{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15639/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15639","id":"gutenberg_15639","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15639","summary":null,"tags":["Category: British Literature","Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Keith\nEdkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.\n\n\n\n\n\n{17}\n\nNOTES 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\n\nNo. 63.]\nSATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1851.\n[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                                        Page\n    The Breeches, or Geneva Bible                                   17\n    Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby           18\n    Works of Camoens, by John Adamson                               18\n    Folk Lore                                                       20\n    Elizabeth Walker--Shakspeare                                    21\n    Old English Actors and Musicians in Germany                     21\n    Minor Notes:--The Curse of Scotland--George\n      Herbert--Dutch Versions of English Essayists--\n      Long Meg of Westminster--Errors in the Date of\n      printed Books                                                 22\n\n  QUERIES:--\n    Dousa's Poem on Sidney--Old Dutch Song Book                     22\n    Minor Queries:--Sir Cloudesley Shovel--Christopher\n    Flecamore--\"Earth has no Rage.\" &c.--\n    D'Oyly and Barry Families--Lord Crewe, Bishop of\n    Durham--Epigram on the Synod of Dort--Private\n    Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth--Invention of Steam\n    Power--Mythology of the Stars--Sword of the\n    Conqueror--Neville Family--Meaning of \"Difformis\"\n    --Lynch Law--Prior's Posthumous Works--Suppressed\n    Chantries                                                       23\n\n  REPLIES:--\n    Pagnini's Bible                                                 24\n    The Frozen Horn                                                 25\n    Dominicals                                                      25\n    Medals struck by Charles XII.--Rudbeck's Atlantica,\n      by G.J.R. Gordon                                              26\n    Replies to Minor Queries:--Fossil Deer (not Elk) of\n      Ireland--\"Away, let nought to love displeasing\"\n      --Red Sindon--Coleridge and the Penny Post--\n      Autograph of Titus Oates--Circulation of the Blood\n      --True Blue--Cherubim and Seraphim--Darcy Lever\n      Church--Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston--\n      Defender of the Faith--Farquharson on Aurorae, &c.             26\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n    Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                          30\n    Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                    31\n    Notices to Correspondents                                       31\n    Advertisements                                                  31\n\n\n         *       *       *       *       *       *\n\n  NOTES.\n\n  THE BREECHES, OR GENEVA BIBLE.\n\n\n  Of this, the most popular edition of the Scriptures\n  in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we meet\n  continually with erroneous opinions of its rarity,\n  and also of its value, which the following brief\n  statement may tend in a degree to correct.\n\n  The translation was undertaken by certain reformers\n  who fled to Geneva during the reign of\n  Queen Mary; and is attributed to W. Whittingham,\n  Anthony Gilby, Miles Coverdale, Thomas\n  Sampson, Christopher Goodman, Thomas Cole,\n  John Knox, John Bodleigh, and John Pullain;\n  but Mr. Anderson, in his _History of the English\n  Bible_, says that the translators were Whittingham,\n  Gilby, and Sampson: and from the facts stated, he\n  is, no doubt, correct.\n\n  It is called the \"Breeches Bible\" from the\n  rendering of Genesis, iii. 7.:\n\n  \"Then the eyes of them bothe were opened, and they\n  knewe that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree\n  leaves together, and made themselves breeches.\"\n\n  The first edition of the Geneva Bible was printed\n  at Geneva in 1562, folio, preceded by a dedication\n  to Queen Elizabeth, and an address \"To our beloved\n  in the lord the brethren of England, Scotland,\n  Ireland,\" &c.; dated from Geneva, 10th\n  April, 1561. This edition contains two remarkable\n  errors: Matt. v. 9. \"Blessed are the _place_\n  makers.\" Luke xxi. \"Chris _condemneth_ the poor\n  widow.\" This is the first Bible divided into verses.\n\n  Second edit. 4to., printed at Geneva, 1569. To\n  this edition is added \"Certeine Tables, A Calendar,\n  and Fairs in Fraunce and elsewhere.\"\n\n  The first edition printed in London is a small\n  folio. Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1576.\n\n  The first edition of the Scriptures printed in\n  Scotland is the Geneva version, folio, began 1576,\n  by Thomas Bassandyne; and finished in 1579 by\n  Alexander Arbuthnot.\n\n  Other editions, 1577, London, sm. fol.; 1578,\n  sm. fol.; 4to., 1579; two editions 4to., 1580, 1581;\n  sm. fol.; 1582; 4to., 1583; lar. fol., 1583; 4to.,\n  1585; 4to., 1586; 8vo., 1586; 4to., 1587; 4to.,\n  1588; 4to., 1589; 8vo., Cambridge, 1591, supposed\n  to be first printed at the university; fol.,\n  1592; 4to., 1594; 4to., 1595; fol., 1595; 4to.,\n  1597; sm. fol., 1597; 4to., 1598; 4to., 1599. Of this\n  last date, said to be \"Imprinted at London by the\n  deputies of Chr. Barker,\" but probably printed at\n  Dort, and other places in Holland, there were at\n  least seven editions; and, before 1611, there were\n  at least twenty other editions.\n\n  Between the years 1562 and 1611, there were\n  printed at least 130 editions of the Geneva Bible,\n  in folio, 4to., and 8vo.; each edition probably consisted\n  of 1000 copies.\n\n  Persons who know but little of the numbers\n  which are extant of this volume, have asked 100l.,\n  {18}\n  30l., and other like sums, for a copy; whereas, as\n  many shillings is about the value of the later\n  editions.\n\n  The notes by the Reformers from the margin\n  of the Geneva version, have been reprinted with\n  what is usually called King James' version, the one\n  now in use, in the editions printed at Amsterdam,\n  at the beginning of the seventeenth century.\n\n  [Curly-pi].\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  POEMS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PAPERS OF SIR KENELM DIGBY.\n\n  MR. HALLIWELL (Vol. ii., p. 238.) says that he\n  does not believe my MS. of the \"Minde of the\n  Lady Venetia Digby\" can be an autograph. I\n  have reason to think that he is right from discovering\n  another MS. written in the same hand as the\n  above, and containing two poems without date or\n  signature, neither of which (I _believe_) are Ben\n  Jonson's. I enclose the shorter of the two, and\n  should feel obliged if any of your correspondents\n  could tell me the author of it, as this would throw\n  some light upon the _writer_ of the two MSS.\n\n          THE HOURGLASSE.\n\n  Doe but consider this small dust running in this glasse,\n      By atoms moved;\n  Would you believe that this the body ever was\n      Of one that loved;\n  Who in his mistresse flames playing like a fly,\n      Burnt to cinders by her eye?\n  Yes! and in death as life unblest,\n      To have it exprest\n  Even ashes of lovers have no rest.\n\nI also enclose a copy of another poem I have discovered, which appears to\nme very curious, and, from the date, written the very year of the visit of\nPrince Charles and Buckingham to the court of Spain. Has it ever been\nprinted, and who is the author?\n\n  What sodaine change hath dark't of late\n    The glory of the Arcadian state?\n  The fleecy flocks refuse to feede\n  The Lambes to play, the Ewes to breede\n    The altars make(s) the offeringes burne\n    That Jack and Tom may safe returne.\n\n  The Springe neglectes his course to keepe,\n    The Ayre continual stormes do weepe,\n  The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe,\n  The Maides to smile, the woods to springe,\n    The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne\n    Till Jack and Tom do safe returne.\n\n  What may that be that mov'd this woe?\n    Whose want afflicts Arcadia so?\n  The hope of Greece, the proppe of artes,\n  Was prinly Jack, the joy of hartes.\n    And Tom was to his Royall Paw\n    His trusty swayne, his chiefest maw.\n\n  The loftye Toppes of Menalus\n    Did shake with winde from Hesperus,\n  Whose sweete delicious Ayre did fly\n  Through all the Boundes of Arcady,\n    Which mov'd a vaine in Jack and Tom\n    To see the coast the winde came from.\n\n  This winde was love, which Princes state\n    To Pages turn, but who can hate\n  Where equall fortune love procures,\n  Or equall love success assures?\n    So virtuous Jack shall bring from Greece\n    The Beautyous prize, the Golden fleece.\n\n  Love is a world of many paines,\n    Where coldest hills, and hottest playnes,\n  With barren rockes and fertill fieldes\n  By turne despaire and comforte yeldes;\n    But who can doubt of prosperous lucke\n    Where Love and fortune both conducte?\n\n  Thy Grandsire great, and father too,\n    Were thine examples thus to doe,\n  Whose brave attempts, in heate of love,\n  Both France and Denmark did approve.\n    For Jack and Tom do nothing newe\n    When Love and Fortune they pursue.\n\n  Kind shepheardes that have lov'd them long,\n    Be not rasfe in censuringe wronge,\n  Correct your feares, leave of to mourne,\n  The Heavens will favour their returne;\n    Committ your cares to Royall Pan,\n    For Jack his sonne and Tom his man.\n\n                  FINIS.\n\nFrom London, 31. Martii, 1623.\n\nPrefaced to this poem is an extract from a letter of Buckingham's to his\nwife, containing an account of their reception: but it is hardly worth\ncopying.\n\nH.A.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWORKS OF CAMOENS.\n\nHaving been requested by a foreign nobleman to furnish him with a list of\nthe editions of the works of Camoens, and of the various translations, I\nhave prepared one; and considering the information might be interesting to\nseveral of your readers, I send you a copy for insertion It besides affords\nan opportunity of asking after those editions, to which I have added the\nobservations. The first star indicates that the works are in my private\ncollection, as are several other works relating to that celebrated poet.\nObras means the collected works.\n\nJOAN ADAMSON.\n\nNewcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. l6. 1850.\n\n{19} EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF LUIS DE CAMOENS.\n\n   Obras. Lusiadas. Rimas. Comedias. Size. Date.  Observations\n\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1572\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1572\n*   --        *       --      --     8vo.  1584   The first with any\n                                                  commentary.\n    --       --       --       *           1587   Very doubtful.\n    --        *       --      --     8vo.  1591   Supposed to be a mistake\n                                                  for 1584.\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1595\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1597\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1593\n    --       --        *      --           1601   Very dubious.\n    --        *       --      --           1607   Dubious, but mentioned by\n                                                  Machado.\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1607\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1609\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1612\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1613\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1614\n*   --       --       --       *     4to.  1615\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1616\n    --        *       --      --     32mo. 1620   Mentioned by Machado.\n    --       --        *      --     4to.  1621\n*   --       --        *      --     32mo. 1623\n*   --        *       --      --     32mo. 1626\n*   --       --        *      --     32mo. 1629\n*   --        *       --      --     32mo. 1631\n*   --        *       --      --     32mo. 1633\n*   --        *       --      --     Folio.1639\n*   --        *       --      --     32mo. 1644\n*   --       --        *      --     32mo. 1645\n    --        *       --      --     32mo.}1651 { Sold together at Bridge's\n    --       --        *      --     32mo.}     { sale. Machado mentions\n                                                { the edition of the\n                                                { _Lusiad_ printed by\n                                                { Pedro Craerbeeck.\n*   --        *       --      --     12mo. 1663\n*   --       --        *      --     12mo. 1663\n*   --       --        *      --     4to.  1666\n    --       --        *      --     4to.  1668\n    --       --        *      --     4to.  1669\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1669\n*    *       --       --      --     4to.  1669\n*   --        *       --      --     12mo. 1670\n*   --       --        *      --     12mo. 1670\n*   --       --        *      --     Folio.1685-9\n*    *       --       --      --     Folio.1720\n*   --        *       --      --     12mo. 1721\n*   --       --        *      --     12mo. 1721   Has no separate title.\n*   --        *       --      --     4to.  1731-2\n    --        *       --      --           1749 { Mentioned in Clarke's\n                                                { _Progress of Maritime_\n                                                { _Discovery._\n*    *       --       --      --     12mo. 1759\n*    *       --       --      --     12mo. 1772\n*    *       --       --      --     8vo.  1779-80\n*    *       --       --      --     8vo.  1782-83\n*   --        *       --      --     18mo. 1800\n*   --        *       --      --     18mo. 1805\n*    *       --       --      --     12mo. 1815\n    --        *       --      --     4to.  1817\n*   --        *       --      --     12mo. 1818\n*   --        *       --      --     8vo.  1819\n*   --        *       --      --     12mo. 1821\n*   --        *       --      --     18mo. 1823\n*    *       --       --      --     8vo.  1843\n     *       --       --      --     8vo.  1846\n{20}\n\nTRANSLATIONS OF THE LUSIAD.\n\n     Language.   Name.              Size.    Date.     Observations.\n\n*    Latin.      Faria               8vo.    1622\n*    Spanish.    Caldera             4to.    1580\n*                Tapia               4to.    1580\n*                Garces              4to.    1591\n*                Gill                8vo.    1818    He has also translated\n                                                     some of the Rimas.\n*    Italian.    Paggi               12mo.   1658\n*                Do. another edition 12mo.   1659\n*                Anonymo             12mo.   1772\n*                Nervi               12mo.   1814\n*                Do. another edition 8vo.    1821\n*                Briccolani          18mo.   1826\n*    French.     Castera             8vo.    1735\n*                La Harpe            8vo.    1776\n*                Millie              8vo.    1825\n*                Gaubier de Barault  MS.             Only part, and not\n                                                     known if published.\n*    German.     Kuhn and Winkler    8vo.    1807\n*                Heise               12mo.\n*                Anonymo             12mo.           Only one canto.\n*                Donner              8vo.    1833\n*    Danish.     Lundbye             8vo.    1828-1830\n*    English.    Fanshaw             Folio.  1655\n*                Mickle              4to.    1776    Many subsequent editions.\n*                Musgrave            8vo.    1826\n*                Strangford          8vo.            Only specimen.\n_N.B._ There are several translations of portions of the _Lusiad_, and of\nthe smaller poems, both in French and English.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_May Cats._--In Wilts, and also in Devon, it is believed that cats born in\nthe month of May will catch no mice nor rats, but will, contrary to the\nwont of all other cats, bring in snakes and slow-worms. Such cats are\ncalled \"May cats,\" and are held in contempt.\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_Folk Lore of Wales_: _Shewri-while._--There is a legend connected with one\nof the Monmouthshire mountains (_Mynydd Llanhilleth_), that was, until very\nrecently, implicitly believed by most of the residents in that\nneighbourhood. They stated that the mountain was haunted by a spirit in the\nform of a woman, and known by the name of \"Shewri-while.\" Her principal\nemployment appears to have been misleading those whose business or\ninclination led them across the mountain; and so powerful was her\ninfluence, that few, even of those who resided in the neighbourhood, could\ncross the mountain without losing their way. If some unlucky wanderer\nhesitated in which direction to go, Shewri would attract his attention by a\nloud \"whoo-whoop,\" and with upraised arm beckon him on. If followed, she\nglided on before him: sometimes allowing him to approach so near, that the\ncolour and arrangement of her dress could be distinguished; at other times,\nshe would only be seen at a distance, and then she frequently repeated her\ncall of \"whoo-whoop.\" At length, after wandering over the mountain for\nhours in the hope of overtaking her, she would leave her weary and\nbewildered pursuer at the very spot from which he had first started.\n\nC[reversed-C].\n\n_Charm for the Tooth-ache._--The following doggerel, to be written on a\npiece of parchment, and worn round the neck next to the skin:\n\n  \"When Peter sat at Jerusalems gate\n  His teeth did most sorely eake (ache)\n  Ask counsel of Christ and follow me\n  Of the tooth eake you shall be ever free\n  Not you a Lone but also all those\n  Who carry these few Laines safe under clothes\n  In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghoste.\"\n          (_Copied verbatim._)\n\nG. TR.\n\n_Quinces._--In an old family memorandum-book, I find the following curious\nentry:\n\n    \"Sept. 15. 1725. My Father Mr. ---- ---- brought my mother home to my\n    grandfather's house, and the wedding dinner was kept there on Monday,\n    Sept. 20., with all the family, and Mr. ---- and Mr. ---- and his wife\n    were present.\n\n    \"In the Evening my Honoured Grandfather gave all his Children a serious\n    admonition to live in Love and Charity ... and afterwards gave his wife\n    a {21} present of some _Quinces_, and to his sister ----, and every Son\n    and Daughter, Son in Law and Daughter in Law, Five Guineas each.\"\n\nThe last-named gift consisted of gold five-guinea pieces of Charles II. and\nJames II., some of which have been preserved in the family. The part of the\nrecord, however, which appears to me worthy of note, is that which concerns\nthe _quinces_, which brings to one's mind the ancient Greek custom that the\nbridegroom and bride should eat a _quince_ together, as a part of the\nwedding ceremonies. (See Potter's _Grecian Antiquities_.)\n\nCan any of your readers furnish any additional information on this curious\npoint?\n\nH.G.T.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nELIZABETH WALKER.--SHAKSPEARE.\n\nI have before me a reprint (Blackwell, Sheffield, 1829) of _The Holy Life\nof Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, late Wife of A. Walker, D.D., Rector of Fyfield,\nin Essex_, originally published by her husband in 1690. It is a beautiful\nrecord of that sweet, simple, and earnest piety which characterised many of\nthe professors of religion in the seventeenth century. It is not, however,\nthe general character of the book, however excellent, but an incidental\nallusion in the first section of it, that suggests this communication. The\ngood woman above named, and who was born in London in 1623, says, in her\nDiary:\n\n    \"My dear father was John Sadler, a very eminent citizen. He was born at\n    Stratford-upon-Avon, where his ancestors lived. My grandfather had a\n    good estate in and about the town. He was of a free and noble spirit,\n    which somewhat outreached his estate, but was not given to any\n    debauchery that I ever heard of. My father's mother was a very wise,\n    pious, and good woman, and lived and died a good Christian. My father\n    had no brother, but three sisters who were all eminently wise and good\n    women, especially his youngest sister.\"\n\nIt is, I confess, very agreeable to me, amidst the interest of association\ncreated by the world-wide fame of the \"Swan of Avon,\" to record this\npleasing tribute to the character of the _genius loci_ at so interesting a\nperiod. In a passage on a subsequent page, Mrs. Walker, referring to some\nspiritual troubles, says:\n\n    \"My father's sister, my dear aunt Quiney, a gracious good woman, taking\n    notice of my dejected spirit, she waylaid me in my coming home from the\n    morning exercise then in our parish.\"\n\nThis was in London: but it is impossible to have read attentively some of\nthe minuter memorials of Shakspeare (_e.g._ Hunter's, Halliwell's, &c.)\nwithout recognising in \"Aunt Quiney\" a collateral relationship to the\nimmortal bard himself. I am not aware that any Shakspearian reader of the\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES\" will feel the slightest interest in this remote branch\nof a genealogical tree, which seems to have borne \"diverse manner of\nfruits;\" but assuredly the better portion of those who most justly admire\nits exuberance of dramatic yield, will not disparage their taste should\nthey equally relish the evangelical flavour of its \"holier products,\"\nexemplified in the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Walker.\n\nJ.H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOLD ENGLISH ACTORS AND MUSICIANS IN GERMANY.\n\n(Vol. ii., pp. 184. 459.)\n\nThe following extracts furnish decisive evidence of the custom of our old\nEnglish actors' and musicians' professional peregrinations on the continent\nat the beginning of the seventeenth century--a subject which has been ably\ntreated by Mr. Thoms in the _Athenaeum_ for 1849, p. 862.\n\nIn September, 1603, King James I. despatched the Lord Spenser and Sir\nWilliam Dethick, Garter King-at-arms, to Stuttgart, for the purpose of\ninvesting the Duke of Wuertemberg with the ensigns of the Garter, he having\nbeen elected into the order in the 39th year of the late Queen's reign. A\ndescription of this important ceremony was published at Tubingen in 1605,\nin a 4to. volume of 270 pages, by Erhardus Cellius, professor of poetry and\nhistory at that University, entitled: \"Eques auratus Anglo-Wirtembergicus.\"\nAt page 120. we are told that among the ambassador's retinue were \"four\nexcellent musicians, with ten other assistants.\" (Four excellentes musici,\nuna cum decem ministris aliis.) These performed at a grand banquet given\nafter the Duke's investiture, and are described at p. 229. as \"the royal\nEnglish music, which the illustrious royal ambassador had brought with him\nto enhance the magnificence of the embassy and the present ceremony; and\nwho, though few in number, were eminently well skilled in the art. For\nEngland produces many excellent musicians, commedians, and tragedians, most\nskilful in the histrionic art; certain companies of whom quitting their own\nabodes for a time, are in the habit of visiting foreign countries at\nparticular seasons, exhibiting and representing their art principally at\nthe courts of princes. A few years ago, some English musicians coming over\nto our Germany with this view, remained for some time at the courts of\ngreat princes; their skill both in music and in the histrionic art, having\nprocured them such favour, that they returned home beautifully rewarded,\nand loaded with gold and silver.\"\n\n(Musica Anglicana Regiae, quam Regius illustris Legatus secum ad Legationis\net actus huius magnificentiam adduxerat: non ita multos quidem sed\nexcellenter in hac arte versatos. Profert enim multos et praestantes Anglia\nmusicos, comoedos, tragaedos, histrionicae peritissimos, e quibus interdum\naliquot consociati sedibus {22} suis ad tempus relictis ad exteras nationes\nexcurrere, artemq'; suam illis praesertim Principum aulis demonstrare,\nostentareq'; consueverunt. Paucis ab hinc annis in Germaniam nostram\nAnglicani musici dictum ob finem expaciati, et in magnorum Principum aulis\naliquandiu versati, tantum ex arte musica, histrionicaq'; sibi favorem\nconciliarunt, ut largiter remunerati domum inde auro et argento onusti sint\nreversi.)\n\nDancing succeeded the feast and then (p. 244.) \"the English players made\ntheir appearance, and represented the sacred history of _Susanna_, with so\nmuch art of histrionic action, and with such dexterity, that they obtained\nboth praise and a most ample reward.\"\n\n(Histriones Anglicani mature prodibant, et sacram Susannae historiam tanta\nactionis histrionicae arte, tanta dexteritate representabant, ut et laudem\ninde et praemium amplissimum reportarent.)\n\nW.B.R.\n\n    [See, also upon this subject, a most interesting communication from\n    Albert Cohn in the _Athenaeum_ of Saturday last, January the 4th.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR NOTES.\n\n_The Curse of Scotland._--In Vol. i. p. 61., is a Query why the Nine of\nDiamonds is called the Curse of Scotland. Reference is made to a print\ndated Oct. 21, 1745, entitled \"Briton's Association against the Pope's\nBulls,\" in which the young Pretender is represented attempting to lead\nacross the Tweed a herd of bulls laden with curses, excommunications,\nindulgences, &c.: on the ground before them lies the Nine of Diamonds. In\np. 90. it is said that the \"Curse of Scotland\" is a corruption of the\n\"Cross of Scotland,\" and that the allusion is to St. Andrew's cross, which\nis supposed to resemble the Nine of Diamonds. This explanation is\nunsatisfactory. The _nine_ resembles St. Andrew's cross less than the\n_five_, in a pack of cards; and, moreover, the nine of any other suit would\nbe equally applicable. The true explanation is evidently to be found in the\ngame of Pope Joan, in which the Nine of Diamonds is the pope. The\nwell-known antipapal spirit of the Scottish people caused the pope to be\ncalled the Curse of Scotland.\n\nThe game of Pope Joan is stated to have been originally called Pope Julio,\nand to be as old as the reign of Queen Elizabeth. See Sir John Harington's\n\"Treatise on Playe,\" written about 1597, Nugae Antiquae, vol. i. p. 220.\n\nL.\n\n_George Herbert._--It is much to be desired that the suggestion thrown out\nby your correspondent (Vol. ii., p. 460.) may be acted upon. The admirers\nof George Herbert are doubtless so numerous, that the correct and complete\nrestoration of Bemerton Church might be effected by means of a small\nsubscription among them, as in the case of the Chaucer monument. Most\ngladly would I aid in the good work.\n\nR.V.\n\n    [It is needless for us to add that we shall be glad to promote, in\n    every way, the good work proposed by our correspondent.--ED. N. AND Q.]\n\n_Dutch Versions of English Essayists._--How much the works of the British\nEssayists were appreciated by my Dutch ancestors, the following plain facts\nmay show. I have now before me\n\nA translation of the Tatler:\n\n    \"De Snapper, of de Britsche Tuchtmeester. Door den Ridder Richard\n    Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door P. le Clerc. t'Amsterdam, by\n    Hendrik Vieroot, 1733, iv. vol. in 12\u00ba.\"\n\nA second edition of\n\n    \"De Guardian of de Britsche Zedemeester, door den Ridder Richard\n    Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald dor P. le Clercq. Te Rotterdam, by\n    Jan Daniel Beman, 1734, iii. vol. in 12\u00ba.\"\n\nA third edition of\n\n    \"De Spectator, of verrezene Socrates. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door\n    A.G. & R.G. (some volumes by P. le Clercq) t'Amsterdam, by Dirk\n    Sligtenhorst, Boekverkooper, 1743, ix. vol. 12\u00ba.\"\n\nJANUS DOUSA.\n\n_Long Meg of Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 131.).--The same epithet has been\napplied to women in other places. In the parish Register of Tiverton,\nDevon, is the following entry:\n\n    \"Burials. April, 1596. The long Jone seruant to Mr. Demant's. iii.\n    day.\"\n\nWhy should \"long Meg\" be more fabulous than \"long Jone?\"\n\nE.A.D.\n\n_Errors in the Date of Printed Books._--In the title-page of Peter Heylin's\n_Microcosmos_, 8th ed., the date is printed 1939 instead of 1639. In like\nmanner, in _Historical Applications and occasional Meditations upon several\nSubjects, written by a Person of Honour_, printed in 1670, the imprimatur,\nsigned \"Sam. Parker,\" is dated 1970, instead of 1670. In each of these\ncases the error is evidently caused by the compositor having inverted the\nfigure 6, which thus became 9.\n\nP.H.F.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\nDOUSA'S POEM ON SIDNEY.--OLD DUTCH SONG-BOOK.\n\nYour correspondent, who subscribes himself JANUS DOUSA in the last number\nof \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" ought to be able, and I dare say will be able, to\nsupply through your columns information of which I have been long in\nsearch. In 1586 his great namesake printed at Lugd. Batav. a collection of\nGreek and Latin poems upon dead and living persons of distinction. Geoffrey\nWhitney, an Englishman, apparently residing at Leyden, and {23} who printed\ntwo works there in his own language, has fifteen six-line stanzas preceding\nDousa's collection, and he subjoins to it a translation of a copy of\nDousa's verses on the Earl of Leicester. Of these I have a memorandum, and\nthey are not what I want; but what I am at a loss for is a copy of verses\nby Dousa, in the same volume, upon Sir Philip Sidney. It is many years\nsince I saw the book, and I am not sure if there be not two copies of\nverses to Sidney, in which he is addressed as _Princeps_; and if your\ncorrespondent can furnish me with either, or both, I shall be much obliged\nto him.\n\nWill you allow me to put another question relating to an old Dutch\nsong-book that has lately fallen in my way; and though I can hardly expect\na man like JANUS DOUSA to know anything about such a trifle, it is on some\naccounts a matter of importance to me, in connection with two early English\nsongs, and one or other of your many friends may not object to aid me. The\nbook is called _De zingende Lootsman of de Vrolyke Boer_, and it professes\nto be the _tweede druk_: the imprint is _Te Amsteldam By S. en W. Koene,\nBoekdrukkers, Boek en Papierverkoopers, op de Linde Gragt_. The information\nI request is the date of the work, for I can find none; and whether any\n_first part_ of it is known in England, and where?\n\nYou are probably aware that the Dutch adopted not a few of our early tunes,\nand they translated also some of our early songs. These I am anxious to\ntrace.\n\nTHE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Sir Cloudesley Shovel._--In Mrs. Markham's _History of England_ it is\nstated that Sir Cloudesley Shovel escaped from the wreck of his ship, but\nwas murdered afterwards by a woman, who on her death-bed confessed it.\n\nIs there any authentic record elsewhere published?\n\nH.J.\n\n_Christopher Flecamore._--Walton says that Sir H. Wotton wrote his\nwell-known definition of an ambassador at Augusta (_Augsburg_), in the\nAlbum of \"Christopher Flecamore.\" (Wordsworth, _Eccl. Biog._, vol. iv. p.\n86., ed. 1839.) Can any of your correspondents tell me who this person was?\n\nJ.C.R.\n\n\"_Earth has no Rage,\" &c._--Can you, or any of your contributors or\nreaders, inform one where the following couplet is to be found:\n\n  \"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,\n  And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd.\"\n\nI do not trouble you idly, as I have a particular reason for desiring to\nknow the source of the lines.\n\nW.T.M.\n\nO. and C. Club\n\n_D'Oyly and Barry Families._--Any authentic information, original or not in\nthe usual depositories, concerning the two great Norman races of D'OYLY and\nBARRY, or De Barry (both of which settled in England at the Conquest, and,\nsingularly, both connected themselves with mistresses of King Henry I.),\nwill be thankfully received if sent to WM. D'OYLY BAYLEY (Barry), F.S.A.,\nwhose histories of both races are still unfinished.\n\nCoatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire.\n\n_Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham._--A collector of scraps and anecdotes\nrelating to Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, would be glad to know\nwhether, in the various MS. collections of our public libraries, there are\nextant any letters either written by that prelate or addressed to him?\n\nE.H.A.\n\n_Epigram on the Synod of Dort._--In the _Biographie Universelle_, art.\nGROTIUS, it is stated that the following singular distich against the Synod\nof Dort was made in England:--\n\n  \"Dordrechti synodus, nodus; chorus integer, aeger;\n  Conventus, ventus; sessio, stramen. Amen!\"\n\nQuery, By whom was it made?\n\nL.\n\n_Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth._--Several years ago I met with a book\nbearing this, or a similar title, upon one of the tables of the reading\nroom of the British Museum. A passing glance made me anxious to refer to it\nat a future opportunity. But, although I have again and again searched\nthrough the Catalogues, and made anxious inquiries of the attendants in the\nreading-room, I have never yet been able to catch a glimpse of it. Can any\nof your correspondents furnish me with the correct title, and state whether\nit is still preserved in this national library?\n\nJ.E.C.\n\n_Invention of Steam Power._--The following doggerel is the burden of a\ncommon street-ditty, among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire.\n\n    \"Jonathan Hulls,\n    With his paper skulls,\n  Invented a machine\n  To go against wind and stream;\n    But he, being an ass,\n    Couldn't bring it to pass,\n  And so was asham'd to be seen.\"\n\nNow this Jonathan Hulls was the great grandfather of a man of the same\nname, now residing in Campden; so that if there be any truth in the\ntradition, the application of steam power to the propulsion of hulls must\nbe long prior to the time of _Watts his name!_\n\nCan any reader of NOTES AND QUERIES throw any light on the inventions of\nthis man Hulls?\n\nNOCAB.\n\n_Mythology of the Stars._--I want (in perfect {24} ignorance whether there\nis such a book) a \"Mythology of the Stars.\" Considering how often persons\nof sound mind express an enthusiasm for the celestial bodies, and exclaim,\nof clear night, that the stars are the poetry of Heaven, it is wonderful\nhow little most of us know about them. Nine out of ten educated persons\nwould be quite unable to do more than point out the Great Bear and North\nStar.\n\nIf there is not, there _ought_ to be, some collection of the nomenclature\nand mythological history of the heavens, with a familiar treatise on\nastrology ancient and modern. The Chaldeans, Egyptians, Grecians, Arabs,\nCelts, and Norsemen, must have had names and stories, whose relation (both\nin itself and to one another) would make a very pretty volume either of\npoetry or prose. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me of\nsuch a work, or where detached masses of the information I want could be\nfound.\n\nG.I.C.\n\n_Sword of William the Conqueror._--Can any one inform me where is the sword\nof William the Conqueror? It was kept in Battle Abbey till the dissolution,\nand then taken to Sir John Gage's house at Firle, as it is said.\n\nP.\n\n_Neville Family._--Will any of your correspondents inform me what family of\nthe Nevilles were connected by marriage with the Fleetwoods or Cromwells?\n\nIn a collateral note in my family pedigree, I find it stated, that Sarah\nNeville (who married Thomas Burkitt, in 1683) was cousin to General Charles\nFleetwood, who married Bridget Cromwell, daughter of the Protector; and, on\nthe cover of a book, I find written--\n\n    \"My Cozen Fleetwood he gave me this book.--Sarah Burkitt, 1684.\"\n\nI have also traditional testimony in possessing a valuable cabinet, known\nus \"the Fleetwood;\" and a portrait of the above Bridget Cromwell; both of\nwhich have been preserved in the family for more than a century and a half,\nand supposed to have passed into their possession by the marriage of Sarah\nNeville.\n\nA.H.B.\n\nClapham, Jan 1. 1851.\n\n_Difformis, Signification of._--Can any of your classical readers refer me\nto a competent source of information with regard to the signification of\nthe word _difformis_, which is repeatedly to be met with in the writings of\nLinnaeus, and which I cannot find recorded in _Ducange_, _Facciolati_, or\nany of our ordinary Latin dictionaries?\n\nTYRO.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Lynch Law._--What is the origin of this American phrase?\n\nJ.C.R.\n\n_Prior's Posthumous Works._--Among the curiosities collected by the Duchess\nof Portland, was a volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of the\npoet Prior. Forbes, in his _Life of Beattie_ (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking\nof this interesting volume, says:--\n\n\"Her Grace was so good as to let me read them, and I read them with great\npleasure. One of them, a dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is all\nadmirable piece of ridicule on the subject of Locke's philosophy.\"\n\nHave these treatises since been printed? And where now is Prior's original\nMS.?\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n_Suppressed Chantries._--Does there exist (and if so, where is it to be\nfound) a list of the 2374 chantries suppressed by 37 Henry VIII. and 1\nEdward VI.?\n\nIGNOBUS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\nBIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES BY R.G.\n\n(Vol. ii., p. 422.).\n\n_Pagnini's Bible._--I have before me a 12mo. copy of _Liber Psalmorum\nDavidis. Tralatio Duplex Vetus et Nova_. It contains also the Songs of\nMoses, Deborah, etc., with annotations. In the title-page, the new\ntranslation is said to be that of Pagnini. It was printed by Robert\nStephens, and is dated on the title-page \"1556,\" and in the colophon \"1557,\ncal. Jan.\"\n\nIn this edition, both the old and new versions have the _verses\ndistinguished by cyphers_ (numerals). I have not the means of knowing\nwhether, in the earlier editions of Pagnini's Bible, the verses are so\ndistinguished; but I gather from R.G. that they are.\n\nThe writer of the article \"BIBLE\" in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, says that R.\nStephens reprinted Pagnini's Bible in folio, with the Vulgate, in 1557. And\nit appears, from my copy of the Psalms of David, that he also printed that\npart of Pagnini's Bible in 12mo. in the same year, 1557--the colophon\nprobably containing the correct date.\n\nYour pages have recommended that communications should be made of MS. notes\nand remarks found in fly-leaves, margins, etc. of printed books; and the\nabove is written, partly in confirmation of Pagnini's title to the honour\nof distinguishing the verses of the Bible with cyphers, as suggested by\nR.G., but chiefly to note that there is written with a pen, in my copy, the\nword \"Vetus\" over the column which contains the old, or Vulgate, and the\nwords \"Pagnini _sive_ Ariae Montani\" over the column containing the new\nversion of the first psalm.\n\nThe writer in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, above referred to, says, that \"in the\nnumber of Latin Bibles is also usually ranked the version of the same\nPagninus, corrected, or rather rendered literal by {25} Arias Montanus.\"\nBut in the title-page of my copy Montanus is not mentioned.\n\nMy copy belonged to Jo. Sheldrake (who was he?) in 1663; to D. Hughes, of\nQueen's College, Cambridge, in 1761; and to E. Tymewell Bridges (as the\nfamily name was then spelled) in 1777. The latter was a brother of the late\nSir S. Egerton Br_y_dges. But the MS. note above mentioned does not seem to\nbe in the handwriting of either of them.\n\nWill some learned reader of your work let me know whether there be any, and\nwhat ground for attributing the new translation, as it stands in this\nvolume, to Montanus; or as Pagnini's corrected by Montanus?\n\nP.H.F.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE FROZEN HORN.\n\n(Vol. ii., p. 262.)\n\nThe quotation from Heylin is good; \"the amusing anecdote from Munchausen\"\nmay be better; but the personal testimony of Sir John Mandeville is best of\nall, and, if I am not mistaken, as true a traveller's lie as ever was told.\nMany years ago I met with an extract from his antiquated volume, of which,\nhaving preserved no copy, I cannot give the admirable verbiage of the\nfourteenth century, but must submit for it the following tame translation\nin the flat English of our degenerate days.\n\nHe testifies that once, on his voyage through the Arctic regions, lat. ***,\nlong. ***, the cold was so intense, that for a while whatever was spoken on\nboard the vessel became frost-bound, and remained so, till, after certain\ndays, there came a sudden thaw, which let loose the whole rabblement of\nsounds and syllables that had been accumulating during the suspense of\naudible speech; but now fell clattering down like hailstones about the ears\nof the crew, not less to their annoyance than the embargo had been to their\ndismay. Among the unlucky revelations at this denouement, the author\ngravely states that a rude fellow (the boatswain, I think), having cursed\nthe knight himself in a fit of passion, his sin then found him out, and was\npromptly visited by retributive justice, in the form of a sound flogging.\nIf this salutary moral of the fable be not proof sufficient to authenticate\nboth the fact in natural history, and the veracity of the narrator, I know\nnothing in the world of evidence that could do so. It may be added, that\nthe author of _Hudibras_, in his significant manner, alludes to the popular\nbelief of such an atmospheric phenomenon in the following couplet:\n\n  \"Where Truth in person doth appear,\n  Like words congeal'd in northern air.\"\n                  _Hudibras_, Book i. Canto i.\n\nIt is possible that Zachary Grey, in his copiously illustrated edition of\nthe poem, may have quoted Sir John Mandeville's account of this notable\nadventure, in his wanderings, like a true knight-errant, through Scythia,\nArmenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Media, Persia, Chaldea, Greece, Dalmatia,\nBelgium, &c. He wrote an Itinerary of his travels in English, French, and\nLatin. In these he occupied nearly forty years, and was long supposed to\nhave died in the course of them, but (as if his person had been \"congealed\nin northern air\" and suddenly thawed into warm life again) when he\nre-appeared, his friends with difficulty recognised him.\n\nJ.M.G.\n\nHallamshire.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDOMINICALS\n\n(Vol. ii., p 154.)\n\nI believe to have been that kind of customary payment or oblations made _on\nSundays_ to the rector, or his vicegerent, of the church where a person\nheard divine service and received the sacraments:\n\n    \"Hostiensis dicit quod in praecipuis festivitatibus tenetur quis\n    offerre, et _cogi potest_; maxime cum sit quasi _generalis consuetudo\n    ubique terrarum_ ... et intelligit festivitates praecipuas, _dies\n    Dominicos_, et alios dies festivos.\"--Lyndwood, _Prov._, p. 21., not.\n    e., ed. Oxon. 1679.\n\nThough Lyndwood himself, as I understand him, seems to doubt the cardinal's\nstatement, that the payment could be _enforced_, unless sanctioned by local\ncustom.\n\nDucange, in v. \"Denarius,\" 8vo. ed., Adel. 1774, says, the \"Denarius de\nPalma\" and \"Denarius Dominicalis\" were the same:\n\n    \"Habebit (vicarius) cum eis victum suum competentem, et ad vestes sibi\n    emendas XL. solidos Andegavenses, et _Denarium singulis diebus\n    Dominicis ecclesiastica consuetudine offerendum_.\"\n\nOn this extract from a charter he observes:\n\n    \"Erat itaque _Denarius de Palma_, ille qui singulis Diebus Dominicis et\n    [lege a] fidelibus offerrebatur. Cur autem dictus 'de Palma' non\n    constat, nisi forte sic dictus fuerit quod in manum seu _palmam_\n    traderetur.\" _Denarius Dominicalis_, idem.--Arest. MS. a. 1407.\n\nIt would seem also from his definition to be the same as the payment called\n\"Denaria Sacramentorum,\" that is:\n\n    \"iidem denarii qui _singulis offerrebantur Dominicis_, ideoque\n    Sacramentorum dicti, quod tempore Sacrosancti Missae Sacrificii, pro\n    excellentia interdum nude appellati Sacramentum, a fidelibus\n    offerrentur.\"--_Annal. Bened._, t. iv. p. 466., n. 80. ad annum 1045.\n\nThese extracts sufficiently explain, perhaps, the payment known by the\ndifferent names of \"Dominicals,\" \"Palm-penny,\" and \"Sacrament-pence;\" and\nstill indicated, probably, by the weekly offertory of our communion\nservice.\n\nOf a kindred nature were the \"Denarii pro Requestis,\" or \"Denarii\nperquisiti,\" sometimes also {26} called \"Denarii memoriales,\" pence paid\nfor masses in memory of the dead: called \"pro requestis,\" because they were\nobtained by special petition [requesta] from the curate; and \"perquisiti,\"\n\"perquisite pence,\" because they were demanded [perquirebantur] from the\ndevotion of the parishioners, over and above the customary offerings. And\nin this, perhaps, we find the origin of our word \"perquisite.\" (Lyndw.\n_Prov._ p. 111., notes c, e. and p. 237.)\n\nIn further illustration of this subject, I will quote the following note\nfrom Mr. Dansey's learned work _Horae Decanicae Rurales_, vol. i., p. 426.,\ned. 1844, which refers also to Blomefield's _Norfolk_, vol. iv. p. 63.:\n\n    \"A.D. 1686. The dean of the deanery of the city of Norwich was\n    committed to custody, on one occasion, by the itinerant justices, for\n    exacting _hallidays toll_ by his sub-dean in too high a manner; but on\n    his proving that he took of every great boat that came up to the city\n    on a holiday 1d. only, and of each small one a _halfpenny_; of every\n    cart 1d., and of every horse or man laden an _halfpenny_; and of all\n    bakers, butchers, and fishmongers, that sold their commodities on a\n    holiday, 1d. each; and that his predecessors always had immemorially\n    taken it, he was discharged.--Something of the same kind is related, in\n    T. Martin's MS. history, respecting the dues exacted by the rural dean\n    of Thetford. Dr. Sutton's MS. Letter.\"\n\nE.A.D.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMEDAL STRUCK BY CHARLES XII.--RUDBECK'S ATLANTICA.\n\nAlthough no numismatist, yet, being resident at Stockholm, I have taken\nsteps to enable me to reply to L.'s Query (Vol. ii., p. 408. of \"NOTES AND\nQUERIES\") respecting Charles XII.'s medal in commemoration of the victory\nat Holowzin.\n\nNo copy of the medal exists in the cabinet of the Royal Museum of\nAntiquities; but in that belonging to the National Bank, there is a very\nfine example of it in copper, and the inscriptions are as follow:\n\n    On the Reverse:--\"_Silvae. Paludes. Aggeres. Hostes. Victi._\"\n\n    In the Exergue:--\"_Moschi ad Holowzinum victi A. 1708 3/14 Jul._\"\n\nAnd round the margin the verse from Lucan in question:\n\n  \"_Victrices Copias Alium Laturus In Orbem_:\"\n\nwith the substitution of _copias_ for _aquilas_, recorded by Voltaire and\ncriticised by L.\n\nThe same inscriptions are given in Bergh's _Beskrifning oefver Svenska mynt\noch Skaedepenningar_, 4to., Upsala, 1773; only he adds, that the inscription\nin the margin is only found on some copies.\n\nI may transcribe Bergh's description in full:\n\n    \"Slagetvid Holofsin.\n\n    '119. Konungens Bild och hamnunder Armen NAT. 17. JUN. 1682, SILVAE.\n    PALVDES. AGGERES. HOSTES. VICTI. En Wahl-platz pae hoilken staer en Rysk\n    Trophe; och twenne faengar derwid bunden. I exerguen: MOSCHI AD\n    HOLOFZINUM VICTI. A. 1708 3/14 JUL.\n\n    \"Pae naegra exemplar aer denna randskrift: VICTRICES COPIAS ALIVM LATVRVS\n    IN ORBEM.\"\n\nCould any of your readers obtain from the British Museum answers to the\nfollowing Queries respecting Rudbeck's _Atlantica_, for the use of a\nSwedish friend of mine.\n\n  _British Museum.--Biblioteca Grenvilliana--Olof_\n      _Redbeck, Atland sive Manheim._\n\n  Tomus i. S. anno 1675, 1679.\n    Has any one of these three copies a separate\n      leaf, entitled _Ad Bibliopegos?_\n    If so, which of them?\n    Has the copy with the date 1679 _Testimonia_ at the end?\n    If so, how many pages do they consist of?\n    Have they a separate title and a separate\n      sheet of _errata?_\n    Is there a duplicate copy of this separate title\n      at the end of the Preface?\n  Tomus ii. 1689\n    How many pages of _Testimonia_ are there at\n      the end of the Preface?\n\nIs there, in any one of these volumes, the name of any former owner, any\nbook number, or any other mark by which they can be recognised (for\ninstance, that of the Duke de la Valliere)?\n\nShould there be any other copy of any one of these tomes in the British\nMuseum, these questions will extend to that volume also.\n\nG.J.R. GORDON.\n\nStockholm, Dec. 17. 1850\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n_Fossil Deer (not Elk) of Ireland, C. Megaceros_ (Vol. ii., p. 494.).--Your\ncorrespondent W.R.C. will find in Mr. Hart's description of a skeleton of\nthis animal (Dublin, 1825), in a pamphlet, published by W. Richardson\n(Dublin, 1846, M'Glashan), in Professor Owen's _British Fossil Mammalia_,\nand in the _Zoologist_ (Van Voorst) for 1847 and for 1848, p. 2064., all\nthat is known and much that has been imagined on the subject of his\ninquiry. The rib which he mentions is well known, and is in fact one of the\nprincipal bones of contention between the opposing theorists. I never\nbefore heard the story of the specimen shot in 1533, although several years\nago I devoted some time to the subject. I am inclined to suspect that it\nmust have been found in some Irish manuscript which has been discovered,\nsince (in the year 1847) some bones of the fossil deer were found in a\ncertain {27} lake in the west of Ireland in company with those of a turkey.\n(See _Zoologist_, ub. sup.)\n\nW.R.F.\n\nLincoln's Inn, Dec. 21. 1850.\n\n\"_Away, let nought to Love displeasing_\" (Vol. ii., p. 519.).--This song,\nusually entitled \"_Winifreda_,\" has been attributed to Sir John Suckling,\nbut with what justice I am unable to say.\n\nIt has also acquired additional interest from having been set to music by\nthe first Earl of Mornington, the father of the Duke of Wellington.\n\nThe author should certainly be known; and perhaps some of your\ncorrespondents can furnish a clue by which he may be discovered.\n\nBRAYBROOKE.\n\n_Red Sindon_ (Vol. ii., pp. 393. 495.).--I have only just seen your\ncorrespondent, B.W.'s Query respecting the \"red sindon,\" and refer him to\nDu Cange, where he will find--\n\n    \"Sindon pro specie panni [Byssus tenuis], etc.\"\n\nIt was a manufacture that was used for dresses as well as hangings, and is\nconstantly mentioned in inventories and descriptions of the middle ages.\n\nJ.R. PLANCHE.\n\nJan. 1. 1851.\n\n_Coleridge and the Penny Post_ (Vol. iii., p. 6.).--Mr. Venables asks a\nquestion in a way that may lead the reader to infer an answer, and an\nungenerous answer; and he calls on Mr. Hill to give him satisfaction, as if\nMr. Hill had nothing better to do than to inform Mr. Venables, and correct\nMiss Martineau's blunders. If Mr. Venables had taken an active part in\nbringing about the greatest moral movement of our age, he would have known\nthat, amongst the hundred other illustrations adduced by Mr. Hill, was the\nvery anecdote to which he refers; and that Mr. Hill quoted it, not once or\ntwice, but dozens of times, and circulated it, with Coleridge's name, over\nthe whole length and breadth of the three kingdoms, by tens of thousands of\nprinted papers. Mr. Hill has not had a tithe of the honour he deserves--and\nnever will have--and I cannot remain silent, and see his character\nquestioned, though in matters too trifling, I think, even to have occupied\na corner in \"NOTES AND QUERIES.\"\n\nC.W.D.\n\n_The Autograph of Titus Oates_ (Vol. ii., p. 464.).--It may be seen in the\nLibrary of St. John's College, Cambridge. It is written at the end of every\nchapter in \"_A Confession of Faith, put forth by the Elders and Brethren of\nmany Congregations of Christians (baptized upon profession of Faith) in\nLondon and the Country_.\" 12mo. Lond. 1688.\n\nJ.R.\n\nCambridge.\n\n_Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 475.).--The passage in Venerable\nBede referred to by J.MN. may have been in a tract _De Minutione Sanguinis\nsive de Phlebotomia_; (which occurs in the folio editions, Basle, vol. i.\np. 472.; Colon., vol. i. p. 898.). In the enumeration of the veins from\nwhich blood may be taken, he says,--\n\n    \"De brachio tres, _qui per totum corpus reddunt sanguinem_, capitanea\n    linea, matricia, capsale.\"\n\nThe subject of bleeding is again referred to in _Eccl. Hist._, vol. iii,\nbut not to the purpose.\n\nJ. EASTWOOD.\n\nEcclesfield.\n\n_True Blue_ (Vol. ii., p. 494.).--From documents relative to the wars of\nthe Scottish Covenanters, in the seventeenth century, it appears that they\nassumed _blue ribbons_ as their colours, and wore them as scarfs, or in\nbunches fastened to their _blue bonnets_ and that the border English\nnicknamed them \"_blue caps_\" and \"jockies.\" Hence the phrase, \"True blue\nPresbyterian.\"\n\nG.F.G.\n\n_Cherubim and Seraphim._--Why are the cherubim represented as a human head,\nwith the wings of a bird? And why have the seraphim no bodily\nrepresentation? What, in fact, is the supposed distinction between them?\n\nOMEGA.\n\n    [Our correspondent will find much curious information on this subject,\n    accompanied by some exquisite woodcuts, in Mrs. Jameson's _Poetry of\n    Sacred and Legendary Art_.]\n\n_Darcy Lever Church_ (Vol. ii., p. 494.), which is referred to by your\ncorrespondent, is the first instance, I believe, of the application of a\nnew material to the construction of an ecclesiastical edifice. It is built\nthroughout, walls, tower, and spire, benches and fittings, of terra cotta\nfrom the Ladyshore works. The architect is that accomplished antiquary, Mr.\nSharpe of Lancaster, who furnished the designs of every part, from which\nmoulds were made, and in these the composition forming the terra cotta was\nprepared, and hardened by the application of fire. The style is the purest\nand richest Second Pointed, and the effect of the pierced work of the spire\nis, as your correspondent observes, very fine when seen from a distance.\nThere is a rich colour, too, in the material, which has a remarkably\npleasing result upon the eye. But a nearer approach destroys the charm. It\nis found to be a \"sham.\" The lines of the mouldings, mullions, etc., are\nwarped by the heat attendant upon the process of the manufacture. The\nexquisite sharpness of outline produced by the chisel is wanting, and there\nis (in consequence of the impossibility of undercutting) an absence of that\neffect of light and shade which is the characteristic of the mediaeval\ncarvings. The greatest shock is, however, experienced on an examination of\nthe interior. What at first sight appear to be highly elaborated oaken\nbench-ends and seats are only painted earthenware. In point of fact, it is\na POT CHURCH. A similar and larger {28} structure by the same architect,\nand in the same material, has been erected near Platt Hall, in the parish\nof Manchester.\n\nJ.H.P. LERESCHE.\n\nThe church at Lever Bridge, near Darcy Lever Hall, on the line of railway\nbetween Normanton and Bolton, was built about seven years since. The\narchitect is Edward Sharpe, Esq., of Lancaster. The material of the entire\nstructure, including the internal fittings, is terra cotta, from the\nLadyshore works in the neighbourhood, where a model of the church, in the\nsame material, is in preparation for the Exhibition of 1851.\n\nG.I.F.\n\n_Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston_ (Vol. i., p. 382.).--Having\nbeen absent for some time, I have not been able to see whether any one has\nanswered a Query I put, viz:--\n\n    \"Who was the author of those lines beginning with--\n\n  'Stranger! whoe'er thou art that views this tomb,' etc.\n\nwhich Porson translated into Greek Iambics, beginning with--\n\n  [Greek: O xeine, touton hostis eisoras taphon] etc.\"\n\nA friend, who was senior medallist in his time at Cambridge, tells me that\ntradition said that the lines were set by the Rev. R. Collier, Hebrew\nProfessor and Examiner at Trinity College; and that it is supposed that\nCollier found them in some magazine of the day.\n\nWith reference to the imposition supposed to be set Porson (Vol. ii., p.\n71.), and shown by C. at p. 106. to be by Joshua Barnes, I question whether\nany imposition were ever set him: for I have heard Mr. Summers (Porson's\nfirst instructor) observe, that he was a well-conducted man during the\nwhole of his undergraduateship; others have reported the same of him.\n\nA.B.\n\n_Defender of the Faith_ (Vol. ii., pp. 442. 481.).--In _Collectanea\nTopographica et Genealogica_, vol. vi. p. 321., is an indenture of lease\n\n    \"maide the xxijth daye of Januarye, in the second yeare of the reagne\n    of King Henry the seaventhe, by the graice of God Kinge of England,\n    _defendoure of the faithe_,\" etc.\n\nThe lessor, Christopher Ratlife, of Hewick, died before 10 Henry VII., and\nthe editor of the above work says, \"It is impossible to account for the\npeculiarity in the date of this deed.\"\n\nBishop Burnet cites Spelman as asserting that several of the kings of\nEngland before Henry VIII. had borne the title of \"Defender of the Faith.\"\nA correspondent of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ (N.S. xvi. 357.) conjectures\nthat the name of Spelman had been inadvertently substituted for the name of\nSelden; though he justly remarks, that Selden by no means countenances the\nassertion of the bishop.\n\nC.H. COOPER.\n\nCambridge.\n\n_Farquharson on Aurorae_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.).--Your correspondant L.\ninquires about Mr. Farquharson, _shepherd_ or _minister_ of Alford. Whether\nthe word translated _shepherd_ be _pasteur_ or not, I cannot say, as I have\nnot either of the works he alludes to; but certain it is that the Rev. Mr.\nFarquharson, _minister_ of Alford, only recently deceased, was well known\nas a meteorological observer; and it is to him, doubtless, that Professor\nKoenitz refers.\n\nThe \"other Protestant minister, Mr. James Paull, at Tullynessle,\" now Dr.\nPaull, is still in life.\n\nS.P.\n\n\"_Old Rowley_\" (Vol. ii., pp. 27. 74.).--Charles II. was called \"Old\nRowley,\" after Rowley, a famous horse at Newmarket; who, like the king, was\nthe sire of stock much better looking than himself.\n\nA. HOLT WHITE.\n\n_Tale of a Tub_ (Vol. i., p.326.).--Your correspondant J.O.W.H. may find\nsome curious remarks on this subject in Sir James Mackintosh's _Life of Sir\nThomas More_. I cannot give a precise reference; but as the book is small,\nthe passages may be easily found.\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_Painting by C. Bega_ (Vol. ii., p. 494.).--The translation of the lines\nis, I believe,\n\n    \"We Sing certainly what is new, and have still a prize.\" \"A Cracknel is\n    our gain, but the ditty must first (come) out.\"\n\nIn modern Dutch most probably,\n\n    \"Wy singen vast wat nienw, en hebben nog een buit. Een Krakeling is\n    onze winst maar het Liedker moet eerst uit.\"\n\nI should think there is a lake somewhere in the picture, and the lines are\nprobably part of an old Dutch song. As to the painter C. Bega, I have at\nhand a Catalogue of the Munich Gallery, and find there \"Cornelius Bega,\ngeb. 1620, gest. 1664.\" His picture is described as \"Eine Rauch- und\nTrinkgesellschaft belustiget sich mit Tanz in einer Schenke.\" In a\nCatalogue of the Louvre, I have the following description:\n\n    \"Bega, Corneille ou Cornille, ne a Harlem en 1620, mort de la peste\n    dans la meme ville en 1664; eleve d'Adrien Van Ostade.\"\n\nHis picture is\n\n    \"Interieur d'un menage rustique. Un homme et une femme sont assis pres\n    d'une table.\"\n\nHis subjects appear to be generally of the character of the painting\npossessed by your correspondent.\n\nJ.H.L.\n\n_Herstmonceux_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.).--Question 4. In the Privy Seal writs of\nHenry V. frequent mention is made of \"nostre maison de Bethleem,\" a\nMonastery at Shene, so called because it was dedicated to \"Jesus of\nBethlehem.\" It was for forty monks of the Cistercian order.\n\n{29} Question 5. In the _Battle of Agincourt_, by Sir H. Nicolas, Sir Rover\nFyene's name is given amongst the retinue of Henry V. He was accompanied by\neight men-at-arms and twenty-four archers. Sir Roger \"Ffynys,\" accompanied\nby ten of his men-at-arms and forty archers, also followed Henry (in the\nsuite of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby) in his second continental expedition.\n(_Gesta Henrici Quinti._)\n\nB.W.\n\n_Leicester's Commonwealth_ (Vol. ii., p. 92).--See _Gentleman's Magazine_,\nDecember, 1845, for many remarks upon this work.\n\nJ.R.\n\n_Midwives Licensed_ (Vol. ii., p. 408.).--I find the following question\namong the articles of inquiry issued by Fleetwood, Bp. of St. Asaph, in the\nyear 1710.\n\n    \"Do any in your parish practise physic chyrurgery, or _undertake the\n    office of a midwife without license_?\"\n\nE.H.A.\n\n_Volusenus_ (Vol. ii, p. 311).--Boswell, writing to Johnson from Edinburgh,\nJan. 8. 1778, asks:\n\n    \"Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the\n    Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men at a\n    certain period? It is entitled _De Animi Tranquillitate_.\"\n\nE.H.A.\n\n    [Mr. Croker, in a note on this passage, tells us that the author,\n    Florence Wilson, born at Elgin, died near Lyons, in 1547, and wrote two\n    or three other works of no note.--ED.]\n\n_Martin Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--CLERICUS asks for information\ntouching the family of Martin, \"in or near Wivenhoe, Essex.\" There is a\nlarge house in the village, said to have been the seat of Matthew Martin,\nEsq., member for Colchester in the second parliaments of George I. and II.\nHe died in 1749. He had been a commander in the service of the East India\nCompany. Only one party of the name now lives in the neighbourhood, but\nwhether he is of the family or not I cannot say. He is described as \"Edward\nMartin, Master, Royal Navy.\"\n\nA.A.\n\n_Swords used in Dress_ (Vol. i. 415.; vol. ii. 110. 213. 388.).--Might it\nnot have happened that swords went out of fashion after the middle of the\nlast century, and were revived towards its close? In old prints from 1700\nto 1720, they appear to have been universally worn; later they are not so\ngeneral. In 1776-90, they appear again. My grandmother (born in 1760) well\nremembers her brother, of nearly her own age, wearing a sword, say about\n1780. Some of Fielding's heroes wore \"hangers.\"\n\nA.A.\n\n_Clerical Costume_ (Vol. ii., pp. 22. 189.).--The use of scarlet cloth is\npopularly recommended in Berks and in Devon as a cure for the rheumatism.\nIt should be wrapped round the \"ailing\" limb.\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_Tristan d'Acunha_ (Vol. ii., p. 358.).--The latest and best description of\nthis isle is to be found in _A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New\nZealand, together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan d'Acunha_. By A.\nEarle. Longmans, 1832.\n\nGOMER.\n\n_Swearing by Swans_ (Vol. ii., pp. 392. 451.).--Though I can give no reason\nwhy the birds of Juno should have been invoked as witnesses to an oath, the\nQuery about them has suggested to me what may perhaps appear rather an\nirrelevant little note.\n\nCooper, in his _Raven's Nest_, makes Mr. Aristobulus Brag use the\nprovincialism \"_I swanny_;\" \"by which,\" observes the author, \"I suppose he\nmeant--_I swear!_\" Of course, this has nothing to do with swearing by\nswans, more than sounding like it; argument of sound being very different\nfrom sound argument. Mr. Cooper does not seem to have given a thought to\nthe analysis of the phrase, which is no oath, merely an innocent\nasseveration. \"I's-a-warrant-ye\" (perhaps when resolved to its\nungrammatical elements, \"I is a warranty to ye\") proceeds through\n\"I's-a-warnd-ye,\" \"I's-warn-ye\" (all English provincialisms,) to its remote\ntransatlantic ultimatum of debasement in \"_I swanny_.\"\n\nG.J. CAYLEY.\n\n_Mildew in Books_ (Vol. ii., p. 103).--In reply to B., who inquires for a\nprevention for _mildew in books_, I send the following receipt, which I\nhave copied from a book containing many others:--\"Take a feather dipt in\nspirits of wine, and lightly wash over the backs and covers. To prevent\nmould, put a little into writing ink.\"\n\nAnother to take _mildew out of linen_.--\"Mix powdered starch and soft soap\nwith half the quantity of bay salt; mix it with vinegar, and lay it on both\nsides with a painter's brush. Then let it lie in the open air till the\nspots are out.\"\n\nJ.R.\n\n\"_Swinging Tureen_,\" (Vol. i., pp. 246. 307. 406.).--\n\n    \"Next crowne the bowle full\n    With gentle lamb's-wooll\n  Adde sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,\n    With store of ale too;\n    And thus must ye doe\n  To make the wassaile a _swinger_.\"\n\n  Herrick, cited in Ellis' _Brand_, ed. 1849, vol. i. p. 26.\n\nBy the way, is not the \"lanycoll\" (so called, I presume, from the froth\nlike wool (_lana_) at the neck (_collum_) of the vessel), mentioned in the\nold ballad of \"King Edward and the Shepherd\" (Hartshorne's _Met. Tales_, p.\n54.), the same beverage as \"lamb's-wool?\"\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_Totness Church_ (Vol. ii., pp. 376. 452.).--My thanks are due to your\ncorrespondent S.S.S. for kindly furnishing information as to the singular\narched passage mentioned in a former note, which drew my attention as a\ncasual visitor, and which {30} certainly appears to be the \"iter\nprocessionale\" referred to in the will of William Ryder. Any information as\nto the subject of the good woman's tradition would be very acceptable.\nPerhaps S.S.S. will allow me, in return for his satisfactory explanation of\nthe \"dark passage\" in question, to over a very luminous passage in\nconfirmation of his view of Goldsmith's.\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_Lights on the Altar_ (Vol. ii., p. 495.).--In the 42nd canon of those\nenacted under King Edgar (Thorpe's _Ancient Laws and Institutes of\nEngland_, vol. ii. pp. 252-3.) we find:--\n\n    \"Let there be always burning lights in the church when mass is\n    singing.\"\n\nAnd in the 14th of the canons of AElfric (pp. 348-9. of the same volume):--\n\n    \"Acoluthus he is called, who bears the candle or taper in God's\n    ministries when the Gospel is read, or when the housel is hallowed at\n    the altar: not to dispel, as it were, the dim darkness, but, with that\n    light, to announce bliss, in honour of Christ who is our light.\"\n\nC.W.G.\n\n_Time when Herodotus wrote_ (Vol. ii., p. 405.).--The passage quoted by\nyour correspondent A.W.H. affords, I think, a reasonable argument to prove\nthat Herodotus did not commence his work until an advanced age; most\nprobably between the ages of seventy and seventy-seven years. Moreover,\nthere are various other reasons to justify the same conclusion; all which\nA.W.H. will find stated in Dr. Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman\nBiography and Mythology_, vol. ii. I believe A.W.H. is correct in his\nsupposition that the passage has not been noticed before.\n\nT.H. KERSLEY, A.B.\n\nKing William's College.\n\n_Adur_ (Vol. ii., p. 108.).--The connexion of the Welsh _ydwr_ with the\nGreek [Greek: hydor] is remarkable. Can any of your readers tell me whether\nthere be not an older Welsh word for _water_? There are, I know, two sets\nof Welsh numerals, of which the later contains many Greek words, but the\nolder are entirely different. Is not _cader_ akin to [Greek: kathedra], and\n_glas_ to [Greek: glaukos]?\n\nJ.W.H.\n\n_The Word \"Alarm\"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 151. 183.).--I send you an instance of\nthe accurate use of the word \"alarm\" which may be interesting. In an\naccount of the attempt made on the 29th of Oct. 1795, to assassinate Geo.\nIII., the Earl of Onslow (as cited in Maunder's _Universal Biog._ p. 321.)\nuses the following expression:--\n\n    \"His Majesty showed, and, I am persuaded, felt, no alarm; much less did\n    he fear.\"\n\nIs not this a good instance of the true difference of meaning in these two\nwords, which are now loosely used as if strictly synonymous?\n\nH.G.T.\n\n_The Conquest_ (Vol. ii., p 440).--W.L. is informed that I have before me\nseveral old parchment documents or title-deeds, in which the words \"post\nconquestum\" are used merely to express (as part of their dates) the year\nafter the accession of those kings respectively in whose reigns those\ndocuments were made.\n\nP.H.F.\n\n_Land Holland_ (Vol. ii., p. 267. 345.).--J.B.C. does not say in what part\nof England he finds this term used. Holland, in Lincolnshire, is by Ingulph\ncalled _Hoiland_, a name which has been thought to mean _hedgeland_, in\nallusion to the sea-walls or hedges by which it was preserved from\ninundation. Other etymologies have also been proposed. (See Gough's\n_Camden_, \"Lincolnshire.\") In Norfolk, however, the term _olland_ is used,\nForby tells us, for \"arable land which has been laid down in grass more\nthan two years, q.d. _old-land_.\" In a Norfolk paper of few months since,\nin an advertisement of a ploughing match, I observe a prize is offered \"To\nthe ploughman, with good character, who shall plough a certain quantity of\n_olland_ within the least time, in the best manner.\"\n\nC.W.G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.\n\nThe Camden Society have just issued to the members a highly important\nvolume, Walter Mapes _De Nugis Curialium_. The best idea of the interesting\ncharacter of this work may be formed from the manner in which it is\ndescribed by its editor, Mr. Thomas Wright, who speaks of it as \"the book\nin which this remarkable man seems to have amused himself with putting down\nhis own sentiments on the passing events of the day, along with the popular\ngossip of the courtiers with whom he mixed;\" and as being \"one mass of\ncontemporary anecdote, romance, and popular legend, interesting equally by\nits curiosity and by its novelty.\" There can be little doubt that the work\nwill be welcomed, not only by the members of the Camden Society, but by all\nstudents of our early history and all lovers of our Folk Lore.\n\nThough we do not generally notice the publication of works of fiction, the\nhandsome manner in which, in the third volume of his _Bertha, a Romance of\nthe Dark Ages_, Mr. MacCabe has thought right to speak of the information\nwhich he obtained, during the progress of his work, through the medium of\nNOTES AND QUERIES, induces us to make an exception in favour of his highly\ninteresting story. At the same time, that very acknowledgment almost\nforbids our speaking in such high terms as we otherwise should of the power\nwith which Mr. MacCabe has worked up this striking narrative, which take\nits name from Bertha, the wife of the profligate Henry IV. of Germany; and\nof which the main incidents turn on Henry's deposition of the Pope, and his\nconsequent excommunication by the inflexible Gregory the Seventh. But we\nthe less regret this necessity of speaking thus moderately, since it must\nbe obvious that when an accomplished scholar like the {31} author of the\n_Catholic History of England_, to whom old chronicles are as household\nwords, chooses to weave their most striking passages into a romance, his\nwork will be of a very different stamp from that of the ordinary novelist,\nwho has hunted over the same chronicles for the mere purpose of finding\nstartling incidents. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, January 11. 1851.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":12931}