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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 71, March 8, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 26, 2007 [EBook #23205] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><!-- Page 177 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page177"></a>{177}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> + +<hr class="full" > + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:25%"> + <p><b>No. 71.</b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, March 8. 1851.</span></b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:25%"> + <p><b>Price Threepence.<br />Stamped Edition 4d.</b></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="Contents" title="Contents"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:94%"> + <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:5%"> + <p>Page</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>On Two Passages in "All's Well that Ends Well," by S. W. + Singer</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page177">177</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>George Herbert and the Church of Leighton Bromswold</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page178">178</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Folk Lore:—Sacramental Wine—"Snail, Snail, come out of + your Hole"—Nievie-nick-nack</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page179">179</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Records at Malta</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page180">180</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>On an Ancient MS. of "Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page180">180</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Minor Queries:—The Potter's and Shepherd's + Keepsakes—Writing-paper—Little Casterton (Rutland) + Church—The Hippopotamus—Specimens of Foreign + English—St. Clare—Dr. Dodd—Hats of Cardinals and + Notaries Apostolic—Baron Munchausen's Frozen + Horn—Contracted Names of Places</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page181">181</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Queries:</span>—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Bibliographical Queries</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page182">182</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Enigmatical Epitaph</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page184">184</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Shakspeare's "Merchant of Venice"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page185">185</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Minor Queries:—Was Lord Howard of Effingham a Protestant or + a Papist?—Lord Bexley: how descended from Cromwell—Earl + of Shaftesbury—Family of Peyton—"La Rose nait en un + Moment"—John Collard the Logician—Traherne's Sheriffs of + Glamorgan—Haybands in Seals—Edmund Prideaux, and the + First Post-office—William Tell Legend—Arms of Cottons + buried in Landwade Church—Sir George Buc's Treatise on the + Stage—A Cracowe Pike—St. Thomas of Trunnions—Paper + mill near Stevenage—Mounds, Munts, Mounts—Church + Chests—The Cross-bill—Iovanni Volpe—Auriga—To + speak in Lutestring—"Lavora, come se tu," &c.—Tomb of + Chaucer—Family of Clench</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page185">185</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies:</span>—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Cranmer's Descendants</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page188">188</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dutch Popular Song-book, by J. H. van Lennep</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page189">189</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Barons of Hugh Lupus</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page189">189</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Shakspeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page190">190</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>"Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon!"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page191">191</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Replies to Minor Queries:—Ulm Manuscript—Harrison's + Chronology—Mistletoe on Oaks—Swearing by + Swans—Jurare ad caput animalium—Ten Children at a + Birth—Richard Standfast—"Jurat, crede minus"—Rab + Surdam—The Scaligers—Lincoln + Missal—By-and-bye—Gregory the Great—True + Blue—Drachmarus—The Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex—Red + Hand—Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe—Meaning of + Waste-book—Deus Justificatus—Touchstone's Dial—Ring + Dials—Cockade—Rudbeck's Atlantica, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page191">191</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous:</span>—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page198">198</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Books and Odd Volumes wanted</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page199">199</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notices to Correspondents</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page199">199</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Advertisements</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page200">200</a></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>ON TWO PASSAGES IN "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS +WELL."</h3> + + <p>Among the few passages in Shakspeare upon which little light has been + thrown, after all that has been written about them, are the following in + Act. IV. Sc. 2. of <i>All's Well that Ends Well</i>, where Bertram is + persuading Diana to yield to his desires:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<i>Bert.</i> I pr'ythee, do not strive against my vows:</p> + <p class="i1">I was compell'd to her; but I love thee</p> + <p class="i1">By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever</p> + <p class="i1">Do thee all rights of service.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Dia.</i> Ay, so you serve us,</p> + <p class="i1">Till we serve you: but when you have our roses,</p> + <p class="i1">You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,</p> + <p class="i1">And mock us with our bareness.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Bert.</i> How have I sworn?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>Dia.</i> 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth;</p> + <p class="i1">But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.</p> + <p class="i1">What is not holy, that we swear not by,</p> + <p class="i1">But take the Highest to witness: Then, pray you, tell me,</p> + <p class="i1">If I should swear by Jove's great attributes,</p> + <p class="i1">I love'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths,</p> + <p class="i1">When I did love you ill? this has no holding,</p> + <p class="i1">To swear by him <i>whom I protest to love</i>,</p> + <p class="i1">That I will work against him."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Read—"<i>when</i> I protest to <i>Love</i>."</p> + + <p>It is evident that Diana refers to Bertram's double vows, his marriage + vow, and the subsequent vow or <i>protest</i> he had made not to keep it. + "If I should swear by Jove I loved you dearly, would you believe my oath + when I loved you ill? This has no consistency, to swear by <i>Jove</i>, + when secretly I protest to <i>Love</i> that I will work against him + (<i>i.e.</i> against the oath I have taken to Jove)."</p> + + <p>Bertram had <i>sworn by the Highest</i> to love his wife; in his + letter to his mother he says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I have wedded her, not bedded her, and sworn to make the <i>not</i> + eternal:"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>he secretly <i>protests to Love</i> to work against his sacred oath; + and in his following speech he says:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Be not so cruel-holy, Love is holy."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>He had before said:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"——do not strive against my vows:</p> + <p>I was compell'd to her; but I love thee</p> + <p>By Love's own sweet constraint:"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>clearly indicating that this must be the true sense of the passage. By + printing <i>when</i> for <i>whom</i>, and <i>Love</i> with a capital + letter, to indicate the personification, all is made clear. <!-- Page 178 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page178"></a>{178}</span></p> + + <p>After further argument from Bertram, Diana answers:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"I see that men <i>make ropes in such a scarre</i></p> + <p>That we'll forsake ourselves."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>This Rowe altered to "make <i>hopes</i> in such <i>affairs</i>," and + Malone to "make <i>hopes</i> in such <i>a scene</i>." Others, and among + them Mr. Knight and Mr. Collier, retain the old reading, and vainly + endeavour to give it a meaning, understanding the word <i>scarre</i> to + signify a <i>rock</i> or <i>cliff</i>, with which it has nothing to do in + this passage. There can be no doubt that "make <i>ropes</i>" is a + misprint for "make <i>hopes</i>," which is evidently required by the + context, "that we'll forsake ourselves." It then only remains to show + what is meant by <i>a scarre</i>, which signifies here <i>anything that + causes surprise or alarm</i>; what we should now write <i>a scare</i>. + Shakspeare has used the same orthography, <i>scarr'd</i>, i.e. + <i>scared</i>, in <i>Coriolanus</i> and in <i>Winter's Tale</i>. There is + also abundant evidence that this was its old orthography, indicative of + the broad sound the word then had, and which it still retains in the + north. Palsgrave has both the noun and the verb in this form: + "<i>Scarre</i>, to <i>scar</i> crowes, espouventail." And again, "I + <i>scarre</i> away or feare away, as a man doth crowes or such like; je + escarmouche." The French word might lead to the conclusion that <i>a + scarre</i> might be used for <i>a skirmish</i>. (See Cotgrave in v. + Escarmouche.) I once thought we should read "in such a <i>warre</i>," + <i>i.e.</i> conflict.</p> + + <p>In Minshen's <i>Guide to the Tongues</i>, we have:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"To <span class="sc">Scarre</span>, videtur confictum ex <i>sono</i> + oves vel aliud quid abigentium et terrorem illis incutientium. Gall. + <i>Ahurir</i> ratione eadem:" vi. <i>to feare, to fright</i>.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Objections have been made to the expression "make hopes;" but the poet + himself in <i>King Henry VIII.</i> has "more than I dare <i>make + faults</i>," and repeats the phrase in one of his sonnets: surely there + is nothing more singular in it than in the common French idiom, "<i>faire + des espérances</i>."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. W. Singer.</span> + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>GEORGE HERBERT AND THE CHURCH AT LEIGHTON +BROMSWOLD.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 85.)</p> + + <p>I have great pleasure in laying before your readers the following + particulars, which I collected on a journey to Leighton Bromswold, + undertaken for the purpose of satisfying the Query of E. H. If they will + turn to <i>A Priest to the Temple</i>, ch. xiii., they will find the + points to which, with others, my attention was more especially + directed.</p> + + <p>Leighton Church consists of a western tower, nave, north and south + porches and transepts, and chancel. There are no aisles. As Prebendary of + the Prebend of Leighton Ecclesia in Lincoln Cathedral, George Herbert was + entitled to an estate in the parish, and it was no doubt a portion of the + increase of this property that he devoted to the repairing and + beautifying of the House of God, then "lying desolate," and unfit for the + celebration of divine service. Good Izaak Walton, writing evidently upon + hearsay information, and not of his own personal knowledge, was in error + if he supposed, as from his language he appears to have done, that George + Herbert almost rebuilt the church from the foundation, and he must be + held to be incorrect in describing that part of it which stood as "so + decayed, so <i>little</i>, and so useless." There are portions remaining + earlier than George Herbert's time, whose work may be readily + distinguished by at least four centuries; whilst at one end the porches, + and at the other the piscina, of Early English date, the windows, which + are of different styles, and the buttresses, afford sufficient proofs + that the existing walls are the original, and that in size the church has + remained unaltered for ages. As George Herbert new roofed the sacred + edifice throughout, we may infer this was the chief structural repair + necessary. He also erected the present tower, the font, put four windows + in the chancel, and reseated the parts then used by the congregation.</p> + + <p>Except a western organ gallery erected in 1840, two pews underneath + it, and one elsewhere, these parts, the nave and transepts, remain, in + all probability, exactly as George Herbert left them. The seats are all + uniform, of oak, and of the good old open fashion made in the style of + the seventeenth century. They are so arranged, both in the nave and in + the transepts, that no person in service time turns his back either upon + the altar or upon the minister. (See "<span class="sc">Notes and + Queries</span>," Vol. ii., p. 397.) The pulpit against the north, and the + reading-desk, with clerk's seat attached, against the south side of the + chancel-arch, are both of the same height, and exactly similar in every + respect; both have sounding-boards. The font is placed at the west end of + the nave, and, together with its cover, is part of George Herbert's work; + it stands on a single step, and a drain carries off the water, as in + ancient examples. The shallowness of the basin surprised me. A vestry, + corresponding in style to the seats, is formed by a wooden inclosure in + the south transept, which contains "a strong and decent chest." Until the + erection of the gallery, the tower was open to the nave.</p> + + <p>The chancel, which is raised one step above the nave, is now partly + filled with high pews, but, as arranged by the pious prebendary, it is + believed to have contained only one low bench on either side. The + communion table, which is elevated by three steps above the level of the + chancel, is modern, as are also the rails. There is a double Early + English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north. A plain + cross of the seventeenth century crowns the eastern gable of the chancel + externally.</p> + + <p>No doubt there were originally "fit and proper <!-- Page 179 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page179"></a>{179}</span>texts of scripture + everywhere painted;" but, if this were so, they are now concealed by the + whitewash. Such are not uncommon in neighbouring churches. No "poor man's + box conveniently seated" remains, but there are indications of its having + been fixed to the back of the bench nearest to the south door.</p> + + <p>The roof is open to the tiles, being, like the seats, Gothic in design + and of seventeenth century execution. The same may be said of the tower, + which is battlemented, and finished off with pinnacles surmounted by + balls, and has a somewhat heavy appearance. But it is solid and + substantial, and it is evident that no expense was spared to make + it—so far as the skill of the time could make it—worthy of + its purpose and of the donor. There are five bells. No. 1. has the + inscription:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<span class="scac">IHS NAZARENVS REX IVDEORVM FILI DEI</span></p> + <p><span class="scac">MISERERE MEI : GEORGE WOOLF VICAR :</span></p> + <p><span class="scac">I : MICHELL : C : W : W : N. 1720.</span>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Nos. 2. 4. and 5. contain the alphabet in Lombardic capitals; but the + inscription and date on each of them,—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<span class="scac">THOMAS NOBBIS MADE ME 1641</span>"—</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>show that they are not of the antiquity which generally renders the + few specimens we have of alphabet bells so peculiarly interesting, but + probably they were copied from the bells in the more ancient tower. No. + 3. has in Lombardic capitals the fragment—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<span class="scac">ESME: CCATHERINA,</span>"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>and is consequently of ante-Reformation date.</p> + + <p>The porches are both of the Early English period, and form therefore a + very noticeable feature.</p> + + <p>On the external walls are several highly ornamented spouts, upon some + of which crosses are figured, and upon one with the date "1632" I + discovered three crests; but as I could not accurately distinguish what + they were intended to represent, I will not run the risk of describing + them wrongly. The wivern, the crest of the Herberts, did not appear; nor, + so far as I could learn, does the fabric itself afford any clue to him + who was the principal author of its restoration.</p> + + <p>The view from the tower is extensive, and, from the number of spires + that are visible, very pleasing: fifteen or sixteen village churches are + to be seen with the naked eye; and I believe that Ely Cathedral, nearly + thirty miles distant, may be discovered with the aid of a telescope.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Arun.</span> + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> + + <p><i>Sacramental Wine.</i>—In a remote hamlet of Surrey I recently + heard the following superstition. In a very sickly family, of which the + children were troubled with bad fits, and the poor mother herself is + almost half-witted, an infant newly born seemed to be in a very weakly + and unnatural state. One of the gossips from the neighbouring cottages + coming in, with a mysterious look said, "Sure, the babby wanted + <i>something</i>,—a drop of the sacrament wine would do it good." + On surprise being expressed at such a notion, she added "Oh! they often + gives it." I do not find any allusion in Brand's <i>Antiquities</i> to + such popular credence. He mentions the superstition in Berkshire, that a + ring made from a piece of silver collected at the communion (especially + that on Easter Sunday) is a cure for convulsions and fits.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Albert Way.</span> + + <p>"<i>Snail, Snail, come out of your Hole</i>" (Vol. iii., p. + 132.).—Your correspondent <span class="sc">S. W. Singer</span> has + brought to my recollection a verse, which I heard some children singing + near Exeter, in July last, and noted down, but afterwards forgot to send + to you:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Snail, snail, shut out your horns;</p> + <p class="i1">Father and mother are dead:</p> + <p>Brother and sister are in the back yard,</p> + <p class="i1">Begging for barley bread."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Geo. E. Frere.</span> + + <p>Perhaps it would not be uninteresting to add to the records of the + "Snail-charm" (Vol. iii, p. 132.), that in the south of Ireland, also, + the same charm, with a more fanciful and less threatening burden, was + used amongst us children to win from its reserve the startled and + offended snail. We entreated thus:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i1hg3">"Shell a muddy, shell a muddy,</p> + <p class="i2">Put out your horns,</p> + <p class="i1">For the king's daughter is</p> + <p class="i2">Comings to town</p> + <p>With a red petticoat and a green gown!"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>I fear it is impossible to give a clue as to the meaning of the form + of invocation, or who was the royal visitor, so nationally clothed, for + whose sake the snail was expected to be so gracious.</p> + + <p class="author">F. J. H. + + <p><i>Nievie-nick-nack.</i>—A fire-side game, well known in + Scotland; described by Jamieson, Chambers, and (last, though not least) + John M<sup>c</sup>Taggart. The following version differs from that given + by them:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Nievie, nievie, nick, neck,</p> + <p>Whilk han will thou tak?</p> + <p>Tak the richt, or tak the wrang,</p> + <p>I'll beguile thee if I can."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>It is alluded to by Sir W. Scott, <i>St. Ronan's</i>, iii. 102.; + <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>, August, 1821, p. 37.</p> + + <p>Rabelais mentions <i>à la nicnoque</i> as one of the games played by + Guargantua. This is rendered by Urquhart <i>Nivinivinack: Transl.</i>, p. + 94. Jamieson (<i>Supp. to Scot. Dict.</i>, sub voce) adds:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The first part of the word seems to be from <i>Neive</i>, <!-- Page + 180 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page180"></a>{180}</span>the fist + being employed in the game. Shall we view <i>nick</i> as allied to the E. + <i>v.</i> signifying 'to touch luckily'?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Now, there is no such seeming derivation in the first part of the + word. The <i>Neive</i>, though employed in the game, is not the object + addressed. It is held out to him who is to guess—the + conjuror—<i>and it is he who is addressed</i>, and under a + conjuring name. In short (to hazard a wide conjecture, it may be), he is + invoked in the person of <span class="sc">Nic Neville</span> (<i>Neivie + Nic</i>), a sorcerer in the days of James VI., who was burnt at St. + Andrew's in 1569. If I am right, a curious testimony is furnished to his + quondam popularity among the common people:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"From that he past to Sanctandrois, where a notable sorceres callit + <i>Nic Neville</i> was condamnit to the death and brynt," &c. + &c.—<i>The Historie and Life of King Jame the Sext</i>, p. 40. + Edin. 1825. Bannatyne Club Ed.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">J. D. N. N. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>RECORDS AT MALTA.</h3> + + <p>Let me call <i>your</i> attention, as well as that of your readers + (for good may come from both), to an article in the December No. of the + <i>Archæological Journal</i>, 1850, entitled "Notice of Documents + preserved in the Record Office at Malta;" an article which I feel sure + ought to be more publicly known, both for the sake of the reading world + at large, and the high character bestowed upon the present keeper of + those records, M. Luigi Vella, under whose charge they have been brought + to a minute course of investigation. There may be found here many things + worthy of elucidation; many secret treasures, whether for the + archæologist, bibliopole, or herald, that only require your widely + disseminated "brochure" to bring nearer to our own homes and our own + firesides. It is with this view that I venture to express a hope, that a + <i>précis</i> of that article may not be deemed irregular; which point, + of course, I must leave to your good judgment and good taste to decide, + being a very Tyro in archæology, and no book-worm (though I really love a + book), so I know nothing of <i>their</i> points of etiquette. At the same + time I must, in justice to Mr. A. Milward (the writer of the notice, and + to whom I have not the honour of being known), entreat his pardon for the + plagiarism, if such it can be called, having only the common + "reciprocation of ideas" at heart; and remain as ever an humble follower + under Captain Cuttle's standard.</p> + + <p class="author">One Corporal <span class="sc">Whip</span>. + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + +<p class="cenhead"><span class="sc">Précis</span> of <i>Documents preserved in Record Office, Malta</i>.</p> + + <p>Six volumes of Records, parchment, consisting of Charters from + Sovereigns and Princes, Grants of Land, and other documents connected + with the Order of St. John from its establishment by Pope Pascal II., + whose original bull is perfect.</p> + + <p>Two volumes of Papers connected with the Island of Malta before it + came into the possession of the Knights, from year 1397 to beginning of + sixteenth century.</p> + + <p>A book of Privileges of the Maltese, compiled about 200 years ago.</p> + + <p>Several volumes of original letters from men of note: among whom we + may mention, Viceroys of Sicily, Sovereigns of England. One from the + Pretender, dated 1725, from Rome; three from Charles II., and one from + his admiral, John Narbrough. Numerous Processes of Nobility, containing + much of value to many noble families; of these last, Mr. Vella has taken + the trouble of separating, all those referring to any English + families.</p> + + <p>Also a volume of fifteenth century, containing the accounts of the + commanderies. This is a continuation of an older and still more + interesting volume, which is now in the Public Library.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>For further particulars, see <i>Archælogical Journal</i>, December, + 1850, p. 369.</p> + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>ON AN ANCIENT MS. OF "BEDÆ HISTORIA +ECCLESIASTICA."</h3> + + <p>Some gentleman connected with the cathedral library of Lincoln may + possibly be able to give me some information respecting a MS. copy of the + <i>Historia Ecclesiastica</i> of Beda in my possession, and of which the + following circumstances are therein apparent:—It is plainly a MS. + of great antiquity, on paper, and in folio. On a fly-leaf it has an + inscription, apparently of contemporaneous date, and which is repeated in + a more modern hand on the next page with additions, as follows:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Hunc librum legavit Will<span class="over">m</span>s Dadyngton + qu<sup>o</sup>dam Vicarius de Barton sup humbre ecclie Lincoln ut + eēt sub custodia Vicecancellarii."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Then follows:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Scriptū p manus Nicōi Belytt Vicecancellarii + iiii<sup>to</sup> die mēsis Octob<sup>r</sup> Anno Dni + millesīmo qūicentessimo decimoquīto et Lrā + dñicalius G et Anno pp henrici octavi sexto."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In the hand of John, father of the more celebrated Ralph Thoresby, is + added:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Nunc e Libris Joħis Thoresby de Leedes emp. + Executor<sup>bus</sup> Tho. Dñi Fairfax, 1673."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Through what hands it may have passed since, I have no means of + knowing; but it came into mine from Mr. J. Wilson, 19. Great May's + Buildings, St. Martin's Lane, London, in whose Catalogue for December, + 1831, it appeared, and was purchased by me for 3<i>l.</i> 3<i>s.</i></p> + + <p>There it is conjectured to be of the twelfth century, and from the + character there is no reason to doubt that antiquity. It is on paper, and + has been ill-used. It proceeds no farther than into lib. v. c. xii., + otherwise, from the beginning complete. The different public libraries of + the country abound in MSS. of this book. It is probable <!-- Page 181 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page181"></a>{181}</span>that, under + the civil commotions in the reign of Charles I. the MS. in my possession + came into the hands of General Fairfax, and thence into those of John + Thoresby: so that no blame can possibly attach to the present, or even + some past, generations, of the curators of any library, whether cathedral + or private. It is, at all events, desirable to trace the pedigree of + existing MSS. of important works, where such information is + attainable.</p> + + <p>Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to inform me what + became of the library of Ralph Thoresby; for into his possession, there + can be little doubt, it came from his father.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Minor Notes.</h2> + + <p><i>The Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes.</i>—In the cabinet of + a lover of <i>Folk-lore</i> are two quaint and humble memorials by which + two "inglorious Miltons" have perpetuated their affection, each in + characteristic sort. The one was a potter; the other, probably, a + shepherd. The "pignus amoris" of the former is a small earthenware vessel + in the shape of a book, intended apparently to hold a "nosegay" of + flowers. The book has yellow clasps, and is authentically inscribed on + its sides, thus:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"The. Love. Is. True.</p> + <p>That. I. owe. You.</p> + <p>Then. se. you. Bee.</p> + <p>The. Like. To. Mee.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>(<i>On the other side.</i>)</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"The. Gift. Is. Small.</p> + <p>Good. will. Is. all.</p> + <p>Jeneuery. y<sup>e</sup> 12 day.</p> + <p class="i3">1688."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The shepherd's love gift is a wooden implement, very neatly carved, + and intended to hold knitting-needles. On the front it has this + couplet:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span class="scac">"WHEN THIS YOV SEE.</span></p> + <p><span class="scac">REMEMBER MEE. MW.</span></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2">(<i>On one side.</i>)</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"><span class="scac">MW.</span> 1673."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>To an uninformed mind these sincere records of honest men seem as much + "signs of the times" as the perfumed sonnets dropped by expiring swains + into the vases of "my lady Betty," and "my lady Bab," with a view to + publication.</p> + + <p class="author">H. G. T. + + <p><i>Writing-paper.</i>—I have long been subject to what, in my + case, I feel to be a serious annoyance. For the last twenty years I have + been unable to purchase any letter-paper which I can write upon with + comfort and satisfaction. At first, I was allowed to choose between plain + and hot-pressed; but now I find it impossible to meet with any, which is + not glazed or smeared over with some greasy coating, which renders it + very disagreeable for use with a common quill—and I cannot endure a + steel pen. My style of writing, which is a strong round Roman hand, is + only suited for a quill.</p> + + <p>Can any of your correspondents put me in the way of procuring the good + honest letter-paper which I want? I have in vain applied to the + stationers in every town within my reach. Would any of the paper-mills be + disposed to furnish me with a ream or two of the unglazed, plain, and + unhotpressed paper which I am anxious to obtain?</p> + + <p>Whilst I am on this subject, I will take occasion to lament the very + great inferiority of the paper generally which is employed in printing + books. It may have a fine, glossy, smooth appearance, but its texture is + so poor and flimsy, that it soon frays or breaks, without the greatest + care; and many an immortal work is committed to a miserably frail and + perishable material!</p> + + <p>A comparison of the books which were printed a century ago, with those + of the present day, will, I conceive, fully establish the complaint which + I venture to make; and I would particularly remark upon the large Bibles + and Prayer Books which are now printed at the Universities for the use of + our churches and chapels, which are exposed to much wear and tear, and + ought, therefore, to be of more substantial and enduring texture, but are + of so flimsy, brittle, and cottony a manufacture, that they require + renewing every three or four years.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">"Laudator temporis acti."</span> + + <p><i>Little Casterton (Rutland) Church.</i>—Within the communion + rails in the church of Little Casterton, Rutland, there lies in the + pavement (or did lately) a stone, hollowed out like the basin or drain of + a piscina, which some church-hunters have supposed to be a piscina, and + have noticed as a great singularity. The stone, however, did not + originally belong to this church; it was brought from the neighbouring + site of the desecrated church of Pickworth, by the late Reverend Richard + Twopeny, who held the rectory of Little Casterton upwards of sixty years; + he had long seen it lying neglected among the ruins, and at length + brought it to his own church to save it from destruction.</p> + + <p>It may be interesting to some of your readers to learn that in the + chancel of Little Casterton are monumental brasses of an armed male and a + female figure, the latter on the sinister side, with the following + inscription in black letter:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Hic jacet D<span class="over">n</span>s Thomas Burto<span + class="over">n</span> miles quondam dūs de Tolthorp ac ecclesiæ.... + patronus qui obiit kalendas Augusti.... d<span class="over">n</span>a + Margeria uxor ejus sinistris quor<a href="images/70_011.png"><img + src="images/70_011.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="um" + /></a>, aīabus ppicietur deus amen."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">R. C. H. + + <p><i>The Hippopotamus</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 35. 277.).—I can refer + your correspondent L. (Vol. ii, p. 35.) to one more example of a Greek + writer using the word <span title="hippopotamos" class="grk" + >ἱπποπόταμος</span>, + viz., the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous, lib. i. 56. (I quote from + the edition by A. T. Cory. Pickering, 1840): <!-- Page 182 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page182"></a>{182}</span></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span title="Adikon de kai achariston, hippopotamou onuchas duo, katô blepontas, graphousin" class="grk" + >Ἄδικον δὲ + καὶ + ἀχάριστον, + ἱπποποτάμου + ὄνυχας δύο, + κάτω + βλέποντας, + γράφουσιν</span>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>He there mentions the idea of the animal contending against his + father, &c.; and as he flourished in the beginning of the fifth + century, it is probable that he is the source from which Damascius took + the story.</p> + + <p>I have in my cabinet a large brass coin of the Empress Ptacilia + Severa, wife of Philip, on which is depicted the Hippopotamus, with the + legend <span class="scac">SAECVLARES. AVGG.</span>, showing it to have + been exhibited at the sæcular games.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. S. Taylor.</span> + + <p><i>Specimens of Foreign English.</i>—Several ludicrous examples + have of late been communicated (see Vol. ii., pp. 57. 138.), but none, + perhaps, comparable with the following, which I copied about two years + since at Havre, from a Polyglot advertisement of various Local + Regulations, for the convenience of persons visiting that favourite + watering-place. Amongst these it was stated that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p><i>"Un arrangement peut se faire avec le pilote, pour de promenades à + rames."</i></p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Of this the following most literal version was enounced,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"One arrangement can make himself with the pilot for the walking with + <i>roars</i>" (sic).</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Albert Way.</span> + + <p><i>St. Clare.</i>—In the interesting and amusing volume of + <i>Rambles beyond Railways</i>, M. W. Wilkie Collins has attributed the + church of St. Cleer in Cornwall, with its Well and ruined Oratory, to St. + Clare, the heroic Virgin of Assisi; but in the elegant and useful + <i>Calendar of the Anglican Church</i>, the same church is ascribed to + St. Clair, the Martyr of Rouen. My own impression is, that the latter is + correct; but I note the circumstance, that some of your readers better + informed than myself, may be enabled to answer the Query, which is the + right ascription? When Mr. Collins alluded to the fate of Bishop Hippo, + devoured by rats, I presume he means Bishop Hatto, commemorated in the + "Legends of the Rhine."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Beriah Botfield.</span> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Norton Hall, Feb. 14. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Dr. Dodd.</i>—On the 13th February, 1775, Dr. Dodd was + inducted to the vicarage of Wing, Bucks, on the presentation of the Earl + of Chesterfield. On the 8th February, 1777, he was arrested for forging + the Earl's bond. Dr. Dodd never resided at Wing; but, during the short + period he held the living, he preached there four times. The tradition of + the parish is, that on those occasions he preached from the following + texts; all of them remarkable, and the second and fourth especially so + with reference to the subsequent fate of the unhappy man, whose feelings + they may reasonably be supposed to embody.</p> + + <p>The texts are as follows:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>1 <i>Corinthians</i> xvi. 22. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus + Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha."</p> + + <p><i>Micah</i> vii. 8. "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I + fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light + unto me."</p> + + <p><i>Psalm</i> cxxxix. 1, 2. "O Lord, thou hast searched me and known + me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest + my thought afar off."</p> + + <p><i>Deuteronomy</i> xxviii. 65, 66, 67. "And among these nations thou + shalt find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but the + Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and + sorrow of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou + shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In + the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou + shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart + wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou + shalt see."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">Q. D. + + <p><i>Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic</i> (Vol. iii. p. + 169.).—An instance occurs in a MS. in this college (L. 10. p. 60.) + circa temp. Hen. VIII., of the arms of "Doctor Willm. Haryngton, + prothonotaire apostolik," ensigned with a black hat, having three tassels + pendant on each side: these appendages, however, are somewhat different + to those attached to the Cardinal's hat, the cords or strings not being + <i>fretty</i>. I have seen somewhere a series of arms having the same + insignia; but, at present, I cannot say where.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos Wm. King, York Herald.</span> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>College of Arms, Feb. 17. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Baron Munchausen's Frozen Horn.</i>—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Till the Holy Ghost came to thaw their memories, that the words of + Christ, like the voice in Plutarch that had become frozen, might at + length become audible."—Hammond's <i>Sermons</i>, xvii.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>These were first published in 1648.</p> + + <p class="author">E. H. + + <p><i>Contracted Names of Places.</i>—Kirton for Crediton, Devon; + Wilscombe for Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire; Brighton for Brighthelmstone, + Sussex; Pomfret for Pontefract, Yorkshire; Gloster for Gloucester.</p> + + <p class="author">J. W. H. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + +<h3>BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(<i>Continued from</i> Vol. iii., p. 139.)</p> + + <p>(43.) Is there any valid reason for not dating the publication of some + of Gerson's treatises at Cologne earlier than the year 1470? and if good + cause cannot be shown for withholding from them so high a rank in the + scale of typographic being, must we not instantly reject every effort to + extenuate Marchand's obtuseness in asserting with reference to Ulric + Zell, "On ne voit des éditions de ce Zell qu'en 1494?" (<i>Hist. de + l'Imp.</i>, p. 56.) <!-- Page 183 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page183"></a>{183}</span>Schelhorn's opinion as to the birthright + of these tracts is sufficient to awaken an interest concerning them, for + he conceived that they should be classed among the earliest works + executed with cut moveable characters. (<i>Diat. ad Card. Quirini + lib.</i>, p. 25. Cf. Seemiller, i. 105.) So far as I can judge, an + adequate measure of seniority has not been generally assigned to these + Zellian specimens of printing, if it be granted "Coloniam Agrippinam post + Moguntinenses primùm recepisse artem." (Meerman, ii. 106.) This writer's + representation, in his ninth plate, of the type used in 1467, supplies us + with ground for a complete conviction that these undated Gersonian + manuals are at least as old as the <i>Augustinus de singularitate + clericorum</i>. But why are they not older? Is there any document which + has a stronger conjectural claim? Van de Velde's <i>Catalogue</i>, tome + i. Gand, 1831, contains notices of some of them; and one volume before me + has the first initial letter principally in blue and gold, the rest in + red, and all elaborated with a pen. The most unevenly printed, and + therefore, I suppose, the primitial gem, is the <i>Tractatus de + mendicitate spirituali</i>, in which not only rubiform capitals, but + whole words, have been inserted by a chirographer. It is, says Van de + Velde, (the former possessor,) on the fly-leaf, "sans chiffres et + réclames, en longues lignes de 27 lignes sur les pages entières." The + full stop employed is a sort of twofold, recumbent, circumflex or caret; + and the most eminent watermark in the paper is a Unicorn, bearing a much + more suitable antelopian weapon than is that awkwardly horizontal horn + prefixed by Dr. Dibdin to the Oryx in profile which he has depicted in + plate vi. appertaining to his life of Caxton: <i>Typographical + Antiquities</i>, vol. i.</p> + + <p>(44.) Wherein do the ordinary <i>Hymni et Sequentiæ</i> differ from + those according to the use of Sarum? Whose is the oldest <i>Expositio</i> + commonly attached to both? and respecting it did Badius, in 1502, + accomplish much beyond a revision and an amendment of the style? Was not + Pynson, in 1497, the printer of the folio edition of the Hymns and + Sequences entered in Mr. Dickinson's valuable <i>List of English + Service-Books</i>, p. 8.; or is there inaccuracy in the succeeding line? + Lastly, was the titular woodcut in Julian Notary's impression, <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 1504 (Dibdin, ii. 580.), derived from the + decoration of the <i>Hymnarius</i>, and the <i>Textus Sequentiarum cum + optimo commento</i>, set forth at Delft by Christian Snellaert, in 1496? + From the first page of the latter we receive the following accession to + our philological knowledge:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Diabolus dicitur a <i>dia</i>, quod est duo, et <i>bolos</i> morsus; + quasi dupliciter mordens; quia lædit hominem in corpore et anima."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>(45.) (1.) In what edition of the Salisbury Missal did the amusing + errors in the "Ordo Sponsalium" first occur; and how long were they + continued? I allude to the husband's obligation, "to haue and to holde + fro thys day <i>wafor beter</i> for wurs," &c., and to the wife's + prudential promise, "to haue et to holde <i>for thys day</i>." (2.) Are + there any vellum leaves in any copy in England of the folio impression + very beautifully printed <i>en rouge et noir</i> "in alma Parisiorum + academia," die x. Kal. April, 1510?</p> + + <p>(46.) On the 11th of last month (Jan.) somebody advertised in "<span + class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" for <i>Foxes and Firebrands</i>. In + these days of trouble and rebuke, when (if we may judge from a recent + article savouring of Neal's second volume) it seems to be expected that + English gentlemen will, in a Magazine that bears their name, be pleased + with a réchauffé of democratic obloquy upon the character of the great + reformer of their church, and will look with favour upon <i>Canterburies + Doome</i>, would it not be desirable that Robert Ware's (and Nalson's) + curious and important work should be republished? If a reprint of it were + to be undertaken, I would direct attention to a copy in my possession of + "The Third and Last Part," Lond. 1689, which has many alterations marked + in MS. for a new edition, and which exhibits the autograph of Henry + Ware.</p> + + <p>(47.) Was <span class="sc">Cohausen</span> the composer of "Clericus + Deperrucatus; sive, in fictitiis Clericorum Comis moderni seculi ostensa + et explosa Vanitas: Cum Figuris: Autore <span class="sc">Annœo + Rhisenno Vecchio</span>, Doctore Romano-Catholico," printed at Amsterdam, + and inscribed to Pope Benedict XIII.? One of the well-finished + copperplates, page 12., represents "<i>Monsieur l'Abbé prenant du + Tabac</i>."</p> + + <p>(48.) Where can a copy of the earliest edition of the <i>Testamentum + XII. Patriarcharum</i> be found? for if one had been easily obtainable, + Grabe, Cave, Oudin, and Wharton (<i>Ang. Sac.</i> ii. 345.) would not + have treated the third impression as the first; and let it be noted by + the way that "Clerico <i>Elichero</i>" in Wharton must be a mistake for + "Clerico <i>Nicolao</i>." Moreover, how did the excellent Fabricius + (<i>Bibl. med. et inf. Latin.</i>, and also <i>Cod. Pseudepig. V. T.</i>, + i. 758.) happen to connect Menradus Moltherus with the <i>editio + princeps</i> of 1483? It is certain that this writer's letter to + Secerius, accompanying a transcript of Bishop Grossetête's version, which + immediately came forth at Haguenau, was concluded "postridie Non. Januar. + <span class="scac">M.D.XXXII.</span>"</p> + + <p>(49.) (1.) Who was the bibliopolist with whom originated the + pernicious scheme of adapting newly printed title-pages to books which + had had a previous existence? Sometimes the deception may be discerned + even at a glance: for example, without the loss of many seconds, and by + the aspect of a single letter, (the long s,) we can perceive the + falsehood of the imprint, "Parisiis, apud Paul Mellier, 1842," together + with "S.-Clodoaldi, è typographeo Belin-Mandar," grafted upon tome i. + <!-- Page 184 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page184"></a>{184}</span>of the Benedictine edition of S. Gregory + Nazianzen's works, which had been actually issued in 1778. Very + frequently, however, the comparison of professedly different impressions + requires, before they can be safely pronounced to be identical, the + protracted scrutiny of a practised eye. An inattentive observer could not + be conscious that the works of Sir James Ware, translated and improved by + Harris, and apparently the progeny of the year 1764, (the only edition, + and that but a spurious one, recorded in Watt's <i>Bibliotheca + Britannica</i>,) have been skilfully tampered with, and should be justly + restored—the first volume to 1739, the second to 1745.</p> + + <p>(2.) We must admit that a bookseller gifted with mature sapience will + very rarely, or never, be such an amateur in expensive methods of + bamboozling, as to prefer having recourse to the title-page expedient, if + he could flatter himself that his purpose would be likely to be effected + simply by <i>doctoring the date</i>; and thus a question springs up, akin + to the former one, How great is the antiquity of this timeserving device? + At this moment, trusting only to memory, I am not able to adduce an + instance of the depravation anterior to the year 1606, when Dr. James's + <i>Bellum Papale</i> was put forth in London as a new book, though in + reality there was no novelty connected with it, except that the last 0 in + 1600 (the authentic date) had been compelled by penmanship to cease to be + a dead letter, and to germinate into a 6.</p> + + <p>(3.) If neither the judicious naturalisation of a title-page, nor the + dexterous corruption of the year in which a work was honestly produced, + should avail to eliminate "the stock in hand," <i>res ad Triarios + rediit</i>—there is but one contrivance left. This is, to give to + the ill-fated hoard <i>another name</i>; in the hope that a proverb + properly belonging to a rose may be superabundantly verified in the case + of an old book. What Anglo-Saxon scholar has not studied "<i>Divers + Ancient Monuments</i>," revived in 1638? and yet perhaps scarcely any one + is aware that the appellation is entirely deceptive, and that no such + collection was printed at that period. The inestimable remains of Ælfric, + edited by L'Isle in 1623, and then entitled, "<i>A Saxon Treatise + concerning the Old and New Testament</i>," together with a reprint of the + "<i>Testimonie of Antiquitie</i>," (sanctioned by Archbishop Parker in + 1567,) had merely submitted to substitutes for the first two leaves with + which they had been ushered into the world, and after fifteen years the + unsuspecting public were beguiled. When was this system of misnomers + introduced? and can a more signal specimen of this kind of shamelessness + be mentioned than that which is afforded by the fate of Thorndike's <i>De + ratione ac jure finiendi Controversias Ecclesiæ Disputatio</i>? So this + small folio in fours was designated when it was published, Lond. 1670; + but in 1674 it became <i>Origines</i> <i>Ecclesiasticæ</i>; and it was + metamorphosed into <i>Restauratio Ecclesiæ</i> in 1677.</p> + + <p>(50.) Dr. Dibdin (<i>Typ. Antiq.</i> iii. 350.) has thus spoken of a + quarto treatise, <i>De autoritate, officio, et potestate Pastorum + ecclesiasticorum</i>:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"This very scarce book is anonymous, and has neither date, printer's + name, nor place; but being bound up with two other tracts of Berthelet's + printing <i>are my reasons</i> for giving it a place here."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The argument and the language in this sentence are pretty nearly on a + par; for as misery makes men acquainted with dissimilar companions, why + may not parsimony conglutinate heterogeneous compositions? I venture to + deny altogether that the engraved border on the title-page was executed + by an English artist. It seems rather to be an original imitation of + Holbein's design: and as regards the date, can we not perceive what was + meant for a modest "1530" on a standard borne by one of the boys in + procession? In Simler's Gesnerian <i>Bibliotheca</i> <span + class="sc">Simon Hess</span> (let me reiterate the question, Who was he?) + is registered as the author; and of his work we read, "Liber impressus in + Germania." This observation will determine its locality to a certain + extent; and the tractate may be instantly distinguished from all others + on the same subject by the presence of the following alliterative + frontispiece:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Primus Papa, potens Pastor, pietate paterna,</p> + <p>Petrus, perfectam plebem pascendo paravit.</p> + <p>Posthabito plures populo, privata petentes,</p> + <p>Pinguia Pontifices, perdunt proh pascua plebis."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">R. G. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>ENIGMATICAL EPITAPH.</h3> + + <p>In the church of Middleton Tyas, in the North Riding of the county, + there is the following extraordinary inscription on the monument of a + learned incumbent of that parish:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"This Monument rescues from oblivion the Remains of the Rev. John + Mawer, D.D., late Vicar of this Parish, who died Nov. 18th, 1763, aged + 60. The doctor was descended from the royal family of Mawer, and was + inferior to none of his illustrious ancestors in personal merit, being + the greatest linguist this nation ever produced. He was able to write and + speak twenty-two languages, and particularly excelled in the Eastern + tongues, in which he proposed to his Royal Highness Frederick Prince of + Wales, to whom he was firmly attached, to propagate the Christian + religion in the Abyssinian empire,—a great and noble design, which + was frustrated by the death of that amiable prince."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Whitaker, after giving the epitaph verbatim in his <i>History of + Richmondshire</i>, vol. i. p. 234., says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"This extraordinary personage, who may seem to have been qualified for + the office of universal interpreter to all the nations upon earth, + appears, <!-- Page 185 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page185"></a>{185}</span>notwithstanding, to have been unaware that + the Christian religion, in however degraded a form, has long been + professed in Abyssinia. With respect to the royal line of Mawer I was + long distressed, till, by great good fortune, I discovered that it was no + other than that of old King Coyl."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>As I happen to feel an interest in the subject which disinclines me to + rest satisfied with the foregoing hasty—not to say flippant + explanation of the learned historian, I am anxious to inquire whether or + not any reader of the "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" can + throw light on the history, and especially the genealogy, of this worthy + and amiable divine? While I have reason to believe that Dr. Mawer was + about the last person in the world to have composed the foregoing eulogy + on his own character, I cannot believe that the allusion to illustrious + ancestors "is merely a joke," as Whitaker seems to imply; while it is + quite certain that there is nothing in the inscription to justify the + inference that the deceased had been "unaware that the Christian + religion" had "long been professed in Abyssinia:" indeed, an inference + quite the reverse would be quite as legitimate.</p> + + <p class="author">J. H. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Rotherfield, Feb. 23. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE'S "MERCHANT OF VENICE"</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Act IV. Sc. 1.).</p> + + <p>In the lines—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"The quality of Mercy is not strained,</p> + <p>It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven,</p> + <p>Upon the place beneath."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>What is the meaning of the word "strained?" The verb <i>to strain</i> + is susceptible of two essentially different interpretations; and the + question is as to which of the two is here intended? On referring to + Johnson's Dictionary, we find, amongst other synonymous terms, <i>To + squeeze through something; to purify by filtration; to weaken by too much + violence; to push to its utmost strength</i>. Now, if we substitute + either of the two latter meanings, we shall have an assertion that "Mercy + is not weakened by too much violence (or put to its utmost strength), but + droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven," &c., where it would + require a most discerning editor to explain the connexion between the two + clauses. If, on the other hand, we take the first two meanings, the + passage is capable of being understood, if nothing else. Beginning with + <i>to squeeze through something</i>; what would present itself to our + ideas would be, that "Mercy does not fall in one continuous stream (as + would be the case, if <i>strained</i>) on one particular portion of the + earth, but expands into a large and universal shower, so as to spread its + influence over the entire globe." This, however, though not absurd, is, I + fear, rather forced.</p> + + <p>To come to the second explanation of <i>to purify</i>, which in my + opinion is the most apt, I take it that Shakspeare intended to say, that + "Mercy is so pure and undefiled as to require no cleansing, but falls as + gently and unsullied as the showers from heaven, ere soiled by the + impurities of earth."</p> + + <p>With these few remarks, I shall leave the matter in the hands of those + whose researches into the English language may have been deeper than my + own, with a hope that they may possess time and inclination to promote + the elucidation of a difficulty in one of the most beautiful passages of + our great national bard; a difficulty, by the way, which seems to have + escaped the notice of all the editors and commentators.</p> + + <p class="author">L. S. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Was Lord Howard of Effingham, who commanded in chief against the + Spanish Armada, a Protestant or a Papist?</i>—On the one hand, it + is highly improbable that Queen Elizabeth should employ a popish + commander against the Spaniards.</p> + + <p>1. The silence of Dr. Lingard and other historians is also negatively + in favour of his being a Protestant.</p> + + <p>But, on the other hand, it has been repeatedly asserted, in both + houses of Parliament, that he was a Papist.</p> + + <p>2. It is <i>likely</i>, because his <i>father</i> was the eldest son + by his second wife of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, and was created + Baron Howard of Effingham by Queen Mary.</p> + + <p>3. Whatever his own religion may have been, he was contemporary with + his cousin, Philip, Earl of Arundel, whom Camden calls the champion of + the Catholics, and whose <i>violence</i> was the cause of his perpetual + imprisonment.</p> + + <p>4. The present Lord Effingham has recently declared that by blood he + was (had always been?) connected with the Roman Catholics.</p> + + <p>Under these and <i>other</i> circumstances, it is a question to be + settled by <i>evidence</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">C. H. P. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Brighton.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Lord Bexley—how descended from Cromwell?</i>—In the + notice of the late Lord Bexley in <i>The Times</i>, it is stated that he + was <i>maternally</i> descended from Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, + through the family of Cromwell's son-in-law, Ireton.</p> + + <p>Burke, in his <i>Peerage</i>, mentions that Henry Vansittart, father + of Lord Bexley, was governor of Bengal (circa 1770), and that he married + Amelia Morse, daughter of Nicolas Morse, governor of Madras.</p> + + <p>It would therefore appear that this said Nicolas Morse was a + descendant of General Ireton. I wish to ascertain if this assumption be + correct; and, if correct, when and how the families of Morse and Ireton + became connected? If any of your correspondents can furnish information + on this <!-- Page 186 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page186"></a>{186}</span>subject, or acquaint me where I can find + any account or pedigree of the Morse family, I shall feel much indebted + to them.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Pursuivant.</span> + + <p><i>Earl of Shaftesbury.</i>—I have read with great interest Lord + Shaftesbury's letter to Le Clerc, published in No. 67. May I ask your + correspondents <span class="sc">Janus Dousa</span> and Professor des + Amories <span class="sc">Van der Hoven</span>, whether the Remonstrants' + library of Amsterdam contains any papers relating to the first Earl of + Shaftesbury, which might have been sent by the third Earl to Le Clerc; + and whether any notices or traditions remain in Amsterdam of the first + Lord Shaftesbury's residence and death in that city? Any information + relative to the first Earl of Shaftesbury will greatly oblige.</p> + + <p class="author">CH. + + <p><i>Family of Peyton.</i>—Admiral Joseph Peyton [Post-Captain, + December 2, 1757—Admiral, 1787—ob. 1804] was Admiral's First + Captain in the fleet under Darby, at the relief of Gibraltar, 1781. He + was son of Commodore Edward Peyton [Post-Captain, April 4, 1740], who is + supposed to have gone over from England, and settled in America, and + there to have died. I should be very glad of further particulars of these + persons. Are my dates correct? How is this branch of the family (lately + represented by John Joseph Peyton, Esq., of Wakehurst, who married a + daughter of Sir East Clayton East, Bart., and died in 1844, leaving four + children minors) connected with the Baronets Peyton, of Iselham, or + Dodington? Who was the father of the above Commodore? It may aid the + inquiry to mention that this branch is related to the Grenfell family: + William Peyton, second son of the above Admiral Joseph, having married a + first cousin of Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., M.P. for Great Marlow (who died in + 1833).</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ache.</span> + + <p>"<i>La Rose nait en un Moment.</i>"—I wish to learn the name of + the author of the following verses, and where they are to be found. Any + of your correspondents who can inform me shall receive my sincere + thanks:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"La Rose nait en un moment,</p> + <p>En un moment elle est flêtrie;</p> + <p>Mais ce que pour vous mon cœur sent,</p> + <p>Ne finira qu'avec ma vie."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">T. H. K. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Malew, Man.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>John Collard the Logician.</i>—Could any of your + correspondents tell me where I could find any account of <i>John + Collard</i>, who wrote three treatises on Logic:—The first, under + the name of <i>N. Dralloc</i> (his name reversed), <i>Epitome of + Logic</i>, Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1795; in his own name, + <i>Essentials of Logic</i>, Johnson, 1796; and in 1799, the <i>Praxis of + Logic</i>. He is mentioned as <i>Dralloc</i> by Whately and Kirwan; but + nobody seems to have known him as <i>Collard</i> but Levi Hedge, the + American writer on that subject. I made inquiry, some forty years ago, + and was informed that he lived at Birmingham, was a chairmaker by + profession, and devoted much of his time to chemistry; that he was known + to and esteemed by Dr. Parr; and that he was then dead.</p> + + <p>At the close of his preface to his <i>Praxis</i> he says,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"And let me inform the reader also, that this work was not composed in + the pleasant tranquillity of retirement, but under such untoward + circumstances, that the mind was subject to continual interruptions and + vexatious distraction."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Then he adds,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I have but little doubt but this <i>Praxis</i> will, at some future + period, find its way into the schools; and though critics should at + present condemn what they have either no patience or inclination to + examine, I feel myself happy in contemplating, that after I am mouldered + to dust, it may assist our reason in this most essential part."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">B. G. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Feb. 20. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Traherne's Sheriffs of Glamorgan.</i>—Could any of your + readers tell me where I might see a copy of <i>A List of the Sheriffs of + County Glamorgan</i>, printed (privately?) by Rev. J. M. Traherne? I have + searched the libraries of the British Museum, the Athenæum Club, and the + Bodleian at Oxford, in vain.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edmond W.</span> + + <p><i>Haybands in Seals.</i>—I have, in a small collection of + Sussex deeds, two which present the following peculiarity: they have the + usual slip of parchment and lump of wax pendant from the lower edge, but + the wax, instead of bearing an armorial figure, a merchant's mark, or any + other of the numerous devices formerly employed in the authentication of + deeds instead of one's chirograph, has neatly inserted into it a small + wreath composed of two or three stalks of grass (or rather hay) carefully + plaited, and forming a circle somewhat less in diameter than a shilling. + The deeds, which were executed in the time of Henry the Seventh, relate + to the transfer of small landed properties. I have no doubt that this + diminutive <i>hayband</i> was the distinctive mark of a grazier or + husbandman who did not consider his social status sufficient to warrant + the use of a more regular device by way of seal. I have seen a few others + connected with the same county, and, if I recollect rightly, of a + somewhat earlier date. I shall be glad to ascertain whether this curious + practice was in use in other parts of England.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">M. A. Lower.</span> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Lewes.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post-office.</i>—Polwhele, in + his <i>History of Cornwall</i>, says, p. 139.:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"To our countryman Edmund Prideaux we owe the regular establishment of + the Post-office."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 187 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page187"></a>{187}</span></p> + + <p>He says again, p. 144.:</p> + + <p>"Edmund Prideaux, Attorney-General to Oliver Cromwell, and + <i>Inventor</i> of the Post-office."</p> + + <p>Now the Edmund spoken of as Attorney-General, was of Ford Abbey, in + Devonshire, and second son of Sir Edmund Prideaux, of Netherton, in the + said county, therefore could not be one of the Cornish branch.</p> + + <p>Query No. 1. Who was the Edmund Prideaux, his countryman, that + regularly established the Post-office?</p> + + <p>Query No. 2. How were letters circulated before his time?</p> + + <p>Query No. 3. Was Edmund Prideaux the Attorney-General, the inventor of + the Post-office, as he states; if not, who was?</p> + + <p>Query No. 4. Has any life of Edmund Prideaux as Attorney-General been + published, or is any account of him to be found in any work?</p> + + <p class="author">G. P. P. + + <p><i>William Tell Legend.</i>—Could any of your readers tell me + the true origin of the William Tell apple story? I find the same story + told of—</p> + + <p>(1.) Egil, the father of the famous smith Wayland, who was instructed + in the art of forging metals by two dwarfs of the mountain of Kallova. + (Depping, <i>Mém. de la Société des Antiquaires de France</i>, tom. v. + pp. 223. 229.)</p> + + <p>(2.) Saxo Grammaticus, who wrote nearly a century before Tell, tells + nearly the same story of one Toko, who killed Harold.</p> + + <p>(3.) "There was a souldier called Pumher, who, daily through + witchcraft, killed three of his enemies. This was he who shot at a pennie + on his son's head, and made ready another arrow to have slain the Duke + Remgrave (? Rheingraf), who commanded it." (Reginald Scot, 1584.)</p> + + <p>(4.) And Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudeslie.</p> + + <p class="author">G. H. R. + + <p><i>Arms of Cottons buried in Landwade Church, &c.</i> (Vol. iii., + p. 39.).—Will <span class="sc">Jonathan Oldbuck, Jun.</span>, + oblige me by describing the family coat-armour borne by the Cottons + mentioned in his Note? It may facilitate his inquiry, in which, by the + way, I am much interested.</p> + + <p class="author">R. W. C. + + <p><i>Sir George Buc's Treatise on the Stage.</i>—What has become + of this MS.? Sir George Buc mentions it in <i>The Third University of + England</i>, appended to Stowe's <i>Annals</i>, ed. 1631, p. + 1082.—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Of this art [the dramatic] have written largely <i>Petrus + Victorius</i>, &c.—as it were in vaine for me to say anything + of the art; besides, that <i>I have written thereof a particular + treatise</i>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>If this manuscript could be discovered, it would doubtless throw + considerable light upon the Elizabethan drama.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault.</span> + + <p><i>A Cracowe Pike</i> (Vol. iii., p. 118.).—Since I sent you the + Query respecting a <i>Cracowe Pike</i>, I have found that I was wrong in + supposing it to be a weapon or spear: for <i>Cracowe Pikes</i> was the + name given to the preposterous "piked shoes," which were fashionable in + the reign of Richard II., and which were so long in the toes that it was + necessary to tie them with chains to the knee, in order to render it + possible for the wearer to walk. Stowe, in his <i>Chronicle</i>, tells us + that this extravagant fashion was brought in by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of + Richard II. But why were they called <i>Cracowe</i> pikes?</p> + + <p class="author">I. H. T. + + <p><i>St. Thomas of Trunnions.</i>—Who was this saint, and why is + he frequently mentioned in connexion with onions?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Nay softe, my maisters, by <i>Saincte Thomas of Trunions</i>,</p> + <p>I am not disposed to buy of your <i>onions</i>."</p> + <p class="i8"><i>Apius and Virginia</i>, 1575.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"And you that delight in trulls and minions,</p> + <p>Come buy my four ropes of hard <i>S. Thomas's onions</i>."</p> + <p class="i8"><i>The Hog hath lost his Pearl</i>, 1614.</p> + </div> + </div> +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Buy my rope of onions—white <i>St. Thomas's onions</i>," was + one of the cries of London in the seventeenth century.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault.</span> + + <p><i>Paper-mill near Stevenage</i> (Vol. ii., p. 473.).—In your + number for December 14, 1850, one of your correspondents, referring to + Bartholomeus <i>de Prop. Rerum</i>, mentions a paper-mill near Stevenage, + in the county of Hertford, as being probably the earliest, or one of the + earliest, established in England. I should feel much obliged if your + correspondent, through the medium of your pages, would favour me with any + further particulars on this subject; especially as to the site of this + mill, there being no stream within some miles of Stevenage capable of + turning a mill. I have been unable to find any account of this mill in + either of the county histories.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Hertfordiensis.</span> + + <p><i>Mounds, Munts, Mounts.</i>—In the parish register of + Maresfield in Sussex, there is an entry recording the surrender of a + house and three acres of land, called the "Mounds," in 1574, to the use + of the parish; and in the churchwardens' accounts at Rye, about the same + time, it is stated that the church of Rye was entitled to a rent from + certain lands called "Mounts." In Jevington, too, there are lands + belonging to the Earl of Liverpool called Munts or Mounts, but whether at + any time belonging to the church, I am unable to say. Any information as + to the meaning of the word, or account of its occurring elsewhere, will + much oblige</p> + + <p class="author">R. W. B. + + <p><i>Church Chests.</i>—A representation of two knights engaged in + combat is sometimes found on ancient church chests. Can any one explain + the meaning of it? Examples occur at Harty Chapel, Kent, and Burgate, + Suffolk. The former is mentioned in the <i>Glossary of Architecture</i>, + and described as a carving: the latter is painted only, <!-- Page 188 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page188"></a>{188}</span>and one of the + knights is effaced: the other is apparently being unhorsed; he wears a + jupon embroidered in red, and the camail, &c., of the time of Richard + II.: a small shield is held in his left hand: his horse stoops its head, + apparently to water, through which it is slowly pacing. Is this a subject + from the legend of some saint, or from one of the popular romances of the + middle ages? Are any other examples known?</p> + + <p class="author">C. R. M. + + <p><i>The Cross-bill.</i>—Is "The Legend of the Cross-bill," + translated from Julius Mosen by Longfellow, a genuine early tradition, or + only a fiction of the poet?</p> + + <p>2. Is the Cross-bill considered in any country as a sacred bird? and + was it ever so used in architectural decoration, illumination, or any + other works of sacred art?</p> + + <p>3. What is the earliest record on evidence of the Cross-bill being + known in England?</p> + + <p class="author">H. G. T. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Launceston.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Iovanni Volpe.</i>—Can any of your readers supply a notice of + <span class="sc">Iovanni Volpe</span>, mentioned in a MS. nearly + cotemporary to have been</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"An Italian doctor, famous in Queen Elizabeth's time, who went with + George Earl of Cumberland most of his sea voyages, and was with him at + the taking of Portorico?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Another MS., apparently of the date of James I., describes him as + "physician to Queen Elizabeth."</p> + + <p>He had a daughter, Frances, widow of Richard Evers, Esq. ("of the + family of Evers of Coventry"), who married, 2d November, 1601, Richard + Hughes, Esq., then a younger son, but eventually representative, of the + ancient house of Gwerclas and Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, in Merionethshire, and + died 29th June, 1636.</p> + + <p class="author">M. N. O. + + <p><i>Auriga.</i>—How comes the Latin word <span + class="sc">Auriga</span> to mean "a charioteer?"</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Varro.</span> + + <p><i>To speak in Lutestring.</i>—1. Philo-Junius—that is, + Junius himself—in the 47th Letter, writes:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I was led to trouble you with these observations by a passage which, + <i>to speak in lutestring</i>, I met with this morning, in the course of + my reading."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Had the expression in Italics been used before by any one?</p> + + <p>2. In the 56th Letter, addressed to the Duke of Grafton, Junius + asks:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Is the union of <i>Blifil</i> and <i>Black George</i> no longer a + romance?"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>What part of that story is here referred to?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Varro.</span> + + <p>"<i>Lavora, come se tu," &c.</i>—In Bohn's edition of Jeremy + Taylor's <i>Holy Living and Dying</i>, I observe in the notes several + Italian sentences, mostly couplets or proverbs. One peculiarly struck me: + and I should feel obliged if any of your readers could tell me whence it + was taken, name of author, &c. The couplet runs thus (Vide p. 182. of + the work):—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Lavora, come se tu avessi a camper ogni hora:</p> + <p>Adora, come se tu avessi a morir allora."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Indeed it would not be amiss, if <i>all</i> the notes were marked with + authors' names or other reference, as I find some few of the Latin + quotations as well as the Greek, and <i>all</i> the Italian ones, require + a godfather.</p> + + <p class="author">W. H. P. + + <p><i>Tomb of Chaucer.</i>—Are any of the existing English families + descended from the poet Chaucer? If so, might they not fairly be applied + to for a contribution to the proposed restoration of his tomb? His son + Thomas Chaucer left an heiress, married to De la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; + but I have not the means of ascertaining whether any of their posterity + are extant.</p> + + <p class="author">C. R. M. + + <p><i>Family of Clench.</i>—Can any of your readers supply me with + the parentage and family of <i>Bruin Clench</i> of St. Martin's in the + Fields, citizen of London? He married Catharine, daughter of William + Hippesley, Esq., of Throughley, in Edburton, co. Sussex; and was living + in 1686. His christian name does not appear in the pedigrees of the + Clinche or Clench family of Bealings and Holbrook, co. Suffolk, in the + <i>Heralds' Visitations</i>, in the British Museum. His daughter married + Roger Donne, Esq., of Ludham, co. Norfolk, and was the maternal + grandmother of the poet Cowper.</p> + + <p class="author">C. R. M. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>CRANMER'S DESCENDANTS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 8.)</p> + + <p>Your correspondent may be interested to know, that Sir Anthony + Chester, Bart., of Chichley, co. Bucks, married, May 21, 1657, Mary, dau. + of Samuel Cranmer, Esq., alderman of London, and sister to Sir Cæsar + Cranmer, Kt., of Ashwell, Bucks. This Samuel Cranmer was traditionally + the last male heir of the eldest of Cranmer's sons; his descent is, I + believe, stated in general terms in the epitaphs of Lady Chester, at + Chichley, and Sir Cæsar Cranmer, at Ashwell. He was a great London brewer + by trade, and married his cousin Mary (sister of Thomas Wood, Bishop of + Coventry and Lichfield, and Sir Henry Wood, Bart., of the Board of Green + Cloth), dau. of Thomas Wood, Esq., of Hackney, by his wife —— + Cranmer. They had only two children, and it would appear from Harleian + MS. No. 1476. fo. 419., which omits all mention of Sir Cæsar, that he + died in his father's lifetime, and that Lady Chester was sole heiress to + this branch of the Cranmers.</p> + + <p>There are two brief pedigrees I have seen of these Cranmers, one in + Harl. MS. 1476. above <!-- Page 189 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page189"></a>{189}</span>mentioned, the other in Philipot's + <i>Catalogue of Knights</i>; but neither of them goes so far as to + connect them with the archbishop, or even with the Nottinghamshire + family; for they both begin with Samuel Cranmer's grandfather, who is + described of Alcester, co. Warwick. Now the connexion is certain: could + one of your readers supply me with the wanting links? Is it possible that + they omit all mention of the archbishop on account of the prejudice + mentioned by your correspondent; being able to supply the three + generations necessary to gentility without him?</p> + + <p>I am obliged to write without any books of reference, or I would have + consulted the epitaphs in question again.</p> + + <p class="author">R. E. W. + + <p>I am afraid that my quotations from memory, in my letter of Saturday, + were <i>not exactly correct</i>; for on examining Lipscomb's + <i>Buckinghamshire</i> to-day, I find that it is stated (vol. iv. pp. + 4-7.) on the monument of Samuel Cranmer at <i>Astwood Bury</i>, that he + was "descended in a direct line from Richard Cranmer, elder brother to + Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury;" and that it was found, on an + inquisition held on April 7, 1640, that his son and heir Cæsar Cranmer + (called on the monument "Sir Cæsar Wood At<sup>e</sup> Cranmer, Kt.") was + his heir at six years of age. This Cæsar was knighted by Charles II., and + died unmarried; so that his sister, Lady Chester, was evidently the + representative of this branch of the Cranmer family.</p> + + <p>Now, with regard to this statement on the monument, in the first place + it is discrepant with Lady Chester's epitaph at Chichley, which + (Lipscomb's <i>Bucks</i>, vol. iv. p. 97.) expressly declares that she + derived her descent from the archbishop. In the next place it appears + from Thoroton's <i>Notts</i>, that the archbishop had no elder brother + named Richard. His elder brother's name was John; who by Joan, dau. of + John Frechevill, Esq., had two sons, Thomas and <i>Richard</i>. Could + this be the Richard alluded to? In the third place, in neither of the + pedigrees alluded to is there given any connexion with the family of + Cranmer of Aslacton. And, lastly, it is opposed to the uniform tradition + of the family. Now, if any of your readers can clear up this difficulty, + or will refer me to any other pedigree of the Cranmers, I shall feel + extremely obliged to him.</p> + + <p>With the exception of the points now noticed, my former letter was + perfectly correct, and may be relied on in every respect.</p> + + <p>I may mention that these Cranmers were from Warwickshire. The monument + states that Samuel Cranmer was born at "Aulcester" in that county, "about + the year 1575."</p> + + <p class="author">R. E. W. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>DUTCH POPULAR SONG-BOOK.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 22.)</p> + + <p>The second edition of the song-book mentioned by the <span + class="sc">Hermit of Holyport</span> must have been published between + 1781 and 1810, as the many popular works printed for S. and W. Koene may + testify. In 1798 they lived on the Linde gracht, but shifted afterwards + their dwelling-place to the Boomstraat. For the above + information—about a trifle, interesting enough to call a + <i>hermit</i> from his <i>memento-mori</i> cogitations—I am + indebted to the kindness of Mr. <span class="sc">J. J. + Nieuwenhuyzen</span>.</p> + + <p>But, alas! what can I, the man with a <i>borrowed name</i> and + borrowed learning, say in reply to the first Query of the busy anchorite? + He will believe me, when I tell his reverence that I am <i>not</i> <span + class="sc">Janus Dousa</span>. What's in the name, that I could choose + it? Must I confess? A token of grateful remembrance; the only means of + making myself known to a British friend of my youth, but for whom I would + perhaps never have enjoyed <span class="sc">Mr. Hermit's</span> valuable + contributions—the medium, in short, of being recognised incognito. + Will this do? Or must I say, copying a generous correspondent of "<span + class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>,"—Spare my blushes, I am</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. H. van Lennep.</span> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Amsterdam, Feb. 25. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>BARONS OF HUGH LUPUS.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 87.)</p> + + <p>Your correspondent P. asks for information respecting the families and + descendants of William Malbank and Bigod de Loges, two of the Barons of + Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, whose signatures are affixed to the charter + of foundation of St. Werburgh's Abbey at Chester.</p> + + <p>Of the descendants of William Malbank I can learn nothing; but it + appears from the MS. catalogue of the Norman nobility before the + Conquest, that Roger and Robert de Loges possessed lordships in the + district of Coutances in Normandy. One at least, Roger, must have + accompanied the Conqueror to England (and his name appears in the roll of + Battle Abbey as given by Fox), for we find that he held lands in Horley + and Burstowe in Surrey. His widow, Gunuld de Loges, held the manor of + Guiting in Gloucestershire of King William; and in the year 1090 she gave + two hides of land to the monastery of Gloucester to pray for the soul of + her husband. Roger had two sons, Roger and Bigod, or, as he is sometimes + called, Robert. The former inherited the lands in Surrey. One of his + descendants (probably his great-grandson) was high sheriff of Surrey and + Sussex in the years 1267, 1268, and 1269. His son Roger de Loges owned + lands and tenements in Horley, called La Bokland, which he sold to the + Abbot of <!-- Page 190 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page190"></a>{190}</span>Chertsea. His successor, John de Logge of + Burstowe, witnessed in the tenth year of Edward II. a deed relating to + the transfer of land in Hadresham, Surrey. The name became gradually + corrupted to Lodge.</p> + + <p>To return to the subject of inquiry, Bigod de Loges—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"held five tenements in Sow of the Earl of Chester, by the service of + conducting the said earl towards the king's court through the midst of + the forest of Cannock, meeting him at Rotford bridge upon his coming, and + at Hopwas bridge on his return. In which forest the earl might, if he + pleased, kill a deer at his coming, and another at his going back: giving + unto Loges each time he should so attend him a barbed arrow. Hugo de + Loges granted to William Bagot all his lands in Sow, to hold of him the + said Hugo and his heirs, by the payment of a pair of white gloves at the + feast of St. Michael yearly."—Dugdale.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Bigod de Loges had two sons, Hugo and Odardus:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Odardus de Loges was infeoffed by Ranulphus de Meschines, Earl of + Chester, in the baronies of Stanyton, Wigton, Doudryt, Waverton, + Blencoyd, and Kirkbride, in the county of Cumberland; and the said + Odardus built Wigton church and endowed it. He lived until King John's + time. Henry I. confirmed the grant of the barony to him, by which it is + probable that he lived a hundred years. He had issue Adam. Adam had issue + Odard, the lord, whose son and heir, Adam the Second, died without issue, + and Odard the Fourth likewise," &c.—Denton's <i>MS.</i></p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Of the branch settled in Staffordshire and Warwickshire—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Hugo de Loges married, tempo Richard I., Margerie, daughter and + heiress of Robert de Brok. By this marriage Hugo became possessed of the + manor of Casterton in Warwickshire. He was forester of Cannock chace. He + had issue Hugo de Loges, of Chesterton, whose son and heir, Sir Richard + de Loges, died 21st of Edward I. Sir Richard had issue two sons, Richard + and Hugo. The eldest, Richard of Chesterton, left issue an only daughter, + Elizabeth, married to Nicholas de Warwick. The issue of this marriage was + John de Warwick, whose daughter and heiress, Eleonora, married Sir John + de Peto, and brought the manor of Chesterton into that + family."—Dugdale.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">M. J. T. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE'S "ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA."</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 139.)</p> + + <p>The scene in <i>Antony and Cleopatra</i> contains two expressions + which are in <i>Henry VIII.</i>—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"Learn this, Silius."</p> + <p class="hg3">"Learn this, brother."—<i>Hen. VIII.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"The Captain's captain."</p> + <p class="hg3">"To be her Mistress' mistress, the Queen's queen."—<i>Hen. VIII.</i></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The first of these passages is in a scene in <i>Henry VIII.</i>, which + <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> gives to Fletcher (and of which, + by-the-bye, it may be observed, that, like the scene in <i>Antony and + Cleopatra</i>, it has nothing to do with the business of the play). The + other is in a scene which he gives to Shakspeare.</p> + + <p>But, perhaps, there may be doubts whether rightly. I am exceedingly + ignorant in Fletcher; but here is a form of expression which occurs twice + in the scene, which, I believe, is more conformable to the practice of + Fletcher:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"<i>A</i> heed was in his countenance."</p> + <p class="hg3">"And force them with <i>a</i> constancy."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>There is very great stiffness in the versification: one instance is + quite extraordinary:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i8hg3">"Yet I know her for</p> + <p>A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to</p> + <p>Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of</p> + <p>Our hard rul'd king."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>There is great stiffness and tameness in the matter in many + places.</p> + + <p>Lastly, what <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> hopes he has taken + off Shakspeare's shoulders, the compliments to the Queen and the King, is + brought in here most forcedly:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"She (<i>i.e.</i> A. Boleyn) is a gallant creature, and complete</p> + <p>In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her</p> + <p>Will fall some blessings to this land, which shall</p> + <p>In it be memoriz'd."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>But there is also the general question, whether, either upon <i>à + priori</i> probability, or inferences derived from particular passages, + we are bound to suppose that the two authors wrote scene by scene. + Shakspeare might surely be allowed to touch up scenes, of which the mass + might be written by Fletcher.</p> + + <p>As to the dates, <span class="sc">Mr. Collier</span> is persuaded that + <i>Henry VIII.</i> was written in the winter of 1603-4. The accession of + James was in March, 1603. <span class="sc">Mr. Collier</span> thinks that + the compliments to Queen Elizabeth were not written in her lifetime. He + thinks that, even in the last year of her long reign, no one would have + ventured to call her an "aged princess," though merely as a way of saying + that she would have a long reign; and he says, there is not the slightest + evidence that the compliment to King James was an interpolation. But + surely it is strong evidence that if there is no interpolation, this + passage—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i8hg3">"As when</p> + <p>The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phœnix,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>afterwards—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"When Heav'n shall call her from this cloud of darkness,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>and then, after disposing of the King—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"She shall be to the happiness of England</p> + <p>An aged princess . . .</p> + <p> . . . . . .</p> + <p>Would I had known no more—but she must die;</p> + <p>She must—the saints must have her yet a virgin," &c.</p> + </div> + </div> +<p><!-- Page 191 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page191"></a>{191}</span></p> + + <p>would be ridiculous. All that can be said is, that either way it is + partly ridiculous to make it a matter of prophecy and lamentation that a + human being must, sometime or other, die.</p> + + <p>But it is very difficult to conceive that the compliments to Elizabeth + should have been written after her death.</p> + + <p>Fletcher, born in 1579, did not, in Mr. Dyce's opinion, bring out + anything singly or jointly with Beaumont till 1606 or 1607.</p> + + <p>The irrelevant scenes, like that of Ventidius, are introduced with two + objects—one to gain time, the other for the sake of naturalness: of + the latter of which there are two instances in <i>Macbeth</i>; one where + the King talks of the swallows' nests: the other, relating to the English + king touching for the evil, seems remarkably suited to the mind of + Shakspeare.</p> + + <p class="author">C. B. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>"SUN, STAND THOU STILL UPON GIBEON!"</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(<span class="scac">JOSH.</span> x. 12.)</p> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 137.)</p> + + <p>The observations of I. K. upon this passage have obviously proceeded + from a praiseworthy wish to remove what has appeared to some minds to be + inconsistent with that perfect truth which they expect to be the result + of divine inspiration. I. K. doubtless believes that God put it into the + heart of Joshua to utter a command for the miraculous continuance of + daylight. But why should he expect the inspiration to extend so far as to + instruct Joshua respecting the manner in which that continuance was to be + brought about? Joshua was not to be the worker of the miracle. It was to + be wrought by Him who can as easily stop any part of the stupendous + machinery of His universe, as we can stop the wheels of a watch. Joshua + was left to speak, as he naturally would, in terms well fitted to make + those around him understand, and tell others, that the sun and moon, whom + the defeated people notoriously worshipped, were so far from being able + to protect their worshippers, that they were made to promote their + destruction at the bidding of Joshua, whom God had commissioned to be the + scourge of idolaters. And when the inspired recorder of the miracle wrote + that "the sun stood still," he told what the eyes saw, with the same + truth as I might say that the sun <i>rose</i> before seven this morning. + Inspiration was not bestowed to make men wise in astronomy, but wise unto + salvation.</p> + + <p>Those who think that the inspired penman should have said "the earth + stood still," in order to give a perfectly true account of the miracle, + have need to be told, or would do well to remember, that the stopping of + the diurnal revolution of the earth, in order to keep the sun and moon's + apparent places the same, would not involve a cessation of its motion in + its orbit, still less a cessation of that great movement of the whole + solar system, by which it is now more than conjectured that the sun, the + moon, and the earth are all carried on together at the rate of above 3700 + miles in an hour; so that to say "the earth stood still" would be liable + to the same objection, viz., that of not being astronomically true. I. K. + carries his notion of the "inseparable connexion" of the sun "with all + planetary motion" too far, when he supposes that a stoppage of the sun's + motion round its own axis would have any effect on our planet. The note + he quotes from Kitto's <i>Pictorial Bible</i> is anything but + satisfactory; and that from Mant is childishly common-place. Good old + Scott adverts with propriety to the Creator's power to keep all things in + their places, when the earth's revolution was stopped; but when he + endeavoured to illustrate it by the little effect of a ship's <i>casting + anchor when under full sail</i>, he should have consulted his friend + Newton, who would have stopped such an imagination. Another commentator, + Holden, has argued, in spite of the Hebrew, that "in the midst of heaven" + cannot mean mid-day, having made up his mind that the moon can never be + seen at that hour!</p> + + <p>Such helpers do but make that difficult which, if received in its + simplicity, need neither perplex a child nor a philosopher.</p> + + <p class="author">H. W. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Ulm Manuscript</i> (Vol. iii., p. 60.).—The late Bishop + Butler's collection of manuscripts is in the British Museum. I send you a + copy of the bishop's own description of the MS. (which should be called + the <i>St. Gall MS.</i>), from the printed Catalogue, which was prepared + for a sale by auction, previous to the negociation with the trustees for + the purchase of the collection for the nation.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Acta Apostolorum. Epistolæ Pauli et Catholicæ cum Apocalypsi. Latinè. + Sæculi IX. Upon Vellum. 4to.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The date of this most valuable and important manuscript is preserved + by these verses:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg1">'Iste liber Pauli retinet documenta sereni</p> + <p>Hartmodus Gallo quem contulit Abba Beato,</p> + <p>Si quis et hunc Sancti sumit de culmine Galli</p> + <p>Hunc Gallus Paulusque simul dent pestibus amplis.'</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Which I thus have tried to imitate:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><b>Thys boke conteynes the doctrynes of Seynct Paull,</b></p> + <p><b>Hartmodus thabbat yeve yt to Seynct Gall;</b></p> + <p><b>Gyf any tak thys boke from hygh Seynct Gall,</b></p> + <p><b>Seynct Gall appall hym and Seynct Paull hym gall.</b></p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Hartmodus was Abbot of St. Gall in the Grisons from <span + class="scac">A.D.</span> 872 to 874. The MS. therefore may be earlier + than the former, but cannot be later than the latter date. <!-- Page 192 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page192"></a>{192}</span></p> + + <p>This MS. is of the very highest importance. It contains the celebrated + passage of St. John thus: 'Quia tres sunt, qui testimonium dant, + Spliritus, aqua, et sanguis, et tres unum sunt. Sicut in cœlo tres + sunt, Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus, et tres unum sunt.' This most important + word <i>Sicut</i> clearly shows how the disputed passage, from having + been a Gloss crept into the text. And on the first page prior to the + Seven Catholic Epistles is the Prologue of St. Jerome, bearing his name + in uncials, which Porson and other learned men think spurious. See + Porson's <i>Letters to Travis</i>, p. 290."—Bp. Butler's Manuscript + Catalogue.</p> + + <p class="author">H. Foss. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Rotherhithe, Jan. 29. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Harrison's Chronology</i> (Vol. iii., p. 105.).—To the + querist on William Harrison all lovers of bibliography are under + obligations. At Oxford, amid the Bodleian treasures, he could not have + had many questions to ask: at Thurles the case may be much otherwise, and + he is entitled to a prompt reply.</p> + + <p>After examining the <i>Typographical Antiquities</i> of Ames and + Herbert, and various bibliographical works, relying also on my own memory + as a collector of books for more than thirty years, I may venture to + assert that the <i>Chronology</i> of W. Harrison has never been printed. + I can further assert that no copy of the work is recorded in the + <i>Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ</i>, Oxoniæ, + 1697.</p> + + <p>The best account of Harrison is given by bishop Tanner, in his + <i>Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica</i>. Wood, however, should be + consulted. With reference to the events of his life, it is important to + observe that the date of his letter to sir William Brooke, which may be + called an autobiography in miniature, is 1577.</p> + + <p>Assuming that this question could not escape the notice of other + contributors, I had made no researches with a view to answer it, and + shall be happy to remedy the defects of this scrap at a future time.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Bolton Corney</span>. + + <p><i>Mistletoe on Oaks</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 163, 214.).—Is it ever + found now on <i>other</i> trees? Sir Thos. Browne (<i>Vulg. Err.</i> lib. + ii. cap. vi. § 3.) says, "We observe it in England very commonly upon + <i>Sallow</i>, <i>Hazell</i>, and Oake." By-the-bye, <span class="sc">Dr. + Bell</span> (p. 163.) seems to adopt the belief, which it is Browne's + object in the section referred to above to refute, viz., that "Misseltoe + is bred upon trees, from seeds which birds let fall thereon." Have later + observations shown that it was Browne himself who was in error?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ache.</span> + + <p><i>Swearing by Swans</i> (Vol. iii., p. 70.).—An instance of the + cognate custom of swearing by pheasants is given by Michelet, <i>Précis + de l'Histoire Moderne</i> (pp. 19, 20.). On the taking of Constantinople + by the Turks,—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"L'Europe s'émut enfin: Nicholas V. prêcha la croisade.... à Lille, le + duc de Bourgoyne fit apparaître, dans un banquet, l'image de l'Eglise + désolée et, selon les rites de la chevalerie, jura Dieu, la Vierge, les + dames, et <i>le faisan</i>, qu'il irait combattre les infidèles." + (1454.)</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>It seems, however, that in spite of all these formalities, the oath + did not sit very heavily on the conscience of the taker: for we are told + immediately after that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Cette ardeur dura peu.... le duc de Bourgoyne resta dans ses + états."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Michelet gives, as his authority, Olivier de la Marche, t. viii. <i>De + la Collection des Mémoires rélatifs à l'Hist. de France</i>, edit. de M. + Petitot.</p> + + <p class="author">X. Z. + + <p><i>Jurare ad caput animalium</i> (Vol. ii., p. 392; Vol. iii., p. + 71.).—Schayes, a Belgic writer (in <i>Les Pays Bas avant et durant + la Domination Romaine</i>, vol. ii. p. 73. et seq.), furnishes references + to two councils, in which this mode of swearing was condemned, viz. + Concil. Aurelianense (Orleans), <span class="scac">A.D.</span> 541, and + Concil. Liptinense (Liptines or Lestines), 743. On the Indiculus + Paganiarum of the latter he subjoins the commentaries of Des Roches + (<i>Anc. Mém. de l'Acad. de Brux.</i>), de Meinders (<i>de statu relig. + sub Carolo M.</i>, p. 144.), d'Eckart (<i>Francia Orient</i>, lib. i. p. + 407.), de Canciani (<i>de Legibus barbaror.</i>, tom. iii. p. 78.). The + enquirer may also consult Riveli Opera on the Decalogue; Petiti, + <i>Observ. Miscell.</i> lib. iv. c. 7.: "Defenditur Socrates ab improba + Lactantii calumnia et de ejus jusjurando per <i>canem</i>:" and Alex. ab + Alexandro, <i>Geniales Dies</i>, lib. v. c. 10.</p> + + <p>I may avail myself of this opportunity of noticing the misprint in p. + 152., <i>V</i>ezron for <i>P</i>ezron.</p> + + <p class="author">T. J. + + <p><i>Ten Children at a Birth</i> (Vol. ii., p. 459.; Vol. iii., p. + 64.).—We are indebted to the obliging courtesy of the editor of the + <i>Leeds Mercury</i> for the following extract from that paper of the 9th + October, 1781:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A letter from Sheffield, dated October 1, says, 'This day one Ann + Birch, formerly of Derby, who came to work at the silk-mills here, was + delivered of <span class="scac">TEN</span> children; nine were dead, and + one living, which, with the mother, is likely to do well.'"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Our informant adds—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I never heard of any silk-mills at Sheffield. If there was a Medical + Society in Sheffield then, its records might be examined."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Can our correspondent N. D. throw any further light upon this + certainly curious and interesting case?</p> + + <p><i>Richard Standfast</i> (Vol. iii., p. 143.).—This divine is + buried in Christ Church, Bristol; having been rector of that church for + the long space of fifty-one years. There is a monument erected to his + memory in the above-mentioned building, with the following + inscription:— <!-- Page 193 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page193"></a>{193}</span></p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, Master of Arts, + of Sidney College in Cambridge, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his Majesty + King Charles I., who for his loyalty to the King and stedfastness in the + established religion, suffered fourteen years' sequestration. He returned + to his place in Bristol at the restoration of King Charles II., was then + made prebendary of the cathedral church of Bristol, and for twenty years + and better (notwithstanding his blindness) performed the offices of the + church exactly, and discharged the duties of an able, diligent, and + orthodox preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church upwards of fifty-one + years, and died August 24, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and in + the year of Our Lord 1681.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>He shall live again."</p> + </div> + </div> +</blockquote> + + <p>The following additional lines, composed by himself, were taken down + from his own mouth two days before his death; and are, according to his + own desire, inscribed on his tomb:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i1hg3">"Jacob was at Bethel found,</p> + <p class="i1">And so may we, though under ground.</p> + <p class="i1">With Jacob there God did intend,</p> + <p class="i1">To be with him where'ver he went,</p> + <p class="i1">And to bring him back again,</p> + <p class="i1">Nor was that promise made in vain.</p> + <p>Upon which words we rest in confidence</p> + <p>That he which found him there will fetch us hence.</p> + <p>Nor without cause are we persuaded thus,</p> + <p>For where God spake with him, he spake with us."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Besides the work your correspondent mentions, he wrote a book, + entitled a <i>Caveat against Seducers</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">J. K. R. W. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Feb. 22. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>"<i>Jurat, crede minus</i>" (Vol. iii., p. 143.).—This epigram + was quoted by Sir Ed. Coke on the trial of Henry Garnet. The author I + cannot tell, but F. R. R. may be glad to trace it up thus far.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Bs.</span> + + <p><i>Rab Surdam</i> (Vol. ii., p. 493.; Vol. iii., p. 42.).—May + not "Rab Surdam" be the ignorant stone-cutter's version of + "resurgam?"</p> + + <p class="author">M. A. H. + + <p><i>The Scaligers</i> (Vol. iii., p. 133.).—Everything relating + to this family is interesting, and I have read with pleasure your + correspondent's communication on the origin of their armorial bearings. I + am, however, rather surprised to observe, that he seems to take for + granted the relationship of Julius Cæsar Scaliger and his son Joseph to + the Lords of Verona, which has been so convincingly disproved by several + writers. The world has been for some time pretty well satisfied that + these two illustrious scholars were mere impostors in the claim they + made, that Joseph Scaliger's letter to Janus Dousa was a very impudent + affair. If your correspondent has met with any new evidence in support of + their claim, it would gratify me much if he would make it known. Who + would not derive pleasure from seeing the magnificent boast of Joseph + proved at last to have been founded in fact:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Ego sum septimus ab Imperatore Ludovico et Illustrissimâ Hollandiæ + comite Margareta: septimus item a Mastino tertio, ut et magnus Rex + Franciscus, literarum parcus."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>and Scioppius's parting recommendation—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Quid jam reliquum est tibi, nisi ut nomen commutes et ex Scalifero + fias Furcifer?"—<i>Scaliger Hypobolimaeus. Mogunt.</i>, 1607, 4to., + p. 74. b.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>deprived of its force and stringency? I fear, however, that this is + not to be expected.</p> + + <p>It is impossible to read Joseph Scaliger's defence of his own case in + the rejoinder to Scioppius, <i>Confutatio fabulæ Burdonum</i>, without + observing that the author utterly fails in connecting Niccolo, the + great-grandfather of Joseph, with Guglielmo della Scala, the son of Can + Grande Secundo. And yet such is the charm of genius, that the + <i>Confutatio</i>, altogether defective in the main point as a reply, + will ever be read with delight by succeeding generations of scholars.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Crossley</span>. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Manchester, Feb. 22, 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Lincoln Missal</i> (Vol. iii., p. 119.).—It is clear that one + of the most learned ritualists, Mr. Maskell, did not know of a manuscript + of the Lincoln Use, else he would have noted it in his work, <i>The + Ancient Liturgy of the British Church</i>, where the other Uses of + Salisbury, York, Bangor, and Hereford, are compared together. In his + preface to this work (p. ix.) he states—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"It has been doubted whether there ever was a Lincoln Use in any other + sense than a different mode and practice of chanting."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Peacock</span> would probably find more + information in the <i>Monumenta Ritualia</i>, to which Mr. Maskell refers + in his preface.</p> + + <p class="author">N. E. R. (A Subscriber.) + + <p><i>By and bye</i> (Vol. iii., p. 73.).—Your correspondent S. S., + in support of his opinion that <i>by the bye</i> means "by the way," + suggests that <i>good bye</i> may mean "bon voyage." I must say the + commonly received notion, that it is a contraction of "God be wi' ye," + appears to me in every way preferable. I think that in the writers of the + Elizabethan age, every intermediate variety of form (such as "God b' w' + ye," &c.) may be found; but I cannot at this moment lay my hand on + any instance.</p> + + <p>In an ingenious and amusing article in a late Number of the + <i>Quarterly</i>, the character of different nations is shown to be + indicated by their different forms of greeting, and surely the same may + be said of their forms of taking leave. The English pride themselves, and + with justice, on being a peculiarly religious people: now, applying the + above test,—as the Frenchman has his <i>adieu</i>, the Italian his + <i>addio</i>, the Portuguese his <i>addios</i>, and the Spaniard his + "vaya usted con <i>Dios</i>,"—it is to be presumed <!-- Page 194 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page194"></a>{194}</span>that the + Englishman, also, on parting from his friend, will commit him to the care + of Providence. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the Germans, + who, as well as the English, are supposed to entertain a deeper sense of + religion than many other nations, content themselves with a mere + "lebe-wohl." I should be obliged if some one of your readers will favour + me with the forms of taking leave used by other nations, in order that I + may be enabled to see whether the above test will hold good on a more + extensive application.</p> + + <p class="author">X. Z. + + <p><i>Gregory the Great.</i>—This is clearly a mere slip of the pen + in Lady Morgan's pamphlet. I I think it may confidently be asserted that + Gregory VII. has not been thus designated habitually at any period.</p> + + <p class="author">R. D. H. + + <p><i>True Blue</i> (Vol. iii., p. 92.)—"The earliest connexion of + the colour blue with truth" (which inquiry I cannot consider as + synonymous with the original Query, Vol. ii., p. 494.) is doubtless to be + traced back to one of the typical garments worn by the Jewish high + priest, which was (see Godwyn's <i>Moses and Aaron</i>, London, 1631, + lib. i. chap. 5.) "A robe all of blew, with seventy two bels of gold, and + as many pomegranates, of blew, purple, and scarlet, upon the skirts + thereof." He says that "by the bells was typed the sound of his + (Christ's) doctrine; by the pomegranates the sweet savour of an holy + life;" and, without doubt, by "the blew robe" was typified the + immutability and truthfulness of the person, mission, and doctrine of our + great High Priest, who was clothed with truth as with a garment. The + great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his + lesser type.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Blowen</span>. + + <p><i>Drachmarus</i> (Vol. iii., p. 157.).—Your correspondent has + my most cordial thanks both for his suggestion, and also for his + conjecture.</p> + + <p>1. Perhaps you will kindly afford me space to say, that the name of + Drachmarus occurs in a well-written MS. account of Bishop Cosin's + controversy, during his residence in Paris, with the Benedictine Prior + Robinson, concerning the validity of our English ordination: in the + course of which, after stating the opinion of divers of the Fathers, that + the keys of order and jurisdiction were given John xx., "Quorum peccata," + &c., Cosin adds:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I omit Hugo Cardinalis, the ordinary gloss, <i>Drachmarus</i>, + Scotus, as men of a later age (though all, as you say, of your church) + that might be produced to the same purpose."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I should here perhaps state, that no letter of Prior Robinson's is + extant in which any mention is made either of Drachmarus or of + Druthmarus.</p> + + <p>2. Before my Query was inserted, it had not only occurred to me as + probable that the transcriber might have written Drachmarus in mistake + for Druthmarus, but I had also consulted such of Druthmar's writings as + are found in the <i>Bibl. Patr.</i> I came to the conclusion, however, + that a later writer than Christian Druthmar was intended. <i>My</i> + conjecture was, that Drachmarus must be a second name for some known + writer of the age of the schoolmen, just as <i>Carbajulus</i> may be + found cited under the name of <i>Loysius</i>, or <i>Loisius</i>, which + are only other forms of his Christian name, <i>Ludovicus</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom</span>. + + <p><i>The Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex.</i>—E. H. Y. (Vol. iii., p. + 66.) is wrong in assigning the title of Lord <i>Mountacute</i> to the + Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex. In 1 & 2 Phil. and Mary, Sir Antony + Browne (son of the Master of the Horse to Henry VIII.) was created + Viscount <i>Montague</i> (Collins). When curate of Eastbourne, in which + parish are situated the ruins of their ancestral Hall of Cowdray, I + frequently heard the village dames recite the tales of the rude + forefathers of the hamlet respecting the family.</p> + + <p>They relate, that while the great Sir Antony (temp. Hen. VIII.) was + holding a revel, a monk presented himself before the guests and + pronounced the curse of fire and water against the male descendants of + the family, till none should be left, because the knight had received and + was retaining the church-lands of Battle Abbey, and those which belonged + to the priory of Eastbourne. Within the last hundred years, destiny, + though slow of foot, has overtaken the fated race. In one day the hall + perished by fire, and the lord by water, as mentioned by E. H. Y. The + male line being extinct, the estate passed to the sister of Lord + Montague. This lady was married to the late W. S. Poyntz, Esq., M.P. The + two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Poyntz were drowned at Bognor, and the estate a + second time devolved on the female representatives. These ladies, still + living, are the Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess Spencer, and the + Dowager Lady Clinton. The estate passed by purchase into the hands of the + Earl of Egmont.</p> + + <p>The old villagers, the servants, and the descendants of servants of + the family, point to the ruins of the hall, and religiously cling to the + belief that its destruction and that of its lords resulted from the + curse. It certainly seems an illustration of Archbishop Whitgift's words + to Queen Elizabeth:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Church-land added to an ancient inheritance hath proved like a moth + fretting a garment, and secretly consumed both: or like the eagle that + stole a coal from the altar, and thereby set her nest on fire, which + consumed both her young eagles and herself that stole it."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. Rds.</span> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Queen's Col., Birm., Feb. 20. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Red Hand</i> (Vol. ii., p. 506., <i>et antè</i>).—A + correspondent, <span class="sc">Arun</span>, says, "Your correspondents + would confer a heraldic benefit if they would <!-- Page 195 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page195"></a>{195}</span>point out other + instances, which I believe to exist, where family reputation has been + damaged by similar ignorance in heraldic interpretation." I have always + thought this ignorance to be universal with the country people in + England: I could mention <i>several instances</i>. First, when I was a + boy at school I was shown the hatchments in Wateringbury church, in Kent, + by my master, and informed that Sir Thomas Styles had murdered some + domestic, and was consequently obliged to bear the "bloody hand:" and + lastly, and lately, at Church-Gresley, in Derbyshire, at the old hall of + the Gresley family, I was shown the marble table on which Sir Roger or + Sir Nigel Gresley had cut up, in a sort of Greenacre style, his cook; for + which he was obliged to have the bloody hand in his arms, and put into + the church on his tomb.</p> + + <p class="author">H. W. D. + + <p><i>Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 137.).—The two tracts mentioned by your correspondent R. D. H., and + which he states he has often sought in vain, namely, <i>Augusta + Triumphans</i>, London, 1728, 8vo., and <i>Second Thoughts are best</i>, + London, 1729, 8vo., are to be found in the <i>Selection from Defoe's + Works</i> published by Talboys in 20 vols. 12mo. in 1840. They are both + indisputably by Defoe, and contain, as your correspondent observes, many + anticipations of modern improvements. I may mention that there is a + tract, also beyond doubt by Defoe, on the subject of London + street-robberies, which has never yet been noticed or attributed to him + by any one. It is far more curious and valuable than <i>Second Thoughts + are best</i>, and is perfectly distinct from that tract. It gives a + history, and the only one I ever yet met with, written in all Defoe's + graphic manner, of the London police and the various modes of street + robbery in the metropolis, from the time of Charles II. to 1731, and + concludes by suggestions of effectual means of prevention. It is + evidently the work of one who had lived in London during the whole of the + period. The title is—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"An effectual Scheme for the immediate preventing of Street Robberies, + and suppressing all other Disorders of the Night, with a brief History of + the Night Houses, and an Appendix relating to those Sons of Hell called + Incendiaries. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of + the City of London. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower + de Luees, behind the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church Yard. 1731. + (Price 1<i>s.</i>) 8vo., pages 72."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I have also another tract on the same subject, which has not been + noticed by Defoe's biographers, but which I have no hesitation in + ascribing to him. It is curious enough, but not of equal value with the + last. The title is—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Street Robberies considered. The reason of their being so frequent, + with probable Means to prevent 'em. To which is added, three short + Treatises: 1. A Warning for Travellers; with Rules to know a Highwayman + and Instructions how to behave upon the occasion. 2. Observations on + Housebreakers. How to prevent a Tenement from being broke open. With a + Word of Advice concerning Servants. 3. A Caveat for Shopkeepers: with a + Description of Shoplifts, how to know 'em, and how to prevent 'em: also a + Caution of delivering Goods: with the Relation of several Cheats + practised lately upon the Publick. Written by a converted Thief. To which + is prefix'd some Memoirs of his Life. <i>Set a Thief to catch a + Thief.</i> London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick Lane. Price + 1<i>s.</i> (No date, but circ. 1726.) 8vo., pages 72."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Crossley</span>. + + <p><i>Meaning of Waste-book</i> (Vol. iii., p. 118.).—The + <i>waste-book</i> in a counting-house is that in which all the + transactions of the day, receipts, payments, &c., are entered + miscellaneously as they occur, and of which no account is immediately + taken, no value immediately found; whence, so to speak, the mass of + affairs is undigested, and the wilderness or <i>waste</i> is + uncultivated, and without result until entries are methodically made in + the day-book and ledger; without which latter appliances there would, in + book-keeping, be <i>waste</i> indeed, in the worst sense of the term. The + word <i>day-book</i> explains itself. The word <i>ledger</i> is explained + in Johnson's and in Ash's <i>Dictionary</i>, from the Dutch, as + signifying a book that lies in the counting-house <i>permanently in one + place</i>. The etymology there given also explains why certain lines used + in fishing-tackle, by old Isaak Walton, and by his disciples at the + present day, are called <i>ledger-lines</i>. It, however, does not seem + to explain the phrase <i>ledger-lines</i>, used in music; namely, the + term applied to those short lines added above or below the staff of five + lines, when the notes run very high or very low, and which are exactly + those which are not <i>permanent</i>. Here the French word <i>léger</i> + tempts the etymologist a little.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Robert Snow</span>. + + <p><i>Deus Justificatus</i> (Vol. ii., p. 441.).—There is no doubt + that this work was written by Henry Hallywell, and not by Cudworth. Dr. + Worthington, whose intercourse with the latter was of the most intimate + kind, and who would have been fully aware of the fact had he been the + author, observes, in a letter not dated, but written circ. September, + 1668, addressed to Dr. More, and of which I have a copy now before + me:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"I bought at London Mr. Hallywell's <i>Deus Justificatus</i>. Methinks + it is better written than his former Letter. He will write better and + better."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In a short account of Hallywell, who was of the school of Cudworth and + More, and whose MS. correspondence with the latter is now in my + possession, in Wood's <i>Fasti</i>, vol. ii. p. 187. Edit. Bliss, Wood, + "amongst several things that he hath published," enumerates five only, + but does not give the <i>Deus Justificatus</i> amongst them. It <!-- Page + 196 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page196"></a>{196}</span>appears + (Wood's <i>Athenæ</i>, vol. iv. p. 230.) that he was ignorant who the + author of this tract was.</p> + + <p>It is somewhat singular that the mistake in ascribing <i>Deus + Justificatus</i> to Cudworth should have been continued in Kippis's + edition of the <i>Biographia Britannica</i>. It was so ascribed to him, + first, as far as I can find, by a writer of the name of Fancourt, in the + preface to his <i>Free Agency of Accountable Creatures Examined</i>, + London, 1733, 8vo. On his authority it was included in the list of + Cudworth's works in the <i>General Dictionary</i>, 1736, folio, vol. iv. + p. 487., and in the <i>Biographia Britannica</i>, 1750, vol. iii. p. + 1581., and in the last edition by Kippis. Birch, in the mean time, + finding, no doubt, on inquiry, that there was no ground for ascribing it + to Cudworth, made no mention of it in his accurate life prefixed to the + edition of the <i>Intellectual System</i> in 1742.</p> + + <p>Hallywell, the author, deserves to be better known. In many passages + in his works he gives ample proof that he had fully imbibed the lofty + Platonism and true Christian spirit of his great master.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Crossley</span>. + + <p><i>Touchstone's Dial</i> (Vol. ii., p. 405.; Vol. iii., pp. 52. + 107.).—I am gratified to find that my note on "Touchstone's Dial" + has prompted <span class="sc">Mr. Stephens</span> to send you his + valuable communication on these old-fashioned chronometers. The subjoined + extract from <i>Travels in America in the Year</i> 1806, by Thomas Ashe, + Esq., is interesting, as it shows that "Ring-dials" were used as common + articles of barter in America at the commencement of the present + century:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The storekeepers on the Alleghany River from above Pittsburg to New + Orleans are obliged to keep every article which it is possible that the + farmer and manufacturer may want. Each of their shops exhibits a complete + medley: a magazine, where are to be had both a needle and an anchor, a + tin pot and a large copper boiler, a child's whistle and a piano-forte, a + <i>ring-dial</i> and a clock," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">J. M. B. + + <p><i>Ring Dials</i>.—I was interested with the reference to + <i>Pocket Sun-dials</i> in "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," + pp. 52. 107. because it re-furnished an opportunity of placing in print a + scrap of information on the subject, which I neglected to embrace when I + first read <span class="sc">Mr. Knight's</span> note on the passage in + Shakspeare. About seventy years ago these small, cheap, brass + "Ring-dials" for the pocket were manufactured by the gross by a firm in + Sheffield (Messrs. Proctor), then in Milk street. I well remember the + workman—an old man in my boyhood—who had been employed in + making them, as he said, "in basketsful;" and also his description of the + <i>modus operandi</i>, which was curious enough. They were of different + sizes and prices, and their extreme rarity at present, considering the + number formerly in use, is only less surprising than the commonness of + pocket-watches which have superseded them. I never saw but one of these + cheapest and most nearly forgotten horologia, and which the old + brass-turner, as I recollect, boasted of as "telling the time true to a + quarter of an hour!"</p> + + <p class="author">D. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Sheffield, Jan. 2. 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Cockade</i> (Vol. iii., p. 7.).—The Query of A. E. has not + yet been satisfactorily answered; nor can I pretend to satisfy him. But + as a small contribution to the history of the decoration in question, I + beg to offer him the following definition from the <i>Dictionnaire + étymologique</i> of Roquefort, 8vo., Paris, 1829:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span class="sc">Cocarde</span>, touffe de rubans que sous Louis + XIII. on portoit sur le feutre, et qui imitoit la crête du coq."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>If this be correct, <span class="sc">Apodliktes</span> (p. 42.) must + be mistaken in attributing so recent an origin to the cockade as the date + of the Hanoverian succession. The truth is, that from the earliest period + of heraldic institutions, colours have been used to symbolise parties. + The mode of wearing them may have varied; and whether wrought in silk, or + more economically represented in the stamped leather cockade of our + private soldier, is little to the purpose. It will, however, hardly be + contended that our present fashion at all resembles "la crête du + coq."</p> + + <p class="author">F. S. Q. + + <p>"The ribband worn in the hat" was styled "a favour" previous to the + Scotch Covenanters' nick-naming it a cockade. Allow me to correct <span + class="sc">Apodliktes</span> (p. 42.): "The black <i>favour</i> being the + Hanoverian badge, the white <i>favour</i> that of the Stuarts." The knots + or bunches of ribbons given as favours at marriages, &c., were not + invariably worn in the hat as a cockade is, but it was sometimes (see + Hudibras, Pt. i. canto ii. line 524.)</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Wore in their hats like wedding garters."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>There is a note on this line in my edition, which is the same as <span + class="sc">J. B. Colman</span> refers to for the note on the Frozen Horn + (p. 91.).</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Blowen</span>. + + <p><i>Rudbeck's Atlantica—Grenville copy—Tomus I Sine + Anno.</i> 1675. 1679. (Vol. iii., p. 26.).—Has any one of these + three copies a separate leaf, entitled "Ad Bibliopegos?"—Not one of + them.</p> + + <p>(Neither has the king's (George III.) copy, nor the Sloane copy, both + in the Museum.)</p> + + <p>Has the copy with the date 1679, "Testimonia" at the end?—The + Testimonia are placed after the Dedication, before the text (they are + inlaid). They occupy fifteen pages.</p> + + <p>Have they a separate <i>Title</i> and a separate sheet of + <i>Errata</i>?—Neither the one nor the other.</p> + + <p>Is there a duplicate copy of this separate Title at the end of the + Preface?—No.</p> + + <p>(The copy with the date 1675 has at the end Testimonia filling eight + pages, with a separate title, and a leaf containing three lines of + Errata.)</p> + + <p>Tomus II. 1689.—How many pages of <!-- Page 197 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page197"></a>{197}</span>Testimonia are there at + the end of the Preface?—Thirty-eight pages.</p> + + <p>(In George III.'s copy the Testimonia occupy forty-three pages.)</p> + + <p>Is there in any one of these volumes the name of any former owner, any + book number, or any other mark by which they can be recognised; for + instance, that of the Duke de la Vallière?—No. Not in Mr. + Grenville's, nor in George III.'s, nor in the Sloane's; this last has not + the Third Volume.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Foss</span>. + + <p><i>Scandal against Queen Elizabeth</i> (Vol. iii., p. 11.).—It + is a tradition in a family with which I am connected, that Queen + Elizabeth had a son, who was sent over to Ireland, and placed under the + care of the Earl of Ormonde. The Earl, it will be remembered, was + distantly related to the Queen, her great-grandmother being the daughter + of Thomas, the eighth Earl.</p> + + <p>Papers are said to exist in the family which prove the above + statement.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Bs.</span> + + <p><i>Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth.</i>—The curious little + volume mentioned by <span class="sc">Mr. Roper</span> (Vol. iii., p. + 45.), is most probably the book alluded to by J. E. C., p. 23. I possess + a copy of much later date (1767). It is worthy of note, that the + narrative is headed <i>The Earl of Essex; or, the Amours of Queen + Elizabeth</i>; while the title-page states, <i>The secret History of the + most Renown'd Q. Elizabeth and Earl of Essex</i>.</p> + + <p>I think it can scarcely be said to be <i>corroborative</i> of the + "scandal" contained in Mr. Ives's MS. note, or that in Burton's + <i>Parliamentary Diary</i>, cited by P. T., Vol. ii. p. 393. Whitaker, in + his <i>Vindication of Mary Q. of Scots</i>, has displayed immense + industry and research in his collection of charges against the private + life of Elizabeth, but makes no mention of these reports.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. B. Price</span>. + + <p><i>Bibliographical Queries</i> (No. 39.), <i>Monarchia Solipsorum</i> + (Vol. iii., p. 138.).—Your correspondent asks, Can there be the + smallest doubt that the veritable inventor of this satire upon the + Jesuits was their former associate, Jules-Clement Scotti? Having paid + considerable attention to the writings of Scotti, Inchofer, and + Scioppius, and to the evidence as to the authorship of this work, I + should, notwithstanding Niceron's authority, on which your correspondent + seems to rely, venture to assert that the claim made for Scotti, as well + as that for Scioppius, may be at once put aside. No two authors ever more + carefully protected their literary offspring, numerous as they were, by + the catalogues and lists of them which they published or dispersed from + time to time, than these two writers. In them every tract is claimed, + however short, which they had written. Scotti published one in 1650, five + years after the publication of the <i>Monarchia Solipsorum</i>; and I + have a letter of his, of the same period, containing a list of his + writings. Scioppius left one, dated 1647, now in MS. in the Laurentian + Library with his other MSS., and which carefully mentions every tract he + had written against the Jesuits. The <i>Monarchia Solipsorum</i> does not + appear in the lists of these two writers; and no good reason can be + assigned why it should not, on the supposition of its being written by + either of them. If not in those which were published, it certainly would + not have been omitted in those communicated to their friends, not + Jesuits, or which were found amongst their own MSS. Then, nothing can be + more distinct than the style of Scotti, of Scioppius, and that of the + author, whoever he was, of the <i>Monarchia</i>. The much-vexed spirit of + the bitterest of critics would have been still more indignant if one or + two of the passages in this work could ever, in his contemplation, have + been imputed to his pen.</p> + + <p>It is in this case, as in most other similar ones, much easier to + conclude who is not, than who is the author of the book in question. The + internal evidence is very strong in favour of Inchofer. It was published + with his name in 1652, seven years only after the date of the first + edition; and the witnesses are many among his contemporaries, who speak + positively to his being the author. Further, there is no great + dissimilarity in point of style, and I have collected several parallel + expressions occurring in the <i>Monarchia</i> and Inchofer's other works, + which very much strengthen the claim made on his behalf, but which it is + scarcely necessary to insert here. In my opinion, he is the real author. + The question might, I have no doubt, be finally set at rest by an + examination of his correspondence with Leo Allatius, which is, or was, at + all events, in the Vatican.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Crossley</span>. + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Manchester, Feb. 22, 1851.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Touching for the Evil</i> (Vol. iii., p. 93.).—It was one of + the proofs against the Duke of Monmouth, that he had touched for the evil + when in the West; and I have seen a handbill describing the cures he + effected. It was sold at Sir John St. Aubyn's sale of prints at + Christie's some few years since.</p> + + <p class="author">H. W. D. + + <p>"<i>Talk not of Love</i>" (Vol. iii., pp. 7.77.).—In answering + the Query of A. M. respecting this pleasing little song, your + correspondents have neglected to mention that the earliest copy of it, + <i>i.e.</i> that in Johnson's <i>Scots Musical Museum</i>, has <i>two</i> + additional stanzas. This is important, because, from No. 8. of Burns's + <i>Letters to Clarinda</i>, it appears that the concluding lines were + supplied by Burns himself to suit the music. He remarks that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho. + I am in raptures with it."</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p><!-- Page 198 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page198"></a>{198}</span></p> + + <p>Mrs. Mac Lehose (<i>Clarinda</i>) was living in 1840, in the eightieth + year of her age.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault</span>. + + <p><i>Did St. Paul's Clock strike Thirteen?</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 40.).—Yes: but it was not then at St. Paul's; for I think St. + Paul's was then being rebuilt. The correspondent to the <i>Antiquarian + Repertory</i> says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The first time I heard it (the circumstance) was at Windsor, before + St. Paul's had a clock, when the soldier's plea was said to be that Tom + of Westminster struck thirteen instead of twelve at the time when he + ought to have been relieved. It is not long since a newspaper mentioned + the death of one who said he was the man."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>About the beginning of the eighteenth century this bell was removed to + St. Paul's, &c.—Can any of the readers of the "<span + class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" supply the newspaper notice above + referred to. The above was written in 1775. The clock tower in which the + bell was originally (and must have been when the sentinel heard it) was + removed in 1715.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Francis</span>. + +<div class="note"> + <p>[The story is given in Walcott's <i>Memorials of Westminster</i> as + being thus recorded in <i>The Public Advertiser</i> of Friday, 22nd June, + 1770:—"Mr. John Hatfield, who died last Monday at his house in + Glasshouse Yard, Aldersgate, aged 102 years, was a soldier in the reign + of William and Mary, and the person who was tried and condemned by a + Court Martial for falling asleep on his duty upon the terrace at Windsor. + He absolutely denied the charge against him, and solemnly declared that + he heard St. Paul's clock strike thirteen, the truth of which was much + doubted by the court because of the great distance. But whilst he was + under sentence of death, an affidavit was made by several persons that + the clock actually did strike thirteen instead of twelve; whereupon he + received his majesty's pardon. The above his friends caused to be + engraved upon his plate, to satisfy the world of the truth of a story + which has been much doubted, though he had often confirmed it to many + gentlemen, and a few days before his death told it to several of his + neighbours. He enjoyed his sight and memory to the day of his + death."]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 113.).—Among the benefits conferred by "<span class="sc">Notes and + Queries</span>" upon the literary world, is the information occasionally + afforded, in what libraries, public and private, very rare books are + deposited. <span class="sc">Mr. Collier</span> expresses his thanks to + <span class="sc">Mr. Laing</span> for sending to him a very rare volume + by Kyffin. Had I seen his "Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' + Company," I should have had much pleasure in furnishing him with + extracts, from another copy in the Chetham Library, of the tract he has + described. The Rev. T. Corser possesses the same author's <i>Blessedness + of Britain</i>. His other works are enumerated by Watt, and should be + transferred to a Bibliotheca Cambrensis.</p> + + <p class="author">T. J. + + <p><i>Metrical Psalms, &c.</i> (Vol. iii., p. 119.).—<span + class="sc">Arun</span> may find all the information he seeks by + consulting a treatise of <i>Heylin's</i> on the subject of the metrical + version of the Psalms, published by Dr. Rich. Watson, under the title of + <i>The Deduction</i>, 8vo. Lond. 1685.</p> + + <p>Together with this treatise, two letters from Bishop <i>Cosin</i> to + Watson are published; in the latter of which, towards the end, the + following paragraph occurs:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The singing Psalms are not adjoined to our Bibles, or to our Liturgy, + by any other authority than what the Company of Stationers for their own + gain have procured, either by their own private ordinances among + themselves, or by some order from the Privy Council in Queen Elizabeth's + time. Authority of convocation, or of Parliament, such as our Liturgy + had, never had they any: only the Queen, by her Letters Patent to the + Stationers, gave leave to have them printed, and allowed them (did not + command them) to be sung in churches or private houses by the people. + When the Liturgy was set forth, and commanded to be used, these psalms + were not half of them composed: no bishop ever inquired of their + observance, nor did ever any judge at an assize deliver them in his + charge: which both the one and other had been bound to do, if they had + been set forth by the same authority which the Liturgy was. Besides you + may observe, that they are never printed with the Liturgy or Bible, nor + ever were; but only bound up, as the stationers please, together with + it," &c.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom</span>. + + <p><i>Aristophanes on the Modern Stage</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 105.)—Molière has availed himself in the comedy of the <i>Bourgeois + Gentilhomme</i> very liberally of the comedy of the <i>Clouds</i>. The + lesson in grammar given to Monsr. Jourdain is nearly the same as that + which Socrates gives to Strepsiades.</p> + + <p class="author">W. B. D. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</h3> + + <p>The last number of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> contains a very + important paper upon the limited accessibility of the State Paper Office + to literary inquirers, and the consequent injury to historical + literature. But not only is the present system illiberal; it seems that + it has been determined by the Lords of the Treasury that the historical + papers anterior to 1714 shall be transferred from the State Paper Office + to the new Record Office, which is now rising rapidly on the Rolls + Estate. Under present circumstances, this is a transfer from bad to + worse. Our contemporary shows the absurdity and injustice to literature + of such a determination in a very striking manner. We cannot follow him + through his proofs, but are bound as the organ of literary men to direct + attention to the subject. It is most important to every one who is + interested—and who is not?—in the welfare of historical + literature. <!-- Page 199 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page199"></a>{199}</span></p> + + <p>The <i>Unpublished Manuscripts on Church Government</i> by Archbishop + Laud, stated to have been prepared for the education of Prince Henry, and + subsequently presented to Charles I., which we mentioned in our + sixty-ninth number, was sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on the 24th + ultimo, for Twenty Guineas. And here we may note that in the Collection + of Autographs sold by the same auctioneers on Friday last, among other + valuable articles was a Letter of Burke, dated 3rd Oct. 1793, from which + we quote the following passage, which will be read with interest at the + present time, and furnishes some information respecting Cardinal + Erskine—the subject of a recent Query:—"I confess, I would, + if the matter rested with me, enter into much more distinct and avowed + political connections with the Court of Rome than hitherto we have held. + If we decline them, the bigotry will be on our part and not on that of + his Holiness. Some mischief has happened, and much good has, I am + convinced, been prevented by our unnatural alienation.</p> + + <p>... With regard to Monsignor Erskine, I am certain that all his + designs are formed upon the most honourable and the most benevolent + public principles." One of the most interesting lots at the sale was a + proclamation of the "Old Pretender," dated Rome, 23 Dec. 1743, given + "under our Sign Manual and Privy Seal," the seal having the inscription + "<span class="sc">Jacobus III. Rex</span>," which fetched Eleven + Pounds.</p> + + <p>We believe there are few libraries in this country, however small, in + which there is not to be found one shelf devoted to such pet books on + Natural History as White's <i>Selborne</i>, the <i>Journal of a + Naturalist</i>, and Waterton's <i>Wanderings</i>. The writings of Mr. + Knox are obviously destined to take their place in the same honoured + spot. Actuated with the same love of nature, and gifted with the same + power of patient observation as White, he differs from him in the wider + range over which he extends his observation, and in combining the ardour + of the sportsman with the scientific spirit of inquiry which + distinguishes the naturalist. In his <i>Game Birds and Wild Fowl: their + Friends and their Foes</i>, which contains the result of his observations + and experience, not only on the birds described in his title-page, but on + certain other animals supposed, oftentimes most erroneously, to be + injurious to their welfare and increase—we have a work which + reflects the highest credit upon the writer, and can scarcely fail to + accomplish the great end for which Mr Knox wrote it, that of "adding new + votaries to a loving observation of nature."</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Books Received</span>.—<i>Desdemona, the + Magnifico's Child</i>; the Fourth of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Stories of + <i>The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines</i>, is devoted to the history + of</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i12hg3">"a maid</p> + <p>That paragons description and wild fame."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>Gilbert's Popular Narrative of the Origin, History, Progress, and + Prospects Of the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851, by Peter + Berlyn</i>,—a little volume apparently carefully compiled from + authentic sources of information upon the several points set forth in its + ample title-page.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES +WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">Wilson's Ornaments of Churches Considered</span>.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Theobald's Shakspeare Restored</span>.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Celebrated Trials</span>, 6 Vols. 8vo., 1825. Vol + 6.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Ossian</span>, 3 Vols. 12mo. Miller, 1805. Vol. + 2.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Howitt's Rural Life of England</span>. 12mo. 1838. + Vol. 2.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Sharon Turner's Anglo-Saxons</span>. Last + Edition.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Chambers's Scottish Biography</span>, 4 Vols. + 8vo.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">The Lady's Poetical Magazine</span>, or <span + class="sc">Beauties of British Poetry</span>, Vol. 2. London, 1781.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Burnet's History of the Reformation</span>. Folio. + Vol. 3.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Passeri, Istoria Delle Pitture in Majolica</span>. + Pesaro, 1838; or any other Edition.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Naval Chronicle</span>, any or all of the odd books + of the first 12 Vols.</p> + + <p>*** Letters stating particulars and lowest price, <i>carriage + free</i>, to be sent to <span class="sc">Mr. Bell</span>, Publisher of + "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Notices to Correspondents.</h2> + + <p><i>Although we have this week enlarged our paper to 24 pages, we are + compelled to solicit the indulgence of many correspondents for the + postponement of many interesting</i> <span class="sc">Notes, + Queries</span>, <i>and</i> <span class="sc">Replies</span>.</p> + + <p>C. H. P. <i>will find his query inserted. It was in type last week, + but only postponed from want of room. We have omitted his comment called + for by the omission of the words "fleet against the."</i></p> + + <p>W. S. <i>The fine lines commencing,—</i></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"My mind to me a kingdom is,</p> + <p>Such perfect joy therein I find:"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>were written by Lovelace.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">F. B. Relton</span>. <i>The Satyr</i> on the Jesuits + <i>was written by John Oldham, and originally published in 1679.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Salopian</span>. <i>The tragedy of</i> The Earl of + Warwick <i>or</i> The King and Subject, <i>was translated from the French + of De la Harpe by Paul Heffernan.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Cam</span>. <i>It appears from Brayley's</i> + Londiniana, iv. 5. <i>on the authority of Strype's</i> Stow. b. i. p. + 287., <i>that Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount Campden, was the son + of Robert Hicks, a silk mercer, who kept a shop in Cheapside, at Soper's + Lane End, at the White Bear. See also Cunningham's</i> Handbook of + London, <i>Art.</i> <span class="sc">Hicks' Hall</span>.</p> + + <p>O. P. <i>The lines—</i></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom,</p> + <p>Not forc't him wander, but confin'd him home."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p><i>are from Cleveland's</i> Rebell Scott, <i>and would be found at p. + 52 of Cleveland's Poems, ed. 1654.</i></p> + + <p>H., <i>who asks whether any friend living in London would consult + books for him at the British Museum, and let him know the result, had + better specify more particularly what is the information he + requires.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Rusticus</span> <i>will find the information he seeks + in a Biographical Dictionary under the name</i> Sarpi.</p> + + <p>L. J. <i>Blackstone</i> (Book iv. cap. 25.; vol. iv. p. 328. ed 1778) + <i>supposes that pressing a mute prisoner to death was gradually + introduced between 31 Edw. III and 8 Hen. IV. as a species of mercy to + the delinquent, by delivering him sooner from his torment.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Replies Received</span>. <i>"Love's Labour's + Lost"—Election of a Pope—Umbrellas—Signs on Chemists' + Bottles—Christmas Day—Four Events—A Coggeshall + Job—Denarius Philosophorum—Days of the Week—Hugh + Peters—Sun, stand thou still—Master John Shorne—Boiling + to Death—Wages in the last Century—Crossing Rivers on + Skins—Election of a Pope—Origin of Harlequins—Thomas + May—Prince of Wales' Motto—Ten Commandments—Tract on + the Eucharist.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Vols.</span> I. <i>and</i> II., <i>each with very + copious Index, may still be had, price 9s. 6d. each.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span> <i>may be procured, by + order, of all Booksellers and Newsvenders. It is published at noon on + Friday, so that our country Subscribers ought not to experience any + difficulty in procuring it regularly. 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