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A list of volumes and pages\nin \"Notes and Queries\" has been added at the end.]\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. 129. SATURDAY, APRIL 17. 1852.\n\nPrice Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n                                                                Page\n\n\n      NOTES:--\n\n      An Epitaph in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, possibly by\n      Milton, by Thomas H. Gill                                  361\n\n      Liability to Error, by Bolton Corney                       362\n\n      Baxter's Pulpit, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.                    363\n\n      Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, No. I. By\n      T. Sternberg                                               363\n\n      Folk Lore:--Body and Soul--Giving Cheese at a\n      Birth--Sneezing--Marlborough 5th November Custom--Spectral\n      Coach and Horses                                           364\n\n      Antiquaries of the Time of Queen Elizabeth                 365\n\n      The Tredescants and Elias Ashmole, by S. W. Singer         367\n\n      Minor Notes:--Bothwell's Burial-place--Handel's\n      Organ at the Foundling Hospital--Correction to the\n      \"Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses\"--Milton's\n      Rib-bone                                                   368\n\n      QUERIES:--\n\n      The Danes in England, by J. J. A. Worsaae                  369\n\n      Minor Queries:--Taylor Family--Analysis--Old\n      Playing Cards--Canongate Marriages--Devil, Proper\n      Name--Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de\n      Sieveri--Can a Clergyman marry himself? &c.                370\n\n      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Jacobite Toast--Rev.\n      Barnabas Oley--Sweet-singers--\"Philip Quarll\"--Dedication\n      of Middleton Church--Lunatic Asylum\n      benefited by Dean Swift                                    372\n\n      REPLIES:--\n\n      St. Christopher                                            372\n\n      \"Rehetour\" and \"Moke,\" two obscure Words used by\n      Wycklyffe, A.D. 1384, by N. L. Benmohel, A.M.              373\n\n      Plague Stones                                              374\n\n      Rhymes on Places                                           374\n\n      Archaic and Provincial Words                               375\n\n      London Street Characters                                   376\n\n      Stone Pillar Worship                                       377\n\n      On a Passage in Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 4.                      377\n\n      \"The Man in the Almanack,\" by S. W. Singer                 378\n\n      Epigram on Dr. Fell                                        379\n\n      Replies to Minor Queries:--Verses in Prose--Stops,\n      when first introduced--Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, &c.        379\n\n      MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n      Notes on Books, &c.                                        382\n\n      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               383\n\n      Notices to Correspondents                                  383\n\n      Advertisements                                             383\n\n\n\n\nNotes.\n\n\nAN EPITAPH IN ST. GILES'S, CRIPPLEGATE, POSSIBLY BY MILTON.\n\nThe chief glory of the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, is the\npossession of Milton's dust. But this does not constitute its only\ndistinction. It boasts a magnificent organ, and the most beautiful\nepitaph with which I am acquainted. As this last may be as much of a\nstranger to many of your readers as it was to me, and may bestow upon\nthe curious in such matters some portion of the pleasure which its\ndiscovery gave me, I venture to crave for it a nook in your columns.\nConsiderably to the right of the pulpit, at no great distance, if I\nrecollect aright, to the left of the main entrance, is a monument to\nWilliam Staples, a citizen of London, who died in 1650, whereon is\ninscribed the following elegiac couplet:\n\n      \"Quod cum coelicolis habitus, pars altera nostri,\n      Non dolet, hic tant\u00fbm me superesse dolet.\"\n\nWhich may be thus Englished:\n\n      \"That Heaven's thy home, I grieve not, soul most dear;\n      I grieve but for myself, the lingerer here.\"\n\nBelow the inscription are the touching words--\n\n      \"Hoc posuit moestissima uxor, Sara.\"\n\nPutting aside all partiality for one's own discovery, I confess that I\ndo not know the fellow of this epitaph. It realises one's ideal of an\nepitaph, inasmuch as it combines exceeding brevity and beauty of\nexpression with exceeding fulness of thought and feeling. Love, sorrow,\nand faith, bereaved affection and trustful piety, find most ample and\nexquisite utterance in these two lines. It has scarcely won the fame to\nwhich it is entitled: I have never met with it in any collection of\nepitaphs. The authorship would have done no dishonour to Milton himself,\nto whose place of sepulture it lends, if possible, an additional\nconsecration. Curiously enough, not merely its singular excellence, but\nalso its date, and one or two other circumstances, give some little\nencouragement to the idea of Miltonic ownership. The monument bears the\ndate of 1650, when Milton was in the fulness of his powers and\nreputation. He was especially connected with Cripplegate Church; more\nthan one of his many London abodes were in its neighbourhood. There, in\nthe earlier part of his London life, during his residence in Aldersgate\nStreet, he may have often worshipped; there his father lay; there he\nmeant his own sepulchre to be. He who honoured \"the religious memory of\nMrs. Catharine Thomson, my Christian Friend,\" with his most glorious\nsonnet, would not have disdained to bestow a couplet upon the grief of\nanother obscure friend. There are, then, certain presumptions in favour\nof Cripplegate Church containing an epitaph by Milton. But it does not\nappear in any collection of the works of one who was so careful of his\nsmallest and most juvenile productions. This fact, I must confess, is\nquite strong enough to demolish a likely and pleasing fancy. The\nepitaph, however, though it may not be Miltonic, has every possible\nmerit, and may find favour with such of your readers as delight in the\nliterature of tombstones.\n\n    THOMAS H. GILL.\n\n\nLIABILITY TO ERROR.\n\nAs I always strive to be accurate when writing for the press, an\naccidental error should not give me much compunction; nevertheless, a\ntouch of the feeling is sure to obtrude itself on such occasions. Even\nthe apprehension of having added to the mass of current errors gives me\na fit of uneasiness, and having just recovered from an attack of that\ndescription it may not be amiss to report the case for the benefit of\nfuture patients.\n\nWhen I wrote a memorandum on James Wilson, in reply to the query of\nprofessor DE MORGAN, I stated that the united libraries of Pemberton and\nWilson were sold in 1772. _It was guess-work._\n\nI recollected that the two libraries were sold in conjunction, but could\nnot recollect the date. On consulting the printed _List of the original\ncatalogues_ of libraries sold by auction by Mr. Baker and his successors\nin the years 1744-1828, which was issued by the firm in the latter year,\nthe date appeared to be 1757. With that evidence, I penned a short\ncomment on the remarkable circumstance of the two learned friends\nresolving to dispose of their libraries at the same time, on their\nsurviving the separation from their beloved books for fourteen years,\nand on their dying within about six months of each other.\n\nSome undefinable suspicions arose in my mind at this point of the\ninquiry. Now, the original sale catalogue is in existence, and\naccessible on proper application. I examined it. The sale commenced on\n_Monday, February the 24th_. The year 1757 is added in _manuscript_;\nand, since Pemberton and Wilson are described as _lately deceased_, it\nis an undoubted error. So I tore up my sentimental scrap, leaving the\nfragments on the table for the benefit of autograph collectors, and\nreplaced it with the six lines which conclude my reply. On reaching\nhome, I turned to the _Chronology of history_: the dominical letter was\njust what I wished it to be! The _Book of almanacs_ added to my\ncomfortable sensations.\n\nOn a re-examination of my notes, it appeared that the united libraries\nwere sold by Baker and Leigh. Now, according to the above-described\n_List of catalogues_, the partnership between Baker and Leigh did not\ntake place till 1775. The phrase _lately deceased_, applied to Pemberton\nand Wilson, is not very precise; the sale, however, must have been after\n1774. Resolved to pursue the inquiry, I examined a copy of the catalogue\nin the royal library in the British Museum. It is bound with the\ncatalogue of the library of Edward Stanley, Esq., secretary to the\ncustoms, which was sold in February 1776, and follows it. The volume is\nlettered 1776. As the libraries of Pemberton and Wilson were to be\n_viewed on Monday the 17th_, I turned to that day in the Stanley sale;\nit was _Monday the 17th_. This seemed to prove that the two collections\nwere sold in the same year. Chronology says otherwise: the _Monday the\n17th_ of the Stanley catalogue is an error of the printer; and the\nlettering, with regard to Pemberton and Wilson, is an error of the\nbinder!\n\nBelieving, on the evidence above stated, that the sale was after the\nyear 1774, I came to the conclusion that it was in 1777--in which year\nthe 24th February fell on Monday. On further search at home, I met with\nthe catalogue in question. It is in a volume which was successively in\nthe possession of Dent and Heber, and contains the rare Fairfax\ncatalogue; also, _A catalogue of the very valuable library of Phillip\nCarteret Webb, Esq._, which was sold by _Baker and Leigh_ in 1771. It\nnow became evident that the libraries of Pemberton and Wilson might have\nbeen sold by _Baker and Leigh_ in 1772; and on examining the _Public\nadvertiser_ for that year, I found the sale advertised on Thursday the\n20th of February. So I was right by _chance_, and in spite of manuscript\nand printed authorities. Here ends the case.\n\nAnother anecdote in connexion with this inquiry deserves to be recorded.\nI had read the life of Pemberton in the _General biographical\ndictionary_. Chalmers therein states that his course of lectures on\nchemistry, \"was published in 1771, by his friend Dr. James Wilson.\" I\napplied for the volume at the British Museum. By a rare accident the\n_Scheme for a course of chemistry_ was produced instead of the _Course\nof chemistry_, and as the day was far advanced, and _copy_ due, I gave\nup the pursuit. On examination, it turns out that the volume contains a\nmemoir of Pemberton in twenty-three pages. Chalmers cites Hutton and\nShaw as his authorities; and _Hutton_, as I conceive, gives the\nsubstance of it as his own composition! Wilson, in this important\nmemoir, declares that his intimacy with Pemberton was the _greatest\nfelicity_ of his life. He dates it the 10th Aug. 1771. He died on the\n29th of September in the same year.\n\nWilson remarks, in his previous work, that on the successful practice of\nnavigation \"depends, in an especial manner, the flourishing state of our\ncountry.\" To this remark no one can refuse assent. The _Dissertation_ on\nthe history of the art has fallen into oblivion, because it exists only\nin a work which has been superseded by others; but I venture to express\nmy opinion that a separate edition of it, with such corrections and\nadditions as might be required, and a continuation to the present time,\nwould be a desirable addition to scientific literature; and that no one\nwould perform the task with more ability, or more conscientiously, than\nprofessor DE MORGAN.\n\n    BOLTON CORNEY.\n\n\nBAXTER'S PULPIT.\n\nThe pulpit formerly used at Kidderminster by Richard Baxter, the eminent\nauthor of _The Saint's Rest_, is still preserved there. In his day it\nstood on the north side of the nave of the parish church (St. Mary's),\nagainst the second pillar from the east. But in 1786, the church was\n\"repaired, repewed, and beautified,\" in the style of those good old\ntimes: when, it being thought advisable to have a new pulpit _built_ in\na central situation, Baxter's old pulpit was condemned, and, together\nwith other pieces of carved work, was offered for sale (!) by the then\nchurchwardens, as old and useless church furniture. The churchmen of\nthat day appear to have held the same opinions as their wardens; so the\npulpit (with the exception of its pedestal) was purchased by the\nUnitarians of the place. Their successors have carefully preserved it,\nand it now stands in a room adjacent to their chapel.\n\nThe pulpit is of oak: octagonal in its shape, and properly decorated\nwith flowers and architectural ornaments, in the well-known style of the\nperiod. Gold letters, inserted in six of the panels, somewhat\nostentatiously informed the congregation that--\n\n      \"ALICE \u00b7 DAWKX \u00b7 WIDOW \u00b7 GAVE \u00b7 THIS.\"\n\nOn the face of the pulpit, and immediately beneath the preacher's desk,\nis the text:\n\n      \"PRAISE \u00b7 THE \u00b7 LORD.\"\n\nAnd round the sounding-board are the words:\n\n      \"O \u00b7 GIVE \u00b7 THANKS. UNTO \u00b7 THE \u00b7 LORD. AND \u00b7 CALL \u00b7 UPON \u00b7 HIS \u00b7\n      NAME. DECLARE \u00b7 HIS \u00b7 WORSHIP \u00b7 AMONG \u00b7 THE \u00b7 PEOPLE.\"\n\nOn the oak board at the back of the pulpit is the date:\n\n      \"ANNO \u00b7 1621.\"\n\nsurmounted by a projecting crown and cushion of bold workmanship. The\nmariner's compass is painted on the underside of the sounding-board, and\nthe entire pulpit bears manifest traces of having once been adorned with\ngold and colours.\n\nThe octagonal pillar and pedestal on which the pulpit once stood, now\nserve to support the floor of a bookseller's shop in the High Street.\n\nWithin the room where the pulpit is now preserved is placed a folio copy\nof Baxter's work in four volumes, and an engraving of \"the reverend and\nlearned Mr. Richard Baxter,\" taken from the original picture in the\npossession of Mr. Fawcett, formerly of Kidderminster. A handsomely\ncarved chair, formerly the property of Bishop Hall, is also placed near\nto the pulpit.\n\nCan any of your correspondents inform me, if any engraving of Baxter's\npulpit has been published? I have made many inquiries, but have never\nmet with or heard of one. Three years since, I etched on the copper a\ncorrect representation of the present state of the pulpit; when, in\nanswer to my inquiries, I was told that no one had even sketched it for\nmany years.\n\nA notice of \"Richard Baxter,\" and his 168 publications, occurs in \"N. &\nQ.,\" Vol. iii., p. 370.\n\nI inclose you an impression from the etching just referred to.\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE.\n\n\nPOPULAR STORIES OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY, NO. I.\n\nOnly a few years before the advent of Ambrose Merton, it was the\nsorrowful lament of Picken that he could find no legendary lore among\nour English peasantry. The rapid progress of education, according to\nhim, had long ago banished our household traditions. Want of\nacquaintance with the shy and reserved character of John Bull probably\nproved a stumbling-block to our collector, for what a rich harvest has\nbeen reaped since his day! Our mythic treasures, however, are far from\nbeing exhausted; and if we wish to emulate our brethren of Deutschland,\nwe must do yet more. The popular tales and legends which abound among\nour rural population, are still for the most part ungarnered. The\nfolk-tales of the sister kingdoms have been ably chronicled in the pages\nof Croker and Chambers, but our own have been almost entirely neglected.\nSo much indeed is this the case, that we have had recourse to Germany in\norder to recruit our exhausted nursery literature; and readers of _all_\nsizes devour with avidity the charming versions of the Messieurs Taylor,\nfew of them suspecting that stories of like character form the sole\nimaginative lore of their uneducated countrymen.\n\nSome years ago while in the country I made a practice of noting down the\nmore curious traditionary stories which came under my notice; and, with\nthe kind permission of the Editor, will transfer a few portions of my\nresearches to the columns of \"N. & Q.,\" in the hope of inducing some of\nyour rural correspondents to embark in a similar design. I am aware that\ncertain antiquaries of the old _r\u00e9gime_ still entertain doubts as to the\nutility of these collections. As vestiges, however, of primitive\nfiction, they will interest the philosophical inquirer; while their\nvalue as contributions to ethnological and philological science has been\nrecognised by all writers on the subject.\n\nPremising that these tales, however puerile, are not associated with any\nsuch idea by the people among whom they were gathered, permit me to\nintroduce your readers to \"Thoughtful Moll,\" in whom they will trace a\nremarkable resemblance to _Die kluge Else_ of Grimm. It is from\nOxfordshire, and affords no bad specimen of the facetious class of\nfables which often enliven the winter's evening hearth-talk. I have\nendeavoured to preserve the narrators' style and dialect.\n\nIn a certain village there once lived a young woman so extremely noted\nfor prudence and forethought, that she was known among her neighbours as\n\"Thoughtful Moll.\" Now this young lady had a thirsty soul of a\nsweetheart, who dearly loved a drop of October, and one day when he came\na-wooing to her: \"O Moll,\" says he, \"fill us a tot o'yeal, I be most\nmortal dry.\" So Moll took a tot from the shelf and went down the cellar,\nwhere she tarried so long that her father sent down her sister to see\nwhat had come of her. When she got there she found her sister weeping\nbitterly. \"What ails thee, wench?\" said she. \"O!\" sobbed Moll, \"don't ye\nsee that stwon in the arch, that stands out from the mortar like? Now,\nmayhaps, when I be married an have a bwoy, an he comes down here to draw\nbeer, that big stwon'll fall down on'm and crush'm.\" \"Thoughtful Moll!\"\nsaid her admiring sister, and the two sat down and mingled their tears\ntogether. The drink not being forthcoming, another sister is despatched,\nand she also stops. Meantime Dob grew chafed at the delay, and went down\nhimself to look after his love and his beer. When he hears the cause of\nthe stoppage, he falls into a violent rage, and declares he won't have\nMoll unless he can find three bigger fools than herself and sisters. It\nis noonday when Dob sets out on his travels; and the first person he saw\nwas an old woman, who was running about and brandishing her bonnet in\nthe sunshine: \"What bist at, Dame?\" says Dob. \"Why,\" said the old woman;\n\"I'm a ketchin' sunshine in this here bonnet to dry me carn as a' leased\nin wet.\" \"Mass!\" quoth Dob, \"that's one fool.\" And so on he went till he\ncame to another Gothanite, who was dragging about the corn-fields a huge\nbranch of oak. \"What may ye be a-doin' wi' that, Measter?\" says Dob.\n\"Kaint ye see?\" says the man; \"I'm a gettin' the crows to settle on this\nbranch, they've had a'most all me crop a'ready.\" \"The devil you are!\"\nsaid Dob, as he went on his way. He meets no one else for a long time,\nand almost despairs of completing his number, when at last he sees an\nold woman trying all she could to get a cow to go up a ladder. \"What are\nye arter there, Missus?\" says he. \"Dwunt ye see, young mon?\" says she;\n\"I'm a drivin' this keow up the lather t'eat the grass aff the thack.\"\n\"Deary me!\" says Dob, \"one fool makes many.\" And so he turned back, and\nmarried Moll; with whom he lived long and happily, if not wisely.[1]\n\n  [Footnote 1: Glossary.--_Tot_, a mug; _yeal_, ale; _leased_,\n  gleaned; _lather_, ladder; _thack_, thatch.]\n\nBesides Grimm's version, we meet with a somewhat similar fable in\nIreland. Vide Gerald Griffin's _Collegians_, p. 139.\n\nAnother pretty numerous class of our popular stories consists of those\nin which animals are made the actors. One of the most common of these\nrelates to the strife between the fox and the hedgehog, who, according\nto the good people of Northamptonshire, are the two most astute animals\nin creation. How a couple of these worthies once fell out as to which\nwas the swifter animal; and how, when they had put their speed to the\ntrial, the cunning urchin contrived to defeat Reynard by placing his\nconsort in the furrow which was to form the goal: so that when her mate\nhad made a pretence of starting, she might jump out and feign to be\nhimself just arrived. And how, after three desperate runs, the\nbroken-winded fox fell a victim to the deceit, and was compelled to\nyield to his adversary; who, ever since that day, has been his most\ninveterate enemy. This myth is curious on many accounts, for the\nhedgehog has always been regarded as an emblem of subtlety. Grimm gives\na tale precisely similar, with the exception that it is a hare and not a\nfox who is deceived by the ruse. Aldrovandus likewise tells us much on\nthe score of his craft; and it was probably some mythic connexion\nbetween the animals which led Archilochus to class them together in the\nadage:\n\n      \"\u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb' \u03bf\u1f36\u03b4' \u1f00\u03bb\u03ce\u03c0\u03b7\u03be, \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb' \u1f10\u03c7\u1fd6\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f13\u03bd \u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1.\"\n\nYour readers will also call to mind the fable of \u00c6lian, lib. IV. cap.\nxviii.\n\n    T. STERNBERG.\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Body and Soul._--The other day, in a village in Huntingdonshire, an\nunbaptized child was buried. A neighbour expressed great sorrow for the\nmother because \"no bell had been rung over the corpse.\" On asking why\nthis circumstance should be so peculiarly a cause of grief, she told me\nthat it was \"because when any one died, the soul never left the body\nuntil the church bell was rung.\" Is this superstition believed in\nelsewhere? And does it arise from mistaken notions regarding \"the\npassing bell,\"--the \"one short peal\" which the 67th canon orders to be\nrung \"after the party's death?\"\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE.\n\n_Giving Cheese at a Birth._--In the county of Northumberland, not far\nfrom the Cheviots, I met with the following custom. When a woman's\nconfinement is near, a cheese is made, which, when the child is born, is\ncut into pieces and distributed among all the houses (without exception)\nin the vicinity. If the child is a boy, the pieces of cheese are sent to\nthe males; if a girl, to the females, each member of a family receiving\na portion. Visitors also come in for their share. Whence did this custom\narise?\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE.\n\n_Sneezing._--\"The custom of blessing persons when they sneeze,\" says\nBrand, \"has, without doubt, been derived to the Christian world, where\nit generally prevails, from the time of heathenism.\" In addition to the\ninteresting notice of the prevalence of this custom in Europe, and many\nremote parts of Asia and Africa, given by Brand, I find traces of it\namongst the American tribes at the period of the Spanish conquest. In\n1542, when Hernando de Soto, the famous conquest-actor of Florida, had\nan interview with the Cacique Guachoya, the following curious incident\noccurred:--\n\n  \"In the midst of their conversation, the Cacique happened to\n  sneeze. Upon this, all his attendants bowed their heads, opened\n  and closed their arms; and making their signs of veneration,\n  saluted their prince with various phrases of the same purport:\n  'May the sun guard you,' 'may the sun be with you,' 'may the sun\n  shine upon you,' 'defend you,' 'prosper you,' and the like; each\n  uttered the phrase that came first to his mind, and for a short\n  time there was a universal murmuring of these compliments.\"--_The\n  Conquest of Florida under Hernando de Soto_, by Theodore Irving,\n  vol. ii. p. 161.\n\nWhence could the natives of the New World have derived a custom so\nstrikingly similar to that which the ancients record?\n\n    R. S. F.\n\n  Perth.\n\n_Marlborough 5th November Custom._--At Marlborough, Wiltshire, on the\n5th of November, two or three years ago, I noticed a peculiar custom the\nrustics have at their bonfires, to which I could attach no meaning; and\nI did not, at the time, inquire of any person there regarding it.\n\nThey form themselves into a ring of some dozen or more round the\nbonfire, and follow each other round it, holding thick club-sticks over\ntheir shoulders; while a few others, standing at distances outside this\nmoving ring, with the same sort of sticks, beat those the men hold over\ntheir shoulders, as they pass round in succession, all shouting and\nscreaming loudly. This might last half an hour at a time, and be\ncontinued at intervals till the fire died out. Can any correspondent\ninform me whether this _has_ any meaning attached to it?\n\n    J. S. A.\n\n  Old Broad Street.\n\n_Spectral Coach and Horses_ (Vol. iv., p. 195.).--A similar legend was\nwithin a few years current near Bury St. Edmunds, in the same county,\nwhere on Christmas Eve, at midnight, a coach drawn by four headless\nhorses, and driven by a headless coachman, might be seen to come in a\ndirection from the parish of Great Barton, across the fields, regardless\nof fences, and proceed to a deep hole called \"Phillis's Hole\" near \"the\ntwo-mile spinney,\" in the parish of Rongham, and there find a\nresting-place. A few years since, wishing to learn whether this sight\nwas among the things still looked for or believed in, I proceeded to the\nlocality at the time stated, but met with no one but a gamekeeper, whom\nI found to be quite familiar with the legend. He said he had heard a\ngood deal in his younger days about the \"coach,\" but had never seen it.\nThere was, however, an old woman then living who had seen it often, and\nwho declared that the coach was occupied by a gentleman and a lady, also\nwithout heads, but he did not know what to say to it. All he knew was,\nthat when a man was out on dark nights, \"he could draw anything into his\neye that he liked!\"\n\n    BURIENSIS.\n\n\nANTIQUARIES OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.\n\nI have a copy of Weever's _Ancient Funerall Monuments_, which once\nbelonged to William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire; on a\nfly-leaf at the end of the volume is the following list in the autograph\nof that celebrated antiquary, which, perhaps, may not be without its\ninterest to the readers of \"N. & Q.\" I have appended some notes of\nidentification, which I have no doubt some of your correspondents could\neasily render more complete.\n\n      \"Antiquarii temp. Eliz. Reg.\n\n      \"1. Recorder Fletewode, Wm.\n      2. Mr. Atey.\n      3. Mr. Lambard, Will[=m].\n      4. Mr. Cope.\n      5. Mr. Broughton ye Lawyer.\n      6. Mr. Leigh.\n      7. Mr. Bourgchier.\n      8. Mr. Broughton ye Preacher.\n      9. Mr. Holland, Joseph.\n      10. Mr. Gartier.\n      11. Mr. Cotton, Robt.\n      12. Mr. Thinne, Francis.\n      13. Jo. Stowe.\n      14. -- Combes.\n      15. -- Lloyd.\n      16. -- Strangman.\n      17. Hen. Spelman.\n      18. Arthur Gregory.\n      19. Anth. Cliffe.\n      20. Tho. Talbot.\n      21. Arthur Goulding.\n      22. Arthur Agard.\n      23. Will[=m] Camden.\n      24. Merc. Patten.\n      25. Samson Erdeswike.\n      26. -- Josseline.\n      27. Hen. Sacheverell.\n      28. Wm. Nettleton de Knocesborough.\n      29. John Ferne.\n      30. Ro[=b]t. Bele.\n      31. John Savile de Templo.\n      32. Daniell Rogers.\n      33. Tho. Saville.\n      34. Henry Saville.\n      35. Rog. Keymis.\n      36. John Guillim.\n      37. -- Dee.\n      38. -- Heneage.\n      39. Rich. Scarlet.\n      40. -- Wodhall.\n      41. Dent de B[=a]co Regis.\n      42. -- Bowyer.\n      43. Robt. Hare.\n      44. -- Harrison, schoolemr.\n      45. -- Harrison, ministr.\"\n\n1. William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, \"a learned man and good\nantiquary,\" ob. 1593. (_Wood_, ed. Bliss, i. 598.)\n\n2. Mr. Atey. Was this Arthur Atey, Principal of St. Alban Hall, and\nOrator of the University of Oxford, who was secretary to the Earl of\nLeicester, knighted by King James, and who died in 1604?\n\n3. William Lambarde, the learned author of the _Perambulation of Kent_,\nthe first county history attempted in England, died in 1601.\n\n4. Mr. Cope.\n\n5. Mr. Broughton the Lawyer, _i.e._ Richard Broughton, Justice of North\nWales, called by Sir John Wynne, in the _History of the Gwedir Family_,\n\"the chief antiquary of England.\"\n\n6. Mr. Leigh, probably James Leigh, author of several tracts on\nheraldry, preserved in Hearne's _Curious Discoveries_.\n\n7. Mr. Bourgchier. Query, Sir Henry Bouchier, afterwards Earl of Bett?\nor Thomas Bouchier, the learned Roman Catholic divine, who died at Rome\nabout 1586?\n\n8. Mr. Broughton the Preacher. Could this be the learned divine Hugh\nBroughton, author of _The Consent of Scriptures_, born in 1549, ob.\n1612?\n\n9. Joseph Holland, a native of Devonshire, an excellent herald,\ngenealogist, and antiquary, of the Inner Temple, living in 1617.\n\n10. Mr. Gartier. Sir Gilbert Dethick, Knight of the Garter, Principal\nKing-at-Arms, who was well skilled in antiquities, is perhaps intended.\nHe died in 1584, at eighty-one. Or more probably his son and successor,\nSir William Dethick, Knight, who was one of a select number of\nantiquaries who entered into a society in 1593 (the cradle of the\npresent Society of Antiquaries). Sir William died in 1612.\n\n11. Sir Robert Cotton, the founder of the Cottonian Library, died in\n1631.\n\n12. Francis Thynne, Esq., Lancaster Herald, died 1608. \"An excellent\nantiquary, and a gentleman painful and well deserving of his office\nwhilst he lived.\" (_Camden._)\n\n13. John Stow, author of _The Chronicles of England_ and _The Survey of\nLondon_; died in 1605.\n\n14. -- Combes. Query, Thomas Combe, author of a _Book of Emblems_, reg.\nEliz.\n\n15. -- Lloyd, Humphry Lluyd or Lloyd, \"a most noted antiquary, and\nperson of great skill and knowledge in British affairs,\" ob. 1570.\n(_Wood._)\n\n16. Mr. James Strangeman, of Hedley Castle, Essex, cited by Salmon as an\nEssex antiquary. (_Gough._)\n\n17. The learned Sir Henry Spelman died in 1641.\n\n18. Arthur Gregory, ancestor of the present Arthur Gregory, of\nStyvichall in the county of Warwick, Esq., who possesses some valuable\nMS. collections of his ancestor.\n\n19. Anthony Cliffe. In Burke's _Dictionary of the Landed Gentry_, a\nperson of these names is mentioned as of the city of Westminster in the\nElizabethan period, ancestor of the present family of Cliffe of\nBellevue, co. Wexford.\n\n20. Thomas Talbot, \"an excellent genealogist, and well skilled in the\nantiquities of his country.\" Vide Wood's _Athen\u00e6_, ed. Bliss, i. 265.\n\n21. Arthur Golding; the same, I suppose, who finished the translation of\na work concerning _The Trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists,\n&c._, began by Sir Philip Sidney, and also published other translations.\n(_Wood_ and _Gough_.)\n\n22. Arthur Agard, styled by Camden \"antiquarius insignis.\" He died in\n1615.\n\n23. William Camden, born 1551, ob. 1623.\n\n24. Mercury Patten, Blue-mantle Pursuivant-at-Arms, had been patronised\nby Lord Burleigh; was living in the second year of James I.\n\n25. Samson Erdeswike, the historian of Staffordshire, died in 1603. \"A\nvery great lover and diligent searcher of venerable antiquity.\"\n(_Camden._)\n\n26. -- Josseline, secretary to Archbishop Parker, was the author of a\nshort account of Corpus Christi or Ben'et College, Cambridge, to the\nyear 1569. (_Gough._)\n\n27. Henry Sacheverell, of Ratcliffe-on-Sore, in the county of\nNottingham, Esq.?\n\n28. William Nettleton de Knocesborough?\n\n29. John Ferne, author of the _Blazon of Gentry_, died about 1610. He\nwas knighted by James I.\n\n30. Robert Bele, secretary to the embassy of Sir Francis Walsingham at\nParis in 1571, Clerk of the Privy Council, &c.; ob. 1601.\n\n31. Sir John Savile, of the Middle Temple, elder brother of Sir Henry\nSavile, died in 1606-7. He was one of the Barons of the Exchequer.\n\n32. Daniel Rogers, \"excellently well learned; one that was especially\nbeloved by the famous antiquary and historian W. Camden;\" ob. 1590.\n(_Wood._)\n\n33. Thomas Savile, younger brother to Sir Henry, called by Camden \"his\nright learned friend,\" ob. 1592.\n\n34. Henry Savile. There were two Henry Saviles, who may either of them\nbe intended; Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton, who died in 1621-2, or\nhis kinsman of the same names, an eminent scholar in heraldry and\nantiquities, and other branches of literature. He died in 1617.\n\n35. Roger Keymis. See _MSS. Harleian_, 5803. and 16,120., for two of his\nheraldical collections. The former is dated anno 1609.\n\n36. John Gwillim, gent., the well-known herald, ob. 1621.\n\n37. Dr. John Dee, the celebrated philosopher of Mortlake, died in 1608.\n\n38. -- Heneage. Query, Sir Thomas Heneage, Knight?\n\n39. Richard Scarlet, citizen and painter stainer, of London, temp.\nEliz., took some good notes of Christ Church, Canterbury (_Gough_), and\nwas the author of some heraldical collections now in the British Museum.\n(_MSS. Harl._ 2021.)\n\n40. -- Woodhall.\n\n41. -- Dent de Banco Regis.\n\n42. William Bowyer, author of _A perfecte Kellender of all the Recordes\nremayninge in the office of Recordes at the Towere of Londone_. (_MS.\nHarl._ 94. 4.)\n\n43. Robert Hare, son of Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, 1553, of\nCaius College, Cambridge, collected the charters and privileges of the\nUniversity in three volumes, with a fourth of those relating to the town\nonly. (_Gough._)\n\n44. -- Harrison, schoolmaster. _John_ Harrison, _physician_, and _Vicar_\nof Grantchester, about the middle of the sixteenth century, was a great\nhistorian; many of his MS. collections relative to the University of\nCambridge still remain. (_Gough._)\n\n45. -- Harrison, minister. William Harrison, author of \"Historical\nDescription of the Island of Britain,\" prefixed to Holinshed's\n_Chronicles_, living in 1587, is, I suppose, intended.\n\n    SPES.\n\n\nTHE TREDESCANTS AND ELIAS ASHMOLE.\n\nDr. Hamel, of whose memoir of the elder Tredescant and his voyage to\nRussia I gave some account in Vol. iii., p. 391., being again in England\nlast year, pursued with unremitting zeal his researches into the history\nof the Tredescants, and has given the results in a short Memoir read\nbefore the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburg on the 5th of\nDecember last. Having been favoured with a copy of the memoir, and a\nflattering letter from the writer, I think it incumbent upon me to add\nto my former communication a brief abstract of this interesting paper.\n\nDr. Hamel first directed his researches toward an endeavour to develope\nthe means by which Elias Ashmole became the possessor of the Tredescant\ncollection; and naturally expected that he should be able to trace the\ndocument of 1659, upon which Ashmole rested his claim to the ownership;\nbut he could not find any such deed.\n\nHe was, however, fortunate enough to trace out the original Will of John\nTredescant the younger, bearing his seal and signature, made at a\nsubsequent date, and formally proved, after his death in 1662, by his\nwidow Hester. This important document throws much light upon the\ntransaction respecting the Museum, and its destination. Dr. Hamel was\nnaturally much pleased with this discovery, and rejoiced to see for the\nfirst time the autograph of a man about whom he had so much interested\nhimself, but was somewhat surprised to find that the name which has been\nusually written Tr_a_descant was uniformly spelt Tr_e_descant in the\nbody of the Will, as well as in the signature; the seal, bearing the\nsame coat of arms given on a plate in the Catalogue of the Museum, being\nplaced between the syllable _Tre_ and _descant_. This document runs\nthus:\n\n  \"THE LAST WILL AND TESTMANENT OF ME JOHN TREDESCANT.\n\n  \"In the name of God, Amen.\n\n  \"The fourth day of April in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand\n  six hundred sixtie-one, I, John Tredescant of South Lambeth in the\n  Countie of Surrey, Gardiner, being at this present of perfect\n  health, minde, and memorie, thanks be therefore given to Almightie\n  God, and calling to minde the uncertaintie of death, and being\n  desirous whilst I am in a Capacity to settle and dispose of such\n  things as God of his goodnesse hath bestowed upon me, doe make and\n  declare this my last Will and Testament as followeth. First and\n  principally I commend and yield my soule into the hands of\n  Almighty God my Creator, and my bodie to the Earth to be decently\n  (according to the quality wherein I have liued) interred as neere\n  as can be to my late deceased Father John Tredescant, and my sonne\n  who lye buried in the parish Churchyard of Lambeth aforesaid, at\n  the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named; hopeing by and\n  through the merits, death, and passion of my onely Saviour and\n  Redeemer Jesus Christ to have full remission of all my Sinnes, and\n  to see my God in the Land of the Living; and for my temporall\n  Estate I doe will, bequeath, and dispose thereof as followeth.\n  That is to saie, I will that all such debts as shall be by me\n  justly due and owing to anie person or persons whatsoever at the\n  time of my decease (if anie such be) shall be truly paid and\n  satisfied, and after my Funeral charges shall be defrayed, for the\n  doeing whereof I appoint the summe of twenty pounds or thereabouts\n  shall be expended by my Executrix but not more. Item, I giue and\n  bequeath upon the condition hereafter mentioned to my daughter\n  Frances Norman the summe of ten pounds of Lawfull money of\n  England, which I will shall be paid unto her within six moneths\n  after my decease, and likewise I doe forgive her the summe of\n  fourscore pounds or thereabouts, Principall Money, besides the\n  Interest thereof which I long since lent her late deceased husband\n  Alexander Norman. Provided that shee and her husband, if she shall\n  be then againe married, give my Executrix a generall release for\n  the same. Item, I give and bequeath to my two namesakes Robert\n  Tredescant and Thomas Tredescant, of Walberswick in the Countie of\n  Suffolk, to eache of them the summe of five shillings apiece in\n  remembrance of my loue, and to every childe or children of them\n  the [said] Robert and Thomas that shall be liuing at the time of\n  my decease the summe of two shillings and sixpence apiece. Item, I\n  giue to Mris. Marie Edmonds, the daughter of my louing Friend\n  Edward Harper, the summe of one hundred pounds, to be paid unto\n  her after my wife's decease; and in case she die before my said\n  wife, my will is and I doe hereby giue and bequeath the said summe\n  of one hundred pounds, after my wife's decease, to my Foure\n  God-children, vizt. Hester, John, Leonard, and Elizabeth Edmonds,\n  sonnes and daughters of the said Mris. Mary Edmonds Equally to be\n  diuided amongst them, share and share alike; and if either of them\n  die before he, her, or they receiue their share or portion so to\n  be diuided, then the said share or portion of him, her, or them so\n  dying to goe and be giuen to the survivor and survivors of them,\n  share and share alike. Item, I doe hereby giue, will, devise and\n  bequeath to my Cosin Katharine King, widdow, after the decease of\n  my wife, the Little House commonly called the Welshmans house\n  situate in South Lambeth aforesaid, together with that Little\n  Piece of Ground now enclosed thereunto adjoyning; and to her heirs\n  and assignes for euer. Item, I giue, devize, and bequeath my\n  Closet of Rarities to my dearly beloued wife Hester Tredescant\n  during her naturall Life, and after her decease I giue and\n  bequeath the same to the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, to\n  which of them shee shall think fitt at her decease. As for such\n  other of my friends and kindred as I should nominate for Rings and\n  small tokens of my Loue, I leaue that to the Care of my said wife\n  to bestow how manie and to whome shee shall think deseruing. The\n  rest and Residue of all my Estate Reall and personall whatsoeuer,\n  I wholly giue, devize, and bequeath to my deare and louing wife\n  Hester Tredescant, and to her heires and assignes for euer. And I\n  doe hereby nominate, ordaine, constitute, and appoint my said\n  Louing Wife Hester Tredescant full and sole Executrix of this my\n  last will and Testament; and I doe desire Dr. Nurse and Mr. Mark\n  Cottle to be Ouerseers of this my last Will and Testament, and I\n  giue to each of them fortie shillings apiece. Lastly, I doe hereby\n  revoke all Wills by me formerly made, and will that this onely\n  shall stand and be my last will and Testament, and no other. In\n  Wittnesse whereof I the said John Tredescant to this my present\n  last will and testament haue set my hand and seale the daie and\n  yeare aboue written.\n\n      \"JOHN TRE (L.S.) DESCANT.\n\n  \"Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said John\n  Tredescant the Testator, as and for his last Will and Testament,\n  in the presence of John Seatewell, Foulk Bignall, Robert Thompson,\n  Jun'ris, Ric. Newcourt, Jun'r, Richard Hoare, Notary Publique.\n\n  \"Probatum apud London coram venerabili viro D[=n]o Williamo\n  Mericke milite Legum Doctore Commissario, etc., quinto die mensis\n  May Anno Domini 1662, iuramento Hestore Tredescant, Relicte dicti\n  defuncti et Executricis, etc.\"\n\nIt will be recollected that Ashmole, in his Diary, says--\n\n  \"Decem. 12, 1659. Mr. Tredescant and his wife told me they had\n  been long considering upon whom to bestow their close of\n  curiosities when they died, and at last resolved to give it unto\n  me.\"\n\nTwo days afterwards (on the 14th) they had given their scrivener\ninstructions to prepare a deed of gift to that effect, which was\nexecuted by Tredescant, his wife being a subscribing witness on the\n16th, as Ashmole records with astrological minuteness, \"5 hor. 30\nminutes post meridian.\" On May 30th, 1662, little more than a month\nafter John Tredescant's death, he records--\n\n  \"This Easter term, I preferred a bill in Chancery against Mrs.\n  Tredescant, for the rarities her husband had settled on me.\"\n\nDr. Hamel succeeded in finding the protocols in this suit among the\nrecords of the Court of Chancery, in which Ashmole sets forth, that in\nDecember, 1659, he visited the Tredescants in South Lambeth, and that he\nwas entertained by Tredescant and his wife with great professions of\nkindness. That Mrs. Tredescant told him that her husband had come to the\ndetermination to bequeath to him \"the rarities and antiquities, bookes,\ncoynes, medalls, stones, pictures, and mechanicks contained in his\nClosett of Raryties, knowing the great esteeme and value he put upon\nit.\" That Tredescant himself had afterwards said to him, that in\nacknowledgment of his (Ashmole's) previous trouble concerning the\npreparation of the catalogue of his museum and gardens[2], he purposed\nto do so, and that in effect Ashmole and Mrs. Tredescant, as long as she\nlived, should enjoy it together. Ashmole also says, Tredescant had made\nit a condition that he should, after Mrs. Tredescant's decease, pay a\ncertain Mary Edmonds, or her children, one hundred pounds sterling. That\nhe did then actually let a deed be prepared, by which he made over to\nhim his collection of every kind of curiosities of nature and art within\nor near the house (Ashmole here cunningly includes the botanic garden);\nMrs. Tredescant was to have the joint proprietorship, and nothing was to\nbe abstracted from the collection.\n\n  [Footnote 2: In the preface to the catalogue the assistance of two\n  friends is mentioned; it appears that the other was Dr. Thomas\n  Warton.]\n\nThis deed Tredescant had, on the 16th of December (1659), confirmed\nunder his hand and seal. Mrs. Tredescant fetched a Queen Elizabeth's\nmilled shilling, which Tredescant handed over to him, together with the\nconveyance, and thereby he came into possession of the collection.[3]\n\n  [Footnote 3: Ashmole says, \"It was not thought fit to clogge the\n  deed with the payment of the said hundred pounds to Mrs. Edmonds\n  or her children, to the end that the same might better appear to\n  be a free and generous gift, and therefore the consideracion of\n  the deed was expressed to be for the entire affeccion and singular\n  esteeme the said John Tredescant had to him (Ashmole), who he did\n  not doubt would preserve and augment the said rarities for\n  posterity.\" He declares that he will pay the money; and in his\n  Diary we find that after Mrs. Tredescant's death, in 1678, he pays\n  to a Mrs. Lea, probably one of the daughters of Mrs. Edmonds, one\n  hundred pounds.]\n\nMrs. Tredescant had signed the deed as witness; but, when Ashmole was\nabout to leave the house, she had requested him to leave it with her, as\nshe wished to ask some of her friends whether, by having signed it as\nwitness, her right as joint proprietress of the collection might not be\ndiminished. He left the document with her, in expectation that it would\nsoon be restored to him, but this was never done. Now, after the death\nof Tredescant, she maintains that her husband never made such a\nconveyance; but the truth is she has burnt or destroyed it in some other\nmanner.\n\nAgainst this Mrs. Tredescant refers to her husband's last will and\ntestament of the 4th of May, 1661, by which all previous dispositions of\nhis property, of whatever kind, were declared invalid, and strongly\nurges that the museum was expressly bequeathed to her and her alone,\nwith the stipulation that she should leave it either to the University\nof Oxford or to that of Cambridge. And she adds, that she had determined\nto leave it to the University of Oxford.\n\nI must not now further trespass upon your space; you shall have the\nsequel for your next Number.\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n  Manor Place, So. Lambeth.\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Bothwell's Burial-place._--Bothwell was imprisoned in Seeland, in the\ncastle of Draxholm, now called Adelersborg, near the town of Holbek. He\ndied there, and was buried in the neighbouring village church of\nFaareveile, where I in vain have searched for this tomb or coffin. An\nold coffin, half opened, standing between several other old coffins in a\nvault below the floor of the church, certainly was said, according to\ntradition, to contain the body of Bothwell, but no inscriptions or other\nsigns proved the truth of it.\n\n    J. J. A. WORSAAE.\n\n_Handel's Organ at the Foundling Hospital._--It is generally understood\nthat the organ in the chapel of this Institution was the gift of Handel.\nThat great musician conducted a concert of sacred music upon the opening\nof the chapel in 1749, and superintended the annual performance of his\noratorio, \"The Messiah,\" from 1751 to 1759. In his will he left to the\ncharity \"a fair copy of the score, and all its parts,\" of the same\noratorio; which score is still preserved, and has furnished the editor\nof the new edition, lately produced by the Handel Society, with several\nnew and important readings.\n\nDr. Burney, in his \"Sketch of the Life of Handel,\" prefixed to his\n_Account of the Commemoration_, 4to., 1785, says, \"The organ in the\nchapel of this [_i.e._ the Foundling] hospital was a _present_ from\nHandel.\" But how are we to reconcile this statement with the following,\nwhich I find in the _European Magazine_ for February, 1799:\n\n  \"Handel _did not give_ the organ to the Foundling Hospital. It was\n  built at the _expense_ of the charity, under the direction of Dr.\n  Smith, the learned Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who added\n  demitones, &c., and some of the niceties not occurring in other\n  organs.\"\n\n    EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n_Correction to the \"Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses.\"_--Permit me to\ncorrect an error in the above carefully compiled and useful manual. On\np. 15. of the \"Descriptive Catalogue\" a brass is described, No. 32. of\ntheir collection, to \"Edward Peach, 1439;\" no place is mentioned in\nconnexion with this brass. The notice should stand thus:\n\n  \"1839. Edward Peach, _S. Chad's (R.C.) Church, Birmingham_.\n\n  [+]\n\n  \"Hic jacet dmus Edwardus Peach quondam rector istius ecclesie\n  qui obiit die Nativitatis _Beate_ Marie Virginis Anno Domini\n  _milessimo_ _D_CCCXXXIX,\" &c.\n\nThe brass is so well _designed_ and _executed_, that it might easily\npass for an old example. By some error \"s[=a]cte\" has been printed for\n\"Beate,\" \"millessimo\" for \"milessimo,\" and \"CCCC\" for \"DCCC\" in the\nOxford version of the inscription.\n\n    W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.\n\n_Milton's Rib-bone._--In Vol. v., p. 275., mention is made of Cromwell's\nskull; so it may not be out of place to tell you that I have handled one\nof Milton's ribs. Cowper speaks indignantly of the desecration of our\ndivine poet's grave, on which shameful occurrence some of the bones were\nclandestinely distributed. One fell to the lot of an old and esteemed\nfriend, and between forty-five and forty years ago, at his house, not\nmany miles from London, I have often examined the said rib-bone. That\nfriend is long since dead; but his son, now in the vale of years, lives,\nand I doubt not, from the reverence felt to the great author of\n_Paradise Lost_, that he has religiously preserved the precious relic.\nIt might not be agreeable to him to have his name published; but from\nhis tastes he, being a person of some distinction in literary pursuits,\nis likely to be a reader of \"N. & Q.,\" and if this should catch his eye,\n_he_ may be induced to send you some particulars. I know he is able to\nplace the matter beyond a doubt.\n\n    B. B.\n\n  Pembroke.\n\n\n\n\nQueries.\n\n\nTHE DANES IN ENGLAND.\n\nSince I arrived in England my friend Mr. Thoms has called my attention\nto the following Note by the \"English Opium Eater\" in the _London\nMagazine_ for May, 1823, p. 556., on a subject of great interest to me\nwith reference to the views I have advanced in my recently published\nvolume, entitled _An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England,\nScotland, and Ireland_.\n\n  \"I take this opportunity of mentioning a curious fact which I\n  ascertained about twelve years ago, when studying the Danish. The\n  English and Scotch philologists have generally asserted that the\n  Danish invasions in the ninth and tenth centuries, and their\n  settlements in various parts of the island (as Lincolnshire,\n  Cumberland, &c.), had left little or no traces of themselves in\n  the language. This opinion has been lately reasserted in Dr.\n  Murray's work on the European languages. It is, however,\n  inaccurate. For the remarkable dialect spoken amongst the lakes of\n  Cumberland and Westmoreland, together with the names of the\n  mountains, tarns, &c., most of which resist all attempts to unlock\n  their meaning from the Anglo-Saxon, or any other form of the\n  Teutonic, are pure Danish, generally intelligible from the modern\n  Danish of this day, but in all cases from the elder form of the\n  Danish. Whenever my Opera Omnia are collected, I shall reprint a\n  little memoir on this subject, which I inserted about four years\n  ago in a provincial newspaper: or possibly, before that event, for\n  the amusement of the lake tourists, Mr. Wordsworth may do me the\n  favour to accept it as an appendix to his work on the English\n  Lakes.\"\n\nCan any reader of \"N. & Q.\" refer me to the paper in which this \"little\nmemoir\" was inserted? (it was probably in a Cumberland or Westmoreland\npaper somewhere about the year 1819;) or inform me whether it ever\nappeared as an appendix to any work of Wordsworth's on the English\nlakes?\n\n    J. J. A. WORSAAE.\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Taylor Family._--A great favour would be conferred by any\nWorcestershire correspondent who could furnish any information as to the\nfamily, arms, place of burial, of Samuel Taylor, who was Mayor of\nWorcester in 1731-32, and again in 1737. Are any descendants or\nconnexions still resident in that neighbourhood? The information is\nrequired for genealogical purposes.\n\n    E. S. TAYLOR.\n\n_Analysis._--Is algebra rightly termed analysis? Edgar Poe, a very queer\nAmerican author, maintains the negative: he also enters into the\nquestion as to whether games of skill and chance are useful to the\nanalytical powers, and gives the preference to draughts over chess, and\nto whist over either. But he seems to think the chief applications of\nanalysis are to the interpretation of cryptographies, the\ndisentanglement of police puzzles, and the solution of charades!\n\nThere is, however, plausibility in his theory that a good analyst must\nbe both poet and mathematician. This is Ruskin's \"imagination\npenetrative:\" such a faculty belonged to the minds of Verulam and\nNewton, of Kepler and Galileo. I do not, however, see the necessity of\nRuskin's threefold division of the \"imaginative faculty.\" Would not\n\"imagination analytic and creative\" suffice?\n\n    MORTIMER COLLINS.\n\n_Old Playing Cards._--In 1763 Dr. Stukeley exhibited to the Antiquarian\nSociety a singular pack of cards, dating before the year 1500. They were\npurchased in 1776, by Mr. Tutet, and on his decease they were bought by\nMr. Gough. In 1816 they had passed into the possession of Mr. Triphook,\nthe bookseller. Query, where are they now?\n\n    EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n_Canongate Marriages._--According to the _Newgate Calendar_, vol. ii. p.\n269., there seems to have existed, about the year 1745, a sort of\n_Gretna Green_ in the Canongate of Edinburgh. It is long since I read\nthat _famous_ work, but I made an excerpt at the time, which is as\nfollows:\n\n  \"It was customary for some of the ministers of the Church of\n  Scotland, who were out of employment, to marry people at the\n  ale-houses, in the same manner that the Fleet marriages were\n  conducted in London. Sometimes people of fortune thought it\n  prudent to apply to these marriage brokers; but, as their chief\n  business lay among the lower ranks of people, they were deridingly\n  called by the name of 'Buckle the Beggars.' Most of these\n  marriages were solemnized at public-houses in the Canongate.\"\n\nThis statement \"comes in such a questionable shape,\" and from so\n\"questionable\" a quarter, that really one cannot be blamed for\nquestioning it. Surely the ministers referred to must have been men\ndeprived of their charges? Can any correspondent of \"N. & Q.\" speak to\nthis subject? I am certain that the Scottish clergy of that age would\nnever have suffered any _Buckle the Beggars_ to rank with them as\nregular preachers, though \"out of employment.\"\n\n    R. S. F.\n\n  Perth.\n\n_Devil, Proper Name._--Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me\nwhether there are any persons now existing of the name of Devil; or who\nbear the devil on their coat of arms? In 1847 I saw upon the panel of a\ncarriage in London the _devil's head_ for a crest. To what family does\nthis belong? \"Robin the Devil\" is mentioned in _Rokeby_, cant. vi. st.\n32. The following is from the _Monthly Mirror_, August, 1799:\n\n  \"Formerly there were many persons surnamed 'the Devil.' In an\n  ancient book we read of one Rogerius Diabolus, Lord of Montresor.\"\n  \"An English monk, Willelmus, cognomento Diabolus. Again, Hughes le\n  Diable, Lord of Lusignan. Robert, Duke of Normandy, son of William\n  the Conqueror, was surnamed 'the Devil.' In Norway and Sweden\n  there were two families of the name of 'Trolle,' in English,\n  'Devil;' and every branch of these families had an emblem of the\n  devil for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there was a family called\n  'Teufel' (or Devil); and in Brittany there was a family of the\n  name of 'Diable.'\"\n\n    W. R. DEERE SALMON.\n\n_Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri._--Their portraits\nengraved by Cornelius Vischer from paintings by Vandyke. Who were they?\n\n    G. A. C.\n\n_Can a Clergyman marry himself?_--If a clergyman were to perform the\nmarriage service in his own case, would it be valid? Has such an\noccurrence ever been known?\n\n    CONSTANT READER.\n\n_Ground Ice._--Has any satisfactory explanation been given of the mode\nin which the peculiar substance termed _ground ice_ is formed in certain\nrivers. I am most familiar with it as seen in the Wiltshire Avon. It is\nseen in some rivers in Lincolnshire, where I am told it is called\n_ground-gru_. One who has noticed it in the Teviot says, that the\ninhabitants there call it \"sludge.\"\n\nThe fact of ice being formed at the _bottom_ of streams, where we should\nexpect a higher temperature, is so curious an anomaly, that it would be\ndesirable to collect instances where and at what depths it is observed.\n\n    J. C. E.\n\n_Astrologer-Royal._--I remember, in a former volume of \"N. & Q.,\" some\nmention is made of Almanacks, Astrologers, &c. It escaped me at the time\nto tell you that the ancient office of King's Astrologer happens not to\nhave been subjected to formal abolition, and, being hereditary, it is\nnow vested in the person of Mr. Gadbury, resident at Bristol. He is\nauctioneer to the Court of Bankruptcy, and a very worthy man. He tells\nme there is neither salary nor privilege attached to his nominal post.\n\n    B. B.\n\n  Pembroke.\n\n_William, second Duke of Hamilton._--Can any of your numerous\ncorrespondents inform me if there is any monumental inscription, or\nother memorial, dedicated to the memory of William, second Duke of\nHamilton, who expired on the 12th of September, 1651, from the effects\nof a wound received at the battle of Worcester on the 3rd of the same\nmonth? He was interred before the high altar in Worcester Cathedral,\nhaving died at the Commandery in that city; but there is neither\n\n      \"storied urn or animated bust\"\n\nas a record of his sepulture within that venerable pile.\n\nIn making an inspection of the Commandery, an old building, probably\nonce belonging to the Knights Templars, I was gravely told, and my\ninformant even showed me the very spot beneath the floor of one of the\nrooms, in which, as tradition points out, he is said to have been\nburied.\n\n    J. B. WHITBORNE.\n\n_The Ring Finger._--Having observed various remarks on the ring finger\nin your last volume, I shall be much obliged if you can give me any\ninformation on the subject. As a lady of my acquaintance has had the\nmisfortune to lose that finger, it has been said that she cannot be\nlegally married in the Church of England in consequence, and had better,\nif ever solicited, cross the border to Scotland to make the marriage\nbinding.\n\n    A RING.\n\n_Bishop of London's Palace in Bishopsgate._--Historians agree that King\nHenry VII., on his arrival in London after the battle of Bosworth, took\nup his residence for a few days at the Bishop of London's palace, and\nBacon tells us[4] this palace was in Bishopsgate Street. Can any of your\nreaders inform me where it stood?\n\n    J. G.\n\n  [Footnote 4: [Where? Our correspondent should have given the\n  reference.--ED.]]\n\n_Earls of Clare_ (Vol. v., p. 205.).--Can H. C. K., who appears to have\naccess to an old pedigree of this family, answer any of the following\nQueries?\n\n1. Which was the Richard Earl of Clare whose daughter married William de\nBraose, who was starved to death at Windsor in 1240?\n\n2. Who was Isabel de Clare, who married William de Braose, grandson of\nthe above?\n\n3. Who was Alice, daughter of Richard Earl of Clare, who married William\nthird Baron Percy?\n\n4. Who was Mabel, daughter of an Earl of Clare, who married Nigel de\nMowbray, a baron at the coronation of Richard I.?\n\n5. Who was ---- de Clare, treasurer of the church of York, living\nbetween 1150 and 1200?\n\n    E. H. Y.\n\n_Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps._--\n\n      Ptolemy's Scotland, A.D. 146.\n      Richard's Ditto, A.D. 446.\n      Roman Ditto, A.D. 80 to 446.\n      Pictish Ditto, A.D. 446 to 843.\n      Picts and Scots Ditto, A.D. 843 to 1071.\n      Sheriffdoms, Earldoms, and Lordships of the 15th Century.\n      Highlands in Clans, 1715-45. Track of Prince Charles Stuart.\n\nI should be glad to hear where this progressive series, or any of them,\nmight be met with. I understand it was considered a very complete Atlas\nof Scotland in the olden times; but on applying to my Edinburgh\nbookseller, I was informed they were out of print. I think they bear\ndate 1834, and I should think the plates are still in existence. They\nwere said to be very accurate, and the price was under a pound. They\nwere published by John Lothian, formerly Geographer and Map Publisher,\nEdinburgh.\n\n    ELGINENSIS.\n\n_Sally Lunn._--Partial to my sweet tea-cake, I often think when eating\nit of Sally Lunn, the pretty pastrycook of Bath, to whose inventive\ngenius we are said to be indebted for this farinaceous delicacy. Is\nanything known of Sally Lunn? is she a personage or a myth?\n\n    SHIRLEY HIBBERD.\n\n\"_Bough-House._\"--At the late assizes for the county of Suffolk, the\nwitnesses in two separate cases spoke of a \"bough-house,\" and the\nexplanation given was, that certain houses where beer, &c. was sold at\nfair-time only had boughs outside to indicate their character. As an\nillustration of the familiar proverb, \"Good wine needs no _bush_,\" and\nas the word does not occur in Forby's _Glossary of East Anglia_, it may\nperhaps deserve a place.\n\n    BURIENSIS.\n\n_Dyson's Collection of Proclamations._--The curious collection of old\nproclamations, &c., in the library of the Society of Antiquaries is\nsometimes referred to as _Dyson's_, sometimes as _Ames's_. Was Dyson the\noriginal collector? and, if so, when did he live?\n\n    EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n\"_The Hour and the Man._\"--Can any of your correspondents inform me what\nis the origin of this expression? It occurs in _Guy Mannering_, and\nprinted in Italics, but not within inverted commas. Is it a quotation?\n\n    T. D.\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Jacobite Toast._--\n\n      \"God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender.\n      God bless--no harm in blessing--the Pretender;\n      Who that Pretender is, and who is King,\n      God bless us all--that's quite another thing.\"\n\nCan any of your readers say who is the author of the above?\n\n    G. M. B.\n\n  [The above lines, \"intended to allay the violence of party\n  spirit!\" were spoken extempore by the celebrated John Byrom, of\n  Manchester, a Nonjuror, but better known as the inventor of the\n  Universal Short Hand. They will be found in his _Miscellaneous\n  Poems_, vol. i. p. 342. edit. 1773.]\n\n_Rev. Barnabas Oley._--The part played by this active and loyal\nclergyman, who was deprived of his vicarage of Great Gransden in\nHuntingdonshire during the interregnum, is generally known to readers of\nthe early history of that period. Walker, who has a notice of him\n(_Sufferings of the Clergy_, p. 141.), says he died in 1684, but does\nnot tell us whether he was married or not. I believe he was, and left\ndescendants; and the object of this Query is to ascertain what were the\nnames of his children, and with whom they intermarried.\n\n    D.\n\n  Rotherfield.\n\n  [We do not think Barnabas Oley was ever married, as his will,\n  preserved among Bishop Kennett's Collections, does not mention\n  either wife or children among the legacies to \"his near kindred\n  and blood.\" His will, with its codicils, are curious documents,\n  and ought to be printed. See the _Lansdowne MSS._, No. 988. fol.\n  94.]\n\n_Sweet-singers._--Swift says, in his _Abstract of Collins_, \"Why should\nnot William Penn the Quaker, or any Anabaptist, Papist, Muggletonian,\nJew, or _Sweet-singer_, have liberty to come into St. Paul's church?\"\nWanted, some historical notice of the Sweet-singers.\n\n    A. N.\n\n  [Timperley, in his _Dictionary of Printing_, has the following\n  note respecting them: \"May 27, 1681. The Sweet-singers of the city\n  of Edinburgh renounce the _printed_ Bible at the Canongate\n  tolbooth, and all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions, and burn\n  all story books, ballads, romances, &c.\"]\n\n\"_Philip Quarll._\"--Did a Mr. Bicknell write _Philip Quarll_? Was he the\nauthor of any other books? Is there a recent edition of _Philip Quarll_?\nand, if not, why not?\n\n    E. C. R.\n\n  Sunderland.\n\n  [Lowndes states that this work has been \"frequently reprinted.\"\n  The only editions known to us are the first in 1727, and the one\n  published in a series by Harrison and Co. in 1731. The editor's\n  initials are P. L.]\n\n_Dedication of Middleton Church._--What is the dedication of the little\nchurch at Middleton, Essex (near Sudbury, Suffolk)? I cannot find it in\nthe _Liber Regis_, in Wright's _Essex_, nor in Lewis's _Topographical\nDictionary_.\n\n    W. SPARROW SIMPSON.\n\n  [The indefatigable Newcourt, in his _Repertorium_, vol. ii. p.\n  418., was unable to give the dedication, and has left a blank for\n  it to be supplied by some future antiquary.]\n\n_Lunatic Asylum benefited by Dean Swift._--Which of the lunatic asylums\nbenefited by the \"will\" of Dean Swift; either founded or endowed by the\nbulk of his property?--Vide _Memoirs_.\n\n    SAMPSON LOW, Jun.\n\n  169. Fleet Street.\n\n  [St. Patrick's, or Swift's Hospital, for the reception of lunatics\n  and idiots, situated near Dr. Steevens's Hospital, adjoining to\n  James Street, Dublin. It was opened in 1757. For some account of\n  it see Scott's \"Memoir of Dean Swift,\" _Works_, vol. i. pp. 438.\n  527.]\n\n\n\n\nReplies.\n\n\nST. CHRISTOPHER.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 295.)\n\nSome years ago I remember meeting with the following explanation of the\nbeautiful legend of St. Christopher, and unfortunately forgot to take a\n_Note_ of it. It recurred to my mind on lately reading Mr. Talbot's work\non English etymologies, the writer of which appears to take a similar\nview of the allegorical meaning.\n\nPart of the legend is founded on the meaning of the Greek\n\u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd, coupled with a circumstance in the original legend,\nwhich is of German origin, and is an allegorizing of our blessed Lord's\nbearing the sins of the world, and _offering_ himself up on the altar of\nthe cross. In a Latin document of A.D. 1423, the name is abbreviated\ninto _X'poferus_; in an English one of the same date it is spelt\n_Christopfore_; and in French, _Christopfre_. _Christopfer_ signifies\n_Christ's sacrifice_: that is, the sacrifice of the cross continually\noffered up in the sacrament of the altar, or the mass, the _messopfer_,\nso named from the German _opfer_, a sacrifice; Welsh _offeiriad_, a\npriest; _offrwm_, a sacrifice; _offeren_, the mass; Irish, _oifrionn_,\nor _aifrionn_.\n\nThe perfection of our blessed Lord's humanity, His resistance of evil,\nand mighty strength displayed in bearing the sins of the universe, are\nshadowed out in the great stature and vast strength of the giant\nChristopher. According to the legend, when he had succeeded in reaching\nthe shore, and had set down his burden, he said: \"Chylde, thou hast put\nme in grete peryll, thou wayest alle most as I had had the world upon\nme; I might bere no greater burden;\" and the child answered,\n\"Christopher, marvel thou nothing, for thou hast not only borne all the\nworld upon thee, but its sins likewise.\"\n\nMr. Talbot says, the name Christopher, _Christoffer_, may have been\ngiven to children born on Good Friday, the day of the Great Sacrifice,\nas those born on Christmas, Easter, and All Saints were named Pascal,\nNoel, Toussaint.\n\n    JARLTZBERG.\n\n\n\"REHETOUR\" AND \"MOKE,\" TWO OBSCURE WORDS USED BY WYCKLYFFE, A.D. 1384.\n\n(Vol. i., pp. 155. 278.)\n\nI. REHETOUR.\n\n  (See the _Three Treatises_, published by Dr. Todd, Dublin, 1851.\n  Text, pages xxv, xxvi and lxv; Note on Rehetours, p. clxxi-ii.)\n\nIt is certain that Monastery and Minster were originally one word in\nLatin; it is generally believed that Rhythm and Rhyme were one in Greek;\nand it is possible that _Rehetour_ and _Caterer_ had one prototype in\nSpanish: of this last pair only one survived; it is naturally that\nwhich, by being equal to the other in sense, excels it in harmony with\nthe English tongue.\n\nConvinced that the office assigned to the _Rehetours_ in the lordly\nhousehold could not have been filled by any such character as ascribed\nto the _Reh\u00e2teur_, _Reheater_, or _Rehaiteur_; convinced, moreover, that\nthe Scottish _Rehator_, _Rehatoure_, and the English _Rehetour_ must be\neither both restored to their common kindred, or else consigned to\ncommon oblivion, I chose the former alternative; and after a careful\ninquest held on these twin foundlings, together with _Rehete_,\n_Reheting_, two other departed strangers of the same age, I venture to\npronounce the following verdict:--\n\n1. A native of Spain, _Regatero_ (see Stephen's _Spanish Dictionary_,\n1726, and all that is said about _Regaton_ in the _Diccionario_ of the\nAcademy, Madrid, 1737, folio), travelling in Great Britain, changed to\n_Rehetour_, _Rehator_, &c.\n\n2. By trade a retailer of provisions, huckster, or purveyor, his\ncharacter strongly partook of the nature of his commodities, so as to\nbecome tainted; this appears from the quotations in Jamieson's _Etym.\nDictionary_, and is attested by the Spanish proverb, _Ni compres de\nRegaton, ni te descuides en meson_: Wycklyffe in all three passages\nexpresses his apprehension of \"harm.\" The French _regrattier_ from\n_gratter_ (to scratch, scrape), and _Regatero_, _Regaton_, from _gato_\n(a cat), whether they be, or be not, truly thus derived, bear equally\nmarks of a contemptible impression.\n\n3. In Wycklyffe's simile the _Rehetours_ take care of the bodily, the\necclesiastics of the spiritual food, the Pope being the steward of the\nhousehold. The Scottish _Rehatour_ we find no longer as an ordinary\nplain dealer, but in a state of depravity, so as to be a mere byeword,\neven in the sense of blackguard, which word itself, if we believe Nares\n(see his _Glossary_) that it owes its existence to those menials of the\ncourt, cannot have been barely \"a jocular name,\" but their disposition\nmust have corresponded to their black exterior, otherwise the joke could\nnot have remained a lasting stigma. I believe, however, the word\n_blackguard_, by inserting the _l_, merely simulates a vernacular\norigin, it being properly _Beguards_ (see Boiste, _Dictionnaire\nUniversel_), from _Beghardus_ (see _Medi\u00e6val Glossaries_), once a German\nparticiple _bek[=a]rt_ (now _bekehrt_), _converted_, applied to the\nFrater _conversus_, secular begging monks who, increasing in number and\nmisdeeds, soon became universally notorious, and ultimately (mixed up\nwith impostors who assumed their dress) would serve in any capacity\nrather than the honest and irreproachable.\n\n4. If _Caterer_ proceeded from the Spanish, it arrived\nthus--_Recatero_--_Recaterer_--_Caterer_; the _c_ for _g_ being either\nthe natural result from the accent which the majority of speakers\nwithdrew from the latter syllable of the word, or is accounted for by\n\"_Recatear lo mismo que regatear_:\" the derivation from _re_ and\n_cautus_, as given by Covarrubias, likewise protects the _c_.\n\n5. It is possible that the primitive root _Kat_ or _Gat_, in the sense\nof hollow, hole, cavity, cave, &c., whence _Gate_, _Cot_, _Cottage_,\n_Cattegat_ (Sinus Codanus), probably also _Regatta_, was the first\nelement of both the Spanish and the English term; the spot or situation\nwhere the eatables were originally exposed for sale thus causing them\nfirst to be called _cates_ (a plural noun like wages), then the singular\n_cate_, &c., the noun of agent having most probably preceded the verb\n_cater_, which has come last. A similar derivation is certain with\nregard to _huckster_, which, besides _huckeback_, joins the Swedish\n_h\u00f6kare_, German _H\u00f6ker_, &c., from the bending, crooked, or squatting\nposition in some brook or crook or corner.\n\n6. The verb _Rehete_ is aptly derived by Jamieson from _Rehaiter_; both\nare extinct, yet their kindred _heiter_ (formerly _haiter_), with its\ntwo verbs _erheitern_ and _aufheitern_, are still in full vigour among\nthe Germans, to whom they afford serenity of mind, mood, and weather.\nThe French compound word for wishing, _souhaiter_, refers its verb\n_haiter_ to the Swedish _heta_, German _heissen_, Anglo-Saxon _hetan_,\nas in _Ulf het ar\u00e6ran cyrice_, \"ULF bid rear the church\" (see Latham,\n_Engl. Lang._ 1850, p. 99.): now if also from the _haiter_ of that\ncompound we may suppose a derivative _Rehaiter_, or at least one of the\nkind to have served Chaucer in his participle _Reheting_, which has been\nthe puzzle of his commentators in the following passage from _Troilus_\n(III. line 350.):\n\n      \"And all the reheting of his sikes (sighs) sore,\n      At ones fled, he felt 'hem no more;\"\n\nwe may easily understand thereby that, as it were, a rebidding, an\nimportunate insisting upon, the repetition of his sighs, ceased and\nwere at an end; so that in the time of Edward III. a person complaining\nof a troublesome cough, headache, &c., might call it a reheting cough,\n&c.\n\nII. MOKE.\n\n  (See the said _Three Treatises_, pages cxxxvii, and Notes, pages\n  ccxx. ccxxiii-iv.)\n\nWyckliffe using the possessive \"_their moke_,\" not the mere \"a,\" as we\nwould say, I would not give \"a pin,\" \"a button,\" &c., together with the\nevidence of the Irish _muc_, and the obsolete German _Mocke_, which has\nbeen defined \"Sus foeminea, qu\u00e6 ob foetus alitur,\" hardly leaves a doubt\nthat he means that animal, which may be traced also in the words _muck_,\n_mucky_, &c. The reader may judge for himself by the following\npassage:--\n\n  \"Crist gave his life for hise brether, and so rewled hise shepe;\n  thei wolen not _gyue her moke_ to help _here_ nedy brethern, but\n  leten _here shep_ perishen, and taken of hem.\"\n\nIn allusion to their not feeding their flock, but suffering their sheep\nto perish, he prefers to mention an eatable object.\n\n    N. L. BENMOHEL, A.M.\n\n  2. Trinity College, Dublin.\n\n  [MR. BENMOHEL is wrong in supposing the word _Beghard_ to signify\n  _bekehrt_, conversus, and to be a name given to the Fratres\n  Conversi of monasteries, who, by the way, were not \"secular\n  begging monks,\" nor necessarily monks at all. Any person, by a\n  donation to a convent, could be enrolled amongst its _fratres_ or\n  _sorores_, entitled to the prayers of the monks, and to a share of\n  their superabundant merits; and, being clothed at his death in the\n  habit of the order, was a _frater conversus_. Another class of\n  _conversi_ were lay monks (not necessarily _begging_ monks), who\n  attended on the other monks, and performed certain lay duties in\n  monasteries. MR. BENMOHEL will see some account of them in Dr.\n  Todd's _Introduction to the Book of Obits and Martyrol. of\n  Christ's Church Cathedral, Dublin_, p. xxvii.\n\n  The _Beghards_, on the other hand, were not, properly speaking,\n  monks at all, inasmuch as they were not under any monastic vow.\n  They professed poverty, and lived on alms generally; but in other\n  respects their mode of life was various, and their orthodoxy and\n  morality very doubtful. They are generally denounced by the\n  ecclesiastical authorities; and, except in some few places and\n  under certain regulations, were never recognised by the Church.\n  The best account of them will be found in Mosheim's posthumous and\n  unfinished treatise, _De Beghardis et Beguinis_. The name is\n  evidently, as Mosheim shows, a compound of _beg_ (from the old\n  Saxon _beggen_, mendicare) and _hard_, or _hart_, a servant,\n  famulus, servus: the same word which we still use in the\n  composition of such words as shepherd, cow-herd, swine-herd. So\n  that _Beghard_ is not otherwise different from our word _beggar_,\n  than in so far as it was formerly applied to a religious sect.\n\n  MR. BENMOHEL'S explanation of _Rehetour_ is very ingenious, and\n  may very possibly be true. His interpretation of _Muck_ is not so\n  satisfactory.]\n\n\nPLAGUE STONES.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 226.)\n\nAt the bottom of a street leading from Bury St. Edmunds to the Newmarket\nroad, stands an octagonal stone of Petworth marble with a hole in it,\nwhich is said to have been filled with water or vinegar in the time of\nthe small-pox in 1677, for people to dip their money in on leaving the\nmarket. What truth may attach to the traditionary use of the stone I\nknow not; but the stone is the base of a cross called St. Peter's Cross,\nand the hole is the socket for the shaft.\n\n    BURIENSIS.\n\nAre the stones mentioned by your correspondent J. J. S. as plague stones\nanything more than the \"holy stones\" common at the meeting of old cross\nroads in Lancashire, and perhaps other counties? The square hole in them\nis surely nothing more than the socket in which the way-side cross was\nformerly placed. Perhaps, however, he is speaking of a different and\nless common kind of stone, in which case, if a list is made, it must be\nby some competent person, able to distinguish the one from the other.\n\n    P. P.\n\nIn compliance with the suggestion of J. J. S., I may note that what I\nsuppose (since reading his communication in \"N. & Q.\") to be a \"plague\nstone\" is to be seen close to Gresford in Denbighshire. I met with it\nlast summer, and could not then imagine what it could be. It is a large\nhexagonal (I think) stone, with a round cavity on the top, which\ncertainly was full of water when I passed it. This cavity is pretty\ndeep, and the stone must be nearly three feet high, by from two to three\nacross. I regret I made no measurements of it. It is situated about a\nquarter of a mile from the town on the road to Wrexham, under a\nwide-spreading tree, on an open space where three roads meet. Should\nthis be seen by any Gresfordite, perhaps he would send you a more\naccurate description of this stone, with any legend that may be attached\nto it.\n\n    G. J. R. G.\n\n\nRHYMES ON PLACES.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 293.)\n\nNotwithstanding his name, which appears to indicate northern origin,\nyour correspondent W. FRASER may possibly be unacquainted with Robert\nChambers's amusing work, entitled _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, which\ncontains numerous verses on both places and families, besides other\ncurious matter.\n\n    E. N.\n\nThe following doggrel I have heard in Surrey:\n\n      \"Sutton for good mutton,\n        Cheam for juicy beef,\n      Croydon for a pretty girl,\n        And Mitcham for a thief\"\n\n    A. A. D.\n\nI beg to contribute the inclosed, which I have heard from a former\nincumbent of the parish of Sutton Long in Somersetshire.\n\n      \"Sutton Long, Sutton Long, at every door a tump of dung.\n      Some two; some three; it's the dirtiest place that ever you see.\"\n\nIt was an ancient saying in the parish, and I believe the word _tump_ is\nSomersetshire for heap.\n\nA village in Essex, called Ugley, possesses the unfortunate saying:\n\n      \"Ugly church, ugly steeple;\n      Ugly parson, ugly people.\"\n\nThe first line is literally true; to give an opinion on the second would\ndescend too much into personalities.\n\n    METAQUO.\n\nA particularly appropriate rhyme is that of\n\n      \"Stow on the Wold (Would?)\n      Where the wind blows cold.\"\n\n    S. L. P.\n\n  Oxford and Cambridge Club.\n\n\nARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS.\n\n(Vol. v., pp. 173. 196. 250.)\n\n_Provincial Words._--Though the Rev. Wm. Barnes has almost\nperfectionated the catalogue of Dorset provincialisms in the Glossary to\nhis beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect, I still sometimes meet with a\nstray omission, viz.:\n\n_Blasty._ To feed a fire with the dust of furze, &c.\n\n_Clean-sheaf._ Altogether, _e.g._ \"I've clean-sheaf vargot.\"\n\n_Crudelee._ To crow, as a baby does.\n\n_Eickered._ Blotchy.\n\n_Giblets._ The smaller pieces of a shirt.\n\n_Scousse._ To barter.\n\n_Snyche._ Eager; ready to snap at.\n\n_Squeapity._ To squeak, as an ungreased wheel.\n\n_Stump._ Disturbance.\n\n_Treaden._ The sole of the foot.\n\n    C. W. B.\n\nIn addition to the names already given, the following occur to my\nmind:--\n\n      Spelling.      Pronunciation.\n\n      Alwalton, Hunts      Allerton\n      Caldicott, Hunts      Cawcott\n      Overton, Hunts      Orton\n      Brewood, Staffordshire      Brood\n      Chaddesley, Worcestershire      Chaggeley.\n\nIn connexion with this inquiry, would it not be interesting to make out\na list of proper names of individuals, the pronunciation of which is\ndifferent from the spelling; and, if possible, to trace (for example)\nhow Trevelyan and St. John became _Trevethlan_ and _Sinjin_, and the\nhigh-sounding Cholmondeley sank, in the bathos of pronunciation, to\nplain Chumley?\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_The Word \"Pick.\"_--Presuming that the proposal at Vol. v., p. 173.,\ninvolves the discussion and illustration of the words inserted, allow\nme, as a Lancashire man, to express my belief that the word _pick_ has\ninvariably the sense of \"to throw,\" and not \"to push.\" It is in fact\nanother form of the verb \"to pitch;\" the two terminations being almost\nconvertible, especially in words formed from the Saxon, as \"fetch\" from\n\"feccean,\" \"stitch\" from \"stician,\" \"thatch\" from \"theccan,\" the earlier\nform of the latter word being retained in the well-known lines of \"Bessy\nBell and Mary Gray.\" _Pick_, in the sense of \"throw,\" will be found in\nShakspeare's _Henry VIII._, Act V. Sc. 3.:\n\n      \"I'll _pick_ you o'er the pales.\"\n\nAnd in _Coriolanus_, Act I. Sc. 1.:\n\n    \"As high as I could _pick_ my lance.\"\n\nAnd see the notes of the various commentators on these passages. If the\nsubject be worth further illustration, I may mention that in the\ndistrict of the cotton manufacture, the instrument by which the shuttle\nis _thrown_ across the loom is called a _picker_; and each thread of the\nwoven fabric, being the result of one throw of the shuttle, is, by using\nthe word in a secondary sense, called a _pick_. I have heard a story of\na worthy patron of the Arts, more noted for his wealth than his taste,\nwho, attributing certain freedom of touch in a picture, for which he had\ngiven a commission, to a want of due pains in elaboration, expressed his\ndissatisfaction by saying, \"there were not the right number of _picks_\nto the inch;\" the threads of calico, when received from the weaver,\nbeing usually counted under the microscope as a test of the goodness of\nthe work.\n\n      J. F. M.\n\n_North Lincolnshire Provincialisms_ (Vol. v., pp. 173. 250.).--I have\nnoted the following North Lincolnshire provincialisms since the\nappearance of MR. RAWLINSON'S suggestion:--\n\n_Beat._ A bundle of flax.\n\n_Blower._ A winnowing machine.\n\n_Bumble._ A rush used to make the seats of chairs.\n\n_Bun._ The stalk of hemp.\n\n_Casson._ Cow dung.\n\n_Charking._ The wall lining a well.\n\n_Choo._}\n\n_Huigh._} Words used in driving pigs.\n\n_Connifolde._ To cheat; to deceive.\n\n_Coul Rake._ An instrument used to scrape mud from roads.\n\n_Dozel._ A toppen; a ball placed on the highest point of a corn-rick.\n\n_Feat._ Clever.\n\n_Fingers-and-toes._ Turnips are said to go to fingers and toes when\ninstead of forming bulbs they branch off into small knotty substances.\n\n_Gizen._ To stare vacantly.\n\n_Grave._ To dig turf.\n\n_Gyme._ A breach in a bank.\n\n_Hales._ The handles of a plough.\n\n_Hethud._ A viper.\n\n_Kedge._ Trash; rubbish.\n\n_Kelp._ The handles of a pail.\n\n_Ketlack._ Wild mustard.\n\n_Kittlin._ A kitten.\n\n_Lew._ A word used in driving geese.\n\n_Livery._ Sad; heavy; said of freshly-ploughed soil.\n\n_Mazzen._ To stupify; to make dizzy.\n\n_Meant._ Meaning of.\n\n_Nobut._ Only.\n\n_Nout._ Nothing.\n\n_Nozzel._ The spout of a pump.\n\n_Rate._ To revile.\n\n_Snail-shelley._ Cankered; said of wood.\n\n_Tod._ Dung.\n\n    K. P. D. E.\n\n\nLONDON STREET CHARACTERS.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 270.)\n\nI believe more than one of the courts to be haunted by persons who may\nhave suggested Mr. Dickens's \"Little Old Lady.\" More than twenty years\nago a female of about fifty was a constant attendant on the Court of\nQueen's Bench in Banco: I never saw her at a Nisi Prius sitting. She was\nmeanly but tidily dressed, quiet and unobtrusive in manners, but much\ngratified by notice from any barrister. It was said she had been ruined\nby a suit, but I could not learn anything authentic about her; though I\nseveral times spoke and listened to her, partly from curiosity and\npartly from the pleasure which she showed at being spoken to. Her\nthoughts seemed fixed upon the business of the day, and I never\nextracted more than, \"Will they take motions?--Will _it_ come on\nnext?--I hope he will bring it on to-day!\" but who was \"he,\" or what was\n\"it,\" I could not learn; and when I asked, she would pause as if to\nthink, and pointing to the bench, say, \"That's Lord Tenterden.\" I have\nseen her rise, as about to address the court, when the judges were going\nout, and look mortified as if she felt neglected. I cannot say when she\ndisappeared, but I do not remember having seen her for the last eight\nyears.\n\nI have heard that an old woman frequented Doctors' Commons about seven\nyears ago. She appeared to listen to the arguments, but was reserved and\nmopish, if spoken to. She often threw herself in the way of one of the\nleading advocates, and always addressed him in the same words: \"Dr.\n----, I am _virgo intacta_.\"\n\nThe sailor-looking man described by Charles Lamb lasted a long time. I\nremember him in Fleet Street and the Strand when I was boy, and also an\naccount which appeared in the newspapers of his vigorous resistance when\napprehended as a vagrant; but I cannot fix the dates. I think, however,\nit was about 1822. His portrait is in Kirby's _Wonderful and Eccentric\nMuseum_, vol. i. p. 331. Below it is, \"Samuel Horsey, aged fifty-five, a\nsingular beggar in the streets of London.\" The date of the engraving is\nAugust 30, 1803. As the accompanying letter-press is not long, I copy\nit:\n\n  \"This person, who has so long past, that is to say, during\n  nineteen years, attracted the notice of the public, by the\n  severity of his misfortunes, in the loss of both his legs, and the\n  singular means by which he removes himself from place to place, by\n  the help of a wooden seat constructed in the manner of a\n  rocking-horse, and assisted by a pair of crutches, first met with\n  his calamity by the falling of a piece of timber from a house at\n  the lower end of Bow Lane, Cheapside. He is now fifty-five years\n  of age, and commonly called the King of the Beggars: and as he is\n  very corpulent, the facility he moves with is very singular. From\n  his general appearance and complexion, he seems to enjoy a state\n  of health remarkably good. The frequent obtrusion of a man\n  naturally stout and well made, but now so miserably mutilated as\n  he is, having excited the curiosity of great numbers of people\n  daily passing through the most crowded thoroughfares of the\n  metropolis, has been the leading motive of this account, and the\n  striking representation of his person here given.\"\n\nThe likeness is very good. Among the stories told of him, one was that\nhis ample earnings enabled him to keep two wives, and, what is more, to\nkeep them from quarrelling. He presided in the evenings at a \"cadgers'\nclub,\" planted at the head of the table, with a wife on each side. Not\nhaving been present at these meetings I do not ask anybody to believe\nthis report.\n\n    H. B. C.\n\n  U. U. Club.\n\nI believe Mr. Dickens's sketch, in the _Bleak House_, of the woman who\nhaunts the various Inns of Court, to be a clever combination of\ndifferent real characters. It is principally taken from a stout painted\nold woman, long since dead, and who I believe was really ruined by some\nsuit in Chancery, and went mad in consequence, and used to linger about\nthe Courts, expecting some judgment to be given in her favour. Mr.\nDickens seems to have combined this woman's painful history with the\nperson and appearance of the diminutive creature mentioned by MR. ALFRED\nGATTY. This latter personage is the daughter of a man for many years\nbedmaker in one of the Inns of Court (I think Gray's Inn), and much of\nher eccentricity is assumed, as, when begging from the few lawyers who\nare old enough to remember her father as their bedmaker, no one is more\nrational and collected. Though this little woman is well known from her\nsingular appearance and demeanour, there is no romance about her\nhistory, and her craziness (if it really exists) is not to be attributed\nto the Court of Chancery,--at which, as it is in the position of the\ndying lion in the fable, every donkey (I mean no disrespect to Mr.\nDickens) must have its fling.\n\nIf any correspondent really feels an interest in this little creature's\nhistory, I can undertake, with very little trouble, to supply the\nfullest particulars.\n\n    B. N. C.\n\n  Oxford.\n\nAlthough I have for many years ceased to be an inhabitant of the\nmetropolis, I am much gratified at the suggested record of these\nworthies, and think it would be a most interesting book, were truthful\nparticulars got together concerning them, with good portraits--I mean\nstriking likenesses--of these beings, who, as ALFRED GATTY observes,\n\"come like shadows, so depart.\" I will inform him something about the\n\"half-giant,\" of whom Charles Lamb says, that he \"was brought low during\nthe riots of London.\" I almost doubt this, for just about then he lived\nin the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand; indeed, before then, my grandfather\nwas there overseer, or otherwise a parochial authority, and he had him\napprehended and imprisoned as a rogue and a vagabond. I have often heard\nmy father talk about him; indeed, he knew this man well, and I regret\nthat I have forgotten his name. He always spoke of him as having been _a\nsailor_, and that he had his legs carried away by a cannon-ball. This\nburly beggar had two daughters, to each of whom he is said to have given\n500_l._ on her wedding; and it was also said he left a handsome sum of\nmoney at his death. But, doubtless, some curious correspondent will be\nable to forward the desideratum with farther information. I only tell\nthe little I know.\n\nThe old porter, John, at the King's printing-office, whom I remember as\nquite a character, \"N. & Q.\" have peculiar facilities to immortalise. We\nsexagenarians all remember the blackee at the crossing by Waithman's in\nBridge Street. He was said to have died very rich, and reported to have\nsold his \"walk,\" when he retired from business, for 1000_l._\n\nBut other \"characters\" might amusingly be introduced, such as those two\nor three last roses in summer who continue to wear pig-tails or\npantaloons. I would even not omit Baron Maseres, and such\npeculiarities--the German with his Bible and beard, without a hat--_et\nhoc genus omne_. There is a large work of the kind, exhibiting portraits\nand biographies of these illustrious personages in Edinburgh; it is now\nscarce and valuable. I remember spending a most interesting evening over\nit with a Scotchman, who knew and described many of the characters\ndeveloped.\n\n    B. B.\n\n  Pembroke.\n\n\nSTONE PILLAR WORSHIP.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 121.)\n\nSIR J. EMERSON TENNENT has accumulated many interesting particulars, but\nby no means exhausted the subject. O'Brien, in his _Essay on the Round\nTowers_, advocates the opinion of their being idolatrous\nobjects--remnants of Buddhism. The _Lia fail_ is celebrated in Irish\nhistory. The episcopal city of Elphin has its name from a celebrated\npillar stone, which remained erect until Charles II.'s time, when it\nfell in accordance with an ancient prophecy. This is attested by the\ncotemporary evidence of O'Flaherty. Clogher has its name from another\ncelebrated stone, designated \"The Golden Stone,\" which I believe was\noracular. There was in the city of Dublin, until recently, a curious\nremnant of this veneration for stones, and in which we could probably\ntrace the transition from the Pagan to the Christian usage. At the base\nof the tower of St. Audoen's Church was a rude-looking stone, something\nlike a spud-post, let into the wall, but so as to abut upon the street.\nOn the upper part of this stone was carved a cross in very low relief.\nThe stone was designated \"The Lucky Stone,\" and the lower classes of the\npeople, especially hawkers and itinerant vendors of small wares,\nbelieved that their success in business depended on their making a daily\nvisit to this stone, which they kissed; and thus a portion of the stone\nbecame perfectly smooth and polished. There was a tradition, too, that\nwhenever the stone was removed, it was miraculously conveyed back to its\nplace. Thus it was said to have been stolen away to Galway, but to have\nbeen restored to its original site on the following day. However this\nmay be, it remained attached to the church tower until about the year\n1828, when some alterations being made in the church, it disappeared\nfrom its place. The belief was, that one of the churchwardens, a man in\ntrade, had removed the stone into his own place of business, with a view\nof engrossing all the luck to himself. Whether he succeeded or not, I do\nnot know; but after an interval of twenty years the identical stone\nreappeared in front of a large Roman Catholic chapel lately erected near\nSt. Audoen's Church. It remained there, a conspicuous and\nwell-remembered object, near the donation-box, which it perhaps\nassisted; but about six months ago it again disappeared, having been\nremoved, I know not where.\n\n    R. T.\n\n\nON A PASSAGE IN HAMLET, ACT I. SC. 4.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 169.)\n\nTheobald long since observed--\n\n  \"I do not remember a passage throughout our poet's works more\n  intricate and depraved in the text, of less meaning to outward\n  appearance, or more likely to baffle the attempt of criticism in\n  its aid.\"\n\nHe then proposes his reading:\n\n                      \"The dram of _base_\n      Doth all the noble substance of _worth out_\n      To his own scandal;\"\n\nobserving that \"the dram of base\" means the _alloy_ of baseness or vice,\nand that it is frequent with our poet to use the _adjective of quality_\ninstead of the substantive signifying the thing.\n\nIt would be tedious to enumerate all the hapless attempts at emendation\nwhich have been subsequently made, but I must be allowed to refer to\nthat adopted by MR. SINGER as long since as the year 1826, when he\nvindicated the original reading, _doubt_, from the unnecessary meddling\nof Steevens and Malone. MR. SINGER thus printed the passage:\n\n                      \"The dram of _bale_\n      Doth all the noble substance _often_ doubt,\n      To his own scandal.\"\n\n_Bale_ was most probably preferred to _base_ as more euphonous, and\nnearer to the word _eale_ in the _first_ quarto; but MR. S. would now\nperhaps adopt _base_, as suggested by the word _ease_, in the _second_\nquarto, for the reasons given by Theobald and your correspondent A. E.\nB.\n\nIt is evident that _dout_ cannot have been the poet's word, for, as your\ncorrespondent remarks, the meaning is obviously, that \"the dram of base\"\nrenders all the noble substance doubtful or suspicious, not that it\nextinguishes it altogether. This will appear from what precedes:\n\n      \"Or by some habit that too much _o'erleavens_\n      The form of plausive manners,\" &c.\n\nUnder present impressions, therefore, I should prefer, as the least\ndeviation from the old copies, to read:\n\n                      \"The dram of _base_\n      Doth, all the noble substance _o'er_, a doubt,\n      To his own scandal:\"\n\ni.e. _doth cast a doubt over_ all the noble substance, _bring into\nsuspect_ all the noble qualities by the leaven of one dram of baseness.\nThis, according to your correspondent's own showing, is the very sense\nrequired by the context, \"the base _doth_ doubt to the noble, i.e.\n_imparts_ doubt to it, or renders it doubtful.\" And when we recollect\nthe frequent use of the elision _o'er_ for _over_ by the poet, and the\nease with which _of_ might be substituted for it by the compositor, I\ncannot but think it conclusive. To me the proposed reading, \"_offer_\ndoubt,\" does not convey a meaning quite so clear and unequivocal.\n\nConjectural emendation of the text of our great poet is always to be\nmade with extreme caution, and that reading which will afford a clear\nsense, with the slightest deviation from the first editions, is always\nto be preferred. The errors are chiefly typographical, and often clearly\nperceptible, but but they are also not unfrequently perplexing.\n\nThat MR. COLLIER and MR. KNIGHT, who do not often sin in this way,\nshould on the present occasion have countenanced such a wide departure\nfrom the old copies as to read _ill_ and _doubt_, may well have\nsurprised A. E. B., as it certainly did\n\n    PERIERGUS BIBLIOPHILUS.\n\n\n\"THE MAN IN THE ALMANACK.\"\n\n(Vol. v., p. 320.)\n\nNat Lee's _Man i' th' Almanack stuck with Pins_ has no reference to\n\"pricking for fortunes;\" but to the figure of a man surrounded by the\nsigns of the zodiac found in old almanacks, and intended to indicate the\nfavourable, adverse, or indifferent periods for bloodletting. From the\nvarious signs are _lines_ drawn to various parts of the naked figure;\nand these lines give it very much the appearance of being _stuck with\npins_.\n\nI have not ready access to any old English almanacks; but a German one\nof the early part of the sixteenth century contained the figure as above\ndescribed, with this inscription:\n\n      \"In dieser Figur sihet man in welchem\n      Zeichen g\u00fct, mittel, oder b\u00f6ss lassen sey.\"\n\nSurrounding the frame, the words \"g\u00fct,\" \"mittel,\" or \"b\u00f6ss\" are placed\nagainst each sign of the zodiac from which the lines are drawn; and\nunderneath the figure are the following verses:\n\n      \"Im Glentz und in des Sommers zeit,\n      So lass du auff der rechten seyt,\n      In Winters zeit, und in dem Herbst,\n      Auff der lincken;--dass du nit sterbst.\"\n\nSome former possessor has written on the margin:\n\n      \"Signa coeli sunt 12. sqr:\n\n      \"Quatuor _boni_: Aries, Libra, Sagittarius, et Aquarius.\n\n      \"Et etiam quatuor _medii_, sqr.: Cancro, Virgo,\n      Scorpio, et Pisces.\n\n      \"Et quatuor _mali_: Geminij, Leo, Capricornus et\n      Taurus.\"\n\nSimilar figures no doubt occur in our old English almanacks. I will\nmerely add that the figure above described is pasted on the back of the\ntitle-page of an edition of _Regimen Sanitatis_, with an interlineary\nversion in German verse, bearing the following imprint: \"Impressum\nAuguste per Johannem Froschauer, Anno D[=m] MDij.\" 4to.\n\nThe book also bears a German title which, as it mentions the subject of\nbloodletting [lassen], I may as well transcribe: \u00b6 _Diss ist das\nRegiment der Gesuntheyt durch all monat des ganzen iars, wie man sich\nhalten sol mit essen und trincken, und auch von lassen._ I presume that\nthe rules for bloodletting which accompany the old almanacks are chiefly\nderived from this _Regimen Sanitatis_, which is founded upon that of the\nschool of Salerno, as they form a principal feature in its precepts.\n\nThis edition of the book does not appear to have been known to Sir\nAlexander Croke: I will therefore give the general precepts for the\ntwelve months which are prefixed to it.\n\n      \"Januarius { Ante cibum vina\n                 { tu sumas pro medicina.\n\n      Februarius { Non minuas, non balnearis,\n                 { Mala ne patiaris.\n\n      Marcius    { Hic assature\n                 { tibi sunt balnea quoque cure.\n\n      Aprilis    { Ut vivas sane minuas venam\n                 { Medicinam.\n\n      Mayus      { Carnes arescentes\n                 { non sume sed recentes.\n\n      Junius     { Sanus eris totus\n                 { si fons erit tibi potus.\n\n      Julius     { Ut tua te vita\n                 { non vitas balnea vita.\n\n      Augustus   { Potio te l\u00e6dit\n                 { te quippe minutio sedat.\n\n      September  { Tempore Septembris\n                 { prodest agrimonia membris.\n\n      October    { Sumere que potes\n                 { et musti pocula potes.\n\n                 { Hoc tibi scire datur\n      November   { quod reuma Novembri curatur,\n                 { Potio sit sana\n                 { atque minutio bona.\n\n      December   { Sit tepidus potus\n                 { frigori contrarie totus.\"\n\nSuch were the popular dietetics, and the almanacks were made the vehicle\nof communicating them. As late as the year 1659, Edmund Gayton, author\nof the _Festivous Notes on Don Quixote_, put forth a book in verse\nentitled _The Art of Longevity, or a Dietetical Institution_. He had\ngraduated in physic at Oxford, but in his book he plays the part of a\nMerry Andrew more than that of a physician. The book, however, is\ncurious as well as rare.\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n\nEPIGRAM ON DR. FELL.\n\n(Vol. v., pp. 296. 333.)\n\nYour correspondent E. F. may very probably have been informed, by ladies\nintimate with the Sheridan family, that Tom Sheridan composed the lines\non Dr. Fell, respecting whose author and subject inquiries were made by\na querist in page 296.; but it is nevertheless quite untrue. My memory\nof those lines goes back to a date earlier than Tom Sheridan's capacity\nfor writing an epigram; and this on Dr. Fell may be found, if memory\ndoes not deceive me, in the _Elegant Extracts in Verse_, of a date at\nleast as early as Tom Sheridan's work. The subject of the epigram was\nDr. Fell, who held the deanery of Christ Church with the bishopric of\nOxford, in the times of Charles II. and James II. Its author probably\nput it into circulation anonymously, as is usual with such brief\nspecimens of personal satire.\n\nAs lodged in my memory, the third line was,--\n\n      \"But this I'm sure I know full well.\"\n\nThat Dr. Fell, with some learning and a character for loyalty, had\nsomewhat in him which a discerning observer could not like, is become\nnotorious since the publication of his correspondence with the\nobsequious and unprincipled Earl of Sunderland respecting Locke, whom\nJames II. wished the Dean to deprive of the income he received as a\nstudent of Christ Church. (See Appendix to _Fox's History of Early Part\nof Reign of James II._) Dr. Fell there tells the Earl that he had long\nwatched Mr. Locke, and made \"strict inquiries,\" but that no person had\never heard him speak a word against the government. He adds, that\nlanguage disparaging Locke's political friends had frequently been used\nfor the treacherous purpose of provoking such replies as might have been\nused to his ruin, but hitherto all in vain; and that, as he had\nwithdrawn to the Continent, some other plan must now be adopted. He\naccordingly proposes a mode of ensnaring him, subjoining, that if the\nKing would simply order his expulsion, the mandate should be obeyed,\nwithout asking for any proof of his deserving such a sentence. This was\naccordingly done; but in two short years the circumstances of all the\nparties were changed. The Bishop and Dean was gone to appear before Him\nwho has said, \"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment;\" the King had\nwithdrawn to the Continent, expelled by his own terrors, and deprived of\nhis inheritance; Locke was returning to his native land, to be counted\none of its chief ornaments; the Earl of Sunderland had betrayed his\nmaster, and was desiring to be allowed to do any dirty work for another.\n\n      H. W.\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Verses in Prose._--I consider the following _not_ to be an instance of\ncasual versification by prose authors:\n\n   \"Fides antiquitatis religione firmatur. Stato tempore in sylvam,\n\n      \"'Auguriis patrum et prisc\u00e2 formidine sacram,'\n\n   \"omnes ejusdem sanguinis populi legationibus co\u00ebunt.\"\n\n   _Tacit. Germ._ cap. 39.\n\nBut I consider it to be a quotation from some lost Roman poet. It is too\nlofty and sonorous to be casual, though such quotations are unusual to\nthe historian.\n\n    A. N.\n\n_Stops, when first introduced_ (Vol. v., pp. 1. 133., &c.).--In order to\nassist SIR HENRY ELLIS in his inquiry into the use of stops in the early\ndays of typography, I examined some of the earlier specimens of printing\nwhich my library afforded, and made the following notes. P. T. had not\nfound the semicolon earlier than 1636, with the exception of Gerard's\n_Herbal_, 1597. It is, however, probable that the communication of A. J.\nH. (p. 164.), by which it appears that the semicolon was used in 1585,\nmay render my notes of no use. However, I send my contribution, such as\nit is.\n\nIn an edition of Latimer's _Sermons_, small 4to., black letter, judged\nto be the edition of 1584, the stop in question is not found. The note\nof interrogation is very curiously formed,--a colon surmounted by a\ncomma, thus [,:] I might also observe that, to one of such limited\nknowledge as myself, the paging is singular,--only one numeral on each\nleaf.\n\nIn _Caroli Sigonii de Republica Hebr\u00e6orum_, libri vij, Hanovi\u00e6, 1608, no\nsemicolon occurs. But in Purchas' _Pilgrimage_, 1613, all the four stops\nare used. So also in _The Spanish Mandevile of Myracles_, 1618.\n\n    S. S. S.\n\n_Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes_ (Vol. v., p. 273.).--Anne Spinckes married\nAnthony Cope, Esq., second son of Sir John Cope, fifth baronet, but had\n_no issue_.--See Debrett's _Baronetage_.\n\n    S. L. P.\n\n  Oxford and Cambridge Club.\n\n_\"'Twas they,\" &c._ (Vol. v., p. 10.).--\n\n      \"'Twas they unsheath'd the ruthless blade,\n      And Heaven shall ask the havock it has made.\"\n\nAMICUS asks where this couplet is to be found. It appears to me that it\nhas been derived from an imperfect translation of the last two lines of\nMartial's epigram, L. iv. Ep. 44., in which he describes the effects of\na recent eruption of Vesuvius:\n\n      \"Cuncta jacent flammis, et tristi mersa favill\u00e2:\n        Nec Superi vellent hoc licuisse sibi.\"\n\nIt is a _petit mor\u00e7eau_ of heathen blasphemy, in supposing that the gods\nought to repent of what they have done.\n\n    W. N. D.\n\n_Madrigal, Meaning of_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--NEMO will find all that I\ncould collect upon this subject in the introduction to my _Bibliotheca\nMadrigaliana_, published by J. Russell Smith, 8vo., 1847.\n\n    EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n_Absalom's Hair_ (Vol. iv., pp. 131. 243.).--In answer to P. P., who\nsays that \"Absalom's long hair had nothing to do with his death, his\nhead itself, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs\nof the tree,\" RT. refers to the \"respectable antiquity\" of the popular\ntradition. In the Vulgate edition of the Bible (Venetiis, 1760, ex\nTypographia Balleoniana) there is a rude woodcut, evidently of much\nolder date than 1760, in which Absalom is represented as hanging by his\nhair. Perhaps some of your correspondents can mention similar woodcuts\nof a far earlier date.\n\nIn a family Bible (black letter, 1634), I find the following MS. note on\n2 Sam. xiv. 26.: \"And when he polled his head ... he weighed the hair of\nhis head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight;\" which suggests\na solution of the difficulty which has puzzled many commentators, who,\nto make Absalom's hair of the full weight, have to suppose that it was\nplastered with pomatum and sprinkled with gold dust:\n\n  \"Ye lesser shekel weighed a quarter of an ounce, ye greater half\n  an ounce. We cannot therefore suppose yt ye loppings of Absalom's\n  hair weighed either 50 or 100 oz. But yt wn it was cut off his\n  serv'ts might have sold it for 12lb 10s or 25lb to ye Ladys of\n  Jerusalem, who were ambitious of adorning yr heads wth ye Hair of\n  ye beautifull Absalom: wth ye locks of ye Ks son....\"\n\nIt is recorded that when Absalom was buried \"they laid a very great heap\nof stones on him.\" Was this in detestation and abhorrence (cf. Joshua\nvii. 26., viii. 29.), or in honourable memory of a prince and chief? If\nthe former, did it give rise to the custom of flinging stones in the\ngraves of malefactors?\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_Bowbell_ (Vol. v., pp. 28. 140. 212.).--Several of your correspondents\nhave pointed out instances of the use of the word _Bowbell_ as nearly\nsynonymous with _Cockney_. The following lines are, I believe, of\nearlier date than any which have been quoted on this subject; but it is\nnot quite clear in what sense the word _Bowbell_ is there used.\n\nThey are from a satirical poem by John Skelton, who died in 1529; and\nthe subject of them is Sir Thomas More.\n\n      \"But now we have a knight\n      That is a man of might,\n      All armed for to fight,\n      To put the truth to flight\n      By _Bowbell_ policy.\"\n\n    JUVENIS.\n\n_Quid est Episcopus?_ (Vol. v., p. 255.).--I know not to whom Bingham\nmay refer these words in the edition of 1843; but in that of 1840 he\nexpressly refers them to \"the author of the _Questions upon the Old and\nNew Testament_, under the name of _St. Austin_.\" But, the spurious book\nbeing part of the collection printed as _S. Augustini Opera_, the\nreference \"Aug.,\" &c. very properly occurs there \"at the foot of the\npage.\"\n\n    A. N.\n\n_Nightingale and Thorn_ (Vol. iv., pp. 175. 242.).--As an addition to\nthe examples already adduced concerning this fable, I give the\nfollowing:\n\n      \"Come, let us set our careful breasts,\n        Like Philomel, against the thorn,\n      To aggravate the inward grief\n        That makes her accents so forlorn.\"\n\n      Hood, _Ode to Melancholy_.\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_The Article \"An\"_ (Vol. v., p. 297.).--\"_Hospital_\" is to be found with\nthe prefix \"an\" in Addison, and probably in the works of all other\nwriters who need the word and the prefix; but, as to there being only\n_six_ words beginning with _h_ to which the case of the said prefix will\napply, I cannot assent to the assertion. Witness the following words,\nwhich will form decided exceptions to a supposed rule of that\nkind:--_Harangue_, _hereafter_, _historical_, _hour_, _hostler_,\n_hyperbole_, _hypothesis_, _hysteric_. Can any one speak these words in\nsuccession with the prefix \"a\" to each without impediment? I trow not.\n\n    C. I. R.\n\nThe six words mentioned by NIL NEMINI, that begin with the letter _h_,\nand have the article \"an\" prefixed, are not quite the same as those I\nwas taught at school. This is my list \"_Heir_, _honest_, _honour_\n(including _honourable_), _hour_, _herb_, and _hospital_.\"\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE.\n\n_The Countess of Desmond_ (Vol. v., p. 323.).--Having succeeded in\neliciting notices of various pictures of Oliver Cromwell attributed to\nCooper, without discovering the original miniature bequeathed to Richard\nBurke by Sir Joshua Reynolds, I am tempted to mention that I once saw a\nportrait of the Countess of Desmond, hitherto not described by any of\nher biographers, but very much resembling the Windsor picture and\nPenant's engraved print, though evidently the work of an inferior\nartist. The portrait in question was a short time in my father's\npossession, soon after the year 1800, having been delivered to him by\nthe executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Berkeley, an eccentric old lady, well\nknown as a correspondent of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, who left the\npicture, with many others, to Lord Braybrooke. But it was soon claimed\nby a Mr. Grimston of Sculcoates, in Yorkshire, who seemed to be entitled\nto a great portion of the collection, and my father was glad to be\nallowed to retain two fine views of Venice, painted by Canaletti for\nBerkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, who was the father of Mrs. Berkeley's\nhusband, and which are still at Audley End. Perhaps this statement made\nfrom memory at the end of fifty years may be of no value, but it shows\nthe existence of another likeness of the person always described as the\nCountess of Desmond, and as it came originally from the collection of an\nIrish prelate, it probably, like the lady herself, belonged to the\nEmerald Isle.\n\n    BRAYBROOKE.\n\n_Friday at Sea_ (Vol. v., pp. 200. 330.).--Stranger still to your\ncorrespondent W. FRASER and the readers of \"N. & Q.\" must the assurance\nbe that the \"Birkenhead\" troop-ship (whose disastrous loss was\naccompanied by such a terrific sacrifice of life), sailed from\nPortsmouth harbour on the _2nd January last--the identical day_ (_being\na Friday_) on which the lamented Capt. Symons in the \"Amazon\" left this\nport, no more to return. Can we wonder that uneducated minds, usually\nprone to superstitious observances, should at least _marvel_ at these\nstrange coincidences?\n\n    H. W. S. TAYLOR.\n\n  Southampton.\n\n_Marriage of Mrs. Claypole_ (Vol. v., p. 298.).--In an old annual\nobituary for 1712, there is mention made of the Protector's family, and\nof the marriage of Mrs. Claypole. I think it gives the date required by\nB. N., but the phraseology is rather old-fashioned, and may be open to a\nsecond interpretation. I send you the extract entire:--\n\n  \"Elizabeth (and not Mary, as stated in your note) became the wife\n  of John Claypole, Esquire, of Northamptonshire, made Master of the\n  Horse to the Protector, one of his House of Lords, a Knight and\n  Baronet, on July 16th, 1657, he being then Clerk of the Hanaper;\n  the said Elizabeth dyed August 7th, 1658, and was buried in Henry\n  VII.'s chappel in a vault made on purpose.\"\n\nThere is no mention of the writer's name in the volume, but I have found\nsuch of the details respecting the Cromwell family as I examined to\ncoincide with the received authorities.\n\n    T. O'G.\n\n  Dublin.\n\n_Rev. John Paget_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.; Vol. v., pp. 66. 280. 327.).--Will\nthe following facts, taken from Oldfield and Dyson's _History and\nAntiquities of Tottenham_, 1790, pp. 48-50., be of any use to CRANMORE?\nHe is quite right as to the substitution of the baptismal name _James_\nto the Baron of the Exchequer, instead of John, as Dugdale has it: for\nhe is called \"James Pagitt, Esq.,\" in the inscription to his memory in\nTottenham Church. He was a baron from 1631 till his death in 1638.\n\nThe authors describe him as \"son of Thomas of the Inner Temple, London,\nson of Richard Crawford, in the county of Northampton, son of Thomas of\nBarton Seagrave, &c., in the said county.\" He married three wives: 1.\nKatherine, daughter of Dr. Lewin, Dean of the Arches; 2. Bridget,\ndaughter of Anthony Bowyer; and 3. Margaret, daughter of Robert Harris\nof Lincoln's Inn. The latter we find, in Ashmole's _Antiquities of\nBerks_, vol. iii. p. 88., had been married twice before, and that her\nfather was of Reading.\n\nBaron Paget had no children by his last two wives; but by his first,\nbesides two daughters, he had two sons: Justinian of Hadley, Middlesex,\n_custos brevium_ of the Court of King's Bench; and Thomas.\n\nIf Cranmore can communicate to me any details of his history, I shall\nfeel obliged by his doing so.\n\n    EDWARD FOSS.\n\n_Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession_ (Vol. iv., p.\n313.).--\u00c6GROTUS refers, I presume, to a document which he will find in a\nlittle volume entitled, _Les Affaires du Comte de Bodn\u00e9e_, published at\nEdinburgh by the Bannatyne Club in 1829. The narrative was written in\nthe old French, at Copenhagen. The original is still preserved in the\nRoyal Library of the Castle of Drottningholm in Sweden. Bothwell wrote\nit on \"la vielle des Roys,\" 1568, and appears to have given it to the\nChevalier de Dauzay, the French ambassador, to be communicated to the\nKing of Denmark. Dauzay received it on the 13th of January, 1568, and\nplaced it before the ministers of the King on the 16th of January. M.\nMignet, in his history, throws discredit on this confession, styling it\n\"a very adroit narrative\" (_L'Histoire de Marie Stuart_, vol. i.\nappendix H.); though such a self-crimination, at such a time, would seem\nto any impartial mind to weigh strongly in favour of the ill-fated young\nqueen, whose character it tends to exculpate.\n\n    F. S. A.\n\n_Introduction of Glass into England_ (Vol. v., p. 322.).--It is\nimpossible to determine at what period the use of glass utensils for\ndomestic purposes was first introduced into this country; but being\nmanufactured by the Egyptians and Phoenicians, we may very probably owe\nthe introduction of it to them. Window glass appears to have been used\nin the churches of France as early as the sixth century; and according\nto Bede, artificers skilled in the art of glass-making were invited into\nEngland by Abbot Benedict in the seventh century; and the churches or\nmonasteries of Wearmouth and Garrow were glazed and adorned by his care.\nWilfrid, Bishop of Worcester, about the same time took similar steps for\nsubstituting glass in lieu of the heavy shutters which were then in use;\nand great astonishment was excited, and supernatural agency suspected,\nwhen the moon and stars were seen through a material which excluded the\ninclemency of the weather. York Cathedral was glazed about the same\ntime; and in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when a great stimulus\nwas given to the erection of religious edifices, glass was generally\nemployed in the windows. It appears to have been used in domestic\narchitecture but very sparingly, till a much later period, when it came\nto be gradually adopted in the residences of the wealthy. As late as the\nmiddle of the sixteenth century it was recommended, in a survey of the\nDuke of Northumberland's estates, that the glass in the windows should\nbe taken down, and laid by in safety during the absence of the Duke and\nhis family, and be replaced on his return; as this would be attended\nwith smaller cost than the repair rendered necessary by damage or decay.\nIn Ray's _Itinerary_ it is mentioned that in Scotland, even in 1661, the\nwindows of ordinary houses were not glazed, and those only of the\nprincipal chambers of the King's palaces had glass; the lower ones being\nsupplied with shutters, to admit light and air at pleasure.\n\nPlate glass for mirrors and coach windows was introduced into England by\nthe second Duke of Buckingham, who brought over workmen from Venice, and\nestablished a manufactory at Lambeth, where the works were carried on\nsuccessfully according to the process in use at Venice.\n\nThe first manufactory for cast plate glass, according to the process\ninvented by Abraham Th\u00e9vart, was established in 1773, at Prescot in\nLancashire, by a society of gentlemen, to whom a royal charter was\ngranted, under the name of the \"British Plate Glass Company.\"\n\n    D. M.\n\n_Maps of Africa_ (Vol. v., p. 236.).--As your correspondent has no faith\nin Spruner, but appears to have confidence in Kiepert, it may serve him\nto be informed that there is a General Map of Africa by Kiepert\npublished in 1850, and that Drs. Barth and Overweg, the travellers in\nAfrica, have this map with them: also, that Kiepert published a map of\nAlgiers, Fez, and Morocco, Tunis, Tripoli, &c. There is also another map\nby Kiepert, of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the Christian\nera, which includes the northern coast of Africa.\n\n    S. W.\n\n_Cromwell's Skull_ (Vol. v., p. 275.).--In answer to J. P., I beg to\ninform him that the skull of Cromwell is in the possession of W. A.\nWilkinson, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent, at whose house a relation of mine\nsaw it. I have no doubt that Mr. Wilkinson would feel pleasure in\nstating the arguments on which the genuineness of the interesting relic\nis based.\n\n    L. 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We could have wished that\nit had not been included in this series, for we fear that circumstance\nmay deter many from purchasing it; and the writings of Browne may still\nbe read by all with interest and advantage, for, \"of the esteem of\nposterity,\" said Johnson, \"he will not easily be deprived, while\nlearning shall have any reverence among men; for there is no science in\nwhich he does not discover some skill; and scarce any kind of knowledge,\nprofane or sacred, abstruse or elegant, which he does not appear to have\ncultivated with success;\" and these writings, with Mr. Wilkins's notes,\nmay now be placed upon our shelves for fifteen shillings!\n\nIf, when speaking of the discovery of electro-magnetism by Professor\nOersted, Sir John Herschel did not hesitate to declare \"that the\nElectric Telegraph, and other wonders of modern science, were but mere\neffervescences from the surface of this deep recondite discovery which\nOersted had liberated, and which was yet to burst with all its mighty\nforce upon the world,\" he paid only a just compliment to the merits of\nthe great physicist--and he really did no more--it is obvious that Mr.\nBohn, in giving as a new volume of his _Scientific Library_, a\ntranslation of _The Soul in Nature, with Supplementary Contributions_,\nby Hans Christian Oersted, has rendered a great service to scientific\nmen. 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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      | Vol. V  No. 122 | February 28, 1852  | 193-215 | PG # 40779 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. V  No. 123 | March  6, 1852     | 217-239 | PG # 40804 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 124 | March 13, 1852     | 241-263 | PG # 40843 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 125 | March 20, 1852     | 265-287 | PG # 40910 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 126 | March 27, 1852     | 289-310 | PG # 40987 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. V  No. 127 | April  3, 1852     | 313-335 | PG # 41138 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 128 | April 10, 1852     | 337-358 | PG # 41171 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol I. 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