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diff --git a/42783-0.txt b/42783-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b181ae --- /dev/null +++ b/42783-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2554 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42783 *** + +{57} + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 168.] +SATURDAY, JANUARY 15. 1853 +[With Index, price 10d. Stamped Edition 11d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + NOTES:-- Page + + Inedited Poem by Pope 57 + + Southey's "Doctor:" St. Matthias' Day in Leap-year, by + P. J. Yarrum 58 + + Oxfordshire Legend in Stone, by B. H. Cowper 58 + + Lady Nevell's Music-Book 59 + + Bishop Burnet, by Wm. L. Nichols 59 + + A Monastic Kitchener's Account 60 + + The Fairies in New Ross, by Patrick Cody 61 + + MINOR NOTES:--The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Ney: + Parallel Passage in the Life of Washington and Major + André--St. Bernard _versus_ Fulke Greville--St. + Munoki's Day--Epitaph in Chesham Churchyard--Gentlemen + Pensioners--Marlborough: curious Case of Municipal + Opposition to County Magistracy--Wet Season in + 1348--General Wolfe 62 + + QUERIES:-- + + Pope and the Marquis Maffei 64 + + The Church Catechism, by C. J. Armistead 64 + + A Countess of Southampton 64 + + MINOR QUERIES:--Hardening Steel Bars--Pierrepoint--Ceylon-- + Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting--"To talk like a + Dutch Uncle"--Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium-- + Charter of Waterford--Inscription on Penny of George + III.--"Shob" or "Shub," a Kentish Word--Bishop Pursglove + (Suffragan) of Hull--Stewarts of Holland--Robert Wauchope, + Archbishop of Armagh, 1543--Plum-pudding--"Whene'er I + asked"--Immoral Works--Arms at Bristol--Passage in + Thomson--"For God will be your King to-day"--"See where + the startled wild fowl"--Ascension-day--The Grogog + of a Castle 65 + + REPLIES:-- + + Canongate Marriages 67 + + Lady Katherine Grey 68 + + Howlett the Engraver, by B. Hudson 69 + + Chaucer 69 + + PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Pyrogallic Acid-- + Stereoscopic Pictures with One Camera--Mr. Crookes' + Wax-paper Process--India Rubber a Substitute for Yellow + Glass--Dr. Diamond's Paper Processes 70 + + REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Ancient Timber Town-halls-- + Magnetic Intensity--Monument at Wadstena--David Routh, + R. C. Bishop of Ossory--Cardinal Erskine--"Ne'er to these + chambers," &c.--The Budget--"Catching a Tartar"--The + Termination "-itis" 71 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 73 + + Notices to Correspondents 73 + + Advertisements 74 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +INEDITED POEM BY POPE. + +In an original letter from James Boaden to Northcote the artist, I find the +following passage; and I add to it the verses to which allusion is therein +made: + + "60. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. + "28th August, 1827. + + "My dear friend, + +"The verses annexed are so fine, that you should put them into your copy of +Pope, among the Miscellanies. Dr. Warburton received them too late for his +edition of our poet, and I find them only in a letter from the prelate to +Dr. Hurd, dated 'Prior Park, June 24th, 1765.' + +"I have used the freedom to mark a few of the finest touches with a pencil, +to show you _my_ feeling. These you can rub out easily, and afterwards +indulge your own. The style of interrogation seems to have revived in +Gray's Elegy. Hurd would send the verses to Mason as soon as he got them; +and Mason and Gray, as you know, were _one_ in all their studies. + + "I do not forget the Fables. + "Yours, my dear friend, always, + "J. BOADEN. + "J. Northcote, Esq." + +Not having by me any modern edition of Pope's _Works_, may I ask whether +these verses, thus transcribed for Northcote by his friend Boaden, have yet +been introduced to the public? + + _Verses by Mr. Pope, on the late Dean of Carlisle's (Dr. Bolton) having + written and published a Paper to the Memory of Mrs. Butler, of Sussex, + Mother to old Lady Blount of Twickenham._ + + [They are supposed to be spoken by the deceased lady to the author of + that paper, which drew her character.] + + "Stript to the naked soul, escaped from clay, + From doubts unfetter'd, and dissolved in day; + Unwarm'd by vanity, unreach'd by strife, + And all my hopes and fears thrown off with life; + Why am I charm'd by Friendship's fond essays, + And tho' unbodied, conscious of thy praise? + {58} + Has pride a portion in the parted soul? + Does passion still the formless mind control? + Can gratitude outpant the silent breath, + Or a friend's sorrow pierce the glooms of death? + No, 'tis a spirit's nobler taste of bliss, + That feels the worth it left, in proofs like this; + That not its own applause but thine approves, + Whose practice praises, and whose virtue loves; + Who liv'st to crown departed friends with fame; + Then dying, late, shalt all thou gav'st reclaim. + MR. POPE." + +A. F. W. + + * * * * * + +SOUTHEY'S "DOCTOR;" ST. MATTHIAS' DAY IN LEAP-YEAR. + +In looking over the 1848 edition of Southey's book, _The Doctor_, I observe +an error which has escaped the care and revision of the editor, the Rev. J. +W. Warter, B.D. At p. 199., where Southey is referring to the advantages of +almanacs, he writes: + + "Who is there that has not sometimes had occasion to consult the + almanac? Maximilian I., by neglecting to do this, failed in an + enterprise against Bruges. It had been concerted with his adherents in + that turbulent city, that he should appear before it at a certain time, + and they would be ready to rise in his behalf, and open the gates for + him. He forgot that it was leap-year, and came a day too soon; and this + error on his part cost many of the most zealous of his friends their + lives. It is remarkable that neither the historian who relates this, + nor the writers who have followed him, should have looked into the + almanac to guard against any inaccuracy in the relation; _for they have + fixed the appointed day on the eve of St. Matthias, which being the + 23rd of February, could not be put out of its course by leap-year_." + +The words in Italics show Southey's mistake. This historian was quite +correct: as, according to the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church, +although the regular festival of St. Matthias is celebrated upon the 24th +of February, yet, "in anno bissextili Februarius est dierum 29, et Festum +S. Mathiæ celebratur 25 Februarii." Thus it will be seen, that the year +when Maximilian was to have appeared before Bruges being leap-year, and the +day appointed being the eve of St. Matthias, he should have come upon the +24th, not the 23rd of February: the leap-year making all the difference. + +P. J. YARRUM. + +Dublin. + + * * * * * + +OXFORDSHIRE LEGEND IN STONE. + +A few miles from Chipping-Norton, by the side of a road which divides +Oxfordshire from Warwickshire, and on the brow of a hill overlooking Long +Compton, stand the remains of a Druidical temple. Leland speaks of them as +"Rollright stones," from their being in the parish of Rollright. The temple +consists of a single circle of stones, from fifty to sixty in number, of +various sizes and in different positions, but all of them rough, time-worn, +and mutilated. The peasantry say that it is impossible to count these +stones, and certainly it is a difficult task, though not because there is +any witchcraft in the matter, but owing to the peculiar position of some of +them. You will hear of a certain baker who resolved not to be outwitted, so +hied to the spot with a basketful of small loaves, one of which he placed +on every stone. In vain he tried; either his loaves were not sufficiently +numerous, or some sorcery displaced them, and he gave up in despair. Of +course no one expects to succeed now. + +In a field adjoining are the remains of a cromlech, the altar where, at a +distance from the people, the priests performed their mystic rites. The +superimposed stone has slipped off, and rests against the others. These are +the "Whispering Knights," and this their history:--In days of yore, when +rival princes debated their claims to England's crown by dint of arms, the +hostile forces were encamped hard by. Certain traitor-knights went forth to +parley with others from the foe. While thus plotting, a great magician, +whose power they unaccountably overlooked, transformed them all into stone, +and there they stand to this day. + +Not far from the temple, but on the opposite side of the road, is a +solitary stone, probably the last of two rows which flanked the approach to +the sacred circle. This stone was once a prince who claimed the British +throne. On this spot he inquired of the magician above named what would be +his destiny: + + "If Long Compton you can see, + King of England you shall be," + +answered the wise man. But he could not see it, and at once shared the fate +of the "Whispering Knights." This is called the "King's stone," and so +stands that, while you cannot see Long Compton from it, you can if you go +forward a very little way. On some future day an armed warrior will issue +from this very stone, to conquer and govern our land! + +It is said that a farmer, who wished to bridge over a small stream at the +foot of the hill, resolved to press the "Whispering Knights" into the +service; but it was almost too much for all the horse power at his command +to bring them down. At length they were placed, but all they could do was +not sufficient to keep them in their place. It was therefore resolved to +restore them to their original post, when, lo! they who required so much to +bring them down, and defied all attempts to keep them quiet, were taken +back almost without an effort by a single horse! So there they stand, {59} +till they and the rest (for I believe the large circle was once composed of +living men) shall return to their proper manhood. + +Other legends respecting this curious relic might, I doubt not, be obtained +on the spot. I obtained the above in answer to inquiries, when making a +pilgrimage to the place. + +B. H. COWPER. + + * * * * * + +LADY NEVELL'S MUSIC-BOOK. + +The following contents of the Lady Nevell's music-book (1591) may be +interesting to many of your readers: + + "1. My Ladye Nevell's Grownde. + 2. Que passe, for my Ladye Nevell. + 3. The March before the Battell. + 4. The Battell. + The March of Footemen. + The March of Horsemen. + The Trumpetts. + The Irishe Marche. + The Bagpipe and Drone. + The Flute and Dromme. + The Marche to Fight. + Tantara. + The Battells be ioyned. + The Retreat. + 5. The Galliarde for the Victorie. + 6. The Barley Breake. + 7. The Galliarde Gygg. + 8. The Hunt's upp. + 9. Ut re mi fa sol la. + 10. The first Pauian. + 11. The Galliard to the same. + 12. The seconde Pauian. + 13. The Galliarde to the same. + 14. The third Pauian. + 15. The Galliarde to the same. + 16. The fourth Pauian. + 17. The Galliarde to the same. + 18. The fifte Pauian. + 19. The Galliarde to the same. + 20. The sixte Pauian. + 21. The Galliarde to the same. + 22. The seventh Pauian. + 23. The eighte Pauian. + The passinge mesurs is, + 24. The nynthe Pauian. + 25. The Galliarde to the same. + 26. The Voluntarie Lesson. + 27. Will you walk the Woods soe wylde. + 28. The Mayden's Song. + 29. A Lesson of Voluntarie. + 30. The second Grownde. + 31. Have w^t you to Walsingame. + 32. All in a Garden greene. + 33. The lo. Willobie's welcome home. + 34. The Carman's Whistle. + 35. Hughe Ashton's Grownde. + 36. A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell. + 37. Sellinger's Rownde. + 38. Munser's Almaine. + 39. The tenth Pauian, Mr. W. Peter. + 40. The Galliarde to the same. + 41. A Fancie. + 42. A Voluntarie. + Finis. + + Ffinished and ended the Leventh of September, in the yeare of our Lorde + God 1591, and in the 33 yeare of the raigne of our sofferaine ladie + Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, &c., by me, Jo. + Baldwine of Windsore. + + Laudes Deo." + +The songs have no words to them. Most of the airs are signed "Mr. William +Birde." + +A modern MS. note in the book states that the book is "Lady Nevell's +Music-book," and that she seems "to have been the scholar of Birde, who +professedly composed several of the pieces for her ladyship's use;" and +that sixteen of the forty-two pieces are "in the Virginal Book of Queen +Elizabeth," and that "Jo. Baldwine was a singing-man at Windsor." The music +is written on four-staved paper of six lines, in large bold characters, +with great neatness. The notes are lozenge-shape. Can any of your +correspondents furnish rules for transposing these six-line staves into the +five-line staves of modern notations? + +L. B. L. + + * * * * * + +BISHOP BURNET. + +Having but recently become acquainted with your useful and learned work +(for _scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, magna pars eruditionis est_), I +have been much interested in looking over the earlier volumes. Allow me to +add a couple of links to your _catena_ on Bishop Burnet. The first is the +opinion of Hampton, the translator of Polybius; the other is especially +valuable, it being nothing less than the portrait of Burnet drawn by +himself, but certainly not with any idea of its being suspended beside the +worthies of his "Own Time," for the edification of posterity. + +Hampton's testimony is as follows: + + "His personal resentments put him upon writing history. He relates the + actions of a persecutor and benefactor; and it is easy to believe that + a man in such circumstances must violate the laws of truth. The + remembrance of his injuries is always present, and gives venom to his + pen. Let us add to this, that intemperate and malicious curiosity which + penetrates into the most private recesses of vice. The greatest of his + triumphs is to draw the veil of secret infamy, and expose to view + transactions that were before concealed from the world; though they + serve not in the least either to embellish the style or connect the + series of his history, and will never obtain more credit than, perhaps, + to suspend the judgment of the reader, since they are supported only by + one single, _suspected_ testimony."--_Reflections on Ancient and Modern + History_, 4to.: Oxford, 1746. + +Let me now refer you to a document, written with his own hand, which sets +the question of {60} Burnet's truthfulness and impartiality in his +delineations of character completely at rest. + +From the Napier charter-chest, "by a species of retributive justice," there +has recently risen up in judgment against him _a letter of his own, proving +his own character_. It is, I regret, too long for insertion in your pages +_in extenso_, but no abstract can give an adequate idea of its contents. It +is, in fact, so mean and abject as almost to overpass belief. I must refer +your readers to Mr. Mark Napier's _Montrose and the Covenanters_, vol. i. +pp. 13-21. All the reflections of the Whig historian Dalrymple, all the +severe remarks of Swift and Lord Dartmouth, as to Burnet's dishonesty and +malice, would now seem well bestowed upon a writer so despicable and +faithless, and the credit of whose statements, when resting _on his own +sole authority_, must be totally destroyed. This curious epistle was +written, in an agony of fear, on a Sunday morning, during the memorable +crisis of the Rye-House plot, and while Lord Russell was on the eve of his +execution. Addressed to Lord Halifax, it was intended to meet the eye of +the King. It evidently proves the writer's want of veracity in divers +subsequent statements in his history. The future bishop also protests that +he never will accept of any preferment, promises never more to oppose the +Court, and intimates an intention to paint the King in the fairest +light--"if I ever live to finish what I am about;" _i.e._ the _History of +his Own Time_, in which the villanous portrait of Charles afterwards +appeared. + + "Here, then," says Mr. Napier, "is Burnet _Redivivus_; and now the + bishop may call Montrose a coward or what he likes, and persuade the + world of his own super-eminent moral courage, if he can. For our own + part, after reading the above letter, we do not believe one malicious + word of what Burnet has uttered in the _History of his Own Time_ + against Charles I. and Montrose; and he has therein said nothing about + them that is not malicious. We do not believe that the apology for + Hamilton, which he has given to the world in the memoirs of that House, + is by any means so truthful an exposition of the character of that + mysterious marquis as the letters and papers entrusted to the bishop + enabled him to give. We feel thoroughly persuaded that Bishop Burnet, + in that work, as well as in the _History of his Own Time_, reversed the + golden maxim of Cicero, '_Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non + audeat_.' The marvellous of himself, and the malicious of others, we + henceforth altogether disbelieve, when resting on the sole authority of + the bishop's historical record, and will never listen to when retailed + traditionally and at second-hand from him. Finally, we do believe the + truth of the anecdote, that the bishop, 'after a debate in the House of + Lords, usually went home and altered everybody's character as they had + pleased or displeased him that day;' and that he kept weaving in secret + this chronicle of his times, not to enlighten posterity or for the + cause of truth, but as a means of indulging in safety his own + interested or malicious feelings towards the individuals that pleased + or offended him. So much for Bishop Burnet, whose authority must + henceforth always be received _cum nota_." + +WM. L. NICHOLS. + +Lansdown Place, Bath. + + * * * * * + +A MONASTIC KITCHENER'S ACCOUNT. + +(From a volume of memoranda touching the monastery of Whalley, temp. Henry +VIII., among the records of the Court of Augmentation.) + + "Dyv'se somes of money leid oute by me Jamys More, monke and kechyner + to the late Abbot of Whalley, for and conc'nynge dyv'se caitts bought + by the seid Jamys of dyv'se [p=]sons, as hereaft' dothe [p=]ticlerly + appire by [p=]cells whiche came to thuse of the seid house, and spent + yn the seid house from the last daye of December until the ---- daye of + Marche then next folowynge yn the xxviij^{th} yere of the reign of + Kynge Henry the viij^{th}, whiche somes of money the said Jamys asketh + allowance. + + First payde to Edmunde Taillor Fischer + for ---- salt salmons, spent in the seyd + late abbott kechyn syns the tyme of his + accompt xxv^s + + Itm. Payde to the seid Edmunde for xj + freshe salmons, bought of the said Edmunde + to thuse, &c. of the seid house, + there spent by the seid tyme xxv^s + + Itm. Payde to Will'm Newbbet for fresh + fische iij^s iij^d + + Itm. Payde for vj capons, bought at Fastyngeseven + of dyv'se [p=]sons ij^s + + Itm. Payde for xxxv hennes, bought of + dyv'se [p=]sons v^s x^d + + Itm. Payde for eggs, butter, chese, bought + of dyv'se [p=]sons betwixt Cristmas and + Fastyngsevyn, spent yn the seid house xxiiij^s + + Itm. Payde for mustersede v^s + + Itm. Bought of Will'm Fische viij potts + hony-pric x^s + + Itm. Bought of Anthony Watson vij gallons + hony ix^s iiij^d + + Itm. Bought of John Colthirst ij gallons + hony ij^s iiij^d + + Itm. Payde to Richard Jackson for xvij^c + sparlyngs ix^s viii^d + + Sum of the payments vj^{li} xviij^d (sic in orig.) + + Itm. The same Jamys askyth allowance of xiiij^s, whiche + the seid late abbott dyd owe hym at the tyme of his + last accompt, whiche endyd at Cristmas last past, as + yt dothe appire by the accompt of the seid Jamys + More. + + Itm. The late abbott of Whalley dyd owe unto the + seid Jamys More, for a grey stagg that the seid + late abbott dyd by of the same Jamys by the space + of a yere syns x^s + + By me JAMES MOR." + +The advowson of the parish church of Whalley having been bequeathed to the +White Monks of Stanlawe (Cheshire), they removed their abbey {61} there +A.D. 1206; it being dedicated to the Virgin Mary ("Locus Benedictus de +Whalley"), and having about sixty indwellers. (Tanner's _Notitia_.) + +ANON. + + * * * * * + +THE FAIRIES IN NEW ROSS. + + "When moonlight + Near midnight + Tips the rock and waving wood; + When moonlight + Near midnight + Silvers o'er the sleeping flood; + When yew tops + With dew-drops + Sparkle o'er deserted graves; + 'Tis then we fly + Through welkin high, + Then we sail o'er yellow waves." + + _Book of Irish Ballads._ + +There lived, some thirty years since, in the eastern part of the suburbs of +New Ross, in the county of Wexford, denominated the "Maudlins," a hedge +carpenter named Davy Hanlan, better known to his neighbours by the +sobriquet of "Milleadh Maide," or "Speilstick." Davy plied his trade with +all the assiduity of an industrious man, "and laboured in all kinds of +weather" to maintain his little family; and as his art consisted +principally in manufacturing carts, ploughs, and harrows (iron ploughs not +being then in use) for the surrounding farmers, and doctoring their old +ones, the sphere of Davy's avocations was confined to no mean limits. + +It was a dry, sharp night, in the month of November, and darkness had set +in long before Davy left Mount Hanover, two miles distant from his home. At +length he started forward, and had already reached the bridge of the +Maudlins, when he stopped to rest; for besides his tools he carried a +bundle of wheaten straw, which he intended for a more than usually +comfortable "shake-down" for his dear rib Winny. The moon had by this time +ascended above the horizon, and by its silvery radiance depicted in +delicate outline the hills rising in the distance, while the tender rays +mixing with, and faintly illumining the gloom of the intermediate valleys, +formed a mass of light and shade so exquisitely blended as to appear the +work of enchantment. As Davy leaned on the parapet of the bridge, a thrill +of alarm involuntarily disturbed his feelings: he was about to depart when +he heard a clamorous sound, as of voices, proceeding from that part of the +valley on which he still gazed. Curiosity now tempted him to listen still +longer, when suddenly he saw a group of dwarfish beings emerging from the +gloom, and coming rapidly towards him, along the green marsh that borders +the Maudlin stream. Poor Davy was terror-stricken at this unusual sight; in +vain he attempted to escape: he was, as it were, spellbound. Instantly the +whole company gained the road beside him, and after a moment's consultation +they simultaneously cried out, "Where is my horse? give me my horse!" &c. +In the twinkling of an eye they were all mounted. Davy's feelings may be +more easily imagined than described, and in a fit of unconsciousness his +tongue, as it were mechanically, articulated "Where is my horse?" +Immediately he found himself astride on a rude piece of timber, somewhat in +shape of a plough-beam, by which he was raised aloft in the air. Away he +went, as he himself related, at the rate of nine knots an hour, gliding +smoothly through the liquid air. No aeronaut ever performed his expedition +with more intrepidity; and after about two hours' journeying the whole +cavalcade alighted in the midst of a large city, just as + + "The iron tongue of midnight had told twelve." + +One of the party, who appeared to be a leader, conducted them from door to +door, Davy following in the rear; and at the first door he passed them the +word, "We cannot enter, the dust of the floor lies not behind the door."[1] +Other impediments prevented their ingress to the next two or three doors. + +At length, having come to a door which was not guarded by any of these +insuperable sentinels which defy the force of fairy assault, he joyfully +cried out "We can enter here:" and immediately, as if by enchantment, the +door flew open, the party entered, and Davy, much astonished, found himself +within the walls of a spacious wine-store. Instantly the heads of wine +vessels were broken; bungs flew out; the carousing commenced; each boon +companion pledged his friend, as he bedewed his whiskers in the sparkling +beverage; and the wassail sounds float round the walls and hollow roof. +Davy, not yet recovered from his surprise, stood looking on, but could not +contrive to come at a drop: at length he asked a rather agreeable fairy who +was close to him to help him to some. "When I shall have done," said the +fairy, "I will give you this goblet, and you can drink." Very {62} soon +after he handed the goblet to Davy, who was about to drink, when the leader +gave the word of command: + + "Away, away, my good fairies, away! + Let's revel in moonlight, and shun the dull day." + +The horses were ready, the party mounted, and Davy was carried back to the +Maudlin bridge, bearing in his hand the silver goblet, as witness of his +exploit. Half dead he made his way home to Winny, who anxiously awaited +him; got to bed about four in the morning, to which he was confined by +illness for months afterwards. And as Davy "lived from hand to mouth," his +means were soon exhausted. Winny took the goblet and pledged it with Mr. +Alexander Whitney, the watchmaker, for five shillings. In a few days after +a gentleman who lived not twenty miles from Creywell Cremony came in to Mr. +Whitney's, saw the goblet, and recognised it as being once in his +possession, and marked with the initials "M. R.," and on examining it found +it to be the identical one which he had bestowed, some years before, on a +Spanish merchant. Davy, when able to get out, deposed on oath before the +Mayor of Ross (who is still living) to the facts narrated above. The +Spanish gentleman was written to, and in reply corroborated Davy's +statement, saying that on a certain night his wine-store was broken open, +vessels much injured, and his wine spilled and drunk, and the silver goblet +stolen. Davy was exonerated from any imputation of guilt in the affair, and +was careful, during his life, never again to rest at night on the Maudlin +bridge. + +PATRICK CODY. + +Mullinavat, county of Kilkenny. + +[Footnote 1: Every good housewife is supposed to sweep the kitchen floor +previously to her going to bed; and the old women who are best skilled in +"fairy lore" affirm, that if, through any inadvertence, she should leave +the dust thus collected behind the door at night, this dust or sweepings +will have the power of opening the door to the fairies, should they come +the way. It is also believed that, if the broom should be left behind the +door, without being placed standing on its handle, it will possess the +power of admitting the fairies. Should the water in which the family had +washed their feet, before going to bed, be left in the vessel, on the +kitchen floor, without having a coal of fire put into it, if not thrown out +in the yard, it will act as porter to the fairies or good people.] + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Ney. Parallel Passage in the Life of +Washington and Major André._--J. R. of Cork (Vol. vi., p. 480.) tells how +Wellington was in his youth smitten with the charms of a lady, who, in +after-life having appealed to him to save the life of Ney, was not simply +unsuccessful in her object but was ordered to quit Paris forthwith. J. B. +Burke, in the _Patrician_, vol. vi. p. 372., tells how Washington +endeavoured to win the love of Mary Phillipse, and how he failed: how years +rolled on, and the rejected lover as Commander-in-Chief of the American +forces was supplicated by the same Mary, then the wife of Roger Morris, to +spare the life of Andre. The appeal failed, and one of the General's aides +was ordered to conduct the lady beyond the lines. + +ST. JOHNS. + +_St. Bernard versus Fulke Greville._--On lately reading over the fine +philosophical poem _Of Humane Learning_, by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, I +was struck at finding that the 144th stanza was a literal transcript from +St. Bernard. Some of your readers may possibly be amused or interested by +the discovery: + + "Yet some seeke knowledge, meerely to be knowne, + And idle curiositie that is; + Some but to sell, not freely to bestow, + These gaine and spend both time and health amisse; + Embasing arts, by basely deeming so, + Some to build others, which is charity, + But those to build themselves, who wise men be." + _Workes_, p. 50.: Lond. 1633, 8vo. + + "Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant: et turpis + curiositas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam + vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quæstus est. + Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut ædificentur: et prudentia + est."--S. Bernardi _In Cantica Serm._ xxxvi. Sect 3. _Opp._, vol. i. p. + 1404. Parisiis, 1719, fol. + +It is no mean eulogy upon Lord Brooke's poem just referred to, to say that +it stood high in the estimation of the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, and was +quoted approvingly by him in his lectures before the Durham University. My +acquaintance with it was first derived from that source, and I am confident +that many others of your readers sympathise with the wishes of MR. +CROSSLEY, for "a collected edition of the works of the two noble Grevilles" +("N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 139.). The facts upon which the tragedy of +_Mustapha_ is founded are graphically summed up by Knolles in his _Historie +of the Turkes_, pp. 757-65.: London, 1633, fol. + +RT. + +Warmington. + +_St. Munoki's Day._--Professor Craik, in his _Romance of the Peerage_, vol. +ii. p. 337., with reference to the date of the death of Margaret Tudor, +Queen Dowager of Scotland, gives two authorities, namely, 24th November, +1541, from the _Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents_, and _St. Munoki's_ Day, +from the _Chronicle of Perth_, and then says: "I find no saint with a name +resembling _Munok_ in the common lists." Now this Note of mine has +originated in the belief that I _have found_ such a name in the _Calendar +of Saints_, or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if not the +identical _Munok_. "St. Marnok, B. patron of Killmarnock in Scotland, +honoured on the 25th October in the Scots Calendar." Now "Marnok" is most +probably _Munok_, the latter, perhaps, misspelt by a careless scribe in the +_Chronicle of Perth_. There is a discrepancy of a month certainly in these +two dates, 25th October and 24th November; but that is not very wonderful, +as a doubt of the exact day of Queen Margaret's decease evidently exists +among historians, for Pinkerton (vol. ii. p. 371.) conjectures June. The +above extract regarding St. Marnok is from a {63} curious old work in my +possession, published in 1761 in London, and entitled _A Memorial of +Ancient British Piety, or a British Martyrology_. It gives also the names +of St. Moroc, C., Nov. 8; St. Munnu, Ab., Oct. 21, both saints in the +Scottish calendar. + +A. S. A. + +Punjaub. + +_Epitaph in Chesham Churchyard._-- + + "As an + Encouragement + to Regularity, Integrity, + and good Conduct, + This Stone + was erected at the general Expense + of the Inhabitants of + this Town and Parish + to perpetuate the Memory of + MATTHEW ARCHER, + who served the Office of Clerk with + the utmost Punctuality and Decorum + for upwards of Thirty Years. + He died 15th December, 1793." + +F. B. RELTON. + +_Gentlemen Pensioners._-- + + "On Saturday last, the Secretary to the Band of Gentleman Pensioners + did, by order of the Duke of Montague their Captain, dispatch circular + letters to the said gentlemen, signifying his Grace's pleasure to + revive the ancient rules and orders that were practised at the time of + the first institution of the Band in the reign of King Henry VII., viz. + that five of the said Gentleman Pensioners shall attend constantly + every day in the antechamber of the palace where His Majesty shall be + resident, from ten in the forenoon till three in the afternoon, the + usual time of His Majesty's retiring to go to dinner; and on every + Drawing Room night from eight to twelve."--_Weekly Journal_, Jan. 4, + 1735. + +E. + +_Marlborough; Curious Case of Municipal Opposition to County +Magistracy._--Shortly after the invasion of the elder Pretender, the +corporation of Marlborough so far defied the royal authority as to drive +the quarterly county sessions from the town; and high legal opinions were +not wanting to fortify the position thus assumed by the borough, on the +ground, namely, of its municipal charter, which secured to the town a court +of its own. + +Now, we all know that in early times a borough's court-leet exempted the +burgesses from the jurisdiction of the sheriff's "tourn," and that up till +the period of the Municipal Reform bill, many charters still existed, +verbally sustaining such right of exemption; but the Queries which I wish +to put are the following. First, Though the crown's representative had no +jurisdiction, had he not a right to enter, and sit on cases foreign to the +borough? Secondly, What are the earliest instances of county quarter +sessions sitting in independent boroughs? Thirdly, Were the cases numerous +of similar acts of resistance at the period alluded to, viz. the reign of +George I.? + +I take this occasion to state that I am drawing to conclusion a history of +Silkely Hundred, which includes Marlborough and Lord Ailesbury's seat; and +shall feel grateful for any information relating to the Pretender's +influence in that district. That it must have been considerable may be +argued from the Ailesbury alliance by marriage with the young Pretender. + +J. WAYLEN. + +Devizes. + +_Wet Season in 1348._--Accidentally looking into Holinshed a few days ago, +I found that our present unusually wet season is not without a parellel, +indeed much exceeded; as on that occasion the harvest must have been a +complete failure, and dearth and disease consequently ensued. Providence, +however, has kindly blessed us with an average harvest; and, exclusive of +the disasters attendant upon storms and floods, I trust we shall escape any +further visitation. I annex an extract of the passage in Holinshed: + + "In this 22 yeare [of Edward III., A.D. 1348], from Midsummer to + Christmasse, for the more part it continuallie rained, so that there + was not one day and night drie togither, by reason whereof great flouds + insued, and the ground therewith was sore corrupted, and manie + inconueniences insued, as great sickenes, and other, insomuch that in + the yeare following, in France, the people died wonderfullie in diverse + places. In Italie also, and in manie other countries, as well in the + lands of the infidels as in Christendome, this grieuous mortalitie + reigned, to the great destruction of people. About the end of August, + the like dearth began in diuerse places of England, and especiallie in + London, continuing so for the space of twelue moneths following. And + vpon that insued great barrennesse, as well of the sea as the land, + neither of them yielding such plentie of things as before they had + done. Wherevpon vittels and corne became scant and hard to come + by."--_The Chronicles of Raphaell Holinshed_, fol., vol. iii. p. 378 + (black letter). + +[Phi]. + +_General Wolfe._--It may interest many of your readers to know that a +portrait of General Wolfe, by Ramsay, 1758, is to be sold by Messrs. +Christie and Manson, at their rooms, 8. King Street, St. James's Square, on +Saturday, February 12. + +The picture is marked No. 300 in the catalogue of the first two days' sale. +It formed part of the collection of a gentleman lately deceased, whom I had +the pleasure of knowing. + +C. FORBES. + +Temple. + +{64} + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +POPE AND THE MARQUIS MAFFEI. + +I would beg the insertion of the following Note, which occurs at p. 338. of +Walker's _Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy_; with a view to +ascertaining whether any light has been thrown on the subject since the +publication of the work in question. I fear there is little chance of such +being the case, but still I would be glad to learn from any of your +correspondents, whether there is other evidence than the passage given from +the Marquis's letter to Voltaire, to prove that Pope was actually engaged +in the translation of his tragedy; or whether there is any allusion in the +cotemporary literature of the day, to such a work having been undertaken by +the bard of Twickenham. + + "It seems to have escaped the notice of all Pope's biographers, that + when the Marquis Maffei visited Twickenham, in company with Lord + Burlington and Dr. Mead, he found the English bard employed on a + translation of his _Merope_: yet the public have been in possession of + this anecdote about fifty years. The Marquis, in his answer to the + celebrated letter addressed to him by Voltaire, says: 'Avendomi Mylord + Conte di Burlington, e il Sig. Dottore Mead, l'uno e l'altro talenti + rari, ed à quali quant' io debba non posso dire, condotto alla villa + del Sig. Pope, ch' è il Voltaire dell Inghilterra, come voi siete il + Pope della Francia, quel bravo Poeta mi fece vedere, che lavorava alla + versione della mia Tragedia in versi Inglesi: se la terminasse, e che + ne sia divenuto, non so.'--_La Merope_, ver. 1745, p. 180. With the + fate of this version we are, and probably shall ever remain, + unacquainted: it may, however, be safely presumed, that it was never + finished to the satisfaction of the translator, and therefore committed + to the flames." + +T. C. S. + + * * * * * + +THE CHURCH CATECHISM. + +Allow me to make the following inquiries through the pages of "N. & Q.," +which may possibly elicit valuable information from some of your many +correspondents. In the Archbishop of York's questions put to candidates for +Holy Orders, Feb. 1850, occurred this Query: "The Church Catechism ... by +whom was the latter part added and put into its present form; and whence is +it chiefly derived?" The former part of this is readily answered; being, as +any one at all read in the history of the Prayer-Book well knows, added at +the Hampton Court Conference, 1603; and was drawn up by Bishop Overall, at +that time Dean of St. Paul's: but _whence is it chiefly derived?_ That is +the question for which I have hitherto sought in vain a satisfactory +solution, and fear his grace, or his examining chaplain, must have looked +in vain for a correct reply from any of his _quasi_ clergymen, college +education though they may have had. It is a point which seems to be passed +over entirely unnoticed by all of our liturgical writers and church +historians, as I have been at no little pains in searching works at all +likely to clear it up, but, hitherto, without success. It may be +conjectured that the part referred to, viz., on the Sacraments, was taken +from Dean Nowell's Catechism; or, at all events, that Overall borrowed some +of the expressions while he changed its meaning, as Nowell's was purely +Calvinistic in tendency. He may have had before him the fourth part of +Peter Lombard's _Liber Sententiarum_, or some such work. But all this is +mere supposition; and what I want to arrive at, is some correct data or +authoritative statement which would settle the point. Another interesting +matter upon which I am desirous of information, is, as to the protestation +after the rubrics at the end of the Communion Service. In our _present_ +Prayer-Book it is in marks of quotation, which we do not find in the second +book of King Edward VI., where it originally appears--and the expressions +there admit the real presence. It was altogether left out in Elizabeth's +Prayer-Book, but again inserted in the last review in 1661, when the +inverted commas first appear: the sense being somewhat different, allowing +the spiritual but not the actual or bodily presence of Christ. Why are the +_commas_ or marks of quotation, if such they be, then inserted? I have +written to a well-known Archdeacon, eminent for his works on the +Sacraments, but his answer does not convey what is sought by + +C. J. ARMISTEAD. + +Springfield Mount, Leeds. + + * * * * * + +A COUNTESS OF SOUTHAMPTON. + +I have just been reading, in the _Revue des deux Mondes_, an interesting +article upon the recently-published _Memoirs of Mademoiselle de +Koenigsmark_, in which I meet with the following passage: + + "Ce fut à Venise que Charles-Jean de Koenigsmark rencontra la belle + Comtesse de Southampton, cette vaillante amoureuse qui, plantant la + fortune et famille, le suivit désormais par le monde déguisée en page: + romanesque anecdote que la princesse Palatine a consignée dans ses + mémoires avec cette brusque rondeur de style qui ne marchande pas les + expressions. 'Il doit être assez dans le caractère de quelques dames + anglaises de suivre leurs amans. J'ai connu un Comte de Koenigsmark + qu'une dame anglaise avait suivi en habit de page. Elle était avec lui + à Chambord, et comme, faute de place, il ne pouvait loger au Château, + il avait fait dresser dans la forêt une tente où il logeât. Il me + raconta son aventure à la Masse; j'eu la curiosité de voir le + soi-disant page. Je n'ai jamais rien vu de plus beau que cette figure: + les plus beaux yeux du monde, une bouche charmante, une prodigieuse + quantité de cheveux du plus beau brun, qui tombèrent en grosses boucles + sur ses épaules. Elle sourit en me voyant, se doutant bien que je + savais son secret. {65} Lorsqu'il partit de Chambord pour l'Italie, le + Comte Koenigsmark se trouva dans une auberge, et en sortit le matin + pour faire un tour de promenade. L'hotesse de cette maison courut après + lui et lui cria: 'Montez vite là-haut, Monsieur, votre page accouche!' + Le page accoucha en effet d'une fille: on mit la mère et l'enfant dans + un couvent à Paris." + +He afterwards went to England, where-- + + "Les frères, cousins, et petits cousins de lady Southampton + l'attendaient, et les duels se mirent à lui pleuvoir dessus. Comme son + épée aimait assez à luire au soleil, il la tira volontiers, et avec une + chance telle que ses ennemis, ne pouvant le vaincre par le fer, + jugèrent à propos d'essayer du poison. Dégouté de perdre son temps à de + pareilles misères, &c. &c. Tant que le comte a vecu il en a eu grand + soin; mais il mourut en Morée, et le page fidèle ne lui survécut pas + long-temps. Elle est morte comme une sainte." + +Can you, or any of your correspondents, say _who_ this interesting +_Countess of Southampton_ was? She lived at the end of the seventeenth +century. In addition to these particulars, which are so nicely told that I +would not venture to alter them, as Orsino asks Viola, "What was her +history?" + +W. R. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Hardening Steel Bars._--Can any of your readers inform me how thin, flat, +steel bars (say three feet long) can be prevented from "running" crooked +when hardened in water? + +J. H. A. + +_Pierrepont._--Who was John Pierrepont of Wadworth, near Doncaster, who +died July, 1653, aged 75. + +A. F. B. + +Diss. + +_Ceylon._--I should be much obliged to SIR JAMES TENNENT, if he would +kindly inform me where the best map of Ceylon is to be got? such as are to +be found in the atlases within my reach are only good enough to try a man's +temper, and no more. + +May I also take the liberty of asking how soon we may expect the appearance +of SIR JAMES TENNENT'S book on the history, &c. of Ceylon? a work which +will be a great work indeed, if we have at all a fair specimen of its +author's learning and powers in the _Christianity in Ceylon_. + +AJAX. + +_Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting._--Would any of your correspondents +direct me to some work giving me some information about the painters of the +Dutch and Flemish schools, their biographers, their peculiarities, +chefs-d'oeuvre, &c.? + +AJAX. + +"_To talk like a Dutch Uncle._"--In some parts of America, when a person +has determined to give another a regular lecture, he will often be heard to +say, "I will talk to him like a Dutch uncle;" that is, he shall not escape +this time. + +As the emigrants to America from different countries have brought their +national sayings with them, and as the one I am now writing about was +doubtless introduced by the Knickerbockers, may I ask if a similar +expression is now known or used in Holland? + +W. W. + +Malta. + +_Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium_.--I want some work on this subject: +can any one tell me of one? + +N.B.--A big book does not frighten me. + +AJAX. + +_Charter of Waterford._--I have a copy of the English translation of this +charter, published in Kilkenny, with the following note, written in an old +hand, on the title-page: + + "This was first translated by William Cunningham Cunningham (_sic_), a + native of Carrick-on-Suir, born on Ballyrichard Road: his father and + brother were blacksmiths; his grand-nephew Cunningham lives now a + cowper (_sic_) in New Street in do. town." + +I wish to know if this note is worth anything, and if the statement +contained in it is true? + +R. H. + +_Inscription on Penny of George III._--On an old penny of George III., on +the reverse, I find the following inscription: + + "STABIT QVOCVNQVE IECERIS." + +What does this precisely mean; or why and when was it adopted? + +J. M. A. + +_"Shob," or "Shub," a Kentish Word._--Your correspondent on the Kentish +word _sheets_ (Vol. vi., p. 338.) may possibly be able to give some account +of another Kentish word, which I have met with in the country about +Horton-Kirby, Dartford, Crayford, &c., and the which I cannot find in +Halliwell, or any other dictionary in my possession,--viz. to _shob_ or +_shub_. It is applied to the trimming up elm-trees in the hedge-rows, by +cutting away all the branches except at the head: "to shob the trees" is +the expression. Now, in German we have _schaben_, v. r. to shave; but in +the Anglo-Saxon I find nothing nearer than _scaf_, part. _scof_, to shave. + +A. C. M. + +Exeter. + +_Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull._--This prelate is buried in +Tideswell Church, Devonshire, and a copy of his monumental brass is given +in _Illustrations of Monumental Brasses_, published in 1842 by the +Cambridge Camden Society. Perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." who has access +to that work will send the inscription for insertion in your columns. Any +information also as {66} to his consecration, character, and period of +decease, would be acceptable. What is the best work on English Suffragan +bishops? I believe Wharton's _Suffragans_ (which, however, I do not possess +to refer to) is far from being complete or correct. It would be interesting +to have a complete list of such bishops, with the names of their sees, and +dates of consecration and demise. I find no Suffragan bishop after Bishop +John Sterne, consecrated for Colchester 12th November, 1592, and this from +the valuable list in Percival's _Apol. for Ap. Suc._ + +A. S. A. + +Punjaub. + +_Stewarts of Holland._--In the year 1739 there lived in Holland a +Lieutenant Dougal Stewart, of the Dutch service, who was married to Susan, +daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Fairfowl, of Bracindam. He was descended +from the ancient Scottish family of Stewarts of Appin, in Argyleshire; and +this Query is to inquire whether anything is known regarding him or his +descendants, if he had such? This might find a reply in _De Navorscher_ +perhaps. + +A. S. A. + +Punjaub. + +_Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543._--Is there any detailed +account of this prelate extant? The few particulars I have been able to +glean respecting him are merely that he was a native of Scotland, and +Doctor in Divinity of the University of Paris, where he probably studied +theology, as was common with Scottish ecclesiastics of that day. He arrived +in Ireland about the year 1541, and is memorable for the glory, or shame, +of being the first who introduced the Jesuit order into that country. Pope +Paul III. nominated him to the primatial see of Armagh, after the death of +Archbishop Cromer in 1543, and during the lifetime of Archbishop Dowdal, +who was a Catholic also, but being appointed Archbishop of Armagh in +November 1543, by King Henry VIII., was not acknowledged at Rome as such. +_Waucup_, as his name is also spelt, and Latinized "Venantius," never +appears, however, to have been able to obtain regular possession of the see +of Armagh and primacy of Ireland, being merely titular archbishop. Some +accounts state that he was blind from his childhood, but others say, and +probably more correctly, that he was only short-sighted. He was present at +the Council of Trent in 1545-47, being one of the four Irish prelates who +attended there; and, in _Hist. del Concil. Trid._, l. ii. p. 144., he is +alluded to as having been esteemed the _best at riding post in the +world!_--"Huomo di brevissima vista era commendato di questa, di correr +alla posta meglio d'huomo del mondo." I should like much to ascertain the +date and place of his birth, consecration, and death. + +A. S. A. + +_Plum-pudding._--Can any of your readers inform me of the origin of the +following custom, and whether the ceremony is still continued? I can find +no mention of it in any topographical dictionary or history of Devon, but +it was copied from an old newspaper, bearing date June 7, 1809: + + "At Paignton Fair, near Exeter, the ancient custom of drawing through + the town a plum-pudding of an immense size, and afterwards distributing + it to the populace, _was revived_ on Tuesday last. The ingredients + which composed this enormous pudding were as follows: 400 lbs. of + flour, 170 lbs. of beef suet, 140 lbs. of raisins, and 240 eggs. It was + kept constantly boiling in a brewer's copper from Saturday morning to + the Tuesday following, when it was placed on a car decorated with + ribbons, evergreens, &c., and drawn along the street by eight oxen." + +EVERARD HORNE COLEMAN. + +"_Whene'er I asked._"--I shall be very glad to know the author and the +exact whereabouts of the following lines, which I find quoted in a MS. +letter written from London to America, and dated 22nd October, 1767: + + "Whene'er I ask'd for blessings on your head, + Nothing was cold or formal that I said; + My warmest vows to Heaven were made for thee, + And love still mingled with my piety." + +W. B. R. + +Philadelphia, U. S. + +_Immoral Works._--What ought to be done with works of this class? It is +easy to answer, "destroy them:" but you and I know, and Mr. Macaulay has +acknowledged, that it is often necessary to rake into the filthiest +channels for historical and biographical evidence. I, personally, doubt +whether we are justified in destroying _any_ evidence, however loathsome +and offensive it may be. What, then, are we to do with it? It is impossible +to keep such works in a private library, even under lock and key, for death +opens locks more certainly than Mr. Hobbs himself. I think such ought to be +preserved in the British Museum, entered in its catalogue, but only +permitted to be seen on good reasons formally assigned in writing, and not +then allowed to pass into the reading-room. What is the rule at the Museum? + +I ask these questions because I have, by accident, become possessed of a +poem (about 1500 lines) which professes to be written by Lord Byron, is +addressed to Thomas Moore, and was printed abroad many years since. It +begins,-- + + "Thou ermin'd judge, pull off that sable cap." + +More specific reference will not be necessary for those who have seen the +work. Is the writer known? I am somewhat surprised that not one of Byron's +friends has, so far as I know, hinted a denial of the authorship; for, +scarce as {67} the work may be, I suppose some of them must have seen it; +and, under existing circumstances, it is possible that a copy might get +into the hands of a desperate creature who would hope to make a profit, by +republishing it with Byron's and Moore's names in the title-page. + +I. W. + +_Arms at Bristol._--In a window now repairing in Bristol Cathedral is this +coat:--Arg. on a chevron or (_false heraldry_), three stags' heads +caboshed. Whose coat is this? It is engraved in Lysons' _Gloucestershire +Antiquities_ without name. + +E. D. + +_Passage in Thomson._--In Thomson's "Hymn to the Seasons," line 28, occurs +the following passage: + + "But wandering oft, with brute, unconscious gaze, + Man marks not Thee; marks not the mighty hand + That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; + Works in the secret deep; shoots, _steaming_, thence + The fair profusion that o'erspreads the spring," &c. + +Can any of your readers oblige by saying whether the word _steaming_, in +the fourth line of the quotation, is the correct reading? If so, in what +sense it can be understood? if not, whether _teeming_ is not probably the +correct word? + +W. M. P. + +"_For God will be your King to-day._"-- + + "For God will be your King to-day, + And I'll be general under." + +My grandmother, who was a native of Somersetshire, and born in 1750, used +to recite a ballad to my mother, when a child, of which the above lines are +the only ones remembered. + +Do they refer to the rising under the Duke of Monmouth? And where can the +whole of the ballad be found? + +M. A. S. + +35. Dover Road. + +"_See where the startled wild fowl._"--Where are the following lines to be +found? I copy them from the print of Landseer's, called "The Sanctuary." + + "See where the startled wild fowl screaming rise, + And seek in martial flight those golden skies. + Yon wearied swimmer scarce can win the land, + His limbs yet falter on the wat'ry strand. + Poor hunted hart! the painful struggle o'er, + How blest the shelter of that island shore! + There, while he sobs his panting heart to rest, + Nor hound nor hunter shall his lair molest." + +G. B. W. + +_Ascension-day._--Was "Ascension-day" ever kept a close holiday the same as +Good Friday and Christmas-day? And, if so, when was such custom disused? + +H. A. HAMMOND. + +_The Grogog of a Castle._--It appears by a record of the Irish Exchequer of +3 Edw. II., that one Walter Haket, constable of Maginnegan's Castle in the +co. of Dublin, confined one of the King's officers in the _Grogog_ thereof. +Will you permit me to inquire, whether this term has been applied to the +prison of castles in England? + +J. F. F. + +Dublin. + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +CANONGATE MARRIAGES. + +(Vol. v., p. 320.) + +I had hoped that the inquiry of R. S. F. would have drawn out some of your +Edinburgh correspondents; but, as they are silent upon a subject they might +have invested with interest, allow me to say a word upon these Canongate +marriages. I need not, I think, tell R. S. F. how loosely our countrymen, +at the period alluded to, and long subsequent thereto, looked upon the +marriage tie; as almost every one who has had occasion to touch upon our +_domestic_ manners and customs has pointed at, what appeared to them, and +what really was, an anomaly in the character of a nation somewhat boastful +of their better order and greater sense of propriety and decorum. + +Besides the incidental notices of travellers, the legal records of Scotland +are rife with examples of litigation arising out of these irregular +marriages; and upon a review of the whole history of such in the north, it +cannot be denied that, among our staid forefathers, "matrimony was more a +matter of merriment"[2] than a solemn and religious engagement. + +The Courts in Scotland usually _frowned_ upon cases submitted to them where +there was a strong presumption that either party had been victimised by the +other; but, unfortunately, the requirements were so simple, and the +facility of procuring witnesses so great, that many a poor frolicksome +fellow paid dearly for his joke by finding himself suddenly transformed, +from a bachelor, to a spick and span Benedict; and that too upon evidences +which would not in these days have sent a fortune-telling impostor to the +tread-mill: the lords of the justiciary being content that some one had +heard him use the endearing term of wife to the pursuer, or had witnessed a +mock form at an obscure public-house, or that the parties were by habit and +repute man and wife. How truly then may it have been said, that a man in +the Northern Capital, so open to imposition, scarcely knew whether he was +married or not. + +In cases where the ceremony was performed, it {68} did not follow that the +priest of Hymen should be of the clerical profession: + + "To tie the knot," says John Hope, "there needed none; + He'd find a clown, in brown, or gray, + Booted and spurr'd, should preach and pray; + And, without stir, grimace, or docket, + Lug out a pray'r-book from his pocket; + And tho' he blest in wond'rous haste, + Should tie them most securely fast." + _Thoughts_, 1780. + +In Chambers's _Traditions of Edinburgh_, there is a slight allusion to +these Canongate marriages: + + "The White Horse Inn," says he, "in a close in the Canongate, is an + exceedingly interesting old house of entertainment. It was also + remarkable for the runaway couples from England, who were married in + its large room." + +The White Hart, in the Grass-market, appears to have been another of these +Gretna Green houses. + +A curious fellow, well known in Edinburgh at the period referred to, was +the high priest of the Canongate hymeneal altar. I need hardly say this was +the famous "Claudero, the son of Nimrod the Mighty Hunter," as he +grandiloquently styled himself: otherwise James Wilson, a disgraced +schoolmaster, and poet-laureate to the Edinburgh _canaille_. In the large +rooms of the above inns, this comical fellow usually presided, and +administered relief to gallant swains and love-sick damsels, and a most +lucrative trade he is said to have made of it:-- + + "Claudero's skull is ever dull, + Without the sterling shilling:" + +in allusion to their being called half-merk or shilling marriages. + +Chambers gives an illustrative anecdote of our subjects' matrimonial +practices in that of a soldier and a countryman seeking from Wilson a cast +of his office: from the first Claudero took his shilling, but demanded from +the last a fee of five, observing-- + + "I'll hae this sodger ance a week a' the times he's in Edinburgh, and + you (the countryman) I winna see again." + +The Scottish poetical antiquary is familiar with this eccentric character; +but it may not be uninteresting to your general readers to add, that when +public excitement in Edinburgh ran high against the Kirk, the lawyers, +meal-mongers, or other _rogues_ in _grain_, Claudero was the vehicle +through which the democratic voice found vent in squibs and broadsides +fired at the offending party or obnoxious measure from his lair in the +Canongate. + +In his _Miscellanies_, Edin. 1766, now before me, Claudero's cotemporary, +Geordie Boick, in a poetical welcome to London, thus compliments Wilson, +and bewails the condition of the modern Athens under its bereavement of the +poet: + + "The ballad-singers and the printers, + Must surely now have starving winters; + Their press they may break a' in splinters, + I'm told they swear, + Claudero's Muse, alas! we've tint her + For ever mair." + +For want of Claudero's _lash_, his eulogist goes on to say: + + "Now Vice may rear her hydra head, + And strike defenceless Virtue dead; + Religion's heart may melt and bleed, + With grief and sorrow, + Since Satire from your streets is fled, + Poor Edenburrow!" + +Claudero was, notwithstanding, a sorry poet, a lax moralist, and a sordid +parson; but peace to the manes of the man, or his successor in the latter +office, who gave me in that same long room of the White Horse in the +Canongate of Edinburgh the best parents son was ever blest with! + +J. O. + +[Footnote 2: _Letters from Edinburgh_, London, 1776. See also, _Letters +from a Gentleman in Scotland to his Friend in England_ (commonly called +_Burt's Letters_): London, 1754.] + + * * * * * + +LADY KATHERINE GREY. + +(Vol. vi., p. 578.) + +There appears to be some doubt if the alleged marriage ever did take place, +for I find, in Baker's _Chronicles_, p. 334., that in 1563 "divers great +persons were questioned and condemned, but had their lives spared," and +among them-- + + "Lady Katherine Grey, daughter to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, by the + eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, having formerly been married to the + Earl of Pembroke's eldest son, and from him soon after lawfully + divorced, was some years after found to be with child by Edward Seymour + Earl of Hartford, who, being at that time in France, was presently sent + for: and being examined before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and + affirming they were lawfully married, but not being able within a + limited time to produce witnesses of their marriage, they were both + committed to the Tower." + +After some further particulars of the birth of a second child in the Tower, +the discharge of the Lieutenant, Sir Edward Warner, and the fining of the +Earl by the Star Chamber, to the extent of 5000l., the narrative proceeds: + + "Though in pleading of his case, one John Hales argued they were lawful + man and wife _by virtue of their own bare consent, without any + ecclesiastical ceremony_." + +Collins, in his _Peerage_ (1735), states: + + "The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, + the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances + agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a + good marriage." + +{69} + +Sharpe, in his _Peerage_ (1833), under the title "Stamford," says: + + "'The manner of her departing' _in the Tower_, which Mr. Ellis has + printed from a MS. so entitled in the Harleian Collection, although + less terrible, is scarcely less affecting than that of her heroic + sister," &c. + +Perhaps your correspondent A. S. A. may be enabled to consult this work, +and so ascertain further particulars. + +BROCTUNA. + +Bury, Lancashire. + + * * * * * + +HOWLETT THE ENGRAVER. + +(Vol. i., p. 321.) + +In your first Volume, an inquiry is made for information respecting the +above person. As I find on referring to the subsequent volumes of "N. & Q." +that the Query never received any reply, I beg to forward a cutting from +the Obituary of the _New Monthly Magazine_ for June, 1828, referring to +Howlett; concerning whom, however, I cannot give any further information. + + "MR. BARTHOLOMEW HOWLETT. + + "Lately in Newington, Surrey, aged sixty, Mr. Bartholomew Howlett, + antiquarian, draughtsman, and engraver. This artist was a pupil of Mr. + Heath, and for many years devoted his talents to the embellishment of + works on topography and antiquities. His principal publication, and + which will carry his name down to posterity with respect as an artist, + was _A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln; comprising the + Principal Towns and Churches, the Remains of Castles and Religious + Houses, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; with Topographical and + Historical Accounts of each View_. This handsome work was completed in + 4to. in 1805. The drawings are chiefly by T. Girtin, Nattes, Nash, + Corbould, &c., and the engravings are highly creditable to the burin of + Mr. Howlett. Mr. Howlett was much employed by the late Mr. Wilkinson on + his _Londina Illustrata_; by Mr. Stevenson in his second edition of + Bentham's _Ely_; by Mr. Frost, in his recent _Notices of Hull_; and in + numerous other topographical works. He executed six plans and views for + Major Anderson's _Account of the Abbey of St. Denis_; and occasionally + contributed to the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and engraved several plates + for it. In 1817, Mr. Howlett issued proposals for _A Topographical + Account of Clapham, in the County of Surrey, illustrated by + Engravings_. These were to have been executed from drawings by himself, + of which he made several, and also formed considerable collections; but + we believe he only published one number, consisting of three plates and + no letter-press. We hope the manuscripts he has left may form a + groundwork for a future topographer. They form part of the large + collections for Surrey, in the hands of Mr. Tytam. In 1826, whilst the + Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower, + was pulling down, he made a series of drawings on the spot, which it + was his intention to have engraved and published. But the greatest + effort of his pencil was in the service of his kind patron and friend, + John Caley, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., keeper of the records in the + Augmentation Office. For this gentleman Mr. Howlett made finished + drawings from upwards of a thousand original seals of the monastic and + religious houses of this kingdom." + +B. HUDSON. + +Congleton, Cheshire. + + * * * * * + +CHAUCER. + +(Vol. vi., p. 603.) + +In reference to the question raised by J. N. B., what authority there is +for asserting that Chaucer pursued the study of the law at the Temple, I +send you the following extract from a sketch of his life by one of his +latest biographers, Sir Harris Nicolas: + + "It has been said that Chaucer was originally intended for the law, and + that, from some cause which has not reached us, and on which it would + be idle to speculate, the design was abandoned. The acquaintance he + possessed with the classics, with divinity, with astronomy, with so + much as was then known of chemistry, and indeed with every other branch + of the scholastic learning of the age, proves that his education had + been particularly attended to; and his attainments render it impossible + to believe that he quitted college at the early period at which persons + destined for a military life usually began their career. It was not + then the custom for men to pursue learning for its own sake; and the + most rational manner of accounting for the extent of Chaucer's + acquirements, is to suppose that he was educated for a learned + profession. The knowledge he displays of divinity would make it more + likely that he was intended for the church than for the bar, were it + not that the writings of the Fathers were generally read by all classes + of students. One writer says that Chaucer was a member of the Inner + Temple, and that while there he was fined two shillings for beating a + Franciscan friar in Fleet Street[3]; and another (Leland) observes, + that after he had travelled in France, 'collegia leguleiorum + frequentavit.' Nothing, however, is positively known of Chaucer until + the autumn of 1359, when he himself says he was in the army with which + Edward III. invaded France, and that he served for the first time on + that occasion." + +The following remarks are from the _Life of Chaucer_, by William Godwin, +Lond. 1803, vol. i. p. 357.: + + "The authority which of late has been principally relied upon with + respect to Chaucer's legal education is that of Mr. Speght, who, in his + _Life of Chaucer_, says, 'Not many yeeres since, Master Buckley did see + a record in the same house [the Inner Temple], where Geoffrey Chaucer + was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscane fryar in + Fleet-streete.' This certainly {70} would be excellent evidence, were + it not for the dark and ambiguous manner in which it is produced. I + should have been glad that Mr. Speght had himself seen the record, + instead of Master Buckley, of whom I suppose no one knows who he is: + why did he not? I should have been better satisfied if the authority + had not been introduced with so hesitating and questionable a phrase as + 'not many yeeres since;' and I also think that it would have been + better if Master Buckley had given us the date annexed to the record; + as we should then at least have had the satisfaction of knowing whether + it did not belong to some period before our author was born, or after + he had been committed to the grave. Much stress, therefore, cannot be + laid upon the supposition of Chaucer having belonged to the Society of + the Inner Temple." + +TYRO. + +Dublin. + +[Footnote 3: "Speght, who states that a Mr. Buckley had seen a record of +the Inner Temple to that effect."--_Note by Sir H. N._] + + * * * * * + +PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES. + +_Pyrogallic Acid_ (Vol. vi., p. 612.).--In answer to the Query of your +correspondent E. S., I beg to give the following method of preparing +pyrogallic acid (first published by Dr. Stenhouse), which I have tried and +found perfectly successful. + +Make a strong aqueous infusion of powdered galls; pour it off from the +undissolved residue, and carefully evaporate to dryness by a gentle heat: +towards the conclusion of the process the extract is very liable to burn; +this is best prevented by continued stirring with a glass or porcelain +spatula. Next, procure a flat-bottomed iron pan, about ten inches diameter +and five inches deep. Make a hat of cartridge paper pasted together, about +seven inches high, to slip over and accurately fit the top of the iron pan. +Strew the bottom of the pan with the gall extract to the depth of +three-quarters of an inch; over the top stretch and tie a piece of bibulous +paper pierced with numerous pin-holes; over this place the hat, and tie it +also tightly round the top of the pan. + +The whole apparatus is now to be placed in a sand-bath, and heat cautiously +applied. It is convenient to place a glass thermometer in the sand-bath as +near the iron pan as possible. The heat is to be continued about an hour, +and to be kept as near 420° Fah. as possible; on no account is it to exceed +450°. The vapour of the acid condenses in the hat, and the crystals are +prevented from falling back into the pan by the bibulous paper diaphragm. +When it is supposed that the whole of the acid is sublimed, the strings are +to be untied, and the hat and diaphragm cautiously taken off together; the +crystals will be found in considerable quantity, and should be removed into +a stoppered bottle; they should be very brilliant and perfectly white; if +there is any yellow tinge, the heat has been too great. + +I believe that close attention to the above details will ensure success to +any one who chooses to try the process, but at the same time I must remind +your correspondents that scarcely any operation in chemistry is perfectly +successful the first time of trial. + +J. G. H. + +Clapham. + +_Stereoscopic Pictures with One Camera_ (Vol. vi., p. 587.).--In reply to +the inquiry of RAMUS, allow me to say the matter is not difficult. My plan +is as follows:--Suppose a piece of still-life to be the subject. Set up the +camera at such a distance as will give a picture of the size intended, +suppose it sixteen feet from the principal and central object; by means of +a measuring tape or a piece of string, measure the exact distance from the +principal object to the front of the camera. Take and complete the first +picture; if it prove successful, remove the camera about two feet either to +the right or left of its first station (_i.e._ according to the judgment +formed as to which will afford the most artistic view of the subject), +taking care by help of the tape or string to preserve the same distance +between the principal object and the camera, and that the adjustment of +focus is not disturbed. In other words, the camera must be moved to another +part of the arc of a circle, of which the principal object is the centre, +and the measured distance the radius. If the arc through which the camera +is moved to its second station be too large, the stereoscopic picture will +be unnaturally and unpleasingly distorted. The second picture is now to be +taken. + +If the subject be a sitter, it is of the utmost importance to proceed as +quickly as possible, as the identical position must be retained movelessly +till both pictures are completed. This (in my experience) is scarcely +practicable with collodion pictures, unless by the aid of an assistant and +two levelled developing-stands in the dark closet; for the time occupied by +starting the first picture on its development, and preparing the second +glass plate (scarcely less than three or four minutes), will be a heavy tax +on the quiescent powers of the sitter. This difficulty is avoided by +adopting the Daguerreotype process, as the plates can be prepared +beforehand, and need not be developed before both pictures are taken. In +this case the only delay between the pictures is in the shifting the +position of the camera. This is readily done by providing a table of +suitable height (instead of the ordinary tripod), on which an arc of a +circle is painted, having for its centre the place of the sitter. If the +sitter be at the distance of eleven or twelve feet (my usual distance with +a 3¼ inch Voightlander), the camera need not be moved more than ten or +twelve inches; and even this distance produces some visible distortion to +an accurate observer. + +The second levelling stand is required when using the collodion process, +because the second {71} picture will be ready for development before the +developing and fixing of the first has set its stand at liberty. + +COKELY. + +_Mr. Crookes' Wax-paper Process_ (Vol. vi., p. 613.).--R. E. wishes to know +the exact meaning of the sentence, "With the addition of as _much free +iodine_ as will give it a sherry colour." After adding the iodide of +potassium to the water, a small quantity of iodine (this can be proctored +at any operative chemist's) is to be dissolved in the mixture until it be +of the proper colour. + +The paper is decidedly more sensitive if exposed wet, but it should not be +washed; and I think it is advisable to have a double quantity of nitrate of +silver in the exciting bath. I have not yet tried any other salt than +iodide of potassium for the first bath; but I hope before the summer to lay +before your readers a simpler, and I think superior wax-paper process, upon +which I am at present experimenting. + +WILLIAM CROOKES. + +Hammersmith. + +P.S.--I see that in the tables R. E. has given, he has nearly doubled the +strength of my iodine bath. It should be twenty-four grains to the ounce, +instead of forty-four; and he has entirely left out the iodine. + +_India Rubber a Substitute for Yellow Glass._--I think that I have made a +discovery which may be useful to photographers. It is known that some kinds +of yellow glass effectually obstruct the passage of the chemical rays, and +that other kinds do not, according to the manner in which the glass is +prepared. + +I have never heard or read of India rubber being used for this purpose; but +I believe it will be found perfectly efficient, and will therefore state +how I arrived at this conclusion. + +Having occasion to remove a slate from the side of my roof, to make an +opening for my camera, I thought of a sheet of India rubber to supply the +place of the slate, and thus obtain a flexible waterproof covering to +exclude the wet, and to open and shut at pleasure. This succeeded +admirably, but I found that I had also obtained a deep rich yellow window, +which perfectly lighted a large closet, previously quite dark, and in which +for the last ten days I have excited and developed the most sensitive +iodized collodion on glass. I therefore simply announce the fact, as it may +be of some importance, if verified by others and by further experiment. I +have not yet tested it with a lens and the solution of sulphite of quinine, +as I wished the sun to shine on the sheet of India rubber at the time, +which would decide the question. However, sheet India rubber can be +obtained of any size and thickness required: mine is about one-sixteenth of +an inch thick, and one foot square; and the advantages over glass would be +great in some cases, especially for a dark tent in the open air, as any +amount of light might be obtained by stitching a sheet of India rubber into +the side, which would fold up without injury. It is possible that gutta +percha windows would answer the same purpose. + +H. Y. W. N. + +Brompton. + +_Dr. Diamond's Paper Processes._--We have been requested to call attention +to, and to correct several errors of the press overlooked by us in DR. +DIAMOND'S article, in the hurry of preparing our enlarged Number (No. +166.). The most important is in the account of the _exciting_ fluid,--the +omission, at p. 21. col. 1. l. 47. (after directions to take one drachm of +aceto-nitrate of silver), of the words "_one drachm of saturated solution +of gallic acid_." The passage should run thus: "Of this solution take one +drachm, and one drachm of saturated solution of gallic acid, and add to it +two ounces and a half of distilled water." + +In the same page, col. 2. l. 13., "solvent" should be "saturated;" and in +the same article, _passim_, "hyposulphate" should be "hyposulphite," and +"solari_s_e" should be "solari_z_e." + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Ancient Timber Town-halls._--Since my account of ancient town-halls (Vol. +v., p. 470.) was written, one of these fabrics of the olden time noticed +therein has ceased to exist, that of Kington, co. Hereford, it having been +taken down early in November last, but for what reason I have not learned. +Another, formerly standing in the small town of Church Stretton, in the co. +of Salop, which was erected upon wooden pillars, and constructed entirely +of timber, must have been a truly picturesque building, was taken down in +September, 1840. A woodcut of the latter is now before me. Of the old +market-house at Leominster I possess a very beautiful original drawing, +done by Mr. Carter upwards of half a century ago. + +J. B. WHITBORNE. + +_Magnetic Intensity_ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--The magnetic intensity is +greatest at the poles; the ratio may roughly be said to be 1.3, but more +accurately 1 to 2.906. This is found by observation of the oscillations of +a vertical or horizontal needle. A needle which made 245 oscillations in +ten minutes at Paris, made only 211 at 7° 1' south lat. in Peru. The +intensity and variations to which it is subject is strictly noted at all +the magnetic observatories, and I believe the disturbances of intensity +which sometimes occur have been found to be simultaneous by a comparison of +observations at different latitudes. + +For the fullest information on magnetic intensity, ADSUM is referred to +Sabine's _Report on_ {72} _Magnetic Intensity_, also Sabine's +_Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism_, 1843, No. V. + +T. B. + +_Monument at Wadstena_ (Vol. vi., pp. 388. 518.).--I have received the +following (which I translate) from my friend in Denmark, whom I mentioned +in my last communication on this monument: + + "It is only about a month since I saw Queen Philippa's tombstone in the + church of Vadstena Monastery. It is a very large stone, on which the + device and inscription are cut in outline, but there is no _brass_ + about it. King Erik Menved's and Queen Ingeberg's monument in Ringsted + Church is the finest brass I ever saw, and I have seen many." + +There is a good engraving of the brass alluded to, which is a very rich +one, in _Antiquariske Annaler_, vol. iii.: Copenhagen, 1820. The +inscriptions are curious, and the date 1319. + +W. C. TREVELYAN. + +Wallington. + +_David Routh, R. C. Bishop of Ossory_ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--In the article +on a Cardinal's Monument, by MR. J. GRAVES, of Kilkenny, allusion is made +to the monument of the above Catholic Bishop Routh or Rothe, as being in +the Cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny, with his arms "surmounted by a +_cardinal's hat_," and that he died some years after 1643. If MR. GRAVES +would give the date of this prelate's decease, or rather a copy of the full +inscription on his monument, with a notice of the sculptured armorial +bearings thereupon, he would be conferring a favour on a distant inquirer; +and as MR. GRAVES is, apparently, a resident at Kilkenny, no obstacle +exists to prevent his complying with this request. + +Any notices procurable regarding Bishop Routh are well deserving of +insertion in "N. & Q.," for he was a man of deep learning and research, and +is well known to have assisted the celebrated Archbishop Ussher of Armagh +in the compilation of his _Primordia_, for which he had high compliments +paid him by that eminent prelate, notwithstanding their being of different +religions. + +Bishop Routh was also himself the author of a work on _Irish Ecclesiastical +History_, now very rare, and seldom procurable complete. He published it +anonymously, in two volumes 8vo., in the year 1617, at "Coloniæ, apud +Steph. Rolinum," with the following rather long title: + + "Analecta Sacra, Nova, et Mira, de Rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia: + Divisa in tres partes, quarum I, Continet semestrem gravaminam + relationem, secundâ hac editione novis adauctam additamentis, et Notis + illustratam. II. Parænesin ad Martyres designatos. III. Processum + Martyrialem quorundam Fidei Pugilium; Collectore et Relatore, T. N. + Philadelpho." + +I fear this has degenerated from a Note into a Query; however, I may state +in conclusion, that MR. GRAVES is in error in styling the hat on Bishop +Routh's monument a cardinal's, for all Catholic prelates, and abbots also, +have their armorial bearings surmounted by a hat, exactly similar to a +cardinal's hat, with this difference only, that the number of tassels +depending from it varies according to the rank of the prelate, from the +_cardinal's_ with fifteen tassels in five rows, down to that of a _prior_ +with three only on each side in two rows. + +A. S. A. + +Punjaub. + +_Cardinal Erskine_ (Vol. ii., p. 406.; Vol. iii., p. 13.).--Several notices +of this ecclesiastic have appeared in "N. & Q.," but as none of them give +the exact information required, I now do so, though perhaps tardily. He was +born 13th February, 1753, at Rome, where his father, Colin Erskine, a +Jacobite, and exiled scion of the noble Scottish house of Erskine, Earls of +Kellie, had taken up his residence. "Monsignor Charles Erskine," having +embraced the ecclesiastical life at an early age, and passed through +several gradations in the Church of Rome, was, in 1785, "Promotore della +Fede," an office of the Congregation of Rites; in 1794 auditor to Pope Pius +VI., and raised to the purple by Pope Pius VII., who created him a +_Cardinal_-Deacon of the Holy Roman Church, 25th February, 1801. Cardinal +Erskine accompanied the latter pontiff in his exile from Rome in the year +1809, and died at Paris, 19th March, 1811, in the fifty-eighth year of his +age, and eleventh of his cardinalate. + +A. S. A. + +Punjaub. + +_"Ne'er to these chambers," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--In reply to ARAM'S +Query: "Where do these lines come from?" they come from Tickell's sublime +and pathetic "Elegy on the Death of Addison." ARAM ("Wits have short +memories," &c.) has _misquoted_ them. In a poem of so high a mood, to +_displace_ a word is to destroy a beauty. ARAM has _interpolated_ several +words. The following is the _true_ version: + + "Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, + Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, + Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd + A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." + +GEORGE DANIEL. + +Canonbury. + +These lines are taken from the "Elegy on the Death of Addison," written by +Tickell. They are, if I remember rightly, inscribed on the gravestone +recently placed over his remains by the Earl of Ellesmere, in the north +aisle of Henry VII.'s Chapel. The last two lines which your correspondent +quotes should be as follows: + + "Nor _e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd_ + A _fairer_ spirit, or more welcome shade." + +J. K. R. W. + +{73} + +_The Budget_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).--It may be useful to inform +PRESTONIENSIS, that, in a recent work on political economy, M. Ch. Coquelin +says, that the word _budget_, in its present signification, has passed into +France from England: the latter country having first borrowed it from the +old French language--_bougette_ signifying (and particularly in old Norman) +a leather purse. It was the custom in England to put into a leather bag the +estimates of receipts and expenditure presented to parliament: and hence, +as Coquelin observes, the term passed from the containant to the contained, +and, with this new signification, returned from this country into France; +where it was first used in an official manner in the _arrêtés_ of the +Consul's 4th Themidor, year X, and 17th Germinal, year XI. + +F. H. + +"_Catching a Tartar_" (Vol. vi., p. 317.).--This common and expressive +saying is thus explained in Arvine's _Cyclopædia_: + + "In some battle between the Russians and the Tartars, who are a wild + sort of people in the north of Asia, a private soldier called out, + 'Captain, halloo there! I've caught a Tartar!' 'Fetch him along then,' + said the Captain. 'Ay, but he won't let me,' said the man. And the fact + was the Tartar had caught him. So when a man thinks to take another in, + and gets himself bit, they say he's caught a Tartar." + +Grose says that this saying originated with an Irish soldier who was in the +"Imperial," that is, I suppose he means the Austrian service. This is +hardly probable; the Irish are made to father many sayings which do not +rightly belong to them, and this I think may be safely written as one among +the number. + +EIRIONNACH has now two references before him, Grose's _Glossary_ and +Arvine's _Cyclopædia_, in which his Query is partly explained, if he can +but find the dates of their publication. In this search I regret I cannot +assist him, as neither of these works are to be found in the libraries of +this island; at least thus far I have not been able to meet with them. + +W. W. + +Malta. + +_The Termination "-itis"_ (Vol. vii., p. 13.).--ADSUM asks: "What is the +derivation of the term _-itis_, used principally in medical words, and +these signifying, inflammation?" If "N. & Q." were a medical journal, the +question might be answered at length, to the great advantage of the +profession; for, of late years, this termination has been tacked on by +medical writers, especially foreigners, to words of all kinds, in utter +defiance of the rules of language: as if a Greek affix were quite a natural +ending to a Latin or French noun. _-itis_ can with propriety be appended +only to those Greek nouns whose adjectives end in [Greek: -itês]: _e.g._ +[Greek: pleura, pleuritês]; [Greek: keras, keratitês], &c. [Greek: +Pleuritis] is used by Hippocrates. [Greek: Pleura] means the membrane +lining the side of the chest: [Greek: pleuritis] ([Greek: nodos] +understood) is morbus lateralis, the side-disease, or pleurisy. In the same +manner _keratitis_ is a very legitimate synonym for disease of the horny +coat (cornea) of the eye. But medical writers, disregarding the rules of +language, have, for some years past, revelled in the use of their favourite +_-itis_ to a most ludicrous extent. Thus, from _cornea_, they make +"corneitis," and describe an inflammation of the crystalline lens as +_lentitis_. Nay, some French and German writers on diseases of the eyes +have coined the monstrous word "Descemetitis," on the ground that one +Monsieur Descemet discovered a structure in the eye, which, out of +compliment to him, was called "the membrane of Descemet." + +JAYDEE. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES + +WANTED TO PURCHASE. + +DEFENCE OF USURY, by BENTHAM. (A Tract.) + +TREATISE ON LAW, by MACKINLOCH. + +TWO DISCOURSES OF PURGATORY AND PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD, by WM. WAKE. 1687. + +WHAT THE CHARTISTS ARE. A Letter to English Working Men, by a +Fellow-Labourer. 12mo. London, 1848. + +LETTER OF CHURCH RATES, by RALPH BARNES. 8vo. 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Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. +Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, January 15. 1853. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 168, January +15, 1853, by Various + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42783 *** |