{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13747/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13747","id":"gutenberg_13747","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13747","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - British","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. 25.] SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {393}\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nOur further Progress. 393\n\nNOTES:--\n  Roger Bacon, Hints for a New Edition of. 393\n  Craik's Romance of the Peerage. 394\n  Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault,\n    LL.D. 395\n  Pope's Revision of Spence, by W.S. Singer. 396\n  Folk Lore:--Charm for the Toothache--Easter Eggs--Cure\n  for Hooping-cough--Gootet. 397\n  Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-book, by C. Ross. 397\n\nQUERIES:--\n  Woolton's Christian Manual. 399\n  Luther's Translation of the New Testament. 399\n  Minor Queries:--Medical Symbols--Charles II. and\n    Lord R.'s Daughter--St. Alban's Day--Black Broth--Deputy\n    Lieutenant of the Tower--Buccaneers--Travelling in\n    1590--Richard Hooker--Decker's Raven's\n    Almanack--Prebendaries--Luther's Portrait--Rawdon\n    Papers--Wellington, Wyrwast, &c.--Blockade of Corfe\n    Castle--Locke's MSS.--Locke's Life of Lord\n    Shaftesbury--Th\u00e9ses--Apocrypha, &c. 399\n\nREPLIES:--\n  Scala Coeli, by C.H. Cooper. 402\n  Watching the Sepulchre. 403\n  Queries Answered, No. 7., by Bolton Corney. 403\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Compendyous Olde\n    Treatyse--Hurdys--Eachard's Tracts--Masters of St.\n    Cross--Living Dog better than dead Lion--Monumental\n    Brass--Wickliff MSS.--Hever--Steward\n    Family--Gloves--Cromlech--Watewich--By Hook or by\n    Crook--Tablet to Napolean--Lines on Pharaoh--Zachary\n    Boyd--the Welsh Ambassador--Madoc--Poghell--Swingeing\n    Tureen--\"A\" or \"an.\" 404\n\nMISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 407\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 407\n  Notices to Correspondents. 407\n  Advertisements. 408\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR FURTHER PROGRESS.\n\nWe have again been called upon to reprint our first Four Numbers; that\nis to say, to print a _Third Edition_ of them. No stronger evidence\ncould be afforded that our endeavour to do good service to the cause of\nsound learning, by affording to Men of Letters a medium of\nintercommunication, has met with the sympathy and encouragement of those\nfor whose sake we made the trial. We thank them heartily for their\ngenerous support, and trust we shall not be disappointed in our hope and\nexpectation that they will find their reward in the growing utility of\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" which, thanks to the readiness with which able\ncorrespondents pour out their stores of learning, may be said to place\nthe judicious inquirer in the condition of Posthumus, and\n\n  \"Puts to him all the learnings that _this_ time\n   Could make him the receiver of.\"\n\nAnd here we may be permitted to avail ourselves of this opportunity, as,\nindeed, we feel compelled to do, to impress upon our correspondents\ngenerally, the necessity of confining their communications within the\nnarrowest possible limits consistent with a satisfactory explanation of\nthe immediate objects of them. \"He that questioneth much,\" says Bacon,\n\"shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his\nQuestions to the skill of the Persons whom he asketh. For he shall give\nthem occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall\ncontinually gather knowledge. But let his Questions not be troublesome,\nfor that is fit for a Poser; and let him be sure _to leave other Men\ntheir turn to speak_.\" What Bacon has said so wisely and so well, \"OF\nDISCOURSE,\" we would apply to our little Journal; and beg our kind\nfriends to remember, that our space is necessarily limited, and that,\ntherefore, in our eyes, Brevity will be as much the Soul of a\ncommunication as it is said to be that of Wit.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES.\n\nROGER BACON: HINTS AND QUERIES FOR A NEW EDITION OF HIS WORKS.\n\nVictor Cousin, who has been for many years engaged in researches on the\nscholastic philosophy, with the view of collecting and publishing such\nof its monuments as have escaped the diligence of scholars, or the\nravages of time, has lately made the discovery in the library at Douay\nof a copy of an inedited MS. of Roger Bacon, entitled _Opus Tertium_, of\nwhich but two or three other copies are known to exist; and has taken\noccasion, in some elaborate critiques, to enter, at considerable length,\ninto the history and character of Roger {394} Bacon and his writings.[1]\nThe following is a summary of part of M. Cousin's observations.\n\nThe _Opus Tertium_ contains the author's last revision, in the form of\nan abridgment and improvement, of the _Opus Majus_; and was drawn up at\nthe command of Pope Clement IV., and so called from being the _third_ of\nthree copies forwarded to his holiness; the third copy being not a\n_fac-simile_ of the others, but containing many most important\nadditions, particularly with regard to the reformation of the calendar.\nIt also throws much light on Bacon's own literary history and studies,\nand the difficulties and persecutions he had to surmount from the\njealousies and suspicions of his less-enlightened contemporaries and\nrivals. The _Opus Tertium_, according to the sketch given of its\ncontents by Bacon himself, is not complete either in the Douay MS. or in\nthat in the British Museum, several subjects being left out; and, among\nothers, that of Moral Philosophy. This deficiency may arise, either from\nBacon not having completed his original design, or from no complete MS.\nof this portion of his writings having yet been discovered. M. Cousin\nsays, that the _Opus Tertium_, as well as the _Opus Minus_, is still\ninedited; and is only known by what Jebb has said of it in his preface\nto the _Opus Majus_. Jebb quotes it from a copy in the Cottonian\nLibrary, now in the British Museum; and it was not known that there was\na copy in France, till M. Cousin was led to the discovery of one, by\nobserving in the Catalogue of the public library of Douay, a small MS.\nin 4to. with the following title, _Rog. Baconis Grammatica Gr\u00e6ca_.\nAccustomed to suspect the accuracy of such titles to MSS., M. Cousin\ncaused a strict examination of the MS. to be made, when the discovery\nwas communicated to him that only the first part of the MS. consisted of\na Greek grammar, and that the remaining portion, which the compiler of\nthe Catalogue had not taken the trouble to examine, consisted of many\nfragments of other works of Bacon, and a copy of the _Opus Tertium_.\nThis copy of the _Opus Tertium_ is imperfect, but fortunately the\ndeficiencies are made up by the British Museum copy, which M. Cousin\nexamined, and which also contains a valuable addition to Chapter I., and\na number of good readings.\n\nThe _Opus Majus_, as published by Jebb, contains but six parts; but the\nwork in its complete state had originally a seventh part, containing\nMoral Philosophy, which was reproduced, in an abridged and improved\nstate, by the renowned author, in the _Opus Tertium_. This is now\nascertained, says M. Cousin, with unquestionable certainty, and for the\nfirst time, from the examination of the Douay MS.; which alludes, in the\nmost precise terms, to the treatise on that subject. Hence the\nimportance of endeavouring to discover what has become of the MS.\nTreatise of Moral Philosophy mentioned by Jebb, on the authority of Bale\nand Pits, as it is very likely to have been the seventh part of the\n_Opus Majus_. Jebb published the _Opus Majus_ from a Dublin MS.,\ncollated with other MSS.; but he gives no description of that MS., only\nsaying that it contained many other works attributed to Bacon, and in\nsuch an order that they seemed to form but one and the same work. It\nbecomes necessary, therefore, to ascertain what were the different works\nof Bacon included in the Dublin MS.; which is, in all probability, the\nsame mentioned as being in Trinity College, in the _Catalogi Codicum\nManuscriptorum Angli\u00e6 et Hiberni\u00e6 in unum Collecti_: Folio. Oxon, 1697.\n\nAccording to this Catalogue, a Treatise on Moral Philosophy forms part\nof Roger Bacon's MSS. there enumerated; and if so, why did Jebb suppress\nit in his edition of the _Opus Majus_? Perhaps some of your\ncorrespondents in Dublin may think it worth the trouble to endeavour to\nclear up this difficulty, on which M. Cousin lays great stress; and\nrecommends, at the same time, a new and complete edition of the _Opus\nMajus_ to the patriotism of some Oxford or Cambridge Savant. He might\nwell have included Dublin in his appeal for help in this undertaking;\nwhich, he says, would throw a better light on that vast, and not very\nintelligible monument of one of the most independent and greatest minds\nof the Middle Ages.\n\nJ.M.\nOxford, April 9th.\n\n    [Footnote 1: See _Journal des Savants_, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin,\n    1848.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCRAIK'S ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.\n\nIf I knew where to address Mr. G.L. Craik, I should send him the\nfollowing \"Note:\" if you think it deserves a place in your columns, it\nmay probably meet his eye.\n\nIn the article on the Lady Arabella Stuart (_Romance of the Peerage_,\nvol. ii. p. 370.), a letter of Sir Ralph Winwood, dated 1610, is quoted,\nin which he states, that she is \"not altogether free from suspicion of\nbeing collapsed.\" On this Mr. Craik observes, \"It is difficult to\nconjecture what can be here meant by _collapsed_, unless it be fallen\noff to Romanism.\" Now it is not a little curious, and it proves Mr.\nCraik's capability for the task of illustrating family history from the\nobscure allusions in letters and documents, that there exists\ncotemporary authority for fixing the meaning Mr. Craik has conjectured\nto be the true one, to the word _collapsed_. A pamphlet, with the title\n_A Letter to Mr. T.H., late Minister, now Fugitive_, was published in\n1609, with a dedication to all Romish _collapsed_ \"ladies of Great\nBritain;\" which bears internal evidence of being addressed to those who\nwere converts from the Church of England to Romanism. {395}\n\nTheophilus Higgons, whom the above initials represent, was himself a\nconvert to the Church of Rome.\n\nIt may be worth while making a further note, that the copy of the\npamphlet before me belonged to Camden, and is described in his\nautograph, _Guil. Camdenj. Ex. dono Authoris_. It forms one of a large\ncollection of tracts and pamphlets, originally the property of Camden,\nwhich are now in the library of the dean and chapter here.\n\nIt is curious that another document quoted by Mr. Craik in the same\nvolume (p. 286 _note_), seems to fix the meaning of a word or\nexpression, of obscure signification, in the authorised translation of\nthe Bible. In Judges, ix. 53., we read, \"A certain woman cast a piece of\na millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull.\" I have\nheard some one, in despair at the grammatical construction of the latter\nclause, suggest that it might be an error for \"_also_ brake his skull;\"\nand I have been told, that some printer or editor solved the difficulty\nby turning it into \"and all to _break_ his skull.\" But in the Lieutenant\nof the Tower's marginal notes on an inventory of the Countess of\nHertford's (Lady Katherine Grey) furniture, quoted by Mr. Craik from\nLands. MS. 5. art. 41., he described the _sparrer_ for the bed as \"_all\nto-broken_, not worth ten pence.\" There seems, therefore, to have been a\ncompound, \"to-breck, to-brake, to-broken\" (_perfrango_), of which the\nword in the \"Book of Judges\" is the preterite. I may be exposing my\nignorance, when I say, that the quotation in the _Romance of the\nPeerage_ is the only other instance of its use I ever met with.\n\nWILLIAM H. COPE.\nCloisters, Westminster\n\n    [The word \"to-break,\" is not to be found in Nares.--Mr.\n    Halliwell, in his _Archaic Dictionary_, has TO-BROKE, broken in\n    pieces:\n\n      \"The gates that Neptunus made\n       A thousand wynter theretofore,\n       They have anon _to-broke_ and tore.\"\n         From the _Gower MS_. Soc. Ant. 134, f. 46.\n\n    The word occurs also in Chaucer (p. 549. ed. Urry):--\n\n      \"To-broken ben the Statutes hie in heven;\"\n\n    and also in the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_ (p. 156. ed.\n    Wright):\n\n      \"The bagges and the bigirdles\n       He hath to-broke them all.\"\n\n    And Mr. Wright very properly remarks, that \"_to_- prefixed in\n    composition to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, has the same force\n    as the German _zu_, giving to the word the idea of destruction\n    or deterioration.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.\n\n_Lambeth Wells._--A place of public entertainment, first opened in 1697.\nIt was celebrated for its mineral water, which was sold at one penny per\nquart. At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was provided with a\nband of music, which played at intervals during the day, and the price\nof admission was threepence. A monthly concert, under the direction of\nStarling Goodwin, organist of St. Saviour's church, Southwark, was held\nhere in 1727.\n\n_Hickford's Rooms, Panton Street, Haymarket._--These rooms, under the\nname of \"Hickford's Dancing Rooms,\" were in existence as early as 1710.\nIn 1738, they were opened as the \"Musick-room.\" A contemporary account\nsays:--\n\n    \"The band was selected from the Opera House; but the singularity\n    most attractive consisted of an organ combined with a\n    harpsichord, played by clock-work, which exhibited the movements\n    of an orrery and air-pump, besides solving astronomical and\n    geographical problems on two globes, and showing the moon's age,\n    with the Copernican system in motion.\"\n\nIn 1740, Mr. Galliard's benefit is announced to take place \"at Mr.\nHickford's Great Room in Brewer Street, Golden Square.\"--See the _Daily\nPost_ of March 31. The \"Great Room\" is now known as \"Willis's Dancing\nAcademy.\"\n\n_The Music Room in Dean Street, Soho._--The Oratorio of Judas Maccabeus\nwas performed here in great splendour in 1760. It was afterwards the\nauction room of the elder Christie; and is now \"Caldwell's Dancing\nAcademy.\" George III. frequently honoured this \"musick-room\" with his\npresence.\n\n_The Music Room in Charles Street, Covent Garden_:--\n\n    \"The Consort of Musick, lately in Bow Street, is removed next\n    Bedford Gate, in _Charles Street, Covent Garden_, where a room\n    is newly built for that purpose.\"--_Lond. Gaz._ Feb. 19. 1690.\n\n    \"A Consort of Music, with several new voices, to be performed on\n    the 10th instant, at the _Vendu_ in Charles Street, Covent\n    Garden.\"--Ibid. March 6. 1691.\n\nIn 1693 was published _Thesaurus Musicus_, being a Collection of the\n\"Newest Songs performed at their Majesties' Theatres, and at the\nConsorts in Villier Street, in York Buildings, and in _Charles Street,\nCovent Garden_.\"\n\nIn the proposals for the establishment of a Royal Academy in 1720, the\nsubscription books are advertised as being open, amongst other places,\n\"at the Musick Room in Charles Street, Covent Garden.\"\n\n_Coleman's Music House._--A house of entertainment, with a large and\nwell planted garden, known as \"Coleman's Musick House,\" was offered for\nsale in 1682. It was situated near _Lamb's Conduit_, and was demolished\nupon the building of Ormond Street.\n\n_White Conduit House._--The old tavern of this name was erected in the\nreign of Charles I. The workmen are said to have been regaling\nthemselves upon the completion of the building, at the instant the king\nwas beheaded at Whitehall. {396}\n\n_Goodman's Field Wells._--A place of entertainment established after the\nsuppression of the theatre in this locality in 1735.\n\n_Bride Lane, St. Bride's._--The first meetings of the Madrigal Society\n(established in 1741) were held at a public-house in this lane, called\n\"The Twelve Bells.\"\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPOPE'S REVISION OF SPENCE'S ESSAY ON THE ODYSSEY.\n\nSpence's almost idolatrous admiration of, and devotion to, Pope, is\nevident from the pains he took to preserve every little anecdote of him\nthat he could elicit from conversation with him, or with those who knew\nhim. Unfortunately, he had not Boswell's address and talent for\nrecording gossip, or the _Anecdotes_ would have been a much more racy\nbook. Spence was certainly an amiable, but I think a very weak man; and\nit appears to me that his learning has been overrated. He might indeed\nhave been well designated as \"a fiddle-faddle bit of sterling.\"\n\nI have the original MS. of the two last Dialogues of the _Essay on the\nOdyssey_ as written by Spence, and on the first page is the following\nnote:--\"The two last Evenings corrected by Mr. Pope.\" On a blank page at\nthe end, Spence has again written:--\"MS. of the two last Evenings\ncorrected with Mr. Pope's own hand, w'ch serv'd y'e Press, and is so\nmark'd as usual by Litchfield.\"\n\nThis will elucidate Malone's note in his copy of the book, which Mr.\nBolton Corney has transcribed. I think the first three dialogues were\npublished in a little volume before Spence became acquainted with Pope,\nand perhaps led to that acquaintance. Their intercourse afterwards might\nsupply some capital illustrations for a new edition of Mr. Corney's\ncurious chapter on _Camaraderie Litt\u00e9raire_. The MS. copy of Spence's\nEssay bears frequent marks of Pope's correcting hand by erasure and\ninterlineary correction, silently made. I transcribe the few passages\nwhere the poet's revision of his critic are accompanied by remarks.\n\nIn Evening the Fourth, Spence had written:--\"It may be inquired, too,\nhow far this translation may make a wrong use of terms borrowed from the\narts and sciences, &c. [The instances are thus pointed out.] As where we\nread of a ship's crew, Od. 3. 548. The longitude, Od. 19. 350. Doubling\nthe Cape, Od. 9. 90. Of Architraves, Colonnades, and the like, Od. 3.\n516.\" Pope has erased this and the references, and says:--\"_These are\ngreat faults; pray don't point 'em out, but spare your servant_.\"\n\nAt p. 16. Spence had written:--\"Yellow is a proper epithet of fruit; but\nnot of fruit that we say at the same time is ripening into gold.\" Upon\nwhich Pope observes:--\"I think yellow may be s'd to ripen into gold, as\ngold is a deeper, fuller colour than yellow.\" Again: \"What is proper in\none language, may not be so in another. Were Homer to call the sea a\nthousand times by the title of [Greek: porphureos], 'purple deeps' would\nnot sound well in English. The reason's evident: the word 'purple' among\nus is confined to one colour, and that not very applicable to the deep.\nWas any one to translate the _purpureis oloribus_ of Horace, 'purple\nswans' would not be so literal as to miss the sense of the author\nentirely.\" Upon which Pope has remarked:--\"The sea is actually of a deep\npurple in many places, and in many views.\"\n\nUpon a passage in Spence's _Criticism_, at p. 45., Pope says:--\"I think\nthis too nice.\" And the couplet objected to by Spence--\n\n  \"Deep in my soul the trust shall lodge secur'd,\n   With ribs of steel, and marble heart immur'd,\"\n\nhe pronounced \"very bad.\" And of some tumid metaphors he says, \"All too\nforced and over-charged.\"\n\nAt p. 51. Spence says:--\"Does it not sound mean to talk of lopping a\nman? of lopping away all his posterity? or of trimming him with brazen\nsheers? Is there not something mean, where a goddess is represented as\nbeck'ning and waving her deathless hands; or, when the gods are dragging\nthose that have provok'd them to destruction by the Links of fate?\" Of\nthe two first instances, Pope says:--\"Intended to be comic in a\nsarcastic speech.\" And of the last:--\"I think not at all mean, see the\nGreek.\" The remarks are, however, expunged.\n\nThe longest remonstrance occurs at p. 6. of the Fifth Dialogue. Spence\nhad written:--\"The _Odyssey_, as a moral poem, exceeds all the writings\nof the ancients: it is perpetual in forming the manners, and in\ninstructing the mind; it sets off the duties of life more fully as well\nas more agreeably than the Academy or Lyceum. _Horace ventured to say\nthus much of the Iliad, and certainly it may be more justly said of this\nlater production by the same hand_.\" For the words in Italics Pope has\nsubstituted:--\"Horace, who was so well acquainted with the tenets of\nboth, has given Homer's poems the preference to either:\" and says in a\nnote:--\"I think you are mistaken in limiting this commendation and\njudgment of Horace to the _Iliad_. He says it, at the beginning of his\nEpistle, of Homer in general, and afterwards proposes both poems equally\nas examples of morality; though the _Iliad_ be mentioned first: but then\nfollows--'_Rursus quid virtus et quid sapientia possit, Utile proposuit\nnobis exemplar Ulyssem_,' &c. of the Odyssey.\"\n\nAt p. 34. Spence says:--\"There seems to be something mean and awkward in\nthis image:--\n\n  \"'His _loose head_ tottering as with wine opprest\n   Obliquely drops, and _nodding_ knocks his breast.'\"\n\nHere Pope says:--\"Sure these are good lines. {397} They are not mine.\"\nOf other passages which please him, he occasionally says,--\"This is good\nsense.\" And on one occasion, where Spence had objected, he says\ncandidly:--\"This is bad, indeed,\"--\"and this.\"\n\nAt p. 50. Spence writes:--\"There's a passage which I remember I was\nmightily pleased with formerly in reading _Cervantes_, without seeing\nany reason for it at that time; tho' I now imagine that which took me in\nit comes under this view. Speaking of Don Quixote, the first time that\nadventurer came in sight of the ocean, he expresses his sentiments on\nthis occasion in the following manner:--'He saw the sea, which he had\nnever seen before, and thought it much bigger than the river at\nSalamanca.'\" On this occasion Pope suggests,--\"Dr. Swift's fable to\nPh----s, of the two asses and Socrates.\"\n\nS.W. SINGER.\nApril 8. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Charm for the Toothache._--The charm which one of your correspondents\nhas proved to be in use in the south-eastern counties of England, and\nanother has shown to be practised at Kilkenny, was also known more than\nthirty years ago in the north of Scotland. At that time I was a\nschool-boy at Aberdeen, and a sufferer--probably it was in March or\nApril, with an easterly wind--from toothache. A worthy Scotchwoman told\nme, that the way to be cured of my toothache was to find a charm for it\nin the Bible. I averred, as your correspondent the curate did, that I\ncould not find any such charm. My adviser then repeated to me the charm,\nwhich I wrote down from her dictation. Kind soul! she could not write\nherself. It was pretty nearly in the words which your correspondent has\nsent you. According to my recollection, it ran thus:--\"Peter sat upon a\nstone, weeping. And the Lord said unto him, 'Peter, why weepest thou?'\nAnd he answered, and said, 'Lord, my tooth acheth.' And the Lord said\nunto him, 'Arise, Peter, thy teeth shall ache no more.'\" \"Now,\"\ncontinued my instructress, \"if you gang home and put yon bit screen into\nyour Bible, you'll never be able to say again that you canna find a\ncharm agin the toothache i' the Bible.\" This was her version of the\nmatter, and I have no doubt it was the orthodox one; for, although one\nof the most benevolent old souls I ever knew, she was also one of the\nmost ignorant and superstitious. I kept the written paper, not in my\nBible, but in an old pocket-book for many years, but it has disappeared.\n\nJOHN BRUCE.\n\n_Easter Eggs_ (No. 16. p. 244.).--Breakfasting on Easter Monday, some\nyears ago, at the George Inn at Ilminster, in the county of Somerset, in\nthe palmy days of the Quicksilver Mail, when the table continued to be\nspread for coach travellers at that time from four in the morning till\nten at night, we were presented with eggs stained in the boiling with a\nvariety of colours: a practice which Brande records as being in use in\nhis time in the North of England, and among the modern Greeks.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n_Cure for the Hooping-cough._--\"I know,\" said one of my parishioners,\n\"what would cure him, but m'appen you woudent believe me.\" \"What is it,\nMary?\" I asked. \"Why, I did every thing that every body teld me. One\nteld me to get him breathed on by a pie-bald horse. I took him ever such\na way, to a horse at ----, and put him under the horse's mouth; but he\nwas no better. Then I was teld to drag him backward through a bramble\nbush. I did so; but this didn't cure him. Last of all, I was teld to\ngive him nine fried mice, fasting, in a morning, in this way:--three the\nfirst morning; then wait three mornings, and then give him three more;\nwait three mornings, and then give him three more. When he had eaten\nthese nine fried mice he became quite well. This would be sure to cure\nyour child, Sir.\"\n\nW.H.K.\nDrayton Beauchamp.\n\n_Gootet._--In Eccleshall parish, Staffordshire, Shrove Tuesday is called\nGootet. I am not aware if this be the true spelling, for I have never\nseen it in print. Can any of your readers supply the etymology, or state\nwhether it is so called in any other part of England? I have searched\nnumerous provincial glossaries, but have hitherto been unsuccessful.\n\nB.G.J.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOK.\n\nIt is reasonable to conclude, that the article copied from _Chambers'\nEdinburgh Journal_, in No. 13., furnishes the strongest evidence that\ncan be adduced in support of the opinion, that the book in the\npossession of Dr. Anster is the one found on the Duke of Monmouth when\ncaptured, after his defeat at Sedgemoor; and, if so, it is impossible to\nadmit the hypothesis, because a portion of the contents of the real book\nhas been given to the world and contains matter far too important to\nhave been passed over by Dr. Anster, had it existed in his volume. In\nthe 6th edition of Dr. Welwood's _Memoirs of the most material\nTransactions in England for the last Hundred Years preceding the\nRevolution in 1688_, printed for \"Tim. Goodwin, at the Queen's Head,\nagainst St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, 1718,\" the following\npassage is to be found at p. 147.:--\n\n    \"But of the most things above mentioned there is an infallible\n    proof extant under Monmouth's own hand, in a little pocket-book\n    which was taken with him and delivered to King James; which by\n    an accident, as needless to mention here, I have leave to copy\n    and did {398} it in part. A great many dark passages there are\n    in it, and some clear enough that shall be eternally buried for\n    me: and perhaps it had been for King James's honour to have\n    committed them to the flames, as Julius C\u00e6sar is said to have\n    done on a like occasion. All the use that shall be made of it\n    is, to give in the Appendix some few passages out of it that\n    refer to this subject, and confirm what has been above related.\"\n\nIn the Appendix the following extracts are given from the Duke's book:--\n\n    \"_October_ 13. L. came to me at eleven at night from 29, told me\n    29 could never be brought to believe I knew anything of that\n    part of the plot that concern'd _Rye House_; but as things went\n    he must behave himself as if he did believe it, for some reasons\n    that might be for my advantage. L. desired me to write to 29,\n    which I refus'd; but afterwards told me 29 expected it; and I\n    promis'd to write to-morrow if he could call for the letter; at\n    which S.L. shew'd a great concern for me, and I believe him\n    sincere though S is of another mind.\n\n    \"14. L. came as he promis'd and receiv'd the letter from 3\n    sealed, refusing to read it himself, tho' I had left it open\n    with S. for that purpose.\n\n    \"20. L. came to me at S. with a line or two from 29 very kind,\n    assuring me he believed every word in my letter to be true; and\n    advis'd me to keep hid till he had an opportunity to express his\n    belief of it some other way. L. told me that he was to go out of\n    town next day and that 29 would send 80 to me in a day or two,\n    whom he assured me I might trust.\n\n    \"25. L. came for me to ----, where 29 was with 80. He receiv'd\n    me pretty well, and said 30 and 50 were the causes of my\n    misfortune and would ruin me. After some hot words against them\n    and against S., went away in a good humour.\n\n    \"26. I went to E---- and was in danger of being discover'd by\n    some of Oglethorpe's men that met me accidentally at the back\n    door of the garden.\n\n    \"_Nov_ 2. A letter from 29 to be to-morrow at seven at night at\n    S. and nobody to know it but 80.\n\n    \"3. He came not, there being an extraordinary council. But 80\n    brought me a copy of 50's intercepted letter, which made rather\n    for me than against me. Bid me come to-morrow at the same hour,\n   and to say nothing of the letter except 29 spake of it first.\n\n    \"4. I came and found 29 and L. there; he was very kind and gave\n    me directions how to manage my business and what words I should\n    say to 39. He appointed 80 to come to me every night until my\n    business was ripe and promised to send with him directions from\n    time to time.\n\n    \"9. L. came from 29 and told me my business should be done to my\n    mind next week, and that Q. was my friend, and had spoke to 39\n    and D. in my behalf; which he said 29 took very kindly and had\n    expressed so to her. At parting he told me there should be\n    nothing requir'd of me but what was both safe and honourable.\n    But said there must be something done to blind 39.\n\n    \"15. L came to me with a copy of a letter I was to sign to\n    please 39. I desired to know in whose hands it was to be\n    deposited; for I would have it in no hands but 29. He told me it\n    should be so; but if 39 ask'd a copy it could not well be\n    refus'd. I referred myself entirely to 29's pleasure.\n\n    \"24. L. came to me from 29 and order'd me to render myself\n    to-morrow. Cautioned me to play my part, to avoid questions as\n    much as possible, and to seem absolutely converted to 39's\n    interest. Bad me bear with some words that might seem harsh.\n\n    \"25. I render'd myself. At night 29 could not dissemble his\n    satisfaction; press'd my hand, which I remember not he did\n    before except when I return'd from the French service. 29 acted\n    his part well, and I too. 39 and D. seemed not ill pleas'd.\n\n    \"26. 29 took me aside and falling upon the business of L.R. said\n    he inclined to have sav'd him but was forc'd to it, otherwise he\n    must have broke with 39. Bid me think no more on't. Coming home\n    L. told me he fear'd 39 began to smell out 29's carriage. That\n    ---- said to 39 that morning that all that was done was but\n    sham.\n\n    \"27. Several told me of the storm that was brewing. Rumsey was\n    with 39 and was seem to come out crying that he must accuse a\n    man he lov'd.\n\n    \"_Dec._ 19. A letter from 29 bidding me stay till I heard\n    farther from him.\n\n    \"_Jan._ 5. I received a letter from L. marked by 29 in the\n    margin to trust entirely in 10; and that in February I should\n    certainly have leave to return. That matters were concerted\n    towards it; and that 39 had no suspicion, notwithstanding of my\n    reception here.\n\n    \"_Feb._ 8. A letter from L. that my business was almost as well\n    as done; but must be so sudden as not to leave room for 39's\n    party to counterplot. That it is probable he would choose\n    Scotland rather than Flanders or this country; which was all one\n    to 29.\n\n    \"16. The sad news of his death by L. _O cruel fate!_\"\n\nDr. Welwood cautiously adds, in a note:--\n\n    \"That by 29 and 39 King Charles and the Duke of York seem to be\n    meant. But I know not what to make of the other numbers and\n    letters, and must leave the reader to his own conjectures.\"\n\nThere can, I apprehend, be little doubt that the L.R., under the date of\nNovember 26, were meant to indicate the patriotic Lord Russell.\n\nThe whole of these extracts possess the highest interest, establishing\nas they do several points referred to by historians. It is curious to\nremark the complete subjection in which Charles, at this period, stood\ntowards his brother; occasioned, perhaps, but the foreign supplies which\nhe scrupled not to receive, being dependant on his adhesion to the\npolicy of which the Duke of York was the avowed representative. Shortly\nbefore his death, Charles appears to have meditated emancipation from\nthis state of thraldom; and Hume says,--\n\n    \"He was determined, it is thought, to send the Duke to Scotland,\n    to recall Monmouth, to summon a parliament, to dismiss all his\n    unpopular ministers, and to throw himself entirely upon the good\n    will and affections of his subjects.\" {399}\n\nThis passage accords with the entries in Monmouth's pocket-book under\nthe dates of Jan. 5. and Feb. 3. If the unfortunate Monmouth could have\nforeseen the miserable end, with all its accompanying humiliations and\nhorrors, to which a few months were destined to bring him, his\nexclamation, \"O cruel fate!\" would have acquired additional bitterness.\n\nC. ROSS.\n\n    [We insert the foregoing as serving to complete the series of\n    interesting notices connected with the capture of Monmouth which\n    have appeared in our columns, rather than from an agreement with\n    the views of our valued correspondent. Dr. Anster states, that\n    in the pocket-book in his possession, the Duke's movements up to\n    the 14th March, 1684-5, are given. Would he kindly settle the\n    question by stating whether the passages quoted by Weldon are to\n    be found among them?]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\nWOOLTON'S CHRISTIAN MANUAL.\n\nOne important use, I conceive, of the \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" is, the\nopportunity it presents of ascertaining the existence of rare editions\nof early printed books. Can any of your readers state where a copy or\ncopies of the following may be found?\n\n    \"The Christian Manuell, or the life and maners of true\n    Christians. A Treatise, wherein is plentifully declared how\n    needeful it is for the servaunts of God to manifest and declare\n    to the world: their faith by their deedes, their words by their\n    work, and their profession by their conversation. Written by\n    Jhon Woolton, Minister of the Gospel, in the cathedral church of\n    Exetor. Imprinted at London by J.C. for Tho. Sturruppe, in\n    Paules Church yarde, at the George, 1576. Dedicated to Sir\n    William Cordell knight, Maister of the Rolles.--At Whymple 20\n    Nouember 1676. N 7, in eights.\"--Copy formerly in the possession\n    of Herbert. (Herbert, _Typographical Antiquities_, vol. ii. p.\n    1094.)\n\nThere is an imperfect copy, I understand, in the Bodleian. Access to\nanother copy has been needed for an important public object, in order to\ntranscribe the leaf or leaves wanting in the Bodleian copy; and the\nbook, so far as I am aware, does not occur in any other public\nlibraries.\n\nWoolton was nephew to Nowell, author of the _Catechisms_. He wrote\nseveral other pieces, and was Bishop of Exeter 1579-1593. (Wood,\n_Athen. Oxon._ ed. Bliss, vol. i. pp. 600, 601.)\n\nT.\nBath, April 9. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT:--1 JOHN, v. 7.\n\nIn an article of the _Quarterly Review_ (vol. xxxiii. p. 78.) on this\ncontroverted passage of St. John's Epistles, generally attributed to the\npresent learned Bishop of Ely, the following statement is made\nrespecting Luther:--\n\n    \"Let it also be recollected, to the honour of Luther,\n    Bugenhagius, and other leaders of the Reformation, that in this\n    contest they magnanimously stood by the decision of Erasmus.\n    Luther, in his translation of the New Testament, omitted the\n    passage; and, in the preface to the last edition (in 1546)\n    revised by himself, he solemnly requested that his translation\n    should on no account be altered.\"\n\nSince such was the injunction of Luther, how does it happen that this\nverse appears in the later editions of his Testament? I have looked into\nfive or six editions, and have not found the verse in the two earliest.\nThese bear the following titles:--\n\n    \"Biblia dat ys. de gantze hillige Schrifft verd\u00fcdeschet dorch\n    Doct. Mart. Luth. Wittemberch. Hans Lufft. 1579.\" (in folio.)\n    \"Dat Neu Testamente verd\u00fcdeschet d\u00f6rch D. Mart. Luth. mit den\n    korten Summarien L. Leonharti Hutteri. Gosslar. In Iahre 1619.\"\n\nThe verse appears in an edition of his Bible printed at Halle in 1719;\nin his New Testament, Tubingen, 1793; in one printed at Basel in 1821;\nand is also to be found in that printed by the Christian Knowledge\nSociety. In the Basel edition the verse is thus given;--\n\n    \"Denn Drey sind, die de zeugen im Himmel; der Vater, das Wort,\n    und der beilige Geist; und diese Drey sind Eins.\"\n\nPerhaps some of your learned readers can explain when, and by whose\nauthority, the verse was inserted in Luther's Testament.\n\nE.M.B.\n\n    [We may add, that the verse also appears in the stereotype\n    edition of Luther's Bible, published by Tauchnitz, at Leipsig,\n    in 1819.--ED.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Medical Symbols._--\"A PATIENT\" inquires respecting the origin and date\nof the marks used to designate weights in medical prescriptions.\n\n\n_Charles II. and Lord R.'s Daughter._--Can any of your readers inform me\nwho was the lady that is referred to in the following passage, from\nHenry Sidney's _Diary_, edited by Mr. Blencowe (March 9. 1610, vol. i.\np. 298.):--\n\n    \"The King hath a new mistress, Lord R----'s daughter: she\n    brought the Duke of Monmouth to the King.\"\n\nC.\n\n\n_St. Alban's Day._--A friend has asked me the following question, which\nsome of your readers may perhaps be able to answer, viz.:--\n\n\"Till the reign of Ed. VI. St. Alban's Day was kept in England on June\n22d (the supposed anniversary {400} of his martyrdom). It was then\nerased from the kalendar, but restored to it in the reign of Chas. II.;\nwhen it was transferred to June 17th. Why was this change made?\"\n\nW.C. TREVELYAN.\n\n\n_Black Broth_ (No. 19. p. 300.).--If this were a sauce or condiment, may\nnot the colour have been produced by the juice of the Boletus, much used\nin Greece to the present day?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Deputy-Lieutenants of the Tower of London._--By whom were these\nofficers appointed? What was the nature of their duties? Had they a\nsalary, or was the office an honorary appointment? They used to meet\nperiodically, was it for the transaction of business? if so, what\nbusiness? Does the office still exist?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Buccaneers--Charles II._--There is a passage in Bryan Edward's _History\nof the West Indies_ (vol. i. p. 164. 4to edit. 1793), in which he gives\nan opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica were not the pirates and\nrobbers that they have been commonly represented; and mentions, on the\nauthority of a MS. journal of Sir William Beeston, that Charles II. had\na pecuniary interest in the buccaneering, and continued to receive a\nshare of the booty after he had publicly ordered the suppression of\nbuccaneering: and also, speaking of Sir Henry Morgan, and the honours he\nreceived from Charles II., gives an opinion that the stories told of\nMorgan's cruelty are untrue. Can any of your readers tell me who Sir\nWilliam Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or refer me to\nany accessible information about Charles II.'s connection with the\nbuccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards's favourable opinion of\nthe Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan?\n\nC.\n\n\n_Travelling in 1590.--Richard Hooker._--Could any of your readers give\nme some particulars of travelling at the above period between London and\nSalisbury? I should also feel greatly indebted for any _unpublished_\nparticulars in the life of the \"Judicious Richard Hooker\" after his\nmarriage. Answers might be sent, either through \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" or\ndirect to me,\n\nW. HASTINGS KELKE.\nDrayton Beauchamp, Tring.\n\n\n_Decker's Raven's Almanack--Nash's Terrors of the Night, &c._--Having\nlately picked up a volume of old tracts, I am anxious to learn how far I\nmay congratulate myself on having met with a prize. Among the contents\nare--\n\n1. \"The Rauen's Almanacke,\" for the year 1609, purporting to be by T.\nDeckers. Is this the same person with Thomas Dekker the dramatist?\n\n2. Nashe's \"Terrors of the Night\" (wanting eight leaves at the\nbeginning.) Of this, Beloe (the only authority within my reach) says,\nthat only one copy is known to exist; can his statement be correct?\n\n3. A religious tract, which seems only remarkable for its bad printing,\nobscure wording, and almost invariably using the third person singular\nof the verb, whatever be the nominative. It begins--\n\n    \"To all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words, and\n    makes mention of his words, &c.\"....\n\nAnd the first division ends--\n\n    \"This have I written in love to all your soules, who am one who\n    did drinke of the cup of fornication, and have drunke of the cup\n    of indignation, but now drinkes the cup of salvation, where\n    sorrow and tears is fled away; and yet am a man of sorrows and\n    well acquainted with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and\n    travels that it may be brought forth of captivity; called by the\n    world F.H.\"\n\nWho is F.H.?\n\n4. Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, and the like, by Thomas\nTusser; but as the tract is mutilated up to cap. 3.,\n\n  \"I have been prayde,\n  To shew mine aide,\" &c.,\n\nI am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's\n_Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry_. Information on any of the above\npoints would oblige.\n\nJ.E.\n\n\n_Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the\nnature of their duties generally? What is the rank of a prebendary of a\ncathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders?\nWould a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector\nnot being one? Where is the best account of prebends to be found?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle._--There is at Warwick Castle a\nfine half-length portrait of Luther by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary\nportraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a genuine one? Has it\nbeen engraved?\n\nE.M.B.\n\n\n_Rawdon Papers._--The Rev. Mr. Berwick, in introducing to the public, in\n1819, the interesting volume known by the name of _Rawdon Papers_,\nsays,--\n\n    \"They are a small part of a correspondence which was left in the\n    Editor's hands after the greater portion had been sent several\n    years before to the Marquis of Hastings, whose absence at this\n    time prevents the Editor's making such additions to his stock as\n    might render it more interesting to the public.\"\n\nDo these papers still exist in the possession of {401} the Hastings\nfamily, and is there any chance of a further publication? The volume\npublished by Mr. Berwick contains some very interesting incidental\nillustrations of the politics, literature, and society of the\nseventeenth century, and much might be expected from the remaining\npapers. I may add, that this volume has not been so much used by\nhistorians as it should be; but, as was to be expected, it has not\nescaped Mr. Macaulay. It is not not well edited.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Wellington, Wyrwast, Cokam._--In a MS. letter which I have relating to\nthe siege of Taunton in the Civil war, is the following sentence,\ndescribing the movements of the royal army:--\n\n    \"The enemy on Friday last have quitted their garrisions in\n    Wellington Wyrwast and Cokam houses; the two last they have\n    burnt.\"\n\nI am not certain about the second name, which seems to be Wyrwast; and\nhsould be obliged by any information relative to these three houses.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644._--In Martyn's _Life of Shafetesbury_\n(vol. i. p. 148.) it is stated that a parliamentary force, under Sir\nA.A. Cooper, blockaded Corfe Castle in 1644, after the taking of\nWareham. I can find no mention any where else of an attack on Corfe\nCastle in 1644. The blockade of that castle, which Lady Bankes's defence\nhas made memorable, was in the previous year, and Sir A.A. Cooper had\nnot then joined the parliament. I should be glad if any of your readers\ncould either corroborate Martyn's account of a blockade of Corfe Castle\nin 1644, or prove it to be, as I am inclined to think it, a\nmis-statement.\n\nI should be very thankful for any information as to Sir Anthony Asteley\nCooper's proceedings in Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire,\nduring the Civil War and Commonwealth, being engaged upon a life of Lord\nShaftesbury.\n\nC.\n\n\n_MSS. of Locke._--A translation, by Locke, of Nicole's _Essays_ was\npublished in 1828 by Harvey and Darton, London; and it is stated in the\ntitle-page of the book, that it is printed from an autograph MS. of\nLocke, in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D. I wish to know if Dr.\nHancock, who also edited the volume, is still alive? and, if so, would\nlet this querist have access to the other papers of Locke's which he\nspeaks of in the preface?\n\nC.\n\n\n_Locke's proposed Life of Lord Shaftesbury._--I perceive that the\ninteresting volume of letters of Locke, Algernon Sidney, and Lord\nShaftesbury, published some years ago, by Mr. Foster, is advertised in\nyour columns by your own publisher; and I therefore inquire, with some\nhope of eliciting information, whether the papers in Mr. Foster's\npossession, which he has abstained from publishing, contain any notices\nof the first Earl of Shaftesbury; and I am particularly anxious to know\nwhether they contain any references to the Life of Lord Shaftesbury\nwhich Locke meditated, or throw any light upon the mode in which Locke\nwould have become possessed of some suppressed passages of Edmund\nLudlow's memoirs.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Theses._--Many German works introduced into Catalogues, are _theses_\ndefended at the universities. The name of the _President_ is generally\nfirst, and in larger letters than that of the propounder, who is usually\nthe author. Hence, it often happens, that the _Thesis_ is entered as a\nwork written by the _Pr\u00e6ses_. But is not unfrequently happened, that\nthis Pr\u00e6ses was _really_ the author; and that, as an easy way of\npublishing his thought, he entrusted an essay to a candidate for a\ndegree, to be defended by him. The seventh rule of the Museum Catalogue\nruns thus:--\n\n    \"The respondent or defender in a thesis to be considered its\n    author, except when it unequivocally appears to be the work of\n    the Pr\u00e6ses.\"\n\nNow, I would ask, what are the usual signs of the authorship? Are there\nany catalogues of Theses? Any bibliographical works which contain hints\nfor guidance in this matter? Any correspondents who can advise generally\non the whole matter?\n\nM.\n\n\n_Apocrypha._--What editions of the Bible _containing the Apocrypha_ are\nnow on sale at the ordinary way?\n\n\n_J.B.'s Treatise on Art and Nature._--By a scrap of a book, apparently\nof the sixteenth century, it seems to be a Treatise by J.B. upon Art and\nNature: the first book is \"of Water-workes.\" What book is this?\n\nM.\n\n\n_Nursery Games and Rhymes._--In the _Letters and Memoir of Bishop\nShirley_, allusion is made (p. 415.) to a once popular game called\n\"Thread the needle,\" the first four lines of which are given. Can any of\nyour readers supply the remainder, or refer me to any work where they\nmay be found? I also should feel obliged by any information respecting\nthe age and origin of the popular nursery song, beginning,--\n\n  \"A frog he would a-wooing go,\n    Heigho, says Rowley.\"\n\nPerhaps some of your readers will state where the correct text may be\nmet with.\n\nB.G.J.\n\n\n_Emancipation of the Jews._--In Francis' _History of the Bank of\nEnglish_, p. 24., mention is made of an offer on the part of the Jews to\npay 500,000l. to the state on the following conditions;--1. That the\nlaws against them should be repealed; 2. That the Bodleian Library\nshould be assigned to them; 3. That they should have permission to use\nSt. {402} Paul's Cathedral as a Synagogue. It is stated, on the\nauthority of a letter in the Thurloe State Papers, that this proposition\nwas actually discussed. The larger sum of 800,000l. was demanded; but,\nbeing refused, the negotiation was broken off. This proposition is said\nto have been made shortly before the elevation of Cromwell to the\nProtectorate. The subject is an interesting one in these days, when\nJewish disabilities are under discussion.\n\nI wish to offer two queries:--1. Is this story confirmed by any\ncontemporary writer? 2. Is it conceivable that the Jews would have\nconsented to worship in a _cruciform_ church, such as was old St.\nPaul's, which was standing at the time this offer is supposed to have\nbeen made?\n\nH.M. AUSTEN.\nSt. Peter's, Thanet.\n\n\n_The Complutensian MSS._--Has not there been an account of these MSS.\npublished in London in 1821? My authority for this Query is to be found\nin a work of Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch:--\n\n    \"En el a\u00f1o 1821 per encargo que hice desde Madrid _se imprimio\n    mio aca en Londres_, de que es falso este rumor[2], pues en la\n    biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcala quedaban pocos meses\n    antes en gue estune en ella siete manuscritos biblicos en\n    aquellas dos lenguas[3], que son sin duda los mismos siete de\n    que hace mencion en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de\n    Castro, doctor t\u00e9ologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor\n    contemporaneo o de poco tiempo despu\u00e9s, parte de los cuales\n    manuscritos, es a saber, los cald\u00e9os, son de letra de Alfonso de\n   Zamora, que es uno de los tres jud\u00edos conversos editores de la\n   Complutense.\"--_Opusculos Gramatico-Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio\n   Puigblanch_, Londres [1832], p. 365.\n\nIf the Chaldee and Hebrew MSS. of the Complutensian Polyglot were at\nAlcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at\nMadrid are they now? The Greek MSS. are supposed to have been returned\nto the Vatican Library. If the Chaldee MSS. are in the handwriting of\none of the editors, as stated by Puigblanch, they cannot be of much\nvalue or authority. I shall add another Query:--Are they paper or\nparchment?\n\nE.M.B.\n\n    [Footnote 2: That the MSS. were destroyed.]\n\n    [Footnote 3: Hebrew and Chaldee.]\n\n\n_Latin Names of Towns._--A correspondent who answered the Query as to\nthe \"Latin Names of Towns\" in titles, referred your readers to the\nSupplement of Lempri\u00e8re. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have\nobtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should\nknow that the information therein given must only be taken as\nsuggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest\ngazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries,\nthe first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The first\ninforms us that \"N\u00e6ostadium _in Palatinatu_\" is in \"France;\" the third\nthat \"Nellore\" is in \"_Ceylon_.\" I am bound to say that I do not find\nerrors so thickly scattered throughout, and that the list will be useful\nto me. But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which the accuracy\ncan be depended upon?\n\nM.\nKilkenny.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\nSCALA COELI.\n\nI incline to think that the testator whose will is referred to in No.\n23. p. 336., by \"Scala Coeli,\" meant King Henry the Seventh's Chapel at\nWestminster.\n\nMargaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother to King Henry VII., in\nthe indenture for founding Chantry Monks in the Abbey of Westminster,\ndated 2. March, 21 Henry VII. (1506-6), states that she had obtained\npapal bulls of indulgence, that all persons saying and hearing her\nchantry masses should have as full remission from sin as in the place\ncalled _Scala Coeli_ beside Rome, \"to the great comfort and relief of\nthe said Monasterie and all Cristen people resorting thereto.\" (_MS.\nLansd._ 444.)\n\nHenry Lord Marney, by his will, dated 22d Dec., 15 Hen. VIII. (1523),\ndirects a trental of masses to be \"first at Scala Coeli, in\nWestminster.\" (_Testamenta Vetusta_, 609.)\n\nBlomefield (_Hist. of Norfolk_, 8vo. edit., iv. 60) speaking of the\nChurch of the Augustine Friars at Norwich, observes,--\n\n    \"That which brought most profit to the convent, was the chapel\n    of Our Lady in this church, called Scala Celi, to which people\n    were continually coming in pilgrimage, and offering at the altar\n    there; most folks desiring to have masses sung for them here, or\n    to be buried in the cloister of Scala Celi, that they might be\n    partakers of the many pardons and indulgences granted by the\n    Popes to this place; this being the only chapel (except that of\n    the same name at Westminster, and that of Our Lady in St.\n    Buttolph's church at Boston,) that I find to have the same\n    privileges and indulgences as the chapel of Scala Celi at Rome;\n    which were so great as made all the three places aforesaid so\n    much frequented; it being easier to pay their devotions here,\n    than go so long a journey; all which indulgences and pardons may\n    be seen in Fox's _Acts and Monuments_, fo. 1075.\"\n\nIn Bishop Bale's singular play of _Kynge Johan_, published by the Camden\nSociety, the King charges the clery with extorting money\n\n  \"For legacyes, trentalls with _scalacely_ messys\n  Whereby ye have made the people very assys.\"\n  (p. 17.)\n\nAnd Simon of Swineshead, after drinking the poison, says,-- {403}\n\n  \"To send me to heaven god rynge the holye belle,\n  And synge for my sowle a masse of _Scala Celi_,\n  That I may clyme up aloft with Enoch and Heli.\"\n  (p. 82.)\n\nThere are bulls of indulgence in Scala Coeli in Rymer's _F\u00e6dera_, xii.\n565. 591. 672., xiii. 102.; but I can now only give the reference, as I\nhave not that work in hand.\n\nC.H. COOPER.\nCambridge, April 6, 1850\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWATCHING THE SEPULCHRE.\n\n\"T.W.\" (No. 20. p. 218.) will find no end of \"Items\" for watching the\nsepulchre, in the \"Churchwardens' Accounts\" before the Reformation, and\nduring the reign of Queen Mary. At Easter it was the custom to erect a\nsepulchre on the north side of the chancel, to represent that of our\nSaviour. This was generally a temporary structure of wood; though in\nsome churches there still remain elaborately ornamented ones of stone.\nSometimes the founder's tomb was used for the purpose. In this sepulchre\nwas placed on Good Friday the crucifix, and occasionally the host, with\nother emblems; and a person was employed to watch it till the morning of\nEaster Day, when it was taken out with great ceremony, in imitation of\nour Lord's resurrection. It was the payment for this watching that\noccurs continually in the Churchwardens' Accounts, and of which, it\nappears, Fuller could not understand the meaning. A paper on the subject\nof Easter sepulchres, by Mr. Venables, was read at the meeting of the\nCambridge Camden Society in March, 1843, but I am not aware whether it\nhas been printed. Some very curious \"Items\" on this subject are given in\nBritton's _Redcliffe Church_, which are quoted in the _Oxford Glossary\nof Architecture_. They are so illustrative, that I subjoin them, to give\nyou an opportunity, if you please, of serving them up to your readers:--\n\n    \"Item, That Maister Canynge hath deliver'd, this 4th day of\n    July, in the year of Our Lord 1470, to Maister Nicholas Petters,\n    Vicar of St. Mary Redcliffe, Moses Conterin, Philip Barthelmew,\n    Procurators of St. Mary Redcliffe aforesaid, a new sepulchre,\n    well gilt with gold, and a civer thereto.\n\n    \"Item, An image of God Almighty rising out of the same\n    sepulchre, with all the ordinance that 'longeth thereto; that is\n    to say, a lathe made of timber and the iron work thereto.\n\n    \"Item, Thereto 'longeth Heaven, made of timber and stained\n    clothes.\n\n    \"Item, Hell, made of timber, and the iron-work thereto, with\n    Divels to the number of 13.\n\n    \"Item, 4 knights, armed, keeping the sepulchre, with their\n    weapons in their hands; that is to say, 2 axes and 2 spears,\n    with 2 pav\u00e9s.\n\n    \"Item, 4 payr of angels' wings for 4 angels, made of timber and\n    well painted.\n\n    \"Item, The Fadre, the crown and visage, the ball with a cross\n    upon it, well gilt with fine gould.\n\n    \"Item, The Holy Ghost coming out of Heaven into the sepulchre.\n\n    \"Item, 'Longeth to the 4 angels 4 chevelers.\"\n\nDucange (vol. vi. p. 195. new edit.) gives a detailed account of the\nservice performed at the Easter sepulchres on the continent.\n\nE. VEE.\nCambridge, March 27.\n\n\n\"_Watching the Sepulchre_\" (No. 20. p. 318.).--At the present day, in\nmost Roman Catholic countries it is the custom to exhibit in the\nprincipal churches at this period, and at Christmas, a kind of _tableau_\nof the entombment and of the birth of the Saviour. The figures are\nsometimes small, and at other times the size of life: generally\ncoloured, and formed of wax, wood, stone, or other materials; and when\nartistically arranged, and judiciously lighted, form sometimes beautiful\nobjects. I have no doubt the entry in the Churchwardens' Accounts of\nWaltham Abbey refers to a custom of the same kind, prevailing in the\ncountry before the Reformation. If the date of their entry were sought\nfor, I have little doubt but that it would be found to have been about\nEaster. The _sepulchre_ itself was often, I believe, a permanent\nerection of stone, and some of them probably now remain in the churches\nof England on the north side of the chancel, where they may sometimes be\ntaken for the tombs of individuals there interred.\n\nW.C. TREVELYAN.\n\n\n_Watching the Sepulchre._--In reply to \"T.W.'s\" Query in No. 20., I have\nwitnessed at Florence the custom of dressing the sepulchre on the\nThursday before Good Friday with the most beautiful flowers, many of\nwhich are reared especially for the purpose. The devout attend at the\nsepulchre, and make their prayers there throughout the day, the most\nprofound silence being observed. The convents rival each other in the\nbeauty of their decorations.\n\nDo you think that the Churchwardens' entries in Fuller can refer to a\nsimilar custom?\n\nThe loveliness of the flowers, and their delightful perfume, which\npervades the church, present a most soothing and agreeable type of death\nand the grave, under their Christian phase. I was always at a loss to\nunderstand why this was done on Thursday, instead of on Saturday; the\nlatter being the day on which Our Lord rested in the sepulchre.\n\nA.M.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nQUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 7.\n\nA new _blunder_ of Mr. Malone.--I love the memory of Edmond Malone,\nalbeit he sometimes committed blunders. He committed a pitiable blunder\nwhen he broke his bow in shooting at the worthless Samuel Ireland; and\nhe committed an {404} irreparable blunder when he whitewashed the\nmonumental effigy of the matchless Shakspere. Of the blunder ascribed to\nhim by a reverend querist (No. 14. p. 213) he was quite innocent.\n\nBefore we censure an author or editor, we should consult his _own_\nedition. He cannot be answerable for the errors of any other impression.\nSuch, at least, is _my_ notion of critical equity.\n\nI shall now state the plain facts. Malone, in the first instance,\nprinted the spurious declaration of John _Shakspear_ in an _imperfect\nstate_. (_Plays and Poems of W.S._, 1790, vol. i. part ii. p. 162.) He\nwas soon afterwards enabled to complete it. (Ibid. vol. i. part ii. p.\n330.) Steevens reprinted it entire, and without comment. (_Plays of\nW.S._, 1793, vol. ii. p. 300.) Now the editor of the Irish reimpression,\nwho must have omitted to consult the edition of Steevens, merely\ncommitted a _blunder_ in attempting to unite the two fragments as first\npublished by Mr. Malone.\n\nThere was no _audacious fabrication_ on the occasion--there is no\n_mystery_ in the case! (No. 24. p. 386.) So, to stop the current of\nmisconception, and economise space on future occasions, I venture to\nrepeat a few words in suggesting as a canon of criticism:--_Before we\ncensure an author or editor we should consult his_ own _edition_.\n\nBOLTON CORNEY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Compendyous Olde Treatyse._--\"F.M.\" (No. 18. p. 277.) will find this\ntract reprinted (with the exception of the preface and verses) in Foxe's\n_Acts and Monuments_; a portion once peculiar to the first edition of\n1563, p. 452., but now appearing in the reprint of 1843, vol. iv. p.\n671-76., which may be of some service in the absence of the original\ntract.\n\nNOVUS.\n\n\n_Hordys_ (No. 5. p. 157.).--I have waited till now in hopes of seeing an\nanswer from some more competent pen than my own to the Query as to the\nmeaning of the word \"_hordys_,\" by your correspondent \"J.G.;\" but having\nbeen disappointed, I venture a suggestion which occurred to me\nimmediately on reading it, viz. that \"_hordys_\" might be some possible\nor impossible derivation from _hordeum_, and applied \"irreverently\" to\nthe consecrated host, as though it were no better than a common\nbarley-cake.\n\nWhether in those early days and in Ireland, the host was really made of\nbarley, and whether \"hordys\" was a name given to some kind of\nbarley-cake then in vogue, or (supposing my suggestion to be well\nfounded) a word coined for the occasion, may perhaps be worthy of\ninvestigation.\n\nA.R.\nKenilworth, April 5.\n\n\n_Eachard's Tracts._--The Rev. George Wyatt, who inquires (No. 20. p.\n320.) about Eachard's _Tracts_, will probably get all the information he\nwants from the Life of Eachard prefixed to the collected edition of his\n_Works_ in three volumes, which I am sorry I have not the means at\npresent of referring to.\n\n\"I.O.,\" to whom the last of the tracts is addressed, is Dr. John Owen.\n\nPhilatus (what objection is there to Latinising, in the usual way, the\nGreek termination os?) is, of course, intended for Hobbes; and, to\nconvey Eachard's opinion of him, his opponent in the Dialogue is\nTimothy, a God-honourer.\n\nLet me add, as you have headed Mr. Wyatt's communication \"Tracts\nattributed to Eachard,\" thereby casting a doubt upon his authorship,\nthat there is no doubt about Dr. John Eachard being the author of all\nthe tracts which Mr. Wyatt enumerates; nor was there any concealment by\nEachard. His authorship of the _Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of\nthe Clergy_ is notorious. The \"Epistle Dedicatory,\" signed \"J.E.,\"\nmentioned by Mr. Wyatt as prefixed to the Dialogue on Hobbes' _State of\nNature_, refers also to the five subsequent letters. These were\npublished at the same time with the Dialogue on Hobbes, in one volume,\nand are answers to attacks on the _Grounds and Occasions_, &c. The\nEpistle Dedicatory is addressed to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of\nCanterbury, \"and,\" says Eachard, \"I hope my dialogue will not find the\nless acceptance with your Grace for these Letters which follow after.\"\n\nThe second edition of the volume I have by me, published in 1672: the\ntitle, _Mr. Hobbes's State of Nature considered, &c.; to which are\nadded, Five Letters from the Author of \"The Grounds and Occasions of the\nContempt of the Clergy.\"_\n\nC.\n\n\n_Masters of St. Cross._--In reply to \"H. EDWARDS\" (No. 22. p. 352.), A\nList of the Masters of St. Cross, I believe, is given in Browne Willis's\n_Mitred Abbies_, vol. i.; but the most correct and perfect list is in\nthe _Sketches of Hampshire_, by the late John Duthy, Esq. Henry or\nHumfrey de Milers is the first master whose name is recorded, and\nnothing further is known of him: between Bishop Sherborne and Bishop\nCompton there were thirteen masters.\n\nF.J.B.\n\n\nHas \"H. EDWARDS\" seen the _History of St. Cross Hospital_, by Mr. Moody,\npublished within the last six months? It may materially assist him.\n\nJOHN R. FOX\n\n\n_A living Dog better than a dead Lion._--Your correspondent \"MR. JOHN\nSANSOM\" may, perhaps, accept the following as an answer to the first\npart of his Query (No. 22. p. 352.). In an ancient MS. preserved in the\narchives of the see of Ossory, at fol. 66., is entered, in a hand of the\nlatter part of the fourteenth century, a list of ancient proverbs under\nthe following heading:-- {405}\n\n    \"Eux sount les proverbes en fraunceys conferme par auctorite del\n    _Dibil_?\n\n      \"Chers amys receiuez de moy\n      Un beau present q vo' envoy,\n      Non pas dor ne dargent\n      Mais de bon enseignment,\n      Que en escriptur ai trove\n      E de latin translatee, &c. &c.\"\n\nAmongst them is the following:--\n\n  \"Meux valt un chien sein e fort\n  Qe un leoun freid e mort;\n  E meux valt povert od bountex\n  Qe richeste od malueiste.\"\n\nJesus, the Son of Sirak, is not, however, the authority for this\nproverb; it occurs in the 9th chapter of Ecclesiastes and 4th verse.\n\nAnd now, to ask a question in turn, what is meant by \"auctorite _del\nDibil_?\"\n\nJAMES GRAVES.\nKilkenny.\n\n\n_Monumental Brass_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--On the floor of the Thorncombe\nchurch, in the co. of Devon, is a splendid brass, representing Sir T.\nBrooke, and Joan, his wife, dated respectively 1419 and 1436. At the\nlower corner of the lady's robe is engraven a small dog, with a collar\nand bells. May not these figures be the private mark of the artist?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_The Wickliffite Version of the Scriptures._--I have in my possession a\nvery fair MS. of Wickliff's translation of the New Testament; and should\nthe editors of the Wickliffite Versions like to see my MS., and let me\nknow to whom I may send it, I shall be happy to lend it them.\n\nDANIEL ROCK.\nBuckland, Faringdon.\n\n_Hever_ (pp. 269. 342.).--In confirmation of the meaning assigned to\nthis word, there is an estate near Westerham, in Kent, called\n\"Hever's-wood.\"\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Steward Family_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--Though not an answer to his\nquestion, \"O.C.\" may like to be informed that the arms of the impalement\nin the drawing which he describes are (according to Izacke's _Exeter_)\nthose which were borne by Ralph Taxall, Sheriff of Devon, in 1519. Pole\ncalls him Texshall. Modern heralds give the coat to Pecksall of\nWestminster. If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the\ncoat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in\nsaltier, between four owls.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Gloves_ (No. 5. p. 72.).--In connection with the subject of the\npresentation of gloves, I would refer your correspondents to the curious\nscene in Vicar's _Parliamentary Chronicle_, where \"Master Prynne,\" on\nhis visit to Archbishop Laud in the Tower in May 1643, accepts \"a fair\npair of gloves, upon the Archbishop's extraordinary pressing\nimportunity;\" a present which, under the disagreeable circumstances of\nthe interview, seems to have been intended to convey an intimation\nbeyond that of mere courtesy.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Cromlech._--As your learned correspondent \"Dr. TODD\" (No. 20. p. 319.)\nqueries this word, I think it is very doubtful whether the word was in\nuse, or not, before the period mentioned (16th century). Dr. Owain Pughe\nconsidered the word \"cromlech\" (_crwm-llech_, an inclined or flat\nstone,) to be merely a popular name, having no reference to the original\npurpose of the structure. The only Triadic name that will apply to the\ncromlechs, is _maen ketti_ (stone chests, or arks), the raising of which\nis described as one of \"The three mighty labours of the Isle of\nBritain.\"\n\nGOMER.\n\n\n_Watewich_ (pp. 60. 121. 236.).--May not \"Watewich\" be Waterbeach?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n\"_By Hook or by Crook._\"--I imagine that the expression \"By hook or by\ncrook\" is in very general use throughout England. It was familiar to my\near forty years ago in Surrey, and within these four years its origin\nwas (to my satisfaction at the moment) brought home to my comprehension\nin the North of Devon, where the tenant of a certain farm informed me\nthat, by an old custom, he was entitled to take wood from some adjoining\nland \"_by hook and crook_;\" which, on inquiry, I understood to include,\nfirst, so much underwood as he could cut with the _hook_ or bill, and,\nsecondly, so much of the branches of trees as he could pull down with\nthe aid of a _crook_.\n\nWhether this crook originally meant the shepherd's crook (a very\nefficient instrument for the purpose), or simply such a _crook_-ed\n_stick_ as boys use for gathering hazel-nuts, is not very material. It\nseems highly probable that, in the vast forests which once overspread\nthis country, the right of taking \"_fire bote_\" by \"hook or crook\" was\nrecognised; and we can hardly wish for a more apt illustration of the\nidea of gaining a desired object by the ordinary means--\"a hook,\" if it\nlay close to our hand; or, by a method requiring more effort, \"a crook,\"\nif it were a little beyond our reach.\n\nJ.A.S.\n\n\n_By Hook or by Crook_ (pp. 205, 237. 281. &c.).--In confirmation of this\nphrase having reference to forest customs, my hind told me that my\nplantations were plundered by hook or by crook, and he and I once caught\na man in _flagrante delicto_, with a hook for cutting green wood, and a\ncrook at the end of a long pole for breaking off dry branches, which\ncould not be otherwise reached. For an early use of the term, see\nBacon's _Fortress of the Faithful_, 1550.\n\n    \"Whatsoever is pleasant or profitable must be theirs by hook or\n    by crook.\"\n\nS.S.S. {406}\n\n\n_Tablet to Napoleon._--Will it assist \"EMDEE's\" interpretation of the\ninscription to Napoleon (No. 17 p. 262.) if I suggest that it may\nmean--\u00c6gyptiaco bis, Italico semper invicto?\n\nC.I.R.\nFeb. 25.\n\n\n_Lines on Pharaoh_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--I beg to inform \"J.T.,\" that the\nwell-known _couplet_ about Pharaoh, and _rascal_ rhyming to _pascal_,\nare from a certain _History of the Bible_, or _Bible History_, by the\nRev. Dr. Zachary Boyd, of Todrig, who was either Principal or Professor\nof Divinity at Glasgow in the seventeenth century.\n\nHe left considerable property to the College there, on condition that\nhis bust should be placed in the quadrangle, and his great work printed\nunder the care of the Academical Senatus. The bust was placed\naccordingly, and is, or lately was, to be seen in a niche over the inner\ndoorway. The _History_ was also printed, it is said, but never\npublished. However, curious visitors have always, I believe, been\nallowed a peep into it--whether the MS. or the solitary printed book, I\nam not sure--and a few choice morsels are current. I recollect one stave\nof the lamentation of Jonah--\n\n  \"Lord! what a doleful place is this!\n    There's neither coal nor candle;\n  And nothing I but fishes' tripes\n    And greasy guts do bandle.\"\n\nI think it a shame that the Maitland Club of Glasgow has not, ere now,\nvolunteered an edition of Zachary's immortal performance. The _Senatus_\nwould hardly object (if the expense were undertaken), as the circulation\nwould be confined to true Scots.\n\nPHILOBODIUS.\n\n    [The following communication from a very competent authority,\n    and the very passage quoted by \"PHILOBODIUS\" himself, quite\n    justify the non-publication of Zachary's doggrel.]\n\n\n_Zachary Boyd_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Your notice of Zachary Boyd, and his\nextraordinary paraphrase of the Bible in the College at Glasgow, has\nreminded me of my having examined that strange work, and found ample\ncause for its not being published, though a sufficient sum was\nbequeathed for that purpose. The whole doggrel is only calculated to\nbring ridicule and contempt upon the Scriptures; but there are, besides,\npassages such as refer to Job's \"Curse God, and die;\" to Jeshuram waxing\nfat; to Jonah in the whale's belly; and other parts, which utterly unfit\nthe MS. for decent perusal.\n\nW. JERDAN.\n\n\n_Welsh Ambassador._--The origin of the word \"Welsh,\" from the Saxon\n\"Wealh,\" a stranger, and the use of it in this sense by our old writers\n(see Brady's _Introd._, p. 5.: Sir T. Smith's _Commonwealth of England_,\nchap. xiii.), sufficiently explain this designation of the Cuckoo, the\ntemporary resident of our cold climate, and the ambassador\n_extraordinary_ in the revolutions of the seasons, in the words of the\nNursery Rhymes,--\n\n    \"She comes as a _stranger_, and stays three months in the year.\"\n\n    \"Quid tibi vis aliud dicam? me _vox mea prodit_.\"\n\n    _Alciati, Emblema_ lx. _Cuculi, Comment_.\n\nT.J.\n\n\n_Prince Madoc._--I was much gratified on reading \"T.T.'s\" note,\ncommenting on my observations respecting the Mandan language, as he\nproves the existence of Celtic words amongst the American Indians.\nRegarding \"T.T.'s\" doubts as to the Mandans being descended from the\nfollowers of Madoc, I confess that my opinions on the point do not\ndiffer very widely from his own. The circumstances attending Madoc's\nemigration, in the paucity of its numbers and the entire separation from\nthe mother country, with the character of the Indians, would almost\nensure the ultimate destruction of the settlement, or the ultimate\nabsorption of its remains by those who might have had friendly relations\nwith the Welsh. In this most favourable view, the evidences of the\npresence of the Welsh seven centuries since would be few indeed at the\npresent day. The most striking circumstance of this nature that I met\nwith in Mr. Catlin's work, is a description of what he calls a\n\"bull-boat,\" from its being covered with a bull's hide, which, in\nconstruction and form, is perfectly identical with the Welsh \"_cwrygl_.\"\nYet, strong as this resemblance is, it will have but little weight if\nunsupported by other evidence. In conclusion, I would observe, that I\nnever supposed Prince Madoc to be the discover of America, but that his\nvoyage was induced by the knowledge that other lands existed in the\ngreat ocean (_see_ Humboldt's _Examen critique_). The emblems found in\nAmerica, and said to be crosses, are obviously the _tau_ [cross symbol],\nor symbol of life, and can have no connection with Christianity.\n\nGOMER.\n\n\n_Poghell_ (No. 12. p. 186.).--In Cornwall and Devon there are places\ncalled Poughill or Poghill,--in _Domesday_, Pochelle; and in the\n_Taxatio Ecclesiastica_, Pockehulle and Pogheheulle. The etymology of\nthe word, I take to be merely the addition (as is often found) of the\nAnglo-Saxon _hill_, or _hull_, to the old Teutonic word Pock, or Pok, an\neruption or protrusion. In low Latin, Pogetum is colliculus. (See\nDucange.)\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Swingeing Tureen_ (No. 19. p. 211., and No. 21. p. 340.).--How could\n\"SELEUCUS\" \"conclude\" that Goldsmith's \"Poor Beau Tibbs and Kitty his\nWife,\" should have had \"a _silver_ tureen\" of expensive construction? It\nis evident that \"Kitty's\" husband, in the \"Haunch of Venison,\" was the\nBeau Tibbs of the \"Citizen of the World.\" There can be no doubt that,\nhowever the word be spelled, {407} the meaning is _swingeing_, \"huge,\ngreat,\" which I admit was generally, if not always, in those days\nspelled swinging, as in Johnson--\"_Swinging_, from _swinge, huge,\ngreat_;\" but which ought to be, as it is pronounced, _swingeing_.\n\n_Tureen_ (pp. 246. 307. 340.).--\"And instead of soup in a China\nterrene.\" (Knox, Essay 57 _Works_. vol. ii. p. 572.)\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_\"A\" or \"An.\"--Quem Deus vult perdere._--Allow me to refer your\ncorrespondents \"PRISCIAN\" and \"E.S. JACKSON\" (of No. 22.), to the\n_Selections from the Gentleman's Magazine_, London, 1814, vol. ii. pp.\n333. and 162., for some interesting papers on the subjects of their\nrespective inquiries.\n\nThe paper first referred to, at p. 333., is certainly well worth\nperusal, as the writer, \"KUSTER,\" has examined the question with\nconsiderable care, and proves, by many curious instances, that most of\nthose whom we have been taught to look up to as the greatest authorities\nin English writing--Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and others--seem to\nhave had no fixed rule on the subject, but to have used \"a\" or \"an\"\nbefore the same words with the most reckless inconsistency.\n\nThe second paper, at p. 162., gives a more detailed account of the\nadage, \"Quem Deus (potius _Jupiter_) vult perdere,\" &c., than \"F.C.B.\"\n(whose object, of course, was rather to compare _results_ than to trace\n_derivations_) has supplied in his interesting communication.\n\nC. FORBES.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.\n\nSuch of our readers as do not possess Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic\nand Provincial Words_, which Mr. Way, a very competent authority, lately\ndesignated in our columns as Mr. Halliwell's \"useful glossarial\ncollections,\" will be glad to learn that Mr. Russell Smith has announced\na second and cheaper edition of it.\n\nThe new number of the _Arch\u00e6ological Journal_ is a very interesting one.\nThat portion if it, more particularly, which relates the Proceedings of\nthe Meetings of the Arch\u00e6ological Institute, contains a great mass of\ncurious and valuable information; made the more available and\ninstructive by means of the admirable woodcuts by which it is\nillustrated.\n\nWe have received several curious communications on the subject of Parish\nRegisters, with reference to the article on \"Early Statistics,\" and the\n\"Registers of Chart, Kent,\" to which we shall endeavour to give early\ninsertion. We have also received a copy of _A Letter addressed to R.\nMonckton Milnes, Esq. M.P., on the Condition and unsafe State of Ancient\nParochial Registers in England and the Colonies_, to which we beg to\ndirect the attention of such of our friends as take an interest in this\nimportant subject.\n\nMessrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell on Monday,\nthe 29th instant, and three following days, a selection from the\nvaluable library of the Rev. Dr. Maitland. Although only a selection\nfrom the library of the learned historian of the Dark Ages, the\nCatalogue exhibits, in addition to numerous Polyglot and other important\neditions of the Scriptures, and the great collections of Baronius,\nMabillon, Dupin, Martene, and Durand, &c., a vast number of works of the\nhighest value in the departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.\n\nWe have received the following Catalogues:--Part III. for 1850 of J.\nRussell Smith's (4. 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Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in\nthe West, in the City of London, Publisher,\nat No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, April 20. 1850.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":14475}