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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 108, November 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: March 19, 2012 [EBook #39197] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NOV 22, 1851 *** + + + + +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 variations 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. 108. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Age of Trees 401 + + Lines attributed to Admiral Byng 403 + + A Chapter on Emblems 403 + + Folk Lore:--Music at Funerals--Cheshire Folk Lore + and Superstition 404 + + Minor Notes:--Talented--Anagram--Dictionary of + Hackneyed Quotations 405 + + QUERIES:-- + + Masters and Marshals of the Ceremonies 405 + + Minor Queries:--Cause of Transparency--Gold Medal + of the Late Duke of York--Compositions during the + Protectorate--Bristol Tables--Macfarlane's Geographical + Collection--"Acu tinali meridi"--Sir Joshua + Reynolds--Great Plough at Castor Church--Church + of St. Bene't Fink--Inscription on a Pair of + Spectacles--Campbell--Family of Cordeux--Panelling + Inscription--Infantry Firing 406 + + REPLIES:-- + + The Reverend Richard Farmer, by Bolton Corney 407 + + Anglo-Catholic Library 408 + + General James Wolfe 409 + + Punishment of Edward of Caernarvon by his Father--Character + of Edward I. 409 + + Elizabeth Joceline's Legacy to an Unborne Child 410 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's + "Christabel"--Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt + White--Lofcop, Meaning of--Middleton's Epigrams + and Satyres--Lord Edward Fitzgerald--Earwig--Sanderson + and Taylor--Island of Ægina and the Temple of Jupiter + Panhellinius--The Broad Arrow--Consecration of Bishops + in Sweden--Meaning of Spon--Quaker Expurgated + Bible--Cozens the Painter--Authors of the Homilies 410 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 413 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 413 + + Notices to Correspondents 414 + + Advertisements 414 + + + + +Notes. + + +AGE OF TREES. + +Alexander von Humboldt, in his work entitled _Views of Nature_ (pp. 220. +268-276. ed. Bohn), has some interesting remarks on the age of trees. + + "In vegetable forms (he says) _massive size_ is indicative of age; + and in the vegetable kingdom alone are age and the manifestation + of an ever-renewed vigour linked together." + +Following up this remark, he refers to specimens of the Baobab +(_Adansonia digitata_), with trunks measuring more than thirty feet in +diameter, the age of which is estimated by Adanson at 5150 years. All +calculations of the age of a tree, founded merely on the _size of its +trunk_, are, however, uncertain, unless the law of its growth, and the +limits of the variation producible by peculiar circumstances, are +ascertained, which, in the case of the Adansonia, have not been +determined. For the same reason, the calculation of 2,500 years for a +gigantic cypress in Persia, mentioned by Evelyn in his _Silva_, is of no +value. + +Humboldt afterwards refers to "the more certain estimations yielded by +_annular rings_, and by the relation found to exist between the +thickness of the layer of wood and the duration of growth;" which, he +adds, give us shorter periods for our temperate northern zone. The +calculation of the age of a tree, founded on its successive rings, +appears to be quite certain; and whenever these can be counted, the age +of a tree can be determined without risk of error. Humboldt quotes a +statement from Endlicher, that "in Lithuania linden (or lime) trees have +been felled which measured 87 feet round, and in which 815 annular rings +have been counted." The section of a trunk of a silver fir, which grew +near Barr, is preserved in the Museum at Strasburg: its diameter was +eight feet close to the ground, and the number of rings is said to +amount to several hundreds. + +Unfortunately this mode of determining a tree's age cannot be applied to +a living tree; and it is only certain where the tree is sound at the +heart. Where a tree has become hollow from old age, the rings near the +centre, which constitute a part of the evidence of its duration, no +longer exist. Hence the age of the great oak of Saintes, in the +department of the Charente Inférieure, which measures twenty-three feet +in diameter five feet from the ground, and is large enough to contain a +small chamber, can only be estimated; and the antiquity of 1800 or 2000 +years, which is assigned to it, must rest on an uncertain conjecture. + +Decandolle lays it down that, of all European trees, the _yew_ attains +the greatest age; and he assigns an antiquity of thirty centuries to the +_Taxus baccata_ of Braburn in Kent; from twenty-five to thirty centuries +to the Scotch yew of Fortingal; and fourteen and a half and twelve +centuries respectively to those of Crowhurst in Surrey and Ripon +(Fountains Abbey) in Yorkshire. These ages are fixed by a conjecture +founded on the _size_, which can lead to no certain result. + +Can any of your correspondents state what is the greatest number of +rings which have been actually counted in any yew, or other tree, which +has grown in the British Isles, or elsewhere? It Is only by actual +enumeration that vegetable chronology can be satisfactorily determined: +but if the rings in many trees were counted, some relation between the +number of rings and the diameter of the trunk, for each species, might +probably be laid down within certain limits. These rings, being annually +deposited, form a natural chronicle of time, by which the age of a tree +is determined with as much precision as the lapse of human events is +determined by the cotemporaneous registration of annalists. Hence Milton +speaks of "monumental oak." Evelyn, who has devoted a long chapter of +his _Silva_ to an investigation of the age of trees (b. iii. c. iii.), +founds his inferences chiefly on their _size_; but he cites the +following remark from Dr. Goddard: + + "It is commonly and very probably asserted, that a tree gains a + new ring every year. In the body of a great oak in the New Forest, + cut transversely even, (where many of the trees are accounted to + be some hundreds of years old) three and four hundred have been + distinguished."--Vol. ii. p. 202. ed. Hunter. + +A delineation and description of the largest and most celebrated trees +of Great Britain may be seen in the interesting work of Jacob George +Strutt, entitled _Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees, +distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty_: London, 1822, +folio. + +The age of some trees is determined by historical records, in the same +manner that we know the age of an ancient building, as the Parthenon, +the Colosseum, or the Tower of London. It is, however, important that +such historical evidence should be carefully scrutinised; for trees +which are known to be of great antiquity sometimes give rise to fabulous +legends, destitute of any foundation in fact. Such, for example, was the +plane-tree near Caphyæ, in Arcadia, seen by Pausanias in the second +century after Christ, which was reported by the inhabitants to have been +planted by Menelaus when he was collecting the army for the expedition +against Troy. (_Paus._ VIII. 23.) Such too, doubtless, was the oak of +Mamre, where the angels were said to have appeared to Abraham. +(_Sozomen_, ii. 3.) A rose-tree growing in the crypt of the cathedral of +Hildesheim is referred, by a church-legend, to a date anterior to 1061; +which would imply an age of more than 800 years, but the evidence +adduced seems scarcely sufficient to identify the existing rose-tree +with the rose-tree of 1061. (See _Humboldt_, p. 275.) + +In other cases, however, the historical evidence extant, if not +altogether free from doubt, is sufficient to carry the age of a tree +back to a remote date. The Swilcar Lawn oak, in Needwood Forest, +Staffordshire, is stated by Strutt, p. 2., "to be known by historical +documents to be at this time [1822] six hundred years old; and it is +still far from being in the last stage of decay." Of a great elm growing +at Chipstead Place in Kent, he says: "Its appearance altogether savours +enough of antiquity to bear out the tradition annexed to it, that in the +time of Henry V. a fair was held annually under its branches; the high +road from Rye in Sussex to London then passing close by it." (P. 5.) If +this tradition be authentic, the elm in question must have been a large +and wide-spreading tree in the years 1413-22. A yew-tree at Ankerwyke +House, near Staines, is supposed to be of great antiquity. There is a +tradition that Henry VIII. occasionally met Anne Boleyn under its +branches: but it is not stated how high this tradition ascends. (_Ib._, +p. 8.) The Abbot's Oak, near Woburn Abbey, is stated to derive its name +from the fact that the abbot of the monastery was, by order of Henry +VIII., hung from its branches in 1537. (_Ib._, p. 10.) But Query, is +this an authentic fact? + +There is a tradition respecting the Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury, that +before the battle of Shrewsbury between Henry IV. and Hotspur, in 1403, +Owen Glendower reconnoitred the field from its branches, and afterwards +drew off his men. Positive documentary evidence, in the possession of +Richard Hill Waring, Esq., is likewise cited, which shows that this tree +was called "the Great Oak" in the year 1543 (_Ib._ p. 17.). There is a +traditional account that the old yew-trees at Fountains Abbey existed at +the foundation of the abbey, in the year 1132; but the authority for +this tradition, and the time at which it was first recorded, is not +stated. (P. 21.) The Abbot's Willow, near Bury St. Edmund's, stands on a +part of the ancient demesne of the Abbot of Bury, and is hence +conjectured to be anterior to the dissolution of the monastery in the +reign of Henry VIII. (P. 23.) The Queen's Oak at Huntingfield, in +Suffolk, was situated in a park belonging to Lord Hunsdon, where he had +the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth. The queen is reported to +have shot a buck with her own hand from this oak. (P. 26.) Sir Philip +Sidney's Oak, near Penshurst, is said to have been planted at his birth, +in 1554: it has been celebrated by Ben Jonson and Waller. This oak is +above twenty-two feet in girth; it is hollow, and stag-headed; and, so +far as can be judged from the engraving, has an appearance of great +antiquity, though its age only reaches back to the sixteenth century. +(P. 27.) The Tortworth Chestnut is described as being not only the +largest, but the oldest tree in England: Evelyn alleges that "it +continued a signal boundary to that manor in King Stephen's time, as it +stands upon record;" but the date of the record is not mentioned. We +can hardly suppose that it was cotemporaneous. (_Ib._ p. 29.) An elm at +Chequers in Buckinghamshire is reported, by a tradition handed down in +the families of the successive owners, to have been planted in the reign +of Stephen. (_Ib._ p. 38.) Respecting the Wallace Oak, at Ellerslie near +Paisley, it is reported that Sir William Wallace, and three hundred of +his men, hid themselves among its branches from the English. This legend +is probably fabulous; if it were true, it would imply that the tree was +in its full vigour at the end of the thirteenth century. (_Ib._ p. 5.) +The ash at Carnock, in Stirlingshire, supposed to be the largest in +Scotland, and still a luxuriant tree, was planted about the year 1596, +by Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, Lord Advocate of Scotland in the +reign of James VI. (_Ib._ p. 8.) + +Marshall, in his Work on _Planting and Rural Ornament_ (2 vols. 1796) +refers to a paper on the age of trees, by Mr. Marsham, in the first +volume of the _Transactions of the Bath Agriculture Society_, in which +the Tortworth Chestnut is calculated to be not less than 1100 years old. +Marshall, who appears to have examined this tree with great care, +corrects the account given by Mr. Marsham, and states that it is not +one, but two trees. Sir Robert Atkins, in his _History of +Gloucestershire_, says: "By tradition this tree was growing in King +John's reign." Evelyn, however, as we have already seen, speaks of a +record that it served as a manor boundary in the reign of Stephen. +Query, on what authority do these statements rest? Marshall thinks that +a duration of nearly a thousand years may be fairly assigned to the +Tortworth tree; and he adds: + + "If we consider the quick growth of the chestnut, compared with + that of the oak, and at the same time the inferior bulk of the + Tortworth Chestnut to the Cowthorp, the Bentley, and the + Boddington oaks, may we not venture to infer that the existence of + these truly venerable trees commenced some centuries prior to the + era of Christianity?" + +The oaks here alluded to by Marshall are of immense size. The Cowthorp +Oak is near Wetherby; the Bentley Oak, in Holt Forest, near Bentley; the +Boddington Oak, between Cheltenham and Tewksbury (vol. ii. pp. 127. +298.). + +Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to point out authentic +evidence respecting the true dates of ancient trees. A large tree is a +subject of interest to the entire neighbourhood: it receives an +individual name, like a river, a mountain, or a building; and by its +permanence it affords a fixed point for a faithful local tradition to +rest upon. On the other hand, the infidelity of oral tradition is well +known; and the mere interest which attaches to a tree of unusual size is +likely to give birth to a romantic legend, when its true history has +been forgotten. The antiquary and the botanist may assist one another in +determining the age of trees. By the authentic evidence of their +duration which the former is able to furnish, the latter may establish +tests by which their longevity may be calculated. + + L. + + +LINES ATTRIBUTED TO ADMIRAL BYNG. + +The following lines are copied, _verbatim et literatim_, from a window +pane in an upstairs room of the Talbot Inn, Ripley. The tradition is +that they were written by Admiral Byng, who was confined in the room as +a prisoner when on his way to Portsmouth; that sentinels were placed on +the staircase outside; that during the night the admiral walked past the +sleeping guard, gathered some flowers from the inn garden, and returned +to his room; and that on leaving the following morning, he told the Inn +Lady he should see her on his way back to London, when he was acquitted. + + "Come all you true Britons, and listen to me; + I'll tell you the truth, you'll then plainly see + How Minorca was lost, why the kingdom doth ring, + And lay the whole blame on Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all, rogues all. + + "Newcastle, and Hardwick, and Anson did now + Preside at the helm, and to whom all must bow; + Minorca besieged, who protection will bring; + They know 'tis too late, let the victim be Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "With force insufficient he's ordered away; + He obeys, and he sails without any delay; + But alas! 'tis too late: who shall say to the king + Minorca must fall, why, accuse Mr. Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "Minorca now falls, and the nation enraged; + With justice they cry, let all who engaged + In traterous deeds, with curst infamy swing: + What! none to be found but poor Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all." + +Is there any reason to doubt the truth of this tradition, or that the +verses were written by the unfortunate admiral? + + A. C. G. + + Ripley, Nov. 10, 1851. + + +A CHAPTER ON EMBLEMS. + +"An history of emblems in all languages, with specimens of the poetry +and engravings, accompanied by some account of the authors, would be a +very interesting contribution to our literature." Thus speaks the author +of a work remarkable for interest, information, and elegance of taste, +viz., _Lives of Sacred Poets_, by Robert Willmott, Esq.; and truly such +a work would be a great _desideratum_ were the idea here suggested +efficiently carried out. + +In our own, and in other languages, many beautiful poems--some of them +very gems--exist, attached to, and written on some of "the most +ridiculous prints that ever excited merriment." A tasteful collection of +the more beautiful poems, with some spirited woodcuts, or engravings to +accompany them, would form a beautiful volume. This, however, is a +suggestion different from, and secondary to, Mr. Willmott's. + +Emblems, figures, symbols, &c., constitute a vast ocean of associations +which all enter on, all understand, all sympathise with more or less. +They enrich our language, enter into our commonest thoughts and +conversation, as well as our compositions in poetry and prose. + +Often the clearest ideas we have on abstruse points are derived from +them, _e.g._ the _shamrock_ or _trefoil_ is an emblem of _the Blessed +Trinity_. Nothing perhaps helps us to comprehend the resurrection of the +body, and in a glorified state through preserving its identity, as the +apostle's illustration and emblem of the _growth of corn_. + +In a work on the subject it would be desirable to keep the classical, +artistic, political, and other emblems apart from the sacred and moral, +&c. + +I must now say a few words on a book of emblems, entitled _Schola +Cordis, sive Aversi a Deo Cordis, ad eumdem reductio et instructio, +Authore Benedicto Haefteno, Antv._ 1635. (This Benedict Haeften was also +the author of _Regia Via Crucis_, published at Antwerp the same year as +the above, in 2 vols. 8vo., I think, and afterwards translated into +French.) This work suggested _Schola Cordis, or the Heart of itself gone +away from God, brought back again to Him and instructed by Him, in XLVII +emblems_: London, printed for M. Blunder at the Castle in Cornhill, +1647, 12mo. pp. 196. The authorship of this English _Schola Cordis_ is +generally attributed to Christopher Harvie, the author of _The +Synagogue_. (Vide Lowndes, and a note in Pickering's edition of George +Herbert.) The second edition was printed in 1674, third in 1675, fourth +in 1676. + +Now, Mr. Tegg in 1845 printed an edition of this _Schola Cordis_ as the +production of Francis Quarles; what was his authority I know not, he +certainly did not attempt to give any. + +The last three books of Quarles's _Emblems_ contain forty-five prints, +all from Herman Hugo's _Pia Desideria_, which has that number of +emblems. Quarles sometimes translates, sometimes paraphrases Hugo, and +has a good deal of original matter. His first two books are not in +Hugo's work, and I do not know whence they are derived; nearly all the +cuts contain a globe and cross. + +Herman Hugo had the talents and versatility which characterise his order +(the Order of Jesus), "he was a philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a +poet, and a soldier, and under the command of Spinola is said to have +performed prodigies of valour." He was the author of _De prima Scribendi +Origine et Universa Rei Literariæ Antiquitate_, an excellent work; and +of _De Militia Equestri antiqua et nova_ amongst others. His _Book of +Emblems_ was first published at Antwerp, 1624. It is divided into +_three_ books, viz., + + Pia Desideria. + + 1. Gemitus {A } Poenitentis. + 2. Vota {n } Sanctæ. + 3. Suspiria {imæ} Amantis. + +Each book contains fifteen emblems. The principal editions are, Antv. +1624, ed. princeps; Antv. 1628, 1632; Græcii, 1651; Lond. 1677, +sumptibus Roberti Pawlet, Chancery Lane. This London edition contains +only verse, whereas all the other editions contain metre and prose +before each picture, the prose being far the better of the two. The only +prose that Pawlet's edition has is a motto from one of the Fathers at +the back of each picture. + +There are two or three English translations. I have seen but one, a +miserable translation of the verse part, I suppose from Pawlet's +edition. There are short notices of emblems in the _Retrospective +Review_, ix. 123-140.; _Critical Review_, Sept. 1801 (attributed to +Southey); see also Willmott's _Lives of Sacred Poets_ (Wither and +Quarles); Cæsar Ripa's _Iconologia_, Padua, 1627; and _Alciati +Emblemata_, Lugd. 1614. The Fagel Library, Trinity College, Dublin, has +a fine copy of the first edition of the _Pia Desideria_, and upwards of +sixty books of emblems, principally Dutch. + +P.S.--When I penned the above I was not aware that any mention of the +_School of the Heart_ had been made in "NOTES AND QUERIES." I find in +Southey's fourth _Common-place Book_ that he quotes from the _School of +the Heart_ as Quarles's. He has the following note on Quarles's Emblems: +"Philips erroneously says that the emblems are a copy from Hermannus +Hugo." I know not what Philips exactly intended by the word "copy;" but +if any one doubts what I have before said respecting these Emblems, let +him compare Hugo and Quarles together. I forgot to give the title of the +first edition of Hugo: _Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis et Affectibus, +SS. Patrum Illustrata, vulgavit Boetius a Bolswert_, Antv. 1624. Also +the title of our English translation: _Pia Desideria; or, Divine +Addresses_, in three books, written in Latin by Herm. Hugo, Englished by +Edm. Arwaker, M.A., Lond. 1686, 8vo., pp. 282., dedicated to the +Princess Anne of Denmark, with forty-seven plates by Sturt. + + MARICONDA. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Music at Funerals._--Pennant, in his MS. relating to North Wales, says, +"there is a custom of singing psalms on the way as the corpse is carried +to church" (Brand's _Pop. Ant._, ed. Ellis, vol. ii. p. 268.). In North +Devon the custom of singing is similar; but it is not a psalm it is a +dirge. I send you a copy of one in use at Lynton, sent to me by my +sister. + + Farewell all, my parents[1] dear, + And all my friends, farewell! + I hope I'm going to that place + Where Christ and saints do dwell. + + Oppress'd with grief long time I've been, + My bones cleave to my skin, + My flesh is wasted quite away + With pain that I was in, + + Till Christ his messenger did send, + And took my life away, + To mingle with my mother earth, + And sleep with fellow clay. + + Into thy hands I give my soul, + Oh! cast it not aside, + But favor me and hear my prayer, + And be my rest and guide. + + Affliction hath me sore oppress'd, + Brought me to death in time; + O Lord! as thou hast promised, + Let me to life return. + + For when that Christ to judgment comes, + He unto us will say, + If we His laws observe and keep, + "Ye blessed, come away." + + How blest is he who is prepar'd, + He fears not at his death; + Love fills his heart, and hope his breast, + With joy he yields his breath. + + Vain world, farewell! I must be gone, + I cannot longer stay; + My time is spent, my glass is run, + God's will I must obey. + + [Footnote 1: Sister or brother, as the case may be.] + +Another dirge, ending with the sixth stanza of the foregoing, is used at +an infant's funeral, but the rhyme is not so well kept. + + WM. DURRANT COOPER. + +_Cheshire Folk Lore and Superstition._--There is in this town a little +girl, about thirteen years old, in great request among the poor as a +charmer in cases of burns or scalds. Immediately on the accident the +girl is fetched from her work in the mill; on her arrival she kneels +down by the side of the sufferer, mutters a few words, and touches the +individual, and the people believe and affirm that the sufferings +immediately cease, as she has charmed the fire out of the parts injured. +The surgeon's aid is then called in to heal the sores. The girl affirms +that she found it out herself by reading her Bible, of which the +wonder-working charm is a verse. She will take no reward, nor may any of +her relatives; if she or they were, her power would be at an end. She is +an ordinary, merry, playful girl; as a surgeon I often come across her +in such accidents. + +I know some other such charmers in Cheshire, but none so young. One, an +old man, stops bleedings of all kinds by a similar charm, viz. a verse +from the Bible. But he does not require to be at the patient's side, his +power being equally efficacious at the distance of one hundred miles, as +close by. + + E. W. L. + + Congleton. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Talented._--Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of +this word by his biographer in his _Sartor Resartus_, calling it a +hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell. + + J. O'G. + +_Anagram._--Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on _The French Benedictines_, +gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great +bibliophagist Magliabechi:--Antonius Magliabechius--Is unus bibliotheca +magna. + +In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum +inambulans, et viva quædam bibliotheca." Possibly this is the origin of +our expression "a walking dictionary." + + J. O'G. + +_Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations._--I beg to inform your +correspondent who suggested such a publication as a _Dictionary of +Hackneyed Quotations_, that I commenced such a work some time ago, and +hope before long to have it ready for the press. + +Every common quotation or familiar proverb from the poets will be ranged +with the _context_ under its respective author, while an alphabetical +index will facilitate reference to any particular passage. I doubt not +the readers of your valuable periodical will assist me whenever I am at +fault as to the authorship of any line or "household word;" and I should +feel at the present time much obliged if any one could tell me where + + "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," may be found? + + H. A. B. + + Trinity College, Cambridge. + + + + +Queries. + + +MASTERS AND MARSHALS OF THE CEREMONIES? + +How are these offices now held? By letters patent of the crown, or by +the lord chamberlain's nomination? + +Where can any list of these offices be found? The office of Master of +the Ceremonies, whose duty it is to arrange the reception of all foreign +ministers, and their departures, was formerly an office of considerable +importance. In the reign of King Charles I. it was held seemingly by +grants from the crown. In 1627, Sir John Finett says he received news +of the death of Sir Lewis Lewknor, by which, in right of his Majesty's +grant of reversion by letters patent, he became sole Master of the +Ceremonies--an office which he before held jointly with Sir Lewis +Lewknor. + + S. E. G. + + +Minor Queries. + +286. _Cause of Transparency._--Seeing through the glass of my window a +landscape, and not knowing _why_ I see through the glass, and not +through the shutters, I will thank one of your philosophical +correspondents to tell me the _cause of transparency_. + + ÆGROTUS. + +287. _Gold Medal of late Duke of York._--I have a small gold medal, +three-quarter inch in diameter, a head with inscription-- + + "Fredericus dux Eborac." + +and Rev.: + + "Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Non. Ian. 1827." + +Were many such struck at the duke's death, or what is the history of it? + + A. A. D. + +288. _Composition's during the Protectorate._--Where is there any +account or list of these? In Oldfield's _History of Wainfleet_, p. 12. +Appendix, is a "List of Residents in the County of Lincoln who +compounded for their Estates during the Protectorate of Oliver +Cromwell;" but he gives no authority or reference. Where can this list +be checked, as I suspect an error? + + W. H. L. + + Fulham. + +289. _Bristol Tables._--Upon the pavement in front of the Exchange, +Bristol, there are four very handsome bronze tables standing, upon a +single pedestal each; the tops circular, about two feet in diameter, +with a slightly raised edge round them. It is said that they were +presented to the Bristol merchants for them to pay their money upon; but +when, or by whom, they were so given, I have not been able to learn. A +friend of mine who was lately examining them was told that they were +formerly called "Nails," and gave rise to the saying, "Pay down upon the +nail:" this I should think must be an error. "Solvere ad unguem" would +be found to be older than they are. If any of your correspondents can +give me any information respecting them, I shall be obliged. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark. + +290. _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection._--In almost every work +treating of the history and topographical antiquities of Scotland, we +are referred to _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection_, preserved in the +Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. This MS., and its author, are very little +known, except by name, _benorth the Tay_, notwithstanding they are so +often quoted. I should be glad if any of your correspondents would give +me any information regarding the extent of country embraced, _i.e._ +parishes, counties, &c., and if any part of it has been published _per +se_, and when, and where. + + ANTIQUARIENSIS. + + Inverness. + +291. "_Acu tinali meridi._"--At the head of an English metrical +discourse upon the administration of justice, in a MS. of the fourteenth +or fifteenth century, in the Public Library, Cambridge, is placed the +following obscure motto, upon which, perhaps, some correspondent can +throw light:-- + + "O judex vi fervida hanc servabis artem, + Acu tinali merida .i. audi alteram partem." + +I have not seen the MS., but am told that the correctness of the reading +may be depended upon. + + C. W. G. + +292. _Sir Joshua Reynolds._--Having the early catalogues of the Royal +Academy before me, I see that in 1773 and following years, Sir Joshua +exhibited twelve or thirteen works. You will find they stand as current +Nos. in the list. Can you inform me whether they hung on the line, that +is, in the space of privilege, or took their chance with the many? Had +they, under his own eye, been grouped together, what a treat it must +have been to see them! What an evidence of the industry of the man! +Though too late in the day to obtain these details from actual +observation, enough may be recorded or remembered through others, to +assist in throwing light on the rules and customs of past days, which +never can be deficient in interest while they tend to illustrate the +habits and character of great men. + +You could touch no topic more interesting than this must prove to the +increasing curiosity seekers in your useful and amusing repertorium, and +your attention to it will be valued by + + A LAYMAN. + + Athenæum Club. + +293. _Great Plough at Castor Church._--Can any of your correspondents +give me the history of, or afford me any intelligence about, the large +plough which Dibdin, in his _Northern Tour_, vol. i. p. 44., tells us is +about twenty feet in length, and suspended in Castor Church, extending +from one transept to the other? In a foot-note on the same church, he +speaks of a curious ceremony, as practised there every Palm Sunday, +respecting a peculiar tenure. I do not find it referred to in any other +account of Castor Church. Bourne, in his _Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 130., +gives the history of it, but says it is practised at Caistor Church in +Lincolnshire. Is the doctor right in his statement? I would also be glad +to know whether it is still continued at Caistor Church, as some years +ago an act was tried for in the House to abolish it. + + R. W. ELLIOT. + + Hull. + +294. _Church of St. Bene't Fink._--Is there any copy in existence of the +inscriptions on the gravestones and monuments of St. Bene't Fink in the +City, adjoining the Exchange, and which is now pulled down? If any of +your correspondents can direct me to any transcript of them, I shall be +much obliged by the communication. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +295. _Spectacles, Inscription on a Pair of._--Will you oblige me by +inserting, as soon as possible, the following curious inscription round +the rim of a pair of spectacles found in a stone coffin in Ombersley +Church, Worcestershire, some years since, when the old church was being +pulled down. It is as follows:-- + + "JOHERHARD MAY: SEEL ERB. PETER CONRAD. WIEGEL." + +This occurs on each rim, and I should be glad of an explanation of the +words. + + J. N. B. (A Subscriber.) + +296 _Campbell._--Can any of your readers tell me what he supposes +Campbell to mean when he makes the sister, in delivering her curse on +her brother, say-- + + "Go where the havoc of your kerne + Shall float as high as mountain fern!" + +Does havoc float? Does mountain fern float? What is the effect of either +floating _high_? The lines are in "The Flower of Love lies Bleeding." + +Also can any one say who or what this is? + + "Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay + Chac'd on his night-steed by the star of day!" + +The lines are near the end of _The Pleasures of Hope_. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + +297. _Family of Cordeux._--What is the origin of the name? When was it +introduced into England? What are the armorial bearings of the family? +What family or families bear gu. three stags' heads, on a chief arg. two +griffins' heads erased: Crest, a griffin's head erased? Any information +of the Cordeux family more than fifty years ago will confer an +obligation on the querist. + + W. H. K. + +298. _Panelling Inscription._--I have recently discovered, in my +investigations for the _History and Antiquities of South Lynn_, an old +building in this town which bears the date 1605 on one of its gables; +and in the course of my peregrinations through, I find some old +panelling with the date 1676, and the following inscription in old +English (large) characters: + + "As nothinge is so absolutly blest + But chance may crosse, and make it seeming ill, + So nothinge cane a man so much molest, + But God may chang, and seeing good he will." + +It has been suggested to me that these lines form a quotation from some +of our English poets; if so, of whom? for it is of great importance to +me to know, as it will tend considerably to connect the date with the +building; and if the lines can be traced to a writer of the period, it +will establish what I require very much, and assist me in my researches. + + J. N. C. + +299. _Infantry Firing._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to +authentic instances of the comparative numbers of rounds of cartridges +fired in action, with the number of men killed? I think I have read it +in Sir W. Napier's _History of the Peninsular War_, and also in _The +Times_, but omitted to make a note. I have some recollection of 60,000 +rounds beings fired, and only one man killed! and another instance of +80,000, and twenty-five killed! Any remarkable instances of the +inefficiency of musketry fire will be acceptable. + + H. Y. W. N. + + + + +Replies. + + +THE REVEREND RICHARD FARMER. + +(Vol. iv., p. 379.) + +Assuming that the principal ATROCITIES of the reverend Richard Farmer +are his _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_, and the substance of a +note on _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 2., I shall transcribe, as a hint to the +lovers of manly criticism, a general character of that writer, a +character of his _Essay_, and the note in question:-- + + 1. "His knowledge is various, extensive, and recondite. With much + seeming negligence, and perhaps in later years some real + relaxation, he understands more and remembers more about common + and uncommon subjects of literature, than many of those who would + be thought to read all the day and meditate half the night. In + quickness of apprehension and acuteness of discrimination I have + not often seen his equal."--Samuel PARR. + + 2. "It [the _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_] may in truth + be pointed out as a master-piece, whether considered with a view + to the sprightliness and vivacity with which it is written, the + clearness of the arrangement, the force and variety of the + evidence, or the compression of scattered materials into a narrow + compass; materials which inferior writers would have expanded into + a large volume."--Isaac REED. + + 3. "There's a divinity that _shapes our ends_, _Rough-hew_ [them + how we will.] Dr. Farmer informs me, that these words are merely + technical. A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in _skewers_, lately + observed to him, that his nephew (an idle lad), could only + _assist_ him in making them;"--'he could _rough-hew_ them, but I + was obliged to _shape their ends_.' [To shape the ends of + _wool-skewers_, i.e. to _point_ them, requires a degree of skill; + any one can _rough-hew_ them.] Whoever recollects the profession + of Shakespeare's father, will admit that his son might be no + stranger to such a term [such terms]. I have [frequently] seen + packages of wool pinn'd up with _skewers_.--STEEVENS. + +This note was first printed by Malone in 1780, and was reprinted by him +in 1790; the portions within brackets having been added in 1793? It is +clear, from this statement, that it received the deliberate revision of +its author. Now, I cannot deny that Farmer related the anecdote of the +_wool-man_--suspicious as is the character of the witness, but I contend +that the observations on it should be ascribed to Steevens alone; and so +I shall leave your critic A. E. B. to his own reflections. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 365.) + +A SUBSCRIBER TO THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY has discovered _one_ fault in +_one_ volume (published in 1844) of a series which now extends to +sixty-three volumes; and on this _one fault_ he builds a representation +which implies, in general, incompetency in the editors, and neglect of +proper supervision on the part of the committee of the Anglo-Catholic +Library. I believe the character of the editions of most of the volumes +sent out in this series is sufficiently known to theologians to render +such a charge as this of little importance as respects their judgment. +But it may not be so with many of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES." + +The gravamen of the charge rests on the importance of a certain passage +of St. Jerome bearing on the Presbyterian controversy,--on the necessity +for a familiarity with that controversy in an editor of Overall's +_Convocation Book_,--and the consequent incompetency of a person not +thus familiar with it to edit that work without, not the assistance +merely, but the immediate supervision of the committee. + +Now the subject of episcopacy is _not_, as the Subscriber alleges, "the +principal subject" of this Book; it occupies 30 pages out of 272: nor is +a familiarity with that controversy in any special way necessary for an +editor of the volume. The subjects of which the _Convocation Book_ +treats are wide and varied, and such omnigenous knowledge as a familiar +acquaintance with them implies, is not, nor could be, required in any +editor, nor be expected by subscribers. + +The committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library undertook to publish careful +reprints of the works of our old divines; and had they simply reprinted +with accuracy the _Convocation Book_, as published in 1690, they would +have fulfilled their covenant with the subscribers. They did, however, +much more. + +It was known that the original MS. copy of this Book was preserved at +Durham. The edition of 1690 had been printed from a transcript made by +Archbishop Sancroft. The committee therefore engaged the services of a +gentleman whose name is well known as an accurate editor of works +existing in MS. + +This gentlemen obtained access to all the known MSS. of the _Convocation +Book_; viz. 1. The original copy, and papers of alterations suggested as +it passed through the Upper House, preserved at Durham. 2. A cotemporary +MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham. 3. Archbishop +Sancroft's Transcript, preserved at Emanuel College, Cambridge and 4. A +MS. of the first book belonging to Bishop Barlow, preserved at Queen's +College, Oxford. These MSS. were carefully collated, and the variations, +in many respects curious and interesting, were printed at the bottom of +the pages, and, as regards the 4th MS., at the end of the volume. The +result is a correct edition of the text of this book, with all that can +be learned of its variations--the book so highly extolled by your +correspondent. And I hear no objection alleged against the care and +faithfulness with which this part of the work has been executed: your +correspondent does not appear to be aware of anything of the kind having +been done. + +But the editor went still further--he not only gave the subscribers so +much more than they had bargained for, he added full references to the +authorities quoted in the book; and when the passages were important, he +printed them in full, and even added references to works in which the +arguments were more largely handled. Now these references appear to me +to amount to many hundreds. They begin with Josephus, and run through +Fathers, councils, schoolmen, Roman Catholic controversialists, +ecclesiastical historians, and the chroniclers of the Middle Ages: and, +as far as I can judge in looking over the notes, not more than three or +four of these passages have been undiscovered by the editor, and he +honestly says he has not found them; one of these is the unlucky place +of St. Jerome, which your correspondent happens to know something about. + +The remarks of your correspondent have led me to examine the book, and I +refer any one who has the least regard for candour or fairness, to do +the same. I would ask them to judge it as a whole, to see the number and +variety of the references, and the care which has been bestowed upon +them; and to say whether--because he missed one passage, and knew not +its importance--the editor can be fairly charged with incompetency; or +the committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library accused of neglect, in +leaving the work in his hands without exercising over him such +supervision as implies the reading every sheet as it passed through the +press; for _assistance_ the editor had, and amply acknowledges that he +received, at the hand of the superintending editor. + + ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER TO THE + + ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + + +GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 322.) + +Many letters of Wolfe's will be found published in the _Naval and +Military Gazette_ of the latter part of last and early part of this +year. + +By the statement of your correspondent MR. COLE, Wolfe was promoted as +captain in Burrell's regiment (at present the 4th, or king's own) in +1744. Now Burrell's regiment took the left of the first line at +Culloden, so that James Wolfe, unless absent on leave, or employed on +particular duty, must have been in that action. The left of the second +line was occupied by "Colonel Wolfe's" regiment (now the 8th or +"king's"). See the "Rebellion of 1745," by Robert Chambers, in +Constable's _Miscellany_, vol. xvi. p. 86. Captains of _nineteen_ were +common enough at that period, but Wolfe is the only one whose name has +excited attention. + +As to Wolfe's having been "the youngest general ever intrusted with such +a responsible command" as that at Quebec, your correspondent surely +forgets Napoleon in modern, and the Black Prince in more remote times. + +I have seen at Mr. Scott's, of Cahircon, in the co. Clare, an engraving +of Wolfe: he is designated as the "Hero of Louisburgh," and is +represented with his right to the spectator, the right hand and arm +raised as if enforcing an order. The features are small, the nose rather +"cocked," and the face conveys the idea of spirit and determination; he +wears a very small three-cocked hat, with a plain black cockade, a sort +of frock coat reaching to the knees, where it is met by long boots; +there are no epaulets, a twist belt confines the coat, and supports a +cartouche-box in front, and a bayonet at the right side, and he carries +a fusil slung from his right shoulder "en bandouillière." + +It is said that the father of Wolfe was an Irishman, and I have been +shown in the co. Wicklow the farm on which it is said that James Wolfe +was born. It lies near Newtown-Mount-Kennedy. Be that as it may, the +name has been made celebrated in Ireland within the last half century by +three individuals: first, the Lord Kilwarden, who was murdered during +Emmett's rising in 1803; secondly, the late Chief Baron, who spelt his +name "with a difference;" and last, not least, the author of the +celebrated lines on the "Burial of Sir John Moore." + + KERRIENSIS. + + +PUNISHMENT OF EDWARD OF CAERNARVON BY HIS FATHER.--CHARACTER OF EDWARD +I. + +(Vol. iv., p. 338.) + +I think considerable light is thrown upon this very remarkable incident +by a letter of the prince himself to the Earl of Lincoln, dated +Midhurst, June 14, which appears upon the Roll of that prince's letters +lately discovered at the Chapter House, Westminster. (See _Ninth Report +of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records_, App. II., No. 5.) This +letter has been printed in one of the volumes of the Sussex +Archæological Society, having been written from that county. For such of +your readers as may not have either of these books at command, I will +give the material part of the letter, translated: + + "On Sunday, the 13th of June, we came to Midhurst, where we found + the lord the king, our father; the Monday following, on account of + certain words which, it had been reported to the king, had taken + place _between us and the Bishop of Chester_, he was so enraged + with us that he has forbidden us, or any of our retinue, to dare + to enter his house; and he has forbidden all the people of his + household and of the exchequer to give or lend us anything for the + support of our household. We are staying at Midhurst to wait his + pleasure and favour, and we shall follow after him as well as we + are able, at a distance of ten or twelve miles from his house, + until we have been able to recover his good will, which we very + much desire." + +The roll contains several letters which show how seriously the prince +was affected by his father's displeasure, and how the king was appeased. + +By the letter above quoted, the "minister" appears to have been the +Bishop of Chester, then treasurer of the royal household. But the +connexion between the prince's case and that of William de Brewosa does +not appear, unless they were on intimate terms, as is not improbable: +and the punishment of the prince himself is, in my opinion, referred to +as a precedent or justification of the punishment imposed upon Brewes. +That the severe punishment so imposed was richly deserved none can doubt +who has read the report on the Roll: but an unfortunate error in the +press[2] makes it appear that the prince, and not De Brewes, was the +culprit, and performed the penance. + + [Footnote 2: Page 339. col. 1. line 46., where "Edward" is printed + instead of "William de Brewes."] + +To return to the prince's offence and punishment. He appears to have +been nearly starved into submission, as the royal prohibition against +supplying him with articles or money was obliged to be removed by a +Letter Close directed to all the sheriffs, dated Ospring, 22nd July. + +The whole transaction is highly characteristic of the firmness of the +king. Whether the prince's letters which I have referred to make out a +case of _harshness_, as regards some other circumstances, I will not now +trouble you with. But while examining cotemporary documents illustrative +of the prince and his correspondents, I met with an entry upon the Close +Roll (33 Edw. I.) too strikingly illustrative of the determination and +caution of Edward I. to be allowed to remain in its present obscurity. + +On the 27th November the prince addressed a letter to Master Gerard de +Pecoraria, earnestly begging him to favour and forward the affairs of +Ralph de Baldok, then Bishop Elect of London. The "affairs" in question +were the removal of certain scruples instilled into the Papal ear +against the approval of the bishop elect; a matter generally involving +some diplomacy and much money. Master Gerard was employed by the Pope to +collect various dues in England; and so his good will was worth +obtaining. But the following Letter Close will show how he received his +"quietus," as far as the King of England was concerned: + + "The King to Ralph de Sandwich.--By reason of the excessive and + indecent presumption with which Gerard de Pecoraria is making + oppressive levies and collections of money in various places; by + whose authority we know not, for he will not show it; and inasmuch + as the same is highly derogatory to our crown, and injurious to + our people, and many complaints have been made against him on that + account; We command you to take the said Gerard before the Mayor + and Sheriffs of London, and there warn him to cease from making + the said levies, and to quit the kingdom in six days, _provided + that at such warning no public notary be present, so that the + warning be given to the said Gerard alone, no one else hearing. + And be you careful that no one but yourself see this letter, or + get a copy thereof._" + +Who can doubt that such a mandate was strictly carried out? + +I regret that my memoranda do not preserve the original language. + + JOSEPH BURTT. + +MR. GIBSON will find that this story, as well as that relative to Sir +William Gascoigne, is also told by MR. FOSS (_Judges of England_, vol. +iii. pp. 43. 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by Prince +Edward was an insult to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and +Coventry, occasioned probably by the boldness with which that prelate, +while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter de Gaveston, and +restrained the Prince's extravagance. (_Ibid._ p. 114.) + + R. S. V. P. + + +ELIZABETH JOCELINE'S LEGACY TO AN UNBORNE CHILD. + +(Vol. iv., p. 367.) + +Your correspondent J. M. G., whose letter is inserted in your 106th +Number, labours under various mistakes relating to this small volume. +The first edition was not printed in 1684, but more than sixty years +earlier. Moreover, that edition, or at least what the Rev. C. H. +Craufurd appended to his Sermons in 1840 as a reprint, is not a genuine +or faithful republication of the original work. I have for several years +possessed a copy of _the third impression_, Printed at "London, by _Iohn +Hauiland_, for _Hanna Barres_, 1625;" and of this third impression a +_fac-simile_ reprint has passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood +in Edinburgh, which new edition corresponds _literatim et verbatim_ +(line for line and page for page) with the earliest impression known to +exist, which differs materially in several passages from the reprint +published by Mr. Craufurd. This new edition is accompanied by a long +preface or dissertation containing many particulars relating to the +authoress and her relatives, and to a number of ladies of high station +and polished education, who during the period intervening between the +Reformation in England and the Revolution in 1688, distinguished +themselves by publishing works characterized by exalted piety and +refined taste. With regard to Mrs. Joceline, no printed work appears to +have preserved correct information. Genealogists seem to have conspired +to change her Christian name from Elizabeth to Mary or Jane. The husband +is supposed to have sprung from an old Cambridgeshire family, the +Joscelyns of Hogington, now called Oakington, the name of a parish +adjoining to Cottenham. The writer of the preface seems rather disposed +to trace his parentage to John Joscelyn (Archbishop Parker's chaplain), +who, according to Strype, was _an Essex man_. + +But I have probably exceeded the bounds allotted to an answer to a +Query. + + J. L. + + Edinburgh. + +_The Mother's Legacy to her unborne Child_ is reprinted for the benefit +of the Troubridge National Schools, and can be procured at Hatchard's, +Piccadilly. + + J. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Coleridge's "Christabel"_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--I am not familiar with +the Coleridge Papers, under that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that +I know at all to what papers MR. MORTIMER COLLINS refers in his +question. On this account I am not qualified, as he will perhaps think, +to give an opinion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a +continuation of "Christabel." If I may be allowed, however, to hazard a +judgment, as one to whom most of the great poet-philosopher's works have +long and affectionately been known, I would venture to express an +opinion against the right of these lines to admission as one of his +productions. I do it with diffidence; but with the hope that I may aid +in eliciting the truth concerning them. + +I presume "brookless plash" is a misprint for "brooklet's plash." + +The expressions "the sorrow of human years," "wild despair," "the years +of life below," of a person who is not yet dead and in heaven, do not +seem to me, _as they stand in the lines_, to be in Coleridge's manner; +but especially I do not think the couplet-- + + "Who felt all grief, all wild despair, + That the race of man may ever bear," + +is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading as I do in the _Aids +to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 255. (edit. Pickering, 1843) his protest +against the doctrine + + "holden by more than one of these divines, that the agonies + suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the sum total of the + torments of all mankind here and hereafter, or to the infinite + debt which in an endless succession of instalments we should have + been paying to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full by + the Son of God incarnate!" + +There are one or two other expressions of which I entertain doubt, but +not in sufficient degree to make it worth while to dwell upon them. + +Are we ever likely to receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or +from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, +of his _Logosophia_? We can ill afford to lose a work the conception of +which engrossed much of his thoughts, if I am rightly informed, towards +the close of his life. + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White_ (Vol. iv., p. 294.).--My +father's notes on Dryden are in my possession. Sir Walter Scott never +saw them. The words ÆGROTUS attributes to Sir Walter were used by +another commentator on Dryden some thirty years since. + + ALGERNON HOLT WHITE. + +_Lofcop, Meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 319.).--_Lofcop_, not _loscop_, is +clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired. _Lovecope_ +is the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in +the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your +correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is +an altered form of the word _lahcop_, which occurs in the laws of +Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of +England_, vol. i., p. 294., note. The word _loveday_, which is found in +English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling +differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This +must originally have been _lah-dæg_, though I am not aware that the word +is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found +_Lögdagr_, altered in modern Danish into _Lavdag_ or _Lovdag._ + + C. W. G. + +_Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres, 1608_ (Vol. iv., p. 272.).--These +Epigrams, about which QUÆSO inquires, are not the production of Thomas +Middleton the dramatist, but of "_Richard_ Middleton of Yorke, +gentleman." The only copy known to exist is among the curious collection +of books presented by the poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. +A careful reprint, limited to forty copies, was published at Edinburgh +in 1840. It is said to have been done under the superintendance of James +Maidment, Esq. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Lord Edward Fitzgerald_ (Vol. iv., p. 173.).--Your correspondent R. H. +was misinformed as to the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's +Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that nobleman with +another of the United Irishmen leaders; namely, Robert Emmett, who was +arrested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward never lived at Harold's +Cross, either in avowed residence or concealment. + +R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the communication of L. M. M. +at Vol. iv., p. 230., who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family +for neglecting the decent burial of their chivalric relative. This is +not merited. The family was kept in complete ignorance as to how the +body was disposed of, it being the wish of the government of the day to +conceal the place of its sepulture; as is evident from their not +interring it at St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond and all +the others whom they put to death at Newgate; and from the notoriety of +their having five years later adopted a similar course with regard to +the remains of Robert Emmett. (See Madden's _Life of Emmett_.) But is he +buried at St. Werburgh's? Several, and among others his daughter, Lady +Campbell, as appears from L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. +Some years since I conversed with an old man named Hammet, the +superannuated gravedigger of St. Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me +that he officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Catherine's church, +and that they were performed at night in silence, secrecy, and mystery. + + E. J. W. + +_Earwig_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--I do not know what the derivations of +this word may be, which are referred to by ΑΞΩΝ as being in +vogue. It is a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and Webster do not +notice the word at all; although I am not aware that it is of limited or +provincial use. In Bailey's _Scottish Dictionary_, and in Skinner's +_Etymologicon_, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon _ear-wicga_, i.e. +ear-beetle. In Bosworth's _Dictionary_ we find _wicga_, a kind of +insect, a shorn-bug, a beetle. + + C. W. G. + +_Sanderson and Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 293.).--In No. 103 of "NOTES AND +QUERIES," under the head of "_Sanderson and Taylor_," a question is put +by W. W. as to the common source of the sentence, "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." Without at all +saying that it is the common source, I would beg to refer W. W. to "The +Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where "wisdom" is described as +"the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the +power of God, and the image of His goodness." The coincidence is +curious, though the Latin expressions are dissimilar, the verse in "The +Wisdom of Solomon" being as follows: "Nam splendor est à luce æterna et +speculum efficacitatis Dei expers maculæ, ac imago bonitatis ejus." + + R. M. M. (A Subscriber). + + Taunton. + +_Island of Ægina and the Temple of Jupiter Panhellinius_ (Vol. iv., p. +255.).--In Lemprière's _Classical Dict._, by the Rev. J. A. Giles, 1843, +is the subjoined:-- + + "The most remarkable remnant of antiquity at the present day is + the temple of 'Jupiter Panhellinius' on a _mount of the same name_ + about four hours' distance from the port, supposed to be one of + the most ancient temples in Greece, and the oldest specimen of + Doric architecture; Dodwell pronounces it to be the most + picturesque ruin in Greece." + +And in Arrowsmith's _Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography_, 1839, +p. 414.: + + "In the southern part of the island is _Panhellinius Mons_, so + called _from a temple_ of Jupiter Panhellinius, erected on its + summit by Æacus." + + C. W. MARKHAM. + +_The Broad Arrow_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--I forget where it is, but +remember something about a place held by the tenure of presenting the +king with + + "---- a Broad-Arrow, + When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow." + +I would however suggest, that the use of an arrow-head as a government +mark may have a Celtic origin; and that the so-called arrow may be the +↑ or _â_, the broad _a_ of the Druids. This letter was +typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect or +holiness; and I believe stood also for king or prince. + + A. C. M. + + Exeter, Nov. 4. 1851. + +_Consecration of Bishops in Sweden_ (Vol. iv., p. 345.).--E. H. A. asks +whether any record exists of the consecration of Bethvid, Bishop of +_Strengnäs_ in the time of Gustavus I., King of Sweden? I cannot reply +from this place with the certainty I might be able to do, if I had +access to my books and papers. But I may venture to state, that the +"consecration" (if by that term be meant the canonical and apostolical +ordination) of Bethvidus Sermonis, in common with that of all the +Lutheran Bishops of Sweden, is involved in much doubt and obscurity; the +fact being, that they all derive their orders from _Petrus Magni_, +Bishop of Westeras, who _is said_ to have been "consecrated" bishop of +that see at Rome by a cardinal in A.D. 1524, the then Pontiff having +acceded to the request of Gustavus Vasa to this effect. It is, however, +uncertain whether Petrus Magni ever received proper episcopal +consecration, although it appears probable he did. I endeavoured at one +time to ascertain the fact by reference to Rome; but though promised by +my correspondent (a British Romanist resident there) that he would +procure the examination of the Roll of Bishops in communion with the +Holy See, and consecrated by Papal license, for the purpose of +discovering whether Bishop Petrus Magni's name occurred therein or not, +I never heard more of the subject. I could not help judging, that this +silence on the part of my correspondent (to whom I was personally +unknown), after his having replied immediately and most civilly to my +first communication, was very eloquent and significant. But still the +doubt remains uncleared, as to whether the Swedish episcopacy possess or +not, _as they maintain they do_, the blessing of an apostolical and +canonical succession. + + G. J. R. G. + + Pen-y-lau, Ruabon. + +_Meaning of Spon_ (Vol. iv., p. 39.).--Is the word _spooney_ derived +from the Anglo-Saxon _spanan_, _spón_, _asponen_, to allure, entice, and +therefore equivalent to one allured, trapped, &c., a gowk or simpleton? +If C. H. B. could discover whether those specified places were ever at +any time tenanted by objectionable characters, this verb and its +derivatives might assist his inquiries. He will, however, see that +_Spondon_ (pronounced _spoondon_) in Derbyshire is another instance of +the word he inquires after. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby-de-la-Zouch. + +_Quaker Expurgated Bible_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--I can inform the +correspondent who inquires whether such a publication of a Bible, which +a committee of Friends were intending to publish, ever took place, that +no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends, who adopt the +English authorised version only, as may be seen by their yearly epistle +and other authorised publications. I have inquired of many Friends who +were likely to know, and not one ever heard of what the authoress of +_Quakerism_ states. + + A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. + +_Cozens the Painter_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--In Rose's _Biographical +Dictionary_ it is stated that Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter, +born in Russia, but attaining his celebrity in London, where he taught +drawing. In 1778 he published a theoretical work called _The Principle +of Beauty relative to the Human Face_, with illustrations, engraved by +Bartolozzi. He died in 1786. + + J. O'G. + +_Authors of the Homilies_ (Vol. iv., p. 346.).--Allow me to say that in +the reply to the inquiry of G. R. C. one work is omitted which will +afford at once all that is wanted: for the Preface to Professor Corrie's +recent edition of the _Homilies_, printed at the Pitt Press, contains +the most circumstantial account of their authors. + + W. K. 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Another and most +important department of our great national collection has just found in +Dr. Mantell an able scientific, yet popular expositor of its treasures. +His _Petrifactions and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of +Organic Remains in the British Museum_, forms the new volume of Bohn's +_Scientific Library_; and, thanks to the acquirements of Dr. Mantell, +his good sense in divesting his descriptions, as much as possible, of +technical language, and the numerous well-executed woodcuts by which it +is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to accomplish the +purpose for which it has been prepared; namely, to serve as a handbook +to the general visitor to the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an +explanatory Catalogue for the more scientific observer. + +To satisfy the deep interest taken by many persons, who are unable to +study the phenomena themselves, in the numerous new and remarkable facts +relating to the formation and temperature of the globe, and to the +movements of the ocean and of the atmosphere, as well as to the +influence of both on climate, and on the adaptation of the earth for the +dwelling of man, which the exertions of scientific men have of late +years revealed, was the motive which led Professor Buff to write his +_Familiar Letters on the Physics of the Earth; treating of the chief +Movements of the Land, the Waters, and the Air, and the Forces that give +rise to them_: and Dr. Hoffman has been induced to undertake an English +edition of them from a desire of rendering accessible to the public a +source of information from which he has derived no less of profit than +of pleasure: which profit and which pleasure will, we have no doubt, be +shared by a large number of readers of this unpretending but very +instructive little volume. + +_Welsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of the Twelfth +Century._ These sketches, which treat of Bardism, the Kings of Wales, +the Welsh Church, Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensis, are +from the pen of the amiable author of the _Essays on Church Union_, and +are written in the same attractive and popular style. + +About five-and-thirty years ago the Treatment of the Insane formed the +subject of a Parliamentary inquiry, and the public mind was shocked by +the appalling scenes revealed before a Committee of the House of +Commons. 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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 108, November 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: March 19, 2012 [EBook #39197] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NOV 22, 1851 *** + + + + +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 variations 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. 108. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Age of Trees 401 + + Lines attributed to Admiral Byng 403 + + A Chapter on Emblems 403 + + Folk Lore:--Music at Funerals--Cheshire Folk Lore + and Superstition 404 + + Minor Notes:--Talented--Anagram--Dictionary of + Hackneyed Quotations 405 + + QUERIES:-- + + Masters and Marshals of the Ceremonies 405 + + Minor Queries:--Cause of Transparency--Gold Medal + of the Late Duke of York--Compositions during the + Protectorate--Bristol Tables--Macfarlane's Geographical + Collection--"Acu tinali meridi"--Sir Joshua + Reynolds--Great Plough at Castor Church--Church + of St. Bene't Fink--Inscription on a Pair of + Spectacles--Campbell--Family of Cordeux--Panelling + Inscription--Infantry Firing 406 + + REPLIES:-- + + The Reverend Richard Farmer, by Bolton Corney 407 + + Anglo-Catholic Library 408 + + General James Wolfe 409 + + Punishment of Edward of Caernarvon by his Father--Character + of Edward I. 409 + + Elizabeth Joceline's Legacy to an Unborne Child 410 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's + "Christabel"--Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt + White--Lofcop, Meaning of--Middleton's Epigrams + and Satyres--Lord Edward Fitzgerald--Earwig--Sanderson + and Taylor--Island of gina and the Temple of Jupiter + Panhellinius--The Broad Arrow--Consecration of Bishops + in Sweden--Meaning of Spon--Quaker Expurgated + Bible--Cozens the Painter--Authors of the Homilies 410 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 413 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 413 + + Notices to Correspondents 414 + + Advertisements 414 + + + + +Notes. + + +AGE OF TREES. + +Alexander von Humboldt, in his work entitled _Views of Nature_ (pp. 220. +268-276. ed. Bohn), has some interesting remarks on the age of trees. + + "In vegetable forms (he says) _massive size_ is indicative of age; + and in the vegetable kingdom alone are age and the manifestation + of an ever-renewed vigour linked together." + +Following up this remark, he refers to specimens of the Baobab +(_Adansonia digitata_), with trunks measuring more than thirty feet in +diameter, the age of which is estimated by Adanson at 5150 years. All +calculations of the age of a tree, founded merely on the _size of its +trunk_, are, however, uncertain, unless the law of its growth, and the +limits of the variation producible by peculiar circumstances, are +ascertained, which, in the case of the Adansonia, have not been +determined. For the same reason, the calculation of 2,500 years for a +gigantic cypress in Persia, mentioned by Evelyn in his _Silva_, is of no +value. + +Humboldt afterwards refers to "the more certain estimations yielded by +_annular rings_, and by the relation found to exist between the +thickness of the layer of wood and the duration of growth;" which, he +adds, give us shorter periods for our temperate northern zone. The +calculation of the age of a tree, founded on its successive rings, +appears to be quite certain; and whenever these can be counted, the age +of a tree can be determined without risk of error. Humboldt quotes a +statement from Endlicher, that "in Lithuania linden (or lime) trees have +been felled which measured 87 feet round, and in which 815 annular rings +have been counted." The section of a trunk of a silver fir, which grew +near Barr, is preserved in the Museum at Strasburg: its diameter was +eight feet close to the ground, and the number of rings is said to +amount to several hundreds. + +Unfortunately this mode of determining a tree's age cannot be applied to +a living tree; and it is only certain where the tree is sound at the +heart. Where a tree has become hollow from old age, the rings near the +centre, which constitute a part of the evidence of its duration, no +longer exist. Hence the age of the great oak of Saintes, in the +department of the Charente Infrieure, which measures twenty-three feet +in diameter five feet from the ground, and is large enough to contain a +small chamber, can only be estimated; and the antiquity of 1800 or 2000 +years, which is assigned to it, must rest on an uncertain conjecture. + +Decandolle lays it down that, of all European trees, the _yew_ attains +the greatest age; and he assigns an antiquity of thirty centuries to the +_Taxus baccata_ of Braburn in Kent; from twenty-five to thirty centuries +to the Scotch yew of Fortingal; and fourteen and a half and twelve +centuries respectively to those of Crowhurst in Surrey and Ripon +(Fountains Abbey) in Yorkshire. These ages are fixed by a conjecture +founded on the _size_, which can lead to no certain result. + +Can any of your correspondents state what is the greatest number of +rings which have been actually counted in any yew, or other tree, which +has grown in the British Isles, or elsewhere? It Is only by actual +enumeration that vegetable chronology can be satisfactorily determined: +but if the rings in many trees were counted, some relation between the +number of rings and the diameter of the trunk, for each species, might +probably be laid down within certain limits. These rings, being annually +deposited, form a natural chronicle of time, by which the age of a tree +is determined with as much precision as the lapse of human events is +determined by the cotemporaneous registration of annalists. Hence Milton +speaks of "monumental oak." Evelyn, who has devoted a long chapter of +his _Silva_ to an investigation of the age of trees (b. iii. c. iii.), +founds his inferences chiefly on their _size_; but he cites the +following remark from Dr. Goddard: + + "It is commonly and very probably asserted, that a tree gains a + new ring every year. In the body of a great oak in the New Forest, + cut transversely even, (where many of the trees are accounted to + be some hundreds of years old) three and four hundred have been + distinguished."--Vol. ii. p. 202. ed. Hunter. + +A delineation and description of the largest and most celebrated trees +of Great Britain may be seen in the interesting work of Jacob George +Strutt, entitled _Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees, +distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty_: London, 1822, +folio. + +The age of some trees is determined by historical records, in the same +manner that we know the age of an ancient building, as the Parthenon, +the Colosseum, or the Tower of London. It is, however, important that +such historical evidence should be carefully scrutinised; for trees +which are known to be of great antiquity sometimes give rise to fabulous +legends, destitute of any foundation in fact. Such, for example, was the +plane-tree near Caphy, in Arcadia, seen by Pausanias in the second +century after Christ, which was reported by the inhabitants to have been +planted by Menelaus when he was collecting the army for the expedition +against Troy. (_Paus._ VIII. 23.) Such too, doubtless, was the oak of +Mamre, where the angels were said to have appeared to Abraham. +(_Sozomen_, ii. 3.) A rose-tree growing in the crypt of the cathedral of +Hildesheim is referred, by a church-legend, to a date anterior to 1061; +which would imply an age of more than 800 years, but the evidence +adduced seems scarcely sufficient to identify the existing rose-tree +with the rose-tree of 1061. (See _Humboldt_, p. 275.) + +In other cases, however, the historical evidence extant, if not +altogether free from doubt, is sufficient to carry the age of a tree +back to a remote date. The Swilcar Lawn oak, in Needwood Forest, +Staffordshire, is stated by Strutt, p. 2., "to be known by historical +documents to be at this time [1822] six hundred years old; and it is +still far from being in the last stage of decay." Of a great elm growing +at Chipstead Place in Kent, he says: "Its appearance altogether savours +enough of antiquity to bear out the tradition annexed to it, that in the +time of Henry V. a fair was held annually under its branches; the high +road from Rye in Sussex to London then passing close by it." (P. 5.) If +this tradition be authentic, the elm in question must have been a large +and wide-spreading tree in the years 1413-22. A yew-tree at Ankerwyke +House, near Staines, is supposed to be of great antiquity. There is a +tradition that Henry VIII. occasionally met Anne Boleyn under its +branches: but it is not stated how high this tradition ascends. (_Ib._, +p. 8.) The Abbot's Oak, near Woburn Abbey, is stated to derive its name +from the fact that the abbot of the monastery was, by order of Henry +VIII., hung from its branches in 1537. (_Ib._, p. 10.) But Query, is +this an authentic fact? + +There is a tradition respecting the Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury, that +before the battle of Shrewsbury between Henry IV. and Hotspur, in 1403, +Owen Glendower reconnoitred the field from its branches, and afterwards +drew off his men. Positive documentary evidence, in the possession of +Richard Hill Waring, Esq., is likewise cited, which shows that this tree +was called "the Great Oak" in the year 1543 (_Ib._ p. 17.). There is a +traditional account that the old yew-trees at Fountains Abbey existed at +the foundation of the abbey, in the year 1132; but the authority for +this tradition, and the time at which it was first recorded, is not +stated. (P. 21.) The Abbot's Willow, near Bury St. Edmund's, stands on a +part of the ancient demesne of the Abbot of Bury, and is hence +conjectured to be anterior to the dissolution of the monastery in the +reign of Henry VIII. (P. 23.) The Queen's Oak at Huntingfield, in +Suffolk, was situated in a park belonging to Lord Hunsdon, where he had +the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth. The queen is reported to +have shot a buck with her own hand from this oak. (P. 26.) Sir Philip +Sidney's Oak, near Penshurst, is said to have been planted at his birth, +in 1554: it has been celebrated by Ben Jonson and Waller. This oak is +above twenty-two feet in girth; it is hollow, and stag-headed; and, so +far as can be judged from the engraving, has an appearance of great +antiquity, though its age only reaches back to the sixteenth century. +(P. 27.) The Tortworth Chestnut is described as being not only the +largest, but the oldest tree in England: Evelyn alleges that "it +continued a signal boundary to that manor in King Stephen's time, as it +stands upon record;" but the date of the record is not mentioned. We +can hardly suppose that it was cotemporaneous. (_Ib._ p. 29.) An elm at +Chequers in Buckinghamshire is reported, by a tradition handed down in +the families of the successive owners, to have been planted in the reign +of Stephen. (_Ib._ p. 38.) Respecting the Wallace Oak, at Ellerslie near +Paisley, it is reported that Sir William Wallace, and three hundred of +his men, hid themselves among its branches from the English. This legend +is probably fabulous; if it were true, it would imply that the tree was +in its full vigour at the end of the thirteenth century. (_Ib._ p. 5.) +The ash at Carnock, in Stirlingshire, supposed to be the largest in +Scotland, and still a luxuriant tree, was planted about the year 1596, +by Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, Lord Advocate of Scotland in the +reign of James VI. (_Ib._ p. 8.) + +Marshall, in his Work on _Planting and Rural Ornament_ (2 vols. 1796) +refers to a paper on the age of trees, by Mr. Marsham, in the first +volume of the _Transactions of the Bath Agriculture Society_, in which +the Tortworth Chestnut is calculated to be not less than 1100 years old. +Marshall, who appears to have examined this tree with great care, +corrects the account given by Mr. Marsham, and states that it is not +one, but two trees. Sir Robert Atkins, in his _History of +Gloucestershire_, says: "By tradition this tree was growing in King +John's reign." Evelyn, however, as we have already seen, speaks of a +record that it served as a manor boundary in the reign of Stephen. +Query, on what authority do these statements rest? Marshall thinks that +a duration of nearly a thousand years may be fairly assigned to the +Tortworth tree; and he adds: + + "If we consider the quick growth of the chestnut, compared with + that of the oak, and at the same time the inferior bulk of the + Tortworth Chestnut to the Cowthorp, the Bentley, and the + Boddington oaks, may we not venture to infer that the existence of + these truly venerable trees commenced some centuries prior to the + era of Christianity?" + +The oaks here alluded to by Marshall are of immense size. The Cowthorp +Oak is near Wetherby; the Bentley Oak, in Holt Forest, near Bentley; the +Boddington Oak, between Cheltenham and Tewksbury (vol. ii. pp. 127. +298.). + +Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to point out authentic +evidence respecting the true dates of ancient trees. A large tree is a +subject of interest to the entire neighbourhood: it receives an +individual name, like a river, a mountain, or a building; and by its +permanence it affords a fixed point for a faithful local tradition to +rest upon. On the other hand, the infidelity of oral tradition is well +known; and the mere interest which attaches to a tree of unusual size is +likely to give birth to a romantic legend, when its true history has +been forgotten. The antiquary and the botanist may assist one another in +determining the age of trees. By the authentic evidence of their +duration which the former is able to furnish, the latter may establish +tests by which their longevity may be calculated. + + L. + + +LINES ATTRIBUTED TO ADMIRAL BYNG. + +The following lines are copied, _verbatim et literatim_, from a window +pane in an upstairs room of the Talbot Inn, Ripley. The tradition is +that they were written by Admiral Byng, who was confined in the room as +a prisoner when on his way to Portsmouth; that sentinels were placed on +the staircase outside; that during the night the admiral walked past the +sleeping guard, gathered some flowers from the inn garden, and returned +to his room; and that on leaving the following morning, he told the Inn +Lady he should see her on his way back to London, when he was acquitted. + + "Come all you true Britons, and listen to me; + I'll tell you the truth, you'll then plainly see + How Minorca was lost, why the kingdom doth ring, + And lay the whole blame on Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all, rogues all. + + "Newcastle, and Hardwick, and Anson did now + Preside at the helm, and to whom all must bow; + Minorca besieged, who protection will bring; + They know 'tis too late, let the victim be Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "With force insufficient he's ordered away; + He obeys, and he sails without any delay; + But alas! 'tis too late: who shall say to the king + Minorca must fall, why, accuse Mr. Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "Minorca now falls, and the nation enraged; + With justice they cry, let all who engaged + In traterous deeds, with curst infamy swing: + What! none to be found but poor Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all." + +Is there any reason to doubt the truth of this tradition, or that the +verses were written by the unfortunate admiral? + + A. C. G. + + Ripley, Nov. 10, 1851. + + +A CHAPTER ON EMBLEMS. + +"An history of emblems in all languages, with specimens of the poetry +and engravings, accompanied by some account of the authors, would be a +very interesting contribution to our literature." Thus speaks the author +of a work remarkable for interest, information, and elegance of taste, +viz., _Lives of Sacred Poets_, by Robert Willmott, Esq.; and truly such +a work would be a great _desideratum_ were the idea here suggested +efficiently carried out. + +In our own, and in other languages, many beautiful poems--some of them +very gems--exist, attached to, and written on some of "the most +ridiculous prints that ever excited merriment." A tasteful collection of +the more beautiful poems, with some spirited woodcuts, or engravings to +accompany them, would form a beautiful volume. This, however, is a +suggestion different from, and secondary to, Mr. Willmott's. + +Emblems, figures, symbols, &c., constitute a vast ocean of associations +which all enter on, all understand, all sympathise with more or less. +They enrich our language, enter into our commonest thoughts and +conversation, as well as our compositions in poetry and prose. + +Often the clearest ideas we have on abstruse points are derived from +them, _e.g._ the _shamrock_ or _trefoil_ is an emblem of _the Blessed +Trinity_. Nothing perhaps helps us to comprehend the resurrection of the +body, and in a glorified state through preserving its identity, as the +apostle's illustration and emblem of the _growth of corn_. + +In a work on the subject it would be desirable to keep the classical, +artistic, political, and other emblems apart from the sacred and moral, +&c. + +I must now say a few words on a book of emblems, entitled _Schola +Cordis, sive Aversi a Deo Cordis, ad eumdem reductio et instructio, +Authore Benedicto Haefteno, Antv._ 1635. (This Benedict Haeften was also +the author of _Regia Via Crucis_, published at Antwerp the same year as +the above, in 2 vols. 8vo., I think, and afterwards translated into +French.) This work suggested _Schola Cordis, or the Heart of itself gone +away from God, brought back again to Him and instructed by Him, in XLVII +emblems_: London, printed for M. Blunder at the Castle in Cornhill, +1647, 12mo. pp. 196. The authorship of this English _Schola Cordis_ is +generally attributed to Christopher Harvie, the author of _The +Synagogue_. (Vide Lowndes, and a note in Pickering's edition of George +Herbert.) The second edition was printed in 1674, third in 1675, fourth +in 1676. + +Now, Mr. Tegg in 1845 printed an edition of this _Schola Cordis_ as the +production of Francis Quarles; what was his authority I know not, he +certainly did not attempt to give any. + +The last three books of Quarles's _Emblems_ contain forty-five prints, +all from Herman Hugo's _Pia Desideria_, which has that number of +emblems. Quarles sometimes translates, sometimes paraphrases Hugo, and +has a good deal of original matter. His first two books are not in +Hugo's work, and I do not know whence they are derived; nearly all the +cuts contain a globe and cross. + +Herman Hugo had the talents and versatility which characterise his order +(the Order of Jesus), "he was a philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a +poet, and a soldier, and under the command of Spinola is said to have +performed prodigies of valour." He was the author of _De prima Scribendi +Origine et Universa Rei Literari Antiquitate_, an excellent work; and +of _De Militia Equestri antiqua et nova_ amongst others. His _Book of +Emblems_ was first published at Antwerp, 1624. It is divided into +_three_ books, viz., + + Pia Desideria. + + 1. Gemitus {A } Poenitentis. + 2. Vota {n } Sanct. + 3. Suspiria {im} Amantis. + +Each book contains fifteen emblems. The principal editions are, Antv. +1624, ed. princeps; Antv. 1628, 1632; Grcii, 1651; Lond. 1677, +sumptibus Roberti Pawlet, Chancery Lane. This London edition contains +only verse, whereas all the other editions contain metre and prose +before each picture, the prose being far the better of the two. The only +prose that Pawlet's edition has is a motto from one of the Fathers at +the back of each picture. + +There are two or three English translations. I have seen but one, a +miserable translation of the verse part, I suppose from Pawlet's +edition. There are short notices of emblems in the _Retrospective +Review_, ix. 123-140.; _Critical Review_, Sept. 1801 (attributed to +Southey); see also Willmott's _Lives of Sacred Poets_ (Wither and +Quarles); Csar Ripa's _Iconologia_, Padua, 1627; and _Alciati +Emblemata_, Lugd. 1614. The Fagel Library, Trinity College, Dublin, has +a fine copy of the first edition of the _Pia Desideria_, and upwards of +sixty books of emblems, principally Dutch. + +P.S.--When I penned the above I was not aware that any mention of the +_School of the Heart_ had been made in "NOTES AND QUERIES." I find in +Southey's fourth _Common-place Book_ that he quotes from the _School of +the Heart_ as Quarles's. He has the following note on Quarles's Emblems: +"Philips erroneously says that the emblems are a copy from Hermannus +Hugo." I know not what Philips exactly intended by the word "copy;" but +if any one doubts what I have before said respecting these Emblems, let +him compare Hugo and Quarles together. I forgot to give the title of the +first edition of Hugo: _Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis et Affectibus, +SS. Patrum Illustrata, vulgavit Boetius a Bolswert_, Antv. 1624. Also +the title of our English translation: _Pia Desideria; or, Divine +Addresses_, in three books, written in Latin by Herm. Hugo, Englished by +Edm. Arwaker, M.A., Lond. 1686, 8vo., pp. 282., dedicated to the +Princess Anne of Denmark, with forty-seven plates by Sturt. + + MARICONDA. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Music at Funerals._--Pennant, in his MS. relating to North Wales, says, +"there is a custom of singing psalms on the way as the corpse is carried +to church" (Brand's _Pop. Ant._, ed. Ellis, vol. ii. p. 268.). In North +Devon the custom of singing is similar; but it is not a psalm it is a +dirge. I send you a copy of one in use at Lynton, sent to me by my +sister. + + Farewell all, my parents[1] dear, + And all my friends, farewell! + I hope I'm going to that place + Where Christ and saints do dwell. + + Oppress'd with grief long time I've been, + My bones cleave to my skin, + My flesh is wasted quite away + With pain that I was in, + + Till Christ his messenger did send, + And took my life away, + To mingle with my mother earth, + And sleep with fellow clay. + + Into thy hands I give my soul, + Oh! cast it not aside, + But favor me and hear my prayer, + And be my rest and guide. + + Affliction hath me sore oppress'd, + Brought me to death in time; + O Lord! as thou hast promised, + Let me to life return. + + For when that Christ to judgment comes, + He unto us will say, + If we His laws observe and keep, + "Ye blessed, come away." + + How blest is he who is prepar'd, + He fears not at his death; + Love fills his heart, and hope his breast, + With joy he yields his breath. + + Vain world, farewell! I must be gone, + I cannot longer stay; + My time is spent, my glass is run, + God's will I must obey. + + [Footnote 1: Sister or brother, as the case may be.] + +Another dirge, ending with the sixth stanza of the foregoing, is used at +an infant's funeral, but the rhyme is not so well kept. + + WM. DURRANT COOPER. + +_Cheshire Folk Lore and Superstition._--There is in this town a little +girl, about thirteen years old, in great request among the poor as a +charmer in cases of burns or scalds. Immediately on the accident the +girl is fetched from her work in the mill; on her arrival she kneels +down by the side of the sufferer, mutters a few words, and touches the +individual, and the people believe and affirm that the sufferings +immediately cease, as she has charmed the fire out of the parts injured. +The surgeon's aid is then called in to heal the sores. The girl affirms +that she found it out herself by reading her Bible, of which the +wonder-working charm is a verse. She will take no reward, nor may any of +her relatives; if she or they were, her power would be at an end. She is +an ordinary, merry, playful girl; as a surgeon I often come across her +in such accidents. + +I know some other such charmers in Cheshire, but none so young. One, an +old man, stops bleedings of all kinds by a similar charm, viz. a verse +from the Bible. But he does not require to be at the patient's side, his +power being equally efficacious at the distance of one hundred miles, as +close by. + + E. W. L. + + Congleton. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Talented._--Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of +this word by his biographer in his _Sartor Resartus_, calling it a +hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell. + + J. O'G. + +_Anagram._--Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on _The French Benedictines_, +gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great +bibliophagist Magliabechi:--Antonius Magliabechius--Is unus bibliotheca +magna. + +In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum +inambulans, et viva qudam bibliotheca." Possibly this is the origin of +our expression "a walking dictionary." + + J. O'G. + +_Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations._--I beg to inform your +correspondent who suggested such a publication as a _Dictionary of +Hackneyed Quotations_, that I commenced such a work some time ago, and +hope before long to have it ready for the press. + +Every common quotation or familiar proverb from the poets will be ranged +with the _context_ under its respective author, while an alphabetical +index will facilitate reference to any particular passage. I doubt not +the readers of your valuable periodical will assist me whenever I am at +fault as to the authorship of any line or "household word;" and I should +feel at the present time much obliged if any one could tell me where + + "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," may be found? + + H. A. B. + + Trinity College, Cambridge. + + + + +Queries. + + +MASTERS AND MARSHALS OF THE CEREMONIES? + +How are these offices now held? By letters patent of the crown, or by +the lord chamberlain's nomination? + +Where can any list of these offices be found? The office of Master of +the Ceremonies, whose duty it is to arrange the reception of all foreign +ministers, and their departures, was formerly an office of considerable +importance. In the reign of King Charles I. it was held seemingly by +grants from the crown. In 1627, Sir John Finett says he received news +of the death of Sir Lewis Lewknor, by which, in right of his Majesty's +grant of reversion by letters patent, he became sole Master of the +Ceremonies--an office which he before held jointly with Sir Lewis +Lewknor. + + S. E. G. + + +Minor Queries. + +286. _Cause of Transparency._--Seeing through the glass of my window a +landscape, and not knowing _why_ I see through the glass, and not +through the shutters, I will thank one of your philosophical +correspondents to tell me the _cause of transparency_. + + GROTUS. + +287. _Gold Medal of late Duke of York._--I have a small gold medal, +three-quarter inch in diameter, a head with inscription-- + + "Fredericus dux Eborac." + +and Rev.: + + "Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Non. Ian. 1827." + +Were many such struck at the duke's death, or what is the history of it? + + A. A. D. + +288. _Composition's during the Protectorate._--Where is there any +account or list of these? In Oldfield's _History of Wainfleet_, p. 12. +Appendix, is a "List of Residents in the County of Lincoln who +compounded for their Estates during the Protectorate of Oliver +Cromwell;" but he gives no authority or reference. Where can this list +be checked, as I suspect an error? + + W. H. L. + + Fulham. + +289. _Bristol Tables._--Upon the pavement in front of the Exchange, +Bristol, there are four very handsome bronze tables standing, upon a +single pedestal each; the tops circular, about two feet in diameter, +with a slightly raised edge round them. It is said that they were +presented to the Bristol merchants for them to pay their money upon; but +when, or by whom, they were so given, I have not been able to learn. A +friend of mine who was lately examining them was told that they were +formerly called "Nails," and gave rise to the saying, "Pay down upon the +nail:" this I should think must be an error. "Solvere ad unguem" would +be found to be older than they are. If any of your correspondents can +give me any information respecting them, I shall be obliged. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark. + +290. _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection._--In almost every work +treating of the history and topographical antiquities of Scotland, we +are referred to _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection_, preserved in the +Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. This MS., and its author, are very little +known, except by name, _benorth the Tay_, notwithstanding they are so +often quoted. I should be glad if any of your correspondents would give +me any information regarding the extent of country embraced, _i.e._ +parishes, counties, &c., and if any part of it has been published _per +se_, and when, and where. + + ANTIQUARIENSIS. + + Inverness. + +291. "_Acu tinali meridi._"--At the head of an English metrical +discourse upon the administration of justice, in a MS. of the fourteenth +or fifteenth century, in the Public Library, Cambridge, is placed the +following obscure motto, upon which, perhaps, some correspondent can +throw light:-- + + "O judex vi fervida hanc servabis artem, + Acu tinali merida .i. audi alteram partem." + +I have not seen the MS., but am told that the correctness of the reading +may be depended upon. + + C. W. G. + +292. _Sir Joshua Reynolds._--Having the early catalogues of the Royal +Academy before me, I see that in 1773 and following years, Sir Joshua +exhibited twelve or thirteen works. You will find they stand as current +Nos. in the list. Can you inform me whether they hung on the line, that +is, in the space of privilege, or took their chance with the many? Had +they, under his own eye, been grouped together, what a treat it must +have been to see them! What an evidence of the industry of the man! +Though too late in the day to obtain these details from actual +observation, enough may be recorded or remembered through others, to +assist in throwing light on the rules and customs of past days, which +never can be deficient in interest while they tend to illustrate the +habits and character of great men. + +You could touch no topic more interesting than this must prove to the +increasing curiosity seekers in your useful and amusing repertorium, and +your attention to it will be valued by + + A LAYMAN. + + Athenum Club. + +293. _Great Plough at Castor Church._--Can any of your correspondents +give me the history of, or afford me any intelligence about, the large +plough which Dibdin, in his _Northern Tour_, vol. i. p. 44., tells us is +about twenty feet in length, and suspended in Castor Church, extending +from one transept to the other? In a foot-note on the same church, he +speaks of a curious ceremony, as practised there every Palm Sunday, +respecting a peculiar tenure. I do not find it referred to in any other +account of Castor Church. Bourne, in his _Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 130., +gives the history of it, but says it is practised at Caistor Church in +Lincolnshire. Is the doctor right in his statement? I would also be glad +to know whether it is still continued at Caistor Church, as some years +ago an act was tried for in the House to abolish it. + + R. W. ELLIOT. + + Hull. + +294. _Church of St. Bene't Fink._--Is there any copy in existence of the +inscriptions on the gravestones and monuments of St. Bene't Fink in the +City, adjoining the Exchange, and which is now pulled down? If any of +your correspondents can direct me to any transcript of them, I shall be +much obliged by the communication. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +295. _Spectacles, Inscription on a Pair of._--Will you oblige me by +inserting, as soon as possible, the following curious inscription round +the rim of a pair of spectacles found in a stone coffin in Ombersley +Church, Worcestershire, some years since, when the old church was being +pulled down. It is as follows:-- + + "JOHERHARD MAY: SEEL ERB. PETER CONRAD. WIEGEL." + +This occurs on each rim, and I should be glad of an explanation of the +words. + + J. N. B. (A Subscriber.) + +296 _Campbell._--Can any of your readers tell me what he supposes +Campbell to mean when he makes the sister, in delivering her curse on +her brother, say-- + + "Go where the havoc of your kerne + Shall float as high as mountain fern!" + +Does havoc float? Does mountain fern float? What is the effect of either +floating _high_? The lines are in "The Flower of Love lies Bleeding." + +Also can any one say who or what this is? + + "Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay + Chac'd on his night-steed by the star of day!" + +The lines are near the end of _The Pleasures of Hope_. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + +297. _Family of Cordeux._--What is the origin of the name? When was it +introduced into England? What are the armorial bearings of the family? +What family or families bear gu. three stags' heads, on a chief arg. two +griffins' heads erased: Crest, a griffin's head erased? Any information +of the Cordeux family more than fifty years ago will confer an +obligation on the querist. + + W. H. K. + +298. _Panelling Inscription._--I have recently discovered, in my +investigations for the _History and Antiquities of South Lynn_, an old +building in this town which bears the date 1605 on one of its gables; +and in the course of my peregrinations through, I find some old +panelling with the date 1676, and the following inscription in old +English (large) characters: + + "As nothinge is so absolutly blest + But chance may crosse, and make it seeming ill, + So nothinge cane a man so much molest, + But God may chang, and seeing good he will." + +It has been suggested to me that these lines form a quotation from some +of our English poets; if so, of whom? for it is of great importance to +me to know, as it will tend considerably to connect the date with the +building; and if the lines can be traced to a writer of the period, it +will establish what I require very much, and assist me in my researches. + + J. N. C. + +299. _Infantry Firing._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to +authentic instances of the comparative numbers of rounds of cartridges +fired in action, with the number of men killed? I think I have read it +in Sir W. Napier's _History of the Peninsular War_, and also in _The +Times_, but omitted to make a note. I have some recollection of 60,000 +rounds beings fired, and only one man killed! and another instance of +80,000, and twenty-five killed! Any remarkable instances of the +inefficiency of musketry fire will be acceptable. + + H. Y. W. N. + + + + +Replies. + + +THE REVEREND RICHARD FARMER. + +(Vol. iv., p. 379.) + +Assuming that the principal ATROCITIES of the reverend Richard Farmer +are his _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_, and the substance of a +note on _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 2., I shall transcribe, as a hint to the +lovers of manly criticism, a general character of that writer, a +character of his _Essay_, and the note in question:-- + + 1. "His knowledge is various, extensive, and recondite. With much + seeming negligence, and perhaps in later years some real + relaxation, he understands more and remembers more about common + and uncommon subjects of literature, than many of those who would + be thought to read all the day and meditate half the night. In + quickness of apprehension and acuteness of discrimination I have + not often seen his equal."--Samuel PARR. + + 2. "It [the _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_] may in truth + be pointed out as a master-piece, whether considered with a view + to the sprightliness and vivacity with which it is written, the + clearness of the arrangement, the force and variety of the + evidence, or the compression of scattered materials into a narrow + compass; materials which inferior writers would have expanded into + a large volume."--Isaac REED. + + 3. "There's a divinity that _shapes our ends_, _Rough-hew_ [them + how we will.] Dr. Farmer informs me, that these words are merely + technical. A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in _skewers_, lately + observed to him, that his nephew (an idle lad), could only + _assist_ him in making them;"--'he could _rough-hew_ them, but I + was obliged to _shape their ends_.' [To shape the ends of + _wool-skewers_, i.e. to _point_ them, requires a degree of skill; + any one can _rough-hew_ them.] Whoever recollects the profession + of Shakespeare's father, will admit that his son might be no + stranger to such a term [such terms]. I have [frequently] seen + packages of wool pinn'd up with _skewers_.--STEEVENS. + +This note was first printed by Malone in 1780, and was reprinted by him +in 1790; the portions within brackets having been added in 1793? It is +clear, from this statement, that it received the deliberate revision of +its author. Now, I cannot deny that Farmer related the anecdote of the +_wool-man_--suspicious as is the character of the witness, but I contend +that the observations on it should be ascribed to Steevens alone; and so +I shall leave your critic A. E. B. to his own reflections. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 365.) + +A SUBSCRIBER TO THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY has discovered _one_ fault in +_one_ volume (published in 1844) of a series which now extends to +sixty-three volumes; and on this _one fault_ he builds a representation +which implies, in general, incompetency in the editors, and neglect of +proper supervision on the part of the committee of the Anglo-Catholic +Library. I believe the character of the editions of most of the volumes +sent out in this series is sufficiently known to theologians to render +such a charge as this of little importance as respects their judgment. +But it may not be so with many of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES." + +The gravamen of the charge rests on the importance of a certain passage +of St. Jerome bearing on the Presbyterian controversy,--on the necessity +for a familiarity with that controversy in an editor of Overall's +_Convocation Book_,--and the consequent incompetency of a person not +thus familiar with it to edit that work without, not the assistance +merely, but the immediate supervision of the committee. + +Now the subject of episcopacy is _not_, as the Subscriber alleges, "the +principal subject" of this Book; it occupies 30 pages out of 272: nor is +a familiarity with that controversy in any special way necessary for an +editor of the volume. The subjects of which the _Convocation Book_ +treats are wide and varied, and such omnigenous knowledge as a familiar +acquaintance with them implies, is not, nor could be, required in any +editor, nor be expected by subscribers. + +The committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library undertook to publish careful +reprints of the works of our old divines; and had they simply reprinted +with accuracy the _Convocation Book_, as published in 1690, they would +have fulfilled their covenant with the subscribers. They did, however, +much more. + +It was known that the original MS. copy of this Book was preserved at +Durham. The edition of 1690 had been printed from a transcript made by +Archbishop Sancroft. The committee therefore engaged the services of a +gentleman whose name is well known as an accurate editor of works +existing in MS. + +This gentlemen obtained access to all the known MSS. of the _Convocation +Book_; viz. 1. The original copy, and papers of alterations suggested as +it passed through the Upper House, preserved at Durham. 2. A cotemporary +MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham. 3. Archbishop +Sancroft's Transcript, preserved at Emanuel College, Cambridge and 4. A +MS. of the first book belonging to Bishop Barlow, preserved at Queen's +College, Oxford. These MSS. were carefully collated, and the variations, +in many respects curious and interesting, were printed at the bottom of +the pages, and, as regards the 4th MS., at the end of the volume. The +result is a correct edition of the text of this book, with all that can +be learned of its variations--the book so highly extolled by your +correspondent. And I hear no objection alleged against the care and +faithfulness with which this part of the work has been executed: your +correspondent does not appear to be aware of anything of the kind having +been done. + +But the editor went still further--he not only gave the subscribers so +much more than they had bargained for, he added full references to the +authorities quoted in the book; and when the passages were important, he +printed them in full, and even added references to works in which the +arguments were more largely handled. Now these references appear to me +to amount to many hundreds. They begin with Josephus, and run through +Fathers, councils, schoolmen, Roman Catholic controversialists, +ecclesiastical historians, and the chroniclers of the Middle Ages: and, +as far as I can judge in looking over the notes, not more than three or +four of these passages have been undiscovered by the editor, and he +honestly says he has not found them; one of these is the unlucky place +of St. Jerome, which your correspondent happens to know something about. + +The remarks of your correspondent have led me to examine the book, and I +refer any one who has the least regard for candour or fairness, to do +the same. I would ask them to judge it as a whole, to see the number and +variety of the references, and the care which has been bestowed upon +them; and to say whether--because he missed one passage, and knew not +its importance--the editor can be fairly charged with incompetency; or +the committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library accused of neglect, in +leaving the work in his hands without exercising over him such +supervision as implies the reading every sheet as it passed through the +press; for _assistance_ the editor had, and amply acknowledges that he +received, at the hand of the superintending editor. + + ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER TO THE + + ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + + +GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 322.) + +Many letters of Wolfe's will be found published in the _Naval and +Military Gazette_ of the latter part of last and early part of this +year. + +By the statement of your correspondent MR. COLE, Wolfe was promoted as +captain in Burrell's regiment (at present the 4th, or king's own) in +1744. Now Burrell's regiment took the left of the first line at +Culloden, so that James Wolfe, unless absent on leave, or employed on +particular duty, must have been in that action. The left of the second +line was occupied by "Colonel Wolfe's" regiment (now the 8th or +"king's"). See the "Rebellion of 1745," by Robert Chambers, in +Constable's _Miscellany_, vol. xvi. p. 86. Captains of _nineteen_ were +common enough at that period, but Wolfe is the only one whose name has +excited attention. + +As to Wolfe's having been "the youngest general ever intrusted with such +a responsible command" as that at Quebec, your correspondent surely +forgets Napoleon in modern, and the Black Prince in more remote times. + +I have seen at Mr. Scott's, of Cahircon, in the co. Clare, an engraving +of Wolfe: he is designated as the "Hero of Louisburgh," and is +represented with his right to the spectator, the right hand and arm +raised as if enforcing an order. The features are small, the nose rather +"cocked," and the face conveys the idea of spirit and determination; he +wears a very small three-cocked hat, with a plain black cockade, a sort +of frock coat reaching to the knees, where it is met by long boots; +there are no epaulets, a twist belt confines the coat, and supports a +cartouche-box in front, and a bayonet at the right side, and he carries +a fusil slung from his right shoulder "en bandouillire." + +It is said that the father of Wolfe was an Irishman, and I have been +shown in the co. Wicklow the farm on which it is said that James Wolfe +was born. It lies near Newtown-Mount-Kennedy. Be that as it may, the +name has been made celebrated in Ireland within the last half century by +three individuals: first, the Lord Kilwarden, who was murdered during +Emmett's rising in 1803; secondly, the late Chief Baron, who spelt his +name "with a difference;" and last, not least, the author of the +celebrated lines on the "Burial of Sir John Moore." + + KERRIENSIS. + + +PUNISHMENT OF EDWARD OF CAERNARVON BY HIS FATHER.--CHARACTER OF EDWARD +I. + +(Vol. iv., p. 338.) + +I think considerable light is thrown upon this very remarkable incident +by a letter of the prince himself to the Earl of Lincoln, dated +Midhurst, June 14, which appears upon the Roll of that prince's letters +lately discovered at the Chapter House, Westminster. (See _Ninth Report +of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records_, App. II., No. 5.) This +letter has been printed in one of the volumes of the Sussex +Archological Society, having been written from that county. For such of +your readers as may not have either of these books at command, I will +give the material part of the letter, translated: + + "On Sunday, the 13th of June, we came to Midhurst, where we found + the lord the king, our father; the Monday following, on account of + certain words which, it had been reported to the king, had taken + place _between us and the Bishop of Chester_, he was so enraged + with us that he has forbidden us, or any of our retinue, to dare + to enter his house; and he has forbidden all the people of his + household and of the exchequer to give or lend us anything for the + support of our household. We are staying at Midhurst to wait his + pleasure and favour, and we shall follow after him as well as we + are able, at a distance of ten or twelve miles from his house, + until we have been able to recover his good will, which we very + much desire." + +The roll contains several letters which show how seriously the prince +was affected by his father's displeasure, and how the king was appeased. + +By the letter above quoted, the "minister" appears to have been the +Bishop of Chester, then treasurer of the royal household. But the +connexion between the prince's case and that of William de Brewosa does +not appear, unless they were on intimate terms, as is not improbable: +and the punishment of the prince himself is, in my opinion, referred to +as a precedent or justification of the punishment imposed upon Brewes. +That the severe punishment so imposed was richly deserved none can doubt +who has read the report on the Roll: but an unfortunate error in the +press[2] makes it appear that the prince, and not De Brewes, was the +culprit, and performed the penance. + + [Footnote 2: Page 339. col. 1. line 46., where "Edward" is printed + instead of "William de Brewes."] + +To return to the prince's offence and punishment. He appears to have +been nearly starved into submission, as the royal prohibition against +supplying him with articles or money was obliged to be removed by a +Letter Close directed to all the sheriffs, dated Ospring, 22nd July. + +The whole transaction is highly characteristic of the firmness of the +king. Whether the prince's letters which I have referred to make out a +case of _harshness_, as regards some other circumstances, I will not now +trouble you with. But while examining cotemporary documents illustrative +of the prince and his correspondents, I met with an entry upon the Close +Roll (33 Edw. I.) too strikingly illustrative of the determination and +caution of Edward I. to be allowed to remain in its present obscurity. + +On the 27th November the prince addressed a letter to Master Gerard de +Pecoraria, earnestly begging him to favour and forward the affairs of +Ralph de Baldok, then Bishop Elect of London. The "affairs" in question +were the removal of certain scruples instilled into the Papal ear +against the approval of the bishop elect; a matter generally involving +some diplomacy and much money. Master Gerard was employed by the Pope to +collect various dues in England; and so his good will was worth +obtaining. But the following Letter Close will show how he received his +"quietus," as far as the King of England was concerned: + + "The King to Ralph de Sandwich.--By reason of the excessive and + indecent presumption with which Gerard de Pecoraria is making + oppressive levies and collections of money in various places; by + whose authority we know not, for he will not show it; and inasmuch + as the same is highly derogatory to our crown, and injurious to + our people, and many complaints have been made against him on that + account; We command you to take the said Gerard before the Mayor + and Sheriffs of London, and there warn him to cease from making + the said levies, and to quit the kingdom in six days, _provided + that at such warning no public notary be present, so that the + warning be given to the said Gerard alone, no one else hearing. + And be you careful that no one but yourself see this letter, or + get a copy thereof._" + +Who can doubt that such a mandate was strictly carried out? + +I regret that my memoranda do not preserve the original language. + + JOSEPH BURTT. + +MR. GIBSON will find that this story, as well as that relative to Sir +William Gascoigne, is also told by MR. FOSS (_Judges of England_, vol. +iii. pp. 43. 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by Prince +Edward was an insult to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and +Coventry, occasioned probably by the boldness with which that prelate, +while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter de Gaveston, and +restrained the Prince's extravagance. (_Ibid._ p. 114.) + + R. S. V. P. + + +ELIZABETH JOCELINE'S LEGACY TO AN UNBORNE CHILD. + +(Vol. iv., p. 367.) + +Your correspondent J. M. G., whose letter is inserted in your 106th +Number, labours under various mistakes relating to this small volume. +The first edition was not printed in 1684, but more than sixty years +earlier. Moreover, that edition, or at least what the Rev. C. H. +Craufurd appended to his Sermons in 1840 as a reprint, is not a genuine +or faithful republication of the original work. I have for several years +possessed a copy of _the third impression_, Printed at "London, by _Iohn +Hauiland_, for _Hanna Barres_, 1625;" and of this third impression a +_fac-simile_ reprint has passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood +in Edinburgh, which new edition corresponds _literatim et verbatim_ +(line for line and page for page) with the earliest impression known to +exist, which differs materially in several passages from the reprint +published by Mr. Craufurd. This new edition is accompanied by a long +preface or dissertation containing many particulars relating to the +authoress and her relatives, and to a number of ladies of high station +and polished education, who during the period intervening between the +Reformation in England and the Revolution in 1688, distinguished +themselves by publishing works characterized by exalted piety and +refined taste. With regard to Mrs. Joceline, no printed work appears to +have preserved correct information. Genealogists seem to have conspired +to change her Christian name from Elizabeth to Mary or Jane. The husband +is supposed to have sprung from an old Cambridgeshire family, the +Joscelyns of Hogington, now called Oakington, the name of a parish +adjoining to Cottenham. The writer of the preface seems rather disposed +to trace his parentage to John Joscelyn (Archbishop Parker's chaplain), +who, according to Strype, was _an Essex man_. + +But I have probably exceeded the bounds allotted to an answer to a +Query. + + J. L. + + Edinburgh. + +_The Mother's Legacy to her unborne Child_ is reprinted for the benefit +of the Troubridge National Schools, and can be procured at Hatchard's, +Piccadilly. + + J. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Coleridge's "Christabel"_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--I am not familiar with +the Coleridge Papers, under that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that +I know at all to what papers MR. MORTIMER COLLINS refers in his +question. On this account I am not qualified, as he will perhaps think, +to give an opinion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a +continuation of "Christabel." If I may be allowed, however, to hazard a +judgment, as one to whom most of the great poet-philosopher's works have +long and affectionately been known, I would venture to express an +opinion against the right of these lines to admission as one of his +productions. I do it with diffidence; but with the hope that I may aid +in eliciting the truth concerning them. + +I presume "brookless plash" is a misprint for "brooklet's plash." + +The expressions "the sorrow of human years," "wild despair," "the years +of life below," of a person who is not yet dead and in heaven, do not +seem to me, _as they stand in the lines_, to be in Coleridge's manner; +but especially I do not think the couplet-- + + "Who felt all grief, all wild despair, + That the race of man may ever bear," + +is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading as I do in the _Aids +to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 255. (edit. Pickering, 1843) his protest +against the doctrine + + "holden by more than one of these divines, that the agonies + suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the sum total of the + torments of all mankind here and hereafter, or to the infinite + debt which in an endless succession of instalments we should have + been paying to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full by + the Son of God incarnate!" + +There are one or two other expressions of which I entertain doubt, but +not in sufficient degree to make it worth while to dwell upon them. + +Are we ever likely to receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or +from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, +of his _Logosophia_? We can ill afford to lose a work the conception of +which engrossed much of his thoughts, if I am rightly informed, towards +the close of his life. + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White_ (Vol. iv., p. 294.).--My +father's notes on Dryden are in my possession. Sir Walter Scott never +saw them. The words GROTUS attributes to Sir Walter were used by +another commentator on Dryden some thirty years since. + + ALGERNON HOLT WHITE. + +_Lofcop, Meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 319.).--_Lofcop_, not _loscop_, is +clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired. _Lovecope_ +is the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in +the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your +correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is +an altered form of the word _lahcop_, which occurs in the laws of +Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of +England_, vol. i., p. 294., note. The word _loveday_, which is found in +English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling +differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This +must originally have been _lah-dg_, though I am not aware that the word +is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found +_Lgdagr_, altered in modern Danish into _Lavdag_ or _Lovdag._ + + C. W. G. + +_Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres, 1608_ (Vol. iv., p. 272.).--These +Epigrams, about which QUSO inquires, are not the production of Thomas +Middleton the dramatist, but of "_Richard_ Middleton of Yorke, +gentleman." The only copy known to exist is among the curious collection +of books presented by the poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. +A careful reprint, limited to forty copies, was published at Edinburgh +in 1840. It is said to have been done under the superintendance of James +Maidment, Esq. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Lord Edward Fitzgerald_ (Vol. iv., p. 173.).--Your correspondent R. H. +was misinformed as to the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's +Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that nobleman with +another of the United Irishmen leaders; namely, Robert Emmett, who was +arrested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward never lived at Harold's +Cross, either in avowed residence or concealment. + +R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the communication of L. M. M. +at Vol. iv., p. 230., who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family +for neglecting the decent burial of their chivalric relative. This is +not merited. The family was kept in complete ignorance as to how the +body was disposed of, it being the wish of the government of the day to +conceal the place of its sepulture; as is evident from their not +interring it at St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond and all +the others whom they put to death at Newgate; and from the notoriety of +their having five years later adopted a similar course with regard to +the remains of Robert Emmett. (See Madden's _Life of Emmett_.) But is he +buried at St. Werburgh's? Several, and among others his daughter, Lady +Campbell, as appears from L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. +Some years since I conversed with an old man named Hammet, the +superannuated gravedigger of St. Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me +that he officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Catherine's church, +and that they were performed at night in silence, secrecy, and mystery. + + E. J. W. + +_Earwig_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--I do not know what the derivations of +this word may be, which are referred to by [Greek: AXN] as being in +vogue. It is a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and Webster do not +notice the word at all; although I am not aware that it is of limited or +provincial use. In Bailey's _Scottish Dictionary_, and in Skinner's +_Etymologicon_, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon _ear-wicga_, i.e. +ear-beetle. In Bosworth's _Dictionary_ we find _wicga_, a kind of +insect, a shorn-bug, a beetle. + + C. W. G. + +_Sanderson and Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 293.).--In No. 103 of "NOTES AND +QUERIES," under the head of "_Sanderson and Taylor_," a question is put +by W. W. as to the common source of the sentence, "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." Without at all +saying that it is the common source, I would beg to refer W. W. to "The +Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where "wisdom" is described as +"the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the +power of God, and the image of His goodness." The coincidence is +curious, though the Latin expressions are dissimilar, the verse in "The +Wisdom of Solomon" being as follows: "Nam splendor est luce terna et +speculum efficacitatis Dei expers macul, ac imago bonitatis ejus." + + R. M. M. (A Subscriber). + + Taunton. + +_Island of gina and the Temple of Jupiter Panhellinius_ (Vol. iv., p. +255.).--In Lemprire's _Classical Dict._, by the Rev. J. A. Giles, 1843, +is the subjoined:-- + + "The most remarkable remnant of antiquity at the present day is + the temple of 'Jupiter Panhellinius' on a _mount of the same name_ + about four hours' distance from the port, supposed to be one of + the most ancient temples in Greece, and the oldest specimen of + Doric architecture; Dodwell pronounces it to be the most + picturesque ruin in Greece." + +And in Arrowsmith's _Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography_, 1839, +p. 414.: + + "In the southern part of the island is _Panhellinius Mons_, so + called _from a temple_ of Jupiter Panhellinius, erected on its + summit by acus." + + C. W. MARKHAM. + +_The Broad Arrow_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--I forget where it is, but +remember something about a place held by the tenure of presenting the +king with + + "---- a Broad-Arrow, + When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow." + +I would however suggest, that the use of an arrow-head as a government +mark may have a Celtic origin; and that the so-called arrow may be the +[Arrow symbol] or __, the broad _a_ of the Druids. This letter was +typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect or +holiness; and I believe stood also for king or prince. + + A. C. M. + + Exeter, Nov. 4. 1851. + +_Consecration of Bishops in Sweden_ (Vol. iv., p. 345.).--E. H. A. asks +whether any record exists of the consecration of Bethvid, Bishop of +_Strengns_ in the time of Gustavus I., King of Sweden? I cannot reply +from this place with the certainty I might be able to do, if I had +access to my books and papers. But I may venture to state, that the +"consecration" (if by that term be meant the canonical and apostolical +ordination) of Bethvidus Sermonis, in common with that of all the +Lutheran Bishops of Sweden, is involved in much doubt and obscurity; the +fact being, that they all derive their orders from _Petrus Magni_, +Bishop of Westeras, who _is said_ to have been "consecrated" bishop of +that see at Rome by a cardinal in A.D. 1524, the then Pontiff having +acceded to the request of Gustavus Vasa to this effect. It is, however, +uncertain whether Petrus Magni ever received proper episcopal +consecration, although it appears probable he did. I endeavoured at one +time to ascertain the fact by reference to Rome; but though promised by +my correspondent (a British Romanist resident there) that he would +procure the examination of the Roll of Bishops in communion with the +Holy See, and consecrated by Papal license, for the purpose of +discovering whether Bishop Petrus Magni's name occurred therein or not, +I never heard more of the subject. I could not help judging, that this +silence on the part of my correspondent (to whom I was personally +unknown), after his having replied immediately and most civilly to my +first communication, was very eloquent and significant. But still the +doubt remains uncleared, as to whether the Swedish episcopacy possess or +not, _as they maintain they do_, the blessing of an apostolical and +canonical succession. + + G. J. R. G. + + Pen-y-lau, Ruabon. + +_Meaning of Spon_ (Vol. iv., p. 39.).--Is the word _spooney_ derived +from the Anglo-Saxon _spanan_, _spn_, _asponen_, to allure, entice, and +therefore equivalent to one allured, trapped, &c., a gowk or simpleton? +If C. H. B. could discover whether those specified places were ever at +any time tenanted by objectionable characters, this verb and its +derivatives might assist his inquiries. He will, however, see that +_Spondon_ (pronounced _spoondon_) in Derbyshire is another instance of +the word he inquires after. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby-de-la-Zouch. + +_Quaker Expurgated Bible_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--I can inform the +correspondent who inquires whether such a publication of a Bible, which +a committee of Friends were intending to publish, ever took place, that +no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends, who adopt the +English authorised version only, as may be seen by their yearly epistle +and other authorised publications. I have inquired of many Friends who +were likely to know, and not one ever heard of what the authoress of +_Quakerism_ states. + + A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. + +_Cozens the Painter_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--In Rose's _Biographical +Dictionary_ it is stated that Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter, +born in Russia, but attaining his celebrity in London, where he taught +drawing. In 1778 he published a theoretical work called _The Principle +of Beauty relative to the Human Face_, with illustrations, engraved by +Bartolozzi. He died in 1786. + + J. O'G. + +_Authors of the Homilies_ (Vol. iv., p. 346.).--Allow me to say that in +the reply to the inquiry of G. R. C. one work is omitted which will +afford at once all that is wanted: for the Preface to Professor Corrie's +recent edition of the _Homilies_, printed at the Pitt Press, contains +the most circumstantial account of their authors. + + W. K. C. + + College, Ely. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +We had occasion, some short time since, to speak in terms of deserved +commendation of the excellent _Handbook to the Antiquities of the +British Museum_ which had been prepared by Mr. Vaux. Another and most +important department of our great national collection has just found in +Dr. Mantell an able scientific, yet popular expositor of its treasures. +His _Petrifactions and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of +Organic Remains in the British Museum_, forms the new volume of Bohn's +_Scientific Library_; and, thanks to the acquirements of Dr. Mantell, +his good sense in divesting his descriptions, as much as possible, of +technical language, and the numerous well-executed woodcuts by which it +is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to accomplish the +purpose for which it has been prepared; namely, to serve as a handbook +to the general visitor to the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an +explanatory Catalogue for the more scientific observer. + +To satisfy the deep interest taken by many persons, who are unable to +study the phenomena themselves, in the numerous new and remarkable facts +relating to the formation and temperature of the globe, and to the +movements of the ocean and of the atmosphere, as well as to the +influence of both on climate, and on the adaptation of the earth for the +dwelling of man, which the exertions of scientific men have of late +years revealed, was the motive which led Professor Buff to write his +_Familiar Letters on the Physics of the Earth; treating of the chief +Movements of the Land, the Waters, and the Air, and the Forces that give +rise to them_: and Dr. Hoffman has been induced to undertake an English +edition of them from a desire of rendering accessible to the public a +source of information from which he has derived no less of profit than +of pleasure: which profit and which pleasure will, we have no doubt, be +shared by a large number of readers of this unpretending but very +instructive little volume. + +_Welsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of the Twelfth +Century._ These sketches, which treat of Bardism, the Kings of Wales, +the Welsh Church, Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensis, are +from the pen of the amiable author of the _Essays on Church Union_, and +are written in the same attractive and popular style. + +About five-and-thirty years ago the Treatment of the Insane formed the +subject of a Parliamentary inquiry, and the public mind was shocked by +the appalling scenes revealed before a Committee of the House of +Commons. But the publication of them did its work; for that such scenes +are now but matters of history, we owe to that inquiry. The condition of +the London Poor, in like manner, is now in the course of investigation; +not indeed by an official commission, but by a private individual, Mr. +Henry Mayhew, who is gathering by personal visits to the lowest haunts +of poverty and its attendant vices, and from personal communication with +the people he is describing, an amount of fact illustrative of the +social conditions of the poorest classes in this metropolis, which +deserves, and must receive, the earnest attention of the statesman, the +moralist, and the philanthropist. His work is entitled _London Labour +and the London Poor, a Cyclopdia of the Condition and Earnings of those +that_ WILL _work, those that_ CANNOT _work, and those that_ WILL NOT +_work_. Vol. I. _The London Street Folk_, is just completed. 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15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 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. IV No. 103 | Oct. 18, 1851 | 289-303 | PG # 38864 | + | Vol. IV No. 104 | Oct. 25, 1851 | 305-333 | PG # 38926 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 105 | Nov. 1, 1851 | 337-358 | PG # 39076 | + | Vol. IV No. 106 | Nov. 8, 1851 | 361-374 | PG # 39091 | + | Vol. IV No. 107 | Nov. 15, 1851 | 377-396 | PG # 39135 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | 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 108, November 22, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: March 19, 2012 [EBook #39197] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NOV 22, 1851 *** + + + + +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. 108.</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. 108.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ATURDAY</span>, N<span class="smcap lowercase">OVEMBER</span> 22. 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">Age of Trees <a title="Go to page 401" href="#Page_401">401</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Lines attributed to Admiral Byng <a title="Go to page 403" href="#Page_403">403</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">A Chapter on Emblems <a title="Go to page 403" href="#Page_403">403</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Folk Lore:—Music at +Funerals—Cheshire Folk Lore + and Superstition <a title="Go to page 404" href="#Page_404">404</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor +Notes:—Talented—Anagram—Dictionary of + Hackneyed Quotations <a title="Go to page 405" href="#Page_405">405</a></p> + +</div> + +<p class="larger">Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + +<p class="indh i5">Masters and Marshals of + the Ceremonies <a title="Go to page 405" href="#Page_405">405</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Minor Queries:—Cause of + Transparency—Gold Medal + of the Late Duke of York—Compositions during the + Protectorate—Bristol Tables—Macfarlane's Geographical + Collection—"Acu tinali meridi"—Sir Joshua + Reynolds—Great Plough at Castor Church—Church + of St. Bene't Fink—Inscription on a + Pair of Spectacles—Campbell—Family + of Cordeux—Panelling + Inscription—Infantry + Firing <a title="Go to page 406" href="#Page_406">406</a></p> + +</div> + +<p class="larger"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPLIES</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + +<p class="indh i5">The Reverend +Richard Farmer, by +Bolton Corney <a title="Go to page 407" href="#Page_407">407</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Anglo-Catholic + Library <a title="Go to page 408" href="#Page_408">408</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">General +James Wolfe <a title="Go to page 409" href="#Page_409">409</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Punishment of +Edward of Caernarvon + by his Father—Character + of Edward I. <a title="Go to page 409" href="#Page_409">409</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Elizabeth Joceline's Legacy to an Unborne Child + <a title="Go to page 410" href="#Page_410">410</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Replies to Minor Queries:—Coleridge's + "Christabel"—Dryden; + Illustrations by T. Holt White—Lofcop, + Meaning of—Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres—Lord + Edward Fitzgerald—Earwig—Sanderson and + Taylor—Island of gina and the Temple of Jupiter + Panhellinius—The Broad Arrow—Consecration of + Bishops in Sweden—Meaning of Spon—Quaker + Expurgated Bible—Cozens the Painter—Authors + of + the Homilies <a title="Go to page 410" href="#Page_410">410</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 413" href="#Page_413">413</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5"> Books and Odd + Volumes wanted <a title="Go to page 413" href="#Page_413">413</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Notices to +Correspondents <a title="Go to page 414" href="#Page_414">414</a></p> + +<p class="indh i5">Advertisements <a title="Go to page 414" href="#Page_414">414</a> +<span class="pagenum">[401]</span><a id="Page_401"></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>AGE OF TREES.</span> +</h3> + + +<p>Alexander von Humboldt, in his work entitled <i>Views of Nature</i> (pp. 220. +268-276. ed. Bohn), has some interesting remarks on the age of trees.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"In vegetable forms (he says) <i>massive size</i> is indicative of + age; and in the vegetable kingdom alone are age and the + manifestation of an ever-renewed vigour linked together."</p> + +<p>Following up this remark, he refers to specimens of the Baobab +(<i>Adansonia digitata</i>), with trunks measuring more than thirty feet in +diameter, the age of which is estimated by Adanson at 5150 years. All +calculations of the age of a tree, founded merely on the <i>size of its +trunk</i>, are, however, uncertain, unless the law of its growth, and the +limits of the variation producible by peculiar circumstances, are +ascertained, which, in the case of the Adansonia, have not been +determined. For the same reason, the calculation of 2,500 years for a +gigantic cypress in Persia, mentioned by Evelyn in his <i>Silva</i>, is of no +value.</p> + +<p>Humboldt afterwards refers to "the more certain estimations yielded by +<i>annular rings</i>, and by the relation found to exist between the +thickness of the layer of wood and the duration of growth;" which, he +adds, give us shorter periods for our temperate northern zone. The +calculation of the age of a tree, founded on its successive rings, +appears to be quite certain; and whenever these can be counted, the age +of a tree can be determined without risk of error. Humboldt quotes a +statement from Endlicher, that "in Lithuania linden (or lime) trees have +been felled which measured 87 feet round, and in which 815 annular rings +have been counted." The section of a trunk of a silver fir, which grew +near Barr, is preserved in the Museum at Strasburg: its diameter was +eight feet close to the ground, and the number of rings is said to +amount to several hundreds.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately this mode of determining a tree's age cannot be applied to +a living tree; and it is only certain where the tree is sound at the +heart. Where a tree has become hollow from old age, the rings near the +centre, which constitute a part of the evidence of its duration, no +longer exist. Hence the age of the great oak of Saintes, in the +department of the Charente Infrieure, which measures twenty-three feet +in diameter five feet from the ground, and is large enough to contain a +small chamber, can only be estimated; and the antiquity of 1800 or 2000 +years, which is assigned to it, must rest on an uncertain conjecture.</p> + +<p>Decandolle lays it down that, of all European trees, the <i>yew</i> attains +the greatest age; and he assigns an antiquity of thirty centuries to the +<i>Taxus baccata</i> of Braburn in Kent; from twenty-five to thirty centuries +to the Scotch yew of Fortingal; and fourteen and a half and twelve +centuries respectively to those of Crowhurst in Surrey and Ripon +(Fountains Abbey) in Yorkshire. These<a id="Page_402"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[402]</span> ages are fixed by a +conjecture founded on the <i>size</i>, which can lead to no certain result.</p> + +<p>Can any of your correspondents state what is the greatest number of +rings which have been actually counted in any yew, or other tree, which +has grown in the British Isles, or elsewhere? It Is only by actual +enumeration that vegetable chronology can be satisfactorily determined: +but if the rings in many trees were counted, some relation between the +number of rings and the diameter of the trunk, for each species, might +probably be laid down within certain limits. These rings, being annually +deposited, form a natural chronicle of time, by which the age of a tree +is determined with as much precision as the lapse of human events is +determined by the cotemporaneous registration of annalists. Hence Milton +speaks of "monumental oak." Evelyn, who has devoted a long chapter of +his <i>Silva</i> to an investigation of the age of trees (b. iii. c. iii.), +founds his inferences chiefly on their <i>size</i>; but he cites the +following remark from Dr. Goddard:</p> + +<p class="blockquot"> "It is commonly and very probably asserted, that a tree gains a + new ring every year. In the body of a great oak in the New + Forest, cut transversely even, (where many of the trees are + accounted to be some hundreds of years old) three and four + hundred have been distinguished."—Vol. ii. p. 202. ed. Hunter.</p> + +<p>A delineation and description of the largest and most celebrated trees +of Great Britain may be seen in the interesting work of Jacob George +Strutt, entitled <i>Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees, +distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty</i>: London, 1822, +folio.</p> + +<p>The age of some trees is determined by historical records, in the same +manner that we know the age of an ancient building, as the Parthenon, +the Colosseum, or the Tower of London. It is, however, important that +such historical evidence should be carefully scrutinised; for trees +which are known to be of great antiquity sometimes give rise to fabulous +legends, destitute of any foundation in fact. Such, for example, was the +plane-tree near Caphy, in Arcadia, seen by Pausanias in the second +century after Christ, which was reported by the inhabitants to have been +planted by Menelaus when he was collecting the army for the expedition +against Troy. (<i>Paus.</i> <span class="smaller">VIII.</span> 23.) Such too, doubtless, was the oak of +Mamre, where the angels were said to have appeared to Abraham. +(<i>Sozomen</i>, ii. 3.) A rose-tree growing in the crypt of the cathedral of +Hildesheim is referred, by a church-legend, to a date anterior to 1061; +which would imply an age of more than 800 years, but the evidence +adduced seems scarcely sufficient to identify the existing rose-tree +with the rose-tree of 1061. (See <i>Humboldt</i>, p. 275.)</p> + +<p>In other cases, however, the historical evidence extant, if not +altogether free from doubt, is sufficient to carry the age of a tree +back to a remote date. The Swilcar Lawn oak, in Needwood Forest, +Staffordshire, is stated by Strutt, p. 2., "to be known by historical +documents to be at this time [1822] six hundred years old; and it is +still far from being in the last stage of decay." Of a great elm growing +at Chipstead Place in Kent, he says: "Its appearance altogether savours +enough of antiquity to bear out the tradition annexed to it, that in the +time of Henry V. a fair was held annually under its branches; the high +road from Rye in Sussex to London then passing close by it." (P. 5.) If +this tradition be authentic, the elm in question must have been a large +and wide-spreading tree in the years 1413-22. A yew-tree at Ankerwyke +House, near Staines, is supposed to be of great antiquity. There is a +tradition that Henry VIII. occasionally met Anne Boleyn under its +branches: but it is not stated how high this tradition ascends. (<i>Ib.</i>, +p. 8.) The Abbot's Oak, near Woburn Abbey, is stated to derive its name +from the fact that the abbot of the monastery was, by order of Henry +VIII., hung from its branches in 1537. (<i>Ib.</i>, p. 10.) But Query, is +this an authentic fact?</p> + +<p>There is a tradition respecting the Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury, that +before the battle of Shrewsbury between Henry IV. and Hotspur, in 1403, +Owen Glendower reconnoitred the field from its branches, and afterwards +drew off his men. Positive documentary evidence, in the possession of +Richard Hill Waring, Esq., is likewise cited, which shows that this tree +was called "the Great Oak" in the year 1543 (<i>Ib.</i> p. 17.). There is a +traditional account that the old yew-trees at Fountains Abbey existed at +the foundation of the abbey, in the year 1132; but the authority for +this tradition, and the time at which it was first recorded, is not +stated. (P. 21.) The Abbot's Willow, near Bury St. Edmund's, stands on a +part of the ancient demesne of the Abbot of Bury, and is hence +conjectured to be anterior to the dissolution of the monastery in the +reign of Henry VIII. (P. 23.) The Queen's Oak at Huntingfield, in +Suffolk, was situated in a park belonging to Lord Hunsdon, where he had +the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth. The queen is reported to +have shot a buck with her own hand from this oak. (P. 26.) Sir Philip +Sidney's Oak, near Penshurst, is said to have been planted at his birth, +in 1554: it has been celebrated by Ben Jonson and Waller. This oak is +above twenty-two feet in girth; it is hollow, and stag-headed; and, so +far as can be judged from the engraving, has an appearance of great +antiquity, though its age only reaches back to the sixteenth century. +(P. 27.) The Tortworth Chestnut is described as being not only the +largest, but the oldest tree in England: Evelyn alleges that "it +continued a signal boundary to that manor in King Stephen's time, as it +stands<a id="Page_403"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[403]</span> upon record;" but the date of the record is not mentioned. +We can hardly suppose that it was cotemporaneous. (<i>Ib.</i> p. 29.) An elm +at Chequers in Buckinghamshire is reported, by a tradition handed down +in the families of the successive owners, to have been planted in the +reign of Stephen. (<i>Ib.</i> p. 38.) Respecting the Wallace Oak, at +Ellerslie near Paisley, it is reported that Sir William Wallace, and +three hundred of his men, hid themselves among its branches from the +English. This legend is probably fabulous; if it were true, it would +imply that the tree was in its full vigour at the end of the thirteenth +century. (<i>Ib.</i> p. 5.) The ash at Carnock, in Stirlingshire, supposed to +be the largest in Scotland, and still a luxuriant tree, was planted +about the year 1596, by Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, Lord Advocate +of Scotland in the reign of James VI. (<i>Ib.</i> p. 8.)</p> + +<p>Marshall, in his Work on <i>Planting and Rural Ornament</i> (2 vols. 1796) +refers to a paper on the age of trees, by Mr. Marsham, in the first +volume of the <i>Transactions of the Bath Agriculture Society</i>, in which +the Tortworth Chestnut is calculated to be not less than 1100 years old. +Marshall, who appears to have examined this tree with great care, +corrects the account given by Mr. Marsham, and states that it is not +one, but two trees. Sir Robert Atkins, in his <i>History of +Gloucestershire</i>, says: "By tradition this tree was growing in King +John's reign." Evelyn, however, as we have already seen, speaks of a +record that it served as a manor boundary in the reign of Stephen. +Query, on what authority do these statements rest? Marshall thinks that +a duration of nearly a thousand years may be fairly assigned to the +Tortworth tree; and he adds:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"If we consider the quick growth of the chestnut, compared with + that of the oak, and at the same time the inferior bulk of the + Tortworth Chestnut to the Cowthorp, the Bentley, and the + Boddington oaks, may we not venture to infer that the existence + of these truly venerable trees commenced some centuries prior to + the era of Christianity?"</p> + + +<p>The oaks here alluded to by Marshall are of immense size. The Cowthorp +Oak is near Wetherby; the Bentley Oak, in Holt Forest, near Bentley; the +Boddington Oak, between Cheltenham and Tewksbury (vol. ii. pp. 127. +298.).</p> + +<p>Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to point out authentic +evidence respecting the true dates of ancient trees. A large tree is a +subject of interest to the entire neighbourhood: it receives an +individual name, like a river, a mountain, or a building; and by its +permanence it affords a fixed point for a faithful local tradition to +rest upon. On the other hand, the infidelity of oral tradition is well +known; and the mere interest which attaches to a tree of unusual size is +likely to give birth to a romantic legend, when its true history has +been forgotten. The antiquary and the botanist may assist one another in +determining the age of trees. By the authentic evidence of their +duration which the former is able to furnish, the latter may establish +tests by which their longevity may be calculated.</p> + + + <p class="right"> L.</p> + + + +<h3> +<span>LINES ATTRIBUTED TO ADMIRAL BYNG.</span> +</h3> + +<p>The following lines are copied, <i>verbatim et literatim</i>, from a window +pane in an upstairs room of the Talbot Inn, Ripley. The tradition is +that they were written by Admiral Byng, who was confined in the room as +a prisoner when on his way to Portsmouth; that sentinels were placed on +the staircase outside; that during the night the admiral walked past the +sleeping guard, gathered some flowers from the inn garden, and returned +to his room; and that on leaving the following morning, he told the Inn +Lady he should see her on his way back to London, when he was acquitted.</p> + +<div class="poem"> + +<div class="stanza"> + + <p>"Come all you true Britons, and listen to me;</p> + <p>I'll tell you the truth, you'll then plainly see</p> + <p>How Minorca was lost, why the kingdom doth ring,</p> + <p>And lay the whole blame on Admiral Byng.</p> + <p class="i5">Sing tantararara, rogues all, rogues all.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + + <p> "Newcastle, and Hardwick, and Anson did now</p> + <p>Preside at the helm, and to whom all must bow;</p> + <p>Minorca besieged, who protection will bring;</p> + <p> They know 'tis too late, let the victim be Byng.</p> + <p class="i5"> Sing tantararara, rogues all.</p> + +</div> + + +<div class="stanza"> + + <p> "With force insufficient he's ordered away;</p> + <p>He obeys, and he sails without any delay;</p> + <p> But alas! 'tis too late: who shall say to the king</p> + <p>Minorca must fall, why, accuse Mr. Byng.</p> + <p class="i5">Sing tantararara, rogues all.</p> + +</div> + + + <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Minorca now falls, and the nation enraged;</p> + <p>With justice they cry, let all who engaged</p> + <p>In traterous deeds, with curst infamy swing:</p> + <p> What! none to be found but poor Admiral Byng.</p> + <p class="i5">Sing tantararara, rogues all."</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<p>Is there any reason to doubt the truth of this tradition, or that the +verses were written by the unfortunate admiral?</p> + + + <p class="right"> A. C. G.</p> + + <p class="left"> Ripley, Nov. 10, 1851.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>A CHAPTER ON EMBLEMS.</span> +</h3> + +<p>"An history of emblems in all languages, with specimens of the poetry +and engravings, accompanied by some account of the authors, would be a +very interesting contribution to our literature." Thus speaks the author +of a work remarkable for interest, information, and elegance of taste, +viz., <i>Lives of Sacred Poets</i>, by Robert Willmott, Esq.; and truly such +a work would be a great <i>desideratum</i> were the idea here suggested +efficiently carried out.</p> + +<p>In our own, and in other languages, many beautiful poems—some of them +very gems—exist,<a id="Page_404"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[404]</span> attached to, and written on some of "the most +ridiculous prints that ever excited merriment." A tasteful collection of +the more beautiful poems, with some spirited woodcuts, or engravings to +accompany them, would form a beautiful volume. This, however, is a +suggestion different from, and secondary to, Mr. Willmott's.</p> + +<p>Emblems, figures, symbols, &c., constitute a vast ocean of associations +which all enter on, all understand, all sympathise with more or less. +They enrich our language, enter into our commonest thoughts and +conversation, as well as our compositions in poetry and prose.</p> + +<p>Often the clearest ideas we have on abstruse points are derived from +them, <i>e.g.</i> the <i>shamrock</i> or <i>trefoil</i> is an emblem of <i>the Blessed +Trinity</i>. Nothing perhaps helps us to comprehend the resurrection of the +body, and in a glorified state through preserving its identity, as the +apostle's illustration and emblem of the <i>growth of corn</i>.</p> + +<p>In a work on the subject it would be desirable to keep the classical, +artistic, political, and other emblems apart from the sacred and moral, +&c.</p> + +<p>I must now say a few words on a book of emblems, entitled <i>Schola +Cordis, sive Aversi a Deo Cordis, ad eumdem reductio et instructio, +Authore Benedicto Haefteno, Antv.</i> 1635. (This Benedict Haeften was also +the author of <i>Regia Via Crucis</i>, published at Antwerp the same year as +the above, in 2 vols. 8vo., I think, and afterwards translated into +French.) This work suggested <i>Schola Cordis, or the Heart of itself gone +away from God, brought back again to Him and instructed by Him, in XLVII +emblems</i>: London, printed for M. Blunder at the Castle in Cornhill, +1647, 12mo. pp. 196. The authorship of this English <i>Schola Cordis</i> is +generally attributed to Christopher Harvie, the author of <i>The +Synagogue</i>. (Vide Lowndes, and a note in Pickering's edition of George +Herbert.) The second edition was printed in 1674, third in 1675, fourth +in 1676.</p> + +<p>Now, Mr. Tegg in 1845 printed an edition of this <i>Schola Cordis</i> as the +production of Francis Quarles; what was his authority I know not, he +certainly did not attempt to give any.</p> + +<p>The last three books of Quarles's <i>Emblems</i> contain forty-five prints, +all from Herman Hugo's <i>Pia Desideria</i>, which has that number of +emblems. Quarles sometimes translates, sometimes paraphrases Hugo, and +has a good deal of original matter. His first two books are not in +Hugo's work, and I do not know whence they are derived; nearly all the +cuts contain a globe and cross.</p> + +<p>Herman Hugo had the talents and versatility which characterise his order +(the Order of Jesus), "he was a philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a +poet, and a soldier, and under the command of Spinola is said to have +performed prodigies of valour." He was the author of <i>De prima Scribendi +Origine et Universa Rei Literari Antiquitate</i>, an excellent work; and +of <i>De Militia Equestri antiqua et nova</i> amongst others. His <i>Book of +Emblems</i> was first published at Antwerp, 1624. It is divided into +<i>three</i> books, viz.,</p> + + +<div class="poem"> + + <div class="stanza"> <p class="i5"> Pia Desideria.</p></div> + + <div class="stanza"> <p>1. Gemitus {A } Pœnitentis.</p> + <p>2. Vota {ni } Sanct.</p> + <p>3. Suspiria {m} Amantis.</p></div> + +</div> + + +<p class="noindent">Each book contains fifteen emblems. The principal editions are, Antv. +1624, ed. princeps; Antv. 1628, 1632; Grcii, 1651; Lond. 1677, +sumptibus Roberti Pawlet, Chancery Lane. This London edition contains +only verse, whereas all the other editions contain metre and prose +before each picture, the prose being far the better of the two. The only +prose that Pawlet's edition has is a motto from one of the Fathers at +the back of each picture.</p> + +<p>There are two or three English translations. I have seen but one, a +miserable translation of the verse part, I suppose from Pawlet's +edition. There are short notices of emblems in the <i>Retrospective +Review</i>, ix. 123-140.; <i>Critical Review</i>, Sept. 1801 (attributed to +Southey); see also Willmott's <i>Lives of Sacred Poets</i> (Wither and +Quarles); Csar Ripa's <i>Iconologia</i>, Padua, 1627; and <i>Alciati +Emblemata</i>, Lugd. 1614. The Fagel Library, Trinity College, Dublin, has +a fine copy of the first edition of the <i>Pia Desideria</i>, and upwards of +sixty books of emblems, principally Dutch.</p> + +<p>P.S.—When I penned the above I was not aware that any mention of the +<i>School of the Heart</i> had been made in +"N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>." I find in +Southey's fourth <i>Common-place Book</i> that he quotes from the <i>School of +the Heart</i> as Quarles's. He has the following note on Quarles's Emblems: +"Philips erroneously says that the emblems are a copy from Hermannus +Hugo." I know not what Philips exactly intended by the word "copy;" but +if any one doubts what I have before said respecting these Emblems, let +him compare Hugo and Quarles together. I forgot to give the title of the +first edition of Hugo: <i>Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis et Affectibus, +SS. Patrum Illustrata, vulgavit Boetius a Bolswert</i>, Antv. 1624. Also +the title of our English translation: <i>Pia Desideria; or, Divine +Addresses</i>, in three books, written in Latin by Herm. Hugo, Englished by +Edm. Arwaker, M.A., Lond. 1686, 8vo., pp. 282., dedicated to the +Princess Anne of Denmark, with forty-seven plates by Sturt.</p> + + + <p class="right">M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARICONDA.</span></p> + + + +<h3> +<span>FOLK LORE.</span> +</h3> + + +<h4> +<span><i>Music at Funerals.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Pennant, in his MS. relating to North Wales, says, +"there is a custom of singing psalms on the way as the corpse is carried +to church" (Brand's <i>Pop. Ant.</i>, ed. Ellis, vol. ii. p. 268.). In North +Devon the custom of singing<a id="Page_405"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[405]</span> is similar; but it is not a psalm it +is a dirge. I send you a copy of one in use at Lynton, sent to me by my +sister.</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <div class="stanza"> + +<p> Farewell all, my parents<a id="parents1"></a><a title="Go to footnote 1." href="#fn1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> dear,</p> + <p class="i3"> And all my friends, farewell!</p> + <p>I hope I'm going to that place</p> + <p class="i3"> Where Christ and saints do dwell.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> <p>Oppress'd with grief long time I've been,</p> + <p class="i3">My bones cleave to my skin,</p> + <p>My flesh is wasted quite away</p> + <p class="i3">With pain that I was in,</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"> + + <p>Till Christ his messenger did send,</p> + <p class="i3">And took my life away,</p> + <p> To mingle with my mother earth,</p> + <p class="i3">And sleep with fellow clay.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + +<p> Into thy hands I give my soul,</p> + <p class="i3">Oh! cast it not aside,</p> + <p>But favor me and hear my prayer,</p> + <p class="i3">And be my rest and guide.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + + <p>Affliction hath me sore oppress'd,</p> + <p class="i3">Brought me to death in time;</p> + <p>O Lord! as thou hast promised,</p> + <p class="i3">Let me to life return.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + + <p>For when that Christ to judgment comes,</p> + <p class="i3">He unto us will say,</p> + <p>If we His laws observe and keep,</p> + <p class="i3"> "Ye blessed, come away."</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + +<p>How blest is he who is prepar'd,</p> + <p class="i3">He fears not at his death;</p> + <p>Love fills his heart, and hope his breast,</p> + <p class="i3">With joy he yields his breath.</p> + +</div> + + <div class="stanza"> + + <p>Vain world, farewell! I must be gone,</p> + <p class="i3">I cannot longer stay;</p> + <p>My time is spent, my glass is run,</p> + <p class="i3">God's will I must obey.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn1"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#parents1" class="label">[1]</a> Sister +or brother, as the case may be.</p> + +<p>Another dirge, ending with the sixth stanza of the foregoing, is used at +an infant's funeral, but the rhyme is not so well kept.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W<span class="smcap lowercase">M.</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">URRANT</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OOPER.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Cheshire Folk Lore and Superstition.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—There is in this town a little +girl, about thirteen years old, in great request among the poor as a +charmer in cases of burns or scalds. Immediately on the accident the +girl is fetched from her work in the mill; on her arrival she kneels +down by the side of the sufferer, mutters a few words, and touches the +individual, and the people believe and affirm that the sufferings +immediately cease, as she has charmed the fire out of the parts injured. +The surgeon's aid is then called in to heal the sores. The girl affirms +that she found it out herself by reading her Bible, of which the +wonder-working charm is a verse. She will take no reward, nor may any of +her relatives; if she or they were, her power would be at an end. She is +an ordinary, merry, playful girl; as a surgeon I often come across her +in such accidents.</p> + +<p>I know some other such charmers in Cheshire, but none so young. One, an +old man, stops bleedings of all kinds by a similar charm, viz. a verse +from the Bible. But he does not require to be at the patient's side, his +power being equally efficacious at the distance of one hundred miles, as +close by.</p> + + <p class="right">E. W. L.</p> + + <p class="left">Congleton.</p> + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Minor Notes.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Talented.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of +this word by his biographer in his <i>Sartor Resartus</i>, calling it a +hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. O'G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Anagram.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on <i>The French Benedictines</i>, +gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great +bibliophagist Magliabechi:—Antonius Magliabechius—Is unus bibliotheca +magna.</p> + +<p>In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum +inambulans, et viva qudam bibliotheca." Possibly this is the origin of +our expression "a walking dictionary."</p> + + <p class="right"> J. O'G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—I beg to inform your +correspondent who suggested such a publication as a <i>Dictionary of +Hackneyed Quotations</i>, that I commenced such a work some time ago, and +hope before long to have it ready for the press.</p> + +<p>Every common quotation or familiar proverb from the poets will be ranged +with the <i>context</i> under its respective author, while an alphabetical +index will facilitate reference to any particular passage. I doubt not +the readers of your valuable periodical will assist me whenever I am at +fault as to the authorship of any line or "household word;" and I should +feel at the present time much obliged if any one could tell me where</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," </p> + +</div> + + <p class="noindent">may be found?</p> + + + <p class="right">H. A. B.</p> + + <p class="left">Trinity College, Cambridge.</p> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Queries.</span> +</h2> + +<h3> +<span>MASTERS AND MARSHALS OF THE CEREMONIES?</span> +</h3> + +<p>How are these offices now held? By letters patent of the crown, or by +the lord chamberlain's nomination?</p> + +<p>Where can any list of these offices be found? The office of Master of +the Ceremonies, whose duty it is to arrange the reception of all foreign +ministers, and their departures, was formerly an office of considerable +importance. In the reign of King Charles I. it was held seemingly by +grants from<a id="Page_406"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[406]</span>] the crown. In 1627, Sir John Finett says he received +news of the death of Sir Lewis Lewknor, by which, in right of his +Majesty's grant of reversion by letters patent, he became sole Master of +the Ceremonies—an office which he before held jointly with Sir Lewis +Lewknor.</p> + + <p class="right"> S. E. G.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Minor Queries.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span>286. <i>Cause of Transparency.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Seeing through the glass of my window a +landscape, and not knowing <i>why</i> I see through the glass, and not +through the shutters, I will thank one of your philosophical +correspondents to tell me the <i>cause of transparency</i>.</p> + + <p class="right"> <span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS.</span></p> + + + + +<h4> +<span>287. <i>Gold Medal of late Duke of York.</i></span> +</h4> + + +<p>—I have a small gold medal, +three-quarter inch in diameter, a head with inscription—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"Fredericus dux Eborac."</p> + +</div> + +<p class="noindent">and Rev.:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Non. Ian. 1827."</p> + +</div> +<p>Were many such struck at the duke's death, or what is the history of it?</p> + + + <p class="right">A. A. D.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>288. <i>Composition's during the Protectorate.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Where is there any +account or list of these? In Oldfield's <i>History of Wainfleet</i>, p. 12. +Appendix, is a "List of Residents in the County of Lincoln who +compounded for their Estates during the Protectorate of Oliver +Cromwell;" but he gives no authority or reference. Where can this list +be checked, as I suspect an error?</p> + + <p class="right"> W. H. L.</p> + + <p class="left"> Fulham.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span>289. <i>Bristol Tables.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Upon the pavement in front of the Exchange, +Bristol, there are four very handsome bronze tables standing, upon a +single pedestal each; the tops circular, about two feet in diameter, +with a slightly raised edge round them. It is said that they were +presented to the Bristol merchants for them to pay their money upon; but +when, or by whom, they were so given, I have not been able to learn. A +friend of mine who was lately examining them was told that they were +formerly called "Nails," and gave rise to the saying, "Pay down upon the +nail:" this I should think must be an error. "Solvere ad unguem" would +be found to be older than they are. If any of your correspondents can +give me any information respecting them, I shall be obliged.</p> + + <p class="right"> E. N. W.</p> + + <p class="left">Southwark.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>290. <i>Macfarlane's Geographical Collection.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—In almost every work +treating of the history and topographical antiquities of Scotland, we +are referred to <i>Macfarlane's Geographical Collection</i>, preserved in the +Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. This MS., and its author, are very little +known, except by name, <i>benorth the Tay</i>, notwithstanding they are so +often quoted. I should be glad if any of your correspondents would give +me any information regarding the extent of country embraced, <i>i.e.</i> +parishes, counties, &c., and if any part of it has been published <i>per +se</i>, and when, and where.</p> + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">NTIQUARIENSIS.</span></p> + + <p class="left"> Inverness.</p> + + + + + +<h4> +<span>291. "<i>Acu tinali meridi.</i>"</span> +</h4> + +<p>—At the head of an English metrical +discourse upon the administration of justice, in a MS. of the fourteenth +or fifteenth century, in the Public Library, Cambridge, is placed the +following obscure motto, upon which, perhaps, some correspondent can +throw light:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + + <p>"O judex vi fervida hanc servabis artem,</p> + <p>Acu tinali merida .i. audi alteram partem."</p> +</div> + +<p>I have not seen the MS., but am told that the correctness of the reading +may be depended upon.</p> + + <p class="right"> C. W. G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>292. <i>Sir Joshua Reynolds.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Having the early catalogues of the Royal +Academy before me, I see that in 1773 and following years, Sir Joshua +exhibited twelve or thirteen works. You will find they stand as current +Nos. in the list. Can you inform me whether they hung on the line, that +is, in the space of privilege, or took their chance with the many? Had +they, under his own eye, been grouped together, what a treat it must +have been to see them! What an evidence of the industry of the man! +Though too late in the day to obtain these details from actual +observation, enough may be recorded or remembered through others, to +assist in throwing light on the rules and customs of past days, which +never can be deficient in interest while they tend to illustrate the +habits and character of great men.</p> + +<p>You could touch no topic more interesting than this must prove to the +increasing curiosity seekers in your useful and amusing repertorium, and +your attention to it will be valued by</p> + + + <p class="right"> A L<span class="smcap lowercase">AYMAN.</span></p> + + <p class="left">Athenum Club.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>293. <i>Great Plough at Castor Church.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents +give me the history of, or afford me any intelligence about, the large +plough which Dibdin, in his <i>Northern Tour</i>, vol. i. p. 44., tells us is +about twenty feet in length, and suspended in Castor Church, extending +from one transept to the other? In a foot-note on the same church, he +speaks of a curious ceremony, as practised there every Palm Sunday, +respecting a peculiar tenure. I do not find it referred to in any other +account of Castor Church. Bourne, in his <i>Antiquities</i>, vol. i. p. 130., +gives the history of it, but says it is practised at Caistor Church in +Lincolnshire. Is the doctor right in his statement? I would also be glad +to know whether it is still continued at Caistor Church, as some years +ago an act was tried for in the House to abolish it.</p> + + <p class="right"> R. W. E<span class="smcap lowercase">LLIOT.</span></p> + + <p class="left"> Hull.<a id="Page_407"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[407]</span></p> + + + + +<h4> +<span>294. <i>Church of St. Bene't Fink.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is there any copy in existence of the +inscriptions on the gravestones and monuments of St. Bene't Fink in the +City, adjoining the Exchange, and which is now pulled down? If any of +your correspondents can direct me to any transcript of them, I shall be +much obliged by the communication.</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AS.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROSSLEY.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span>295. <i>Spectacles, Inscription on a Pair of.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Will you oblige me by +inserting, as soon as possible, the following curious inscription round +the rim of a pair of spectacles found in a stone coffin in Ombersley +Church, Worcestershire, some years since, when the old church was being +pulled down. It is as follows:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"JOHERHARD MAY: SEEL ERB. PETER CONRAD. WIEGEL."</p> + +</div> + +<p>This occurs on each rim, and I should be glad of an explanation of the +words.</p> + + + <p class="right">J. N. B. (A Subscriber.)</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>296 <i>Campbell.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your readers tell me what he supposes +Campbell to mean when he makes the sister, in delivering her curse on +her brother, say—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "Go where the havoc of your kerne</p> + <p>Shall float as high as mountain fern!"</p> + +</div> + + <p class="noindent">Does havoc float? Does mountain fern float? What is the effect of either +floating <i>high</i>? The lines are in "The Flower of Love lies Bleeding."</p> + +<p>Also can any one say who or what this is?</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p>"Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay</p> + <p>Chac'd on his night-steed by the star of day!"</p> + +</div> + + <p class="noindent">The lines are near the end of <i>The Pleasures of Hope</i>.</p> + + + <p class="right">W. W.</p> + + <p class="left">Cambridge.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>297. <i>Family of Cordeux.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—What is the origin of the name? When was it +introduced into England? What are the armorial bearings of the family? +What family or families bear gu. three stags' heads, on a chief arg. two +griffins' heads erased: Crest, a griffin's head erased? Any information +of the Cordeux family more than fifty years ago will confer an +obligation on the querist.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. H. K.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>298. <i>Panelling Inscription.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—I have recently discovered, in my +investigations for the <i>History and Antiquities of South Lynn</i>, an old +building in this town which bears the date 1605 on one of its gables; +and in the course of my peregrinations through, I find some old +panelling with the date 1676, and the following inscription in old +English (large) characters:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "As nothinge is so absolutly blest</p> + <p class="i3">But chance may crosse, and make it seeming ill,</p> + <p> So nothinge cane a man so much molest,</p> + <p class="i3"> But God may chang, and seeing good he will."</p> + +</div> + +<p>It has been suggested to me that these lines form a quotation from some +of our English poets; if so, of whom? for it is of great importance to +me to know, as it will tend considerably to connect the date with the +building; and if the lines can be traced to a writer of the period, it +will establish what I require very much, and assist me in my researches.</p> + + + <p class="right">J. N. C.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span>299. <i>Infantry Firing.</i></span> +</h4> + +<p>—Can any of your correspondents refer me to +authentic instances of the comparative numbers of rounds of cartridges +fired in action, with the number of men killed? I think I have read it +in Sir W. Napier's <i>History of the Peninsular War</i>, and also in <i>The +Times</i>, but omitted to make a note. I have some recollection of 60,000 +rounds beings fired, and only one man killed! and another instance of +80,000, and twenty-five killed! Any remarkable instances of the +inefficiency of musketry fire will be acceptable.</p> + + + <p class="right"> H. Y. W. N.</p> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Replies.</span> +</h2> + +<h3> +<span>THE REVEREND RICHARD FARMER.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 379.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>Assuming that the principal A<span class="smcap lowercase">TROCITIES</span> of the reverend Richard Farmer +are his <i>Essay on the learning of Shakespeare</i>, and the substance of a +note on <i>Hamlet</i>, Act V. Sc. 2., I shall transcribe, as a hint to the +lovers of manly criticism, a general character of that writer, a +character of his <i>Essay</i>, and the note in question:—</p> + + +<p class="blockquot">1. "His knowledge is various, extensive, and recondite. With much + seeming negligence, and perhaps in later years some real + relaxation, he understands more and remembers more about common + and uncommon subjects of literature, than many of those who would + be thought to read all the day and meditate half the night. In + quickness of apprehension and acuteness of discrimination I have + not often seen his equal."—Samuel P<span class="smcap lowercase">ARR.</span></p> + +<p class="blockquot">2. "It [the <i>Essay on the learning of Shakespeare</i>] may in truth + be pointed out as a master-piece, whether considered with a view + to the sprightliness and vivacity with which it is written, the + clearness of the arrangement, the force and variety of the + evidence, or the compression of scattered materials into a narrow + compass; materials which inferior writers would have expanded + into a large volume."—Isaac R<span class="smcap lowercase">EED.</span></p> + +<p class="blockquot"> 3. "There's a divinity that <i>shapes our ends</i>, <i>Rough-hew</i> [them + how we will.] Dr. Farmer informs me, that these words are merely + technical. A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in <i>skewers</i>, lately + observed to him, that his nephew (an idle lad), could only + <i>assist</i> him in making them;"—'he could <i>rough-hew</i> them, but I + was obliged to <i>shape their ends</i>.' [To shape the ends of + <i>wool-skewers</i>, i.e. to <i>point</i> them, requires a degree of skill; + any one can <i>rough-hew</i> them.] Whoever recollects the profession + of Shakespeare's father, will admit that his son might be no + stranger to such a term [such terms]. I have [frequently] seen + packages of wool pinn'd up with <i>skewers</i>.—S<span class="smcap lowercase">TEEVENS.</span></p> + +<p>This note was first printed by Malone in 1780,<a id="Page_408"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[408]</span> and was reprinted +by him in 1790; the portions within brackets having been added in 1793? +It is clear, from this statement, that it received the deliberate +revision of its author. Now, I cannot deny that Farmer related the +anecdote of the <i>wool-man</i>—suspicious as is the character of the +witness, but I contend that the observations on it should be ascribed to +Steevens alone; and so I shall leave your critic A. E. B. to his own +reflections.</p> + + <p class="right">B<span class="smcap lowercase">OLTON</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORNEY.</span></p> + + + +<h3> +<span>ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 365.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>A S<span class="smcap lowercase">UBSCRIBER TO THE</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">NGLO</span>-C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATHOLIC</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">IBRARY</span> has discovered <i>one</i> fault in +<i>one</i> volume (published in 1844) of a series which now extends to +sixty-three volumes; and on this <i>one fault</i> he builds a representation +which implies, in general, incompetency in the editors, and neglect of +proper supervision on the part of the committee of the Anglo-Catholic +Library. I believe the character of the editions of most of the volumes +sent out in this series is sufficiently known to theologians to render +such a charge as this of little importance as respects their judgment. +But it may not be so with many of the readers of + "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>."</p> + +<p>The gravamen of the charge rests on the importance of a certain passage +of St. Jerome bearing on the Presbyterian controversy,—on the necessity +for a familiarity with that controversy in an editor of Overall's +<i>Convocation Book</i>,—and the consequent incompetency of a person not +thus familiar with it to edit that work without, not the assistance +merely, but the immediate supervision of the committee.</p> + +<p>Now the subject of episcopacy is <i>not</i>, as the Subscriber alleges, "the +principal subject" of this Book; it occupies 30 pages out of 272: nor is +a familiarity with that controversy in any special way necessary for an +editor of the volume. The subjects of which the <i>Convocation Book</i> +treats are wide and varied, and such omnigenous knowledge as a familiar +acquaintance with them implies, is not, nor could be, required in any +editor, nor be expected by subscribers.</p> + +<p>The committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library undertook to publish careful +reprints of the works of our old divines; and had they simply reprinted +with accuracy the <i>Convocation Book</i>, as published in 1690, they would +have fulfilled their covenant with the subscribers. They did, however, +much more.</p> + +<p>It was known that the original MS. copy of this Book was preserved at +Durham. The edition of 1690 had been printed from a transcript made by +Archbishop Sancroft. The committee therefore engaged the services of a +gentleman whose name is well known as an accurate editor of works +existing in MS.</p> + +<p>This gentlemen obtained access to all the known MSS. of the <i>Convocation +Book</i>; viz. 1. The original copy, and papers of alterations suggested as +it passed through the Upper House, preserved at Durham. 2. A cotemporary +MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham. 3. Archbishop +Sancroft's Transcript, preserved at Emanuel College, Cambridge and 4. A +MS. of the first book belonging to Bishop Barlow, preserved at Queen's +College, Oxford. These MSS. were carefully collated, and the variations, +in many respects curious and interesting, were printed at the bottom of +the pages, and, as regards the 4th MS., at the end of the volume. The +result is a correct edition of the text of this book, with all that can +be learned of its variations—the book so highly extolled by your +correspondent. And I hear no objection alleged against the care and +faithfulness with which this part of the work has been executed: your +correspondent does not appear to be aware of anything of the kind having +been done.</p> + +<p>But the editor went still further—he not only gave the subscribers so +much more than they had bargained for, he added full references to the +authorities quoted in the book; and when the passages were important, he +printed them in full, and even added references to works in which the +arguments were more largely handled. Now these references appear to me +to amount to many hundreds. They begin with Josephus, and run through +Fathers, councils, schoolmen, Roman Catholic controversialists, +ecclesiastical historians, and the chroniclers of the Middle Ages: and, +as far as I can judge in looking over the notes, not more than three or +four of these passages have been undiscovered by the editor, and he +honestly says he has not found them; one of these is the unlucky place +of St. Jerome, which your correspondent happens to know something about.</p> + +<p>The remarks of your correspondent have led me to examine the book, and I +refer any one who has the least regard for candour or fairness, to do +the same. I would ask them to judge it as a whole, to see the number and +variety of the references, and the care which has been bestowed upon +them; and to say whether—because he missed one passage, and knew not +its importance—the editor can be fairly charged with incompetency; or +the committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library accused of neglect, in +leaving the work in his hands without exercising over him such +supervision as implies the reading every sheet as it passed through the +press; for <i>assistance</i> the editor had, and amply acknowledges that he +received, at the hand of the superintending editor.</p> + + + <p class="right">A<span class="smcap lowercase">NOTHER</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">UBSCRIBER TO THE</span><br /> + A<span class="smcap lowercase">NGLO</span>-C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATHOLIC</span> + L<span class="smcap lowercase">IBRARY</span>.<a id="Page_409"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[409]</span></p> + + + + + +<h3> +<span>GENERAL JAMES WOLFE.<br /> +(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 322.)</span> +</h3> + + +<p>Many letters of Wolfe's will be found published in the <i>Naval and +Military Gazette</i> of the latter part of last and early part of this +year.</p> + +<p>By the statement of your correspondent +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLE</span>, Wolfe was promoted as +captain in Burrell's regiment (at present the 4th, or king's own) in +1744. Now Burrell's regiment took the left of the first line at +Culloden, so that James Wolfe, unless absent on leave, or employed on +particular duty, must have been in that action. The left of the second +line was occupied by "Colonel Wolfe's" regiment (now the 8th or +"king's"). See the "Rebellion of 1745," by Robert Chambers, in +Constable's <i>Miscellany</i>, vol. xvi. p. 86. Captains of <i>nineteen</i> were +common enough at that period, but Wolfe is the only one whose name has +excited attention.</p> + +<p>As to Wolfe's having been "the youngest general ever intrusted with such +a responsible command" as that at Quebec, your correspondent surely +forgets Napoleon in modern, and the Black Prince in more remote times.</p> + +<p>I have seen at Mr. Scott's, of Cahircon, in the co. Clare, an engraving +of Wolfe: he is designated as the "Hero of Louisburgh," and is +represented with his right to the spectator, the right hand and arm +raised as if enforcing an order. The features are small, the nose rather +"cocked," and the face conveys the idea of spirit and determination; he +wears a very small three-cocked hat, with a plain black cockade, a sort +of frock coat reaching to the knees, where it is met by long boots; +there are no epaulets, a twist belt confines the coat, and supports a +cartouche-box in front, and a bayonet at the right side, and he carries +a fusil slung from his right shoulder "en bandouillire."</p> + +<p>It is said that the father of Wolfe was an Irishman, and I have been +shown in the co. Wicklow the farm on which it is said that James Wolfe +was born. It lies near Newtown-Mount-Kennedy. Be that as it may, the +name has been made celebrated in Ireland within the last half century by +three individuals: first, the Lord Kilwarden, who was murdered during +Emmett's rising in 1803; secondly, the late Chief Baron, who spelt his +name "with a difference;" and last, not least, the author of the +celebrated lines on the "Burial of Sir John Moore."</p> + + + <p class="right"> K<span class="smcap lowercase">ERRIENSIS.</span></p> + + + + +<h3> +<span>PUNISHMENT OF EDWARD OF CAERNARVON BY HIS FATHER.—CHARACTER OF EDWARD +I.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 338.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>I think considerable light is thrown upon this very remarkable incident +by a letter of the prince himself to the Earl of Lincoln, dated +Midhurst, June 14, which appears upon the Roll of that prince's letters +lately discovered at the Chapter House, Westminster. (See <i>Ninth Report +of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records</i>, App. II., No. 5.) This +letter has been printed in one of the volumes of the Sussex +Archological Society, having been written from that county. For such of +your readers as may not have either of these books at command, I will +give the material part of the letter, translated:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"On Sunday, the 13th of June, we came to Midhurst, where we found + the lord the king, our father; the Monday following, on account + of certain words which, it had been reported to the king, had + taken place <i>between us and the Bishop of Chester</i>, he was so + enraged with us that he has forbidden us, or any of our retinue, + to dare to enter his house; and he has forbidden all the people + of his household and of the exchequer to give or lend us anything + for the support of our household. We are staying at Midhurst to + wait his pleasure and favour, and we shall follow after him as + well as we are able, at a distance of ten or twelve miles from + his house, until we have been able to recover his good will, + which we very much desire."</p> + +<p>The roll contains several letters which show how seriously the prince +was affected by his father's displeasure, and how the king was appeased.</p> + +<p>By the letter above quoted, the "minister" appears to have been the +Bishop of Chester, then treasurer of the royal household. But the +connexion between the prince's case and that of William de Brewosa does +not appear, unless they were on intimate terms, as is not improbable: +and the punishment of the prince himself is, in my opinion, referred to +as a precedent or justification of the punishment imposed upon Brewes. +That the severe punishment so imposed was richly deserved none can doubt +who has read the report on the Roll: but an unfortunate error in the +press<a id="press2"></a><a title="Go to footnote 2." href="#fn2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> makes it appear that the prince, and not De Brewes, was the +culprit, and performed the penance.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn2"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#press2" class="label">[2]</a> Page + 339. col. 1. line 46., where "Edward" is printed +instead of "William de Brewes."</p> + +<p>To return to the prince's offence and punishment. He appears to have +been nearly starved into submission, as the royal prohibition against +supplying him with articles or money was obliged to be removed by a +Letter Close directed to all the sheriffs, dated Ospring, 22nd July.</p> + +<p>The whole transaction is highly characteristic of the firmness of the +king. Whether the prince's letters which I have referred to make out a +case of <i>harshness</i>, as regards some other circumstances, I will not now +trouble you with. But while examining cotemporary documents illustrative +of the prince and his correspondents, I met with an entry upon the Close +Roll (33 Edw. I.) too strikingly illustrative of the determination +and<a id="Page_410"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[410]</span> caution of Edward I. to be allowed to remain in its present +obscurity.</p> + +<p>On the 27th November the prince addressed a letter to Master Gerard de +Pecoraria, earnestly begging him to favour and forward the affairs of +Ralph de Baldok, then Bishop Elect of London. The "affairs" in question +were the removal of certain scruples instilled into the Papal ear +against the approval of the bishop elect; a matter generally involving +some diplomacy and much money. Master Gerard was employed by the Pope to +collect various dues in England; and so his good will was worth +obtaining. But the following Letter Close will show how he received his +"quietus," as far as the King of England was concerned:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"The King to Ralph de Sandwich.—By reason of the excessive and + indecent presumption with which Gerard de Pecoraria is making + oppressive levies and collections of money in various places; by + whose authority we know not, for he will not show it; and + inasmuch as the same is highly derogatory to our crown, and + injurious to our people, and many complaints have been made + against him on that account; We command you to take the said + Gerard before the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, and there warn + him to cease from making the said levies, and to quit the kingdom + in six days, <i>provided that at such warning no public notary be + present, so that the warning be given to the said Gerard alone, + no one else hearing. And be you careful that no one but yourself + see this letter, or get a copy thereof.</i>"</p> + +<p>Who can doubt that such a mandate was strictly carried out?</p> + +<p>I regret that my memoranda do not preserve the original language.</p> + + <p class="right">J<span class="smcap lowercase">OSEPH</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">URTT.</span></p> + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">IBSON</span> will find that this story, as well as that relative to Sir +William Gascoigne, is also told by MR. F<span class="smcap lowercase">OSS</span> (<i>Judges of England</i>, vol. +iii. pp. 43. 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by Prince +Edward was an insult to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and +Coventry, occasioned probably by the boldness with which that prelate, +while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter de Gaveston, and +restrained the Prince's extravagance. (<i>Ibid.</i> p. 114.)</p> + + <p class="right">R. S. V. P.</p> + + + +<h3> +<span>ELIZABETH JOCELINE'S LEGACY TO AN UNBORNE CHILD.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 367.)</span> +</h3> + +<p>Your correspondent J. M. G., whose letter is inserted in your 106th +Number, labours under various mistakes relating to this small volume. +The first edition was not printed in 1684, but more than sixty years +earlier. Moreover, that edition, or at least what the Rev. C. H. +Craufurd appended to his Sermons in 1840 as a reprint, is not a genuine +or faithful republication of the original work. I have for several years +possessed a copy of <i>the third impression</i>, Printed at "London, by <i>Iohn +Hauiland</i>, for <i>Hanna Barres</i>, 1625;" and of this third impression a +<i>fac-simile</i> reprint has passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood +in Edinburgh, which new edition corresponds <i>literatim et verbatim</i> +(line for line and page for page) with the earliest impression known to +exist, which differs materially in several passages from the reprint +published by Mr. Craufurd. This new edition is accompanied by a long +preface or dissertation containing many particulars relating to the +authoress and her relatives, and to a number of ladies of high station +and polished education, who during the period intervening between the +Reformation in England and the Revolution in 1688, distinguished +themselves by publishing works characterized by exalted piety and +refined taste. With regard to Mrs. Joceline, no printed work appears to +have preserved correct information. Genealogists seem to have conspired +to change her Christian name from Elizabeth to Mary or Jane. The husband +is supposed to have sprung from an old Cambridgeshire family, the +Joscelyns of Hogington, now called Oakington, the name of a parish +adjoining to Cottenham. The writer of the preface seems rather disposed +to trace his parentage to John Joscelyn (Archbishop Parker's chaplain), +who, according to Strype, was <i>an Essex man</i>.</p> + +<p>But I have probably exceeded the bounds allotted to an answer to a +Query.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. L.</p> + + <p class="left"> Edinburgh.</p> + + +<p><i>The Mother's Legacy to her unborne Child</i> is reprinted for the benefit +of the Troubridge National Schools, and can be procured at Hatchard's, +Piccadilly.</p> + + <p class="right">J. S.</p> + + + + +<h3> +<span class="bla">Replies to Minor Queries.</span> +</h3> + +<h4> +<span><i>Coleridge's "Christabel"</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 316.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I am not familiar with +the Coleridge Papers, under that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that +I know at all to what papers M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ORTIMER</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLINS</span> refers in his +question. On this account I am not qualified, as he will perhaps think, +to give an opinion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a +continuation of "Christabel." If I may be allowed, however, to hazard a +judgment, as one to whom most of the great poet-philosopher's works have +long and affectionately been known, I would venture to express an +opinion against the right of these lines to admission as one of his +productions. I do it with diffidence; but with the hope that I may aid +in eliciting the truth concerning them.</p> + +<p>I presume "brookless plash" is a misprint for "brooklet's plash."</p> + +<p>The expressions "the sorrow of human years," "wild despair," "the years +of life below," of a person who is not yet dead and in heaven, do not +seem to me, <i>as they stand in the lines</i>, to be in<a id="Page_411"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[411]</span> Coleridge's +manner; but especially I do not think the couplet—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p> "Who felt all grief, all wild despair,</p> + <p>That the race of man may ever bear,"</p> + +</div> + +<p class="noindent">is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading as I do in the <i>Aids +to Reflection</i>, vol. i. p. 255. (edit. Pickering, 1843) his protest +against the doctrine</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"holden by more than one of these divines, that the agonies + suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the sum total of the + torments of all mankind here and hereafter, or to the infinite + debt which in an endless succession of instalments we should have + been paying to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full + by the Son of God incarnate!"</p> + +<p>There are one or two other expressions of which I entertain doubt, but +not in sufficient degree to make it worth while to dwell upon them.</p> + +<p>Are we ever likely to receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or +from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, +of his <i>Logosophia</i>? We can ill afford to lose a work the conception of +which engrossed much of his thoughts, if I am rightly informed, towards +the close of his life.</p> + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HEOPHYLACT.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Dryden—Illustrations by T. Holt White</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 294.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—My +father's notes on Dryden are in my possession. Sir Walter Scott never +saw them. The words <span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS</span> attributes to Sir Walter were used by +another commentator on Dryden some thirty years since.</p> + + <p class="right"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LGERNON</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">OLT</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">HITE.</span></p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Lofcop, Meaning of</i></span> +<span> (Vol. i., p. 319.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—<i>Lofcop</i>, not <i>loscop</i>, is +clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired. <i>Lovecope</i> +is the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in +the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your +correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is +an altered form of the word <i>lahcop</i>, which occurs in the laws of +Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe's <i>Ancient Laws and Institutes of +England</i>, vol. i., p. 294., note. The word <i>loveday</i>, which is found in +English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling +differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This +must originally have been <i>lah-dg</i>, though I am not aware that the word +is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found +<i>Lgdagr</i>, altered in modern Danish into <i>Lavdag</i> or <i>Lovdag.</i></p> + + <p class="right"> C. W. G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres, 1608</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 272.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—These +Epigrams, about which Q<span class="smcap lowercase">USO</span> inquires, are not the production of Thomas +Middleton the dramatist, but of "<i>Richard</i> Middleton of Yorke, +gentleman." The only copy known to exist is among the curious collection +of books presented by the poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. +A careful reprint, limited to forty copies, was published at Edinburgh +in 1840. It is said to have been done under the superintendance of James +Maidment, Esq.</p> + + <p class="right"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">DWARD</span> F. R<span class="smcap lowercase">IMBAULT</span>.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Lord Edward Fitzgerald</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 173.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Your correspondent R. H. +was misinformed as to the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's +Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that nobleman with +another of the United Irishmen leaders; namely, Robert Emmett, who was +arrested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward never lived at Harold's +Cross, either in avowed residence or concealment.</p> + +<p>R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the communication of L. M. M. +at Vol. iv., p. 230., who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family +for neglecting the decent burial of their chivalric relative. This is +not merited. The family was kept in complete ignorance as to how the +body was disposed of, it being the wish of the government of the day to +conceal the place of its sepulture; as is evident from their not +interring it at St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond and all +the others whom they put to death at Newgate; and from the notoriety of +their having five years later adopted a similar course with regard to +the remains of Robert Emmett. (See Madden's <i>Life of Emmett</i>.) But is he +buried at St. Werburgh's? Several, and among others his daughter, Lady +Campbell, as appears from L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. +Some years since I conversed with an old man named Hammet, the +superannuated gravedigger of St. Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me +that he officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Catherine's church, +and that they were performed at night in silence, secrecy, and mystery.</p> + + <p class="right"> E. J. W.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Earwig</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 274.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I do not know what the derivations of +this word may be, which are referred to by <span title="[Greek: AXN]">ΑΞΩΝ</span> as being in +vogue. It is a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and Webster do not +notice the word at all; although I am not aware that it is of limited or +provincial use. In Bailey's <i>Scottish Dictionary</i>, and in Skinner's +<i>Etymologicon</i>, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon <i>ear-wicga</i>, i.e. +ear-beetle. In Bosworth's <i>Dictionary</i> we find <i>wicga</i>, a kind of +insect, a shorn-bug, a beetle.</p> + + <p class="right">C. W. G.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Sanderson and Taylor</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 293.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—In No. 103 of + "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>," under the head of "<i>Sanderson and Taylor</i>," a question is put +by W. W. as to the common source of the sentence, "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." Without at all +saying that it is the common source, I would beg to refer W. W. to "The +Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where "wisdom"<a id="Page_412"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[412]</span> is described +as "the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the +power of God, and the image of His goodness." The coincidence is +curious, though the Latin expressions are dissimilar, the verse in "The +Wisdom of Solomon" being as follows: "Nam splendor est luce terna et +speculum efficacitatis Dei expers macul, ac imago bonitatis ejus."</p> + + + <p class="right">R. M. M.<br /> + (A Subscriber).</p> + + <p class="left"> Taunton.</p> + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Island of gina and the Temple of Jupiter Panhellinius</i></span> + <span>(Vol. iv., p. 255.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—In Lemprire's <i>Classical Dict.</i>, by the Rev. J. A. Giles, 1843, +is the subjoined:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"The most remarkable remnant of antiquity at the present day is + the temple of 'Jupiter Panhellinius' on a <i>mount of the same + name</i> about four hours' distance from the port, supposed to be + one of the most ancient temples in Greece, and the oldest + specimen of Doric architecture; Dodwell pronounces it to be the + most picturesque ruin in Greece."</p> + +<p class="noindent">And in Arrowsmith's <i>Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography</i>, 1839, +p. 414.:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"In the southern part of the island is <i>Panhellinius Mons</i>, so + called <i>from a temple</i> of Jupiter Panhellinius, erected on its + summit by acus."</p> + + <p class="right">C. W. M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARKHAM</span>.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>The Broad Arrow</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 315.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I forget where it is, but +remember something about a place held by the tenure of presenting the +king with</p> + +<div class="poem"> + + <p class="i5"> "———— a Broad-Arrow,</p> + <p>When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow."</p> + +</div> + +<p>I would however suggest, that the use of an arrow-head as a government +mark may have a Celtic origin; and that the so-called arrow may be the +<span title="[Arrow symbol]">↑</span> or <i></i>, the broad <i>a</i> of the Druids. This letter was +typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect or +holiness; and I believe stood also for king or prince.</p> + + <p class="right"> A. C. M.</p> + + <p class="left">Exeter, Nov. 4. 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Consecration of Bishops in Sweden</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 345.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—E. H. A. asks +whether any record exists of the consecration of Bethvid, Bishop of +<i>Strengns</i> in the time of Gustavus I., King of Sweden? I cannot reply +from this place with the certainty I might be able to do, if I had +access to my books and papers. But I may venture to state, that the +"consecration" (if by that term be meant the canonical and apostolical +ordination) of Bethvidus Sermonis, in common with that of all the +Lutheran Bishops of Sweden, is involved in much doubt and obscurity; the +fact being, that they all derive their orders from <i>Petrus Magni</i>, +Bishop of Westeras, who <i>is said</i> to have been "consecrated" bishop of +that see at Rome by a cardinal in <span class="smaller">A.D.</span> 1524, the then Pontiff having +acceded to the request of Gustavus Vasa to this effect. It is, however, +uncertain whether Petrus Magni ever received proper episcopal +consecration, although it appears probable he did. I endeavoured at one +time to ascertain the fact by reference to Rome; but though promised by +my correspondent (a British Romanist resident there) that he would +procure the examination of the Roll of Bishops in communion with the +Holy See, and consecrated by Papal license, for the purpose of +discovering whether Bishop Petrus Magni's name occurred therein or not, +I never heard more of the subject. I could not help judging, that this +silence on the part of my correspondent (to whom I was personally +unknown), after his having replied immediately and most civilly to my +first communication, was very eloquent and significant. But still the +doubt remains uncleared, as to whether the Swedish episcopacy possess or +not, <i>as they maintain they do</i>, the blessing of an apostolical and +canonical succession.</p> + + <p class="right"> G. J. R. G.</p> + + <p class="left">Pen-y-lau, Ruabon.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Meaning of Spon</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 39.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Is the word <i>spooney</i> derived +from the Anglo-Saxon <i>spanan</i>, <i>spn</i>, <i>asponen</i>, to allure, entice, and +therefore equivalent to one allured, trapped, &c., a gowk or simpleton? +If C. H. B. could discover whether those specified places were ever at +any time tenanted by objectionable characters, this verb and its +derivatives might assist his inquiries. He will, however, see that +<i>Spondon</i> (pronounced <i>spoondon</i>) in Derbyshire is another instance of +the word he inquires after.</p> + + <p class="right">T<span class="smcap lowercase">HOS.</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">AWRENCE</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Ashby-de-la-Zouch.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Quaker Expurgated Bible</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 87.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—I can inform the +correspondent who inquires whether such a publication of a Bible, which +a committee of Friends were intending to publish, ever took place, that +no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends, who adopt the +English authorised version only, as may be seen by their yearly epistle +and other authorised publications. I have inquired of many Friends who +were likely to know, and not one ever heard of what the authoress of +<i>Quakerism</i> states.</p> + + <p class="right">A M<span class="smcap lowercase">EMBER OF THE</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">OCIETY OF</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">RIENDS.</span></p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Cozens the Painter</i> </span> +<span>(Vol. iv., p. 368.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—In Rose's <i>Biographical +Dictionary</i> it is stated that Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter, +born in Russia, but attaining his celebrity in London, where he taught +drawing. In 1778 he published a theoretical work called <i>The Principle +of Beauty relative to the Human Face</i>, with illustrations, engraved by +Bartolozzi. He died in 1786.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. O'G.</p> + + + + +<h4> +<span><i>Authors of the Homilies</i></span> +<span> (Vol. iv., p. 346.).</span> +</h4> + +<p>—Allow me to say that in +the reply to the inquiry of G. R. C. one work is omitted which will +afford at once all that is wanted: for the Preface to Professor Corrie's +recent edition of the <i>Homilies</i>,<a id="Page_413"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[413]</span> printed at the Pitt Press, +contains the most circumstantial account of their authors.</p> + + + <p class="right"> W. K. C.</p> + + <p class="left">College, Ely.</p> + + + + +<h2> +<span class="bla">Miscellaneous.</span> +</h2> + +<h3> +<span>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</span> +</h3> + + +<p>We had occasion, some short time since, to speak in terms of deserved +commendation of the excellent <i>Handbook to the Antiquities of the +British Museum</i> which had been prepared by Mr. Vaux. Another and most +important department of our great national collection has just found in +Dr. Mantell an able scientific, yet popular expositor of its treasures. +His <i>Petrifactions and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of +Organic Remains in the British Museum</i>, forms the new volume of Bohn's +<i>Scientific Library</i>; and, thanks to the acquirements of Dr. Mantell, +his good sense in divesting his descriptions, as much as possible, of +technical language, and the numerous well-executed woodcuts by which it +is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to accomplish the +purpose for which it has been prepared; namely, to serve as a handbook +to the general visitor to the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an +explanatory Catalogue for the more scientific observer.</p> + +<p>To satisfy the deep interest taken by many persons, who are unable to +study the phenomena themselves, in the numerous new and remarkable facts +relating to the formation and temperature of the globe, and to the +movements of the ocean and of the atmosphere, as well as to the +influence of both on climate, and on the adaptation of the earth for the +dwelling of man, which the exertions of scientific men have of late +years revealed, was the motive which led Professor Buff to write his +<i>Familiar Letters on the Physics of the Earth; treating of the chief +Movements of the Land, the Waters, and the Air, and the Forces that give +rise to them</i>: and Dr. Hoffman has been induced to undertake an English +edition of them from a desire of rendering accessible to the public a +source of information from which he has derived no less of profit than +of pleasure: which profit and which pleasure will, we have no doubt, be +shared by a large number of readers of this unpretending but very +instructive little volume.</p> + +<p><i>Welsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of the Twelfth +Century.</i> These sketches, which treat of Bardism, the Kings of Wales, +the Welsh Church, Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensis, are +from the pen of the amiable author of the <i>Essays on Church Union</i>, and +are written in the same attractive and popular style.</p> + +<p>About five-and-thirty years ago the Treatment of the Insane formed the +subject of a Parliamentary inquiry, and the public mind was shocked by +the appalling scenes revealed before a Committee of the House of +Commons. But the publication of them did its work; for that such scenes +are now but matters of history, we owe to that inquiry. The condition of +the London Poor, in like manner, is now in the course of investigation; +not indeed by an official commission, but by a private individual, Mr. +Henry Mayhew, who is gathering by personal visits to the lowest haunts +of poverty and its attendant vices, and from personal communication with +the people he is describing, an amount of fact illustrative of the +social conditions of the poorest classes in this metropolis, which +deserves, and must receive, the earnest attention of the statesman, the +moralist, and the philanthropist. His work is entitled <i>London Labour +and the London Poor, a Cyclopdia of the Condition and Earnings of those +that</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">WILL</span> + <i>work, those that</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">CANNOT</span> <i>work, +and those that</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">WILL NOT</span> +<i>work</i>. Vol. I. <i>The London Street Folk</i>, is just completed. It is of +most painful interest, for it paints in vivid colours the misery, +ignorance, and demoralisation in which thousands are living at our very +doors; and its perusal must awaken in every right-minded man an earnest +desire to do his part towards assisting the endeavours of the honest +poor to earn their bread—towards instructing the ignorant, and towards +reforming the vicious.</p> + +<p>C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATALOGUES</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">ECEIVED.</span>—Williams and Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street) +German Book Circular No. 28.; J. Lilly's (19. King Street) very Cheap +Clearance Catalogue No. 2.; J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue +No. 31. of Books Old and New; W. Brown's (130. Old Street) Register of +Literature, Ancient, Modern, English, Foreign, No. 1.; T. Kerslake's (3. +Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue of Geological and Scientific Library of +the late Rev. T. Williams.</p> + + + +<h3> +<span>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES<br /> +WANTED TO PURCHASE.</span> +</h3> + + + +<p class="indh"> H<span class="smcap lowercase">UNTER'S</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">EANERY OF</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">ONCASTER.</span> Vol. I. Large or small paper.</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">LARE'S</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">URAL</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">USE.</span></p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">HRISTIAN</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">IETY</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">REED FROM THE</span> +D<span class="smcap lowercase">ELUSIONS OF</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ODERN</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">NTHUSIASTS.</span> + A.D. 1756 or 1757.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">N</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">NSWER TO</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">ATHER</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">UDDLESTONE'S</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">HORT AND</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">LAIN</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">AY TO THE</span> + F<span class="smcap lowercase">AITH AND</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">HURCH</span>. By Samuel Grascombe. London, 1703. 8vo.</p> + + <p class="indh"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EASONS FOR</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">BROGATING THE TEST</span> I<span class="smcap lowercase">MPOSED UPON ALL</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">EMBERS OF</span> + P<span class="smcap lowercase">ARLIAMENT.</span> By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon. 1688. 4to.</p> + +<p class="indh"> L<span class="smcap lowercase">EWIS'S</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">IFE OF</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">AXTON.</span> 8vo. 1737.</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATALOGUE OF</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">OSEPH</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">MES'S</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">IBRARY.</span> 8vo. 1760.</p> + +<p class="indh"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">RAPP'S</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OMMENTARY.</span> Folio. Vol. I.</p> + +<p class="indh"> W<span class="smcap lowercase">HITLAY'S</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">ARAPHRASE ON THE</span> N<span class="smcap lowercase">EW</span> T<span class="smcap lowercase">ESTAMENT.</span> Folio. Vol. I. 1706.</p> + +<p class="indh"> L<span class="smcap lowercase">ONG'S</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">STRONOMY.</span> 4to. 1742.</p> + +<p class="indh"> M<span class="smcap lowercase">AD.</span> D'A<span class="smcap lowercase">RBLAY'S</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">IARY.</span> Vol. II. 1842.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">DAMS'</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ORAL</span> T<span class="smcap lowercase">ALES.</span></p> + +<p class="indh"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">UTOBIOGRAPHY OF</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHNSON.</span> 1805.</p> + +<p class="indh"> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILLIS'S</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">RCHITECTURE OF THE</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">IDDLE</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">GES.</span> (10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> will be + paid for a copy in good condition.)</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ARPENTER'S</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">EPUTY</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">IVINITY</span>; a Discourse of Conscience. 12mo. + 1657.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A T<span class="smcap lowercase">RUE AND</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">IVELY</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPRESENTATION OF </span> +P<span class="smcap lowercase">OPERY</span>, S<span class="smcap lowercase">HEWING THAT</span> +P<span class="smcap lowercase">OPERY IS ONLY</span> N<span class="smcap lowercase">EW</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ODELLED</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">AGANISM</span>, &c., 1679. 4to.</p> + +<p class="indh"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">RSKINE'S</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">PEECHES.</span> Vol. II. London, 1810.</p> + +<p class="indh"> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ARE'S</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ISSION OF THE</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OMFORTER.</span> Vol. I. London, 1846.</p> + +<p class="indh"> H<span class="smcap lowercase">OPE'S</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">SSAY ON</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">RCHITECTURE.</span> Vol. I. London, 1835. 2nd Edition.</p> + +<p class="indh"> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ULLER'S</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ISTORY OF</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">REECE.</span> Vol. II. (Library of Useful + Knowledge. Vol. XVII.)</p> + +<p class="indh"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">OMILLY'S</span> (S<span class="smcap lowercase">IR</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">AMUEL</span>) M<span class="smcap lowercase">EMOIRS.</span> Vol. II. London, 1840.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">COTT'S</span> (S<span class="smcap lowercase">IR</span> W.) L<span class="smcap lowercase">IFE OF</span> N<span class="smcap lowercase">APOLEON</span>. Vol. I. Edinburgh, 1837. 9 + Vol. Edition.</p> + +<p class="indh"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">OBERT</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILSON'S</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">KETCH OF THE</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">ISTORY OF</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">AWICK.</span> Small 8vo. + Printed in 1825.</p> + +<p class="indh"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ILSON'S</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">NNALS OF</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">AWICK.</span> Small 8vo. Printed in 1850.</p> + +<p class="indh"> B<span class="smcap lowercase">ARRINGTON'S</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">KETCHES OF HIS OWN</span> T<span class="smcap lowercase">IME.</span> Vol. III. London, 1830.</p> + +<p class="indh"> B<span class="smcap lowercase">RITISH</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">OETS</span> (Chalmers', Vol. X.) London, 1810.</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">HESTERFIELD'S</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">ETTERS TO HIS</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">ON</span>. Vol. III. London, 1774.</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ONSTABLE'S</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ISCELLANY</span>. Vol. LXXV.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">COTT'S</span> N<span class="smcap lowercase">OVELS</span>. Vol. XXXVI (Redgauntlet, II.); Vols. XLIV. XLV. + (Ann of Grerstein, I. & II.) 48 Vol. Edition.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">MOLLETT'S</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ORKS.</span> Vols. II. & IV. Edinburgh, 1800. 2nd + Edition.<a id="Page_414"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[414]</span></p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">OUTHEY'S</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">OETICAL</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ORKS</span>. Vol. III. London, 1837.</p> + +<p class="indh"> C<span class="smcap lowercase">RABBE'S</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ORKS.</span> Vol. V. London, 1831.</p> + +<p class="indh"> Four letters on several subjects to persons of quality, the + fourth being an answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's book, entitled + P<span class="smcap lowercase">OPERY</span>, &c., by Peter Walsh. 1686. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A C<span class="smcap lowercase">ONFUTATION OF THE</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">HIEF</span> D<span class="smcap lowercase">OCTRINES OF</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">OPERY</span>. A Sermon preached + before the King, 1678, by William Lloyd, D.D. 1679. 4to.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A S<span class="smcap lowercase">ERMON</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">REACHED AT</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">T.</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARGARET'S</span>, W<span class="smcap lowercase">ESTMINSTER</span>, B<span class="smcap lowercase">EFORE THE</span> + H<span class="smcap lowercase">OUSE OF</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">OMMONS</span>, M<span class="smcap lowercase">AY</span> 29, 1685, by W. Sherlock, D.D. 4to. London, + 1685.</p> + +<p class="indh"> P<span class="smcap lowercase">OPE'S</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">ITERARY</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ORRESPONDENCE</span>. Vol. III. Curll. 1735.</p> + +<p class="indh"> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LMANACS</span>, any for the year 1752.</p> + + <p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">ATTHIAS'</span> O<span class="smcap lowercase">BSERVATIONS ON</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">RAY</span>. 8vo. 1815.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">HAKSPEARE</span>, J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHNSON, AND</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">TEVENS, WITH</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EED'S</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">DDITIONS</span>. 3rd + Edition, 1785. Vol. V.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">WIFT'S</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">ORKS</span>, Faulkner's Edition. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1747. + Vol. III.</p> + +<p class="indh"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">OUTHEY'S</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">ENINSULAR</span> W<span class="smcap lowercase">AR</span>. Vols V. 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We are anxious to help it forward, but +it would be better that we should do so in conjunction with all others +who are willing to labor in the same cause.</i></p> + +<p>N. H. (Liverpool) <i>will find in</i> Vol. IV., p. 301. <i>two replies to his +Query</i>; <i>so we hope we shall still number him among our well-wishers.</i></p> + +<p>A. J. H., <i>who inquires respecting</i> "The Bar of Michael Angelo," <i>is +referred to our</i> 2nd Vol., p. 166.</p> + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> H<span class="smcap lowercase">OLDEN</span> <i>of Exeter's</i> Catalogue <i>has not been received by us.</i></p> + +<p>A<span class="smcap lowercase">BERDONIENSIS</span> <i>is thanked for his suggestion. 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I. +and II. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">II.</p> + +<p>HISTORY OF ENGLAND UNDER THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER. With a Sketch +of the Early Reformation. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">III.</p> + +<p>LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. Vols. V. and +VI. The First Years of the American War: 1763-80. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">IV.</p> + +<p>HON. CAPT. DEVEREUX'S LIVES OF THE EARLS OF ESSEX: 1540-1646. Founded +upon Letters and Documents chiefly unpublished. 2 vols. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">V.</p> + +<p>LADY THERESA LEWIS' LIVES OF THE FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF LORD +CHANCELLOR CLARENDON. Illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. +Portraits. 3 vols. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">VI.</p> + +<p>GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vols. IX. and X. From the Restoration of the +Democracy at Athens (B.C. 403), to the Conclusion of the Sacred War +(B.C. 346.) Maps. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">VII.</p> + +<p>MRS. BRAY'S LIFE AND REMINISCENCES OF THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. +Illustrations. Fcap. 4to.</p> + +<p class="center">VIII.</p> + +<p>WORSAAE'S ACCOUNT OF THE DANES AND NORTHMEN IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND +IRELAND. Woodcuts. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">IX.</p> + +<p>MR. MANSFIELD PARKYNS' NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ABYSSINIA. +Illustrations. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">X.</p> + +<p>A FAGGOT OF FRENCH STICKS. By the Author of "Bubbles from the Brunnen of +Nassau." 2 Vols. Post 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">XI.</p> + +<p>SIR WOODBINE PARISH'S BUENOS AYRES AND THE PROVINCES OF THE RIO DE LA +PLATA: their discovery, present state, &c. with the Geology of the +Pampas. Maps and Plates. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">XII.</p> + +<p>GURWOOD'S SELECTIONS FROM THE WELLINGTON DESPATCHES. New and Cheaper +Edition. 8vo.</p> + +<p class="center">XIII.</p> + +<p>SIR CHARLES BELL ON THE HAND; ITS MECHANISM AND ENDOWMENTS, as Evincing +Design. New Edition. Woodcuts. 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It thus contains a body of annotations, +which express the condition of human knowledge and the state of the +world's industry in 1851: and is a document of the utmost importance, as +a summary report of this vast international 'stock-taking,' which no +great library—nor any gentleman's library, of those who aim at the +collection of literary standards—can hereafter be without. It is not +the work of a day, a month, or a year: it is for all time. Centuries +hence it will be referred to as an authority on the condition to which +man has arrived at the period of its publication. 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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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. II. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> +<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="tnbox2"> +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. III. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Notes and Queries Vol. IV. </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol., No., Date, Year, Pages, PG # </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<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="tnbox2"> +<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="tnbox2"> +<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="tnbox2"> + +<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> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 103 October 18, 1851. Pages 289-303 PG # 38864 </p> +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 104 October 25, 1851. Pages 305-333 PG # 38926 </p> + +</div> + +<div class="tnbox2"> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 105 November 1, 1851. Pages 337-359 PG # 39076 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 106 November 8, 1851. Pages 361-374 PG # 39091 </p> + +<p class="noindent"> Vol. IV No. 107 November 15, 1851. Pages 377-396 PG # 39135 </p> + + +</div> + + +<div class="tnbox2"> +<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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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. 108. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Age of Trees 401 + + Lines attributed to Admiral Byng 403 + + A Chapter on Emblems 403 + + Folk Lore:--Music at Funerals--Cheshire Folk Lore + and Superstition 404 + + Minor Notes:--Talented--Anagram--Dictionary of + Hackneyed Quotations 405 + + QUERIES:-- + + Masters and Marshals of the Ceremonies 405 + + Minor Queries:--Cause of Transparency--Gold Medal + of the Late Duke of York--Compositions during the + Protectorate--Bristol Tables--Macfarlane's Geographical + Collection--"Acu tinali meridi"--Sir Joshua + Reynolds--Great Plough at Castor Church--Church + of St. Bene't Fink--Inscription on a Pair of + Spectacles--Campbell--Family of Cordeux--Panelling + Inscription--Infantry Firing 406 + + REPLIES:-- + + The Reverend Richard Farmer, by Bolton Corney 407 + + Anglo-Catholic Library 408 + + General James Wolfe 409 + + Punishment of Edward of Caernarvon by his Father--Character + of Edward I. 409 + + Elizabeth Joceline's Legacy to an Unborne Child 410 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's + "Christabel"--Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt + White--Lofcop, Meaning of--Middleton's Epigrams + and Satyres--Lord Edward Fitzgerald--Earwig--Sanderson + and Taylor--Island of AEgina and the Temple of Jupiter + Panhellinius--The Broad Arrow--Consecration of Bishops + in Sweden--Meaning of Spon--Quaker Expurgated + Bible--Cozens the Painter--Authors of the Homilies 410 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 413 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 413 + + Notices to Correspondents 414 + + Advertisements 414 + + + + +Notes. + + +AGE OF TREES. + +Alexander von Humboldt, in his work entitled _Views of Nature_ (pp. 220. +268-276. ed. Bohn), has some interesting remarks on the age of trees. + + "In vegetable forms (he says) _massive size_ is indicative of age; + and in the vegetable kingdom alone are age and the manifestation + of an ever-renewed vigour linked together." + +Following up this remark, he refers to specimens of the Baobab +(_Adansonia digitata_), with trunks measuring more than thirty feet in +diameter, the age of which is estimated by Adanson at 5150 years. All +calculations of the age of a tree, founded merely on the _size of its +trunk_, are, however, uncertain, unless the law of its growth, and the +limits of the variation producible by peculiar circumstances, are +ascertained, which, in the case of the Adansonia, have not been +determined. For the same reason, the calculation of 2,500 years for a +gigantic cypress in Persia, mentioned by Evelyn in his _Silva_, is of no +value. + +Humboldt afterwards refers to "the more certain estimations yielded by +_annular rings_, and by the relation found to exist between the +thickness of the layer of wood and the duration of growth;" which, he +adds, give us shorter periods for our temperate northern zone. The +calculation of the age of a tree, founded on its successive rings, +appears to be quite certain; and whenever these can be counted, the age +of a tree can be determined without risk of error. Humboldt quotes a +statement from Endlicher, that "in Lithuania linden (or lime) trees have +been felled which measured 87 feet round, and in which 815 annular rings +have been counted." The section of a trunk of a silver fir, which grew +near Barr, is preserved in the Museum at Strasburg: its diameter was +eight feet close to the ground, and the number of rings is said to +amount to several hundreds. + +Unfortunately this mode of determining a tree's age cannot be applied to +a living tree; and it is only certain where the tree is sound at the +heart. Where a tree has become hollow from old age, the rings near the +centre, which constitute a part of the evidence of its duration, no +longer exist. Hence the age of the great oak of Saintes, in the +department of the Charente Inferieure, which measures twenty-three feet +in diameter five feet from the ground, and is large enough to contain a +small chamber, can only be estimated; and the antiquity of 1800 or 2000 +years, which is assigned to it, must rest on an uncertain conjecture. + +Decandolle lays it down that, of all European trees, the _yew_ attains +the greatest age; and he assigns an antiquity of thirty centuries to the +_Taxus baccata_ of Braburn in Kent; from twenty-five to thirty centuries +to the Scotch yew of Fortingal; and fourteen and a half and twelve +centuries respectively to those of Crowhurst in Surrey and Ripon +(Fountains Abbey) in Yorkshire. These ages are fixed by a conjecture +founded on the _size_, which can lead to no certain result. + +Can any of your correspondents state what is the greatest number of +rings which have been actually counted in any yew, or other tree, which +has grown in the British Isles, or elsewhere? It Is only by actual +enumeration that vegetable chronology can be satisfactorily determined: +but if the rings in many trees were counted, some relation between the +number of rings and the diameter of the trunk, for each species, might +probably be laid down within certain limits. These rings, being annually +deposited, form a natural chronicle of time, by which the age of a tree +is determined with as much precision as the lapse of human events is +determined by the cotemporaneous registration of annalists. Hence Milton +speaks of "monumental oak." Evelyn, who has devoted a long chapter of +his _Silva_ to an investigation of the age of trees (b. iii. c. iii.), +founds his inferences chiefly on their _size_; but he cites the +following remark from Dr. Goddard: + + "It is commonly and very probably asserted, that a tree gains a + new ring every year. In the body of a great oak in the New Forest, + cut transversely even, (where many of the trees are accounted to + be some hundreds of years old) three and four hundred have been + distinguished."--Vol. ii. p. 202. ed. Hunter. + +A delineation and description of the largest and most celebrated trees +of Great Britain may be seen in the interesting work of Jacob George +Strutt, entitled _Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees, +distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty_: London, 1822, +folio. + +The age of some trees is determined by historical records, in the same +manner that we know the age of an ancient building, as the Parthenon, +the Colosseum, or the Tower of London. It is, however, important that +such historical evidence should be carefully scrutinised; for trees +which are known to be of great antiquity sometimes give rise to fabulous +legends, destitute of any foundation in fact. Such, for example, was the +plane-tree near Caphyae, in Arcadia, seen by Pausanias in the second +century after Christ, which was reported by the inhabitants to have been +planted by Menelaus when he was collecting the army for the expedition +against Troy. (_Paus._ VIII. 23.) Such too, doubtless, was the oak of +Mamre, where the angels were said to have appeared to Abraham. +(_Sozomen_, ii. 3.) A rose-tree growing in the crypt of the cathedral of +Hildesheim is referred, by a church-legend, to a date anterior to 1061; +which would imply an age of more than 800 years, but the evidence +adduced seems scarcely sufficient to identify the existing rose-tree +with the rose-tree of 1061. (See _Humboldt_, p. 275.) + +In other cases, however, the historical evidence extant, if not +altogether free from doubt, is sufficient to carry the age of a tree +back to a remote date. The Swilcar Lawn oak, in Needwood Forest, +Staffordshire, is stated by Strutt, p. 2., "to be known by historical +documents to be at this time [1822] six hundred years old; and it is +still far from being in the last stage of decay." Of a great elm growing +at Chipstead Place in Kent, he says: "Its appearance altogether savours +enough of antiquity to bear out the tradition annexed to it, that in the +time of Henry V. a fair was held annually under its branches; the high +road from Rye in Sussex to London then passing close by it." (P. 5.) If +this tradition be authentic, the elm in question must have been a large +and wide-spreading tree in the years 1413-22. A yew-tree at Ankerwyke +House, near Staines, is supposed to be of great antiquity. There is a +tradition that Henry VIII. occasionally met Anne Boleyn under its +branches: but it is not stated how high this tradition ascends. (_Ib._, +p. 8.) The Abbot's Oak, near Woburn Abbey, is stated to derive its name +from the fact that the abbot of the monastery was, by order of Henry +VIII., hung from its branches in 1537. (_Ib._, p. 10.) But Query, is +this an authentic fact? + +There is a tradition respecting the Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury, that +before the battle of Shrewsbury between Henry IV. and Hotspur, in 1403, +Owen Glendower reconnoitred the field from its branches, and afterwards +drew off his men. Positive documentary evidence, in the possession of +Richard Hill Waring, Esq., is likewise cited, which shows that this tree +was called "the Great Oak" in the year 1543 (_Ib._ p. 17.). There is a +traditional account that the old yew-trees at Fountains Abbey existed at +the foundation of the abbey, in the year 1132; but the authority for +this tradition, and the time at which it was first recorded, is not +stated. (P. 21.) The Abbot's Willow, near Bury St. Edmund's, stands on a +part of the ancient demesne of the Abbot of Bury, and is hence +conjectured to be anterior to the dissolution of the monastery in the +reign of Henry VIII. (P. 23.) The Queen's Oak at Huntingfield, in +Suffolk, was situated in a park belonging to Lord Hunsdon, where he had +the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth. The queen is reported to +have shot a buck with her own hand from this oak. (P. 26.) Sir Philip +Sidney's Oak, near Penshurst, is said to have been planted at his birth, +in 1554: it has been celebrated by Ben Jonson and Waller. This oak is +above twenty-two feet in girth; it is hollow, and stag-headed; and, so +far as can be judged from the engraving, has an appearance of great +antiquity, though its age only reaches back to the sixteenth century. +(P. 27.) The Tortworth Chestnut is described as being not only the +largest, but the oldest tree in England: Evelyn alleges that "it +continued a signal boundary to that manor in King Stephen's time, as it +stands upon record;" but the date of the record is not mentioned. We +can hardly suppose that it was cotemporaneous. (_Ib._ p. 29.) An elm at +Chequers in Buckinghamshire is reported, by a tradition handed down in +the families of the successive owners, to have been planted in the reign +of Stephen. (_Ib._ p. 38.) Respecting the Wallace Oak, at Ellerslie near +Paisley, it is reported that Sir William Wallace, and three hundred of +his men, hid themselves among its branches from the English. This legend +is probably fabulous; if it were true, it would imply that the tree was +in its full vigour at the end of the thirteenth century. (_Ib._ p. 5.) +The ash at Carnock, in Stirlingshire, supposed to be the largest in +Scotland, and still a luxuriant tree, was planted about the year 1596, +by Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, Lord Advocate of Scotland in the +reign of James VI. (_Ib._ p. 8.) + +Marshall, in his Work on _Planting and Rural Ornament_ (2 vols. 1796) +refers to a paper on the age of trees, by Mr. Marsham, in the first +volume of the _Transactions of the Bath Agriculture Society_, in which +the Tortworth Chestnut is calculated to be not less than 1100 years old. +Marshall, who appears to have examined this tree with great care, +corrects the account given by Mr. Marsham, and states that it is not +one, but two trees. Sir Robert Atkins, in his _History of +Gloucestershire_, says: "By tradition this tree was growing in King +John's reign." Evelyn, however, as we have already seen, speaks of a +record that it served as a manor boundary in the reign of Stephen. +Query, on what authority do these statements rest? Marshall thinks that +a duration of nearly a thousand years may be fairly assigned to the +Tortworth tree; and he adds: + + "If we consider the quick growth of the chestnut, compared with + that of the oak, and at the same time the inferior bulk of the + Tortworth Chestnut to the Cowthorp, the Bentley, and the + Boddington oaks, may we not venture to infer that the existence of + these truly venerable trees commenced some centuries prior to the + era of Christianity?" + +The oaks here alluded to by Marshall are of immense size. The Cowthorp +Oak is near Wetherby; the Bentley Oak, in Holt Forest, near Bentley; the +Boddington Oak, between Cheltenham and Tewksbury (vol. ii. pp. 127. +298.). + +Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to point out authentic +evidence respecting the true dates of ancient trees. A large tree is a +subject of interest to the entire neighbourhood: it receives an +individual name, like a river, a mountain, or a building; and by its +permanence it affords a fixed point for a faithful local tradition to +rest upon. On the other hand, the infidelity of oral tradition is well +known; and the mere interest which attaches to a tree of unusual size is +likely to give birth to a romantic legend, when its true history has +been forgotten. The antiquary and the botanist may assist one another in +determining the age of trees. By the authentic evidence of their +duration which the former is able to furnish, the latter may establish +tests by which their longevity may be calculated. + + L. + + +LINES ATTRIBUTED TO ADMIRAL BYNG. + +The following lines are copied, _verbatim et literatim_, from a window +pane in an upstairs room of the Talbot Inn, Ripley. The tradition is +that they were written by Admiral Byng, who was confined in the room as +a prisoner when on his way to Portsmouth; that sentinels were placed on +the staircase outside; that during the night the admiral walked past the +sleeping guard, gathered some flowers from the inn garden, and returned +to his room; and that on leaving the following morning, he told the Inn +Lady he should see her on his way back to London, when he was acquitted. + + "Come all you true Britons, and listen to me; + I'll tell you the truth, you'll then plainly see + How Minorca was lost, why the kingdom doth ring, + And lay the whole blame on Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all, rogues all. + + "Newcastle, and Hardwick, and Anson did now + Preside at the helm, and to whom all must bow; + Minorca besieged, who protection will bring; + They know 'tis too late, let the victim be Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "With force insufficient he's ordered away; + He obeys, and he sails without any delay; + But alas! 'tis too late: who shall say to the king + Minorca must fall, why, accuse Mr. Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all. + + "Minorca now falls, and the nation enraged; + With justice they cry, let all who engaged + In traterous deeds, with curst infamy swing: + What! none to be found but poor Admiral Byng. + Sing tantararara, rogues all." + +Is there any reason to doubt the truth of this tradition, or that the +verses were written by the unfortunate admiral? + + A. C. G. + + Ripley, Nov. 10, 1851. + + +A CHAPTER ON EMBLEMS. + +"An history of emblems in all languages, with specimens of the poetry +and engravings, accompanied by some account of the authors, would be a +very interesting contribution to our literature." Thus speaks the author +of a work remarkable for interest, information, and elegance of taste, +viz., _Lives of Sacred Poets_, by Robert Willmott, Esq.; and truly such +a work would be a great _desideratum_ were the idea here suggested +efficiently carried out. + +In our own, and in other languages, many beautiful poems--some of them +very gems--exist, attached to, and written on some of "the most +ridiculous prints that ever excited merriment." A tasteful collection of +the more beautiful poems, with some spirited woodcuts, or engravings to +accompany them, would form a beautiful volume. This, however, is a +suggestion different from, and secondary to, Mr. Willmott's. + +Emblems, figures, symbols, &c., constitute a vast ocean of associations +which all enter on, all understand, all sympathise with more or less. +They enrich our language, enter into our commonest thoughts and +conversation, as well as our compositions in poetry and prose. + +Often the clearest ideas we have on abstruse points are derived from +them, _e.g._ the _shamrock_ or _trefoil_ is an emblem of _the Blessed +Trinity_. Nothing perhaps helps us to comprehend the resurrection of the +body, and in a glorified state through preserving its identity, as the +apostle's illustration and emblem of the _growth of corn_. + +In a work on the subject it would be desirable to keep the classical, +artistic, political, and other emblems apart from the sacred and moral, +&c. + +I must now say a few words on a book of emblems, entitled _Schola +Cordis, sive Aversi a Deo Cordis, ad eumdem reductio et instructio, +Authore Benedicto Haefteno, Antv._ 1635. (This Benedict Haeften was also +the author of _Regia Via Crucis_, published at Antwerp the same year as +the above, in 2 vols. 8vo., I think, and afterwards translated into +French.) This work suggested _Schola Cordis, or the Heart of itself gone +away from God, brought back again to Him and instructed by Him, in XLVII +emblems_: London, printed for M. Blunder at the Castle in Cornhill, +1647, 12mo. pp. 196. The authorship of this English _Schola Cordis_ is +generally attributed to Christopher Harvie, the author of _The +Synagogue_. (Vide Lowndes, and a note in Pickering's edition of George +Herbert.) The second edition was printed in 1674, third in 1675, fourth +in 1676. + +Now, Mr. Tegg in 1845 printed an edition of this _Schola Cordis_ as the +production of Francis Quarles; what was his authority I know not, he +certainly did not attempt to give any. + +The last three books of Quarles's _Emblems_ contain forty-five prints, +all from Herman Hugo's _Pia Desideria_, which has that number of +emblems. Quarles sometimes translates, sometimes paraphrases Hugo, and +has a good deal of original matter. His first two books are not in +Hugo's work, and I do not know whence they are derived; nearly all the +cuts contain a globe and cross. + +Herman Hugo had the talents and versatility which characterise his order +(the Order of Jesus), "he was a philosopher, a linguist, a theologian, a +poet, and a soldier, and under the command of Spinola is said to have +performed prodigies of valour." He was the author of _De prima Scribendi +Origine et Universa Rei Literariae Antiquitate_, an excellent work; and +of _De Militia Equestri antiqua et nova_ amongst others. His _Book of +Emblems_ was first published at Antwerp, 1624. It is divided into +_three_ books, viz., + + Pia Desideria. + + 1. Gemitus {A } Poenitentis. + 2. Vota {n } Sanctae. + 3. Suspiria {imae} Amantis. + +Each book contains fifteen emblems. The principal editions are, Antv. +1624, ed. princeps; Antv. 1628, 1632; Graecii, 1651; Lond. 1677, +sumptibus Roberti Pawlet, Chancery Lane. This London edition contains +only verse, whereas all the other editions contain metre and prose +before each picture, the prose being far the better of the two. The only +prose that Pawlet's edition has is a motto from one of the Fathers at +the back of each picture. + +There are two or three English translations. I have seen but one, a +miserable translation of the verse part, I suppose from Pawlet's +edition. There are short notices of emblems in the _Retrospective +Review_, ix. 123-140.; _Critical Review_, Sept. 1801 (attributed to +Southey); see also Willmott's _Lives of Sacred Poets_ (Wither and +Quarles); Caesar Ripa's _Iconologia_, Padua, 1627; and _Alciati +Emblemata_, Lugd. 1614. The Fagel Library, Trinity College, Dublin, has +a fine copy of the first edition of the _Pia Desideria_, and upwards of +sixty books of emblems, principally Dutch. + +P.S.--When I penned the above I was not aware that any mention of the +_School of the Heart_ had been made in "NOTES AND QUERIES." I find in +Southey's fourth _Common-place Book_ that he quotes from the _School of +the Heart_ as Quarles's. He has the following note on Quarles's Emblems: +"Philips erroneously says that the emblems are a copy from Hermannus +Hugo." I know not what Philips exactly intended by the word "copy;" but +if any one doubts what I have before said respecting these Emblems, let +him compare Hugo and Quarles together. I forgot to give the title of the +first edition of Hugo: _Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis et Affectibus, +SS. Patrum Illustrata, vulgavit Boetius a Bolswert_, Antv. 1624. Also +the title of our English translation: _Pia Desideria; or, Divine +Addresses_, in three books, written in Latin by Herm. Hugo, Englished by +Edm. Arwaker, M.A., Lond. 1686, 8vo., pp. 282., dedicated to the +Princess Anne of Denmark, with forty-seven plates by Sturt. + + MARICONDA. + + +FOLK LORE. + +_Music at Funerals._--Pennant, in his MS. relating to North Wales, says, +"there is a custom of singing psalms on the way as the corpse is carried +to church" (Brand's _Pop. Ant._, ed. Ellis, vol. ii. p. 268.). In North +Devon the custom of singing is similar; but it is not a psalm it is a +dirge. I send you a copy of one in use at Lynton, sent to me by my +sister. + + Farewell all, my parents[1] dear, + And all my friends, farewell! + I hope I'm going to that place + Where Christ and saints do dwell. + + Oppress'd with grief long time I've been, + My bones cleave to my skin, + My flesh is wasted quite away + With pain that I was in, + + Till Christ his messenger did send, + And took my life away, + To mingle with my mother earth, + And sleep with fellow clay. + + Into thy hands I give my soul, + Oh! cast it not aside, + But favor me and hear my prayer, + And be my rest and guide. + + Affliction hath me sore oppress'd, + Brought me to death in time; + O Lord! as thou hast promised, + Let me to life return. + + For when that Christ to judgment comes, + He unto us will say, + If we His laws observe and keep, + "Ye blessed, come away." + + How blest is he who is prepar'd, + He fears not at his death; + Love fills his heart, and hope his breast, + With joy he yields his breath. + + Vain world, farewell! I must be gone, + I cannot longer stay; + My time is spent, my glass is run, + God's will I must obey. + + [Footnote 1: Sister or brother, as the case may be.] + +Another dirge, ending with the sixth stanza of the foregoing, is used at +an infant's funeral, but the rhyme is not so well kept. + + WM. DURRANT COOPER. + +_Cheshire Folk Lore and Superstition._--There is in this town a little +girl, about thirteen years old, in great request among the poor as a +charmer in cases of burns or scalds. Immediately on the accident the +girl is fetched from her work in the mill; on her arrival she kneels +down by the side of the sufferer, mutters a few words, and touches the +individual, and the people believe and affirm that the sufferings +immediately cease, as she has charmed the fire out of the parts injured. +The surgeon's aid is then called in to heal the sores. The girl affirms +that she found it out herself by reading her Bible, of which the +wonder-working charm is a verse. She will take no reward, nor may any of +her relatives; if she or they were, her power would be at an end. She is +an ordinary, merry, playful girl; as a surgeon I often come across her +in such accidents. + +I know some other such charmers in Cheshire, but none so young. One, an +old man, stops bleedings of all kinds by a similar charm, viz. a verse +from the Bible. But he does not require to be at the patient's side, his +power being equally efficacious at the distance of one hundred miles, as +close by. + + E. W. L. + + Congleton. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Talented._--Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of +this word by his biographer in his _Sartor Resartus_, calling it a +hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell. + + J. O'G. + +_Anagram._--Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on _The French Benedictines_, +gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great +bibliophagist Magliabechi:--Antonius Magliabechius--Is unus bibliotheca +magna. + +In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum +inambulans, et viva quaedam bibliotheca." Possibly this is the origin of +our expression "a walking dictionary." + + J. O'G. + +_Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations._--I beg to inform your +correspondent who suggested such a publication as a _Dictionary of +Hackneyed Quotations_, that I commenced such a work some time ago, and +hope before long to have it ready for the press. + +Every common quotation or familiar proverb from the poets will be ranged +with the _context_ under its respective author, while an alphabetical +index will facilitate reference to any particular passage. I doubt not +the readers of your valuable periodical will assist me whenever I am at +fault as to the authorship of any line or "household word;" and I should +feel at the present time much obliged if any one could tell me where + + "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," may be found? + + H. A. B. + + Trinity College, Cambridge. + + + + +Queries. + + +MASTERS AND MARSHALS OF THE CEREMONIES? + +How are these offices now held? By letters patent of the crown, or by +the lord chamberlain's nomination? + +Where can any list of these offices be found? The office of Master of +the Ceremonies, whose duty it is to arrange the reception of all foreign +ministers, and their departures, was formerly an office of considerable +importance. In the reign of King Charles I. it was held seemingly by +grants from the crown. In 1627, Sir John Finett says he received news +of the death of Sir Lewis Lewknor, by which, in right of his Majesty's +grant of reversion by letters patent, he became sole Master of the +Ceremonies--an office which he before held jointly with Sir Lewis +Lewknor. + + S. E. G. + + +Minor Queries. + +286. _Cause of Transparency._--Seeing through the glass of my window a +landscape, and not knowing _why_ I see through the glass, and not +through the shutters, I will thank one of your philosophical +correspondents to tell me the _cause of transparency_. + + AEGROTUS. + +287. _Gold Medal of late Duke of York._--I have a small gold medal, +three-quarter inch in diameter, a head with inscription-- + + "Fredericus dux Eborac." + +and Rev.: + + "Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Non. Ian. 1827." + +Were many such struck at the duke's death, or what is the history of it? + + A. A. D. + +288. _Composition's during the Protectorate._--Where is there any +account or list of these? In Oldfield's _History of Wainfleet_, p. 12. +Appendix, is a "List of Residents in the County of Lincoln who +compounded for their Estates during the Protectorate of Oliver +Cromwell;" but he gives no authority or reference. Where can this list +be checked, as I suspect an error? + + W. H. L. + + Fulham. + +289. _Bristol Tables._--Upon the pavement in front of the Exchange, +Bristol, there are four very handsome bronze tables standing, upon a +single pedestal each; the tops circular, about two feet in diameter, +with a slightly raised edge round them. It is said that they were +presented to the Bristol merchants for them to pay their money upon; but +when, or by whom, they were so given, I have not been able to learn. A +friend of mine who was lately examining them was told that they were +formerly called "Nails," and gave rise to the saying, "Pay down upon the +nail:" this I should think must be an error. "Solvere ad unguem" would +be found to be older than they are. If any of your correspondents can +give me any information respecting them, I shall be obliged. + + E. N. W. + + Southwark. + +290. _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection._--In almost every work +treating of the history and topographical antiquities of Scotland, we +are referred to _Macfarlane's Geographical Collection_, preserved in the +Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. This MS., and its author, are very little +known, except by name, _benorth the Tay_, notwithstanding they are so +often quoted. I should be glad if any of your correspondents would give +me any information regarding the extent of country embraced, _i.e._ +parishes, counties, &c., and if any part of it has been published _per +se_, and when, and where. + + ANTIQUARIENSIS. + + Inverness. + +291. "_Acu tinali meridi._"--At the head of an English metrical +discourse upon the administration of justice, in a MS. of the fourteenth +or fifteenth century, in the Public Library, Cambridge, is placed the +following obscure motto, upon which, perhaps, some correspondent can +throw light:-- + + "O judex vi fervida hanc servabis artem, + Acu tinali merida .i. audi alteram partem." + +I have not seen the MS., but am told that the correctness of the reading +may be depended upon. + + C. W. G. + +292. _Sir Joshua Reynolds._--Having the early catalogues of the Royal +Academy before me, I see that in 1773 and following years, Sir Joshua +exhibited twelve or thirteen works. You will find they stand as current +Nos. in the list. Can you inform me whether they hung on the line, that +is, in the space of privilege, or took their chance with the many? Had +they, under his own eye, been grouped together, what a treat it must +have been to see them! What an evidence of the industry of the man! +Though too late in the day to obtain these details from actual +observation, enough may be recorded or remembered through others, to +assist in throwing light on the rules and customs of past days, which +never can be deficient in interest while they tend to illustrate the +habits and character of great men. + +You could touch no topic more interesting than this must prove to the +increasing curiosity seekers in your useful and amusing repertorium, and +your attention to it will be valued by + + A LAYMAN. + + Athenaeum Club. + +293. _Great Plough at Castor Church._--Can any of your correspondents +give me the history of, or afford me any intelligence about, the large +plough which Dibdin, in his _Northern Tour_, vol. i. p. 44., tells us is +about twenty feet in length, and suspended in Castor Church, extending +from one transept to the other? In a foot-note on the same church, he +speaks of a curious ceremony, as practised there every Palm Sunday, +respecting a peculiar tenure. I do not find it referred to in any other +account of Castor Church. Bourne, in his _Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 130., +gives the history of it, but says it is practised at Caistor Church in +Lincolnshire. Is the doctor right in his statement? I would also be glad +to know whether it is still continued at Caistor Church, as some years +ago an act was tried for in the House to abolish it. + + R. W. ELLIOT. + + Hull. + +294. _Church of St. Bene't Fink._--Is there any copy in existence of the +inscriptions on the gravestones and monuments of St. Bene't Fink in the +City, adjoining the Exchange, and which is now pulled down? If any of +your correspondents can direct me to any transcript of them, I shall be +much obliged by the communication. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +295. _Spectacles, Inscription on a Pair of._--Will you oblige me by +inserting, as soon as possible, the following curious inscription round +the rim of a pair of spectacles found in a stone coffin in Ombersley +Church, Worcestershire, some years since, when the old church was being +pulled down. It is as follows:-- + + "JOHERHARD MAY: SEEL ERB. PETER CONRAD. WIEGEL." + +This occurs on each rim, and I should be glad of an explanation of the +words. + + J. N. B. (A Subscriber.) + +296 _Campbell._--Can any of your readers tell me what he supposes +Campbell to mean when he makes the sister, in delivering her curse on +her brother, say-- + + "Go where the havoc of your kerne + Shall float as high as mountain fern!" + +Does havoc float? Does mountain fern float? What is the effect of either +floating _high_? The lines are in "The Flower of Love lies Bleeding." + +Also can any one say who or what this is? + + "Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay + Chac'd on his night-steed by the star of day!" + +The lines are near the end of _The Pleasures of Hope_. + + W. W. + + Cambridge. + +297. _Family of Cordeux._--What is the origin of the name? When was it +introduced into England? What are the armorial bearings of the family? +What family or families bear gu. three stags' heads, on a chief arg. two +griffins' heads erased: Crest, a griffin's head erased? Any information +of the Cordeux family more than fifty years ago will confer an +obligation on the querist. + + W. H. K. + +298. _Panelling Inscription._--I have recently discovered, in my +investigations for the _History and Antiquities of South Lynn_, an old +building in this town which bears the date 1605 on one of its gables; +and in the course of my peregrinations through, I find some old +panelling with the date 1676, and the following inscription in old +English (large) characters: + + "As nothinge is so absolutly blest + But chance may crosse, and make it seeming ill, + So nothinge cane a man so much molest, + But God may chang, and seeing good he will." + +It has been suggested to me that these lines form a quotation from some +of our English poets; if so, of whom? for it is of great importance to +me to know, as it will tend considerably to connect the date with the +building; and if the lines can be traced to a writer of the period, it +will establish what I require very much, and assist me in my researches. + + J. N. C. + +299. _Infantry Firing._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to +authentic instances of the comparative numbers of rounds of cartridges +fired in action, with the number of men killed? I think I have read it +in Sir W. Napier's _History of the Peninsular War_, and also in _The +Times_, but omitted to make a note. I have some recollection of 60,000 +rounds beings fired, and only one man killed! and another instance of +80,000, and twenty-five killed! Any remarkable instances of the +inefficiency of musketry fire will be acceptable. + + H. Y. W. N. + + + + +Replies. + + +THE REVEREND RICHARD FARMER. + +(Vol. iv., p. 379.) + +Assuming that the principal ATROCITIES of the reverend Richard Farmer +are his _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_, and the substance of a +note on _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 2., I shall transcribe, as a hint to the +lovers of manly criticism, a general character of that writer, a +character of his _Essay_, and the note in question:-- + + 1. "His knowledge is various, extensive, and recondite. With much + seeming negligence, and perhaps in later years some real + relaxation, he understands more and remembers more about common + and uncommon subjects of literature, than many of those who would + be thought to read all the day and meditate half the night. In + quickness of apprehension and acuteness of discrimination I have + not often seen his equal."--Samuel PARR. + + 2. "It [the _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare_] may in truth + be pointed out as a master-piece, whether considered with a view + to the sprightliness and vivacity with which it is written, the + clearness of the arrangement, the force and variety of the + evidence, or the compression of scattered materials into a narrow + compass; materials which inferior writers would have expanded into + a large volume."--Isaac REED. + + 3. "There's a divinity that _shapes our ends_, _Rough-hew_ [them + how we will.] Dr. Farmer informs me, that these words are merely + technical. A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in _skewers_, lately + observed to him, that his nephew (an idle lad), could only + _assist_ him in making them;"--'he could _rough-hew_ them, but I + was obliged to _shape their ends_.' [To shape the ends of + _wool-skewers_, i.e. to _point_ them, requires a degree of skill; + any one can _rough-hew_ them.] Whoever recollects the profession + of Shakespeare's father, will admit that his son might be no + stranger to such a term [such terms]. I have [frequently] seen + packages of wool pinn'd up with _skewers_.--STEEVENS. + +This note was first printed by Malone in 1780, and was reprinted by him +in 1790; the portions within brackets having been added in 1793? It is +clear, from this statement, that it received the deliberate revision of +its author. Now, I cannot deny that Farmer related the anecdote of the +_wool-man_--suspicious as is the character of the witness, but I contend +that the observations on it should be ascribed to Steevens alone; and so +I shall leave your critic A. E. B. to his own reflections. + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + +ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 365.) + +A SUBSCRIBER TO THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY has discovered _one_ fault in +_one_ volume (published in 1844) of a series which now extends to +sixty-three volumes; and on this _one fault_ he builds a representation +which implies, in general, incompetency in the editors, and neglect of +proper supervision on the part of the committee of the Anglo-Catholic +Library. I believe the character of the editions of most of the volumes +sent out in this series is sufficiently known to theologians to render +such a charge as this of little importance as respects their judgment. +But it may not be so with many of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES." + +The gravamen of the charge rests on the importance of a certain passage +of St. Jerome bearing on the Presbyterian controversy,--on the necessity +for a familiarity with that controversy in an editor of Overall's +_Convocation Book_,--and the consequent incompetency of a person not +thus familiar with it to edit that work without, not the assistance +merely, but the immediate supervision of the committee. + +Now the subject of episcopacy is _not_, as the Subscriber alleges, "the +principal subject" of this Book; it occupies 30 pages out of 272: nor is +a familiarity with that controversy in any special way necessary for an +editor of the volume. The subjects of which the _Convocation Book_ +treats are wide and varied, and such omnigenous knowledge as a familiar +acquaintance with them implies, is not, nor could be, required in any +editor, nor be expected by subscribers. + +The committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library undertook to publish careful +reprints of the works of our old divines; and had they simply reprinted +with accuracy the _Convocation Book_, as published in 1690, they would +have fulfilled their covenant with the subscribers. They did, however, +much more. + +It was known that the original MS. copy of this Book was preserved at +Durham. The edition of 1690 had been printed from a transcript made by +Archbishop Sancroft. The committee therefore engaged the services of a +gentleman whose name is well known as an accurate editor of works +existing in MS. + +This gentlemen obtained access to all the known MSS. of the _Convocation +Book_; viz. 1. The original copy, and papers of alterations suggested as +it passed through the Upper House, preserved at Durham. 2. A cotemporary +MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham. 3. Archbishop +Sancroft's Transcript, preserved at Emanuel College, Cambridge and 4. A +MS. of the first book belonging to Bishop Barlow, preserved at Queen's +College, Oxford. These MSS. were carefully collated, and the variations, +in many respects curious and interesting, were printed at the bottom of +the pages, and, as regards the 4th MS., at the end of the volume. The +result is a correct edition of the text of this book, with all that can +be learned of its variations--the book so highly extolled by your +correspondent. And I hear no objection alleged against the care and +faithfulness with which this part of the work has been executed: your +correspondent does not appear to be aware of anything of the kind having +been done. + +But the editor went still further--he not only gave the subscribers so +much more than they had bargained for, he added full references to the +authorities quoted in the book; and when the passages were important, he +printed them in full, and even added references to works in which the +arguments were more largely handled. Now these references appear to me +to amount to many hundreds. They begin with Josephus, and run through +Fathers, councils, schoolmen, Roman Catholic controversialists, +ecclesiastical historians, and the chroniclers of the Middle Ages: and, +as far as I can judge in looking over the notes, not more than three or +four of these passages have been undiscovered by the editor, and he +honestly says he has not found them; one of these is the unlucky place +of St. Jerome, which your correspondent happens to know something about. + +The remarks of your correspondent have led me to examine the book, and I +refer any one who has the least regard for candour or fairness, to do +the same. I would ask them to judge it as a whole, to see the number and +variety of the references, and the care which has been bestowed upon +them; and to say whether--because he missed one passage, and knew not +its importance--the editor can be fairly charged with incompetency; or +the committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library accused of neglect, in +leaving the work in his hands without exercising over him such +supervision as implies the reading every sheet as it passed through the +press; for _assistance_ the editor had, and amply acknowledges that he +received, at the hand of the superintending editor. + + ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER TO THE + + ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY. + + +GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. + +(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 322.) + +Many letters of Wolfe's will be found published in the _Naval and +Military Gazette_ of the latter part of last and early part of this +year. + +By the statement of your correspondent MR. COLE, Wolfe was promoted as +captain in Burrell's regiment (at present the 4th, or king's own) in +1744. Now Burrell's regiment took the left of the first line at +Culloden, so that James Wolfe, unless absent on leave, or employed on +particular duty, must have been in that action. The left of the second +line was occupied by "Colonel Wolfe's" regiment (now the 8th or +"king's"). See the "Rebellion of 1745," by Robert Chambers, in +Constable's _Miscellany_, vol. xvi. p. 86. Captains of _nineteen_ were +common enough at that period, but Wolfe is the only one whose name has +excited attention. + +As to Wolfe's having been "the youngest general ever intrusted with such +a responsible command" as that at Quebec, your correspondent surely +forgets Napoleon in modern, and the Black Prince in more remote times. + +I have seen at Mr. Scott's, of Cahircon, in the co. Clare, an engraving +of Wolfe: he is designated as the "Hero of Louisburgh," and is +represented with his right to the spectator, the right hand and arm +raised as if enforcing an order. The features are small, the nose rather +"cocked," and the face conveys the idea of spirit and determination; he +wears a very small three-cocked hat, with a plain black cockade, a sort +of frock coat reaching to the knees, where it is met by long boots; +there are no epaulets, a twist belt confines the coat, and supports a +cartouche-box in front, and a bayonet at the right side, and he carries +a fusil slung from his right shoulder "en bandouilliere." + +It is said that the father of Wolfe was an Irishman, and I have been +shown in the co. Wicklow the farm on which it is said that James Wolfe +was born. It lies near Newtown-Mount-Kennedy. Be that as it may, the +name has been made celebrated in Ireland within the last half century by +three individuals: first, the Lord Kilwarden, who was murdered during +Emmett's rising in 1803; secondly, the late Chief Baron, who spelt his +name "with a difference;" and last, not least, the author of the +celebrated lines on the "Burial of Sir John Moore." + + KERRIENSIS. + + +PUNISHMENT OF EDWARD OF CAERNARVON BY HIS FATHER.--CHARACTER OF EDWARD +I. + +(Vol. iv., p. 338.) + +I think considerable light is thrown upon this very remarkable incident +by a letter of the prince himself to the Earl of Lincoln, dated +Midhurst, June 14, which appears upon the Roll of that prince's letters +lately discovered at the Chapter House, Westminster. (See _Ninth Report +of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records_, App. II., No. 5.) This +letter has been printed in one of the volumes of the Sussex +Archaeological Society, having been written from that county. For such of +your readers as may not have either of these books at command, I will +give the material part of the letter, translated: + + "On Sunday, the 13th of June, we came to Midhurst, where we found + the lord the king, our father; the Monday following, on account of + certain words which, it had been reported to the king, had taken + place _between us and the Bishop of Chester_, he was so enraged + with us that he has forbidden us, or any of our retinue, to dare + to enter his house; and he has forbidden all the people of his + household and of the exchequer to give or lend us anything for the + support of our household. We are staying at Midhurst to wait his + pleasure and favour, and we shall follow after him as well as we + are able, at a distance of ten or twelve miles from his house, + until we have been able to recover his good will, which we very + much desire." + +The roll contains several letters which show how seriously the prince +was affected by his father's displeasure, and how the king was appeased. + +By the letter above quoted, the "minister" appears to have been the +Bishop of Chester, then treasurer of the royal household. But the +connexion between the prince's case and that of William de Brewosa does +not appear, unless they were on intimate terms, as is not improbable: +and the punishment of the prince himself is, in my opinion, referred to +as a precedent or justification of the punishment imposed upon Brewes. +That the severe punishment so imposed was richly deserved none can doubt +who has read the report on the Roll: but an unfortunate error in the +press[2] makes it appear that the prince, and not De Brewes, was the +culprit, and performed the penance. + + [Footnote 2: Page 339. col. 1. line 46., where "Edward" is printed + instead of "William de Brewes."] + +To return to the prince's offence and punishment. He appears to have +been nearly starved into submission, as the royal prohibition against +supplying him with articles or money was obliged to be removed by a +Letter Close directed to all the sheriffs, dated Ospring, 22nd July. + +The whole transaction is highly characteristic of the firmness of the +king. Whether the prince's letters which I have referred to make out a +case of _harshness_, as regards some other circumstances, I will not now +trouble you with. But while examining cotemporary documents illustrative +of the prince and his correspondents, I met with an entry upon the Close +Roll (33 Edw. I.) too strikingly illustrative of the determination and +caution of Edward I. to be allowed to remain in its present obscurity. + +On the 27th November the prince addressed a letter to Master Gerard de +Pecoraria, earnestly begging him to favour and forward the affairs of +Ralph de Baldok, then Bishop Elect of London. The "affairs" in question +were the removal of certain scruples instilled into the Papal ear +against the approval of the bishop elect; a matter generally involving +some diplomacy and much money. Master Gerard was employed by the Pope to +collect various dues in England; and so his good will was worth +obtaining. But the following Letter Close will show how he received his +"quietus," as far as the King of England was concerned: + + "The King to Ralph de Sandwich.--By reason of the excessive and + indecent presumption with which Gerard de Pecoraria is making + oppressive levies and collections of money in various places; by + whose authority we know not, for he will not show it; and inasmuch + as the same is highly derogatory to our crown, and injurious to + our people, and many complaints have been made against him on that + account; We command you to take the said Gerard before the Mayor + and Sheriffs of London, and there warn him to cease from making + the said levies, and to quit the kingdom in six days, _provided + that at such warning no public notary be present, so that the + warning be given to the said Gerard alone, no one else hearing. + And be you careful that no one but yourself see this letter, or + get a copy thereof._" + +Who can doubt that such a mandate was strictly carried out? + +I regret that my memoranda do not preserve the original language. + + JOSEPH BURTT. + +MR. GIBSON will find that this story, as well as that relative to Sir +William Gascoigne, is also told by MR. FOSS (_Judges of England_, vol. +iii. pp. 43. 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by Prince +Edward was an insult to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and +Coventry, occasioned probably by the boldness with which that prelate, +while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter de Gaveston, and +restrained the Prince's extravagance. (_Ibid._ p. 114.) + + R. S. V. P. + + +ELIZABETH JOCELINE'S LEGACY TO AN UNBORNE CHILD. + +(Vol. iv., p. 367.) + +Your correspondent J. M. G., whose letter is inserted in your 106th +Number, labours under various mistakes relating to this small volume. +The first edition was not printed in 1684, but more than sixty years +earlier. Moreover, that edition, or at least what the Rev. C. H. +Craufurd appended to his Sermons in 1840 as a reprint, is not a genuine +or faithful republication of the original work. I have for several years +possessed a copy of _the third impression_, Printed at "London, by _Iohn +Hauiland_, for _Hanna Barres_, 1625;" and of this third impression a +_fac-simile_ reprint has passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood +in Edinburgh, which new edition corresponds _literatim et verbatim_ +(line for line and page for page) with the earliest impression known to +exist, which differs materially in several passages from the reprint +published by Mr. Craufurd. This new edition is accompanied by a long +preface or dissertation containing many particulars relating to the +authoress and her relatives, and to a number of ladies of high station +and polished education, who during the period intervening between the +Reformation in England and the Revolution in 1688, distinguished +themselves by publishing works characterized by exalted piety and +refined taste. With regard to Mrs. Joceline, no printed work appears to +have preserved correct information. Genealogists seem to have conspired +to change her Christian name from Elizabeth to Mary or Jane. The husband +is supposed to have sprung from an old Cambridgeshire family, the +Joscelyns of Hogington, now called Oakington, the name of a parish +adjoining to Cottenham. The writer of the preface seems rather disposed +to trace his parentage to John Joscelyn (Archbishop Parker's chaplain), +who, according to Strype, was _an Essex man_. + +But I have probably exceeded the bounds allotted to an answer to a +Query. + + J. L. + + Edinburgh. + +_The Mother's Legacy to her unborne Child_ is reprinted for the benefit +of the Troubridge National Schools, and can be procured at Hatchard's, +Piccadilly. + + J. S. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Coleridge's "Christabel"_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--I am not familiar with +the Coleridge Papers, under that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that +I know at all to what papers MR. MORTIMER COLLINS refers in his +question. On this account I am not qualified, as he will perhaps think, +to give an opinion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a +continuation of "Christabel." If I may be allowed, however, to hazard a +judgment, as one to whom most of the great poet-philosopher's works have +long and affectionately been known, I would venture to express an +opinion against the right of these lines to admission as one of his +productions. I do it with diffidence; but with the hope that I may aid +in eliciting the truth concerning them. + +I presume "brookless plash" is a misprint for "brooklet's plash." + +The expressions "the sorrow of human years," "wild despair," "the years +of life below," of a person who is not yet dead and in heaven, do not +seem to me, _as they stand in the lines_, to be in Coleridge's manner; +but especially I do not think the couplet-- + + "Who felt all grief, all wild despair, + That the race of man may ever bear," + +is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading as I do in the _Aids +to Reflection_, vol. i. p. 255. (edit. Pickering, 1843) his protest +against the doctrine + + "holden by more than one of these divines, that the agonies + suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the sum total of the + torments of all mankind here and hereafter, or to the infinite + debt which in an endless succession of instalments we should have + been paying to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full by + the Son of God incarnate!" + +There are one or two other expressions of which I entertain doubt, but +not in sufficient degree to make it worth while to dwell upon them. + +Are we ever likely to receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or +from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, +of his _Logosophia_? We can ill afford to lose a work the conception of +which engrossed much of his thoughts, if I am rightly informed, towards +the close of his life. + + THEOPHYLACT. + +_Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White_ (Vol. iv., p. 294.).--My +father's notes on Dryden are in my possession. Sir Walter Scott never +saw them. The words AEGROTUS attributes to Sir Walter were used by +another commentator on Dryden some thirty years since. + + ALGERNON HOLT WHITE. + +_Lofcop, Meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 319.).--_Lofcop_, not _loscop_, is +clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired. _Lovecope_ +is the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in +the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your +correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is +an altered form of the word _lahcop_, which occurs in the laws of +Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of +England_, vol. i., p. 294., note. The word _loveday_, which is found in +English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling +differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This +must originally have been _lah-daeg_, though I am not aware that the word +is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found +_Logdagr_, altered in modern Danish into _Lavdag_ or _Lovdag._ + + C. W. G. + +_Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres, 1608_ (Vol. iv., p. 272.).--These +Epigrams, about which QUAESO inquires, are not the production of Thomas +Middleton the dramatist, but of "_Richard_ Middleton of Yorke, +gentleman." The only copy known to exist is among the curious collection +of books presented by the poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. +A careful reprint, limited to forty copies, was published at Edinburgh +in 1840. It is said to have been done under the superintendance of James +Maidment, Esq. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Lord Edward Fitzgerald_ (Vol. iv., p. 173.).--Your correspondent R. H. +was misinformed as to the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's +Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that nobleman with +another of the United Irishmen leaders; namely, Robert Emmett, who was +arrested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward never lived at Harold's +Cross, either in avowed residence or concealment. + +R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the communication of L. M. M. +at Vol. iv., p. 230., who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family +for neglecting the decent burial of their chivalric relative. This is +not merited. The family was kept in complete ignorance as to how the +body was disposed of, it being the wish of the government of the day to +conceal the place of its sepulture; as is evident from their not +interring it at St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond and all +the others whom they put to death at Newgate; and from the notoriety of +their having five years later adopted a similar course with regard to +the remains of Robert Emmett. (See Madden's _Life of Emmett_.) But is he +buried at St. Werburgh's? Several, and among others his daughter, Lady +Campbell, as appears from L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. +Some years since I conversed with an old man named Hammet, the +superannuated gravedigger of St. Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me +that he officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Catherine's church, +and that they were performed at night in silence, secrecy, and mystery. + + E. J. W. + +_Earwig_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--I do not know what the derivations of +this word may be, which are referred to by [Greek: AXON] as being in +vogue. It is a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and Webster do not +notice the word at all; although I am not aware that it is of limited or +provincial use. In Bailey's _Scottish Dictionary_, and in Skinner's +_Etymologicon_, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon _ear-wicga_, i.e. +ear-beetle. In Bosworth's _Dictionary_ we find _wicga_, a kind of +insect, a shorn-bug, a beetle. + + C. W. G. + +_Sanderson and Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 293.).--In No. 103 of "NOTES AND +QUERIES," under the head of "_Sanderson and Taylor_," a question is put +by W. W. as to the common source of the sentence, "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." Without at all +saying that it is the common source, I would beg to refer W. W. to "The +Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where "wisdom" is described as +"the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the +power of God, and the image of His goodness." The coincidence is +curious, though the Latin expressions are dissimilar, the verse in "The +Wisdom of Solomon" being as follows: "Nam splendor est a luce aeterna et +speculum efficacitatis Dei expers maculae, ac imago bonitatis ejus." + + R. M. M. (A Subscriber). + + Taunton. + +_Island of AEgina and the Temple of Jupiter Panhellinius_ (Vol. iv., p. +255.).--In Lempriere's _Classical Dict._, by the Rev. J. A. Giles, 1843, +is the subjoined:-- + + "The most remarkable remnant of antiquity at the present day is + the temple of 'Jupiter Panhellinius' on a _mount of the same name_ + about four hours' distance from the port, supposed to be one of + the most ancient temples in Greece, and the oldest specimen of + Doric architecture; Dodwell pronounces it to be the most + picturesque ruin in Greece." + +And in Arrowsmith's _Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography_, 1839, +p. 414.: + + "In the southern part of the island is _Panhellinius Mons_, so + called _from a temple_ of Jupiter Panhellinius, erected on its + summit by AEacus." + + C. W. MARKHAM. + +_The Broad Arrow_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--I forget where it is, but +remember something about a place held by the tenure of presenting the +king with + + "---- a Broad-Arrow, + When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow." + +I would however suggest, that the use of an arrow-head as a government +mark may have a Celtic origin; and that the so-called arrow may be the +[Arrow symbol] or _a_, the broad _a_ of the Druids. This letter was +typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect or +holiness; and I believe stood also for king or prince. + + A. C. M. + + Exeter, Nov. 4. 1851. + +_Consecration of Bishops in Sweden_ (Vol. iv., p. 345.).--E. H. A. asks +whether any record exists of the consecration of Bethvid, Bishop of +_Strengnas_ in the time of Gustavus I., King of Sweden? I cannot reply +from this place with the certainty I might be able to do, if I had +access to my books and papers. But I may venture to state, that the +"consecration" (if by that term be meant the canonical and apostolical +ordination) of Bethvidus Sermonis, in common with that of all the +Lutheran Bishops of Sweden, is involved in much doubt and obscurity; the +fact being, that they all derive their orders from _Petrus Magni_, +Bishop of Westeras, who _is said_ to have been "consecrated" bishop of +that see at Rome by a cardinal in A.D. 1524, the then Pontiff having +acceded to the request of Gustavus Vasa to this effect. It is, however, +uncertain whether Petrus Magni ever received proper episcopal +consecration, although it appears probable he did. I endeavoured at one +time to ascertain the fact by reference to Rome; but though promised by +my correspondent (a British Romanist resident there) that he would +procure the examination of the Roll of Bishops in communion with the +Holy See, and consecrated by Papal license, for the purpose of +discovering whether Bishop Petrus Magni's name occurred therein or not, +I never heard more of the subject. I could not help judging, that this +silence on the part of my correspondent (to whom I was personally +unknown), after his having replied immediately and most civilly to my +first communication, was very eloquent and significant. But still the +doubt remains uncleared, as to whether the Swedish episcopacy possess or +not, _as they maintain they do_, the blessing of an apostolical and +canonical succession. + + G. J. R. G. + + Pen-y-lau, Ruabon. + +_Meaning of Spon_ (Vol. iv., p. 39.).--Is the word _spooney_ derived +from the Anglo-Saxon _spanan_, _spon_, _asponen_, to allure, entice, and +therefore equivalent to one allured, trapped, &c., a gowk or simpleton? +If C. H. B. could discover whether those specified places were ever at +any time tenanted by objectionable characters, this verb and its +derivatives might assist his inquiries. He will, however, see that +_Spondon_ (pronounced _spoondon_) in Derbyshire is another instance of +the word he inquires after. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby-de-la-Zouch. + +_Quaker Expurgated Bible_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--I can inform the +correspondent who inquires whether such a publication of a Bible, which +a committee of Friends were intending to publish, ever took place, that +no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends, who adopt the +English authorised version only, as may be seen by their yearly epistle +and other authorised publications. I have inquired of many Friends who +were likely to know, and not one ever heard of what the authoress of +_Quakerism_ states. + + A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. + +_Cozens the Painter_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--In Rose's _Biographical +Dictionary_ it is stated that Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter, +born in Russia, but attaining his celebrity in London, where he taught +drawing. In 1778 he published a theoretical work called _The Principle +of Beauty relative to the Human Face_, with illustrations, engraved by +Bartolozzi. He died in 1786. + + J. O'G. + +_Authors of the Homilies_ (Vol. iv., p. 346.).--Allow me to say that in +the reply to the inquiry of G. R. C. one work is omitted which will +afford at once all that is wanted: for the Preface to Professor Corrie's +recent edition of the _Homilies_, printed at the Pitt Press, contains +the most circumstantial account of their authors. + + W. K. 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Another and most +important department of our great national collection has just found in +Dr. Mantell an able scientific, yet popular expositor of its treasures. +His _Petrifactions and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of +Organic Remains in the British Museum_, forms the new volume of Bohn's +_Scientific Library_; and, thanks to the acquirements of Dr. Mantell, +his good sense in divesting his descriptions, as much as possible, of +technical language, and the numerous well-executed woodcuts by which it +is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to accomplish the +purpose for which it has been prepared; namely, to serve as a handbook +to the general visitor to the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an +explanatory Catalogue for the more scientific observer. + +To satisfy the deep interest taken by many persons, who are unable to +study the phenomena themselves, in the numerous new and remarkable facts +relating to the formation and temperature of the globe, and to the +movements of the ocean and of the atmosphere, as well as to the +influence of both on climate, and on the adaptation of the earth for the +dwelling of man, which the exertions of scientific men have of late +years revealed, was the motive which led Professor Buff to write his +_Familiar Letters on the Physics of the Earth; treating of the chief +Movements of the Land, the Waters, and the Air, and the Forces that give +rise to them_: and Dr. Hoffman has been induced to undertake an English +edition of them from a desire of rendering accessible to the public a +source of information from which he has derived no less of profit than +of pleasure: which profit and which pleasure will, we have no doubt, be +shared by a large number of readers of this unpretending but very +instructive little volume. + +_Welsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of the Twelfth +Century._ These sketches, which treat of Bardism, the Kings of Wales, +the Welsh Church, Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensis, are +from the pen of the amiable author of the _Essays on Church Union_, and +are written in the same attractive and popular style. + +About five-and-thirty years ago the Treatment of the Insane formed the +subject of a Parliamentary inquiry, and the public mind was shocked by +the appalling scenes revealed before a Committee of the House of +Commons. 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13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 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. IV No. 103 | Oct. 18, 1851 | 289-303 | PG # 38864 | + | Vol. IV No. 104 | Oct. 25, 1851 | 305-333 | PG # 38926 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 105 | Nov. 1, 1851 | 337-358 | PG # 39076 | + | Vol. IV No. 106 | Nov. 8, 1851 | 361-374 | PG # 39091 | + | Vol. IV No. 107 | Nov. 15, 1851 | 377-396 | PG # 39135 | + +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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