows:-- - - "++ _Index Expurg. Hispan. D. Gasp. Quirogae Card. et Inquisit. - generalis in fine._ - - "There is a copy of one edition of this Index in the British Museum, - but I cannot find the passage to which Bp. Cosin refers. The other - Index to which he refers is not to be found in the British Museum, - Bishop Tenison's library, or Sion College." - -The disappointment of Mr. Brewer may not improbably be ascribed to the -unfortunate fact, that in the _English_ translation of Cosin's book, which -is given by Mr. Brewer in the forecited extract, after the word _fine_ are -omitted the words _Lit. O._, which are found in the _Latin_ original. This -additional direction would have led to the passage which the editor was -desirous of verifying. For, in the first edition of the _Index_ referred -to, that of 1584, the particular index at the end, under O, gives the fol. -182, 183 (_falso 171_), where the passage is found exactly as extant in the -Latin of Cosin. The particular _Expurgatory Index_ under view was printed -in 1601 and 1611. In the first of the two, _that_ printed at Saumur, the -passage is found fol. 149. _verso_. I dare say it is so in the other -entitled _Duo Testes, &c._, but that is of no moment. Bp. Cosin does not, -as the note expresses, refer to any "other index." The British Museum is -comparatively scanty in this class of books, but they are all to be found -in the Bodleian Library. {532} - -At p. 163. the _Discurs [us] Modest [us] de Jesuit._ referred to, and -occupying several pages of discussion in the "N. & Q." in the early -volumes, is certainly the Latin version of _A Sparing Discoverie of our -English Jesuits_, 4to., Franc. 1601, pp. 70, and to be found in the -_Catalogue of the British Museum_, under "JESU _Societas_." - -EUPATOR. - - * * * * * - -ANCIENT GUILDHALLS IN ENGLAND. - -If a history of the ancient Guildhalls of England could be compiled, it -would form an interesting volume; as the ancient fabrics wherein our -forefathers met to transact their civic affairs may almost be said to have -symbolised the _status_ of the municipalities in which they stood at -various epochs of their history. Our old English boroughs cannot boast the -possession of halls equal to the _Hotels de Ville_ of Belgium or France, or -the _Rath-haeusen_ of Germany. We cannot show in this country edifices -equal to the Hotel de Ville of Brussels, or Aix-la-Chapelle, or Rouen, in -point of architectural extent or beauty; or of Ratisbon, or other German -towns, in point of venerable and antique interest. But we have buildings -yet standing among us which, if less imposing in their exteriors, are -nevertheless associated with historic memories of no common order, and -secondary in this respect to none of the grander town-halls of ancient -Flanders. - -The guildhall of Leicester cannot boast of any outside show. It is plain to -meanness in this respect; it is on one side a mere barn in appearance; yet -it has its claim on the attention of the antiquary. - -The first distinct mention of a guildhall in Leicester is in a small -charter, executed in the mayoralty of Peter Rogerson. From this it appears -that in 1250 William Ordriz, the son of Stephen, conveyed to the mayor and -burgesses a building which became the guildhall. The deed is endorsed -_Charta de la Gild Salle_. It contained three bays of buildings, was twenty -yards in length, and about eight yards from front to back. It had solars, -cellars, and dungeons. There was _then_ an older fabric, known as the -guildhall, which was conveyed to a private townsman in the year 1275. The -hall, of which the corporation became the possessors in 1250, remained in -use until the reign of Elizabeth, and even at intervals until the date of -the Commonwealth, being sometimes called the old Moot Hall, and at others -the "Old Shop." - -Anterior to the Reformation two religious guilds had halls, known as St. -George's and Corpus Christi Halls. When these fraternities were dissolved, -the buildings remained; one near the east of St. Martin's church, the other -near its western extremity. The first of these fell into entire disuse and -decay; while the latter, Corpus Christi Hall, gradually superseded as a -civic edifice the old Moot Hall. I have found in the hall books of the -borough of Leicester entries as early as the 10th of Henry VIII., in which -the hall of Corpus Christi Guild is referred to as the occasional place of -meeting of the municipal body. A deed, bearing date the 5th of Elizabeth, -states that the queen had conveyed the hall to Cecily Pickerell of Norwich, -widow, who reconveyed it to the recorder of Leicester, Braham, evidently as -the representative of the mayor and burgesses, not then formally -incorporated. - -Meanwhile, the old hall seems to have served as a lock-up or gaol, and was -finally sold in 1653 to a maltster, who would undoubtedly convert the roomy -old structure into a malt-house. - -The Corpus Christi Hall would appear to have been enlarged when it was -fairly in the hands of the civic authorities, not only in the reign of -Elizabeth (about the year 1586), but in that of Charles I. Many particulars -about the building will be found in the _Handbook of Leicester_. - -The guildhall of Leicester is _within_ one of the most picturesque old -structures of the country, and is well described by your correspondent KT. -As you enter, its rude rafters rise directly from the ground on either -hand, and embrace over the head of the visitor, forming pointed arches. As -you advance along the floor the beams widen, and the Tudor timbering and -architectural detail are clearly discernible; two staples still remaining -on one of the braces, which tradition says sustained the scenery of the -players in the time when theatrical performers were allowed to act there, -and when even Shakspeare figured in the histrionic group. Having reached -the western end you find yourself in front of the bench on which the mayor -and magistrates sit to dispense justice, the ancient gilded frame for the -mace (now tenantless) surmounting the chief magistrate's chair. The rich -old mantelpiece of the mayor's parlour, and the fragments of painted glass -in its windows, enhance and complete the antiquarian attractions of this -relic of Edwardian and Elizabethan architecture. - -JAYTEE. - - * * * * * - -THE SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON. - -Amongst the oddities which cross our path, I recollect one which, at the -time it occurred, caused no small surprise to the young, of which I then -was one. I think it must be about forty-six years ago, a man travelled -about Hampshire professing to cure the blind, sick, and lame; and although -he did not belong to the medical order, yet numerous cures were attributed -to him, and he had quite a collection of crutches and walking-sticks, left -by his patients, who, it was said, no longer required his {533} or their -aid. I well know that he was looked upon by the common sort of people with -wonder, and almost awe. The notion prevalent amongst them was, that, being -the seventh son of a seventh son, he was endowed by nature with -extraordinary healing powers. After a few months his fame, such as it was, -evaporated, and I have not heard of him since, nor have I read of any -pretender acting like him since then. Can any of your readers enlighten my -darkness on the above, or on any other seventh of a seventh? and is there -any account or tradition of a similar impostor in any other county of -England? Also, if ancient or modern history records any such wonderful -attributes in reference to a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter? - -The above was written before I saw MR. COOPER's allusion to the subject, in -Vol. iii., p. 148. I hope to be favoured with that gentleman's further -notice of the seventh son of a seventh son. - -I should esteem it a favour if some one of your numerous and learned -readers would inform me if that word denoting seven, which is in such -frequent use in the Old and New Testaments, is susceptible of being -rendered "several," "many," or some other indefinite quantity? - -Seven appears also to be a favourite number in modern days. I subjoin a few -of the many instances of its popular adoption:-- - - Seven ages. - Seven Champions. - Seven Churches. - Seven days in a week. - Seven days' notice. - Seven Dials. - Sevenfold. - Seven Hills. - Seven months' child. - Seven penitential psalms. - Seven senses. - Seven-shilling piece. - Seven Sisters. - Seven Sleepers. - Seven Sons. - Seventh son of the seventh son. - Seven stars. - Seven stages of life. - Seven times. - Seven times seven years a jubilee. - Seven wise men. - A jury of seven matrons. - Seven wonders of the world. - Seven years' apprenticeship. - Seven years, a change. - Seven years' transportation. - Seven years' Income-tax, - Sevenpence in the pound yearly; and these last are two of the - Seven abominations. - -HENRY EDWARDS. - -35. Gifford Street, Kingsland Road. - - [The number _seven_ has been a subject of particular speculation with - some old writers, and every department of nature, science, literature, - and art has been ransacked for the purpose of discovering septenary - combinations. In the Year 1502 there was printed at Leipsic a work - entitled _Heptalogium Virgilii Salzburgensis_, in honour of the number - seven. It consists of seven parts, each consisting of seven divisions. - But the most curious work on the subject of numbers is the following, - the contents of which, as might be expected, are quite worthy of the - title: _The Secrets of Numbers according to Theological, Arithmetical, - Geometrical, and Harmonical Computation; drawn, for the better part, - out of those Ancients, as well as Neoteriques. Pleasing to read, - profitable to understande, opening themselves to the capacities of both - learned and unlearned; being no other than a key to lead men to any - doctrinal knowledge whatsoever._ By William Ingpen, Gent. London, 1624. - In chap. ix. the author has given many notable opinions from learned - men, to prove the excellency of the number _seven_:--"First, it neither - begets nor is begotten, according to the saying of Philo. Some numbers, - indeed, within the compass of ten, beget, but are not begotten; and - that is the unarie. Others are begotten, but beget not; as the - octonarie. Only the septenarie, having a prerogative above them all, - neither begetteth, nor is begotten. This is its first divinity or - perfection. Secondly, this is an harmonical number, and the well and - fountain of that fair and lovely _Digramma_, because it includeth - within itself all manner of harmony. Thirdly, it is a theological - number, consisting of perfection. (See _Cruden_.) Fourthly, because of - its compositure: for it is compounded of one and six; two and five; - three and four. Now, every one of these being excellent of themselves - (as hath been remonstrated), how can this number be but far more - excellent, consisting of them all, and participating, as it were, of - all their excellent virtues."--ED.] - - * * * * * - -ROBERT DRURY. - -The credit attachable to _Madagascar: or Robert Drury's Journal during -fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island_, has always appeared to me a -subject worth a Note in your pages; but more particularly since the recent -publication of Burton's _Narratives from the Criminal Trials of Scotland_. - -In this latter work the author gives us an interesting account of the trial -of Captain Green and his associates, in Edinburgh, for the murder of one -Captain Drummond (a very memorable case, as it bore upon the Union of the -kingdoms, at the time under discussion); and in course of his inquiries Mr. -Burton has brought forth Drury's _Journal_ to prove the existence of the -said Captain Drury for many years subsequent to Green's execution for his -murder! - -It becomes, therefore, a serious question to ascertain whether Drury was a -real or a fictitious character, and his book what it pretends to be, or the -speculation of some clever writer, envious of the fame and profit derived -by Defoe from the publication of a similar work. I would not take the -subject out of such good hands as those of MR. CROSSLEY, who has evidently -something to offer us thereon; but would merely observe, by way of -interesting your readers generally in the matter, that Drury, by the old -octavo of 1729, now before me, did not flinch from inquiry, as he announces -the book for sale "by the Author, at Old Tom's Coffee House in Birchin -Lane," where, he says, "I am every day to be spoken with, and where I shall -be ready to gratify any Gentleman with a further Account of any Thing -herein contained; {534} to stand the strictest Examination, or to confirm -those Things which to some may seem doubtful." - -"Old Tom's" is still a right good chop-house in the locality named; and it -would be interesting to know if there is any contemporaneous note existing -of an evening with Robert Drury there. But for the misfortune of living a -century and a quarter too late, I should doubtless often have found myself -in the same box with the mysterious man, with his piles of books, and his -maps of Madagascar, invitingly displayed for the examination of the -curious, and the satisfaction of the sceptical. - -J. O. - - * * * * * - -FOLK LORE. - -_Gabriel Hounds._--Seeing that MR. YARRELL, the distinguished -ornithologist, is a contributor to "N. & Q.," may I ask that gentleman, or -any other correspondent, what is the species of bird whose peculiar yelping -cry during its nocturnal migrations, has given rise to the superstition of -the "Gabriel Hounds," so common in some rural districts? - -D. - -_Weather Prophecy._--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the -truth or falsehood of a proverb I have heard, namely, that the dryness or -wetness of a summer may be prognosticated by observing whether the oak or -the ash tree comes first into leaf? I cannot recollect which denoted which; -but I should much like to know whether there is such a proverb, and whether -there is any truth in it. - -G. E. G. - -Oxford. - -_Origin of Moles._--Meeting with an octogenarian molecatcher a few weeks -since, in the neighbourhood of Bridgwater, the old man volunteered the -following account of the origin of moles, or _wants_ as they are sometimes -called in Somerset. "It was a proud woman, sir, too proud to live on the -face of the earth, and so God turned her into a mole, and made her live -_under_ the earth; and that was the _first mole_." My informant was -evidently much confirmed in his belief, by the fact of "moles having (as he -said) hands and feet like Christians." - -W. A. J. - -_Mistletoe._--The mistletoe grows upon the _poplar tree_, near the railway -station at Taunton, and likewise at White-Lackington near Ilminster. I have -not seen any upon the oak. - -W. A. J. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Notes. - -_Byron's "Siege of Corinth."_--In the late Dr. Moir's _Lectures on the -Poetical Literature of the last Half Century_, in commenting on Byron's -_Siege of Corinth_ he mentions "the glorious moonlight scene in which -Francesca and Alp part for the last time, _the one to die of a broken -heart_, the other to perish in his apostasy." From this he evidently -considers that in this celebrated scene it is the still living form of -Francesca that visits her lover; but though Lord Byron has, according to -his frequent practice, left this unexplained, the whole passage seems to me -to show that his intention was, that the visit should be considered as a -supernatural one. Space will not allow of my bringing forward the proofs of -this, but it can be easily verified by any one who reads the passage in -question attentively. A singular mistake occurs in p. 8. of the work above -quoted. Could any one have supposed that a poet, and a writer on poetical -literature, should be ignorant of the best known poetical name of the last -century? Yet Mr. Moir talks of "_William_" Pope. He might as well have -talked of "_Alexander_" Shakspeare. - -J. S. WARDEN. - -_Goldsmith's "Poetical Dictionary."_--It has not been noticed by any of -Goldsmith's biographers that, in addition to _The Art of Poetry_, in 2 -vols. 12mo., 1762, published by Newbery, and _The Beauties of the English -Poets_, in 2 vols. 12mo., 1767, published by Griffin, he also edited for -Newbery an useful work entitled _A Poetical Dictionary, or the Beauties of -the English Poets alphabetically displayed_, in 4 vols., 1761, 12mo. The -Preface is evidently written by Goldsmith, and with his usual elegance and -spirit, and the selection which follows is one of the best which has ever -yet been made. It certainly deserves more notice than it seems hitherto to -have received; and were it only that it contains Goldsmith's favourite -passages, and may possibly have been a preparation and incentive to the -composition of the _Traveller_ and the _Deserted Village_, it ought not to -be forgotten in the list of his compilations. In examining it I have -frequently been struck by the appearance of lines and passages, and -sometimes epithets, which were evidently in Goldsmith's mind when he wrote -his two beautiful poems. Some, but not all, have been quoted as parallel -passages by his editors. - -JAMES CROSSLEY. - -_Corrupted Names._--In Vol. i., pp. 215. and 299., are some notes on the -ordinary corruptions of Christian names. One came once in my way which, as -the name corrupted is not by any means an ordinary one, may not have -occurred to many of your readers. I was called on to baptize a child by the -name _Nucky_: fortunately it is my practice to ascertain the sponsor's -intention in the vestry, before proceeding to the font; and I was able, -with much difficulty, to make out that the name meant was _Ursula_, of -which _Nucky_ was their ordinary corruption. Passing from names of -_persons_ to those of _places_, I would add two corruptions to those named -in your current volume: Wiveliscombe, pronounced Willscombe; {535} -Minehead, Minyard--both in Somerset; and Kenilworth, sometimes called -Killingworth, in Warwickshire. - -BALLIOLENSIS. - - * * * * * - - -Queries. - -MR. HALLIWELL'S ANNOTATED SHAKSPEARE FOLIO. - - "This volume contains several hundred very curious and important - corrections, amongst which I may mention an entirely new reading of the - difficult passage at the commencement of _Measure for Measure_, which - carries conviction with it; and shows, what might have been reasonably - expected, that _that to_ is a misprint for _a verb_."--MR. HALLIWELL in - _Notes & Queries_, p. 485. - -In common, doubtless, with many other of your readers, I am curious to know -what this _verb_ can be, which, while _carrying conviction with it_, is yet -so mysteriously withheld from publication. - -In a small pamphlet, published a month or two since by MR. HALLIWELL, in -opposition to _Mr. Collier's_ folio, he lays down at p. 7. "a canon in -philology;" from which he deduces the following as one of the -"_circumstances under which no manuscript emendation of so late a date as -1632 will be admissible_." - - "It will not be admissible in any case where good sense can be - satisfactorily made of the passage as it stands in the original, even - although the correction may appear to give greater force or harmony to - the passage." - -Now, in the case referred to from _Measure for Measure_, I had previously -("N. & Q." Vol. v., p. 410.) shown to MR. HALLIWELL that "_good sense can -be satisfactorily made of the passage as it stands in the original_;" and -therefore I feel the greater curiosity to know what _this verb_ can be -which carries conviction to him _even in the face of his own canon_? - -A. E. B. - -Leeds. - - * * * * * - -RESTIVE. - -Can the editor, or any of the readers of "N. & Q." account for the very -prevalent misuse of the word _restive_ or _restiff_? Of course, everybody -knows that the affix _ive_ or _iff_ does not imply "privation," but the -opposite; and that therefore _restive_ means--as we find it defined in our -dictionaries--"unwilling to stir," "inclined or determined to rest," &c.; -but yet the most common use of the word now would require it to mean -"unwilling to rest," "rest_less_," "unquiet," &c. As the word is most -frequently employed in newspaper paragraphs, in describing accidents -arising from the _restiveness_, or much more frequently _restlessness_, of -horses, we can easily account for the misuse of the word in such cases: as -the free use of the whip, which is sure to follow the restiveness of a -horse or ass, is almost as surely followed by a sudden restlessness, at -least when the nobler animal is under chastisement; what ends in -restlessness and running away has thus got confounded with what it only has -become, in some cases; while in others nothing is more common than to find -the sudden shying and starting off of a horse, which has been anything but -_restive_, described as such by some forgetfulness of the meaning of the -word. Were the misuse of the word confined to such cases, however, it might -not be worthy of notice in "N. & Q.", but I think it will be found to -extend further: for instance, in _The Eclipse of Faith_ (recently -published), although evidently written by a scholar, and one who weighs the -meaning of words, I find the following passage: - - "'But,' said Fellowes, rather warmly, for he felt rather _restive_ at - this part of Harrington's discourse," &c. - -Here the word is evidently employed (instead of _restless_[1]) figuratively -for _impatient_; although I am not aware that a "bumptious" person might -defend the word actually used, in the sense that the listener _refused to -go along further_ with the speaker. Still I think _restlessness_ was the -idea intended to be conveyed in the above passage, and that "impatient" -would have been the better word, considering that it follows "he _felt_." - -J. R. - -Brompton. - -[Footnote 1: Or instead of "fidgetty," as one would likely have expressed -it in familiar conversation.] - - * * * * * - -REASON AND UNDERSTANDING ACCORDING TO COLERIDGE. - -There is a remarkable discrepancy in the statements of Coleridge respecting -reason and understanding. - -(1.) _Friend_, vol. i. pp. 207-8. (Pickering.)-- - - "That many animals possess a share of understanding perfectly - distinguishable from mere instinct we all allow. Few persons have a - favourite dog, without making instances of its intelligence an - occasional topic of conversation. They call for our admiration of the - individual animal, and not with exclusive reference to the wisdom in - nature, as in the case of [Greek: storge], or maternal instinct: or of - the hexangular cells of the bees.... We hear little or nothing of the - instincts of the 'half-reasoning elephant,' and as little of the - understanding of caterpillars and butterflies." - -_Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. pp 171-3. (Pickering.) Here, after quoting -two instances from Hueber about bees and ants, he says,-- - - "Now I assert that the faculty in the acts here narrated does not - differ _in kind_ from understanding." - -Does Coleridge mean to tell us that bees and ants have the same faculty -(understanding) as dogs and elephants? - -{536} - -(2.) _Friend_, vol. i. pp. 216-7.-- - - "For a moment's steady self-reflection will show us that, in the simple - determination 'black is not white,' or 'that two straight lines cannot - include a space,' all the powers are implied that distinguish man from - animals; first, the power of reflection; second, of comparison; third, - and therefore suspension of the mind; fourth, therefore of a - controlling will, and the power of acting from notions, instead of mere - images exciting appetites; from motives, and not from mere dark - instinct." - -And after relating a story about a dog who appeared to have employed the -disjunctive syllogism (in relation to which see Cottle's _Reminiscences_, -vol. i. pp. 48-9.), Coleridge remarks,-- - - "So awful and almost miraculous does the simple act of concluding 'take - three from four, and there remains one,' appear to us, when attributed - to one of the most sagacious of all brute animals." - -_Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 175.-- - - "Understanding is the faculty of reflection, reason of contemplation." - And p. 176.--"The understanding, then, considered exclusively as an - organ of human intelligence, is the faculty by which we reflect and - generalise.... The whole process [of the understanding] may be reduced - to three acts, all depending on, and supposing a previous impression - on, the senses: first, the appropriation of our attention; second (and - in order to the continuance of the first), abstraction, or the - voluntary withholding of the attention; and, third, generalisation; and - these are the proper functions of the understanding." - -_Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 182. _note_.-- - - "So far, and no further, could the understanding carry us; and so far - as this, 'the faculty judging according to sense' conducts many of the - inferior animals, if not in the same, yet in instances analogous and - fully equivalent." - -Does Coleridge, then, mean us to understand him as saying, that many of the -brutes can reflect, abstract, and generalise? - -(3.) _Friend_, vol. i. p. 259.-- - - "Reason! best and holiest gift of God, and bond of union with the - Giver; the high title by which the majesty of man claims precedence - above all other living creatures--mysterious faculty, the mother of - conscience, of language...." - -_Aids to Reflection_, vol. i. pp. 176-182.--Coleridge here gives his -reasons for considering language a property of the understanding; and, in -p. 195., adds,-- - - "It is, however, by no means equally clear to me that the dog may not - possess an _analogon_ of words which I have elsewhere shown to be the - proper objects of the 'faculty judging according to sense.'" - -Does Coleridge mean that the inferior animals may have language? - -Who, of your many able correspondents, will assist me in unravelling this -complicated tissue? - -C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries. - -_Banning or Bayning Family._--I am desirous of knowing if there was a -family of the name of _Banning_ or _Bayning_ seated in Ireland at the close -of the sixteenth century; and whether there was any other branch in England -excepting that in Essex. - -K. - -_Ladies styled Baronets._--An ancestor of mine, Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., -of Chichley Hall, Bucks, in his will, dated Nov. 26, 1635, and proved in -the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Dec. 9, 1635 [128 Sadler], desires "to -be buried in the north part of Chichley Church, in the same vault with Dame -Elizabeth Chester, Baronet, his first wife." Are there any other instances -of ladies of the same rank being styled Baronet about this time? I may -mention that this Lady Chester was daughter to Sir Henry Boteler, of -Hatfield Woodhall, Herts, and sister to John Lord Boteler, of Bramfeld. - -TEWARS. - -_St. Christopher and the Doree._--Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_, vol. -iii. p. 194., says that the fish called the Doree is traditionally said to -have derived the spots on its sides frown the fact of St. Christopher, in -wading through the arm of the sea, having caught a fish of this description -_en passant_, and having left as an eternal memorial of the fact an -impression on its sides to be transmitted to all posterity. - -Can any of your readers inform me from what source Brand derived this idea? - -E. A. H. L. - -_Custom of Women wearing Masks in the Theatre._--When did this custom -originate? It was not common before the civil wars, nor in fashion till -some time after the Restoration. Masked ladies are often mentioned in the -prologues and epilogues to the plays of Dryden, Lee, Otway, &c. The custom -probably originated in France. A dispute which ended in a duel (concerning -a Mrs. Fawkes) caused the entire prohibition of women's wearing masks in -the playhouse. This was about the 5th of Queen Anne. - -EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. - -_Brass of Abbot Kirton; Matrices._--When was the brass of Abbot Kirton, in -Westminster Abbey, removed? Have there been any brasses taken away (of -which the _matrices_ have been also removed); and if so, in whose -possession are they at the present time? - -UNICORN. - -_Lines on Chaucer._-- - - "Swan-like, in dying - Famous old Chaucer - Sang his last song." - -Who is the author of the above lines? - -ELIZA. - -_The Nacar._--What species of shell-fish is the _Nacar_, said to be found -in some of the islands of the Mediterranean, and off the east coast of -{537} Spain. Is it not the same fish from which what is called -mother-of-pearl is taken? Has not some part of it, the beard or otherwise, -been spun and wove? Is the _Nacar_ the true name, or only local; and, if -so, what is the scientific appellation? - -CYRUS REDDING. - -_Cilgerran Castle._--I shall be much obliged to any correspondent of "N. & -Q." who will direct me to any charters or other early records relating to -this castle of Kilgarran, or Cilgerran, which is situated near Cardigan. - -LLEWELLYN. - -_Use of Slings by the Early Britons._--In the course of the very -interesting operations at present in progress on Weston Hill, there have -been frequently found in the hut-pits small accumulations of shore-pebbles, -of the size most convenient for slings, for which it is supposed they were -intended. Any information on this topic will be received with many thanks. -It is worth noting that to this day the boys of the obscure village of -Priddy, on the Mendips, are notorious for the skill with which they can hit -a bird on the wing with a stone thrown by the hand. - -HENRY G. TOMKINS. - -Weston super Mare. - -"_Squire Vernon's Fox Chase._"--Can any of your correspondents refer me to -a copy of the ballad called "Squire Vernon's Fox Chase?" I am anxious to -meet with an original copy, and also to know if it has been reprinted in -any modern collection. - -R. S. - -_The Death Watch._--Has there appeared in any of your former Numbers a Note -upon the popular, but now exploded "death watch?" In earlier life, an -instance of it occurred in my presence, which did at the time, and does -even now, "puzzle the sense." The noise (like the ticking of a watch) was -so painfully distinct, that I endeavoured twice to discover the source of -it, but in vain. I made a note of it at the time, but the narrative -(although perfectly correct) reads so much like the speculation of a sick -brain, that I hesitate to send it. If you would put this Query (however -briefly), I should much like to see it discussed in your interesting pages. - -M. W. B. - -_Genealogical Queries._--I beg to trouble you with the following Queries:-- - -On what day of the year 1690 did Elizabeth Bayning, created Countess of -Sheppy for life, die? and where was she buried? - -Where was buried Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, Countess of Sussex? She died -16th May, 1722. The Earl was buried at Chevening. - -Was Sir John Mason, who died Treasurer of the Chamber, &c., 21st April, -1566, Chancellor of _the Duchy of Lancaster_? He is so designated in one of -the Harl. MSS. He was twice Chancellor of _Oxford_. - -G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. - -_Ben Jonson's adopted Sons._--They are said to be twelve in number. -Alexander Brome was one; Bishop Morley another. Can any of your -correspondents give the names of the other ten? By doing so, it will oblige -an - -INQUIRER. - -_Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol._--A very beautiful silver tankard, bearing the -following inscription, with the arms of the donor engraved in the centre of -the body of the cup; the first two words above, the others beneath the -arms, was presented to Balliol College, Oxford, by that celebrated and -excellent man, John Kyrle, Esq., better known by his world-wide -appellation, "The Man of Ross." It will be perceived from the inscription -that he was a gentleman commoner of that society: - - "Poculum Charitatis. - Ex dono Johannis Kyrle, de Rosse, in agro Herefordiens, et - hujus Collegii Socio Commensalis." - -It weighed upwards of five pounds, and the cover was lifted up by his -crest, a hedgehog. It is said to have been always produced at table when a -native of Herefordshire favoured the society with his company. Can any of -your correspondents favour me with the following particulars:--Is the -tankard still in existence, and has it been ever engraved? If so, in what -work? Is there any record in the college books to show in what year, and -upon what occasion, it was presented? - -J. B. WHITBORNE. - -_Irish Language in the West Indies._--The atrocities which Oliver Cromwell -committed in Ireland are fresh in the memory of the poorest Irishman, and -his memory held in the deepest execration: every ruined fortress that we -pass is ascribed to the great castle-killer, and the peasant's bitterest -malediction is, "_Mallachd Crumwell ort_" (The curse of Cromwell on you). - -The particular atrocity of Oliver's that we have to do with at present is -thus stated by Dodd, vol. iii. p. 58.: - - "At Drogheda all were put to the sword together with the inhabitants, - women and children, only about thirty persons escaping, who, with - several hundreds of the Irish nation, were shipped off to serve as - slaves in the island of Barbadoes, as I have frequently heard the - account from Captain Edw. Molyneux, one of that number, who died at St. - Germains, whither he followed the unfortunate King James II." - -The following note occurs in a paper on the Irish language, read by Mr. -Scurry before the Royal Irish Academy, Oct. 1826: - - "It is now ascertained that the Irish language is spoken in the - interior of many of the West India islands, in some of which it may be - said to be almost vernacular. This curious fact is satisfactorily - explained by documents in the possession of my respected friend James - Hardiman, Esq., author of the _History of Galway_. After the reduction - of Ireland by Cromwell and his {538} myrmidons, the thousands who were - 'shipped to the Caribbees,' so these islands were then called, 'and - sold as slaves,' carried with them their language. _That_ they - preserved, and there it remains to this day." - -Will some of your correspondents acquainted with the West Indies inform me -if the Irish language be still spoken there, or if it be degenerated and -merged into the _talkee-talkee_, or negro jargon? - -EIRIONNACH. - -"_Battle of Neville's Cross._"--Can any of your correspondents inform me -the name of the author of the "Battle of Neville's Cross," a prize poem, -published about thirty or forty years ago? - -G. - -_Sir Walter Raleigh's Ring._--Can any of your correspondents inform me what -has become of the ring Sir Walter Raleigh wore at his execution, and in -whose possession it now is, as I have reason to believe it is still in -existence as a heir-loom? - -BOSQUECILLO. - -"_Narne; or, Pearle of Prayer._"--I should feel obliged to any of your -correspondents if they could give me any information of the following work, -which I am unable myself to trace in any catalogue or bibliographical -work:-- - - "Narne (by William P. of Dysart), Pearle of Prayer most Pretious and - Powerful, &c. 18mo. Dedicated to Charles First (dated from Dysart the - 28th May, 1630), and afterward to the Right Virtuous and Worshipfull - Patrons of this famous Citie of Edinburgh, David Aikenhead most Worthie - Lord Provost, &c., and to the whole Counsell, &c., of Edinburgh, &c. - (dated from Dysart the last of May, 1630), 456 pp. (Concluding with a - part of a page of 'Faults escaped' on the recto of last leaf.) - Edinburgh, printed by John Wreittoun, 1630." - -J. B. RONDEAU. - -_Sir George Howard._--Sir N. W. Wraxall (_Historical Memoirs_, vol. iv. p. -614.) says of Field-Marshal Sir George Howard-- - - "His legitimate descent from, or alliance by consanguinity with, the - Dukes of Norfolk, notwithstanding the apparent evidence of his name, - was I believe not established on incontestable grounds." - -Now it is well known that the Effingham branch of the house of Howard, to -which Sir George Howard is reputed to belong, is a genuine one: so Wraxall -must be understood as casting a slight on the legitimacy of Sir George. Are -there traces of any scandals confirming this suspicion? - -TEWARS. - -"_Love me, love my Dog._"--Whence comes this proverb? It is quoted by St. -Bernard: "Dicitur certe vulgari quodam proverbio: Qui me amat, amat et -canem meum."--_In Festo S. Michaelis, Sermo Primus_, sect. iii. p. 1026. -vol. i. Parisiis, 1719, fol. - -RT. - -Warmington. - -_Mummy Wheat._--In January, 1843, a near relative of mine, related by -marriage to Mr. Martin Tupper, gave my father some grains of wheat, which -he had the authority of Sir G. Wilkinson, direct or indirect, to believe to -have been taken out of a mummy case, and to be in fact ancient Egyptian -wheat, perhaps a couple of thousand years old at least. These were planted -in a flower-pot, took root, grew, and had attained the height of many -inches, when a cow got into the place where the pot was and ate the plants -down. From the roots sprouted again a second crop of stems and leaves, and -a similar catastrophe befell the second growth, frustrating the hopes of -several anxious young amateur agriculturists, so that we never saw more -than the leaves of this crop. In making the inquiries necessary to certify -myself that these facts are true, I met with a lady who had seen a small -quantity of wheat plants, the produce alleged of mummy wheat, and who spoke -of it as a beautiful looking plant, with several stems from each root, and -several ears on each stem. I could not ascertain whether this was the fruit -of mummy wheat in the first or in the second generation. There was no -question that it was sprung from grains taken out of a mummy. I believe -that in the case of which I speak as having occurred within the range of my -own acquaintance, the wheat was some of the same that Mr. M. F. Tupper -possessed. - -PEREZ. - -_A Photographic Query._--Is it probable that the number of stones and -marbles which, without the aid of art, represent human and other figures, -may have been natural photographs from the reflection of objects in a -strong glare of sunlight? Some of those mentioned by D'Israeli in the -_Curiosities of Literature_ are so singular, that if this interpretation be -not admitted, we must suspect them to be factitious. One particular example -will serve as an illustration: - - "Pancirollus, in his _Lost Antiquities_, attests that in a church at - Rome, a marble perfectly represented a priest celebrating mass and - raising the host. Paul III. conceiving that art had been used, scraped - the marble to discover whether any painting had been employed: but - nothing of the kind was discovered." - -Its classification amongst _Lost Antiquities_ seems to imply that the -operation destroyed it, which proves that the figures were only on the -surface; an argument in favour of its being a natural photograph. Any -powerful die would have penetrated the pores of the stone for some -considerable distance. - -R. F. LITTLEDALE. - -Dublin. - -"_Stunt with false care._"--Where are the following lines, quoted by -Charles Villiers in one of his corn-law speeches, to be found? - - "Stunt with false care what else would flourish wild, - And rock the cradle till they bruise the child." - -J. N. O. - -{539} - -_Winchester College._--Who wrote the account of Winchester College in -Ackermann's _History of the Public Schools_? - -MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. - -_Old Royal Irish Academy House, Grafton Street._--This interesting building -is now some two months abandoned, and bills on the windows announcing it -"to be let, or the interest in the lease to be sold," I wish to ask through -"N. & Q." if any person intends to make a drawing or other memoranda of the -house, ere it undergoes a thorough alteration, as it certainly will, if -taken for commercial purposes. I am not aware of any sketch of the house, -except one in the fourth volume of the _Dublin Penny Journal_, p. 129.; but -I do not think that this, or its accompanying description, are well suited -to the character of the institution. - -R. H. - -Dublin. - -_Quotations wanted._-- - - "Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasures - Thrill the deepest notes of woe." - - "Like a fair lily on a river floating, - She floats upon the river of his thoughts." - -CAPTAIN CUTTLE. - -_Shakspeare's Seal._--Some years ago, when in Warwickshire, a wax -impression of a seal was given to me by a gentleman as that of William -Shakspeare. The gentleman had no means of verifying its authenticity, -beyond the bare but positive assurances of the person from whom he had -received it, an inhabitant of Stratford. - -The appearance of the seal is not against the hypothesis of its -genuineness. It is circular: the device is the well-known ornament called -the _True Lover's Knot_, cut somewhat rudely in intaglio, apparently in -steel; a favourite ornament in Tudor architecture from the time of Anne -Boleyn downwards. - -Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." encourage me to believe in the -genuineness of this relic? - -SYDNEY SMIRKE. - -_The long-lived Countess of Desmond._--An acknowledgment is due to THE -KNIGHT OF KERRY for his recent interesting communication respecting the -portraits of this remarkable old lady: and, at the same time, the KNIGHT -may be requested to cause the portrait in the possession of Mr. Herbert, -M.P., to be inspected; for it is respectfully suggested that the date on -that picture is 1604, and not 1614. - -This first date will correspond more closely with the age usually ascribed -to the aged Countess. - -It is said that an engraving of the portrait in THE KNIGHT OF KERRY's -possession stated that she was "born in 1464." Can any of your -correspondents refer to this engraving, and say whether there is such an -inscription on it, and if any authority is given for that date? - -H. F. H. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries Answered. - -_Temple Church and Lincoln's Inn Chapel._--Why is it, and whence results -the practice of putting ladies on one side of the church and chapel, or in -a separate place by themselves, in these societies? Are the lawyers so -attractive that the devotions of the fair sex would be interrupted? - -L. I. - - [The lawyers no doubt are lovers of hoar antiquity and primitive - customs. "Let the doorkeepers attend upon the entrance of the men; and - the deaconesses upon the entrance of the women." (_Apost. Const._, lib. - ii. can. lvii.; see also lib. vii. can. xxvi.) In the First Book of - King Edward, A.D. 1549, the following rubric occurs: "As many as shall - be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire; the - men on the one side, and the women on the other side."--See Wheatly on - the _Common Prayer_, chap. vi. sect. 13.] - -_Edmund Bohun._--In Bright's Catalogue appears, "No. 2939. _Historical -Collections_, 1675-1692. 8 vols. folio; formed by Edmund Bohun." Has this -collection been dispersed? or where is it now? Bohun refers to it -repeatedly in his private diary, which I am printing. - -S. W. RIX. - -Beccles. - - [From the article "Bohun" in Rose's _Biographical Dictionary_ it - appears that these _Historical Collections_ have been used in the - following work: "_The great Historical, Geographical, and Poetical - Dictionary_, Lond. 1694, folio, wherein are inserted the last Five - Years' Historical and Geographical Collections, which the said Edm. - Bohun, Esq., designed for his own Geographical Dictionary, and never - extant till in this work."] - -"_Nimrod._"--Will some of your correspondents be good enough to tell me who -is the author of a very remarkable book entitled _Nimrod: a Discourse upon -certain Passages of History and Fable_, London: Priestley, 1828, 4 vols.; -and can any one inform me for what purpose or with what intention the book -was written? I believe it was suppressed soon after its publication. I have -only met with two other copies, besides my own. - -H. G. - - [We believe that this work, for some reason or other, was suppressed, - but not till after about one hundred copies had been circulated. It is - attributed to the Hon. Algernon Herbert, author of _Cyclops - Christianus; Antiquity of Stonehenge_.] - - * * * * * - - -Replies. - -THE THREE ESTATES OF THE REALM. - -(Vol. iv., pp. 115. 196. 278.; Vol. v., p. 129.) - -The quotations I have produced on the question, Which are _the Three -Estates of the Realm_? appear {540} to CANON. EBOR. "quite to support his -own positions." I must therefore again ask leave to defend the view which I -advanced in Vol. iv., p. 115., and will endeavour, whether it be a right or -wrong one, to express my arguments in support of it so definitely and -distinctly as not again to leave room for any misapprehension of them. To -adopt CANON. EBOR.'s threefold division:-- - -1. _The Three Estates of the Realm are the Nobility, the Clergy in -Convocation, and the Commons._ In this order they are ranked in the collect -I quoted, and in which they are described as "assembled in parliament;" i. -e. _en plein parlement_. The following extract plainly bears out my view: - - "And that this doctrine (viz. that the Clergy are an _extrinsic part_ - of Parliament, or an _Estate of the Realm_) was still good, and the - language much the same, as low as the Restoration of Charles II., the - _Office_ then anew set out for the 5th of November shews, where mention - is made of 'the Nobility, Clergy, and Commons of this realm, then - assembled in Parliament:' for to say that by 'the Clergy of this - realm,' my Lords the Bishops only are intended, were so absurd a gloss, - that even Dr. Wake's pen would, I believe, be ashamed of it. And if - they were then rightly said to be 'assembled in Parliament,' they may - as rightly be said to be so assembled still: and if 'assembled in - Parliament,' why not 'a member of Parliament?' to those intents and - purposes, I mean, for which they are assembled in it."--Atterbury's - _Rights, Powers, and Privileges of Convocation_, 2nd edit., p. 305. - -The same order is observed in Sir Edward Coke's speech on Garnet's trial:-- - - "For the persons offended, they were these:--the King ... the Queen ... - the noble Prince; ... then the whole royal issue. The Council, _the - Nobility_, _the Clergy_; nay, our whole religion itself," &c. - -And if CANON. EBOR. wishes for a more decisive authority on the matter, he -will find it in _An Act for granting Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty_, -passed in 1664. - -2. _The Convocations of the Clergy_ ARE _a part of the Parliament._ This -fact, and its importance, has been generally overlooked or disregarded by -writers on Convocation. They have almost uniformly, while endeavouring to -substantiate its synodical authority and purely ecclesiastical influence, -omitted to point out its position as a part of our parliamentary -constitution: the result has been a degree of vagueness and uncertainty on -the subject. - -The clearest and most distinct way of demonstrating this proposition, that -the Convocation is a part of Parliament, will be, after noting that in our -early historians _Convocatio_ and _Parliamentum_ are synonymous, first, to -bring forward evidences that it was often regarded as being so somewhat -late in our history, that is, just before its sessions were suppressed; -and, in the next place, to produce facts, documents, and extracts which -display this parliamentary character in the earlier stages of its -existence. To begin, then, with Burnet, whose statements must be taken with -allowance, as those of a hot anti-convocational partisan, as he had indeed -good reasons for being:-- - - "When the Bill (Act of Comprehension) was sent down to the House of - Commons, it was let lie on the table; and, instead of proceeding in it, - they made an address to the King for summoning a Convocation of the - Clergy, _to attend, according to custom, on the session of Parliament_. - The party against the Government ... were much offended with the Bill - of Comprehension, as containing matters relating to the Church, _in - which the representative body of the clergy had not been so much as - advised with_."--Burnet's _History of his own Times_, book v. - -In his account of the Convocation of 1701, the facts which he details are -important. After saying that "the clergy fancied they had _a right to be a -part of the Parliament_," he continues:-- - - "The things the Convocation pretended to were, first, that they had a - right to sit whenever the Parliament sate; so that they could not be - prorogued, but when the two Houses were prorogued. Next they advanced - that they had no need of a licence to enter upon debates and to prepare - matters, though it was confessed that the practice for a hundred years - was against them; but they thought the Convocation lay under no further - restraint than that the Parliament was under; and as they could pass no - Act without the Royal assent, so they confessed that they could not - enact or publish a Canon without the King's licence. _Antiently the - Clergy granted their own subsidies apart_, but, ever since the - Reformation, the grant of the Convocation was not thought good till it - was ratified in Parliament.... _In the writ that the bishops had, - summoning them to Parliament, the clause, known by the first word of - it,_ 'Praemunientes,' _was still continued. At first, by virtue of it, - the inferior clergy were required to come to Parliament, and to consent - to the aids there given_: but after the archbishops had the provincial - writ for a Convocation of the province, the other was no more executed, - _though it was still kept in the writ_, and there did not appear the - least shadow of any use that had been made of it, for some hundreds of - years; _yet now some bishops were prevailed on to execute this writ, - and to summon the clergy by virtue of it_."--Book vi. - -With this last extract from Burnet, let the following from Lathbury be -compared:-- - - "This clause, it appears, was inserted in the bishops' writ in the - twenty-third year of Edward I. When assembled by this writ, the Clergy - constituted a State Convocation, not the Provincial Synod. When the - clause was inserted, there was a danger of invasion from France; and it - is clear that the Clergy were not assembled by this clause as an - Ecclesiastical Council, but to assist the King in his necessities. This - is evident from the words '_hujus modi periculis et excogitatis - malitiis obviandum_.' The clause was, however, continued in the writ - after the cause for its insertion had ceased to exist: _but whenever - they were summoned by virtue of this writ, they constituted a part of - the {541} Parliament_. The clause, with a slight variation, _is still - retained_ in the writ by which the bishops are summoned to - Parliament."--Lathbury's _History of the Convocation of the Church of - England_, p. 121. - -It will be obvious, then, and plain to the reader of the above passage, -that when the clergy were summoned by this clause _Praemunientes_, in the -writ directed to the archbishops, they were summoned _to be a part of -Parliament_; but the King's writ was that which made Convocation what it -was--which made it a legal, constitutional, parliamentary assembly, with -definite power and authority--instead of a simple synodical meeting of the -clergy, whose influence would be solely moral or ecclesiastical. -Convocation, from the time of Edward I., that is, from its first beginning, -has been a part of parliament, being "an assembly of ecclesiastics for -civil purposes, called to parliament by the King's writ" to the -archbishops; and before the time of Henry VIII. it voted subsidies to the -King independently of the Houses of Lords and Commons. Of this clause -_Praemunientes_, CANON. EBOR. has taken no notice whatever, although in the -extract from Collier it was expressly stated that the proctors of the -clergy were "summoned to parliament" and "sent up to parliament" by it, -and, when assembled in the Lower House of Convocation, they were esteemed -_the Spiritual Commons_ of the realm, and a constituent part of "the great -Council of the nation assembled in parliament." But as mere assertions, or -even uncorroborated deductions, are but of little value without facts, I -must establish this much by producing authorities. - -The design of Edward I. for reducing the clergy to be a part of the Third -Estate, by means of this praemunitory clause, is sufficiently known, as is -also the fact that the clergy were unwilling to give up their own synods; -and though, in obedience to the King's summons, they came to parliament -from both provinces, yet shortly after they met by themselves, and -constituted a body which was at once synodical and parliamentary. - - "Now, then, though the _Praemunientes_ was obeyed nationally, yet the - clergy that met with the Parliament acted provincially, _i. e._ the - clergy of that province where the Parliament was held acted as a Synod - convened by their metropolitan, and the clergy of the other province - sent their deputies to the Lay Assembly to consult for them; but taxed - themselves, and did all manner of ecclesiastical business, at home in - their own province. _And this was pitched upon as a means of complying - with the Canons of the Church, which required frequent Provincial - Councils, and yet paying their attendance in Parliament; the - Archbishop's mandate summoned them to the one, and the praemunitory - clause to the other_, and both were obeyed."--_Atterbury on - Convocation_, p. 243. - -The same view is taken by Kennet in his _Ecclesiastical Synods and -Parliamentary Convocations in the Church of England_. - -Here, then, is the origin of Convocation, strictly so called, viz. the -Clergy withdrawing themselves from the Commons into a separate chamber for -purposes of debate, and for transacting their own business independently, -but yet not ceasing thereby at all to be a part of that parliament, to -their being summoned to which they owed the opportunity of meeting in their -provincial synod, which was _Congregatio tempore Parliamenti_. - -We hear of the clerical proctors being occasionally present in the House of -Commons in the earlier part of our history; and we may reasonably infer -that they would not have been so present unless they had _a right_ to have -been there. If they had that right, then they were a part of parliament. -They certainly had that right by the clause _Praemunientes_ so often -referred to, "according to antient usage;" but they waived the exercise of -it, on finding it more advantageous to deliberate by themselves. At a later -period they wished to resume their right, and therefore petitioned "to be -admitted to sit in parliament WITH _the House of Commons_, according to -antient usage," of which Commons they had of usage considered themselves -the _spiritual_ part. An instance in point we shall find in a petition of -Parliament to Henry IV.:-- - - "Supplient humblement _les Communes_ de vostre Roialme, sibien - _Espirituelz_ come _Temporelz_."--_Rot. Parl._ 7 & 8 Henry IV. n. 128. - -And again, in a proclamation of the 35 Henry VIII.:-- - - "The Nobles and _Commons_ both _Spirituall_ and Temporall, _assembled - in our Court of Parliament_, have, upon good, lawful, and virtuous - grounds," &c. - -And "Direction to Justices of Peace," by the same King:-- - - "HENRY R. - - "Trusty and right well-beloved,--We grete you well ... and also by the - deliberate advice, consultation, consent, and agreement, _as well of - the_ Bishops _and Clergie_ as by the Nobles and Commons Temporal of - this our Realme _assembled in our High Courte of Parliament_, and by - authoritie of the same, the abuses of the Bishop of Rome, ... but also - the same our Nobles and _Commons_ bothe of _the Clergie_ and - Temporaltie, by another several acte," &c.--Weever's _Fun. Mon._, p. - 83., quoted by Atterbury. - -For multitudinous examples of the Convocation Clergy, "Praelati et clerus," -being spoken of as not only of the parliament, but present _in_ it, I must -refer CANON. EBOR. to Atterbury's work, pp. 61, 62, 63. - -And it is certain that, before the Commons can be proved to have been -summoned to parliament at all, the inferior clergy sat there. In the -parliament of Henry III. held at Westminster, 1228, there sat "the -Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Templars, Hospitallers, Earls, -Barons, {542} _Rectors of churches_, and they that held of the King in -chief" (_Mat. Paris_, p. 361.), in which the order of precedence is worth -observing. - -One more argument of CANON. EBOR.'s has to be met. He says (Vol. iv., p. -197.), "The Convocation of the Clergy never met either the sovereign or the -parliament." The following quotations will destroy this position:-- - - "Though sometimes the King himself has vouchsafed to appear and sit in - Convocation, when it was called for some extraordinary cause; as in - Arundel's Register _Henry IV. is remembered to have done_ (in Conv. - habita 23 Jul. 1408, causa Uniones)."--_Atterbury_, p. 20. - -Also: - - "'Until the reign of Henry VII., there is a doubt whether the - Convocation of the Clergy, then in separate existence from the - Parliament since Edward I., had transacted purely ecclesiastical - business not connected with the Government, or where the King was not - present in person. (Henry IV., _Wilkins_, p. 310.) In the reign of - Henry VIII., _who also sat in Convocation_, no Church Provincial Synod - was held, and the House of Lords met and adjourned on the days on which - Convocation transacted business in consideration to the bishops, who - were barons of Parliament, and also members of the Upper House of - Convocation. (_Wake._)'"--_Diocesan Synods_, by Rev. W. Pound, M.A. - -3. _The Clergy were not, and are not, represented in parliament by the -Spiritual Lords._ The bishops are called to the House of Lords as barons; -just in the same manner as the abbots and priors were formerly summoned, -_not as representing any body of men_, but as holding _in capite_ of the -King. The prelates have sat in the House of Lords since William I., not as -peers or nobles by blood, nor as representatives, but by virtue of this -tenure. They certainly were not considered as _representatives_ before the -Reformation; and that the same opinions respecting them prevailed still -later, will appear from the decision of the House of Commons in 1 Mary, -that a clerk could not be chosen into that House, "because he was -_represented_ already in another House;" and again, from a speech in the -Commons by Mr. Solicitor St. John on the "Act to take away Bishops' Votes -in Parliament:" - - "1. Because they have no such inherent right and liberty of being there - as the Lords Temporal and Peers of the Realm have; _for they are not - there representative of any body else; no, not of the clergy_; for if - so, then the clergy were twice represented by them, viz. the Lords' - House and in the Convocation; for their writ of election is to send two - clerks _ad consentiendum_, &c. Besides, none are there representative - of others, but those that have their suffrages from others; _and - therefore only the clerks in Convocation do represent them_. - - * * * * * - - "3. If they were representative of the clergy, as a third estate and - degree, no act of parliament could be good if they did wholly - disassent; and yet they have disassented, and the law good and in - force, as in the Act for establishing the Book of Common Prayer in - Queen Elizabeth's time. They did disassent from the confirming of that - law, which could not have been good if _they_ had been a third estate, - and disassented."--Rapin's _History of England_, book xx. - -And in the same parliament Lord Falkland-- - - "Had heard many of the clergy protest, that they could not acknowledge - _that they were represented by the bishops_. However, we might presume - that, if they could make that appear, _that they were a third estate_, - the House of Peers, amongst whom they sat, and yet had their votes, - would reject it."--Clarendon's _History of the Rebellion_, book iii. - -That the Clergy in Convocation make statements to the House of Peers -through the bishops, only proves that the latter were a medium of -communication between the two; as does also, that on March 18th, 1662, "the -President informed the Convocation that the Lord Chancellor had desired -_the Bishops_ to thank them _in the name of the Peers_." CANON. EBOR. -admits that the bishops do _not_ represent the clergy, except by a fiction; -the Canons declare _that Convocation does represent_ them. His position -therefore falls at once to the ground. - -I have set down the arguments necessary for maintaining my first position -against CANON. EBOR., whether they be good or bad, with sufficient -positiveness and distinctness to prevent their being again mistaken. I -would close the subject with the words of Atterbury: - - "If I should affirm that the Convocation attended the Parliament as - _One of the Three States of the Realm_, I should say no more than the - Rolls have in express terms said before me; where the King is mentioned - as calling _Tres status Regni_ ad Palatium suum Westm., viz. _Praelatos - et Clerum_, Nobiles et Magnates, necnon Communitates dicti - _Regni_."--_Rot. Parl._ 9 Henry V. n. 15. - -WILLIAM FRASER, B.C.L. - - * * * * * - -BURIALS IN WOOLLEN. - -(Vol. v., p. 414.) - -Your correspondent the Rev. E. S. TAYLOR is referred to 30 Car. II. c. 3., -and 32 ejusdem c. 1., for an answer to his inquiry respecting burials in -woollen. The former Act is entitled, "An Acte for the lessening the -importation of linnen from beyond the seas, and the encouragement of the -woollen and paper manufactures of the kingdome." It prescribes that the -curate of every parish shall keep a register, to be provided at the charge -of the parish, wherein to enter all burials, and affidavits of persons -being buried in woollen; the affidavit to be taken by any justice of peace, -mayor, or such like chief officer in the parish where the body was -interred: and if there be no officer, then by any {543} curate within the -county where the corpse was buried (except him in whose parish the corpse -was buried), who must administer the oath and set his hand gratis. No -affidavit to be necessary for a person dying of the plague. It imposes a -fine of 5l. for every infringement; one half to go to the informer, and the -other half to the poor of the parish. - -I have not been able to ascertain when this act was repealed, but imagine -it to have been of but short continuance. Is there no mistake in the date -of the affidavit quoted by Mr. Taylor? Is 1769 a _lapsus_ for 1679? The -first entry in the book provided for such purposes in this parish bears -date August, 1678, and there is no entry later than 1681, which appears -also to be the limit of the Act's observance in the adjacent parish of -Radcliffe. There, the entries immediately follow the record of the burial -itself in the registers, and not in a separate book, as with us. - -Under the year 1679 occurs the following memorandum in the parish registers -of Radcliffe: - - "An orphan of Ralph Mather's, of Radcliffe, was buried y^e 9th day of - April, and sertefied to be wounde uppe in woollen onely, under the hand - of M^r William Hulme." - -In the churchwardens' accounts of this parish (Prestwich) for the year 1681 -is found the following item of receipt: - - "Received a fine of James Crompton ffor buringe his son and not - bringinge in an affidavitt according to the Acte for burying in - woollin, 02.10.00." - -JOHN BOOKER. - -Prestwich, Manchester. - -The act of parliament imposing a penalty upon burials, where any material -but wool was made use of was 30 Car. II. stat. 1. c. 3., afterwards -repealed by the 54 Geo. III. c. 108. I am able to adduce an instance of the -act being enforced, in the following extract from the churchwardens' book -of the parish of Eye for the year 1686-7: - - "Rec. for Mi^s Grace Thrower beeinge buried in Linnen 02 10 00." - -J. B. COLMAN. - -Eye. - - * * * * * - -BRAEMS' MS. "MEMOIRES TOUCHANT LE COMMERCE." - -(Vol. v., p. 126.) - -In the hope of satisfying the curiosity of J. M., I will communicate the -information concerning Daniel Braams which I find in my family papers. - -According to a genealogical tree in my possession, confirmed and delivered -13th September, 1661, by the kings-at-arms and heralds of Brabant[2], -Daniel Braems descended from an illustrious family of Brabant, a younger -branch of the Vilains, of the house of the burgraves, or viscounts of -Ghent. - -During the Spanish religious persecutions, about 1550, his ancestors -emigrated from Flanders, and settled at Dover. - -His father was Daniel Braams[3], keeper of the regalia of Charles I., and -in high favour at court. On Cromwell's coming to power he fled, and soon -after died, leaving an only son in childhood, by his widow, Mary, daughter -of the well-known navigator Jacob le Maire. - -Mary, with her youthful son Daniel, settled in Holland, where she had many -relatives, and contracted a second marriage with Andreas Schnellingwouw. -She soon after went to the East Indies with her husband, who had been -appointed secretary to the _Schepenen_ at Batavia. Thus, Daniel Braams went -very early to the Indies, where he passed a great part of his life. He -became General Accomptant of the East India Company at Batavia, and for his -services received a gold chain and a medal. - -In the family papers in his own hand now before me, he writes: - - "The 29th November, A^o 1686, I set sail with my family from Batavia, - in the ship Kastricum, to return to Europe, after I had been - thirty-four years and a half in India. The 21st March, 1687, we arrived - at the Cape of Good Hope; and on the 19th April proceeded thence, with - thirteen ships. When we had reached the ... degree of north latitude, - having Ireland to the east, it pleased the Most High to call my dear - and virtuous wife to His eternal rest, on the 9th of July, A^o 1687. - The dead body was, by my orders, enclosed in a coffin and placed behind - the ship. At Amsterdam she was buried in the vault of my grandfather in - the N. Capel." - -Daniel Braams was twice married in Batavia; first, with Clara Reijers, and -secondly, with a daughter of Anthonio Paviloen, Councillor Extraordinary of -India. Besides several children who died young, he left the following, all -born in the East Indies:--By his first marriage: 1. Maria, b. 1667; d. -1743; m. Philip David Uchelen, governor of Banda and Ternate. 2. Abigail, -b. 1672; d. 1753; m. Cornelis Heinsius, _Landschrijver_ of the land of -Cuyk. 3. Clara Sara, b. 1681; d. 1750; m. at Amsterdam Jan van der Burgh. -By his second marriage: 4. Johannes Jacobus, b. 1683; d. 1743. His -godfather was Cornelis Speelman, governor of India; he m. Maria -Uijlenbroek, and died S. P. - -J. F. L. C. - -Amersfoort. - -P.S.--Mr. J. F. L. Coenen would feel happy if, {544} through the medium of -the "N. & Q." and the NAVORSCHER, he could learn in whose possession the -MS. now is, and whether the owner would be inclined to dispose of it for a -moderate price. - -[Footnote 2: This document is quoted by Kok in his _Vaderl. Woordenboek_, -vol. viii. p. 899.; and by Scheltema, _Geschied. en letterk. Mengelwerk_, -vol. iii. p. 183.] - -[Footnote 3: An excellent family portrait of him, painted by A. Vandyk, is -now in the possession of Mevr. de douairiere Coenen, van 's Gravesloot, at -Utrecht.] - - * * * * * - -GENERAL PARDONS. - -(Vol. v., p. 496.) - -In reference to the pardon to John Trenchard, Esq., here communicated in -answer to me, I request permission, in the first place, to present my -acknowledgments to MR. E. S. TAYLOR for his courtesy; and, in the next, to -explain the motive of my inquiry. I was about to print a very long document -of this nature, which was issued on the 2nd Jan., 12 Car. II. (1660-1), in -favour of Colonel Richard Beke, who had married a cousin of the Protector -Cromwell. It appeared to me probable that some general pardon had been -already printed, and I wished either to avoid the needless repetition -should the pardon to Colonel Beke prove to be in the ordinary form, or, at -least, to make a comparison between that and other records of the same -class. I could not, however, ascertain that any general pardon had been -printed, nor have I hitherto heard of any. The pardon to Colonel Beke has -been printed for _The Topographer and Genealogist_, but is not yet -published. It occupies nearly seven large octavo pages, and consequently is -much longer than that granted to Mr. Trenchard: speaking freely, it is -between three and four times as long. It is evidently formed on a different -and more ample precedent; but perhaps the main difference consists in its -having relation to the tenure of landed property, and not merely to the -simple pardon of offences conferred in the grant made to Trenchard, though, -from the enumeration introduced in it of all imaginable offences and -crimes, political and moral, it is certainly more quaint and extraordinary. - -I much regret that the pardon to Trenchard has not been presented _in -extenso_ to the readers of "N. & Q.;" for the contractions and very -irregular punctuation will render it almost unintelligible to those who are -not conversant with other documents of the kind. The following words are -actually misprinted. In line 3. "he" for l're (literae); line 12. -"nuncupabatur" (one word); col. 2. line 1. "Jud'camenta" for Indictamenta, -and "condempnac'onas" for condempnationes; line 3. and again line 14. -"fforisfutur" for forisfactiones; line 23. "n're" for nostri; line 34. -"existim't" for existunt; line 37. "p'lite^r" for placitetur; line 39. "mea -parte" for in ea parte; last line, "p'rato" for privato. - -It is also necessary to correct the error into which MR. TAYLOR has fallen -in supposing that this pardon was granted on the 7th of December, 1688. The -date it bears, "decimo septimo die Decembris anno regni nostri tertio," -refers to a year earlier, viz., the 7th of December, 1687. The Revolution -occurred in the _fourth_ year of the reign of James II. "Mr. Trenchard of -the Middle Temple" was clearly the same who was afterwards Sir John, and -Secretary of State to King William. See the biographical notice of him -appended to the pedigree of Trenchard in Hutchins's _History of -Dorsetshire_, in which work two portraits of him are given. He had been -engaged in Monmouth's rebellion; and it is said that he was at dinner with -Mr. William Speke at Ilminster, when the news arrived of Monmouth's defeat -at Sedgmoor. Speke was shortly after hung before his own door; whilst at -the same time, having secreted himself, Trenchard had the good fortune to -be embarking for the continent. The other John Trenchard mentioned by MR. -TAYLOR as occurring among the regicides, was great-uncle to Sir John, who -was only forty-six at his death in 1694. - -JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS. - -Macaulay may be right about the great seal notwithstanding Trenchard's -pardon. It is just possible such documents may have been kept ready "cut -and dried" for filling up. Charles I. began to reign March 27, 1625. I know -of a pardon dated Feb. 10th in the first year of his reign, with the great -seal of _James I._ appended. Surely it did not take eleven months to cut a -new great seal, which seems the likeliest way of accounting for the use of -the old one. - -P. P. - - * * * * * - -THE DODO. - -(Vol. v., pp. 463. 515.) - -I beg to inclose the copy of a letter received by me in reply to my inquiry -respecting the specimen of a _dodo_ said to be at the house of _Sir John -Trevelyan, Bart., Nettlecombe Park, Somersetshire_, a notice of which -appeared in "N. & Q." published on the 15th ultimo. I shall feel much -obliged if you will have the kindness to publish the same as an answer to -MR. WINN's Query. - -A. D. BARTLETT. - - "Sir, - - "I wish I could confirm the truth of the information given to MR. WINN, - which I think it is scarcely necessary for me to say is _entirely - incorrect_: and how such a report could have originated it is difficult - to understand; unless by supposing that a member of the family when at - Nettlecombe, in their childhood, had seen a stuffed specimen of the - large _bustard_; and that this, in the course of years, had been - magnified in their imaginative and indistinct recollection into a - _dodo_. I admired much your restoration of the dodo at the Great - Exhibition; which, judging from the old pictures and known remains of - the bird, gives, I think, a very good idea of what it was. I do not - know of {545} any other remains of the _dodo_ than those enumerated by - Mr. Strickland; and had there been any at Nettlecombe, they would long - ago have been known to naturalists. - - "I remain, Sir, - "Yours faithfully, - "W. C. TREVELYAN. - - To Mr. A. D. Bartlett, - 12. College Street, Camden Town." - - * * * * * - -WHIPPING OF PRINCES BY PROXY. - -(Vol. v., p. 468.) - -Your correspondent who makes inquiry about Whipping-boys of Princes, I -would refer to a very scarce old play from which I give an extract, and in -which the whipping-boy was _knighted_, _When You see Mee You know Mee_, as -it was played by the High and Mighty Prince of Wales his Servants, by -Samuel Rowley, London, 1632: - - "_Prince_ (Ed. VI.). Why, how now, Browne; what's the matter? - - _Browne._ Your Grace loyters, and will not plye your booke, and your - tutors have whipt me for it. - - _Prince._ Alas, poore Ned! I am sorrie for it. I'll take the more - paines, and entreate my tutors for thee; yet, in troth, the lectures - they read me last night out of Virgil and Ovid I am perfect in, onely I - confesse I am behind in my Greeke authors. - - _Will_ (Summers). And for that speech they have declined it uppon his - breech," &c.--Pages 48-53. - -He will also find the subject noticed by Sir Walter Scott, _Fortunes of -Nigel_, ch. vi. p. 114. vol. xxvi. of Waverley Novels, Edinburgh, 1833, -8vo.; and also by Burnet in _The History of his own Time_. The latter, in -speaking of Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart, whom he describes as an -_intrigante_, and who afterwards became Duchess of Lauderdale, says her -father, _William Murray_, had been page and _whipping-boy_ to Charles I. We -hear nothing of such office being held by any one in the household of -Prince Henry, the elder brother of Charles I.; nor, if we can believe -Cornwallis and others, can we suppose that "incomparable and heroique" -prince infringed the rules of discipline, in any respect, to justify any -castigation. It does not appear that it was the practice to have such a -_substitute_ in France; for Louis XIV., who was cotemporary with our -Charles I., on one occasion, when he was sensible of his want of education, -exclaimed, "Est-ce qu'il n'y avait point de verges dans mon royaume, pour -me forcer a etudier?" And Mr. Prince (_Parallel History_, 2nd edition in 3 -vols. 8vo., London, 1842-3, at p. 262. vol. iii.) states, that George III., -when Dr. Markham inquired "how his Majesty would wish to have the princes -treated?"--"Like the sons of any private English gentleman," was the -sensible reply; "if they deserve it, let them be flogged: do as you used to -do at Westminster." This is very like the characteristic and judicious -language of the honest monarch. - -[Phi]. - -Richmond. - -MR. LAWRENCE has overlooked King Edward's most celebrated whipping-boy, -Barnaby Fitzpatrick (as to whom see Fuller, _Church History_, ed. 1837, ii. -342.; Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, ii. 287. 331. 460. 503.; Burnet, -_History of the Reformation_, ed. 1841, 456.; Tytler's _Edward VI. and -Queen Mary_, ii. 85.). I confess I do not recollect having before heard -either of Brown or Mungo Murray, and hope MR. LAWRENCE will give -particulars respecting them. - -It seems very clear that Henry VI. was chastised _personally_; see a record -cited (from Rymer, x. 399.) in _History of England and France under the -House of Lancaster_, p. 418. - -C. H. COOPER. - -Cambridge. - - * * * * * - - -Replies to Minor Queries. - -_Penkenol_ (Vol. v., p. 490.).--Head of a family or tribe, from the Celtic: -see _penkenedl_, Welsh; _ceanncinnidh_, or _cineal_, Gaelic; of which -_ken-kenal_ is a Lowland corruption. The inference drawn from the three -crescents (borne as a difference) almost explains the meaning of the word. -Aubrey was a Welshman. - -DE CAMERON. - -_Penken_o_l_ was probably written in error for _pencen_edl, the head of a -sept or family. Pennant so uses the word in his _Whiteford and Hollywell_, -p. 33. The Welsh pronunciation of _dl_ as _thl_ will point to an obvious -Greek analogy, which Davies's _Dictionary_ carries to an earlier source. - -LANCASTRIENSIS. - -_Johnny Crapaud_ (Vol. v., pp. 439. 523.).--I cannot but think that the -solution of MR. PHILIP S. KING's Query about "Johnny Crapaud" will be found -in the circumstance that three frogs are the old arms of France, and I -would refer him if he needs it, to the Rev. E. B. Elliott's _Horae -Apocalypticae_, where the reasons for believing that such were the arms of -France are fully given and illustrated by a plate, vol. iv. p. 64. ed. -1847. I may add that, for what reason I don't know, but perhaps Mr. -Metivier does, the natives of Jersey are called _crapauds_ by Guernsey men, -who in return are honoured by the title of _anes_, asses. - -PEREZ. - -_Sir John Darnall_ (Vol. v., p. 489.).--Sir John Darnall, Serjeant-at-Law -1714, knighted 1724, died Sept. 5, 1731, and was buried at Petersham, -leaving by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Jenner, two daughters and -coheirs: _Mary_ the elder married in 1727 Robert Orde, Esq., Lord Chief -Baron of Scotland; and _Anne_ the younger married in 1728 Henry Muilman of -London, Esq., {546} whose only daughter and heir married John Julius -Angerstein, Esq. - -The above Sir John Darnall was the only surviving son of Sir John Darnall -of the Inner Temple, King's Sergeant-at-law 1698, knighted at Kensington -June 1, 1699, died in Essex Street 1706, and was buried in the chancel -vault of St. Clement's Danes, co. Middlesex (see the _English Post_, -Monday, Dec. 23, 1706). He was son of Ralph Darnall, of Loughton's Hope, -co. Hereford, and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of -Canterbury in Jan. 1707. - -The arms assumed by Sir John Darnall, who died 1706, were--Gules on a pale -argent, a lion rampant azure impaling Gules a boar passant. - -G. - -_Bastides_ (Vol. v., pp. 150. 206.).--Dumas, in his _Pictures of Travel in -the South of France_, says, that Louis XIV. while at Marseilles, observing -the charming houses which surrounded the town, with their white walls, red -tops, and green blinds, inquired by what name they were called in the -language of the country: "They call them _Bastides_," replied Fostea de -Piles. "Good!" says the King; "I will have a Bastide." He built a fort to -check the Marseillaise. - -Again, Tarver, in his _Dictionary_, has: - - "BASTIDE, a small country house (this word is used in the south of - France, in Provence especially.)" - -Did Louis intend a pun between _Bastide_ and _Bastille_? - -E. H. B. - -Demerary. - -_Compositions under the Protectorate_ (Vol. v., p. 68.).--Such is the name -of a heading to one of your recent Notes; and such is the formula of the -very common error that Dring's _List_, and the lists of his re-editors, -represent the fines levied by Cromwell when he decimated the incomes (not -the estates) of the Royalists, in consequence of Penruddock's rising. -Dring's _List_ has reference to the compositions during the years -1646-1648, when the fines were based on a totally different calculation. -The error has arisen from Dring's catalogue having been published in 1655, -the year after Penruddock's affair. I have compared a great number of the -compositions as they are stated in the Lord's Journals, 1646, _et seq._, -with Dring's account; and though there are discrepancies, their average -resemblance is sufficient to show that they refer to one and the same -affair. Indeed, any one acquainted with the actors in those events will see -in a moment that Dring's _List_ contains many who had repented of and -acknowledged their "delinquency." - -J. WAYLEN. - -_Hoax on Sir Walter Scott_ (Vol. v., p. 438.).--The reperusal of Mr. -Drury's hoax upon Sir Walter reminds me of another, which having escaped -the industry of, or been intentionally overlooked by Mr. Lockhart, may be -appropriately noticed in your pages, as pleasantly showing that even -"ANSELMO's" black-letter sagacity might be deceived; and that, with the -simple credulity of his own Monkbarns, he could mistake the "bit bourock of -the mason-callants" for a Roman Pretorium. - -I allude to a small stitchlet, or brochure, of five pages, entitled "The -Raid of Featherstonehaugh: a Border Ballad." It was really written by Sir -Walter's early friend, Mr. Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, author of the -_History of Durham_, some of whose other impositions upon the poet were -printed in the _Border Minstrelsy_, or inserted in notes to his _Metrical -Romances_. Of this poem in particular, Sir Walter entertained so high an -opinion, that he has incorporated a verse from it into _Marmion_, and given -it entire in a note as a genuine relic of antiquity; gravely commenting -upon it in the most elaborate manner, and pointing out its exemplifications -of the then state of society. It will be found in _Marmion_, Canto I., -verse 13.: - - "The whiles a northern harper rude." - -WILLIAM BATES. - -Birmingham. - -_Statute of Limitations abroad_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--In this colony, which -is governed by the old Dutch law, the time at which prescription prevails -is one-third of a century, but some Dutch authorities hold that thirty -years is sufficient in personal actions. In Holland there were various -charters respecting prescription, such as those of Alkmaar of 1254, -Medemblik of 1288, Waterland of 1288, and others; these were cases of -possession with the knowledge of the authorities. In Holland immovable -property was acquired by prescription, without the knowledge of the -authorities, in the third of a century. In Zealand it was twenty years. By -the law of the Feudal Court, the period was a third of a century for any -property; and in the territory of Voorn, from times of old, and classed -among the laws of the year 1519, peaceable possession of any immovable -property for thirty years was held good; but there was an exception in -favour of minors and absentees. - -E. H. B. - -Demerary. - -_Lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie_ (Vol. v., p. 404.).--These lines are -evidently merely an adaptation of the well-known epigram on Austria: - - "Bella gerant alii--tu felix Austria nube, - Nam quae Mars aliis dat tibi regna Venus." - -S. L. P. - -_Swearing on a Skull_ (Vol. v., p. 485.).--In the "Historical Memoirs of -the Clan McGregor," prefixed to the _Life of Rob Roy_, by K. Macleay, M.D., -Glasgow, 1818, is the following story:--On the arrival of Anne of Denmark -in Scotland, {547} immediately after her marriage to James VI., the king -ordered Lord Drummond of Perth, who was "principal forester of Glenartney," -to provide venison for a feast. His deputy, Drummond of Drummondernoch, -found in the forest some trespassers of clan Donald of Glenco, whose ears -he cropped and let them go. The Macdonalds, however, returned with others -of their clan, killed Drummond, and cut off his head. The atrocious acts of -barbarism which followed need not be told here. They ultimately took the -head with them, and proceeded to Balquhidder, among their friends the -McGregors, whose conduct is best described in the words of the king's -proclamation against their clan, which, after denouncing the "manifest -reifs, and stouths" committed by them, and the murder of Drummond, proceeds -thus: - - "Likeas after ye murther committed, ye authors yrof cutted aff ye said - umqll Jo. Drummond's head, and carried the same to the Laird of - McGregor, who, and his haill surname of McGregors, purposely conveined - upon the next Sunday yrafter, at the kirk of Buchquhidder; qr they - caused ye said umqll John's head be pnted to them, and yr avowing ye sd - murder, laid yr hands upon the pow, and in Ethnic and barbarous manner, - swear to defend ye authors of ye sd murder." - -HENRY G. TOMKINS. - -Weston super Mare. - -_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--Roger Gale, in a letter -dated August 17, 1739, states that he saw the following lines in a window -at Belford (between Newcastle and Berwick): - - "Cain, in disgrace with heaven, retired to Nod, - A place, undoubtedly, as far from God - As Cain could wish; which makes some think he went - As far as Scotland, ere he pitch'd his tent; - And there a city built of ancient fame, - Which he, from Eden, Edinburgh did name." - _Reliquiae Galeanae_, 67* - -Charles Mathews, in a letter directed to his son at Mold N. W., dated 4th -November [1825], says: - - "Lord Deerhurst, who franked this letter, laughed at the idea of your - being condemned to be at Mold, and told me an impromptu of Sheridan's, - upon being compelled to spend a day or two there: - - "'Were I to curse the man I hate - From youth till I grow old, - Oh might he be condemn'd by fate - To waste his days in Mold!'" - _Memoirs of Charles Mathews_, v. 504. - -C. H. COOPER. - -Cambridge. - -_The Silent Woman_ (Vol. v., p. 468.).--A very similar sign to this is one -called "The Honest Lawyer," who is represented in exactly the same position -as "The Silent Woman." The interpretation seems tolerably obvious in both -cases, such a state being one in which the lady could not be otherwise than -silent, nor the gentleman than honest. - -S. L. P. - -Oxford and Cambridge Club. - -_Serpent with a human Head_ (Vol. iv., pp. 191. 331.).--Perhaps the most -ancient representations of this figure are to be found in those papyri of -the ancient Egyptians, called the Ritual, or prayers of the dead, in which -are depicted the progress or peregrination of the soul through the regions -of the nether world, or Hades, to a future state of existence. Fac-similes -of the Ritual have been published in Rosellini's _Monumenti dell' Egitto_, -Dr. Lepsius's _Todten-Buch_, the plates of Lord Belmore's _Collection of -Hieroglyphic Monuments_, and in the great French work entitled _Description -de l'Egypte_. A similar form occurs also in several of the woodcuts -inserted in the _prose_ version, (printed at Paris by Antoine Verard in -1499) of Guillaume de Guileville's poem entitled _Le Pelerinaige de l'Ame_, -a monastic legend of the fourteenth century, evidently founded on the old -Egyptian belief. At the end of the pilgrimage represented in the Egyptian -papyri, the soul is conducted by her guardian angel into the great Hall of -Judgment, where the deeds done in the body are placed in the balance in the -presence of Osiris, the judge of the assize, who passes sentence. A -representation of the same scene became a favourite decoration in mediaeval -Christian churches, of which many vestiges have been discovered of late -years in this country; with this difference, that in these fresco-paintings -St. Michael was substituted, as judge of the tribunal, for Osiris. In the -woodcuts above mentioned, published by Verard, _the woman-headed serpent_ -pursues the soul, like an accusing spirit, into the Hall of Judgment, seats -herself even in one of the scales of the balance to counterpoise the good -deeds placed in the opposite scale by the soul, telling her at the same -time that her name is Sinderesis, or the WORM _of Conscience_. Thus, by a -circuitous route, we arrive at the signification of the original Egyptian -symbol. - -NHRSL. - -_Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament_ (Vol. v., p. 488.).--As -this doggerel is written on the same plan as our old friend "This is the -House that Jack built," it will be sufficient to give the last paragraph, -which of course embraces the whole. I copy from a newspaper cutting, but -from what newspaper I am ignorant. It is printed consecutively (as I send -it), and not with reference to the metre. - - "This is the Peer, who in town being resident, signed the report for - the absent Lord President, and said that the history, was cleared of - its mystery, by Whitbread the waiter, adding his _negatur_, to that of - John Riddle, who laugh'd and said 'Fiddle!' when told Mr. Cooper of - Drury Lane, had been down to Dudley and back again, and had heard the - same day, a bagman say, that the house was a-blazing, a thing quite - {548} amazing, even to John Snell, who knew very well, by the smoke and - the heat, that was broiling his feet, through his great thick boots in - the Black Rod's seat, that Dick Reynolds was right, that the fires were - too bright, heaped up to such an unconscionable height, in spite of the - fright, they gave poor Mistress Wright, when she sent to Josh. Cross, - so full of his sauce, both to her and to Weobly, who'd heard so feebly, - the directions of Phipps, when he told him the chips, might be burnt in - the flues, yet never sent the news, as he ought to Milne, who'd have - burnt in a kiln, these confounded old sticks, and not heated the - bricks, nor set fire to the house that Josh. burnt." - -CRANMORE. - -_Large Families_ (Vol. v., pp. 204. 357.).--In a MS. commonplace-book of -the year 1787 _et seq._, I find two notes which may be added to your -curious collection of large families. - - "In the church of Abberconway is a stone with this inscription: 'Here - lyeth the body of Nich^{las} Hooker, who was the one and fortieth child - of his father by Alice his only wife, and the father of seven and - twenty children by one wife. He died the 20^{th} of March, 1637.'" - -The other entry is as follows:-- - - "The following well-attested fact is copied from Brand's _History of - Newcastle_:-- - - "'A weaver in Scotland had by one wife (a Scotch-woman) sixty-two - children, all living till they were baptized; of whom four daughters - only lived to be women, and forty six sons attained to man's estate.'" - -ANON. - -The following instance of a large family by one woman is gravely related by -Master Richard Verstegan, in his _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in -Antiquities_, p. 3. edit. 1655; and which, it must be confessed, is enough -to frighten any day labourer "out of his seven senses:"-- - - "There died in the city of Paris in the year of our Lord 1514, a woman - named Yoland Baillie, at the age of eighty-eight years, and in the - eighth year of her widowhood, who there lieth buried in the churchyard - of St. Innocents; by whose epitaph it appeareth, that there were two - hundred, fourscore and fifteen children issued from herself, _while - herself yet lived_!" - -J. Y. - -_Frebord_ (Vol. v., p. 440.).--Your correspondent P. M. M. desires -information on this matter. He may be glad to know that, in the adjoining -manor from whence I write, the claim is sixteen feet and a half from the -set of the hedge; and this claim has been ever allowed, and is still -enforced. It is supposed to depend on a right of free-warren which the -manor in question possesses under a grant of Henry III. Is there any reason -to believe that there is any connexion between _frebord_ and free-warren? I -have heard it explained as reserved for the use of the lord for the purpose -of preserving the game. - -SPES. - -_Milton's (?) Epitaph_ (Vol. v., p. 361.).--Your correspondent is possibly -not acquainted with the Rev. Charles Wordsworth's very beautiful epitaph on -his first wife. It is in the College Chapel at Winchester, and is -remarkably similar in idea to the one he gives. The words are: - - I nimium dilecta! vocat Deus: i bona nostrae - Pars animae: moerens altera disce sequi." - -Both authors are doubtless indebted to Horace's-- - - "Ah! te meae si partem animae rapit - Maturior vis," &c. - -S. L. P. - -Oxford and Cambridge Club. - -_Can Bishops vacate their Sees?_ (Vol. iv., p. 293.)--As an instance of -bishops vacating their sees I find in the account of Twysden's _Hist. -Anglicanae Scrip. decem_, that, speaking of the Epistle of Simeon -Archbishop of York, it says, _inter alia_, "the names after Thurstan, who -resigned A.D. 1139, must have been added," &c. - -E. H. B. - -Demerary. - -_Sleekstone, Meaning of_ (Vol. iii., p. 241.; Vol. iv., p. 394.; Vol. v., -p. 140.).--I can confirm what R. C. H. says respecting this word, having -had one in my possession. It was of glass, of the same shape as described -by R. C. H., and was used for giving a gloss to silk stockings. It is -called here (Demerary) a _sleeking stone_. - -E. H. B. - -Demerary. - -_Poems in the Spectator_ (Vol. v., p. 439.).--The three poems mentioned are -unquestionably by Addison. Captain Thompson, in the Preface to his edition -of Andrew Marvell's works in three vols. 4to., 1766, states that he found -them in a manuscript collection of Marvell's poems; but the fact no doubt -was, that the manuscript he refers to was a miscellaneous collection by -different writers, and not by Marvell exclusively (see Preface, p. xiv.) -Thus, "William and Margaret," Mallet's ballad, was found in the same -manuscript, and is likewise ascribed by Capt. Thompson to Marvell, and with -as little reason. Hartley Coleridge observes (_Biog. Borealis_, p. 64.) -with respect to the three poems alluded to: - - "As to their being Marvell's, it is just as probable that they are - Chaucer's. They present neither his language, his versification, nor - his cast of thought." - -While on the subject of Marvell, let me express a hope that we may soon -have a new and better edition of his works than the cumbrous but incorrect -and incomplete edition published by Thompson. His admirable prose works -deserve editing with care, and amongst them should be included the tract -omitted in his works, but worthy of him in every respect, _Remarks upon a -late Disingenuous Discourse writ by one T. D. under the Pretence De Causa -Dei_, 1678, 8vo.; and which has now become exceedingly rare. - -JAS. CROSSLEY. - -{549} - -_Line on Franklin_ (Vol. iv., 443.; Vol. v., p. 17.).--I have read, but do -not remember where, that this line was _immediately_ taken from one in the -_Anti-Lucretius_ of Cardinal Polignac: - - "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, Phoeboque sagittas." - -But it is obvious that the Cardinal must have, in turn, borrowed from -Manilius. - -J. S. WARDEN. - -_St. Christopher_ (Vol. v., p. 295.).--E. A. H. L., who asks "if there are -any representations of St. Christopher in painted glass; and if so, where?" -is informed that there is a picture of the Saint in a green vestment, -painted on glass, in the window of the side chapel of King's Chapel, which -is used as a vestry by the Conduct. The picture is on the internal, not the -external window of the side chapel, in the western corner, upper -compartment, about a foot in height. - -F. H. L. - -_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. v., p. 490.).--The uxorious lines your correspondent -J. T. is in search of, were written by _Bird_. They are copied from his -"Poetical Memoirs" in Carey's _Beauties of the Modern Poets_, p. 284., -London, 1826. From thence I extract them, and, by so doing, entitle myself -to the good graces of the lady readers of "N. & Q." - - "Oh, woman, woman! thou art formed to bless - The heart of restless man; to chase his care, - And charm existence by thy loveliness; - Bright as the sunbeam, as the morning fair, - If but thy foot fall on a wilderness, - Flowers spring, and shed their roseate blossoms there, - Shrouding the thorns that in thy pathway rise, - And scattering o'er it hues of paradise. - - "Thy voice of love is music to the ear, - Soothing, and soft, and gentle as the stream - That strays 'mid summer flowers; thy glittering tear - Is mutely eloquent; thy smile a beam - Of life ineffable, so sweet, so dear, - It wakes the heart from sorrow's darkest dream, - Shedding a hallowed lustre o'er our fate, - And when it beams, we are not desolate. - - "No, no! when woman smiles, we feel a charm - Thrown bright around us, binding us to earth; - Her tender accents, breathing forth the balm; - Of pure affection, give to transport birth; - There life's wide sea is billowless and calm. - Oh! lovely woman! thy consummate worth - Is far above thy frailty--far above - All earthly praise--thou art the light of love!" - -RT. - -Warmington. - -_Burial_ (Vol. v., pp. 320. 404.).--MR. GATTY says that a clergyman is -inhibited from reading the burial service in unconsecrated ground. Is this -so? Irregular as the practice would be, have not other irregularities -equally glaring--baptisms, for instance--too often taken place in -drawing-rooms? It might not be uninteresting, to have instances given of -spots, not consecrated, which have been chosen for burial; as the -individuals who selected them have possibly been marked by some -peculiarities of character worthy of observation. - -Baskerville, the celebrated printer, directed that he should be buried -under a windmill near his garden; this direction proceeded, alas! from -disbelief in Revelation. A few years previously (viz. in 1772) Mr. Hull, a -bencher of the Inner Temple, was buried underneath Leith Hill Tower, in -Surrey, which he had erected on that beautiful and commanding spot, shortly -before his death. - -In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ of last month, we have a curious inscription -on a monument, which once existed in a field or garden near Twickenham. -Mrs. Joan Whitrow, to whom it was raised, though said to be "favoured with -uncommon gifts," appears to have been very crazy. - -Was not Mrs. Van Butchell, to whom MR. GATTY refers, to be seen some years -ago in her glass case in the College of Surgeons? - -J. H. M. - -_Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland_ (Vol. v., p. -490.).--There is a portrait of this nobleman in Petworth House, Sussex, -representing him kneeling on a cushion before a low stand, on which is -placed a missal, his hands joined as in prayer. Written on the canvas -itself is the following, in capital letters: - - "ESPERANCE--EN--DIEU - MA COMPHORT." - -Again is written: - - "Thomas, 7th Earl of Northumberland, Aetatis--suae--38, An^o Dom. 1566, - et Die Dec^o Juni." - -This is copied word for word from the picture. - -P. W. - - * * * * * - - -Miscellaneous. - -NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. - -Every attempt, undertaken in a reverential spirit, to facilitate the -labours of the inquirer after Scripture truth, deserves especial favour at -the hands of those who may have the opportunity of directing public -attention to such endeavours. _The Emphatic New Testament, according to the -Authorized Version, compared with the various Readings of the Vatican -Manuscripts. The Four Gospels. Edited, with an Introductory Essay on Greek -Emphasis_, by John Taylor; which is an attempt to represent to the English -reader certain peculiarities in the Greek text, is a work of this class, -and therefore, without entering into any minute detail of the manner in -which Mr. Taylor carries out his endeavour, we will let him speak for -himself on the subject of its results. "If any one were known," says Mr. -Taylor "to be in possession of a copy of the Greek Testament so marked by -its inspired writers as they would wish to have it read; and if the system -of notation, when applied to the English translation, were found to be -{550} equally efficacious in conferring distinction on the corresponding -words in that language, should we not deem it a great treasure, and be -eager to obtain a _marked copy_, esteeming it next to hearing the words in -the tone adopted by Our Lord and His Apostles? Yet something of this kind -is offered to our notice in the present work; without altering the -expression, it often makes the meaning clearer; it adds certainty to many -readings, which before could only be founded on conjecture; and it may -altogether be considered as a kind of running commentary of no less -authority than the original text." - -We have received the first Part of Mr. Akerman's _Remains of Pagan -Saxondom_, which contains engravings of some beautiful _Personal Ornaments -from a Barrow near Devizes_; _of a Gold Buckle found at Ickworth, Suffolk_; -and of the curious _Glass Vase found at Reculver_, now preserved in the -Canterbury Museum. 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