{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15197/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15197","id":"gutenberg_15197","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15197","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Language & Communication","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals, Jon Ingram,\nWilliam Flis, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.\n\n\n\n\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS,\nANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNo. 29] SATURDAY, MAY 18. 1850 {Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS\n\n                                                          Page\n  NOTES:--\n    Oliver Cromwell as a Feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely  465\n    Dr. Parr and Dr. John Taylor                           466\n    Provincial Words                                       467\n    Folk Lore:--Death Bed Superstition--May Marriages\n      --Throwing old Shoes--Sir Thomas Boleyn's Spectre\n      --Shuck the Dog-fiend                                467\n\n  QUERIES:--\n    Numismatic Queries                                     468\n    Queries Proposed, No. 2., by Bolton Corney             469\n    Authors who have privately printed, by E.F. Rimbault   469\n    Minor Queries:--Seager a Painter--Marlow's Autograph\n      --MS. Diary of the Convention Parliament of\n      1660--Etymology of Totnes--Dr. Maginn--Poor\n      Robin's Almanack--The Camp in Bulstrode Park         469\n\n  REPLIES:--\n    Dr. Percy and the Poems of the Earl of Surrey by\n      J Payne Collier                                      471\n    Symbols of the Four Evangelists                        471\n    Complexion                                             472\n    Ballad of Dick and the Devil                           473\n    Replies to Minor Queries:--Cavell--Gootet--Christian\n      Captives--Pamphlets respecting Ireland--Pimlico--\n      Bive and Chute Lambs--Latin Names of Towns--Le\n      Petit Albert--Walker Lynne--Emancipation of the\n      Jews--As lazy as Ludlum's Dog--St. Winifreda--Vert\n      Vert--\"Esquire\" and \"Gentleman\"--Pope Felix\n      and Pope Gregory--Love's last Shift--Quem\n      Deus--Dayrolles--Emerods--Military Execution--\n      \"M. or N.\"--Sapcote Motto--Finkle &c.                473\n\n  MISCELLANIES:--\n    Dr. Sclater's Works--Runes                             478\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n    Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.                 479\n    Books and Odd Volumes wanted                           479\n    Notice to Correspondents                               479\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOLIVER CROMWELL AS A FEOFFEE OF PARSON'S CHARITY, ELY\n\n\nThere is in Ely, where Cromwell for some years resided, an extensive\ncharity known as Parson's Charity, of which he was a feoffee or\ngovernor. The following paper, which was submitted to Mr. Carlyle for\nthe second or third edition of his work, contains all the references\nto the great Protector which are to be found in the papers now in the\npossession of the trustees. The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a\nfeoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with\nthe governors of the charity. The records of the proceedings if the\nfeoffees of his time consist only of the collector's yearly accounts\nof monies received and expended, and do not show the appointments of\nthe feoffees. These accounts were laid before the feoffees from time\nto time, and signed by them in testimony of their allowance.\n\nCromwell's name might therefore be expected to be found at the foot of\nsome of them; but it unfortunately happens that, from the year 1622 to\nthe year 1641, there is an hiatus in the accounts. At the end of Book\nNo. 1., between forty and fifty leaves have been cut away, and at the\ncommencement of Book no. 2. about twelve leaves more. Whether some\ncollector of curiosities has purloined these leaves for the sale of\nany autographs of Cromwell contained in them, or whether their removal\nmay be accounted for by the questions which arose at the latter end\nof the above period as to the application of the funds of the charity,\ncannot now be ascertained.\n\nThere are however, still in the possession of the governors of the\ncharity, several documents which clearly show that from the year\n1635 to the year 1641 Cromwell was a feoffee or governor, and took an\nactive part in the management of the affairs of the charity. There\nis an original bond, dated the 30th of May, 1638, from one Robert\nNewborne to \"Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon of Ely, Oliver Cromwell,\nEsq., and the rest of the Corporation of Ely.\" The feoffees had then\nbeen incorporated by royal charter, under the title of \"The Governors\nof the Lands and Possessions of the Poor of the City or Town of Ely.\"\n\nThere are some detached collectors' accounts extending over a portion\nof the interval between 1622 and 1641, and indorsed, \"The Accoumpts\nof Mr. John Hand and Mr. William Cranford, Collectors of the Revenewes\nbelonging to the Towne of Ely.\"\n\nThe following entries are extracted from these accounts:--\n\n  \"The Disbursements of Mr. John Hand from the\n  of August 1636 unto the      of\n  1641.\"\n\n  \"Anno 1636.\"\n\nAfter several other items,--\n\n                                                 L  s.  d.\n  \"Given to diverse Poore People at ye     }\n  Worke-house, in the presence of Mr.      }\n  Archdeacon of Ely, Mr. Oliver Cromwell,  }    16  14   0\n  Mr. John Goodericke, and others, Feb.    }\n  10th 1636, as appeareth,                 }    ___________\n\n  Summa Expens. Ann. 1636                       36   3   6\"\n                                                ___________\n\n\n    \"The Disbursements of Mr. Cranford.\"\n  \"Item, to Jones, by Mr. Cromwell's consent}    1   0   0\"\n\nMr. Cranford's disbursements show no dates. His receipts immediately\nfollowed Mr. Hand's in point of dates.\n\nAbout the year 1639 a petition was filed in the Court of Chancery by\none Thomas Fowler, on behalf of himself and others, inhabitants of\nEly, against the feoffees of Parson's Charity, and a commission for\ncharitable uses was issued. The commissioners sat at Ely, on the 25th\nof January, 1641, and at Cambridge on the 3rd of March in the same\nyear, when several of the feoffees with other persons were examined.\n\nAt the conclusion of the joint deposition of John Hand and William\nCranford, two of the feoffees, is the following statement:--\n\n    \"And as to the Profitts of the said Lands in theire tyme\n    receaved, they never disposed of any parte thereof but by the\n    direction and appointment of Mr. Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon\n    of Ely, Mr. William March, and Mr. Oliver Cromwell.\"\n\n    \"These last two names were inserted att Camb. 8 Mar. 1641, by\n    Mr. Hy. C.\"\n\nThe last name in the above note is illegible, and the last two names\nin the deposition are of a different ink and handwriting from the\npreceding part, but of the same ink and writing as the note.\n\nAn original summons to the feoffees, signed by the commissioners, is\npreserved. It requires them to appear before the commissioners at\nthe Dolphin Inn, in Ely, on the 25th of the then instant January, to\nproduce before the commissioners a true account \"of the monies, fines,\nrents, and profits by you and every of you and your predecessors\nfeoffees receaved out of the lands given by one Parsons for the\nbenefitt of the inhabitants of Ely for 16 years past,\" &c. The summons\nis dated at Cambridge, the 13th of January, 1641, and is signed by the\nthree commissioners,\n\n  \"Tho. Symon.\n  Tho. Duckett.\n  Dudley Page.\"\n\nThe summons is addressed\n\n  \"To Matthew, Lord Bishop of Ely,\n    Willm. Fuller, Deane of Ely, and to\n    Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon of Ely.\n    William March, Esq.\n    Anthony Page, Esq.\n    Henry Gooderick, Gent.\n    Oliver Cromwell, Esq.\n    Willm. Anger.\n    Willm. Cranford.\n    John Hand, and\n    Willm. Austen.\"\n\nWhether Cromwell attended the sitting of the commissioners does not\nappear.\n\nThe letter from Cromwell to Mr. John Hand, published in Cromwell's\n_Memoirs of Cromwell_, has not been in the possession of the feoffees\nfor some years.\n\nThere is, however, an item in Mr. Hand's disbursements, which probably\nrefers to the person mentioned in that letter. It is as follows:--\n\n                                             L  s. d.\n  \"Ffor phisicke and surgery for old Benson, 2  7  4\"\n\nCromwell's letter appears to be at a later date than this item.\n\nJohn Hand was a feoffee for many years, and during his time executed,\nas was usual, the office of collector or treasurer. It may be gathered\nfrom the documents preserved that Cromwell never executed that office.\nThe office was usually taken by the feoffees in turn then, as at the\npresent time; but Cromwell most probably was called to a higher sphere\nof action before his turn arrived.\n\nIt is worthy of note, that Cromwell's fellow-trustees, the Bishop\nof Ely (who was the celebrated Matthew Wren), Fuller the Dean,\nand Wigmore the Archdeacon, were all severely handled during the\nRebellion.\n\nARUN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDR. SAM. PARR AND DR. JOHN TAYLOR, OF SHREWSBURY AND SHREWSBURY\nSCHOOL.\n\n\nLooking at the Index to the _Memoirs of Gilbert Wakefield_, edit. of\n1804, I saw, under the letter T., the following entries:--\n\n  \"Taylor, Rev. Dr. John, Tutor of Warrington Academy, i. 226.\n  ---- his latinity, why faulty, ii. 449.\"\n\nBut I instantly suspected an error: for it was my belief that those\ntwo notices were designed for two distinct scholars. Accordingly, I\nrevised both passages, and found that I was right in my conjecture.\nThe facts are these:--In the former of the references, \"The Rev. John\nTaylor, D.D.,\" is pointed out. The other individual, of the same\nname, was John Taylor, LL.D., a native of Shrewsbury, and a pupil of\nShrewsbury School: HIS _latinity_ it is which Dr. Samuel Parr [_ut\nsupr._] characterises as FAULTY: and for the defects of which he\nendeavours, successfully or otherwise, to account. So that whosoever\nframed the _Index_ has here committed an oversight.\n\nIn the quotation which I proceed to make, Parr is assigning causes of\nwhat, as I think, he truly deemed blemishes in G. Wakefield's Latin\nstyle; and this is the language of the not unfriendly censor:--\n\n    \"--None, I fear, of his [W.'s] Latin productions are wholly\n    free from faults, which he would have been taught to avoid\n    in our best public seminaries, and of which I have seen many\n    glaring instances in the works of Archbishop Potter, Dr. John\n    Taylor, Mr. Toup, and several eminent scholars now living, who\n    were brought up in private schools.\"\n\nBut could Parr mean to rank Shrewsbury School among the \"private\nschools?\" I am not old enough to recollect what it was in the times\nof Taylor, J., the civilian, and the editor of Demosthenes. Its\ncelebrity, however, in our own day, and through a long term of\npreceding years, is confessed. Dr. Parr's judgement in this case might\nbe somewhat influenced by his prepossessions as an _Harrovian_.\n\nN.\n\nApril, 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPROVINCIAL WORDS.\n\n\nIn _Twelfth Night_, Act ii. Scene 3., occur the words \"Sneck up,\" in\nC. Knight's edition, or \"Snick up,\" Mr. Collier's edition. These words\nappear most unaccountably to have puzzled the commentators. Sir Toby\nBelch uses them in reply to Malvolio, as,--\n\n_Enter_ MALVOLIO.\n\n    \"_Mal._ My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have you no\n    wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this\n    time of night? Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house,\n    that you squeak out your cozier's catches without any\n    mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place,\n    person, nor time, in you?\n\n    \"_Sir To._ We did keep time, Sir, in our catches. Sneck up!\"\n\n\"Sneck up,\" according to Mr. C. Knight, is explained thus:--\n\n    \"A passage in Taylor, the Water Poet, would show that this\n    means 'hang yourself.' A verse from his 'Praise of Hempseed'\n    is given in illustration.\"\n\n\"Snick up,\" according to Mr. Collier, is said to be \"a term of\ncontempt,\" of which the precise meaning seems to have been lost.\nVarious illustrations are given, as see his Note; but all are wide of\nthe meaning.\n\nTurn to Halliwell's _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, 2d\nedition, and there is this explanation:--\n\n    \"SNECK, that part of the iron fastening of a door which is\n    raised by moving the latch. To _sneck_ a door, is to latch\n    it.\"\n\nSee also Burn's Poems: _The Vision, Duan First_, 7th verse, which is\nas follows:--\n\n  \"When dick! the string the snick did draw,--\n  And jee! the door gaed to the wa';\n  An' by my ingle-lowe I saw,\n            Now bliezin' bright,\n  A tight, outlandish Hizzie, braw,\n            Come full in sight.\"\n\nThese quotations will clearly show that \"sneck\" or \"snick\" applies to\na door; and that to _sneck_ a door is to shut it. I think, therefore,\nthat Sir Toby meant to say in the following reply:--\n\n    \"We did keep time, Sir, in our catches. Sneck up!\"\n\nThat is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, \"bung\nup,\"--emphatically, \"We kept true time;\" and the probability is, that\nin saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of\npushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_.\n\nIn the country parts of Lancashire, and indeed throughout the North\nof England, and it appears Scotland also, the term \"sneck the door\"\nis used indiscriminately with \"shut the door\" or \"toin't dur.\" And\nthere can be little doubt but that this provincialism was known to\nShakspeare, as his works are full of such; many of which have either\nbeen passed over by his commentators, or have been wrongly noted, as\nthe one now under consideration.\n\nShakspeare was essentially a man of the people; his learning was\nfrom within, not from colleges or schools, but from the universe and\nhimself. He wrote the language of the people; that is, the common\nevery-day language of his time: and hence mere classical scholars have\nmore than once mistaken him, and most egregiously misinterpreted him,\nas I propose to show in some future Notes.\n\nR.R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n\n_Death-bed Superstition_. (No. 20. p. 315.).--The practice of opening\ndoors and boxes when a person dies, is founded on the idea that the\nministers of purgatorial pains took the soul as it escaped from the\nbody, and flattening it against some closed door (which alone would\nserve the purpose), crammed it into the hinges and hinge openings;\nthus the soul in torment was likely to be miserably pinched and\nsqueezed by the movement on casual occasion of such door or lid: an\nopen or swinging door frustrated this, and the fiends had to try some\nother locality. The friends of the departed were at least assured\nthat they were not made the unconscious instruments of torturing the\ndeparted in their daily occupations. The superstition prevails in the\nNorth as well as in the West of England; and a similar one exists in\nthe South of Spain, where I have seen it practised.\n\nAmong the Jews at Gibraltar, at which place I have for many years been\na resident, there is also a strange custom when a death occurs in the\nhouse; and this consists in pouring away all the water contained in\nany vessel, the superstition being that the angel of death may have\nwashed his sword therein.\n\nTREBOR.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_May Marriages_.--It so happened that yesterday I had both a Colonial\nBishop and a Home Archdeacon taking part in the services of my church,\nand visiting at my house; and, by a singular coincidence, both had\nbeen solicited by friends to perform the marriage ceremony not later\nthan to-morrow, because in neither case would the bride-elect submit\nto be married in the month of May. I find that it is a common notion\namongst ladies, that May marriages are unlucky.\n\nCan any one inform me whence this prejudice arose?\n\nALFRED GATTY.\n\nEcclesfield, April 29. 1850.\n\n    [This superstition is as old as Ovid's time, who tells us in\n    his _Fasti_,\n\n      \"Nec viduae taedis eadem, nec virginis apta\n        Tempora. Quae nupsit non diuturna fuit.\n      Hac quoque de causa (si te proverbia tangunt),\n        Mense malas Maio nubere vulgus ait.\"\n\n    The last line, as our readers may remember, (see _ante_, No.\n    7. p. 97.), was fixed on the gates of Holyrood on the morning\n    (16th of May) after the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and\n    Bothwell.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Throwing Old Shoes at a Wedding_.--At a wedding lately, the\nbridesmaids, after accompanying the bride to the hall-door, threw into\nthe carriage, on the departure of the newly-married couple, a number\nof old shoes which they had concealed somewhere. On inquiry, I find\nthis custom is not uncommon; I should be glad to be favoured with any\nparticulars respecting its origin and meaning, and the antiquity of\nit.\n\nARUN.\n\n    [We have some NOTES on the subject of throwing Old Shoes after\n    a person as a means of securing them good fortune, which we\n    hope to insert in an early Number.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Sir Thomas Boleyn's Spectre_.--Sir Thomas Boleyn, the father of the\nunfortunate Queen of Henry VIII., resided at Blickling, distant about\nfourteen miles from Norwich, and now the residence of the dowager Lady\nSuffield. The spectre of this gentleman is believed by the vulgar to\nbe doomed, annually, on a certain night in the year, to drive, for a\nperiod of 1000 years, a coach drawn by four headless horses, over a\ncircuit of twelve bridges in that vicinity. These are Aylsham, Burgh,\nOxnead, Buxton, Coltishall, the two Meyton bridges, Wroxham, and four\nothers whose names I do not recollect. Sir Thomas carries his head\nunder his arm, and flames issue from his mouth. Few rustics are hardy\nenough to be found loitering on or near those bridges on that night;\nand my informant averred, that he was himself on one occasion hailed\nby this fiendish apparition, and asked to open a gate, but \"he warn't\nsich a fool as to turn his head; and well a' didn't, for Sir Thomas\npassed him full gallop like:\" and he heard a voice which told him that\nhe (Sir Thomas) had no power to hurt such as turned a deaf ear to his\nrequests, but that had he stopped he would have carried him off.\n\nThis tradition I have repeatedly heard in this neighbourhood from aged\npersons when I was a child, but I never found but one person who had\never actually _seen_ the phantom. Perhaps some of your correspondents\ncan give some clue to this extraordinary sentence. The coach and four\nhorses is attached to another tradition I have heard in the west\nof Norfolk; where the ancestor of a family is reported to drive his\nspectral team through the old walled-up gateway of his now demolished\nmansion, on the anniversary of his death: and it is said that the\nbricks next morning have ever been found loosened and fallen, though\nas constantly repaired. The particulars of this I could easily procure\nby reference to a friend.\n\nE.S.T.\n\nP.S. Another vision of Headless Horse is prevalent at Caistor Castle,\nthe seat of the Fastolfs.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Shuck the Dog-fiend_.--This phantom I have heard many persons in East\nNorfolk, and even Cambridgeshire, describe as having seen as a black\nshaggy dog, with fiery eyes, and of immense size, and who visits\nchurchyards at midnight. One witness nearly fainted away at seeing it,\nand on bringing his neighbours to see the place where he saw it, he\nfound a large spot as if gunpowder had been exploded there. A lane\nin the parish of Overstrand is called, after him, Shuck's Lane. The\nname appears to be a corruption of \"shag,\" as _shucky_ is the Norfolk\ndialect for \"shaggy.\" Is not this a vestige of the German \"Dog-fiend?\"\n\nE.S.T.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\n\nNUMISMATIC QUERIES.\n\nCan any numismatical contributor give me any information as to the\nrecurrence elsewhere, &c., of the following types of coins in my\npossession:--\n\n1. A coin of the size of Roman 1 B., of the province of Macedonia\nPrima.--_Obv._ A female head, with symbols behind, and a rich\nfloriated edge: _Rev._ A club within an oaken garland: Legend in the\nfield, [Greek: MAKEDONON PROTES].\n\nThe type is illustrated by Dr. Horne, in his _Introduction to the\nStudy of the Bible_, in explanation of Acts, xvi. 11, 12. The specimen\nin my possession is in _lead_, finely struck, and therefore not a\n_cast_, and in all respects equal in point of sharpness and execution\nto the silver of the same size and type in the British Museum; and was\ndug up by a labourer at Chesterton, near Cambridge. How is the metal\nof which my specimen is composed to be accounted for?\n\n2. A 3 B. coin apparently by the portrait of Tiberius.--Legend\ndefaced: _Rev._ The type known by collectors as the altar of Lyons:\n_Ex._ (ROM)AE ET AV(G.)\n\n3. A 3 B. of Herennia Estruscilla.--_Rev_. The usual seated figure of\nPudicitia; and the Legend, PVDICITIA AVG.\n\nAccording to Col. Smyth, Akermann, and other authorities, no third\nbrass of this empress exists; but the specimen before me has been\ndecided as undoubtedly genuine by many competent judges.\n\n4. A 3 B. coin of the Emperor Macrinus, struck in some of the\nprovinces.--_Obv._ A bearded portrait of the emperor: Leg., AVT.\nK.M.O.C.C. MAKPINOC: _Rev._ An archaic S.C. in a laurel garland, above\nL and beneath C. I am anxious to know to what locality I may ascribe\nthis coin, as I have not been able to find it described.\n\nE.S.T.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nQUERIES PROPOSED, NO. 2.\n\nWhen reflecting on my various pen-and-ink skirmishes, I have sometimes\nhalf-resolved to _avoid controversy_. The resolution would have been\nunwise; for silence, on many occasions, would be a dereliction of\nthose duties which we owe to ourselves and the public.\n\nThe halcyon days, so much desired, may be far distant! I have\nto comment, elsewhere, on certain parts of the _Report_ of the\ncommissioners on the British Museum--which I hope to do firmly, yet\nrespectfully; and on the evidence of Mr. Panizzi--in which task I must\nnot disappoint his just expectations. I have also to propose a query\non the _blunder of Malone_--to which I give precedence, as it relates\nto Shakspeare.\n\nThe query is--have I \"mistaken the whole affair\"? A few short\nparagraphs may enable others to decide.\n\n1. The question at issue arose, I presume to say, out of the\n_statement of Mr. Jebb_. I never quoted the Irish edition. If _C._\ncan prove that Malone superintended it, he may fairly tax me with a\nviolation of my new canon of criticism--not otherwise. What says Mr.\nJames Boswell on that point? I must borrow his precise words: \"The\nonly edition for which Mr. Malone can be considered as responsible\n[is] his own in 1790.\" [_Plays and poems of W.S._ 1821, i. xxxiii.]\n\n2. I am said to have \"repeated what _C._ had already stated.\"--I\nconsulted the _Shakspere_ of Malone, and verified my recollections,\nwhen the query of \"Mr. JEBB\" appeared--but forbore to notice its\nmisconceptions. Besides, one _C._, after an interval of two months,\nmerely _asserted_ that it was not a blunder of Malone; the other _C._\nfurnished, off-hand, his proofs and references.\n\n3. To argue fairly, we must use the same words in the same sense.\nNow _C._ (No. 24. p. 386.) asserts the _Malone had never seen_ the\nintroductory fragment; and asks, who _forged_ it? He uses the word\n_fabrication_ in the sense of forgery.--The facts are produced (No.\n25. p. 404.). He is informed that the _audacious fabrication_, which\ntook place before 1770, was first published by Malone himself,\nin 1790--yet he expects me to apply the same terms to the blunder\ncommitted by another editor in 1794.\n\n4. As an answer to my assertion that the Irish editor _attempted to\nunite_ the two fragments, _C._ proceeds to prove that he _did not\nunite them_. The procedure is rather defective in point of logical\nexactness. It proves only what was not denied. Malone refers to the\n_will of John Shakspere, found by Joseph Moseley_, with sufficient\nclearness; and it is charitable to assume that the Irish editor\nintended to observe the instructions of his precursor. He failed, it\nseems--but why? It would be useless to go in search of the rationale\nof a blunder.\n\nHave I \"_mistaken the whole affair_\"?--I entreat those readers of\nthe \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" who may take up the affirmative side of the\nquestion to point out my errors, whether as to facts or inferences.\n\nBOLTON CORNET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAUTHORS WHO HAVE PRIVATELY PRINTED THEIR OWN WORKS.\n\nCan any of your readers refer me to any source whence I can obtain\nan account of \"JOHN PAINTER, B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford?\" He\nappears to have been a very singular character, and fond of printing\n(privately) his own lucubrations; to most of which he subscribes\nhimself \"The King's Fool.\" Three of these privately printed tracts are\nnow before me:--1. _The Poor Man's Honest Praises and Thanksgiving_,\n1746. 2. _An Oxford Dream, in Two Parts_, 1751. 3. _A Scheme designed\nfor the Benefit of the Foundling Hospital_, 1751.\n\nWho was ROBERT DEVERELL, who privately printed, in 4to., _Andalusia;\nor Notes tending to show that the Yellow Fever was well known to\nthe Ancients_? The book seems a mass of absurdity; containing\nillustrations of Milton's _Comus_, and several other subjects equally\nincongruous.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Seager a Painter.--Marlow's Autograph._--In a MS., which has\nlately been placed in my hands, containing a copy of Henry Howard's\ntranslation of the last instructions given by the Emperor Charles V.\nto his son Philip, transcribed by Paul Thompson about the end of the\nsixteenth century, are prefixed some poems in a different handwriting.\nThe first of these is an eclogue, entitled _Amor Constans_, in which\nthe dialogue is carried on by \"Dickye\" and \"Bonnybootes,\" and begins\nthus:--\"For shame, man, wilt thou never leave this sorrowe?\" At the\nend is the signature, \"Infortunatus, Ch.M.\" Following this eclogue\nare sixteen sonnets, signed also \"Ch.M.;\" in two of which the author\nalludes to a portrait painter named _Seager_. One of these sonnets\ncommences thus:--\n\n  \"Whilest thou in breathinge cullers, crimson white,\n    Drewst these bright eyes, whose language sayth to me.\n    Loe! the right waye to heaven; Love stoode by the(e),\n  _Seager!_ fayne to be drawne in cullers brighte,\" &c.\n\nI should be glad to receive any information respecting this painter:\nas also any hints as to the name of the poet Ch. M. May I add, also,\nanother Query? Is any authentic writing or signature of _Christopher\nMarlow_ known to exist?\n\nM.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_MS. Diary of the Convention Parliament of 1660_.--The editors of the\n_Parliamentary History_ give some passages from a MS. Diary of the\nConvention Parliament of the Restoration, and state that the Diary\nwas communicated to them by the Rev. Charles Lyttleton, Dean of Exeter\n(vol. iv. p. 73.). I am anxious to know where this Diary now is, and\nif it may be seen by--\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Etymology of Totnes_.--Can any of your readers suggest a probable\netymology for Totnes, the \"prime town of Great Britain,\" as it is\ncalled by Westcote[1], who supposes it to have been built by Brutus,\n1108 years before the Christian era. Mr. Polwhele, who supposed the\nnumerous _Hams_ in Devon to have owed their names to the worship\nof Jupiter _Hammon_, would, I imagine, have derived Totnes from the\nEgyptian god Thoth or Taut; or, perhaps, directly from King Thothmes.\nWestcote observes that some would have the name from,--\n\n    \"The French word _tout-a-l'aise_, which is in English, all at\n    ease; as if Brutus at his arrival in such a pleasant soil ...\n    should here assure himself and his fellow-travellers of\n    ease, rest, and content; and the _l_, in this long time, is\n    changed into _n_, and so from _tout-a-lesse_ we now call it\n    _tout-a-nesse_, and briefly Totnessse. This would _I willingly\n    applaud, could I think or believe that Brutus spake so good\n    French_, or that the French tongue was then spoken at all.\n    Therefore, I shall with the more ease join in opinion with\n    those who would have it named _Dodonesse_, which signifieth\n    [in what language?] the rocky-town, or town on stones, which\n    is also agreeable with the opinion of Leland.\"\n\nTotnes is denominated Totenais and Totheneis in _Domesday Book_; and\nin other old records variously spelt, Toteneis, Totteneys, Toteneys,\nTotton', Totten, Totenesse, Tottenesse, Tottonasse, Totonie, &c.\nNever, Donodesse.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\nTotnes, April 23. 1850.\n\n    [1] _A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX._, by Thomas Westcote,\n    Esq., Exeter, 1845.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies_.--Towards the end of 1840, Dr. Maginn\nissued the prospectus of a work to be published weekly in numbers,\nand to be entitled \"_Magazine Miscellanies_, by Dr. Maginn,\" which was\nintended to comprise a selection from his contributions to Blackwood,\nFraser, &c. Will any one of your multitudinous readers kindly inform\nme whether this work was ever published, or any portion of it?\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Dr. Maginn's \"Shakspeare Papers.\"_--The Doctor published several very\nable critical dissertations under this, or some similar title, about\nthe year 1837, in one of the monthly magazines, for references to\nwhich I shall feel obliged.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Dr. Maginn's Homeric Ballads._--Between 1839 and 1842, the \"Homeric\nBallads,\" from thirteen to sixteen, appeared in _Fraser's Magazine_.\nWill any correspondent favour me with specific references to the\nnumbers or months in which they were published? I may add, that I\nshall esteem it as a very great favour to receive authentic reference\nto any articles contributed to Blackwood, Fraser, &c., &c., by\nDr. Maginn. The difficulty of determining authorship from internal\nevidence alone is well-known, and is aptly illustrated by the fact,\nthat an article on Miss Austen's novels, by Archbishop Whately, was\nincluded in the collection of Sir Walter Scott's prose works.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Poor Robin's Almanack_.--Who was the author or originator of _Poor\nRobin's Almanack_? Are any particulars known of its successive\neditors? In what year did it cease to be published? The only one I\npossess is for the year 1743,--\"Written by Poor Robin, _Knight of the\nBurnt Island_, a well-wisher to Mathematicks,\" who informs his readers\nthat this was his eighty-first year of writing. What is meant by\n_Knight of the Burnt Island_?\n\nI must not omit to add, that at Dean Prior, the former vicar, Robert\nHerrick, has the reputation of being the author of _Poor Robin_.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\nTotnes, April 18. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_The Camp in Bulstrode Park_.--Is there any published account of\nthis camp having been opened? It is well worth the examination of\na competent antiquary.... It is not even alluded to in Mr. Jesse's\n_Favourite Haunts_, nor does that gentleman appear to have visited the\ninteresting village of \"Hedgerley\" (anciently _Hugely_), or Jordans,\nthe Quakers' Meeting-house, and burial-place of Penn, between\nBeaconsfield and Chalfont. Chalfont was anciently written Chalfhunt,\nand is by the natives still called Charffunt; and Hunt is a very\ncommon surname in this parish: there was, however, Tobias Chalfont,\nRector of Giston, who died 1631. \"Chal\" appears to be a common prefix.\nIn Chalfont (St. Peter's) is an inscription to _Sir_ Robert Hamson,\nVycar, alluded to in Boutell's _Brasses_. In a cupboard under the\ngallery staircase is a copper helmet, which, prior to the church\nhaving been beautified in 1822, was suspended on an iron bracket with\na _bit of rag_, as it then looked, to the best of my memory. I have\nheard that it belonged to the family of Gould of Oak End, extinct.\n\nA.C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Hobit_, a measure of corn in Wales; what is the derivation?\n\nA.C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\n\nDR. PERCY AND THE POEMS OF THE EARL OF SURREY.\n\nI have the means of showing what Dr. Percy did with the poems of the\nEarl of Surrey, because I have a copy of the work now before me.\n\nIt can hardly be said that he \"prepared an edition\" of those poems,\nas supposed by your correspondent \"G.\" on the authority of Watts's\n_Bibliotheca Britannica_, but he made an exact reprint of the _Songes\nand Sonnettes written by the Right Honorable Lorde Henry Haward,\nlate Earle of Surrey, and other_, which was printed _Apud Richardum\nTottell. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum_. 1557. The Bishop of\nDromere made no attempt at editing the work much beyond what was\nnecessary to secure an exact reimpression. He prefixed no Life of\nSurrey (a point \"G.\" wishes to ascertain); and, in fact, the book was\nnever completed. It contains considerably more than the reprint of the\npoems of Lord Surrey, and was intended to consist of two volumes with\nseparate pagination; the first volume extending to p. 272., and the\nsecond to p. 342.\n\nAs the work is a rarity, owing to an unfortunate accident, some of\nyour readers may like to see a brief notice of it. Watts (as quoted\nby \"G.\" for I have not his portly volumes at hand,) states that the\n\"whole impression\" was \"consumed in the fire which took place in Mr.\nNicholls's premises in 1808.\" This was a mistake, as my extant copy\nestablishes; and _Restituta_ (iii. 451.) informs us that _four_ were\nsaved. Of the history of my own impression I know nothing beyond the\nfact, that I paid a very high price for it some twenty years since,\nat an auction; but the late Mr. Grenville had another copy, which I\nhad an opportunity of seeing, and which had belonged to T. Park, and\nhad been sent to him by Dr. Percy for the advantage of his notes and\nremarks. This, I presume, is now in the British Museum; whither it\ncame with the rest of Mr. Grenville's books, four or five years ago.\n\nThe \"Songs and Sonnets\" of Surrey occupy only the first forty pages of\nvol. i.; then follow \"Songs and sonnets\" by Sir Thomas Wyat to p. 111.\ninclusive; and they are succeeded by poems \"of uncertain authors,\"\nwhich occupy the rest of the the first volume. The second volume\nbegins with \"The Seconde Boke of Virgiles AEnaeis,\" filling thirty\npages; while \"the Fourth Boke\" ends at p. 57., with the imprint of R.\nTottell, and the date of 1557. \"Ecclesiastes and Certain Psalms by\nby Henry Earl of Surrey,\" which are \"from ancient MSS. never before\nimprinted,\" close at p. 81. \"Certayne Psalmes chosen out of the\nPsalter of David,\" consisting of the seven penitential psalms, with\nthe imprint of Thomas Raynald and John Harrington,\" fill thirty pages;\nand to them is added \"Sir Thomas Wyat's Defence,\" from the Strawberry\nHill edition; which, with a few appended notes, carries the work on to\np. 141.\n\nA new title-page, at which we now arrive, shows us the intention of\nDr. Percy, and the object at which he had all along aimed: it runs\nthus:--\"Poems in Bland Verse (not Dramatique) prior to Milton's\n_Paradise Lost._ Subsequent to Lord Surrey's in this Volume, and to\nN.G.'s in the preceding.\" In truth, Dr. Percy was making a collection\nin the two volumes of all the English undramatic blank verse he could\ndiscover, prior to the publication of Milton's great poem. He was\nguilty of some important omissions, because bibliographical knowledge\nwas not then as far advanced as at present, but he performed good\nservice to letters as far as he was able to go; and the blank verse\nproductions he subjoins are by George Tubervile, George Gascoigne,\nBarnabie Riche, George Peele, James Aske, William Vallans, Nicholas\nBreton, George Chapman, and Christopher Marlow. These occupy from p.\n342. of vol. ii.\n\nThis list might now be considerably increased; but my present business\nis only to answer the Query of \"G.,\" as to the nature and contents\nof the work. It has been said, I know not on what authority, that\nSteevens assisted Percy in preparing and printing it. I apprehend that\nthe aid given by Steevens consisted solely in recommending the Bishop\nto procure certain rare productions which would contribute to the\npurpose.\n\nJ. PAYNE COLLIER.\n\nMay 7, 1850.\n\n    [To this we may add, that about 1767, when Bishop Percy\n    printed these twenty-five sheets of poems of Lord Surrey and\n    the Duke of Buckingham, it appears by a letter of the Bishop\n    to Horace Walpole, that he presented a copy of them to\n    Walpole, with a request for information about Lord Surrey. The\n    Bishop never wrote the Life of Surrey; and in 1808 the whole\n    impression was burnt, with the exception of a copy or two that\n    the Bishop had given to his friends. In the letter to Walpole\n    the Bishop says, \"A few more leaves will complete that book,\n    which with the second and Dr. Surrey's Songs and Sonnets, &c.\n    will be sufficient for the book.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSYMBOLS OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.\n\nHorne, in his _Introduction_, vol. iv. p. 254., says that Irenaeus was\nthe first to discover the analogy between the four animals mentioned\nby Ezekiel (i. 5. 10.) and the four Evangelists, which gave rise to\nthe well-known paintings of these latter. He quotes from _Iren. adv.\nHoer._ lib. iii. cap. 11.:--\n\n    \"The first living creature, which is like a lion, signifies\n    Christ's efficacy, principality, and regality, viz. John; the\n    second, like a calf, denotes His sacerdotal order, viz. Luke;\n    the third, having as it were, a man's face, describes His\n    coming in the flesh as man, viz. Matthew; and the fourth, like\n    a flying eagle, manifests the grace of the Spirit flying into\n    the Church, viz. Mark.\"\nThere is also an interesting passage in _Dionys Carthus. in Apocal.\nEnarr._ iv. 7., from which the following is an extract:--\n\n    \"Although the above exposition of Gregorius, in which by the\n    man in meant Matthew, by the calf Luke, &c., be the common\n    one, yet other holy men have held a different opinion, for as\n    Bede relates on this point, Augustine understood by the lion\n    Matthew, because in the beginning of his Gospel he describes\n    the _royal_ descent of Christ; by the calf he also understood\n    Luke, because he wrote of the _priestly_ descent of Our Lord;\n    by the man Mark, because he omits the question of Christ's\n    birth, and confines himself more especially to describing\n    His acts as a _man_; by the eagle, _all_ understand John, on\n    account of the sublimity to which his Gospel soars. Others\n    again understand by the lion Matthew; by the calf Mark,\n    on account of the simplicity of his style; and by the man\n    Luke, because he has more fully treated of Christ's _human_\n    generation.\"\n\nWould \"JARLZBERG\" kindly favour me with a reference to his interesting\nanecdote of the lion's whelps?\n\nJ. EASTWOOD.\n\nEcclesfield, May 9. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nYour correspondent \"JARLZBERG\" (No. 24. p. 385.) inquires for the\norigin of the Evangelistic symbols. The four living creatures, in\nEzekiel, i. 10., and Revelations, iv. 7., were interpreted from\nthe earliest times to represent the four Gospels. Why the angel is\nattributed to St. Matthew, the lion to St. Mark, and so on, is another\nquestion: but their order in Ezekiel corresponds with the order of\nthe Gospels as we have them. Durandus would probably furnish some\ninformation. The fabulous legend of the lion savours of a later\norigin. Some valuable remarks on the subject, and a list of references\nto early writers, will be found in Dr. Wordsworth's _Lectures on the\nCanon of Scripture_ (Lect. VI. p. 151.), and his _Lectures on the\nApocalypse_ (Lect. IV. pp. 116, 117.)\n\nC.R.M.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Symbols of the Evangelists_ (No. 24. p. 385.).--The symbols of the\nfour Evangelists are treated of by J. Williams, _Thoughts on the Study\nof the Gospels_, p. 5--22. Lond. 1842.\n\nM.\n\nOxford.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWith regard to the symbols of the four Evangelists, \"JARLZBERG\" may\nconsult a Sermon by Boys on the portion of Scripture appointed for the\nEpistle for Trinity-Sunday. (_Works_, p. 355. Lond. 1622.)\n\nR.G.\n\n    [To these Replies we will only add a reference to Mrs.\n    Jameson's interesting and beautiful volume on _Sacred and\n    Legendary Art_, vol. i. p. 98., _et seq._, and the following\n    Latin quatrain:--\n\n      \"Quatuor haec Dominum signant animalia Christum,\n      Est _Homo_ nascendo, _Vitulus_que sacer moriendo,\n      Et _Leo_ surgendo, coelos _Aquila_ que petendo;\n      Nec minus hos scribas animalia et ipsa figurant.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCOMPLEXION.\n\n_Complexion_ is usually (and I think universally) employed to express\nthe _tint of the skin_; and the hair and eyes are spoken of separately\nwhen the occasion demands a specific reference to them. \"NEMO\"\n(No. 22. p. 352.), moreover, seems to confound the terms \"white\"\nand \"fair,\" between the meanings of which there is considerable\ndifference. A white skin is not fair, nor a fair skin white. There\nis no close approach of one to the other; and indeed we never see a\nwhite complexion, except the chalked faces in a Christmas of Easter\nPantomime, or in front of Richardson's booth at Greenwich or Charlton\nFair. A contemplation of these would tell us what the \"human face\ndivine\" would become, were we any of us truly _white-skinned_.\n\nThe skin diverges in tint from the white, in one direction towards the\nyellow, and in another towards the red or pink; whilst sometimes we\nwitness a seeming tinge of blue,--characteristic of asphyxia, cholera,\nor some other disease. We often see a mixture of red and yellow (the\nyellow predominating) in persons subject to bilious complaints; and\nnot unfrequently a mixture of all three, forming what the painters\ncall a \"neutral tint,\" and which is more commonly called \"an olive\ncomplexion.\"\n\nThe negro skin is black; that is, it does not separate the sun's light\ninto the elementary colours. When, by the admixture of the coloured\nraces with the negro, we find coloured skins, they _always_ tend to\nthe yellow, as in the various mulatto shades of the West Indies, and\nespecially in the Southern States of America; and the same is true of\nthe \"half-castes\" of British India, though with a distinct darkness or\nblackness, which the descendant of the negro does not generally show.\n\nThough I have, in accordance with the usual language of philosophers,\nspoken of _blue_ as an element in the colour of the skin, I have some\ndoubt whether it be a \"true blue\" or not. It is quite as likely\nto arise from a partial participation in the quality of the negro\nskin--that of absorbing a large portion of the light without any\nanalysis whatever. This may be called _darkness_.\n\nHowever, to return to the Query: the term _pale_ is applied to the\nyellow-tinted skin; _fair_, to the red or pink; _brown_, to the\nmixture of red and yellow, with either blue or such darkness as\nabove described; _sallow_, to yellow and darkness; and the only close\napproach to _whiteness_ that we ever see, is in the sick room of the\nlong-suffering fair complexion. In death, this changes to a \"blackish\ngrey,\" a mixture of white and darkness.\n\nThe _pale_ complexion indicates a thick, hard, dry skin; the _fair_,\na thin and soft one; and all the shades of dark skin render a large\namount of ablution essential to health, comfort, or agreeableness\nto others. If any of your readers should feel curious about the\ncharacters of the wearers of these several skins, they must inquire of\nLavater and his disciples.\n\nD.V.S.\n\nHome, April 1. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBALLAD OF DICK AND THE DEVIL.\n\nLooking over some of your back numbers, I find (No. 11. p. 172.) an\ninquiry concerning a ballad with this title. I have never met with it\nin print, but remember some lines picked up in nursery days from an\nold nurse who was a native of \"the dales.\" These I think have probably\nformed a part of this composition. The woman's name was curiously\nenough Martha Kendal; and, in all probability, her forebears had\nmigrated from that place into Yorkshire:--\n\n  \"Robin a devil he sware a vow.\n    He swore by the _sticks_[2] in hell--\n  By the _yelding_ that crackles to mak the _low_[3],\n    That warms his _namsack_[4] weel.\n\n  \"He _leaped_ on his beast, and he rode with heaste,\n    To _mak_ his black oath good;\n  'Twas the Lord's Day, and the folk did pray\n    And the priest in _can_cel stood.\n\n  \"The door was wide, and in does he ride,\n    In his clanking _gear_ so gay;\n  A long keen brand he held in his hand,\n    Our Dickon for to slay.\n\n  \"But Dickon goodhap he was not there,\n    And Robin he rode in vain,\n  And the men got up that were kneeling in prayer,\n    To take him by might and main.\n\n  \"Rob swung his sword, his steed he spurred,\n    He plunged right through the thr_a_ng.\n  But the stout smith Jock, with his old mother's _crutch_[5],\n    He gave him a _woundy_ bang.\n\n  \"So hard he smote the iron pot,\n    It came down plume and all;\n  Then with bare head away Robin sped,\n    And himself was _fit_ to fall.\n\n  \"Robin a devil he _way'd_[6] him home,\n    And if for his foes he seek,\n  I think that again he will not come\n    To _late_[7] them in Kendal kirk.\"[8]\n\nY.A.C.\n\n    [2] The unlettered bard has probably confused \"styx\" with the\n    kindling, \"yelding,\" of hell-fire.\n\n    [3] Flame.\n\n    [4] I have often wondered what namsac (so pronounced) could\n    be, but since I have seen the story as told by \"H.J.M.\" it is\n    evidently \"namesake.\"\n\n    [5] Probably crook in the original, to rhyme with Jock.\n\n    [6] \"I way'd me\" is yet used in parts of Yorkshire for \"I went.\"\n\n    [7] \"To late\" is \"to seek;\" from _lateo_, as if by a confusion\n    of hiding and seeking.]\n\n    [8] \"Kirk\" is not a very good rhyme to \"seek;\" perhaps it should\n    be \"search\" and \"church\".]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Cavell_.--In the time of Charles I., a large tract of land lying\nsouth-eastward of Doncaster, called Hatfield Chace, was undertaken to\nbe drained and made fit for tillage and pasture by one Sir Cornelius\nVermuyden, a celebrated Flemish engineer of that day, and his\npartners, or \"participants,\" in the scheme, all or most of them\nDutchmen. The lands drained were said to be \"_cavelled and allotted_\"\nto so and so, and the pieces of land were called \"_cavells_.\" They\nwere \"scottled,\" or made subject to a tax or assessment for drainage\npurposes. Two eminent topographical writers of the present day are\ninclined to be of opinion that this word _cavell_ is connected with\nthe Saxon _gafol_, gavel-tributum--money paid--which we have in\n_gavel-kind_ and _gavelage_. One of them, however, suggests that the\nword _may_ be only a term used in Holland as applicable to land, and\nthen introduced by the Dutch at the time of the drainage in question.\nI shall be obliged if any of your readers can inform me if the word\n\"cavell\" is so used in Holland, or elsewhere, either as denoting\nany particular quantity of land, or land laid under any tax, or\n_tributum_, or otherwise.\n\nJ.\n\n    [Our correspondent will find, on referring to Kilian's\n    _Dictionarium Teutonico-Latino-Gallicum_, that the word\n    _Kavel_ is used for sors, \"sors in divisione bonorum:\" and\n    among other definitions of the verb _Kavelen_, \"sorte dividere\n    terram,\" which corresponds exactly with his _cavelled and\n    allotted_.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Gootet_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--Is not this word a corruption of\n_good-tide_, i.e. holiday or festival? In Halliwell's _Archaeological\nDictionary_ I find,--\n\n    \"Good-day, a holiday; Staff.\n\n    \"Gooddit, shrovetide; North. Shrove Tuesday is called Goodies\n    Tuesday.\n\n    \"Good-time, a festival; Jonson.\"\n\nC.W.G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Salt ad Montem_ (No. 24. p. 384.) _as meaning Money_.--_Salt_ is\nan old metaphor for money, cash, pay; derived, says Arbuthnot, from\n_salt's_ being part of the pay of the Roman soldiers; hence _salarium,\nsalary_, and the levying contributions at _Salt_ Hill. Your Querist\nwill find several explanations of the Eton Montem in the _Gentleman's\nMagazine_; and a special account of the ceremony, its origin and\ncircumstances, in Lyson's _Mag. Brit._ i. 557.\n\nC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Pamphlets respecting Ireland_ (No. 24. p. 384.)--I would refer\n\"I.\" to No. 6161. in the Catalogue of Stowe Library, sold by Leigh\nSotheby and Co., in January 1849. That lot consisted of two vols. of\ntwenty-six tracts, 4to. Amongst them is \"Gookin, the Author and Case\nof Transplanting the Irish in Connaught Vindicated, from Col. R.\nLawrence, 1655.\" Messrs. Leigh Sotheby will probably be able to inform\nthe Querist into whose hands these two vols. passed. The lot sold for\nthe large sum of 4l. 18s.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--The derivation of this word is explained\nfrom the following passage in a rare (if not unique) tract now before\nme, entitled _Newes from Hogsdon_, 1598:--\n\n    \"Have at thee, then, my merrie boyes, and hey for old _Ben\n    Pimlico's_ nut-browne.\"\n\nPimlico kept a place of entertainment in or near Hoxton, and was\ncelebrated for his nut-brown ale. The place seems afterwards to have\nbeen called by his name, and is constantly mentioned by our early\ndramatists. In 1609 a tract was printed, entitled _Pimlyco, or Runne\nRed Cap, 'tis a Mad World at Hogsdon_. Isaac Reed (Dodsley's _Old\nPlays_, ed. Collier, vii. 51.) says,--\n\n    \"A place near Chelsea is still called Pimlico, and was\n    resorted to within these few years, on the same account as the\n    former at Hogsdon.\"\n\nPimlico is still, I believe, celebrated for its fine ale.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Pimlico_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--I see, by a passage in Lord Orrery's\nLetters, that there was a place called Pemlicoe in Dublin:--\n\n    \"Brown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in\n    Pemlicoe, Dublin.\" (_Earl of Orrery to Duke of Ormond_, Feb.\n    5. 1663, in _Orrery's State Letters_.)\n\n\nThis may be of use to \"R.H.,\" who inquires about the origin of\n_Pimlico_. _Ranelaugh_, in the same parts, is doubtless also of Irish\norigin.\n\nC.H.\n\n    [Pimlico in Dublin still exists, as will be seen by reference\n    to Thom's _Irish Almanac_, where we find \"Pimlico, from Coombe\n    to Tripoli.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Bive and Chute Lambs_ (No. 6. p. 93.).--I do not know whether my\nanswer to your correspondent's inquiry about _bive_ and chute lambs\nwill be satisfactory, inasmuch as the price he gives of \"_bive_\" lambs\n\"apeece\" is larger than the price of the \"chute.\" Twin lambs are still\ncalled _bive_ lambs on the borders of Sussex and Kent; and chute lambs\nare fat lambs.\n\n_Chuet_ is an old word signifying a fat greasy pudding. It is rightly\napplied to Falstaff:--\n\n  \"Peace, _chewet_, peace.\"\n\n_1st Part K. Hen. IV._\n\nWM. DURRANT COOPER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Latin Names of Towns_.--\"M.\" (No. 25. p. 402.) wishes for some guide\nwith reference to the Latin names of towns. A great deal of assistance\nmay be obtained from an octavo volume, published anonymously, and\nbearing the title \"Dictionnaire Interprete-manuel des Noms Latins\nde la Geographie ancienne et moderne; pour servir a l'Intelligence\ndes Auteurs Latins, principalement des Auteurs Classiques; avec les\nDesignations principales des Lieux. Ouvrage utile a ceux qui lisent\nles Poetes, les Historiens, les Martyrologes, les Chartes, les vieux\nActes,\" &c. &c. A Paris, 1777.\n\nR.G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Le Petit Albert_ (No. 24. p. 385.).--I suspect this Petit Albert,\nin 32mo.--a size in harmony with the cognomen--is only a catchpenny\npublication, to which the title of _Le Petit Albert_ has been given\nby way of resembling its name to that of Albertus Magnus, who wrote a\nwork or works of a character which gave rise, in the middle ages, to\nthe accusation that he practised magical arts; and hence, probably,\nany abridgement or compendium of them, or any little work on such\narts, would be styled by the French compiler _Le Petit Albert_. In\nthe _Biographie Universelle_, it is affirmed that the rhapsodies\nknown under the name of _Secrets du Petit Albert_ are not by Albertus\nMagnus; a statement which favours the belief that the work mentioned\nby your correspondent \"JARLZBERG\" is one of that vulgar class (like\nour old Moore's Almanack, &c.) got up for sale among the superstitious\nand the ignorant, and palmed on the world under the mask of a\ncelebrated name. According to Bayle, Albertus Magnus has, by\nsome, been termed _Le Petit Albert_, owing, it is said, to the\ndiminutiveness of his stature, which was on so small a scale, that\nwhen he, on one occasion, paid his respects to the pope, the pontiff\nsupposed he was still kneeling at his feet after he had risen up and\nwas standing erect.\n\nJ.M.\n\nOxford, April 19.\n\n    [_Of Le Petit Albert_, of which it appears by Graesse's\n    _Bibliotheca Magica_ there were editions printed at Cologne\n    in 1722, Lyons 1775, and even at Paris in 1837, we are told\n    in Colin de Plancy's _Dictionnaire Infernal_, s. v. Albert le\n    Grand, \"On a quelquefois defendu ce livre, et alors il s'est\n    vendu enormement cher.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Walter Lynne_ (No. 23. p. 367.).--\"G.P.\" may look for Walter Lynne\ninto Johnson's _Typographia_, i. 556., of which copies may be had very\nreasonably at Mr. Miller's (see end of No. 15.), 43. Chandos Street.\n\nYour intimation of brevity is attended to; though, in truth, little\nmore could come from\n\nNOVUS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Emancipation of the Jews_ (No. 25. p. 491.).--\"H.M.A.\" inquires--1.\nIf the story mentioned in the Thurloe State Papers, that the Jews\nsought to obtain St. Paul's Cathedral for a Synagogue, has been\nconfirmed by other writers? In Egan's _Status of the Jews in England_,\nI find the following passage:--\n\n    \"Monteith informs us, that during the Commonwealth, overtures\n    were made on behalf of the Hebrews to the Parliament and\n    Council of War, through the medium of two popular adherents\n    of the parliamentarians; the Jews offered to pay for the\n    privileges then sought by them, the sum of 500,000l.; several\n    debates took place on the subject, but the _ultimatum_ of the\n    Puritans being 800,000l., the negotiation was broken off.\"\n\nThe authorities cited on this point by the learned writer are,\nMonteith's _History of Great Britain_, p. 473.; and Thurloe's _State\nPapers_, vol. ii. p. 652.\n\nOn reference to Monteith, I find the following passage:--\n\n    \"What is very remarkable in this is, that the Jews, who\n    crucified the Son of God, by whom Kings reign, took then\n    occasion of the conjuncture which seemed favourable to them.\n    They presented a petition to the Council of War, who crucified\n    Him again in the person of the King, His Vicegerent in the\n    kingdoms over which God had set him. By their petition, they\n    requested that the act of their banishment might be repealed\n    and _that they might have St. Paul's Church for their\n    synagogue_, for which, _and the library of Oxford_, wherewith\n    they desired to begin their traffic again, they offered five\n    hundred thousand pounds, but the Council of War would have\n    eight.\"--Monteiths's _Hist. of the Troubles of Great Britain_,\n    p. 473.\n\nI conclude that the author of the _Status of the Jews_, by omitting to\nnotice the alleged desire of the Jews to obtain St. Paul's Cathedral,\nconsidered that the acrimonious statements of Monteith were not borne\nout by accredited or unprejudiced authorities; for it is but justice\nto state, it has been admitted by some of our most eminent critics,\nthat Mr. Egan's book on the Jews displays as dispassionate and\nimpartial a review of their condition in this country as it evinces a\nprofundity of historical and legal research.\n\n\"H.M.A.'s\" second question I am unable to answer, not being\nsufficiently versed in the religious dogmas of the Jews.\n\nB.A.\n\nChrist Church, Oxford.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Emancipation of the Jews_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--\"MR. AUSTEN,\" who\ninquires (p. 401.) about the Jews during the Commonwealth will do\nwell to refer to a chapter on the Jews in Godwin's _History of\nthe Commonwealth_, and to Sir Henry Ellis's notes on a remarkable\nletter describing a Jewish synagogue in London immediately after the\nRestoration, in the second series of his _Letters_; and in these two\nplaces he will, I think, find references to all known passages on the\nsubject of Cromwell's proceedings as regards the Jews.\n\nC.H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_As lazy as Ludlum's Dog_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--This proverb is repeated\nsomewhat differently in _The Doctor, &c._, \"As _lazy_ as _Ludlum's_\ndog, as _leaned_ his head against a wall to bark.\" I venture to\nsuggest that this is simply one of the large class of alliterative\nproverbs so common in every language, and often without meaning. In\nDevonshire they say as \"Busy as Batty,\" but no one knows who \"Batty\"\nwas. As I have mentioned _The Doctor, &c._, I may was well jot down\ntwo more odd sayings from the same old curiosity-shop:--\"As proud as\nold COLE's dog which took the wall of a dung-CART, and got CRUSHED by\nthe wheel.\" And, \"As queer as Dick's hat-band, that went nine times\nround his hat and was fastened by a rush at last.\"\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_St. Winifreda_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--Your Querist will find some\ninformation in Warton's _Hist. Eng. Poetry_, vol. i. p. 14., note,\n1824.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\nTotnes, April 18. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"_Vert Vert_\" (No. 23. p. 366.)--It may be of some assistance to your\nQuerist \"ROBERT SNOW,\" in his endeavour to trace illustrations from\nGresset's \"Vert Vert,\" to know that the mark of RAUX, who is said to\nhave painted these subjects, was composed of ten small ciphers; seven\nof which were placed in a circle: the other three formed a tail,\n       o o\n      o   o\nthus, o  o      something like the Roman capital Q. This artist,\n        o o o o\nbetween the years 1750 and 1800, was employed in the decoration of\nthe Sevres porcelain: his usual subjects were bouquets or groups\nof flowers; and his mark will be found underneath the double L,\ninterlaced, inclosing some capital letter or letters denoting the year\nsuch ware was manufactured.\n\nW.C. Jun.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"_Esquire_\" _and_ \"_Gentleman_.\"--The amusing article in No. 27., on\nthe title of \"Esquire,\" recalled to my memory the resolution passed by\nthe corporation of Stratford-on-Avon, when they presented the freedom\nof that town to Garrick. It runs something like this:--\n\n    \"Through love and regard to the memory of the immortal\n    _Mr._ William Shakspeare, and being fully sensible of the\n    extraordinary merits of his most judicious representative,\n    David Garrick, _Esquire_.\"\n\nHad David a better right to the title than the great poet?\nShakespeare, in the latter part of his life, was no doubt _Master\nShakspeare_, a title so common as even to be bestowed upon the\ngeometer of Alexandria. In Bayford's collection is preserved a\nCatalogue advertising \"_Master_ Euclid's Elements of Plain Geometry.\"\n\nJ.O. HALLIWELL.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Pope Felix and Pope Gregory_.--\"E.M.B.\" (No. 26. p. 415.) inquires\nwho was \"Pope Felix,\" whom AElfric called the \"fifth father\" of S.\nGregory the Great? This is a much disputed question, and a great\ndeal depends upon the meaning to be attached to the unsatisfactory\nexpression \"atavus,\" used by Pope Gregory himself, in _Evangel. Hom._\nxxxviii. Sec. 15., and found also in the dialogues commonly attributed to\nhim. (Lib. iv. cap. xvi.) Your correspondent may consult Beda, _Hist.\nEccl. Gen. Anglor._, lib. ii. cap. 1., with the note by Mr. Stevenson,\nwho supposes that Pope Felix _III._ was alluded to by his \"venerable\"\nauthor: This is the opinion of Bollandus (ad 25 Feb.), as well as of\nCardinal Baronius; (_Annall._ ad an. 581; _et Martyrol. Rom._ die Feb.\n25. Conf. De Aste, in _Martyrolog. Disceptat._, p. 96.; Beneventi,\n1716); but Joannes Diaconus (_S. Greg. Vit._ lib. i. cap. i.) employs\nthese decisive terms, \"_quartus_ Felix, sedis Apostolicae Pontifex.\" It\nis of course possible to translate \"atavus meus\" merely \"my ancestor;\"\nand this will leave the relationship sufficiently undefined.\n\nR.G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Love's last Shift_ (No. 24. p. 383).--\"The Duchess of Bolton\n(natural daughter of the Duke of Monmouth) used to divert George I.\nby affecting to make blunders. Once when she had been at the play\nof _Love's last Shift_, she called it '_La derniere chemise_ de\nl'amour.'\"--_Walpoliana_, xxx.\n\nC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Quem Deus vult perdere_ (No. 22, p. 351., and No. 26, p.\n421.).--\"C.J.R.\" having pointed out a presumed imitation of this\nthought, it may not be impertinent to observe, that Dryden also has\nadopted the sentiment in the following lines:--\n\n  \"For those whom God to ruin has designed,\n  He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.\"\n\n_Hind and Panther_, part 3.\n\nG.S. FABER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Dayrolles_ (No. 23. p. 373).--The following information is appended\nto a description of the _Dayrolles Correspondence_, in 21 folio vols.\nin the Catalogue of Mr. Upcott's Collection, sold by Messrs. Evans a\nfew years ago:--\n\n_Note copied from the Catalogue of Manuscripts, &c., belonging to the\nlate Mr. Upcott._\n\n\"James Dayrolles was resident at the Hague from 1717 to his death, 2nd\nJanuary, 1739.\n\n\"Solomon Dayrolles, his nephew, commenced his diplomatic career under\nJames, first Earl of Waldegrave, when that nobleman was ambassador\nat Vienna. He was godson of Philip, the distinguished Earl of\nChesterfield, and was sworn a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George\nII., 27th Feb. 1740, in the room of Sir Philip Parker, long deceased,\nand on the accession of George III. was again appointed, 5th February,\n1761.\n\n\"In 1745, being at that time secretary to Lord Chesterfield, in\nHolland, Mr. Dayrolles was nominated to be secretary to his lordship\nat Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.\n\n\"In May, 1747, he was promoted to be President in the United\nProvinces; and in November, 1751, Resident at Brussels, where he\ncontinued till August, 1757. He died in March, 1786.\"\n\nJ.T.C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Solomon Dayrolles_.--\n\n    \"24th Dec. 1786. Married Baron de Reidezel, aid-de-camp to the\n    Duke of Wirtemberg, to Miss Dayrolles, 2d dau. of _the late\n    Solomon Dayrolles_ of Hanover Square.\"--_Gent. Mag._ v. _56_,\n    p. 1146.\n\nProbably Mr. Dayrolles' death may be recorded in the register of St.\nGeorge's.\n\nB.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Emerods_ (No. 18. p. 282.) pro _haemorrhoids_. \"Golden emerods\" would\nbe an absurdity if _emerod_ meant \"emerald.\" \"The Philistines made\ngolden emerods,\" i.e. golden images of haemorrhoids (diseased veins),\nin commemoration of being delivered from plagues, of which such states\nof disease were concomitant signs.\n\nTREBOR.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Military Execution_ (No. 16. p. 246.).--Your correspondent \"MELANION\"\nis informed that the anecdote refers to Murat, and the author of the\nsentiment is Lord Byron. See _Byron's Poems_, Murray's edit. 1 vol.\n8vo. p. 561., note 4.\n\nC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"_M. or N._\" (No. 26. p. 415.)--I do not think that \"M. or N.\" are\nused as the initials of any particular words; they are the middle\nletters of the alphabet, and, at the time the Prayer Book was\ncompiled, it seems to have been the fashion to employ them in the way\nin which we now use the first two. There are only two offices, the\nCatechism and the Solemnisation of Matrimony, in which more than one\nletter is used. In the former, the answer to the first question has\nalways stood \"N. or M.\" In the office of Matrimony, however, in Edward\nthe Sixth's Prayer Books, both the man and woman are designated by\nthe letter N--\"I, N., take thee, N., to my wedded wife;\" whilst in\nour present book M. is applied to the man and N. to the woman. The\nadoption of one letter, and the subsequent substitution of another, in\nthis service, evidently for the sake of a more clear distinction only,\nsufficiently shows that no particular name or word was intended by\neither. Possibly some future \"J.C.\" may inquire of what words the\nletters \"A.B.,\" which our legislators are so fond of using in their\nActs of Parliament, are the initials.\n\nARUN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"_M. or N._\" (No. 26, p. 415.).--\"M.\" and \"N.,\" and particularly \"N.,\"\nare still in frequent use in France for _quidam_ or _quaedam_; so also\nis X. We read every day of Monsieur N. or Madame X., where they wish\nto suppress the name.\n\nC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Sapcote Motto_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--This motto is known to be French,\nand as far as it can be decyphered is--\n\n  \"sco toot X vinic [or umic]\n  X pones,\"\n\nthe first and last letters _s_ being possibly flourishes. This\ncertainly seems unpromising enough. The name being Sapcote, _quasi_\nSub-cote, and the arms \"three dove-cotes,\" I venture to conjecture\n\"Sous cote unissons,\" as not very far from the letters given. If it be\nobjected that the word \"cote\" is not in use in this sense, it may be\nremarked that French, \"After the scole of Stratford atte bowe,\" might\nborrow such a meaning to suit the sound, from \"cote,\" in the sense of\na side or declivity. And if the objection is fatal to the conjecture,\nI would then propose \"Sous toit unissons.\" If we reject the supposed\nflourishes at the beginning and ending of the inscription, and take it\nto be--\n\n  CO TOOT VNIC\n      CONC,\n\nthe c being a well-known ancient form of s, there is a difference of\nonly one letter between the inscription as decyphered and the proposed\nmotto.\n\nIf either of these is adopted, the sentiment of family union and\nfamily gathering, \"As doves to their windows,\" is well adapted for a\nfamily device.\n\nT.C.\n\nDurham, May 2. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Finkle or Finkel_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--Is not \"Finkle\" very probably\nderived from _Finc_, a finch, in the A.-S.? _Fingle_ Bridge, which\nspans the river Teign, amidst some most romantic scenery, has the\nfollowing etymology assigned to it by a local antiquary, W.T.P. Short,\nEsq. (vide _Essay on Druidical Remains in Devon_, p. 26.): \"_Fyn_,\na terminus or boundary; and _Gelli_, hazel, the hazeltree limits or\nboundary.\" But, Query, is not the second syllable rather _Gill_, akin\nto the numerous tribe of \"gills\" or \"ghylls,\" in the North Countrie?\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Meaning of Finkle._--Referring to No. 24. p. 384. of your most\nwelcome and useful publication, will you allow me to say, touching\nthe inquiry as to the derivation and meaning of the word \"Finkle\" or\n\"Finkel\" as applied to a street, that the Danish word \"Vincle\" applied\nto an angle or corner, is perhaps a more satisfactory derivation than\n\"fynkylsede, _feniculum_,\" the meaning suggested by your correspondent\n\"L.\" in No. 26. p. 419. It is in towns where there are traces of\nDanish occupation that a \"Finkle Street\" is found; at least many of\nthe northern towns which have a street so designated were inhabited by\nthe Danish people, and some of those streets are winding or angular.\nFinchale, a place, as you know, of fame in monastic annals, is a\ngreen secluded spot, half insulated by a bend of the river Wear; and\nGodric's Garth, the adjacent locality of the hermitage of its famous\nsaint, is of an angular form. But then the place is mentioned, by the\nname of Finchale, as the scene of occurrences that long preceded the\ncoming of the Danes; and the second syllable may be derived from the\nSaxon \"alh\" or \"healh,\" as the place was distinguished for a building\nthere in Saxon times.\n\nW.S.G.\n\nNewcastle, May 4. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nYour correspondent \"W.M.\" (\"_Finkel._\" p. 384.) may not have\nrecollected that there is a beautiful ruin on the river Wear near\nDurham, of which the name is pronounced (though not spelt) _Finkel_\nAbbey.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Christian Captives_ (No. 27. p. 441.).--As a very small contribution\ntowards an answer to \"R.W.B.'s\" inquiry, I may inform you that Lady\nRussell mentions in her _Letters_ (p. 338., ed. 1792) that Sir William\nCoventry left by his will 3000l. to redeem slaves.\n\nC.H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Christian Captives_ (No. 27. p. 441.).--\"R.W.B.\" may be referred to\nthe case of \"Attorney-General _v._ the Ironmongers' Company,\" which\nwas a suit for the administration of a fund bequeathed for the\nredemption of the captives. See 2 _Mylne & Keen_, 576.; 2 _Beavan_,\n313., 10 _Beavan_, 194.; and 1 _Craig & Philips_, 208.: all of which I\nmention to be Reports in Chancery, in case he be not a lawyer.\n\nA.J.H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Ecclesiastical Year_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--\"NATHAN\" is informed, that,\naccording to the legal supputation, until A.D. 1752, the year of Our\nLord in that part of Great Britain called England, began on the 25th\nday of March, as he will find stated in the 24 Geo. II. c. 23., by\nwhich Act it was enacted, that the 1st day of January next following\nthe last day of December, 1751, should be the first day of the year\n1752; and that the 1st day of January in every year in time to come\nshould be the first day of the year.\n\nPhilippe de Thaun, in his _Livre des Creatures_, which was written in\nthe first half of the twelfth century, p. 48. of the edition published\nfor the Historical Society of Science, has some remarks which may\ninterest your correspondent, that are thus literally translated by Mr.\nWright:--\n\n  \"In March, the year ought always to begin,\n  According to that explanation which we find in the book,\n  That in the twelve kalends of April, as your understand,\n  Our Creator formed the first,\n  Where the sun always will begin his course,\n  But at all times we make the year begin in January,\n  Because the Romans did so first;\n  We will not un-make what the elders did.\"\n\nARUN.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Hanap._--Among the specimens of ancient and mediaeval art now\nexhibiting in John Street, Adelphi, I was struck with the number of\ngilt cups, called in the catalogue _hanaps_. The word was new to\nme; but I have since met with it (as frequently happens after one's\ninterest has been excited with respect to a word) in Walter Scott's\n_Quentin Durward_, in vol. i. chap. 3.; or rather, vol. xxxi. p. 60.\nof the edition in 48 vols., Cadell, 1831; in which place the context\nof the scene appears to connect the idea of _hanap_ with a cup\ncontaining treasure.\n\nNow I cannot find _hanap_ in any dictionary to which I have access;\nbut I find _hanaper_ in every one. Johnson, and others, give the word\n_Hanaper_ as synonymous with _treasury_ or _exchequer_. They also\ncontract _Hanaper_ into _Hamper_. For example, in Dyche's _English\nDictionary_, 17th ed. Lond. 1794, we have,--\n\n    \"_Hamper_, or _Hanaper_, a wicker basket made with a cover to\n    fasten it up with; also, an office in Chancery; the clerk or\n    warden of the _Hanaper_ receives all monies due to the king\n    for seals of charters, &c.... and takes into his custody all\n    sealed charters, patents, &c.,... which he now puts into bags,\n    but anciently, it is supposed, into _Hampers_, which gave the\n    denomination to the office.\"\n\nAnd perhaps it may be remarked here, since we commonly say of a man\nin difficulties that he is \"exchequered\" or in \"chancery,\" that so we\nprobably intend to express the same, when we say a man is _hanapered_,\nor _hampered_.\n\nThus, there is no difficulty about the meaning of _Hanaper_; and\nits connection with _treasure_ is plain and clear enough: and, with\nrespect to _cups_, though chiefly used for drinking, the presentation\nof them with sums of money in them has ever been, and indeed is,\nso very customary, that it is needless to occupy space here with\ninstances. But I cannot distinctly connect the _hanap_ of the\nexhibition with _hanaper_: and I perhaps ought to look in another\ndirection for its true signification and etymology.\n\nROBERT SNOW.\n\n    [Our correspondents who have written upon the subject of Hanap\n    are referred to Halliwell's _Archaic Dictionary_, where they\n    will find \"HANAP, a cup. _Test. Vet._ p. 99.;\" to Ducange,\n    s.v. \"HANAPUS, HANAPPUS, HANAPHUS, vas, patera, crater, (Vas\n    ansatum et pede instructum, quo a poculo distinguitur), ex\n    Saxonico _Hnaep_, _Hnaeppa_, Germ. _Napf_, calix patera;\"\n    and to Guenebault, _Dict. Iconographique des Monuments_, who\n    refers again for particulars of this species of drinking cup\n    to the works of Soumerard and Willemin.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Life of W. Godwin._--\"N.'s\" inquiry (No. 26. p. 415.) for an account\nof the life of W. Godwin, and more particularly of his last hours,\nleads me to express hope in your columns that the memoirs of Godwin,\nwhich were announced for publication shortly after his death, but\nwhich family disputes, as I have understood, prevented from appearing,\nmay not much longer be denied to the public. I am not aware of any\nbetter account of Godwin's life, to which \"N.\" can now be referred,\nthan the sketch in the _Penny Cyclopaedia_.\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Charles II. and Lord R.'s Daughter.--Earl of Ranelagh._--Since I\ninquired in your columns (No. 25. p. 399.) who was the lady mentioned\nin a passage of Henry Sidney's _Diary_, edited by Mr. Blencowe, as\nLord R.'s daughter, and a new mistress of Charles II., who in March\n1680 brought Monmouth to the King for reconciliation, I have, by\nMr. Blencowe's kindness, seen the original _Diary_, which is in\nthe possession of the Earl of Chichester. The name of the nobleman\nis there abbreviated: the letters appear to be _Rane._, and it is\nprobably Lord Ranelagh who is intended. I do not remember any other\nnotice of this amour of Charles II., and should be glad to be referred\nto any other information on the subject. Charles II.'s mistresses are\npolitical characters; and in this notice of Lord R.'s daughter, we\nfind her meddling in state affairs.\n\nI do not know whether this lady, if indeed a daughter of a Lord\nRanelagh, would be the daughter or sister of the Lord Ranelagh living\nin 1680, who was the first Earl of Ranelagh and third Viscount, and\nwho is described by Burnet as a very able and very dissolute man, and\na great favourite of Charles II. (_Hist. of his own Time_, i. 462.,\nii. 99., ed. 1823); and who, having held the office of Vice-Treasurer\nin Ireland during three reigns, was turned out of it in disgrace\nin 1703. He died in 1711, leaving no son, but three daughters, one\nof whom was unmarried; he was the last, as well as first, Earl of\nRanelagh. The elder title of Viscount went to a cousin, and still\nexists.\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANIES.\n\n\n_Dr. Sclater's Works._--Books written by W. Sclater, D.D., omitted in\nWood's _Ath. Oxon._ edit. Bliss. vol. iii. col. 228.:--\n\n\"A Threefold Preseruatiue against three dangerous diseases of these\nlatter times:--\n\n\"1. Non-proficiency in Grace.\n\n\"2. Fals-hearted Hypocrisie.\n\n\"3. Back-sliding in Religion.\n\n\"Prescribed in a Sermon at S. Paul's Crosse in London, September 17,\n1609. London. 1610.\" 4to. Ded. to \"Master Iohn Colles, Esquire,\" from\nwhich it seems that Sclater had been presented to his living by the\nfather of this gentleman. The Ser. is on Heb. vi. 4-6.\n\n\"A Sermon preached at the last generall Assise holden for the County\nof Somerset at Taunton. London, 1616.\" 8vo. On Ps. lxxxii. 6, 7. Ded.\nto \"John Colles, Esq., High Sheriffe of Sommerset.\"\n\n\"Three Sermons preached by William Sclater, Doctor of Diuinity, and\nMinister of the Word of God at Pitmister [sic] in Sommersetshire. Now\npublished by his Sonne of King's Colledge in Cambridge. London, 1629.\"\n4to. On 1 Pet. ii. 11., 2 Kings, ix. 31., and Heb. ix. 27, 28. The\nlast is a funeral Sermon for John Colles, Esq., preached in 1607.\n\nJOHN J. DREDGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Runes._--Worsaeae (_Primeval Antiquities of Denmark_, 1849) mentions\nthat inscriptions are found in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, written in\ndifferent languages in _Runic character_. He also mentions the fact of\na Pagan Runic inscription occurring at Jellinge, Denmark, on the tomb\nof old King Gorm, A.D. c. 900, found in a huge barrow; and, at the\nsame place, a Christian Runic inscription on the tomb of his son\nHarold. Has this inquiry been extended to British Runes, and might\nit not throw much light upon many monuments of dates prior to the\nConquest? Crossed slabs with Runes have been found at Hartlepool,\nDurham; have the inscriptions been read? (Boutell's _Christian\nMonuments_, p. 3.; Cutt's _Manual of Sepulchral Slabs_, pp. 52. 60.\nplate III.)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.\n\n\nThe _Nibelungenlied_, which has been aptly designated the German\nIliad, has hitherto been a sealed book to the mere English reader. Mr.\nLettsom has however just published a most successful translation of it\nunder the title of _The Fall of the Nibelungers_. Few will rise from\na perusal of the English version of this great national epic--which\nin its present form is a work of the thirteenth century--without being\nstruck with the innate power and character of the original poem; and\nwithout feeling grateful to Mr. Lettsom for furnishing them with so\npleasing and spirited a version of it.\n\nCaptain Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of what was formerly designated\nthe Band of Gentleman Pensioners, has, under the influence of a\nlaudable _esprit de corps_, combined the disjointed materials which\nPegge had collected upon the subject with the fruits of his own\nresearches; and, under the title of _Some Account of the Ancient\nCorp of Gentlemen-at-Arms_, has produced a volume of great interest\ndoubtless to his \"brothers in arms,\" and containing some curious\nillustrations of court ceremonial.[9]\n\nMr. Timbs, the editor of _The Year-Book of Facts_, &c., announces for\nearly publication a work on which he has been engaged for some time,\nentitled _Curiosities of London_. It will, we believe, be altogether\nof a different character from Mr. Cunningham's _Handbook_, and treat\nrather of present London and its amusements than those of historical\nand literary associations which give a charm to Mr. Cunningham's\nvolume.\n\nWe are glad to find that the most mysterious and mystified portion\nof the Greek Geometry is likely to receive at last a complete\nelucidation--we mean the \"Porisms.\" There are so many questions\narising out of this subject, respecting the development of the Grecian\nintellect, that a full discussion of them is no easy task; especially\nof those arising out of the conflicting testimonies furnished by\nhistory, and by the internal evidences contained in the existing works\nof the \"fathers of Geometry.\" We certainly anticipate, from the known\ncharacter of the minds now engaged in this work, that some conclusive\nevidence as to the state of geometry anterior to the time of Euclid\nwill be elicited by Messrs. Potts and Davies. The analysis of the\nwritings of all the authors who have treated on the Porism, will form\na subject of interest not only for its assigning to every author his\nfair share of credit for his contributions towards perfecting the\nporistic method; but for that _critical discrimination of principles_,\nwhich constitutes one of the marked features of Mr. Davies's writings\nin the archaeology of geometry. We shall be glad if his slight\nnotice of the intended work shall bring some accession of aid to the\nundertaking in the form of subscriptions: as upon adequate support,\nit appears, must depend whether the work shall go to press, or the\nproject be abandoned.\n\nWe have received the following Catalogues:--Thomas Thorpe's (13.\nHenrietta Street) General Catalogue of very Choice, Curious, Rare,\nand most Interesting Books recently purchased, including some hundred\narticles of the utmost rarity. Williams and Norgate's (14. Henrietta\nStreet) No. 24. of German Book Circular, a Quarterly List of the\nprincipal New Publications on the Continent; C.J. Stewart's (11. King\nWilliam Street, West Strand) Catalogue of Dogmatical, Polemical, and\nAscetical Theology.\n\n    [9] We find at page 200, an Order of the Council, dated Dec. 5.\n    1737, respecting the disposition of the band at the funeral of Queen\n    Caroline, signed by \"TEMPLE STANYAN,\" the subject of a Query in\n    No. 24. p. 382., and of several Replies in our last, No. 28. p. 460.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n    WANTED.--MANUSCRIPT OF OLD ENGLISH POETRY.--Borrowed, within\n    the last few months, from the Town Residence of a Gentleman,\n    a large 4to. MS., in modern binding, of Early English Poetry,\n    by Richard Rolle, of Hampole; containing, among other matters,\n    Religious Pieces couched in the form of Legal Instruments, and\n    a Metrical Chronicle of the Kings of England, in the style\n    of Lydgate's. 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The Catalogues are designed to put\nthe reader, as far as possible, in the same position as if he had\ninspected for himself, at least cursorily, the works described; and,\nwith this view, care has been taken, in drawing up the notices, merely\nto state facts, with but little comment, and no exaggeration whatever.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrinted by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5.\nNew Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London;\nand published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish\nof St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No.\n186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, May 18. 1850.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":14376}