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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, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: February 13, 2012 [EBook #38864] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, VOL. IV *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram 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.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been +standardized. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A +list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the +end.] + + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. IV.--No. 103. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 289 + + Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 290 + + Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith 291 + + Folk Lore:--Medical Use of Pigeons--Michaelmas + Goose; St. Martin's Cock--Surrey Folk Lore 291 + + The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 292 + + Minor Notes:--"They that touch pitch"--Pasquinade--Two + Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final 292 + + QUERIES:-- + + Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 293 + + Sanderson and Taylor 293 + + Minor Queries:--"Vox verè Anglorum"--"Sacro + Sancta Regum Majestas"--Translator of Horrebow's + "Iceland"--"Kings have their Conquests"--Dryden; + Illustrations by T. Holt White--Pauper's + Badge, Meaning of--The Landing of William Prince + of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.--The + Lowy of Tunbridge--Bones of Birds--"Malvina, + a Tragedy"--Rinuccini Gallery 293 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Meaning of Aneroid--Fox's + Cunning 295 + + REPLIES:-- + + Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. 295 + + Anagrams 297 + + Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty, + &c. 297 + + Marriage of Ecclesiastics 298 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Robert Douglas--The Leman + Baronetcy--Cachecope Bell--"Dieu et mon Droit"--Defoe's + House at Stoke Newington--Study of Geometry in + Lancashire--Coke, how pronounced--Quistourne--Seneca's + Medea--The Editor of Jewel's Works in + Folio--Poetaster--Post Pascha--Linteamina and + Surplices--Climate--Ancient Language of Egypt--Welwood's + Memoirs 299 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 302 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 303 + + Notices to Correspondents 303 + + Advertisements 303 + + + + +Notes. + + +THE CAXTON MEMORIAL. + +Few persons having a common object in view, and equally desirous of its +attainment, fail in carrying it into effect. The object of "The Caxton +Memorial" is obviously to do honour to the first English printer; and if +a man's best monument be his own works, it will be necessary to +ascertain of what they consist. It is well known that most of the works +printed by Caxton were translated from the French, many doubtless by +himself. The Prefaces were evidently his own, and the continuation of +the _Polychronicon_ was confessedly written by himself. The most +valuable contribution to "The Caxton Coffer" would be a list of the +works which it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with some +calculation of their probable extent and cost of production. The +originals being in many cases of extreme rarity, it would be necessary +to transcribe fairly each work, and to collate it with the original in +its progress through the press. The following enumeration of the +Translations alone will give some idea of the work to be undertaken: + +_The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye._ (1471.) + +_The Game and playe of the Chesse._ 1474. + +_Thymage, or Myrrour of the World._ (1481.) + +_The Historye of Reynart the foxe._ 1481. + +_The laste siege and conqueste of Jherusalem._ 1481. + +_The Golden Legende._ 1483. + +_The Book called Cathon._ 1483. + +_The Book of the techynge of the Knyght of the Toure._ (1484.) + +_The Fables of Esope, Avian, Alfonce, and Poge._ 1484. + +_The Booke of the ordre of Chyvalry or knyghthode._ (1484.) + +_The Lyf of Prince Charles the Grete._ 1485. + +_The Ryal Book, or Book for a kyng._ 1485. + +_Thystorye of the noble knyght Parys_. (1485.) + +_The Doctrinal of Sapience._ 1489. + +_The Book of fayttee of armes and of Chyvalrye._ 1489. + +_A lityl treatise of the arte to knowe well to dye._ 1490. + +_The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vyrgyle._ 1490. + +_The Curial of Maystre Alain Charretier._ n. d. + +_The Lyf of the holy Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde._ n. d.; and, lastly, + +_The Vitas Patrum_, which was translated by Caxton in 1486, but printed +by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. + +Such are some of the materials for the "Memorial" suggested by MR. +BOLTON CORNEY; and if the original subscribers to a Monument should +consent to such an appropriation of their funds, it will be necessary to +apportion the number of copies to be distributed to each subscriber, +according to the amount of the original contribution. It is to be +presumed that the work will be strictly limited to subscribers, and +that no copies will be printed for sale, the object being, to do honour +to Caxton, and produce a lasting Memorial of that industrious printer. +The form of the work is of importance, with reference to the cost of its +production: and if a new life of the first English printer should +perchance be found necessary, "The Caxton Coffer" will require to be +considerably replenished before the literary undertaking can be carried +into effect. + + BERIAH BOTFIELD. + + +LORD STRAFFORD AND ARCHBISHOP USSHER. + +In Lord Campbell's account of the conduct of Archbishop Williams, and +the advice which that prelate gave to Charles I. with respect to the +attainder of Lord Strafford, is a sentence which seems to require a +"Note." Having observed that "Williams's conduct with respect to +Strafford cannot be defended," and having referred particularly to his +speech in parliament, he proceeds in these words:-- + + "The Bill of Attainder being passed, although he professed to + disapprove of it, he agreed to go with three other prelates to try + to induce the king to assent to it, and thus he stated the + question:--'Since his Majesty refers his own judgment to his + judges, and they are to answer it, if an innocent person + suffers,--why may he not satisfy his conscience in the present + matter, since competent judges in the law have awarded that they + find the Earl guilty of treason, by suffering the judgment to + stand, though in his own mind he is satisfied that the party + convicted was not criminous?' The other three bishops, trusting to + his learning and experience, joined with him in sanctioning this + distinction, in laying all the blame on the judges, and in saying + that the king, with a good conscience, might agree to Strafford's + death. Clarendon mainly imputes Strafford's death to Williams's + conduct on this occasion, saying that 'he acted his part with + prodigious boldness and impiety.' It is stated as matter of + palliation by others, that Ussher, the celebrated Archbishop of + Armagh, was one of this deputation, and that Strafford, although + aware of the advice he had given, was attended by him on the + scaffold, and received from him the last consolations of + religion."--_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. ii. p. 494., second + edition. + +The account which Lord Campbell has here given is the same in substance +as that given by Bishop Hackett in his _Life of Williams_ (Part II. p. +161.), and in several particulars is calculated to mislead the reader. +The whole story has been very carefully examined by the late Dr. +Elrington in his _Life of Archbishop Ussher_. Hackett's account is very +incorrect. There were five prelates consulted by the king, Ussher, +Williams, Juxon, Morton (Durham) and Potter (Carlisle). The bishops had +two interviews with the king, one in the morning, and the other in the +evening of the same day. At the morning meeting Ussher was not present. +It was Sunday, and he was engaged at the time preaching at Covent +Garden. In the evening, he was in attendance, but so far from giving the +advice suggested by Williams, much less approving his pernicious +distinction between a public and private conscience, Ussher plainly +advised the king, that if he was not satisfied of Strafford being guilty +of treason, he "ought not in conscience to assent to his condemnation." +Such is the account given by Dr. Parr, Ussher's chaplain, who declares, +that, when the primate was supposed to be dying, he asked his Grace-- + + "Whether he had advised the king to pass the bill against the Earl + of Strafford? To which the Primate answered: 'I know there is such + a thing most wrongfully laid to my charge; for I neither gave nor + approved of any such advice as that the king should assent to the + bill against the Earl; but, on the contrary, told his Majesty, + that if he was satisfied by what he heard at his trial, that the + Earl was not guilty of treason, his Majesty ought not in + conscience to consent to his condemnation. And this the king knows + well enough, and can clear me if he pleases.' The hope of the + Primate was fulfilled, for, when a report reached Oxford that the + Primate was dead, the king expressed in very strong terms, to + Colonel William Legg and Mr. Kirk, who were then in waiting, his + regret at the event, speaking in high terms of his piety and + learning. Some one present said, 'he believed he might be so, were + it not for his persuading your Majesty to consent to the Earl of + Strafford's execution;' to which the king in a great passion + replied, 'that it was false, for after the bill was passed, the + Archbishop came to me, saying with tears in his eyes, Oh Sir, what + have you done? I fear that this act may prove a great trouble to + your conscience, and pray God that your Majesty may never suffer + by the signing of this bill.'"--Elrington's _Life of Ussher_, p. + 214. + +This account Dr. Elrington has taken from the narrative given by Dr. +Parr, who adds, that he had received this account of the testimony borne +by the king from Colonel Legg and Mr. Kirk themselves:-- + + "This is the substance of two certificates, taken divers times + under the hands of these two gentlemen of unquestionable credit; + both which, since they agree in substance, I thought fit to + contract into one testimony, which I have inserted here, having + the originals by me, to produce if occasion be."--Parr's _Life of + Ussher_, p. 61. + +Indeed, considering the great and uninterrupted friendship which +subsisted between Ussher and Strafford, considering that the primate was +his chosen friend during his trial and imprisonment, and attended him to +the scaffold, nothing could be more improbable than that he should have +advised the king to consent to his death. At all events, the story is +contradicted by those most competent to speak to its truth, by the +archbishop and by the king; and therefore, in a work so deservedly +popular as Lord Campbell's, one cannot but regret that any currency +should be given to a calumny so injurious to a prelate whose character +is as deserving of our esteem, as his learning is of our veneration. + + PEREGRINUS. + + +POETICAL COINCIDENCES. + +_Sheridan._ + +In the account which Moore has given, in his _Life of Sheridan_, of the +writings left unfinished by that celebrated orator and dramatist, he +states: + + "There also remain among his papers three acts of a drama without + a name, written evidently in haste, and with scarcely any + correction." + +From this production he gives the following verses, to which he has +appended the note I have placed immediately after them:-- + + "Oh yield, fair lids, the treasures of my heart, + Release those beams, that make this mansion bright; + From her sweet sense, Slumber! tho' sweet thou art, + Begone, and give the air she breathes in light. + + "Or while, oh Sleep, thou dost those glances hide, + Let rosy slumber still around her play, + Sweet as the cherub Innocence enjoy'd, + When in thy lap, new-born, in smiles he lay. + + "And thou, oh Dream, that com'st her sleep to cheer, + Oh take my shape, and play a lover's part; + Kiss her from me, and whisper in her ear, + Till her eyes shine, 'tis night within my heart." + + "I have taken the liberty here of supplying a few rhymes and words + that are wanting in the original copy of the song. The last line + of all runs thus in the manuscript:-- + + 'Til her eye shines, I live in darkest night,' + + which not rhyming as it ought, I have ventured to alter as above." + +Now the following sonnet, which occurs in the third book of Sir Philip +Sidney's _Arcadia_, is evidently the source from whence Sheridan drew +his inspiration, the concluding line in both poems being the same. Had +Moore given Sheridan's without alteration, the resemblance would in all +probability be found much closer:-- + + "Lock up, faire liddes, the treasure of my heart, + Preserve those beames, this ages onely light: + To her sweet sence, sweet sleepe some ease impart, + Her sence too weake to beare her spirits might. + + "And while, O Sleepe, thou closest up her sight, + (Her sight where Love did forge his fairest dart) + O harbour all her parts in easefull plight: + Let no strange dreame make her faire body start. + + "But yet, O dreame, if thou wilt not depart + In this rare subject from thy common right: + But wilt thy selfe in such a seate delight, + + "Then take my shape, and play a lover's part: + Kisse her from me, and say unto her sprite, + Till her eyes shine, I live in darkest night." + +The edition I quote from is that "Printed by W. S. for Simon Waterson, +London, 1627." I may add, that I wrote to Moore as far back as 1824 to +point out this singular coincidence; but although the communication was +courteously acknowledged, I do not believe the circumstance has been +noticed in any subsequent edition of Sheridan's memoirs. + + T. C. SMITH. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Medical Use of Pigeons_ (Vol. iv., p. 228.).--In my copy of Mr. +Alford's very unsatisfactory edition of Donne, I find noted (in addition +to R. T.'s quotation from _The Life of Mrs. Godolphin_) references to +Pepys's _Diary_, October 19, 1663, and January 21, 1667-8, and the +following from Jer. Taylor, ed. Heber, vol. xii. p. 290.: "We cut living +pigeons in halves, and apply them to the feet of men in fevers." + + J. C. R. + +_Michaelmas Goose--St. Martin's Cock._--In the county of Kilkenny, and +indeed all through the S.E. counties of Ireland, the "Michaelmas Goose" +is still had in honour. "St. Martin's Bird" (see p. 230. _antè_) is, +however, the cock, whose _blood is shed_ in honour of that saint at +Martinmas, Nov. 11. The same superstition does not apply, that I am +aware of, to the Michaelmas Goose, which is merely looked on as a dish +customary on that day, with such as can afford it, and always +accompanied by a _mélange_ of vegetables (potatos, parsnips, cabbage, +and onions) mashed together, with butter, and forming a dish termed +_Kailcannon_. The idea is far different as to St. Martin's Cock, the +blood of which is always shed _sacrificially_ in honour of the Saint. +Query, 1. The territorial extent of the latter custom? And, 2. What +pagan deity has transferred his honours to St. Martin of Tours. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny. + +_Surrey Folk Lore._--A "wise woman" has lately made her appearance not +far from Reigate in Surrey. One of the farmers' wives there, on being +scalded the other day, sent to the old dame, who sent back a curious +doggrel, which the good woman was to repeat at stated times. At the end +of a week the scald got well, and the good woman told us that she knew +there was no harm in the charm, for "she had heard say as how it was +some verse from the Bible." + +When in a little shop the other day, in the same part of the country, +one village dame was speaking of the death of some neighbour, when +another said, that she hoped "they had been and told the bees." + +In the same neighbourhood I was told a sovereign cure for the goitre was +to form the sign of the cross on the neck with the hand of a corpse. + + M. M. P. + + +THE CAXTON COFFER. + +The devices of our early English printers are often void of significancy +early, or else mere quibbles. In that particular, Caxton set a +commendable example. + +His device is "W.4.7C." The two figures, however, are interlaced, and +seem to admit of two interpretations. I must cite, on this question, the +famous triumvirate--Ames, Herbert, and Dibdin: + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--Joseph AMES, 1749. + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--William HERBERT, 1785. + + "The figures in the large device [above described] form the + _reverse impression_ of 74; meaning, _as it has been stated_, that + our printer commenced business in England, in the year 1474: but + not much weight can be attached to this remark, as no copy of the + _Chess book_, printed in 1474, has yet been discovered which + presents us with this device."--T. F. DIBDIN, 1810. + +In lieu of baseless conjectures, I have here to complain of timidity. +There is scarcely room for a doubt on the date. As dom de Vaines +observes, with regard to dates, "dans le bas âge on supprimoit le +millième et les centaines, commençant aux dixaines." There can be no +objection to the interpretation on that score. The main question +therefore is, in what order should we read the interlaced figures? Now, +the position of the _point_ proves that we should read 74--which is the +date of _The game and playe of the chesse_. The figures indicate 1474 as +clearly as the letters W. C. indicate William Caxton. What is the just +inference, must ever remain a matter of opinion. + +In the woodcut of _Arsmetrique_, published in the _Myrrour of the +worlde_, A.D. 1481, I observe the figures 74 rather conspicuously +placed, and perhaps the device was then first adopted. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +Minor Notes. + +"_They that touch pitch_," &c.--A few Sundays since the clergyman that I +"sit under," quoting in his discourse the words "they that touch pitch +will be defiled," ascribed them to "the wisest of men." A lady of his +congregation (who was, I fear, more critical than devout) pounced upon +her pastor's mistake, and asked me on the following Monday if I also had +noticed it. I denied that it was one; but she laughed at my ignorance, +produced a Shakspeare, and showed me the words in the mouth of Dogberry +(_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act III. Sc. 3.). However, by the help of a +"Cruden," I was able to find the same expression, not indeed in Solomon, +but in the son of Sirach (ch. xiii. v. 1.). + +If Shakspeare's appropriation of this passage has not been noticed +before, may I request the insertion of this note? It may possibly +prevent other learned divines from falling into the common (?) mistake +of thus quoting Dogberry as "the wisest of men." + + E. J. G. + + Preston. + +_Pasquinade._--In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the +following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from +"NOTES AND QUERIES." As it is not probable that the Papal police allowed +it to remain long before the eyes of the lieges of his Holiness, allow +me to lay up in your pages this memorial of a visit to Rome during the +"Aggression" summer. + + "Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras, + Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius. + + "When a league 'gainst our Faith Pope with Cardinal tries, + Neither _Wiseman_ is Pious, nor _Pius_ is Wise. + + "Quando Papa' o' Cardinale + Chiesa' Inglese tratta male, + Que Chiamo quella gente, + Piu? No-no, ni Sapiente. + + ANGLUS." + +The Italian version will of course be put down as _English_-Italian, and +therefore worse than mediocre; but I wished to perpetuate, along with +the sense of the Latin couplet, a little _jeu d'esprit_ which I saw half +obliterated on a wall at Rovigo, in the Lombardo-Venetian territory; +being a play on the family name and character of Pius IX.: + + "Piu?--No-no: ma stai Ferette;" + +which may be read, + + "Pious?--Not at all: but _still_ Ferette." + + A. B. R. + +_Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final._-- + + 1. + + Though from rough cough, or hiccough free, + That man has pain enough, + Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough + Or lough begins to slough. + + 2. + + 'Tis not an easy task to show + How _o_, _u_, _g_, _h_ sound; since _though_ + An Irish _lough_ and English _slough_, + And _cough_ and hic_cough_, all allow, + Differ as much as _tough_, and _through_, + There seems no reason why they do. + + W. J. T. + + + + +Queries. + + +CAN BISHOPS VACATE THEIR SEES? + +In Lord Dover's note on one of Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Mann (1st +series, vol. iii. p 424.), I find it stated that Dr. Pearce, the +well-known Bishop of Rochester, was not allowed to vacate his see, when +in consequence of age and infirmity he wished to do so, on the plea that +a bishopric as being a peerage is _inalienable_. The Deanery of +Westminster, which he also held, he was allowed to resign, and did so. + +Now my impression has always been, that a bishop, as far as his peerage +is concerned, is much on the same footing as a representative peer of +Scotland or Ireland; I mean that his peerage is resignable at will. Of +course the representative peers are peers of Scotland or Ireland +respectively; but by being elected representative peers they acquire a +_pro-tempore_ peerage of the realm coincident with the duration of the +parliament, and at a dissolution require re-election, when of course any +such peer need not be reappointed. + +Now the clergy, says your correspondent CANONICUS EBORACENSIS (Vol. iv., +p. 197.), are _represented_ by the bishops. Although, therefore, whilst +they are so representative, they are peers of the realm just as much as +the lay members of the Upper House, I can see no reason why any bishop, +who, like Dr. Pearce, feels old age and infirmity coming on, should not +resign this representation, _i.e._ his peerage, or the _temporal_ +station which in England, owing to the existing connexion between church +and state, attaches to the _spiritual_ office of a bishop. + +Of course, ecclesiastically speaking, there is no doubt at all that a +bishop may resign his spiritual functions, _i.e._ the overlooking of his +diocese, for any meet cause. Our colonial bishops, for instance, do so. +The late warden of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, Bishop Coleridge, had +been Bishop of Barbadoes. So that if Lord Dover's theory be correct, a +purely secular reason, arising from the peculiar position of the English +church, would prevent any conscientious bishop from resigning duties, to +the discharge of which, from old age, bodily infirmity, or impaired +mental organs, he felt himself unfit. + +Perhaps some of your correspondents will give me some information on +this matter. + + K. S. + + +SANDERSON AND TAYLOR. + +I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can explain the following +coincidence between Sanderson and Jeremy Taylor. Taylor, in the +beginning of the _Ductor Dubitantium_, says: + + "It was well said of St. Bernard, 'Conscientia candor est lucis + æternæ, et speculum sine macula Dei majestatis, et imago bonitatis + illius;' 'Conscience is the brightness and splendour of the + eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the + image of the goodness of God.' It is higher which Tatianus said of + conscience, Μόνον εἶναι συνείδησιν Θεὸν, 'Conscience is + God unto us,' which saying he had from Menander, + + Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ συνείδησις Θεὸς. + + "God is in our hearts by his laws; he rules in us by his + substitute, our conscience; God sits there and gives us laws; and + as God said unto Moses, 'I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,' that + is, to give him laws, and to minister in the execution of those + laws, and to inflict angry sentences upon him, so hath God done to + us." + +In the beginning of Sanderson's second lecture, _De Obligatione +Conscientiæ_, he says: + + "Hine illud ejusdem Menandri. Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ + συνείδησις Θεὸς; _Mortalibus sum cuique Conscientia Deus est_, + Quo nimirum sensu dixit Dominus se _constituisse Mosen Deum + Pharaoni_; quod seis Pharaoni voluntatem Dei subinde _inculcaret_, + ad cum faciendam Pharaonem _instigaret_, non obsequentem + contentibus plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, + eundem quoque _constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum_ singularium + propriam _Conscientiam_." + +Sanderson's _Lectures_ were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not +published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, +1659. The _Ductor Dubitantium_ is dedicated to Charles II. after the +Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, +therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. +Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were +borrowed from some older common source, where they occur _associated_ as +they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source +pointed out. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + + +Minor Queries. + +220. "_Vox verè Anglorum._"--"_Sacro-Sancta Regum +Majestas._"--_Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."_--Perhaps some of your +readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two +following works, which were published anonymously. + +1. _Vox verè Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King._ 4to. 1659. +Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not +given. + +2. _Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas: or, the Sacred and Royall Prerogative +of Christian Kings._ 4to. Printed at Oxford, 1644. The Dedication is +signed "J. A." + +I should also wish to find out, if possible, the name of the translator +of Horrebow's _Natural History of Iceland_, published in folio, in +London, in 1758. + + Βορέας. + +221. "_Kings have their Conquests._"--I have met with a passage +commencing thus: + + "Kings have their conquests, length of days their date, + Triumph its tomb, felicity its fate;" + +followed by two more lines expressive of the infinity of Divine power, +as compared with human, which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to +be found? + + JAMES F. ABSALON. + + Portsea. + +222. _Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White._--The late T. Holt White, +Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the _Areopagitica_ of Milton, +adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting +illustrations), had compiled in _many_ interleaved volumes of the works +of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he +had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is +reported to have said, "_It would be unjust to meddle with such a +compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with._" +Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has +been preserved, and where it is? + + ÆGROTUS. + +223. _Pauper's Badge, Meaning of._--In the Churchwarden's Accounts for +the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry: + + "22 July, 1716. + + "It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons _hath refused to + weare the badge_, that she should not be allowed the collection + [_i.e._ the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future + w'h shall be due." + +Can any correspondent inform me what this _badge_ was, and also if it +was of general use in other places? + + J. B. COLMAN. + +224. _The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. +Northcote, R. A._--Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform +me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the +Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and +afterwards engraved by J. Parker? + + A. H. W. + +225. _The Lowy of Tunbridge._--Lambarde (_Perambulation of Kent_, 1596, +p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory +commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or +Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at +first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to +Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and +land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which +Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on +Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present +any trace of such a territory remaining. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851. + +226. _Bones of Birds._--Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the +bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with +air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should +suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, _quite empty_, would be +more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents +will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with +which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the +more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous +expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere? + +Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I +hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful +miscellany. + + AN AERONAUT. + +227. _"Malvina, a Tragedy."_--Can any of your readers afford any +information about (1.) _Malvina, a Tragedy_, Glasgow, printed by Andrew +Foules, 1786, 8vo., pp. 68? A MS. note on the copy in my library states +it to be written by Mr. John Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) _Iphigenia, +a Tragedy_ in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est.--Ovid. MDCCLXXXVII. My +copy has this MS. note: "By John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," +in the handwriting of Francis, seventh Baron Napier. Neither of these +tragedies in noticed in the _Biographia Dramatica_. + + J. MT. + +228. _Rinuccini Gallery._--I see by a late number of the _Athenæum_ +newspaper, that the splendid collection of pictures preserved in the +Rinuccini Palace at Florence will be brought to the hammer in the month +of May 1852. It has been stated, that amongst the works of art at one +period extant in the Rinuccini Palace, were a number of paintings made +by Italian artists for Cardinal Rinuccini, when on his Legatine mission +to Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century, and representing +his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in November 1645. It has also been +asserted that these interesting historical paintings were wilfully +destroyed from a very discreditable motive. The importance of these +cartoons, as illustrating a period when Ireland became the final +battle-field of the contending parties which then divided the British +dominions, will at once be acknowledged; and at this period, when so +many foreigners are assembled in London, perhaps some reader of "NOTES +AND QUERIES" may be able to set the question of the existence or +destruction of these cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person +about to seek the genial air of Italy during the winter may bear this +"Query" in mind, and forward to your valuable paper a "Note" of the +contents of the Rinuccini Gallery. I need hardly say that the person so +doing will confer a favour on every student of Irish History. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny, Oct. 11. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Meaning of Aneroid._--What is the derivation of the word _aneroid_, as +applied to a new description of barometer lately introduced? + + AGRICOLA. + + [From a note in Mr. Dent's interesting pamphlet, _A Treatise on + the Aneroid, a newly invented Portable Barometer; with a short + Historical Notice of Barometers in general, their Construction and + Use_, it appears that the word _aneroid_ has been the subject of + some philological discussion. "It is said to be derived from three + Greek words, ἀ, νηρὸς, and εἶδος, and to signify _a form without + fluid_. If so, it does not appear very happily chosen, since it + indicates merely what the instrument is _not_, without at all + explaining what it is."] + +_Fox's Cunning._--Can any of your correspondents or readers give any +authentic information as to the fact having been witnessed by any one, +of the old story of the fox relieving itself of fleas by taking a +feather in its mouth, and gradually, though slowly enough, retrograding +itself into the water, first by legs and tail, then body, shoulders, and +head to the nose, and thus compelling the fleas, to escape from the +drowning element, to pass over the nose on to the bridge of the feather, +which is then committed to the stream. + +Has any one actually seen this? Has any one heard it related by one who +has seen the ejectment performed? + + J. D. + + Torquay, May 12. + + [Lord Brougham, in his _Dialogues on Instinct_ (ed. 1844, p. + 110.), does not allude to this proverbial instance, but says: "I + know not if it (the Fox's cunning) was ever more remarkably + displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country; where Reynard, + being hard pressed, disappeared suddenly, and was, after strict + search, found immersed in a water pool up to the very snout, by + which he held a willow bough hanging over the pond."] + + + + +Replies. + + +ARCHBISHOP OF SPALATRO. + +(Vol. iv., p. 257.) + +_Audi alteram partem_ is too excellent and equitable a rule, not to find +ample scope given for its exercise in "NOTES AND QUERIES," especially +where the memory of a foreigner is concerned, who, after dwelling awhile +among us under the protection of our hospitality, and in the communion +of our Church, was content eventually to sacrifice his life, rather than +forsake the truth, or repudiate the Church of England. + +I am led to this remark by observing the tone of depreciation in which +Chalmers speaks of Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatro, in the +extract produced at p. 257. out of the _Biographical Dictionary_, for +the satisfaction of MR. W. FRAZER. + +The words of Chalmers, which I conceive to be objectionable, alike +ungenerous and inaccurate--such as Fuller might rejoice in (conf. +_Church History_, book x.)--are: + + "He returned to Rome in 1622, _where he abjured his errors_; but + on the discovery of a correspondence which he held with some + Protestants, he was thrown into prison, where he died in 1625. He + was a man of great abilities and learning, _although remarkable + for a fickleness in religious matters_." + +This reproach against the good archbishop, of having renounced the +English communion (for that is doubtless what is meant), is clearly an +unjust accusation, and appears to be based upon no better authority than +a spurious book, published in the Low Countries under Spalatro's name, +but without his knowledge or sanction, and bearing the following title: +_Marc. Ant. de Dominis sui reditus ex Angliâ concilium exponit_, 4to. +Dilingæ, 1623. This book at the time of its publication deceived Bishop +Hall, and gave occasion to the _Alter Ecebolius M. Ant. de Dominis, +pluribus dominis inservire doctus_: 4to. Lond. 1624. + +It is only fair, certainly, to Spalatro's memory, that the calumnies +thus raised against him in his lifetime should not now be perpetuated by +the inadvertency of modern writers, for so far at least the means are at +hand to refute them. Now there is one writer especially who has done +much to vindicate the name of Ant. de Dominis from this charge of +"fickleness in religious matters." That writer is Bishop Cosin, whose +testimony herein is of the more value from the fact of his having been +present (as Bishop Overall's secretary) at the "Conference between +Spalato and Overall," which "Conference" the following particulars were +collected by Mr. Gutch, _e Schedis MSS. Cosini_, and are preserved in +the _Collectanea Curiosa_, vol. ii. p. 18.: + + "A. Spalato came into England in 1616, being desirous to live + under the protection of King James, having before been recommended + by Padre Paolo. By King James's bounty and care he was safely + conveyed through Germany into England, and lodged in Lambeth + Palace: Abbot thinking fit to retire to Croydon, till either + Bishop Andrewes or Bishop Overall had conferred with him. The king + sent Bishop Overall to him, who took in his company his secretary, + and commanded him to be near him the same morning Spalato arrived, + to hear what passed between them. After dinner, some other being + present, the discourse began about the state of the Church of + England; of which Overall having given a large account, Spalato + received great satisfaction, and made his protestation that he + came into England then to live with us in the union and profession + of that Catholic religion which was so much obstructed in his own + country, that he could not with safety and peace of conscience + live there any longer. Then he added what satisfaction he had + received from the monitory preface of King James [Vid. _Apol. for + the Oath of Allegiance_, ed. 4to. Lond. 1609] to all the estates + and churches of Christendom; wherein the true ancient faith and + religion of the Catholic Church is set forth, and no heterodoxies + or novelties maintained: to the defence of which faith, and + service of which Church, as he had already a long time applied his + studies, and wrote ten books, _De Republicâ Ecclesiasticâ_, so, by + the favour of God, and King James, he was now come into England to + review and publish them, together with the _History of the Council + of Trent_, which he had brought with him from Padre Paolo of + Venice, who delivered it into his hands; by whom he was chiefly + persuaded and encouraged to have recourse to the king and the + Church of England, being the best founded for the profession of + true Catholic doctrine, and the freest from error and novelties, + of any Church in all places besides. Then they descended to the + particular points of doctrine," &c. + +It is, however, _not_ with the _doctrinal_ question which would, of +course, be inadmissible in "NOTES AND QUERIES," but with the historical +_fact_, that we have to do; the question being, whether Antonius +Spalateasis was "fickle" in respect of the Church of England. + +There is an interesting sketch of Spalatro's _after_ history in Cosin's +_Treatise against Transubstantiation_, chap. ii. § 7.; from Luke de +Beaulieu's translation of which (Cosin's _Collected Works_, vol. iv. p. +160., Oxford, 1851) I quote the following: + + "Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, (was) a man well + versed in the Sacred Writings, and the records of antiquity; who, + having left Italy (when he could no longer remain in it, either + with quiet or safety) by the advice of his intimate friend, Paulus + Venetus, took sanctuary under the protection of King James of + blessed memory, in the bosom of the Church of England, which he + did faithfully follow in all points and articles of religion. But, + being daily vexed with many affronts and injuries, and wearied by + the unjust persecutions of some sour and over-rigid men, who + bitterly declaimed everywhere against his life and actions, he at + last resolved to return into Italy with a safe conduct. Before he + departed he was, by order from the king, questioned by some + commissionated bishops, what he thought of the religion and church + of England, which for so many years he had owned and obeyed, and + what he would say of it in the Roman court. _To this query he gave + in writing this memorable answer, 'I am resolved, even with the + danger of my life, in profess before the Pope himself, that the + Church of England is a true and orthodox Church of Christ.' This + he not only promised, but faithfully performed_; for though, soon + after his departure, there came a book out of the Low Countries, + falsely bearing his name, by whose title many were deceived, even + among the English, and thereby moved to tax him with apostacy, and + of being another Ecebolius; yet, when he came to Rome (where he + was most kindly entertained in the palace of Pope Gregory XV., who + formerly had been his fellow-student), _he could never be + persuaded_ by the Jesuits and others, who daily thronged upon him, + neither to subscribe the new-devised tenets of the Council of + Trent, or _to retract those orthodox books_ which he had printed + in England and Germany, or _to renounce the communion of the + Church of England, in whose defence he constantly persisted to the + very last_. But, presently after the decease of Pope Gregory, he + was imprisoned by the Jesuits and Inquisitors in Castle St. + Angelo, where, by being barbarously used, and almost starved, he + soon got a mortal sickness, and died in a few days, though not + without suspicion of being poisoned. The day following, his corpse + was by the sentence of the Inquisition tied to an infamous stake, + and there burnt to ashes, _for no other reason but that he refused + to make abjuration of the religion of the Church of England_, and + subscribe some of the lately-made decrees of Trent, which were + pressed upon him as canons of the Catholic faith. I have taken + occasion (Cosin adds) to insert this narration, perhaps not known + to many, to make it appear that this reverend prelate, who did + great service to the Church of God, may justly (as I said before) + be reckoned among the writers of the Church of England." + +In the first collection of Lord Somers's _Tracts_, vol. iv. p. 575., +there is a curious paper bearing the title: _A relation sent from Rome, +of the process, sentence, and execution done upon the body, pictures, +and books of Marcus Ant. de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, after his +death._ There are some notices of De Dominis, also, among the Birch and +other MSS. in the British Museum. + +MR. FRAZER might possibly ascertain the other particular about which he +inquires, viz. whether Spalatro "_acted_ as a bishop in England," by +consulting some of the numerous tracts written at the time, both against +and in vindication of the archbishop; and, more particularly, a tract +entitled: _De pace religionis M. Ant. de Dominis Spalateus. Archiepisc. +Epist. ad venerabilem virum Jos. Hallum, Archipresbyterum Vigorn_, &c.: +edit. Ves. Sequan. 1666. + + J. SANSOM. + +Perhaps it may be doubted whether it was the wish of Antonius de Dominis +to reunite the churches of Rome and England: however this may be, as +Dean of Windsor, he accused one of the canons, Richard Mountagu +(afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich) of preaching +the Roman doctrine of the invocation of saints and angels. Mountagu +replied in a pamphlet, the title of which is, _Immediate Addresse unto +GOD Alone. First delivered in a Sermon before his Majestie at Windsore, +since reuised and inlarged to a just Treatise of Invocation of Saints. +Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius de Dominis upon the +Authour, Richard Mountagu._ London, 1624. + +Mountagu had evidently no high opinion of his accuser: for he writes in +his Epistle Dedicatory to John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and Visitor +of the collegiate church of Windsor: "There was present at my sermon +that infamous Ecebolius of these times, Religionis desultor, Archbishop +sometime of _Spalata_, then Deane of that church, Marcus Antonius de +Dominis;" and he goes on to abuse him in no measured terms. Collier +(_Ecc. Hist._, vol. ii. p. 726., ed. 1714) mentions that Antonius +assisted at the consecration of some English bishops in the chapel at +Lambeth Palace. He was afterwards reconciled to the Church of Rome, but +was soon imprisoned on suspicion of heresy. After he was dead, he passed +through the forms of the Inquisition, was pronounced a lapsed heretic, +and his corpse was publicly burnt. + + ROVERT. + + Withyham. + + +ANAGRAMS. + +(Vol. iv., p. 226.) + +I know not whether the art of composing anagrams was much practised in +the days of Swift; the description, however, of one of the employments +at the Academy of Lagado--the "project for improving speculative +knowledge by practical mechanical operations," which was carried into +operation by covering the superficies of a large frame with wooden +letters, which, by the turning of a handle, were constantly shifted into +new places--so aptly satirises this practice, that it seems likely that +it was to this he alluded, the more so as the one employment would be as +profitable as the other. MR. BREEN, however (Vol. iv., p. 226.) having +challenged the production of half a dozen good specimens of the art, +perhaps you will afford him an opportunity of amending his judgment. The +following twelve, whether new or not, will at least stand the test he +has propounded:-- + +Who will deny that _Old England_ is a _golden land_; or that _lawyers_ +are _sly ware_? + +There are many who deem _radical reform_ a _rare mad frolic_; and when +asked to _guess a fearful ruin_, would reply _universal suffrage_. + +Every one will admit that _astronomers_ are _moon-starers_; and that a +_telegraph_ is a _great help_. + +We have long been accustomed to consider that a _revolution_ is _to love +ruin_; and that _nine thumps_ constitute a _punishment_. + +What answer more fitting in the _penitentiary_ than _Nay, I repent it_? + +Is there a more _comical trade_ than the _democratical_? and what is +more likely to make _bakers fat_ than a good _breakfast_. + +But, in conclusion, I am compelled to confess that I can see no affinity +between _potentates_ and _ten tea pots_. + + C. A. + +That on _Daniel R._ may be otherwise rendered _Erin lad_. + + D. Q. + +Your interesting correspondent MR. BREEN challenges the world to produce +"six good anagrams." It may help him in his search for them to be +referred to two curious papers on the subject in the _Bengal Moofussul +Miscellany_, reprinted in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he may not have +the book within reach, he may not be displeased at my extracting a few +of the best of them. The first is a compliment paid to one of the +Ptolemies: Πτολεμαῖος, ἀπὸ μέλιτος. Lycophron, in a similar vein, +calls Ἀρσινόη, ἴον Ἥρας. Out of _William Noy_, Charles I.'s +Ship-Money Attorney-General, we have, _I moyl in law_. _Loraine_ +produces _alerion_, which is assigned as the reason for that house +bearing eaglets in their arms. _Sir Edmundbury Godfrey_ gives, _I +fynd murder'd by rogues_. The tale about Lady Eleanor Davies, lately +referred to by one of your contributors, occurs in the first of +these papers; as does another of somewhat later date, which +really deserves to be preserved among your "Notes." + + "When young Stanislaus, afterwards king of Poland, returned home + from his travels, all the illustrious family of Leczinki assembled + at Lissa to congratulate him on his arrival. Festivals, shows, and + rejoicings of every kind took place: but the most ingenious + compliment that graced the occasion, was the one paid by the + College of Lissa. There appeared on the stage thirteen dancers, + dressed as youthful warriors; each held in his hand a shield, on + which was engraved in characters of gold, one of the thirteen + letters which compose the two words 'Domus Lescinia.' They then + commenced their dance, and so arranged it, that at each turn their + row of bucklers formed different anagrams. At the first pause they + presented them in the natural order: + + Domus Lescinia + At the second Ades Incolumis + At the third Omnis es lucida + At the fourth Mane Sidus Loci + At the fifth Sis Columna Dei + At the last I, scande Solium." + +I fear I have already asked for too much of your space, yet must I beg +the least bit more for an anagram which, unless the sacredness of the +subject be accounted a drawback, may well claim a foremost place among +the "six." It is found in Pilate's question to our Lord, _Quid est +veritas?_ which contains its own best answer: _Est Vir qui adest._ + + PHILIP HEDGELAND. + + +DISCOVERING THE BODIES OF THE DROWNED. + +(Vol. iv., p. 251.) + +The mode of doing this, as shown by S. W. to be practised by the North +American Indians, is very common amongst ourselves. About +five-and-twenty years ago, an Eton boy, named Dean, who had lately come +to the school, imprudently bathed in the river Thames where it flows +with great rapidity under the "playing fields," and he was soon carried +out of his depth, and disappeared. Efforts were made to save him or +recover the body, but to no purpose; until Mr. Evans, who was then, as +now, the accomplished drawing-master, threw a cricket bat into the +stream, which floated to a spot where it turned round in an eddy, and +from a deep hole underneath the body was quickly drawn. This statement +is entirely from memory, but I believe it to be substantially correct. + +I heard the following anecdote from the son of an eminent Irish judge. +In a remote district of Ireland a poor man, whose occupation at certain +seasons of the year was to pluck feathers from live geese for beds, +arrived one night at a lonely farmhouse, where he expected to glean a +good stock of these "live feathers," and he arose early next morning to +look after the flock. The geese had crossed the river which flowed in +front of the house, and were sitting comfortably in the sunshine on the +opposite bank. Their pursuer immediately stripped off the few clothes he +had, deposited them on the shore, and swam across the river. He then +drove the birds into the water, and, boldly following them, he +maintained a long contest to keep then together on their homeward +voyage, until in the deep bed of the river his strength failed him, and +he sank. The farmer and his family became aware of the accident, the +cries of the drowning man, and the cackling of the geese, informed them, +in the swimmer's extremity, of his fate, and his clothes lay on the +shore in witness of his having last been in their company. They dragged +the river for the body, but in vain; and in apprehension of serious +consequences to themselves should they be unable to produce the corpse, +they applied to the parish priests, who undertook to relieve them, and +to "improve the occasion" by the _performance of a miracle_. He called +together the few neighbours, and having tied a strip of parchment, +inscribed with cabalistic characters, round a wisp of straw; he dropped +this packet where the man's head was described to have sunk, and it +glided into still water where the corpse was easily discovered. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +The discovery of drowned bodies by loading a loaf with mercury, and +putting it afloat on a stream, or by casting into the river, as the +Indians do, "a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over +the exact spot," is referrible to natural and simple causes. As there +are in all running streams deep pools formed by eddies, in which drowned +bodies would be likely to be caught and retained, any light substance +thrown into the current would consequently be drawn to that part of the +surface over the centre of the eddy hole. + + J. S. C. + + +MARRIAGE OF ECCLESIASTICS. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 57. 125. 193. 196.) + +In the early ages, your correspondent H. WALTER assumes that the +primitive Christians knew "that their Scriptures said of marriage that +it was honourable in all" (Vol. iv., p. 193.). H. WALTER is under more +than one mistake with regard to the text of St. Paul (Heb. xiii. 4.) on +which he grounds his assertion. This whole chapter being full of +admonitions, the apostle, all through it, speaks mostly in the +imperative mood. He begins with, "Let brotherly love continue;" "Be not +forgetful," &c.; "Remember them that are in bonds," &c. Then he says: +Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος, that is: "Let +(the laws of) marriage be revered in all _things_, and the marriage bed +be undefiled;" and as a warning to those who might not heed such an +admonition, he adds, "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." H. +WALTER mistakes the adjective feminine ἐν πᾶσι as meaning "all +men," whereas it signifies here, "in all things;" according to which +sense St. Paul uses the same form of speech in 2 Corinthians xi. 6. True +it is, the authorised version translates thus: "Marriage _is_ honourable +in all;" but the _is_ is an insertion of the translators, and therefore +printed in Italics. Parkhurst, however, in his _Lexicon_, at the word +Γάμος, says: "Wolfius has justly remarked, the imperatives +preceding and following show that we should rather understand +ἔστω than ἐστί. See also Hammond and Macknight; and observe +that the Alexandrian and two other MSS., for δὲ in the +following sentence read γάρ, and the Vulgate translates by +_enim_, "for." + +I cannot but think that the makers of the authorized version advisedly +inserted _is_ instead of _let_, to forward their own new doctrines, as +this their rendering would seem to countenance the marriage of priests. +Curiously enough, when they had no interest in putting in the indicative +instead of the imperative mood, those same translators have of +themselves inserted, in the verse following, the latter, thus: "_Let_ +your conversation _be_ without covetousness," &c. Moreover, in +translating ἐν πᾶσι, in another passage of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. +6., they render it, "in all things;" in which same sense it is to be +understood in the above place, Heb. xi. 4. + + CEPHAS. + +In lately reading that very curious book, Whiston's _Autobiography_, I +met with some remarks on this subject, which I made a note of, and which +are at the service of A. B. C. Whiston quotes the well-known Dr. Wall as +follows:-- + + "The Greek Church still observe the rule of allowing their clergy + to marry but once, and before the Council of Nice made a further + rule that none after his orders should marry; and I believe it is + hard to find in church history an instance of any one who married + after he was in priest's orders for a thousand (in reality for + above a thousand four hundred) years before Martin Luther." + +The interpolation marked by a parenthesis is Whiston's, who proceeds:-- + + "The Church of England allows their very bishops to be twice--nay + thrice--nay even four times married without any impediment to + their episcopal functions, whereas the Greek Patriarch of + Constantinople would not admit the Emperor Leo, a layman, into the + church, because he had married a fourth wife." + +Whiston, though a "fanciful man," as Burnet calls him, was well read in +Christian antiquity, and his opinion is therefore of some weight. Wall's +authority no one would willingly undervalue. + +I cannot call to mind any English bishop who was four times married; yet +Whiston would hardly have asserted the fact if he had not had some +example in view. I should be obliged to any one who would inform me on +the subject.[1] + + [Footnote 1: We have somewhere read of a Bishop Thomas giving his + fourth wife a ring, with this posy:-- + + "If I survive, I'll make it five." + + This may give a clue to our correspondent.] + +When on the subject of Whiston, I should be glad to know if his edition +of our Common Prayer Book published in 1713, and his Primitive New +Testament published in 1745, still exist.[2] + + [Footnote 2: The two works mentioned by K. S., though scarce, + occasionally occur for sale. The "Common Prayer Book" was + republished by the Rev. Peter Hall in his _Fragmenta Liturgica_, + vol. iii.] + +The former he entitled _The Liturgy of the Church of England reduced +nearer to the Primitive Standard_. The latter contains, besides the +Canonical Books of the New Testament, the Apostolic Constitutions, +Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Timothy to Diognetus, &c. &c., all +of which he considered as of equal authority with the Canonical Books. +The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he terms "the most sacred of the +Canonical Books of the New Testament." + + K. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Robert Douglas_ (Vol. iv., p. 23.).--There is no truth in the report +that this person was a grandson of Mary Queen of Scots. His diary during +the march of the Scots troops to England, 1644, is printed in a work +entitled _Historical Fragments relative to Scotish Affairs from 1635 to +1664_, Edin., 1833, 8vo., published by Stevenson of Edinburgh, and +edited by James Maidment, Esq., of that city, who has enriched the +volume with many notes and illustrations, and has given in addition a +pretty copious account of Douglas. His letters and papers fell into the +hands of Wodrow. (See _Analecta Scotica_, vol. i. p. 326.) Allow me to +correct an error. The Bannatyne Club did _not_ print Wodrow's +_Analecta_. This very amusing collection was a munificent present from +the late Earl of Glasgow to the members of the Maitland Club, of which +his lordship was president; it is in _four_ thick 4to. volumes, and full +of all sorts of out-of-the-way information. It seems very little known +at present south the Tweed. I question whether Mr. Macaulay has gone +through it, although he is no doubt familiar with Wodrow's one-sided +work on the Sufferings of the Scotish Presbyterian clergy. + + J. MT. + +_The Leman Baronetcy_ (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.).--The attempt in +_Scotland_ to give a right to an _English_ title of honour is exposed +fully in Mr. Turnbull's _Anglo-Scotia Baronets_, Edin. 1846, P. XXXII. +iii. The "certified court proceedings" are worth nothing, and would not +be sustained in a court of law. The party called _Sir_ Edward Godfrey +Leman may or may not be the next heir of the Lord Mayor, but he must +prove his right in England by such evidence as may be required there, +and not by reference to what would not even be looked at in the Scotish +law courts. + + J. MT. + +_Cachecope Bell_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--Is it possible that this word +may be a corruption of the low Latin "Catascopus" (Gr. κατάσκοπος), +and that it was applied to a bell which a watchman tolled to give +an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a bell set apart for this +duty, in churches on the continent. + + C. P. PH***. + +May not this have been a bell specially rung at funerals, and deriving +its name (as has been suggested to me) from _cache corps_, "cover the +body" (in the ground)? And why not, since we have got "curfew" out of +_couvre feu_, "cover the fire?" + + A. G. + + Ecclesfield. + + [E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.] + +"_Dieu et mon Droit_" (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--In Bishop Nicolson's +_English Historical Library_, part iii. chap. i., under the section +treating of _Charters_ appears the following paragraph: + + "The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order + of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with + their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit' + having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating that + the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But + _neither of those_ ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the + days of Henry the Eighth." + + FRANCISCUS. + +_Defoe's House at Stoke Newington_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--This house is +the one which was occupied by the late William Frend, M.A., of the Rock +Life Office, and which now belongs to his widow. It is on the south side +of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has +about four acres of ground attached, bounded on the west by a narrow +footway, once (if not still) called Cutthroat Lane. Or it may be +identified thus: take the map of Stoke Newington in Robinson's history +of that place, London, 1820, 8vo., and look directly below the first "e" +in "Church Street." Among the papers by which the house is held is the +copy of the enrolment of a surrender to the lord of manor, dated +February 26, 1740, in which the house is described as "heretofore in the +tenure or occupation of Daniel Defoe." The history just mentioned stated +that he was living at Newington in 1709. There appears no reason to +suppose that he built the house. Dr. Price lived for some years in it, +as the domestic chaplain of a subsequent owner. + + M. + +_Study of Geometry in Lancashire_ (Vol. ii., p. 57.).--Your +correspondent Mr. T. T. WILKINSON, in his interesting article on this +subject, attributes the first rise of the study of geometry in +Lancashire to the Oldham Mathematical Society. But he is not perhaps +aware, that half a century before a Mathematical Society existed at +Manchester. I have a thin 8vo., entitled-- + + "Mathematical Lectures; being the first and second that were read + to the Mathematical Society at Manchester. By the late ingenious + Mathematician John Jackson. '_Who can number the Sands of the Sea, + the Drops of Rain, and the Days of Eternity?_' Ecclus. i. 2. '_He + that telleth the Number of the Stars, and calleth them all by + their Names._' Psalm cxlvii. 4. Manchester, printed by Roger + Adams, in the Parsonage, and sold by William Clayton, Bookseller, + at the Conduit. 1719." + +The book is dedicated to the "Virtuous and Religious Lady Bland." The +Preface states that + + "There having been lately set up in Manchester a Mathematical + Society, which was encouraged by many (and some Honorable) + subscribers, and the composing of the Lectures being undertaken by + the late ingenious Mathematician Mr. John Jackson, and he having + discharged himself well becoming his parts and character in the + reading of several extraordinary ones in Geometry, we thought it + would be great pity, as well as ingratitude, to let such worthy + performances expire with him." + +Then follow the two Lectures, which terminate at p. 41. The first was +read Aug. 12, 1718; the second, Aug. 19, 1718. The Manchester +Mathematical Society would be one of the earliest in the kingdom. +Perhaps the Oldham Society might be a branch of the Manchester. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Coke, how pronounced_ (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 74. 93. 138. 244.).--I think +that the pronunciation of _Cook_ for _Coke_ is not a "modern +affectation," as in a MS. journal of the proceedings in parliament of +the session of 1621, now in my possession, there is, amongst other +amusing things, an account of a quarrel between Mr. Clement Coke, son of +Sir Edward, and Sir Charles Moryson, in which Mr. Coke's name is +frequently spelt _Cooke_. I should judge that the pronunciation was by +no means settled at that time; for, as the journal was evidently written +whilst the debates were going on, it appears to me that the +pronunciation of each speaker was followed, and the name is spelt +differently in speeches that succeed each other. I send you an exact +copy of one example of this: + + "M'r Whittbye.--That M'r _Coke_ will submitt and satisfy in + acknow'g his wrong don, if S'r Char's will say he ment it not a + disgrace. + + "S'r Ro. Phil'ps.--I would any way mitigate y'e censure: I should + need no other induce't but to rememb'r he is y'e soun of such a + father. But I must say, I thinke S'r Char's hath not given y'e + least occas'n to M'r _Cooke_," &c. &c. + + C. DE D. + +_Quistourne_ (Vol. iv., p. 116.).--Here is a word so very like the +Devonshire one which has puzzled a correspondent, that it may be the +same one in sense as well in sound. In one of the Low-Norman insular +dialects, it denotes a slap with the _back_ of the _hand_; in +French-British[3], KIS DOÛRN, _revers de main_. + + [Footnote 3: I was asked by a great and true scholar, now no more, + What do you mean by _British_? My answer was, "The nation that you + have nicknamed _Welsh_ or _Strangers_, which they are not. With me + the English are still English, the Scotch Scots, the Britons in + France the British there."] + + G. M. + +_Seneca's Medea_ (Vol. i., p. 107.; Vol. iii., p. 464.).--I cannot feel +much doubt that the prophecy ascribed to Medea was a mere allusion to +events actually past. It was a compliment to Claudius upon the recent +reduction of Britannia under the Roman arms, with nothing future, unless +it were an encouragement to bring Caledonia, Ireland, and the small +islands, into similar subjection. The Oceanus was supposed to extend +indefinitely westward, beyond the world, into the regions of Night and +Chaos, and was not only dreaded for its stormy navigation, but from +feelings of religious awe. The expedition to Britain was peculiar from +being ultra-mundane, and an invasion of the ocean, so that + + "Oceanus + Vincula rerum laxet et ingens + Pateat tellus." + +For that reason only they called the Britons "penitus toto divisos +orbe." "Britain (said the pseudo-Hegesippus) lying out of the world, was +by the power of the Roman empire reduced into the world," cit. Camden. +And the same is implied in another place of Seneca himself-- + + "Ille Britannos + _Ultra noti_ + _Littora ponti_, etc. + Dare Romuleis + Colla catenis + Jussit." + +But the "Poemata Pithæana," reprinted in Camden, form the most lively +commentary on the chorus of the Medea. They are likewise of the Claudian +age, they relate to the conquest of Britain, and they are nothing but an +expansion of that one idea, the trans-oceanic voyage and ultra-mundane +conquest-- + + "Oceanus.... Qui finis mundo, non erit imperio. Oceanus mêdium + venit imperium. At nunc Oceanus geminos interluit orbes, Pars est + imperii, terminus ante fuit. Et jam Romano cingimur Oceano. + Oceanus jam terga dedit, etc. Conjunctum est, quod _adhuc_ (i.e. + _nunc_) orbis, et orbis erat," &c. + +The Chorus of Seneca has no more of prophecy, or sagacious conjecture, +or other anticipation of the future, than Gray's "Bard," or the prophecy +of Medea in Pindar's "Pythians," both of them fulfilled before the +poet's time. Whatever may seem of a larger import, in Seneca's language, +than events had fully justified, belongs to the obscure and lofty strain +of remote vaticinations, or to the exaggerations of flattery. + + A. N. + +_The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio_ (Vol. iv., p. 225.).--Colet +speaks of the editions of Jewel published in 1609 and 1611 as "edited by +Fuller." On meeting with the statement elsewhere, I supposed it to be a +mistake, as Fuller was born in 1608; but when I found it apparently +countenanced by the notice of Jewel in Fuller's _Abel Redivivus_ (Camb. +1651, p. 313.), I was much puzzled, until, on turning to the +Introduction, § 11., I discovered that the writer of that notice, and +editor of the folios, was not _Fuller_, but _Featley_. + + J. C. R. + +_Poetaster_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--In reply to A BORDERER, I do not think +_poetaster_ to be a genuine Latin word, though where first used I do not +know. The French equivalent is _poëtereau_; the Italian _poëterio_; both +formed according to the analogies of the respective languages. +_Poetaster_ seems to me to be formed upon the model of _oleaster_, +_pinaster_, &c., as though to indicate that the person to whom the name +is applied is as unlike a true poet as the wild olive to the true olive, +or the wild pine to the true pine. What then is the derivation of +_aster_ as a termination? Some punster will say, respecting _oleaster_, +that it is _olea sterilis_. Is it not ἄγριος? or is it rather a +form cognate to the Greek termination -αζω, which generally +means the performance of some energy, or the exhibiting of some state, +implied in the substantive; as though the wild olive affected the +characteristics and condition of the genuine olive? I am fully aware of +many difficulties in the admission of these derivations. I would suggest +another. Does _aster_ signify that which affects or approaches the +characteristics of the substantive to which it is added, as the +terminations _-estis_ or _-estris_, whereby adjectives are formed; as +_agrestis_, _sylvestris_, _campestris_, at the same time that the forms +are allied, _-aster_, _-estris_, _-estis_? + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Post Pascha_ (Vol. iv., p. 151.).--A parallel to the "hypertautology" +noticed by M. may be found in the determination of the University of +Orleans on the question of Henry VIII.'s divorce, which is dated "die +quinto mensis Aprilis, _ante pascha_," from which it has been argued, +that that document must have been drawn up in 1530, not (as stated in +the printed copies) in 1529, when Easter fell on March 28. + + J. C. R. + +_Linteamina and Surplices_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--It seems probable that +the surplice became an ecclesiastical vestment at an early date, though +the exact period of its introduction into the Christian church it is +difficult to ascertain; it may not unlikely have been taken from the +white linen ephod of the Jewish priests. Wheatly (c. ii. § 4.) quotes a +passage from Jerome to the following effect: "What offence can it be to +God for a bishop or priest to proceed to communion in a white garment;" +and he considers it not improbable that it was in use in Cyprian's days. +Bingham (_French Churches' Apology_, book iii. chap. vii.) cites a +letter of Peter Martyr to Bishop Hooper on the vestment controversy, in +which he states that a distinction of habits may be proved by many +passages of Eusebius, Cyprian, Tertullian, and Chrysostom. By the +twelfth canon of the Council of Narbonne, A.D. 589, the clergy were +forbidden to take the _albe_ off until after mass was ended. In ancient +times, as Mr. Palmer observes (_Orig. Lit._ ii. 409.), the _surplice_ +probably differed not from the _albe_; it differs now only in having +wider sleeves. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber.) + +_Climate_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--A _climate_ was a zone contained between +two parallels of latitude. The climates were made to contain various +arcs of _latitude_, in different systems. See Hutton's _Mathematical +Dictionary_ at _Climate_, or any work which efficiently explains old +astronomical terms. Thus a _climate_ originally meant a certain range of +latitude; and as we now speak of warm and cold latitudes, so it became +customary to speak of climates, until the last word became wholly +meteorological. + + M. + + "_Climate_ or _Clime_ in geography is a part of the surface of the + earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such + a breadth as that the longest day in the parallel nearer the pole + exceeds the longest day in that next the equator by some certain + spaces, viz. half an hour. + + "The ancients, who confined the climates to what they imagined the + habitable parts of the earth, only allowed of seven. The first + they made to pass through Meroë; the second, through Sienna; the + third, through Alexandria; the fourth, through Rhodes; the fifth, + through Rome; the sixth, through Pontus; and the seventh, through + the mouth the Borysthenes."--_Encyclopædia Britannica_, art. + "CLIMATE." + + S. C. C. + + Corfe Castle. + +_Ancient Language of Egypt_ (Vol. iv., pp. 152. 240.).--The only works +on the language of ancient Egypt preserved in the hieroglyphical +inscriptions that possess any authority are the _Grammaire Egyptienne_ +of Champollion[4], and the appendix to the first volume of the Chevalier +Bunsen's _Egypt's Place in Universal History_. Much, however, is known +to individuals who have studied the language, which has not been +published, or perhaps digested into a system; and the works mentioned +are by no means to be depended on as to matters of detail, especially as +respects the verbs and pronouns, though the general principles of +interpretation may be considered as settled. There was another language +used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the +demotic or enchorial character. Brugsch of Berlin is the highest +authority as to this; his work, _De natura et indole linguæ popularis +Ægyptiorum_, is, I believe, incomplete, but he has published others in +Latin and German. + + [Footnote 4: This contains the latest views of the author, whose + most important discoveries were made near the close of his life. + The _Précis_ contains much that Champollion afterwards rejected as + erroneous. The _Dictionnaire_ is a compilation, made after his + death from what he wrote at different periods of his life. It is + inconsistent with itself, and abounds in errors, so as to be worse + than useless to the student.] + +The work on Egyptian chronology, from which most seems to be expected, +is that of Lepsius; but he has yet published only the first volume, +which consists of preliminary matter. Le Sueur's treatise, though +crowned by the French Académie, is a failure. Bunsen's less palpably +erroneous, but a great part of the second and third volumes, which were +published in German in 1844, would require to be re-written. Those who +wish to study the chronology, as systematised by the Egyptians +themselves, should consult the Turin _Book Of Kings_, of which an +accurate fac-simile, with explanatory text, has been lithographed, and +is about to be published by subscription, under the superintendence of a +committee, of which Sir Gardner Wilkinson is the most prominent member. + + E. H. D. D. + +_Welwood's Memoirs_ (Vol. iv., p. 70.).--The edition referred to by MR. +ROSS I have not seen, but there is one in my library printed at London +in 1702, and which bears to be "the fourth edition," with the dedication +to the king, and an address "to the reader" commencing as follows:-- + + "These sheets were writ some years ago, by the encouragement of + _one_ whose memory will be ever sacred to posterity. It's needless + to mention the occasion; and they had not been published now, if a + surreptitious copy of a part of the manuscript had not crept + abroad." + +The volume, which is very well got up in 8vo., is printed for "Tim. +Goodwin, and sold by James Round at the Seneca's Head in Exchange +Alley." + +It may be fairly inferred that this edition came out under the +superintendence of Welwood, and it would be interesting to ascertain +whether there are any alterations in the sixth edition. Welwood was a +Scotchman, and a letter from him to James Anderson, the eminent Scotish +antiquary, will be found amongst the Anderson Papers in the Library of +the Faculty of Advocates. It has been printed in the appendix to the +_Catalogues of Scotish Writers_, Edinburgh, 1833. + + J. 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Honour to Paxton, for his design--to Fox and Henderson for +their execution of it! and, though last not least, honour to that band +of zealous and indefatigable spirits, the Digby Wyatts, Dilkes, Coles, +Scott Russells, &c., to whose prevision and supervision, at all times +and in all places, the success of the World's Fair and the comfort of +its visitors, owe so much! If ever there was a fitting time for +instituting an ORDER OF CIVIL MERIT, it is now; if ever there were men +who deserved to wear such an order, they who planned, and they who +carried out the GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL +NATIONS, they are the men. + +We could not allow the Great Exhibition to close without making a Note +of it: we have therefore little room this week for Notes on Books. We +must, however, take notice of six additional volumes of the _National +Illustrated Library_, which we have received. Of three of these we may +well speak briefly, as they form the Second, Third, and Fourth Volumes +of _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, to which we formerly directed the +attention of our readers. _The Book of English Songs from the Sixteenth +to the Nineteenth Century_ is a very well selected volume. The Editor's +endeavour to present a fair view of this branch of our National +Literature has been attended with success, and the book will, we have +no doubt, be a popular one. _The Orbs of Heaven_, by Mr. Mitchel, the +director of the Cincinnati Observatory, is intended to furnish a popular +exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy, +and to exhibit the structure of the universe so far as revealed by the +mind of man. The book is a reprint of a series of lectures delivered in +the hall of Cincinnati College, with such success as to have led to the +establishment of the Cincinnati Observatory--need we say more? 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A +list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the +end.] + + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. IV.--No. 103. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 289 + + Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 290 + + Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith 291 + + Folk Lore:--Medical Use of Pigeons--Michaelmas + Goose; St. Martin's Cock--Surrey Folk Lore 291 + + The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 292 + + Minor Notes:--"They that touch pitch"--Pasquinade--Two + Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final 292 + + QUERIES:-- + + Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 293 + + Sanderson and Taylor 293 + + Minor Queries:--"Vox ver Anglorum"--"Sacro + Sancta Regum Majestas"--Translator of Horrebow's + "Iceland"--"Kings have their Conquests"--Dryden; + Illustrations by T. Holt White--Pauper's + Badge, Meaning of--The Landing of William Prince + of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.--The + Lowy of Tunbridge--Bones of Birds--"Malvina, + a Tragedy"--Rinuccini Gallery 293 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Meaning of Aneroid--Fox's + Cunning 295 + + REPLIES:-- + + Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. 295 + + Anagrams 297 + + Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty, + &c. 297 + + Marriage of Ecclesiastics 298 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Robert Douglas--The Leman + Baronetcy--Cachecope Bell--"Dieu et mon Droit"--Defoe's + House at Stoke Newington--Study of Geometry in + Lancashire--Coke, how pronounced--Quistourne--Seneca's + Medea--The Editor of Jewel's Works in + Folio--Poetaster--Post Pascha--Linteamina and + Surplices--Climate--Ancient Language of Egypt--Welwood's + Memoirs 299 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 302 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 303 + + Notices to Correspondents 303 + + Advertisements 303 + + + + +Notes. + + +THE CAXTON MEMORIAL. + +Few persons having a common object in view, and equally desirous of its +attainment, fail in carrying it into effect. The object of "The Caxton +Memorial" is obviously to do honour to the first English printer; and if +a man's best monument be his own works, it will be necessary to +ascertain of what they consist. It is well known that most of the works +printed by Caxton were translated from the French, many doubtless by +himself. The Prefaces were evidently his own, and the continuation of +the _Polychronicon_ was confessedly written by himself. The most +valuable contribution to "The Caxton Coffer" would be a list of the +works which it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with some +calculation of their probable extent and cost of production. The +originals being in many cases of extreme rarity, it would be necessary +to transcribe fairly each work, and to collate it with the original in +its progress through the press. The following enumeration of the +Translations alone will give some idea of the work to be undertaken: + +_The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye._ (1471.) + +_The Game and playe of the Chesse._ 1474. + +_Thymage, or Myrrour of the World._ (1481.) + +_The Historye of Reynart the foxe._ 1481. + +_The laste siege and conqueste of Jherusalem._ 1481. + +_The Golden Legende._ 1483. + +_The Book called Cathon._ 1483. + +_The Book of the techynge of the Knyght of the Toure._ (1484.) + +_The Fables of Esope, Avian, Alfonce, and Poge._ 1484. + +_The Booke of the ordre of Chyvalry or knyghthode._ (1484.) + +_The Lyf of Prince Charles the Grete._ 1485. + +_The Ryal Book, or Book for a kyng._ 1485. + +_Thystorye of the noble knyght Parys_. (1485.) + +_The Doctrinal of Sapience._ 1489. + +_The Book of fayttee of armes and of Chyvalrye._ 1489. + +_A lityl treatise of the arte to knowe well to dye._ 1490. + +_The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vyrgyle._ 1490. + +_The Curial of Maystre Alain Charretier._ n. d. + +_The Lyf of the holy Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde._ n. d.; and, lastly, + +_The Vitas Patrum_, which was translated by Caxton in 1486, but printed +by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. + +Such are some of the materials for the "Memorial" suggested by MR. +BOLTON CORNEY; and if the original subscribers to a Monument should +consent to such an appropriation of their funds, it will be necessary to +apportion the number of copies to be distributed to each subscriber, +according to the amount of the original contribution. It is to be +presumed that the work will be strictly limited to subscribers, and +that no copies will be printed for sale, the object being, to do honour +to Caxton, and produce a lasting Memorial of that industrious printer. +The form of the work is of importance, with reference to the cost of its +production: and if a new life of the first English printer should +perchance be found necessary, "The Caxton Coffer" will require to be +considerably replenished before the literary undertaking can be carried +into effect. + + BERIAH BOTFIELD. + + +LORD STRAFFORD AND ARCHBISHOP USSHER. + +In Lord Campbell's account of the conduct of Archbishop Williams, and +the advice which that prelate gave to Charles I. with respect to the +attainder of Lord Strafford, is a sentence which seems to require a +"Note." Having observed that "Williams's conduct with respect to +Strafford cannot be defended," and having referred particularly to his +speech in parliament, he proceeds in these words:-- + + "The Bill of Attainder being passed, although he professed to + disapprove of it, he agreed to go with three other prelates to try + to induce the king to assent to it, and thus he stated the + question:--'Since his Majesty refers his own judgment to his + judges, and they are to answer it, if an innocent person + suffers,--why may he not satisfy his conscience in the present + matter, since competent judges in the law have awarded that they + find the Earl guilty of treason, by suffering the judgment to + stand, though in his own mind he is satisfied that the party + convicted was not criminous?' The other three bishops, trusting to + his learning and experience, joined with him in sanctioning this + distinction, in laying all the blame on the judges, and in saying + that the king, with a good conscience, might agree to Strafford's + death. Clarendon mainly imputes Strafford's death to Williams's + conduct on this occasion, saying that 'he acted his part with + prodigious boldness and impiety.' It is stated as matter of + palliation by others, that Ussher, the celebrated Archbishop of + Armagh, was one of this deputation, and that Strafford, although + aware of the advice he had given, was attended by him on the + scaffold, and received from him the last consolations of + religion."--_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. ii. p. 494., second + edition. + +The account which Lord Campbell has here given is the same in substance +as that given by Bishop Hackett in his _Life of Williams_ (Part II. p. +161.), and in several particulars is calculated to mislead the reader. +The whole story has been very carefully examined by the late Dr. +Elrington in his _Life of Archbishop Ussher_. Hackett's account is very +incorrect. There were five prelates consulted by the king, Ussher, +Williams, Juxon, Morton (Durham) and Potter (Carlisle). The bishops had +two interviews with the king, one in the morning, and the other in the +evening of the same day. At the morning meeting Ussher was not present. +It was Sunday, and he was engaged at the time preaching at Covent +Garden. In the evening, he was in attendance, but so far from giving the +advice suggested by Williams, much less approving his pernicious +distinction between a public and private conscience, Ussher plainly +advised the king, that if he was not satisfied of Strafford being guilty +of treason, he "ought not in conscience to assent to his condemnation." +Such is the account given by Dr. Parr, Ussher's chaplain, who declares, +that, when the primate was supposed to be dying, he asked his Grace-- + + "Whether he had advised the king to pass the bill against the Earl + of Strafford? To which the Primate answered: 'I know there is such + a thing most wrongfully laid to my charge; for I neither gave nor + approved of any such advice as that the king should assent to the + bill against the Earl; but, on the contrary, told his Majesty, + that if he was satisfied by what he heard at his trial, that the + Earl was not guilty of treason, his Majesty ought not in + conscience to consent to his condemnation. And this the king knows + well enough, and can clear me if he pleases.' The hope of the + Primate was fulfilled, for, when a report reached Oxford that the + Primate was dead, the king expressed in very strong terms, to + Colonel William Legg and Mr. Kirk, who were then in waiting, his + regret at the event, speaking in high terms of his piety and + learning. Some one present said, 'he believed he might be so, were + it not for his persuading your Majesty to consent to the Earl of + Strafford's execution;' to which the king in a great passion + replied, 'that it was false, for after the bill was passed, the + Archbishop came to me, saying with tears in his eyes, Oh Sir, what + have you done? I fear that this act may prove a great trouble to + your conscience, and pray God that your Majesty may never suffer + by the signing of this bill.'"--Elrington's _Life of Ussher_, p. + 214. + +This account Dr. Elrington has taken from the narrative given by Dr. +Parr, who adds, that he had received this account of the testimony borne +by the king from Colonel Legg and Mr. Kirk themselves:-- + + "This is the substance of two certificates, taken divers times + under the hands of these two gentlemen of unquestionable credit; + both which, since they agree in substance, I thought fit to + contract into one testimony, which I have inserted here, having + the originals by me, to produce if occasion be."--Parr's _Life of + Ussher_, p. 61. + +Indeed, considering the great and uninterrupted friendship which +subsisted between Ussher and Strafford, considering that the primate was +his chosen friend during his trial and imprisonment, and attended him to +the scaffold, nothing could be more improbable than that he should have +advised the king to consent to his death. At all events, the story is +contradicted by those most competent to speak to its truth, by the +archbishop and by the king; and therefore, in a work so deservedly +popular as Lord Campbell's, one cannot but regret that any currency +should be given to a calumny so injurious to a prelate whose character +is as deserving of our esteem, as his learning is of our veneration. + + PEREGRINUS. + + +POETICAL COINCIDENCES. + +_Sheridan._ + +In the account which Moore has given, in his _Life of Sheridan_, of the +writings left unfinished by that celebrated orator and dramatist, he +states: + + "There also remain among his papers three acts of a drama without + a name, written evidently in haste, and with scarcely any + correction." + +From this production he gives the following verses, to which he has +appended the note I have placed immediately after them:-- + + "Oh yield, fair lids, the treasures of my heart, + Release those beams, that make this mansion bright; + From her sweet sense, Slumber! tho' sweet thou art, + Begone, and give the air she breathes in light. + + "Or while, oh Sleep, thou dost those glances hide, + Let rosy slumber still around her play, + Sweet as the cherub Innocence enjoy'd, + When in thy lap, new-born, in smiles he lay. + + "And thou, oh Dream, that com'st her sleep to cheer, + Oh take my shape, and play a lover's part; + Kiss her from me, and whisper in her ear, + Till her eyes shine, 'tis night within my heart." + + "I have taken the liberty here of supplying a few rhymes and words + that are wanting in the original copy of the song. The last line + of all runs thus in the manuscript:-- + + 'Til her eye shines, I live in darkest night,' + + which not rhyming as it ought, I have ventured to alter as above." + +Now the following sonnet, which occurs in the third book of Sir Philip +Sidney's _Arcadia_, is evidently the source from whence Sheridan drew +his inspiration, the concluding line in both poems being the same. Had +Moore given Sheridan's without alteration, the resemblance would in all +probability be found much closer:-- + + "Lock up, faire liddes, the treasure of my heart, + Preserve those beames, this ages onely light: + To her sweet sence, sweet sleepe some ease impart, + Her sence too weake to beare her spirits might. + + "And while, O Sleepe, thou closest up her sight, + (Her sight where Love did forge his fairest dart) + O harbour all her parts in easefull plight: + Let no strange dreame make her faire body start. + + "But yet, O dreame, if thou wilt not depart + In this rare subject from thy common right: + But wilt thy selfe in such a seate delight, + + "Then take my shape, and play a lover's part: + Kisse her from me, and say unto her sprite, + Till her eyes shine, I live in darkest night." + +The edition I quote from is that "Printed by W. S. for Simon Waterson, +London, 1627." I may add, that I wrote to Moore as far back as 1824 to +point out this singular coincidence; but although the communication was +courteously acknowledged, I do not believe the circumstance has been +noticed in any subsequent edition of Sheridan's memoirs. + + T. C. SMITH. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Medical Use of Pigeons_ (Vol. iv., p. 228.).--In my copy of Mr. +Alford's very unsatisfactory edition of Donne, I find noted (in addition +to R. T.'s quotation from _The Life of Mrs. Godolphin_) references to +Pepys's _Diary_, October 19, 1663, and January 21, 1667-8, and the +following from Jer. Taylor, ed. Heber, vol. xii. p. 290.: "We cut living +pigeons in halves, and apply them to the feet of men in fevers." + + J. C. R. + +_Michaelmas Goose--St. Martin's Cock._--In the county of Kilkenny, and +indeed all through the S.E. counties of Ireland, the "Michaelmas Goose" +is still had in honour. "St. Martin's Bird" (see p. 230. _ant_) is, +however, the cock, whose _blood is shed_ in honour of that saint at +Martinmas, Nov. 11. The same superstition does not apply, that I am +aware of, to the Michaelmas Goose, which is merely looked on as a dish +customary on that day, with such as can afford it, and always +accompanied by a _mlange_ of vegetables (potatos, parsnips, cabbage, +and onions) mashed together, with butter, and forming a dish termed +_Kailcannon_. The idea is far different as to St. Martin's Cock, the +blood of which is always shed _sacrificially_ in honour of the Saint. +Query, 1. The territorial extent of the latter custom? And, 2. What +pagan deity has transferred his honours to St. Martin of Tours. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny. + +_Surrey Folk Lore._--A "wise woman" has lately made her appearance not +far from Reigate in Surrey. One of the farmers' wives there, on being +scalded the other day, sent to the old dame, who sent back a curious +doggrel, which the good woman was to repeat at stated times. At the end +of a week the scald got well, and the good woman told us that she knew +there was no harm in the charm, for "she had heard say as how it was +some verse from the Bible." + +When in a little shop the other day, in the same part of the country, +one village dame was speaking of the death of some neighbour, when +another said, that she hoped "they had been and told the bees." + +In the same neighbourhood I was told a sovereign cure for the goitre was +to form the sign of the cross on the neck with the hand of a corpse. + + M. M. P. + + +THE CAXTON COFFER. + +The devices of our early English printers are often void of significancy +early, or else mere quibbles. In that particular, Caxton set a +commendable example. + +His device is "W.4.7C." The two figures, however, are interlaced, and +seem to admit of two interpretations. I must cite, on this question, the +famous triumvirate--Ames, Herbert, and Dibdin: + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--Joseph AMES, 1749. + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--William HERBERT, 1785. + + "The figures in the large device [above described] form the + _reverse impression_ of 74; meaning, _as it has been stated_, that + our printer commenced business in England, in the year 1474: but + not much weight can be attached to this remark, as no copy of the + _Chess book_, printed in 1474, has yet been discovered which + presents us with this device."--T. F. DIBDIN, 1810. + +In lieu of baseless conjectures, I have here to complain of timidity. +There is scarcely room for a doubt on the date. As dom de Vaines +observes, with regard to dates, "dans le bas ge on supprimoit le +millime et les centaines, commenant aux dixaines." There can be no +objection to the interpretation on that score. The main question +therefore is, in what order should we read the interlaced figures? Now, +the position of the _point_ proves that we should read 74--which is the +date of _The game and playe of the chesse_. The figures indicate 1474 as +clearly as the letters W. C. indicate William Caxton. What is the just +inference, must ever remain a matter of opinion. + +In the woodcut of _Arsmetrique_, published in the _Myrrour of the +worlde_, A.D. 1481, I observe the figures 74 rather conspicuously +placed, and perhaps the device was then first adopted. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +Minor Notes. + +"_They that touch pitch_," &c.--A few Sundays since the clergyman that I +"sit under," quoting in his discourse the words "they that touch pitch +will be defiled," ascribed them to "the wisest of men." A lady of his +congregation (who was, I fear, more critical than devout) pounced upon +her pastor's mistake, and asked me on the following Monday if I also had +noticed it. I denied that it was one; but she laughed at my ignorance, +produced a Shakspeare, and showed me the words in the mouth of Dogberry +(_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act III. Sc. 3.). However, by the help of a +"Cruden," I was able to find the same expression, not indeed in Solomon, +but in the son of Sirach (ch. xiii. v. 1.). + +If Shakspeare's appropriation of this passage has not been noticed +before, may I request the insertion of this note? It may possibly +prevent other learned divines from falling into the common (?) mistake +of thus quoting Dogberry as "the wisest of men." + + E. J. G. + + Preston. + +_Pasquinade._--In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the +following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from +"NOTES AND QUERIES." As it is not probable that the Papal police allowed +it to remain long before the eyes of the lieges of his Holiness, allow +me to lay up in your pages this memorial of a visit to Rome during the +"Aggression" summer. + + "Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras, + Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius. + + "When a league 'gainst our Faith Pope with Cardinal tries, + Neither _Wiseman_ is Pious, nor _Pius_ is Wise. + + "Quando Papa' o' Cardinale + Chiesa' Inglese tratta male, + Que Chiamo quella gente, + Piu? No-no, ni Sapiente. + + ANGLUS." + +The Italian version will of course be put down as _English_-Italian, and +therefore worse than mediocre; but I wished to perpetuate, along with +the sense of the Latin couplet, a little _jeu d'esprit_ which I saw half +obliterated on a wall at Rovigo, in the Lombardo-Venetian territory; +being a play on the family name and character of Pius IX.: + + "Piu?--No-no: ma stai Ferette;" + +which may be read, + + "Pious?--Not at all: but _still_ Ferette." + + A. B. R. + +_Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final._-- + + 1. + + Though from rough cough, or hiccough free, + That man has pain enough, + Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough + Or lough begins to slough. + + 2. + + 'Tis not an easy task to show + How _o_, _u_, _g_, _h_ sound; since _though_ + An Irish _lough_ and English _slough_, + And _cough_ and hic_cough_, all allow, + Differ as much as _tough_, and _through_, + There seems no reason why they do. + + W. J. T. + + + + +Queries. + + +CAN BISHOPS VACATE THEIR SEES? + +In Lord Dover's note on one of Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Mann (1st +series, vol. iii. p 424.), I find it stated that Dr. Pearce, the +well-known Bishop of Rochester, was not allowed to vacate his see, when +in consequence of age and infirmity he wished to do so, on the plea that +a bishopric as being a peerage is _inalienable_. The Deanery of +Westminster, which he also held, he was allowed to resign, and did so. + +Now my impression has always been, that a bishop, as far as his peerage +is concerned, is much on the same footing as a representative peer of +Scotland or Ireland; I mean that his peerage is resignable at will. Of +course the representative peers are peers of Scotland or Ireland +respectively; but by being elected representative peers they acquire a +_pro-tempore_ peerage of the realm coincident with the duration of the +parliament, and at a dissolution require re-election, when of course any +such peer need not be reappointed. + +Now the clergy, says your correspondent CANONICUS EBORACENSIS (Vol. iv., +p. 197.), are _represented_ by the bishops. Although, therefore, whilst +they are so representative, they are peers of the realm just as much as +the lay members of the Upper House, I can see no reason why any bishop, +who, like Dr. Pearce, feels old age and infirmity coming on, should not +resign this representation, _i.e._ his peerage, or the _temporal_ +station which in England, owing to the existing connexion between church +and state, attaches to the _spiritual_ office of a bishop. + +Of course, ecclesiastically speaking, there is no doubt at all that a +bishop may resign his spiritual functions, _i.e._ the overlooking of his +diocese, for any meet cause. Our colonial bishops, for instance, do so. +The late warden of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, Bishop Coleridge, had +been Bishop of Barbadoes. So that if Lord Dover's theory be correct, a +purely secular reason, arising from the peculiar position of the English +church, would prevent any conscientious bishop from resigning duties, to +the discharge of which, from old age, bodily infirmity, or impaired +mental organs, he felt himself unfit. + +Perhaps some of your correspondents will give me some information on +this matter. + + K. S. + + +SANDERSON AND TAYLOR. + +I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can explain the following +coincidence between Sanderson and Jeremy Taylor. Taylor, in the +beginning of the _Ductor Dubitantium_, says: + + "It was well said of St. Bernard, 'Conscientia candor est lucis + tern, et speculum sine macula Dei majestatis, et imago bonitatis + illius;' 'Conscience is the brightness and splendour of the + eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the + image of the goodness of God.' It is higher which Tatianus said of + conscience, [Greek: Monon einai syneidsin Theon], 'Conscience is + God unto us,' which saying he had from Menander, + + [Greek: Brotois hapasin h syneidsis Theos]. + + "God is in our hearts by his laws; he rules in us by his + substitute, our conscience; God sits there and gives us laws; and + as God said unto Moses, 'I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,' that + is, to give him laws, and to minister in the execution of those + laws, and to inflict angry sentences upon him, so hath God done to + us." + +In the beginning of Sanderson's second lecture, _De Obligatione +Conscienti_, he says: + + "Hine illud ejusdem Menandri. [Greek: Brotois hapasin h + syneidsis Theos]; _Mortalibus sum cuique Conscientia Deus est_, + Quo nimirum sensu dixit Dominus se _constituisse Mosen Deum + Pharaoni_; quod seis Pharaoni voluntatem Dei subinde _inculcaret_, + ad cum faciendam Pharaonem _instigaret_, non obsequentem + contentibus plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, + eundem quoque _constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum_ singularium + propriam _Conscientiam_." + +Sanderson's _Lectures_ were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not +published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, +1659. The _Ductor Dubitantium_ is dedicated to Charles II. after the +Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, +therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. +Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were +borrowed from some older common source, where they occur _associated_ as +they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source +pointed out. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + + +Minor Queries. + +220. "_Vox ver Anglorum._"--"_Sacro-Sancta Regum +Majestas._"--_Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."_--Perhaps some of your +readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two +following works, which were published anonymously. + +1. _Vox ver Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King._ 4to. 1659. +Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not +given. + +2. _Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas: or, the Sacred and Royall Prerogative +of Christian Kings._ 4to. Printed at Oxford, 1644. The Dedication is +signed "J. A." + +I should also wish to find out, if possible, the name of the translator +of Horrebow's _Natural History of Iceland_, published in folio, in +London, in 1758. + + [Greek: Boreas.] + +221. "_Kings have their Conquests._"--I have met with a passage +commencing thus: + + "Kings have their conquests, length of days their date, + Triumph its tomb, felicity its fate;" + +followed by two more lines expressive of the infinity of Divine power, +as compared with human, which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to +be found? + + JAMES F. ABSALON. + + Portsea. + +222. _Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White._--The late T. Holt White, +Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the _Areopagitica_ of Milton, +adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting +illustrations), had compiled in _many_ interleaved volumes of the works +of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he +had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is +reported to have said, "_It would be unjust to meddle with such a +compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with._" +Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has +been preserved, and where it is? + + GROTUS. + +223. _Pauper's Badge, Meaning of._--In the Churchwarden's Accounts for +the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry: + + "22 July, 1716. + + "It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons _hath refused to + weare the badge_, that she should not be allowed the collection + [_i.e._ the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future + w'h shall be due." + +Can any correspondent inform me what this _badge_ was, and also if it +was of general use in other places? + + J. B. COLMAN. + +224. _The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. +Northcote, R. A._--Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform +me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the +Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and +afterwards engraved by J. Parker? + + A. H. W. + +225. _The Lowy of Tunbridge._--Lambarde (_Perambulation of Kent_, 1596, +p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory +commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or +Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at +first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to +Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and +land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which +Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on +Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present +any trace of such a territory remaining. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851. + +226. _Bones of Birds._--Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the +bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with +air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should +suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, _quite empty_, would be +more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents +will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with +which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the +more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous +expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere? + +Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I +hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful +miscellany. + + AN AERONAUT. + +227. _"Malvina, a Tragedy."_--Can any of your readers afford any +information about (1.) _Malvina, a Tragedy_, Glasgow, printed by Andrew +Foules, 1786, 8vo., pp. 68? A MS. note on the copy in my library states +it to be written by Mr. John Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) _Iphigenia, +a Tragedy_ in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est.--Ovid. MDCCLXXXVII. My +copy has this MS. note: "By John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," +in the handwriting of Francis, seventh Baron Napier. Neither of these +tragedies in noticed in the _Biographia Dramatica_. + + J. MT. + +228. _Rinuccini Gallery._--I see by a late number of the _Athenum_ +newspaper, that the splendid collection of pictures preserved in the +Rinuccini Palace at Florence will be brought to the hammer in the month +of May 1852. It has been stated, that amongst the works of art at one +period extant in the Rinuccini Palace, were a number of paintings made +by Italian artists for Cardinal Rinuccini, when on his Legatine mission +to Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century, and representing +his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in November 1645. It has also been +asserted that these interesting historical paintings were wilfully +destroyed from a very discreditable motive. The importance of these +cartoons, as illustrating a period when Ireland became the final +battle-field of the contending parties which then divided the British +dominions, will at once be acknowledged; and at this period, when so +many foreigners are assembled in London, perhaps some reader of "NOTES +AND QUERIES" may be able to set the question of the existence or +destruction of these cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person +about to seek the genial air of Italy during the winter may bear this +"Query" in mind, and forward to your valuable paper a "Note" of the +contents of the Rinuccini Gallery. I need hardly say that the person so +doing will confer a favour on every student of Irish History. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny, Oct. 11. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Meaning of Aneroid._--What is the derivation of the word _aneroid_, as +applied to a new description of barometer lately introduced? + + AGRICOLA. + + [From a note in Mr. Dent's interesting pamphlet, _A Treatise on + the Aneroid, a newly invented Portable Barometer; with a short + Historical Notice of Barometers in general, their Construction and + Use_, it appears that the word _aneroid_ has been the subject of + some philological discussion. "It is said to be derived from three + Greek words, [Greek: a], [Greek: nros], and [Greek: eidos], and + to signify _a form without fluid_. If so, it does not appear very + happily chosen, since it indicates merely what the instrument is + _not_, without at all explaining what it is."] + +_Fox's Cunning._--Can any of your correspondents or readers give any +authentic information as to the fact having been witnessed by any one, +of the old story of the fox relieving itself of fleas by taking a +feather in its mouth, and gradually, though slowly enough, retrograding +itself into the water, first by legs and tail, then body, shoulders, and +head to the nose, and thus compelling the fleas, to escape from the +drowning element, to pass over the nose on to the bridge of the feather, +which is then committed to the stream. + +Has any one actually seen this? Has any one heard it related by one who +has seen the ejectment performed? + + J. D. + + Torquay, May 12. + + [Lord Brougham, in his _Dialogues on Instinct_ (ed. 1844, p. + 110.), does not allude to this proverbial instance, but says: "I + know not if it (the Fox's cunning) was ever more remarkably + displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country; where Reynard, + being hard pressed, disappeared suddenly, and was, after strict + search, found immersed in a water pool up to the very snout, by + which he held a willow bough hanging over the pond."] + + + + +Replies. + + +ARCHBISHOP OF SPALATRO. + +(Vol. iv., p. 257.) + +_Audi alteram partem_ is too excellent and equitable a rule, not to find +ample scope given for its exercise in "NOTES AND QUERIES," especially +where the memory of a foreigner is concerned, who, after dwelling awhile +among us under the protection of our hospitality, and in the communion +of our Church, was content eventually to sacrifice his life, rather than +forsake the truth, or repudiate the Church of England. + +I am led to this remark by observing the tone of depreciation in which +Chalmers speaks of Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatro, in the +extract produced at p. 257. out of the _Biographical Dictionary_, for +the satisfaction of MR. W. FRAZER. + +The words of Chalmers, which I conceive to be objectionable, alike +ungenerous and inaccurate--such as Fuller might rejoice in (conf. +_Church History_, book x.)--are: + + "He returned to Rome in 1622, _where he abjured his errors_; but + on the discovery of a correspondence which he held with some + Protestants, he was thrown into prison, where he died in 1625. He + was a man of great abilities and learning, _although remarkable + for a fickleness in religious matters_." + +This reproach against the good archbishop, of having renounced the +English communion (for that is doubtless what is meant), is clearly an +unjust accusation, and appears to be based upon no better authority than +a spurious book, published in the Low Countries under Spalatro's name, +but without his knowledge or sanction, and bearing the following title: +_Marc. Ant. de Dominis sui reditus ex Angli concilium exponit_, 4to. +Diling, 1623. This book at the time of its publication deceived Bishop +Hall, and gave occasion to the _Alter Ecebolius M. Ant. de Dominis, +pluribus dominis inservire doctus_: 4to. Lond. 1624. + +It is only fair, certainly, to Spalatro's memory, that the calumnies +thus raised against him in his lifetime should not now be perpetuated by +the inadvertency of modern writers, for so far at least the means are at +hand to refute them. Now there is one writer especially who has done +much to vindicate the name of Ant. de Dominis from this charge of +"fickleness in religious matters." That writer is Bishop Cosin, whose +testimony herein is of the more value from the fact of his having been +present (as Bishop Overall's secretary) at the "Conference between +Spalato and Overall," which "Conference" the following particulars were +collected by Mr. Gutch, _e Schedis MSS. Cosini_, and are preserved in +the _Collectanea Curiosa_, vol. ii. p. 18.: + + "A. Spalato came into England in 1616, being desirous to live + under the protection of King James, having before been recommended + by Padre Paolo. By King James's bounty and care he was safely + conveyed through Germany into England, and lodged in Lambeth + Palace: Abbot thinking fit to retire to Croydon, till either + Bishop Andrewes or Bishop Overall had conferred with him. The king + sent Bishop Overall to him, who took in his company his secretary, + and commanded him to be near him the same morning Spalato arrived, + to hear what passed between them. After dinner, some other being + present, the discourse began about the state of the Church of + England; of which Overall having given a large account, Spalato + received great satisfaction, and made his protestation that he + came into England then to live with us in the union and profession + of that Catholic religion which was so much obstructed in his own + country, that he could not with safety and peace of conscience + live there any longer. Then he added what satisfaction he had + received from the monitory preface of King James [Vid. _Apol. for + the Oath of Allegiance_, ed. 4to. Lond. 1609] to all the estates + and churches of Christendom; wherein the true ancient faith and + religion of the Catholic Church is set forth, and no heterodoxies + or novelties maintained: to the defence of which faith, and + service of which Church, as he had already a long time applied his + studies, and wrote ten books, _De Republic Ecclesiastic_, so, by + the favour of God, and King James, he was now come into England to + review and publish them, together with the _History of the Council + of Trent_, which he had brought with him from Padre Paolo of + Venice, who delivered it into his hands; by whom he was chiefly + persuaded and encouraged to have recourse to the king and the + Church of England, being the best founded for the profession of + true Catholic doctrine, and the freest from error and novelties, + of any Church in all places besides. Then they descended to the + particular points of doctrine," &c. + +It is, however, _not_ with the _doctrinal_ question which would, of +course, be inadmissible in "NOTES AND QUERIES," but with the historical +_fact_, that we have to do; the question being, whether Antonius +Spalateasis was "fickle" in respect of the Church of England. + +There is an interesting sketch of Spalatro's _after_ history in Cosin's +_Treatise against Transubstantiation_, chap. ii. 7.; from Luke de +Beaulieu's translation of which (Cosin's _Collected Works_, vol. iv. p. +160., Oxford, 1851) I quote the following: + + "Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, (was) a man well + versed in the Sacred Writings, and the records of antiquity; who, + having left Italy (when he could no longer remain in it, either + with quiet or safety) by the advice of his intimate friend, Paulus + Venetus, took sanctuary under the protection of King James of + blessed memory, in the bosom of the Church of England, which he + did faithfully follow in all points and articles of religion. But, + being daily vexed with many affronts and injuries, and wearied by + the unjust persecutions of some sour and over-rigid men, who + bitterly declaimed everywhere against his life and actions, he at + last resolved to return into Italy with a safe conduct. Before he + departed he was, by order from the king, questioned by some + commissionated bishops, what he thought of the religion and church + of England, which for so many years he had owned and obeyed, and + what he would say of it in the Roman court. _To this query he gave + in writing this memorable answer, 'I am resolved, even with the + danger of my life, in profess before the Pope himself, that the + Church of England is a true and orthodox Church of Christ.' This + he not only promised, but faithfully performed_; for though, soon + after his departure, there came a book out of the Low Countries, + falsely bearing his name, by whose title many were deceived, even + among the English, and thereby moved to tax him with apostacy, and + of being another Ecebolius; yet, when he came to Rome (where he + was most kindly entertained in the palace of Pope Gregory XV., who + formerly had been his fellow-student), _he could never be + persuaded_ by the Jesuits and others, who daily thronged upon him, + neither to subscribe the new-devised tenets of the Council of + Trent, or _to retract those orthodox books_ which he had printed + in England and Germany, or _to renounce the communion of the + Church of England, in whose defence he constantly persisted to the + very last_. But, presently after the decease of Pope Gregory, he + was imprisoned by the Jesuits and Inquisitors in Castle St. + Angelo, where, by being barbarously used, and almost starved, he + soon got a mortal sickness, and died in a few days, though not + without suspicion of being poisoned. The day following, his corpse + was by the sentence of the Inquisition tied to an infamous stake, + and there burnt to ashes, _for no other reason but that he refused + to make abjuration of the religion of the Church of England_, and + subscribe some of the lately-made decrees of Trent, which were + pressed upon him as canons of the Catholic faith. I have taken + occasion (Cosin adds) to insert this narration, perhaps not known + to many, to make it appear that this reverend prelate, who did + great service to the Church of God, may justly (as I said before) + be reckoned among the writers of the Church of England." + +In the first collection of Lord Somers's _Tracts_, vol. iv. p. 575., +there is a curious paper bearing the title: _A relation sent from Rome, +of the process, sentence, and execution done upon the body, pictures, +and books of Marcus Ant. de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, after his +death._ There are some notices of De Dominis, also, among the Birch and +other MSS. in the British Museum. + +MR. FRAZER might possibly ascertain the other particular about which he +inquires, viz. whether Spalatro "_acted_ as a bishop in England," by +consulting some of the numerous tracts written at the time, both against +and in vindication of the archbishop; and, more particularly, a tract +entitled: _De pace religionis M. Ant. de Dominis Spalateus. Archiepisc. +Epist. ad venerabilem virum Jos. Hallum, Archipresbyterum Vigorn_, &c.: +edit. Ves. Sequan. 1666. + + J. SANSOM. + +Perhaps it may be doubted whether it was the wish of Antonius de Dominis +to reunite the churches of Rome and England: however this may be, as +Dean of Windsor, he accused one of the canons, Richard Mountagu +(afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich) of preaching +the Roman doctrine of the invocation of saints and angels. Mountagu +replied in a pamphlet, the title of which is, _Immediate Addresse unto +GOD Alone. First delivered in a Sermon before his Majestie at Windsore, +since reuised and inlarged to a just Treatise of Invocation of Saints. +Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius de Dominis upon the +Authour, Richard Mountagu._ London, 1624. + +Mountagu had evidently no high opinion of his accuser: for he writes in +his Epistle Dedicatory to John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and Visitor +of the collegiate church of Windsor: "There was present at my sermon +that infamous Ecebolius of these times, Religionis desultor, Archbishop +sometime of _Spalata_, then Deane of that church, Marcus Antonius de +Dominis;" and he goes on to abuse him in no measured terms. Collier +(_Ecc. Hist._, vol. ii. p. 726., ed. 1714) mentions that Antonius +assisted at the consecration of some English bishops in the chapel at +Lambeth Palace. He was afterwards reconciled to the Church of Rome, but +was soon imprisoned on suspicion of heresy. After he was dead, he passed +through the forms of the Inquisition, was pronounced a lapsed heretic, +and his corpse was publicly burnt. + + ROVERT. + + Withyham. + + +ANAGRAMS. + +(Vol. iv., p. 226.) + +I know not whether the art of composing anagrams was much practised in +the days of Swift; the description, however, of one of the employments +at the Academy of Lagado--the "project for improving speculative +knowledge by practical mechanical operations," which was carried into +operation by covering the superficies of a large frame with wooden +letters, which, by the turning of a handle, were constantly shifted into +new places--so aptly satirises this practice, that it seems likely that +it was to this he alluded, the more so as the one employment would be as +profitable as the other. MR. BREEN, however (Vol. iv., p. 226.) having +challenged the production of half a dozen good specimens of the art, +perhaps you will afford him an opportunity of amending his judgment. The +following twelve, whether new or not, will at least stand the test he +has propounded:-- + +Who will deny that _Old England_ is a _golden land_; or that _lawyers_ +are _sly ware_? + +There are many who deem _radical reform_ a _rare mad frolic_; and when +asked to _guess a fearful ruin_, would reply _universal suffrage_. + +Every one will admit that _astronomers_ are _moon-starers_; and that a +_telegraph_ is a _great help_. + +We have long been accustomed to consider that a _revolution_ is _to love +ruin_; and that _nine thumps_ constitute a _punishment_. + +What answer more fitting in the _penitentiary_ than _Nay, I repent it_? + +Is there a more _comical trade_ than the _democratical_? and what is +more likely to make _bakers fat_ than a good _breakfast_. + +But, in conclusion, I am compelled to confess that I can see no affinity +between _potentates_ and _ten tea pots_. + + C. A. + +That on _Daniel R._ may be otherwise rendered _Erin lad_. + + D. Q. + +Your interesting correspondent MR. BREEN challenges the world to produce +"six good anagrams." It may help him in his search for them to be +referred to two curious papers on the subject in the _Bengal Moofussul +Miscellany_, reprinted in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he may not have +the book within reach, he may not be displeased at my extracting a few +of the best of them. The first is a compliment paid to one of the +Ptolemies: [Greek: Ptolemaios], [Greek: apo melitos]. Lycophron, in a +similar vein, calls [Greek: Arsino], [Greek: ion Hras]. Out of +_William Noy_, Charles I.'s Ship-Money Attorney-General, we have, _I +moyl in law_. _Loraine_ produces _alerion_, which is assigned as the +reason for that house bearing eaglets in their arms. _Sir Edmundbury +Godfrey_ gives, _I fynd murder'd by rogues_. The tale about Lady Eleanor +Davies, lately referred to by one of your contributors, occurs in the +first of these papers; as does another of somewhat later date, which +really deserves to be preserved among your "Notes." + + "When young Stanislaus, afterwards king of Poland, returned home + from his travels, all the illustrious family of Leczinki assembled + at Lissa to congratulate him on his arrival. Festivals, shows, and + rejoicings of every kind took place: but the most ingenious + compliment that graced the occasion, was the one paid by the + College of Lissa. There appeared on the stage thirteen dancers, + dressed as youthful warriors; each held in his hand a shield, on + which was engraved in characters of gold, one of the thirteen + letters which compose the two words 'Domus Lescinia.' They then + commenced their dance, and so arranged it, that at each turn their + row of bucklers formed different anagrams. At the first pause they + presented them in the natural order: + + Domus Lescinia + At the second Ades Incolumis + At the third Omnis es lucida + At the fourth Mane Sidus Loci + At the fifth Sis Columna Dei + At the last I, scande Solium." + +I fear I have already asked for too much of your space, yet must I beg +the least bit more for an anagram which, unless the sacredness of the +subject be accounted a drawback, may well claim a foremost place among +the "six." It is found in Pilate's question to our Lord, _Quid est +veritas?_ which contains its own best answer: _Est Vir qui adest._ + + PHILIP HEDGELAND. + + +DISCOVERING THE BODIES OF THE DROWNED. + +(Vol. iv., p. 251.) + +The mode of doing this, as shown by S. W. to be practised by the North +American Indians, is very common amongst ourselves. About +five-and-twenty years ago, an Eton boy, named Dean, who had lately come +to the school, imprudently bathed in the river Thames where it flows +with great rapidity under the "playing fields," and he was soon carried +out of his depth, and disappeared. Efforts were made to save him or +recover the body, but to no purpose; until Mr. Evans, who was then, as +now, the accomplished drawing-master, threw a cricket bat into the +stream, which floated to a spot where it turned round in an eddy, and +from a deep hole underneath the body was quickly drawn. This statement +is entirely from memory, but I believe it to be substantially correct. + +I heard the following anecdote from the son of an eminent Irish judge. +In a remote district of Ireland a poor man, whose occupation at certain +seasons of the year was to pluck feathers from live geese for beds, +arrived one night at a lonely farmhouse, where he expected to glean a +good stock of these "live feathers," and he arose early next morning to +look after the flock. The geese had crossed the river which flowed in +front of the house, and were sitting comfortably in the sunshine on the +opposite bank. Their pursuer immediately stripped off the few clothes he +had, deposited them on the shore, and swam across the river. He then +drove the birds into the water, and, boldly following them, he +maintained a long contest to keep then together on their homeward +voyage, until in the deep bed of the river his strength failed him, and +he sank. The farmer and his family became aware of the accident, the +cries of the drowning man, and the cackling of the geese, informed them, +in the swimmer's extremity, of his fate, and his clothes lay on the +shore in witness of his having last been in their company. They dragged +the river for the body, but in vain; and in apprehension of serious +consequences to themselves should they be unable to produce the corpse, +they applied to the parish priests, who undertook to relieve them, and +to "improve the occasion" by the _performance of a miracle_. He called +together the few neighbours, and having tied a strip of parchment, +inscribed with cabalistic characters, round a wisp of straw; he dropped +this packet where the man's head was described to have sunk, and it +glided into still water where the corpse was easily discovered. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +The discovery of drowned bodies by loading a loaf with mercury, and +putting it afloat on a stream, or by casting into the river, as the +Indians do, "a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over +the exact spot," is referrible to natural and simple causes. As there +are in all running streams deep pools formed by eddies, in which drowned +bodies would be likely to be caught and retained, any light substance +thrown into the current would consequently be drawn to that part of the +surface over the centre of the eddy hole. + + J. S. C. + + +MARRIAGE OF ECCLESIASTICS. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 57. 125. 193. 196.) + +In the early ages, your correspondent H. WALTER assumes that the +primitive Christians knew "that their Scriptures said of marriage that +it was honourable in all" (Vol. iv., p. 193.). H. WALTER is under more +than one mistake with regard to the text of St. Paul (Heb. xiii. 4.) on +which he grounds his assertion. This whole chapter being full of +admonitions, the apostle, all through it, speaks mostly in the +imperative mood. He begins with, "Let brotherly love continue;" "Be not +forgetful," &c.; "Remember them that are in bonds," &c. Then he says: +[Greek: Timios ho gamos en pasi, kai h koit amiantos], that is: "Let +(the laws of) marriage be revered in all _things_, and the marriage bed +be undefiled;" and as a warning to those who might not heed such an +admonition, he adds, "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." H. +WALTER mistakes the adjective feminine [Greek: en pasi] as meaning "all +men," whereas it signifies here, "in all things;" according to which +sense St. Paul uses the same form of speech in 2 Corinthians xi. 6. True +it is, the authorised version translates thus: "Marriage _is_ honourable +in all;" but the _is_ is an insertion of the translators, and therefore +printed in Italics. Parkhurst, however, in his _Lexicon_, at the word +[Greek: Gamos], says: "Wolfius has justly remarked, the imperatives +preceding and following show that we should rather understand [Greek: +est] than [Greek: esti]. See also Hammond and Macknight; and observe +that the Alexandrian and two other MSS., for [Greek: de] in the +following sentence read [Greek: gar], and the Vulgate translates by +_enim_, "for." + +I cannot but think that the makers of the authorized version advisedly +inserted _is_ instead of _let_, to forward their own new doctrines, as +this their rendering would seem to countenance the marriage of priests. +Curiously enough, when they had no interest in putting in the indicative +instead of the imperative mood, those same translators have of +themselves inserted, in the verse following, the latter, thus: "_Let_ +your conversation _be_ without covetousness," &c. Moreover, in +translating [Greek: en pasi], in another passage of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. +6., they render it, "in all things;" in which same sense it is to be +understood in the above place, Heb. xi. 4. + + CEPHAS. + +In lately reading that very curious book, Whiston's _Autobiography_, I +met with some remarks on this subject, which I made a note of, and which +are at the service of A. B. C. Whiston quotes the well-known Dr. Wall as +follows:-- + + "The Greek Church still observe the rule of allowing their clergy + to marry but once, and before the Council of Nice made a further + rule that none after his orders should marry; and I believe it is + hard to find in church history an instance of any one who married + after he was in priest's orders for a thousand (in reality for + above a thousand four hundred) years before Martin Luther." + +The interpolation marked by a parenthesis is Whiston's, who proceeds:-- + + "The Church of England allows their very bishops to be twice--nay + thrice--nay even four times married without any impediment to + their episcopal functions, whereas the Greek Patriarch of + Constantinople would not admit the Emperor Leo, a layman, into the + church, because he had married a fourth wife." + +Whiston, though a "fanciful man," as Burnet calls him, was well read in +Christian antiquity, and his opinion is therefore of some weight. Wall's +authority no one would willingly undervalue. + +I cannot call to mind any English bishop who was four times married; yet +Whiston would hardly have asserted the fact if he had not had some +example in view. I should be obliged to any one who would inform me on +the subject.[1] + + [Footnote 1: We have somewhere read of a Bishop Thomas giving his + fourth wife a ring, with this posy:-- + + "If I survive, I'll make it five." + + This may give a clue to our correspondent.] + +When on the subject of Whiston, I should be glad to know if his edition +of our Common Prayer Book published in 1713, and his Primitive New +Testament published in 1745, still exist.[2] + + [Footnote 2: The two works mentioned by K. S., though scarce, + occasionally occur for sale. The "Common Prayer Book" was + republished by the Rev. Peter Hall in his _Fragmenta Liturgica_, + vol. iii.] + +The former he entitled _The Liturgy of the Church of England reduced +nearer to the Primitive Standard_. The latter contains, besides the +Canonical Books of the New Testament, the Apostolic Constitutions, +Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Timothy to Diognetus, &c. &c., all +of which he considered as of equal authority with the Canonical Books. +The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he terms "the most sacred of the +Canonical Books of the New Testament." + + K. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Robert Douglas_ (Vol. iv., p. 23.).--There is no truth in the report +that this person was a grandson of Mary Queen of Scots. His diary during +the march of the Scots troops to England, 1644, is printed in a work +entitled _Historical Fragments relative to Scotish Affairs from 1635 to +1664_, Edin., 1833, 8vo., published by Stevenson of Edinburgh, and +edited by James Maidment, Esq., of that city, who has enriched the +volume with many notes and illustrations, and has given in addition a +pretty copious account of Douglas. His letters and papers fell into the +hands of Wodrow. (See _Analecta Scotica_, vol. i. p. 326.) Allow me to +correct an error. The Bannatyne Club did _not_ print Wodrow's +_Analecta_. This very amusing collection was a munificent present from +the late Earl of Glasgow to the members of the Maitland Club, of which +his lordship was president; it is in _four_ thick 4to. volumes, and full +of all sorts of out-of-the-way information. It seems very little known +at present south the Tweed. I question whether Mr. Macaulay has gone +through it, although he is no doubt familiar with Wodrow's one-sided +work on the Sufferings of the Scotish Presbyterian clergy. + + J. MT. + +_The Leman Baronetcy_ (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.).--The attempt in +_Scotland_ to give a right to an _English_ title of honour is exposed +fully in Mr. Turnbull's _Anglo-Scotia Baronets_, Edin. 1846, P. XXXII. +iii. The "certified court proceedings" are worth nothing, and would not +be sustained in a court of law. The party called _Sir_ Edward Godfrey +Leman may or may not be the next heir of the Lord Mayor, but he must +prove his right in England by such evidence as may be required there, +and not by reference to what would not even be looked at in the Scotish +law courts. + + J. MT. + +_Cachecope Bell_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--Is it possible that this word +may be a corruption of the low Latin "Catascopus" (Gr. [Greek: +kataskopos]), and that it was applied to a bell which a watchman tolled +to give an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a bell set apart for this +duty, in churches on the continent. + + C. P. PH***. + +May not this have been a bell specially rung at funerals, and deriving +its name (as has been suggested to me) from _cache corps_, "cover the +body" (in the ground)? And why not, since we have got "curfew" out of +_couvre feu_, "cover the fire?" + + A. G. + + Ecclesfield. + + [E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.] + +"_Dieu et mon Droit_" (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--In Bishop Nicolson's +_English Historical Library_, part iii. chap. i., under the section +treating of _Charters_ appears the following paragraph: + + "The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order + of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with + their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit' + having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating that + the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But + _neither of those_ ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the + days of Henry the Eighth." + + FRANCISCUS. + +_Defoe's House at Stoke Newington_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--This house is +the one which was occupied by the late William Frend, M.A., of the Rock +Life Office, and which now belongs to his widow. It is on the south side +of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has +about four acres of ground attached, bounded on the west by a narrow +footway, once (if not still) called Cutthroat Lane. Or it may be +identified thus: take the map of Stoke Newington in Robinson's history +of that place, London, 1820, 8vo., and look directly below the first "e" +in "Church Street." Among the papers by which the house is held is the +copy of the enrolment of a surrender to the lord of manor, dated +February 26, 1740, in which the house is described as "heretofore in the +tenure or occupation of Daniel Defoe." The history just mentioned stated +that he was living at Newington in 1709. There appears no reason to +suppose that he built the house. Dr. Price lived for some years in it, +as the domestic chaplain of a subsequent owner. + + M. + +_Study of Geometry in Lancashire_ (Vol. ii., p. 57.).--Your +correspondent Mr. T. T. WILKINSON, in his interesting article on this +subject, attributes the first rise of the study of geometry in +Lancashire to the Oldham Mathematical Society. But he is not perhaps +aware, that half a century before a Mathematical Society existed at +Manchester. I have a thin 8vo., entitled-- + + "Mathematical Lectures; being the first and second that were read + to the Mathematical Society at Manchester. By the late ingenious + Mathematician John Jackson. '_Who can number the Sands of the Sea, + the Drops of Rain, and the Days of Eternity?_' Ecclus. i. 2. '_He + that telleth the Number of the Stars, and calleth them all by + their Names._' Psalm cxlvii. 4. Manchester, printed by Roger + Adams, in the Parsonage, and sold by William Clayton, Bookseller, + at the Conduit. 1719." + +The book is dedicated to the "Virtuous and Religious Lady Bland." The +Preface states that + + "There having been lately set up in Manchester a Mathematical + Society, which was encouraged by many (and some Honorable) + subscribers, and the composing of the Lectures being undertaken by + the late ingenious Mathematician Mr. John Jackson, and he having + discharged himself well becoming his parts and character in the + reading of several extraordinary ones in Geometry, we thought it + would be great pity, as well as ingratitude, to let such worthy + performances expire with him." + +Then follow the two Lectures, which terminate at p. 41. The first was +read Aug. 12, 1718; the second, Aug. 19, 1718. The Manchester +Mathematical Society would be one of the earliest in the kingdom. +Perhaps the Oldham Society might be a branch of the Manchester. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Coke, how pronounced_ (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 74. 93. 138. 244.).--I think +that the pronunciation of _Cook_ for _Coke_ is not a "modern +affectation," as in a MS. journal of the proceedings in parliament of +the session of 1621, now in my possession, there is, amongst other +amusing things, an account of a quarrel between Mr. Clement Coke, son of +Sir Edward, and Sir Charles Moryson, in which Mr. Coke's name is +frequently spelt _Cooke_. I should judge that the pronunciation was by +no means settled at that time; for, as the journal was evidently written +whilst the debates were going on, it appears to me that the +pronunciation of each speaker was followed, and the name is spelt +differently in speeches that succeed each other. I send you an exact +copy of one example of this: + + "M'r Whittbye.--That M'r _Coke_ will submitt and satisfy in + acknow'g his wrong don, if S'r Char's will say he ment it not a + disgrace. + + "S'r Ro. Phil'ps.--I would any way mitigate y'e censure: I should + need no other induce't but to rememb'r he is y'e soun of such a + father. But I must say, I thinke S'r Char's hath not given y'e + least occas'n to M'r _Cooke_," &c. &c. + + C. DE D. + +_Quistourne_ (Vol. iv., p. 116.).--Here is a word so very like the +Devonshire one which has puzzled a correspondent, that it may be the +same one in sense as well in sound. In one of the Low-Norman insular +dialects, it denotes a slap with the _back_ of the _hand_; in +French-British[3], KIS DORN, _revers de main_. + + [Footnote 3: I was asked by a great and true scholar, now no more, + What do you mean by _British_? My answer was, "The nation that you + have nicknamed _Welsh_ or _Strangers_, which they are not. With me + the English are still English, the Scotch Scots, the Britons in + France the British there."] + + G. M. + +_Seneca's Medea_ (Vol. i., p. 107.; Vol. iii., p. 464.).--I cannot feel +much doubt that the prophecy ascribed to Medea was a mere allusion to +events actually past. It was a compliment to Claudius upon the recent +reduction of Britannia under the Roman arms, with nothing future, unless +it were an encouragement to bring Caledonia, Ireland, and the small +islands, into similar subjection. The Oceanus was supposed to extend +indefinitely westward, beyond the world, into the regions of Night and +Chaos, and was not only dreaded for its stormy navigation, but from +feelings of religious awe. The expedition to Britain was peculiar from +being ultra-mundane, and an invasion of the ocean, so that + + "Oceanus + Vincula rerum laxet et ingens + Pateat tellus." + +For that reason only they called the Britons "penitus toto divisos +orbe." "Britain (said the pseudo-Hegesippus) lying out of the world, was +by the power of the Roman empire reduced into the world," cit. Camden. +And the same is implied in another place of Seneca himself-- + + "Ille Britannos + _Ultra noti_ + _Littora ponti_, etc. + Dare Romuleis + Colla catenis + Jussit." + +But the "Poemata Pithana," reprinted in Camden, form the most lively +commentary on the chorus of the Medea. They are likewise of the Claudian +age, they relate to the conquest of Britain, and they are nothing but an +expansion of that one idea, the trans-oceanic voyage and ultra-mundane +conquest-- + + "Oceanus.... Qui finis mundo, non erit imperio. Oceanus mdium + venit imperium. At nunc Oceanus geminos interluit orbes, Pars est + imperii, terminus ante fuit. Et jam Romano cingimur Oceano. + Oceanus jam terga dedit, etc. Conjunctum est, quod _adhuc_ (i.e. + _nunc_) orbis, et orbis erat," &c. + +The Chorus of Seneca has no more of prophecy, or sagacious conjecture, +or other anticipation of the future, than Gray's "Bard," or the prophecy +of Medea in Pindar's "Pythians," both of them fulfilled before the +poet's time. Whatever may seem of a larger import, in Seneca's language, +than events had fully justified, belongs to the obscure and lofty strain +of remote vaticinations, or to the exaggerations of flattery. + + A. N. + +_The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio_ (Vol. iv., p. 225.).--Colet +speaks of the editions of Jewel published in 1609 and 1611 as "edited by +Fuller." On meeting with the statement elsewhere, I supposed it to be a +mistake, as Fuller was born in 1608; but when I found it apparently +countenanced by the notice of Jewel in Fuller's _Abel Redivivus_ (Camb. +1651, p. 313.), I was much puzzled, until, on turning to the +Introduction, 11., I discovered that the writer of that notice, and +editor of the folios, was not _Fuller_, but _Featley_. + + J. C. R. + +_Poetaster_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--In reply to A BORDERER, I do not think +_poetaster_ to be a genuine Latin word, though where first used I do not +know. The French equivalent is _potereau_; the Italian _poterio_; both +formed according to the analogies of the respective languages. +_Poetaster_ seems to me to be formed upon the model of _oleaster_, +_pinaster_, &c., as though to indicate that the person to whom the name +is applied is as unlike a true poet as the wild olive to the true olive, +or the wild pine to the true pine. What then is the derivation of +_aster_ as a termination? Some punster will say, respecting _oleaster_, +that it is _olea sterilis_. Is it not [Greek: agrios]? or is it rather a +form cognate to the Greek termination [Greek: -az], which generally +means the performance of some energy, or the exhibiting of some state, +implied in the substantive; as though the wild olive affected the +characteristics and condition of the genuine olive? I am fully aware of +many difficulties in the admission of these derivations. I would suggest +another. Does _aster_ signify that which affects or approaches the +characteristics of the substantive to which it is added, as the +terminations _-estis_ or _-estris_, whereby adjectives are formed; as +_agrestis_, _sylvestris_, _campestris_, at the same time that the forms +are allied, _-aster_, _-estris_, _-estis_? + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Post Pascha_ (Vol. iv., p. 151.).--A parallel to the "hypertautology" +noticed by M. may be found in the determination of the University of +Orleans on the question of Henry VIII.'s divorce, which is dated "die +quinto mensis Aprilis, _ante pascha_," from which it has been argued, +that that document must have been drawn up in 1530, not (as stated in +the printed copies) in 1529, when Easter fell on March 28. + + J. C. R. + +_Linteamina and Surplices_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--It seems probable that +the surplice became an ecclesiastical vestment at an early date, though +the exact period of its introduction into the Christian church it is +difficult to ascertain; it may not unlikely have been taken from the +white linen ephod of the Jewish priests. Wheatly (c. ii. 4.) quotes a +passage from Jerome to the following effect: "What offence can it be to +God for a bishop or priest to proceed to communion in a white garment;" +and he considers it not improbable that it was in use in Cyprian's days. +Bingham (_French Churches' Apology_, book iii. chap. vii.) cites a +letter of Peter Martyr to Bishop Hooper on the vestment controversy, in +which he states that a distinction of habits may be proved by many +passages of Eusebius, Cyprian, Tertullian, and Chrysostom. By the +twelfth canon of the Council of Narbonne, A.D. 589, the clergy were +forbidden to take the _albe_ off until after mass was ended. In ancient +times, as Mr. Palmer observes (_Orig. Lit._ ii. 409.), the _surplice_ +probably differed not from the _albe_; it differs now only in having +wider sleeves. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber.) + +_Climate_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--A _climate_ was a zone contained between +two parallels of latitude. The climates were made to contain various +arcs of _latitude_, in different systems. See Hutton's _Mathematical +Dictionary_ at _Climate_, or any work which efficiently explains old +astronomical terms. Thus a _climate_ originally meant a certain range of +latitude; and as we now speak of warm and cold latitudes, so it became +customary to speak of climates, until the last word became wholly +meteorological. + + M. + + "_Climate_ or _Clime_ in geography is a part of the surface of the + earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such + a breadth as that the longest day in the parallel nearer the pole + exceeds the longest day in that next the equator by some certain + spaces, viz. half an hour. + + "The ancients, who confined the climates to what they imagined the + habitable parts of the earth, only allowed of seven. The first + they made to pass through Mero; the second, through Sienna; the + third, through Alexandria; the fourth, through Rhodes; the fifth, + through Rome; the sixth, through Pontus; and the seventh, through + the mouth the Borysthenes."--_Encyclopdia Britannica_, art. + "CLIMATE." + + S. C. C. + + Corfe Castle. + +_Ancient Language of Egypt_ (Vol. iv., pp. 152. 240.).--The only works +on the language of ancient Egypt preserved in the hieroglyphical +inscriptions that possess any authority are the _Grammaire Egyptienne_ +of Champollion[4], and the appendix to the first volume of the Chevalier +Bunsen's _Egypt's Place in Universal History_. Much, however, is known +to individuals who have studied the language, which has not been +published, or perhaps digested into a system; and the works mentioned +are by no means to be depended on as to matters of detail, especially as +respects the verbs and pronouns, though the general principles of +interpretation may be considered as settled. There was another language +used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the +demotic or enchorial character. Brugsch of Berlin is the highest +authority as to this; his work, _De natura et indole lingu popularis +gyptiorum_, is, I believe, incomplete, but he has published others in +Latin and German. + + [Footnote 4: This contains the latest views of the author, whose + most important discoveries were made near the close of his life. + The _Prcis_ contains much that Champollion afterwards rejected as + erroneous. The _Dictionnaire_ is a compilation, made after his + death from what he wrote at different periods of his life. It is + inconsistent with itself, and abounds in errors, so as to be worse + than useless to the student.] + +The work on Egyptian chronology, from which most seems to be expected, +is that of Lepsius; but he has yet published only the first volume, +which consists of preliminary matter. Le Sueur's treatise, though +crowned by the French Acadmie, is a failure. Bunsen's less palpably +erroneous, but a great part of the second and third volumes, which were +published in German in 1844, would require to be re-written. Those who +wish to study the chronology, as systematised by the Egyptians +themselves, should consult the Turin _Book Of Kings_, of which an +accurate fac-simile, with explanatory text, has been lithographed, and +is about to be published by subscription, under the superintendence of a +committee, of which Sir Gardner Wilkinson is the most prominent member. + + E. H. D. D. + +_Welwood's Memoirs_ (Vol. iv., p. 70.).--The edition referred to by MR. +ROSS I have not seen, but there is one in my library printed at London +in 1702, and which bears to be "the fourth edition," with the dedication +to the king, and an address "to the reader" commencing as follows:-- + + "These sheets were writ some years ago, by the encouragement of + _one_ whose memory will be ever sacred to posterity. It's needless + to mention the occasion; and they had not been published now, if a + surreptitious copy of a part of the manuscript had not crept + abroad." + +The volume, which is very well got up in 8vo., is printed for "Tim. +Goodwin, and sold by James Round at the Seneca's Head in Exchange +Alley." + +It may be fairly inferred that this edition came out under the +superintendence of Welwood, and it would be interesting to ascertain +whether there are any alterations in the sixth edition. Welwood was a +Scotchman, and a letter from him to James Anderson, the eminent Scotish +antiquary, will be found amongst the Anderson Papers in the Library of +the Faculty of Advocates. It has been printed in the appendix to the +_Catalogues of Scotish Writers_, Edinburgh, 1833. + + J. MT. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +On Wednesday the curtain fell on the most gorgeous and successful +Pageant ever enacted--a Pageant in which all the nations of the earth +played a part, with the Crystal Palace for their "tyring house." Honour +then to all who had hand or heart in this Triumph of Peace! Honour to +our Queen for her most judicious patronage! Honour to Prince Albert for +the admirable tact with which he fulfilled the duties of his important +office! Honour to our countrymen for the manner in which they have +maintained the dignity of a free people! Honour to our foreign visitors +for the friendly spirit in which they responded to our invitation and +received our welcome! Honour to that efficient corps the Sappers and +Miners, (and happily we have only to mention the military to recognise +their services as civilians), and to our Police for their good-humoured +firmness! Honour to Paxton, for his design--to Fox and Henderson for +their execution of it! and, though last not least, honour to that band +of zealous and indefatigable spirits, the Digby Wyatts, Dilkes, Coles, +Scott Russells, &c., to whose prevision and supervision, at all times +and in all places, the success of the World's Fair and the comfort of +its visitors, owe so much! If ever there was a fitting time for +instituting an ORDER OF CIVIL MERIT, it is now; if ever there were men +who deserved to wear such an order, they who planned, and they who +carried out the GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL +NATIONS, they are the men. + +We could not allow the Great Exhibition to close without making a Note +of it: we have therefore little room this week for Notes on Books. We +must, however, take notice of six additional volumes of the _National +Illustrated Library_, which we have received. Of three of these we may +well speak briefly, as they form the Second, Third, and Fourth Volumes +of _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, to which we formerly directed the +attention of our readers. _The Book of English Songs from the Sixteenth +to the Nineteenth Century_ is a very well selected volume. The Editor's +endeavour to present a fair view of this branch of our National +Literature has been attended with success, and the book will, we have +no doubt, be a popular one. _The Orbs of Heaven_, by Mr. Mitchel, the +director of the Cincinnati Observatory, is intended to furnish a popular +exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy, +and to exhibit the structure of the universe so far as revealed by the +mind of man. The book is a reprint of a series of lectures delivered in +the hall of Cincinnati College, with such success as to have led to the +establishment of the Cincinnati Observatory--need we say more? The sixth +volume is a very interesting but painful one, _The Mormons, or +Latter-Day Saints, with Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, +the American Mahomet_. How startling is the contrast in the +subject-matter of these two books--the one rich in a display of the +infinite wisdom of the Creator, the other depicting most vividly the +foolishness of man. + +The new volume of Bohn's _Standard Library_ is the second of Dr. +Neander's _History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church +by the Apostles, with the Author's Final Additions; and his +Antignostikus, or Spirit of Tertullian_, which completes, we believe, +the series of translations from the writing of this learned German +divine. _The metamorphoses of Ovid, literally translated into English +Prose_, forms the new volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_, and the +Translator, Mr. Riley, has endeavoured to render the work more inviting +to the scholar, and more intelligible to those who are unversed in +classical literature, by numerous explanatory notes calculated to throw +considerable light upon the origin and meaning of some of the traditions +of heathen mythology. + +It will be seen by our advertising columns that Messrs. 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Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, October 18. 1851. + + + + + [List of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-IV] + + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 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23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | + | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | + | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | + | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | + | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | + | Vol. IV No. 94 | August 16, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 38350 | + | Vol. IV No. 95 | August 23, 1851 | 129-144 | PG # 38386 | + | Vol. IV No. 96 | August 30, 1851 | 145-167 | PG # 38405 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 97 | Sept. 6, 1851 | 169-183 | PG # 38433 | + | Vol. IV No. 98 | Sept. 13, 1851 | 185-200 | PG # 38491 | + | Vol. IV No. 99 | Sept. 20, 1851 | 201-216 | PG # 38574 | + | Vol. IV No. 100 | Sept. 27, 1851 | 217-246 | PG # 38656 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 101 | Oct. 4, 1851 | 249-264 | PG # 38701 | + | Vol. IV No. 102 | Oct. 11, 1851 | 265-287 | PG # 38773 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol I. 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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, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: February 13, 2012 [EBook #38864] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, VOL. IV *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram 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> + + + + +<h1> +<span id="idno">Vol. IV.—No. 103.</span> + +<span>NOTES <small>AND</small> QUERIES:</span> + +<span id="id1"> A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION</span> + +<span id="id2"> FOR</span> +<span id="id3"> LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</span> + +</h1> + +<div class="center1"> +<p class="noindent"><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—C<span class="smcap lowercase">APTAIN</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">UTTLE.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">V<span class="smcap lowercase">OL</span>. IV.—No. 103.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ATURDAY</span>, O<span class="smcap lowercase">CTOBER</span> 18. 1851.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller"> Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4<i>d.</i></p> + + + + + +<h2><span>CONTENTS.</span></h2> + + +<p class="larger"> N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES</span>:— </p> + + +<div class="toc"> +<p class="indh i5"> The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield <a title="Go to page 289" href="#notes289">289</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher <a title="Go to page 290" href="#limited290">290</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith <a title="Go to page 291" href="#deserving291">291</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Folk Lore:—Medical Use of + Pigeons—Michaelmas + Goose; St. Martin's Cock—Surrey Folk Lore <a title="Go to page 291" href="#deserving291">291</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney <a title="Go to page 292" href="#corpse292">292</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor Notes:—"They that touch + pitch"—Pasquinade—Two + Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final <a title="Go to page 292" href="#corpse292">292</a></p> +</div> + +<p class="larger">Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + +<p class="indh i5">Can Bishops vacate their Sees? <a title="Go to page 293" href="#do293">293</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Sanderson and Taylor <a title="Go to page 293" href="#do293">293</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor Queries:—"Vox ver Anglorum"—"Sacro + Sancta Regum Majestas"—Translator of Horrebow's + "Iceland"—"Kings have their Conquests"—Dryden; + Illustrations by T. Holt White—Pauper's + Badge, Meaning of—The Landing of William Prince + of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.—The + Lowy of Tunbridge—Bones of Birds—"Malvina, + a Tragedy"—Rinuccini Gallery <a title="Go to page 293" href="#do293">293</a></p> + + <p class="indh i5">M<span class="smcap lowercase">INOR</span> +Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span> +A<span class="smcap lowercase">NSWERED</span>:—Meaning + of Aneroid—Fox's + Cunning <a title="Go to page 295" href="#oct295">295</a></p> + +</div> + +<p class="larger"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPLIES</span>:—</p> + + +<div class="toc"> + +<p class="indh i5">Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. + J. Sansom, &c. <a title="Go to page 295" href="#oct295">295</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Anagrams <a title="Go to page 297" href="#to297">297</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Discovering the Bodies of the + Drowned, by Rev. A. + Gatty, &c. <a title="Go to page 297" href="#to297">297</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Marriage of Ecclesiastics <a title="Go to page 298" href="#threw298">298</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert + Douglas—The + Leman Baronetcy—Cachecope Bell—"Dieu et mon + Droit"—Defoe's House at Stoke Newington—Study + of Geometry in Lancashire—Coke, how +pronounced—Quistourne—Seneca's + Medea—The Editor of Jewel's + Works in Folio—Poetaster—Post +Pascha—Linteamina + and Surplices—Climate—Ancient Language of + Egypt—Welwood's Memoirs <a title="Go to page 299" href="#proceeds299">299</a></p> + +</div> + + +<p class="larger">M<span class="smcap lowercase">ISCELLANEOUS</span>:—</p> + + +<div class="toc"> + +<p class="indh i5">Notes on Books, Sales, + Catalogues, &c. <a title="Go to page 302" href="#seventh302">302</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Books and Odd Volumes wanted <a title="Go to page 303" href="#book303">303</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Notices to Correspondents <a title="Go to page 303" href="#book303">303</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Advertisements <a title="Go to page 303" href="#book303">303</a><span class="pagenum">[289]</span><a id="notes289"></a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> <a id="was_added1"></a><a title="Go to list of vol. numbers and pages" href="#pageslist1" class="fnanchor">List + of Notes and Queries volumes and pages</a></p> + +</div> + + +<h2><span class="bla">Notes.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>THE CAXTON MEMORIAL.</span></h3> + +<p>Few persons having a common object in view, and equally desirous of its +attainment, fail in carrying it into effect. The object of "The Caxton +Memorial" is obviously to do honour to the first English printer; and if +a man's best monument be his own works, it will be necessary to +ascertain of what they consist. It is well known that most of the works +printed by Caxton were translated from the French, many doubtless by +himself. The Prefaces were evidently his own, and the continuation of +the <i>Polychronicon</i> was confessedly written by himself. The most +valuable contribution to "The Caxton Coffer" would be a list of the +works which it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with some +calculation of their probable extent and cost of production. The +originals being in many cases of extreme rarity, it would be necessary +to transcribe fairly each work, and to collate it with the original in +its progress through the press. The following enumeration of the +Translations alone will give some idea of the work to be undertaken:</p> + +<p><i>The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye</i>. (1471.)</p> + +<p><i>The Game and playe of the Chesse</i>. 1474.</p> + +<p><i>Thymage, or Myrrour of the World</i>. (1481.)</p> + +<p><i>The Historye of Reynart the foxe</i>. 1481.</p> + +<p><i>The laste siege and conqueste of Jherusalem</i>. 1481.</p> + +<p><i>The Golden Legende</i>. 1483.</p> + +<p><i>The Book called Cathon</i>. 1483.</p> + +<p><i>The Book of the techynge of the Knyght of the Toure</i>. (1484.)</p> + +<p><i>The Fables of Esope, Avian, Alfonce, and Poge</i>. 1484.</p> + +<p><i>The Booke of the ordre of Chyvalry or knyghthode</i>. (1484.)</p> + +<p><i>The Lyf of Prince Charles the Grete</i>. 1485.</p> + +<p><i>The Ryal Book, or Book for a kyng</i>. 1485.</p> + +<p><i>Thystorye of the noble knyght Parys</i>. (1485.)</p> + +<p><i>The Doctrinal of Sapience</i>. 1489.</p> + +<p><i>The Book of fayttee of armes and of Chyvalrye</i>. 1489.</p> + +<p><i>A lityl treatise of the arte to knowe well to dye</i>. 1490.</p> + +<p><i>The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vyrgyle</i>. 1490.</p> + +<p><i>The Curial of Maystre Alain Charretier</i>. n. d.</p> + +<p><i>The Lyf of the holy Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde</i>. n. d.; and, lastly,</p> + +<p><i>The Vitas Patrum</i>, which was translated by Caxton in 1486, but printed +by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495.</p> + +<p>Such are some of the materials for the "Memorial" suggested by +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">OLTON</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY</span>; and if the original subscribers to a Monument should +consent to such an appropriation of their funds, it will be necessary to +apportion the number of copies to be distributed to each subscriber, +according to the amount of the original contribution. It is to be +presumed that the work will be strictly limited<a id="limited290"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[290]</span> to subscribers, +and that no copies will be printed for sale, the object being, to do +honour to Caxton, and produce a lasting Memorial of that industrious +printer. The form of the work is of importance, with reference to the +cost of its production: and if a new life of the first English printer +should perchance be found necessary, "The Caxton Coffer" will require to +be considerably replenished before the literary undertaking can be +carried into effect.</p> + + + <p class="right">B<span class="smcap lowercase">ERIAH</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">OTFIELD</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span>LORD STRAFFORD AND ARCHBISHOP USSHER.</span></h3> + +<p>In Lord Campbell's account of the conduct of Archbishop Williams, and +the advice which that prelate gave to Charles I. with respect to the +attainder of Lord Strafford, is a sentence which seems to require a +"Note." Having observed that "Williams's conduct with respect to +Strafford cannot be defended," and having referred particularly to his +speech in parliament, he proceeds in these words:—</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "The Bill of Attainder being passed, although he professed to + disapprove of it, he agreed to go with three other prelates to + try to induce the king to assent to it, and thus he stated the + question:—'Since his Majesty refers his own judgment to his + judges, and they are to answer it, if an innocent person + suffers,—why may he not satisfy his conscience in the present + matter, since competent judges in the law have awarded that they + find the Earl guilty of treason, by suffering the judgment to + stand, though in his own mind he is satisfied that the party + convicted was not criminous?' The other three bishops, trusting + to his learning and experience, joined with him in sanctioning + this distinction, in laying all the blame on the judges, and in + saying that the king, with a good conscience, might agree to + Strafford's death. Clarendon mainly imputes Strafford's death to + Williams's conduct on this occasion, saying that 'he acted his + part with prodigious boldness and impiety.' It is stated as + matter of palliation by others, that Ussher, the celebrated + Archbishop of Armagh, was one of this deputation, and that + Strafford, although aware of the advice he had given, was + attended by him on the scaffold, and received from him the last + consolations of religion."—<i>Lives of the Chancellors</i>, vol. ii. + p. 494., second edition.</p> + + +<p>The account which Lord Campbell has here given is the same in substance +as that given by Bishop Hackett in his <i>Life of Williams</i> (Part II. p. +161.), and in several particulars is calculated to mislead the reader. +The whole story has been very carefully examined by the late Dr. +Elrington in his <i>Life of Archbishop Ussher</i>. Hackett's account is very +incorrect. There were five prelates consulted by the king, Ussher, +Williams, Juxon, Morton (Durham) and Potter (Carlisle). The bishops had +two interviews with the king, one in the morning, and the other in the +evening of the same day. At the morning meeting Ussher was not present. +It was Sunday, and he was engaged at the time preaching at Covent +Garden. In the evening, he was in attendance, but so far from giving the +advice suggested by Williams, much less approving his pernicious +distinction between a public and private conscience, Ussher plainly +advised the king, that if he was not satisfied of Strafford being guilty +of treason, he "ought not in conscience to assent to his condemnation." +Such is the account given by Dr. Parr, Ussher's chaplain, who declares, +that, when the primate was supposed to be dying, he asked his Grace—</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"Whether he had advised the king to pass the bill against the + Earl of Strafford? To which the Primate answered: 'I know there + is such a thing most wrongfully laid to my charge; for I neither + gave nor approved of any such advice as that the king should + assent to the bill against the Earl; but, on the contrary, told + his Majesty, that if he was satisfied by what he heard at his + trial, that the Earl was not guilty of treason, his Majesty ought + not in conscience to consent to his condemnation. And this the + king knows well enough, and can clear me if he pleases.' The hope + of the Primate was fulfilled, for, when a report reached Oxford + that the Primate was dead, the king expressed in very strong + terms, to Colonel William Legg and Mr. Kirk, who were then in + waiting, his regret at the event, speaking in high terms of his + piety and learning. Some one present said, 'he believed he might + be so, were it not for his persuading your Majesty to consent to + the Earl of Strafford's execution;' to which the king in a great + passion replied, 'that it was false, for after the bill was + passed, the Archbishop came to me, saying with tears in his eyes, + Oh Sir, what have you done? I fear that this act may prove a + great trouble to your conscience, and pray God that your Majesty + may never suffer by the signing of this bill.'"—Elrington's + <i>Life of Ussher</i>, p. 214.</p> + +<p>This account Dr. Elrington has taken from the narrative given by Dr. +Parr, who adds, that he had received this account of the testimony borne +by the king from Colonel Legg and Mr. Kirk themselves:—</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"This is the substance of two certificates, taken divers times + under the hands of these two gentlemen of unquestionable credit; + both which, since they agree in substance, I thought fit to + contract into one testimony, which I have inserted here, having + the originals by me, to produce if occasion be."—Parr's <i>Life of + Ussher</i>, p. 61.</p> + +<p>Indeed, considering the great and uninterrupted friendship which +subsisted between Ussher and Strafford, considering that the primate was +his chosen friend during his trial and imprisonment, and attended him to +the scaffold, nothing could be more improbable than that he should have +advised the king to consent to his death. At all events, the story is +contradicted by those most competent to speak to its truth, by the +archbishop and by the king; and therefore, in a work so deservedly +popular as Lord Campbell's, one cannot but regret that any currency +should be given to a calumny so injurious to a prelate whose character +is as deserving +<a id="deserving291"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[291]</span> of our esteem, as his learning is of our +veneration.</p> + + <p class="right"> P<span class="smcap lowercase">EREGRINUS</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span>POETICAL COINCIDENCES.<br /> +<i>Sheridan.</i></span> </h3> + +<p>In the account which Moore has given, in his <i>Life of Sheridan</i>, of the +writings left unfinished by that celebrated orator and dramatist, he +states:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "There also remain among his papers three acts of a drama without + a name, written evidently in haste, and with scarcely any + correction."</p> + + +<p>From this production he gives the following verses, to which he has +appended the note I have placed immediately after them:—</p> + +<div class ="poem"> + + <div class ="stanza"> + + <p> "Oh yield, fair lids, the treasures of my heart,</p> + <p>Release those beams, that make this mansion bright;</p> + <p> From her sweet sense, Slumber! tho' sweet thou art,</p> + <p> Begone, and give the air she breathes in light.</p> + +</div> + + +<div class ="stanza"> + +<p> "Or while, oh Sleep, thou dost those glances hide,</p> + <p> Let rosy slumber still around her play,</p> + <p> Sweet as the cherub Innocence enjoy'd,</p> + <p> When in thy lap, new-born, in smiles he lay.</p> + +</div> + + +<div class ="stanza"> + <p>"And thou, oh Dream, that com'st her sleep to cheer,</p> + <p> Oh take my shape, and play a lover's part;</p> + <p> Kiss her from me, and whisper in her ear,</p> + <p> Till her eyes shine, 'tis night within my heart."</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<p class="blockquot"> "I have taken the liberty here of supplying a few rhymes and + words that are wanting in the original copy of the song. The last + line of all runs thus in the manuscript:—</p> + +<div class ="poem"> + + <p> 'Til her eye shines, I live in darkest night,'</p> + +</div> + + +<p class="blockquot"> which not rhyming as it ought, I have ventured to alter as + above."</p> + + +<p>Now the following sonnet, which occurs in the third book of Sir Philip +Sidney's <i>Arcadia</i>, is evidently the source from whence Sheridan drew +his inspiration, the concluding line in both poems being the same. Had +Moore given Sheridan's without alteration, the resemblance would in all +probability be found much closer:—</p> + +<div class ="poem"> + <div class ="stanza"> + +<p>"Lock up, faire liddes, the treasure of my heart,</p> + <p> Preserve those beames, this ages onely light:</p> + <p> To her sweet sence, sweet sleepe some ease impart,</p> + <p>Her sence too weake to beare her spirits might.</p> + +</div> + <div class ="stanza"> + +<p>"And while, O Sleepe, thou closest up her sight,</p> + <p>(Her sight where Love did forge his fairest dart)</p> + <p>O harbour all her parts in easefull plight:</p> + <p>Let no strange dreame make her faire body start.</p> + +</div> + <div class ="stanza"> + +<p>"But yet, O dreame, if thou wilt not depart</p> + <p>In this rare subject from thy common right:</p> + <p> But wilt thy selfe in such a seate delight,</p> + +</div> + <div class ="stanza"> + +<p> "Then take my shape, and play a lover's part:</p> + <p>Kisse her from me, and say unto her sprite,</p> + <p> Till her eyes shine, I live in darkest night."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p>The edition I quote from is that "Printed by W. S. for Simon Waterson, +London, 1627." I may add, that I wrote to Moore as far back as 1824 to +point out this singular coincidence; but although the communication was +courteously acknowledged, I do not believe the circumstance has been +noticed in any subsequent edition of Sheridan's memoirs.</p> + + +<p class="right"> T. C. S<span class="smcap lowercase">MITH</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span>FOLK LORE.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Medical Use of Pigeons</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 228.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In my copy of Mr. +Alford's very unsatisfactory edition of Donne, I find noted (in addition +to R. T.'s quotation from <i>The Life of Mrs. Godolphin</i>) references to +Pepys's <i>Diary</i>, October 19, 1663, and January 21, 1667-8, and the +following from Jer. Taylor, ed. Heber, vol. xii. p. 290.: "We cut living +pigeons in halves, and apply them to the feet of men in fevers."</p> + + +<p class="right"> J. C. R.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Michaelmas Goose—St. Martin's Cock.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the county of Kilkenny, and +indeed all through the S.E. counties of Ireland, the "Michaelmas Goose" +is still had in honour. "St. Martin's Bird" (see p. 230. <i>ant</i>) is, +however, the cock, whose <i>blood is shed</i> in honour of that saint at +Martinmas, Nov. 11. The same superstition does not apply, that I am +aware of, to the Michaelmas Goose, which is merely looked on as a dish +customary on that day, with such as can afford it, and always +accompanied by a <i>mlange</i> of vegetables (potatos, parsnips, cabbage, +and onions) mashed together, with butter, and forming a dish termed +<i>Kailcannon</i>. The idea is far different as to St. Martin's Cock, the +blood of which is always shed <i>sacrificially</i> in honour of the Saint. +Query, 1. The territorial extent of the latter custom? And, 2. What +pagan deity has transferred his honours to St. Martin of Tours.</p> + + +<p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">RAVES</span>.</p> + +<p class="left"> Kilkenny.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Surrey Folk Lore.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—A "wise woman" has lately made her appearance not +far from Reigate in Surrey. One of the farmers' wives there, on being +scalded the other day, sent to the old dame, who sent back a curious +doggrel, which the good woman was to repeat at stated times. At the end +of a week the scald got well, and the good woman told us that she knew +there was no harm in the charm, for "she had heard say as how it was +some verse from the Bible."</p> + +<p>When in a little shop the other day, in the same part of the country, +one village dame was speaking of the death of some neighbour, when +another said, that she hoped "they had been and told the bees."</p> + +<p>In the same neighbourhood I was told a sovereign cure for the goitre was +to form the sign of the cross on the neck with the hand of a corpse.</p> + + +<p class="right"> M. M. P. +<a id="corpse292"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[292]</span></p> + + + + +<h3><span>THE CAXTON COFFER.</span></h3> + +<p>The devices of our early English printers are often void of significancy +early, or else mere quibbles. In that particular, Caxton set a +commendable example.</p> + +<p>His device is "W.4.7C." The two figures, however, are interlaced, and +seem to admit of two interpretations. I must cite, on this question, the +famous triumvirate—Ames, Herbert, and Dibdin:</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, <i>perhaps</i> for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."—Joseph A<span class="smcap lowercase">MES</span>, 1749.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, <i>perhaps</i> for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."—William H<span class="smcap lowercase">ERBERT</span>, 1785.</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"The figures in the large device [above described] form the + <i>reverse impression</i> of 74; meaning, <i>as it has been stated</i>, + that our printer commenced business in England, in the year 1474: + but not much weight can be attached to this remark, as no copy of + the <i>Chess book</i>, printed in 1474, has yet been discovered which + presents us with this device."—T. F. D<span class="smcap lowercase">IBDIN</span>, 1810.</p> + +<p>In lieu of baseless conjectures, I have here to complain of timidity. +There is scarcely room for a doubt on the date. As dom de Vaines +observes, with regard to dates, "dans le bas ge on supprimoit le +millime et les centaines, commenant aux dixaines." There can be no +objection to the interpretation on that score. The main question +therefore is, in what order should we read the interlaced figures? Now, +the position of the <i>point</i> proves that we should read 74—which is the +date of <i>The game and playe of the chesse</i>. The figures indicate 1474 as +clearly as the letters W. C. indicate William Caxton. What is the just +inference, must ever remain a matter of opinion.</p> + +<p>In the woodcut of <i>Arsmetrique</i>, published in the <i>Myrrour of the +worlde</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D</span>. 1481, I observe the figures 74 rather conspicuously +placed, and perhaps the device was then first adopted.</p> + + +<p class="right"> B<span class="smcap lowercase">OLTON</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY</span>.</p> + + + +<h3 class="bla"><span>Minor Notes.</span></h3> + + +<h4><span>"<i>They that touch pitch</i>," &c.</span></h4> + +<p>—A few Sundays since the clergyman that I +"sit under," quoting in his discourse the words "they that touch pitch +will be defiled," ascribed them to "the wisest of men." A lady of his +congregation (who was, I fear, more critical than devout) pounced upon +her pastor's mistake, and asked me on the following Monday if I also had +noticed it. I denied that it was one; but she laughed at my ignorance, +produced a Shakspeare, and showed me the words in the mouth of Dogberry +(<i>Much Ado about Nothing</i>, Act III. Sc. 3.). However, by the help of a +"Cruden," I was able to find the same expression, not indeed in Solomon, +but in the son of Sirach (ch. xiii. v. 1.).</p> + +<p>If Shakspeare's appropriation of this passage has not been noticed +before, may I request the insertion of this note? It may possibly +prevent other learned divines from falling into the common (?) mistake +of thus quoting Dogberry as "the wisest of men."</p> + + +<p class="right">E. J. G.</p> + +<p class="left">Preston.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Pasquinade.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the +following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from +"N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>." As it is not probable that the Papal police allowed +it to remain long before the eyes of the lieges of his Holiness, allow +me to lay up in your pages this memorial of a visit to Rome during the +"Aggression" summer.</p> + +<div class ="poem"> +<div class ="stanza"> <p> "Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras,</p> + <p> Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius.</p> +</div> +<div class ="stanza"> <p> "When a league 'gainst our Faith Pope with Cardinal tries,</p> + <p> Neither <i>Wiseman</i> is Pious, nor <i>Pius</i> is Wise.</p> +</div> +<div class ="stanza"> <p> "Quando Papa' o' Cardinale</p> + <p>Chiesa' Inglese tratta male,</p> + <p> Que Chiamo quella gente,</p> + <p> Piu? No-no, ni Sapiente.</p> + + <p class="author"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">NGLUS</span>."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p>The Italian version will of course be put down as <i>English</i>-Italian, and +therefore worse than mediocre; but I wished to perpetuate, along with +the sense of the Latin couplet, a little <i>jeu d'esprit</i> which I saw half +obliterated on a wall at Rovigo, in the Lombardo-Venetian territory; +being a play on the family name and character of Pius IX.: +</p> + + <div class ="poem"> <p> "Piu?—No-no: ma stai Ferette;"</p> +</div> + +<p>which may be read,</p> + + <div class ="poem"> <p> "Pious?—Not at all: but <i>still</i> Ferette."</p></div> + + <p class="right">A. B. R.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final.</i>—</span></h4> +<div class ="poem"> + + <div class ="stanza"> <p>1.</p> +</div> + +<div class ="stanza"> + <p> Though from rough cough, or hiccough free,</p> + <p> That man has pain enough,</p> + <p> Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough</p> + <p>Or lough begins to slough.</p> +</div> + <div class ="stanza"> <p> 2.</p></div> + + <div class ="stanza"> <p> 'Tis not an easy task to show</p> + <p> How <i>o</i>, <i>u</i>, <i>g</i>, <i>h</i> sound; since <i>though</i></p> + <p>An Irish <i>lough</i> and English <i>slough</i>,</p> + <p> And <i>cough</i> and hic<i>cough</i>, all allow,</p> + <p>Differ as much as <i>tough</i>, and <i>through</i>,</p> + <p> There seems no reason why they do.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<p class="right"> W. J. T.<a id="do293"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[293]</span></p> + + + + +<h2 class="bla"><span>Queries.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>CAN BISHOPS VACATE THEIR SEES?</span></h3> + +<p>In Lord Dover's note on one of Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Mann (1st +series, vol. iii. p 424.), I find it stated that Dr. Pearce, the +well-known Bishop of Rochester, was not allowed to vacate his see, when +in consequence of age and infirmity he wished to do so, on the plea that +a bishopric as being a peerage is <i>inalienable</i>. The Deanery of +Westminster, which he also held, he was allowed to resign, and did so.</p> + +<p>Now my impression has always been, that a bishop, as far as his peerage +is concerned, is much on the same footing as a representative peer of +Scotland or Ireland; I mean that his peerage is resignable at will. Of +course the representative peers are peers of Scotland or Ireland +respectively; but by being elected representative peers they acquire a +<i>pro-tempore</i> peerage of the realm coincident with the duration of the +parliament, and at a dissolution require re-election, when of course any +such peer need not be reappointed.</p> + +<p>Now the clergy, says your correspondent C<span class="smcap lowercase">ANONICUS</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">BORACENSIS</span> (Vol. iv., +p. 197.), are <i>represented</i> by the bishops. Although, therefore, whilst +they are so representative, they are peers of the realm just as much as +the lay members of the Upper House, I can see no reason why any bishop, +who, like Dr. Pearce, feels old age and infirmity coming on, should not +resign this representation, <i>i.e.</i> his peerage, or the <i>temporal</i> +station which in England, owing to the existing connexion between church +and state, attaches to the <i>spiritual</i> office of a bishop.</p> + +<p>Of course, ecclesiastically speaking, there is no doubt at all that a +bishop may resign his spiritual functions, <i>i.e.</i> the overlooking of his +diocese, for any meet cause. Our colonial bishops, for instance, do so. +The late warden of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, Bishop Coleridge, had +been Bishop of Barbadoes. So that if Lord Dover's theory be correct, a +purely secular reason, arising from the peculiar position of the English +church, would prevent any conscientious bishop from resigning duties, to +the discharge of which, from old age, bodily infirmity, or impaired +mental organs, he felt himself unfit.</p> + +<p>Perhaps some of your correspondents will give me some information on +this matter.</p> + + + <p class="right"> K. S.</p> + + + +<h3><span>SANDERSON AND TAYLOR.</span></h3> + +<p>I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can explain the following +coincidence between Sanderson and Jeremy Taylor. Taylor, in the +beginning of the <i>Ductor Dubitantium</i>, says:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"It was well said of St. Bernard, 'Conscientia candor est lucis + tern, et speculum sine macula Dei majestatis, et imago + bonitatis illius;' 'Conscience is the brightness and splendour of + the eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and + the image of the goodness of God.' It is higher which Tatianus + said of conscience, <span title="[Greek: Monon einai syneidsin Theon]">Μόνον εἶναι συνείδησιν Θεὸν</span>, + 'Conscience is God unto us,' which saying he had from Menander,</p> + +<div class ="poem"> + <p> <span title="[Greek: Brotois hapasin h syneidsis Theos]">Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ συνείδησις Θεὸς</span>.</p> + +</div> + +<p class="blockquot"> "God is in our hearts by his laws; he rules in us by his + substitute, our conscience; God sits there and gives us laws; and + as God said unto Moses, 'I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,' that + is, to give him laws, and to minister in the execution of those + laws, and to inflict angry sentences upon him, so hath God done + to us."</p> + +<p>In the beginning of Sanderson's second lecture, <i>De Obligatione +Conscienti</i>, he says:</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"Hine illud ejusdem Menandri. +<span title="[Greek: Brotois hapasin h syneidsis Theos]">Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ συνείδησις Θεὸς</span>; <i>Mortalibus sum cuique Conscientia Deus est</i>, Quo nimirum + sensu dixit Dominus se <i>constituisse Mosen Deum Pharaoni</i>; quod + seis Pharaoni voluntatem Dei subinde <i>inculcaret</i>, ad cum + faciendam Pharaonem <i>instigaret</i>, non obsequentem contentibus + plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, eundem quoque + <i>constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum</i> singularium propriam + <i>Conscientiam</i>."</p> + +<p>Sanderson's <i>Lectures</i> were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not +published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, +1659. The <i>Ductor Dubitantium</i> is dedicated to Charles II. after the +Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, +therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. +Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were +borrowed from some older common source, where they occur <i>associated</i> as +they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source +pointed out.</p> + + <p class="right">W. W.</p> + +<p class="left"> Cambridge.</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Queries.</span></h3> + +<h4><span>220. "<i>Vox ver Anglorum.</i>"—"<i>Sacro-Sancta Regum +Majestas.</i>"—<i>Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."</i></span></h4> + + +<p>—Perhaps some of your +readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two +following works, which were published anonymously.</p> + +<p>1. <i>Vox ver Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King.</i> 4to. 1659. +Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not +given.</p> + +<p>2. <i>Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas: or, the Sacred and Royall Prerogative +of Christian Kings.</i> 4to. Printed at Oxford, 1644. The Dedication is +signed "J. A."</p> + +<p>I should also wish to find out, if possible, the name of the translator +of Horrebow's <i>Natural History of Iceland</i>, published in folio, in +London, in 1758<a id="Boreas294"></a>.</p> + + + <p class="right"> <span title="[Greek: Boreas.]">Βορέας.</span> + <span class="pagenum">[294]</span></p> + + + +<h4><span>221. "<i>Kings have their Conquests.</i>"</span></h4> + +<p>—I have met with a passage +commencing thus:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"Kings have their conquests, length of days their date,</p> + <p>Triumph its tomb, felicity its fate;"</p> + +</div> +<p>followed by two more lines expressive of the infinity of Divine power, +as compared with human, which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to +be found?</p> + + +<p class="right">J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> F. A<span class="smcap lowercase">BSALON</span>.</p> + +<p class="left"> Portsea.</p> + + + +<h4><span>222. <i>Dryden—Illustrations by T. Holt White.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—The late T. Holt White, +Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the <i>Areopagitica</i> of Milton, +adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting +illustrations), had compiled in <i>many</i> interleaved volumes of the works +of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he +had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is +reported to have said, "<i>It would be unjust to meddle with such a +compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with.</i>" +Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has +been preserved, and where it is?</p> + + + <p class="right"> <span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>223. <i>Pauper's Badge, Meaning of.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the Churchwarden's Accounts for +the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry:</p> + + + + +<p class="blockquot"> "22 July, 1716.</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons <i>hath refused to + weare the badge</i>, that she should not be allowed the collection + [<i>i.e.</i> the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future + w<span class="topnum">h</span> shall be due." +</p> + +<p>Can any correspondent inform me what this <i>badge</i> was, and also if it +was of general use in other places?</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. B. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLMAN</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4><span>224. <i>The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. Northcote, R. A.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of the readers of "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" inform +me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the +Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and +afterwards engraved by J. Parker?</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. H. W.</p> + + + +<h4><span>225. <i>The Lowy of Tunbridge.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Lambarde (<i>Perambulation of Kent</i>, 1596, +p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory +commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or +Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at +first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to +Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and +land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which +Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on +Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present +any trace of such a territory remaining.</p> + + <p class="right">E. N. W.</p> + + <p class="left"> Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851.</p> + + + +<h4><span>226. <i>Bones of Birds.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the +bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with +air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should +suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, <i>quite empty</i>, would be +more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents +will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with +which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the +more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous +expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere?</p> + +<p>Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I +hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful +miscellany.</p> + + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">N</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">ERONAUT</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>227. <i>"Malvina, a Tragedy."</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of your readers afford any +information about (1.) <i>Malvina, a Tragedy</i>, Glasgow, printed by Andrew +Foules, 1786, 8vo., pp. 68? A MS. note on the copy in my library states +it to be written by Mr. John Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) <i>Iphigenia, +a Tragedy</i> in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est.—Ovid. <span class="smcap lowercase">MDCCLXXXVII</span>. My +copy has this MS. note: "By John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," +in the handwriting of Francis, seventh Baron Napier. Neither of these +tragedies in noticed in the <i>Biographia Dramatica</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J. M<span class="smcap lowercase">T</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4><span>228. <i>Rinuccini Gallery.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—I see by a late number of the <i>Athenum</i> +newspaper, that the splendid collection of pictures preserved in the +Rinuccini Palace at Florence will be brought to the hammer in the month +of May 1852. It has been stated, that amongst the works of art at one +period extant in the Rinuccini Palace, were a number of paintings made +by Italian artists for Cardinal Rinuccini, when on his Legatine mission +to Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century, and representing +his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in November 1645. It has also been +asserted that these interesting historical paintings were wilfully +destroyed from a very discreditable motive. The importance of these +cartoons, as illustrating a period when Ireland became the final +battle-field of the contending parties which then divided the British +dominions, will at once be acknowledged; and at this period, when so +many foreigners are assembled in London, perhaps some reader of + "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" may be able to set the question of the existence or +destruction of these cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person +about to seek the genial air of Italy during the winter may bear this +"Query" in mind, and forward to your valuable paper a "Note" of the +contents of the Rinuccini Gallery. I need hardly say that the person so +doing will confer a favour on every student of Irish History.</p> + + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">RAVES</span>.</p> + + <p class="left">Kilkenny, Oct. 11.<a id="oct295"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[295]</span></p> + + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Queries Answered.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Meaning of Aneroid.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—What is the derivation of the word <i>aneroid</i>, as +applied to a new description of barometer lately introduced?</p> + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">GRICOLA</span>.</p> + + + +<p class="blockquot">[From a note in Mr. Dent's interesting pamphlet, <i>A Treatise on + the Aneroid, a newly invented Portable Barometer; with a short + Historical Notice of Barometers in general, their Construction + and Use</i>, it appears that the word <i>aneroid</i> has been the subject + of some philological discussion. "It is said to be derived from + three Greek words, +<span title="[Greek: a]">ἀ</span>, <span title="[Greek: nros]">νηρὸς</span>, +and <span title="[Greek: eidos]">εἶδος</span>, +and to signify <i>a form without fluid</i>. If so, it does not + appear very happily chosen, since it indicates merely what the + instrument is <i>not</i>, without at all explaining what it is."]</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Fox's Cunning.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents or readers give any +authentic information as to the fact having been witnessed by any one, +of the old story of the fox relieving itself of fleas by taking a +feather in its mouth, and gradually, though slowly enough, retrograding +itself into the water, first by legs and tail, then body, shoulders, and +head to the nose, and thus compelling the fleas, to escape from the +drowning element, to pass over the nose on to the bridge of the feather, +which is then committed to the stream.</p> + +<p>Has any one actually seen this? Has any one heard it related by one who +has seen the ejectment performed?</p> + + <p class="right"> J. D.</p> + + <p class="left"> Torquay, May 12.</p> + +<p class="blockquot">[Lord Brougham, in his <i>Dialogues on Instinct</i> (ed. 1844, p. + 110.), does not allude to this proverbial instance, but says: "I + know not if it (the Fox's cunning) was ever more remarkably + displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country; where Reynard, + being hard pressed, disappeared suddenly, and was, after strict + search, found immersed in a water pool up to the very snout, by + which he held a willow bough hanging over the pond."]</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Replies.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>ARCHBISHOP OF SPALATRO.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 257.)</span></h3> + +<p><i>Audi alteram partem</i> is too excellent and equitable a rule, not to find +ample scope given for its exercise in "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>," especially +where the memory of a foreigner is concerned, who, after dwelling awhile +among us under the protection of our hospitality, and in the communion +of our Church, was content eventually to sacrifice his life, rather than +forsake the truth, or repudiate the Church of England.</p> + +<p>I am led to this remark by observing the tone of depreciation in which +Chalmers speaks of Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatro, in the +extract produced at p. 257. out of the <i>Biographical Dictionary</i>, for +the satisfaction of M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. W. F<span class="smcap lowercase">RAZER</span>.</p> + +<p>The words of Chalmers, which I conceive to be objectionable, alike +ungenerous and inaccurate—such as Fuller might rejoice in (conf. +<i>Church History</i>, book x.)—are:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "He returned to Rome in 1622, <i>where he abjured his errors</i>; but + on the discovery of a correspondence which he held with some + Protestants, he was thrown into prison, where he died in 1625. He + was a man of great abilities and learning, <i>although remarkable + for a fickleness in religious matters</i>."</p> + + +<p>This reproach against the good archbishop, of having renounced the +English communion (for that is doubtless what is meant), is clearly an +unjust accusation, and appears to be based upon no better authority than +a spurious book, published in the Low Countries under Spalatro's name, +but without his knowledge or sanction, and bearing the following title: +<i>Marc. Ant. de Dominis sui reditus ex Angli concilium exponit</i>, 4to. +Diling, 1623. This book at the time of its publication deceived Bishop +Hall, and gave occasion to the <i>Alter Ecebolius M. Ant. de Dominis, +pluribus dominis inservire doctus</i>: 4to. Lond. 1624.</p> + +<p>It is only fair, certainly, to Spalatro's memory, that the calumnies +thus raised against him in his lifetime should not now be perpetuated by +the inadvertency of modern writers, for so far at least the means are at +hand to refute them. Now there is one writer especially who has done +much to vindicate the name of Ant. de Dominis from this charge of +"fickleness in religious matters." That writer is Bishop Cosin, whose +testimony herein is of the more value from the fact of his having been +present (as Bishop Overall's secretary) at the "Conference between +Spalato and Overall," which "Conference" the following particulars were +collected by Mr. Gutch, <i>e Schedis MSS. Cosini</i>, and are preserved in +the <i>Collectanea Curiosa</i>, vol. ii. p. 18.:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"A. Spalato came into England in 1616, being desirous to live + under the protection of King James, having before been + recommended by Padre Paolo. By King James's bounty and care he + was safely conveyed through Germany into England, and lodged in + Lambeth Palace: Abbot thinking fit to retire to Croydon, till + either Bishop Andrewes or Bishop Overall had conferred with him. + The king sent Bishop Overall to him, who took in his company his + secretary, and commanded him to be near him the same morning + Spalato arrived, to hear what passed between them. After dinner, + some other being present, the discourse began about the state of + the Church of England; of which Overall having given a large + account, Spalato received great satisfaction, and made his + protestation that he came into England then to live with us in + the union and profession of that Catholic religion which was so + much obstructed in his own country, that he could not with safety + and peace of conscience live there any longer. Then he added what + satisfaction he had received from the monitory preface of King + James [Vid. <i>Apol. for the Oath of Allegiance</i>, ed. 4to. Lond. + 1609] to all the<a id="the296"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[296]</span> estates and churches of Christendom; + wherein the true ancient faith and religion of the Catholic + Church is set forth, and no heterodoxies or novelties maintained: + to the defence of which faith, and service of which Church, as he + had already a long time applied his studies, and wrote ten books, + <i>De Republic Ecclesiastic</i>, so, by the favour of God, and King + James, he was now come into England to review and publish them, + together with the <i>History of the Council of Trent</i>, which he had + brought with him from Padre Paolo of Venice, who delivered it + into his hands; by whom he was chiefly persuaded and encouraged + to have recourse to the king and the Church of England, being the + best founded for the profession of true Catholic doctrine, and + the freest from error and novelties, of any Church in all places + besides. Then they descended to the particular points of + doctrine," &c.</p> + + +<p>It is, however, <i>not</i> with the <i>doctrinal</i> question which would, of +course, be inadmissible in "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>," but with the historical +<i>fact</i>, that we have to do; the question being, whether Antonius +Spalateasis was "fickle" in respect of the Church of England.</p> + +<p>There is an interesting sketch of Spalatro's <i>after</i> history in Cosin's +<i>Treatise against Transubstantiation</i>, chap. ii. 7.; from Luke de +Beaulieu's translation of which (Cosin's <i>Collected Works</i>, vol. iv. p. +160., Oxford, 1851) I quote the following:</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, (was) a man well + versed in the Sacred Writings, and the records of antiquity; who, + having left Italy (when he could no longer remain in it, either + with quiet or safety) by the advice of his intimate friend, + Paulus Venetus, took sanctuary under the protection of King James + of blessed memory, in the bosom of the Church of England, which + he did faithfully follow in all points and articles of religion. + But, being daily vexed with many affronts and injuries, and + wearied by the unjust persecutions of some sour and over-rigid + men, who bitterly declaimed everywhere against his life and + actions, he at last resolved to return into Italy with a safe + conduct. Before he departed he was, by order from the king, + questioned by some commissionated bishops, what he thought of the + religion and church of England, which for so many years he had + owned and obeyed, and what he would say of it in the Roman court. + <i>To this query he gave in writing this memorable answer, 'I am + resolved, even with the danger of my life, in profess before the + Pope himself, that the Church of England is a true and orthodox + Church of Christ.' This he not only promised, but faithfully + performed</i>; for though, soon after his departure, there came a + book out of the Low Countries, falsely bearing his name, by whose + title many were deceived, even among the English, and thereby + moved to tax him with apostacy, and of being another Ecebolius; + yet, when he came to Rome (where he was most kindly entertained + in the palace of Pope Gregory XV., who formerly had been his + fellow-student), <i>he could never be persuaded</i> by the Jesuits and + others, who daily thronged upon him, neither to subscribe the + new-devised tenets of the Council of Trent, or <i>to retract those + orthodox books</i> which he had printed in England and Germany, or + <i>to renounce the communion of the Church of England, in whose + defence he constantly persisted to the very last</i>. But, presently + after the decease of Pope Gregory, he was imprisoned by the + Jesuits and Inquisitors in Castle St. Angelo, where, by being + barbarously used, and almost starved, he soon got a mortal + sickness, and died in a few days, though not without suspicion of + being poisoned. The day following, his corpse was by the sentence + of the Inquisition tied to an infamous stake, and there burnt to + ashes, <i>for no other reason but that he refused to make + abjuration of the religion of the Church of England</i>, and + subscribe some of the lately-made decrees of Trent, which were + pressed upon him as canons of the Catholic faith. I have taken + occasion (Cosin adds) to insert this narration, perhaps not known + to many, to make it appear that this reverend prelate, who did + great service to the Church of God, may justly (as I said before) + be reckoned among the writers of the Church of England."</p> + + +<p>In the first collection of Lord Somers's <i>Tracts</i>, vol. iv. p. 575., +there is a curious paper bearing the title: <i>A relation sent from Rome, +of the process, sentence, and execution done upon the body, pictures, +and books of Marcus Ant. de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, after his +death.</i> There are some notices of De Dominis, also, among the Birch and +other MSS. in the British Museum.</p> + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. F<span class="smcap lowercase">RAZER</span> might possibly ascertain the other particular about which he +inquires, viz. whether Spalatro "<i>acted</i> as a bishop in England," by +consulting some of the numerous tracts written at the time, both against +and in vindication of the archbishop; and, more particularly, a tract +entitled: <i>De pace religionis M. Ant. de Dominis Spalateus. Archiepisc. +Epist. ad venerabilem virum Jos. Hallum, Archipresbyterum Vigorn</i>, &c.: +edit. Ves. Sequan. 1666.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. S<span class="smcap lowercase">ANSOM</span>.</p> + +<p>Perhaps it may be doubted whether it was the wish of Antonius de Dominis +to reunite the churches of Rome and England: however this may be, as +Dean of Windsor, he accused one of the canons, Richard Mountagu +(afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich) of preaching +the Roman doctrine of the invocation of saints and angels. Mountagu +replied in a pamphlet, the title of which is, <i>Immediate Addresse unto +GOD Alone. First delivered in a Sermon before his Majestie at Windsore, +since reuised and inlarged to a just Treatise of Invocation of Saints. +Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius de Dominis upon the +Authour, Richard Mountagu.</i> London, 1624.</p> + +<p>Mountagu had evidently no high opinion of his accuser: for he writes in +his Epistle Dedicatory to John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and Visitor +of the collegiate church of Windsor: "There was present at my sermon +that infamous Ecebolius of these times, Religionis desultor, Archbishop +sometime of <i>Spalata</i>, then Deane of that church, Marcus Antonius de +Dominis;" and he goes on to +<a id="to297"></a> <span class="pagenum">[297]</span> abuse him in no measured terms. +Collier (<i>Ecc. Hist.</i>, vol. ii. p. 726., ed. 1714) mentions that +Antonius assisted at the consecration of some English bishops in the +chapel at Lambeth Palace. He was afterwards reconciled to the Church of +Rome, but was soon imprisoned on suspicion of heresy. After he was dead, +he passed through the forms of the Inquisition, was pronounced a lapsed +heretic, and his corpse was publicly burnt.</p> + + + <p class="right">R<span class="smcap lowercase">OVERT</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Withyham.</p> + + + +<h3><span>ANAGRAMS.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 226.)</span></h3> + +<p>I know not whether the art of composing anagrams was much practised in +the days of Swift; the description, however, of one of the employments +at the Academy of Lagado—the "project for improving speculative +knowledge by practical mechanical operations," which was carried into +operation by covering the superficies of a large frame with wooden +letters, which, by the turning of a handle, were constantly shifted into +new places—so aptly satirises this practice, that it seems likely that +it was to this he alluded, the more so as the one employment would be as +profitable as the other. M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">REEN</span>, however (Vol. iv., p. 226.) having +challenged the production of half a dozen good specimens of the art, +perhaps you will afford him an opportunity of amending his judgment. The +following twelve, whether new or not, will at least stand the test he +has propounded:—</p> + +<p>Who will deny that <i>Old England</i> is a <i>golden land</i>; or that <i>lawyers</i> +are <i>sly ware</i>?</p> + +<p>There are many who deem <i>radical reform</i> a <i>rare mad frolic</i>; and when +asked to <i>guess a fearful ruin</i>, would reply <i>universal suffrage</i>.</p> + +<p>Every one will admit that <i>astronomers</i> are <i>moon-starers</i>; and that a +<i>telegraph</i> is a <i>great help</i>.</p> + +<p>We have long been accustomed to consider that a <i>revolution</i> is <i>to love +ruin</i>; and that <i>nine thumps</i> constitute a <i>punishment</i>.</p> + +<p>What answer more fitting in the <i>penitentiary</i> than <i>Nay, I repent it</i>?</p> + +<p>Is there a more <i>comical trade</i> than the <i>democratical</i>? and what is +more likely to make <i>bakers fat</i> than a good <i>breakfast</i>.</p> + +<p>But, in conclusion, I am compelled to confess that I can see no affinity +between <i>potentates</i> and <i>ten tea pots</i>.</p> + + <p class="right"> C. A.</p> + +<p>That on <i>Daniel R.</i> may be otherwise rendered <i>Erin lad</i>.</p> + + <p class="right">D. Q.</p> + +<p>Your interesting correspondent M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. B<span class="smcap lowercase">REEN</span> challenges the world to produce +"six good anagrams." It may help him in his search for them to be +referred to two curious papers on the subject in the <i>Bengal Moofussul +Miscellany</i>, reprinted in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he may not have +the book within reach, he may not be displeased at my extracting a few +of the best of them. The first is a compliment paid to one of + the Ptolemies: <span title="[Greek: Ptolemaios]">Πτολεμαῖος</span>, +<span title="[Greek: apo melitos]">ἀπὸ μέλιτος</span>. Lycophron, in a +similar vein, calls <span title="[Greek: Arsino]">Ἀρσινόη</span>, +<span title="[Greek: ion Hras]">ἴον Ἥρας</span>. Out of +<i>William Noy</i>, Charles I.'s Ship-Money Attorney-General, we have, <i>I +moyl in law</i>. <i>Loraine</i> produces <i>alerion</i>, which is assigned as the +reason for that house bearing eaglets in their arms. <i>Sir Edmundbury +Godfrey</i> gives, <i>I fynd murder'd by rogues</i>. The tale about Lady Eleanor +Davies, lately referred to by one of your contributors, occurs in the +first of these papers; as does another of somewhat later date, which +really deserves to be preserved among your "Notes."</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"When young Stanislaus, afterwards king of Poland, returned home + from his travels, all the illustrious family of Leczinki + assembled at Lissa to congratulate him on his arrival. Festivals, + shows, and rejoicings of every kind took place: but the most + ingenious compliment that graced the occasion, was the one paid + by the College of Lissa. There appeared on the stage thirteen + dancers, dressed as youthful warriors; each held in his hand a + shield, on which was engraved in characters of gold, one of the + thirteen letters which compose the two words 'Domus Lescinia.' + They then commenced their dance, and so arranged it, that at each + turn their row of bucklers formed different anagrams. At the + first pause they presented them in the natural order:</p> + + + +<table summary="anagrams"> + +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">Domus Lescinia</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">At the second</td><td class="tdleft">Ades Incolumis</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">At the third</td><td class="tdleft">Omnis es lucida</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">At the fourth</td><td class="tdleft">Mane Sidus Loci</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">At the fifth</td><td class="tdleft">Sis Columna Dei</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdleft"></td><td class="tdleft">At the last</td><td class="tdleft">I, scande Solium."</td></tr> + +</table> + +<p class="blockquot">I fear I have already asked for too much of your space, yet must I beg +the least bit more for an anagram which, unless the sacredness of the +subject be accounted a drawback, may well claim a foremost place among +the "six." It is found in Pilate's question to our Lord, <i>Quid est +veritas?</i> which contains its own best answer: <i>Est Vir qui adest.</i></p> + + <p class="right">P<span class="smcap lowercase">HILIP</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">EDGELAND</span>.</p> + + + + +<h3><span>DISCOVERING THE BODIES OF THE DROWNED.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 251.)</span></h3> + +<p>The mode of doing this, as shown by S. W. to be practised by the North +American Indians, is very common amongst ourselves. About +five-and-twenty years ago, an Eton boy, named Dean, who had lately come +to the school, imprudently bathed in the river Thames where it flows +with great rapidity under the "playing fields," and he was soon carried +out of his depth, and disappeared. Efforts were made to save him or +recover the body, but to no purpose; until Mr. Evans, who was then, as +now, the accomplished drawing-master, threw a<a id="threw298"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[298]</span> cricket bat into +the stream, which floated to a spot where it turned round in an eddy, +and from a deep hole underneath the body was quickly drawn. This +statement is entirely from memory, but I believe it to be substantially +correct.</p> + +<p>I heard the following anecdote from the son of an eminent Irish judge. +In a remote district of Ireland a poor man, whose occupation at certain +seasons of the year was to pluck feathers from live geese for beds, +arrived one night at a lonely farmhouse, where he expected to glean a +good stock of these "live feathers," and he arose early next morning to +look after the flock. The geese had crossed the river which flowed in +front of the house, and were sitting comfortably in the sunshine on the +opposite bank. Their pursuer immediately stripped off the few clothes he +had, deposited them on the shore, and swam across the river. He then +drove the birds into the water, and, boldly following them, he +maintained a long contest to keep then together on their homeward +voyage, until in the deep bed of the river his strength failed him, and +he sank. The farmer and his family became aware of the accident, the +cries of the drowning man, and the cackling of the geese, informed them, +in the swimmer's extremity, of his fate, and his clothes lay on the +shore in witness of his having last been in their company. They dragged +the river for the body, but in vain; and in apprehension of serious +consequences to themselves should they be unable to produce the corpse, +they applied to the parish priests, who undertook to relieve them, and +to "improve the occasion" by the <i>performance of a miracle</i>. He called +together the few neighbours, and having tied a strip of parchment, +inscribed with cabalistic characters, round a wisp of straw; he dropped +this packet where the man's head was described to have sunk, and it +glided into still water where the corpse was easily discovered.</p> + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">LFRED</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTY</span>.</p> + +<p>The discovery of drowned bodies by loading a loaf with mercury, and +putting it afloat on a stream, or by casting into the river, as the +Indians do, "a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over +the exact spot," is referrible to natural and simple causes. As there +are in all running streams deep pools formed by eddies, in which drowned +bodies would be likely to be caught and retained, any light substance +thrown into the current would consequently be drawn to that part of the +surface over the centre of the eddy hole.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. S. C.</p> + + + +<h3><span>MARRIAGE OF ECCLESIASTICS.<br /> +(Vol. iv., pp. 57. 125. 193. 196.)</span></h3> + +<p>In the early ages, your correspondent H. W<span class="smcap lowercase">ALTER</span> assumes that the +primitive Christians knew "that their Scriptures said of marriage that +it was honourable in all" (Vol. iv., p. 193.). H. W<span class="smcap lowercase">ALTER</span> is under more +than one mistake with regard to the text of St. Paul (Heb. xiii. 4.) on +which he grounds his assertion. This whole chapter being full of +admonitions, the apostle, all through it, speaks mostly in the +imperative mood. He begins with, "Let brotherly love continue;" "Be not +forgetful," &c.; "Remember them that are in bonds," &c. Then he says: +<span title="[Greek: Timios ho gamos en pasi, kai h koit amiantos]">Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, +καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span>, that is: "Let +(the laws of) marriage be revered in all <i>things</i>, and the marriage bed +be undefiled;" and as a warning to those who might not heed such an +admonition, he adds, "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." +H. W<span class="smcap lowercase">ALTER</span> mistakes the adjective + feminine <span title="[Greek: en pasi]">ἐν πᾶσι</span> as meaning "all +men," whereas it signifies here, "in all things;" according to which +sense St. Paul uses the same form of speech in 2 Corinthians xi. 6. True +it is, the authorised version translates thus: "Marriage <i>is</i> honourable +in all;" but the <i>is</i> is an insertion of the translators, and therefore +printed in Italics. Parkhurst, however, in his <i>Lexicon</i>, at the word +<span title="[Greek: Gamos]">Γάμος</span>, says: "Wolfius has justly remarked, the imperatives +preceding and following show that we should rather +understand <span title="[Greek: est]">ἔστω</span> +than <span title="[Greek: esti]">ἐστί</span>. See also Hammond and Macknight; and observe +that the Alexandrian and two other MSS., for <span title="[Greek: de]">δὲ</span> in the +following sentence read <span title="[Greek: gar]">γάρ</span>, and the Vulgate translates by +<i>enim</i>, "for."</p> + +<p>I cannot but think that the makers of the authorized version advisedly +inserted <i>is</i> instead of <i>let</i>, to forward their own new doctrines, as +this their rendering would seem to countenance the marriage of priests. +Curiously enough, when they had no interest in putting in the indicative +instead of the imperative mood, those same translators have of +themselves inserted, in the verse following, the latter, thus: "<i>Let</i> +your conversation <i>be</i> without covetousness," &c. Moreover, in +translating <span title="[Greek: en pasi]">ἐν πᾶσι</span>, in another passage of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. +6., they render it, "in all things;" in which same sense it is to be +understood in the above place, Heb. xi. 4.</p> + + <p class="right">C<span class="smcap lowercase">EPHAS</span>.</p> + +<p>In lately reading that very curious book, Whiston's <i>Autobiography</i>, I +met with some remarks on this subject, which I made a note of, and which +are at the service of A. B. C. Whiston quotes the well-known Dr. Wall as +follows:—</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "The Greek Church still observe the rule of allowing their clergy + to marry but once, and before the Council of Nice made a further + rule that none after his orders should marry; and I believe it is + hard to find in church history an instance of any one who married + after he was in priest's orders for a thousand (in reality for + above a thousand four hundred) years before Martin Luther."</p> + +<p>The interpolation marked by a parenthesis is Whiston's, who proceeds:—<a id="proceeds299"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[299]</span></p> + +<p class="blockquot">"The Church of England allows their very bishops to be + twice—nay thrice—nay even four times married without any + impediment to their episcopal functions, whereas the Greek + Patriarch of Constantinople would not admit the Emperor Leo, a + layman, into the church, because he had married a fourth wife."</p> + +<p>Whiston, though a "fanciful man," as Burnet calls him, was well read in +Christian antiquity, and his opinion is therefore of some weight. Wall's +authority no one would willingly undervalue.</p> + +<p>I cannot call to mind any English bishop who was four times married; yet +Whiston would hardly have asserted the fact if he had not had some +example in view. I should be obliged to any one who would inform me on +the subject.<a id="subject1"></a><a title="Go to footnote 1." href="#fn1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> </p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn1"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#subject1" class="label">[1]</a> We have somewhere read of a Bishop Thomas giving his fourth +wife a ring, with this posy:—</p> + +<div class ="poem"> + + <p>"If I survive,</p> + <p> I'll make it five."</p> + +</div> + +<p>This may give a clue to our correspondent.</p> + + +<p>When on the subject of Whiston, I should be glad to know if his edition +of our Common Prayer Book published in 1713, and his Primitive New +Testament published in 1745, still exist.<a id="exist2"></a><a title="Go to footnote 2." href="#fn2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> </p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn2"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#exist2" class="label">[2]</a> The two works mentioned by K. S., though scarce, +occasionally occur for sale. The "Common Prayer Book" was republished by +the Rev. Peter Hall in his <i>Fragmenta Liturgica</i>, vol. iii.</p> + +<p>The former he entitled <i>The Liturgy of the Church of England reduced +nearer to the Primitive Standard</i>. The latter contains, besides the +Canonical Books of the New Testament, the Apostolic Constitutions, +Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Timothy to Diognetus, &c. &c., all +of which he considered as of equal authority with the Canonical Books. +The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he terms "the most sacred of the +Canonical Books of the New Testament."</p> + + + <p class="right"> K. S.</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Replies to Minor Queries.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Robert Douglas</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 23.).</span></h4> + +<p>—There is no truth in the report +that this person was a grandson of Mary Queen of Scots. His diary during +the march of the Scots troops to England, 1644, is printed in a work +entitled <i>Historical Fragments relative to Scotish Affairs from 1635 to +1664</i>, Edin., 1833, 8vo., published by Stevenson of Edinburgh, and +edited by James Maidment, Esq., of that city, who has enriched the +volume with many notes and illustrations, and has given in addition a +pretty copious account of Douglas. His letters and papers fell into the +hands of Wodrow. (See <i>Analecta Scotica</i>, vol. i. p. 326.) Allow me to +correct an error. The Bannatyne Club did <i>not</i> print Wodrow's +<i>Analecta</i>. This very amusing collection was a munificent present from +the late Earl of Glasgow to the members of the Maitland Club, of which +his lordship was president; it is in <i>four</i> thick 4to. volumes, and full +of all sorts of out-of-the-way information. It seems very little known +at present south the Tweed. I question whether Mr. Macaulay has gone +through it, although he is no doubt familiar with Wodrow's one-sided +work on the Sufferings of the Scotish Presbyterian clergy.</p> + + <p class="right">J. M<span class="smcap lowercase">T</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>The Leman Baronetcy</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The attempt in +<i>Scotland</i> to give a right to an <i>English</i> title of honour is exposed +fully in Mr. Turnbull's <i>Anglo-Scotia Baronets</i>, Edin. 1846, P. <span class="smcap lowercase">XXXII</span>. +iii. The "certified court proceedings" are worth nothing, and would not +be sustained in a court of law. The party called <i>Sir</i> Edward Godfrey +Leman may or may not be the next heir of the Lord Mayor, but he must +prove his right in England by such evidence as may be required there, +and not by reference to what would not even be looked at in the Scotish +law courts.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. M<span class="smcap lowercase">T</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Cachecope Bell</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 407.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Is it possible that this word +may be a corruption of the low Latin "Catascopus" +(Gr. <span title="[Greek: kataskopos]">κατάσκοπος</span>), and that it was applied to a bell which a watchman tolled +to give an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a bell set apart for this +duty, in churches on the continent.</p> + + + <p class="right"> C. P. P<span class="smcap lowercase">H</span>***.</p> + + +<p>May not this have been a bell specially rung at funerals, and deriving +its name (as has been suggested to me) from <i>cache corps</i>, "cover the +body" (in the ground)? And why not, since we have got "curfew" out of +<i>couvre feu</i>, "cover the fire?"</p> + + <p class="right"> A. G.</p> + + <p class="left"> Ecclesfield.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">[E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.]</p> + + + +<h4><span>"<i>Dieu et mon Droit</i>"</span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 407.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In Bishop Nicolson's +<i>English Historical Library</i>, part iii. chap. i., under the section +treating of <i>Charters</i> appears the following paragraph:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order + of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with + their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit' + having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating + that the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But + <i>neither of those</i> ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the + days of Henry the Eighth."</p> + + <p class="right">F<span class="smcap lowercase">RANCISCUS</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Defoe's House at Stoke Newington</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 256.).</span></h4> + +<p>—This house is +the one which was occupied by the late William Frend, M.A., of the Rock +Life Office, and which now belongs to his widow. It is on the south side +of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has +about four acres of ground attached, bounded on the<a id="the300"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[300]</span> west by a +narrow footway, once (if not still) called Cutthroat Lane. Or it may be +identified thus: take the map of Stoke Newington in Robinson's history +of that place, London, 1820, 8vo., and look directly below the first "e" +in "Church Street." Among the papers by which the house is held is the +copy of the enrolment of a surrender to the lord of manor, dated +February 26, 1740, in which the house is described as "heretofore in the +tenure or occupation of Daniel Defoe." The history just mentioned stated +that he was living at Newington in 1709. There appears no reason to +suppose that he built the house. Dr. Price lived for some years in it, +as the domestic chaplain of a subsequent owner.</p> + + <p class="right"> M.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Study of Geometry in Lancashire</i></span> <span>(Vol. ii., p. 57.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Your +correspondent Mr. T. T. W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILKINSON</span>, in his interesting article on this +subject, attributes the first rise of the study of geometry in +Lancashire to the Oldham Mathematical Society. But he is not perhaps +aware, that half a century before a Mathematical Society existed at +Manchester. I have a thin 8vo., entitled—</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"Mathematical Lectures; being the first and second that were read + to the Mathematical Society at Manchester. By the late ingenious + Mathematician John Jackson. '<i>Who can number the Sands of the + Sea, the Drops of Rain, and the Days of Eternity?</i>' Ecclus. i. 2. + '<i>He that telleth the Number of the Stars, and calleth them all + by their Names.</i>' Psalm cxlvii. 4. Manchester, printed by Roger + Adams, in the Parsonage, and sold by William Clayton, Bookseller, + at the Conduit. 1719."</p> + +<p>The book is dedicated to the "Virtuous and Religious Lady Bland." The +Preface states that</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"There having been lately set up in Manchester a Mathematical + Society, which was encouraged by many (and some Honorable) + subscribers, and the composing of the Lectures being undertaken + by the late ingenious Mathematician Mr. John Jackson, and he + having discharged himself well becoming his parts and character + in the reading of several extraordinary ones in Geometry, we + thought it would be great pity, as well as ingratitude, to let + such worthy performances expire with him."</p> + +<p>Then follow the two Lectures, which terminate at p. 41. The first was +read Aug. 12, 1718; the second, Aug. 19, 1718. The Manchester +Mathematical Society would be one of the earliest in the kingdom. +Perhaps the Oldham Society might be a branch of the Manchester.</p> + +<p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROSSLEY</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Coke, how pronounced</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., pp. 24. 74. 93. 138. 244.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I think +that the pronunciation of <i>Cook</i> for <i>Coke</i> is not a "modern +affectation," as in a MS. journal of the proceedings in parliament of +the session of 1621, now in my possession, there is, amongst other +amusing things, an account of a quarrel between Mr. Clement Coke, son of +Sir Edward, and Sir Charles Moryson, in which Mr. Coke's name is +frequently spelt <i>Cooke</i>. I should judge that the pronunciation was by +no means settled at that time; for, as the journal was evidently written +whilst the debates were going on, it appears to me that the +pronunciation of each speaker was followed, and the name is spelt +differently in speeches that succeed each other. I send you an exact +copy of one example of this:</p> + + +<p class="blockquot"> "M<span class="topnum">r</span> Whittbye.—That M<span class="topnum">r</span> <i>Coke</i> will submitt and satisfy in + acknow<span class="topnum">g</span> his wrong don, if S<span class="topnum">r</span> Char<span class="topnum">s</span> will say he ment it + not a disgrace.</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "S<span class="topnum">r</span> Ro. Phil<span class="topnum">ps</span>.—I would any way mitigate y<span class="topnum">e</span> censure: I + should need no other induce<span class="topnum">t</span> but to rememb<span class="topnum">r</span> he is y<span class="topnum">e</span> + soun of such a father. But I must say, I thinke S<span class="topnum">r</span> Char<span class="topnum">s</span> + hath not given y<span class="topnum">e</span> least occas<span class="topnum">n</span> to M<span class="topnum">r</span> <i>Cooke</i>," &c. &c.</p> + +<p class="right"> C. D<span class="smcap lowercase">E</span> D.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Quistourne</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 116.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Here is a word so very like the +Devonshire one which has puzzled a correspondent, that it may be the +same one in sense as well in sound. In one of the Low-Norman insular +dialects, it denotes a slap with the <i>back</i> of the <i>hand</i>; in +French-British,<a id="brit3"></a><a title="Go to footnote 3." href="#fn3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> K<span class="smcap lowercase">IS</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">ORN</span>, <i>revers de main</i>.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn3"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#brit3" class="label">[3]</a> I was asked by a great and true scholar, now no more, What +do you mean by <i>British</i>? My answer was, "The nation that you have +nicknamed <i>Welsh</i> or <i>Strangers</i>, which they are not. With me the +English are still English, the Scotch Scots, the Britons in France the +British there."</p> + +<p class="right">G. M.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Seneca's Medea</i></span> <span>(Vol. i., p. 107.; Vol. iii., p. 464.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I cannot feel +much doubt that the prophecy ascribed to Medea was a mere allusion to +events actually past. It was a compliment to Claudius upon the recent +reduction of Britannia under the Roman arms, with nothing future, unless +it were an encouragement to bring Caledonia, Ireland, and the small +islands, into similar subjection. The Oceanus was supposed to extend +indefinitely westward, beyond the world, into the regions of Night and +Chaos, and was not only dreaded for its stormy navigation, but from +feelings of religious awe. The expedition to Britain was peculiar from +being ultra-mundane, and an invasion of the ocean, so that</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"Oceanus</p> + <p> Vincula rerum laxet et ingens</p> + <p> Pateat tellus."</p> + +</div> + +<p>For that reason only they called the Britons "penitus toto divisos +orbe." "Britain (said the pseudo-Hegesippus) lying out of the world, was +by the power of the Roman empire reduced into the world," cit. Camden. +And the same is implied in another place of Seneca himself—</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "Ille Britannos</p> + <p> <i>Ultra noti</i></p> + <p><i>Littora ponti</i>, etc.</p> + <p> Dare Romuleis</p> + <p> Colla catenis</p> + <p> Jussit."<a id="Jussit301"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[301]</span></p> + +</div> + + + + +<p>But the "Poemata Pithana," reprinted in Camden, form the most lively +commentary on the chorus of the Medea. They are likewise of the Claudian +age, they relate to the conquest of Britain, and they are nothing but an +expansion of that one idea, the trans-oceanic voyage and ultra-mundane +conquest—</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">"Oceanus.... Qui finis mundo, non erit imperio. Oceanus mdium + venit imperium. At nunc Oceanus geminos interluit orbes, Pars est + imperii, terminus ante fuit. Et jam Romano cingimur Oceano. + Oceanus jam terga dedit, etc. Conjunctum est, quod <i>adhuc</i> (i.e. + <i>nunc</i>) orbis, et orbis erat," &c.</p> + + +<p>The Chorus of Seneca has no more of prophecy, or sagacious conjecture, +or other anticipation of the future, than Gray's "Bard," or the prophecy +of Medea in Pindar's "Pythians," both of them fulfilled before the +poet's time. Whatever may seem of a larger import, in Seneca's language, +than events had fully justified, belongs to the obscure and lofty strain +of remote vaticinations, or to the exaggerations of flattery.</p> + +<p class="right"> A. N.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 225.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Colet +speaks of the editions of Jewel published in 1609 and 1611 as "edited by +Fuller." On meeting with the statement elsewhere, I supposed it to be a +mistake, as Fuller was born in 1608; but when I found it apparently +countenanced by the notice of Jewel in Fuller's <i>Abel Redivivus</i> (Camb. +1651, p. 313.), I was much puzzled, until, on turning to the +Introduction, 11., I discovered that the writer of that notice, and +editor of the folios, was not <i>Fuller</i>, but <i>Featley</i>.</p> + +<p class="right">J. C. R.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Poetaster</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 59.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In reply to A B<span class="smcap lowercase">ORDERER</span>, I do not think +<i>poetaster</i> to be a genuine Latin word, though where first used I do not +know. The French equivalent is <i>potereau</i>; the Italian <i>poterio</i>; both +formed according to the analogies of the respective languages. +<i>Poetaster</i> seems to me to be formed upon the model of <i>oleaster</i>, +<i>pinaster</i>, &c., as though to indicate that the person to whom the name +is applied is as unlike a true poet as the wild olive to the true olive, +or the wild pine to the true pine. What then is the derivation of +<i>aster</i> as a termination? Some punster will say, respecting <i>oleaster</i>, +that it is <i>olea sterilis</i>. Is it not +<span title="[Greek: agrios]">ἄγριος</span>? or is it rather a +form cognate to the Greek termination +<span title="[Greek: -az]">-αζω</span>, which generally +means the performance of some energy, or the exhibiting of some state, +implied in the substantive; as though the wild olive affected the +characteristics and condition of the genuine olive? I am fully aware of +many difficulties in the admission of these derivations. I would suggest +another. Does <i>aster</i> signify that which affects or approaches the +characteristics of the substantive to which it is added, as the +terminations <i>-estis</i> or <i>-estris</i>, whereby adjectives are formed; as +<i>agrestis</i>, <i>sylvestris</i>, <i>campestris</i>, at the same time that the forms +are allied, <i>-aster</i>, <i>-estris</i>, <i>-estis</i>?</p> + +<p class="right">T<span class="smcap lowercase">HEOPHYLACT</span>.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Post Pascha</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 151.).</span></h4> + +<p>—A parallel to the "hypertautology" +noticed by M. may be found in the determination of the University of +Orleans on the question of Henry VIII.'s divorce, which is dated "die +quinto mensis Aprilis, <i>ante pascha</i>," from which it has been argued, +that that document must have been drawn up in 1530, not (as stated in +the printed copies) in 1529, when Easter fell on March 28.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. C. R.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Linteamina and Surplices</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 192.).</span></h4> + +<p>—It seems probable that +the surplice became an ecclesiastical vestment at an early date, though +the exact period of its introduction into the Christian church it is +difficult to ascertain; it may not unlikely have been taken from the +white linen ephod of the Jewish priests. Wheatly (c. ii. 4.) quotes a +passage from Jerome to the following effect: "What offence can it be to +God for a bishop or priest to proceed to communion in a white garment;" +and he considers it not improbable that it was in use in Cyprian's days. +Bingham (<i>French Churches' Apology</i>, book iii. chap. vii.) cites a +letter of Peter Martyr to Bishop Hooper on the vestment controversy, in +which he states that a distinction of habits may be proved by many +passages of Eusebius, Cyprian, Tertullian, and Chrysostom. By the +twelfth canon of the Council of Narbonne, <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D</span>. 589, the clergy were +forbidden to take the <i>albe</i> off until after mass was ended. In ancient +times, as Mr. Palmer observes (<i>Orig. Lit.</i> ii. 409.), the <i>surplice</i> +probably differed not from the <i>albe</i>; it differs now only in having +wider sleeves.</p> + +<p class="right">N. E. R. (a Subscriber.)</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Climate</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 231.).</span></h4> + +<p>—A <i>climate</i> was a zone contained between +two parallels of latitude. The climates were made to contain various +arcs of <i>latitude</i>, in different systems. See Hutton's + <i>Mathematical Dictionary</i> at <i>Climate</i>, or any +work which efficiently explains old +astronomical terms. Thus a <i>climate</i> originally meant a certain range of +latitude; and as we now speak of warm and cold latitudes, so it became +customary to speak of climates, until the last word became wholly +meteorological.</p> + + <p class="right">M.</p> + + + +<p class="blockquot"> "<i>Climate</i> or <i>Clime</i> in geography is a part of the surface of + the earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of + such a breadth as that the longest day in the parallel nearer the + pole exceeds the longest day in that next the equator by some + certain spaces, viz. half an hour.</p> + +<p class="blockquot">"The ancients, who confined the climates to what they imagined + the habitable parts of the earth, only allowed of seven. The + first they made to pass through Mero; the second, through + Sienna; the third, through Alexandria; the fourth, through + Rhodes; the fifth, through Rome; the sixth, through Pontus; and + the seventh,<a id="seventh302"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[302]</span> through the mouth the + Borysthenes."—<i>Encyclopdia Britannica</i>, art. "C<span class="smcap lowercase">LIMATE</span>."</p> + + +<p class="right">S. C. C.</p> + +<p class="left"> Corfe Castle.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Ancient Language of Egypt</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., pp. 152. 240.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The only works +on the language of ancient Egypt preserved in the hieroglyphical +inscriptions that possess any authority are the <i>Grammaire Egyptienne</i> +of Champollion,<a id="champo4"></a><a title="Go to footnote 4." href="#fn4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> and the appendix to the first volume of the Chevalier +Bunsen's <i>Egypt's Place in Universal History</i>. Much, however, is known +to individuals who have studied the language, which has not been +published, or perhaps digested into a system; and the works mentioned +are by no means to be depended on as to matters of detail, especially as +respects the verbs and pronouns, though the general principles of +interpretation may be considered as settled. There was another language +used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the +demotic or enchorial character. Brugsch of Berlin is the highest +authority as to this; his work, <i>De natura et indole lingu popularis +gyptiorum</i>, is, I believe, incomplete, but he has published others in +Latin and German.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn4"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#champo4" class="label">[4]</a> This contains the latest views of the author, whose most +important discoveries were made near the close of his life. The <i>Prcis</i> +contains much that Champollion afterwards rejected as erroneous. The +<i>Dictionnaire</i> is a compilation, made after his death from what he wrote +at different periods of his life. It is inconsistent with itself, and +abounds in errors, so as to be worse than useless to the student.</p> + +<p>The work on Egyptian chronology, from which most seems to be expected, +is that of Lepsius; but he has yet published only the first volume, +which consists of preliminary matter. Le Sueur's treatise, though +crowned by the French Acadmie, is a failure. Bunsen's less palpably +erroneous, but a great part of the second and third volumes, which were +published in German in 1844, would require to be re-written. Those who +wish to study the chronology, as systematised by the Egyptians +themselves, should consult the Turin <i>Book Of Kings</i>, of which an +accurate fac-simile, with explanatory text, has been lithographed, and +is about to be published by subscription, under the superintendence of a +committee, of which Sir Gardner Wilkinson is the most prominent member.</p> + +<p class="right">E. H. D. D.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Welwood's Memoirs</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 70.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The edition referred to by + M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. R<span class="smcap lowercase">OSS</span> I have not seen, but there is one in my library printed at London +in 1702, and which bears to be "the fourth edition," with the dedication +to the king, and an address "to the reader" commencing as follows:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"These sheets were writ some years ago, by the encouragement of + <i>one</i> whose memory will be ever sacred to posterity. It's + needless to mention the occasion; and they had not been published + now, if a surreptitious copy of a part of the manuscript had not + crept abroad."</p> + +<p>The volume, which is very well got up in 8vo., is printed for "Tim. +Goodwin, and sold by James Round at the Seneca's Head in Exchange +Alley."</p> + +<p>It may be fairly inferred that this edition came out under the +superintendence of Welwood, and it would be interesting to ascertain +whether there are any alterations in the sixth edition. Welwood was a +Scotchman, and a letter from him to James Anderson, the eminent Scotish +antiquary, will be found amongst the Anderson Papers in the Library of +the Faculty of Advocates. It has been printed in the appendix to the +<i>Catalogues of Scotish Writers</i>, Edinburgh, 1833.</p> + +<p class="right"> J. M<span class="smcap lowercase">T</span>.</p> + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Miscellaneous.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</span></h3> + +<p>On Wednesday the curtain fell on the most gorgeous and successful +Pageant ever enacted—a Pageant in which all the nations of the earth +played a part, with the Crystal Palace for their "tyring house." Honour +then to all who had hand or heart in this Triumph of Peace! Honour to +our Queen for her most judicious patronage! Honour to Prince Albert for +the admirable tact with which he fulfilled the duties of his important +office! Honour to our countrymen for the manner in which they have +maintained the dignity of a free people! Honour to our foreign visitors +for the friendly spirit in which they responded to our invitation and +received our welcome! Honour to that efficient corps the Sappers and +Miners, (and happily we have only to mention the military to recognise +their services as civilians), and to our Police for their good-humoured +firmness! Honour to Paxton, for his design—to Fox and Henderson for +their execution of it! and, though last not least, honour to that band +of zealous and indefatigable spirits, the Digby Wyatts, Dilkes, Coles, +Scott Russells, &c., to whose prevision and supervision, at all times +and in all places, the success of the World's Fair and the comfort of +its visitors, owe so much! If ever there was a fitting time for +instituting an O<span class="smcap lowercase">RDER OF</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">IVIL</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ERIT</span>, it is now; if ever there were men +who deserved to wear such an order, they who planned, and they who +carried out the G<span class="smcap lowercase">REAT</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">XHIBITION OF THE</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ORKS OF</span> I<span class="smcap lowercase">NDUSTRY OF</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LL</span> N<span class="smcap lowercase">ATIONS</span>, + they are the men.</p> + + +<p>We could not allow the Great Exhibition to close without making a Note +of it: we have therefore little room this week for Notes on Books. We +must, however, take notice of six additional volumes of the <i>National +Illustrated Library</i>, which we have received. Of three of these we may +well speak briefly, as they form the Second, Third, and Fourth Volumes +of <i>Boswell's Life of Johnson</i>, to which we formerly directed the +attention of our readers. <i>The Book of English Songs from the Sixteenth +to the Nineteenth Century</i> is a very well selected volume. The Editor's +endeavour to present a fair view of this branch of our National +Literature has been attended with success, and the book<a id="book303"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[303]</span> will, we +have no doubt, be a popular one. <i>The Orbs of Heaven</i>, by Mr. Mitchel, +the director of the Cincinnati Observatory, is intended to furnish a +popular exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of Modern +Astronomy, and to exhibit the structure of the universe so far as +revealed by the mind of man. The book is a reprint of a series of +lectures delivered in the hall of Cincinnati College, with such success +as to have led to the establishment of the Cincinnati Observatory—need +we say more? The sixth volume is a very interesting but painful one, +<i>The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, with Memoirs of the Life and Death +of Joseph Smith, the American Mahomet</i>. 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In addressing Executors and others entrusted with the + disposal of Libraries, and collections (however limited or + extensive) of Manuscripts, Autographs, Prints, Picture, Music, + Musical Instruments, Objects of Art and Virtu, and Works + connected with Literature, and the Arts generally, would suggest + a Sale by Auction as the readiest and surest method of obtaining + their full value; and conceive that the central situation of + their premises (near St. James Church), their extensive connexion + of more than half a century's standings, and their prompt + settlement of the sale accounts in cash, are advantages that will + not be unappreciated. Messrs. P. & S. will also receive small + Parcels of Books or other Literary Property, and insert them in + occasional Sales with property of a kindred description, thus + giving the same advantages to the possessor of a few Lots as the + owner of a large Collection.</p> + +<p class="indh6"><span class="topnum">*</span><span class="botnum">*</span><span class="topnum">*</span> Libraries Catalogued, Arranged, and Valued for the + Probate or Legacy Duty, or for Public or Private Sale.</p> + + <p> On Saturday, Nov. 1, a large Collection of VALUABLE BOOKS, + removed from the Country, including many curious and rare Works, + and a good selection of Modern Literature. Six days' sale.</p> + + <p>On Wednesday, Nov. 12, EFFECTS of the late STANESBY ALCHORNE, + Esq., of the Tower, including his Numismatic Library, very + important MSS. relating to Mint Affairs, Royal and other + Autographs (30 of Sir Isaac Newton), the celebrated Hydrostatic + Balance made for the adjustment of the Standard in 1758, a most + important series of weights, including the original and unique + Troy Pound, the Collection of Coins and Medals in gold and + silver, in the first condition, many patterns and proofs, and a + well-known and very important picture by Murillo.</p> + + <p>On Saturday, Nov. 15, a very extensive and important Collection + of MANUSCRIPTS, CHARTERS, DEEDS, and other DOCUMENTS, chiefly + relating to English Country and Family History.</p> + + <p>On Monday, Nov. 17, the LIBRARY of the late RICHARD JONES, Esq., + removed from his residence, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, + including an excellent Collection of Dramatic and General + Literature. Four days' sale.</p> + + <p> A Selection of CURIOUS BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS of an eminent + Collector, deceased. Two days' sale.</p> + + <p>A Collection of AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and Documents of considerable + interest, the property of a well-known Collector relinquishing + that part of his Collection.</p> + + <p>The concluding portion of the Collection of AUTOGRAPH LETTERS of + Mons. A. DONNADIEU, comprising, mainly, the period of the first + French Revolution. Three days' sale.</p> + + <p> The MUSICAL COLLECTIONS of a Gentleman recently deceased, + including some engraved plates of Copyright Works, Musical + Instruments, &c.</p> + + <p>The very important and extensive LIBRARY of the COUNT MONDIDIER, + recently imported, especially rich in Foreign Literature, and + comprising an extraordinary Collection of Books relating to + America, Voyages, Travels, and Itineraries, including some of the + rarest Works in the classes, and many which have been hitherto + unknown to Bibliographers. Ten days' sale.</p> + +<p class="indh6"><span class="topnum">*</span><span class="botnum">*</span><span class="topnum">*</span> Catalogues of any of the before-named Collections + will be sent on application to the Auctioneers, 191. Piccadilly.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + +<p class="center1"> Just published, in One Vol. post 8vo., price 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> + +<p class="blockquot cap"> MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. By the R<span class="smcap lowercase">EV</span>. E. M<span class="smcap lowercase">ANGIN</span>, M.A.</p> + +<p>London: HOPE and CO., Publishers, 16. Great Marlborough Street; + by whom Books, Pamphlets, Sermons, &c., are printed greatly under + the usual charges; while in the Publishing Department every + endeavour is made to promote an extensive sale.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> +<p class="noindent cap">WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,</p> + +<p>3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.</p> + +<p>Founded A.D. 1842.</p> + +<p><i>Directors.</i></p> + + <p> H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.</p> + <p> William Cabell, Esq.</p> + <p> T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.</p> +<p> G. Henry Drew, Esq.</p> +<p> William Evans, Esq.</p> + <p> William Freeman, Esq.</p> + <p> F. Fuller, Esq.</p> + <p> J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.</p> + <p> T. Grissell, Esq.</p> + <p>James Hunt, Esq.</p> + <p> J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.</p> + <p> E. Lucas, Esq.</p> + <p> James Lys Seager, Esq.</p> + <p> J. Basley White, Esq.</p> + <p> Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.</p> + +<p><i>Trustees.</i></p> + + <p> W. Whateley, Esq. Q.C.</p> + <p> L. C. Humfrey, Esq. Q.C.</p> + <p> George Drew, Esq.</p> + +<p><i>Consulting Counsel.</i>—Sir William P. Wood., M.P., Solicitor-General.</p> + +<p><i>Physician.</i>—William Rich. Basham, M.D.</p> + +<p><i>Bankers.</i>—Messrs. 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With a Mathematical Appendix + on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, + M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. + Parliament Street, London.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + +<p class="center1">ALMANACKS FOR 1852.</p> + +<p class="noindent cap">THE FAMILY ALMANACK AND EDUCATIONAL REGISTER will contain, in + addition to the more than usual contents of an Almanack for + Family Use, a list of the Universities of the United Kingdom, + with the Heads of Houses, Professors, &c. A List of the various + Colleges connected with the Church of England, Roman Catholics, + and various Dissenting bodies. Together with a complete List of + all the Foundation and Grammar Schools, with an Account of the + Scholarships and Exhibitions attached to them; to which is added + an Appendix, containing an Account of the Committee of Council on + Education, and of the various Training Institutions for Teachers; + mostly compiled from original sources.</p> + + <p>WHITAKER'S CLERGYMAN'S DIARY AND ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR, will + contain a Diary, with Table of Lessons, Collects, &c., and full + directions for Public Worship for every day in the year, with + blank spaces for Memoranda: A List of all the Bishops and other + Dignitaries of the Church, arranged under the order of their + respective Dioceses; Bishops of the Scottish and American + Churches; and particular: respecting the Roman Catholic and Greek + Churches; together with Statistics of the various Religious Sects + in England; Particulars of the Societies connected with the + Church; of the Universities, &c. Members of both Houses of + Convocation, of both Houses of Parliament, the Government, Courts + of Law, &c. With Instructions to Candidates for Holy Orders; and + a variety of information useful to all Clergymen. Forming a most + complete and convenient Pocket-book for Clergymen.</p> + + <p class="center"> JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford and London.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + +<p class="noindent cap"> LONDON LIBRARY, 12. St. James's Square.—</p> + +<p class="center">Patron—His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT.</p> + + <p>This Institution now offers to its members a collection of 60,000 + Volumes, to which additions are constantly making, both in + English and foreign literature. A reading room is also open for + the use of the members, supplied with the best English and + foreign periodicals.</p> + + <p>Terms of admission—entrance fee, 6<i>l.</i>; annual subscription, + 2<i>l.</i>; or entrance fee and life subscription, 26<i>l.</i></p> + + <p class="i9">By order of the Committee.</p> + + <p> September, 1851.</p> + + <p class="i9"> J. G. COCHRANE, Secretary and Librarian.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + +<p class="noindent cap">THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXVIII., is published THIS DAY.</p> + +<p class="center1">CONTENTS:</p> + +<table summary="Quarterly Review CLXXVIII"> + +<tr><td class="tdright">I.</td><td class="tdhang"> WIDOW BURNING IN INDIA.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">II.</td><td class="tdhang"> LIFE OF BISHOP KEN.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">III.</td><td class="tdhang"> PURITANISM IN THE HIGHLANDS.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">IV.</td><td class="tdhang"> MIRABEAU AND COUNT DE LA MARCK.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">V.</td> <td class="tdhang">SIR THOMAS BROWNE—WILKIN'S EDITION.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">VI.</td><td class="tdhang"> THE LEXINGTON PAPERS.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">VII.</td><td class="tdhang"> LYELL ON LIFE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">VIII.</td><td class="tdhang"> PAPAL PRETENSIONS.</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdright">IX.</td><td class="tdhang"> REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE—FRENCH and ENGLISH.</td></tr> + +</table> + + <p class="center"> JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + + <p class="noindent cap">MURRAY'S READING FOR THE RAIL: or Cheap Books in large readable + Type, to be published occasionally, and varying in Prices from + One Shilling and upwards.</p> + + <p>The aim and object of the publisher, in this Series, is to + dissemble sound and entertaining information and innocent + amusement, instead of the trivial, and often immoral, + publications which are for the most part offered to the notice of + Railway Readers. He designs to introduce a class of works at once + cheap, valuable, and instructive, not merely to be read on the + Railway, and thrown aside at the end of the journey, but such as + shall deserve a permanent place on the shelves of the Library.</p> + + <p> It will thus form an appropriate sequel to the HOME AND COLONIAL + LIBRARY.</p> + +<p class="center1">Already published.</p> + + <p>1. ESSAYS FROM "THE TIMES." Being a selection from the Literary + Papers which have appeared in that Journal. Fcap. 8vo. 4s.</p> + + <p> 2. THE CHACE. By NIMROD. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 1s.</p> + + <p>3. "THE FORTY-FIVE;" or, The Rebellion in Scotland. By LORD + MAHON. Post 8vo. 3<i>s.</i></p> + + <p class="center">To be followed by</p> + + <p>4. LAYARD'S POPULAR ACCOUNT OF NINEVEH. Woodcuts. Post 8vo. + 30<i>s.</i></p> + + <p>5. THE ROAD. By NIMROD. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 1s.</p> + +<p class="center"> JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> +<p class="center">Just published, price 4<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> + +<p class="noindent cap"><span title="[Greek: AISCHYLOU HIKETIDES.]">ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ.</span> schyli Supplices. Recensuit F. A. PALEY. +Editio emendatior.</p> + +<p class="center">Apud J. DEIGHTON, Cantabrigi. Et WHITTAKER et SOC.; et SIMPKIN et SOC., +Londini.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + +<p class="center"> This day is published, price 6<i>s.</i></p> + +<p class="noindent cap">THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN SPAIN, from the Time of their + Settlement in that Country till the Commencement of the present + Century. Written and illustrated with divers extremely scarce + Documents, by DON ADOLFO DE CASTRO: Cadiz, 1817. Translated by + the Rev. EDWARD D. G. M. KIRWAN, M.A., Fellow of King's College, + Cambridge.</p> + +<p class="center"> Cambridge: J. DEIGHTON. London: GEORGE BELL, Fleet Street.</p> + +</div> + + + + +<div class="boxad"> + <p class="noindent cap">ORIENTAL BOOKS CHEAP.—W<span class="smcap lowercase">ESTERGAARD</span> Radices Sanscrit, 4to., + Bonn, 1841, sd. 14<i>s.</i>—CASTELLI Lexicon Syriacium, ed. + Michaelis, 2 vols. 4to. Goett 1788, sewed 6<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; or half + bd. calf. 9<i>s.</i>—WEIL'S Geschichte der Khalifen, 3 vols. 8vo. + (published at 3<i>l.</i> 3<i>s.</i>) 1848-1851, 30<i>s.</i>—FREYTAG, Lexicon + Arabicum, 4to. Halis, 1837 (published at 2<i>l.</i> 2<i>s.</i>) sewed + 17<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>—UPHAM'S Sacred Books of Ceylon and of Buddhism, 3 + vols. 8vo. 1833, bds. 25<i>s.</i>—RODRIGUEZ, Grammaire Japonaise et + Supplment, 8vo. Paris, 1825-1826. 12<i>s.</i>—XII PROPHETAE MINORES, + Coptice et Latine, ed. Tattam, 8vo. Oxon. 1836, bds. + 6<i>s.</i>—Tattam's Egyptian Grammar, 8vo. 1830, bds. rare, 10<i>s.</i></p> + +<p class="indh6"><span class="topnum">*</span><span class="botnum">*</span><span class="topnum">*</span> New Catalogues of Cheap and Rare Books in all the + Languages of the World, gratis on application.</p> + + <p class="center">BERNARD QUARITCH, Second-hand Foreign Bookseller, 16. Castle + Street, Leicester Square.</p> + +</div> + + +<p class="indh"> Printed by T<span class="smcap lowercase">HOMAS</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">LARK</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">HAW</span>, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. + 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride in the City of + London: and published by G<span class="smcap lowercase">EORGE</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">ELL</span>, of No. 186. Fleet Street in + the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, + Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, October + 18. 1851.</p> + + +<div class="tnbox"> + +<p>Transcriber's Note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized.</p> +<p><a id="pageslist1"></a><a title="Return to top" href="#was_added1"> Pages + in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-IV</a> </p> + +</div> + + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 1 November 3, 1849. Pages 1 - 17 PG # 8603 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 2 November 10, 1849. Pages 18 - 32 PG # 11265 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 3 November 17, 1849. Pages 33 - 46 PG # 11577 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 4 November 24, 1849. Pages 49 - 63 PG # 13513 </p> + +</div> + + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 5 December 1, 1849. Pages 65 - 80 PG # 11636 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 6 December 8, 1849. Pages 81 - 95 PG # 13550 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 7 December 15, 1849. Pages 97 - 112 PG # 11651 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 8 December 22, 1849. Pages 113 - 128 PG # 11652 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 9 December 29, 1849. Pages 130 - 144 PG # 13521 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 10 January 5, 1850. Pages 145 - 160 PG # </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 11 January 12, 1850. Pages 161 - 176 PG # 11653 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 12 January 19, 1850. Pages 177 - 192 PG # 11575 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 13 January 26, 1850. Pages 193 - 208 PG # 11707 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 14 February 2, 1850. Pages 209 - 224 PG # 13558 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 15 February 9, 1850. Pages 225 - 238 PG # 11929 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 16 February 16, 1850. Pages 241 - 256 PG # 16193 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 17 February 23, 1850. Pages 257 - 271 PG # 12018 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 18 March 2, 1850. Pages 273 - 288 PG # 13544 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 19 March 9, 1850. Pages 289 - 309 PG # 13638 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 20 March 16, 1850. Pages 313 - 328 PG # 16409 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 21 March 23, 1850. Pages 329 - 343 PG # 11958 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 22 March 30, 1850. Pages 345 - 359 PG # 12198 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 23 April 6, 1850. Pages 361 - 376 PG # 12505 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 24 April 13, 1850. Pages 377 - 392 PG # 13925 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 25 April 20, 1850. Pages 393 - 408 PG # 13747 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 26 April 27, 1850. Pages 409 - 423 PG # 13822 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 27 May 4, 1850. Pages 425 - 447 PG # 13712 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 28 May 11, 1850. Pages 449 - 463 PG # 13684 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 29 May 18, 1850. Pages 465 - 479 PG # 15197 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. I No. 30 May 25, 1850. Pages 481 - 495 PG # 13713 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. II. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 31 June 1, 1850. Pages 1- 15 PG # 12589 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 32 June 8, 1850. Pages 17- 32 PG # 15996 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 33 June 15, 1850. Pages 33- 48 PG # 26121 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 34 June 22, 1850. Pages 49- 64 PG # 22127 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 35 June 29, 1850. Pages 65- 79 PG # 22126 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 36 July 6, 1850. Pages 81- 96 PG # 13361 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 37 July 13, 1850. Pages 97-112 PG # 13729 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 38 July 20, 1850. Pages 113-128 PG # 13362 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 39 July 27, 1850. Pages 129-143 PG # 13736 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 40 August 3, 1850. Pages 145-159 PG # 13389 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 41 August 10, 1850. Pages 161-176 PG # 13393 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 42 August 17, 1850. Pages 177-191 PG # 13411 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 43 August 24, 1850. Pages 193-207 PG # 13406 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 44 August 31, 1850. Pages 209-223 PG # 13426 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 45 September 7, 1850. Pages 225-240 PG # 13427 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 46 September 14, 1850. Pages 241-256 PG # 13462 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 47 September 21, 1850. Pages 257-272 PG # 13936 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 48 September 28, 1850. Pages 273-288 PG # 13463 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 49 October 5, 1850. Pages 289-304 PG # 13480 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 50 October 12, 1850. Pages 305-320 PG # 13551 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 51 October 19, 1850. Pages 321-351 PG # 15232 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 52 October 26, 1850. Pages 353-367 PG # 22624 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 53 November 2, 1850. Pages 369-383 PG # 13540 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 54 November 9, 1850. Pages 385-399 PG # 22138 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 55 November 16, 1850. Pages 401-415 PG # 15216 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 56 November 23, 1850. Pages 417-431 PG # 15354 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 57 November 30, 1850. Pages 433-454 PG # 15405 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 58 December 7, 1850. Pages 457-470 PG # 21503 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 59 December 14, 1850. Pages 473-486 PG # 15427 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 60 December 21, 1850. Pages 489-502 PG # 24803 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. II No. 61 December 28, 1850. Pages 505-524 PG # 16404 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. III. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 62 January 4, 1851. Pages 1- 15 PG # 15638 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 63 January 11, 1851. Pages 17- 31 PG # 15639 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 64 January 18, 1851. Pages 33- 47 PG # 15640 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 65 January 25, 1851. Pages 49- 78 PG # 15641 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 66 February 1, 1851. Pages 81- 95 PG # 22339 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 67 February 8, 1851. Pages 97-111 PG # 22625 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 68 February 15, 1851. Pages 113-127 PG # 22639 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 69 February 22, 1851. Pages 129-159 PG # 23027 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 70 March 1, 1851. Pages 161-174 PG # 23204 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 71 March 8, 1851. Pages 177-200 PG # 23205 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 72 March 15, 1851. Pages 201-215 PG # 23212 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 73 March 22, 1851. Pages 217-231 PG # 23225 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 74 March 29, 1851. Pages 233-255 PG # 23282 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 75 April 5, 1851. Pages 257-271 PG # 23402 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 76 April 12, 1851. Pages 273-294 PG # 26896 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 77 April 19, 1851. Pages 297-311 PG # 26897 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 78 April 26, 1851. Pages 313-342 PG # 26898 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 79 May 3, 1851. Pages 345-359 PG # 26899 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 80 May 10, 1851. Pages 361-382 PG # 32495 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 81 May 17, 1851. Pages 385-399 PG # 29318 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 82 May 24, 1851. Pages 401-415 PG # 28311 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 83 May 31, 1851. Pages 417-440 PG # 36835 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 84 June 7, 1851. Pages 441-472 PG # 37379 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 85 June 14, 1851. Pages 473-488 PG # 37403 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 86 June 21, 1851. Pages 489-511 PG # 37496 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. III No. 87 June 28, 1851. Pages 513-528 PG # 37516 </p> +</div> + + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. IV. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 88 July 5, 1851. Pages 1- 15 PG # 37548 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 89 July 12, 1851. Pages 17- 31 PG # 37568 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 90 July 19, 1851. Pages 33- 47 PG # 37593 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 91 July 26, 1851. Pages 49- 79 PG # 37778 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 92 August 2, 1851. Pages 81- 94 PG # 38324 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 93 August 9, 1851. Pages 97-112 PG # 38337 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 94 August 16, 1851. Pages 113-127 PG # 38350 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 95 August 23, 1851. Pages 129-144 PG # 38386 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 96 August 30, 1851. Pages 145-167 PG # 38405 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 97 September 6, 1851. Pages 169-183 PG # 38433 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 98 September 13, 1851. Pages 185-200 PG # 38491 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 99 September 20, 1851. Pages 201-216 PG # 38574 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 100 September 27, 1851. Pages 217-246 PG # 38656 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 101 October 4, 1851. Pages 249-264 PG # 38701 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 102 October 11, 1851. Pages 265-287 PG # 38773 </p> +</div> + +<div class="box"> +<p class="noindent"> Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] PG # 13536 </p> +<p class="noindent"> INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 PG # 13571 </p> +<p class="noindent"> INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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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, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: February 13, 2012 [EBook #38864] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, VOL. IV *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram 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.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been +standardized. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A +list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the +end.] + + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. IV.--No. 103. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 289 + + Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 290 + + Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith 291 + + Folk Lore:--Medical Use of Pigeons--Michaelmas + Goose; St. Martin's Cock--Surrey Folk Lore 291 + + The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 292 + + Minor Notes:--"They that touch pitch"--Pasquinade--Two + Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final 292 + + QUERIES:-- + + Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 293 + + Sanderson and Taylor 293 + + Minor Queries:--"Vox vere Anglorum"--"Sacro + Sancta Regum Majestas"--Translator of Horrebow's + "Iceland"--"Kings have their Conquests"--Dryden; + Illustrations by T. Holt White--Pauper's + Badge, Meaning of--The Landing of William Prince + of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.--The + Lowy of Tunbridge--Bones of Birds--"Malvina, + a Tragedy"--Rinuccini Gallery 293 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Meaning of Aneroid--Fox's + Cunning 295 + + REPLIES:-- + + Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. 295 + + Anagrams 297 + + Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty, + &c. 297 + + Marriage of Ecclesiastics 298 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Robert Douglas--The Leman + Baronetcy--Cachecope Bell--"Dieu et mon Droit"--Defoe's + House at Stoke Newington--Study of Geometry in + Lancashire--Coke, how pronounced--Quistourne--Seneca's + Medea--The Editor of Jewel's Works in + Folio--Poetaster--Post Pascha--Linteamina and + Surplices--Climate--Ancient Language of Egypt--Welwood's + Memoirs 299 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 302 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 303 + + Notices to Correspondents 303 + + Advertisements 303 + + + + +Notes. + + +THE CAXTON MEMORIAL. + +Few persons having a common object in view, and equally desirous of its +attainment, fail in carrying it into effect. The object of "The Caxton +Memorial" is obviously to do honour to the first English printer; and if +a man's best monument be his own works, it will be necessary to +ascertain of what they consist. It is well known that most of the works +printed by Caxton were translated from the French, many doubtless by +himself. The Prefaces were evidently his own, and the continuation of +the _Polychronicon_ was confessedly written by himself. The most +valuable contribution to "The Caxton Coffer" would be a list of the +works which it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with some +calculation of their probable extent and cost of production. The +originals being in many cases of extreme rarity, it would be necessary +to transcribe fairly each work, and to collate it with the original in +its progress through the press. The following enumeration of the +Translations alone will give some idea of the work to be undertaken: + +_The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye._ (1471.) + +_The Game and playe of the Chesse._ 1474. + +_Thymage, or Myrrour of the World._ (1481.) + +_The Historye of Reynart the foxe._ 1481. + +_The laste siege and conqueste of Jherusalem._ 1481. + +_The Golden Legende._ 1483. + +_The Book called Cathon._ 1483. + +_The Book of the techynge of the Knyght of the Toure._ (1484.) + +_The Fables of Esope, Avian, Alfonce, and Poge._ 1484. + +_The Booke of the ordre of Chyvalry or knyghthode._ (1484.) + +_The Lyf of Prince Charles the Grete._ 1485. + +_The Ryal Book, or Book for a kyng._ 1485. + +_Thystorye of the noble knyght Parys_. (1485.) + +_The Doctrinal of Sapience._ 1489. + +_The Book of fayttee of armes and of Chyvalrye._ 1489. + +_A lityl treatise of the arte to knowe well to dye._ 1490. + +_The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vyrgyle._ 1490. + +_The Curial of Maystre Alain Charretier._ n. d. + +_The Lyf of the holy Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde._ n. d.; and, lastly, + +_The Vitas Patrum_, which was translated by Caxton in 1486, but printed +by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. + +Such are some of the materials for the "Memorial" suggested by MR. +BOLTON CORNEY; and if the original subscribers to a Monument should +consent to such an appropriation of their funds, it will be necessary to +apportion the number of copies to be distributed to each subscriber, +according to the amount of the original contribution. It is to be +presumed that the work will be strictly limited to subscribers, and +that no copies will be printed for sale, the object being, to do honour +to Caxton, and produce a lasting Memorial of that industrious printer. +The form of the work is of importance, with reference to the cost of its +production: and if a new life of the first English printer should +perchance be found necessary, "The Caxton Coffer" will require to be +considerably replenished before the literary undertaking can be carried +into effect. + + BERIAH BOTFIELD. + + +LORD STRAFFORD AND ARCHBISHOP USSHER. + +In Lord Campbell's account of the conduct of Archbishop Williams, and +the advice which that prelate gave to Charles I. with respect to the +attainder of Lord Strafford, is a sentence which seems to require a +"Note." Having observed that "Williams's conduct with respect to +Strafford cannot be defended," and having referred particularly to his +speech in parliament, he proceeds in these words:-- + + "The Bill of Attainder being passed, although he professed to + disapprove of it, he agreed to go with three other prelates to try + to induce the king to assent to it, and thus he stated the + question:--'Since his Majesty refers his own judgment to his + judges, and they are to answer it, if an innocent person + suffers,--why may he not satisfy his conscience in the present + matter, since competent judges in the law have awarded that they + find the Earl guilty of treason, by suffering the judgment to + stand, though in his own mind he is satisfied that the party + convicted was not criminous?' The other three bishops, trusting to + his learning and experience, joined with him in sanctioning this + distinction, in laying all the blame on the judges, and in saying + that the king, with a good conscience, might agree to Strafford's + death. Clarendon mainly imputes Strafford's death to Williams's + conduct on this occasion, saying that 'he acted his part with + prodigious boldness and impiety.' It is stated as matter of + palliation by others, that Ussher, the celebrated Archbishop of + Armagh, was one of this deputation, and that Strafford, although + aware of the advice he had given, was attended by him on the + scaffold, and received from him the last consolations of + religion."--_Lives of the Chancellors_, vol. ii. p. 494., second + edition. + +The account which Lord Campbell has here given is the same in substance +as that given by Bishop Hackett in his _Life of Williams_ (Part II. p. +161.), and in several particulars is calculated to mislead the reader. +The whole story has been very carefully examined by the late Dr. +Elrington in his _Life of Archbishop Ussher_. Hackett's account is very +incorrect. There were five prelates consulted by the king, Ussher, +Williams, Juxon, Morton (Durham) and Potter (Carlisle). The bishops had +two interviews with the king, one in the morning, and the other in the +evening of the same day. At the morning meeting Ussher was not present. +It was Sunday, and he was engaged at the time preaching at Covent +Garden. In the evening, he was in attendance, but so far from giving the +advice suggested by Williams, much less approving his pernicious +distinction between a public and private conscience, Ussher plainly +advised the king, that if he was not satisfied of Strafford being guilty +of treason, he "ought not in conscience to assent to his condemnation." +Such is the account given by Dr. Parr, Ussher's chaplain, who declares, +that, when the primate was supposed to be dying, he asked his Grace-- + + "Whether he had advised the king to pass the bill against the Earl + of Strafford? To which the Primate answered: 'I know there is such + a thing most wrongfully laid to my charge; for I neither gave nor + approved of any such advice as that the king should assent to the + bill against the Earl; but, on the contrary, told his Majesty, + that if he was satisfied by what he heard at his trial, that the + Earl was not guilty of treason, his Majesty ought not in + conscience to consent to his condemnation. And this the king knows + well enough, and can clear me if he pleases.' The hope of the + Primate was fulfilled, for, when a report reached Oxford that the + Primate was dead, the king expressed in very strong terms, to + Colonel William Legg and Mr. Kirk, who were then in waiting, his + regret at the event, speaking in high terms of his piety and + learning. Some one present said, 'he believed he might be so, were + it not for his persuading your Majesty to consent to the Earl of + Strafford's execution;' to which the king in a great passion + replied, 'that it was false, for after the bill was passed, the + Archbishop came to me, saying with tears in his eyes, Oh Sir, what + have you done? I fear that this act may prove a great trouble to + your conscience, and pray God that your Majesty may never suffer + by the signing of this bill.'"--Elrington's _Life of Ussher_, p. + 214. + +This account Dr. Elrington has taken from the narrative given by Dr. +Parr, who adds, that he had received this account of the testimony borne +by the king from Colonel Legg and Mr. Kirk themselves:-- + + "This is the substance of two certificates, taken divers times + under the hands of these two gentlemen of unquestionable credit; + both which, since they agree in substance, I thought fit to + contract into one testimony, which I have inserted here, having + the originals by me, to produce if occasion be."--Parr's _Life of + Ussher_, p. 61. + +Indeed, considering the great and uninterrupted friendship which +subsisted between Ussher and Strafford, considering that the primate was +his chosen friend during his trial and imprisonment, and attended him to +the scaffold, nothing could be more improbable than that he should have +advised the king to consent to his death. At all events, the story is +contradicted by those most competent to speak to its truth, by the +archbishop and by the king; and therefore, in a work so deservedly +popular as Lord Campbell's, one cannot but regret that any currency +should be given to a calumny so injurious to a prelate whose character +is as deserving of our esteem, as his learning is of our veneration. + + PEREGRINUS. + + +POETICAL COINCIDENCES. + +_Sheridan._ + +In the account which Moore has given, in his _Life of Sheridan_, of the +writings left unfinished by that celebrated orator and dramatist, he +states: + + "There also remain among his papers three acts of a drama without + a name, written evidently in haste, and with scarcely any + correction." + +From this production he gives the following verses, to which he has +appended the note I have placed immediately after them:-- + + "Oh yield, fair lids, the treasures of my heart, + Release those beams, that make this mansion bright; + From her sweet sense, Slumber! tho' sweet thou art, + Begone, and give the air she breathes in light. + + "Or while, oh Sleep, thou dost those glances hide, + Let rosy slumber still around her play, + Sweet as the cherub Innocence enjoy'd, + When in thy lap, new-born, in smiles he lay. + + "And thou, oh Dream, that com'st her sleep to cheer, + Oh take my shape, and play a lover's part; + Kiss her from me, and whisper in her ear, + Till her eyes shine, 'tis night within my heart." + + "I have taken the liberty here of supplying a few rhymes and words + that are wanting in the original copy of the song. The last line + of all runs thus in the manuscript:-- + + 'Til her eye shines, I live in darkest night,' + + which not rhyming as it ought, I have ventured to alter as above." + +Now the following sonnet, which occurs in the third book of Sir Philip +Sidney's _Arcadia_, is evidently the source from whence Sheridan drew +his inspiration, the concluding line in both poems being the same. Had +Moore given Sheridan's without alteration, the resemblance would in all +probability be found much closer:-- + + "Lock up, faire liddes, the treasure of my heart, + Preserve those beames, this ages onely light: + To her sweet sence, sweet sleepe some ease impart, + Her sence too weake to beare her spirits might. + + "And while, O Sleepe, thou closest up her sight, + (Her sight where Love did forge his fairest dart) + O harbour all her parts in easefull plight: + Let no strange dreame make her faire body start. + + "But yet, O dreame, if thou wilt not depart + In this rare subject from thy common right: + But wilt thy selfe in such a seate delight, + + "Then take my shape, and play a lover's part: + Kisse her from me, and say unto her sprite, + Till her eyes shine, I live in darkest night." + +The edition I quote from is that "Printed by W. S. for Simon Waterson, +London, 1627." I may add, that I wrote to Moore as far back as 1824 to +point out this singular coincidence; but although the communication was +courteously acknowledged, I do not believe the circumstance has been +noticed in any subsequent edition of Sheridan's memoirs. + + T. C. SMITH. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Medical Use of Pigeons_ (Vol. iv., p. 228.).--In my copy of Mr. +Alford's very unsatisfactory edition of Donne, I find noted (in addition +to R. T.'s quotation from _The Life of Mrs. Godolphin_) references to +Pepys's _Diary_, October 19, 1663, and January 21, 1667-8, and the +following from Jer. Taylor, ed. Heber, vol. xii. p. 290.: "We cut living +pigeons in halves, and apply them to the feet of men in fevers." + + J. C. R. + +_Michaelmas Goose--St. Martin's Cock._--In the county of Kilkenny, and +indeed all through the S.E. counties of Ireland, the "Michaelmas Goose" +is still had in honour. "St. Martin's Bird" (see p. 230. _ante_) is, +however, the cock, whose _blood is shed_ in honour of that saint at +Martinmas, Nov. 11. The same superstition does not apply, that I am +aware of, to the Michaelmas Goose, which is merely looked on as a dish +customary on that day, with such as can afford it, and always +accompanied by a _melange_ of vegetables (potatos, parsnips, cabbage, +and onions) mashed together, with butter, and forming a dish termed +_Kailcannon_. The idea is far different as to St. Martin's Cock, the +blood of which is always shed _sacrificially_ in honour of the Saint. +Query, 1. The territorial extent of the latter custom? And, 2. What +pagan deity has transferred his honours to St. Martin of Tours. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny. + +_Surrey Folk Lore._--A "wise woman" has lately made her appearance not +far from Reigate in Surrey. One of the farmers' wives there, on being +scalded the other day, sent to the old dame, who sent back a curious +doggrel, which the good woman was to repeat at stated times. At the end +of a week the scald got well, and the good woman told us that she knew +there was no harm in the charm, for "she had heard say as how it was +some verse from the Bible." + +When in a little shop the other day, in the same part of the country, +one village dame was speaking of the death of some neighbour, when +another said, that she hoped "they had been and told the bees." + +In the same neighbourhood I was told a sovereign cure for the goitre was +to form the sign of the cross on the neck with the hand of a corpse. + + M. M. P. + + +THE CAXTON COFFER. + +The devices of our early English printers are often void of significancy +early, or else mere quibbles. In that particular, Caxton set a +commendable example. + +His device is "W.4.7C." The two figures, however, are interlaced, and +seem to admit of two interpretations. I must cite, on this question, the +famous triumvirate--Ames, Herbert, and Dibdin: + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--Joseph AMES, 1749. + + "The following mark [above described] I find put at the end of + many of his books, _perhaps_ for the date 1474, when he began + printing in England, or his sign."--William HERBERT, 1785. + + "The figures in the large device [above described] form the + _reverse impression_ of 74; meaning, _as it has been stated_, that + our printer commenced business in England, in the year 1474: but + not much weight can be attached to this remark, as no copy of the + _Chess book_, printed in 1474, has yet been discovered which + presents us with this device."--T. F. DIBDIN, 1810. + +In lieu of baseless conjectures, I have here to complain of timidity. +There is scarcely room for a doubt on the date. As dom de Vaines +observes, with regard to dates, "dans le bas age on supprimoit le +millieme et les centaines, commencant aux dixaines." There can be no +objection to the interpretation on that score. The main question +therefore is, in what order should we read the interlaced figures? Now, +the position of the _point_ proves that we should read 74--which is the +date of _The game and playe of the chesse_. The figures indicate 1474 as +clearly as the letters W. C. indicate William Caxton. What is the just +inference, must ever remain a matter of opinion. + +In the woodcut of _Arsmetrique_, published in the _Myrrour of the +worlde_, A.D. 1481, I observe the figures 74 rather conspicuously +placed, and perhaps the device was then first adopted. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +Minor Notes. + +"_They that touch pitch_," &c.--A few Sundays since the clergyman that I +"sit under," quoting in his discourse the words "they that touch pitch +will be defiled," ascribed them to "the wisest of men." A lady of his +congregation (who was, I fear, more critical than devout) pounced upon +her pastor's mistake, and asked me on the following Monday if I also had +noticed it. I denied that it was one; but she laughed at my ignorance, +produced a Shakspeare, and showed me the words in the mouth of Dogberry +(_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act III. Sc. 3.). However, by the help of a +"Cruden," I was able to find the same expression, not indeed in Solomon, +but in the son of Sirach (ch. xiii. v. 1.). + +If Shakspeare's appropriation of this passage has not been noticed +before, may I request the insertion of this note? It may possibly +prevent other learned divines from falling into the common (?) mistake +of thus quoting Dogberry as "the wisest of men." + + E. J. G. + + Preston. + +_Pasquinade._--In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the +following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from +"NOTES AND QUERIES." As it is not probable that the Papal police allowed +it to remain long before the eyes of the lieges of his Holiness, allow +me to lay up in your pages this memorial of a visit to Rome during the +"Aggression" summer. + + "Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras, + Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius. + + "When a league 'gainst our Faith Pope with Cardinal tries, + Neither _Wiseman_ is Pious, nor _Pius_ is Wise. + + "Quando Papa' o' Cardinale + Chiesa' Inglese tratta male, + Que Chiamo quella gente, + Piu? No-no, ni Sapiente. + + ANGLUS." + +The Italian version will of course be put down as _English_-Italian, and +therefore worse than mediocre; but I wished to perpetuate, along with +the sense of the Latin couplet, a little _jeu d'esprit_ which I saw half +obliterated on a wall at Rovigo, in the Lombardo-Venetian territory; +being a play on the family name and character of Pius IX.: + + "Piu?--No-no: ma stai Ferette;" + +which may be read, + + "Pious?--Not at all: but _still_ Ferette." + + A. B. R. + +_Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final._-- + + 1. + + Though from rough cough, or hiccough free, + That man has pain enough, + Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough + Or lough begins to slough. + + 2. + + 'Tis not an easy task to show + How _o_, _u_, _g_, _h_ sound; since _though_ + An Irish _lough_ and English _slough_, + And _cough_ and hic_cough_, all allow, + Differ as much as _tough_, and _through_, + There seems no reason why they do. + + W. J. T. + + + + +Queries. + + +CAN BISHOPS VACATE THEIR SEES? + +In Lord Dover's note on one of Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Mann (1st +series, vol. iii. p 424.), I find it stated that Dr. Pearce, the +well-known Bishop of Rochester, was not allowed to vacate his see, when +in consequence of age and infirmity he wished to do so, on the plea that +a bishopric as being a peerage is _inalienable_. The Deanery of +Westminster, which he also held, he was allowed to resign, and did so. + +Now my impression has always been, that a bishop, as far as his peerage +is concerned, is much on the same footing as a representative peer of +Scotland or Ireland; I mean that his peerage is resignable at will. Of +course the representative peers are peers of Scotland or Ireland +respectively; but by being elected representative peers they acquire a +_pro-tempore_ peerage of the realm coincident with the duration of the +parliament, and at a dissolution require re-election, when of course any +such peer need not be reappointed. + +Now the clergy, says your correspondent CANONICUS EBORACENSIS (Vol. iv., +p. 197.), are _represented_ by the bishops. Although, therefore, whilst +they are so representative, they are peers of the realm just as much as +the lay members of the Upper House, I can see no reason why any bishop, +who, like Dr. Pearce, feels old age and infirmity coming on, should not +resign this representation, _i.e._ his peerage, or the _temporal_ +station which in England, owing to the existing connexion between church +and state, attaches to the _spiritual_ office of a bishop. + +Of course, ecclesiastically speaking, there is no doubt at all that a +bishop may resign his spiritual functions, _i.e._ the overlooking of his +diocese, for any meet cause. Our colonial bishops, for instance, do so. +The late warden of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, Bishop Coleridge, had +been Bishop of Barbadoes. So that if Lord Dover's theory be correct, a +purely secular reason, arising from the peculiar position of the English +church, would prevent any conscientious bishop from resigning duties, to +the discharge of which, from old age, bodily infirmity, or impaired +mental organs, he felt himself unfit. + +Perhaps some of your correspondents will give me some information on +this matter. + + K. S. + + +SANDERSON AND TAYLOR. + +I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can explain the following +coincidence between Sanderson and Jeremy Taylor. Taylor, in the +beginning of the _Ductor Dubitantium_, says: + + "It was well said of St. Bernard, 'Conscientia candor est lucis + aeternae, et speculum sine macula Dei majestatis, et imago bonitatis + illius;' 'Conscience is the brightness and splendour of the + eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the + image of the goodness of God.' It is higher which Tatianus said of + conscience, [Greek: Monon einai syneidesin Theon], 'Conscience is + God unto us,' which saying he had from Menander, + + [Greek: Brotois hapasin he syneidesis Theos]. + + "God is in our hearts by his laws; he rules in us by his + substitute, our conscience; God sits there and gives us laws; and + as God said unto Moses, 'I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,' that + is, to give him laws, and to minister in the execution of those + laws, and to inflict angry sentences upon him, so hath God done to + us." + +In the beginning of Sanderson's second lecture, _De Obligatione +Conscientiae_, he says: + + "Hine illud ejusdem Menandri. [Greek: Brotois hapasin he + syneidesis Theos]; _Mortalibus sum cuique Conscientia Deus est_, + Quo nimirum sensu dixit Dominus se _constituisse Mosen Deum + Pharaoni_; quod seis Pharaoni voluntatem Dei subinde _inculcaret_, + ad cum faciendam Pharaonem _instigaret_, non obsequentem + contentibus plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, + eundem quoque _constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum_ singularium + propriam _Conscientiam_." + +Sanderson's _Lectures_ were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not +published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, +1659. The _Ductor Dubitantium_ is dedicated to Charles II. after the +Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, +therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. +Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were +borrowed from some older common source, where they occur _associated_ as +they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source +pointed out. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + + +Minor Queries. + +220. "_Vox vere Anglorum._"--"_Sacro-Sancta Regum +Majestas._"--_Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."_--Perhaps some of your +readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two +following works, which were published anonymously. + +1. _Vox vere Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King._ 4to. 1659. +Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not +given. + +2. _Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas: or, the Sacred and Royall Prerogative +of Christian Kings._ 4to. Printed at Oxford, 1644. The Dedication is +signed "J. A." + +I should also wish to find out, if possible, the name of the translator +of Horrebow's _Natural History of Iceland_, published in folio, in +London, in 1758. + + [Greek: Boreas.] + +221. "_Kings have their Conquests._"--I have met with a passage +commencing thus: + + "Kings have their conquests, length of days their date, + Triumph its tomb, felicity its fate;" + +followed by two more lines expressive of the infinity of Divine power, +as compared with human, which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to +be found? + + JAMES F. ABSALON. + + Portsea. + +222. _Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White._--The late T. Holt White, +Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the _Areopagitica_ of Milton, +adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting +illustrations), had compiled in _many_ interleaved volumes of the works +of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he +had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is +reported to have said, "_It would be unjust to meddle with such a +compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with._" +Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has +been preserved, and where it is? + + AEGROTUS. + +223. _Pauper's Badge, Meaning of._--In the Churchwarden's Accounts for +the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry: + + "22 July, 1716. + + "It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons _hath refused to + weare the badge_, that she should not be allowed the collection + [_i.e._ the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future + w'h shall be due." + +Can any correspondent inform me what this _badge_ was, and also if it +was of general use in other places? + + J. B. COLMAN. + +224. _The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. +Northcote, R. A._--Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform +me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the +Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and +afterwards engraved by J. Parker? + + A. H. W. + +225. _The Lowy of Tunbridge._--Lambarde (_Perambulation of Kent_, 1596, +p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory +commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or +Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at +first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to +Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and +land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which +Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on +Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present +any trace of such a territory remaining. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851. + +226. _Bones of Birds._--Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the +bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with +air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should +suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, _quite empty_, would be +more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents +will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with +which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the +more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous +expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere? + +Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I +hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful +miscellany. + + AN AERONAUT. + +227. _"Malvina, a Tragedy."_--Can any of your readers afford any +information about (1.) _Malvina, a Tragedy_, Glasgow, printed by Andrew +Foules, 1786, 8vo., pp. 68? A MS. note on the copy in my library states +it to be written by Mr. John Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) _Iphigenia, +a Tragedy_ in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est.--Ovid. MDCCLXXXVII. My +copy has this MS. note: "By John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," +in the handwriting of Francis, seventh Baron Napier. Neither of these +tragedies in noticed in the _Biographia Dramatica_. + + J. MT. + +228. _Rinuccini Gallery._--I see by a late number of the _Athenaeum_ +newspaper, that the splendid collection of pictures preserved in the +Rinuccini Palace at Florence will be brought to the hammer in the month +of May 1852. It has been stated, that amongst the works of art at one +period extant in the Rinuccini Palace, were a number of paintings made +by Italian artists for Cardinal Rinuccini, when on his Legatine mission +to Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century, and representing +his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in November 1645. It has also been +asserted that these interesting historical paintings were wilfully +destroyed from a very discreditable motive. The importance of these +cartoons, as illustrating a period when Ireland became the final +battle-field of the contending parties which then divided the British +dominions, will at once be acknowledged; and at this period, when so +many foreigners are assembled in London, perhaps some reader of "NOTES +AND QUERIES" may be able to set the question of the existence or +destruction of these cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person +about to seek the genial air of Italy during the winter may bear this +"Query" in mind, and forward to your valuable paper a "Note" of the +contents of the Rinuccini Gallery. I need hardly say that the person so +doing will confer a favour on every student of Irish History. + + JAMES GRAVES. + + Kilkenny, Oct. 11. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Meaning of Aneroid._--What is the derivation of the word _aneroid_, as +applied to a new description of barometer lately introduced? + + AGRICOLA. + + [From a note in Mr. Dent's interesting pamphlet, _A Treatise on + the Aneroid, a newly invented Portable Barometer; with a short + Historical Notice of Barometers in general, their Construction and + Use_, it appears that the word _aneroid_ has been the subject of + some philological discussion. "It is said to be derived from three + Greek words, [Greek: a], [Greek: neros], and [Greek: eidos], and + to signify _a form without fluid_. If so, it does not appear very + happily chosen, since it indicates merely what the instrument is + _not_, without at all explaining what it is."] + +_Fox's Cunning._--Can any of your correspondents or readers give any +authentic information as to the fact having been witnessed by any one, +of the old story of the fox relieving itself of fleas by taking a +feather in its mouth, and gradually, though slowly enough, retrograding +itself into the water, first by legs and tail, then body, shoulders, and +head to the nose, and thus compelling the fleas, to escape from the +drowning element, to pass over the nose on to the bridge of the feather, +which is then committed to the stream. + +Has any one actually seen this? Has any one heard it related by one who +has seen the ejectment performed? + + J. D. + + Torquay, May 12. + + [Lord Brougham, in his _Dialogues on Instinct_ (ed. 1844, p. + 110.), does not allude to this proverbial instance, but says: "I + know not if it (the Fox's cunning) was ever more remarkably + displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country; where Reynard, + being hard pressed, disappeared suddenly, and was, after strict + search, found immersed in a water pool up to the very snout, by + which he held a willow bough hanging over the pond."] + + + + +Replies. + + +ARCHBISHOP OF SPALATRO. + +(Vol. iv., p. 257.) + +_Audi alteram partem_ is too excellent and equitable a rule, not to find +ample scope given for its exercise in "NOTES AND QUERIES," especially +where the memory of a foreigner is concerned, who, after dwelling awhile +among us under the protection of our hospitality, and in the communion +of our Church, was content eventually to sacrifice his life, rather than +forsake the truth, or repudiate the Church of England. + +I am led to this remark by observing the tone of depreciation in which +Chalmers speaks of Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalatro, in the +extract produced at p. 257. out of the _Biographical Dictionary_, for +the satisfaction of MR. W. FRAZER. + +The words of Chalmers, which I conceive to be objectionable, alike +ungenerous and inaccurate--such as Fuller might rejoice in (conf. +_Church History_, book x.)--are: + + "He returned to Rome in 1622, _where he abjured his errors_; but + on the discovery of a correspondence which he held with some + Protestants, he was thrown into prison, where he died in 1625. He + was a man of great abilities and learning, _although remarkable + for a fickleness in religious matters_." + +This reproach against the good archbishop, of having renounced the +English communion (for that is doubtless what is meant), is clearly an +unjust accusation, and appears to be based upon no better authority than +a spurious book, published in the Low Countries under Spalatro's name, +but without his knowledge or sanction, and bearing the following title: +_Marc. Ant. de Dominis sui reditus ex Anglia concilium exponit_, 4to. +Dilingae, 1623. This book at the time of its publication deceived Bishop +Hall, and gave occasion to the _Alter Ecebolius M. Ant. de Dominis, +pluribus dominis inservire doctus_: 4to. Lond. 1624. + +It is only fair, certainly, to Spalatro's memory, that the calumnies +thus raised against him in his lifetime should not now be perpetuated by +the inadvertency of modern writers, for so far at least the means are at +hand to refute them. Now there is one writer especially who has done +much to vindicate the name of Ant. de Dominis from this charge of +"fickleness in religious matters." That writer is Bishop Cosin, whose +testimony herein is of the more value from the fact of his having been +present (as Bishop Overall's secretary) at the "Conference between +Spalato and Overall," which "Conference" the following particulars were +collected by Mr. Gutch, _e Schedis MSS. Cosini_, and are preserved in +the _Collectanea Curiosa_, vol. ii. p. 18.: + + "A. Spalato came into England in 1616, being desirous to live + under the protection of King James, having before been recommended + by Padre Paolo. By King James's bounty and care he was safely + conveyed through Germany into England, and lodged in Lambeth + Palace: Abbot thinking fit to retire to Croydon, till either + Bishop Andrewes or Bishop Overall had conferred with him. The king + sent Bishop Overall to him, who took in his company his secretary, + and commanded him to be near him the same morning Spalato arrived, + to hear what passed between them. After dinner, some other being + present, the discourse began about the state of the Church of + England; of which Overall having given a large account, Spalato + received great satisfaction, and made his protestation that he + came into England then to live with us in the union and profession + of that Catholic religion which was so much obstructed in his own + country, that he could not with safety and peace of conscience + live there any longer. Then he added what satisfaction he had + received from the monitory preface of King James [Vid. _Apol. for + the Oath of Allegiance_, ed. 4to. Lond. 1609] to all the estates + and churches of Christendom; wherein the true ancient faith and + religion of the Catholic Church is set forth, and no heterodoxies + or novelties maintained: to the defence of which faith, and + service of which Church, as he had already a long time applied his + studies, and wrote ten books, _De Republica Ecclesiastica_, so, by + the favour of God, and King James, he was now come into England to + review and publish them, together with the _History of the Council + of Trent_, which he had brought with him from Padre Paolo of + Venice, who delivered it into his hands; by whom he was chiefly + persuaded and encouraged to have recourse to the king and the + Church of England, being the best founded for the profession of + true Catholic doctrine, and the freest from error and novelties, + of any Church in all places besides. Then they descended to the + particular points of doctrine," &c. + +It is, however, _not_ with the _doctrinal_ question which would, of +course, be inadmissible in "NOTES AND QUERIES," but with the historical +_fact_, that we have to do; the question being, whether Antonius +Spalateasis was "fickle" in respect of the Church of England. + +There is an interesting sketch of Spalatro's _after_ history in Cosin's +_Treatise against Transubstantiation_, chap. ii. [section] 7.; from Luke de +Beaulieu's translation of which (Cosin's _Collected Works_, vol. iv. p. +160., Oxford, 1851) I quote the following: + + "Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, (was) a man well + versed in the Sacred Writings, and the records of antiquity; who, + having left Italy (when he could no longer remain in it, either + with quiet or safety) by the advice of his intimate friend, Paulus + Venetus, took sanctuary under the protection of King James of + blessed memory, in the bosom of the Church of England, which he + did faithfully follow in all points and articles of religion. But, + being daily vexed with many affronts and injuries, and wearied by + the unjust persecutions of some sour and over-rigid men, who + bitterly declaimed everywhere against his life and actions, he at + last resolved to return into Italy with a safe conduct. Before he + departed he was, by order from the king, questioned by some + commissionated bishops, what he thought of the religion and church + of England, which for so many years he had owned and obeyed, and + what he would say of it in the Roman court. _To this query he gave + in writing this memorable answer, 'I am resolved, even with the + danger of my life, in profess before the Pope himself, that the + Church of England is a true and orthodox Church of Christ.' This + he not only promised, but faithfully performed_; for though, soon + after his departure, there came a book out of the Low Countries, + falsely bearing his name, by whose title many were deceived, even + among the English, and thereby moved to tax him with apostacy, and + of being another Ecebolius; yet, when he came to Rome (where he + was most kindly entertained in the palace of Pope Gregory XV., who + formerly had been his fellow-student), _he could never be + persuaded_ by the Jesuits and others, who daily thronged upon him, + neither to subscribe the new-devised tenets of the Council of + Trent, or _to retract those orthodox books_ which he had printed + in England and Germany, or _to renounce the communion of the + Church of England, in whose defence he constantly persisted to the + very last_. But, presently after the decease of Pope Gregory, he + was imprisoned by the Jesuits and Inquisitors in Castle St. + Angelo, where, by being barbarously used, and almost starved, he + soon got a mortal sickness, and died in a few days, though not + without suspicion of being poisoned. The day following, his corpse + was by the sentence of the Inquisition tied to an infamous stake, + and there burnt to ashes, _for no other reason but that he refused + to make abjuration of the religion of the Church of England_, and + subscribe some of the lately-made decrees of Trent, which were + pressed upon him as canons of the Catholic faith. I have taken + occasion (Cosin adds) to insert this narration, perhaps not known + to many, to make it appear that this reverend prelate, who did + great service to the Church of God, may justly (as I said before) + be reckoned among the writers of the Church of England." + +In the first collection of Lord Somers's _Tracts_, vol. iv. p. 575., +there is a curious paper bearing the title: _A relation sent from Rome, +of the process, sentence, and execution done upon the body, pictures, +and books of Marcus Ant. de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, after his +death._ There are some notices of De Dominis, also, among the Birch and +other MSS. in the British Museum. + +MR. FRAZER might possibly ascertain the other particular about which he +inquires, viz. whether Spalatro "_acted_ as a bishop in England," by +consulting some of the numerous tracts written at the time, both against +and in vindication of the archbishop; and, more particularly, a tract +entitled: _De pace religionis M. Ant. de Dominis Spalateus. Archiepisc. +Epist. ad venerabilem virum Jos. Hallum, Archipresbyterum Vigorn_, &c.: +edit. Ves. Sequan. 1666. + + J. SANSOM. + +Perhaps it may be doubted whether it was the wish of Antonius de Dominis +to reunite the churches of Rome and England: however this may be, as +Dean of Windsor, he accused one of the canons, Richard Mountagu +(afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich) of preaching +the Roman doctrine of the invocation of saints and angels. Mountagu +replied in a pamphlet, the title of which is, _Immediate Addresse unto +GOD Alone. First delivered in a Sermon before his Majestie at Windsore, +since reuised and inlarged to a just Treatise of Invocation of Saints. +Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius de Dominis upon the +Authour, Richard Mountagu._ London, 1624. + +Mountagu had evidently no high opinion of his accuser: for he writes in +his Epistle Dedicatory to John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and Visitor +of the collegiate church of Windsor: "There was present at my sermon +that infamous Ecebolius of these times, Religionis desultor, Archbishop +sometime of _Spalata_, then Deane of that church, Marcus Antonius de +Dominis;" and he goes on to abuse him in no measured terms. Collier +(_Ecc. Hist._, vol. ii. p. 726., ed. 1714) mentions that Antonius +assisted at the consecration of some English bishops in the chapel at +Lambeth Palace. He was afterwards reconciled to the Church of Rome, but +was soon imprisoned on suspicion of heresy. After he was dead, he passed +through the forms of the Inquisition, was pronounced a lapsed heretic, +and his corpse was publicly burnt. + + ROVERT. + + Withyham. + + +ANAGRAMS. + +(Vol. iv., p. 226.) + +I know not whether the art of composing anagrams was much practised in +the days of Swift; the description, however, of one of the employments +at the Academy of Lagado--the "project for improving speculative +knowledge by practical mechanical operations," which was carried into +operation by covering the superficies of a large frame with wooden +letters, which, by the turning of a handle, were constantly shifted into +new places--so aptly satirises this practice, that it seems likely that +it was to this he alluded, the more so as the one employment would be as +profitable as the other. MR. BREEN, however (Vol. iv., p. 226.) having +challenged the production of half a dozen good specimens of the art, +perhaps you will afford him an opportunity of amending his judgment. The +following twelve, whether new or not, will at least stand the test he +has propounded:-- + +Who will deny that _Old England_ is a _golden land_; or that _lawyers_ +are _sly ware_? + +There are many who deem _radical reform_ a _rare mad frolic_; and when +asked to _guess a fearful ruin_, would reply _universal suffrage_. + +Every one will admit that _astronomers_ are _moon-starers_; and that a +_telegraph_ is a _great help_. + +We have long been accustomed to consider that a _revolution_ is _to love +ruin_; and that _nine thumps_ constitute a _punishment_. + +What answer more fitting in the _penitentiary_ than _Nay, I repent it_? + +Is there a more _comical trade_ than the _democratical_? and what is +more likely to make _bakers fat_ than a good _breakfast_. + +But, in conclusion, I am compelled to confess that I can see no affinity +between _potentates_ and _ten tea pots_. + + C. A. + +That on _Daniel R._ may be otherwise rendered _Erin lad_. + + D. Q. + +Your interesting correspondent MR. BREEN challenges the world to produce +"six good anagrams." It may help him in his search for them to be +referred to two curious papers on the subject in the _Bengal Moofussul +Miscellany_, reprinted in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he may not have +the book within reach, he may not be displeased at my extracting a few +of the best of them. The first is a compliment paid to one of the +Ptolemies: [Greek: Ptolemaios], [Greek: apo melitos]. Lycophron, in a +similar vein, calls [Greek: Arsinoe], [Greek: ion Heras]. Out of +_William Noy_, Charles I.'s Ship-Money Attorney-General, we have, _I +moyl in law_. _Loraine_ produces _alerion_, which is assigned as the +reason for that house bearing eaglets in their arms. _Sir Edmundbury +Godfrey_ gives, _I fynd murder'd by rogues_. The tale about Lady Eleanor +Davies, lately referred to by one of your contributors, occurs in the +first of these papers; as does another of somewhat later date, which +really deserves to be preserved among your "Notes." + + "When young Stanislaus, afterwards king of Poland, returned home + from his travels, all the illustrious family of Leczinki assembled + at Lissa to congratulate him on his arrival. Festivals, shows, and + rejoicings of every kind took place: but the most ingenious + compliment that graced the occasion, was the one paid by the + College of Lissa. There appeared on the stage thirteen dancers, + dressed as youthful warriors; each held in his hand a shield, on + which was engraved in characters of gold, one of the thirteen + letters which compose the two words 'Domus Lescinia.' They then + commenced their dance, and so arranged it, that at each turn their + row of bucklers formed different anagrams. At the first pause they + presented them in the natural order: + + Domus Lescinia + At the second Ades Incolumis + At the third Omnis es lucida + At the fourth Mane Sidus Loci + At the fifth Sis Columna Dei + At the last I, scande Solium." + +I fear I have already asked for too much of your space, yet must I beg +the least bit more for an anagram which, unless the sacredness of the +subject be accounted a drawback, may well claim a foremost place among +the "six." It is found in Pilate's question to our Lord, _Quid est +veritas?_ which contains its own best answer: _Est Vir qui adest._ + + PHILIP HEDGELAND. + + +DISCOVERING THE BODIES OF THE DROWNED. + +(Vol. iv., p. 251.) + +The mode of doing this, as shown by S. W. to be practised by the North +American Indians, is very common amongst ourselves. About +five-and-twenty years ago, an Eton boy, named Dean, who had lately come +to the school, imprudently bathed in the river Thames where it flows +with great rapidity under the "playing fields," and he was soon carried +out of his depth, and disappeared. Efforts were made to save him or +recover the body, but to no purpose; until Mr. Evans, who was then, as +now, the accomplished drawing-master, threw a cricket bat into the +stream, which floated to a spot where it turned round in an eddy, and +from a deep hole underneath the body was quickly drawn. This statement +is entirely from memory, but I believe it to be substantially correct. + +I heard the following anecdote from the son of an eminent Irish judge. +In a remote district of Ireland a poor man, whose occupation at certain +seasons of the year was to pluck feathers from live geese for beds, +arrived one night at a lonely farmhouse, where he expected to glean a +good stock of these "live feathers," and he arose early next morning to +look after the flock. The geese had crossed the river which flowed in +front of the house, and were sitting comfortably in the sunshine on the +opposite bank. Their pursuer immediately stripped off the few clothes he +had, deposited them on the shore, and swam across the river. He then +drove the birds into the water, and, boldly following them, he +maintained a long contest to keep then together on their homeward +voyage, until in the deep bed of the river his strength failed him, and +he sank. The farmer and his family became aware of the accident, the +cries of the drowning man, and the cackling of the geese, informed them, +in the swimmer's extremity, of his fate, and his clothes lay on the +shore in witness of his having last been in their company. They dragged +the river for the body, but in vain; and in apprehension of serious +consequences to themselves should they be unable to produce the corpse, +they applied to the parish priests, who undertook to relieve them, and +to "improve the occasion" by the _performance of a miracle_. He called +together the few neighbours, and having tied a strip of parchment, +inscribed with cabalistic characters, round a wisp of straw; he dropped +this packet where the man's head was described to have sunk, and it +glided into still water where the corpse was easily discovered. + + ALFRED GATTY. + +The discovery of drowned bodies by loading a loaf with mercury, and +putting it afloat on a stream, or by casting into the river, as the +Indians do, "a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over +the exact spot," is referrible to natural and simple causes. As there +are in all running streams deep pools formed by eddies, in which drowned +bodies would be likely to be caught and retained, any light substance +thrown into the current would consequently be drawn to that part of the +surface over the centre of the eddy hole. + + J. S. C. + + +MARRIAGE OF ECCLESIASTICS. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 57. 125. 193. 196.) + +In the early ages, your correspondent H. WALTER assumes that the +primitive Christians knew "that their Scriptures said of marriage that +it was honourable in all" (Vol. iv., p. 193.). H. WALTER is under more +than one mistake with regard to the text of St. Paul (Heb. xiii. 4.) on +which he grounds his assertion. This whole chapter being full of +admonitions, the apostle, all through it, speaks mostly in the +imperative mood. He begins with, "Let brotherly love continue;" "Be not +forgetful," &c.; "Remember them that are in bonds," &c. Then he says: +[Greek: Timios ho gamos en pasi, kai he koite amiantos], that is: "Let +(the laws of) marriage be revered in all _things_, and the marriage bed +be undefiled;" and as a warning to those who might not heed such an +admonition, he adds, "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." H. +WALTER mistakes the adjective feminine [Greek: en pasi] as meaning "all +men," whereas it signifies here, "in all things;" according to which +sense St. Paul uses the same form of speech in 2 Corinthians xi. 6. True +it is, the authorised version translates thus: "Marriage _is_ honourable +in all;" but the _is_ is an insertion of the translators, and therefore +printed in Italics. Parkhurst, however, in his _Lexicon_, at the word +[Greek: Gamos], says: "Wolfius has justly remarked, the imperatives +preceding and following show that we should rather understand [Greek: +esto] than [Greek: esti]. See also Hammond and Macknight; and observe +that the Alexandrian and two other MSS., for [Greek: de] in the +following sentence read [Greek: gar], and the Vulgate translates by +_enim_, "for." + +I cannot but think that the makers of the authorized version advisedly +inserted _is_ instead of _let_, to forward their own new doctrines, as +this their rendering would seem to countenance the marriage of priests. +Curiously enough, when they had no interest in putting in the indicative +instead of the imperative mood, those same translators have of +themselves inserted, in the verse following, the latter, thus: "_Let_ +your conversation _be_ without covetousness," &c. Moreover, in +translating [Greek: en pasi], in another passage of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. +6., they render it, "in all things;" in which same sense it is to be +understood in the above place, Heb. xi. 4. + + CEPHAS. + +In lately reading that very curious book, Whiston's _Autobiography_, I +met with some remarks on this subject, which I made a note of, and which +are at the service of A. B. C. Whiston quotes the well-known Dr. Wall as +follows:-- + + "The Greek Church still observe the rule of allowing their clergy + to marry but once, and before the Council of Nice made a further + rule that none after his orders should marry; and I believe it is + hard to find in church history an instance of any one who married + after he was in priest's orders for a thousand (in reality for + above a thousand four hundred) years before Martin Luther." + +The interpolation marked by a parenthesis is Whiston's, who proceeds:-- + + "The Church of England allows their very bishops to be twice--nay + thrice--nay even four times married without any impediment to + their episcopal functions, whereas the Greek Patriarch of + Constantinople would not admit the Emperor Leo, a layman, into the + church, because he had married a fourth wife." + +Whiston, though a "fanciful man," as Burnet calls him, was well read in +Christian antiquity, and his opinion is therefore of some weight. Wall's +authority no one would willingly undervalue. + +I cannot call to mind any English bishop who was four times married; yet +Whiston would hardly have asserted the fact if he had not had some +example in view. I should be obliged to any one who would inform me on +the subject.[1] + + [Footnote 1: We have somewhere read of a Bishop Thomas giving his + fourth wife a ring, with this posy:-- + + "If I survive, I'll make it five." + + This may give a clue to our correspondent.] + +When on the subject of Whiston, I should be glad to know if his edition +of our Common Prayer Book published in 1713, and his Primitive New +Testament published in 1745, still exist.[2] + + [Footnote 2: The two works mentioned by K. S., though scarce, + occasionally occur for sale. The "Common Prayer Book" was + republished by the Rev. Peter Hall in his _Fragmenta Liturgica_, + vol. iii.] + +The former he entitled _The Liturgy of the Church of England reduced +nearer to the Primitive Standard_. The latter contains, besides the +Canonical Books of the New Testament, the Apostolic Constitutions, +Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Timothy to Diognetus, &c. &c., all +of which he considered as of equal authority with the Canonical Books. +The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he terms "the most sacred of the +Canonical Books of the New Testament." + + K. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Robert Douglas_ (Vol. iv., p. 23.).--There is no truth in the report +that this person was a grandson of Mary Queen of Scots. His diary during +the march of the Scots troops to England, 1644, is printed in a work +entitled _Historical Fragments relative to Scotish Affairs from 1635 to +1664_, Edin., 1833, 8vo., published by Stevenson of Edinburgh, and +edited by James Maidment, Esq., of that city, who has enriched the +volume with many notes and illustrations, and has given in addition a +pretty copious account of Douglas. His letters and papers fell into the +hands of Wodrow. (See _Analecta Scotica_, vol. i. p. 326.) Allow me to +correct an error. The Bannatyne Club did _not_ print Wodrow's +_Analecta_. This very amusing collection was a munificent present from +the late Earl of Glasgow to the members of the Maitland Club, of which +his lordship was president; it is in _four_ thick 4to. volumes, and full +of all sorts of out-of-the-way information. It seems very little known +at present south the Tweed. I question whether Mr. Macaulay has gone +through it, although he is no doubt familiar with Wodrow's one-sided +work on the Sufferings of the Scotish Presbyterian clergy. + + J. MT. + +_The Leman Baronetcy_ (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.).--The attempt in +_Scotland_ to give a right to an _English_ title of honour is exposed +fully in Mr. Turnbull's _Anglo-Scotia Baronets_, Edin. 1846, P. XXXII. +iii. The "certified court proceedings" are worth nothing, and would not +be sustained in a court of law. The party called _Sir_ Edward Godfrey +Leman may or may not be the next heir of the Lord Mayor, but he must +prove his right in England by such evidence as may be required there, +and not by reference to what would not even be looked at in the Scotish +law courts. + + J. MT. + +_Cachecope Bell_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--Is it possible that this word +may be a corruption of the low Latin "Catascopus" (Gr. [Greek: +kataskopos]), and that it was applied to a bell which a watchman tolled +to give an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a bell set apart for this +duty, in churches on the continent. + + C. P. PH***. + +May not this have been a bell specially rung at funerals, and deriving +its name (as has been suggested to me) from _cache corps_, "cover the +body" (in the ground)? And why not, since we have got "curfew" out of +_couvre feu_, "cover the fire?" + + A. G. + + Ecclesfield. + + [E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.] + +"_Dieu et mon Droit_" (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--In Bishop Nicolson's +_English Historical Library_, part iii. chap. i., under the section +treating of _Charters_ appears the following paragraph: + + "The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order + of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with + their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit' + having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating that + the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But + _neither of those_ ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the + days of Henry the Eighth." + + FRANCISCUS. + +_Defoe's House at Stoke Newington_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--This house is +the one which was occupied by the late William Frend, M.A., of the Rock +Life Office, and which now belongs to his widow. It is on the south side +of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has +about four acres of ground attached, bounded on the west by a narrow +footway, once (if not still) called Cutthroat Lane. Or it may be +identified thus: take the map of Stoke Newington in Robinson's history +of that place, London, 1820, 8vo., and look directly below the first "e" +in "Church Street." Among the papers by which the house is held is the +copy of the enrolment of a surrender to the lord of manor, dated +February 26, 1740, in which the house is described as "heretofore in the +tenure or occupation of Daniel Defoe." The history just mentioned stated +that he was living at Newington in 1709. There appears no reason to +suppose that he built the house. Dr. Price lived for some years in it, +as the domestic chaplain of a subsequent owner. + + M. + +_Study of Geometry in Lancashire_ (Vol. ii., p. 57.).--Your +correspondent Mr. T. T. WILKINSON, in his interesting article on this +subject, attributes the first rise of the study of geometry in +Lancashire to the Oldham Mathematical Society. But he is not perhaps +aware, that half a century before a Mathematical Society existed at +Manchester. I have a thin 8vo., entitled-- + + "Mathematical Lectures; being the first and second that were read + to the Mathematical Society at Manchester. By the late ingenious + Mathematician John Jackson. '_Who can number the Sands of the Sea, + the Drops of Rain, and the Days of Eternity?_' Ecclus. i. 2. '_He + that telleth the Number of the Stars, and calleth them all by + their Names._' Psalm cxlvii. 4. Manchester, printed by Roger + Adams, in the Parsonage, and sold by William Clayton, Bookseller, + at the Conduit. 1719." + +The book is dedicated to the "Virtuous and Religious Lady Bland." The +Preface states that + + "There having been lately set up in Manchester a Mathematical + Society, which was encouraged by many (and some Honorable) + subscribers, and the composing of the Lectures being undertaken by + the late ingenious Mathematician Mr. John Jackson, and he having + discharged himself well becoming his parts and character in the + reading of several extraordinary ones in Geometry, we thought it + would be great pity, as well as ingratitude, to let such worthy + performances expire with him." + +Then follow the two Lectures, which terminate at p. 41. The first was +read Aug. 12, 1718; the second, Aug. 19, 1718. The Manchester +Mathematical Society would be one of the earliest in the kingdom. +Perhaps the Oldham Society might be a branch of the Manchester. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Coke, how pronounced_ (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 74. 93. 138. 244.).--I think +that the pronunciation of _Cook_ for _Coke_ is not a "modern +affectation," as in a MS. journal of the proceedings in parliament of +the session of 1621, now in my possession, there is, amongst other +amusing things, an account of a quarrel between Mr. Clement Coke, son of +Sir Edward, and Sir Charles Moryson, in which Mr. Coke's name is +frequently spelt _Cooke_. I should judge that the pronunciation was by +no means settled at that time; for, as the journal was evidently written +whilst the debates were going on, it appears to me that the +pronunciation of each speaker was followed, and the name is spelt +differently in speeches that succeed each other. I send you an exact +copy of one example of this: + + "M'r Whittbye.--That M'r _Coke_ will submitt and satisfy in + acknow'g his wrong don, if S'r Char's will say he ment it not a + disgrace. + + "S'r Ro. Phil'ps.--I would any way mitigate y'e censure: I should + need no other induce't but to rememb'r he is y'e soun of such a + father. But I must say, I thinke S'r Char's hath not given y'e + least occas'n to M'r _Cooke_," &c. &c. + + C. DE D. + +_Quistourne_ (Vol. iv., p. 116.).--Here is a word so very like the +Devonshire one which has puzzled a correspondent, that it may be the +same one in sense as well in sound. In one of the Low-Norman insular +dialects, it denotes a slap with the _back_ of the _hand_; in +French-British[3], KIS DOURN, _revers de main_. + + [Footnote 3: I was asked by a great and true scholar, now no more, + What do you mean by _British_? My answer was, "The nation that you + have nicknamed _Welsh_ or _Strangers_, which they are not. With me + the English are still English, the Scotch Scots, the Britons in + France the British there."] + + G. M. + +_Seneca's Medea_ (Vol. i., p. 107.; Vol. iii., p. 464.).--I cannot feel +much doubt that the prophecy ascribed to Medea was a mere allusion to +events actually past. It was a compliment to Claudius upon the recent +reduction of Britannia under the Roman arms, with nothing future, unless +it were an encouragement to bring Caledonia, Ireland, and the small +islands, into similar subjection. The Oceanus was supposed to extend +indefinitely westward, beyond the world, into the regions of Night and +Chaos, and was not only dreaded for its stormy navigation, but from +feelings of religious awe. The expedition to Britain was peculiar from +being ultra-mundane, and an invasion of the ocean, so that + + "Oceanus + Vincula rerum laxet et ingens + Pateat tellus." + +For that reason only they called the Britons "penitus toto divisos +orbe." "Britain (said the pseudo-Hegesippus) lying out of the world, was +by the power of the Roman empire reduced into the world," cit. Camden. +And the same is implied in another place of Seneca himself-- + + "Ille Britannos + _Ultra noti_ + _Littora ponti_, etc. + Dare Romuleis + Colla catenis + Jussit." + +But the "Poemata Pithaeana," reprinted in Camden, form the most lively +commentary on the chorus of the Medea. They are likewise of the Claudian +age, they relate to the conquest of Britain, and they are nothing but an +expansion of that one idea, the trans-oceanic voyage and ultra-mundane +conquest-- + + "Oceanus.... Qui finis mundo, non erit imperio. Oceanus medium + venit imperium. At nunc Oceanus geminos interluit orbes, Pars est + imperii, terminus ante fuit. Et jam Romano cingimur Oceano. + Oceanus jam terga dedit, etc. Conjunctum est, quod _adhuc_ (i.e. + _nunc_) orbis, et orbis erat," &c. + +The Chorus of Seneca has no more of prophecy, or sagacious conjecture, +or other anticipation of the future, than Gray's "Bard," or the prophecy +of Medea in Pindar's "Pythians," both of them fulfilled before the +poet's time. Whatever may seem of a larger import, in Seneca's language, +than events had fully justified, belongs to the obscure and lofty strain +of remote vaticinations, or to the exaggerations of flattery. + + A. N. + +_The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio_ (Vol. iv., p. 225.).--Colet +speaks of the editions of Jewel published in 1609 and 1611 as "edited by +Fuller." On meeting with the statement elsewhere, I supposed it to be a +mistake, as Fuller was born in 1608; but when I found it apparently +countenanced by the notice of Jewel in Fuller's _Abel Redivivus_ (Camb. +1651, p. 313.), I was much puzzled, until, on turning to the +Introduction, [section] 11., I discovered that the writer of that notice, and +editor of the folios, was not _Fuller_, but _Featley_. + + J. C. R. + +_Poetaster_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--In reply to A BORDERER, I do not think +_poetaster_ to be a genuine Latin word, though where first used I do not +know. The French equivalent is _poetereau_; the Italian _poeterio_; both +formed according to the analogies of the respective languages. +_Poetaster_ seems to me to be formed upon the model of _oleaster_, +_pinaster_, &c., as though to indicate that the person to whom the name +is applied is as unlike a true poet as the wild olive to the true olive, +or the wild pine to the true pine. What then is the derivation of +_aster_ as a termination? Some punster will say, respecting _oleaster_, +that it is _olea sterilis_. Is it not [Greek: agrios]? or is it rather a +form cognate to the Greek termination [Greek: -azo], which generally +means the performance of some energy, or the exhibiting of some state, +implied in the substantive; as though the wild olive affected the +characteristics and condition of the genuine olive? I am fully aware of +many difficulties in the admission of these derivations. I would suggest +another. Does _aster_ signify that which affects or approaches the +characteristics of the substantive to which it is added, as the +terminations _-estis_ or _-estris_, whereby adjectives are formed; as +_agrestis_, _sylvestris_, _campestris_, at the same time that the forms +are allied, _-aster_, _-estris_, _-estis_? + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Post Pascha_ (Vol. iv., p. 151.).--A parallel to the "hypertautology" +noticed by M. may be found in the determination of the University of +Orleans on the question of Henry VIII.'s divorce, which is dated "die +quinto mensis Aprilis, _ante pascha_," from which it has been argued, +that that document must have been drawn up in 1530, not (as stated in +the printed copies) in 1529, when Easter fell on March 28. + + J. C. R. + +_Linteamina and Surplices_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--It seems probable that +the surplice became an ecclesiastical vestment at an early date, though +the exact period of its introduction into the Christian church it is +difficult to ascertain; it may not unlikely have been taken from the +white linen ephod of the Jewish priests. Wheatly (c. ii. [section] 4.) quotes a +passage from Jerome to the following effect: "What offence can it be to +God for a bishop or priest to proceed to communion in a white garment;" +and he considers it not improbable that it was in use in Cyprian's days. +Bingham (_French Churches' Apology_, book iii. chap. vii.) cites a +letter of Peter Martyr to Bishop Hooper on the vestment controversy, in +which he states that a distinction of habits may be proved by many +passages of Eusebius, Cyprian, Tertullian, and Chrysostom. By the +twelfth canon of the Council of Narbonne, A.D. 589, the clergy were +forbidden to take the _albe_ off until after mass was ended. In ancient +times, as Mr. Palmer observes (_Orig. Lit._ ii. 409.), the _surplice_ +probably differed not from the _albe_; it differs now only in having +wider sleeves. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber.) + +_Climate_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--A _climate_ was a zone contained between +two parallels of latitude. The climates were made to contain various +arcs of _latitude_, in different systems. See Hutton's _Mathematical +Dictionary_ at _Climate_, or any work which efficiently explains old +astronomical terms. Thus a _climate_ originally meant a certain range of +latitude; and as we now speak of warm and cold latitudes, so it became +customary to speak of climates, until the last word became wholly +meteorological. + + M. + + "_Climate_ or _Clime_ in geography is a part of the surface of the + earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such + a breadth as that the longest day in the parallel nearer the pole + exceeds the longest day in that next the equator by some certain + spaces, viz. half an hour. + + "The ancients, who confined the climates to what they imagined the + habitable parts of the earth, only allowed of seven. The first + they made to pass through Meroe; the second, through Sienna; the + third, through Alexandria; the fourth, through Rhodes; the fifth, + through Rome; the sixth, through Pontus; and the seventh, through + the mouth the Borysthenes."--_Encyclopaedia Britannica_, art. + "CLIMATE." + + S. C. C. + + Corfe Castle. + +_Ancient Language of Egypt_ (Vol. iv., pp. 152. 240.).--The only works +on the language of ancient Egypt preserved in the hieroglyphical +inscriptions that possess any authority are the _Grammaire Egyptienne_ +of Champollion[4], and the appendix to the first volume of the Chevalier +Bunsen's _Egypt's Place in Universal History_. Much, however, is known +to individuals who have studied the language, which has not been +published, or perhaps digested into a system; and the works mentioned +are by no means to be depended on as to matters of detail, especially as +respects the verbs and pronouns, though the general principles of +interpretation may be considered as settled. There was another language +used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the +demotic or enchorial character. Brugsch of Berlin is the highest +authority as to this; his work, _De natura et indole linguae popularis +AEgyptiorum_, is, I believe, incomplete, but he has published others in +Latin and German. + + [Footnote 4: This contains the latest views of the author, whose + most important discoveries were made near the close of his life. + The _Precis_ contains much that Champollion afterwards rejected as + erroneous. The _Dictionnaire_ is a compilation, made after his + death from what he wrote at different periods of his life. It is + inconsistent with itself, and abounds in errors, so as to be worse + than useless to the student.] + +The work on Egyptian chronology, from which most seems to be expected, +is that of Lepsius; but he has yet published only the first volume, +which consists of preliminary matter. Le Sueur's treatise, though +crowned by the French Academie, is a failure. Bunsen's less palpably +erroneous, but a great part of the second and third volumes, which were +published in German in 1844, would require to be re-written. Those who +wish to study the chronology, as systematised by the Egyptians +themselves, should consult the Turin _Book Of Kings_, of which an +accurate fac-simile, with explanatory text, has been lithographed, and +is about to be published by subscription, under the superintendence of a +committee, of which Sir Gardner Wilkinson is the most prominent member. + + E. H. D. D. + +_Welwood's Memoirs_ (Vol. iv., p. 70.).--The edition referred to by MR. +ROSS I have not seen, but there is one in my library printed at London +in 1702, and which bears to be "the fourth edition," with the dedication +to the king, and an address "to the reader" commencing as follows:-- + + "These sheets were writ some years ago, by the encouragement of + _one_ whose memory will be ever sacred to posterity. It's needless + to mention the occasion; and they had not been published now, if a + surreptitious copy of a part of the manuscript had not crept + abroad." + +The volume, which is very well got up in 8vo., is printed for "Tim. +Goodwin, and sold by James Round at the Seneca's Head in Exchange +Alley." + +It may be fairly inferred that this edition came out under the +superintendence of Welwood, and it would be interesting to ascertain +whether there are any alterations in the sixth edition. Welwood was a +Scotchman, and a letter from him to James Anderson, the eminent Scotish +antiquary, will be found amongst the Anderson Papers in the Library of +the Faculty of Advocates. It has been printed in the appendix to the +_Catalogues of Scotish Writers_, Edinburgh, 1833. + + J. 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