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diff --git a/39438.txt b/39438.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f39a6c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/39438.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2745 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 112, +December 20, 1851, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 112, December 20, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: April 13, 2012 [EBook #39438] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, DEC 20, 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: Characters with macrons have been marked in +brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on +top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts; equal signs +indicate =bold= fonts. Original spelling variations have not been +standardized. 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. 112--SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Wady Mokatteb identified with Kibroth Hattavah, by + the Rev. Moses Margoliouth 481 + + On a Passage in Goldsmith, by Henry H. Breen 482 + + Minor Notes:--Biographical Dictionary--The Word + Premises--Play of George Barnwell--Traditions from + Remote Periods through few Links 483 + + QUERIES:-- + + Deodands and their Application, by Jonathan Peel 484 + + Minor Queries:--Hell paved with the Skulls of + Priests--Charib--Thumb Bible--Tripos--Louis Philippe + and his Bag of Nails--Brass Statues at Windsor--Edmund + Bohun--Bishop Trelawney 484 + + MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Companion Ladder--Macaulay's + Ballad of the Battle of Naseby 485 + + REPLIES:-- + + The Crucifix as used by the Early Christians, by + J. Emerson Tennent 485 + + The Word "[Greek: Adelphos]." by T. R. Brown 486 + + The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 487 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Hobbes's "Leviathan"--Age + of Trees--Treatise against Equivocation--Lycian + Inscriptions--Alterius Orbis Papa--Carmagnoles--General + James Wolfe--Johannes Trithemius--Sir William + Herschel--Dr. Wm. Wall--Parish Registers--Compositions + during the Protectorate--General Moyle--Descendants + of John of Gaunt--Church of St. Bene't Fink--Coins + of Vabalathus--Engraved Portrait--"Cleanliness is next + to godliness"--Cozens the Painter--Whig and Tory--Prince + Rupert's Drops--Deep Well near Bansted Downs--Mrs. Mary + Anne Clarke--Upton Court 487 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 493 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 494 + + Notices to Correspondents 494 + + Advertisements 494 + + + + +Notes. + + +WADY MOKATTEB IDENTIFIED WITH KIBROTH HATTAVAH. + +The difficulty of deciding the antiquity of the famous inscriptions in +the deserts of Arabia, would be considerably diminished if we could +ascertain the earliest mention of the valley now known as Wady Mokatteb. +What I am about to submit to the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," is +not a presumptuous or rash suggestion, but an idea diffidently +entertained, and cautiously and maturely considered. + +It is not at all improbable that that valley, with its surrounding rocky +chronicles, was first mentioned by Moses, the first delineator of the +"great wilderness." The mention I allude to is to be found in Numbers, +xi. 26. The passage, as it occurs in the English version, runs thus: + + "But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one + was Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad; and the Spirit rested + upon them, and they were of them that were written." + +The original words of the last clause are but the two following:-- + + [Hebrew: vhemah bakkthuwbiym] + +which literally signify, "and they were amongst the inscriptions." + +A personal and literary examination of the locality of the Sinaitic +inscriptions convinces me that Eldad and Medad were then in that famous +region. By a reference to the chapter alluded to, it will be found that +the children of Israel were then at that awfully memorable place called +_Kibroth Hattavah_ (ver. 34.), and no one, who has but a slight +knowledge of scripture topography, will be at a loss to observe that it +is the very spot where the mysterious inscriptions are found. + +Dr. Robinson, in his _Biblical Researches_, vol. i. p. 138., thus +notices the subject in question: + + "The Sinaite inscriptions are found on all the routes which lead from + the West towards Sinai, above the convent El-Arbain, but are found + neither on Gebel Musa, nor on the present Horeb, nor on St. Catherine, + nor in the valley of the convent; while on Serbal they are seen on its + very summit." + +Lord Lindsay, in his first letter from _Edom and the Holy Land_, +introduces the same district in the following words: + + "We now entered Wady Mokatteb, a spacious valley, bounded on the east + by a most picturesque range of black mountains, but chiefly famous for + the inscriptions on the rocks that line it, and from which it derives + its name. There are thousands of them, inscriptions too, and here is + the mystery, in a character which no one has yet deciphered." + +Now, let the ancient and modern maps be compared, and it will be +discovered that the same place which is called, in Num. xi. 26., +[Hebrew: kthuwbiym], probably on account of its inscriptions, is also +called by the Arabians [Arabic: wadi el mokatteb] _Wady el Mokatteb_. + +Should the identity between Wady Mokatteb and Kibroth Hattavah be +considered conclusive, then the antiquity of the Sinaitic inscriptions +is far more remote than the date fixed by certain archaeologists and +palaeographists; the records may prove to be, in truth and in deed, the +handy-work of the Israelites during their encampment there. + +The readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" need scarcely be told that the +inscriptions were first noticed in the sixth century by Cosmas, a +Graeco-Indian merchant, who was hence surnamed Indicopleustes. But it is +necessary to impress the fact that Cosmas, though a man of intelligence +and of letters, considered that the alphabet in which the inscriptions +were made, was unknown; but having visited the Wady in company with +certain well-informed Jews, his Hebrew companions read and deciphered +several of the records, and decided that the Israelites of the Egyptian +Exodus were the performers of the inscriptions. All this Cosmas stated +in his _Christian Topography_ (a work published for the first time in +1707 by the learned Montfaucon), and concurs in the opinion that the +ancient Hebrews were the scribes. This circumstance borne in mind, will +be proof against the theory conceived by Professor Beer, brought forth +by Dr. Lepsius, adopted and fostered by Dr. Wilson, viz. that an Utopian +Nabathaean Christian tribe executed those inscriptions during their +pilgrimages to the sacred localities on Mount Sinai. Is it not strange +that Cosmas should not have heard that there was such a tribe of scribes +in the valley? Is it not unaccountable that the knowledge of the +alphabet should so soon have been forgotten? Cosmas flourished +comparatively but a short time after the supposed Nabathaeans. + +But the advocates of the Nabathaean theory argue that the Sinaitic +inscriptions must be of a comparatively modern date, since there are +found amongst them some Greek and Latin ones; and, moreover, the cross +does sometimes occur in various shapes. I venture to submit that the +inscriptions bear self-evidence that they have been executed at various +dates. It is true that by far the greatest number of them display +indubitable marks of remote antiquity; but there are some which must be +pronounced juvenile when compared with the _great majority_. The latter +bear marks of an execution resembling the inscriptions on the ancient +Egyptian obelisks, whilst the former are rude and superficially cut, and +already almost effaced. I take, therefore, the Greek and Latin, and +indeed some of the yet unknown inscriptions, to have been cut at a +comparatively modern date. Who knows whether Cosmas and his companions +did not try their hands at a few? + +Why should it be thought improbable that the different monks on Mount +Sinai, who occupied the convent there at various ages, should have done +their quota to puzzle the modern palaeographist and traveller? Is it +absolutely impossible that the prefect of the Franciscan missionaries of +Egypt, who visited the Wady in 1722, and his companions, who were well +instructed in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, Latin, +Armenian, Turkish, English, Illyrian, German, and Bohemian languages, +should have chiselled a few in the characters they were most expert? In +the same manner might the occurrence of the cross be accounted for, if +it were necessary, without precipitating oneself to the conclusion that +"the occurrence, in connection with the inscriptions of the cross in +various forms, indicates that their _origin_ should be attributed to the +early Christians." But is it possible that such antiquaries as Drs. +Beer, Lepsius, and Wilson, should be ignorant, or affect to be ignorant, +that the cross was an ancient hieroglyphic, of a date long before the +Christian era, well known by the name of _Crux Ansata_, and of the +_Divina Taw_, and signified among the Egyptians "Life to come"? That the +form of the cross was used among the Hebrews is conclusive from the fact +that it was the ancient Hebrew mint letter for the [Hebrew: tav]. What, +then, is the value of the arguments in behalf of the Nabathaean theory? +All the specimens that have been given hitherto of the inscriptions, are +no more in comparison with the vast numbers which literally cover the +highest mountains, than a drop out of a bucket, including even those +given in the _Philosophical Transactions_ of 1766, in the _Transactions +of the Royal Society of Literature_ of 1832, and by the Rev. Charles +Forster of this year[1], and even adding the 1200 taken by M. Lottin de +Laval. (See "NOTES AND QUERIES", Vol. iv., p. 332.) + + [Footnote 1: _The One Primeval Language, &c._, by the Rev. Charles + Forster. The above is a compendium of two letters which the writer + addressed on the subject to his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, + and the late Bishop of Norwich,--to the former from Paris, to the + latter from Alexandria. See _A Pilgrimage to the Land of my + Fathers_, vol. i. pp. 6-15. Mr. Forster's work did not appear + until about a year after the publication of part of the writer's + travels.] + + MOSES MARGOLIOUTH. + + +ON A PASSAGE IN GOLDSMITH. + +Goldsmith, in _The Deserted Village_, has the lines: + + "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, + Where wealth accumulates and men decay: + Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, + _A breath can make them, as a breath has made_; + But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, + When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." + +In this passage the fourth line, which I have given in italics, is +traced by D'Israeli, in _Curiosities of Literature_, under the head of +"Imitations and Similarities," to the French poet, De Caux, who, +comparing the world to his hour-glass, says-- + + ---- "C'est une verre qui luit, + Qu'un souffle peut _detruire_, et qu'un souffle a _produit_." + +The turn given to the thought in the French has suggested to D'Israeli +an emendation of the passage in Goldsmith. He proposes that the word +"unmakes" should be substituted for "can make." The line would then +read-- + + "A breath _unmakes_ them, as a breath has made." + +This emendation seems to me to be alike ingenious and well-founded. The +line itself is but the corollary of the one that precedes it; and in +order to make the sense complete, it should contain antithetical +expressions to correspond with "flourish" and "fade." Now, between "can +make" and "made" there is nothing antithetical; but between "made" and +"unmakes" there is. + +In support of this view, I may quote one or two parallel passages, in +which the antithesis is preserved. The first is a quatrain commemorating +the devastating effects of an earthquake in the valley of Lucerne in +1808: + + "O ciel! ainsi ta Providence + A tous les maux nous condamna: + Un souffle _eteint_ notre existence + Comme un souffle nous la _donna_." + +The second is a line which occurs in _Curiosities of Literature_, and +which I am compelled to quote from memory, having no access to that +work. It is as follows: + + "A breath _revived_ him, but a breath _o'erthrew_." + +That Goldsmith wrote the line in question with the word "unmakes," there +seems little reason to doubt. To say of princes and lords that "a breath +can make them, as a breath has made," far from conveying any idea of +their "fading," would be, on the contrary, to indicate the facile +process by which they may be perpetuated. It would show how they may +"flourish," but not how they may "fade." + +Although this emendation in Goldsmith was pointed out many years ago, +and recommends itself by its appositeness, and its obvious adaptation to +the context, yet I believe it has never been introduced into any edition +of that poet. I have before me two copies of _The Deserted Village_, and +both contain the words "can make." As, however, among the many useful +hints thrown out by "NOTES AND QUERIES," that of suggesting the +emendation of obscure or difficult passages in our poets, appears to +have met with the approbation of your readers, I trust some future +editor of Goldsmith may be induced to notice this passage, and restore +the text to its original accuracy. + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Biographical Dictionary._--May I beg for the assistance of "NOTES AND +QUERIES" to enforce a want which I am sure is daily felt by thousands of +educated Englishmen? The want I speak of is that of _a good Biographical +Dictionary_, coming down to the middle of the century; a dictionary as +good as the _Biog. Universelle_ for _foreign_ lives, and _a hundred +times better for English lives_. Every one knows how meagre and +unsatisfactory is that otherwise magnificent work in its English part. +Why should we not have an abridged translation, with the home portion +re-written? + + Z. Z. Z. + +_The Word Premises._--The use of the word _premises_ for houses, lands, +and hereditaments, is surely incorrect. I have never found the word +_praemissa_ used in any Latin writer in a sense that can sanction the +modern application of its derivative. Johnson's authority supports the +view that the word is perverted in being made to stand for houses and +lands, as he says it is "in low language" that the noun substantive +"premises" is used in that sense, as, "I was upon the _premises_," &c. +The office of "the premises" in a deed, say the Law Dictionaries, is to +express the names of the grantor and grantee, and to specify the thing +granted. "The _premises_ is the former part of a deed, being all that +which precedeth the _habendum_ or limitation of the estate." I believe +the term "parcels" is applied, technically, to the specification of the +property which forms the subject of a deed. In an instrument, it may not +be wholly incorrect to refer by the term "premises" to the particulars +premised, and, if an etymological inaccuracy, it may be excused for the +sake of avoiding repetitions; but surely we ought not to speak of +houses, lands, &c. by this term. I see I am not the first to call an +editor's attention to this point, for, in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ of +Jan., 1795, a correspondent complains of this improper application of +the word, and attributes the perversion to the lawyers, "who," he says, +"for the sake of brevity (to which, by-the-bye, they are not much +attached), have accustomed themselves to the phrase, 'the aforesaid +_premises_,' whence the word has come to be universally taken as a +collective noun, signifying manors, tenements, and so on." The absurdity +of such a use of the word is illustrated by putting it for animals, +household goods, and personal estate, for which it may as well stand as +for lands and houses. + + W. S. G. + + Newcastle-upon-Tyne. + +_Play of George Barnwell:_-- + + "Last Friday a messenger came from Hampton Court to the Play House by + the Queen's command, for the manuscript of George Barnwell, for Her + Majesty's perusal, which Mr. Wilks carried to Hampton Court early on + Saturday morning; and we hear it is to be performed shortly at the + Theatre in Hampton Court, for the entertainment of the Royal Family," + &c.--_Daily Post_, Monday, July 5. 1731. + + H. E. + +_Traditions from Remote Periods through few Links_ (Vol. iii., pp. 206. +237.):-- + + "My greatest boast in this line is, that I have conversed with Sir + Isaac Herd, the celebrated herald, and he had conversed with a person + who was present at the execution of Charles I."--Lord Campbell's + _Lives of the Chief Justices_, vol. ii. p. 304. note. + + E. H. A. + + + + +Queries. + + +DEODANDS AND THEIR APPLICATION. + +Blackstone states (1 _Comm._ p. 300.) that a deodand-- + + "Is forfeited to the king to be applied to pious uses, and distributed + in alms by his high almoner, though formerly destined to a more + superstitious purpose. It seems to have been originally designed, in + the blind days of Popery, as an expiation for the souls of such as + were snatched away by sudden death; and for that purpose ought + properly to have been given to holy church." + +The authorities for this latter statement are Fitzh., _Abr._, tit. +"Enditement," pt. 27., and Staunf., _P.C._, 20, 21., neither of which +books are in my possession, nor in this remote district can I gain +access to them. Hume, Lingard, Henry, and Rapin, omit all mention of +this change in the destination of the deodand, at least so far as I can +find. Fleta, who lived, according to Dr. Cowell (_Interpreter_, in verb. +"Fleta"), tem. Ed. II., Ed. III., or, according to Jacob (_Law Dic._, in +ver. "Fleta"), tem. Ed. I., says that-- + + "This deodand is to be sold to the poor, and the price distributed to + the poor for the soul of the king and all faithful people departed + this life."--_Interpreter_, in ver. "Deodand." + +It would therefore appear that in Fleta's time it was settled law that +deodands went to the Crown; nor does this writer seem to take any notice +of their having been, at any time, payable to the Church. Hawkins, East, +and I think Hale also, are equally silent upon the point. + +Can any of your readers kindly supply the information as to when +deodands first ceased to be given to the Church, and when they became +the property of the Crown? + + JONATHAN PEEL. + + +Minor Queries. + +349. _Hell Paved with the Skulls of Priests._--The proverb "Hell is +paved with good intentions" (Vol. ii. pp. 86. 140.), brings to my +recollection a remark I once heard from the lips of a French priest. He +was addressing an audience chiefly composed of students in divinity, and +while descanting on the peculiar dangers to which ecclesiastics are +exposed, and the obstacles they have to encounter at every step on the +road to salvation, he said there could be no doubt that by far the +greater number of them would incur eternal damnation. "It was this" +(added he, with an emphasis which sent thrill of horror through all +present), "It was this that made one of the early fathers assert, that +Hell is paved with the skulls of priests." I think the preacher +mentioned Tertullian as his authority for this singular sentiment, but +he only gave the words: "L'enfer est pave de tetes de pretres." Can any +of your readers point out the precise passage referred to? + + HENRY H. BREEN. + + St. Lucia. + +350. _Charib._--Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the +derivation and meaning of the word _Charib_? The Charibs were the +ancient inhabitants, as is well known, of the smaller West Indian +islands. + + W. J. C. + + St. Lucia. + +351. _Thumb Bible._--Can any of your readers tell me the history of the +Thumb Bible, reprinted by Longman, 1850? Who was "J. Taylor," who seems +to have been the author? He has strangely spoilt Bishop Ken's Morning +and Evening Hymns at the conclusion of his book. + + HERMES. + +352. _Tripos._--What is the origin of the term "tripos" as applied to +the mathematical and classical honour lists in the university of +Cambridge? + + A. F. S. + +353. _Louis Philippe and his Bag of Nails._--Has any of your +correspondents heard a story about a bag of rusty nails which Louis +Philippe used to carry about with him; with which he considered his fate +as in some way connected; and which he lost a few days before February +24, 1848? If so, is it known whether the story is well authenticated? + + R. D. H. + +354. _Brass Statues at Windsor._--"The Brass Statues at Windsor," sold +in 1646 by order of the House of Lords to pay the troops at +Windsor:--What were these statues? + + WAYLEN. + +355. _Edmund Bohun._--Is it possible that some Trans-atlantic notist may +be able to supply a scrap or two of intelligence respecting the brief +career of Edmund Bohun, as Chief Justice of South Carolina, 1698-1701? I +believe he died in the latter year, and was buried at Charlestown. + + S. W. RIX. + + Beccles. + +356. _Bishop Trelawney._--To what parliamentary decision does Atterbury +allude in the subjoined extract from the dedication to Trelawney, Bishop +of Winchester, prefixed to his Sermons in four volumes, 1723? + + "This and another parliamentary decision, which your lordship not long + after with equal difficulty obtained, and by which the bishop's sole + right to judge of the qualifications of persons applying for + institution was unutterably confirmed, are such instances of your + magnanimity and public spirit as will remain in memory while the + church or the law of England lasts." + + E. H. A. + + +Minor Queries Answered. + +_Companion Ladder._--Why are the stairs leading from the deck to the +chief cabin of a ship called "the companion ladder?" + + A CONSTANT READER. + + [The _companion_ in merchant ships is a wooden porch placed over the + entrance or staircase of the cabin. Hence the ladder by which officers + ascend to and descend from the quarter-deck, is called the _companion + ladder_.] + +_Macaulay's Ballad of the Battle of Naseby._--Where is Mr. Macaulay's +ballad of the "Battle of Naseby" to be found printed entire? It is not +republished in the last edition of his _Lays of Ancient Rome_. + + D. B. J. + + [It has never, we believe, been printed since its first publication in + _Knight's Magazine_, about the year 1824. From the omission pointed + out by our correspondent, it is obvious that the accomplished writer + of it does not himself regard this ballad as deserving of + republication.] + + + + +Replies. + + +THE CRUCIFIX AS USED BY THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. + +(Vol. iv., p. 422.). + +A correspondent questions the accuracy of MR. CURZON's statement, in his +_Monasteries of the Levant_, that-- + + "The crucifix was not known before the fifth or sixth century, though + the cross was always the emblem of the Christian faith,"-- + +and asks for information as to its use, and the dates of the earliest +examples. Some twenty years ago I devoted some care to this inquiry, and +the result will be found in a chapter on the decline of the arts in +Greece, in a _History of Modern Greece_, which I published in 1830. To +that essay, but more especially to the authorities which it cites, I +would refer your correspondent; and I think, after an examination of the +latter, he will be disposed to concur with me, that Mr. Curzon's +statement is correct. It is in accordance with that of Gibbon, and +sustained by the same authorities as Basnage, to the effect that the +first Christians, from their association with the Jews, and their +aversion to the mythology of the Greeks, were hostile to the use of +images of any description in their primitive temples, in which they +reluctantly admitted the figure of the ignominious cross, as a memorial +of the Redeemer's death. At a later period, however, the veneration for +the _relics_ of departed saints led to the admission of their painted +_portraits_, and eventually to the erection of their images and effigies +in wood and marble. (_Gibbon_, chap. xxiii. xlix.) Reiskius states that +it was not till the fourth century after Christ that the latter +innovation began: + + "Ecclesia vero Christiana tribus seculis prioribus ne quidem imagines + recepit aut inter sacra numeravit instrumenta. Sed demum sub finem + quarti seculi ea lege admisit ut in templis memoriae ac ornatus causa + haberentur."--Reiskius, _De Imaginibus Jesu Christi Exercitationes + Histor._, ex. i. c. i. sec. ii. p. 12. + +Lillio Giraldi concurs with Reiskius: + + "Illud certe non praetermittam nos dico Christianos ut aliquando + Romanos fuisse sine imaginibus in primitiva quae vocatur + ecclesia."--Lillius Gregorius Giraldus, _Historiae Deorum Syntage_, v. + i. p. 15. + +The earliest images of Christ were those mentioned as being placed, by +Alexander Severus, along with those of Abraham, Jupiter, Pythagoras, +Plato, and Aristotle. (_Reiskius_, ex. vii. c. i. sec. i. p. 151.) +Constantine placed two equestrian statues of the Saviour in the Lateran +Church. But Molanus, who mentions the latter fact, insists that there +were existing about this period numerous statues of the Saviour, which +he would refer to the time of Pontius Pilate. (_De Historia SS. +Imaginibus, &c._, lib. i. c. vi. p. 65.) + +The most ancient examples now remaining of the decorations employed by +the early Christians, are doubtless those found in the catacombs at +Rome. I have not access to any recent copies of these interesting +antiquities; but so far as my recollection serves, they contain no +example of a crucifix, or any literal delineation of the death of the +Saviour. In fact, even in these gloomy retreats, the vigilance of +persecution compelled the Christians to caution, and forced them to +conceal, under allegories and mystery, the memorials of their faith; the +figure of the Redeemer being always veiled under an assumed character, +most generally that of a shepherd bearing in his arms a recovered lamb. +This, which is the most common form of allegory of this period, occurs +in the catacomb of the Via Latina, in that of Priscilla in the Via +Salaria, discovered in 1776, both of which, according to Aringhi, are +amongst the oldest Christian monuments now remaining. (_Roma +Subterranea_, vol. ii. p. 25. 292.) In a sepulchral chamber in the +cemetery of St. Calixtus, Jesus is represented as Orpheus with a lyre, +as emblematic of the subduing influences of his life. But his death is +still more cautiously shadowed forth by the types of Jonas, Isaac on the +altar of Abraham, and Daniel in the den of lions,--examples of all of +which are numerous; and the cover of an urn figured by Agincourt +presents them all three. (_Histoire de l'Art par les Monumens_, vol. +iv.; _Dec. Sculp._, pl. v. no. 10.) + +Art, after its decline in Rome, was later cherished by the Greeks at +Byzantum, and allegory in their hands, during the third and fourth +centuries, exhibited a much higher refinement than amongst the +degenerate Romans,--the divinity and _life_ of Jesus being represented +in their paintings by a youth of godlike mien and heavenly grace, with +his foot upon the mane of a lion, whilst his _death_ is still typified +by a lamb expiring at the foot of a cross, which it sprinkles with its +blood, and his _resurrection_ by a phoenix, which rests upon the summit +of a palm-tree, the emblem of his _victory_. + +I have stated that even the _cross_, as an emblem, was admitted +"reluctantly" into the churches of the early Christians. The fact, +and the causes of this reluctance, are stated fairly by Gibbon +(ch. xx.), principally on the authorities consulted by Basnage in +his _Histoire des Eglises Reformees_, to have had their origin in +the idea of infamy and ignominy which they attached to the mode of +execution by crucifixion,--feelings analogous to those inspired by +a gallows or a gibbet; and it required a long lapse of time, even +after Constantine had abolished throughout the Roman dominions the +punishment which had prevailed for slaves and malefactors, but which +the Saviour of mankind had submitted to suffer, before the people +could be led to regard as a symbol for veneration that which had so +long been an object of horror and disgust. A most interesting account +of the subsidence of this feeling, and of its effects upon Sacred Art +whilst it prevailed, will be found in Emeric David's _Discours sur la +Peinture Moderne_, p. 115. It rendered allegory so indispensable, that +in the exhaustion of fancy it declined into conceits and puerility, +which finally brought the subject into contempt, and compelled the +hierarchy to exert the influence of the Church for its correction. +This led to a measure the record of which is strongly corroborative +of the statement of Mr. Curzon; namely, that A.D. 692, at the Quine +Sextine, or _Council in Trullo_, it was ordered that thenceforth +fiction and allegory should cease, and _the real figure of the Saviour +be depicted on the tree_. (_Can._ 82. _Act. Concil._ Paris, 1714, +v. iii. col. 1691, 1692.) + +The Greeks complied, but with reluctance, to delineate the actual +crucifixion; and as, in the controversy which arose in the second +century, and never entirely subsided, regarding the beauty or deformity +of the Saviour's features, the Greek Church had espoused the side of St. +Basil, Tertullian, and Origen, who maintained that "he was without form +or comeliness," their artists exhibited such a spectacle of deformity on +the cross, that to the present hour a proverb compares a lean and ugly +person to "un crucifix des Grecs." The Latins and Italians, on the other +hand, whilst they were equally hostile to the literal exhibition of the +Redeemer's death, and _forbore for nearly a century_ to comply with the +orders of the Council _in Trullo_, adopted, as to his beauty, the party +of Celsus and Chrysostom,--quoted the expression of David, "thou art +fairer than the children of men,"--and painted the Saviour, albeit +suspended on the fatal tree, as a youth of heavenly mien; and instead of +the crown of thorns, the lance, and the sponge, they represented him +with a diadem, and insensible to suffering or pain. + +These remarks, though they will no doubt be insufficient as an answer to +your correspondent, may perhaps direct him to authorities, the +consultation of which will satisfy his inquiry. + + J. EMERSON TENNENT. + + London. + + +THE WORD "[Greek: Adelphos]." + +(Vol. iv., pp. 339, 458.) + +In commenting on the criticisms of J. B., may I be allowed to follow the +order of his own reasoning as much as possible? + +1st. I am glad to find that Scapula is right, but I must object to the +use of the participle _acquiescing_, as applied to me. My word is +"_de_duction," and is applied to a rule grounded upon Scapula's +correctness, and may, I think, settle the sense of those disputed verses +in Matt. xiii. 55, 56, to say nothing of two indisputable proofs which +might be adduced. + +2nd. _I_ am wrong--for what? for _appearing_, in the eyes of J. B., to +have done that which I have not done,--for bringing in links of "the +Indo-Germanic languages," which I have neither done, nor can do. + +3rd. "The word is solely and peculiarly Greek." Let me give only one +etymon by way of preparation for my answer. Let us take the word +_mouse_. Well, it comes from the Latin _mus_, which comes, you will say, +from the Greek [Greek: mys], and there are many clever etymologists, +excepting a few, with J. B. and myself, would say, "it is solely and +peculiarly Greek;" but _we_ go up to the Sanscrit (the _mother_ of +European languages), and bring forward _mush_, a mouse, and here is _the +terminus_--and why? because _mush_ signifies _to steal_, and therefore +sufficiently describes the nature of the little animal. Now, because we +cannot _find_ an existing link between the Greek and Sanscrit, is that a +reason for asserting [Greek: adelphos] to be of pure Greek _origin_? No; +and if J. B. will only recollect that all words in Sanscrit, excepting +bare primary roots, are compounded after the same manner as [Greek: +adelphos] or rather [Greek: del-ph], he will, I hope, find that I have +_not been wrong_ in my _etymon_. Moreover, let J. B. prove, _if he can_, +what is _the meaning_ of [Greek: delph] in the Greek, unaided by any +other language. + +4th. Why is the Sanscrit _bhratre_ brought into the contest? perhaps to +prove what has not been proved, viz. that _it also_ signifies _frater +uterinus_. + +5th. "How happened it that the word [Greek: phrater] was lost in Greek?" +Why, because the Greeks thought it too _barbarous_ a word to _own_, as +coming through the Latins from the barbarous Goths, Scandinavians, &c.! +Let us pass over irrelevant matter till we come to + +6th. J. B.'s authoritative rule, "that no apparent similarity between +words in the Semitic and Asian (read Sanscrit) families can be used to +establish a real identity, the two classes of language being _radically_ +and fundamentally distinct." Vide _mouse_, and a hundred more roots, +that might quash this rule. + +To conclude, I did not introduce the Sanscrit _dal_ into my former note, +because, I suppose, an idea passed through my mind that I might offend +some "_interesting_ points in Greek manners." + +I have only one more remark to make, which is, that the Sanscrit +_bhra-tre_ is a compound word like [Greek: del-phys]. I will give the +full etymology of this word _bhra-tre_, to prove that J. B. has done +wrong in bringing in a word to militate against his _own_ rule. Persian, +_bra-dar_; Sanscrit, _bhra-tre_; Gothic, _bro-thar_; Islandic, +_bro-dir_; German, _bru-der_; Swedish and Danish, _bro-der_; +Anglo-Saxon, _bro-ther_. Now, will J. B. prove that the Hebrew, Chaldee, +and Syriac [Hebrew: bar], _bar_, a son, is not connected with the +Persian and Sanscrit _bra_ and _bhra_? If he does, I shall doubtless be +edified. + + T. R. BROWN. + + Vicarage, Southwick, near Oundle. + + +THE ROMAN INDEX EXPURGATORIUS OF 1607. + +(Vol. iv., p. 440.) + +I am happy in being able to give, I trust, a satisfactory answer to the +Query of your American correspondent U. U., respecting the original +edition of 1607. + +There can be no doubt that the copy in the Bodleian Library is of the +genuine edition. It was in the Library certainly before the year 1620, +as it appears in the catalogue printed in that year, and still bears the +same reference on the shelf as is there given to it, namely, 8vo. I. 32. +Theol.; and it was doubtless the copy used by Dr. James, who +superintended the forming of that catalogue, and who died only a few +months before. The title runs thus: + + INDICIS + (red ink) LIBRORVM + (red) EXPVRGANDORVM + in studiosorum gratiam confecti. + Tomus Primus + _IN QVO QVINQVAGINTA AVCTORVM_ + _Libri prae ceteris desiderati emendantur._ + (red ink) + PER FR. IO. MARIAM BRASICHELLEN. + (red ink) + SACRI PALATII APOSTOLICI MAGISTRVM + in vnum corpus redactus, & publicae + commoditati aeditus + (this first word red) (this date red) + ------------------------------------------------------------ + ROMAE, ex Typographia R. Cam. Apost. M.DC.VII. + ------------------------------------------------------------ + (the line above red) + SVPERIORVM PERMISSV. + +There is a full stop at confecti, also at emendantur, and at +Brasichellen; but no stop whatever at auctorum. It extends (besides +eight leaves of title and preliminary matter) to pp. 742. On the recto +of the next and last leaf, "Series chartarum," &c., and at the bottom: + + ROMAE, M.DC.VII. + ---------------------------------------- + _Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apostolicae._ + ---------------------------------------- + SVPERIORVM PERMISSV. + +There is also in the Bodleian Library a copy of the Bergomi edition, the +title of which is as follows: + + (red ink) INDICIS + LIBRORVM + (red) EXPVRGANDORVM + In studiosorum gratiam confecti + (red) TOMVS PRIMVS + In quo quinquaginta Auctorum Libri prae + caeteris desiderati emendantur + (red) PER F. IO. MARIAM BRASICHELL. + Sacri Palatij Apost. Magistrum + _In vnum corpus redactus & pub. commoditati aeditus._ + +At the bottom: + + (red) ROMAE Primo, Deinde + BERGOMI, _typis Comini Venturae_, 1608. + +This edition extends to 608 pages, in double columns, besides the +preliminary matter, consisting of four articles, of which the first in +this edition is the last in the genuine copy of 1607,--a circumstance +mentioned by Clement as peculiar to the Altdorff edition; but here the +signatures run to pages in eights, whereas the Altdorff edition "qu'ne +remplit qu'un alphabet, et seize feuilles." + +I have never seen a copy of the Ratisbon edition. + + B. B. + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Hobbes's "Leviathan"_ (Vol. iv., p. 314.).--The meaning of the +frontispiece to the first edition of this work, is, I imagine, +sufficiently obvious. The large figure representing a commonwealth holds +in his right hand a sword, in his left a pastoral crook. He is the +emblem of a commonwealth "ecclesiastical and civil" (as the title of the +book shows us). Ranged down one side of the page, under the +sword-bearing arm, are the weapons and resources which the State +possesses. Down the other side of the page, under the protection of the +pastoral staff, is the corresponding armament of the Church. Thus, a +castle and a church, a crown and a mitre, a cannon and spiritual +thunderbolts, a trophy of guns and spears, &c., and one of dilemmas +(represented by a pair of bull's horns), syllogisms (made like a +three-pronged fork), and the like; these, ending with a battle on one +side, a convention of bishops on the other, show the power which (as +Hobbes would have it) each arm of the commonwealth should be able to +have at its command. The whole picture is at best an absurd conceit, and +very unworthy of the author of the _Leviathan_. + + H. A. B. + +The best edition of Hobbes's works was printed 1750. The print of +_Leviathan_ in it is neither like Charles nor Cromwell, of whom I have +old and good prints, and many. The print has at the bottom of it +"_Written_ by Thos. Hobbs, 1651." + + C. J. W. + +_Age of Trees_ (Vol. iv., p. 401.).--I am rather surprised that your +correspondent L., in his enumeration of remarkable trees, and +collections of trees, in Great Britain, makes no mention, whilst on the +subject of yew, of the splendid collection of old yew trees in Kingley +Bottom, near Chichester, in Sussex. Should L. never have visited this +charming spot, and its green antiquities, I can promise him a rich treat +whenever he does so. Common report of the neighbourhood, from time +immemorial, gives these venerable trees a date as far back as the +landing of the sea-kings on the coast of Sussex; and sundry poems by +local bards have been written on this theme. + +On one of the most prominent of the South Down Hills, rising immediately +above the yew-tree valley, and called Bow Hill, are two large, and some +smaller tumuli, which are always called by the natives the graves of the +sea-kings, who with their followers are supposed to have fallen in a +battle fought under these very yew trees. + +Can anybody tell me if the age of any of these trees has ever been +ascertained? Kingley Bottom, or, as people now-a-days prefer calling it, +Kingley Vale, is so much frequented as a spot for pic-nics and festive +days, that I have no doubt many of your readers have seen the trees to +which I refer, and can bear me out in asserting that they are worthy of +ranking, in age and beauty, with any of their species in the kingdom. + + SCANDINAVIAN. + +The "Hethel Thorn," so well known to many Norfolk people, is on a farm +now the property of that munificent patron of historical literature, Mr. +Hudson Gurney, by whom it was purchased from Sir Thomas Beevor. The +first Sir Thomas always said it was mentioned in a deed of 1200 and odd, +as a boundary, under the appellation of "the Old Thorn." It is stated, +also, that it is mentioned in some chronicle as _the thorn_ round which +a meeting of insurgent peasantry was held during the reign of King John +(can any readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" give a reference to the precise +passage?). An etching of this interesting relic has been made by Mr. +Ninham. The involution of its branches, which are all hollow tubes, as +heavy as iron, is most curious; and although the tree is certainly +diminished of late years, it still puts out leaves and berries +vigorously. + + W. J. T. + +_Treatise against Equivocation_ (Vol. iv., p. 419.).--Your correspondent +EUPATOR has, in his examination of the MS. of this treatise, overlooked +a title prefixed by Garnet, which furnishes the heading by which the +book is correctly entered in the Catalogue of the Laudian MSS. as _A +Treatise against (not _of_ or _for_) Lying and Fraudulent +Dissimulation_. "Of" was first written, but at once crossed out, and +"against" written _after_ it, _not_ interlined. Of the two errors which +EUPATOR points out, the one was made at the press, by failure in reading +the contraction for "verbo," which is printed correctly at length at p. +43., and the other was a mistake on the part of the transcriber. + + W. D. M. + +_Lycian Inscriptions_ (Vol. iv., p. 383.).--As to the double language in +Homer of the gods and men, Heyne and others have thought (ad _Il._ A. +403.) that the one was the old language, the other the modern. See +Clarke ib., who thinks one was the learned name, the other the vulgar: +but gives a scholion of the former opinion. The passages are as follow: + + _Il._ Gods. Men. + [Greek: Alpha] 403. Briareus AEgaeon. + [Greek: Beta] 813. Tomb of Myrine Batiea. + [Greek: Xi] 291. Chalcis Cymindis. + [Greek: Upsilon] 74. Xanthus Scamander. + +All these words, except one, are plain Greek,--and that one is a word of +men. It is impossible, therefore, that the gods' language could have +been the antiquated Greek language. + +In the _Odyssey_ ([Greek: Kappa] 305.) Mercury says that a certain plant +is called _Moly_ by the gods, and that it is very difficult for men to +find. The answer to the question, What do men call it? therefore would +probably have been, that they have no name for it at all. It is an odd +word, not easy to derive, and ending in _u_; which Aristotle says is the +ending of only five words in Greek, and one of those, [Greek: asty], was +obsolete as an appellative in Aristotle's time. + +Ichor, though applied in Homer to the gods, he does not say was a word +of the gods; and as it is used in Hippocrates, it is more probably a +dialectic than an antiquated word. Its termination, however is rare; and +in another instance, [Greek: tekmor], was obsolete in Aristotle's time +(_Rhet. init._). + +As to the Lycian language, the alphabet is said, in the appendix to +Fellows, to resemble partly the Greek, partly the Zend, and one or two +letters the Etruscan. The language is said (ib. 430.) to resemble the +Zend more than any other known language; but to differ too much to be +considered as a dialect of Zend, and must rank as a separate language. + +I would observe, that one of the peculiarities mentioned, as compared +with all the Indo-Germanic languages--namely, the having no consonant at +the end of the masculine or feminine accusative--existed in the old +Latin, as in the Scipionic tombs, "optimo viro, omne Loucana." + +Sir Edmund Head, in the _Classical Museum_, No. II., considers the +people to be the Solymi of Homer. + + C. B. + +_Alterius Orbis Papa_ (Vol. ii., p. 497.).--In Twysden's _Historical +Vindication of the Church of England_, p. 22. (Cambridge edition, 1847), +I find-- + + "After the erection of Canterbury into an archbishopric, the bishops + of that see were held _quasi alterius orbis papae_, as Urban II. styled + them." + +In a note, William of Malmesbury (_De Gestis Pontif._, lib. i. in +Anselm., p. 223. l. 33.) is referred to as authority for the above +statement. Urban II. was pope from 1087 to 1099. + + C. W. G. + +_Carmagnoles_ (Vol. iv., p. 208.).--Your querist W. B. H. will perhaps +accept the following partial solution of his question, which has been +communicated to me by one of your own distinguished correspondents in +France. It is contained in a little volume published by Duellersan under +the following title, _Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France_, +Paris, 1846, 32mo: + + "Cette horrible chanson, la Carmagnole, est un monument curieux de la + folie demagogique, et nous la donnons pour faire voir avec quelle + poesie brutale on excitait le peuple. Elle eut une vogue en Aout 1792, + epoque a laquelle Louis XVI. fut mis au Temple. Elle devint le signal + et l'accompagnement des joies feroces et des executions sanglantes. On + dansait la _Carmagnole_ dans les bals; on la dansait au theatre et + autour de la guillotine. Barrere appelait les discours qu'il + prononcait a la Convention, _des Carmagnoles_. L'air, qui est + veritablement entrainant, etait joue en pas redouble dans la musique + militaire; mais Bonaparte la defendit, ainsi que le _Ca-ira_, lors + qu'il fut Consul. + + "Cette chanson parut au moment ou les troupes Francaises venaient + d'entrer triomphantes dans la Savoie et le Piemont. On ignore si la + musique et la danse de _la Carmagnole_ sont originaires de ce pays." + +In the month of January, 1849, the General-in-Chief of the army of +Paris, Changarnier, having taken vigorous measures to prevent new +tumults, the first verse of the original, which commences-- + + "Madame Veto avait promis + De faire egorger tout Paris," + +was thus parodied: + + "Changarnier avait promis + De faire bruler tout Paris," &c. + + PERIERGUS BIBLIOPHILUS. + +_General James Wolfe_ (Vol. iv., p. 271.).--The late Admiral Frank +Sotheron, of Kirklington Hall, near Southwell, Notts, was, I have heard, +related to Wolfe, and possessed a portrait and several letters of his. +Admiral Sotheron died some ten years ago, but his daughter (and only +child) married the present member for Wilts, who afterwards took the +name of Sotheron. + + J. M. W. + +I have a portrait of Wolfe in my possession, and, I believe, the +original from which the print, stated to be a scarce and contemporary +one, was taken, which furnishes the frontispiece to the second volume of +the _History of the Canadas_, by the author of _Hochelaga_. It fell, +singularly enough, into my hands a short time previous to the appearance +of the work in question, and I have been enabled since to trace its +possession by parties, and amongst them members of my own family, for a +very lengthened period. The artist I have not been able to discover; but +perhaps some possessor of the print, should the name appear, will afford +this information. + + C. A. P. + + (Great Yarmouth.) + +As your pages have lately contained several communications on the +subject of General Wolfe, I send you the following story, which I heard +from a lady now deceased. Some time after Wolfe's death his family +wished to give some memorial of him to the lady who had been engaged to +him, and they consulted her as to the form which it should take. Her +answer was, "A diamond necklace;" and her reason, because she was going +to be married to another person, and such an ornament would be useful. +My informant, whose birth, according to the _Peerage_, was in 1766, had, +in her earlier days, often met this lady, and described her as showing +remains of beauty, but as no wiser than this anecdote would lead us to +suppose her. + + J. C. R. + +_Johannes Trithemius_ (Vol. iv., p. 442.).--This noted historian and +divine was born at Trittenheim, in the electorate of Treves, in 1462. He +became abbot of Spanheim about 1482, where he made a rich collection of +manuscript and printed books. In 1506 he was appointed abbot of St. +James at Wurtzbourg. His writings are numerous, and there is an ample +collection of them in the British Museum. In his _Nepiachus_ he gives an +account of his life and studies. He died at Wurtzbourg in 1516. The +learned and judicious Daunou thus characterises the volume _De +scriptoribus ecclesiasticis_: "Malgre beaucoup d'omissions et d'erreurs, +ce livre a ete fort utile a ceux qui ont depuis mieux traite la meme +matiere; on le consulte encore aujourd'hui." + +Leland, Bale, Pits, and Wharton, have recorded their obligations to +Trithemius. The venerable Leland quotes him frequently, under the name +of Trittemius, and styles him "homo diligentiae plane maximae nec minoris +lectionis." + + BOLTON CORNEY. + + "John Trytheme was a German Benedictine, and Abbot of Hirsauge, A.D. + 1484. He was the author of _A Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers_, + several _Letters_, Treatises of _Piety_, of _Doctrine_, and + _Morality_, other historical works, and _The Chronicle of + Hirsauge_."--(See Dufresnoy's _Chronological Tables_.) + +It would appear that the work _Trithemii Collectanea de Scriptoribus +Ecclesiasticis_ has gone through several editions; and Walch tells us +that "inter omnes ea eminet, quam Jo. Alberto Fabricio debemus." The +following remarks also respecting Trithemius appear in Walch's +_Bibliotheca_ (tom. iii. p. 389.): + + "Incipit Trithemius a Clemente Romano; recenset scriptores 970; ac + testatur, se in opere hoc conficiendo per septem fere annorum spatium + elaborasse. Possevinus, Labbeus, atque alii, varios ejus errores + chronologicos ac historicos notarunt. Quodsi autem rationem temporis + reputamus, quo Trithemius vixit scripsitque, causa omnino est, cur eum + ob errata non reprehendamus, sed excusemus atque industriam illius + laudemus." + +Cave, also, in his _Historia Literaria_ (part ii. p. 569.), gives us a +brief account of Trithemius, and of his literary productions. + + E. C. HARRINGTON. + + The Close, Exeter. + +The work of John Trittenheim, _De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis_, is held +in high and deserved repute. (See Fabricius, _Biblioth. Latin. Med. +AEtat._, iv. 451.) He died abbot of Wuertzburg, in 1518. The copy of A. W. +H. is the first edition, which was published at Mainz (Moguntia) in +1494. + + C. H. + +_Sir William Herschel_ (Vol. ii., p. 391.).--Your correspondent gives +the quotation about the star observed in Virgo, which he supposes +identical with Neptune, quite correctly, except in one very material +point--the observer's name. The passage in question will be found in +Captain W. H. Smyth's _Cycle of Celestial Objects_, vol. ii. p. 264., +and is extracted from a letter addressed to him by M. Cacciatore of +Palermo, in 1835, many years after the death of Sir William. H. C. K. is +not the first person who has suggested the identity of the objects; but, +as pointed out by Captain Smyth in a paper on Neptune, in the _United +Service Journal_ for 1847, Part II., Neptune must, in 1835, have been +fully 120[degrees] from the position assigned by Cacciatore to the star observed +by him. + + J. S. WARDEN. + + Balica, Oct. 1851. + +_Dr. Wm. Wall_ (Vol. iv., p. 347.).--Your decision to exclude any +further contributions upon the question of the "Marriage of +Ecclesiastics" is most judicious. But ought the portion of Mr. HENRY +WALTER'S reply respecting Dr. Wall to pass unnoticed? Had the writer +referred to any of the biographical dictionaries in ordinary use, he +would have discovered that the "well-known Mr. Wall who wrote on +baptism" had conferred on him by the University of Oxford the degree of +D.D., to testify their high opinion of his writings. + +In addition to the Doctor's works on the baptismal controversy, two +books, which are not often met with now, were published after his death, +bearing the following titles:-- + + "Brief Critical Notes, especially on the various readings of the New + Testament Books. With a Preface concerning the Texts cited therein + from the Old Testament, as also concerning the Use of the Septuagint + Translation. By W. Wall, S.T.P., author of the History of Infant + Baptism, London, 1730." 8vo., pp. lxiv. 415. + + "Critical Notes on the Old Testament, wherein the present Hebrew Text + is explained, and in many places amended, from the ancient Versions, + more particularly from that of the LXXII. Drawn up in the order the + several Books were written, or may most conveniently be read. To which + is prefixed a large Introduction, adjusting the Authority of the + Masoretic Bible, and vindicating it from the objections of Mr. + Whiston, and the Author of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian + Religion. By the late learned William Wall, D.D., Author of the + History of Infant Baptism. Now first published from his Original + Manuscript. London, 1734." 2 vols. 8vo. pp. lxi. 307. 354. v. + +These are valuable works, explaining many difficult expressions. + + JOHN I. DREDGE. + +_Parish Registers_ (Vol. iv., p. 232.).--J. B. is referred for the acts +of parliament relating to "Parish Registers," to Burn's _History of +Parish Registers_, 1829. This work has been out of print fifteen or +sixteen years, but may be seen in many public libraries. + + J. S. B. + +_Compositions during the Protectorate_ (Vol. iv., p. 406.).--W. H. L. +will probably find what he wants in a small volume, easily met with, +entitled _A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen that have +compounded for their Estates_, London, 1655, 12mo.; or another edition, +enlarged, Chester, 1733, 8vo. (See _Lowndes_, vol. i. p. 363.) + + H. F. + +_General Moyle_ (Vol. iv., p. 443.).--Major General John Moyle, who died +in 1738, and was buried at Rushbrooke, near Bury St. Edmund's, was the +son of the Rev. John Moyle, of Wimborne Minster, co. Dorset, by Mary his +wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Giles Eyre, Kt., one of the Judges of +the Common Pleas. General Moyle, by his wife, who was Isabella daughter +of Sir Robert Davers, of Rushbrooke, Bart., had a family of five sons +and one daughter; the latter married Samuel Horsey, Bath king-at-arms. + + G. A. C. + +_Descendants of John of Gaunt_ (Vol. iv., p. 343.).--A. B. may be right +as to there being "some little confusion in Burke's excellent work." +There certainly is no "_little_ confusion" in A. B.'s communication. + +Margaret Beaufort, successively Countess of Richmond and Derby, the +mother of King Henry VII., was the only child of John Beaufort, the +first Duke of Somerset. + +What can A. B. mean by "Henry, Edmund, and John, successively dukes of +Somerset," to whom he conjectures Margaret Beaufort might have been +sister? There were not three brothers Beaufort successively _dukes_ of +Somerset; nor were there ever three successive dukes of Somerset named +Henry, Edmund and John; though there certainly was a succession of John, +Edmund, and Henry, they being respectively father, uncle, and cousin of +Margaret. + +John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, who had been created Marquis of +Somerset and Dorset, was, on his death (1410), succeeded in the earldom +of Somerset by his eldest son, Henry Beaufort, who dying without issue +(1418), the second son, John Beaufort, succeeded to this earldom. He was +created _Duke_ of Somerset (1443), and on his death without male issue +(1444), the dukedom became extinct; but the earldom of Somerset +descended to his brother, Edmund Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset (the third +son of John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset), who was afterwards (1448) +created Duke of Somerset. He was slain at the battle of St. Alban's +(1455), and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry Beaufort, who was +beheaded in 1463. He is said to have been succeeded by his next brother, +Edmund Beaufort; but it is doubtful if the fact were so, and the better +opinion seems to be that the dukedom became extinct by the attainder of +Duke Henry in 1463. + +"The second and last Duke John," alluded to by A. B., is altogether a +myth: the last Beaufort Duke of Somerset was either Henry or Edmund; and +there was but one Duke John, and he was not the "second and last," but +the _first_ duke. + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge. + +_Church of St. Bene't Fink_ (Vol. iv., p. 407.).--I think some account +of the inscriptions, or of their having been transcribed, will be found +in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, as well as of those removed by the +destruction of the church of _St. Michael's, Crooked Lane_, in order to +make the approaches for new London Bridge; there, also, I think I have +seen some account of the inscriptions in the church pulled down for the +erection of the _Bank of England_. The preservation of the monumental +records of the dead has been so frequently suggested in "NOTES AND +QUERIES," that I will not occupy space by urging further arguments in +favour of the scheme proposed for the transcription and preservation of +inscriptions on monuments and grave-stones. The numerous churches which, +in these days, are undergoing alterations and repairs, call for your +continued exertion to effect the object you have already submitted for +the purpose in former numbers. The ancient church of St. Mary, Lambeth, +has just been rebuilt, and many of the monumental tablets will of +necessity be removed from their former sites, and grave-stones may +disappear. The venerable _Ashmole_ lies at the entrance of the old +vestry, under a flat stone; and outside, a short distance from the +window, lies _Tradescant_, under a large altar-tomb in a state of decay! + + G. + +When the church of St. Bene't Fink was pulled down, to make room for the +new Royal Exchange in 1844, the monumental tablets, &c. were removed to +the church of St. Peter's-le-Poor in Old Broad Street, to which Parish +the former is now annexed. + + J. R. W. + + Bristol. + +_Coins of Vabalathus_ (Vol. iv., pp. 255, 427.).--An article on the +coins of the Zenobia family appeared in the _Revue Numismatique_, 1846, +vol. xi. p. 268. The writer of that article says-- + + "Il est impossible de rendre compte du mot [Greek: SROIAS] ou + [Greek: SRIAS], qui precede, sur quelques pieces, le nom de + _Vabalathus_. La meme observation s'applique aux medailles Latines + du meme prince, dont le nom est suivi d'un certain nombre de + lettres, VCRIMDR ou VCRIIVID auxquelles on s'est efforce + inutilement de trouver un sens." + + W. W. + +_Engraved Portrait_ (Vol. iv., p. 443).--This is the portrait of Daniel +De Foe, and was engraved by W. Sherwin. The verses underneath are-- + + "Here you may see an honest face, + Arm'd against Envy and Disgrace, + Who lives respected still in spite + Of those that punish them that write." + +It is mentioned in _The Catalogue of English Heads_, by Jos. Ames, p. +57. + + JOHN I. DREDGE. + +"_Cleanliness is next to godliness_" (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--The author of +the Epistle to the Hebrews says (ch. x. v. 22.): + + "Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, + having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies + washed with pure water." + +It has long been my opinion that the proverb in question arose from the +above text, in which _a pure conscience_, a necessary condition of +_godliness_, is immediately followed by an injunction to _cleanliness_. + + H. T. + +_Cozens the Painter_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--I would refer your +correspondent, for the few particulars known of him, to Edwards's +_Anecdotes of Painting_, 1808 (in continuation of Horace Walpole's +_Anecdotes_), p. 120. + +Cozens's chief patrons were Wm. Beckford, Esq., of Fonthill; G. Baker, +of St. Paul's Churchyard; John Hawkins, Esq., of Bognor; and the Earl of +Harewood (of his time). If your correspondent wishes to see some few +fine specimens of his works, Mr. George Smith, of Hamilton Terrace, and +Charles Sackwille Bale, Esq., of Cambridge Terrace, possess some very +fine ones. Mr. J. Heywood Hawkins has at Bognor his father's collection. + +Cozens's fine drawings are very uncommon, and he is now little known, +though one of the fathers of the Water-Colour School, and of the highest +ability. I am not aware of any published portrait of him: your +correspondent's portrait of him by Pine is therefore interesting. Pine +was Cozens's mother's brother. + + FRANCIS GRAVES. + +In addition to the opinion ascribed to Mr. Turner, it may be mentioned +that the late John Constable, R.A., spoke of Cozens as "_the_ greatest +of landscape-painters." I cannot at present give a reference to Leslie's +_Life of Constable_, but am sure that this saying occurs there more than +once. + + J. C. R. + +_Whig and Tory_ (Vol. iv., pp. 57. 281.).--In addition to what has +appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES" respecting the etymology of these terms, +I send you a note of what Lingard says on the matter: + + "The celebrated party name _Tory_ is derived from _toringhim_, to + pursue for the sake of plunder. The name was given to certain parties + in Ireland, who, refusing to submit to Cromwell, retired into bogs and + fastnesses, formed bodies of armed men, supporting themselves and + their followers by the depredations which they committed on the + occupiers of their estates. They were called _Raperees_ and _Tories_." + + "It was during the reign of Charles II. that the appellations of + _Whig_ and _Tory_ became permanently affixed to the two great + political parties.... The first had long been given to the Covenanters + on the west of Scotland, and was supposed to convey a charge of + seditious and anti-monarchical principles...." + + PHILIP S. KING. + +_Prince Rupert's Drops_ (Vol. iv., pp. 234. 274.).--In your reply to the +Query respecting these drops, you state that it is not certain in what +country they were invented; I may therefore mention that the French call +them _larmes Bataviques_, from the circumstance of their being made in +Holland; from whence some were sent to Paris in 1656, to the Swedish +minister there, M. Chanut. + + PHILIP S. KING. + +_Deep Well near Bansted Downs_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--I am well +acquainted with the country immediately south of the Bansted Downs, and +can give W. S. G. some information about the wells there. + +I know no country where there is so great a scarcity of water. The +nearest stream is a small branch of the Mole, which has its rise some +three miles off, just beyond Merstham (pronounced "Meestrum"). The ponds +are very few and shallow, so that the inhabitants have to rely on wells +for their water. Wells, however, are an expensive luxury, and appertain +only to the better-most dwellings. I know several labourers' cottages +distant upwards of a mile from the nearest well or pond; they use what +water they catch, and when that is gone, shift as they best can,--most +commonly do without. This scarcity of water may be the reason why a +district within fifteen miles of London is so thinly populated. + +The country is very hilly, and even the valleys are some height above +the level of London. Woodmansterne is said to be the highest point in +Surrey next to Leith Hill. + +Most of the farm-houses and superior cottages have wells, and many of +these are of considerable depth. There is one just at the foot of +Bansted Downs (and consequently in the valley), which is 120 feet deep. +After a dry summer this well is very low, and after a second quite +empty. This is about the general depth of the valley wells. There is one +in the railway valley, below Chipsted Church, some 100 feet deep; I have +never known it dry. Within a stone's throw of this last, the London and +Brighton railway runs in a very deep cutting,--I have been told the +deepest railway cutting in England,--and great fears were entertained +that this deep cutting would drain this and several neighbouring wells. +The only way, however, in which the railway affected the wells, was to +cut right through one, parts of which may still be seen in the +embankment. + +It is not always the case that a deep well will drain its shallow +neighbours. At the Feathers Inn, at Merstham, is a well cut in the solid +chalk, 160 feet deep; this was quite out the other day, while two or +three wells not fifty yards off, each thirty feet deep, had plenty of +water. + +Of course the wells on the hills are much deeper than those in the +valleys. At a farm called Wood Place, some three miles from Bansted, is +a well 365 feet deep; it is never actually out of water; four pair of +hands are needed to raise the bucket. + +At a farm called Portnals, about a mile from Bansted, is the deepest +well I know in these parts; a horse is required to draw the water. It is +some 460 feet, and, I have been told, generally somewhat low. All these +wells are, I believe, in the chalk. + +In this part of Surrey are some wells said to be 500, 600, or even 700 +feet deep. + +W. S. G. may find some resemblance between the above and the one he +wants, else there is no truth in a well. + +I fear I am taking more of your space than my subject merits. I will +therefore briefly conclude with a Query. + +Where are the deepest wells in England? + + P. M. M. + +_Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke_ (Vol. iv., p. 396.).--Is Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke +really dead? + +She was alive two years since, and was then living with her son, Colonel +Clarke, somewhere on the Continent. Colonel Clarke is an officer of the +line, and is universally respected. + +I obtained the above information from a friend and brother officer of +the Colonel. + + FM. + +_Upton Court_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--My friend Miss Mitford gives a most +interesting account of Upton Court in the _Ladies' Companion_ for August +1850, which, as I know the place well, I believe to be perfectly +correct. A short extract may not be unwelcome: + + "Fifty years ago a Catholic priest was the sole inhabitant of this + interesting mansion. His friend, the late Mrs. Lenoir, Christopher + Smart's daughter, whose books, when taken up, one does not care to put + down again, wrote some verses to the great oak. Her nieces, whom I am + proud to call my friends, possess many reliques of that lovely + Arabella Fermor of whom Pope, in the charming dedication to the most + charming of his poems, said that 'the character of Belinda, as it was + now managed, resembled her in nothing but beauty.' + + "Amongst these reliques are her rosary, and a portrait, taken when she + was twelve or thirteen years of age. The face is most interesting: a + high, broad forehead; dark eyes, richly fringed and deeply set; a + straight nose, pouting lips, and a short chin finely rounded. The + dress is dark and graceful, with a little white turned back about the + neck and the loose sleeves. Altogether I never saw a more charming + girlish portrait, with so much of present beauty and so true a promise + of more,--of that order, too, high and intellectual, which great poets + love. Her last surviving son died childless in 1769, and the estate + passed into another family. + + "Yet another interest belongs to Upton; not indeed to the Court, but + to the Rectory. Poor Blanco White wrote under that roof his first + work, the well-known _Doblado's Letters_; and the late excellent + rector, Mr. Bishop, in common with the no less excellent Lord Holland + and Archbishop Whately, remained, through all that tried and alienated + other hearts, his fast friend to his last hour." + +The portrait of Arabella Fermor is in Reading, purchased at a sale at +Upton Court many years ago, when the property changed hands. + + JULIA R. BOCKETT. + + Southcote Lodge. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Of the value of broadsides, flying sheets, political squibs, popular +ballads, &c. few can doubt; while the advantage of having these snatches +of popular literature, when collected, deposited in some public and +easily accessible library, will be readily admitted by all who may have +had occasion to trespass on the time and attention (readily as they may +be afforded to parties entitled to claim them), of the Master and +Fellows of Magdalene, when requiring to consult the matchless collection +of ballads, penny merriments, and chap books, deposited in their library +by Samuel Pepys. These remarks have been suggested to us by a very +handsome quarto volume entitled _Catalogue of Proclamations, Broadsides, +Ballads, and Poems presented to the Chetham Library_, by J. O. +Halliwell, Esq. As this catalogue is limited to one hundred copies, and +has been printed for private circulation only, we must confine ourselves +to announcing that it contains an enumeration of upwards of three +thousand documents of the classes specified, many of them of very +considerable interest, which the zeal of Mr. Halliwell has enabled him +to gather together, and which his liberality has led him to deposit in +the Chetham Library. We have marked several articles to which we propose +to call the attention of our readers at some future moment; and we have +no doubt that the Halliwell Collection in the Chetham Library, is one +which will hereafter be frequently referred to, and consulted by, +literary men. + +If the Popular Mythology of these islands is ever to be fitly recorded, +its most important illustration will be found in the writings of Grimm +and his fellow-labourers. How zealously they are pursuing their search +after the scattered fragments of the great mythological system which +once prevailed in Germany is shown by a new contribution to its history, +which has just been published by J. W. Wolf, under the title of +_Beitraege zur Deutschen Mythologie_: I. _Goetter und Goettinnen_. In this +volume the reader will find not only much that is new and interesting in +connection with the history of the great mythic heroes and heroines, but +very valuable supplements on the subject of Superstitions and Popular +Charms. + +Mr. D'Alton, the author of _The History of Drogheda_, is about to +dispose of his Historical, Topographical, and Genealogical MS. +Collections. They occupy upwards of 200 volumes, and comprise, on the +plan of Watt's _Bibliotheca_, copious references to, and extracts from +Records, Registries, Pleadings, Wills, Funeral Monuments, and Manuscript +Pedigrees. They are to be sold wholly, or in lots, as classified at the +commencement of Mr. D'Alton's _Annals of Boyle_. + +Messrs. Ellis and Son, watchmakers, of Exeter, have published a very +interesting _Map showing the Time kept by Public Clocks in various Towns +in Great Britain_. Among many other curious notes which may be made on +this subject, we may mention that it is Sunday in Inverness and Glasgow +nearly seventeen minutes earlier than at Plymouth; and it will be 1852 +in Liverpool eleven minutes before it will be so in Bristol. + +Messrs. Cook and Hockin, of 289. Strand, have prepared a cheap, but very +complete Chemical Chest, to accompany _Stockhardt's Principles of +Chemistry illustrated by Simple Experiments_, recently published by Bohn +in his _Scientific Library_. + + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE. + +TIMES NEWSPAPER, 1835 to 1840, or any of those years, in Vols. or +Numbers. + +FUESSLEIN, JOH. 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