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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 242, June 17, 1854 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Bell - -Release Date: May 27, 2013 [EBook #42820] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** - - - - -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) - - - - - -{557} - -NOTES AND QUERIES: - -A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, -GENEALOGISTS, ETC. - -"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. - - * * * * * - - -No. 242.] -SATURDAY, JUNE 17. 1854 -[Price Fourpence. 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As literary curiosities, such -things may be worth preserving; and I therefore send you a few samples as a -contribution. - -The first is from the Abbe De la Mennais, whose words, uttered about twenty -years ago, are thus given in a provincial paper: - - "England, like all other countries, has had her period of - aggrandisement; during a whole century Europe has seen her dawning - above the horizon until, having attained her highest degree of - splendour, she has begun to decline, and this decline dates from the - day of which the fall of Napoleon, due principally to her exertions, - marked the most brilliant period of her glory. Since that time her - policy has undergone a striking change, which every year becomes more - evident. Instead of that vigour and promptitude of resolution of which - she used to give so many proofs (though they could not all be praised - alike, because there were more than one act repugnant to morality), she - is now timid, she hesitates, she labours painfully through the dark and - crooked paths of diplomacy, and substitutes intrigue for action; - incapable, it would seem, of taking a decisive part at the right - moment, even on the most momentous occasions. The English nation has - evidently lost its strength, or the belief in its strength; and as to - actual results, one differs not from the other. Look at this England, - so haughty, so wedded to her interests, so skilful formerly in - defending them, so bold in extending their influence over the whole - world; look at her now in the presence of Russia. Humbled, braved by - that young power, one would say that she trembles before its genius. - The Czars exercise over her a species of fascination which disturbs her - councils and relaxes the muscles of her robust arms. The conquests of - the Russians in the East menace the possessions of England in India; - they close the Dardanelles to her fleets, they shut out her commerce - from the mouths of the Danube and the shores of the Black Sea. After - what fashion would she have resisted these things thirty years ago?" - -The next quotation is from Alison's _History of Europe from the Fall of -Napoleon_, published in 1852. In chap. i. p. 68., after citing some lines -from Gray on _Education and Government_, he thus proceeds: - - "It will be so to the end of the world; for in the north, and there - alone, are found the privations which insure hardihood, the poverty - which impels to conquest, the difficulties which rouse to exertion. - Irresistible to men so actuated is the attraction which the climate of - the south, the riches of civilisation, exercise on the poverty and - energy of the native wilds. Slowly but steadily, for two centuries, the - Muscovite power has increased, devouring everything which it - approaches--ever advancing, never receding. Sixty-six millions of men, - doubling every half century, now obey the mandates of the Czar; whose - will is law, and who leads a people whose passion is conquest. Europe - may well tremble at the growth of a power possessed of such resources, - actuated by such desires, led by such ability; but Europe alone does - not comprise the whole family of mankind. The great designs of - Providence are working out their accomplishment by the passions of the - free agents to which their execution has been intrusted. Turkey will - yield, Persia be overrun by Muscovite battalions; the original - birth-place of our religion will be rescued by their devotion; and as - certainly as the Transatlantic hemisphere, and the islands of the - Indian Sea, will be peopled by the self-acting passions of Western - democracy, will the plains of Asia be won to the Cross by the - resistless arms of Eastern despotism." - -I shall conclude with two or three extracts from a pamphlet, published some -time last year at Toronto, and bearing the significant title, _The coming -Struggle among the Nations of the Earth; or the Political Events of the -next Fifteen Years, &c._ The writer begins by interpreting, as applicable -to the present times, the prophecies of Ezekiel, Daniel, and the -Apocalypse, from which he foretells the following events: - -1. The seizure of Constantinople, and overthrow of Turkey by the Emperor of -Russia. - -2. War between France and Austria: overthrow of the latter, and consequent -destruction of the Papacy. - -3. The conquest of the Horns or Continental Powers by the Emperor of -Russia. - -4. Britain rapidly extends her Eastern possessions, prevents the occupation -of Judea, and completes the first stage of the restoration of the Jews. - -The writer then continues in the following strain: - - "Turning his eyes eastward on the wealth and prosperity of the - countries under British protection, the triumphant conqueror of Europe - will conceive the idea of spoiling them, and appropriating their goods - and cattle. Scarcely is this idea formed, than its execution is begun; - and sudden and terrific as a whirlwind he enters the 'glorious land.' - So sudden and unexpected is his onslaught, that the British power is - unprepared, and Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya fall into his hands. - - "Meanwhile, Britain has been making strenuous efforts to stop the - progress of this gigantic Napoleon; and every soldier that can be - spared is sent away in the direction of the rising sun. But what can - the British army do against such a host as the Russian autocrat has - around him? Brave as the officers and men may be, what success or what - renown can be gained in such an unequal conflict? In the critical - emergency, the parent island sends a cry across the Atlantic, 'Come - over and help us!' Swiftly is the sound borne over the waves, and soon - an answering {560} echo is wafted back from the shores of Columbia. The - cause is common, and the struggle must be common too. 'We are coming, - brother John, we are coming,' is the noble reply; and, almost ere it is - delivered, a fleet of gallant vessels is crossing the Pacific, with the - stars and stripes gleaming on every mast. Another force is on its way - from the far south, and soon the flower and strength of Anglo-Saxon - race meet on the sacred soil of Palestine. The intelligence of their - approach reaches the sacrilegious usurper, and he leads forth his army - towards the mountains that rise in glory round about Jerusalem. The - Jews within the city now arm themselves, and join the army that has - come from the east and west, the north and south, for their protection: - and thus these two mighty masses meet face to face, and prepare for the - greatest _physical_ battle that ever was fought on this struggling - earth. On the one side the motley millions of Russia, and the nations - of Continental Europe, are drawn up on the slopes of the hills, and the - sides of the valleys toward the north; while, on the other, are ranged - the thousands of Britain and her offspring; from whose firm and regular - ranks gleam forth the dark eyes of many of the sons of Abraham, - determined to preserve their newly recovered city or perish, like their - ancestors of a former age, in its ruins. - - "All is ready. That awful pause, which takes place before the shock of - battle, reigns around; but ere it is broken by the clash of meeting - arms, and while yet the contending parties are at a little distance - from each other, a strange sound is heard over head. The time for the - visible manifestation of God's vengeance has arrived, his fury has come - up in his face, and He calls for a sword against Gog throughout all the - mountains. 'Tis this voice of the Lord that breaks the solemn - stillness, and startles the assembled hosts. The scene that follows - baffles description. Amid earthquakes and showers of fire, the - bewildered and maddened armies of the autocrat rush, sword in hand, - against each other, while the Israelites and their Anglo-Saxon friends - gaze on the spectacle with amazement and consternation. It does not - appear that they will even lift their hand against that foe which they - had come so far to meet. Their aid is not necessary to accomplish the - destruction of the image. The stone, cut without hands, shall fall on - its feet and break them to pieces; and then shall the iron, the clay, - the brass, the silver, and the gold, become like the chaff of the - summer threshing-floor, and the wind shall carry them away. The various - descriptions which we have of this battle, all intimate that God is the - only foe that shall contend with the autocrat at Armageddon. John terms - it, 'the battle of that great day of God Almighty;' and we believe the - principal instrument of their defeat will be mutual slaughter. The - carnage will be dreadful. Out of all the millions that came like a - cloud upon the land of Israel, only a scattered and shattered remnant - will return; the great mass will be left to 'cleanse the land,' and - fill the valley of Hamongog with graves." - -I refrain from quoting the remarks made by Napoleon, at St. Helena, -respecting Russia, and the likelihood of her ultimately subjugating Western -Europe, as your readers must be familiar with them from the writings of -O'Meara and others. - -HENRY H. BREEN. - -St. Lucia. - - * * * * * - -DERIVATION OF THE WORD "BIGOT." - -At p. 80. of Mr. Trench's admirable little volume _On the Study of Words_, -an etymology is assigned to the word _bigot_, which is, I think, clearly -erroneous: - - "Two explanations of it are current," writes Mr. Trench, "one of which - traces it up to the early Normans, while they yet retained their - northern tongue, and to their often adjuration by the name of God; with - sometimes a reference to a famous scene in French history, in which - Rollo, Duke of Normandy, played a conspicuous part: the other puts it - in connexion with _beguines_, called often in Latin _beguttae_, a name - by which certain communities of pietist women were known in the Middle - Ages." - -I agree with Mr. Trench in thinking, that neither of these derivations is -the correct one. But I am obliged, quite as decidedly, to reject that which -he proceeds to offer. He thinks that we owe-- - - "_Bigot_ rather to that profound impression which the Spaniards made - upon all Europe in the fifteenth and the following century. Now the - word _bigote_," he continues, "means in Spanish 'moustachio;' and as - contrasted with the smooth, or nearly smooth, upper lip of most other - people, at that time the Spaniards were the 'men of the moustachio'.... - That they themselves connected firmness and resolution with the - mustachio; that it was esteemed the outward symbol of these, it is - plain from such phrases as 'pombre de bigote,' a man of resolution; - 'tener bigotes,' to stand firm. But that in which they eminently - displayed their firmness and resolution in those days was their - adherence to whatever the Roman see imposed and taught. What then more - natural, or more entirely according to the law of the generation of - names, than that this striking and distinguishing outward feature of - the Spaniard should have been laid hold of to express that character - and condition of mind which eminently were his, and then transferred to - all others who shared the same?" - -Of this it must be admitted, that "se non e vero, e ben trovato." And the -only reason for rejecting such an etymology is the existence of another -with superior claims. - -_Bigot_ is derived, as I think will be hardly doubted on consideration, -from the Italian _bigio_, grey. Various religious confraternities, and -especially a branch of the order of St. Francis which, from being parcel -secular and parcel regular, was called "Terziari di S. Francesco," clothed -themselves in grey; and from thence were called _Bigiocchi_ and _Bigiotti_. -And from a very early period, the word was used in a bad sense. {561} - -Menage, in his _Origini della Lingua Italiana_, under the word BIZOCO, -writes: - - "Persono secolare vestita di abito di religione. Quasi 'bigioco' perche - ordinariamente gli Ipocriti, e coloro che si fanno dell' ordine di S. - Francesco si vestono di bigio." - -And Sansovino on the _Decameron_ says that-- - - "_Bizocco_ sia quasi _Bigioco_, o _Bigiotto_, perche i Terziari di S. - Francesco si veston di bigio." - -Abundance of instances might be adduced of the use of the term _bizocco_ in -the sense of hypocrite, or would-be saint. And the passage which Mr. Trench -gives after Richardson from Bishop Hall, where _bigot_ is used to signify a -pervert to Romanism, "he was turned both _bigot_ and physician," seems to -me to favour my etymology rather than that from the Spanish; as showing -that the earliest known use of the term was its application to a Popish -religionist. The "pervert" alluded to had become that which cotemporary -Italians were calling a _bigiotto_. Must we not conclude that Bishop Hall -drew his newly-coined word thence? - -T. A. T. - -Florence. - - * * * * * - -"BOOK OF ALMANACS." - -When I published this work, I knew of no predecessor except Francoeur, as -noted in the preface; but another has been recently pointed out to me. -There was a work compiled for the use of the Dominicans, entitled -_Kalendarium Perpetuum juxta ritum Sacri ordinis praedicatorum, s. p. n. -Dominici_. The copy now before me, Rome, 1612, 8vo., is said to be "tertio -emendatum," which probably signifies the fourth edition. It contains the -thirty-five almanacs, with rules for determining epacts and dominical -letters from A.D. 1600 to 2100, and a table for choosing the almanac when -the epact and letter are known. - -This work must have been compiled before the reformation of the calendar. A -note in explanation of the thirty-fifth almanac, contains the statement -that A.D. 1736 belongs to that calendar, and to the letters D.C. This is -true of the old style, and not of the new. - -It seems, then, that _Books of Almanacs_ are older than the Gregorian -reformation: that they may have been completely forgotten, may be inferred -from my book never having produced any mention of them either in your pages -or elsewhere. Perhaps some older instances may be yet produced. - -A. DE MORGAN. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Notes. - -_Distances at which Sounds have been heard._--The story of St. Paul's clock -striking being heard by a sentry at Windsor is well known, and I believe -authentic. Let me add the following:--The Rev. Hugh Salvin (who died vicar -of Alston, Cumberland, Sept. 28, 1852) mentions an equally remarkable -instance whilst he was chaplain on board H.M.S. "Cambridge," on the coast -of South America: - - "Our salutes at Chancay were heard at Callao, though the distance is - thirty-five miles, and several projecting headlands intervene, and the - wind always blows northward. The lieutenant of the Arab store-ship, to - whom the circumstance was mentioned, observed, that upon one occasion - the evening gun at Plymouth was heard at Ilfracomb, which is sixty - miles off, and a mountainous country intervenes."--_Journal of the Rev. - H. S. Salvin_, p. 64., 12mo.: Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1829. - -BALLIOLENSIS. - -_Anagram._--The accompanying anagram I saw, some weeks back, in a country -paper; perhaps you will give it a local habitation in "N. & Q." It is said -to be by a president of one of the committees of the arrondissement of -Valenciennes: - - "A sa majeste imperiale Le Szar Nicholas, souverain et autocrate de - toutes les Russies." - - "Oho! ta vanite sera ta perte; elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs te - maudiront a jamais." - -PHILIP STRANGE. - -_Logan or Rocking Stones._--The following extract from Sir C. Anderson's -_Eight Weeks' Journal in Norway, &c. in 1852_, under July 21, may interest -your Devonshire and Cornish readers: - - "Mr. De C----k, a most intelligent Danish gentleman, told me, that when - a proprietor near Drammen, was at Bjornholm Island, in the Baltic, he - was told there were stones which made a humming noise when pushed, and - on examination they proved to be rocking-stones; on his return, he - found on his own property several large stones, which, on removing the - earth around them, were so balanced as to be moveable. If this be an - accurate statement, it tends to strengthen the notion that stones, laid - upon each other by natural causes, have, by application of a little - labour, been made to move, as the stones at Brimham Craggs in - Yorkshire; and this seems more likely than that such immense masses - should have been ever raised by mechanical force and poised." - -BALLIOLENSIS. - - * * * * * - - -Queries. - -A RUBENS QUERY. - -There is a somewhat curious mystery with regard to certain works of the -immortal Rubens, which some of your readers, who are connoisseurs in art, -may possibly assist to dispel. Lommeline, who engraved the finest works of -Rubens, has left a print of "The Judgment of Paris," which {562} differs in -several points from the subject of "The Decision of Paris," now in the -National Gallery. For instance, in the one, Paris rests the apple upon his -knee, and in the other he is offering it to the fair goddess of Beauty. -This print has also _five_ more figures than there are in the Gallery -painting. Now, two questions arise hereon: first, what has become of the -original painting from which this print was taken? and secondly, where is -the line engraving of the picture now in the National Gallery? - -J. J. S. - -Downshire Hill, Hampstead. - - * * * * * - -THE PAXS PENNIES OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. - -Perhaps some of your numerous readers may be able to satisfy me on a -subject which has for a long time troubled me. - -All coin collectors are aware that there are many different reverses to the -pennies of William I. One is commonly called the _pax_-type: and _why_, is -the question. - -On the obverse, it is "PILLM REX," or sometimes differently spelt; but "P" -always stands for "W," and pronounced so. - -On the reverse, it is P [=A] X S (each letter being encircled), but the "P" -is here pronounced "P;" this is in the centre compartment: surrounding it -is the moneyer's name, with place where the coin was struck--"EDPI (Edwi) -ON LVND," "GODPINE (Godwine) ON LVND," &c. It is very inconsistent that -letters should be pronounced differently on the same coin. - -I am rather of opinion that we have not arrived at the right reading, and -that _pax_ has nothing to do with it. It is PAXS, AXSP, XSPA, or SPAX: for -I find, on comparing nineteen different coins, the letters stand in -different positions compared with the cross, which denotes the beginning of -the inscription around them; so no one can tell which letter of the four in -the circles near the large cross should come first. Besides, what does the -"S" stand for, after you get the "PAX?" - -I am not a member of the Antiquarian Society, but have asked gentlemen -belonging to it to explain this puzzle (to me), without success. I now ask -them and others, through your pages, to give a solution of the difficulty. - -W. M. F. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries. - -_Peculiar Customs at Preston, in Lancashire._--I wish to know if it be true -that the use of _mourning_ is nearly, if not altogether, discountenanced at -the above town, even for the loss of the nearest and dearest friends; and -that a widow's cap is only worn by those to whom another husband would be -particularly acceptable? If these, and other peculiar customs prevail, I -wish some correspondent from Lancashire would kindly enlighten the readers -of "N. & Q." with respect to them. - -ANON. - -_Obsolete Statutes._--There was published, in the pamphlet form (pp. 61.), -in 1738, a capital piece of _irony_ under the title of-- - - "A Letter to a Member of Parliament, containing a Proposal for bringing - in a Bill to revise, amend, or repeal certain Obsolete Statutes, - commonly called 'The Ten Commandments.' 4th Edition." - -As this will doubtless be known to some of your readers, may I ask the name -of the author, and the occasion of its publication? - -J. O. - -_Sale of Offices and Salaries in the Seventeenth Century._--Has the subject -of the sale of offices in former times ever been investigated? In the reign -of Charles II., a new secretary of state, lord chamberlain, &c., always -paid a large sum of money to his predecessor, the king often helping to -find the required sum. Was this the case with all offices? I do not think -the lord chancellorship was ever paid for. When and how did the practice -originate, and when and how fall into disuse? Has the subject of salaries -of offices (including fees) in these times ever been accurately -investigated? What were the emoluments of the lord chancellor, chancellor -of the exchequer, and president of the council, in the reign of Charles? - -C. H. - -_Board of Trade._--A council for trade was appointed during the recess of -the Convention Parliament after the Restoration. Are the names of that -council anywhere published? Did this council continue to exist till the -appointment (I think in 1670) of the Council of Trade, of which Lord -Sandwich was made president? - -C. H. - -_Sacheverell's and Charles Lamb's Residences in the Temple._--In which -house in Crown Office Row, Temple, was Charles Lamb born? and which were -the chambers occupied by Dr. Sacheverell, also in the Temple, at the time -of the riots caused by his admirers? - -AN ADMIRER OF YOUR PUBLICATION. - -_Braddock and Orme._--Can you, or any of your correspondents, furnish me -(in reply to an inquiry made of me by the Historical Society of -Pennsylvania) with any information about the families of Braddock and Orme, -in relation to General Braddock, who commanded and was killed at the battle -of the Monongahela river; and to Orme, who, with Washington and Morris, -were his aides-de-camp in the melancholy and fatal engagement. - -F. O. MORRIS. - -Nunburnholme Rectory, York. - -{563} - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries with Answers. - -_Cromwell's Bible._--I have seen it stated that an edition of the Bible, -"printed by John Field, one of his Highness's Printers, 1658," in 12mo., -London, was printed by order of Cromwell for distribution to his soldiers. -Can any of your correspondents furnish authority for such tradition? It is -one of the most incorrectly printed books which I ever met with. In -Cotton's list I do not find this edition: he has one in 8vo., 1657, -Cambridge, J. Field. - -W. C. TREVELYAN. - - [George Offor, Esq., of Hackney, has kindly favoured us with a reply to - this and the following Query: "Eighteen different editions of the - Bible, printed by John Field, are in my collection, published between - the years 1648 and 1666. In some of these he is described as printer to - the University of Cambridge, in others as 'One of His Highness's - Printers;' but in those which _tradition_ says were published for the - army, he is called 'Printer to the Parliament.' They are all as - correctly printed as Bibles were generally published during that time, - excepting that by Giles Calvert the Quaker, published in 1653, which is - singularly correct and beautiful. Field's editions being remarkable for - beauty of typography and smallness, have been much examined, and many - errors detected. That of 1653 is the most beautiful and called genuine, - and is the copy said to have been printed for the use of the army and - navy. Of this I have five different editions, all agreeing in the error - in Matthew, ch. vi. v. 24., 'Ye cannot serve and mammon;' and in having - the first four psalms on one page. But in some the following errors are - corrected, 1 Cor. vi. v. 9., 'The unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom - of God;' Rom. ch. vi. v. 13., 'Neither yield ye your members as - instruments of righteousness unto sin.' The copy of 1658, which SIR. W. - C. TREVELYAN describes, is a counterfeit of the genuine edition of - 1653, vulgarly called 'The Bastard Field's Bible.' These were reprinted - many times. I possess four different editions of it, so exactly alike - in form and appearance, that the variations throughout can only be - detected by placing them in juxtaposition. They are all neatly printed, - without a black line between the columns, and make thicker volumes than - the genuine edition. I have never been able to verify the tradition - that the Field's Bible, 1653, was printed for the army by order of - Cromwell. It is the only one, as far as I can discover, 'Printed by - John Field, Printer to the Parliament.' I received the tradition from - my father nearly sixty years ago, and have no doubt but that it is - founded in fact. It is an inquiry well worthy of investigation.--G. - OFFOR."] - -_Canne's Bible._--What is the value of a good copy of Canne's Bible, -printed at Edinburgh by John Kincaid, 1756? - -SIGMA. - - ["Canne's Bibles were first printed at Amsterdam, 1647, 1662, and 1664; - in London, 1682, 1684, 1698: these are all pocket volumes. Then again - in Amsterdam, 4to., 1700. At Edinburgh by Watkins in 1747, and by - Kincaid in 1766; after which there followed editions very coarsely and - incorrectly printed. They are all, excepting that of 1647, in my - collection. Kincaid's, 1766, 2 vols. nonpareil, in beautiful condition, - bound in green morocco, cost me five shillings. That of 1747, by - Watkins, not in such fine condition, two shillings. SIGMA can readily - imagine the value of Kincaid's edition 1756, by comparison with those - of 1747 and 1766. If any of your readers could assist me to procure the - first edition, 1647, I should be greatly obliged.--G. OFFOR."] - -_Dryden and Luke Milbourne._--Among the "Quarrels of Authors," I do not -find that between _glorious John_ and this reverend gentleman. In a -poetical paraphrase of _The Christian's Pattern_, by the latter (8vo., -1697), he shows unmistakeable evidence of having been lately skinned by the -_witty tribe_, which I take to mean Dryden and his _atheistical crew_. I am -aware that Milbourne invited the attack by his flippant remarks upon the -English Virgil, but I know not in which piece of Dryden's to look for it. - -J. O. - - [Dryden's attack on Milbourne occurs in his preface to the Fables - (Scott's edition of his _Works_, vol. xi. p. 235.). "As a corollary to - this preface," says Dryden, "in which I have done justice to others, I - owe somewhat to myself; not that I think it worth my time to enter the - lists with one Milbourne and one Blackmore, but barely to take notice - that such men there are, who have written scurrilously against me - without any provocation. Milbourne, who is in orders, pretends, amongst - the rest, this quarrel to me, that I have fallen foul on priesthood; if - I have, I am only to ask pardon of good priests, and am afraid his part - of the reparation will come to little. Let him be satisfied that he - shall not be able to force himself upon me for an adversary. I contemn - him too much to enter into competition with him." A little lower down - Dryden hints that Milbourne lost his living for writing a libel upon - his parishioners.] - -_Portrait Painters of the last Century._--I am anxious to obtain some -information respecting the portrait painters of the last century. I have in -my collection a picture by H. Smith, 1736. Can any of your readers give me -an account of him? - -DURANDUS. - - [A biographical list, alphabetically arranged, of portrait painters, is - given in Hobbes's _Picture Collector's Manual; being a Dictionary of - Painters_, vol. ii. pp. 467-515., edit. 1849; a useful work of the - kind. The name of H. Smith is not noticed.] - -_Aetna._--To whom can the following passage refer? - - "We found a good inn here (Catania), kept by one Caca Sangue, a name - that sounds better in Italian than it would in English. This fellow is - extremely pleasant and communicative, and among other things he told us - that Mr. ----, who has published such a minute description of his - journey to the crater of Aetna, was never there, but sick in Catania - when his {564} party ascended, he having been their guide."--_Travels - through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, &c._, vol. ii. p. 21., by Thomas - Watkins, A.M., F.R.S., in the years 1787, 1788, 1789; 2 vols. 8vo., 2nd - edition, London, 1794. - -ANON. - - [The reference is probably to M. D'Orville, whose minute description of - his journey up Mount Aetna was copied into the _Gentleman's Magazine_, - vol. xxxiv. p. 281., extracted from D'Orville's work, entitled _Sicula, - or the History and Antiquities of the Island of Sicily, &c._, 2 vols. - folio, Amsterdam.] - -_Sir Adam, or Sir Ambrose, Brown._--This friend of Evelyn, who lived at -Betchworth Park, is sometimes called Sir Adam, and sometimes Sir Ambrose, -in Evelyn's _Memoirs_. Is not Sir Adam the correct name? - -C. H. - - [The entries in Evelyn's _Diary_ seem to be correct. Sir Ambrose Brown, - obit. 1661, was the father of Sir Adam, obit. 1690. See the pedigree in - Manning and Bray's _Surrey_, vol. i. p. 560.] - - * * * * * - - -Replies. - -NORWICH, KIRKPATRICK COLLECTION MSS. FOR THE HISTORY OF. - -(Vol. ix., p. 515.) - -Your correspondent T. A. T. can find a full, but in one respect a most -unsatisfactory reply to his inquiry, in the preface to a _History of the -Religious Orders and Communities, and of the Hospital and Castle of -Norwich_, by Mr. John Kirkpatrick, Treasurer of the Great Hospital, bearing -the names of Edwards and Hughes, London, and Stevenson and Hatchett, -Norwich, as publishers, and dated 1845. This volume was printed at the -expense of Hudson Gurney, Esq., whose "well-known liberality and laudable -desire to perpetuate the knowledge of the antiquities of his native city," -the preface fitly records; but it was not, in the commercial sense of the -word, _published_; and, therefore, the information it gives may not be -generally accessible. The following is the list of the collections which -were "safe in the custody of the corporation about thirty years ago (say -between 1800 and 1810), when M. de Hague held the office of town-clerk." - - "1. A thick volume of the early history and jurisdiction of the city; - date 1720. - - 2. A similar folio volume, being an account of the military state of - the city, its walls, towns, ponds, pits, wells, pumps, &c.; date 1722. - - 3. A thick quarto. - - 4. Several large bundles, foolscap folio; Annals of Norwich. - - 5. A fasciculus, foolscap folio; origin of charities and wills relating - thereto, in each parish. - - 6. Memorandum books of monuments. - - 7. Ditto of merchants' marks. - - 8. Ditto of plans of churches. - - 9. Paper containing drawings of the city gates, and a plan of Norwich. - - 10. Drawings of all the churches. - - 11. An immense number of small pieces of paper, containing notes of the - tenures of each house in Norwich." - -No portion of these collections remains at present in the hands of the -legatees, and the greater number of them is not so much as known to be in -existence. The "thick quarto," marked "3" in the list, is that which Mr. -Gurney's zeal has caused to be printed; and it is now the property of the -representatives of the late Mr. William Herring of Hethersett, whose father -purchased it many years ago of a bookseller. The paper marked "9" was "said -to have been in the possession of the Friars' Society," which was -discovered some twenty years ago. My father had tracings of the "Drawings -of the City Gates;" but I am not sure that they are made from Kirkpatrick's -original. The collection marked "10," my father saw "in the possession of -Mr. William Matthews, Mr. De Hague's clerk." And "a portion of the papers -included under the last number" was said to be existence in 1845; but Mr. -Dawson Turner, who compiled the "Preface," was "not fully informed" -respecting them, and I can throw no light upon the subject. It is very -remarkable that the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Association has done -nothing for the recovery or _dis_covery of the remainder of this invaluable -bequest; perhaps the inquiry of T. A. T. may incite them to attempt both, -and in this hope I trouble you with this reply. - -B. B. WOODWARD. - -Bungay, Suffolk. - -In the year 1845, one of the MSS. of Mr. John Kirkpatrick was printed at -Yarmouth, edited by Mr. Dawson Turner, at the expense of Mr. Hudson Gurney. -This MS. is the _History of the Religious Orders and Communities, and of -the Hospital and Castle of Norwich_, and filled a quarto of 258 folios in -the handwriting of the author. In a very interesting preface, the editor -states that no portion of Kirkpatrick's bequest remains at present in the -hands of the corporation of Norwich, or is even known to be in existence, -except the volume thus edited, and perhaps some fragments of the "small -pieces of paper," described in the will as "containing notes of the tenure -of each house in Norwich," which, if such do exist, are, it is to be -feared, so scattered and injured as to be useless. The editor enumerates -and describes eleven MSS. which, he says, were safe in the custody of the -corporation about forty years ago from the present time: but, he adds, they -have now disappeared, with the exception of the volume which he has edited. -This MS. is the property of the representatives of the late Mr. William -Herring, of Hethersett, whose father purchased it of a bookseller. - -F. C. H. - -{565} - - * * * * * - -EARLY GERMAN COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. - -(Vol. ix., p. 57.) - -H.'s prints are probably cut from a work on Alchemy, entitled - - "Lambspring, das ist ein herzlichen Teutscher Tractat vom - philosophischen Steine, welchen fuer Jahren ein adelicher Teutscher - Philosophus so Lampert Spring geheissen, mit schoenen Figuren - beschreiben hat. Frankfurt-am-Main, bey Lucca Jennis zu finden." 1625, - 4to. pp. 36. - -The series of plates extends to fifteen, among which are those described by -H. Some are remarkable for good drawing and spirited expression, and all -are good for the time. The verses which belong to Plate 2. are printed on -the back of Plate 1., and so on, which rendered transcription necessary on -mounting them. Each represents, figuratively, one of the steps towards the -philosopher's stone. Some have Latin explanations at the foot. Not -understanding alchemy, I can appreciate them only as works of art. An -account of one as a specimen may be of some interest, so I select the least -unintelligible. - -Plate 6. A dragon eating his own tail. - -Above: - - "Das ist gross Wundr und seltsam list, - Die hoechst Artzney im Drachen ist." - -Below: - - "Mercurius recte et chymice praecipitatus, vel sublimatus, in sua - propria aqua resolutus et rursum coagulatus." - -On the opposite page: - - "Ein Drach im Walde wohnend ist - Am Gifft demselben nichts gebrisst; - Wenn er die Sonn sieht und das Fewr, - So speuesst er Gifft, fleugt ungehewr - Kein lebend Thier fuer ihm mag gnesn - Der Basilisc mag ihm nit gleich wesn, - Wenn diesen Wurmb wol weiss zu toedtn - Der Koempt auss allen seinen noethn, - Sein Farbn in seinem Todt sich vermehrn - Auss seiner Gifft Artzney thut werden - Sein Gifft verzehrt er gar und gans, - Und frisst sein eign vergifften Schwanz. - Da muss er in sich selbst volbringen - Der edlst Balsam, auss ihm thut tringen. - Solch grosse Tugend wird mann schawen, - Welches alle Weysn sich hoch erfrawen." - -The three persons in Plate 13. appear first in Plate 11. The superscription -is-- - - "Vater, Sohn, Fuehrer, haben sie beym Handen: - Corpus, spiritus, anima, werden verstanden." - -In Plate 13. the father's mouth may well be "of a preternatural wideness" -as he swallows the son; and in Plate 14. undergoes a sudorific in a -curiously-furnished bedchamber. In Plate 15. the three are seated upon one -throne. The stone is found. They also will find it who strictly follow Dr. -Lambspring's directions, as given in a rhyming preface. Only one ingredient -is left out of the prescription: - - "Denn es ist nur ein Ding allein, - Drinn alls verborgn ist ins gemein. - Daran solt ihr gar nicht verzagen, - Zeit und Geduld muest ihr dran wagen." - -What is it? - -H. B. C. - -U. U. Club. - - * * * * * - -THE BELLMAN AT NEWGATE. - -(Vol. i., p. 152.; Vol. iii., pp. 324. 377. 451. 485.: and see _Continental -Watchmen_, Vol. iv., pp. 206. 356.) - -Formerly it was, according to a very ancient custom, the practice on the -night preceding the execution of condemned criminals, for the bellman of -the parish of St. Sepulchre to go under Newgate, and, ringing his bell, to -repeat the following verses, as a piece of friendly advice, to the unhappy -wretches under sentence of death: - - "All you that in the condemn'd hold do lie, - Prepare you, for to-morrow you shall die. - Watch all and pray, the hour is drawing near, - That you before the Almighty must appear. - Examine well yourselves, in time repent, - That you may not to eternal flames be sent. - And when St. Sepulchre's bell to-morrow tolls, - The Lord have mercy on your souls! - Past twelve o'clock!" - -The following extract from Stowe's _Survey of London_, p. 125. of the -quarto edition, printed 1618, will prove that the above verses ought to be -repeated by a clergyman instead of a bellman: - - "Robert Doue, citizen and merchant taylor, of London, gave to the - parish of St. Sepulchre's the sum of 50l. That after the several - sessions of London, when the prisoners remain in the gaole, as - condemned men to death, expecting execution on the morrow following; - the clarke (that is the parson) of the church shoold come in the night - time, and likewise early in the morning, to the window of the prison - where they lye, and there ringing certain tolls with a hand-bell - appointed for the purpose, he doth afterwards (in most Christian - manner) put them in mind of their present condition, and ensuing - execution, desiring them to be prepared therefore, as they ought to be. - When they are in the cart, and brought before the wall of the church, - there he standeth ready with the same bell. And after certain tolls - rehearseth an appointed prayer, desiring all the people there present - to pray for them. The beadle also of Merchant Taylors' Hall hath an - honest stipend allowed to see that it is duely done." - -This note is an extract from the _Romance of the Forum_, vol. ii. p. 268. - -J. W. FARRER. - -{566} - - * * * * * - -HERBERT'S "CHURCH PORCH." - -(Vol. ix., p. 173.) - -I venture the following as the meaning of the curious stanza in George -Herbert's _Church Porch_, referred to by your correspondent S. SINGLETON: - - "God made me one man; love makes me no more, - Till labor come and make my weakness score." - -If you are single, give all you have to the service of God. But do not be -anxious to make the gift larger by toil: for God only requires that which -is suitable to the position in which He has placed you. He bestows a -certain "estate" upon every man as He bestows life: let both be dedicated -to Him. For if you give first yourself, and then what He has given you, -this is sufficient; you need not try to be more rich, that you may be more -charitable. But if you choose a life of labour to gain an "estate" beyond -the original position assigned to you in the providence of God, then you -must reckon yourself responsible for the "one man" which God "made" you, -and for _the other_ which you make yourself besides. - -I conceive the stanza to be a recommendation of the contemplative life with -poverty, in preference to the active life with riches. - -J. H. B. - - * * * * * - -ANCIENT USAGES OF THE CHURCH. - -(Vol. ix., pp. 127. 257.) - -As your well-known correspondent from Clyst St. George has addressed an -inquiry to you on this subject, it may not be uninteresting to some of your -readers to learn that the practice of kneeling at funerals still exists in -this neighbourhood. On a cold December day have I seen men, women, and -children bend the knee on the bare sod, during the Lord's and the other -prayers used in the outdoor portion of our service, not rising till the -valedictory grace concluded the service. Indeed, I have never known (at -least the _majority_ of) those attending our funerals here, omit this old -custom. - -That of dressing graves with flowers, at Easter and Whitsuntide, prevails -here as in Wales: and the older folks still maintain the ancient practice -of an obeisance as often as the Gloria occurs during the ordinary services. -The last railful of communicants are also in the habit of remaining in -their place at the altar rails till the service is concluded; but whether -these observances are widely spread, or merely local, I have not had -sufficient opportunity to judge. - -J. T. P. - -Dewchurch Vicarage. - -At the church of South Stoke, near Arundel, I have heard the clerk respond -after the Gospel: "Thanks be to God for the Holy Gospel." - -At Southwick, near Brighton, the rector was wont (about four years since) -to stand up at the "Glory" in the Litany. - -The Bishop of London believes bowing the head when the doxology, or -ascription of praise, is pronounced, to be a novelty in our Church (Letter -to the Knightsbridge Churchwarden, March 28, 1854). I remember an old woman -regularly attending the services of Exeter Cathedral, who was wont always -to curtsy at the "Glory." And in _The Guardian_ of April 25, W. G. T. -alludes to a parish in Staffordshire where the custom prevails. And A. W. -says: - - "In the western counties of England there are many parishes where the - custom of bowing at the 'Gloria' has been universally observed by the - poor from time immemorial. I could mention parishes in Worcestershire - or Herefordshire where it has always prevailed." - -It should be observed, that the custom is not to bow at the "Glory" only, -but whenever, in the course of the service, the names of the Three Persons -of the Blessed Trinity are mentioned. See Isaiah, vi. 2, 3. - -I have heard sermons commenced in the name of the Holy Trinity, and ended -with "the Glory," the preacher repeating the former part and the -congregation the latter. I believe this is agreeable to very ancient use. -Can any one say whether it has anywhere been retained in our own Church? - -J. W. HEWETT. - -The custom of Lincolnshire mentioned by MR. ELLACOMBE as observed by his -two parishioners at Bitton had its origin doubtless in the first rubric to -the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper in our Book of Common -Prayer, which enjoins that-- - - "So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion, shall signify - their names to the Curate at least some time the day before." - -On this Bishop Wilson remarks: - - "It is with great reason that the Church has given this order; - wherefore do not neglect it." - - "You will have the comfort of knowing, either that your Pastor hath - nothing to say against you, or, if he has, you will have the benefit of - his advice: and a good blessing will attend your obedience to the - Church's orders." - -GEORGE E. FRERE. - -_Reverence to the Altar_ (Vol. vi., p. 182.).--Statute XI. Such obeisance -was always made in the college to which I belonged, at Oxford, to the -Provost by every scholar, and by the Bible clerks when they proceeded from -their seats to the eagle lectern, to read the lessons of the day. - -I. R. R. - -_Separation of the Sexes in Church._--It was the custom a few years ago -(and I have every reason {567} to believe it to be so at present), for the -men to sit on one side of the aisle, and the women on the other, in the -church of Grange, near Armagh, in the north of Ireland. No one remembered -the introduction of the custom. - -ABHBA. - -_Standing while the Lord's Prayer is read_ (Vol. ix., pp. 127. 257.).--The -congregation of the English Episcopal Chapel at Dundee stood during the -reading of the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Song of the -Angels at the birth of Christ, when these occur in the order of morning -lessons. This congregation joined that of the Scottish Episcopalians -several years ago, and whether the practice is continued in the present -congregation I cannot say. - -In St. Paul's Chapel, Edinburgh, York Place, the congregation stand at the -reading of the Ten Commandments in the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy, and -they chant "Glory be to thee, O God," on the giving out of the Gospel, and -"Thanks be to thee, O God," &c., after the reading of it. In the Communion -they sit during the reading of the Exhortation, "Dearly Beloved in the -Lord;" and it is but very lately that they have stood when repeating "Glory -be to God on high," &c., in the Post Communion. - -HENRY STEPHENS. - -In Durham Cathedral, on Sept. 5, 1850, at the Anniversary of the Sons of -the Clergy, the congregation rose simultaneously on the occurrence of the -Lord's Prayer in the lesson. I remember also that the same custom was -observed at Trinity Church, Chelsea, during the incumbency of the Rev. -Henry Blunt. Where the Bidding Prayer enjoined by the 55th Canon is used -(that, by-the-way, being the only authorised pulpit prayer), it is usual I -believe for the people to stand during the Lord's Prayer; the preacher then -teaching us to pray as our Lord taught His disciples. The short doxology at -the end of the Gospel, to which MR. ELLACOMBE refers at p. 257., is common -in the north of England. - -E. H. A. - -This custom prevails generally in the Episcopalian churches in Scotland; -and our congregations also stand up while the Commandments are read in -course of the lessons. We have also the practice of singing, after the -Gospel: "Thanks be to thee, O Lord, for this thy Holy Gospel!" - -BALIVUS. - -Edinburgh. - -This is the practice on the reading of this prayer in the second lesson at -the parish church of Edgbaston, near Birmingham. It is probably a remanet -of the ancient practice in the Church, not only to stand up during the -reading of the Gospel, but throughout the whole service, as symbolic of the -resurrection of Christ--the Lord's Day; which still exists in the Greek -Church, and may be witnessed any Sunday in London, on visiting the recent -edifice in London Wall. - -T. J. BUCKTON. - -Birmingham. - -The custom is observed in St. Thomas' Church. - -W. HAZEL. - -Portsmouth. - -At Exeter Cathedral the people _kneel_ whenever the Lord's Prayer is read -in the lesson. - -J. W. HEWETT. - -_Tolling the Bell on leaving Church_ (Vol. ix., pp. 125. 311, 312.).--In -this parish a bell is always rung on the conclusion of the morning service, -to give notice that a sermon will be given at the evening service. This -bell, which a very respectable old man, who was parish clerk here for -fifty-four years, called the "sermon bell," is never tolled unless there is -a second service. If at any time the morning service is not performed, the -bell is tolled at twelve o'clock at noon to inform the parishioners that an -evening service will take place. A bell is also rung at eight and nine -o'clock on Sunday, or any other morning when morning prayer is said. - -The custom of ringing the church bell on Shrove Tuesday, as mentioned by -NEWBURIENSIS (Vol. ix., p. 324.), is observed here too, and is generally -called "the pancake bell." - -C. F. P. - -Normanton-upon-Soar, Notts. - -I am disposed to agree in opinion with E. W. I. as to this custom, not only -as regards the priests, but the people also, for in most country parishes -it is the signal for the baker--who usually cooks the Sunday's dinner of -the humbler classes--to open his oven: and I have often heard old folks -speak of it as "the pudding bell." - -G. TAYLOR. - -Reading. - -The object is to announce that another service is to follow, either in the -afternoon or evening, as the case may be. Here the tolling is, not as the -congregation are leaving the church, but at one o'clock. - -WM. HAZEL. - -Portsmouth. - -E. W. I., in his answer to this Query in Vol. ix., p. 312., refers to the -custom of tolling the church bell at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, and -again at nine. This custom is followed at the chapel of ease (at -Maidenhead) to the parishes of Bray and Cookham. - -NEWBURIENSIS. - -"The pudding bell," as country folks sometimes call it (under the -impression that its use is to warn those at home to get the dinner ready), -is still rung in some of the old Lancashire parish churches as the -congregation go out. But as in this county parish churches are scarce, and -two full services quite a matter of course, W. S.'s {568} reason cannot -apply here. I remember well the custom of the congregations _kneeling_ when -the Lord's Prayer occurred in the lesson; it was left off in my own church -about thirty years since, this custom, curtseying at the "Gloria," and some -others, being considered _ignorant_, and therefore discountenanced by those -who knew better. - -P. P. - -_Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. 185.).--A -question has been asked: "Does a dignity or office, such as rector of -Haccombe, exist in the Anglican Church?" I find something similar in the -case of the vicar of Newry, who is entirely free from ecclesiastical -control; he holds his appointment from the ex-officio rector (Lord -Kilmony), who derives his title from the original patent granted by Edward -VI. to his Irish Marshal Sir Nicholas Pagnall, who, on the dissolution of -the "Monasterium Nevoracense," obtained possession of the land attached, -and was farther granted: - - "That he shall have all and singular, and so many and the like courts - leet, frank pledge, law days, rights, jurisdictions, liberties, - privileges, &c. &c., in as large, ample, and beneficial a manner as any - abbot, prior, convent, or other chief, head, or governor of the late - dissolved monastery heretofore seized, held or enjoyed," &c. - -The seal of the ancient charter, on which is inscribed the legend, -"Sigillum exemptae jurisdictionis de virido ligno alias Newry et Mourne," -is still used in the courts. A mitred abbot in his albe, sitting in his -chair, supported by two yew-trees, is also engraved on it; to perpetuate -(it is said) the tradition that these trees had been planted by St. Patrick -in the vicinity of the convent. - -N. C. ATKINSON. - -85. Waterloo Road, Dublin. - -_Holy-loaf Money_ (Vol. ix., pp. 150. 256.).--In Normandy and Brittany, and -probably in other Roman Catholic countries, bread is blessed by the -officiating priest during the performance of high mass, and handed round in -baskets to the congregation by the inferior officers of the church. On -inquiring into the meaning of this custom, I was told that it represented -the _agapae_ of the primitive church; and that, before the first -revolution, every substantial householder in the parish was bound in turn -to furnish the loaves, or a money equivalent. It is now, I believe, a -voluntary gift of the more devout parishioners, or furnished out of the -ordinary revenues of the church. - -HONORE DE MAREVILLE. - -Guernsey. - - * * * * * - -POPIANA. - -(Vol. ix., p. 445.) - -In MR. HARRY LEROY TEMPLE'S _Popiana_, allusion is made to Pope's -_Imitation of Horace_, Second Satire, Book I., and the question is asked, -In what modern editions of Pope is this Imitation to be found? It is in -Warton's edition, and also in the Aldine edition published by Pickering. It -appeared to me (as to Bowles, Roscoe, Mr. Cary, and others) too glaringly -indecent for a popular edition of Pope. The poet never acknowledged it; he -published it as "Imitated in the manner of Mr. Pope," but it is a genuine -production. See note in my edition of Pope, vol. iv. p. 300. - -MR. TEMPLE says,-- - - "Roscoe and Croly give _four_ poems on _Gulliver's Travels_. Why does - Mr. Carruthers leave out the third? His edition appears to contain - (besides many additions) all that all previous editors have admitted, - with the exception of the _third_ Gulliver poem, the sixteen additional - verses to Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a - fragment of eight lines (perhaps by Congreve); which last three are to - be found in Warton's edition." - -The _third_ Gulliver poem was not published with the others by Pope in the -_Miscellanies_. It should, however, have been inserted, as it is -acknowledged by Pope in his correspondence with Swift. The omission must be -set down as an editorial oversight, to be remedied in the next edition. The -verses on Dr. Bolton are assuredly _not_ Pope's; they are printed in Aaron -Hill's _Works_, 1753. See a copious note on this subject in "N. & Q.," Vol. -vii., p. 113. The two other omissions noticed by MR. TEMPLE (with others -unnoticed by him, as the parody on the First Psalm, &c.) were dictated by -the same feeling that prompted the exclusion of the _Imitation of Horace_. -In several of Pope's letters, preserved at Maple Durham, are grossly -indecent and profane passages, which he omitted himself in his printed -correspondence, and which are wholly unfit for publication. The same -oblivion should be extended to his unacknowledged poetical sins. - -R. CARRUTHERS. - -Inverness. - - * * * * * - -CATHOLIC FLORAL DIRECTORIES - -(Vol. viii., p.585.): _Anthologia Borealis et Australis; Florilegium -Sanctarum Aspirationum_. - -Since I last wrote, I have not succeeded in unravelling the mystery which -envelops these two works; but I have gotten some clue to it, for which I am -indebted to the extreme courtesy and kindness of two correspondents. - -One of these gentlemen informs me that the _Anthologia_ is quoted at p. -280. of Dr. Forster's work on the Atmosphere: London, 1823. My {569} second -correspondent writes to say, "If you can procure the _Circle of the -Seasons_, by Dr. Forster, published in 1830, you will there find very -copious extracts from the books in question." Before we go any farther I -would ask, _is_ Dr. Forster the author of this book? The copy I have met -with in a public library is anonymous, and is thus entitled: _The Circle of -the Seasons, and Perpetual Key to the Calendar and Almanac_: London, Thomas -Hookham, 1828, pp. 432. 12mo. It is a valuable book, and forms a complete -Catholic Floral Directory. Though the _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ -are lavishly quoted, no references are given save the bare names. - -It is easy to see why Mr. Weale, the "compiler" of the _Catholic Florist_, -declined giving the information requested. The quotations in question are -all _second-hand_ from the _Circle of the Seasons_. The very preface of the -_Florist_ is not original; the most valuable part of it (commencing at p. -11.) I have discovered to be a verbatim reprint from _The Truthteller_, or, -rather, from Hone's _Every-Day Book_, vol. i. pp. 103. 303., where some -extracts are given from the contributions to this periodical from a -correspondent with the signature _Crito_. These quotations in Hone first -drew my attention to _The Truthteller_, and I advertised for it, but -without success. It was edited, I believe, by Thomas Andrews. I have met -with the second series of this periodical, published in London in 1825, and -I should be glad to get the whole of it.[1] - -In Forster's _Perennial Calendar_, London, 1824, the _Anthologia_ is quoted -at pp. 101. 108. 173. 211. 265. 295.: one of these passages is requoted in -Hone, vol. i. p. 383. I may here remark that this work of Hone's is -furnished with a _Floral Directory_. - -I feel rather piqued, both on my own account and for the honour of "N. & -Q.," at being baffled by two English books, and I am somewhat surprised -that thirty years should have elapsed without any inquiry having been made -respecting the remarkable quotations adduced by Dr. Forster. The Queries I -now propose are: Who was the compiler of the _Circle of the Seasons_? Are -the _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ quoted in any works previous to -Forster's time? - -EIRIONNACH. - -P.S.--Can I get a copy of the _Catholic Friend_, which is referred to in -the preface of the _Catholic Florist_ as a scarce and valuable work; and -also a copy of the _Catholic Instructor_: London, 1844? - -March, 1854. - -[Footnote 1: [_The Truthteller_ was discontinued at the end of vol. i. The -first number was published Sept. 25, 1824, and the last on Sept. 17, 1825. -The publisher and editor, W. A. Andrews, closes his labours with the -following remarks: "Having given _The Truthteller_ a year's trial, we feel -ourselves called upon, as a matter of justice to our family, to discontinue -it as a newspaper. The negligence of too many of our subscribers, in not -discharging their engagements to us, and the indifference of others of the -Catholic body, to support the vindicator of their civil and religious -principles, leave us no alternative but that of dropping it as a newspaper, -or carrying it on at a loss." Only two of Crito's papers on Botany were -given in _The Truthteller_, viz. in No. 15., p. 115., and No. 16., p. 123. -He probably continued them in _The Catholic Friend_, also published by W. -A. Andrews. - -The following extract from a letter signed F., and dated Jan. 4, 1825, -given in _The Truthteller_, vol. i. No. 16. p. 126., recommends the -publication, among other works, of a "CATHOLIC CALENDAR. There should also -be a Catholic Calendar, something like _The Perennial Calendar_, but more -portable, and fuller of religious information, in which, under each saint, -his or her particular virtues, intelligence, good works, or martyrdom, -should be succinctly set forth, so as to form a sort of calendar of human -triumphs, such as is recommended by Mr. Counsellor Basil Montagu in his -Essays." In a note the writer adds, "This I believe will soon be -undertaken." This letter seems to have been written by Dr. Forster.--ED.]] - -Thanks to MR. PINKERTON, I am enabled to turn my surmise into certainty, -and have the pleasure of clearing up a literary _hoax_, which has, it -seems, passed without challenge till my note of interrogation appeared in -these pages. The _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ are purely imaginary -titles for certain pieces in prose and verse, the production of Dr. -Forster, and have no existence save in the _Circle of the Seasons_. - -In the Autobiography of the eccentric Doctor--which is entitled _Recueil de -ma Vie, mes Ouvrages et mes Pensees: Opuscule Philosophique_, par Thomas -Ignace Marie Forster: Bruxelles, 1836--at p. 55. he enumerates the -_Anthologia_ and _Florilegium_ among his "Pieces Fugitives," and ends the -list in the following words: - - "Encore je me confesse d'avoir ecrit toutes ces essais detaches dans le - _Perennial Calendar_, auxquels j'ai attache quelques signatures, ou - plus proprement des lettres, comme A. B. S. R. etc." - -In the solitude of his garden at Hartwell he conceived the idea of making a -Floral Directory, which he eventually carried out, and published under the -title of the _Circle of the Seasons_. See p. 21. - -MR. PINKERTON has most kindly lent me a rare and privately-printed book of -Forster's, entitled _Harmonia Musarum, containing Nugae Cantabrigenses, -Florilegium Sanctae Aspirationis, and Anthologia Borealis et Australis_, -chiefly from a College Album, edited by Alumnus Cantabrigensis (N.B. Not -published): 1843, pp. 144, 8vo. - -The preface is signed T. F., and is dated "Bruges, Sept. 15, 1843." In it -he says: - - "The harmony of the Muses has been divided into three parts--the first - being the _Nugae Cantab_. The {570} second contains the sacred - subjects, hymns, &c., written chiefly by a relation, and formerly - collected under the title of _Florilegium Sanctae Aspirationis_. The - third consists merely of a small collection of Latin verses selected by - some student, with occasional notes from the rest, and called - _Fragments from North and South_: they have, many at least, been - printed before." - -It is impossible to give an idea of this extraordinary Olla; we have in it -pieces of Porson, Gray, and Byron, &c., Cowper's _John Gilpin_, and -Coleridge's _Devil's Walk_; at p. 19. we have "Spring Impromptu, found -among some old papers," with the signature "N." attached, which turns out -to be Gray on the "Pleasures of Vicissitude." I regret to say that this -volume contains much that is coarse and offensive, which is the less -excusable, and the more surprising, as coming from the author of the very -beautiful and devotional pieces published in the _Circle of the Seasons_. - -The _Florilegium_ and the _Anthologia_ of the _Circle_ have little in -common with their namesakes in the _Harmonia_, which latter contain poems -by Southwell, Byron, Gray, Hogg, Porson, Jortin, &c., but none of Forster's -prose pieces, which form so large a portion of the other _Florilegium_ and -_Anthologia_. Dr. Forster's life would make a very entertaining biography, -and I should be glad to know more about him, whether he be yet alive, what -books he printed at Bruges, &c.[2] - -In concluding this matter, I beg to return my best thanks to MR. PINKERTON -for the valuable information he so freely imparted to me, and the handsome -manner in which he placed it at my disposal. - -[Footnote 2: Dr. Forster was born in London in 1789, of an ancient Catholic -family; he was himself a Protestant until the year 1835, when it appears -that he became a convert to the Church of Rome: at the same time he -received the additional names of Ignatius Maria. It is most probable that -he is yet alive and in Belgium, where he has resided for many years. The -Editor of "N. & Q." has kindly sent me a list from the Catalogue of the -British Museum, of some four and thirty works by Dr. Forster. There is, -however, another book by Dr. Forster not contained in the Museum list, -_Onthophilos, ou Les Derniers Entretiens d'un Philosophe Catholique_ -(Brussels?), 1836.] - - * * * * * - -PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. - -_Mr. Lyte's New Instantaneous Process._--I beg to communicate to you a new -process in photography, which is by far the most rapid I believe yet -discovered, and combines at the same time great stability. It has been the -result of a great many experiments on my part, and even now I am hardly -prepared to say that it is brought to its fullest perfection; but it -suffices to say that it is sufficiently rapid to give pictures of the waves -of the sea in motion with perfect sharpness, and ships sailing at ten knots -an hour, and puttling up and down at the same time, and all with a -landscape lens. By it also, and by the same lens, we may take instantaneous -portraits. The process is as follows:--After the plate, prepared with the -collodion and sensitised with the nitrate bath, as I have described in one -of your former Numbers, is taken from the bath, I pour over it a solution -composed as follows: - - 1. Take-- - Nitrate of silver 200 grains. - Distilled water 6 ounces. - Iodide of silver, as much as will dissolve. - Mix and filter. - - 2. Take-- - Grape sugar or honey 8 ounces. - Water 6 ounces. - Alcohol 1 ounce. - Mix, dissolve, and filter. - -And when required for use, mix equal parts of these solutions, and pour -them over the plate. The plate is to be allowed to drain; and then, when -placed in the frame, is ready for the camera, and is easily impressed as a -deep negative by a Ross's landscape lens instantaneously. To develop, I use -always the same agents as I have before specified. One or two cautions are -to be observed in this process. First, the grape-sugar or honey must be -quite pure, and free from any _strong_ acid re-action; and, secondly, these -substances are much improved by a long exposure to the air, by which the -oxidation of them is commenced, and the result made much more certain and -effective. However, I find that the addition of the least possible quantity -of nitric acid has the same effect; but nothing is so good as long exposure -of the sugar or honey, so as to become completely candied before mixing. -The sugar may as conveniently of course be mixed in the collodion as in the -bath, but in that case the keeping properties are lost, as the plate is not -thus kept longer moist than usual. If, however, the former process be used -and well conducted, the plate when sensitised may be kept for four hours at -least without injury. - -The grape sugar should be made with oxalic, and the acid removed by lime as -usual, and not with sulphuric acid, as is often done; as in the latter case -sulpho-saccharic acid is formed, which much injures the result. - -I have been trying numerous experiments in this line, and I think I have -almost hit upon another and quite new and instantaneous process; but as it -is only in embryo, I will not give it to you till perfect. There are of -course many other substances to be yet mixed in the bath or the collodion, -_e. g._ all the alkaloids, or indeed any of the deoxidating agents known, -and probably with good results. I am still continuing my experiments on -this head, and if I make any farther improvements I will lose no time in -communicating them to you. Some negatives taken by this means were -exhibited on Friday evening at the Royal Institution, and were much -admired. - -F. MAXWELL LYTE. - - [By MR. LYTE'S kindness, who has shown us a number of the pictures - taken by this new process, we {571} are enabled to hear our testimony - to its beautiful results. We are glad to learn also, that there is a - probability that the admirers of photography may soon be enabled to - purchase specimens of the productions of this accomplished amateur, who - is about to return to the Pyrenees for the purpose of securing - photographic views of the splendid scenery and various objects of - interest which are to be found there.--ED. "N. & Q."] - -_Photographs, &c. of the Crystal Palace._--All who have visited the -Photographic Institution, in New Bond Street, must have admired the large -photographic views of the Crystal Palace, from collodion negatives taken by -MR. DELAMOTTE, who, combining the taste of the artist with the skill of the -photographer, has succeeded in producing some most effective views of this -new Temple of Education. At Lord Rosse's soiree on Saturday last, the -closing one unfortunately of those most agreeable reunions, Mr. Williams -exhibited three daguerreotypes, taken that morning, of the ceremony of -opening the Crystal Palace, which, although only about three inches by -five, contained some hundreds of figures. The portraits of the Queen and -the brilliant cortege which surrounded her at the moment were strikingly -effective. - -_Soluble Cotton._--In answer to the observations of H. U. (Vol. ix., p. -548.), I should imagine that the nitrate of potash used was not thoroughly -dried; and consequently, the amount of water used was in excess of that -directed. The temperature should be from 120deg to 130deg Fahr. And -thermometers of a proper construction (with the lower part of the scale to -bend up from the bulb) can be obtained in abundance at from 1s. to 2s. 6d. -at several of the makers in Hatton Garden or elsewhere. - -GEO. SHADBOLT. - -_Cameras._--At one of the earliest meetings of the Photographic Society, I -suggested the use of papier mache as a material for the construction of -cameras, as possessing _nearly_ all the requisite qualities; but there is -one serious objection to its application to this purpose, its -_brittleness_, as a smart blow is apt to snap it like a biscuit. I think, -however, upon the whole, that if a peculiar kind of _Honduras_ mahogany, -such as is used for coach panels, is adopted, the possessor would never -desire a change. It should be as plain as a piece of deal, without the -slightest beauty of grain, which is positive detriment to a camera, from -the accompanying liability to warping. - -GEO. SHADBOLT. - - * * * * * - - -Replies to Minor Queries. - -_Shakspeare Portrait_ (Vol. viii., p. 438.).--J. S. Smith, in his -_Nollekins and his Times_ (vol. i. p. 26.), has a passage referring to the -portrait mentioned by your correspondent: - - "Clarkson, the portrait painter, was originally a coach-panel and sign - painter; and he executed that most elaborate one of Shakspeare, which - formerly hung across the street at the north-east corner of Little - Russell Street, in Drury Lane. The late Mr. Thomas Grignon informed me, - that he had often heard his father say, that this sign cost _five - hundred pounds!_ In my boyish days it was for many years exposed for - sale for a very trifling sum, at a broker's shop in Lower Brook Street, - Grosvenor Square. The late Mr. Crace, of Great Queen Street, assured me - that it was in his early days a thing that country people would stand - and gaze at, and that that corner of the street was hardly passable." - -Edwards, in his _Anecdotes of Painters_ (p. 117.), assigns the portrait to -a different painter, Samuel Wale, R.A. His account, however, being more -minute than Smith's, is worth transcribing: - - "Mr. Wale painted some signs; the principal one was a whole-length of - Shakspeare, about five feet high, which was executed for, and displayed - before the door of a public-house, the north-west corner of Little - Russell Street, in Drury Lane. It was enclosed in a most sumptuous - carved gilt frame, and suspended by rich iron work; but this splendid - object of attraction did not hang long before it was taken down, in - consequence of the act of parliament which passed for paving, and also - for removing the signs and other obstructions in the streets of London. - Such was the total change of fashion, and the consequent disuse of - signs, that the above representation of our great dramatic poet was - sold for a trifle to Mason the broker, in Lower Grosvenor Street; where - it stood at his door for several years, until it was totally destroyed - by the weather and other accidents." - -EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. - -"_Aches_" (Vol. ix., pp. 351. 409.).--_Aches_, as a dissyllable, may be -heard any day in Shropshire: "My yead _eaches_" (my head aches) is no -uncommon complaint in reply to an inquiry about health. - -WM. FRASER, B.C.L. - -"_Waestart_" (Vol. ix., p. 349.).--The querist, I humbly presume, is not a -Yorkshireman himself; or, probably, he would have at once resolved -_waestart_ into the ungrammatical but natural inquiry, "Where ist' -'art"--_ist'_ meaning _are you_, _thou_ being vulgarly used for you; the -_h_ is elided in _hurt_, the _u_ in _'urt_ being pronounced as _a_, -changing the vowel, as is very common among the illiterate. For instance, -church is often called _ch_a_rch_ by those who live a little to the -north-west; and person, where the _e_ is almost equivalent to the soft _u_ -in sound, is made into _p_a_rson_! - -L. J. - -_Willow Bark in Ague_ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--In the _Philosophical -Transactions_ (1835?) is a memoir by the Rev. E. Stone, of Chipping Norton, -of the salutary effects of the bark of the Duck Willow in agues and -intermittent fevers. The author states, that being dried in an oven, and -pounded, and administered in doses of one drachm every four hours in the -intervals of the paroxysms, it soon reduces the distemper; and, except in -very severe cases, removes it entirely. With the addition of one fifth part -of Peruvian bark, it {572} becomes a specific against these disorders, and -never fails to remove them. One advantage it possesses of influencing the -patient beneficially immediately it is adopted, without the necessity of -preparation previously. It is a safe medicine, and may be taken in water or -tea. - -I copy the above from an entry in an old notebook. I imagine the Duck -Willow to be the Common White Willow (_Salix albae vulgaris_) of Ray. - -SHIRLEY HIBBERD. - -See Pereira's _Materia Medica_: SALIX. He refers to a paper by the Rev. Mr. -Stone in the _Phil. Trans._ vol. liii. p. 195., on the efficacy of the bark -of the _Salix alba_ as a remedy for agues. See also A. T. Thomson's _London -Dispensatory_, in which is given an account of Mr. Stone's mode of -administration. - -H. J. - -_Lord Fairfax_ (Vol. ix., p. 380.).--I apprehend that there is nothing in -the reply of A FAIRFAX KINSMAN at all calculated to shake the opinion which -I expressed touching the barony of Fairfax of Cameron. The case of the -earldom of Newburgh, which your correspondent does not even mention, is, I -submit, of greater weight than all the "Peerages," and even than the Roll -of Scottish Peers. As to the Irish case--that of the Earl of Athlone--I can -but repeat my Query. Whether right or wrong, it is not binding on the -British House of Lords. The cases of the King of Hanover, the Duke of -Wellington, and Earl Nelson, are not in point. His Hanoverian Majesty is -not an alien; and though some British subjects may be recognised as peers -by foreign states, it does not follow that a foreigner can be a peer of -Britain. - -H. G. - -_The Young Pretender_ (Vol. ix., pp. 177. 231.)--The wife of the Young -Pretender was Louisa Maximiliene, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, Prince -of Scholberg, who was born in 1752, and married in 1772. As a widow, she -lived in Paris as the Countess of Albany, but in her drawing-room called -herself Queen of Great Britain. She was alive at the time of the death of -the Princess Charlotte (Nov. 1817). See Fisher's _Companion and Key to -History of England_, p. 333. - -O. S. - -_Dobney's Bowling-green; Wildman; Sampson_, (Vol. ix., p. 375.).--Dobney's, -or, more correctly, _D'Aubigney's_ Bowling-green, ceased to be a place of -public amusement about the year 1810. It is now occupied by a group of -houses called _Dobney's Place_, near the bottom of Penton Street. The late -Mr. Upcott had a drawing of Prospect House (as the building was called), -taken about 1780. A hand-bill of the year 1772 (in a volume formerly -belonging to Lysons) thus describes the nature of Wildman's performance: - - "_The Bees on Horseback._--Daniel Wildman rides, standing upright, one - foot on the saddle, and the other on the horse's neck, with a curious - mask of bees on his face. He also rides standing upright on the saddle, - with the bridle in his mouth, and, by firing a pistol, makes one part - of the bees march over a table, and the other part swarm in the air, - and return to their proper places again." - -Sampson, Price, Johnson, and Coningham were celebrated equestrian -performers towards the close of the last century. Astley was the pupil of -Sampson, and his successor in agility. Bromley, in his _Catalogue of -Engraved Portraits_, mentions a folio engraving of Sampson, without date or -engraver's name. It is hardly likely that any life of him was published. - -EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. - -_Palaeologus_ (Vol. ix., p. 312.).--Your readers will find, in Oldmixon's -_West Indies_, a later notice of the strange descent and fortunes of this -once illustrious family. From Cornwall they appear to have settled in -Barbadoes, where it is very possible that with mutilated name the family -may yet be found among the "poor whites" (many among them of ancient -lineage) of that island. - -B. - -_Children by one Mother._--In Vol. ix., p. 186., I. R. R., in reply to a -Query in Vol. v., p. 126.--"If there be any well-authenticated instance of -a woman having had more than twenty-five children?"--sends an account of a -case, which he "firmly believes" to be authenticated, of a farmer's wife -who had thirty. I now send you a much better authenticated case of -_polyprogenitiveness_, which utterly throws the farmer's wife into the -shade. - -In Palazzo Frescobaldi, in this city, the ancient residence of the old -Florentine family of that name, there is, among many other family -portraits, one full-length picture of a tall and good-looking lady with -this inscription beneath it: "Dianora Salviati, moglie di Bartolomeo -Frescobaldi, fece cinquantadue figli, mai meno che tre per parto" (Dianora -Salviati, wife of Bartolomeo Frescobaldi, gave birth to fifty-two sons, and -never had less than three at a birth). The case is referred to by Gio. -Schenchio, in his work _Del Parto_, at p. 144. - -The Essex lady, as well as I should suppose all other ladies whatsoever, -must hide their diminished heads in presence of this noble dame of -Florence. - -T. A. T. - -Florence. - -_Robert Brown the Separatist_ (Vol. ix., p. 494.).--MR. CORNER will -probably find an answer to his question in the _History of Stamford_, by W. -Harrod (1785), and in Blore's _History of the County of Rutland_, 1813, -fol.; Bawden's _Survey_, 1809, 4to.; Wright's _History of Rutlandshire_, -1687 and 1714. The last descendant of Robert Brown died on Sept. 17, 1839, -aet. sixty-nine, widow of George, third Earl of Pomfret; and as she had no -issue, her house and estate at Toltrop {573} (_i. e._ Tolthorp), in -Rutlandshire, about two miles from Stamford in Lincolnshire, probably -passed to his heir and brother Thomas William, the fourth earl. - -At the time of her marriage, her servants (as was believed by orders from -their mistress) _persevered_ in chiming the only _two_ bells of the parish -church, to the hazard and annoyance of the vicar's wife, just confined of -her first child in a room hardly a stone's throw from it. His pupils were -so indignant, that they drove away the offenders and took the clappers out -of the bells: and the son of a near neighbour, then a member of St. John's -College, Cambridge (Thos. Foster, A.B., 1792), made it the subject of a -mock-heroic poem of some merit, called the _Brunoniad_ (London, 1790, -printed by Kearsley). So few copies were printed, that the queen and -princesses could not procure one; and a lady employed at Court requested a -young friend of hers, resident at Stamford, to make a transcript of it for -their use. This your present note-writer can aver, as the transcriber was a -sister of - -ANAT. - -_Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"_ (Vol. ix., p. 305.).--Concerning the -origin of this interesting old ballad, the following communication appeared -in _The Times_ of May 1, 1846. It is dated from Coldrey, Hants, and signed -Charles Lee: - - "The hero of this beautiful ballad was my ancestor, Sir John Bolle of - Thorpe Hall, Lincolnshire, of most ancient and loyal family, and father - of that Colonel Bolle who fell in Alton Church, whilst fighting against - the rebels in December, 1643. Of the truth of this I am prepared to - give the curious in these matters the most abundant evidence, but the - space which the subject would occupy would necessarily exclude it from - your columns. - - "The writer of the paper in the _Edinburgh_ says:--'Had the necklace - been still extant, the preference would have been due to Littlecot.' - The necklace is still extant, in the possession of a member of my - family, and in the house whence I write. In Illingworth's - _Topographical Account of Scampton, with Anecdotes of the Family of - Bolles_, it is stated: 'The portrait of Sir John, drawn in 1596, at the - age of thirty-six years, having on the gold chain given him by the - Spanish Lady, &c., is still in the possession of his descendant, Capt. - Birch.' - - "That portrait is now in the possession of Capt. Birch's successor, - Thomas Bosvile Bosvile, Esq., of Ravensfield Park, Yorkshire, my - brother, and may be seen by any one. I will only add another extract - from Illingworth's _Scampton_:--'On Sir John Bolle's departure from - Cadiz, the Spanish Lady sent as presents to his wife, a profusion of - jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her portrait drawn in - green; plate, money, and other treasure. Some articles are still in - possession of the family; though her picture was unfortunately, and by - accident, disposed of about half a century since. This portrait being - drawn in green, gave occasion to her being called, in the neighbourhood - of Thorpe Hall, the Green Lady; where, to this day, there is a - traditionary superstition among the vulgar, that Thorpe Hall was - haunted by the Green Lady, who used nightly to take her seat in a - particular tree near the mansion.' In Illingworth there is a long and - full account of the Spanish Lady, and the ballad is given at length." - -EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. - -_Niagara_ (Vol. vii., pp. 50. 137.).--Let me add one other authority of -comparatively recent date on Goldsmith's side of the _vexata quaestio_, -about the pronunciation of this name: - - "And we'd take verses out to Demerara, - To New South Wales, and up to Niagara." - Proeme to _The Monks and the Giants_, by - William and Robert Whistlecraft, _i. e._ - John Hookham Frere. - -BALLIOLENSIS. - -_Hymn attributed to Handel_ (Vol. ix., p. 303.).--I do not understand -whether MR. STORER'S Query refers to the _words_ or _music_ of this hymn. -If to the former, it is most assuredly not Handel's. It is strange that the -church does not possess one _genuine_ psalm or hymn tune of this mighty -master, although he certainly composed several. The popular melody called -_Hanover_, usually attributed to Handel, was printed in the _Supplement to -the New Version of Psalms_ (a collection of tunes) in 1703. Handel did not -arrive in England till 1710. It is improbable, from many circumstances, -that he composed this grand melody. It was probably the work of Dr. Croft. - -D'Almaine, the eminent music-seller of Soho Square, published some years -back-- - - "Three Hymns, the Words by the late Rev. Charles Wesley, A.M., of - Christ Church College, Oxon; and set to music by George Frederick - Handel, faithfully transcribed from his autography in the Library of - the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by Samuel Wesley, and now very - respectfully presented to the Wesleyan Society at large." - -Among my musical autographs is one which, as it relates to the foregoing -publication, I transcribe: - - "The late comedian Rich, who was the most celebrated harlequin of his - time, was also the proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre, during the - period that Handel conducted his oratorios at that house. He married a - person who became a serious character, after having formerly been a - very contrary one; and who requested Handel to set to music the _Three - Hymns_ which I transcribed in the Fitzwilliam Library from the - autography, and published them in consequence. - - S. WESLEY. - Monday, March 30, 1829." - -The first lines of the hymns are as follows: 1. Sinners, obey the Gospel -Word. 2. O Love divine, how sweet thou art! 3. Rejoice! the Lord is King. - -EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. - -{574} - -_Marquis of Granby_ (Vol. ix., pp. 127. 360.).--In a critique which -appeared in the _Quarterly Review_ for January or April, 1838, on Dickens's -earlier works, it is stated that Sumpter, a discharged soldier of the royal -regiment of Horse Guards, opened a public-house at Hounslow, having as its -sign "The Marquis of Granby," which was the first occasion of the marquis's -name appearing on the sign-board of a public-house. This note appeared in -reference to the public-house kept at Dorking by Mrs. Weller, the "second -wentur" of Tony Weller, father of the immortal Samivel, of that ilk. - -John, Marquis of Granby, was colonel of the royal regiment of Horse Guards -from May 13, 1758, to his decease, which occurred Oct. 19, 1770, and was -justly considered the soldier's friend. (See Captain Packer's _History of -the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards_, p. 95.) Mr. Dickens, in his -description of the sign-board at Dorking, has arrayed the marquis in the -uniform, not of the regiment, but of a general officer: he states,-- - - "On the opposite side of the road was a sign-board representing the - head and shoulders of a gentleman with an apoplectic countenance, in a - red coat, with deep blue facings, and a touch of the same over his - three-cornered hat for a sky. Over that, again, were a pair of flags, - and beneath the last button of his coat were a couple of cannon; and - the whole formed an expressive and undoubted likeness of the Marquis of - Granby of glorious memory." - -Witty, I admit, but that "touch of the same" (blue _facings_?) for a sky is -ambiguous. _Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio._ - -The uniform of the royal regiment of Horse Guards, from 1758 to 1770, -consisted of a dark blue coatee, with red facings, red breeches, jacked -boots, and three-cornered hats bound with gold lace. - -G. L. S. - -_Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel_ (Vol. -viii., p. 100.).--The Archdeacon of Stafford, in his last visitation -charge, at Stafford, May 23, 1854, said of Convocation: - - "He was not aware that the two venerable societies, The Society for the - Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and The Society for - Promoting Christian Knowledge, owed their existence to it." - -Atterbury, writing to Bishop Trelawny, March 15, 1700-1, says: - - "We appointed another committee, for considering the methods of - Propagating the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts, who sat the first - time this afternoon in the Chapter House of St. Paul's"--Atterbury's - _Correspondence_, vol. i. p. 88. - -Though the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign -Parts does not owe, strictly speaking, its _existence_ to Convocation, yet -it certainly is indebted to it, both for the general outline of its -operations, and also for its name. - -WM. FRASER, B.C.L. - -_Cassie_ (Vol. ix., p. 396.).--With regard to W. T. M. about _cassie_, he -will find an approximation to that word as used for _causeway_, in the old -editions of Ludlow's _Memoirs_, and others, where causeway is always spelt -_causey_. - -A. (1) - -_"Three cats sat," &c._ (Vol. ix., p.173.).--I am delighted to say that a -long course of laborious research among the antiquities of nurserydom have -enabled me to supply JULIA R. BOCKETT (I dare not venture on any prefix to -the name, for fear of doing grievous wrong in my ignorance of the lady's -civil status) with the missing canto the poem her ancient friend is so -desirous of completing. It will be seen to convey a charming lesson of -amiable sociality--admirably adapted _d'ailleurs_ to the pages of a work -which seeks to encourage "intercommunications." It runs thus: - - "Said one little cat, - To the other little cat, - If you don't speak, I must; - I must. - If you don't speak, I must." - -JULIA R. BOCKETT will doubtless feel with me, that though the antithesis -requires that the "I" should be strongly emphasised in the first case, the -sentiment expressed imperatively demands an intense force to be given to -the "must" in the second repetition. - -T. A. T. - -Florence. - -P. S.--By-the-bye, talking of cats, there is a story current, that a -certain archbishop, who sits neither at Canterbury nor York, having once, -in unbending mood, demanded of one of his clergy if he could decline "cat," -corrected the reverend catechumen, when, having arrived at the vocative -case, he gave it, "Vocative, O cat!" and declared such declension to be -wrong, and that the vocative of "cat" was "_puss_." Of course, it will be -henceforth considered so in the diocese presided over by the prelate in -question, as the gender of "carrosse" was changed throughout _la belle -France_, by a blunder of the _grand monarque_. But surely the archbishop -was as palpably wrong as the king was. At least, if he was not, we have -only the alternative of considering Shakspeare to have blundered. For, have -we not Stefano's address to poor Caliban: - - "Open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, _cat_." - -And again, does not Lysander, somewhat ungallantly, thus apostrophise -Hermia: - - "Hang off, thou _cat_, thou burr!" - -Moreover, will not the pages of our nursery literature furnish on the other -hand abundance of {575} instances _passim_ of _puss_ used in every one of -the oblique cases, as well as in the nominative? - -_Tailless Cats_ (Vol. ix., pp. 10. 111.).--It may be interesting to your -correspondent SHIRLEY HIBBERD to know, that the Burmese breed of cats is, -like that of the Isle of Man, tailless; or, if not exactly without tails, -the tails they have are so short as to be called so merely by the extremest -courtesy. This is the only respect, however, in which they differ from -other cats. - -S. B. - -Lucknow. - -_Francklyn Household Book_ (Vol. ix., p. 422.).-- - - _Bay-salt to stop the barrels._--Before heading down a cask of salted - meat, the vacant spaces are filled up with salt. - - _Giggs and scourge-sticks._--Whip-tops, and whips for spinning them. - - _Jumballs._--A kind of gingerbread. - -JOHN P. STILWELL. - -Dorking. - -_"Violet-crowned" Athens_ (Vol. ix., p. 496.).--I have always understood -that the adoption of the _violet_ as the heraldic flower of old Athens -involved, as heraldry so often does, a pun. As you well know, the Greek for -violet is [Greek: Ion], and thence its adoption as the symbolical flower of -the chief city in Europe of the _Ion_ian race. - -CANTAB. - -_Smith of Nevis and St. Kitt's_ (Vol. ix., p. 222.).--I find by some -curious letters from an old lady, by birth a Miss Williams of Antigua, and -widow of the son of the Lieut.-Governor of Nevis, now in the possession of -a friend of mine connected with the West Indies, that the arms of that -family were--Gules, on a chevron between three bezants or, three cross -crosslets sable. And the crest, from a ducal coronet or, an Indian goat's -head argent. - -This may facilitate the search of your correspondent for the affiliation of -that family to the United Kingdom. - -B. - -_Hydropathy_ (Vol. ix., p. 395.).--"John Smith, C.M." (_i. e._ -clock-maker), of the parish of St. Augustin, London, was the author of -several pamphlets. He published in the year 1723 a treatise in -recommendation of the medicinal use of water as "a universal remedy," as -well by drinking as by applying it externally to the body. In the British -Museum there is a French translation of it, which appeared in Paris, A.D. -1725. This is a proof of the notoriety which the treatise obtained. The -tenth edition, dated "Edinburgh, 1740," contains additions communicated by -Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S., and others. In the year 1695 he published a -short treatise entitled _A designed End to the Socinian Controversy; or, a -rational and plain Discourse to prove, that no other Person but the Father -of Christ is God Most High_. This attracted the notice of the civil power, -and by order of parliament it was burnt, and the author prosecuted. (See -Wallace's _Anti-Trinitarian Biography_, vol. iii. p. 398., London, 1850.) - -N. W. S. - -_Leslie and Dr. Middleton_ (Vol. ix., p. 324.).-- - - "Middleton was one of the men who sought for twenty years some - historical facts that might conform to Leslie's four conditions, and - yet evade Leslie's logic."--_Blackwood's Magazine_, July, 1842, p. 5. - -J. O. B. - -_Lord Brougham and Horne Tooke_ (Vol. ix., p. 398.).--I have not Lord -Brougham's book before me, but I have no doubt but that Q. has missed the -meaning of his lordship. The reference would probably be to Horne Tooke's -anticipation of the strange immoral reveries of Emerson and others, that -_truth_ is entirely subjective; because the word bears etymological -relation to "to trow," to think, or believe: and so _truth_ has no -objective existence, but is merely what a man troweth. If that be an -argument, Lord Brougham would say then the law of libel would be unjust, -merely because "libel" means primarily a little book; he might have added -that, according to Horne Tooke and Mr. Emerson, if a man had been killed by -falling against a post at Charing Cross, a jury might deny the fact of the -violent death, because "post" means a place for depositing letters, and he -had not been near St. Martin's-le-grand. The remark of Lord Brougham is not -as to a fact, but is a _reductio ad absurdum_. - -W. DENTON. - -It is suggested to Q. (Bloomsbury), that Lord Brougham meant not to say -that Horne Tooke _had ever held_ or _maintained_ this strange doctrine, -"that the law of libel was unjust and absurd, because libel means a little -book," but that he _would_ have done so, or might have done so consistently -with his etymological theory, namely, that the _present_ sense of words is -to be sought in their primitive signification: _e.g._, in the _Diversions -of Purley_, vol. ii. p. 403., Horne Tooke says,-- - - "_True_, as we now write it, or _trew_, as it was formerly written, - means simply and merely that which is _trowed_; and, instead of its - being a rare commodity upon earth, except only in words, there is - nothing but truth in the world." - -If we ought _now_ to use the word truth only in this sense, then, _pari -ratione_, we ought to mean only a little book when we use the word libel. - -J. O. B. - -Thorpe. - -_Irish Rhymes_ (Vol. viii., p. 250.).--A. B. C. asks, "Will any one say it -was through ignorance {576} that he (Swift) did not sound the _g_ in -dressing?" Now I cannot tell whether or not I shall raise a nest of hornets -about my ears, but my private impression is that in doing so Swift meant to -be "more _English_ and less nice." I think it invariably strikes an -Irishman as one of the most remarkable peculiarities of the English people, -the almost constant omission of that letter from every word ending (I -should have said, if I was an Englishman, "endin'") with it. The fair sex, -I fear I must add, are, of the two, rather more decided in clippin' (_g_) -the Queen's English. - -Y. S. M. - -_Cabbages_ (Vol. ix., p. 424.).--I was aware of the passage in Evelyn's -_Acetaria_, and am anxious to know whether there is any confirmation of -that statement. Is there any other information extant as to the first -introduction of cabbages into England? - -C. H. - -_Sir William "Usher," not "Upton"_ (Vol. viii., p. 328.), was appointed -Clerk of the Council in Ireland, March 22, 1593. He was knighted by Sir -George Carey, Law Deputy, on St. James' Day, 1603; and died in 16--, having -married Isabella Loftus, eldest daughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of -Dublin. Of what family was he? - -Y. S. M. - -"_Buckle_" (Vol. viii., pp. 127. 304. 526.).--An awkward person, working -incautiously with a saw, will probably, to use a carpenter's phrase, -_buckle_ it; that is, give it a bend or twist which will injure its -working. - -Y. S. M. - -_Cornwall Family_ (Vol. ix., p. 304.).--John Cornwall, Esq., a director of -the Bank of England, 1769, bore the arms and crest of the ancient family of -that name of Burford, in Shropshire, of which he was a member. A full -account of this distinguished family is now preparing under their sanction. - -E. D. - -_John of Gaunt_ (Vol. ix., p. 432.).--Perhaps the best method of explaining -to Y. S. M. the unmistakeable nose of the descendants of John of Gaunt, -will be to refer him to the complete series of portraits at Badminton, -concluding with the late Duke of Beaufort. He will then comprehend what is -difficult to describe in the physiognomy of - - "That mighty line, whose sires of old - Sprang from Britain's royal blood; - All its sons were wise and bold, - All its daughters fair and good!" - -E. D. - -_"Wellesley" or "Wesley"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 173. 255.).--Your readers will -find, in Lynch's _Feudal Dignities_, the name spelt _Wellesley_ in Ireland, -so long ago as the year 1230, and continued so for several centuries at -least subsequent to that date. The Public Records also bear evidence of the -high position and great influence of the Wellesleys, not _Wesleys_, for a -lengthened period in Irish history. - -Y. S. M. - -_Mantel-piece_ (Vol. ix., pp. 302. 385.).--In old farm-houses, where the -broad, open fireplace and hearth still exist, a small curtain, or rather -valance, is often suspended from below the mantle-shelf, the object -apparently being the exclusion of draughts and smoke. May not the use of -this sort of _mantel_ have caused the part of the fireplace from which it -hangs to be called the mantel-piece? - -EDGAR MACCULLOCH. - -Guernsey. - - "MANTEL, _n. s._ (_mantel_, old French, or rather the German word - _mantel_, 'Germanis _mantel_ non pallium modo significat, sed etiam id - omne quod aliud circumdat: hinc murus arcis, atque structura quae focum - invertit, _mantel_ ipsis dicitur.' V. Ducange in v. Mantum). Work - raised before a chimney to conceal it, whence the name, which - originally signifies a cloak."--Todd's _Johnson_. - -Richardson gives the two following quotations from Wotton: - - From them (Italians) we may better learn, both how to raise fair - _mantles_ within the rooms, and how to disguise gracefully the shafts - of chimneys abroad (as they use) in sundry forms."--_Reliquiae - Wottonianae_, p. 37. - - "The Italians apply it (plastick) to the _mantling_ of chimneys with - great figures, a cheap piece of magnificence."--Id. p. 63. - -ZEUS. - -_"Perturbabantur," &c._ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--When I first learned to scan -verses, somewhere about thirty years ago, the lines produced by your -correspondent P. were in every child's mouth, with this story attached to -them. It was said that Oxford had received from Cambridge the first line of -the distich, with a challenge to produce a corresponding line consisting of -two words only. To this challenge Oxford replied by sending back the second -line, pointing out, at the same time, the false quantity in the word -"Constantin[)o]politani." - -J. SANSOM. - -The story connected with these lines current at Cambridge in my time was, -that the University of Oxford challenged the sister university to match the -first line; to which challenge the second line was promptly returned from -Cambridge by way of reply. At Oxford, I believe, the story is reversed, as -neither university is willing to own to the false quantity in -"Constantin[)o]politani." - -J. EASTWOOD, M.A. - -The classic legend attached to these two lines (and there are only two in -the legend) is that the Oxonians sent a challenge to the Cantabs to make -{577} a binomial pentameter corresponding to "Perturbabantur -Constantinopolitani." The Cantabs immediately returned the challenge by -sending "Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus." Perhaps it is worthy of remark, -though not evident except to a Greek scholar, that the first line contains -at least _one_ false quantity, for "Constantinopol[)i]tani" must have the -antepenultima long, as being derived from [Greek: polites]. The lengthening -of the fourth syllable may perhaps have been considered as a compensation, -though rather a _prae-posterous_ one. - -CHARLES DE LA PRYME. - -I remember to have heard that the history of these two lines is as -follows:--The head of one of our public schools having a talent for -composing extraordinary verses, sent the first line, "Perturbabantur -Constantinopolitani," to a friend of his, who was at the time the captain -of another public school, asking him at the same time whether he could -compose anything like it. The answer returned was the second line, -"Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus,"--a line, in my opinion, much superior -to the former, as well for other reasons as that it is free from any false -quantity; while, as any Greek scholar will at once find out, the -antepenultimate syllable of "Constantinopolitani" must be long, being -derived from the Greek word [Greek: polites]. - -I never heard of any more lines of the same description. - -P. A. H. - -I have always understood that once upon a time the Eton boys, or those of -some other public school, sent the hexameter verse, "Perturbabantur -Constantinopolitani," to the Winchester boys, challenging them to produce a -pentameter verse consisting of only two words, and making sense. The -Winchester boys added, "Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus." - -WICCAMICUS. - -_Edition of "Othello"_ (Vol. ix., p. 375.).--The work inquired for, with -the astrological (the editor would have called them hieroglyphic) notes, -forms part of the third volume of the lunatic production of Mr. Robert -Deverell, which I described in "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 61., entitled -_Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and other Antiquities_, 6 vols. 8vo., Lond. -1813. - -J. F. M. - -In case it would be of any use to M. A., Mr. Cole, the late lessee of the -Theatre Royal, Dublin, is now reader of plays (I think) to Mr. Kean at the -Princesses Theatre; at all events he is connected with that establishment. - -L. M. N. - -Dublin. - -_Perspective_ (Vol. ix., pp. 300. 378.).--I shall be glad of a reference to -any work on Perspective which treats satisfactorily of that part of the -subject on which I made my Note. I think if MR. FERREY will draw a lofty -building on either side of a landscape, he will not be satisfied with its -appearance, if he makes that side of it which is in the plane of the -picture perfectly rectangular. I often meet with instances in which it is -so drawn, and they produce the effect on me of a note out of time. MR. -STILWELL's observation is only partially correct. There is one position of -the eye, at a fixed distance from the picture, at which all the lines -subtend equal angles at the eye with the corresponding lines of the -original landscape. But a picture is not to be looked at from one point, -and that at, probably, an inconvenient proximity to the eye. I have before -me a print (in the _Ill. Lond. News_) of the interior of St. Paul's, of -which the dome gives about as good an idea of proportion to the building, -as the north part of Mercator's projection of the World. The whole building -is depressed and top-heavy, simply because the perspective of lines in the -plane of the picture is rectangular throughout. I have another interior (of -Winchester Cathedral, by Owen Carter), which, being drawn on the same plan, -gives the idea of a _squat tunnel_, unless looked at from one point of -view, about eight inches from the picture. I feel that drawing these -interiors so as not to offend the eye by either the excess or deficiency of -perspective, is a great difficulty. But I think something may be done in -the way of "humouring" the perspective, and approximating in our drawing to -that which we know we see. The camera has thrown light upon the subject. We -ought not to despise altogether the hints it gives us by its perhaps -exaggerated perspective, in the case of parallel lines in the plane of the -picture. I hope I may at least be able to draw out some more remarks upon a -subject which I cannot help thinking, with Mr. INGLEBY, is in an -unsatisfactory and defective state. - -G. T. HOARE. - -Tandridge. - -"_Go to Bath_" (Vol. ix., p. 421.).--I have little doubt but that this -phrase is connected with the fact of Bath's being proverbially the resort -of beggars; and what more natural, to one acquainted with this fact, than -to bid an importunate applicant betake himself thither to join his fellows? -See also Fuller's _Worthies_ (co. Somerset). - -I transcribe the passage for the benefit of those who have not the book at -hand: - - "_Beggars of Bath._--Many in that place; some natives there, others - repairing thither from all parts of the land; the poor for alms, the - pained for ease. Whither should fowl flock in a hard frost, but to the - barn-door? Here, all the two seasons, being the general confluence of - gentry. Indeed laws are daily made to restrain beggars, and daily - broken by the connivance of those who make them; it being impossible - when the hungry belly barks, and bowels sound, to keep the tongue - silent. And although oil of whip {578} be the proper plaister for the - cramp of laziness, yet some pity is due to impotent persons. In a word, - seeing there is the Lazar's-bath in this city, I doubt not but many a - good Lazarus, the true object of charity, may beg therein." - -J. EASTWOOD, M.A. - -R. R. inquires the origin of the above saying, but has forgotten the -context, viz. "and get your head shaved." I have often heard it explained -as an allusion to the fact, that, in former days, persons who showed -symptoms of insanity were sent to Bath to drink the medicinal waters; the -process of shaving the head being previously resorted to. The saying is -applied to those who either relate "crack-brained" stories, or propose -undertakings that raise a doubt as to their sanity. - -N. L. T. - -_Ridings and Chaffings_ (Vol. ix., p. 370.).--Though unable to give MR. -THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER any information respecting the "Ridings and -Chaffings" of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, I send the following note -of a somewhat similar custom prevalent in Oxfordshire (I never heard of it -elsewhere), thinking it may perhaps interest him and others of your -correspondents. - -I remember once, about three years ago, I was walking in Blenheim Park, -with a friend then resident at Woodstock, when suddenly the stillness of a -summer evening was broken by strange and inharmonious sounds, coming to us -across the water from the old town. The sounds grew louder and louder, and -in great surprise I appealed to my friend for an explanation; when I -learned that it was a custom in that part of the country, whenever it was -discovered that a man had been beating his wife, for the neighbours to -provide themselves with all sorts of instruments, fire-irons, kettles, and -pots, in fine, anything capable of making a noise, and proceed _en masse_ -to the house of the offender, before whose door they performed in concert, -till their indignation subsided or their arms grew weary; and that the -noise we then heard was the distant sound of such music. - -I do not know if my friend gave any name to this practice; if he did, I -have since forgotten it. Doubtless, some of your Oxford readers can assist -me. - -R. V. T. - -Mincing Lane. - -At Marchington, in Staffordshire, the custom exists of having what is -called a "Rantipole Riding" for every man who beats his wife. The ceremony -is performed with great care and solemnity. A committee is formed to -examine into the case. Then the village poet is employed to give a history -of the occurrence in verse. The procession goes round in the evening with a -cart, which serves as a stage on which the scene is acted and from which -the verses are recited. The custom has been there observed, with so much -judgment and discretion, that it has been productive of much good, and has -now almost entirely put a stop to this disgraceful practice. I can remember -several "ridings" in my younger days. - -H. B. - -MR. POTTER will find, upon referring to Vol. i., p. 245., that this custom -prevails in Gloucestershire, with the substitution of _straw_ for _chaff_. -I have seen the Gloucestershire version both in Kent and Sussex, and have -received an explanation of it similar to MR. POTTER'S own supposition. - -G. WILLIAM SKYRING. - -Somerset House. - -_Faithful Commin_ (Vol. ix., p. 155.).--Your correspondent W. H. GUNNER -will find a detailed account of Faithful Commin in _Foxes and Firebrands_, -a tract of which mention has been made in various Numbers of "N. & Q." It -is there said to be extracted from the Memorials of Cecil Lord Burleigh, -from whose papers it was transmitted to Archbishop Ussher. "The papers of -the Lord Primate coming to the hands of Sir James Ware, his son, Robert -Ware, Esq., has obliged the public by the communication of them." - -[Greek: Halieus.] - -Dublin. - -_Heraldic Anomaly_ (Vol. ix., p. 430.).--TEE BEE'S description of the arms -on St. John's Gate is somewhat defective. They are engraved, and more -completely described, in Cromwell's _History of Clerkenwell_ [1828], p. -128. - -W. P. STORER. - -Olney, Bucks. - -_Odd Fellows_ (Vol. ix., p. 327.).--C. F. A. 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AMBROSE -MERTON. - -London: Published for the Proprietors, and may be had of C. LONSDALE, 26. -Old Bond Street; and by Order of all Music Sellers. - -PRICE THREE SHILLINGS. - - * * * * * - - -PIANOFORTES, 25 Guineas each.--D'ALMAINE & CO., 20. Soho Square -(established A.D. 1785), sole manufacturers of the ROYAL PIANOFORTES, at 25 -Guineas each. Every instrument warranted. The peculiar advantages of these -pianofortes are best described in the following professional testimonial, -signed by the majority of the leading musicians of the age:--"We, the -undersigned members of the musical profession, having carefully examined -the Royal Pianofortes manufactured by MESSRS. D'ALMAINE & CO., have great -pleasure in bearing testimony to their merits and capabilities. It appears -to us impossible to produce instruments of the same size possessing a -richer and finer tone, more elastic touch, or more equal temperament, while -the elegance of their construction renders them a handsome ornament for the -library, boudoir, or drawing-room. (Signed) J. L. Abel, F. Benedict, H. R. -Bishop, J. Blewitt, J. Brizzi, T. P. Chipp, P. Delavanti, C. H. Dolby, E. -F. Fitzwilliam, W. Forde, Stephen Glover, Henri Herz, E. Harrison, H. F. -Hasse, J. L. Hatton, Catherine Hayes, W. H. Holmes, W. Kuhe, G. F. -Kiallmark, E. Land, G. Lanza, Alexander Lee, A. Leffler, E. J. Loder, W. H. -Montgomery, S. Nelson, G. A. Osborne, John Parry, H. Panofka, Henry -Phillips, F. Praegar, E. F. Rimbault, Frank Romer, G. H. Rodwell, E. -Rockel, Sims Reeves, J. Templeton, F. Weber, H. Westrop, T. H. Wright," &c. - -D'ALMAINE & CO., 20. Soho Square. Lists and Designs Gratis. - - * * * * * - - -Patronised by the Royal Family. - -TWO THOUSAND POUNDS for any person producing Articles superior to the -following: - -THE HAIR RESTORED AND GREYNESS PREVENTED. - -BEETHAM'S CAPILLARY FLUID is acknowledged to be the most effectual article -for Restoring the Hair in Baldness, strengthening when weak and fine, -effectually preventing falling or turning grey, and for restoring its -natural colour without the use of dye. The rich glossy appearance it -imparts is the admiration of every person. Thousands have experienced its -astonishing efficacy. Bottles 2s. 6d.; double size, 4s. 6d.; 7s. 6d. equal -to 4 small; 11s. to 6 small; 21s. to 13 small. The most perfect beautifier -ever invented. - -SUPERFLUOUS HAIR REMOVED. - -BEETHAM'S VEGETABLE EXTRACT does not cause pain or injury to the skin. Its -effect is unerring, and it is now patronised by royalty and hundreds of the -first families. Bottles, 5s. - -BEETHAM'S PLASTER is the only effectual remover of Corns and Bunions. It -also reduces enlarged Great Toe Joints in an astonishing manner. If space -allowed, the testimony of upwards of twelve thousand individuals, during -the last five years, might be inserted. Packets, 1s.; Boxes, 2s. 6d. Sent -Free by BEETHAM, Chemist, Cheltenham, for 14 or 36 Post Stamps. - - Sold by PRING, 30. Westmorland Street; JACKSON, 9. Westland Row; BEWLEY - & EVANS, Dublin; GOULDING, 108. Patrick Street, Cork; BARRY, 9. Main - Street, Kinsale; GRATTAN, Belfast; MURDOCK, BROTHERS, Glasgow; DUNCAN & - FLOCKHART, Edinburgh. SANGER, 150. Oxford Street; PROUT, 229. Strand; - KEATING, St. Paul's Churchyard; SAVORY & MOORE, Bond Street; HANNAY, - 63. Oxford Street; London. All Chemists and Perfumers will procure - them. - - * * * * * - - -BENNETT'S MODEL WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION, No. 1. Class X., -in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all Climates, -may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold London-made -Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4 -guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas. -Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with -Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's Pocket -Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully -examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2l., 3l., and -4l. Thermometers from 1s. each. - -BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the -Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen. - -65. CHEAPSIDE. - - * * * * * - - -ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Price, and Description of -upwards of 100 articles, consisting of PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING-BAGS, -Ladies' Portmanteaus, - -DESPATCH-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and other travelling -requisites, Gratis on application, or sent free by Post on receipt of Two -Stamps. - -MESSRS. ALLEN'S registered Despatch-box and Writing-desk, their -Travelling-bag with the opening as large as the bag, and the new -Portmanteau containing four compartments, are undoubtedly the best articles -of the kind ever produced. - -J. W. & T. ALLEN, 18. & 22. West Strand. - - * * * * * - - -Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish -of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. -Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. -Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of -London, Publisher, at No. 186. 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