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+Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851, by Various
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851
+       A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
+       Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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+Author: Various
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+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+No. 72.]
+SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1851.
+[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+  NOTES:--                                                   Page
+  Illustrations of Chaucer                                    201
+  Inedited Poetry, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie             203
+  On a Passage in Marmion                                     203
+  Gloucestershire Provincialisms, by Albert Way               204
+  The Chapel of Loretto                                       205
+  Folk Lore:--"Nettle in Dock out"--Soul separates
+  from the Body--Lady's Trees--Norfolk Folk Lore
+  Rhymes                                                      205
+  Minor Notes:--Note for the Topographers of Ancient
+  London, and for the Monasticon--Gray and Burns--
+  Traditional Notice of Richard III.--Oliver Cromwell--
+  Snail-eating                                                206
+
+  QUERIES:--
+  Biddings in Wales                                           207
+  Minor Queries:--Lord of Relton--Beatrix de Bradney--
+  "Letters on the British Museum"--Ballad
+  Editing: The "Outlandish Knight"--Latin Epigram
+  on the Duchess of Eboli--Engraved Portrait--
+  Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence--
+  The Two Drs. Abercromby--Witte van Haemstede--J.
+  Bruckner: Dutch Church in Norwich                           208
+
+  MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Hereditary Earl
+  Marshal--The Beggar's Petition--"Tiring-irons
+  never to be untied"                                         209
+
+  REPLIES:--
+  The Meaning of Eisell, by H. K. S. Causton                  210
+  Replies to Minor Queries:--William Chilcott--Fossil
+  Elk of Ireland--Canes Lesos--"By Hook or by
+  Crook"--Suem--Sir George Downing--Miching
+  Malicho--Cor Linguæ--Under the Rose--"Impatient
+  to speak, and not see"--Bishop Frampton--Old
+  Tract on the Eucharist--Was Hugh Peters ever on
+  the Stage?                                                  212
+
+  MISCELLANEOUS:--
+  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                      214
+  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                215
+  Notices to Correspondents                                   215
+  Advertisements                                              215
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Notes.
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER.
+
+(Vol. iii., pp. 131. 133.)
+
+I am glad to perceive that some of the correspondents of "NOTES AND
+QUERIES" are turning their attention to the elucidation of Chaucer. The
+text of our father-poet, having remained as it were in fallow since the
+time of Tyrwhitt, now presents a rich field for industry; and, in offering
+free port and entry to all comments and suggestions, to be there sifted and
+garnered up, the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES" may soon become a depository
+from which ample materials may be obtained for a new edition of Chaucer,
+now become an acknowledged desideratum.
+
+One excellent illustration has lately been added, at page 133., in a note
+without signature upon "Nettle in, dock out." If _confirmed_[1], it will
+furnish not only a most satisfactory explanation of that hitherto
+incomprehensible phrase, but also a curious example of the faithful
+preservation of an exact form of words through centuries of oral tradition.
+
+And if the note which precedes it, at page 131., upon a passage in Palamon
+and Arcite, is less valuable, it is because it is deficient in one of the
+most essential conditions which such communications ought to possess--that
+of originality. No suggestion ought to be offered which had been previously
+published in connexion with the same subject: at least in any _very
+obvious_ place of reference, such as notes or glossaries already appended
+to well-known editions of the text.
+
+Now the precise explanation of the planetary distribution of the
+twenty-four hours of the day, given by [Greek: e]. in the first portion of
+his communication, was anticipated seventy or eighty years ago by Tyrwhitt
+in his note upon the same passage of Palamon and Arcite. And with respect
+to [Greek: e].'s second explanation of the meaning of "houre inequal," that
+expression also has been commented upon by Tyrwhitt, who attributes it to
+the well-known expansive duration of ancient hours, the length of which was
+regulated by that of the natural day at the several seasons of the year:
+hence an _inequality_ always existed; except at the equinoxes, between
+hours before, and hours after, sunrise. This is undoubtedly the true
+explanation, since Chaucer was, at the time, referring to hours before and
+after sunrise upon the same day. On the contrary, [Greek: e].'s ecliptic
+hours, if they ever existed at all (he has cited no authority), would be
+obviously incompatible with the planetary disposition of the hours first
+referred to.
+
+I shall now, in my turn, suggest explanations of the two new difficulties
+in Chaucer's text, to {202} which, at the conclusion of his note, [Greek:
+e]. has drawn attention.
+
+The first is, that, "with respect to the time of year at which the
+tournament takes place, there seems to be an inconsistency." Theseus fixes
+"this day fifty wekes" from the fourth of May, as the day on which the
+final contention must come off, and yet the day previous to the final
+contention is afterwards alluded to as "the lusty seson of that May,"
+which, it is needless to say, would be inconsistent with an interval of
+fifty _ordinary_ weeks.
+
+But fifty weeks, if taken in their literal sense of 350 days, would be a
+most unmeaning interval for Theseus to fix upon,--it would almost require
+explanation as much as the difficulty itself: it is therefore much easier
+to suppose that Chaucer meant to imply the interval of a solar year. Why he
+should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two,
+weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would
+be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that
+the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a
+lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
+
+Chaucer sometimes makes the strangest jumble--mixing up together Pagan
+matters and Christian, Roman and Grecian, ancient and modern; so that
+although he names Sunday and Monday as two of the days of the week in
+Athens, he does so evidently for the purpose of introducing the allocation
+of the hours, alluded to before, to which the planetary names of the days
+of the week were absolutely necessary. But in the fifty weeks appointed by
+Theseus, the very same love of a little display of erudition would lead
+Chaucer to choose the _hebdomas lunæ_, or lunar quarter, which the Athenian
+youth were wont to mark out by the celebration of a feast to Apollo on
+every seventh day of the moon. But after the first twenty-eight days of
+every lunar month, the weekly reckoning must have been discontinued for
+about a day and a half (when the new moon was what was called "in coitu,"
+or invisible), after which a new reckoning of sevens would recommence.
+Hence there could be but four hebdomades in each lunar month; and as there
+are about twelve and a half lunar months in a solar year, so must there
+have been fifty lunar weeks in one solar year.
+
+It will explain many anomalies, even in Shakspeare, if we suppose that our
+early writers were content to show their knowledge of a subject in a few
+particulars, and were by no means solicitous to preserve, what moderns
+would call _keeping_, in the whole performance.
+
+The next difficulty, adverted to by [Greek: e]., is the mention of the
+THIRD as the morning upon which Palamon "brake his prison," and Arcite went
+into the woods "to don his observaunce to May."
+
+There is not perhaps in the whole of Chaucer's writings a more exquisite
+passage than that by which the latter circumstance is introduced; it is
+well worth transcribing:--
+
+ "The besy larke, the messager of day,
+  Sal[=e]weth in hire song the morw[=e] gray;
+  And firy Phebus riseth up so bright,
+  That all the orient laugheth at the sight;
+  And with his strem[=e]s drieth in the greves
+  The silver drop[=e]s hanging on the leves."
+
+Such is the description of the morning of the "thridde of May;" and
+perhaps, if no other mention of that date were to be found throughout
+Chaucer's works, we might be justified in setting it down as a random
+expression, to which no particular meaning was attached. But when we find
+it repeated in an entirely different poem, and the same "observaunce to
+May" again associated with it, the conviction is forced upon us that it
+cannot be without some definite meaning.
+
+This repetition occurs in the opening of the second book of _Troilus and
+Creseide_, where "the thridde" has not only "observaunce to May" again
+attributed to it, but also apparently some peculiar virtue in dreams. No
+sooner does Creseide behold Pandarus on the morning of the third of May,
+than "_by the hond on hie, she tooke him fast_," and tells him that she had
+thrice dreamed of him that night. Pandarus replies in what appears to have
+been a set form of words suitable to the occasion--
+
+ "Yea, nece, ye shall faren well the bet,
+  If God wull, all this yeare."
+
+Now unless the third of May were supposed to possess some unusual virtue,
+the dreaming on that morning could scarcely confer a whole year's welfare.
+But, be that as it may, there can at least be no doubt that Chaucer
+designedly associated _some_ celebration of the advent of May with the
+morning of the third of that month.
+
+Without absolutely asserting that my explanation is the true one, I may
+nevertheless suggest it until some better may be offered. It is, that the
+association may have originated in the invocation of the goddess Flora, by
+Ovid, on that day (_Fasti_, v.), in order that she might inspire him with
+an explanation of the Floralia, or Floral games, which were celebrated in
+Rome from the 28th of April to the _third_ of May.
+
+These games, if transferred by Chaucer to Athens, would at once explain the
+"gret feste" and the "lusty seson of that May."
+
+Supposing, then, that Chaucer, in the _Knight's Tale_, meant, as I think he
+meant, to place the great combat on the anniversary of the fourth of
+May--that being the day on which Theseus had intercepted the duel,--then
+the entry into Athens of the rival companies would take place on {203}
+(Sunday) the second, and the sacrifices and feasting on the _third of May_,
+the last of the Floralia.
+
+A. E. B.
+
+  Leeds, March 4, 1851.
+
+[Footnote 1: [Of which there can be no doubt. See further p. 205. of our
+present Number.--ED.]]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INEDITED POETRY, NO. II.
+
+CHORUS.
+
+(Harleian MSS., No. 367. fo. 154.)
+
+ "Is, is there nothing cann withstand
+          The hand
+      Of Time: but that it must
+      Be shaken into dust?
+  Then poore, poore Israelites are wee
+          Who see,
+  But cannot shunn the Graue's captivitie.
+
+ "Alas, good Browne! that Nature hath
+          No bath,
+      Or virtuous herbes to strayne,
+      To boyle[2] thee yong againe;
+  Yet could she (kind) but back command
+          Thy brand,
+  Herself would dye thou should'st be unman'd.
+
+ "But (ah!) the golden Ewer by [a] stroke,
+          Is broke,
+      And now the Almond Tree
+      With teares, with teares, we see,
+  Doth lowly lye, and with its fall
+          Do all
+  The daughters dye, that once were musicall.
+
+ "Thus yf weake builded man cann saye,
+          A day
+      He lives, 'tis all, for why?
+      He's sure at night to dye,
+  For fading man in fleshly lome[3]
+          Doth rome
+  Till he his graue find, His eternall home.
+
+ "Then farewell, farewell, man of men,
+          Till when
+      (For us the morners meet
+      Pal'd visag'd in the street,
+  To seale up this our britle birth
+          In earth,)
+  We meet with thee triumphant in our mirth."
+                  _Trinitäll Hall's Exequies._
+
+Now, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of the
+almond-tree? Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza, or has
+it some reference to any botanical fact? I send the ballad, trusting that
+as an inedited morsel you will receive it.
+
+KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.
+
+    [We do not take _Hall_ here to be the name of a man, but Trinity Hall
+    at Cambridge.]
+
+[Footnote 2: The reader will recognise the classical allusion.]
+
+[Footnote 3: Loam, earth; roam.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ON A PASSAGE IN MARMION.
+
+I venture for the first time to trespass upon the attention of your readers
+in making the following remarks upon a passage in _Marmion_, which, as far
+as I know, has escaped the notice of all the critical writers whose
+comments upon that celebrated poem have hitherto been published.
+
+It will probably be remembered, that long after the main action of the poem
+and interest of the story have been brought to a close by the death of the
+hero on the field of Flodden, the following incident is thus pointedly
+described:--
+
+  Short is my tale:--Fitz-Eustace' care
+  A pierced and mangled body bare
+  To moated Lichfield's lofty pile:
+  And there, beneath the southern aisle,
+  A tomb, with Gothic sculpture fair
+  Did long Lord Marmion's image bear,
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+ "There erst was martial Marmion found,
+  His feet upon a couchant hound,
+    His hands to Heaven upraised:
+  And all around on scutcheon rich,
+  And tablet carved, and fretted niche,
+    His arms and feats were blazed.
+  And yet, though all was carved so fair,
+  And priest for Marmion breathed the prayer,
+  _The last Lord Marmion lay not there._
+  From Ettrick woods a peasant swain
+  Follow'd his lord to Flodden plain,--
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+ "Sore wounded Sybil's Cross he spied,
+  And dragg'd him to its foot, and died,
+  Close by the noble Marmion's side.
+  The spoilers stripp'd and gash'd the slain,
+  And thus their corpses were mista'en;
+  And thus in the proud Baron's tomb,
+  The lowly woodsman took the room."
+
+Now, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon this
+forced and improbable incident? Had it indeed been with no other purpose
+than to introduce the picturesque description and the moral reflexions
+contained in the following section, the improbability might well be
+forgiven. But such is not the real object. The critic of the _Monthly
+Review_ takes the following notice of this passage, which is printed as a
+note in the last edition of Scott's _Poems_ in 1833:--
+
+    "A corpse is afterwards conveyed, as that of Marmion, to the cathedral
+    of Lichfield, where a magnificent tomb is erected to his memory, &c.
+    &c.; but, by an _admirably imagined act of poetical justice_, we are
+    informed that a peasant's body was placed beneath that costly monument,
+    while the haughty Baron himself was buried like a vulgar corpse on the
+    spot where he died."
+
+Had the reviewer attempted to penetrate a little deeper into the workings
+of the author's mind, he would have seen in this circumstance much more
+than "an admirably imagined act of poetical {204} justice." He would have
+perceived in it the ultimate and literal fulfilment of the whole penalty
+foreshadowed to the delinquent baron in the two concluding stanzas of that
+beautiful and touching song sung by Fitz-Eustace in the Hostelrie of
+Gifford in the third canto of the poem, which I here transcribe:
+
+ "Where shall the traitor rest,
+    He the deceiver,
+  Who could win maiden's breast,
+    Ruin, and leave her?
+  In the lost battle
+    Borne down by the flying,
+  Where mingles war's rattle,
+    With groans of the dying--
+      There shall he be lying.
+  Her wing shall the eagle flap
+    O'er the false-hearted,
+  His warm blood the wolf shall lap
+    Ere life be parted.
+  _Shame and dishonour sit_
+    _By his grave ever;_
+  _Blessing shall hallow it,_
+    _Never, O never!_"
+
+Then follows the effect produced upon the conscience of the "Traitor,"
+described in these powerful lines:--
+
+ "It ceased. the melancholy sound;
+  And silence sunk on all around.
+  The air was sad; but sadder still
+    It fell on Marmion's ear,
+  And plain'd as if disgrace and ill,
+    And shameful death, were near."
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+And lastly, when the life of the wounded baron is ebbing forth with his
+blood on the field of battle, when--
+
+ "The Monk, with unavailing cares
+  Exhausted all the Church's prayers--
+  Ever, he said, that, close and near,
+  A lady's voice was in his ear,
+  And that the priest he could not hear--
+    For that she ever sung,
+ '_In the lost battle, borne down by the flying,_
+  _Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying!_'--
+    So the notes ring."
+
+I am the more disposed to submit these remarks to your readers, because it
+is highly interesting to trace an irresistible tendency in the genius of
+this mighty author towards the fulfilment of prophetic legends and visions
+of second sight: and not to extend this paper to an inconvenient length, I
+purpose to resume the subject in a future number, and collate some other
+examples of a similar character from the works of Sir Walter Scott.
+
+I write from the southern slopes of Cheviot, almost within sight of the
+Hill of Flodden. During the latter years of the great Border Minstrel, I
+had the happiness to rank myself among the number of his friends and
+acquaintances, and I revere his memory as much as I prized his friendship.
+
+A BORDERER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS.
+
+_To burl, burling; to shunt, &c._--In the report of the evidence regarding
+the death of Mrs. Hathway, at Chipping Sodbury, supposed to have been
+poisoned by her husband, the following dialectical expression occurs, which
+may deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated that he was invited by Mr.
+Hathway to go with him into a beer-house in Frampton Cotterell, "and have a
+tip," but he declined.
+
+    "Mr. H. went in and called for a quart of beer, and then came out
+    again, and I went in. He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a
+    hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to him."--_Times_, Feb.
+    28.
+
+I am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been
+noticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell. In the
+Cumberland dialect, a _birler_, or _burler_, is the master of the revels,
+who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes
+especial care that the drink be plentifully provided. (_Westmoreland and
+Cumberland Dialects_, London, 1839.)
+
+Boucher and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of the
+verb _to birle_, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr. Dyce's notes
+on _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 269. (_Skelton's Works_, vol. ii. p. 167.). It is
+a good old Anglo-Saxon word--byrlian, _propinare_, _haurire_. In the
+Wycliffite versions it occurs repeatedly, signifying to give to drink. See
+the Glossary to the valuable edition lately completed by Sir F. Madden and
+Mr. Forshall.
+
+In the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, vol i. p. 51., we find--
+
+    "Bryllare of drynke, or schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke,
+    _propino_: Bryllynge of drynke," &c.
+
+Whilst on the subject of dialectical expressions, I would mention an
+obsolete term which has by some singular chance recently been revived, and
+is actually in daily use throughout England in the railway vocabulary--I
+mean the verb "to shunt." Nothing is more common than to see announced,
+that at a certain station the parliamentary "shunts" to let the Express
+pass; or to hear the order--"shunt that truck," push it aside, off the main
+line. In the curious ballad put forth in 1550, called "John Nobody"
+(Strype's _Life of Cranmer_, App. p. 138.), in derision of the Reformed
+church, the writer describes how, hearing the sound of a "synagogue,"
+namely, a congregation of the new faith, he hid himself in alarm:
+
+ "The I drew me down into a dale, wheras the dumb deer
+  Did shiver for a shower, but I shunted from a freyke,
+  For I would no wight in this world wist who I were."
+
+{205}
+
+In the Townley Mysteries, _Ascensio Domini_, p. 303., the Virgin Mary calls
+upon St. John to protect her against the Jews,--
+
+ "Mi fleshe it qwakes, as lefe on lynde,
+  To shontt the shrowres sharper than thorne,"--
+
+explained in the Glossary, "sconce or ward off." Sewel, in his _English and
+Dutch Dictionary_, 1766, gives--"to shunt (a country word for to shove),
+_schuiven_." I do not find "shunt," however, in the Provincial Glossaries:
+in some parts of the south, "to shun" is used in this sense. Thus, in an
+assault case at Reigate, I heard the complainant say of a man who had
+hustled him, "He kept shunning me along: sometimes he shunt me on the
+road," that is, pushed me off the footpath on to the highway.
+
+I hope that the Philological Society has not abandoned their project of
+compiling a complete Provincial Glossary: the difficulties of such an
+undertaking might be materially aided through the medium of "NOTES AND
+QUERIES."
+
+ALBERT WAY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHAPEL OF LORETTO.
+
+Among the aerial migrations of the chapel of Loretto, it is possible that
+our own country may hereafter be favoured by a visit of that celebrated
+structure. In the mean time, as I am not aware that the contributions of
+our countrymen to its history have been hitherto commemorated, the
+following extract from a note, made by me on the spot some years ago, may
+not be unsuitable for publication in "NOTES AND QUERIES." As I had neither
+the time nor the patience which the pious, but rather prolix, Scotchman
+bestowed upon his composition, I found it necessary to content myself with
+a mere abstract of the larger portion.
+
+The story of the holy House of Loretto is engraved on brass in several
+languages upon the walls of the church at Loretto. Among others, there are
+two tablets with the story in English, headed "The wondrus flittinge of the
+kirk of our blest Lady of Laureto." It commences by stating that this kirk
+is the chamber of the house of the Blessed Virgin, in Nazareth, where our
+Saviour was born; that after the Ascension the Apostles hallowed and made
+it a kirk, and "S. Luke framed a pictur to har vary liknes thair zit to be
+seine;" that it was "haunted with muckle devotione by the folke of the land
+whar it stud, till the people went after the errour of Mahomet," when
+angels took it to Slavonia, near a place called Flumen: here it was not
+honoured as it ought to be, and they took it to a wood near Recanati,
+belonging to a lady named Laureto, whence it took its name. On account of
+the thieveries here committed, it was again taken up and placed near, on a
+spot belonging to two brothers, who quarrelled about the possession of the
+oblations offered there; and again it was removed to the roadside, near
+where it now stands. It is further stated that it stands without
+foundations, and that sixteen persons being sent from Recanati to measure
+the foundations still remaining at Nazareth, they were found exactly to
+agree:
+
+    "And from that tim fourth it has beine surly ken'd that this kirk was
+    the Cammber of the B. V. whereto Christian begun thare and has ever
+    efter had muckle devotione, for that in it daily she hes dun and dus
+    many and many mirakels. Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, an eremit of muckle
+    godliness who wond in a cell neir, by this kirk, whar daily he went to
+    mattins, seid that for ten zeirs, one the eighth of September, tweye
+    hours before day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon it, whelk he
+    seyd was the B. V. wha their shawed harselfe one the feest of her
+    birthe."
+
+Then follows the evidence of Paule Renalduci, whose grandsire's grandsire
+saw the angels bring the house over the sea: also the evidence of Francis
+Prior, whose grandsire, a hunter, often saw it in the wood, and whose
+grandsire's grandsire had a house close by. The inscription thus
+terminates:--
+
+    "I, Robt. Corbington, priest of the Companie of Iesus in the zeir
+    MDCXXXV., have treulie translated the premisses out of the Latin story
+    hanged up in the seid kirk."
+
+S. SMIRKE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOLK LORE.
+
+"_Nettle in Dock out_" (Vol. iii., p. 133.).--If your correspondent will
+refer to _The Literary Gazette_, March 24, 1849, No. 1679., he will find
+that I gave precisely the same explanation of that obscure passage of
+Chaucer's _Troilus and Creseide_, lib. iv., in a paper which I contributed
+to the British Archæological Association.
+
+FRAS. CROSSLEY.
+
+    [We will add two further illustrations of this passage of Chaucer, and
+    the popular rhyme on which it is founded. The first is from Mr.
+    Akerman's _Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in
+    Wiltshire_, where we read--
+
+    "When a child is stung, he plucks a dock-leaf, and laying it on the
+    part affected, sings--
+
+         'Out 'ettle
+          In dock
+      Dock shall ha a new smock;
+         'Ettle zhant
+          Ha' narrun.'"
+
+Then follows a reference by Mr. Akerman to the passage in _Troilus and
+Creseide_.--Our second illustration is from Chaucer himself, who, in his
+_Testament of Love_ (p. 482 ed. Urry), has the following passage:
+
+    "Ye wete well Ladie eke (quoth I), that I have not plaid raket, Nettle
+    in, Docke out, and with the weathercocke waved."
+
+Mr. Akerman's work was, we believe, published in {206} 1846; and, at all
+events, attention was called to these passages in the _Athenæum_ of the
+l2th September in that year, No. 985.]
+
+_Soul separates from the Body._--In Vol. ii., p. 506., is an allusion to an
+ancient superstition, that the human soul sometimes leaves the body of a
+sleeping person and takes another form; allow me to mention that I
+remember, some forty years ago, hearing a servant from Lincolnshire relate
+a story of two travellers who laid down by the road-side to rest, and one
+fell asleep. The other, seeing a bee settle on a neighbouring wall and go
+into a little hole, put the end of his staff in the hole, and so imprisoned
+the bee. Wishing to pursue his journey, he endeavoured to awaken his
+companion, but was unable to do so, till, resuming his stick, the bee flew
+to the sleeping man and went into his ear. His companion then awoke him,
+remarking how soundly he had been sleeping, and asked what had he been
+dreaming of? "Oh!" said he, "I dreamt that you shut me up in a dark cave
+and I could not awake till you let me out." The person who told me the
+story firmly believed that the man's soul was in the bee.
+
+F. S.
+
+_Lady's Trees._--In some parts of Cornwall, small branches of sea-weed,
+dried and fastened in turned wooden stands, are set up as ornaments on the
+chimney-piece, &c. The poor people suppose that they preserve the house
+from fire, and they are known by the name of "_Lady's trees_," in honour, I
+presume, of the Virgin Mary.
+
+H. G. T.
+
+  Launceston.
+
+_Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes._--I have met with the rhymes following, which
+may not be uninteresting to some of your readers as _Folk Lore, Norfolk_:--
+
+ "Rising was, Lynn is, and Downham shall be,
+  The greatest seaport of the three."
+
+Another version of the same runs thus:
+
+ "Risin was a seaport town,
+    And Lynn it was a wash,
+  But now Lynn is a seaport Lynn,
+    And Rising fares the worst."
+
+Also another satirical tradition in rhyme:
+
+ "That nasty stinking sink-hole of sin,
+  Which the map of the county denominates Lynn."
+
+Also:
+
+ "Caistor was a city ere Norwich was none,
+  And Norwich was built of Caistor stone."
+
+JOHN NURSE CHADWICK.
+
+  King's Lynn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Note for the Topographers of Ancient London, and for the Monasticon._--
+
+    "Walter Grendon, Prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem,
+    acknowledges to have received, by the hands of Robert Upgate and Ralph
+    Halstede,--from Margaret, widow of S^r John Philippott K^t,--Thomas
+    Goodlak and their partners,--4 pounds in full payment of arrears of all
+    the rent due to us from their tenement called Jesoreshall in the city
+    of London.
+
+    "Dated 1. December, 1406."
+
+From the original in the Surrenden collection.
+
+L. B. L.
+
+_Gray and Burns._--
+
+    "Authors, before they write, should read."
+
+So thought Matthew Prior; and if that rule had been attended to, neither
+would Lord Byron have deemed it worth notice that "_the knell of parting
+day_," in Gray's Elegy, "was adopted from Dante;" nor would Mr. Cary have
+remarked upon "this plagiarism," if indeed _he_ used the term. (I refer to
+"NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. iii., p. 35.) The truth is, that in every good
+edition of Gray's _Works_, there is a note to the line in question, _by the
+poet himself_, expressly stating that the passage is "_an imitation of the
+quotation from Dante_" thus brought forward.
+
+I could furnish you with various _notes_ on Gray, pointing out remarkable
+coincidences of sentiment and expression between himself and other writers;
+but I cannot allow _Gray_ to be a plagiary, any more than I can allow
+_Burns_ to be so designated, in the following instances:--
+
+At the end of the poem called _The Vision_, we find--
+
+ "And like a passing thought she fled."
+
+In _Hesiod_ we have--
+
+ "[Greek: ho d' eptato hôste noêma.]"--_Scut. Herc._ 222.
+
+Again, few persons are unacquainted with Burns's lines--
+
+ "Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,
+  An' then she made," &c.
+
+In an old play, _Cupid's Whirligig_ (4to. 1607), we read--
+
+    "Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was
+    a skilful mistress of her art."
+
+Pliny, in his _Natural History_, has the pretty notion that
+
+    "Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus."
+
+VARRO.
+
+_Richard III., Traditional Notice of._--I have an aunt, now eighty-nine
+years of age, who in early life knew one who was in the habit of saying:
+
+    "I knew a man, who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in
+    the days of Richard III."
+
+Thus there have been but three links between one who knew Richard III. and
+one now alive.
+
+My aunt's acquaintance could name his three predecessors, who were members
+of his own family: {207} their names have been forgotten, but his name was
+Harrison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late in life
+settled in Bedfordshire.
+
+Richard died in 1484, and thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle an
+incident which occurred nearly 370 years since.
+
+Mr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remarkable about
+Richard, that he was not the hunchback "lump of foul deformity" so
+generally believed until of late years.
+
+The foregoing anecdote may be of interest as showing that traditions may
+come down from remote periods by few links, and thus be but little
+differing from the actual occurrences.
+
+H. J. B.
+
+  66. Hamilton Terrace,
+  St. John's Wood, March 5. 1851.
+
+_Oliver Cromwell._--Echard says that his highness sold himself to the
+devil, and _that he had seen the solemn compact_. Anthony à Wood, who
+doubtless credited this account of a furious brother loyalist, in his
+Journal says:
+
+    "Aug. 30, 1658. Monday, a terrible raging wind happened, which did much
+    damage. Dennis Bond, a great Oliverian and anti-monarchist, died on
+    that day, and then the devil took _bond_ for Oliver's appearance."
+
+Clarendon, assigning the Protector to eternal perdition, not liking to lose
+the portent, boldly says the remarkable hurricane occurred on September 3,
+the day of Oliver's death. Oliver's admirers, on the other hand, represent
+this wind as ushering him into the other world, but for a very different
+reason.
+
+Heath, in his _Flagellum_ (I have the 4th edit.), says:
+
+    It pleased God to usher in his end with a great whale _some three
+    months before_, June 2, that came up as far as Greenwich, and there was
+    killed; and more immediately by a terrible storm of wind: the
+    prognosticks that the great Leviathan of men, that tempest and
+    overthrow of government, was now going to his own place!"
+
+I have several works concerning Cromwell, but in no other do I find this
+story very like a whale. Would some reader of better opportunities favour
+us with a record of these two matters of natural history, not as connected
+with the death of this remarkable man, but as mere events? Your well-read
+readers will remember some similar tales relative to the death of Cardinal
+Mazarine. These exuberances of vulgar minds may partly be attributed to the
+credulity of the age, but more probably to the same want of philosophy
+which caused the ancients to deal in exaggeration.
+
+B. B.
+
+_Snail-eating._--The practice of _eating_, if not of talking to, snails,
+seems not to be so unknown in this country as some of your readers might
+imagine. I was just now interrogating a village child in reference to the
+addresses to snails quoted under the head of "FOLK LORE," Vol. iii., pp.
+132. and 179., when she acquainted me with the not very appetising fact,
+that she and her brothers and sisters had been in the constant habit of
+indulging this horrible _Limacotrophy_.
+
+    "We hooks them out of the wall (she says) with a stick, in winter time,
+    and not in summer time (so it seems they have their seasons); and we
+    roasts them, and, when they've done spitting, they be a-done; and we
+    takes them out with a fork, and eats them. Sometimes we has a jug
+    heaped up, pretty near my pinafore-full. I loves them dearly."
+
+Surely this little bit of practical cottage economy is worth recording.
+
+C. W. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+BIDDINGS IN WALES.
+
+There is a nursery song beginning--
+
+ "Harry Parry, when will you marry?
+    When apples and pears are ripe.
+  I'll come to your wedding, without any bidding,
+    And," &c. &c. &c.
+
+Does this mean that I will come without an invitation, or without a
+marriage-present? It will be observed that Parry is a Welsh name, and that
+bidding is a Welsh custom, as is shown by MR. SPURRELL (Vol. iii., p.
+114.). He has anticipated my intention of sending you a bidding-form, which
+has been lying upon my table for some weeks, but which I have not had time
+to transcribe; I now send it you, because it somewhat varies from MR.
+SPURRELL'S, and yet so much resembles it as to show that the same formula
+is preserved. Both show that the presents are considered as debts,
+transferable or assignable to other parties. Is this the case in all
+districts of Wales where the custom of bidding prevails? I think I have
+heard that in some places the gift is to be returned only when the actual
+donor "enters into the matrimonial state." It will be observed, too, in
+these forms, relations only transfer to relations. Is it considered that
+they may assign to persons not relations? Some of your Welsh correspondents
+may reply to these questions, which may elucidate all the varieties of
+practice in a custom which contributes much to the comfort of a young
+couple, and, in many instances, is an incentive to prudence, because they
+are aware that the debt is a debt of honour, not to be evaded without some
+loss of character.
+
+
+
+    "December 26. 1806.
+
+    "As we intend to enter the Matrimonial State on _Tuesday_ the 20th of
+    _January_, 1807, we purpose to make a Bidding on the occasion the same
+    day for the young man at his father's house, in the village of
+    _Llansaint_, in the parish of _St. Ishmael_; and for the young {208}
+    woman, at her own house, in the said village of _Llansaint_; at either
+    of which places the favour of your good company on that day will be
+    deemed a peculiar obligation; and whatever donation you may be pleased
+    to confer on either of us then, will be gratefully received, and
+    cheerfully repaid whenever required on a similar occasion, by
+
+  Your humble servants,
+              SETH REES,
+              ANN JENKINS.
+
+    "The young man's father and mother, and also the young woman's father
+    and mother, and sister Amy, desire that all gifts of the above nature
+    due to them, may be returned on the same day; and will be thankful for
+    all favour shown the young couple."
+
+E. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Lord of Relton_ (Vol. iii., p. 56.)--Will your correspondent MONKBARNS
+favour me with the date of the paper from which he copied the paragraph
+quoted, and whether it was given as being then in use, or as of ancient
+date?
+
+Can any of your readers inform me from what place the Lord of Relton
+derived his name? What was his proper name, and who is the present
+representative of the family?
+
+Is there any family of the name of Relton now existing in the neighbourhood
+of Langholme, or in Cumberland or Westmoreland?
+
+F. B. RELTON.
+
+_Beatrix de Bradney._--In your "NOTES AND QUERIES" for January 25th, 1851,
+p. 61., you have given Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred
+Entwysel.
+
+Sir Bertin left a daughter named Lucy, of whom Master Bradene of
+Northamptonshire is descended. Can F. R. R., or any genealogist, inform me
+whether this Master Bradene is descended from Simon de Bradney, one of the
+Knights of the Shire for Somersetshire in the year 1346? In Collins's
+_Somersetshire_, vol. iii. p. 92., he mentions:
+
+    "In St. Michael's Church, Bawdrip, under a large Gothic arch lies the
+    effigy in armour of Sir Simon de Bradney or Bredenie.
+
+    "The Manor of Bradney, in Somersetshire, supposed to have ended in
+    Beatrix de Bradney, an heiress, and passed with her into other
+    families; this Beatrix was living in the forty-sixth year of Edward
+    III."
+
+Can you inform me whom she married? About sixty-five years ago it was
+purchased by the late Joseph Bradney, Esq., of Ham, near Richmond; and his
+second son, the Reverend Joseph Bradney, of Greet, near Tenbury,
+Shropshire, is the present possessor.
+
+JULIA R. BOCKETT.
+
+  Southcote Lodge, near Reading.
+
+"_Letters on the British Museum._"--In the year 1767 was published by
+Dodsley a work in 12mo. pp. 92., with the above title; and at p. 85. is
+printed "A Pastoral Dialogue," between _Celia_ and _Ebron_, beginning, "As
+Celia rested in the shade," which the author states he "found among the
+manuscripts." I wish to know, first, who was the anonymous author of these
+letters; and, secondly, in what collection of manuscripts this "Dialogue"
+is to be found.
+
+[mu].
+
+_Ballad Editing._--The "_Outlandish Knight_" (Vol. iii.,p. 49.).--I was
+exceedingly glad to see Mr. F. Sheldon's "valuable contribution to our
+stock of ballad literature" in the hands of Mr. Rimbault, and thought the
+treatment it received no better than it deserved. _Blackwood_, May, 1847,
+reviewed Mr. Sheldon's book, and pointed out several instances of his
+"godfathership;" among others, his ballad of the "Outlandish Knight," which
+he obtained from "a copy in the possession of a gentleman at Newcastle,"
+was condemned by the reviewer as "a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of
+'May Collean.'" It may be as the reviewer states, but the question I would
+wish answered is one affecting the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not,
+the Southron "Outlandish Knight" is the original of "May Collean" itself. I
+have by me a copy, in black letter, of the "Outlandish Knight," English in
+every respect, and as such differing considerably from Mr. Sheldon's border
+edition, and from "May Collean;" and, with some slight alterations, the
+ballad I have is yet popularly known through the midland counties. If any
+of your correspondents can oblige me with a reference to the first
+appearance of "May Collean," sheet or book, I shall esteem it a favour.
+
+EMUN.
+
+  Birmingham.
+
+_Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli._--In his controversy with Bowles
+touching the poetry of Pope, Byron states that it was upon the Princess of
+Eboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, and Mangirow, the minion of Henry
+III. of France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well known to classic
+readers, was composed, concluding with the couplet:
+
+ "Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti,
+    Sic tu cæcus Amor, sic erit illa Venus."
+
+Can any contributor to the "NOTES AND QUERIES" suggest what authority his
+lordship has for his statement? Many years since, a curious paragraph
+appeared in one of the public journals, extracted apparently from an
+historical work, specifying the extraordinary political embroglios which
+the one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting from one of the statesmen of her
+times the complimentary declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead
+of only one, she would have set the universe on fire. A reference to this
+work--I fancy one of Roscoe's--would be of material service to an
+historical inquirer.
+
+C. R. H.
+
+{209}
+
+_Engraved Portrait._--
+
+ "All that thou see'st and readest is divine,
+  Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;
+  Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,
+  View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde."
+
+The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved
+by Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:--
+
+ "Ætatis Suæ 50º. Octob. 10. 1649."
+
+Of whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors, and is
+of course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it _vis-à-vis_ with a
+title-page, I am at a loss as to the author of whom it is the _vera
+effigies_. Possibly some of your readers will be kind enough to enlighten
+me upon the matter, and favour me with the name of the British worthy thus
+handed down to posterity by Cross's admirable burin.
+
+HENRY CAMPKIN.
+
+_Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence._--The first edition of
+Blackstone was published at Oxford in 4to., in the year 1765; and the Table
+of Precedence, in the 12th chapter of the First Book, found in subsequent
+editions edited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in Blackstone's first
+edition. Can any of your readers, having access to good legal theories,
+inform me in which of Blackstone's _own_ editions the Table of Precedence
+was first inserted?
+
+E.
+
+_The Two Drs. Abercromby._--In the latter half of the seventeenth century,
+there were two physicians of the name of Abercromby, who both graduated at
+the university of Leyden, and were afterwards the authors of various
+published works. The first work of David Abercromby mentioned in Watt's
+_Bibliotheca_ is dated in 1684, and the first written by Patrick Abercromby
+in 1707. As it was usual to compose an inaugural dissertation at obtaining
+the doctorate, and such productions were ordinarily printed (in small
+quarto), J. K. would feel obliged by the titles and dates of the inaugural
+dissertations of either or both of the physicians above mentioned.
+
+_Witte van Haemstede._--Can any of your readers inform me whether there
+still exist any descendants of _Witte van Haemstede_, an illegitimate scion
+of the ancient house of _Holland_? _Willem de Water_, in his _Adelijke
+Zeeland_, written in the seventeenth century, says that in his youth he
+knew a _Witte van Haemstede_ of this family, one of whose sons became
+pastor of the Dutch congregation in _London_.--_Navorscher_, Jan. 1851, p.
+17.
+
+_J. Bruckner--Dutch Church in Norwich._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for
+1804 is a short memoir of the Rev. J. Bruckner. He was born in the island
+of Cadsand, completed his studies at Leyden, where he enjoyed the society
+of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer, and the elder Schultens. In 1753 he became
+pastor of the Walloon, and afterwards of the Dutch congregation in Norwich,
+where he remained till his death in May, 1804. In 1767 he published at
+Leyden his _Théorie du Système Animal_; in 1790 appeared his _Criticisms on
+the Diversions of Purley_.
+
+Could your correspondents furnish me with a complete list of Bruckner's
+works, and direct me to a history of the Dutch church in Norwich, from its
+origin to the present time?--_Navorscher_, Feb. 1851, p. 28.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries Answered.
+
+    [Under this heading we propose to give such Minor Queries as we are
+    able to reply to at once, but which are not of a nature to be answered
+    with advantage in our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this means
+    to economise our space.]
+
+_The Hereditary Earl Marshal._--Miss Martineau, in her _History of
+England_, book iii. ch. 8., speaks (in 1829) of
+
+    "three Catholic peers, the _Duke of Norfolk_, Lord Clifford, and Lord
+    Dormer, having obtained entrance _at last_ to the legislative assembly,
+    where their fathers sat and ruled when their faith was the law of the
+    land."
+
+In Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, there is an anecdote, vol.
+vii. p. 695., of the Duke of Norfolk falling asleep and _snoring_ in the
+House of Lords, while Lord Eldon was on the woolsack. Did not the Duke of
+Norfolk (though Roman Catholic) sit and vote in the House of Lords, either
+by prescription or special act of parliament, before 1829?
+
+J. H. S.
+
+    [The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon
+    himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the
+    _late_ Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh
+    duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till
+    after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him
+    to exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths,
+    but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord
+    Eldon's joke must have been perpetrated--not on the bringing up of the
+    Bill, when the duke was not in the House--but on the occasion of the
+    _Great Snoring Bill being reported_ (April 2, 1811), when the duke
+    appears to have been present.]
+
+_The Beggar's Petition._--I shall feel obliged by your informing me who the
+author is of the lines--
+
+ "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
+  Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door."
+
+S.
+
+    [The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal of
+    attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to
+    Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D.; but from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol.
+    lxx., p. 41., it appears that it is the entire production of the {210}
+    Rev. Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham, in
+    Staffordshire, who wrote it at about the age of twenty-three. He sold
+    the manuscript of that, and of several others, to Mr. Smart, printer,
+    in Wolverhampton, who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criticism,
+    was to publish them on this condition, that only twenty copies should
+    have his name annexed to them, for the purpose of being presented to
+    his relations and friends.]
+
+"_Tiring-irons never to be untied._"--To what does Lightfoot (vol. vii. p.
+214.) refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he says--
+
+    "They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring-irons never to be
+    untied"?
+
+J. EASTWOOD.
+
+  Ecclesfield.
+
+    [The allusion is to a puzzle for children--often used by grown
+    children--which consists of a series of iron rings, on to or off which
+    a loop of iron wire may be got with some labour by those who know the
+    way, and which is very correctly designated _a tiring-iron_.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+THE MEANING OF EISELL.
+
+    [This controversy is becoming a little too warm for our pages. But MR.
+    CAUSTON is entitled to have some portion of the letter he has sent to
+    us inserted. He writes with reference to the communications from MR.
+    HICKSON and MR. SINGER in our 68th number, p. 119., in reply to MR.
+    C.'S Article, which, although it had been in our hands a considerable
+    time, was not inserted until out 65th Number, p. 66.; a delay which
+    gave to that article the appearance of an attempt to revive a
+    discussion, whereas it really was written only in continuance of one.]
+
+To MR. HICKSON I suggest, that whether the notion of "drinking up a river,"
+or "eating a crocodile," be the more "unmeaning" or "out of place," must
+after all be a mere matter of opinion, as the latter must remain a question
+of taste; since it seems to be his settled conviction that it is not
+"impossible," but only "extravagant." Archdeacon Nares thought it quite the
+reverse; and I beg to remind your readers that Shakspearian crocodiles are
+never served _à la Soyer_, but swallowed _au naturel_ and entire.
+
+MR. HICKSON is dissatisfied with my terms "mere verbiage" and "extravagant
+rant." I recommend a careful consideration of the scene over the grave of
+Ophelia; and then let any one say whether or not the "wag" of tongue
+between Laertes and Hamlet be not fairly described by the expressions I
+have used,--a paraphrase indeed, of Hamlet's concluding lines:
+
+         "Nay, an thou'lt _mouth_,
+  I'll _rant_ as well as thou."
+
+Doubtless Shakspeare had a purpose in everything he wrote, and his purpose
+at this time was to work up the scene to the most effective conclusion, and
+to display the excitement of Hamlet in a series of beautiful images, which,
+nevertheless, the queen his mother immediately pronounced to be "mere
+madness," and which one must be as mad as Hamlet himself to adopt as feats
+literally to be performed.
+
+The offence is rank in the eyes of MR. SINGER that I should have styled MR.
+HICKSON his friend. The amenities of literature, I now perceive, do not
+extend to the case, and a new canon is required, to the effect that "when
+one gentleman is found bolstering up the argument of another, he is not,
+ever for the nonce, to be taken for his friend." I think the denial to be
+expressed in rather strong language; but I hasten to make the _amende_
+suitable to the occasion, by withdrawing the "falsehood and unfounded
+insinuation."
+
+MR. SINGER has further charged me with "want of truth," in stating that the
+question remains "substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it."
+Wherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference?
+
+MR. SINGER has merely substituted his "wormwood wine" for Malone's vinegar;
+and before he can make it as palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's
+"logical correctness and nicety of expression," as it was to Creed and
+Shepley, he must get over the "stalking-horse," the _drink_ UP, which
+stands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more legitimate
+proposition. MR. SINGER overleaps the difficulty by a bare assertion that
+"to _drink_ UP was commonly used for simply to drink." He has not produced
+any parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr. Halliwell's
+_Nursery Rhymes_. I adopt his citation, and shall employ it against him.
+
+_Drink_ UP can only be grammatically applied to a determinate total,
+whether it be the river Yssell or MR. HICKSON'S dose of physic. Shakespeare
+seems to have been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the
+grammatical rule which MR. SINGER professes not to comprehend. Thus:
+
+             "I will drink,
+  _Potions of_ eysell."
+              Shaksp. _Sonnet_ cxi.
+
+and
+
+ "Give me to drink mandragora,"
+              _Ant. and Cleop._, Act I. Sc. 5.
+
+are parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as they
+admit of more or less.
+
+Now MR. SINGER'S obliging quotation from the _Nursery Rhymes_,--
+
+     "Eat UP your cake, Jenny,
+  _Drink_ UP YOUR wine"--
+
+certainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean neither
+more nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had standing
+before her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's sonnet
+(CXIV.):
+
+ "_Drink up_ the monarch's plague, _this_ flattery:"
+
+{211} and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively
+appertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of Hamlet,--
+
+ "Woo't _drink up_ eisell?"
+
+as a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a _river_, but could
+not be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity.
+
+Now what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER'S proposition? He says:
+
+    "In Thomas's _Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have 'ASSENZIO,
+    _Eysell_'[4]; and Florio renders that word [ASSENZIO, not _Eysell_?] by
+    'wormwood.' What is meant, however, is _wormwood wine_, a nauseously
+    bitter medicament then much in use."
+
+When pressed by LORD BRAYBROOKE ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 286.),
+who proved, by an extract from _Pepys's Diary_, that wormwood wine, so far
+from bearing out MR. SINGER'S description, was, in fact, a fashionable
+luxury, probably not more nauseous than the _pale ale_ so much in repute at
+the present day, MR. SINGER very adroitly produced a "corroborative note"
+from "old Langham" ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 315.), which,
+curiously enough, is castrated of all that Langham wrote pertaining to the
+question in issue. Treating of the many virtues of the prevailing tonic as
+an appetiser, and restorer "of a good color" to them that be "leane and
+evil colored," Langham says:
+
+    ["Make wormwood wine thus: take _aqua vitæ_ and malmsey, of each like
+    much, put it in a glasse or bottell with _a few leaves of dried
+    wormwood_, and let it stand certain days,] and strein out a little
+    spoonfull, and drink it with a draught of ale or wine: [it may be long
+    preserved.]"[5]
+
+Thus it will be seen that the reason for "streining out a little spoonfull"
+as a restorative for a weak stomach was less on account of the infusion
+being so "atrociously unpalatable," than of the alcohol used in its
+preparation.
+
+Dr. Venner also recommends as an excellent stomachic,
+
+    "To drink mornings fasting, and sometimes also before dinner, _a
+    draught of wormwood-wine_ or beer:"
+
+and we may gather the "atrocious bitterness" of the restorative, by the
+substitute he proposes: "or, for want of them," he continues:
+
+    "white wine or stale beer, wherein a few branches of wormwood have, for
+    certain hours, been infused."[6]
+
+Dr. Parr, quoting Bergius, describes _Absinthium_ as "a grateful
+stomachic;" and _Absinthites_ as "a pleasant form of the wormwood."[7]
+
+Is this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to _drink_ UP with his
+crocodile? So far from thinking so, I have ventured to coincide with
+Archdeacon Nares in favour of Steevens; for whether it be Malone's vinegar,
+or MR. SINGER'S more comfortable stomachic, the challenge to drink either
+"_in such a rant_, is so inconsistent, and even ridiculous, that we must
+decide for the river, whether its name be exactly found or not."[8]
+
+I am quite unconscious of any purport in my remarks, other than they appear
+on paper; and I should be sorry indeed to accuse MR. SINGER of being
+"ignorant" of anything; but I venture to suggest that those young gentlemen
+of surpassing spirit, who ate crocodiles, _drank_ UP eisell, and committed
+other anomalies against nature in honor of their mistresses, belonged
+decidedly to a period of time anterior to that of Shakspeare, and went
+quite out with the age of chivalry, of which Shakspeare saw scarcely even
+the fag end. Your lover of Shakspeare's time was quite another animal. He
+had begun to take beer. He had become much more subtle and self-satisfied.
+He did sometimes pen sonnets to his mistress's eye-brow, and sing soft
+nothings to the gentle sighing of his "Lewte." He sometimes indeed looked
+"pale and wan;" but, rather than for love, it was more than probably from
+his immoderate indulgence in the "newe weede," which he _drank_[9], though
+I never discovered that it was _drank up_ by him. He generally wore a
+doublet and breeches of satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and
+walked about with a gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other.
+His veritable portrait is extant, and is engraved in Mr. Knight's
+_Pictorial Shakspeare_.[10]
+
+It will be time enough to decide which of us has run his head against "a
+stumbling-block of his own making," when MR. SINGER shall have found a
+probable solution of his difficulty "by a parallelism in the poet's pages."
+
+H. K. STAPLE CAUSTON.
+
+  Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.
+
+[Footnote 4: This deduction is not warranted by the _Vocab. della Crusca_,
+or any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference:
+and _Somner_ and _Lye_ are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words, _Wermod_
+and _Eisell_.]
+
+[Footnote 5: _Garden of Health_, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the
+brackets were omitted by MR. SINGER.]
+
+[Footnote 6: _Via Recta ad Vitam Longam_, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to.
+London, 1660.]
+
+[Footnote 7: _Med. Dict._]
+
+[Footnote 8: A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in _Dict.
+Géograph. de la Martinière_, v. ix. fo. 1739.]
+
+[Footnote 9: As the verb "to drink" was not limited to the act of bibition,
+but for MR. HICKSON'S decision against drinking up the "sea-serpent," it
+might yet become a question whether Hamlet's _eisell_ had not been a
+misprint for _eosol_ (asinus).]
+
+[Footnote 10: _Merchant of Venice_, Introduction.]
+
+{212}
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_William Chilcott_ (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.).--The few notes which follow
+are very much at the service of your correspondent. William Chilcott, M.A.,
+was rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May 30, 1711, at the
+age of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to his memory indicates
+that he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine died in August, 1695.
+The first edition of the _Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts_ was
+printed at Exeter in 1690, and was dedicated to his parishioners. Robert
+Chilcott, whom I take to be the brother of William, was rector of St.
+Mary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb. 7, 1689.
+
+There does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above mentioned,
+were descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the identity of the
+Christian names renders it probable. If the object were to trace their
+ancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the suggestions of
+E.A.D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by comparing Prince's
+_Worthies of Devon_, ed. 1810, p. 213., and Polwhele's _Devon_, vol. iii.
+p. 351., with Harding's _Tiverton_; in various parts of which eight or nine
+individuals of the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.;
+vol. ii. book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv., p. 20., where the
+connexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper,
+Collamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the
+object might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co.
+Somerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones in
+the church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their descendants
+by reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at Morchard-Bishop,
+where a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St. George, where a family
+of the same name lived about 1740; North Molton, where C. Chilcott was
+vicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph Chilcott was vicar about 1830.
+A Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist at Bath, married Ann, daughter
+of the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady died in 1758, and was buried at
+Tavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of arms on the tablet to her memory is
+almost identical with the coat of the Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first
+above mentioned.
+
+J. D. S.
+
+_Fossil Elk of Ireland_ (Vol. iii., p. 121.).--In the _Edinburgh Journal of
+Science_, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301., is a curious paper by the
+late Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of "Additional Contributions towards
+the History of the Cervus Euryceros, or Fossil Elk of Ireland." It is
+illustrated with a copy of an engraving of an animal which Dr. H. W.
+believes to have been the same as the Irish elk, and which was living in
+Prussia at the time of the publication of the book from which it is taken,
+viz. the _Cosmographia Universalis_ of Sebastian Munster: Basiliæ, 1550.
+
+Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the
+first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the
+Cervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct.
+
+W. C. TREVELYAN.
+
+  Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851.
+
+_Canes Lesos_ (Vol. iii. p. 141.).--In a note to Beckwith's edition of
+Blount's _Jocular Tenures_, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington
+anticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's
+explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no such word in this sense:
+why may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? _læsos_ from _lædo_."
+_Clancturam_ should be _clausturam_, and so it is given in the above
+edition, and explained "a tax for fencing."
+
+S. W. SINGER.
+
+"_By Hook or by Crook_" (vol. iii. p. 116.).--However unimaginative the
+worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has
+made himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its
+obtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I
+with safety can contradict it, for I find that "Tusser," a Norfolk man
+living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete
+monthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was
+not published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has
+the following advice for March 30:
+
+ "Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see
+  A number of thousands, to many there be:
+  Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,
+  For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke."
+
+This must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers possessing
+"Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins,
+"twinlins."
+
+BLOWEN.
+
+This appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the time
+pointed out by J. D. S. Thus, in _Devout Contemplations_, by Fr. Ch. de
+Fonseca, Englished by J. M., London, 1629, we read that the Devil
+
+    "Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting
+    religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in
+    preaching, and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth
+    tares, treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that
+    he is nobody that is not rich, and therefore, _bee it by hooke or by
+    crooke_, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy."
+
+W. D--N.
+
+_Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p.
+7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the
+A.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates,
+see Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written
+_swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his
+_Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:
+
+    "--ic ann [þæt] ðridde treow. [et] [þæt] ðridde swun of ævesan ðæs
+    nextan wudes ðe liþ to kyngesbyrig," &c.
+
+Which Hickes thus renders:
+
+    "Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam
+    fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c.
+
+R. M. W.
+
+_Sir George Downing_ (Vol. iii., p. 69.).--The following extract of a
+letter in Cartes' _Letters_, ii. 319., confirms the accuracy of the
+memorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by J. P. C. The
+letter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5, 1660, on the eve
+of the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to serve the King,--
+
+    "alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was
+    banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in
+    principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous."
+
+CH.
+
+_Miching malicho_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--Your correspondent MR. COLLIER is
+probably not aware that his suggestion respecting the meaning of _Malicho_
+had been anticipated upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending
+edition of Shakspeare by another of your correspondents, MR. SINGER,
+printed in 1825, I find the following note:--
+
+    "_Miching malicho_ is lurking mischief, or evil doing. _To mich_, for
+    to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in
+    Shakspeare's time; and _Malicho_, or _Malhecho_, misdeed, he has
+    borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were
+    then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French
+    used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word _Mallicho_. Our
+    ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according
+    to the ear."
+
+I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that
+he interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and
+abundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_,
+as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu:--
+
+    "To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from
+    Schoole, vi. _to hide_, to cover."
+
+and again--
+
+    "A _micher_, vi. _Truant_."
+
+MR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old
+word _Malicho_, and given _Mallecho_, which is as far from the true form of
+the Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved
+or printed _Malhecho_, as Minsheu gives it.
+
+I am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned
+Shakspearian illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted
+his edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most
+practically useful and readable edition we have.
+
+FIAT JUSTITIA.
+
+_Cor Linguæ, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur
+in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed in the volume of _Latin
+Poems_, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for
+the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in
+expression, as follows:--
+
+ "Cor linguæ foederat naturæ sanctio,
+  Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio;
+  Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio,
+  Sermo concipitur ex adulterio."
+
+Mr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton, Vespas, E. xii.
+Of its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's name was
+certainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne, with which
+place Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and if Mr.
+Wright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in it is
+Henry III., it must of course have been written some years after Walter
+Map's death.
+
+J. G. N.
+
+_Under the Rose_ (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.).--I am
+surprised that no one has noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this
+phrase. (_Vulg. Err._ lib. v. cap. 21. § 7.) Besides the explanation
+referred to by ARCHÆUS (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says:
+
+    "The expression is commendable, if the rose from any _naturall_
+    propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply
+    in these translated verses--
+
+     'Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa,
+      Sic os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis,
+      Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'"
+
+He explains "the Germane custome, which over the table describeth a rose in
+the seeling" (Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to refer only
+to the secrecy to be observed "in society and compotation, from the ancient
+custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their
+heads."
+
+ACHE.
+
+"_Impatient to speak and not see_" (Vol. ii., p. 490.).--There is no doubt
+of the fine interpretation of your correspondent; but it is not illustrated
+by the Latin. Also, I apprehend, "indocilis pati" is not put for "indocilis
+patiendi." It is a common use of _to_--proud to be praised; angry to be so
+ill-treated.
+
+It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton would
+have altered:
+
+ "I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold,
+  _To be_ so pestered," &c., _i.e._ at being.
+
+May I mention a change in _Troilus and Cressida_ which I have long
+entertained, but with doubt:
+
+ "And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
+  Retires to chiding fortune."
+
+{214}
+
+Pope reads "returns," Hanmer "replies." My conjecture is "recries."
+
+C. B.
+
+_Bishop Frampton_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--See an interesting notice of his
+preaching in Pepys' _Diary_, Jan. 20, 1666-7; and what is said of him in
+Lathbury's _Nonjurors_, p. 203. But probably MR. EVANS is already aware of
+these references to Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desideratum which many
+will be glad to hear is going to be supplied.
+
+E. H. A.
+
+_Old Tract on the Eucharist_ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The author of the tract
+on the Eucharist, referred to by ABHBA, was the Rev. John Patrick. The
+title of the tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.;
+of Dr. Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the _Discourses against
+Popery during the Reign of James II._, is as follows:--
+
+    "A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church
+    relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present
+    _Roman_ Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation;
+    being a sufficient Confutation of _Consensus Veterum_, _Nubes Testium_,
+    and other late Collections of the Fathers pretending the contrary. By
+    _John Patrick, Preacher at the Charter-house_, 1688. 4to."
+
+E. C. HARRINGTON.
+
+  Exeter, March 3. 1851.
+
+This tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. It is one of the more
+valuable of the numerous tracts published on the Roman Catholic controversy
+during the reign of James II. In a collection of more than two hundred of
+these made at the period of publication, and now in my library, the names
+of the authors are written upon the titles, and this is attributed to _Mr.
+Patrick_. In another collection from the library of the late Mr. Walter
+Wilson, it is stated to be by _Bishop Patrick_. Bishop Gibson reprinted the
+tract in his _Preservative against Popery_, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii.
+tit. vii. pp. 176--252.; and in the table of contents says that it was
+written by "Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." Not Bishop
+Patrick therefore, but his brother, Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged
+sixty-three, was the author of this tract.
+
+JOHN J. DREDGE.
+
+_Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--I possess
+
+    "A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Hugh Peter's Advice
+    to his Daughter. Written by his own Hand during his late Imprisonment
+    in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his Death.
+    London, 1660:"
+
+which advice he ends, p. 94., with--
+
+    "The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly
+    Kingdom, my poor child.
+
+     "To ELIZABETH PETERS."
+
+And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his life
+with--
+
+    "I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, that (if possible)
+    you may wipe off some dirt, or be the more content to carry it."
+
+That part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus, p.
+98.:--
+
+    "When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but
+    fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was
+    exposed to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with
+    the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's."
+
+The wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be
+asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but
+stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.)
+
+    "At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie and
+    anger ... There were six or seven thousand hearers ... and I went to
+    Holland:"
+
+thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the
+tone of the condemned man's _Legacy_, that he would purposely avoid any
+mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and "usually performed the
+part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into
+London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:" he
+almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the love and labours
+of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" so that he was mostly preaching
+itinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a player in
+Shakespeare's company." That _Legacy_ in question, and a book autograph of
+Hugh Peters, are at the service of DR. RIMBAULT.
+
+BLOWEN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Miscellaneous.
+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
+
+All who take an interest in English philology will join in the wish
+expressed a few pages back by one of the highest authorities on the
+subject, Mr. Albert Way--namely, "that the Philological Society has not
+abandoned their project of compiling a complete Provincial Glossary;" and
+will greet as a valuable contribution towards that great desideratum, every
+skilful attempt to record a local dialect. As such, Mr. Sternberg's
+valuable little book, _The Dialect and Folk Lore of Northamptonshire_, will
+meet a hearty welcome from our philological friends; and no less hearty a
+welcome from those who find in "popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and
+other traces of Teutonic heathenism," materials for profitable speculation
+on the ancient mythology of these islands. We are bound to speak thus
+favourably of Mr. Sternberg's researches in this department, since some
+portion of them were first communicated by him to our Folk-Lore columns.
+
+BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd, by the Rev. William
+Basil Jones, M.A._ A learned essay on the subject of deep interest to the
+antiquaries {215} of the Principality, involving, as it does among other
+questions, that of the claim of the Gael, or the Cymry, to be the
+aborigines of the country.
+
+_The Book of Family Crests, comprising nearly every Family Bearing,
+properly blazoned and explained, accompanied by upwards of Four Thousand
+Engravings, with the Surnames of the Bearers, Dictionary of Mottoes, and
+Glossary of Terms_, in 2 Vols., Sixth Edition. The best criticism on this
+popular work, with its _well blazoned_ title-page bearing the words SIXTH
+EDITION on its _honour point_, is to state, as a proof of its completeness,
+that it records the Crests of upwards of ninety _Smiths_, and nearly fifty
+_Smyths_ and _Smythes_.
+
+_Illustrations of Medieval Costume in England, collected from MSS. in the
+British Museum_, by T. A. Day and J. B. Dines. When before did English
+antiquaries see four plates of costume, some of them coloured, sold for one
+shilling? As an attempt at cheapening and so popularising archæological
+literature, the work deserves encouragement.
+
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851
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+<p><!-- Page 201 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page201"></a>{201}</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>&mdash;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. 72.</b></p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:center; width:50%">
+      <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, March 15. 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>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right; width:5%">
+      <p>Page</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Illustrations of Chaucer</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page201">201</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Inedited Poetry, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page203">203</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>On a Passage in Marmion</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page203">203</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Gloucestershire Provincialisms, by Albert Way</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page204">204</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>The Chapel of Loretto</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page205">205</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Folk Lore:&mdash;"Nettle in Dock out"&mdash;Soul separates from
+      the Body&mdash;Lady's Trees&mdash;Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page205">205</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Minor Notes:&mdash;Note for the Topographers of Ancient London,
+      and for the Monasticon&mdash;Gray and Burns&mdash;Traditional Notice
+      of Richard III.&mdash;Oliver Cromwell&mdash;Snail-eating</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page206">206</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Biddings in Wales</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page207">207</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Minor Queries:&mdash;Lord of Relton&mdash;Beatrix de
+      Bradney&mdash;"Letters on the British Museum"&mdash;Ballad Editing:
+      The "Outlandish Knight"&mdash;Latin Epigram on the Duchess of
+      Eboli&mdash;Engraved Portrait&mdash;Blackstone's Commentaries and
+      Table of Precedence&mdash;The Two Drs. Abercromby&mdash;Witte van
+      Haemstede&mdash;J. Bruckner: Dutch Church in Norwich</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page208">208</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries Answered</span>:&mdash;The
+      Hereditary Earl Marshal&mdash;The Beggar's
+      Petition&mdash;"Tiring-irons never to be untied"</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page209">209</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:&mdash; The Meaning of Eisell, by
+      H. K. S. Causton</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page210">210</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Replies to Minor Queries:&mdash;William Chilcott&mdash;Fossil Elk
+      of Ireland&mdash;Canes Lesos&mdash;"By Hook or by
+      Crook"&mdash;Suem&mdash;Sir George Downing&mdash;Miching
+      Malicho&mdash;Cor Linguæ&mdash;Under the Rose&mdash;"Impatient to
+      speak, and not see"&mdash;Bishop Frampton&mdash;Old Tract on the
+      Eucharist&mdash;Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page212">212</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &amp;c.</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page214">214</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="#page215">215</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Notices to Correspondents</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page215">215</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Advertisements</p>
+    </td>
+    <td style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page215">215</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Notes.</h2>
+
+<h3>ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., pp. 131. 133.)</p>
+
+  <p>I am glad to perceive that some of the correspondents of "<span
+  class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" are turning their attention to the
+  elucidation of Chaucer. The text of our father-poet, having remained as
+  it were in fallow since the time of Tyrwhitt, now presents a rich field
+  for industry; and, in offering free port and entry to all comments and
+  suggestions, to be there sifted and garnered up, the pages of "<span
+  class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" may soon become a depository from
+  which ample materials may be obtained for a new edition of Chaucer, now
+  become an acknowledged desideratum.</p>
+
+  <p>One excellent illustration has lately been added, at page 133., in a
+  note without signature upon "Nettle in, dock out." If <i>confirmed</i><a
+  name="footnotetag1" href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, it will furnish
+  not only a most satisfactory explanation of that hitherto
+  incomprehensible phrase, but also a curious example of the faithful
+  preservation of an exact form of words through centuries of oral
+  tradition.</p>
+
+  <p>And if the note which precedes it, at page 131., upon a passage in
+  Palamon and Arcite, is less valuable, it is because it is deficient in
+  one of the most essential conditions which such communications ought to
+  possess&mdash;that of originality. No suggestion ought to be offered
+  which had been previously published in connexion with the same subject:
+  at least in any <i>very obvious</i> place of reference, such as notes or
+  glossaries already appended to well-known editions of the text.</p>
+
+  <p>Now the precise explanation of the planetary distribution of the
+  twenty-four hours of the day, given by <span title="e" class="grk"
+  >&epsilon;</span>. in the first portion of his communication, was
+  anticipated seventy or eighty years ago by Tyrwhitt in his note upon the
+  same passage of Palamon and Arcite. And with respect to <span title="e" class="grk"
+  >&epsilon;</span>.'s second explanation of the meaning of "houre
+  inequal," that expression also has been commented upon by Tyrwhitt, who
+  attributes it to the well-known expansive duration of ancient hours, the
+  length of which was regulated by that of the natural day at the several
+  seasons of the year: hence an <i>inequality</i> always existed; except at
+  the equinoxes, between hours before, and hours after, sunrise. This is
+  undoubtedly the true explanation, since Chaucer was, at the time,
+  referring to hours before and after sunrise upon the same day. On the
+  contrary, <span title="e" class="grk">&epsilon;</span>.'s ecliptic hours,
+  if they ever existed at all (he has cited no authority), would be
+  obviously incompatible with the planetary disposition of the hours first
+  referred to.</p>
+
+  <p>I shall now, in my turn, suggest explanations of the two new
+  difficulties in Chaucer's text, to <!-- Page 202 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page202"></a>{202}</span>which, at the
+  conclusion of his note, <span title="e" class="grk">&epsilon;</span>. has
+  drawn attention.</p>
+
+  <p>The first is, that, "with respect to the time of year at which the
+  tournament takes place, there seems to be an inconsistency." Theseus
+  fixes "this day fifty wekes" from the fourth of May, as the day on which
+  the final contention must come off, and yet the day previous to the final
+  contention is afterwards alluded to as "the lusty seson of that May,"
+  which, it is needless to say, would be inconsistent with an interval of
+  fifty <i>ordinary</i> weeks.</p>
+
+  <p>But fifty weeks, if taken in their literal sense of 350 days, would be
+  a most unmeaning interval for Theseus to fix upon,&mdash;it would almost
+  require explanation as much as the difficulty itself: it is therefore
+  much easier to suppose that Chaucer meant to imply the interval of a
+  solar year. Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty,
+  rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first,
+  because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and,
+  secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would
+  be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish
+  hebdomad.</p>
+
+  <p>Chaucer sometimes makes the strangest jumble&mdash;mixing up together
+  Pagan matters and Christian, Roman and Grecian, ancient and modern; so
+  that although he names Sunday and Monday as two of the days of the week
+  in Athens, he does so evidently for the purpose of introducing the
+  allocation of the hours, alluded to before, to which the planetary names
+  of the days of the week were absolutely necessary. But in the fifty weeks
+  appointed by Theseus, the very same love of a little display of erudition
+  would lead Chaucer to choose the <i>hebdomas lunæ</i>, or lunar quarter,
+  which the Athenian youth were wont to mark out by the celebration of a
+  feast to Apollo on every seventh day of the moon. But after the first
+  twenty-eight days of every lunar month, the weekly reckoning must have
+  been discontinued for about a day and a half (when the new moon was what
+  was called "in coitu," or invisible), after which a new reckoning of
+  sevens would recommence. Hence there could be but four hebdomades in each
+  lunar month; and as there are about twelve and a half lunar months in a
+  solar year, so must there have been fifty lunar weeks in one solar
+  year.</p>
+
+  <p>It will explain many anomalies, even in Shakspeare, if we suppose that
+  our early writers were content to show their knowledge of a subject in a
+  few particulars, and were by no means solicitous to preserve, what
+  moderns would call <i>keeping</i>, in the whole performance.</p>
+
+  <p>The next difficulty, adverted to by <span title="e" class="grk"
+  >&epsilon;</span>., is the mention of the <span class="scac">THIRD</span>
+  as the morning upon which Palamon "brake his prison," and Arcite went
+  into the woods "to don his observaunce to May."</p>
+
+  <p>There is not perhaps in the whole of Chaucer's writings a more
+  exquisite passage than that by which the latter circumstance is
+  introduced; it is well worth transcribing:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"The besy larke, the messager of day,</p>
+      <p>Sal&#x113;weth in hire song the morw&#x113; gray;</p>
+      <p>And firy Phebus riseth up so bright,</p>
+      <p>That all the orient laugheth at the sight;</p>
+      <p>And with his strem&#x113;s drieth in the greves</p>
+      <p>The silver drop&#x113;s hanging on the leves."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Such is the description of the morning of the "thridde of May;" and
+  perhaps, if no other mention of that date were to be found throughout
+  Chaucer's works, we might be justified in setting it down as a random
+  expression, to which no particular meaning was attached. But when we find
+  it repeated in an entirely different poem, and the same "observaunce to
+  May" again associated with it, the conviction is forced upon us that it
+  cannot be without some definite meaning.</p>
+
+  <p>This repetition occurs in the opening of the second book of <i>Troilus
+  and Creseide</i>, where "the thridde" has not only "observaunce to May"
+  again attributed to it, but also apparently some peculiar virtue in
+  dreams. No sooner does Creseide behold Pandarus on the morning of the
+  third of May, than "<i>by the hond on hie, she tooke him fast</i>," and
+  tells him that she had thrice dreamed of him that night. Pandarus replies
+  in what appears to have been a set form of words suitable to the
+  occasion&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Yea, nece, ye shall faren well the bet,</p>
+      <p>If God wull, all this yeare."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Now unless the third of May were supposed to possess some unusual
+  virtue, the dreaming on that morning could scarcely confer a whole year's
+  welfare. But, be that as it may, there can at least be no doubt that
+  Chaucer designedly associated <i>some</i> celebration of the advent of
+  May with the morning of the third of that month.</p>
+
+  <p>Without absolutely asserting that my explanation is the true one, I
+  may nevertheless suggest it until some better may be offered. It is, that
+  the association may have originated in the invocation of the goddess
+  Flora, by Ovid, on that day (<i>Fasti</i>, v.), in order that she might
+  inspire him with an explanation of the Floralia, or Floral games, which
+  were celebrated in Rome from the 28th of April to the <i>third</i> of
+  May.</p>
+
+  <p>These games, if transferred by Chaucer to Athens, would at once
+  explain the "gret feste" and the "lusty seson of that May."</p>
+
+  <p>Supposing, then, that Chaucer, in the <i>Knight's Tale</i>, meant, as
+  I think he meant, to place the great combat on the anniversary of the
+  fourth of May&mdash;that being the day on which Theseus had intercepted
+  the duel,&mdash;then the entry into Athens of the rival companies would
+  take place on <!-- Page 203 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page203"></a>{203}</span>(Sunday) the second, and the sacrifices
+  and feasting on the <i>third of May</i>, the last of the Floralia.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">A. E. B.
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Leeds, March 4, 1851.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+  <p>[Of which there can be no doubt. See further p. 205. of our present
+  Number.&mdash;<span class="sc">Ed.</span>]</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" >
+
+<h3>INEDITED POETRY, NO. II.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">CHORUS.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Harleian MSS., No. 367. fo. 154.)</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Is, is there nothing cann withstand</p>
+      <p class="i4">The hand</p>
+      <p class="i2">Of Time: but that it must</p>
+      <p class="i2">Be shaken into dust?</p>
+      <p>Then poore, poore Israelites are wee</p>
+      <p class="i4">Who see,</p>
+      <p>But cannot shunn the Graue's captivitie.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Alas, good Browne! that Nature hath</p>
+      <p class="i4">No bath,</p>
+      <p class="i2">Or virtuous herbes to strayne,</p>
+      <p class="i2">To boyle<a name="footnotetag2" href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> thee yong againe;</p>
+      <p>Yet could she (kind) but back command</p>
+      <p class="i4">Thy brand,</p>
+      <p>Herself would dye thou should'st be unman'd.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"But (ah!) the golden Ewer by [a] stroke,</p>
+      <p class="i4">Is broke,</p>
+      <p class="i2">And now the Almond Tree</p>
+      <p class="i2">With teares, with teares, we see,</p>
+      <p>Doth lowly lye, and with its fall</p>
+      <p class="i4">Do all</p>
+      <p>The daughters dye, that once were musicall.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Thus yf weake builded man cann saye,</p>
+      <p class="i4">A day</p>
+      <p class="i2">He lives, 'tis all, for why?</p>
+      <p class="i2">He's sure at night to dye,</p>
+      <p>For fading man in fleshly lome<a name="footnotetag3" href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></p>
+      <p class="i4">Doth rome</p>
+      <p>Till he his graue find, His eternall home.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Then farewell, farewell, man of men,</p>
+      <p class="i4">Till when</p>
+      <p class="i2">(For us the morners meet</p>
+      <p class="i2">Pal'd visag'd in the street,</p>
+      <p>To seale up this our britle birth</p>
+      <p class="i4">In earth,)</p>
+      <p>We meet with thee triumphant in our mirth."</p>
+      <p class="i8"><i>Trinitäll Hall's Exequies.</i></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Now, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of
+  the almond-tree? Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza,
+  or has it some reference to any botanical fact? I send the ballad,
+  trusting that as an inedited morsel you will receive it.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie.</span>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[We do not take <i>Hall</i> here to be the name of a man, but Trinity
+  Hall at Cambridge.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+  <p>The reader will recognise the classical allusion.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+  <p>Loam, earth; roam.</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" >
+
+<h3>ON A PASSAGE IN MARMION.</h3>
+
+  <p>I venture for the first time to trespass upon the attention of your
+  readers in making the following remarks upon a passage in <i>Marmion</i>,
+  which, as far as I know, has escaped the notice of all the critical
+  writers whose comments upon that celebrated poem have hitherto been
+  published.</p>
+
+  <p>It will probably be remembered, that long after the main action of the
+  poem and interest of the story have been brought to a close by the death
+  of the hero on the field of Flodden, the following incident is thus
+  pointedly described:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Short is my tale:&mdash;Fitz-Eustace' care</p>
+      <p>A pierced and mangled body bare</p>
+      <p>To moated Lichfield's lofty pile:</p>
+      <p>And there, beneath the southern aisle,</p>
+      <p>A tomb, with Gothic sculpture fair</p>
+      <p>Did long Lord Marmion's image bear,</p>
+      <p class="i3">&amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"There erst was martial Marmion found,</p>
+      <p>His feet upon a couchant hound,</p>
+      <p class="i1">His hands to Heaven upraised:</p>
+      <p>And all around on scutcheon rich,</p>
+      <p>And tablet carved, and fretted niche,</p>
+      <p class="i1">His arms and feats were blazed.</p>
+      <p>And yet, though all was carved so fair,</p>
+      <p>And priest for Marmion breathed the prayer,</p>
+      <p><i>The last Lord Marmion lay not there.</i></p>
+      <p>From Ettrick woods a peasant swain</p>
+      <p>Follow'd his lord to Flodden plain,&mdash;</p>
+      <p class="i3">&amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Sore wounded Sybil's Cross he spied,</p>
+      <p>And dragg'd him to its foot, and died,</p>
+      <p>Close by the noble Marmion's side.</p>
+      <p>The spoilers stripp'd and gash'd the slain,</p>
+      <p>And thus their corpses were mista'en;</p>
+      <p>And thus in the proud Baron's tomb,</p>
+      <p>The lowly woodsman took the room."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Now, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon
+  this forced and improbable incident? Had it indeed been with no other
+  purpose than to introduce the picturesque description and the moral
+  reflexions contained in the following section, the improbability might
+  well be forgiven. But such is not the real object. The critic of the
+  <i>Monthly Review</i> takes the following notice of this passage, which
+  is printed as a note in the last edition of Scott's <i>Poems</i> in
+  1833:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"A corpse is afterwards conveyed, as that of Marmion, to the cathedral
+  of Lichfield, where a magnificent tomb is erected to his memory, &amp;c.
+  &amp;c.; but, by an <i>admirably imagined act of poetical justice</i>, we
+  are informed that a peasant's body was placed beneath that costly
+  monument, while the haughty Baron himself was buried like a vulgar corpse
+  on the spot where he died."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Had the reviewer attempted to penetrate a little deeper into the
+  workings of the author's mind, he would have seen in this circumstance
+  much more than "an admirably imagined act of poetical <!-- Page 204
+  --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page204"></a>{204}</span>justice." He
+  would have perceived in it the ultimate and literal fulfilment of the
+  whole penalty foreshadowed to the delinquent baron in the two concluding
+  stanzas of that beautiful and touching song sung by Fitz-Eustace in the
+  Hostelrie of Gifford in the third canto of the poem, which I here
+  transcribe:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Where shall the traitor rest,</p>
+      <p class="i1">He the deceiver,</p>
+      <p>Who could win maiden's breast,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Ruin, and leave her?</p>
+      <p>In the lost battle</p>
+      <p class="i1">Borne down by the flying,</p>
+      <p>Where mingles war's rattle,</p>
+      <p class="i1">With groans of the dying&mdash;</p>
+      <p class="i2">There shall he be lying.</p>
+      <p>Her wing shall the eagle flap</p>
+      <p class="i1">O'er the false-hearted,</p>
+      <p>His warm blood the wolf shall lap</p>
+      <p class="i1">Ere life be parted.</p>
+      <p><i>Shame and dishonour sit</i></p>
+      <p class="i1"><i>By his grave ever;</i></p>
+      <p><i>Blessing shall hallow it,</i></p>
+      <p class="i1"><i>Never, O never!</i>"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Then follows the effect produced upon the conscience of the "Traitor,"
+  described in these powerful lines:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"It ceased. the melancholy sound;</p>
+      <p>And silence sunk on all around.</p>
+      <p>The air was sad; but sadder still</p>
+      <p class="i1">It fell on Marmion's ear,</p>
+      <p>And plain'd as if disgrace and ill,</p>
+      <p class="i1">And shameful death, were near."</p>
+      <p class="i3">&amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>And lastly, when the life of the wounded baron is ebbing forth with
+  his blood on the field of battle, when&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"The Monk, with unavailing cares</p>
+      <p>Exhausted all the Church's prayers&mdash;</p>
+      <p>Ever, he said, that, close and near,</p>
+      <p>A lady's voice was in his ear,</p>
+      <p>And that the priest he could not hear&mdash;</p>
+      <p class="i1">For that she ever sung,</p>
+      <p class="hg1">'<i>In the lost battle, borne down by the flying,</i></p>
+      <p><i>Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying!</i>'&mdash;</p>
+      <p class="i1">So the notes ring."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>I am the more disposed to submit these remarks to your readers,
+  because it is highly interesting to trace an irresistible tendency in the
+  genius of this mighty author towards the fulfilment of prophetic legends
+  and visions of second sight: and not to extend this paper to an
+  inconvenient length, I purpose to resume the subject in a future number,
+  and collate some other examples of a similar character from the works of
+  Sir Walter Scott.</p>
+
+  <p>I write from the southern slopes of Cheviot, almost within sight of
+  the Hill of Flodden. During the latter years of the great Border
+  Minstrel, I had the happiness to rank myself among the number of his
+  friends and acquaintances, and I revere his memory as much as I prized
+  his friendship.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">A Borderer.</span>
+
+<hr class="short" >
+
+<h3>GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS.</h3>
+
+  <p><i>To burl, burling; to shunt, &amp;c.</i>&mdash;In the report of the
+  evidence regarding the death of Mrs. Hathway, at Chipping Sodbury,
+  supposed to have been poisoned by her husband, the following dialectical
+  expression occurs, which may deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated
+  that he was invited by Mr. Hathway to go with him into a beer-house in
+  Frampton Cotterell, "and have a tip," but he declined.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Mr. H. went in and called for a quart of beer, and then came out
+  again, and I went in. He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a
+  hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to
+  him."&mdash;<i>Times</i>, Feb. 28.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>I am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been
+  noticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell. In the
+  Cumberland dialect, a <i>birler</i>, or <i>burler</i>, is the master of
+  the revels, who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding,
+  and takes especial care that the drink be plentifully provided.
+  (<i>Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects</i>, London, 1839.)</p>
+
+  <p>Boucher and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of
+  the verb <i>to birle</i>, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr.
+  Dyce's notes on <i>Elynour Rummyng</i>, v. 269. (<i>Skelton's Works</i>,
+  vol. ii. p. 167.). It is a good old Anglo-Saxon word&mdash;byrlian,
+  <i>propinare</i>, <i>haurire</i>. In the Wycliffite versions it occurs
+  repeatedly, signifying to give to drink. See the Glossary to the valuable
+  edition lately completed by Sir F. Madden and Mr. Forshall.</p>
+
+  <p>In the <i>Promptorium Parvulorum</i>, vol i. p. 51., we
+  find&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Bryllare of drynke, or schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke,
+  <i>propino</i>: Bryllynge of drynke," &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Whilst on the subject of dialectical expressions, I would mention an
+  obsolete term which has by some singular chance recently been revived,
+  and is actually in daily use throughout England in the railway
+  vocabulary&mdash;I mean the verb "to shunt." Nothing is more common than
+  to see announced, that at a certain station the parliamentary "shunts" to
+  let the Express pass; or to hear the order&mdash;"shunt that truck," push
+  it aside, off the main line. In the curious ballad put forth in 1550,
+  called "John Nobody" (Strype's <i>Life of Cranmer</i>, App. p. 138.), in
+  derision of the Reformed church, the writer describes how, hearing the
+  sound of a "synagogue," namely, a congregation of the new faith, he hid
+  himself in alarm:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"The I drew me down into a dale, wheras the dumb deer</p>
+      <p>Did shiver for a shower, but I shunted from a freyke,</p>
+      <p>For I would no wight in this world wist who I were."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<p><!-- Page 205 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page205"></a>{205}</span></p>
+
+  <p>In the Townley Mysteries, <i>Ascensio Domini</i>, p. 303., the Virgin
+  Mary calls upon St. John to protect her against the Jews,&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Mi fleshe it qwakes, as lefe on lynde,</p>
+      <p>To shontt the shrowres sharper than thorne,"&mdash;</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>explained in the Glossary, "sconce or ward off." Sewel, in his
+  <i>English and Dutch Dictionary</i>, 1766, gives&mdash;"to shunt (a
+  country word for to shove), <i>schuiven</i>." I do not find "shunt,"
+  however, in the Provincial Glossaries: in some parts of the south, "to
+  shun" is used in this sense. Thus, in an assault case at Reigate, I heard
+  the complainant say of a man who had hustled him, "He kept shunning me
+  along: sometimes he shunt me on the road," that is, pushed me off the
+  footpath on to the highway.</p>
+
+  <p>I hope that the Philological Society has not abandoned their project
+  of compiling a complete Provincial Glossary: the difficulties of such an
+  undertaking might be materially aided through the medium of "<span
+  class="sc">Notes and Queries.</span>"</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Albert Way.</span>
+
+<hr class="short" >
+
+<h3>THE CHAPEL OF LORETTO.</h3>
+
+  <p>Among the aerial migrations of the chapel of Loretto, it is possible
+  that our own country may hereafter be favoured by a visit of that
+  celebrated structure. In the mean time, as I am not aware that the
+  contributions of our countrymen to its history have been hitherto
+  commemorated, the following extract from a note, made by me on the spot
+  some years ago, may not be unsuitable for publication in "<span
+  class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>." As I had neither the time nor the
+  patience which the pious, but rather prolix, Scotchman bestowed upon his
+  composition, I found it necessary to content myself with a mere abstract
+  of the larger portion.</p>
+
+  <p>The story of the holy House of Loretto is engraved on brass in several
+  languages upon the walls of the church at Loretto. Among others, there
+  are two tablets with the story in English, headed "The wondrus flittinge
+  of the kirk of our blest Lady of Laureto." It commences by stating that
+  this kirk is the chamber of the house of the Blessed Virgin, in Nazareth,
+  where our Saviour was born; that after the Ascension the Apostles
+  hallowed and made it a kirk, and "S. Luke framed a pictur to har vary
+  liknes thair zit to be seine;" that it was "haunted with muckle devotione
+  by the folke of the land whar it stud, till the people went after the
+  errour of Mahomet," when angels took it to Slavonia, near a place called
+  Flumen: here it was not honoured as it ought to be, and they took it to a
+  wood near Recanati, belonging to a lady named Laureto, whence it took its
+  name. On account of the thieveries here committed, it was again taken up
+  and placed near, on a spot belonging to two brothers, who quarrelled
+  about the possession of the oblations offered there; and again it was
+  removed to the roadside, near where it now stands. It is further stated
+  that it stands without foundations, and that sixteen persons being sent
+  from Recanati to measure the foundations still remaining at Nazareth,
+  they were found exactly to agree:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"And from that tim fourth it has beine surly ken'd that this kirk was
+  the Cammber of the B.&nbsp;V. whereto Christian begun thare and has ever efter
+  had muckle devotione, for that in it daily she hes dun and dus many and
+  many mirakels. Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, an eremit of muckle godliness
+  who wond in a cell neir, by this kirk, whar daily he went to mattins,
+  seid that for ten zeirs, one the eighth of September, tweye hours before
+  day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon it, whelk he seyd was the
+  B.&nbsp;V. wha their shawed harselfe one the feest of her birthe."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Then follows the evidence of Paule Renalduci, whose grandsire's
+  grandsire saw the angels bring the house over the sea: also the evidence
+  of Francis Prior, whose grandsire, a hunter, often saw it in the wood,
+  and whose grandsire's grandsire had a house close by. The inscription
+  thus terminates:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"I, Robt. Corbington, priest of the Companie of Iesus in the zeir
+  <span class="scac">MDCXXXV</span>., have treulie translated the premisses
+  out of the Latin story hanged up in the seid kirk."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. Smirke.</span>
+
+<hr class="short" >
+
+<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3>
+
+  <p>"<i>Nettle in Dock out</i>" (Vol. iii., p. 133.).&mdash;If your
+  correspondent will refer to <i>The Literary Gazette</i>, March 24, 1849,
+  No. 1679., he will find that I gave precisely the same explanation of
+  that obscure passage of Chaucer's <i>Troilus and Creseide</i>, lib. iv.,
+  in a paper which I contributed to the British Archæological
+  Association.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fras. Crossley.</span>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[We will add two further illustrations of this passage of Chaucer, and
+  the popular rhyme on which it is founded. The first is from Mr. Akerman's
+  <i>Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire</i>,
+  where we read&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"When a child is stung, he plucks a dock-leaf, and laying it on the
+  part affected, sings&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i2hg1">'Out 'ettle</p>
+      <p class="i2">In dock</p>
+      <p>Dock shall ha a new smock;</p>
+      <p class="i2hg1">'Ettle zhant</p>
+      <p class="i2">Ha' narrun.'"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Then follows a reference by Mr. Akerman to the passage in <i>Troilus
+  and Creseide</i>.&mdash;Our second illustration is from Chaucer himself,
+  who, in his <i>Testament of Love</i> (p. 482 ed. Urry), has the following
+  passage:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Ye wete well Ladie eke (quoth I), that I have not plaid raket, Nettle
+  in, Docke out, and with the weathercocke waved."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Mr. Akerman's work was, we believe, published in <!-- Page 206
+  --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page206"></a>{206}</span>1846; and, at
+  all events, attention was called to these passages in the <i>Athenæum</i>
+  of the l2th September in that year, No. 985.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>Soul separates from the Body.</i>&mdash;In Vol. ii., p. 506., is an
+  allusion to an ancient superstition, that the human soul sometimes leaves
+  the body of a sleeping person and takes another form; allow me to mention
+  that I remember, some forty years ago, hearing a servant from
+  Lincolnshire relate a story of two travellers who laid down by the
+  road-side to rest, and one fell asleep. The other, seeing a bee settle on
+  a neighbouring wall and go into a little hole, put the end of his staff
+  in the hole, and so imprisoned the bee. Wishing to pursue his journey, he
+  endeavoured to awaken his companion, but was unable to do so, till,
+  resuming his stick, the bee flew to the sleeping man and went into his
+  ear. His companion then awoke him, remarking how soundly he had been
+  sleeping, and asked what had he been dreaming of? "Oh!" said he, "I
+  dreamt that you shut me up in a dark cave and I could not awake till you
+  let me out." The person who told me the story firmly believed that the
+  man's soul was in the bee.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">F. S.
+
+  <p><i>Lady's Trees.</i>&mdash;In some parts of Cornwall, small branches
+  of sea-weed, dried and fastened in turned wooden stands, are set up as
+  ornaments on the chimney-piece, &amp;c. The poor people suppose that they
+  preserve the house from fire, and they are known by the name of
+  "<i>Lady's trees</i>," in honour, I presume, of the Virgin Mary.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">H. G. T.
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Launceston.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p><i>Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes.</i>&mdash;I have met with the rhymes
+  following, which may not be uninteresting to some of your readers as
+  <i>Folk Lore, Norfolk</i>:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Rising was, Lynn is, and Downham shall be,</p>
+      <p>The greatest seaport of the three."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Another version of the same runs thus:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Risin was a seaport town,</p>
+      <p class="i1">And Lynn it was a wash,</p>
+      <p>But now Lynn is a seaport Lynn,</p>
+      <p class="i1">And Rising fares the worst."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Also another satirical tradition in rhyme:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"That nasty stinking sink-hole of sin,</p>
+      <p>Which the map of the county denominates Lynn."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Also:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Caistor was a city ere Norwich was none,</p>
+      <p>And Norwich was built of Caistor stone."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">John Nurse Chadwick</span>.
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>King's Lynn.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Minor Notes.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Note for the Topographers of Ancient London, and for the
+  Monasticon.</i>&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Walter Grendon, Prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem,
+  acknowledges to have received, by the hands of Robert Upgate and Ralph
+  Halstede,&mdash;from Margaret, widow of S<sup>r</sup> John Philippott
+  K<sup>t</sup>,&mdash;Thomas Goodlak and their partners,&mdash;4 pounds in
+  full payment of arrears of all the rent due to us from their tenement
+  called Jesoreshall in the city of London.</p>
+
+  <p>"Dated 1. December, 1406."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>From the original in the Surrenden collection.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">L. B. L.
+
+  <p><i>Gray and Burns.</i>&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Authors, before they write, should read."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>So thought Matthew Prior; and if that rule had been attended to,
+  neither would Lord Byron have deemed it worth notice that "<i>the knell
+  of parting day</i>," in Gray's Elegy, "was adopted from Dante;" nor would
+  Mr. Cary have remarked upon "this plagiarism," if indeed <i>he</i> used
+  the term. (I refer to "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," Vol.
+  iii., p. 35.) The truth is, that in every good edition of Gray's
+  <i>Works</i>, there is a note to the line in question, <i>by the poet
+  himself</i>, expressly stating that the passage is "<i>an imitation of
+  the quotation from Dante</i>" thus brought forward.</p>
+
+  <p>I could furnish you with various <i>notes</i> on Gray, pointing out
+  remarkable coincidences of sentiment and expression between himself and
+  other writers; but I cannot allow <i>Gray</i> to be a plagiary, any more
+  than I can allow <i>Burns</i> to be so designated, in the following
+  instances:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <p>At the end of the poem called <i>The Vision</i>, we find&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"And like a passing thought she fled."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>In <i>Hesiod</i> we have&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"<span title="ho d' eptato hôste noêma." class="grk">&#x1F41; &delta;' &#x1F14;&pi;&tau;&alpha;&tau;&omicron; &#x1F65;&sigma;&tau;&epsilon; &nu;&#x1F79;&eta;&mu;&alpha;.</span>"&mdash;<i>Scut. Herc.</i> 222.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Again, few persons are unacquainted with Burns's lines&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,</p>
+      <p>An' then she made," &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>In an old play, <i>Cupid's Whirligig</i> (4to. 1607), we
+  read&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she
+  was a skilful mistress of her art."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Pliny, in his <i>Natural History</i>, has the pretty notion that</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Varro</span>.
+
+  <p><i>Richard III., Traditional Notice of.</i>&mdash;I have an aunt, now
+  eighty-nine years of age, who in early life knew one who was in the habit
+  of saying:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"I knew a man, who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in
+  the days of Richard III."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Thus there have been but three links between one who knew Richard III.
+  and one now alive.</p>
+
+  <p>My aunt's acquaintance could name his three predecessors, who were
+  members of his own family: <!-- Page 207 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page207"></a>{207}</span>their names have been forgotten, but his
+  name was Harrison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and
+  late in life settled in Bedfordshire.</p>
+
+  <p>Richard died in 1484, and thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle
+  an incident which occurred nearly 370 years since.</p>
+
+  <p>Mr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remarkable about
+  Richard, that he was not the hunchback "lump of foul deformity" so
+  generally believed until of late years.</p>
+
+  <p>The foregoing anecdote may be of interest as showing that traditions
+  may come down from remote periods by few links, and thus be but little
+  differing from the actual occurrences.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">H. J. B.
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>66. Hamilton Terrace,</p>
+      <p>St. John's Wood, March 5. 1851.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p><i>Oliver Cromwell.</i>&mdash;Echard says that his highness sold
+  himself to the devil, and <i>that he had seen the solemn compact</i>.
+  Anthony à Wood, who doubtless credited this account of a furious brother
+  loyalist, in his Journal says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Aug. 30, 1658. Monday, a terrible raging wind happened, which did
+  much damage. Dennis Bond, a great Oliverian and anti-monarchist, died on
+  that day, and then the devil took <i>bond</i> for Oliver's
+  appearance."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Clarendon, assigning the Protector to eternal perdition, not liking to
+  lose the portent, boldly says the remarkable hurricane occurred on
+  September 3, the day of Oliver's death. Oliver's admirers, on the other
+  hand, represent this wind as ushering him into the other world, but for a
+  very different reason.</p>
+
+  <p>Heath, in his <i>Flagellum</i> (I have the 4th edit.), says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>It pleased God to usher in his end with a great whale <i>some three
+  months before</i>, June 2, that came up as far as Greenwich, and there
+  was killed; and more immediately by a terrible storm of wind: the
+  prognosticks that the great Leviathan of men, that tempest and overthrow
+  of government, was now going to his own place!"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>I have several works concerning Cromwell, but in no other do I find
+  this story very like a whale. Would some reader of better opportunities
+  favour us with a record of these two matters of natural history, not as
+  connected with the death of this remarkable man, but as mere events? Your
+  well-read readers will remember some similar tales relative to the death
+  of Cardinal Mazarine. These exuberances of vulgar minds may partly be
+  attributed to the credulity of the age, but more probably to the same
+  want of philosophy which caused the ancients to deal in exaggeration.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">B. B.
+
+  <p><i>Snail-eating.</i>&mdash;The practice of <i>eating</i>, if not of
+  talking to, snails, seems not to be so unknown in this country as some of
+  your readers might imagine. I was just now interrogating a village child
+  in reference to the addresses to snails quoted under the head of "<span
+  class="sc">Folk Lore</span>," Vol. iii., pp. 132. and 179., when she
+  acquainted me with the not very appetising fact, that she and her
+  brothers and sisters had been in the constant habit of indulging this
+  horrible <i>Limacotrophy</i>.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"We hooks them out of the wall (she says) with a stick, in winter
+  time, and not in summer time (so it seems they have their seasons); and
+  we roasts them, and, when they've done spitting, they be a-done; and we
+  takes them out with a fork, and eats them. Sometimes we has a jug heaped
+  up, pretty near my pinafore-full. I loves them dearly."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Surely this little bit of practical cottage economy is worth
+  recording.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">C. W. B.
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Queries.</h2>
+
+<h3>BIDDINGS IN WALES.</h3>
+
+  <p>There is a nursery song beginning&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Harry Parry, when will you marry?</p>
+      <p class="i1">When apples and pears are ripe.</p>
+      <p>I'll come to your wedding, without any bidding,</p>
+      <p class="i1">And," &amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Does this mean that I will come without an invitation, or without a
+  marriage-present? It will be observed that Parry is a Welsh name, and
+  that bidding is a Welsh custom, as is shown by <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Spurrell</span> (Vol. iii., p. 114.). He has anticipated my intention of
+  sending you a bidding-form, which has been lying upon my table for some
+  weeks, but which I have not had time to transcribe; I now send it you,
+  because it somewhat varies from <span class="sc">Mr. Spurrell's</span>,
+  and yet so much resembles it as to show that the same formula is
+  preserved. Both show that the presents are considered as debts,
+  transferable or assignable to other parties. Is this the case in all
+  districts of Wales where the custom of bidding prevails? I think I have
+  heard that in some places the gift is to be returned only when the actual
+  donor "enters into the matrimonial state." It will be observed, too, in
+  these forms, relations only transfer to relations. Is it considered that
+  they may assign to persons not relations? Some of your Welsh
+  correspondents may reply to these questions, which may elucidate all the
+  varieties of practice in a custom which contributes much to the comfort
+  of a young couple, and, in many instances, is an incentive to prudence,
+  because they are aware that the debt is a debt of honour, not to be
+  evaded without some loss of character.</p>
+
+  <p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p class="author">"December 26. 1806.
+
+  <p>"As we intend to enter the Matrimonial State on <i>Tuesday</i> the
+  20th of <i>January</i>, 1807, we purpose to make a Bidding on the
+  occasion the same day for the young man at his father's house, in the
+  village of <i>Llansaint</i>, in the parish of <i>St. Ishmael</i>; and for
+  the young <!-- Page 208 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page208"></a>{208}</span>woman, at her own house, in the said
+  village of <i>Llansaint</i>; at either of which places the favour of your
+  good company on that day will be deemed a peculiar obligation; and
+  whatever donation you may be pleased to confer on either of us then, will
+  be gratefully received, and cheerfully repaid whenever required on a
+  similar occasion, by</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your humble servants,</p>
+      <p class="i6"><span class="sc">Seth Rees</span>,</p>
+      <p class="i6"><span class="sc">Ann Jenkins.</span></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"The young man's father and mother, and also the young woman's father
+  and mother, and sister Amy, desire that all gifts of the above nature due
+  to them, may be returned on the same day; and will be thankful for all
+  favour shown the young couple."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">E. H.
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Lord of Relton</i> (Vol. iii., p. 56.)&mdash;Will your
+  correspondent <span class="sc">Monkbarns</span> favour me with the date
+  of the paper from which he copied the paragraph quoted, and whether it
+  was given as being then in use, or as of ancient date?</p>
+
+  <p>Can any of your readers inform me from what place the Lord of Relton
+  derived his name? What was his proper name, and who is the present
+  representative of the family?</p>
+
+  <p>Is there any family of the name of Relton now existing in the
+  neighbourhood of Langholme, or in Cumberland or Westmoreland?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. B. Relton.</span>
+
+  <p><i>Beatrix de Bradney.</i>&mdash;In your "<span class="sc">Notes And
+  Queries</span>" for January 25th, 1851, p. 61., you have given Sir Henry
+  Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred Entwysel.</p>
+
+  <p>Sir Bertin left a daughter named Lucy, of whom Master Bradene of
+  Northamptonshire is descended. Can F.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;R., or any genealogist, inform
+  me whether this Master Bradene is descended from Simon de Bradney, one of
+  the Knights of the Shire for Somersetshire in the year 1346? In Collins's
+  <i>Somersetshire</i>, vol. iii. p. 92., he mentions:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"In St. Michael's Church, Bawdrip, under a large Gothic arch lies the
+  effigy in armour of Sir Simon de Bradney or Bredenie.</p>
+
+  <p>"The Manor of Bradney, in Somersetshire, supposed to have ended in
+  Beatrix de Bradney, an heiress, and passed with her into other families;
+  this Beatrix was living in the forty-sixth year of Edward III."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Can you inform me whom she married? About sixty-five years ago it was
+  purchased by the late Joseph Bradney, Esq., of Ham, near Richmond; and
+  his second son, the Reverend Joseph Bradney, of Greet, near Tenbury,
+  Shropshire, is the present possessor.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Julia R. Bockett.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Southcote Lodge, near Reading.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>"<i>Letters on the British Museum.</i>"&mdash;In the year 1767 was
+  published by Dodsley a work in 12mo. pp. 92., with the above title; and
+  at p. 85. is printed "A Pastoral Dialogue," between <i>Celia</i> and
+  <i>Ebron</i>, beginning, "As Celia rested in the shade," which the author
+  states he "found among the manuscripts." I wish to know, first, who was
+  the anonymous author of these letters; and, secondly, in what collection
+  of manuscripts this "Dialogue" is to be found.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="grk">&mu;</span>.
+
+  <p><i>Ballad Editing.</i>&mdash;The "<i>Outlandish Knight</i>" (Vol.
+  iii.,p. 49.).&mdash;I was exceedingly glad to see Mr. F. Sheldon's
+  "valuable contribution to our stock of ballad literature" in the hands of
+  Mr. Rimbault, and thought the treatment it received no better than it
+  deserved. <i>Blackwood</i>, May, 1847, reviewed Mr. Sheldon's book, and
+  pointed out several instances of his "godfathership;" among others, his
+  ballad of the "Outlandish Knight," which he obtained from "a copy in the
+  possession of a gentleman at Newcastle," was condemned by the reviewer as
+  "a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of 'May Collean.'" It may be as
+  the reviewer states, but the question I would wish answered is one
+  affecting the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not, the Southron
+  "Outlandish Knight" is the original of "May Collean" itself. I have by me
+  a copy, in black letter, of the "Outlandish Knight," English in every
+  respect, and as such differing considerably from Mr. Sheldon's border
+  edition, and from "May Collean;" and, with some slight alterations, the
+  ballad I have is yet popularly known through the midland counties. If any
+  of your correspondents can oblige me with a reference to the first
+  appearance of "May Collean," sheet or book, I shall esteem it a
+  favour.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Emun.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Birmingham.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p><i>Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli.</i>&mdash;In his controversy
+  with Bowles touching the poetry of Pope, Byron states that it was upon
+  the Princess of Eboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, and Mangirow, the
+  minion of Henry III. of France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well
+  known to classic readers, was composed, concluding with the couplet:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Sic tu cæcus Amor, sic erit illa Venus."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Can any contributor to the "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>"
+  suggest what authority his lordship has for his statement? Many years
+  since, a curious paragraph appeared in one of the public journals,
+  extracted apparently from an historical work, specifying the
+  extraordinary political embroglios which the one-eyed duchess occasioned,
+  eliciting from one of the statesmen of her times the complimentary
+  declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead of only one, she would
+  have set the universe on fire. A reference to this work&mdash;I fancy one
+  of Roscoe's&mdash;would be of material service to an historical
+  inquirer.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">C. R. H.
+
+<p><!-- Page 209 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page209"></a>{209}</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Engraved Portrait.</i>&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"All that thou see'st and readest is divine,</p>
+      <p>Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;</p>
+      <p>Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,</p>
+      <p>View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically
+  engraved by Cross. Above the head is the following
+  inscription:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Ætatis Suæ 50º. Octob. 10. 1649."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Of whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors,
+  and is of course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it
+  <i>vis-à-vis</i> with a title-page, I am at a loss as to the author of
+  whom it is the <i>vera effigies</i>. Possibly some of your readers will
+  be kind enough to enlighten me upon the matter, and favour me with the
+  name of the British worthy thus handed down to posterity by Cross's
+  admirable burin.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Henry Campkin.</span>
+
+  <p><i>Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence.</i>&mdash;The
+  first edition of Blackstone was published at Oxford in 4to., in the year
+  1765; and the Table of Precedence, in the 12th chapter of the First Book,
+  found in subsequent editions edited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in
+  Blackstone's first edition. Can any of your readers, having access to
+  good legal theories, inform me in which of Blackstone's <i>own</i>
+  editions the Table of Precedence was first inserted?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">E.
+
+  <p><i>The Two Drs. Abercromby.</i>&mdash;In the latter half of the
+  seventeenth century, there were two physicians of the name of Abercromby,
+  who both graduated at the university of Leyden, and were afterwards the
+  authors of various published works. The first work of David Abercromby
+  mentioned in Watt's <i>Bibliotheca</i> is dated in 1684, and the first
+  written by Patrick Abercromby in 1707. As it was usual to compose an
+  inaugural dissertation at obtaining the doctorate, and such productions
+  were ordinarily printed (in small quarto), J.&nbsp;K. would feel obliged by
+  the titles and dates of the inaugural dissertations of either or both of
+  the physicians above mentioned.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Witte van Haemstede.</i>&mdash;Can any of your readers inform me
+  whether there still exist any descendants of <i>Witte van Haemstede</i>,
+  an illegitimate scion of the ancient house of <i>Holland</i>? <i>Willem
+  de Water</i>, in his <i>Adelijke Zeeland</i>, written in the seventeenth
+  century, says that in his youth he knew a <i>Witte van Haemstede</i> of
+  this family, one of whose sons became pastor of the Dutch congregation in
+  <i>London</i>.&mdash;<i>Navorscher</i>, Jan. 1851, p. 17.</p>
+
+  <p><i>J. Bruckner&mdash;Dutch Church in Norwich.</i>&mdash;In the
+  <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for 1804 is a short memoir of the Rev. J.
+  Bruckner. He was born in the island of Cadsand, completed his studies at
+  Leyden, where he enjoyed the society of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer, and the
+  elder Schultens. In 1753 he became pastor of the Walloon, and afterwards
+  of the Dutch congregation in Norwich, where he remained till his death in
+  May, 1804. In 1767 he published at Leyden his <i>Théorie du Système
+  Animal</i>; in 1790 appeared his <i>Criticisms on the Diversions of
+  Purley</i>.</p>
+
+  <p>Could your correspondents furnish me with a complete list of
+  Bruckner's works, and direct me to a history of the Dutch church in
+  Norwich, from its origin to the present time?&mdash;<i>Navorscher</i>,
+  Feb. 1851, p. 28.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Minor Queries Answered.</h2>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[Under this heading we propose to give such Minor Queries as we are
+  able to reply to at once, but which are not of a nature to be answered
+  with advantage in our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this means to
+  economise our space.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>The Hereditary Earl Marshal.</i>&mdash;Miss Martineau, in her
+  <i>History of England</i>, book iii. ch. 8., speaks (in 1829) of</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"three Catholic peers, the <i>Duke of Norfolk</i>, Lord Clifford, and
+  Lord Dormer, having obtained entrance <i>at last</i> to the legislative
+  assembly, where their fathers sat and ruled when their faith was the law
+  of the land."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>In Lord Campbell's <i>Lives of the Chancellors</i>, there is an
+  anecdote, vol. vii. p. 695., of the Duke of Norfolk falling asleep and
+  <i>snoring</i> in the House of Lords, while Lord Eldon was on the
+  woolsack. Did not the Duke of Norfolk (though Roman Catholic) sit and
+  vote in the House of Lords, either by prescription or special act of
+  parliament, before 1829?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">J. H. S.
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon
+  himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the
+  <i>late</i> Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh
+  duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till
+  after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him to
+  exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths, but
+  gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord Eldon's joke
+  must have been perpetrated&mdash;not on the bringing up of the Bill, when
+  the duke was not in the House&mdash;but on the occasion of the <i>Great
+  Snoring Bill being reported</i> (April 2, 1811), when the duke appears to
+  have been present.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>The Beggar's Petition.</i>&mdash;I shall feel obliged by your
+  informing me who the author is of the lines&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,</p>
+      <p>Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p class="author">S.
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal
+  of attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to
+  Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D.; but from the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, vol.
+  lxx., p. 41., it appears that it is the entire production of the <!--
+  Page 210 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page210"></a>{210}</span>Rev.
+  Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham, in Staffordshire, who
+  wrote it at about the age of twenty-three. He sold the manuscript of
+  that, and of several others, to Mr. Smart, printer, in Wolverhampton,
+  who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criticism, was to publish them
+  on this condition, that only twenty copies should have his name annexed
+  to them, for the purpose of being presented to his relations and
+  friends.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p>"<i>Tiring-irons never to be untied.</i>"&mdash;To what does Lightfoot
+  (vol. vii. p. 214.) refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he
+  says&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring-irons never to be
+  untied"?</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Eastwood.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Ecclesfield.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[The allusion is to a puzzle for children&mdash;often used by grown
+  children&mdash;which consists of a series of iron rings, on to or off
+  which a loop of iron wire may be got with some labour by those who know
+  the way, and which is very correctly designated <i>a
+  tiring-iron</i>.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Replies.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE MEANING OF EISELL.</h3>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[This controversy is becoming a little too warm for our pages. But
+  <span class="sc">Mr. Causton</span> is entitled to have some portion of
+  the letter he has sent to us inserted. He writes with reference to the
+  communications from <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> and <span
+  class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> in our 68th number, p. 119., in reply to
+  <span class="sc">Mr. C.'s</span> Article, which, although it had been in
+  our hands a considerable time, was not inserted until out 65th Number, p.
+  66.; a delay which gave to that article the appearance of an attempt to
+  revive a discussion, whereas it really was written only in continuance of
+  one.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p>To <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> I suggest, that whether the
+  notion of "drinking up a river," or "eating a crocodile," be the more
+  "unmeaning" or "out of place," must after all be a mere matter of
+  opinion, as the latter must remain a question of taste; since it seems to
+  be his settled conviction that it is not "impossible," but only
+  "extravagant." Archdeacon Nares thought it quite the reverse; and I beg
+  to remind your readers that Shakspearian crocodiles are never served <i>à
+  la Soyer</i>, but swallowed <i>au naturel</i> and entire.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> is dissatisfied with my terms
+  "mere verbiage" and "extravagant rant." I recommend a careful
+  consideration of the scene over the grave of Ophelia; and then let any
+  one say whether or not the "wag" of tongue between Laertes and Hamlet be
+  not fairly described by the expressions I have used,&mdash;a paraphrase
+  indeed, of Hamlet's concluding lines:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i4hg3">"Nay, an thou'lt <i>mouth</i>,</p>
+      <p>I'll <i>rant</i> as well as thou."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Doubtless Shakspeare had a purpose in everything he wrote, and his
+  purpose at this time was to work up the scene to the most effective
+  conclusion, and to display the excitement of Hamlet in a series of
+  beautiful images, which, nevertheless, the queen his mother immediately
+  pronounced to be "mere madness," and which one must be as mad as Hamlet
+  himself to adopt as feats literally to be performed.</p>
+
+  <p>The offence is rank in the eyes of <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span>
+  that I should have styled <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson</span> his friend.
+  The amenities of literature, I now perceive, do not extend to the case,
+  and a new canon is required, to the effect that "when one gentleman is
+  found bolstering up the argument of another, he is not, ever for the
+  nonce, to be taken for his friend." I think the denial to be expressed in
+  rather strong language; but I hasten to make the <i>amende</i> suitable
+  to the occasion, by withdrawing the "falsehood and unfounded
+  insinuation."</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> has further charged me with "want
+  of truth," in stating that the question remains "substantially where
+  Steevens and Malone had left it." Wherein, I ask, substantially consists
+  the difference?</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> has merely substituted his
+  "wormwood wine" for Malone's vinegar; and before he can make it as
+  palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's "logical correctness and
+  nicety of expression," as it was to Creed and Shepley, he must get over
+  the "stalking-horse," the <i>drink</i> <span class="scac">UP</span>,
+  which stands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more
+  legitimate proposition. <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> overleaps the
+  difficulty by a bare assertion that "to <i>drink</i> <span
+  class="scac">UP</span> was commonly used for simply to drink." He has not
+  produced any parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr.
+  Halliwell's <i>Nursery Rhymes</i>. I adopt his citation, and shall employ
+  it against him.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Drink</i> <span class="scac">UP</span> can only be grammatically
+  applied to a determinate total, whether it be the river Yssell or <span
+  class="sc">Mr. Hickson's</span> dose of physic. Shakespeare seems to have
+  been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the grammatical rule
+  which <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> professes not to comprehend.
+  Thus:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6hg3">"I will drink,</p>
+      <p><i>Potions of</i> eysell."</p>
+      <p class="i6">Shaksp. <i>Sonnet</i> cxi.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>and</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Give me to drink mandragora,"</p>
+      <p class="i6"><i>Ant. and Cleop.</i>, Act I. Sc. 5.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>are parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as
+  they admit of more or less.</p>
+
+  <p>Now <span class="sc">Mr. Singer's</span> obliging quotation from the
+  <i>Nursery Rhymes</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i2hg3">"Eat <span class="scac">UP</span> your cake, Jenny,</p>
+      <p><i>Drink</i> <span class="scac">UP YOUR</span> wine"&mdash;</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>certainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean
+  neither more nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had
+  standing before her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's
+  sonnet (<span class="scac">CXIV.</span>):</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"<i>Drink up</i> the monarch's plague, <i>this</i> flattery:"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<p><!-- Page 211 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page211"></a>{211}</span></p>
+
+  <p>and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively
+  appertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of
+  Hamlet,&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Woo't <i>drink up</i> eisell?"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>as a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a <i>river</i>,
+  but could not be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity.</p>
+
+  <p>Now what is the amount and value of <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Singer's</span> proposition? He says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"In Thomas's <i>Italian Dictionary</i>, 1562, we have '<span
+  class="sc">Assenzio</span>, <i>Eysell</i>'<a name="footnotetag4"
+  href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a>; and Florio renders that word [<span
+  class="sc">Assenzio</span>, not <i>Eysell</i>?] by 'wormwood.' What is
+  meant, however, is <i>wormwood wine</i>, a nauseously bitter medicament
+  then much in use."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>When pressed by <span class="sc">Lord Braybrooke</span> ("<span
+  class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," Vol. ii., p. 286.), who proved, by
+  an extract from <i>Pepys's Diary</i>, that wormwood wine, so far from
+  bearing out <span class="sc">Mr. Singer's</span> description, was, in
+  fact, a fashionable luxury, probably not more nauseous than the <i>pale
+  ale</i> so much in repute at the present day, <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Singer</span> very adroitly produced a "corroborative note" from "old
+  Langham" ("<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," Vol. ii., p.
+  315.), which, curiously enough, is castrated of all that Langham wrote
+  pertaining to the question in issue. Treating of the many virtues of the
+  prevailing tonic as an appetiser, and restorer "of a good color" to them
+  that be "leane and evil colored," Langham says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>["Make wormwood wine thus: take <i>aqua vitæ</i> and malmsey, of each
+  like much, put it in a glasse or bottell with <i>a few leaves of dried
+  wormwood</i>, and let it stand certain days,] and strein out a little
+  spoonfull, and drink it with a draught of ale or wine: [it may be long
+  preserved.]"<a name="footnotetag5"
+  href="#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a></p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Thus it will be seen that the reason for "streining out a little
+  spoonfull" as a restorative for a weak stomach was less on account of the
+  infusion being so "atrociously unpalatable," than of the alcohol used in
+  its preparation.</p>
+
+  <p>Dr. Venner also recommends as an excellent stomachic,</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"To drink mornings fasting, and sometimes also before dinner, <i>a
+  draught of wormwood-wine</i> or beer:"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>and we may gather the "atrocious bitterness" of the restorative, by
+  the substitute he proposes: "or, for want of them," he continues:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"white wine or stale beer, wherein a few branches of wormwood have,
+  for certain hours, been infused."<a name="footnotetag6"
+  href="#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a></p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Dr. Parr, quoting Bergius, describes <i>Absinthium</i> as "a grateful
+  stomachic;" and <i>Absinthites</i> as "a pleasant form of the
+  wormwood."<a name="footnotetag7" href="#footnote7"><sup>[7]</sup></a></p>
+
+  <p>Is this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to <i>drink</i>
+  <span class="scac">UP</span> with his crocodile? So far from thinking so,
+  I have ventured to coincide with Archdeacon Nares in favour of Steevens;
+  for whether it be Malone's vinegar, or <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Singer's</span> more comfortable stomachic, the challenge to drink either
+  "<i>in such a rant</i>, is so inconsistent, and even ridiculous, that we
+  must decide for the river, whether its name be exactly found or not."<a
+  name="footnotetag8" href="#footnote8"><sup>[8]</sup></a></p>
+
+  <p>I am quite unconscious of any purport in my remarks, other than they
+  appear on paper; and I should be sorry indeed to accuse <span
+  class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> of being "ignorant" of anything; but I
+  venture to suggest that those young gentlemen of surpassing spirit, who
+  ate crocodiles, <i>drank</i> <span class="scac">UP</span> eisell, and
+  committed other anomalies against nature in honor of their mistresses,
+  belonged decidedly to a period of time anterior to that of Shakspeare,
+  and went quite out with the age of chivalry, of which Shakspeare saw
+  scarcely even the fag end. Your lover of Shakspeare's time was quite
+  another animal. He had begun to take beer. He had become much more subtle
+  and self-satisfied. He did sometimes pen sonnets to his mistress's
+  eye-brow, and sing soft nothings to the gentle sighing of his "Lewte." He
+  sometimes indeed looked "pale and wan;" but, rather than for love, it was
+  more than probably from his immoderate indulgence in the "newe weede,"
+  which he <i>drank</i><a name="footnotetag9"
+  href="#footnote9"><sup>[9]</sup></a>, though I never discovered that it
+  was <i>drank up</i> by him. He generally wore a doublet and breeches of
+  satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and walked about with a
+  gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other. His veritable
+  portrait is extant, and is engraved in Mr. Knight's <i>Pictorial
+  Shakspeare</i>.<a name="footnotetag10"
+  href="#footnote10"><sup>[10]</sup></a></p>
+
+  <p>It will be time enough to decide which of us has run his head against
+  "a stumbling-block of his own making," when <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Singer</span> shall have found a probable solution of his difficulty "by
+  a parallelism in the poet's pages."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. K. Staple Causton.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+  <p>This deduction is not warranted by the <i>Vocab. della Crusca</i>, or
+  any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference:
+  and <i>Somner</i> and <i>Lye</i> are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words,
+  <i>Wermod</i> and <i>Eisell</i>.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Garden of Health</i>, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the
+  brackets were omitted by <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span>.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Via Recta ad Vitam Longam</i>, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to. London,
+  1660.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Med. Dict.</i></p>
+
+  <a name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag8">(return)</a>
+  <p>A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in <i>Dict. Géograph.
+  de la Martinière</i>, v. ix. fo. 1739.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag9">(return)</a>
+  <p>As the verb "to drink" was not limited to the act of bibition, but for
+  <span class="sc">Mr. Hickson's</span> decision against drinking up the
+  "sea-serpent," it might yet become a question whether Hamlet's
+  <i>eisell</i> had not been a misprint for <i>eosol</i> (asinus).</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag10">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Merchant of Venice</i>, Introduction.</p>
+
+</div>
+<p><!-- Page 212 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page212"></a>{212}</span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>William Chilcott</i> (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.).&mdash;The few notes
+  which follow are very much at the service of your correspondent. William
+  Chilcott, M.A., was rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May
+  30, 1711, at the age of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to
+  his memory indicates that he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine
+  died in August, 1695. The first edition of the <i>Practical Treatise
+  concerning Evil Thoughts</i> was printed at Exeter in 1690, and was
+  dedicated to his parishioners. Robert Chilcott, whom I take to be the
+  brother of William, was rector of St. Mary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb.
+  7, 1689.</p>
+
+  <p>There does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above
+  mentioned, were descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the
+  identity of the Christian names renders it probable. If the object were
+  to trace their ancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the
+  suggestions of E.A.D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by
+  comparing Prince's <i>Worthies of Devon</i>, ed. 1810, p. 213., and
+  Polwhele's <i>Devon</i>, vol. iii. p. 351., with Harding's
+  <i>Tiverton</i>; in various parts of which eight or nine individuals of
+  the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.; vol. ii.
+  book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv., p. 20., where the
+  connexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper,
+  Collamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the
+  object might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co.
+  Somerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones
+  in the church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their
+  descendants by reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at
+  Morchard-Bishop, where a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St.
+  George, where a family of the same name lived about 1740; North Molton,
+  where C. Chilcott was vicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph
+  Chilcott was vicar about 1830. A Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist
+  at Bath, married Ann, daughter of the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady
+  died in 1758, and was buried at Tavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of
+  arms on the tablet to her memory is almost identical with the coat of the
+  Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first above mentioned.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">J. D. S.
+
+  <p><i>Fossil Elk of Ireland</i> (Vol. iii., p. 121.).&mdash;In the
+  <i>Edinburgh Journal of Science</i>, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301.,
+  is a curious paper by the late Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of
+  "Additional Contributions towards the History of the Cervus Euryceros, or
+  Fossil Elk of Ireland." It is illustrated with a copy of an engraving of
+  an animal which Dr. H.&nbsp;W. believes to have been the same as the Irish
+  elk, and which was living in Prussia at the time of the publication of
+  the book from which it is taken, viz. the <i>Cosmographia Universalis</i>
+  of Sebastian Munster: Basiliæ, 1550.</p>
+
+  <p>Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of
+  the first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that
+  the Cervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. C. Trevelyan.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p><i>Canes Lesos</i> (Vol. iii. p. 141.).&mdash;In a note to Beckwith's
+  edition of Blount's <i>Jocular Tenures</i>, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan
+  of Darlington anticipates your correspondent C.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;B., and says,
+  respecting Blount's explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no
+  such word in this sense: why may it not be dogs that have received some
+  hurt? <i>læsos</i> from <i>lædo</i>." <i>Clancturam</i> should be
+  <i>clausturam</i>, and so it is given in the above edition, and explained
+  "a tax for fencing."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. W. Singer.</span>
+
+  <p>"<i>By Hook or by Crook</i>" (vol. iii. p. 116.).&mdash;However
+  unimaginative the worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular
+  phrase J.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;S. has made himself answerable, the solution sounds so
+  pretty, that to save its obtaining further credence, more than your
+  well-timed note is needed. I with safety can contradict it, for I find
+  that "Tusser," a Norfolk man living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a
+  poem which he wrote as a complete monthly guide and adviser for the
+  farmer through the year, but which was not published till 1590, in the
+  thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has the following advice for March
+  30:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see</p>
+      <p>A number of thousands, to many there be:</p>
+      <p>Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,</p>
+      <p>For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>This must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers
+  possessing "Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear
+  twins, "twinlins."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Blowen.</span>
+
+  <p>This appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the
+  time pointed out by J.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;S. Thus, in <i>Devout Contemplations</i>, by
+  Fr. Ch. de Fonseca, Englished by J.&nbsp;M., London, 1629, we read that the
+  Devil</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting
+  religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in preaching,
+  and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth tares,
+  treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that he is
+  nobody that is not rich, and therefore, <i>bee it by hooke or by
+  crooke</i>, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">W. D&mdash;n</span>.
+
+  <p><i>Suem.</i>&mdash;Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;G.
+  (Vol. iii., p. 7.) and <span class="grk">&Delta;</span>. (Vol. iii., p.
+  75.), that <i>suem</i> is probably a form of the A.-S. word <i>seam</i>,
+  a <i>horse-load</i>, and generally a <i>burden</i>. For cognates, see
+  Bosworth's <i>A.-S. Dict.</i> <!-- Page 213 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page213"></a>{213}</span>I may add, that the word is written
+  <i>swun</i> in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in
+  his <i>Thesaurus</i>, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"&mdash;ic ann <a href="images/72_thaet.png"><img
+  src="images/72_thaet.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="þæt"
+  /></a> ðridde treow. <a href="images/72_et.png"><img
+  src="images/72_et.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="et" /></a>
+  <a href="images/72_thaet.png"><img src="images/72_thaet.png"
+  class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="þæt" /></a> ðridde swun of ævesan
+  ðæs nextan wudes ðe liþ to kyngesbyrig," &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Which Hickes thus renders:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam
+  fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita,"
+  &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">R. M. W.
+
+  <p><i>Sir George Downing</i> (Vol. iii., p. 69.).&mdash;The following
+  extract of a letter in Cartes' <i>Letters</i>, ii. 319., confirms the
+  accuracy of the memorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by
+  J.&nbsp;P.&nbsp;C. The letter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5,
+  1660, on the eve of the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to
+  serve the King,&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was
+  banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in
+  principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">CH.
+
+  <p><i>Miching malicho</i> (Vol. iii., p. 3.).&mdash;Your correspondent
+  <span class="sc">Mr. Collier</span> is probably not aware that his
+  suggestion respecting the meaning of <i>Malicho</i> had been anticipated
+  upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending edition of Shakspeare
+  by another of your correspondents, <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span>,
+  printed in 1825, I find the following note:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"<i>Miching malicho</i> is lurking mischief, or evil doing. <i>To
+  mich</i>, for to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in
+  Shakspeare's time; and <i>Malicho</i>, or <i>Malhecho</i>, misdeed, he
+  has borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian
+  were then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French
+  used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word <i>Mallicho</i>. Our
+  ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according
+  to the ear."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>I have since looked at <span class="sc">Mr. Collier's</span> note to
+  which he refers, and find that he interprets <i>miching</i> by
+  <i>stealing</i>, which will not suit the context; and abundant examples
+  may be adduced that to <i>mich</i> was to <i>skulk</i>, to <i>lurk</i>,
+  as <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> has very properly explained it.
+  Thus Minsheu:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"To <span class="sc">Miche</span>, or secretly hide himself out of the
+  way, as <span class="scac">TRUANTS</span> doe from Schoole, vi. <i>to
+  hide</i>, to cover."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>and again&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"A <i>micher</i>, vi. <i>Truant</i>."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Mr. Collier's</span> text, too, is not satisfactory,
+  for he has abandoned the old word <i>Malicho</i>, and given
+  <i>Mallecho</i>, which is as far from the true form of the Spanish word
+  as the old reading, which he should either have preserved or printed
+  <i>Malhecho</i>, as Minsheu gives it.</p>
+
+  <p>I am glad to see from your pages that <span class="sc">Mr.
+  Singer</span> has not entirely abandoned Shakspearian illustration, for
+  in my difficulties I have rarely consulted his edition in vain; and, in
+  my humble opinion, it is as yet the most practically useful and readable
+  edition we have.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fiat Justitia.</span>
+
+  <p><i>Cor Linguæ, &amp;c.</i> (Vol. iii., p. 168.).&mdash;The lines
+  quoted by J.&nbsp;Bs. occur in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed
+  in the volume of <i>Latin Poems</i>, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes,
+  edited by Mr. T. Wright for the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a
+  slight variation in expression, as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Cor linguæ f&oelig;derat naturæ sanctio,</p>
+      <p>Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio;</p>
+      <p>Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio,</p>
+      <p>Sermo concipitur ex adulterio."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>Mr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton, Vespas, E.
+  xii. Of its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's
+  name was certainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne,
+  with which place Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and
+  if Mr. Wright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in
+  it is Henry III., it must of course have been written some years after
+  Walter Map's death.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="scac">J. G. N.</span>
+
+  <p><i>Under the Rose</i> (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., pp. 221.
+  323.).&mdash;I am surprised that no one has noticed Sir T. Browne's
+  elucidations of this phrase. (<i>Vulg. Err.</i> lib. v. cap. 21. § 7.)
+  Besides the explanation referred to by <span class="sc">Archæus</span>
+  (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"The expression is commendable, if the rose from any <i>naturall</i>
+  propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply in
+  these translated verses&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg1">'Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa,</p>
+      <p>Sic os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis,</p>
+      <p>Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>He explains "the Germane custome, which over the table describeth a
+  rose in the seeling" (Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to
+  refer only to the secrecy to be observed "in society and compotation,
+  from the ancient custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of
+  roses about their heads."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ache.</span>
+
+  <p>"<i>Impatient to speak and not see</i>" (Vol. ii., p.
+  490.).&mdash;There is no doubt of the fine interpretation of your
+  correspondent; but it is not illustrated by the Latin. Also, I apprehend,
+  "indocilis pati" is not put for "indocilis patiendi." It is a common use
+  of <i>to</i>&mdash;proud to be praised; angry to be so ill-treated.</p>
+
+  <p>It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton
+  would have altered:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold,</p>
+      <p><i>To be</i> so pestered," &amp;c., <i>i.e.</i> at being.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>May I mention a change in <i>Troilus and Cressida</i> which I have
+  long entertained, but with doubt:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,</p>
+      <p>Retires to chiding fortune."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<p><!-- Page 214 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page214"></a>{214}</span></p>
+
+  <p>Pope reads "returns," Hanmer "replies." My conjecture is
+  "recries."</p>
+
+  <p class="author">C. B.
+
+  <p><i>Bishop Frampton</i> (Vol. iii., p. 61.).&mdash;See an interesting
+  notice of his preaching in Pepys' <i>Diary</i>, Jan. 20, 1666-7; and what
+  is said of him in Lathbury's <i>Nonjurors</i>, p. 203. But probably <span
+  class="sc">Mr. Evans</span> is already aware of these references to
+  Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desideratum which many will be glad to
+  hear is going to be supplied.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">E. H. A.
+
+  <p><i>Old Tract on the Eucharist</i> (Vol. iii., p. 169.).&mdash;The
+  author of the tract on the Eucharist, referred to by <span
+  class="sc">Abhba</span>, was the Rev. John Patrick. The title of the
+  tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.; of Dr.
+  Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the <i>Discourses against Popery
+  during the Reign of James II.</i>, is as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church
+  relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present
+  <i>Roman</i> Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of
+  Transubstantiation; being a sufficient Confutation of <i>Consensus
+  Veterum</i>, <i>Nubes Testium</i>, and other late Collections of the
+  Fathers pretending the contrary. By <i>John Patrick, Preacher at the
+  Charter-house</i>, 1688. 4to."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. C. Harrington.</span>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Exeter, March 3. 1851.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <p>This tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. It is one of the more
+  valuable of the numerous tracts published on the Roman Catholic
+  controversy during the reign of James II. In a collection of more than
+  two hundred of these made at the period of publication, and now in my
+  library, the names of the authors are written upon the titles, and this
+  is attributed to <i>Mr. Patrick</i>. In another collection from the
+  library of the late Mr. Walter Wilson, it is stated to be by <i>Bishop
+  Patrick</i>. Bishop Gibson reprinted the tract in his <i>Preservative
+  against Popery</i>, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii. tit. vii. pp.
+  176&mdash;252.; and in the table of contents says that it was written by
+  "Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." Not Bishop Patrick
+  therefore, but his brother, Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged
+  sixty-three, was the author of this tract.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">John J. Dredge.</span>
+
+  <p><i>Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?</i> (Vol. iii., p.
+  166.).&mdash;I possess</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Hugh Peter's
+  Advice to his Daughter. Written by his own Hand during his late
+  Imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his
+  Death. London, 1660:"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>which advice he ends, p. 94., with&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly
+  Kingdom, my poor child.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"To <span class="sc">Elizabeth Peters</span>."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his
+  life with&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, that (if
+  possible) you may wipe off some dirt, or be the more content to carry
+  it."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>That part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus,
+  p. 98.:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but
+  fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was exposed
+  to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with the sense
+  of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>The wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be
+  asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but
+  stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.)</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie
+  and anger ... There were six or seven thousand hearers ... and I went to
+  Holland:"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from
+  the tone of the condemned man's <i>Legacy</i>, that he would purposely
+  avoid any mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and "usually
+  performed the part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on
+  his coming into London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which
+  stuck fast:" he almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the
+  love and labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" so that he was
+  mostly preaching itinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a
+  player in Shakespeare's company." That <i>Legacy</i> in question, and a
+  book autograph of Hugh Peters, are at the service of <span class="sc">Dr.
+  Rimbault</span>.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Blowen.</span>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2>
+
+<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</h3>
+
+  <p>All who take an interest in English philology will join in the wish
+  expressed a few pages back by one of the highest authorities on the
+  subject, Mr. Albert Way&mdash;namely, "that the Philological Society has
+  not abandoned their project of compiling a complete Provincial Glossary;"
+  and will greet as a valuable contribution towards that great desideratum,
+  every skilful attempt to record a local dialect. As such, Mr. Sternberg's
+  valuable little book, <i>The Dialect and Folk Lore of
+  Northamptonshire</i>, will meet a hearty welcome from our philological
+  friends; and no less hearty a welcome from those who find in "popular
+  superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teutonic heathenism,"
+  materials for profitable speculation on the ancient mythology of these
+  islands. We are bound to speak thus favourably of Mr. Sternberg's
+  researches in this department, since some portion of them were first
+  communicated by him to our Folk-Lore columns.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>&mdash;<i>Vestiges of the Gael
+  in Gwynedd, by the Rev. William Basil Jones, M.A.</i> A learned essay on
+  the subject of deep interest to the antiquaries <!-- Page 215 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page215"></a>{215}</span>of the Principality,
+  involving, as it does among other questions, that of the claim of the
+  Gael, or the Cymry, to be the aborigines of the country.</p>
+
+  <p><i>The Book of Family Crests, comprising nearly every Family Bearing,
+  properly blazoned and explained, accompanied by upwards of Four Thousand
+  Engravings, with the Surnames of the Bearers, Dictionary of Mottoes, and
+  Glossary of Terms</i>, in 2 Vols., Sixth Edition. The best criticism on
+  this popular work, with its <i>well blazoned</i> title-page bearing the
+  words <span class="scac">SIXTH EDITION</span> on its <i>honour point</i>,
+  is to state, as a proof of its completeness, that it records the Crests
+  of upwards of ninety <i>Smiths</i>, and nearly fifty <i>Smyths</i> and
+  <i>Smythes</i>.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Illustrations of Medieval Costume in England, collected from MSS.
+  in the British Museum</i>, by T.&nbsp;A. Day and J.&nbsp;B. Dines. When before did
+  English antiquaries see four plates of costume, some of them coloured,
+  sold for one shilling? As an attempt at cheapening and so popularising
+  archæological literature, the work deserves encouragement.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Catalogues Received.</span>&mdash;William and
+  Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) German Book Circular, No.
+  27.; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn) Catalogue Part 49. of Interesting
+  and Rare Books; Cole's (15. Great Turnstile) List No. 33. of very Cheap
+  Books; B. Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No.
+  26. of Books in all Languages.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" >
+
+<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Archæologia.</span> Vol. 3.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Frere's Translations from Aristophanes.</span></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Morrison's Edit. of Burns' Works</span>, 4 Vols.,
+  printed at Perth.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Herd's Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish
+  Songs</span>, Vol. 2. Edin. 1778.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Blind Harry's "Wallace,"</span> edited by Dr.
+  Jamieson. 4to. Companion volume to "<span class="sc">The
+  Bruce.</span>"</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Barrow's (Isaac) Works.</span> Vol. 1. 1683; or 8
+  leaves a&mdash;d, "Some Account of the Life," &amp;c.</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" >
+
+<h3>Notices to Correspondents.</h3>
+
+  <p>R. C. P. "Thal," "Theam," "Thealonia," <i>in the Charter referred to,
+  are certain rights of toll, of which the peculiarities will be found in
+  any Law Dictionary; and "Infangethe" was the privilege of judging any
+  thief within the fee.</i></p>
+
+  <p>S. P. Q. R. <i>We must refer this correspondent also to a Law
+  Dictionary for a full explanation of the terms Sergeant and Sergeantcy. A
+  Deed</i> Poll <i>is plain at the top, and is so called to distinguish it
+  from a Deed</i> Indented, <i>which is cut in and out at the top.</i></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Tyro.</span> <i>The work quoted as</i> Gammer Gurton
+  <i>in the</i> Arundines Cami, <i>is the collection of</i> Nursery Rhymes
+  <i>first formed by Ritson, and of which an enlarged edition was published
+  by Triphook in 1810, under the title of</i> Gammer Gurton's Garland,
+  <i>or</i> The Nursery Parnassus, &amp;c.</p>
+
+  <p>R. C. <i>The music, &amp;c. of</i> "The Roast Beef of England,"
+  "Britons Strike Home," <i>and</i> "The Grenadier's March," <i>will be
+  found in Mr. Chappell's</i> Collection of National English Airs.
+  <i>Webbe's Glee</i>, "Hail Star of Brunswick," <i>the words of which are
+  by Young, may doubtless be got at Cramer's. We cannot point out a
+  collection containing the words and music of</i> "Croppies lie down."</p>
+
+  <p>K. R. H. M. <i>All received.</i></p>
+
+  <p>A. E. B. <i>is thanked for his suggested monogram, which shall not be
+  lost sight of: also for his friendly criticism.</i></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Hermes.</span> <i>We have received a packet from
+  Holland for our correspondent. Will he inform us how it may be forwarded
+  to him?</i></p>
+
+  <p>M. or N. <i>The meaning of these initials in our</i> Catechism
+  <i>and</i> Form of Matrimony <i>is still involved in great obscurity.
+  See</i> "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," Vol. i., pp. 415.
+  476.; Vol. ii., p. 61.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">De Navorscher</span>. <i>Mr. Nult is the London Agent
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+  about Ten Shillings.</i></p>
+
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+
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+  Venice&mdash;Waste-book&mdash;Dryden's Absolom&mdash;MS. of
+  Bede&mdash;Altar Lights&mdash;Auriga&mdash;Ralph Thoresby's
+  Library&mdash;St. John's Bridge Fair&mdash;Closing Rooms&mdash;North Side
+  of Churchyards&mdash;Barons of Hugh Lupus&mdash;Tandem
+  D.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;M.&mdash;Fronte Capillatâ&mdash;Haybands in
+  Seals&mdash;Hanger&mdash;Countess of Desmond&mdash;Aristophanes on Modern
+  Stage&mdash;Engimatical Epitaph&mdash;Notes on Newspapers&mdash;Duncan
+  Campbell&mdash;MS. Sermons by J. Taylor&mdash;Dr.
+  Dodd&mdash;D.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;S.&mdash;Hooper's Godly Confession&mdash;Finkle
+  Street&mdash;"She was&mdash;but words are
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+  Eucharist&mdash;Prince of Wales's Motto&mdash;By Hook or by
+  Crook&mdash;Lights on the Altar&mdash;Derivation of Fib,
+  &amp;c.&mdash;Extradition, Ignore, &amp;c.&mdash;Obeahism&mdash;Thesaurus
+  Hospitii&mdash;Christmas Day&mdash;Camden and Curwen Families&mdash;Death
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+
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+    <div class="stanza">
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851
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+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
+No. 72.]
+SATURDAY, MARCH 15. 1851.
+[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+  NOTES:--                                                   Page
+  Illustrations of Chaucer                                    201
+  Inedited Poetry, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie             203
+  On a Passage in Marmion                                     203
+  Gloucestershire Provincialisms, by Albert Way               204
+  The Chapel of Loretto                                       205
+  Folk Lore:--"Nettle in Dock out"--Soul separates
+  from the Body--Lady's Trees--Norfolk Folk Lore
+  Rhymes                                                      205
+  Minor Notes:--Note for the Topographers of Ancient
+  London, and for the Monasticon--Gray and Burns--
+  Traditional Notice of Richard III.--Oliver Cromwell--
+  Snail-eating                                                206
+
+  QUERIES:--
+  Biddings in Wales                                           207
+  Minor Queries:--Lord of Relton--Beatrix de Bradney--
+  "Letters on the British Museum"--Ballad
+  Editing: The "Outlandish Knight"--Latin Epigram
+  on the Duchess of Eboli--Engraved Portrait--
+  Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence--
+  The Two Drs. Abercromby--Witte van Haemstede--J.
+  Bruckner: Dutch Church in Norwich                           208
+
+  MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Hereditary Earl
+  Marshal--The Beggar's Petition--"Tiring-irons
+  never to be untied"                                         209
+
+  REPLIES:--
+  The Meaning of Eisell, by H. K. S. Causton                  210
+  Replies to Minor Queries:--William Chilcott--Fossil
+  Elk of Ireland--Canes Lesos--"By Hook or by
+  Crook"--Suem--Sir George Downing--Miching
+  Malicho--Cor Linguae--Under the Rose--"Impatient
+  to speak, and not see"--Bishop Frampton--Old
+  Tract on the Eucharist--Was Hugh Peters ever on
+  the Stage?                                                  212
+
+  MISCELLANEOUS:--
+  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                      214
+  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                215
+  Notices to Correspondents                                   215
+  Advertisements                                              215
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Notes.
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER.
+
+(Vol. iii., pp. 131. 133.)
+
+I am glad to perceive that some of the correspondents of "NOTES AND
+QUERIES" are turning their attention to the elucidation of Chaucer. The
+text of our father-poet, having remained as it were in fallow since the
+time of Tyrwhitt, now presents a rich field for industry; and, in offering
+free port and entry to all comments and suggestions, to be there sifted and
+garnered up, the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES" may soon become a depository
+from which ample materials may be obtained for a new edition of Chaucer,
+now become an acknowledged desideratum.
+
+One excellent illustration has lately been added, at page 133., in a note
+without signature upon "Nettle in, dock out." If _confirmed_[1], it will
+furnish not only a most satisfactory explanation of that hitherto
+incomprehensible phrase, but also a curious example of the faithful
+preservation of an exact form of words through centuries of oral tradition.
+
+And if the note which precedes it, at page 131., upon a passage in Palamon
+and Arcite, is less valuable, it is because it is deficient in one of the
+most essential conditions which such communications ought to possess--that
+of originality. No suggestion ought to be offered which had been previously
+published in connexion with the same subject: at least in any _very
+obvious_ place of reference, such as notes or glossaries already appended
+to well-known editions of the text.
+
+Now the precise explanation of the planetary distribution of the
+twenty-four hours of the day, given by [Greek: e]. in the first portion of
+his communication, was anticipated seventy or eighty years ago by Tyrwhitt
+in his note upon the same passage of Palamon and Arcite. And with respect
+to [Greek: e].'s second explanation of the meaning of "houre inequal," that
+expression also has been commented upon by Tyrwhitt, who attributes it to
+the well-known expansive duration of ancient hours, the length of which was
+regulated by that of the natural day at the several seasons of the year:
+hence an _inequality_ always existed; except at the equinoxes, between
+hours before, and hours after, sunrise. This is undoubtedly the true
+explanation, since Chaucer was, at the time, referring to hours before and
+after sunrise upon the same day. On the contrary, [Greek: e].'s ecliptic
+hours, if they ever existed at all (he has cited no authority), would be
+obviously incompatible with the planetary disposition of the hours first
+referred to.
+
+I shall now, in my turn, suggest explanations of the two new difficulties
+in Chaucer's text, to {202} which, at the conclusion of his note, [Greek:
+e]. has drawn attention.
+
+The first is, that, "with respect to the time of year at which the
+tournament takes place, there seems to be an inconsistency." Theseus fixes
+"this day fifty wekes" from the fourth of May, as the day on which the
+final contention must come off, and yet the day previous to the final
+contention is afterwards alluded to as "the lusty seson of that May,"
+which, it is needless to say, would be inconsistent with an interval of
+fifty _ordinary_ weeks.
+
+But fifty weeks, if taken in their literal sense of 350 days, would be a
+most unmeaning interval for Theseus to fix upon,--it would almost require
+explanation as much as the difficulty itself: it is therefore much easier
+to suppose that Chaucer meant to imply the interval of a solar year. Why he
+should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two,
+weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would
+be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that
+the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a
+lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
+
+Chaucer sometimes makes the strangest jumble--mixing up together Pagan
+matters and Christian, Roman and Grecian, ancient and modern; so that
+although he names Sunday and Monday as two of the days of the week in
+Athens, he does so evidently for the purpose of introducing the allocation
+of the hours, alluded to before, to which the planetary names of the days
+of the week were absolutely necessary. But in the fifty weeks appointed by
+Theseus, the very same love of a little display of erudition would lead
+Chaucer to choose the _hebdomas lunae_, or lunar quarter, which the Athenian
+youth were wont to mark out by the celebration of a feast to Apollo on
+every seventh day of the moon. But after the first twenty-eight days of
+every lunar month, the weekly reckoning must have been discontinued for
+about a day and a half (when the new moon was what was called "in coitu,"
+or invisible), after which a new reckoning of sevens would recommence.
+Hence there could be but four hebdomades in each lunar month; and as there
+are about twelve and a half lunar months in a solar year, so must there
+have been fifty lunar weeks in one solar year.
+
+It will explain many anomalies, even in Shakspeare, if we suppose that our
+early writers were content to show their knowledge of a subject in a few
+particulars, and were by no means solicitous to preserve, what moderns
+would call _keeping_, in the whole performance.
+
+The next difficulty, adverted to by [Greek: e]., is the mention of the
+THIRD as the morning upon which Palamon "brake his prison," and Arcite went
+into the woods "to don his observaunce to May."
+
+There is not perhaps in the whole of Chaucer's writings a more exquisite
+passage than that by which the latter circumstance is introduced; it is
+well worth transcribing:--
+
+ "The besy larke, the messager of day,
+  Sal[=e]weth in hire song the morw[=e] gray;
+  And firy Phebus riseth up so bright,
+  That all the orient laugheth at the sight;
+  And with his strem[=e]s drieth in the greves
+  The silver drop[=e]s hanging on the leves."
+
+Such is the description of the morning of the "thridde of May;" and
+perhaps, if no other mention of that date were to be found throughout
+Chaucer's works, we might be justified in setting it down as a random
+expression, to which no particular meaning was attached. But when we find
+it repeated in an entirely different poem, and the same "observaunce to
+May" again associated with it, the conviction is forced upon us that it
+cannot be without some definite meaning.
+
+This repetition occurs in the opening of the second book of _Troilus and
+Creseide_, where "the thridde" has not only "observaunce to May" again
+attributed to it, but also apparently some peculiar virtue in dreams. No
+sooner does Creseide behold Pandarus on the morning of the third of May,
+than "_by the hond on hie, she tooke him fast_," and tells him that she had
+thrice dreamed of him that night. Pandarus replies in what appears to have
+been a set form of words suitable to the occasion--
+
+ "Yea, nece, ye shall faren well the bet,
+  If God wull, all this yeare."
+
+Now unless the third of May were supposed to possess some unusual virtue,
+the dreaming on that morning could scarcely confer a whole year's welfare.
+But, be that as it may, there can at least be no doubt that Chaucer
+designedly associated _some_ celebration of the advent of May with the
+morning of the third of that month.
+
+Without absolutely asserting that my explanation is the true one, I may
+nevertheless suggest it until some better may be offered. It is, that the
+association may have originated in the invocation of the goddess Flora, by
+Ovid, on that day (_Fasti_, v.), in order that she might inspire him with
+an explanation of the Floralia, or Floral games, which were celebrated in
+Rome from the 28th of April to the _third_ of May.
+
+These games, if transferred by Chaucer to Athens, would at once explain the
+"gret feste" and the "lusty seson of that May."
+
+Supposing, then, that Chaucer, in the _Knight's Tale_, meant, as I think he
+meant, to place the great combat on the anniversary of the fourth of
+May--that being the day on which Theseus had intercepted the duel,--then
+the entry into Athens of the rival companies would take place on {203}
+(Sunday) the second, and the sacrifices and feasting on the _third of May_,
+the last of the Floralia.
+
+A. E. B.
+
+  Leeds, March 4, 1851.
+
+[Footnote 1: [Of which there can be no doubt. See further p. 205. of our
+present Number.--ED.]]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INEDITED POETRY, NO. II.
+
+CHORUS.
+
+(Harleian MSS., No. 367. fo. 154.)
+
+ "Is, is there nothing cann withstand
+          The hand
+      Of Time: but that it must
+      Be shaken into dust?
+  Then poore, poore Israelites are wee
+          Who see,
+  But cannot shunn the Graue's captivitie.
+
+ "Alas, good Browne! that Nature hath
+          No bath,
+      Or virtuous herbes to strayne,
+      To boyle[2] thee yong againe;
+  Yet could she (kind) but back command
+          Thy brand,
+  Herself would dye thou should'st be unman'd.
+
+ "But (ah!) the golden Ewer by [a] stroke,
+          Is broke,
+      And now the Almond Tree
+      With teares, with teares, we see,
+  Doth lowly lye, and with its fall
+          Do all
+  The daughters dye, that once were musicall.
+
+ "Thus yf weake builded man cann saye,
+          A day
+      He lives, 'tis all, for why?
+      He's sure at night to dye,
+  For fading man in fleshly lome[3]
+          Doth rome
+  Till he his graue find, His eternall home.
+
+ "Then farewell, farewell, man of men,
+          Till when
+      (For us the morners meet
+      Pal'd visag'd in the street,
+  To seale up this our britle birth
+          In earth,)
+  We meet with thee triumphant in our mirth."
+                  _Trinitaell Hall's Exequies._
+
+Now, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of the
+almond-tree? Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza, or has
+it some reference to any botanical fact? I send the ballad, trusting that
+as an inedited morsel you will receive it.
+
+KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.
+
+    [We do not take _Hall_ here to be the name of a man, but Trinity Hall
+    at Cambridge.]
+
+[Footnote 2: The reader will recognise the classical allusion.]
+
+[Footnote 3: Loam, earth; roam.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ON A PASSAGE IN MARMION.
+
+I venture for the first time to trespass upon the attention of your readers
+in making the following remarks upon a passage in _Marmion_, which, as far
+as I know, has escaped the notice of all the critical writers whose
+comments upon that celebrated poem have hitherto been published.
+
+It will probably be remembered, that long after the main action of the poem
+and interest of the story have been brought to a close by the death of the
+hero on the field of Flodden, the following incident is thus pointedly
+described:--
+
+  Short is my tale:--Fitz-Eustace' care
+  A pierced and mangled body bare
+  To moated Lichfield's lofty pile:
+  And there, beneath the southern aisle,
+  A tomb, with Gothic sculpture fair
+  Did long Lord Marmion's image bear,
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+ "There erst was martial Marmion found,
+  His feet upon a couchant hound,
+    His hands to Heaven upraised:
+  And all around on scutcheon rich,
+  And tablet carved, and fretted niche,
+    His arms and feats were blazed.
+  And yet, though all was carved so fair,
+  And priest for Marmion breathed the prayer,
+  _The last Lord Marmion lay not there._
+  From Ettrick woods a peasant swain
+  Follow'd his lord to Flodden plain,--
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+ "Sore wounded Sybil's Cross he spied,
+  And dragg'd him to its foot, and died,
+  Close by the noble Marmion's side.
+  The spoilers stripp'd and gash'd the slain,
+  And thus their corpses were mista'en;
+  And thus in the proud Baron's tomb,
+  The lowly woodsman took the room."
+
+Now, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon this
+forced and improbable incident? Had it indeed been with no other purpose
+than to introduce the picturesque description and the moral reflexions
+contained in the following section, the improbability might well be
+forgiven. But such is not the real object. The critic of the _Monthly
+Review_ takes the following notice of this passage, which is printed as a
+note in the last edition of Scott's _Poems_ in 1833:--
+
+    "A corpse is afterwards conveyed, as that of Marmion, to the cathedral
+    of Lichfield, where a magnificent tomb is erected to his memory, &c.
+    &c.; but, by an _admirably imagined act of poetical justice_, we are
+    informed that a peasant's body was placed beneath that costly monument,
+    while the haughty Baron himself was buried like a vulgar corpse on the
+    spot where he died."
+
+Had the reviewer attempted to penetrate a little deeper into the workings
+of the author's mind, he would have seen in this circumstance much more
+than "an admirably imagined act of poetical {204} justice." He would have
+perceived in it the ultimate and literal fulfilment of the whole penalty
+foreshadowed to the delinquent baron in the two concluding stanzas of that
+beautiful and touching song sung by Fitz-Eustace in the Hostelrie of
+Gifford in the third canto of the poem, which I here transcribe:
+
+ "Where shall the traitor rest,
+    He the deceiver,
+  Who could win maiden's breast,
+    Ruin, and leave her?
+  In the lost battle
+    Borne down by the flying,
+  Where mingles war's rattle,
+    With groans of the dying--
+      There shall he be lying.
+  Her wing shall the eagle flap
+    O'er the false-hearted,
+  His warm blood the wolf shall lap
+    Ere life be parted.
+  _Shame and dishonour sit_
+    _By his grave ever;_
+  _Blessing shall hallow it,_
+    _Never, O never!_"
+
+Then follows the effect produced upon the conscience of the "Traitor,"
+described in these powerful lines:--
+
+ "It ceased. the melancholy sound;
+  And silence sunk on all around.
+  The air was sad; but sadder still
+    It fell on Marmion's ear,
+  And plain'd as if disgrace and ill,
+    And shameful death, were near."
+        &c. &c. &c.
+
+And lastly, when the life of the wounded baron is ebbing forth with his
+blood on the field of battle, when--
+
+ "The Monk, with unavailing cares
+  Exhausted all the Church's prayers--
+  Ever, he said, that, close and near,
+  A lady's voice was in his ear,
+  And that the priest he could not hear--
+    For that she ever sung,
+ '_In the lost battle, borne down by the flying,_
+  _Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying!_'--
+    So the notes ring."
+
+I am the more disposed to submit these remarks to your readers, because it
+is highly interesting to trace an irresistible tendency in the genius of
+this mighty author towards the fulfilment of prophetic legends and visions
+of second sight: and not to extend this paper to an inconvenient length, I
+purpose to resume the subject in a future number, and collate some other
+examples of a similar character from the works of Sir Walter Scott.
+
+I write from the southern slopes of Cheviot, almost within sight of the
+Hill of Flodden. During the latter years of the great Border Minstrel, I
+had the happiness to rank myself among the number of his friends and
+acquaintances, and I revere his memory as much as I prized his friendship.
+
+A BORDERER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS.
+
+_To burl, burling; to shunt, &c._--In the report of the evidence regarding
+the death of Mrs. Hathway, at Chipping Sodbury, supposed to have been
+poisoned by her husband, the following dialectical expression occurs, which
+may deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated that he was invited by Mr.
+Hathway to go with him into a beer-house in Frampton Cotterell, "and have a
+tip," but he declined.
+
+    "Mr. H. went in and called for a quart of beer, and then came out
+    again, and I went in. He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a
+    hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to him."--_Times_, Feb.
+    28.
+
+I am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been
+noticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell. In the
+Cumberland dialect, a _birler_, or _burler_, is the master of the revels,
+who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes
+especial care that the drink be plentifully provided. (_Westmoreland and
+Cumberland Dialects_, London, 1839.)
+
+Boucher and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of the
+verb _to birle_, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr. Dyce's notes
+on _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 269. (_Skelton's Works_, vol. ii. p. 167.). It is
+a good old Anglo-Saxon word--byrlian, _propinare_, _haurire_. In the
+Wycliffite versions it occurs repeatedly, signifying to give to drink. See
+the Glossary to the valuable edition lately completed by Sir F. Madden and
+Mr. Forshall.
+
+In the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, vol i. p. 51., we find--
+
+    "Bryllare of drynke, or schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke,
+    _propino_: Bryllynge of drynke," &c.
+
+Whilst on the subject of dialectical expressions, I would mention an
+obsolete term which has by some singular chance recently been revived, and
+is actually in daily use throughout England in the railway vocabulary--I
+mean the verb "to shunt." Nothing is more common than to see announced,
+that at a certain station the parliamentary "shunts" to let the Express
+pass; or to hear the order--"shunt that truck," push it aside, off the main
+line. In the curious ballad put forth in 1550, called "John Nobody"
+(Strype's _Life of Cranmer_, App. p. 138.), in derision of the Reformed
+church, the writer describes how, hearing the sound of a "synagogue,"
+namely, a congregation of the new faith, he hid himself in alarm:
+
+ "The I drew me down into a dale, wheras the dumb deer
+  Did shiver for a shower, but I shunted from a freyke,
+  For I would no wight in this world wist who I were."
+
+{205}
+
+In the Townley Mysteries, _Ascensio Domini_, p. 303., the Virgin Mary calls
+upon St. John to protect her against the Jews,--
+
+ "Mi fleshe it qwakes, as lefe on lynde,
+  To shontt the shrowres sharper than thorne,"--
+
+explained in the Glossary, "sconce or ward off." Sewel, in his _English and
+Dutch Dictionary_, 1766, gives--"to shunt (a country word for to shove),
+_schuiven_." I do not find "shunt," however, in the Provincial Glossaries:
+in some parts of the south, "to shun" is used in this sense. Thus, in an
+assault case at Reigate, I heard the complainant say of a man who had
+hustled him, "He kept shunning me along: sometimes he shunt me on the
+road," that is, pushed me off the footpath on to the highway.
+
+I hope that the Philological Society has not abandoned their project of
+compiling a complete Provincial Glossary: the difficulties of such an
+undertaking might be materially aided through the medium of "NOTES AND
+QUERIES."
+
+ALBERT WAY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHAPEL OF LORETTO.
+
+Among the aerial migrations of the chapel of Loretto, it is possible that
+our own country may hereafter be favoured by a visit of that celebrated
+structure. In the mean time, as I am not aware that the contributions of
+our countrymen to its history have been hitherto commemorated, the
+following extract from a note, made by me on the spot some years ago, may
+not be unsuitable for publication in "NOTES AND QUERIES." As I had neither
+the time nor the patience which the pious, but rather prolix, Scotchman
+bestowed upon his composition, I found it necessary to content myself with
+a mere abstract of the larger portion.
+
+The story of the holy House of Loretto is engraved on brass in several
+languages upon the walls of the church at Loretto. Among others, there are
+two tablets with the story in English, headed "The wondrus flittinge of the
+kirk of our blest Lady of Laureto." It commences by stating that this kirk
+is the chamber of the house of the Blessed Virgin, in Nazareth, where our
+Saviour was born; that after the Ascension the Apostles hallowed and made
+it a kirk, and "S. Luke framed a pictur to har vary liknes thair zit to be
+seine;" that it was "haunted with muckle devotione by the folke of the land
+whar it stud, till the people went after the errour of Mahomet," when
+angels took it to Slavonia, near a place called Flumen: here it was not
+honoured as it ought to be, and they took it to a wood near Recanati,
+belonging to a lady named Laureto, whence it took its name. On account of
+the thieveries here committed, it was again taken up and placed near, on a
+spot belonging to two brothers, who quarrelled about the possession of the
+oblations offered there; and again it was removed to the roadside, near
+where it now stands. It is further stated that it stands without
+foundations, and that sixteen persons being sent from Recanati to measure
+the foundations still remaining at Nazareth, they were found exactly to
+agree:
+
+    "And from that tim fourth it has beine surly ken'd that this kirk was
+    the Cammber of the B. V. whereto Christian begun thare and has ever
+    efter had muckle devotione, for that in it daily she hes dun and dus
+    many and many mirakels. Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, an eremit of muckle
+    godliness who wond in a cell neir, by this kirk, whar daily he went to
+    mattins, seid that for ten zeirs, one the eighth of September, tweye
+    hours before day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon it, whelk he
+    seyd was the B. V. wha their shawed harselfe one the feest of her
+    birthe."
+
+Then follows the evidence of Paule Renalduci, whose grandsire's grandsire
+saw the angels bring the house over the sea: also the evidence of Francis
+Prior, whose grandsire, a hunter, often saw it in the wood, and whose
+grandsire's grandsire had a house close by. The inscription thus
+terminates:--
+
+    "I, Robt. Corbington, priest of the Companie of Iesus in the zeir
+    MDCXXXV., have treulie translated the premisses out of the Latin story
+    hanged up in the seid kirk."
+
+S. SMIRKE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOLK LORE.
+
+"_Nettle in Dock out_" (Vol. iii., p. 133.).--If your correspondent will
+refer to _The Literary Gazette_, March 24, 1849, No. 1679., he will find
+that I gave precisely the same explanation of that obscure passage of
+Chaucer's _Troilus and Creseide_, lib. iv., in a paper which I contributed
+to the British Archaeological Association.
+
+FRAS. CROSSLEY.
+
+    [We will add two further illustrations of this passage of Chaucer, and
+    the popular rhyme on which it is founded. The first is from Mr.
+    Akerman's _Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in
+    Wiltshire_, where we read--
+
+    "When a child is stung, he plucks a dock-leaf, and laying it on the
+    part affected, sings--
+
+         'Out 'ettle
+          In dock
+      Dock shall ha a new smock;
+         'Ettle zhant
+          Ha' narrun.'"
+
+Then follows a reference by Mr. Akerman to the passage in _Troilus and
+Creseide_.--Our second illustration is from Chaucer himself, who, in his
+_Testament of Love_ (p. 482 ed. Urry), has the following passage:
+
+    "Ye wete well Ladie eke (quoth I), that I have not plaid raket, Nettle
+    in, Docke out, and with the weathercocke waved."
+
+Mr. Akerman's work was, we believe, published in {206} 1846; and, at all
+events, attention was called to these passages in the _Athenaeum_ of the
+l2th September in that year, No. 985.]
+
+_Soul separates from the Body._--In Vol. ii., p. 506., is an allusion to an
+ancient superstition, that the human soul sometimes leaves the body of a
+sleeping person and takes another form; allow me to mention that I
+remember, some forty years ago, hearing a servant from Lincolnshire relate
+a story of two travellers who laid down by the road-side to rest, and one
+fell asleep. The other, seeing a bee settle on a neighbouring wall and go
+into a little hole, put the end of his staff in the hole, and so imprisoned
+the bee. Wishing to pursue his journey, he endeavoured to awaken his
+companion, but was unable to do so, till, resuming his stick, the bee flew
+to the sleeping man and went into his ear. His companion then awoke him,
+remarking how soundly he had been sleeping, and asked what had he been
+dreaming of? "Oh!" said he, "I dreamt that you shut me up in a dark cave
+and I could not awake till you let me out." The person who told me the
+story firmly believed that the man's soul was in the bee.
+
+F. S.
+
+_Lady's Trees._--In some parts of Cornwall, small branches of sea-weed,
+dried and fastened in turned wooden stands, are set up as ornaments on the
+chimney-piece, &c. The poor people suppose that they preserve the house
+from fire, and they are known by the name of "_Lady's trees_," in honour, I
+presume, of the Virgin Mary.
+
+H. G. T.
+
+  Launceston.
+
+_Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes._--I have met with the rhymes following, which
+may not be uninteresting to some of your readers as _Folk Lore, Norfolk_:--
+
+ "Rising was, Lynn is, and Downham shall be,
+  The greatest seaport of the three."
+
+Another version of the same runs thus:
+
+ "Risin was a seaport town,
+    And Lynn it was a wash,
+  But now Lynn is a seaport Lynn,
+    And Rising fares the worst."
+
+Also another satirical tradition in rhyme:
+
+ "That nasty stinking sink-hole of sin,
+  Which the map of the county denominates Lynn."
+
+Also:
+
+ "Caistor was a city ere Norwich was none,
+  And Norwich was built of Caistor stone."
+
+JOHN NURSE CHADWICK.
+
+  King's Lynn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Note for the Topographers of Ancient London, and for the Monasticon._--
+
+    "Walter Grendon, Prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem,
+    acknowledges to have received, by the hands of Robert Upgate and Ralph
+    Halstede,--from Margaret, widow of S^r John Philippott K^t,--Thomas
+    Goodlak and their partners,--4 pounds in full payment of arrears of all
+    the rent due to us from their tenement called Jesoreshall in the city
+    of London.
+
+    "Dated 1. December, 1406."
+
+From the original in the Surrenden collection.
+
+L. B. L.
+
+_Gray and Burns._--
+
+    "Authors, before they write, should read."
+
+So thought Matthew Prior; and if that rule had been attended to, neither
+would Lord Byron have deemed it worth notice that "_the knell of parting
+day_," in Gray's Elegy, "was adopted from Dante;" nor would Mr. Cary have
+remarked upon "this plagiarism," if indeed _he_ used the term. (I refer to
+"NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. iii., p. 35.) The truth is, that in every good
+edition of Gray's _Works_, there is a note to the line in question, _by the
+poet himself_, expressly stating that the passage is "_an imitation of the
+quotation from Dante_" thus brought forward.
+
+I could furnish you with various _notes_ on Gray, pointing out remarkable
+coincidences of sentiment and expression between himself and other writers;
+but I cannot allow _Gray_ to be a plagiary, any more than I can allow
+_Burns_ to be so designated, in the following instances:--
+
+At the end of the poem called _The Vision_, we find--
+
+ "And like a passing thought she fled."
+
+In _Hesiod_ we have--
+
+ "[Greek: ho d' eptato hoste noema.]"--_Scut. Herc._ 222.
+
+Again, few persons are unacquainted with Burns's lines--
+
+ "Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,
+  An' then she made," &c.
+
+In an old play, _Cupid's Whirligig_ (4to. 1607), we read--
+
+    "Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was
+    a skilful mistress of her art."
+
+Pliny, in his _Natural History_, has the pretty notion that
+
+    "Nature, in learning to form a lily, turned out a convolvulus."
+
+VARRO.
+
+_Richard III., Traditional Notice of._--I have an aunt, now eighty-nine
+years of age, who in early life knew one who was in the habit of saying:
+
+    "I knew a man, who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in
+    the days of Richard III."
+
+Thus there have been but three links between one who knew Richard III. and
+one now alive.
+
+My aunt's acquaintance could name his three predecessors, who were members
+of his own family: {207} their names have been forgotten, but his name was
+Harrison, and he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late in life
+settled in Bedfordshire.
+
+Richard died in 1484, and thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle an
+incident which occurred nearly 370 years since.
+
+Mr. Harrison further stated that there was nothing remarkable about
+Richard, that he was not the hunchback "lump of foul deformity" so
+generally believed until of late years.
+
+The foregoing anecdote may be of interest as showing that traditions may
+come down from remote periods by few links, and thus be but little
+differing from the actual occurrences.
+
+H. J. B.
+
+  66. Hamilton Terrace,
+  St. John's Wood, March 5. 1851.
+
+_Oliver Cromwell._--Echard says that his highness sold himself to the
+devil, and _that he had seen the solemn compact_. Anthony a Wood, who
+doubtless credited this account of a furious brother loyalist, in his
+Journal says:
+
+    "Aug. 30, 1658. Monday, a terrible raging wind happened, which did much
+    damage. Dennis Bond, a great Oliverian and anti-monarchist, died on
+    that day, and then the devil took _bond_ for Oliver's appearance."
+
+Clarendon, assigning the Protector to eternal perdition, not liking to lose
+the portent, boldly says the remarkable hurricane occurred on September 3,
+the day of Oliver's death. Oliver's admirers, on the other hand, represent
+this wind as ushering him into the other world, but for a very different
+reason.
+
+Heath, in his _Flagellum_ (I have the 4th edit.), says:
+
+    It pleased God to usher in his end with a great whale _some three
+    months before_, June 2, that came up as far as Greenwich, and there was
+    killed; and more immediately by a terrible storm of wind: the
+    prognosticks that the great Leviathan of men, that tempest and
+    overthrow of government, was now going to his own place!"
+
+I have several works concerning Cromwell, but in no other do I find this
+story very like a whale. Would some reader of better opportunities favour
+us with a record of these two matters of natural history, not as connected
+with the death of this remarkable man, but as mere events? Your well-read
+readers will remember some similar tales relative to the death of Cardinal
+Mazarine. These exuberances of vulgar minds may partly be attributed to the
+credulity of the age, but more probably to the same want of philosophy
+which caused the ancients to deal in exaggeration.
+
+B. B.
+
+_Snail-eating._--The practice of _eating_, if not of talking to, snails,
+seems not to be so unknown in this country as some of your readers might
+imagine. I was just now interrogating a village child in reference to the
+addresses to snails quoted under the head of "FOLK LORE," Vol. iii., pp.
+132. and 179., when she acquainted me with the not very appetising fact,
+that she and her brothers and sisters had been in the constant habit of
+indulging this horrible _Limacotrophy_.
+
+    "We hooks them out of the wall (she says) with a stick, in winter time,
+    and not in summer time (so it seems they have their seasons); and we
+    roasts them, and, when they've done spitting, they be a-done; and we
+    takes them out with a fork, and eats them. Sometimes we has a jug
+    heaped up, pretty near my pinafore-full. I loves them dearly."
+
+Surely this little bit of practical cottage economy is worth recording.
+
+C. W. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+BIDDINGS IN WALES.
+
+There is a nursery song beginning--
+
+ "Harry Parry, when will you marry?
+    When apples and pears are ripe.
+  I'll come to your wedding, without any bidding,
+    And," &c. &c. &c.
+
+Does this mean that I will come without an invitation, or without a
+marriage-present? It will be observed that Parry is a Welsh name, and that
+bidding is a Welsh custom, as is shown by MR. SPURRELL (Vol. iii., p.
+114.). He has anticipated my intention of sending you a bidding-form, which
+has been lying upon my table for some weeks, but which I have not had time
+to transcribe; I now send it you, because it somewhat varies from MR.
+SPURRELL'S, and yet so much resembles it as to show that the same formula
+is preserved. Both show that the presents are considered as debts,
+transferable or assignable to other parties. Is this the case in all
+districts of Wales where the custom of bidding prevails? I think I have
+heard that in some places the gift is to be returned only when the actual
+donor "enters into the matrimonial state." It will be observed, too, in
+these forms, relations only transfer to relations. Is it considered that
+they may assign to persons not relations? Some of your Welsh correspondents
+may reply to these questions, which may elucidate all the varieties of
+practice in a custom which contributes much to the comfort of a young
+couple, and, in many instances, is an incentive to prudence, because they
+are aware that the debt is a debt of honour, not to be evaded without some
+loss of character.
+
+
+
+    "December 26. 1806.
+
+    "As we intend to enter the Matrimonial State on _Tuesday_ the 20th of
+    _January_, 1807, we purpose to make a Bidding on the occasion the same
+    day for the young man at his father's house, in the village of
+    _Llansaint_, in the parish of _St. Ishmael_; and for the young {208}
+    woman, at her own house, in the said village of _Llansaint_; at either
+    of which places the favour of your good company on that day will be
+    deemed a peculiar obligation; and whatever donation you may be pleased
+    to confer on either of us then, will be gratefully received, and
+    cheerfully repaid whenever required on a similar occasion, by
+
+  Your humble servants,
+              SETH REES,
+              ANN JENKINS.
+
+    "The young man's father and mother, and also the young woman's father
+    and mother, and sister Amy, desire that all gifts of the above nature
+    due to them, may be returned on the same day; and will be thankful for
+    all favour shown the young couple."
+
+E. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Lord of Relton_ (Vol. iii., p. 56.)--Will your correspondent MONKBARNS
+favour me with the date of the paper from which he copied the paragraph
+quoted, and whether it was given as being then in use, or as of ancient
+date?
+
+Can any of your readers inform me from what place the Lord of Relton
+derived his name? What was his proper name, and who is the present
+representative of the family?
+
+Is there any family of the name of Relton now existing in the neighbourhood
+of Langholme, or in Cumberland or Westmoreland?
+
+F. B. RELTON.
+
+_Beatrix de Bradney._--In your "NOTES AND QUERIES" for January 25th, 1851,
+p. 61., you have given Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred
+Entwysel.
+
+Sir Bertin left a daughter named Lucy, of whom Master Bradene of
+Northamptonshire is descended. Can F. R. R., or any genealogist, inform me
+whether this Master Bradene is descended from Simon de Bradney, one of the
+Knights of the Shire for Somersetshire in the year 1346? In Collins's
+_Somersetshire_, vol. iii. p. 92., he mentions:
+
+    "In St. Michael's Church, Bawdrip, under a large Gothic arch lies the
+    effigy in armour of Sir Simon de Bradney or Bredenie.
+
+    "The Manor of Bradney, in Somersetshire, supposed to have ended in
+    Beatrix de Bradney, an heiress, and passed with her into other
+    families; this Beatrix was living in the forty-sixth year of Edward
+    III."
+
+Can you inform me whom she married? About sixty-five years ago it was
+purchased by the late Joseph Bradney, Esq., of Ham, near Richmond; and his
+second son, the Reverend Joseph Bradney, of Greet, near Tenbury,
+Shropshire, is the present possessor.
+
+JULIA R. BOCKETT.
+
+  Southcote Lodge, near Reading.
+
+"_Letters on the British Museum._"--In the year 1767 was published by
+Dodsley a work in 12mo. pp. 92., with the above title; and at p. 85. is
+printed "A Pastoral Dialogue," between _Celia_ and _Ebron_, beginning, "As
+Celia rested in the shade," which the author states he "found among the
+manuscripts." I wish to know, first, who was the anonymous author of these
+letters; and, secondly, in what collection of manuscripts this "Dialogue"
+is to be found.
+
+[mu].
+
+_Ballad Editing._--The "_Outlandish Knight_" (Vol. iii.,p. 49.).--I was
+exceedingly glad to see Mr. F. Sheldon's "valuable contribution to our
+stock of ballad literature" in the hands of Mr. Rimbault, and thought the
+treatment it received no better than it deserved. _Blackwood_, May, 1847,
+reviewed Mr. Sheldon's book, and pointed out several instances of his
+"godfathership;" among others, his ballad of the "Outlandish Knight," which
+he obtained from "a copy in the possession of a gentleman at Newcastle,"
+was condemned by the reviewer as "a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of
+'May Collean.'" It may be as the reviewer states, but the question I would
+wish answered is one affecting the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not,
+the Southron "Outlandish Knight" is the original of "May Collean" itself. I
+have by me a copy, in black letter, of the "Outlandish Knight," English in
+every respect, and as such differing considerably from Mr. Sheldon's border
+edition, and from "May Collean;" and, with some slight alterations, the
+ballad I have is yet popularly known through the midland counties. If any
+of your correspondents can oblige me with a reference to the first
+appearance of "May Collean," sheet or book, I shall esteem it a favour.
+
+EMUN.
+
+  Birmingham.
+
+_Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli._--In his controversy with Bowles
+touching the poetry of Pope, Byron states that it was upon the Princess of
+Eboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, and Mangirow, the minion of Henry
+III. of France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well known to classic
+readers, was composed, concluding with the couplet:
+
+ "Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti,
+    Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus."
+
+Can any contributor to the "NOTES AND QUERIES" suggest what authority his
+lordship has for his statement? Many years since, a curious paragraph
+appeared in one of the public journals, extracted apparently from an
+historical work, specifying the extraordinary political embroglios which
+the one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting from one of the statesmen of her
+times the complimentary declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead
+of only one, she would have set the universe on fire. A reference to this
+work--I fancy one of Roscoe's--would be of material service to an
+historical inquirer.
+
+C. R. H.
+
+{209}
+
+_Engraved Portrait._--
+
+ "All that thou see'st and readest is divine,
+  Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;
+  Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,
+  View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde."
+
+The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved
+by Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:--
+
+ "AEtatis Suae 50º. Octob. 10. 1649."
+
+Of whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors, and is
+of course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it _vis-a-vis_ with a
+title-page, I am at a loss as to the author of whom it is the _vera
+effigies_. Possibly some of your readers will be kind enough to enlighten
+me upon the matter, and favour me with the name of the British worthy thus
+handed down to posterity by Cross's admirable burin.
+
+HENRY CAMPKIN.
+
+_Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence._--The first edition of
+Blackstone was published at Oxford in 4to., in the year 1765; and the Table
+of Precedence, in the 12th chapter of the First Book, found in subsequent
+editions edited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in Blackstone's first
+edition. Can any of your readers, having access to good legal theories,
+inform me in which of Blackstone's _own_ editions the Table of Precedence
+was first inserted?
+
+E.
+
+_The Two Drs. Abercromby._--In the latter half of the seventeenth century,
+there were two physicians of the name of Abercromby, who both graduated at
+the university of Leyden, and were afterwards the authors of various
+published works. The first work of David Abercromby mentioned in Watt's
+_Bibliotheca_ is dated in 1684, and the first written by Patrick Abercromby
+in 1707. As it was usual to compose an inaugural dissertation at obtaining
+the doctorate, and such productions were ordinarily printed (in small
+quarto), J. K. would feel obliged by the titles and dates of the inaugural
+dissertations of either or both of the physicians above mentioned.
+
+_Witte van Haemstede._--Can any of your readers inform me whether there
+still exist any descendants of _Witte van Haemstede_, an illegitimate scion
+of the ancient house of _Holland_? _Willem de Water_, in his _Adelijke
+Zeeland_, written in the seventeenth century, says that in his youth he
+knew a _Witte van Haemstede_ of this family, one of whose sons became
+pastor of the Dutch congregation in _London_.--_Navorscher_, Jan. 1851, p.
+17.
+
+_J. Bruckner--Dutch Church in Norwich._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for
+1804 is a short memoir of the Rev. J. Bruckner. He was born in the island
+of Cadsand, completed his studies at Leyden, where he enjoyed the society
+of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer, and the elder Schultens. In 1753 he became
+pastor of the Walloon, and afterwards of the Dutch congregation in Norwich,
+where he remained till his death in May, 1804. In 1767 he published at
+Leyden his _Theorie du Systeme Animal_; in 1790 appeared his _Criticisms on
+the Diversions of Purley_.
+
+Could your correspondents furnish me with a complete list of Bruckner's
+works, and direct me to a history of the Dutch church in Norwich, from its
+origin to the present time?--_Navorscher_, Feb. 1851, p. 28.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries Answered.
+
+    [Under this heading we propose to give such Minor Queries as we are
+    able to reply to at once, but which are not of a nature to be answered
+    with advantage in our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this means
+    to economise our space.]
+
+_The Hereditary Earl Marshal._--Miss Martineau, in her _History of
+England_, book iii. ch. 8., speaks (in 1829) of
+
+    "three Catholic peers, the _Duke of Norfolk_, Lord Clifford, and Lord
+    Dormer, having obtained entrance _at last_ to the legislative assembly,
+    where their fathers sat and ruled when their faith was the law of the
+    land."
+
+In Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, there is an anecdote, vol.
+vii. p. 695., of the Duke of Norfolk falling asleep and _snoring_ in the
+House of Lords, while Lord Eldon was on the woolsack. Did not the Duke of
+Norfolk (though Roman Catholic) sit and vote in the House of Lords, either
+by prescription or special act of parliament, before 1829?
+
+J. H. S.
+
+    [The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon
+    himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the
+    _late_ Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh
+    duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till
+    after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him
+    to exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths,
+    but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord
+    Eldon's joke must have been perpetrated--not on the bringing up of the
+    Bill, when the duke was not in the House--but on the occasion of the
+    _Great Snoring Bill being reported_ (April 2, 1811), when the duke
+    appears to have been present.]
+
+_The Beggar's Petition._--I shall feel obliged by your informing me who the
+author is of the lines--
+
+ "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
+  Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door."
+
+S.
+
+    [The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal of
+    attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to
+    Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D.; but from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol.
+    lxx., p. 41., it appears that it is the entire production of the {210}
+    Rev. Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham, in
+    Staffordshire, who wrote it at about the age of twenty-three. He sold
+    the manuscript of that, and of several others, to Mr. Smart, printer,
+    in Wolverhampton, who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criticism,
+    was to publish them on this condition, that only twenty copies should
+    have his name annexed to them, for the purpose of being presented to
+    his relations and friends.]
+
+"_Tiring-irons never to be untied._"--To what does Lightfoot (vol. vii. p.
+214.) refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he says--
+
+    "They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring-irons never to be
+    untied"?
+
+J. EASTWOOD.
+
+  Ecclesfield.
+
+    [The allusion is to a puzzle for children--often used by grown
+    children--which consists of a series of iron rings, on to or off which
+    a loop of iron wire may be got with some labour by those who know the
+    way, and which is very correctly designated _a tiring-iron_.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+THE MEANING OF EISELL.
+
+    [This controversy is becoming a little too warm for our pages. But MR.
+    CAUSTON is entitled to have some portion of the letter he has sent to
+    us inserted. He writes with reference to the communications from MR.
+    HICKSON and MR. SINGER in our 68th number, p. 119., in reply to MR.
+    C.'S Article, which, although it had been in our hands a considerable
+    time, was not inserted until out 65th Number, p. 66.; a delay which
+    gave to that article the appearance of an attempt to revive a
+    discussion, whereas it really was written only in continuance of one.]
+
+To MR. HICKSON I suggest, that whether the notion of "drinking up a river,"
+or "eating a crocodile," be the more "unmeaning" or "out of place," must
+after all be a mere matter of opinion, as the latter must remain a question
+of taste; since it seems to be his settled conviction that it is not
+"impossible," but only "extravagant." Archdeacon Nares thought it quite the
+reverse; and I beg to remind your readers that Shakspearian crocodiles are
+never served _a la Soyer_, but swallowed _au naturel_ and entire.
+
+MR. HICKSON is dissatisfied with my terms "mere verbiage" and "extravagant
+rant." I recommend a careful consideration of the scene over the grave of
+Ophelia; and then let any one say whether or not the "wag" of tongue
+between Laertes and Hamlet be not fairly described by the expressions I
+have used,--a paraphrase indeed, of Hamlet's concluding lines:
+
+         "Nay, an thou'lt _mouth_,
+  I'll _rant_ as well as thou."
+
+Doubtless Shakspeare had a purpose in everything he wrote, and his purpose
+at this time was to work up the scene to the most effective conclusion, and
+to display the excitement of Hamlet in a series of beautiful images, which,
+nevertheless, the queen his mother immediately pronounced to be "mere
+madness," and which one must be as mad as Hamlet himself to adopt as feats
+literally to be performed.
+
+The offence is rank in the eyes of MR. SINGER that I should have styled MR.
+HICKSON his friend. The amenities of literature, I now perceive, do not
+extend to the case, and a new canon is required, to the effect that "when
+one gentleman is found bolstering up the argument of another, he is not,
+ever for the nonce, to be taken for his friend." I think the denial to be
+expressed in rather strong language; but I hasten to make the _amende_
+suitable to the occasion, by withdrawing the "falsehood and unfounded
+insinuation."
+
+MR. SINGER has further charged me with "want of truth," in stating that the
+question remains "substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it."
+Wherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference?
+
+MR. SINGER has merely substituted his "wormwood wine" for Malone's vinegar;
+and before he can make it as palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's
+"logical correctness and nicety of expression," as it was to Creed and
+Shepley, he must get over the "stalking-horse," the _drink_ UP, which
+stands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more legitimate
+proposition. MR. SINGER overleaps the difficulty by a bare assertion that
+"to _drink_ UP was commonly used for simply to drink." He has not produced
+any parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr. Halliwell's
+_Nursery Rhymes_. I adopt his citation, and shall employ it against him.
+
+_Drink_ UP can only be grammatically applied to a determinate total,
+whether it be the river Yssell or MR. HICKSON'S dose of physic. Shakespeare
+seems to have been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the
+grammatical rule which MR. SINGER professes not to comprehend. Thus:
+
+             "I will drink,
+  _Potions of_ eysell."
+              Shaksp. _Sonnet_ cxi.
+
+and
+
+ "Give me to drink mandragora,"
+              _Ant. and Cleop._, Act I. Sc. 5.
+
+are parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as they
+admit of more or less.
+
+Now MR. SINGER'S obliging quotation from the _Nursery Rhymes_,--
+
+     "Eat UP your cake, Jenny,
+  _Drink_ UP YOUR wine"--
+
+certainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean neither
+more nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had standing
+before her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's sonnet
+(CXIV.):
+
+ "_Drink up_ the monarch's plague, _this_ flattery:"
+
+{211} and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively
+appertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of Hamlet,--
+
+ "Woo't _drink up_ eisell?"
+
+as a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a _river_, but could
+not be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity.
+
+Now what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER'S proposition? He says:
+
+    "In Thomas's _Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have 'ASSENZIO,
+    _Eysell_'[4]; and Florio renders that word [ASSENZIO, not _Eysell_?] by
+    'wormwood.' What is meant, however, is _wormwood wine_, a nauseously
+    bitter medicament then much in use."
+
+When pressed by LORD BRAYBROOKE ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 286.),
+who proved, by an extract from _Pepys's Diary_, that wormwood wine, so far
+from bearing out MR. SINGER'S description, was, in fact, a fashionable
+luxury, probably not more nauseous than the _pale ale_ so much in repute at
+the present day, MR. SINGER very adroitly produced a "corroborative note"
+from "old Langham" ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 315.), which,
+curiously enough, is castrated of all that Langham wrote pertaining to the
+question in issue. Treating of the many virtues of the prevailing tonic as
+an appetiser, and restorer "of a good color" to them that be "leane and
+evil colored," Langham says:
+
+    ["Make wormwood wine thus: take _aqua vitae_ and malmsey, of each like
+    much, put it in a glasse or bottell with _a few leaves of dried
+    wormwood_, and let it stand certain days,] and strein out a little
+    spoonfull, and drink it with a draught of ale or wine: [it may be long
+    preserved.]"[5]
+
+Thus it will be seen that the reason for "streining out a little spoonfull"
+as a restorative for a weak stomach was less on account of the infusion
+being so "atrociously unpalatable," than of the alcohol used in its
+preparation.
+
+Dr. Venner also recommends as an excellent stomachic,
+
+    "To drink mornings fasting, and sometimes also before dinner, _a
+    draught of wormwood-wine_ or beer:"
+
+and we may gather the "atrocious bitterness" of the restorative, by the
+substitute he proposes: "or, for want of them," he continues:
+
+    "white wine or stale beer, wherein a few branches of wormwood have, for
+    certain hours, been infused."[6]
+
+Dr. Parr, quoting Bergius, describes _Absinthium_ as "a grateful
+stomachic;" and _Absinthites_ as "a pleasant form of the wormwood."[7]
+
+Is this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to _drink_ UP with his
+crocodile? So far from thinking so, I have ventured to coincide with
+Archdeacon Nares in favour of Steevens; for whether it be Malone's vinegar,
+or MR. SINGER'S more comfortable stomachic, the challenge to drink either
+"_in such a rant_, is so inconsistent, and even ridiculous, that we must
+decide for the river, whether its name be exactly found or not."[8]
+
+I am quite unconscious of any purport in my remarks, other than they appear
+on paper; and I should be sorry indeed to accuse MR. SINGER of being
+"ignorant" of anything; but I venture to suggest that those young gentlemen
+of surpassing spirit, who ate crocodiles, _drank_ UP eisell, and committed
+other anomalies against nature in honor of their mistresses, belonged
+decidedly to a period of time anterior to that of Shakspeare, and went
+quite out with the age of chivalry, of which Shakspeare saw scarcely even
+the fag end. Your lover of Shakspeare's time was quite another animal. He
+had begun to take beer. He had become much more subtle and self-satisfied.
+He did sometimes pen sonnets to his mistress's eye-brow, and sing soft
+nothings to the gentle sighing of his "Lewte." He sometimes indeed looked
+"pale and wan;" but, rather than for love, it was more than probably from
+his immoderate indulgence in the "newe weede," which he _drank_[9], though
+I never discovered that it was _drank up_ by him. He generally wore a
+doublet and breeches of satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and
+walked about with a gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other.
+His veritable portrait is extant, and is engraved in Mr. Knight's
+_Pictorial Shakspeare_.[10]
+
+It will be time enough to decide which of us has run his head against "a
+stumbling-block of his own making," when MR. SINGER shall have found a
+probable solution of his difficulty "by a parallelism in the poet's pages."
+
+H. K. STAPLE CAUSTON.
+
+  Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.
+
+[Footnote 4: This deduction is not warranted by the _Vocab. della Crusca_,
+or any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference:
+and _Somner_ and _Lye_ are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words, _Wermod_
+and _Eisell_.]
+
+[Footnote 5: _Garden of Health_, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the
+brackets were omitted by MR. SINGER.]
+
+[Footnote 6: _Via Recta ad Vitam Longam_, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to.
+London, 1660.]
+
+[Footnote 7: _Med. Dict._]
+
+[Footnote 8: A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in _Dict.
+Geograph. de la Martiniere_, v. ix. fo. 1739.]
+
+[Footnote 9: As the verb "to drink" was not limited to the act of bibition,
+but for MR. HICKSON'S decision against drinking up the "sea-serpent," it
+might yet become a question whether Hamlet's _eisell_ had not been a
+misprint for _eosol_ (asinus).]
+
+[Footnote 10: _Merchant of Venice_, Introduction.]
+
+{212}
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_William Chilcott_ (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.).--The few notes which follow
+are very much at the service of your correspondent. William Chilcott, M.A.,
+was rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May 30, 1711, at the
+age of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to his memory indicates
+that he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine died in August, 1695.
+The first edition of the _Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts_ was
+printed at Exeter in 1690, and was dedicated to his parishioners. Robert
+Chilcott, whom I take to be the brother of William, was rector of St.
+Mary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb. 7, 1689.
+
+There does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above mentioned,
+were descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the identity of the
+Christian names renders it probable. If the object were to trace their
+ancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the suggestions of
+E.A.D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by comparing Prince's
+_Worthies of Devon_, ed. 1810, p. 213., and Polwhele's _Devon_, vol. iii.
+p. 351., with Harding's _Tiverton_; in various parts of which eight or nine
+individuals of the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.;
+vol. ii. book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv., p. 20., where the
+connexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper,
+Collamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the
+object might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co.
+Somerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones in
+the church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their descendants
+by reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at Morchard-Bishop,
+where a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St. George, where a family
+of the same name lived about 1740; North Molton, where C. Chilcott was
+vicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph Chilcott was vicar about 1830.
+A Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist at Bath, married Ann, daughter
+of the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady died in 1758, and was buried at
+Tavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of arms on the tablet to her memory is
+almost identical with the coat of the Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first
+above mentioned.
+
+J. D. S.
+
+_Fossil Elk of Ireland_ (Vol. iii., p. 121.).--In the _Edinburgh Journal of
+Science_, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301., is a curious paper by the
+late Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of "Additional Contributions towards
+the History of the Cervus Euryceros, or Fossil Elk of Ireland." It is
+illustrated with a copy of an engraving of an animal which Dr. H. W.
+believes to have been the same as the Irish elk, and which was living in
+Prussia at the time of the publication of the book from which it is taken,
+viz. the _Cosmographia Universalis_ of Sebastian Munster: Basiliae, 1550.
+
+Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the
+first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the
+Cervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct.
+
+W. C. TREVELYAN.
+
+  Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851.
+
+_Canes Lesos_ (Vol. iii. p. 141.).--In a note to Beckwith's edition of
+Blount's _Jocular Tenures_, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington
+anticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's
+explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no such word in this sense:
+why may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? _laesos_ from _laedo_."
+_Clancturam_ should be _clausturam_, and so it is given in the above
+edition, and explained "a tax for fencing."
+
+S. W. SINGER.
+
+"_By Hook or by Crook_" (vol. iii. p. 116.).--However unimaginative the
+worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has
+made himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its
+obtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I
+with safety can contradict it, for I find that "Tusser," a Norfolk man
+living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete
+monthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was
+not published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has
+the following advice for March 30:
+
+ "Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see
+  A number of thousands, to many there be:
+  Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,
+  For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke."
+
+This must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers possessing
+"Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins,
+"twinlins."
+
+BLOWEN.
+
+This appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the time
+pointed out by J. D. S. Thus, in _Devout Contemplations_, by Fr. Ch. de
+Fonseca, Englished by J. M., London, 1629, we read that the Devil
+
+    "Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting
+    religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in
+    preaching, and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth
+    tares, treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that
+    he is nobody that is not rich, and therefore, _bee it by hooke or by
+    crooke_, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy."
+
+W. D--N.
+
+_Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p.
+7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the
+A.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates,
+see Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written
+_swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his
+_Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:
+
+    "--ic ann [þaet] ethridde treow. [et] [þaet] ethridde swun of aevesan ethaes
+    nextan wudes ethe liþ to kyngesbyrig," &c.
+
+Which Hickes thus renders:
+
+    "Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam
+    fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c.
+
+R. M. W.
+
+_Sir George Downing_ (Vol. iii., p. 69.).--The following extract of a
+letter in Cartes' _Letters_, ii. 319., confirms the accuracy of the
+memorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by J. P. C. The
+letter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5, 1660, on the eve
+of the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to serve the King,--
+
+    "alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was
+    banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in
+    principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous."
+
+CH.
+
+_Miching malicho_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--Your correspondent MR. COLLIER is
+probably not aware that his suggestion respecting the meaning of _Malicho_
+had been anticipated upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending
+edition of Shakspeare by another of your correspondents, MR. SINGER,
+printed in 1825, I find the following note:--
+
+    "_Miching malicho_ is lurking mischief, or evil doing. _To mich_, for
+    to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in
+    Shakspeare's time; and _Malicho_, or _Malhecho_, misdeed, he has
+    borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were
+    then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French
+    used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word _Mallicho_. Our
+    ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according
+    to the ear."
+
+I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that
+he interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and
+abundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_,
+as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu:--
+
+    "To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from
+    Schoole, vi. _to hide_, to cover."
+
+and again--
+
+    "A _micher_, vi. _Truant_."
+
+MR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old
+word _Malicho_, and given _Mallecho_, which is as far from the true form of
+the Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved
+or printed _Malhecho_, as Minsheu gives it.
+
+I am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned
+Shakspearian illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted
+his edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most
+practically useful and readable edition we have.
+
+FIAT JUSTITIA.
+
+_Cor Linguae, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur
+in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed in the volume of _Latin
+Poems_, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for
+the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in
+expression, as follows:--
+
+ "Cor linguae foederat naturae sanctio,
+  Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio;
+  Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio,
+  Sermo concipitur ex adulterio."
+
+Mr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton, Vespas, E. xii.
+Of its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's name was
+certainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne, with which
+place Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and if Mr.
+Wright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in it is
+Henry III., it must of course have been written some years after Walter
+Map's death.
+
+J. G. N.
+
+_Under the Rose_ (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.).--I am
+surprised that no one has noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this
+phrase. (_Vulg. Err._ lib. v. cap. 21. Sec. 7.) Besides the explanation
+referred to by ARCHAEUS (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says:
+
+    "The expression is commendable, if the rose from any _naturall_
+    propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply
+    in these translated verses--
+
+     'Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa,
+      Sic os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis,
+      Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'"
+
+He explains "the Germane custome, which over the table describeth a rose in
+the seeling" (Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to refer only
+to the secrecy to be observed "in society and compotation, from the ancient
+custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their
+heads."
+
+ACHE.
+
+"_Impatient to speak and not see_" (Vol. ii., p. 490.).--There is no doubt
+of the fine interpretation of your correspondent; but it is not illustrated
+by the Latin. Also, I apprehend, "indocilis pati" is not put for "indocilis
+patiendi." It is a common use of _to_--proud to be praised; angry to be so
+ill-treated.
+
+It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton would
+have altered:
+
+ "I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold,
+  _To be_ so pestered," &c., _i.e._ at being.
+
+May I mention a change in _Troilus and Cressida_ which I have long
+entertained, but with doubt:
+
+ "And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
+  Retires to chiding fortune."
+
+{214}
+
+Pope reads "returns," Hanmer "replies." My conjecture is "recries."
+
+C. B.
+
+_Bishop Frampton_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--See an interesting notice of his
+preaching in Pepys' _Diary_, Jan. 20, 1666-7; and what is said of him in
+Lathbury's _Nonjurors_, p. 203. But probably MR. EVANS is already aware of
+these references to Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desideratum which many
+will be glad to hear is going to be supplied.
+
+E. H. A.
+
+_Old Tract on the Eucharist_ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The author of the tract
+on the Eucharist, referred to by ABHBA, was the Rev. John Patrick. The
+title of the tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.;
+of Dr. Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the _Discourses against
+Popery during the Reign of James II._, is as follows:--
+
+    "A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church
+    relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present
+    _Roman_ Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation;
+    being a sufficient Confutation of _Consensus Veterum_, _Nubes Testium_,
+    and other late Collections of the Fathers pretending the contrary. By
+    _John Patrick, Preacher at the Charter-house_, 1688. 4to."
+
+E. C. HARRINGTON.
+
+  Exeter, March 3. 1851.
+
+This tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. It is one of the more
+valuable of the numerous tracts published on the Roman Catholic controversy
+during the reign of James II. In a collection of more than two hundred of
+these made at the period of publication, and now in my library, the names
+of the authors are written upon the titles, and this is attributed to _Mr.
+Patrick_. In another collection from the library of the late Mr. Walter
+Wilson, it is stated to be by _Bishop Patrick_. Bishop Gibson reprinted the
+tract in his _Preservative against Popery_, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii.
+tit. vii. pp. 176--252.; and in the table of contents says that it was
+written by "Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." Not Bishop
+Patrick therefore, but his brother, Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged
+sixty-three, was the author of this tract.
+
+JOHN J. DREDGE.
+
+_Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--I possess
+
+    "A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Hugh Peter's Advice
+    to his Daughter. Written by his own Hand during his late Imprisonment
+    in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his Death.
+    London, 1660:"
+
+which advice he ends, p. 94., with--
+
+    "The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly
+    Kingdom, my poor child.
+
+     "To ELIZABETH PETERS."
+
+And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his life
+with--
+
+    "I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, that (if possible)
+    you may wipe off some dirt, or be the more content to carry it."
+
+That part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus, p.
+98.:--
+
+    "When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but
+    fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was
+    exposed to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with
+    the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's."
+
+The wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be
+asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but
+stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.)
+
+    "At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie and
+    anger ... There were six or seven thousand hearers ... and I went to
+    Holland:"
+
+thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the
+tone of the condemned man's _Legacy_, that he would purposely avoid any
+mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and "usually performed the
+part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into
+London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:" he
+almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the love and labours
+of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" so that he was mostly preaching
+itinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a player in
+Shakespeare's company." That _Legacy_ in question, and a book autograph of
+Hugh Peters, are at the service of DR. RIMBAULT.
+
+BLOWEN.
+
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+
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+
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+R. C. P. "Thal," "Theam," "Thealonia," _in the Charter referred to, are
+certain rights of toll, of which the peculiarities will be found in any Law
+Dictionary; and "Infangethe" was the privilege of judging any thief within
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+
+S. P. Q. R. _We must refer this correspondent also to a Law Dictionary for
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+
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+
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