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diff --git a/42783.txt b/42783.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 50139a6..0000000 --- a/42783.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2949 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 168, January 15, -1853, 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, Number 168, January 15, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Bell - -Release Date: May 24, 2013 [EBook #42783] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins -and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian -Libraries) - - - - - -{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 - Andre--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. Mathiae 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 Andre._--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 quaestus - est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut aedificentur: 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 a quali quant' io debba non posso dire, condotto alla villa - del Sig. Pope, ch' e 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 a Venise que Charles-Jean de Koenigsmark rencontra la belle - Comtesse de Southampton, cette vaillante amoureuse qui, plantant la - fortune et famille, le suivit desormais par le monde deguisee en page: - romanesque anecdote que la princesse Palatine a consignee dans ses - memoires avec cette brusque rondeur de style qui ne marchande pas les - expressions. 'Il doit etre assez dans le caractere 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 etait avec lui - a Chambord, et comme, faute de place, il ne pouvait loger au Chateau, - il avait fait dresser dans la foret une tente ou il logeat. Il me - raconta son aventure a la Masse; j'eu la curiosite 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 - quantite de cheveux du plus beau brun, qui tomberent en grosses boucles - sur ses epaules. 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 apres - lui et lui cria: 'Montez vite la-haut, Monsieur, votre page accouche!' - Le page accoucha en effet d'une fille: on mit la mere et l'enfant dans - un couvent a Paris." - -He afterwards went to England, where-- - - "Les freres, cousins, et petits cousins de lady Southampton - l'attendaient, et les duels se mirent a lui pleuvoir dessus. Comme son - epee aimait assez a luire au soleil, il la tira volontiers, et avec une - chance telle que ses ennemis, ne pouvant le vaincre par le fer, - jugerent a propos d'essayer du poison. Degoute de perdre son temps a de - pareilles miseres, &c. &c. Tant que le comte a vecu il en a eu grand - soin; mais il mourut en Moree, et le page fidele ne lui survecut 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 420deg Fah. as possible; on no account is it to -exceed 450deg. 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 3-1/4 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 7deg 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 "Coloniae, 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, secunda hac editione novis adauctam additamentis, et Notis - illustratam. II. Paraenesin 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 _arretes_ 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 _Cyclopaedia_: - - "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 _Cyclopaedia_, 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: -ites]: _e.g._ -[Greek: pleura, pleurites]; [Greek: keras, keratites], &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. 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