{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_15996/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_15996","id":"gutenberg_15996","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15996","summary":null,"tags":["Category: British Literature","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: Journals","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon\nIngram, William Flis, and the Online Distributed\nProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\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. 32.] SATURDAY, JUNE 8. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nNOTES:--\n  Presence of Strangers in the House of Commons 17\n  The Agapemone, by Richard Greene  17\n  London Irish Registers, by Robert Cole  18\n  Folk Lore--Divination by Bible and Key--Charm for Warts--Boy or Girl  19\nQUERIES:--\n  Poet Laureates 20\n  Minor Queries:--Wood Paper--Latin Line--New Edition of Milton--Barum\n    and Sarum--Roman Roads--John Dutton, of Dutton--Rome--Prolocutor of\n    Convocation--Language of Queen Mary's Days--Vault Interments--Archbishop\n    Williams' Persecutor, R.K.--The Sun feminine in English--Construe and\n    translate--Men but Children of a Larger Growth--Clerical Costume--Ergh,\n    Er, or Argh--Burial Service--Gaol Chaplains--Hanging out the\n    Broom--George Lord Goring--Bands 21\nREPLIES:--\n  Derivation of \"News\" and \"Noise\" by Samuel Hickson 23\n  The Dodo Queries, by H.E. Strickland 24\n  Bohn's Edition of Milton 24\n  Umbrellas 25\n  Emancipation of the Jews 25\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Wellington, Wyrwast and Cokam--Sir William\n    Skipwyth--Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton--Worm of Lambton--Shakspeare's\n    Will--Josias Ibach Stada--The Temple or a Temple--Bawn--\"Heigh ho!\n    says Rowley\"--Arabic Numerals--Pusan--\"I'd preach as though\"--\"Fools\n    rush in\"--Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon--Earwig--Sir R. Haigh's\n    Letter-book--Marescautia--Memoirs of an American Lady--Poem by Sir E.\n    Dyer, &c. 26\nMISCELLANIES:--\n  Blue Boar Inn, Holborn--Lady Morgan and Curry--Sir Walter Scott and\n    Erasmus--Parallel Passages--Grays Ode--The Grand\n    Style--Hoppesteris--Sheridan's last Residence 30\nMISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 31\n  Notices to Correspondents 31\n  Advertisements 32\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nNOTES.\n\n\nPRESENCE OF STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.\n\n\nIn the late debate on Mr. Grantley Berkeley's motion for a fixed duty\non corn, Sir Benjamin Hall is reported to have imagined the presence\nof a stranger to witness the debate, and to have said that he was\nimagining what every one knew the rules of the House rendered an\nimpossibility. It is strange that so intelligent a member of the\nHouse of Commons should be ignorant of the fact that the old sessional\norders, which absolutely prohibited the presence of strangers in the\nHouse of Commons, were abandoned in 1845, and that a standing order\nnow exists in their place which recognises and regulates their\npresence. The insertion of this \"note\" may prevent many \"queries\" in\nafter times, when the sayings and doings of 1850 have become matters\nof antiquarian discussion.\n\nThe following standing orders were made by the House of Commons on the\n5th of February, 1845, on the motion of Mr. Christie, (see Hansard,\nand Commons' Journals of that day), and superseded the old sessional\norders, which purported to exclude strangers entirely from the House\nof Commons:--\n\n\"That the serjeant at arms attending this House do from time to\ntime take into his custody any stranger whom he may see, or who\nmay be reported to him to be, in any part of the House or gallery\nappropriated to the members of this House; and also any stranger who,\nhaving been admitted into any other part of the House or gallery,\nshall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw when strangers are\ndirected to withdraw while the House, or any committee of the whole\nHouse, is sitting; and that no person so taken into custody be\ndischarged out of custody without the special order of the House.\n\n\"That no member of this House do presume to bring any stranger into\nany part of the House or gallery appropriated to the members of this\nHouse while the House, or a committee of the whole House, is sitting.\"\n\nNow, therefore, strangers are only liable to be taken into custody\nif in a part of the House appropriated to members, or misconducting\nthemselves, or refusing to withdraw when ordered by the Speaker to do\nso; and Sir Benjamin Hall imagined no impossibility.\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE AGAPEMONE.\n\n\nLike most other things, the \"Agapemone\" wickedness, which has recently\ndisgusted all decent people, does not appear to be a new thing by any\nmeans. The religion-mongers of the nineteenth century have a precedent\nnearly 300 years old for this house of evil repute.\n\nIn the reign of Elizabeth, the following proclamation was issued\nagainst \"The Sectaries of the Family of Love:\"--\n\n\"Whereas, by report of sundry of the Bishops of this Realm, and others\nhaving care of souls, the Queen's Majesty is informed, that in sundry\nplaces of her said Realm, in their several Dioceses there are certain\npersons which do secretly, in corners, make privy assemblies of\ndivers simple unlearned people, and after they have craftily and\nhypocritically allured them to esteem them to be more holy and\nperfect men than other are, they do then teach them damnable heresies,\ndirectly contrary to divers of the principal Articles of our Belief\nand Christian Faith and in some parts so absurd and fanatical, as by\nfeigning to themselves a monstrous new kind of speech, never found in\nthe Scriptures, nor in ancient Father or writer of Christ's Church, by\nwhich they do move ignorant and simple people at the first rather to\nmarvel at them, than to understand them but yet to colour their sect\nwithal, they name themselves to be of the _Family of Love_, and then\nas many as shall be allowed by them to be of that family to be elect\nand saved, and all others, of what Church soever they be, to be\nrejected and damned. And for that upon conventing of some of them\nbefore the Bishops and Ordinaries, it is found that the ground of\ntheir sect, is maintained by certain lewd, heretical, and seditious\nbooks first made in the Dutch tongue, and lately translated into\nEnglish, and printed beyond the seas, and secretly brought over\ninto the Realm, the author whereof they name H.N., without yielding\nto him, upon their examination, any other name, in whose name they\nhave certain books set forth, called _Evangelium Regni, or, A Joyful\nMessage of the Kingdom; Documental Sentences, The Prophecie of the\nSpirit of Love; a Publishing of the Peace upon the Earth_, and such\nlike.\n\n\"And considering also it is found, that these Sectaries hold opinion,\nthat they may before any magistrate, ecclesiastical or temporal,\nor any other person not being professed to be of their sect (which\nthey term the Family of Love), by oath or otherwise deny any thing\nfor their advantage, so as though many of them are well known to be\nteachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects,\nyet by their own confession they cannot be condemned, whereby they are\nmore dangerous in any Christian Realm: Therefore, her Majesty being\nvery sorry to see so great an evil by the malice of the Devil, first\nbegun and practised in other countries, to be now brought into this\nher Realm, and that by her Bishops and Ordinaries she understandeth\nit very requisite, not only to have these dangerous Heretics and\nSectaries to be severely punished, but that also all other means be\nused by her Majesty's Royal authority, which is given her of God\nto defend Christ's Church, to root them out from further infecting\nher Realm, she hath thought meet and convenient, and so by this her\nProclamation she willeth and commandeth, that all her Officers and\nMinisters temporal shall, in all their several vocations, assist\nthe Archbishops and Bishops of her Realm, and all other persons\necclesiastical, having care of souls, to search out all persons duly\nsuspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable\nsects, and by all good means to proceed severely against them\nbeing found culpable, by order of the Laws either ecclesiastical or\ntemporal: and that, also, search be made in all places suspected, for\nthe books and writings maintaining the said Heresies and Sects, and\nthem to destroy and burn.\n\n\"And wheresoever such Books shall be found after the publication\nhereof, in custody of any person, other than such as the Ordinaries\nshall permit, to the intent to peruse the same for confutation\nthereof, the same persons to be attached and committed to close\nprison, there to remain, or otherwise by Law to be condemned, until\nthe same shall be purged and cleared of the same heresies, or shall\nrecant the same, and be thought meet by the Ordinary of the place to\nbe delivered. And that whoever in this Realm shall either print, or\nbring, or cause to be brought into this Realm, any of the said Books,\nthe same persons to be attached and committed to prison, and to\nreceive such bodily punishment and other mulct as fautors of damnable\nheresies. And to the execution hereof, her Majesty chargeth all her\nOfficers and Ministers, both ecclesiastical and temporal, to have\nspecial regard, as they will answer not only afore God, whose glory\nand truth is by these damnable Sects greatly sought to be defaced,\nbut also will avoid her Majesty's indignation, which in such cases as\nthese are, they ought not to escape, if they shall be found negligent\nand careless in the execution of their authorities.\n\n\"Given at our Mannour of Richmond, the third of October, in the\ntwo-and-twentieth year of our Reign.\n\n\"God Save The Queen.\"\n\nRICHARD GREENE.\n\nLichfield, May 28. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLONDON PARISH REGISTERS.\n\nThe interleaving, of a little work in my possession, published by\nKearsley in 1787, intitled _Account of the several Wards, Precincts,\nand Parishes in the City of London_, contains MS. notes of the\ncommencement of the registers of fifty of the London parishes, and of\nfour of Southwark, the annexed list[1] of which may be of use to some\nof the readers of \"Notes and Queries.\" The book formerly belonged to\nSir George Nayler, whose signature it bears on a fly-leaf.\n\n[Footnote 1: We have collated the list with the Population Returns\n(Parish Register abstract) 1831, and noted any difference. In addition\nto the list given from Sir Geo. Nayler's MS. the following early\nregisters were extant in 1831:--\n\n  1538. Allhallows, Bread Street; Allhallows, Honey\n        Lane; Christ Church; St. Mary-le-bow;\n        St. Matthew, Friday Street; St. Michael\n        Bassishaw; St. Pancras, Soper Lane.\n  1539. St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane; St. Martin\n        Ludgate; St. Michael, Crooked Lane.\n  1547. St. George, Botolph Lane, at the commencement\n        of which are 22 entries from tombs, 1390-1410.\n  1558. Allhallows the Less; St. Andrew, Wardrope;\n        St. Bartholomew, Exchange; St. Christopher-le-Stock;\n        St. Mary-at-Hill, St. Michael le Quern;\n        St. Michael, Royal; St. Olave, Jewry;\n        St. Thomas the Apostle; St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.\n  1559. St. Augustine; St. Margaret, Moses; St. Michael,\n          Wood Street.\n  1560. St. Magnus.\n\n  Allhallows, Barking            begins 1558\n  ----------- London Wall          \"    1567 [1559 Pop. ret.]\n  ----------- Lombard Street       \"    1550\n  ----------- Staining             \"    1642\n  St. Andrew Undershaft            \"    1558\n  St. Antholin                     \"    1538\n  St. Bennet Fink                  \"    1538\n  ----------- Gracechurch          \"    1558\n  St. Clement, Eastcheap           \"    1539\n  St. Dionis Backchurch            \"    1538\n  St. Dunstan in the East          \"    1558\n  St. Edmund the King              \"    1670\n  St. Gabriel, Fenchurch           \"    1571\n  St. Gregory                      \"    1539 [1559 Pop. ret.,\n                                             probably an error\n                                             of transcriber.]\n  St. James Garlickhithe           \"    1535\n  St. John Baptist                 \"    1682 [1538 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Katharine Coleman            \"    1559\n  St. Lawrence, Jewry              \"    1538\n  ------------- Pountney           \"    1538\n  St. Leonard, Eastcheap           \"    1538\n  St. Margaret Lothbury            \"    1558\n  ------------ Pattens             \"    1653 [1559 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Martin Orgars                \"    1625\n  ---------- Outwick               \"    1678 [1670 Pop. ret.]\n  ---------- Vestry                \"    1671 [1668 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Mary, Aldermanbury           \"    1538\n  St. Mary Magdalene, Old\n    Fish Street                    \"    1712 [1717 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Mary Mounthaw                \"    1568 [1711 Pop. ret.\n                                             A register evidently\n                                             lost.]\n  St. Mary Somerset                \"    1558 [1711 Pop. ret.\n                                             A register missing.]\n  St. Mary Woolchurch, and St.\n    Mary Woolnorth, both in one    \"    1538\n  St. Michael, Cornhill,  beg. _before_ 1546\n  ------------ Royal            begins  1558\n  St. Mildred, Poultry             \"    1538\n  St. Nicholas Acons               \"    1539\n  ------------ Coleabby            \"    1695 [1538 Pop. ret.]\n  ------------ Olave               \"    1703\n  St. Peter, Cornhill              \"    1538\n  St. Peter le Poor                \"    1538 [1561 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Stephen, Coleman Street      \"    1558\n  ------------ Walbrook            \"    1557\n  St. Swithin                      \"    1615 [1754 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Andrew, Holborn              \"    1551 [1558 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Bartholomew the Great        \"    1616\n  --------------- the Less         \"    1547\n  St. Botolph, Aldgate             \"    1558\n  St. Bride                        \"    1653[2]\n  St. Dunstan in the West          \"    1554 [1558 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Sepulchre                    \"    1663\n    _Note_.--The register prior burnt at the fire of London.\n  St. Olave, Southwark. \"Register said by\n    _Bray's Survey_ to be as early as\n    1586. Vide vol. i. 111-607; but on a\n    search made this day it appears that\n    the register does not begin till\n    1685. Qy. if not a book\n    lost?--5th Oct. 1829.\"                   [1685 Pop. ret.]\n  St. George, Southwark, beg. abt. 1600      [1602 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, begins\n    1548 (Lysons); but from end of 1642\n    to 1653 only two entries made; viz.\n    one in Nov. 1643, and another Aug.\n    1645, which finishes the first\n    volume; and the second volume\n    begins in 1653.\n  St. Saviour, Southwark, begins temp. Eliz. [1570 Pop. ret.]\n  St. Thomas, Southwark, begins 1614.\n\nROB. COLE.\n\n[Footnote 2: _Note in the Book_--There are registers before this in\nthe hands of Mr. Pridden.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n\n_Divination by Bible and Key_ seems not merely confined to this\ncountry, but to prevail in Asia. The following passage from\n_Peregrinations en Orient_, par Eusebe de Salle, vol. i. p. 167.,\nParis, 1840, may throw some additional light on this superstition.\nThe author is speaking of his sojourn at Antioch, in the house of the\n_English_ consul.\n\n\"En rentrant dans le salon, je trouvai Mistriss B. assise sur son\ndivan, pres d'un natif Syrien Chretien. Ils tenaient a eux deux une\nBible, suspendue a une grosse cle par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne\nse rappelait pas avoir recu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir\nremis. Le Syrien disait une priere, puis prononcait alternativement\nles noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame\ndeclaree par-la en erreur. Elle se leva a l'instant, et ayant fait des\nrecherches plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou.\"\n\nI hardly think that this would be an English superstition transplanted\nto the East; it is more probable that it was originally derived frown\nSyria.\n\nE.C.\n\nNewcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850.\n\n\n_Charm for Warts_.--Count most carefully the number of warts; take a\ncorresponding number of nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the\n_cerealia_ (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a cloth, and deposit\nthe packet in the earth; _all the steps of the operation being done\nsecretly_. As the nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some artists\nthink it necessary that each wart should be _touched_ by a separate\nnodule.\n\nThis practice was very rife in the north of Scotland some fifty years\nsince, and no doubt is so still. It was regarded as very\neffective, and certainly had plenty of evidence of the\n_post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc_ order in its favour.\n\nIs this practice prevalent in England?\n\nIt will be remarked that this belongs to the category of _Vicarious\nCharms_, which have in all times and in all ages, in great things and\nin small things, been one of the favourite resources of poor mortals\nin their difficulties. Such charms (for all analogous practices may be\nso called) are, in point of fact, _sacrifices_ made on the principle\nso widely adopted,--_qui facit per alium facit per se_. The common\nwitch-charm of melting an image of wax stuck full of pins before\na slow fire, is a familiar instance. Everybody knows that the\nparty _imaged_ by the wax continues to suffer all the tortures of\npin-pricking until he or she finally melts away (colliquescit), or\ndies in utter emaciation.\n\nEMDEE.\n\n\n_Boy or Girl._--The following mode was adopted a few years ago in\na branch of my family residing in Denbighshire, with the view of\ndiscovering the sex of an infant previous to its birth. As I do not\nremember to have met with it in other localities, it may, perhaps,\nbe an interesting addition to your \"Folk Lore.\" An old woman of the\nvillage, strongly attached to the family, asked permission to use\na harmless charm to learn if the expected infant would be male or\nfemale. Accordingly she joined the servants at their supper, where she\nassisted in clearing a shoulder of mutton of every particle of meat.\nShe then held the blade-bone to the fire until it was scorched, so\nas to permit her to force her thumbs through the thin part. Through\nthe holes thus made she passed a string, and having knotted the ends\ntogether, she drove in a nail over the back door and left the house,\ngiving strict injunctions to the servants to hang the bone up in that\nplace the last thing at night. Then they were carefully to observe who\nshould first enter that door on the following morning, exclusive of\nthe members of the household, and the sex of the child would be that\nof the first comer. This rather vexed some of the servants, who wished\nfor a boy, as two or three women came regularly each morning to the\nhouse, and a man was scarcely ever seen there; but to their delight\nthe first comer on this occasion proved to be a man, and in a few\nweeks the old woman's reputation was established throughout the\nneighbourhood by the birth of a boy.\n\nM.E.F.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\n\nPOET LAUREATES.\n\nCan any of the contributors to your most useful \"NOTES AND QUERIES\"\nfavour me with the title of any work which gives an account of the\norigin, office, emoluments, and privileges of Poet Laureate. Selden,\nin his _Titles of Honour (Works_, vol. iii. p. 451.), shows the Counts\nPalatine had the right of conferring the dignity claimed by the\nGerman Emperors. The first payment I am aware of is to Master Henry\nde Abrinces, the _Versifier_ (I suppose Poet Laureate), who received\n6d. a day,--4l. 7s., as will be seen in the _Issue Roll_ of Thomas de\nBrantingham, edited by Frederick Devon.\n\nWarton (_History of English Poetry_, vol. ii. p. 129.) gives no\nfurther information, and is the author generally quoted; but the\nparticular matter sought for is wanting.\n\nThe first patent, according to the _Encyclopaedia Metropolitana_,\narticle \"Laureate,\" is stated, as regards the existing office, to date\nfrom 5th Charles I., 1630; and assigns as the annual gratuity 100l.,\nand a tierce of Spanish Canary wine out of the royal cellars.\n\nPrior to this, the emoluments appear uncertain, as will be seen by\nGifford's statement relative to the amount paid to B. Jonson, vol. i.\ncxi.:--\n\n    \"Hitherto the Laureateship appears to have been a mere trifle,\n    adopted at pleasure by those who were employed to write for\n    the court, but conveying no privileges, and establishing no\n    claim to a salary.\"\n\nI am inclined to doubt the accuracy of the phrase \"employed to write\nfor the court.\" Certain it is, the question I now raise was _pressed_\nthen, as it was to satisfy Ben Jonson's want of information Selden\nwrote on the subject in his _Titles of Honour_.\n\nThese emoluments, rights, and privileges have been matters of\nLaureate dispute, even to the days of Southey. In volume iv. of his\ncorrespondence, many hints of this will be found; e.g., at page 310.,\nwith reference to Gifford's statement, and \"my proper rights.\"\n\nThe Abbe Resnel says,--\"L'illustre Dryden l'a porte comme _Poete du\nRoy_,\" which rather reduces its academic dignity; and adds, \"Le Sieur\nCyber, comedien de profession, est actuellement en possession du titre\nde Poete Laureate, et qu'il jouit en meme tems de deux cens livres\nsterling de pension, a la charge de presenter tous les ans, deux\npieces de vers a la famille royale.\"\n\nI am afraid, however, the Abbe drew upon his imagination for the\namount of the salary; and that he would find the people were never so\nhostile to the court as to sanction so heavy an infliction upon the\nroyal family, as they would have met with from the quit-rent ode, the\npeppercorn of praise paid by Elkanah Settle, Cibber, or H.J. Pye.\n\nThe Abbe, however, is not so amusing in his mistake (if mistaken)\nrelative to this point, as I find another foreign author has been\nupon two Poet Laureates, Dryden and Settle. Vincenzo Lancetti, in his\n_Pseudonimia Milano_, 1836, tells us:--\n\n    \"Anche la durezza di alcuni cognomi ha piu volte consigliato\n    un raddolcimento, che li rendesse piu facili a pronunziarsi.\n    Percio Macloughlin divenne Macklin; Machloch, Mallet; ed\n    Elkana Settle fu poi ---- John Dryden!\"\n\n--a metamorphose greater, I suspect, than any to be found in Ovid, and\na transmigration of soul far beyond those imagined by the philosophers\nof the East.\n\nS.H.\n\nAthenaeum.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nMINOR QUERIES.\n\n\n_Wood Paper_.--The reprint of the _Works of Bishop Wilkins_, London,\n1802, 2 vols. 8vo., is said to be on paper made from wood pulp.\nIt has all the appearance of it in roughness, thickness, and very\nunequal opacity. Any sheet looked at with a candle behind it is like\na firmament scattered with luminous nebulae. I can find mention of\nstraw paper, as patented about the time; but I should think it almost\nimpossible (knowing how light the Indian rice paper is) that the heavy\nfabric above mentioned should be of straw. Is it from wood? If so,\nwhat is the history of the invention, and what other works were\nprinted in it?\n\nM.\n\n\n_Latin Line_.--I should be very much obliged to anybody who can tell\nwhere this line comes from:--\n\n  \"Exiguum hoc magni pignus amoris habe,\"\n\nwhich was engraved on a present from a distinguished person to a\nrelation of mine, who tried in several quarters to learn where it came\nfrom.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Milton, New Edition of_.--I observe in Mr. Mayor's communication\n(Vol. i. p. 427.), that some one is engaged in editing Milton. May\nI ask who, and whether the contemplated edition includes prose and\npoetry?\n\nCH.\n\n\n_Barum and Sarum_.--By what theory, rule, or analogy, if any, can the\ncontractions be accounted for of two names so dissimilar, into\nwords terminating so much alike, as those of Salisbury into\nSarum--Barnstaple into Barum?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Roman Roads_.--Can you inform me in whose possession is the MS. essay\non \"Roman Roads,\" written by the late Dr. Charles Mason, to which I\nfind allusion in a MS. letter of Mr. North's?\n\nBURIENSIS.\n\n\n_John Dutton, of Dutton_.--In the Vagrant Act, 17 George II., c. 5.,\nthe heir and assigns of John Dutton, of Dutton, co. Chester, deceased,\nEsq., are exempt from the pains and penalties of vagrancy. Query--Who\nwas the said John Dutton, and why was such a boon conferred on his\nheirs for ever?\n\nB.\n\n\n_Rome, Ancient and Modern_.--I observed, in a shop in Rome, in 1847,\na large plan of that city, in which, on the same surface, both ancient\nand modern Rome were represented; the shading of the streets and\nbuildings being such as to distinguish the one from the other. Thus,\nin looking at the modern Forum, you saw, as it were _underneath_ it,\nthe ancient Forum; and so in the other parts of the city. Can any of\nyour readers inform me as to the name of the designer, and where, if\nat all, in England, a copy of this plan may be obtained?\n\nIf I remember rightly, the border to the plan was composed of the\nPianta Capitolina, or fragments of the ancient plan preserved in\nthe Capitol. In the event of the map above referred to not being\naccessible, can I obtain a copy of this latter plan by itself, and\nhow?\n\nA.B.M.\n\n\n_Prolocutor of Convocation_.--W.D.M. inquires who was Prolocutor of\nthe Lower House of Convocation during its session in 1717-18?\n\n\n_Language of Queen Mary's Days_.--In the first vol. of Evelyn's\n_Diary_ (the last edition) I find the following notice:--\n\n    \"18th, Went to Beverley, a large town with two churches, St.\n    John's and St. Mary's, not much inferior to the best of our\n    cathedrals. Here a very old woman showed us the monuments,\n    and being above 100 years of age, spake _the language of Queen\n    Mary's days_, in whose time she was born; she was widow of a\n    sexton, who had belonged to the church a hundred years.\"\n\nWill any of your readers inform me what was the language spoken in\n_Queen Mary's_ days, and what peculiarity distinguished it from the\nlanguage used in _Evelyn's_ days?\n\nA learned author has suggested, that the difference arose from the\nslow progress in social improvement in the North of England, caused by\nthe difficulty of communication with the court and its refinements. I\nam still anxious to ascertain what the difference was.\n\nFRA. MEWBURN.\n\nDarlington.\n\n\n_Vault Interments_.--I shall be very glad of any information as to the\norigin and date of the practice of depositing coffins in vaults, and\nwhether this custom obtains in any other country than our own.\n\nWALTER LEWIS.\n\nEdward Street, Portman Square.\n\n\n_Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R.K._--Any information will be\nthankfully received of the ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of\nthe notorious R.K.--the unprincipled persecutor of Archbp. Williams,\nmentioned in Fuller's _Church Hist._, B. xi. cent. 17.; and in\nHacket's Life of the Archbishop (abridgment), p. 190.\n\nF.K.\n\n\n_The Sun feminine in English_.--It has been often remarked, that\nthe northern nations made the sun to be feminine.[3] Do any of your\nreaders know any instances of the _English_ using this gender of the\nsun? I have found the following:--\n\n\"So it will be at that time with the sun; for though _she_ be the\nbrightest and clearest creature, above all others, yet, for all that\nChrist with His glory and majesty will obscure _her.\"--Latimer's\nWorks_, Parker Soc. edit. vol. ii. p. 54.\n\n\"Not that the sun itself, of _her_ substance, shall be darkened; no,\nnot so; for _she_ shall give _her_ light, but it shall not be seen\nfor this great light and clearness wherein our Saviour shall\nappear.\"--(Ib. p. 98.)\n\nTHOS. COX.\n\n[Footnote 3: See Latham's _English Language_, 2nd edition, p. 211]\n\n\n_Construe and translate_.--In my school-days, verbal rendering from\nLatin or Greek into English was _construing_; the same on paper was\n_translating_. Whence this difference of phrase?\n\nM.\n\n\n_Men but Children of a larger growth_.--Can you give one the author of\nthe following line?\n\n  \"Men are but children of a larger growth.\"\n\nR.G.\n\n\n_Clerical Costume_.--In the Diary of the Rev. Giles Moore, rector of\nHosted Keynes, in Sussex, published in the first volume of the Sussex\nArchaeological Collections, there is the following account of his\ndress:--\n\n    \"I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black cloth at\n    16s. the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet serge for a\n    waistcoat, 11s. 1d., and 1/4 of an ounce of scarlet silke,\n    1s.\"\n\nand this appears to have been his regular dress. Will any of your\ncorrespondents inform me whether this scarlet serge waistcoat was\ncommonly worn by the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671?\n\nR.W.B.\n\n\n_Ergh, Er, or Argh_.--In Dr. Whitaker's _History of Whalley_, p. 37.,\ned. 1818, are the following observations on the above word:--\n\n    \"This is a singular word, which occurs, however both to the\n    north and south of the Ribble, though much more frequently\n    to the north. To the south, I know not that it occurs, but\n    in Angles-ark and Brettargh. To the north are Battarghes,\n    Ergh-holme, Stras-ergh, Sir-ergh, Feiz-er, Goosen-ergh. In\n    all the Teutonic dialects I meet with nothing resembling this\n    word, _excepting the Swedish_ Arf, _terra_ (_vide_ Ihre _in\n    voce_), which, if the last letter be pronounced gutturally, is\n    precisely the same with _argh_.\"\n\nCan any of your readers give a more satisfactory explanation of this\nlocal term?\n\nT.W.\n\nBurnley, May 4. 1850.\n\n\n_Burial Service_.--During a conversation on the various sanitary\nmeasures now projecting in the metropolis, and particularly on the\nidea lately started of re-introducing the ancient practice of burning\nthe bodies of the deceased, one of our company remarked that the\nwords \"ashes to ashes,\" used in our present form of burial, would in\nsuch a case be literally applicable; and a question arose why the\nword \"ashes\" should have been introduced at all, and whether its\nintroduction might not have been owing to the actual cremation of the\nfuneral pyre at the burial of Gentile Christians? We were none of us\nprofound enough to quote or produce any facts from the monuments and\nrecords of the early converts to account for the expression; but I\nconceive it probable that a solution could be readily given by some of\nyour learned correspondents. The burning of the dead does not appear\nto be in itself an anti-christian ceremony, nor necessarily connected\nwith Pagan idolatries, and therefore might have been tolerated in the\ncase of Gentile believers like any other indifferent usage.\n\nCINIS.\n\n\n_Gaol Chaplains_.--When were they first appointed? Did the following\nadvice of Latimer, in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any\neffect?\n\n    \"Oh, I would ye would resort to prisons! A commendable thing\n    in a Christian realm: I would wish there were curates of\n    prisons, that we might say, the 'curate of Newgate, the curate\n    of the Fleet,' and I would have them waged for their labour.\n    It is a holiday work to visit the prisoners, for they be kept\n    from sermons.\"--Vol. i. p. 180.\n\nTHOS. COX.\n\n\n_Hanging out the Broom_ (Vol. i., p. 385.).--This custom exists in\nthe West of England, but is oftener talked of than practised. It is\njocularly understood to indicate that the deserted inmate is in want\nof a companion, and is really to receive the visits of his friends.\nCan it be in any way analogous to the custom of hoisting broom at the\nmast-head of a vessel which is to be disposed of?\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_George Lord Goring_, well known in history as Colonel Goring and\nGeneral Goring, until the elevation of his father to the earldom\nof Norwich, in Nov. 1644, is said by Lodge to have left England\nin November, 1645, and after passing some time in France, to have\ngone into the Netherlands, where he obtained a commission as\nLieutenant-General in the Spanish army. Lodge adds, upon the authority\nof Dugdale, that he closed his singular life in that country, in the\ncharacter of a Dominican friar, and his father surviving him, he never\nbecame Earl of Norwich. A recent publication, speaking of Lord Goring,\nsays he carried his genius, his courage, and his villainy to market on\nthe Continent, served under Spain, and finally assumed the garb of a\nDominican friar, and died in a convent cell.\n\nCan any of your readers inform me _when_ and _where_ he died, and\nwhether any particulars are known respecting him after his retirement\nabroad, and when his marriage took place with his wife Lady Lettice\nBoyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork, who died in 1643? The confusion\nthat is made between the father and son is very great.\n\nG.\n\n\n_Bands_.--What is the origin of the clerical and academical custom\nof wearing _bands_? Were they not originally used for the purpose of\npreserving the cassock from being soiled by the beard? This is the\nonly solution that presents itself to my mind.\n\nOXONIENSIS NONDUM-GRADUATUS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nREPLIES.\n\n\nDERIVATION OF \"NEWS\" AND \"NOISE.\"\n\nI hasten to repudiate a title to which I have no claim; a compliment\ntowards the close of the letter of your correspondent \"CH.\" (Vol. i.,\np. 487.) being evidently intended for a gentleman whose _christian_\nname, only, _differs_ from mine. The compliment in his case is\nwell-deserved; and it will not lower him in your correspondent's\nopinion, to know that he is not answerable for the sins laid to my\ncharge. And now for a word in my own behalf.\n\nIndeed, CH. is rather hard upon me, I must confess. In using the\nsimple form of assertion as more convenient,--although I intended\nthereby merely to express that such was my opinion, and not dreaming\nof myself as an authority,--I have undoubtedly erred. In the single\ninstance in which I used it, instead of saying \"it is,\" I should have\nsaid \"I think it is.\" Throughout the rest of my argument I think the\nterms made use of are perfectly allowable as expressions of opinion.\nYour correspondent has been good enough to give \"the whole\" of my\n\"argument\" in recapitulating my \"assertions.\" Singular dogmatism that\nin laying down the law should condescend to give reasons for it! On\nthe other hand, when I turn to the letter of my friendly censor, I\nfind assertion without argument, which, to my simple apprehension,\nis of much nearer kin to dogmatism than is the sin with which I am\ncharged.\n\nI cannot help thinking that your correspondent, from his dislike \"to\nbe puzzled on so plain a subject,\" has a misapprehension as to the\nuses of etymology. I, too, am no etymologist; I am a simple inquirer,\nanxious for information; frequently, without doubt, \"most ignorant\"\nof what I am \"most assured;\" yet I feel that to treat the subject\nscientifically it is not enough to guess at the origin of a word, not\nenough even to know it; that it is important to know not only whence\nit came, but how it came, what were its relations, by what road it\ntravelled; and treated thus, etymology is of importance, as a branch\nof a larger science, to the history of the progress of the human race.\n\nDescending now to particulars, let your correspondent show me how\n\"news\" was made out of \"new.\" I have shown him how _I think_ it was\nmade; but I am open to conviction.\n\nI repeat my opinion that \"news is a noun singular, and as such must\nhave been adopted bodily into the language;\" and if it were a \"noun\nof plural form and plural meaning,\" I still think that the singular\nform must have preceded it. The two instances CH. gives, \"goods\" and\n\"riches,\" are more in point than he appears to suppose, although in\nsupport of my argument, and not his. The first is from the Gothic,\nand is substantially a word implying \"possessions,\" older than the\noldest European living languages. \"Riches\" is most unquestionably\nin its original acceptation in our language a noun singular, being\nidentically the French \"richesse,\" in which manner it is spelt in our\nearly writers. From the form coinciding with that of our plural, it\nhas acquired also a plural signification. But both words \"have been\nadopted bodily into the language,\" and thus strengthen my argument\nthat the process of manufacture is with us unknown.\n\nYour correspondent is not quite correct in describing me as putting\nforward as instances of the early communication between the English\nand the German languages the derivation of \"news\" from \"Neues,\" and\nthe similarity between two poems. The first I adduced as an instance\nof the importance of the inquiry: with regard to the second, I\nadmitted all that your correspondent now says; but with the remark,\nthat the mode of treatment and the measure approaching so near to each\nother in England and Germany within one half century (and, I may add,\nat no other period in either of the two nations is the same mode or\nmeasure to be found), there was reasonable ground for suspicion\nof direct or indirect communication. On this subject I asked for\ninformation.\n\nIn conclusion, I think I observe something of a sarcastic tone in\nreference to my \"novelty.\" I shall advocate nothing that I do not\nbelieve to be true, \"whether it be old or new;\" but I have found that\nour authorities are sometimes careless, sometimes unfaithful, and\nare so given to run in a groove, that when I am in quest of truth I\ngenerally discard them altogether, and explore, however laboriously,\nby myself.\n\nSAMUEL HICKSON.\n\nSt. John's Wood, May 27. 1850.\n\n\nI do not know the reason for the rule your correspondent Mr. S.\nHICKSON lays down, that such a noun as \"news\" could not be formed\naccording to English analogy. Why not as well as \"goods, the shallows,\nblacks, for mourning, greens?\" There is no singular to any of these as\nnouns.\n\n_Noise_ is a French word, upon which Menage has an article. There can\nbe no doubt that he and others whom he quotes are right, that it\nis derived from _noxa_ or _noxia_ in Latin, meaning \"strife.\" They\nquote:--\n\n  \"Saepe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos.\"\n\n_Ausonius_.\n\n  \"In mediam noxiam perfertur.\"\n\n_Petronius_.\n\n  \"Diligerent alia, et noxas bellumque moverent.\"\n\n_Manilius_.\n\nIt is a great pity that we have no book of reference for English\nanalogy of language.\n\nC.B.\n\n\nWhy should Mr. Hickson (Vol. i., p. 428.) attempt to derive\n\"news\" indirectly from a German adjective, when it is so directly\nattributable to an English one; and that too without departing from a\npractice almost indigenous in the language?\n\nHave we not in English many similar adjective substantives? Are we\nnot continually slipping into our _shorts_, or sporting our _tights_,\nor parading our _heavies_, or counter-marching our _lights_, or\ncommiserating _blacks_, or leaving _whites_ to starve; or calculating\nthe _odds_, or making _expositions_ for _goods_?\n\nOh! but, says Mr. Hickson, \"in that case the '_s_' would be the sign\nof the plural.\" Not necessarily so, no more than an \"_s_\" to \"mean\"\nfurnishes a \"means\" of proving the same thing. But granting that it\nwere so, what then? The word \"news\" _is_ undoubtedly plural, and has\nbeen so used from the earliest times; as (in the example I sent for\npublication last week, of so early a date as the commencement of Henry\nVIII.'s reign) may be seen in \"_thies_ new_es_.\"\n\nBut a flight still more eccentric would be the identification of\n\"noise\" with \"news!\" \"There is no process,\" Mr. Hickson says, \"by\nwhich noise could be manufactured without making a plural noun of it!\"\n\nIs not Mr. Hickson aware that _la noise_ is a French noun-singular\nsignifying a contention or dispute? and that the same word exists in\nthe Latin _nisus_, a struggle?\n\nIf mere plausibility be sufficient ground to justify a derivation,\nwhere is there a more plausible one than that \"news,\" _intelligence,\nought_ to be derived from [Greek: nous], _understanding_ or _common\nsense_?\n\nA.E.B.\n\nLeeds, May 5th.\n\n\nFurther evidence (see Vol. i., p. 369.) of the existence and common\nuse of the word \"newes\" in its present signification but ancient\northography anterior to the introduction of newspapers.\n\nIn a letter from the Cardinal of York (Bainbridge) to Henry VIII.\n(Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. vi. p. 50.),\n\n    \"After that thies Newes afforesaide ware dyvulgate in the\n    Citie here.\"\n\nDated from Rome, September, 1513.\n\nThe _Newes_ was of the victory just gained by Henry over the French,\ncommonly known as \"The Battle of the Spurs.\"\n\nA.E.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE DODO QUERIES.\n\nI beg to thank Mr. S.W. Singer for the further notices he has given\n(Vol. i., p. 485.) in connection with this subject. I was well\nacquainted with the passage which he quotes from Osorio, a passage\nwhich some writers have very inconsiderately connected with the\nDodo history. In reply to Mr. Singer's Queries, I need only make the\nfollowing extract from the _Dodo and its Kindred_, p. 8.:--\n\n    \"The statement that Vasco de Gama, in 1497, discovered, sixty\n    leagues beyond the Cape of Good Hope, a bay called after San\n    Blaz, near an island full of birds with wings like bats, which\n    the sailors called _solitaries_ (De Blainville, _Nouv. Ann.\n    Mus. Hist. Nat._, and _Penny Cyclopaedia_, DODO, p. 47.), is\n    wholly irrelevant. The birds are evidently penguins, and\n    their wings were compared to those of bats, from being without\n    developed feathers. De Gama never went near Mauritius, but\n    hugged the African coast as far as Melinda, and then crossed\n    to India, returning by the same route. This small island\n    inhabited by penguins, near the Cape of Good Hope, has been\n    gratuitously confounded with Mauritius. Dr. Hamel, in a\n    memoir in the _Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathematique de\n    l'Academie de St. Petersbourg_, vol. iv. p. 53., has devoted\n    an unnecessary amount of erudition to the refutation of this\n    obvious mistake. He shows that the name _solitaires_, as\n    applied to penguins by De Gama's companions, [I should have\n    said, 'by later compilers,'] is corrupted from _sotilicairos_,\n    which appears to be a Hottentot word.\"\n\nI may add, that Dr. Hamel shows Osorio's statement to be taken from\nCastanheda, who is the earliest authority for the account of De Gama's\nvoyage.\n\nH.E. STRICKLAND.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON.\n\nMr. Editor,--I have just seen an article in your \"NOTES AND QUERIES\"\nreferring to my edition of Milton's prose works. It is stated that, in\nmy latest catalogue, the book is announced as _complete_ in 3 vols.,\nalthough the contrary appears to be the case, judging by the way in\nwhich the third volume ends, the absence of an index, &c.\n\nIn reply, I beg to say that the insertion of the word \"complete,\" in\nsome of my catalogues, has taken place without my privity, and is now\nexpunged. The fourth volume has long been in preparation, but the\ntime of its appearance depends on the health and leisure of a prelate,\nwhose name I have no right to announce. Those gentlemen who have taken\nthe trouble to make direct inquiries on the subject, have always, I\nbelieve, received an explicit answer.\n\nHENRY GEORGE BOHN.\n\nMay 30. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nUMBRELLAS.\n\nAlthough Dr. Rimbault's Query (Vol. i., p. 415.) as to the first\nintroduction of umbrellas into England, is to a certain extent\nanswered in the following number (p. 436.) by a quotation from Mr.\nCunningham's _Handbook_, a few additional remarks may, perhaps, be\ndeemed admissible. Hanway is there stated to have been \"the first man\nwho ventured to walk the streets of London with one over his head,\"\nand that after continuing its use nearly thirty years, he saw them\ncome into general use. As Hanway died in 1786, we may thus infer that\nthe introduction of umbrellas may be placed at about 1750. But it is,\nI think, probable that their use must have been at least partially\nknown in London long before that period, judging from the following\nextract from Gay's _Trivia, or Art of Walking the Streets of London_,\npublished 1712:--\n\n  \"Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,\n  Defended by the ridinghood's disguise;\n  Or, underneath th' _umbrella's_ oily shade,\n  Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread.\n  Let Persian dames the _umbrella's_ ribs display,\n  To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;\n  Or sweating slaves support the shady load,\n  When Eastern monarchs show their state abroad;\n  Britain in winter only knows its aid,\n  To guard from chilly showers the walking maid.\"\n\nBook i. lines 209-218.\n\nThat it was, perhaps, an article of curiosity rather than use in the\nmiddle of the seventeenth century, is evident in the fact of its being\nmentioned in the \"_Musaeum Tradescantianum, or Collection of Rarities_,\npreserved at South Lambeth near London, by John Tradescant.\" 12mo.\n1656. It occurs under the head of \"Utensils,\" and is simply mentioned\nas \"_An Umbrella_.\"\n\nE.B. PRICE.\n\n    [Mr. St. Croix has also referred Dr. Rimbault to Gay's\n    _Trivia_.]\n\n\nJonas Hanway the philanthropist is reputed first to have used an\n\"umbrella\" in England. I am the more inclined to think it may be so,\nas my own father, who was born in 1744, and lived to ninety-two years\nof age, has told me the same thing, and he lived in the same parish as\nMr. Hanway, who resided in Red Lion Square.\n\nMr. Hanway was born in 1712.\n\nJ.W.\n\n\nThe introduction of this article of general convenience is attributed,\nand I believe accurately so, to Jonas Hanway, the Eastern traveller,\nwho on his return to his native land rendered himself justly\ncelebrated by his practical benevolence. In a little book with a\nlong title, published in 1787, written by \"_John Pugh_,\" I find\nmany curious anecdotes related of Hanway, and apropos of umbrellas,\nin describing his dress Mr. Pugh says,--\"When it rained, a small\nparapluie defended his face and wig; thus he was always prepared\nto enter into any company without impropriety, or the appearance of\nneglect. And he (Hanway) was the first man who ventured to walk the\nstreets of London with an umbrella over his head: after carrying one\nnear thirty years, he saw them come into general use.\" Hanway died\n1786.\n\nJ.F.\n\n\nAs far as I remember, there is a portrait of Hanway with an umbrella\nas a frontispiece to the book of Travels published by him about 1753,\nin four vols. 4to.; and I have no doubt that he had used one in his\ntravels through Greece, Turkey, &c.\n\nT.G.L.\n\n\nIn the hall of my father's house, at Stamford in Lincolnshire,\nthere was, when I was a child, the wreck of a very large green silk\numbrella, apparently of Chinese manufacture, brought by my father from\nHolland, somewhere between 1770 and 1780, and as I have often heard,\nthe first umbrella seen at Stamford. I well remember also an amusing\ndescription given by the late Mr. Warry, so many years consul at\nSmyrna, of the astonishment and envy of his mother's neighbours at\nSawbridgeworth, in Herts, where his father had a country-house, when\nhe ran home and came back with an umbrella, which he had just brought\nfrom Leghorn, to shelter them from a pelting shower which detained\nthem in the church-porch, after the service, on one summer Sunday.\nFrom Mr. Warry's age at the time he mentioned this, and other\ncircumstances in his history, I conjecture that it occurred not later\nthan 1775 or 1776. As Sawbridgeworth is so near London, it is evident\nthat even there umbrellas were at that time almost unknown.\n\nIf I have \"spun too long a yarn,\" the dates, at least, will not be\nunacceptable to others like myself.\n\nG.C. RENOUARD.\n\nSwanscombe Rectory, May 1.\n\n\nDr. Jamieson was the first who introduced umbrellas to Glasgow in the\nyear 1782; he bought his in Paris. I remember very well when this took\nplace. At this time the umbrella was made of heavy wax cloth, with\ncane ribs, and was a ponderous article.\n\nR.R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS.\n\n(VOL. I, PP. 474, 475.)\n\nFrom a scarce collection of pamphlets concerning the naturalisation\nof the Jews in England, published in 1753, by Dean Tucker and others,\nI beg to send the following extracts, which may be of some use in\nreplying to the inquiry (Vol. i., p. 401.) respecting the Jews during\nthe Commonwealth.\n\nDean Tucker, in his _Second Letter to a Friend concerning\nNaturalisation_, says (p. 29.):--\n\n    \"The Jews having departed out of the realm in the year 1290,\n    or being expelled by the authority of parliament (it matters\n    not which), made no efforts to return till the Protectorship\n    of Oliver Cromwell; but this negotiation is known to have\n    proved unsuccessful. However, the affair was not dropped, for\n    the next application was to King Charles himself, then in his\n    exile at Bruges, as appears by a copy of a commission dated\n    the 24th of September, 1656, granted to Lt.-Gen. Middleton, to\n    treat with the Jews of Amsterdam:--'That whereas the Lt.-Gen.\n    had represented to his Majesty their good affection to him,\n    and disowned the application lately made to Cromwell in their\n    behalf by some persons of their nation, as absolutely without\n    their consent, the king empowers the Lt.-Gen. to treat with\n    them. That if in that conjunction they shall assist his\n    Majesty by any money, arms, or ammunition, they shall find,\n    when God should restore him, that he would extend that\n    protection to them which they could reasonably expect, and\n    abate that rigour of the law which was against them in his\n    several dominions, and repay them.\"\n\nThis paper, Dean Tucker says, was found among the original papers of\nSir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to King Charles I. and II.,\nand was communicated to him by a learned and worthy friend. The Dean\ngoes on to remark, that the restoration of the royal family of the\nStuarts was attended with the return of the Jews into Great Britain;\nand that Lord Chancellor Clarendon granted to many of them letters of\ndenization under the great seal.\n\nFrom another pamphlet in the same collection, entitled, _An Answer\nto a Pamphlet entitled Considerations on the Bill to permit Persons\nprofessing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized_, the following, is\nan extract:--\n\n    \"There is a curious anecdote of this affair,\" (about the Jews\n    thinking Oliver Cromwell to be the Messiah,) \"in Raguenet's\n    _Histoire d'Oliver Cromwell_, which I will give the reader\n    at length. About the time Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel came to\n    England to solicit the Jews' admission, the Asiatic Jews sent\n    hither the noted Rabbi Jacob Ben Azahel, with several others\n    of his nation, to make private inquiry whether Cromwell was\n    not that Messiah, whom they had so long expected. (Page 33.--I\n    leave the reader to judge what an accomplished villain he will\n    then be.) Which deputies upon their arrival pretending other\n    business, were several times indulging the favour of a private\n    audience from him, and at one of them proposed buying Hebrew\n    books and MSS. belonging to the University of _Cambridge_[4],\n    in order to have an opportunity, under pretence of viewing\n    them, to inquire amongst his relations, in Huntingdonshire,\n    where he was born, whether any of his ancestors could be\n    proved of Jewish extract. This project of theirs was very\n    readily agreed to (the University at that time being under a\n    cloud, on account of their former loyalty to the King), and\n    accordingly the ambassadors set forwards upon their journey.\n    But discovering by their much longer continuance at Huntingdon\n    than at Cambridge, that their business at the last place was\n    not such as was pretended, and by not making their enquiries\n    into Oliver's pedigree with that caution and secresy which was\n    necessary in such an affair, the true purpose of their errand\n    into England became quickly known at London, and was very much\n    talked of, which causing great scandal among the _Saints_, he\n    was forced suddenly to pack them out of the kingdom, without\n    granting any of their requests.\"\n\nJ.M.\n\n[Footnote 4: Query: May not this be another version of the same story,\nquoted by your correspondent, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, from\nMonteith, (in Vol. i. p. 475.), of the Jews desiring to buy the\nLibrary of _Oxford_?]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nREPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.\n\n\n_Wellington, Wyrwast, and Cokam_ (Vol. i., p. 401.).--The garrison in\nWellington was, no doubt, at the large house built by Sir John Topham\nin that town, where the rebels, who had gained possession of it by\nstratagem, held out for some time against the king's forces under\nSir Richard Grenville. The house, though of great strength, was much\ndamaged on that occasion, and shortly fell into ruin. Cokam probably\ndesignates Colcombe Castle, a mansion of the Courtenays, near Colyton,\nin Devonshire, which was occupied by a detachment of the king's troops\nunder Prince Maurice in 1644, but soon after fell into the hands of\nthe rebels. It is now in a state of ruin, but is in part occupied as a\nfarm-house. I am at a loss for _Wyrwast_, and should doubt the reading\nof the MS.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Sir William Skipwyth_ (Vol. i., p. 23.).--Mr. Foss will find some\nnotices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, 84, 85, of _Rotulorum Pat. &\nClaus. Cancellariae Hib. Calendarium_, printed in 1828.\n\nR.B.\n\nTrim, May 13. 1850.\n\n\n_Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton_ (Vol. i., p. 481.).--Mr. Markland is\nprobably right in his conjecture that Johnson had Warton's lines\nin his memory; but the original source of the allusion to _Peru_ is\nBoileau:\n\n          \"De tous les animaux\n  De Paris au _Perou_, du Japon jusqu'a Rome,\n  Le plus sot animal, a mon avis, c'est l'homme.\"\n\nWarton's Poems appeared in March, 1748. Johnson's _Vanity of Human\nWishes_ was published the 9th January, 1749, and was written probably\nin December or November preceding.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Worm of Lambton_ (Vol. i., p. 453.).--See its history and legend in\nSurtees' _History of Durham_, vol. ii. p. 173., and a quarto tract\nprinted by Sir Cuthbert Sharp.\n\nG.\n\n\n\"A.C.\" is informed that there is an account of this \"Worme\" in _The\nBishoprick Garland_, published by the late Sir Cuthbert Sharpe in\n1834; it is illustrated with a view of the Worm Hill, and a woodcut\nof the knight thrusting his sword with great _nonchalance_ down the\nthroat of the Worme. Only 150 copies of the _Garland_ were printed.\n\nW.N.\n\n\n_Shakspeare's Will_ (Vol. i., pp. 213, 386, 403, 461, and 469.).--I\nfear if I were to adopt Mr. Bolton Corney's _tone_, we should\ndegenerate into polemics. I will therefore only reply to his\nquestion, \"_Have_ I wholly mistaken the whole _affair_?\" by one\nword, \"_Undoubtedly_.\" The question raised was on an Irish edition of\nMalone's _Shakspeare_. Mr. Bolton Corney reproved the querists for not\nconsulting original sources. It appears that Mr. Bolton Corney had not\nhimself consulted _the edition_ in question; and by his last letter\nI am satisfied that he has not _even yet_ seen it: and it is not\nsurprising if, in these circumstances, he should have \"_mistaken\nthe whole affair_.\" But as my last communication (Vol. i., p. 461.)\nexplains (as I am now satisfied) the blunder and its cause, I may take\nmy leave of the matter, only requesting Mr. Bolton Corney, if he still\ndoubts, to follow his own good precept, and look at _the original\nedition_.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Josias Ibach Stada_ (Vol. i., p. 452.).--In reply to G.E.N., I would\nask, is Mr. Hewitt correct in calling him Stada, an Italian artist?\nI have no hesitation in saying that Stada here is no personal\nappellation at all, but the name of a town. The inscription \"_Fudit\nJosias Ibach Stada Bremensis_\" is to be read, Cast by Josias Ibach,\n_of the town of Stada, in the duchy of Bremen_. All your readers,\nparticularly mercantile, will know the place well enough from the\ndiscussions raised by Mr. Hutt, member for Gateshead, in the House\nof Commons, on the oppressive duties levied there on all vessels and\ntheir cargoes sailing past it up the Elbe; and to the year 1150 it was\nthe capital of an independent graffschaft, when it lapsed to Henry the\nLion.\n\nWILLIAM BELL.\n\n\n_The Temple, or A Temple._--I have had an opportunity of seeing the\nedition of Chaucer referred to by your correspondent P.H.F. (Vol.\ni., p. 420.), and likewise several other black-letter editions (1523,\n1561, 1587, 1598, 1602), and find that they all agree in reading \"the\ntemple,\" which Caxton's edition also adopts. The general reading of\n\"temple\" in the _modern_ editions, naturally induced me to suspect\nthat Tyrwhitt had made the alteration on the authority of the\nmanuscripts of the poem. Of these there are no less than ten in the\nBritish Museum, all of which have been kindly examined for me. One\nof these wants the prologue, and another that part of it in which the\nline occurs; but in _seven_ of the remaining eight, the reading is--\n\n  \"A gentil maunciple was ther of _a_ temple;\"\n\nwhile _one_ only reads \"the temple.\" The question, therefore, is\ninvolved in the same doubt which I at first stated; for the subsequent\nlines quoted by P.H.F. prove nothing more than that the person\ndescribed was a manciple in _some_ place of legal resort, which was\nnot disputed.\n\nEDWARD FOSS.\n\n\n_Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.).--If your Querist regarding a \"Bawn\" will\nlook into Macnevin's _Confiscation of Ulster_ (Duffy: Dublin, 1846,\np. 171. &c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a sort of\ncourt-yard, which might be used on emergency as a fortification\nfor defence. They were constructed either of _lime_ and _stone_, of\n_stone_ and _clay_, or of _sods_, and twelve to fourteen feet high,\nand sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and with the addition of\n\"flankers.\"\n\nW.C. TREVELYAN.\n\n\n\"_Heigh ho! says Rowley_\" (Vol. i., p. 458.).--The burden of \"_Heigh\nho! says Rowley_\" is certainly _older_ than R.S.S. conjectures; I will\nnot say how much, but it occurs in a _jeu d'esprit_ of 1809, on the\ninstallation of Lord Grenville, as Chancellor, at Oxford, as will be\nshown by a stanza cited from memory:--\n\n  \"Mr. Chinnery then, an M.A. of great parts,\n    Sang the praises of Chancellor Grenville.\n  Oh! he pleased all the ladies and tickled their hearts;\n    But, then, we all know he's a Master of Arts,\n          With his rowly powly,\n        Gammon and spinach,\n          Heigh ho! says Rowley.\"\n\nCHETHAMENSIS.\n\nWimpole Street, May 11. 1850.\n\n\n_Arabic Numerals_.--As your correspondent E.V. (Vol. i., p. 230.)\nis desirous of obtaining any instance of Arabic numerals of early\noccurrence, I would refer him, for one at least, to _Notices of the\nCastle and Priory of Castleacre_, by the Rev. J.H. Bloom: London;\nRichardson, 23. Cornhill, 1843. In this work it appears that by the\nacumen of Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rochester, the date 1084 was found\nimpressed in the plaster of the wall of the priory in the following,\nform:--\n\n            1\n          4 x 8\n            0\n\nThe writer then goes on to show, that this was the regular order of\nthe letters to one crossing himself after the Romish fashion.\n\nE.S.T.\n\n\n_Pusan_ (Vol. i., p. 440.)--May not the meaning be a collar in the\nform of a serpent? In the old Roman de Blanchardin is this line:--\n\n    \"Cy guer _pison_ tuit Apolin.\"\n\nCan _Iklynton_ again be the place where such an ornament was made?\nIckleton, in Cambridgeshire, appears to have been of some note in\nformer days, as, according to Lewis's _Topog. Hist._, a nunnery was\nfounded there by Henry II., and a market together with a fair granted\nby Henry III. As it is only five miles from Linton, it may have\nformerly borne the name of Ick-linton.\n\nC.I.R.\n\n\n\"_I'd preach as though_\" (Vol. i., p. 415.).--The lines quoted by\nHenry Martyn are said by Dr. Jenkyn (Introduction to a little vol.\nof selections from Baxter--Nelson's _Puritan Divines_) to be Baxter's\n\"own immortal lines.\" Dr. J. quotes them thus:--\n\n  \"I preached as never sure to preach again,\n  And as a dying man to dying men.\"\n\nED. S. JACKSON.\n\n\nMay 18.\n\n\"_Fools rush in_\" (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The line in Pope,\n\n    \"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread,\"\n\nit has been long ago pointed out, is founded upon that of Shakspeare,\n\n    \"For wrens make wing where eagles dare not perch.\"\n\nI know not why that line of Pope is in your correspondent's list. It\nis not a proverb.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon_ (Vol. i., p. 351.)--It seems\nvain to inquire who the persons were of whom stories were told in\nmedieval books, as if they were really historical. See the _Gesta\nRomanorum_, for instance: or consider who the Greek king Aulix was,\nhaving dealings with the king of Syria, in the 7th Story of the\n_Novelle Antiche_. The passage in the sermon about a Greek king, seems\nplainly to be still part of the extract from the _Liber Decalogorum_,\nbeing in Latin. This book was perhaps the _Dialogi decem_, put into\nprint at Cologne in 1472: Brunet.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Earwig_ (Vol. i., p. 383.).--This insect is very destructive to the\npetals of some kinds of delicate flowers. May it not have acquired the\ntitle of \"couchbell\" from its habit of couching or concealing itself\nfor rest at night and security from small birds, of which it is a\nfavourite food, in the pendent blossoms of bell-shaped flowers? This\nhabit is often fatal to it in the gardens of cottagers, who entrap it\nby means of a lobster's claw suspended on an upright stick.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Earwig_ (Vol. i., p. 383.).--In the north of England the earwig is\ncalled _twitchbell_. I know not whether your correspondent is in error\nas to its being called in Scotland the \"coach-bell.\" I cannot afford\nany explanation to either of these names.\n\nG. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON.\n\n\n_Sir R. Haigh's Letter-book_ (Vol. i, p. 463.).--This is incorrect; no\nsuch person is known. The baronet intended is _Sir Roger Bradshaigh,\nof Haigh_; a very well-known person, whose funeral sermon was\npreached by Wroe, the warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, locally\nremembered as \"silver-mouthed Wroe.\"\n\nThis name is correctly given in Puttick and Simpson's Catalogue of\na Miscellaneous Sale on April 15, and it is to be _hoped_ that Sir\nRoger's collection of letters, ranging from 1662 to 1676, _may have_\nfallen into the hands of the noble earl who represents him, the\npresent proprietor of Haigh.\n\nCHETHAMENSIS.\n\n\n_Marescautia_ (Vol. i., p. 94.).--Your correspondent requests\nsome information as to the meaning of the word \"marescautia.\"\n_Mareschaucie_, in old French, means a stable. Pasquier (_Recherches\nde la France_, l. viii. ch. 2.) says,--\n\n    \"Pausanias disoit que Mark apud Celtas signifioit un cheual\n    ... je vous diray qu'en ancien langage allemant Mark se\n    prenoit pour un cheual.\"\n\nIn ch. 54. he refers to another etymolygy of \"marechal,\" from\n\"maire,\" or \"maistre,\" and \"cheval,\" \"comme si on les eust voulu dire\nmaistre de la cheualerie.\" \"Marechal\" still signifies \"a farrier.\"\n_Marechaussee_ was the term applied down to the Revolution to the\njurisdiction of Nosseigneurs les Marechaux de France, whose orders\nwere enforced by a company of horse that patrolled the _high_ways,\nla _chaussee_, generally raised above the level of the surrounding\ncountry. Froissart applies the term to the Marshalsea prison in\nLondon. In D.S.'s first entry there may, perhaps, be some allusion\nto another meaning of the word, namely, that of \"_march_, limit,\nboundary.\"\n\nWhat the nature of the tenure per serjentiam marescautiae may be I am\nnot prepared to say. May it not have had some reference to the support\nof the royal stud?\n\nJ.B.D.\n\n\n_Memoirs of an American Lady_ (Vol. i., p. 335.).--If this work cannot\nnow be got it is a great pity,--it ought to go down to posterity; a\nmore valuable or interesting account of a particular state of society\nnow quite extinct, can hardly be found. Instead of saying that \"it is\nthe work of Mrs. Grant, the author of this and that,\" I should say of\nher other books that they were written by the author of the _Memoirs\nof an American Lady_. The character of the individual lady, her way\nof keeping house on a large scale, the state of the domestic slaves,\nthreatened, as the only known punishment and most terrible to them,\nwith being sold to Jamaica; the customs of the young men at Albany,\ntheir adventurous outset in life, their practice of robbing one\nanother in joke (like a curious story at Venice, in the story-book\ncalled _Il Peccarone_, and having some connection with the stories of\nthe Spartan and Circassian youth), with much of natural scenery, are\ntold without pretension of style; but unluckily there is too much\ninterspersed relating to the author herself, then quite young.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Poem by Sir E. Dyer_ (Vol. i., p. 355.).--\"My mind to me,\" &c.\nNeither the births of Breton nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known;\nnor, consequently, how much older the one was than the other. Mr. S.,\nI conclude, could not mean much older than Breton's tract, mentioned\nin Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's _Helicon_. The\nballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas more than the present copy, and\none stanza less. Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is,\nmore probable than the new ones.\n\n  \"I see how plenty _surfeits_ oft.\"--_P._\n                       suffers.--_Var._\n\n  \"I grudge not at another's _gain_\".--_P._\n                                pain.--_Var._\n\n  \"No worldly _wave_ my mind can toss.\"--_P._\n                wants.--_Var._\n\nThese seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions.\n\n  \"I brook that is another's pain.\"--_P._\n  \"My state at one doth still remain.\"--_Var._\n\nProbably altered on account of the slight obscurity; and possibly a\ndifferent edition by the author himself.\n\n  \"They beg, I give,\n  They lack, I _lend_.\"--_P._\n                leave.--_Var._\n\nIn this verse,\n\n  \"I fear no foe, I _scorn_ no friend.\"--_P._\n                       fawn.--_Var._\n\nI think the new copy better.\n\n  \"To none of these I yield as thrall,\n  For why my mind _despiseth_ all.\"--_P._\n                   doth serve for.--_Var._\n\nThe var. much better.\n\nIn this--\n\n  \"I never seek by bribes to please,\n  Nor by _dessert_ to give offence.\"--_P._\n             deceit.--_Var._\n\nI cannot understand either.\n\nSo very beautiful and popular a song it would be well worth getting in\nthe true version.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Monumental Brasses_.--In reply to S.S.S. (Vol. i., p. 405.), I beg to\ninform him that the \"small dog with a collar and bells\" is a device of\nvery common occurrence on brasses of the fifteenth and latter part of\nthe fourteenth centuries. The Rev. C. Boutell's _Monumental Brasses of\nEngland_ contains engravings of no less than twenty-three on which it\nis to be found; as well as two examples without the usual appendages\nof collar, &c. In addition to these, the same work contains etchings\nof the following brasses:--Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain\ncollars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon.,\n1403. Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs with collars and\nbells at her feet.\n\nThe same peculiarities are exemplified on brasses at Harpham, York.,\n1420; and Spilsby, Lincoln., 1391. I will not further multiply\ninstances, as my own collection of rubbings would enable me to do. I\nshould, however, observe, that the hypothesis of S.S.S. (as to \"these\nfigures\" being \"the private mark of the artist\") is untenable: since\nthe twenty-three examples above alluded to are scattered over sixteen\ndifferent counties, as distant from each other as Yorkshire and\nSussex. Two examples are well known, in which the dog so represented\nwas a favourite animal:--Deerhurst, Gloc., 1400, with the name,\n\"Terri,\" inscribed; and Ingham, Norfolk, 1438, with the name \"Jakke.\"\nThis latter brass is now lost, but an impression is preserved in the\nBritish Museum. The customary explanation seems to me sufficient: that\nthe dog was intended to symbolise the fidelity and attachment of the\nlady to her lord and master, as the lion at _his_ feet represented his\ncourage and noble qualities.\n\nW. SPARROW SIMPSON.\n\nQueen's College, Cambridge, April 22. 1850.\n\n\n_Fenkle Street_.--A street so called in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lying in\na part of the town formerly much occupied by garden ground, and _in\nthe immediate vicinity of the house of the Dominican Friars there_.\nAlso, a way or passage inside the town wall, and leading between that\nfortification and the _house of the Carmelites or White Friars_, was\nanciently called by the same name. The name of _Fenkle_ or _Finkle\nStreet_ occurs in several old towns in the North, as Alnwick,\nRichmond, York, Kendal, &c. _Fenol_ and _finugl_, as also _finul_, are\nSaxon words for _fennel_; which, it is very probable, has in some way\nor other given rise to this name. May not the _monastic institutions_\nhave used fennel extensively in their culinary preparations, and thus\nplanted it in so great quantities as to have induced the naming of\nlocalities therefrom? I remember a portion of the ramparts of the\ntown used to be called _Wormwood Hill_, from a like circumstance. In\nHawkesworth's _Voyages_, ii. 8., I find it stated that the town of\nFunchala, on the island of Madeira, derives its name from _Funcko_,\nthe Portuguese name for _fennel_, which grows in great plenty upon the\nneighbouring rocks. The priory of Finchale (from _Finkel_), upon the\nWear, probably has a similar origin; _sed qu._\n\nG. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON.\n\nNewcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850.\n\n\n_Christian Captives_ (Vol. i., p. 441.)--In reply to your\ncorrespondent R.W.B., I find in the papers published by the Norfolk\nand Norwich Archaeological Society, vol. i. p. 98., the following\nentries extracted from the Parish Registers of Great Dunham,\nNorfolk:--\n\n  \"December, 1670.\n                                             L  s. d.\nCollected for the redemption of y'e English\n  Captives out of Turkish bondage            04 05 06\n\nFeb. 13. p'd the same to M'r. Swift, Minister\n  of Milcham, by the Bhps appointm't.\n\n  October, 1680.\nCollected towards the redemption of English\n  Captives out of their slavery and\n  bondage in Algiers                          3 16  0\n\nWhich sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar under Dr.\nConnant, Archdeacon of Norwich, Octr. 2d. 1680.\"\n\nProbably similar entries will be found in other registers of the same\ndate, as the collections appear to have been made by special mandate,\nand paid into the hands of the proper authorities.\n\nE.S.T.\n\n\n_Passage in Gibbon_ (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The passage in Gibbon I\nshould have thought was well known to be taken from what Clarendon\nsays of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says in his preface to\n_Hampden's Life_ had before been said of Cinna. Gibbon must either\nhave meant to put inverted commas, or at least to have intended to\ntake nobody in.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)--_La fameuse_ La Galisse is an\nerror. The French pleasantly records the exploits of the celebrated\n_Monsieur_ de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter poems are\nborrowed from the French.\n\nC.\n\n\n_Sapcote Motto_ (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.).--Taking for granted that\nsolutions of the \"Sapcote Motto\" are scarce, I send you what seems to\nme something nearer the truth than the arbitrary and unsatisfactory\ntranslation of T.C. (Vol. i, p. 476.).\n\nThe motto stands thus:--\n\n  \"sco toot x vinic [or umic]\n      x poncs.\"\n\nAdopting T.C.'s suggestion that the initial and final _s_ are mere\nflourishes (though that makes little difference), and also his\nsupposition that _c_ may have been used for _s_, and as I fancy, not\nunreasonably conjecturing that the x is intended for _dis_, which\nis something like the pronunciation of the numeral X, we may then\ntake the _entire_ motto, without garbling it, and have sounds\nrepresenting _que toute disunis dispenses_; which, grammatically and\northographically corrected, would read literally \"all disunions cost,\"\nor \"destroy,\" the equivalent of our \"Union is strength.\" The motto,\nwith the arms, three dove-cotes, is admirably suggestive of family\nunion.\n\nW.C.\n\n\n_Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston_ (Vol. i., p. 382.).--These lines\nhave also been attributed to Mason.\n\nS.S.S.\n\n\n_Shipster_ (Vol. i., p. 339.).--That \"ster\" is a feminine termination\nis the notion of Tyrwhitt in a note upon Hoppesteris in a passage of\nChaucer (_Knight's Tale_, l. 2019.); but to ignorant persons it seems\nnot very probable. \"Maltster,\" surely, is not feminine, still less\n\"whipster;\" \"dempster,\" Scotch, is a judge. Sempstress has another\ntermination on purpose to make it feminine.\n\nI wish we had a dictionary, like that of Hoogeven for Greek, arranging\nwords according to their terminations.\n\nC.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nMISCELLANIES.\n\n\n_Blue Boar Inn, Holborn_.--The reviewer in the last \"Quarterly\" of Mr.\nCunningham's _Handbook for London_, makes an error in reference to the\nextract from Morrice's _Life of Lord Orrery_, given by Mr. Cunningham\nunder the head of \"Blue Boar Inn, Holborn,\" and transcribed by the\nreviewer (_Qu. Rev._ vol. lxxxvi., p. 474.). Morrice, Lord Orrery's\nbiographer, relates a story which he says Lord Orrery had told him,\nthat he had been told by Cromwell and Ireton of their intercepting a\nletter from Charles I. to his wife, which was sewn up in the skirt\nof a saddle. The story may or may not be true; this authority for it\nis not first-rate. The Quarterly reviewer, in transcribing from Mr.\nCunningham's book the passage in Morrice's _Life of Lord Orrery_,\nintroduces it by saying,--\"Cromwell, in a letter to Lord Broghill,\nnarrates circumstantially how he and Ireton intercept, &c.\" This is\na mistake; there is no letter from Cromwell to Lord Broghill on the\nsubject. (Lord Broghill was Earl of Orrery after the Restoration.)\nSuch a letter would be excellent authority for the story. The mistake,\nwhich is the Quarterly reviewer's, and not Mr. Cunningham's, is of\nsome importance.\n\nC.H.\n\n\n_Lady Morgan and Curry_.--An anecdote in the last number of the\n_Quarterly Review_, p. 477., \"this is the first set down you have\ngiven me to-day,\" reminds me of an incident in Dublin society\nsome quarter of a century ago or more. The good-humoured and\naccomplished--Curry (shame to me to have forgotten his christened name\nfor the moment!) had been engaged in a contest of wit with Lady Morgan\nand another female _celebrite_, in which Curry had rather the worst\nof it. It was the fashion then for ladies to wear very short sleeves;\nand Lady Morgan, albeit not a young woman, with true provincial\nexaggeration, wore none, a mere strap over her shoulders. Curry was\nwalking away from her little coterie, when she called out, \"Ah! come\nback Mr. Curry, and acknowledge that you are fairly beaten.\" \"At any\nrate,\" said he, turning round, \"I have this consolation, you can't\nlaugh at me in your sleeve!\"\n\nSCOTUS.\n\n\n_Sir Walter Scott and Erasmus_.--Has it yet been noticed that the\npicture of German manners in the middle ages given by Sir W. Scott, in\nhis _Anne of Geierstein_ (chap. xix.), is taken (in some parts almost\nverbally) from Erasmus' dialogue, _Diversoria_? Although Sir Walter\nmentions Erasmus at the beginning of the chapter, he is totally silent\nas to any hints he may have got from him; neither do the notes to my\ncopy of his works at all allude to this circumstance.\n\nW.G.S.\n\n\n_Parallel Passages_.--A correspondent in Vol. i., p. 330, quoted some\nparallels to a passage in Shakspeare's _Julius Caesar_. Will you allow\nme to add another, I think even more striking than those he cited. The\nfull passage in Shakspeare is,\n\n  \"There is a tide in the affairs of man,\n  Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.\n  Omitted, all the voyage of their lives\n  Is bound in shallows and in miseries.\"\n\nIn Bacon's _Advancement of Learning_, book 2, occurs the following:--\n\n    \"In the third place, I set down reputation because of the\n    peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, if they be not\n    taken in due time, are seldom recovered, it being extreme hard\n    to play an after game of reputation.\"\n\nE.L.N.\n\n\n_Gray's Ode_.--In return for the information about Gray's _Ode_, I\nsend an entertaining and very characteristic circumstance told in Mrs.\nBigg's (anonymous) _Residence in France_ (edited by Gifford):--\n\n    \"She had a copy of Gray when she was arrested in the Reign\n    of Terror. The Jacobins who searched her goods lighted on the\n    line--\n\n      'Oh, tu severi religio loci,'\n\n    and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de\n    fanatique.'\"\n\nMy informant tells me that the monk he saw was the same as the one\nmentioned by your correspondent, and that he had a motto from Lord\nBacon over his cell.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_The Grand Style_.--Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte\nplagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from\nthe pyramids from these lines of Lucan?--\n\n    \"_Saecula_ Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, _Attendunt,\n    oevumque sequens speculatur_ ab omni Orbe ratem.\"--_Phars._\n    viii. 622.\n\nOne of the recent French revolutionists (I think Rollin) compared\nhimself with the victim of Calvary. Even this profane rant is a\nplagiarism. Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican party\nagainst the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and\nthose of his fellow-conspirators, \"should accompany them _even to\nCalvary_, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them\nto shame.\"--_Mignet's French Revolution_, chap. xii.\n\nJ.F. BOYES.\n\n\n_Hoppesteris_.--The \"shippis _hoppesteris_,\" in Chaucer's _Knight's\nTale_, 2019., is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean _dancing_, and that in\nthe feminine--a very odd epithet. He tells us that the corresponding\nepithet in Boccaccio is _bellatrici_. I have no doubt that Chaucer\nmistook it for _ballatrici_.\n\nC.B.\n\n\n_Sheridan's Last Residence_ (Vol. i., p. 484.).--I wonder at any doubt\nabout poor Sheridan's having died in his own house, 17. Saville Row.\nHis remains, indeed, were removed (I believe for prudential reasons\nwhich I need not specify) to Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great George\nStreet; but he was never more than a temporary, though frequent\nvisitor at Mr. Moore's.\n\nC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.\n\n\nThe Devices and Mottoes of the later Middle Ages (_Die Devisen und\nMotto des Spaeteren Mittelalters, von J.V. Radowitz_), just imported\nby Messrs. Williams and Norgate, is one of those little volumes which\nsuch of our readers as are interested in the subject to which it\nrelates should make a note of. They will, in addition to many novel\ninstances of Devices, Mottoes, Emblems, &c., find much curious\nlearning upon the subjects, and many useful bibliographical\nreferences.\n\nMessrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson still sell, on Saturday next, the very\nbeautiful collection of Oriental Manuscripts of the late Dr. Scott;\non Monday and Tuesday, his Medical Library; on Wednesday, his\nvaluable Collection of Music; and on Thursday, his Philosophical and\nMathematical Instruments, Fire-arms, and other miscellaneous objects\nof interest.\n\nWe have received the following catalogues:--John Petheram's (94. High\nHolborn) Catalogue, Part CXII., No. 6. for 1850 of Old and New Books;\nW.S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Fifty-Seventh\nCatalogue of Cheap Second-hand Books, English and Foreign; James\nSage's (4. Newman's Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Miscellaneous List of\nValuable and Interesting Books; Edward Stibbs' (331. Strand) Catalogue\nof Miscellaneous Collection of Books, comprising Voyages, Travels,\nBiography, History, Poetry, Drama, &c.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nNOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\n\nINDEX AND TITLE-PAGE TO VOLUME THE FIRST. _The Index is preparing as\nrapidly as can be, consistently with fullness and accuracy, and we\nhope to have that and the Title page ready by the 15th of the Month._\n\n_Covers for the First Volume are preparing, and will be ready for\nSubscribers with the Title-Page and Index._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nNEW WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nI.\n\nMEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO (1440 to 1630). By JAMES DENNISTOUN, of\nDennistoun. With numerous Portraits, Plates, Facsimiles, and Woodcuts.\n3 vols. square crown 8vo. 2l. 8s.\n\n\nII.\n\nSIR ROGER DE COVERLEY. From \"The Spectator\". With Notes, &c., by W.H.\nWILLIS and Twelve fine Woodcuts from drawings by F. TAYLER. Crown 8vo.\n15s.; morocco, 27s.\n\n\nIII.\n\nMrs. JAMESON'S SACRED and LEGENDARY ART or, LEGENDS of the SAINTS\nand MARTYRS. New Edition, complete in One Volume with Etchings by the\nAuthor, and Woodcuts. Square crown 8vo. 28s.\n\n\nIV.\n\nMrs. JAMESON'S LEGENDS OF THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS, as represented in\nthe Fine Arts. With Etchings by the Author, and Woodcuts. Square crown\n8vo. 28s.\n\n\nV.\n\nTHE CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS: a Description of the Primitive Church of\nRome. BY CHARLES MAITLAND. New Edition, with Woodcuts. 8vo. 14s.\n\n\nVI.\n\nMr. MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Accession of James II. New\nEdition. Vols. I. and II. 8vo. 32s.\n\n\nVII.\n\nJOHN COAD'S MEMORANDUM of the SUFFERINGS of the REBELS sentenced to\nTransportation by Judge Jeffreys. Square fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.\n\n\nVIII.\n\nAN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES. Intended as a Companion to\nthe History of England. BY JAMES ECCLESTON. With many Wood Engravings.\n8vo. 12s.\n\n\nIX.\n\nMr. A. 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C.C.\nSOUTHEY, M.A., with Portraits and Landscape Illustrations. 6 vols.\npost 8vo. 63s.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLONDON:\n\nLONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.\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, June 8. 1850.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":13507}