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diff --git a/42784.txt b/42784.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e42b82c..0000000 --- a/42784.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3514 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, -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 169, January 22, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc - -Author: Various - -Editor: George Bell - -Release Date: May 24, 2013 [EBook #42784] - -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) - - - - - -Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they -are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. - - * * * * * - - -{77} - -NOTES AND QUERIES: - -A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, -GENEALOGISTS, ETC. - -"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. - - * * * * * - - -No. 169.] -SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. 1853 -[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. - - * * * * * - - -CONTENTS. - - NOTES:-- Page - - Blackguard, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 77 - - Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. I., - by T. Sternberg 79 - - Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. II., by, - P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 80 - - FOLK LORE:--Irish Superstitious Customs--Charm for, - Warts--The Devil--"Winter Thunder," &c. 81 - - Malta the Burial-place of Hannibal 81 - - MINOR NOTES:--Waterloo--"Tuch"--The Dodo--Francis I. 82 - - QUERIES:-- - - Dr. Anthony Marshall 83 - - Lindis, Meaning of 83 - - MINOR QUERIES:--Smock Marriage in New York--The broken - Astragalus--Penardo and Laissa--St. Adulph--St. Botulph-- - Tennyson--"Ma Ninette," &c.--Astronomical Query--Chaplains - to Noblemen--"More" Queries--Heraldic Query--"By Prudence - guided," &c.--Lawyers' Bags--Master Family--Passage in - Wordsworth--Govett Family--Sir Kenelm Digby--Riddles-- - Straw Bail--Wages in the West in 1642--Literary Frauds - of Modern Times 84 - - MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Very like a Whale"--Wednesday - a Litany Day--"Thy Spirit, Independence," &c.--"Hob and - nob," Meaning of 86 - - REPLIES:-- - - Wellesley Pedigree, by John D'Alton 87 - - Consecrated Rings for Epilepsy 88 - - Turner's View of Lambeth Palace, by J. Walter, &c. 89 - - Etymological Traces of the social Position of our Ancestors, - by C. Forbes, &c. 90 - - Goldsmiths' Year-marks, by W. Chaffers, Jun., and H. T. - Ellacombe 90 - - Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by W. Sparrow - Simpson, B.A. 91 - - PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Originator of the Collodion - Process--Mr. Weld Taylor's Process--Dr. Diamond's Services - to Photography--Simplification of the Wax-paper Process 92 - - The Burial Service said by Heart, by Mackenzie Wallcott, - M.A., &c. 94 - - REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Mary Queen of Scots' Gold - Cross--Jennings Family--Adamson's "England's Defence"-- - Chief Justice Thomas Wood--Aldiborontiphoscophornio-- - Statue of St. Peter at Rome--Old Silver Ornament-- - "Plurima, pauca, nihil"--"Pork-pisee" and "Wheale"--Did - the Carians use Heraldic Devices?--Herbert Family-- - Children crying at Baptism, &c. 95 - - MISCELLANEOUS:-- - - Notes on Books, &c. 97 - - Books and Odd Volumes wanted 98 - - Notices to Correspondents 98 - - Advertisements 99 - - * * * * * - - -Notes. - -BLACKGUARD. - -In some of the earlier numbers of "N. & Q.," there occur disquisitions as -to the origin of the term _blackguard_, and the time at which it came into -use in England in its present sense. But the communications of your -correspondents have not been satisfactory upon either point--they have not -shown the period at which the word came to be accepted _in its present -sense_; and their quotations all apply to its use in a much more simple -meaning, and one totally different from that which we now attach to it. - -One class of these quotations (Vol. ii., pp. 171. 285.), such as the -passages from BUTLER and FULLER, refer obviously to a popular superstition, -during an age when the belief in witchcraft and hobgoblins was universal; -and when such creatures of fancy were assigned as _Black Guards_ to his -Satanic majesty. "Who can conceive," says FULLER in the paragraph -extracted, "but that such a Prince-principal of Darkness must be -proportionally attended by a Black Guard of monstrous opinions?" (_Church -History_, b. ix. c. xvi.) And in the verses of BUTLER referred to, -Hudibras, when deceived by Ralpho counterfeiting a ghost in the dark,-- - - "Believed it was some drolling sprite - That _staid upon the guard_ at night:" - -and thereupon in his trepidation discourses with the Squire as follows: - - "Thought he, How does the _Devil_ know - What 'twas that I design'd to do? - His office of intelligence, - His oracles, are ceas'd long since; - And he knows nothing of the Saints, - But what some treach'rous spy acquaints. - This is some petty-fogging _fiend_, - Some under door-keeper's friend's friend, - That undertakes to understand, - And juggles at the second hand: - And now would pass for spirit Po, - And all men's dark concerns foreknow. - I think I need not fear him for't; - These rallying _devils_ do not hurt. - {78} - With that he roused his drooping heart, - And hastily cry'd out, What art?-- - A wretch, quoth he, whom want of grace - Has brought to this unhappy place. - I do believe thee, quoth the knight; - Thus far I'm sure thou'rt in the right, - And know what 'tis that troubles thee, - Better than thou hast guess'd of me. - Thou art some paltry, _blackguard sprite_, - Condemn'd to drudg'ry in the night; - Thou hast no work to do in th' house, - _Nor half-penny to drop in shoes_; - Without the raising of which sum - You dare not be so troublesome; - To pinch the slatterns black and blue, - For leaving you their work to do. - This is your business, good Pug Robin, - And your diversion, dull dry bobbing." - _Hudibras_, Part III. Canto 1. line 1385, &c. - -It will be seen that BUTLER, like FULLER, uses the term in the simple sense -as a _guard_ of the Prince of Darkness. But the concluding lines of -Hudibras's address to Ralpho explain the process by which, at a late -period, this term of the _Black Guard_ came to be applied to the lowest -class of domestics in great establishments. - -The Black Guard of Satan was supposed to perform the domestic drudgery of -the kitchen and servants' hall, in the infernal household. The extract from -HOBBES (Vol. ii., p. 134.) refers to this:-- - - "Since my Lady's decay, I am degraded from a cook; and I fear the Devil - himself will entertain me but for one of his _black guard_, and he - shall be sure to have his roast burnt." - -Hence came the popular superstition that these goblin scullions, on their -visits to the upper world, confined themselves to the servants' apartments -of the houses which they favoured with their presence, and which at night -they swept and garnished; pinching those of the maids in their sleep who, -by their laziness, had imposed such toil on their elfin assistants; but -_slipping money into the shoes_ of the more tidy and industrious servants, -whose attention to their own duties before going to rest had spared the -goblins the task of performing their share of the drudgery. Hudibras -apostrophises the ghost as-- - - "... some paltry _blackguard_ sprite - Condemn'd to drudgery in the night; - Thou hast no work to do in th' house - Nor half-penny to drop in shoes;" - -and therefore, as the knight concluded--"this devil full of malice" had -found sufficient leisure to taunt and rally him in the dark upon his recent -disasters. - -This belief in the visits of domestic spirits, who busy themselves at night -in sweeping and arranging the lower apartments, has prevailed in the North -of Ireland and in Scotland from time immemorial: and it is explained in SIR -WALTER SCOTT'S notes to the _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, as his -justification for introducing the goblin page Gilpin Horner amongst the -domestics of Branksome Hall. Perhaps, from the association of these elves -with the lower household duties, but more probably from a more obvious -cause, came at a later period the practice described by GIFFORD in his note -on BEN JONSON, as quoted by your correspondent (Vol. ii., p. 170.), by -which-- - - "in all great houses, but particularly in the Royal Residences, there - were a number of mean dirty dependents, whose office it was to attend - the wool-yard, sculleries, &c. Of these, the most forlorn wretches seem - to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, &c. To - this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the - carts with the pots and kettles, the people, in derision, gave the name - of the _black guards_." - -This is no doubt correct; and hence the expression of BEAUMONT and -FLETCHER, quoted from the _Elder Brother_, that-- - - "... from the _black guard_ - To the grim Sir in office, there are few - Hold other tenets:" - -meaning from the lowest domestic to the highest functionary of a household. -This too explains the force of the allusion, in Jardine's _Criminal -Trials_, to the apartments of Euston House being "far unmeet for her -Highness, but fitter for the Black Guard"--that is, for the scullions and -lowest servants of an establishment. SWIFT employs the word in this sense -when he says, in the extract quoted by Dr. Johnson in his _Dictionary_ in -illustration of the meaning of _blackguard_,-- - - "Let a black-guard boy be always about the house to send on your - errands, and go to market for you on rainy days." - -It will thus be seen, that of the six authors quoted in "N. & Q." no one -makes use of the term _black guard_ in an opprobrious sense such as -attaches to the more modern word "blackguard;" and that they all wrote -within the first fifty years of the seventeenth century. It must therefore -be subsequent not only to that date, but to the reign of Queen Anne, that -we are to look for its general acceptance in its present contumelious -sense. And I believe that its introduction may be traced to a recent -period, and to a much more simple derivation than that investigated by your -correspondents. - -I apprehend that the present term, "a blackguard," is of French origin; and -that its importation into our language was subsequent to the Restoration of -Charles II., A.D. 1660. There is a corresponding term in French, _blague_, -which, like our English adaptation, is not admissible in good society. It -is defined by Bescherelles, in his great _Dictionnaire National_, to mean -"fanfaronnade, hablerie, mensonge; bourde, gasconade:" and to {79} be "un -mot populaire et bas, dont les personnes bien elevees evitent de se -servir." From _blague_ comes the verb _blaguer_, which the same authority -says means "dire des blagues; mentir pour le plaisir de mentir." And from -_blaguer_ comes the substantive _blagueur_, which is, I apprehend, the -original of our English word _blackguard_. It is described by Bescherelles -as a "diseur de sornettes et de faussetees; hableur, fanfaron. Un -_blagueur_ est un menteur, mais un menteur qui a moins pour but de tromper -que de se faire valoir." - -The English term has, it will be observed, a somewhat wider and more -offensive import than the French: and the latter being rarely to be found -amongst educated persons, or in dictionaries, it may have escaped the -etymologists who were in search of a congener for its English derivative. -Its pedigree is, however, to be sought in philological rather than -archaeological records. Within the last two centuries, a number of words of -honest origin have passed into an opprobrious sense; for example, the -oppressed tenants of Ireland are spoken of by SPENSER and SIR JOHN DAVIES -as "_villains_." In our version of the Scriptures, "_cunning_" implies -merely skill in music and in art. SHAKSPEARE employs the word "_vagabond_" -as often to express pity as reproach; and I think it will be found, that as -a _knave_, prior to the reign of Elizabeth, meant merely a serving man, so -a _blackguard_ was the name for a pot-boy or scullion in the reign of Queen -Anne. The transition into its more modern meaning took place at a later -period, on the importation of a foreign word, to which, being already -interchangeable in sound, it speedily became assimilated in sense. - -J. EMERSON TENNENT. - - * * * * * - -PREDICTIONS OF THE FIRE AND PLAGUE OF LONDON, NO. I. - - "It was a trim worke indeede, and a gay world no doubt for some idle - cloister-man, mad merry friers, and lusty abbey-lubbers; when - themselves were well whittled, and their paunches pretily stuffed, to - fall a prophesieing of the woefull dearths, famines, plagues, wars, &c. - of the dangerous days imminent."--Harvey's _Discoursive Probleme_, - Lond. 1588. - -Among the sly hits at our nation, which abound in the lively pages of the -Sieur d'Argenton, is one to the effect that an Englishman always has an old -prophecy in his possession. The worthy Sieur is describing the meeting of -Louis X. and our Henry II. near Picquini, where the Chancellor of England -commenced his harangue by alluding to an ancient prophecy which predicted -that the Plain of Picquini should be the scene of a memorable and lasting -peace between the two nations. "The Bishop," says Commines, "commenca par -une prophetie, dont," adds he, _en parenthese_, "les Anglois ne sont jamais -despourveus."[1] Even at this early period, we had thus acquired a -reputation for prophecies, and it must be confessed that our chronicles -abound in passages which illustrate the justice of the Sieur's sarcasm. -From the days of York and Lancaster, when, according to Lord Northampton -"bookes of beasts and babyes were exceeding ryfe, and current in every -quarter and corner of the realme,"[2] up to the time of Napoleon's -projected invasion, when the presses of the Seven Dials were unusually -prolific in visions and predictions, pandering to the popular fears of the -country--our national character for vaticination has been amply sustained -by a goodly array of prophets, real or pretended, whose lucubrations have -not even yet entirely lost their influence upon the popular mind. To this -day, the ravings of Nixon are "household words" in Cheshire; and I am told -that a bundle of "Dame Shipton's Sayings" still forms a very saleable -addition to the pack of a Yorkshire pedlar. Recent discoveries in -biological science have given to the subject of popular prophecies a -philosophical importance beyond the mere curiosity or strangeness of the -details. Whether or not the human mind, under certain conditions, becomes -endowed with the prescient faculty, is a question I do not wish to discuss -in your pages: I merely wish to direct attention to a neglected and not -uninteresting chapter in the curiosities of literature. - -In delving among what may be termed the popular religious literature of the -latter years of the Commonwealth, and early part of the reign of Charles, -we become aware of the existence of a kind of nightmare which the public of -that age were evidently labouring under--a strong and vivid impression that -some terrible calamity was impending over the metropolis. Puritanic -tolerance was sorely tried by the licence of the new Court; and the pulpits -were soon filled with enthusiasts of all sects, who railed in no measured -terms against the monster city--the city Babylon--the bloody city! as they -loved to term her: proclaiming with all the fervour of fanaticism that the -measure of her iniquities was well nigh full, and the day of her extinction -at hand. The press echoed the cry; and for some years before and after the -Restoration, it teemed with "warnings" and "visions," in which the -approaching destruction is often plainly predicted. One of the earliest of -these prefigurations occurs in that Leviathan of Sermons, _God's Plea for -Nineveh, or London's Precedent for Mercy_, by Thomas Reeve: London, 1657. -Speaking of London, he says: - - It was Troy-novant, it is Troy le grand, and it will be Troy - l'extinct."--P. 217. - -{80} And again: - - "Methinks I see you bringing pick-axes to dig downe your owne walls, - and kindling sparks that will act all in a flame from one end of the - city to the other."--P. 214. - -And afterwards, in a strain of rough eloquence: - - "This goodly city of yours all in shreds, ye may seek for a threshold - of your antient dwellings, for a pillar of your pleasant habitations, - and not find them; all your spacious mansions and sumptuous monuments - are then gone.... Wo unto us, our sins have pulled down our houses, - shaken down our city; we are the most harbourlesse featlesse people in - the world.... Foxes have holes, and the fowls of the air nests, but we - have neither; our sins have deprived us both of couch and covert. What - inventions shall ye then be put to, to secure yourselves, when your - sins shall have shut up all the conduits of the city, and suffer only - the Liver conduit to run[3]; when they allow you no showers of rain, - but showers of blood; when ye shall see no men of your incorporation, - but the mangl'd citizen; nor hear no noise in your streets but the - crys, the shrieks, the yells and pangs of gasping, dying men; when, - amongst the throngs of associates, not a man will own you or come near - you," &c.--Pp. 221. _et seq._ - -After alluding to the epidemics of former ages, he thus alludes to the -coming plague: - - "It will chase men out of their houses, as if there was some fierce - enemy pursuing them, and shut up shop doors, as if execution after - judgment was served upon the merchants; there will then be no other - music to be heard but doleful knells, nor no other wares to be born up - and down but dead corpses; it will change mansion houses into - pest-houses, and gather congregations rather into churchyards than - churches.... The markets will be so empty, that scarce necessaries will - be brought in, a new kind of brewers will set up, even apothecaries to - prepare diet drinks."--P. 255. - -The early Quakers, like most other religious enthusiasts, claimed the gift -of prophecy: and we are indebted to members of the sect for many -contributions to this branch of literature. Humphrey Smith was one of the -most celebrated of the vaticinating Quakers. Little is known of his life -and career. He appears to have joined the Quakers about 1654; and after -enduring a long series of persecutions and imprisonments for the sake of -his adopted creed, finally ended his days in Winchester gaol in 1662. The -following passage, from a _Vision which he saw concerning London_ (London, -1660). is startling[4]: - - "And as for the city, herself and her suburbs, and all that belonged to - her, a fire was kindled therin; but she knew not how, even in all her - goodly places, and the kindling of it was in the foundation of all her - buildings, and there was none could quench it.... And the burning - thereof was exceeding great, and it burned inward in a hidden manner - which cannot be described.... All the tall buildings fell, and it - consumed all the lofty things therein, and the fire searched out all - the hidden places, and burned most in the secret places. And as I - passed through her streets I beheld her state to be very miserable, and - very few were those who were left in her, who were but here and there - one: and they feared not the fire, neither did the burning hurt them, - but they walked as dejected mournful people.... And the fire continued, - for, though all the lofty part was brought down, yet there was much old - stuffe, and parts of broken-down desolate walls, which the fire - continued burning against.... And the vision thereof remained in me as - a thing that was showed me of the Lord." - -Daniel Baker, Will Lilly, and Nostradamus, I shall reserve for another -paper. - -T. STERNBERG. - -[Footnote 1: _Memoires_, p. 155.: Paris, 1649.] - -[Footnote 2: _Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophecies_, p. -116.] - -[Footnote 3: "It was a great contributing to this misfortune that the -Thames Water House was out of order, so that the conduits and pipes were -almost all dry."--_Observations on the burning of London_: Lond. 1667, p. -34.] - -[Footnote 4: For a sight of this extremely scarce tract, I am indebted to -the courtesy of the gentleman who has the care of the Friends' Library in -Devonshire House, Bishopsgate.] - - * * * * * - -NOTES AND QUERIES ON BACON'S ESSAYS, NO. II. - -(Vol. vii., p. 6.) - -Essay I. p. 2. "One of the fathers." Who, and where? - -Ditto, ditto. The poet. Lucretus, ii., init. "Suave mari magno," &c. - -Ditto, p. 3. (note i). Plutarch. Does Montaigne allude to Plutarch, _De -Liberis educandis_, vol. ii. (ed. Xyland.) 11 C.: "[Greek: to gar -pseudesthai douloprepes k.t.l.]"? - -Essay II. p. 4. "You shall read in _some_ of the friars' books," &c. Where? - -Ditto, ditto. "Pompa magis," &c. Does Bacon quote this from memory, -referring to "Tolle istam pompam, sub qua lates, et stultos territas"? (Ep. -XXIV. vol. ii. p. 92.: ed. Elzev. 1672.) - -Ditto, p. 5. "We read," &c. Tac. _Hist._, ii. 49. "Quidam milites juxta -rogum interfecere se, non noxa neque ob metum, sed aemulatione decoris et -caritate principis." Cf. Sueton. _Vit. Oth._, 12. - -Ditto, ditto. "Cogita quamdiu," &c. Whence is this? - -Ditto, ditto. "Augustus Caesar died," &c. Suet. _Vit. Octav._, 99. - -Ditto, ditto. "Tiberius in dissimulation." Tac. _Ann._, vi. 50. - -Ditto, ditto. "Vespasian." Suet. _Vit. Vespas._, 23. - -Ditto, ditto. "Galba." Tac. _Hist._, i. 41. - -Ditto, ditto. "Septimus Severus." Whence is this? - -Ditto, p. 6. (note _m_). "In the tenth Satire of Juvenal." V. 357., _seq._ - -Ditto, ditto. "Extinctus amabitur idem." Hor. _Epist._ ii. l. 14. - -{81} - -Essay III. p. 8. "A master of scoffing." Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, book ii. -cap. viii. (p. 339. vol. i. ed. Bohn, 1849.) - -Ditto, p. 9. "As it is noted by one of the fathers." By whom, and where? - -Ditto, p. 10. "Lucretius." I. 102. - -Ditto, p. 11. "It was a notable observation of a wise father." Of whom, and -where? - -Essay IV. p. 13. "For the death of Pertinax." See _Hist. Aug. Script._, -vol. i. p. 578. (Lugd. Bat. 1671.) - -Ditto, ditto, (note _f_). "The poet." Ovid, _Ar. Am._, i. 655. - -Essay V. ditto. "Bona rerum secundarum," &c. Does Bacon allude to Seneca -(Ep. lxvi. p. 238., _ut sup._), where, after stating that "In aequo est -moderate gaudere, et moderate dolere;" he adds, "Illa bona optabilia sunt, -haec mirabilia"? - -Ditto, ditto. "Vere magnum habere," &c. Whence is this? - -Ditto, ditto. "The strange fiction of the ancient poets." In note (_a_) we -find "Stesichorus, Apollodorus, _and others_" named. Whereabouts? - -Ditto, p. 11. (note _c_). "This fine passage has been quoted by Macaulay." -_Ut sup._, p. 407. - -Essay VI. p. 15. "Tacitus saith." _Ann._, v. 1. - -Ditto, ditto. "And again, when Mucianus," &c. Ditto, _Hist._, ii. 76. - -Ditto, ditto. "Which indeed are arts, &c., as Tacitus well calleth them." -Where? - -Ditto, p. 17. "It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard." What is the -proverb? - -Essay VII. p. 19. "The precept, 'Optimum elige,' &c." Whence? though I am -ashamed to ask. - -Essay VIII. p. 20. "The generals." See Aesch. _Persae_, 404. (Dindf.), and -Blomfield _in loc._ (v. 411. ed. suae). - -Ditto, ditto. "It was said of Ulysses," &c. By whom? Compare _Od._, v. 218. - -Ditto, p. 21. "He was reputed," &c. Who? - -(_To be continued._) - -P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. - - * * * * * - -FOLK LORE. - -_Irish Superstitious Customs._--The following strange practices of the -Irish are described in a MS. of the sixteenth century, and seem to have a -Pagan origin: - - "Upon Maie Eve they will drive their cattell upon their neighbour's - corne, to eate the same up; they were wont to begin from the rast, and - this principally upon the English churl. Onlesse they do so upon Maie - daie, the witch hath power upon their cattell all the yere following." - -The next paragraph observes that "they spitt in the face; Sir R. Shee spat -in Ladie ---- face." - -Spenser alludes to spitting on a person for luck, and I have experienced -the ceremony myself. - -H. - -_Charm for Warts._--I remember in Leicestershire seeing the following charm -employed for removal of a number of warts on my brother, then a child about -five years old. In the month of April or May he was taken to an ash-tree by -a lady, who carried also a paper of fresh pins; one of these was first -struck through the bark, and then pressed through the wart until it -produced pain: it was then taken out and stuck into the tree. Each wart was -thus treated, a separate pin being used for each. The warts certainly -disappeared in about six weeks. I saw the same tree a year or two again, -when it was very thickly studded over with old pins, each the index of a -cured wart. - -T. J. - -Liverpool. - -_The Devil._-- - - "According to the superstition of the west countries if you meet the - devil, you may either cut him in half with a straw, or force him to - disappear by spitting over his horns."--_Essays on his own Times_, by - S. T. Coleridge, vol. iii. p. 967. - -J. M. B. - -If you sing before breakfast you will cry before supper. - -If you wish to have luck, never shave on a Monday. - -J. M. B. - -_"Winter Thunder," &c._--I was conversing the other day with a very old -farmer on the disastrous rains and storms of the present season, when he -told me that he thought we had not yet seen the worst; and gave as a reason -the following proverb: - - "Winter thunder and summer flood - Bode England no good." - -H. T. - -Ingatestone Hall, Essex. - - * * * * * - -MALTA THE BURIAL-PLACE OF HANNIBAL. - -Malta affords a fine field for antiquarian research; and in no part more so -than in the neighbourhood of Citta Vecchia, where for some distance the -ground is dotted with tombs which have already been opened. - -Here, in ancient times, was the site of a burial-place, but for what -people, or at what age, is now unknown; and here it is that archaeologists -should commence their labours, that in the result they may not be -disappointed. In some of the tombs which have been recently entered in this -vicinity, fragments of linen cloth have been seen, in which bodies were -enveloped at the time of their burial; in others glass, and earthen -candlesticks, and jars, hollow throughout and of a curious shape; while in -a few were earrings and finger-rings made of the purest gold, but they are -rarely found. {82} - -There cannot be a doubt that many valuable antiquities will yet be -discovered, and in support of this presumption I would only refer to those -now known to exist; the Giant's Tower at Gozo, the huge tombs in the -Bengemma Hills, and those extensive and remarkable ruins at Krendi, which -were excavated by order of the late Sir Henry Bouverie, and remain as a -lasting and honourable memento of his rule, being among the number. - -An antiquary, being at Malta, cannot pass a portion of an idle day more -agreeably than in visiting some singular sepulchral chambers not far from -Notabile, which are built in a rocky eminence, and with entrances several -feet from the ground. These are very possibly the tombs of the earliest -Christians, who tried in their erection "to imitate that of our Saviour, by -building them in the form of caves, and closing their portals with marble -or stone." When looking at these tombs from a terrace near the Cathedral, -we were strongly reminded of those which were seen by our lately deceased -friend Mr. John L. Stephens, and so well described by him in his _Incidents -of Travel_ in eastern lands. Had we time or space, we should more -particularly refer to several other interesting remains now scattered over -the island, and, among them, to that curious sepulchre not a long time ago -discovered in a garden at Rabato. We might write of the inscription on its -walls, "In pace posita sunt," and of the figures of a dove and hare which -were near it, to show that the ashes of those whom they buried there were -left in peace. We might also make mention, more at length, of a tomb which -was found at the point Beni Isa in 1761, having on its face a Phoenician -inscription, which Sir William Drummond thus translates: - - "The interior room of the tomb of Aennibal, illustrious in the - consummation of calamity. He was beloved. The people, when they are - drawn up in order of battle, weep for Aennibal the son of Bar Malek." - -Sir Grenville Temple remarks, that the great Carthaginian general is -supposed, by the Maltese, to have been a native of their island, and one of -the Barchina family, once known to have been established in Malta; while -some writers have stated that his remains were brought from Bithynia to -this island, to be placed in the tomb of his ancestors; and this -supposition, from what we have read, may be easily credited. - -Might I ask if there is any writer, ancient or modern, who has recorded -that Malta was not the burial-place of Hannibal? - -W. W. - -Malta. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Notes. - -_Waterloo._--I do not know whether, in any of the numerous lives of the -late Duke of Wellington, the following fact has been noticed. In Strada's -History of the Belgian war (a work which deserves to be better known and -appreciated than it is at present), there occurs a passage which shows -that, about three hundred years since, Waterloo was the scene of a severe -engagement; so that the late sanguinary struggle was not the first this -battle-ground has to boast of. The passage occurs in _Famianae Stradae de -Bello Belgico, Decas prima_, lib. vi. p. 256., edit. Romae, 1653; where, -after describing a scheme on the part of the insurgents for surprising -Lille, and its discovery by the Royalists, he goes on: - - "Et Rassinghemius de Armerteriensi milite inaudierat: nihilqve moratvs - selectis centvmqvinqvaginta peditibvs et equitibus sclopetariis ferme - qvinqveginta prope _Waterlocvm_ pagvm pvgnam committit." - -What makes this more curious is, that, like the later battle, neither of -the contending parties on this occasion were natives of the country in -which the battle was fought, they being the French Calvinists on one side -and the Spaniards on the other. - -PHILOBIBLION. - -"_Tuch._"--In "The Synagogue," attached to Herbert's _Poems_, but written -by Chr. Harvie, M.A., is a piece entitled "The Communion Table," one verse -of which is as follows: - - "And for the matter whereof it is made, - The matter is not much, - Although it be of _tuch_, - Or wood, or mettal, what will last, or fade; - So vanitie - And superstition avoided be." - -S. T. Coleridge, in a note on this passage, printed in Mr. Pickering's -edition of Herbert, 1850 (fcap. 8vo.), says: - - "_Tuch_ rhyming to _much_, from the German _tuch_, cloth: I never met - with it before as an English word. So I find _platt_, for foliage, in - Stanley's _Hist. of Philosophy_, p. 22." - -Whether Coleridge rightly appreciated Stanley's use of the word _platt_, I -shall not determine; but with regard to _touch_, it is evident that he went -(it was the tendency of his mind) to Germany for error, when truth might -have been discovered nearer home. The context shows that _cloth_ could not -have been intended, for who ever heard of a table or altar made of cloth? -The truth is that the poet meant _touchstone_, which the author of the -_Glossary of Architecture_ (3rd edit., text and appendix) rightly explains -to be "the dark-coloured stone or marble, anciently used for tombstones. A -musical sound" (it is added) "may be produced by touching it sharply with a -stick." And this is in fact the reason for its name. The author of the -_Glossary of Architecture_ cites _Ben Jonson_ by Gifford, viii. 251., and -_Archaeol._, xvi. 84. - -ALPHAGE. - -Lincoln's Inn. - -{83} - -_The Dodo._--Among the seals, or rather sulphur casts, in the British -Museum, is one of Nicholas Saumares, anno 1400. It represents an esquire's -helmet, from which depends obliquely a shield with the -arms--supporters--dexter a unicorn, sinister a greyhound; crest, a bird, -which from its unwieldy body and disproportionate wings I take to be a -Dodo: and the more probability attaches itself to this conjecture, since -_Dodo_ seems to have been the surname of the Counts de Somery, or Somerie -(query Saumarez), as mentioned in p. 2. of Add. MSS. 17,455. in the British -Museum, and alluded to in a former No. of "N. & Q." This seal, like many -others, is not in such a state of preservation as to warrant the assertion -that we have found a veritable Dodo. I only offer it as a hint to MR. -STRICKLAND and others, that have written so learnedly on this head. Burke -gives a falcon for the crest of Saumarez; but the clumsy form and figure of -this bird does not in any way assimilate with any of the falcon tribe. - -Dodo seems also to have been used as a Christian name, as in the same -volume of MSS. quoted above we find Dodo de Cisuris, &c. - -CLARENCE HOPPER. - -_Francis I._--Mention has been made in "N. & Q." of Francis I.'s celebrated -"Tout est perdu hormis l'honneur!" but the beauty of that phrase is lost in -its real position,--a long letter to Louisa of Savoy, his mother. The -letter is given at full length in Sismondi's _Histoire des Francais_. - -M--A L. - - * * * * * - - -Queries. - -DR. ANTHONY MARSHALL. - -In 1662 Anthony Marshall, D.D., was Rector of Bottesford, in -Leicestershire. Nichols adds a _query_ after his name; whether he were of -the Bishop of Exeter's family? and a _note_, that Anthony Marshall was -created D.D. at Cambridge in 1661 by royal mandate (_Hist. Leic._, vol ii. -p. 77.); and again, Dr. Anthony Marshall preached a Visitation Sermon at -Melton in 1667, Aug. 11. I do not find that any Bishop of Exeter bore the -name of Marshall except Henry Marshall in 1191, of course too far back to -suppose that the Query could refer to him; but I have not introduced this -Note to quarrel with Mr. Nichols, but to ask if this is all that is known -of a man who must, in his day, have attained to considerable eminence. I -more than suspect that this Dr. Marshall was a native of Staveley in -Derbyshire. Sir Peter Frescheville, in his will, dated in 1632, gives to -St. John's College, Cambridge, 50l. "for the buying of bookes to furnish -some one of the desks in the new library lately built and erected in the -said college; and expresses his desire that the said money shall be layed -forth, and the bookes bought, provided, and placed in the said library by -the paines, care, and discression of his two loveing friends, Mr. Robert -Hitch, late Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge; and Mr. Robert -Marshall, Fellow of St. John's College[5]; or the survivor of them,"--which -last Robert, I suspect, should be Anthony. - -In 1677 Anthony Marshall, D.D., Rector of Bottesford, was a subscriber of -10l. towards a fund then raised for yearly distribution; and there is only -one name precedes his, or subscribes a larger amount, and that is Dr. Hitch -before named. - -Mr. Bagshaw, in his _Spiritualibus Pecci_, 1701, p. 61., referring to -Thomas Stanley, one of the ejected ministers, says: - - "Mr. Stanley was born at Dackmonton, three miles from Chesterfield, - where he had part of his education, as he had another part of it at - Staley, not far from it. His noted schoolmaster was one Mr. Marshall, - whose brother made a speech to King James I." - -Is there any means of corroborating this incident? In 1682 I observe the -name of Dr. Marshall amongst the King's Chaplains in Ordinary, and a Dr. -Marshall (perhaps the same individual) Dean of Gloucester; but whether -identified in the Doctor about whom I inquire, remains a Query. - -U. J. S. - -Sheffield. - -[Footnote 5: [There is a Latin epigram, by R. Marshall of St. John's -College, Cambridge, prefixed to John Hall's _Poems_, published in -1646.--ED.]] - - * * * * * - -LINDIS, MEANING OF. - -We are told by Bede that _Lindisfarne_, now Holy Island, derives the first -part of its name from the small brook Lindis, which at high water is quite -invisible, being covered by the tide, but at low water is seen running -briskly into the sea. Now I should be glad to know the precise meaning of -_Lindis_. We are informed by etymologists, that _Lyn_ or _Lin_, in names of -places, signifies water in any shape, as lake, marsh, or stream: but what -does the adjunct _dis_ mean? Some writers assert that _Lindis_ signifies -the linden-tree; thus making the sound an echo to the meaning: and hence -they assume that Lindesey in Lincolnshire must signify an Isle of -Linden-trees. But it is very doubtful that such a tree ever existed in -Lincolnshire anterior to the Conquest. The _linden_ is rather a rare tree -in England; and the two principal species, the _Tilia Europea_ and the -_Tilia grandifolia_, are said by botanists not to be indigenous to this -country, but to have been introduced into our island at an early period to -adorn the parks of the nobles, and certainly not till after the Conquest. - -Dr. Henry, in his _History of Britain_, vol. iv., gives the meaning of -"Marsh Isle" to Lindsey, and of "Lake Colony" to Lincolnia. This I consider -the most probable signification to a district {84} that abounded in marshes -at that early period, when the rude Briton or the Saxon applied names to -places the most consonant to the aspects they afforded them: nor is it -likely they would give the name of Lindentree to a small brook, where such -a tree never could have grown. - -As to the antiquity of the name of Lindes or Lindesey, I should say -Lindentree must be of comparatively modern nomenclature. I should, however, -be glad to have the opinion of some of your better-informed etymologists on -the meaning of the word, as it may decide a point of some importance in -genealogy. - -J. L. - -Berwick. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries. - -_Smock Marriage in New York._--In a curious old book, entitled _The -interesting Narrative of the Life of Oulandah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, -the African, written by himself_, and published in London, by subscription, -in 1789, I find the following passage: - - "While we lay here (New York, A.D. 1784) a circumstance happened which - I thought extremely singular. One day a malefactor was to be executed - on a gallows, but with a condition that if any woman, having nothing on - but her shift, married the man under the gallows, his life was to be - saved. This extraordinary privilege was claimed; a woman presented - herself, and the marriage ceremony was performed."--Vol. ii. p. 224. - -Perhaps some of your New York correspondents can say whether the annals of -that city furnish evidence of so extraordinary an occurrence. - -R. WRIGHT. - -_The broken Astragalus._--Where was the broken astragalus, given by the -host to his guest, first used as the symbol of hospitality? - -C. H. HOWARD. - -_Penardo and Laissa._--Who is the author of a poem (the title-page of which -is wanting) called _The Historye of Penardo and Laissa_, unpaged, in -seventeen caputs, with poems recommendatory, by Drummond of Hawthornden and -others, small 4to., containing many Scotticisms? - -E. D. - -_St. Adulph_ (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.).--Capgrave, quoting John of Tynemouth -(?), says: - - "Sanctum igitur Adulphum audita ejus fama ad _trajectensem_[6] - ecclesiam in episcopum _rex_ sublimavit." - -Query 1. Who is the "rex" here mentioned? - -Query 2. "Trajecteasem:" ought this to be applied to "Utrecht" or -"Maestricht," or either? Literally, it is "on the other side of the water." - -A. B. - -[Footnote 6: "trajectensem" (passim) corrected from "trajecteasem" by -erratum in Issue 170.--Transcriber.] - -_St. Botulph_ (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.).--Your correspondent C. W. G. says: - - "His (St. Botulph's) life was first put into regular form by - Fulcard.... Fulcard tells us what his materials were.... An early MS. - of _this_ life is in the Harleian Collection, No. 3097. It was printed - by Capgrave in the _Legenda Nova_." - -Query: _Fulcard's_ life of the saint, or the life by some other person: -John of Tynemouth to wit? - -A. B. - -_Tennyson._--Mr. Gilfillan, in his _Literary Gallery_, speaking of that -fine poem "The Two Voices," says that the following line-- - - "You scarce could see the grass for flowers"-- - P. 308. l. 18., 7th edit. - -is borrowed from one of the old dramatists. Could you or any of your -correspondents tell me what the line is? - -As also the Latin song referred to in "Edwin Morris:" - - "Shall not love to me, - As in the Latin song I learnt at school, - Sneeze out a full God-bless-you right and left?" - P. 231. l. 10., 7th edit. - -My last Tennyson Query is about the meaning of-- - - "She to me - Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf, - At eight years old." - _Princess_, p. 15. l. 18., 4th edit. - -H. J. J. - -Liverpool. - -_"Ma Ninette," &c._--Can any of your French readers tell me the -continuation, if continuation there be, of the following charming verses; -as also where they come from? - - "Ma Ninette a quatorze ans, - Trois mois quelque chose; - Son teint est un printemps, - Sa bouche une rose." - -H. J. J. - -_Astronomical Query._--You style your paper a medium of communication -between literary men, &c. I trust this does not exclude one of my sex from -seeking information through the same channel. - -We have had additions to our solar system by the discovery of four planets -within the last few years. Supposing that these planets obey the same laws -as the larger ones, they must be at all times apparently moving within the -zodiac; and considering the improvements in telescopes within the last -seventy years, and the great number of scientific observers at all times -engaged in the pursuit of astronomy both in Europe and North America, I am -at a loss to understand why these planets were not discovered before. - -I suppose we may not consider them as new creations attached to our solar -system, because the law of perturbations on which Mr. Herschel {85} -discourses at length, in the eleventh chapter of his _Treatise on -Astronomy_, would seem to demonstrate that they would interfere with the -equilibrium of the solar system. - -Would some of your scientific contributors condescend to explain this -matter, so as to remove the ignorance under which I labour in common with, -I believe, many others? - -LEONORA. - -Liverpool. - -_Chaplains to Noblemen._--Under what statute, if any, do noblemen appoint -their chaplains? and is there any registry of such appointments in any -archiepiscopal or episcopal registry? - -X. - -_"More" Queries._-- - - "When _More_ some years had Chancellor been, - No _more_ suits did remain; - The same shall never _more_ be seen, - Till _More_ be there again." - -I infer from the first lines of this epigram that Sir Thomas More, by his -unremitting attention to the business of the Court of Chancery, had brought -to a close, in his day, the litigation in that department. Is there any -authentic record of this circumstance? - -Are there, at the present day, any male descendants of Sir Thomas More, so -as to render possible the fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the last -two lines? - -HENRY H. BREEN. - -St. Lucia. - -_Heraldic Query._--To what families do the following bearings belong? 1. -Two lions passant, on a chief three spheres (I think) mounted on pedestals; -a mullet for difference. The crest is very like a lily reversed. 2. Ermine, -a bull passant; crest, a bull passant: initials "C. G." - -U. J. S. - -Sheffield. - -_"By Prudence guided," &c._--Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." supply me -with the words deficient in the following lines, and inform me from what -author they are quoted? I met with them on an old decaying tomb in one of -the churchyards in Sheffield: - - "By prudence guided, undefiled in mind, - Of pride unconscious, and of soul refined, - . . . . conquest . . . . . . . . subdue - With . . . . . . . . . . . . . .in view - Here . . . . . . . . the heaven-born flame - Which . . . . . . . from whence it came." - -W. S. (Sheffield.) - -_Lawyers' Bags._--I find it stated by Colonel Landman, in his _Memoirs_, -that prior to the trial of Queen Caroline, the colour of the bags carried -by barristers was green; and that the change to red took place at, or -immediately after, the event in question. I shall be glad of any -information both as to the fact of such change having taken place, and the -circumstances by which it was brought about and accompanied. - -J. ST. J. Y. - -Wellbank. - -_Master Family._--Can you refer me to any one who may be able to give me -information respecting the earlier history of the family of Master or -Maistre, of Kent, prior to 1550: and any suggestions as to its connexion -with the French or Norman family of Maistre or De Maistre? This being a -Query of no public interest, I inclose a stamped envelope, according to the -wish expressed by you in a recent Number. - -GEORGE S. MASTER. - -Welsh-Hampton, Salop. - -_Passage in Wordsworth._--Can any of your correspondents find an _older -original_ for Wordsworth's graceful conceit, in his sonnet on Walton's -lines-- - - "There are no colours in the fairest sky - As fair as these: _the feather whence the pen_ - _Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men,_ - _Dropt from an angel's wing_"-- - -than the following: - - "whose noble praise - Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing." - - Dorothy Berry, in a Sonnet prefixed to Diana Primrose's _Chain of - Pearl, a Memorial of the peerless Graces, &c. of Queen Elizabeth_: - published London, 1639,--a tract of twelve pages. - -M--A L. - -Edinburgh. - -_Govett Family._--Can you inform me for what town or county Sir ---- -Govett, Bart., was member of parliament in the year 1669, and what were his -armorial bearings? His name appears in the list of members given in page -496. of the Grand Duke Cosmo's _Travels through England_, published in -1821. Is the baronetcy extinct? If so, who was the last baronet, and in -what year? Where he lived, or any other particulars, will much oblige. - -QUAERO. - -_Sir Kenelm Digby._--Why is Sir Kenelm Digby represented, I believe always, -with a sun-flower by his side? - -VANDYKE. - -_Riddles._--It would take up too much of your valuable time and space to -insert all the riddles for which correspondents cannot find answers; but -will you find means to ask, through your pages, if any clever Oedipus would -allow me to communicate to him certain enigmas which puzzle me greatly, and -which I should very much like to have solved. - -RUBI. - -_Straw Bail._--Fielding, in his _Life of Jonathan Wild_, book i. chap. ii., -relates that Jonathan's aunt - - "Charity took to husband an eminent gentleman, whose name I cannot - learn; but who was famous for {86} so friendly a disposition, that he - was bail for above a hundred persons in one year. He had likewise the - remarkable humour[7] of walking in Westminster Hall with a straw in his - shoe." - -What was the practice here referred to, and what is the origin of the -expression "a man of straw," which is commonly applied to any one who -appears, or pretends to be, but is not, a man of property? - -Straw bail is, I believe, a term still used by attorneys to distinguish -insufficient bail from "justifiable" or sufficient bail. - -J. LEWELYN CURTIS. - -[Footnote 7: "humour" corrected from "honour" by erratum in Issue -170.--Transcriber.] - -_Wages in the West in 1642._--The Marquis of Hertford and Lord Poulett were -very active in the West in the year 1642. In the famous collection of -pamphlets in the British Museum (113, 69.) is contained Lord Poulett's -speech at Wells, Somerset: - - "His lordship, with many imprecations, oaths, and execrations (in the - height of fury), said that it was not fit for any yeoman to have - allowed him from his own labours any more than the poor moiety of ten - pounds a-year; and when the power shall be totally on their side, they - shall be compelled to live on that low allowance, notwithstanding their - estates are gotten with a great deal of labour and industry. - - "Upon this the people attempted to lay violent hands upon Lord Poulett, - who was saved by a regiment marching in or by at the moment." - -What was Lord Poulett's precise meaning? Do we not clearly learn from the -above, that the Civil War was due to more than a mere choosing between king -and parliament among the humbler classes of the remote country districts? - -GEORGE ROBERTS. - -_Literary Frauds of Modern Times._--In a work by Bishop (now Cardinal) -Wiseman, entitled _The Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion_, -3rd edition, vol. ii. p. 270., occurs the following remark: - - "The most celebrated literary frauds of modern times, the _History of - Formosa_, or, still more, the _Sicilian Code of Vella_, for a time - perplexed the world, but were in the end discovered." - -Will you, or any of your readers, kindly refer me to any published account -of the frauds alluded to in this passage? I have a faint remembrance of -having read some remarks respecting the _Code of Vella_, but am unable to -recall the circumstances. - -I was under the impression that Chatterton's forgery of the Rowley poems, -Macpherson's of the Ossianic rhapsodies, and Count de Surville's of the -poems of Madame de Surville, were "the most celebrated literary frauds of -modern times." In what respect are those alluded to by Dr. Wiseman entitled -to the unenviable distinction which he claims for them? - -HENRY H. BREEN. - -St. Lucia. - - * * * * * - - -Minor Queries with Answers. - -"_Very like a Whale._"--What is the origin of this expression? It occurs in -the following doggerel verses, supposed to be spoken by the driver of a -cart laden with fish: - - "This salmon has got a tail; - _It's very like a whale_; - It's a fish that's very merry; - They say its catch'd at Derry. - It's a fish that's got a heart; - It's catch'd and put in Dugdale's cart." - -HENRY H. BREEN. - -St. Lucia. - - [This expression occurs in _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. _2._: - - "_Hamlet._ Do you see yonder cloud, that is almost in shape of a - camel? - _Polonius._ By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. - _Hamlet._ Methinks it is like a weasel. - _Polonius._ It is backed like a weasel. - _Hamlet._ Or like a whale? - _Polonius._ Very like a whale." - - Since Shakspeare's time, it has been used as a proverb in reply to any - remark partaking of the marvellous.] - -_Wednesday a Litany Day._--Why is Wednesday made a Litany day by the -Church? We all know why Friday was made a fast; but why should Wednesday be -sacred? - -ANON. - - [Wednesdays and Fridays were kept as fasts in the primitive Church: - because on the one our Lord was betrayed, on the other crucified. See - Mant and Wheatley.] - -_"Thy Spirit, Independence," &c._--Could you, or any of your readers, -inform me where are the following lines?-- - - "Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, - Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye! - Thy steps I'll follow with my bosom bare, - Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky." - -I quote from memory. - -H. - - [In Smollett's _Ode to Independence_.] - -_"Hob and nob," Meaning of._--What is the origin of these words as verbs, -in the phrase "Hob or nob," which means, as I need not inform your readers, -to spend an evening tippling with a jolly companion? - -What is the origin of "nob?" And is either of these two words ever used -alone? - -C. H. HOWARD. - -Edinburgh. - - [This phrase, according to Grose, "originated in the days of good Queen - Bess. When great chimnies were in fashion, there was at each corner of - the hearth, or grate, a small elevated projection, called _hob_, and - behind it a seat. In winter-time the beer was placed on the hob to - warm; and the cold beer was set on a small table, said to have been - called the _nob_: so that the {87} question, Will you have hob or nob? - seems only to have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? _i.e._ beer - from the hob, or beer from the nob." But Nares, in his _Glossary_, s.v. - _Habbe_ or _Nabbe_, with much greater reason, shows that _hob_ or - _nob_, now only used convivially, to ask a person whether he will have - a glass of wine or not, is most evidently a corruption of the old - _hab-nab_, from the Saxon _habban_, to have, and _nabban_, not to have; - in proof of which, as Nares remarks, Shakspeare has used it to mark an - alternative of another kind: - - "And his incensement at this moment is so implacable, that satisfaction - can be none but by pangs of death and sepulchre: _hob, nob_ is his - word; give't or take't."--_Twelfth Night_, Act III. Sc. 4.] - - * * * * * - - -Replies. - -WELLESLEY PEDIGREE. - -(Vol. vi., pp. 508. 585.) - -There is an anxiety to obtain further particulars on this interesting -subject, and I have searched my Genealogical MSS. Collections for such; the -result has extended farther than I could have wished, but, while I am able -to furnish _dates_ and _authorities_ for hitherto naked statements, I have -inserted two or three links of descent not before laid down. - -A member of the Somersetshire Wellesleighs is said to have accompanied -Henry II. to Ireland. - -Walleran or Walter de Wellesley, living in Ireland in 1230 (Lynch, _Feud. -Dig._), witnessed a grant of certain townlands to the Priory of Christ -Church about 1250 (_Registry of Christ Church_); while it is more -effectively stated that he then "endowed the Priory of All Saints with 60 -a. of land, within the manor of Cruagh, _which then belonged, with other -estates, to his family_, and that he gave to the said priory _free common -of pasture, of wood and of turbary, over his whole mountain there_." - -His namesake and son (according to Lynch, _Feud. Dig._), "Walran de -Wylesley," was in 1302 required, as one of the "Fideles" of Ireland, by -three several letters, to do service in the meditated war in Scotland -(_Parl. Writs_, vol. i. p. 363.), and in the following year he was slain -(_MS. Book of Obits, T.C.D._). The peerage books merge these two Wallerans -in one. - -William de Wellesley, who appears to have been son to Walleran, was in 1309 -appointed Constable of the Castle of Kildare (_Rot. Pat. Canc. Hib._), -which he maintained when besieged by the Bruces in their memorable invasion -of Ireland, and their foray over that county. For these and other services -to the state he received many lucrative and honourable grants from the -crown, and was summoned to parliament in 1339. In 1347 he was slain at the -siege of Calais. (_Obits, T.C.D._) - -Sir John de Wellesly, Knight, son of William, having performed great -actions against the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes of Wicklow, had grants of sundry -wardships and other rewards from the year 1335. In 1343 he became one of -the sureties for the appearance of the suspected Earl of Desmond, on whose -flight Sir John's estates were seised to the crown and withheld for some -years. (Lynch's _Feud. Dig._) - -His successor was another John de Wellesley, omitted in the peerage books, -but whose existence is shown by _Close Roll 29 & 30 Edw. III., C. H._ He -died about the year 1355. - -William Wellesley, son of John, was summoned to great councils and -parliaments of Ireland from 1372; he was also entrusted by the king with -various important commissions and custodies of castles, lands, and wards -(_Patent Rolls C. H._). In 1386 he was Sheriff of Kildare, and Henry IV. -renewed his commission in 1403. - -Richard, son and heir of William de Wellesley, as proved by _Rot. Pat. 1 -Henry IV., Canc. Hib._, married Johanna, daughter and heiress of Sir -Nicholas de Castlemartin, by whom the estates of Dangan, Mornington, &c. -passed to the Wellesley family; he and his said wife had confirmation of -their estates in 1422. (_Rot. Pat. 1 Henry VI., C. H._) He had a previous -grant from the treasury by order of the Privy Council, in consideration of -his long services as sheriff of the county of Kildare, and yet more -actively "in the wars of Munster, Meath, and Leinster, with men and horses, -arms and money." (_Rot. Claus. 17 Ric. II., C. H._) In 1431 he was -specially commissioned to advise the crown on the state of Ireland, and was -subsequently selected to take charge of the Castle of Athy, as "the fittest -person to maintain that fortress and key of the country against the malice -of the Irish enemy." (_Rot. Pat. et Claus. 9 Henry VI., C. H._) In -resisting that "malice" he fell soon after. - -The issue of Sir Richard de Wellesley by Johanna were William Wellesley, -who married Katherine ----, and dying in 1441 was succeeded by his next -brother, Christopher Wellesley, whose recorded fealty in the same year -proves all the latter links; his succession to William as brother and heir, -and the titles of Johanna as widow of his father Richard, and of Katherine -as widow of William, to dower off said estates. (_Rot. Claus. 19 Henry -VI._, _C. H._) At and previous to this time, another line of this family, -connected as cousins with the house of Dangan, flourished in the co. -Kildare, where they were recognised as Palatine Barons of Norragh to the -close of the seventeenth century. William Wellesley of Dangan was the son -and heir of Christopher. An (unprinted) act of Edward IV. was passed in -1472 in favour of this William; and his two marriages are stated by Lynch -(_Feud. Dig._): the first was to {88} Ismay Plunkett; the second, to Maud -O'Toole, was contracted under peculiar circumstances. The law of Ireland at -the time prohibited the intermarriages of the English with the natives -without royal licence therefor being previously obtained, and not even did -the licence so obtained wash out the _original sin_ of Irish birth; for, as -in this instance, Maud, having survived her first husband, on marrying her -second, Patrick Hussey, had a fresh licence to legalise that marriage. It -is of record (_Rot. Pat. 21 Henry VII., C. H._), and proves the second -marriage of Sir William clearly: yet it is not noticed in any of the -peerage books, which derive his issue from the first wife, and not from the -second, as Lynch gives it, that issue being Gerald the eldest son, Walter -the second, and Alison a daughter. - -Gerald had a special livery of his estate in 1539; Walter the second son -became Bishop of Kildare in 1531, and died its diocesan in 1539 (see Ware's -_Bishops_); and the daughter Alison intermarried with John Cusack of -Cushington, co. Meath. (Burke's _Landed Gentry_, Supp. p. 88.) - -Gerald, according to all the peerage books, married Margaret, eldest -daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, who was Lord Chancellor of Ireland in -1483, and had issue William, his eldest son, Lord of Dangan, who married -Elizabeth Cusack, of Portrane, co. Dublin, and died previous to 1551 (as I -believe is proveable by _inquisitions_ of that year in the office of the -Chief Remembrancer, Dublin), leaving Gerald, his eldest son and heir. An -inquiry taken in 1579 as to the extent of the manor of Dangan, finds him -then seised thereof (_Inquis. in C. H. 23 Eliz._). Previous to this he -appears a party in conveyances of record, as in 1564, &c. He had a son -Edward (not mentioned in the peerage books), who joined in a family -conveyance of 1599, and soon after died, leaving a son, Valerian Wellesley. -Gerald himself died in 1603, leaving said Valerian, his grandson and heir, -then aged ten (_Inquis. 5 Jac. I. in Rolls Office_), and _married_, adds -the Inquisition; and Lynch, in his _Feudal Dignities_, gives interesting -particulars of the betrothal of this boy, and his public repudiation of the -intended match on his coming to age. This Valerian is traced through Irish -records to the time of the Restoration; he married first, Maria Cusack (by -whom he had William Wellesley, his eldest son), and, second, Anne Forth, -otherwise Cusack, widow of Sir Ambrose Forth, as shown by an Inquisition of -1637, in the Rolls Office, Dublin. - -William Wellesley, son and heir of Valerian, married Margaret Kempe -(_Peerage Books_), and by her had Gerald Wellesley, who on the Restoration -petitioned to be restored to his estates, and a Decree of Innocence issued, -which states the rights of himself, his father, and his grandfather in -"Dingen." This Gerald married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Dudley -Colley, and their first daughter was baptized in 1663 by the name of -Margaret, some evidence, in the courtesy of christenings, of Gerald's -mother being Margaret. (_Registry of St. Werburgh's._) Gerald was a suitor -in the Court of Claims in 1703: he left two sons; William the eldest died -_s. p._, and was succeeded by Garrett, his next brother, who died also -without issue in 1728, having bequeathed all the family estates to Richard -Colley, second son of the aforesaid Sir Dudley Colley, and testator's -uncle, enjoining upon said Richard and his heirs male to bear thenceforth, -as they succeeded to the estates, the name and arms of Wellesley. - -This Richard Colley Wellesley married Elizabeth, daughter of John Sale, -LL.D. and M.P., by whom he had issue Garrett Wellesley, born, as the -_Dublin and London Magazine_ for 1735 announces, "19th July," when "the -Lady of Richard Colley Westley was delivered of a son and heir, _to the -great joy of that family_." This son was father of the Marquis Wellesley -and of the DUKE OF WELLINGTON! - -JOHN D'ALTON. - -48. Summer Hill, Dublin. - - * * * * * - -CONSECRATED RINGS FOR EPILEPSY. - -(Vol. vi., p. 603.) - -SIR W. C. T. has opened a very interesting field for inquiry regarding -these blest rings. - -St. Edward, in his last illness (obiit January 5, 1066), gave a ring which -he wore to the Abbot of Westminster. The origin of this ring is surrounded -by much mystery. A pilgrim is said to have brought it to the king, and to -have informed him that St. John the Evangelist had made known to the donor -that the king's decease was at hand. "St. Edward's ring" was kept for some -time at Westminster Abbey, as a relic of the saint, and was applied for the -cure of the falling sickness or epilepsy, and for cramp. From this arose -the custom of our English kings, who were believed to have inherited St. -Edward's powers of cure, solemnly blessing every year rings for -distribution. - -It is said, we know not on what authority, that the ring did not always -remain at Westminster, but that in the chapel of Havering (so called from -_having the ring_), in the parish of Hornchurch, near Rumford in Essex -(once a hunting-seat of the kings), was kept, till the dissolution of -religious houses, the identical ring given by the pilgrim to St. Edward. -Weaver says he saw it represented in a window of Rumford Church. - -These rings seem to have been blessed for two different species of cure: -first, against the falling sickness (comitialis morbus); and, secondly, -against the cramp (contracta membra). For the cure of the king's evil the -sovereign did not bless rings, but continued to _touch_ the patient. {89} - -Good Friday was the day appointed for the blessing of the rings. They were -often called "medijcinable rings," and were made both of gold and silver; -and as we learn from the household books of Henry IV. and Edward IV., the -metal they were composed of was what formed the king's offering to the -cross on Good Friday. The following entry occurs in the accounts of the 7th -and 8th years of Henry IV. (1406): "In oblacionibus Domini Regis factis -adorando Crucem in capella infra manerium suum de Eltham, die Parascevis, -in precio trium nobilium auri et v solidorum sterlyng, xxv s. - -"In denariis solutis pro eisdem oblacionibus reassumptis, pro annulis -medicinalibus inde faciendis, xxv s." - -The prayers used at the ceremony of blessing the rings on Good Friday are -published in Waldron's _Literary Museum_. Cardinal Wiseman has in his -possession a MS. containing both the ceremony for the blessing the cramp -rings, and the ceremony for the touching for the king's evil. At the -commencement of the MS. are emblazoned the arms of Philip and Mary: the -first ceremony is headed, "Certain prayers to be used by the quenes heignes -in the consecration of the crampe rynges." Accompanying it is an -illumination representing the queen kneeling, with a dish, containing the -rings to be blessed, on each side of her. The second ceremony is entitled, -"The ceremonye for y^e heling of them that be diseased with the kynges -evill;" and has its illumination of Mary kneeling and placing her hands -upon the neck of the diseased person, who is presented to her by the clerk; -while the chaplain, in alb and stole, kneels on the other side. The MS. was -exhibited at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute on 6th June, 1851. -Hearne, in one of his manuscript diaries in the Bodleian, lv. 190., -mentions having seen certain prayers to be used by Queen Mary at the -blessing of cramp rings. May not this be the identical MS. alluded to? - -But, to come to W. C. T.'s immediate question, "When did the use of these -blest rings by our sovereigns cease?" The use never ceased till the change -of religion. In addition to the evidence already given of the custom in the -fifteenth century, may be added several testimonies of its continuance all -through the sixteenth century. Lord Berners, when ambassador to the Emperor -Charles V., writing "to my Lord Cardinal's grace" from Saragossa, June 31, -1518, says, "If your grace remember me with some crampe ryngs, ye shall doo -a thing muche looked for; and I trust to bestowe thaym well with goddes -grace." (_Harl. MS._ 295. f. 119. See also Polydore Virgil, _Hist._ i. 8.; -and Harpsfield.) Andrew Boorde, in his _Introduction to Knowledge_, -mentions the blessing of these rings: "The kynges of England doth halow -every yere crampe rynges, y^e which rynges worne on one's finger doth helpe -them whych hath the crampe:" and again, in his _Breviary of Health_, 1557, -f. 166., mentions as a remedy against the cramp, "The kynge's majestie hath -a great helpe in this matter, in halowing crampe ringes, and so given -without money or petition." - -A curious remnant or corruption of the use of cramp rings is given by Mr. -G. Rokewode, who says that in Suffolk "the use of cramp rings, as a -preservative against fits, is not entirely abandoned. Instances occur where -nine young men of a parish each subscribe a crooked sixpence, to be moulded -into a ring, for a young woman afflicted with this malady." (_History, -&c._, 1838, Introd. p. xxvi.) - -CEYREP. - - * * * * * - -TURNER'S VIEW OF LAMBETH PALACE. - -(Vol. vii., p. 15.) - -L. E. X. inquires respecting the first work exhibited by the late J. M. W. -Turner, R.A. The statement of the newspaper referred to was correct. The -first work exhibited by Turner was a water-colour drawing of Lambeth -Palace, and afterwards presented by him to a gentleman of this city, long -since deceased. It is now in the possession of that gentleman's daughter, -an elderly lady, who attaches no little importance to it. The fact is, that -Mr. Turner, when young, was a frequent visitor at her father's house, and -on such terms that her father lent Mr. Turner a horse to go on a sketching -tour through South Wales. This lady has also three or four other drawings -made at that time by Turner,--one a view of Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, -then the seat of Sir Henry Lippincott, Bart., which he made as a companion -to the Lambeth Palace; another is a small portrait of Turner by himself, of -course when a youth. As the early indications of so great an artist, these -drawings are very curious and interesting; but no person that knows -anything of the state of water-colour painting at that period, and previous -to the era when Turner, Girtin, and others began to shine out in that new -and glorious style, that has since brought water-colour works to their -present style of splendour, excellence, and value, will expect anything -approaching the perfection of latter days. - -J. WALTER, Marine Painter. - -28. Trinity Street, Bristol. - -Whether or not the work deemed by L. E. X. to be the first exhibited by -Turner may have been in water-colours, or be still in existence, I leave to -other replicants, availing myself of the occasion to ask him or you, -whether in 1787 two works of W. Turner, at Mr. G. Turner's, Walthamstow, -"No. 471. Dover Castle," "No. 601. Wanstead House," were not, in fact, his -first tilt in that arena of which he was the champion at the hour of his -{90} death? Whether in the two following years he appeared at all in the -ring; and, if not, why not? although in the succeeding 1790 he again threw -down the glaive in the "No. 644. The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth," being -then set down as "_T._ W. Turner;" reappearing in 1791 as "W. Turner, of -Maiden Lane, Covent Garden," with "No. 494. King John's Palace, Eltham;" -"No. 560. Sweakley, near Uxbridge." In the horizon of art (strange to say, -and yet to be explained!) this luminary glows no more till 1808, when he -had "on the line" (?) several views of Fonthill, as well as the "Tenth -Plague of Egypt," purchased of course by the proprietor of that princely -mansion, as it is found mentioned in Warner's _Walks near Bath_ to be that -same year adorning the walls of one of the saloons. - -J. H. A. - - * * * * * - -ETYMOLOGICAL TRACES OF THE SOCIAL POSITION OF OUR ANCESTORS. - -(Vol. vii., p. 13.) - -I was preparing to answer your correspondent E. S. TAYLOR by a reference to -the conversation between Gurth and Wamba, _Ivanhoe_, chap. i., when a -friend promised to supply me with some additional and fuller information. I -copy from a MS. note that he has placed in my hands: - - "Nec quidem temere contigisse puto quod animalia viva nominibus - Germanicae originis vocemus, quorum tamen carnem in cibum paratam - originis Gallicae nominibus appellamus; puta,--bovem, vaccam, vitulum, - ovem, porcum, aprum, feram, etc. (an ox, a cow, a calf, a sheep, a hog, - a boar, a deer, &c.); sed carnem bubulam, vitulinam, ovinam, porcinam, - aprugnam, ferinam, etc. (beef, veal, mutton, pork, brawn, venison, &c.) - Sed hinc id ortum putaverim, quod Normanni milites pascuis, caulis, - haris, locisque quibus vivorum animalium cura agebatur, parcius se - immiscuerint[8] (quae itaque antiqua nomina retinuerunt) quam macellis, - culinis, mensis, epulis, ubi vel parabantur vel habebantur cibi, qui - itaque nova nomina ab illis sunt adepti."--Preface to Dr. Wallis's - _Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae_, 1653, quoted by Winning, _Comparative - Philology_, p. 270. - -C. FORBES. - -Temple. - -[Footnote 8: "immiscuerint" corrected from "immiscuerunt" by erratum in -Issue 170.--Transcriber.] - -If your correspondent E. S. TAYLOR will refer to the romance of _Ivanhoe_, -he will find in the first chapter a dialogue between Wamba the son of -Witless, and Gurth the son of Beowulph, wherein the subject is fully -discussed as to the change of names consequent on the transmutation of live -stock, under the charge of Saxon herdsmen, into materials for satisfying -the heroic appetites of their Norman rulers. It would be interesting to -know the source from whence Sir Walter Scott derived his ideas on this -subject: whether from some previous writer, or "some odd corner of the -brain." - -A. R. X. - -Paisley. - -See Trench _On Study of Words_ (3rd edit.), p. 65. - -P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. - -MR. TAYLOR will find in Pegge's _Anonymiana_, Cent. i. 38., and Cent. vii. -95., allusion to what he inquires after. - -THOS. LAWRENCE. - - * * * * * - -GOLDSMITHS' YEAR-MARKS. - -(Vol. vi., p. 604.) - -In answer to MR. LIVETT'S Query, as to the marks or letters employed by the -Goldsmiths' Company to denote the year in which the plate was -"hall-marked," I subjoin a list of such as I am acquainted with, and which -might with a little trouble be traced to an earlier period: I have also -added a few notes relating to the subject generally, which may interest -many of your readers. - -In the year 1596, the Roman capital A was used; in 1597, B; and so on -alphabetically for twenty years, which would bring us to the letter U, -denoting the year 1615: the alphabet finishing every twenty years with the -letter U or V. The next year, 1616, commences with the Old English letter -[Old English A], and is continued for another twenty years in the Old -English capitals. In 1636 is introduced another alphabet, called Court -alphabet. - - From 1656 to 1675 inclusive, Old English capitals. - 1676 to 1695 " Small Roman letters. - 1696 to 1715 " The Court alphabet. - 1716 to 1735 " Roman capitals. - 1736 to 1755 " Small Roman letters. - 1756 to 1775 " Old English capitals. - 1776 to 1795 " Small Roman letters. - 1796 to 1815 " Roman capitals. - 1816 to 1835 " Small Roman letters. - 1836 to 1855 " Old English capitals. - -The letter for the present year, 1853, being [Old English S]. - -In this list it will appear difficult, at first sight, in looking at a -piece of plate to ascertain its age, to determine whether it was -manufactured between the years 1636 and 1655, or between 1696 and 1715, the -Court hand being used in both these cycles: but (as will presently be -mentioned) instead of the lion passant and leopard's head in the former, we -shall find the lion's head erased, and Britannia, denoting the alteration -of the standard during the latter period. - -The standard of gold, when first introduced into the coinage, was of 24 -carats fine; that is, pure gold. Subsequently, it was 23-1/2 and half -alloy; this, after an occasional debasement by Henry VIII., was fixed at 22 -carats fine and 2 carats alloy by Charles I.; and still continues so, being -{91} called the old standard. In 1798 an act was passed allowing gold -articles to be made of a lower or worse standard, viz., of 18 carats of -fine gold out of 24; such articles were to be stamped with a crown and the -figures 18, instead of the lion passant. - -The standard of silver has always (with the exception of about twenty -years) been 11 oz. 2 dwts., and 18 dwts. alloy, in the pound: this was -termed _sterling_, but very much debased from the latter end of Henry VIII. -to the beginning of Elizabeth's reign. In the reign of William III., 1697, -an act was passed to alter the standard of silver to 11 oz. 10 dwts., and -10 dwts. alloy: and instead of the usual marks of the lion and leopard's -head, the stamps of this better quality of silver were the figure of a -lion's head erased, and the figure of Britannia: and the variable letter -denoting the date as before. This act continued in operation for twenty-two -years, being repealed in 1719, when the standard was again restored. - -A duty of sixpence per ounce was imposed upon plate in 1719, which was -taken off again in 1757; in lieu of which, a licence or duty of forty -shillings was paid by every vendor of gold or silver. In 1784, a duty of -sixpence per ounce was again imposed, and the licence still continued: -which in 1797 was increased to one shilling, and in 1815 to -eighteenpence--at which it still remains. The payment of this duty is -indicated by the stamp of the sovereign's head. - -All gold plate, with the exception of watch-cases, pays a duty of seventeen -shillings per ounce; and silver plate one shilling and sixpence; -watch-cases, chains, and a few other articles being exempted. - -The letters used as dates in the foregoing list (it must be remembered) are -only those of the Goldsmiths' Hall in London, as denoted by the leopard's -head crowned. Other Halls, at York, Newcastle, Lincoln, Norwich, Bristol, -Salisbury, and Coventry, had also marks of their own to show the year; and -have stamped gold and silver since the year 1423, perhaps earlier. -Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin have had the same privilege from a very -early period: and, more recently, Chester, Birmingham, and Sheffield. Thus -it will be seen that four marks or punches are used on gold and silver -plate, independent of the makers' initials or symbol, viz.: - -_The Standard Mark._--For gold of the old standard of 22 carats, and silver -of 11 oz. 2 dwts.: - - A lion passant for England. - A thistle for Edinburgh. - A lion rampant for Glasgow. - A harp crowned for Ireland. - -For gold of 18 carats: - - A crown, and the figures 18. - -For silver of 11 oz. 10 dwts.: - - A lion's head erased, and Britannia. - -_The Hall Mark._-- - - A leopard's head crowned for London. - A castle for Edinburgh. - Hibernia for Dublin. - Five lions and a cross for York. - A castle for Exeter. - Three wheatsheaves and a dagger for Chester. - Three castles for Newcastle. - An anchor for Birmingham. - A crown for Sheffield. - A tree and fish for Glasgow. - -_The Duty Mark._--The head of the sovereign, to indicate that the duty has -been paid: this mark is not placed on watch-cases, &c. - -_The Date Mark_, or variable letter, denoting the year as fixed by each -Hall. - -W. CHAFFERS, Jun. - -Old Bond Street. - -The table inquired for by MR. LIVETT, with a most interesting historical -paper on the subject, was published in the last _Archaeological Journal_, -October, 1852. - -H. T. ELLACOMBE. - - * * * * * - -EDITIONS OF THE PRAYER-BOOK PRIOR TO 1662. - -(Vol. vi., pp. 435. 564.; Vol. vii., p. 18.) - -Since the publication of the professedly imperfect list of various editions -of the Prayer-Book, at page 564. of your last volume, which list was -compiled chiefly from liturgical works in my own possession, I have had -occasion to consult the _Catalogue_ of the British Museum, from which I -have gleaned materials for a more full and correct enumeration. All the -editions in the following list are in the library of the British Museum; -and in order to increase its value and utility, I have appended to each -article the press-mark by which it is now designated. In some of these -press-marks a numeral is subscript, thus: - - C. 25. h. 7. - ------------ - 1 - -In order to save space I have represented this in the following list thus, -(C. 25. h. 7) 1., putting the subscript numeral outside the parenthesis. - - 1552. (?) 4to. B. L. N. Hyll for A. Veale. (3406. c.) - 1573. (?) fol. R. Jugge. (C. 24. m. 5.) 1. - 1580. (?) 8vo. Portion of Prayer-Book. (3406. a.) - 1584. 4to. Portion of Prayer-Book. (1274. b. 9.) - 1595. fol. Deputies of Ch. Barker. (C. 25. m. 5.) 2. - 1596. 4to. (C. 25 h. 7.) 1. - 1598. fol. (C. 25. 1. 10.) 1. - 1603. (?) 4to. Imperfect. (1275. b. 11.) 1. - 1611. 4to. (1276. e 4.) 1. - 1612. 8vo. (3406. a.) - 1613. 4to. (3406. c.) - {92} - 1614. 4to. Portion of Prayer-Book. (3406. c.) 1. - 1615. Fol. (3406. e.) 1. - 4to. (1276. e. 8.) 1. - 1616. Fol. (1276. k. 3.) 1. - Fol. (1276. k. 4.) 1. - 1618. 4to. Portion of Prayer-Book. (3407. c.) - 1619. Fol. (3406. e.) 1. - 1628. 8vo. (3050. a.) 1. - 1629. 4to. (1276. f. 3.) 1. - 1630-29. Fol. (3406. e.) 1. - 1631. 4to. (1276. f. 1.) 1. - 1633. 12mo. (3405. a.) 1. - 8vo. (1276. b. 14.) 1. - 1633-34. Fol. (3406. f.) (With the "Form of Healing," two leaves.) - 1634. 8vo. (3406. b.) 1. - 1636. 4to. (1276. f. 4.) 2. - 1639. 8vo. (3050. b.) 1. - 8vo. (1274. a. 14.) 1. - 1642. (?) 8vo. (1276. c. 2.) 3. - 1642. 12mo. (3405. a.) - 1660. 12mo. (3406. b.) 1. - -In Latin we have an early copy in addition to those already noted, viz.: - - 1560. Reg. Wolfe. 4to. (3406. c.) - -Of which the British Museum possesses two copies of the same press-mark, -one of which is enriched with MS. notes and sixteen cancelled leaves. -Besides the above we have also - - 1589. 8vo. London. In French. - 1599. 4to. London. Deputies of Ch. Barker. In Welsh. - -Allow me to take this opportunity of thanking ARCHDEACON COTTON for his -very valuable communication. I trust that he and others of your many -learned readers will lend a helping hand to the correction of this list, -and its ultimate completion; the notice of the editions of 1551 and 1617 -(Vol. vii., p. 18.) is as interesting as it is important. It will be -perceived that editions of the Prayer-Book referred to in former lists are -not enumerated in the present one. - -W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. - - * * * * * - -PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES. - -_Originator of the Collodion Process._--All those who take any interest in -photography must agree with your correspondent G. C. that M. Le Gray is a -talented man, and has done much for photography. G. C. has given a very -good translation of M. Le Gray's _last published work_, p. 89., which work -I have: but I must take leave to observe, that it is no contradiction -whatever to my statement. The translations to which M. Le Gray alludes, of -1850, appeared in Willat's publication, from which I gave him the credit of -having first suggested the use of collodion in photography. The subject is -there dismissed in three or four lines. - -M. Le Gray gave no directions whatever for its application to glass in his -work published in July 1851, wherein he alludes to it only as an -"encallage" for paper, classing it with amidou, the resins, &c., which he -recommends in a similar manner. - -I had, four months previous to this, published the process in detail in the -_Chemist_. I never asserted that he had not tried experiments with -collodion in 1849; but he did not give the public the advantage of -following him: and I again repeat that the first time M. Le Gray published -the collodion process was in September, 1852,--a year and a half after my -publication, and when it had become much used. - -It is obvious that if M. Le Gray had been in possession of any detailed -process with collodion on glass in 1850, he would not have omitted to -publish it in his work dated July, 1851. - -F. SCOTT ARCHER. - -105. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury. - -G. C., claiming for Le Gray the merit of the first use of collodion upon -glass, states that a pamphlet upon the subject was published in 1850, and -which was _translated into English at the same time_. Will he oblige me by -stating who published this pamphlet, or where it may be obtained? I have -heard this statement before, and have used every endeavour to obtain a -sight of the publication, but without success. Were the facts as stated by -your correspondent, it would deprive MR. ARCHER undoubtedly of the merit -which he claims; but from all I have been able to learn, Le Gray mentioned -collodion as a mere agent for obtaining a smooth surface to paper, or other -substance, having no idea of making it the sole sensitive substance to be -employed. I have been informed that in Vienna, early in 1850, collodion was -tried upon glass by being first immersed in a bath of iodide of potassium; -and it was afterwards placed in a second bath of nitrate of silver. These -experiments had _very limited_ success, and were never published, and -certainly were unknown to MR. ARCHER. - -H. W. D. - -_Mr. Weld Taylor's Process._--In your 167th Number (Vol. vii., p. 48.) is a -communication from WELD TAYLOR on photographic manipulation, which, in its -present form, is perfectly unintelligible. At p. 48. he says: "Twenty -grains of nitrate of silver in half an ounce of water is to have half an -ounce of solution of iodide of potassium of fifty grains to the ounce -added." Now this is unnecessarily mystifying. Why not say: "Take equal -quantities of a forty-grain solution of nitrate of silver, and of a -fifty-grain solution of iodide of potassium;" though, in fact, an _equal_ -strength would do as well, and be quite as, if not more, economical. - -In the next place, he directs that cyanide of potassium should be added -_drop by drop_, &c. It {93} is to be presumed that he means a _solution_ of -this salt, which is a solid substance as usually sold. - -What follows is so exceedingly droll, that I can do nothing more than -_guess_ at the meaning. How one _solution_ is to be floated on another, and -then, _after_ a bath of nitrate of silver, is to be _ready for the camera_, -surpasses my comprehension. - -Also, further on, he alludes to _iodizing_ with the _ammonio-nitrate_ (I -presume of silver). What does he mean? - -GEO. SHADBOLT. - -_Dr. Diamond's Services to Photography._--SIR, We, the undersigned amateurs -of Photography in the city of Norwich, shall be obliged if you will -(privately, or otherwise, at your own discretion) convey to DR. DIAMOND our -grateful thanks for the frankness and liberality with which he has -published the valuable results of his experiments in the pages of "N. & Q." -We have profited largely by DR. DIAMOND'S instructions, and beg to express -our conviction that he is entitled to the gratitude of every lover of the -Art. - - We are, Sir, - Your obedient servants, - T. LAWSON SISSON, Clk., (Edingthorpe Rectory). - THOS. D. EATON. - JOHN CROSSE KOOPE. - JAMES HOWES. - T.G. BAYFIELD. - G. BROWNFIELD. - HENRY PULLEY. - W. BRANSBY FRANCIS. - J. BLOWERS (Cossey). - BENJ. RUSSELL. - - [Agreeing, as we do most entirely, with the Photographers of Norwich in - their estimate of the skill and perseverance exhibited by DR. DIAMOND - in simplifying the collodion and paper processes, and of his liberality - in making known the results of his experiments, we have great pleasure - in giving publicity to this recognition of the services rendered by DR. - DIAMOND to this important Art.] - -_Simplification of the Wax-paper Process._--At a late meeting of the -Chemical Discussion Society, Mr. J. How read the following paper on this -subject:-- - -"The easiest way of waxing the paper is to take an iron (those termed -'box-irons' are the cleanest and best for the purpose) moderately hot, in -the one hand, and to pass it over the paper from side to side, following -closely after it with a piece of white wax, held in the other hand, until -the whole surface has been covered. By thus heating the paper, it readily -imbibes the wax, and becomes rapidly saturated with it. The first sheet -being finished, I place two more sheets of plain paper upon it, and repeat -the operation upon the top one (the intermediate piece serving to absorb -any excess of wax that may remain), and so on, sheet after sheet, until the -number required is waxed. - -"The sheets, which now form a compact mass, are separated by passing the -iron, moderately heated, over them; then placed between folds of bibulous -paper, and submitted to a further application of heat by the means just -described, so as to remove all the superfluous wax from the surface, and -render them perfectly transparent--most essential points to be attended to -in order to obtain fine negative proofs. - -"I will now endeavour to describe the method of preparing the iodizing -solution. - -"Instead of being at the trouble of boiling rice, preparing isinglass, -adding sugar of milk and the whites of eggs, &c., I simply take some milk -quite fresh, say that milked the same day, and add to it, drop by drop, -glacial acetic acid, in about the proportion of one, or one and a half -drachm, fluid measure, to the quart, which will separate the caseine, -keeping the mixture well stirred with a glass rod all the time; I then boil -it in a porcelain vessel to throw down the remaining caseine not previously -coagulated, and also to drive off as much as possible of the superfluous -acid it may contain. Of course any other acid would precipitate the -caseine; still I give the preference to the acetic from the fact that it -does not affect the after-process of rendering the paper sensitive, that -acid entering into the composition of the sensitive solution. - -"After boiling for five or ten minutes, the liquid should be allowed to -cool, and then be strained through a hair sieve or a piece of muslin, to -collect the caseine: when quite cold, the chemicals are to be added. - -"The proportions I have found to yield the best results are those -recommended by Vicomte Veguz, which I have somewhat modified, both as -regard quantities and the number of chemicals employed. They are as follow: - - 385 grains of iodide of potassium. - 60 " of bromide. - 30 " of cyanide. - 20 " of fluoride. - 10 " of chloride of sodium in crystals. - 1-1/2 " of resublimed iodine. - -"The above are dissolved in thirty-five ounces of the strained liquid, and, -after filtration through white bibulous paper, the resulting fluid should -be perfectly clear and of a bright lemon colour. - -"The iodized solution is now ready for use, and may be preserved, in -well-stopped bottles, for any length of time. - -"The waxed paper is laid in the solution, in a flat porcelain or gutta -percha tray, in the manner described by M. Le Gray and others, and allowed -to remain there for from half an hour to an hour, according to the -thickness of the paper. It is then taken out and hung up to dry, when it -should be of a light brown colour. All these operations may be carried on -in a light room, taking care only that, during the latter part of the -process, {94} the paper be not exposed to the direct rays of the sun. - -"The 'iodized paper,' which will keep for almost any length of time, should -be placed in a portfolio, great care being taken to lay it perfectly flat, -otherwise the wax is liable to crack, and thus spoil the beauty of the -negative. The papers manufactured by Canson Freres and Lacroix are far -preferable, for this process, to any of the English kinds, being much -thinner and of a very even texture. - -"To render the paper sensitive, use the following solution: - - 150 grains nitrate of silver crystals. - 3 fluid drachms glacial acetic acid, crystallizable. - 5 ounces distilled water. - -"This solution is applied in the way described by Le Gray, the marked side -of the paper being towards the exciting fluid. The paper is washed in -distilled water and dried, as nearly as possible, between folds of bibulous -paper. It should be kept, till required for the camera, in a portfolio, -between sheets of stout blotting-paper, carefully protected from the -slightest ray of light, and from the action of atmospheric air. If prepared -with any degree of nicety, it will remain sensitive for two or three weeks: -indeed I have seen some very beautiful results on paper which had been kept -for a period of six weeks. At this time of year, an exposure in the camera -of from ten to twenty minutes is requisite. - -"The picture may be developed with gallic acid, immediately after its -removal from the camera; or, if more convenient, that part of the process -may be delayed for several days. Whilst at this section of my paper, I may, -perhaps, be allowed to describe a method of preparing the solution of -gallic acid, whereby it may be kept, in a good state of preservation, for -several months. I have kept it myself for four months, and have found it, -after the lapse of that period, infinitely superior to the newly-made -solution. This process has, I am informed, been alluded to in photographic -circles; but not having seen it in print, and presuming the fact to be one -of great practical importance, I trust I shall be excused for introducing -it here, should it not possess that degree of novelty I attribute to it. - -"What is generally termed a saturated solution of gallic acid is, I am led -to believe, nothing of the kind. In all the works on photography, the -directions given run generally as follow:--'Put an excess of gallic acid -into distilled water, shake the mixture for about five minutes, allow it to -deposit, and then pour off the supernatant fluid, which is found to be a -saturated solution of the acid.' - -"Now I have found by constant experiment, that by keeping an excess of acid -in water for several days, the strength of the solution is greatly -increased, and its action as a developing agent materially improved. The -method I have adopted is to put half an ounce of crystallized gallic acid -into a stoppered quart bottle, and then so to fill it up with water as -that, when the stopper is inserted, a little of the water is displaced, -and, consequently, every particle of air excluded. - -"The solution thus prepared will keep for several months. When a portion of -it is required, the bottle should be refilled with fresh distilled water, -the same care being taken to exclude every portion of atmospheric air,--to -the presence of which I am led to believe, is due the decomposition of the -ordinary solution of gallic acid. - -"It will be needless to detain you further in explaining the -after-processes, &c. to be found in any of the recent works on the -Waxed-paper Process, the translation of the last edition of Le Gray being -the one to which I give the preference." - - * * * * * - -THE BURIAL SERVICE SAID BY HEART. - -(Vol. vii., p. 13.) - -Southey has confounded two stories in conjecturing that the anecdote -mentioned by Bp. Sprat related to Bull. It was the _baptismal_ and not the -_funeral_ service that Bull repeated from memory. - -I quote from his _Life_ by Robert Nelson: - - "A particular instance of this happened to him while he was minister of - St. George's (near Bristol); which, because it showeth how valuable the - Liturgy is in itself, and what unreasonable prejudices are sometimes - taken up against it, the reader will not, I believe, think it unworthy - to be related. - - "He was sent for to baptize the child of a Dissenter in his parish; - upon which occasion, he made use of the office of Baptism as prescribed - by the Church of England, which he had got entirely by heart. And he - went through it with so much readiness and freedom and yet with so much - gravity and devotion, and gave that life and spirit to all that he - delivered, that the whole audience was extremely affected with his - performance; and, notwithstanding that he used the sign of the cross, - yet they were so ignorant of the offices of the Church, that they did - not thereby discover that it was the Common Prayer. But after that he - had concluded that holy action, the father of the child returned him a - great many thanks; intimating at the same time with how much greater - edification they prayed who entirely depended upon the Spirit of God - for his assistance in their _extempore_ effusions, than those did who - tied themselves up to premeditated forms; and that, if he had not made - the sign of the cross, that badge of Popery, as he called it, nobody - could have formed the least objection against his excellent Prayers. - Upon which, Mr. Bull, hoping to recover him from his ill-grounded - prejudices, showed him the office of Baptism in the Liturgy, wherein - was contained every prayer that was offered up to God on that occasion; - which, with farther arguments that he then urged, so effectually {95} - wrought upon the good man and his whole family, that they always after - that time frequented the parish-church; and never more absented - themselves from Mr. Bull's communion."--Pp. 39--41., Lond. 1714, 8vo. - -Some few dates will prove that Bull could not have been the person alluded -to. Bp. Sprat's _Discourse to the Clergy of his Diocese_ was delivered in -the Year 1695. And he speaks of the minister of the London parish as one -who "was afterwards an eminent Bishop of our Church." We must therefore -suppose him to have been _dead_ at the time of Bp. Sprat's visitation. Now, -in the first place (as J. K. remarks), "Bull never held a London cure." -And, in the second place, he was not consecrated Bishop until the 29th of -April, 1705 (ten years after Bp. Sprat's visitation), and did not die until -Feb. 1709-10. (_Life_, pp. 410--474.) - -Southey's conjecture is therefore fatally wrong. And now as regards Bp. -Hacket. The omission of the anecdote from the _Life_ prefixed to his -_Sermons_ must, I think, do away with his claims also, though he was -restored to his parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and was not consecrated -Bishop of Lichfield until December, 1661. Unfortunately, I have not always -followed Captain Cuttle's advice, or I should now be able to contribute -some more decisive information. I have my own suspicions on the matter, but -am afraid to guess in print. - -RT. - -Warmington. - -The prelate to whom your correspondent alludes was Dr. John Hacket, Rector -of St. Andrews, Holborn, cons. to the see of Lichfield and Coventry on -December 22, 1661. The anecdote was first related by Granger. (Chalmers's -_Biog. Dict._, vol. xvii. p. 7.) - -Bishop Bull, while rector of St. George's near Bristol, said the Baptismal -Office by heart on one occasion. (Nelson's _Life_, i. s. ix. p. 34.; -_Works_, Oxford, 1827.) - -MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. - - * * * * * - - -Replies to Minor Queries. - -_Mary Queen of Scots' Gold Cross_ (Vol. vi., p. 486.).-- - - "Would it not facilitate the identification of the Gold Cross of Mary - Queen of Scotts, in the possession of Mr. Price of Glasgow, if a - representation of it was sent to _The Illustrated London News_, as the - publication of it by that Journal would lead antiquaries to the - identification of a valuable historical relic?" - -I hope you will insert the above in "N. & Q." in the hope it may meet the -eye of MR. PRICE, and lead to a satisfactory result. - -W. H. C. - -_Jennings Family_ (Vol. vi., p. 362.).--This family is supposed to have -continued from some time in Cornwall, after the Visitation of 1620; but the -name is not now found there in any great respectability. William Jennings -of Saltash was sheriff of Cornwall, 1678; but his arms differ from those of -the Visitation: argent, a chevron gules between three mariners, plumets -sable. - -Francis Jennnings, who recorded the pedigree of 1620, married the daughter -of _Spoure_ of Trebartha; and in a MS. book of that family, compiled about -the latter part of the seventeenth century, the same arms, strange to say, -are stated to be his, and not the lion rampant of the Jennings of -Shropshire. This seems to support the hypothesis that William Jennings, the -sheriff, was the same family. The _Spoure_ MSS. also mention "Ursula, -sister of Sir William Walrond of Bradfield, Devon, who married first, -William Jennings of _Plymouth_ (query, the sheriff?), and afterwards the -Rev. William Croker, Rector of Wolfrey (Wolfardisworthy?) Devon." - -PERCURIOSUS. - -_Adamson's "England's Defence"_ (Vol. vi., p. 580.) is well worth attention -at the present time; as is also its synopsis before publication, annexed to -_Stratisticos, by John Digges, Muster Master_, &c., 4to., 1590, and filling -pp. 369. to 380. of that curious work, showing the wisdom of our ancestors -on the subject of invasion by foreigners. - -E. D. - -_Chief Justice Thomas Wood_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--In Berry's _Hampshire -Visitation_ (p. 71.), Thomas Wood is mentioned as having married a daughter -of Sir Thomas de la More, and as having had a daughter named Elizabeth, who -married Sir Thomas Stewkley of Aston, Devon, knight. - -I am as anxious as N. C. L. to know something about Thomas Wood's lineage; -and shall be obliged by his telling me where it is said that he built Hall -O'Wood. - -EDWARD FOSS. - -_Aldiborontiphoscophornio_ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--This euphonious and -formidable name will be found in _The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was -Tragidized by any Company of Tragedians_, viz., _Chrononhotonthologos_, -written by "Honest merry Harry Carey," who wrote also _The Dragon of -Wantley_, a burlesque opera (founded on the old ballad of that name), _The -Dragoness_ (a sequel to _The Dragon_), &c. &c. While the public were -applauding his dramatic drolleries and beautiful ballads (of which the most -beautiful is "Sally in our Alley"), their unhappy author, in a fit of -despondency, destroyed himself at his lodgings in Warner Street, -Clerkenwell. There is an engraving by Faber, in 1729, of Harry Carey, from -a painting by Worsdale (the celebrated Jemmy!); which is rare. - -GEORGE DANIEL. - - [We are indebted to several other correspondents for replies to the - Query of F. R. S.] - -{96} - -_Statue of St Peter at Rome_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).--This well-known bronze -statue is falsely stated to be a Jupiter converted. It is very far from -being true, though popularly it passes as truth, that the statue in -question is the ancient statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, with certain -alterations. - -Another commonly-received opinion regarding this statue is, that it was -cast for a St. Peter, _but of the metal of the statue of Jupiter -Capitolinus_. But this can scarcely be true, for Martial informs us that in -his own time the statue of the Capitoline Jupiter was not of bronze but of -_gold_. - - "Scriptus et aeterno nunc primum Jupiter _auro_." - Lib. xi. Ep. iv. - -Undoubtedly the statue was cast for a St. Peter. It was cast in the time of -St. Leo the Great (440-461), and belonged to the ancient church of St. -Peter's. St. Peter has the nimbus on his head; the first two fingers of the -right hand are raised in the act of benediction; the left hand holds the -keys, and the right foot projects from the pedestal. The statue is seated -on a pontifical chair of white marble. - -CEYREP. - -_Old Silver Ornament_ (Vol. vi., p. 602.).--This ornament is very probably -what your correspondent infers it is,--a portion of some military -accoutrement: if so, it may have appertained to some Scotch regiment. It -represents precisely the badge worn by the baronets of Nova Scotia, the -device upon which was the saltier of St. Andrew, with the royal arms of -Scotland on an escutcheon in the centre; the whole surrounded by the motto, -and ensigned with the royal crown. The insignia of the British orders of -knighthood are frequently represented in the ornaments upon the military -accoutrements of the present day. - -EBOR. - -"_Plurima, pauca, nihil_," (Vol. vi., p. 511.).--A correspondent asks for -the first part of an epigram which ends with the words "plurima, pauca, -nihil." He is referred to an epigram of Martial, which _I_ cannot find. But -I chance to remember two epigrams which were affixed to the statue of -Pasquin at Rome, in the year 1820, upon two Cardinals who were candidates -for the Popedom. They run as follows, and are smart enough to be worth -preserving: - - "PASQUINALIA. - - "Sit bonus, et fortasse pius--sed semper ineptus-- - Vult, meditatur, agit, _plurima, pauca, nihil_." - - "IN ALTERUM. - - "Promittit, promissa negat, ploratque negata, - Haec tria si junges, quis neget esse Petrum." - -A. BORDERER. - -_"Pork-pisee" and "Wheale"_ (Vol. vi., p. 579.).--Has not MR. WARDE, in his -second quotation, copied the word wrongly--"pork-pisee" for pork-_pesse_? A -porpoise is the creature alluded to; or _porpesse_, as some modern -naturalists spell it. "Wheale" evidently means _whey_: the former -expression is probably a provincialism. - -JAYDEE. - -_Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices?_ (Vol. vi., p. 556.).--Perhaps the -following, from an heraldic work of Dr. Bernd, professor at the University -of Bonn, may serve to answer the Queries of MR. BOOKER. - -Herodotus ascribes the first use, or, as he expresses it, the invention of -signs on shields, which we call arms, and of the supporter or handle of the -shield, which till then had been suspended by straps from the neck, as well -as of the tuft of feathers or horse-hair on the helmet, to the Carians; in -which Strabo agrees with him, and, as far as regards the supporters and -crest, Aelian also: - - "Herodot schrieb den ersten Gebrauch, oder wie er sich ausdrueckt, die - Erfindung der Zeichen auf Schilden, die wir Wappen nennen, wie auch der - Halter oder Handhaben an den Schilden, die bis dahin nur an Riemen um - den Nacken getragen wurden, und die Buesche von Federn oder Rosshaaren - auf den Helmen, den Cariern zu, worin ihm Strabo (_Geogr._ 14. I. s. - 27.), und was die Handhaben und Helmbuesche betrifft, auch Aelian - (_Hist. Animal._ 12. 30.), beistimmen."--Bernd's _Wappenwissen der - Griechen und Roemer_, p. 4. Bonn, 1841. - -On Thucydides i. 8., where mention is made of Carians disinterred by the -Athenians in the island of Delos, the scholiast, evidently referring to the -passage cited by MR. BOOKER, says: - - [Greek: Kares protoi heuron tous omphalous ton aspidon, kai tous - lophous. tois oun apothneskousi sunethapton aspidiskion mikron kai - lophon, semeion tes heureseos.] - -From Plutarch's _Artaxerxes_ (10.) may be inferred, that the Carian -standard was a cock; for the king presented the Carian who slew Cyrus with -a golden one, to be thenceforth carried at the head of the troop. - -For full information on the heraldry of the ancients, your correspondent -can scarcely do better than consult the above-quoted work of Dr. Bernd. - -JOHN SCOTT. - -Norwich. - -_Herbert Family_ (Vol. vi., p. 473.).--The celebrated picture of Lord -Herbert of Cherbury by Isaac Oliver, at Penshurst, represents him with a -small swarthy countenance, dark eyes, very dark black hair, and mustachios. -All the Herberts whom I have seen are dark-complexioned and black-haired. -This is the family badge, quite as much as the unmistakeable nose in the -descendants of John of Gaunt. - -E. D. - -_Children crying at Baptism_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--I am inclined to suspect -that the idea of its being lucky for a child to cry at baptism arose {97} -from the custom of _exorcism_, which was retained in the Anglican Church in -the First Prayer-Book of King Edward VI., and is still commonly observed in -the baptismal services of the Church of Rome. When the devil was going out -of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: "The -spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one -dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead." (St. Mark, ix. 26.) The tears -and struggles of the infant would therefore be a convincing proof that the -Evil One had departed. In Ireland (as every clergyman knows) nurses will -decide the matter by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to remain -silent and unlachrymose. - -RT. - -Warmington. - -_Americanisms_ (Vol. vi., p. 554.).--The word _bottom_, applied as your -correspondent UNEDA remarks, is decidedly an English provincialism, of -constant use now in the clothing districts of Gloucestershire, which are -called "The Bottoms," whether mills are situated there or not. - -E. D. - -_Dutch Allegorical Picture_ (Vol. vi., p. 457.).--In the account I gave you -of this picture I omitted one of the inscriptions, which I but just -discovered; and as the picture appears to have excited some interest in -Holland (my account of it having been translated into Dutch[9], in the -_Navorscher_), I send you this further supplemental notice. - -I described a table standing under the window, on the left-hand side of the -room, containing on the end nearest to the spectator, not two pewter -flagons, as I at first thought, but one glass and one pewter flagon. On the -end of this table, which is presented to the spectator, is an inscription, -which, as I have said, had hitherto escaped my notice, having been -partially concealed by the frame--a modern one, not originally intended for -this picture, and partly obscured by dirt which had accumulated in the -corner. I can now make out very distinctly the following words, with the -date, which fixes beyond a question the age of the picture: - - "Hier moet men gissen - Glasen te wasser - Daer in te pissen - En sou niet passen. - 1659." - -I may also mention, that the floor of the chamber represented in the -picture is formed of large red and blue square tiles; and that the folio -book standing on end, with another lying horizontally on the top of it, -which I said in my former description to be standing on the end of the -table, under the window, is, I now see, standing not on the table, but on -the floor, next to the chair of the grave and studious figure who sits in -the left-hand corner of the room. - -These corrections of my first description have been in a great measure the -result of a little soap and water applied with a sponge to the picture. - -JAMES H. TODD, D.D. - -Trin. Coll., Dublin. - -[Footnote 9: With some corrections in the reading of the inscriptions.] - -_Myles Coverdale_ (Vol. vi., p. 552.).--I have a print before me which is -intended to represent the exhumation of Coverdale's body. The following is -engraved beneath: - - "The Remains of Myles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter, as they appeared in - the Chancel of the Church of St. Bartholomew, near the Exchange. Buried - Feb. 1569. Exhumed 23d Sept. 1840. - - Chabot, Zinco., Skinner Street." - -If I am not mistaken, his remains were carried to the church of St. Magnus, -near London Bridge, and re-interred. - -W. P. STORER. - -Olney, Bucks. - - * * * * * - - -Miscellaneous. - -NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. - -One of the most beautifully got up cheap publications which we have seen -for a long time, is the new edition of Byron's _Poems_, just issued by Mr. -Murray. It consists of eight half-crown volumes, which may be separately -purchased, viz. Childe Harold, one volume; Tales and Poems, one volume; and -the Dramas, Miscellanies, and Don Juan, &c., severally in two volumes. Mr. -Murray has also made another important contribution to the cheap literature -of the day in the republication, in a cheap and compendious form, of the -various Journals of Sir Charles Fellows, during those visits to the East to -which we owe the acquisition of the Xanthian Marbles. The present edition -of his _Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, and more particularly in the -Province of Lycia_, as it embraces the substance of all Sir Charles's -various journals and pamphlets, and only omits the Greek and Lycian -inscriptions, and lists of plants and coins, and such plates as were not -capable of being introduced into the present volume, will, we have no -doubt, be acceptable to a very numerous class of readers, and takes its -place among the most interesting of the various popular narratives of -Eastern travel. - -Most of our readers will probably remember the memorable remark of Lord -Chancellor King, that "if the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, -it might be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man." Yet -notwithstanding this high eulogium on the character of the saintly Bishop -Wilson, it is painful to find that his celebrated work, _Sacra Privata_, -has hitherto been most unjustifiably treated and mutilated, as was noticed -in our last volume, p. 414. But here we have before us, in a beautifully -printed edition of this valuable work, the good bishop _himself_, what he -thought, and {98} what he wrote, in his _Private Meditations, Devotions, -and Prayers_, now for the first time printed from his original manuscripts -preserved in the library of Sion College, London. Much praise is due to the -editor for bringing this manuscript before the public, as well as for the -careful superintendence of the press; and we sincerely hope he will -continue his labours of research in Sion College as well as in other -libraries. - -There are doubtless many of our readers who echo Ben Jonson's wish that -Shakspeare had blotted many a line, referring of course to those -characteristic of the age, not of the man, which cannot be read aloud. To -all such, the announcement that Messrs. Longman have commenced the -publication in monthly volumes of a new edition of Bowdler's _Family -Shakspeare, in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words -and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a -family_, will be welcome intelligence. 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