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A list of volumes and pages in \"Notes and Queries\" has been added\nat the end.]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION\n\nFOR\n\nLITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\nVOL. V.--No. 132. SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1852.\n\nPrice Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n                                                                Page\n\n\n      On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered\n      by the Literary Men of England                             433\n\n      NOTES:--\n\n      Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede                  434\n\n      Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson                     435\n\n      On a Passage in \"Measure for Measure,\" Act I. Sc. 1.,\n      by S. W. Singer                                            435\n\n      Folk Lore:--Sites of Buildings mysteriously\n      changed--Burning the Bush--Essex Superstition              436\n\n      Old Song, \"Not long ago I drank a full Pot\"                437\n\n      Minor Notes:--Boston and Bunker's Hill--Snooks--Last\n      Slave sold in England--Hoax on Sir Walter Scott            438\n\n      QUERIES:--\n\n      Irish Queries                                              439\n\n      Minor Queries:--The Azores--Johnny Crapaud--Poems\n      in the \"Spectator\"--Old John Harries, \"Bishop of\n      Wales\"--University Hood--Black Rood in Scotland; Cross\n      Neytz--Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle--\"Cane\n      Decane,\" &c.--Rev. John Meekins, D.D.--Finsbury\n      Manor--Frebord--The Stature of Queen Elizabeth--Portrait\n      of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough--Inscription\n      by Luther--\"O Juvenis frustra,\" &c.--All-fours--Richard,\n      second Son of the Conqueror--Francis Walkinghame--Optical\n      Phenomenon                                                 439\n\n      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Abraham-men--Author of \"Le Blason\n      des Couleurs\"--Banyan-day--General Urmston--Works of\n      Alexander Neville--Lindisfarne--Index to the Critical\n      Review--\"No great shakes\" Translation of Richard de\n      Bury--Life of Ken--Wedding Rings--Monasteries, &c.\n      dissolved--Bishops at the Hampton Court Controversy        442\n\n      REPLIES:--\n\n      Scottish Regalia                                           443\n\n      Gospel Oaks, by Professor Theodore Goedes                  444\n\n      Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger               444\n\n      Lords Marchers of Wales, by E. Smirke                      445\n\n      Doctrine of the Resurrection                               446\n\n      Can a Clergyman marry himself?                             446\n\n      Replies to Minor Queries:--Algernon Sydney--Cock-and-Bull\n      Stories--Thomas Crawford--Longevity--Theological\n      Tract: The Huntyng of the Romish Fox--Moke--Ground\n      Ice--Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley--House at\n      Welling--Constable of Scotland--The Iron Plate in Lewes\n      Castle--Chelwoldesbury--\"The King's Booke\"--Key\n      Experiments--Rhymes on Places--Old Scots March,\n      &c.--Ecclesiastical Geography--\"Please the Pigs\"--The Word\n      Shunt--Plato's Lines in \"Antho. Palat.\"--Abigail--Nuremberg\n      Token--Meaning of Lode--Mother Damnable--Monuments\n      of De la Beche Family--Coke and Cowper--Monumental\n      Portraits--Motto on Chimney-piece--\"Ve d\u00e2l am\n      daro\"--White-livered--Enigmatical Epitaphs--Pelican in\n      her Piety, &c.                                             447\n\n      MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n      Notes on Books, &c.                                        454\n\n      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               454\n\n      Notices to Correspondents                                  454\n\n      Advertisements                                             455\n\n\n\n\nSIR ROBERT PEEL, AND HIS CLAIMS TO BE REMEMBERED BY THE LITERARY MEN OF\nENGLAND.\n\nOne of the most interesting of the recently published parts of Murray's\n_Reading for the Rail_ is unquestionably _Theodore Hook, a Sketch_,\nwhich has been reprinted from the _Quarterly Review_, with some\nadditional notes. Of these there is one (at p. 62.) which presents us\nwith the following honorable and characteristic anecdote of the late Sir\nRobert Peel:--\n\n  \"The writer of this sketch, now that Sir R. Peel is no more among\n  us, takes this, perhaps his only opportunity of mentioning the\n  generosity of that statesman's conduct towards Maginn. The Doctor\n  having always retained the strong feelings of an Irish Orangeman,\n  was one of those who condemned with severity Sir Robert's\n  pro-Catholic policy of 1829; nor, perhaps was there any one writer\n  of the time by whom the personal motives of the minister were more\n  unmercifully dealt with. The Doctor assailed them with unwearied\n  pertinacity, in various newspapers and magazines; but especially\n  in rhymes only less galling than the fiercest of Swift's. He had\n  never been personally acquainted with Peel, who could have known\n  nothing about him so distinctly as this hostility. Yet when, a few\n  years before Maginn's death, some of his friends were privately\n  making a subscription to relieve him from some pressing\n  difficulties, Sir Robert, casually hearing of it, immediately sent\n  through the writer of this sketch, with a stipulation for secrecy,\n  the sum of 100_l._ as a contribution to the fund. The writer\n  believes that Sir Robert on various subsequent occasions\n  interfered on the Doctor's behalf in a manner not less liberal,\n  and with the same delicate precautions. At all events, when the\n  doctor was near his end, Sir Robert forwarded for his use a\n  similar benefaction of 100_l._ The writer has no reason to suppose\n  that Maginn was ever aware of any of these kind deeds. It remains\n  to be added that, some years after Dr. Maginn's death, his only\n  son, on attaining the requisite age, received a cadetship in the\n  East Indies from Sir Robert Peel's last government.\"--(1852.)\n\nThe perusal of this interesting passage has reminded us of a desire\nwhich we felt most strongly at the time when the country lost the\ndistinguished man to whom it relates; and which we should then have\ngiven expression to, but for the fear that in the multitude of projects\nfor doing honour to his memory then floating before the public eye,\nwhat we had to propose might not be received in the way which his merits\ndeserved.\n\nSir Robert Peel was pre-eminently a patron of English Literature and\nliterary men; and we hoped, and do still hope, to see a recognition of\nhis great claims in that special character on the part of the men of\nletters in this country. The most appropriate that occurs to us would be\nthe erection of his bust or statue in the vestibule of that national\nestablishment, in the welfare and management of which he always took so\ngreat an interest--we mean the British Museum.\n\nThe minister who, in terms alike honorable to himself and to the man of\nletters to whom the dignity was offered, tendered a baronetcy to\nSouthey, and conferred upon him a pension of 300_l._ a year--who gave\nthe same amount to Wordsworth--who gave to James Montgomery 150_l._ a\nyear, and to Tytler, to Tennyson, and to M'Culloch, each 200_l._ a\nyear--who bestowed a pension upon Frances Brown, and gave a 100_l._ a\nyear to the widow of Thomas Hood--who gave the first appointment of his\nfirst administration to a son of Allan Cunningham, and placed the sons\nof Mrs. Hemans in the service of the Crown,--Sir Robert Peel, the man\nand the minister who could thus recognise the claims of Literature[1],\nand not, like ministers of old, stipulate for a return in the political\nsupport of those whom he so distinguished, was surely a person whose\nmemory the men of letters in this country should not be slow to honour.\n\n  [Footnote 1: We have confined our remarks to Sir Robert Peel's\n  patronage of Literature; but that patronage was as liberally\n  bestowed upon Science and Art. To him Mrs. Somerville and Sir M.\n  Faraday were indebted for their pensions; and while his friendship\n  with Lawrence, Wilkie, and Chantrey, and his patronage of Collins,\n  Roberts, Stansfield, &c., cannot be forgotten, his prompt and most\n  kind response to poor Haydon's application for assistance, though\n  addressed to him at a moment when plunged in the fiercest\n  political struggle in which he was ever engaged, can never be\n  forgotten.]\n\nLet us hope that the moment has arrived when they will do justice to him\nwho was so ready to recognise their claims. Let Lord Mahon or Mr.\nHallam, who enjoyed the friendship of Sir Robert Peel, step forward and\nbegin the good work. An appeal from either of them would arouse a host.\nThey would be supported by all who love Literature, from the highest to\nthe humblest. Who can doubt that the author of _Coningsby_ and the\nauthor of _Don Carlos_ would rejoice at the opportunity, which would\nthus be afforded them, of uniting to do honour to the memory of a\npolitical opponent, in that character in which he deservedly won the\napplause of all men--as the judicious and munificent PATRON OF THE\nLITERATURE OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY.\n\n\n\n\nNotes.\n\n\nSITTING IN BEDE'S CHAIR.\n\nOne of the most interesting antiquities of Jarrow Church,\nNorthumberland, is the chair of the Venerable Bede. It is preserved in\nthe vestry of the church, whither all brides repair as soon as the\nmarriage service is over, to seat themselves upon it. This, according to\nthe popular belief, will make them the joyful mothers of children; and\nthe expectant mothers (as I have been informed) would not consider the\nmarriage ceremony complete, until they had been enthroned in the\nVenerable Bede's chair. The chair is very rude and substantial; made of\noak; in height, four feet ten inches; having an upright back, and sides\nthat slope off for the arms. According to the barbarous English fashion,\nit is carved over with the nomenclature of all the vulgar obscurities of\nthe neighbourhood, whose sacrilegious penknives, together with the\nwanton depredations of relic-hunters, have so \"shorn\" the chair of its\n\"fair proportions,\" that soon nothing but its attenuated form, \"small by\ndegrees, and beautifully less,\" will be left for the future Childe\nHarold to address with--\n\n                          \"Can it be,\n      That this is all remains of thee?\"\n\nEvery foreigner who has visited our churches and cathedrals cannot fail\nto remark how the English love of popularity glares forth in its most\nsickly form in this barbarous custom of writing and carving names upon\nmonuments, or other works of art. Every observant person, too, when he\nsees John Smith's name and full address, scratched with painful and\nelaborate accuracy upon the stern but noseless face of some alabaster\nknight, while he wonders at the gratuitous trouble which John Smith has\ntaken, must deplore the want of education thus so lamentably evinced.\nHappily, this vulgar taste (so far as our churches are concerned) is now\nunder some control; but, nevertheless, it is still sad to see--at\nLichfield, for example--that control obliged to take the visible shape\nof railings, to prevent Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinson from\nhanding their names down to posterity on the life-like marble of\nChantrey's \"Sleeping Children.\" I have heard that this mode of defacing\nmonuments took its rise in the time of the Protectorate; and I would\nwish to put this in the form of a _Query_: Whether it was so, or no?\nWith the impression that it _was_ the case, I have for many years past\nexamined the dates that accompanied names scratched upon monuments, and\nnever found a date earlier than the Protectorate. The subject seems\nworth the inquiry.\n\nTo return to Bede's chair. It has often been engraved: but the best\nrepresentation of it that I know, is that by Mr. W. B. Scott, in his\n_Antiquarian Gleanings of the North of England_. Besides his careful\netching of the present state of the chair, he also gives a suggestive\nwoodcut of its restoration. The ornamental portion he confines to the\nfront of the seat, and the head of the chair.\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_Dedication Stone at Jarrow Church._--While on the subject of Bede's\nchair at Jarrow, it may not prove altogether useless to transcribe you a\nfaithful copy of the dedication stone of Jarrow Church, which is now\nplaced against the tower-arch of the nave:\n\n      DEDICATIO BASILICAE\n      SCIPAVLI VIIII KL MAI\n      ANNO XVECFRIDIREG\n\n      CEOLFRIDIABBEIVSQ\n      Q\u00b7ECCLESDOAVCTORE\n      CONDITORIS ANNO IIII\n\n    CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n\nINEDITED POETRY.\n\nThe _first_ piece in the volume of MS. poetry referred to in my\ncommunication in Vol. v., p. 387., may perhaps be deemed of sufficient\ninterest to occupy a place in your columns. It is entitled \"A Ballad,\"\nand appears to me worthy of notice from its quaintness both in style and\nrhythm.\n\n      \"A BALLAD.\n\n      \"Sure glorious Modesty again will rise,\n      Since she can conquer in bright Marcia's eyes.\n      Each look of hers creates a lambent fire,\n      And youth and age concur her virtue to admire.\n      Hence flow these lines from an unpolish'd hand,\n      Which thinks her Marcia should the world command.\n      Go, lovely maid, and let each virgin see\n      How graceful modesty appears in thee.\n      That they may all thy imitators be,\n      And give example to posterity.\n\n      1.\n\n      \"View Marcia's native charms,\n        She's graceful in behaviour,\n      By wise advice she steers,\n        And with all the world's in favour.\n      No foolish talk slides from her tongue,\n        Her eyes ne'er wanton seem,\n      Regards her friends, respects the great,\n        And is humble to the mean.\n\n      2.\n\n      \"How gentle is her voice,\n        Not loud with foul detraction,\n      Good sense guides all her words,\n        And prudence every action.\n      Not stiff in dress, or careless she,\n        But in the graceful mean,\n      What e'er she wears she still appears\n        Like some majestic queen.\n\n      3.\n\n      \"Her mind and thoughts still tends [sic]\n        How to perform her duty;\n      To her parents' laws she bends,\n        Which adds more to her beauty.\n      In conduct she a matron is\n        With cheerful air and mein, [sic]\n      The steddiness of sixty years, [sic]\n        In look she's scarce fifteen.\n\n      4.\n\n      \"In friendship most sincere,\n        As well as in devotion,\n      To herself alone severe,\n        And guards her every motion.\n      Her conquering eyes give her no pride,\n        Her charms she will not know,\n      Nor meaner beautys does deride [sic],\n        Tho' they their envy show.\n\n      5.\n\n      \"How lovely is that face\n        Where modesty's adorning,\n      And Marcia with that grace\n        Is improving every morning.\n      She like the glorious sun in spring\n        Is encreasing every day,\n      For her Apollo's harp he'll string,\n        And the Muses sing their lay.\n\n      6.\n\n      \"How happy is this nymph,\n        Whose noble inclination,\n      All subtle arts contemns\n        And sligh made assignation: [sic]\n      Whose hours are spent in useful works,\n        Or reading tracts divine,\n      The young, the grave, the wise, the brave,\n        Pay homage at her shrine.\n              And so does\n                    Her humble slave,\n\n                    \"JUBA ISSHAM.\"\n\nI hope that some of your readers will be able to explain this signature,\nwhich is to me inexplicable.\n\n    W. SPARROW SIMPSON.\n\n\nON A PASSAGE IN \"MEASURE FOR MEASURE,\" ACT I. SC. 1.\n\nDr. Johnson long since observed that \"there is perhaps not one of\nShakspeare's plays more darkened than this by the peculiarities of its\nauthor, and the unskilfulness of its editors, by distortions of phrase,\nor negligence of transcription.\"\n\nUnder these circumstances we cannot be surprised that we are favoured\nwith three pages of notes on the following passage, which occurs in the\nopening scene:\n\n      \"_Duke._ Escalus.\n\n      \"_Escal._          My lord.\n\n      \"_Duke._ Of government the properties to unfold,\n      Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse:\n      Since I am put to know, that your own science\n      Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice\n      My strength can give you: Then no more remains\n      But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,\n      And let them work.\"\n\nI must refer those who are desirous of seeing the various attempts to\nextract a meaning from this passage to the Variorum Edition, and content\nmyself with those of the two latest editors, Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight.\n\nMr. Collier says:\n\n  \"This passage is evidently corrupt, as is shown both by the metre\n  and the sense. The latter will be cleared by the omission of the\n  preposition 'to:' 'then no more remains [to be said], but that\n  your sufficiency, as your worth is able, and let them work.' This\n  change, however, will only partially cure the defective measure;\n  and even were we to omit 'that,' as well as 'to,' the line would\n  not be perfect without reducing 'sufficiency' to a trisyllable. It\n  has been thought best, therefore, to leave the text as it stands\n  in the first folio. 'Sufficiency' is adequate authority.\"\n\nMr. Knight says:\n\n  \"We encounter at the onset one of the obscure passages for which\n  this play is remarkable. The text is usually printed thus:\n\n                      \"'Then no more remains\n      But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,\n      And let them work.'\n\n  \"It is certainly difficult to extract a clear meaning from this;\n  and so Theobald and Hanmer assume that a line has dropped out,\n  which they kindly restore to us, each in his own way. The\n  emendation which Steevens proposes is much less forced: 'Then'\n  (says the Duke), 'no more remains to say,\n\n      \"'But your sufficiency as your worth is able,\n      And let them work.'\n\n  \"It is not our purpose to remove obscurities by additions or\n  omissions, and therefore we leave the passage as in the original,\n  excepting a slight alteration in the punctuation. We believe it\n  may be read thus, without much difficulty. '_Then no more remains_\n  (to say on government) _But that_, (your science) _to your\n  sufficiency_, (joined to your authority) _as your worth_ (as well\n  as your virtue) _is able_ (equal to the duty), _and let them work_\n  (call them into action).'\"\n\nI cannot say that this exposition (paraphrastic as it is) is clear to\nme; and I feel confident that our great poet never wrote the words \"But\nthat,\" following as they do \"Exceeds in that.\" What does \"But that\"\nrefer to? It cannot refer to \"science,\" as Mr. Knight imagines. The\nremedy lies in a very trifling correction of the press. In the MS. from\nwhich the play was printed, the words \"But thrto\" were thus written, and\nthe compositor mistook \"thr\" for \"tht;\" there is no comma after _that_\nin the old copies. Replace \"thereto\" and the passage is perfectly clear\nas to sense.\n\n                    \"Then no more remains\n      But _thereto_ your sufficiency, as your worth is able,\n      And let them work.\"\n\nIt may be necessary to show that the word I propose would be used by the\npoet just in the sense required here. The following passage from the\n_Winter's Tale_, Act I. Sc. 2., will, I think, place it beyond doubt:\n\n                                \"Camillo,\n      As you are certainly a gentleman, _thereto_\n      Clerk-like experienc'd, which no less adorns\n      Our gentry, than our parents' noble names,\n      In whose success we are gentle,\" &c.\n\nI take the sense of the whole passage thus: \"Since I must acknowledge\nthat you are better skilled in the nature of _government_ than I am, it\nwould be idle in me to lecture you on the subject. Then nothing more is\nwanting but _thereto_ your sufficient authority (_i.e._ to govern), as\nyou have the ability, and let them (your skill and authority) come into\noperation.\"\n\n_Sufficiency_, as Warburton long ago observed, is _authority_, but may\npossibly be here used in the Latin sense of _substitution_. Escalus is\nto be Vice-gerent. The very slight change necessary, and the great\nprobability of the occurrence of the error, strongly recommend this\nsimple emendation.\n\nDaily experience is manifesting how large a portion of the difficult\npassages are errors of the printer of the first folio, the two happy\ncorrections lately given in _The Athen\u00e6um_, for instance: who can doubt\nthat in _Coriolanus_, Act III. Sc. 1., \"Bosome-multi_p_lied\" should be\n\"Bissom-multitude:\" or that, in _All's Well that Ends Well_, Act V. Sc.\n3., \"infuite comming\" should be \"infinite cunning?\" A glance at the\npassages as they stand in the old print of the first folio would\nconvince the most sceptical. A list of mere printer's errors in that\nbook would be not a little astounding.\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n  [It may be proper to observe, that this Note by MR. SINGER had\n  been in the Editor's possession at least a fortnight previous to\n  the appearance of that by our esteemed correspondent at Leeds in\n  our last Number.]\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed._--It may be amusing to the\nreaders of \"N. & Q.,\" and attended with some useful result, to record a\nfew popular traditions respecting the mysterious opposition to the\nbuilding of certain edifices on the spots originally designed for them\nby their founders. I will introduce the subject with the local\ntraditions about the building of three churches well known to myself.\n\n1. The church of Breedon, in Leicestershire, stands alone on a high\nhill, the village being at its foot. The hill is so steep on the side\ntowards the village, that a carriage can only ascend by taking a very\ncircuitous course; and even the footpath winds considerably, and in some\nparts ascends by steps formed in the turf. The inconvenience of such a\nsituation for the church is obvious, and the stranger, of course,\nwonders at the folly of those who selected a site for a church which\nwould necessarily preclude the aged and infirm from attending public\nworship. But the initiated parishioner soon steps forward to enlighten\nhim on the subject, and assures him the pious founder consulted the\nconvenience of the village, and assigned a central spot for the site of\nthe church. There the foundation was dug, and there the builders began\nto rear the fabric; but all they built in the course of the day was\ncarried away by _doves_ in the night, and skilfully built in the same\nmanner on the hill where the church now stands. Both founder and\nworkmen, awed by this extraordinary interference, agreed to finish the\nedifice thus begun by doves.\n\n2. The parish church of Wendover, in Buckinghamshire, stands nearly half\na mile from the town. The church was to have been placed on a field\nadjoining the town, and there the building of it was begun; but the\nmaterials were all carried away in the night by witches, or, as some\nrelate the tradition, by fairies, and deposited where the church now\nstands. The field in which the church was to have been built is still\ncalled \"Witches' Meadow.\"\n\n3. The parish church of Winwick, Lancashire, stands near that\nmiracle-working spot where St. Oswald, king of the Northumbrians, was\nkilled. The founder had destined a different site for it, but his\nintention was overruled by a singular personage, whose will he never\ndreamed of consulting. It must here be noticed that Winwick had then not\neven received its name; the church, as not uncommon in those days, being\none of the earliest erections in the parish. The foundation of the\nchurch, then, was laid where the founder had directed, and the close of\nthe first day's labour showed the workmen had not been idle, by the\nprogress made in the building. But the approach of night brought to pass\nan event which utterly destroyed the repose of the few inhabitants\naround the spot. A pig was seen running hastily to the site of the new\nchurch; and as he ran he was heard to cry or scream aloud \"We-ee-wick,\nWe-ee-wick, We-ee-wick!\" Then, taking up a stone in his mouth, he\ncarried it to the spot sanctified by the death of St. Oswald, and thus\nemploying himself through the whole night, succeeded in removing all the\nstones which had been laid by the builders. The founder, feeling himself\njustly reproved for not having chosen that sacred spot for the site of\nhis church, unhesitatingly yielded to the wise counsel of the pig. Thus\nthe pig not only decided the site of the church, but gave a name to the\nparish.\n\nIn support of this tradition, there is the figure of a pig sculptured on\nthe tower of the church, just above the western entrance; and also the\nfollowing Latin doggerel:\n\n      \"Hic locus, Oswalde, quondam placuit tibi valde;\n      Northanhumbrorum fueras Rex, nuncque Polorum\n      Regna tenes, loco passus Marcelde vocato.\"\n\nMay not the phrase \"Please the pigs\" have originated in the above\ntradition, since the founder of Winwick Church was obliged to succumb to\nthe pleasure of his porkish majesty?\n\nInstances of equally marvellous changes in the sites of buildings are\nrecorded in Bede, and other monkish writers. Perhaps it would not be\ndifficult to unravel the mystery of such changes.\n\n    W. H. K.\n\n_Burning the Bush._--While in Herefordshire last spring, I noticed a\nsingular custom in the agricultural districts. When the wheat is just\nspringing out of the ground, the farmer's servants rise before daybreak,\nand cut a branch of thorn of a particular kind. They then make a large\nfire in the field, in which they burn a portion of it; the remaining\npart is afterwards hung up in the house. They do this to prevent the\nsmut, or mildew, affecting the wheat.\n\n    J. B. ROBINSON.\n\n  Belper.\n\n_Essex Superstition._--An uncle of mine, who has a large farm near\nIlford, tells me, that observing a horse-shoe nailed to the door of one\nof his cow-houses, he asked the cow-keeper why he had fixed it there.\nThe lad gravely replied, \"Why, to keep the wild-horse away, to be sure.\"\nThis is, to me, a new reason for the practice.\n\nI have learned that the superstition about the bees deserting their\nhives on the death of one of their owner's family, is common in the same\ncounty. A lady tells me, that calling upon some poor people who lived at\nHyde Green, near Ingatestone, she inquired after the bees. The old woman\nof the house replied, \"They have all gone away since the death of poor\nDick; for we forgot to knock at the hives, and tell them he was gone\ndead.\"\n\n    C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\n\nOLD SONG, \"NOT LONG AGO I DRANK A FULL POT.\"\n\nI send another old song; and, as in the case of the \"Cuckold's Cap,\" I\nwould ask is it known?\n\n      Not long ago I drank a full pot,\n        Full of sack up to the brim,\n      I drank to my friend, and he drank his pot,\n        Thus we put about the whim.\n      Six bottles at a draught he pour'd down his throat;\n        But what are such puny sips as these?\n      I laid me all along, with my mouth unto the bung,\n        And I drank up a hogshead to the lees.\n\n      I have heard of one who drank whole tankards,\n        And styl'd himself the Prince of Sots;\n      But what are such poor puny drunkards?\n        Melt their tankards, break their pots.\n      My friend and I did join for a cellar full of wine,\n        We drank the vintner out of door,\n      We drank it ev'ry drop, one morning at the tap,\n        And we greedily star'd about for more.\n\n      My friend then to me made this motion,\n        Don't let's part thus with dry lips;\n      With that we sail'd upon the ocean,\n        Where we met with a fleet of ships;\n      All laden with wine which was superfine,\n        The merchants they had ten thousand tun,\n      We drank it all at sea, before they reach'd the quay,\n        And the merchants swore they were all undone.\n\n      My friend not having quench'd his thirst,\n        Said, to the vineyard let us haste;\n      There we seized the canary first,\n        That yielded to us but a taste:\n      From thence unto the Rhine, where we drank up all their wine;\n        Till Bacchus cried \"Hold, hold! 'ere I die!\"\n      He swore he never found, in the universe around,\n        Two such thirsty souls as my friend and I.\n\n      \"Pooh!\" says one, \"what a beast he makes himself,\n        He can neither stand nor go!\"\n      \"Sir,\" said I, \"that's a grand mistake of yours,\n        For when did you ever know a beast drink so?\n      'Tis when we drink the least, we drink the most like beasts;\n        'Tis when we carouse with six in hand;\n      'Tis then and only then, we drink about like men,\n        When we drink 'till we neither can go nor stand.\"\n\n    J. R. R.\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Boston and Bunker's Hill._--In the plan of Boston, among the maps of\nthe Useful Knowledge Society, is to be found, near Charleston, and on\nBreed's Hill (the real site of the battle usually misnamed as of\nBunker's Hill), the following notice, \"Defeat of the British, 1775.\" My\nfirst idea was, that, _Liberal_ though the Society might be, it was\nbeing rather too liberal to give away in this manner a victory which,\nhowever bloody and fruitless, was indubitably ours: but, on second\nthoughts, it seemed that the whole fault arose from copying too\nimplicitly an American map. Now I am well aware that a very large part\nof the Americans, from continually vaunting (and with good reason) the\nvalour they displayed, and the honour they acquired, on that occasion,\nhave gradually worked themselves into the belief that they were the\nvictors, even though their own historians tell a different tale; and\nthey have even placed inscriptions on the monuments standing on the site\nof the intrenchments from which they were forced by the British; which\ninscriptions also assert a similar claim. This would be of no great\nconsequence had it been confined to themselves; but its being\ntransferred to an English publication not only tends to mislead many\npersons on this side, but enables the Americans to refer with confidence\nto it, as an admission of _their_ victory on the part of the British;\nand no one who remembers the use they made, on the Oregon Question, of a\nsimilarly occasioned error in one of the Society's globes, can doubt\nthat our Transatlantic friends would make the most of this trifling\naffair in confirmation of their claims to the victory.\n\n    J. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Snooks._--This name, so generally associated with vulgarity, is only a\ncorruption, or rather a contraction, of the more dignified name of\n_Sevenoaks_. This town is generally called _Se'noaks_ in Kent; and the\nfurther contraction, coupled with the phonetic spelling of former days,\neasily passed into _S'nooks_. This is no imaginary conclusion, for I am\ntold by a trustworthy friend that Messrs. Sharp and Harrison,\nsolicitors, Southampton, have recently had in their possession a series\nof deeds in which all the modes of spelling occur from _Sevenokes_ down\nto _S'nokes_, in connexion with a family now known as _Snooks_.\n\n    G. W. J.\n\n_Last Slave sold in England._--Can any of your correspondents tell me\nthe date of the last public slave sale in England? Till the\nestablishment of Granville Sharpe's great principle, in 1772,\nannouncements of these are by no means uncommon. The following, from the\n_Public Ledger_ of Dec. 31, 1761, grates harshly upon the feelings of\nthe present generation:--\n\n  \"FOR SALE:\n\n  \"A healthy negro girl, aged about fifteen years; speaks good\n  English, works at her needle, washes well, does household work,\n  and has had the small-pox.\"\n\n    SAXONICUS.\n\n_Hoax on Sir Walter Scott._--The following passage occurs in one of Sir\nW. Scott's letters to Southey, written in September, 1810:\n\n  \"A witty rogue, the other day, who sent me a letter subscribed\n  'Detector,' proved me guilty of stealing a passage from one of\n  Vida's Latin poems, which I had never seen or heard of; yet there\n  was so strong a general resemblance as fairly to authorise\n  'Detector's' suspicion.\"\n\nLockhart remarks thereupon:\n\n  \"The lines of Vida which 'Detector' had enclosed to Scott, as the\n  obvious original of the address to 'Woman' in _Marmion_, closing\n  with--\n\n      \"'When pain and anguish wring the brow,\n      A ministering angel thou!'\n\n   \"end as follows: and it must be owned that if Vida had really\n   written them, a more extraordinary example of casual coincidence\n   could never have been pointed out.\n\n      \"'Cum dolor atque supercilio gravis imminet angor,\n            Fungeris angelico sola ministerio.'\n\n   \"'Detector's' reference is Vida _ad Eranen_, El. ii. v. 21.; but\n   it is almost needless to add there are no such lines, and no\n   piece bearing such a title in Vida's works. 'Detector' was, no\n   doubt, some young college wag; for his letter has a Cambridge\n   post-mark.\"\n\nIt may interest to know that the author of this clever hoax was Henry I.\nT. Drury, then, I think, of King's College, Cambridge, and afterwards\none of the Masters at Harrow. The lines will be found in the _Arundines\nCami_.\n\n    W. T. M.\n\n  Hong Kong.\n\n\n\n\nQueries.\n\n\nIRISH QUERIES.\n\n1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the _Post-Invasion Annals of the IV.\nMasters_, vol. iii. p. 2091. note, says that he \"intends to publish a\nreview of Spenser's _View of the State of Ireland_, in which he will\ngive him full credit for his discernment of abuses, and expose all his\nintentional figments.\" Query, Has this review since appeared in any\nIrish periodical, or other publication?\n\n2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly be the _identity_?)\nbetween Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of\nWilliam, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during Henry III.'s\nminority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a\ndaughter of King Edward I.?\n\n3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely indebted to any one who\nwill inform him of the existence of a set of Middle-Age Maps of the\ncountries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, published in England,\n_France_, or _Germany_, in print, or easily to be had second-hand, _more\nor less accurate_.\n\nKoch's _R\u00e9volutions de l'Europe_, tome iii., Paris, 1814, gives seven\nmaps of the whole continent and its adjacent islands, at the following\nperiods of Middle-Age history:\n\n      (1.) Avant l'Invasion des Barbares;\n      (2.) Vers la Fin du Ve Si\u00e8cle;\n      (3.) Sous l'Empire de Charlemagne;\n      (4.) Vers la Fin du IXe Siecle;\n      (5.) Vers 1074;\n      (6.) Vers 1300:\n      (7.) A l'An 1453;\n\nwhich contain, of course, but few names of places. Were Europe divided\ninto five unequal parts, say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British\nIsles; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, &c.; 4. France and Spain; 5.\nItaly, Turkey, &c.; and maps of these five parts given, the Northern\nCountries at three periods, the British Isles at four ditto, and the\nothers at seven periods, as above, we should require twenty-eight maps\n(not too great a number, as the King's College _Modern Atlas_, of a\nconvenient size, has twenty-five), which if they contained names of\nplaces as closely packed as the King's College _Atlas_, and laid down\nfrom Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, would soon, it may be\nsaid without much foresight, be in the hands of so many readers of\nhistory, as to answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking to bring\nthem out.\n\n4. A copy of O'Brien's _Irish-English Dictionary_, _first_ edition,\n4to., old, half-calf, margins a little water-stained, otherwise perfect\nand clean, lately priced at 25_s._, to be exchanged for a clean copy of\nthe edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more portable), and a clean\ncopy of Thady Connellan's elementary _Irish Dictionary_, published by\nWall, Temple Bar; Hatchard, and Rivingtons: or the latter will be\npurchased at a moderate price, without exchange.\n\nAny one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so\nin \"N. & Q.\"\n\n    MAC AN BHAIRD.\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_The Azores._--In a note in _Our Village_ (vol. v.), Miss Mitford says\nthat this name was given to these islands collectively, on account of\nthe number of hawks and falcons found on them. Is the name Spanish; and\ndoes the Natural History of the islands at the present time confirm the\nassertion?\n\n    J. O'G.\n\n_Johnny Crapaud._--In one of Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe books is the\nfollowing entry of a trinket, devised at the period of the Duke of\nAlen\u00e7on's courting her Majesty:\n\n  \"Item, one little Flower of gold, with a _Frog_ thereon; and\n  therein mounseer his physnomie, and a little Pearl pendant.\"\n\n  \"'Query,' says Miss Strickland (_Queens_, vol. vi. p. 471., 1st\n  edit.), 'was this whimsical conceit a love-token, from the Duke of\n  Alen\u00e7on to his royal _belle amie_, and the frog designed, not as a\n  ridiculous, but a sentimental allusion to his country?'\"\n\nTo which Query I would add another: When was the term of _Johnny\nCrapaud_ first applied to the French people, and on what occasion? I am\naware of the notion of its being on account of their said partiality for\neating frogs; which, by the bye, having tasted, I can pronounce to be\nvery good: _mais chacun \u00e0 son go\u00fbt_. Is the frog introduced in the arms\nof Anjou or Alen\u00e7on?\n\n    PHILIP S. KING.\n\n_Poems in the \"Spectator.\"_--The fine moral poems which first appeared\nin the _Spectator_, e.g. that commencing \"When all thy mercies, O my\nGod;\" the version of the Twenty-third Psalm, \"The Lord my pasture shall\nprepare;\" \"The spacious firmament on high,\" &c., are, as most of our\nreaders are aware, commonly ascribed to Addison. In a recent collection\nof poetical pieces, however, I have seen them attributed to Andrew\nMarvell. Can any of your readers certify either of these contradictory\nassertions?\n\n    J. G. F.\n\n_Old John Harries, \"Bishop of Wales.\"_--I have \"An Elegy to the Memory\nof the late worthy and pious Mr. John Harries of Amleston, in\nPembrokeshire, Preacher of the Gospel;\" from which it appears that,\nafter devoting himself to preaching for forty-six years, through both\nNorth and South Wales, and more particularly in \"Roose, Castlemartin,\nPembroke, Haverfordwest, Narberth, Woodstockslop, and Amleston,\" he died\nat Newport on the 7th of March, 1788. Will you allow me to ask your\nnumerous correspondents whether any of them can assist me in tracing his\npedigree? One of his sons, a minor canon of Bristol, bore the arms of\nOwen Gwynedd, viz. \"vert, three eagles displayed on a fesse, or,\" on his\nbook-plate. He was often called the \"Bishop of Wales,\" from the large\ndistrict through which he _overlooked_ the progress of the Gospel.\n\n    I. J. H. H.\n\n  St. Asaph.\n\n_University Hood._--What is the origin of wearing hoods to indicate a\nman's University degree; and how old is the practice?\n\n    J. G. F.\n\n_Black Rood in Scotland--Cross Neytz._--Observing that in Vol. ii. of\n\"N. & Q.\" pp. 308. 409., and in Vol. iii., p. 104., there is a\ndiscussion about the \"Black Rood of Scotland,\" which does not seem to be\nvery satisfactorily concluded, I am tempted to send you a passage from\nMadox's _Baronia Anglica_, p. 268., &c., which seems to bear upon the\npoint in question, but I am not competent to say how far it may serve to\nthrow any light upon the obscurities of the case.\n\nIt there appears that 13th Oct. 1306, James Steward of Scotland swore\nfealty to King Edw. I.:\n\n  \"By his corporal oath, taken upon the consecrated body of Christ;\n  and upon _the two holy crosses_, to wit, the _cross Neytz_, and\n  the _Blakerode Descoce_, and other holy reliques.\"\n\n  \"In the priory of Lanrecost, in the diocese of Carlisle, before W.\n  Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry, the King's Chancellor; and in the\n  presence of Adomar de Valence.\"\n\nI perceive in one of your communications, there is mention of the\n_English Cross, the Cross Nigth_, which in Madox is called \"the Cross\nNeytz.\" Perhaps some of your antiquarian correspondents will favour us\nwith some explanation of this cross.\n\nI should wish moreover to elicit some further particulars of _Thomas\nMadox, the Historiographer Royal_, who has so well deserved of all\nlovers of ancient English history by the four books in folio which he\nhas left us: especially his _Formulare Anglicanum_, and that work of\nprodigious industry and research, his _History of the Exchequer_. There\nis some account in Nichols' _Lit. Anecdotes_, but I should wish to see\nsome more particulars of his life and studies, and a more exact critique\nupon his several works.\n\n    J. T. A.\n\n_Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle._--I remember reading many years\nsince (I have forgotten both the title and the subject of the work) that\nthe _crown jewels_ were once deposited in Holt Castle, about five miles\nfrom Worcester, for greater safety. Can any of your kind correspondents\ninform me when and upon what turbulent occasion it was thought necessary\nto forward them to the above stronghold on the banks of the Severn, and\nwho resided there at the time?\n\n    J. B. WHITBORNE.\n\n_\"Cane Decane,\" &c._--I should like to know, if you can inform me, where\nthe following couplet is to be found, upon an ecclesiastic singing a\nhunting song:\n\n      \"Cane Decane canis; sed ne cane, cane Decane,\n      De cane, de canis, cane Decane, cane.\"\n\nWhich may be thus freely translated:\n\n      \"Hoary Deacon, sing; but then,\n      Not of dogs, but hoary men.\"\n\n    W. W. E. T.\n\n  Warwick Square, Belgravia.\n\n_Rev. John Meekins, D.D._--Are there any letters of the Rev. Jno.\nMeekins, D.D., Oxon., chaplain to George, Prince of Denmark, the royal\nconsort of Queen Anne, extant? and in what year did he die?\n\n    MICOENIS.\n\n_Finsbury Manor._--Will some of your correspondents kindly inform me\nwhere I can meet with an authority to prove the Lord Mayor of London is\nstyled _mayor_ by virtue of crown charters, and lord as _lord_ of the\nmanor of Finsbury? I have seen such a statement, but cannot bring to\nmind the work in which it occurred.\n\n    AMANUENSIS.\n\n_Frebord._--I want information on this matter, and consider \"N. & Q.\"\npeculiarly the place wherein to seek it, because it is a matter mainly\ndependent on local custom. All the notice of Frebord that I have been\nable to discover in books is derived from Dugdale. For instance, in\nJacob's _Law Dictionary_, ed. 1807, I read--\n\n  \"Frebord, _Franchordus_, ground claimed in some places more or\n  less, beyond, or without the fence. It is said to contain two foot\n  and a half.\"\n\n  _Mon. Ang._, tom. ii. p. 141.\n\nI heard, the other day, of a Warwickshire gentleman who claimed ten or\ntwelve feet; but the immediate reason for my Query is a claim at present\nunder the notice of a friend of mine is for sixty-six feet freebord! Is\nnot such a claim preposterous?\n\n    P. M. M.\n\n_The Stature of Queen Elizabeth._--In a book entitled\n_Physico-Theology_, being the substance of sixteen sermons preached in\nSt. Mary-le-Bone Church, London, at the Honourable Mr. Boyle's lectures\nin 1711 and 1712, with notes, &c., by the Rev. W. Derham (a _second\nedition_, with additions, published in 1714), the authors, in treating\nof the stature and size of man's body, says there is great reason to\nthink the size of man was always the same from the Creation; and in a\nnote at page 330., after quoting Dr. Hakewill's _Apolog._ and other\nauthorities, concludes with these words:--\n\n  \"Nay, besides all this probable, we have some more certain\n  evidence. Augustus was five foot nine inches high, which was the\n  just measure of our famous Queen Elizabeth, who exceeded his\n  height two inches, if proper allowance be made for the difference\n  between the Roman and our foot.\"--Vide Hakewill, _Apolog._, p.\n  215.\n\nProbably some of your learned correspondents may give additional\ninformation on this interesting subject.\n\n    J. F. ALLEN.\n\n  Macclesfield.\n\n_Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough._--Can any of your\nreaders inform me if there exists an original picture of Charles\nMordaunt, the famous Earl of Peterborough, and where such can be seen?\n\n    A TRAVELLER.\n\n_Inscription by Luther._--In looking at some of the old books in the\nlibrary of the British Museum, I observed, on the fly-leaf of an old\nBible, an inscription by Martin Luther, the meaning of which was the\nfollowing:--\n\n  \"Elijah the prophet said, the world had existed 2000 years before\n  the law (from Adam to Moses); would exist 2000 years under the\n  Mosaic dispensation (from Moses to Christ), and 2000 years under\n  the Christian dispensation; and then the world would be burnt.\"\n\nThe manuscript was in German and very much effaced, so that I am not\nable to remember the words, though I very well remember the meaning.\n\nCould any reader inform me in what part of the Bible this prophecy of\nElijah's is to be found? for I have searched for it in vain.\n\n    C. H. M.\n\n_\"O Juvenis frustra,\" &c._--I should be glad to be informed, through\nyour publication, where I may find this line,--\n\n      \"O Juvenis frustra est tua Doctrina Plebs amat Remedia.\"\n\n    J. W. V.\n\n_All-fours._--In Macaulay's essay on Southey's edition of _The Pilgrim's\nProgress_ (Longman & Co., p. 184.) occurs a curious use of this\nexpression:\n\n  \"The types are often inconsistent with each other; and sometimes\n  the allegorical disguise is altogether thrown off.... It is not\n  easy to make a simile go on all-fours. But we believe that no\n  human ingenuity could produce such a centipede as a long allegory\n  in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing\n  signified should be exactly preserved. Certainly no writer ancient\n  or modern has achieved the adventure.\"\n\nThis meaning I cannot find in Bailey's _Dictionary_, and it has escaped\nthe curious vigilance of Blakie's compilers. The saying, however, is a\nvery old one. Sir Edward Coke employs it (_Coke upon Littleton_, lib. i.\nc. 1. sect. 1. p. 3. _a._):\n\n  \"But no simile holds in everything; according to the ancient\n  saying, _Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit_.\"\n\nThere is a marginal reference here to 1 Hen. VII. 16.\n\nPerhaps some of your philological correspondents can throw some light on\nthe origin of the phrase, or at least give me some other examples of its\nuse. Is the expression \"To be on all-fours with\" good English?\n\n    C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\n_Richard, second Son of the Conqueror_, is said by Hume, and by some\nminor writers after him, to have been killed by a stag in the New\nForest; but William of Malmesbury and Roger of Wendover both say that he\ndied of fever, consequent on malaria, which struck him while hunting\nthere. This is well known to be of frequent occurrence in the\nneighbourhood of desolated human dwellings; and thus seems to involve\neven a more striking instance of retributive justice than the fate which\nHume assigns to him. The fatality attending most of this name in our\nhistory is singular. Of nine princes (three of them kings) who have\nborne the name of Richard, seven, or, if Hume is right, eight, have died\nviolent deaths, including four successive generations of the House of\nYork.\n\n    J. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Francis Walkinghame._--Your correspondent's mention of my _Arithmetical\nBooks_ (Vol. v., p. 392.) reminds me of a Query which I made in it, and\nwhich has never obtained the slightest answer--Who was Francis\nWalkinghame, and when was his work on arithmetic first published? The\nearliest edition I know of is the twenty-third, in 1787; but I am told,\non good authority, that Mr. Douce had the sixteenth edition of 1779.\n\n    A. DE MORGAN.\n\n_Optical Phenomenon._--I shall be much obliged to anybody who will\nexplain a phenomenon which I have observed.\n\nSuppose 1. A street from twenty to thirty feet broad.\n\n2. At the open window of a house on one side stands a man looking at the\ncorresponding window of the house on the opposite side; that is, he\nlooks at what was a window, but is now filled up with a large board that\nis covered with an inscription of short lines, black on white; in short,\njust such a board as one sees at a turnpike gate.\n\n3. From shortness, or defect, of sight (I cannot say which), the man is\nunable to read the inscription as he stands at his window.\n\n4. He sits down on a low seat, so as to bring his eye almost close to,\nand just on a level with, the sill of his own window. He then slowly\nraises and depresses his head. As he does this, it of course appears to\nhim as if his own window-sill travelled up and down the board opposite.\n\n5. In doing so it comes successively under each line of the inscription.\n\n6. As it does so, that one line becomes perfectly legible.\n\n    N. B.\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Abraham-Men._--Although I cannot find it in your former volumes, nor in\nyour Index, I think there was an inquiry in one of your past Numbers as\nto the meaning of the phrase \"_To sham Abraham_.\"\n\nIf there has been any reply, will you be good enough to refer me to it?\nas it may explain the passage in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_, that\n\"every village almost will yield dummerers _Abraham-men_,\" &c. (Part I.\nsec. 2., vol. i. p. 360.)\n\n    W. W. E. T.\n\n  Warwick Square, Belgravia.\n\n  [\"To sham Abraham\" is a cant expression, having reference to the\n  practices of a class of vagabonds and cheats once common in this\n  country. In Decker's _English Villanies_ there are many curious\n  particulars of the habits of this class of impostors. \"She's all\n  Abram,\" that is, quite naked. \"What an Abram!\" an exclamation for\n  a ragged fellow. \"An Abraham-man\" was an impostor who personated a\n  poor lunatic called Tom of Bedlam: one of this class is described\n  by Shakspeare in his _Lear_, Act II. Sc. 3.:\n\n      \"The basest and most poorest shape,\n      That every penury, in contempt of man,\n      Brought near to beast.\"\n\n  Among sailors, \"An Abram\" is being unwell, or out of sorts. When\n  Abraham Newland was Cashier of the Bank of England, it was sung--\n\n            \"I have heard people say,\n            That sham Abraham you may,\n      But you must not sham Abraham Newland.\"]\n\n_Author of \"Le Blason des Couleurs.\"_--Can you give me the date of, or\nany account of the author of a small black-letter French work on\nheraldry entitled, _Le Blason des Couleurs en Armes_, &c. The author\nintroduces himself as \"Je Sicille Herault a tres puissant roy Alph[=o]se\nDarragon: de Sicilie: de Vallence de Maillaque: de Corseique et\nSardeigne: Conte de Barselonne,\" &c.; and at the end of the first part\nit is said to be \"compose par Sicille Herault du roy Alph[=o]se\ndaragon.\"\n\n    H. N. E.\n\n  [See Brunet, _Manuel du Libraire_, vol. i. p. 279., ed. Bruxelles,\n  1838, 8vo.]\n\n_Banyan-day._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the meaning\nand origin of the term \"Banyan-day,\" which is frequently used by\nsailors?\n\n    W. B. M.\n\n  Dee Side.\n\n  [A marine term for those days in which the sailors have no flesh\n  meat; and is probably derived from the practice of the Banians, a\n  caste of Hindoos, who entirely abstained from all animal food.]\n\n_General Urmston._--Can any of your correspondents inform me whether a\nGeneral Edward Urmston, who married in 1752 Leonora daughter of the\nfirst Earl Bathurst, had any children; or whether he was himself an only\nson or child: also when he was born, or when he died? His wife died in\n1798 (I believe).\n\n    E. B.\n\n  [Lieutenant-General Edward Urmston, some time in the 1st regiment\n  of Foot Guards, and afterwards, 10th November, 1770, Colonel of\n  the 65th Regiment of Foot. He married in 1752 Leonora Bathurst;\n  died 21st December, 1778, aged 59, and there is an altar tomb to\n  his memory in the churchyard of Harrow, co. Middlesex. She died\n  1798.]\n\n_Works of Alexander Neville._--Can any of your readers inform me where I\ncan find a collection of the works of Alexander Neville, the poetical\nwriter, born anno 1544, second son of Sir Alex. [Richard] Neville of\nSouth Leverton, Notts, by Ann, fourth daughter of Sir Edw. [Walter]\nMantle; he died anno 1614? Any particulars or references concerning him\nwould be acceptable. Was he the Alexander Neville who sate for\nChristchurch, Hants, 1585, and for Saltash 1601.\n\n    J. K.\n\n  [There is no edition of the collected works of Alexander Nevile or\n  Nevyle; the following will be found in the British Museum under\n  the word _Nevyllus_:--1. _De Furoribus Norfolciensium, Ketto\n  Duce_, 4to., 1575. According to Hearne, there are two editions of\n  this date of 1575; the first, without the passage displeasing to\n  the Welshmen, dedicated only to Abp. Parker; the other, with two\n  dedications, viz. that to Abp. Parker, and a new one to Abp.\n  Grindall. The offensive passage is at p. 132. \"Sed enim Kettiani\n  rati,\" &c., to \"Nam pr\u00e6ter quam quod,\" &c., p. 133. 2. The same\n  work in English, _Norfolk Furies and their Foyle, under Kett and\n  their accursed Captaine; with a Description of the famous Citye of\n  Norwich_, by Richard Woods, 4to., 1615, 1623. 3. _Academi\u00e6\n  Cantabrigiensis Lachrym\u00e6, Tumulo Nobilissimi Equitis D. Philippi\n  Sidneij Sacrat\u00e6_, 4 to., 1587. A biographical notice of Alexander\n  Nevile is given in Chalmers' _Biog. Dict._, which does not mention\n  that he ever had a seat in parliament. He died in 1614, and was\n  buried in Canterbury Cathedral.]\n\n_Lindisfarne._--What is the meaning or origin of the word \"Lindisfarne?\"\n\n    K. N. P.\n\n  [Holy Island was called Lindisfarne from the Lindis, a rivulet\n  which empties itself into the sea from the opposite shore:\n  _farne_, the concluding syllable, is a corruption of the Celtic\n  word _fahren_, a recess.]\n\n_Index to the Critical Review._--Was there ever a general index\npublished to the whole or any portion of the _Critical Review_, which\ncommenced in 1756, and I believe ended in 1816? If so, where can it be\nobtained.\n\n    W. J. B.\n\n  [There were five series of the _Critical Review_ between the years\n  1756 and 1817. No general index has been published.]\n\n\"_No great shakes._\"--Can any of your readers state the origin of the\nexpression \"no great shakes,\" which has obtained an almost universal\nuse, and is employed under a great variety of circumstances? No doubt a\nknowledge of its derivation would interest many subscribers to \"N. & Q.\"\nas well as\n\n    I. J. H. H.\n\n  [_Shakes_, as used in the following passage by Byron, is a\n  vulgarism, which probably may be traced to the custom of _shaking_\n  hands, the _shake_ being estimated according to the value set upon\n  the person giving it, and hence applied to the person. Byron\n  writing to Murray, Sept. 28, 1820, says, \"I had my hands full, and\n  my head too just then (when he wrote _Marino Faliero_), so it can\n  be no great _shakes_.\"--See Richardson's _Dict._ _s.v._]\n\n_Translation of Richard de Bury._--Is the translation of Richard de\nBury's _Philobiblon_, \"with a memoir of the illustrious bishop,\"\npromised by W. S. G., Vol. ii. p. 203., yet published?\n\n    L. S.\n\n  [Our correspondent should remember, that \"church work is slow\n  work,\" as Addison facetiously makes Sir Roger de Coverley\n  complain. From a prospectus recently issued, we learn that the\n  _Philobiblon_ is still preparing for publication; and that\n  gentlemen who may wish to have copies are requested by the author\n  to transmit their names to Mr. R. Robinson, Pilgrim Street,\n  Newcastle-on-Tyne.]\n\n_Life of Ken._--Who is the author of the _Life of Bishop Ken_, by a\nLayman, published a year or two since?\n\n    E. G.\n\n  Dorchester.\n\n  [J. L. Anderson, Esq., author of _The River Dove_, &c., and editor\n  of Bishop Ken's _Approach to the Holy Altar_.]\n\n_Wedding Rings._--Can any of your informants give me the origin of the\nwedding ring, by whom it was introduced, and what it was meant to\nsignify, and does now signify?\n\n    BOSQUECILLO.\n\n  [Wheatly, in his _Rational Illustration of the Book of Common\n  Prayer_, ch. x. sect. 5., has ably discussed the origin of the\n  marriage ring, accompanied with numerous references to early and\n  later writers on this visible pledge of fidelity.]\n\n_Monasteries, &c. dissolved._--Will any of your correspondents kindly\ninform me where I can find an _authentic_ account of the hospitals,\nmonasteries, and religious houses pillaged and destroyed, consequent on\nthe commission of inquiry issued by Henry VIII.?\n\n    T. DYSON.\n\n  Gainsborough.\n\n  [The most authentic account of English monasteries, &c. will be\n  found in Dugdale's _Monasticon_, edited by Cayley and Ellis;\n  Tanner's _Notitia_, edit. 1744; and Stevens's _Additions to\n  Dugdale_. In Dodd's _Church History_, by Tierney, vol. i. p. 458.,\n  will be found \"A List of the Abbots, Priors, and other Superiors\n  of the Principal Religious Houses in England, from the Foundation\n  to their Suppression.\" And for a list of all the mitred abbots and\n  priors of England, who are known to have been mitred, or to have\n  sat in parliament subsequent to the beginning of the reign of\n  Edward III., see _Glossary of Heraldry_, pp. xxix. xxx.]\n\n_Bishops at the Hampton Court Controversy._--Can you inform me who were\nthe nine bishops who attended the Hampton Court conference in 1603-4?\n\n    C. H. D.\n\n  [Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift; London, Richard\n  Bancroft; Durham, Tobias Matthew; Winchester, Thomas Bilson;\n  Worcester, Gervase Babington; St. David's, Anthony Rudd;\n  Chichester, Anthony Watson; Carlisle, Henry Robinson;\n  Peterborough, Thomas Dove.]\n\n\n\n\nReplies.\n\n\nSCOTTISH REGALIA.\n\n(Vol. iv., p. 208.)\n\nThe story referred to by Jeremy Taylor reminds me of a somewhat similar\ninstance of dishonest astuteness I lately heard of in Scotland, from an\nold Highlander; the which, though courtesy forbade me to dispute, I at\nthe time received \"cum grano,\" and have since been unable to verify. It\nwas as follows:\n\nThe custodians (whether rightful or not, I know not, as no date was\nassigned to the action of the narrative) of the Scottish regalia being\nbound by an oath to deliver it to the Governor of Carlisle, as the\nnearest representative of the English sovereign, by a certain day,\ndetermined upon a plan for performing (!), and at the same time evading,\ntheir promise. Having selected the most able steed in Scotland, a\nsuitable deputation escorted the regalia _and the horse_ to the\nappointed place of tradition. The embassy carrying with them the more\nvaluable and portable of their treasures--the jewels, not the horse, of\nwhich hereafter,--were duly admitted to an audience with the governor,\nwho received them in the presence of the principal inhabitants of\nCarlisle: and having produced and surrendered the regalia (and doubtless\ntaken an acquittance!), surreptitiously, and with gipsey adroitness,\nregained possession of it, and conveying it from the audience chamber,\nimmediately delivered it to an expectant messenger; who, mounted on the\nbefore-mentioned horse, awaited its return outside the hall; and who,\n_ventre \u00e0 terre_, pursued his eager flight across the border, nor once\ndrew rein until his precious burden was again deposited in the custody\nof Scottish tenure. Whether the deputation was dismissed, and escaped\nbefore the discovery of its chicanery, or whether the conspirators\nreceived the well-merited punishment of their audacious dissimulation,\nmy informant knew not. And although the story tells more in favour of\nthe astuteness than the honesty of his countrymen (if true), he\nnarrated it with considerable unction, and declared that it was\ngenerally believed and admired in Scotland; the patriotism displayed,\nthe dangerous nature of the enterprise, and the success which attended\nit, palliating any stigma which might attach to the want of faith,\ndouble dealing, and casuistry which marked the transaction.\n\nThe method by which the horse's title to be considered the ablest in\nScotland was ascertained, was ingenious. The horses the most renowned\nfor fleetness and endurance were secretly collected, and having been\ndeprived of water for a considerable time, were presently, one by one,\npermitted to bury their heads in the grateful bucket, and the duration\nof each draught was scrupulously watched and recorded; the animal that\nretained its nostrils for the longest time immersed being selected for\nthe honour of rescuing the royal treasure, as having given proofs of its\nsuperior wind and bottom.\n\nIs any credit to be attached to the story: and if historical, can any\nreader inform me where it is recorded?\n\n    C. A.\n\n  St. John's Wood.\n\n\nGOSPEL OAKS.\n\n(Vol. v., pp. 157. 209.)\n\nThe replies of FABER, EXON., and P. T. to the inquiry of STEPHEN,\nconcerning the origin of Gospel Oaks, are not very explanatory.\n\nThe oak was consecrated to the god of thunder--Ang.-Sax., _Thunor_;\nGallic, _Taranis_; Irish, _Toran_; Anc. N. _Thorr_--as being more\ngenerally struck by lightning than any other tree; and the acorn was\ncalled by the Romans _Jovis glans_, the fruit of the supreme god.\n\n  \"Quercus Jovi placuit.\"--_Ph\u00e6drus_, III. 17.\n\n  \"Magna Jovis antiquo robore quercus.\"--Virg. _Georg._ III. 332.\n\nAt Dodona stood the \u03b4\u03c1\u1fe6\u03c2 \u1f51\u03c8\u03af\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 \u0394\u03b9\u03cc\u03c2.--_Od._ XIV. 327.\n\nWoods, groves, and trees were the temples and sacred emblems of the\nDeity among the greater part of the Pagans, but especially among the\nTeutonic and Celtic tribes. Maximus Tyrius, an author of the second\ncentury, informs us, concerning the worship of the Celts:\n\n  \"\u039a\u03b5\u03bb\u03c4\u03bf\u1f76 \u03c3\u03ad\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u0394\u03af\u03b1, \u1f04\u03b3\u03b1\u03bb\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b4\u1f72 \u0394\u03b9\u1f78\u03c2 \u039a\u03b5\u03bb\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f78\u03bd \u1f51\u03c8\u03b7\u03bb\u1f74 \u03b4\u03c1\u1fe6\u03c2.\"\n\nAnd Tacitus gives us the oldest testimonies concerning the Germans,\n_Germ._ 9.:\n\n  \"Ceterum, nec cohibere parietibus Deos, neque in ullam humani oris\n  speciem assimulare, ex magnitudine coelestium arbitrantur. _Lucos\n  ac nemora consecrant_, Deorumque nominibus appellant secretum\n  illud, quod sola reverentia vident.\"\n\n  Vid. _Germ._ 39. cap. 40. cap. 43., &c.\n\nAlso, a passage of the later Claudian is to the same purpose:\n\n      Ut procul Hercyni\u00e6 per vasta silentia silv\u00e6\n      Venari tuto liceat, lucosque vetusta\n      Religione truces, et _robora Numinis instar\n      Barbarici_, nostr\u00e6 feriant impune bipennes.\n\n      _Cons. Stilich._ I. 288.\n\nFrom these passages it will be seen that the gods dwelt in these groves,\nand that sacred vessels and altars were placed there, but no images;\nneither were temples erected.[2] The practice of worshipping the gods in\nwoods and trees continued for many centuries, till the introduction of\nChristianity (Vid. Willibald, A.D. 786, _in Vita Bonifacii_), and the\nconverters did not disdain to adopt every means to raise Christian\ncultus to higher authority than that of Paganism, by acting upon the\nsenses of the heathen, _e.g._ using white robes for those baptized,\nlighting of candles, burning of incense, &c.; and they erected the\nChristian churches, for the most part, upon the site of Pagan _tree_ or\ntemple; Sulp. _Severus_ (ed. Amst. 1665), p. 485.:\n\n  \"Nam ubi fana destruxerat (Martinus), _statim ibi aut ecclesias\n  aut monasteria construebat_.\"\n\nDietm. _V. Merseb._, 7. 52., p. 859.:\n\n  \"Fana idolorum destruens incendit, et mare d\u00e6monibus cultum\n  inmissis quatuor lapidibus, sacro Chrismate perunctis et aqua\n  purgans benedicta, novam Domino ... plantationem eduxit.\"\n\n  [Footnote 2: Brissonius _De Regno Pers._ II. 28.: \"Pers\u00e6 diis suis\n  nulla templa vel altaria constituunt, nulla simulacra.\"]\n\nThe heathen gods were represented as impotent, in opposition to the true\nGod, though not as powerless in themselves, and were converted into\ninimical evil powers, which must submit, but could nevertheless exercise\na certain hurtful influence.\n\nSome heathen traditions and superstitions remained, their names only\nbeing altered into those of Christ, Maria, and the saints. In this\nmanner they spared the assuefactions of the people, and made them\nbelieve that the sacredness of the place was not lost, but henceforth\ndepended on the presence of the true God.\n\nThe above facts will perhaps sufficiently explain the origin of the\nGospel Oak.\n\n    PROFESSOR THEODORE GOEDES.\n\n  Hampden House, Reading.\n\nThere is a tree called by this name a few miles from Winchester, in the\nparish of Tichborne or Cheriton,--I _think_ the latter, but have no\nmeans of ascertaining at the present moment. Mention of it is made in\nDuthy's _Sketches of Hampshire_.\n\n    L. G.\n\n\nMITIGATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO A FORGER.\n\n(Vol. iv., p. 434.)\n\nThe case related by MR. GATTY is interesting, but requires sifting.\nPerhaps he will be good enough to do it, or to put me on the trail. As\nthe energetic sister may be a reader of \"N. & Q.,\" I do not wish to\nannoy her by printing the forger's name, but I shall be glad to have the\nplace and date of the conviction.\n\nAbout twenty years ago, the rule of hanging for forgery was broken in\nthe case of Fry, a school-master, who was sentenced to death without any\nhope of mercy, and not reprieved till he had heard the \"condemned\nsermon\"--I think, not till the day before that which was fixed for his\nexecution. He showed great fear; rolled upon the chapel floor, and\ndelivered to the sheriffs a well-written protest against the right to\ninflict capital punishment. His being spared caused much surprise; and\nbetween that event and the abolition of the punishment of death for\nforgery, few, if any, were executed for that crime.\n\nThe sister, falling, at the feet of Baron G----, who \"was notorious for\nhis unflinching obduracy,\" is a melo-dramatic event which, I think,\nwould have found its way to the newspapers. But the most extraordinary\nthing is the conclusion:\n\n  \"The forger was placed in the hulks prior to transportation; and\n  before this took place he had forged a pass or order from the Home\n  Secretary's office for his own liberation, which procured his\n  release, and he was never afterwards heard of.\"\n\nLetters to convicts in the hulks are opened by the officers before being\ndelivered to the prisoners. It is not usual for the Home Secretary to\nwrite to a convict enclosing \"a pass or order.\" On the contrary, a\npardon is attended with a good number of formalities, and without one I\ndo not think that any convict would have been allowed to quit the\nvessel. In that class of prisoners, leave of absence on parole, or a\n\"day rule,\" would have been something peculiar enough to make the\nturnkey ask, \"Where did you get this?\" In short, a convict who made his\nescape as described must be as extraordinary a person as the strong\nAmerican, who could sit in a basket and lift himself upon a table by the\nhandles.\n\n  \"She returned to the city at which the assizes had been held just\n  as they were concluded. The two judges were in the act of\n  descending the cathedral nave, after partaking of the Holy\n  Sacrament, when,\" &c.\n\nIt is usual for the judges to attend divine service on the\ncommission-day if they arrive soon enough, or the day after if they do\nnot. If a Sunday occur during the sitting of the commission, they also\nattend; but I never knew, and on inquiring I cannot hear, that they ever\nso attended at the close of the assizes, when they are always glad to\nget on to the next town, if the circuit is not concluded, and away\naltogether if it is.\n\n    H. B. C.\n\n  U. U. Club.\n\n\nLORDS MARCHERS OF WALES.\n\n(Vol. v., pp. 30. 135. 189.)\n\nAllow me to call upon your correspondent I. J. H. H., who dates from St.\nAsaph, to explain what he means by a Lordship Marcher; and what proof he\npossesses that his friend Mr. Lloyd is the \"only Lord Marcher now extant\nin the kingdom?\" The most authentic single record which we possess of\nthe number, names, and situation of these lordships is the statute 27\nHen. VIII. ch. 26. The writs issued to the Lords Marchers, at various\ntimes before that statute, would perhaps furnish materials for a more\nexact enumeration of them; but the above Act was unquestionably intended\nto include all of them; and the only reason why the information conveyed\nby it is not complete is, that some of the names specified in it may\nperhaps be those of townships, or other districts within, or parcel of,\nsome Lordship Marcher, and that other lordships seem to be comprehended\nunder a general description, such as \"all lordships lying between\nChepstow Bridge and Gloucestershire.\" Hence, the number of real\nLordships Marchers may, _perhaps_, be fewer or more than are there\nmentioned. Herbert, in his _History of Henry VIII._, says that there\nwere 141 Lordships Marchers. (Kennett's _Compl. Hist._, vol. ii. p.\n189.)\n\nThe lordship of Kemes is not, I think, specified in the Act; but I\npresume that it is comprehended within some of the descriptions of\nlordships in it. Probably it is included in sect. 16. In old writs of\nsummons to attend the King in his wars, Kemes is associated with Dyvett\nor with Llandovery.\n\nThe statute referred to did, in fact, extinguish the most characteristic\nprivileges of a Lordship Marcher, and reduced it nearly to the level of\nan ordinary lordship, with such royalties only as have often been\ngranted, and are still enjoyed, by Lords of Manors, or honours in other\nparts of England and Wales. The franchises left to them are enumerated\nin sections 25. and 30., explained by the later statute 1 & 2 Phil. &\nMary, ch. 15. The palatine jurisdiction which they once possessed, and\nthe exemption from ordinary process, exist no longer; and the various\nlocal customs prevailing in each lordship, which were repugnant to the\ncommon law of England, must have been almost wholly abolished by the\noperation of that Act. The lordships themselves remain in name, and in\nlittle more than in name.\n\nHence I am afraid that I. J. H. H.'s friend must be prepared to\nsurrender the distinction of being the sole surviving Lord Marcher. In\nthe strict and original sense of the term, there is now no such lordship\nin existence. In the sense in which alone the title can now be assumed,\nhe shares the honour with many others; among others, with the Duke of\nBeaufort, who holds the very extensive and important Marcher Seignory of\nGower and Kilvey.\n\nProbably the number of private lordships of this kind is not now great;\nfor, at the passing of the above statute, the majority were in the\nCrown; and if any have since been re-granted, it is most likely that\ntheir franchises and tenure would be so modified as to leave no vestige\nof the Marcher privileges in them.\n\nThe statement of your correspondent suggests to me another doubt. How\ncould any Lordship Marcher be \"erected by Martin of Tours?\" Every such\nlordship must be of the creation of the Crown, either shown or presumed.\nThe date of the establishment of these marcherships is so ancient that,\nperhaps, no one may have actually seen any document to prove them but\ncharters of confirmation and inquisitions post-mortem; still the _law_\nrefers their origin to specific Crown grants, and not to the act or\nauthority of a mere subject. If, therefore, Martin, who was a tenant in\ncapite of the Crown, founded the lordship of Kemes, he must have\ndone--as the military invaders of Ireland in a subsequent reign\ndid--conquered the territory with his own arms, and obtained palatine\njurisdiction over it, with the assent and by the authority of the King.\n\nLet me add, that the MS. treatise in the Harleian Collection (referred\nto _ante_, p. 135.) is printed in Pennant's _Wales_, and, more\ncorrectly, in vol. ii. of the _Transactions of the Cymmrodorion\nSociety_. It is much to be lamented that the treatise on the Lordships\nMarchers, bequeathed by Sir Matthew Hale to the Society of Lincoln's\nInn, is not to be found in that library. If the work was composed by\nthat eminent judge himself, it must be one of the highest value and\nauthority. Does any one possess it, or a copy of it?\n\n    E. SMIRKE.\n\n\nDOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION.\n\n(Vol. iii., p. 374.)\n\n\"Can any of your readers inform me of any traces of the doctrine of the\nresurrection before the Christian era?\" I shall endeavour as briefly as\npossible to do justice to this important subject by giving extracts\nfrom, and references to, various authors, especially Hody in his work\n_The Resurrection of the (Same) Body Asserted from the Traditions of the\nHeathens, &c._ The arguments derived from this source are as follow:--\n\n1. \"The gross notions of the heathens concerning the soul in its state\nof separation, that it has all the same parts as the body has.\"\n\nConfer Farmer on the _Worship of Human Spirits in the Ancient Heathen\nNations_, p. 419. _et seq._; _\u00c6schyli Pers\u00e6_, v. 616.; and Blomfield's\nnote; _Nicolaus de Sepulchris Hebr\u00e6orum, &c._, cap. ix. and xiv.\n\n2. \"Their opinion concerning the transmigration of souls.\" Confer Vossii\n_Idololat._, lib. i. c. x.\n\n3. \"Their opinion concerning the duration of the soul as long as the\nbody lasted, and its adherence to the body after death,\" v. Cicero,\n_Tuscul. Qu\u00e6st._, lib. i.; _Lucret._, lib. iii. Concerning the opinion\nof the Egyptians, v. _Greenham on Embalming_.\n\n4. \"The belief that some men have ascended up into heaven in their\nbodies, there to remain for ever,\" v. Hody.\n\n5. \"That others have done so even after death upon a re-union of their\nsouls and bodies.\" (H.) \"There were not only certain persons under the\nlaw and among the Jews who were raised to life; but there were also\nhistories among the Gentiles of several who rose the third day; and\nPlato mentioneth another who revived the twelfth day after death, _Plato\nde Rep._, lib. x.; _Plin._ lib. vii. 52., \"De his qui elati revixerunt;\"\n_Philostrat._ lib. iii. c. xiii.\"--_Pearson on the Creed._ There are\nhistories of this description in _Bonifacii Hist. Ludice\u00e6_, p. 561. _et\nseq._\n\n6. \"The opinion of the Pythagoreans and Platonists, &c., concerning the\nrestitution of our bodies, and of all other things in the world to their\nformer state, after the revolution of many ages, by a new birth or\nproduction.\" On the Platonic year confer Gale's _Court of the Gentiles_,\nbook iii. c. 7.; on the Phoenix cycle of the Egyptians, Rev. Edw.\nGreswell's _Fasti Catholici and Origines Calendari\u00e6_. By some this\nrestitution is considered as merely astronomical, _v._ Costard's _Hist.\nof Astronomy_, p. 131. \"The opinion of some of the Genethliacal writers,\nthat the soul returns and is united to the same body in the space of 440\nyears.\"--_Varro ap Aug. de Civit._ xxii. 28.; Jackson's _Works_, vol.\niii. p. 424. \"The opinion of the Stoics concerning the reproduction of\nall the same men, &c., after the general conflagration,\" v. _Eusebii\nPraep. Evang._, lib. xv.; _M. Antonin. Imp._, lib. xi. The resurrection\nwas asserted by the Persian Magi, the Indian Brachmans, and other\nphilosophers both oriental and western. \"Thus we have demonstrated what\nevident notices the heathens had of the last conflagration, with the\nensuing judgment, and man's immortal state; and all from sacred oracles\nand traditions.\"--Gale, _ut supr\u00e0_.\n\n    BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.\n\n\nCAN A CLERGYMAN MARRY HIMSELF?\n\n(Vol. v., p. 370.)\n\nA Query has been put respecting a clergyman marrying himself. Such a\nthing did once occur in the case of the Rev. J. D. T. M. F----g, curate\nof the parish of S----n M----t, Somersetshire. The parish register\ninforms us that--\n\n  \"On three several Sundays, namely, on the 22nd and 29th days of\n  July, and the 5th August in the year 1787, banns of marriage were\n  published in the parish church between J. D. T. M. F----g and H.\n  V. B----t; and after the third publication, no impediment being\n  alleged, the said J. D. T. M. F----g and H. V. B----t were\n  _immediately_ married in the face of the congregation, on the 5th\n  of August, 1787, by J----n F----g curate.\"\n\nThe parties' names are appended to the form \"This marriage was\nsolemnised between us;\" and then follows, \"in the presence of\" two\nwitnesses who signed their names, one of them being the \"clark,\" as he\nspelt the word. The event occurred \"on a Sacrament Sunday.\" An aged\nparishioner, who was about seventy-four or seventy-five years of age\nwhen my informant wrote, perfectly remembered the ceremony; and added,\nthat previously to Mr. F.'s return from the Lord's Table to the reading\ndesk, in order to continue the service, from the Second Lesson, he\nexchanged a kiss with his blushing bride! It appears that, owing to\nseveral persons having disputed the _validity_ of this marriage, the\nsaid parties were re-married by the Rev. W. N----s, officiating\nminister, on the 9th October in the same year.\n\nI have heard that Mr. F. was always regarded as an eccentric man, if not\nderanged. I think I have heard that the bride was a milk girl, with whom\nthe reverend gentleman fell in love because \"she reminded him of his\nfirst love!\" The marriage was decidedly opposed by his relatives and\nfriends, which led to the above-mentioned singular occurrence. I\nbelieve, before performing the ceremony himself, Mr. F. publicly\ninquired \"whether there was any one provided to marry him?\" As there was\nnot, he proceeded to the performance of the ceremony himself.\n\nI have heard also of some such case of a clergyman marrying himself in\nIreland. But the marriage was, I believe, pronounced null and void, and\nthe clergyman deposed from the ministry.\n\nConnected with this subject, I would relate another circumstance related\nto me as a fact by a clergyman, now a surrogate, who for very many years\nwas curate of the parish adjoining that in which it occurred. He related\nit to justify and to explain his own somewhat unusual practice of using\nthe _surnames_ as well as Christian names of the parties throughout the\nMarriage Service, saying that in the parish of B----y, Gloucestershire,\nthe not doing so led to the _wrong couple being married_, owing to the\nstupidity of the parties and their friends! The rector, Rev. Mr. M----d,\non discovering the mistake, formally pronounced the whole proceeding\nnull and void, and then married the right couple!\n\nA correspondent lately inquired whether a person could be buried in a\ngarden! In N----h, Gloucestershire, such a thing occurred about sixteen\nyears ago. An eccentric old gentleman built a kind of summer-house in\nhis garden, and prepared his own tomb in it, and was there buried\naccording to his directions. I rather think the funeral service was\nread, under the express sanction of the bishop, by the rector of an\nadjoining parish, who was a friend of the deceased.\n\n    E. W. D.\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Algernon Sydney_ (Vol. v., pp. 318. 426.).--I can hardly suppose that\nMR. H. DIXON can have made any progress in his inquiries as to Algernon\nSydney, without having met with the \"authorities\" mentioned by your\ncorrespondent C. E. D.; and yet it is certainly strange that, if MR.\nDIXON had seen these authorities, he could have called Sydney \"an\n_illustrious patriot_.\" It may be therefore as well to state that the\nspecific evidence which destroys Sydney's claim to the title not merely\nof an \"_illustrious patriot_,\" but even of _an honest man_, and shows\nhim to have been a corrupt traitor of the worst class, is to be found in\nthe Appendix to Sir John Dalrymple's _Memoirs_, vol. i. pp. 339. 386.\n(8vo edit. 1790), where are transcribed the secret despatches of the\nFrench ambassador, Barillon, to Louis XIV., detailing the _bribes_ by\nwhich he engaged Algernon Sydney to that factious and traitorous\nopposition which had, for a hundred years prior to Dalrymple's\npublication, passed off for _patriotism_. I shall be very curious indeed\nto see what light MR. H. DIXON may be able to throw on this curious and\ninfamous case; of which the best that even Mr. Macaulay can say is, that\nBarillon's _louis d'ors_ were \"a temptation which conquered the virtue\nand the pride of Algernon Sydney.\"--_History of England_, vol. i. p.\n228.\n\n    C.\n\n_Cock-and-Bull Stories_ (Vol. v., p. 414.).--It may be doubted whether\nMr. Faber will thank J. R. R. for republishing his absurd blunder. It\nmust not, however, be allowed to gain a settlement in \"N. & Q.,\" or to\npass for a real explanation, while it is in reality one of the most\nunfortunate \"cock-and-bull\" stories that ever was invented. The truth\nis, that Reinerius, a writer of the Middle Ages, lays it to the charge\nof the Waldenses that they did not hold the traditions of the Church\nand, by way of instance, he specifies that they did _not_ believe (as,\nhe took for granted, all his orthodox readers _did_) that the cock on\nthe church steeple was symbolical of a doctor or teacher. Reinerius did\nnot think of adding a word of explanation about its overlooking the\nparish from its elevated position, or of its prescriptive right from the\ndays of St. Peter to do a pastor's office by reminding men of the duty\nof repentance, or of any of the things which writers on symbolism had\nsaid, or might say. He nakedly states, \"Item, mysticum sensum in divinis\nscripturis refutant: pr\u00e6cipue in dictis et actis ab Ecclesia traditis:\nut quod gallus super campanile significat Doctorem.\" Mr. Faber, who was\nsomewhat out of his way in dealing with the thoughts and language of\nmedi\u00e6val writers, catching a sight of this passage, blundered between a\n_bell_ and a _belfry_, put _campanum_ for _campanile_, and thus got an\nidea of a \"cock-on-a-bell,\" and that this symbol meant a doctor.\nWhereupon it occurred to him to set the world right with the wonderful\ndiscovery which J. R. R. has revived for the amusement of your readers.\n\n    S. R. MAITLAND.\n\n_Thomas Crawford_ (Vol. v., p. 344.).--In the seventeenth century there\nwere four professors of philosophy in every university in Scotland.\nThomas Crawford was one of the professors in the University of Edinburgh\nfrom 1640 to 1662.\n\nThomas Crawford, educated at St. Leonard's College, St. Andrew's,\ngraduated A.M. 1621. Succeeded Mr. Samuel Rutherford as Professor of\nHumanity in the University of Edinburgh, 1625. Appointed Rector of the\nHigh School of Edinburgh in 1630. Elected Professor of Philosophy (or\nRegent) in the University of Edinburgh, 1640, and continued in that\noffice till his death, in 1662.\n\nHe was the author of _A Short History of the University of Edinburgh,\nfrom 1582 to 1646_, first printed in 1808; and of _Notes and\nObservations on G. Buchanan's History of Scotland_: Edinb. 1708, 8vo.\npp. 187.\n\nBoth these posthumous publications are very meagre.\n\n    J. L.\n\n  Coll. Edinburgh.\n\n_Longevity_ (Vol. v., pp. 296. 401.).--In the church of Abbey Dore,\nHerefordshire, is the following inscription on a slab in the floor:--\n\n  \"In memory of Elizabeth, ye Daughter of Thomas Lewis, who departed\n  this life the 31st day of May, 1715, aged 141 years.\"\n\nI was assured that the age of the deceased, as here stated, is confirmed\nby the parish register.\n\n    W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.\n\n  Temple.\n\n_Theological Tract--The Huntyng of the Romish Fox_ (Vol. iii., p.\n61.).--Perhaps the following tract is one of those about which S. G.\ninquires:\n\n  \"The Huntyng and Fyndyng out of the Romish Fox: whiche more than\n  seven yeares hath bene hyd among the Byshoppes of England, after\n  that the Kynges Hyghnes Henry VIII. had commanded hym to be dryven\n  out of hys Realme. Written by Wyllyam Turner, Doctour of Physicke,\n  and formerly Fellow of Pembroke College in Cambridge. Basyl,\n  1543.\"\n\nThis tract has just been reprinted, with some curtailments and\namendments, and with a short memoir of the author prefixed, by my\nfriend, Robert Potts, Esq., M.A. Trin. Coll., Cam.; and was published by\nJ. W. Parker, London. The copy from which this reprint has been made is\nin the library of Trinity College.\n\n    W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.\n\n_Moke_ (Vol. v., p. 374).--With the Editor of \"N. & Q.\" I think the\ninterpretation of \"muck\" for the old word used by Wyckliffe is \"not\nsatisfactory:\" I therefore suggest another, perhaps equally\nquestionable. Every rustic in grazing districts knows, that in the hot\nseason of the year sheep are liable to be fearfully flyblown in their\nliving flesh; and that the maggots thence resulting are called _mokes_,\nor mawks. Is not the preacher's allusion in the text to certain\nshepherds, or rather sheep of Christ's flock, who, rather than give one\nof their _mokes_ to help one of their \"needy brethren,\" will allow\nthemselves to \"perish\" and \"be taken of\" these maggots? The term in\nquestion is, or was formerly, in provincial use as a metonym for\nlendiculosity in a figurative sense--a tetchy, whimsical individual,\nbeing said to be \"maggoty,\" _vulgo_, _mokey_. Lendix has not, however,\nin all cases been treated with abhorrence; for one of the elder Wesleys\nnot only printed a book of rhymes with the title of _Maggots_, but\nprefixed to it his portrait, with one of these _animi impetu concitari_\nrepresented as creeping on the forehead!\n\n    D.\n\n_Ground Ice_ (Vol. v., p. 370.).--J. C. E. will find a very elaborate\nand interesting paper \"On the Ice formed, under peculiar Circumstances,\nat the bottom of Running Waters,\" by the Rev. J. Farquharson, in the\n_Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for 1835_, Part II. p.\n329.\n\n    J. H.\n\n  Hallamshire.\n\n_Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--I beg to\nsuggest to your correspondent J. M., that this nobleman was Richard\nBoyle, third Earl of Burlington, and fourth Earl of Cork, who had a\npassion for architecture, and was the architect of numerous buildings in\nthe metropolis and other parts of the kingdom. He repaired Inigo Jones's\nchurch of St. Paul, Covent Garden. He built the front of Burlington\nHouse in Piccadilly; the dormitory at Westminster School; the Assembly\nRooms at York; and several villas and mansions in various parts of the\ncountry, besides publishing some architectural works. Bishop Berkeley\nwas introduced to him by Pope about the year 1722, and I believe derived\nsome benefit from his patronage. His architectural pursuits are alluded\nto by Pope in the epistle on the use of riches, which was addressed to\nhim.\n\n    G. R. J.\n\n_House at Welling_ (Vol. v., p. 368.).--Inquiry is made about one of our\nold English poets, who is said to have lived at the old house in\n_Welling_, where there is a _high yew hedge_.\n\nI am the owner of the house referred to, and have lived here since 1811.\nI have never heard the report, but I think that it may have arisen from\nthe fact, that about eighty years ago a Major _Denham_ possessed the\nhouse. It is possible that he may have been mistaken for his namesake,\n_Denham_ the poet.\n\n    ESTE.\n\n_Constable of Scotland_ (Vol. v., pp. 297. 350.).--In vol. i. p. 175. of\nthe _Analecta Scotica_ (Edinburgh, 1834) will be found some curious\n\"fragments relative to the office of Great Constable of Scotland,\" more\nparticularly before it became heritable in the noble family of Erroll.\n\n    E. N.\n\n_The Iron Plate in Lewes Castle_ (Vol. v., p. 342.).--In answer to A. W.\nI beg to say that the iron plate was taken from the ruins of a cottage\nwhich was burnt down on the estate of Sir Henry Shiffner some time\nsince; it formed the fire-back of the kitchen: the inscription was\nturned to the wall, and therefore not visible.\n\nThis inscription is a fac-simile of the iron plate placed to the memory\nof Ann Forster in the church of Crowhurst in Surrey, and it would appear\nthat the founder cast several plates similar to that in Lewes Castle,\nwhich are known to exist and be used as fire-backs. See Brayley and\nBritton's _History of Surrey_, vol. iv. p. 131., and note at foot of the\nsame page.\n\n    WILLIAM FIGG.\n\n  Lewes.\n\nThe monumental (cast iron?) plate in Lewes castle, referred to by A. W.,\nprobably came from the church of Crowhurst in Surrey, where there are\nseveral monuments to members of the family of Gaynsford, and there were\n(in Sept. 1847, when I visited the building) more than one iron plate in\nthe pavement with inscriptions of the exact character of that at Lewes,\nand with the letters similarly inverted and reversed. My impression is\nthat I saw the memorial in question in the church; but I cannot now\ndiscover the notes I made on the subject at the time, nor a rubbing\nwhich I took of another iron plate of a more ornate though not less rude\ncharacter. I remember, in passing within sight of the church on the\nDover Railway, since 1847, to have noticed scaffolding about the tower;\npossibly the plate now at Lewes may have been removed at that time.\n\n    R. C. H.\n\nThe plate was presented to the Antiquarian Museum in Lewes Castle by Sir\nH. Shiffner, Bart., about two years ago, when he rescued it from a\nfarm-house burnt down on his property near Lewes. It has been traced to\na cottage where it previously served the same purpose as at the\nfarm-house, as back to the fire-place; but no further record of its\nformer history can be discovered. It is not unusual, however, to find\nmonumental plates thus desecrated.\n\n    E. A. S.\n\n_Chelwoldesbury_ (Vol. v., p. 346.).--Allow me to suggest to your\ncorrespondent W. H. K. the possibility that the name in question may\noriginally have been Ceolwoldsburh or Ceolweardesburh, i.e. _the burgh_\nor _castle of Ceolwold_ or _Ceolweard_, analogously with Brihthelmst\u00fbn,\nnow contracted into _Brighton_. The A.-S. _ce_ has constantly been\ncorrupted into _che_.\n\n    D.\n\n\"_The King's Booke_\" (Vol. v., p. 389.).--The printer's account supplied\nby MR. BURTT does not relate, except possibly to a very trifling extent,\nto the _Basilicon Doron_; but it is evidently Robert Barker's bill,\nmainly in the matter of King James's _Apologie for the Oath of\nAllegiance_.\n\n    R. G.\n\n_Key Experiments_ (Vol v., pp. 152. 293.).--In an edition of _Hudibras_\nof 1704 appears the following \"annotation\" to the line \"As Friar Bacon's\nnoddle was:\"--\n\n  \"The tradition of Friar Bacon and the Brazen-head is very commonly\n  known, and considering the times he lived in, is not much more\n  strange than what another great philosopher of his name has since\n  deliver'd of a ring that, being ty'd in a string, and held like a\n  pendulum in the middle of a silver bowl, will vibrate of itself,\n  and tell exactly against the sides of the divining-cup the same\n  thing with, Time is, Time was, &c.\"\n\nI have tried this experiment with the ring, and find the oscillation\ntakes place as described by AGMOND with the shilling. If, however, the\nthread is tightly pressed between the finger and thumb, the vibration\nceases. This latter circumstance appears to support AGMOND'S idea, that\nthe motive power is due to the pulse, the circulation of the blood\nceasing by pressure.\n\n    C. N. S.\n\n_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., p. 404.).--The places mentioned in the\nfollowing lines are all within about four miles of each other in the\ncounty of Gloucester, and twenty years ago the adjectives exactly\ndescribed the condition of the people; but the great civiliser, the\nsteam-engine, has now taken away the force of the description; and\nalthough the first and third lines may be as true as ever, the second\nand fourth are not:--\n\n      \"Beggarly Bisley,\n      Strutting Stroud,\n      Hampton poor,\n      And Painswick proud.\"\n\n    W. H. BAXTER.\n\n_Old Scots March, &c._ (Vol. v., pp. 280. 331.).--I have to thank both\nMR. CROSSLEY and DR. RIMBAULT for their information regarding the\n_Ports_, of which I have willingly availed myself by consulting the\nvarious works to which they refer; and I have been fortunate enough to\nsee a _translation_ of the greater portion of the Straloch lute-book.\nHitherto, however, I have failed in my endeavours to discover two of the\n_ports_ mentioned by MR. TYTLER namely, Port _Gordon_ and Port _Seton_,\nboth of which I am anxious to obtain.\n\n    E. N.\n\n_Ecclesiastical Geography_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--Allow me to add to the\nlist of books on this subject, _Atlas sacer sive ecclesiasticus_,\nWiltsch, published at Gotha in 1843.\n\n    W. S.\n\n\"_Please the Pigs_\" (Vol. v., p. 13.).--I am inclined to think that this\nphrase has more to do with the animate than the inanimate. It is a\ncommon saying in Devonshire \"please the _pixies_,\" or _fairies_, and\nthis reference is much more likely; as our ancestors were most\nparticular in their superstitious attentions to the requirements of this\nmost mischievous fraternity.\n\n    C. R.\n\n_The Word Shunt_ (Vol. v., p. 352.) is quite common in the North of\nEngland; in Lancashire it is perhaps especially so. It signifies to\nshift, to move, to give way: as, speaking of a thing, a wall or\nfoundation, which has moved from its position, we should say, \"it has\nshunted;\" or of a thing which requires moving, \"Shunt it a little that\nway,\" \"Shunt it at the other end.\" _Shunt_, to move, to slip, to give\nway; _shuntu_, they move; _shuntut_, they moved.--See Bamford's\n_Lancashire Dialect_: Smith, Soho Square.\n\nThe word _grin_, in the same county, signifies a noose to catch hares or\nother game, as well as the act of grinning with the teeth. The word\n_gin_ is seldom used, except to express a horse gin-wheel, or the\n_blue-ruin_ of the Pandemoniums.\n\n    P. D.\n\n_Plato's Lines in \"Antho. Palat.\"_ (Vol. v., p. 317.).--\n\n      \"Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bent\n      On the bright orbs that gem the firmament:\n      Would that I were the heaven, that I might be\n      All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.\"\n\n      \"You look upon the stars, my star! would I might be\n      Yon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee.\"\n\n    V.\n\n_Abigail_ (Vol. iv., p. 424.; Vol. v., pp. 38. 94.).--As your\ncorrespondents have not thrown much light upon this subject, I will here\nmention that the use of this name in the sense alluded to has probably\noriginated from a \"waiting gentlewoman\" who figures in Beaumont and\nFletcher's comedy of _The Scornful Lady_. As this play appears from\nPepys's _Diary_ to have been a great favourite after the Restoration, it\nwas then most probably that the term came into use.\n\n    J. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Nuremberg Token, or Counter_ (Vol. v., pp. 201. 260.).--G. H. K.\nappears to consider the object of H. C. K.'s Query a tradesman's token.\nThis is by no means the case. It is a jetton, or counter, such as was\nformerly much in use for casting accounts, on a principle very similar\nto that of the abacus. They are found in vast numbers in England, but\nwere principally manufactured at Nuremberg, where a large trade in them\nmust have been carried on. The greatest manufacturers of the\n\"Rechenpfennige\" were the members of the families of Schultz, Laufer,\nand Krauwinckel. Of the three Krauwinckels, the productions of Hans are\nmost numerous. Many of them have legends of a moral or religious\ncharacter, as \"Gottes Segen macht reich,\" God's blessing maketh rich;\n\"Gott allein die Ehre sey,\" To God alone be the glory; \"Heut rodt,\nMorgen todt,\" To-day _red_, to-morrow dead, &c. The date 1601 occurs on\nseveral of those of Hans K., with mythological devices.--See Snelling's\n_Treatise on Jettons, or Counters_.\n\n    J. E.\n\nThe legend on the counter described signifies\n\n      \"John Kravwinckel in Nuremberg.\"\n      Rx \"God's kingdom remains always.\"\n\nI know not the signification of the solitary E. Snelling (_Treatise on\nAbbey Pieces, &c._) has engraved and described many of these counters,\nand to him I must refer H. C. K. Hans means John, and has no reference\nto the Hanseatic League.\n\n    W. H. S.\n\n  Edinburgh.\n\n_Meaning of Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--_Lode_ and _load_, in Cornwall,\nis the name given to the vein that _leads_ in the mine; or, the\n_leading_ vein. The word _lode_ is also in common use in Cambridgeshire,\nhaving similar reference to the watercourses by which the fens are\ndrained.\n\n_Lodestar._ The pole-star; the _leading_ star, by which mariners are\nguided. The magnet is _load-stone_, that is, leading, or guiding stone.\n(Nares' _Glossary_.)\n\n            \"O, happy fair!\n      Your eyes are _lode_-stars----.\"\n\n      _Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n    WM. YARRELL.\n\n  Rider Street.\n\n_Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--Lode seems to have been anciently used as\nsignifying merely a ditch to carry off water. (See \"Inquisition, 21\nHenry VIII.\" in Wells's _Hist. of Bedford Level_, vol. ii. pp. 8-17.)\nLode means to carry. (_Promptorium Parvulorum_, ed. Way, p. 310.) The\nterm _lode_ is now used to signify a navigable ditch. In Cambridgeshire\nwe have Soham Lode, Burwell Lode, Reach Lode, Swaffham Lode, and\nBottisham Lode.\n\n    C. H. COOPER.\n\n  Cambridge.\n\n_Mother Damnable_ (Vol. v., p. 151.).--Your correspondent S. WISWOULD\nwill find some slight information respecting this worthy in Daniel's\n_Merrie England in the Olden Time_ (Bentley, 1842), vol. i. p. 217.\n\nIt appears that Mr. Bindley had an unique engraving of her, and that a\nwell-known alehouse at Holloway (of which a token is extant, with the\ndate 1667) was sacred to her memory as Mother Redcap, as well as that in\nthe Hampstead Road.\n\n    JOHN EVANS.\n\n_Monuments of De la Beche Family_ (Vol. v., p. 341.).--The monuments\nreferred to by \u00c6GROTUS are in the church of Aldworth: the effigies are\ncertainly remarkable, especially one for its size and attitude. Another\nnoticeable circumstance is that most of the figures are of older date\nthan the tombs on which they lie, or than the church which contains\nthem. The building consists of a nave and south aisle; and, at the time\nof its original construction, three canopied recessed tombs were\nintroduced in each of the side walls to receive the effigies which must\nhave existed in the older church. The style of the architecture belongs\nto the age of Edward III. There are nine figures altogether, some of\nthem greatly mutilated. They are not entirely unknown to arch\u00e6ologists.\n\nI may take this opportunity of calling attention to another very fine\nmonumental effigy, of which I believe no moderately good representation\nhas been published, at Tilton in Leicestershire. There are two figures\nin the church of as early dates as those at Aldworth, one an armed male,\nand the other a female. The former is in \"edgering\" mail, and is of good\ncharacter; but the latter is of superior design, and very well executed,\nthough unfortunately in a coarse material. The right arm is bent, and\nthe hand brought up to the breast; the left hangs naturally by the side,\nand has the fore-arm and (bare) hand exposed from among the folds of the\ndrapery. Slight traces of colour are discoverable.\n\n    R. C. H.\n\nThe village of Aldworth, in Berkshire, where the effigies of the De la\nBeche family are to be seen, is about five miles from the Goring\nStation, on the Great Western Railway, _vi\u00e2_ Streatley. Hewett's\n_Hundred of Compton_ furnishes a very interesting account of the ten\nmonumental effigies which represent various members of the ancient\nfamily of De la Beche in that church, and will be read with no small\npleasure.\n\n    FRANCIS POCOCK.\n\n  Stanford.\n\n_Coke and Cowper_ (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 76. 93. 244. 300.).--However\naffected it may appear, these words have been more generally pronounced\n_Cook_ and _Cooper_.\n\nJ. H. L. (Vol. iv., p. 76.) adduces the instance of _Cowper_ being made\nto rhime to _Trooper_. And I have just stumbled upon a passage in\n_Cowley_ where _Coke_ is the answering word to _Took_.\n\n            \"May he\n      Be by his father in his study _took_\n      At Shakspear's plays instead of my Lord _Coke_.\"\n\n      \"Sylva; a Poetical Revenge,\" p. 44.,\n      _Works_, Part II., London, 1700, fol.\n\n    RT.\n\n  Warmington.\n\n_Monumental Portraits_ (Vol. v., p. 349.).--Fully agreeing with my\nfriend H. H. in his opinion of the brass of the Abbess of Elstow,\nconsidered as a portrait, I should yet be glad if your correspondents\nwould send to \"N. & Q.\" the names of any effigies which may appear to\nthem exceptions to the rule of conventional portraiture, especially if\nof earlier date than the latter half of the sixteenth century. H. H. has\nmentioned one, Nicholas Canteys, 1431, at Margate: and I am inclined to\nadd another in the well-executed little brass of Robert de Brentingham\nat East Horsley, Surrey; this is about the date of 1380. The artists of\nthat time, in brasses as well as in painted glass, wood-carving, &c.,\nmay have sometimes desired to produce a portrait, but certainly they\nseldom succeeded: a religious severity of expression atoned for the\ndeficiency. In English coins it is well known that there is no\nappearance of a portrait before the reign of Henry VII.\n\nThe particular _costume_, however, of the deceased was more attended to\nin monumental effigies; and it is this fact which renders the study of\nthem so serviceable towards a knowledge of the manners and habits of our\nancestors. Care was even taken not to omit any peculiarity which may\nhave distinguished the deceased; of which the long beard of Sir Wm.\nTendring, at Stoke, by Layland, is perhaps an instance, and many others\nmight be quoted. If any decided portraits are known in _stone effigies_,\nit would I think be desirable to communicate such to the pages of \"N. &\nQ.\"\n\n    C. R. M.\n\n_Motto on Chimney-piece_ (Vol. v., p. 345.)--It does not appear to me\nthat the mottoes sent by your inquirer C. T. are very difficult to\nsolve. The first is Latin:\n\n      \"VITATRANOVULAESTOLIM.\"\n\nHe says he is not certain as to one or two letters. I suspect the first\nO should be Q, and the V should be I. It will then read:\n\n      \"Vita tranquila est olim.\"\n\n      \"Life is henceforth tranquil.\"\n\nA very proper motto for a fire-side.\n\nThe second is Italian:\n\n      \"VE DAL AM DARO.\"\n\nI suspect the R should be T. It will then read:\n\n      \"Ve da'l amico dato.\"\n\n      \"Given to you by the friend.\"\n\nIf the word is _daro_, it will be--\n\n      \"I will give it to you from the friend.\"\n\n    JAMES EDMESTON.\n\n  Homerton.\n\nThe arms given by your correspondent C. T. are those of Cavendish\n(quartering Clifford), one of that family having been created Earl of\nNewcastle in 1610. Becoming shortly after extinct, John Holles, Earl of\nClare (who had married the heiress of Cavendish), was created by King\nWilliam III. in 1694 Marquis of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.\n\nMight not the chimney-piece have adorned a mansion of the Cavendish\nfamily, who probably resided in Newcastle during the period above\nalluded to?\n\nThe motto underneath (which is _not_ the family motto of Cavendish)\ncertainly at first sight looks puzzling enough; will the following\nsolution suffice, which I merely throw out as a first thought that may\nlead to a better elucidation?\n\n      \"Vita: tran: ovula: est: olim.\"\n\nPresuming \"ovula\" to be the diminutive of _ovum_ (I am not sure if I am\ncorrect), and \"tran\" (if correctly transcribed) to be a component part\nof one of the numerous compounds of _trans_ (say _transitorius_), may\nnot the passage be _freely_ translated: \"(Our) transitory life (was)\nonce (as mysterious, or hidden, or minute as) is (the germ of vitality)\nin an egg?\"\n\nIf C. T. could give a description of the second coat, some connecting\nlink may possibly be supplied toward unravelling the motto.\n\n    HENRY W. S. TAYLOR.\n\n  Southampton.\n\n\"_Ve d\u00e2l am daro_\" (Vol. v., p. 325.).--One of the mottoes which puzzle\nyour correspondent C. T. is Welsh, and means that _retribution will\nfollow violence_: \"he will pay (_i.e._ suffer) for striking.\"\n\n    \u03a3.\n\n_White-livered_ (Vol. v., pp. 127. 403.).--Bishop Ridley, in his\nconference with Bishop Latimer, whilst they were confined in the Tower,\nmakes use of the expression: \"For surely, except the Lord assist me with\nHis gracious aid in the time of His service, I know I shall play but the\npart of a _white-livered knight_.\"\n\n    CARL.\n\n_Enigmatical Epitaphs_ (Vol. v., p. 179.).--The brasses of John\nKillyngworth, 1412, formerly in Eddlesborough Church, now in Pitson\nChurch, Bucks; and of a priest at St. Peter's, near St. Alban's, have\nthis inscription upon them:\n\n  \"Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior,\n  quod servavi perdidi.\"\n\nThat at St. Alban's has an English translation:\n\n      \"Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I;\n      All that I gave in good intent, that now have I;\n      That I never gave, nor lent, that now aby[3] I;\n      That I kept till I went, that lost I.\"\n\n  [Footnote 3: So in my authority.]\n\nThe same inscription is on a brass as late as 1584, at St. Olave's, Hart\nStreet, London. (See _Oxford Architectural Society's Manual of\nMonumental Brasses_.)\n\n    UNICORN.\n\n_Pelican in her Piety_ (Vol. v., p. 59.).--In Warner's _Glastonbury_,\nplate 18, fig. E., is a very _early_ representation of the pelican\nfeeding her young with her own blood: an emblem of Christ's love for His\nchurch. The stone was dug out of the ruins of the Abbey.\n\nIn Parker's _Glossary_ the symbol is explained by a quotation from\n_Ortus Vocabulorum_:\n\n  \"Fertur, si verum est, eam occidere natos suos, eosque per triduum\n  lugere, deinde seipsum vulnerare, et aspercione sui sanguinis\n  vivos facere filios suos.\"\n\n    H. F. E.\n\n_Names of Places, Provincial Dialect_ (Vol. v., pp. 250. 375.).--In\naccordance with the suggestion of E. P. M., I forward you a few\ninstances of a change between the spelling, and pronunciation:\n\n      Spelling.                 Pronunciation.\n\n      Chadwell                  Caudle.\n      Wymondham (Norf.)         Wyndham.\n      ---- (Leicestersh.)       W[)u]mundham.\n      Swavesey                  Swaysey.\n      Lolworth                  Lolo.\n      Whitwick                  Whittick.\n      Scarford                  Scawford.\n      Croxton Kerrial           Cr[=o]son, the _o_ long,\n                                and Kerrial entirely\n                                dropped.\n\n      R. J. S.\n\nExamples of these are more numerous to the north of the Tweed than C.\nappears to imagine. The following list, which includes a few surnames,\nis the result of rather a hurried search:\n\n      Spelling.                 Pronunciation.\n\n      Anstruther                Anster.\n      Athelstaneford            Elstanfurd.\n      Bethune                   Beaton.\n      Cassilis                  Cassils.\n      Charteris                 Charters.\n      Cockburn                  Coburn.\n      Cockburnspath             Coppersmith\n      Colquhoun                 Cohoon.\n      Crichton                  Cryton.\n      Dalziel or Dalyell        Dee-ell.\n      Farquhar                  Farkar.\n      Halket                    Hacket.\n      Inglis                    Ingils.\n      Kemback                   Kemmick.\n      Kilconquhar               Kinnenchar.\n      Macleod                   Macloud.\n      Marjoribanks              Marchbanks.\n      Menzies                   Meengis.\n      Methven                   Meffen.\n      Monzie                    Monee.\n      Restalrig                 Lastalrik.\n      Rutherglen                Ruglen.\n      Ruthven                   Rivven.\n      Sciennes                  Sheens.\n      Sanquhar                  Sankar.\n      Urquhart                  Urcart.\n      Wemyss                    Weems.\n\nArbroath is a corruption of Aberbrothok, Gretna of Gretenhow, and\nMeiklam of M'Ilquham: but probably one of the most remarkable\ntransformations in Scotland is to be found in the name of a small\nvillage, a few miles to the south of Edinburgh, where _Burdiehouse_ has\nusurped the place of Bordeaux.\n\n    E. N.\n\n_The Term \"Milesian\"_ (Vol. iv., p. 175.).--I beg to direct your\nattention to the accompanying extract, which furnishes a reply to MR.\nFRASER'S Query:--\n\n  \"Whoever is acquainted with Irish history, or whoever has had\n  opportunities of mixing with the natives of that country, cannot\n  be ignorant that they claim a descent from a long race of Milesian\n  kings, who reigned over them for thirteen centuries before the\n  Christian \u00e6ra. The stock from which this long line of monarchs\n  emanated is traced to a pretended Milesian colony, supposed to\n  have emigrated from Spain into Ireland under the conduct of\n  Heremon and Heber. The most rational inquirers, however, into the\n  subject consider it as nothing more than a tissue of imaginary\n  events, originating in the fertile fancies of their bards. A very\n  brief and general abstract of this contested part of Irish history\n  shall be given in the words of Mr. Plowden:\n\n  \"'About 140 years after the Deluge, Ireland was discovered by one\n  Adhua, who had been sent from Asia to explore new countries by a\n  grandson of Belus: he plucked some of the luxuriant grass as a\n  specimen of the fertility of the soil, and returned to his master.\n  After that the island remained unoccupied for 140 years; and about\n  300 years after the Flood, one Partholan, originally a Scythian,\n  and a descendant from Japhet in the sixth generation, sailed from\n  Greece with his family and 1000 soldiers, and took possession of\n  the island. They all died off, and left the island desolate of\n  human beings for the space of thirty years. Afterwards different\n  sets of emigrant adventurers occupied and peopled the island at\n  different periods. About 1080 years after the Deluge, and 1300\n  B.C., Niul (the son of Phenius, a wise Scythian prince), who had\n  married a daughter of Pharaoh, inhabited with his people a\n  district given to him by his father-in-law on the Red Sea, when\n  Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. The descendants of that\n  Phenius (called more generally Feniusa Farsa) were afterwards\n  expelled by Pharaoh's successors on account of their ancestors\n  having favoured the escape of the Israelites through the Red Sea.\n  They then emigrated and settled in Spain, whence, under the\n  command of Milesius, a colony of them sailed from Brigantia in\n  Galicia to Ireland, gained the ascendancy over the inhabitants,\n  and gave laws and a race of monarchs to the island. The Milesian\n  dynasty continued to govern Ireland without interruption till\n  about the year 1168, when it ceased in the person of Roger\n  O'Connor, and the sovereignty was assumed by our Henry II. Of this\n  race of kings the first 110 were Pagan, the rest Christian.'\"\n\n  Barlow's _Hist. of Ireland_, vol. i. pp. 22-4.\n\n    GEORGE RICHARDS, M.A.\n\n  Queen's Coll., Birmingham.\n\n_Title of D.D._ (Vol. ii., p. 13.).--The remark of your correspondent\nEYE-SNUFF, \"that any lay scholar of adequate attainments in theology is\ncompetent to receive this distinction, and any university to bestow it\nupon him,\" is incorrect in two ways, as far as the university of which I\nam a member is concerned. A reference to the Oxford University Calendar,\nor to the Statutes of the University, will show him that no one can take\nthe degree of B.D., or D.D., without first exhibiting his letters of\npriest's orders: and the theological attainments represented by the\ndegree D.D. are next to nothing; the exercise required for B.D. used to\nbe a mere form, and I believe is little more now; a certain number of\nterms kept in the university, and payment of certain fees, being all\nthat is necessary for proceeding D.D. The case is the same, I imagine,\nat Cambridge.\n\n    W. FRASER.\n\n_Lass of Richmond Hill_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.).--I have heard it said, of\ncourse with little regard to probability, that this once popular song\nwas written by George IV. when Prince of Wales.\n\n    W. FRASER.\n\n_A Bull_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.).--I have heard it argued that the word\n_bull_, meaning an incoherent blunder, was derived from the Pope's\nBulls, the tyrannical contents and imperious tone of which often made so\nodd a contrast with the humility of the subscription, \"Servus servorum\nDei,\" that the name _bull_ was applied to anything that seemed absurdly\ninconsistent or self-contradictory.\n\n    W. FRASER.\n\n_Remains of Horses and Sheep in Churches_ (Vol. v., p. 274.).--We have\ngood evidence that the Saxons used the places of sepulture which they\nfound in England; and it is well known that Anglo-Saxon remains have\noften been discovered in the vicinity of churches, a fact which leads to\nthe supposition that churches occupied the sites of Pagan temples. The\nbones of animals have often been found on and near the sites of our\nLondon churches.\n\n    J. Y. A.\n\n_Fern Seed_ (Vol. v., pp. 172. 356.).--I am led to think there is an\nerror in the notice of your correspondent R. S. F. on the above subject.\nThe seed of St. John's Fearn cannot be gathered on Midsummer Eve,\ninasmuch as at that time it is in a merely embryotic state. The seed\nattains perfection late in autumn, and it remains attached to the dry\nbrown stem until shaken off by the autumnal and winter blasts. The\ntaking of it, therefore, is not, according to those versed in such\nmysteries, the easy task of a Midsummer twilight, but must be performed\namid the darkness of a winter's night. On the midnight of Saint John the\nEvangelist, to whom the seed and plant are dedicated, must it be shaken,\nnot pulled, from its stem. Very probably mystic virtues were imputed to\nthe seed before the introduction of Christianity. And it were not\nperhaps hazarding too much to suppose that the old superstitious monks\nassigned it to Saint John from an idea that the potency of the seed\nmight have influenced the wondrous revelations with which he, more than\nany other of the disciples, or all the disciples, was favoured.\n\n    B.\n\n\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\nThe Camden Society, of which the fourteenth Annual Meeting on Monday\nlast passed off most successfully, has just issued to its Members _The\nChronicle of The Grey Friars of London_, edited from a MS. in the\nCottonian Library in the British Museum. This very interesting document,\nwhich altogether escaped the research of the industrious and voluminous\nStrype, though it had passed through the hands of Stowe, who had either\nthe possession or the loan of the original MS., was written by one of\nthe Grey Friars, who appears to have watched narrowly, and recorded\ncarefully, the religious changes of the times, more particularly, those\nwhich occurred within the sphere of his personal observation in the city\nof London, and the metropolitan church of St. Paul. As he retained\npossession of his register, and continued his labours after the\ndissolution of his house, and the dismissal of the rest of his\nfraternity, he has preserved to us many particulars of great historical\nvalue; and his work has this additional claim to attention, that,\nwhereas the majority of the existing documents are records of the\nReforming party, this comes from one of the Reformed, and presents us\naccordingly with the other side of the case. The work is edited by Mr.\nJ. G. Nichols, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the fidelity\nwith which the document is printed, and the learning and care bestowed\nupon its illustration.\n\n_The Publications of the Antiquarian Etching Club._--Part III., 1851,\npresents us with no less than thirty-three etchings by Members of the\nClub (of course of various degrees of merit), of objects of antiquarian\ninterest, comprising Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices,\nFonts, Sepulchral Monuments, Portraits, Fac-similes, copies of rare\nprints, and numerous other vestiges of antiquity calculated at once to\ninstruct the arch\u00e6ologist, and preserve in a pictorial form a record of\nmuch which, but for the _burins_ of the members of this useful little\nSociety, might have been lost for ever.\n\nIt is but a few weeks since we noticed the admirable second volume of\nthe _Catalogue of the London Library_, by Mr. J. G. Cochrane. We have\nnow to record the death of that gentleman on Tuesday last. He was a most\nworthy man, and a good scholar; and possessed a vast fund of\nbibliographical knowledge. His death therefore will be felt, not only by\nhis own immediate friends, but also by the institution which he had\nserved so ably and so zealously ever since its formation.\n\nIt would be treason to the Brothers Grimm, and to our own love of the\nliterature of the people, if we did not notice and (as it deserves it)\nsay a good word of a new and complete translation of the world-renowned\n_Kinder und Haus M\u00e4hrchen_, which Messrs. Addey have commenced\npublishing under the title of Grimm's _Household Stories_. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, May 8, 1852.\n\n\n\n\n      [Transcriber's Note: List of volumes and content pages in \"Notes\n      and Queries\", Vol. I.-V.]\n\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Notes and Queries Vol. I.                                   |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol., No.     | Date, Year        | Pages     | PG # xxxxx  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  1 | November  3, 1849 |   1 -  17 | PG #  8603  |\n      | Vol. I No.  2 | November 10, 1849 |  18 -  32 | PG # 11265  |\n      | Vol. I No.  3 | November 17, 1849 |  33 -  46 | PG # 11577  |\n      | Vol. I No.  4 | November 24, 1849 |  49 -  63 | PG # 13513  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  5 | December  1, 1849 |  65 -  80 | PG # 11636  |\n      | Vol. I No.  6 | December  8, 1849 |  81 -  95 | PG # 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xxxxx |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No.  88 | July  5, 1851      |   1- 15 | PG # 37548 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  89 | July 12, 1851      |  17- 31 | PG # 37568 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  90 | July 19, 1851      |  33- 47 | PG # 37593 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  91 | July 26, 1851      |  49- 79 | PG # 37778 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No.  92 | August  2, 1851    |  81- 94 | PG # 38324 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  93 | August  9, 1851    |  97-112 | PG # 38337 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  94 | August 16, 1851    | 113-127 | PG # 38350 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  95 | August 23, 1851    | 129-144 | PG # 38386 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  96 | August 30, 1851    | 145-167 | PG # 38405 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No.  97 | Sept.  6, 1851     | 169-183 | PG # 38433 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  98 | Sept. 13, 1851     | 185-200 | PG # 38491 |\n      | Vol. IV No.  99 | Sept. 20, 1851     | 201-216 | PG # 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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      | Vol. V  No. 129 | April 17, 1852     | 361-383 | PG # 41205 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 130 | April 24, 1852     | 385-407 | PG #41254  |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. V  No. 131 | May  1, 1852       | 409-431 | PG # 41295 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol I. 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