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diff --git a/11707-0.txt b/11707-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b948ebd --- /dev/null +++ b/11707-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1878 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11707 *** + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +NO. 13.] +SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. 1850. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS. + +NOTES:-- + Domingo Lomelyn, Jester to Henry VIII., By Edward F. Rimbault + Marlowe and the Old Taming of a Shrew + Beetle Mythology + Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster, by Rev. M. Walcott + Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault + Old Painted Glass + Aelfric's Colloquy, by S.W. Singer + Logographic Printing + Memorial of Duke of Monmouth's Last Days + +QUERIES:-- + Catherine Pegge, by Lord Braybrooke + William Basse and his Poems, by J.P. Collier + Minor Queries:--Christmas Hymn--Passage in Pope--Circulation + of the Blood--Meaning of Pallace--Oliver + Cromwell--Savegard and Russells--Pandoxare--Lord + Bacon's Psalms--Festival of St. Michael, &c.--Luther + and Erasmus--Lay of the Phoenix--Agricola--Liturgy + Version of Psalms + +MISCELLANIES--including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:-- + Sir W. Rider--Sonnet--Pilgrimage of Princes, &c.--Seal + of Killigrew--Lacedaemonian Black Broth--Epigram--Bigotry--Gowghe's + Dore of Holy Scripture--Reinerius + Saccho--Discurs Modest--Defoe--Etymology + of Muffins--By Hook or by Crook--El + Buscapié, &c. + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, catalogues, &c. + Books and Odd Volumes wanted + Notices to Correspondents + Advertisements + + * * * * * + +DOMINGO LOMELYN, JESTER TO HENRY VIII. + +Shakespeare, in the _Second Part of Henry IV._ act v. sc. 3 makes +Silence sing the following scrap:-- + + "Do me right, + And dub me knight: + _Samingo_." + +And Nash, in his _Summer's Last Will and Testament_, 1600 (reprinted in +the last edition of Dodsley's _Old Plays_, vol. xi. p. 47.) has + + "Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass, + In cup, in can, or glass; + God Bacchus, do me right, + And dub me knight, + _Domingo_" + +T. Warton, in a note in vol. xvii. of the _Variorum_ Shakespeare, says, +"_Samingo_, that is _San Domingo_, as some of the commentators have +observed. But what is the meaning and propriety of the name here, has +not yet been shown. Justice Silence is here introduced as in the midst +of his cups; and I remember a black-letter ballad, in which either a +_San Domingo_ or a _Signior Domingo_, is celebrated for his miraculous +feats in drinking. Silence, in the abundance of his festivity, touches +upon some old song, in which this convivial _saint_, or _signior_, was +the burden. Perhaps, too, the pronounciation in here suited to the +character." I must own that I cannot see what San Domingo has to do with +a drinking song. May it not be an allusion to a ballad or song on +_Domingo_, one of King Henry the Eighth's jesters? + + "--_Domyngo Lomelyn_, + That was wont to wyn + Moche money of the kynge, + At the cardys and haserdynge." + +Skelton's _Why come ye not to Courte_, ed. Dyce, ii. p. 63. + +None of the commentators have noticed this, but I think my suggestion +carries with it some weight. + +In the _Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Eighth_ (published by Sir +H. Nichols, in 1827), are many entries concerning this _Domingo_, most +of which relate to payments of money that he had won from the king at +cards and dice. He was evidently, as Sir Harris Nichols observes, one of +King Henry's "diverting vagabonds," and seems to have accompanied his +majesty wherever he went, for we find that he was with him at Calais in +1532. In all these entries he is only mentioned as Domingo; his surname, +and the fact of his being a Lombard, we learn from Skelton's poem, +mentioned above. + +The following story, told of _Domingo_, occurs in Mr. (afterwards Sir +John) Harington's _Treatise on Playe_, 1597, printed in the _Nugae +Antiquae_, edit. Park, vol. i. p.222.:-- + + "The other tale I wold tell of a willinge and wise loss I have + hearde dyversly tolde. Some tell it of Kyng Phillip and a favoryte + of his; some of our worthy King Henry VIII. and _Domingo_; and I + may call it a tale; becawse perhappes it is but a tale, but thus + they tell it:--The kinge, 55 eldest hand, set up all restes, and + discarded flush; _Domingo_ or _Dundego_ (call him how you will), + helde it upon 49, or som such game; when all restes were up and + they had discarded, the kinge threw his 55 on the boord open, with + great lafter, supposing the game (as it was) in a manner + sewer. _Domingo_ was at his last carde incownterd flush, as the + standers by saw, and tolde the day after; but seeing the king so + mery, would not for a reste at primero, put him owt of that + pleasawnt conceyt, and put up his cardes quietly, yielding it + lost." + +Park was not acquainted with any particulars of this _Domingo Lomelyn_, +for he says, in a note, "Query, jester to the king?" + +The first epigram in Samuel Rowland's entertaining tract, _The Letting +of Humours Blood in the Head-waine_, &c. 1600, is upon "Monsieur +Domingo;" but whether it relates to King Henry's jester is a matter of +some question. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +MARLOWE AND THE OLD "TAMING OF A SHREW." + +Having only just observed an announcement of a new edition of the works +of Marlowe, I take the earliest opportunity of calling the attention of +the editor to a circumstance which it is important that he should know, +and the knowledge of which,--should it have escaped his notice, as it +has that of all other writers on the subject,--I trust may not be too +late for his present purpose. Without farther preface, I will introduce +the subject, by asking Mr. Dyce to compare two passages which I shall +shortly point out; and, having done so, I think he will agree with me in +the opinion that the internal evidence, relating to our old dramatic +literature, cannot have been very much studied, while such a discovery +as he will then make still remained to be made. The first passage is +from the so-called _old "Taming of a Shrew"_ (six old plays, 1779, p. +161.), and runs as follows:-- + + "Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, + Longing to view Orion's drisling looks, + Leaps from th' Antarctic world unto the sky, + And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath;" + +the second is from _Doctor Faustus_ (Marlowe's Works, vol. ii. p. 127.), +which, however, I shall save myself the trouble of transcribing; as, +with the exception of "look" for "looks," in the second line, and "his" +for "her," in the fourth, the two passages will be found identical. +Being, some years ago, engaged, in connection with the first of these +plays, in the pursuit of a very different object,--in which I cannot say +that I altogether failed, and the result of which I may take an +opportunity of communicating,--I made a note of the above; and at the +same time followed it up by a general examination of the style of +Marlowe. And, to make a long matter short, I may say that in this +examination, besides meeting with a dozen instances of the identity of +the writer of passages in the _Taming of a Shrew_ and of passages in +Marlowe's two plays, _Doctor Faustus_ and _Tamburlaine_, I found such +general resemblance in style as left no doubt upon my mind that, if one +of these plays be his acknowledged work, as indisputable will be his +claim to the other two. I was not aware at that time of the evidence, in +Henslow's _Diary_, of Marlowe's authorship of _Tamburlaine_; but, so far +from considering it inferior, I was inclined to place it, in some +important respects, at the very head of his plays. + +I will not take up your space now with the parallel passages which I +noted; but, should you wish it, and be able to make room for them, I +will furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious that the one I +have quoted proves nothing by itself; accumulated instances, in +connection with the general question of style, alone become important. I +will conclude, by giving a list which I have made out of Marlowe's +plays, in favour of which I conceive there to be either internal or +external evidence:-- + + "Locrine. + + Tamburlaine the Great (two parts). + + Jew of Malta. + + Doctor Faustus. + + Edward the Second. + + Massacre of Paris. + + Taming of a Shrew. + + Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Nash)." + +SAMUEL HICKSON + +St. John's Wood, Jan. 12. 1850 + + [We trust our correspondent will favour us with the further + communications he proposes on this very interesting point.] + + * * * * * + +BEETLE MYTHOLOGY. + +Mr. Editor,--I never thought of asking my Low-Norman fellow-rustics +whether the ladybird had a name and a legend in the best preserved of +the northern Romance dialects: on the score of a long absence +(eight-and-twenty years), might not a veteran wanderer plead +forgiveness? Depend upon it, Sir, nevertheless, that should any +reminiscences exist among my chosen friends, the stout-hearted and +industrious tenants of a soil where every croft and paddock is the leaf +of a chronicle, it will be communicated without delay. There is more +than usual attractiveness in the astronomical German titles of this tiny +"red chafer," or _rother kaefer_, SONNEN KAEFER and VNSER FRAWEN +KVHLEIN, the Sun-chafer, and our Lady's little cow. (_Isis_ or _Io?_) + +With regard to its provincial English name, _Barnabee_, the correct +interpretation might be found in _Barn-bie_, the burning, or fire-fly, a +compound word of Low-Dutch origin. + +We have a small black beetle, common enough in summer, called PÂN, +nearly hemispherical: you must recollect that the _â_ is as broad as you +can afford to make it, and the final _n_ is nasal. Children never +forgot, whenever they caught this beetle, to place it in the palm +of their left hand, when it was invoked as follows:-- + + "PÂN, PÂN, mourtre mé ten sang, + Et j'te doûrai de bouan vin blianc!" + +which means, being interpreted, + + "PÂN, PÂN, show me thy blood, + And I will give thee good white wine!" + +As he uttered the charm, the juvenile pontiff spat on poor Thammuz, till +a torrent of blood, or what seemed such, "ran purple" over the urchin's +fingers. + +Paul-Ernest Jablonski's numerous readers need not be told that the said +beetle is an Egyptian emblem of the everlasting and universal soul, and +that its temple is the equinoctial circle, the upper hemisphere.[1] + +As a solar emblem, it offers an instructive object of inquiry to the +judicious gleaners of the old world's fascinating nursery traditions. +Sicilian Diodorus tells us that the earth's lover, Attis (or Adonis), +after his resuscitation, acquired the divine title of PAPAN.[2] To +hazard the inoffensive query, why one of our commonest great beetles is +still allowed to figure under so distinguished a name, will therefore +reflect no discredit upon a cautious student of nearly threescore years. +The very Welsh talked, in William Baxter's time, of "Heaven, as +_bugarth_ PAPAN," the sun's ox-stall or resting-place; and here you +likewise find his beetle-majesty, in a Low-Norman collection of insular +rhymes:-- + + "Sus l'bord piâsottaient, côte-à-côte, + Les équerbots et leas PAPANS, + Et ratte et rat laissaient leux crotte + Sus les vieilles casses et même dedans."[3] + +By the help of Horapollo, Chiflet's gnostic gems, and other repertories +of the same class, one might, peradventure, make a tolerable case in +favour of the mythological identity of the legend of Ladybird--that is, +the _sun-chafer_, or _barn-bie_, the _fire-fly_, "whose house is burnt, +and whose bairns are ten," of course the first ten days of the Egyptian +year[4]--with the mystical stories of the said black or dark blue lords +of radiance, _Pân_ and _Papân_. + +The Egyptians revere the beetle as a living and breathing image of the +sun, quoth Porphyry.[5] That will account for this restless delver's +extraordinary talismanic renown. I think the lady-bird is "the speckled +beetle" which was flung in hot water to avert storms.[6] Pignorius gives +us the figure of the beetle, crowned with the sun, and encircled with +the serpent of eternity; while another, an onyx in the collection of +Abraham Gorlæus, threatens to gnaw at a thunderbolt.[7] + +Reuven's book on the Egyptian Museum, which I have not seen, notices an +invocation to "the winged beetle, the monarch ([Greek: tyrannos]) of +mid-heaven," concluding with a devout wish that some poor creature "may +be dashed to pieces." + +Can any of your readers inform me what is meant by "the blood of the +_Phuôn_?" + +Yours truly, + +? + +St. Martin's, Guernsey, Jan. 9. 1850. + + * * * * * + +EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF ST. MARGARET'S, +WESTMINSTER--WEIGHT OF BELLS IN ANCIENT TIMES--HISTORY OF A +ROOD-LOFT. + +I send you a few Notes, collected out of the Churchwardens' Accounts of +St. Margaret's, Westminster. + +1stly. Some regarding the weight of bells in ancient days:-- + +"1526. The first bell weith ccccc lb. + The second bell weith ccccccxxj lb. + The third bell weith ixCvj lb. + The fourthe bell weith M.x lb. + The fyfthe belonging to our grete Lady + Bretherhed MvjCxiiij lb. + The sume of all the weight MMMMVIIC Li lb. + +"1592. The broken Tennor waied xvjCxxj lb. + The new tennor ys. xiijC di + The greatest bell ys xxjC and di at lvjs. the C. + The iiij bell ys xvijC and di and xiiij lb. + The xiiij bell taken awaie was xiijC di. + The ij bell carried awaie was viijCiij qters. + The new bell viijC di. + Som totall of the bells, yron, tymber, and + workmanshipp lxxvl. vs. vd." + +This appears to have been a sorry bargain, for +soon after occur sad complaints of these bells, +"very falsly and deceytfully made by Valentyne +Trever." Perhaps your correspondent "CEPHAS" +may explain the following entry:-- + +"1846. Item, paid for makying of a newe clapper to + Judas bell xd." + +2ndly. Some entries, which make up a little +history of a rood-loft:-- + +"1460. Item, sol' pro le skoryng de la belles sup' le + Rode lofte iiijd. + +"1480. Item, paide for a doore in the rode lofte to + save and kepe the people from the Orgayns + xijd. + Item, paide to a carpynter for makyng of the + Crucyfix and the beme He standeth upon xls. + + Item, paide for kervying of Mary and John + and the makyng newe xxxiij_s_. iiij_d_. + + Item, for gilding of the same Mary and John + and the Crosse and iiij'or Evangelysts + vj_l_. vj_s_. viij_d_. + +"1530. Item, payd to a labourer for helpying up the + Roode Loft into the stepull viij_d_. + +"1534. Payd for a present for Mr. Alford and Mr. + Herytage for ther good wyll for tymber for + the newe Rode lofte ij_s_. ij_d_." + +The fickle tyrant Henry VIII. dies; a more consistent +reign happily ensues. + +"1548. Item, for the takying downe of the Roode, the + Tabernacle, and the Images iij_s_. vj_d_. + Also payd to Thomas Stokedale for xxxv ells + of clothe for the frunte of the Rode Lofte + whereas the x Commandements be wrytten, + price of the ell vj_d_. xxiij_s_. iiij_d_. + Also payd to hym that dyd wryght the said + x Commaundements and for ther drynking + lxvj_s_. ix_d_." + +Queen Mary succeeds the boy-king Edward VI., +and restores the Ritual of her Church. + +"1566. Item, payed for the Roode, Mary and John x_l_. + +"1557. Item, for peyntyng the Roode, Mary and John + xl_s_. + For makyng xvij candilsticks for the roode-light + xj_s_. iiij_d_." + +Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth once more, +and this time for ever, the rood was destroyed, +and the loft, though "reformed," did not long +survive it. + +"1559. Payde to John Rialle for his iij dayse work + to take downe the Roode, Mary and John + ij_s_. viij_d_. + For clevying and sawyng of the Roode, Mary + and John xij_d_. + +"1560. Rec'd for the beame the Roode stood on, for + boords and other tymber parcell of the + Roode loft xlij_s_. + For the rest of the stuf belongying to the + Roode lofte ix_l_. + For the great clothe that hong before the + Rode xx_s_. + Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt + the takying downe and new reformyng of the + Roode Loft, &c. xxxvij_l_. x_s_. ij_d_. + Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and + other neccessaries belonging to the saide + loft xiiij_l_. xiij_s_. ix_d_. + + Item, paide to a paynter for payntyng the + same xij_d_. + +"1562. For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the + dore of the late rood lofte viij_d_." + +The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer +any portion of the church-goods to escape their +sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into +money, so we read-- + +"1645. Received of Arthur Condall in part of 5li for + the screen and Organ-loft 1_s_." + +MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. + +S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849. + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON. + +_The Bagnio in Long Acre._--Mr. Cunningham mentions the Queen's Bagnio +in Long Acre. Query, was this the same as the Duke of York's Bagnio? S. +Haworth published, in a small 12mo. volume, without date, "A Description +of the Duke of York's Bagnio, in Long Acre, and of the Mineral Bath and +new Spaw thereunto belonging." + +_Tavistock Street, Covent Garden._--Richard Leveridge, the celebrated +singer, after his retirement from the stage, kept a tavern in this +street. Here he brought out "A Collection of Songs, with the Music, by +Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London, Engrav'd and Printed for the +Author in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1727." The frontispiece was +designed and engraved by Hogarth. + +_Duke Street, Westminster._--Miss Hawkins, in her _Anecdotes_, p. 186., +speaking of Lady Lucy Meyrick, says, "On quitting her husband's family, +she came to reside in Duke Street, Westminster, and lived in that house +which had been _Prior's_, and which _exactly faces Charles Street_." + +_Richmond Buildings, Soho._--Horne Tooke resided here in 1775. He +afterwards removed to Frith Street. + +_Clare Market_, originally called _New Market_, was established about +the year 1660, by Lord Clare. + + "The city and my lord had a great lawsuit, which lasted many years, + to the great expence of the city; but from the inequity of the + times the city and my lord agreed, and gave it up to the lord; and + now it is become one of the greatest markets in the adjacent parts; + and from the success of this noble lord, they have got several + charters for the erecting of several others since the year 1660; as + that of St. James, by the Earl of St. Alban's; Bloomsbury, by the + Earl of Southampton; Brook Market, by the Lord Brook; Hungerford + Market; Newport Market; besides the Hay Market, New Charingcross, + and that at Petty France at Westminster, with their Mayfair in the + fields behind Piccadilly."--_Harl. MS_. 5900. + +_London House Yard._--Here was formerly the town house of the Bishop of +London, which, being consumed in the great fire, the house in Aldersgate +Street, formerly called _Petre House_, was rented for the town residence +of the bishop, since which it obtained the title of _London House_. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +OLD PAINTED GLASS + +For poor ignorant people like myself pray insert the following, as +perhaps some of your heraldic correspondents may afford some information +for the benefit of your very humble servant, + +F.E. + +Newington, June 17. 1751. + +_To take an account of what Coats of Arms or other Paintings are in the +windows of the House Mercer lives of Mr. Filmer._ + +Painted Glass in y' windows at Mr. Merser House is +As foloweth 5 Coote of armse in 3 windowse in y' +Kichen 2 Surkelor Coots of armse 6 Lians traveling +6 flours of Luse all Rede & a Holfe Surkel a top +With 2 flours of luce y' Glass painted Rede +Blew yoler & of a Green Shaye. + +In y' Hall one ouel Pease of Painted Glass +In Chakers of yoler & Green & blew 10 yong + Hedge frougs +Two Pikse of Armse on Each Side +W.B. there was in this Rote on y' +Glass Lyfford but there is only now _ford_ +y' 3 fust Leters ar Broken & Lost oute +One Pecs of y' Painted Glass in y' frount +Chamber window as foloweth +In a Surkel 6 flours of Luse 6 Red Lyans +Traveling 4 Rede Roses 2 Purpul Roses +With a Croune a tope with 2 flours of Luse & +A Crass and Beedse all Round y' Crowne. + +In y' same window one more Cootse of arms +In a Surkel Devidet is as foloweth 3 yoler +Lyans _passant_[8] Set in a Silver Coler 6 flours of + Luse +blew Sete in Green, y' Seoch Coote of arms on +Each Side y' thisel & Crown & y' 3 flours coming + out of the thistle +y' Croun yoler & y' flours y'e thisal of a silver Coler +3 _Leopards_[8] Hedse Silver & Set in Silver +2 Roses of a purpul Couler one on Each Side +2 Spred Eaguls one on Each Side +& 2 Wingse of a Goos in y' midel of y' arms +of a Goold culer & a vessel like a decanter between + y'm +A croun a toupe with 2 flours of Luse on +Each side of y'e Croun on Crass in y'e middel & 2 + holfe +Crasses on Each Side with white Beadse +all Round y'e Crounde a toupe. + + * * * * * + +AELFRIC'S COLLOQUY. + +The singular error which Messrs. Lye and Thorpe have fallen in the +passage pointed out by Mr. Hampson in Aelfric's very interesting +_Colloquy_, is the more remarkable as Aelfric himself afforded a +complete illustration of the passage, in his _Glossary_, where we have +"BULGA, _hýdig-faet_." It is possible, therefore, that _higdifatu_ is a +mere error of the scribe. Now Du Cange, v. _Bulga_, cites this very +passage from Aelfric's _Glossary_, and adds, "i.e. _vas ex corio +confectum_," but his whole article is worth consulting. That the Latin +word in the _Colloquy_ should be _Cassidilia_ is quite clear. Thus in an +old MS. English Gloss on the Bible (penes me), the passage in Tobit, +viii. 2., "Protulit de _Cassidili_ suo," is rendered, "brouzt forth of +his _Scrippe_." Coverdale has it, "take out of his _bagge_," and Luther, +"langte aus seinem _Sücklein_," which word is exchanged for _büdel_ in +the Saxon version. In two old Teutonic Glosses on the Bible published by +Graff (_Diutiska, ii. 178.), we have the following variations:-- + +_de cassidi_ burssa, _de sacello t. sacciperio_ kiula +_de cassili_ burissa, _de sacello t. sacciperio_ kiulla. + +Another Gloss in Graff's 1st vol. p. 192., on the word _Cadus_, may +perhaps throw some light on the subject. The philological student need +not be reminded of the wide application of the word _vas_, Lat., _fazz_, +O.G., and _faet_. A.S.; but for my own part, I conclude that the +shoewright intended to designate by _higdifatu_ all sorts of _leathern +budgets_. Every Anglo-Saxon student must be so sensible of the great +obligation he is under to our distinguished scholar Mr. Thorpe, that I +trust it will not be deemed invidious or ungracious to point out another +passage in this _Colloquy_ which seems to have hitherto baffled him, but +which it appears to me may be elucidated. + +To the question, "Hwilce fixas gefehst thu?" the fisherman answers, +"Aelas aud hacodas, mynas, aud aelputan, sceotan aud lampredan, aud swa +hwylce swa on waetere swymath, _sprote_." + +Mr. Thorpe, in the 1st edition of his _Analecta_, says, "What is +intended to be meant by this word [_sprote_], as well as by _salu_ [the +correspondent word in the Latin], I am at a loss to conjecture." In his +second edition, Mr. Thorpe repeats, "I am unable to explain _salu_ +otherwise than by supposing it may be an error for _salice_. In his +_Glossary_ he has "spro't, ii. 2.? sprout, rod?" with a reference to his +note. I must confess I cannot see how the substitution of _salice_ for +_salu_ would make the passage more intelligible, and the explanation of +_spro'te_ in the _Glossary_ does not help us. The sense required appears +to me to be, _quickly, swiftly,_ and this will, I think, be found to be +the meaning of _sprote_. In the Moeso-Gothic Gospels the word _sprauto_ +occurs several times and always in the sense of _cito, subito_; and +though we have hitherto, I believe, no other example in Anglo-Saxon of +this adverbial use of the word, we are warranted, I think, in +concluding, from the analogy of a cognate language, that it did exist. +In regard to the evidently corrupt Latin word _salu_, I have +nothing better to offer than the forlorn conjecture that, in monkish +Latin, "_saltu't_" may have been contractedly written for _saltuatim_." + +Dr. Leo, in his _Angelsâchsiche Sprachproben_, has reprinted the +_Colloquy_, but without the Latin, and, among many other capricious +deviations from Mr. Thorpe's text, in the answer of the shoewright has +printed _hygefata_! but does not notice the word in his _Glossary_. Herr +Leo has entirely omitted the word _sprote_. + +S.W. SINGER. + +Jan. 14. 1850. + + * * * * * + +LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING. + + [NASO has, in compliance with our request, furnished us with a + facsimile of the heading of his early number of _The Times_, which + is as follows:--"THE (here an engraving of the King's Arms) TIMES, + OR DAILY UNIVERSAL REGISTER, PRINTED LOGOGRAPHICALLY, WEDNESDAY, + MARCH 12. 1788," and informs us that it was printed "By R. Nutkins, + at the Logographic Press, Printing-House Square, near Apothecaries' + Hall, Blackfriars," and the height to which the Mr. Walter of that + day had brought his invention, by the same energy by which his + successor has raised THE TIMES to its present position, is shown by + the following note from a kind and most able correspondent.] + +A much more remarkable specimen of Logographic Printing than the number +of the _Times_ newspaper mentioned by NASO, No. 9., p. 136., is an +edition of Anderson's _History of Commerce_, with a continuation, in 4 +vols. 4to., printed by that method in 1787-1789, "at the Logographic +Press, by J. Walter, Printing-House Square, Blackfriars." The work, +which makes in all not much short of 4000 pages, is very well printed in +all respects; and the following interesting note on the subject of +Logographic Printing is attached to the preface heading the +Continuation, or fourth volume. + +"Mr. Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the Public a few observations +on his improved mode of printing LOGOGRAPHICALLY. In all projects for +the general benefit, the individual who conceives that the trade in +which he is engaged diminishes in its emoluments from any improvement +which another may produce in it, is too much disposed to become its +enemy; and, perhaps, the interest of individuals never exerted itself +with more inveteracy than has been experienced by Mr. Walter from many +concerned in the trade into which he had entered. + +"The invention which he brought forward, promised to be of essential +service to the public, by expediting the process and lessening the +expense of printing. Dr. Franklin sanctioned it with his approbation, +and Sir Joseph Banks encouraged him with the most decided and animated +opinion of the great advantages which would arise to literature from the +LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS. Nevertheless Mr. Walter was left to struggle with the +interest of some, and the prejudice of others, and, though he was +honoured by the protection of several persons of high rank, it happened +in his predicament, as it generally happens in predicaments of a similar +nature, that his foes were more active than his friends, and he still +continued to struggle with every difficulty that could arise from a very +determined opposition to, and the most illiberal misrepresentations of, +the LOGOGRAPHIC IMPROVEMENT. + +"Mr. Walter has, however, at length triumphed over the falsehood and +malignity of his opponents; LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING, after having produced +such a work as this, which he now presents to the public, with many +excellent publications that he has already printed, can no longer be +considered as an idle speculation: on the contrary, it is proved to be a +practical improvement, that promises, under a due encouragement, to +produce a great national benefit. To advance it to the perfection of +which it is capable, Mr. Walter engages to employ his utmost exertions, +and he takes the liberty of expressing his confidence, that he shall not +be disappointed in the enjoyment of that public favour which now +promises to reward his labours." + +C. + +Old Brompton, Jan. 3. 1850. + + [We may mention another work printed in this manner--an edition of + _Robinson Crusoe_, in 3 vols. 8vo. 1790--_"printed at the + Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter, No. 169. Piccadilly, + opposite Old Bond Street."_] + + + * * * * * + +MEMORIALS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S LAST DAYS.[9] + +At a recent meeting of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Dr. Anster +exhibited a manuscript volume of 157 pages, which he declared to be the +identical "album filled with songs, recipes, prayers, and charms," found +in the Duke of Monmouth's pocket when he was seized. It was purchased at +a book-stall in Paris in 1827 by an Irish divinity student, was given by +him to a priest in the county of Kerry, and, on the priest's death, +became the property of the present possessor. Respecting in its identity +and history, from its removal from the rebel duke's pocket down to its +production at the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Anster showed that after +Monmouth was beheaded--which he was on Tower Hill, by the too-celebrated +John Ketch, on the 15th July, 1685--the articles found on his person +were given to the king. At James's deposition, three years afterwards, +all his manuscripts, including those that had belonged to Monmouth, were +carried into France, where they remained till the Revolution in that +country a century afterwards. Dr. Anster, in exhibiting the book, +showed that the remains of silver clasps had been destroyed, and a part +of the leather of the covers at each side torn away, seemingly for the +purpose of removing some name on a coat of arms with which it had been +once marked; and this he accounted for by the belief that at the period +of the French Revolution the persons in whose custody they were, being +fearful of the suspicions likely to arise from their possession of books +with royal arms on them, tore off the covers, and sent the books to St. +Omer's. The after-fate of the larger books was, that they were burned; +some small ones, we are distinctly told, were saved from this fate, but +seem to have been disregarded, and all trace of them lost. The Abbé +Waters--a collateral descendant of Lucy Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's +mother--was the person with whom George IV. negotiated for the Stuart +papers, and from whom the volumes which have since appeared as Clark's +_Life of James the Second_ were obtained; and it is from the Abbé Waters +we have the account of the destruction of King James's autograph papers. +Dr. Anster showed, written on the inner cover of this volume, the words, +"Baron Watiers" or "Watrers." + +As to the identity of the book, Dr. Anster quoted several passages from +contemporary authors to test their account of the contents of the +"album" with those of the book he was describing. In the _Harleian +Miscellany_, vol. vi. p.323., it is stated in Sir John Reresby's +memoirs, that "out of his [Monmouth's] pocket were taken books, in his +own handwriting, containing charms or spells to open the doors of a +prison, to obviate the danger of being wounded in battle, together with +songs and prayers." Barillon describes the book in what is nearly a +translation of this--"Il y avoit des secrets de magie et d'enchantment, +avec des chansons des recettes pour des maladies et des prieres." Again, +in a note by Lord Dartmouth to the modern editions of _Burnet's Own +Times_, we have the following statement:-- + + "My uncle Colonel William Legge, who went in the coach with him + [Monmouth] to London as a guard, with orders to stab him if there + were any disorders on the road, showed me several charms that were + tied about him when he was taken, and his table-book, which was + full of astrological figures that nobody could understand; but he + told my uncle that they had been given to him some years before in + Scotland, and he now found they were but foolish conceits." + +The actual contents of the manuscript volume show a great resemblance to +these descriptions. The most curious passages which it contains are the +duke's memorandums of his journey on two visits to the Prince of Orange, +in the year previous to his last rash adventure. His movements up to the +14th of March, 1684-85, are given. The entries do not seem to be of much +moment; but they may accidentally confirm or disprove some disputed +points of history. There is an entry without a date, describing the +stages of a journey in England, commencing with London and Hampstead: it +ends with Toddington. This forms a strong link in the chain of identity; +for Toddington is a place remarkable in the history of the duke. Near it +was the residence of Lady Henrietta Maria Wentworth, baroness (in her +own right) of Nettlestead, only daughter and heir of Thomas Lord +Wentworth, grandchild and heir of the Earl of Cleveland. Five years +before the execution, her mother observed that, despite the duke being a +married man, her daughter had, while at court, attracted his admiration, +and she hurried her away to Toddington. In 1683, after the failure of +the Rye-House Plot, Monmouth was banished from the royal presence, and +it was to Toddington he retired. When, on retracting the confession he +had made on the occasion, he was banished the kingdom, the companion of +his exile was Lady Henrietta Wentworth. + +"I dwell on this," said Dr. Anster, "because the accidental mention of +Toddington seems to authenticate the book: the name of Lady Henrietta +Wentworth does not occur in it, and the persons in whose hands the book +has been since it was purchased in Paris do not seem to have noticed the +name of Toddington, or to have known that it had any peculiar relation +to the duke's history. It occurs twice in the book--once in the +itinerary, and again in a trifling and unmetrical song, which is +probably the duke's own composition; written probably on the eve of his +flight with his romantic but guilty companion to Holland:-- + + "'With joy we leave thee, + False world, and do forgive + All thy false treachery. + For now we'll happy live. + We'll to our bowers, + And there spend our hours; + Happy there we'll be, + We no strifes can see; + No quarrelling for crowns, + Nor fear the great one's frowns; + Nor slavery of state, + Nor changes in our fate. + From plots this place is free, + There we'll ever be; + We'll sit and bless our stars + That from the noise of wars + Did this glorious place give + (Or did us Toddington give) + That thus we happy live.'" + +In Macaulay's history we find that the latest act of the duke on the +scaffold, before submitting to the stroke of the executioner, was to +call his servant, and put into the man's hand a toothpick-case, the last +token of ill-starred love. "Give it," he said, "_to that person!_" After +the description of Monmouth's burial occurs the following affecting +passage:-- + + "Yet a few months and the quiet village of Toddington, in + Bedfordshire, witnessed a yet sadder funeral. Near that village + stood an ancient and stately hall, the seat of the Wentworths. The + transept of the parish church had long been their burial-place. To + that burial-place, in the spring which followed the death of + Monmouth, was borne the coffin of the young Baroness Wentworth of + Nettlestead. Her family reared a sumptuous mausoleum over her + remains; but a less costly memorial of her was long contemplated + with far deeper interest: her name, carved by the hand of him she + loved too well, was, a few years ago, still discernible on a tree + in the adjoining park." + +In further proof of identity, Dr. Anster pointed out several charms and +recipes which the manuscript volume contains. The conjurations are in +general for the purpose of learning the results of sickness in any +particular case, and of determining whether friends will be in certain +circumstances faithful. There are also incantations for the use of +several maladies, and one to make gray hair grow black. No "charms +against being wounded in battle," such are Sir John Reresby mentions, +are to be found in the volume; but there are some prayers against +violent death, which have the appearance of having been transcribed from +some devotional book. There is evidently a mistake in supposing that +this book contains any charm for breaking open prison doors, and it is +likely that Sir John Reresby was misled in this way:--There is in p. 7. +a charm in French to procure repose of body and mind, and deliverance +from pains; and the word for "pains" is written in a contracted form; it +might as well stand for prisons; but, examining the context, it is +plainly the former word which is meant. + +The rest of the entries consist of extracts from old recipe-books, mixed +in the oddest way with abridgements of English history, and the most +trifling memorandums, chiefly of a private and personal kind. +Altogether, this commonplace work is highly indicative of the weakness, +vanity, and superstition which stood forward so prominently in the +character of the rash but unfortunate Duke of Monmouth. + + * * * * * + +QUERIES. + +CATHERINE PEGGE. + +Mr. Cunningham was mistaken in supposing that I had overlooked Catherine +Pegge, for I was well aware that she could not have been Pepys's "pretty +Lady." She must, in fact, have attained her fortieth year, and there is +no record of her being on the stage; whereas Margaret Hughes had, when +Pepys saluted her, recently joined the Theatre Royal, and she is +expressly styled "Peg Hughes" by Tom Browne, in one of his "Letters from +the Dead to the Living." Having disposed of this question, I am tempted +to add that Morant does not confirm the statement that Catherine Pegge +married Sir Edward Green, for he says that + + "Sir Edward Greene, created a Baronet, 26 July, 1660, was seated at + Little Sampford in Essex; he had 3 wives, the first was Jeronyma, + daughter and coheir of William Everard, of Linsted, Esq., and by + her he had 6 daughters; by Mary, daughter of ---- Tasborough, he + had a son; and by the third lady ----, daughter of ---- Simonds, he + had a daughter. He was the last of the Greenes that enjoyed this + estate, having lost it by gaming."--Morant's _Essex_, vol. ii. p. + 525. + +This account of the Greene family is stated in a note to have been taken +from a fine pedigree on vellum, penes T. Wotton, Gent. + +If Catherine Pegge was one the three ladies mentioned above, she must +have changed her name previously to her marriage, in hopes of concealing +her former history; but the circumstance of the baronetcy being +conferred upon Sir Edward is very suspicious. Probably some of your +correspondents can settle the question. + +BRAYBROOKE. + +Audley End, Jan. 19. 1850. + + * * * * * + +WILLIAM BASSE, AND HIS POEMS. + +Can any of your readers inform me where a perfect or imperfect copy is +to be found of a poem, of which I possess only a single half sheet, +under the following title:-- + + "_Great Brittaines Sunnes-set, bewailed with a Shower of Teares_. + By William Basse. At Oxford, Printed by Joseph Barnes. 1613"? + +It is one of the many poems published on the death of Prince Henry; and +although I have been in search of it, or of a fragment of it, for more +than twenty years, I have never been able to obtain tidings of more than +of that small portion in my possession; nor am I aware of the mention of +it in any bibliographical authority. I have not at hand Sir H. Nicolas's +edition of Walton's _Angler_, in which Basse is spoken of, but I +remember looking at that beautiful and costly work a long time ago, and, +as far as I recollect, not finding in it anything to my purpose. I +observe that a William Basse (or _Bas_, as the name is there spelt) +printed in 1602, 4to., a tract called _Sword and Buckler, or Serving +Man's Defence_; but I know no more of it than that it was sold in +Stevens's sale; and among the MSS. of the late Mr. Heber was a volume +of poems called _Polyhymnia_, apparently prepared for the press, and +dedicated by William Basse to Lady Lindsey, which contained an "Elegie +on a rare Singing Bull-finch," dated 19th June, 1648; so that he was +still living nearly half a century after he had printed his earliest +known performance. + +The production that Izaac Walton refers to must be the ballad preserved +in the Pepys Collection at Cambridge, under the heading "Maister +Basse his Careere, or the new Hunting of the Hare. To a new Court tune;" +and beginning-- + + "Long ere the morne expects the returne." + +It was "Printed at London by E.A.," i.e. Edward Allde, without date; and +it may have been duly noticed by the last editor of _The Complete +Angler_. However, neither this nor Heber's MS. throw any new light upon +the small tract (in 8vo., and of perhaps not more than two sheets) with +the title of which I commenced, and regarding which I request +information. It is a poem in eight-line stanzas, and it is dedicated, at +the back of the title-page, "To his honourable Master, Sir Richard +Wenman, Knight," without another word addressed to his patron. + +My fragment of four leaves, or half an 8vo. sheet, contains stanzas (one +on each page), numbered 5, 6, 7, 8. 13, 14.; and the earliest of them is +this:-- + + "To you I therefore weepe: To you alone + I shew the image of your teares, in mine; + That mine (by shewing your teares) may be show'n + To be like yours, so faithfull so divine: + Such as more make the publique woe their owne, + Then their woe publique, such as not confine + Themselves to times, nor yet forms from examples borrow: + Where losse is infinit, there boundlesse is the sorrow." + +I have preserved even the printer's punctuation, for the sake of more +perfect identification, if any of your readers are acquainted with the +existence of a copy of the production, or of any portion of it. The +above stanza, being numbered "5," of course it was preceded by four +others, of which I can give no account. Another stanza, from this +literary and bibliographical rarity, may not be unacceptable; it is the +eighth-- + + "Here then run forth thou River of my woes + In cease lesse currents of complaining verse: + Here weepe (young Muse) while elder pens compose + More solemne Rites unto his sacread Hearse. + And, as when happy earth did, here, enclose + His heavn'ly minde, his Fame then Heav'n did pierce. + Now He in Heav'n doth rest, now let his Fame earth fill; + So, both him then posses'd: so both possesse him still." + +Therefore, although Basse had written his _Sword and Buckler_ in 1602 +(if it were the same man), he still called his Muse "young" in 1613. I +cannot call to mind any precedent for the form of stanza adopted by him, +consisting, as it does, of six ten-syllable lines, rhyming alternately, +followed by a twelve-syllable couplet. None of the other stanzas contain +personal matter; the grief of the author of _Great Britain's Sun's-set_ +seems as artificial as might be expected; and his tears were probably +brought to the surface by the usual pecuniary force-pump. + +I have some notion that William Basse was a musical composer, as well as +a writer of verses; but here, again, I am at fault, and particularly +request the aid of Dr. Rimbault, who has paid special attention to such +matters, and who has just published a learned and valuable work on the +music of the ballads in Percy's _Reliques_. If the volume were not so +indisputably excellent in its kind, there are reasons, connected with +its dedication, which might make me hesitate in giving it even a just +tribute of praise. + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +Kensington, Jan. 21. 1850. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Christmas Hymn_.--Can any of your readers inform me who was the author +of the well-known Christmas Hymn, "Hark the Herald Angels sing," which +is so often found (of course without the slightest shadow of authority), +at the end of our Prayer-Books? In the collection of poems entitled +_Christmas Tyde_, published by Pickering, the initials "J.C.W." are +appended to it; the same in Bickersteth's _Hymn Book_. In the last +number of the _Christian Remembrancer_, it is incorrectly attributed to +Doddridge, who was the author of the other Christmas Hymn, "High let us +swell our tuneful notes," frequently appended to Tate and Brady; as well +as of the Sacramental Hymn, "My God and is Thy table spread?" If the +author of this hymn cannot be determined, it would be interesting to +know its probable date, and the time when this and the other +unauthorised additions were made to our Prayer-Book. The case of +Doddridge's hymn is more remarkable, as being the composition of a +dissenter. + +E.V. + +_On a Passage in Pope_.--"P.C.S.S.," who is old-fashioned enough to +admire and to study Pope, would feel greatly obliged if any of your +correspondents could help him to the interpretation of the following +lines, in the "Imitation" of Horace's _Epistle to Augustus_:-- + + "The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, + One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles, + Which made old Ben, and sturdy Dennis swear, + _No Lord's Annointed, but a Russian bear!_" + +The passage in Horace, of which this purports to be an "Imitation," is +the well-known + +"Boeotum in crasso jurares äere natum," + +and it is clear enough that Pope meant to represent kings Charles and +William as so devoid of the taste which should guide royal patronage, +that, in selecting such objects of their favour as Blackmore and +Quarles, they showed themselves to be as uncouth and unpolished as the +animal to which he likens them. But the principal motive of this inquiry +is to ascertain whether there exist in their writings any record +of the indignation supposed to have been expressed by Jonson and Dennis +at the favour shown by majesty to their less worthy rivals. + +P.C.S.S. + +_Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood_.--There is a passage in +Longinus (ch. xxii.), familiar perhaps to some of the readers of the +"NOTES AND QUERIES," which indicates that the fact of the circulation of +the blood was well established in the days of Plato. The father of +critics, to exemplify, and illustrate the use and value of _trope_ in +writing, has garbled from the Timaeus, a number of sentences descriptive +of the anatomy of the human body, where the circulation of the blood is +pointed at in terms singularly graphic. The exact extent of professional +knowledge arrived at in the time of the great philosopher is by no means +clearly defined: he speaks of the fact, however, not with a view to +prove what was contested or chimerical, but avails himself of it to +figure out the surpassing wisdom of the gods in constructing the human +frame. Perhaps some of the readers of the "NOTES," who are more +thoroughly conversant with the subject, may think it worth while to +inquire how much was known on that subject before Harvey wrote his +_Exercitationes Anatomiae_. The _Prooemium_ of that author seems hardly +sufficient to satisfy the desire of every reader, who has looked with +some care to the passage in Longinus to which I have taken the liberty +of calling public attention. + +A.W. + +Brighton. + +_The Meaning of "Pallace_."--A lease granted by the corporation of +Totness in Devon, in the year 1703, demises premises by this +description: "All that cellar and the chambers over the same, and the +little _pallace_ and landing-place adjoining to the river Dart." Can +your readers give an explanation of the term "pallace?" + +J.R. ROGERS. + +_Did Oliver Cromwell write "The New Star of the North?_"--Perhaps some +of your numerous correspondents, who have perused a curious letter of +Count de Tessins, in Clements' _Bibliothèque Curieuse_, tome ix. page +331., can inform me what credit, or if any, is due to the Count's +conjecture, that Oliver Cromwell was the author of the book entitled +_The New Star of the North, shining upon the victorious King of Sweden_, +&c. 4to. London, 1632. + +J.M. + +Oxford. + +_Meaning of Savegard and Russells_.--In the will of Elizabeth +Coddington, lady of the manor of Ixworth, 1571, mention is made of "the +red _russells_ quilt," of "a felde bed," and of "my cloke and _savegard +of freseadon_." I shall be obliged by any description of the garment +known as the _savegard_, and of the _russells quilt_. + +BURIENSIS. + +_Pandoxare_.--Having met with an old volume containing the entire +household expenses, as well as in some degree a diary, kept by a country +gentleman during the reigns of James II., William and Mary, and Anne, I +observed that he has made use of a species of hieroglyphics, to +facilitate his reference to his book, as it contained all the entries of +all kinds, in chronological order. For instance, where mention is made +of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side +of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn; an entry of the payment of wages +to another servant has a jug of ale; another a quill pen; another a +couple of brooms, as the housemaid; a fiddle for the dancing master for +his daughter; payment made to the sexton or parish-clerk has a +representation of the village church by its side, and the window-tax a +small lattice-window; and on the days that they brewed, a small barrel +is drawn by the side of the date. And the chief object of my letter is +with respect to this last; a barrel is often drawn, and by its side the +words, _primò relinitus_, and the date, naturally meaning the day it was +tapped; and then shortly after comes another barrel, and to it is +written the word _Pandox_., or sometimes in full _Pandoxavimus_; in some +places at the end of the year there is a list to this effect:-- + + "(1705.) + (------------------) + _Memoranda_. + 29. Mar.--Pandoxe. + 6. Apr.--relinit. + 28. Apr.--relinit. + 3. May.--Pandoxe. + 17. May.--relinit. + 31. May.--relinit. + 5. Iun.--Pandoxe." + +and at the top of the list the figure of a barrel. + +I should be glad if any of the readers of your paper could tell me the +meaning of the word _Pandoxare?_ Whatever it was, it took place about +once a month. + +H.B. + + [Ducange explains _Pandoxare_ "Cauponum exercere, agere; cerevisiam + venum exponere atque adeo conficere."] + +_Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms_.--In old Izaak Walton's +_Life of George Herbert_, I find the following passage:-- + + "He (_i.e._ Lord Bacon) thought him so worthy of his friendship, + that having translated many of the Prophet David's Psalms into + English verse, he made George Herbert his patron by a public + dedication of them to him, as the best judge of divine poetry." + +Can any one of your numerous readers inform me if these "Metricals" are +known?--if so it will greatly oblige + +A CORNISHMAN. + +_Festival of St. Michael and All Angels_.--Can any of your readers +inform me why double second lessons are appointed in the Book of +Common Prayer for the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels? First, +among the "lessons proper for Holy-days," we have, at Matins, Acts xii. +to v. 20.; and at Evensong, Jude, v.6 to v.16.: and then in the +Calendar, coming in ordinary course, we have, at Morning Prayer, Mark. +ii.; and at evening, 1 Cor. xiv. In every other case, where the second +lessons are proper, there are none appointed in the Calendar in ordinary +course. + +K.M.P. + +_Wood-cut Likeness of Luther and Erasmus_.--Perhaps you will permit me +to inquire what are the earliest wood-cut likenesses of Luther and +Erasmus. Am I right in supposing that the image of the great Reformer is +found for the first time on the verse of the title-page of his treatise +_De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae_, 4to., s.l.v.a.; and that the +wished-for representation of Erasmus may be seen in the small octavo +volume, entitled _Bellaria Epistolarum Erasmi Rot. et Ambrosii Pelargi +vicissim missarum_, Colon. 1539? Some of your readers will doubtless be +acquainted with what seems to be a very accurate and complete +performance, the _Vita D. Martini Lutheri Nummis atque Inconibus +illustrata_, studio M. Christiani Juncker, 8vo., Francof. 1699. In this +work (p.129.) there is an impression of a medal on which was exhibited +the _Imago ad vivam effigiem expressa_ of Erasmus, anno 1531. + +R.G. + +_Anglo-Saxon "Lay of the Phoenix_."--Has any edition of the _Lay of the +Phoenix_ been published, besides the English version in the +_Archaeologia_, vol. 30, and that which bears the date, "Copenhagen, +Grundtvig, 1840, 8vo"? Can any light be thrown on the doubts respecting +the era of the author of this lay? And is there any published edition of +the hexameter poem by Lactantius, which is said by Stephens to have +suggested the first idea of this beautiful Anglo-Saxon poem? + +SELEUCUS. + +_C. Agricola, Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum_.--Could any of your +readers direct me to an accessible library which possess a copy of +Christian Agricola's _Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum_, or otherwise give +me any account of that treatise? + +J. SANSOM. + +_The Liturgy Version of the Psalms_.--In Beloe's _Anecdotes of +Literature_ (edition 1807), vol. i. p. 181. and vol. ii. p.316. are +notices of _The Bishops' Bible_, where mention is made of one edition of +it containing two different versions of the Psalms. The two statements, +however, differ, making it doubtful of what is intended; the first +speaking of one edition and the second of another. + +Vol. i. p. 181. says-- + + "The first edition of this Bible was published in 1568. In this the + new translation of the Psalms was inserted alone. In the second + edition the translation of the Great Bible was added in opposite + columns, and in a different character." + +Vol. ii. p. 316.:-- + + "Bishops' Bible, first edition, 1568. There is also a double + translation of the Psalms, one from what is called the Great Bible, + the other entirely a new one." + +Will any of your correspondents be so obliging as to state what is the +additional version--new or other--there alluded to, other than the +present Liturgy version? + +X.X. + + * * * * * + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Sir William Rider_.--"P.C.S.S." is happy to be able to answer one of +the questions of "H.F." (at p. 186. No. 12.), by referring him to the +_Extracts from the Parish Registers of St. Olave's_, which were +published in vol. ii. of the _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_. +At p. 316., of that volume, he will find the following entry, which +pretty nearly determines the date of Sir William Rider's death:--"1611, +November 19. Sir William Rider diing at Leyton, had his funeralle +solemnized in our Church, the hearss being brought from Clothworkers' +Hall." In a note to the above entry a further reference is made to +Lyson's _Environs_, vol. iv. pp. 160, 161. 165. + +SONNET. + +_Written on the opening of the Session_, 1847. + + "For him was lever han at his beddes hed + Twenty bokes clothed in black or red, + Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, + Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie." + +CHAUCER + + "Me, poor man! my library + Was dukedom large enough."--SHAKSPEARE. + + Farewell, my trusty leathern-coated friends! + 'Tis fitting, for a while, that we should part; + For I, as duty points, must shape my ends, + Obey what reason bids, and not my heart. + What though 'tis mine to listen in that Hall + Where England's peers, "grave, rev'rend, potent," sit, + To hear the classic words of STANLEY fall, + BROUGHAM'S biting sarcasm, LYNDHURST'S polished wit, + The measur'd sentence of THE GREAT CALM DUKE-- + It is not mine to commune with the men. + Not so when I unfold some favorite book, + CHAUCER and I grow boon companions then; + And SHAKSPEARE, deigning at my hearth to sit, + Charms me with mingled love, philosophy, and wit. + +WILLIAM J. THOMS. + +_Pilgrimages of Princes--Bernard Calver--Passage from Hudibras_.--In +reply to Mr. Beauchamp's query, No. 11. p. 173., _The Pilgrimage +of Princes, penned out of Greek and Latine Authors, London_, 1586, 4to., +was written by Ludowic Lloyd. See Watt's _Bibliotheca Brit_., vol. iii. +p. 612. + +No. 11., p. 167. Mr. Stevens will find some account of "Bernard Calver," +in Granger's _Letters_, 8vo., but I have not the book to refer to. + +No. 12., p. 177. Menage observes, in speaking of Monsieur Perier's abuse +of Horace for running away from the battle of Philippi, "Relietâ non +bene parmulâ," "Mais je le pardonne, parce qu'il ne sait peut-être pas +que les Grecs ont dit en faveur des _Fuiars_." + + "[Greek: Aner o pheugon kai palin machesetai]" + +_Menagiana_, vol. i. p. 248. Amst. 1713. + +Perhaps Erasmus translated this "_apophthegme_." Audley End, Jan. 19. +1850. + +BRAYBROOKE. + +_Seal of Killigrew, Master of the Revels_.--In the Museum at Sudbury, in +the county of Suffolk, is, or was when I made a note of it about three +years since, a silver seal with a crystal handle, which is said to have +belonged to Killigrew, King Charles's celebrated Master of the Revels. +The arms are, argent, an eagle displayed with two heads within a bordure +sable bezanty. _Crest_. A demi-lion sable, charged with three bezants. + +BURIENSIS. + +_Lacedaemonian Black Broth_.--Your correspondent "W." in No. 11., is +amusing as well as instructive; but it does not yet appear that we must +reject the notion of coffee as an ingredient of the Lacedaemonian black +broth upon the score of _colour_ or _taste_. + +That it _was_ an ingredient has only as yet been mooted as a +_probability_. + +Pollux, to whom your correspondent refers us, says that [Greek: zomos +melas] was a Lacedaemonian food; and that it was called [Greek: +aimatia], translated in Scott and Liddell's _Lexicon_, "_blood-broth_." +These lexicographers add, "The Spartan black broth was made with blood," +and refer to Manso's _Sparta_, a German work, which I have not the +advantage of consulting. + +Gesner, in his _Thesaurus_, upon the word "jus," quotes the known +passage of Cicero, _Tusc. Disp_. v. 34., and thinks the "jus nigrum" was +probably the [Greek: aimatia], and made with an admixture of blood, as +the "botuli," the _black_ puddings of modern time, were. + +Coffee would not be of much lighter colour than blood. A decoction of +senna, though of a red-brown, is sometimes administered in medicine +under the common name of a "_black_ dose." + +As regards the _colour_, then, whether blood or coffee were the +ingredient, the mess would be sufficiently dark to be called "_black_." + +In respect of _taste_, it is well known, from the story told by Cicero +in the passage above referred to, that the Lacedaemonian black broth was +_disagreeable_, at least to Dionysius, and the Lacedaemonians, who +observed to him that he wanted that best of sauces, hunger, convey a +confession that their broth was not easily relished. + +The same story is told with a little variation by Stobaeus, _Serm_. +xxix., and Plutarch, _Institut. Lacon_., 2. The latter writer says, that +the Syracusan, having tasted the Spartan broth, "spat it out in +disgust," [Greek: dyscheranunta apoptusai]. + +It would not have been unlike the Lacedaemonians purposely to have +established a disagreeable viand in their system of public feeding. Men +that used iron money to prevent the accumulation of wealth, and, as +youths, had volunteered to be scourged, scratched, beat about, and +kicked about, to inure them to pain, were just the persons to affect a +nauseous food to discipline the appetite. + +R.O. + +_Lacedaemonian Black Broth_.--I should be glad to know in what passages +of ancient authors the Lacedaemonian black broth is mentioned, and +whether it is alluded to in such terms as to indicate the nature of the +food. It has occurred to me that it is much more probable that it was +the same _black broth_ which is now cooked in Greece, where I have eaten +of it and found it very good, although it looked as if a bottle of ink +had been poured into the mess. + +The dish is composed of small cuttle-fish (with their ink-bags) boiled +with rice or other vegetables. Edinburgh, Jan. 13. 1850. + +W.C. TREVELYAN. + + +ON A LADY WHO WAS PAINTED. (_From the Latin._) + + It sounds like a paradox--and yet 'tis true, + You're like your picture, though it's not like you. + +RUFUS. + +_Bigotry._--The word Bigotry pervades almost all the languages of +Europe, but its etymology has not been satisfactory to Noah Webster. The +application of it is generally intelligible enough; being directed +against those who pertinaciously adhere to their own system of religious +faith. But as early as the tenth century it appears, that the use of the +word Bigot originated in a circumstance, or incident, unconnected with +religious views. An old chronicle, published by Duchesne in the 3rd vol. +of his _Hist. Francorum Scriptores_, states that Rollo, on receiving +Normandy from the King of France, or at least of that part of it, was +called upon to kiss the foot of the king, a ceremony, it seems, in use +not at the Vatican only; but he refused "unless the king would raise his +foot to his mouth." When the counts in attendance admonished him to +comply with this usual form of accepting so valuable a fief, he still +declined, exclaiming in pure Anglo-Saxon, "Not He, By God,"--_Ne +se bigoth_; "quod interpetatur," says the chronicler, "non [ille] per +Deum." The king and his peers, deriding him, called him afterwards +Bigoth, or Bigot, instead of Rollo. "Unde Normanni," adds the writer, +who brings his history down to the year 1137, "adhuc Bigothi dicuntur." +This will account for the prepositive article "Le" prefixed to the +Norman Bigods, the descendants of those who followed William the +Conqueror into England, such as Hugh Le Bigod, &c. Among other +innovations in France, the word Bigotisme has been introduced, of which +Boiste gives an example as combined with Philosophisme:--"Le Bigotisme +n'est, comme le Philosophisme, qu'un Egoïsme systématique. Le +Philosophisme et le Bigotisme se traitent comme les chiens et les loups; +cependant leurs espèces se rapprochent, et produisent des monstres." + +J.I. + +Oxford. + +_Gowghe's Dore of Holy Scripture_.--If your correspondent "F.M." (No. 9. +p.139.) has not received a reply to his third query, I beg to submit +that he will find the perusers of Gowghe's work to be the individuals +mentioned in different portions of Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, vol. v. +edit. 8vo. pp. 414.449. 482.; the less intelligible names, "Doctor +Barons, Master Ceton," being intended for Dr. Barnes and Alexander +Seton. Anyhow, this reference may, it is hoped, lead to a fuller +discovery of the parties intended. + +NORRIS. + +_Reinerius Saccho_.--Your correspondent "D." (No. 7. p.106.) will find +some account of Reinerius Saccho, if the source is accessible, in Quetif +and Echard's _Scriptores Ord. Praedicatt_. tom. i. 154. + +N. + +_Discurs Modest_.--Your correspondent "A.T." (No.9. p.142) may be +informed that there can be no reasonable doubt, that the _original_ +authority, for _Rem transubstantiationis patres ne attigisse quidem_, is +William Watson in his _Quodlibet_, ii. 4. p.31.; that the _Discurs. +Modest. de Jesuitis_ borrowed it from him; that Andrews _most probably_ +derived it from the borrower; and that the date of the _Discurs_. &c. +must, therefore, be between 1602 and 1610. Probably there may be a copy +in the Lambeth Library; there is none in the Bodleian, British Museum, +or Sion College, and Placcius affords no reference. The _author_ may +never have been known. + +N. + +_Defoe's Tour through Great Britain_.--I am much obliged to your +correspondent "D.S.Y" for the suggestion that the _Tour through Great +Britain, by a Gentleman_, from which I sent you some extracts relating +to the Ironworks of Sussex, is from the pen of Daniel Defoe. On +referring to the list of his writings, given in vol. xx. of C. Talboy's +edition of Defoe's Works, I find this idea is correct. Chalmers notices +three editions of the work, in 1724, 1725, and 1727, (numbered in his +list "154," "156," "163,") and remarks that "all the subsequent editions +vary considerably from the original" of 1724. He states that "this work +is frequently confounded with 'John Macky's Journey through England, in +familiar Letters from a Gentleman here to his Friend abroad,' 1722." I +may take this opportunity of mentioning that, in the first volume of +Defoe's work, there are some very interesting particulars of the +skirmish at Reading, between the troops of the Prince of Orange and the +Irish forces of James II., and the panic known as the "Irish night," +which deserve to be consulted by Mr. Macaulay, for the next edition of +his History. The whole work will well repay a perusal, and what is there +of Defoe's writing which will not? + +D.S. + +_Muffins_.--The correspondent who, in No. 11., p. 173., inquires the +origin of the word "Muffin," is referred to Urquhart's _Pillars of +Hercules_, vol. ii. p. 143., just published, where he will find a large +excursus on this subject. The word, he avers, is _Phoenician_: from +_maphula_, one of those kinds of bread named as such by Athenaeus. "It +was a _cake_," says Athenaeus, "baked on a hearth or griddle." He +derives this by taking away the final vowel, and then changing _l_ for +_n_; thus: "maphula," "maphul," "mufun!!!" + +In this strange book there are fifty other etymologies as remarkable as +this. The author plainly offers them in hard earnest. This is something +worth _noting_. + +V. + +_By Hook or Crook_.--"As in the phrase 'to get by hook or crook;' in the +sense of, to get by any expedient, to stick at nothing to obtain the +end; not to be over nice in obtaining your ends--_By hucke o'er krooke_; +e.g. _by bending the knees, and by bowing low_, or as we now say, by +bowing and scraping, by crouching and cringing."--Bellenden Ker's +_Essay on the Archaeology our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes_, vol. +i. p. 21. ed. 1837. + +I wish your correspondent, "J.R.F.," had given a reference to the book +or charter from which he copied his note. + +Has Mr. B. Ker's work ever been reviewed? + +MELANION. + + [Mr. Ker's book was certainly reviewed in _Fraser's Magazine_ at + the time of its appearance, and probably in other literary + journals.] + +_By Hook or By Crook_.--I have met with it somewhere, but have lost my +note, that Hooke and Crooke were two judges, who in their day decided +most unconscientiously whenever the interests of the crown were +affected, and it used to be said that the king could get anything by +Hooke or by Crooke. Query, is _this_ the origin of the phrase? + +If I cannot give _my_ authority, perhaps "J.R.F." may be able to give +_his_, for deriving it from "_Forest Customs_?" + +H.T.E. + +_El Buscapié_.--A very full and able disquisition on the subject of MR. +SINGER's query (No. 11., p. 171.), respecting _El Buscapié_, will be +found in the appendix to a work which is just published, viz. Ticknor's +_History of Spanish Literature_, vol. iii. Appendix D. 371. _et seq_. +That writer, whose opinion is entitled to credit as that of a consummate +student of Spanish letters, and who gives good reasons for his +conclusions in this instance, pronounces against the authenticity of the +poor little pamphlet recently put forth as belonging to Cervantes. + +Those who take an interest in Spanish literature will find this book of +Ticknor's a most valuable contribution to their knowledge of its whole +compass, and worth "making a note of." + +V. + +_Richard of Cirencester, &c.--Bishop Barlow_.--Your correspondent +"S.A.A." (No. 6., p. 93), who is desirous of further information +respecting Richard of Cirencester, will, I am sure, peruse with much +interest and gratification a dissertation on that writer by K. Wex, +which first appeared in the _Rheinisches Museum für Philologie_ for +1846, and was shortly after translated and inserted in the _Gentleman's +Magazine_, with valuable notes by the translator.--Respecting the +writers of notes on the margin of books, few notes of the kind, I +apprehend, deserve better to be collected and published than those by +the very learned Bishop Barlow, Provost of Queen's College from the year +1657 to 1677, and who left the chief part of his library to that +society. The rest of his books, being such as were not in the Bodleian, +he bequeathed to that library, of which he was for some years the +librarian. The _Biographia Britannica_ represents him to have been "an +universal lover and favourer of learned men, of what country or +denomination soever." + +J.M. + +Oxford + + +_Rev. J. 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I think the English word of Spanish origin.] + +[Footnote 8: Corrections in the original.] + +[Footnote 9: We are indebted to the last number of _Chambers' Edinburgh +Journal_ for this interesting supplement to the various particulars +respecting the capture of the Duke of Monmouth which have already +appeared in our columns. It there forms the conclusion of an article on +the last days of this unfortunate nobleman, founded on the +communications which have been made to the "NOTES AND QUERIES," and +kindly adduced to show the utility of our paper.] + + * * * * * + +Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8., New Street Square, at No. 5 New +Street Square, in the Parish of St Bride, in the City of London; and +published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186 Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. +Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, January 26, 1850. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries 1850.01.26, by Various + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11707 *** |