{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13713/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13713","id":"gutenberg_13713","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13713","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Language & Communication","Category: Literature - Other","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. 30.] SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {481}\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\nNOTES:--\n  Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton, by F.H. Markland. 481\n  Spenser's Monument. 481\n  Borrowed Thoughts, by S.W. Singer. 482\n  Folk Lore:--Easter Eggs--A Cure for Warts--Charm\n    for Wounds--Fifth Son--Cwm Wybir. 482\n  Bartholomew Legate, the Martyr. 483\n  Bohn's Edition of Milton's Prose Works. 483\n  Reprint of Jeremy Taylor's Works. 483\n  Dr. Thos. Bever's Legal Polity of Great Britain. 483\n\nQUERIES:--\n  Dr. Richard Holsworth and Thos. Fuller. 484\n  Queries upon Cunningham's Handbook of London. 484\n  On a Passage in Macbeth. 484\n  Minor Queries:--As throng as Throp's Wife--Trimble\n    Family--\"Brozier.\" 485\n\nREPLIES:--\n  The Dodo Queries, by S.W. Singer. 485\n  Abbey of St. Wandrille. 486\n  Origin of the Word \"News.\" 487\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Dr. Whichcot and Lord\n    Shaftesbury--Elizabeth and Isabel--Trunck Breeches--Mercenary\n    Preacher--Abdication of James II.--Toom Shawn Cattie--Wotton's\n    Poem to Lord Bacon--\"My Mind to Me a Kingdom is\"--Gesta\n    Grayorum--Marylebone Gardens--Mother of Thomas \u00e0 Becket--Dr.\n    Strode's Poem--Lord Carrington--Esquires\n    and Gentlemen--Early Inscriptions--American Aborigines--Vox\n    Populi--Dutch Language--Salting, &c. 488\n\nMISCELLANIES:--\n  Bishop Burnet as an Historian--Dance Thumbkin--King's\n    Coffee House--Spur Money. 493\n\nMISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 494\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 494\n  Notice to Correspondents. 494\n  Advertisements. 495\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES\n\nDR. JOHNSON AND DR. WARTON.\n\nAmongst the poems of the Rev. Thos. Warton, vicar of Basingstoke, who is\nbest remembered as the father of two celebrated sons, is one entitled\n_The Universal Love of Pleasure_, commencing--\n\n  \"All human race, from China to Peru,\n  Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue.\"\n  &c. &c.\n\nWarton died in 1745, and his Poems were published in 1748.\n\nJohnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_ appeared in 1749; but Boswell\nbelieves that it was composed in the preceding year. That Poem, as we\nwell remember, commences thus tamely:--\n\n  \"Let observation with extensive view,\n  Survey Mankind from China to Peru.\"\n\nThough so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed\nthese verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately\nborrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation\nbefore quoted, both writers allude to Charles of Sweden. Thus Warton\nsays,--\n\n  \"'Twas hence rough Charles rush'd forth to ruthless war.\"\n\nJohnson, in his highly finished picture of the same monarch, says,--\n\n  \"War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field.\"\n\nJ.H. MARKLAND.\n\nBath.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSPENSER'S MONUMENT.\n\nIn the _Lives of English Poets_, by William Winstanley (London, printed\nby H. Clark for Samuel Manship, 1687), in his account of Spenser, p.\n92., he says, \"he died anno 1598, and was honourably buried at the sole\ncharge of Robert, first of that name, Earl of Essex, on whose monument\nis written this epitaph:--\n\n    \"Edmundus Spenser, Londinensis, Anglicorum poetarum nostri\n    seculi fuit princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, et\n    victuro genio conscripa comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, anno\n    salutis 1598, et prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui\n    foelicisime Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem\n    h\u00e6c scripta sunt Epitaphia.\n\n      \"Hic prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi\n        Prominens ingenio, proximum ut tumulo\n      Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere poeta poetam\n        Conderis, et versud quam tumulo proprior,\n      Anglica te vivo vixit, plausitque l'oesis;\n        Nunc moritura timet, te moriente mori.\"\n\nI have also a folio copy of Spenser, printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan\nEdwin, London, 1679. In a short life therein printed, it says that he\nwas buried near Chaucer, 1596; and the frontispiece is an engraving of\nhis tomb, by E. White, which bears this epitaph:--\n\n    \"Heare lyes (expecting the second comminge of our Saviour,\n    Christ Jesus) the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in\n    his tyme, whose Divine spirit needs noe othir witness than the\n    works which he left behind {482} him. He was borne in London in\n    the yeare 1510, and died in the yeare 1596.\"\n\nBeneath are these lines:--\n\n   \"Such is the tombs the Noble Essex gave\n    Great Spenser's learned reliques, such his grave:\n    Howe'er ill-treated in his life he were,\n    His sacred bones rest honourably here.\"\n\nHow are these two epitaphs, with their differing dates, to be\nreconciled? Can he have been born in 1510, as the first one says \"obiit\n_immatur\u00e2_ morte?\" Now eighty-five is not very immature; and I believe\nhe entered at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1569, at which time he\nwould be fifty-nine, and that at a period when college education\ncommenced at an earlier age than now. Vertue's portrait, engraved 1727,\ntakes as a motto the last two lines of the first epitaph--\"Anglica te\nvivo,\" &c.\n\nE.N.W\n\nSouthwark, April 29 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBORROWED THOUGHTS.\n\nCrenius wrote a dissertation _De Furibus Librariis_, and J. Conrad\nSchwarz another _De Plagio Literario_, in which some curious\nappropriations are pointed out; your pages have already contained some\nadditional recent instances. The writers thus pillaged might exclaim,\n\"Pereant iste qui _post_ nos nostra dixerunt.\" Two or three instances\nhave occurred to me which, I think, have not been noticed. Goldsmith's\n_Madame Blaize_ is known to be a free version of _La fameuse La\nGalisse_. His well-known epigram,--\n\n   \"Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,\"\n\nis borrowed from the following by the Chevalier de Cailly (or d'Aceilly,\nas he writes himself) entitled,--\n\n  \"_La Mort du Sieur Etienne_.\n\n  \"Il est au bout de ses travaux,\n   Il a pass\u00e9 le Sieur Etienne;\n   En ce monde il eut tant des maux,\n   Qu'on ne croit pas qu'il revienne.\"\n\nAnother well-know epigram,--\n\n  \"I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,\"\n\nis merely a version of the 33d epigram of the first books of those by\nthe witty Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin:--\n\n  \"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas,\n   Je n'en saurois dire la cause,\n   Je sais seulement une chose;\n   C'est que je ne vous aime pas.\"\n\nLastly, Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype in one long\npreviously written by or for one John Carnegie:--\n\n  \"Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,\n     Descendit of Adam and Eve,\n   Gif ony con gang hieher,\n     I'se willing gie him leve.\"\n\nS.W. SINGER\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Easter Eggs_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--The custom recorded by Brande as being\nin use in the North of England in his time, still continues in\nRichmondshire.\n\n_A Cure for Warts_ is practised with the utmost faith in East Sussex.\nThe nails are cut, the cuttings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed\nin the hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the birds; when the paper\ndecays, the warts disappear. For this I can vouch: in my own case the\npaper did decay, and the warts did all disappear, and, of course, the\neffect was produced by the cause. Does the practice exist elsewhere?\n\n_Charm for Wounds._--Boys, in his _History of Sandwich_, gives, (p.\n690.) the following from the Corporation Records, 1568: a woman examined\ntouching her power to charm wounds who--\n\n    \"Sayesth that she can charme for fyer and skalding in forme as\n    oulde women do, sayeng 'Owt fyer in frost, in the name of the\n    Father, the Sonne, and the Holly Ghost;' and she hath used when\n    the skyn of children do cleve fast, to advise the mother to\n    annoynt them with the mother's milk and oyle olyfe; and for\n    skalding to take oyle olyfe only.\"\n\nW. DURRANT COOPER.\n\n\n_Fifth Son._--What is the superstition relating to a fifth son? I\nshould be glad of any illustrations of it. There certainly are instances\nin which the fifth son has been the most distinguished scion of the\nfamily.\n\nW.S.G.\n\n\n_Cwn Wybir, or Cwn Annwn_--_Curlews_ (No. 19. p. 294).--The late\ningenious and well-informed Mr. William Weston Young, then residing in\nGlamorgan, gave me the following exposition of these mysterious _Dogs of\nthe Sky_, or _Dogs of the Abyss_, whose a\u00ebrial cries at first perplexed\nas well as startled him. He was in the habit of traversing wild tracts\nof country, in his profession of land surveyor and often rode by night.\nOne intensely dark night he was crossing a desolate range of hills, when\nhe heard a most diabolical yelping and shrieking in the air, horrible\nenough in such a region and at black midnight. He was not, however, a\nsuperstitious man, and, being an observant naturalist, had paid great\nattention to the notes of birds, and the remarkable variations between\nthe day and night notes of the same species. He suspected these strange\nunearthly sounds to be made by some gregarious birds on the wing; but\n{483} the darkness was impenetrable, and he gazed upwards in vain. The\nnoises, meanwhile, were precisely those which he had heard ascribed to\nthe _Cwn Wybir_, and would have been truly appalling to a superstitious\nimagination. His quick ear at length caught the rush of pinions, and, in\na short time, a large flight of curlews came sweeping down to the\nheather, so near his head, that some of their wings brushed his hat.\nThey were no sooner settled, than the _Cwn Wybir_ ceased to be heard.\nMr. Young then recollected having noticed similar nocturnal cries from\nthe curlew, but had never before encountered such a formidable flying\nlegion of those birds, screaming in a great variety of keys, amidst\nmountain echoes.\n\nELIJAH WARING.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR.\n\nAn erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J.\nPayne Collier, deserves a note. The former in his _Const. Hist._ (ii.\n275. note, second edition), and the latter in the _Egerton Papers_,\nprinted for the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the\ndeath of Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield. The latter also gives the\ndate March 13. Now the true date is March 18, 1611-12, as will appear by\nconsulting--1. The commissions and warrants for the burning of Legate\nand Wightman, inserted in _Truth brought to Light, or the Narrative\nHistory of King James for the first Fourteen Years_, 4to. 1651; 2.\nChamberlain's _Letters to Sir Dudley Carleton_, dated Feb. 26, 1611\n(1611-12), and March 25, 1612, printed in _The Court and Times of James\nI._, vol. i. pp. 136. 164.; and 3. Wallace's _Antitrinitarian\nBiography_, vol. ii. p. 534. Fuller, in his _Church History_, gives the\ncorrect date, and states that his \"burning of heretics much startled\ncommon people;\" \"wherefore King James politicly preferred that heretics\nhereafter, though condemned, should silently and privately waste\nthemselves away in the prison.\"\n\nLegate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake\nin England for their religious opinions.\n\nA.B.R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON'S PROSE WORKS.\n\nThree volumes of this edition have already appeared, the last bearing\nthe date of 1848, and concluding thus:--\"End of Vol. III.\" In the latest\nCatalogue, which Mr. Bohn has appended to his publications, appears a\nnotice of \"Milton's Prose Works, _complete_ in 3 vols.\" This word\n_complete_ is not consistent with the words terminating the last volume,\nnor with the exact truth. For instance, the History of Britain does not\nfind a place in this edition; and I can hardly believe that Mr. Bohn\noriginally intended that the Prose Works of Milton should be issued from\nhis press without a full index. Without such an index, this edition is\ncomparatively worthless to the investigator of history. I would\ntherefore suggest to Mr. Bohn (whose services to literature I most\ngratefully acknowledge), that he should render his edition of Milton's\nProse Works _really complete_, by issuing a fourth volume, which _inter\nalia_, might contain the _Latin_ prose works of Milton, reprinted in\nFletcher's edition of 1834, together with any omitted English prose work\nof the author, and be terminated, as is usual in Mr. Bohn's\npublications, with a full alphabetical index, embracing both persons and\nthings. The lover of historical pursuits would then have _fresh_ reason\nto thank Mr. Bohn.\n\nN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPRINT OF JEREMY TAYLOR'S WORKS.\n\nA reprint being called for of vol. iv. of _Bishop Jeremy Taylor's\nWorks_, now in course of publication, I would beg permission to make it\nknown to your readers, that assistance in regard to any references which\nwere not verified in the former edition of that volume would be very\nacceptable to me. They should be sent within the next fortnight.\n\nC. PAGE EDEN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDR. THOMAS BEVER'S LEGAL POLITY OF GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nI do not know if such a notice as this is intended to be, is admissible\ninto your publication.\n\nMany years ago, I bought of a bookseller a MS. intitled \"A Short History\nof the Legal and Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by Thos.\nBever, LL.D., Advocate in Doctor's Commons, and Fellow of All Souls\nCollege, Oxford, 1759.\" It is presented to Richard Pennant, Esq.; and\nthere is a letter from Mr. Bever to Mr. Pennant wafered to the fly-leaf.\nAt the close of the \"Advertisement,\" the author \"earnestly requests that\nit [the work] may not be suffered to fall into the hands of a\nbookseller, or be copied, without his consent: and whenever it shall\nbecome useless, and lose its value (if any it ever had) with the present\nowner, that he will be kind enough to return it to the author if living,\nor if dead, to any of his surviving family at Mortimer near Reading,\nBerks.\"\n\nIn pious sympathy with this wish, I more than thirty years since wrote a\nletter, addressed to \"---- Bever, Esq., Mortimer, near Reading, Berks,\"\noffering to give up the volume to any one entitled to it under the above\ndescription; but my letter was returned from the post office with the\nannouncement \"Not found\" upon it. I make this other attempt, if you are\npleased to admit it, through you; and immediate attention will be paid\nto any claim which may appear in your pages.\n\nJ.R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {484}\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\nDR. RICHARD HOLSWORTH AND THOS. FULLER.\n\nCan any of your readers inform me who was the author of _The Valley of\nVision_, published in 1651 as the work of Dr. Richard Holsworth, the\nMaster of Emmanuel College, and Dean of Worcester. In a preface to the\nreader, Fuller laments \"that so worthy a man should dye issulesse\nwithout leaving any books behind him for the benefit of learning and\nreligion.\" He adds that the private notes which he had left behind him\nwere dark and obscure; his hand being legible only to himself, and\nalmost useless for any other. The sermon published as _The Valley of\nVision_ appears to have been prepared for publication from the notes of\na short-hand writer. When Fuller published, about eleven years\nafterwards, his _Worthies of England_, he wrote thus:--\n\n    \"Pity it is so learned a person left no monuments (save a\n    sermon) to posterity; for _I behold that posthume work as none\n    of his, named by the transcriber The Valley of Vision_, a\n    Scripture expression, but here misplaced.... This I conceived\n    myself in credit and conscience concerned to observe, because I\n    was surprised at the _preface_ to the book, and will take the\n    blame rather than clear myself, when my innocency is complicated\n    with the accusing of others.\"\n\nIf, as is probable, Dr. Holsworth, in this instance, preached other\nmen's sermons, which the short-hand writer afterwards gave to the world\nas his, it is a singular fact, that in the preface of this\nsupposititious volume, Fuller speaks of the abuse of printed sermons by\nsome--\n\n    \"Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes, wherewith\n    they soar high in common esteeme, yet have not the ingenuity\n    with that son of the Prophet to confesse, Alasse! it was\n    borrowed.\"\n\nA.B.R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nQUERIES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON.\n\nWe promised to make a few QUERIES on this amusing volume, and thus\nredeem our promise.\n\nMr. Cunningham has been the first to point out the precise situation of\na spot often mentioned by our old dramatists, which had baffled the\ningenuity of Gifford, Dyce, and in fact of all the commentators,--the\nnotorious Picthatch. He thus describes it:--\n\n    \"_Picthatch_, or _Pickehatch_.--A famous receptacle for\n    prostitutes and pickpockets, generally supposed to have been in\n    _Turnmill Street_, near Clerkenwell Green, but its position is\n    determined by a grant of the 33rd of Queen Elizabeth, and a\n    survey of 1649. What _was_ Picthatch is a street at the back of\n    a narrow turning called Middle Row (formerly Rotten Row)\n    opposite the Charter-house wall in Goswell Street. The name is\n    still preserved in 'Pickax Yard' adjoining Middle Row.\"\n\nWhy then, among the curious illustrations which he has brought to bear\nupon the subject, has Mr. Cunningham omitted that of the origin of the\nname from the \"picks upon the hatch?\" which is clearly established both\nby Malone and Steevens, in their notes upon \"'twere not amiss to keep\nour door hatch'd,\" in Pericles.\n\nThe following is an excellent suggestion as to the origin of the--\n\n    \"_Goat and Compasses._--At Cologne, in the church of Santa Maria\n    in Capitolio, is a flat stone on the floor professing to be the\n    Grabstein der Br\u00fcder und Schwester eines ehrbaren Wein-und\n    Fass-Ampts, Anno 1693; that is, as I suppose, a vault belonging\n    to the Wine Coopers' Company. The arms exhibit a shield with a\n    pair of compasses, an axe, and a dray, or truck, with goats for\n    supporters. In a country like England, dealing so much at one\n    time in Rhenish wine, a more likely origin for such a sign could\n    hardly be imagined. For this information I am indebted to the\n    courtesy of Sir Edmund Head.\"\n\nCan Mr. Cunningham, Sir E. Head, or any of our correspondents point out\nany German \"Randle Holme\" whose work may be consulted for the purpose of\nascertaining the arms, &c. of the various professions, trades, &c. of\nthat country?\n\nWhy has not Mr. Cunningham, in his description of _St. James' Street_,\nmentioned what certainly existed long after the commencement of the\npresent century, the occasional \"steps\" which there were in the\nfoot-path--making the street a succession of terraces. This fact renders\nintelligible the passage quoted from Pope's letter to Mr. Pearse, in\nwhich he speaks of \"y'e second Terras in St. James' Street.\" Why, too,\nomit that characteristic feature of the street, the rows of _sedan\nchairs_ with which it was formerly lined? The writer of this perfectly\nremembers seeing Queen Charlotte in her sedan chair, going from the\nQueen's Library in the Green Park to Buckingham House.\n\nMr. Cunningham states, we dare say correctly, that Sheridan died at No.\n17 Saville Row. We thought he had died at Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great\nGeorge Street, Westminster. Was he not living there shortly before his\ndeath? and did not his funeral at Westminster Abbey proceed from Mr.\nMoore's?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nON A PASSAGE IN MACBETH.\n\nIf any of your correspondents would favour me, I should like to be\nsatisfied with respect to the following passage in Macbeth; which, as at\npresent punctuated, is exceedingly obscure:--\n\n  \"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well\n  It were done quickly: If the assassination\n  Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,\n  With his surcease, success; that but this blow\n  Might be the be-all and the end-all here, {485}\n  But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,--\n  We'd jump the life to come.\"\n\nNow, I think by altering the punctuation, the sense of the passage is at\nonce made apparent, as thus,--\n\n  \"If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well.\n  It were done quickly, if the assassination\n  Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,\n  With his surcease, success, that but this blow\n  Might be the be-all and the end all here,\" &c.\n\nbut to make use of a paradox, it is _not_ done when it _is_ done; for\nthis reason, there is the conscience to torment the evil-doer while\nliving, and the dread of punishment in another world after death: the\n\"bank and shoal of time\" refers to the interval between life and death,\nand to \"_jump_\" the life to come is to _hazard_ it. The same thought\noccurs in _Hamlet_, when he alludes to--\n\n  \"That undiscovered country, from whose bourne\n  No traveller returns.\"\n\nBut that is clear enough, as in all probability the annotators left the\npassage as they found it. I have not the opportunity of consulting Mr.\nCollier's edition of Shakespeare, so that I am unaware of the manner in\nwhich he renders it; perhaps I ought to have done so before I troubled\nyou. Possibly some of your readers may be disposed to coincide with me\nin the \"new reading;\" and if not, so to explain it that it may be shown\nit is my own obscurity, and not Shakespeare's, with which I ought to\ncavil.\n\nI have witnessed many representations of _Macbeth_, and in every\ninstance the passage referred to has been delivered as I object to it:\nbut that is not to be wondered at, for there are professed admirers of\nShakspeare among actors who read him _not_ as if they understood him,\nbut who are--\n\n  \"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\"\n\nG. BLINK.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n_As throng as Throp's Wife._--As I was busy in my garden yesterday, a\nparishioner, whose eighty-two years of age render her a somewhat\nprivileged person to have a gossip with, came in to speak to me. With a\nview to eliciting material for a Note or a Query, I said to her, \"You\nsee I am _as throng as Throp's wife_;\" to which she replied, \"Aye, Sir,\nand _she_ hanged herself in the dishcloth.\" The answer is new to me; but\nthe proverb itself, as well as the one mentioned by \"D.V.S.\" (No. 24. p.\n382.) \"As lazy as Ludlum's dog, &c.,\" has been an especial object of\nconjecture to me as long as I can remember. I send this as a pendant to\n\"D.V.S.'s\" Query, in hopes of shortly seeing the origin of _both_ these\ncurious sayings.\n\nJ.E.\n\nEcclesfield, Sheffield, April 19. 1850.\n\n\n_Trimble Family._--In a MS. account of the Fellows of King's I find the\nfollowing:--\n\n    \"1530.--Rich. Trimble, a very merry fellow, the fiddle of the\n    society, who called him 'Mad Trimble.' M. Stokes of 1531 wrote\n    this distich on him:--\n\n      'Os, oculi, mentum, dens, guttur, lingua, palatum\n        Sunt tibi; sed nasus, Trimbale, dic ubi sit?'\n\n    By which it appears he had a very small nose; and this day, July\n    13, 1739, I hear that there is one Mr. R. Trimble of an English\n    family, an apothecary at Lisburn in Ireland, who is remarkable\n    for the same.\"\n\nAs \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" circulate in Ireland, are there any of the family\nof \"Trimble\" now in that country, and are they distinguished by any such\npeculiarity?\n\nJ.H.L.\n\n\n_The Word \"Brozier.\"_--my brother Etonians will feelingly recollect the\nword \"Brozier,\" used by the boys for nearly a century to denote any one\nwho had spent his pocket-money; an event of very frequent occurrence\nshortly after the holidays. There were also sometimes attempts made to\n\"_brozier my dame_,\" in case a suspicion had arisen that the good lady's\nlarder was not too well supplied. The supper table was accordingly\ncleared of all the provisions, and a further stock of eatables\nperemptorily demanded.\n\nI spell the word \"brozier\" as it is still pronounced; perhaps some of\nyour readers have seen it in print, and may be able to give some account\nof its origin and etymology, and decide whether it is exclusively\nbelonging to Eton.\n\nBRAYBROOKE.\n\nApril 14.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\nTHE DODO QUERIES.\n\nThere is no mention of the Solitaire as inhabiting Bourbon, either in\nP\u00e8re Brown's letter or in the _Voyage de l'Arabic Heureuse_, from whence\nthe notice of the Oiseau Bleu was extracted. I have since seen Dellon,\n_R\u00e9lation d'un Voyage des Indes Orientales_, 2 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1685,\nin which there is a brief notice of the Isle of Bourbon or Mascarin; but\nneither the Dodo, the Solitaire, or the Oiseau Bleu are noticed. The\nlarge Bat is mentioned, and the writer says that the French who were on\nthe island did not eat it, but only the Indians. He also notices the\ntameness of the birds, and says that the Flammand, with its long neck,\nis the only bird it was necessary to use a gun against, the others being\nreadily destroyed with a stick or taken by hand.\n\nMr. Strickland's correction of the error about the monumental evidence\nof the discovery of Bourbon by the Portuguese, in 1545, will aid\nresearch into the period at which it was first visited and named; but my\nstock of Portuguese literature is but small, and not all of it\naccessible {486} to me at present. In the meantime it may be acceptable\nto Mr. Strickland to know, that there is a detailed account of\nPortuguese discoveries in a book whose title would hardly indicate it,\nin which one passage will probably interest him. I allude to the rare\nand interesting folio volume printed at Lisbon in 1571. _De Rebus\nEmanuelis Regis Lusitanie, invictissimi Virtute et Auspicio Gestis,\nauctore Hieronymo Osorio Episcopo Silvensis_. These annals embrace the\nperiod from 1495 to 1529. In narrating the principal events of Vasco de\nGama's first voyage, after he had rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the\n25th November, 1497, steering to the east along the southern coast of\nAfrica, the vessels anchor in the bay of St. Blaize, where--\n\n    \"In intimo sinu est parva qu\u00e6dam Insula, ad quam nostri aquandi\n    gratia naves-appulerunt. Ibi phocarum armenta conspexere\n    admiranda qu\u00e6dam multitudine. In quibus inerat tanta feritas et\n    truculentia, ut in homines irruerent. AVES etiam eo in loco vis\u00e6\n    sunt, quas incolas apellant SOLTICARIOS, pares anscribus\n    magnitudine: plumis minime vestiuntur, alas habent similes alis\n    verspertionum: volare nequeunt, sed explicatis alarum membranis,\n    cursum celeritate summa conficiunt.\"\n\nThe islet was probably that of _La Cruz_; but what were the birds? and\nwhat was the indigenous name which is represented by _Solticarios_? It\nis possible that some of your correspondents may be familiar with the\noriginal narration which Osorio follows, or Mr. Strickland may be able\nto solve the question.\n\nI may just remark, that my observation respecting the improbability of\nTradescant's stuffed specimen having been a fabrication could hardly be\nconsidered superfluous, seeing that some naturalists, Dr. Gray, I\nbelieve, among others, had suggested that it most probably was one.\n\nS.W. SINGER.\n\nMay 3. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nABBEY OF ST. WANDRILLE.\n\nIn reply to the Vicar of Ecclesfield (No. 24. p. 382.), I am sorry to\nsay that the \"Chronicle of the Abby of St. Wandrille,\" to which I\nalluded (No. 21. p. 338.), contains nothing relating to the subject of\nhis inquiry. The Abbey of Fontanelle, or St. Wandrille, was founded A.D.\n645; and this chronicle contains a very concise account of a few only of\nits abbots and most celebrated members, down to the year 834: written,\nit is supposed, by a cotemporary of Ansegisus, the last abbot therein\nmentioned. It is followed by an appendix containing a compilation from a\nbook on miracles wrought in the translation of the body of St. Wilfran,\nby an \"eye-witness,\" which also recounts incidentally some of the acts\nof the abbots of St. Wandrille to the year 1053. Acheri speaks of\npersons who had been long engaged in collecting memorials of the history\nof this abbey up to the time of his writing, 1659. Whether these have\never been published, I have not the means at this moment of\nascertaining. Some account of this abbey, with views of its ruins, will\nbe found in that splendid work, _Voyages dans L'Ancienne France_, by\nNodier, &c., vol. i.\n\nThe following notes from this chronicle may not be without interest, as\nshowing an early connection between the abbey and this country, and our\nattachment to the See of Rome.\n\nChapter V. is devoted to the praise of BAGGA, a monk and presbyter of\nthis abbey, who is said to have been \"ex Britanni\u00e2 Oceani insula\nSaxonico ex genere ortus.\" He died, and was buried in the abbey, between\nthe years 707 and 723; on which occasion the Abbot Benignus is said to\nhave exclaimed, \"O signifer fortissime Christi militi\u00e6 BAGGA, nunc\nmercedem laborum l\u00e6tus accipis tuorum. Deprecare ipsum benignum Dominum,\nut un\u00e0 tecum mereamur gaudere consortiis justorum per \u00e6vum.\" Here is a\nprayer not for, but _to_ the dead.\n\nDuring the presidency of AUSTRULPHUS (ch. 13.), which began in 747 and\nended in 753, a certain receptacle, in the form of a small _pharos_, was\ndriven ashore in the district of Coriovallum, which contained a very\nfair copy of the four Gospels, beautifully written in Roman characters\non the purest vellum; and part of the precious jaw of St. George the\nMartyr, as well as a portion of the \"health-bearing\" wood of the true\ncross, duly labelled. The acquisition of this treasure was of course\nascribed to the immediate interposition of God. And as about the same\nperiod the head of St. George was discovered at Rome, through the\nintervention of Pope Zachary, it was conjectured that this pontiff had\ngiven the wonder-working relic to some venerable men from _Britain_, a\ncountry described as being \"always on the most intimate footing (_maxim\u00e8\nfamiliares_) with the Apostolic See;\" and that, these being wrecked on\ntheir voyage home, or through some other adventure, the said treasure\nwas providentially driven ashore at Coriovallum.\n\nChapter XV. gives us an account of GERVOLDUS, who ruled this abbey\neighteen years, dying A.D. 806. He had been ambassador from Charlemagne\nto Offa, King of Mercia. The son of Charlemagne demanded the daughter of\nOffa in marriage, who refused his consent, unless his own son should\nreceive the hand of Bertha, the daughter of the French king. Charles, in\nconsequence, inhibited the subjects of Offa from trading on the French\ncoast. This inhibition was, however, withdrawn through the mediation of\nthe Abbot Gervoldus, who seems to have been in great favour with\nCharles.\n\nI need hardly say, that throughout the chronicle there is a tolerable\nsprinkling of the marvellous. {487} I give you the following as a\nwarning to all dishonest bell-founders.\n\nThe pious builder of a church being desirous, according to custom, of\nputting a bell in the turret, engaged a skillful craftsman to carry into\neffect his design. This man, \"at the instigation of the devil,\" stole\nsome of the metal with which he had been furnished for the work; and the\nbell was, in consequence, mis-shapen and of small size. It was, however,\nplaced in the turret; but, as a divine punishment for his crime,\nwhenever the bell was struck, the dishonest founder was thereupon seized\nwith frenzy, uttering strange words and barking like a dog!\n\nGASTROS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nORIGIN OF THE WORD \"NEWS.\"\n\nI have great respect for \"Mr. SAMUEL HICKSON,\" but I cannot treat his\nderivation of the word \"News\" with any respect (No. 27. p. 428.). I wish\n\"Mr. HICKSON\" had been a little more modest in his manner of propounding\nhis novelty. Can any thing be more dogmatic than his assertions? which I\nwill recapitulate as much as possible in his own words, before I proceed\nto deal with them.\n\n1. \"I have never had the least doubt that this word is derived\nimmediately from the German.\"\n\n2. \"It is, in fact, 'das Neue' in the genitive case;\" and \"Mr. H.\"\nproceeds to mention the German phrase, \"Was giebt's Neues?\" as giving\nthe exact sense of our \"What is the news?\" [which cannot be gainsaid;\nbut I shall have a word to say presently about _neues_ in that phrase\nbeing the genitive case.]\n\n3. \"That the word is not derived from the English adjective 'new,'--that\nit is not of English manufacture at all--I feel well assured.\"\n\n4. \"In that case '_s_' would be the sign of the plural; and we should\nhave, as the Germans have, either extant or obsolete, also 'the new.'\"\n[I do not see the _sequitur_.]\n\n5 \"'News' is a noun singular, and as such must have been adopted bodily\ninto the language.\"\n\nSuch are \"Mr. HICKSON's\" principal assertions: and when I add, that he\nhas found out that the German \"neu\" was in olden time spelt \"new,\" so\nthat the genitive, \"newes,\" was identical with the old form of the\nEnglish word \"news;\" and that he explains the transformation of a\ngenitive case of a German adjective into an English substantive by\nEnglish ignorance, which he further thinks is exemplified by the Koran\nhaving been called \"the Alkoran,\" in ignorance of \"_Al_\" meaning \"the,\"\nI have given not only all of his assertions, but also the whole of his\nargument.\n\nI now proceed to assert on my part that the word \"news\" is not \"derived\nimmediately from the German,\" and \"has not been adopted bodily into our\nlanguage;\" that the English \"new\" and German \"neu\" have, however, of\ncourse the same origin, their common root being widely spread in other\nlanguages, as [Greek: neos], Gr.; _norus_, Lat.; _neuf_, Fr., &c.; that\n\"news\" is a noun of plural form and plural meaning, like _goods_,\n_riches_, &c.; that its peculiar and frequent use is quite sufficient to\naccount for its having come to be used as a singular noun (\"riches,\" by\nthe way, may be prefixed sometimes to a singular verb, as \"riches is a\ncause of corruption\"); that Mr. HICKSON might as well say that \"goods\"\nis derived immediately from \"gutes,\" the genitive of \"gut;\" and \"riches\"\nfrom \"reiches,\" the genitive of \"reich:\" and also that if \"_s_\" in\n\"goods,\" and \"_es_\" in \"riches\" are signs of the plural, \"we should\nhave, as the Germans have, either extant or obsolete,\" the \"good,\" \"the\nrich,\" (not that I quite understand this part of \"Mr. HICKSON's\"\nargument): and, lastly, I assert that I believe that _Neues_, in the\nphrase \"Was giebt's Neues?\" is not the genitive, but the nominative\nneuter, so that the phrase is to be literally translated \"What is there\nnew?\"\n\nAs regards the derivation of \"News,\" I wish you had allowed the question\nto rest as it stood after the sensible remarks of \"A.E.B.\" (No. 23. p.\n369.). Pray excuse me, Sir, for expressing a hope that you will ponder\nwell before you again allow us to be puzzled on so plain a subject, and\ngive circulation and your sanction to paradoxes, even though coming from\none so entitled to attention as \"Mr. HICKSON.\"\n\nThe early communication between the English and German languages, of\nwhich \"Mr. HICKSON\" puts forward the derivation of \"news\" from \"neues\"\nas an instance, may be an interesting and profitable subject of inquiry;\nbut as I think he has been singularly unfortunate in the one instance,\nso I do not think him particularly happy in his other. I see no further\nresemblance between Heywood's \"Song in praise of his Mistress,\" and the\nearly German poem, than what _might_ arise from treatment of the same\nand a very common subject.\n\nI am not enough of an etymologist to give you the root of the word\n\"noise.\" But my faith in \"Mr. HICKSON\" in this capacity is not strong\nenough to lead me to believe, on his dictum, that \"news\" and \"noise\" are\nthe same word; and when, pursuing his fancy about \"neues,\" he goes on to\nsay that \"noise\" is \"from a dialect from which the modern German\npronunciation of the dipthong is derived,\" I fear his pronunciation of\nGerman is faulty, if he pronounces _eu_ in \"Neues\" like _oi_ in \"noise.\"\n\n    [We differ from our correspondent on this point, and think that\n    here, at all events, Mr. HICKSON has the advantage of the\n    argument.]\n\nI beg to repeat that for \"Mr. HICKSON\" I feel great respect. If he knew\nmy name, he would probably know nothing about me; but I happen {488} to\nknow of him, what perhaps, some of your readers do not, that he has\nunostentatiously rendered many considerable services not only to\nliterature but to our social and political interests. In my humble\nopinion, his recent essay in your columns on _The Taming of the Shrew_\nis a contribution to our literary history which you may be proud of\nhaving published. But I feel that I cannot too strongly protest against\nhis derivation of \"News.\"\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury_ (No. 24. p. 382., No. 27. p.\n444.).--I am obliged to \"COLL. REGAL. SOCIUS\" for his notice of my\ninquiry. The Lord Chamberlain and Chancellor of Cambridge University\nmentioned in Lord Lauderdale's letter to Dr. Whichcot, is the Earl of\nManchester. Shaftesbury was never either Lord Chamberlain or Chancellor\nof Cambridge.\n\nI may mention that Whichcot's intimacy with Lord Shaftesbury would\nprobably have been brought about by his being incumbent of the church of\nSt. Lawrence Jewry, Shaftesbury having his London house in the latter\npart of his life in Aldersgate Street.\n\nIf it is not committing unpardonable trespass on that useful part of\nyour publication in which books and odd volumes are asked for, I will go\non to say that I should be glad to have a copy of the volume of\nWhichcot's _Sermons_ (1698) which the third Lord Shaftesbury edited, at\na reasonable price.\n\nCH.\n\n\n_Elizabeth and Isabel_ (No. 27. p. 439.).--Mr. Thomas Duffus Hardy, in\nhis evidence on the Camoys Peerage case (June 18. 1838, Evidence, p.\n351.) proved that the names of Isabella and Elizabeth were in ancient\ntimes used indifferently, and particularly in the reigns of Edward I.\nand Edward III. Mr. Hardy says in his evidence:--\n\n    \"In the British Museum there is a Latin letter of Elizabeth of\n    Austria, Queen of Charles IX. of France, to Queen Elizabeth of\n    England. In the Latin she is called Elizabetha, and she signs\n    her name Ysabel. In the _Chronicle de St. Denis_, in the year\n    1180, it is stated, 'Le jor martmes espousa la noble Roine\n    Ysabel,' 'Upon this day, Queen Elizabeth was married;' and in\n    _Rigordus de Gestis Philippi Augusti Regis Francois_ it is\n    stated, 'Tune inuncta fuit Elizabeth uxor ejus venerabilis\n    foemina;' and Moreri says she is called 'Elizabeth or Izabeau de\n    Hainault, Queen of France, wife of Philippe Auguste.' Camden, in\n    his _Remains_, says, 'Isabel is the same as Elizabeth;' that the\n    Spaniards always translate Elizabeth into Isabel, and the French\n    into Izabeau. I have seen in the British Museum a deed, in which\n    the name Elizabetha is written in Latin; on the seal it is\n    Isabella. In the _Inquisitiones post Mortem_ I have frequently\n    seen Ysabella returned in one country and Elizabetha in an other\n    for the same person. I have something like a dozen other\n    instances from Moreri, in which he says that Elizabeth and\n    Isabella or Isabeau are the same. Elizabeth or Izabeau de\n    France, dau. of Lewis VIII. and Blanche of Castella; Elizabeth\n    or Isabelle d'Aragon, Queen of France, wife of Philippe III.,\n    surnamed le Hardie; Elizabeth or Isabeau de Bavi\u00e8re, Queen of\n    France, wife of Charles VI.; Elizabeth or Isabeau d'Angoul\u00eame,\n    wife of King John of England; Elizabeth or Isabeau de France,\n    Queen of England, dau. of Philippe IV.; Elizabeth or Isabelle of\n    France, Queen of Richard II.; Elizabeth or Isabelle de France,\n    Queen of Navarre; Elizabeth or Isabelle de Valois, dau. of\n    Charles of France; Elizabeth or Isabelle de France, dau. of\n    Philippe le Long, King of France; Elizabeth or Isabelle de\n    France, Duchess of Milan; Elizabeth or Isabelle, Queen of\n    Philippe V. of Spain.\"\n\nWM. DURRANT COOPER.\n\n81. Guildford Street, May 4. 1850.\n\n\n\n_Elizabeth--Isabel._--The Greek word [Greek: Elisabet] (Luke, i. 5. &c.)\nfrom which Elizabeth, or _Elisabeth_, must have been adopted as a\nChristian name, is used by the LXX. (Exodus, vi. 23.) to express the\nHebrew [Hebrew: Elisheba], the name of Aaron's wife. This at once\ndirects us to the verb [Hebrew: shaba], or rather to its Niphal,\n[Hebrew: nishba], for the _Kal_ form does not occur, _to swear_; for the\ncombination of letters in [Hebrew: el isshaba], _God will swear_, or\n_God sweareth_, is the same as that in the proper name. Now let us\ntranspose the verb and its nominative case, and we have [Hebrew: ishaba\nel], which a Greek translator might soften into [Greek: Isabel].\n\nThe use of [Greek: Elisabet] both by the LXX. and the Evangelist, makes\nit probable that the mother of John the Baptist, who was _of the\ndaughters of Aaron_ (Luke, i. 5.), was known amongst her own people by\nthe recognized and _family_ name of _Elisheba_, as _Anna_ no doubt would\nbe _Hannah_ ([Hebrew: hanah]), and _Mary, Miriam_ ([Greek: Mariam],\nLuke, i. 27.). And this is confirmed by the Syriac version, the\nvernacular, or nearly so, of Our Blessed Lord and His disciples, which\nhas [Syriac: elisheba].\n\nGenesius, in his _Lexicon_, explains Elisheba to mean \"cui Deus est\nsacramentum,\" \"qu\u00e6 jurat per Deum, i.e. Dei cultrix: cf. Is. xix. 18.\" I\nshould rather take it to be a name expressive of trust in God's promises\nor oath, such as _Elijah_, \"the LORD is my God;\" _Isaiah_, \"the LORD is\nmy salvation;\" _Ezekiel_, \"God strengtheneth.\" Schleusner (_Lex. N.T._)\nsays that others derived it from [Hebrew: saba], _saturavit_; \"sic in\nAlberti _Gloss. N.T._, p. 87. explicatur, [Greek: Theou mou\nplaesmonae].\" Wolfius, in his note on Luke, i. 5., refers to Witsii\n_Miscellanea_, tom. ii. p. 478., to which I must refer your\ncorrespondent \"A.C.,\" as I have not the book by me.\n\nCamden must, of course, have derived the name {489} from [Hebrew:\nshabath], _to rest_; but I think we must rather defer to the authority\nof the LXX. And though [Hebrew: el ishaboth] may give us _Elisabeth_, we\nshall not be able to deduce _Isabel_ from [Hebrew: ishboth el] quite so\neasily.\n\nB.\n\nL ---- Rectory, S ----, May 4. 1850.\n\n\n_Trunck Breeches_ (No. 24. p. 384.), more commonly called \"trunk-hose,\"\nwere short wide breeches reaching a little above, or sometimes below the\nknees, stuffed with hair, and striped. (See _The Oxford Manual for\nBrasses_, p. cvi.; and Planche's _British Costume_, pp. 334-339. new\ned.) Two years ago, I saw in the Strand an old man with a _queue_; a\nsight which I made a note of as soon as I got home, influenced by the\nsame motive that, no doubt, led Smith in 1640 to append to the death of\n\"old Mr. Grice\" the remark, \"who wore truncke breeches,\" namely, the\nantique singularity of the habiliment.\n\nARUN.\n\n\n_Mercenary Preacher_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--I think mercenary here is used\nin its primary signification, and in the sense in which we still apply\nit to troops in the pay of a state foreign to their own; to designate\none who, having no settled cure, was at liberty to be \"hired\" by those\nwho had occasion for his services.\n\nARUN.\n\n\n_Abdication of James the Second_ (No. 3. p. 40.).--\"J.E.\" would probably\nhear of the MSS. mentioned by Sir Harris Nicholas, on application to the\nRev. Sir Thomas Miller, Bart., Froyle, near Alton, Hants.\n\nE.W.\nClifton.\n\n\n_Toom Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--An entertaining volume,\ncontaining the life and adventures of Twm Sion Catti, was published at\nBiulth some years ago, by Mr. Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard, who recently\ntold me it was out of print, and that inquiries had been made for the\nbook which might probably lead to a new and improved edition.\n\nELIJAH WARING.\nDowry Parade, Clifton.\n\n\n_Wotton's Poem to Lord Bacon_ (No. 19. p. 302.).--The poem communicated\nby Dr. Rimbault, with the heading, \"To the Lord Bacon when falling from\nFavour,\" and with the remark that he does \"not remember to have seen it\nin print,\" was written by Sir Henry Wotton, and may be found under the\ntitle, \"Upon the sudden restraint of the _Earl of Somerset_, then\nfalling from Favour,\" in all the old editions of the _Reliqui\u00e6\nWottonian\u00e6_ (1651, 1654, 1672, and 1685), as well as in the modern\neditions of Sir Henry's poems, by Mr. Dyce and Mr. Hannah. It was also\nprinted as Wotton's in Clarke's _Aurea Legenda_, 1682, p. 97., and more\nrecently in Campbell's _Specimens_, in both cases, doubtless, from _Rel.\nWotton_. The misapplication of it to Lord Bacon's fall dates from an\nunauthorised publication in 1651, which misled Park in his edition of\nWalpole's _Royal and Noble Authors_, ii. 208. In stanza 3. line 2. of\nDr. Rimbault's copy, \"burst\" should be \"trust.\"\n\nR.A.\n\n\n\"_My Mind to Me a Kingdom is_\" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The following note,\nfrom the Introduction to Mr. Hannah's edition of the Poems of Sir H.\nWotton and Sir Walter Raleigh, 1845, p. lxv., will answer Dr. Rimbault's\nQuery, and also show that a claim had been put in for Sir E. Dyer before\nMr. Singer's very valuable communication to \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" p. 355.\n\n    \"There are three copies of verses on that model; two of which,\n    viz., one of four stanzas and another of size, were printed by\n    Byrd in 1588. They have been reprinted from his text in _Cens.\n    Lit_ ii. 108-110, and _Exc. Tudor_, i. 100-103. Percy inserted\n    them in the _Reliques_ with some alterations and additions; but\n    he changed his mind more than once as to whether they were two\n    distinct poems, or only the discovered parts of one (see i.\n    292-294. 303., ed. 1767; and i. 307-310. ed. 1839). The third\n    (containing four stanzas) is among Sylvester's _Posthumous\n    Poems_ p. 651.; and Ellis reprinted it under his name. In _Cens.\n    Lit._ ii. 102., another copy of it is given from a music book by\n    Gibbons, 1612. Now the longest, and apparently the earliest of\n    these poems is signed 'E. DIER,' in MS. Rawl. Poet. 35., fol.\n    17. That copy contains _eight_ stanzas, and one of the two which\n    are not in Byrd corresponds with a stanza which Percy added. The\n    following are the reasons which incline us to trust this\n    MS.:--(1.) Because it is the very MS. to which reference is\n    commonly made for several of Dyer's unprinted poems, as by Dr.\n    Bliss, _A.O._ i. 743.; and apparently by Mr. Dyce, ed. of\n    Greene, i. p. xxxv. n.; and by Park, note on Warton, iii. 230.\n    Park is the only person I can recollect who has mentioned this\n    particular poem in the MS., and he cannot have read more than\n    the first line, for he only says, 'one of them bears the popular\n    burden of \"My mind to me a kingdom is.\"' (2.) Because it is\n    quite impossible that Dyer wrote many extant poems, of which he\n    is not known to be the author; for, as Mr. Dyce says, none of\n    his (_acknowledged_) productions 'have descended to our times\n    that seem to justify the contemporary applause which he\n    received.' (3.) Because I cannot discover that there is any\n    other claimant to this poem. One of Greene's poems ends with the\n    line,\n\n      'A mind content both crown and kingdom is.'\"\n\n      (_Works_, ii. 288., ed. Dyce.)\n\nIt will be observed that no mention is here made of the copy in Breton's\ntract; therefore this summary gains from both the correspondents of\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES\"--an addition from the one, a corroboration from the\nother.\n\nR.A.\n\n\n_Gesta Grayorum_ (No. 22. p. 351.).--\"J.S.\" is informed that copies of\nthe _Gesta Grayorum_ are by no means uncommon. It was originally printed\n{490} for _one shilling_; but the bibliomaniac must now pay from\n_twenty_ to _thirty shillings_ for a copy. The original, printed in\n1688, does not contain the second part, which was published by Mr.\nNichols for the first time. Copies are in the Bodleian, and in the\nUniversity Library, Cambridge.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Marylebone Gardens_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--These gardens were finally\nclosed in 1777-8. It is not generally known that, previous to the year\n1737, this \"fashionable\" place of amusement was entered _gratis_ by all\nranks of people; but the company becoming more \"select,\" Mr. Gough, the\nproprietor, determined to charge a shilling as entrance money, for which\nthe party paying was to receive an equivalent in viands.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Mother of Thomas \u00e0\u00a0Becket_ (No. 26. p. 415.).--An inspection of some of\nthe numerous legends touching the blessed martyr, St. Thomas of\nCanterbury, would probably supply many interesting particulars\nconcerning the story of his father's romantic marriage. But the most\nimportant narrative is that of Herbert Bosham, Becket's secretary, who,\nit will be remembered, was present at his martyrdom. Bosham's _Vita et\nRes Gest\u00e6 Thom\u00e6 Episcopi Cantuariensis_ is published in the\n_Quadrilogus_, Paris, 1495. Consult also the French translation of Peter\nLangtoft, and the English one by Laurence Wade, a Benedictine monk of\nCanterbury. Robert of Gloucester's metrical _Legend of the Life and\nMartyrdom of Thomas Beket_, published by the Percy Society, under the\neditorial care of Mr. W.H. Black, fully confirms the \"romance;\" as also\ndo the later historians, Hollingshed, Fox, and Baker.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Dr. Strode's Poem_ (no. 10. p. 147.).--Dr. Strode's poem, beginning--\n\n  \"Return my joys, and hither bring--\"\n\nwhich Dr. Rimbault does \"not remember to have seen in print,\" is in\nEllis's _Specimens_, iii. 173. ed. 1811. He took it from _Wit Restored_,\np. 66. ed. 1658, or i. 168. reprint. It is the second poem mentioned by\nDr. Bliss, _A.O._ iii. 152., as occurring with Strode's name in MS.\nRawl. 142.\n\nR.A.\n\n\n\"_All to-broke_\" (No. 25. p. 395.).--Surely the explanation of Judges,\nix. 53, is incorrect. Ought not the words to be printed \"and all-to\nbrake his scull,\" where \"all-to\" = \"altogether\"?\n\nR.A.\n\n\n_Woolton's Christian Manual_ (No. 25. p. 399.).--There is a copy in the\nGrenville Collection.\n\nNOVUS.\n\n\n_Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.).--\"J.E.\" may advance his knowledge\nabout F.H. slightly, by referring to Herbert's _Ames_, p. 1123.\n\nNOVUS.\n\n\n_Duke of Marlborough_ (No. 26. p. 415.).--Your correspondent \"BURIENSIS\"\nis referred to the Trial of William Barnard, Howell's _State Trials_,\nxix. 815-846.; the case of Rex _v._ Fielding, Esq., Burrow's _Reports_,\nii. 719. and Lounger's _Common Place Book_, tit. Barnard, William. The\ngreater part of this latter article is in Leigh Hunt's _One Hundred\nRomances of Real Life_, No. 1.\n\nC.H. COOPER.\nCambridge, April 29. 1850.\n\n    [\"C.I.R.\" refers \"BURIENSIS\" to Burke's _Celebrated Trials\n    connected with the Aristocracy_, London, 1848; and \"J.P. Jun.\"\n    refers to Leigh Hunt's _London Journal_, No. 1. p. 5., No. 3. p.\n    24.]\n\n\n_Lord Carrington or Karinthon_ (No. 27. p. 440.).--The nobleman about\nwhom \"C.\" inquires, was Sir Charles Smith, created an English baron 19\nCharles I., by the title of Lord Carrington, and afterwards advanced to\nthe dignity of an Irish Viscount under the same name. These honours were\nconferred upon him for his services to the King in the time of his\nmajesty's great distresses.\n\nOn the 20th Feb., 1655, whilst travelling in France, Lord Carrington was\nbarbarously murdered by one of his servants for the sake of his money\nand jewels, and buried at Pontoise. (Bankes' _Dormant and Extinct\nPeerage_, vol. iii. p. 155.) The title became extinct circiter 1705.\n\nBRAYBOOKE.\n\n\nLord Monson presents his compliments to the Editor of \"NOTES AND\nQUERIES,\" and has the pleasure of answering a Query contained in this\nday's Number, p. 440.; and takes the liberty of adding another.\n\nThe English nobleman murdered at Pontoise was Charles Smith, Viscount\nCarrington of Barrefen, Ireland, and Baron Carrington of Wotton Warem,\nco. Warwick; the date in the pedigrees of the murder is usually given\n1666, probably March 1665-6.\n\nThe last Lord Carrington died 17 May, 1706: the estates of Wotton came\nto Lewis Smith, who married Eliz., daughter of William Viscount Monson,\nand relict of Sir Philip Hungate. His son Francis Smith Carrington died\nin 1749, and left one daughter and heir. What relation was Lewis Smith\nto the Smiths Lord Carrington? No pedigree gives the connection.\n\nDover, May 4. 1850.\n\n    [\"J.M.W.\" has kindly answered this Query; so also has \"W.M.T.,\"\n    who adds, \"Lord Carrington, previously Sir Charles Smith,\n    brother to Sir John Smith, who fell on the King's side at\n    Alresford in 1644, being Commissary-General of the Horse. By the\n    way, Bankes says it was his _son_ John who fell at Alresford,\n    but it is more likely to have been, as Clarendon states, his\n    brother, unless he lost there both a brother and a son.\"] {491}\n\n\n_Esquires and Gentlemen._--I would ask your correspondent (No. 27. p.\n437.), whether he has ascertained _the grounds of distinction_ made in\nthe seventeenth and in the early part of the eighteenth century, between\n_esquires_ and _gentlemen_, when both were landed proprietors? We find\nlists of names of governors of hospitals, trustees, &c., where this\ndistinction is made, and which, apparently, can only be accounted for on\nthis ground, that the estates of the gentleman were smaller in extent\nthan those of the esquire; and, consequently, that the former was so far\na person of less consideration. Had the bearing of coat armour, or a\nconnection with knighthood, any thing to do with the matter?\n\nJ.H. MARKLAND.\nBath, May.\n\n\n_Early Inscriptions._--The excellent remarks by \"T.S.D.\" on \"Arabic\nNumerals, &c.\" (No. 18. p. 279.) have put me in mind of two cases which\nin some degree confirm the necessity for his caution respecting\npronouncing definitively on the authenticity of old inscriptions, and\nespecially those on \"Balks and Beams\" in old manorial dwellings. The\nhouse in which I spent the greater portion of my youth was a mansion of\nthe olden time, whose pointed gables told a tale of years; and whose\ninternal walls and principal floors, both below and above stairs, were\nformed of \"raddle and daub.\" It had formerly belonged to a family of the\nname of Abbot; but the \"last of the race\" was an extravagant libertine,\nand after spending a handsome patrimonial estate, ended his days as a\nbeggar. Abbot House was evidently an ancient structure; but\nunfortunately, as tradition stated, a stone, bearing the date of its\nerection, had been carelessly lost during some repairs. However, in my\ntime, on the white wainscot of a long lobby on the second floor, the\ninitials, \"T.H. 1478,\" were distinctly traced in black paint, and many\npersons considered this as nothing less than a \"true copy\" of the lost\ninscription. Subsequent inquiry, however, finally settled the point; for\nthe inscription was traced to the rude hand of one of the workmen\nformerly employed in repairing the building, who naively excused himself\nby declaring that he considered it \"a pity so old a house should be\nwithout a year of our Lord.\"\n\nThe second instance is that of the occurrence of \"four nearly straight\nlines\" on one of the compartments of a fine old font in Stydd Church,\nnear Ribchester, which many visitors have mistaken for the date \"1178.\"\nA closer scrutiny, however, soon dispels the illusion; and a comparison\nof this with similar inscriptions on the old oak beams of the roof, soon\ndetermines it to be nothing more than a rude, or somewhat defaced,\nattempt to exhibit the sacred monogram \"I.H.S.\"\n\nJ.W.\nBurnley, April 27. 1850.\n\n\n_American Aborigines called Indians_ (No. 16. p. 254.).--I believe the\nreason is that the continent in which they live passed under the name of\n_India_, with the whole of the New World discovered at the close of the\nfifteenth century. It is, of course, unnecessary to dwell upon the fact\nof Columbus believing he had discovered a new route to India by sailing\ndue west; or upon the acquiescence of the whole world in that idea, the\neffects of which have not yet passed away; for we not only hear in\nSeville, even now, of the \"India House\" meaning house of management of\naffairs for the \"New World,\" but we even retain ourselves the name of\nthe West Indies, given as unwarrantably to the islands of the Caribbean\nSea. It is needless to do more than allude to this, and to other\nmisnomers still prevalent, notwithstanding the fact of the notions or\nideas under which the names were originally given having long since been\nexploded; such as the \"four quarters of the globe,\" the \"four elements,\"\n&c. If your correspondent searches for the solution of his difficulty on\ndifferent grounds from those I have mentioned, it would not satisfy him\nto be more diffuse; and if the whole reason be that which I conceive,\nquite enough has been said upon the subject.\n\nG.W.\n89. Hamilton Terrace, St. John's Wood.\n\n\n\"Northman\" is informed, that on the discovery of America by Columbus,\nwhen he landed at Guanahani (now called Cat Island), he thought, in\nconformity with his theory of the spherical shape of the earth, that he\nhad landed on one of the islands lying at the eastern extremity of\nIndia; and with this belief he gave the inhabitants the name of Indians.\nThe following quotations will perhaps be interesting:--\n\n    \"America pers\u00e6pe dicitur, sed improprie, Indi\u00e6 Occidentales,\n    _les Indes Occidentales_, Gallis, _West Inde_, Belgis: Non\n    tantum ab Hispanis, qui illam denominationem primi usurparunt,\n    sed etiam a Belgis, Anglis, et aliquando a Francis, quod eodem\n    fere tempore detecta sit ad occidentem, quo ad Orientem India\n    reperta est.\"--_Hofmanni Lexicon Univ._ 1677, sub titulo\n    \"_America_.\"\n\n    \"At eadem terra nonnullis _India Occidentalis_, nuncupatur, quia\n    eodem tempore, quo India Orientalis in Asia, h\u00e6c etiam delecta\n    fuit; tum quod utriusque incolis similis ac pene eadern ivendi\n    ratio: nudi quippe utrique agunt.\"--_P. Clurerii Introduct. in\n    Univ. Geographiam_, Cap. xi (iv.) 1711.\n\n    \"The most improper name of all, and yet not much less used than\n    that of _America_, is the _West Indies_: _West_, in regard of\n    the western situation of it from these parts of Europe; and\n    _Indies_, either as mistook for some part of India at the first\n    discovery, or else because the seamen use to call all countries,\n    if remote and rich, by the name of _India_.\"--_Heylyn's\n    Cosmography_, 1677, Book iv., sub initio.\n\nIt is almost needless to mention, that India received {492} its name\nfrom the river _Indus_; and that _Indus_ and [Greek: Indos] are the\nRoman and Greek forms of _Sindo_, the name it was known by among the\nnatives.\n\nHENRY KERSLEY.\nCorpus Christi Hall, Maidstone.\n\n    [We have received many other replies to this Query, referring\n    \"NORTHMAN\" to Robertson's _History of America_, and Humboldt's\n    _Aspects, &c._, vol. ii. p. 319.]\n\n\n_Vox Populi Vox Dei_ (No. 20. p. 321.).--Your correspondent \"QU\u00c6SITOR\"\nasks for the origin of the saying _Vox populi Vox Dei_. Warwick, in his\n_Spare Minutes_ (1637), says--\n\n    \"That the voice of the common people is the voice of God, is the\n    common voice of the people; yet it is as full of falsehood as\n    commonnesse. The cry before Pilate's judgement-seat, 'Let him be\n    crucified,' was _vox populi_, 'the cry of all the people.' How\n    far was it the voice of God?\"\n\nM.\n\n    [Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, in his valuable _Essay on the Influence\n    of Authority in Matters of Opinion_, p. 172., has some very\n    interesting remarks upon this proverb, which, \"in its original\n    sense, appears to be an echo of some of the sentences in the\n    classical writers, which attribute a divine or prophetic\n    character to common fame or rumour.\" See pp. 172, 173., and the\n    accompanying Notes.]\n\n\n_Dutch Language_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--\"E.V.\" will find Holtrop's\n_Dictionary_ in 2 vols. one of the best. Werninck's _Pocket Dictionary_\nis very good: also Tauchnitz's _Dutch and French_ (pocket): also\nPicard's _English and Dutch_. Jansen's is not bad. Swier's _Grammar_ is\na good one; but I do not know whether there is any late edition. See\nWilliams and Norgate, or Quaritch.\n\nAREDJID KOOEZ.\n\n    [Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly answered this\n    Query, by the following list:--\n\n    PYL (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the Dutch Language,\n    8vo. Rotterd. 1826, 8s.\n\n    AHN (F.) Neue holl\u00e4ndische Sprachlehre nebst Lesestucke, 12mo.\n    Cref. 1841, 2s.\n\n    AHN (F) holl\u00e4ndische Umgangsprache, 12mo. 1846, 1s. 6d.\n\n    PICARD (H.) A new Pocket Dictionary of the English and Dutch\n    Languages, remodelled and corrected from the best Authorities.\n    Zalt-bommel, 1848, 10s. 6d.\n\n    DICTIONNAIRE Hollandais et Fran\u00e7ais. 16mo. Leipzig, 4s.\n\n    HOLLANDISCH u. deutsches Taschen-w\u00f6rterbuch. 16mo. 4s.]\n\n\n\n\"_Salting._\"--Salt is said by all writers upon magic to be particularly\ndisagreeable to evil spirits; and it is owing to this noxious substance\nbeing dissolved in holy water, that it has such power in scaring them\naway. Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in\nall sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption?\n\nSalt is used emblematically in many of our foreign universities. There\nis a book published at Strasburg as late as 1666, containing twenty\nplates, illustrating the several strange ceremonies of the \"Depositio.\"\nThe last represents _the giving of the salt_, which a person is on a\nplate in his left hand; and, with his right hand, about to put _a pinch\nof it_ upon the tongue of each _Becanus_ or Freshman. A glass, probably\nholding wine, is standing near him. Underneath is the following\ncouplet:--\n\n  \"_Sal Sophi\u00e6 gustate_, bibatis vinaque l\u00e6ta,\n  Augeat immensus vos in utrisque Deus!\"\n\nA copy of this rare book was sold in the Rev. John Brand's collection. I\nhave never seen it, and know it only from a MS. note in one of Brand's\nCommon Place Books now in my possession.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\n_Vincent Gookin_ (No. 24. p. 385.).--Your querist \"J.\" is referred to\nBerry's _Kentish Pedigrees_, where, at pp. 60. 195. 202. 207. and 113.,\nhe will find notices and a pedigree of the family _Gookin_; and therein\nit is shown that Vincent Gookin was the fourth son of John Gookin of\nReplecourt, co. Kent, by Katherine, dau. of William Dene of Kingston.\n\nIn the early part of the 7th century, Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt. (why was\nhe knighted?) was living at Highfield House, in the parish of Bitton,\nGloucestershire. It appears by the register, that in 1635, Mary Gookin,\nGentleman, and Samuel, son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at\nBitton.\n\nIn 1637, John Gookin of Highfield, age 11 years, was buried in the\nMayor's Chapel, Bristol.\n\n1637, Frances, dau. of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., and the Lady Judith,\nwas baptized at Bitton.\n\n1637, Feb. 13. \"Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., was buryed\" at Bitton.\n\n1642, May 2. \"Judith, the Lady Gookin, was buryed\" at Bitton.\n\nThere are no monuments remaining.\n\nHighfield, with the manor of Upton Cheyney, was a considerable estate in\n1627, where it was passed by fine from John and Mary Barker to Vincent\nGookin, Esq.\n\nIn 1646, Vincent Gookin, Esq. (no doubt the knight's _son_), and Mary\nhis wife, and Robert Gookin their son, Gent., passed the same estates by\nfine to Dr. Samuel Bave, after which it is supposed the Gookins left the\nparish. In Sims' _Index_ are references to pedigrees under _Gokin,\nKent_. Any further notices of _Sir_ Vincent or his son would be\nacceptable to\n\nH.T. ELLACOMBE.\nBitton, May 20, 1850.\n\n\n_Sneck up_ (No. 29, p. 467.)--All Shakspearean {493} students will be\ndeeply indebted to you for giving insertion to articles on obsolete\nwords and phrases, so many of which are to found in the pages of the\ngreat poet. The article by R.R. is very interesting, but I apprehend\nthat the passage from Taylor, first quoted by Weber, is sufficient to\nshow that the phrase _sneck up_ was equivalent to _be hanged_! See\nHalliwell, p. 766, on the phrase, that writer not connecting it with\n_sneck_, to latch. Compare, also, _Wily Beguiled_,--\"An if mistress\nwould be ruled by him, Sophos might go _snick up_.\" And the _Two Angry\nWomen of Abingdon_, 1599,--\"If they be not, let them go _snick up_,\"\ni.e. let them go and be hanged! These passages will not be consistently\nexplained on R.R.'s principle.\n\nR.\n\n\n_Hanap_ (No. 29. p. 477.).--I have a few notes by me relative to the\ndrinking vessel, which may, perchance, be acceptable to some of your\nreaders. It was similar to the _standing cup_ and grace cup, as these\nvessels were subsequently called, being raised from the table by a foot\nand stem, for the convenience of passing it round the table for the\ncompany to pledge each other out of; it was thus distinguished from the\n_cup_, which was smaller, and only used by one person. The hanap\nfrequently occurs in wills and inventories of the thirteenth,\nfourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.\n\nIn the will of Lady Calre, 1355,--\n\n    \"Je devise a ma joefne fille Isabel Bardolf en cide de lui\n    marier un _hanap_ plat door.\"\n\nAnd in that of the Earl of March, 1389,--\n\n    \"Item. nous devisons a notre treschier friere Mons'r. Henri, un\n    _hanaper_ de tortelez ove un ostelle en le founce.\"\n\nA very elegant specimen is described in the will of the Duchess of\nGloucester, 1390,--\n\n    \"Un _hanappe_ de Beril gravez de long taille, et assis en un pe\u00e9\n    d'or, ove un large bordur paramont, et un covercle tout d'or,\n    ove un saphir sur le pomel du dit covercle.\"\n\nIn an inventory 19th Henry VI. we find--\n\n    \"Une haute coupe d'argent enorrez appellez _l'anap_ de les\n    pinacles pois de troie vii lb pris la lb xl. Summa xiii li.\"\n\nAnd temp. Edward II 1324,--\n\n    \"Un hanap a pee de la veille fazon quillere et cymelle el founz\n    du pois xxix, du pris xl.\"\n\nIn the same document several others are described having feet. I could\ngive many other quotations, but will conclude with only one more, as in\nthe last occurs the word _kyrymyry_, of which I should like to know the\nderivation, if any of your readers can assist me:--\n\n    \"Item, un hanap d ore covere del ovrage d un _kyrymyry_ et iij\n    scochons des armes d Engleterre et de Franuce en le sumet.\"\n\nI have met with notices of cups \"covered of _kerimery_ work,\" and\n\"chacez et pounsonez en lez founcez faitz de _kermery_;\" and the\nfollowing, from the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_, would seem to indicate\na sort of veil or net-work:--\n\n  \"He was as pale as a pelet,\n  In the palsy he semed\n  And clothed in a _kaurymaury_,\n  I kouthe it nought diseryve.\"\n\nW.C.\nJun.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMISCELLANIES\n\n_Bishop Burnet as an Historian._--Dr. Joseph Warton told my father that\n\"Old Lord Barthurst,\" Pope's friend, had cautioned him against relying\nimplicitly on all Burnet's statements; observing that the good bishop\nwas so given to gossiping and anecdote hunting, that the wags about\ncourt used often to tell him idle tales, for the mischievous pleasure of\nseeing him make note on them. Lord Bathurst did not, I believe, charge\nBurnet with deliberate misrepresentation, but considered some of his\npresumed facts _questionable_, for the reason stated.\n\nELIJAH WARING.\n\n\n_Dance Thumbkin._--In the _Book of Nursery Rhymes_, published by the\nPercy Society, there is a small error of importance, involving no less\nthat the learned would call \"a non sequitur,\" and which, if my\ncorrect-and-almost-unequalled nurse, Betty Richins, was alive, she would\nhave noticed much sooner that the nurseling who now addresses you. (She\ndied about the year 1796.) In the valuable and still popular nursery\nclassical song, \"Dance Thumbkin, dance,\" it is not only an error to say\n\"Thumbkin _he can_ dance alone\" (let any one reader of the \"NOTES AND\nQUERIES,\" male or female, _only try_), but it is not the correct text.\nBetty Richins has \"borne me on her knee a hundred times\" and sung it\nthus:--\n\n  Thumbkin _cannot_ dance alone.\n  So[1] dance ye merry men, every one.\"\n\nI scarcely need add, that if this be true of Thumbkin, it is _truer_ of\nForeman, Longman, Middleman, and Littleman.\n\nR.S.S.\n\n    [Footnote 1: Or _then_, meaning \"for that reason.\"]\n\n\n_King's Coffee-house, Covent Garden._--As an addition to \"Mr.\nRIMBAULT's\" Notes on Cunningham's _Handbook_, the following extract from\nHarwood's _Alumni Etonenses_, p. 293., in the recount of the boys\nelected for Eton to King's College may be interesting:--\n\n    \"A.D. 1713, 12.\"\n\n    \"Thomas King born at West Ashton in Wiltshire; went away\n    scholar, in apprehension that his fellowship {494} would be\n    denied him, and afterwards kept that coffee-house in Covent\n    Garden which was called by his own name.\"\n\nJ.H.L.\n\n\n_Spur Money_ (No. 23. p. 374, and No 28. p. 462.).--In a curious tract,\npublished in 1598, under the title of _The Children of the Chapel stript\nand whipt_, we have the following passage:--\n\n    \"Wee think it very necessarye that every quorister sholde bringe\n    with him to churche a Testament in Englishe, and turne to everie\n    chapter as it is daily read, or som other good and godly\n    prayer-booke, rather than spend their tyme in talk and hunting\n    after _spur-money_, whereon they set their whole mindes, and do\n    often abuse dyvers if they doe not bestowe somewhat on them.\"\n\nIn 1622, the dean of the Chapel Royal issued an order by which it was\ndecreed--\n\n    \"That if anie Knight, or other persone entituled to weare spurs,\n    enter the chappell in that guise, he shall pay to y'e quiristers\n    the accustomed fine; but if he command y'e youngest quirister to\n    repeate his _Gamut_, and he faile in y'e so doing, the said\n    Knight, or other, shall not pay y'e fine.\"\n\nThis curious extract I copied from the ancient cheque-book of the Chapel\nRoyal.\n\nWithin my recollection, His Grace the Duke of Wellington (who, by the\nway, is an excellent musician) entered the Royal Chapel \"booted and\nspurred,\" and was, of course, called upon for the fine. But His Grace\ncalling upon the youngest chorister to repeat his GAMUT, and the \"little\nurchin\" failing, the impost was not demanded.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.\n\nMr. W.S.W. Vaux, of the department of Antiquities, British Museum, has\njust published a very interesting little volume under the title of\n_Nineveh and Persepolis: an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and\nPersia, with an Account of the recent Researches in those Countries_.\nThe work is illustrated with numerous woodcuts; and the two points which\nMr. Vaux has proposed to elucidate,--viz., 1. The history of Assyria and\nPersia, and, as connected with it, that of the Medes, the Jews, and the\nChaldees, so far as it can be ascertained from the Bible, and the works\nof classical authors: and 2. The results of those inquiries which have\nbeen carried on for nearly three centuries by European travellers,--he\nhas successfully accomplished, in a way to make his book a most useful\nintroduction to the study of the larger works which have been written\nupon this important subject; and a valuable substitute to those who have\nneither the means to purchase them, nor time to devote to their perusal.\n\nThe Rev. Dr. Maitland has just published a second edition of his\n_Eruvin, or Miscellaneous Essays on Subjects connected with the Nature,\nHistory, and Destiny of Man_. The Essays are ten in number, and treat:\nI. On the Nature and Objects of Revelation. II. On the Impediments to\nthe Right Understanding of Scripture. III. Man before the Fall. IV.\nSatan. V. The Consequences of the Fall. VI. The Fallen Angels. VII. The\nMillenium. VIII. The Kingdom of Messiah. IX. The Regeneration. X. The\nModern Doctrine of Miracles. We mention the subjects of these papers\nbecause, although they are of a nature not to be discussed in our\ncolumns, we are sure many of our readers will be glad to know the points\non which they treat.\n\nWe have received the following Catalogues:--Bibliotheca Selecta, Curiosa\net Rarissima. Part First of a general Catalougue of Miscellaneous\nEnglish and Foreign Books now on sale by Thomas G. Stevenson, 87.\nPrinces Street, Edinburgh--(a Catalogue well deserving attention of our\nAntiquarian friends); John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue of\nBooks Old and New; W.S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road)\nCatalogue No. 56., May, 1850, of English, Foreign, Classical and\nMiscellaneous Literature.\n\nMessrs. Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street, will commence on Monday\nnext an eight days' sale of the valuable library of the late Rev. 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