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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 1, 2005 [EBook #15216] +[Date last updated: June 5, 2005] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Keith +Edkins and the Online PG Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +{401} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 55.] +SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1850. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- + Authorship of "Henry VIII." by Samuel Hickson 401 + On Authors and Books, No. IX., by Bolton Corney 403 + Notes on the Second Edition of Mr. Cunningham's + Handbook of London, by E.F. Rimbault 404 + Folk-lore:--Laying a Ghost--A Test of Witchcraft 404 + Minor Notes:--Quin's incoherent Story--Touchstone's + Dial--America and Tartary--A Deck of Cards--Time + when Herodotus wrote--"Dat veniuam corvis." + &c. 405 + + QUERIES:-- + Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" 406 + Minor Queries:--The Widow of the Wood--Edward + the Confessor's Crucifix and Gold Chain--Cardinal + Erskine--Thomas Regiolapidensis--"Her Brow was + fair"--Hoods worn by Doctors of Divinity of Aberdeen--Irish + Brigade--Doctrine of immaculate Conception--Gospel + Oak Tree at Kentish Town--Arminian + Nunnery in Huntingdonshire--Ruding's + annotated Langbaine--Mrs. Tempest--Sitting + cross-legged--Twickenham: + Did Elizabeth visit Bacon + there?--Burial towards the West--Medal struck by + Charles XII.--National Debt--Midwives licensed 406 + + REPLIES:-- + The Black Rood of Scotland 409 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Haemony--Byron's Birthplace--Modena + Family--Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks--Gaudentio + di Lucca--Weights for weighing + Coins--Mrs. Partington--The East-Anglican Word + "Mauther"--Cheshire Cat--"Thompson of Esholt"--Minar's + Book of Antiquities--Croziers and Pastoral + Staves--Socinian Boast--MSS. of Locke--Sir Wm. + Grant--Tristan d'Acunha--Arabic Numerals--Luther's + Hymns--Bolton's Ace--Hopkins the + Witchfinder--Sir Richard Steel--Ale-draper--George + Herbert--Notaries Public--Tobacconists--Vineyards 410 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 414 + Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 415 + Notices to Correspondents 415 + Advertisements 415 + + * * * * * + + +NOTES. + +AUTHORSHIP OF "HENRY VIII." + +In returning to the question of the authorship of _Henry VIII._, I am +anxious to remove a misconception under which MR. SPEDDING appears to +labour relative to the purport of a remark I made in my last communication +to you (Vol. ii., p. 198.) on this subject. As we appear to be perfectly +agreed as to the reasons for assigning a considerable portion of this play +to Fletcher, and as upon this basis we have each worked out a result that +so exactly coincides with the other, I conclude that MR. SPEDDING, as well +as myself, has rested his theory solely on positive grounds; that is, that +he imagines there is strong internal evidence in favour of all that he +ascribes to this writer. It follows, therefore that the "third hand" which +he thought he detected must be sought rather in what remained to +Shakspeare, than in that which had been already taken from him. I never for +an instant doubted that this was MR. SPEDDING's view; but the inequality +which I supposed he had observed and accounted for in this way, I was +disposed to refer to a mode of composition that must needs have been +troublesome to Shakspeare. The fact is, that, with one or two exceptions, +the scenes contributed by the latter are more _tamely_ written than any but +the earliest among his works; and these, different as they are, they +recalled to my mind. But I have no doubt whatever that these scenes were +all written about the same time; my feeling being, that after the opening +Shakspeare ceased to feel any great interest in the work. Fletcher, on the +other hand, would appear to have made a very great effort; and though some +portions of the work I ascribe to him are tedious and overlaboured, no +censure would weigh very strongly against the fact, that for more than two +centuries they have been _applauded_ as the work of Shakspeare. + +As to the circumstances under which _Henry VIII._ was composed, it is an +exceedingly difficult question; and if I venture, on the present occasion, +to give the impression upon my mind, I do so, reserving to myself the full +right to change my opinion whenever I shall have acquired more knowledge of +the subject, or, from any other motive, shall see fit to do it. I consider +this case, then, as one of joint authorship; in point of time not much +later than the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, and in other respects similar to that +play. If the conclusions of the article in the _Westminster Review_, to +which MR. SPEDDING alludes, be accepted, the writer of the introductory +notice to _Henry VIII._ in the _Illustrated Shakspeare_, published by Tyas, +will recognise the "reverent disciple" whom he hints at, but does not name. +In short, I think that {402} Fletcher was the pupil of Shakspeare; and this +view, it appears to me, demands the serious attention of the biographer who +next may study or speculate upon the great poet's life. + +I don't know that I can add anything to MR. SPEDDING'S able analysis of +_Henry VIII._ There are certain _tricks_ of expression he, no doubt, has +observed that characterise Fletcher's style, and which abound in the play. +It might be useful to make notes of these; and, at some future time, I may +send you a selection. I now beg to send you the following extracts, made +some time ago, showing the doubts entertained by previous writers on the +subject:-- + + "Though it is very difficult to decide whether short pieces be genuine + or spurious, yet I cannot restrain myself from expressing my suspicion + that neither the prologue nor epilogue to this play is the work of + Shakspeare. It appears to me very likely that they were supplied by the + friendship or officiousness of Jonson, whose manner they will be + _perhaps found exactly_ to resemble."--_Johnson._ + + "Play revived in 1613." "Prologue and epilogue added by Jonson or some + other person."--_Malone._ + + "I entirely agree with Dr. Johnson, that Ben Jonson wrote the prologue + and epilogue to this play. Shakspeare had a little before assisted him + in his _Sejanus_.... I think I now and then perceive his hand in the + dialogue."--_Farmer._ + + "That Jonson was the author of the prologue and epilogue to this play + has been controverted by Mr. Gifford. That they were not the + composition of Shakspeare himself is, I think, clear from internal + evidence."--_Boswell._ + + "I entirely agree with Dr. Johnson with respect to the time when these + additional lines were inserted.... I suspect they were added in 1613, + after Shakspeare had quitted the stage, by that hand which tampered + with the other parts of the play so much as to have rendered the + versification of it of a different colour from all the other plays of + Shakspeare."--_Malone._ + + "If the reviver of this play (or tamperer with it, as he is called by + Mr. Malone) had so much influence over its numbers as to have entirely + changed their texture, he must be supposed to have new-woven the + substance of the whole piece; a fact almost incredible."--_Steevens._ + + The double character of Wolsey drawn by Queen Katherine and her + attendant, is a piece of vigorous writing of which any other author but + Shakspeare might have been proud; and the celebrated farewell of the + Cardinal, with his exhortation to Cromwell, only wants that quickening, + that vital something which the poet could have breathed into it, to be + truly and almost incomparably great. + + "Our own conviction is that Shakspeare wrote a portion only of this + play. + + "It cannot for a moment be supposed that any alteration of Shakspeare's + text would be necessary, or would be allowed; as little is it to be + supposed that Shakspeare would commence a play in his old-accustomed, + various, and unequalled verse, and finish it in the easy, but somewhat + lax and familiar, though not inharmonious numbers of a reverent + disciple."--_Tyas's Shakspeare_, vol. iii. p. 441. + +At the same time I made the following notes from Coleridge:-- + + "Classification, 1802. + 3rd Epoch. Henry VIII. Gelegenheitsgedicht. + + Classification, 1819. + 3rd Epoch. Henry VIII., a sort of historical masque, or show-play." + + "It (the historical drama) must likewise be poetical; that only, I + mean, must be taken which is the permanent in our nature, which is + common, and therefore deeply interesting to all ages."--_Lit. Rem._, + vol. ii. p.160. + +What is said in this last extract might be applied (as Coleridge, I feel no +doubt, had he gone one step farther into the subject, would have applied +it) to the Shakspearian drama generally; and tried by this test _Henry +VIII._ must certainly be found wanting. + +Before I conclude I am anxious to make an observation with regard to the +extract from Mr. Emerson's _Representative Men_ (vol. ii. p. 307.). The +essay from which this is taken, I presume to be the same, in a printed +form, as a lecture which I heard that gentleman deliver. With abundant +powers to form a judgment for himself, I should say that his mind had never +been directed to questions of this nature. Accident, perhaps, had drawn his +attention to the style of _Henry VIII._; but, with reference to the general +subject, he had received implicitly and unquestioned the conclusions of +authorities who have represented Shakspeare as the greatest borrower, +plagiarist, and imitator that all time has brought forth. This, however, +did not shake his faith in the poet's greatness; and to reconcile what to +some would appear contradictory positions, he proposes the fact, I might +say the truism, that the greatest man is not the most original, but the +"most indebted" man. This, in the sense in which it is true, is saying no +more than that the educated man is better than the savage; but, in the +apologetic sense intended, it is equivalent to affirming that the greatest +thief is the most respectable man. Confident in this morality, he assumes a +previous play to Shakspeare's; but it appears to me that he relies too much +upon the "cadence" of the lines: otherwise I could not account for his +_selecting_ as an "autograph" a scene that, to my mind, bears +"unmistakeable traits" of Fletcher's hand, and that, by whomsoever written, +is about the weakest in the whole play. + +It is a branch of the subject which I have not yet fully considered; but +MR. SPEDDING will observe that the view I take does not interfere with the +supposition that Fletcher revised the play, {403} with additions for its +revival in 1613; a task for the performance of which he would probably have +the consent of his early master. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + + * * * * * + +ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. IX. + +_Eustache Deschamps._ Except in the two centuries next after the conquest, +contemporaneous French notices of early English writers seem to be of +rather infrequent occurrence. + +On this account, and on other accounts, the ballad addressed to Geoffrey +Chaucer by Eustache Deschamps deserves repetition. Its text requires to be +established, in order that we may be aware of its real obscurities--for no +future memoir of Chaucer can be considered as complete, without some +reference to it. + +The best authorities on Eustache Deschamps are MM. Crapelet, Raynouard, and +Paulin Paris. To M. Crapelet we are indebted for the publication of +_Poesies morales et historiques d'Eustache Deschamps_; to M. Raynouard, for +an able review of the volume in the _Journal des Savants_; and to M. Paulin +Paris, for an account of the manuscript in which the numerous productions +of the author are preserved. Of the author himself, the learned M. Paris +thus writes:-- + + "On pourroit surnommer Eustache Deschamps le Rutebeuf du XIVe + siecle.--Ses oeuvres comprennent des epitres, des discours en prose, + des jeux dramatiques, des ouvrages latins, des apologues, un grand + poeme moral, et un infinite de ballades et rondeaux pieux, bouffons, + satiriques," &c. + +Two impressions of the ballad in question are before me; one, in the _Life +of Geoffrey Chaucer by sir Harris Nicholas_, dated 1843--and the other in a +volume entitled _Geoffrey Chaucer, poete anglais du XIVe siecle. Analyses +et Fragments par H. Gomont_, Paris, 1847.--I transcribe the ballad from the +latter volume, as less accessible to English students:-- + + "BALLADE INEDITE ADRESSEE A GEOFFREY + CHAUCER PAR EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS. + + O Socrates, plains de philosophie, + Seneque en meurs et _Anglais_ en pratique, + _Oui des grans_ en ta poeterie, + Bries en parler, saiges en rethorique, + _Virgiles_ tres haulz qui, par ta theorique, + Enlumines le regne d'Eneas, + Lisle aux geans, ceuls du Bruth, et qui as + Seme les fleurs et plante le rosier, + Aux ignorants, de la langue pandras + Grant translateur, noble Geffroy Chaucier. + + Tu es d'amours mondains Dieux en Albie, + Et de la rose en la terre angelique, + Qui _d'Angela_ Saxonne et (est) puis flourie + Angleterre (d'elle ce nom s'applique). + + Le derrenier en l'ethimologique + En bon angles le livre translatas; + Et un Vergier, ou du plant demandas + De ceuls qui _sont_ pour eulx auctorisier, + _A ja_ long teams que tu edifias, + Grant tranlslateur noble Geffroy Chaucier. + + A toy, pour ce, de la fontaine Helye + Requier avoir un _buvraige_ autentique + Dont la doys est du tout en ta baillie, + Pour _rafrener_ d'elle ma _soif_ ethique + _Qui men_ gaule seray paralitique + Jusques a ce que tu m'abuveras. + Eustaces sui qui de mon plant aras; + Mais pran en gre les euvres d'escolier + Que par Clifford de moy Bavoir pourras, + Grant translateur noble Geffroy Chaucier. + + L'ENVOY. + + Poete hauls loenge destynie + _En_ ton jardin ne seroie qu'ortie + Considere ce que j'ai dit premier + Ton noble plant, ta douce melodie + Mais pour savoir de rescripre te prie, + Grant translateur noble Geoffroy Chaucier." + +The new readings are in Italics, and I shall now repeat them with the +corresponding words as printed by sir Harris Nicolas:-- + + "Anglais=angles; Oui des grans=Ovides grans; Virgiles=Aigles; + d'Angela=dangels; sont=font; A ja=N'a pas; buvraige=ouvrage; + rafrener=rafrecir; soif=soix; Qui men=Qu'en ma; En=Et." + +After such an exhibition of various readings, arising out of only two +copies of the same manuscript, it is evident that a re-collation of it is +very desirable, and I am sure the result would be thankfully received by +the numerous admirers of Chaucer. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + +_Eustache Deschamps_ (Vol. ii., p. 376.).--J.M.B. is desirous of learning +some particulars of this French poet, contemporaneous with Chaucer. He will +find a brief notice of him in the _Recueil de Chants Historiques Francais, +depuis le XIIeme jusqu'au XVIIIeme Siecle_, by Le Roux de Lincy (2 vols. +Paris, 1841, Libraire de Charles Espelin). He is there described as, + + "Ecuyer et huissier d'armes des rois Charles V. et Charles VI., qui + resta toujours fidele a la maison de France;" + +And the editor adds: + + "Les oeuvres d'Eustache Deschamps contiennent pour l'histoire du XIVeme + siecle des renseignemens precieux; on peut y recueillir des faits + politiques qui ne sont pas sans importance, mais on y trouve en plus + grand nombre des details precieux sur les moeurs, les usages, et les + coutumes de cette epoque." + +His poems were published for the first time in one vol. 8vo., in 1832, by +M. Crapelet, with this title: {404} + + "Poesies morales et historiques d'Eustache Deschamps, ecuyer, huissier + d'armes des rois Charles V. et Charles VI., chatelain de Fismes et + bailli de Senlis." + +As regards the "_genuineness_" of the poem cited, I am inclined, with +J.M.B., to think that it admits of question, the orthography savouring more +of the end of the fifteenth than of the close of the fourteenth century. I +am sorry not to be able to explain the meaning of "_la langue Pandras_." + +D.C. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON. + +21. _New Tunbridge Wells, at Islington._--This fashionable morning lounge +of the nobility and gentry during the early part of the eighteenth century, +is omitted by Mr. Cunningham. There is a capital view of it in Bickham's +_Musical Entertainer_, 1737: + + "These once beautiful tea-gardens (we remember them as such) were + formerly in high repute. In 1733 their Royal Highnesses the Princesses + Amelia and Caroline frequented them in the summer time for the purpose + of drinking the waters. They have furnished a subject for pamphlets, + poems, plays, songs, and medical treatises, by Ned Ward, George Colman + the older, Bickham, Dr. Hugh Smith, &c. Nothing now remains of them but + the original chalybeate spring, which is still preserved in an obscure + nook, amidst a poverty-stricken and squalid rookery of misery and + vice."--George Daniel's _Merrie England in the Olden Time_, vol. i. p. + 31. + +22. _London Spa_ (from which Spa Fields derives its name) dates as far back +as 1206. In the eighteenth century, it was a celebrated place of amusement. +There is a curious view of "London Spaw" in a rare pamphlet entitled +_May-Day, or, The Original of Garlands_. Printed for J. Roberts, 1720, 8vo. + +23. _Spring Gardens._--Cox's Museum is described in the printed catalogue +of 1774, as being in "Spring Gardens." In the same year a small volume was +published containing _A Collection of various Extracts in Prose and Verse +relative to Cox's Museum_. + +24. _The Pantheon in Spa Fields._--This place of amusement was opened in +1770 for the sale of tea, coffee, wine, punch, &c. It had an organ, and a +spacious promenade and galleries. In 1780 it was converted into a +lay-chapel by the Countess of Huntingdon, and is now known as _Northampton_ +or _Spa Fields Chapel_. Mr. Cunningham speaks of the burying-ground +(originally the garden), but singularly enough omits to notice the chapel. + +25. _Baldwin's Gardens_, running between Leather Lane and Gray's Inn Lane, +were, according to a stone which till lately was to have been seen against +a corner house, bearing the arms of Queen Elizabeth, named after _Richard +Baldwin_, one of the royal gardeners, who began building here in 1589. + +26. _Rathbone Place._--In an old print (now before me) dated 1722, this +street is called "_Rawbone Place_." The Percy coffee-house is still in +existence. + +27. _Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road._--This building was originally +erected, and for some years appropriated to the _Leverian Museum_. This +magnificent museum of natural history was founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who +died in 1788. It was afterwards disposed of by way of lottery, and won by +Mr. James Parkinson, who transferred it from Leicester Place to the Surrey +side of Blackfriars bridge. + +28. _Schomberg House, Pall Mall_, (now, I believe, about to be pulled +down), was once the residence of that celebrated "quack" Dr. Graham. Here, +in 1783, he erected his _Temple of Health_. He afterwards removed to Panton +Street, Haymarket, where he first exhibited his _Earth Bath_. I do not find +any mention of Graham in Mr. Cunningham's book. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Laying a Ghost._--Frequent mention is made of the laying of ghosts, and in +many localities the tradition of such an event is extant. At Cumnor, Lady +Dudley (Amy Robsart's) ghost is said to have been laid by nine Oxford +parsons, and the tradition is still preserved by the villagers; but nowhere +have I been able to ascertain what was the ceremony on such an occasion. + +Is anything known on the subject? + +A.D.B. + +Abingdon, Nov. 1850. + +_A Test of Witchcraft._--Among the many tests applied for the discovery of +witchcraft was the following. It is, I believe, a singular instance, and +but little known to the public. It was resorted to as recently as 1759, and +may be found in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ of that year. + + "One _Susannah Hannokes_, an elderly woman of Wingrove, near + Ayleshbury, was accused by a neighbour for bewitching her + spinning-wheel, so that she could not make it go round, and offered to + make oath of it before a majistrate; on which the husband, to justify + his wife, insisted upon her being tried by the Church Bible, and that + the accuser should be present: accordingly she was conducted to the + parish church, where she was stript of all her cloathes to her shift + and undercoat, and weighed against the Bible; when, to the no small + mortification of her accuser, she outweighed it, and was honorably + acquitted of the charge." + +A.D.N. + +Abingdon, Nov. 1850. + + * * * * * {405} + +MINOR NOTES. + +_Quin's incoherent Story._--The comic story of Sir Gammer Vans (Vol. ii., +p. 280.) reminds me of an anecdote related of Quin, who is said to have +betted Foote a wager that he would speak some nonsense which Foote could +not repeat off-hand after him. Quin then produced the following string of +incoherences:-- + + "So she went into the garden to pick a cabbage leaf, to make an + apple-pie of; and a she-bear, coming up the street, put her head into + the shop, and said 'Do you sell any soap?' So she died, and he very + imprudently married the barber; and the powder fell out of the + counsellor's wig, and poor Mrs. Mackay's puddings were quite entirely + spoilt; and there were present the Garnelies, and the Goblilies, and + the Picninnies, and the Great Pangendrum himself, with the little round + button at top, and they played at the ancient game of 'Catch who catch + can,' till the gunpowder ran out of the heels of their boots." + +L. + +_Touchstone's Dial._--Mr. Knight, in a note on _As You Like It_, gives us +the description of a dial presented to him by a friend who had picked it +"out of a deal of old iron," and which he supposes to be such a one as the +"fool i' the forest" drew from his poke, and looked on with lacklustre eye. +It is very probable that this species of chronometer is still in common use +in the sister kingdom; for my brother mentions to me that, when at school +in Ireland some fifteen or sixteen years since, he had seen one of those +"_ring-dials_" in the possession of one of his schoolfellows: and Mr. +Carleton, in his amusing _Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry_, thus +describes them:-- + + "The ring-dial was the hedge-schoolmaster's next best substitute for a + watch. As it is possible that a great number of our readers may never + have heard of--much less seen one, we shall in a word or two describe + it--nothing indeed could be more simple. It was a bright brass ring, + about three quarters of an inch broad, and two inches and a half in + diameter. There was a small hole in it, which, when held opposite the + sun, admitted the light against the inside of the ring behind. On this + were marked the hours and the quarters, and the time was known by + observing the hour or the quarter on which the slender ray, that came + in from the hole in front, fell." + +J.M.B. + +_America and Tartary._-- + + "Un jesuite rencontra en Tartarie une femme huronne qu'il avoit connue + au Canada: il conclut de cette etrange aventure, que le continent de + l'Amerique se rapproche au nord-ouest du continent de l'Asie, et il + devina ainsi l'existence du detroit qui, longtemps apres, a fait la + gloire de Bering et de Cook."--Chateaubriand, _Genie du Christianisme_, + Partie 4., Livre 4., Chap. 1. + +Yet, with all deference to the edifying letters of this missionary jesuit, +it is difficult to make such distant ends meet. It almost requires a copula +like that of the fool, who, to reconcile his lord's assertion that he had +with a single bullet shot a deer in the ear and the hind foot, explained +that the deer was scratching his ear at the time with his foot. + +Subjoined is one more _proof_ of the communication which once existed +between America and the Old World: + + Colomb disoit meme avoir vu les restes des fourneaux de Salomon dans + les mines de Cibao."--Chateaubriand, _Genie, Notes, &c_. + +MANLEIUS. + +_Deck of Cards._-- + + "The king was slily finger'd from the _deck_." + _Henry VI._, pt. iii. Act v. Sc. 1. + +It is well known, and properly noted, that a pack of cards was formerly +called a _deck_; but it should be added that the term is still commonly +used in Ireland, and from being made use of in the famed song of "De Night +before Larry was stretched," + + "De deck being called for dey play'd, + Till Larry found one of dem cheated," + +it seems likely to be preserved. I may add, that many words and many forms +of expression which have gone out of vogue in England, or have become +provincial, are still in daily use in Ireland. + +J.M.B. + +_Time when Herodotus wrote._--The following passage appears to me to afford +strong evidence, not only that Herodotus did not complete his history till +an advanced age, but that he did not _begin_ it. For in lib. i. 5. he +writes: "[Greek: ta de ep' emou en megala, proteron en smikra]," "those +cities, which in my time _were_ great, were of old small." This is +certainly such an expression as none but a man advanced in years could have +used. It is perhaps worth observing, that this passage occurring in the +Introduction does not diminish its weight, as the events recorded in it, +leading naturally into the history, could not well have been written +afterwards. As I have never seen this passage noticed with this view. I +shall be glad to see whether the argument which I have deduced from it +appears a reasonable one to your classical readers. + +A.W.H. + +"_Dat veniam corvis," &c._--There were two headmasters of the school of +Merchant Taylors, of the respective names of Du Guard and Stevens: the +former having printed Salmasius' _Defensio Regia_, was ejected by Lord +President Bradshaw; and the latter held the vacant post in the interim, +from February to September, 1650. He wrote during his tenure of office in +the School Probation Book."-- {406} + + "Res DEUS nostras celeri citatas + Turbine versat." + "_Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas_, + Pejus merenti melior, et pejor bono." + +On his restoration Du Gard pleasantly retorted,-- + + "Du Gardum sequitur Stephanus, Stephanumque vicissim, + Du Gardus: sortes versat utrinque DEUS." + +M.W. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +DRYDEN'S "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." + +In my small library I have neither Malone's _Life of Dryden_, nor that of +more recent date by Sir Walter Scott; and, possibly, either of those works +would render my present Query needless. It relates to a copy of _Absalom +and Achitophel_ now lying before me, which is a mere chap-book, printed on +bad paper, in the most economical manner, and obviously intended to be sold +at a very reasonable rate: indeed, at the bottom of the title-page, which +is dated "1708," we are told that it was "Printed and sold by H. Hills, in +Black-fryars, near the Water-side, _for the Benefit of the Poor_." It +consists of twenty-four pages, small 8vo., and, in order that the poem +should not occupy too much space, one of the pages (p. 22.) is in a smaller +type, and in double columns. At the end is the following singular + + "ADVERTISEMENT. + + "To prevent the publicks being impos'd on, this is to give notice that + the book lately published in 4to. is very imperfect and uncorrect, in + so much that above thirty lines are omitted in several places, and many + gross errors committed, which pervert the sense." + +The above is in Italic type, and the body of the tract consists of only the +first part of _Absalom and Achitophel_, as ordinarily printed: allowing for +misprints (which are tolerably numerous), the poem stands very much the +same as in several common editions I have at hand. My Query is, Is the work +known to have been so published "for the benefit of the poor," and in order +to give it greater circulation, and what is the explanation of the +"Advertisement?" + +THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT. + +N.B. A short "Key" follows the usual address "To the Reader." + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES. + +_Edward the Confessor's Crucifix and Gold Chain._--In 1688 Ch. Taylour +published _A Narrative of the Finding St. Edward the King and Confessor's +Crucifix and Gold Chain in the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster_. +Are the circumstances attending this discovery well known? And where now is +the crucifix and chain? + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_The Widow of the Wood._--Benjamin Victor published in 1755 a "narrative" +entitled _The Widow of the Wood_. It is said to be very rare, having been +"bought up" by the Wolseleys of Staffordshire. What is the history of the +publication? + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Cardinal Erskine._--I am anxious to obtain some information respecting +Cardinal Erskine, a Scotchman, as his name would impart, but called +Cardinal of England? I suppose he was elevated to the sacred college +between Cardinal Howard, the last mentioned by Dodd in his _Church +History_, and the Cardinal of York, the last scion of the house of Stuart. + +And is the following a correct list of English Cardinals since Wolsey, who +died in 1530? + + Elevated in +John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester 1535 +Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury 1536 +William Peyto, Bishop of Salisbury 1557 +William Allen 1587 +Philip Howard 1675 +---- Erskine ---- +Henry Stuart of York 1747 +Thomas Weld 1830 +Charles Acton 1839 or 1842 +Nicolas Wiseman, who is the 53rd 1850 + on the list of English Cardinals + +Both the latter were born abroad, the former at Naples, the latter at +Seville; but they were born of British subjects, and were brought to +England at an early age to be educated. The Cardinal of York was born in +Rome; but being of the royal family of England, was always styled the +Cardinal of England. + +G.W. + +October 26. 1850. + +_Thomas Regiolapidensis._--Where can I find any information as to the saint +who figures in the following curious story? _Regiolapidensis_ may probably +mean _of Koenigstein_, in Saxony; but Albon Butler takes no notice of this +Thomas. + + "Incipit narratiuncula e libro vingto, cui titular _Vita atq. Gesta B. + Thomae Regiolapidensis, ex ordine FF. Praedicatorum_, excerpta. + + "Quum vero praedicator indefensus, missionum ecclesiasticarum causa, in + borealibus versaretur partibus, miraculum ibi stupendum sane patravit. + Conspexit enim taurum ingentem, vaccarum (sicut poeta quidam ex + ethnicis ait) 'magna comitante caterva,' in prato quodam graminoso + ferocientem, maceria tantum bassa inter se et belluam istam horrendam + interposita. Constitit Thomas, constitit et bos, horribiliter rugiens, + cauda erecta, cornibus immaniter saeviens, ore spumam, naribus vaporem, + oculis fulgur emittens, maceriam transsilire, in virum sanctum irruere, + corpusque ejus venerabile in aera jactitare, visibiliter nimis paratus. + {407} Thomas autem, eapta occasione, oculos in monstrum obfirmat, + signumque crucis magneticum in modum indesinenter ducere aggreditur, En + portentum inauditum! geminis belluae luminibus illico palpebrae + obducuntur, titubat taurus, cadit, ac, signo magnetico sopitus, primo + raucum stertens, mox infantiliter placidum trahens halitum, humi pronus + recumbit. Nec moratus donec hostis iste cornutus somnum excuteret, viv + sanctus ad hospitium se propinquum laetus inde incolumisque recepit." + +RUSTICUS. + +"_Her Brow was fair._"--Can any of your many readers inform me of the +author of the following lines, which I copy as I found them quoted in Dr. +Armstrong's _Lectures_: + + "Her brow was fair, but very pale, + And looked like stainless marble; a touch methought would soil + Its whiteness. On her temple, one blue vein + Ran like a tendril; one through her shadowy hand + Branched like the fibre of a leaf away." + +J.M.B. + +_Hoods warn by Doctors of Divinity of Aberdeen._--Will you allow me to +inquire, through the pages of your publication, of what _colour_ and +_material_ the _exterior_ and _lining_ of hoods were composed which Doctors +in Divinity, who had graduated at Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrew's, +prior to the Reformation, were accustomed to wear? I imagine, the same as +those worn by Doctors who had graduated at Paris: but what hoods they wore +I know not. I trust that some of your correspondents will enlighten me upon +this subject. + +LL.D. + +_Irish Brigade._--Where can I find any account of the institution and +history of the Irish brigade, a part of the army of France under the +Bourbons? + +J.D. + +Bath. + +_Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception._--In the charge delivered by the +Bishop of London to his clergy, on the 2nd instant, the following passage +occurs: + + "It is not easy to say what the members of that Church [the Church of + Rome] are required to believe now; it is impossible for men to foresee + what they may be called upon to admit as an article of faith next year, + or in any future year: for instance, till of late it was open to a + Roman Catholic to believe or not, as he might see reason, the fanciful + notion of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin; but the + present Bishop of Rome has seen fit to make it an article of their + faith; and no member of his church can henceforth question it without + denying the infallibility of his spiritual sovereign, and so hazarding, + as it is asserted, his own salvation." + +Can any of your correspondents inform me where the papal decision on this +point is to be found? + +L. + +_Gospel Oak Tree at Kentish Town._--Can you inform me why an ancient oak +tree, in a field at Kentish Town, is called the "Gospel Oak Tree." It is +situated and grows in the field called the "Gospel Oak Field," Kentish +Town, St. Pancras, Middlesex. Tradition says Saint Augustine, or one of the +ancient Fathers of the Church, preached under its branches. + +STEPHEN. + +_Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire._--Where can I find an account of a +religious academy called the _Arminian Nunnery_, founded by the family of +the FERRARS, at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire? I have seen some MS. +collections of Francis Peck on the subject, but they are formed in a bad +spirit. Has not Thomas Hearne left us something about this institution? + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Ruding's Annotated Langbaine._--Can any of your readers inform me who +possesses the copy of Langbaine's _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_ +with MS. additions, and copious continuations, by the REV. ROGERS RUDING? +In one of his notes, speaking of the Garrick collection of old plays, that +industrious antiquary observes: + + "This noble collection has lately (1784) been mutilated by tearing out + such single plays as were duplicates to others in the Sloane Library. + The folio editions of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Jonson, + have likewise been taken from it for the same reason." + +This is a sad complaint against the Museum authorities of former times. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Mrs. Tempest._--Can any of your correspondents give me any account of Mrs. +(or, in our present style, Miss) Tempest, a young lady who died the day of +the great storm in Nov., 1703, in honour of whom Pope's early friend Walshe +wrote an elegiac pastoral, and invited Pope to give his "winter" pastoral +"a turn to her memory." In the note on Pope's pastoral it is said that "she +was of an ancient family in Yorkshire, and admired by Walshe." I have +elsewhere read of her as "the celebrated Mrs. Tempest;" but I know of no +other celebrity than that conferred by Walshe's pastoral; for Pope's has no +special allusion to her. + +C. + +_Sitting cross-legged._--In an alliterative poem on Fortune (_Reliquiae +Antiquae_, ii. p. 9.), written early in the fifteenth century, are the +following lines:-- + + "Sitte, I say, and sethe on a semeli sete, + Rygth on the rounde, on the rennyng ryng; + _Caste kne over kne, as a kynge kete_, + Comely clothed in a cope, crouned as a kyng." + +The third line seems to illustrate those early illuminations in which kings +and great personages are represented as sitting cross-legged. There are +numerous examples of the A.-S. period. Was it {408} merely assumption of +dignity, or was it not rather intended to ward off any evil influence which +might affect the king whilst sitting, in his state? That this was a +consideration of weight we learn from the passage in Bede, in which +Ethelbert is described as receiving Augustine in the open air: + + "Post dies ergo venit ad insulam rex, et residens sub divo jussit + Augustinum cum sociis ad suum ibidem adveire colloquium; caverat enim + ne in aliquam domum ad se introirent, vetere usus augurio, ne + superventu suo, si quid maleficae artis habuissent, eum superando + deciperent."--_Hist. Eccles._, l. i. c. 25. + +It was cross-legged that Lucina was sitting before the floor of Alemena +when she was deceived by Galanthes. In Devonshire there is still a saying +which recommends "sitting cross-legged to help persons on a journey;" and +it is employed as a charm by schoolboys in order to avert punishment. +(Ellis's _Brand_, iii. 258.) Were not the cross-legged effigies, formerly +considered to be those of Crusaders, so arranged with an idea of the +mysterious virtue of the position? + +RICHARD J. KING. + +_Twickenham--Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there?_--I believe all the authors +who within the last sixty years have written on the history of Twickenham, +Middlesex (and among the most known of these I may mention Lysons, +Ironside, and John Norris Brewer), have, when mentioning Twickenham Park, +formerly the seat of Lord Bacon, stated that he there entertained Queen +Elizabeth. Of this circumstance I find no account in the works of the +sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His lordship entertained her at +Gorhambury in one of her progresses; and I would ask if it be possible that +Twickenham may have been mistaken for his other seat of Gorhambury? It is +well known Queen Elizabeth passed much of the latter part of her life at +Richmond, and ended her days there; and in Mr. Nares' _Memoirs of Lord +Burghley_ there is an account of her visit to Barn-Elms; and there is also +a curious description of her visit to Kew (in that neighbourhood) in the +_Sydney Papers_, published by Arthur Collins, in two vols. folio, vol. i. +p. 376., in a letter from Rowland Whyte, Esq. Had Lord Bacon received her +majesty, it must most probably have been in 1595. But perhaps some of your +readers may be able to supply me with information on this subject. + +D.N. + +_Burial towards the West._--The usual posture of the dead is with the feet +eastward, and the head towards the west: the fitting attitude of men who +look for their Lord, "whose name is The East," and who will come to +judgement in the regions of the dawn suddenly. But it was the ancient usage +of the Church that the martyr, the bishop, the saint, and even the priest, +should occupy in their sepulture a position the reverse of the secular +dead, and lie down with their feet westward, and their heads to the rising +sun. The position of the crozier and the cross on ancient sepulchres of the +clergy record and reveal this fact. The doctrine suggested by such a burial +was, that these mighty men which were of old would be honoured with a first +resurrection, and as their Master came on from the east, they were to arise +and to follow the Lamb as He went; insomuch that they, with Him, would +advance to the Judgement of the general multitudes,--the ancients and the +saints which were worthy to judge and reign. Now, Sir, my purpose in this +statement is to elicit, if I may, from your learned readers illustrations +of this distinctive interment. + +R.S. HAWKER. + +Morwenstow. + +_Medal struck by Charles II._--Voltaire, in his _Histoire de Charles XII._, +liv. 4., states that a medal was struck in commemoration of a victory which +Charles XII. gained over the Russians, at a place named Hollosin, near the +Boresthenes, in the year 1708. He adds that on one side of this medal was +the epigraph, "Sylvae, paludes, aggeres, hostes victi;" on the other the +verse of Lucan:-- + + "Victrices _copias_ alium laturus in orbem." + +The verse of Lucan referred to is in lib. v. l.238.: + + "Victrices _aquilas_ alium laturus in orbem." + +Query, Is the medal referred to by Voltaire known to exist? and if so, is +the substitution of the unmetrical and prosaic word _copias_ due to the +author of the medal, or to Voltaire himself? + +L. + +_National Debt._--What volumes, pamphlets, or paragraphs can be pointed out +to the writer, in poetry or prose, alluding to the bribery, corruption, and +abuses connected with the formation of the National Debt from 1698 to 1815? + +F.H.B. + +_Midwives licensed._--In the articles to be inquired into in the province +of Canterbury, anno 1571 (_Grindal Rem._, Park. Soc. 174-58), inquiry to be +made + + "Whether any use charms, or unlawful prayers, or invocations, in Latin + or otherwise, and _namely, midwives in the time of women's travail of + child_." + +In the oath taken by Eleanor Pead before being licensed by the Archbishop +to be a midwife a similar clause occurs; the words, "Also, I will not use +any kind of sorcery or incantations in the time of the travail of any +woman." Can any of your readers inform me what charms or prayers are here +referred to, and at what period midwives ceased to be licensed by the +Archbishop, or if any traces of such license are still found in Roman +Catholic countries? + +S.P.H.T. + + * * * * * {409} + + +REPLIES. + +THE BLACK ROOD OF SCOTLAND. + +(Vol. ii., p. 308.) + +I am not aware of any record in which mention of this relique occurs before +the time of St. Margaret. It seems very probable that the venerated +crucifix which was so termed was one of the treasures which descended with +the crown of the Anglo-Saxon kings. When the princess Margaret, with her +brother Edgar, the lawful heir to the throne of St. Edward the Confessor, +fled into Scotland, after the victory of William, she carried this cross +with her amongst her other treasures. Aelred of Rievaulx (ap. Twysd. 350.) +gives a reason why it was so highly valued, and some description of the +rood itself: + + "Est autem crux illa longitudinem habens palmae de auro purissimo + mirabili opere fabricats, quae in modum techae clauditur et aperitur. + Cernitur in ea quaedarn Dominicae crucis portio, (sicut saepe multorum + miraculorum argumento probatum est). Salvatoris nostri ymaginem habens + de ebore densissime sculptam et aureis distinctionibus mirabiliter + decoratam." + +St. Margaret appears to have destined it for the abbey which she and her +royal husband, Malcolm III., founded at Dunfermline in honour of the Holy +Trinity: and this cross seems to have engaged her last thoughts for her +confessor relates that, when dying, she caused it to be brought to her, and +that she embraced, and gazed steadfastly upon it, until her soul passed +from time to eternity. Upon her death (16th Nov., 1093), the Black Rood was +deposited upon the altar of Dunfermline Abbey, where St. Margaret was +interred. + +The next mention of it that I have been enabled to make note of, occurs in +1292, in the Catalogue of Scottish Muniments which were received within the +Castle of Edinburgh, in the presence of the Abbots of Dunfermline and Holy +Rood, and the Commissioners of Edward I., on the 23rd August in that year, +and were conveyed to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Under the head + + "Omnia ista inventa fuerunt in quadam cista in Dormitorio S. Crucis, et + ibidem reposita praedictos Abbates et altos, sub ecrum sigillis." + +we find + + "Unum scrinium argenteum deauratum, in quo reponitur crux quo vocatur + _la blake rode_."--Robertson's _Index_, Introd. xiii. + +It does not appear that any such fatality was ascribed to this relique as +that which the Scots attributed to the possession of the famous stone on +which their kings were crowned, or it might be conjectured that when Edward +I. brought "the fatal seat" from Scone to Westminster, he brought the Black +Rood of Scotland too. That amiable and pleasing historian, Miss Strickland, +has stated that the English viewed the possession of this relique by the +Scottish kings with jealousy; that it was seized upon by Edward I., but +restored on the treaty of peace in 1327. This statement is erroneous; the +rood having been mistaken for the stone, which, by the way, as your readers +know, was never restored. + +We next find it in the possession of King David Bruce, who lost this +treasured relique, with his own liberty, at the battle of Durham (18th +Oct., 1346), and from that time the monks of Durham became its possessors. +In the _Description of the Ancient Monuments, Rites, and Customs of the +Abbey Church of Durham_, as they existed at the dissolution, which was +written in 1593, and was published by Davies in 1672, and subsequently by +the Surtees Society, we find it described as + + "A most faire roode or picture of our Saviour, in silver, called the + Black Roode of Scotland, brought out of Holy Rood House, by King David + Bruce ... with the picture of Our Lady on the one side of our Saviour, + and St. John's on the other side, very richly wrought in silver, all + three having crownes of pure beaten gold of goldsmith's work, with a + device or rest to take them off or on." + +The writer then describes the "fine wainscote work" to which this costly +"rood and pictures" were fastened on a pillar at the east end of the +southern aisle of the quire. And in a subsequent chapter (p. 21. of Surtees +Soc. volume) we have an account of the cross miraculously received by David +I. (whom the writer confounds with the King David Bruce captured at the +battle of Durham, notwithstanding that his _Auntient Memorial_ professes to +be "collected forthe of the best antiquaries"), and in honour of which he +founded Holy Rood Abbey in 1128 from which account it clearly appears that +this cross was distinct from the Black Rood of Scotland. For the writer, +after stating that this miraculous cross had been brought from Holy Rood +House by the king, as a "most fortunate relique," says: + + "He lost _the said crosse_, which was taiken upon him, and many other + most wourthie and excellent jewells ... which all weare offred up at + the shryne of Saint Cuthbert, _together with the Blacke Rude of + Scotland_ (so termed), with Mary and John, maid of silver, being, as yt + were, smoked all over, which was placed and sett up most exactlie in + the pillar next St. Cuthbert's shrine," &c. + +In the description written in 1593, as printed, the size of the Black Rood +is not mentioned; but in Sanderson's _Antiquities of Durham_, in which he +follows that description, but with many variations and omissions, he says +(p. 22.), in mentioning the Black Rood of Scotland, with the images, as +above described,-- + + "Which rood and pictures were all three very richly wrought in silver, + and were all smoked blacke over, {410} being large pictures of a yard + or five quarters long, and on every one of their leads a crown of pure + beaten gold," &c. + +I have one more (too brief) notice of this famous rood. It occurs in the +list of reliques preserved in the Feretory of St. Cuthhert, under the care +of the shrine-keeper, which was drawn up in 1383 by Richard de Sedbrok, and +is as follows: + + "A black crosse, called the _Black Rode of Scotland_."--MS. Dunelm., B. + ii. 35. + +Strange to say, Mr. Raine, in his _St. Cuthbert_, p. 108., appears to +confound the cross brought from Holy Rood House, and in honour of which it +was founded, with the Black Rood of Scotland. He was misled, no doubt, by +the statement in the passage above extracted from the _Ancient Monuments_, +that this cross was brought out of Holy Rood House. + +I fear that the fact that it was formed of silver and gold, gives little +reason to hope that this historical relique escaped destruction when it +came into the hands of King Henry's church robbers. Its sanctity may, +indeed, have induced the monks to send it with some other reliques to a +place of refuge on the Continent, until the tyranny should be overpast; but +there is not any tradition at Durham, that I am aware of, to throw light on +the concluding Query of your correspondent P.A.F., as to "what became of +the 'Holy Cross,' or 'Black Rood,' at the dissolution of Durham Priory?" + +That the Black Rood of Scotland, and the Cross of Holy Rood House were +distinct, there can, I think, be no doubt. The cross mentioned by Aelred is +not mentioned as the "Black Rood:" probably it acquired this designation +after his time. But Fordoun, in the _Scoti-Chronicon_, Lord Hailes in his +_Annals_, and other historians, have taken Aelred's account as referring to +the Black Rood of Scotland. Whether it had been brought from Dunfermline to +Edinburgh before Edward's campaign, and remained thenceforth deposited in +Holy Rood Abbey, does not appear: but it is probable that a relique to +which the sovereigns of Scotland attached so much veneration was kept at +the latter place. + +W.S.G. + +Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 2. 1850. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_Haemony_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--MR. BASHAM will find some account of this +plant under the slightly different type of "Hemionion" in Pliny, xxv. 20., +xvi. 25., xxvii. 17.: + + "Invenit et Teucer eadem aetate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion' + vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem, + austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit. Medetur lienibus + ... Narrantque sues qui radicem ejus ederint sine splene inveniri. + + "Singultus hemionium sedat. + + "'Asplenon' sunt qui _hemionion_ vocant foliis trientalibus multis, + radice limosa, cavernosa, sicut filicis, candida, hirsuta: nec caulem, + nec florem, nec semen habet. Nascitur in petris parietibusque opacis, + humidis." + +According to Hardouin's note, p. 3777., it is the _Ceterach_ of the shops, +or rather _Citrach_; a great favourite of the mules, [Greek: hemionoi], +witness Theophrastus, _Hist._, ix. 19. + +Ray found it "on the walls about Bristol, and the stones at St. Vincent's +rock." He calls it "Spleenwort" and "Miltwaste." _Catalog. Plant._ p. 31. +Lond. 1677. + +I have a copy of Henri du Puy's "original" _Comus_, but do not recollect +his noticing the plant. + +G.M. + +Guernsey. + +_Byron's Birthplace._--Can any of your correspondents give any information +relative to the house in which Lord Byron was born? His biographers state +that it was in Holles Street, but do not mention the number. + +C.B.W. + +Edgbaston. + + [Our correspondent will find, on referring to Mr. Cunningham's + _Handbook of London_, that "Byron was born at No. 24. Holles Street, + and christened in the small parish church of St. Marylebone."] + +_Ancient Tiles_ (Vol. i., p. 173.).--The device of two birds perched back +to back on the twigs of a branch that rises between them, is found, not on +tiles only, but in wood carving; as at Exeter Cathedral, on two of the +Misereres in the choir, and on the gates which separate the choir from the +aisles, and these again from the nave. + +J.W.H. + +_Modena Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--Victor Amadeus III., King of +Sardinia, died in October, 1796. Mary Beatrice, Duchess of Modena, mother +of the present Duke of Modena, was the daughter of Victor Emmanuel V., King +of Sardinia, who abdicated his throne in 1821, and died 10th January, 1824. +The present Duke of Modena is the direct heir of the house of Stuart in the +following line:-- + +All the legitimate issue of Charles II. and James II. being extinct, we +fall back upon Henrietta Maria, youngest child of Charles I. She married +her cousin Philip, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV., and by him had +three children. Two died without issue: the youngest, Anna Maria, b. Aug. +1669, mar. Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and had by him three +children, one son and two daughters. + +The son, Charles Emmanuel III., Duke of {411} Savoy, married and had Victor +Amadeus III., who married Maria Antoinette of Spain, and had:--1. Charles +Emmanuel IV., who died without issue, and 2. Victor Emmanuel V., who +married an Austrian Archduchess; his eldest daughter married Francis IV. +Duke of Modena. She died between A.D. 1841-1846, I believe, and left four +children:--1. Francis V., Duke of Modena. 2. The wife of Henri, Comte de +Chambord. 3. Ferdinand. 4. Marie, wife of Don Juan, brother of the present +de jure King of Spain, Carlos VI. + +J.K. + +_Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks_ (Vol. ii., p. 375.).--In reply to the +second Bibliographical Query of J. MT., Edinburgh, respecting Nicholas +Breton's _Fantasticks_, I beg to inform him that my copy is perfect, and +contains twenty-two leaves. The title is _Fantasticks: seruing for a +perpetuall Prognostication_, with the subjects of the twenty-four +_Descants_, as they are called, in prose, contained in the volume. 4to. bl. +lett. London: Printed for Francis Williams, 1626. After this is a +dedication "To the worshipfull and worthy knight Sir Marke Ive, of Rivers +Hall, in Essex;" and a short address "To the Reader," one leaf. It is an +entertaining work, and contains some curious and useful remarks on our +ancient manners, customs, and habits. My copy had successively belonged to +Garrick, Fillingham, and Heber; the latter of whom has written in it, "Who +has ever seen another copy?" + +T.C. + +Strand. + +_Gaudentio di Lucca_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247. 298. 327.).--The Rev. Simon +Berington, the author of _The Memoirs of Gaudentio di Lucca_, "of whom" MR. +CROSSLEY (Vol. ii., p. 328.) "regrets that so little is known," was the +fourth son of John Berington, of Winesley, co. Hereford, Esquire, by +Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Wolrich, of Dudmaston, co. Salop, Bart. +He was born 1679. He studied and took holy orders at Douay College. + +W.L. + +Nov. 3. 1850. + +_Weights for weighing Coins_(Vol. ii., p. 326.).--I am able to supply H.E. +with a reference to this subject of an earlier date than those he quotes. +In the MS. _Compotus_ or _Accounts of Sibton Abbey, in Suffolk_, in my +possession, occurs the following item, under the year 1363-4: + + "Et de ix d. pro ij paribus Balaunces pro aure ponderand'." + +The following extract, although of later date than H.E. requires, may yet +be not without its use to him in illustration of the subject. It occurs in +the _Compotus_ of a collegiate establishment at Mettingam, Suffolk, from an +earlier volume of which some extracts were furnished to the _Archaeological +Journal_ (vol. vi. p. 62.). It is as follows, under the year 1464:-- + + "Item in ponderibus pro novo aura ponderant' s' nobili _xs._ di. nobyl + et quadrant' ejusdem cunagii et pro nobili de _vj_s. _viij_d. di. nobil + et quadrant' et minoribus ponderibus utriusque cunagii cum le Scolys et + Cophino pro eisdem. _ij_s. _j_d." + +The new gold is of course the reduced coinage of Edward IV. I conclude that +the nobles of 6s. 8d. were the same as the angels. + +C.R.M. + +_Mrs. Partington_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--IGNORANS no doubt refers to the +oft-repeated allusion to "Dame Partington and her mop;" and taking it for +granted that he does so, I will enlighten him a little on the subject. The +"original Mrs. Partington" was a respectable old lady, living, at Sidmouth +in Devonshire; her cottage was on the beach, and during an awful storm +(that, I think, of Nov. 1824, when some fifty or sixty ships were wrecked +at Plymouth) the sea rose to such a height as every now and then to invade +the old lady's place of domicile: in fact, almost every wave dashed in at +the door. Mrs. Partington, with such help as she could command, with mops +and brooms, as fast as the water entered the house, mopped it out again; +until at length the waves had the mastery, and the dame was compelled to +retire to an upper story of the house. I well recollect reading in the +Devonshire newspapers of the time an account similar to the above: but the +first allusion to the circumstance was, I think, made by Lord Brougham in +his celebrated speech in the house of Commons on the Reform Bill, in which +he compared the Conservative opposition to the bill to be like the +opposition of "Dame Partington and her mop, who endeavoured to mop out the +waves of the Atlantic." + +ROBERT COLE. + +_Mrs. Partington._--Mr. Greene, the witty editor of the _Boston (N.E.) +Post_, is believed to be the original of Mrs. Partington: at least he +fathers all her sayings. He began to print them about twelve or fifteen +years ago. + +G.M.B. + + [G.M.B. has also kindly forwarded to us some of "_Mrs. Partington's + Queries_ from a recent number of the _Boston Post_, from which we + select a couple of specimens, viz.,-- + + "Whether the Emperor of China is a _porcelain_ statue or a mere + fiction?" + + "Is the _Great Seal_ alive, or only stuffed?"] + +_The East Anglian Word "Mauther"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 217. 365.).--Skinner's +note on this word is + + "Mawther, vox Norfolciensi agro peculiaris: _Spelman_ ipse eodem agro + ortus a Dan. _Moer_, Virgo, Puella, deflectit. Possit tamen et + declinari a Belg. _Maegd_, Teut. _Magd_, idem signante, addita term. + _er_ vel _der_, ut in proximo agro Lincolniensi in vocibus _Heeder_ et + _Sheeder_ quae Marem et Feminam notant. Author Dict. Angl. scribit + _Modder_, et cum Kiliano deducit a Belg. _Modde_, _Moddeken_, Pupa, + Puella, Virgincula."--_Etymol._ sub voce. + +Webster merely gives (with strange neglect, having Skinner before him): +{412} + + "Mauther, a foolish young girl(not used)."--_Ben Jonson._ + +Skinner is, I believe, wrong in assigning the _r_ termination to the Danish +word. Such a termination of the word _maid_ is not to be found in any of +the Teutonic dialects. The diphthong sound and the _th_ appear frequently; +as, + + 1. Moeso-Gothic: _Magath_ or _Magaths_; _Mawi_, + dim. _Mawilo_. + 2. Anglo-Saxon: _Maeth_, _Maegth_, dim. _Meowla_. + 3. Old-German: _Maget_. + 4. Swedish: _Moe_. + 5. Norse: _Moei_. + +I therefore suppose the _r_ termination in _mauther_ to be a mere +corruption, like that pointed out by Skinner in the Lincoln Folk-speech: or +is it possible that it may have arisen from a contusion of the words _maid_ +and _mother_ in Roman Catholic times? In Holland the Virgin Mary was called +_Moeder Maagd_,--a phrase which may possibly have crossed over to the East +Anglian coast, and occasioned the subsequent confusion. + +B.H.K. + +P.S. Do the words _modde_, _moddeken,_ quoted by Skinner, exist? and, if +so, are they Dutch or Flemish? I have no means of verifying them at hand. + + [On referring to Kilian's _Dictionarium Teutonico-Latin-Gallicum_ (ed. + 1642), we find, "MODDE, MODDEKEN, Pupa, Poupee."] + +_Cheshire Cat_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--A correspondent, T.E.L.P.B.T., asks +the explanations of the phrase, "grinning like a Cheshire cat." Some years +since Cheshire cheeses were sold in this town moulded into the shape of a +cat, bristles being inserted to represent the whiskers. This may possibly +have originated the saying. + +T.D. + +Bath. + +"_Thompson of Esholt_" (Vol. ii., p. 268.).--In an old pedigree of the +Calverley family, I find it stated that _Henry Thompson of Esholt_ (whose +only daughter _Frances_ William Calverley of Calverley married, and by her +acquired that property) was great-grandson to Henry Thompson, + + "One of the king's gentlemen-at-arms at the siege of Boulogne (temp. H. + 7.), where he notably signalised himself, and for his service was + rewarded with the _Maison Dieu at Dover_, by gift of the king; + afterwards, in the reign of Edward VI., exchanged it for the manor and + rectory of _Bromfield_ in Cumberland, and the site of the late + dissolved nunnery of Esholt." + +Further particulars regarding the above grant of _Bromefield_, and a +_pedigree_ of the Thompsons, are published in _Archaeologia Oeliana_, vol. +ii. (1832), p. 171. + +W.C. TREVELYAN. + +Wallington. + +_Minar's Book of Antiquities_ (Vol. i., p. 277.; ii. p. 344.).--I am much +obliged to T.J. for his endeavours to help me to Minar's _Book of +Antiquities_. But there still remains a chasm too wide for me to jump; +inasmuch as Christopher Meiners published his treatise _De Vero Deo_ in +1780, and Cardinal Cusa, who refers to Minar, died in 1464, being more than +300 years before. + +A.N. + +_Croziers and Pastoral Staves_ (Vol. ii., pp. 248, 313.).--The opinion +expressed by the REV. MR. WALCOT (in your No. 50.), that by the word +_crozier_ is to be understood the crossed staff belonging only to +archbishops and legates, while the staff with a crook at its end is to be +called the pastoral staff, cannot, I think, be considered satisfactory, for +the following, among other reasons. + +Crozier is generally (I should formerly have said universally) understood +to mean the staff with a crook, the so well-known "ensign of bishops." + +In the instances mentioned by MR. WALCOT, _croziers_ are repeatedly spoken +of as having been borne at the funerals of _bishops_, while the crosses +borne before Wolsey are called crosses, and not croziers. + +The word _crozier_ seems to be derived from the mediaeval Latin word +_crocia_. This is explained by Ducange: "Pedum, baculus pastoralis, +episcopalis." Crocia seems to be derived from, or closely connected with, +"crocha, uncinus, lamus," and "crochum, uncus quo arcubalistae tenduntur" +(Ducange). Hence it appears that _crozier_ does not refer to a cross but to +a crook. + +In such ancient authorities as I have had the opportunity of referring to +at the moment, as brasses, incised slabs, &c., bishops and archbishops are +alike represented with the crooked staff; a cross is of more rare +occurrence, and at the moment only two instances occur to me, one in the +fine brass of Frederic, son of Casimir, king of Poland, and a cardinal, +which is in the cathedral of Cracow, and in which he is represented holding +a crozier, while crosses are figured on the sides under the cardinal's hat. +The other is in the curious brass of Lambert, bishop of Bamberg, in the +cathedral of that city: in this the bishop holds a cross in his right and a +crozier in his left hand. + +The statement that the crook of the bishop's staff was bent outwards, and +that of the abbot's inward, is one which is often made in books; I should, +however, be very glad to learn whether any difference has been observed to +exist either in mediaeval representations of croziers on seals, +accompanying, effigies, or in paintings, or in the existing examples. So +far as I have seen, the crook, in all except a few early instances, is bent +in the same manner, _i.e._ inwards. + +N. + +_Socinian Boast_ (Vol. ii., p. 375.).--The following lines "De Ruina +Babylonis" occur in the works of a Socinian writer, one Samuelis +Przipcovius, who died in 1670, and evidently have reference to those quoted +by Dr. Pusey:-- {413} + + "Quid per Luterum, Calvinum, perque Socinum, + Funditus eversam jam Babylona putas? + Perstat adhuc _Babylon_, et toto regnat in orbe + Sub vario primum nomine robur habens. + Ostentat _muros_, jactat sublimia _tecta_ + De _fundamento_ quis metus esse potest? + Ni Deus hanc igitur molem disjecerit ipse + Humano nunquam Marte vel arte ruet." + +Przipcovius was a Polish knight, and cotempory the author of _Hudibras_. In +a tract entitled _Religio Vindicata a Calumniis Atheismi_, he thus alludes +to the spiritual Quixotism which induced Butler to "crack the satiric +thong:" + + "Saepe audivi quod in _Anglia_ (quae regio sicut in multis aliis rebus, + sic praecipue in religionibus totius mundi compendium est) de ejusmodi + fanaticis perhibetur, quod ita sui suarumque irrationabilium opinionum + sint amantes, ut audeant propter eas divinam Providentiam angustis + Ecclesiarum suarum (quae ex angustis cujuslibet Penatibus constant) + terminis circumscribere.... Et quemadmodum omnes isti miseri aperte + delirant, praecipue ii quos zeli aestus eousque deducit, ut tanquam + bacchantes aut cerriti per plateas, domos, templa, absque ullo ordine + et respectu cursitantes concionentur, et interdum _anseres, equos, vel + oves_ (cujus rei ibi satis frequentia exempla occurrunt) dum eis + homines aures praebere nolunt, ad suas opiniones convertere tentent." + +R. PRICE. + +Cheam. + +_MSS. of Locke_ (Vol. i., pp. 401. 462.).--In reply to a question in "NOTES +AND QUERIES," I may state, that the address of the son of the late Dr. +Hancock, is George H., Park Grove, Birkenhead; and he will furnish +information relative to the MSS. of Locke. + +AN INTENDED READER. + +_Sir William Grant_ (Vol. ii., p. 397.).--Your correspondent R. says that +"_Sir William Grant_" was one of the few Scotchmen who had freed himself +from the peculiarities of the speech of his country. Frank Horner is +another." If R. means to include the _Scottish accent_, he is mistaken as +to Sir William Grant, who retained a strong Scottish _burr_. If he means +only correctness of diction, then I should say the number was not _few_. +Mackintosh's and Jeffery's English was, I think, quite as pure as Horner's; +and Lord Brougham, with much idiosyncrasy, had no _Scotch peculiarities_, +at least--_me judice_--infinitely less than Sir William Grant. I could name +twenty members of the present houses of parliament in whom I have never +detected any "Scotch peculiarity." + +C. + +_Tristan d'Acunha_ (Vol. ii., p. 358.).--The island is noticed, but +briefly, in p. 54. of the first volume of Perouse's _Voyage round the +World_, Lond. 1799. It is there stated that a tolerably minute account of +it is contained in _Le Neptune Oriental_, by D'Apres (or Apres de +Manvilette). This work was published in Paris, 1775, in two volumes, large +folio. + +C.I.R. + +_Arabic Numerals_ (Vol.ii., pp. 27. 61. 339.).-- In a work in Arabic, by +Ahmad ben Abubekr bin Wahshih, on Ancient Alphabets, published in the +original, and accompanied with an English translation, by Von Hammer, your +correspondent on the subject of Arabic numerals will find that these +numerals were not invented as arbitrary signs, and borrowed for various +alphabets; but that they are actually taken from an Indian alphabet of nine +characters, the remaining letters being made up at each decimal by +repeating the nine characters, with one or two dots. The English Preface +states that this alphabet is still in use in India, not merely as a +representative of numbers, but of letters of native language. The book is a +neat quarto, printed in London in 1806; and the alphabet occurs in page 7. +of the Arabic original. + +E.C.H. + +Athenaeum. + +_Luther's Hymns_ (Vol. ii., p. 327.).--If F.Q. will turn to Mr. Palmer's +_Origines Liturgicae_, vol. ii. p. 238. 4th edit., he will find that the +sentence in the Burial Service, "In the midst of life we are in death," +&c., is taken from the _Salisbury Breviary Psalter_. The Salisbury Use was +drawn up by Bishop Osmund in the eleventh century. + +N.E.R. (a Subscriber.) + +_Bolton's Ace._--What is the meaning of "_Bolton's Ace_," in the following +passage in the address to the reader prefixed to Henry Hutton's _Follies +Anatomie_, 8vo. Lond. 1618? It is passed over by DR. RIMBAULT in his +reprint of the work for the Percy Society in 1842: + + "Could ye attacke this felon in's disgrace, + I would not bate an inch (not _Bolton's ace_) + To baite, deride, nay, ride this silly asse." + +J. CT. + + ["_Bate me an ace quoth Bolton_" is an old proverb of unknown origin. + Ray tells us that a _Collection of Proverbs_ having been presented to + Queen Elizabeth, with an assurance that it contained all the proverbs + in the English language. "Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton," said the + queen, implying that the assertion was too strong; and, in fact, that + every proverb was not in the collection. See Nares' _Glossary_, who + quotes the following epigram by H.P., to show the collection referred + to + + "_Secundae Cogitutiones meliores._ + + "A pamphlet was of proverbs penned by Polton, + Wherein he thought all sorts included were; + Untill one told him _Bate m' an ace quoth Bolton_, + 'Indeed,' said he, 'that proverb is not there.'"] + +_Hopkins the Witchfinder_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--If the inquiry of CLERICUS +relates to Mathew Hopkins the witchfinder general, my friend W.S. Fitch of +Ipswich has some manuscript account of his residence in that town, as a +lawyer of but little {414} note, and his removal to Manningtree, in Essex; +but whether it gives any further particulars of him I am unable to state, +as I have not seen the manuscript. + +J. CLARKE. + +_Sir Richard Steel_ (Vol. ii., p.375.).--The death and burial-place of Sir +Richard Steel is thus noticed in Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_, vol. iv. +p.120.:-- + + "Some years before his death he grew paralytic, and retired to his seat + at Langunnor, near Caermarthen, in Wales, where he died, September 1st, + 1729, and was privately interred, according to his own desire, in the + church of Caermarthen." + +J.V.R.W. + +_Ale-draper_ (Vol. ii., p.310.).--A common designation for an ale-house +keeper in the sixteenth century. Henry Chettle, in his very curious little +publication, _Kind-Harts Dreame_, 1592 (edited for the Percy Society by +your humble servant), has the following passage: + + "I came up to London, and fall to be some tapster, hostler, or + chamberlaine in an inn. Well, I get mee a wife; with her a little + money; when we are married, seeke a house we must; no other occupation + have I but to be an _ale-draper_." (P. 37. of reprint.) + +Again, in the same tract, the author speaks of "two milch maydens that had +set up a shoppe of "_ale-drapery_." + +In the _Discoverie of the Knights of the Poste_, 1597, is another notice of +the same occupation: + + "So that now hee hath left brokery, and is become a draper. A draper, + quoth Freeman, what draper--of woollin or linnen? No, qd. he, an + _ale-draper_, wherein he hath more skil then in the other." + +Probably these instances of the use of the term may be sufficient for your +correspondent. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +P.S. The above was written before J.S.W.'s note appeared (Vol. ii., p. +360.), which does not carry the use of this term further back than Bailey's +_Dictionary_. + +_George Herbert_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.) was buried under the communion table +at Bemerton, but there is no monument to his memory. The adornment of his +little church would be one of the most fitting offerings to his memory. It +is painful to contrast the whitewash and unpainted deal of the house of God +with the rich furniture and hangings of the adjoining rectory. In the +garden of the latter is preserved a medlar-tree, planted by "the sweet +singer of the temple." + +J.W.H. + +_Notaries Public_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.).--Why does your correspondent +MANLEIUS think this form of expression "putting the cart before the horse?" +_Public notary_ (though that phrase is sometimes erroneously used) is not +so exact as "notary public;" for a notary is not, as the first form would +imply, a public officer appointed by the public to perform public services, +but an individual agent through whose ministry private acts or instruments +become _publici juris_. The same form, and for analogous reasons, prevails +in several other legal and technical titles or phrases, as +Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Accountant-General, Receiver-General, +Surveyor-General; Advocate Fiscal; Theatre Royal, Chapel Royal; Gazette +Extraordinary; and many other phrases in which it is evident that the +adjective has a special and restricted meaning. + +C. + +_Tobacconists_ (Vol. ii, p. 393.).--There was, in the old house of commons, +a room called the _smoking-room_, where members tired of the debate used to +retire to smoke, and in later years to drink tea or write letters. These, +no doubt, were meant by the _Tobacconists_, members within call, though not +actually within the house. + +C. + +_Vineyards_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--In answer to CLERICUS, I beg to say that +there is a piece of land called the Vineyards situated in the warm and +sheltered valley of Claverton, about two miles from Bath: it formerly +belonged to the Abbey of Bath. + +There is also in the suburbs, on the north side of the city of Bath, a +_street_ called the Vineyards; but I do not know that this ever belonged to +the Abbey. + +G. FALKNER. + +Devizes. + + * * * * * + + +MISCELLANEOUS. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Those who know Mr. Craik's happy tact for seizing on the more striking +points of a character or an incident, his acquaintance with our national +history and biography, his love of research, and perseverance in following +up a clue, were prepared to expect both instruction and amusement from his +_Romance of the Peerage_. Nor were they doomed to disappointment. 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