{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13684/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13684","id":"gutenberg_13684","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13684","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference","Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"NOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNo. 28.] SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {449}\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nNOTES:--\n  Etymology of Penniel. 449\n  Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault,\n    LL.D. 450\n  Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. Hailstone. 451\n  Folk Lore:--Superstitions of Middle Counties--Rainbow\n    in the Morning. 451\n  Error in Johnson's Life of Selden. 451\n  Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes. 452\n\nQUERIES:--\n  Purvey of the Apocalypse--Bonner on the Seven Sacraments,\n    by Sir F. Madden. 452\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Arrangement of a Monastery--Constantine\n    the Artist--Josias Ibach Stada--Worm of Lambton. 452\n\nREPLIES:--\n  Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer. 453\n  Lines on London Dissenting Ministers. 454\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Tracts by Dekker and\n    Nash--Tureen--English Translations of Erasmus--Court\n    of Wards--Scala Coeli--Twm Shawn Cattie--Cheshire\n    Round--Horns to a River--Horns--Coal\n    Brandy--Howkey or Horkey--Luther's Portrait--Symbolism\n    of Flowers, &c.--\"Where England's\n    Monarch\"--Journeyman--Sydenham or Tidenham--J.B.'s\n    Treatise on Nature and Art--\"A Frog he\n    would a-wooing go\"--\"My Love and I, &c.\"--Teneber\n    Wednesday--Buckingham Motto--Laerig--Zenobia a\n    Jewess--Temple Stanyan, &c. 454\n\nMISCELLANIES:--\n  Spur Money--Note Books--Lady Rachael Russell--Byron\n    and Taritus--Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Sir\n    R. Haigh's Letter-Book--A Phonetic Peculiarity. 462\n\nMISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 463\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 463\n  Notices to Correspondents. 463\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES\n\nETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL.\n\nSome eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the\nkindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the\nTeviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs\nbetween the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and\nthe Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), passed hard by. The\nroad is yet distinctly visible in all its course among the Cheviots, and\nin the uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where the plough has\nspared it, among the agricultural inclosures.\n\nThe house stands near the base of the hill called Penniel or\nPenniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of that\nword now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the credulity\nof a Monkbarns. _Pen_, it is known, signifies in the Celtic language \"a\nhill\". And the word _heil_, in the Celto-Scythian, is, in the Latin,\nrendered _Sol_. In the Armoric dialect of the Celtic also, _heol_ means\n\"the sun:\" hence, _Penheil_, _Penheol_, or _Penniel_, \"the hill of the\nsun.\" Beyond the garden of the abode there stood, and, it is believed,\nyet stands, a single stone of a once extensive Druid circle, not many\nyears ago destroyed by the then proprietor, who used the sacred remains\nin building his garden wall. A little farther antiquarian conjecture is\nnecessary to clothe the country with oak woods. Jedwood or Jedworth\nForest was part of \"the forest\" which covered Selkirkshire and parts of\nthe counties around. The Capon Tree, and the King of the Wood, two\nvenerable oaks yet flourishing on the water of Jed, attest the once\nwooded condition of the land; which is farther irresistibly corroborated\nby evidence drawn from the interesting volumes of the _Rotuli\nParliamentorum_. The Bishops of Glasgow had a religious establishment in\nthe neighbouring sunward village of Nether Ancrum. Of their buildings,\nof the vicar's house, or of the ancient gardens existing in the memory\nof persons living, not a vestige now remains. In the first volume of the\n_Rotuli_, p. 472., there is a Petition, of uncertain date, by the Bishop\nof Glasgow to Edward I., then in possession of Scotland, in these\nterms:--\n\n    \"Derechief pry ly dit Evesqe a soen Segur le Roy qe ly plese\n    aider &c.... e sur ceo transmettr', sa lettre al vesconte de\n    Lanark. E une autre, si ly plest, a ses Forresters de Geddeworth\n    de autant de Merin [meremium, meheremium, wood for building]\n    pour fere une receite a Allyncrom (Ancrum) desur la marche, ou\n    il poet aver recett e entendre a ses ministres qut il le\n    voudrent aver.\"\n\nTo which the King's answer is,--\n\n    \"H\u00e9at Bre Ten' locu R. in Scoc. qd fae'. ei hre meheremiu in\n    Foresta de Selkirk et de Maddesleye usq ad numum quinquaginta\n    quercu.\"\n\nThus, no doubt is left that oak woods abounded in the district; and it\nwas under the influence of these beliefs that the sonnets were\ncomposed:--\n\n  I.\n\n  \"'Twas on this spot some thousand years ago,\n  Amid the silence of its hoary wood\n  By sound unbroken, save the Teviot's flow,\n  The lonely Temple of the Druids stood! {450}\n  The conquering Roman when he urged his way,\n  That led to triumph, through the neighbouring plain,\n  And oped the gloomy grove to glare of day,\n  Awe-stricken gazed, and spared the sacred fane!\n  One stone of all its circle now remains,\n  Saved from the modern Goth's destructive hand;\n  And by its side I muse: and Fancy reigns;\n  And giant oaks on Pennial waving stand;\n  With snowy robe and flowing bears sweep bye\n  The aged Druid-train beneath the star-lit sky.\n\n  II.\n\n  \"The Druid-train has moved into the wood,\n  Oh! draw a veil before the hideous scene!\n  For theirs were offerings of human blood,\n  With sound of trump and shriek of fear between:\n  Their sacred grove is fallen, their creed is gone;\n  And record none remains save this gray stone!\n  Then come the warlike Saxons; and the years\n  Roll on in conflict: and the pirate Dane\n  Uprears his Bloody raven; and his spears\n  Bristling upon the Broadlaw summit's plain\n  Spread terror o'er the vale: and still rude times\n  Succeed; and Border feuds with conflagration light\n  Nightly, the Teviot's wave, and ceaseless crimes\n  Chase from the holy towers their inmates in affright.\n\n  III.\n\n  \"Land of the South! Oh, lovely land of song!\n  And is my dwelling by thy classic streams;\n  And is the fate so fondly wished and long,\n  Mine in the fullest measure of my dreams,--\n  By thy green hills and sunny glades to roam,\n  To live among thy happy shepherd swains\n  Where now the peaceful virtues have their home;\n  A blissful lot! nor aught of grief remains\n  Save for that friend, beloved, bewailed, revered,\n  To whom my heart for thrice ten years was bound\n  By truest love and gratitude endeared:\n  The glory of his land, in whom were found\n  Genius unmatched, and mastery of the soul,\n  Beyond all human wight, save Shakspeare's own controul.\"\n\nF.S.A. L. & E.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.\n\n_Soho Square._--Your correspondent \"NASO\" (p. 244.) has anticipated me\nin noticing Mr. Cunningham's mistake about Mrs. Cornellys' house in this\nsquare; but he has left unnoticed some particulars which deserve to be\nrecorded. Mrs. Cornellys', or _Carlisle House_ as it was called, was\npulled down at the beginning of the present century (1803 or 1804), and\n_two_ houses built upon its site, now _Jeffery's Music Warehouse_ and\n_Weston's Printing Office_. Some curious old paintings representing\nbanqueting scenes, formerly in _Carlisle House_ were carefully preserved\nuntil the last few years, in the drawing-room of the corner house, when\nthey were removed to make room for some needed \"elegancies\" of the\nmodern print shops. The Catholic Chapel in Sutton Street was the\nbanquetting-room of Carlisle House; and the connecting passage between\nit and the house in Soho Square was originally the \"Chinese bridge.\"\n\n\"Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer\" appears in the\nbankrupt list of _The London Gazette_ of November, 1772; and in December\nof the same year, this temple of festivity, and all its gorgeous\ncontents, were thus advertised to be sold by public auction:--\n\n    \"_Carlisle House, Soho._--At twelve o'clock on Monday the 14th\n    instant, by Order of the Assignees, Mr. Marshall will sell by\n    Auction on the Premises, in one Lot, All that extensive,\n    commodious, and magnificent House in Soho Square, lately\n    occupied by Mrs. Cornelys, and used for the Public Assemblies of\n    the Nobility and Gentry. Together with all the rich and elegant\n    Furniture, Decorations, China, &c., thereunto belonging, too\n    well-known and universally admired for their aptness and taste\n    to require here any public and extraordinary description\n    thereof. Catalogues to be had at the House, and at Mr.\n    Marshall's, in St. Martin's Lane. The curiosity of many to see\n    the house, to prevent improper crowds, and the great damage that\n    might happen therefrom (and the badness of this season) by\n    admitting indifferent and disinterested people, must be an\n    excuse to the public for the Assignees ordering the Catalogues\n    to be sold at 5s. each, which will admit two to see the house,\n    &c., from Monday the 7th instant to the time of sale, Sundays\n    excepted, from ten in the morning to three in the afternoon, and\n    they hope no person or persons will take amiss being refused\n    admittance without Catalogues.\"\n\nIn December 1774, the nobility and gentry were informed (by\nadvertisement), \"That the Assemblies at Carlisle House will commence\nsoon, under the conduct and direction of a _New_ Manager;\" but\nnotwithstanding the efforts of this person, we find that Mrs. Cornellys\nresumed her revels here with great spirit in 1776. In 1778, Carlisle\nHouse was again publicly advertised to be sold by private contract, or\n\"to be hired as usual;\" and subsequently, after having been used as a\ncommon exhibition room of \"Monstrosities,\" a \"School of Eloquence,\" and\n\"An Infant School of Genius,\" it closed its public career through the\ninterference of the magistracy in 1797.\n\nA full and particular account of the rise and fall of \"Mrs. Cornelys'\nEntertainments at Carlisle House, Soho,\" was privately printed two or\nthree years ago, by Thomas Mackinlay, Esq., of the firm of Dalmaine and\nCo., Soho Square.\n\n_Carlisle Street, Soho Square._--The large house at the end of this\nstreet, looking into the square, was formerly called _Carlisle House_.\nIn 1770 it was purchased of Lord Delaval by the elder Angelo; who\nresided in it many years, and built a large riding-school at the back.\nBach and Abel, of \"Concert\" notoriety, resided in the adjoining house.\nCarlisle Street was then called _King's Square Court_. {451}\n\n_Catherine Street, Strand._--In 1714, a tract was published with the\nfollowing title:--_The Maypole's New Year's Gift or Thanks returned to\nhis Benefactors, humbly inscribed to the Two Corners of_ Catherine\nStreet, Strand; _written by a Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy_.\n\n_Maiden Lane, Covent Garden._--The well known \"Cider Cellar\" in this\nlane was opened about 1730. There is a curious tract, entitled\n_Adventures under Ground_, 1750, which contains some strange notices of\nthis \"Midnight Concert Room.\"\n\n_Salisbury Change._--Cibber, in the amusing _Apology for his Life_, has\nthe following:--\n\n    \"Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from\n    one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been\n    informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in\n    _Salisbury Change_ (then standing where _Cecil Street_ now is),\n    so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that they were\n    reduced to petition the king for relief against it.\"\n\n_The New Exchange._--A good description of this once popular mart may be\nfound in Lodwick Rowzee's _Treatise on the Queene's Welles_, Lond. 1632.\nIt is as follows:--\n\n    \"We went to see the _New Exchange_, which is not far from the\n    place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the\n    Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the\n    Gothic style, which has lost its colour from age, and is\n    becoming blackish. It contains two long and double galleries,\n    one above the other, in which are distributed several rows great\n    numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with\n    goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful\n    description. There are, for the most part, under the care of\n    well-dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although\n    many are served by young men, called apprentices.\"\n\n_The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden._--In 1763 appeared a small\nvolume under the title of _Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee House, by\nGenius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man alive_.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE.\n\nThe following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a herald\npainter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to the latter,\nwhich came into my possession a few months ago.\n\nE. HAILSTONE.\n\n    \"Mr. Admall,\n\n    \"I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West\n    Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of\n    Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to\n    heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore\n    to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will\n    usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong\n    you doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and\n    making you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard\n    words, but shal be as good as my word if there is law in England\n    to restrain you; so chose whether you will due to me good or\n    evill; you shall find me according your friend or open enemy.\n\n    \"PETER LA NEVE, Norroy.\n\n    \"College of Arms, in London,\n\n    \"28th May, 1719.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Superstitions of the Midland Counties._--It is believed a sign of \"bad\nluck\" to meet a white horse, unless the person _spits_ at it, which\naction is said to avert the ill consequences of the recontre.\n\nA rainy Friday is believed to be followed as a natural and invariable\nconsequence, by a wet Sunday; but I am not aware that the contrary is\nbelieved, viz., that fine Friday produces a fine Sunday.\n\nIf the fire burns brightly when a person has poked or stirred it up, it\nis a sign that the _absent_ lover, wife, or husband (as the case may be)\nis in good spirits, and in good humour.\n\nThe itching of the right hand palm is said to portend the reception of a\ngift; which is rendered more certain if the advice in this distich be\nfollowed:--\n\n  \"Rub it 'gainst wood,\n  'Tis sure to come good.\"\n\nPersons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some\nfuture period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it,\n\"are born to be rich.\"\n\nHENRY KERSLEY.\n\nCorp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone.\n\n\n_A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--\"Mr. THOMS\" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that\nhe believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme.\nSir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN.\n\nIn Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp.\n128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at\nNorthampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike\nObedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the\nnecessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the\nrequisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was\n\"_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical\nObedience_.\" A reference at the foot of the page to \"Rushworth, p. 444,\"\nleads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made\nthis statement; but not having access to the \"Historical Collections,\" I\nam unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_,\nLond., 1671 fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of\nthe assertion.\n\nA copy of this now rare sermon before me {452} proves, however, that the\nstatement is incorrect. At the back of the title is as follows:--\n\n    \"I have read over this sermon upon _Rom._ xiii. 7., preached at\n    _Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb._ 22, 1626,\n    by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley,\n    and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly\n    preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the\n    _Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to\n    the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and,\n    therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of\n    it, May 8. 1627.\"\n\n    GEO. LONDON.\n\nIt was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the\nsermon.\n\nJOHN. J. DREDGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPOPE AND PETRONIUS.\n\nI have read \"Mr. RICH'S\" letter with great interest, and I willingly\nallow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and\ndiscussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. \"But\nyet,\" I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, \"the\nsurmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms\nemployed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_.\" Now the question,\nin my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what\n_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word\n(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot,\nwithout further proof, give him credit for having read the words as\ncritically and correctly as \"Mr. R.\" has done. I believe that he looked\non it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it\n\"worth,\" i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality.\n\nC. FORBES.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\nQUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN\nSACRAMENTS.\n\nI beg leave to make the two following Queries:--\n\n1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanni\u00e6\nCatalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey,\none of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is\nmentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning \"Apocalypsis, quasi\ndiceret;\" and Bayle adds:--\n\n    \"Pr\u00e6dictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi\n    lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purv\u00e6um collectus, et nunc per\n    Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini\n    1528, sine authoris nomine, Witemberg\u00e6 fuit excusus. Fuit et\n    ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea\n    Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti\n    capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purv\u00e6us hunc librum anno Domini\n    1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet.\"\n\nThis account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of\nthe work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87.\nenters the volume thus, \"_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos\n\u00e6ditus, cum Pr\u00e6fatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittemberg\u00e6, 1528. 8vo.\" Can\nany of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library,\nor in private hands?\n\n2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p.\n25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, \"_Of the Seven Sacraments_,\n1555,\" in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as\nthen in his possession, \"translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye\nalmost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and\ntruly written in parchment.\" Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS.\nwas the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark\nFairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by\nlater writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is\nactually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains\nthe Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by\nNicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in\nthe _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I\nnow wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's\nwork, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to\nby Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with\ncertayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although\none of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments.\n\nF. MADDEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Monastery, Arrangement of One._--Any information and particulars\nrespecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the various buildings\nfor an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine Monks would be\nuseful to and gratefully received by\n\nA.P.H.\n\n    [Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, \"Description of the\n    Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in the Ninth Century,\"\n    accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he will find in the\n    _Arch\u00e6ological Journal_, vol. v. p. 85.?]\n\n\n_Constantine the Artist._--Who was \"M. Constantine, an Italian architect\nto our late Prince Henry,\" employed in the masque at the Earl of\nSomerset's marriage in 1613? and was he the same Constantine de Servi to\nwhom the Prince assigned a yearly pension of 200l. in July 1612? If so,\nwhere can more be found respecting him? He is not mentioned on Walpole's\n_Anecdotes_.\n\nJ.G.N.\n\n\n_Josias Ibach Stada._--Who was the artist whose name occurs inscribed on\nthe hoof of the horse of King Charles the Second's equestrian statue at\n{453} Windsor, as follows:--\"1669. Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;\"\nand is Mr. Hewitt, in his recent _Memoir of Tobias Rustat_, correct in\ncalling him \"Stada, an _Italian_ artist?\"\n\nJ.G.N.\n\n\n_Worm of Lambton._--Is there any published notice of the \"Knight and\nSerpent\" tradition regarding this family and parish?\n\nA.C.\n\n    [A quarto volume of traditions, gathered in the immediate\n    neighbourhood of the scene of action, was privately printed in\n    the year 1530, under the title of _The Worm of Lambton_.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\nLUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.\n\nLuther's solemn request that his translation should on no account be\naltered, accompanies most of the earlier editions of the N.T. I find it\non the reverse of the title-page of the edition in 8vo. printed at\nWittemberg by Hans Lufft in 1537, thus:--\n\n    \"I request all my friends and enemies, my master printer, and\n    reader, will let this New Testament be mine; and, if they have\n    fault to find with it, that they make one of their own. I know\n    well what I do, and see well what others do; but this Testament\n    shall be Luther's German Testament; for carping and cavilling is\n    now without measure or end. And be every one cautioned against\n    other copies, for I have already experienced how negligently and\n    falsely others reprint us.\"[1]\n\nThe disputed verse (1 John, v. 7.) is omitted in all the editions\nprinted under Luther's eye or sanction in his lifetime; but it has not,\nI think, been remarked that in verse 8. the words _auf erde_, found in\nlater editions, are wanting. The passage stands:--\n\n    \"Denn drey sind die da zeugen, der Geist, und das Wasser, und\n    das Blut, und die drey sind beysamen.\"\n\nIn the first edition of the Saxon (D\u00fcdesche version of Luther's Bible,\nby Jo. Heddersen, printed in a magnificent volume at Lubeck, by Lo.\nDietz, in 1533-4), the verse stands thus:--\n\n    \"Wente dre synt dede t\u00fcchinisse geven, de Geist unde dat Water,\n    unde dat Bloth, unde de dre synt by emander.\"\n\nA MS. note of a former possessor remarks:--\n\n    \"The 7th verse is not found here, nor is it in the Bibles of\n    Magdeburg, 1544, of Wittemberg, 1541, ditto 1584, Frankfort,\n    1560 and 1580.\"\n\nIn the edition of this same version, printed by Hans Lufft, Wittemberg,\n1541, the passage is exactly similar; but in one printed by Hans\nWalther, Magdeburg, 1545, the words _up erdeu_ are inserted.\n\nThese Saxon versions are interesting from the very great similarity that\nidiom has to our early language; and they, doubtless, influenced much\nour own early versions.\n\nIn a translation of the N.T. from the Latin of Erasmus (the first\nprinted in Latin with a translation on the same page, and which is very\nsimilar in appearance to Udal's), printed at Zurich in 1535, 4to., with\na Preface by Johansen Zwikk of Constance, the 7th verse is given (as it\nwas in the Latin); but is distinguished by being printed in brackets,\nand in both verses we have--\n\n    \"Unnd die drey dienend in eins.\"\n\nErasmus having admitted the verse into his third edition, gave occasion\nperhaps to the liberty which has been taken in later times to print both\nverses, with this distinction, in editions of the Lutheran version. The\nearliest edition, I believe, in which it thus appears, is one at\nWittemberg in 1596, which was repeated in 1597, 1604, 1605[2], and 1625.\nIt also appears, but printed in smaller type, in the Hamburgh Bible by\nWolder in 1597, in that of Jena 1598, and in Hutter's Nuremburg, 1599.\n\nIn a curious edition of the N.T. printed at Wandesbeck in 1710, in 4to.,\nin which four German versions, the Catholic, the Lutheran, the Reformed,\na new version by Reitz, and the received Dutch version, are printed in\nparallel columns, both verses are given in every instance; but a note\npoints out that Luther uniformly omitted the 7th verse, and the words\n_auf erde_.\n\nThere cannot be a doubt, therefore, that the insertion is entirely\nunwarranted in any edition of the New Testament professing to be\n_Luther's_ translation.\n\nS.W. SINGER.\n\nApril 25. 1850.\n\n    [Footnote 1: \"Ich bitte alle meine Freunde, und Feinde, meine\n    Meister Dr\u00fccker und Leser, wolten dis Newe Testament lassen mein\n    sein, Haben sie aber mangel dran, das sie selbs ein eigens f\u00fcr\n    sich machen; Ich weiss wol was ich mache, Sehe auch wol was\n    andere machen, Aber dis Testament sol des Luther's Deudsch\n    Testament sein, Denn Meisterns und Klugelus ist jtzt weder masse\n    noch ende. Und sey jederman gewarnet f\u00fcr andern Exemplaren, Denn\n    ich bisher wol erfaren wie unfvleissig und falsch uns andere\n    nachdr\u00fccken.\"]\n\n    [Footnote 2: Fr. Er. Kettner, who printed at Leipsic, in 1696, a\n    long and strenuous defence of the authenticity of the 7th verse,\n    exults in the existence of this verse in an edition of the\n    Bible, Wittemberg, 1606, which is falsely said on the title-page\n    to be _juxta ultimum a Luthero revisum exemplar correctum_.]\n\n\n_Luther's Translation of the Bible_ (No. 25, p. 309.).--De Wette, in his\ncritical Commentary on the verse 1 John, after stating his opinion that\nthe controverted passage is a spurious interpolation, gives a list of\nthe codices and editions in which the passage is not found, and of those\nin which it is found.\n\nThe passage is _wanting_ in all Greek Codd. except Codd. 34. 162. 172.\n(of his introduction, where it is introduced from the Vulgate), and in\nall MS. {454} of the Vulgate before the tenth century; in Erasmus' edit.\nof 1516 and 1518; in Ald. Ed. Venet. 1518; in all editions of Luther's\ntranslation published by him during his life-time, and up to 1581; in\nthe edit. Withenb., 1607; Hamb. 1596. 1619. 1620.\n\nThe passage is _found_ in all the editions printed of the Vulgate, and\nin all translations from it before Luther; and the edit. complut.; in\nErasmus' of 1522, and in his paraphrase; in the edit. of Rob. Stephens,\n1546-69; and Beza, 1565-76. 1582; in the Lutheran translations reprinted\nby Froschauer, Zurich, 1529-31. (but in small type); edit. 1536-89. in\nbrackets; edit. 1597, without the brackets; in the edit. Frankf. 1593;\nWittenb. 1596-97, and many later ones. I may add, that the passage is in\nevery edition of recent date that I have seen of the Lutheran Bible, but\nnot, of course, in De Wette's translation.\n\nS.W.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLINES ON LONDON DISSENTING MINISTERS.\n\nIn reply to one of the Queries of \"W.\" (No. 24. p. 383.), I transcribe\nfrom the MSS. of Mr. Chewning Blackmore, a Presbyterian minister of\nWorcester, the \"Lines on London Dissenting Ministers of a former Day,\"\nwhich I have never seen entire in print:--\n\n  \"Behold how Papal Wright with lordly pride\n   Directs his haughty eye to either side,\n   Gives forth his doctrine with imperious nod,\n   And fraught with pride addresses e'en his God.\n\n  \"Not so the gentle Watts, in him we find\n   The fairest pattern of a humble mind;\n   In him the meekest, lowliest virtue dwells,\n   As mild as light, as soft as ev'ning gales.\n\n  \"Tuning melodious nonsense, Bradbury stands,\n   With head uplifted and with dancing hands,\n   Prone to sedition, and to slander free,\n   Sacheverell sure was but a type of thee.\n\n  \"Mark how the pious matrons flock around,\n   Pleased with the noise of Guyse's empty sound;\n   How sweetly each unmeaning period flows\n   To lull the audience to a gentle doze!\n\n  \"Eternal Bragge in never-ending strains\n   Unfolds the mysteries Joseph's coat contains,\n   Of every hue describes a different cause,\n   And from each patch a solemn mystery draws.\n\n  \"With soundest judgment and with nicest skill,\n   The learned Hunt explains his Master's will,\n   So just his meaning, and his sense to true,\n   He only pleases the discerning few.\n\n  \"In Chandler's solid, well-composed discourse,\n   What wond'rous energy! what mighty force!\n   Still, friend to Truth, and strict to Reason's rules,\n   He scorns the censure of unthinking fools.\n\n  \"But see the accomplish'd orator appear,\n   Refined his language, and his reasoning dear,\n   Thou only, Foster, has the pleasing art,\n   At once to please the ear and mend the heart!\n\n  \"Lawrence, with clear and solid judgment speaks,\n   And on the sober mind impression makes,\n   The sacred truths with justness he explains,\n   And he from ev'ry hearer praise obtains.\"\n\nOf the author of these lines I can give no information. He evidently\nbelonged to the Anti-Calvinistic party. His name does not appear to have\nbeen known to Mr. Walter Wilson, the historian of the \"Dissenting\nChurches\" of London, although he quotes a portion of them. But they were\nprobably composed between 1728 and 1738. In the former year, Dr. James\nFoster's London popularity arose, on the occasion of his undertaking the\nevening lecture at the Old Jewry. In the year 1738, Mr. Robert Bragge,\none of the subjects of the poem, died. Of this gentleman the story is\ntold (and to it the poem evidently alludes), that he was employed no\nless than four months in developing the mysteries of Joseph's coat, from\nGenesis, xxxvii. 3.: \"And he made him a coat of many colours.\" In reply\nto the sarcasm on Mr. Bragge, Mr. Walter Wilson states (_Hist. and Ant.\nof Diss._ ch. i. p. 247.) that the following stanza was composed:--\n\n  \"The unwearied Bragge, with zeal, in moving strains,\n   Unfolds the mysteries Scripture-Book contains;\n   Marks every truth, of error shows the cause,\n   And from each mystery useful doctrine draws.\"\n\nThe unfavourable notice of Dr. Sam. Wright in the opening stanza, is at\nvariance with the general report of biographers. In the copy of the\nverses in the Blackmore MSS. is this note:--\"I think this is too severe\non the Dr.\" Dr. Wright was admired for his pulpit elocution; and it is\nsaid that Archbishop Herring was, in his younger years, a frequent\nhearer of his, with a view to improve in elocution. The notice of the\ncelebrated Tom Bradbury is grossly unjust. He was a man of wit and\ncourage, though sometimes boisterous and personal. His unsparing\nopponent, Dr. Caleb Fleming, wrote admiringly of \"his musical voice, and\nthe flow of his periods, adapting scripture language to every\npurpose.\"--_The Character of the Rev. Mr. Thos. Bradbury, taken from his\nown Pen, &c._ Lond. 8vo. 1749, p. 35.\n\nA.B.R.\n\nDukinfield.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Tracts by Dekker and Nash._--_The Raven's Almanacke_, 1609, is the\nproduction of Thomas Dekker, the dramatist, and one of the rarest of his\nnumerous works. A copy sold in the _Gordonstown_ sale for seven guineas;\nand another occurred in Mr. J.H. Bright's collection (No. 1691.); but I\nhave not the sale catalogue at hand to quote the price. Dekker was also\nthe author of a similar work, entitled _The Owle's Almanacke_, 1618; but\nit is not mentioned in the lists furnished by {455} Lowndes and Dr.\nNott. The latter is indeed very inaccurate, omitting many well-known\nproductions of the author, and assigning others to him for which he is\nnot answerable. Whilst upon the subject of Dekker, I cannot resist\nmentioning a fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, escaped the\nnotice of bibliographers. In 1697 was published a small volume,\nentitled, _The Young Gallant's Academy, or Directions how he should\nbehave himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a Tavern, &c., with\nthe Character of a Town-Huff, by Samuel Vincent_. This is nothing more\nthan a reprint of Dekker's _Gull's Horn-book_, with some slight\nalterations to adapt it to the times.\n\nNash's _Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions_, was\nprinted by John Danter for William Jones, 1594. It is a very interesting\ntract, and contains many personal allusions to its unfortunate author. A\ncopy was sold in Heber's sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 5l. 18s. A note\nin the handwriting of that distinguished collector gives us the\nfollowing information:--\n\n    \"Only two other copies are known to exist, one in the Ashbridge\n    Library at Cleveland House, the other, not so fine as the\n    present, bought by Malone at Brand's, since James Boswell's, and\n    now (1825) _penes_ me, R.H.\"\n\nAll things considered, I think your correspondent \"J.E.\" (p. 400.) _may_\ncongratulate himself on having \"met with a prize.\"\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Nash's Terrors of the Night._--Excessively rare. Boswell had a copy,\nand another is in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, described in Mr.\nCollier's _Bridgewater Catalogue_ as one of the worst of Nash's tracts.\n\nL.\n\n\n_Tureen_ (No. 25. p. 407.).--The valuable reference to Knox proves the\netymology from the Latin. _Terrene_, as an adjective, occurs in old\nEnglish. See quotation in Halliwell, p. 859.\n\nL.\n\n\n_English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Mori\u00e6_ (No. 24. p.\n385.).--Sir Thomas Challoner's translation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_\nwas first printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent impressions are dated\n1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, William Pickering had a license \"for\npryntinge of a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste by\nErasmus Roterdamus,\" which possibly might be an impression of the\n_Praise of Folly_. (See Collier's _Extracts from the Registers of the\nStationers' Company_, vol. i. p. 125.). This popular work was again\ntranslated in the latter part of the following century, by White Kennet.\nIt was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of _Wit against\nWisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly_. This is in all probability the\nintermediate translation inquired after by your correspondent.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\nIn answer to \"JARLZBERG,\" I beg to inform him of the following\ntranslation of Erasmus' _Praise of Folly_:--\n\n    \"Mori\u00e6 Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the\n    Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord\n    Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with 46 copper plates, and the\n    effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thos. More, all neatly engraved from\n    the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. 4th edition. 1724.\"\n\nKennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, alludes to two other\ntranslations, and to Sir Thomas Challoner's as the _first_. He does not\nmention the name of the second translator, but alludes to him as \"_the\nmodern translator_,\" and as having lost a good deal of the wit of the\nbook by having \"tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of the\nLatin.\" This is his excuse for offering to the public a third\ntranslation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such\n\"elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the\nidiom of the language did invite.\"\n\nHERMES.\n\n\nThe intermediate translation of the _Mori\u00e6 Encomium_ of Erasmus, to\nwhich your correspondent refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London\n1661, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian.\n\nM.\n\nOxford.\n\n\n_Court of Wards._--I cannot tell \"J.B.\" (No. 11. p. 173.) anything about\nMr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of Wards; but \"J.B.\" may be glad\nto know that there is among the MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on\nthe Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have not read it. I dare\nsay it might be usefully published, for we know little in detail about\nthe Court of Wards.\n\nC.H.\n\n\n_Scala Coeli_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--In Foxe's _Acts and Mon._, vol. v. p.\n364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope\nClement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them\nthat any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St.\nBotolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there \"a Paternoster,\nAve Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that\nvisit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli.\"\n\nH.W.\n\n\n_Twm Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24, p. 383.).--The following extract from\nCliffe's _Book of South Wales_, furnishes a reply to this Query.\n\nIn describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and\nTregaron, he says:--\n\n    \"High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern,\n    where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti:\n    the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed\n    of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space\n    between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so {456}\n    that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure\n    inclined according to the slanting of the rock.\n\n    \"The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti),\n    alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son\n    of John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of\n    Meredydd ap Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of\n    Gwydir (see _The Heraldic Visitations of Wales_, published by\n    the Welsh MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at\n    the age of 61. In early life, 'he was a notorious freebooter and\n    highwayman,' and levied black mail on the country within reach\n    of his mountain abode, with the aid of a small band of\n    followers. He soon reformed, married a rich heiress, was then\n    created a justice of peace for Brecon, and ultimately became\n    sheriff of that county and Carmarthenshire. He was, observes Sir\n    S.R. Meyrick, esteemed as an antiquarian and poet, but is more\n    known for the tricks attributed to him as a robber.\"\n\nA.B.\n\n\n_Twm Sion Catti._--The noted robber, Twm Sion or Sh\u00f4n Catti, referred to\nat No. 24. p. 383., was a Welshman who flourished between the years 1590\nand 1630. He was the natural son of Sir John Wynne, and obtained his\nsurname of Catti from the appellation of his mother Catherine. In early\nlife he was a brigand of the most audacious character, who plundered and\nterrified the rich in such a manner that his name was a sufficient\nwarrant for the raising of any sum which he might desire; while his\nunbounded generosity to the poor or unprotected, joined to an innate\nlove of fun and frolic--for he was a very Eulenspiegel--made him the\ndarling of the people. His chosen dwelling-place was in the almost\ninaccessible cave situated near Llandovery, at the junction of the Tywi\nand the Dethia (the Toothy of Drayton), which still bears his name. As\ntime passed on, he wooed and won the heiress of Ystrad-ffin, in the vale\nof Tywi; and on becoming possessed of her property, abandoned his wild\nlife, and with it the name of Catti; and quietly subsiding into Thomas\nJones, Esq., became a poet and antiquary of high reputation. In addition\nto which, and as if to mark their sense of the value of a man so\npowerful for good or for evil, the government appointed him high sheriff\nfor the county of Carmarthen. He died universally respected, and left a\nname which yet kindles many a Welsh heart, or amuses many a cottage\ncircle in the long nights of winter.\n\nHis life has been published in an 8vo. volume, which was probably the\nwork to which the \"Note\" of \"MELANION\" referred.\n\nSELEUCUS.\n\n\n_Cheshire Round_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--A dance so called, peculiar to the\ncounty from whence it takes its name. The musical notes of the _Cheshire\nRound_ may be seen in _The Dancing Master_, 1721, vol. i., and in Edward\nJones' _Cheshire Melodies_. It was sometimes danced \"longways for as\nmany us will\" (as described in _The Dancing Master_), but more\nfrequently by one person. A handbill of the time of William the Third\nstates, \"In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-House on the Pav'd stones at\nHosier-Lane-End, you shall see a Black that dances the _Cheshire Rounds_\nto the admiration of all spectators.\" Michael Root and John Sleepe, two\nclever caterers of \"Bartlemy,\" also advertise \"a little boy that dances\nthe _Cheshire Round_ to perfection.\" There is a portrait of Dogget the\ncelebrated comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is\nnot Penkethman?), representing him dancing the _Cheshire Round_, with\nthe motto \"_Ne sutor ultra crepidam_.\"\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Horns to a River._--Why the poets give horns to rivers, must be sought\nfor in the poet's book, nature. I like the interpretation given by a\nglance up some sinuous and shelving valley, where the mighty stream,\nmore than half lost to the eye, is only seen in one or two of its bolder\nreaches, as it tosses itself here to the right, and there to the left,\nto find a way for its mountain waters.\n\nThe third question about horns I am not able to answer. It would be\ninteresting to know where your correspondent has found it in late Greek.\n\nJ.E.\n\nOxford, April 16. 1850.\n\n\n_Horns._--For answer to the third Query of \"L.C.\" (No. 24. p. 383.), I\nsubscribe the following, from Coleridge:--\n\n\"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare,\n\n  \"'Take thou no scorn\n  To wear the horn, the lusty horn;\n  It was a crest ere thou wert born.\"\n\n_As You Like It_, Act iv. sc. 2.\n\n\"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance of a\nphrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all languages, and\nyet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin.\"--_Literary\nRemains_, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, 1849.\n\nROBERT SNOW.\n\n\n_Coal Brandy_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--This is only a contraction of \"coaled\nbrandy,\" that is, \"burnt brandy,\" and has no reference to the _purity_\nof the spirit. It was the \"universal pectoral\" of the last century; and\nmore than once I have seen it prepared by \"good housewives\" and\n\"croaking husbands\" in the present, pretty much as directed in the\nfollowing prescription. It is only necessary to remark, that the\northodox method of \"coaling,\" or setting the brandy on fire, was\neffected by dropping \"a live coal\" (\"_gleed_\") or red-hot cinder into\nthe brandy. This is copied from a leaf of paper, on the other side of\nwhich are written, in the hand of John Nourse, the great publisher of\nscientific books in his day, some errata in the first 8vo. edit. of\nSimsons's Euclid, and hence may be referred to the year 1762. It was\nwritten evidently by some {457} \"dropper-in,\" who found \"honest John\"\nsuffering from a severe cold, and upon the first piece of paper that\ncame to hand. The writer's caligraphy bespeaks age, and the punctuation\nand erasures show him to have been a literary man, and a careful though\nstilted writer. It is not, however, a hand of which I find any other\nexemplars amongst Nourse's correspondence.\n\n    \"Take two glasses of the best brandy, put them into a cup which\n    may stand over the fire; have two long wires, and put an ounce\n    of sugar-candy upon the wires, and set the brandy on fire. Let\n    it burn till it is put out by itself, and drink it before you go\n    to bed.\n\n    \"To make it more pectoral, take some rosemary and put it in the\n    brandy, infused for a whole day, before you burn it.\"\n\nThis is the fundamental element of all the quack medicines for \"coughs,\ncolds, catarrhs, and consumption,\" from Ford's \"Balsam of Horehound\" to\nDr. Solomon's \"Balm of Gilead.\"\n\nT.S.D.\n\nShooter's Hill, April 4.\n\n\n_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Does the following passage from\nSir Thomas Overbury's _Witty Descriptions of the Properties of sundry\nPersons_, first published, I believe, in 1614, afford any clue to the\netymology of this word? It occurs in the description of a Frankling or\nYeoman:--\n\n    \"He allows of honest pastime, and thinks not the bones of the\n    dead anything bruised or the worse for it, though the country\n    lasses dance in the church-yard after even-song. Rock-Monday,\n    and the wake in summer shrovings, the wakeful catches on\n    Christmas eve, _the hoky or seed-cake_, these he yearly keeps,\n    yet holds them no relics of Popery.\"\n\nAs I have not the book by me, and am only quoting from an extract, I am\nunable to give a more precise reference.\n\nE.R.J.H.\n\nChancery Lane.\n\n\nIt may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as to the\nword _Howkey_ or _Horkey_, if I state, that when in my boyhood I was\naccustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced as if spelt _Hockey_. As\n_Howkey_ I should not have recognised it, nor hardly as _Horkey_.\n\nAN EAST ANGLIAN.\n\n\n_Hockey_, a game played by boys with a stick bent at the end, is very\nlikely derived from _hook_, an Anglo-Saxon word too. But we cannot\nsuppose that anything else was derived from that, and especially when we\ncome to words apparently more genuine than that. It seems natural to\nconnect them with a hock-tide, Hoch-zeit (German), and Heoh-tid (A.-S.),\na name given to more than one season when it was usual to have games and\nfestivities. Now surely this is nothing else than _high_ tide, a time of\nsome high feast; as we vulgarly say, \"high days and holidays.\" So in the\nScripture, \"that Sabbath day was a high day.\" So high Mass. We\nProtestants have no conception of the close connection between the\nsuperior sanctity and the superior jollity of a particular season. Among\nthe heathen Romans, _festicus_ is derived from _festus_.[3] We say high\nromps, high jinks.\n\nSee Wachter, who applies Hoch-zeit to Christmas, Easter, and\nWhitsuntide, and says it may be derived either from high, or from\n_Hogen_, \"gaudere,\" which also see. He says that the lower Saxons \"hodie\nutuntur '_H\u00f6ge_'\" to mean \"gaudium privatum et publicum convivale et\nnuptiale.\" See also Hohen. See Lye, who has also heah, freols summa\nfestivitas, summum festum.\n\nIhre (_Lex. Suio Goth._) says _Hugna_ is \"to make glad.\" But in Hog-tid\nhe observes, that gladness is only the secondary meaning of\n_Hogen_,--\"_Hokanat_ vocabatur a Borealibus festum quod media hieme\ncelebrabatur;\" and he shows that hawks were formerly sacrificed at it.\n\nC.B.\n\n    [Footnote 3: Is not the derivation of \"feast\" and \"fast\" originally the\n    same? that which is appointed, connected with \"_fas_,\" and that from\n    \"_fari_.\"]\n\n_Howkey or Horkey_ (No. 17. p. 263.).--Is not this word simply a\ncorruption of _Hockey_? Vide under \"Hock-cart,\" in _Brand's Antiquities_\nby Ellis, where the following quotation from _Poor Robin's Almanack_ for\n1676 occurs:--\n\n  \"_Hoacky_ is brought home with hallowing,\n  Boys with plum-cake the cart following.\"\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n\n_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle_ (No. 25. p. 400.).--The Portrait\nby Holbein, in Warwick Castle, certainly erroneously stated to be that\nof Luther, was, I believe, engraved as such in Knight's _Portrait\nGallery_, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful\nKnowledge. I cannot find in any account of Helbein's works a mention of\na portrait of Luther by him.\n\nS.W.\n\n\n_Symbolism of Flowers, etc._--In reference to works illustrative of\npoetical, mythological, scriptural, and historical associations\nconnected with animals and plants, inquired for in No. 11. p. 173., many\na literary man must equally desire an interpreter,--\n\n  \"T' unbind the charms that in slight fables lie,\n  And teach that truth is truest poesy.\"\n\nYet, in the English language there is, I believe, no work of this\ndescription; and I therefore beg leave to suggest, that your learned\ncorrespondents may contribute to a very useful compilation by furnishing\nillustrations, or references to illustrations, critical and poetical,\ncollected from the most valuable authors, ancient and modern; and that\nthis \"sacred eloquence,\" {458}\n\n  \"Where'er 'tis found\n  On Christian or on heathen ground,\"\n\nif transplanted into learned pages, would to many readers, afford much\npleasure. Meanwhile, I would refer Querist to the useful work of\nCamerarius on _Symbols and Emblems_.\n\n  \"Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily\n  To the first plant by some kind augury.\"\n\nThe proverbial expression, \"Under the rose,\" appears opportunely in p.\n214, beautifully illustrated[4], but still deserving further\nconsideration. Schedius (_De Diis Gemanis_) and others have, with much\nlearning, shown Venus Urania to be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With\nerudition not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, Gorop.\nBacanus maintains Harpocrates and Cupido, son of Venus Uranis, to be one\nand the same hieroglyphical character. I shall now endeavour to explain\nthe symbolism and dedication of the Rose. This \"flower of flowers\"\nadumbrates the highest faculty of human nature--_Reason_, and Silence,\nor the rest of the reasoning powers, which is indicated by the Greek\nterm [Greek: epistaemae], _science_. (See Harris's _Philosoph. Arrang._\np. 444., and _Hermes_, p. 369.). To whom, then, could the hieroglyphical\nrose have been more appropriately dedicated than Harpocrates, who is\ndescribed with his finger pointing to his mouth--_tacito plenus\namore_--a proper emblem of that silence with which we ought to behave in\nreligious matters.\n\nT.J.\n\n    [Footnote 4: Has \"ARCHILAEUS\" looked for these verses into the\n    _Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? I have in vain searched for them under\n    \"Ros\u00e6,\" in the _Amphitheatrum sapienti\u00e6_ of Dornavius.]\n\n\n\"_Where England's Monarch_\" (No. 26. p. 415.).--The two lines inquired\nfor are in Bramston's _Man of Taste_, a poem printed about the middle of\nthe last century. I need hardly add, that the poet was misinformed, it\nbeing well known that Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to\nplead or _to take off his hat_.\n\nThere is an account of Duke of Marlborough's adventure with Barnard in\nthe _Gentleman's Magazine_, May 1758: but it may be the same as that in\nthe _Annual Register_.\n\nBRAYBROOKE\n\nApril 27.\n\n\n_Journeyman_ (No. 19. p. 309.).--\"GOMER\" may like to know that the old\nlabourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a \"_journey\nat plough_.\"\n\nBRAYBROOKE.\n\n\n_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the\ninquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being\n_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester,\nwas possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this\nparish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_\nitself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it.\n\nThese manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets,\nwere taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap.\n26. \u00a7 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly\ncircumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of\nWestbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a\npart.\n\nGEO. ORMEROD.\n\nSedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850.\n\n\n_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to\nwhich your correspondent \"M.\" refers, is, I believe, \"_The Mysteries of\nNature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the\nSecond of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_.\"\n\nI have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving\nof the author:--\"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo\npermaneant studium et industria.\"\n\nHERMES.\n\n\n\"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_.\"--In answer to the inquiry of \"B.G.J.\"\n(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of \"'Heigh ho!' says Rowley,\" I\ndo not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston\nsang an altered version of the very old song,--\n\n  \"A frog, he would a-wooing ride,\n  With sword and buckler by his side,\"\n\nand instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted\n\n  \"Heigho, says Rowley,\"\n\nas burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho\nSquare, entitled \"The Love-sick Frog,\" with an original air by C.E.H.,\nEsq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook.\nThe first verse is as follows:--\n\n  \"A frog he would a-wooing go;\n    'Heigh ho!' says Rowley;\n  Whether his mother would let him or no,\n    With a rowly, powly,\n  Gammon and spinach,\n    'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley,\"\n\nR.S.S.\n\nApril 23. 1850.\n\n    [Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, I\n    have the original song of the \"Frog and Mouse\" with three different\n    melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty\n    Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.]\n\n\n\"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._\" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little\n_jeu d'esprit_ which \"Dr. RIMBAULT\" {459} has given from Paget's _Common\nPlace Book_:--\n\n  \"My love and I for kisses play'd,\"\n\noccurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted\n\"Shakspeare's Verses on the King,\" but with a much better reading of the\nlast couplet:--\n\n  \"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?\n  Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe.\"\n\nThey are entitled, \"Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses,\"\nand are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's\nvery elegant \"Cupid and Campaspe.\"\n\nThe ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:--\n\n  \"Fair stood the wind for France,\"\n\nis to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes\nLyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael\nDrayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett.\n12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.)\n\nI think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of\nDrayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection\nbeing in the country.\n\nThe selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr.\nNott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. \"The head\nand front of my offending\" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat\nedition of Herrick in 1846.\n\nS.W.S.\n\nMarch 12. 1850.\n\n    [\"O.E.\" informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of\n    _A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_,\n    1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and\n    \"J.B.M.\" adds, that they are also to be found in the\n    _Encyclop\u00e6dia of Wit_, published about half a century since.]\n\n\n_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen.\nVIII., is this passage:\n\n    \"When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme\n    ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next\n    yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that\n    whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote\n    water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard\n    Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers persons at\n    the Bishop of Rochester's place, which Richard, according to the\n    same Acte, was boyled in Smythfelde the _Teneber-Wednysday_\n    following, to the terrible example of all other.\"\n\nI conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the Wednesday next before Easter,\nof \"Feria quarta majoris Hebdomadao,\" and that the name is derived form\nthe Gospel for that day according to the ritual of the Church of Rome.\n\n    \"Erat autem fere hora sexta, et _ten\u00e8broe_ factoe sunt in\n    universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et obscuratus est sol: et\n    velum templi seissum est medium.\"--Luke, xxiii. 44, 45.\n\nShould this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be glad to see it\ncorrected; at any rate, I shall be obliged if any of your correspondents\ncan supply other instances of the use of the term, or state what are or\nwere the ceremonies peculiar to the day.\n\nC.H. COOPER\n\nCambridge, April 4. 1850.\n\nP.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed that \"_Tenable\nWednesday_\" occurs three times in the Ordinance for \"weshing of all\nmannar of Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell\" in the Northumberland\nHousehold Book (pp. 243, 244.). In each instance it is placed between\nLady Day and Easter Even.\n\n    [If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson's most useful work,\n    _Medii \u00e6vi Kalendarium_, vol. i. p. 370., to the words\n    _Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebr\u00e6_, he will find them explained\n    \"The three nights before Easter;\" and the following among other\n    illustrations:--\n\n    \"Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch on Wednysday,\n    Thursday, and Friday at even for to here dyvyne service, as\n    commendable custom of holi chirch has ordeyned. And holi chirch\n    useth the iij dayes, Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, the\n    service to be saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is\n    called with divers men _Tenables_, but holi chirch _Tenebras_,\n    as _Raccionale Divinorum_ seth, that is to say, thieness or\n    derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord by\n    night.\"--_Harl. MS._ 2247. fo. 83.]\n\n\n_The Buckingham Motto._--Permit me to suggest that your correspondents\n\"S.\" and \"P.\" (No. 18. pp. 283, 284.) are labouring under a mistaken\nnotion in supposing that the line\n\n  _Sovente me sorene_,\n\nbelongs to the French idiom, and answers to our phrase \"Forget me not.\"\nSuch a sentiment would be sufficiently appropriate as the parting prayer\nor injunction of a lover, but does not possess the essential\ncharacteristic of a _motto_, which one selects for the purpose of\ndeclaring his own sentiments of conduct towards _others_, not to\ndeprecate or direct those of others towards _himself_.\n\nThe language employed is, in part, pure Italian, not antiquated, but\nexactly such as is spoken by persons of education at the present day;\nand if \"S.\" would again examine the original MS., I make no doubt that\nhe would find the line written _Sovente mi sooviene (sovene)_, i.e. with\nthe personal pronoun in the dative instead of the accusative case. The\nexpression _mi souviene_ is equivalent to _mi ricordo_, but is a more\nelegant form that the latter; and the meaning of the motto will be \"I\nseldom forget,\"--a pithy and suggestive sentence, implying as much the\nmemory of a wrong to be avenged as of a favour to be required.\n\nA. RICH, JUN. {460}\n\n\n_Larig._--I am obliged by the suggestions of your correspondents \"B.W.\"\nand \"C.I.R.\" (No. 24. p. 387.), to which I beg leave to offer the\nfollowing reply. The Dutch and Flemish (or Netherlandish, as they may be\nconsidered one language until the fifteenth century) _Le'er_ and _Le'ar_\nare simply contractions of _Leder_, as Tenkate observes, _euphonis\ngratia_, by the omission of the _d_, which takes place in other similar\nwords; and what is remarkable in _Ledig_, empty, which becomes _Le'eg_.\n_Le'erig_ is of course _leathery_, or _tough_; but _Lederen_ or\n_Le'ersen_, would be used for _made_ of _leather_, and in A.-S., most\nprobably [A-S: hydig]. We have no such contraction in A.-S.: it is\nalways [A-S: Le\u00f0er] and [A-S: Le\u00f0ern]. The epithet, _leathery_-shields,\ncould hardly have been used where they are said to _resound_; and the\ninstance of _vaulted_ shields in Judith is, I think, conclusive. The\nroot of _Leder_ is possibly _hlid-an_, to cover HIDE? That of _Leer_\npossibly _lieren_, amittere, privari?\n\nI should have noted the instances of the word from Junius and Schilter,\nwhich were not unknown to me, but for brevity's sake; and indeed I had\nnot Urry's _Chaucer_ at hand to verify the reference of Junius to the\nTale of Beryn, the only valuable portion of Urry's book. I knew that a\nsimple reference to the O.H.G. L\u00e2ri would be sufficient for Dr. Grimm.\n\nThorkelin, in his very incorrect edition of Beowulf, has followed Lye,\nin rendering _Lind haebbende_, Vexilla habens; and Haldorsen's\nexplanation of _Lind_ might have taught him better. Mr. Kemble has\nrendered it _shield-bearers_, and gives instances in his Glossary of\nsimilar combinations, as _rond-haebbendra_, _bord-haebbende_,\n_scaro-haebbendra_.\n\nS.W. SINGER.\n\nApril 15. 1850.\n\n\n_Zenobia a Jewess?_ (No. 24. p. 383.)--\n\n    \"To conclude what I have to say of this princess, I shall add\n    here, after M. de Tillemont, that St. Athanasius _took her to be\n    a Jewess_, meaning, without doubt, _in respect of her religion_;\n    and that, according to Theodoret, it was to please her that Paul\n    of Samosata, whom she patronised, professed opinions very like\n    those of the Jews concerning the person of Jesus Christ, saying\n    that he was only a mere man, who had nothing in his nature\n    superior to other men, nor was distinguished from them any\n    otherwise than by a more abundant participation of the divine\n    grace.\"--Crevier, _Hist. of Rom. Emperors_, Book 27. \"Aurelian,\"\n    vol. ix. p. 174.\n\nM. Crevier refers to \"Tillem. Aur. art. 5.\"\n\nC. FORBES\n\nTemple, April 16.\n\n\n_Temple Stanyan._--The following notices, relating to _one_ Temple\nStanyan may interest your correspondent \"A.G.\" (No. 24 p. 382.).\n\n    \"1725. March 23. Died Mrs. ---- Stanyan, wife of Temple Stanyan,\n    Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the office of Secretary of\n    State.\"--_Historical Register._\n\n    \"1726. April 28. Temple Stanyan, Esq., one of the Clerks of His\n    Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, married to Mrs.\n    Pauncefort.\"--Ibid.\n\nThere is a monument in one of the churches at Southampton,--\n\n    \"To the Memory of Catharine, Relict of Admiral Sir Charles\n    Hardy, and only daughter of Temple Staynian, Esq., of Rawlins in\n    co. Oxon. She died Feb. 19. 1801, aged 75 years. This monument\n    was erected by her only surviving son, Temple Hardy, Captain in\n    His Majesty's Navy.\"\n\nEdward Pauncefort, Esq., was one of the executors of Sir Charles Hardy's\nwill, proved in Doctors' Commons, 10th June, 1780.\n\nW.H.\n\n\n_Temple Stanyan_ wrote a History of Greece, 1751, which was common when\nI was at school, and another book, as Watts says. If the question is\nbiographical, I can say nothing.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Temple Stanyan_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--He also published an _Account of\nSwitzerland_, 8vo. London, 1714.\n\nM.\n\n\n_\"Who was Temple Stanyan?\"_ (no. 24. p. 382.) Temple Stanyan was the son\nof Abraham Stanyan, Esq., a Member of the Kit Kat Club, M.P. for\nBuckingham, Ambassador to the Porte, a Lord of the Admiralty, etc. Mr.\nTemple Stanyan was himself also Minister at Constantinople, and at\nseveral other courts; and afterwards Under-Secretary of State under both\nAddison and the Duke of Newcastle. He published in 1714 an Account of\nSwitzerland; and his Grecian history in 2 vols. was, till the\npublication of Mitford's, the best in our language. I believe that his\ndaughter married Adm. Sir Charles Hardy. He died in 1752.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Auctorite de Dibil_ (no. 25. p. 205.).--Probably an error of\ntranscription; read _Auctorite de Bibil_.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n\n_The Bristol Riots_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--\"J.B.M.\" is informed, that the\nvolume to which he alludes is generally considered by Bristolians as the\nmost authentic and fullest narrative that was published of those\ndisgraceful scenes.\n\nJ.M.G.\n\nWorcester.\n\n\n_Religious Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.)--The author of the religious\ntract which has fallen into the hands of \"J.C.\" is no doubt one of the\nearly Quakers, and probably Francis Howgill. Howgill was originally a\nclergyman of the Church of England, but afterwards became a Baptist, and\nin the year 1652 joined the early Quakers, upon hearing the preaching of\nGeorge Fox. His works were published in folio, in 1676, by Ellis Hookes.\n\n[Greek: Theta]. {461}\n\n\n_Complutensian MSS._--\"E.M.B.\" (No. 25. p. 402.) will find full answers\nto his Queries, and more interesting information on the same subject, in\na note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro Saban's Spanish translation of\nPrescott's _Ferdinand and Isabella_. Madrid, 1846.\n\nI am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within a month\nin the library of the University of Madrid, wither they were removed\nfrom Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew manuscripts are all\noriginals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of Zamora among them are 3\nvols. in Latin, translated from the Hebrew.\n\nThe Greek MSS., or some of them, are still with the collection as above;\nand of course were not returned to the Vatican.\n\nH.S.\n\nMorley's Hotel, April 28.\n\n\n_Tablet to Napoleon_ (No. 17. p. 263., No. 25. p. 406.).--\"C.I.R.'s\"\ninterpretation can hardly be admitted. The true meaning will be best\nexhibited by the following form:--\n\n  \"Napoleoni,\n    \u00c6gyptiaco,\n  Bis Italico,\n    Semper Invicto.\"\n\n_Bis Italico_ alludes to his twice conquering Italy, viz., in his first\ncampaign, and again in that of Marengo.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Malone's Blunder_ (No. 25. p. 403.).--\"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY,\" in his\nanswer on this subject, says very justly, that \"before we censure a\nwriter, we should consult his own edition.\" He has, however, not\nfollowed this excellent principle in this case, for he has certainly not\nlooked at the Irish edition of Malone, on which the question arises. He\nhas repeated what I had already stated (No. 24. p. 386.), that the\nmistake was _not_ a blunder of _Malone's_; and he has also pointed out,\nwhat had escaped me, Malone's supplemental note containing the first\n_three_ articles of the pretended will of _John_ Shakspeare: but when he\nadds that there is \"_no fabrication_\" and \"_no mystery_\" in the case,\nand that \"the blunder of the Irish editor was merely in attempting to\n_unite the two fragments_ as published by Malone,\" it is quite clear\nthat he has not seen the edition in question, and has, I think, mistaken\nthe whole affair. The Irish editor did _not_ attempt to unite Malone's\nfragments--quite the contrary--he left Malone's first fragment as he\nfound it; but he took the second fragment, namely, the exordium of the\npretended will of _John_ Shakspeare, and substituted it _bodily_ as the\nexordium of the will of _William_ Shakspeare, suppressing altogether the\nreal exordium of the latter. So that this Irish will begins, \"I, _John_\nShakspeare,\" &c., and ends, \"by me, _William_ Shakspeare.\" I have no\ndoubt that the will of John Shakspeare is a forgery altogether; but the\ntaking three paragraphs of it, and substituting them for the two first\nparagraphs of _William_ Shakspeare's genuine will, is what I call, and\nwhat no doubt \"Mr. BOLTON CORNEY\" will think, on this explanation of the\nfacts, \"an audacious fabrication.\" The best guess I can make as to how,\nor with what design, the Irish editor should have perpetrated so\ncomplicated, and yet so manifest a blunder, is this:--Malone printed the\nfragment in question at the end of his volume, amongst his \"Emendations\nand additions,\" as belonging to \"_the will before printed_,\" meaning the\nforged will of _John_ Shakspeare, but that the Irish editor understood\nhim to mean the genuine will of _William_ Shakspeare; and so thought\nthat he was only restoring the latter to its integrity: but how he could\nhave overlooked the difference of names, and the want of continuity in\nthe meaning of the documents, is still to me utterly incomprehensible.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Theses._--Perhaps it may assist your correspondent \"M.\" (No. 25. p.\n401.) to be informed that the University of G\u00f6ttingen is particularly\nrich in \"_Theses_\" (termed _Disputationes et Dissertationes_), to which\nthere is a large room entirely devoted in the library of that\nuniversity; together with the transactions of learned bodies. A special\nlibrarian is attached to this department, which is much consulted. A\nCatalogue was begun to be published of this collection, so far as\nrespects the _Memoirs_ contained in the various transactions, in 1801,\nby J.D. Reuss; and 16 vols. in 4to. had appeared up to 1821; after\nwhich, I believe, the publication has been suspended. Of Catalogues of\nTheses, I think the following work is in good esteem:--_Dissert. Acad.\nUpsal. habit\u00e6 sub Pr\u00e6sid. C.P. Thunberg_, 3 tom. 8vo. G\u00f6tting.\n1799-1801. The second part of vol. ii. in the _Catalogus Bibliothec\u00e6\nThottiau\u00e6_ (7 vol. 8vo. Fauni\u00e6, 1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which\nit might be well to consult, of dissertations under the name of the\npresident or head of the institution or college where they were\ndelivered, than under the writer's name. At least, in a _collective_\nsense the former method is adopted, as in the following instance:\nSchultens, (Alb.) _Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum,\nadiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Pr\u00e6sidio A. Schultens, etc._, 2 tom.:\nalthough, if the author should happen to be distinguished for his other\nproductions, _all_ that he wrote is anxiously sought out, and placed\nunder his own name.\n\nJ.M.\n\nOxford, April 24.\n\n    [\"M.\" may also be referred to the _Catalogus Dissertationum\n    Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana_. A\n    quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University Press in 1834.]\n\n\n_MSS. of Locke_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--\"C.\" is informed {462} that Dr.\nThomas Hancock died at Lisburn, in Ireland, during the past year. The\npapers of Locke respecting which he inquires are probably still in the\npossession of Dr. H.'s son.\n\n[Greek: Theta]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANIES.\n\n_Spur Money._--Although I used often, twenty years ago, when a chorister\nat the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying a fine on all who entered\nthat place with spurs on, I was not aware of its origin till I saw it\nexplained in your interesting publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a\ncustom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should\nbe glad to learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was\nsought to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister\nbefore him, and request him to \"repeat his gamut,\" and if he failed, the\nspur-bearer was entitled to exemption.\n\nE.J.H.\n\n\n_Spur Money._--I beg to offer the following humble illustration of\nspur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of All Saints Church at\nHastings:--\n\n    1.\n  \"This is a belfry that is free\n  For all those that civil be:\n  And if you please to chime or ring,\n  It is a very pleasant thing.\n\n    2.\n  \"There is no musick play'd or sung,\n  Like unto bells when they're well rung:\n  Then right your bells well, if you can--\n  Silence is best for every man.\n\n    3.\n  \"But if you ring in _spur or hat_,\n  Sixpence you pay--be sure of that:\n  And if a bell you overthrow,\n  Pray pay a groat before you go.\"\n\n(dated) 1756.\n\nALFRED GATTY.\n\nEcclesfield, April 6. 1850.\n\n\n_Note Books._--Looking at what your correspondent says about \"Note\nBooks,\" I think the following hint may be useful to others, as it has\nbeen to myself. Many persons never get so far as the formality of a\ncommon-place book, and do not like to write in their books. Let them\nfollow my plan. The envelope maker will procure them any number of\nlittle slips of white paper, with a touch of isinglass at each of the\nfour corners. Let the note be written on one of these, and then let the\nslip be stuck into any book which is sure to be wanted in connection\nwith the subject when it comes up again; either by one, two, or four\ncorners, as convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it\nbe wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached\nto a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed\nmiscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is good\nas far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:--\n\n  \"When made a note of,--find if you can.\"\n\nM.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLADY RACHAEL RUSSELL.\n\nMr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his _British Poetesses_\non account of the following verses:--\n\n  TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND.\n\n  \"Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth,\n  Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth;\n  His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight,\n  My husband dear, more than this world's light,\n  Death hath me reft. But I from death will take\n  His memory, to whom this tomb I make.\n  John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say),\n  Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay.\"\n\nNow \"John\" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that\nthese verses could not have come from his widow's pen. Indeed, they are\nmuch older than Lady Rachael's time, and may be found on the monument in\nWestminster Abbey erected by Lady Russell, in the reign of Queen\nElizabeth, to John Lord Russell, who died in 1584.\n\nP. CUNNINGHAM.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Byron and Tacitus_ (No. 20. p. 390.).--To your young friend, who\nhonestly signs himself \"A SCHOOLBOY,\" let an older correspondent say,\nthat he will do more wisely to let the rules of his teachers keep him\nfrom perusing an author who makes a mock of all moral and all honourable\nfeelings. But if he wishes to know whether the introduction of the\nsentence from Tacitus into a poetical tale should be called \"cabbaging,\"\nthe reply will properly be, No. The poet expected that the well-known\nfigure, which he had thus thrown into verse, would be immediately\nrecognised by every literary reader, and that the recognition would give\npleasure. He was trying his hand at a task of which it has been affirmed\nby a master, that _Difficile est proprie communia dicere_. The Schoolboy\nknows where to find these words; and I hope that he also knows where to\nfind the words of one who speaks with greater authority, and has said\nmost kindly, \"Cease, my son, to hear [read] the instruction that causeth\nto err.\"\n\nH.W.\n\n\n_Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury._--It is proposed to descend some of\nthe aboriginal chambers alluded to by Camden, near Tilbury in Essex. In\nconsequence, however, of Camden having named a wrong parish, later\nantiquaries have been puzzled to ascertain their precise whereabouts.\nMr. Crafter, in 1848, after many days' labour, found them out; and a\nbrief notice of them was given {463} in an article upon \"Prim\u00e6val\nBritain\" in the _West Kent Almanack for_ 1849. Hasted mentions similar\npits in Crayford Parish, Kent. In Dartford parish is another called \"the\nSound Hole,\" from the echoes, &c., made upon a stone being thrown down.\nMr. S. Laudale intends an examination of it this summer. Tradition\nreports that there are three enormous caverns, which communicate with\nthe central shaft.\n\nHow, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of those\nchambers which are aloof from the central shaft?\n\n[Greek: Delta]\n\n\n_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book._--A few days ago, Messrs. Puttick and\nSimpson sold a very important manuscript, the original letter-book of\nSir R. Haigh, of Lancashire, of the time of Charles II. It fetched 51l.,\nbeing bought by a collector whose name has not transpired; but perhaps\nthis notice, if you kindly insert it, may induce the purchaser to edit\nit for the Chetham Society, to whose publications it would for a most\nvaluable addition.\n\nR.\n\n\n_A Phonetic Peculiarity._--I venture to note as a very curious phonetic\npeculiarity, that we have in the English language a large number of\nmonosyllabic words ending is _sh_, all of which are expressive of some\nviolet action or emotion. I quote a few which have occurred without\nsearch, in alphabetical order. \"Brush, brash, crash, crush, dash, gash,\ngush, hash, gnash, lash, mash, pash, push, quash, rush, slash, smash,\nsquash, thrash.\"\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.\n\nAt the late Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Society it was announced\nthat a complete collection of the works of Thomas Heywood had been\ndetermined upon, and the first volume containing six plays was laid upon\nthe table. It was also shown that Mr. Collier's _Essay on the Chandos\nPortrait_ had only been delayed from a desire to obtain the most novel\nand accurate information.\n\nThe members of the Percy Society will be glad to hear, that at the\nAnnual Meeting on the 1st instant, the immediate publication of the\nthird volume of Mr. Wright's edition of the _Canterbury Tales_ was\nannounced.\n\nThe plan for the _restoration of Chaucer's tomb_ in Poet's Corner has at\nlength assumed a practical shape. It has been ascertained that less than\n100l. will do every thing that can be desired to repair the ravages of\ntime, and preserve the monument for centuries to come. It is proposed to\nraise this sum by subscriptions of five shillings, that more may share\nin the good work; and a committee has been formed to carry out this\nscheme, which has already received the sanction of the Earl of Carlisle,\nthe Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Braybrooke, Mr. Charles Wynn, and other\ndistinguished lovers of literature. Subscriptions are received by every\nmember of the committee, and parties resident in the country may remit\nthem by post-office orders payable at Charing Cross in favour of William\nRichard Drake, Esq., F.S.A., of 46. Parliament Street, the Honorary\nTreasurer; or of William J. Thoms, Esq., the Honorary Secretary of the\nCommittee.\n\nThe Annual Meeting of the Camden Society on the 2d instant, under the\nPresidentship of Lord Braybrooke, gave general satisfaction. The council\nreported the publication during the past year of the _Peterborough\nChronicle_; the _Letters of Elizabeth and James VI._; and the _Chronicle\nof Queen Jane_. This last volume was then only on the eve of\ncirculation; it has since been issued, and found to justify the\nannouncement of the council that it is work of great historical value,\nand an interesting companion to _Machyn's Diary_.\n\nWe have received the following Catalogues:--James Darling's (21. Little\nQueen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue of Books Old and New,\nTheological and Miscellaneous, and Andrew Clark's (4. City Road)\nCatalogue, No. 8., of Books in English and Foreign Theology, Literature,\nRoman Catholic Controversy, Classics, &c.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES\n\nWANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\n(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos._)\n\nTHE ANTI-JACOBIN.\n\nROCCHA DE CAMPANIS.\n\n_Odd Volumes_.\n\nTHE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Vol I. 1797.\n\nCALENDAR OF HARLEIAN MSS., Vol. IV.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nCOMPLETION OF OUR FIRST VOLUME.--_Two more numbers will complete our\nFirst Volume, to which a very full Index is preparing. A Second Volume,\nof the same size, will be completed at the end of December, and we shall\nthen be enabled to judge how far it will be desirable to adopt the\nsystem of Half-Yearly or Yearly volumes._\n\n_Our readers will find the present and two following Numbers principally\noccupied with_ REPLIES, _as it is obviously desirable that they should,\nas far as possible, appear in the same volume as the_ QUERIES _to which\nthey refer._\n\nCOLLAR OF SS. _This subject shall be brought forward early in the next\nvolume._\n\nE.S.T. _Thanks._ The Query and Folk Lore _shall appear as soon as\npossible_.\n\nW.M.T. _is also thanked. It can scarcely be necessary to assure him,\nthat had we known what he has so kindly informed us, the article he\nalludes to would not have been inserted, nay, we are sure we may add,\nthat the friend who sent it would never have handed it to us for\npublication_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {464}\n\nOn the 30th of APRIL, 1850, was published, by CHARLES KNIGHT,\n\nPART I. OF\n\nTHE IMPERIAL CYCLOP\u00c6DIA;\n\nTo be continued in Monthly Parts, price Half-a-Crown, Super-royal 8vo.\n\nThe Work now announced is the commencement of a NEW SERIES OF\nCYCLOP\u00c6DIAS, FOUNDED UPON THE VAST TREASURY OF ORIGINAL MATERIALS IN\n\"THE PENNY CYCLOP\u00c6DIA.\"\n\nThe publication commences with\n\nTHE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE;\n\nTo form Two Volumes, with Steel Engravings and numerous Coloured Maps;\nAnd to be completed in Twelve Monthly Parts, at Half-a-Crown.\n\n\"The Part now before us is the commencement of the 'Cyclop\u00e6dia of\nGeography.' The articles which appear in the present number convey a\nlarge amount of useful information in a compact and intelligent form.\nThey are evidently the productions of competent writers, well acquainted\nwith the present state of geographical science. The Maps are beautifully\ndistinct. Fulness, compactness, and clearness--the great requisites of a\nCyclop\u00e6dia--are here combined in a high degree.\"--_The Athen\u00e6um_, No.\n1175.\n\n\"The Part before us promises well. Books published subsequently to the\n'Penny Cyclop\u00e6dia' have been consulted, to bring down the information to\nthe latest date; and many contributions from local residents of places\nin this country enrich particular articles with full knowledge.\"--_The\nSpectator_, No. 1140.\n\nLONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT, FLEET STREET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNow ready, containing 149 Plates, royal 8vo. 28s.; folio, 2l. 5s.; India\nPaper, 4l. 4s.\n\nTHE MONUMENTAL BRASSES of ENGLAND: a Series of Engravings upon Wood,\nfrom every variety of these interesting and valuable Memorials,\naccompanied with Descriptive Notices.\n\nBy the Rev. C. FOUTELL, M.A. Rector of Downham Market. Part XII,\ncompleting the work, price 7s. 6d.; folio, 12s.; India paper, 24s.\n\nBy the same Author, royal 8vo. 15s.; large paper, 21s.\n\nMONUMENTAL BRASSES and SLABS: an Historical and Descriptive Notice of\nthe Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages. With upward of 200\nEngravings.\n\n\"A Handsome large octavo volume, abundantly supplied with well-engraved\nwoodcuts and lithographic plates; a sort of Encyclop\u00e6dia for ready\nreference.... The whole work has a look of painstaking completeness\nhighly commendable.\"--_Athen\u00e6um_.\n\n\"One of the most beautifully got up and interesting volumes we have seen\nfor a long time. It gives in the compass of one volume an account of the\nHistory of those beautiful monuments of former days ... The\nillustrations are extremely well chosen.\"--_English Churchman._\n\nA few copies of this work remain for sale; and, as it will not be\nreprinted in the same form and at the same price, the remaining copies\nare raised in price. Early application for the Large Paper Edition is\nnecessary.\n\nBy the same Author, to be completed in Four Parts, CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS\nin ENGLAND and WALES: an Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the\nvarious classes of Monumenta Memorials which have been in use in this\ncountry from about the time of the Norman Conquest. Profusely\nillustrated with Wood Engravings. Part I. price 7s. 6d.; Part II. 2s.\n6d.\n\n\"A well conceived and executed work.\"--_Ecclesiologist._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMATERIALS for making RUBBINGS of MONUMENTAL BRASSES and other Incised\nWorks of Art.\n\nHeel Ball, in cakes, at 3d. and 1s. each.\n\nAlso, RICHARDSON'S METALLIC RUBBER, in cakes price 1s. l6d.; Double\ncakes, 2s. 6d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE ROMANCE of the PEERAGE; or, Curiosities of Family History. by GEORGE\nLILLIE CRAIK. Vols. I. II. and III. Post 8vo., cloth, 10s. 6d. each.\n\n\"A book of strange facts.\"--_Atlas._\n\n\"Great industry and minute research are apparent in almost every page.\nMr. Craik happily unites excellence of style with patient\nerudition.\"--_Morning Chronicle._\n\n\"For our own parts, let us at once say, that Mr. Craik's design appears\nto us an extremely good one, and that we are glad to see it in competent\nhands. It is precisely that kind of book to which scrupulous care and\ndiligent labour were essential; and in this respect we cannot speak too\nhighly of the volume lying on our table.\"--_Examiner._\n\nVolume IV., completing the work, is in the press.\n\nLondon: CHAPMAN and HALL, 186. Strand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCUT AND COME AGAIN!\n\nTO HISTORIANS, ANTIQUARIES, and COUNTY COLLECTORS.--Highly interesting\nand curious Biographical, Antiquarian, and Topographical CUTTINGS FROM\nOLD NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, REGISTERS, &c., may be had at the Little\nBookshop, 26 Red Lion Street, Holborn.\n\nN.B. Every Cutting is correctly and distinctly dated.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nJust published, WILLIAMS and NORGATE'S CATALOGUE of GERMAN THEOLOGICAL\nBOOKS; including the WORKS of NEANDER, THOLUCK, NITZSCH, JULIUS MULLER,\nKRUMMACHER, DORNER, HENGSTENBERG, EWALD, HARLESS, LANGE, UMBRIET, STIER,\nOLSHAUSEN, SCHLEIERMACHER, &c., EDITIONS of the BIBLE, the WORKS of the\nFATHERS and REFORMERS, &c. &c. Gratis (two stamps).\n\n14. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE PRIM\u00c6VAL ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND ILLUSTRATED BY THOSE OF DENMARK.\n\nTHE PRIM\u00c6VAL ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK. By J.J.A. WORSAAE, Member of the\nRoyal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen. Translated and applied to\nthe illustrations of similar Remains in England, by WILLIAM J. THOMS,\nF.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society. With numerous Woodcuts. 8vo.\n10s. 6d.\n\n\"The best antiquarian handbook we have ever met with--so clear is its\narrangement, and so well and so plainly is each subject illustrated by\nwell-executed engravings.... It is the joint production of two men who\nhave already distinguished themselves as authors and antiquarians.\"--\n_Morning Herald._\n\n\"A book of remarkable interest and ability.... Mr. Worsaae's book is in\nall ways a valuable addition to our literature.... Mr. Thoms has\nexecuted the translation in flowing and idiomatic English, and has\nappended many curious and interesting notes and observations of his\nown.\"--_Guardian._\n\nSee also the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for February 1850.\n\nOxford: JOHN HENRY PARKER, and 337. Strand, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrinted by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New\nStreet Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and\npublished by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.\nDunstan in the West, and in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186.\nFleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, May 11. 1850.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":14032}