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Stamped Edition 5d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                                    Page\n\n  Griffin's \"Fidessa,\" and Shakspeare's \"Passionate Pilgrim\"    27\n\n  Caps at Cambridge                                             27\n\n  Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis           28\n\n  Newspaper Folk Lore                                           29\n\n  King James's Irish Army List of 1689-90, by John D'Alton      30\n\n  MINOR NOTES:--Authors and Publishers--Inscriptions on old\n    Pulpits--Recent Curiosities of Literature--Assuming Names\n    --False Dates in Water-marks of Papers                      31\n\n  QUERIES:--\n\n  Captain Farre                                                 32\n\n  Marriage Ceremony in the Fourteenth Century                   33\n\n  Manuscript Catena                                             33\n\n  MINOR QUERIES:--Jews and Egyptians--Skin-flint--Garlic\n    Sunday--Custom of the Corporation of London--General\n    Stokes--Rev. Philip Morant--The Position of Suffragan\n    Bishops in  Convocation--Cambridge Mathematical\n    Questions--Crabbe MSS.--Tilly, an Officer of the Courts\n    at Westminster--Mr. Gye--Three Fleurs-de-Lys--The\n    Commons of Ireland previous to the Union in 1801--\"All\n    Holyday at Peckham\"--Arthur de Vere--Master of the\n    Nails--Nattochiis and Calchanti--\"Ned o' the Todding\"       34\n\n  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Bridget Cromwell and\n    Fleetwood--Culet                                            36\n\n  REPLIES:--\n\n  The Asteroids or recently discovered Lesser Planets, by\n    the Rev. H. Walter                                          36\n\n  Emblematic meanings of Precious Stones--Planets of the\n    Months symbolised by Precious Stones, by W. Pinkerton       37\n\n  Non-recurring Diseases                                        38\n\n  Milton's Widow, by J. F. Marsh                                38\n\n  Table-turning, by J. Macray                                   39\n\n  Celtic Etymology                                              40\n\n  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--The Calotype Process:\n    curling up of Paper--Turner's Paper--A Practical\n    Photographic Query                                          40\n\n  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--\"Service is no Inheritance\"--\n    Francis Browne--Catholic Bible Society--Legal Customs--\n    Silo--Laurie on Finance--David's Mother--Anagram--\n    Passage in Sophocles--B. L. M.--\"The Forlorn Hope\"--Two\n    Brothers of the same Christian Name--Passage in Watson--\n    Derivation of \"Mammet\"--Ampers and--Misapplication of\n    Terms--Belle Sauvage--Arms of Geneva--\"Arabian Nights'\n    Entertainments\"--Richard I.--Lord Clarendon and the\n    Tubwoman--Oaths--Double Christian Names--Chip in\n    Porridge--Clarence Dukedom--Prospectuses, &c.               41\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c.                          45\n\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                  46\n\n  Notices to Correspondents                                     46\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSURREY ARCH\u00c6OLOGICAL SOCIETY.\n\nPRESIDENT.--His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.\n\nGentlemen desiring to join the Society, are informed that Copies of the\nRules, List of Members (upwards of 250), and Forms of Application for\nAdmission, may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary.\n\n                        \u00a3    s.\n  Annual Subscription   0   10\n  Composition for Life  5    0\n\nOn and after January 1, 1854, an entrance fee of 10s. will be required,\nfrom which those Members who join the Society during the present month will\nbe exempt.\n\n  GEORGE BISH WEBB,\n      Honorary Secretary.\n\n  46. 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Singer.\n\nThe title of the original edition is _Fidessa, more Chaste then Kinde_, by\nB. Griffin, Gent, at London, printed by the Widdow Orwin, for Matthew\nLownes, 1596.\n\nThe advertisement prefixed by Mr. Singer to the reprint states, that the\noriginal is one of the rarest of those that appeared at the period in which\nit is dated; that he is not aware of the existence of more than two copies,\nfrom one of which the reprint is taken, and that the other was in the\ncurious collection of the late Mr. Malone.\n\nBesides the rarity of _Fidessa_, Mr. Singer states that it claims some\nnotice from the curious reader on account of a very striking resemblance\nbetween Griffin's third sonnet, and one of Shakspeare's, in his _Passionate\nPilgrim_ (Sonnet IX.).\n\nI will transcribe both sonnets, taking Griffin's first, as it bears the\nearliest date.\n\n  \"Venus, and yong Adonis sitting by her,\n    Under a myrtle shade began to woo him:\n  She told the yong-ling how god Mars did trie her,\n    And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.\n  'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the wanton god embrac'd me,'\n    And then she clasp'd Adonis in her armes.\n  'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlac'd me,'\n    As if the boy should use like loving charms.\n  But he, a wayward boy, refusde her offer,\n    And ran away, the beautious Queene neglecting:\n  Showing both folly to abuse her proffer,\n    And all his sex of cowardice detecting.\n  Oh! that I lead my mistris at that bay,\n  To kisse and clippe me till I ranne away!\"\n                  Sonnet III., from _Fidessa_.\n\n  \"Fair[1] Venus, with Adonis sitting by her,\n    Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him;\n  She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,\n    And as he fell to her, she fell to him.\n  'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embrac'd me,'\n    And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms:\n  'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlac'd me,'\n    As if the boy should use like loving charms:\n  'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,'\n    And with her lips on his did act the seizure;\n  And as she fetched breath, away he skips,\n    And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.\n  Ah! that I had my lady at this bay,\n  To kiss and clip me till I run away!\"\n      Sonnet IX., from Shakspeare's _Passionate Pilgrim_.\n\nThat the insertion of Griffin's sonnet in the _Passionate Pilgrim_ was\nwithout Shakspeare's consent or knowledge, is in my opinion evident for\nmany reasons.\n\nI have long been convinced that the _Passionate Pilgrim_ was published\nsurreptitiously; and although it bears Shakspeare's name, the sonnets and\nballads of which it is composed were several of them taken from his dramas,\nand added to by selections from the poems of his cotemporaries, Raleigh,\nMarlow, and others; that it was a bookseller's job, made up for sale by the\npublisher, W. Jaggard.\n\nNo one can believe that Shakspeare would have been guilty of such a gross\nplagiarism. Griffin's _Fidessa_ bears date 1596: the first known edition of\nthe _Passionate Pilgrim_ was printed for W. Jaggard, 1599. It has no\ndedication to any patron, similar to Shakspeare's other poems, the _Venus\nand Adonis_, the _Rape of Lucrece_, and the _Sonnets_; and why it bears the\ntitle of the _Passionate Pilgrim_ no one has ascertained.\n\nBut I am losing sight of the object I had in view when I took up my pen,\nwhich was, through the medium of \"N. & Q.,\" to request any of its readers\nto furnish me with any particulars of B. Griffin, the author of _Fidessa_.\n\nMr. Singer supposes him to have been of a Worcestershire family; as he\naddresses his \"poore pamphlet\" for patronage to the gentlemen of the Innes\nof Court, he might probably have been bred to the law.\n\nPerhaps your correspondents CUTHBERT BEDE, or MR. NOAKE, the Worcestershire\nrambler, might in their researches into vestry registers and parish\ndocuments, find some notice of the family. I am informed there was a\ngentleman of the name resident in our college precincts early in the\npresent century, that he was learned and respected, but very eccentric.\n\nJ. M. G. Worcester.\n\n[Footnote 1: The early copies read \"Venus, with Adonis sitting by her;\" the\ndefective word was added at Dr. Farmer's suggestion. Had he seen a copy of\n_Fidessa_, the true reading might perhaps have been restored. (Note by Mr.\nSinger.)]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCAPS AT CAMBRIDGE.\n\nAt the congregation in the Senate House at Cambridge, Nov. 23, presided\nover by the Prince Chancellor, it was observed that the undergraduates in\nthe galleries (for want I suppose of an obnoxious Vice-Chancellor or\nProctor upon whom to vent their indignation) poured it forth in yells and\ngroans upon those members of the senate who kept on their hats or caps. The\nsame has been done on several former occasions. It probably {28} arises\nfrom a mistake, in ascribing to the _gaucherie_ of individuals what is\nreally the observance of a very ancient custom. The following extract, from\nan unpublished MS. of the middle (I think) of the seventeenth century, in\nwhich the custom is incidentally noticed, will serve for a confirmation of\nwhat I say:\n\n    \"When I was regent, the whole house of congregation joyned together in\n    a petition to the Earle of Pembroke to restore unto us the jus\n    pileorum, the licence of putting on our cappes at our publicke\n    meetings; which priviledge time and the tyrannie of our\n    vicechancellours had taken from us. Amongst other motives, we use the\n    solemne forme of creating a M^r in the Acte by putting on his cappe,\n    and that that signe of libertie might distinguish us which were the\n    Regents from those boyes which wee were to governe, which request he\n    graciouslie granted.\"\n\nThis was written by an M.A. of Oxford. At Cambridge we have not hitherto\nhad such haughty despots in authority, to trample upon our rights; but we\nseem to be in danger of losing our jus pileorum through \"the tyrannie,\" not\nof our Vice-Chancellors, but \"of those boyes which wee are to governe.\"\n\nA REGENT M.A. OF CAMBRIDGE.\n\nLincoln's Inn.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.\n\n(_Continued from_ p. 8.)\n\nIV.\n\n_Dr. John Ward, Professor of Gresham College, to Dr. Cary, Bishop of\nClonfert._\n\n[MS. Donat., Brit. Mus., 6226, p. 16.]\n\n  My Lord,\n\nWhile there was any expectation of your Lordship's speedy return to\nEngland, I forbore to congratulate you on your late promotion. For though\nnone of your friends could more truly rejoice at this news than I did, both\non your own account, and that of the public; yet in the number of\ncompliments which I was sensible you must receive on that occasion, I close\nrather to be silent for fear of being troublesome. But as I find it is now\nuncertain, when your affairs may permit of your return hither, I could not\nomit this opportunity by your good Lady to express my hearty congratulation\nupon the due regard shown by the Government to your just merit; and shall\nthink it an honour to be continued in your esteem as _ultimus amicorum_.\n\nI doubt not but your Lordship has seen Mr. Horsley's _Britannia Romana_\nadvertised in some of our public Papers; but I know not whether you have\nheard that the author died soon after he had finished the work, before its\npublication. When it was hoped that the credit of this book might have been\nof some service to him and his large family, he was suddenly and\nunexpectedly taken off by an Apoplexy. Such is the uncertainty of all human\naffairs. That your Lordship may be long preserved in your high station for\nthe good of the Protestant Religion, and the support of public liberty, are\nthe sincere wishes of,\n\n  My Lord,\n  Your Lordship's obed^t Serv^t.\n  JOHN WARD.\n\n  Gresham College,\n  April 24, 1732.\n\nV.\n\n_Mr. Michael Mattaire to the Earl of Oxford._\n\n1736, Oct. 21. Orange Street.\n\n  My Lord,\n\nAfter my most humble thanks for the continuation of Westminster Elections\nyou was so kind as to give me, I must acquit myself of my promise; and\ntherefore I herewith send your Lordship a copy transcrib'd exactly from the\nMS. given me by Dr. South himself of his verses upon Westminster School,\nwith his name, and the year subscribed at bottom. They were indeed\npublish'd among his _Opera Posthuma Latina Anon._ 1717, by Curl, after his\nimpudent way of dealing with dead authors' works; and sometimes also with\nthose of the living.\n\nCurl's printed copy differs from the MS. in these following places:\n\n             _Curl._         _MS._\n  Vers. 5.   Multum.       Lat\u00e8\n        16.  Et.           dum.\n        21.  ubi regnat.   qu\u00f2d regnet.\n        23.  \u00e6mula.        \u00e6mula, but over it ardua.\n        25.  dirigit.      digerit.\n        26.  nitent.       micant.\n        29.  studios\u00e6.     studiosa.\n        30.  illa.         ipsa.\n        33.  lumen.        Lucem.\n\nYour Lordship by this may see how much this sawcy fellow has abused this\nlearned man's fine copy of verses; and how justly he deserved the\ncorrection which was inflicted on him at that school.\n\nBy the tenth Distich it appears that the School (containing then _Tercentum\njuvenes_) was managed by three Masters onely: and, for aught we know, might\nflourish pretty well, though it had not twice that number.\n\nGive me leave, my Lord, to subscribe myself with profound respect,\n\n  Your Honor's\n    most oblig'd, most obedient,\n      and most humble Serv^t.\n          M. MAITTAIRE.\n\n  \"IN INCLYTAM SCHOLAM REGIAM WESTMONASTERIENSEM.\n\n  Regin\u00e6 fundata manu, Regina scholarum;\n    Quam Virgo extruxit, Mus\u00e1q; Virgo colit.\n  {29}\n  Inconfusa Babel, linguis et mole superba;\n    Celsior et fam\u00e2, qu\u00e0m fut illa situ.\n  Gentibus et linguis lat\u00e8 celebrata; tacere\n    De qu\u00e2 nulla potest, nec sat\u00ecs ulla loqui.\n  Opprobria exuperans, pariterq; encomia: Linguis\n    Et tot laudari digna, quot ipsa doces.\n  H\u00e6br\u00e6us Gr\u00e6cusq; uno cernuntur in Anglo;\n    Qui puer huc Anglus venerat exit Arabs.\n  Tercentum hic florent juvenes: mihi mira videtur\n    Tam numerosa simul, tam quoque docta cohors.\n  Sic numero bonitas, numerus bonitate relucet;\n    Ut stellas pariter lux numerusq; decet.\n  Arte senes, annis pueros mirabitur hospes;\n    Dum stupet, in pueris nil puerile videns.\n  Consurgit, crescitq; puer, velut Hydra sub ictu;\n    Florescitq; suis s\u00e6pe rigatus aquis.\n  Stat regimen triplici fasces moderante magistro;\n    Doctaq; Musarum regna Triumvir habet.\n  Scilicet has inter sedes qu\u00f2d regnet Apollo,\n    Optim\u00e8 Apollineus comprobat ille Tripos.\n                                  ardua\n  Sic super invidiam sese effert \u00e6mula; nullis\n    Invida, sed cunctis invidiosa scholis.\n  Ind\u00e8 in septenas se digerit ordine classes;\n    Disposit\u00e6, septem, qu\u00e6 velut Astr\u00e6, micant.\n  Discit et Authores propria inter moenia natos;\n    Et generosa libros, quos legit, ipsa parit.\n  Instar Araneol\u00e6 Studiosa has exhibet artes;\n    Quas de visceribus texuit ipsa suis.\n  Literulas docet hic idem Pr\u00e6ceptor et Author,\n    Idem discipulis Bibliotheca suis.\n  Accipit h\u00ecc lucem, non ultr\u00e0 c\u00e6cus, Homerus:\n    Huc venit \u00e0 Scythicis Naso reversus agris.\n  Utraq; divitijs nostris Academia crescit;\n    H\u00e6c Schola ad implendas sufficit una duas.\n  Sic Fons exiguus binos excurrit in Amnes:\n    Parnassi geminus sic quoque surgit Apex.\n  Huic collata igitur, quant\u00f9m ipsa Academia pr\u00e6stat:\n    Dic, precor; H\u00e6c doctos accipit, Illa facit.\n                          ROB. SOUTH.\n                          Ann. Dom. 1652,\n                          aut 1653.\"\n\n[MS. Harl. 7025, fols. 184, 185.]\n\nVI.\n\n_The Earl of Orrery to Mr., afterwards Dr., Thomas Birch._\n\n[Addit. MS., Brit. Mus., 4303, Art. 147. Orig.]\n\nCaledon, Sept. 21, 1748.\n\n  Dear Sir,\n\nIt either is, or seems to be, a long time since I heard from you. Perhaps\nyou are writing the very same sentence to me; but as the loss is on my\nside, you must give me leave to complain.\n\nThis summer has passed away in great idleness and feasting: so that I have\nscarce looked into a book of any sort. Mrs. Pilkington and Con. Philips,\nhowever, have not escaped me. I was obliged to read them to adapt myself to\nthe conversation of my neighbours, who have talked upon no other topic,\nnotwithstanding the more glorious subjects of Peace, and Lord Anson's\nvoyage. The truth is, we are better acquainted with the stile of Con. and\nPilky, than with the hard names and distant places that are mentioned in\nthe Voyage round the World.\n\nI have not peeped into the Anti-Lucretius: it is arrived at Caledon, and\nreserved for the longest evenings. Carte's voluminous History is weighing\ndown one of my shelves. He likewise is postponed to bad weather, or a fit\nof the gout. Last week brought us the first Number of Con's second volume.\nShe goes on triumphantly, and is very entertaining. Her sister Pilkington\nis not so fortunate. She has squandered away the money she gained by her\nfirst volume, and cannot print her second. But from you, I hope to hear of\nbooks of another sort. A thin quarto named _Louthiana_ is most delicately\nprinted, and the cuts admirably engraved: and yet we think the County of\nLouth the most devoid of Antiquities of any County in Ireland. The County\nof Corke is, I believe, in the press; and I am told it will be well\nexecuted. I have seen the County of Waterford, and approve of it very much.\nThese kind of Books are owing to an Historical Society formed at Dublin,\nand of great use to this kingdom, which is improving in all Arts and\nSciences very fast: tho' I own to you, the cheapness of French Claret is\nnot likely to add much at present to the encrease of literature. If all\ntrue Hibernians could bring themselves to be of your opinion and Pindar's,\nthe glorious memory of King William might keep the head cool, and still\nwarm the heart; but, alas, it sets both on fire: and till these violent\nfits of bacchanalian loyalty are banished from our great tables, I doubt\nfew of us shall ever rise higher in our reading than the Memoirs of that\nkind I first mentioned.\n\nI am, Dear Sir, and so is all my family, truly\n\n                      Yours,\n                          ORRERY.\n\n  To the Rev. Mr. Thomas Birch,\n    at his House in\n          Norfolk Street,\n              London.\n  Free (Boyle).\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEWSPAPER FOLK LORE.\n\nThe following paragraph is now going the round of the newspapers without\nreference to the source of information. I copy it from the _Morning\nChronicle_ of Friday, December 9.\n\n    \"_Escape of a Snake from a Man's Mouth._--An extraordinary circumstance\n    occurred a few days ago to Jonathan Smith, gunner's mate, who was paid\n    off at Portsmouth on the 6th of May last, from her Majesty's ship\n    Hastings, 72 guns, on her return to England from the East Indies. He\n    obtained six weeks' leave. On the expiration of that time, after seeing\n    his friends at Chatham, he joined the Excellent, gunnery-ship at\n    Portsmouth. After some time he was taken unwell, {30} his illness\n    increased, and he exhibited a swelling in his stomach and limbs. The\n    surgeon considering that it arose from dropsy, he was removed into\n    Haslar Hospital, and after much painful suffering, although he had\n    every attention paid to him by the medical officers of the\n    establishment, he died. Two hours before his death a living snake, nine\n    inches in length, came out of his mouth, causing considerable surprise.\n    How the reptile got into his stomach is a mystery. It is supposed that\n    the deceased must have swallowed the reptile when it was young,\n    drinking water when the Hastings was out in India, as the ship laid for\n    some time at Trincomalee, and close to a small island called Snake\n    Island. The crew used very often to find snakes on board. The way they\n    used to get into the ship was by the cable, and through the hawsers\n    into the forecastle. The deceased was forty years of age. He was\n    interred in Kingston churchyard. His remains were followed to the grave\n    by the ship's company of the Excellent.\"\n\nThe proverbial wisdom of the serpent is here clearly exemplified. It has\nlong been well known among sailors that rats have the sense to change their\nquarters when a vessel becomes cranky; whence I believe arises the epithet\n\"rat,\" which is sometimes scurrilously applied to a politic man who removes\nto the opposition benches when he perceives symptoms of dissolution in the\nministry. The snake, in the simple narrative above quoted, was evidently\nguided by some such prudential motive when he quitted the stomach of the\ndying sailor, which could not continue for any great length of time to\nafford protection and support to the cunning reptile.\n\nI have an amiable friend who habitually swallows with avidity the tales of\nsea-serpents which are periodically imported into this country on American\nbottoms, and I have sufficient credulity myself to receive, without strict\nexamination into evidence, the account of the swarming of the snakes up the\ncables into a ship; but I cannot so readily believe that \"considerable\nsurprise\" was caused in the mind of any rational biped by the fact that a\nliving snake, which had attained to the length of nine inches, took the\nvery natural precaution to come out of a dying man's mouth.\n\nHow the reptile got into his stomach is a mystery which the newspaper\nwriter has attempted to clear up, but he has not attempted to explain how\nthe reptile managed to live during many months in so unusual a habitation\nas a man's stomach.\n\nSome obliging correspondent of \"N. & Q.\" will perhaps have the kindness to\nexplain this remarkable fact in natural history.\n\nA LONDONER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nKING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST OF 1689-90.\n\nIn last September I undertook a literary project, which I think could be\ngreatly aided through the medium of \"N. & Q.,\" as there are few families in\nthe empire that are not connected with its details, and who might therefore\nbe expected to feel interested in them. The project I allude to is a\npublication of King James's Irish Army List of 1689-90. King I must call\nhim in reference to that list. Those that appear upon it were many his\ncreedmen, and all his devoted adherents. The list, of which I have a copy\nin MS., extends over thirty-four pages octavo. The first two are filled\nwith the names of all the colonels; the four ensuing are rolls of the\nregiments of horse; the four next, of the dragoons; and the remaining\ntwenty-four record the foot: each regiment being arranged, with the\ncolonel, lieutenant-colonel, and major at head, and the captains,\nlieutenants, cornets or ensigns, and quarter-masters, in columns, on each\nrespectively. To every regiment I proposed to append notices, historic and\ngenealogical, to the extent of, perhaps, eight hundred pages or more, for\nthe compilation of which I have ample materials in my own MS. collections.\nThese notices I propose to furnish under him of the name who ranks highest\non the list; and all the scattered officers of that name will be collected\nin that one article.\n\nAfter an especial and full notice of such officer, to when the family\narticle is attached, his parentage, individual achievements, descendants,\n&c., each illustration will briefly glance at the genealogy of that family,\nwith, if an Irish sept, its ancient localities; if an English or Scotch,\nthe county from whence it branched, and the period when it settled here.\n\nI would next identify each family, so illustrated, with its attainders and\nforfeitures in 1641;\n\nWith the great Assembly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646;\n\nWith the persons denounced by name in Cromwell's ordinance of 1652, \"for\n_settling_ Ireland;\"\n\nWith the declaration of royal gratitude to the Irish exiles who served King\nCharles II. \"in parts beyond the seas,\" as contained in the _Act of\nExplanation_ of 1665;\n\nWith (if space allowable) those advanced by James II. to civil offices, as\nsheriffs, &c., or members of his new corporations;\n\nWith those who represented Irish counties or boroughs in the Parliament of\nDublin in 1689;\n\nWith the several outlawries and confiscations of 1691, &c.;\n\nWith else claims that were subsequently (in 1703) preferred as charges on\nthese forfeitures, and how far allowed or dismissed;\n\nAnd, lastly, as far as attainable, their achievements in the glorious\nengagements of the Spanish and French Brigades: {31}\n\nAll statements throughout being _verified by authorities_.\n\nAlready have I compiled and arranged the materials for illustrating the\neight regiments of horse upon this roll, viz. Tyrconnel's, Galmoy's,\nSarsfield's, Abercorn's, Luttrell's, Sutherland's, Parker's, and Purcell's;\na portion of the work in which, according to my plan, the illustrations\nwill be appropriated to the families of--\n\n  Aylmer.\n  Barnewall.\n  Butler.\n  Callaghan.\n  Cusack.\n  De Courcy.\n  Dempsey.\n  Everard.\n  Gernon.\n  Hamilton.\n  Kearney.\n  Lawless.\n  Lutrell.\n  Matthews.\n  McDonnell\n  McNamara.\n  Meara.\n  Morris.\n  Nagle.\n  O'Sullivan.\n  O'Kelly.\n  Plunket.\n  Prendergast.\n  Purcel.\n  Redmond.\n  Rice.\n  Roche.\n  Sarsfield.\n  Sheldon.\n  Synnott.\n  Talbot.\n  &c. &c.\n\nAnd this section (about 100 pages) is open to inspection on appointment.\n\nThe above is but a tithe of the surnames whose genealogical illustrations I\npropose to furnish. The succeeding portions of the work, comprising six\nregiments of Dragoons, and upwards of fifty of Foot, will offer for notice,\nbesides numerous septs of the O's and Mac's, the Anglo-Irish names of--\n\n  Barry.\n  Bellew.\n  Bermingham.\n  Burke.\n  Cheevers.\n  Cruise.\n  D'Alton.\n  Daly.\n  D'Arcy.\n  Dillon.\n  Dowdall.\n  Eustace.\n  Fagan.\n  FitzGerald.\n  FitzMaurice.\n  FitzPatrick.\n  Fleming.\n  Grace.\n  Keatinge.\n  Lacy.\n  Nangle.\n  Netterville.\n  Nugent.\n  Power.\n  Preston.\n  Russell.\n  Savage.\n  Segrave.\n  Taaffe.\n  Trant.\n  Tyrrel.\n  Wogan.\n  _Cum multis aliis._\n\nMy inquiry touching Lord Dover, who heads the List, has heretofore elicited\nmuch curious information; and I confide that all who can afford literary\nassistance to the undertaking, by letters, inspection of documents, or\notherwise, will promptly communicate on the subject.\n\nJOHN D'ALTON.\n\n48. Summer Hill, Dublin.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Authors and Publishers._--As \"N. & Q.\" is, I believe, much read by\nbooksellers as well as authors, would not both parties find great advantage\nby the latter advertising in your pages the completion and wished-for\npublication of any work on which they may have been engaged? Publishers, in\nthis way, might hear of works which they would be glad to bring before the\npublic, and authors be spared much unnecessary and often useless trouble\nand correspondence. Authors, I know, may feel some delicacy in coming\nbefore the world in this manner _before_ publication, although after that\nrubicon is passed, their names and productions are blazoned on the winds;\nbut as a previous announcement in \"N. & Q.\" may be made _anonymously_, as\nrespects the name of the writer, although not of course as regards the\nnature of his work, there seems no just reason why honorable and beneficial\narrangements may not be made in this way as well as by any other. To me\nthis plan seems to offer some advantages, and I throw out the hint for the\nconsideration of all whom it may concern.[2]\n\nALPHA.\n\n[Footnote 2: [Any assistance which we can afford in carrying out this\nsuggestion, which we may remark comes from one who has had practical\nexperience on the subject, we shall be most happy to render.--ED.]]\n\n_Inscriptions on old Pulpits._--\"N. & Q.\" has given many kinds of\ninscriptions, from those on Fonts and Door-heads down to those on\nWatch-papers; perhaps, therefore, it may not be without its use or interest\nto make a beginning for a list of inscriptions on old pulpits. The first\ninscription I quote is from Richard Baxter's pulpit, of which I have given\na full description in Vol. v., p. 363.:\n\n1. Kidderminster. Baxter's pulpit (now preserved in the vestry of the\nUnitarian Chapel). On the panels of the pulpit:\n\n  \"ALICE . DAWKX . WIDOW . GAVE . THIS.\"\n\nOn the front of the preacher's desk:\n\n  \"PRAISE . THE . LORD.\"\n\nRound the sounding-board:\n\n  \"O . GIVE . THANKS . UNTO . THE . LORD . AND . CALL\n      UPON . HIS . NAME . DECLARE . HIS . WORSHIP\n                 AMONG . THE . PEOPLE.\"\n\nAt the back of the pulpit:\n\n  \"ANNO . 1621.\"\n\n2. Suckley, Worcestershire; round the sounding-board (apparently of very\nold date):\n\n  \"BLESSED . ARE . THEY . THAT . HEAR . THE . WORDE . OF\n                 GOD . AND . KEEPE . IT.\"\n\n3. Broadwas, Worcestershire; on the panels:\n\n  \"WILLIAM . NOXON . AND . ROGER . PRINCE . C . W . 1632.\"\n\nRound the sounding-board, the same text as at Suckley.\n\nCUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_Recent Curiosities of Literature._--Thackeray, in the second number of\n_The Newcomes_, describes an old lady's death as being caused from her head\nhaving been _cut_ with a bed-room _candle_. N. P. Willis, in his _Health\nTrip to the Tropics_, speaks {32} of being waited on by a Carib, who had\n\"no beard except a long moustache.\" Professor Spalding, of St. Andrew's in\nhis _History of English Literature_, says that the sonnets of Wordsworth\n\"have _perfection_ hardly to be _surpassed_.\" And J. Stanyan Bigg (the \"new\npoet\"), in the December number of Hogg's _Instructor_, exclaims:\n\n  \"The winter storms come rushing round the wall,\n  Like him who at Jerusalem shriek'd out 'Wo!'\"\n\nCUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.\n\n_Assuming Names._--Last Term, in the Court of Exchequer, application was\nmade by counsel to add a surname to the name of an attorney on the roll; he\nhaving been left property with a wish expressed that he should take the\nsurname in addition to his own, which he had done, but not by royal\nlicense. The court granted the application. (_Law Times_, vol. xxii. p.\n123.)\n\nANON.\n\n_False Dates in Water-marks of Papers._--Lately, in cutting up some paper\nfor photographic purposes, I found in one and the same quire two sheets\nwithout any mark, two of the date 1851, nine bearing the date 1853, and the\nremaining eleven were 1854. I can imagine a case might occur in which the\nauthenticity of a document might be much questioned were it dated 1853,\nwhen the paper would be presumed not to have been made until a year\nafterwards. I think this is worth making a note of not only by lawyers, but\nthose interested in historical documents.\n\nH. W. D.\n\nJan. 2, 1854.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nCAPTAIN FARRE.\n\nI send you a Note and a Query respecting the same person. Many years since,\nI passed a few days in one of the wildest spots in the south of\nEngland--Hawkley, in the neighbourhood of Selbourne. On a visit to the\nchurch of Emshott or Empshot, I heard that the screen had been presented by\na Captain Farre, whose memory was in some way connected with the days of\nthe republic; and on farther inquiry tradition, it appeared, had come to\nthe conclusion that Farre had been one of the regicides who had retired\ninto the neighbourhood, and lived and died there in a sort of concealment.\nI found out, also, the house in which he had lived: a pretty modest\ncottage, in which a small farmer resided. I was struck, on approaching it,\nby the beauty of the brick-work of the little porch, which appeared to have\nbeen an addition to the original building. On entering the cottage, I found\nthat the kitchen and bed-room only were occupied by the family; the _one\nroom_, which _had been_ the sitting-room, being used as a granary. The\nceiling of this room was ponderous, with a deep rich sunken panelling. The\nlittle porch-entrance and the ceiling of this room were so out of character\nwith the cottage, and indeed with all around, that I caused search to be\nmade in the Registers of the parish to see if I could find some trace of\nthis Captain Farre; and I now send you the result. There was no regicide of\nthat name; but Col. Phaer was one of those to whom the warrant for the\nexecution of Charles was addressed: and he certainly was not one of the\ntwenty-nine subsequently tried for the high treason as it was called. What\nbecame of him I know not. Whether he reappeared here as Capt. Farre, or who\nCapt. Farre was, I shall leave to the speculation of the better informed.\nThere were many Farrs and Phaers _out_ in the great Revolution, and the\nname is sometimes spelt one way, sometimes the other. Empshot, under Nore\nHill or Noah Hill, was certainly an excellent place for concealment. The\nneighbourhood was, and is, as White said, \"famous for its oaks, and\ninfamous for its roads.\"\n\n    _Extracts from the Parish Registers._\n\n    \"_Captaine Farre of Nore_, when our church was repaired, gave the new\n    silke cushion and pullpit cloath, which was first used on Christmas\n    Day, Anno Domini 1664.\"\n\n    \"1683, Feb. 5. Anne Baker, kinswoman of _Capt. Farre_, was buried, and\n    that very day the moone was new, and the snow thawed; and the frost\n    broke, which had lasted from Nov. 26, 1683, to that day, which is 10\n    weeks. The ponds were frozen 2 feet, and that little water which was,\n    was not sweet; the very grave wherein she was buried in the church was\n    froze almost 2 feet over, and our cattel were in a bad case, and we\n    fared worse: and, just in our extremity, God had pitty on us, and sent\n    a gracious raine and thaw. She was buried in linnen; and paid 50s. to\n    the poore, and 6s. 8d. for being buried in the church.\"\n\n    \"1685, April 1. Mrs. Farre was buried in linnen, and p^d 50s. to the\n    poore.\"\n\n    \"1694. John, son of Mr. John Palmer and Elizabeth his wife, was born\n    Tuesday, May the 1st, and baptized at home May the 11th; y^e _Captaine_\n    died Thursday last, y^e day before.\"\n\n    \"An Account of the Briefe for the Relief of the French Protestants,\n    read May 16th, at Newton, 1686.\n\n    _At Noare in Newton._\n\n    _Capt. Mr. Robert Farre_ gave 1 lib. for himself, and his kinswoman\n    Mrs. Elizabeth Farre.\n\n      His man Roger    1s.\n      His maid Anna    6d.\"\n\n    \"Gathered towards the relief of the French Protestants, May 11, 1688;\n\n    _Captain Far_ and Mrs. Elizabeth Far, 5s.\"\n\nC. F.\n\n{33}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMARRIAGE CEREMONY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.\n\nWill some one of your correspondents (learned in such matters) refer me to\na work treating of the marriage ceremony as performed in this country\nduring the fourteenth century, in order to the explanation of the following\npassages, which refer to an event in English history--the marriage of\nEdward I.'s daughter with the Count of Holland? The king's writ to the\nBishop of London speaks of the marriage as about to be celebrated on the\nday after the Epiphany, upon which day (as shown by the Wardrobe Account)\nthe ring was put on; but it was on the next day (the 8th) that the princess\n\"despon[=s] fuit,\" as shown by the same account.\n\nIn Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. i. p. 850., will be found a writ directed to the\nBishop of London (and others) as follows:\n\n    \"Quia inter Comitem Holandi\u00e6 et Elizabetham, filiam nostram carissimam,\n    _matrimonium_ hac proxima die Lun\u00e6, _in crastino Epiphani\u00e6_, apud\n    Gyppesivicum solempnizari proponimus, Domino concedente,\" &c.\n\nIn the Household Book of King Edward I. for the same year (Add. MS. 7965.)\nwill be found the following entries, p. 6.:\n\n    \"_Obla[=t] p'ticipa[=t]._--Terc[=o] die Janu[=ar] in obla[=t]\n    [p=]ticipatis ad Missam celebr[=a]tam ad magn[=u] altare eccl[=i]a\n    priorat' [=b]i Pe[=t] in Gippewico die Nupcia[=r] Alienore de Burgo....\n    vij.\n\n    \"_Pro Comitessa Holland._--Eodem die (vij Janu[=ar]) in dena[=r] tam\n    positis su[p=] libr[=u] qi[=n] jactatis [=i]ter homines circumstantes\n    ad hostium in introitu eccl[=i]e Magne Prioratus pred[=c]i _ubi comes\n    Hollandie sub.... vit D[=n]am Elizabetham filiam Regis c[=u] anulo\n    auri...._ lxs.\n\n    \"Fratribus predicatoribus de Gippewico [p=] ... sua unius diei\n    videl[=tz] viij _diei Janu[=ar] quo die D[=na] Elizabeth filia R.\n    despon[=s] fuit_, [p=] M. de Cauford, xiijs. iiijd.\"\n\nR. C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMANUSCRIPT CATENA.\n\nAbout four years ago I purchased, at the sale of the museum of Mr. George\nBell of Whitehaven, a folio vellum MS. in Latin, written apparently in the\nfourteenth century: containing a Catena, or a series of notes on the\nEpistles to the Romans and Corinthians, selected from the Fathers of the\nChurch, viz. Origines, Ambrosius, Gregorius, Jeronimus, Augustinus,\nCassianus, Beda, Lambertus, Lanfrancus, Anselmus, and Ivo Carnotensis. As\nmany of those authors were English, I infer that the volume was compiled in\nEngland for some English monastery.\n\nThe beginning of each chapter is noted on the margin, but there is no\ndivision into verses. The sentences, or short paragraphs of the text, are\nwritten in vermillion, and the comments upon them in black: those comments\nare generally taken from one, but often from two or three authors; the\nnames of each being stated. There are large handsome capitals at the\nbeginning of each book, and the initials to the paragraphs are\ndistinguished by a spot of red, but there are no illuminations. Two leaves\nhave been cut out at the beginning of the volume; a few at two or three\nplaces throughout the volume, and at the end, by some former possessor. As\nthe style of binding is very uncommon, I will describe it. It was bound in\noak boards of half an inch thick; the sheets were sewed on thongs of white\nleather, similar to what cart harness is stitched with. Instead of the\nthongs being brought _over_ the back edges of the boards (as in modern\nbinding), they are inserted into mortices in the edges of the boards, and\nthen laced through holes, and secured with glue and wedges. The boards were\ncovered first with allumed leather, and over that seal-skin _with the hair\non_. The board at the beginning of the book had four feet, placed near the\ncorners, of nearly an inch in height, half an inch in diameter at the base,\nand about a quarter of an inch at the point. Each was cast in one piece,\nwith a circular base of about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and rising\ntowards the centre; and they were each fastened on by three pins or nails.\nThe board at the end of the book was ornamented with four circular brass\nplates about the size of a halfpenny, placed near the corners; having in\nthe centre of each a stud, the head of which represented a prominent close\nflower of four petals. And in the centre of the board, there had been a\nstud or button, on which to fasten the strap from the other board to keep\nthe book shut. Only one stud and one foot remained; but the places where\nthe others had been were easily seen. I presume that the volume was meant\nto lie on a lectern or reading-desk, resting on its feet; and when opened\nout, the other board rested on its studs, as both were worn smooth with\nuse.\n\nThe binding being loose, and the cover torn to shreds (part of which was\nheld on by the stud), I got the book rebound as nearly as possible in the\nsame manner as the first, only substituting Russia leather for the\nunsightly seal-skin; and the remaining stud and foot afforded patterns,\nfrom which others were cast to supply the places of those deficient.\n\nNothing is known of the history of this volume, except that it was\npurchased by Mr. Bell from Alexander Campbell, a bookseller in Carlisle. I\nam inclined to think, that it had belonged to some monastery in Cumberland;\nand the _seal-skin_ cover would seem to indicate Calder Abbey (which is\nnear _the coast_, where seals might be caught) as its original owner.\n\nCan any of your correspondents inform me, from the marks which I have\ngiven, whether this is a {34} copy of _some known work_ or an original\ncompilation? And if the former, state where the original MS. is preserved;\nand if _printed_, the particulars of the edition?\n\nIf my MS. can be ascertained to have formerly belonged to any library or\nindividual, I shall be glad to learn any particulars of its history.\n\nJ. M. K.\n\nShoreham.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Jews and Egyptians._--Has any writer ever started the idea that the early\ncolonisers of some of the Grecian states, who are commonly stated to have\nbeen Egyptians, may have been, in fact, Jews? It seems to me that a good\ndeal might be said in favour of this hypothesis, for the following reasons,\namongst others:\n\n1. The Egyptian tradition preserved by Hecat\u00e6us, and quoted from him by\nDiodorus, that Danaus and Cadmus were leaders of minor branches of the\ngreat emigration, of which the main body departed under the guidance of\nMoses.\n\n2. The near coincidence in point of time, as far as can be traced, of the\nappearance of Danaus, Cadmus, and Cecrops, in Greece, with the Jewish\nexodus.\n\n3. The letter, preserved by Josephus, of Areus, king of Sparta, to the\nhigh-priest of the Jews, claiming a common descent with the latter from\nAbraham, and proposing an alliance. It is difficult to explain this claim\non any other supposition than that Areus had heard of the tradition\nmentioned by Diodorus, and, as he and his people traced their descent from\nDanaus through Hercules, they consequently regarded themselves as sprung\nfrom a common stock with the Hebrews.\n\nI throw out this theory for the consideration of others, having myself\nneither leisure nor opportunity for pushing the subject any farther; but\nstill I think that a distinguished statesman and novelist, who amused the\nworld some years ago by endeavouring to trace most of the eminent men of\nmodern times to a Jewish origin, might, with at least as much reason, claim\nmost of the glories of ancient Greece for his favourite people.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Skin-flint._--Is the word _skin-flint_, a miserly or niggardly person, of\nEnglish or foreign derivation? and where is the earliest instance of the\nterm to be met with?\n\nJ. W.\n\n_Garlic Sunday._--The last Sunday of summer has been heretofore a day of\ngreat importance with the Irish, as upon it they first tried the new\npotato, and formed an opinion as to the prospects of future harvest. The\nday was always called, in the west in particular, \"Garlic Sunday,\" perhaps\na corruption of Garland Sunday. Can any one give the origin of this term,\nand say when first it was introduced?\n\nU. U.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Custom of the Corporation of London._--In the evidence of Mr. Bennoch,\ngiven before the Royal Commissioners for inquiring into the corporation of\nthe city of London, he stated that there is, amongst other payments, one of\n133l. \"for cloth to the great ministers of state,\" the city being bound by\nan old charter to give a certain amount of cloth annually to them. He\nsubsequently states that this custom is supposed to be connected with the\nencouragement of the wool manufacture in its early history; and that four\nand a half yards of the finest black cloth that the country can produce are\nannually sent to the First Secretary of State, the Second Secretary of\nState, the Lord Chancellor, the Chamberlain of the Household, the\nVice-Chancellor of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, the Lord\nSteward, the Controller, the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the\nLord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer,\nthe Master of the Rolls, the Recorder of London, the Attorney-General, the\nSolicitor-General, and the Common Sergeant.\n\nCan any of the readers of \"N. & Q.\" give a more particular account of this\ncustom?\n\nCERVUS.\n\n_General Stokes._--Can any of your readers give me any information\nrespecting the parentage of General Stokes? In the historical table of\nremarkable events in the _Jamaica Almanack_ for 1847 it says: \"General\nStokes, with 1600 men from Nevis, arrived and settled near Port Morant,\nanno Domini 1655.\" And in Bryan Edwards' work on _Jamaica and the West\nIndies_, mention is made of General Stokes in the following words:\n\n    \"In the month of December, 1655, General Stokes, with 1600 men from\n    Nevis, arrived in Jamaica, and settled near Port Morant. The family of\n    the Morants of Vere (in Jamaica) are the lineal descendants of General\n    Stokes, who took the name of Morant from the port at which he landed.\n    General Stokes was governor of Nevis; and on his arrival in Jamaica was\n    appointed one of the high commissioners for the Island.\"\n\nH. H. M.\n\n_Rev. Philip Morant._--I shall be obliged by any information respecting the\nlineage of the Rev. Philip Morant, who wrote a _History of the County of\nEssex_; and whether he was an ancestor of the Morants of Brockenhurst Park,\nHants. He was born at St. Saviour's, in the Isle of Jersey, Oct. 6, 1700;\nentered, 1717, Pembroke College, Oxford. He was presented to {35} the\nfollowing benefices in the county of Essex, viz. Shallow, Bowells,\nBromfield, Chicknal, Imeley, St. Mary's, Colchester, Wickham Bishops, and\nto Oldham in 1745. He died Nov. 25, 1770; and his only daughter married\nThomas Astle, Esq., F.R.S. and F.A.S. He was son of Stephen Morant. If any\nof the sons or daughters of that eminent antiquary Thomas Astle will give\nme any information relative to the pedigree of Philip Morant, M.A., they\nwill greatly oblige me.\n\nH. H. M.\n\nMalta.\n\n_The Position of Suffragan Bishops in Convocation._--In Chamberlayne's\n_Magn\u00e6 Britanni\u00e6 Notitia, or The Present State of Great Britain_, 1729, p.\n73., it is said:\n\n    \"All suffragan bishops and deans, archdeacons, prebendaries, rectors,\n    and vicars, have privileges, some by themselves, others by proxy or by\n    representatives, to sit and vote in the lower house of convocation.\"\n\nIs there authority for this statement as regards suffragan bishops? There\nis no writ or mandate that I have seen for their appearance.\n\nW. FRASER.\n\nTor-Mohun.\n\n_Cambridge Mathematical Questions._--Can any of your readers inform me\nwhether the University of Cambridge puts forth, by authority, a collection\nof all the questions proposed to candidates for the B.A. degree?\n\nIf not, how can one obtain access to the questions which have been asked\nduring the last forty or fifty years?\n\nIOTA.\n\n_Crabbe MSS._--In some second-hand book catalogue the following is\ninserted, viz.,--\n\n    \"1353. Crabbe (Rev. Geo., _Poet_), Poems, Prayers, Essays, Sermons,\n    portions of Plays, &c., _5 vols. entirely autograph, together with a\n    Catalogue of Plants, and Extracts from the second Volume of the\n    Transactions of the Linnean Society, 1795 (this volume only contains a\n    few Autograph Verses in pencil at the end). An Autograph letter of 4\n    pages to the Dean of Lincoln, dated_ TROWBRIDGE, March 31, 1815. _A\n    curious Anonymous letter from 'Priscian' to Mr. Murray, dated_ Dec.\n    8th, 1833, _on the Orthography of the name of the Birthplace of the\n    Poet, and which the writer observed in the View of the Town of\n    Aldeburgh in the frontispiece to the Prospectus Mr. M. has just issued,\n    &c., interspersed with some portraits and scraps, in 6 vols. 4to. and\n    8vo., dated from 1779 to 1823, 8l. 8s._\"\n\nThis is a note underneath:\n\n    \"The following portion of a Prayer, evidently alluding to his troubles,\n    occurs in one of the volumes bearing date Dec. 31, 1779: 'A thousand\n    years, most adored Creator, are in thy Sight as one Day. So contract in\n    my Sight my Calamities! The Year of Sorrow and Care, of Poverty and\n    Disgrace, of Disappointment and wrong, is now passing on to join the\n    Eternal. Now, O Lord! let, I beseech thee, my Afflictions and Prayers\n    be remembered; my Faults and Follies be forgotten.' 'O! Thou who art\n    the Fountain of Happiness, give me better Submission to thy Decrees,\n    better Disposition to correct my flattering Hopes, better Courage to\n    bear up under my State of Oppression,'\" &c.\n\nCan any of the reader of \"N. & Q.\" tell me who possesses this? I should\nvery much like to know.\n\nH. T. BOBART.\n\nAshby-de-la-Zouch.\n\n_Tilly, an Officer of the Courts at Westminster._--What office did one\nTilly hold in one of the Courts at Westminster, circa 8 William III.? Was\nhe Warden of the Fleet? What were his connexions by birth and by marriage?\nWas he dispossessed? and if so, why?\n\nJ. K.\n\n_Mr. Gye._--Who was Mr. Guye, or Gye, who had chambers in the Temple circa\n8 Wm. III.?\n\nJ. K.\n\n_Three Fleurs-de-Lys._--Some of your heraldic contributors may perhaps be\nable to say whether there is any instance of an English coat of arms with\nthree fleurs-de-lys in a line (horizontal), in the upper part of the\nshield? Such are said to occur in coats of arms of French origin, as in\nthat of the celebrated Du Guesclin, and perhaps in English coats in the\nform of a _triangle_. But query whether, in any instance, in a horizontal\nline?\n\nDEVONIENSIS.\n\n_The Commons of Ireland previous to the Union in 1801._--I have understood\nthere was a work which contained either the memoirs or sketches of the\npolitical characters of all the members of the last \"Commons of Ireland;\"\nand I have heard it was written by a Rev. Dr. Scott of, I believe, Trinity\nCollege, Dublin. Can any reader of \"N. & Q.\" inform me if there be such a\nwork? and if there be a biographical account of the author to be met with?\n\nC. H. D.\n\n\"_All Holyday at Peckham._\"--Can any of your correspondents inform me what\nis the origin of the phrase \"All holyday at Peckham?\"[3]\n\nR. W. B.\n\n[Footnote 3: [Probably some of our correspondents may know the _origin_ of\nthis phrase; and as many of them, perhaps, are not acquainted with its\nmeaning among the slang literati, we may as well enlighten them with a\nquotation from the _Lexicon Balatronicum et Macaronicum_ of Master Jon Bee:\n\"_Peckham_, going to dinner. 'All holiday at _Peckham_,' no appetite.\n_Peckish_, hungry.\"--ED.]]\n\n_Arthur de Vere._--What was the after history of Arthur (Philipson) de\nVere, son of John, Earl of Oxford, and hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel\n{36} _Anne of Geierstein?_ Was Sir Walter Scott justified in saying, \"the\nmanners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration at\nthe English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalet?\"\n\n[Sigma].\n\n_Master of the Nails._--It appears from the _Historical Register_, January,\n1717, \"Mr. Hill was appointed Master of all the Nails at Chatham Dock.\" Can\nany of your readers favour me by stating the nature of the above office?\n\nW. D. H.\n\n_Nattochiis and Calchanti._--few days since an ancient charter was laid\nbefore me containing a grant of lands in the county of Norfolk, of the date\n1333 (temp. Edw. II.), in which the following words are made use of:\n\n    \"Cu' omnib; g'nis t natthocouks adjacentib;\" &c.\n\nIn a later portion of the grant this word is spelt _natthociis_. Probably\nsome of your learned readers can throw some light on what is meant by the\nwords _granis et nattochiis_ as being appurtenant to marsh lands.\n\nIn a grant I have also now before me of Queen Elizabeth--\n\n    \"Decimas, calchanti, liquor, mineral, metal,\" &c.\n\nare given to the grantee for a term of twenty-one years: probably your\nreaders can also enlighten my ignorance of the term _calchanti_; the other\nwords are obvious. If any authorities are to be met with, probably in the\nanswers to these queries your correspondents will have the goodness to cite\nthem.\n\nF. S. A.\n\n\"_Ned o' the Todding._\"--May I beg, through the medium of your excellent\npublication, to ask if any of your correspondents can inform me in which of\nour English authors I may find some lines headed \"Ned o' the Todding?\"\n\nW. T.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries with Answers.\n\n_Bridget Cromwell and Fleetwood._--Can you inform me whether Bridget,\ndaughter of Oliver Cromwell, who was first married in 1651 to Ireton, Lord\nDeputy of Ireland (and had by him a large family), and secondly, to General\nFleetwood, had any family by the latter?\n\nAnd, if so, what were the Christian names of the children (Fleetwood)?\n\nA NEW SUBSCRIBER OF 1854.\n\n    [Noble, in his _Memoirs of the House of Cromwell_, vol. ii. p. 369.,\n    says, \"It is most probable that Fleetwood had issue by his second wife\n    Bridget, especially as he mentions that she was in an increasing way in\n    several of his letters, written in 1654 and 1655. It is highly probable\n    Mr. Charles Fleetwood, who was buried at Stoke Newington, May 14, 1676,\n    was his son by the Protector's daughter, as perhaps was Ellen\n    Fleetwood, buried in the same place in a velvet coffin, July 25, 1731;\n    if so, she must have been, at the time of her death, upwards of seventy\n    years of age.\"]\n\n_Culet._--In my bills from Christ Church, Oxford, there is a charge of\nsixpence every term for _culet_. What is this?\n\nB. R. I.\n\n    [In old time there was a collection made every year for the doctors,\n    masters, and beadles, and this was called _collecta_ or _culet_: the\n    latter word is now used for a customary fee paid to the beadles. \"I\n    suppose,\" says Hearne, \"that when this was gathered for the doctors and\n    masters it was only for such doctors and masters as taught and read to\n    scholars, of Which sort there was a vast number in old time, and such a\n    collection was therefore made, that they might proceed with the more\n    alacrity, and that their dignity might be better supported.\"--Appendix\n    to _Hist. Rob. de Avesbury_.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nTHE ASTEROIDS OR RECENTLY DISCOVERED LESSER PLANETS.\n\n(Vol. vii., p. 211.; Vol. viii., p. 601.)\n\nQU\u00c6STOR has asked me a question to which I will not refuse a reply. If he\nthinks that the breaking up of a planetary world is a mere fancy, he may\nconsult Sir John Herschel's _Astronomy_, \u00a7 434., in Lardner's series, ed.\n1833, in which the supposition was treated as doubtful, and farther\ndiscoveries were declared requisite for its confirmation; and Professor\nMitchell's _Discoveries of Modern Astronomy_, Lond. 1850, pp. 163-171.,\nwhere such discoveries are detailed, and the progress of the proof is\nnarrated and explained. It may be briefly stated as follows:--In the last\ncentury, Professor Bode discovered the construction of a regular series of\nnumbers, in coincidence with which the distances of all the known planets\nfrom the sun had been arranged by their Creator, saving one exception.\nCalling the earth's solar distance 10, the next numbers in the series are\n16, 28, 52. The distances answering to 16 and 52, on this scale, are\nrespectively occupied by the planets Mars and Jupiter; but the position of\n28 seemed unoccupied. It was not likely that the Creator should have left\nthe methodical order of his work incomplete. A few patient observers\nagreed, therefore, to divide amongst themselves that part of the heavens\nwhich a planet revolving at the vacant distance might be expected to\ntraverse; and that each should keep up a continuous examination of the\nportion assigned to him. And the result was the discovery by Piazzi, in\n1801, of a planet revolving at the expected solar distance, but so minute\nthat the elder Herschel computed its diameter to be no more than 163 miles.\nThe discovery of a second by Olbers, in the {37} following year, led him to\nconjecture and suggest that these were fragments of a whole, which, at its\nfirst creation, had occupied the vacant position, with a magnitude not\ndisproportionate to that assigned to the other planets. Since then there\nhave been, and continue to be, discoveries of more and more such fragmental\nplanets, all moving at solar distances so close upon that numbered 28, as\nto pass each other almost, as has been said, within peril; but in orbits\nwhich seem capriciously elevated and depressed, when referred to the planes\nassigned for the course of the regular planets; so that, to most minds\ncapable of appreciating these facts, it will seem that Olber's conjecture\nhas been marvellously confirmed.\n\nAs to the theological conjecture appended to it in my previous\ncommunication, about which QU\u00c6STOR particularly questions me, I can only\nsay, that if he deems it rash or wrong, I have no right to throw the blame\nof it on any other man's shoulders, as I am not aware of its having been\nhazarded by any one else. But I hope he will agree with me, that if there\nhas been a disruption of a planetary world, it cannot have arisen from any\nmistake or deficiency in the Creator's work or foresight, but should be\nrespectfully regarded as the result of some moral cause.\n\nHENRY WALTER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEMBLEMATIC MEANINGS OF PRECIOUS STONES (Vol. viii., p. 539).--PLANETS OF\nTHE MONTHS SYMBOLISED BY PRECIOUS STONES (Vol. iv., pp. 23. 164.).\n\nThe Poles have a fanciful belief that each month of the year is under the\ninfluence of a precious stone, which influence has a corresponding effect\non the destiny of a person born during the respective month. Consequently,\nit is customary, among friends and lovers, on birth-days, to make\nreciprocal presents of trinkets ornamented with the natal stones. The\nstones and their influences, corresponding with each month, are supposed to\nbe as follows:\n\n  January     Garnet.       Constancy and fidelity.\n  February    Amethyst.     Sincerity.\n  March       Bloodstone.   Courage. Presence of mind.\n  April       Diamond.      Innocence.\n  May         Emerald.      Success in love.\n  June        Agate.        Health and long life.\n  July        Cornelian.    Contented mind.\n  August      Sardonyx.     Conjugal felicity.\n  September   Chrysolite.   Antidote against madness.\n  October     Opal.         Hope.\n  November    Topaz.        Fidelity.\n  December    Turquoise.    Prosperity.\n\nThe Rabbinical writers describe a system of onomancy, according to the\nthird branch of the Cabala, termed _Notaricon_, in conjunction with\nlithomancy. Twelve anagrams of the name of God were engraved on twelve\nprecious stones, by which, with reference to their change of hue or\nbrilliancy, the cabalist was enabled to foretel future events. Those twelve\nstones, thus engraved, were also supposed to have a mystical power over,\nand a prophetical relation to, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and twelve\nangels or good spirits, in the following order:\n\n  _Anagrams._    _Stones._  _Signs._     _Angels._\n  [Hebrew: YHWH] Ruby.      Aries.       Mulchediel.\n  [Hebrew: YHHW] Topaz.     Taurus.      Asmodel.\n  [Hebrew: YWHH] Carbuncle. Gemini.      Ambriel.\n  [Hebrew: HWHY] Emerald.   Cancer.      Muriel.\n  [Hebrew: HWYH] Sapphire.  Leo.         Verchel.\n  [Hebrew: HHYW] Diamond.   Virgo.       Humatiel.\n  [Hebrew: WHHY] Jacinth.   Libra.       Zuriel.\n  [Hebrew: WYHH] Agate.     Scorpio.     Barbiel.\n  [Hebrew: HWHY] Amethyst.  Sagittarius. Adnachiel.\n  [Hebrew: HYHW] Beryl.     Capricornus. Humiel.\n  [Hebrew: WHYH] Onyx.      Aquarius.    Gabriel.\n  [Hebrew: HYWH] Jasper.    Pisces.      Barchiel.\n\nThese stones had also reference to the twelve tribes of Israel, twelve\nparts of the human body, twelve plants, twelve birds, twelve minerals,\ntwelve hierarchies of devils, &c. &c. _usque ad nauseum_.\n\nIt is evident that all this absurd nonsense was founded on the twelve\nprecious stones in the breast-plate of the High Priest (Exodus xxviii. 15.:\nsee also Numbers xxvii. 28., and 1 Samuel xxviii. 6.). I may add that in\nthe glorious description of the Holy City, in Revelation xxi., the mystical\nnumber twelve is again connected with precious stones.\n\nIn the _Sympathia Septem Metallorum ac Septem Selectorum Lapidum ad\nPlanetus_, by the noted Peter Arlensis de Scudalupis, the following are the\nstones and metals which are recorded as sympathising with what the ancients\ntermed the seven planets (I translate the original words):\n\n  Saturn     Turquoise.   Lead.\n  Jupiter    Cornelian.   Tin.\n  Mars       Emerald.     Iron.\n  Sun        Diamond.     Gold.\n  Venus      Amethyst.    Copper.\n  Mercury    Loadstone.   Quicksilver.\n  Moon       Chrystal.    Silver.\n\nN. D. inquires in what works he will find the emblematical meanings of\nprecious stones described. For a great deal of curious, but obsolete and\nuseless, reading on the mystical and occult properties of precious stones,\nI may refer him to the following works:--_Les Amours et noveaux Eschanges\ndes Pierres Pr\u00e9cieuses_, Paris, 1576; _Curiositez inouyes sur la Sculpture\nTalismanique_, Paris, 1637; _Occulta Natur\u00e6 Miracula_, Antwerp, 1567;\n_Speculum Lapidi_, Aug. Vind., 1523; _Les Oeuvres de Jean Belot_, Rouen,\n1569.\n\nW. PINKERTON.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n{38}\n\nNON-RECURRING DISEASES.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 516.)\n\nTo give a full and satisfactory answer to the questions here proposed would\ninvolve so much professional and physiological detail, as would be unsuited\nto the character of such a publication as \"N. & Q.\" I will therefore\ncontent myself with short categorical replies, agreeable to the present\nstate of our knowledge of these mysteries of the animal economy. It is true\nas a general rule that the infectious diseases, particularly the\nexanthemata, or those attended by eruption--the measles for example--occur\nbut once. But there are exceptional cases, and the most virulent of these\nnon-recurrent diseases, such even as small-pox, are sometimes taken a\nsecond time, and are then sometimes, though by no means always, fatal.\n\nWhy all the mammalia (for, be it observed, these diseases are not confined\nto the human race) are subject to these accidents, or why the animal\neconomy should be subject to such a turmoil at all, or, being so subject,\nwhy the susceptibility to the recurrence of the morbid action should exist,\nor be revived in some and not in others; and why in the majority of persons\nit should be extinguished at once and for ever, remain amongst the arcana\nof Nature, to which, as yet, the physiology of all the Hunters, and the\nanimal chemistry of all the Liebigs, give no solution.\n\nThose persons who take note of the able, and in general highly instructive,\nreports of the Registrar of Public Health, will observe that the word\n_zymotic_ is now frequently used to signify the introduction into the body\nof some morbific poisons,--such as prevail in the atmosphere, or are thrown\noff by diseased bodies, or generated in the unwholesome congregation of a\ncrowded population, which are supposed to act like yeast in a beer vat,\nexciting ferments in the constitution, in the case of the infections\ndiseases, similar to those which gave them birth. But this explains\nnothing, and only shifts the difficulty and changes the terms, and is no\nbetter than a modification of the opinions of our forefathers, who\nattributed all such disorders to a fermentation of the supposed \"humours\"\nof the body. The essence of these changes in the animal economy, like other\nphenomena of the living principle, remain, and perhaps ever will remain, an\nunfathomable mystery. It is our business to investigate, as much as in our\npower, and by a slow and cautious induction, the laws by which they are\ngoverned.\n\nNon-recurrence, or immunity from any future seizure in a person who has had\nan infectious disease, seems derivable from some invisible and unknown\n_impression_[4] made on the constitution. There is good reason to suppose\nthat this impression may _vary in degree_ in different individuals, and in\nthe same individual at different times; and thence some practical\ninferences are to be drawn which have not yet been well advanced into\npopular view, but to which I cannot advert unless some reader of \"N. & Q.\"\nput the question.\n\nM. (2)\n\n[Footnote 4: This word is used for want of a better, to signify some\nunknown change.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMILTON'S WIDOW.\n\n(Vol. viii., p. 594. &c.)\n\nGARLICHITHE'S apologies to MR. HUGHES are due, not so much for neglecting\nhis communications as for misquoting them. We all owe an apology to your\nreaders for keeping up so pertinaciously a subject of which I fear they\nwill begin to be tired.\n\nMR. HUGHES has _not_ stated that Richard Minshull of Chester, son of\nRichard Minshull, the writer of the letter of May 3, 1656, was born in\n1641. What MR. HUGHES _did_ state (Vol. viii., p. 200.) was, that Mrs.\nMilton's brother, Richard Minshull of Wistaston, was baptized on April 7 in\nthat year; and the statement is quite correct, as I can vouch, from having\nexamined the baptismal register. Richard Minshull of Chester was aged forty\nor forty-one at the date of his father's letter, as shown below; but even\nif he had been aged only fifteen, as supposed by GARLICHITHE, I do not see\nthat there is anything in the language of the letter to call for\nobservation. He had conveyed to his father a communication from Randle\nHolmes, and the father writes in answer,--\"Deare and loveing sonne, my love\nand best respects to you and to my daughter [GARLICHITHE may read\ndaughter-in-law if he likes, but I see no necessity for it], tendered\nw^{th} trust of y^r health. I have reaceived Mr. Alderman Holmes his\nletter, together with y^{rs}, wherin I understand that you desire to know\nwhat I can say concerning our coming out of Minshull House;\" and he\nproceeds to give the information asked for.\n\nGARLICHITHE, in his former communication, confounds Randle the\ngreat-grandfather with Randle the great-grandson, and in his present one he\nconfounds Richard Minshull of Chester, the uncle, with Richard Minshull of\nWistaston, the nephew. I agree with GARLICHITHE that \"he, Richard, the\nwriter of the said letter, must be _fairly presumed_ to have been married\nat the date of such letter,\" which he addresses to his \"Deare and loveing\nsonne;\" but what of that? Whom he married, your readers are informed at p.\n595. He died in the year following his letter, at the ripe age of\neighty-six.\n\nThe misquotations noticed above would, if not pointed out, lead to\ninextricable confusion of facts; and I am compelled therefore again to {39}\ntrouble you. In order, if possible, to set the matter at rest, I will put\ntogether in the form of a pedigree, compressed so as to be fit for\ninsertion in your columns, the material facts which have been the subject\nof so much discussion; but, before doing so, permit me a word of protest\nagainst some of the communications alluded to, which are scarcely fair to\n\"N. & Q.\"\n\nA correspondent (Vol. vii., p. 596.) asks for information as to Milton's\nwidow, and MR. HUGHES (Vol. viii., p. 12.) refers him to a volume in which\nwill be found the information asked for, and gives a brief outline of the\nfacts there stated. On this GARLICHITHE (Vol. viii., p. 134.), misquoting\nMR. HUGHES, calls his attention to Mr. Hunter's letter, which, if\nGARLICHITHE had availed himself of the reference furnished to him, he would\nhave found duly noticed. A second correspondent, MR. SINGER, whose literary\nservices render me unwilling to find fault with him (Vol. viii., p. 471.),\nheading his article with five references, of which not one is correct,\nsuggests as new evidence the very documents to which MR. HUGHES had\nfurnished a reference; and a third, T. P. L. (quoting an anonymous\npamphlet), jumps at once to the conclusion that \"there can be little doubt\"\nthe author derived his information from an authentic source, \"and, if so,\nit seems pretty clear\"--that all the evidence supplied by heralds'\nvisitations, wills, and title-deeds is to be discarded as idle fiction.\nSuch objections as these, and the replies which they have rendered\nnecessary, are, with the exception of the valuable contribution of MR.\nARTHUR PAGET, the staple of the contributions which have filled so much of\nyour valuable space.\n\nI conclude with my promised pedigree, the authorities for which are the\nCheshire Visitation of 1663-4, and the Lancashire Visitation of 1664-5,\nconfirmed by the letter to Randle Holmes, and the legal documents published\nby the Chetham Society:\n\n  John Mynshull, fourth and youngest son of John Mynshull of Mynshull,\n  married the daughter and co-heiress of Robert Cooper of Wistaston, and\n  founded the family subsequently settled there, as stated in his\n  great-grandson's letter.\n                                    |\n  Randle Mynshull of Wistaston married the daughter of Rawlinson of Crewe,\n  as stated in his grandson's letter.\n                                    |\n  Thomas Mynshull of Wistaston married Dorothy Goldsmith of Nantwich, as\n  stated in his son's letter.\n                                    |\n  Richard Mynshull of Wistaston married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas\n  Goldsmith of Bosworth, in co. Leic. (who was probably maternal aunt or\n  great-aunt to the John Goldsmith mentioned in Dr. Paget's will). He was\n  the writer of the letters in 1656, and died in 1657, aged eighty-six.\n  He had two daughters and three sons, viz.--\n                                    |\n               +--------------------+--+------------------------+\n               |                       |                        |\n       Randle Mynshull (1)     Thomas Mynshull (5)     Richard Mynshull (6)\n               |\n        +------+-----------------------+--------------------------+\n        |                              |                          |\n  Richard Mynshull (2)          John Mynshull (3)             Elizabeth (4)\n\n(1) Randle Mynshull of Wistaston married Ann Boot, and had seven children,\nof whom it will be necessary to mention three only, viz.--\n\n(2) Richard Mynshull, baptized April 7, 1641. On June 4, 1680, he executed\na bond, by the description of Richard Mynshull of Wistaston, frame-work\nknitter, to Elizabeth Milton of the city of London, widow, who, though not\nstated to be his sister, was evidently a near relative, as appears from the\ncontents of the bond.\n\n(3) John Mynshull appears to have resided in Manchester, where he was\nburied, May 18, 1720, and administration was granted at Cheshire to\nElizabeth Milton of Nantwich, widow, his lawful sister and next of kin.\n\n(4) Elizabeth, baptized December 30, 1638, married Milton in 1664, is\ndescribed as of London in the bond from her brother, on the occasion of her\npurchase of an estate at Brindley in Cheshire; is described as of Nantwich\nin three legal documents from 1713 to 1725; by the same description,\nadministered to her brother John in 1720, and made her will on August 22,\n1727, which was proved on October 10 in the same year.\n\n(5) Thomas Mynshull, the apothecary of Manchester, mentioned in Thomas\nPaget's will, aged fifty-one in 1664, had five sons and four daughters.\n\n(6) Richard Mynshull, alderman of Chester, to whom his father wrote the\nletter of May 3, 1656, aged forty-seven in 1663.\n\nJ. F. MARSH.\n\nWarrington.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTABLE-TURNING.\n\n(Vol. viii., pp. 57. 398.)\n\nOne of the most distinguished men of science in France, M. Chevreul, the\neditor (late or present) of the _Annales de Chimie_, &c., has commenced a\nseries of articles in the _Journal des Savants_ on the subject of the\ndivining-rod, the exploring pendulum, table-turning, &c., his intention\nbeing to investigate scientifically the phenomena presented in these\ninstances. Having formerly written much on the occult sciences and being a\nveteran in experimental science, M. Chevreul was generally deemed better\nqualified than most men living to throw light on the intervention of a\nprinciple whose influence he thinks he has proved by his own proper\nexperience. It will be better to quote his own language:\n\n    \"Ce principe concerne le _d\u00e9veloppement en nous d'une action musculaire\n    qui n'est pas le produit d'une volont\u00e9, mais le r\u00e9sultat d'une pens\u00e9e\n    qui se porte sur un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne du monde ext\u00e9rieur sans pr\u00e9occupation de\n    l'action musculaire indispensable \u00e0 la manifestation du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne_. Cet\n    \u00e9nonce sera d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 lorsque nous l'appliquerons \u00e0 l'explication des\n    faits observ\u00e9s par nous, et deviendra parfaitement clair, nous\n    l'esp\u00e9rons, lorsque le lecteur verra qu'il est l'expression pr\u00e9cise de\n    ces m\u00eames faits.\"\n\nA farther quotation (if it should not prove too long for \"N. & Q.\") from M.\nChevreul's {40} preliminary remarks will be thought interesting by many\npersons:\n\n    \"En d\u00e9finitive, nous esp\u00e9rons montrer d'une mani\u00e8re pr\u00e9cise comment des\n    gens d'esprit, sous l'influence de l'amour du merveilleux, si naturel \u00e0\n    l'homme, franchissent la limite du connu, du fini, et, d\u00e8s lors,\n    comment, ne sentant pas le besoin de soumettre \u00e0 un examen r\u00e9fl\u00e9chi\n    l'opinion nouvelle qui leur arrive sous le cachet du merveilleux et du\n    surnaturel, ils adoptent soudainement ce qui, \u00e9tudi\u00e9 froidement,\n    rentrerait dans le domaine des faits aux causes desquels il est donn\u00e9 \u00e0\n    l'homme de remonter. Existe-t-il une preuve plus forte de l'amour de\n    l'homme pour le merveilleux, que l'accueil fait de nos jours aux tables\n    tournantes? Nous ne le pensons pas. Plus d'un esprit fort, qui accuse\n    ses p\u00e8res de cr\u00e9dulit\u00e9 en rejetant leurs traditions religieuses\n    contemporains de Louis XIV., ont repouss\u00e9 comme impossible un trait\u00e9 de\n    chim\u00e8re. Ce fait confirme ce que nous avons dit de la cr\u00e9dulit\u00e9 \u00e0\n    propos de l'_Essai sur la Magie_ d'Eus\u00e8be Salverte, car si l'esprit\n    fort qui repousse la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation ne s'appuie pas sur la m\u00e9thode\n    scientifique propre \u00e0 discerner l'erreur de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9, l'incertain du\n    fait d\u00e9montr\u00e9, il sera sans cesse expos\u00e9 \u00e0 adopter comme vraies les\n    opinions les plus bizarres, les plus erron\u00e9es, ou du moins les plus\n    contestables.\"\n\nThe two articles hitherto published by M. Chevreul in the _Journal des\nSavants_ for the months of October and November, extend only to the\nfirst-mentioned subject of these inquiries, the divining-rod. The world\nwill probably wait with some impatience to learn the final views of so\neminent a scientific man.\n\nJ. MACRAY.\n\nOxford.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCELTIC ETYMOLOGY.\n\n(Vol. viii., pp. 229. 551.)\n\nYour correspondent is a very Ant\u00e6us. He has fallen again upon _uim_, and he\nrises up from it to defend the _Heapian_ pronunciation with renewed vigour.\nBut I cannot admit that he has proved the pedigree of _humble_ from the\nGaelic.\n\nBut, even if _uim_ were the root of a Sanscrit word, and not itself a\nderivative, still the many stages through which the derivation undoubtedly\npasses, without any need of reference to the Gaelic, are quite enough to\nestablish the existence and continuance of an aspirate, until we arrive at\nthe French; and it has already been proved, that many words which lose the\naspirate in French do not lose it in English. The progress from the\nSanscrit is very clear:\n\n_Sanscrit._ _Kshama._\n\n_Pracrit._ _Khama._\n\n_Old Greek._ [Greek: Chama]; whence [Greek: chamai], [Greek: chamaze],\n[Greek: chthamalos].\n\n_Latin._ _Humus_, _humilis_.\n\n_Italian._ _Umile_; because there is in Italian no initial aspirate.\n\n_French._ _'Humble_; because in words of Latin origin the French almost\nalways omit the aspirate.\n\n_English._ _'Humble._\n\nAnd here it may be observed, that _humilis_ never had, except in the\nVulgate and in ecclesiastical writers, the metaphorically Christian sense\nto which its derivatives in modern tongues are generally confined, and to\nwhich I believe the Gaelic _umhal_ to be strictly confined. But the\noriginal words for _humble_ are _iosal_ and _iriosal_, cognate with the\nIrish _iosal_ and _iriseal_, and the Cymric _isel_; and the olden and more\nestablished words for the earth are, both in Gaelic and Irish, _talamh_ and\n_lar_, cognate with the Cymric _llawr_.\n\nAll these facts lead to a reasonable suspicion that _uim_, _umhal_, and\n_umhailteas_ (an evident naturalisation of a Latin word) are all derived\nfrom Latin at a comparatively recent date, as certainly as _umile_,\n_humilde_, _'humble_, and _'humble_ are, and in the same Christian sense.\nThe omission of an aspirate in the Gaelic word is then easily accounted\nfor, without supposing it not to exist in other languages, and for this\nvery simple reason, that no Gaelic word commences with _h_. There are\n_some_ Celtic roots undoubtedly in the Latin language. It would be\ndifficult, for example, to derive _moenia_, _munire_, _gladius_, _vir_, and\n_virago_ from any other origin, but much the larger number of words, in\nwhich the two languages resemble each other, are either adoptions from the\nLatin or derivatives from one common source, e. g. _mathair_ and _mother_,\n_brathair_ and _brother_, as well as the Latin _mater_ and _frater_, from\nthe Sanscrit _matri_ and _bhratri_, &c., as all comparative philologists\nare well aware. Would your correspondents call it the _'Ebrew_ language,\nbecause a Gael calls it, as he must do, _Eabrach_?\n\nE. C. H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.\n\n_The Calotype Process: curling up of Paper._--I am happy in having the\nopportunity of replying to your correspondent C. E. F. (Vol. ix., p. 16.),\nbecause, with himself, I have found great annoyance from the curling up of\n_some_ specimens of paper. In the papers recently sold as Turner's, I find\nthis much increased upon his original make, so much so that, until I\nresorted to the following mode, I spoiled several sheets intended for\nnegatives, by staining the back of the paper, and which thereby gave a\ndifference of intensity when developed after exposure in the camera.\n\nI have provided myself with some very thick extra white blotting-paper\n(procured of Sandford). This being thoroughly damped, and placed between\ntwo pieces of slate, remains so for many weeks. If the paper intended to be\nused is properly interleaved between this damp blotting-paper, and allowed\nto remain there twelve hours at least before it is to be iodized, it will\nbe found to work most easily. It should be barely as damp as paper which is\nintended to be printed on. {41} This arrangement will be found exceedingly\nuseful for damping evenly cardboard and printed positives when they are\nintended to be mounted, so as to ensure their perfect flatness.\n\nIt is quite immaterial whether the paper is floated on a solution or\napplied with a glass rod. If a very few sheets are to be manipulated upon,\nthen, for economy, the glass rod is preferable; but if several, the\nfloating has the advantage, because it ensures the most even application. I\nsent you a short paragraph (Vol. ix., p. 32.) showing how we may be\ndeceived in water-marks upon paper; and when we are supposing ourselves to\nbe using a paper of a particular date, in fact we are not doing so.\n\nI would also caution your photographic correspondents from being deceived\nin the quality of a paper by the exceeding high gloss which is given it by\nextra hot-pressing. This is very pleasing to the eye, and would be a great\nadvantage if the paper were to remain dry; but in the various washings and\nsoakings which it undergoes in the several processes before the perfect\npicture is formed, the artificial surface is entirely removed, and it is\nonly upon a paper of a natural firm and even make that favourable results\nwill be procured.\n\nH. W. DIAMOND.\n\n_Turner's Paper._--There is great difficulty in procuring good paper of\nTurner's make; he having lately undertaken a contract for Government in\nmaking paper for the new stamps, the manufacture of paper for photographic\npurposes has been to him of little importance. In fact, this observation,\nof the little importance of photographic compared to other papers, applies\nto all our great paper-makers, who have it in their power to make a\nsuitable article. Mr. Towgood of St. Neots has been induced to manufacture\na batch expressly for photography; but we regret to say that, although it\nis admirably adapted for albumenizing and printing positives, it is not\nfavourable for iodizing, less so than his original make for ordinary\npurposes. All manufacturers, in order to please the eye, use bleaching\nmaterials, which deteriorate the paper chemically. They should be\nthoroughly impressed with the truth, that colour is of little consequence.\nA _bad-coloured paper_ is of no importance; it is the extraneous substances\nin the paper itself which do the mischief.\n\nED.\n\n_A Practical Photographic Query._--I have never had a practical lesson on\nphotography. I have worked it out as far as I could myself, and I have\nderived much information in reading the pages of \"N. & Q.,\" so that now I\nconsider myself (although we are all apt to flatter ourselves) an average\ngood manipulator. Independently of the information you have afforded me, I\nhave read all the works upon photography which I could procure; and as the\nmost extensive one is that by Mr. Robert Hunt, I went to the Exhibition of\nthe Photographic Society just opened, thinking I might there see his works,\nand gain that information from an inspection of them which I desired. My\ndisappointment was great on finding that Mr. Hunt does not exhibit, nor\nhave I been able to see any of his specimens elsewhere. May I ask if Mr.\nHunt _ever_ attempts anything practically, or is it to the _theory of\nphotography_ alone that he directs his attention?\n\nI begin to fear, unless he lets a little of each go hand-in-hand, that he\nwill mislead some of us amateurs, although I am quite sure unintentionally;\nfor personally I much respect him, having a high opinion of his scientific\nattainments.\n\nA READER OF ALL BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n\"_Service is no Inheritance_\" (Vol. viii., p. 587.; Vol. ix., p. 20.).--P.\nC. S. S. confesses that he is vulgar enough to take great delight in\nSwift's _Directions to Servants_, a taste which he had once the good\nfortune of hearing avowed by no less a man than Sir W. Scott himself. G. M.\nT., who (Vol. viii., p. 587.) quotes the _Waverley Novels_ for the use of\nthe phrase \"Service is no inheritance,\" will therefore scarcely be\nsurprised to find that it occurs frequently in Swift's _Directions_, and\nespecially in those to the \"Housemaid,\" chap. x. (_quod vide_).\n\nP. C. S. S.\n\n_Francis Browne_ (Vol. viii., p. 639)--It is not stated in the general\npedigrees when or where he died, whether single or married. His sister\nElizabeth died unmarried, Nov. 27, 1662; and his elder brother, Sir Henry\nBrowne of Kiddington, in 1689. A reference to their wills, if proved, might\nafford some information if he, Francis, survived either of these dates. The\nwill of Sir Henry Knollys, of Grove Place, Hants, the grandfather, might be\nreferred to with the same view, and the respective registers of Kiddington\nand Grove Place.\n\nG.\n\n_Catholic Bible Society_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--MR. COTTON will find some\naccount of this Society (the only one I know of) in Bishop Milner's\n_Supplementary Memoirs of the English Catholics_, published in the year\n1820, p. 239. It published a stereotype edition of the New Testament\nwithout the usual distinction of verses, and very few notes. The whole\nscheme was severely reprobated by Dr. Milner, on grounds stated by him in\nthe Appendix to the _Memoirs_, p. 302. The Society soon expired, and no\ntracts or reports were, I believe, ever published by it. The correspondence\nbetween Mr. Charles Butler and Mr. Blair will be found in the _Gentleman's\nMagazine_ for the year 1814.\n\nS.\n\nFitzroy Street.\n\n_Legal Customs_ (Vol. ix., p. 20.).--The custom, related by your\ncorrespondent CAUSIDICUS, of a Chancery barrister receiving his first bag\nfrom one of the king's counsel, reminds me that there are many other legal\npractices, both obsolete and extant, which it would be curious and {42}\nentertaining to collect in your pages, as illustrative of the habits of our\nforefathers, and the changes that time has produced. I recognise many among\nyour coadjutors who are well able to contribute, either from tradition or\npersonal experience, something that is worth recording, and thus by their\nmutual communications to form a collection that would be both interesting\nand useful. Let me commence the heap by depositing the first stones.\n\n1. My father has informed me that in his early years it was the universal\npractice for lawyers to attend the theatre on the last day of term. This\nwas at a period when those who went into the boxes always wore swords.\n\n2. It was formerly (within fifty years) the custom for every barrister in\nthe Court of Chancery to receive from the usher, or some other officer of\nthe court, as many buns as he made motions on the last day of Term, and to\ngive a shilling for each bun.\n\nEDWARD FOSS.\n\n_Silo_ (Vol. viii., p. 639.).--The word _silo_ is derived from the Celtic\n_siol_, grain, and _omh_, a cave; _siolomh_, pronounced _sheeloo_, a \"grain\ncave.\" Underground excavations have been discovered in various parts of\nEurope, and it is probable that they were really used for storing grain,\nand not for habitations, as many have supposed.\n\nFRAS. CROSSLEY.\n\nI have no doubt but that MR. STRONG'S Query respecting _silos_ will meet\nwith many satisfactory answers; but in the mean time I remark that the Arab\nsubterranean granaries, often used by the French as temporary prisons for\nrefractory soldiers, are termed by then _silos_ or _silhos_.\n\nG. H. K.\n\n_Laurie on Finance_ (Vol. viii., p. 491).--\n\n    \"A Treatise on Finance, under which the General Interests of the\n    British Empire are illustrated, comprising a Project for their\n    Improvement, together with a new scheme for liquidating the National\n    Debt,\" by David Laurie, 8vo., London, 1815.\n\nANON.\n\n_David's Mother_ (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--The following comment on this\npoint is taken from vol. i. p. 203. of the Rev. Gilbert Burrington's\n_Arrangement of the Genealogies of the Old Testament and Apocrypha_, Lond.\n1836, a learned and elaborate work:\n\n    \"In 2 Sam. xvii. 25., Abigail is said to be the daughter of Nahash, and\n    sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother; but in 1 Chron. ii. 16., both Zeruiah\n    and Abigail are said to be the daughters of Jesse; we must conclude,\n    therefore, with Cappell, either that the name [Hebrew: NCHSH], Nahash,\n    in 2 Sam. xvii. 25., is a corruption of [Hebrew: YSHY], Jesse, which is\n    the reading of the Aldine and Complutensian Editions, and of a\n    considerable number of MSS. of the LXX in this place or that Jesse had\n    two names, as Jonathan in his Targum on Ruth iv. 22. informs us; or\n    that Nahash is not the name of the father, but of the mother of\n    Abigail, as Tremellius and Junius imagine; or, lastly, with Grotius, we\n    must be compelled to suppose that Abigail, mentioned as the sister of\n    Zeruiah in 2 Sam., was a different person from Abigail the sister of\n    Zeruiah, mentioned in 1 Chron., which appears most improbable.\"\n\n[Greek: Halieus].\n\nDublin.\n\n_Anagram_ (Vol. vii., p. 546.).--Some years since I purchased, at a\nbook-stall in Cologne, a duodecimo (I think it was a copy of Milton's\n_Defensio_), on a fly-leaf of which was the date 1653, and in the neat\nItalian hand of the period the following anagram. The book had probably\nbelonged to one of the English exiles who accompanied Charles II. in his\nbanishment. I have never met with it in any collection of anagrams hitherto\npublished. Perhaps some of your numerous readers may have been more\nfortunate, and can give some account of it.\n\n  \"Carolus Stuartus, Angli\u00e6, Scoti\u00e6, et Hiberni\u00e6 Rex,\n  Aul\u00e2, stat\u00fb, regno exueris, ac hostili arte necaberis.\"\n\nJOHN O' THE FORD.\n\nMalta.\n\n_Passage in Sophocles_ (Vol. viii., pp. 73. 478. 631.).--Your correspondent\nM. is quite right in translating [Greek: prassein] _fares_, and referring\nit not to [Greek: Theos], but to the person whom the Deity has infatuated;\nand he is equally right in explaining [Greek: oligoston chronon] _for a\nvery short time_. [Greek: Prassei], the old reading restored by Herman, is\nprobably right; but it must still be referred to the same person: _Ille\nvero versatur_, &c. MR. BUCKTON explains [Greek: h\u00f4i], which is the\nrelative to [Greek: noun], to signify _when_, and translates [Greek:\nbonleuetai] as if it were equivalent with [Greek: bouletai]. [Greek: Ton\nnoun h\u00f4i bouleuetai] is _the mental power with which he_ ([Greek: ho\nblaphtheis], not [Greek: Theos]) _deliberates_. [Greek: At\u00ea] is, as M.\nproperly explains it, not _destruction_, but _infatuation, mental delusion;\nthat judicial blindness which leads a man to his ruin_, not the ruin\nitself. It is a leading idea in the Homeric theology (_Il._ xix. 88., xxiv.\n480., &c.).\n\nThough the idea in the Antigone closely resembles that which is cited in\nthe Scholia, it seems more than probable that the original source of both\npassages is derived from some much earlier author than a cotemporary of\nSophocles. As to the line given in Boswell, it is not an Iambic verse, nor\neven Greek. It was probably made out of the Latin by some one who would try\nhis hand, with little knowledge either of the metre or the language. MR.\nBUCKTON says, that to translate late [Greek: oligoston] _very short_, is\nnot to translate agreeably to the admonition of the old scholiast. Now, the\nwords of the scholiast are [Greek: oude oligon], _not even a little_, that\nis, _a very little_: so [Greek: oude tutthon], [Greek: oud' \u00eabaion], {43}\n[Greek: oude minuntha], and many forms of the same kind.\n\nE. C. H.\n\n_B. L. M._ (Vol. viii., p. 585.).--The letters B. L. M., in the\nsubscription of Italian correspondence, stand for _bacio le mani_ (I kiss\nyour hands), a form nearly equivalent to \"your most obedient servant.\" In\nthe present instance the inflection _baciando_ (kissing) is intended.\n\nW. S. B.\n\n\"_The Forlorn Hope_\" (Vol. viii., pp. 411. 569.).--For centuries the\n\"forlorn hope\" was called, and is still called by the Germans, _Verlorne\nPosten_; by the French, _Enfans perdus_; by the Poles and other Slavonians,\n_Stracona poczta_: meaning, in each of those three languages, a detachment\nof troops, to which the commander of an army assigns such a perilous post,\nthat he entertains no hope of ever rescuing it, or rather gives up all hope\nof its salvation. In detaching these men, he is conscious of the fate that\nawaits them; but he sacrifices them to save the rest of his army, _i. e._\nhe sacrifices a part for the safety of the whole. In short, he has no other\nintention, no other thought in so doing, than that which the adjective\n_forlorn_ conveys. Thus, for instance, in Spain, a detachment of 600\nstudents volunteered to become a _forlorn hope_, in order to defend the\npassage of a bridge at Burgos, to give time to an Anglo-Spanish corps\n(which was thrown into disorder, and closely pursued by a French corps of\n18,000 men) to rally. The students all, to the last man, perished; but the\nobject was attained.\n\nIt much grieves me thus to sap the foundation of the idle speculation upon\na word the late Dr. Graves indulged in, and which Mr. W. R. Wilde inserted\nin the _Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science_ for February, 1849;\nbut, on the other hand, I rejoice to have had the opportunity of\nendeavouring to destroy the very erroneous supposition, that Lord Byron had\nfallen into an error in his beautiful line:\n\n  \"The full of hope, misnamed _forlorn_.\"\n\nWhat the late Dr. Graves meant by _haupt_ or _hope_, for head, I am at a\nloss to conceive. _Haupt_, in German, it is true, means _head_; but in\nspeaking of a small body of men, marching at the head of an army, no German\nwould ever say _Haupt_, but _Spitze_. As to _hope_ (another word for\n_head_) I know not from what language he took it; certainly not from the\nSaxon, for in that tongue _head_ was called _heafod_, _hefed_, or _heafd_;\nwhilst _hope_ was called _hopa_, not _hope_.\n\nC. S. (An Old Soldier.)\n\nOak Cottage, Coniston, Lancashire.\n\n_Two Brothers of the same Christian Name_ (Vol. viii., p.338.).--I have\nrecently met with another instance of this peculiarity. John Upton, of\nTrelaske, Cornwall, an ancestor of the Uptons of Ingsmire Hall,\nWestmoreland, had two sons, living in 1450, to both of whom he gave the\nChristian name of John. The elder of these alike-named brothers is stated\nby Burke, in his _History of the Landed Gentry_, to have been the father of\nthe learned Dr. Nicholas Upton, canon of Salisbury and Wells, and\nafterwards of St. Paul's, one of the earliest known of our authors on\nheraldic subjects. The desire of the elder Upton to perpetuate his own\nChristian name may in some way account for this curious eccentricity.\n\nT. HUGHES.\n\nChester.\n\n_Passage in Watson_ (Vol. viii., p. 587.).--Your correspondent G. asks,\nwhence Bishop Watson took the passage:\n\n  \"Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis\n      est.\"\n\nIn the account of conference between Spalato and Bishop Overall, preserved\nin Gutch's _Collectanea Curiosa_, and printed in the Anglo-Catholic\nLibrary, Cosin's _Works_, vol. iv. p. 470., the same sentiment is thus\nexpressed:\n\n    \"By keeping Bishop Overall's library, he (Cosin) began to learn,\n    'Quanta pars eruditionis erat bonos nosse auctores;' which was the\n    saying of Joseph Scaliger.\"\n\nCan any of your correspondents trace the words in the writings of Scaliger?\n\nJ. SANSOM.\n\n_Derivation of \"Mammet\"_ (Vol. viii., p. 515.).--It may help to throw light\non this question to note that Wiclif's translation of 2 Cor. vi. 16. reads\nthus: \"What consent to the temple of God with _mawmetis_?\" Calfhill, in his\n_Answer to Martiall_ (ed. Parker Soc., p. 31.), has the following sentence:\n\n    \"Gregory, therefore, if he had lived but awhile longer; and had seen\n    the least part of all the miseries which all the world hath felt since,\n    only for maintenance of those _mawmots_; he would, and well might, have\n    cursed himself, for leaving behind him so lewd a precedent.\"\n\nAnd at p. 175. this,--\n\n    \"That Jesabel Irene, which was so bewitched with superstition, that all\n    order, all honesty, all law of nature broken, she cared not what she\n    did, so she might have her _mawmots_.\"\n\nSee also the editor's note on the use of the word in this last passage. In\nDorsetshire, among the common people, the word _mammet_ is in frequent use\nto designate a puppet, a doll, an odd figure, a scarecrow.\n\nJ. D. S.\n\n_Ampers and, [&] or [&]_ (Vol. viii., p. 173.).--_Ampers [&]_, or _Empessy\n[&]_, as it is sometimes called in this country, means _et per se [&]_;\nthat is to say, [&] is a character by itself, or _sui generis_,\nrepresenting not a letter but a word. It was formerly {44} annexed to the\nalphabet in primers and spelling-books.\n\nThe figure [&] appears to be the two Greek letters [epsilon] and [tau]\nconnected, and spelling the Latin word _et_, meaning _and_.\n\nUNEDA.\n\nPhiladelphia.\n\n_Misapplication of Terms_ (Vol. viii., p. 537.).--The apparent _lapsus_\nnoticed by your correspondent J. W. THOMAS, while it reminds one that--\n\n  \"Learned men,\n  Now and then,\" &c.,\n\nis not so indefensible as many instances that are to be met with.\n\nI have been accustomed to teach my boys that _legend_ (\u00e0 _lego_, to read)\nis not strictly to be confined to the ordinary translation of its\nderivative, since the Latin admits of several readings, and among them, by\nthe usage of Plautus, _to hearken_; whence our English substantive takes\nequal license to admit of _a relation_ = _a narrative_, viz. \"a thing to be\nheard;\" and in this sense by custom has referred to many a gossip's tale.\n\nHaving thus ventured to defend the use of _legend_ by your correspondent\n(Vol. v., p. 196.), I submit to the illuminating power of your pages the\nfollowing novel use of a word I have met with in the course of reading this\nmorning, and shall be gratified if some of your correspondents (better\nGrecians than myself) can turn their critical bull's-eye on it with equal\nadvantage to its employer.\n\nIn the poems of Bishop Corbet, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, F.S.A., 4th\nedition, 1807, an editorial note at p. 195. informs us that John Bust,\nliving in 1611, \"seems to have been a worthy _prototype_ of the Nattus of\nAntiquity.\" (_Persius_, iii. 31.)\n\nOur humorous friend in the farce, who was \"'prentice and predecessor\" to\nhis coadjutor the 'pothecary whom he succeeded, is the only solecism at all\nparallel, that immediately occurs to\n\nSQUEERS.\n\nDotheboys.\n\nP.S.--It would not be any ill-service to our language to pull up the\nstockings of the tight-laced occasionally, though I have here rushed in to\nthe rescue.\n\n_Belle Sauvage_ (Vol. viii., pp. 388. 523.).--Mr. Burn, in his _Catalogue\nof the Beaufoy Cabinet of Tokens_ presented to the Corporation of London,\njust published, after giving the various derivations proposed, says that a\ndeed, enrolled on the Claus Roll of 1453, puts the matter beyond doubt:\n\n    \"By that deed, dated at London, February 5, 31 Hen. VI., John Frensh,\n    eldest son of John Frensh, late citizen and goldsmith of London,\n    confirmed to Joan Frensh, widow, his mother--'Totum ten' sive hospicium\n    cum suis pertin' vocat' Savagesynne, alias vocat' le Belle on the\n    Hope;' all that tenement or inn with its appurtenances, called Savage's\n    Inn, otherwise called the Bell on the Hoop, in the parish of St.\n    Bridget in Fleet Street, London, to have and to hold the same for term\n    of her life, without impeachment of waste. The lease to Isabella Savage\n    must therefore have been anterior in date; and the sign in the olden\n    day was the Bell. 'On the Hoop' implied the ivy-bush, fashioned, as was\n    the custom, as a garland.\"--P. 137.\n\nZEUS.\n\n_Arms of Geneva_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--Berry's _Encyclop\u00e6dia_ and\nRobson's _British Herald_ give the following:\n\n    \"Per pale or and gules, on the dexter side a demi-imperial eagle\n    crowned, or, divided palewise and fixed to the impaled line; on the\n    sinister side a key in pale argent; the wards in chief, and turned to\n    the sinister; the shield surmounted with a marquis's coronet.\"\n\nBoyer, in his _Theatre of Honour_, gives--\n\n    \"Party per pale argent and gules, in the first a demi-eagle displayed\n    sable, cut by the line of partition and crowned, beaked, and membered\n    of the second.\n\n    \"In the second a key in pale argent, the wards sinister.\"\n\nBROCTUNA.\n\nBury, Lancashire.\n\n\"_Arabian Nights' Entertainments_\" (Vol. viii., p. 147.).--There is a much\nstranger omission in these tales than any MR. ROBSON has mentioned. From\none end of the work to the other (in Galland's version at least) the name\nof opium is never to be found; and although narcotics are frequently spoken\nof, it is always in the form of powder they are administered, which shows\nthat that substance cannot be intended; yet opium is, unlike tobacco or\ncoffee, a genuine Eastern product, and has been known from the earliest\nperiod in those regions.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Richard I._ (Vol. viii., p. 72.).--I presume that the Richard I. of the\n\"Tablet\" is the \"Richard, King of England,\" who figures in the Roman\nCalendar on the 7th February, but who, if he ever existed, was not even\nmonarch of any of the petty kingdoms of the Heptarchy, much less of all\nEngland. However, not to go farther with a subject which might lead to\npolemical controversy, surely MR. LUCAS is aware that a new series of kings\nbegan to be reckoned from the Conquest, and that three Edwards, who had\nmuch more right to be styled kings of England than Richard could have\npossibly had, are not counted in the number of kings of that name; the\nreason was, I believe, that these princes, although the paramount rulers of\nthe country, styled themselves much more frequently Kings of the West\nSaxons than Kings of England.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n{45}\n\n_Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman_ (Vol. vii., p. 211.).--I regret having\nomitted \"when found, to make a note of,\" the number of Chambers' _Edinburgh\nJournal_ in which I met with the anecdote referred to about Sir Thomas\nAylesbury, which is given at considerable length; and having lent my set of\n\"Chambers\" to a friend at a distance, I cannot at present furnish the\nreference required; but L. will find it in one of the volumes between 1838\nand 1842 inclusive. I do not recollect that the periodical writer gave his\nauthority for the tale, but while it may very possibly be true as regards\nthe wife of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, it is evident that his daughter, a\nwealthy heiress, could never have been in such a position; and it is not\nrecorded that Lord Clarendon had any other wife.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Oaths_ (Vol. viii., p. 605.).--Archbishop Whitgift, in a sermon before\nQueen Elizabeth, thus addresses her:\n\n    \"As all your predecessors were at this coronation, so you also were\n    sworn before all the nobility and bishops then present, and in the\n    presence of God, and in His stead to him that anointed you, 'to\n    maintain the church lands and the rights belonging to it;' and this\n    _testified openly at the Holy Altar, by laying your hands on the Bible\n    then lying upon it_. (See Walton's _Lives_, Zouch's ed., p. 243.)\"\n\nI quote from the editor's introduction to Spelman's _History of Sacrilege_,\np. 75., no doubt correctly cited.\n\nH. P.\n\n_Double Christian Names_ (Vol. vii. _passim_).--The earliest instances of\nthese among British subjects that I have met with, are in the families of\nJames, seventh Earl, and Charles, eighth Earl, of Derby, both of whom\nmarried foreigners; the second son of the former by Charlotte de la\nTremouille, born 24th February, 1635, and named Henry Frederick after his\ngrand-uncle, the stadt-holder, is perhaps the earliest instance to be\nfound.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Chip in Porridge_ (Vol. i., p. 382. Vol. viii., p. 208.).--The subjoined\nextract from a newspaper report (Nov. 1806) of a speech of Mr. Byng's, at\nthe Middlesex election, clearly indicates the meaning of the phrase:\n\n    \"It has been said, that I have played the game of Mr. Mellish. I have,\n    however, done nothing towards his success. I have rendered him neither\n    service nor disservice\" [\"No, nor to anybody else,\" said a person on\n    the hustings; \"you are a mere _chip in porridge_.\"]\n\nW. R. D. S.\n\n_Clarence Dukedom_ (Vol. viii., p. 565.).--W. T. M. will find a very\ninteresting paper on this subject, by Dr. Donaldson, in the _Journal of the\nBury Arch\u00e6ological Society_.\n\nG.\n\n_Prospectuses_ (Vol. viii., p. 562.).--I have seen a very curious volume of\nprospectuses of works contemplated and proposed, but which have never\nappeared, and wherein may be found much interesting matter on all\ndepartments of literature. A collection of this description would not only\nbe useful, but should be preserved. A list of contemplated publications\nduring the last half century, collected from such sources, would not be\nmisplaced in \"N. & Q.,\" if an occasional column could be devoted to the\nsubject.\n\nG.\n\n\"_I put a spoke in his wheel_\" (Vol. viii., pp. 464. 522. 576.).--This\nphrase must have had its origin in the days in which the vehicles used in\nthis country had wheels of solid wood without spokes. Wheels so constructed\nI have seen in the west of England, in Ireland, and in France. A recent\ntraveller in Moldo-Wallachia relates that the people of the country go from\nplace to place mounted on horses, buffaloes, or oxen; but among the Boyards\nit is \"fashionable\" to make use of a vehicle which holds a position in the\nscale of conveyances a little above a wheelbarrow and little below a\ndung-cart. It is poised on four wheels of solid wood of two feet diameter,\nwhich are more or less rounded by means of an axe. A vehicle used in the\ncultivation of the land on the slopes of the skirts of Dartmoor in\nDevonshire, has three wheels of solid wood; it resembles a huge\nwheelbarrow, with two wheels behind, and one in front of it, and has two\nlong handles like the handles of a plough, projecting behind for the\npurpose of guiding it. It is known as \"the old three-wheeled But.\" As the\nhorse is attached to the vehicle by chains only, and he has no power to\nhold it back when going down hill, the driver is provided with a piece of\nwood, \"a spoke,\" which is of the shape of the wooden pin used for rolling\npaste, for the purpose of \"dragging\" the front wheel of the vehicle. This\nhe effects by thrusting the spoke into one of the three round holes made in\nthe solid wheel for that purpose. The operation of \"putting a spoke in a\nwheel by way of impediment\" may be seen in daily use on the three-wheeled\ncarts used by railway navvies, and on the tram waggons with four wheels\nused in collieries to convey coals from the pit's mouth.\n\nN. W. S.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\nEvery lover of Goldsmith--and who ever read one page of his delightful\nwritings without admiring the author, and loving the man--\n\n                  \"... for shortness call Noll,\n  Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll?\"--\n\nmust be grateful to Mr. Murray for commencing his New Series of the\n_British Classics_ with the _Works of_ {46} _Oliver Goldsmith_, edited by\nPeter Cunningham, F.S.A. The Series is intended to be distinguished by\nskilful editorship, beautiful and legible type, fine paper, compactness of\nbulk, and economy of price. Accordingly, these handsome library volumes\nwill be published at 7s. 6d. each. If Mr. Murray has shown good tact in\nchoosing Goldsmith for his first author, he has shown equal judgment in\nselecting Mr. Cunningham for his editor. Our valued correspondent, it is\nwell known, and will be proved to the world when he gives us his new\nedition of Johnson's _Lives of the Poets_ (which by the bye is to be\nincluded in this Series of Murray's _British Classics_), has long devoted\nhimself to the history of the lives and writings of the poets of the past\ncentury. But in the present instance Mr. Cunningham has had peculiar\nadvantages. Besides his own collections for an edition of Goldsmith, he has\nhad the free and unrestricted use of the collections formed for the same\npurpose by Mr. Forster and Mr. Corney: a liberality on the part of those\ngentlemen which deserves the recognition of all true lovers of literature.\nWith such aid as this, and his own industry and ability to boot, it is\nlittle wonder that Mr. Cunningham has been able to produce under Mr.\nMurray's auspices the best, handsomest, and cheapest edition of Goldsmith\nwhich has ever issued from the press.\n\nOf all the critics of Mr. Dod's _Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of\nGreat Britain and Ireland_, Mr. Dod is himself at once the most judicious\nand unsparing; and the consequence is, that every year he reproduces his\nadmirable compendium with some additional feature of value and interest.\nFor instance, in the volume for 1854, which has just been issued, we find,\namong many other improvements, that, at a very considerable cost, the\nattempt made in 1852 to ascertain and record the birthplace of every person\nwho is the possessor, or the next heir, of any title of honour, has been\nrenewed and extended with such success, that many hundred additional\nbirthplaces are now recorded; and the unknown remnant has become\nunimportant. 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Fleet Street, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n{48}\n\nThe Camden Society,\n\nFor the Publication of\n\nEARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS.\n\nThe Camden Society is instituted to perpetuate, and render accessible,\nwhatever is valuable, but at present little known, amongst the materials\nfor the Civil, Ecclesiastical, or Literary History of the United Kingdom;\nand it accomplishes that object by the publication of Historical Documents,\nLetters, Ancient Poems, and whatever else lies within the compass of its\ndesigns, in the most convenient form, and at the least possible expense\nconsistent with the production of useful volumes.\n\nThe Subscription to the Society is 1l. per annum, which becomes due in\nadvance on the first day of May in every year, and is received by MESSRS.\nNICHOLS, 25. 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English Sketches by Foreign Artists--Max Schlesinger's\nSaunterings in and about London. 6. Richard Baxter's Pulpit at\nKidderminster (with a Plate). 7. Cambridge Improvements, 1853. 8. The\nToxaris of Lucian, Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: English Physicians in\nRussia--Knights Banneret--Sir Constantine Phipps and Sir William\nPhipps--Diaries of Dr. Stukeley, &c. With Notes of the Month; Historical\nand Miscellaneous Reviews; Reports of Antiquarian and Literary Societies;\nHistorical Chronicle; and Obituary, including Memoirs of the Queen of\nPortugal, the Duke of Beaufort, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Cloncurry,\nRear-Adm. Pasco, Bickham Escott, Esq., Wm. Gardiner. Esq., Mrs. Opie. Mr.\nJas. Trubshaw, C.E., Mr. Samuel Williams, &c. &c. Price 2s. 6d.\n\nNICHOLS & SONS, 25. Parliament Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHARLES I.--A Curious Collection of upwards of 300 various Portraits of\nthis King, to be had at No. 1. Osnaburgh Place, New Road. 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Piccadilly, on Wednesday, January 18,\nand two following days, a large collection of RARE, CURIOUS, and\nINTERESTING BOOKS, on Astrology, Witchcraft, Magic; the History of America,\nthe East and West Indies, and of England, Ireland, and France; Curious\nWorks on Quakerism, Controversial Theology, and in General Literature;\nHistory, Philology, Bibliography, Voyages, and Travels, &c.; also a few\nManuscripts, including Bywater's Account of the Cutlers' Company,\ncontaining many curious entries; the Original Drawings of Carter's Ancient\nArchitecture; a complete and early copy of Chalon's Etchings from\nRembrandt, &c.\n\nCatalogues may be had.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nLibrary and MSS. of the late EARL of MACARTNEY.\n\nPUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by\nAUCTION, at their Great Room, 91. Piccadilly, on TUESDAY, January 24, 1854,\nand following Days, the Important LIBRARY and MSS. of the late GEORGE, EARL\nof MACARTNEY, Ambassador to China in 1792, &c. The MSS. comprise Heraldic\nVisitations for many English Counties; the MS. of Hobbes's Leviathan,\npresented by the Author to Charles II.; Volumes of Superb Oriental and\nother Drawings; Original MSS. of Bishop Atterbury; State Papers of Sir\nGeorge Downing, &c.\n\n    Catalogues may now be had of MESSRS. PARKER, Oxford; DEIGHTON,\n    Cambridge; LANGBRIDGE, Birmingham; HODGES & SMITH, Dublin; HYNDMAN,\n    Belfast; BLACKWOOD, Edinburgh; and of the Auctioneers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the\n    Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the\n    Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE\n    BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the\n    West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street\n    aforesaid.--Saturday, January 14, 1854.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 220, January 14, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":22912}