{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_23225/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_23225","id":"gutenberg_23225","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23225","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: History - Other","Category: Journals","Category: Language & Communication","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Poetry","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images\ngenerously made available by The Internet Library of Early\nJournals.)\n\n\n\n\n\n{217} NOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo. 73.]\nSATURDAY, MARCH 22. 1851.\n[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n                                                             Page\n  Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments   217\n\n  NOTES:--\n  On the Word \"Rack\" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by\n  Samuel Hickson                                              218\n  Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie     219\n  Folk-Lore:--Moths called Souls--Holy Water for\n  Hooping Cough--Daffy Down Dilly                             220\n  Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to\n  Mesmerism                                                   220\n  Minor Notes:--Original Warrant--Gloves--Prince\n  Rupert--Inscription on a Gun--Richard III.--Lines\n  by Pope--Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to\n  Scotland--Snail-eating                                      220\n\n  QUERIES:--\n  Henry Smith, by T. M'Calmont                                222\n  Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill--\n  Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A\n  Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's\n  Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter\n  of James II.--Going the Whole Hog--Innocent\n  Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of \"Slums\"--\n  Bartolus' \"Learned Man Defended and Reformed\"--\n  Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs                   222\n  MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by\n  Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--\"Drink\n  up Eisell\"                                                  224\n\n  REPLIES:--\n  Scandal against Queen Elizabeth                             225\n  The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c.             226\n  Universality of the Maxim, \"Lavor come se tu,\" &c.,\n  by S. W. Singer                                             226\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam--\n  Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's\n  MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland--\n  Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish\n  Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham--\n  Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama\n  Beads--\"Language given to Men,\" &c.--Daresbury,\n  the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage\n  in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces--\n  Library of the Church of Westminster, &c.                   227\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                      230\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                231\n  Notices to Correspondents                                   231\n  Advertisements                                              231\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS.\n\nWhen, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the\nattention of our readers to the _Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral_, we\nexpressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby\nrendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would\nbe so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the same useful field.\nThat hope bids fair to be fully realised. In Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed\na letter from MR. PEACOCK, announcing his intention of copying the\ninscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and\nwe this week present our readers with three fresh communications upon the\nsubject.\n\nWe give precedence to MISS BOCKETT'S, inasmuch as it involves no general\nproposal upon the subject, but is merely expressive of that lady's\nwillingness, in which we have no doubt she will be followed by many of her\ncountrywomen to help forward the good work.\n\n    In your Number for Feb. 15th, I find MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun., of\n    Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, wishes to collect church\n    memorials for work he intends to publish. If he would like the accounts\n    of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of Reading, as far as I am\n    able it would give me pleasure to send some to him.\n\n    JULIA R. BOCKETT.\n\n    Southcote Lodge, near Reading.\n\nThe second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a\n_Monumenta Anglicana_ by MR. DUNKIN,--a plan which would have our hearty\nconcurrence and recommendation, if it were at all practicable; but which,\nit will be seen at a glance, must fail from its very vastness. If the\n_Monumentarium of Exeter_ contains the material for half a moderate-sized\noctavo volume, in what number of volumes does MR. DUNKIN propose to\ncomplete his collection--even if a want of purchasers of the early volumes\ndid not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned scheme?\n\n    Your correspondent MR. EDW. PEACOCK, Jun, may be interested in knowing\n    that a work has some time been projected by my friend Mr. Alfred John\n    Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian learning render him\n    well fitted for the task), under the title of _Monumenta Anglicana_,\n    and which is intended to be a medium for preserving the inscriptions in\n    every church in the kingdom. There can be no doubt of the high value\n    and utility of such a work, especially if accompanied by a\n    well-arranged index of names; and I have no doubt MR. PEACOCK, and\n    indeed many others of your valued correspondents, will be induced to\n    {218} assist in the good cause, by sending memoranda of inscriptions to\n    Mr. Dunkin.\n\n    L. J.\n\n    Plymouth.\n\nThe following letter from the REV. E. S. TAYLOR proposes a Society for the\npurpose:--\n\n    I for one shall be happy to co-operate with MR. PEACOCK in this useful\n    work; and I trust that, through the valuable medium of \"NOTES AND\n    QUERIES,\" many will be induced to offer their assistance. Could not a\n    Society be formed for the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might\n    take place?\n\n    E. S. TAYLOR.\n\n    Martham, Norfolk.\n\nWe doubt the necessity, and indeed the advisability, of the formation of\nany such Society.\n\nMR. PEACOCK (_ante_., p. 117.) has already wisely suggested, that \"in time\na copy of every inscription in every church in England might be ready for\nreference in our National Library,\" and we have as little doubt that the\nMS. department of the British Museum is the proper place of deposit for\nsuch records, as that the trustees would willingly accept the charge of\nthem on the recommendation of their present able and active Keeper of the\nManuscripts. What he, and what the trustees would require, would be some\nsecurity that the documents were what they professed to be; and this might\nvery properly be accomplished through the agency of such a Society as MR.\nTAYLOR proposes, if there did not already exist a Society upon whom such a\nduty might very safely be devolved:--and have we not, in the greater energy\nwhich that Society has lately displayed, evidence that it would undertake a\nduty for which it seems pre-eminently fitted? We allude to the Society of\nAntiquaries. The anxiety of Lord Mahon, its president, to promote the\nefficiency of that Society, has recently been made evident in many ways;\nand we cannot doubt that he would sanction the formation of a sub-committee\nfor the purpose of assisting in collecting and preserving a record of all\nexisting monuments, or that he would find a lack of able men to serve on\nsuch a committee, when he numbers among the official or active Fellows of\nthe Society gentlemen so peculiarly fitted to carry out this important\nnational object, as Mr. Hunter, Sir Charles Young, Mr. J. Payne Collier,\nand Mr. Bruce.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotes.\n\nON THE WORD \"RACK\" IN SHAKSPEARE'S TEMPEST.\n\nAs another illustration of the careless or superficial manner in which the\nmeaning of Shakspeare has been sought, allow me to call attention to the\ncelebrated passage in the _Tempest_ in which the word \"rack\" occurs. The\npassage really presents no difficulty; and the meaning of the word, as it\nappears to me, might as well be settled at once and for ever. I make this\nassertion, not dogmatically, but with the view of testing the correctness\nof my opinion, that this is not at all a question of etymology, but\nentirely one of construction. The passage reads as follows:--\n\n                 \"These, our actors,\n  As I foretold you, were all spirits, and\n  Are melted into air, into thin air:\n  And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision,\n  The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,\n  The solemn temples, the great globe itself,\n  Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;\n  And, like this insubstantial pageant, faded,\n  Leave not a rack behind.\"--_Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1.\n\nAs I have expressed my opinion that this is not at all a question of\netymology, I shall not say more in reference to this view of the case than\nthat \"rack,\" spelt as in Shakspeare, is a word in popular and every-day use\nin the phrase \"rack and ruin;\" that we have it in the term \"rack off,\" as\napplied to wine, meaning _to take from the rack_, or, in other words, \"to\nleave a rack\" or _refuse_ \"behind,\" racked wine being wine drawn from the\nlees; and that it is, I believe, still in use in parts of England, meaning\n_remains_ or _refuse_, as, in the low German, \"der Wraek\" means the same\nthing. Misled, however, by an unusual mode of spelling, and unacquainted\nwith the literature of Shakspeare's age, certain of the commentators\nsuggested the readings of _track_ and _trace_; whereupon Horne Tooke\nremarks:--\n\n    \"The ignorance and presumption of his commentators have shamefully\n    disfigured Shakspeare's text. The first folio, notwithstanding some few\n    palpable misprints, requires none of their alterations. Had they\n    understood English as well as he did, they would not have quarrelled\n    with his language.\"--_Diversions of Purley_, p. 595.\n\nHe proceeds to show that _rack_ \"is merely the past tense, and therefore\npast participle, [reac] or [rec], of the Anglo-Saxon verb Recan,\n_exhalare_, to _reek_;\" and although the advocates of its being a\nparticular description of light cloud refer to him as an authority for\ntheir reading, he treats it throughout generally as \"a vapour, a steam, or\nan exhalation.\" But Horne Tooke, in his zeal as an etymologist, forgot\naltogether to attend to the construction of the passage. What is it that\nshall \"leave not a rack behind?\" A rack of what? Not of the baseless fabric\nof this vision, like which the \"cloud-capp'd towers shall dissolve,\"--not\nof this insubstantial pageant, like which they shall have faded,--but of\n\"the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the\ngreat globe itself.\" There is in fact a double comparison; but the\nconstruction and the meaning are perfectly clear, and no word will suit the\npassage but one that shall express a result common {219} to the different\nobjects enumerated. A cloud may be a fit object for comparison, but it is\nutterly inconsequential; while the sense required can only be expressed by\na general term, such as _remains_, a _vestige_, or a _trace_.\n\nI beg now to transcribe a note Of Mr. Collier's on this passage:--\n\n    \"'Rack' is vapour, from _reck_, as Horne Tooke showed; and the light\n    clouds on the face of heaven are the 'rack,' or vapour from the earth.\n    The word 'rack' was often used in this way.\"--Coll. _Shaksp._, vol. i.\n    p. 70.\n\nMr. Knight appears to incline to the same view; and regarding these as the\ntwo latest authorities, and finding in neither of them any reference to the\nquestion of construction, I naturally concluded that the point had been\noverlooked by the commentators. On reference, however, I found to my\nsurprise, that Malone, for the very same reasons, had come to the same\nconclusion. Had Malone's argument been briefly stated by the \"two latest\nand best editors,\" I should, of course, have had no occasion to trouble you\nwith this note: and this instance, it appears to me, furnishes additional\nreasons for enforcing the principle for which I am contending; the neglect\nof it affecting, in however slight a degree, the sense or correctness of so\nimportant and frequently quoted a passage. For my own part, I should have\nthought that the commonest faith in Shakspeare would have protected any\neditor, whose avowed object it was to restore the text, from preferring in\nthis instance, to the plain common sense of Malone, the more showy\nauthority of Horne Tooke.\n\nIn my last paper I wrote,--\"So far as quantity is concerned, to eat a\ncrocodile would be _no_ more than to eat an ox.\" You have omitted the\nnegative.\n\nSAMUEL HICKSON.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANCIENT INEDITED POEMS, NO. III.\n\nIn my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange\ntitle given to the monody on Mr. Browne. May I ask if the name of \"Chorus\"\nwas thus indiscriminately applied at the time when the poem was composed?\n\nThe next poem that I shall give is copied from _Harleian MSS._, 367., art.\n60., fol. 158. It is entitled--\n\n     \"A VERTUOUS WOMAN.\n\n \"When painted vice fils upp the rimes\n  Of these our last depraued times:\n  And soe much lust by wanton layes\n  Dispersed is; that beautie strayes\n  Into darke corners wheere vnseen,                              5\n  Too many sadd berefts haue been.\n  Aduance my muse to blaze[1] that face\n  Wheere beautie sits enthroand in grace.\n  The eye though bright, and quicke to moue,\n  Daignes not a cast to wanton loue.                            10\n  A comely ffront not husht in hayre,\n  Nor face be-patcht to make it fayre.\n  The lipps and cheekes though seemely redd,\n  Doe blush afresh if by them fedd.\n  Some wanton youthes doe gaze too much                         15\n  Though naked breasts are hidd from touch.\n  When due salutes are past, they shunn\n  A seconde kisse: yea, half vndone\n  Shee thinkes herselfe, when wantons praise\n  Her hande or face with such loose phraise                     20\n  As they haue learnt at acts and scenes,\n  Noe hand in hand with them shee meenes,\n  Shall giue them boldnes to embalme,\n  Ther filthie fist in her chast palme.\n  Her pretious honners overlookes,                              25\n  At her retires the best of bookes.\n  Whatsoeuer else shee doth forget\n  Noe busines shall her prayers[2] let.\n  Those that bee good, shee prizes most,\n  Noe time with them shee counteth lost.                        30\n  Her chast delights, her mind, aduance\n  Above Lot-games or mixed dance.\n  Shee cares not for an enterlude,\n  Or idly will one day conclude.\n  The looser toungs that filth disclose                         35\n  Are graueolencie to her nose.\n  But when a vertuous man shall court\n  Her virgin thoughts in nuptiall sort:\n  Her faire depor[t]ment, neyther coy\n  Nor yet too forward, fits his ioy,                            40\n  And giues his kisses leaue to seale\n  On her fayre hand his faythfull zeale.\n  Blest is his conquest in her loue,\n  With her alone death cann remoue.\n  And if before shee did adorne                                 45\n  Her parents' howse, the cheerefull morne\n  Reioyceth now at this blest payre,\n  To see a wife soe chast soe fayre.\n  They happy liue; and know noe smart\n  Of base suspects or iealous heart;                            50\n  And if the publike bredd noe feare,\n  Nor sadd alarms did fill ther care,\n  From goodnes flowes ther ioy soe cleere\n  As grace beginnes ther heauen heere.\"\n\nThe poem has no subscription, nor, from the appearance of the paper, should\nI say there had been one. The comparatively modern phraseology points to a\nlate era. The poem is bound up with a quantity of John Stowe's papers, and\nI think is in his handwriting, upon comparing it with other papers known to\nbe his in the same book. As it is my chief object (next to contributing to\nthe preservation and publication of these ancient ballads) to obtain data\nregarding the anonymous productions of the earlier days of England's\nliterature, any remarks, allow me to say, that other contributors will\nfavour our {220} medium of intercommunication with, will be much\nappreciated by\n\nKENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.\n\n    [Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in supposing this poem to be\n    in Stowe's handwriting. We have the best possible authority for\n    assuring him that it is not.]\n\n[Footnote 1: _Blason_, describe.]\n\n[Footnote 2: We have here an instance of the use of the word _prayers_ as a\ndissyllable.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Moths called Souls._--While I am upon this subject, I may as well mention\nthat in Yorkshire the country-people used in my youth, and perhaps do\nstill, call night-flying white moths, especially the _Hepialus humuli_,\nwhich feeds, while in the grub state, on the roots of docks and other\ncoarse plants, \"souls.\" Have we not in all this a remnant of \"Psyche?\"\n\nF. S.\n\n    [This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coincidence with the\n    tradition from the neighbourhood of Truro (recorded by MR. THOMS in his\n    Folk lore of Shakspeare, _Athenaeum_ (No. 1041.) Oct. 9. 1847) which\n    gives the name of _Piskeys_ both to the _fairies_ and to _moths_, which\n    are believed by many to be _departed souls_.]\n\n_Holy Water for the Hooping Cough_ (vol. iii., p. 179.).--In one of the\nprincipal towns of Yorkshire, half a century ago, it was the practice for\npersons in a respectable class of life to take their children, when\nafflicted with the hooping cough, to a neighbouring convent, where the\npriest allowed them to drink a small quantity of holy water out of a silver\nchalice, which the little sufferers were strictly forbidden to touch. By\nProtestant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, this was regarded as a\nremedy. Is not the superstition analogous to that noticed by MR. WAY?\n\nEBORACOMB.\n\n_Daffy Down Dilly._--At this season, when the early spring flowers are\nshowing themselves, we hear the village children repeating these lines:--\n\n \"Daff a down dill has now come to town,\n  In a yellow petticoat and a green gown.\"\n\nDoes not this nursery rhyme throw light upon the character of the royal\nvisitor alluded to in the snail charm recorded by F. J. H. (p. 179.)?\n\nEBORACOMB.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDR. MAITLAND'S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM.\n\nI know more than one person who would second the request that I am about to\nmake through \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" to DR. MAITLAND, that he would publish the\nremaining parts of his _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism_:\nhe would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit\nby them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some\nuse. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or no\nthey may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is impossible to\nridicule any longer. DR. MAITLAND has suggested the true course of thought\nupon the subject, and promised to lead us along it; but it is impossible at\npresent to use anything that he has said, on account of its incompleteness.\nIn tracing the subject through history, DR. MAITLAND would no doubt mention\nthe \"[Greek: Omphalopsuchoi], or Umbilicani,\" of the fourteenth century,\nwhose practices make a page (609.) of Waddington's _History of the Church_\nread like a sketch of Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in\nWashington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, a belief somewhat similar to theirs\nis stated to have been preached in the seventh century (_Bohn's Reprint in\nShilling Series_, p. 191.) by a certain Moseilma, a false prophet.\n\nI may add that Miss Martineau's new book, _Letters of the Development of\nMan's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau_, which cannot be called sceptical,\nfor its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my writing\nto-day.\n\nA. L. R.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Original Warrant._--The following warrant from the original in the\nSurrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as bearing\nupon more than one Query that has appeared in your columns:--\n\n    \"Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath\n    heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her\n    Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of the\n    Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought\n    more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore\n    shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the\n    Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of\n    London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for\n    her M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your\n    warrant.\n\n     \"From the court at\n         \"Oatlands this 29\n             \"of September, 1602.\n                 \"RO. CECYLL.\n\n       \"To Mr. Anthony Deeringe,\n     \"Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London.\"\n\n\n\n    \"2. October, 1602.\n\n    \"I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and\n    have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr.\n    Secretary above expressed.\n\n    \"RIC. LONDON.\"\n\nL. B. L.\n\n_Gloves.--Prince Rupert._--In your First Vol., pp. 72. 405., and in other\nplaces in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to the presentation of\n_gloves_. If what is contained in the following {221} paper be not\ngenerally known, it may claim an interest with some of your readers:--\n\n    \"At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present\n\n      The Kings most excellent Majesty,\n        His Highness _Prince Rupert_,\n        Lord Archbp. of Canterbury,\"\n      [with twelve others, who are named.]\n\n    \"Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of all\n    [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came to\n    the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w^{ch} amounted to a great\n    Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His Ma^{tie}\n    this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was thereupon\n    pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be no such\n    distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord B[~p]\n    before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of 50l. to be\n    employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.\n    And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord Archb[~p] of\n    Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he hath paid\n    the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50l. for the use aforesaid, and produced a Receipt\n    for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for Rebuilding the said\n    Church for the time being, w^{ch} as it is a pious work, so will it be\n    some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard the Expense of Gloves did\n    usually farr exceed that Sum.\n\n    \"PHI. LLOYD.\"\n\n    _Tanner's MSS._ vol. 282. 112. al. 74.\n\nOne of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices of\n_Prince Rupert_ posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention made of\nhim in this paper, _Echard_ speaks of his having the command of one\nsquadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war.\n\nJ. SANSOM.\n\n_Inscription on a Gun_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your notes on \"the Potter's\nand Shepherd's Keepsakes\" remind me of an old gun, often handled by me in\nmy youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick was _en-nailed_:--\n\n \"Of all the sports as is,\n    I fancies most a gun;\n  And, after my decease,\n    I leaves this to my son.\"\n\nWhether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors' Commons,\nI know not.\n\nC. W. B.\n\n_Richard III._ (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).--The statement by MR. HARRISON,\nthat Richard was not a \"hunchback,\" is curiously \"backed\" by an ingenious\nconjecture of that very remarkable man, Doctor John Wallis of Oxford, in\nhis _Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae_, first published in 1653. The passage\noccurs in the 2d section of chapter 14, \"De Etymologia.\" Wallis is treating\nof the words _crook_, _crouch_, _cross_, &c., and says:\n\n    \"Hinc item _croisado_ de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod vocant)\n    sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui a tergo\n    gestabant formam Crucis; et _Richardus_ olim Rex Angliae dicebatur\n    _crouch-backed_, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod a tergo\n    gestare gestiebat formam Crucis.\"\n\nG. F. G.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n_Lines by Pope._--On the back of a letter in my possession, written by the\npoet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of his friend\nMason:--\n\n             \"_By Mr. Pope._\n\n     \"Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine,\n      To Painter Kent gave all this coin.\n     'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say,\n      That ever Churchman gave to Lay.\"\n\n    \"Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. Wood to Kent: he had\n    objected against the word _pio_ in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph.\"\n\nIf these lines are not already in print, perhaps you will insert them\namongst your \"NOTES\" as a contribution from\n\nROBERT HOTCHKIN.\n\nThimbleby Rectory, March 13. 1851.\n\n_Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in connexion with Scotland._--John Lesley,\nbishop of Ross, reports, that in the night before the battle between\nAthelstan, king of England, and Hungus, king of the Picts, a bright cross,\nlike that whereon St. Andrew suffered, appeared to Hungus, who, having\nobtained the victory, ever after bore that figure. This happened in 819.\nVide _Gent. Mag._ for Nov. 1732.\n\nE. S. T.\n\n_Snail-eating_ (Vol. iii., p. 207.).--Your correspondent C. W. B. does not\nseem to be aware that \"a ragout of boror (snails)\" is a regular dish with\nEnglish _gypsies_. Vide Borrow's _Zincali_, part i. c. v.\n\nHe has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks on the subject:\n\n    \"Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the land of Gorgios\n    (England), or the Busne (Spain), that the very gypsies, who consider a\n    ragout of snails a delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it\n    bears a resemblance to a snake; and that those who will feast on a\n    roasted hedgehog could be induced by no money to taste a squirrel!\"\n\nHaving tasted of roasted hotchiwitchu (hedgehog) myself among the \"gentle\nRommanys,\" I can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and though a ragout\nof snails was never offered for my acceptance, I do not think that those\nwho consider (as most \"Gorgios\" do) stewed eels a delicacy ought to be too\nsever on \"Limacotrophists!\"\n\nHERMES.\n\n_Snail-eating._--Perhaps you will permit me to remark, in reference to the\ncommunication of C. W. B., that snails are taken medicinally occasionally,\nand are supposed to be extremely strengthening. I have known them eagerly\nsought after for the meal of a consumptive patient. As a matter of taste,\ntoo, they are by {222} some considered quite epicurean. A gentleman whom I\nused to know, was in the constant habit as he passed through the fields, of\npicking up the white slugs that lay in his way, and swallowing them with\nmore relish than he would have done had they been oysters.\n\nThat snails make a no inconsiderable item in the bill of fare of gypsies,\nand other wanderers, I proved while at Oxford, some time ago; for passing\nup Shotover Hill, in the parish of Headington, I unexpectedly came upon a\ncamp of gypsies who were seated round a wood fire enjoying their Sunday's\ndinner: this consisted of a considerable number of large snails roasted on\nthe embers, and potatoes similarly cooked. On inquiry, I was told by those\nwho were enjoying their repast, that they were extremely good, and were\nmuch liked by people of their class, who made a constant practice of eating\nthem. I need hardly say that I received a most hospitable invitation to\njoin in the feast, which I certainly declined.\n\nL. J.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nHENRY SMITH.\n\nIn Marsden's _History of the Early Puritans_ (a work recently published,\nwhich will well repay perusal) there occurs (pp. 178, 179.) the following\nnotice of Henry Smith:--\n\n    \"Henry Smith was a person of good family, and well connected; but\n    having some scruples, he declined preferment, and aspired to nothing\n    higher than the weekly Lectureship of St. Clement Danes. On a complaint\n    made by Bishop Aylmer, Whitgift suspended him, and silenced for a while\n    probably the most eloquent preacher in Europe. His contemporaries named\n    him the Chrysostom of England. His church was crowded to excess; and\n    amongst his hearers, persons of the highest rank, and those of the most\n    cultivated and fastidious judgment, were content to stand in the throng\n    of citizens. His sermons and treatises were soon to be found in the\n    hands of every person of taste and piety: they passed through\n    numberless editions. Some of them were carried abroad, and translated\n    into Latin. They were still admired and read at the close of nearly a\n    century, when Fuller collected and republished them. Probably the prose\n    writing of this, the richest period of genuine English literature,\n    contains nothing finer than some of his sermons. They are free, to an\n    astonishing degree, from the besetting vices of his age--vulgarity, and\n    quaintness, and affected learning; and he was one of the first English\n    preachers who, without submitting to the trammels of a pedantic logic,\n    conveyed in language nervous, pure, and beautiful, the most convincing\n    arguments in the most lucid order, and made them the ground-work of\n    fervent and impassioned addresses to the conscience.\"\n\nWould it not be desirable, as well in a literary as a theological point of\nview, that any extant sermons of so renowned a divine should be made\naccessible to general readers? At present they are too rare and expensive\nto be largely useful. A brief _Narrative of the Life and Death of Mr. Henry\nSmith_ (as it is for substance related by Mr. Thomas Fuller in his _Church\nHistory_), which is prefixed to an old edition (1643) of his sermons in my\npossession, concludes in these words:--\n\n    \"The wonder of this excellent man's worth is increased by the\n    consideration of his tender age, he dying very young (of a consumption\n    as it is conceived) above fifty years since, about Anno 1600.\"\n\nTHOS. M^CCALMONT.\n\nHighfield, Southampton.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Owen Glendower._--Some of your Cambrian correspondents might, through your\ncolumns, supply a curious and interesting desideratum in historical\ngenealogy, by contributing a pedigree, authenticated as far as practicable\nby dates and authorities, and including collaterals, of OWEN GLENDOWER,\nfrom his ancestor Griffith Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, son of Madoc, last\nPrince of Powys, to the extinction of Owen's male line.\n\nAll Cambrian authorities are, I believe, agreed in attributing to Owen the\nlineal male representation of the sovereigns of Powys; but I am not aware\nthat there is any printed pedigree establishing in detail, on authentic\ndate, his descent, and that of the collaterals of his line; while\nuncertainty would seem to exist as to one of the links in the chain of\ndeduction, as to the fate of his sons and their descendants, if any, as\nwell as to the marriages and representatives of more than one of his\ndaughters.\n\nI have in vain looked for the particulars I have indicated in Yorke's\n_Royal Tribes of Wales_; in the _Welsh Heraldic Visitation Pedigrees_,\nlately published by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the learned editorship of\nthe late Sir Samuel Meyrick; and in the valuable contributions to the\ngenealogy of the Principality to be found in the _Landed Gentry_ and the\n_Peerage and Baronetage_ of Mr. Burke,--a pedigree, in other respects\nadmirable, in the _Landed Gentry_ of a branch of the dynasty of Powys,\nomitting the intermediate descents in question.\n\nS. M.\n\n_Meaning of Gig-Hill._--Can any of your readers favour me with an\nexplanation of the following matter in local topography? There are two\nplaces in the neighbourhood of Kingston-on-Thames distinguished by the name\nof _Gig-Hill_[3], although there is no indication of anything in the land\nto warrant the name.\n\n{223}\n\nAre there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment by the\nstocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name?\n\nThere was a king of Brittany who resigned his crown, and obtained the\nhonours of canonisation as Saint Giguel, in the seventh century. St. Giles,\nwho died about the sixth century, might, perhaps, have had some connexion\nwith those who are traditionally believed to have been punished on the\nspot; that is, if we judge by his clients, who locate themselves under the\nsanctity of his name as a \"Guild\" or fraternity in London.\n\nThere is, however, a curious use by Shakspeare of the word gig. It occurs\nin _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc. I.:\n\nHolofernes says,\n\n    \"What is the figure?\"\n\n    _Moth._ Horns.\n\n    _Holofernes._ Thou disputest like an infant. Go, whip thy gig.\"\n\nI submit this matter, as local names have often their origin in religious\nassociations or in proverbial philosophy.\n\nIt has been suggested that _giggle_, as a mark of the derision to which the\nculprit was exposed, might so become corrupted.\n\nIf the term be connected with the punishment, it would be, doubtless, one\nof general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully\nreceived.\n\nK.\n\n[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston\nto Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]]\n\n_Sir John Vaughan._--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton of\nHackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of October, in\nthe second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus Hamilton, he is\ndescribed as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by Sidney, daughter and\nheiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said Dame Sidney Hamilton\nwas descended from an honourable line of ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will\nSidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of the same name Comptroller\nof the Household to Henry VIII., &c., &c.\n\nCan any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir John\nVaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys of\nPenshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any such\nmarriage?\n\nThe arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of Hamilton\nand Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron sable between\nthree infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each entwined round the neck\nwith a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his descent from the Vaughans\nof Porthaml Tretower, &c., in the county of Brecon.\n\nJ. P. O.\n\n_Quebecca and his Epitaph._--\n\n    \"Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.\n    When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will\n    say to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John\n    Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.'\"\n\nCan any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and where\nthe epitaph may be found?\n\nE. HAILSTURE.\n\n_A Monumental Inscription._--Near the chancel door of the parish-church of\nWath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab inscribed to the memory\nof William Burroughs. After stating that he was of Masbro', gentleman, and\nthat he died in the year 1722, the monument contains the two following\nhexameters:--\n\n \"Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus,\n  Deposuit cineres, animam revocabit Olympus.\"\n\nThe meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words \"Orthodoxus\nItermus:\" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel translated.\nIt has been conjectured that _Itermus_ must be derived from _iter_, and\nhence that Burroughs may have been a _traveller_, or possibly _an orthodox\nitinerant preacher_: surely there can be no punning reference to _a\njourneyman_! The lines have been submitted, in vain, to some high literati\nin Oxford.\n\nA. G.\n\nEcclesfield.\n\n_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I._ (Vol. iii., p. 157.).--My\nfriend, who is in possession of the original MS. of this work, is desirous\nof ascertaining whether the volume published in 1702 be a complete and\nexact copy of it. I will transcribe the commencing and concluding passages\nof the MS., and shall be obliged if MR. BOLTON CORNEY will compare them\nwith the book in his possession, and tell me the result.\n\n    \"S^r,\n\n    \"By your's of the 22d of August last, I find you have receaved my\n    former letters of the first and thirteenth of May, 1678; and seeing\n    'tis your further desire,\" &c.\n\n    \"This briefe narrative shall conclude with the king's owne excellent\n    expression: _Crowns and kingdoms are not so valuable as my honour and\n    reputation--those must have a period with my life; but these survive to\n    a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone: a good name\n    being the embalming of princes, and a sweet consecrating of them to an\n    eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity._\"\n\nThe present owner of the MS. has an idea that an incorrect copy was\nfraudulently obtained and published about 1813. Is there any foundation for\nthis supposition?\n\nALFRED GATTY.\n\nEcclesfield.\n\n_Comets._--Where may a correct list of the several comets and eclipses,\nvisible in France or England, which appeared, or took place, between the\nyears 1066 and 1600, be obtained?\n\nS. P. O. R.\n\n{224}\n\n_Natural Daughter of James II._--James II., in _Souverains du Monde_ (4\nvols. 1722), is stated to have had a natural daughter, who in 1706 was\nmarried to the Duke of Buckingham.\n\nCan any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of her\nmother? Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her husband,\nand of any children?\n\nF. B. RELTON.\n\n_Going the Whole Hog._--What is the origin of the expression \"going the\nwhole hog?\" Did it take its rise from Cowper's fable, _the Love of the\nWorld reproved_, in which it is shown how \"Mahometans eat up the hog?\"\n\n[Sigma].\n\n_Innocent Convicts._--Can any of your readers furnish a tolerably complete\nlist of persons convicted and executed in England, for crimes of which it\nafterwards appeared they were innocent?\n\n[Sigma].\n\n_The San Grail._--Can any one learned in ecclesiastical story say what are\nthe authorities for the story that King Arthur sent his knights through\nmany lands in quest of the _sacred vessel_ used by our Blessed Lord at His\n\"Last Supper,\" and explain why this chalice was called the \"Holy Grail\" or\n\"Grayle?\" Tennyson has a short poem on the knightly search after it, called\n\"Sir Galahad.\" And in Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, book ii. cant. x. 53.,\nallusion is made to the legend that \"Joseph of Arimathy brought it to\nBritain.\"\n\nW. M. K.\n\n_Meaning of \"Slums.\"_--In Dr. Wiseman's _Appeal to the Reason and Good\nFeeling of the English People_, we find the word \"slums\" made use of with\nrespect to the purlieus of Westminster Abbey. Warren, in a note of his\nletter on \"The Queen or the Pope?\" asks \"What are 'slums?' And where is the\nword to be found explained? Is it Roman or Spanish? There is none such in\nour language, at least used by gentlemen.\"\n\nI would ask, may not the word be derived from _asylum_, seeing that the\nprecincts of abbeys, &c. used to be an asylum or place of refuge in ancient\ntimes for robbers and murderers?\n\nW. M. W.\n\nStokesley.\n\n_Bartolus' \"Learned Man Defended and Reformed.\"_--Can any one inform the\napplicant in what modern author this excellent (and he believes rare) book\nin his possession, translated from the Italian of Daniel Bartolus, G. J.,\nby (Sir) Thomas Salusbury, 1660, is spoken of in terms of high approval?\nThe passage passed before him not long ago, but having _made no note_, he\nis unable to recover it.--Query, Is it in Mr. Hallam's _Literary History_,\nwhich he has not at hand?\n\nU. Q.\n\n_Odour from the Rainbow._--What English poet is it that embodies the idea\ncontained in the following passage of Bacon's _Sylva_? I had noted it on a\nloose scrap of paper which I left in my copy of the _Sylva_, but have lost\nit:--\n\n    \"It hath been observed by the Ancients, that when a Raine Bow seemeth\n    to hang over or to touch, there breaketh forth a sweet smell. The cause\n    is, for that this happenth but in certain matters which have in\n    themselves some sweetnesse, which the Gentle Dew of the Raine Bow doth\n    draw forth. And the like doe soft showers; for they also make the\n    ground sweet. But none are so delicate as the Dew of the Raine Bow,\n    where it falleth. It may be also that the water itself hath some\n    sweetnesse: for the Raine Bow consisteth of a glomeration of small\n    drops which cannot possibly fall but from the Aire that is very low.\n    And therefore may hold giving sweetnesse of the herbs and flowers, as a\n    distilled water,\" &c.--Bacon's _Sylva_, by Rawley, 6th ed. 1651, p.\n    176.\n\nJARLTZBERG.\n\n_Tradesmen's Signs._--A CITIZEN wishes to be informed in what year or reign\nthe signs that used to hang over the tradesmen's shop-doors were abolished,\nand whether it was accomplished by \"act of parliament,\" or only \"by the\nauthority of the Lord Mayor.\" Also, whether there is any law now in\nexistence that prevents the tradesmen putting the signs up again, if they\nwere so disposed.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Supporters borne by Commoners._--Can any of your readers state why some\ncommoners bear supporters, and whether the representatives of Bannerets are\nentitled to do so? I find in Burke's _Dictionary of Landed Gentry_, that\nseveral gentlemen in England, Scotland, and Ireland continue to use them.\nSee Fulford, p. 452.; Wyse, p. 1661.; Hay-Newton, p. 552., &c. &c.\n\nThe late Mr. Portman, father of Lord Portman, used supporters, as do Sir W.\nCarew, Bart., and some other baronets.\n\nGUINEGATE.\n\n    [Baronets are not entitled, _as such_, to bear supporters, which are\n    the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders.\n\n    There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the\n    sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of\n    services rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these\n    instances they are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt\n    there are some private families who assume and improperly bear\n    supporters, but whose right to do so, even under their own statements\n    as to origin and descent, has no legal foundation. \"NOTES AND QUERIES\"\n    afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or\n    for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.]\n\n_Answer to Fisher's Relation._--I have a work published at London by Adam\nIslip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears--\n\n    \"An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third {225} Conference\n    betweene a certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference\n    was very private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in\n    many respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B.,\n    Chapleine to the B. that was employed in the conference.\"\n\nPray, who _was_ the chaplain? I have heard he was the after-famous\nArchbishop Laud.\n\nI pray your assistance in the resolution of this Query.\n\nJ. M.\n\nLiverpool.\n\n    [This famous conference was the _third_ held by divines of the Church\n    of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really was:\n    see Dodd's _Church History_, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two were\n    conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held in\n    May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (_i.e._ Dr. Richard\n    Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his chaplain,\n    and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should J. M.\n    possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. Laud\n    says himself, that \"his _Discourse_ was not printed till April, 1624.\"]\n\n_Drink up Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--Here is a passage in _Troilus and\nCressida_, in which _drink up_ occurs (Act IV. Sc. 1.):\n\n \"He, like a puling cuckold, would _drink up_\n  The lees and _dregs_ of a flat-tamed piece.\"\n\nThe meaning is plainly here _avaler_, not _boire_.\n\nHere is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in _Hamlet_,\nbut resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.):\n\n    \"When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers,\n    thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than\n    for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.\"\n\nC. B.\n\n    [We are warned by several correspondents that this subject is becoming\n    as bitter as wormwood to them. Before we dismiss it, however, we must\n    record in our pages the opinion of one of the most distinguished\n    commentators of the day, Mr. Hunter, who in his _New Illustrations_,\n    vol. ii. p. 263., after quoting \"potions of eysell\" from the sonnet,\n    says, \"This shows it was not any river so called, but some desperate\n    drink. The word occurs often in a sense in which _acetum_ is the best\n    representative, associated with verjuice and vinegar. It is the term\n    used for one ingredient of the bitter potion given to our Saviour on\n    the cross, about the composition of which the commentators are greatly\n    divided. Thus the eighth prayer of the Fifteen Oos in the _Salisbury\n    Primer_, 1555, begins thus: 'O Blessed Jesu, sweetness of heart and\n    ghostly pleasure of souls, I beseech thee for the bitterness of the\n    _aysell_ and gall that thou tasted and suffered for me in thy passion,'\n    &c.\"\n\n    Since the above was written, we have received a communication from _An\n    English Mother_ with the words and _music_ of the nursery song, showing\n    that the music does not admit the expressions \"eat _up_,\" and \"drink\n    _up_;\" quoting from Haldorson's _Icelandic Lexicon_, Eysill, m.\n    Haustrum en Ose allsa; and asking what if Shakspeare meant either a\n    pump or a bucket? We have also received a Note from G. F. G. showing\n    that _eisel_ in Dutch, German, and Anglo-Saxon, &c., meant _vinegar_,\n    and stating, that during his residence in Florence in 1817, 1818, and\n    1819, he had often met with wormwood wine at the table of the Italians,\n    a weak white wine of Tuscany, in which wormwood had been infused, which\n    was handed round by the servants immediately after the soup, and was\n    believed to promote digestion.]\n\n_Saxon Coin struck at Derby._--In the reign of Athelstan there was a royal\nmint at Derby, and a coinage was struck, having on the obverse merely the\nname of the town, Deoraby, and on the other side the legend \"HEGENREDES MO\n. ON . DEORABY.\" What is the meaning of this inscription?\n\nR. C. P.\n\nDerby, Feb. 26. 1851.\n\n    [If HEGENREDES is rightly written, it is the name of a moneyer. MO . ON\n    . DEORABY signifies _Monetarius_ (or Moneyer) _in Derby_. Coins are\n    known with MEGENFRED and MEGNEREDTES, and our correspondent may have\n    read his coin wrongly.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nSCANDAL AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH.\n\n(Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197.)\n\nThe Marquis of Ormonde having been informed that certain statements, little\ncomplimentary to the reputation of Queen Elizabeth, and equally\ndiscreditable to the name of his ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, have\nappeared in \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" wherein it is stated \"that the Ormonde\nfamily possess documents which afford proof of this,\" begs to assure the\neditor of the journal in question, that the Ormonde collection of papers,\n&c. contains nothing that bears the slightest reference to the very\ncalumnious attack on the character of good Queen Bess.\n\nHampton Court, March 17. 1851.\n\n    [If the Marquis of Ormonde will do us the favour to refer to our Number\n    for the 8th March (No. 71.), he will find he has not been correctly\n    informed with respect to the article to which his note relates. The\n    family in which the papers are stated to exist, is clearly not that of\n    the noble Marquis, but the family with which our correspondent \"J. BS.\"\n    states himself to be \"connected;\" and we hope J. BS. will, in justice\n    both to himself and to Queen Elizabeth, adopt the course suggested in\n    the following communication. We believe the warmest admirers of that\n    great Queen cannot better vindicate her character than by making a\n    strict inquiry into the grounds for the scandals, which, as has been\n    already shown (_ante_, No. 62. p. 11.), were so industriously\n    circulated against her.]\n\n{226}\n\nJ. BS. says papers are \"said to exist in the family which prove the\nstatement.\" As it is one of _scandal_ against a female, and that female a\ngreat sovereign, should he not ascertain the fact of the existence of any\nsuch paper, before supporting the scandal, and not leave a _tradition_ to\nbe supported by another tradition, when a little trouble might show whether\nany papers exist, and when found what their value may be.\n\nQ. G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE MISTLETOE ON THE OAK.\n\n(Vol. ii., pp. 163. 214.; Vol. iii., p. 192.)\n\nFrom having been a diligent searcher for the mistletoe on the oak, I may be\nallowed to make a few remarks upon the question. Is it ever found now on\nother trees? Now, it not only occurs abundantly on other trees, but it is\nexceedingly rare on the oak. This may be gathered from the following list,\nin which numbers have been used to express comparative frequency, as near\nas my observations enable me to form a judgment:--\n\n  _On Native Trees._\n\n  Apple (various sorts)                                         25\n  Poplar (mostly the black)                                     20\n  Whitethorn                                                    10\n  Lime                                                           4\n  Maple                                                          3\n  Willow                                                         2\n  OAK                                                            1\n\n  _On Foreign Trees._\n\n  Sycamore                                                       1\n  Robinia                                                        1\n\nFrom this it would appear that notwithstanding the BRITISH OAK grows\neverywhere, it is at present only favoured by the companionship of the\nmistletoe in equal ratio with two comparatively recently introduced trees.\nIndeed such objection does this parasite manifest to the brave old tree,\neven in his teens, that, notwithstanding a newly-planted line of mixed\ntrees will become speedily attacked by it, the oak is certain to be left in\nhis pride alone.\n\nI have, however, seen the mistletoe on the oak in two instances during my\nmuch wandering about amid country scenes, especially of Gloucester and\nWorcester, two great mistletoe counties. One was pointed out to me by my\nfriend, Mr. Lees, from whom we may expect much valuable information on this\nsubject, in his forthcoming edition of the _Botanical Looker-out_--it was\non a young tree, perhaps of fifty years, in Eastnor Park, on the Malvern\nchain. The other example is at Frampton-on-Severn, to which the President\nof the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, T. B. L. Baker, Esq., and myself, were\ntaken by Mr. Clifford, of Frampton. The tree is full a century old, and the\nbranch, on which was a goodly bunch of the parasite, numbered somewhere\nabout forty years. That the plant is propagated by seeds there can, I\nthink, be but little doubt, as the seeds are so admirably adapted for the\npeculiar circumstances under which alone they can propagate; and the want\nof attention to the facts connected therewith, is probably the cause why\nthe propagation of the mistletoe by artificial means is usually a failure.\n\nI should be inclined to think that the mistletoe never was abundant on the\noak; so that it may be that additional sanctity was conferred on the\n_Viscum guerneum_ on account of its great rarity.\n\nJAMES BUCKMAN.\n\nCirencester.\n\n_Mistletoe upon Oak_ (Vol. ii., p. 214.).--Besides the mistletoe-bearing\noak mentioned by your correspondent, there is one in Lord Somers' park,\nnear Malvern. It is a very fine plant, though it has been injured by\nsight-seeing marauders.\n\nH. A. B.\n\nTrinity College, Cambridge.\n\n_Mistletoe_ (Vol. ii., pp. 163., 214.).--Do I understand your correspondent\nto ask whether mistletoe is found now except on oaks? The answer is, as at\nSt. Paul's, \"Circumspice.\" Just go into the country a little. The\ndifficulty is generally supposed to be to find it _on_ the oak.\n\nC. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nUNIVERSALITY OF THE MAXIM, \"LAVORA COME SE TU,\" ETC.\n\n(Vol. iii., p. 188.)\n\nI have not been able to trace this sentence to its source, but it would\nmost probably be found in that admirable book, _Monosinii Floris Italicae\nLinguae_, 4to, Venet., 1604; or in Torriano's _Dictionary of Italian\nProverbs and Phrases_, folio, Lond., 1666, a book of which Duplessis doubts\nthe existence! Most of Jeremy Taylor's citations from the Italian are\nproverbial phrases. Your correspondent has probably copied the phrase as it\nstands in Bohn's edition of the _Holy Living and Dying_, but there is a\ntrifling variation as it stands in the first edition of _Holy Living_,\n1650:--\n\n \"Lavora come se tu _havesti_ a campar ogni hora:\n  Adora come se tu _havesti_ a morir _alhora_.\"\n\nThe universality of this maxim, in ages and countries remote from each\nother, is remarkable. Thus we find it in the HITOPADESA:\n\n    \"A wise man should think upon knowledge and wealth as if he were\n    undecaying and immortal. He should practise duty as if he were seized\n    by the hair of his head by Death.\"--Johnson's _Translation_, Intr. S.\n\nSo Democratis of Abdera, more sententiously:\n\n    \"[Greek: Houtos peiro zen, hos kai oligon kai polun chronon\n    biosomenos].\"\n\nThen descending to the fifteenth century, we {227} have it thus in the racy\nold Saxon _Laine Doctrinal_:\n\n \"Men schal leven, unde darumme sorgen,\n  Alse men Staerven sholde morgen,\n  Unde leren ernst liken,\n  Alse men leven sholde ewigliken.\"\n\nWhere the author of the _Voyage autour de ma Chambre_, Jean Xavier Maitre,\nstumbled upon it, or whether it was a spontaneous thought, does not appear;\nbut in his pleasing little book, _Lettres sur la Vieillesse_, we have it\nthus verbatim:\n\n    \"Il faut vivre comme si l'on avoit a mourir demain, mais s'arranger en\n    meme temps sa vie, autant que cet arrangement peut dependre de notre\n    prevoyance, comme si l'on avoit devant soi quelques siecles, et meme\n    une eternite d'existence.\"\n\nSome of your correspondents may possibly be able to indicate other\nrepetitions of this truly \"golden sentence,\" which cannot be too often\nrepeated, for we all know that\n\n \"A verse may reach him who a sermon flies.\"\n\nS. W. SINGER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Tennyson's In Memoriam_ (Vol. iii., p. 142.).--\n\n \"Before the crimson-circled star\n  Had fallen into her father's grave.\"\n\nmeans \"before the planet Venus had sunk into the sea.\"\n\nIn Smith's _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology_, under\nthe word Aphrodite or Venus, we find that--\n\n    \"Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam ([Greek:\n    aphros]) of the sea which had gathered around the mutilated parts of\n    Uranus, that had been thrown into the sea by Kronos, after he had\n    unmanned his father.\"--Hesiod. _Theog._ 190.\n\nThe allusion in the first stanza of _In Memoriam_ is, I think, to Shelley.\nThe doctrine referred to is common to him and many other poets; but he\nperhaps inculcates it more frequently than any other. (See _Queen Mab_ sub\nfinem. _Revolt of Islam_, canto xii. st. 17. _Adonais_, stanzas 39. 41. et\npassim.) Besides this, the phrase \"clear harp\" seems peculiarly applicable\nto Shelley, who is remarkable for the simplicity of his language.\n\nX. Z.\n\n_Tennyson's In Memoriam._--The word _star_ applies in poetry to all the\nheavenly bodies; and therefore, to the _crescent moon_, which is often near\nenough to the sun to be within or to be _encircled_ by, the crimson colour\nof the sky about sunset; and the sun may, figuratively, be called _father_\nof the moon, because he dispenses to her all the light with which she\nshines; and, moreover, because _new_, or waxing moons, must _set_ nearly in\nthe same point of the horizon as the sun; and because that point of the\nhorizon in which a heavenly body sets, may, figuratively, be called its\n_grave_; therefore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of the poem\nnumbered lxxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's _In Memoriam_, quoted by W. B. H.,\nto mean simply--\n\n_We returned home between the hour of sunset and the setting of the moon,\nthen not so much as a week old._\n\nROBERT SNOW.\n\n_Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The Rev.\nCHARLES NEVINSON may be informed that there are two copies of the edition\nof the above work for which he inquires, in the library of Trinity College,\nDublin.\n\nTYRO.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland_ (Vol. iii., p.\n118.).--In reply to the inquiry of EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, that gentleman may\nlearn the extent to which the _Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas\nMachell, who was chaplain to King Charles II._, have been examined, and\npublished, by referring, to Burn and Nicholson's _History of Westmoreland\nand Cumberland_, edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an\naccount of the antiquary's own family, the \"Mali Catuli,\" or Machell's\nLords of Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of\nCarlisle contain only copies and references to the original papers, which\nare carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There\nare above one thousand deeds, charters, and other documents which I have\ncarefully translated and collated with a view to their being printed\nprivately for the use of the family, and I shall feel pleasure in replying\nto any inquiry on the subject. Address:\n\nG.P. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire.\n\nTwo impressions of the seal of the Abbey of Shapp (anciently Hepp), said\nnot to be attainable by the editors of the late splendid edition of the\n_Monasticon_, are preserved in the Machell MSS.\n\n_Oration against Demosthenes_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--For the information of\nyour correspondent KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, I transcribe the title of the\noration against Demosthenes, for which he makes inquiry, which was not\n\"privately printed\" as he supposes, but _published_ last year by Mr. J. W.\nParker.\n\n    \"The Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respecting the Treasure\n    of Harpalus. The Fragments of the Greek Text, now first edited from the\n    Fac-simile of the MS. discovered at Egyptian Thebes in 1847; together\n    with other Fragments of the same Oration cited in Ancient Writers. With\n    a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, and a Fac-simile of a Portion of\n    the MS. By Churchill Babington, M.A. London: J. W. Parker, 1850.\"\n\nThe discovery of the MS. was made by Mr. {228} A. C. Harris of Alexandria,\nwho placed a fac-simile in the hand of Mr. Churchill Babington, who edited\nit as above described.\n\nMy information is derived from an article on the work in the _Christian\nRemembrancer_ for October, 1850, to which I refer MR. MACKENZIE for further\nparticulars.\n\nTYRO.\n\nDublin\n\n    [MR. EDWARD SHEARE JACKSON, B.A., to whom we are indebted for a similar\n    reply, adds, \"Mr. Harris contributed a paper on the MS. to the Royal\n    Society of Literature\"]\n\nMr. Sharpe has also published \"Fragments of Orations in Accusation and\nDefence of Demosthenes, respecting the money of Harpalus, arranged and\ntranslated,\" in the _Journal of the Philological Society_, vol. iv.; and\nthe German scholars Boeckh (in the _Hallische Litteratur-Zeitung_ for 1848)\nand Sauppe have also written critical notices on the fragments; but whether\ntheir notices include the old and new fragments, I am unable to say, having\nonly met with a scanty reference to their learned labours.\n\nJ. M.\n\nOxford.\n\n_Borrow's Danish Ballads_ (Vol. iii., p. 168).--The following is the title\nof Mr. Borrow's book, referred to by BRUNO:--\n\n    \"Targum; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects.\n    By George Borrow. 'The Raven ascended to the Nest of the\n    Nightingale.'--Persian Poem. St. Petersburgh. Printed by Schulz and\n    Beneze. 1835.\"\n\nR. W. F.\n\n_Borrow's Danish Ballads._--The title of the work is--\n\n    \"Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish, and Miscellaneous\n    Pieces; by George Borrow. 8vo. Printed by S. Wilkin, Norwich; and\n    published at London by John Taylor, 1826.\"\n\nIn the preface it is stated that the ballads are translated from\nOehlensloeger, and from the _Kiaempe Viser_, the old Norse book referred to\nin _Lavengro_.\n\n[mu].\n\n_Head of the Saviour_ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The correspondent who inquires\nabout the \"true likeness\" of the Saviour exposed in some of the London\nprint-shops, is not perhaps aware that there is preserved in the church of\nSt. Peter's at Rome a much more precious and genuine portrait than the one\nto which he alludes--a likeness described by its possessors as \"far more\nsublime and venerable than any other, since it was neither painted by the\nhands of men nor angels, but by the divinity himself who makes both men and\nangels.\" It is not delineated upon wood or canvass, ivory, glass, or\nstucco, but upon \"a pocket handkerchief lent him by a holy woman named\nVeronica, to wipe his face upon at the crucifixion\" (Aringhi, _Roma\nSubterran._, vol. ii. p. 543.). When the handkerchief was returned it had\nthis genuine portrait imprinted on its surface. It is now one of the\nholiest of relics preserved in the Vatican basilica, where there is\nlikewise a magnificent altar constructed by Urban VIII., with an\ninscription commemorating the fact, a mosaic above, illustrative of the\nevent, and a statue of the holy female who received the gift, and who is\nvery properly inscribed in the Roman catalogue of saints under the title of\nST. VERONICA. All this is supported by \"pious tradition,\" and attested by\nauthorities of equal value to those which establish the identity of St.\nPeter's chair. The only difficulty in the matter lies in this, that the\nwoman Veronica never had any corporeal existence, being no other than the\nname by which the picture itself was once designated, viz., the VERA ICON,\nor \"True Image\" (Mabillon, _Iter. Ital._, p. 88.). This narrative will\nprobably relieve your correspondent from the trouble of further inquiries\nby enabling him to judge for himself whether \"there is any truth\" about the\nother true image.\n\nA. R., Jun.\n\nIn your 70th Number I perceived that some correspondent asked, \"What is the\ntruth respecting a legend attached to the head of our Saviour for some time\npast in the print-shops?\" I ask the same question. True or false, I found\nin a work entitled _The Antiquarian Repertory_, by Grose, Astle, and\nothers, vol. iii., an effigy of our Saviour, much inferior in all respects\nto the above, with the following attached:--\n\n    \"This present figure is the similitude of our Lord [=IHV], oure Saviour\n    imprinted in amirvld by the predecessors of the greate turke, and sent\n    to the Pope Innosent the 8. at the cost of the greate turke for a token\n    for this cawse, to redeme his brother that was taken presonor.\"\n\nThis was painted on board. The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, of Baynard's Park,\nGuildford, has another painted on board with a like inscription, to the\nbest of my recollection: his has a date on it, I think.\n\nPope Innocent VIII. was created Pope in 1484, and died in 1492.\n\nThe variation in the three effigies is an argument against the truth of the\nstory, or the two on board must have been ill-executed. That in the shops\nis very beautiful.\n\nThe same gentleman possesses a Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and by the\nassignees of John Bill, 1633; and on a slip of paper is, \"Holy Bible\ncuriously bound in tapestry by the nuns of Little Gidding, 12mo., Barker.\"\n\nIn a former Number a person replies that a Bible, bound by the nuns of\nGidding for Charles I., now belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury. Query the\n_size of that_?\n\nE. H.\n\nNorwich, March 9.\n\n{229}\n\n_Lady Bingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--If C. W. B. will refer to the\nsupplementary volume of Burke's _Landed Gentry_, p. 159, he will see that\nSarah, daughter of John Heigham, of Giffords Hall, co. Suffolk (son of\nWilliam Heigham, of Giffords, second son of Clement Heigham, of Giffords,\nsecond son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, co. Suffolk) married, first, Sir\nRichard Bingham, Knt., of Melcombe Bingham, co. Dorset, governor of\nConnaught in 1585, &c.; and secondly, Edward Waldegrave, of Lawford, co.\nEssex. This, I presume, is the lady whose maiden name he enquires for.\n\nC. R. M.\n\n_Shakepeare's Use of Captious_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--In _All's Well that\nEnds Well_, Act I. Sc. 3.:\n\n \"I know I love in vain; strive against hope;\n  Yet in this _captious_ and intenible sieve,\n  I still pour in the waters of my love,\n  And lack not to lose still:\"\n\nhas not MR. SINGER, and all the other commentators upon this passage,\noverlooked a most apparent and satisfactory solution? Is it not evident\nthat the printer simply omitted the vowel \"a,\" and that the word, as\nwritten by Shakespeare, was \"cap_a_tious,\" the \"t,\" according to the\northography of the time, being put for the \"c\" used by modern writers?\n\nWith great deference to former critics, I think this emendation is the most\nprobable, as it accords with the sentiment of Helena, who means to depict\nher _vast_ but unretentive sieve, into which she poured the waters of her\nlove.\n\nW. F. S.\n\nP.S.--I hope MR. SINGER and J. S. W. will tell us what they think of this\nproposed alteration.\n\nBognor, Feb, 22. 1851.\n\n_Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--I would suggest that the \"tanthony\" at\nKimbolton is a corruption or mis-pronunciation of \"tintany,\"\n_tintinnabulum_. I have failed to discover any legend of St. Anthony,\nconfirmatory of ARUN'S suggestion.\n\nA.\n\nNewark, Notts., Feb. 12.\n\n_By the bye_ (Vol. iii., p 73.).--Is your correspondent S. S. not aware\nthat the phrase \"Good bye\" is a contraction of our ancestors' more\ndevotional one of \"God be wi' ye!\"\n\nD. P. W.\n\nRotherhithe, Jan. 21. 1851.\n\n_Lama Beads_ (Vol. iii., p. 115.).--It is a pretty bold assertion that Lama\nbeads are derived from the Lamas of Asia. _Lamma_, according to Jamieson,\nis simply the Scotch for _amber_. He says _Lamertyn steen_ means the same\nin Teutonic. I do not find it in Wachter's _Lexicon_.\n\nYour correspondent's note is a curious instance of the inconvenience of\nhalf quotation. He says the Lamas are an order of priests among the Western\nTartars. I was surprised at this, since their chief strength, as everybody\nknows, is in Thibet. On referring to Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, I found that the\nwords are taken from thence; but they are not wrong there, since, by the\ncontext they have reference to China.\n\nC. B.\n\n_Language given to Men, &c._ (Vol. i., p. 83.).--The saying that language\nwas given to men to conceal their thoughts is generally fathered upon\nTalleyrand at present. I did not know it was in Goldsmith; but the real\nauthor of it was Fontenelle.\n\nC. B.\n\n_Daresbury, the White Chapel of England_ (Vol. iii., p. 60.).--This\n_jeu-d'esprit_ was an after-dinner joke of a learned civilian, not less\ncelebrated for his wit than his book-lore. Some stupid blockhead inserted\nit in the newspapers, and it is now unfortunately chronicled in your\nvaluable work. It is not at all to be wondered at that \"the people in the\nneighbourhood know nothing on the subject.\"\n\nECHO.\n\n_Holland Land_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345.; Vol. iii., pp. 30. 70.).--Were not\nthe Lincolnshire estates of Count Bentinck, a Dutch nobleman who came over\nwith William III., and the ancestor of the late Lord George Bentinck, M.P.\nfor Lynn Regis, denominated _Little Holland_, which he increased by\nreclaiming large portions in the Dutch manner from the Wash?\n\nE. S. TAYLOR.\n\n_Passage in the Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 259, &c.).--I do not profess to\noffer an opinion as to the right reading; but with reference to the\nsuggestion of A. E. B. (p. 338.) that it means--\n\n \"Most busy when least I do it,\"\n\nor--\n\n \"Most busy when least employed,\"\n\nallow me to refer you to the splendid passage in the _De Officiis_, lib.\niii. cap. i., where Cicero expresses the same idea:--\n\n    \"Pub. Scipionem,... eum, qui primus Africanus appellatus sit, dicere\n    solitum scripsit Cato,... _Nunquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum\n    otiosus_; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox, et\n    magno viro, ac sapiente digna; quae declarat, illum et in otio de\n    negotiis cogitare, et in solitudine secum loqui solitum: ut neque\n    cessaret unquam, et interdum colloquio alterius non egeret.\"\n\nACHE.\n\n_Damasked Linen_ (Vol. iii., p. 13.).--I believe it has always been\ncustomary to damask the linen used by our royal family with appropriate\ndevices. I have seen a cloth of Queen Anne's, with the \"A. R.\" in double\ncypher, surrounded by buds and flowers; and have myself a cloth with a view\nof London, and inscribed \"Der Konig Georg II.,\" which was purchased at\nBrentford, no doubt having come from Kew adjoining.\n\nH. W. D.\n\n_Straw Necklaces_ (Vol. ii., p. 511.).--Having only lately read the \"NOTES\nAND QUERIES\" (in fact, this being the first number subscribed for), I do\nnot know the previous allusion. It makes me mention a curious custom at\nCarlisle, of the {230} servants who wish to be hired going into the\nmarketplace of Carlisle, or as they call it \"Carel,\" with a straw in their\nmouths. It is fast passing away, and _now_, instead of keeping the straw\nconstantly in the mouth, they merely put it in a few seconds if they see\nany one looking at them. Anderson, in his _Cumberland Ballads_, alludes to\nthe custom:--\n\n \"At Carel I stuid wi' a strae i' my mouth,\n  The weyves com roun me in clusters:\n 'What weage dus te ax, canny lad?' says yen.\"\n\nH. W. D.\n\n_Library of the Church of Westminster_ (Vol. iii., p. 152.).--The statement\nhere quoted from the _Delices de la Grande Bretagne_ is scarcely likely to\nbe correct. We all know how prone foreigners are to misapprehension, and\ntherefore, how unsafe it is to trust to their observations. In this case,\nmay not the description of the _Bibliotheque Publique_, which was open\nnight and morning, during the sittings of the courts of justice, have\noriginated merely from the rows of booksellers' stalls in Westminster-hall?\n\nJ. G. N.\n\n_The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--Waterland (vol. vi. p. 242.,\n2nd edition, Oxford, 1843) gives a copy of the Decalogue taken from an old\nMS. In this the first two commandments are embodied in one. Leighton, in\nhis _Exposition of the Ten Commandments_, when speaking on the point of the\nmanner of dividing them, refers in a vague manner to Josephus and Philo.\n\nR. V.\n\n_Sitting crosslegged to avert Evil_ (Vol. ii.,p. 407.).--Browne says:--\n\n    \"To set crosselegg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together,\n    is accounted bad, and friends will perswade us from it. The same\n    conceit religiously possessed the ancients, as is observable from\n    Pliny: 'Poplites alternis genibus imponere nefas olim;' and also from\n    Athenaeus, that it was an old veneficious practice.\"--_Vulg. Err._, lib.\n    v. cap. xxi. Sec. 9.\n\nACHE.\n\n_George Steevens_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--A. Z. wishes to know whether a\nmemoir of George Steevens, the Shakspearian commentator, was ever\npublished, and what has become of the manuscripts.\n\nI believe the late Sir James Allen Park wrote his life, but whether for\npublic or private circulation I cannot tell.\n\nThe late George Steevens had a relative, a Mrs. Collinson, and daughters\nwho lived with him at Hampstead, and with him when he died, in Jan. 1800.\nMiss Collinson married a Mr. Pyecroft, whose death, I think, is in the\n_Gentleman's Magazine_ for this month: perhaps the Pyecroft family may give\ninformation respecting the manuscripts.\n\n    \"The house he lived in at Hampstead, called the Upper Flask, was\n    formerly a place of public entertainment near the summit of Hampstead\n    Hill. Here Richardson sends his Clarissa in one of her escapes from\n    Lovelace. Here, too, the celebrated Kit-Cat Club used to meet in the\n    summer months; and here, after it became a private abode, the no less\n    celebrated George Steevens lived and died.\"--Vide Park's _Hampstead_,\n    pp. 250. 352.\n\nI just recollect Mr. Steevens, who was very kind to us, as children. My\nmother, who is an octogenarian, remembers him well, and says he always took\na nosegay, tied to the top of his cane, every day to Sir Joseph Banks.\n\nJULIA R. BOCKETT.\n\nSouthcote Lodge, near Reading.\n\n_The Waistcoat bursted, &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 505.).--The general effect of\nmelancholy: digestion is imperfectly performed, and melancholy patients\ngenerally complain of being \"blown up.\" BODVAR'S \"blowing up,\" on the\ncontrary, is the mere effect of the generation of gases in a dead body,\nwell illustrated by a floating dead dog on the river side, or the bursting\nof a leaden coffin.\n\nH. W. D.\n\n_Love's Labour's Lost_ (Vol. iii., p. 163.).--Your correspondent has very\nneatly and ably made out how the names of the ladies ought to have been\nplaced; but the error is the poet's, not the printer's. It is impossible to\nconceive how, in printing or transcribing, such a mistake should arise; the\nnames are quite unlike, and several lines distant from one another. Such\nforgetfulness is not very uncommon in poets, especially those of the\nquickest and liveliest spirit. It is the old mistake of Bentley and other\ncommentators, to think that whatever is wrong must be spurious. These, too,\nwe must recollect, are fictitious characters.\n\nC. W. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.\n\nAgreeing with Mr. Lower, that they who desire to know the truth as to the\nearlier periods of our national history, will do wisely to search for it\namong the mists and shadows of antiquity, and rather collect it for\nthemselves out of the monkish chronicles than accept the statements of\npopular historiographers, we receive with great satisfaction the addition\nto our present list of translations of such chronicles, which Mr. Lower has\ngiven us in _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from 1066 to 1176, now first\ntranslated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History of the\nEstablishment_. The original Chronicle, which is preserved among the\nCottonian MSS., though known to antiquaries and historians, was never\ncommitted to the press until the year 1846, when it was printed by the\n_Anglia Christiana Society_ from a transcript made by the late Mr. Petrie.\nMr. Lower's translation has been made from that edition; and though\nundertaken by him as an illustration of local history, will be found well\ndeserving the perusal of the general reader, not only from the light it\nthrows upon the Norman invasion and upon the {231} history of the abbey\nfounded by the Conqueror in fulfilment of his vow, but also for the\npictures it exhibits of the state of society during the period which it\nembraces.\n\nBOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Embarrassment of the Clergy in the Matter of Church\nDiscipline._ Two ably written letters by Presbyter Anglicanus, reprinted,\nby request, from the _Morning Post_;--_Ann Ash, or the Foundling_, by the\n_Author of 'Charlie Burton' and 'The Broken Arm.'_ If not quite equal to\n_Charlie Burton_, and there are few children's stories which are so, it is\na tale well calculated to sustain the writer's well-deserved\nreputation;--_Burns and his Biographers, being a Caveat to Cavillers, or an\nEarnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and Calumnies which, for half a\nCentury, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the Tomb of Robert Burns._\n\nMessrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of 93. Wellington Street, Strand, will sell\non Monday next, and five following days, the valuable Library of the late\nMr. Andrews of Bristol, containing, besides a large collection of works of\nhigh character and repute, some valuable Historical, Antiquarian, and\nHeraldic Manuscripts.\n\nCATALOGUES RECEIVED.--John Gray Bell's (17. Bedford Street, Covent Garden)\nCatalogue of Autograph Letters and other Documents; John Alex. Wilson's\n(20. Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen) Catalogue of Cheap Books, many Rare and\nCurious; E. Stibbs' (331. Strand) Catalogue Part III. of Books in all\nLanguages.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nMADAME D'AULNOY'S FAIRY TALES, a small old folio. At the end of the Edition\nsought for, there are some Spanish Romances: it is in one vol.\n\nRURAL WALKS--RAMBLES FARTHER, by Charlotte Smith. 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BELL, Publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotices to Correspondents.\n\n_We are this week compelled by want of room to postpone many interesting\npapers, among which we may mention one by_ LORD BRAYBROOKE _on_ Portraits\nof Distinguished Englishmen, _and one by_ SIR F. MADDEN _on the_ Collection\nof Pictures of Bart. del Nave purchased by Charles I. _Our next Number will\nbe enlarged to 24 pages, so as to include these and many other valuable\ncommunications, which are now waiting for insertion._\n\nLUCIUS QUESTORIUS. _It is obvious that we have no means of explaining the\ndiscrepancy to which our correspondent refers. If we rightly understand his\nquestion, it is one which the publisher alone can answer._\n\nENQUIRER (Milford). _The copy of_ Hudibras _described is worth from fifteen\nto twenty shillings._\n\nW. H. G. _A coin of Aphrodisia in Caria. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, March 22. 1851.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":14337}