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Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Original\nspelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of volumes and\npages in \"Notes and Queries\" has been added at the end.]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION\n\nFOR\n\nLITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\nVOL. III.--No. 85. SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 1851.\n\nPrice Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n\n      NOTES:--\n\n      Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VIII.: The Armorican\n      Word \"Menez\"                                               473\n\n      Folk Talk: \"Eysell,\" \"Captious\"                            474\n\n      An Old Man whose Father lived in the Time of Oliver\n      Cromwell                                                   475\n\n      Minor Notes:--On a Passage in Sedley--On a Passage in\n      \"Romeo and Juliet\"--Inscription on a Tablet in\n      Limerick Cathedral                                         476\n\n      QUERIES:--\n\n      Princesses of Wales                                        477\n\n      Minor Queries:--Lady Mary Cavendish--Covey--Book wanted to\n      purchase--The Devil's Bit--Corpse passing makes a Right of\n      Way--Nao, a Ship--William Hone--Hand giving the\n      Blessing--Tinsell, a Meaning of--Arches of Pelaga--Emiott\n      Arms--Well Chapels--Davy Jones's Locker--AEsopus\n      Epulans--Written Sermons--Pallavicino and the Conte\n      d'Olivares                                                 477\n\n      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Athelney Castle,\n      Somersetshire--Legend of St. Molaisse--Bogatzky            478\n\n      REPLIES:--\n\n      Greene's Groatsworth of Witte, by Rev. Thos. Corser        479\n\n      The Dutch Martyrology                                      479\n\n      Replies to Minor Queries:--Spick and Span New--Under\n      the Rose--Handel's Occasional Oratorio--Stone\n      Chalice--Thanksgiving Book--Carved Ceiling in\n      Dorsetshire--\"Felix quem faciunt,\" &c.--The Saint\n      Graal--Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet--Sewell--\n      Col-fabias--Poem from the Digby MS.--Umbrella--The Curse of\n      Scotland--Bawn--Catacombs and Bone-houses--Bacon and\n      Fagan--To learn by heart--Auriga--Vineyards in\n      England--Barker--The Tanthony, &c.                         480\n\n      MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                     487\n\n      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               487\n\n      Notices to Correspondents                                  487\n\n      Advertisements                                             487\n\n\n\n\nNotes.\n\n\nILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. VIII.\n\n(Vol. iii., pp. 388. 420.)\n\n_The Armorican Word \"Menez.\"_\n\nI have been induced, in consequence of the scene of one of the\n_Canterbury Tales_ being\n\n  \"In _Armorike_ that called is Bretaigne,\"\n\nto re-examine that tale (the Frankleine's) in the expectation that in\nit, if anywhere, some light might be thrown upon this newly discovered\nChaucerian word \"menez\"; and I think I have succeeded in detecting its\nuse in the sense of _points_ or _summits_ of _rocks_ emerging from the\nsurface of the water.\n\nBut in weighing the probability of this being the true sense in which it\nis used in the present instance by Chaucer, the wide applicability of\nthe word \"means\" in its usual acceptation of _instrument to an end_,\nmust not be lost sight of. There is scarcely the name of any one thing\nfor which \"means\" may not be made a plausible substitution; so much so,\nthat if a man were to ask for a hat to cover his head, his demand would\nbe quite intelligible if expressed by \"a means\" to cover his head.\n\nI make this proviso as an answer to the probable objection, that\n\"menes,\" in its usual acceptation, gives sufficiently good sense to the\npassage in question; it may do so, and still not be the sense intended\nby the author.\n\nThe footing on which I wish to place the inquiry is this:\n\n1st. We have an _Armorican_ word which it is desirable to prove was\nknown to, and used by, Chaucer.\n\n2dly. We find this identical word in a tale written by him, of which the\nscene is _Armorica_.\n\n3dly. It bears, however, a close resemblance to another word of\ndifferent meaning, which different meaning happens also to afford a\nplausible sense to the same passage.\n\nThe question then is, in case this latter meaning should not appear to\nbe better, nor even so good, as that afforded by the word of which we\nare in search, shall we not give that word the preference, and thereby\nrender it doubly blessed, giving and receiving light?\n\nIn coming to a decision, it is necessary to take in the whole context.\nArviragus and Dorigene live in wedded happiness, until the former,\nleaving his wife, takes shipping\n\n      ---- \"to gon and dwelle a yere or twaine\n      In Englelond, that cleped was _eke_ Bretaigne.\"\n\nDorigene, inconsolable at his loss, sits upon the sea-shore, and views\nwith horror the \"grisly, fendly, rockes,\" with which the coast is\nstudded, in every one of which she sees certain destruction to her\nhusband in his return. She accuses the gods of injustice in forming\nthese rocks for the sole apparent purpose of destroying man, so favoured\nin other respects, and she concludes her apostrophe in these words,--\n\n      \"Than, semeth it, ye had a gret chertee\n      Toward mankind; but how then may it be\n      That ye such _men[=e]s_ make, it to destroyen,\n      Which _men[=e]s_ don no good but ever anoyen?\"\n\nUndoubtedly, in the third of these lines, \"menes\" seems to have a\nperfectly good meaning in the sense of instrument, or _means_ to\ndestroy. But, in the last line, the same sense is not so obvious--\"means\nto destroy\" must _necessarily_ be destructive, and Chaucer would never\nbe guilty of the unmeaning truism of repeating--\"means which do no good\nbut ever annoy.\"\n\nMoreover, I am not aware that the accent is ever thrown upon the silent\n_e_ where the signification of \"mene\" is an instrument--\n\n      \"She may be Godd[=e]s mene and Godd[=e]s whippe\"--\n\nbut in the lines under discussion the last syllable in both cases is\naccented, agreeing in that respect with the _Armorican sound_--\"menez.\"\n\nLet us now examine whether the Armorican _sense_ is capable of giving a\nperfect meaning to _both_ lines? That sense is, a rocky ridge or\nemerging summit. Let us substitute the word _rock[=e]s_ for _men[=e]z_,\nand then try what meaning the passage receives.\n\n      \"If, quoth Dorigene, ye love _mankind_ so well ----\n      ---- ----  ----- how then may it be\n      That ye such _rock[=e]s_ make, _it_ to destroyen,\n      Which _rock[=e]s_ don no good but ever anoyen?\"\n\nHere the sense is perfect in both lines--a sense, too, that is in exact\nkeeping with Dorigene's previous complaint of THE USELESSNESS of these\nrocks--\n\n      \"That semen rather a foule confusion\n      Of werk, than any faire creation\n      Of swiche a parfit wis[=e] God and stable;\n      Why have ye wrought this work unreasonable?\n      For by this werk, north, south, ne west, ne est,\n      There n'is yfostred man, ne brid, ne best;\n      _It doth no good_, to my wit, _but anoyeth_.\"\n\nI therefore propose the following as the true reading of the passage in\nquestion: viz.,\n\n      ---- \"Ye had a great chertee\n      Toward mankind; but how then may it be\n      That ye swiche menez make, it to destroyen,\n      Which menez don no good, but ever anoyen?\"\n\nAnd if I have succeeded in making good this position we no longer stand\nin need of a precedent for the same reading in the case of--\"In menez\nlibra.\"\n\n  A. E. B.\n\n    Leeds, May 31. 1851.\n\nP.S. I have been favoured, through the publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\"\nwith an obliging note from S.S.S. (2), communicating some authorities,\nof which the most germane to this subject are--\n\n1. From _Archaeologia Britannica_ (Edward Lhuyd. Oxford, 1707): \"Armoric,\n_Men_, a stone; _menez_, a mountain.\"\n\n2. From Walter's _Welsh Dictionary_: \"Welsh, _Maen_, a stone; _maen\nterfyn_, a boundary stone; _maen mawr_, a large stone.\"\n\n\nFOLK TALK: \"EYSELL\", \"CAPTIOUS.\"\n\nIf folk lore be worthy of a place in your columns, folk talk should not\nbe shut out, and that the etymological solutions, gathered from this\nsource, which I have previously forwarded, have not appeared, is\ndoubtless attributable to some other cause than indifferentism to the\nauthority. I have found many inexplicable words and phrases, occurring\nin the older writers, rendered plain and highly expressive by folk talk\ndefinitions; and a glance at the relative positions of the common people\nof this day, and the writers of the past, to the educated and scholarly\nworld of the nineteenth century, will suffice to show good reasons for a\ndiscriminative reference to the language of the one, for the elucidation\nof the other's expression. In common with the majority of your readers,\nas I should think, I found the notes and replies on \"eysell\" and\n\"captious\" to be highly interesting, and of course applied to the folk\ntalk for its definition. In the first case I obtained from my own\nexperience, what I think will be a satisfactory clue to its meaning, and\nsomething more in addition. There is a herb of an acid taste, the common\nname for which--the only one with which I am acquainted--is\n_green-sauce_; and this herb is, or rather was, much sought after by\nchildren in my boyish days. At a public school not a dozen miles from\nStratford-on-Avon, it was a common practice for we lads to spend our\nholidays in roaming about the fields; and among objects of search, this\ngreen-sauce was a prominent one, and it was a point of honour with each\nof us to notify to the others the discovery of a root of green-sauce. In\ndoing this, the discoverer, after satisfying himself by his taste that\nthe true herb was found, followed an accepted course, and signified his\nsuccess to his companions by raising his voice and shouting, what I have\nalways been accustomed to write, \"Hey-sall.\" I have no knowledge of the\norigin of this word; it was with us as a school-rule so to use it; and I\nhave no doubt but that \"ey-sell\" was in Shakspeare's time the popular\nname for the herb to which I allude.\n\nMixing much with the rural population of Warwickshire, I have, on many\noccasions, seen the word \"captious\" used in the sense of carping,\nirritable, unthankfulness, and self-willed; and, in my humble opinion,\nsuch a rendering would be more in accordance with the character of the\nfiction, and the poet's early teaching, than any definition I have yet\nseen in your pages.\n\n  EMUN.\n\n\nAN OLD MAN WHOSE FATHER LIVED IN THE TIME OF OLIVER CROMWELL.\n\n  [We are indebted to the kindness of the Rev. THOMAS CORSER for the\n  opportunity of preserving in our columns the following interesting\n  notice, from the _Manchester Guardian_ of the 19th August, 1843,\n  of the subject of his communication in our No. for May 31. (No.\n  83, p. 421.)]\n\nHaving heard of the extraordinary circumstance of an old man named James\nHorrocks, in his hundredth year, living in Harwood, about three miles\nfrom Bolton, whose father lived in the time of Oliver Cromwell, we took\nan opportunity, a few days ago, of visiting this venerable descendant of\na sire who was contemporary with the renowned Protector. Until within\nthe last few years he resided at Hill End, a small estate left him by an\nuncle when he was about twenty-six years old; but both his surviving\ndaughters being married, and himself growing feeble, and his sight\nfailing him, he left the land and went to reside with his eldest\ndaughter, Margaret, and his son-in-law, John Haslam, at a place called\n\"The Nook,\" near the Britannia, in Harwood. Here we found the old man,\nsurrounded with every comfort which easy circumstances and affectionate\nfriends can afford, and, to use his own language, \"neither tired of\nliving, nor yet afraid to die.\" He is a remarkably good-looking old man,\nwith long, silvery locks, and a countenance beaming with benevolence and\ngood nature. He has nearly lost the use of his eye-sight, and is a\nlittle dull of hearing, yet he is enabled to walk about. The loss of his\nsight he regrets most of all, as it prevents him from spending his time\nin reading, to which he was before accustomed; and, as he remarked, also\ndenies him the pleasure of looking upon his children and his old\nfriends. He converses with remarkable cheerfulness for one of his years.\nAs an instance, we may mention, that, on observing to him that he must\nhave been a tall man in his youth, he sprang up from his arm chair with\nthe elasticity of middle age, rather than the decrepitude usually\naccompanying those few who are permitted to spin out the thread of life\nto the extent of a century, and, with a humorous smile upon his\ncountenance, put his hands to his thighs, and stood as straight as an\narrow against a gentleman nearly six feet, remarking, at the same time,\n\"I don't think I am much less now than ever I was.\" He stands now about\nfive feet eight inches and a half. A short time ago, on coming down\nstairs in the morning, he observed to his daughter, with his accustomed\ngood humour, and buoyancy of spirit, \"I wonder what I shall dream next;\nI dreamt last night that I was going to be married again; and who knows\nbut I could find somebody that would have me yet.\" His son-in-law is an\nold grey-headed man, much harder of hearing than himself; and it\nfrequently happens, that when any of the family are endeavouring to\nexplain anything to him, old James will say, \"Stop, and I'll _insense_\nhim;\" and his lungs seldom fail in the undertaking.\n\nFrom this interesting family we learn, that William Horrocks, the father\nof the present James, of whom we have been speaking, was born in 1657,\nfour years after Oliver Cromwell was declared protector, and one year\nbefore his death. He would be two years old when Richard Cromwell, who\nsucceeded his father, resigned; and four years old when Charles II. was\ncrowned in 1661. The exact period of his first marriage we have not been\nable to ascertain; but it is certain that his bride was employed as\nnurse in the well-known family of the Chethams, either at Turton Tower,\nor at Castleton Hall, near Rochdale. By this marriage he had four\nchildren, as appears from the following memorandums, written in an\nexcellent hand in the back of an old black-letter Bible, printed in\n1583:\n\n  \"Mary, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born\n  the 15th day of September, and baptised the 23d day of the same\n  month, Anno Dom. 1683.\"\n\n  \"John, the son of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born the\n  18th day of January, and baptized the 25th day of the same month,\n  Anno Dom. 1686.\"\n\n  \"Ann, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born the\n  14th day of March, and baptized the 23d day of the same month,\n  Anno Dom. 1699.\"\n\n  \"William, the son of William and Elisabeth Horrocks, was born the\n  9th day of June, and baptised the 17th day of the same month, Anno\n  Dom. 1700.\"\n\nAt what time his wife died, we are also unable to ascertain; but there\nis no doubt he remained a widower for many years, and at length married\nhis housekeeper, a comely blooming young woman, whose kindness to the\nold man was unremitting, and he married her in 1741, at the age of\neighty-four, she being at the time only twenty-six.\n\nThis marriage evidently attracted much attention in the neighbourhood,\nand we find that, about two years afterwards, the old man and his\nyouthful partner were sent for to Castleton Hall, the residence of a\nbranch of Humphry Chetham's family, where they were treated with great\nkindness, and a portrait painter engaged to take their likenesses, which\nare now in the possession of their son, and add much to the interest of\na visit to him. These portraits are well executed; and, of course,\nappear rather like those of a grandfather and his grandchild than of\nhusband and wife, although he appears more like sixty than eighty-six.\nIn front of each painting is prominently inscribed the age of each of\nthe parties, and the date when the portrait was taken. Upon that of the\nhusband the inscription is, \"AETA: 86--1743.\" And upon that of the wife,\n\"AETA: 28--1743.\" These, it appears, were taken two years after their\nmarriage, and preserved in the Chetham family, at Castleton Hall, as\ngreat curiosities.\n\nIn the following year, the present James was born, as appears from the\nfollowing entry on the back of the same old Bible:\n\n  \"James, the son of William and Elizabeth Horrocks of Bradshaw\n  Chapel, was born March 14th, 1744.\"\n\nHe will therefore complete his hundredth year on the 14th of next March.\nHe was born in a house near Bradshaw Chapel, which has long since been\nremoved. He was about twenty-seven years old when an uncle left him a\nsmall estate in Harwood, called Hill End; and soon after he married, we\nbelieve in 1773, and by that marriage had eight children. William, the\nson of James and Margaret Horrocks, was born February 21, 1776;\nMargaret, March 31, 1778; John, August 11, 1781; Simon, Dec. 23, 1783;\nMatty, June 28, 1786; James, Jan. 13, 1789; Sarah, Sept. 22, 1791; and\nBetty, Jan. 8, 1794.\n\nOf these, the only survivors are Margaret, aged sixty-five, the wife of\nJohn Haslam, with whom the old man now resides; and Betty, the youngest,\naged forty-nine, who is married, and has four children.\n\nThe old man was only eleven years old when his father died, and has no\nrecollection of hearing him mention any remarkable event occurring in\nhis lifetime.\n\nOn asking the old man how he came into possession of the portraits of\nhis father and mother, he stated, that, some years ago, he saw in the\nnewspapers a sale advertised of the property at Castleton Hall, and went\nthere before the day to inquire after the portraits, with the view of\npurchasing them before the sale. The servants at the hall admitted him,\nand he found they were not there. He then went to the house of the\nsteward, and found he was not at home; he, however, left a message,\ndesiring that the steward would send him word if there was any\nprobability of his being able to purchase the portraits. Accordingly,\nthe steward sent him word that they had been removed, with the family\nportraits, to the residence of a lady near Manchester, where he might\nhave the satisfaction of seeing them. The old man cannot remember either\nthe name or the address of the lady. However, he went to the place, in\ncompany with a friend, and saw the lady, who treated him with the\ngreatest kindness. She showed him the portraits, and was so much pleased\nwith the desire he manifested to purchase them, that she said, if she\ncould be certain that he was the heir, she would make him a present of\nthem, as his filial affection did him great honour. His friend assured\nher that he was the only child of his mother by William Horrocks, and\nshe then gave them to him, although she parted with them with regret, as\nshe had no other paintings that attracted so much attention. His\nrecollection of the circumstances are so perfect, that he remembers\noffering a gratuity to the servants for packing the portraits, which the\nlady would not allow them to receive.\n\nAs an instance of the health and vigour of this remarkable old man, it\nmay be mentioned, that ten years ago, in the winter of 1832-3, he\nattended at Newton, to vote for Lord Molyneux, then a candidate for\nSouth Lancashire. He was then in his ninetieth year. He walked from\nHarwood to Bolton, a distance of three miles. From thence he went to\nNewton by the railway; and, having voted, he by some means missed the\ntrain, and walked to Bolton, a distance of fifteen miles. On arriving\nthere he took some refreshment, and again set out for Harwood, and\naccomplished the distance of twenty-one miles in the day, in the depth\nof winter.--_Manchester Guardian_, Aug. 19, 1843.\n\n\nMINOR NOTES.\n\n_On a Passage in Sedley._--There is a couplet in Sir Charles Sedley's\npoems, which is quoted as follows in a work in my possession:\n\n      \"Let fools the name of loyalty divide:\n      Wise men and Gods are on the strongest side.\"\n\nDoes the context require the word \"divide?\" or is it a misprint for\n\"deride?\" Of course, the latter word would completely alter the sense,\nbut it seems to me that it would make it more consistent with truth. The\nword \"divide\" supposes loyalty to be characteristic of fools, and places\nthe Gods in antagonism to that sentiment; while the word \"deride\"\nrestores them to their natural position.\n\n    HENRY H. BREEN.\n\n  St. Lucia, April, 1851.\n\n_On a Passage in Romeo and Juliet._--In the encounter between Mercutio\nand Tybalt (Act III. Sc. 1.), in which Mercutio is killed, he addresses\nTybalt tauntingly thus:--\n\n  \"Good king of cats, &c., will you pluck your sword out of his\n  _pilcher_ by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears\n  ere it be out.\"\n\nThe first quarto has _scabbard_, all the later editions have _pilcher_,\na word occurring nowhere else. There has been a vain attempt to make\n_pilcher_ signify a _leathern sheath_, because a _pilch_ was a _garment\nof leather_ or _pelt_. To me it is quite evident that _pilcher_ is a\nmere typographical error for _pitcher_, which, in this jocose, bantering\nspeech, Mercutio substitutes for _scabbard_, else why are the _ears_\nmentioned? The poet was familiar with the proverb \"Pitchers have ears,\"\nof which he has elsewhere twice availed himself. The _ears_, as every\none knows, are the _handles_, which have since been called the _lugs_.\nShakspeare would hardly have substituted a word of his own creation for\n_scabbard_; but _pitcher_ was suggested by the play upon the word\n_ears_, which is used for _hilts_ in the plural, according to the\nuniversal usage of the poet's time. The _ears_, applied to a _leathern\ncoat_, or even a _sheath_, would be quite unmeaning, but there is a well\nsustained ludicrous image in \"pluck your sword out of his _pitcher by\nthe ears_.\"\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n_Inscription on a Tablet in Limerick Cathedral._--\n\n  \"Mementi Mory.\n\n  \"Here lieth Littele Samuell Barinton, that great Under Taker, of\n  Famious Cittis Clock and Chime Maker; He made his one Time goe\n  Early and Latter, But now He is returned to God his Creator.\n\n  \"The 19 of November Then He Seest, And for His Memory This Here is\n  Pleast, By His Son Ben 1693.\"\n\nThe correctness of this copy, _in every respect_, may be relied upon.\n\n    R. J. R.\n\n\n\n\nQueries.\n\n\nPRINCESSES OF WALES.\n\nBlackstone, in his _Commentaries_, vol. i. p. 224., says, the heir\napparent to the crown is usually made Prince of Wales and Earl of\nChester; upon which Mr. Christian in a note remarks, upon the authority\nof Hume, that this creation has not been confined to the heir apparent,\nfor both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were created by their father,\nHenry VIII., Princesses of Wales, each of them at the time (the latter\nafter the legitimation of Mary) being heir presumptive to the crown.\n\nCan any of your correspondents inform me upon what authority this\nstatement of Hume rests? or whether there exists any evidence of such\ncreations having been made? Do any such creations appear upon the Patent\nRolls? The statement is not supported by any writer of authority upon\nsuch subjects, and, as far as your Querist's investigation has\nproceeded, seems without foundation. It is one, however, too important\nin connexion with royal titles to remain uncontradicted, if the fact be\nnot so.\n\n    G.\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Lady Mary Cavendish._--Information is requested respecting the\n_ancestry_ of the Lady Mary Cavendish, who married a Lieutenant\nMaudesley, or Mosley, of the Guards. She is thought to have been maid of\nhonour to Queen Anne. And a Sir Henry Cavendish, who was teller of the\nExchequer in Ireland some sixty years ago, was of the same family.\n\n    CAVENDO.\n\n_Covey._--When the witches in this country were very numerous, Satan for\nconvenience divided them into companies of thirteen (one reason why\nthirteen has always been considered an unlucky number), and called each\ncompany a _covine_. Is that the etymology of the word _covey_, as\napplied to birds?\n\n    L. M. M. R.\n\n_Book wanted to purchase._--Can any one help me to find a little book on\n\"Speculative Difficulties in the Christian Religion?\" I read such a book\nabout four years ago, and have quite forgotten its title and its author.\nThe last chapter in the book was on the \"Origin of Evil.\" There is a\nlittle book called _Speculative Difficulties_, but that is not the one I\nmean.\n\n    L. M. M. R.\n\n_The Devil's Bit._--In the Barnane Mountains, near Templemore, Ireland,\nthere is a large dent or hollow, visible at the distance of twenty\nmiles, and known by the name of the \"Devil's Bit.\"\n\nCan any of your readers assist me in discovering the origins of this\nsingular name? There is a foolish tradition that the Devil was obliged,\nby one of the saints, to make a road for his Reverence across an\nextensive bog in the neighbourhood, and so taking a piece of the\nmountain in his mouth, he strode over the bog and deposited a road\nbehind him!\n\n    SING.\n\n_Corpse passing makes a Right of Way._--What is the origin of the\nsupposed custom of land becoming public property, after a funeral has\npassed over it? An instance of this occurred (I am told) a short time\nsince at Battersea.\n\n    R. W. E.\n\n_Nao, a Ship._--Seeing it twice stated in Mr. G. F. Angas's _Australia\nand New Zealand_, that \"in the Celtic dialect of the Welsh, Nao (is) a\nship,\" I am desirous to learn in what author of that language, or in\nwhat dictionary or glossary thereof, any such word is to be met with.\n(See vol. ii., pp. 274. 278.) I doubt, or even disbelieve, the Britons\nhaving had _any_ name for a ship, though they had a name for an osier\nfloating basket, covered with raw hides. And when they became familiar\nwith the _navis longa_ of the Romans, they and their Gaelic neighbours\nadopted the adjective, and not the substantive. But the question of\n_nao_ is one of fact; and having got the assertion, I want the\nauthority.\n\n    A. N.\n\n_William Hone._--I wish to meet with the interesting and touching\naccount of the conversion of William Hone, the compiler of the _Every\nDay Book_, and should be obliged to any one who would tell me where it\nis to be found.\n\n    E. V.\n\n_Hand giving the Blessing._--What is the origin of holding up the two\nforefingers and thumb, and pressing down the third and little fingers of\nthe right hand in giving \"the blessing,\" as we see in figures of\nbishops, &c.? Is it a mystic allusion to the Trinity?\n\n    A. A. D.\n\n  4. Moray Place, Birkenhead.\n\n_Tinsell, a Meaning of._--I wish to know if this word is still used by\nthe country-people in the midland counties, and on the borders of North\nWales, to denote _fire-wood_. In a Report dated in 1620, from a surveyor\nto the owner of an estate in Wales, near the borders of Shropshire, the\nfollowing mention of it occurs:\n\n  \"There is neither wood nor underwood on the said lands, but a few\n  underwoods in the park of hasell, alders, withie, and thornes, and\n  such like, which the tenants doe take and use for _Tinsel_ as need\n  requires.\"\n\nThe working people in Shropshire and Staffordshire still speak of\n_tining_ a fire (pronounced _teening_). This is but a slight change in\nthe Anglo-Saxon word _tynan_, to light a fire.\n\n    S. S. S.\n\n_Arches of Pelaga._--A young sailor, in his passage from Alexandria to\nTrinadas, mentions a place under this designation. Query, Is there a\nplace correctly so called, or is this one of the misnomers not\nunfrequent among seamen?\n\n    M. A. LOWER.\n\n_Emiott Arms._--What are the arms of the family of Emiott of Kent?\n\n    E. H. Y.\n\n_Well Chapels._--Will any of your learned readers be kind enough to\ndirect me to the best sources of information on this subject?\n\n    H. G. T.\n\n_Davy Jones's Locker._--If a sailor is killed in a sea-skirmish, or\nfalls overboard and is drowned, or any other fatality occurs which\nnecessitates the consignment of his remains to the \"great deep,\" his\nsurviving messmates speak of him as one who has been sent to \"Davy\nJones's Locker.\" Who was the important individual whose name has become\nso powerful a myth? And what occasioned the identification of the ocean\nitself with the locker of this mysterious Davy Jones?\n\n    HENRY CAMPKIN.\n\n_AEsopus Epulans._--I shall be much obliged by information respecting the\nauthorship and history of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to.\n\n    N. B.\n\n_Written Sermons._--Information is requested as to when the custom of\npreaching from written sermons was first introduced, and the\ncircumstances which gave rise to it.\n\n    M. C. L.\n\n_Pallavicino and the Conte d'Olivares._--I have in my possession an old\nItalian MS., 27 pages of large foolscap paper. It is headed \"Caduta del\nConte d'Olivares,\" and at the end is signed \"Scritta da Ferrante\nPallavicino,\" and dated \"28 Genaro, 1643.\" Of course this Count\nd'Olivares was the great favourite of Philip IV. of Spain; but who was\nPallavicino? Could it have been the Paravicino who was court chaplain to\nPhilip III. and IV.? or was he of the Genoese family of Pallavicini\nmentioned by Leigh Hunt (_Autobiography_, vol. ii. p. 177.) as having\nbeen connected with the Cromwell family? What favours the latter\npresumption is, that a gentleman to whom I showed the MS. said at once,\n\"That is Genoa paper, just the same I got there for rough copies;\" and\nhe also told me that the water-mark was a well-known Genoa mark: it\nconsists of a bird standing on an eight pointed starlike flower.\n\nIf any one can give me any likely account of this Pallavicino, or tell\nme whether the MS. is at all valuable in any way, I shall owe him many\nthanks.\n\n    CHARLES O. SOULEY.\n\n  Broadway, New York, May 10. 1851.\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Athelney Castle, Somersetshire._--Can any of your readers inform me,\nwhether Athelney Castle, built by King Alfred, as a monastery, in token\nof his gratitude to God for his preservation, when compelled to fly from\nhis throne, is in existence; or if any remains of it can be traced, as I\ndo not find it mentioned either in several maps, gazetteers, or\ntopographical dictionaries? It was situate about four miles from\nBridgewater, near the conflux of the rivers Parrot and Tone?\n\n    J. S.\n\n  Islington, May 15. 1851.\n\n_Athelney._--In a visit which I recently paid to the field of\n_Sedgemoor_ and the Isle of _Athelney_ in Somersetshire, I found on the\nlatter a stone pillar, inclosed by an iron railing, designed to point\nthe traveller's eye to the spot, so closely associated with his earliest\nhistorical studies, with the burnt cakes, the angry housewife, and the\ncastigated king. The pillar bears the following inscription, which you\nmay think perhaps worthy of preservation in your useful pages:--\n\n  \"King Alfred the Great, in the year of our Lord 879, having been\n  defeated by the Danes, fled for refuge to the forest of Athelney,\n  where he lay concealed from his enemies for the space of a whole\n  year. He soon after regained possession of his throne, and in\n  grateful remembrance of the protection he had received, under the\n  favour of Heaven, he erected a monastery on this spot and endowed\n  it with all the lands contained in the Isle of Athelney. To\n  perpetuate the memorial of so remarkable an incident in the life\n  of that illustrious prince, this edifice was founded by John\n  Slade, Esq., of Mansell, the proprietor of Athelney and Lord of\n  the Manor of North Petherton, A. D. 1801.\"\n\n    J. R. W.\n\n  Bristol.\n\n_Legend of St. Molaisse_ (Vol. ii., p. 79.).--Can you tell me anything\nmore about this MS., and in whose possession it now is?\n\n    R. H.\n\n  [\"The Legend of St. Molaisse\" was sold in a sale at Puttick and\n  Simpson's, July 3, 1850, for the sum of L8. 15_s._]\n\n_Bogatzky._--Who was Bogatzky, the author of the well-known _Golden\nTreasury_? Any particulars of his life will be acceptable.\n\n    E. V.\n\n  [Bogatzky was a Polish nobleman, the pupil of the great Professor\n  Francke, and of a kindred spirit. He died at an advanced age in\n  1768. It is not generally known that Bogatzky published a Second\n  Volume of his _Golden Treasury_, which Dr. Steinkopff revised and\n  edited in 1812, to which he prefixed a short but interesting\n  account of the author. See also _Allgemeine Enyclopaedie von Ersch\n  und Gruber_, s.v.]\n\n\n\n\nReplies.\n\n\nGREENE'S \"GROATSWORTH OF WITTE.\"\n\n(Vol. iii., p. 140.)\n\nIn answer to MR. HALLIWELL's Query, \"whether the remarkable passage\nrespecting Shakspeare in this work has descended to us in its genuine\nstate,\" I beg to inform him that I possess a copy of the edition of\n1596, as well as of those of 1617 and 1621, from the latter of which the\nreprint by Sir Egerton Brydges was taken, and that the passage in\nquestion is exactly the same in all the three editions. For the general\ninformation of your readers interested in Greene's works, I beg to\nstate, that the variations in the edition of 1596 from the other two,\nconsist of the words \"written before his death, and published at his\ndying request,\" on the title; and instead of the introductory address\n\"To Wittie Poets, or Poeticall Wittes,\" signed I. H., there are a few\nlines on A 2, \"The Printer to the Gentle Readers:\"\n\n  \"I haue published heere, Gentlemen, for your mirth and benefit,\n  Greene's Groateswoorth of Wit. With sundry of his pleasant\n  discourses ye haue beene before delighted: But now hath death\n  giuen a period to his pen, onely this happened into my hands which\n  I haue published for your pleasures: Accept it fauourably because\n  it was his last birth, and not least worth, in my poore opinion.\n  But I will cease to praise that which is aboue my conceit, and\n  leaue it selfe to speake for it selfe: and so abide your learned\n  censuring.\n\n  \"Yours, W. W.\"\n\nThen follows another short address, \"To the Gentlemen Readers,\" by\nGreene himself; and as this edition is so rare, only two copies being\nknown, and the address is short, I transcribe it entire for your\ninsertion:\n\n  \"Gentlemen, The Swan sings melodiously before death, that in all\n  his life time vseth but a iarring sound. _Greene_, though able\n  inough to write, yet deeplyer searched with sicknesse than euer\n  heretofore, sendes you his swanne-like song, for that he feares he\n  shall neuer againe carroll to you woonted loue layes, neuer againe\n  discouer to you youth's pleasures. Howeuer yet sicknesse, riot,\n  incontinence, haue at once shown their extremitie, yet if I\n  recouer, you shall all see more fresh springs then euer sprang\n  from me, directing you how to liue, yet not diswading you from\n  loue. This is the last I haue writ, and I feare me the last I\n  shall write. And how euer I haue beene censured for some of my\n  former bookes, yet, Gentlemen, I protest, they were as I had\n  special information. But passing them, I commend this to your\n  fauourable censures, and like an Embrion without shape, I feare me\n  will bee thrust into the world. If I liue to ende it, it shall be\n  otherwise: if not, yet will I commend it to your courtesies, that\n  you may as wel be acquainted with my repentant death, as you haue\n  lamented my carelesse course of life. But as _Nemo ante obitum\n  felix_, so _Acta exitus probat_: Beseeching therefore to bee\n  deemed hereof as I deserue, I leaue the worke to your liking, and\n  leaue you to your delights.\"\n\nGreene died in September, 1592; and this is curious, as being probably\nthe last thing that ever came from his pen.\n\nThe work commences on sig. A 4, the other three leaves being occupied\nwith the title and the two addresses. It concludes with Greene's \"letter\nwritten to his wife,\" and has not \"Greene's Epitaph: Discoursed\nDialogue-wise betweene Life and Death,\" which is in the two later\neditions.\n\nI may here mention that I possess a copy of an extremely rare work\nrelating to Robert Greene, which has only lately become known, viz.:\n\n  \"Greene's Newes both from Heaven and Hell. Prohibited the first\n  for writing of Bookes, and banished out of the last for displaying\n  of Connycatchers. Commended to the Presse by B. R.\" (Barnabee\n  Rich) 4to. bl. lett. Lond. 1593.\n\nConcerning the great rarity of this interesting tract, which was unknown\nto the Rev. A. Dyce when publishing his edition of Greene's works, your\nreaders may see a notice by Mr. Collier in his _Extracts from the\nRegistry of the Stat. Comp._, vol. ii. p. 233., apparently from the\npresent copy, no other being known.\n\n    THOS. CORSER.\n\n  Stand Rectory.\n\n\nTHE DUTCH MARTYROLOGY.\n\n(Vol. iii., p. 443.)\n\nBesides the copy of the above work mentioned by your correspondent J. H.\nT., several others are known to exist in this country. Among them I may\nmention one in the library of the Baptist College, Bristol. My own copy\nwas supplied by a London bookseller, who has likewise imported several\nother copies from Holland, where it is by no means a scarce work.\n\nThe second illustrated edition was published twenty years after the\ndecease of Van Braght. The first edition, without engravings, now before\nme, appeared in 1660, which was the edition used by Danvers. But Danvers\ndoes not appear to have known its existence, when the first edition of\nhis treatise came out in 1673. The \"large additions\" of his second\nedition in 1674, are chiefly made from the work of Van Braght.\n\nThe original portion of Van Braght's work is, however, confined to the\nfirst part. The second part, _The Martyrology_, strictly so called, is\nof much earlier date. Many single narratives appeared at the time, and\ncollections of these were early made. The earliest collection of\nmartyrdoms bears the date of 1542. This was enlarged in 1562, 1578,\n1580, and 1595. This fact I give on the authority of Professor Mueller of\nAmsterdam, from the _Jaarboekje voor de Doopsgezinde Gemeenten in de\nNederlanden, 1838 en 1839_, pp. 102, 103.\n\nAn edition, dated 1599, of these very rare books is now before me. It\nhas the following curious and affecting title:\n\n  \"Dit Boeck wort genaemt: Het Offer des Heeren, Om het inhout van\n  sommige opgeofferde Kinderen Gods, de welcke voort gebrocht\n  hebben, wt den goeden schat haers herten, Belijdinghen,\n  Sentbrieuen ende Testamenten, de welcke sy met den monde beleden,\n  ende met den bloede bezeghelt hebben, &c. &c. Tot Harlinghen. By\n  my Peter Sebastiaenzoon, Int jaer ons Heeren MDXCIX.\"\n\nIt is a thick 12mo. of 229 folios, and contains the martyrdoms of\nthirty-three persons (the first of which is Stephen), which were\nsubsequently embodied in the larger martyrologies. Each narrative is\nfollowed by a versified version of it. A small book of hymns is added,\nsome of them composed by the martyrs; and the letters and confession of\none Joos de Tollenaer, who was put to death at Ghent in 1589.\n\nIn 1615, a large collection of these narratives appeared at Haarlem in a\nthick 4to. volume. The compilers were Hans de Ries, Jaques Outerman, and\nJoost Govertsoon, all eminent Mennonite ministers. Two editions followed\nfrom the press of Zacharias Cornelis at Hoorn in 1617 and 1626, both in\n4to., but under different editorship. The last edition was offensive to\nthe Haarlem editors, who therefore published a fourth at Haarlem in\n1631. As its title is brief, I will give it from the copy in my library:\n\n  \"Martelaers Spiegel der Werelose Christenen t' zedert A. D. 1524.\n  Joan, xv. 20. Matt. x. 28. Esai, li. 7. Joan xvi. 2. 1 Pet. iv.\n  19. [All quoted at length.] Gedrukt tot Haarlem Bij Hans\n  Passchiers van Wesbusch. In't Jaer onses Heeren, 1631.\"\n\nThis edition is in small folio. The title-page is from a copperplate,\nand is adorned with eight small engravings, representing scenes of\nsuffering and persecution from scripture. The narratives of martyrs\nextends from 1524 to 1624. It is this work which forms the basis of Van\nBraght's. He added to it the whole of his first part, and also some\nadditional narratives in the second. To the best of his ability he\nverified the whole.\n\nThese works are frequently referred to by Ottius in his _Annales\nAnabaptistici_ under the titles \"Martyrologium Harlemense\" and\n\"Martyrologium Hornanum.\"\n\nFrom a paper in the _Archivs fuer Kunde oesterreichischer\nGeschichtsquellen_, I learn that a MS. exists in the City library of\nHamburgh, with the following title:\n\n  \"Chronickel oder Denkbueechel darinnen mit kurtzen Begriffen, Was\n  sich vom 1524 Jar, Bis auff gegenwaertige Zeit, in der gemain\n  zuegetragen, vnd wie viel trewer Zeugen Jesu Christij die warheit\n  Gottes so riterlich mit irem bluet bezeugt. 1637.\"\n\nThe work appears chiefly confined to a history of the Moravian\nAnabaptists: but from passages given by the writer, Herr Gregor Wolny,\nit is evident that it contains many of the narratives given by Van\nBraght. The earlier portion of the MS. was written previous to 1592,\nwhen its writer or compiler died. Three continuators carried on the\nnarrations to 1654. The last date in it is June 7, 1654; when Daniel\nZwicker, in his own handwriting, records his settlement as pastor over a\nBaptist church. Mention is made of this MS. by Ottius, and by Fischer in\nhis _Tauben-kobel_, p. 33., &c. For any additional particulars\nrespecting it, I should feel greatly obliged.\n\nIt does not appear to be known to your correspondent that a translation\nof the second part of Van Braght's work has been commenced in this\ncountry, of which the first volume was issued by the Hanserd Knollys\nSociety last year. A translation of the entire work appeared in 1837, in\nPennsylvania, U. S., for the use of the Mennonite churches, emigrants\nfrom Holland and Germany to whom the language of their native land had\nbecome a strange tongue.\n\n    E. B. U.\n\n  33. Moorgate Street, London.\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Spick and Span New_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--The corresponding _German_\nword is _Spann-nagel-neu_, which may be translated as \"New from the\nstretching needle;\" and corroborates the meaning given by you. I may\nremark the French have no equivalent phrase. It is evidently a familiar\nallusion of the clothmakers of England and Germany.\n\n    BENBOW.\n\n  Birmingham.\n\n_Under the Rose_ (Vol. iii., pp. 300.).--There is an old Club in this\ntown (Birmingham) called the \"Bear Club,\" and established (ut dic.)\ncirca 1738, formerly of some repute. Among other legends of the Club, is\none, that in the centre of the ceiling of their dining-room was once a\ncarved rose, and that the members always drank as a first toast, to \"The\nhealth of the King,\" [under the rose], meaning the Pretender.\n\n    BENBOW.\n\n_Handel's Occasional Oratorio_ (Vol. iii., p. 426.).--The \"Occasional\nOratorio\" is a separate composition, containing an overture, 10\nrecitatives, 21 airs, 1 duet, and 15 choruses. It was produced in the\nyear 1745. It is reported, I know not on what authority, that the King\nhaving ordered Handel to produce a new oratorio on a given day, and the\nartist having answered that it was impossible to do it in the time\n(which must have been unreasonably short, to extort such a reply from\nthe intellect that produced _The Messiah_ in three weeks, and _Israel in\nEgypt_ in four), his Majesty deigned no other answer than that done it\nmust and should be, whether possible or not, and that the result was the\nputting forward of the \"Occasional Oratorio.\"\n\nThe structure of the oratorio, which was evidently a very hurried\ncomposition, gives a strong air of probability to the anecdote.\nEvidently no libretto was written for it; the words tell no tale, are\ntotally unconnected, and not even always tolerable English, a fine\nchorus (p. 39. Arnold) going to the words \"Him or his God we no fear.\"\nIt is rather a collection of sacred pieces, strung together literally\nwithout rhyme or reason in the oratorio form, than one oratorio. The\nexamination of it leads one to the conclusion, that the composer took\nfrom his portfolio such pieces as he happened to have at hand, strung\nthem together as he best could, and made up the necessary quantity by\nselections from his other works. Accordingly we find in it the pieces\n\"The Horse and his Rider,\" \"Thou shalt bring them in,\" \"Who is like unto\nThee?\" \"The Hailstone Chorus,\" \"The Enemy said I will pursue,\" from\n_Israel in Egypt_, written in 1738; the chorus \"May God from whom all\nMercies spring,\" from _Athaliah_ (1733); and the chorus \"God save the\nKing, long live the King,\" from the _Coronation Anthem_ of 1727. There\nis also the air \"O! Liberty,\" which he afterwards (in 1746) employed in\n_Judas Maccabaeus_. Possibly some other pieces of this oratorio may be\nfound also in some of Handel's other works, not sufficiently stamped on\nmy memory for me to recognise them; but I may remark that the quantity\nof _Israel in Egypt_ found in it may perhaps have so connected it in\nsome minds with that glorious composition as to have led to the practice\nreferred to of prefixing in performance the overture to the latter work,\nto which, although the introductory movement, the fine adagio, and grand\nmarch are fit enough, the light character of the fugue is, it must be\nconfessed, singularly inappropriate.\n\nI am not aware of any other \"occasion\" than that of the King's will,\nwhich led to the composition of this oratorio.\n\n    D. X.\n\n_Stone Chalice_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--They are found in the ancient\nchurches in Ireland, and some are preserved in the Museum of the Royal\nIrish Academy, and in private collections. A beautiful specimen is\nengraved in Wakeman's _Handbook of Irish Antiquities_, p. 161.\n\n    R. H.\n\n_Thanksgiving Book_ (Vol. iii., p. 328.).--The charge for a\n\"Thanksgiving Book,\" mentioned by A CHURCHWARDEN, was no doubt for a\nBook of Prayers, &c., on some general thanksgiving day, probably after\nthe battle of Blenheim and the taking of Gibraltar, which would be about\nthe month of November. A similar charge appears in the Churchwardens'\naccounts for the parish of _Eye, Suffolk_, at a much earlier period,\nviz. 1684, which you may probably deem worthy of insertion in your\npages:\n\n      \"_Payments._                                      _l._ _s._ _d._\n\n      \"It. To Flegg for sweepinge and dressinge\n      upp the church the nynth\n      of September beeinge A day of\n      _Thanks-givinge_ for his Ma'ties\n      deliv'ance from the Newkett\n      Plot                                               00   03   00\n\n      \"It. For twoe _Bookes_ for the 9th of September\n      aforesaid                                          00   01   00\"\n\n    J. B. COLMAN.\n\n  Eye, April 29, 1851.\n\n_Carved Ceiling in Dorsetshire_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--Philip, King of\nCastile (father to Charles V.), was forced by foul weather into Weymouth\nHarbour. He was hospitably entertained by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who\ninvited Mr. Russell of Kingston Russell to meet him. King Philip took\nsuch delight in his company that at his departure he recommended him to\nKing Henry VII. as a person of spirit \"fit to stand before princes, and\nnot before mean men.\" He died in 1554, and was the ancestor of the\nBedford family. Sir Thomas Trenchard probably had the ceiling. See\nFuller's _Worthies_ (_Dorsetshire_), vol. i. p. 313.\n\n    A. HOLT WHITE.\n\nThe house of which your correspondent has heard his tradition is\ncertainly _Woolverton House_, in the parish of Charminster, near this\ntown.\n\nIt was built by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who died 20 Hen. VIII.; and\ntradition holds, as history tells us, that Phillip, Archduke of Austria,\nand King of Castile, with his queen _Juana_, or _Joanna_, were driven by\nweather into the port of Weymouth: and that Sir Thomas Trenchard, then\nthe High Sheriff of the county, invited their majesties to his house,\nand afforded them entertainment that was no less gratifying than timely.\n\nWoolverton now belongs to James Henning, Esq. There is some fine carving\nin the house, though it is not the ceiling that is markworthy; and it is\nthought by some to be the work of a foreign hand. At Woolverton House\nwere founded the high fortunes of the House of Bedford. Sir Thomas\nTrenchard, feeling the need of an interpreter with their Spanish\nMajesties, happily bethought himself of a John Russell, Esq., of\nBerwick, who had lived some years in Spain, and spoke Castilian; and\ninvited him, as a Spanish-English mouth, to his house: and it is said he\naccompanied the king and queen to London, where he was recommended to\nthe favour of Hen. VII.; and after rising to high office, received from\nHen. VIII. a share of the monastic lands.\n\nSee Hutchins's _History of Dorset_.\n\n    W. BARNES.\n\n  Dorchester.\n\n_\"Felix quem faciunt,\" &c._ (Vol. iii., pp. 373. 431.).--The passage\ncited by C. H. P. as assigned to Plautus, and which he says he cannot\nfind in that author, occurs in one of the interpolated scenes in the\n_Mercator_, which are placed in some of the old editions between the 5th\nand 6th Scenes of Act IV. In the edition by Pareus, printed at Neustadt\n(Neapolis Nemetum) in 1619, 4to., it stands thus:\n\n  \"Verum id dictum est: Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno\n  sapit.\"\n\nI was wrong in attributing it to Plautus, and should rather have called\nit _Plautine_. By a strange slip of the pen or the press, pericu_lum_ is\nput instead of pericu_lo_ in my note. Niebuhr has a very interesting\nessay on the interpolated scenes in Plautus, in the first volume of his\n_Kleine Historische und Philologische Schriften_, which will show why\nthese scenes and passages, marked as supposititious in some editions,\nare now omitted. It appears that they were made in the fifteenth century\nby Hermolaus Barbarus. See a letter from him to the Bishop of Segni, in\n_Angeli Politiani Epistolae_, lib. xii. epist. 25.\n\nTo the parallel thoughts already cited may be added the following:\n\n  \"Ii qui sciunt, quid aliis acciderit, facile ex aliorum eventu,\n  suis rationibus possunt providere.\"\n\n      _Rhetoric. ad Herennium_, L. 4. c. 9.\n\n      \"I' presi esempio de' lor stati rei,\n      Facendomi profitto l' altrui male\n      In consolar i casi e dolor miei.\"\n\n      Petrarca, _Trionfo della Castita_.\n\n      \"Ben' e felice quel, donne mie care,\n      Ch' essere accorto all' altrui spese impare.\"\n\n      Ariosto, _Orl. Fur._, canto X.\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n_The Saint Graal_ (Vol. iii., p. 413.).--I see that MR. G. STEPHENS\nstates, that Mons. Roquefort's nine columns are decisive of Saint Graal\nbeing derived from Sancta Cratera. I am unacquainted with the word\n_cratera_, unless in Ducange, as meaning a basket. But _crater_, a\ngoblet, is the word meant by Roquefort.\n\nHow should _graal_ or _greal_ come from _crater_? I cannot see common\nsense in it. Surely that ancient writer, nearly, or quite, contemporary\nwith the publication of the romance, Helinandus Frigidimontanus, may be\ntrusted for the fact that _graal_ was French for \"gradalis or gradale,\"\nwhich meant \"scutella lata et aliquantulum profunda in qua preciosae\ndapes cum suo jure divitibus solent apponi.\" (Vide Helinand. ap.\nVincentium Bellovacensem, _Speculum Historiale_, lib. 43. cap. 147.) Can\nthere be a more apparent and palpable etymology of any word, than that\n_graal_ is _gradale_? See Ducange in _Gradale_, No. 3, and in\n_Gradalis_, and the three authorities (of which Helinand is not one)\ncited by him.\n\n    A. N.\n\n_Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--The\n_interpretation_ of this is probably from Jer. Taylor's own head. See,\nfor the history of the association in his mind, his sermon on the\n\"Marriage Ring.\"\n\n  \"It is fit that I should infuse a bunch of myrrh into the festival\n  goblet, and, after the Egyptian manner, serve up a dead man's\n  bones as a feast.\"\n\n    Q. Q.\n\n_Sewell_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--Allow me to refer H. C. K. to a passage\nin the _Letters on the Suppression of the Monasteries_, published by the\nCamden Society, p. 71., for an example of the word _sewelles_. It is\nthere said to be equivalent to _blawnsherres_. The scattered pages of\nDuns Scotus were put to this use, after he was banished from Oxford by\nthe Royal Commissioners.\n\nThe word is perhaps akin to the low Latin _suellium_, threshing-floor,\nor to the Norman French _swele_, threshold: in which case the original\nmeaning would be _bounds_ or _limits_.\n\n    C. H.\n\n  St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.\n\n_Col-fabias_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--This word is a Latinised form of the\nIrish words Cul-{f}eabu{s} (cul-feabus), _i. e._ \"a closet of decency\"\nor \"for the sake of decency.\"\n\n    FRA. CROSSLEY.\n\n_Poem from the Digby MS._ (Vol. iii., p. 367.).--Your correspondent H.\nA. B. will find the lines in his MS. beginning\n\n      \"You worms, my rivals,\" &c.,\n\nprinted, with very slight variations, amongst Beaumont's poems, in\nMoxon's edition of the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1840. They are\nthe concluding lines of \"An Elegy on the Lady Markham.\"\n\n    W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.\n\n_Umbrella_ (Vol. iii., pp. 37. 126.).--I find the following passage in\nthe fourth edition of Blount's _Glossographia_, published as far back as\n1674.\n\n  \"_Umbrello_ (Ital. _Ombrella_), a fashion of round and broad Fans,\n  wherewith the _Indians_ (and from them our great ones) preserve\n  themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little\n  shadow, Fan, or other thing, wherewith the women guard their faces\n  from the sun.\"\n\nIn Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_, 1708, it is thus noticed--\n\n  \"_Umbrella_, or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen,\n  commonly us'd by women to shelter them from Rain: also a Wooden\n  Frame cover'd with cloth to keep off the sun from a window.\"\n\n  \"_Parasol (F.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women\n  carry over their heads.\"\n\nAnd in Phillips's _New World of Words_, 7th ed., 1720--\n\n  \"_Umbrella_ or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen, which in\n  hot countries People hold over their heads to keep off the Heat\n  of the Sun; or such as are here commonly us'd by women to shelter\n  them from Rain: Also, a wooden Frame cover'd with cloth or stuff,\n  to keep off the sun from a window.\"\n\n  \"_Parasol (Fr.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women\n  carry over their Heads, to shelter themselves from Rain,\" &c.\n\n    T. C. T.\n\n_The Curse of Scotland_ (Vol. iii., p. 22.).--Your correspondent L.\nsays, the true explanation of the circumstance of the nine of diamonds\nbeing called the curse of Scotland is to be found in the game of Pope\nJoan; but with all due deference to him, I must beg entirely to dissent\nfrom this opinion, and to adhere to the notion of its origin being\ntraceable to the heraldic bearing of the family of Dalrymple, which are\nor, on a saltire azure, _nine lozenges of the field_.\n\nThere can be no doubt that John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl of\nStair, justly merited the appellation of the \"Curse of Scotland,\" from\nthe part which he took in the horrible massacre of Glencoe, and from the\nutter detestation in which he was held in consequence, and which\ncompelled him to resign the secretaryship in 1695. After a deliberate\ninquiry by the commissioners had declared _him_ to be guilty of the\nmassacre, we cannot wonder that the man should be held up to scorn by\nthe most popular means which presented themselves; and the nine diamonds\nin his shield would very naturally, being the insignia of his family, be\nthe best and most easily understood mode of perpetuating that\ndetestation in the minds of the people.\n\n    L. J.\n\n_Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.; Vol. ii., pp. 27. 60. 94.).--Your\ncorrespondents will find some information on this word in Ledwich's\n_Antiquities of Ireland_, 2nd edit. p. 279.; and in Wakeman's _Handbook\nof Irish Antiquities_, p. 141. Ledwich seems to derive the word from the\nTeutonic _Bawen_, to construct and secure with branches of trees.\n\n    R. H.\n\n_Catacombs and Bone-houses_ (Vol. i., p. 171.).--MR. GATTY will find a\nvivid description of the bone-house at Hythe, in Mr. Borrow's\n_Lavengro_, vol. i. I have no reference to the exact page.\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Bacon and Fagan_ (Vol. iii., p. 106.).--The letters B and F are\ndoubtless convertible, as they are both labial letters, and can be\nchanged as _b_ and _p_ are so frequently.\n\n1. The word \"batten\" is used by Milton in the same sense as the word\n\"fatten.\"\n\n2. The Latin word \"flo\" is in English \"to blow.\"\n\n3. The word \"flush\" means much the same as \"blush.\"\n\n4. The Greek word [Greek: bremo] is in the Latin changed to \"fremo.\"\n\n5. The Greek word [Greek: bora] = in English \"forage.\"\n\n6. _Herod._ vii. 73. [Greek: Bilippos] for [Greek: Philippos]; [Greek:\nBryges] for [Greek: Phryges].\n\n7. [Greek: Phalaina] in Greek = \"balaena\" in Latin = \"balene\" in French.\n\n8. [Greek: Phero] in Greek = \"to bear\" in English.\n\n9. \"Frater\" in Latin = \"brother\" in English.\n\nMany other instances could probably be found.\n\nI think that we may fairly imply that the labials _p_, _b_, _f_, _v_,\nmay be interchanged, in the same way as the dental letters _d_ and _t_\nare constantly; and I see no reason left to doubt that the word Bacon is\nthe same as the word Fagan.\n\n    [Greek: Philologos.]\n\n_To learn by Heart_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--When A SUBSCRIBER TO YOUR\nJOURNAL asks for some account of the origin of the phrase \"to learn by\nHeart,\" may he not find it in St. Luke i. 66, ii. 19. 51.?\n\n\"To learn by _memory_\" (or by \"_rote_\") conveys to my own mind a very\ndifferent notion from what I conceive to be expressed by the words \"To\nlearn by _heart_.\" Just as there is an evident difference between a\n_gentleman in heart and feeling_, and a _gentleman in manners and\neducation only_; so there is a like difference (as I conceive) between\nlearning by heart and learning by rote; namely, the difference between a\n_moral_, and a merely _intellectual_, operation of the mind. To learn by\n_memory_ is to learn by _rote_, as a parrot: to learn by _heart_ is to\nlearn _morally--practically_. Thus, we say, we give our hearts to our\npursuits: we \"love God with all our hearts,\" pray to Him \"with the\nspirit, and with the understanding,\" and \"with the heart believe unto\nrighteousness:\" we \"ponder in our hearts,\" \"muse in our hearts,\" and\n\"keep things in our hearts,\" i. e. \"_learn by heart_.\"\n\n    J. E.\n\n_Auriga_ (Vol. iii., p. 188.).--Claudius Minois, in his Commentaries on\nthe _Emblemata_ of Alciatus, gives the following etymology of\n\"Auriga:\"--\n\n  \"Auriga non dicitur ab auro, sed ab aureis: sunt enim aureae lora\n  sive fraeni, qui equis ad aures alligantur; sicut oreae, quibus ora\n  coercentur.\"--_Alciati Emblemata_, Emb. iv. p. 262.\n\n    W. R.\n\n  Hospitio Chelhamensi.\n\n_Vineyards in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.; Vol. iii., p. 341.).--Add to\nthe others _Wynyard_, so far north as Durham.\n\n    C.\n\n_Barker_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.).--Mr. Barker lived in West Square, St.\nGeorge's Fields, a square directly opposite the Philanthropic Society's\nchapel.\n\n    G.\n\n_Barker, the original Panorama Painter._--MR. CUNNINGHAM is quite\ncorrect in stating Robert Barker to be the originator of the Panorama.\nHis first work of the kind was a view of Edinburgh, of which city, I\nbelieve, he was a native.\n\nOn his death, in 1806, he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Henry Aston\nBarker, the Mr. Barker referred to by A. G. This gentleman and his wife\n(one of the daughters of the late Admiral Bligh) are both living, and\nreside at Bitton, a village lying midway between this city and Bath.\n\n    A SUBSCRIBER.\n\n  Bristol, June 2, 1851.\n\n_The Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229. 308.).--ARUN's Query is fully\nanswered by a reference to Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_,\nvol. ii. p. 379., where the bell is shown to be emblematic of the\nsaint's power to exorcise evil spirits, and reference is made to several\npaintings (and an engraving given of one) in which it is represented.\nThe phrase \"A Tantony Pig\" is also explained, for which see further\nHalliwell's _Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words_, s.v. Anthony.\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Essay on the Irony of Sophocles, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 389.).--Three\nQueries by NEMO: 1. The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, now Bishop of St.\nDavid's, is the author of the essay in question. 2. Cicero, _Tusc.\nDisp._, i. 15. 39.:--_Errare_ mehercule _malo cum Platone ... quam cum\nistis vera sentire_; (again), Cicero, _ad Attic._, l. viii. ep.\n7.:--_Malle_, quod dixerim, me _cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum istis\nvincere_. 3. The remark is Aristotle's; but the same had been said of\nHomer by Plato himself:\n\n  \"Aristot. [_Eth. Nicom._ l. i. cap. 6. Sec. 1. ed. Oxon.] is\n  reluctant to criticise Plato's doctrine of _Ideas_, [Greek: dia to\n  philous andras eisagagein ta eide]: but, he adds, the truth must\n  nevertheless be spoken:--[Greek: amphoin gar ontoin philoin,\n  hosion protiman ten aletheian.]\n\n  \"Plato [_de Repub._, X. cap. 1. p. 595 b.]:--[Greek: Philia tis me\n  kai aidos ek paidos echousa peri Homerou apokolyei legein ... all'\n  ou gar pro ge tes aletheias timeteos aner.]\"\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Achilles and the Tortoise_ (Vol. ii., p. 154.).--S. T. Coleridge has\nexplained this paradox in _The Friend_, vol. iii. p. 88. ed. 1850: a\nnote is subjoined regarding Aristotle's attempted solution, with a\nquotation from Mr. de Quincey, in _Tate's Mag._, Sept. 1834, p. 514. The\npassage in _Leibnitz_ which [Greek: Idihotes] requires, is probably\n\"_Opera_, i. p. 115. ed. Erdmann.\"\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Early Rain called \"Pride of the Morning\"_ (Vol. ii., p. 309.).--In\nconnexion with this I would quote an expression in Keble's _Christian\nYear_, \"On the Rainbow,\" (25th Sun. after Trin.):\n\n      \"_Pride of the_ dewy _Morning_!\n        The swain's experienced eye\n      From thee takes timely warning,\n        Nor trusts else the gorgeous sky.\"\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_The Lost Tribes_ (Vol. ii., p. 130.).--JARLTZBERG will find one theory\non this subject in Dr. Asahel Grant's book, _The Nestorians; or, the\nLost Tribes_, published by Murray; 12mo.\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n\"_Noli me Tangere_\" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 253. 379.).--There is an\nexquisite criticism upon the treatment of this subject by various\npainters, accompanied by an etching from Titian, in that delightful\nbook, Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_, vol. i. pp 354. 360.;\nand to the list of painters who have illustrated this subject, add\n_Holbein_, in the Hampton Court Gallery. (See Mrs. Jameson's _Handbook\nto the Public Galleries_, pp. 172. 353., 1845.)\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n\"_The Sicilian Vespers_\" (Vol. ii., p. 166.).--Your correspondent is\nreferred to _The War of the Sicilian Vespers_, by Amari, translated by\nthe Earl of Ellesmere, published very lately by Murray.\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol ii., pp. 216. 521.)--C. B. says, alluding to\nJARLTZBERG's references, \"there is nothing in Solinus;\" I read, however,\nin Solinus, cap. xv. (fol. 70. ed. Ald. 1518), under the heading,\n\"Thracum mores, etc.\":\n\n  \"Uterque sexus epulantes focos ambiunt, herbarum quas habent\n  semine ignibus superjecto. Cujus nidore perculsi pro laetitia\n  habent imitari ebrietatem sensibus sauciatis.\"\n\nJARLTZBERG's reference to Herod. i. 36. supplies nothing to the point:\nHerod. iv. 2. mentions the use of bone pipes, [Greek: physeteras\nosteinous], by the Scythians, _in milking_; but Herodotus (iv. 73. 75.)\ndescribes the orgies of the Scythians, who produced intoxicating fumes\nby strewing hemp-seed upon red-hot stones, as the leaves and seed of the\nHasisha al fokara, or hemp-plant, are smoked in the East at the present\nday. (See De Sacy, _Chrestom. Arabe_, vol. ii. p. 155.) Compare also\nPlutarch de Fluviis (_de Hebro_, fr. 3.), who speaks of a plant\nresembling Origanum, from which the Thracians procured a stupefying\nvapour, by burning the stalks:\n\n  \"[Greek: Epititheasi pyri ... kai ten anapheromenen anathymiasin\n  dechomenoi tais anapnoiais, karountai, kai eis bathyn hypnon\n  katapherontai.] [Opera Varia, vol. vi. p. 444. ed. Tauchn.]\"\n\n    C. P. PH***.\n\n_Milton and the Calves-Head Club_ (Vol. iii., p. 390).--Dr. Todd, in his\nedition of Milton's _Works_, in 1809, p. 158., mentions the rumour,\nwithout expressing any opinion of its truth. I think he omits all\nmention of it in his subsequent edition in 1826, and therefore hope he\nhas adopted the prevailing opinion that it is a contemptible libel. In a\nnote to the former edition is a reference to Kennett's _Register_, p.\n38., and to _\"Private forms of Prayer fitted for the late sad times,\"\n&c._, 12mo., Lond., 1660, attributed to Dr. Hammond. An anonymous\nauthor, quoting the verbal assurance of \"a certain active Whigg,\" would\nbe entitled to little credit in attacking the character of the living,\nand ought surely to be scouted when assailing the memory of the dead. In\nLowndes' _Bib. Man._ it is stated that\n\n  \"This miserable trash has been attributed to the author of\n  Hudibras.\"\n\n    J. F. M.\n\n_Voltaire's Henriade_ (Vol. iii., p. 388.).--I have two translations of\nthis poem in English verse, in addition to that mentioned at p. 330.,\nviz., one in 4to., Anon., London, 1797; and one by Daniel French, 8vo.,\nLondon, 1807. The former, which, as I collect from the preface, was\nwritten by a lady and a foreigner, alludes to two previous translations,\none in blank verse (probably Lockman's), and the other in rhyme.\n\n    J. F. M.\n\n_Petworth Register_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--Your correspondent C. H.\nappears to give me too much credit for diligence, in having \"searched\"\nafter this document; for in truth I did nothing beyond writing to the\nrector of the parish, the Rev. Thomas Sockett. All that I can positively\nsay as to my letter, is, that it was intended to be courteous; that it\nstated my reason for the inquiry; that it contained an apology for the\nliberty taken in applying to a stranger; and that Mr. Sockett did not\nhonour me with any answer. I believe, however, that I asked whether the\nregister still existed; if so, what was its nature, and over what period\nit extended; and whether it had been printed or described in any\nantiquarian or topographical book.\n\nPerhaps some reader may have the means of giving information on these\npoints; and if he will do so through the medium of your periodical, he\nwill oblige both C. H. and myself. Or perhaps C. H. may be able to\ninquire through some more private channel, in which case I should feel\nmyself greatly indebted to him if he would have the goodness to let me\nknow the result.\n\n    J. C. ROBERTSON.\n\n  Beakesbourne.\n\n_Apple-pie Order_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--The solution of J. H. M. to MR.\nSNEAK's inquiry is not satisfactory. \"Alternate layers of sliced pippins\nand mutton steaks\" might indeed make a pie, but not an apple-pie,\ntherefore this puzzling phrase must have had some other origin. An\ningenious friend of mine has suggested that it may perhaps be derived\nfrom that expression which we meet with in one of the scenes of\n_Hamlet_, \"Cap a pied;\" where it means perfectly appointed. The\ntransition from _cap a pied_, or \"cap a pie,\" to _apple-pie_, has rather\na rugged appearance, orthographically, I admit; but the ear soon becomes\naccustomed to it in pronunciation.\n\n    A. N.\n\n  [MR. ROBERT SNOW and several other correspondents have also\n  suggested that the origin of the phrase \"apple-pie order\" is to\n  be found in the once familiar \"cap a pied.\"]\n\n_Durham Sword that killed the Dragon_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--For details\nof the tradition, and an engraving of the sword, see Surtees' _History\nof Durham_, vol. iii. pp. 243, 244.\n\n    W. C. TREVELYAN.\n\n_Malentour_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.)--Your correspondent F. E. M. will find\nthe word _Malentour_, or _Malaentour_, given in Edmondson's _Complete\nBody of Heraldry_ as the motto of the family of Patten alias Wansfleet\n(_sic_) of Newington, Middlesex: it is said to be borne on a scroll over\nthe crest, which is a Tower in flames.\n\nIn the \"Book of Mottoes\" the motto ascribed to the name of Patten is\n_Mal au Tour_, and the double meaning is suggested, \"Misfortune to the\nTower,\" and \"Unskilled in artifice.\"\n\nThe arms that accompany it in Edmondson are nearly the same as those of\nWilliam Pattyn alias Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor\ntemp. Hen. VI.--the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford.\n\n    F. C. M.\n\n_The Bellman and his History_ (Vol. iii., pp. 324. 377.).--Since my\nformer communication on this subject I have been referred to the cut of\nthe Bellman and his _Dog_ in Collier's _Roxburghe Ballads_, p. 59.,\ntaken from the first edition of Dekker's _Belman of London_, printed in\n1608.\n\n    C. H. COOPER.\n\n  Cambridge, May 17, 1851.\n\n\"_Geographers on Afric's Downs_\" (Vol. iii., p. 372.).--Is your\ncorrespondent A. S. correct in his quotation? In a poem of Swift's, \"On\nPoetry, a Rhapsody,\" are these lines:--\n\n      \"So geographers, in Afric maps\n      With savage pictures fill their gaps,\n      And o'er unhabitable downs\n      Place elephants for want of towns.\"\n\n      _Swift's Works, with Notes by Dr. Hawksworth_, 1767,\n      vol. vii. p, 214.\n\n    C. DE D.\n\n\"_Trepidation talk'd_\" (Vol. iii., p. 450.).--The words attributed to\nMilton are--\n\n      \"That crystalline sphere whose balance weighs\n      The trepidation talk'd, and that first moved.\"\n\nPaterson's comment, quoted by your correspondent, is exquisite: he\nevidently thinks there were two trepidations, one _talked_, the other\n_first moved_.\n\nThe _trepidation_ (not a tremulous, but a turning or oscillating motion)\nis a well-known hypothesis added by the Arab astronomers to Ptolemy, in\nexplanation of the precession of the equinoxes. This precession they\nimagined would continue retrograde for a long period, after which it\nwould be direct for another long period, then retrograde again, and so\non. They, or their European followers, I forget which, invented the\n_crystal_ heaven, an apparatus outside of the _starry_ heaven (these\ncast-off phrases of astronomy have entered into the service of poetry,\nand the _empyreal_ heaven with them), to cause this slow turning, or\ntrepidation, in the starry heaven. Some used _two_ crystal heavens, and\nI suspect that Paterson, having some confused idea of this, fancied he\nfound them both in Milton's text. I need not say that your correspondent\nis quite right in referring the words _first moved_ to the _primum\nmobile_.\n\nAgain, _balance_ in Milton never _weighs_. _Scale_ is his word (iv. 997.\nx. 676.) for a weighing apparatus. Where he says of Satan's army (i.\n349.),\n\n          \"In even balance down they light\n      On the firm brimstone,\"\n\nhe appears to mean that they were in regular order, with a right wing to\nbalance the left wing. The direct motion of the crystal heaven,\nfollowing and compensating the retrograde one, is the \"balance\" which\n\"_was_ the trepidation _called_;\" and this I suspect to be the true\nreading. The past tense would be quite accurate, for all the Ptolemaists\nof Milton's time had abandoned the _trepidation_. As the text stands it\nis nonsense; even if Milton did _dictate_ it, we know that he never\n_saw_ it; and there are several passages of which the obscurity may be\ndue to his having had to rely on others. Witness the lines in book iv.\n995-1002.\n\n    M.\n\n_Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches_ (Vol. iii., p. 370.).--I\nforward extracts from the Registers of the parish of Saint Benedict in\nthis town relating to the baptism of Dissenters. (Mr. Hussey, mentioned\nin several of the entries, was Joseph Hussey, minister of a Dissenting\ncongregation here from 1691 to 1720. His meeting-house on Hog Hill (now\nSt. Andrew's Hill) in this town was pillaged by a Jacobite mob, 29th\nMay, 1716. He died in London in 1726, and was the author of several\nworks, which are now very scarce.)\n\n  \"1697. October 14th. William the Son of Richard Jardine and\n  Elisabeth his Wife was baptiz'd in a Private Congregation by Mr.\n  Hussey in ye name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost.\n\n  \"Witnesses, Robert Wilson, Richard Jardine.\n\n  \"1698. Henery the Son of John and Sarah Shipp was baptized in a\n  Private Congregation by Mr. Hussey December 1. Elisabeth the\n  Daughter of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine was born ye twenty-first\n  day of January and baptized the second day of February 1698/99 in\n  a Private Congregation.\n\n  \"1700. Walter the Son of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine born July\n  23 and said to be baptized in a Separate Congregation by Mr.\n  Hussey Aug. 20.\n\n  \"1701. Elisabeth Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elisabeth his\n  wife born October 7. and said to be baptized at a Private\n  Congregation Novemb. 3d.\n\n  \"1702. June 22. Miram the Son of Thomas Short and Mary his Wife\n  said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation. Jane the Daughter\n  of Richard Jardine and Elizabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a\n  Separate Congregation Dec. 21.\n\n  \"1703. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife\n  said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation, Mar. 31.\n\n  \"1705. Alexander the Son of Alexander Jardine and ... his Wife was\n  as 'tis said baptized in a Separate Congregation July 1705.\n\n  \"1706. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife\n  said to be baptized at a Private Congregation Dec. 11.\n\n  \"1707. Nov. 11. John the Son of Alexander and Elis. Jardine was\n  said to be baptized in Separate Congregation.\n\n  \"1710. Aug. 23. John ye Son of Bryan and Sarah Ellis was said to\n  have been baptized in Separate Congregation.\n\n    \"Nov. 15. Nath. ye Son of Alexander and Elisa Jardine was\n    said to be baptiz'd in a Separate Congregation.\"\n\nI have no recollection of having met with similar entries in any other\nParish Register.\n\n    C. H. COOPER.\n\n_Redwing's Nest_ (Vol. iii., p. 408.).--I think that upon further\nconsideration C. J. A. will find his egg to be merely that of a\nblackbird. While the eggs of some birds are so constant in their\nmarkings that to see one is to know all, others--at the head of which we\nmay place the sparrow, the gull tribe, the thrush, and the\nblackbird--are as remarkable for the curious variety of their markings,\nand even of the shades of their colouring. And every schoolboy's\ncollection will show that these distinctions will occur in the same\nnest.\n\nI also believe that there has been some mistake about the nest, for\nthough, like the thrush, the blackbird coats the interior of its nest\nwith mud, &c., it does not, like that bird, leave this coating exposed,\nbut adds another lining of soft dried grass.\n\n    SELEUCUS.\n\n_Champak_ (Vol. iii., p. 84.).--A correspondent, C. P. PH***., asks\n\"What is Champak?\" He will find a full description of the plant in Sir\nWilliam Jones's \"Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants,\" vol.\nv. pp. 128-30. _Works_, ed. 1807. In speaking of it, he says:\n\n  \"The strong aromatic scent of the gold-coloured Champac is thought\n  offensive to the bees, who are never seen on its blossoms; but\n  their elegant appearance on the black hair of the Indian women is\n  mentioned by Rumphius; and both facts have supplied the Sanscrit\n  poets with elegant allusions.\"\n\n    D. 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Of the value of the book as materials towards illustrating\nthe history of the period over which the payments extend, namely from\nMarch 1679 to December 1688, there can be as little doubt, as there can\nbe that but for the Camden Society it never could have been published.\nAs a publishing speculation it could not have tempted any bookseller;\neven if its owner would have consented to its being so given to the\nworld: and yet that in the simple entries of payments to the Duchess of\nPortsmouth, to \"Mrs. Ellinor Gwynne,\" to \"Titus Oates,\" to the\nPendrells, &c., will be found much to throw light upon many obscure\npassages of this eventful period of our national history, it is probable\nthat future editions of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant narrative of it will\nafford ample proof.\n\n_The Antiquarian Etching Club_, which was instituted two or three years\nsince for the purpose of rescuing from oblivion, and preserving by means\nof the graver, objects of antiquarian interest, has just issued the\nfirst part of its publications for 1851. This contains twenty-one plates\nof various degrees of merit, but all of great interest to the antiquary,\nwho looks rather for fidelity of representation than for artistic\neffect.\n\nCATALOGUES RECEIVED.--G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn), Catalogue, Part\nLI., containing many singularly Curious Books; James Darling's (Great\nQueen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue, Part 49. of Books chiefly\nTheological.\n\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nALBERT LUNEL, a Novel in 3 Vols.\n\nDR. ADAMS' SERMON ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRTUE. Any edition.\n\nENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF BISHOP BUTLER.\n\nRETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Vol. IV.\n\nDENS' THEOLOGIA MORALIS ET DOGMATICA. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1832.\n\nMARLBOROUGH DISPATCHES. Volumes IV. and V.\n\nART JOURNAL. 1839 to 1844 inclusive. Also 1849.\n\nBULWER'S NOVELS. 12mo. Published at 6_s._ per Vol. Pilgrims of the\nRhine, Alice, and Zanoni.\n\nSTEPHANI THESAURUS. Valpy. Parts I. II. X. 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We cannot enter into particulars in this\n    brief notice; but we would strongly recommend the pamphlet even to\n    those who care nothing about Mesmerism, or _angry_ (for it has\n    come to this at last) with the subject.\"--_Dublin Evening Post._\n\n    \"We recommend its general perusal as being really an endeavour, by\n    one whose position gives him the best facilities, to ascertain the\n    genuine character of Mesmerism, which is so much\n    disputed.\"--_Woolmer's Exeter Gazette._\n\n    \"Dr. Maitland has bestowed a vast deal of attention on the subject\n    for many years past, and the present pamphlet is in part the\n    result of his thoughts and inquiries. There is a good deal in it\n    which we should have been glad to quote ... but we content\n    ourselves with referring our readers to the pamphlet\n    itself.\"--_Brit. Mag._\n\n  W. STEPHENSON, 12. and 13. Parliament Street.\n\n\nNext week, Volumes III. and IV. of\n\n  THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, June 14, 1851.\n\n\n\n\n  List of volumes and pages in \"Notes & Queries\",   Vol.  I-III:\n\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Notes & Queries Vol. I.                                     |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol., No.     | Date, Year        | Pages     | PG # xxxxx  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  1 | November  3, 1849 |   1 -  17 | PG #  8603  |\n      | Vol. I No.  2 | November 10, 1849 |  18 -  32 | PG # 11265  |\n      | Vol. I No.  3 | November 17, 1849 |  33 -  46 | PG # 11577  |\n      | Vol. I No.  4 | November 24, 1849 |  49 -  63 | PG # 13513  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  5 | December  1, 1849 |  65 -  80 | PG # 11636  |\n      | Vol. I No.  6 | December  8, 1849 |  81 -  95 | PG # 13550  |\n      | Vol. I No.  7 | December 15, 1849 |  97 - 112 | PG # 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15639  |\n      | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851  | 33-47   | PG # 15640  |\n      | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851  | 49-78   | PG # 15641  |\n      +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n      | Vol. III No. 66 | February  1, 1851 | 81-95   | PG # 22339  |\n      | Vol. III No. 67 | February  8, 1851 | 97-111  | PG # 22625  |\n      | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639  |\n      | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027  |\n      +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n      | Vol. III No. 70 | March  1, 1851    | 161-174 | PG # 23204  |\n      | Vol. III No. 71 | March  8, 1851    | 177-200 | PG # 23205  |\n      | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851    | 201-215 | PG # 23212  |\n      | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851    | 217-231 | PG # 23225  |\n      | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851    | 233-255 | PG # 23282  |\n      +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n      | Vol. III No. 75 | April  5, 1851    | 257-271 | PG # 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Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850]            | PG # 13536  |\n      | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850    | PG # 13571  |\n      | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. JAN.-JUNE, 1851    | PG # 26770  |\n      +-----------------------------------------------+-------------+\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"pg-footer\">","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":16180}