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A list of volumes and pages\nin \"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. V.--No. 122. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1852.\n\nPrice Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n Page\n\n\n NOTES:--\n\n Ben Jonson's Verses on the Marriage of the Earl of\n Somerset 193\n\n Junius and the Quarterly Review 194\n\n Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, by W.\n Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 194\n\n Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, by Wm. Durrant\n Cooper 195\n\n Folk Lore:--Suffolk Legend--Theodoric, Legend of 195\n\n Names of Places; Provincial Dialects 196\n\n Minor Notes:--The Banking Company in Aberdeen, and the\n Bank of England--Which are the Shadows?--Antiquity\n of County Boundaries--Zachary Pearce not a Pupil of\n Busby--The Poet Gay and his Relatives 196\n\n QUERIES:--\n\n Thomas Bastard, and Song against Sheep-farming 197\n\n Inundations and their Phenomena, by Sydney Smirke 198\n\n A Bibliographical Query 198\n\n New Arrangement of the Old Testament 199\n\n Minor Queries:--Pasquinades--Sir John Fenner's Bequest\n of Bibles--Friday at Sea--Meaning of \"Knarres\"--Sir\n John Cheke--Arms of Yarmouth--\"Litera Scripta Manet\"--Bull\n the Barrel--Nuremberg Token--Weber on the Material Media\n of Musical Art--Clement's Inn--Was Queen Elizabeth dark\n or fair--The \"Black Book of Paisley\"--\"The Trial of the\n Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline\"--Frith the\n Martyr, and Dean Comber--B\u00e9ocherie, alias Parva Hibernia;\n B\u00e9ocera Gent 200\n\n MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Augmentation Office--\"Smectymnus\" 201\n\n REPLIES:--\n\n Liber Conformitatum 202\n\n Traditions of Remote Periods; George III.'s Garter 203\n\n Many Children at a Birth; Large Families 204\n\n Pedigree of Richard Earl of Chepstow 204\n\n Isabel, Queen of the Isle of Man, by John Gough Nichols 205\n\n Replies to Minor Queries:--Bastides--Brun\u00e9haut--Job--Parish\n Registers--Ornamental Hermits--Collars of SS--Herschel\n Anticipated--Monastic Establishments in Scotland--Kissing\n under the Mistletoe--The Ring Finger--Sanctus Bell--Slang\n Dictionaries--Modern Greek Names of Places--Baskerville\n the Printer--Story of Genevra--Gospel Oaks--\"Asters with\n Trains of Fire,\" &c.--Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford\n Student--Hieroglyphics of Vagabonds--\"The bright lamp\n that _shone_ in Kildare's holy fane\"--Hyrne--Stops, when\n first introduced--Heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George\n Garter--Kingswei, Kings-way, or Kinsey--Fouch\u00e9's\n Memoirs--The Pelican as a Symbol of our Saviour--Bow-bell\n --Cou-bache--White-livered--\"Experto crede Roberto\"--\"Oh!\n Leoline,\" &c.--The Word \"Blaen\"--Stoke--A Baron's\n Hearse--The Bed of Ware--Symbolism of Death--General\n Wolfe--Proverb 206\n\n MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n Notes on Books, &c. 213\n\n Books and Odd Volumes wanted 214\n\n Notices to Correspondents 214\n\n Advertisements 215\n\n\n\n\nNotes.\n\n\nBEN JONSON'S VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET.\n\nThe British Museum purchased for 14_l._ the copy of the 1640 edition of\nBen Jonson's _Works_, which was sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson,\nin the library of the Honorable Archibald Fraser of Lovat. The volume,\nwhich had on its exterior covers the arms of Carr, Earl of Somerset,\ncontains on one of them the following inscription:--\"These verses were\nmade by the author of this booke, and were delivered to the Earl of\nSomerset upon his Lordship's wedding-day.\" Then follow the verses in the\npoet's own handwriting.\n\n \"_To the Most Noble and above his Titles Robert\n Earle of Somerset._\n\n \"They are not those, are present w'th theyr face,\n And clothes, and guifts, that only do thee grace\n At these thy nuptials; but, whose heart, and thought\n Do wayte upon thee: and theyr Loue not bought.\n Such weare true Wedding robes, and are true Freindes,\n That bid, God giue thee ioy and haue no endes\n W'h I do, early, vertuous Somerset,\n And pray, thy ioyes as lasting bee, as great.\n Not only this, but euery day of thine,\n W'th the same looke, or w'th a better, shine.\n May she, whom thou for spouse, to-day, dost take\n Out-bee y't Wife, in worth, thy friend did make:\n And thou to her, that Husband, may exalt\n Hymens amends, to make it worth his fault.\n So, be there neuer discontent, or sorrow,\n To rise w'th eyther of you, on the morrow.\n So, be yo'r Concord, still, as deepe, as mute;\n And euery ioy, in mariage, turne a fruite;\n So, may those Mariage-Pledges, comforts proue:\n And eu'ry birth encrease the heate of Loue.\n So, in theyr number, may you neuer see\n Mortality, till you immortall bee.\n And when your yeares rise more, then would be told\n Yet neyther of you seeme to th' other old.\n That all, y't view you then, and late; may say,\n Sure, this glad payre were maried, but this day.\n\n \"BEN JONSON.\"\n\nWe need scarcely point out the allusions in the eleventh and twelfth\nlines to Sir T. Overbury's _Character of a Good Wife_; but we cannot\nhelp calling attention to the curious fact that these lines, written in\n1613, must have been carefully preserved by the unhappy man to whom they\nwere addressed, through all his trials and difficulties; and then, on\nthe publication of the 1640 edition of Rare Ben's _Works_,--twenty-seven\nyears after his disgraceful marriage, five years before his death,--been\npasted by him in the cover of the volume which is now very properly\ndeposited in the National Library.\n\n\nJUNIUS AND THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.\n\nSpeculations about Junius are once again the fashion. I would recommend\nthe editor of \"N. & Q.\" not to enter on the general question; but there\nare ways, within his legitimate province, by which he might do good\nservice. For example, there have been many obscure persons alluded to in\nthese discussions, about whom we should all be glad to receive\ninformation. Thus, Mr. Combe, the author of _Dr. Syntax's Tour_, figures\nprominently in the last number of the _Quarterly Review_. Now, of Mr.\nCombe very little is known: his name never, I believe, appeared in a\ntitle-page, although he lived, or rather starved, by literature, for\nhalf a century. From a correspondent of _The Athen\u00e6um_ I learn that a\nlist of Combe's works, in his own handwriting, is in the possession of\nMr. Robert Cole; and as Mr. Cole is said to be a very liberal man, I\nhave no doubt he would allow you to print that list. What a waste of\nspeculation, not on one subject, but many subjects, might thus be saved\nto another generation of editors and contributors!\n\nThere are also numberless facts, or assumed facts, made to do duty in\nthese discussions, which might with great propriety be subjected to the\nsearching test of \"N. & Q.\" I submit one as a specimen. The writer of\nthe above-mentioned article in the _Quarterly_ says: \"It is universally\nadmitted that Junius must have been indefatigable in acquiring\ninformation, and that he was pre-eminently distinguished by the variety\nand extent of his knowledge;\" and he then quotes from the _Parliamentary\nHistory_ the reported opinion of Burke on this point: \"Were he [Junius]\na member of this House, what might not be expected from his\nknowledge?... Nothing would escape his vigilance and activity. Bad\nministers could conceal nothing from his sagacity, nor could promises or\nthreats induce him to conceal anything from the public.\" On this I\ndesire to observe, that the \"variety and extent\" of the knowledge of\nJunius is not universally admitted--has indeed been publicly denied; and\nthat what Burke said, as above quoted, had no reference to Junius\nwhatever, but to the author of _Another Letter to Mr. Almon in Matter of\nLibel_, then just published, and believed to have been written by the\nauthor of the still more celebrated pamphlet, published in 1763 or 1764,\ncalled _A Letter concerning Libels and Warrants_, &c. It is quite true\nthat the passage has been quoted, and so applied, twenty times, and been\nforced to do double duty, that is, been adduced in proof of directly\nopposite opinions. This was allowable up to 1842, but inexcusable since\nthe _Cavendish Debates_ have been published. (See _Cav. Deb._, vol. ii.\npp. 106, 107.)\n\n J. Q. R.\n\n\nSIMON OF SUDBURY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.\n\nIn a niche in the vestry of St. Gregory's Church, Sudbury, Suffolk, is\npreserved the skull of the murdered archbishop: beneath the niche is\nplaced the following inscription, which appears to me worthy of a place\nin your pages:--\n\n \"The head of Simon Theobald, who was born at Sudbury, and thence\n called Simon of Sudbury; he was sent when but a youth into foreign\n parts to study the civil law, whereof he was made doctor: he\n visited most of the universities of France, was made chaplain to\n Pope Innocent, and auditor rot\u00e6, or judge of the Roman court. By\n the interest of this Pope he was made Chancellor of Salisbury. In\n the year 1361, he was consecrated Bishop of London; and in the\n year 1375 was translated to the see of Canterbury, and made\n Chancellor of England. While he was Bishop of London he built the\n upper part of St. Gregory's in Sudbury; and where his father's\n house stood he erected a college of secular priests, and endowed\n it with the yearly revenue of one hundred and twenty-two pounds\n eighteen shillings, and was at length barbarously beheaded upon\n Tower Hill, in London, by the rabble in Wat Tyler's Rebellion, in\n the reign of Richard II. 1382.\"\n\nThis inscription is written in an old hand on a piece of parchment. On\nturning to Stow's _Annales_ for an account of these transactions, I find\na very interesting relation of the circumstances above mentioned. I\ntrust to be excused if I add a few brief extracts. King Richard had\nordered the Tower gates to be opened to the rebels, though--\n\n \"There was the same time in the Tower 600 warlike men, furnished\n with armour and weapon, expert men in armes, and 600 archers, all\n which did quaile in stomacke.\"\n\n Stow's _Annales_ (edit. 1601, 4to.), p. 457.\n\nThe rebels having entered, conducted themselves with unbridled license,\nand \"with terrible noyse and fury\" laid hands on the archbishop, \"drew\nhim out of the chappell,\" and proceeded at once to put him to death:\n\n \"He, kneeling downe, offered his necke to him that should strike\n it off; being stricken in the necke, but not deadly, he putting\n his hande to his necke, said thus, _a ha_, it is the hand of God:\n he had not removed his hand from the place where the payne was,\n but that being sodainly stricken, his fingers ends being cut off,\n and part of the arteries, he fell downe; but yet he died not, till\n being mangled with eight strokes in the necke, and in the heade,\n he fulfilled most worthy martyrdome.\"\n\n Stow's _Annales_, p. 458.\n\nThus \"barbarously\" was the prelate murdered; the rebels then took his\nhead, fastened it \"on a pole, and set it on London bridge, in place\nwhere-before stood the head of Sir _John_ Minstarworth.\" (_Ibid._) Stow\nproceeds to relate some more particulars relative to the archbishop's\nhistory, stating that \"he builded the upper end,\" that is, I conceive,\nthe chancel \"of _St. Gregorie's_ Church at Sudbury;\" and concludes his\naccount by saying:\n\n \"He was slaine as ye haue heard, and afterwards buried in the\n Cathedral Church of Canterbury.\"\n\n _Ibid._\n\nNow Godwin, in his valuable work _De Presulibus_, states, that his body\nwas buried under the high altar of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury. But in\nWinkle's _Cathedrals_ (London, 1836), vol. i. p. 38., we find Stow's\naccount corroborated; for--\n\n \"The monument of Archbishop Sudbury, who was beheaded in 1381\n [1382], is in the northern aisle, nearly parallel with the altar;\n it bears no effigy, but is surmounted by a sumptuous canopy of\n very elegant architectural design, but now much mutilated.\"\n\nOf course, the fact that his monument is in the cathedral, does not\n_prove_ that his body was buried there. I shall be glad to learn from\nany of your correspondents, what evidence there is for Godwin's\nassertion. Gostling, in his _Walk in and about the City of Canterbury_\n(5th edit. Cant. 1804), though he mentions the prelate's benefactions to\nthe cathedral (pp. 12. 79.), and his tomb (p. 220.), does not state his\nplace of sepulture. At p. 60., however (note [++]), in a brief notice of\nSt. Dunstan's Church, he says:\n\n \"In a vault under the family chancel of Roper _here_ is kept a\n skull, said to be that of the great Sir Thomas More; it is in a\n niche of the wall, secured with an iron grate, though some say his\n favourite daughter, Margaret Roper, who lies here, desired to be\n buried with it in her arms. The vault being full, was closed up\n not many years since.\"\n\nThis curious coincidence is at least worth noting.\n\nI trust that the interest necessarily attaching to any remains of so\ncelebrated an historical personage, will prove a sufficient apology to\nyour readers for the length of this note.\n\n W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.\n\n\nPARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER.\n\nThe following paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer may be worth printing with\nthe Query, who was its author? I take it from the book of Mr. Walter\nEverenden, among Mr. Frewen's MSS., where it is ascribed to James I.,\nwhilst I believe that in a MS. book of ballads belonging to MR. J. PAYNE\nCOLLIER it is ascribed to Bishop Andrews.\n\n \"By the Kings Majestie.\n\n \"Yf any be distrest and fayne\n woulde gather\n some comfort, let him hast\n unto\n\n Our Father\n\n \"for we of hope and healpe\n are quite bereaven\n except thou suckcour us\n\n w'ch art in heaven\n\n \"Thou shewest mercy, therefor\n for the same\n we praysse thee, singeing\n\n hallowed be Thy name\n\n \"of all our misseries cast up\n the sum;\n Shew us thy ioyes, and lett\n\n Thy kingdom come\n\n \"Wee mortall are, and alter\n from our birth;\n Thou constant arte\n\n Thy will be done on earth\n\n \"Thou madest the earth as\n well as planetts Seaven:\n Thy name be blessed heere\n\n as 'tis in heaven\n\n \"Nothing wee have to use, or\n debts to paye,\n except thou give it us\n\n give us this day\n\n \"Wherewith to clothe us,\n wherewith to be fedd,\n for without Thee we wante\n\n our daily breade\n\n \"Wee want, but want no faults,\n for no day passes\n But wee doe sinn\n\n forgive us our trespasses\n\n \"Noe man from sining ever\n free did live\n forgive us Lorde our sinns\n\n as we forgive\n\n \"Yf we repent our faults Thou\n ne're disdainest us\n We pardon them\n\n y't trespasses agaynst us\n\n \"forgive us that is past, a new\n path treade us\n Direct us alwaies in thy fayth\n\n and leade us\n\n \"Wee thine owne people and\n Thy chosen nation\n into all truth, but\n\n not into temtation\n\n \"Thou that of all good graces\n art the giver\n Suffer us not to wander\n\n but deliver\n\n \"Us from the fierce assaults\n of worlde and divell\n and flesh, so shalt thou free\n us\n\n from all evil\n\n \"To these petitions let boath\n church and laymen\n w'th one concent of hart and\n voyce say\n\n Amen.\"\n\n WM. DURRANT COOPER.\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Suffolk Legend._--In the little village of Acton, Suffolk, a legend was\ncurrent not many years ago, that on certain occasions, which, by the\nway, were never accurately defined, the park gates were wont to fly\nopen at midnight \"withouten hands,\" and a carriage drawn by four\nspectral horses, and accompanied by headless grooms and outriders,\nproceeded with great rapidity from the park to a spot called \"the\nnursery corner.\" What became of the ghostly _cort\u00e8ge_ at this spot, I\nhave never been able to learn; but though the sight has not been seen by\nany of the present inhabitants, yet some of them have heard the noise of\nthe head-long race. The \"Corner,\" tradition says, is the spot where a\nvery bloody engagement took place in olden time, when the Romans were\ngovernors of England. A few coins have I believe been found, but nothing\nelse confirmatory of the tale. Does history in any way support the story\nof the battle? Whilst writing on this subject, I may as well note, that\nnear this haunted corner is a pool called Wimbell Pond, in which\ntradition says an iron chest of money is concealed: if any daring person\nventures to approach the pond, and throw a stone into the water, it will\nring against the chest and a small white figure has been heard to cry in\naccents of distress, \"That's mine!\"\n\nI send you these legends as I have heard them from the lips of my nurse,\na native of the village.\n\n W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.\n\n_Theodoric, Legend of._--May we not consider the Saxon legend quoted by\nMr. Kemble in his _Saxons in England_, foot-note on page 423., vol. i.,\nas something like a parallel to \"Old Booty\" and Mr. Gresham, mentioned\nin Vol. iii., p. 93. of \"N. & Q.?\" or is it possible to have been the\norigin of both?\n\nThe legend is, that an anchoret in Lipari told some sailors that at a\nparticular time he had seen King Theodoric ungirt, barefoot and bound,\nled between St. John, pope and martyr, and St. Finian, and by them\nhurled into the burning crater of the neighbouring island volcano. That\non the sailors' return to Italy they discovered, by comparison of dates,\nthat Theodoric died on the day on which the anchoret noticed his\npunishment by the hands of his victims.\n\n THOMAS LAWRENCE.\n\n Ashby de la Zouch.\n\n\nNAMES OF PLACES--PROVINCIAL DIALECTS.\n\nEvery reader of \"N. & Q.\" must be acquainted with places throughout the\ncountry pronounced very differently to their spelling. It has occurred\nto me that a collection of them would be interesting, both as a\ntopographical curiosity, and as an illustration of our provincial\ndialects. No paper is fitter for such a collection than the \"N. & Q.;\"\nits correspondents would doubtless communicate any within their notice,\nand you, Mr. Editor, would from time to time give up a little space to\nthem.\n\nThe following are what I remember just now:--\n\n _Spelling._ _Pronunciation._\n\n Wednesbury (near Birmingham) Wedgbury\n Smethwick (near Birmingham) Smerrick\n Cirencester Cisiter\n Bothal (Northumberland) Botal\n Merstham (Surrey) Maestrum\n Carshalton (Surrey) Casehorton\n Shepton (Somersetshire) Shepun\n Ratlinghope (Salop) Ratchup\n Chantlingbury (Sussex) Shankbury\n Hove (Sussex) Hoove\n Wavertree (near Liverpool) Wartree\n St. Neots St. Nouts\n Beauchamp Beechem\n Belvoir Beever\n Saubridgeworth Sapsworth or Sapsey\n\nSome of your correspondents may send Scotch, Irish, and Welsh specimens;\nI would suggest such be kept separate from the English. My own\nexperience bids me carefully abstain from sending Welsh ones. When on a\nwalking tour in Wales three years ago, I asked a peasant \"if that road\nled to _Aberga'ny_\" (with conscious pride in my pronunciation); \"Nay,\nnay, sir, _that_ road takes to Abergavenny.\"\n\n P. M. M.\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_The Banking Company in Aberdeen, and the Bank of England._--The Banking\nCompany in Aberdeen was established in the year 1767; and the following\nNote respecting it may be new to many of the readers of \"N. & Q.\" This\nCompany adopted the plan of using paper bearing in watermark a waved\nline, and the amount of the note expressed in words, along with the\ndesignation of the Company; but about the year 1805 a gentleman\nconnected with Aberdeenshire brought this paper under the notice of the\nBank of England, in consequence of which they adopted it, and procured\nan act of parliament to be passed prohibiting the use of paper so marked\nby any provincial bank.\n\n PETRAPROMONTORIENSIS.\n\n_Which are the Shadows?_--In the notes to the beautiful poem _Italy_, by\nSamuel Rogers, published (I think) in 1830, the following occurs:--\n\n \"'You admire that picture,' said an old Dominican to me at Padua,\n as I stood contemplating a Last Supper in the refectory of his\n convent, the figures as large as life. 'I have sat at my meals\n before it for seven-and-forty years and such are the changes that\n have taken place among us; so many have come and gone in the time,\n that when I look upon the company there--upon those who are\n sitting at the table silent as they--I am sometimes inclined to\n think that we, and not they, are the shadows.'\"\n\nIn the sixth volume of Lord Mahon's _History of England_, chap. lx. p.\n498., we find this passage:\n\n \"Once as Sir David Wilkie (Mr. Washington Irving and myself being\n then his fellow-travellers in Spain) was gazing on one of Titian's\n master-pieces--the famous picture of the Last Supper in the\n refectory of the Escurial--an old monk of the order of St. Jerome\n came up, and said to him, 'I have sat daily in sight of that\n picture for now nearly three score years. During that time my\n companions have dropped off, one after another--all who were my\n seniors, all who were of mine own age, and many or most of those\n who were younger than myself; nothing has been unchanged around me\n except those figures, large as life, in yonder painting; and I\n look at them till I sometimes think that they are the realities,\n and we the shadows.'\"\n\nThe great resemblance between these two passages is very striking; the\nlatter only amplifies the former by very few words.\n\n D. F. M'L.\n\n Cork.\n\n_Antiquity of County Boundaries._--In the loop of Devonshire, on the\nwestern side of the Tamar, formed by the parishes of Werrington and\nNorth Petherwyn, none of the names of places are Cornish, but end in the\nSaxon termination of _cot_, whilst in all other parts the Cornish names\nare used up to the banks of the river. Modern Cornwall is a province so\nwell defined by the language of its place-names, that it could be marked\noff without difficulty, if its artificial boundary-lines were omitted on\na map. How does this limited extent of the language consist with some\naccounts of the former extent of the kingdom?\n\n S. R. P.\n\n Launceston.\n\n_Zachary Pearce not a Pupil of Busby._--The birth[1] of Zachary\n(afterwards Bishop) Pearce was prior to the death[2] of the famous\nMaster of Westminster, which took place at the _short_ interval of five\nyears: consequently, it was impossible that the relation of teacher and\npupil should exist between them.\n\n [Footnote 1: 1690.]\n\n [Footnote 2: 1695.]\n\nIn the Memoir of this prelate, which goes before his _Commentary on the\nGospels_, it is expressly stated that he was removed to Westminster\nSchool in Feb. 1704. At the same time, his biographer speaks of his\nbeing elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, after he had spent six\nyears at Westminster, and \"endured the constraint of a grammar school to\nthe twentieth year of his age.\" Then follows the sentence, \"Why his\nremoval was so long delayed, no other reason can be given, than that Dr.\nBusby used to detain those boys longest under his discipline of whose\nfuture eminence he had most expectation; considering the fundamental\nknowledge which grammar schools inculcate, as that which is least likely\nto be supplied by future diligence, if the student be sent deficient to\nthe university.\"\n\nBishop Pearce's biographer was the Rev. John Derby, his chaplain, who\ncould not well be mistaken as to a plain and palpable matter of fact. It\nis perfectly conceivable, however, that the future prelate was long\ndetained at Westminster School in consequence of a regulation _first_\nlaid down by Busby, and regularly acted upon by that eminent man. This\ncircumstance will sufficiently explain the apparent incongruity.\n\nIf I am right in this conjecture, Bishop Pearce must have entered under\nKnipe.[3]\n\n [Footnote 3: Noble's Continuation of _Granger_, Vol. iii. p. 119, &c.]\n\n N.\n\n_The Poet Gay and his Relatives._--In a letter from the late Bishop\nCopleston to the Rev. E. Tyler, in Jan. 1839, on the death of his mother\nat the age of ninety-two (published in his _Memoirs_), he says, \"Her\nfather and poet Gay were brothers' sons.\"\n\n H. T. E.\n\n\n\n\nQueries.\n\n\nTHOMAS BASTARD, AND SONG AGAINST SHEEP-FARMING.\n\nThe twentieth epigram in the fourth book of _Chrestoleros_, by T. B.\n(poor Thomas Bastard), printed 1598, is to the following effect:\n\n \"Sheepe have eate up our medows and our downes,\n Our corne, our wood, whole villages and townes.\n Yea, they have eate up many wealthy men,\n Besides widowes, and orphane childeren:\n Besides our statutes and our iron lawes,\n Which they have swallowed down into their maws.\n Till now I thought the proverbe did but jest,\n Which said a blacke sheepe was a biting beast.\"\n\nHere the allusion is of course to the miseries entailed by the system of\nsheep-farming; a system which had been introduced and carried to excess\nby the monastic bodies. Some years ago I met with an old satirical song\non this subject, of which the above \"proverbe\" formed a kind of burden,\nbut where, or in what collection I met with it, I cannot for the life of\nme remember. Now, seeing that your periodical exemplifies very\naccurately the definition once given by a Surrey peasant of a highly\naccomplished man--\"Sir! he knows everything, and what he don't know he\naxes,\"--perhaps you will allow me to ask whether some one of your many\nable correspondents may not have the power and the will to give me this\ninformation. A worthless memory seems to suggest that the song was a\nCambridge production, and interspersed with Latin phrases.\n\nNow, one word about the author of the epigram above quoted. It is not, I\nhope, an abuse of the freedom of speech which ought to prevail in the\nrepublic of letters, if I express a strong opinion that your learned\ncontributor, MR. PAYNE COLLIER, has rendered very scant justice to the\nmemory of Bastard. The epigrams selected by that gentleman as favourable\nsamples, are among the very worst of the author's efforts.\n\nProbably not twenty copies of the _Chrestoleros_ are in existence; but\nas, by the kindness of my esteemed friend E. V. Utterson, I possess one\nof the sixteen struck off at his own private press, I beg to supply a\nspecimen or two, that will not only gratify your readers in general, but\nelicit an approving verdict from MR. COLLIER himself.\n\nFor example, is not the finished cadence, as well as the nervous force,\nof the following lines to Sir Ph. Sidney, greatly to be admired?\n\n \"When Nature wrought upon her mould so well,\n That Nature wondred her own work to see,\n When Arte so labourde Nature to excel,\n And both had spent their excellence in thee;\n Willing they gave thee into Fortune's hand,\n Fearing they could not end what they beganne!\"\n\nIn my poor judgment, those are truly noble lines. And what say you to\nthe following, Mr. Editor, which form a sonnet rather than an epigram?\n\n \"The world's great peers and mighty conquerours,\n Whose sword hath purchased them eternal fame,\n If they survived in this age of ours\n Might add more glory to their lasting name.\n For him which Carthage sack'd and overthrewe,\n We have found out another Africa;\n Newe Gauls and Germaines C\u00e6sar might subdue,\n And Pompey Great another Asia.\n But you, O Christian princes, do not so;\n Seeke not to conquer nations by the sworde,\n Whom you may better quell and overthrowe\n By winning them to Christ and to his worde.\n Give Him the new worlde for old Asia's losse,\n And set not up your standard, but His crosse!\"\n\nI not only challenge MR. P. COLLIER'S hearty approval of those\nmagnificent lines, but I would venture the expression of a doubt whether\nanything finer can be produced of the same date and character.\n\nNow take a spice of Bastard's quality as a humorist; not failing to mark\nagain the solemn flow and well-balanced cadence of the lines:\n\n \"You who have sorrow's hidden bottom sounded,\n And felt the ground of teares and bitter moane,\n You may conceive how Gilloes heart is wounded,\n And judge of his deep feeling by your owne.\n His toothlesse wife, when she was left for dead,\n When grave and all was made--_Recovered!_\"\n\nI have other evidence as strongly favourable, but I shall not adduce it,\nlest after all it be wasted on unwilling ears. But if it be the verdict\nof your readers that Thomas Bastard has been unjustly forgotten, he\nshall live again in your pages.\n\n R. C. C.\n\n\nINUNDATIONS AND THEIR PHENOMENA.\n\nThe remarkable inundations that have recently taken place (I do not, of\ncourse, allude to the accident at Holmesfirth) in various parts of the\ncountry, without any such very long-continued and violent storms of rain\nas one would naturally look to as their cause, have called to my\nrecollection some remarks in the \"Notices Scientifiques\" of M. Arago,\nattached to the _Annuaire pour l'An 1838_, published by the Bureau des\nLongitudes at Paris. I beg to transcribe them:\n\n \"Des historiens, les m\u00e9t\u00e9orologistes citent des inondations\n locales dont les effets ont sembl\u00e9 bien sup\u00e9rieures \u00e0 ce que\n pouvoit faire craindre la m\u00e9diocre quantit\u00e9 de pluie provenante\n des nuages et tomb\u00e9e dans un certain rayon. Il est rarement arriv\u00e9\n qu'alors _on n'ait pas vu_, pendant un temps plus ou moins long,\n d'immense masses d'eau surgir des entrailles de la terre par des\n ouvertures jusque l\u00e0 inconnues, et aussi, _qu'un violent orage\n n'ait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 la pr\u00e9curseur du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne et probablement sa cause\n premi\u00e8re_. Telles furent, du point en point, par example, en juin,\n 1686, les circonstances de l'inondation qui d\u00e9truisit presque en\n totalit\u00e9 les deux villages de _Ketlevell_ et de _Starbottom_, dans\n le comt\u00e9 d'York. Pendant l'orage une immense crevasse se forma\n dans la montagne voisine, et, au dire des t\u00e9moins oculaires, la\n masse fluide qui s'en \u00e9chappa avec imp\u00e9tuosit\u00e9 contribua au moins\n tout autant que la pluie, aux malheurs qu'on eut \u00e0 d\u00e9plores.\"\n\n P. 361.\n\n1. Is there any reason to suppose that a subterranean outburst of this\nnature accompanied any of the recent inundations?\n\n2. Does the \"immense crevice\" alluded to by M. Arago still exist? and\ndoes water continue to proceed from it?\n\n SYDNEY SMIRKE.\n\n\nA BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERY.\n\nIn the year 1704 was published anonymously:\n\n \"_An Essay towards a Proposal for Catholic Communion_; wherein\n above sixty of the principal controverted points, which have\n hitherto divided Christendom, being called over, 'tis examined how\n many of them may, and ought to be laid aside, and how few remain\n to be accommodated, for the effecting a general Peace. By a\n Minister of the Church of England. Sold by John Nutt, near\n Stationers' Hall, 1704.\"\n\nThis _Essay_ has passed through several editions in London and Dublin:\nto that of 1801 is prefixed a\n\n \"Dedication to the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,\n and to the Hon. the House of Commons ... and the perusal of it\n earnestly recommended by a Lover of Christian Peace and Union and\n a Loyal United Briton.\"\n\nIt has now been in circulation for nearly a century and a half; and for\nwant of a medium of inter-communication in olden times like \"N. & Q.,\"\nits authorship has frequently been a topic of keen discussion. Mr.\nOakeley, in his work, _The Subject of Tract XC. historically examined_,\nstates that\n\n \"Its publication attracted at the time the notice of the\n Government. A warrant appears to have been issued from the\n Secretary of State's office for the seizure of the author's\n papers, and the arrest of his person, under a suspicion apparently\n that he was in league with the Pretender.\"\n\nIt is to be regretted that Mr. Oakeley has not given his authority for\nthis statement. Mr. Goode, in his pamphlet entitled _Tract XC.\nhistorically refuted_, attributes it, on the authority of Dodd, to\nThomas Dean, a Roman Catholic Fellow of University College, Oxford;\nwhereas the author of _The Sure Hope of Reconciliation_, p. 61., thinks\nMr. Goode's supposition open to exception; and as the writer styles\nhimself \"A Minister of the Church of England,\" he is inclined to admit\nhis claim to the title, till stronger evidence be adduced to the\ncontrary.\n\nThe following curious colloquy between two priests of the Roman and\nAnglican Churches, in the Town Hall at Guildford, in 1838, respecting\nthe authorship of this _Essay_, is also worthy a Note:\n\n \"_Rev. Joseph Sidden._ The author of _A Proposal for a Catholic\n Communion_ says----\n\n \"_Rev. M. Hobart Seymour._ Name! name.\n\n \"_Rev. J. Sidden._ I do not know his name; he appears to have been\n an archdeacon of the Church of England in the reign of Queen Anne.\n His work is on sale at Booker's.\n\n \"_The Chairman._ Can you name the place of which he was\n archdeacon?\n\n \"_Rev. J. Sidden._ No; but I give these as the words of a\n Protestant clergyman.\n\n \"_Rev. M. H. Seymour._ You do not know that he was a Protestant at\n all.\n\n \"_Rev. J. Sidden._ I have put the work into the hands of a\n Protestant clergyman, who agrees with it; and it agrees with\n Archbishop Bramhall. I have often tried to discover who was the\n author.\n\n \"_Rev. M. H. Seymour._ It was written perhaps by a Roman Catholic\n Priest.\n\n \"_Rev. J. Sidden._ I think not, because the Hon. and Rev. Arthur\n Perceval, rector of East Horsley, borrowed the book of me, and he\n wrote to me, that he so much approved of it, that he meant to\n procure a copy of it. I do not know who wrote it.\"\n\n _Proceedings at a Meeting of the Guildford Protestant\n Association_, 1838, p. 20.\n\nNow, without discussing the theological points at issue between the two\nparties, it is desirable that the authorship of this work, as a literary\nproduction, should be finally settled, which I am inclined to think will\nbe the case when it is brought before the numerous readers of \"N. & Q.\"\nOn its first appearance it was attacked by three Nonjuring clergymen,\nviz. Grascome, Stephens, and Spinckes. Grascome, it appears, knew the\nauthor; but his work, _Concordia Discors_, I have not been able to\nprocure. (See _Life of Kettlewell_, p. 328.) It is not to be found in\nthe catalogues of the Bodleian, British Museum, or Sion College. The\nreplies by Edward Stephens and Nathanael Spinckes are both in the\nBodleian. The first edition of the original _Essay_, 1704, is in the\nBritish Museum, and on the title-page is written in pencil, \"By Thomas\nDean, a papist,\" and underneath, in ink, \"By Nathanael Spinckes, not a\nRoman Catholic.\" The latter entry is clearly a mistake.\n\nAfter some investigation, it appears to me that the authorship rests\nbetween Thomas Dean and Joshua Bassett. It is attributed to the former\nby Dodd (_alias_ Tootle) in his _Certamen utriusqe Ecclesi\u00e6_; but Wood,\nwho has given some account of Dean in his _Athen\u00e6 Oxon._, vol. iv. p.\n450. (Bliss), does not include this _Essay_ among his other works. In\nthe Bodleian Catalogue its authorship is attributed to Joshua Bassett,\nMaster of Sidney College, Cambridge, of whom our biographical\ndictionaries are perfectly silent. Fortunately, Cole has preserved some\nnotices of him in his MSS., vol. xx. p. 117. It appears that he was a\nRoman Catholic, and had mass publicly said in his college; but upon King\nJames revoking the mandamuses in 1688, he left Cambridge and settled in\nLondon, where, says Cole, \"he lived to be a very old man, and died in no\nvery affluent circumstances, as we may well imagine.\" Cole notices a\nwork by Bassett published anonymously, viz. _Reason and Authority; or\nthe Motives of a late Protestant's Reconciliation to the Catholic\nChurch_. London: 1687, 4to. With this clue, probably, some of your\nreaders can finally settle the question.\n\n J. Y.\n\n Hoxton.\n\n\nNEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.\n\nI am engaged in preparing the Old Testament on the same plan, but with\nsome alterations and additions, as the _Chronological New Testament_\ndescribed in Vol. iv., p. 357.\n\nI write to ask if any of your correspondents can aid me in my\nundertaking in the following points:\n\nI. To inform me where I can procure, by purchase, or by loan for a few\nweeks, Torshell's tract or book, in which he proposed to Charles I. to\nundertake such a work.\n\nII. To make a re-division, according to the subject-matter, of Job,\nEcclesiastes, and the greater and the minor prophets.\n\nIII. To draw up a brief analysis of this subject-matter, similar to what\nis attempted in the New Testament for the Epistles.\n\nIV. To extract from the Mishneh, &c., the _really_ valuable comments of\nthe rabbis.\n\nV. To make up the chronology into the following four great unequal\ndivisions, assigning the particular years to each transaction falling\nunder these divisions; viz., (a) Adam to Abraham, (b) Abraham to David;\n(c) David to the transportation of Judah to Babylon; (d) Transportation\nto Babylon to Christ.\n\nVI. To collate all these _important_ variations of the Septuagint and of\nthe Samaritan Pentateuch.\n\nVII. Critically to examine the introductions, marginal quotations, and\nthe analyses, as given in the _Chronological New Testament_.\n\nI shall with pleasure present any gentleman who will help me in any one\nof these particulars with a copy of the New Testament at once, if he\nwill signify his wish for one, in a line addressed to me, care of the\nPublisher, Mr. Blackader, 13. Paternoster Row.\n\n THE EDITOR OF THE \"CHRONOLOGICAL NEW TESTAMENT.\"\n\n Trinity Square, Southwark.\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Pasquinades._--Can any correspondent tell me under whose reign the\nfollowing pasquinade was published?\n\nThe reigning Pope had erected a new order of knighthood, and the crosses\nwere very lavishly distributed; upon which Pasquin said--\n\n \"In tempi men' leggiadri e pi\u00f9 feroci\n S'appiccavan' i ladri in sulle croci,\n Ma in tempi men' feroci e pi\u00f9 leggiadri\n S'appiccano croci in sopra ladri.\"\n\n L. H. J. T.\n\n_Sir John Fenner's Bequest of Bibles._--Sir John Fenner, by will dated\n1633, desired his executors to employ monies in purchasing lands (which\nhas since produced 620_l._ per annum, but now less than that amount),\nthe rent to be laid out every Easter in buying Bibles and distributing\nmoney for and amongst the poor of ten parishes in the metropolis. I\nshall feel thankful for any information relating to that benevolent\ngentleman communicated either through your columns, or to me at 35.\nGifford Street, Kingsland Road, London.\n\n HENRY EDWARDS,\n\n (a Subscriber from the beginning).\n\n_Friday at Sea._--I have heard a story respecting the superstition in\nwhich sailors hold Friday as a day of departure. To disabuse them of\nthis superstition, a ship--so runs the tale--was laid down on Friday;\nlaunched on a Friday; commanded by a captain named Friday; sailed on a\nFriday; and--so runs the story--was never heard of afterwards!\n\nIs there--I believe not--any truth in this tradition; and where may the\nearliest allusion to it be found.\n\n [?]\n\n_Meaning of \"Knarres.\"_--In a minister's account of the time of Edward\nII., relating to Caernarvonshire, is an entry for rent received \"de\nterra morosa et knarres:\" the word is sometimes written _gnarres_. What\ndoes it mean? I believe in Norfolk and in other counties a description\nof scrubby woodland is known by the name of _carrs_ (Query spelling). We\nfind _Knares_-borough in Yorkshire, and _Knares_-dale in Northumberland,\n_Nar_-borough in Leicester, _Nar_-burgh and _Nar_-ford in Norfolk.\nTaking the _n_ to be the expressive letter, we have perhaps specimens of\nits softened sound in the names of _Snare_-hill, _Snar_-gate,\n_Snares_-brook, &c., in various counties. Some of your etymological\nreaders may be able to explain the derivation of these names, should\nthey be considered to come from a common source, and with that the\nsentence quoted above.\n\n J. BT.\n\n_Sir John Cheke._--May I hope for a reply to my Queries--in what court\npoor Sir John Cheke was forced to sit beside Bishop Bonner, at the\ntrials of the martyrs? and at whose trials he was present? His sad\nrecantation took place in the year 1556, and his death, from a broken\nheart, in the year following; so that his being compelled to sit on the\nbench beside Bonner, must have been at the trials which took place\nbetween those two dates. I have Foxe, Fuller, and Strype's memoirs of\nSir John Cheke; but I shall be grateful for any information about him\nfrom any other old volumes, or from private sources.\n\n C. B. T.\n\n_Arms of Yarmouth._--What authority has Gwillim, in his _Display of\nHeraldrie_, p. 258., for asserting--\n\n \"He beareth argent a chevron between three seals, feet erected,\n sable erased. These armes doe pertaine to the towne of Yarmouth in\n Norfolk.\"\n\n C. I. P.\n\n Gt. Yarmouth.\n\n\"_Litera Scripta Manet._\"--This is a favourite expression both with\nspeakers and with writers. Is it a quotation? If so, I should be glad to\nlearn whence it comes. It can scarcely be part of a verse, inasmuch as\nit contains a violation of a well-known metrical canon: final _a_ short\nbefore _sc_.\n\n W. S.\n\n Linwood.\n\n_Bull the Barrel._--What is the origin and exact meaning of the word\n_bull_ in this phrase? I made a note of the passage in which I found it,\nthinking that it might possibly be connected in some way with Milton's\n\"bullish.\" (See vol. iii., p. 241; vol. iv., p. 394.)\n\n \"On the third day after my departure from Zashiversk, my liquor\n was at an end from the effects of a very common sort of leak--it\n had been tapped too often. I could do nothing but _bull_ the\n barrel, that is, put a little water into it, and so preserve at\n least the appearance of vodkey.\"\n\n Cochrane's _Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and\n Siberian Tartary, during the years 1820-23_. [Murray, 1824, one\n vol. 8vo.] p. 225.\n\n C. FORBES.\n\n Temple.\n\n_Nuremberg Token._--What is the meaning of the following legend, which I\nfind on an old brass or copper coin of extreme thinness, and of the size\nof a shilling:--\n\n \"HANNS . KRAVWINCKEL . IN . NVR .\"\n\nencircling three crowns disposed in a circle with fleur de lis\nintervening.\n\n \"GOTS . REICH . BLIBT . EWICK . E .\"\n\nencircling an emblem of Trinity, in the interior of which is a ball and\ncross.\n\nThere are no figures to indicate a date, but I conclude it belongs to\nthe time of the Hanseatic league.\n\n H. C. K.\n\n_Weber on the Material Media of Musical Art._--Can any of your musical\nreaders inform me whether the treatise on the material media of the\nmusical art, promised by Weber in his _Theory of Musical Composition_,\nand which he therein frequently refers to, has ever yet made its\nappearance; and if so, whether any English translation has been\npublished?\n\n T. L. L.\n\n_Clement's Inn._--I am an attorney; one of my predecessors in business\nwas steward of Clement's Inn. He died, and his partner removed from the\nInn to the City. I was articled to the partner, and I recollect that up\nto the time of his death, which occurred in 1837, he used to receive an\nannual visit from the minor officials of the inn, beadle, porter, &c.,\nwho presented four oranges, and received in return half a guinea. I used\ngenerally to suck the oranges, but it never entered my head to inquire\nwhat was the origin of the custom. You have probably a correspondent or\nreader amongst the \"ancients\" of the venerable society I have mentioned,\nwho may be able to trace the origin of the custom which gave me the\nprivilege of sucking the oranges in question.\n\n Q. D.\n\n_Was Queen Elizabeth dark or fair?_--In Vol. iii., p. 432. of \"N. & Q.\"\nthere is a quotation from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1791, in which\nQueen Elizabeth is mentioned as of a \"_swarthy_ complexion.\" I had\nalways thought of her as fair. Miss Strickland speaks of her \"_fair_\ncomplexion,\" and cites De Maurier, who writes of her \"_white_ hands:\" in\naddition to which, does not her \"light auburn hair\" betoken a light\ncomplexion? In one of your late numbers a madrigal is given wherein she\nis sung as \"_fair_ Oriana.\" This, however, may be no allusion to colour\nof complexion, but merely the poetic use of the word as synonymous with\nbeautiful. How does the fact stand?\n\n W. T. M.\n\n Victoria, Hong Kong, Dec. 27, 1851.\n\n_The \"Black Book of Paisley.\"_--I should be glad if any of your\ncorrespondents could favour me with any information relative to the\n\"Black Book of Paisley,\" so often quoted by Scottish historical writers\nas the Chronicon Clugniense, being a chronicle of the public affairs and\nremarkable events kept by the monks of that monastery, and if the same\nor any part thereof has been reprinted by any of our societies or clubs.\nIt was said to have been recovered at Rome by Sir Robert Spottiswoode,\nalong with other records and MSS. of the Roman Catholic Church, which\nhad been carried abroad from the Scottish monasteries at the\nReformation.\n\n ABERDONIENSIS.\n\n\"_The Trial of the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline._\"--This\nbook, Mr. Whitbread stated in his place in the House of Commons in 1812,\nwas published, and afterwards suppressed, and bought up at an immense\nexpense, some holders receiving 500_l._, and some as high as 2000_l._\nfor their copies. Is this correct?\n\n ELGINENSIS.\n\n_Frith the Martyr, and Dean Comber._--Frith the Martyr, and Dean Comber,\nwere born in Westerham. Can any antiquary of the district point out the\nexact spot? I have often asked, but ever unsuccessfully; and I now\nregret that I did not inquire of Mr. Streatfeild, who resided in the\nparish, and whom I knew.\n\n H. G. D.\n\n_B\u00e9ocherie, alias Parva Hibernia--B\u00e9ocera Gent._--These words occur in\nKemble's _Ang.-Sax. Charters_, Nos. 567. and 652. The first was an islet\nin Somersetshire; the latter were in Hants. Were the _B\u00e9ocera Gent_\nIrish, and if so, whence the name?\n\n B. WILLIAMS.\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Augmentation Office._--I should esteem it a favour if any of your\ncorrespondents could inform me whether the original grants made in Hen.\nVIII. and Edw. VI. reigns, of the property of dissolved religious\nestablishments, are to be met with in the Augmentation Office, and if\nnot, where? as it would greatly assist in tracing titles to property\nformerly belonging to those establishments, and which passed from the\nhands of the crown to different individuals at those periods.\n\n J. N. CHADWICK.\n\n [All grants from the crown pass under letters patent, which are\n enrolled on the patent rolls. Those for the time of Hen. VIII. and\n Edw. VI. are in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, and can be\n readily searched if the name of grantee and date is known. In the\n Augmentation Office, a branch of the Carlton Ride Record Office,\n are the \"particulars\" for those grants, which give considerable\n information. See 8th Report of the Deputy-keeper of the Public\n Records.]\n\n\"_Smectymnus._\"--Who were the five divines who united their powers in\nwriting against episcopacy under the above title, which is said to be\ncomposed of the initial letters of their names?\n\n O. P. Q.\n\n [They were _S_tephen _M_arshall, _E_dmund _C_alamy, _T_homas\n _Y_oung, _M_atthew _N_ewcomen, and _W_illiam _S_purstow: their\n followers were called _Smectymnuans_. See Butler's _Hudibras_,\n with Grey's notes, Part I, canto iii. line 1166.]\n\n\n\n\nReplies.\n\n\nLIBER CONFORMITATUM.\n\n(Vol. iii., p. 321.)\n\nBartholom\u00e6o degli Albizzi, or Bartholomew of Pisa, who wrote the famous\nBOOK OF CONFORMITIES, was born at Rivano in Tuscany, and died in 1401.\nMr. Rose's admirable _Biographical Dict._ (12 vols. 8vo. 1850) contains\nthe following passage relative to this work, under the name Albizzi:--\n\n \"The LIBER CONFORMITATUM _was first printed at Venice, folio,\n without date or printer's name_; 2nd edition, folio, black letter,\n Milan, 1510; 3rd, Milan, 1513. In 1590, Father Bucchi (a\n Franciscan) published another edition at _Bologna_, but with\n considerable curtailment; and as it did not sell, it was\n republished in 1620 _with the first two leaves changed_, in order\n to disguise it.\n\n \"The approbation of the Chapter of the Order is found in this\n edition, bearing date Aug. 2, 1399. Tiraboschi (i. 181.), who is\n very angry with MARCHAND for occupying SIXTEEN COLUMNS OF THE\n DICT. HIST. WITH AN ENUMERATION OF THE EDITIONS OF THIS WORK AND\n ANSWERS TO IT, should have remembered that after such an\n approbation, it is no longer the mere work of an individual.\n\n \"In 1632, it was published at _Cologne_ with a new title; and in\n 1658 at _Liege_, but very much altered. Wading (_Bibl. Ord. Min._)\n has given a catalogue of Albizzi's other works, which has been\n copied by Casimir, Oudin, and Fabricius.\"\n\nA Venice edition, then, it would appear according to this writer, is the\n_original edition_; and that of Milan, 1510, is but the _second_. Will\nany one give me some accurate information on this point? Brunet and the\npublishers of the various editions of \"L'Alcoran,\" seem quite ignorant\nof the existence of any edition previous to that of Milan, 1510.\n\nDR. ERASMUS ALBER, the compiler of the _Alcoranus Franciscorum_, was \"a\nwarm friend and violent partizan of Luther; his chief characteristic is\nsevere, but broad, coarse satire.\"\n\nThe Amsterdam edition of 1734 commences the 1st vol. with a preface in\nFrench, by Conrad Badius, which is succeeded by one from Luther in\nLatin: at the end of the same vol. occurs another and longer _Pr\u00e6fatio\nMartini Lutheri, Germanico libello pr\u00e6fixa utcumque translata_; then\nfollow _Typographus Lectori_, and _Ex Epistola Erasmi Alberi, qui hunc\nlibellum ex detestando illo Conformitatum volumine contexuit_.\n\nTo any one who is acquainted with the _Book of Conformities_, which has\nbeen justly denominated THESAURUS BLASPHEMI\u00c6, the propriety and aptness\nof the title of THE FRANCISCAN KORAN is very obvious. Luther (and there\nseems no reason to doubt the genuineness of these prefaces), after\ncommenting on the expressions used in this book with reference to our\nBlessed Lord, and the great exemplar of the \"minors\" and \"minims,\"\nobserves:\n\n \"_Hinc sequitur quod Christus veluti figura Francisci, nihil fit\n amplius: id_ QUOD TURCI SENTIUNT. _At figuratus ille Franciscus,\n omnia est in omnibus. Ex quo jam altera h\u00e6resis manat, quod\n Franciscum, ut verum Messiam, Mediatorem, Advocatum ac Patronum\n invocunt, et vitam \u00e6ternam ab ipso petunt._\"\n\nALBER, after quoting some of the _Conformities_, adds--\n\n \"_Et, ut paucis dicam, Christus nihil fecit quod non item\n Franciscus fecerit, et longe plura etiam. Itaque et in Alcorano\n Franciscanorum s\u00e6pe reperitur, Franciscum Christo esse_ SIMILEM.\n _Nam quod sit_ SUPRA CHRISTUM, _perquam vellent quidem dicere, sed\n diabolis metuit ne nimium se prodat et agnosci possit._\"\n\nThe mere facts of this monstrous book having been _written_, _approved_\nby the highest authority, and for a _century and a half_ receiving\nuniversal applause (with the exception perhaps of a few jealous\nDominicans), nay, the mere _toleration_ of such a book, would have been\namply sufficient to show the corruption of the Western Church, and call\nloudly for reformation. This--\n\n \"_Abominationem_ [says Luther] _quam non ipsi solum exercuerunt ac\n in summo pretio habuerunt, sed ipse etiam Sanctissimus eam\n confirmavit, commendavit, privilegiis ornavit, ac omnibus Christe\n fidelibus pro focis et aris defendendam mandavit._\"\n\nSouthey says:\n\n \"I believe the Franciscans designed to follow the example of the\n Moslem, and supersede Jesus Christ. At one time they attempted to\n leave off the vulgar \u00e6ra, and actually dated from the infliction\n of the Five Wounds.\"\n\nIn the Romish calendar, the 17th of September is dedicated to \"Impressio\nStigm. S. Francis.\" Of the Geneva editions of the Cordelier Alcoran,\nBrunet (last edition) mentions 1556, 1560, and 1578. In Leslie's\nCatalogue for 1852, under the heading \"_Luther_,\" the Geneva edition of\n1556 occurs; the title is worth giving:\n\n \"L'Alcoran des Cordeliers, tant en Latin qu'en Fran\u00e7ois; c'est \u00e0\n dire, la mer des blasph\u00e8mes et mensonges de cest idole stigmatiz\u00e9\n qu'on appelle S. Fran\u00e7ois, recueilli par le Docteur M. Luther, du\n livre des Conformitez de ce beau S. Fran\u00e7ois, imprim\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan l'an\n 1510, et nouvellement traduit, 12mo. Geneve, 1556.\"\n\nThe same Catalogue advertises a fine copy of Father Bucchi's _Liber\nAureus_, 1590.\n\nBrunet refers to the following work in reference to the _Alcoranus_:\n\n \"La Guerre S\u00e9raphique, ou histoire des p\u00e9rils qu'a courus la barbe\n des Capucins contre les violentes attaques des Cordeliers. La\n Haye, 1740, in 12.--_Ce volume se joint \u00e0 l'Alcoran des\n Cordeliers._\"\n\nHe also speaks of a work by a certain Spaniard, named Father PIERRE DE\nALVA, which, for the vast number of points of _conformity_ between our\nLord and St. Francis adduced, and the amazing fecundity of invention and\nfertility of imagination displayed, completely throws BARTHOLOMEW OF\nPISA into the shade; it is entitled--\n\n \"Natur\u00e6 prodigium et grati\u00e6 portentum hoc est Seraphici P.\n Francisci vit\u00e6 acta ad Christi Domini vitam et mortem regulata et\n coaptata a P. Petro de Alva et Astorga. Matriti, 1651, folio.\"\n\nTo conclude with a Query: Is the book called \"FIORETTI\" an Italian\ntranslation of the \"BOOK OF CONFORMITIES?\" The title would lead one to\nsuppose it.\n\n \"FIORETTI. Opera gentilissima et utilissima a tutti li fideli\n Christiani laqual se chiama LI FIORETTI de Misser Santo Francesco\n asemiliativa a la vita et alla passion de JESU CHRISTO e tutte le\n soe sancti vertige. Lunardo Longo rector de la giesia de Sancto\n Paulo de Vincenza, curendo lano. M.CCCCLXXVI. in 4.\"\n\nThe second edition bears date, Venexia in caxa di Nicolo Girardengo\nM.CCCCLXXX. 4to.; the third, Perouse, 1481, 4to.\n\n MARICONDA.\n\n Feb. 11. 1852.\n\n\nTRADITIONS OF REMOTE PERIODS.--GEORGE III.'S GARTER.\n\n(Vol. v., pp. 77. 135.)\n\nThere is clearly some inaccuracy in the details of my statement, which I\nam obliged to LORD BRAYBROOKE and to G. for pointing out, and which,\nperhaps, they may help to clear up. The main fact is admitted: that\n\"_two_ Knights of the Garter covered the period from 1684 to 1820;\" and\nGeorge IV.'s assertion, that \"he had given away a Garter that had been\ngiven but once since the reign of Charles II.,\" I myself heard, though I\nunluckily did not make a \"Note\" of it. This could apply to nothing but\nthe cases of the Duke of Somerset and George III. Whether George IV. was\nmisinformed as to the details on which he founded his assertion, I know\nnot; but it is unlikely: and that after a lapse of about thirty years I\nmay have confounded the _Regency_ with the _Accession_, and _Lord Moira_\nwith the _Duke of Buckingham_, I will not deny; for it seems that I have\ndone one or the other, though without any effect on the main point. As\nto G.'s objection, that of several Garters disposed of on the same day\nin 1745. The Duke of Somerset's did not fall to Prince George. I have\nnot Beltz to refer to; but it strikes me as possible this may admit of\nexplanation: because, although Prince George was _nominated_ first in\nthe batch, it happened that he was _invested_ the last; indeed not till\nthe day _after_ all the others: so that he might have received the\n_badge_ of the Duke of Somerset. Your readers are aware that the\n_badges_ are not the private property of the knights, but are always\n_returned_ into the hands of the _sovereign_, and that the same badge is\ndelivered to successive knights; so that it is probable that George\nIII., on becoming sovereign, kept in his own possession the badge he had\noriginally received, and that this identical badge George IV. disposed\nof as he stated, whether to the Duke of Buckingham, or, as the\nimpression on my memory still is, Lord Moira.\n\n C.\n\n_Traditions from Remote Periods._--From time to time notices have\nappeared in \"N. & Q.\" of \"remote events brought down to our own times\nthrough few links:\" to these, if you should think it merits insertion, I\nbeg to contribute the following Note from Chambers's _Life and Works of\nBurns_, vol. iii. p. 205. In the address to Mr. Maxwell, of Terraughty,\non his birthday (p. 204.), Burns says, 7th line:\n\n \"This day[4] thou metes threescore eleven,\"\n\nand Mr. Chambers remarks:\n\n \"The person addressed in these verses, John Maxwell, Esq., of\n Terraughty and Munches, was a leading public man in the county of\n Dumfries. He was on several accounts very remarkable, but\n particularly for his birth, and the proximity into which his\n family history brings us with events comparatively remote; for Mr.\n Maxwell was grandson's grandson, and no more, to the gallant and\n faithful Lord Herries, who on bended knees entreated Queen Mary to\n prosecute Bothwell as the murderer of her husband, and who\n subsequently fought for her at Langside. One cannot learn without\n a pleasing kind of surprise, that a relation in the fifth degree\n of one who was _Warden of the West Marches in 1545_, should have\n lived to the close of the French Revolution wars, which was the\n case of Mr. Maxwell, for he died in _January 1814_.\"\n\n [Footnote 4: Middle of December, 1791.]\n\n C. D. LAMONT.\n\n Greenock.\n\nThere is now living in the village of Headley, Hants, a man whose father\nwas born in the time (though not in the reign) of James II.; viz. 1697.\nAs a curious instance of the space of time included in the lives of a\nfather and son (although there is nothing wonderful in the number of\nyears attained by either separately), I have thought it worth recording\nin \"N. & Q.\" I may add that the age of the man now living at Headley is\neighty-three, and he was born when his father was seventy-two years old.\n\n L. G.\n\n\nTWENTY-SEVEN CHILDREN, AND MORE, OF ONE MOTHER.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 126.)\n\nHappening to have made notes from time to time of several such\ninstances, I beg to present them to the readers of \"N. & Q.\":--\n\n_Sixty-two Children_:--\n\n \"A weaver in Scotland had by one woman 62 children, all living\n till they were baptized, of w'ch ther wer but fower daughters\n onely who lived till they were women, and 46 sonns, all attaining\n to man's estate. During the time of this fruitfullnes in the\n woman, the husband, at her importunity, absented himself from her\n for the space of 5 years together, serving as a soldier under the\n command of Captaine Selby in the Low Countries. After his return\n home his wife was againe delivered of three children at a birth,\n and so in due time continued in such births till, through bearing,\n she became impotent. The certainty of this relation I had from\n John Delavall of Northumb', Esq., who, ann. 1630, rid about 30\n miles beyond Edenburrough to see this fruitfull couple, who were\n both then living. Ther statures and features he described to me\n then more fully. Ther was not any of the children then abiding\n with ther parents. Sir John Bowes & 3 other men of qualitie have\n taken at severall times ten of ther children apeece from them, and\n brought them up. The rest wer disposed of by the other English &\n Scottish gents, amongst w'ch 3 or 4 out of them are now alive &\n abiding at Newcastle, 1630.\"\n\n _Collectanea Topog. et Geneal._ vol. iv. p. 53. from MS. Harl.\n 980. f. 74.\n\n_Thirty-nine Children_:--\n\n \"In the year 1698, when Thomas Greenhill, surgeon to Henry Duke of\n Norfolk (son of William Greenhill of Greenhill in Middx. by\n Elizabeth, daughter of John Jones of London) petitioned the Earl\n Marshal as follows: 'That in consideration of your petitioner\n being the 7th son & 39th child of one father & mother, your Grace\n would be pleased to signalise it by some particular remark or\n augmentation in his coat of Arms, to transmit to posterity so\n uncommon a thing.' The confirmation of the arms contains no\n reference to the fact.\"\n\n _Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica_, vol. iv. p. 53.\n\n_Thirty-five Children_:--\n\n \"A woman in Vere Street of the 35th child by one\n husband.\"\n\n _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1736, p. 683.\n\n_Thirty Children._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for Feb. 1743, is\nrecorded the death of Mrs. Agnes Milbourne, who was aged 106, and had\nthirty children.\n\n_Twenty-nine Children._--In that for 1738:--\n\n \"Nov. 15. Mr. Thomas Rogers, a 'Change-Broker, who had by his wife\n 29 children, born and christen'd.\"\n\n_Twenty-seven Children._--Mr. Richetts, father of the present Earl St.\nVincent, was the twenty-third of twenty-seven children by the same\nmother.\n\n J. G. N.\n\nIn the _London Medical Journal_, vol. x. for the year 1789, art. vi., \"A\nremarkable case of numerous births, with observations by Maxwell\nGarthmore, M.D., F.R.S. & S.A.: in a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.,\nP.R.S.,\" Dr. G. mentions an account given formerly in the _Journal des\nS\u00e7avans_, by M. Seignette, physician at Rochelle, of a woman of\nSaintonge who was at one birth delivered of nine well-formed children so\nfar advanced that their sexes could be discovered.\n\nIn the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lii. p. 376., is a curious legend of\na woman giving birth to 365 children at once: all the males were\nbaptised and named John, and all the females Elizabeth. The mother and\n365 children died the same day.\n\nIn the _Morning Advertiser_ for Dec. 1, 1851, is an account of a woman\nat Ballygunge, near Calcutta, being delivered of twenty-one children at\nonce, all boys.\n\nNov. 14th, 1736. A woman in Vere Street, of her thirty-fifth child, by\none husband. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. vi. p. 683.)\n\nJuly 31st, 1781. At Kirton-le-Moor, in Cumberland, a man and his wife,\nand thirty children, the youngest of whom was between two and three\nyears old, lately walked to church to the christening of the\nthirty-first child. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. li. p. 388.)\n\nDied at Grantham, Mrs. Lelly, a widow lady of that town. She was twice\nmother of twenty-two children. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lii. p.\n309.)\n\nEighty-seven children by two wives: sixty-nine by first, eighteen by\nsecond. (_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. liii. p. 753.)\n\nSeventy-two children by two wives, and a mother of thirty-two children.\n(_Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lix. pp. 733-4.) To which is appended the\nfollowing note by the editor:\n\n \"The following epitaph, commemorating an instance of remarkable\n fecundity, is inserted by Mr. Pennant in his _Journey to Snowdon_:\n 'Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Hookes, of Conway, Gent., who was\n the forty-first child of his father, William Hookes, Esq., by\n Alice his wife, and the father of twenty-seven children, who died\n the 20th day of March, 1637.'\"\n\n PANTAGRUEL.\n\n\nPEDIGREE OF RICHARD EARL OF CHEPSTOW.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 126.)\n\nIt seems there can be no doubt that Richard de Clare, second Earl of\nPembroke, surnamed Strongbow, was eldest son of Gilbert de Clare, first\nEarl of Pembroke: which last was second son of Gilbert de Tonebrugge.\nThat Strongbow's father's name was Gilbert is proved from a charter in\nwhich he (the father) made a grant of the church of Everton to the\npriory of St. Neot, commencing \"Gilbertus, filius G. Comes de Penbroc,\"\n&c. (See _Dugdale_.) And I find this confirmed by a valuable old\npedigree in the possession of a member of my family (date _cir._ 1620),\nwhich was admitted as principal evidence, and examined, in a successful\nsuit in the Court of Chancery, in the latter half of the last century;\nin which pedigree the De Clares are introduced among the \"pr\u00e6clarissim\u00e6\naffinitates.\" An extract would be needless, and occupy your valuable\nspace to no purpose.\n\nTo account for the singularity mentioned by your correspondent in the\ncharter of Strongbow, I can make but these two suggestions: either the\nreading is correct,--in which case the true name of the first Earl of\nPembroke was _Richard Gilbert_, which, I need hardly say, is possible,\nnotwithstanding the existence of his elder brother Richard; or, the\nreading is incorrect, in which case the mistake probably arose from the\nwriter, notwithstanding he had written \"Comes Ric'\" previously, by a\nnatural oversight inserting it again after \"fil,\" intending to write,\n\"Comes Ric' fil Gisleb'ti.\"\n\nIt may be an admission of ignorance on my part, but I am unable to find\nin any of the authorities I have at hand, that Strongbow, Earl of\nPembroke, was, as your correspondent states him to have been, also _Earl\nof Chepstow_. Will he be kind enough to give me a reference?\n\nIn the above-mentioned pedigree the arms of the De Clares are given down\nto Strongbow--_or, three chevrons gules_; while the bearing of the\nlatter is _or, five chevrons gules_. Burke, in his _Extinct Peerage_,\ngives the arms of both the De Clares, Earls of Pembroke, _or three\nchevrons gules, a lable of five points az._; while in another authority,\nBerry's _Encycl._, I find for the two De Clares, Earls of Pembroke, two\nwidely different coats, viz. _ar. on a chief az. three crosses patt\u00e9e\nfitch\u00e9e of the field_; and _or, three chevrons gules, a crescent az._\nCan any of your heraldic correspondents account for these various\nbearings?\n\n H. C. K.\n\n ---- Rectory, Hereford.\n\n\nISABEL, QUEEN OF THE ISLE OF MAN.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 132.)\n\nMr. WM. SIDNEY GIBSON has correctly referred to the authority for this\ndesignation; but it may be well, before pursuing the inquiry, to place\nbefore the reader the very words of the register of the Grey Friars of\nLondon:\n\n \"Versus quasi medium chori jacet dominus Willelmus Fitzwarryn\n Baro, et Isabella uxor sua quondam Regina Man.\"\n\n _Collectanea Top. et Geneal._ v. 278.\n\nMR. GIBSON has also correctly added, that in my note to this entry I\nhave not afforded any information about the lady Isabel. It is true that\nI searched for such information in vain; and the information I gave in\nlieu was the date of the death of William Lord Fitz-Warine, viz., the 35\nEdw. III. (1361), and the name of the lady he is known from record (Ex.\n22 Edw. III. no. 39.), to have married, namely, _Amicia_, daughter and\nheir of Sir Henry de Haddon. As there is not the slightest ground for\nimagining that this Amicia was ever \"Queen of Man,\" it must therefore be\nconcluded, supposing that the register of the Grey Friars gives a\nfaithful reflection of the epitaph, that the Lord Fitz-Warine had a\nsecond wife. I am not inclined to adopt MR. GIBSON'S suggestion that\nthis lady was _Sibilla_, daughter of William de Montacute, first Earl of\nSalisbury, because the lordship of Man descended to the second earl, and\nhe possessed it until the 16 Ric. II. (1393). It seems therefore that\nthe only \"Queen of Man\" that could be the wife of William Lord\nFitz-Warine, must have been the widow of the first Earl of Salisbury,\nwho died in 1343. The wife of that earl and the mother of his heir was\n_Katharine_, daughter of William Lord Granson, as Mr. Beltz gives that\nname, correcting the more prevalent form of Grandison. The question\ntherefore to be decided is--Did this lady survive him, or did he marry a\nsecond wife named _Isabella_? In either case, I think it is clear that\nthe lady buried at the Grey Friars was the Dowager Countess of\nSalisbury. Mr. Beltz has given a memoir of Sir William Fitz-Warine in\nhis _Memorials of the Garter_, but he was not aware of the baron's\nconnexion with \"the Queen of Man.\" Dying of the plague on the 28th Oct.\n1361, it was probably in haste that his body was interred in the church\nof the Grey Friars, and the queen may have fallen a victim to the same\npestilence. There is an effigy in the church at Wantage which is\nascribed to this Lord Fitz-Warine; and it is accompanied by one of a\nlady, probably Amicia Haddon, on whose death, some time before his own,\nthat monument may have been erected. These effigies are engraved in the\nseries by Hollis. There is a peculiarity attending the barony of this\nWilliam Fitz-Warine. He was first summoned by writ in 1342 [qu. if 1343,\nand thus after his marriage with the Dowager Countess of Salisbury?];\nand though he left a son and heir, Sir Ivo Fitz-Warine, that son was\nnever summoned to parliament. A similar course has been observed in\nother cases where the title to a barony was _jure uxoris_, in which\ncondition may be included the state of the second husband of a countess,\nthere being instances of men in that position being summoned to\nparliament _as barons_, whilst the countesses their wives were living,\nand no longer. Thus it is possible that Fitz-Warine was summoned,\nbecause he had married the countess and \"queen;\" and his son Ivo was not\nsummoned, because he was the son of Amicia Haddon.\n\nWith regard to the titles of King or Queen of Man, they do not appear to\nbe recognised by records, but merely by the chroniclers. Dugdale has\nquoted from the history of Thomas de la Marc, that William, Earl Of\nSalisbury, having in 16 Edw. III. (1342) conquered the Isle of Man (from\nthe Scots), the king gave him the inheritance, and _crowned him king\nthereof_; and Walsingham and Otterbourne (p. 153.) relate that the\nVice-Chamberlaine, Sir William Scrope, in 16 Ric. II. (1393) purchased\nthe sovereignty of the Isle of Man _cum corona_. But the word _dominus_,\nnot _rex_, is employed in Latin records, and _seigneur_ in French. On\nthe seal of the first Earl of Salisbury he is styled _dominus de dynbi\net mannie_, and on his counterseal _dominus de man et de dynbi_; and on\na counter or privy seal of the second earl he is styled _dominus mannie\net de dynbi_ (_i.e._ Denbigh, not \"Derby,\" as misprinted in p. 132.\n_antea_). These seals have been recently engraved in the Salisbury\nvolume of the Arch\u00e6ological Institute. The second earl in his will, made\nthe 20th April, 1397, styles himself \"Earl of Salisbury and Lord of the\nIsles of Man and Wiht,\" although he had then sold the lordship of Man\nsome years before. In the Harleian charters is a bond from the purchaser\nto the famous Sir Richard Whityngton, citizen and mercer of London,\ndated 29th Aug. 1393, in which he is described as \"William le Scrope,\nSeigneur de Man et des Isles;\" and in the truce with France on the 10th\nMarch, 1394, \"Monsieur Gwilliam le Scrope\" is recorded to have assented\nto the proceedings \"pour le seigneury de Man,\" as one of the _allies_ of\nthe King of England. (_Foedera_, iii. part iv. p. 95.) It is not easy to\ndetermine when or where these potent subjects really assumed the rank or\ntitle of \"king\" and \"queen;\" and it must be recollected that the King of\nEngland himself was at the same period content to call himself only\n\"Lord of Ireland,\" as the Earl of Salisbury was \"Lord of Man.\"\n\nIt may stimulate MR. GIBSON, as a north countryman, to further\nresearches in this matter to remind him that it is to Katharine,\nCountess of Salisbury, at the Castle of Wark in Northumberland, that Mr.\nBeltz has traced the anecdote related by Froissart of the especial\nadmiration which King Edward III. conceived for a Countess of Salisbury;\nconnected with which are some of the legendary stories of the origin of\nthe Order of the Garter (see _Memorials of the Garter_, pp. 63. et\nseq.). It would be a remarkable fact to ascertain that the object of the\nking's gallantry became afterwards even a nominal queen.\n\n JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Bastides_ (Vol. v., p. 150.).--The town of Kingston-upon-Hull was\nfounded by King Edward I., when he returned from Scotland, through\nYorkshire, in 1299, and it may be seen in Hollar's map of the town, _as\nit was in 1640_, that the ground plan coincides exactly with MR.\nPARKER'S description of the \"Villes Anglaises\" in France.\n\n F. HH.\n\n_Brun\u00e9haut_ (Vol. iv., p. 86.).--Pasquier is the great author originally\nin her favour. Hallam refers also to Vellay, _Hist. de France_, tom. i.\non one side, and a dissertation by Gaillard in the _Memoirs of the\nAcademy of Inscriptions_, tom. xxx. on the other. Hallam himself was\nagainst her. In his _Supplement_, p. 19., he is rather undecided.\n\nMichelet and Sismondi do not seem to defend her; nor, I believe, Guizot,\nwho considers there was a constant struggle between the Frank and Roman\ninhabitants, and that Fredegonde and Brun\u00e9haut were the heads and types\nrespectively of the two races, and their respective principles of\ngovernment.\n\n C. B.\n\n_Job_ (Vol. v., pp. 26. 140.).--The criticisms of your correspondent\nRECHABITE are of so singular a character, that I must beg him to excuse\nmy passing over, _unnoticed_, the first paragraph.\n\nThe second appears calculated to traduce the character of a man\ncelebrated for his integrity, judgment, accurateness, preciseness, and\nskill in his sketches, &c. The _Inscriptio Persepolitana_, p. 333., is\nhis own sketch: \"Verum, unius descriptio tam longam mihi facessebat\noperam (ob loci altitudinem et solares radios permolestam) ut parum\nabesset, quin \u00e0 ceteris abstinere coactus fuerim.\" (P. 332.) There were\nthree others: \"Inscriptionis quadruplex quasi tabula spectatur.\" Perhaps\nit may be one of the latter ones that RECHABITE has seen in Niebuhr and\nPorter. I have not seen those works.\n\nNext, why does RECHABITE not say what are the _two letters_ which I have\ntranslated as two words containing _eight letters_?\n\nAnd now for my _theory_, and Major Rawlinson's improved translation of\nthe inscription, all together. Let the reader of \"N. & Q.\" turn to\nK\u00e6mpfer, p. 341., and he will see the procession that is described in p.\n333. Does he think that Ormazd, Xerxes, Darius, or Ach\u00e6menes is there? I\nassure him that they are not mentioned. In fact, the engravings were\nmade long before the date 694 B.C., when Ach\u00e6menes began his reign. But\nit appears that an Egyptian reed is thought sufficient to prop up a\nstructure raised in the sand.\n\nFinally, my great desire is, that some spirited person would take up the\nmatter, and let the old and new system be tried by proper tests; and let\nthe conquered have a decent burial.\n\n T. R. BROWN.\n\n Southwick, near Oundle.\n\n_Parish Registers_ (Vol. iv., p. 473.; Vol. v., pp. 36.\n141.).--Notwithstanding the high legal tone which pervades the replies\nyou have received on Parish Registers, I cannot acquiesce in the\nconclusion that \"the genealogical or arch\u00e6ological inquirer has in\ngeneral no right to inspect,\" much less to copy, the Register Books.\nWhat object could there be in enforcing the _keeping_ and preservation\nof registers by the officiating ministers, even under the pain of\ntransportation for fourteen years of any person wilfully injuring them,\nand the cost to parishes for providing iron chests, except it be \"for\nthe inspection of persons desirous to make search therein, and obtain\ncopies from and out of the same.\" (52 Geo. III. cap. 146.) And by the\nact just quoted, the minister and the public are bound with regard to\nfees due on searching, and for copies. He is entitled \"to all due legal\nand _accustomed_ fees on such occasions, and all powers and remedies for\nrecovery thereof.\" And by the 49th section of a more recent Registration\nAct (6 & 7 Wm. IV.), registers of baptisms and burials may still be\nkept, and, by inference, the fees are included; because by the 35th\nsection the fees for the examination of the registers created by this\nlast act are defined; but then they apply only to those registers, the\npower of that act being only prospective, not retrospective.\n\nThe following note, made many years ago, from Phillip's _Law of\nEvidence_ (which, from the number of editions it has passed through,\nmust be supposed to be a work of considerable weight), will probably set\nthe question at rest, as he refers to adjudged cases:\n\n \"Parish registers are public books, and persons interested in them\n have a right to inspect and take copies of such parts as relate to\n their interest.\n\n Geery _v._ Hopkins, 2 _Lord Raym._ 850.; Warriner _v._ Giles, 2\n _Stra._ 954.; Mayor of Lond. _v._ Swinhead, 1 _Barnardist._ 454.\"\n\nThe reply, therefore, to the Query of D. (Vol. iv., p. 474.) seems to\nbe, that any person has a right to consult the parish registers, not\n_gratuitously_, but on payment of the _accustomed_ fee.\n\n H. T. ELLACOMBE.\n\n Clyst St. George.\n\nIt may be of use to D. (Rotherfield), to be referred to the _Justice of\nthe Peace_ for 31st January, 1852, wherein, at p. 76., he will find an\nopinion given, that, for the search the clergyman has a right to charge\n1_s._ and no more, whatever may be the number of names, unless the\nsearch extended over a period of more than one year, when he would be\nentitled to 6_d._ extra for every additional year.\n\n REGEDONUM.\n\n_Ornamental Hermits_ (Vol. v., p. 123.).--Some fancy of this kind at Mr.\nWeld's of Lulworth Castle, in Dorsetshire, exaggerated or highly\ncoloured by O'Keefe, was supposed to afford the title and principal\nincident of his extravagant but laughable comedy of _The London Hermit;\nor, Rambles in Dorsetshire_, first played in 1793, with great success,\nand revived (cut down to a two-act farce) in 1822. I, too, have heard\nthe story as told of Mr. Hamilton and Payne's Hill; but I a little doubt\nit, because in the elaborate and somewhat pompous description of Payne's\nHill there is no mention of the _Hermitage_; and when I saw it as a show\nplace a great many years ago, I saw no building of that description;\nbut, after all, this may have been the original story which O'Keefe\ntransported into Dorsetshire.\n\n C.\n\n_Collars of SS._ (Vol. v., pp. 81. 183.).--Allow me to correct one or\ntwo errors into which your correspondent H. L. has fallen.\n\nIn the first place, my letter was not intended (nor, I conceive, was\nthat of your correspondent LLEWELLYN) either to support a favourite\ntheory, or to combat a long-established prejudice; but simply to furnish\na contribution to MR. FOSS'S list of monumental effigies decorated with\nthis \"much-vext\" ornament.\n\nAs to the mistakes (if mistakes they be) which H. L. assumes, they are\nnot mine, but those of persons whose authority on these subjects H. L.\n(like the celebrated reviewer who criticised Pindar's Greek without\nknowing it) might find it awkward to impugn.\n\nI may as well inform him, by the way, that the _corf de mailles_, which\noriginally covered the whole head, as a sort of cowl, was diminished in\nsize until it became little more than a gorget of mail; and appears at\nlast to have formed a portion of the hauberk. The name also changed its\northography: passing, as has been suggested, through the intervening\nstage of _cap-mail_, until it was corrupted into _camail_. There is,\ntherefore, no ground for \"assuming\" the ignorance of persons who use the\n_original_, instead of the _corrupted_ form of a word.\n\nPerhaps H. L. has never heard of a helmet being worn over a bascinet. I\ncan furnish him with a _few_ instances of monumental effigies where both\nappear. He should study the monument in question before he pronounces\nthe use of the word \"helmet\" to be a mistake.\n\nI would suggest to H. L. that the next time he appears in your pages he\nhad better append his name in full, that those whom he assails may be\nbetter able to judge of the value of his criticism.\n\nI will only add that it is hardly fair to \"assume\" that a man has never\nstudied a subject which has been his hobby for thirty years; and who\nmight be able to prove, by ocular demonstration, that he has \"studied\"\nmore monumental effigies than H. L. probably ever dreamt of.\n\n LEWIS EVANS.\n\n_Herschel Anticipated_ (Vol. iv., p. 233., &c.).--It was not Herschel's\ndiscoveries relative to the sun's motion, but his theory relative to its\nphysical constitutions, which was anticipated by a person, who was\ndeclared to be mad for holding such opinions. Sir David Brewster, in a\nnote to his edition of Ferguson's _Astronomy_, vol. ii. p. 144., says:\n\n \"It is a curious fact that the opinions of Dr. Herschel,\n respecting the nature of the sun, were maintained by a Dr. Elliot,\n who was tried at the Old Bailey for shooting Miss Boydell. The\n friends of the Doctor maintained that he was insane, and called\n several witnesses to establish this point. Among these was Dr.\n Simmons, who declared that Dr. Elliot had, for some months before,\n shown a fondness for the most extravagant opinions; and that in\n particular, he had sent to him a letter on the light of the\n celestial bodies, to be communicated to the Royal Society. This\n letter confirmed Dr. Simmons in the belief that this unhappy man\n was under the influence of this mental derangement; and, as a\n proof of the correctness of this opinion, he directed the\n attention of the court to a passage of the letter, in which Dr.\n Elliot states, 'that the light of the sun proceeds from a dense\n and universal aurora, which may afford ample light to the\n inhabitants of the surface (of the sun) beneath, and yet be at\n such a distance aloft as not to annoy them.' No objection, says\n he, ariseth to that great luminary being inhabited; vegetation may\n obtain there, as well as with us. There may be water and dry land,\n hills and dales, rain and fair weather; and as the light, so the\n season, must be eternal; consequently it may easily be conceived\n to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system.\"\n (See the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1787, p. 636.)\n\n W. G.\n\n_Monastic Establishments in Scotland_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--In reply to\nCEYREP I would recommend to his notice the following publications; they\nmay assist him materially in his inquiries, viz.:\n\n 1. \"Moore's List of the Principal Monasteries and Castles in Great\n Britain. Revised by John Caley, Keeper of the Records of the Abbey\n lands in the Exchequer. 8vo. 1798.\"\n\n 2. \"Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica: Memoir of what has been already\n done, and what Materials exist, towards the Formation of a\n Scottish Monasticon: to which are appended, Sundry New Instances\n of Goodly Matter, by a Delver in Antiquity (W. B. Turnbull). 8vo.\n 1842.\"\n\nIn the Advocates' Library here, there are, I understand, a few MSS.\nrelative to these religious establishments, such as _Rentales_; also\nFather Richard Hay's MS. entitled _Scotia Sacra_, being an account of\nthe most renowned monasteries in Scotland, with a series of the several\nbishops, priors, and other governors, &c., written in 1700, folio.\n\n T. G. S.\n\n Edinburgh.\n\n_Kissing under the Mistletoe_ (Vol. v., p. 13.).--The editorial reply to\nAn M.D. seems to me very unsatisfactory. Would it not be more reasonable\nto refer the custom to the Scandinavian mythology, wherein the mistletoe\nis dedicated to Friga, the Venus of the Scandinavians; especially when\nwe remember that previous to the introduction of Christianity, the feast\nof Thor was celebrated by the Northmen at nearly the same period? a fact\nwhich also accounts for the Bacchanalian character of the Christian\nfeast. Students of the Edda will remember the importance of the\nmistletoe in the Scandinavian legends; the story of Loke's attack on\nBalder hinging upon the parasite character of the plant. It is worth a\nnote in passing, that the holly owes its importance in the Christmas\nfestivities to paganism. The Romans dedicated the holly to Saturn, whose\nfestival was held in December; and the early Christians, to screen\nthemselves from persecution, decked their houses with its branches\nduring their own celebration of the Nativity.\n\n SHIRLEY HIBBERD.\n\n_The Ring Finger_ (Vol. v., p. 114.).--I allow all that has been said,\nthough the Rubric in our Prayer Book directs the ring to be placed _on_\nthe fourth finger, and held there, &c. Still I have read of the earliest\ncustom being, after repeating the words \"With this ring I thee wed,\"\n&c., on coming to \"In the name of the Father,\" to place the ring on the\ntop of the thumb; \"and of the Son,\" to place it on the top of the\nforefinger; \"and of the Holy Ghost,\" to place it on the top of the third\nfinger; _and_, on repeating the word \"amen,\" to put the ring _down_ over\nthe fourth finger; thereby \"ratifying, and confirming the same.\" This\nseems the most _serious_ conclusion of the matter.\n\n R. F. M.\n\n_Sanctus Bell_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--The _Glossary of Architecture_ is\nright in its description, but not in its conclusion. There are many\ninstances where the _Sanctus Bell_, or its remains, still exist in the\ntower or bell chamber. As _e.g._ at Addington, Bucks, the \"Parson's\nBell,\" as it is now called there, is to be seen in a small aperture in\nthe wall of the bell-chamber, exposed to the outside, on the west. A\nsimilar aperture, size, and position, but _minus_ the bell, can also be\nseen in the tower of Merriott, Somerset. The recess in the wall of the\ntower of Trumpington Church was clearly for the sacristan (perhaps) to\nstand in to ring the bell. In the ringing chamber in the tower of\nHalstock, Dorset, is a _wedge-like_ aperture in the wall next the nave;\nit is about three feet square, and _splays_ from a narrow slit in the\nchurch over the tower arch. This was evidently for the sacristan to\nobserve the proper times for ringing the bell. The top of the tower,\nbell-chamber, &c., had been rebuilt about a hundred years since, which\nmay account for no loop-hole now to be seen. No doubt there are many\nothers.\n\n R. F. M.\n\n_Slang Dictionaries._--The following titles of books of this nature are\ntaken from _A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue_. The second\nedition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. London, 1788.\n\n 1. \"A Caveat for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called Vagabones; set\n forth by Thomas Harman, Esquier, for the Utilitie and Proffyt of\n hys Naturall Countrye. Newly Augmented and Imprinted, Anno Domini\n M.D.LXVII.\"\n\n 2. \"The Bellman of London, bringing to light the most notorious\n villanies that are now practised in the Kingdom. Profitable for\n gentlemen, lawyers, merchants, citizens, farmers, masters of\n households, and all sorts of servants, to marke and delightfull\n for men to reade. Lege, Perlege, Relege. 1608.\"\n\n 3. \"English Villanies, seven severall times prest to death by the\n printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time (as\n the first) discovered by lanthorne and candle light. Et cet....\n London, 1638.\"\n\n 4. \"The Canting Academy; or Villanies discovered: Wherein are\n shown the Mysterious and Villanous Practices of that Wicked Crew,\n commonly known by the Names of Hectors, Trapanners, Gilts, et\n cet., with several new Catches and Songs; also a Compleat Canting\n Dictionary both of Old Words and such as are now most in Use: a\n Book very useful and necessary (to be known but not practised) for\n all People. The Second Edition: London. N. B.--The dedication is\n signed R. Head.\"\n\n 5. \"Hell upon Earth; or the most pleasant and delectable History\n of Whittington's Colledge, otherwise (vulgarly) called Newgate.\n Giving an Account of the Humours of those Collegians who are\n strictly examined at the Old Bailey, and take their Highest\n Degrees near Hyde Park Corner.... London, 1703.\"\n\n 6. \"The Scoundrel's Dictionary, 1754.\"\n\n CRANMORE.\n\n_Modern Greek Names of Places_ (Vol. iv., pp. 470.; Vol. v., p.\n14.).--With the utmost deference to so high an authority, on such a\nsubject, as SIR EMERSON TENNENT, I must deny that Cos, Athens, or\nConstantinople have been called by the Greeks, Stanco, Satines, or\nStamboul.\n\nThese corruptions have been made by Turks, Venetians, and Englishmen;\nand in speaking to barbarians the Greek uses barbarous terms to make\nhimself intelligible; but in speaking to another Greek, and in writing,\nAthens is Athens, Cos is Cos, and Constantinople is \u1f21 \u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b9\u03c2.\n\nVery few corruptions of names of places have taken place amongst the\nGreeks; while every island, peak, and every headland in the \u00c6gean cries\nout against Venetian barbarism.\n\nPatr\u00e6 is Patras in the mouths of Englishmen, and Patrasso with Italians:\nthe Greeks call it \u03a0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9, and generally write it \u03a0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03b1\u03b9 \u03a0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9.\n\nCorcyra has lost her name, but has received a correct Greek name,\n\u039f\u1f31 \u039a\u03cc\u03c1\u03c5\u03c6\u03bf\u03b9--the peaks--whether of the citadel or of Mount San\nSalvador. This has become Corfu. Ithaca has lost her name and is now\nTheaki.\n\nA Greek does not know what place you mean.\n\nI should be obliged if any correspondent can tell me whether Paxo is\nmentioned by any classical author. It has a plural termination:\n\u039f\u03b9 \u03a0\u03b1\u03be\u03bf\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b1\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2.\n\n L. H. J. T.\n\n_Baskerville the Printer_ (Vol. iv., pp. 40. 123. 211.).--For several\nyears past I have had by me a little memorandum in the handwriting of a\nfriend. It states that Baskerville was once foreman to a stonemason,\nduring which time he had cut some lines upon the tombstone of a poor\nidiot, who was buried in Edgbaston churchyard. The lines are these:\n\n \"If th' Innocent are favourites of Heaven,\n And little is required where little's given,\n My great Creator has for me in store\n Eternal Bliss; what wise man would have more?\"\n\nA few days since (Jan. 26), being at Birmingham, I visited Edgbaston\nchurchyard, and on making inquiry for the above-mentioned tombstone, was\ngrieved to learn (from one who resembled the sexton) that nothing had\nbeen heard of it since the year 1816. It seems that, with many other\ntombstones, it had been maliciously broken and destroyed in the said\nyear, and that though a reward had been offered for the detection of the\ncriminals, they had never been discovered. Is all this true? or have I\ngiven the epitaph correctly? If not, it is more my misfortune than my\nfault, for I am as accurate on the matter as I have the power of being\nat present.\n\n RT.\n\n Warmington.\n\n_Story of Ginevra_ (Vol. v., p. 129.).--Your correspondent --> F. is\ninformed that Marwell Old Hall, formerly the residence of the Seymour,\nand afterwards of the Dacre family, situate between Winchester and\nBishops Waltham, is connected by tradition with the story of Ginevra;\nand the compiler of the _Post Office Directory of Hampshire_ (1848)\nstates, that \"_the chest, said to be the identical one, is now the\nproperty of the Rev. J. Haygarth, Rector of Upham_,\" a village in the\nimmediate locality, \"_and may be seen in his entrance hall_.\"\n\n H. EDWARDS.\n\n_Gospel Oaks_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.; Vol. v., p. 157.).--BURIENSIS\ncomplains that \"the inquiry of STEPHEN has not elicited one answer, nor\none additional note of other trees designated as _Gospel Oaks_.\" I\nconjecture that the cause of this silence is, that the oaks so called\nhave long since perished. In this neighbourhood there are two iron-works\nsituated near the boundary of the parishes of Tipton and Wednesbury,\nwhich are called respectively _Gospel Oak_ Works and Wednesbury _Oak_\nWorks. The tradition respecting the name of _Gospel Oak_ is, that it was\nso called in consequence of it having been the practice in ancient times\nto read under a tree which grew there, a portion of the Gospels on the\nannual perambulation of the bounds of the parish on Ascension Day. That\n_Gospel Oak_ and Wednesbury _Oak_ marked the boundary line of the\nparishes of Tipton and Wednesbury is highly probable.\n\n FABER.\n\n West Bromwich.\n\nYour correspondent BURIENSIS (Vol. v. p. 157.) has supplied a quotation\nfrom Mr. Hollingsworth to the effect, that these ancient trees were\nprobably Druidical, under whose \"leafy tabernacles\" the first Christian\nmissionaries preached. This view of their origin is borne out by the\nordinary practice of Christian missionaries to the Heathen of the\npresent day, who are frequently driven to the shelter of some umbrageous\ngiant of the forest, to deliver the Word of Life. In some cases I\nimagine that it may be found that such trees have been rendered sacred\nby the superstition of the native inhabitants; and it is scarcely\nventuring too much in supposing, that as the moral wilderness becomes\ncultivated, that similar traditions with our own may be handed down to\nfuture generations, and especially if we look so far forward as to the\ntime when the sable inhabitants of the centre of Africa may in their\nprogress be occupied by curious questions of a bygone age in _their_ \"N.\n& Q.\"\n\n EXON.\n\nI quite agree with your correspondent BURIENSIS as to the origin of the\ntitle given to various old oak trees in different parts of the country.\nThese trees were no doubt selected on account of either their position,\nage, or size, as places of assembly for the early Christians, and from\nthem the \"Gospel\" was, probably, first preached in their respective\nneighbourhoods.\n\nThat these trees were connected with religious observances is evident\nfrom the following lines in the 502nd poem of Herrick's _Hesperides_.\nThe poem is addressed \"To Anthea:\"--\n\n ----\"Dearest, bury me\n Under that holy oak, or _Gospel Tree_;\n Where, though thou see'st not, thou may'st think upon\n Me, when thou yearly go'st procession.\"\n\n P. T.\n\n Stoke Newington.\n\n_\"Asters with Trains of Fire,\" &c._ (Vol. v., p. 154.).--MR. HICKSON's\nobjections to this reading are twofold--matter of opinion, and matter of\nfact: of course, it is only with the latter that I may presume to\ninterfere.\n\nI beg to refer him to the precepts of Polonius to his son, no further\nthan the third scene of the same play, amongst which he will find this\nline:\n\n \"Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy.\"\n\nAlthough it does not prove that \"the English language admits of the\nformation of a perfect sentence without a verb,\" yet it does show that\nthe verb need not always be expressed; but may be left to the hearer, or\nreader, to supply, according to the requirements of the context.\n\nThe line just quoted is found amongst a number of imperative\nprecepts--the verb to be supplied is therefore the imperative of \"to\nbe\"--\n\n \"Costly (_let_) thy habit (_be_),\" &c.\n\nSimilarly, the line to which MR. HICKSON takes exception is found\namongst a number of described appearances--the verb, therefore, must be\nin accordance:\n\n \"Asters with trains of fire (_appeared_),\" &c.\n\nMany better examples _of this most common license_ might doubtless be\nadduced; but I always like to take the nearest at hand.\n\n A. E. B.\n\n Leeds.\n\n P.S.--MR. HICKSON will find it difficult to confine the portents\n of C\u00e6sar's death to _the night time_. All authorities mention the\n obscuration of the sun--necessarily from _spots_, if the moon were\n eclipsed since sun and moon could not both be _eclipsed_ about the\n same time.\n\n_Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student_ (Vol. v., p. 78.).--\n\n \"Wigan (John) Chr. Ch., M.A., March 22 1720.\n ---- B. and D.M., July 7, 1727.\"\n\nappears in _A Catalogue of All Graduates_, &c., created in the\nUniversity of Oxford, printed at the Clarendon press in the year\nM.DCCLXXIJ.\n\nW. DN. will also find the following in the same catalogue:--\n\n \"Wigan (Geo.) Chr. Ch., M.A., March 28, 1718.\n ---- DD., Dipl. by, Jan. 19, 1749.\n \"Wigan (Tho.) Trin. Coll., M.A. Oct. 23, 1767.\n \"Wigan (Will.) Chr. Ch., M.A., Nov. 23, 1764.\"\n\n FABER FERRARIUS.\n\n Dublin.\n\n_Hieroglyphics of Vagabonds_ (Vol. v., p. 49.).--I have a cutting from a\nnewspaper of 1849 confirmative of the truth of this practice:--\n\n \"MENDICANT FREEMASONRY.--Persons indiscreet enough to open their\n purses to the relief of the beggar tribe would do well to take a\n readily-learned lesson as to the folly of that misguided\n benevolence which encourages and perpetuates vagabondism. Every\n door or passage is pregnant with instruction as to the error\n committed by the patron of beggars, as the beggar-marks show that\n a system of free-masonry is followed, by which a beggar knows\n whether it will be worth his while to call into a passage or knock\n at a door. Let any one examine the entrances to the passages in\n any town, and there he will find chalk marks, unintelligible to\n him, but significant enough to beggars. If a thousand towns are\n examined, the same marks will be found at every passage entrance.\n The passage mark is a cypher with a twisted tail: in some cases\n the tail projects into the passage, in others outwardly; thus\n seeming to indicate whether the houses down the passage are worth\n calling at or not. Almost every door has its marks: these are\n varied. In some cases there is a cross on the brick-work, others,\n a cypher: the figures 1, 2, 3 are also used. Every person may for\n himself test the accuracy of these statements by the examination\n of the brickwork near his own doorway ... thus demonstrating that\n mendicity is a regular trade, carried out upon a system calculated\n to save time and realise the largest profits!\"\n\n A. A. D.\n\n\"_The bright lamp that_ shone[5] _in Kildare's holy fane_\" (Vol. v., p.\n87.).--Moore has given a reference himself as to where the story of the\n\"inextinguishable fire of St. Bridget,\" alluded to in his melody, may be\nfound: viz. Giraldus Camb. _de Mirab. Hibern._ dist. ii. c. 34.\n\n [Footnote 5: Not \"lay.\"]\n\n A. A. D.\n\n_Hyrne_ (Vol. v., p. 152.).--MR. CHADWICK inquires the meaning of this\nword. In Bosworth's _Anglo-Saxon Dictionary_ I find, \"_Hyrne_, a horn,\ncorner;\" \"_Hirne_, an angle, a corner;\" and in Halliwell's _Dictionary\nof Archaic and Provincial Words_ I find \"_Hirne_, a corner.\" In many\nvillages in the fen districts of Lincolnshire are found places called\nthe _Hirne_, the _Hurne_, or the _Horn's-end_ all being portions of the\nrespective villages situated in an angle or corner at the extreme end of\nthe parish.\n\n \"Horncastle in Lincolnshire, the Banovallum of the Roman\n geographer Ravennas, derives its name from its situation in an\n angle formed by the junction of two small rivers, the Bane and the\n Waring. Horncastle is a corruption of _Hyrncastre_, a\n fortification in an angle or corner.\"\n\n See Weir's _Horncastle_.\n\n P. T.\n\n Stoke Newington.\n\n_Stops, when first introduced_ (Vol. v., p. 1.).--In the _Alvearie, or\nQuadruple Dictionarie_, by Baret, published in 1580, may be found the\ncomma, colon, semicolon, and period. The semicolon appears, as far as my\nobservation has gone, to have been _there_ used, not as a stop, but as a\nnote of contraction. The point of interrogation is plentifully scattered\nthroughout the same work; as also, the index -->.\n\n FRANCISCUS.\n\n_Heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George Garter_ (Vol. v., p. 59.).--Your\ncorrespondent as to MSS. formerly at Enmore may learn their fate on\napplying to Mr. Woodgate, of Lincoln's Inn. I think the MSS. were sent\nto the then Lord Perceval. Mr. N. B. Acworth, of the English bar, would\nalso probably know.\n\n J. R. P.\n\n_Kingswei, Kings-way, or Kinsey_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--In addition to\nthe instances in Oxon and Wilts, already mentioned, the town of Kinsey\noccurs on the high road leading from Prince's Risborough to Thame. Is\n_Kinsey_, in this case, a contraction for _Kings-way_, as in Oxon; and\nis this a continuation of King Athelstan's road?\n\n B. WILLIAMS.\n\n_Fouch\u00e9's Memoirs._--At Vol. iv., p. 455., on the subject of the Duc\nd'Enghien's murder, Fouch\u00e9's _Memoirs_ are quoted in proof that the\nsaying, \"C'\u00e9tait pire qu'un crime, c'\u00e9tait une faute,\" was claimed as\nhis own by that famous police minister. Indeed, I have little doubt of\nthe fact, which, however, can derive no confirmation or authority from\nthe quoted work; for this nominal autobiography has been pronounced, on\na regular trial before the French tribunals, an utter cheat and\nimposition; though referred to by Mr. Alison, in his _History of\nEurope_, volume the fifth, p. 482. (original edition), as genuine, as\nwell as by Lord Brougham in the third volume of his _Statesmen_; yet\nwith less decided assertion than by the Scotch historian. Fouch\u00e9's\nfamily at once denounced the fabrication, and obtained heavy damages\nfrom the printer; who equally succeeded against the writer, Alphons de\nBeaumont, and was awarded large damages for the imposition. (See\n_Gentleman's Magazine_ for November, 1842.) It is at present perfectly\nunderstood that the sharp and apt antithesis, however immoral, was\nFouch\u00e9's.\n\nTalleyrand's reputation for ready wit fixed on him the paternity of\nnumerous _bons mots_, which have proved to be of alien birth. Voltaire,\nPiron, Mirabeau, in France; and Chesterfield, Selwyn, Wilkes, &c. in\nEngland; with Curran in Ireland, and many others, have similarly\nobtained credit for pointed expressions not of their utterance, as to\nthe rich are generally given by rumour more than they possess. \"On ne\npr\u00eate qu'aux riches,\" is an apposite proverb, long since indeed stated\nby the sententious Euripides: \"\u1f49\u03c1\u1ff6\u03c3\u03c3\u03b9 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bf\u1f31 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b4\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f70\n\u03c7\u03c1\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\" (_In Fragmentis_). Cicero tells us, in his letter to\nVolumnius (_Epistol. Famil._ lib. vii. ep. 32.), that the sayings of\nothers had been thus similarly fathered on him: \"Ais omnia omnium dicta\nin me conferri;\" and complains, half-humorously and half-seriously, that\nhis supremacy of wit was not sufficiently protected from usurpers or\nintruders: \"Quod parum diligenter possessio _salinarum mearum_, ate\nprocuratore, defenditur,\" &c.\n\n J. R. (Cork.)\n\n_The Pelican as a Symbol of our Saviour_ (Vol. v., pp. 59.\n165.).--Shakspeare, in _Hamlet_, alludes to the popular notion\nrespecting this bird:\n\n \"To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms,\n And like the _kind, life-rendering pelican_,\n Repast them with my blood.\"\n\nThe best representation I have ever seen of the pelican feeding her\nyoung occurs in the works of a Roman printer, in the early part of the\neighteenth century, Rocco Bernabo, who has taken for his device a\npelican feeding her five young ones, a crown of thorns encircling them.\n\nThe pelican has a long bag or pouch, reaching the entire length of the\nbill to the neck. In feeding its young, the bird squeezes the food\ndeposited in the bag into their mouths, by strongly compressing it upon\nits breast with the bill. (See Calmet and Shaw.) Hence the popular idea.\n\n MARICONDA.\n\n Feb. 10. 1852.\n\n_Bow-bell_ (Vol. v., pp. 28. 140.).--Your correspondent W. S. S. is, I\nthink, right in supposing _Bow-bell_ to be almost synonymous with\n_Cockney_. I quote a passage from the _London Prodigall_, which had once\nthe honour of being attributed to Shakspeare.\n\n \"_Enter Sir Lancelot Weathercock Young Flowerdale, &c._ (Sir\n Arthur Green-hood, Oliver, &c., had been on the stage before.)\n\n \"_Lan._ Sir Arthur, welcome to Lewsome, welcome, by my troth.\n\n What's the matter, man? why are you vext?\n\n _Oli._ Why man, he would press me.\n\n _Lan._ O fie, Sir Arthur, press him? He is a man of reckoning.\n\n _Wea._ I that he is, Sir Arthur, he hath the nobles.\n The golden ruddocks he.\n\n _Ar._ The fitter for the warrs: and were he not in favour\n With your worships, he should see,\n That I have power to press as good as he.\n\n _Oli._ Chill stand to the trial, so chill.\n\n _Flow._ I marry shall he, presse cloth and karsie,\n White pot and drowsen broth: tut, tut, he cannot.\n\n _Oli._ Well, Sir, though you see vlouten cloth and karsie, chee a\n zeen zutch a karsie coat wear out the town sick a zilken jacket,\n as thick a one as you wear.\n\n _Flow._ Well sed, vlitan vlattan.\n\n _Oli._ A and well sed _cocknell_, and _boe-bell_ too. What doest\n think cham aveard of thy zilken coat, no fer vere thee.\"\n\n Page iv.\n\n RT.\n\n Warmington.\n\n_Cou-bache_ (Vol. v., p. 131.).--In MR. SINGER'S note on the word\n_cou-bache_, in the enumeration of the cognate words which would appear\nto contradict the usual interpretation, he would seem to have forgotten\nthe Greek \u0392\u03ae\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1, which confirms it, and has precisely the\nmeaning of a shaded mountain valley, and certainly belongs to the same\ntribe of the Indo-Germanic languages as the pure Saxon b\u00e6ccha.\n\n RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE.\n\n_White-livered_ (Vol. v., p. 127.).--The expression _white-livered_ had\nits origin in the auspices taken by the Greeks and Romans before battle,\nin which the examination of the liver and entrails of the victim formed\nan essential part. If the liver were the usual shape, and a blood-red\ncolour, the omen was favourable; if pale or livid, it was an augury of\ndefeat. The transition from the victim to the inquirer was easy, and a\ndastard leader, likely to sustain disgrace, was called \"a man of a white\nliver.\"\n\n RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE.\n\n Dublin.\n\n\"_Experto crede Roberto_\" (Vol. v., p. 104.).--Your correspondent W. L.\nmay perhaps find the origin of the above phrase in the following epitaph\ncopied from the floor of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford:\n\n \"Quam subito, quam certo, experto crede Roberto\n Pride AUX, Fratri Matthi\u00e6 minori\n Qui veneno inf\u00e6liciter com[-]\n [-]Esto intra decem horas\n Misere expiravit.\n Sept. 14, 1627.\"\n\nWhat is the meaning of the capitals? Close by is the following:\n\n \"Hic jacet in pannis patris op[-]\n [-]tima gemma Johannes\n Prideaux\n Mathi\u00e6 gemellus qui im[-]\n [-]mature sequutus est fratres\n August 1'o A.D. 1636.\"\n\n H. H. G.\n\n Frognal.\n\n\"_Oh! Leoline_,\" _&c._ (Vol. v., pp. 78. 138.).--\n\n \"Oh! Leolyn, be obstinately just;\n Indulge no passion, and deceive no trust:\n Let never man be bold enough to say,\n Thus, and no farther, shall my passion stray:\n The first crime, past, compels us into more,\n And guilt grows _fate_, that was but choice, before.\"\n\n _Athelwold_, a Tragedy, by Aaron Hill.\n Act V. Scene: The Garden.\n\nThese lines were first quoted by Madan, in his translation of Juvenal,\nas a note on the words--\n\n \"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.\"--Juv. _Sat._ ii. 83.\n\nHe prefaced the lines by confessing that he could not recollect where he\nhad met with them; but Gifford, in his translation of Juvenal (3rd\nedition, 1817), assigns them to \"_Athelwold_, a forgotten tragedy by\nAaron Hill.\" I have referred to the play, for the sake of obtaining a\ncorrect copy of the quotation, and a reference to Act and Scene.\n\n C. FORBES.\n\n Temple.\n\nThe Word \"_Blaen_\" (Vol. v., p. 128.).--The British word _Blaen_, a\nfrequent prefix, means top point, or fore part: hence _Blaenffrwyth_,\nfirst fruit; _Blaenafon_, source of a river, &c.\n\n E. ALLEN.\n\n_Stoke_ (Vol. v., pp. 106. 161.).--At Erbistock, near this place (it is\ncalled \"Saint Erbyn's stoke\" in the Valor Ecclesiasticus made temp.\nHenry VIII.), there is a stone weir across the river Dee, which there\nwashes the base of the rock on which the Parish church is built. The use\nof this weir is now only to divert a part of the stream to a corn mill;\nbut a weir may have been erected here in ancient times for the purpose\nof catching salmon, as it is the first weir above Chester on the river\nDee. The name of Saint Erbyn is not to be found in the Calendar of Welsh\nSaints; but I apprehend that the authority of the commissioners of Henry\nVIII. may be deemed sufficient for placing his name in the next edition\nof the Calendar that shall be published.\n\n -->\n\n Wrexham Regis.\n\nThe quotation from _Bosworth_ is doubtless correct. Blomfield, in his\n_History of Norfolk_, when describing _Stoke-ferry_, says:\n\n \"This town stands on the river Wissey, and in the Book of Domesday\n it is wrote '_Stoches_;' not taking its name from _stoch_, (i.e.)\n some wood, but from _stow_, a dwelling or habitation, and _ches_,\n or _kes_, by the water.\"\n\nThere are two villages of the name of _Stoke_ in Norfolk, and both are\nsituate on small streams.\n\n J. F. F.\n\n West Newton.\n\n_A Baron's Hearse_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--The editorial reply in this page\nhas referred to the Note on Funerals which I prefixed to _Machyn's\nDiary_; and from that book may certainly be gathered the best possible\nnotion of the style and character of the hearse, and other paraphernalia\nattendant upon funerals in England during the sixteenth century. But in\na book which I edited for another Society, namely, _The Unton\nInventories_, 1841, will be found the authority for Lloyd's statement\nrelative to the funeral of Sir Henry Unton: it is the certificate in the\nCollege of Arms, which states that he was buried at Faringdon \"with a\nbaron's hearse, and in the degree of a baron, because he died ambassador\nleidger for France.\" A Lord Mayor of London, dying in office, was in\nlike manner interred with the observances due to a baron. It appears\nfrom Sir Henry Unton's papers that he was usually addressed as \"My Lord\"\nwhilst in France as ambassador. May I inquire whether that practice is\nstill kept up towards ambassadors who are not peers? or, if not, when\ndid it cease?\n\n JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.\n\n_The Bed of Ware_ (Vol. v., p. 128.).--There is an engraving of the Bed\nof Ware in Clutterbuck's _History of Hertfordshire_, and another in\nShaw's _Ancient Furniture_.\n\n J. G. N.\n\n [We are also reminded by Mr. C. H. COOPER that it is engraved in\n Knight's _Pictorial Shakspeare_.]\n\n_Symbolism of Death_ (Vol. iii., pp. 450. 501.).--Will you permit a Note\nto say, that Herder, after Lessing, and in continuation of his essay,\nwrote on the subject of \"Death, as symbolically represented by the\nAncients.\" Lessing's treatise was lately mentioned by one of your\ncorrespondents, without any notice of Herder's.\n\n J. M.\n\n_General Wolfe_ (Vol. iv., p. 438.).--I send the following \"Notes from\nNewspapers,\" thinking they may be of service to [Gh.].:--\n\n \"His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Col. Wolfe to be\n Inspector of all the marines.\"\n\n _London and County Journal_, May 13, 1742.\n\n \"To Rome from Pontus thus great Julius wrote,\n I came, I saw, and conquer'd, ere I fought.\n In Canada, brave Wolfe, more nobly tried,\n Came, saw, and conquer'd,--but in battle died.\n More glorious far than C\u00e6sar's was his doom,\n Who lived to die for Tyranny in Rome.\"\n\n _London Chronicle_, August 18. 1774.\n\nThese lines are headed \"An Epitaph intended for General Wolfe.\" They are\nsigned by E. D.\n\nIn the _Illustrated London News_ of Jan. 24 is the popular air known as\n\"General Wolfe's Song,\" which, according to Sir H. Bishop's \"note,\" is\nsaid to have been composed by him the night previous to the battle on\nthe Plains of Abraham.\n\n H. G. D.\n\n_Proverb_ (Vol. iv., p. 239.).--Fuller defines a proverb \"much matter\ndecocted into few words.\"--_Worthies_, ch. ii.\n\n R. W. C.\n\n\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\n\nWhen we remember the ill-drawn and gaudily coloured prints with which,\nuntil these few years, it was the fashion to illustrate all books\nintended for the use and amusement of young people, we cannot but be\nforcibly struck with the improvement which has taken place in this\nrespect. These remarks have been suggested to us by a couple of\nchildren's books just issued by Messrs. Addey, in the illustration of\nwhich those tasteful publishers have employed the able pencil of Hablot\nBrowne. The first, _Home and its Pleasures, Simple Stories for Young\nPeople_, by Mrs. Harriet Myrtle, contains eight admirable designs; while\n_Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children_--and Aunt Effie is a most\ncapital writer of Rhymes for Babyland--is enriched with no less than\ntwenty-four illustrations, some of which are rich in the peculiar humour\nof this artist. To the same house we are also indebted for a work of\nstill higher interest, namely, a new and complete edition of _The Danish\nFairy Legends and Tales_, by Hans Christian Andersen, containing\n(besides a Memoir of the Author) no less than forty-five tales,\ntranslated direct from the original language, and not through any German\nversion. This will be good news to all who know and admire the playful\nhumour and deep imaginings of the great Danish Story Teller.\n\n_Child's Play, Seventeen Drawings by E. V. B._, demands notice, not as a\nwork of literature, but of Art, and Art of a very high order. For fancy,\ngrace, and simplicity, these exquisite illustrations of some of our old\nNursery Rhymes may challenge comparison with any works of a similar\ncharacter with which we are acquainted. Produced by the Anastatic\nprocess, they show how available that process may be made to the\nrequirements of the amateur: for, admirable as are these designs, they\nowe their existence to the taste and artistic skill of a lady; for we\nbelieve \"E. V. B.\" designates the Hon. Mrs. Boyle. Little wonder, as\npoor Theodore Hook would have said, to find one of the _Cork_ family\ndistinguished for _drawing_.\n\nBOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Relations between the Holy Scriptures and some\nparts of Geological Science_, the fifth edition of a well-known and much\nesteemed work by the late Dr. Pye Smith, forms the new issue of Bohn's\n_Scientific Library_. His _Antiquarian Library_ has been enriched by the\npublication of the second volume of _The Works of Sir Thomas Browne_,\ncontaining the last three books of the _Vulgar Errors_, his _Religio\nMedici_, and _The Garden of Cyrus_. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, February 28, 1852.\n\n\n\n\n [Transcriber's Note: List of volumes and content pages in \"Notes\n and Queries\", Vol. I.-V.]\n\n +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n | Notes and 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 # 11651 |\n | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 |\n | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 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12198 |\n +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 |\n | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 |\n | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 |\n | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 |\n +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 |\n | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 |\n | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 |\n | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 |\n +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n | Notes and Queries Vol. II. |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 |\n | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 |\n | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 |\n | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 |\n | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 |\n | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 |\n | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 |\n | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 |\n | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 |\n | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 |\n | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 |\n | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 |\n | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 |\n | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 |\n | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 |\n | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 |\n | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 |\n | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 |\n | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 |\n | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 |\n | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 |\n | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 |\n | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 |\n | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 |\n | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 |\n +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Notes and Queries Vol. III. |\n +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |\n +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 |\n | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 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 # 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37379 |\n | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 |\n | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 |\n | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 |\n +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+\n | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 |\n | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 |\n | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 |\n | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 |\n | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 |\n | Vol. IV No. 94 | August 16, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 38350 |\n | Vol. IV No. 95 | August 23, 1851 | 129-144 | PG # 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39233 |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol. IV No. 110 | Dec. 6, 1851 | 433-460 | PG # 39338 |\n | Vol. IV No. 111 | Dec. 13, 1851 | 465-478 | PG # 39393 |\n | Vol. IV No. 112 | Dec. 20, 1851 | 481-494 | PG # 39438 |\n | Vol. IV No. 113 | Dec. 27, 1851 | 497-510 | PG # 39503 |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Notes and Queries Vol. V. |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol. V No. 114 | January 3, 1852 | 1- 18 | PG # 40171 |\n | Vol. V No. 115 | January 10, 1852 | 25- 45 | PG # 40582 |\n | Vol. V No. 116 | January 17, 1852 | 49- 70 | PG # 40642 |\n | Vol. V No. 117 | January 24, 1852 | 73- 94 | PG # 40678 |\n | Vol. V No. 118 | January 31, 1852 | 97-118 | PG # 40716 |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol. V No. 119 | February 7, 1852 | 121-142 | PG # 40742 |\n | Vol. V No. 120 | February 14, 1852 | 145-167 | PG # 40743 |\n | Vol. V No. 121 | February 21, 1852 | 170-191 | PG # 40773 |\n +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n | Vol I. 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 | INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME. JULY-DEC., 1851 | PG # 40166 |\n +------------------------------------------------+------------+","title":"Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":24533}