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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23225] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +{217} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 73.] +SATURDAY, MARCH 22. 1851. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments 217 + + NOTES:-- + On the Word "Rack" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by + Samuel Hickson 218 + Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 219 + Folk-Lore:--Moths called Souls--Holy Water for + Hooping Cough--Daffy Down Dilly 220 + Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to + Mesmerism 220 + Minor Notes:--Original Warrant--Gloves--Prince + Rupert--Inscription on a Gun--Richard III.--Lines + by Pope--Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to + Scotland--Snail-eating 220 + + QUERIES:-- + Henry Smith, by T. M'Calmont 222 + Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill-- + Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A + Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's + Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter + of James II.--Going the Whole Hog--Innocent + Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of "Slums"-- + Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"-- + Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs 222 + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by + Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--"Drink + up Eisell" 224 + + REPLIES:-- + Scandal against Queen Elizabeth 225 + The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. 226 + Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., + by S. W. Singer 226 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam-- + Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's + MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland-- + Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish + Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham-- + Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama + Beads--"Language given to Men," &c.--Daresbury, + the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage + in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces-- + Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. 227 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 230 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 231 + Notices to Correspondents 231 + Advertisements 231 + + * * * * * + + +SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. + +When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the +attention of our readers to the _Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral_, we +expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby +rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would +be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the same useful field. +That hope bids fair to be fully realised. In Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed +a letter from MR. PEACOCK, announcing his intention of copying the +inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and +we this week present our readers with three fresh communications upon the +subject. + +We give precedence to MISS BOCKETT'S, inasmuch as it involves no general +proposal upon the subject, but is merely expressive of that lady's +willingness, in which we have no doubt she will be followed by many of her +countrywomen to help forward the good work. + + In your Number for Feb. 15th, I find MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun., of + Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, wishes to collect church + memorials for work he intends to publish. If he would like the accounts + of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of Reading, as far as I am + able it would give me pleasure to send some to him. + + JULIA R. BOCKETT. + + Southcote Lodge, near Reading. + +The second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a +_Monumenta Anglicana_ by MR. DUNKIN,--a plan which would have our hearty +concurrence and recommendation, if it were at all practicable; but which, +it will be seen at a glance, must fail from its very vastness. If the +_Monumentarium of Exeter_ contains the material for half a moderate-sized +octavo volume, in what number of volumes does MR. DUNKIN propose to +complete his collection--even if a want of purchasers of the early volumes +did not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned scheme? + + Your correspondent MR. EDW. PEACOCK, Jun, may be interested in knowing + that a work has some time been projected by my friend Mr. Alfred John + Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian learning render him + well fitted for the task), under the title of _Monumenta Anglicana_, + and which is intended to be a medium for preserving the inscriptions in + every church in the kingdom. There can be no doubt of the high value + and utility of such a work, especially if accompanied by a + well-arranged index of names; and I have no doubt MR. PEACOCK, and + indeed many others of your valued correspondents, will be induced to + {218} assist in the good cause, by sending memoranda of inscriptions to + Mr. Dunkin. + + L. J. + + Plymouth. + +The following letter from the REV. E. S. TAYLOR proposes a Society for the +purpose:-- + + I for one shall be happy to co-operate with MR. PEACOCK in this useful + work; and I trust that, through the valuable medium of "NOTES AND + QUERIES," many will be induced to offer their assistance. Could not a + Society be formed for the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might + take place? + + E. S. TAYLOR. + + Martham, Norfolk. + +We doubt the necessity, and indeed the advisability, of the formation of +any such Society. + +MR. PEACOCK (_antè_., p. 117.) has already wisely suggested, that "in time +a copy of every inscription in every church in England might be ready for +reference in our National Library," and we have as little doubt that the +MS. department of the British Museum is the proper place of deposit for +such records, as that the trustees would willingly accept the charge of +them on the recommendation of their present able and active Keeper of the +Manuscripts. What he, and what the trustees would require, would be some +security that the documents were what they professed to be; and this might +very properly be accomplished through the agency of such a Society as MR. +TAYLOR proposes, if there did not already exist a Society upon whom such a +duty might very safely be devolved:--and have we not, in the greater energy +which that Society has lately displayed, evidence that it would undertake a +duty for which it seems pre-eminently fitted? We allude to the Society of +Antiquaries. The anxiety of Lord Mahon, its president, to promote the +efficiency of that Society, has recently been made evident in many ways; +and we cannot doubt that he would sanction the formation of a sub-committee +for the purpose of assisting in collecting and preserving a record of all +existing monuments, or that he would find a lack of able men to serve on +such a committee, when he numbers among the official or active Fellows of +the Society gentlemen so peculiarly fitted to carry out this important +national object, as Mr. Hunter, Sir Charles Young, Mr. J. Payne Collier, +and Mr. Bruce. + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +ON THE WORD "RACK" IN SHAKSPEARE'S TEMPEST. + +As another illustration of the careless or superficial manner in which the +meaning of Shakspeare has been sought, allow me to call attention to the +celebrated passage in the _Tempest_ in which the word "rack" occurs. The +passage really presents no difficulty; and the meaning of the word, as it +appears to me, might as well be settled at once and for ever. I make this +assertion, not dogmatically, but with the view of testing the correctness +of my opinion, that this is not at all a question of etymology, but +entirely one of construction. The passage reads as follows:-- + + "These, our actors, + As I foretold you, were all spirits, and + Are melted into air, into thin air: + And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision, + The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, + The solemn temples, the great globe itself, + Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; + And, like this insubstantial pageant, faded, + Leave not a rack behind."--_Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1. + +As I have expressed my opinion that this is not at all a question of +etymology, I shall not say more in reference to this view of the case than +that "rack," spelt as in Shakspeare, is a word in popular and every-day use +in the phrase "rack and ruin;" that we have it in the term "rack off," as +applied to wine, meaning _to take from the rack_, or, in other words, "to +leave a rack" or _refuse_ "behind," racked wine being wine drawn from the +lees; and that it is, I believe, still in use in parts of England, meaning +_remains_ or _refuse_, as, in the low German, "der Wraek" means the same +thing. Misled, however, by an unusual mode of spelling, and unacquainted +with the literature of Shakspeare's age, certain of the commentators +suggested the readings of _track_ and _trace_; whereupon Horne Tooke +remarks:-- + + "The ignorance and presumption of his commentators have shamefully + disfigured Shakspeare's text. The first folio, notwithstanding some few + palpable misprints, requires none of their alterations. Had they + understood English as well as he did, they would not have quarrelled + with his language."--_Diversions of Purley_, p. 595. + +He proceeds to show that _rack_ "is merely the past tense, and therefore +past participle, [reac] or [rec], of the Anglo-Saxon verb Recan, +_exhalare_, to _reek_;" and although the advocates of its being a +particular description of light cloud refer to him as an authority for +their reading, he treats it throughout generally as "a vapour, a steam, or +an exhalation." But Horne Tooke, in his zeal as an etymologist, forgot +altogether to attend to the construction of the passage. What is it that +shall "leave not a rack behind?" A rack of what? Not of the baseless fabric +of this vision, like which the "cloud-capp'd towers shall dissolve,"--not +of this insubstantial pageant, like which they shall have faded,--but of +"the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the +great globe itself." There is in fact a double comparison; but the +construction and the meaning are perfectly clear, and no word will suit the +passage but one that shall express a result common {219} to the different +objects enumerated. A cloud may be a fit object for comparison, but it is +utterly inconsequential; while the sense required can only be expressed by +a general term, such as _remains_, a _vestige_, or a _trace_. + +I beg now to transcribe a note Of Mr. Collier's on this passage:-- + + "'Rack' is vapour, from _reck_, as Horne Tooke showed; and the light + clouds on the face of heaven are the 'rack,' or vapour from the earth. + The word 'rack' was often used in this way."--Coll. _Shaksp._, vol. i. + p. 70. + +Mr. Knight appears to incline to the same view; and regarding these as the +two latest authorities, and finding in neither of them any reference to the +question of construction, I naturally concluded that the point had been +overlooked by the commentators. On reference, however, I found to my +surprise, that Malone, for the very same reasons, had come to the same +conclusion. Had Malone's argument been briefly stated by the "two latest +and best editors," I should, of course, have had no occasion to trouble you +with this note: and this instance, it appears to me, furnishes additional +reasons for enforcing the principle for which I am contending; the neglect +of it affecting, in however slight a degree, the sense or correctness of so +important and frequently quoted a passage. For my own part, I should have +thought that the commonest faith in Shakspeare would have protected any +editor, whose avowed object it was to restore the text, from preferring in +this instance, to the plain common sense of Malone, the more showy +authority of Horne Tooke. + +In my last paper I wrote,--"So far as quantity is concerned, to eat a +crocodile would be _no_ more than to eat an ox." You have omitted the +negative. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + + * * * * * + +ANCIENT INEDITED POEMS, NO. III. + +In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange +title given to the monody on Mr. Browne. May I ask if the name of "Chorus" +was thus indiscriminately applied at the time when the poem was composed? + +The next poem that I shall give is copied from _Harleian MSS._, 367., art. +60., fol. 158. It is entitled-- + + "A VERTUOUS WOMAN. + + "When painted vice fils upp the rimes + Of these our last depraued times: + And soe much lust by wanton layes + Disperséd is; that beautie strayes + Into darke corners wheere vnseen, 5 + Too many sadd berefts haue been. + Aduance my muse to blaze[1] that face + Wheere beautie sits enthroand in grace. + The eye though bright, and quicke to moue, + Daignes not a cast to wanton loue. 10 + A comely ffront not husht in hayre, + Nor face be-patcht to make it fayre. + The lipps and cheekes though seemely redd, + Doe blush afresh if by them fedd. + Some wanton youthes doe gaze too much 15 + Though naked breasts are hidd from touch. + When due salutes are past, they shunn + A seconde kisse: yea, half vndone + Shee thinkes herselfe, when wantons praise + Her hande or face with such loose phraise 20 + As they haue learnt at acts and scenes, + Noe hand in hand with them shee meenes, + Shall giue them boldnes to embalme, + Ther filthie fist in her chast palme. + Her pretious honners overlookes, 25 + At her retires the best of bookes. + Whatsoeuer else shee doth forget + Noe busines shall her prayers[2] let. + Those that bee good, shee prizes most, + Noe time with them shee counteth lost. 30 + Her chast delights, her mind, aduance + Above Lot-games or mixéd dance. + Shee cares not for an enterlude, + Or idly will one day conclude. + The looser toungs that filth disclose 35 + Are graueolencie to her nose. + But when a vertuous man shall court + Her virgin thoughts in nuptiall sort: + Her faire depor[t]ment, neyther coy + Nor yet too forward, fits his ioy, 40 + And giues his kisses leaue to seale + On her fayre hand his faythfull zeale. + Blest is his conquest in her loue, + With her alone death cann remoue. + And if before shee did adorne 45 + Her parents' howse, the cheerefull morne + Reioyceth now at this blest payre, + To see a wife soe chast soe fayre. + They happy liue; and know noe smart + Of base suspects or iealous heart; 50 + And if the publike bredd noe feare, + Nor sadd alarms did fill ther care, + From goodnes flowes ther ioy soe cleere + As grace beginnes ther heauen heere." + +The poem has no subscription, nor, from the appearance of the paper, should +I say there had been one. The comparatively modern phraseology points to a +late era. The poem is bound up with a quantity of John Stowe's papers, and +I think is in his handwriting, upon comparing it with other papers known to +be his in the same book. As it is my chief object (next to contributing to +the preservation and publication of these ancient ballads) to obtain data +regarding the anonymous productions of the earlier days of England's +literature, any remarks, allow me to say, that other contributors will +favour our {220} medium of intercommunication with, will be much +appreciated by + +KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE. + + [Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in supposing this poem to be + in Stowe's handwriting. We have the best possible authority for + assuring him that it is not.] + +[Footnote 1: _Blason_, describe.] + +[Footnote 2: We have here an instance of the use of the word _prayers_ as a +dissyllable.] + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Moths called Souls._--While I am upon this subject, I may as well mention +that in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, and perhaps do +still, call night-flying white moths, especially the _Hepialus humuli_, +which feeds, while in the grub state, on the roots of docks and other +coarse plants, "souls." Have we not in all this a remnant of "Psyche?" + +F. S. + + [This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coincidence with the + tradition from the neighbourhood of Truro (recorded by MR. THOMS in his + Folk lore of Shakspeare, _Athenæum_ (No. 1041.) Oct. 9. 1847) which + gives the name of _Piskeys_ both to the _fairies_ and to _moths_, which + are believed by many to be _departed souls_.] + +_Holy Water for the Hooping Cough_ (vol. iii., p. 179.).--In one of the +principal towns of Yorkshire, half a century ago, it was the practice for +persons in a respectable class of life to take their children, when +afflicted with the hooping cough, to a neighbouring convent, where the +priest allowed them to drink a small quantity of holy water out of a silver +chalice, which the little sufferers were strictly forbidden to touch. By +Protestant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, this was regarded as a +remedy. Is not the superstition analogous to that noticed by MR. WAY? + +EBORACOMB. + +_Daffy Down Dilly._--At this season, when the early spring flowers are +showing themselves, we hear the village children repeating these lines:-- + + "Daff a down dill has now come to town, + In a yellow petticoat and a green gown." + +Does not this nursery rhyme throw light upon the character of the royal +visitor alluded to in the snail charm recorded by F. J. H. (p. 179.)? + +EBORACOMB. + + * * * * * + +DR. MAITLAND'S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM. + +I know more than one person who would second the request that I am about to +make through "NOTES AND QUERIES" to DR. MAITLAND, that he would publish the +remaining parts of his _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism_: +he would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit +by them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some +use. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or no +they may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is impossible to +ridicule any longer. DR. MAITLAND has suggested the true course of thought +upon the subject, and promised to lead us along it; but it is impossible at +present to use anything that he has said, on account of its incompleteness. +In tracing the subject through history, DR. MAITLAND would no doubt mention +the "[Greek: Omphalopsuchoi], or Umbilicani," of the fourteenth century, +whose practices make a page (609.) of Waddington's _History of the Church_ +read like a sketch of Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in +Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, a belief somewhat similar to theirs +is stated to have been preached in the seventh century (_Bohn's Reprint in +Shilling Series_, p. 191.) by a certain Moseïlma, a false prophet. + +I may add that Miss Martineau's new book, _Letters of the Development of +Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau_, which cannot be called sceptical, +for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my writing +to-day. + +A. L. R. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Original Warrant._--The following warrant from the original in the +Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as bearing +upon more than one Query that has appeared in your columns:-- + + "Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath + heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her + Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of the + Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought + more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore + shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the + Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of + London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for + her M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your + warrant. + + "From the court at + "Oatlands this 29 + "of September, 1602. + "RO. CECYLL. + + "To Mr. Anthony Deeringe, + "Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London." + + + + "2. October, 1602. + + "I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and + have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr. + Secretary above expressed. + + "RIC. LONDON." + +L. B. L. + +_Gloves.--Prince Rupert._--In your First Vol., pp. 72. 405., and in other +places in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to the presentation of +_gloves_. If what is contained in the following {221} paper be not +generally known, it may claim an interest with some of your readers:-- + + "At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present + + The Kings most excellent Majesty, + His Highness _Prince Rupert_, + Lord Archbp. of Canterbury," + [with twelve others, who are named.] + + "Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of all + [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came to + the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w^{ch} amounted to a great + Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His Ma^{tie} + this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was thereupon + pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be no such + distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord B[~p] + before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of 50l. to be + employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. + And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord Archb[~p] of + Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he hath paid + the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50l. for the use aforesaid, and produced a Receipt + for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for Rebuilding the said + Church for the time being, w^{ch} as it is a pious work, so will it be + some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard the Expense of Gloves did + usually farr exceed that Sum. + + "PHI. LLOYD." + + _Tanner's MSS._ vol. 282. 112. al. 74. + +One of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices of +_Prince Rupert_ posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention made of +him in this paper, _Echard_ speaks of his having the command of one +squadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war. + +J. SANSOM. + +_Inscription on a Gun_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your notes on "the Potter's +and Shepherd's Keepsakes" remind me of an old gun, often handled by me in +my youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick was _en-nailed_:-- + + "Of all the sports as is, + I fancies most a gun; + And, after my decease, + I leaves this to my son." + +Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors' Commons, +I know not. + +C. W. B. + +_Richard III._ (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).--The statement by MR. HARRISON, +that Richard was not a "hunchback," is curiously "backed" by an ingenious +conjecture of that very remarkable man, Doctor John Wallis of Oxford, in +his _Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ_, first published in 1653. The passage +occurs in the 2d section of chapter 14, "De Etymologia." Wallis is treating +of the words _crook_, _crouch_, _cross_, &c., and says: + + "Hinc item _croisado_ de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod vocant) + sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui à tergo + gestabant formam Crucis; et _Richardus_ olim Rex Angliæ dicebatur + _crouch-backed_, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod à tergo + gestare gestiebat formam Crucis." + +G. F. G. + +Edinburgh. + +_Lines by Pope._--On the back of a letter in my possession, written by the +poet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of his friend +Mason:-- + + "_By Mr. Pope._ + + "Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine, + To Painter Kent gave all this coin. + 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, + That ever Churchman gave to Lay." + + "Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. Wood to Kent: he had + objected against the word _pio_ in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph." + +If these lines are not already in print, perhaps you will insert them +amongst your "NOTES" as a contribution from + +ROBERT HOTCHKIN. + +Thimbleby Rectory, March 13. 1851. + +_Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in connexion with Scotland._--John Lesley, +bishop of Ross, reports, that in the night before the battle between +Athelstan, king of England, and Hungus, king of the Picts, a bright cross, +like that whereon St. Andrew suffered, appeared to Hungus, who, having +obtained the victory, ever after bore that figure. This happened in 819. +Vide _Gent. Mag._ for Nov. 1732. + +E. S. T. + +_Snail-eating_ (Vol. iii., p. 207.).--Your correspondent C. W. B. does not +seem to be aware that "a ragout of boror (snails)" is a regular dish with +English _gypsies_. Vide Borrow's _Zincali_, part i. c. v. + +He has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks on the subject: + + "Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the land of Gorgios + (England), or the Busné (Spain), that the very gypsies, who consider a + ragout of snails a delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it + bears a resemblance to a snake; and that those who will feast on a + roasted hedgehog could be induced by no money to taste a squirrel!" + +Having tasted of roasted hotchiwitchu (hedgehog) myself among the "gentle +Rommanys," I can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and though a ragout +of snails was never offered for my acceptance, I do not think that those +who consider (as most "Gorgios" do) stewed eels a delicacy ought to be too +sever on "Limacotrophists!" + +HERMES. + +_Snail-eating._--Perhaps you will permit me to remark, in reference to the +communication of C. W. B., that snails are taken medicinally occasionally, +and are supposed to be extremely strengthening. I have known them eagerly +sought after for the meal of a consumptive patient. As a matter of taste, +too, they are by {222} some considered quite epicurean. A gentleman whom I +used to know, was in the constant habit as he passed through the fields, of +picking up the white slugs that lay in his way, and swallowing them with +more relish than he would have done had they been oysters. + +That snails make a no inconsiderable item in the bill of fare of gypsies, +and other wanderers, I proved while at Oxford, some time ago; for passing +up Shotover Hill, in the parish of Headington, I unexpectedly came upon a +camp of gypsies who were seated round a wood fire enjoying their Sunday's +dinner: this consisted of a considerable number of large snails roasted on +the embers, and potatoes similarly cooked. On inquiry, I was told by those +who were enjoying their repast, that they were extremely good, and were +much liked by people of their class, who made a constant practice of eating +them. I need hardly say that I received a most hospitable invitation to +join in the feast, which I certainly declined. + +L. J. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +HENRY SMITH. + +In Marsden's _History of the Early Puritans_ (a work recently published, +which will well repay perusal) there occurs (pp. 178, 179.) the following +notice of Henry Smith:-- + + "Henry Smith was a person of good family, and well connected; but + having some scruples, he declined preferment, and aspired to nothing + higher than the weekly Lectureship of St. Clement Danes. On a complaint + made by Bishop Aylmer, Whitgift suspended him, and silenced for a while + probably the most eloquent preacher in Europe. His contemporaries named + him the Chrysostom of England. His church was crowded to excess; and + amongst his hearers, persons of the highest rank, and those of the most + cultivated and fastidious judgment, were content to stand in the throng + of citizens. His sermons and treatises were soon to be found in the + hands of every person of taste and piety: they passed through + numberless editions. Some of them were carried abroad, and translated + into Latin. They were still admired and read at the close of nearly a + century, when Fuller collected and republished them. Probably the prose + writing of this, the richest period of genuine English literature, + contains nothing finer than some of his sermons. They are free, to an + astonishing degree, from the besetting vices of his age--vulgarity, and + quaintness, and affected learning; and he was one of the first English + preachers who, without submitting to the trammels of a pedantic logic, + conveyed in language nervous, pure, and beautiful, the most convincing + arguments in the most lucid order, and made them the ground-work of + fervent and impassioned addresses to the conscience." + +Would it not be desirable, as well in a literary as a theological point of +view, that any extant sermons of so renowned a divine should be made +accessible to general readers? At present they are too rare and expensive +to be largely useful. A brief _Narrative of the Life and Death of Mr. Henry +Smith_ (as it is for substance related by Mr. Thomas Fuller in his _Church +History_), which is prefixed to an old edition (1643) of his sermons in my +possession, concludes in these words:-- + + "The wonder of this excellent man's worth is increased by the + consideration of his tender age, he dying very young (of a consumption + as it is conceived) above fifty years since, about Anno 1600." + +THOS. M^CCALMONT. + +Highfield, Southampton. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Owen Glendower._--Some of your Cambrian correspondents might, through your +columns, supply a curious and interesting desideratum in historical +genealogy, by contributing a pedigree, authenticated as far as practicable +by dates and authorities, and including collaterals, of OWEN GLENDOWER, +from his ancestor Griffith Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, son of Madoc, last +Prince of Powys, to the extinction of Owen's male line. + +All Cambrian authorities are, I believe, agreed in attributing to Owen the +lineal male representation of the sovereigns of Powys; but I am not aware +that there is any printed pedigree establishing in detail, on authentic +date, his descent, and that of the collaterals of his line; while +uncertainty would seem to exist as to one of the links in the chain of +deduction, as to the fate of his sons and their descendants, if any, as +well as to the marriages and representatives of more than one of his +daughters. + +I have in vain looked for the particulars I have indicated in Yorke's +_Royal Tribes of Wales_; in the _Welsh Heraldic Visitation Pedigrees_, +lately published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the learned editorship of +the late Sir Samuel Meyrick; and in the valuable contributions to the +genealogy of the Principality to be found in the _Landed Gentry_ and the +_Peerage and Baronetage_ of Mr. Burke,--a pedigree, in other respects +admirable, in the _Landed Gentry_ of a branch of the dynasty of Powys, +omitting the intermediate descents in question. + +S. M. + +_Meaning of Gig-Hill._--Can any of your readers favour me with an +explanation of the following matter in local topography? There are two +places in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames distinguished by the name +of _Gig-Hill_[3], although there is no indication of anything in the land +to warrant the name. + +{223} + +Are there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment by the +stocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name? + +There was a king of Brittany who resigned his crown, and obtained the +honours of canonisation as Saint Giguel, in the seventh century. St. Giles, +who died about the sixth century, might, perhaps, have had some connexion +with those who are traditionally believed to have been punished on the +spot; that is, if we judge by his clients, who locate themselves under the +sanctity of his name as a "Guild" or fraternity in London. + +There is, however, a curious use by Shakspeare of the word gig. It occurs +in _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc. I.: + +Holofernes says, + + "What is the figure?" + + _Moth._ Horns. + + _Holofernes._ Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy gig." + +I submit this matter, as local names have often their origin in religious +associations or in proverbial philosophy. + +It has been suggested that _giggle_, as a mark of the derision to which the +culprit was exposed, might so become corrupted. + +If the term be connected with the punishment, it would be, doubtless, one +of general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully +received. + +K. + +[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston +to Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]] + +_Sir John Vaughan._--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton of +Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of October, in +the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus Hamilton, he is +described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by Sidney, daughter and +heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said Dame Sidney Hamilton +was descended from an honourable line of ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will +Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of the same name Comptroller +of the Household to Henry VIII., &c., &c. + +Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir John +Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys of +Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any such +marriage? + +The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of Hamilton +and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron sable between +three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each entwined round the neck +with a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his descent from the Vaughans +of Porthaml Trêtower, &c., in the county of Brecon. + +J. P. O. + +_Quebecca and his Epitaph._-- + + "Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King. + When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will + say to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John + Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.'" + +Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and where +the epitaph may be found? + +E. HAILSTURE. + +_A Monumental Inscription._--Near the chancel door of the parish-church of +Wath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab inscribed to the memory +of William Burroughs. After stating that he was of Masbro', gentleman, and +that he died in the year 1722, the monument contains the two following +hexameters:-- + + "Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus, + Deposuit cineres, animam revocabit Olympus." + +The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus +Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel translated. +It has been conjectured that _Itermus_ must be derived from _iter_, and +hence that Burroughs may have been a _traveller_, or possibly _an orthodox +itinerant preacher_: surely there can be no punning reference to _a +journeyman_! The lines have been submitted, in vain, to some high literati +in Oxford. + +A. G. + +Ecclesfield. + +_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I._ (Vol. iii., p. 157.).--My +friend, who is in possession of the original MS. of this work, is desirous +of ascertaining whether the volume published in 1702 be a complete and +exact copy of it. I will transcribe the commencing and concluding passages +of the MS., and shall be obliged if MR. BOLTON CORNEY will compare them +with the book in his possession, and tell me the result. + + "S^r, + + "By your's of the 22d of August last, I find you have receaved my + former letters of the first and thirteenth of May, 1678; and seeing + 'tis your further desire," &c. + + "This briefe narrative shall conclude with the king's owne excellent + expression: _Crowns and kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour and + reputation--those must have a period with my life; but these survive to + a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone: a good name + being the embalming of princes, and a sweet consecrating of them to an + eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity._" + +The present owner of the MS. has an idea that an incorrect copy was +fraudulently obtained and published about 1813. Is there any foundation for +this supposition? + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield. + +_Comets._--Where may a correct list of the several comets and eclipses, +visible in France or England, which appeared, or took place, between the +years 1066 and 1600, be obtained? + +S. P. O. R. + +{224} + +_Natural Daughter of James II._--James II., in _Souverains du Monde_ (4 +vols. 1722), is stated to have had a natural daughter, who in 1706 was +married to the Duke of Buckingham. + +Can any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of her +mother? Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her husband, +and of any children? + +F. B. RELTON. + +_Going the Whole Hog._--What is the origin of the expression "going the +whole hog?" Did it take its rise from Cowper's fable, _the Love of the +World reproved_, in which it is shown how "Mahometans eat up the hog?" + +[Sigma]. + +_Innocent Convicts._--Can any of your readers furnish a tolerably complete +list of persons convicted and executed in England, for crimes of which it +afterwards appeared they were innocent? + +[Sigma]. + +_The San Grail._--Can any one learned in ecclesiastical story say what are +the authorities for the story that King Arthur sent his knights through +many lands in quest of the _sacred vessel_ used by our Blessed Lord at His +"Last Supper," and explain why this chalice was called the "Holy Grail" or +"Grayle?" Tennyson has a short poem on the knightly search after it, called +"Sir Galahad." And in Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, book ii. cant. x. 53., +allusion is made to the legend that "Joseph of Arimathy brought it to +Britain." + +W. M. K. + +_Meaning of "Slums."_--In Dr. Wiseman's _Appeal to the Reason and Good +Feeling of the English People_, we find the word "slums" made use of with +respect to the purlieus of Westminster Abbey. Warren, in a note of his +letter on "The Queen or the Pope?" asks "What are 'slums?' And where is the +word to be found explained? Is it Roman or Spanish? There is none such in +our language, at least used by gentlemen." + +I would ask, may not the word be derived from _asylum_, seeing that the +precincts of abbeys, &c. used to be an asylum or place of refuge in ancient +times for robbers and murderers? + +W. M. W. + +Stokesley. + +_Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed."_--Can any one inform the +applicant in what modern author this excellent (and he believes rare) book +in his possession, translated from the Italian of Daniel Bartolus, G. J., +by (Sir) Thomas Salusbury, 1660, is spoken of in terms of high approval? +The passage passed before him not long ago, but having _made no note_, he +is unable to recover it.--Query, Is it in Mr. Hallam's _Literary History_, +which he has not at hand? + +U. Q. + +_Odour from the Rainbow._--What English poet is it that embodies the idea +contained in the following passage of Bacon's _Sylva_? I had noted it on a +loose scrap of paper which I left in my copy of the _Sylva_, but have lost +it:-- + + "It hath been observed by the Ancients, that when a Raine Bow seemeth + to hang over or to touch, there breaketh forth a sweet smell. The cause + is, for that this happenth but in certain matters which have in + themselves some sweetnesse, which the Gentle Dew of the Raine Bow doth + draw forth. And the like doe soft showers; for they also make the + ground sweet. But none are so delicate as the Dew of the Raine Bow, + where it falleth. It may be also that the water itself hath some + sweetnesse: for the Raine Bow consisteth of a glomeration of small + drops which cannot possibly fall but from the Aire that is very low. + And therefore may hold giving sweetnesse of the herbs and flowers, as a + distilled water," &c.--Bacon's _Sylva_, by Rawley, 6th ed. 1651, p. + 176. + +JARLTZBERG. + +_Tradesmen's Signs._--A CITIZEN wishes to be informed in what year or reign +the signs that used to hang over the tradesmen's shop-doors were abolished, +and whether it was accomplished by "act of parliament," or only "by the +authority of the Lord Mayor." Also, whether there is any law now in +existence that prevents the tradesmen putting the signs up again, if they +were so disposed. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Supporters borne by Commoners._--Can any of your readers state why some +commoners bear supporters, and whether the representatives of Bannerets are +entitled to do so? I find in Burke's _Dictionary of Landed Gentry_, that +several gentlemen in England, Scotland, and Ireland continue to use them. +See Fulford, p. 452.; Wyse, p. 1661.; Hay-Newton, p. 552., &c. &c. + +The late Mr. Portman, father of Lord Portman, used supporters, as do Sir W. +Carew, Bart., and some other baronets. + +GUINEGATE. + + [Baronets are not entitled, _as such_, to bear supporters, which are + the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders. + + There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the + sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of + services rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these + instances they are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt + there are some private families who assume and improperly bear + supporters, but whose right to do so, even under their own statements + as to origin and descent, has no legal foundation. "NOTES AND QUERIES" + afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or + for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.] + +_Answer to Fisher's Relation._--I have a work published at London by Adam +Islip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears-- + + "An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third {225} Conference + betweene a certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference + was very private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in + many respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B., + Chapleine to the B. that was employed in the conference." + +Pray, who _was_ the chaplain? I have heard he was the after-famous +Archbishop Laud. + +I pray your assistance in the resolution of this Query. + +J. M. + +Liverpool. + + [This famous conference was the _third_ held by divines of the Church + of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really was: + see Dodd's _Church History_, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two were + conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held in + May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (_i.e._ Dr. Richard + Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his chaplain, + and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should J. M. + possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. Laud + says himself, that "his _Discourse_ was not printed till April, 1624."] + +_Drink up Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--Here is a passage in _Troilus and +Cressida_, in which _drink up_ occurs (Act IV. Sc. 1.): + + "He, like a puling cuckold, would _drink up_ + The lees and _dregs_ of a flat-tamed piece." + +The meaning is plainly here _avaler_, not _boire_. + +Here is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in _Hamlet_, +but resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.): + + "When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, + thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than + for us to undergo any difficulty imposed." + +C. B. + + [We are warned by several correspondents that this subject is becoming + as bitter as wormwood to them. Before we dismiss it, however, we must + record in our pages the opinion of one of the most distinguished + commentators of the day, Mr. Hunter, who in his _New Illustrations_, + vol. ii. p. 263., after quoting "potions of eysell" from the sonnet, + says, "This shows it was not any river so called, but some desperate + drink. The word occurs often in a sense in which _acetum_ is the best + representative, associated with verjuice and vinegar. It is the term + used for one ingredient of the bitter potion given to our Saviour on + the cross, about the composition of which the commentators are greatly + divided. Thus the eighth prayer of the Fifteen Oos in the _Salisbury + Primer_, 1555, begins thus: 'O Blessed Jesu, sweetness of heart and + ghostly pleasure of souls, I beseech thee for the bitterness of the + _aysell_ and gall that thou tasted and suffered for me in thy passion,' + &c." + + Since the above was written, we have received a communication from _An + English Mother_ with the words and _music_ of the nursery song, showing + that the music does not admit the expressions "eat _up_," and "drink + _up_;" quoting from Haldorson's _Icelandic Lexicon_, Eysill, m. + Haustrum en Ose allsa; and asking what if Shakspeare meant either a + pump or a bucket? We have also received a Note from G. F. G. showing + that _eisel_ in Dutch, German, and Anglo-Saxon, &c., meant _vinegar_, + and stating, that during his residence in Florence in 1817, 1818, and + 1819, he had often met with wormwood wine at the table of the Italians, + a weak white wine of Tuscany, in which wormwood had been infused, which + was handed round by the servants immediately after the soup, and was + believed to promote digestion.] + +_Saxon Coin struck at Derby._--In the reign of Athelstan there was a royal +mint at Derby, and a coinage was struck, having on the obverse merely the +name of the town, Deoraby, and on the other side the legend "HEGENREDES MO +. ON . DEORABY." What is the meaning of this inscription? + +R. C. P. + +Derby, Feb. 26. 1851. + + [If HEGENREDES is rightly written, it is the name of a moneyer. MO . ON + . DEORABY signifies _Monetarius_ (or Moneyer) _in Derby_. Coins are + known with MEGENFRED and MEGNEREDTES, and our correspondent may have + read his coin wrongly.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +SCANDAL AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH. + +(Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197.) + +The Marquis of Ormonde having been informed that certain statements, little +complimentary to the reputation of Queen Elizabeth, and equally +discreditable to the name of his ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, have +appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES," wherein it is stated "that the Ormonde +family possess documents which afford proof of this," begs to assure the +editor of the journal in question, that the Ormonde collection of papers, +&c. contains nothing that bears the slightest reference to the very +calumnious attack on the character of good Queen Bess. + +Hampton Court, March 17. 1851. + + [If the Marquis of Ormonde will do us the favour to refer to our Number + for the 8th March (No. 71.), he will find he has not been correctly + informed with respect to the article to which his note relates. The + family in which the papers are stated to exist, is clearly not that of + the noble Marquis, but the family with which our correspondent "J. BS." + states himself to be "connected;" and we hope J. BS. will, in justice + both to himself and to Queen Elizabeth, adopt the course suggested in + the following communication. We believe the warmest admirers of that + great Queen cannot better vindicate her character than by making a + strict inquiry into the grounds for the scandals, which, as has been + already shown (_antè_, No. 62. p. 11.), were so industriously + circulated against her.] + +{226} + +J. BS. says papers are "said to exist in the family which prove the +statement." As it is one of _scandal_ against a female, and that female a +great sovereign, should he not ascertain the fact of the existence of any +such paper, before supporting the scandal, and not leave a _tradition_ to +be supported by another tradition, when a little trouble might show whether +any papers exist, and when found what their value may be. + +Q. G. + + * * * * * + +THE MISTLETOE ON THE OAK. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 163. 214.; Vol. iii., p. 192.) + +From having been a diligent searcher for the mistletoe on the oak, I may be +allowed to make a few remarks upon the question. Is it ever found now on +other trees? Now, it not only occurs abundantly on other trees, but it is +exceedingly rare on the oak. This may be gathered from the following list, +in which numbers have been used to express comparative frequency, as near +as my observations enable me to form a judgment:-- + + _On Native Trees._ + + Apple (various sorts) 25 + Poplar (mostly the black) 20 + Whitethorn 10 + Lime 4 + Maple 3 + Willow 2 + OAK 1 + + _On Foreign Trees._ + + Sycamore 1 + Robinia 1 + +From this it would appear that notwithstanding the BRITISH OAK grows +everywhere, it is at present only favoured by the companionship of the +mistletoe in equal ratio with two comparatively recently introduced trees. +Indeed such objection does this parasite manifest to the brave old tree, +even in his teens, that, notwithstanding a newly-planted line of mixed +trees will become speedily attacked by it, the oak is certain to be left in +his pride alone. + +I have, however, seen the mistletoe on the oak in two instances during my +much wandering about amid country scenes, especially of Gloucester and +Worcester, two great mistletoe counties. One was pointed out to me by my +friend, Mr. Lees, from whom we may expect much valuable information on this +subject, in his forthcoming edition of the _Botanical Looker-out_--it was +on a young tree, perhaps of fifty years, in Eastnor Park, on the Malvern +chain. The other example is at Frampton-on-Severn, to which the President +of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, T. B. L. Baker, Esq., and myself, were +taken by Mr. Clifford, of Frampton. The tree is full a century old, and the +branch, on which was a goodly bunch of the parasite, numbered somewhere +about forty years. That the plant is propagated by seeds there can, I +think, be but little doubt, as the seeds are so admirably adapted for the +peculiar circumstances under which alone they can propagate; and the want +of attention to the facts connected therewith, is probably the cause why +the propagation of the mistletoe by artificial means is usually a failure. + +I should be inclined to think that the mistletoe never was abundant on the +oak; so that it may be that additional sanctity was conferred on the +_Viscum guerneum_ on account of its great rarity. + +JAMES BUCKMAN. + +Cirencester. + +_Mistletoe upon Oak_ (Vol. ii., p. 214.).--Besides the mistletoe-bearing +oak mentioned by your correspondent, there is one in Lord Somers' park, +near Malvern. It is a very fine plant, though it has been injured by +sight-seeing marauders. + +H. A. B. + +Trinity College, Cambridge. + +_Mistletoe_ (Vol. ii., pp. 163., 214.).--Do I understand your correspondent +to ask whether mistletoe is found now except on oaks? The answer is, as at +St. Paul's, "Circumspice." Just go into the country a little. The +difficulty is generally supposed to be to find it _on_ the oak. + +C. B. + + * * * * * + +UNIVERSALITY OF THE MAXIM, "LAVORA COME SE TU," ETC. + +(Vol. iii., p. 188.) + +I have not been able to trace this sentence to its source, but it would +most probably be found in that admirable book, _Monosinii Floris Italicæ +Linguæ_, 4to, Venet., 1604; or in Torriano's _Dictionary of Italian +Proverbs and Phrases_, folio, Lond., 1666, a book of which Duplessis doubts +the existence! Most of Jeremy Taylor's citations from the Italian are +proverbial phrases. Your correspondent has probably copied the phrase as it +stands in Bohn's edition of the _Holy Living and Dying_, but there is a +trifling variation as it stands in the first edition of _Holy Living_, +1650:-- + + "Lavora come se tu _havesti_ a campar ogni hora: + Adora come se tu _havesti_ a morir _alhora_." + +The universality of this maxim, in ages and countries remote from each +other, is remarkable. Thus we find it in the HITOPADÉSA: + + "A wise man should think upon knowledge and wealth as if he were + undecaying and immortal. He should practise duty as if he were seized + by the hair of his head by Death."--Johnson's _Translation_, Intr. S. + +So Democratis of Abdera, more sententiously: + + "[Greek: Houtos peirô zên, hôs kai oligon kai polun chronon + biôsomenos]." + +Then descending to the fifteenth century, we {227} have it thus in the racy +old Saxon _Laine Doctrinal_: + + "Men schal leven, unde darumme sorgen, + Alse men Stärven sholde morgen, + Unde leren êrnst liken, + Alse men leven sholde ewigliken." + +Where the author of the _Voyage autour de ma Chambre_, Jean Xavier Maitre, +stumbled upon it, or whether it was a spontaneous thought, does not appear; +but in his pleasing little book, _Lettres sur la Vieillesse_, we have it +thus verbatim: + + "Il faut vivre comme si l'on avoit à mourir demain, mais s'arranger en + même temps sa vie, autant que cet arrangement peut dépendre de notre + prévoyance, comme si l'on avoit devant soi quelques siècles, et même + une éternité d'existence." + +Some of your correspondents may possibly be able to indicate other +repetitions of this truly "golden sentence," which cannot be too often +repeated, for we all know that + + "A verse may reach him who a sermon flies." + +S. W. SINGER. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Tennyson's In Memoriam_ (Vol. iii., p. 142.).-- + + "Before the crimson-circled star + Had fallen into her father's grave." + +means "before the planet Venus had sunk into the sea." + +In Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology_, under +the word Aphrodite or Venus, we find that-- + + "Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam ([Greek: + aphros]) of the sea which had gathered around the mutilated parts of + Uranus, that had been thrown into the sea by Kronos, after he had + unmanned his father."--Hesiod. _Theog._ 190. + +The allusion in the first stanza of _In Memoriam_ is, I think, to Shelley. +The doctrine referred to is common to him and many other poets; but he +perhaps inculcates it more frequently than any other. (See _Queen Mab_ sub +finem. _Revolt of Islam_, canto xii. st. 17. _Adonais_, stanzas 39. 41. et +passim.) Besides this, the phrase "clear harp" seems peculiarly applicable +to Shelley, who is remarkable for the simplicity of his language. + +X. Z. + +_Tennyson's In Memoriam._--The word _star_ applies in poetry to all the +heavenly bodies; and therefore, to the _crescent moon_, which is often near +enough to the sun to be within or to be _encircled_ by, the crimson colour +of the sky about sunset; and the sun may, figuratively, be called _father_ +of the moon, because he dispenses to her all the light with which she +shines; and, moreover, because _new_, or waxing moons, must _set_ nearly in +the same point of the horizon as the sun; and because that point of the +horizon in which a heavenly body sets, may, figuratively, be called its +_grave_; therefore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of the poem +numbered lxxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's _In Memoriam_, quoted by W. B. H., +to mean simply-- + +_We returned home between the hour of sunset and the setting of the moon, +then not so much as a week old._ + +ROBERT SNOW. + +_Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The Rev. +CHARLES NEVINSON may be informed that there are two copies of the edition +of the above work for which he inquires, in the library of Trinity College, +Dublin. + +TYRO. + +Dublin. + +_Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland_ (Vol. iii., p. +118.).--In reply to the inquiry of EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, that gentleman may +learn the extent to which the _Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas +Machell, who was chaplain to King Charles II._, have been examined, and +published, by referring, to Burn and Nicholson's _History of Westmoreland +and Cumberland_, edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an +account of the antiquary's own family, the "Mali Catuli," or Machell's +Lords of Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of +Carlisle contain only copies and references to the original papers, which +are carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There +are above one thousand deeds, charters, and other documents which I have +carefully translated and collated with a view to their being printed +privately for the use of the family, and I shall feel pleasure in replying +to any inquiry on the subject. Address: + +G.P. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire. + +Two impressions of the seal of the Abbey of Shapp (anciently Hepp), said +not to be attainable by the editors of the late splendid edition of the +_Monasticon_, are preserved in the Machell MSS. + +_Oration against Demosthenes_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--For the information of +your correspondent KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, I transcribe the title of the +oration against Demosthenes, for which he makes inquiry, which was not +"privately printed" as he supposes, but _published_ last year by Mr. J. W. +Parker. + + "The Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respecting the Treasure + of Harpalus. The Fragments of the Greek Text, now first edited from the + Fac-simile of the MS. discovered at Egyptian Thebes in 1847; together + with other Fragments of the same Oration cited in Ancient Writers. With + a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, and a Fac-simile of a Portion of + the MS. By Churchill Babington, M.A. London: J. W. Parker, 1850." + +The discovery of the MS. was made by Mr. {228} A. C. Harris of Alexandria, +who placed a fac-simile in the hand of Mr. Churchill Babington, who edited +it as above described. + +My information is derived from an article on the work in the _Christian +Remembrancer_ for October, 1850, to which I refer MR. MACKENZIE for further +particulars. + +TYRO. + +Dublin + + [MR. EDWARD SHEARE JACKSON, B.A., to whom we are indebted for a similar + reply, adds, "Mr. Harris contributed a paper on the MS. to the Royal + Society of Literature"] + +Mr. Sharpe has also published "Fragments of Orations in Accusation and +Defence of Demosthenes, respecting the money of Harpalus, arranged and +translated," in the _Journal of the Philological Society_, vol. iv.; and +the German scholars Boeckh (in the _Hallische Litteratur-Zeitung_ for 1848) +and Sauppe have also written critical notices on the fragments; but whether +their notices include the old and new fragments, I am unable to say, having +only met with a scanty reference to their learned labours. + +J. M. + +Oxford. + +_Borrow's Danish Ballads_ (Vol. iii., p. 168).--The following is the title +of Mr. Borrow's book, referred to by BRUNO:-- + + "Targum; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects. + By George Borrow. 'The Raven ascended to the Nest of the + Nightingale.'--Persian Poem. St. Petersburgh. Printed by Schulz and + Beneze. 1835." + +R. W. F. + +_Borrow's Danish Ballads._--The title of the work is-- + + "Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, and Miscellaneous + Pieces; by George Borrow. 8vo. Printed by S. Wilkin, Norwich; and + published at London by John Taylor, 1826." + +In the preface it is stated that the ballads are translated from +Oehlenslöger, and from the _Kiæmpé Viser_, the old Norse book referred to +in _Lavengro_. + +[mu]. + +_Head of the Saviour_ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The correspondent who inquires +about the "true likeness" of the Saviour exposed in some of the London +print-shops, is not perhaps aware that there is preserved in the church of +St. Peter's at Rome a much more precious and genuine portrait than the one +to which he alludes--a likeness described by its possessors as "far more +sublime and venerable than any other, since it was neither painted by the +hands of men nor angels, but by the divinity himself who makes both men and +angels." It is not delineated upon wood or canvass, ivory, glass, or +stucco, but upon "a pocket handkerchief lent him by a holy woman named +Veronica, to wipe his face upon at the crucifixion" (Aringhi, _Roma +Subterran._, vol. ii. p. 543.). When the handkerchief was returned it had +this genuine portrait imprinted on its surface. It is now one of the +holiest of relics preserved in the Vatican basilica, where there is +likewise a magnificent altar constructed by Urban VIII., with an +inscription commemorating the fact, a mosaic above, illustrative of the +event, and a statue of the holy female who received the gift, and who is +very properly inscribed in the Roman catalogue of saints under the title of +ST. VERONICA. All this is supported by "pious tradition," and attested by +authorities of equal value to those which establish the identity of St. +Peter's chair. The only difficulty in the matter lies in this, that the +woman Veronica never had any corporeal existence, being no other than the +name by which the picture itself was once designated, viz., the VERA ICON, +or "True Image" (Mabillon, _Iter. Ital._, p. 88.). This narrative will +probably relieve your correspondent from the trouble of further inquiries +by enabling him to judge for himself whether "there is any truth" about the +other true image. + +A. R., Jun. + +In your 70th Number I perceived that some correspondent asked, "What is the +truth respecting a legend attached to the head of our Saviour for some time +past in the print-shops?" I ask the same question. True or false, I found +in a work entitled _The Antiquarian Repertory_, by Grose, Astle, and +others, vol. iii., an effigy of our Saviour, much inferior in all respects +to the above, with the following attached:-- + + "This present figure is the similitude of our Lord [=IHV], oure Saviour + imprinted in amirvld by the predecessors of the greate turke, and sent + to the Pope Innosent the 8. at the cost of the greate turke for a token + for this cawse, to redeme his brother that was taken presonor." + +This was painted on board. The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, of Baynard's Park, +Guildford, has another painted on board with a like inscription, to the +best of my recollection: his has a date on it, I think. + +Pope Innocent VIII. was created Pope in 1484, and died in 1492. + +The variation in the three effigies is an argument against the truth of the +story, or the two on board must have been ill-executed. That in the shops +is very beautiful. + +The same gentleman possesses a Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and by the +assignees of John Bill, 1633; and on a slip of paper is, "Holy Bible +curiously bound in tapestry by the nuns of Little Gidding, 12mo., Barker." + +In a former Number a person replies that a Bible, bound by the nuns of +Gidding for Charles I., now belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury. Query the +_size of that_? + +E. H. + +Norwich, March 9. + +{229} + +_Lady Bingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--If C. W. B. will refer to the +supplementary volume of Burke's _Landed Gentry_, p. 159, he will see that +Sarah, daughter of John Heigham, of Giffords Hall, co. Suffolk (son of +William Heigham, of Giffords, second son of Clement Heigham, of Giffords, +second son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, co. Suffolk) married, first, Sir +Richard Bingham, Knt., of Melcombe Bingham, co. Dorset, governor of +Connaught in 1585, &c.; and secondly, Edward Waldegrave, of Lawford, co. +Essex. This, I presume, is the lady whose maiden name he enquires for. + +C. R. M. + +_Shakepeare's Use of Captious_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--In _All's Well that +Ends Well_, Act I. Sc. 3.: + + "I know I love in vain; strive against hope; + Yet in this _captious_ and intenible sieve, + I still pour in the waters of my love, + And lack not to lose still:" + +has not MR. SINGER, and all the other commentators upon this passage, +overlooked a most apparent and satisfactory solution? Is it not evident +that the printer simply omitted the vowel "a," and that the word, as +written by Shakespeare, was "cap_a_tious," the "t," according to the +orthography of the time, being put for the "c" used by modern writers? + +With great deference to former critics, I think this emendation is the most +probable, as it accords with the sentiment of Helena, who means to depict +her _vast_ but unretentive sieve, into which she poured the waters of her +love. + +W. F. S. + +P.S.--I hope MR. SINGER and J. S. W. will tell us what they think of this +proposed alteration. + +Bognor, Feb, 22. 1851. + +_Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--I would suggest that the "tanthony" at +Kimbolton is a corruption or mis-pronunciation of "tintany," +_tintinnabulum_. I have failed to discover any legend of St. Anthony, +confirmatory of ARUN'S suggestion. + +A. + +Newark, Notts., Feb. 12. + +_By the bye_ (Vol. iii., p 73.).--Is your correspondent S. S. not aware +that the phrase "Good bye" is a contraction of our ancestors' more +devotional one of "God be wi' ye!" + +D. P. W. + +Rotherhithe, Jan. 21. 1851. + +_Lama Beads_ (Vol. iii., p. 115.).--It is a pretty bold assertion that Lama +beads are derived from the Lamas of Asia. _Lamma_, according to Jamieson, +is simply the Scotch for _amber_. He says _Lamertyn steen_ means the same +in Teutonic. I do not find it in Wachter's _Lexicon_. + +Your correspondent's note is a curious instance of the inconvenience of +half quotation. He says the Lamas are an order of priests among the Western +Tartars. I was surprised at this, since their chief strength, as everybody +knows, is in Thibet. On referring to Rees's _Cyclopædia_, I found that the +words are taken from thence; but they are not wrong there, since, by the +context they have reference to China. + +C. B. + +_Language given to Men, &c._ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The saying that language +was given to men to conceal their thoughts is generally fathered upon +Talleyrand at present. I did not know it was in Goldsmith; but the real +author of it was Fontenelle. + +C. B. + +_Daresbury, the White Chapel of England_ (Vol. iii., p. 60.).--This +_jeu-d'esprit_ was an after-dinner joke of a learned civilian, not less +celebrated for his wit than his book-lore. Some stupid blockhead inserted +it in the newspapers, and it is now unfortunately chronicled in your +valuable work. It is not at all to be wondered at that "the people in the +neighbourhood know nothing on the subject." + +ECHO. + +_Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., pp. 30. 70.).--Were not +the Lincolnshire estates of Count Bentinck, a Dutch nobleman who came over +with William III., and the ancestor of the late Lord George Bentinck, M.P. +for Lynn Regis, denominated _Little Holland_, which he increased by +reclaiming large portions in the Dutch manner from the Wash? + +E. S. TAYLOR. + +_Passage in the Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 259, &c.).--I do not profess to +offer an opinion as to the right reading; but with reference to the +suggestion of A. E. B. (p. 338.) that it means-- + + "Most busy when least I do it," + +or-- + + "Most busy when least employed," + +allow me to refer you to the splendid passage in the _De Officiis_, lib. +iii. cap. i., where Cicero expresses the same idea:-- + + "Pub. Scipionem,... eum, qui primus Africanus appellatus sit, dicere + solitum scripsit Cato,... _Nunquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum + otiosus_; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox, et + magno viro, ac sapiente digna; quæ declarat, illum et in otio de + negotiis cogitare, et in solitudine secum loqui solitum: ut neque + cessaret unquam, et interdum colloquio alterius non egeret." + +ACHE. + +_Damasked Linen_ (Vol. iii., p. 13.).--I believe it has always been +customary to damask the linen used by our royal family with appropriate +devices. I have seen a cloth of Queen Anne's, with the "A. R." in double +cypher, surrounded by buds and flowers; and have myself a cloth with a view +of London, and inscribed "Der Konig Georg II.," which was purchased at +Brentford, no doubt having come from Kew adjoining. + +H. W. D. + +_Straw Necklaces_ (Vol. ii., p. 511.).--Having only lately read the "NOTES +AND QUERIES" (in fact, this being the first number subscribed for), I do +not know the previous allusion. It makes me mention a curious custom at +Carlisle, of the {230} servants who wish to be hired going into the +marketplace of Carlisle, or as they call it "Carel," with a straw in their +mouths. It is fast passing away, and _now_, instead of keeping the straw +constantly in the mouth, they merely put it in a few seconds if they see +any one looking at them. Anderson, in his _Cumberland Ballads_, alludes to +the custom:-- + + "At Carel I stuid wi' a strae i' my mouth, + The weyves com roun me in clusters: + 'What weage dus te ax, canny lad?' says yen." + +H. W. D. + +_Library of the Church of Westminster_ (Vol. iii., p. 152.).--The statement +here quoted from the _Délices de la Grande Bretagne_ is scarcely likely to +be correct. We all know how prone foreigners are to misapprehension, and +therefore, how unsafe it is to trust to their observations. In this case, +may not the description of the _Bibliothèque Publique_, which was open +night and morning, during the sittings of the courts of justice, have +originated merely from the rows of booksellers' stalls in Westminster-hall? + +J. G. N. + +_The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--Waterland (vol. vi. p. 242., +2nd edition, Oxford, 1843) gives a copy of the Decalogue taken from an old +MS. In this the first two commandments are embodied in one. Leighton, in +his _Exposition of the Ten Commandments_, when speaking on the point of the +manner of dividing them, refers in a vague manner to Josephus and Philo. + +R. V. + +_Sitting crosslegged to avert Evil_ (Vol. ii.,p. 407.).--Browne says:-- + + "To set crosselegg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, + is accounted bad, and friends will perswade us from it. The same + conceit religiously possessed the ancients, as is observable from + Pliny: 'Poplites alternis genibus imponere nefas olim;' and also from + Athenæus, that it was an old veneficious practice."--_Vulg. Err._, lib. + v. cap. xxi. § 9. + +ACHE. + +_George Steevens_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--A. Z. wishes to know whether a +memoir of George Steevens, the Shakspearian commentator, was ever +published, and what has become of the manuscripts. + +I believe the late Sir James Allen Park wrote his life, but whether for +public or private circulation I cannot tell. + +The late George Steevens had a relative, a Mrs. Collinson, and daughters +who lived with him at Hampstead, and with him when he died, in Jan. 1800. +Miss Collinson married a Mr. Pyecroft, whose death, I think, is in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_ for this month: perhaps the Pyecroft family may give +information respecting the manuscripts. + + "The house he lived in at Hampstead, called the Upper Flask, was + formerly a place of public entertainment near the summit of Hampstead + Hill. Here Richardson sends his Clarissa in one of her escapes from + Lovelace. Here, too, the celebrated Kit-Cat Club used to meet in the + summer months; and here, after it became a private abode, the no less + celebrated George Steevens lived and died."--Vide Park's _Hampstead_, + pp. 250. 352. + +I just recollect Mr. Steevens, who was very kind to us, as children. My +mother, who is an octogenarian, remembers him well, and says he always took +a nosegay, tied to the top of his cane, every day to Sir Joseph Banks. + +JULIA R. BOCKETT. + +Southcote Lodge, near Reading. + +_The Waistcoat bursted, &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 505.).--The general effect of +melancholy: digestion is imperfectly performed, and melancholy patients +generally complain of being "blown up." BODVAR'S "blowing up," on the +contrary, is the mere effect of the generation of gases in a dead body, +well illustrated by a floating dead dog on the river side, or the bursting +of a leaden coffin. + +H. W. D. + +_Love's Labour's Lost_ (Vol. iii., p. 163.).--Your correspondent has very +neatly and ably made out how the names of the ladies ought to have been +placed; but the error is the poet's, not the printer's. It is impossible to +conceive how, in printing or transcribing, such a mistake should arise; the +names are quite unlike, and several lines distant from one another. Such +forgetfulness is not very uncommon in poets, especially those of the +quickest and liveliest spirit. It is the old mistake of Bentley and other +commentators, to think that whatever is wrong must be spurious. These, too, +we must recollect, are fictitious characters. + +C. W. B. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Agreeing with Mr. Lower, that they who desire to know the truth as to the +earlier periods of our national history, will do wisely to search for it +among the mists and shadows of antiquity, and rather collect it for +themselves out of the monkish chronicles than accept the statements of +popular historiographers, we receive with great satisfaction the addition +to our present list of translations of such chronicles, which Mr. Lower has +given us in _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from 1066 to 1176, now first +translated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History of the +Establishment_. The original Chronicle, which is preserved among the +Cottonian MSS., though known to antiquaries and historians, was never +committed to the press until the year 1846, when it was printed by the +_Anglia Christiana Society_ from a transcript made by the late Mr. Petrie. +Mr. Lower's translation has been made from that edition; and though +undertaken by him as an illustration of local history, will be found well +deserving the perusal of the general reader, not only from the light it +throws upon the Norman invasion and upon the {231} history of the abbey +founded by the Conqueror in fulfilment of his vow, but also for the +pictures it exhibits of the state of society during the period which it +embraces. + +BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Embarrassment of the Clergy in the Matter of Church +Discipline._ Two ably written letters by Presbyter Anglicanus, reprinted, +by request, from the _Morning Post_;--_Ann Ash, or the Foundling_, by the +_Author of 'Charlie Burton' and 'The Broken Arm.'_ If not quite equal to +_Charlie Burton_, and there are few children's stories which are so, it is +a tale well calculated to sustain the writer's well-deserved +reputation;--_Burns and his Biographers, being a Caveat to Cavillers, or an +Earnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and Calumnies which, for half a +Century, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the Tomb of Robert Burns._ + +Messrs. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23225] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><!-- Page 217 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page217"></a>{217}</span></p> + +<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> + +<hr class="full" > + + +<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead"> + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left; width:25%"> + <p><b>No. 73.</b></p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:center; width:50%"> + <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, March 22. 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%"> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right; width:5%"> + <p>Page</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page217">217</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>On the Word "Rack" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by Samuel Hickson</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page218">218</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page219">219</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Folk-Lore:—Moths called Souls—Holy Water for Hooping + Cough—Daffy Down Dilly</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page220">220</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to + Mesmerism</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page220">220</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Minor Notes:—Original Warrant—Gloves—Prince + Rupert—Inscription on a Gun—Richard III.—Lines by + Pope—Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to + Scotland—Snail-eating</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page220">220</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:— Henry Smith, by T. + M<sup>c</sup>Calmont</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page222">222</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Minor Queries:—Owen Glendower—Meaning of + Gig-Hill—Sir John Vaughan—Quebecca and his + Epitaph—A Monumental Inscription—Sir Thomas Herbert's + Memoirs of Charles I.—Comets—Natural Daughter of James + II.—Going the Whole Hog—Innocent Convicts—The San + Grail—Meaning of "Slums"—Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended + and Reformed"—Odour from the Rainbow—Tradesmen's + Signs</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page222">222</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries Answered</span>:—Supporters + borne by Commoners—Answer to Fisher's Relation—"Drink up + Eisell"</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page224">224</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Scandal against Queen Elizabeth</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page225">225</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page226">226</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., by S. W. + Singer</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page226">226</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Replies to Minor Queries:—Tennyson's In + Memoriam—Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, + &c.—Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and + Cumberland—Oration against Demosthenes—Borrow's Danish + Ballads—Head of the Saviour—Lady + Bingham—Shakespeare's Use of Captious—Tanthony—Lama + Beads—"Language given to Men," &c.—Daresbury, the + White Chapel of England—Holland Land—Passage in the + Tempest—Damasked Linen—Straw Necklaces—Library of + the Church of Westminster, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page227">227</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:—</p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page230">230</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="#page231">231</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Notices to Correspondents</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page231">231</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td style="text-align:left"> + <p>Advertisements</p> + </td> + <td style="text-align:right"> + <p><a href="#page231">231</a></p> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h3>SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING +MONUMENTS.</h3> + + <p>When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called + the attention of our readers to the <i>Monumentarium of Exeter + Cathedral</i>, we expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. + Hewett had thereby rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and + historical inquirers would be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers + into the same useful field. That hope bids fair to be fully realised. In + Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed a letter from <span class="sc">Mr. + Peacock</span>, announcing his intention of copying the inscriptions in + the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and we this week + present our readers with three fresh communications upon the subject.</p> + + <p>We give precedence to <span class="sc">Miss Bockett's</span>, inasmuch + as it involves no general proposal upon the subject, but is merely + expressive of that lady's willingness, in which we have no doubt she will + be followed by many of her countrywomen to help forward the good + work.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>In your Number for Feb. 15th, I find <span class="sc">Mr. Edward + Peacock</span>, Jun., of Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, + wishes to collect church memorials for work he intends to publish. If he + would like the accounts of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of + Reading, as far as I am able it would give me pleasure to send some to + him.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Julia R. Bockett</span>. + + <p>Southcote Lodge, near Reading.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a + <i>Monumenta Anglicana</i> by <span class="sc">Mr. Dunkin</span>,—a + plan which would have our hearty concurrence and recommendation, if it + were at all practicable; but which, it will be seen at a glance, must + fail from its very vastness. If the <i>Monumentarium of Exeter</i> + contains the material for half a moderate-sized octavo volume, in what + number of volumes does <span class="sc">Mr. Dunkin</span> propose to + complete his collection—even if a want of purchasers of the early + volumes did not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned + scheme?</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>Your correspondent <span class="sc">Mr. Edw. Peacock</span>, Jun, may + be interested in knowing that a work has some time been projected by my + friend Mr. Alfred John Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian + learning render him well fitted for the task), under the title of + <i>Monumenta Anglicana</i>, and which is intended to be a medium for + preserving the inscriptions in every church in the kingdom. There can be + no doubt of the high value and utility of such a work, especially if + accompanied by a well-arranged index of names; and I have no doubt <span + class="sc">Mr. Peacock</span>, and indeed many others of your valued + correspondents, will be induced to <!-- Page 218 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page218"></a>{218}</span>assist in the good + cause, by sending memoranda of inscriptions to Mr. Dunkin.</p> + + <p class="author">L. J. + + <p>Plymouth.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The following letter from the <span class="sc">Rev. E. S. + Taylor</span> proposes a Society for the purpose:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>I for one shall be happy to co-operate with <span class="sc">Mr. + Peacock</span> in this useful work; and I trust that, through the + valuable medium of "<span class="sc">Notes And Queries</span>," many will + be induced to offer their assistance. Could not a Society be formed for + the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might take place?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. S. Taylor.</span> + + <p>Martham, Norfolk.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>We doubt the necessity, and indeed the advisability, of the formation + of any such Society.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Mr. Peacock</span> (<i>antè</i>., p. 117.) has + already wisely suggested, that "in time a copy of every inscription in + every church in England might be ready for reference in our National + Library," and we have as little doubt that the MS. department of the + British Museum is the proper place of deposit for such records, as that + the trustees would willingly accept the charge of them on the + recommendation of their present able and active Keeper of the + Manuscripts. What he, and what the trustees would require, would be some + security that the documents were what they professed to be; and this + might very properly be accomplished through the agency of such a Society + as <span class="sc">Mr. Taylor</span> proposes, if there did not already + exist a Society upon whom such a duty might very safely be + devolved:—and have we not, in the greater energy which that Society + has lately displayed, evidence that it would undertake a duty for which + it seems pre-eminently fitted? We allude to the Society of Antiquaries. + The anxiety of Lord Mahon, its president, to promote the efficiency of + that Society, has recently been made evident in many ways; and we cannot + doubt that he would sanction the formation of a sub-committee for the + purpose of assisting in collecting and preserving a record of all + existing monuments, or that he would find a lack of able men to serve on + such a committee, when he numbers among the official or active Fellows of + the Society gentlemen so peculiarly fitted to carry out this important + national object, as Mr. Hunter, Sir Charles Young, Mr. J. Payne Collier, + and Mr. Bruce.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Notes.</h2> + +<h3>ON THE WORD "RACK" IN SHAKSPEARE'S TEMPEST.</h3> + + <p>As another illustration of the careless or superficial manner in which + the meaning of Shakspeare has been sought, allow me to call attention to + the celebrated passage in the <i>Tempest</i> in which the word "rack" + occurs. The passage really presents no difficulty; and the meaning of the + word, as it appears to me, might as well be settled at once and for ever. + I make this assertion, not dogmatically, but with the view of testing the + correctness of my opinion, that this is not at all a question of + etymology, but entirely one of construction. The passage reads as + follows:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i8hg3">"These, our actors,</p> + <p>As I foretold you, were all spirits, and</p> + <p>Are melted into air, into thin air:</p> + <p>And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision,</p> + <p>The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,</p> + <p>The solemn temples, the great globe itself,</p> + <p>Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;</p> + <p>And, like this insubstantial pageant, faded,</p> + <p>Leave not a rack behind."—<i>Tempest</i>, Act IV. Sc. 1.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>As I have expressed my opinion that this is not at all a question of + etymology, I shall not say more in reference to this view of the case + than that "rack," spelt as in Shakspeare, is a word in popular and + every-day use in the phrase "rack and ruin;" that we have it in the term + "rack off," as applied to wine, meaning <i>to take from the rack</i>, or, + in other words, "to leave a rack" or <i>refuse</i> "behind," racked wine + being wine drawn from the lees; and that it is, I believe, still in use + in parts of England, meaning <i>remains</i> or <i>refuse</i>, as, in the + low German, "der Wraek" means the same thing. Misled, however, by an + unusual mode of spelling, and unacquainted with the literature of + Shakspeare's age, certain of the commentators suggested the readings of + <i>track</i> and <i>trace</i>; whereupon Horne Tooke remarks:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The ignorance and presumption of his commentators have shamefully + disfigured Shakspeare's text. The first folio, notwithstanding some few + palpable misprints, requires none of their alterations. Had they + understood English as well as he did, they would not have quarrelled with + his language."—<i>Diversions of Purley</i>, p. 595.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>He proceeds to show that <i>rack</i> "is merely the past tense, and + therefore past participle, <a href="images/73_reac.png"><img + src="images/73_reac.png" class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="reac" + /></a> or <a href="images/73_rec.png"><img src="images/73_rec.png" + class="middle" style="height:2ex" alt="rec" /></a>, of the Anglo-Saxon + verb Recan, <i>exhalare</i>, to <i>reek</i>;" and although the advocates + of its being a particular description of light cloud refer to him as an + authority for their reading, he treats it throughout generally as "a + vapour, a steam, or an exhalation." But Horne Tooke, in his zeal as an + etymologist, forgot altogether to attend to the construction of the + passage. What is it that shall "leave not a rack behind?" A rack of what? + Not of the baseless fabric of this vision, like which the "cloud-capp'd + towers shall dissolve,"—not of this insubstantial pageant, like + which they shall have faded,—but of "the cloud-capp'd towers, the + gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself." There is + in fact a double comparison; but the construction and the meaning are + perfectly clear, and no word will suit the passage but one that shall + express a result common <!-- Page 219 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page219"></a>{219}</span>to the different objects enumerated. A + cloud may be a fit object for comparison, but it is utterly + inconsequential; while the sense required can only be expressed by a + general term, such as <i>remains</i>, a <i>vestige</i>, or a + <i>trace</i>.</p> + + <p>I beg now to transcribe a note Of Mr. Collier's on this + passage:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"'Rack' is vapour, from <i>reck</i>, as Horne Tooke showed; and the + light clouds on the face of heaven are the 'rack,' or vapour from the + earth. The word 'rack' was often used in this way."—Coll. + <i>Shaksp.</i>, vol. i. p. 70.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Mr. Knight appears to incline to the same view; and regarding these as + the two latest authorities, and finding in neither of them any reference + to the question of construction, I naturally concluded that the point had + been overlooked by the commentators. On reference, however, I found to my + surprise, that Malone, for the very same reasons, had come to the same + conclusion. Had Malone's argument been briefly stated by the "two latest + and best editors," I should, of course, have had no occasion to trouble + you with this note: and this instance, it appears to me, furnishes + additional reasons for enforcing the principle for which I am contending; + the neglect of it affecting, in however slight a degree, the sense or + correctness of so important and frequently quoted a passage. For my own + part, I should have thought that the commonest faith in Shakspeare would + have protected any editor, whose avowed object it was to restore the + text, from preferring in this instance, to the plain common sense of + Malone, the more showy authority of Horne Tooke.</p> + + <p>In my last paper I wrote,—"So far as quantity is concerned, to + eat a crocodile would be <i>no</i> more than to eat an ox." You have + omitted the negative.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Samuel Hickson</span>. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>ANCIENT INEDITED POEMS, NO. III.</h3> + + <p>In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the + strange title given to the monody on Mr. Browne. May I ask if the name of + "Chorus" was thus indiscriminately applied at the time when the poem was + composed?</p> + + <p>The next poem that I shall give is copied from <i>Harleian MSS.</i>, + 367., art. 60., fol. 158. It is entitled—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2hg3">"A VERTUOUS WOMAN.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"When painted vice fils upp the rimes</p> + <p>Of these our last depraued times:</p> + <p>And soe much lust by wanton layes</p> + <p>Disperséd is; that beautie strayes</p> + <div class="linenum">5</div><p>Into darke corners wheere vnseen,</p> + <p>Too many sadd berefts haue been.</p> + <p>Aduance my muse to blaze<a name="footnotetag1" href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> that face</p> + <p>Wheere beautie sits enthroand in grace.</p> + <p>The eye though bright, and quicke to moue,</p> + <div class="linenum">10</div><p>Daignes not a cast to wanton loue.</p> + <p>A comely ffront not husht in hayre,</p> + <p>Nor face be-patcht to make it fayre.</p> + <p>The lipps and cheekes though seemely redd,</p> + <p>Doe blush afresh if by them fedd.</p> + <div class="linenum">15</div><p>Some wanton youthes doe gaze too much</p> + <p>Though naked breasts are hidd from touch.</p> + <p>When due salutes are past, they shunn</p> + <p>A seconde kisse: yea, half vndone</p> + <p>Shee thinkes herselfe, when wantons praise</p> + <div class="linenum">20</div><p>Her hande or face with such loose phraise</p> + <p>As they haue learnt at acts and scenes,</p> + <p>Noe hand in hand with them shee meenes,</p> + <p>Shall giue them boldnes to embalme,</p> + <p>Ther filthie fist in her chast palme.</p> + <div class="linenum">25</div><p>Her pretious honners overlookes,</p> + <p>At her retires the best of bookes.</p> + <p>Whatsoeuer else shee doth forget</p> + <p>Noe busines shall her prayers<a name="footnotetag2" href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> let.</p> + <p>Those that bee good, shee prizes most,</p> + <div class="linenum">30</div><p>Noe time with them shee counteth lost.</p> + <p>Her chast delights, her mind, aduance</p> + <p>Above Lot-games or mixéd dance.</p> + <p>Shee cares not for an enterlude,</p> + <p>Or idly will one day conclude.</p> + <div class="linenum">35</div><p>The looser toungs that filth disclose</p> + <p>Are graueolencie to her nose.</p> + <p>But when a vertuous man shall court</p> + <p>Her virgin thoughts in nuptiall sort:</p> + <p>Her faire depor[t]ment, neyther coy</p> + <div class="linenum">40</div><p>Nor yet too forward, fits his ioy,</p> + <p>And giues his kisses leaue to seale</p> + <p>On her fayre hand his faythfull zeale.</p> + <p>Blest is his conquest in her loue,</p> + <p>With her alone death cann remoue.</p> + <div class="linenum">45</div><p>And if before shee did adorne</p> + <p>Her parents' howse, the cheerefull morne</p> + <p>Reioyceth now at this blest payre,</p> + <p>To see a wife soe chast soe fayre.</p> + <p>They happy liue; and know noe smart</p> + <div class="linenum">50</div><p>Of base suspects or iealous heart;</p> + <p>And if the publike bredd noe feare,</p> + <p>Nor sadd alarms did fill ther care,</p> + <p>From goodnes flowes ther ioy soe cleere</p> + <p>As grace beginnes ther heauen heere."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The poem has no subscription, nor, from the appearance of the paper, + should I say there had been one. The comparatively modern phraseology + points to a late era. The poem is bound up with a quantity of John + Stowe's papers, and I think is in his handwriting, upon comparing it with + other papers known to be his in the same book. As it is my chief object + (next to contributing to the preservation and publication of these + ancient ballads) to obtain data regarding the anonymous productions of + the earlier days of England's literature, any remarks, allow me to say, + that other contributors will favour our <!-- Page 220 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page220"></a>{220}</span>medium of + intercommunication with, will be much appreciated by</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie</span>. + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in supposing this poem to be + in Stowe's handwriting. We have the best possible authority for assuring + him that it is not.]</p> + +</div> + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a + href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p><i>Blason</i>, describe.</p> + + <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a + href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + <p>We have here an instance of the use of the word <i>prayers</i> as a + dissyllable.</p> + +</div> +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>FOLK LORE.</h3> + + <p><i>Moths called Souls.</i>—While I am upon this subject, I may + as well mention that in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, + and perhaps do still, call night-flying white moths, especially the + <i>Hepialus humuli</i>, which feeds, while in the grub state, on the + roots of docks and other coarse plants, "souls." Have we not in all this + a remnant of "Psyche?"</p> + + <p class="author">F. S. + +<div class="note"> + <p>[This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coincidence with the + tradition from the neighbourhood of Truro (recorded by <span + class="sc">Mr. Thoms</span> in his Folk lore of Shakspeare, + <i>Athenæum</i> (No. 1041.) Oct. 9. 1847) which gives the name of + <i>Piskeys</i> both to the <i>fairies</i> and to <i>moths</i>, which are + believed by many to be <i>departed souls</i>.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Holy Water for the Hooping Cough</i> (vol. iii., p. 179.).—In + one of the principal towns of Yorkshire, half a century ago, it was the + practice for persons in a respectable class of life to take their + children, when afflicted with the hooping cough, to a neighbouring + convent, where the priest allowed them to drink a small quantity of holy + water out of a silver chalice, which the little sufferers were strictly + forbidden to touch. By Protestant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, + this was regarded as a remedy. Is not the superstition analogous to that + noticed by <span class="sc">Mr. Way</span>?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Eboracomb</span>. + + <p><i>Daffy Down Dilly.</i>—At this season, when the early spring + flowers are showing themselves, we hear the village children repeating + these lines:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Daff a down dill has now come to town,</p> + <p>In a yellow petticoat and a green gown."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Does not this nursery rhyme throw light upon the character of the + royal visitor alluded to in the snail charm recorded by F. J. H. (p. + 179.)?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Eboracomb</span>. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>DR. MAITLAND'S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES +RELATING TO MESMERISM.</h3> + + <p>I know more than one person who would second the request that I am + about to make through "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" to + <span class="sc">Dr. Maitland</span>, that he would publish the remaining + parts of his <i>Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism</i>: he + would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit by + them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some + use. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or + no they may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is + impossible to ridicule any longer. <span class="sc">Dr. Maitland</span> + has suggested the true course of thought upon the subject, and promised + to lead us along it; but it is impossible at present to use anything that + he has said, on account of its incompleteness. In tracing the subject + through history, <span class="sc">Dr. Maitland</span> would no doubt + mention the "<span title="Omphalopsuchoi" class="grk" + >Ομφαλόψυχοι</span>, + or Umbilicani," of the fourteenth century, whose practices make a page + (609.) of Waddington's <i>History of the Church</i> read like a sketch of + Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in Washington Irving's + <i>Life of Mahomet</i>, a belief somewhat similar to theirs is stated to + have been preached in the seventh century (<i>Bohn's Reprint in Shilling + Series</i>, p. 191.) by a certain Moseïlma, a false prophet.</p> + + <p>I may add that Miss Martineau's new book, <i>Letters of the + Development of Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau</i>, which cannot + be called sceptical, for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate + cause of my writing to-day.</p> + + <p class="author">A. L. R. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Minor Notes.</h2> + + <p><i>Original Warrant.</i>—The following warrant from the original + in the Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as + bearing upon more than one Query that has appeared in your + columns:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Forasmuch as S<sup>r</sup> John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the + Tower, hath heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, + by her Ma<sup>ts</sup> commandment, for the removinge of Wright the + Preist out of the Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, + it is thought more convenient, that he be removed to the + Clincke—Theise therefore shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him + of his imprisonment in the Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the + hands of the L. Bishop of London, to be committed by his Lp. to the + Clincke, because it is for her M<sup>ts</sup> speciall service,—for + doinge whereof, this shalbe your warrant.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"From the court at</p> + <p class="i2hg3">"Oatlands this 29</p> + <p class="i4hg3">"of September, 1602.</p> + <p class="i6hg3">"<span class="sc">Ro. Cecyll</span>.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i1hg3">"To Mr. Anthony Deeringe,</p> + <p class="hg3">"Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p> </p> + + <p class="author">"2. October, 1602. + + <p>"I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and + have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr. + Secretary above expressed.</p> + + <p class="author">"<span class="sc">Ric. London</span>." + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">L. B. L. + + <p><i>Gloves.—Prince Rupert.</i>—In your First Vol., pp. 72. + 405., and in other places in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to + the presentation of <i>gloves</i>. If what is contained in the following + <!-- Page 221 --><span class="pagenum"><a + name="page221"></a>{221}</span>paper be not generally known, it may claim + an interest with some of your readers:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>The Kings most excellent Majesty,</p> + <p class="i1">His Highness <i>Prince Rupert</i>,</p> + <p class="i1">Lord Archbp. of Canterbury,"</p> + <p>[with twelve others, who are named.]</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>"Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of all + [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came to + the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w<sup>ch</sup> amounted to a + great Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His + Ma<sup>tie</sup> this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was + thereupon pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be + no such distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord + B[~p] before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of + 50<i>l.</i> to be employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church + of St. Paul. And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord + Archb[~p] of Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he + hath paid the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50<i>l.</i> for the use aforesaid, and + produced a Receipt for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for + Rebuilding the said Church for the time being, w<sup>ch</sup> as it is a + pious work, so will it be some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard + the Expense of Gloves did usually farr exceed that Sum.</p> + + <p class="author">"<span class="sc">Phi. Lloyd</span>." + + <p><i>Tanner's MSS.</i> vol. 282. 112. al. 74.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>One of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices + of <i>Prince Rupert</i> posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention + made of him in this paper, <i>Echard</i> speaks of his having the command + of one squadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. Sansom</span>. + + <p><i>Inscription on a Gun</i> (Vol. iii., p. 181.).—Your notes on + "the Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes" remind me of an old gun, often + handled by me in my youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick + was <i>en-nailed</i>:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Of all the sports as is,</p> + <p class="i1">I fancies most a gun;</p> + <p>And, after my decease,</p> + <p class="i1">I leaves this to my son."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors' + Commons, I know not.</p> + + <p class="author">C. W. B. + + <p><i>Richard III.</i> (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).—The statement by + <span class="sc">Mr. Harrison</span>, that Richard was not a "hunchback," + is curiously "backed" by an ingenious conjecture of that very remarkable + man, Doctor John Wallis of Oxford, in his <i>Grammatica Linguæ + Anglicanæ</i>, first published in 1653. The passage occurs in the 2d + section of chapter 14, "De Etymologia." Wallis is treating of the words + <i>crook</i>, <i>crouch</i>, <i>cross</i>, &c., and says:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Hinc item <i>croisado</i> de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod + vocant) sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui à tergo + gestabant formam Crucis; et <i>Richardus</i> olim Rex Angliæ dicebatur + <i>crouch-backed</i>, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod à tergo + gestare gestiebat formam Crucis."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">G. F. G. + + <p>Edinburgh.</p> + + <p><i>Lines by Pope.</i>—On the back of a letter in my possession, + written by the poet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of + his friend Mason:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4hg3">"<i>By Mr. Pope.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine,</p> + <p>To Painter Kent gave all this coin.</p> + <p class="hg1">'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say,</p> + <p>That ever Churchman gave to Lay."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>"Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. Wood to Kent: he had + objected against the word <i>pio</i> in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>If these lines are not already in print, perhaps you will insert them + amongst your "<span class="sc">Notes</span>" as a contribution from</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Robert Hotchkin</span>. + + <p>Thimbleby Rectory, March 13. 1851.</p> + + <p><i>Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in connexion with + Scotland.</i>—John Lesley, bishop of Ross, reports, that in the + night before the battle between Athelstan, king of England, and Hungus, + king of the Picts, a bright cross, like that whereon St. Andrew suffered, + appeared to Hungus, who, having obtained the victory, ever after bore + that figure. This happened in 819. Vide <i>Gent. Mag.</i> for Nov. + 1732.</p> + + <p class="author">E. S. T. + + <p><i>Snail-eating</i> (Vol. iii., p. 207.).—Your correspondent C. + W. B. does not seem to be aware that "a ragout of boror (snails)" is a + regular dish with English <i>gypsies</i>. Vide Borrow's <i>Zincali</i>, + part i. c. v.</p> + + <p>He has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks on the subject:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the land of Gorgios + (England), or the Busné (Spain), that the very gypsies, who consider a + ragout of snails a delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it bears + a resemblance to a snake; and that those who will feast on a roasted + hedgehog could be induced by no money to taste a squirrel!"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Having tasted of roasted hotchiwitchu (hedgehog) myself among the + "gentle Rommanys," I can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and though + a ragout of snails was never offered for my acceptance, I do not think + that those who consider (as most "Gorgios" do) stewed eels a delicacy + ought to be too sever on "Limacotrophists!"</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Hermes</span>. + + <p><i>Snail-eating.</i>—Perhaps you will permit me to remark, in + reference to the communication of C. W. B., that snails are taken + medicinally occasionally, and are supposed to be extremely strengthening. + I have known them eagerly sought after for the meal of a consumptive + patient. As a matter of taste, too, they are by <!-- Page 222 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page222"></a>{222}</span>some considered quite + epicurean. A gentleman whom I used to know, was in the constant habit as + he passed through the fields, of picking up the white slugs that lay in + his way, and swallowing them with more relish than he would have done had + they been oysters.</p> + + <p>That snails make a no inconsiderable item in the bill of fare of + gypsies, and other wanderers, I proved while at Oxford, some time ago; + for passing up Shotover Hill, in the parish of Headington, I unexpectedly + came upon a camp of gypsies who were seated round a wood fire enjoying + their Sunday's dinner: this consisted of a considerable number of large + snails roasted on the embers, and potatoes similarly cooked. On inquiry, + I was told by those who were enjoying their repast, that they were + extremely good, and were much liked by people of their class, who made a + constant practice of eating them. I need hardly say that I received a + most hospitable invitation to join in the feast, which I certainly + declined.</p> + + <p class="author">L. J. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Queries.</h2> + +<h3>HENRY SMITH.</h3> + + <p>In Marsden's <i>History of the Early Puritans</i> (a work recently + published, which will well repay perusal) there occurs (pp. 178, 179.) + the following notice of Henry Smith:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Henry Smith was a person of good family, and well connected; but + having some scruples, he declined preferment, and aspired to nothing + higher than the weekly Lectureship of St. Clement Danes. On a complaint + made by Bishop Aylmer, Whitgift suspended him, and silenced for a while + probably the most eloquent preacher in Europe. His contemporaries named + him the Chrysostom of England. His church was crowded to excess; and + amongst his hearers, persons of the highest rank, and those of the most + cultivated and fastidious judgment, were content to stand in the throng + of citizens. His sermons and treatises were soon to be found in the hands + of every person of taste and piety: they passed through numberless + editions. Some of them were carried abroad, and translated into Latin. + They were still admired and read at the close of nearly a century, when + Fuller collected and republished them. Probably the prose writing of + this, the richest period of genuine English literature, contains nothing + finer than some of his sermons. They are free, to an astonishing degree, + from the besetting vices of his age—vulgarity, and quaintness, and + affected learning; and he was one of the first English preachers who, + without submitting to the trammels of a pedantic logic, conveyed in + language nervous, pure, and beautiful, the most convincing arguments in + the most lucid order, and made them the ground-work of fervent and + impassioned addresses to the conscience."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Would it not be desirable, as well in a literary as a theological + point of view, that any extant sermons of so renowned a divine should be + made accessible to general readers? At present they are too rare and + expensive to be largely useful. A brief <i>Narrative of the Life and + Death of Mr. Henry Smith</i> (as it is for substance related by Mr. + Thomas Fuller in his <i>Church History</i>), which is prefixed to an old + edition (1643) of his sermons in my possession, concludes in these + words:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The wonder of this excellent man's worth is increased by the + consideration of his tender age, he dying very young (of a consumption as + it is conceived) above fifty years since, about Anno 1600."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos. M<sup>c</sup>Calmont.</span> + + <p>Highfield, Southampton.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Owen Glendower.</i>—Some of your Cambrian correspondents + might, through your columns, supply a curious and interesting desideratum + in historical genealogy, by contributing a pedigree, authenticated as far + as practicable by dates and authorities, and including collaterals, of + <span class="sc">Owen Glendower</span>, from his ancestor Griffith + Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, son of Madoc, last Prince of Powys, to the + extinction of Owen's male line.</p> + + <p>All Cambrian authorities are, I believe, agreed in attributing to Owen + the lineal male representation of the sovereigns of Powys; but I am not + aware that there is any printed pedigree establishing in detail, on + authentic date, his descent, and that of the collaterals of his line; + while uncertainty would seem to exist as to one of the links in the chain + of deduction, as to the fate of his sons and their descendants, if any, + as well as to the marriages and representatives of more than one of his + daughters.</p> + + <p>I have in vain looked for the particulars I have indicated in Yorke's + <i>Royal Tribes of Wales</i>; in the <i>Welsh Heraldic Visitation + Pedigrees</i>, lately published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the + learned editorship of the late Sir Samuel Meyrick; and in the valuable + contributions to the genealogy of the Principality to be found in the + <i>Landed Gentry</i> and the <i>Peerage and Baronetage</i> of Mr. + Burke,—a pedigree, in other respects admirable, in the <i>Landed + Gentry</i> of a branch of the dynasty of Powys, omitting the intermediate + descents in question.</p> + + <p class="author">S. M. + + <p><i>Meaning of Gig-Hill.</i>—Can any of your readers favour me + with an explanation of the following matter in local topography? There + are two places in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames distinguished + by the name of <i>Gig-Hill</i><a name="footnotetag3" + href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a>, although there is no indication of + anything in the land to warrant the name.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 223 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page223"></a>{223}</span></p> + + <p>Are there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment + by the stocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name?</p> + + <p>There was a king of Brittany who resigned his crown, and obtained the + honours of canonisation as Saint Giguel, in the seventh century. St. + Giles, who died about the sixth century, might, perhaps, have had some + connexion with those who are traditionally believed to have been punished + on the spot; that is, if we judge by his clients, who locate themselves + under the sanctity of his name as a "Guild" or fraternity in London.</p> + + <p>There is, however, a curious use by Shakspeare of the word gig. It + occurs in <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, Act V. Sc. I.:</p> + + <p>Holofernes says,</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"What is the figure?"</p> + + <p><i>Moth.</i> Horns.</p> + + <p><i>Holofernes.</i> Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy + gig."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I submit this matter, as local names have often their origin in + religious associations or in proverbial philosophy.</p> + + <p>It has been suggested that <i>giggle</i>, as a mark of the derision to + which the culprit was exposed, might so become corrupted.</p> + + <p>If the term be connected with the punishment, it would be, doubtless, + one of general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully + received.</p> + + <p class="author">K. + +<div class="note"> + <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a + href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + <p>[One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston to + Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.—<span + class="sc">Ed.</span>]</p> + +</div> + <p><i>Sir John Vaughan.</i>—In the patent under which the barony of + Hamilton of Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of + October, in the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus + Hamilton, he is described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by + Sidney, daughter and heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said + Dame Sidney Hamilton was descended from an honourable line of ancestors, + one of whom, Sir Will Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of + the same name Comptroller of the Household to Henry VIII., &c., + &c.</p> + + <p>Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir + John Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys + of Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any + such marriage?</p> + + <p>The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of + Hamilton and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,—Argent, a + chevron sable between three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each + entwined round the neck with a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his + descent from the Vaughans of Porthaml Trêtower, &c., in the county of + Brecon.</p> + + <p class="author">J. P. O. + + <p><i>Quebecca and his Epitaph.</i>—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King. + When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will say + to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John Quebecca, + precentor to my Lord the King.'"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and + where the epitaph may be found?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. Hailsture.</span> + + <p><i>A Monumental Inscription.</i>—Near the chancel door of the + parish-church of Wath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab + inscribed to the memory of William Burroughs. After stating that he was + of Masbro', gentleman, and that he died in the year 1722, the monument + contains the two following hexameters:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus,</p> + <p>Deposuit cineres, animam revocabit Olympus."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus + Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel + translated. It has been conjectured that <i>Itermus</i> must be derived + from <i>iter</i>, and hence that Burroughs may have been a + <i>traveller</i>, or possibly <i>an orthodox itinerant preacher</i>: + surely there can be no punning reference to <i>a journeyman</i>! The + lines have been submitted, in vain, to some high literati in Oxford.</p> + + <p class="author">A. G. + + <p>Ecclesfield.</p> + + <p><i>Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I.</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 157.).—My friend, who is in possession of the original MS. of this + work, is desirous of ascertaining whether the volume published in 1702 be + a complete and exact copy of it. I will transcribe the commencing and + concluding passages of the MS., and shall be obliged if <span + class="sc">Mr. Bolton Corney</span> will compare them with the book in + his possession, and tell me the result.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"S<sup>r</sup>,</p> + + <p>"By your's of the 22d of August last, I find you have receaved my + former letters of the first and thirteenth of May, 1678; and seeing 'tis + your further desire," &c.</p> + + <p>"This briefe narrative shall conclude with the king's owne excellent + expression: <i>Crowns and kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour and + reputation—those must have a period with my life; but these survive + to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone: a good name + being the embalming of princes, and a sweet consecrating of them to an + eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity.</i>"</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The present owner of the MS. has an idea that an incorrect copy was + fraudulently obtained and published about 1813. Is there any foundation + for this supposition?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Gatty.</span> + + <p>Ecclesfield.</p> + + <p><i>Comets.</i>—Where may a correct list of the several comets + and eclipses, visible in France or England, which appeared, or took + place, between the years 1066 and 1600, be obtained?</p> + + <p class="author">S. P. O. R. + +<p><!-- Page 224 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page224"></a>{224}</span></p> + + <p><i>Natural Daughter of James II.</i>—James II., in <i>Souverains + du Monde</i> (4 vols. 1722), is stated to have had a natural daughter, + who in 1706 was married to the Duke of Buckingham.</p> + + <p>Can any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of + her mother? Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her + husband, and of any children?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">F. B. Relton.</span> + + <p><i>Going the Whole Hog.</i>—What is the origin of the expression + "going the whole hog?" Did it take its rise from Cowper's fable, <i>the + Love of the World reproved</i>, in which it is shown how "Mahometans eat + up the hog?"</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">Σ</span>. + + <p><i>Innocent Convicts.</i>—Can any of your readers furnish a + tolerably complete list of persons convicted and executed in England, for + crimes of which it afterwards appeared they were innocent?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">Σ</span>. + + <p><i>The San Grail.</i>—Can any one learned in ecclesiastical + story say what are the authorities for the story that King Arthur sent + his knights through many lands in quest of the <i>sacred vessel</i> used + by our Blessed Lord at His "Last Supper," and explain why this chalice + was called the "Holy Grail" or "Grayle?" Tennyson has a short poem on the + knightly search after it, called "Sir Galahad." And in Spenser's + <i>Faerie Queene</i>, book ii. cant. x. 53., allusion is made to the + legend that "Joseph of Arimathy brought it to Britain."</p> + + <p class="author">W. M. K. + + <p><i>Meaning of "Slums."</i>—In Dr. Wiseman's <i>Appeal to the + Reason and Good Feeling of the English People</i>, we find the word + "slums" made use of with respect to the purlieus of Westminster Abbey. + Warren, in a note of his letter on "The Queen or the Pope?" asks "What + are 'slums?' And where is the word to be found explained? Is it Roman or + Spanish? There is none such in our language, at least used by + gentlemen."</p> + + <p>I would ask, may not the word be derived from <i>asylum</i>, seeing + that the precincts of abbeys, &c. used to be an asylum or place of + refuge in ancient times for robbers and murderers?</p> + + <p class="author">W. M. W. + + <p>Stokesley.</p> + + <p><i>Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed."</i>—Can any + one inform the applicant in what modern author this excellent (and he + believes rare) book in his possession, translated from the Italian of + Daniel Bartolus, G. J., by (Sir) Thomas Salusbury, 1660, is spoken of in + terms of high approval? The passage passed before him not long ago, but + having <i>made no note</i>, he is unable to recover it.—Query, Is + it in Mr. Hallam's <i>Literary History</i>, which he has not at hand?</p> + + <p class="author">U. Q. + + <p><i>Odour from the Rainbow.</i>—What English poet is it that + embodies the idea contained in the following passage of Bacon's + <i>Sylva</i>? I had noted it on a loose scrap of paper which I left in my + copy of the <i>Sylva</i>, but have lost it:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"It hath been observed by the Ancients, that when a Raine Bow seemeth + to hang over or to touch, there breaketh forth a sweet smell. The cause + is, for that this happenth but in certain matters which have in + themselves some sweetnesse, which the Gentle Dew of the Raine Bow doth + draw forth. And the like doe soft showers; for they also make the ground + sweet. But none are so delicate as the Dew of the Raine Bow, where it + falleth. It may be also that the water itself hath some sweetnesse: for + the Raine Bow consisteth of a glomeration of small drops which cannot + possibly fall but from the Aire that is very low. And therefore may hold + giving sweetnesse of the herbs and flowers, as a distilled water," + &c.—Bacon's <i>Sylva</i>, by Rawley, 6th ed. 1651, p. 176.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Jarltzberg</span>. + + <p><i>Tradesmen's Signs.</i>—A <span class="sc">Citizen</span> + wishes to be informed in what year or reign the signs that used to hang + over the tradesmen's shop-doors were abolished, and whether it was + accomplished by "act of parliament," or only "by the authority of the + Lord Mayor." Also, whether there is any law now in existence that + prevents the tradesmen putting the signs up again, if they were so + disposed.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Minor Queries Answered.</h2> + + <p><i>Supporters borne by Commoners.</i>—Can any of your readers + state why some commoners bear supporters, and whether the representatives + of Bannerets are entitled to do so? I find in Burke's <i>Dictionary of + Landed Gentry</i>, that several gentlemen in England, Scotland, and + Ireland continue to use them. See Fulford, p. 452.; Wyse, p. 1661.; + Hay-Newton, p. 552., &c. &c.</p> + + <p>The late Mr. Portman, father of Lord Portman, used supporters, as do + Sir W. Carew, Bart., and some other baronets.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Guinegate.</span> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[Baronets are not entitled, <i>as such</i>, to bear supporters, which + are the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders.</p> + + <p>There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the + sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of services + rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these instances they + are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt there are some + private families who assume and improperly bear supporters, but whose + right to do so, even under their own statements as to origin and descent, + has no legal foundation. "<span class="sc">Notes And Queries</span>" + afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or + for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Answer to Fisher's Relation.</i>—I have a work published at + London by Adam Islip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third <!-- Page 225 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page225"></a>{225}</span>Conference betweene a + certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference was very + private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in many + respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B., Chapleine to + the B. that was employed in the conference."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Pray, who <i>was</i> the chaplain? I have heard he was the + after-famous Archbishop Laud.</p> + + <p>I pray your assistance in the resolution of this Query.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M. + + <p>Liverpool.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[This famous conference was the <i>third</i> held by divines of the + Church of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really + was: see Dodd's <i>Church History</i>, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two + were conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held + in May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (<i>i.e.</i> Dr. + Richard Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his + chaplain, and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should + J. M. possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. + Laud says himself, that "his <i>Discourse</i> was not printed till April, + 1624."]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Drink up Eisell</i> (Vol. iii., p. 119.).—Here is a passage + in <i>Troilus and Cressida</i>, in which <i>drink up</i> occurs (Act IV. + Sc. 1.):</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"He, like a puling cuckold, would <i>drink up</i></p> + <p>The lees and <i>dregs</i> of a flat-tamed piece."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The meaning is plainly here <i>avaler</i>, not <i>boire</i>.</p> + + <p>Here is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in + <i>Hamlet</i>, but resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.):</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, + thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than for + us to undergo any difficulty imposed."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">C. B. + +<div class="note"> + <p>[We are warned by several correspondents that this subject is becoming + as bitter as wormwood to them. Before we dismiss it, however, we must + record in our pages the opinion of one of the most distinguished + commentators of the day, Mr. Hunter, who in his <i>New Illustrations</i>, + vol. ii. p. 263., after quoting "potions of eysell" from the sonnet, + says, "This shows it was not any river so called, but some desperate + drink. The word occurs often in a sense in which <i>acetum</i> is the + best representative, associated with verjuice and vinegar. It is the term + used for one ingredient of the bitter potion given to our Saviour on the + cross, about the composition of which the commentators are greatly + divided. Thus the eighth prayer of the Fifteen Oos in the <i>Salisbury + Primer</i>, 1555, begins thus: 'O Blessed Jesu, sweetness of heart and + ghostly pleasure of souls, I beseech thee for the bitterness of the + <i>aysell</i> and gall that thou tasted and suffered for me in thy + passion,' &c."</p> + + <p>Since the above was written, we have received a communication from + <i>An English Mother</i> with the words and <i>music</i> of the nursery + song, showing that the music does not admit the expressions "eat + <i>up</i>," and "drink <i>up</i>;" quoting from Haldorson's <i>Icelandic + Lexicon</i>, Eysill, m. Haustrum en Ose allsa; and asking what if + Shakspeare meant either a pump or a bucket? We have also received a Note + from G. F. G. showing that <i>eisel</i> in Dutch, German, and + Anglo-Saxon, &c., meant <i>vinegar</i>, and stating, that during his + residence in Florence in 1817, 1818, and 1819, he had often met with + wormwood wine at the table of the Italians, a weak white wine of Tuscany, + in which wormwood had been infused, which was handed round by the + servants immediately after the soup, and was believed to promote + digestion.]</p> + +</div> + + <p><i>Saxon Coin struck at Derby.</i>—In the reign of Athelstan + there was a royal mint at Derby, and a coinage was struck, having on the + obverse merely the name of the town, Deoraby, and on the other side the + legend "<span class="scac">HEGENREDES MO . ON . DEORABY</span>." What is + the meaning of this inscription?</p> + + <p class="author">R. C. P. + + <p>Derby, Feb. 26. 1851.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[If <span class="scac">HEGENREDES</span> is rightly written, it is the + name of a moneyer. <span class="scac">MO . ON . DEORABY</span> signifies + <i>Monetarius</i> (or Moneyer) <i>in Derby</i>. Coins are known with + <span class="scac">MEGENFRED</span> and <span + class="scac">MEGNEREDTES</span>, and our correspondent may have read his + coin wrongly.]</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Replies.</h2> + +<h3>SCANDAL AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197.)</p> + + <p>The Marquis of Ormonde having been informed that certain statements, + little complimentary to the reputation of Queen Elizabeth, and equally + discreditable to the name of his ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, have + appeared in "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>," wherein it is + stated "that the Ormonde family possess documents which afford proof of + this," begs to assure the editor of the journal in question, that the + Ormonde collection of papers, &c. contains nothing that bears the + slightest reference to the very calumnious attack on the character of + good Queen Bess.</p> + + <p>Hampton Court, March 17. 1851.</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[If the Marquis of Ormonde will do us the favour to refer to our + Number for the 8th March (No. 71.), he will find he has not been + correctly informed with respect to the article to which his note relates. + The family in which the papers are stated to exist, is clearly not that + of the noble Marquis, but the family with which our correspondent "<span + class="sc">J. Bs.</span>" states himself to be "connected;" and we hope + <span class="sc">J. Bs.</span> will, in justice both to himself and to + Queen Elizabeth, adopt the course suggested in the following + communication. We believe the warmest admirers of that great Queen cannot + better vindicate her character than by making a strict inquiry into the + grounds for the scandals, which, as has been already shown (<i>antè</i>, + No. 62. p. 11.), were so industriously circulated against her.]</p> + +</div> + +<p><!-- Page 226 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page226"></a>{226}</span></p> + + <p><span class="sc">J. Bs.</span> says papers are "said to exist in the + family which prove the statement." As it is one of <i>scandal</i> against + a female, and that female a great sovereign, should he not ascertain the + fact of the existence of any such paper, before supporting the scandal, + and not leave a <i>tradition</i> to be supported by another tradition, + when a little trouble might show whether any papers exist, and when found + what their value may be.</p> + + <p class="author">Q. G. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>THE MISTLETOE ON THE OAK.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ii., pp. 163. 214.; Vol. iii., p. 192.)</p> + + <p>From having been a diligent searcher for the mistletoe on the oak, I + may be allowed to make a few remarks upon the question. Is it ever found + now on other trees? Now, it not only occurs abundantly on other trees, + but it is exceedingly rare on the oak. This may be gathered from the + following list, in which numbers have been used to express comparative + frequency, as near as my observations enable me to form a + judgment:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>On Native Trees.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="linenum">25</div><p>Apple (various sorts)</p> + <div class="linenum">20</div><p>Poplar (mostly the black)</p> + <div class="linenum">10</div><p>Whitethorn</p> + <div class="linenum">4</div><p>Lime</p> + <div class="linenum">3</div><p>Maple</p> + <div class="linenum">2</div><p>Willow</p> + <div class="linenum">1</div><p><span class="sc">Oak</span></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p><i>On Foreign Trees.</i></p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="linenum">1</div><p>Sycamore</p> + <div class="linenum">1</div><p>Robinia</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>From this it would appear that notwithstanding the <span + class="sc">British Oak</span> grows everywhere, it is at present only + favoured by the companionship of the mistletoe in equal ratio with two + comparatively recently introduced trees. Indeed such objection does this + parasite manifest to the brave old tree, even in his teens, that, + notwithstanding a newly-planted line of mixed trees will become speedily + attacked by it, the oak is certain to be left in his pride alone.</p> + + <p>I have, however, seen the mistletoe on the oak in two instances during + my much wandering about amid country scenes, especially of Gloucester and + Worcester, two great mistletoe counties. One was pointed out to me by my + friend, Mr. Lees, from whom we may expect much valuable information on + this subject, in his forthcoming edition of the <i>Botanical + Looker-out</i>—it was on a young tree, perhaps of fifty years, in + Eastnor Park, on the Malvern chain. The other example is at + Frampton-on-Severn, to which the President of the Cotteswold Naturalists' + Club, T. B. L. Baker, Esq., and myself, were taken by Mr. Clifford, of + Frampton. The tree is full a century old, and the branch, on which was a + goodly bunch of the parasite, numbered somewhere about forty years. That + the plant is propagated by seeds there can, I think, be but little doubt, + as the seeds are so admirably adapted for the peculiar circumstances + under which alone they can propagate; and the want of attention to the + facts connected therewith, is probably the cause why the propagation of + the mistletoe by artificial means is usually a failure.</p> + + <p>I should be inclined to think that the mistletoe never was abundant on + the oak; so that it may be that additional sanctity was conferred on the + <i>Viscum guerneum</i> on account of its great rarity.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Buckman.</span> + + <p>Cirencester.</p> + + <p><i>Mistletoe upon Oak</i> (Vol. ii., p. 214.).—Besides the + mistletoe-bearing oak mentioned by your correspondent, there is one in + Lord Somers' park, near Malvern. It is a very fine plant, though it has + been injured by sight-seeing marauders.</p> + + <p class="author">H. A. B. + + <p>Trinity College, Cambridge.</p> + + <p><i>Mistletoe</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 163., 214.).—Do I understand + your correspondent to ask whether mistletoe is found now except on oaks? + The answer is, as at St. Paul's, "Circumspice." Just go into the country + a little. The difficulty is generally supposed to be to find it <i>on</i> + the oak.</p> + + <p class="author">C. B. + +<hr class="short" > + +<h3>UNIVERSALITY OF THE MAXIM, "LAVORA COME +SE TU," ETC.</h3> + +<p class="cenhead">(Vol. iii., p. 188.)</p> + + <p>I have not been able to trace this sentence to its source, but it + would most probably be found in that admirable book, <i>Monosinii Floris + Italicæ Linguæ</i>, 4to, Venet., 1604; or in Torriano's <i>Dictionary of + Italian Proverbs and Phrases</i>, folio, Lond., 1666, a book of which + Duplessis doubts the existence! Most of Jeremy Taylor's citations from + the Italian are proverbial phrases. Your correspondent has probably + copied the phrase as it stands in Bohn's edition of the <i>Holy Living + and Dying</i>, but there is a trifling variation as it stands in the + first edition of <i>Holy Living</i>, 1650:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Lavora come se tu <i>havesti</i> a campar ogni hora:</p> + <p>Adora come se tu <i>havesti</i> a morir <i>alhora</i>."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>The universality of this maxim, in ages and countries remote from each + other, is remarkable. Thus we find it in the <span + class="sc">Hitopadésa</span>:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"A wise man should think upon knowledge and wealth as if he were + undecaying and immortal. He should practise duty as if he were seized by + the hair of his head by Death."—Johnson's <i>Translation</i>, Intr. + S.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>So Democratis of Abdera, more sententiously:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"<span title="Houtos peirô zên, hôs kai oligon kai polun chronon biôsomenos" class="grk" + >Οὕτος πειρῶ + ζῆν, ὡς καὶ + ὀλίγον καὶ + πολὺν χρόνον + βιωσόμενος</span>."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Then descending to the fifteenth century, we <!-- Page 227 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page227"></a>{227}</span>have it thus in the + racy old Saxon <i>Laine Doctrinal</i>:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Men schal leven, unde darumme sorgen,</p> + <p>Alse men Stärven sholde morgen,</p> + <p>Unde leren êrnst liken,</p> + <p>Alse men leven sholde ewigliken."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Where the author of the <i>Voyage autour de ma Chambre</i>, Jean + Xavier Maitre, stumbled upon it, or whether it was a spontaneous thought, + does not appear; but in his pleasing little book, <i>Lettres sur la + Vieillesse</i>, we have it thus verbatim:</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Il faut vivre comme si l'on avoit à mourir demain, mais s'arranger en + même temps sa vie, autant que cet arrangement peut dépendre de notre + prévoyance, comme si l'on avoit devant soi quelques siècles, et même une + éternité d'existence."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>Some of your correspondents may possibly be able to indicate other + repetitions of this truly "golden sentence," which cannot be too often + repeated, for we all know that</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"A verse may reach him who a sermon flies."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. W. Singer</span>. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2> + + <p><i>Tennyson's In Memoriam</i> (Vol. iii., p. 142.).—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Before the crimson-circled star</p> + <p>Had fallen into her father's grave."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>means "before the planet Venus had sunk into the sea."</p> + + <p>In Smith's <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and + Mythology</i>, under the word Aphrodite or Venus, we find that—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam (<span + title="aphros" class="grk">ἀφρός</span>) of + the sea which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uranus, that had + been thrown into the sea by Kronos, after he had unmanned his + father."—Hesiod. <i>Theog.</i> 190.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The allusion in the first stanza of <i>In Memoriam</i> is, I think, to + Shelley. The doctrine referred to is common to him and many other poets; + but he perhaps inculcates it more frequently than any other. (See + <i>Queen Mab</i> sub finem. <i>Revolt of Islam</i>, canto xii. st. 17. + <i>Adonais</i>, stanzas 39. 41. et passim.) Besides this, the phrase + "clear harp" seems peculiarly applicable to Shelley, who is remarkable + for the simplicity of his language.</p> + + <p class="author">X. Z. + + <p><i>Tennyson's In Memoriam.</i>—The word <i>star</i> applies in + poetry to all the heavenly bodies; and therefore, to the <i>crescent + moon</i>, which is often near enough to the sun to be within or to be + <i>encircled</i> by, the crimson colour of the sky about sunset; and the + sun may, figuratively, be called <i>father</i> of the moon, because he + dispenses to her all the light with which she shines; and, moreover, + because <i>new</i>, or waxing moons, must <i>set</i> nearly in the same + point of the horizon as the sun; and because that point of the horizon in + which a heavenly body sets, may, figuratively, be called its + <i>grave</i>; therefore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of + the poem numbered lxxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's <i>In Memoriam</i>, + quoted by W. B. H., to mean simply—</p> + + <p><i>We returned home between the hour of sunset and the setting of the + moon, then not so much as a week old.</i></p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Robert Snow.</span> + + <p><i>Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 169.).—The Rev. <span class="sc">Charles Nevinson</span> may be + informed that there are two copies of the edition of the above work for + which he inquires, in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Tyro</span>. + + <p>Dublin.</p> + + <p><i>Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland</i> (Vol. + iii., p. 118.).—In reply to the inquiry of <span class="sc">Edward + F. Rimbault</span>, that gentleman may learn the extent to which the + <i>Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas Machell, who was chaplain + to King Charles II.</i>, have been examined, and published, by referring, + to Burn and Nicholson's <i>History of Westmoreland and Cumberland</i>, + edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an account of the + antiquary's own family, the "Mali Catuli," or Machell's Lords of + Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of Carlisle + contain only copies and references to the original papers, which are + carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There + are above one thousand deeds, charters, and other documents which I have + carefully translated and collated with a view to their being printed + privately for the use of the family, and I shall feel pleasure in + replying to any inquiry on the subject. Address:</p> + + <p>G.P. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire.</p> + + <p>Two impressions of the seal of the Abbey of Shapp (anciently Hepp), + said not to be attainable by the editors of the late splendid edition of + the <i>Monasticon</i>, are preserved in the Machell MSS.</p> + + <p><i>Oration against Demosthenes</i> (Vol. iii., p. 141.).—For the + information of your correspondent <span class="sc">Kenneth R. H. + Mackenzie</span>, I transcribe the title of the oration against + Demosthenes, for which he makes inquiry, which was not "privately + printed" as he supposes, but <i>published</i> last year by Mr. J. W. + Parker.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respecting the Treasure + of Harpalus. The Fragments of the Greek Text, now first edited from the + Fac-simile of the MS. discovered at Egyptian Thebes in 1847; together + with other Fragments of the same Oration cited in Ancient Writers. With a + Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, and a Fac-simile of a Portion of the + MS. By Churchill Babington, M.A. London: J. W. Parker, 1850."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>The discovery of the MS. was made by Mr. <!-- Page 228 --><span + class="pagenum"><a name="page228"></a>{228}</span>A. C. Harris of + Alexandria, who placed a fac-simile in the hand of Mr. Churchill + Babington, who edited it as above described.</p> + + <p>My information is derived from an article on the work in the + <i>Christian Remembrancer</i> for October, 1850, to which I refer <span + class="sc">Mr. Mackenzie</span> for further particulars.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Tyro.</span> + + <p>Dublin</p> + +<div class="note"> + <p>[<span class="sc">Mr. Edward Sheare Jackson, B.A.</span>, to whom we + are indebted for a similar reply, adds, "Mr. Harris contributed a paper + on the MS. to the Royal Society of Literature"]</p> + +</div> + + <p>Mr. Sharpe has also published "Fragments of Orations in Accusation and + Defence of Demosthenes, respecting the money of Harpalus, arranged and + translated," in the <i>Journal of the Philological Society</i>, vol. iv.; + and the German scholars Boeckh (in the <i>Hallische + Litteratur-Zeitung</i> for 1848) and Sauppe have also written critical + notices on the fragments; but whether their notices include the old and + new fragments, I am unable to say, having only met with a scanty + reference to their learned labours.</p> + + <p class="author">J. M. + + <p>Oxford.</p> + + <p><i>Borrow's Danish Ballads</i> (Vol. iii., p. 168).—The + following is the title of Mr. Borrow's book, referred to by <span + class="sc">Bruno</span>:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Targum; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects. + By George Borrow. 'The Raven ascended to the Nest of the + Nightingale.'—Persian Poem. St. Petersburgh. Printed by Schulz and + Beneze. 1835."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author">R. W. F. + + <p><i>Borrow's Danish Ballads.</i>—The title of the work + is—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, and Miscellaneous + Pieces; by George Borrow. 8vo. Printed by S. Wilkin, Norwich; and + published at London by John Taylor, 1826."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>In the preface it is stated that the ballads are translated from + Oehlenslöger, and from the <i>Kiæmpé Viser</i>, the old Norse book + referred to in <i>Lavengro</i>.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="grk">μ</span>. + + <p><i>Head of the Saviour</i> (Vol. iii., p. 168.).—The + correspondent who inquires about the "true likeness" of the Saviour + exposed in some of the London print-shops, is not perhaps aware that + there is preserved in the church of St. Peter's at Rome a much more + precious and genuine portrait than the one to which he alludes—a + likeness described by its possessors as "far more sublime and venerable + than any other, since it was neither painted by the hands of men nor + angels, but by the divinity himself who makes both men and angels." It is + not delineated upon wood or canvass, ivory, glass, or stucco, but upon "a + pocket handkerchief lent him by a holy woman named Veronica, to wipe his + face upon at the crucifixion" (Aringhi, <i>Roma Subterran.</i>, vol. ii. + p. 543.). When the handkerchief was returned it had this genuine portrait + imprinted on its surface. It is now one of the holiest of relics + preserved in the Vatican basilica, where there is likewise a magnificent + altar constructed by Urban VIII., with an inscription commemorating the + fact, a mosaic above, illustrative of the event, and a statue of the holy + female who received the gift, and who is very properly inscribed in the + Roman catalogue of saints under the title of <span class="sc">St. + Veronica</span>. All this is supported by "pious tradition," and attested + by authorities of equal value to those which establish the identity of + St. Peter's chair. The only difficulty in the matter lies in this, that + the woman Veronica never had any corporeal existence, being no other than + the name by which the picture itself was once designated, viz., the <span + class="sc">Vera Icon</span>, or "True Image" (Mabillon, <i>Iter. + Ital.</i>, p. 88.). This narrative will probably relieve your + correspondent from the trouble of further inquiries by enabling him to + judge for himself whether "there is any truth" about the other true + image.</p> + + <p class="author">A. R., Jun. + + <p>In your 70th Number I perceived that some correspondent asked, "What + is the truth respecting a legend attached to the head of our Saviour for + some time past in the print-shops?" I ask the same question. True or + false, I found in a work entitled <i>The Antiquarian Repertory</i>, by + Grose, Astle, and others, vol. iii., an effigy of our Saviour, much + inferior in all respects to the above, with the following + attached:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"This present figure is the similitude of our Lord <span + class="over">IHV</span>, oure Saviour imprinted in amirvld by the + predecessors of the greate turke, and sent to the Pope Innosent the 8. at + the cost of the greate turke for a token for this cawse, to redeme his + brother that was taken presonor."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>This was painted on board. The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, of Baynard's Park, + Guildford, has another painted on board with a like inscription, to the + best of my recollection: his has a date on it, I think.</p> + + <p>Pope Innocent VIII. was created Pope in 1484, and died in 1492.</p> + + <p>The variation in the three effigies is an argument against the truth + of the story, or the two on board must have been ill-executed. That in + the shops is very beautiful.</p> + + <p>The same gentleman possesses a Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and by + the assignees of John Bill, 1633; and on a slip of paper is, "Holy Bible + curiously bound in tapestry by the nuns of Little Gidding, 12mo., + Barker."</p> + + <p>In a former Number a person replies that a Bible, bound by the nuns of + Gidding for Charles I., now belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury. Query + the <i>size of that</i>?</p> + + <p class="author">E. H. + + <p>Norwich, March 9.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 229 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page229"></a>{229}</span></p> + + <p><i>Lady Bingham</i> (Vol. iii., p. 61.).—If C. W. B. will refer + to the supplementary volume of Burke's <i>Landed Gentry</i>, p. 159, he + will see that Sarah, daughter of John Heigham, of Giffords Hall, co. + Suffolk (son of William Heigham, of Giffords, second son of Clement + Heigham, of Giffords, second son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, co. + Suffolk) married, first, Sir Richard Bingham, Knt., of Melcombe Bingham, + co. Dorset, governor of Connaught in 1585, &c.; and secondly, Edward + Waldegrave, of Lawford, co. Essex. This, I presume, is the lady whose + maiden name he enquires for.</p> + + <p class="author">C. R. M. + + <p><i>Shakepeare's Use of Captious</i> (Vol. ii., p. 354.).—In + <i>All's Well that Ends Well</i>, Act I. Sc. 3.:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"I know I love in vain; strive against hope;</p> + <p>Yet in this <i>captious</i> and intenible sieve,</p> + <p>I still pour in the waters of my love,</p> + <p>And lack not to lose still:"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>has not <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span>, and all the other + commentators upon this passage, overlooked a most apparent and + satisfactory solution? Is it not evident that the printer simply omitted + the vowel "a," and that the word, as written by Shakespeare, was + "cap<i>a</i>tious," the "t," according to the orthography of the time, + being put for the "c" used by modern writers?</p> + + <p>With great deference to former critics, I think this emendation is the + most probable, as it accords with the sentiment of Helena, who means to + depict her <i>vast</i> but unretentive sieve, into which she poured the + waters of her love.</p> + + <p class="author">W. F. S. + + <p>P.S.—I hope <span class="sc">Mr. Singer</span> and J. S. W. will + tell us what they think of this proposed alteration.</p> + + <p>Bognor, Feb, 22. 1851.</p> + + <p><i>Tanthony</i> (Vol. iii., p. 105.).—I would suggest that the + "tanthony" at Kimbolton is a corruption or mis-pronunciation of + "tintany," <i>tintinnabulum</i>. I have failed to discover any legend of + St. Anthony, confirmatory of <span class="sc">Arun's</span> + suggestion.</p> + + <p class="author">A. + + <p>Newark, Notts., Feb. 12.</p> + + <p><i>By the bye</i> (Vol. iii., p 73.).—Is your correspondent S. + S. not aware that the phrase "Good bye" is a contraction of our + ancestors' more devotional one of "God be wi' ye!"</p> + + <p class="author">D. P. W. + + <p>Rotherhithe, Jan. 21. 1851.</p> + + <p><i>Lama Beads</i> (Vol. iii., p. 115.).—It is a pretty bold + assertion that Lama beads are derived from the Lamas of Asia. + <i>Lamma</i>, according to Jamieson, is simply the Scotch for + <i>amber</i>. He says <i>Lamertyn steen</i> means the same in Teutonic. I + do not find it in Wachter's <i>Lexicon</i>.</p> + + <p>Your correspondent's note is a curious instance of the inconvenience + of half quotation. He says the Lamas are an order of priests among the + Western Tartars. I was surprised at this, since their chief strength, as + everybody knows, is in Thibet. On referring to Rees's <i>Cyclopædia</i>, + I found that the words are taken from thence; but they are not wrong + there, since, by the context they have reference to China.</p> + + <p class="author">C. B. + + <p><i>Language given to Men, &c.</i> (Vol. i., p. 83.).—The + saying that language was given to men to conceal their thoughts is + generally fathered upon Talleyrand at present. I did not know it was in + Goldsmith; but the real author of it was Fontenelle.</p> + + <p class="author">C. B. + + <p><i>Daresbury, the White Chapel of England</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 60.).—This <i>jeu-d'esprit</i> was an after-dinner joke of a + learned civilian, not less celebrated for his wit than his book-lore. + Some stupid blockhead inserted it in the newspapers, and it is now + unfortunately chronicled in your valuable work. It is not at all to be + wondered at that "the people in the neighbourhood know nothing on the + subject."</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Echo.</span> + + <p><i>Holland Land</i> (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., pp. 30. + 70.).—Were not the Lincolnshire estates of Count Bentinck, a Dutch + nobleman who came over with William III., and the ancestor of the late + Lord George Bentinck, M.P. for Lynn Regis, denominated <i>Little + Holland</i>, which he increased by reclaiming large portions in the Dutch + manner from the Wash?</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">E. S. Taylor.</span> + + <p><i>Passage in the Tempest</i> (Vol. ii., p. 259, &c.).—I do + not profess to offer an opinion as to the right reading; but with + reference to the suggestion of A. E. B. (p. 338.) that it + means—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Most busy when least I do it,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>or—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"Most busy when least employed,"</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>allow me to refer you to the splendid passage in the <i>De + Officiis</i>, lib. iii. cap. i., where Cicero expresses the same + idea:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"Pub. Scipionem,... eum, qui primus Africanus appellatus sit, dicere + solitum scripsit Cato,... <i>Nunquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum + otiosus</i>; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox, + et magno viro, ac sapiente digna; quæ declarat, illum et in otio de + negotiis cogitare, et in solitudine secum loqui solitum: ut neque + cessaret unquam, et interdum colloquio alterius non egeret."</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ache.</span> + + <p><i>Damasked Linen</i> (Vol. iii., p. 13.).—I believe it has + always been customary to damask the linen used by our royal family with + appropriate devices. I have seen a cloth of Queen Anne's, with the + "A. R." in double cypher, surrounded by buds and flowers; and have myself + a cloth with a view of London, and inscribed "Der Konig Georg II.," which + was purchased at Brentford, no doubt having come from Kew adjoining.</p> + + <p class="author">H. W. D. + + <p><i>Straw Necklaces</i> (Vol. ii., p. 511.).—Having only lately + read the "<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" (in fact, this being + the first number subscribed for), I do not know the previous allusion. It + makes me mention a curious custom at Carlisle, of the <!-- Page 230 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page230"></a>{230}</span>servants who + wish to be hired going into the marketplace of Carlisle, or as they call + it "Carel," with a straw in their mouths. It is fast passing away, and + <i>now</i>, instead of keeping the straw constantly in the mouth, they + merely put it in a few seconds if they see any one looking at them. + Anderson, in his <i>Cumberland Ballads</i>, alludes to the + custom:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="hg3">"At Carel I stuid wi' a strae i' my mouth,</p> + <p>The weyves com roun me in clusters:</p> + <p class="hg1">'What weage dus te ax, canny lad?' says yen."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="author">H. W. D. + + <p><i>Library of the Church of Westminster</i> (Vol. iii., p. + 152.).—The statement here quoted from the <i>Délices de la Grande + Bretagne</i> is scarcely likely to be correct. We all know how prone + foreigners are to misapprehension, and therefore, how unsafe it is to + trust to their observations. In this case, may not the description of the + <i>Bibliothèque Publique</i>, which was open night and morning, during + the sittings of the courts of justice, have originated merely from the + rows of booksellers' stalls in Westminster-hall?</p> + + <p class="author">J. G. N. + + <p><i>The Ten Commandments</i> (Vol. iii., p. 166.).—Waterland + (vol. vi. p. 242., 2nd edition, Oxford, 1843) gives a copy of the + Decalogue taken from an old MS. In this the first two commandments are + embodied in one. Leighton, in his <i>Exposition of the Ten + Commandments</i>, when speaking on the point of the manner of dividing + them, refers in a vague manner to Josephus and Philo.</p> + + <p class="author">R. V. + + <p><i>Sitting crosslegged to avert Evil</i> (Vol. ii.,p. + 407.).—Browne says:—</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"To set crosselegg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, + is accounted bad, and friends will perswade us from it. The same conceit + religiously possessed the ancients, as is observable from Pliny: + 'Poplites alternis genibus imponere nefas olim;' and also from Athenæus, + that it was an old veneficious practice."—<i>Vulg. Err.</i>, lib. + v. cap. xxi. § 9.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ache.</span> + + <p><i>George Steevens</i> (Vol. iii., p. 119.).—A. Z. wishes to + know whether a memoir of George Steevens, the Shakspearian commentator, + was ever published, and what has become of the manuscripts.</p> + + <p>I believe the late Sir James Allen Park wrote his life, but whether + for public or private circulation I cannot tell.</p> + + <p>The late George Steevens had a relative, a Mrs. Collinson, and + daughters who lived with him at Hampstead, and with him when he died, in + Jan. 1800. Miss Collinson married a Mr. Pyecroft, whose death, I think, + is in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for this month: perhaps the + Pyecroft family may give information respecting the manuscripts.</p> + +<blockquote class="b1n"> + + <p>"The house he lived in at Hampstead, called the Upper Flask, was + formerly a place of public entertainment near the summit of Hampstead + Hill. Here Richardson sends his Clarissa in one of her escapes from + Lovelace. Here, too, the celebrated Kit-Cat Club used to meet in the + summer months; and here, after it became a private abode, the no less + celebrated George Steevens lived and died."—Vide Park's + <i>Hampstead</i>, pp. 250. 352.</p> + +</blockquote> + + <p>I just recollect Mr. Steevens, who was very kind to us, as children. + My mother, who is an octogenarian, remembers him well, and says he always + took a nosegay, tied to the top of his cane, every day to Sir Joseph + Banks.</p> + + <p class="author"><span class="sc">Julia R. Bockett.</span> + + <p>Southcote Lodge, near Reading.</p> + + <p><i>The Waistcoat bursted, &c.</i> (Vol. ii., p. 505.).—The + general effect of melancholy: digestion is imperfectly performed, and + melancholy patients generally complain of being "blown up." <span + class="sc">Bodvar's</span> "blowing up," on the contrary, is the mere + effect of the generation of gases in a dead body, well illustrated by a + floating dead dog on the river side, or the bursting of a leaden + coffin.</p> + + <p class="author">H. W. D. + + <p><i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (Vol. iii., p. 163.).—Your + correspondent has very neatly and ably made out how the names of the + ladies ought to have been placed; but the error is the poet's, not the + printer's. It is impossible to conceive how, in printing or transcribing, + such a mistake should arise; the names are quite unlike, and several + lines distant from one another. Such forgetfulness is not very uncommon + in poets, especially those of the quickest and liveliest spirit. It is + the old mistake of Bentley and other commentators, to think that whatever + is wrong must be spurious. These, too, we must recollect, are fictitious + characters.</p> + + <p class="author">C. W. B. + +<hr class="full" > + +<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2> + +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</h3> + + <p>Agreeing with Mr. Lower, that they who desire to know the truth as to + the earlier periods of our national history, will do wisely to search for + it among the mists and shadows of antiquity, and rather collect it for + themselves out of the monkish chronicles than accept the statements of + popular historiographers, we receive with great satisfaction the addition + to our present list of translations of such chronicles, which Mr. Lower + has given us in <i>The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from 1066 to 1176, now + first translated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History + of the Establishment</i>. The original Chronicle, which is preserved + among the Cottonian MSS., though known to antiquaries and historians, was + never committed to the press until the year 1846, when it was printed by + the <i>Anglia Christiana Society</i> from a transcript made by the late + Mr. Petrie. Mr. Lower's translation has been made from that edition; and + though undertaken by him as an illustration of local history, will be + found well deserving the perusal of the general reader, not only from the + light it throws upon the Norman invasion and upon the <!-- Page 231 + --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page231"></a>{231}</span>history of the + abbey founded by the Conqueror in fulfilment of his vow, but also for the + pictures it exhibits of the state of society during the period which it + embraces.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>—<i>The Embarrassment of + the Clergy in the Matter of Church Discipline.</i> Two ably written + letters by Presbyter Anglicanus, reprinted, by request, from the + <i>Morning Post</i>;—<i>Ann Ash, or the Foundling</i>, by the + <i>Author of 'Charlie Burton' and 'The Broken Arm.'</i> If not quite + equal to <i>Charlie Burton</i>, and there are few children's stories + which are so, it is a tale well calculated to sustain the writer's + well-deserved reputation;—<i>Burns and his Biographers, being a + Caveat to Cavillers, or an Earnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and + Calumnies which, for half a Century, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the + Tomb of Robert Burns.</i></p> + + <p>Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of 93. Wellington Street, Strand, will + sell on Monday next, and five following days, the valuable Library of the + late Mr. Andrews of Bristol, containing, besides a large collection of + works of high character and repute, some valuable Historical, + Antiquarian, and Heraldic Manuscripts.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Catalogues Received.</span>—John Gray Bell's + (17. Bedford Street, Covent Garden) Catalogue of Autograph Letters and + other Documents; John Alex. Wilson's (20. Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen) + Catalogue of Cheap Books, many Rare and Curious; E. Stibbs' (331. Strand) + Catalogue Part III. of Books in all Languages.</p> + +<hr class="full" > + +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES +WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3> + + <p><span class="sc">Madame D'aulnoy's Fairy Tales</span>, a small old + folio. At the end of the Edition sought for, there are some Spanish + Romances: it is in one vol.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Rural Walks—Rambles Farther</span>, by + Charlotte Smith. A Child's Book in 4 Vols. (of the last Century).</p> + + <p>[<i>However ragged and worn the above may be, it does not + signify.</i>]</p> + + <p>Any Rare or Valuable Works relating in any way to <span + class="sc">Free Masonry</span>.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Baronii Annales Eccles. cum cent. O. Raynaldi et + Lauterbachii.</span> 25 Volumes.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">L'Abbé Annales de Saint Pierre, Projet de Paix + Perpetuelle</span>, 3 Vols. 12mo. Utrecht, 1713.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Chevalier Ramsay, Essai de Politique</span>, où l'on + traite de la Nécessité, de l'Origine, des Droits, des Bornes, et des + Différentes Formes de la Souveraineté, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de + "Télémaque." 2 Vols. 12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in + 1719.</p> + + <p>The same, Second Edition, under the title of <span class="sc">Essai + Philosophique sur le Gouvernement Civil, selon les Princeps de + Fénelon.</span> 12mo. Londres, 1721.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Biblia Hebraica</span>, cum locc. pavall. et adnott. + J. H Michaelis. Halæ Magd. 1720. Quarto preferred.</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><i>We are this week compelled by want of room to postpone many + interesting papers, among which we may mention one by</i> <span + class="sc">Lord Braybrooke</span> <i>on</i> Portraits of Distinguished + Englishmen, <i>and one by</i> <span class="sc">Sir F. 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G. <i>Anania, Azaria, and Mizael, occurring in the</i> + Benedicite, <i>are the Hebrew names of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. + See</i> Daniel, i. 7.</p> + + <p><span class="sc">Laudator Temporis Acti.</span> <i>Will our + correspondent who wrote to us under this signature enable us to address a + communication to him?</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Hermes</span> <i>is assured that the proposal for + "showing the world that there is something worth living for beyond + external luxury" is only postponed because it jumps completely with a + plan which is now under consideration, and which it may in due time help + forward.</i></p> + + <p><span class="sc">Replies Received</span>.—<i>Lines on + Woman—Meaning of Strained—Mounds or Munts—Rococo + Sea—Headings of Chapters in English Bibles—Predeceased and + Designed—Christmas Day—Ulm MS.—Bede MS.—Booty's + Case—Good bye—Almond Tree—Snail-eating—Swearing + by Swans—Rev. W. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23225] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +{217} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 73.] +SATURDAY, MARCH 22. 1851. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments 217 + + NOTES:-- + On the Word "Rack" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by + Samuel Hickson 218 + Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 219 + Folk-Lore:--Moths called Souls--Holy Water for + Hooping Cough--Daffy Down Dilly 220 + Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to + Mesmerism 220 + Minor Notes:--Original Warrant--Gloves--Prince + Rupert--Inscription on a Gun--Richard III.--Lines + by Pope--Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to + Scotland--Snail-eating 220 + + QUERIES:-- + Henry Smith, by T. M'Calmont 222 + Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill-- + Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A + Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's + Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter + of James II.--Going the Whole Hog--Innocent + Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of "Slums"-- + Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"-- + Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs 222 + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by + Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--"Drink + up Eisell" 224 + + REPLIES:-- + Scandal against Queen Elizabeth 225 + The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. 226 + Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., + by S. W. Singer 226 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam-- + Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's + MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland-- + Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish + Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham-- + Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama + Beads--"Language given to Men," &c.--Daresbury, + the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage + in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces-- + Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. 227 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 230 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 231 + Notices to Correspondents 231 + Advertisements 231 + + * * * * * + + +SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. + +When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the +attention of our readers to the _Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral_, we +expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby +rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would +be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the same useful field. +That hope bids fair to be fully realised. In Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed +a letter from MR. PEACOCK, announcing his intention of copying the +inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and +we this week present our readers with three fresh communications upon the +subject. + +We give precedence to MISS BOCKETT'S, inasmuch as it involves no general +proposal upon the subject, but is merely expressive of that lady's +willingness, in which we have no doubt she will be followed by many of her +countrywomen to help forward the good work. + + In your Number for Feb. 15th, I find MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun., of + Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, wishes to collect church + memorials for work he intends to publish. If he would like the accounts + of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of Reading, as far as I am + able it would give me pleasure to send some to him. + + JULIA R. BOCKETT. + + Southcote Lodge, near Reading. + +The second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a +_Monumenta Anglicana_ by MR. DUNKIN,--a plan which would have our hearty +concurrence and recommendation, if it were at all practicable; but which, +it will be seen at a glance, must fail from its very vastness. If the +_Monumentarium of Exeter_ contains the material for half a moderate-sized +octavo volume, in what number of volumes does MR. DUNKIN propose to +complete his collection--even if a want of purchasers of the early volumes +did not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned scheme? + + Your correspondent MR. EDW. PEACOCK, Jun, may be interested in knowing + that a work has some time been projected by my friend Mr. Alfred John + Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian learning render him + well fitted for the task), under the title of _Monumenta Anglicana_, + and which is intended to be a medium for preserving the inscriptions in + every church in the kingdom. There can be no doubt of the high value + and utility of such a work, especially if accompanied by a + well-arranged index of names; and I have no doubt MR. PEACOCK, and + indeed many others of your valued correspondents, will be induced to + {218} assist in the good cause, by sending memoranda of inscriptions to + Mr. Dunkin. + + L. J. + + Plymouth. + +The following letter from the REV. E. S. TAYLOR proposes a Society for the +purpose:-- + + I for one shall be happy to co-operate with MR. PEACOCK in this useful + work; and I trust that, through the valuable medium of "NOTES AND + QUERIES," many will be induced to offer their assistance. Could not a + Society be formed for the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might + take place? + + E. S. TAYLOR. + + Martham, Norfolk. + +We doubt the necessity, and indeed the advisability, of the formation of +any such Society. + +MR. PEACOCK (_ante_., p. 117.) has already wisely suggested, that "in time +a copy of every inscription in every church in England might be ready for +reference in our National Library," and we have as little doubt that the +MS. department of the British Museum is the proper place of deposit for +such records, as that the trustees would willingly accept the charge of +them on the recommendation of their present able and active Keeper of the +Manuscripts. What he, and what the trustees would require, would be some +security that the documents were what they professed to be; and this might +very properly be accomplished through the agency of such a Society as MR. +TAYLOR proposes, if there did not already exist a Society upon whom such a +duty might very safely be devolved:--and have we not, in the greater energy +which that Society has lately displayed, evidence that it would undertake a +duty for which it seems pre-eminently fitted? We allude to the Society of +Antiquaries. The anxiety of Lord Mahon, its president, to promote the +efficiency of that Society, has recently been made evident in many ways; +and we cannot doubt that he would sanction the formation of a sub-committee +for the purpose of assisting in collecting and preserving a record of all +existing monuments, or that he would find a lack of able men to serve on +such a committee, when he numbers among the official or active Fellows of +the Society gentlemen so peculiarly fitted to carry out this important +national object, as Mr. Hunter, Sir Charles Young, Mr. J. Payne Collier, +and Mr. Bruce. + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +ON THE WORD "RACK" IN SHAKSPEARE'S TEMPEST. + +As another illustration of the careless or superficial manner in which the +meaning of Shakspeare has been sought, allow me to call attention to the +celebrated passage in the _Tempest_ in which the word "rack" occurs. The +passage really presents no difficulty; and the meaning of the word, as it +appears to me, might as well be settled at once and for ever. I make this +assertion, not dogmatically, but with the view of testing the correctness +of my opinion, that this is not at all a question of etymology, but +entirely one of construction. The passage reads as follows:-- + + "These, our actors, + As I foretold you, were all spirits, and + Are melted into air, into thin air: + And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision, + The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, + The solemn temples, the great globe itself, + Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; + And, like this insubstantial pageant, faded, + Leave not a rack behind."--_Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1. + +As I have expressed my opinion that this is not at all a question of +etymology, I shall not say more in reference to this view of the case than +that "rack," spelt as in Shakspeare, is a word in popular and every-day use +in the phrase "rack and ruin;" that we have it in the term "rack off," as +applied to wine, meaning _to take from the rack_, or, in other words, "to +leave a rack" or _refuse_ "behind," racked wine being wine drawn from the +lees; and that it is, I believe, still in use in parts of England, meaning +_remains_ or _refuse_, as, in the low German, "der Wraek" means the same +thing. Misled, however, by an unusual mode of spelling, and unacquainted +with the literature of Shakspeare's age, certain of the commentators +suggested the readings of _track_ and _trace_; whereupon Horne Tooke +remarks:-- + + "The ignorance and presumption of his commentators have shamefully + disfigured Shakspeare's text. The first folio, notwithstanding some few + palpable misprints, requires none of their alterations. Had they + understood English as well as he did, they would not have quarrelled + with his language."--_Diversions of Purley_, p. 595. + +He proceeds to show that _rack_ "is merely the past tense, and therefore +past participle, [reac] or [rec], of the Anglo-Saxon verb Recan, +_exhalare_, to _reek_;" and although the advocates of its being a +particular description of light cloud refer to him as an authority for +their reading, he treats it throughout generally as "a vapour, a steam, or +an exhalation." But Horne Tooke, in his zeal as an etymologist, forgot +altogether to attend to the construction of the passage. What is it that +shall "leave not a rack behind?" A rack of what? Not of the baseless fabric +of this vision, like which the "cloud-capp'd towers shall dissolve,"--not +of this insubstantial pageant, like which they shall have faded,--but of +"the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the +great globe itself." There is in fact a double comparison; but the +construction and the meaning are perfectly clear, and no word will suit the +passage but one that shall express a result common {219} to the different +objects enumerated. A cloud may be a fit object for comparison, but it is +utterly inconsequential; while the sense required can only be expressed by +a general term, such as _remains_, a _vestige_, or a _trace_. + +I beg now to transcribe a note Of Mr. Collier's on this passage:-- + + "'Rack' is vapour, from _reck_, as Horne Tooke showed; and the light + clouds on the face of heaven are the 'rack,' or vapour from the earth. + The word 'rack' was often used in this way."--Coll. _Shaksp._, vol. i. + p. 70. + +Mr. Knight appears to incline to the same view; and regarding these as the +two latest authorities, and finding in neither of them any reference to the +question of construction, I naturally concluded that the point had been +overlooked by the commentators. On reference, however, I found to my +surprise, that Malone, for the very same reasons, had come to the same +conclusion. Had Malone's argument been briefly stated by the "two latest +and best editors," I should, of course, have had no occasion to trouble you +with this note: and this instance, it appears to me, furnishes additional +reasons for enforcing the principle for which I am contending; the neglect +of it affecting, in however slight a degree, the sense or correctness of so +important and frequently quoted a passage. For my own part, I should have +thought that the commonest faith in Shakspeare would have protected any +editor, whose avowed object it was to restore the text, from preferring in +this instance, to the plain common sense of Malone, the more showy +authority of Horne Tooke. + +In my last paper I wrote,--"So far as quantity is concerned, to eat a +crocodile would be _no_ more than to eat an ox." You have omitted the +negative. + +SAMUEL HICKSON. + + * * * * * + +ANCIENT INEDITED POEMS, NO. III. + +In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange +title given to the monody on Mr. Browne. May I ask if the name of "Chorus" +was thus indiscriminately applied at the time when the poem was composed? + +The next poem that I shall give is copied from _Harleian MSS._, 367., art. +60., fol. 158. It is entitled-- + + "A VERTUOUS WOMAN. + + "When painted vice fils upp the rimes + Of these our last depraued times: + And soe much lust by wanton layes + Dispersed is; that beautie strayes + Into darke corners wheere vnseen, 5 + Too many sadd berefts haue been. + Aduance my muse to blaze[1] that face + Wheere beautie sits enthroand in grace. + The eye though bright, and quicke to moue, + Daignes not a cast to wanton loue. 10 + A comely ffront not husht in hayre, + Nor face be-patcht to make it fayre. + The lipps and cheekes though seemely redd, + Doe blush afresh if by them fedd. + Some wanton youthes doe gaze too much 15 + Though naked breasts are hidd from touch. + When due salutes are past, they shunn + A seconde kisse: yea, half vndone + Shee thinkes herselfe, when wantons praise + Her hande or face with such loose phraise 20 + As they haue learnt at acts and scenes, + Noe hand in hand with them shee meenes, + Shall giue them boldnes to embalme, + Ther filthie fist in her chast palme. + Her pretious honners overlookes, 25 + At her retires the best of bookes. + Whatsoeuer else shee doth forget + Noe busines shall her prayers[2] let. + Those that bee good, shee prizes most, + Noe time with them shee counteth lost. 30 + Her chast delights, her mind, aduance + Above Lot-games or mixed dance. + Shee cares not for an enterlude, + Or idly will one day conclude. + The looser toungs that filth disclose 35 + Are graueolencie to her nose. + But when a vertuous man shall court + Her virgin thoughts in nuptiall sort: + Her faire depor[t]ment, neyther coy + Nor yet too forward, fits his ioy, 40 + And giues his kisses leaue to seale + On her fayre hand his faythfull zeale. + Blest is his conquest in her loue, + With her alone death cann remoue. + And if before shee did adorne 45 + Her parents' howse, the cheerefull morne + Reioyceth now at this blest payre, + To see a wife soe chast soe fayre. + They happy liue; and know noe smart + Of base suspects or iealous heart; 50 + And if the publike bredd noe feare, + Nor sadd alarms did fill ther care, + From goodnes flowes ther ioy soe cleere + As grace beginnes ther heauen heere." + +The poem has no subscription, nor, from the appearance of the paper, should +I say there had been one. The comparatively modern phraseology points to a +late era. The poem is bound up with a quantity of John Stowe's papers, and +I think is in his handwriting, upon comparing it with other papers known to +be his in the same book. As it is my chief object (next to contributing to +the preservation and publication of these ancient ballads) to obtain data +regarding the anonymous productions of the earlier days of England's +literature, any remarks, allow me to say, that other contributors will +favour our {220} medium of intercommunication with, will be much +appreciated by + +KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE. + + [Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in supposing this poem to be + in Stowe's handwriting. We have the best possible authority for + assuring him that it is not.] + +[Footnote 1: _Blason_, describe.] + +[Footnote 2: We have here an instance of the use of the word _prayers_ as a +dissyllable.] + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Moths called Souls._--While I am upon this subject, I may as well mention +that in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, and perhaps do +still, call night-flying white moths, especially the _Hepialus humuli_, +which feeds, while in the grub state, on the roots of docks and other +coarse plants, "souls." Have we not in all this a remnant of "Psyche?" + +F. S. + + [This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coincidence with the + tradition from the neighbourhood of Truro (recorded by MR. THOMS in his + Folk lore of Shakspeare, _Athenaeum_ (No. 1041.) Oct. 9. 1847) which + gives the name of _Piskeys_ both to the _fairies_ and to _moths_, which + are believed by many to be _departed souls_.] + +_Holy Water for the Hooping Cough_ (vol. iii., p. 179.).--In one of the +principal towns of Yorkshire, half a century ago, it was the practice for +persons in a respectable class of life to take their children, when +afflicted with the hooping cough, to a neighbouring convent, where the +priest allowed them to drink a small quantity of holy water out of a silver +chalice, which the little sufferers were strictly forbidden to touch. By +Protestant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, this was regarded as a +remedy. Is not the superstition analogous to that noticed by MR. WAY? + +EBORACOMB. + +_Daffy Down Dilly._--At this season, when the early spring flowers are +showing themselves, we hear the village children repeating these lines:-- + + "Daff a down dill has now come to town, + In a yellow petticoat and a green gown." + +Does not this nursery rhyme throw light upon the character of the royal +visitor alluded to in the snail charm recorded by F. J. H. (p. 179.)? + +EBORACOMB. + + * * * * * + +DR. MAITLAND'S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM. + +I know more than one person who would second the request that I am about to +make through "NOTES AND QUERIES" to DR. MAITLAND, that he would publish the +remaining parts of his _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism_: +he would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit +by them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some +use. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or no +they may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is impossible to +ridicule any longer. DR. MAITLAND has suggested the true course of thought +upon the subject, and promised to lead us along it; but it is impossible at +present to use anything that he has said, on account of its incompleteness. +In tracing the subject through history, DR. MAITLAND would no doubt mention +the "[Greek: Omphalopsuchoi], or Umbilicani," of the fourteenth century, +whose practices make a page (609.) of Waddington's _History of the Church_ +read like a sketch of Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in +Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, a belief somewhat similar to theirs +is stated to have been preached in the seventh century (_Bohn's Reprint in +Shilling Series_, p. 191.) by a certain Moseilma, a false prophet. + +I may add that Miss Martineau's new book, _Letters of the Development of +Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau_, which cannot be called sceptical, +for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my writing +to-day. + +A. L. R. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Original Warrant._--The following warrant from the original in the +Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as bearing +upon more than one Query that has appeared in your columns:-- + + "Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath + heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her + Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of the + Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought + more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore + shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the + Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of + London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for + her M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your + warrant. + + "From the court at + "Oatlands this 29 + "of September, 1602. + "RO. CECYLL. + + "To Mr. Anthony Deeringe, + "Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London." + + + + "2. October, 1602. + + "I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and + have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr. + Secretary above expressed. + + "RIC. LONDON." + +L. B. L. + +_Gloves.--Prince Rupert._--In your First Vol., pp. 72. 405., and in other +places in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to the presentation of +_gloves_. If what is contained in the following {221} paper be not +generally known, it may claim an interest with some of your readers:-- + + "At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present + + The Kings most excellent Majesty, + His Highness _Prince Rupert_, + Lord Archbp. of Canterbury," + [with twelve others, who are named.] + + "Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of all + [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came to + the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w^{ch} amounted to a great + Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His Ma^{tie} + this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was thereupon + pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be no such + distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord B[~p] + before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of 50l. to be + employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. + And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord Archb[~p] of + Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he hath paid + the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50l. for the use aforesaid, and produced a Receipt + for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for Rebuilding the said + Church for the time being, w^{ch} as it is a pious work, so will it be + some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard the Expense of Gloves did + usually farr exceed that Sum. + + "PHI. LLOYD." + + _Tanner's MSS._ vol. 282. 112. al. 74. + +One of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices of +_Prince Rupert_ posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention made of +him in this paper, _Echard_ speaks of his having the command of one +squadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war. + +J. SANSOM. + +_Inscription on a Gun_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your notes on "the Potter's +and Shepherd's Keepsakes" remind me of an old gun, often handled by me in +my youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick was _en-nailed_:-- + + "Of all the sports as is, + I fancies most a gun; + And, after my decease, + I leaves this to my son." + +Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors' Commons, +I know not. + +C. W. B. + +_Richard III._ (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).--The statement by MR. HARRISON, +that Richard was not a "hunchback," is curiously "backed" by an ingenious +conjecture of that very remarkable man, Doctor John Wallis of Oxford, in +his _Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae_, first published in 1653. The passage +occurs in the 2d section of chapter 14, "De Etymologia." Wallis is treating +of the words _crook_, _crouch_, _cross_, &c., and says: + + "Hinc item _croisado_ de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod vocant) + sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui a tergo + gestabant formam Crucis; et _Richardus_ olim Rex Angliae dicebatur + _crouch-backed_, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod a tergo + gestare gestiebat formam Crucis." + +G. F. G. + +Edinburgh. + +_Lines by Pope._--On the back of a letter in my possession, written by the +poet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of his friend +Mason:-- + + "_By Mr. Pope._ + + "Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine, + To Painter Kent gave all this coin. + 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, + That ever Churchman gave to Lay." + + "Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. Wood to Kent: he had + objected against the word _pio_ in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph." + +If these lines are not already in print, perhaps you will insert them +amongst your "NOTES" as a contribution from + +ROBERT HOTCHKIN. + +Thimbleby Rectory, March 13. 1851. + +_Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in connexion with Scotland._--John Lesley, +bishop of Ross, reports, that in the night before the battle between +Athelstan, king of England, and Hungus, king of the Picts, a bright cross, +like that whereon St. Andrew suffered, appeared to Hungus, who, having +obtained the victory, ever after bore that figure. This happened in 819. +Vide _Gent. Mag._ for Nov. 1732. + +E. S. T. + +_Snail-eating_ (Vol. iii., p. 207.).--Your correspondent C. W. B. does not +seem to be aware that "a ragout of boror (snails)" is a regular dish with +English _gypsies_. Vide Borrow's _Zincali_, part i. c. v. + +He has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks on the subject: + + "Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the land of Gorgios + (England), or the Busne (Spain), that the very gypsies, who consider a + ragout of snails a delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it + bears a resemblance to a snake; and that those who will feast on a + roasted hedgehog could be induced by no money to taste a squirrel!" + +Having tasted of roasted hotchiwitchu (hedgehog) myself among the "gentle +Rommanys," I can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and though a ragout +of snails was never offered for my acceptance, I do not think that those +who consider (as most "Gorgios" do) stewed eels a delicacy ought to be too +sever on "Limacotrophists!" + +HERMES. + +_Snail-eating._--Perhaps you will permit me to remark, in reference to the +communication of C. W. B., that snails are taken medicinally occasionally, +and are supposed to be extremely strengthening. I have known them eagerly +sought after for the meal of a consumptive patient. As a matter of taste, +too, they are by {222} some considered quite epicurean. A gentleman whom I +used to know, was in the constant habit as he passed through the fields, of +picking up the white slugs that lay in his way, and swallowing them with +more relish than he would have done had they been oysters. + +That snails make a no inconsiderable item in the bill of fare of gypsies, +and other wanderers, I proved while at Oxford, some time ago; for passing +up Shotover Hill, in the parish of Headington, I unexpectedly came upon a +camp of gypsies who were seated round a wood fire enjoying their Sunday's +dinner: this consisted of a considerable number of large snails roasted on +the embers, and potatoes similarly cooked. On inquiry, I was told by those +who were enjoying their repast, that they were extremely good, and were +much liked by people of their class, who made a constant practice of eating +them. I need hardly say that I received a most hospitable invitation to +join in the feast, which I certainly declined. + +L. J. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +HENRY SMITH. + +In Marsden's _History of the Early Puritans_ (a work recently published, +which will well repay perusal) there occurs (pp. 178, 179.) the following +notice of Henry Smith:-- + + "Henry Smith was a person of good family, and well connected; but + having some scruples, he declined preferment, and aspired to nothing + higher than the weekly Lectureship of St. Clement Danes. On a complaint + made by Bishop Aylmer, Whitgift suspended him, and silenced for a while + probably the most eloquent preacher in Europe. His contemporaries named + him the Chrysostom of England. His church was crowded to excess; and + amongst his hearers, persons of the highest rank, and those of the most + cultivated and fastidious judgment, were content to stand in the throng + of citizens. His sermons and treatises were soon to be found in the + hands of every person of taste and piety: they passed through + numberless editions. Some of them were carried abroad, and translated + into Latin. They were still admired and read at the close of nearly a + century, when Fuller collected and republished them. Probably the prose + writing of this, the richest period of genuine English literature, + contains nothing finer than some of his sermons. They are free, to an + astonishing degree, from the besetting vices of his age--vulgarity, and + quaintness, and affected learning; and he was one of the first English + preachers who, without submitting to the trammels of a pedantic logic, + conveyed in language nervous, pure, and beautiful, the most convincing + arguments in the most lucid order, and made them the ground-work of + fervent and impassioned addresses to the conscience." + +Would it not be desirable, as well in a literary as a theological point of +view, that any extant sermons of so renowned a divine should be made +accessible to general readers? At present they are too rare and expensive +to be largely useful. A brief _Narrative of the Life and Death of Mr. Henry +Smith_ (as it is for substance related by Mr. Thomas Fuller in his _Church +History_), which is prefixed to an old edition (1643) of his sermons in my +possession, concludes in these words:-- + + "The wonder of this excellent man's worth is increased by the + consideration of his tender age, he dying very young (of a consumption + as it is conceived) above fifty years since, about Anno 1600." + +THOS. M^CCALMONT. + +Highfield, Southampton. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Owen Glendower._--Some of your Cambrian correspondents might, through your +columns, supply a curious and interesting desideratum in historical +genealogy, by contributing a pedigree, authenticated as far as practicable +by dates and authorities, and including collaterals, of OWEN GLENDOWER, +from his ancestor Griffith Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, son of Madoc, last +Prince of Powys, to the extinction of Owen's male line. + +All Cambrian authorities are, I believe, agreed in attributing to Owen the +lineal male representation of the sovereigns of Powys; but I am not aware +that there is any printed pedigree establishing in detail, on authentic +date, his descent, and that of the collaterals of his line; while +uncertainty would seem to exist as to one of the links in the chain of +deduction, as to the fate of his sons and their descendants, if any, as +well as to the marriages and representatives of more than one of his +daughters. + +I have in vain looked for the particulars I have indicated in Yorke's +_Royal Tribes of Wales_; in the _Welsh Heraldic Visitation Pedigrees_, +lately published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the learned editorship of +the late Sir Samuel Meyrick; and in the valuable contributions to the +genealogy of the Principality to be found in the _Landed Gentry_ and the +_Peerage and Baronetage_ of Mr. Burke,--a pedigree, in other respects +admirable, in the _Landed Gentry_ of a branch of the dynasty of Powys, +omitting the intermediate descents in question. + +S. M. + +_Meaning of Gig-Hill._--Can any of your readers favour me with an +explanation of the following matter in local topography? There are two +places in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames distinguished by the name +of _Gig-Hill_[3], although there is no indication of anything in the land +to warrant the name. + +{223} + +Are there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment by the +stocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name? + +There was a king of Brittany who resigned his crown, and obtained the +honours of canonisation as Saint Giguel, in the seventh century. St. Giles, +who died about the sixth century, might, perhaps, have had some connexion +with those who are traditionally believed to have been punished on the +spot; that is, if we judge by his clients, who locate themselves under the +sanctity of his name as a "Guild" or fraternity in London. + +There is, however, a curious use by Shakspeare of the word gig. It occurs +in _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc. I.: + +Holofernes says, + + "What is the figure?" + + _Moth._ Horns. + + _Holofernes._ Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy gig." + +I submit this matter, as local names have often their origin in religious +associations or in proverbial philosophy. + +It has been suggested that _giggle_, as a mark of the derision to which the +culprit was exposed, might so become corrupted. + +If the term be connected with the punishment, it would be, doubtless, one +of general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully +received. + +K. + +[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston +to Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]] + +_Sir John Vaughan._--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton of +Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of October, in +the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus Hamilton, he is +described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by Sidney, daughter and +heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said Dame Sidney Hamilton +was descended from an honourable line of ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will +Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of the same name Comptroller +of the Household to Henry VIII., &c., &c. + +Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir John +Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys of +Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any such +marriage? + +The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of Hamilton +and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron sable between +three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each entwined round the neck +with a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his descent from the Vaughans +of Porthaml Tretower, &c., in the county of Brecon. + +J. P. O. + +_Quebecca and his Epitaph._-- + + "Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King. + When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will + say to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John + Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.'" + +Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and where +the epitaph may be found? + +E. HAILSTURE. + +_A Monumental Inscription._--Near the chancel door of the parish-church of +Wath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab inscribed to the memory +of William Burroughs. After stating that he was of Masbro', gentleman, and +that he died in the year 1722, the monument contains the two following +hexameters:-- + + "Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus, + Deposuit cineres, animam revocabit Olympus." + +The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus +Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel translated. +It has been conjectured that _Itermus_ must be derived from _iter_, and +hence that Burroughs may have been a _traveller_, or possibly _an orthodox +itinerant preacher_: surely there can be no punning reference to _a +journeyman_! The lines have been submitted, in vain, to some high literati +in Oxford. + +A. G. + +Ecclesfield. + +_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I._ (Vol. iii., p. 157.).--My +friend, who is in possession of the original MS. of this work, is desirous +of ascertaining whether the volume published in 1702 be a complete and +exact copy of it. I will transcribe the commencing and concluding passages +of the MS., and shall be obliged if MR. BOLTON CORNEY will compare them +with the book in his possession, and tell me the result. + + "S^r, + + "By your's of the 22d of August last, I find you have receaved my + former letters of the first and thirteenth of May, 1678; and seeing + 'tis your further desire," &c. + + "This briefe narrative shall conclude with the king's owne excellent + expression: _Crowns and kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour and + reputation--those must have a period with my life; but these survive to + a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone: a good name + being the embalming of princes, and a sweet consecrating of them to an + eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity._" + +The present owner of the MS. has an idea that an incorrect copy was +fraudulently obtained and published about 1813. Is there any foundation for +this supposition? + +ALFRED GATTY. + +Ecclesfield. + +_Comets._--Where may a correct list of the several comets and eclipses, +visible in France or England, which appeared, or took place, between the +years 1066 and 1600, be obtained? + +S. P. O. R. + +{224} + +_Natural Daughter of James II._--James II., in _Souverains du Monde_ (4 +vols. 1722), is stated to have had a natural daughter, who in 1706 was +married to the Duke of Buckingham. + +Can any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of her +mother? Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her husband, +and of any children? + +F. B. RELTON. + +_Going the Whole Hog._--What is the origin of the expression "going the +whole hog?" Did it take its rise from Cowper's fable, _the Love of the +World reproved_, in which it is shown how "Mahometans eat up the hog?" + +[Sigma]. + +_Innocent Convicts._--Can any of your readers furnish a tolerably complete +list of persons convicted and executed in England, for crimes of which it +afterwards appeared they were innocent? + +[Sigma]. + +_The San Grail._--Can any one learned in ecclesiastical story say what are +the authorities for the story that King Arthur sent his knights through +many lands in quest of the _sacred vessel_ used by our Blessed Lord at His +"Last Supper," and explain why this chalice was called the "Holy Grail" or +"Grayle?" Tennyson has a short poem on the knightly search after it, called +"Sir Galahad." And in Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, book ii. cant. x. 53., +allusion is made to the legend that "Joseph of Arimathy brought it to +Britain." + +W. M. K. + +_Meaning of "Slums."_--In Dr. Wiseman's _Appeal to the Reason and Good +Feeling of the English People_, we find the word "slums" made use of with +respect to the purlieus of Westminster Abbey. Warren, in a note of his +letter on "The Queen or the Pope?" asks "What are 'slums?' And where is the +word to be found explained? Is it Roman or Spanish? There is none such in +our language, at least used by gentlemen." + +I would ask, may not the word be derived from _asylum_, seeing that the +precincts of abbeys, &c. used to be an asylum or place of refuge in ancient +times for robbers and murderers? + +W. M. W. + +Stokesley. + +_Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed."_--Can any one inform the +applicant in what modern author this excellent (and he believes rare) book +in his possession, translated from the Italian of Daniel Bartolus, G. J., +by (Sir) Thomas Salusbury, 1660, is spoken of in terms of high approval? +The passage passed before him not long ago, but having _made no note_, he +is unable to recover it.--Query, Is it in Mr. Hallam's _Literary History_, +which he has not at hand? + +U. Q. + +_Odour from the Rainbow._--What English poet is it that embodies the idea +contained in the following passage of Bacon's _Sylva_? I had noted it on a +loose scrap of paper which I left in my copy of the _Sylva_, but have lost +it:-- + + "It hath been observed by the Ancients, that when a Raine Bow seemeth + to hang over or to touch, there breaketh forth a sweet smell. The cause + is, for that this happenth but in certain matters which have in + themselves some sweetnesse, which the Gentle Dew of the Raine Bow doth + draw forth. And the like doe soft showers; for they also make the + ground sweet. But none are so delicate as the Dew of the Raine Bow, + where it falleth. It may be also that the water itself hath some + sweetnesse: for the Raine Bow consisteth of a glomeration of small + drops which cannot possibly fall but from the Aire that is very low. + And therefore may hold giving sweetnesse of the herbs and flowers, as a + distilled water," &c.--Bacon's _Sylva_, by Rawley, 6th ed. 1651, p. + 176. + +JARLTZBERG. + +_Tradesmen's Signs._--A CITIZEN wishes to be informed in what year or reign +the signs that used to hang over the tradesmen's shop-doors were abolished, +and whether it was accomplished by "act of parliament," or only "by the +authority of the Lord Mayor." Also, whether there is any law now in +existence that prevents the tradesmen putting the signs up again, if they +were so disposed. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Supporters borne by Commoners._--Can any of your readers state why some +commoners bear supporters, and whether the representatives of Bannerets are +entitled to do so? I find in Burke's _Dictionary of Landed Gentry_, that +several gentlemen in England, Scotland, and Ireland continue to use them. +See Fulford, p. 452.; Wyse, p. 1661.; Hay-Newton, p. 552., &c. &c. + +The late Mr. Portman, father of Lord Portman, used supporters, as do Sir W. +Carew, Bart., and some other baronets. + +GUINEGATE. + + [Baronets are not entitled, _as such_, to bear supporters, which are + the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders. + + There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the + sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of + services rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these + instances they are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt + there are some private families who assume and improperly bear + supporters, but whose right to do so, even under their own statements + as to origin and descent, has no legal foundation. "NOTES AND QUERIES" + afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or + for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.] + +_Answer to Fisher's Relation._--I have a work published at London by Adam +Islip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears-- + + "An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third {225} Conference + betweene a certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference + was very private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in + many respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B., + Chapleine to the B. that was employed in the conference." + +Pray, who _was_ the chaplain? I have heard he was the after-famous +Archbishop Laud. + +I pray your assistance in the resolution of this Query. + +J. M. + +Liverpool. + + [This famous conference was the _third_ held by divines of the Church + of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really was: + see Dodd's _Church History_, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two were + conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held in + May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (_i.e._ Dr. Richard + Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his chaplain, + and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should J. M. + possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. Laud + says himself, that "his _Discourse_ was not printed till April, 1624."] + +_Drink up Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--Here is a passage in _Troilus and +Cressida_, in which _drink up_ occurs (Act IV. Sc. 1.): + + "He, like a puling cuckold, would _drink up_ + The lees and _dregs_ of a flat-tamed piece." + +The meaning is plainly here _avaler_, not _boire_. + +Here is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in _Hamlet_, +but resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.): + + "When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, + thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than + for us to undergo any difficulty imposed." + +C. B. + + [We are warned by several correspondents that this subject is becoming + as bitter as wormwood to them. Before we dismiss it, however, we must + record in our pages the opinion of one of the most distinguished + commentators of the day, Mr. Hunter, who in his _New Illustrations_, + vol. ii. p. 263., after quoting "potions of eysell" from the sonnet, + says, "This shows it was not any river so called, but some desperate + drink. The word occurs often in a sense in which _acetum_ is the best + representative, associated with verjuice and vinegar. It is the term + used for one ingredient of the bitter potion given to our Saviour on + the cross, about the composition of which the commentators are greatly + divided. Thus the eighth prayer of the Fifteen Oos in the _Salisbury + Primer_, 1555, begins thus: 'O Blessed Jesu, sweetness of heart and + ghostly pleasure of souls, I beseech thee for the bitterness of the + _aysell_ and gall that thou tasted and suffered for me in thy passion,' + &c." + + Since the above was written, we have received a communication from _An + English Mother_ with the words and _music_ of the nursery song, showing + that the music does not admit the expressions "eat _up_," and "drink + _up_;" quoting from Haldorson's _Icelandic Lexicon_, Eysill, m. + Haustrum en Ose allsa; and asking what if Shakspeare meant either a + pump or a bucket? We have also received a Note from G. F. G. showing + that _eisel_ in Dutch, German, and Anglo-Saxon, &c., meant _vinegar_, + and stating, that during his residence in Florence in 1817, 1818, and + 1819, he had often met with wormwood wine at the table of the Italians, + a weak white wine of Tuscany, in which wormwood had been infused, which + was handed round by the servants immediately after the soup, and was + believed to promote digestion.] + +_Saxon Coin struck at Derby._--In the reign of Athelstan there was a royal +mint at Derby, and a coinage was struck, having on the obverse merely the +name of the town, Deoraby, and on the other side the legend "HEGENREDES MO +. ON . DEORABY." What is the meaning of this inscription? + +R. C. P. + +Derby, Feb. 26. 1851. + + [If HEGENREDES is rightly written, it is the name of a moneyer. MO . ON + . DEORABY signifies _Monetarius_ (or Moneyer) _in Derby_. Coins are + known with MEGENFRED and MEGNEREDTES, and our correspondent may have + read his coin wrongly.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +SCANDAL AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH. + +(Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197.) + +The Marquis of Ormonde having been informed that certain statements, little +complimentary to the reputation of Queen Elizabeth, and equally +discreditable to the name of his ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, have +appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES," wherein it is stated "that the Ormonde +family possess documents which afford proof of this," begs to assure the +editor of the journal in question, that the Ormonde collection of papers, +&c. contains nothing that bears the slightest reference to the very +calumnious attack on the character of good Queen Bess. + +Hampton Court, March 17. 1851. + + [If the Marquis of Ormonde will do us the favour to refer to our Number + for the 8th March (No. 71.), he will find he has not been correctly + informed with respect to the article to which his note relates. The + family in which the papers are stated to exist, is clearly not that of + the noble Marquis, but the family with which our correspondent "J. BS." + states himself to be "connected;" and we hope J. BS. will, in justice + both to himself and to Queen Elizabeth, adopt the course suggested in + the following communication. We believe the warmest admirers of that + great Queen cannot better vindicate her character than by making a + strict inquiry into the grounds for the scandals, which, as has been + already shown (_ante_, No. 62. p. 11.), were so industriously + circulated against her.] + +{226} + +J. BS. says papers are "said to exist in the family which prove the +statement." As it is one of _scandal_ against a female, and that female a +great sovereign, should he not ascertain the fact of the existence of any +such paper, before supporting the scandal, and not leave a _tradition_ to +be supported by another tradition, when a little trouble might show whether +any papers exist, and when found what their value may be. + +Q. G. + + * * * * * + +THE MISTLETOE ON THE OAK. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 163. 214.; Vol. iii., p. 192.) + +From having been a diligent searcher for the mistletoe on the oak, I may be +allowed to make a few remarks upon the question. Is it ever found now on +other trees? Now, it not only occurs abundantly on other trees, but it is +exceedingly rare on the oak. This may be gathered from the following list, +in which numbers have been used to express comparative frequency, as near +as my observations enable me to form a judgment:-- + + _On Native Trees._ + + Apple (various sorts) 25 + Poplar (mostly the black) 20 + Whitethorn 10 + Lime 4 + Maple 3 + Willow 2 + OAK 1 + + _On Foreign Trees._ + + Sycamore 1 + Robinia 1 + +From this it would appear that notwithstanding the BRITISH OAK grows +everywhere, it is at present only favoured by the companionship of the +mistletoe in equal ratio with two comparatively recently introduced trees. +Indeed such objection does this parasite manifest to the brave old tree, +even in his teens, that, notwithstanding a newly-planted line of mixed +trees will become speedily attacked by it, the oak is certain to be left in +his pride alone. + +I have, however, seen the mistletoe on the oak in two instances during my +much wandering about amid country scenes, especially of Gloucester and +Worcester, two great mistletoe counties. One was pointed out to me by my +friend, Mr. Lees, from whom we may expect much valuable information on this +subject, in his forthcoming edition of the _Botanical Looker-out_--it was +on a young tree, perhaps of fifty years, in Eastnor Park, on the Malvern +chain. The other example is at Frampton-on-Severn, to which the President +of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, T. B. L. Baker, Esq., and myself, were +taken by Mr. Clifford, of Frampton. The tree is full a century old, and the +branch, on which was a goodly bunch of the parasite, numbered somewhere +about forty years. That the plant is propagated by seeds there can, I +think, be but little doubt, as the seeds are so admirably adapted for the +peculiar circumstances under which alone they can propagate; and the want +of attention to the facts connected therewith, is probably the cause why +the propagation of the mistletoe by artificial means is usually a failure. + +I should be inclined to think that the mistletoe never was abundant on the +oak; so that it may be that additional sanctity was conferred on the +_Viscum guerneum_ on account of its great rarity. + +JAMES BUCKMAN. + +Cirencester. + +_Mistletoe upon Oak_ (Vol. ii., p. 214.).--Besides the mistletoe-bearing +oak mentioned by your correspondent, there is one in Lord Somers' park, +near Malvern. It is a very fine plant, though it has been injured by +sight-seeing marauders. + +H. A. B. + +Trinity College, Cambridge. + +_Mistletoe_ (Vol. ii., pp. 163., 214.).--Do I understand your correspondent +to ask whether mistletoe is found now except on oaks? The answer is, as at +St. Paul's, "Circumspice." Just go into the country a little. The +difficulty is generally supposed to be to find it _on_ the oak. + +C. B. + + * * * * * + +UNIVERSALITY OF THE MAXIM, "LAVORA COME SE TU," ETC. + +(Vol. iii., p. 188.) + +I have not been able to trace this sentence to its source, but it would +most probably be found in that admirable book, _Monosinii Floris Italicae +Linguae_, 4to, Venet., 1604; or in Torriano's _Dictionary of Italian +Proverbs and Phrases_, folio, Lond., 1666, a book of which Duplessis doubts +the existence! Most of Jeremy Taylor's citations from the Italian are +proverbial phrases. Your correspondent has probably copied the phrase as it +stands in Bohn's edition of the _Holy Living and Dying_, but there is a +trifling variation as it stands in the first edition of _Holy Living_, +1650:-- + + "Lavora come se tu _havesti_ a campar ogni hora: + Adora come se tu _havesti_ a morir _alhora_." + +The universality of this maxim, in ages and countries remote from each +other, is remarkable. Thus we find it in the HITOPADESA: + + "A wise man should think upon knowledge and wealth as if he were + undecaying and immortal. He should practise duty as if he were seized + by the hair of his head by Death."--Johnson's _Translation_, Intr. S. + +So Democratis of Abdera, more sententiously: + + "[Greek: Houtos peiro zen, hos kai oligon kai polun chronon + biosomenos]." + +Then descending to the fifteenth century, we {227} have it thus in the racy +old Saxon _Laine Doctrinal_: + + "Men schal leven, unde darumme sorgen, + Alse men Staerven sholde morgen, + Unde leren ernst liken, + Alse men leven sholde ewigliken." + +Where the author of the _Voyage autour de ma Chambre_, Jean Xavier Maitre, +stumbled upon it, or whether it was a spontaneous thought, does not appear; +but in his pleasing little book, _Lettres sur la Vieillesse_, we have it +thus verbatim: + + "Il faut vivre comme si l'on avoit a mourir demain, mais s'arranger en + meme temps sa vie, autant que cet arrangement peut dependre de notre + prevoyance, comme si l'on avoit devant soi quelques siecles, et meme + une eternite d'existence." + +Some of your correspondents may possibly be able to indicate other +repetitions of this truly "golden sentence," which cannot be too often +repeated, for we all know that + + "A verse may reach him who a sermon flies." + +S. W. SINGER. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Tennyson's In Memoriam_ (Vol. iii., p. 142.).-- + + "Before the crimson-circled star + Had fallen into her father's grave." + +means "before the planet Venus had sunk into the sea." + +In Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology_, under +the word Aphrodite or Venus, we find that-- + + "Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam ([Greek: + aphros]) of the sea which had gathered around the mutilated parts of + Uranus, that had been thrown into the sea by Kronos, after he had + unmanned his father."--Hesiod. _Theog._ 190. + +The allusion in the first stanza of _In Memoriam_ is, I think, to Shelley. +The doctrine referred to is common to him and many other poets; but he +perhaps inculcates it more frequently than any other. (See _Queen Mab_ sub +finem. _Revolt of Islam_, canto xii. st. 17. _Adonais_, stanzas 39. 41. et +passim.) Besides this, the phrase "clear harp" seems peculiarly applicable +to Shelley, who is remarkable for the simplicity of his language. + +X. Z. + +_Tennyson's In Memoriam._--The word _star_ applies in poetry to all the +heavenly bodies; and therefore, to the _crescent moon_, which is often near +enough to the sun to be within or to be _encircled_ by, the crimson colour +of the sky about sunset; and the sun may, figuratively, be called _father_ +of the moon, because he dispenses to her all the light with which she +shines; and, moreover, because _new_, or waxing moons, must _set_ nearly in +the same point of the horizon as the sun; and because that point of the +horizon in which a heavenly body sets, may, figuratively, be called its +_grave_; therefore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of the poem +numbered lxxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's _In Memoriam_, quoted by W. B. H., +to mean simply-- + +_We returned home between the hour of sunset and the setting of the moon, +then not so much as a week old._ + +ROBERT SNOW. + +_Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The Rev. +CHARLES NEVINSON may be informed that there are two copies of the edition +of the above work for which he inquires, in the library of Trinity College, +Dublin. + +TYRO. + +Dublin. + +_Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland_ (Vol. iii., p. +118.).--In reply to the inquiry of EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, that gentleman may +learn the extent to which the _Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas +Machell, who was chaplain to King Charles II._, have been examined, and +published, by referring, to Burn and Nicholson's _History of Westmoreland +and Cumberland_, edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an +account of the antiquary's own family, the "Mali Catuli," or Machell's +Lords of Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of +Carlisle contain only copies and references to the original papers, which +are carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There +are above one thousand deeds, charters, and other documents which I have +carefully translated and collated with a view to their being printed +privately for the use of the family, and I shall feel pleasure in replying +to any inquiry on the subject. Address: + +G.P. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire. + +Two impressions of the seal of the Abbey of Shapp (anciently Hepp), said +not to be attainable by the editors of the late splendid edition of the +_Monasticon_, are preserved in the Machell MSS. + +_Oration against Demosthenes_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--For the information of +your correspondent KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, I transcribe the title of the +oration against Demosthenes, for which he makes inquiry, which was not +"privately printed" as he supposes, but _published_ last year by Mr. J. W. +Parker. + + "The Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respecting the Treasure + of Harpalus. The Fragments of the Greek Text, now first edited from the + Fac-simile of the MS. discovered at Egyptian Thebes in 1847; together + with other Fragments of the same Oration cited in Ancient Writers. With + a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, and a Fac-simile of a Portion of + the MS. By Churchill Babington, M.A. London: J. W. Parker, 1850." + +The discovery of the MS. was made by Mr. {228} A. C. Harris of Alexandria, +who placed a fac-simile in the hand of Mr. Churchill Babington, who edited +it as above described. + +My information is derived from an article on the work in the _Christian +Remembrancer_ for October, 1850, to which I refer MR. MACKENZIE for further +particulars. + +TYRO. + +Dublin + + [MR. EDWARD SHEARE JACKSON, B.A., to whom we are indebted for a similar + reply, adds, "Mr. Harris contributed a paper on the MS. to the Royal + Society of Literature"] + +Mr. Sharpe has also published "Fragments of Orations in Accusation and +Defence of Demosthenes, respecting the money of Harpalus, arranged and +translated," in the _Journal of the Philological Society_, vol. iv.; and +the German scholars Boeckh (in the _Hallische Litteratur-Zeitung_ for 1848) +and Sauppe have also written critical notices on the fragments; but whether +their notices include the old and new fragments, I am unable to say, having +only met with a scanty reference to their learned labours. + +J. M. + +Oxford. + +_Borrow's Danish Ballads_ (Vol. iii., p. 168).--The following is the title +of Mr. Borrow's book, referred to by BRUNO:-- + + "Targum; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects. + By George Borrow. 'The Raven ascended to the Nest of the + Nightingale.'--Persian Poem. St. Petersburgh. Printed by Schulz and + Beneze. 1835." + +R. W. F. + +_Borrow's Danish Ballads._--The title of the work is-- + + "Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, and Miscellaneous + Pieces; by George Borrow. 8vo. Printed by S. Wilkin, Norwich; and + published at London by John Taylor, 1826." + +In the preface it is stated that the ballads are translated from +Oehlensloeger, and from the _Kiaempe Viser_, the old Norse book referred to +in _Lavengro_. + +[mu]. + +_Head of the Saviour_ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The correspondent who inquires +about the "true likeness" of the Saviour exposed in some of the London +print-shops, is not perhaps aware that there is preserved in the church of +St. Peter's at Rome a much more precious and genuine portrait than the one +to which he alludes--a likeness described by its possessors as "far more +sublime and venerable than any other, since it was neither painted by the +hands of men nor angels, but by the divinity himself who makes both men and +angels." It is not delineated upon wood or canvass, ivory, glass, or +stucco, but upon "a pocket handkerchief lent him by a holy woman named +Veronica, to wipe his face upon at the crucifixion" (Aringhi, _Roma +Subterran._, vol. ii. p. 543.). When the handkerchief was returned it had +this genuine portrait imprinted on its surface. It is now one of the +holiest of relics preserved in the Vatican basilica, where there is +likewise a magnificent altar constructed by Urban VIII., with an +inscription commemorating the fact, a mosaic above, illustrative of the +event, and a statue of the holy female who received the gift, and who is +very properly inscribed in the Roman catalogue of saints under the title of +ST. VERONICA. All this is supported by "pious tradition," and attested by +authorities of equal value to those which establish the identity of St. +Peter's chair. The only difficulty in the matter lies in this, that the +woman Veronica never had any corporeal existence, being no other than the +name by which the picture itself was once designated, viz., the VERA ICON, +or "True Image" (Mabillon, _Iter. Ital._, p. 88.). This narrative will +probably relieve your correspondent from the trouble of further inquiries +by enabling him to judge for himself whether "there is any truth" about the +other true image. + +A. R., Jun. + +In your 70th Number I perceived that some correspondent asked, "What is the +truth respecting a legend attached to the head of our Saviour for some time +past in the print-shops?" I ask the same question. True or false, I found +in a work entitled _The Antiquarian Repertory_, by Grose, Astle, and +others, vol. iii., an effigy of our Saviour, much inferior in all respects +to the above, with the following attached:-- + + "This present figure is the similitude of our Lord [=IHV], oure Saviour + imprinted in amirvld by the predecessors of the greate turke, and sent + to the Pope Innosent the 8. at the cost of the greate turke for a token + for this cawse, to redeme his brother that was taken presonor." + +This was painted on board. The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, of Baynard's Park, +Guildford, has another painted on board with a like inscription, to the +best of my recollection: his has a date on it, I think. + +Pope Innocent VIII. was created Pope in 1484, and died in 1492. + +The variation in the three effigies is an argument against the truth of the +story, or the two on board must have been ill-executed. That in the shops +is very beautiful. + +The same gentleman possesses a Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and by the +assignees of John Bill, 1633; and on a slip of paper is, "Holy Bible +curiously bound in tapestry by the nuns of Little Gidding, 12mo., Barker." + +In a former Number a person replies that a Bible, bound by the nuns of +Gidding for Charles I., now belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury. Query the +_size of that_? + +E. H. + +Norwich, March 9. + +{229} + +_Lady Bingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--If C. W. B. will refer to the +supplementary volume of Burke's _Landed Gentry_, p. 159, he will see that +Sarah, daughter of John Heigham, of Giffords Hall, co. Suffolk (son of +William Heigham, of Giffords, second son of Clement Heigham, of Giffords, +second son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, co. Suffolk) married, first, Sir +Richard Bingham, Knt., of Melcombe Bingham, co. Dorset, governor of +Connaught in 1585, &c.; and secondly, Edward Waldegrave, of Lawford, co. +Essex. This, I presume, is the lady whose maiden name he enquires for. + +C. R. M. + +_Shakepeare's Use of Captious_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--In _All's Well that +Ends Well_, Act I. Sc. 3.: + + "I know I love in vain; strive against hope; + Yet in this _captious_ and intenible sieve, + I still pour in the waters of my love, + And lack not to lose still:" + +has not MR. SINGER, and all the other commentators upon this passage, +overlooked a most apparent and satisfactory solution? Is it not evident +that the printer simply omitted the vowel "a," and that the word, as +written by Shakespeare, was "cap_a_tious," the "t," according to the +orthography of the time, being put for the "c" used by modern writers? + +With great deference to former critics, I think this emendation is the most +probable, as it accords with the sentiment of Helena, who means to depict +her _vast_ but unretentive sieve, into which she poured the waters of her +love. + +W. F. S. + +P.S.--I hope MR. SINGER and J. S. W. will tell us what they think of this +proposed alteration. + +Bognor, Feb, 22. 1851. + +_Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--I would suggest that the "tanthony" at +Kimbolton is a corruption or mis-pronunciation of "tintany," +_tintinnabulum_. I have failed to discover any legend of St. Anthony, +confirmatory of ARUN'S suggestion. + +A. + +Newark, Notts., Feb. 12. + +_By the bye_ (Vol. iii., p 73.).--Is your correspondent S. S. not aware +that the phrase "Good bye" is a contraction of our ancestors' more +devotional one of "God be wi' ye!" + +D. P. W. + +Rotherhithe, Jan. 21. 1851. + +_Lama Beads_ (Vol. iii., p. 115.).--It is a pretty bold assertion that Lama +beads are derived from the Lamas of Asia. _Lamma_, according to Jamieson, +is simply the Scotch for _amber_. He says _Lamertyn steen_ means the same +in Teutonic. I do not find it in Wachter's _Lexicon_. + +Your correspondent's note is a curious instance of the inconvenience of +half quotation. He says the Lamas are an order of priests among the Western +Tartars. I was surprised at this, since their chief strength, as everybody +knows, is in Thibet. On referring to Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, I found that the +words are taken from thence; but they are not wrong there, since, by the +context they have reference to China. + +C. B. + +_Language given to Men, &c._ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The saying that language +was given to men to conceal their thoughts is generally fathered upon +Talleyrand at present. I did not know it was in Goldsmith; but the real +author of it was Fontenelle. + +C. B. + +_Daresbury, the White Chapel of England_ (Vol. iii., p. 60.).--This +_jeu-d'esprit_ was an after-dinner joke of a learned civilian, not less +celebrated for his wit than his book-lore. Some stupid blockhead inserted +it in the newspapers, and it is now unfortunately chronicled in your +valuable work. It is not at all to be wondered at that "the people in the +neighbourhood know nothing on the subject." + +ECHO. + +_Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., pp. 30. 70.).--Were not +the Lincolnshire estates of Count Bentinck, a Dutch nobleman who came over +with William III., and the ancestor of the late Lord George Bentinck, M.P. +for Lynn Regis, denominated _Little Holland_, which he increased by +reclaiming large portions in the Dutch manner from the Wash? + +E. S. TAYLOR. + +_Passage in the Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 259, &c.).--I do not profess to +offer an opinion as to the right reading; but with reference to the +suggestion of A. E. B. (p. 338.) that it means-- + + "Most busy when least I do it," + +or-- + + "Most busy when least employed," + +allow me to refer you to the splendid passage in the _De Officiis_, lib. +iii. cap. i., where Cicero expresses the same idea:-- + + "Pub. Scipionem,... eum, qui primus Africanus appellatus sit, dicere + solitum scripsit Cato,... _Nunquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum + otiosus_; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox, et + magno viro, ac sapiente digna; quae declarat, illum et in otio de + negotiis cogitare, et in solitudine secum loqui solitum: ut neque + cessaret unquam, et interdum colloquio alterius non egeret." + +ACHE. + +_Damasked Linen_ (Vol. iii., p. 13.).--I believe it has always been +customary to damask the linen used by our royal family with appropriate +devices. I have seen a cloth of Queen Anne's, with the "A. R." in double +cypher, surrounded by buds and flowers; and have myself a cloth with a view +of London, and inscribed "Der Konig Georg II.," which was purchased at +Brentford, no doubt having come from Kew adjoining. + +H. W. D. + +_Straw Necklaces_ (Vol. ii., p. 511.).--Having only lately read the "NOTES +AND QUERIES" (in fact, this being the first number subscribed for), I do +not know the previous allusion. It makes me mention a curious custom at +Carlisle, of the {230} servants who wish to be hired going into the +marketplace of Carlisle, or as they call it "Carel," with a straw in their +mouths. It is fast passing away, and _now_, instead of keeping the straw +constantly in the mouth, they merely put it in a few seconds if they see +any one looking at them. Anderson, in his _Cumberland Ballads_, alludes to +the custom:-- + + "At Carel I stuid wi' a strae i' my mouth, + The weyves com roun me in clusters: + 'What weage dus te ax, canny lad?' says yen." + +H. W. D. + +_Library of the Church of Westminster_ (Vol. iii., p. 152.).--The statement +here quoted from the _Delices de la Grande Bretagne_ is scarcely likely to +be correct. We all know how prone foreigners are to misapprehension, and +therefore, how unsafe it is to trust to their observations. In this case, +may not the description of the _Bibliotheque Publique_, which was open +night and morning, during the sittings of the courts of justice, have +originated merely from the rows of booksellers' stalls in Westminster-hall? + +J. G. N. + +_The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--Waterland (vol. vi. p. 242., +2nd edition, Oxford, 1843) gives a copy of the Decalogue taken from an old +MS. In this the first two commandments are embodied in one. Leighton, in +his _Exposition of the Ten Commandments_, when speaking on the point of the +manner of dividing them, refers in a vague manner to Josephus and Philo. + +R. V. + +_Sitting crosslegged to avert Evil_ (Vol. ii.,p. 407.).--Browne says:-- + + "To set crosselegg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, + is accounted bad, and friends will perswade us from it. The same + conceit religiously possessed the ancients, as is observable from + Pliny: 'Poplites alternis genibus imponere nefas olim;' and also from + Athenaeus, that it was an old veneficious practice."--_Vulg. Err._, lib. + v. cap. xxi. Sec. 9. + +ACHE. + +_George Steevens_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--A. Z. wishes to know whether a +memoir of George Steevens, the Shakspearian commentator, was ever +published, and what has become of the manuscripts. + +I believe the late Sir James Allen Park wrote his life, but whether for +public or private circulation I cannot tell. + +The late George Steevens had a relative, a Mrs. Collinson, and daughters +who lived with him at Hampstead, and with him when he died, in Jan. 1800. +Miss Collinson married a Mr. Pyecroft, whose death, I think, is in the +_Gentleman's Magazine_ for this month: perhaps the Pyecroft family may give +information respecting the manuscripts. + + "The house he lived in at Hampstead, called the Upper Flask, was + formerly a place of public entertainment near the summit of Hampstead + Hill. Here Richardson sends his Clarissa in one of her escapes from + Lovelace. Here, too, the celebrated Kit-Cat Club used to meet in the + summer months; and here, after it became a private abode, the no less + celebrated George Steevens lived and died."--Vide Park's _Hampstead_, + pp. 250. 352. + +I just recollect Mr. Steevens, who was very kind to us, as children. My +mother, who is an octogenarian, remembers him well, and says he always took +a nosegay, tied to the top of his cane, every day to Sir Joseph Banks. + +JULIA R. BOCKETT. + +Southcote Lodge, near Reading. + +_The Waistcoat bursted, &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 505.).--The general effect of +melancholy: digestion is imperfectly performed, and melancholy patients +generally complain of being "blown up." BODVAR'S "blowing up," on the +contrary, is the mere effect of the generation of gases in a dead body, +well illustrated by a floating dead dog on the river side, or the bursting +of a leaden coffin. + +H. W. D. + +_Love's Labour's Lost_ (Vol. iii., p. 163.).--Your correspondent has very +neatly and ably made out how the names of the ladies ought to have been +placed; but the error is the poet's, not the printer's. It is impossible to +conceive how, in printing or transcribing, such a mistake should arise; the +names are quite unlike, and several lines distant from one another. Such +forgetfulness is not very uncommon in poets, especially those of the +quickest and liveliest spirit. It is the old mistake of Bentley and other +commentators, to think that whatever is wrong must be spurious. These, too, +we must recollect, are fictitious characters. + +C. W. B. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Agreeing with Mr. Lower, that they who desire to know the truth as to the +earlier periods of our national history, will do wisely to search for it +among the mists and shadows of antiquity, and rather collect it for +themselves out of the monkish chronicles than accept the statements of +popular historiographers, we receive with great satisfaction the addition +to our present list of translations of such chronicles, which Mr. Lower has +given us in _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from 1066 to 1176, now first +translated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History of the +Establishment_. The original Chronicle, which is preserved among the +Cottonian MSS., though known to antiquaries and historians, was never +committed to the press until the year 1846, when it was printed by the +_Anglia Christiana Society_ from a transcript made by the late Mr. Petrie. +Mr. Lower's translation has been made from that edition; and though +undertaken by him as an illustration of local history, will be found well +deserving the perusal of the general reader, not only from the light it +throws upon the Norman invasion and upon the {231} history of the abbey +founded by the Conqueror in fulfilment of his vow, but also for the +pictures it exhibits of the state of society during the period which it +embraces. + +BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Embarrassment of the Clergy in the Matter of Church +Discipline._ Two ably written letters by Presbyter Anglicanus, reprinted, +by request, from the _Morning Post_;--_Ann Ash, or the Foundling_, by the +_Author of 'Charlie Burton' and 'The Broken Arm.'_ If not quite equal to +_Charlie Burton_, and there are few children's stories which are so, it is +a tale well calculated to sustain the writer's well-deserved +reputation;--_Burns and his Biographers, being a Caveat to Cavillers, or an +Earnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and Calumnies which, for half a +Century, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the Tomb of Robert Burns._ + +Messrs. 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