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Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Author: Various Language: English As this book started as an ASCII text book there are no pictures available. *** Start of this LibraryBlog Digital Book "Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc." *** [Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top; [p=] shows a letter p with a stroke through the descender. {Old English style} letters have been shown in {braces}. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. V.--No. 134. SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- A few Things about Richard Baxter, by H. M. Bealby 481 Latin Song by Andrew Boorde, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 482 Shakspeare Notes 483 Publications of the Stuttgart Society, by F. Norgate 484 Manuscript Shakspeare Emendations, by J. O. Halliwell 484 The Grave-stone of Joe Miller 485 Folk Lore:--Swearing on a Skull--New Moon--Rust 485 Minor Notes:--Epitaph at Low Moor--Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph--Bibliotheca Literaria--Inscription at Dundrah Castle--Derivation of Charing 486 QUERIES:-- Poem by Nicholas Breton 487 The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club 487 The Rabbit as a Symbol 487 Is Wyld's Great Globe a Plagiarism from Molenax? by John Petheram 488 Minor Queries:--Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament--Newton's Library--Meaning of Royd--The Cromwell Family--Sir John Darnell, Knt.--Royal "We"--Gondomar--Wallington's Journal--Epistola Lucifera, &c.--Cambrian Literature--"VCRIMDR" on Coins of Vabalathus--Lines on Woman--Penkenol--Fairfax Family Mansion--Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer--Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains, &c. 488 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Welsh Women's Hats--Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday--Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian 491 REPLIES:-- The Ring Finger 492 The Moravian Hymns 492 Cagots 493 Sheriffs and Lords Lieutenant 494 St. Christopher 494 General Pardons: Sir John Trenchard, by E. S. Taylor 496 Replies to Minor Queries:--Dayesman--Bull; Dun--Algernon Sidney--Age of Trees--Emaciated Monumental Effigies--Bee Park--Sally Lunn--Baxter's Pulpit--Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps--British Ambassadors--Knollys Family--'Prentice Pillars; 'Prentice Windows--St. Bartholomew--Sun-dial Inscription--History of Faction--Barnacles--Family Likenesses--Merchant Adventurers to Spain--Exeter Controversy--Corrupted Names of Places--Poison--Vikingr Skotar--Rhymes on Places--"We three"--Burning Fern brings Rain--Plague Stones--Sneezing--Abbot of Croyland's Motto--Derivation of the Word "Azores"--Scologlandis and Scologi 497 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 501 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 502 Notices to Correspondents 502 Advertisements 503 Notes. A FEW THINGS ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER. In the year 1836, I visited Kidderminster for the purpose of seeing the place where Richard Baxter spent fourteen of the most valuable years of his life; and of ascertaining if any relics were to be found connected with the history of this remarkable man. Baxter thought much of Kidderminster, for with strong feeling he says, respecting this place, in his poem on "Love breathing Thanks and Praise" (_Poetical Fragments_, 1st edit. 1681):-- "But among all, none did so much abound, With fruitful mercies, as that barren ground, Where I did make my best and longest stay, And bore the heat and burden of the day; Mercies grew thicker there than summer flowers: They over-numbered my daies and hours. There was my dearest flock, and special charge, Our hearts in mutual love thou didst enlarge: 'Twas there that mercy did my labours bless, With the most great and wonderful success." While prosecuting my inquiries, I was shown the house in which he is said to have resided. It is situated in the High Street, and was, at the time of my visit, inhabited by a grocer; but I had my doubts, from a difference of opinion I heard stated as to this being the actual house. After looking at this house, I visited the vestry of the Unitarian Chapel, and examined the pulpit; the description of which given by your correspondent is very correct. He omits to mention Job Orton's chair, which was shown me, as well as that of Bishop Hall. From all I could learn at the time, and since, I should say that there is not the slightest probability of any engraving having been published of this pulpit. Sketches may have been made by private hands, but nothing I believe in this way has ever been given to the public. I have long taken a deep interest in everything, pertaining to Richard Baxter. I some years ago collected ninety-seven out of the one hundred and sixty-eight works which he wrote, most of them the original editions, and principally on controversial subjects. After they had served the purpose for which I purchased them, I parted with them, reserving to myself the first editions of the choicest of his practical writings. The folio edition of his works contains only his practical treatises. One of the most remarkable facts connected with the history of Baxter, is the prodigious amount of mechanical drudgery to which he must have patiently submitted in the production of his varied publications. He had a very delicate frame: he was continually unwell, and often greatly afflicted. To this constant ailment of body he refers in a very affecting note in his _Paraphrase on the New Testament_ under the fifth verse in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of St. John. The reference is to the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years. _Note._ "How great a mercy is it, to live eight and thirty years under God's wholesome discipline? How inexcusable was this man, if he had been proud, or worldly, or careless of his everlasting state? O my God! I thank thee for the like discipline of eight and fifty years. How safe a life is this, in comparison of full prosperity and pleasure." His ministerial duties were of an arduous nature, and yet he found time to write largely on theological subjects, and to plunge perpetually into theological controversy. The _Saint's Rest_, by which his fame will ever be perpetuated, was published in 1619, 4to. It is in four parts, and dedicated respectively to the inhabitants of Kidderminster, Bridgenorth, Coventry, and Shrewsbury. It was the first book he wrote, and the second he published (_The Aphorisms of Justification_ being the first published): it was written under the daily expectation of dying. The names of Brook, Hampden, and Pym, which have a place in the first edition, are, singularly enough, omitted in the later ones. Fifty years after the appearance of the _Saint's Rest_, and a few months only before his death, he published the strangest of all his productions; it is-- "The Certainty of the World of Spirits, fully evinced by unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts, Operations, Voices, &c. Proving the Immortality of Souls, the Malice and Misery of Devils and the Damned, and the Blessedness of the Justified. Written for the Conviction of Sadducees and Infidels." 12mo. 1691. His _Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_, folio, 1686, is the text-book for the actual every-day life of this eminent divine. H. M. BEALBY. North Brixton. LATIN SONG BY ANDREW BOORDE. The life of this "progenitor of Merry Andrew," as he is termed, would, if minutely examined, doubtless prove a curious piece of biography. Wood furnishes many particulars, but some of his statements want confirmation. He tells us that Boorde was borne at Pevensey in Sussex; but Hearne corrects him, and says it was at Bounds Hill in the same county. It then becomes a question whether he was educated at Winchester school. Certain it is that he was of Oxford, although he left without taking a degree, and became a brother of the Carthusian order in London. We next find him studying physic in his old university, and subsequently travelling through most parts of Europe, and even of Africa. On his return to England, he settled at Winchester, and practised as a physician. Afterwards we find him in London occupying a tenement in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This appears to have been the period when, in his professional capacity, King Henry VIII. is said to have consulted him. How long he remained in London is uncertain, but in 1541 he was living at Montpelier in France, where he is supposed to have taken the degree of doctor in physic, in which he was afterwards incorporated at Oxford. He subsequently lived at Pevensey, and again at Winchester. At last we find him a prisoner in the Fleet--the cause has yet to be learned,--at which place he died in April, 1549. The following curious relic is transcribed from the flyleaf of a copy of _The Breviary of Health_, 4to., London, 1547. It is signed "Andrew Boord," and if not the handwriting of the facetious author himself, is certainly that of some one of his cotemporaries: "Nos vagabunduli, Læti, jucunduli, Tara, tantara teino. Edimus libere, Canimus lepide, Tara, &c. Risu dissolvimur, Pannis obvolvimur, Tara, &c. Multum in joculis, Crebro in poculis, Tara, &c. Dolo consuimus, Nihil metuimus, Tara, &c. Pennus non deficit, Præda nos reficit, Tara, &c. Frater Catholice, Vir apostolice, Tara, &c. Dic quæ volueris Fient quæ jusseris, Tara, &c. Omnes metuite Partes gramaticæ, Tara, &c. Quadruplex nebulo Adest, et spolio, Tara, &c. Data licencia, Crescit amentia, Tara, &c. Papa sic præcipit Frater non decipit Tara, &c. Chare fratercule, Vale et tempore, Tara, &c. Quando revititur, Congratulabimur, Tara, &c. Nosmet respicimus, Et vale dicimus, Tara, &c. Corporum noxibus Cordium amplexibus, Tara tantara teino." Andrew Boorde's printed works are as follows: 1. _A Book of the Introduction to Knowledge_, 4to., London, 1542. 2. _A Compendious Regiment or Dietary of Health, made at Mountpyller_, 8vo., 1542. 3. _The Breviary of Health_, 4to., London, 1547. 4. _The Princyples of Astronomye_, 12mo., R. Copland, London, n. d. Wood tells us he wrote "a book on prognosticks," and another "of urines." _The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham_ are also ascribed to him, as well as _A Right Pleasant and Merry History of the Mylner of Abington_, &c. The origin of the _Merry Tales_ is pointed out by Horsfield, in his _History of Lewes_, vol. i. p. 239.:-- "At a _last_, holden at Pevensey, Oct. 3, 24 Hen. VIII., for the purpose of preventing unauthorised persons 'from setting nettes, pottes, or innyances,' or anywise taking fish within the privileges of the Marsh of Pevensey, the king's commission was directed to John, Prior of Lewes; Richard, Abbot of Begham; John, Prior of Mychillym; Thomas, Lord Dacre, and others ... Dr. Boorde (the original Merry Andrew) founds his tale of the 'Wise Men of Gotham' upon the proceedings of this meeting, Gotham being the property of Lord Dacre, and near his residence." The inhabitants of Gotham in Nottinghamshire have hitherto been considered the "biggest fools in christendom;" but if the above extract is to be depended upon, the _Gothamites_ of Sussex have a fair claim to a share of this honourable distinction. The quotation from the _History of Lewes_ was first pointed out by your learned correspondent, MR. M. A. LOWER, in a communication to Mr. Halliwell's _Archæologist_, 1842, p. 129. The investigation of the origin of this popular collection of old _Joe Millerisms_ is of some importance, because upon them rests Dr. Boorde's title to be the "progenitor of Merry Andrew." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. SHAKSPEARE NOTES. Who was the editor of _The Poems and Plays of William Shakspeare_, eight vols. 8vo., published by Scott and Webster in 1833? In that edition the following passage from _The Merchant of Venice_, Act III. Sc. 2., is _pointed_ in this way:-- "Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian; beauty's, in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest." To which the anonymous editor appends the following note:-- "I have deviated slightly from the folio--the ordinary reading represents ornament as '_the beauteous scarf veiling an Indian beauty_,' a sentence which by no means serves to illustrate the reflexion which Bassanio wishes to enforce. Sir Thomas Hanmer proposed to read _dowdy_ for beauty!" My object in this quotation is not that of commending the emendation, but of affording an opportunity of recording the following reasons which induce me to reject it; not only as no improvement to the sense, but as a positive injury to it. 1st. The argument of Bassanio is directed against the deceptiveness of ornament in general, of which seeming beauty is only one of the subordinate illustrations. These illustrations are drawn from _law_, _religion_, _valour_, and _beauty_; all of which are finally summed up in the passage in question, beginning "_Thus ornament_," &c. and still further concentrated in the phrase "_in a word_." Therefore this summing up cannot refer singly to _beauty_, no more than to any other of the subordinate illustrations, but it must have general reference to adventitious ornament, against which _the collected argument_ is directed. 2ndly. The word _beauty_ is necessarily attached to Indian as designative _of sex_: "an Indian," unqualified by any other distinction, would imply a male; but an "Indian beauty" is at once understood to be a female. 3rdly. The repetition, or rather _the opposition_, of "_beauteous_" and "_beauty_," cannot seriously be objected to by any one conversant with the phraseology of Shakspeare. Were it at all necessary, many similar examples might be cited. How the anonymous annotator, already quoted, could say that the sentence, as it stands in the folio, "_by no means serves to illustrate Bassanio's reflexion_," I cannot conceive. "The beauteous scarf" is the deceptive ornament which leads to the expectation of something beneath it _better_ than an _Indian_ beauty! Indian is used adjectively, in the sense of wild, savage, hideous--just as we, at the present day, might say a Hottentot beauty; or as Shakspeare himself in other places uses the word "Ethiop:" "Thou for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiop were." "_Her mother was her painting._"--_Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.--I have read Mr. Halliwell's pamphlet upon this expression, noticed in "N. & Q." of the 10th of April (p. 358.) I would beg to suggest to that gentleman that he has overlooked one text in Shakspeare that would tell more for his argument than the whole of those he has cited. All his examples are drawn from the word _father_, metaphorically applied in the sense of _creator_ to inanimate objects; and the same sense he extends, by analogy, to _mother_. But in the following lines from _As You Like It_ (Act III. Sc. 5.), _mother_ is directly used as a sort of warranty of female beauty! Rosalind is reproving Phebe for her contempt of her lover, and in derision of her beauty, she asks: "Who might be your mother? That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched?" Now if Phebe had been one who _smothered her in painting_, an appropriate answer to Rosalind's question might have been--her mother was _her painting_! Most certainly, this latter phrase is the more graceful mode of expressing the idea--far more in unison with the language one would expect from the refined, the delicate, the bewitching Imogen--from her who wished to set "_that parting kiss betwixt two charming words_." A. E. B. Leeds. PUBLICATIONS OF THE STUTTGART SOCIETY. The following is a list of the works which have appeared under the auspices of the Stuttgart Society, referred to in my Note respecting Felix Faber:-- I. 1. Closener's Strassburgische Chronik. 2. Des Ritters Georg von Ehingen Reisen. (_a_). Nach der Ritterschaft. (_b_). Æneas Sylvius Piccolomineus de Viris illustribus. (_c_). Ott Ruland's Handlungsbuch. (_d_). Codex Hirsaugiensis. II.-IV. Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium, 3 vols. V. (_a_). Die Weingartner Liederhandschrift. (_b_). Italiänische Lieder des Hohenstaufischen Hofes in Sicilien. VI. Briefe der Prinzessin Elisabeth Charlotte v. Orleans an die Raugräfin Louise (1676-1722). VII. (_a_). Des Böhmischen Herrn Leo's von Rozmital Reise durch die Abendländer in den Jahren 1465, 1466, und 1467. (_b_). Die Livländische Reimchronik. VIII. Chronik des Edlen En Ramon Muntaner. IX. (_a_). Bruchstück über den Kreuzzug Friederichs I. (_b_). Ein Buch von guter Speise. (_c_). Die alte Heidelberger Liederhandschrift. X. Urkunden, Briefe und Actenstücke zur Geschichte Maximilians I. und seiner Zeit. XI. Staatspapiere zur Geschichte des Kaisers Karl V. XII. Das Ambraser Liederbuch vom Jahre 1582. XIII. Li Romans d'Alixandre par Lambert, Li Tors et Alexandre de Bernay. XIV. Urkunden zur Geschichte des Schwäbischen Bundes (1488-1533), Erster Theil, 1488-1506. XV. Cancionero Geral I. XVI. (_a_). Carmina Burana (from a MS. of thirteenth century). (_b_). Albert v. Beham u. Regerten Papst Innocenz IV. XVII. Cancionero Geral II. XVIII. Konrads von Weinsberg Einnahmen- und Ausgaben-Register. XIX. Das Habsburg.-Oesterreichische Urbarbuch. XX. Hadamars v. Laber Jagd. XXI. Meister Altswert. XXII. Meinauer Naturlehre (_circa_ 1300). XXIII. Der Ring, von Heinrich Wittenweiler. XXV. Ludolfi de Itinere terræ sanctæ liber (_circa_ 1350). Vol. XXIV. is in the press. F. NORGATE. MANUSCRIPT SHAKSPEARE EMENDATIONS. Your able correspondent MR. S. W. SINGER, in Vol. v., p. 436., gives his positive adhesion to MR. COLLIER'S emendation of the corruption "bosom multiplied" in _Coriolanus_, Act III. Sc. 1. Agreeing with MR. SINGER in his opinion of the value of this emendation, there is yet an importance attached to it which I feel sure MR. COLLIER will not object to have pointed out, although doubtlessly all the argument respecting the _sources_ of his early MS. corrections will be carefully considered in the volume he so liberally intends presenting to the Shakspeare Society. Shakspearian criticism is a field so open to varied opinions, and is a subject on which so few can be brought exactly to agree, it is a mere chance if, in addressing these few lines, I in any degree anticipate MR. COLLIER'S conclusions. MR. COLLIER'S discovery was, perhaps, of even greater interest to myself than to others, not merely on account of its being an important evidence for the state of the text, _but because I had long since had the opportunity of using a volume of precisely similar character_, namely, the copy of the third folio, with numerous MS. emendations in a coeval hand, mentioned by Lowndes, p. 1646., as having some years since sold for 65_l._, on account of those MS. emendations. This volume contains several hundred very curious and important corrections, amongst which I may mention an entirely new reading of the difficult passage at the commencement of _Measure for Measure_, which carries conviction with it, and shows, what might have been reasonably expected, that _that to_ is a misprint _for a verb_. There are numerous other corrections of equal importance, but I forbear at present to notice them, under the conviction it is not safe to adopt MS. corrections, unless we know on what authority they are made. It was on this account I ventured to indicate the extreme danger of adopting any of the MS. readings of MR. COLLIER'S second folio, without a most rigid examination, or until their authority was unquestionably ascertained. Now, in MR. COLLIER'S first two communications to the _Athenæum_ there was scarcely a single example which indicated it was derived from an authentic source, but many, on the other hand, which could be well believed to be mere guess-work; and it was rather alarming to see the readiness with which they were received, threatening the loss of Shakspeare's genuine text. A ray of light, however, at length appears in the new reading in _Coriolanus_. This, more than any other, gives hopes of important results; and it does something more than this: it opens a reasonable expectation that the MS. corrector had, in some cases, recollection of the passages as they were delivered in representation. Once establish a probability of this, and although many of the corrections must still be looked upon as conjectural, the volume will be of high value. The correction "_bisson multitude_" seems to me to be clearly one of those alterations that no conjectural ingenuity could have suggested. The volume has evidently been used for stage purposes; and it may be taken as almost beyond a doubt that that particular correction was made on authority. We can scarcely imagine that authority to be a MS. of the play, and are therefore thrown on the supposition the corrector sometimes altered from memory, and sometimes from conjecture, writing as he thought Shakspeare _ought_ to have written, even if he did not. It is scarcely necessary to say these observations are grounded solely on what is already before the public. The appearance of MR. COLLIER'S volume may modify their effect either one way or the other; and perhaps I am committing a literary trespass on my friend's manor in thus prematurely entering into an argument on the subject. But MR. COLLIER, with his usual liberality, has invited rather than deprecated discussion; and having expressed in print opinions grounded on his first two communications, it would be uncandid in me not to acknowledge they are in some degree modified by the very important correction since published. J. O. HALLIWELL. THE GRAVE-STONE OF JOE MILLER. In consequence of the disfranchisement of St. Clement's burial-ground, Portugal Street, Clare Market, the last memorial of "honest Jo" is condemned for removal; and this being the case, I have forwarded for "N. & Q." a copy of the inscription. The epitaph written by Stephen Duck, and the stone itself, were, about the beginning of the present century, in jeopardy of obliteration, but for the compassion of Mr. Bulgen, the grave-digger; and being still in a very bad condition, Mr. Buck a few years afterwards repaired it. The following is the inscription: "Here Lye the Remains of honest Jo. Miller who was a tender Husband, a sincere Friend, a facetious Companion, and an excellent Comedian. He departed this Life the 15th day of August 1738, aged 54 years. If humour, wit, and honesty could save The humorous, witty, honest from the grave, The grave had not so soon this tenant found, Whom honesty, and wit, and humour crowned; Could but esteem and love preserve our breath, And guard us longer from this stroke of death, The stroke of death on him had later fell, Whom all mankind esteemed and loved so well. S. DUCK. From respect to social worth, mirthful qualities, and histrionic excellence, commemorated by poetic talent, humble life, the above inscription, which Time had nearly obliterated, has been restored and transferred to this stone by order of MR. JARVIS BUCK, Churchwarden. A.D. 1816." UNICORN. FOLK LORE. _Swearing on a Skull._--In April, 1851, a man was committed to Mayo prison for cutting off the head of a corpse but a few days interred. His object in severing the head was that of clearing himself of some imputed crime by swearing on a skull, a superstition said to be very common in that part of Ireland. PHILIP S. KING. _New Moon._--If, when you look at the new moon for the first time, you think of one particular thing which you greatly desire to have, or to have accomplished, your wishes on that same point will be realised before the close of the year. R. VINCENT. _Rust._--If, without any neglect on your part, but even with care, articles of steel belonging to you, such as keys, knives, &c., continually become rusty, some kindhearted person is laying up money for _your_ benefit. This superstitious notion is very prevalent in Wales. R. VINCENT. Minor Notes. _Epitaph at Low Moor._--The following curious epitaph is on a tombstone in the Low Moor churchyard, near this town:-- "In Memory of Christopher Barlow, Blacksmith, of Raw Nook, who died Oct. 9th, 1824, aged 56. "My stithy and my hammer I reclin'd; My bellows, too, have lost their wind; My fire's extinguish'd, and my forge decay'd, And in the silent dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my stock of iron's gone, My last nail driven, and my work is done." C. WILLIAMS. Bradford, Yorkshire. _Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph._--I do not think that the epitaph of the unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury, poisoned by Carr, Earl of Somerset, in 1613-14, has ever been published. I send it to you, copied from a manuscript on a blank leaf of a black-letter copy of Howe's _Abridgement of Stow's Chronicle_ in my possession. "1614. SR. THOMAS OVERBURY HIS EPITAPH. "The Span of my daies measured, heare I rest That is my body, but my Soule his Guest Is hence assended whither neither Tyme Nor Fayth nor Hope: but only Love can Clyme. Wheare beinge nowe enlightned Shee doeth knowe The trueth of all men argue of belowe. Only this Dust doeth heare in pawne remaine, That when the Worlde dissolves, Shee com againe. THOMAS OVERBURY, 1614." RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE. Dublin. _Bibliotheca Literaria._--I possess a copy of the _Bibliotheca Literaria_, 1722-4, in which the names of some of the authors are appended in manuscript to various papers, as follows: In No. 4., Dr. Brett's name is appended to the first paper. In No. 5., the first paper, concerning the pillar of fire and cloud, has the name "Sam. Jebb." In No. 6., the third paper has the name of Dr. Brett; also, the first in No. 7., continuation of it. In No. 8., the first and third papers have "Carol. Ashton;" the second, Dr. Brett. In No. 9. the first and second papers have "Thos. Wagstaffe." Finally, the second in No. 10. has the name of Dr. Brett. In the hope that this may be of some utility, I send it, on the chance that these names may not have been published already, which I have not time to ascertain. W. H. S. Edinburgh. [All the above contributors to this valuable literary journal were Nonjurors. It may not be generally known that the principal editor was Samuel Jebb, M.D., of Peter House, Cambridge, who subsequently attached himself to the Nonjurors, and accepted the office of librarian to the celebrated Jeremy Collier. Dr. Jebb was also assisted by Mr. Wasse, Dr. Wotton, Dr. Jortin, Dr. Pearce, and others.--ED.] _Inscription at Dundrah Castle._--In the course of a summer spent in Argyleshire, I paid a visit to old Dundrah, or Dundarrow Castle, which stands between Inverary and Cairndhu, on the southwest. It is now a small farm-house. The tenant refused me admission under half-a-crown, so I contented myself with a survey of the exterior. Over the doorway I found the following inscription carved in the stone: "I ' MAN ' BEHALD ' THE ' END ' DE ' NOCHT ' VISER ' NOR ' HEIEST ' HOIP ' IN ' GOD." The meaning is evident, though what connexion it has with the old castle I am not able to say. I send it you, as I have not seen it noted in any book. C. M. I. _Derivation of Charing._--Mr. Peter Cunningham, in his most entertaining work, _The Handbook of London_, tells us that the origin of _Charing Cross_ has never been discovered. It lies buried in the venerable pages of Somner and Skinner. It was first propounded by the former in his Notes on Lipsius, appended to Meric Causaubon's _Commentatio de Quatuor Linguis_, in v. SCURGI. The A.-S. _cyrrung_ (from _cyrran_, avertere) is, as he tells us, _aversio_: "Atque hinc, a viarum (scil.) et platearum diverticulis, ut in compitis, pluribus apud nostrates locis hoc nomen olim inditum, quod postea in _Cerring_ mutatum, tandem transiit (ut nunc dierum) in _Charing_; quomodo quadrivium sive compitum illud nuncupatur in suburbiis Londinensibus, ab occidente, prope Westmonasterium, _Charing Crosse_, vulgo dictum; _Crosse_ addito, ob crucem ibidem, ut in compitis solitum, olim erectam." Q. Queries. POEM BY NICHOLAS BRETON. I have recently purchased a small manuscript in quarto, containing fifteen leaves, written about the year 1590, which consists of a poem in six cantos, without title or name of the author, but which, I feel convinced, from the style, is one of the numerous works of Nicholas Breton. In the hope that some of your correspondents may be able to identify the poem, which may possibly be printed in some of Breton's very rare works, I subjoin the commencing stanzas: "Where should I finde that melancholy muse, That never hard of any thinge but mone, And reade the passiones that her pen doth use, When she and sorrow sadlye sitt alone To tell the world more then the world can tell What fits indeed most fitlye figure hell. "Lett me not thinke once of the smalest thought May speake of less then of the greatest gref, Wher every sence with sorrowes overwrought Lives but in death, dispayring of relef, While thus the harte with torments torne asunder Maye of the worlde be cal'd the wofull wonder." These two stanzas are by no means favourable specimens of the entire poem, but I prefer to give them, because the work itself may be printed. If it appears, on inquiry, to be still inedited, I may venture to submit a few other extracts from it of a more illustrative character. Our bibliographers would be more useful guides, were they always to give the first lines of old poems. I have a tolerably good library, but can find no work sufficiently descriptive of Breton's works to enable me to trace the above. H. THE VIRTUOSI, OR ST. LUKE'S CLUB. Where is to be found that intensely interesting MS. Lot 120., Sixth Day's Sale, at Strawberry Hill, a _folio tract_ entitled _The "Virtuosi," or St. Luke's Club, held at the Rose Tavern, first established by Sir Anthony Vandyke; with Autographs of all the eminent Artists of the day_? Such is the account of Mr. George Robins, to the sound of whose hammer it fell, let us hope, into worthy hands. By the aid of a note made whilst the several precious contents of that "Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome," as I think Pope described it, were on view, I hope to whet the appetite of some of our literary vultures: "Rose Tavern, Mar. 5. 1697. "An order for raising an annual fund for pictures; with twenty names of stewards." What say you, Mr. Editor, to such subscribing parties as, among others, "Grinling Gibbons, Michael Dahl, J. Closterman, and Christopher Wren?" I cannot remember more, but I think "Alex. Verrio" was among them. Mem. the second: as entries in a sort of journal: "That our steward, John Chicheley, Esquire, gave us this day a Westphalia Ham, which had been omitted in his entertainment on St. Luke's day." Again: "Paid and spent at Spring Gardens, by Knightsbridge, forfeiture £3 15_shgs._" Why, Mr. Editor, here are the new Roxburgh Revels of the Knights of the Brush and Palette. And now that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day is expected to take out his diploma, and the ex-Premier is to be the new Professor of Perspective, _vice_ the author of the _Fallacies of Hope_, it becomes a question of prevailing interest, which I commend to the research of your dilettanti querists. It may be a thread of connexion with those stores of precious materials obtained by Walpole from the widow of that persevering investigator George Virtue. J. H. A. THE RABBIT AS A SYMBOL. The 29th vol. of the _Archæologia_ contains an interesting "description of a monumental effigy of Richard Coeur de Lion, recently discovered in the cathedral of Notre Dame at Rouen," by Alfred Way, Esq., who, with his usual precision, has noticed what he very properly calls "some singular details" beneath the figure of the lion crouching at the king's feet; among these details is "the head of _a rabbit_[1] peeping out of its burrow, and, a little above, a dog warily watching the mouth of the hole." Mr. Way adds: "I have met with nothing among the accessory ornaments of monumental sculpture analogous to this; and though convinced that what in itself may appear a trifling detail, _was not placed here without design_, I am quite at a loss to conjecture what could have been its import." [Footnote 1: Mr. Way says _a hare_ or rabbit, forgetting that the hare does not burrow.] The same symbol or device, well known to all lovers of ancient wood-engraving, appears in some of the earliest specimens of that art. It is found in an impression of one of the oldest known playing-cards, representing the knave of diamonds, now in the print-room of the British Museum, of which a fac-simile is inserted at p. 214. of Chatto's _History of Playing Cards_. Another instance of this device occurs (without the dog) in an old woodcut, dated 1418, discovered a few years ago at Malines, of which a copy appeared in the _Athenæum_ of Oct. 4, 1845. And a third example is contained in that celebrated and unique woodcut of St. Christopher, dated 1423, in the possession of Earl Spencer, copies of which may be found in Janson's _Essai sur l'Origine de la Gravure_, and in Ottley's work. Being as fully convinced as Mr. Way that the symbols he observed on the effigy of Richard at Rouen were _never introduced without design_, but that they were meant to convey some esoteric signification, I have for many years consulted both books and friends to obtain an explanation of this allegorical device, but without success. As a last resource, I address myself to the "N. & Q.," in hopes, from their having now obtained so wide a circulation, that I may receive through their medium, and the kindness of a more learned correspondent, a solution of this enigma. P.S.--In addition to the above _four_ instances of the device of _a rabbit_ occurring in ancient sculpture and wood-engraving, a French writer, M. Th. Gautier, in the feuilleton of _La Presse_ of the 27th September, 1851, describes the Madonna of Albert Durer as being "presque toujours accompagnée _d'un lapin_," derived (in his opinion) from a "vague ressouvenir du panthéisme Germanique." SYMBOL. IS WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE A PLAGIARISM FROM MOLENAX? (Vol. v., p. 467.) Some time ago I made the following Notes, which, though they throw some light on the subject of Molineux's globe, yet they do not bear out MR. EASTWOOD'S conjecture. The first is from Richard Hakluyt's Address to the Reader in _The Principal Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation_, folio, 1589: "Nowe, because peraduenture it would bee expected as necessarie, that the descriptions of so many parts of the world would farre more easily be conceiued of the Reader, by adding Geographicall and Hydrographicall tables thereunto, thou art by the way to be admonished that I haue contented myselfe with inserting into the worke one of the best generall mappes of the world onely, vntill the comming out of a very large and most exact terrestriall Globe, collected and reformed according to the newest, secretest, and latest discoueries, both Spanish, Portugall, and English, composed by M. _Emmerie Mollineux_ of Lambeth, a rare Gentleman in his profession, being therein for divers yeeres greatly supported by the purse and liberalitie of the worshipfull marchant M. _William Sanderson_." My second Note is from the rare little volume by John Davis, entitled, _The Worlde's Hydrographical Discription_, 12mo., London, 1595: "The cause why I vse this particular relation of all my proceedinges for this discouery, is to stay this obiection, why hath not _Dauis_ discouered this passage [the North-west] being thrise that waies imploied, and how far I proceeded, and in what fourme this discouery lyeth, doth appeare vpon the Globe which Master _Sanderson_ to his verye great charge hath published, whose labouring indevour for the good of his countrie deserueth great fauour and commendations, made by Master _Emery Mullineux_, a man wel qualited, of a good iudgement and verye expert in many excellent practises, in myselfe being the onely meane with Master _Sanderson_ to imploy Master Mullineux therein, whereby he is nowe growne to a most exquisite perfection." P. 25. And here a Query may not be out of place. Whose account of Iceland does Nash refer to? In the writings of our early navigators, there is frequent allusion to terrestrial globes. This of Mollineux's, for instance, contains Davis's own discoveries, and should therefore be of some importance. In the tract just quoted, Davis says: "It is wel knowne that we haue globes in the most excellent perfection of arte, and haue the vse of them in as exquisite sort, as Master _Robert Hues_ in his book of the globes vse, lately published, hath at large made known." P. 41. And in an unpublished MS. relating to Sir Thomas Button's voyage, addressed to King James I. in 1610, the writer says: "I haue left wth Mr. Wright in yor librarie att St James, _a hand globe terrestriall_ for demonstra[=c]on of these." Do any of the globes exist, and where? As I am about to reprint Davis's tract with additional illustrations, including the MS. above referred to, I shall be glad to receive any particulars of the life of Davis, and of his connexion with that great patron of discovery, William Sanderson; of his death, any reference to his autograph, and to any authentic portrait of him. JOHN PETHERAM. Minor Queries. _Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament._--On the 17th of October, 1834, the houses of parliament were burnt down, and I believe you will recollect that very soon afterwards a long serio-comic poem was published, detailing the event; the following stray morsels of which just occur to me: "And poor Mrs. Wright, Was in a great fright, For she swore that night, She saw a great light." Again-- "She felt a great heat Come thro' to her feet, As she sat herself down In the black rod seat." I wish very much to find out this poem, or whatever else it may be called; can you assist me? I am told it was published in one of the weekly papers at the time, probably the _Sunday Times_ or _Dispatch_. T. B. Exeter. _Newton's Library._--In 1813, Leigh and Sotheby sold the books of Mrs. Anne Newton, professing to contain the collection of Newton's own books. As it is fully believed that no _personal_ property of Newton descended to any relatives of his name, how is this pretension explained? The statement is copied from Sotheby's catalogue of sales into Hartwell Horne's _Bibliography_, and will be credited at a future time, if not now called in question. M. _Meaning of Royd._--What is the meaning of the word _Royd_, which is attached to the names of so many persons and places in Yorkshire, as Ackroyd, Learoyd, Brownroyd, and Boltonroyd? C. W. _The Cromwell Family._--I have in my possession a document, which shows that my great-grandfather, "William Cromwell of London," mason, was admitted into "The freedom aforesaid, and sworn in the Mayoralty of Thomas Wright, Esq., Mayor, and John Wilkes, Esq., Chamberlain; and is entered in the book signed with the letter A., relating to the purchasing of freedom and the admission of freemen, (to wit) the 4th day of April, in the 26th year of the reign of King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord 1786. In witness whereof," &c. The parchment bears the initials "J. W." I am anxious to learn, from some of your numerous correspondents, whether this person once lived near Bath, and then at Hammersmith? and, secondly, whether he was descended from the Protector? J. G. C. _Sir John Darnell, Knt._--Who was Sir John Darnell, whom did he marry, who were his father and mother, and what arms did he bear? His daughter Mary was married to the Hon. Robert Ord, Lord Chief Baron of Scotland (alive in 1773). Any other particulars regarding his family will be gratefully received by E. N. _Royal "We."_--Can you inform me when, and under what circumstances, the use by royalty in Europe sprung up, of using the plural "we" instead of "I," the first person singular? FRANCIS J. GRUBB. _Gondomar._--Mr. Macaulay, in one of his "Essays," remarks, "The skill of the Spanish diplomatists was renowned throughout Europe. In England the name of Gondomar is still remembered." True, oft have I heard of thee, Count Gondomar, and have read from time to time divers anecdotes of thy wit and wisdom, quips and quiddities. But is it not passing strange that this man, this Spanish Don, who, as is well known, exercised such a powerful influence over the weak-minded "Solomon of Whitehall," and who, moreover, bore so large a share in the murder of the brave and highly gifted Raleigh, should be excluded from a niche in the biographical temple; for such I am told is the case. Having deputed a friend to make search for me in the several biographical dictionaries, he reports that the name of Gondomar is _not_ to be found in the best book of the kind, the _Biographie Universelle_, nor in the dictionaries of Rose and Chalmers. This desideratum will, I confidently hope, ere long be supplied through the medium of "N. & Q.," by some of its learned contributors. W. STANLEY SIMMONDS. _Wallington's Journal._--At the sale of the library of Mr. Joseph Gulston, 1784, was sold a Journal of Mr. Nehemiah Wallington, a Puritan divine, written in the year 1630. This volume probably contains some curious matters respecting the Puritans of the day; and, as it is much desired, should any person know of its whereabouts, I should feel much obliged by a note of it. R. _Epistola Luciferi, &c._--Nicolas Oresmius, or d'Oresme, bishop of Lisieux, who died in 1382, wrote _Epistola Luciferi ad prælatos Ecclesiæ_, afterwards printed, Magd. 1549, 8vo., and in Wolf's _Lect. Memor._, vol. i. p. 654. So far Fabricius. Who was Lucifer? I mean, was he the potentate who goes by the opposite name of the Prince of Darkness? And what is the tenor of his letter? The bishop was a quiet man, of orthodox fame, and tutor to a king of France. M. _Cambrian Literature._--Being a collector of works on Druidical remains and Cambrian history, I shall feel greatly favoured if any of your numerous readers will answer me the following questions, viz.:-- 1st. The name of the first book or commentary _printed_ in any language abroad, _previous_ to the introduction of printing into England, actually written by a _Cambrian_? 2nd. The first book _printed_ in the English language, _actually written_ by a Cambrian then living? 3rd. The first and second books _printed_ in England in the _Welsh_ language? 4th. The first book printed in the Welsh language abroad? 5th. The first book printed in the Welsh language in Wales? 6th. The most _ancient author_ in MSS. and in print who mentions Stonehenge and Aubury; also the monument called Cromlêch? 7th. Who has on sale the most extensive collection of Welsh books, and those relating to British history? P. B. W 7. Harrington Street, Regent's Park. "VCRIMDR" _on Coins of Vabalathus_ (Vol. v., p. 148.).--As no professed Oriental scholar has directed any attention to this word yet, and as, although root in the words Karimat and Akram appears the same, the analogy to VCRIMDR is not very obvious, I may mention that on searching further I have found the adjective _Ucr_, with the various meanings, _weighty_, _precious_, _esteemed_, _honourable_. I leave it to Orientalists to tell us if VCRIMDR is a compound or an inflexion of _Ucr_. I regret that owing to a peculiarity in my handwriting, De Gauley was twice substituted for De Sauley in my last note, Vol. v., p. 149. W. H. S. Edinburgh. _Lines on Woman._-- "Oh, woman! thou wert born to bless The heart of restless man; to chase his care; To charm existence by thy loveliness, Bright as a sunbeam--as the morning fair. If but thy foot trample on a wilderness, Flowers spring up and shed their roseate blossoms there." Will any of your readers be kind enough to favour me with the completion of the above stanza, as well as to state who is the author of the same? J. T. _Penkenol._--John Aubrey, the antiquary, in his _Collections for North Wilts_, Part I. p. 51. (Sir Thomas Phillips's edition), describing the stained glass in Dauntsey Church, uses the following expression: "Memorandum. The crescents in these coats: Therefore Sir John [Danvers] was not the _penkenol_." The word is correctly printed from the original MS. Can any of your readers explain its meaning? J. E. J. _Fairfax Family Mansion._--On the right-hand side of the road between Tadcaster and Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire, extends the domain of the Fairfax family. The mansion, a comfortable old fashioned red-brick Tudor-looking structure, stands some two hundred yards back in the grounds through which, from the road to the front door of the house, extends a fine avenue of chestnuts, terminated at the roadside by a pair of venerable, rusty, and decaying iron gates _which are kept closed_; the entrance to the park being by a sort of side gateway of insignificant and field-like appearance further on. Can any of your readers give me the facts, or the local tradition which accounts for this peculiarity? I believe it is a family incident of somewhat historical interest, and a subject on which I am desirous of information. G. W. _Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer._--In the _Legal Observer_ of the 24th April, I find the following: "LAW PROMOTION.--Mr. James Wilde has been appointed to the office of _Postman_, in the Court of Exchequer. The _Postman_ is the senior counsel without the bar attending the court, and has pre-audience of the attorney and solicitor-general in making the first motion upon the opening of the court. The _Tubman_ is the next senior counsel without the bar. The _Postman_ and _Tubman_ have particular places assigned them by the Chief Baron in open court." My Query is, from whence and at what date these two offices sprang into existence, with a list of the persons who have occupied them. And it would be as well to inquire what their duties are: for although Stephen's _Blackstone_ derives the names from the _places_ in which the individuals themselves _sit_, still the explanation hardly conveys sufficient to gather what their duties are. JOHN NURSE CHADWICK. _Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains._--What chronicle narrates the circumstances of the _second_ disinterment of King Arthur's bones in Glastonbury, temp. Edw. I. (A.D. 1298)? H. G. T. _Stukeley the Antiquary, and Boston._--In _Anecdotes of British Topography, &c._ (Lond. 1768), occurs the following, speaking of Boston:-- "The Churchwardens' account from 1453 to 1597, and the town-book, wrote by Mr. John Stukeley, 1676, one of his (Dr. Stukeley's) ancestors, are in the hands of the Doctor's son-in-law, Mr. Fleming." Query, into whose hands have the above records fallen? Did Stukeley leave a family? The name of "Wm. Stukeley" is appended to sundry parish records, anno 1713, at Boston. I believe he practised here for some years. THOMAS COLLIS. _Letters of Arthur Lord Balmerino._--Can any one inform me if there are any letters extant of Arthur, seventh Lord Balmerino, and where they are deposited? W. PELHAM A. Rochester. _Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland._--Is any portrait known of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who was beheaded at York, A.D. 1572, for the part he took in the "Rising in the North?" E. PEACOCK, Jr. _Newtonian System._--Is it known who was the author of a satirical pamphlet against Newton: _The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" explained_, London, 1751, 8vo.? And has an absurd story which it contains, relative to Newton, Locke, and Lord Pembroke visiting Patrick, the barometer-maker, to be shown that the mercurial vacuum was not a perfect one, ever been told elsewhere? M. _Antiquity of Vanes._--We are informed by Baron Maseres, as quoted by Lingard, that the Danes, in the last invasion by Sweyn, 1013, had vanes in the shape of birds or dragons fixed on their masts, to point out the direction of the wind. Is there any record of an earlier adoption of this method of ascertaining the way of the wind? B. B. _Richard of Cirencester de Situ Britanniæ._--Is this work a forgery or not? Charles Julius Bertram, Professor of English in the Royal Marine Academy at Copenhagen, wrote to Dr. Stukeley in 1747 that such a manuscript was in the hands of a friend of his. It was not until some time had elapsed, and after Dr. Stukeley was presented to St. George's Church, Queen Square, that he "pressed Mr. Bertram to get the manuscript into his own hands, if possible; which, at length, with some difficulty, he accomplished;" and sent to Dr. Stukeley, in letters, a transcript of the whole. Authors go on quoting from this work as genuine authority, and therefore are perhaps misleading themselves and their readers; and it would be conferring a great boon if "N. & Q." could clear up the doubt as to its authenticity. Mr. Worsaae, the eminent Danish author, or his English translator, are exactly in the position to render this further service to antiquarian literature; and, as relating to the subject of Roman Britain, the question is of so much interest that a little trouble would not, probably, be deemed uselessly expended in the inquiry. G. I. _Spanish Vessels wrecked on the Irish Coast._--Is it true that sixteen Spanish vessels, with 5300 men on board, were wrecked on the coast of Ireland in 1589, and all put to the sword or hanged by the executioner, at the command of the Lord Deputy; who found that they had saved and got on shore a good deal of their treasure which he wanted to secure for himself. Where is any account of it to be found? How came Spanish ships so far north? CYRUS REDDING. _Analysis of Newton's Principia._--In the _Journal des Savants_ for April of this year, the celebrated mathematician Biot, in a review of the _Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Cotes_ (Cambridge, 1850), makes mention, with the highest praise, of an analysis of Sir Isaac's _Principia_ contained in the _Acta Eruditorum_ for 1688. Mons. Biot says that at that time there were only two men who could have written such an analysis, Halley and Newton himself; but adds, that the style is not Halley's, being too concise and simple for him. His admiration could not have been contained within such bounds. M. Biot firmly believes that the writer of this analysis was no other than Newton himself (_ex ungue Leonem_), and earnestly calls on the learned of England and Germany to assist in discovering the origin of the analysis; should there perhaps be any means left for doing so in the literary depôts of the two countries. Permit a contributor to "N. & Q." to repeat M. Biot's inquiry through the medium of a publication far more extensively circulated in England than the _Journal des Savants_. J. M. Minor Queries Answered. _Welsh Women's Hats._--What was the origin of the peculiar hat so universally worn by women of the lower orders in Wales; and at what period did it come into use? TREBOR. [A gentleman who has resided for the last half century in the Principality, and to whom we submitted our correspondent's Query, has kindly forwarded the following reply:--"I have consulted bards, Welsh scholars, &c., and am sorry that I cannot forward any satisfactory account of the custom alluded to by TREBOR. Some say, we remember the time when the women wore ordinary _felt_ hats manufactured from their own wool: one or two travelling hatters occasionally settled at Bangor, who made and sold _beaver_ hats. We do not think that the women here intended to adopt any particular costume; but retained the hat as agreeing with the peculiar close cap, and _projecting_ border, which it leaves in view, and in _possession of its own uprightness_! The fashion is going out; all our young people adopt the English bonnet with the English language. The flat hat, with a broad brim, is still retained in the mountain regions."] _Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday._--Perhaps some of your readers will kindly inform the Pancake Eating Public as to the period "when," and the reason "why" such a custom grew into existence? I have frequently heard the question mooted upon this anniversary, without ever hearing, or being able to give, a satisfactory elucidation of it; but it is to be hoped that "N. & Q." will supply the desideratum ere long, and confer a favour on A LOVER OF PANCAKES AND AN UPHOLDER OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS. Temple, Shrove Tuesday, 1852. [Fosbrooke, in his _Encyclopædia of Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 572., informs us that "Pancakes, the Norman _Crispellæ_, are taken from the Fornacalia, on Feb. 18, in memory of the practice in use before the goddess Fornax invented ovens." The Saxons called February "Solmonath," which Dr. Frank Sayers, in his _Disquisitions_, says is explained by Bede "Mensis placentarum," and rendered by Spelman, in an inedited manuscript, "Pancake Month," because in the course of it cakes were offered by the Pagan Saxons to the sun. So much for the "when:" now for the reason "why" the custom was adopted by the Christian church. Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday, as it is sometimes called, from being the vigil of Ash Wednesday, was a day when every one was bound to confess, and be shrove or shriven. That none might plead forgetfulness of this duty, the great bell was rung at an early hour in every parish, called the Pancake Bell, for the following reasons given by Taylor, the Water Poet, in his _Jacke-a-Lent_ (_Works_, p. 115. fol. 1630). He tells us, "On Shrove Tuesday there is a bell rung, called the Pancake Bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetful either of manner or humanitie. Then there is a thinge called wheaten floure, which the sulphory, necromanticke cookes doe mingle with water, egges, spice, and other tragicall, magicall inchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying-pan of boyling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing, like the Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton, until at last by the skill of the cooke it is transformed into the forme of a _Flap-Jack_, which in our translation is called a _Pancake_, which ominous incantation the ignorant people doe devoure very greedily, having for the most part well dined before; but they have no sooner swallowed that sweet-candied baite, but straight their wits forsake them, and they runne starke mad, assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse of ungovernable numbers, with uncivill civill commotions." In the "Forme of Cury," published with other cookery in Warner's _Antiquitates Culinariæ_, p. 33., and written in 1390, we find a kind of fried cakes called "comadore," composed of figs, raisins, and other fruits, steeped in wine, and folded up in paste, to be fried in oil. This suggests another savoury Query, Whether this is not an improvement on our apple fritters?] _Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian._-- "Lay her i' the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!" Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1. "'Tis well; 'tis something we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land." _In Memoriam_, XVIII. I remember having seen quoted, _à propos_ of the lines of Shakspeare, a passage from some Latin poet (Claudian, I think) which contained the same idea. Can you, or any of your correspondents, favour me with it; as also where they are to be found? And can they give me the origin and reason of the idea. H. JOHNSTON. Liverpool. [The passage to which our correspondent refers is most probably that already quoted by Steevens, from Persius, _Sat._ I. "---- e tumulo, fortunataque favilla Nascentur violæ?"] Replies. THE RING FINGER. (Vol. v., pp. 114. 371.) My subsequent reading has not only confirmed, but added to the information conveyed in the reference quoted. I there surmised that the third was the ring finger, because the thumb and first two fingers have always been reserved as symbols of the blessed Trinity, and consequently the third was the first vacant finger. Both the Greek and Latin church agree in this, that the thumb and first two fingers signify the blessed Trinity. And whilst these three fingers signify the Trinity, the third and fourth fingers are emblematic of the two natures of Christ, the human and divine. As then the third finger served to symbolise the human nature, and marriage was instituted to propagate the human race, that was made the wedding finger. The right hand is the hand of power: hence the wife wears the ring on the ring finger of the _left hand_. The Greeks make each of the first three fingers, _i.e._ the thumb and two fingers, symbolise one of the divine persons. M. Didron informs us that, during his visit to Greece in 1839, the Archbishop of Mistra-- "Whom I interrogated on the subject, informed me that the thumb, from its strength, indicated the Creator, the Father Eternal, the Almighty; that the middle finger was dedicated to Jesus Christ, who redeemed us; and that the forefinger, between the thumb and middle finger, figured the Holy Ghost, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and in representations of the blessed Trinity is placed between those two persons." A bishop's ring is emblematic of the gifts of the Holy Ghost: and formerly bishops wore their ring on the forefinger of the right hand. CEYREP. "And the priest, taking the ring, shall deliver it unto the man, to put it upon _the fourth finger_ of the woman's left-hand." _Rubric, Marriage Service._ Pray let the lady be comforted! Surely the most punctilious Rubrician will make no impertinent inquiries about the missing finger, so long as _a fourth_ remains. But even if all be wanting, I will engage to find her a priest whose conscience will not be hurt at allowing the stump to pass muster. DIGITALIS. THE MORAVIAN HYMNS. (Vol. v., pp. 30. 474.) Having followed with interest the late discussion in your pages upon the earlier specimens of those strange productions, the Moravian Hymns, it seems to me, that although much that is curious has been elicited, the Query of P. H., touching the genuineness of the extraordinary sample reproduced by him from the _Oxford Magazine_ for 1769, remains unanswered. It is therefore with a view to supply some information directly to this point, that I now beg to introduce to your readers _my_ earliest edition, which looks very like the _editio princeps_ of Part III.: at all events it takes precedence of that described by H. C. B. Its title is, _A Collection of Hymns, consisting chiefly of Translations from the German Hymn-book of the Moravian Brethren_. Part III. Small 8vo. pp. 168. London, printed for James Hutton, 1748. At first sight there would appear to be no difference between H. C. B.'s volume and mine, beyond the latter being the earlier by one year; that year, however, seems to have been the exact period when the Brethren deemed it advisable, to avoid scandal, to revise and prune their hymn-book. "In this part (especially) of our hymn-book," says the Preface, "a good deal of liberty has been taken in dispensing with what otherwise is customary and ornamental: and that for different reasons." Then follow these three reasons: the hymns being printed in prose, to save room; the retention of German diminutives which, although scarcely known in the English tongue, "have a certain elegance and effect" in the former language; and the use of "more antique, prosaic, and less polished diction, out of tenderness for the main point, the expressing more faithfully the doctrines of the congregation, rather than seek better at the expense of the sense." "So much," continues the Preface, "seemed proper to mention to exempt this Book (which though calculated for our own congregation, will no doubt come into the hands of strangers) from the imputation of a needless singularity. Now we only wish that every Reader may also feel something of that solid and happy Bottom, from whence these free, familiar, and perhaps abrupt Aspirations, both in the composing and using of them, do sparkle forth: And so we commit this _Third Part_ of our Hymn-book to the Providence and Blessing of that dear Redeemer, who with his Ever-blessed Atonement, is everywhere the subject thereof." As to the hymns themselves, I need say little more to describe them than to observe that the present edition contains not only the one quoted by P. H. from the _Oxford Magazine_, but all the others which are there to be found, and which have raised doubt in your correspondent's mind whether they are not rather the fabrications of Anti-Moravians than genuine productions, and at the periods in use among the Brethren. Here, too, is to be found the "Chicken Blessed" of Anstey: in his _Bath Guide_ he correctly quotes it as "No. 33. in Count Zinzendorf's Hymn-book,"--that being its position in the present volume. The satirist has, however, given only half of "the learned Moravian's ode," but that faithfully. Besides these there are some of the hymns enumerated by Rimius in his _Candid Narrative of the Herrnhuters_ (London, 1753), in support of his charges against them. Probably your readers are content with the specimens which have already appeared in your columns. Had it been otherwise, this curious volume would have supplied some of a singular character: as it is, I cannot resist extracting No. 77. and a part of No. 110.; the former relating an adventure between the Arch-Enemy and Saint Martin; the latter, "Concerning the happy little Birds in the Cross's-air, or in the Atmosphere of the Corpse of Jesus:" "Once on a time a man there was, A saint whose name was Martin, Concerning whom, Severus says, Satan came to him darting As Lightning quick and bright array'd; 'I am thy Jesus dear,' he said, 'Me thou wilt surely worship.' "Martin looks straight towards his side, No Side-hole met his vision: 'Let me,' says he, 'in Peace abide, Thou hast no side's Incision; Thou art the Devil, my Good Friend! The place where Jesus' sign does stand Blindfold I could discover.' "The same's the case ev'n at this Day With Jesu's congregation: For Larks who round his Body play, Have of his wounds sensation; Because our dear incarnate God, Will with his wounds as man be view'd, Be felt, and so believ'd on." "How does a cross-air Bird behave, When of the Tent it will take leave? The Body grows a little sick, The soul may find it long or quick Till she the Bridegroom see; There stands he presently. She views the Side, Hands, Feet, each Part; The Lamb upon her weary Heart A kiss then gives her: This kiss Extracts the soul quite out, And on his dear Mouth home 'tis brought, The Kiss's Print the Body shews, Which to its Fining-place then goes; When done the Soul does fetch it, And to the wound-hole snatch it." Parts I. and II. of these hymns I have never seen; but besides the above described, I have the following editions: _A Collection of Hymns of the Children of God, in all Ages from the beginning till now: in Two Parts. Designed chiefly for the use of the Congregations in union with the Brethren's Church._ Thick 8vo. London, printed in the year 1754: this is the larger hymn-book alluded to by SIGMA. _A Collection of Hymns, chiefly extracted from the larger Hymn-book of the Brethren's Congregation_: London, printed and sold at the Brethren's chapels, 1769,--noticed by H. C. B. These are both extraordinary productions, but yield to the edition of 1748: it having already been observed of these hymns, that the later impression is always the _tamer_. J. O. CAGOTS. (Vol. iv., p. 190.) I arrive at the conclusion, that the Cacosi of Latin writers, Cacous, or Cagous, represent the true name from which Cagots, the _t_ being mute, is but a slight deviation; while some other forms have scarcely retained more than the initial _Ca_. The etymology from the Goths (most absurd _in substance_, and worthy of the days when Languedoc was fetched from _Land-got_, Land of the Goths,) has reference only to one of the French spellings. _Cacosus_, meaning a leper, as well as a Cacous or Cagot, was from κακὸν, κάκωσις, in Greek; and from it came _cacosomium_, contracted for _cacoso-comium_, not a mere _noso-comium_, but an asylum for lepers. See Ducange. But the Cacous in question were not only lepers, but families in which leprosy was considered hereditary. For this reason they are called Giezites, les Gézits, les Gesitains, from Giezi, servant of Elisha and his posterity. (See Michel, vol. i. pp. 56. 148. 238. &c.) A simple leper was Lazarius or ladre. The latter were, like Lazarus, merely afflicted; but the former were deemed to be under an abiding curse, like Giezi. But those who were Giezites by condition, as inheriting and transmitting the disease, were by many of the vulgar imagined to be Giezites by blood, and the real posterity of Elisha's servant, "Cagots de Chanaan." By an equally natural result, persons actually free from disease were shunned as Cacous; since the stigma attached to the race, not to the individual. Indeed, the wearing out of the malady has created the whole obscurity of the case. Their most curious title, Crestiaas or Christians, was not given them in direct affirmation, but in denial of a negative, "not non-christian." Because, being considered of Giezi's lineage, not only Jews, but Jews under a curse, many would be disposed to repell them from communion. See Dom Lepelletier's _Dict. Bretonne_, in CACOUS. Whether hereditary lepra was rightly thought to exist, or whether the negligence of the more abject and squalid families in communicating it to each other falsely raised that idea, is a separate question, which I must leave to physicians. A. N. SHERIFFS AND LORDS LIEUTENANT. (Vol. v., p. 394.) Dalton saith: "Vice comites have the same authority that the antient comites had; and at this day there are some relicts of that dignity, for he hath _album baculum_, and the grant of the office is commisimus vobis [comitatum]. And also he takes place of every nobleman during the time that he is in office." The Writ of Assistance ran thus: "To archbishops, bishops, dukes, earls, barons, knights, freeholders, and all others of our county of C. Whereas we have committed to our well-beloved A. B. the custody of our said county, with the appurtenances, during our pleasure, We command you that ye be aiding, answering, and assisting to the said A. B. as our sheriff of our said county in all things which appertain to the said office." This form was abolished in 1833. The Lord Lieutenant is a military officer, who appears to have grown into permanence under the Tudors. The office of Custos Rotulorum, which, though quite distinct, is usually joined with it, is much more ancient; its duties are to keep the records of the sessions, which involve the appointment of the clerk of the peace, and the power of recommending to the Great Seal of persons to be inserted in the commission of the peace. As for instances of such precedence being _claimed_, it is not easy to recollect what is usually taken as a thing so much of course. Perhaps the instance of a Duke, who had been Lord Lieutenant forty years, apologising to a Sheriff for having inadvertently taken precedence, may serve. VICE. COM. DEPUTAT. In answer to L. J.'s inquiry, upon what authority the precedency of the Sheriff over the Lord Lieutenant is maintained; may it not partly be founded on the office of Sheriff being of greater antiquity, and on this officer having the command over, and the power of summoning all the people of the county above the age of fifteen, and under the degree of a peer? The office of Lord Lieutenant was first created in the third year of King Edward VI., to suppress, as Strype tells us, "the routs and uproars" in most of the counties. We might suppose that the Sheriff already possessed sufficient power for this purpose: the means then adopted to promote tranquillity were not well calculated to be popular among the people. No drum or pipe was to be struck or sounded. Plays were forbidden. In the churches of Devonshire and Cornwall, Lord Russell was to take down every bell in a steeple but one, so as to prevent a peal being rung. The precedency in question is acted upon to the present hour; and a Lord Lieutenant, however high his rank in the peerage, gives place to the Sheriff as a matter of course. But do not both these officers yield precedence to her Majesty's justices of assize, when actually engaged on the circuit? J. H. M. ST. CHRISTOPHER. (Vol. v., pp. 295. 334. 372.) Two questions are asked by E. A. H. L. concerning St. Christopher: 1. _Are there any known representations of St. Christopher in painted glass?_ There is a very interesting example in a window in _St. Neot's Church, Cornwall_. It represents St. Christopher with the child Jesus on his back, and below has the legend: "Sante Christophere, ora pro me." This ancient window was presented to the church by three members of the Borlase family. Their benefaction is recorded in the inscription along the cill of the window: "Orate pro animabus Catherine Burlas, Nicolai Burlas, et Johannis Vyvian, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt." Another example of St. Christopher, bearing the divine infant, is in one of the lights of the three-light window over the altar of _All Saints' Church, North Street, York_. It is the work of the fifteenth century. In the same city, _St. John's Church, Micklegate_, has two representations of St. Christopher in glass. One is the window north of the altar, but it is only a portion of the figure; the other is in the window south of the altar, and of perpendicular character. In _St. Martin-le-Grand, Coney Street_, in the sixth or eastern window of the north aisle, is a figure of St. Christopher, of date about 1450. _St. Michael-le-Belfroy_, in the same city, has two figures of the saint: one, of perpendicular character, in the window north of the altar; the other, a fragment, in the fourth window from the east end on the south side, of date between 1540 and 1550. _Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate_, possesses a very beautiful figure of the saint. It forms the fifth of a series of five large figures in the east window of the church, and seems to bear the date 1470. The second question is, "What is the real meaning of the representations of St. Christopher that are so frequently found on the north walls of churches?" I cannot agree with MR. J. EASTWOOD in thinking that the explanation he gives from _Sacred and Legendary Art is sufficiently satisfactory_. It appears to me that the figures of St. Christopher were meant to symbolise the privilege enjoyed by the faithful of receiving the body and blood of Christ, and thus becoming _Christo-feri_. The emblem may have had its origin in the earliest ages, when the _disciplina arcani_ was carried out. This opinion receives strength from the circumstance, that Christopher was a name assumed by the saint, and not his baptismal name. The extraordinary powers of cure spoken of in verses often inscribed below the figures of this saint, were understood by the faithful to allude to the efficacy of the Holy Communion, that made them _Christopher's_, i.e. persons bearing their blessed Saviour, not on their shoulders, but within their breasts. His figures in sculpture and painting are always represented as colossal, to signify that this heavenly food makes each of the faithful "as a giant to run the way" (Ps. xix. 5.) This explanation will probably satisfy E. A. H. L. that the important position occupied by St. Christopher in the iconography of the mediæval church is to be solved by its symbolical signification. In addition to the representations of this saint in painted glass mentioned above, E. A. H. L. will find mention of another specimen in the last number of the _Archæological Journal_. It is in private hands, being the property of Mr. Lucas, who purchased a collection of specimens of old glass some years since at Guildford, said to have come from an old mansion in Surrey. The specimen in question is described as "St. Christopher carrying our Saviour--an octagonal piece of glass."--P. 101. He will also find, in the same place, that a mural painting of St. Christopher has been lately discovered in the chancel of Gawsworth Church, Cheshire, of which a description is given in p. 103. CEYREP. E. A. H. L. asks if there is any known representation of St. Christopher in painted glass. There is one in All Saints, York, engraved in Weale's _Papers_; and there is a small one on a brass in Tattershall Church. C. T. For information on this subject, I would refer E. A. H. L. to Warton, _Poetry_, vol. i. p. 451.; Coryatt's _Crudities_, vol. i. p. 29.; Rudder's _Gloucestershire_, p. 286.; Gage's _Hengrave_, p. 64.; _Winckelm. Stosch_, ch. i. n. 103. On a loose print of "Painted Glass at Leicester," Throsby del. 1788, now before me, is a representation of him who was once Psychicus the savage, but now the holy Saint Christopher, figured, as usual, under the likeness of a man of gigantic stature, carrying on his shoulder the little child Jesus, through the broad and deep waters of a turbulent river, and steadying his steps with an uprooted palm-tree laden with fruit, which he bears in his hands by way of staff. He is here exhibited in more seemly habiliments, and as a personage of much more dignified and venerable appearance, than in the well-known picture on the walls of Wotton Church. The latter, however, is a portraiture of superior antiquarian interest, on account of its accessories, wherein St. Christopher's especial office, as patron of field sports, is, with much rudeness it is true, but most efficiently and fully illustrated. In the extract given by J. EASTWOOD from _Sacred and Legendary Art_, we have merely the supposititious conclusions of an ingenious imagination, introduced to supply a void which the accomplished writer was unable otherwise to fill up. There is a pretty little work published by Burns, and entitled _St. Christopher; a Painting in Fordholme Church_, which contains, much too much, however, in the suspicious form of a modern religious allegory, what professes to be the authentic "Legend" of this saint. COWGILL. E. A. H. L. makes the inquiry whether "there are any known representations of St. Christopher in _painted glass_; if so, where?" This I am unable to answer; but your learned correspondent JARLTZBERG having sent you one version of the legend attached to this saint, may I venture to remind you of another? This is the one attached to the celebrated picture, "The Descent from the Cross," by Rubens, in the cathedral of Antwerp, in which the painter, adopting the Greek derivation of the name as given by JARLTZBERG, represents the saint supporting Christ on his removal from the crucifix. The picture was painted for the Arquebusiers of Antwerp, whose patron was St. Christopher; but they were dissatisfied with it, and refused Rubens his promised reward, a piece of land in their possession contiguous to his own, for which he had accomplished this, certainly one of his most beautiful paintings. T. W. P. GENERAL PARDONS--SIR JOHN TRENCHARD. (Vol. iii., p. 279.) I am not aware of any general pardon under the great seal having been printed; but the following transcript of one (the original with the seal attached is in the collection of my friend, R. Rising, Esq., of Horsey) is very much at J. G. N.'s service, and is especially interesting, as being one of the last acts of James II. before he quitted England for ever. "{Jacobus Secundus Dei grati:} Anglie, Scocie, ffrancie & hib[=n]ie Rex, fidei defensor, &c. {Omnibus} ad quos p'sentes he n're [p=]veniu't sa[=lt]em. Sciatis q[=d] Nos pietate moti, ac gr'a n'ra sp'iali ac ex certa scientia & mero motu n'ris {Pardonabimus} relaxavims et remisims ac [p=] p'sentes [p=] Nobis heredibus, & successoribus n'ris, Pardonams relaxams et remittims Jo[=h]i Trenchard nu[p=] de medio Templo Londin' armigero seu quocunque alio nomine vel cognomine artis, misterii, loci vel locor' idem Jo[=h]es Trenchard sciatr censeatr vocetr vel nuncupetr aut nup' sciebatr, censebatr, vocabatr seu nuncupa batr omn' et omni'od' Prodic'ones crimina lese maiestatis, mispris'ones Prodic'onis, Conspirac'ones, Sedic'ones, Insurrecc'ones, Concelament' Bellor', gestiones Bellor', machinac'ones, Imaginac'ones, et attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones verbor', p'palac'ones ac om'ia & singula ffelon', et al' malefi'a crimina Transgressiones, contempt' et offens' quecunq: [p=] ip'um Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=] se solum sive cum aliqua alia p'sona, seu aliquib' aliis [p=]'sonis qualicunq:, quandocunq:, seu ubicunq: antehac contra [p=]sonam n'ram Regal' vel Gub'nac'onem n'ram, vel contra Person' D[=n]i Caroli s[=e]di nu[p=] Regis Anglie preclarissimi ffratris n'ri vel Regimen suu' vel leges & statut' regni n'ri Anglie fact' co[=m]iss' sive [p=]petrat'.--Necnon fugam & fugas su[p=]inde fact'. Et licet p'fat' Jo[=h]es Trenchard [p=]inde arrestat', ind'cat', impetit', utlagat', rectat' appellat' condemnat' convict' attinct' seu adiudicat' existit vel non existit aut inde arrestari, adiudicari, impetiri, utlagari rectari, appellari, condemnari, convinci, attingi seu adiudicari contigerit in futuro. Ac om'ia & singula Jud'camenta, convic'cones, judicia, condempnac'onas attinctur', execuc'ones imprisonamenta, Penas mortis, Penas corporales, fforisfutur', punic'ones & om'es al' Penas ac penalitates quascunq: de, [p=], sive concernen' [p=]'missa, vel aliqua [p=]'missor' insu[p=] vel versus [p=]'fat Jo[=h]em Trenchard habit' fact' reddit' sive adiudicat' vel imposter' h'end' f'iend' reddend', sive adiudicand' aut que nos versus ip'um Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=] p'missis vel aliquo p'missor' h'uimus h'emus seu imposter' h'ere poterimus, ac heredes seu successores n'ri ullo modo he're poterint in futuro. Necnon omnes et singul' utlagar' versus p'fat' Jo[=h]em Trenchard rac'one seu occac'one [p=]missor' seu eor' alicuius [p=]mulgat' seu imposter' [p=]'mulgand' At om'es & om'iod' sect', Querel', fforisfutur' impetic'ones & Demand' quecunq: que nos versus [p=]'fat' Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=] p'missis vel aliquo [p=]'missor' h'uim' h'emus seu infuturo h'ere poterimus. Sectamq: pacis n're que ad nos versus [p=]'fat Jo[=h]em Trenchard [p=]tinet seu [p=]tinere poterit, rac'one seu occac'one [p=]'missor' seu eor' alicui. Et firmam pacem n'ram ei inde dam' et concedim' [p=] p'sentes. {Nolentes} q'd ip'e idem Jo[=h]es Trenchard [p=] Justitiar' Vice Comites Mariscallos Escaetor', Coronator', Ballivos seu aliquos al' ministros n're heredum vel successor' n'ror' quoscunq: rac'onib' seu occac'onib' p'd'tis seu eor' aliqu' molestetr [p=]'turbetr seu in aliquo gravetr {Volentes} q'd he l're n're patentes quoad om'ia singul' p'missa su[p=]ind menc'onat' bene, firme, valide, sufficien' et effectual' in lege erunt et existent licet Prodic'ones, crimina lese maiestatis, misprisiones Prodic'onis, conspirac'ones, sedic'ones, Insurecc'ones, concelament' Bellor', Gestion' Bellor', machinac'ones, Imaginac'ones, vel attempt' Illicit', convinc'ones verbor', Propalac'ones & ffelon' crimina, & offens' p'dict', minus certe specificat' existim't. Q'dq: hec Pardonaco' n'ra in om'ib' curiis n'ris et alibi interpretetr et adiudicetr in beneficentissimo sensu [p=] firmiore exonerac'one relaxac'one & Pardonac'one [p=]'fat' Jo[=h]is Trenchard ac etiam p'litetr allocetr in om'ib: Curiis n'ris absq: aliquo Brevi de Allocac'one mea parte pr'm's obtent' sive obtinend'. Et non obstante aliqua def'tu vel aliquib' def'tibus in his l'ris n'ris patentib' content' aut aliquo statuto, acto, ordinac'one provisione seu Restricc'one aut aliqua al' re, causa, vel materia quacunq: in contrar' inde ullo modo non obstante. In Cuius rei testimoniu' has l'ras n'ras fier' fecimus Patentes. Teste me ip'o apud West' decimo sept'o die Decembris anno regni n'ri tertio. Per Breve de p'rato Sigillo BARKER." This was in the year 1688, just seven days after, according to Macaulay, that he had fled secretly from the kingdom, having previously thrown the great seal into the Thames, whence it was dredged up some months after by a fisherman. Being driven back by stress of weather, he returned to London, and on the 17th Pepys states, "That night was a council; his Ma'ty refuses to assent to all the proposals, goes away again to Rochester." and _on that very night_ was this pardon granted, James probably endeavouring to prop up his tottering cause by attaching as many as possible to his own party. There were several documents in the collection of the late Josiah Trench, Esq., of Windsor (1648-1652) signed by John Trenchard, among the other regicides. Ewing, in his _Norfolk Lists_, states that a portrait of him is in existence, and that he was a serjeant-at-law, and at this date (1688) M. P. for Thetford, being at that date merely an esquire. In 1692, according to the same authority, Sir John Trenchard was Secretary of State; and his death took place in 1694. I should be glad to add to these scanty notices, especially as regards the reason which rendered a pardon necessary at this time. E. S. TAYLOR. Replies to Minor Queries. _Dayesman_ (Vol. i., p. 189.).--Bishop Jewell writes: "M. Harding would have had us put God's word to _daying_ (i.e. to _trial_), and none otherwise to be obedient to Christ's commandment, than if a few bishops gathered at Trident shall allow it." _Replie to Harding_, _Works_, vol. ii. p. 424. (Dr. Jelf's edit.) "The _Ger._ TAGEN, to appoint a day. The _D._ DAGHEN, to cite or summon on a day appointed." (Wachter and Kilian.) And _Dayesman_ is he, the man, "who fixes the _day_, who is present, or sits as judge, arbiter, or umpire on the _day_ fixed or appointed." It is evident that Richardson made much use of Jewell; but this word "daying" has escaped him: his explanation of _dayesman_ accords well with it. Q. _Bull_; _Dun_ (Vol. ii., p. 143.).--We certainly do not want the aid of Obadiah Bull and Joe Dun to account for these words. Milton writes, "I affirm it to be a _bull_, taking away the essence of that, which it calls itself." And a _bull_ is, "that which expresses something in opposition to what is intended, wished, or felt;" and so named "from the contrast of humble profession with despotic commands of Papal bulls." "A _dun_ is one who has _dinned_ another for money or anything."--See Tooke, vol. ii. p. 305. Q. _Algernon Sidney_ (Vol. v., p. 447.).--I do not intend to enter the lists in defence of this "illustrious patriot." The pages of "N. & Q." are not a fit battle ground. But I request you to insert the whole quotation, that your readers may judge with what amount of fairness C. has made his note from Macaulay's _History_. "Communications were opened between Barillon, the ambassador of Lewis, and those English politicians who had always professed, and who indeed sincerely felt, the greatest dread and dislike of the French ascendancy. The most upright member of the country party, William Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, did not scruple to concert with a foreign mission schemes for embarrassing his own sovereign. This was the whole extent of Russell's offence. His principles and his fortune alike raised him above all temptations of a sordid kind: but there is too much reason to believe that some of his associates were less scrupulous. It would be unjust to impute to them the extreme wickedness of taking bribes to injure their country. On the contrary, they meant to serve her: but it is impossible to deny that they were mean and indelicate enough to let a foreign prince pay them for serving her. Among those who cannot be acquitted of this degrading charge was one man who is popularly considered as the personification of public spirit, and who, in spite of some great moral and intellectual faults, has a just claim to be called a hero, a philosopher, and a patriot. It is impossible to see without pain such a name in the list of the pensioners of France. Yet it is some consolation to reflect that in our own time a public man would be thought lost to all sense of duty and shame who should not spurn from him a temptation which conquered the virtue and the pride of Algernon Sidney." _History of England_, vol. i. p. 228. ALGERNON HOLT WHITE. Brighton. _Age of Trees_ (Vol. iv., pp. 401. 488.).--At Neustadt, in Wirtemberg, there is a prodigious lime-tree, which gives its name to the town, which is called _Neustadt an der Linden_. The age of this tree is said to be 1000 years. According to a German writer, it required the support of sixty pillars in the year 1392, and attained its present size in 1541. It now rests, says the same authority, on above one hundred props, and spreads out so far that a market can be held under its shade. It is of this tree that Evelyn says it was-- "Set about with divers columns and monuments of stone (eighty-two in number, and formerly above one hundred more), which several princes and nobles have adorned, and which as so many pillars serve likewise to support the umbrageous and venerable boughs; and that even the tree had been much ampler the ruins and distances of the columns declare, which the rude soldiers have greatly impaired." There is another colossal specimen of the same species in the churchyard of the village of Cadiz, near Dresden. The circumference of the trunk is forty feet. Singularly, though it is completely hollow through age, its inner surface is coated with a fresh and healthy bark. UNICORN. _Emaciated Monumental Effigies_ (Vol. v., p. 427.).--In reference to your correspondents' observations on skeleton monuments, I may mention that there is one inserted in the wall of the yard of St. Peter's Church, Drogheda. It is in high relief, cut in a dark stone and the skeleton figure half shrouded by grave clothes is a sufficiently appalling object. Beside it stands another figure still "in the flesh." It is many years since I saw the monument, and whether there be any inscription legible upon it, or whether it be generally known to whom it belongs, I cannot inform you. URSULA. There is a very good instance of an "altar tomb," bearing on it an ordinary effigy, and containing within it a skeleton figure, visible through pierced panel work, in Fyfield Church, Berks. It is the monument of Sir John Golafre, temp. Hen. V. Another fine instance I remember to have seen (I believe) in the parish church of Ewelme, Oxon. HENRY G. TOMKINS. Weston-super-Mare. _Bee Park_ (Vol. v., p. 322.).--In this neighbourhood is an ancient farm-house called Bee Hall, where I doubt not that bees were kept in great quantities in bygone ages; and am the more led to believe this because they always flourish best upon thyme, which grows here as freely and luxuriantly as I ever elsewhere observed it. About four miles from said Bee Hall, the other day, I was looking over a genteel residence, and noticing a shady enclosure, asked the gardener what it was for. He told me, to protect the bees from the sun: it was upon a much larger scale than we generally now see, indicating that the soil, &c. suit apiaries. Looking to the frequent mention of _honey_, and its vast consumption formerly, as you instance in royal inventories, to which may be added documents in cathedral archives, &c., is it not remarkable that we should witness so few memorials of the ancient management of this interesting insect? I certainly remember one well-built "bee-house," at the edge of Lord Portsmouth's park, Hurstbourne, Hants, large enough for a good cottage, now deserted. While on the subject I will solicit information on a custom well known to those resident in the country, viz. of making a great noise with a house key, or other small knocker, against a metal dish or kettle while bees are swarming? Of course farmers' wives, peasants, &c., who do not reason, adopt this because their fathers before them did so. It is urged by intelligent naturalists that it is utterly useless, as bees have no sense of hearing. What does the clamour mean,--whence derived? B. B. Pembroke. _Sally Lunn_ (Vol. v., p. 371.).--In reply to the Query, "Is anything known of Sally Lunn? is she a personage or a myth?" I refer your inquirer to Hone's _Every-day Book_, vol. ii. p. 1561.: "The bun so fashionable, called the _Sally Lunn_, originated with a young woman of that name at Bath, about thirty years ago." [This was written in 1826.] "She first cried them in a basket, with a white cloth over it, morning and evening. Dalmer, a respectable baker and musician, noticed her, bought her business, and made a song and set it to music in behalf of Sally Lunn. This composition became the street favourite, barrows were made to distribute the nice cakes, Dalmer profited thereby and retired, and to this day the _Sally Lunn Cake_ claims pre-eminence in all the cities of England." J. R. W. Bristol. _Baxter's Pulpit_ (Vol. v., p. 363.).--An engraving of Baxter's pulpit will be found in a work entitled _Footsteps of our Forefathers: what they suffered and what they sought_. By James G. Miall, 1851, p. 232. J. R. W. Bristol. _Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps_ (Vol. v., p. 371.).--Although this work is now out of print, and thereby scarce, your correspondent ELGINENSIS will, I have no doubt, on application to Stevenson, the "well-known" antiquarian and historical bookseller in Edinburgh, be put in possession of a copy for 12_s._ T. G. P. Edinburgh. _British Ambassadors_ (Vol. iv., pp. 442. 477.).--Some time ago a correspondent asked where he could obtain a list or lists of the ambassadors sent from this court. I do not recollect that an answer has appeared in your columns, nor do I know how far the following may suit his purpose: "12. An Alphabetical Index of the Names and Dates of Employment of English Ambassadors and Diplomatic Agents resident in Foreign Courts, from the Reign of King Henry VIII. to that of Queen Anne inclusive. One volume, folio." This is extracted from the letter of the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, keeper of His Majesty's State Papers, in reply to the Secretary of the Commissioners of Public Records, dated "State Paper Office, Sept. 19, 1832." (See the Appendix to the _Commissioners' Report_, 1837, p. 78.) TEE BEE. _Knollys Family_ (Vol. v., p. 397.).--Lt.-General William Knollys, eighth Earl of Banbury, married Charlotte Martha, second daughter of the Ebenezer Blackwell, Esq., banker, of Lombard Street, and Lewisham, Kent. The present Col. Knollys, of the Fusileer Guards, is his representative. A. Blackwell, sister or daughter of John Blackwell, the father of Ebenezer, married an Etheridge. W. BLACKWELL, Curate of Mells. _'Prentice Pillars--'Prentice Windows_ (Vol. v., p. 395.).--I am reminded of a similar story connected with the two rose windows in the transept of the beautiful cathedral of Rouen. They were described to me by the old Swiss in charge, as the work of two artists, master and pupil; and he also pointed out the spot where the master killed the pupil, from jealousy of the splendid production of the _north_ window by the latter: and, as the _Guide Book_ truly says, "La rose du nord est plus belle que celle du midi"--the master's work. BENBOW. Birmingham. _St. Bartholomew_ (Vol. v., p. 129.).--Thanking you for the information given, may I further inquire if any of your correspondents are aware of the existence of any copy or print from the picture in the Church of Notre Dame, at Paris, of St. Bartholomew healing the Princess of Armenia (see Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_); and where such may be seen? REGEDONUM. _Sun-dial Inscription_ (Vol. v., p. 79.).--The following inscription is painted in huge letters over the sun-dial in front of an old farm-house near Farnworth in Lancashire: "Horas non numero nisi serenas." Where are these words to be found? Y. _History of Faction_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--In my copy of this work, published in 1705, 8vo., formerly Isaac Reed's, he attributes it to Colonel Sackville Tufton. I observe also that Wilson (_Life of De Foe_, vol. ii. p. 335.) states, that in his copy it is ascribed, in an old handwriting, to the same author. JAS. CROSSLEY. _Barnacles_ (Vol. v., p. 13.).--May not the use of this word in the sense of _spectacles_ be a corruption of _binoculis_; and has not _binnacle_ (part of a ship) a similar origin? J. S. WARDEN. _Family Likenesses_ (Vol. v., p. 7.).--Any one who mixed in the society of the Scottish metropolis a few years ago must have met with two very handsome and accomplished brothers, who generally wore the Highland dress, and were known by the name of "The Princes." I do not mean to enter into the question as to whether or not they were the true representatives of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," which most persons consider to have been conclusively settled in the negative by an article which appeared in the _Quarterly Review_: but most assuredly a very strong point of evidence in favour of their having the royal blood of Scotland in their veins, was the remarkable resemblance which they bore--especially the younger brother--to various portraits of the Stuart family, and, among the rest, to those of the "Merry Monarch," as well as of his father Charles I. E. N. _Merchant Adventurers to Spain_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--C.J.P. may possibly be assisted in his inquiries by referring to De Castros' _Jews in Spain_, translated by Kirwan, pp. 190-196. This interesting work was published by G. Bell, 186. Fleet Street, London, 1851. W. W. La Valetta, Malta. _Exeter Controversy_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--This controversy was one of the many discussions relating to the Trinity which have engaged the theological activity of England during the last two hundred years. It arose in consequence of the imputed Arianism of some Presbyterian ministers of Exeter, the most conspicuous of whom were James Peirce and Joseph Hallet. It began in 1717, and terminated in 1719, when these two ministers were ejected from their pulpits. Your correspondent who put the question will find some account of this controversy in Murch's _History of the Presbyterian Churches in the West of England_,--a work well worth the attention of those who take interest in the antiquities of Non-conformity. T. H. GILL. _Corrupted Names of Places_ (Vol. v., p. 375.).--When my father was at one time engaged in collecting the numbers drawn for the Sussex militia, he began by calling out for those men who belonged to the hundred of _Mayfield_; and though he three times repeated his call, not a single man came forward. A person standing by suggested that he should say "the hundred of _Mearvel_," and give it as broad a twang as possible. He did so; when _nineteen_ out of _twenty-three_ present answered to the summons. _Hurstmonceaux_ is commonly pronounced _Harsmouncy_; and I have heard _Sompting_ called _Summut_. G. BLINK. _Poison_ (Vol. v., p. 394.).--Junius, Bailey, and Johnson seem all to agree that our word _poison_ comes from the French _poison_. I am inclined to think, with the two first-mentioned lexicographers, that the etymon is πόσις, or _potio_. Junius adds, that "Ita Belgis venenum dicitur _gift_, donum;" and it is curious that in Icelandic _eitr_ means both poison and gift. In the _Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ_ (p. 13.), I find the following expressions:--"Sva er sagt, at Froda væri gefinn banadryckr." "Mixta portioni veneno sublatum e vivis tradunt Frotonem." Should it not be _potioni_, inasmuch as "bana," in Icelandic, signifies to kill, if I do not err, and "dryckr" is drink? Certainly, in Anglo-Saxon, "bana" (whence our _bane_) and "drycian" have similar significations. C. I. R. Is there any possible doubt that _poison_ is _potion_? Menage quotes Suetonius, that Caligula was _potionatus_ by his wife. It is a French word undoubtedly. C. B. _Vikingr Skotar_ (Vol. v., p. 394.).--In the _Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ_ it is stated (p. 5.), that after the death of Guthormr, and subsequently to the departure of Harald (Harfagr) from the Hebrides, "Sidan settug i löndin vikingar margir Danir oc Nordmenn. Posthac sedes ibi occupant piratæ plurimi, Dani æqua ac Normanni." The word _vikingar_, the true Icelandic word for pirate, often occurs in the same saga, but not combined with _skotar_, though this latter term is repeated, signifying "the Scotch," and also in composition with _konungr_, &c. C. I. R. _Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374.).--A complete collection of local rhymes would certainly be both curious and interesting. Those cited by Chambers in his amusing work are exclusively Scotch; for a collection relating to English towns, I would refer your Querist MR. FRASER to Grose's _Provincial Glossary_, where, interspersed among the "Local Proverbs," he will find an extensive gathering of characteristic rhymes. I conclude with appending a few not to be found in either of these works: "RICHMOND. "Nomen habes _mundi_, nec erit sine jure, secundi, Namque situs titulum comprobat ipse tuum. From thy rich mound thy appellation came, And thy rich seat proves it a proper name." _Drunken Barnaby's Journal._ "Anglia, mons, fons, pons, ecclesia, foemina, lana. England amongst all nations is most full, Of hills, wells, bridges, churches, women, wool." _Ibid._ "Cornwall swab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings, And Leicester beans, and bacon fit for kings." Dr. King's _Art of Cookery_. See _Spectator_. In Belgium I am perhaps beyond bounds, but may cite in conclusion: "Nobilibus Bruxella viris, Antverpia nummis, Gandavum laqueis, formosis Burga puellis, Lovanium doctis, gaudet Mechlinia stultis." WILLIAM BATES. You may perhaps think the accompanying, "Rhymes on Places" worthy of insertion, on the districts of the county of Ayr, viz.: "Carrick for a man, Kyle for a cou, Cunninghame for butter and cheese, And Galloway for woo." F. J. H. _"We three"_ (Vol. v., p. 338.).--It may interest your correspondent to learn that a public-house exists in London with the sign he mentions. It is situate in Virginia Row, Bethnal Green, is styled "The Three Loggerheads," and has a signboard ornamented with a couple of busts: one of somewhat Cæsarian aspect, laureated; the other a formidable-looking personage with something on his head, probably intended for the dog-skin helmet of the ancient Greeks,--but as the style of art strongly reminds one of that adopted for the figure-heads of ships, I confess my doubts on the subject. Under each bust appears the distich: "WE THREE LOGGERHEADS BE." The sign appears a "notability" in the neighbourhood, as I have more than once in passing seen some apparent new comer set to guess its meaning; and when he confessed his inability, informed, in language more forcible than elegant, that he made the third Loggerhead. W. E. F. _Burning Fern brings Rain_ (Vol. v., p. 242.).--In some parts of America, but more particularly in the New England States, there was a popular belief, in former times, that immediately after a large fire in a town, or of wood in a forest, there would be a "fall of rain." Whether this opinion exists among the people at present, or whether it was entertained by John Winthrop, the first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and the Pilgrim Fathers, on their landing at Plymouth, as they most unfortunately did, their superstitious belief in witchcraft, and some other "strange notions," may be a subject of future inquiry. W. W. La Valetta, Malta. _Plague Stones_ (Vol. v., pp. 226. 374.).--I have often seen the stone which G. J. R. G. mentions as "to be seen close to Gresford, in Denbighshire, about a quarter of a mile from the town, on the road to Wrexham, under a wide-spreading tree, on an open space, where three roads meet." It is, I conjecture, the base of a cross. This stone may be the remnant of the last of a succession of crosses, the first of which may have given its Welsh name, _Croes ffordd_, the way of the cross, to the village. There is no tradition of any visitation of the plague at Gresford; but there is reason to suppose that it once prevailed at Wrexham, which is about three miles distant. Near that town, and on the side of a hill near the footpath leading from Wrexham vechan to Marchwiel Hall, there is a field called _Bryn y cabanau_, the brow of the cabins; the tradition respecting which is, that, during the prevalence of the plague in Wrexham, the inhabitants constructed wooden huts in this place for their temporary residences. A QUONDAM GRESFORDITE. I do not think the "Plague Stone" a mile or two out of Hereford has been mentioned in the Notes on that subject. If my memory is correct, there is a good deal of ornament, and it is surrounded by a short flight of stone steps. F. J. H. _Sneezing_ (Vol. v., p. 364.).--Having occasion to look at the first edition of the _Golden Legend_, printed by Caxton, I met with the following passage, which may perhaps prove interesting to your correspondent, as showing that the custom of blessing persons when they sneeze "endured" in the fifteenth century. The institution of the "Litany the more and the lasse," we are told, was justified,-- "For a right grete and grevous maladye: for as the Romayns had in the lenton lyued sobrely and in contynence, and after at Ester had receyud theyr Sauyour; after they disordered them in etyng, in drynkyng, in playes, and in lecherye. And therfore our Lord was meuyed ayenst them and sente them a grete pestelence, which was called the Botche of impedymye, and that was cruell and sodayne, and caused peple to dye in goyng by the waye, in pleying, in leeyng atte table, and in spekyng one with another sodeynly they deyed. In this manere somtyme snesyng they deyed; so that whan any persone was herd snesyng, anone they that were by said to hym, God helpe you, or Cryst helpe, _and yet endureth the custome_. And also when he sneseth or gapeth he maketh to fore his face the signe of the crosse and blessith hym. And yet endureth this custome." _Golden Legende_, edit. 1483, fo. xxi. b. F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER. Kentish Town. _Abbot of Croyland's Motto_ (Vol. v., p. 395.).--MR. FORBES is quite correct with regard to the motto of Abbot Wells, which should be "Benedicite Fontes Domin_o_." The sentence, "Bless the Wells, O Lord!" which is placed in so awkward a juxtaposition with it, is really a distinct motto for the name of Wells, and, so far from being a translation of the abbot's, is almost an inversion of it; and this should, as MR. FORBES justly remarks, have had "some editorial notice" from me. M. A. LOWER. _Derivation of the Word "Azores"_ (Vol. v., p. 439.).--The group of islands called the _Azores_, first discovered in 1439, by Joshua Vanderburg, a merchant of Bruges, and taken possession of by the Portuguese in 1448, were so named by Martin Behem, from the Portuguese word _Açor_, a hawk; Behem observing a great number of hawks there. The three species most frequently seen now are the Kestril, called _Francelho_; the Sparrowhawk, _Furobardo_; and the Buzzard, _Manta_; but whether very numerous or not, I am unable to state. From the geographical position of these islands, correct lists of the birds and fishes would be of great interest, and, as far as I am aware, are yet wanting. Martin Behem found one of these islands covered with beech-trees, and called it therefore _Fayal_, from the Portuguese word _Faya_, a beech-tree. Another island, abounding in sweet flowers, he called _Flores_, from the Portuguese, _Flor_, a flower. _Terceira_, one of the nine islands forming the group, is said to have been so called, because, in the order of succession, it was the third island discovered (from _Ter_ and _ceira_, a bank). _Graciosa_, as a name, was conferred upon one of peculiar beauty, a sort of paradise. _Pico_ derived its name from its sugar-loaf form. The raven found at Madeira and the Canary Islands is probably also a native of the Azores, and might have suggested the Portuguese name of _Corvo_ for one of the nine. St. Mary, St. Michael, and St. George complete the names of the group, of which St. Michael is the largest and Corvo the smallest. WM. YARRELL. Rider Street. _Scologlandis and Scologi_ (Vol. v., p. 416.).--As these names occur in a Celtic country, we are justified in seeking their explanation in the Celtic language. I therefore write to inform G. J. R. G. that the word _scolog_ is a living word in the Irish language, and that it signifies a _farmer_ or _husbandman_. It is the word used in the Irish Bible at Matt. xxi. 33., "he let it out to _husbandmen_"--tug se do _scologaibh_ ar chios i. I may also mention that the name _Mac Scoloige_ is very common in the co. Fermanagh in Ireland, where it is very generally anglicised _Farmer_, according to a usual practice of the Irish. Thus it is not uncommon even now to find a man known by the name of John or Thomas _Farmer_, whose father or grandfather is John or Thomas Mac Scoloige, the name Mac Scoloige signifying "son of a farmer." The _Scologlandis_, in the documents quoted by G. J. R. G., must therefore have taken their name from the _scologs_ or farmers, by whom they were cultivated, unless we suppose that they were anciently the patrimony of some branch of the family of Mac Scoloige, whose remains are now settled in Fermanagh. In Scotland the word is now usually written _sgalag_, and is explained by Armstrong in his _Gaelic Dictionary_ "a farm servant." And the word does certainly seem to have been used in ancient Irish to denote a _servant_ or menial attendant, although the notion of a _farm_ servant seems to have grown out of its other significations. Thus in a very ancient historical romance (probably as old as the ninth or tenth century), which is preserved in the curious volume called _Leabhar breac_, or _Speckled Book_, in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the word _scolog_ is used to designate _the servant_ of the Abbot of St. Finbar's, Cork. J. H. T. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. If there be any one class of documents from which, more than from any other, we may hope to draw evidence of the accuracy of Byron's assertion, that "Truth is strange, stranger than fiction!" they are surely the records of judicial proceedings both in civil and criminal matters; while, as Mr. Burton well observes in the preface to the two volumes which have called forth this remark, _Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland_, "there can be no source of information more fruitful in incidents which have the attraction of picturesqueness, along with the usefulness of truth." In submitting therefore to the public the materials of this nature--some drawn from manuscript authorities, some again from those works which, being printed for Subscription Clubs, may be considered as privately printed, and inaccessible to the majority of readers--which had accumulated on his hands while in the pursuit of other inquiries connected with the history of Scotland, Mr. Burton has produced two volumes which will be read with the deepest interest. The narratives are of the most varied character; and while some give us strange glimpses of the workings of the human heart, and show us how truly the Prophet spoke when he described it as being "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;" and some exhibit humiliating pictures of the fallibility of human judgment, others derive their chief interest from revealing collaterally "the social secrets of the day,--from the state mysteries, guarded by the etiquette and policy of courts, down to those characteristics of humble life which are removed from ordinary notice by their native obscurity." Greater dramatic power on the part of Mr. Burton might have given additional attraction to his narratives; but though the want of this power is obvious, they form two volumes which will be perused with great curiosity and interest even by the most passionless of readers. 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[Transcriber's Note: List of volumes and content pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I.-V.] +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 | | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 | | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 | | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 | | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 | | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # 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xxxxx | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | | Vol. IV No. 94 | August 16, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 38350 | | Vol. IV No. 95 | August 23, 1851 | 129-144 | PG # 38386 | | Vol. IV No. 96 | August 30, 1851 | 145-167 | PG # 38405 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 97 | Sept. 6, 1851 | 169-183 | PG # 38433 | | Vol. IV No. 98 | Sept. 13, 1851 | 185-200 | PG # 38491 | | Vol. IV No. 99 | Sept. 20, 1851 | 201-216 | PG # 38574 | | Vol. IV No. 100 | Sept. 27, 1851 | 217-246 | PG # 38656 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 101 | Oct. 4, 1851 | 249-264 | PG # 38701 | | Vol. IV No. 102 | Oct. 11, 1851 | 265-287 | PG # 38773 | | Vol. IV No. 103 | Oct. 18, 1851 | 289-303 | PG # 38864 | | Vol. IV No. 104 | Oct. 25, 1851 | 305-333 | PG # 38926 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 105 | Nov. 1, 1851 | 337-358 | PG # 39076 | | Vol. IV No. 106 | Nov. 8, 1851 | 361-374 | PG # 39091 | | Vol. IV No. 107 | Nov. 15, 1851 | 377-396 | PG # 39135 | | Vol. IV No. 108 | Nov. 22, 1851 | 401-414 | PG # 39197 | | Vol. IV No. 109 | Nov. 29, 1851 | 417-430 | PG # 39233 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. IV No. 110 | Dec. 6, 1851 | 433-460 | PG # 39338 | | Vol. IV No. 111 | Dec. 13, 1851 | 465-478 | PG # 39393 | | Vol. IV No. 112 | Dec. 20, 1851 | 481-494 | PG # 39438 | | Vol. IV No. 113 | Dec. 27, 1851 | 497-510 | PG # 39503 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Notes and Queries Vol. V. | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. V No. 114 | January 3, 1852 | 1- 18 | PG # 40171 | | Vol. V No. 115 | January 10, 1852 | 25- 45 | PG # 40582 | | Vol. V No. 116 | January 17, 1852 | 49- 70 | PG # 40642 | | Vol. V No. 117 | January 24, 1852 | 73- 94 | PG # 40678 | | Vol. V No. 118 | January 31, 1852 | 97-118 | PG # 40716 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. V No. 119 | February 7, 1852 | 121-142 | PG # 40742 | | Vol. V No. 120 | February 14, 1852 | 145-167 | PG # 40743 | | Vol. V No. 121 | February 21, 1852 | 170-191 | PG # 40773 | | Vol. V No. 122 | February 28, 1852 | 193-215 | PG # 40779 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. V No. 123 | March 6, 1852 | 217-239 | PG # 40804 | | Vol. V No. 124 | March 13, 1852 | 241-263 | PG # 40843 | | Vol. V No. 125 | March 20, 1852 | 265-287 | PG # 40910 | | Vol. V No. 126 | March 27, 1852 | 289-310 | PG # 40987 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. V No. 127 | April 3, 1852 | 313-335 | PG # 41138 | | Vol. V No. 128 | April 10, 1852 | 337-358 | PG # 41171 | | Vol. V No. 129 | April 17, 1852 | 361-383 | PG # 41205 | | Vol. V No. 130 | April 24, 1852 | 385-407 | PG #41254 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol. V No. 131 | May 1, 1852 | 409-431 | PG # 41295 | | Vol. V No. 132 | May 8, 1852 | 433-455 | PG # 41419 | | Vol. V No. 133 | May 15, 1852 | 457-479 | PG # 41465 | +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. JAN.-JUNE, 1851 | PG # 26770 | | INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME. JULY-DEC., 1851 | PG # 40166 | +------------------------------------------------+------------+ *** End of this LibraryBlog Digital Book "Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc." *** Copyright 2023 LibraryBlog. All rights reserved.