{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_27010/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_27010","id":"gutenberg_27010","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27010","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference","Category: History - British","Category: Journals","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","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\nTranscriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they\nare listed at the end of the text.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{509}\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo. 213.]\nSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1853.\n[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                              Page\n\n    The State Prison in the Tower, by William Sidney\n      Gibson                                             509\n    Inedited Letter from Henry VIII. of England to\n      James V. of Scotland, by Thos. Nimmo               510\n    Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, by\n      Bolton Corney                                      511\n\n    FOLK LORE:--Derbyshire Folk Lore--Weather Superstitions\n      --Weather Rhymes, &c.--Folk Lore in\n      Cambridgeshire                                     512\n    Rapping no Novelty, by D. Jardine                    512\n\n    MINOR NOTES:--Bond a Poet--The late Harvest\n      --Misquotation--Epitaph in Ireland--Reynolds\n      (Sir Joshua's) Baptism--Tradescant                 513\n\n  QUERIES:--\n\n    Grammar in relation to Logic, by C. Mansfield Ingleby      514\n    The Coronet [Crown] of Llewelyn ap Griffith, Prince\n      of Wales                                           514\n\n    MINOR QUERIES:--Monumental Brass at Wanlip,\n      co. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in English\n      --Influence of Politics on Fashion--Rev. W. Rondall\n      --Henry, third Earl of Northumberland--\"When we\n      survey,\" &c.--Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson\n      --An Heraldic Query--Osborn filius Herfasti--\n      Jews in China--Derivation of \"Mammet\"--Non-recurring\n      Diseases--Warville--Dr. Doddridge--\n      Pelasgi--Huc's Travels--The Mousehunt--Lockwood,\n      the Court Jester--Right of redeeming Property      515\n\n    MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dictionary of Zingari\n      --Sir Robert Coke--Regium Donum--Who\n      was the Author of \"Jerningham\" and \"Doveton?\"\n      --Alma Mater                                       517\n\n  REPLIES:--\n\n    Alexander Clark                                      517\n    Amcotts Pedigree, by W. S. Hesleden                  518\n    Sir Ralph Winwood, by the Rev. W. Sneyd              519\n    Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. Margollouth, &c.       519\n    On Palindromes, by Charles Reed, &c.                 520\n\n    REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Claymore--\n      Temple Lands in Scotland--Lewis and Sewell\n      Families--Pharaoh's Ring--\"Could we with ink,\"\n      &c.--\"Populus vult decipi\"--Red Hair--\"Land\n      of Green Ginger\"--\"I put a spoke in his wheel\"\n      --Pagoda--Passage in Virgil--To speak in Lute-string\n      --Dog Latin--Longevity--Definition of a\n      Proverb--Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant--Ennui\n      --Belle Sauvage--History of York--Encore--\n      \"Hauling over the Coals\"--The Words \"Cash\"\n      and \"Mob\"--Ampers and--The Keate Family, of\n      the Hoo, Herts--Hour-glasses--Marriage of Cousins\n      --Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle--Marriage Service--\n      Hoby, Family of--Cambridge Graduates--\"I own\n      I like not,\" &c.--\"Topsy Turvy\"--\"When the\n      Maggot bites,\" &c.                                 520\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n    Notes on Books, &c.                                  527\n    Books and Odd Volumes wanted                         528\n    Notices to Correspondents                            528\n    Advertisements                                       528\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotes.\n\nTHE STATE PRISON IN THE TOWER.\n\nA paragraph has lately gone the round of the newspapers, in which, after\nmentioning the alterations recently made in the Beauchamp Tower and the\nopening of its \"written walls\" to public inspection, it is stated that this\nTower was formerly the place of confinement for state prisoners, and that\n\"Sir William Wallace and Queen Anne Boleyn\" were amongst its inmates.\n\nNow, I believe there is no historical authority for saying that \"the\nScottish hero\" was ever confined in the Tower of London; and it seems\ncertain that the unfortunate queen was a prisoner in the royal apartments,\nwhich were in a different part of the fortress. But so many illustrious\npersons are known to have been confined in the Beauchamp Tower, and its\nwalls preserve so many curious inscriptions--the undoubted autographs of\nmany of its unfortunate tenants--that it must always possess great\ninterest.\n\nSpeaking from memory, I cannot say whether the building known as the\nBeauchamp (or Wakefield) Tower was even in existence in the time of Edward\nI.; but my impression is, that its architecture is not of so early a time.\nIt is, I believe, supposed to derive its name from the confinement in it of\nThomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in 1397. Of course it was not the\nonly place of durance of state prisoners, but it was the prison of most of\nthe victims of Tudor cruelty who were confined in the Tower of London; and\nthe walls of the principal chamber which is on the first storey, and was,\nuntil lately, used as a mess-room for the officers, are covered in some\nparts with those curious inscriptions by prisoners which were first\ndescribed in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries in 1796, by the\nRev. J. Brand, and published in the thirteenth volume of _The Archaeologia_.\n\nMr. P. Cunningham, in his excellent _Handbook_, says:\n\n    \"William Wallace was lodged as a prisoner on his first arrival in\n    London in the house of William de Leyre, a citizen, in the parish of\n    All Hallows Staining, at the end of Fenchurch Street.\"\n\n{510}\n\nMr. Cunningham, in his notice of the Tower, mentions Wallace first among\nthe eminent persons who have been confined there. The popular accounts of\nthe Tower do the like. It was about the Feast of the Assumption (Aug. 15)\nthat Wallace was taken and conducted to London; and it seems clear that he\nwas forthwith imprisoned in the citizen's house:\n\n    \"He was lodged,\" says Stow, \"in the house of William Delect, a citizen\n    of London, in Fenchurch Street. On the morrow, being the eve of St.\n    Bartholomew (23rd Aug.), he was brought on horseback to Westminster ...\n    the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London accompanying him; and in\n    the Great Hall at Westminster ... being impeached,\" &c.\n\nThe authorities cited are, Adam Merimuth and Thomas de La More. His\narraignment and condemnation on the Vigil of St. Bartholomew are also\nmentioned by Matthew Westminster, p. 451. Neither these historians, or Stow\nor Holinshed, afford any farther information. The latter chronicler says\nthat Wallace was \"condemned, and thereupon hanged\" (_Chron._, fol., 1586,\nvol. ii. p. 313.). He was executed at Smithfield; and it is not improbable\nthat, if, after his condemnation, he was taken to any place of safe\ncustody, he was lodged in Newgate. The following entry of the expenses of\nthe sheriffs attending his execution is on the Chancellor's Roll of 33 Edw.\nI. in the British Museum:\n\n    \"Et in expen[=s] [=t] misis [=f]cis [crossed p] eos[=d] Vice^{tes}\n    [crossed p] Willo le Walleys Scoto lat^one predone puplico utlagato\n    inimico et rebellione [Rx] qui in contemptu [Rx] [crossed p] Scociam se\n    Regem Scocie falso fec[=a]t n[=o]iare [=t] [=t] ministros [Rx] in\n    [crossed p]t[=i]bus Scocie in[=t]fecit at[crossed q] dux^t excercit[=u]\n    hostili[=t] contr^a Reg[=e] [crossed p] judici[=u] Cu[=r] [Rx] apud\n    West[=m] dist^ahendo suspendendo decollando e[=j] viscera concremando\n    ac e[=j] corpus q^arterando cu[=j] cor[crossed p]is quar[=t]ia ad iiij\n    majores villas Scocie t^asmittebantur hoc anno.... _L_xj s. xd.\"\n\nThe day of the trial, August 23, is generally given the date of his\nexecution. It therefore appears that the formidable Scot never was a\nprisoner in the Tower.\n\nThe unfortunate Queen Anne Boleyn occupied the royal apartments while she\nwas a prisoner in the Tower. From Speed's narrative, it appears that she\ncontinued to occupy them after she was condemned to death. On May 15 (1536)\nshe was (says Stow)\n\n    \"Arraigned in the Tower on a scaffold made for the purpose in the\n    King's Hall; and after her condemnation, she was conveyed to ward\n    again, the Lady Kingston, and the Lady Boloigne her aunt, attending on\n    her.\"\n\nOn May 19, the unfortunate queen was led forth to \"the green by the White\nTower\" and beheaded.\n\nIn the record of her trial before the Duke of Norfolk, Lord High Steward\n(see _Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records_), she is ordered to be\ntaken back to \"the king's prison within the Tower;\" but these are words of\nform. The oral tradition cannot in this case be relied upon, for it pointed\nout the Martin Tower as the place of her imprisonment because, as I\nbelieve, her name was found rudely inscribed upon the wall. The Beauchamp\nTower seems to have been named only because it was the ordinary state\nprison at the time. The narrative quoted by Speed shows, however, that the\nplace of her imprisonment was the queen's lodging, where the fading honours\nof royalty still surrounded Anne Boleyn.\n\nWILLIAM SIDNEY GIBSON.\n\nNewcastle-upon-Tyne.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nINEDITED LETTER FROM HENRY VIII. OF ENGLAND TO JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND.\n\nI lately transcribed several very interesting original manuscripts, chiefly\nof the seventeenth century, but some of an earlier date, and now send you a\nliteral specimen of one evidently belonging to the sixteenth century;\nalthough, notwithstanding the day of the month is given, the year is not.\nIf you think it worthy of a place in your very excellent publication, you\nare quite at liberty to make use of it, and I shall be happy to send you\nsome of the others, if you choose to accept them. They chiefly relate to\nthe period when the Duke of Lauderdale was commissioner for Scotch affairs\nat the English Court; and one appears to be a letter addressed by the\nmembers of the Scottish College at Paris to James I. on the death of his\nmother.\n\nTHOS. NIMMO.\n\n    Right excellent right high and mighty prince, our most dereste brother\n    and nephew, we recommende us unto you in our most hertee and affectuous\n    maner by this berer, your familyar servitor, David Wood. We have not\n    only receyved your most loving and kinde let^s declaring how moch ye\n    tendre and regarde the conservation and mayntennance of good amytie\n    betwene us, roted and grounded as well in proximitie of blood as in the\n    good offices, actes, and doyngs shewed in our partie, whiche ye to our\n    greate comforte afferme and confesse to be daylly more and more in your\n    consideration and remembraunce (but also two caste of fair haukes,\n    whiche presented in your name and sent by youe we take in most\n    thankfull parte), and give youe our most hertie thanks for the same,\n    taking greate comforte and consolacion to perceyve and understande by\n    your said letters, and the credence comitted to your said familyar\n    servitor David Wood, which we have redd and considered (and also send\n    unto youe with these our letters answer unto the same) that ye like a\n    {511} good and uertuous prince, have somoche to herte and mynde the god\n    rule and order uppon the borders (with redresse and reformacion of such\n    attemptats as have been comytted and done in the same), not doubting\n    but if ye for your partie as we intende for ours (doe effectually\n    persiste and contynue in so good and uertuose purpose and intente), not\n    only our realmes and subjectts shall lyue quyetly and peasably without\n    occasion of breche, but also we their heddes and gouernors shall so\n    encrease and augment our syncere love and affec[=o]n as shall be to the\n    indissoluble assurammente of good peace and suretie to the inestimable\n    benefit, wealth, and comoditie of us our realmes and subjectts\n    hereafter.\n\n    Right excellent right high and mightie prynce, our most derest brother\n    and nephew, the blessed Trynytie have you in his government.\n\n    Given under our signet at Yorke place besides Westminster, the 7th day\n    of December.\n\n      Your lovyng brother and uncle,\n          HENRY VIII.\n\n    [This letter, which is not included in the _State Papers_, \"King Henry\n    VIII.,\" published by the Record Commissioners, was probably written on\n    the 7th December, 1524-25, as in the fourth volume of that collection\n    is a letter from Magnus to Wolsey, in which he says, p. 301.: \"Davy\n    Wood came hoome about the same tyme, and sithenne his hider comming\n    hath doone, and continually dooth myche good, making honourable reaport\n    not oonly to the Quenes Grace, but also to all other. He is worthy\n    thankes and gramerces.\" This David Wod, or Wood, was a servant of the\n    queen, Margaret of Scotland.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHANDBOOK TO THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.\n\nIn the _Report_ of the royal commissioners on the British Museum, printed\nin 1850, we read--\n\n    \"We are of opinion that, with reference to such a measure as the one\n    now suggested [giving information to persons at a distance as to the\n    existence of works in the library], and to other measures and\n    regulations generally affecting the use of the library, it is desirable\n    to prepare and publish a compendious _Guide to the reading-room_, as\n    described and _suggested_ by lord Seymour at Q. 9521.\"\n\nThe reference is erroneous. At Q. 9521. there is not a word on the subject!\nAt Q. 9522. we read--\n\n    \"(_Lord Seymour_--to Antonio Panizzi, Esq.) You have heard also _some\n    witnesses_ state that it would be a great advantage to those who\n    frequent the reading-room if they had put into their hands some short\n    printed guide to the reading-room, to tell them what books of reference\n    there were, and to tell them how they were to proceed to get books, and\n    other information, from the want of which they state they have been at\n    a great loss? (_Mr. Panizzi._) I do not believe that it is often the\n    case that persons are at a loss for want of such a guide, but _it might\n    be done_,\" etc.\n\nNow, the suggestion of a _short printed guide to the reading-room_ was\nevidently considered as of some importance. The principle of SUUM CUIQUE is\nalso of some importance. We observe that lord Seymour the examiner ascribes\nthe suggestion to _some witnesses_--but lord Seymour the reporter claims\nthe credit of it for himself! It is the after-thought of his lordship of\nwhich I have to complain.\n\nIf we turn to the evidence, it will appear that Mr. Peter Cunningham\nsuggested a printed \"catalogue of the books in the reading-room,\" Q.\n4800.--I must now speak of myself. When summoned before the commissioners\nas a witness, I took with me the printed _Directions respecting the\nreading-room_ for the express purpose of pointing out their inconsistency\nand insufficiency, and of advocating the preparation of a guide-book.\n\nI cannot repeat my arguments. It would occupy too much space. I can only\nrefer to the questions 6106-6116. The substance is this:--I contended that\nevery person admitted to the reading-room should be furnished with\ninstructions _how to proceed_--instructions as to the _catalogues which he\nshould consult_--and instructions for _asking for the books_. On that\nevidence rests my claim to the credit of having suggested a _Guide to the\nreading-room_. Its validity shall be left to the decision of those who\nvenerate the motto of Tom Hearne--SUUM CUIQUE.\n\nThe trustees of the British Museum seem to have paid no attention to the\nrecommendation of the royal commissioners. They issue the same _Directions_\nas before. _After_ you have obtained admission to the reading-room, you are\nfurnished with instructions as to the mode of obtaining it!--but you have\nno guide to the numerous catalogues.\n\nWhat Mr. Antonio Panizzi, the keeper of the department of printed books,\nsays _might be done_, Mr. Richard Sims, of the department of manuscripts,\nsays _shall be done_. His _Handbook to the library of the British Museum_\nis a very comprehensive and instructive volume. It is a triumphant\nrefutation of the opinions of those who, to the vast injury of literature,\nand serious inconvenience of men of letters, slight common sense and real\nutility in favour of visionary schemes and pedantic elaboration.\n\nThere is no want of precedents for a work of this class, either abroad or\nat home. As to the public library at Paris--I observe, in my own small\ncollection, an _Essai historique sur la bibliotheque du roi_, par M. le\nPrince; a _Histoire du cabinet des medailles_, par M. Marion du Mersan; a\n_Notice des estampes_, par M. Duchesne, &c.\n\nFor a precedent at home, I shall refer to the _Synopsis of the contents of\nthe British Museum_. The _first_ edition of that interesting work, with the\n{512} valued autograph of _G. Shaw_, is now before me. It is dated in 1808.\nI have also the _sixtieth_ edition, printed in this year. I cannot expect\nto see a sixtieth edition of the _Handbook_, but it deserves to be placed\nby the side of the _Synopsis_, and I venture to predict for it a wide\ncirculation.\n\nBOLTON CORNEY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Derbyshire Folk Lore._--Many years ago I learned the following verses in\nDerbyshire, with reference to magpies:\n\n \"One is a sign of sorrow; two are a sign of mirth;\n  Three are a sign of a wedding; and four a sign of a birth.\"\n\nThe opinion that a swarm of bees settling on a dead tree forebodes a death\nin the family also prevails in Derbyshire.\n\nIn that county also there is an opinion that a dog howling before a house\nis an indication that some one is dying within the house; and I remember an\ninstance where, as I heard at the time, a dog continued howling in a street\nin front of a house in which a lady was dying.\n\nIt is also a prevalent notion that if the sun shines through the\napple-trees on Christmas Day, there will be an abundant crop the following\nyear.\n\nI never heard the croaking of a raven or carrion crow mentioned as an\nindication of anything, which is very remarkable, as well on account of its\nill-omened sound, as because it was so much noticed by the Romans.\n\nS. G. C.\n\n_Weather Superstitions._--If it rains much during the twelve days after\nChristmas Day, it will be a wet year. So say the country people.\n\n\"If there is anything in this, 1853 will be a wet year, for it has rained\n_every_ day of the twelve.\" So wrote I under date January 9.\n\nNo one, I think, will deny that for once the shaft has hit the mark.\n\nR. C. WARDE.\n\nKidderminster.\n\n_Weather Rhymes, &c._--The following are very common in Northamptonshire:\n\n \"Rain before seven,\n  Fine before eleven.\"\n\n \"Fine on Friday, fine on Sunday.\n  Wet on Friday, wet on Sunday.\"\n\n \"The wind blows cold\n  On Burton Hold (Wold).\n    Can you spell _that_ with four letters?\n    I can spell _it_ with two.\"\n\nBurton Hold, or Wold, is near Burton Latimer.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire_ (Vol. viii., p. 382.).--The custom referred\nto by MR. MIDDLETON, of ringing the church bell early in the morning for\nthe gleaners to repair to the fields, and again in the evening for their\nreturn home, is still kept up not only at Hildersham, but also in most of\nthe villages in this neighbourhood. I have heard this \"gleaners' bell\"\nseveral times during this present autumn; the object of course being to\ngive all parties a fair and equal chance. Upon one occasion, where the\nvillages lie rather close together, I heard four of these bells sounding\ntheir recall from different church towers; and as I was upon an eminence\nfrom whence I could see the different groups wending their way to their\nrespective villages, it formed one of the most striking pastoral pictures I\nhave ever witnessed, such, perhaps, as England alone can furnish.\n\nNORRIS DECK.\n\nCambridge.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRAPPING NO NOVELTY.\n\nIt may be interesting to the believers in modern miracles to learn that at\nall events \"rapping\" is no new thing. I now send you the account of an\nincident in the sixteenth century, which bears a strong resemblance to some\nof those veracious narrations which have enlightened mankind in the\nnineteenth century.\n\nRushton Hall, near Kettering in Northamptonshire, was long the residence of\nthe ancient and distinguished family of Treshams. In the reign of Queen\nElizabeth, the mansion was occupied by Sir Thomas Tresham, who was a pedant\nand a fanatic; but who was an important character in his time by reason of\nhis great wealth and powerful connexions. There is a lodge at Rushton,\nsituate about half a mile from the old hall, now in ruins; but covered all\nover, within and without, with emblems of the Trinity. This lodge is known\nto have been built by Sir Thomas Tresham; but his precise motive for\nselecting this mode of illustrating his favourite doctrine was unknown\nuntil it appeared from a letter written by himself about the year 1584, and\ndiscovered in a bundle of books and papers inclosed, since 1605, in a wall\nin the old mansion, and brought to light about twenty years ago. The\nfollowing relation of a \"rapping\" or \"knocking\" is extracted from this\nletter:\n\n    \"If it be demanded why I labour so much in the Trinity and Passion of\n    Christ to depaint in this chamber, this is the principal instance\n    thereof; That at my last being hither committed[1], and I usually\n    having my servants here allowed me, to read nightly an hour to me after\n    supper, it fortuned that Fulcis, my then servant, reading in the\n    _Christian Resolution_, in the treatise of _Proof that there is a God,\n    &c._, there was upon a wainscot table at that instant three loud knocks\n    {513} (as if it had been with an iron hammer) given; to the great\n    amazing of me and my two servants, Fulcis and Nilkton.\"\n\nD. JARDINE.\n\n[Footnote 1: This refers to his commitments for recusancy, which had been\nfrequent.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Bond a Poet, 1642, O.S._--In the _Perfect Diurnall_, March 29, 1642, we\nhave the following curious notice:\n\n    \"Upon the meeting of the House of Lords, there was complaint made\n    against one Bond, a poet, for making a scandalous letter in the queen's\n    name, sent from the Hague to the king at York. The said Bond attended\n    upon order, and was examined, and found a delinquent; upon which they\n    voted him to stand in the pillory several market days in the new Palace\n    (Yard), Westminster, and other places, and committed him to the\n    Gatehouse, besides a long imprisonment during the pleasure of the\n    house: and they farther ordered that as many of the said letter as\n    could be found should be burnt.\"\n\nHis recantation, which he afterwards made, is in the British Museum.\n\nE. G. BALLARD.\n\n_The late Harvest._--In connexion with the present late and disastrous\nharvest, permit me to contribute a distich current, as an old farmer\nobserved to-day, \"when I was a boy:\"\n\n \"When we carry wheat o' the fourteenth of October,\n  Then every man goeth home sober.\"\n\nMeaning that the prospect of the \"yield\" was not good enough to permit the\nlabourers to get drunk upon it.\n\nR. C. WARDE.\n\nKidderminster.\n\n_Misquotation._--In an article entitled \"Popular Ballads of the English\nPeasantry,\" a correspondent of \"N. & Q.\" (Vol. v., p. 603.) quotes as \"that\nspirit-stirring stanza of _immortal John_,\" the lines:\n\n \"Jesus, the name high over all,\" &c.\n\nThese lines were not written by _John_, but by _Charles Wesley_. Here is\nthe proof:\n\n1st. A hymn of which the stanza quoted is the first, appears (p. 40.) in\nthe _Collection of Hymns_ published by John Wesley in 1779; but in the\npreface he says, \"but a small part of these hymns are of my own composing.\"\n\n2nd. In his _Plain Account of Christian Perfection_, he says:\n\n    \"In the year 1749, my brother printed two volumes of _Hymns and Sacred\n    Poems_. As I _did not see them_ before they were published, there were\n    some things in them which I did not approve of; but I quite approved of\n    the main of the hymns on this head.\"--_Works_, vol. xi. p. 376., 12mo.\n    ed. 1841.\n\n3rd. The lines quoted by your correspondent form the ninth stanza of a hymn\nof twenty-two stanzas (which includes the six in John Wesley's\n_Collection_), written \"after preaching (in a church),\" and published in\n\"_Hymns and Sacred Poems_. In two volumes. By Charles Wesley, M.A., Student\nof Christ Church, Oxford. Bristol: printed and sold by Felix Farley, 1749.\"\nA copy is in my possession. The hymn is No. 194.; and the stanza referred\nto will be found in vol. i. p. 306.\n\nJ. W. THOMAS.\n\nDewsbury.\n\n_Epitaph in Ireland._--The following lines were transcribed by me, and form\npart of an epitaph upon a tombstone or mural slab, which many years past\nwas to be found in (if I mistake not) the churchyard of Old Kilcullen, co.\nKildare:\n\n \"Ye wiley youths, as you pass by,\n  Look on my grave with weeping eye:\n  Waste not your _strenth_ before it blossom,\n  For if you do _yous_ will _shurdley_ want it.\"\n\nJ. F. FERGUSON.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Reynolds (Sir Joshua's) Baptism._--I have been favoured by the incumbent\nof Plympton S. Maurice with a copy of the following entry in the Register\nof Baptisms of that parish, together with the appended note; which, if the\nfact be not generally known, may be of interest to your correspondent A. Z.\n(Vol. viii., p. 102.) as well as to others among the readers of \"N. & Q.\":\n\n    \"1723. Joseph, son of Samuel Reynolds, clerk, baptised July the 30th.\"\n\nOn another page is the following memorandum:\n\n    \"In the entry of baptisms for the year 1723, the person by mistake\n    named _Joseph_, son of Samuel Reynolds, clerk, baptized July 30th, was\n    _Joshua_ Reynolds, the celebrated painter, who died February 23, 1792.\"\n\nSamuel Reynolds, the father, was master of Plympton Grammar School from\nabout 1715 to 1745, in which year he died. During that period his name\nappears once in the parish book, in the year 1742, as \"minister for the\ntime being\" (not incumbent of the parish): the Rev. Geo. Langworthy having\nbeen the incumbent from 1736 to 1745, both inclusive.\n\nQuery, Was Sir Joshua by mistake _baptized Joseph_? or was the mistake made\nafter baptism, in _registering the name_?\n\nJ. SANSOM.\n\nOxford.\n\n_Tradescant._--The pages of \"N. & Q.\" have elicited and preserved so much\ntowards the history of John Tradescant and his family, that the\naccompanying extract from the register of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, in the\ncity of London, should have a place in one of its Numbers:\n\n    \"1638. _Marriages._--John Tradeskant of Lambeth, co. Surrey, and Hester\n    Pooks of St. Bride's, London, maiden, married, by licence from Mr.\n    Cooke, Oct. 1.\"\n\n{514}\n\nThis lady erected the original monument in Lambeth churchyard upon the\ndeath of her husband in 1662. She died 1678.\n\nG.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nGRAMMAR IN RELATION TO LOGIC.\n\nDr. Latham (_Outlines of Logic_, p. 21., 1847, and _English Language_, p.\n510., 2nd edition) defines the conjunction to be a part of speech that\nconnects _propositions_, not _words_. His doctrine is so palpably and\ndemonstrably false, that I am somewhat at a loss to understand how a man of\nhis penetration can be so far deceived by a crotchet as to be blind to the\nhost of examples which point to the direct converse of his doctrine. Let\nthe learned Doctor try to resolve the sentence, _All men are either\ntwo-legged, one-legged, or no-legged_, into three constituent propositions.\nIt cannot be done; _either_ and _or_ are here conjunctions which connect\nwords and not propositions. In the example, _John and James carry a\nbasket_, it is of course quite plain that the _logic_ of the matter is that\n_John carries one portion of the basket, and James carries the rest_. But\nto identify these two propositions with the first mentioned, is to confound\ngrammar with logic. The former deals with the method of expression, the\nlatter with the method of stating (in thought) and syllogising. To take\nanother example, _Charles and Thomas stole all the apples_. The fact\nprobably was, that Charles' pockets contained some of the apples, and\nThomas' pockets contained all the rest. But the business of grammar in the\nabove sentence is to regulate the _form_ of the expression, not to reason\nupon the _matter_ expressed. A little thought will soon convince any person\naccustomed to these subjects that _conjunctions always connect words, not\npropositions_. The only work in which I leave seen Dr. Latham's fundamental\nerror exposed, is in Boole's _Mathematical Analysis of Logic_; the learned\nauthor, though he seems unsettled on many matters of logic and metaphysics,\nhas clearly made up his mind on the point now under discussion. He says:\n\n    \"The proposition, every animal is _either_ rational _or_ irrational,\n    cannot be resolved into, _Either_ every animal is rational, _or_ every\n    animal is irrational. The former belong to pure categoricals, to latter\n    to hypotheticals [Query _disjunctives_]. In _singular_ propositions\n    such conversions would seem to be allowable. This animal is _either_\n    rational _or_ irrational, is equivalent to, _Either_ this animal is\n    rational, _or_ it is irrational. This peculiarity of _singular_\n    propositions would almost justify our ranking them, though truly\n    universals, in a separate class, as Ramus and his followers did.\"--P.\n    59.\n\nThis certainly seems unanswerable.\n\nIf Dr. Latham is a reader of \"N. & Q.,\" I should be glad if he would give\nhis reasons for adhering to his original doctrine in the face of such facts\nas those I have instanced.\n\nC. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CORONET [CROWN] OF LLEWELYN AP GRIFFITH, PRINCE OF WALES.\n\nA notice, transferred to _The Times_ of the 5th instant from a recent\nnumber of _The Builder_, on the shrine of Edward the Confessor, after\nmentioning that \"to this shrine Edward I. offered the Scottish regalia and\nthe coronation chair, which is still preserved,\" adds, \"Alphonso, about\n1280, offered it the golden coronet of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and other\njewels.\"\n\nWho was Alphonso? And would the contributor of the notice favour the\nreaders of \"N. & Q.\" with the authority _in extenso_ for the offering of\nthis coronet?\n\nThe period assigned for the offering is certainly too early; Llewelyn ap\nGriffith, \"the last sovereign of one of the most ancient ruling families of\nEurope\" (_Hist. of England_, by Sir James Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 254.),\nhaving been slain at Builth, Dec. 11, 1282. Warrington (_Hist. of. Wales_,\nvol. ii. p. 271.), on the authority of Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. ii. p. 224.,\nsays: \"Upon stripping Llewelyn there were found his Privy Seal; a paper\nthat was filled with dark expressions, and a list of names written in a\nkind of cypher;\" omitting, it will be observed, any reference to Llewelyn's\ncoronet. That monarch's crown was probably obtained and transmitted to\nEdward I. on the capture, June 21, 1283, or shortly after, of his brother\nDavid ap Griffith, Lord of Denbigh, who had assumed the Welsh throne on the\ndemise of Llewelyn; the Princess Catherine, the daughter and heir of the\nlatter, and _de jure_ sovereign Princess of Wales, being then an infant.\nWarrington states (vol. ii. p. 285.) that when David was taken, a relic,\nhighly venerated by the Princes of Wales, was found upon him, called\n_Crosseneych_, supposed to be a part of the real cross brought by St. Neots\ninto Wales from the Holy Land; and he adds that, besides the above relic,\nwhich was voluntarily delivered up to Edward by a secretary of the late\nPrince of Wales, \"the crown of the celebrated King Arthur, with many\nprecious jewels, was about this time presented to Edward,\" citing as his\nauthorities _Annales Waverleienses_, p. 238.; Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. ii.\np. 247.\n\nThere are some particulars of these relics in the _Archaeologia Cambrensis_;\nbut neither that periodical, nor the authorities referred to by Warrington,\nare at the moment accessible to me.\n\nCAMBRO-BRITON.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{515}\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Monumental Brass at Wanlip, Co. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in\nEnglish._--In the church of Wanlip, near this town, is a fine brass of a\nknight and his lady, and round the margin the following inscription,\ndivided at the corners of the slab by the Evangelistic symbols:\n\n    \"Here lyes Thomas Walssh, Knyght, lorde of Anlep, and dame Kat'ine his\n    Wyfe, whiche in yer tyme made the Kirke of Anlep, and halud the\n    Kirkyerd first, in Wirchip of God, and of oure lady, and seynt\n    Nicholas, that God haue yer soules and mercy, Anno Dni mill[=m]o\n    CCC^{mo} nonagesimo tercio.\"\n\nMr. Bloom states, in his _Mon. Arch. of Great Britain_, p. 210., that--\n\n    \"There are, perhaps, no sepulchral inscriptions in that tongue\n    (English) _prior to the fifteenth century_; yet at almost the beginning\n    of it, some are to be met with, and they became more common as the\n    century drew to a close.\"\n\nIs there any monumental inscription in English, earlier than the above\ncurious one, known to any of your correspondents?\n\nWILLIAM KELLY.\n\nLeicester.\n\n_Influence of Politics on Fashion._--Can any one of the numerous readers of\n\"N. & Q.\" explain the meaning of the following passage of the note of p.\n305. of Alison's _History of Europe_, 7th edition?--\n\n    \"A very curious work might be written on the influence of political\n    events and ideas on the prevailing fashions both for men and women;\n    there is always a certain analogy between them. Witness the\n    shepherd-plaid trousers for gentlemen, and coarse shawls and muslins\n    worn by ladies in Great Britain during the Reform fervour of 1832-4.\"\n\nHENRI VAN LAUN.\n\nKing William's College, Isle of Man.\n\n_Rev. W. Rondall._--Can any of your correspondents give information\nrespecting the Rev. William Rondall, Vicar of Blackhampton, Devonshire\n(1548), who translated into English a portion of the writings of the\nlearned Erasmus?\n\nHISTORICUS.\n\n_Henry, third Earl of Northumberland._--The above nobleman fell on the\nbattle field of Towton (Yorkshire), 29th March, 1461, and was interred in\nthe church of St. Denys, or Dionisius, in York, where his tomb, denuded of\nits brass, is still pointed out. Pray does an account exist, in any of our\nold historians, as to the removal of the body of the above nobleman from\nthat dread field of slaughter to his mansion in Walmgate in the above city,\nand of his interment, which doubtless was a strictly private one? Again,\ndoes any record exist of the latter event in any book of early registers\nbelonging to the above church? Doubtless many readers of \"N. & Q.\" will be\nable to answer these three Queries.\n\nM. AISLABIE DENHAM.\n\nPiersebridge, Darlington.\n\n_\"When we survey,\" &c._--Where are the following lines to be found?\n\n \"When we survey yon circling orbs on high,\n  Say, do they only grace the spangled sky?\n  Have they no influence, no function given\n  To execute the awful will of Heaven?\n  Is there no sympathy pervading all\n  Between the planets and this earthly ball?\n  No tactile intercourse from pole to pole,\n  Between the ambient and the human soul?\n  No link extended through the vast profound,\n  Combining all above, below, around?\"\n\nALLEDIUS.\n\n_Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson._--Some years ago, a continuation of\nRobertson's work on _Scottish Peerages_ was announced by Mr. Turnbull,\nAdvocate of Edinburgh.--I shall be glad to be informed whether it as\npublished; and by whom or where.\n\nFECIALIS.\n\n_An Heraldic Query._--Will any one of your contributors from Lancashire or\nCheshire, who may have access to ancient ordinaries of arms, whether in\nprint or in manuscript, favour me by saying whether he has ever met with\nthe following coat: Per _pale_, argent and sable, a fess embattled, between\nthree falcons counterchanged, belled or? It has been attributed to the\nfamily of Thompson of Lancashire, by Captain Booth of Stockport, and an\nheraldic writer named Saunders; but what authority attaches to either I am\nnot aware. Is it mentioned in Corry's _Lancashire_?\n\nHERALDICUS.\n\n_Osborn filius Herfasti._--Were Osborn, son of Herfast, abbot of S.\nEvroult, and Osborn de Crepon (filius Herfasti patris Gunnoris comitissae),\n_brothers_? or were there two Herfasts?\n\nJ. SANSOM.\n\n_Jews in China._--A colony of Jews is known to exist in the centre of\nChina, who worship God according to the belief of their forefathers; and\nthe aborigines of the northern portion of Australia exercise the rite of\ncircumcision. Can these colonists and aborigines be traced to any of the\nnations of the lost tribes?\n\nHISTORICUS.\n\n_Derivation of \"Mammet.\"_--The Rev. B. Chenevix Trench, in his book on the\n_Study of Words_, 4th edition, p. 79., gives the derivation of the old\nEnglish word _mammet_ from \"Mammetry or Mahometry,\" and cites, in proof of\nthis, Capulet calling his daughter \"a whining _mammet_.\" Now Johnson, {516}\nin his _Dictionary_, the folio edition, derives _mammet_ from the word\n_maman_, and also from the word _man_; and mentions Shakspeare's\n\n    \"This is no world to play with _mammets_, or to tilt with\n    lips.\"--_Henry IV._ (First Part), Act II. Sc. 3.\n\nAs both Dr. Johnson, the Rev. Ch. Trench, and many others, agree that\n_mammet_ means \"puppet,\" why not derive this word from the French _marmot_,\nwhich means a puppet.--Can any of the readers of the \"N. & Q.\" give me a\nfew examples to strengthen my supposition?\n\nHENRI VAN LAUN.\n\nKing William's College, Isle of Man.\n\n_Non-recurring Diseases._--Among the many diseases to which humanity is\nsubject, there are some which we are all supposed to have once, and but\nonce, in our lifetime. Is this an unquestioned fact? and if so, has\nanything like a satisfactory explanation of it been offered?\n\n[Hebrew: P].\n\n_Warville._--There being no _w_ in the French language, whence did Brissot\nde Warville derive the latter word of his name?\n\nUNEDA.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_Dr. Doddridge._--A poem entitled \"To my Wife's Bosom,\" and beginning\n\n \"Open, open, lovely breast,\n  Let me languish into rest!\"\n\noccasionally appears with the name of the Rev. Dr. Doddridge as the author.\nIs it his?\n\nM. E.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_Pelasgi._--In an article which appeared some time ago in Hogg's\n_Instructor_, Thomas de Quincey, speaking of the Pelasgi, characterises\nthem as a race sorrowful beyond conception.--What is known of their history\nto lead to this inference?\n\nT. D. RIDLEY.\n\nWest Hartlepool.\n\n_Huc's Travels._--I was lately told, I think on the authority of a writer\nin the _Gardener's Chronicle_, that the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in\nThibet, Tartary, &c., was a pure fabrication, concocted by some Parisian\n_litterateur_. Can any of your readers confirm or refute this statement?\n\nC. W. B.\n\n_The Mousehunt._--I should feel much obliged to any reader of \"N. & Q.\" who\nwould refer me to any mention of in print, or give me any information from\nhis own personal experience, respecting a small animal of the weasel tribe\ncalled the mousehunt, an animal apparently but little known; it is scarcely\nhalf the size of the common weasel, and of a pale mouse-colour. It is said\nto be well known in Suffolk, whence, however, after some trouble, I have\nbeen unsuccessful in obtaining a specimen; young stoats or weasels having\nbeen sent me instead of it. I could not find a specimen in the British\nMuseum. Some years ago I saw two in Glamorganshire; one escaped me; the\nother had been killed by a ferret, but unfortunately I neglected to\npreserve it. Near the same spot last year a pair of them began making their\nnest, but being disturbed by some workmen employed in clearing out the\ndrain in which they had ensconced themselves, were lost sight of and\nescaped.\n\nMr. Colquhoun, in _The Moor and the Loch_, ed. 1851, says:\n\n    \"The English peasantry assert that there are two kinds of weasel, one\n    very small, called a 'cane,' or 'the mousekiller.' This idea, I have no\n    doubt, is erroneous, and the 'mousekillers' are only the young ones of\n    the year, numbers of these half-grown weasels appearing in summer and\n    autumn.\"\n\nThe only description I have met with in print is in _Bell's Life_ of Dec.\n7, 1851, where \"Scrutator,\" in No. 15. of his Letters \"On the Management of\nHorses, Hounds, &c.,\" writes:\n\n    \"I know only of one species of stoat, but I have certainly seen more\n    than one species of weasel.... There is one species of weasel so small\n    that it can easily follow mice into their holes; and one of these, not\n    a month ago, I watched go into a mouse's hole in an open grass field.\n    Seeing something hopping along in the grass, which I took for a large\n    long-tailed field mouse, I stood still as it was approaching my\n    position, and when within a foot or two of the spot on which I was\n    standing, so that I could have a full view of the animal, a very small\n    weasel appeared, and quickly disappeared again in a tuft of grass. On\n    searching the spot I discovered a mousehole, in which Mr. Weasel had\n    made his exit.\"\n\nW. R. D. SALMON.\n\n_Lockwood, the Court Jester._--In some _MS._ accounts temp. Edw. VI., Mary,\nand Elizabeth, now before me, payments to \"Lockwood, the king's jester,\" or\n\"the queen's jester, whose name is Lockwood,\" are of almost annual\noccurrence. He appears to have travelled about the country like the\ncompanies of itinerant players.\n\nAre any particulars known respecting him, and where shall I find the best\naccount of the ancient court jesters? I am aware of Douce's work, and the\nmemoirs of Will. Somers, the fool of Henry VIII.\n\nWILLIAM KELLY.\n\nLeicester.\n\n_Right of redeeming Property._--In some country or district which I have\nformerly visited, there exists, or did recently exist, a right of redeeming\nproperty which had passed from its owner's hands, somewhat similar to that\nprescribed to the Jews in Leviticus xxvi. 25. &c., and analogous to the\ncustom in Brittany, with which Sterne's beautiful story has made us {517}\nfamiliar. Can you help me to remember where it is?\n\nC. W. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries with Answers.\n\n_Dictionary of Zingari._--Can you direct me to a glossary or dictionary of\nthis language? I have seen Borrow's _Lavengro_, and am not aware whether\neither of his other works contains anything of the sort. I should imagine\nit cannot be a perfect language, since the Rommanies located in our\nlocality invariably use the English articles and pronouns; but knowing\nnothing more of it than what I glean from casual intercourse, I am unable\nto decide to my own satisfaction.\n\nR. C. WARDE.\n\nKidderminster.\n\n    [A dictionary of the Zincali will be found in the first three editions\n    of the following work: _The Zincali; or, an Account of the Gypsies of\n    Spain_; with an original Collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a\n    copious Dictionary of their Language. By George Borrow, 2 vols., 1841.\n    This dictionary is omitted in the fourth edition of 1846; but some\n    \"Specimens of Gypsy dialects\" are added. Our correspondent may also be\n    referred to the two following works, which appear in the current number\n    of Quarritch's Catalogue: \"Pott, Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien, vol.\n    i. Einleitung und Grammatik, ii. Ueber Gaunersprachen, Woerterbuch and\n    Sprachproben, 2 vols. 8vo. sewed, 15s. Halle, 1844-45.\" \"Rotwellsche\n    Grammatik oder Sprachkunst; Woerterbuch der Zigeuner-Sprache, 2 parts in\n    1, 12mo. half-bound morocco, 7s. 6d. Frankfurt, 1755.\"]\n\n_Sir Robert Coke._--Of what family was Sir Robert Coke, referred to in\n_Granger_, vol. iii. p. 212., ed. 1779, as having collected a valuable\nlibrary bestowed by George, first Earl of Berkeley, on Sion College,\nLondon, the letter of thanks for which is in Collins?\n\nT. P. L.\n\nManchester.\n\n    [Sir Robert Coke was son and heir to Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief\n    Justice of the Kings Bench. The Cokes had been settled for many\n    generations in the county of Norfolk. Camden has traced the pedigree of\n    the family to William Coke of Doddington in Norfolk, in the reign of\n    King John. They had risen to considerable distinction under Edward\n    III., when Sir Thomas Coke was made Seneschal of Gascoigne. From him,\n    in the right male line, was descended Robert Coke, the father of Sir\n    Edward. See Campbell's _Lives of Chief Justices_, vol. i. p. 240.]\n\n_Regium Donum._--What is the origin and history of the \"Regium Donum?\"\n\nHENRI VAN LAUN.\n\nKing William's College, Isle of Man.\n\n    [In the year 1672, Charles II. gave to Sir Arthur Forbes the sum of\n    600l., to be applied to the use of the Presbyterian ministers in\n    Ireland. He professed not to know how to bestow it in a better manner,\n    as he had learnt that these ministers had been loyal, and had even\n    suffered on his account; and as that sum remained undisposed of in \"the\n    settlement of the revenue of Ireland,\" he gave it in his charity to\n    them. This was the origin of the _Regum donum_. As the dissenters\n    approved themselves strong friends to the House of Brunswick, George\n    I., in 1723, wished too to reward them for their loyalty, and, by a\n    retaining fee, preserve them stedfast. A considerable sum, therefore,\n    was annually lodged with the heads of the Presbyterians, Independents,\n    and Baptists, to be distributed among the necessitous ministers of\n    their congregations.]\n\n_Who was the Author of \"Jerningham\" and \"Doveton?\"_ (Vol. viii., p.\n127.).--MR. ANSTRUTHER begs to decline the compliment; perhaps the\npublisher of the admirable _History of the War in Affghanistan_ can find a\nhead to fit the cap.\n\nOswestry.\n\n    [On a reference to our note-book, we find our authority for attributing\n    the authorship of these works to Mr. Anstruther is the _Gentleman's\n    Magazine_ for September, 1837, p. 283. In the review of _Doveton_ the\n    writer says, \"There is in it a good deal to amuse, and something to\n    instruct, but the whole narrative of _Mr. Anstruther_ is too\n    melodramatic,\" &c. However, as he declines the compliment, perhaps some\n    of our readers will be able to find the right head to fit the cap.]\n\n_Alma Mater._--In Ainsworth's _Latin Dictionary_ I observed he limits the\nuse of that expression to Cambridge. I have been accustomed to see it used\nfor Oxford, or any other university. What is his reason for applying it to\nCambridge alone?\n\nMA. L.\n\n    [Bailey, too, in his _Dictionary_, applies the epithet exclusively to\n    Cambridge, _Alma mater Cantabrigia_: so that it seems to have\n    originated with that university. It is now popularly applied to Oxford,\n    and other universities, by those who have imbibed the milk of learning\n    from these places. The epithet has lately been transplanted to the\n    United States of America.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nALEXANDER CLARK.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 18.)\n\nIn communicating a few particulars about Alexander Clark, I must disappoint\nyour correspondent PERTHENSIS; _my_ subject answering in no respect to\nPeter Buchan's \"drucken dominie,\" the author of the _Buttery College_.\nAlexander Clark, who has fallen in my way, belongs to the class of \"amiable\nenthusiasts;\" a character I am somewhat fond of, believing that in any\npursuit a dash of the latter quality is essential to success.\n\nClark was by profession a gardener; and as my friends in the north always\nseek to localise their worthies, I venture to assign him to Annandale. My\nfirst acquaintance with him arose from his {518} _Emblematical\nRepresentation_ falling into my hands; and, pursuing my inquiries, I found\nthis was but one of some half-dozen visionary works from the same pen. In\nhis _View of the Glory of the Messiah's Kingdom_, we have the origin of his\ntaking upon himself the prophetic character; it is entitled:\n\n    \"A Brief Account of an Extraordinary Revelation, and other Things\n    Remarkable, in the Course of God's Dealings with Alexander Clark,\n    Gardener at Dumcrief, near Moffat, Anandale, in the Year 1749.\"\n\n    \"In the month of August, 1749,\" says he, \"at a certain time when the\n    Lord was pleased to chastise me greatly in a bed of affliction, and in\n    the midst of my great trial, it pleased the Almighty God wonderfully to\n    surprise me with a glorious light round about me; and looking up, I saw\n    straight before me a glorious building in the air, as bright and clear\n    as the sun: it was so vastly great, so amiable to behold, so full of\n    majesty and glory, that it filled my heart with wonder and admiration.\n    The place where this sight appeared to me was just over the city of\n    Edinburgh; at the same instant I heard, as it were, the musick bells of\n    the said city ring for joy.\"\n\nFrom this period, Clark's character became tinged with that enthusiasm\nwhich ended in his belief that he was inspired; and that in publishing\nhis--\n\n    \"Signs of the Times: showing by many infallible Testimonies and Proofs\n    out of the Holy Scripture, that an extraordinary Change is at Hand,\n    even at the very Door,\"--\n\nhe was merely \"emitting what he derived directly, by special favour, from\nGod!\"\n\n    \"The Spirit of God,\" he says on another occasion, \"was so sensibly\n    poured out upon me, and to such a degree, that I was thereby made to\n    see things done in secret, and came to find things lost, and knew where\n    to go to find those things which were lost!\"\n\nThis _second sight_, if I may so call it, set our author upon drawing aside\nthe veil from the prophetic writings; and his view of their mystical sense\nis diffused over the indigested and rambling works bearing the following\ntitles:\n\n    \"A View of the Glory of the Messiah's Kingdom.\" 1763.\n\n    \"Remarks upon the Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecy.\"\n\n    \"A Practical Treatise on Regeneration.\" 1764.\n\n    \"The Mystery of God opened,\" &c. Edinburgh. 1768.\n\n    \"An Emblematical Representation of the Paradise of God, showing the\n    Nature of Spiritual Industry in the Similitude of a Garden, well\n    ordered, dressed, and kept, with Sundry Reflections on the Nature of\n    Divine Knowledge, 1779.\"\n\nIn his _Address to the Friendly Society of Gardeners_, Clark gives some\naccount of his worldly condition; of his early training in religious\nhabits; his laborious and industrious devotion to his profession, with\nwhich he seems to have been greatly enamoured, although poorly paid, and\noften in straits. Subsequently to the great event of his life--his\nvision--our subject appears to have come south, and to have been in the\nemployment of Lord Charles Spencer at Hanworth in Middlesex. Like most of\nthe prophets of his day, Clark was haunted with the belief that the last\nday was approaching; and considering himself called upon to announce to his\nacquaintance and neighbours that this \"terrible judgment of God was at\nhand,\" he got but contempt and ridicule for his pains:--more than that,\nindeed, for those raising the cry that he was a madman, they procured the\npoor man's expulsion from his situation. Under all these discouraging\ncircumstances, he maintained his firm conviction of the approaching end of\ntime: so strongly was his mind bent in this direction, that \"I opened the\nwindow of the house where I then was,\" says he, \"thinking to see Christ\ncoming in the clouds!\"\n\n    \"I was three days and three nights that I could not eat, drink, nor\n    sleep; and when I would close my eyes, I felt something always touching\n    me; at length I heard a voice sounding in mine ears, saying 'Sleep not,\n    lest thou sleep the sleep of death:' and at that I looked for my Bible,\n    and at the first opening of it I read these words, which were sent with\n    power, 'To him that overcometh,'\" &c.\n\nPoor Clark, like his prototype Thomas Newans, laboured hard to obtain the\nsanction of the hierarchy to his predictions:\n\n    \"I desire no man,\" he says, \"to believe me without proof; and if the\n    Reverend the Clergy would think this worth their perusal, I would very\n    willingly hear what they had to say either for or against.\"\n\nThe orthodoxy of the \"Reverend the Clergy\" was not, however, to be moved;\nand Alexander Clark and his books now but serve the end of pointing a\nmoral. With more real humility and less presumption, there was much that\nwas good about him; but letting his heated fancies get the better of the\nlittle judgment he possessed, our _amiable enthusiast_ became rather a\nstumbling-block than light to his generation.\n\nJ. O.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAMCOTTS PEDIGREE.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 387.)\n\nAlthough I may not be able to furnish your inquirer with full pedigree of\nthis family, my Notes may prove useful in making it out.\n\nFrom a settlement after marriage in 1663, of Vincent Amcotts of Laughton,\nin the county of Lincoln, gentleman, I find his wife's name to be Amy; but\nwho she was is not disclosed. It appears she survived her husband, and was\nhis {519} widow and relict and executrix living in 1687. Their eldest\ndaughter Elizabeth married John Sheffield, Esq., of Croxby, and I have\nnoted three children of theirs, viz. Vincent, who died s.p.; Christopher,\nwho, with Margaret, his wife, in 1676 sold the Croxby estate; and Sarah.\nWhat farther as to this branch does not appear, although my next Vincent\nAmcotts may be, and probably was, a descendant. This Vincent Amcotts was of\nHarrington, in the county of Lincoln, Esq.; and who, from his marriage\nsettlement dated May 16 and 17, 1720, married Elizabeth, the third of the\nfour daughters of John Quincy of Aslackby, in the county of Lincoln,\ngentleman: and I find the issue of this marriage to be Charles Amcotts of\nKettlethorpe, in the county of Lincoln, Esq., who died in 1777 s.p.; Anna\nMaria, whom married Wharton Emerson; Elizabeth, who died previous to her\nbrother Charles; and Frances, who married the Rev. Edward Buckworth of\nWashingborough, in the county of Lincoln, Clerk, Doctor of Laws.\n\nAfter the death of Charles Amcotts, we find Wharton Emerson at\nKettlethorpe, having assumed the name of Amcotts: he was created a baronet\nin 1796, the title being limited in remainder to the eldest son of his\ndaughter Elizabeth. Sir Wharton Amcotts married a second wife, Amelia\nCampbell, by whom he had a daughter, but what became of her does not\nappear. Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Sir Wharton Amcotts by his\nfirst wife Anna Maria Amcotts, married in 1780 John Ingilby, Esq., of\nRipley, who in the next year was created a baronet: and they appear to have\nhad eleven children, viz. John Charles Amcotts, the present Sir William\nAmcotts Ingelby, in whom both titles are vested, Elizabeth, Augusta, Anna\nMaria, and Ann; which last three died in infancy; Diana, Vincent Bosville,\nwho died at a year old, and Julia and Constance. Thus far my Notes extend.\n\nW. S. HESLEDEN.\n\nBarton-upon-Humber.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSIR RALPH WINWOOD.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 272.)\n\nI have an original letter of Sir Ralph Winwood's in French, addressed \"A\nMonsieur Mons^r Charles Huyghens, Secretaire du Conseil d'estat de\nMess^{rs} les Estats a la Haye,\" which, as it may possibly be interesting\nto your correspondent H. P. W. R., I here transcribe:\n\n    \"Mons^r.--Vos dernieres m'ont rendu tesmoignage de vostre bonn'\n    affection en mon endroict. Car je m'asseure que vous n'eussiez jamais\n    recommende vostre filz a ma protection si mon nom n'eust este\n    enregistre au nombre de vos meilleurs et plus affectionnes amys. Je\n    m'en vay, dans peu de jours, trouver Sa Ma^{te} en son retour d'Escoce,\n    et j'espere sur la fin du moys de 7^{bre} de me rendre a ma maison a\n    Londres. Sur ce temps-la, s'il vous plaira d'envoyer v^{re} filz vers\n    moy, il sera le bien venu. Son traittement rendra tesmoinage de\n    l'estime que je fais de vostre amitie. De vous envoyer des nouvelles,\n    ce seroyt d'envoyer _Noctuas Athenas_. Tout est coy icy. La mort de\n    Concini a rendu la France heureuse. Mais l'Italie est en danger d'estre\n    exposee a la tirannie d'Espagne. Je vous baise les mains, et suis,\n    Mons^r, vostre plus affectionne servit^r,\n\n              RODOLPHE WINWOOD.\n     \"De Londres, le 7^{me} de Juillet.\"\n\nThe year is not indicated, but the allusion to the death of Concini (the\ncelebrated Marechal d'Ancre, who was assassinated by order of Louis XIII.)\nproves that this letter was written in 1617, and very shortly before the\ndeath of the writer, which occurred on the 27th of October in that year.\n\nM. Charles Huyghens, to whom the letter is addressed, was probably the\nfather of Constantine Huyghens, the Dutch poet-politician, who was\nsecretary and privy counsellor to the Stadtholders Frederick Henry, and\nWilliam I. and II., and who, not improbably, was the son here mentioned as\nrecommended to the protection of Sir R. Winwood, and who, at that date,\nwould have been twenty-one years of age.\n\nConstantine was himself the father of the still more celebrated Christian\nHuyghens, the astronomer and mathematician. The seal on the letter, which\nis in excellent preservation, is a shield bearing the following arms: 1.\nand 4. a cross botonne, 2. and 3. three fleurs-de-lis.\n\nW. SNEYD.\n\nDenton.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTRENCH ON PROVERBS.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 387.)\n\nI hope that neither Mr. Trench nor his critic E. M. B. will consider me\ninterfering by my making an observation or two on the correct rendering of\nthe latter part of Ps. cxxvii. 2. Mr. Trench is perfectly correct by\nsupposing an ellipsis in the sentence alluded to, and the words\n\n  [Hebrew: YTN LYDYDW SHN']\n\nshould have been translated, \"He will give to his beloved whilst he [the\nbeloved] is asleep.\" The translation of the authorised version of that\nsacred affirmation is unintelligible. Mr. Trench has the support of\nLuther's version, which has the sentence thus:\n\n \"Seinen Freunden giebt er es schlafend.\"\n\nThe celebrated German Jewish translator of the Old Testament agrees with\nMr. Trench. The following is Dr. Zunz's rendering:\n\n \"Das giebt er seinem Liebling im Schlaf.\"\n\n{520}\n\nThe following is the Hebrew annotation in the far-famed Moses Mendelsohn's\nedition of the Book of Psalms:\n\n  [Hebrew: YTNHW HQB-H LYDYDW 'SHR HW' CHPTS BW B`WDNW YSHN WBLY MRCHH:]\n\n\"The holy and blessed One will give it to his beloved, in whom He delights,\nwhilst he is yet asleep and without fatigue.\"\n\nI need not adduce passages in the Hebrew Psalter, where such ellipsises do\noccur. E. M. B. evidently knows his Hebrew Bible well, and a legion of\nexamples will immediately occur to him.\n\nMOSES MARGOLIOUTH.\n\nWybunbury, Nantwich.\n\nIf E. M. B. will refer to Hengstenberg's _Commentary on the Psalms_, he\nwill find that Mr. Trench is not without authority for his translation of\nPs. cxxvii. 2. I quote the passage from Thompson and Fairbairn's\ntranslation, in Clark's _Theological Library_, vol. iii. p. 449.:\n\n    \"[Hebrew: SHN'] for [Hebrew: SHNH] is not the accusative, but the\n    preposition is omitted, as is frequently the case with words that are\n    in constant use. For example, [Hebrew: BQR, `RB], to which [Hebrew:\n    SHNH] here is poetically made like. The exposition _He gives sleep_,\n    instead of _in sleep_, gives an unsuitable meaning. For the subject is\n    not about the sleep, but the gain.\"\n\nC. I. E.\n\nWinkfield.\n\nHas the translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., which Mr. Trench has adopted, the\nsanction of any version but that of Luther?\n\nN. B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nON PALINDROMES.\n\n(Vol vii., p. 178. &c.)\n\nSeveral of your correspondents have offered Notes upon these singular\ncompositions, and AGRICOLA DE MONTE adduces\n\n \"[Greek: NIPSON ANOMEMATA, ME MONAN OPSIN]\"\n\nas an example. As neither he nor MR. ELLACOMBE give it as found _out_ of\nthis country, allow me to say that it was to be seen on a benitier in the\nchurch of Notre Dame at Paris. If it were not for the substitution of the\nadjective [Greek: MONAN] for the adverb [Greek: MONON], the line would be\none of the best specimens of the recurrent order.\n\nI notice that a correspondent (Vol. vii., p. 336.) describes the Palindrome\nas being universally _sotadic_. Now, this term was only intended to apply\nto the early samples of this fanciful species of verse in Latin, the\nproduction Sotades, a Roman poet, 250 B.C. The lines given by BOEOTICUS\n(Vol. vi., p. 209.),\n\n \"Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor?\"\n\nowe their authorship to his degraded Muse, and many others which would but\npollute your pages.\n\nThe hexameter \"Sacrum pingue,\" &c. given by [Omega]. [Phi]. (Vol. vi., p.\n36.), is to be found in Misson's _Voyage to Italy_, copied from an old\ncloister wall of Santa Maria Novella at Florence. These ingenious verses\nare Leoline[2], and it is noted that \"the sacrifice of Cain was not a\nliving victim.\"\n\nI have seen it stated that the English language affords but _one_ specimen\nof the palindrome, while the Latin and Greek have many. The late Dr. Winter\nHamilton, the author of _Nugae Literariae_, gives this solitary line, which\nat the best is awkwardly fashioned:\n\n \"Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel.\"\n\nIs any other known?\n\nSome years since I fell in with that which, after all, is the most\nwonderful effort of the kind; at least I can conceive of nothing at all\nequal to it.\n\nIt is to be found in a poem called [Greek: Poiema Karkinekon], written in\nancient Greek by a modern Greek called Ambrosius, printed in Vienna in\n1802, and dedicated to the Emperor Alexander. It contains 455 lines, every\none of which is literal palindrome.\n\nI have some hesitation in giving even a quotation; and yet, notwithstanding\nthe forced character of some of the lines, your readers will not fail to\nadmire the classic elegance of this remarkable composition.\n\n \"[Greek: Eu Elisabet, Alla t' ebasileue.]\n  [Greek: Elabe ta kaka, kai akaka katebale.]\n  [Greek: Areta pegase de sa ge patera.]\n  [Greek: Somati so phene phene phos itamos.]\n  [Greek: Su de Heros hoios o Rhos hoios hore hedus:]\n  [Greek: Noi su laoi alaoi alusion.]\n  [Greek: Neme ethe laoi toi alethe emen.]\n  [Greek: Su eso ethnei ekei entheos eus.]\n  [Greek: Ho Rhos ele ti su lusiteles oro.]\n  [Greek: Alla ta en noi bale, labon nea t' alla]\n  [Greek: Soter su eso o elee thee leo, hos eus rhetos]\n  [Greek: Son hade sotera idia rhetos edanos.]\"\n\nCHARLES REED.\n\nPaternoster Row.\n\n[Footnote 2: Leo was a poet of the twelfth century.]\n\nHere is a Palindrome that surrounds a figure of the sun in the mosaic\npavement of Sa. Maria del Fiori at Florence:\n\n \"En giro torte sol ciclos et rotor igne.\"\n\nCould any of your correspondents translate this enigmatical line?\n\nMOSAFFUR.\n\nE. I. Club.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_The Claymore_ (Vol. viii., p. 365.).--I believe there is no doubt that the\ntrue Scottish claymore is the heavy two-handed sword, examples of which are\npreserved at Dumbarton Castle, and at {521} Hawthornden, and respectively\nattributed to William Wallace, and to Robert the Bruce. The latter is a\nvery remarkable specimen, the grip being formed either of the tusk of a\nwalrus or of a small elephant, considerably curved; and the guard is\nconstructed of two iron bars, terminated by trefoils, and intersecting each\nother at right angles. The blade is very ponderous, and shorter than usual\nin weapons of this description.\n\nThe claymore of modern times is a broadsword, double or single-edged, and\nprovided with a basket hilt of form peculiar to Scotland, though the idea\nwas probably derived from Spain. Swords with basket hilts were commonly\nused by the English cavalry in the reigns of Charles I. and II., but they\nare always of a different type from the Scotch, though affording as\ncomplete a protection to the hand. I possess some half-dozen examples, some\nfrom Gloucestershire, which are of the times of the civil wars. There are\nmany swords said to have been the property of Oliver Cromwell; one is in\nthe United Service Museum: all that I have seen are of this form.\n\nW. J. BERNHARD SMITH.\n\nTemple.\n\n_Temple Lands in Scotland_ (Vol. viii., p. 317.).--Your correspondent\nABREDONENSIS, upon a reference to the undernoted publications, will find\nmany interesting particulars as to these lands, viz.:\n\n    1. \"Templaria: Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and\n    Possessions of the Scottish Knights Templars, and their Successors the\n    Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, &c. Edited by James Maidment. Sm.\n    4to. 1828-29.\"\n\n    2. \"Abstract of the Charters and other Papers recorded in the\n    Chartulary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596; with an Introductory\n    Notice and Notes, by John Black Gracie. Sm. 4to. 1830.\"\n\n    3. \"Notes of Charters, &c., by the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Melrose,\n    afterwards Earl of Haddington, to the Vassals of the Barony of Drem,\n    from 1615 to 1627; with an Introductory Notice, by John Black Gracie.\n    Sm. 4to. 1830.\"\n\n    4. \"Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica: Memoir of what has been already done,\n    and what Materials exist, towards the Formation of a Scottish\n    Monasticon; to which are appended, Sundry New Instances of Goodly\n    Matter, by a Delver in Antiquity (W. B. Turnbull). 8vo. 1842.\"\n\nThe \"Introductory Notices\" prefixed to Nos. 2. and 3. give full particulars\nof the various sales and purchases of the Superioritus, &c., by Mr. Gracie\nand others.\n\nT. G. S.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n_Lewis and Sewell Families_ (Vol. viii., p. 388.).--Your correspondent may\nobtain, in respect to the Lewis family, much information in the _Life and\nCorrespondence of Matthew Gregory Lewis_, two vols. 8vo., London, 1839,\nparticularly at pp. 6. and 7. of vol. i. He will there find that Matthew\nLewis, Esq., who was Deputy Secretary of War for twenty-six years, married\nFrances Sewell, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell; that\nLieut.-Gen. Whitelocke and Gen. Sir Thos. Brownrigg, G.C.B., married the\nother two daughters of Sir Thos. Sewell; and that Matthew Gregory Lewis,\nwho wrote the _Castle Spectre_, &c., was son of Matthew Lewis, Esq., the\nDeputy Secretary of War.\n\nWith regard to the Sewell family. The Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell, who was\nMaster of the Rolls for twenty years, died in 1784; and there is, I\nbelieve, a very correct account of his family connexions in the\n_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1784, p. 555. He died intestate, and his eldest\nson, Thos. Bailey Heath Sewell, succeeded to his estate of Ottershaw and\nthe manors of Stannards and Fords in Chobham, Surrey. This gentleman was a\nmagistrate for the county of Surrey; and in the spring of 1794, when this\ncountry was threatened by both foreign and domestic enemies, he became\nLieut.-Col. of a regiment of Light Dragoons (fencibles), raised in Surrey\n(at Richmond) by George Lord Onslow, Lord-Lieut. of the county, in which he\nserved six years, till the Government not requiring their services they\nwere disbanded. Lieut.-Col. Sewell died in 1803, and was buried in the\nchurch at Chobham, where there is a monument to his memory. Of his family\nwe have not farther knowledge than that he had a son, Thos. Bermingham\nHeath Sewell, who was a cornet in the 32nd Light Dragoons, and lieutenant\nin the 4th Dragoon Guards during the war of the French Revolution. The\n_History and Antiquities of Surrey_, by the Rev. Owen Manning and Wm. Bray,\nin three vols. folio, 1804, has in the third volume much concerning the\nSewell family.\n\nD. N.\n\n_Pharaoh's Ring_ (Vol. viii., p. 416.).--The mention of the ring conferred\non, or confided to, Joseph by the Pharaoh of Egypt, as stated in Genesis\nxli. 42., reminds me of a ring being shown to me some years ago, which was\nbelieved by its then possessor to be the identical ring, or at all events a\nsignet ring of the very Pharaoh who promoted Joseph to the chief office in\nhis kingdom.\n\nIt was a ring of pure gold, running through a hole in a massive wedge of\ngold, about the size, as far as I recollect, of a moderate-sized walnut. On\none of its faces was cut the hieroglyphic (inclosed as usual with the names\nof Egyptian kings in an oval), as I was assured, of the king, the friend of\nJoseph, as was generally supposed by the readers of hieroglyphics: I\npretend to no knowledge of them myself.\n\nThe possessor of the ring, who showed it to me, was Mr. Sams, one of the\nSociety of Friends, a bookseller at Darlington. Since railroads have {522}\nwhirled me past that town, I have lost my means of periodical communication\nwith him. He had, not long before I saw him last, returned from the Holy\nLand, where he assured me he had visited every spot that could be\nidentified mentioned in the New Testament. He had also been some time in\nEgypt, and had brought home a great quantity of Egyptian antiquities. The\nlesser ones he had in the first floor of a carver and gilder's in Great\nQueen Street, between the Freemason's Tavern and Lincoln's Inn Fields. He\nwas then anxious that these should be bought for the British Museum, and I\nthink that at his request I wrote to the Earl of Aberdeen to mention this,\nand that the answer was that there was already so large a collection in the\nMuseum, that more, as they must most of them be duplicates, would be of no\nuse.\n\nWhat has become of them I know not. I was told that a number of his larger\nantiquities, stone and marble, were for some time placed on Waterloo\nBridge, that being a very quiet place, where people might view them without\ninterruption. I did not happen to be in London that season, and therefore\ndid not see them.\n\nJ. SS.\n\n    [The whole of Mr. Sams's collection of Egyptian antiquities were bought\n    by Joseph Mayer, Esq, F.S.A., of Liverpool, about two years ago, to add\n    to his previous assemblage of similar monuments, and are placed by him,\n    with a very valuable collection of mediaeval antiquities, in the\n    Egyptian Museum, 8. Colquitt Street, Liverpool. The small charge of\n    sixpence for each visit opens the entire collection to the public; but\n    it is a lamentable fact, that the curiosity or patriotism of the\n    inhabitants does not cover Mr. Mayer's expenses by a large annual\n    amount.]\n\n_\"Could we with ink,\"_ &c. (Vol. iii., pp. 127. 180. 257. 422.).--Have not\nthose correspondents who have answered this Query overlooked the concluding\nverse of the gospel according to St. John, of which it appears to me that\nthe lines in question are an amplification without improvement? Mahomet, it\nis well known, imitated many parts of the Bible in the Koran.\n\nE. G. R.\n\n_\"Populus vult decipi\"_ (Vol. vii., p. 578.; Vol. viii, p. 65.).--As an\nillustration of this expression the following anecdote is given. When my\nfather was about thirteen years old, being in London he was, on one\noccasion in company with Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who, calling him to\nhim, laid his hand on his head, and said, \"My little boy, I want you to\nremember one thing as long as you live--the people of this world love to be\ncheated.\"\n\nUNEDA.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_Red Hair_ (Vol. vii., p. 616.; Vol. viii., p. 86.).--It is frequently\nstated that the Turks are admirers of red hair. I have lately met with a\nsomewhat different account, namely, that the Turks consider red-haired\npersons who are fat as \"first-rate\" people, but those who are lean as the\nvery reverse.\n\nM. E.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_\"Land of Green Ginger\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 227.).--The authority which I am\nable to afford MR. RICHARDSON is simply the tradition of the place, which I\nhad so frequently heard that I could scarcely doubt the truth of it; this I\nintended to be deduced, when I said I did not recollect that the local\nhistories gave any derivation, and that it was the one \"generally received\nby the inhabitants.\"\n\nTo any mind the solution brought forward by MR. BUCKTON (Vol. viii., p.\n303.) carries the greatest amount of probability with it of any yet\nproposed; and should any of your correspondents have the opportunity of\nlooking through the unpublished history of Hull by the Rev. De la Pryme,\n\"collected out of all the records, charters, deeds, mayors' letters, &c. of\nthe said town,\" and now placed amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the British\nMuseum, I am inclined to think it is very likely it would be substantiated.\n\nIn Mr. Frost's valuable work on the town, which by the way proves it to\nhave been \"a place of opulence and note at a period long anterior to the\ndate assigned to its existence by historians,\" he differs materially from\nMR. RICHARDSON, in considering that Hollar's plate was \"engraved about the\nyear 1630,\" not in 1640 as he states. There is also another which appeared\nbetween the time of Hollar and Gent, in Meisner's _Libellus novus politicus\nemblematicus Civitatum_, published in 1638, which though not \"remarkable\nfor accuracy of design,\" is well worthy of notice. It bears the title \"Hull\nin Engellandt,\" and also the following curious inscriptions, which I copy\nfor the interest of your readers:\n\n    \"Carcer nonnunquam firmum propugnaculum. Noctua clausa manet in carcere\n    firmo; Insidias volucrum vetat enim cavea.\"\n\n     \"Wann die Eull eingesperret ist,\n      Schadet ihr nicht der Feinde list,\n      Der Kefig ist ihr nicht unnuetz,\n      Sondern gibt wieder ihr Feind schuetz.\"\n\nThese lines refer to a curious engraving on the left side of the plan,\nrepresenting an owl imprisoned in a cage with a quantity of birds about,\nendeavouring to assail it.\n\nR. W. ELLIOT.\n\nClifton.\n\n_\"I put a spoke in his wheel\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 351.).--Does not this phrase\nmean simply interference, either for good or evil? I fancy the metaphor is\nreally derived from putting the bars, or spokes, into a capstan or some\nsuch machine. A number {523} of persons being employed, another puts his\nspoke in, and assists or hinders them as he pleases. Can a _stick_ be\nconsidered a _spoke_ before it is put into its place, in the nave of the\nwheel at least? We often hear the observation, \"Then I put in my spoke,\"\n&c. in the relation of an animated discussion. May I venture to suggest a\npun on the preterite of the verb _to speak_?\n\nG. WILLIAM SKYRING.\n\n_Pagoda_ (Vol. viii., p. 401.).--May not the word _pagoda_ be a corruption\nof the Sanscrit word \"Bhagovata,\" sacred?\n\nBISHOP OF BRECHIN.\n\nDundee.\n\n_Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. viii., p. 270.).--On this part of Johnson's\nletter, Mr. Croker observes:\n\n    \"I confess I do not see the object, nor indeed the meaning, of this\n    allusion.\"\n\nThe allusion is to Eclogue viii. 43.:\n\n \"Nunc scio, quid sit Amor: duris in cotibus illum\n  Aut Tmarus, aut Rhodope, aut extremi Garamantes,\n  Nec generis nostri puerum nec sanguinis, edunt.\"\n\nAs the shepherd in Virgil had found Love to be not the gentle being he\nexpected, but of a savage race--\"a native of the rocks\"--so had Johnson\nfound a patron to be \"one who looked with unconcern on a man struggling for\nlife,\" instead of a friend to render assistance.\n\nSupposing Johnson's estimate of Lord Chesterfield's conduct to be correct,\nI cannot help thinking the allusion to be eminently happy.\n\nJ. KELWAY.\n\n_To speak in Lutestring_ (Vol. viii., p. 202.).--_Lutestring_, or\n_lustring_, is a particular kind of silk, and so is _taffeta_; and thus the\nphrase may be explained by Shakspeare's _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc.\n8.:\n\n \"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise.\"\n\nJunius intended to ridicule such kind of affectation by persons who were,\nor ought to have been, grave senators.\n\nJ. KELWAY.\n\n_Dog Latin_ (Vol. viii., p. 218.).--A facetious friend, alluding\nparticularly to law Latin with its curious abbreviations, says that it is\nso called because it is _cur-tailed_!\n\nJ. KELWAY.\n\n_Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--I recollect seeing an old sailor in the\ntown of Larne, county Antrim, Ireland, in the year 1826-27, of the name of\nPhilip Lake, aged 110, who was said to have been a cabin boy in Lord\nAnson's vessel, in one of his voyages. If any of your correspondents can\nfurnish the registry of his death it would be interesting.\n\nFRAS. CROSSLEY.\n\nMary Simondson, familiarly known as \"Aunt Polly,\" died recently at her\ncottage near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, at the advanced age of 126 years.\n\nM. E.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_Definition of a Proverb_ (Vol. viii., p. 243.)--C. M. INGLEBY inquires the\nsource of the following definition of proverb, viz. \"The wisdom of many,\nand the wit of one.\"\n\n    \"To Lord John Russell are we indebted for that admirable definition of\n    a proverb: 'The wisdom,' &c.\"--See Notes to Rogers's _Italy_, 1848.\n\nThe date is added since, in an edition of 1842; this remark makes no part\nof the note on the line, \"If but a sinew vibrate,\" &c.\n\nQ. T.\n\n_Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant_ (Vol. viii., p. 366.).--I venture to\nsuggest whether this expression may not be something more than a bull, as\n[Old English W]. inclines to call it. If any one will look at a physical\nmap of Ireland at some little distance, a very slight exercise of the\n\"mind's eye\" will serve to call up in the figure of that island the shape\nof a creature kneeling and in pain. Lough Foyle forms the eye; the coast\nfrom Bengore Head to Benmore Head the nose or snout; Belfast Lough the\nmouth; the coast below Donaghdee the chin; County Wexford the knees. The\nrest of the outline, according to the imagination of the observer, may\nassume that of an elephant, or something, perhaps, \"very like a whale.\"\nSome fanciful observation of this kind may have suggested the otherwise\nunaccountable simile to Curran.\n\nPOLONIUS.\n\n_Ennui_ (Vol. vii., p. 478.; Vol. viii., p. 377.).--The meaning of this\nadmirable word is best gleaned from its root, viz. _nuit_. It is somewhat\nequivalent to the Greek [Greek: agrupnia], and signifies the sense of\nweariness with doing nothing. It gives the lie to the _dolce far niente_:\nvide Ps. cxxx. 6., and Job vii. 3, 4. _Ennui_ is closely allied to our\n_annoy_ or _annoyance_, through _noceo_, _noxa_, and their probable root\n_nox_, [Greek: nux.] It is precisely equivalent to the Latin _taedium_,\nwhich may be derived from _taeda_, which in the plural means a torch, and\nthrough that word may have a side reference to night, the _taedarum horae_:\ncf. Ps. xci. 5. The subject is worthy of strict inquiry on the part of\ncomparative philologists.\n\nC. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n_Belle Sauvage_ (Vol. viii., p. 388.).--Your Philadelphian correspondent\nasks whether Blue Bell, Blue Anchor, &c., are corruptions of some other\nemblem, such as that which in London transformed _La Belle Sauvage_ into\nthe _Bell Savage_.\n\nThis is not the fact. The Bell Savage on Ludgate Hill was originally kept\nby one Isabella Savage. A cotemporary historian, writing of one of the\nleaders in a rebellion in the days of Queen {524} Mary, says, \"He then sat\ndown upon a stone opposite to Bell Savage's Inn.\"\n\nJAMES EDMESTON.\n\nHomerton.\n\n_History of York_ (Vol. viii., p. 125.).--There is a _History of York_,\npublished in 1785 by Wilson and Spence, described to be an abridgment of\nDrake, which is in three volumes, and may be a later edition of the same\nwork to which MR. ELLIOT alludes.\n\nF. T. M.\n\n86. Cannon Street.\n\n_Encore_ (Vol. viii., p. 387.).--If A. A. knows the meaning of \"this French\nword\" I am a little surprised at his Query. Perhaps he means to ask why a\nFrench word should be used? It probably was first used at concerts and\noperas (_ancora_ in Italian), where the performers and even the\nperformances were foreign, and so became the fashion. Pope says:\n\n \"To the same notes thy sons shall hum or snore,\n  And all thy yawning daughters cry _encore_.\"\n\nIt was not, I think, in use so early as Shakspeare's time, who makes Bottom\nanticipate that \"the Duke shall say, Let him roar _again_, let him roar\n_again_,\" where the jingle of \"encore\" would have been obvious. It is\nsomewhat curious that where we use the French word _encore_, the French\naudiences use the Latin word \"bis.\"\n\nC.\n\n_\"Hauling over the Coals\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 125.).--This saying I conceive\nto have arisen from the custom prevalent in olden times, when every Baron\nwas supreme in his own castle, of extracting money from the unfortunate\nJews who happened to fall into his power, by means of torture. The most\nusual _modus operandi_ seems to have been roasting the victims over a slow\nfire. Every one remembers the treatment of Isaac of York by Front-de-Boeuf,\nso vividly described in Sir Walter Scott's _Ivanhoe_. Although the practice\nhas long been numbered amongst the things that were, the fact of its having\nonce obtained is handed down to posterity in this saying, as when any one\nis taken to task for his shortcomings he is _hauled over the coals_.\n\nJOHN P. STILWELL.\n\nDorking.\n\n_The Words \"Cash\" and \"Mob\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 386.).--MR. FOX was right:\n_mob_ is not genuine English--teste Dean Swift! A lady who was well known\nto Swift used to say that the greatest scrape she ever got into with him\nwas by using the word _mob_. \"Why do you say that?\" he exclaimed in a\npassion; \"never let me hear you say that again!\" \"Why, sir,\" she asked,\n\"what am I to say?\" \"The rabble, to be sure,\" answered he. (Sir W. Scott's\n_Works of Swift_, vol. ix.) The word appears to have been introduced about\nthe commencement of the eighteenth century, by a process to which we owe\nmany other and similar barbarisms--\"beauties introduced to supply the want\nof wit, sense, humour, and learning.\" In a paper of _The Tatler_, No. 230.,\nmuch in the spirit, and possibly from the pen, of Swift, complaint is made\nof the \"abbreviations and elisions\" which had recently been introduced, and\na humorous example of them is given. By these, the author adds,\n\n    \"Consonants of most obdurate sound are joined together without one\n    softening vowel to intervene; and all this only to make one syllable of\n    two, directly contrary to the example of the Greeks and Romans, and a\n    natural tendency towards relapsing into barbarity. And this is still\n    more visible in the next refinement, which consists in pronouncing the\n    first syllable in a word that has many, and dismissing the rest. Thus\n    we cram one syllable and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice\n    after she had bit off their legs to prevent their running away; and if\n    ours be the same reason for maiming our words, it will certainly answer\n    the end, for I am sure no other nation will desire to borrow them.\"\n\nI have only to add (see _Blackwood's Magazine_, vol. ii., 1842) that \"mob\nis _mobile_.\"\n\n_Cash_ appears to be from the French _caisse_, a chest, cash.\n\nJ. W. THOMAS.\n\nDewsbury.\n\n_Cash_ is from the French _caisse_, the moneychest where _specie_ was kept.\nSo _caissier_ became \"cashier,\" and _specie_ \"cash.\"\n\n_Mob_, Swift tells us (_Polite Conversation_, Introd.), is a contraction\nfor _mobile_.\n\nCLERICUS RUSTICUS has not, I fear, Johnson's _Dictionary_, where both these\nderivations are given.\n\nC.\n\n_Ampers &._ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol. viii. _passim_).--MR. INGLEBY\nmay well ask what \"and-per-se-and\" can mean. The fact is, this is itself a\ncorruption. In old spelling-books, after the twenty-six letters it was\ncustomary to print the two following symbols with their explanations\n\n  &c. et cetera.\n  & (per se), and.\n\nChildren were taught to read the above \"et-cee, et cetera\" and \"et-per-se,\nand.\" Such, at least, was the case in a Dublin school, some ninety years\nago, where my informant, now many years deceased, was educated. As _se_ was\nnot there pronounced like _cee_, but like _say_, there was no danger of\nconfounding the two names. In England, where a different pronunciation of\nthe Latin word prevailed, such confusion would be apt to occur; and hence,\nprobably, English teachers substituted _and_ for _et_; from which, in\ncourse of time, the other corruptions mentioned by MR. LOWER were\ndeveloped.\n\nE. H. D. D.\n\n{525}\n\n_The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The following\naccount is taken from Burke's _Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England_,\nLond. 1841:\n\n    \"William Keate of Hagbourne, in Berkshire, left five sons. The second\n    son, Ralph Keate of Whaddon, in Wiltshire, married Anne, daughter of\n    John Clarke, Esq., of Ardington, in Berkshire, and had with other issue\n    Gilbert Keate, Esq., of London, who married, first, John, daughter of\n    Niclolas Turbervile, Esq. of Crediton, in Devon, and, secondly,\n    Elizabeth, daughter of William Armstrong, Esq., of Remston, Notts, and\n    by her had another son, Jonathan Keate, Esq., of the Hoo, in the county\n    of Hertford, which estate he acquired with his first wife, Susannah\n    daughter of William, and sister and heir of Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo and\n    Kimpton, both in Hertfordshire. Mr. Keate was created a baronet by King\n    Charles II., 12th June, 1660. Sir Jonathan was sheriff of the county of\n    Hertford, 17 Charles II., and knight of the same shire in Parliament,\n    in the thirtieth of the same reign. By his first wife he had issue,\n    Gilbert Hoo, his heir, Jonathan, Susan, Elizabeth: all died _sine\n    prole_. He married, secondly, Susanna, daughter of John Orlebar,\n    citizen of London, but by her had no issue. He died 17th September,\n    1700. The baronetcy became extinct in the person of Sir William Keate,\n    D.D., who died 6th March, 1757.\"\n\n[Greek: Halieus]\n\n_Hour-glasses_ (Vol. viii., p. 454.).--In the church of Wiggenhall, St.\nMary the Virgin, the iron frame of an hour-glass, affixed to a wooden\nstand, immediately opposite the pulpit, still remains.\n\nW. B. D.\n\nAn iron hour-glass stand still remains near the pulpit in the church of\nAshby-Folville, in this county (Leicester). It is fixed to the wall\ncontaining the staircase to the rood-loft.\n\nIn the old church of Anstey, recently pulled down and rebuilt, was an\nancient hour-glass stand, consisting of a pillar of oak, about four feet\nhigh, the top of which is surmounted by a light framework of wood for the\nreception of the hour-glass. This specimen is preserved in the museum of\nthis town.\n\nWILLIAM KELLY.\n\n_Marriage of Cousins_ (Vol. viii., p. 387.).--If there is any foundation\nfor such a statement as is contained in the Query of J. P. relative to the\nmarriage of cousins, it consists rather in the marriage of first cousins\nonce removed than of second cousins. It will be seen that the latter\nrelationship belongs to the same generation, but it is not so with the\nformer, which partakes more of the nature of uncle and aunt with nephew and\nniece.\n\nW. SLOANE SLOANE-EVANS.\n\nCornworthy Vicarage, Totnes.\n\nThere is no legal foundation for the statement that marriage with a second\ncousin is valid, and with a first cousin invalid. The following quotation\nfrom Burn's _Ecc. Law_ by Phill., vol. ii. p. 449., will probably be\nconsidered to explain the matter:\n\n    \"By the civil law first cousins are allowed to marry, but by the canon\n    law both first and second cousins (in order to make dispensations more\n    frequent and necessary) are prohibited; therefore, when it is vulgarly\n    said that first cousins may marry, but second cousins cannot, probably\n    this arose by confounding these two laws, for first cousins may marry\n    by the civil law, and second cousins cannot by the canon law.\"\n\nJ. G.\n\nExon.\n\n_Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.), was the son of Thomas\nand Margaret Waugh, of Appleby, in Westmoreland; born there 2nd February,\n1655; educated at Appleby school; matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford,\n4th of April, 1679; took his degree of M.A. the 7th of July, 1687; and\nelected Fellow on the 18th of January following. He married Elizabeth,\nwidow of the Rev. Mr. Fiddes, rector of Bridewell, in Oxford, who was the\nonly surviving child of John Machen, Esq., of ----, in the county of\nOxford, by whom he left son, John Waugh, afterwards chancellor of the\ndiocese of Carlisle.\n\nKARLEOLENSIS.\n\n_Marriage Service_ (Vol. viii., p. 150.).--I have been many years in holy\norders, and have always received the fee together with the ring on the\nPrayer Book, as directed in the Rubric. The ring I return to the bridegroom\nto place upon the bride's finger; the fee (or offering) I deposit in the\noffertory basin, held for that purpose by the clerk, and on going to the\nchancel (the marriage taking place in the body of the church) lay it on the\naltar. Note.--In the parish in which I first ministered, the marriages had\nalways been commenced in the body of the church, as directed; in the second\nparish in which I ministered, that custom had only been broken by the\npresent incumbent a few years since.\n\nA RECTOR.\n\nI have seen the Rubric carried out in this particular, in St. Mary's\nChurch, Kidderminster.\n\nCUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_Hoby, Family of_ (Vol. viii., p. 243.).--In answer to MR. J. B. WHITBORNE,\nI beg to state that the Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, Baronet, was in the early\npart of the last century chancellor of the archdiocese of Dublin. He was an\nintimate friend of Archbishop Cobbe, and there is a picture of him in\ncanonicals at Newbridge, co. Dublin.\n\nT. C.\n\n_Cambridge Graduates_ (Vol. viii., p. 365.).--Your correspondent will find\na list of B.A.'s of Cambridge University from the years 1500 to 1717 in\nAdd. MS. 5885., British Museum.\n\nGLAIUS.\n\n{526}\n\n_\"I own I like not,\" &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 366.).--The lines--\n\n \"I own like not Johnson's turgid style,\" &c.\n\nare by Peter Pindar, whose works I have not, and so cannot give an exact\nreference. The extract containing them will be found in Chambers'\n_Cyclopaedia of English Literature_, vol. ii. p. 298.\n\nP. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.\n\n_\"Topsy Turvy\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 385.).--This is ludicrously derived, in\n_Roland Cashel_, p. 104., from _top side t'other way_.\n\nP. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.\n\n_\"When the Maggot bites\"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 304. 353.).--Another\nillustration of this phrase may be found in Swift (Introduction to _Tale of\na Tub_):\n\n    \"The two principal qualifications (says he) of a fanatic preacher are,\n    his inward light, and his head full of _maggots_; and the two different\n    fates of his writings are to be burnt or worm-eaten.\"\n\nThe word _maggot_ is sometimes used for the whim or crotchet itself; thus\nButler:\n\n \"To reconcile our late dissenters,\n  Our brethren though by different venters;\n  Unite them and their different _maggots_,\n  As long and short sticks are in faggots.\"--_Hudibras_, part III. canto 2.\n\nSo also it is used by Samuel Wesley (father of the founder of the\nMethodists) in his rare and facetious volume entitled _Maggots, or Poems on\nseveral Subjects never before handled_, 12mo., 1685.\n\nWILLIAM BATES.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n_\"Salus populi,\" &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 410.).--The saying \"Salus populi\nsupreme lex\" is borrowed from the model law of Cicero, in his treatise _de\nLegibus_, III. 3. It is made one of the duties of the consuls, the supreme\nmagistrates, to regard the safety of the state as their highest rule of\nconduct:\n\n    \"Regio imperio duo sunto; iique praeeundo, judicando, consulendo\n    Praetores, Judices, Consules appellantor. Militiae summum jus habento,\n    nemini parento: _ollis salus populi suprema lex esto_.\"\n\nThe allusion appears to be to the formula used by the senate for conferring\nsupreme power on the consuls in cases of emergency: \"Dare operam, ne quid\nrespublica detrimenti caperet.\" (See Sallust, _Bell. Cat._ c. 29.)\n\nL.\n\nAristotle regards the safety of the citizens as the great end of law (see\nhis _Ethics_, b. I. ch. 4.); and Cicero (_de Finibus_, lib. ii. c. 5.) lays\ndown a similar principle.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Theodoro Paleologus_ (Vol. viii., p. 408.).--The inscription referred to\nwas printed in _Archaeologia_, vol. xviii., and with some account of the\nPaleologi to which a Querist was referred in \"N. & Q.,\" Vol. v., p. 280.\n(see also pp. 173. 357.). It is astonishing how much will be found in that\n\"Californian mine,\" if the most excellent indices of the several volumes\nare only consulted. Your correspondent could in the present case have\npointed out the errors of the inscription already in print had the indices\nto \"N. & Q.\" attracted him.\n\nJ.\n\n_Worm in Books_ (Vol. viii., p. 412).--In reply to ALETHES I beg to\nacquaint him that I have tried various means for destroying the worm in old\nbooks and MSS., and the most effectual has been the chips of Russia\nleather; indeed, in but one instance have I known them fail.\n\nNEWBURIENSIS.\n\n_The Porter Family_ (Vol. viii., p. 364.).--1. The reason of the word\n_Agincourt_ being placed above the inscription in Bristol Cathedral is,\nthat the Porter family were descendants of Sir William Porter who fought at\nAgincourt.\n\n2. Charles Lempriere Porter was the son of Dr. Porter.\n\n3. This family was descended from Endymion Porter of classic and loyal\nmemory.[3]\n\nJ. R. W.\n\nBristol.\n\n[Footnote 3: [The biographical notices of Endymion Porter are extremely\nscanty. Can our correspondent furnish any particulars respecting\nhim?--ED.]]\n\n_Buckle_ (Vol. viii., p. 304.).--This word is in common use by the artizans\nwho work upon sheet-iron, to denote the curl which a sheet of iron acquires\nin passing through a pair of rollers. The word has been derived from the\nFrench _boucle_, a curl. The shoe-buckle has got its name from its curved\nform. In the days in which every man in this country, who was in easy\ncircumstances, wore a wig, it was well known that to put a wig in _buckle_,\nmeant to arrange its curls in due form.\n\n \"When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend\n  The wretch, who living sav'd a candle's end:\n  Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands,\n  Belies his features, nay, extends his hands;\n  That live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own,\n  Eternal _buckle_ takes in Parian stone.\"--Pope, _Moral Essays_, Epistle\n      III.\n\nN. W. S.\n\n_The \"Forlorn Hope\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 411.).--This is no quotation; but the\nexpression arose in the army from its leader or captain, who, being often a\ndisappointed man, or one indifferent to consequences, now ran the \"forlorn\nhope\" either of ending his days or obtaining a tomb in Westminster Abbey.\nFrom the captain, after a time, the term descended to all the little\ngallant band. In no part of our community will you find such {527} meaning\nexpressions (often very slang ones) used as in the army. A lady, without\nhearing anything to shock \"ears polite,\" might listen to the talk of a mess\ntable, and be unable to understand clearly in what the conversation\nconsisted. \"He is gone to the bad\"--meaning, he is ruined. \"A wigging from\nthe office\" (a very favourite expression)--a reprimand from the colonel.\n\"Wigging\" naturally arising from tearing the hair in anger or sorrow, and\nthe office of course substituting the place from whence it comes for the\nperson who sent it. Besides may others, _quae nunc_, &c.\n\nA DRAGOON.\n\n_Nightingale and Thorn_ (Vol. iv., p. 175., &c.).--\n\n \"If I had but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,\n  To knock my nose against when I am nodding,\n  I should sing like a nightingale.\"--Fletcher, _The Lover's Progress_, Act\n      III. Sc. 2.\n\nW. J. BERNHARD SMITH.\n\nTemple.\n\n_Burial in Unconsecrated Ground_ (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii., p.\n43.).--The following curious entry occurs in the parish register of\nPimperne, Dorset:\n\n \"Anno 1627. Vicesimo quinto Octobris.\n\n    \"Peregrinus quidam tempore pestes in communi campo mortuus eodem loco\n    quo inventus sepultus.\"\n\nThere was a pestilence in England in 1625. In 1628 sixteen thousand persons\ndied of the plague at Lyons.\n\nW. E.\n\nI do not know whether the case recorded in _London Labour and the London\nPoor_, vol. i. p. 411.--by the way, is that work ever to be completed, and\nhow far has it gone?--of a man buried at the top of a house at Foot's Cray,\nin Kent, has been noticed by any correspondent.\n\nP. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.\n\n_Sangaree_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--I take it that the word ought to be\nspelled _sansgris_, being derived from the French words _sans_, without,\nand _gris_, tipsy, meaning a beverage that would not make tipsy. I have\nbeen a good deal in the French island of Martinique, and they use the term\nfrequently in this sense as applied to a beverage made of white wine (\"Vin\nde Grave\"), syrup, water, and nutmeg with a small piece of fresh lime-skin\nhanging over the edge of the glass. A native of Martinique gave me this as\nthe derivation of the word. The beverage ought not to be stirred after the\nnutmeg is put in it, as the fastidious say it would spoil the flavour.\n\nT. B.\n\n_Point of Etiquette_ (Vol. viii., p. 386.).--The title _Miss_, without the\nChristian name, belongs to the eldest unmarried daughter of the\nrepresentative of the family only. If he have lost his own children, his\nbrother is _heir presumptive_ merely to the family honours; and can neither\nassume nor give to his daughter the titles to which they are only\nexpectants. The matter becomes evident, if you test the rule by a peerage\ninstead of a squirage. Even the eldest daughter of a baronet or landed\ngentleman loses her title of Miss, when her brother succeeds to the\nrepresentation, provided he have a daughter to claim the title.\n\nP. P.\n\n_Etymology of \"Monk\" and \"Till,\" &c._ (Vol. viii., pp. 291. 409.).--Will\nyou allow me one word on these two cases? _Monk_ is manifestly a Greek\nformative from [Greek: monos], and denotes a _solitaire_.\n\nThe proposed derivation of _till_, from _to-while_, is not new; but still\nclearly mistaken, inasmuch as the word _till_ is found in Scotch, Swedish,\nNorwegian, Danish, and others of the family. A word thus compounded would\nbe of less general use. Besides which, _to-while_ would scarcely produce\nsuch a form as _till_; it would rather change the _t_ into an aspirate,\nwhich would appear as _th_.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Forrell_ (Vol. vii., p. 630.).--Your correspondent T. HUGHES derives this\nword (applied in Devonshire, as he tells us, to the cover of book) from\n_forrell_, \"a term still used by the trade to signify an inferior kind of\nvellum.\" Is it not more natural to suppose it to be the same word which the\nFrench have made _fourreau_, a cover or sheath? (See Du Cange, vv.\n_Forellus, Forrellus_.)\n\nJ. H. T.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vii., p. 507.; Vol. viii. _passim_).--There is\na library at Wimborne Minster, in the Collegiate Church, which, on my visit\ntwo years since, appeared to contain some valuable volumes, and was\nneglected and in very bad condition.\n\n[theta].\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\nDr. Lardner has just published the third and concluding course of his\n_Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy_. The subjects treated of in\nthe present volume are _Meteorology and Astronomy_, and they are\nillustrated with thirty-seven lithographic plates, and upwards of two\nhundred engravings on wood. The work was undertaken with the very popular\nobject of supplying the means of acquiring a competent knowledge of the\nmethods and results of the physical sciences, without any unusual\nacquaintance with mathematics; and in the methods of demonstration and\nillustration of this series of treatises, that principle has as far as\npossible, been adopted so that by means of the present volumes, persons who\nhave not even a superficial knowledge of geometry and algebra may yet\nacquire with great facility a considerable acquaintance with the sciences\nof which they treat. The present volume contains a very elaborate index,\nwhich, {528} combined with the analytical tables of contents, give to the\nentire series all the usefulness of a compendious encyclopaedia of natural\nphilosophy and astronomy.\n\n_Willich's Income Tax Tables, Fourth Edition, 1853-1860_, price _One\nFlorin_, show at one view the amount of duty at the various rates fixed by\nthe late act, and are accompanied by a variety of statistical information,\ntending to show that the wealth of the nation has increased in as great, if\nnot a greater, ratio, than the population. The price at which the work is\nissued serves to lead our attention to a little pamphlet, published at\nsixpence, or 25 _mils_, by Mr. Robert Mears, entitled _Decimal Coinage\nTables for simplifying and facilitating the Introduction of the proposed\nnew Coinage_.\n\n_The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis,\ntranslated with Notes, and the Introduction of Guizot_, by Thomas\nForrester, M.A. Vol. I., is a new volume of the interesting Series of\nTranslations of the early _Church Historians of England_ publishing by Mr.\nBohn, to which we propose calling the especial attention of our readers at\nsome future period. The importance which our French neighbours attach to\nthe writings of Ordericus Vitalis is shown by the fact that the French\nHistorical Society, after publishing a translation, are now issuing an\nedition of the original text, from a laborious collation of the best MSS.,\nunder the editorship of M. Auguste le Prevost. The present translation is\nbased upon that edition.\n\nWe have on several occasions called the attention of our readers to the\nCollection of Proclamations in the possession of the Society of\nAntiquaries, and to the endeavours making by that learned body to secure as\ncomplete a series as possible of these valuable but hitherto little used\nmaterials for English History. Some contributions towards this object have,\nwe believe, been the results of our notices; and we have now to state, that\nat the opening meeting on Thursday the 17th, it was announced that William\nSalt, Esq., F.S.A., had presented to the library two volumes of\nProclamations of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Great as is the\npecuniary value of this munificent donation, it is far exceeded by its\nimportance in filling up a large gap in the existing Series. 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Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, November\n26, 1853.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCorrections made to printed original.\n\npage 520, \"Santa Maria Novella at Florence\": 'Santa Marca Novella' in\noriginal.\n\npage 521, \"Templaria ... Sm. 4to. 1828-29.\": 'Sm. 4vo.' in original.\n\npage 529, \"Brief History of its Formation\": 'Formatiom' in original.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":22267}