{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_42788/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_42788","id":"gutenberg_42788","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42788","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference","Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: History - Other","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"{173}\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo. 173.]\nSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1853\n[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                                    Page\n\n  Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. II., by\n    Vincent T. Sternberg                                       173\n\n  Examples of the French Sizain, by W. Pinkerton               174\n\n  Epigrams                                                     174\n\n  \"Goe, soule, the bodies guest,\" by George Daniel             175\n\n  Petitions from the County of Nottingham                      175\n\n  FOLK LORE:--Lancashire Fairy Tale--Teeth, Superstition\n    respecting--New Moon Divination--The Hyena an Ingredient\n    in Love Potions--The Elder Tree                            177\n\n  MINOR NOTES:--The Word \"Party\"--Epitaphs--Campbell's\n    \"Pleasures of Hope\"--Palindromical Lines--\"Derrick\"\n    and \"Ship's Painter\"--Lord Reay's Country                  177\n\n  QUERIES:--\n\n  Unanswered Queries                                           178\n\n  Mr. John Munro, by Dan. Wilson                               179\n\n  MINOR QUERIES:--Song in Praise of the Marquess of\n    Granby--Venda--The Georgiad--R. S. Townshend of\n    Manchester--\"Mala mal\u00e6 malo\"--\"Dimidium Scienti\u00e6\"--\n    Portrait Painters--\"An Impartial Inquiry,\" &c.--\"As\n    poor as Job's Turkey\"--Fuss--Suicide encouraged in\n    Marseilles--Fabulous Bird--Segantiorum Portus--Stamping\n    on Current Coinage--Rhymes: Dryden--The Cadenham\n    Oak--St. Mary's Church, Beverley--The Rev. Joshua\n    Marsden--Bentley's Examination--Derivation of\n    \"Lowbell\"--Meaning of Assassin--Punishment for\n    exercising the Roman Catholic Religion--Hogarth's\n    Pictures--Lines in a Snuff-box--Rosa Mystica--Old-Shoe\n    throwing at Weddings--Herb\u00e9's Costumes Fran\u00e7ais            179\n\n  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Humphry Smith--Meaning and\n    Etymology of \"Conyngers\" or \"Connigries\"--Letters U, V, W,\n    and St. Ives                                               182\n\n  REPLIES:--\n\n  The Orkney Islands in Pawn                                   183\n\n  The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act. III. Sc. 2, by\n    S. W. Singer                                               183\n\n  Miniature Ring of Charles I., by C. Ley                      184\n\n  Chantry Chapels                                              185\n\n  PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--The Collodion\n    Process--Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process--Sir\n    William Newton's Process: Further Explanations             185\n\n  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Lady Nevell's Music-book--\n    Tuch--Eva, Princess of Leinster--Whipping Post--The\n    Dodo--\"Then comes the reckoning,\" &c.--Sir J. Covert,\n    not Govett--Chatterton--Tennyson--Llandudno on the Great\n    Orme's Head--Oldham, Bishop of Exeter--Arms of\n    Bristol--The Cross and the Crucifix--Sir Kenelm\n    Digby--Martin Drunk--The Church Catechism--Sham Epitaphs\n    and Quotations--Door-head Inscription--Potguns--\"Pompey\n    the Little\"--Eagles supporting Lecterns--Lady Day in\n    Harvest--Inscriptions in Churches--Macaulay's Young\n    Levite, &c.                                                187\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 194\n\n  Notices to Correspondents                                    194\n\n  Advertisements                                               195\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotes.\n\nPREDICTIONS OF THE FIRE AND PLAGUE OF LONDON, NO. II.\n\nOne of the most striking predictions occurs in Daniel Baker's _Certaine\nWarning for a Naked Heart_, Lond. 1659. After much invective against the\nevil ways of the metropolis, he proceeds:\n\n    \"A fire, a consuming fire, shall be kindled in the bowels of the earth,\n    which will scorch with burning heat all hypocrites, unstable,\n    double-minded workers of iniquity.... A great and large slaughter shall\n    be throughout the land of darkness where the unrighteous decrees and\n    laws have been founded. Yea, a great effusion of blood, fire, and smoke\n    shall encrease up in the dark habitations of cruelty; howling and great\n    wailing shall be on every hand in all her streets.\"\n\nThomas Ellwood disposes of the city in a very summary manner:\n\n    \"For this shall be judgment of Babylon (saith the Lord); in one day\n    shall her plagues come upon her, _death_, and _mourning_, and famine,\n    and she shall be utterly burnt with fire; for great is the Lord who\n    judgeth her.\"--_Alarm to the Priests_, Lond. 1662.\n\nGeorge Fox also claims to have had a distinct prevision of the fire (See\n_Journal_, p. 386., ed 1765.) He also relates the story of a Quaker who was\nmoved to come out of Huntingdonshire a little before the fire, and to--\n\n    \"Scatter his money up and down the streets, turn his horse loose, untie\n    the knees of his breeches, and let his stockings fall down, and to tell\n    the people 'so they should run up and down scattering their money and\n    goods, half undressed, like mad people, as he was a sign to them,'\n    which they did when the city was burning.\"\n\nLilly's celebrated book of _Hieroglyphicks_, which procured the author the\ndubious honour of an examination before the committee appointed to inquire\ninto the origin of the fire, is well known. In one of the plates, a large\ncity, understood to denote London, is enveloped in flames; and another rude\nwoodcut, containing a large amount of graves and corpses, was afterwards\ninterpreted to bear reference to the Plague. Aubrey seems to be a {174}\nlittle jealous of the renown which Lilly acquired by these productions for\nhe asserts that--\n\n    \"Mr. Thomas Flatman (poet) did affirm that he had seen those\n    _Hieroglyphicks_ in an old parchment manuscript, writ in the time of\n    the monks.\"--_Misc._, p. 125. ed. 1721.\n\nNostradamus also, more than a century before, is said to have foretold the\nvery year of the burning. In the edition, or reputed edition, of 1577,\ncent. ii. quatrain 51., is the following:\n\n \"Le sang du jusse \u00e0 Londres fera faute\n  Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six\n  La dame anticque cherra de place haute\n  De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.\"\n\nThose of your readers who incline to dubiety on this subject, I refer to\nthe copy from whence it was taken, in the Museum Library, press-mark 718. a\n14. If it is a forgery (and such I take it to be), it is decidedly the best\nI ever met with. Some time ago the Queries of your correspondent SPERIEND\nelicited some interesting particulars relative to Nostradamus and his\nprophecies; but I do not think the question of his claim to having\npredicted the death of Charles I. was finally decided.\n\nI should be glad if any of your correspondents could tell me whether the\nquatrain above, or anything like it, occurs in any of the _genuine_ early\neditions. Dugdale, by the way, evidently believed in its authenticity, and\nhas inserted a version in his _History of St. Paul's_.\n\nSuch a promising theme as the destruction of London was, of course, too\ngood a thing to escape the chap-book makers. During the period of the Civil\nWars, we find many allusions to it. In a little quarto brochure, published\nin 1648, entitled _Twelve Strange Prophecies_, the following is placed in\nthe mouth of the much maligned and caricatured Mrs. Ann Shipton. The\ncharacteristic termination I consider a fine stroke of the art\nvaticinatory.\n\n    \"A ship shall come sayling up the Thames till it come to London, and\n    the master of the ship shall weep, and the mariners shall ask him why\n    he weepeth, and he shall say, 'Ah, what a goodly city was this! none in\n    the world comparable to it! and now there is scarce left any house\n    _that can let us have drinke for our money_.'\"\n\nThis string of notes, turned up at different times, and while in search of\nmore important matter, can no doubt be materially increased from the\ncollections of your correspondents. If my researches prove interesting, I\nmay trouble you with another paper: at present I leave the facts brought\ntogether above to the candid investigation of your readers.\n\nVINCENT T. STERNBERG.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEXAMPLES OF THE FRENCH SIZAIN.\n\nThe epigram (if it may with propriety receive that appellation) printed in\nVol. vi., p. 603., reminded me of some similar pieces of composition stored\nin my note-book; and as they are not devoid of a certain degree of curious\ninterest, I now forward them _pro bono publico_.\n\nOn Luther, Calvin, and Henry VIII., the leaders of the Reformation:\n\n \"Vous, dont le sens est encore sain,\n  Fuyez Luther, Henri, Calvin.\n  Vous, dont le coeur n'est point fl\u00e9tri,\n  Fuyez Calvin, Luther, Henri.\n  Vous, \u00e0 qui le salut est cher,\n  Fuyez Henri, Calvin, Luther.\"\n\nOn the death of Francis II.:\n\n \"Par l'oeil, par l'oreille, et l'\u00e9paule,\n  Trois rois sont morts nagu\u00e8re en Gaule;\n  Par l'\u00e9paule, l'oreille, et l'oeil,\n  Trois rois son entr\u00e9s au cercueil;\n  Par l'\u00e9paule, l'oeil, et l'oreille,\n  Dieu a montr\u00e9 grande merveille.\"\n\nBy Beaumarchais:\n\n \"Connaissez-vous rien de plus sot\n  Que Merlin, Bazire, et Chabot?\n  Non, certes, il n'est rien de pire\n  Que Chabot, Merlin, et Bazire;\n  Et nul ne vit-on plus coquin\n  Que Chabot, Bazire, et Merlin.\"\n\nA more modern one still, date 1842:\n\n \"L'Etat est fort mal attel\u00e9\n  Avec Thiers, Guizot, ou Mol\u00e9;\n  L'Etat marche tout de travers,\n  Avec Mol\u00e9, Guizot, ou Thiers;\n  Vers l'ab\u00eeme il court \u00e0 galop,\n  Avec Mol\u00e9, Thiers, ou Guizot.\"\n\nThe prophecy in the last two lines has been unfortunately fulfilled.\n\nW. PINKERTON.\n\nHam.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nEPIGRAMS.\n\nThe two epigrams which follow were communicated to me many years ago by the\nRev. George Loggin, M.A., of Hertford College, long one of the masters of\nRugby School. He died July 15, 1824, at the age of forty; and this\nreminiscence of their old tutor's name will be welcomed by many a Rugb\u00e6an.\nThey were represented to have proceeded from the pen of Thomas Dunbar of\nBrasenose, who, from 1815 to 1822, was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. I\nhave never seen them in print, or even in writing. They were recited\n_memoriter_, and from memory I write them down; and hence, no doubt, there\nwill be some deviations from the true text. But they seem too good to be\nlost; and I am not {175} without hope that a correct copy may eventually be\nelicited from some of your correspondents.\n\nWith regard to the first, whether the lines were really made on the\noccasion stated, or the occasion was invented (as I am inclined to suspect)\nto suit the lines, is perhaps not very material:\n\n \"_Reply to Miss Charlotte Ness, who inquired the meaning_\n  _of the logical terms_ ABSTRACT _and_ CONCRETE.\n\n \"'Say what is _Abstract_, what _Concrete_?\n    Their difference define.'\n 'They both in one fair person meet,\n    And that, dear maid, is thine.'\n\n 'How so? The riddle pray undo.'\n   'I thus your wish express;\n  For when I lovely Charlotte view,\n    I then view loveli-_Ness_.'\"\n\nOn a certain D.D. (who, from a peculiarity in his walk, had acquired the\n_sobriquet_ of Dr. Toe) being jilted by Miss H----, who eloped with her\nfather's footman:\n\n \"'Twixt Footman Sam and Doctor Toe\n    A controversy fell,\n  Which should prevail against his foe,\n    And bear away the belle.\n  The lady chose the footman's heart.\n    Say, who can wonder? no man:\n  The whole prevail'd above the part,\n   'Twas _Foot_-man _versus_ _Toe_-man.\"\n\nI should like to ascertain the author of the following:\n\n  _The Parson_ versus _Physician_.\n\n \"How D.D. swaggers--M.D. rolls!\n    I dub them both a brace of noddies:--\n  Old D.D. takes the cure of souls,\n    And M.D. takes the care of bodies.\n  Between them both what treatment rare\n    Our souls and bodies must endure!\n  One takes the _cure_ without the _care_,\n    T'other the _care_ without the _cure_.\"\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nGOE, SOULE, THE BODIES GUEST.\"\n\nI have a cotemporaneous MS. of this wonderfully-fine poem, that came into\nmy possession with a certain rare bunch of black-letter ballads, printed\nbetween the years 1559 and 1597, and all of them unique (of the said bunch,\nMr. Editor, more hereafter), which contains two additional verses not to be\nfound in _A Poetical Rhapsodie_, compiled by Francis Davison, and \"printed\nby William Stansby for Roger Jackson, dwelling in Fleet Street, neere the\ngreat Conduit, 1611;\" nor in _Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter\nRaleigh, and others_, carefully edited by the Rev. John Hannah, M.A., and\npublished by my friend William Pickering in 1845. They are prefaced by the\nword \"Additions.\" They are written on the same leaf, and in the same quaint\nhand, and are as follow:\n\n  Tell London of their stewes,\n    Tell marchants of their usury;\n  And, though it be no newes,\n    Tell courtyers of theyr lechery;\n  And if they will reply,\n    They best deserve the lye.\n\n  Let cuckolds be remembred,\n    I will not dye theyr debtor;\n  Theire heads beying armed,\n    Theyl beare the brunt the better;\n  And if they chaunce reply,\n    Theyr wives know best they lye.\n\nHaving compared this MS. with the poem as it is printed in the\nabove-mentioned volumes (both of which are in my library), I find it\ncontains several variations, not however very important. Though these\n\"Additions,\" in good taste, expression, and power, do not equal the noble\nverses that precede them, they are interesting and curious, and well worthy\nof preservation. After much inspection and inquiry, I have not discovered\nthat they have ever yet appeared in print. The cabinet in which they slept,\nand the company they kept (undisturbed, it would appear) for more than two\ncenturies, assure me that they have not been published.\n\nIf you, Mr. Editor, or any of your many friends desire to see this MS., say\nso, and you and they shall be welcome. It has been in my possession\n(unseen) twenty years.\n\nGEORGE DANIEL.\n\nCanonbury.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPETITIONS FROM THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM.\n\nThe documents, copies of which I inclose, are written on the blank leaves\nin a copy of Willett's _Hexapla_, edit. 1611. I should be glad to know if\nthe petitions, of which they are drafts, or rather copies, were presented,\nand _when_? There is no date to the petitions; but the copy of a letter, on\nanother blank page, which seems to be in the same handwriting (signed\n\"William Middleton\"), is dated February 5th, 1658. Any information\nregarding the parties whose names are appended to the petitions would be\nacceptable.\n\n        \"To his Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,\n        Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions and territories thereunto\n        belonging, the humble Address and Petition of diuers Justices of\n        the Peace, Gentlemen, Ministers of the Gospell, and others,\n        wel-affected persons, inhabitants in the County of Nottingham.\n\n    \"Upon consideration of the signall and glorious appearances of God on\n    the behalfe of his people and interest, wherein he hath pleased to make\n    great use of your Highness, we account ourselues deeply engaged to\n    acknowledge the wonderfull power, wisdome, and {176} goodness of God,\n    and to ascribe the glory to him alone, yet would we not be found\n    ingratefull to your Highness, as an eminent instrument under God of the\n    peace and liberty we have injoyed, with a continued series of manifold\n    mercies from the Lord, under your Highness' gouernment (notwithstanding\n    all our declensions and unworthynesses), together with the influence it\n    hath had upon the nations abroad to the promoteing of the Protestant\n    interest, we judge it alsoe exceedingly remarkable that the Lord hath\n    so signally blasted the pernicious designes of the common enemy against\n    your Highness' person and gouernment, and against the common interest\n    of the people of God and of these nations, for which we desire\n    unfeignedly to bless the Lord.\n\n        \"These things premised, we humbly pray,\n\n    \"That the Lord would please to stir up the heart and strengthen the\n    hands of your Highness, in carrying on what yet remains for the\n    reforming of these nations (according to the word of God) and the\n    secureing of the interest of godlyness and righteousness for the\n    future, that such as are found in the faith and of holy conversation\n    may live peaceably, and receive encouragement to persevere in that upon\n    which the Lord may delight to doe your Highness and these nations good;\n    in order whereunto we humbly propose these following particulars to\n    your Highness' consideration:\n\n    \"1. First, that a stop may be put to the spreading infection of\n    damnable errors and heresies, by a lively and due suppressing of them\n    according to the mind of the Lord.\n\n    \"2. That an effectuall course may be taken for the curbeing of all\n    profaneness and libertineisme by the sword of justice, which the Lord\n    hath put into your magistrates' hands.\n\n    \"3. That your Highness would haue an eye upon the designes of the\n    common enemy in generall, and particularly on this (vid.), their\n    traininge up a young generation in the old destructive principles, as\n    also on the designes of any persons whatsoeuer that indeauour to\n    disturb your Highness' gouernment and the peace of these nations.\n\n    \"4. That the lawes of the nation may be reuised, that for what in them\n    is agreeable to the rules of righteousness may be continued and\n    executed, and whatever corruption is crept into, or may grow up in,\n    courts of judicature may be duly purged away.\n\n    \"5. That in your Highness' lifetime such prouision be made for the\n    future gouernment of the commonwealth, as may secure the interest of\n    good people of these nations for succeeding generations, that they may\n    call you blessed.\n\n    \"And in the prosecution of such ends we shall be ready, as the Lord\n    shall help us, with all that is dear to us, to defend your Highness'\n    person and gouernment, with the true interest of religion and the\n    lawes, and shall ever pray, &c.\n\n     \"---- ANSLEY.\n      CHRYSTOPHER SANDERSON, Minister of Annesley.\n      WILL. LEE.          JOHN DAN.\n      GEO. BRITTAIN.\n      ABRAHAM\" [Torn off].\n\n    \"_To the honourable the Parliament of England._\n\n        \"The humble Petition of diuers Gentlemen, Ministers of the Gospell,\n        and others, inhabiteing in the County of Nottingham,\n\n        \"Sheweth,\n\n    \"That your petitioners, haueing seriously considered how much of a\n    thorough reformation of religion and pure administration of the\n    ordinances of Christianity would tend to the honour of God, the good of\n    soules, and the abundant satisfaction of the truly godly in this\n    nation, who have long waited for these mercies as the return of their\n    prayers, and the fruit of their expense both of blood and treasure, and\n    being alsoe very sensible that the duty we owe to God, the eminent and\n    signall mercies of God towards this nation, and our own solemn\n    engagements, doe strongly oblidge us euery one in our places, to the\n    utmost of our power, to indeauour the promoteing and aduancement of\n    pure gospell worship, we are humbly bold to address ourselues to your\n    honors.\n\n    \"We are not undmindfull of, nor would we be unthankfull for, what hath\n    been indeauoured this way by former Parliaments, yet we cannot but\n    sadly resent the many obstructions this work hath hitherto met withall,\n    and how much it hath been retarded, chiefly, we confess, by our own\n    sins, and the sins of these nations, partly through the malice of\n    Satan, the diuisions of brethren, the secret and subtile practices of\n    Romish emissaries, fomenting errors and heresies, and not a little, as\n    we humbly conceive, through the want of church gouernment, settled and\n    established by the ciuil authority, whereby those unto whom the\n    exercise of church power is committed by Christ may be impoured to keep\n    back ignorant and prophane persons from polluting the ordinances of\n    God, as alsoe by reason of some ancient lawes, alledged and urged by\n    diuers as yet in force, injoyning ministers to dispense the Sacrament\n    of the Lord's Supper, without affording them (as we conceiue)\n    sufficient power regularly to keep back such as are not duly qualified\n    for the same, by reason whereof ministers are liable to prosecution att\n    law (of which we have had a late instance in this county).\n\n    \"We therefore, your petitioners, in faithfulness to the interest of God\n    and his glory, Christ and his gospell, our own and other men's soules,\n    and from our sincere desires of the aduancement of the kingdome of\n    Christ in these nations, in the promoting whereof the interest and\n    welfare of states and nations is uery much concerned, we neither could\n    nor durst be longer silent, but being persuaded of your willingness to\n    act for Christ, and hopeing that God hath raised you up to carry on the\n    work of reformation already begun amongst us, and to be repairers of\n    our breaches and restorers of pathes to dwel in, we are incouraged\n    humbly to pray,\n\n    \"1. That such ancient lawes as may be yet in force relating to the\n    Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, so far as they are or may prove\n    burdensome to truly godly and conscientious ministers and people, may\n    be duly regulated.\n\n    \"2. That so far as you in your wisdomes shall think fitt, ordinances of\n    Parliament that have been made after aduice had with the late Assembly\n    of Diuines in order {177} to Church settlement, may be returned upon,\n    and begun reformation carried on.\n\n    \"3. That in regard a thorough settlement of Church affaires may be long\n    under debate, in the mean time some speedy and effectuall course may be\n    taken, where by ignorant and scandalous persons may be kept from the\n    Lord's Supper.\n\n    \"And your petitioners shall ever pray.\n\n     \"CHARLES JACKSON.\n      LANCELOT COATES.\n      WILL. COUP.\n      FRANCIS BRUNT.\n      WILL...LLOW [obliterated].\n      JOHN HOYLAND.\n      THO. SHAW.\n      HEN. CLARK.\n      WILL. FARNWORTH.\n      CHRYSTOPHER CLARK.\n      WILL. SAUNDER.\n      GEORGE FLINT.\n      DAUID TAYLOR.\n      CHARLES SHEPHEARD.\n      ES. BRETTUN.\"\n\nT. S.\n\nLeeds.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Lancashire Fairy Tale._--The nursery rhymes in one of your late Numbers\nremind me of a story I used to be told in the nursery. It was, that two men\nwent poaching, and having placed nets, or rather sacks, over what they\nsupposed to be rabbit-holes, but which were in reality fairies' houses, the\nfairies rushed into the sacks, and the poachers, content with their prey,\nmarched home again. A fairy missing another in the sack, called out (the\nstory was told in broad Lancashire dialect) \"Dick (dignified name for a\nfairy), where art thou?\" To which fairy Dick replied,\n\n       \"In a sack,\n        On a back,\n  Riding up Barley Brow.\"\n\nThe story has a good moral ending, for the poachers were so frightened that\nthey never poached again.\n\nT. G. C.\n\n_Teeth, Superstition respecting_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--A similar (perhaps\nthe same) piece of childish superstition respecting the teeth is, that when\nthe upper incisors are large, it is a sign that you will live to be rich.\n\nFURVUS.\n\n_New Moon Divination._--Being lately on a visit in Yorkshire, I was amused\none evening to find the servants of the house excusing themselves for being\nout of the way when the bell rang, on the plea that they had been \"hailing\nthe first new moon of the new year.\" This mysterious salutation was\neffected, I believe, by means of a looking-glass, in which the first sight\nof the moon was to be had, and the object to be gained was the important\nsecret as to how many years would elapse before the marriage of the\nobservers. If one moon was seen in the glass, one year; if two, two years;\nand so on. In the case in question, the maid and the boy saw only one moon\na-piece. Whether the superstition would, in this instance, be suggestive to\ntheir minds of anything to be deduced from the coincidence, I do not know;\nbut as they were both very old-fashioned folks, I suppose the custom may\nnot be unknown to those learned in Folk Lore.\n\nWhat is the orthodox mode of conducting this kind of divination?\n\nOXONIENSIS.\n\n_The Hyena an Ingredient in Love Potions._--In Busbequius's _Letters_\n(Elzevir, 1633) I note that the Turks consider the hyena useful in love\npotions. I extract the passage:\n\n    \"In amatoriis ei vim magnam Turc\u00e6, ut etiam veteres, tribuunt, cumque\n    essent du\u00e6 eo tempore Constantinopoli, mihi tamen vendere gravabantur,\n    quod se Sultan\u00e6, hoc est, principis uxori, eas reservare dicerent,\n    quippe quas philtris et magicis artibus animum mariti retinere, recepta\n    in vulgus (ut dixi) opinio est.\"--P. 84.\n\nAllow me to add a Query: What ancient authors allude to this old specimen\nof Folk Lore?\n\nS. A. S.\n\nBridgewater.\n\n_The Elder Tree._--I was visiting a poor parishioner the other day, when\nthe following question was put to me.\n\n\"Pray, Sir, can you tell me whether there is any doubt of what kind of wood\nour Lord's cross was made? I have always heard that it was made of _elder_,\nand we look carefully into the faggots before we burn them, for fear that\nthere should be any of this wood in them.\"\n\nMy Query is, Whether this is a common superstition?\n\nRUBI.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_The Word \"Party.\"_--Our facetious friend _Punch_ has recently made merry\nwith the modern use of the word \"party,\" as applied to any absent person\nconcerned in any pending negotiation. It was used thus, however, by William\nSalmon, professor of physic, in his _Family Dictionary_, 1705:\n\n    \"Let the party, if it can be agreeable, rub frequently his teeth with\n    the ashes that remain in a pipe after it is smoaked.\"--P. 315.\n\n    \"Having cooled it, rub the party's mouth with a little of it,\" &c.--P.\n    321.\n\nE. D.\n\n_Epitaphs._--Churchyard literature presents to us some curious specimens of\nmetaphor; and it is interesting to observe how an old idea is sometimes\nunintentionally reproduced. The following lines may be seen on a gravestone\nin the churchyard at Kinver, Staffordshire:\n\n \"Tired with wand'ring thro' a world of sin,\n  Hither we came to _Nature's common Inn_,\n  To rest our wearied bodys for a night,\n  In hopes to rise that Christ may give us light.\"\n\n{178} The writer was probably not aware that Spenser says, in his _Faerie\nQueen_, iii. 3. 30.:\n\n \"And if he then with victorie can lin,\n  He shall his days with peace bring to his _earthly In_.\"\n\nAnd again, _Faerie Queen_, ii. 1. 59.:\n\n \"Palmer, quoth he, death is an equall doome\n  To good and bad, the _common In of rest_.\"\n\nA Leicestershire poet has recorded, in the churchyard of Melton Mowbray, a\nvery different conception of our \"_earthly Inn_.\" He says:\n\n \"_This world's an Inn_, and I her guest:\n  I've eat and drank and took my rest\n  With her awhile, and now I pay\n  Her lavish bill, and go my way.\"\n\nYou may, perhaps, consider this hardly worthy of a place in your paper; but\nI act upon the principle which you inculcate in your motto.\n\nERICA.\n\n_Campbell's \"Pleasures of Hope.\"_--It has often occurred to me that in two\nlines of the most celebrated passage in this poem,--\n\n \"O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,\n  Her blood-red waters murmuring far below,\"\n\nthe author has confounded Prague, the capital of Bohemia, with Praga, the\nsuburb of Warsaw. The bridge over the Moldau, at the former place, is a\nstone one of European celebrity; and to it Campbell must have referred when\nusing terms not at all applicable to that over the Vistula, which is of\nmuch humbler form and material.\n\nIn Campbell's \"Ode to the Highland Society on 21st March,\" he describes the\n42nd Regiment as having been at Vimiera, which it assuredly was not; and no\nHighland regiment was in the battle except the 71st. I suspect he\nconfounded the \"Black Watch\" with the distinguished corps next to it on the\narmy list,--an error into which the author of _Charles O'Malley_ also must\nhave fallen, as he makes Highlanders form a part of the Light Division,\nwhich consisted of the 43rd, 52nd, and 95th.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Palindromical Lines._--In addition to the verses given by your\ncorrespondent H. H. BREEN (Vol. vi., p. 449.), I send you the following, as\nperhaps the most remarkable of its kind in existence. It is mentioned by\nJeremy Taylor as the inscription somewhere on a font. Letter by letter it\nreads the same, whether taken backward or forwards:\n\n[Greek: NIPSON ANOM\u00caMA M\u00ca MONAN OPSIN.]\n\n\"Wash my guilt, and not my face only.\"\n\nAGRICOLA DE MONTE.\n\n_\"Derrick\" and \"Ship's Painter.\"_--The following Note may perhaps interest\nsome of your readers:--The ancient British word _derrick_, or some such\nword, still exists in our marine. It is used in sea phrase to define a\ncrane for temporary purposes, and is not unusually represented by a single\nspar, which is stepped near a hatchway, provided with a tackle or purchase,\nin order to the removal of goods from the hold of a vessel. The use of\n_Derry_, both as a termination in the names of places, and in the old\nballad chorus of _Down derry down_, is familiar to every one.\n\nSome other of our sea terms might receive apt illustration in \"N. & Q.;\"\nand I should beg to suggest \"unde derivatur\" a boat's _painter_,--the name\nof the rope which confines a ship's boat to the vessel, when at sea.\n\nTurner gave a world-wide interest to the phrase when he called, in his\neccentric manner, one of his finest marine pictures \"Now for the painter.\"\n\nJ. C. G.\n\nTavistock Square.\n\n_Lord Reay's Country._--Formerly the parish of Durness comprehended the\nwhole of the district known as \"Lord Reay's country,\" or, as it is called\nin Gaelic, \"Duthaic Mhic Aoi,\" _i. e._ the land of the Mackays, extending\nfrom the river of Borgie, near Strathnaver, to the Kyle of Assynt, and\ncomprehending a space of about 800 square miles! Since 1734 it has been\ndivided into three parishes, viz. Eddrachillis, Durness, and Tongue, with\nthe parish of Farr: it was disjoined from the presbytery of Caithness, and\nby an act of the Assembly attached to the presbytery of Tongue.\n\nKIRKWALLENSIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nUNANSWERED QUERIES.\n\nI think it may be permitted to Querists, who may fail in obtaining answers,\nto recur to their questions after the lapse of a reasonable time, in order\nto awaken attention. I asked a question at page 270., Vol. vi., in which I\nwas, and still am, much interested. Perhaps MR. COLLIER will do me the\nfavour to answer it, particularly as his annotated folio is remarkably rich\nin \"_stage directions_.\"\n\nBefore taking the liberty of putting the question so directly to MR.\nCOLLIER, I awaited an examination of his recently-published volume of\nselected corrections, in which, however, the point upon which I seek\ninformation is not alluded to.\n\nIn glancing over that volume, I perceive that MR. COLLIER, in his notes at\nthe end (p. 508.), does \"N. & Q.\" the honour to refer to it, by alluding to\nan emendation \"proposed by MR. CORNISH\" (\"N. & Q.,\" Vol. vi., p. 312.).\n\nWhen that emendation appeared I recognised it at once as having been\nproposed by Warburton and applauded by Dr. Johnson. I did not, however,\nthen think it of sufficient importance to trouble the editor of \"N. & Q.,\"\nby correcting a claim which, although apparent, might not perhaps be\nintentional. {179}\n\nBut now, since the ownership (_quantum valeat_) has deceived even MR.\nCOLLIER, and is endorsed by him, it is time to notice it.\n\nA. E. B.\n\nLeeds.\n\nP.S.--I may add that, with respect to these words \"happy low lie down,\"\nfrom my habit of looking for solutions of difficulties in parallels and\nantitheses, I have arrived at a different conclusion from any that has yet\nbeen suggested. Finding \"uneasy\" used _adverbially_ in the last line, I see\nno reason why \"happy\" should not also be taken _adverbially_ in the\npreceding line: we should then have the same verb, \"lie\" and \"lies,\"\nrepeated antithetically in the same mood and tense.\n\nThe article _the_ before \"low\" has probably been omitted in the press, and\nmay be either actually restored or elliptically understood:\n\n \"Then _happy_ [the] low lie down;\n  _Uneasy_ lies the head that wears a crown.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMR. JOHN MUNRO.\n\nBetween the years 1803 and 1830, a gentleman resident of London, under the\nsignature A. Z., presented from time to time to the Society of Antiquaries\nof Scotland, a collection of works respecting the Orkney and Shetland\nislands, copiously illustrated with manuscript notes and inserted prints,\nmaps, &c. The internal evidence leaves no room to doubt that the donor of\nthis valuable collection was a native of Kirkwall; and recent\ninvestigations lead to the conclusion that he was a Mr. John Munro,\noriginally in the office of Mr. John Heddle, Town Clerk of Kirkwall. He\nappears to have gone to London about 1789, and to have passed the rest of\nhis life there, down to May, 1830, when his last communication was made to\nthe Scottish Antiquaries. A list of his donations is printed in the\n_Arch\u00e6ologia Scotica_, vol. iii. pp. 267-274. His copious manuscript notes,\nwritten in a very neat and legible hand, indicate not only a man of\nintelligence and research, but also of an exceedingly amiable and kindly\ndisposition, and strongly influenced by the _amor patri\u00e6_, which gave to\nhis donations their exclusive character.\n\nI am anxious to ascertain what was Mr. Munro's occupation in London, the\ndate of his death, and any interesting or characteristic notes concerning\nhim. Judging from his tastes, it seems highly probable that he may have\nbeen known to more than one of your metropolitan correspondents.\n\nPerhaps you will not think such Queries undeserving of a corner in your\nuseful vehicle of literary intercommunication, nor A. Z.'s _anonimity_\nunworthy of an effort to rede the riddle.\n\nDAN. WILSON.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Song in Praise of the Marquess of Granby._--Can any of your correspondents\nfurnish me with the words of a song written in praise of the Marquess of\nGranby, who was so distinguished as a general officer in the middle of the\nlast century?\n\nI think the first verse ended with--\n\n \"But the jewel of Grantham is Granby.\"\n\nIt was sung to the tune of \"Over the Water to Charlie.\"\n\nF. W. S.\n\n_Venda._--Can any of your correspondents tell me what is the origin and use\nof this word, as a prefix to names of places in Portugal; as it occurs, for\ninstance, in Venda da Agua, Venda da Pia, Venda das Monachos, &c., places\nnot far from Torres Vedras?\n\nC. E. F.\n\n_The Georgiad._--About 1814, at Cambridge, some lines under this title were\ncommonly attributed to the late Rev. E. Smedley (Seaton prizeman). Can any\nreader supply a copy? Two stanzas run thus:\n\n \"George B----[1] has turn'd a saint, they say:\n    But who believes the tale?\n  George D---- [2] might as soon turn gay!\n    George C----'s[3] flirting fail!\n\n \"George D----[4] set the Thames on fire!\n    George R---- his reign renew!\n  George R---- imitate his sire,\n    And to his friends be true!\"\n\nAITCH.\n\n[Footnote 1: \"G. A. B.,\" Fellow of Trinity, a lively companion.]\n\n[Footnote 2: Editor of the Bible.]\n\n[Footnote 3: Lay Fellow and Tutor of Jes. Coll.; used to read Theocritus\n_Gr\u00e6c\u00e8_ in the stage-coach.]\n\n[Footnote 4: Author of _History of London_, or some topographical quarto.\nThe next may be guessed.]\n\n_R. S. Townshend of Manchester._--I know that you have several intelligent\ncorrespondents in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and it is probable that\nthey may be able to give me some information respecting a Mr. R. S.\nTownshend, a person of literary taste and pursuits, who resided in that\ntown about the year 1730. His Common-place Book, or Diary, which has fallen\ninto my hands, contains numerous allusions to the leading gentry and clergy\nof the neighbourhood; and more than once it mentions the well-known Dr.\nByrom, under the title of \"Il Gran Maestro de Tachigraphia.\" Dr. Deacon, a\ndistinguished person among the Nonjurors, is also mentioned. The acting of\nCato by the scholars of the grammar-school on Dec. 20, 1732, is also\nmentioned, with some critiques upon the performers. The elections at the\ncollegiate church are constantly referred to as subjects of all-absorbing\ninterest; there being a strong party, {180} as well in the town as in the\nchurch, of Jacobites, and these elections being regarded as a trial of\nparty strength.\n\nO. G.\n\n\"_Mala mal\u00e6 malo._\"--Will any of your correspondents be good enough to\ncomplete the distich of which the following is the first line?--\n\n \"Mala mal\u00e6 malo mala pertulit omnia in orbem,\"\n\nor something like it. And, as a further favour, finish the hexameter in\nthis epigram?\n\n \"Roma amor \u00e8 retro perlecto nomine....\n  Tendit enim retro Roma in amore Dei.\"\n\nThis is in the style of Audoenus. The former I have heard attributed to\nPorson.\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n\"_Dimidium Scienti\u00e6._\"--I should be glad if some one of your Baconian\nannotators would direct me to that famous maxim which Coleridge ascribes to\nthe great philosopher, \"Dimidium scienti\u00e6, prudens qu\u00e6stio,\" in the\noriginal.\n\nB. B. WOODWARD.\n\n_Portrait Painters._--I am in possession of some good paintings, portraits,\n&c., which were taken at the end of the last, and early in the present\ncentury. Some were painted at Bath, and others at Derby: and I should feel\nobliged if, in your Notes, I could obtain information as to what artists of\ncelebrity were known in those places from fifty to seventy years ago. I\nhave heard that White of Derby was an artist of high repute.\n\nJ. KNIGHT.\n\nAylestone.\n\n_\"An Impartial Inquiry,\" &c._--Who was author of--\n\n    \"An Impartial Inquiry into the true Nature of the Faith which is\n    required in the Gospel as necessary to Salvation. In which is briefly\n    shown upon how righteous Terms Unbelievers may become true Christians:\n    and the case of the Deists is reduced to a short Issue, by Philalethes\n    Cestriensis. 8vo., Lond. 1746.\"\n\nY. B. N. J.\n\n\"_As poor as Job's Turkey._\"--This proverbial expression is used in the\nUnited States, sometimes with an addition showing how poor he was, thus:\n\"As poor as Job's turkey, that had but one feather in his tail;\" \"As poor\nas Job's turkey, that had to lean against a fence to gobble.\"\n\nUNEDA.\n\n_Fuss._--Perhaps some of your correspondents can favour the public with the\netymology and date of the word _fuss_.\n\nW. W.\n\n_Suicide encouraged in Marseilles._--In the _Lancet_ of Nov. 30, 1839, it\nis stated by De Stone that anciently, in Marseilles, persons having\nsatisfactory reasons for committing suicide were supplied with poison at\nthe public expense. What authority is there for this? I should also like to\nbe informed what was the occasion on which a suicidal propensity in the\nMilesian ladies was corrected by an appeal to their posthumous modesty?\n\nELSNO.\n\n_Fabulous Bird._--Among the many quaint and beautiful conceits in Fuller,\nthere is one preeminently fine: in which he likens the life-long remorse of\na man who has slain another in a duel to the condition of \"a bird I have\nread of, which hath a face like, and yet will prey upon, a man; who, coming\nto the water to drink, and finding there, by reflection, that he had killed\none like himself, pineth away by degrees, and never afterwards enjoyeth\nitself.\"\n\nWhere did Fuller read this story? I do not recollect it in Pliny.\n\nV. T. STERNBERG.\n\n_Segantiorum Portus._--Has there been any locality yet found for this port,\nmentioned by Ptolemy in his _History of Britain_?\n\nPRESTONIENSIS.\n\n_Stamping on Current Coinage._--Can any of your readers inform me whether\nthe current English coinage may legally be used for stamping advertisements\non?\n\nGREGORY.\n\n_Rhymes: Dryden._--\n\n \"Thou breakst through forms, with as much ease\n  As the French king through articles.\"\n                 \"To Sir G. Etherege.\"\n\n \"Some lazy ages, lost in sleep and ease,\n  No action leave to busy chronicles.\"\n                  _Astr\u00e6a Redux_, 105, 106.\n\nAnd again, in _Threnodia Augustalis_, \"these,\" ending line 410, and\n\"miracles,\" ending line 414, are made to rhyme.\n\nWas it ever the fashion to pronounce these different terminations alike; or\ndoes any other author of repute of that date use such rhymes?\n\nAgain, \"hour\" and \"traveller\" are made to rhyme in _Astr\u00e6a Redux_, 147,\n148; \"stars\" and \"travellers,\" in _Religio Laici_, 1; \"are\" and \"Lucifer,\"\nin _The Medal_; \"men\" and \"sin,\" in _Religio Laici_, 89, 90; \"convince\" and\n\"sense,\" in _Ibid._ 148; _cum multis aliis_.\n\nHARRY LEROY TEMPLE.\n\n_The Cadenham Oak._--Can any of the correspondents of \"N. & Q.\" inform me\nif this famous old tree is still alive? It flourished for nearly three\ncenturies in Hampshire Forest; and during this long period was visited by\ncrowds of people, who, it must be confessed, entertained towards it a\nreligious veneration--from its peculiarity of annually shooting forth its\nbuds on old Christmas-day. If dead, as I suppose--for the account which I\nread some years ago stated that it was fast decaying--then I would like to\nknow if the young tree, one of its progeny, is still flourishing in the\nforest, and enjoying, from its peculiarity, the same veneration {181} which\nwas paid to the parent stock. Those of your readers who wish to know more\nof this venerable oak, and of the trees which sprung from it, are referred\nto Mr. Gilpin's able and interesting work on forest scenery, published, as\nI believe, in London between sixty and seventy years ago.\n\nW. W.\n\nMalta.\n\n_St. Mary's Church, Beverley._--In the memorials of Ray (_Ray Society_), at\np. 138., is a curious account of the church of St. Mary at Beverley. Would\nsome kind antiquary resident at Beverley, or its vicinity, compare the\npresent state of the church with what Ray describes it to have been in his\nday; and at the same time state whether \"the inhabitants of Beverley\" now\n\"pay no toll or custom in any city, town, or port in England?\"\n\nENIVRI.\n\nTredagh.\n\n_The Rev. Joshua Marsden._--I should be glad if any of the correspondents\nof \"N. & Q.\" could furnish any particulars relative to the above gentleman.\nHe was the author of a most exquisite _morceau_ of about forty lines,\nentitled \"What is Time;\" in reference to which, a literary periodical of\nsome thirty years ago says:\n\n    \"If our readers are half as much struck with the following solemn\n    appeal, as we ourselves have been, they will not wonder at its\n    insertion where poetry so rarely finds room.\"\n\nBRAEMAR.\n\n_Bentley's Examination._--I have found this anecdote of Bentley in Bishop\nSandford's _Memoirs_. Is it authentic?\n\n    \"When the great Bentley, afterwards so distinguished, was examined for\n    Deacon's Orders, he expected that the Bishop would himself examine him;\n    and his displeasure at what he considered neglect, he vented in such\n    answers as the following:\n\n      _Chaplain._ Quid est Fides?\n      _Bentley._ Quod non vides.\n      _Chaplain._ Quid est Spes?\n      _Bentley._ Quod non habes.\n      _Chaplain._ Quid est Charitas?\n      _Bentley._ Maxima raritas.\"\n\nAre not these rhymes older than Bentley?\n\nW. FRASER.\n\n_Derivation of \"Lowbell.\"_--I see MR. STERNBERG, in his \"Dialect and\nFolk-lore of Northamptonshire,\" gives a new explanation of the puzzling\nword _lowbell_, in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Woman's Prize_, Act I. Sc. 3.\nIt appears that Northamptonshire peasants have a way of their own for\npunishing offenders against good morals:\n\n    \"On the first appearance of the culprit in 'strit,' or on 'grin,' the\n    villagers rise _en masse_, and greet him with a terrible din of tin\n    pots and kettles, &c.; and, amidst the hooting and vociferation of the\n    multitude, he is generally compelled to seek shelter by flight. This is\n    called 'lowbelling,' and the actors are termed 'lowbells,' or\n    'lowbellers,' forming a tolerable explanation of the _lowbell_ in\n    Beaumont and Fletcher's _Woman's Prize_, Act I. Sc. 3., which has so\n    long mystified the commentators:\n\n     '_Petru._ If you can carry't so, 'tis very well.\n      _Bian._ No, you shall carry it, Sir.\n      _Petru._ Peace, gentle _Lowbell_.'\"\n\nMR. STERNBERG derives it from the Anglo-Saxon _lowian_, past participle of\nthe Anglo-Saxon _lowian_, and the verb _bellan_. This would seem\nsatisfactory; but I should like to know whether the word is current\nanywhere else besides Northamptonshire.\n\nH. T. W.\n\n_Meaning of Assassin._--Can any reader of the \"N. & Q.\" inform me of the\ncorrect meaning of the word \"assassin?\" The old story of the nation of the\nassassins, under their prince the \"Old Man of the Mountain,\" I reject as\nabsurd, although Gibbon adopts it. I have my own idea, which agrees with\nMr. Lane in his account of the modern Egyptians, who derives it from the\nArabic word \"_Hushhusheen_, one drunk with hemp.\" M. Volney says it comes\nfrom the Arabic \"_Hass_, to kill, or lie in ambush to kill.\" Which of all\nthese derivations is correct?\n\nMUHAMMED.\n\nA. and N. Club, St. James's Square.\n\n_Punishment for exercising the Roman Catholic Religion._--In Burton's\n_Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 168., I find the\nfollowing statement:\n\n    \"The latest case of punishment under the act is supposed to have\n    occurred in 1759, when Neil McFie was banished by the circuit court of\n    Inverness, for being 'held and reputed a Popish priest.' Later\n    instances might be adduced of punishment for exercising the Roman\n    Catholic religion in England.\"\n\nCan any of your readers inform me of the date of the last instance in\nEngland, and where it is stated?\n\nS. Y.\n\n_Hogarth's Pictures._--I have a catalogue of the pictures and prints, the\nproperty of the late Mrs. Hogarth deceased, which were sold by Mr.\nGreenwood on April 24th, 1790. Under the head \"Pictures by Mr. Hogarth,\" I\nsee in Lot 44.: \"The heads of six servants of Mr. Hogarth's family.\" Can\nany of your numerous readers inform me where this picture is placed, or say\nin what manner the heads are grouped?\n\nW. D. HAGGARD.\n\n_Lines in a Snuff-box._--The following lines were recently found in a metal\n(probably silver) snuff-box, which had lain for many years undiscovered in\na plate chest. They are engraved {182} _inside_, on the bottom of the box,\nand are supposed to be a saying of Cardinal Mazarin. Can any of your\ncorrespondents give any account of them, and where they are to be found?\nThey are as follow, _verbatim et literatim_, punctuation included:\n\n \"Time and I, to any Two\n  Chance & I to time and you\n            1750\"\n\nR. BLAKISTON.\n\nAshington Rectory, Sussex.\n\n_Rosa Mystica._--Where is information to be found on the subject of the\n_Rosa Mystica_; and what is the date of its institution?\n\nD. S. A.\n\n_Old-Shoe throwing at Weddings._--Can any of your readers inform me what is\nthe origin of the custom of throwing an old shoe over the bride and\nbridegroom upon their leaving the church, or the \"maison paternelle\" after\ntheir wedding?\n\nThis ceremony, though peculiar as I believe to Scotland and our northern\ncounties, has lately been adopted at our aristocratic marriages in London,\nand more should be known of its history.\n\nBRAYBROOKE.\n\n_Herb\u00e9's \"Costumes Fran\u00e7ais.\"_--The valuable work by M. Herb\u00e9, _Costumes\nFran\u00e7ais; Civiles, Militaires et Religieux_, 4to. Paris, is doubtless well\nknown to your readers.\n\nI have heard that after its publication sundry persons, judging perhaps\nfrom the eccentricity of many of the costumes, doubted their accuracy, and\neven considered them the result of M. Herb\u00e9's fancy; and that that\ngentleman, annoyed at the imputation, subsequently published another work\nciting his authorities.\n\nQuery, Can any one verify this statement? and if true, inform me of the\ntitle of this latter work; and whether it is to be found in any library in\nthis country, and where?\n\nPICTOR.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries with Answers.\n\n_Humphry Smith_ (Vol. vii., p. 80.).--Having heard of a work of his, giving\nan account of the persecution in his time, will you or one of your\ncontributors be so good as furnish a list of the titles of his works; with\na note naming where they may be met with for inspection?\n\nGLYWYSIG.\n\n    [The first two in the following list of the works of Humphry Smith, the\n    Quaker, are in the British Museum; the remainder are in the Bodleian:\n    1. A Sad and Mournful Lamentation for the People of these Nations, but\n    especially for the Priests and Leaders of them, 4to. 1660. 2.\n    Meditations of an Humble Heart, 4to. 3. Something further laid open of\n    the Cruel Persecution of the People called Quakers, by the Magistrates\n    and People of Evesham, 4to. 1656. 4. For the Honour of the King, and\n    the great advancing thereof (amongst men) over all nations in the\n    world, in some proposals tending thereunto; stated in six particulars,\n    4to. 1661. 5. Sound Things Asserted in the King's own words, from late\n    experience, from Scripture truth, and according to reason and equity,\n    offered in meekness and goodwill unto the consideration of all Kings,\n    Lords, Counsellors, &c., 4to. 1662. 6. Something in Reply to Edmund\n    Skipp's book, which he calles \"The World's Wonder, or the Quaker's\n    Blazing Starre,\" at the end of an Answer to Edmund Skipp's book by R.\n    F. Watt, in his _Bibliotheca_, has confounded Smith the Quaker with\n    Humphry Smith, Vicar of Tounstal and St. Saviour's, Dartmouth.]\n\n_Meaning and Etymology of \"Conyngers\" or \"Connigries.\"_--In the preamble to\nthe statute 13 Rich. II. c. 13., entitled \"None shall hunt but they which\nhave a sufficient living,\" this word occurs; and I am totally at a loss as\nto its meaning. The passage is--\n\n    \"Vont chaceants es parkes, garennes et conyngers des seignurs et\n    autres;\"\n\nwhich, in Pickering's edition of the _Statutes at Large_, is translated:\n\n    \"They go hunting in parks, warrens, and connigries of lords and\n    others.\"\n\nWould any reader of \"N. & Q.\" kindly enlighten me on the subject?\n\nA. W.\n\nKilburn.\n\n    [Blount explains _Coningeria_ as a coney-borough, or warren of conies.\n    \"Item dicunt, quod idem Dominus potest capere in duabus _coningeriis_,\n    quas habet infra Insulam de Vecta, 100 cuniculos per annum, et valet\n    quilibet cuniculos 2d.\" Inq. de anno 47 Hen. III., n. 32.]\n\n_Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives_ (Vol. vii., p. 39.).--Is St. Ives by any\npossibility connected with St. Jue's, St. Jew's, or St. Jude's? Jve's and\nIue's must have been undistinguishable in the ancient confusion of J and I,\nV and U. If I am here displaying ignorance, I ask, What is the legend of\nSt. Ives?\n\nW. FRASER.\n\nTor-Mohun.\n\n    [St. Ives is named from I\u00e4, who was one of the missionary band that\n    accompanied St. Kiaran, alias Piran, from Ireland in the fifth century.\n    The Cornish have consecrated almost all their towns to the memory of\n    these Irish saints: \"witness,\" says Camden, \"St. Burian, St. Ives, St.\n    Columb, St. Mewan, St. Erben, St. Eval, St. Wenn, and St. Enedor.\" It\n    appears that these missionaries landed in Cornwall at Pendinas,\n    hill-head, now called St. Ives; for in the Legend of St. Ives,\n    contained in _Nova Legenda Angli\u00e6_, we read that \"Tewdor was king at\n    that time, and had a palace at Pendinas; and that Dinan, a greate lord\n    of Cornwall, at the request of St. I\u00e4, built a church at the same\n    place.\" See Butler's _Lives_, March 5th; and Haslam's _Perranzabuloe_,\n    p. 55.]\n\n{183}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nTHE ORKNEY ISLANDS IN PAWN.\n\n(Vol. vii., p. 105.)\n\nIt gives me much pleasure to be enabled to inform your correspondent\nKIRKWALLENSIS that there is no fear of our losing these islands in the\nmanner suggested by him, they having been renounced by Denmark nearly four\nhundred years ago, as will be seen from the following sketch.\n\nThe Orkneys were taken from the Picts about A.D. 838, by Kenneth II., king\nof Scotland, to which kingdom they were attached until 1099, when Donald\nVIII., surnamed Bane, brother to Malcolm Canmore, usurped the crown, to the\nprejudice of his nephews Edgar, Alexander, and David; and requiring\nassistance to maintain his position, he applied to Magnus, king of Norway,\nto whom, says Skene, \"for help and supply he gave all the isles of Scotland\n(Camden says the Orkneys only), where, through and for other causes, many\nbloody battles were fought, until the battle of Larges, 3rd August, 1260,\nin the time of Alexander III. of Scotland, and Acho, king of Norway.\" The\nScots proving victorious, Magnus of Norway, son and successor of Acho, made\npeace with Alexander, and renounced and discharged all right and title\nwhich he or his successors had, or might have or pretend, to the isles of\nScotland, the king of Scotland paying therefor yearly to the said Magnus\nand his successors one hundred marks of sterling money. This contract was\nconfirmed in 1312 by Haquin V. of Norway and Robert I. of Scotland. In 1426\nEric X. of Denmark renewed with James I. of Scotland these ancient\ntreaties, particularly with regard to the Western Isles; the pension or\nannuity having been long omitted to be paid, Eric now freely gave it up to\nJames; and thus, in appearance, the Orkneys were finally confirmed to\nScotland; but virtually it was not so until 1468, when, says Skene, \"at\nlast the said annual, with all the arrearages and by-runs thereof, was\ndischarged and renounced _simpliciter_, in the contract of marriage between\nKing James III. and Margaret, daughter of Christian I., king of Norway,\nDenmark, and Sweden, on the 8th of September, 1468; which discharge is not\nonly ratified, but renewed thereafter by the said king, on the 12th May,\n1469. It appears that James III., on the 24th February, 1483, commanded his\nambassador sent to the Pope to desire a confirmation of the said perpetual\nrenunciation and discharge of the contribution of the Isles.\"\n\nAccording to Dr. Wallace's account (1700), King Christian agreed that the\nisles of Orkney and Zetland should remain in the possession of King James\nand his successors, as the Princess Margaret's dower, until either King\nChristian or his successors should pay to King James or his successors the\nsum of fifty thousand florins of the Rhine; but in the year following,\nhearing of his daughter's delivery of a prince at Edinburgh, he \"for joy\nthereof renounced for ever to the crown of Scotland all right or claim to\nthe said isles.\"\n\nBROCTUNA.\n\nBury, Lancashire.\n\nKIRKWALLENSIS seems to have been led into an error respecting the Orkneys.\nIt is true that Orkney and Shetland belonged to the crown of Norway, to\nwhich the Scottish family of St. Clair, or Sinclair, rendered military\nservice for the earldom. It was not, however, to an English king, but to\nJames III. of Scotland that Christian gave the hand of \"the Maid of\nNorway.\" In the marriage preliminaries the latter thus stipulates\nrespecting the dower:--\"Rex cedit sexaginta aureorum Rhenensium\n[florenorum] millia, ejus summ\u00e6 priusquam \u00e8 Dan\u00e6 regno sponsa digrediatur\nnumeraturus aureorum decem millia, quod ver\u00f2 reliquum esset supplerent\ninsul\u00e6 regni Norvegici, jam memorat\u00e6, _Orcades_, una cum jurisdictione ac\nc\u00e6teris eodem pertinentibus, hac tamen lege, ut insulas eas, eousque teneat\nScoti\u00e6 Rex sub firma _hypotheca_ donec vel ipse, vel ejus heredes, Dani\u00e6 ac\nNorvegi\u00e6 Reges, \u00e6qua vicissim portione easdem redimant.\" This article was\nafterwards embodied in the marriage contract:--\"Et terr\u00e6 insularum Orchaden\nRegi nostro Jacobo _impignorat\u00e6, ad Norvegi\u00e6 reges revertentur_,\" &c. Both\ndocuments are preserved in Torf\u00e6us (_Orcades_, pp. 188--191.). Mr. Auker's\ndiscovery of the original is, however, an interesting circumstance, as it\nwould seem that the marriage in question was but the result of an attempt\nto settle amicably an ancient dispute respecting the sovereignty of the\nHebrides--\"vetus controversia de H\u00e6budis et Mannia magnis utriusque populi\ncladibus agitata\"--which the king of France, as umpire, had been unable to\npronounce upon, in consequence of the loss or concealment of the original\ninstruments.\n\nW. G. A.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE PASSAGE IN KING HENRY VIII., ACT III. SC. 2.\n\n(Vol. vii., pp. 5. 111.)\n\nHaving no desire to enter into unnecessary controversy, I do not often\nreply to objections made to my conjectural emendations of passages in\nShakspeare; but on the present occasion I think it incumbent on me to\nappeal to the common sense of those who take interest in such matters, by\nmerely placing in juxta-position the reading I have proposed, and that of\nyour Leeds correspondent, and thus leave it to their impartial decision\nwithout fear of the result. It may be necessary, as your correspondent has\nadverted to {184} what precedes, to give the passage as it stands in the\nfolio at some length. Wolsey having said--\n\n                 \"For your great Graces\n  Heap'd upon me (poore Undeserver) I\n  Can nothing offer but my Allegiant thankes,\n  My Prayres to heaven for you; my Loyaltie\n  Which ever ha's, and ever shall be growing\n  Till death (that Winter) kill it.\"\n\nThe King replies:\n\n \"Fairely answer'd:\n  A Loyal, and obedient Subject is\n  Therein illustrated, the Honor of it\n  Does pay the Act of it, as i'th' contrary\n  The fowlenesse is the punishment. I presume\n  That as my hand ha's open'd Bounty to you,\n  My heart dropt Love, my powre rain'd Honor, more\n  On you, then any: So your Hand, and Heart,\n  Your Braine, and every Function of your power,\n  Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,\n  As 'twer in Love's particular, be more\n  To me your Friend, then any.\"\n\nWolsey rejoins:\n\n                         \"I do professe\n  That for your Highnesse good, I ever labour'd\n  More then mine owne: that am, haue, and will be\n  (Though all the world should crack their duty to you,\n  And throw it from their Soule, though perils did\n  Abound, as thicke as thought could make 'em, and\n  Appeare in formes more horrid) yet my Duty,\n  As doth a Rocke against the chiding Flood,\n  Should the approach of this wilde River breake,\n  And stand unshaken yours.\"\n\nI read:\n\n                         \"I do profess\n  That for your highness' good I ever labour'd\n  More than mine own: that _I'm true_, and will be,\n  Though all the world should lack their duty to you,\n  And throw it from their soul: though perils did\n  Abound, as thick as thought could make them, and\n  Appear in forms more horrid; yet my duty\n  (As doth a rock against the chiding flood)\n  Should the approach of this wild river break,\n  And stand unshaken yours.\"\n\nYour Leeds correspondent would read:\n\n                         \"I do profess\n  That for your highness' good I ever labour'd\n  More than mine own.--_That_, am _I_, have, and will be,\n  Though all the world should crack their duty to you\n  And throw it from their soul,\" &c.\n\nFor his arguments I must refer to his note (p. 111. _ant\u00e8_), merely\nobserving that I cannot conceive how any alteration in the punctuation of\nthe King's speech could connect it with this! Making _That_ emphatic helps\nnothing, as there is no antecedent to which it can refer; and if \"we can by\nno means part with _have_,\" we must interpolate _been_ after it to make it\nany way intelligible, to the marring of the verse.\n\nWith regard to the substitution of _lack_ for _crack_ in my former note, it\nshould be recollected that I then said \"I do not insist upon this.\" We\nmight, however, substitute _slack_, if change should be deemed necessary,\nand it would be still nearer in form to the suspected word.\n\nI may safely leave the _palpable_ error in _As You Like It_ to the decision\nof common sense.\n\nAs I am dealing with corrections in the play of _King Henry VIII._, I may\ntake occasion to observe that MR. COLLIER, in his recent supplemental\nvolume of _Notes and Emendations_, has, I have no doubt unwittingly, stated\nthat a passage, Act IV. Sc. 2., has been absurdly pointed, \"over and over\nagain, from the year 1623 to our own day.\" Whereas it will be found\ncorrected, exactly as it stands in his second folio, in the edition I gave\nof Shakspeare in 1826, with a note adverting to the absurdity of the old\npointing. I may further add, that the first instance MR. COLLIER gives in\nhis preface of the corrections in his folio, is in the same predicament. He\nhas stated that the reading of \"Aristotle's _cheeks_\" for \"Aristotle's\n_ethics_,\" in the first scene of the _Taming of the Shrew_, \"has been the\ninvariable text from the first publication in 1623 until our own day;\" when\nthe fact is, that it stands properly corrected in my edition in 1826, with\nthe following note:\n\n    \"Blackstone suggests that we should read _ethics_, and the sense seems\n    to require it; I have therefore admitted it into the text.\"\n\nIt is possible that MR. COLLIER may have never looked into my edition of\nthe poet, and I may honestly say that I regret it, not on my own account\nbut on his, for I think, had he consulted it, his own would not have been\nthe worse for it.\n\nS. W. SINGER.\n\nManor Place, South Lambeth.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINIATURE RING OF CHARLES I.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 578.)\n\nBy the courtesy of W. K. Rogers, Esq. (in whose possession it is), I am\nenabled to account for another of these interesting and invaluable relics;\none of the four said to have been presented by the Martyr prior to his\nexecution.\n\n    \"ROGERS OF LOTA.\n\n    This family was early remarkable for its loyalty and attachment to the\n    Crown; a ring is still preserved as an heir-loom, which was presented\n    to its ancestor by King Charles I. during his misfortunes.\"--Burke's\n    _Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland_.\n\nRobert Rogers of Lota received extensive grants of land from Charles II.,\nwhich upon the accession of James II. were confirmed to him by letters\npatent. He was Mayor of Cork, 1680, M. P. for that city 1692, and again\n1695. In the body of his will, bearing date 1690, and registered in the\nRecord Court, Dublin, occurs the following {185} paragraph, embraced by\nbrackets, as if he wished to convey forcibly his appreciation of the value\nof the relic:\n\n    [\"And I also bequeath to Noblett Rogers the miniature portrait-ring of\n    the martyr Charles I., given by that monarch to my ancestor previous to\n    his execution; and I particularly desire that it may be preserved in\n    the name and family.\"]\n\nThe miniature, which is beautifully painted in enamel, and said to be by\nVandyke, has been reset in a tasteful and appropriate style; and it is in\nthis state that I have seen it. But Mr. Rogers informs me that its original\nsetting and inscriptions exactly corresponded with those of the ring in the\npossession of the Misses Pigott, described in Hulbert's _History of Salop_;\nand the same tradition exists in the family as to its having been _one of\nfour_ presented by Charles to certain of his friends or followers. There\ncan be little question, therefore, as to the genuineness of both these\nrings. With regard to the portrait being the work of Vandyke, Mr. R. writes\nto me--\n\n    \"I know not on what authority it is stated, but I believe there is not\n    a family of old standing in the county Cork in which tradition has not\n    assigned its execution to that master; and certainly in Rome, where it\n    was much admired, the artists, when questioned 'Whose style?'\n    frequently answered, 'Vandyke.'\"\n\nPortraits by Vandyke in enamel, it is said, are known to be in existence.\nWhether so renowned a master would have submitted to the wearisome and\nlaborious operation of repeating a number of works so minute, even for a\ncrowned head, seems to admit of a doubt; yet there is no difficulty in\nimagining him to have superintended the progress of the artist employed to\ncopy his own portrait of Charles, and even to have bestowed some finishing\ntouches upon it.\n\nI have lately seen a ring with a portrait of Charles on ivory, in coarse\nand very inferior style, and in a plain gold setting. It is in the\npossession of a gentleman in whose family it has continued for several\ngenerations. Doubtless many such memorials of their murdered king were worn\nat the time by his devoted partizans, and may yet be in existence.\n\nC. LEY.\n\nBere Regis.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCHANTRY CHAPELS.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 223.)\n\nAt the Derby Congress of the British Arch\u00e6ological Association, the Duke of\nRutland exhibited a document of which the following notice by Mr. H. N.\nBlack is made in the Journal of their _Transactions_ (vol. for 1851, p.\n297.):\n\n    \"A bull of Pope Alexander IV., dated at Viterbo, 2 id. Mar., anno 4,\n    viz., 14 March, 1258. It is addressed to the Bishop of Coventry,\n    setting forth that Richard de Herthull lived in a place remote from the\n    mother church, which at some seasons was inaccessible; that he already\n    had a chapel on his own land, and desired to have a chaplain to serve\n    therein, for whom he was prepared to provide fit support. The matter\n    was therefore referred to his diocesan, to grant license accordingly if\n    he should deem it expedient. The leaden seal is yet attached to this\n    beautiful little document.\"\n\nThen follow the words of the document in Latin.\n\nHerthull has been corrupted into _Hartle_: and on the moor of this name a\nchapel still remains, although of much later date than that mentioned in\nthe above-named document; traces of an earlier erection are however still\nvisible in a portion of the present foundations. It is now used as a barn.\nDistant from this about two miles, at Meadow Place, near Yolgrave, is\nanother chapel, now used for a similar purpose as the foregoing. In this,\nthe jambs of all the windows still remain; the east window is a very large\none.\n\nThe above is not intended to answer W. H. K.'s Query, but rather as a note\nin connexion with it.\n\nT. N. B.\n\nChester.\n\nIn the North Riding of Yorkshire, celebrated for its monasteries, &c., were\nmany chantry chapels, both in the hamlets, and in the rural situations\napart from them. Gill's _Vallis Eboracensis_ contains an account of\nseveral; among the rest may be noticed one at Newton Grange. This chapel,\nwhich is now used for agricultural purposes, is preserved, by request of\nits noble owner Lord Feversham, in its primitive form. It stands in a\nmeadow field, at some distance from the ruins of the ancient seat of the\nCholmeleys, and was used as a burial chantry, but not exclusively so. In\n1820 a vault was discovered beneath the floor; and five coffins were\nremoved to Oswald Kirk churchyard, and re-interred there. In order to\npreserve the chapel from ruin, Lady Cholmeley bequeathed one pound per\nannum to the Rector of Ampleforth for preaching a sermon annually therein;\nbut the ruinous state of the building at that time caused the removal of\nthe pulpit, and the sermon is preached in the church at Oswald Kirk.\n\nThe _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ contains the records of dissolved chantries.\n\nJ. E. G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES.\n\n_The Collodion Process._--I have been much pleased with the directions\ngiven by DR. DIAMOND in your columns for the production of collodion\npositives; but they have been hitherto unaccompanied by any reference to\nthe causes of those numerous failures that occur in this delicate process,\nand which are so disheartening to {186} beginners. I will just enumerate a\nfew of the appearances with which I have been troubled, and trust that they\nmay elicit from other operators an account of some of their instructive\nfailures. I will premise, as an answer to a former Query respecting the\ncost and description of lenses, that I obtained mine of Mr. Goddard, now of\nJesse Cottage, Witton, Middlesex. They are combination-lenses, two inches\nand a quarter in diameter (achromatic); the front lens can be used singly\nfor views, producing a picture nearly seven inches square, but when\ncombined covering four inches. For these, with brass mounting, I paid less\nthan 3l.: a single lens, the same diameter, would be about 1l. They work to\nfocus, cover flat, and define well, producing pictures equal to the most\nexpensive.\n\nI have usually preferred Mr. Archer's collodion, as the most certain and\ncleanest. The silver bath is composed of thirty grains nitrate of silver\nand two drops of nitric acid to each ounce of distilled water. An even film\nmay be obtained by the following means:--Represent the plate of glass by\nthe following figure:\n\n  +--------------------+\n  | 1                3 |\n  |                    |\n  |                    |\n  | 2                4 |\n  +--------------------+\n\nHold the plate with the left hand at 1, pour a body of collodion in the\ncentre: tilt towards 1 (being careful not to let it touch the thumb),\nincline towards 2, run into 3, and pour off at 4: then hold the plate\nvertically (resting the corner 4 on the neck of the collodion bottle) to\ndrain: incline it first to the right and then to the left, repeating this\nseveral times until the ridges are removed. By these means an even film may\nbe produced, without a thick ridge, from 2 to 4. The time it may be left\nbefore plunging into the silver bath will depend on the temperature (about\nhalf a minute). Dip evenly into the bath, lifting up and down to allow of\nthe evaporation of the ether: the film will also saturate more rapidly.\nWhen the greasy appearance is gone, it is ready for the camera. Sometimes\nthe film is nearly transparent and bluish, not having sufficient iodide of\nsilver; or it may contain too much iodide, the greater part flaking off in\nthe bath, leaving the collodion with very little, and that patchy; or from\nbeing placed in the bath too quick, the lower corner still present a\nreticulated appearance, which of course renders it useless.\n\nHaving exposed the plate the necessary time, the next step is the\ndevelopment. The solution I usually employ is prepared with protosulphate\nof iron. I do not find distilled water absolutely necessary (during the\nsummer months I fancied the tones were improved by using ordinary water,\nperhaps from containing a little lime), and the acetate acid is not\nglacial, but a description termed Beaufoy's, much less expensive. The\nproportions are--\n\n  Water                     2 ounces.\n  Acetic acid               1 drachm.\n  Protosulphate of iron     8 grains.\n  Nitric acid               2 drops.\n\nMix the water and acetic acid first; then dissolve the iron; and, lastly,\nadd the nitric acid, which, by varying the quantity, produces different\neffects. On pouring the solution over the plate, there is sometimes a\ndifficulty experienced in causing it to flow evenly. Sometimes a little\nmore acetic acid in the developing solution, or, if the plate has been out\nof the bath some time, redipping it, will prevent this; but if this does\nnot remove it, and the resulting picture is hard and unpleasant in tone, a\nnew bath is necessary. For positives, the resulting picture is more\npleasing and delicate by using the developing agent rather weak. After it\nhas remained on sufficiently long to bring out the image, the undecomposed\niodide is to be removed by hyposulphite of soda. I always use the same\nsolution, pouring it on and off until exhausted. Having sufficiently\nwashed, the picture may perhaps appear with many black spots, this may in\nfuture be obviated by adding a little alcohol to the collodion:--or it may\nbe covered with white spots; in that case the collodion requires settling,\nor rapidly filtrating through an old piece of loose silk. Sometimes it will\nlook all black and white (a common fault with collodion positives), without\nmiddle tints: by adding a little more acetic acid, or an extra drop of\nnitric acid, to the developing solution, or the addition of a few drops of\nordinary pyrogallic solution, this disagreeable effect may be overcome. In\ntaking portraits, it is often caused by having the sitter placed with too\nmuch front light. Then, again, the should-be whites of the picture may be\ndull and greenish by reflected, and red by transmitted, light. This effect\nI generally find remedied by putting less nitric acid in the developing\nsolution. During the development, by watching the colour (by holding a\npiece of white paper underneath), this red tendency may be observed; in\nthat case the drawing may be preserved by leaving the plate for about a\nminute after pouring the developing agent off, and before removing the\niodide. Some change appears to take place by its contact with the air; it\ngradually gets more opaque, and when finished, though not so white as many,\nyet presenting an extremely rich brownish-yellow tone.\n\nDuring the late dull weather, many of my plates have shown a tendency to an\nuniform leaden-looking deposit, destroying the blacks of the picture. A\nlittle more nitric acid in the bath will sometimes overcome this, but I\nhave not yet found a sufficient remedy. During the summer months I was in\nthe habit of using double the quantity of {187} iron I have stated,\ndiluting the solution more; then was compelled to diminish the quantity to\ntwelve grains, and now I use eight. I have tried the proportions\nrecommended by French photographers, but they seem to contain too large a\nproportion of iron. I prefer the use of the protosulphate to the\nprotonitrate of iron from its cheapness, and the ease with which it is made\nup. It will also keep for any length of time, rather improving than\notherwise.\n\nI back with liquid jet from Suggitt, opposite the House of Correction,\nMount Pleasant, Clerkenwell. It dries rapidly, and brightens the\nappearance.\n\nG. H. P.\n\n_Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process._--The process I sent to your columns\nlast month, for iodizing paper, is applicable _only_ to the paper of Canson\nFr\u00e8res; and I may further explain, that if the solution does not answer\nwell, it may be washed over again with a solution of iodide of potassa only\nof the usual strength, and then set on a dish of slightly-acidulated water,\nto assist the separation and set free the potash. To make the matter clear\nto MR. SHADBOLT, I may observe, to one who is in the habit of iodizing\npaper, a considerable amount of the passage relating to cyanide of potassa\ncould not be misunderstood; the nitrate of silver being added to the iodide\nof potassa, forms at once a precipitate which it is required to take up.\nThe old double iodide says, add iodide of potassa till it does so, and it\nwill do so; but the cyanide of potassa does it much better, and the\ncyanogen is lost as the paper dries, otherwise it would take no image at\nall. In the process I gave it merely requires an equivalent, \"and cyanide\nof potassa is always of use in many of these processes.\" That equivalent is\nof course best arrived at by a solution, as, if the cyanide of potassa were\nadded in the lump, it would be lost or be in excess.\n\nFurther, I may enlighten MR. SHADBOLT by assuring him that the iodizing\npaper with the ammonio-nitrate of silver, which I never saw published yet,\nis the best way; and I may confidently assert that the better ways of\niodizing papers are not published at all. It is a tedious process to do,\nbut it is as certain as taking a positive from a negative. At present I\nhave not space to give my way of doing it. I may also add, that it will not\nanswer with all papers. In fact, all samples of paper require some\nmodification of the process, as the chemicals are different in the various\nmodes of bleaching paper by different manufacturers. The ammonio-nitrate is\nperfect with Whatman's paper; indeed it is a subject of much regret, that\nthis maker has not turned out a paper as thin and hard as the Canson\nFr\u00e8res. The latter gentlemen have added some chemical, probably iodine, to\ntheir paper, which renders it almost impossible to iodize it at all. I\nbelieve it to be iodine, because the paper becomes perfectly black over\n_free_ iodine, which no English paper will do. At all events, this paper is\nvery uncertain, although it has a quality in appearance that is unsurpassed\nby any other.\n\nWELD TAYLOR.\n\n7. Conduit Street West, Bayswater.\n\n_Sir William Newton's Process: Further Explanations._--In reply to your\ncorrespondent F. MAXWELL LYTE, who is desirous of knowing my motive for\nwashing the paper over with chloride of barium previous to iodizing--\n\nIn the first place, I find that it appears to give strength to the paper.\n\nSecondly, that the action in the camera is better and more certain.\n\nThirdly, it keeps cleaner in the bringing-out process, thereby allowing a\nlonger time for a more complete development.\n\nFourthly, I have never found any _solarizing_ take place since I have used\nit (about three years); and, fifthly, I find that it keeps longer and\nbetter after it is excited for the camera.\n\nFrom the observations which I have made since I have made use of chloride\nof barium, I conclude that it has the effect of _destroying_ any injurious\nproperties which may be in the paper, and more especially with respect to\nthe SIZE; and besides which, when combined with iodide of silver, greater\nintensity is obtained in the negative.\n\nI have occasionally prepared paper without chloride of barium, but I have\nalways found (except for positives) that I could not rely upon it with the\nsame degree of certainty. I need scarcely add that throughout the whole of\nthis process the greatest care and attention is required, and that the\nwater should be constantly agitated while the paper is in it, and that the\nwater should be once changed.\n\nW. J. NEWTON.\n\n6. Argyle Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Lady Nevell's Music-book_ (Vol. vii., p. 59.).--To transpose the six-line\nstaves of old music into the five-line staves of modern notation, it is\nonly necessary to treat the lowest line of the treble, and the highest line\nof the bass, as ledger lines. The five remaining will correspond with the\nfive now in use.\n\nI should feel greatly obliged to your correspondent L. B. L. for a sight of\nhis Virginal Book, as it appears to be an exact transcript of the one in\nDR. RIMBAULT'S possession.\n\nWM. CHAPPELL.\n\n201. Regent Street.\n\n_Tuch_ (Vol. vii., p. 82.).--ALPHAGE suggests that the \"touchstone\" had its\nname because \"a musical sound may be produced by touching it {188} sharply\nwith a stick.\" I think this is an error, and that it owes its name to its\nuse in the assay of gold and silver. We find this application of it\ndescribed in a work (now scarce) published in 1677, under the title of _A\nTouchstone for Gold and Silver Wares_. The author, after describing the\nqualities of a good touchstone, observes (p. 36.):\n\n    \"The way to make a true touch on the touch-stone is thus: When your\n    touch-stone is very clean ... your silver being filed ... rub it\n    steadily, and very hard, on the stone ... until the place of the stone\n    whereon you rub be like the metal itself ... wet all the toucht places\n    with your tongue, and it will show itself in its own countenance.\"\n\nAnd that the touchstone was used in this connexion at a much earlier period\nis obvious from the language of the ancient statutes. The 28 Edward I.,\nstat. 3. cap. 20., requires all gold and silver wares to be \"of good and\ntrue allay, that is to say, gold of a certain _touch_.\" And the word occurs\nin the same sense in other statutes.\n\nA. R.\n\nBirmingham.\n\nThe error of Coleridge, alluded to by your correspondent ALPHAGE, is\ncertainly not a little singular, especially as the word, in the sense of\nstone or marble, occurs in Ben Jonson, Drayton, and Sir John Harrington,\nand there is a good article on the word in Nares's _Glossary_. I must,\nhowever, altogether dissent from your correspondent's statement that the\nreason for the name of Touchstone is, that a musical sound may be produced\nby touching it sharply with a stick, and agree with Nares that it obtained\nits name from being used as a test for gold. See a very interesting article\non Assay Marks by Mr. Octavius Morgan (_Arch\u00e6ological Journal_, ix. 127.),\nfrom which it appears that, for the trial of gold, touch-needles were\napplied to the touchstone.\n\nTHOMPSON COOPER.\n\nCambridge.\n\n_Eva, Princess of Leinster_ (Vol. vi., p. 388.).--O'Haloran, in his\n_History of Ireland_, says:\n\n    In 1168, Dermot Mac Murchad, King of Leinster, having carried away\n    Dearbhorgie, wife of O'Ruark, prince of Breffin, was driven from his\n    kingdom by the husband, assisted by the lady's father, the King of\n    Meath.\n\n    \"He arrived at Bristol, having obtained letters patent of Henry II. for\n    any of the king's subjects to assist him against his enemies: but no\n    one in Bristol was found able or willing to undertake such expedition,\n    when Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, who resided at Chepstow Castle,\n    offered his assistance (Seyer's _Memoirs of Bristol_); and, in 1169,\n    entered Ireland with two hundred knights and others, to the number of\n    1000. The object being effected, Strongbow was united to Eva, the\n    daughter of Dermot; and, at that prince's death, became seised of\n    Leinster.\"\n\nBy this it appears, that Dermot eloped with the lady in 1168; and, as\nStrongbow was united to Eva the following year, Eva consequently could not\nhave been the offspring of that connexion. Who her mother was, I am unable\nto find out.\n\nC. H.\n\n_Whipping Post_ (Vol. vi., p. 388.).--These mementos of the salutary mode\nof punishment practised by our forefathers, are of frequent occurrence. I\nhave met with them in country villages in all parts of England with which I\nam acquainted. They generally accompany that place of \"durance vile,\" the\nstocks; and occasionally have accommodation for two persons, I suppose to\nsuit the various sizes of offenders.\n\nT. H. KERSLEY, B.A.\n\nAudlem, Cheshire.\n\n_The Dodo_ (Vol. vii., p. 32.).--The progress of the interesting inquiry in\n\"N. & Q.\" regarding the Dodo, induces me to communicate the fact, that\namongst the architectural decorations of the palace of the ancient Kings of\nKandy, in Ceylon (now inhabited by the governor, Reginald C. Buller, Esq.),\nthere occur frequent and numerous representations of a bird, which in every\nparticular of shape is identical with the extinct fowl of Mauritius. What\nis more curious is, that the natives were familiar with the figure as that\nof \"the sacred bird,\" which is common on the Buddhist monuments throughout\nthe island; but Ceylon possesses no existing species at all resembling the\nDodo. I have a drawing copied from the figures in the Kandy palace; but as\nyour publication does not admit of engraved illustration, I do not send it.\n\nJ. EMERSON TENNENT.\n\nSome weeks ago, on looking over a box of old Kentish deeds and papers, P.\nC. S. S. found a lease, signed by his ancestor Sir John Fineux, on the 6th\nof October, 1522, to which is affixed a seal in perfect preservation,\nbearing what P. C. S. S. has hitherto erroneously supposed to be the crest\nof the Fineux family, viz. an eagle displayed. He is now, however, indebted\nto your correspondent (Vol. vi., p. 83.) for the conviction that it must be\na Dodo, and that it can represent nothing else. For it is of \"unwieldy\nform,\" has \"disproportionate wings,\" and is altogether of a \"clumsy\nfigure.\" P. C. S. S. has till now believed that the uncouth appearance of\nthe bird was owing to the want of skill in the artist. But it is now clear\nthat it must undoubtedly be a Dodo; and P. C. S. S. will henceforward live,\n_sibi carior_, in the certainty that the chief justice of England temp.\nHenry VIII., from whom he has the honour to descend, bore a \"veritable\nDodo\" as his crest.\n\nP. C. S. S. takes this occasion of adverting to some Queries which appeared\na few months ago, respecting serjeants' rings. He has in his {189}\npossession one of those given by Sir John Fineux on his assumption of the\ncoif. The motto is, \"Su\u00e6 quisque fortun\u00e6 faber.\"\n\nP. C. S. S.\n\n_\"Then comes the reckoning,\" &c._ (Vol. v., p. 585.).--These two lines are\nto be found in Act II. Sc. 9. of the tragi-comi-pastoral, _The What D'ye\nCall It_, by John Gay, author of the _Beggar's Opera_, _Fables_, &c. The\ncorrect quotation is:\n\n \"So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,\n  The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.\"\n\nS. WMSON.\n\n_Sir J. Covert, not Govett_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--QU\u00c6RO may be perfectly\nassured that there never was a baronet of the name of Govett, nor a member\nof parliament so called. P. C. S. S. is confident that the individual to\nwhom QU\u00c6RO refers, as having sat in the second parliament of Charles II.,\nmust have been Sir John Covert, Baronet, who was member for Horsham. The\nmisnomer would not be surprising in a list which contains such names as\nNosrooth for Noseworthy, Cowshop for Courthope, Meestry for Masters, and\nGrubbaminton and Zerve for Heaven knows what!\n\nP. C. S. S.\n\n_Chatterton_ (Vol. vii., pp. 14. 138.).--I feel very much obliged to J. M.\nG. for his answer to my question. May I ask if he has any other documents\nor information which would throw light on the origin and history of the\nRowley poems? The inquiry has interested me for more than forty years, and\nI have long been about as fully convinced that Chatterton did not write the\npoems, as that I did not write them myself. For any help towards finding\nout who _did_ write them, I should be very thankful.\n\nN. B.\n\n_Tennyson_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--The following brief Note from _Democritus\nin London; with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin\nGood-Fellow_, is a reply to the _first_ Query of H. J. J.:\n\n \"Ye may no see, for peeping flowers, the grasse.\"\n                          _George Peele._\n\n \"You scarce could see the grass for flowers.\"\n                          _Alfred Tennyson._\n\nA SUBSCRIBER.\n\nQuery 2. Is not the Latin song Catullus XLV. (edit. Doering), where we find\n(v. 8.):\n\n \"Amor, _sinistram_ ut ante,\n  _Dextram sternuit approbationem?_\"\n\nP. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.\n\n_Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head_ (Vol. v., pp. 175. 235. 305.).--I am\nsurprised that the twice-repeated Query of your correspondent L. G. T. of\nLichfield yet remains unanswered. \"The cavern\" he refers to is that called\nLlech, and concerning which he has fallen into several errors. The cavern,\nso far from having been lately discovered, has been known for generations\npast, and is yearly visited by hundreds of strangers. If the entrance has\nbeen made as private and inaccessible as possible, there is nobody to blame\nbut nature and time; for the ancient approach was from the summit of the\ncliff by means of a flight of stone and grass steps, of which traces still\nremain connected with an old stone wall. The cave is easily descried from\nthe sea-shore below, whence it can be reached by the aid of a common\nladder. The shape is not heptagonal, as stated by L. G. T.; but is\nsemi-octagonal, terminated in front by two square columns of freestone. The\nfront and seats are in perfect preservation; but of the stone table, which\nmany years ago occupied the centre, the pedestal only remains. The font, or\nrather stone basin, is supplied by a spring of most delicious water, which,\nat certain seasons, flows in copious quantities into an artificial bath\nexcavated in the rock below. It is said that the cave was fitted up as a\ngrotto, or pleasure-house, by some ancestors of the Mostyn family; and this\nis all that is known about it. I have measured the principal dimensions,\nand find the quantities given by L. G. T. sufficiently accurate.\n\nC. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n_Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--No pedigree of this\nprelate's family is known to have been referred to by any of the Devonshire\nhistorians. The arms used by the bishop, and still remaining in several\nchurches of the diocese, were: Sable, a chevron or, between three owls\nproper; on a chief of the second as many roses gules.\n\nBurke, in the _Encyclopedia of Heraldry_, gives a different coat as borne\nby Oldham of Hatherleigh in the co. of Devon.\n\nJ. D.\n\n_Arms at Bristol_ (Vol. vii., p. 67.).--It may afford a clue to E. D. to be\ninformed that coats of arms bearing a chevron charged with three bucks'\nheads caboshed were used by the families of Cervington or Servington, and\nParry.\n\nJ. D.\n\n_The Cross and the Crucifix_ (Vol. v., pp. 39. 85.).--Under this title I\nfind two articles; and, as it is an interesting subject, I should like to\nsend a quotation which I copied some time since from the _Octavius_ of\nMinucius Felix, A.D. 210 (Adam. Clarke):\n\n    \"Cruces etiam nec colimus nec optamus. Vos plane qui ligneos deos\n    consecratis, cruces ligneas, ut deorum vestrorum partes, forsitan\n    adoratis. Nam et signa ipsa, et cantabra, et vexilla castrorum, quid\n    aliud quam inaurat\u00e6 cruces sunt et ornat\u00e6? Trop\u00e6a vestra victricia non\n    tantum simplicis crucis faciem, verum et affixi hominis imitantur.\n    Signum sane crucis naturaliter visimus in {190} navi, cum velis\n    tumentibus vehitur, cum expansis palmulis labitur,\" &c.\n\nSimilar sentiments, in almost the same words, are expressed by Tertullian,\n_Apologet._, sect. 16.; and _Ad Nationes_, sect. 12. See also Justin\nMartyr, _Apol._ lib. i. sect. 72. The quotation from M. Felix is from the\nLeipsic edit., 1847, pp. 41, 42.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Sir Kenelm Digby_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--I am not at all convinced of the\naccuracy of the statement made by your correspondent VANDYKE, \"that Sir\nKenelm Digby is (VANDYKE believes _always_) represented with a sunflower by\nhis side.\" There are various prints of Sir Kenelm Digby at the British\nMuseum, which I have very recently examined, and I can find but one which\nbears the device alluded to and which is placed, not \"by the side of Sir\nKenelm Digby,\" but with other allegorical symbols, at the bottom of the\nprint. Nor do the _Private Memoirs_ (first published in 1827 by the late\nSir Harris Nicolas) contain anything to throw light on the supposed\nadoption of this emblem by Sir Kenelm Digby.\n\nP. C. S. S.\n\nA correspondent signing himself VANDYKE asks, \"Why is Sir Kenelm Digby\nrepresented, I believe always, with a sunflower by his side?\" The very\nfirst portrait of Digby I turned to, in Lodge's _Collection_, engraved,\ntoo, after Vandyke, is without any flower at all.\n\nJAYDEE.\n\n_Martin Drunk_ (Vol. v., p. 587.).--I cannot find that this phrase has been\nsatisfactorily elucidated. Perhaps the following will throw some additional\nlight on the subject.\n\nIn an _Analysis of the Gospels for the Lord's Days_, by Conrad Dieteric,\nedit. 1631, p. 465., I read:\n\n    \"Tritum est illud veterum veriverbium:\n\n     'Festa _Martini_ iterata,\n      Absumunt anseres et prata.'\n\n    Id quod Germanicus hunc in modum effert:\n\n     'Wer all tag will S. Martin prassen,\n      Der muss endlich S. Nicias fasten.'\"\n\nIt would seem from this, that not the English alone were wont to enjoy\nthemselves on St. Martin's Day. Baxter, in his _Saint's Rest_ (p. 116. 1st\nedit.), seems to use the word _Martin_ as synonymous with a noisy tippler:\n\n    \"The language of Martin is there a stranger, and the sound of his echo\n    is not heard.\"\n\nInternal evidence clearly refers all these sayings to the unrestrained\nmirth and jollity with which the feast of St. Martin was anciently\ncelebrated.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_The Church Catechism_ (Vol. vii., p. 64.).--It might interest your\ncorrespondent to know that the _Catechismus brevis et Catholicus_ of\nJacobus Schoepper (published at Antwerp, 1555), contains a remarkable\nseries of passages closely similar to the last twelve questions and answers\nof the Church Catechism. If desired, I would send these \"parallel\npassages,\" as I expect the book is very scarce.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Sham Epitaphs and Quotations_ (Vol. vi., p 340.).--Your correspondent A.\nA. D. asks, in reference to a certain epitaph, \"has it really a local\nhabitation, and where?\" This is a Query full of grave suggestions. Are\nthere not hundreds of epitaphs in print which have no existence except as\nprinter's paragraphs, and which serve the same purpose as the immortal calf\nwith six legs, and the numberless gigantic gooseberries and plethoric\nturnips. I have collected epitaphs for years past, and it is surprising how\nmany--and those some of the best in a literary sense--defy every attempt to\ntrace them to sepulchral sources. Besides epitaphs, I believe many sham\nquotations are used by writers, such as couplets and queer phrases of their\nown coining; but which are inclosed between inverted commas, either to rid\ntheir authors of the responsibility of the sentiments they convey, or to\nadd weight to the argument they are introduced to illustrate. A short time\nsince, I contributed a tale to a journal; at the head of each chapter stood\na couplet of my own composing, which the printer and editor both mistook\nfor a series of quotations, and kindly affixed inverted commas to them;\nand, as in that instance I did not receive proof slips to correct, the tale\nwas published, adorned with these sham quotations--the reader being\nbamboozled without intention, and I robbed of the credit of my original\ncouplets. This is an important matter: for it is no pleasant affair to\nspend a month or two in the endeavour to trace a quotation, and then to\nbecome convinced that you have been hunting for a mare's nest.\n\nSHIRLEY HIBBERD.\n\n_Door-head Inscription_ (Vol. vii., p. 23.).--In accordance with the\nsuggestion of A. B. R., I have by means of a friend obtained an accurate\ntranscript of the door-head inscription at Wymondham. It runs thus:\n\n \"Nec mihi glis servus, nec hospes hirudo.\"\n\nThe doubts I felt, when I stated that I quoted from memory, related to the\nfirst word or two; and it has proved that I was in error there. The\n_hirudo_, however, must stand; although it is a question not easy to\ndecide, \"whether a greedy or a gossiping guest would be the worst household\ninfliction.\"\n\nB. B. WOODWARD.\n\nSt. John's Wood.\n\n_Potguns_ (vol. vi., p. 612.).--DR. RIMBAULT, in reply to J. R. R.,\nexplains _potguns_ by \"small guns.\" {191} They are, in fact, short\ncylinders set perpendicularly in a frame, \"flat-candlestick\"-wise, four or\nsix in a row; and were fired by a train of powder running from touch-hole\nto touch-hole, as a part of the entertainment (a _feu-de-joie_, I suppose)\nat the public grounds at Norwich some twenty years ago, as I remember.\n\nB. B. WOODWARD.\n\nSt. John's Wood.\n\n\"_Pompey the Little._\"--You mentioned lately the author of _Pompey the\nLittle_ (Vol. vi., pp. 433. 472.). There is a curious note respecting him\nattached to the entry of another anonymous publication of his, \"Philemon\nand Hydaspes, relating to a Conversation with Hortensius upon the subject\nof false Religion, 2nd edit., 8vo., 1738,\" in _Bibliotheca Parriana_, p.\n85., which I transcribe:\n\n    \"_Mem._ These tracts are supposed to be wrote by H. C., Esq., of Mag.\n    Coll., Cambridge.--J. Hetherington. Mr. Coventry wrote _Pompey the\n    Little_. He took orders, and became vicar of Edgware, Middlesex; and he\n    often preached from a folio volume of Tillotson's Sermons, which lay in\n    the pulpit from week to week. He died of the small-pox. When living at\n    Stanmore I heard much of his pleasantry, his politeness, and his\n    integrity. I first read this book at the Rev. Dr. Davy's house in\n    Norfolk, in August, 1816. This copy was most obligingly sent to me by\n    Mr. Holmes, keeper of an academy at Stratford-upon-Avon, Thursday, Feb.\n    13, 1817.--S. P[arr].\"\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n_Eagles supporting Lecterns_ (Vol. vi., pp. 415. 543.).--Are not many, or\nmost of the so-called _eagles_ on lecterns in churches, _pelicans_? The\nsymbolical significance of the pelican \"vulning its breast,\" as the heralds\nhave it, is well known. Some of these, which I remember well, have the beak\nbent down upon the breast and beneath it, instead of the indications of\nplumage elsewhere visible, a strip cross-hatched; in sign, as I have\nsupposed, of the flowing blood.\n\nB. B. WOODWARD.\n\nSt. John's Wood.\n\n_Lady Day in Harvest_ (Vol. vi., p. 589.).--The _Gotha Almanac_ gives Aug.\n15 for Maria Himmelfahrt, or the Assumption; and Sept. 8 for Maria Geburt,\nor the Nativity. I happened to be going up the Rigi last year on the 5th\nAugust, and found that to be the day of pilgrimage to Mary zum Schnee, or\nNotre Dame des Neiges, who has a chapel which is passed in the ascent.\n\nJ. P. O.\n\n_Inscriptions in Churches_ (Vol. vii., p. 25.).--NORRIS DECK'S extract,\nassigning these inscriptions to the reign of Edward VI., is valuable; but\nhe need not have dissented from your account of the colloquy between\nElizabeth and Dean Nowell, as you clearly hinted that \"similar inscriptions\nhad been _previously_ adopted\" (Vol. vi., p. 511.). The colloquy occurred\nin the fourth year of Elizabeth's reign; but, from the following extract,\nher Majesty's proclamation was observed in Ireland two years previously:\n\n    \"In 1559, orders were sent to Thomas Lockwood, Dean of Christ Church,\n    Dublin, to remove out of this church all relics and images, and to\n    paint and whiten it anew; putting sentences of Scripture on the walls\n    instead of pictures, which orders were observed, and men set to work\n    accordingly on the 25th May of the same year, which was the second of\n    Queen Elizabeth's reign.\"--Lynch's _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 208.,\n    edit. 1828.\n\nJ. Y.\n\nHoxton.\n\n_Macaulay's Young Levite_ (Vol. i., pp. 26. 167. 222. 374., &c.).--I find\nanother, and an apt illustration of more recent date, to be added to those\nalready given from Burnet, Bishop Earle, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Betty\nHint, the \"waiting wench\" in Macklin's _Man of the World_, entertains\nmatrimonial designs on Sidney, the chaplain:\n\n    \"I wish she was out of the family once; if she was, I might then stand\n    a chance of being my lady's favourite myself; ay, and perhaps of\n    getting one of my young masters for a sweetheart, _or at least the\n    chaplain: but as for him, there would be no such great catch, if I\n    should get him_. I will try for him, however,\" &c.\n\nW. T. M.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n_Passage in Wordsworth_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--I can refer your Edinburgh\ncorrespondent, who asks for \"an _older_ original for Wordsworth's graceful\nconceit,\" to the following lines by Henry Constable, an Elizabethan poet,\nwho published, in 1594, a volume of sonnets entitled _Diana_; and whose\n\"ambrosiac muse\" is lauded by Ben Jonson in his _Underwoods_ (Gifford, vol.\nviii. p. 390.):\n\n \"The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly singe,\n  Made of a quill pluckt from an Angell's winge.\"\n\nThese lines, which I find in the notes to Todd's _Milton_ (vol. v. p. 454.,\nedit. 1826), being addressed \"To the King of Scots whom as yet he had not\nseen,\" must have been written before 1603, and were first printed on a MS.\nvolume by Todd in his first edition, 1801; where Wordsworth, who was no\nreader of scarce old tracts like \"Diana Primrose's Chain of Pearl,\" may\nvery probably have seen them.\n\nW. L. N.\n\nBath.\n\n_Smock Marriages_ (Vol. vi., p. 561.).--In reference to your remark on this\narticle, I remember that a Scotchman once told me that in the Scotch law of\nmarriage there is a clause providing that \"all under the apron string\" at\nthe time of marriage shall be considered legitimate; and that instances\nhave been known where children born out {192} of wedlock have been\nlegitimatised, on the marriage of their parents, by being placed beneath\nthe mother's apron, and having the string tied over them, during the\nceremony.\n\nPerhaps some of your correspondents can give information as to whether such\na provision does, or did, exist in the Scotch marriage law.\n\nF. H. BRETT.\n\nWirksworth.\n\n\"_Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love_,\" (Vol. iv., pp. 24.\n72.).--These lines will be found in Act I. Sc. 1. of J. P. Kemble's comedy\nof _The Panel_, which is an alteration from Bickerstaff's comedy of _'Tis\nWell It's No Worse_. Not having access to the original comedy, I am unable\nto say to which of the two authors the lines should be given; but I presume\nthem to be Kemble's.\n\nW. T. M.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n_Burial-place of Spinosa_ (Vol. vi., p. 510.).--Spinosa died at the Hague\non Sunday, 23rd February, 1677, and was on the following Tuesday interred\nin the new church there. See his life by Colerus:\n\n    \"Le corps fut port\u00e9 en terre le 25 Fevrier, accompagn\u00e9 de plusieurs\n    personnes illustres, et suivi de six carosses. Au retour de\n    l'enterrement, qui se fit dans la nouvelle \u00e9glise sur le Spuy, les amis\n    particuliers ou voisins furent r\u00e9gal\u00e9s de quelques bouteilles de vin,\n    selon la coutume du pays, dans la maison de l'H\u00f4te du d\u00e9funt\" (den\n    schilder H. van der Sp\u00ffck op de paviljoengracht).--_From the\n    Navorscher._\n\nB.\n\n_St. Adulph_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--_Trajectensem_ certainly applies to\neither Utrecht or Maestricht. One was Trajectum ad Rhenum, the other\nTrajectum ad Mosam. I incline to the opinion that the latter place is\nintended: Utrecht being, I believe, generally expressed by Ultrajectum.\n\nC. W. G.\n\n_Samuel Daniel_ (Vol. vi., p. 603.).--The writer will be happy to\ncommunicate with I. M. on the subject of the life, &c. of this poet and\nhistorian; for which purpose his address is left with the Editor.\n\nE. D.\n\n_La Bruy\u00e8re_ (Vol. vii., pp. 38. 114.).--There lies before me an elaborate\nMS. history of the family of Brewer, with a pedigree. The former, which\ncommences with Ralph de Bruera (temp. William I.), has been compiled from\npapers in the Heralds' Office, Brompton, Dugdale, and the more modern\nhistorians, general and local. The last individual mentioned therein is a\nphysician, who bore the name and ancient arms of Brewer, and died in 1618.\nThe pedigree embraces about sixty names, including the alliances, but\nreaches no further downwards than the sons of Roger Mortimer in the reign\nof Henry III. These documents do not contribute in any way to answer the\ninquiry of one of your correspondents as to La Bruy\u00e8re; and it may be\nsatisfactory to the other to know that there is nothing in them to show any\nconnexion with the name of De la Bruere.\n\nJ. D. S.\n\n_Murray, titular Earl of Dunbar_ (Vol. vi., p. 11.).--In correcting Lord\nAlbemarle's mistake respecting \"James Murray, _titular_ Earl of Dunbar,\"\nyour correspondent C. (2.), Portsmouth, seems to have fallen into a similar\nerror, which I hope he will pardon me for pointing out.\n\nThe Christian name of _Murray of Broughton_ was not _James_, but _John_;\nand the ancient Border family to which he belonged was so distinctly\nconnected with that of Stormont (a branch of Tullibardine), that even\ngenealogical tradition was silent. His activity as an agent recommended him\nto Prince Charles, who employed him as his secretary during the campaign of\n1745, to the misfortunes of which he added by fomenting the Prince's\ndistrust of Lord George Murray: and his final treachery to his master and\nhis cause has condemned him to an immortality of infamy. He had nothing in\ncommon with \"James Earl of Dunbar,\" save the name which he disgraced and\nthe cause which he betrayed.\n\nJames Murray, second son of Lord Stormont, and elder brother of the famous\nLord Mansfield, escaped to the court of the exiled Stuarts after 1715. He\nbecame governor to the prince; and under the title of Earl of Dunbar, chief\nminister and secretary to his father. He never returned to Scotland, but\ndied in 1770 at Avignon, at the age of eighty. His honorable fidelity to a\nruined cause is admitted even by Junius, when, \"willing to wound,\" he\ntaunts Mansfield with this Jacobite connexion; while the intensity of\nloathing with which Scotland viewed his infamous namesake is illustrated by\nthe anecdote of old Walter Scott throwing the cup out of the window, lest\n\"lip of him, or his, should come after John Murray of Broughton.\"\n\nD. B.\n\nBalfour.\n\n_Loggerheads_ (Vol. v., p. 338.).--As I do not find that any correspondent\nof \"N. & Q.\" on the subject of the sign of \"We Three\" has mentioned the\nexistence of a similar sign in a small village in Denbighshire, on the\nborder of Flintshire, to which a curious tradition is attached, I am\ninduced to forward the account of it. The last years of Wilson, the\nlandscape painter (who died in 1782), were passed at a house called\nClomendu, the dove-cote, situated on a property to which he had succeeded\nin the little village of Llanoerris, through which the high road from Mold,\nhis burial-place, to Ruthin passes. Wilson was fond of ale, and is {193}\ntraditionally said to have frequented a small inn close by the roadside (on\nthe right hand as you pass through the village from Mold towards the vale\nof Clwyd), and to have spent many an hour upon the bench under a tree which\nwas lately, and is perhaps still standing opposite. His friend the\nlandlord, wanting a new sign, or more probably a restoration of the old\nestablished one, Wilson painted for him the heads of two very merry\nred-faced men, who are looking hard, with a broad grin, towards the\nspectator. Long exposure to the wind and weather had, when I saw them,\nnearly obliterated the original colouring of the heads, and I have heard\nthat some Dick Tinto has of late years restored the rubicund hue to their\ncheeks: but the words \"We Three Loggerheads Be\" were quite legible ten\nyears ago. The innkeeper, who sets a very high value on this sign, is, I\nbelieve, a son of the man for whom Wilson painted it. It is not attached to\na pole, but fastened against the front of the inn: and a few years ago, an\nidea prevailing that \"The Loggerheads\" had been painted on the back of an\nunfinished landscape, an artist offered the innkeeper a sum of money to be\nallowed to take it down, and ascertain the fact. But it was indignantly\nrefused, with a protest that the sign which Wilson had painted should never\nbe removed from its place, as long as he lived.\n\nCAMBRENSIS.\n\n_Lord Nelson and Walter Burke_ (Vol. vi., p. 576.).--An obituary memoir of\nMr. Burke appears in the _Examiner_ for October 1, 1815.\n\nH. G. D.\n\n_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., pp. 432. 559.).--An ancient parochial\nlibrary existed some seven or eight and twenty years ago at Gillingham in\nDorsetshire. I was for a short period at that time the _locum tenens_ of\nthe then rector of Gillingham; but at this distance of time remember\nscarcely more than that the books were kept in a small room devoted to the\npurpose in the rectory house, and were probably above two hundred in\nnumber.\n\nCOKELY.\n\n_St. Botulph_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--The life of St. Botulph, contained in\nthe Harleian MS. No. 3097., is by Fulcard, a monk of Thorney, as appears by\nthe dedication. It is the same as that printed by Capgrave, who omits the\ndedication. Fulcard wrote the lives of certain other saints buried at\nThorney (Torhtred and Tancred). The dedication does not belong exclusively\nto the life of Botulph, but forms the introduction to all three lives. It\nwas for this reason, I suppose, that Capgrave (or rather John of Tynemouth,\nfrom whom he borrowed) omitted it.\n\nC. W. G.\n\n_Turner's Picture of Eltham Palace_ (Vol. vii., p. 90.).--J. H. A. mentions\na picture of \"King John's Palace at Eltham, by the late Mr. Turner.\" Could\nhe inform me what has now become of that picture, and also whether it was\nrated among that celebrated artist's best works or not?\n\nA. W. S.\n\n\"_M\u00e9moires d'un Homme d'Etat_\" (Vol. vi., pp. 412. 588.).--There seems to\nbe sufficient reason for believing in the disavowal of Prince Hardenberg\nbeing the author, made by his friend and agent Privy-Counsellor Schoell, to\nwhom the prince, at his death, had confided his genuine _M\u00e9moires_. M.\nSchoell thought the best care would be taken of them by placing them under\nthe official safeguard of the Prussian minister; and his decision was, that\nthey were not to be published till after the lapse of fifty years from the\nprince's death, which took place in 1822. Copies, however, of the original\n_M\u00e9moires_ had been surreptitiously taken before their seclusion from the\npublic eye; and from these copies, important and extensive extracts are\nsaid to have been undoubtedly made, and form part of the printed\n_M\u00e9moires_. In editing them, several well-known literary men were employed;\namong whom are enumerated, Alphonse de Beauchamp, A. Schubart, and Count A.\nF. D'Allonville. A Mons. Montveran (the author, I believe, of a work on\nEnglish jurisprudence) announced, some years ago, a publication, in which\nhe promised to disclose the original sources of the _M\u00e9moires_ and the\ncompilers' names; but, so far as I can discover, M. Montveran has never\nredeemed his promise.\n\nJ. M.\n\nOxford.\n\n_Indian Chess Problem_ (Vol. vi., p. 464.).--This most beautiful of chess\nproblems was sent from India, in a letter addressed to the editor of the\n_Chess Player's Chronicle_, signed \"Shagird\" (native Indian chess player).\n\nIt was published in the _Chronicle_ in 1846, vol. vi. p. 54., _without_ the\nsolution, which is as follows:\n\n            WHITE.           |       BLACK.\n                             |\n  B. from R. 6th to B. 1st.  |  Pawn advances.\n  K. to Kts. 2nd.            |  Pawn advances.\n  R. to Qns. 2nd.            |  K. to B. 4th.\n  R. to Qns. 4th. _Mate._    |\n\nT. B. O.\n\n\"_God tempers the Wind_\" (Vol. i., pp. 211. 325.).--MR. GUTCH will find the\nFrench proverb \"in print\" in Ward's _National Proverbs_, p. 38., and\nassimilated as follows in four European languages:\n\n \"A brebis tondue, Dieu mesure le vent.\"\n \"Dio manda il freddo secondo i panni.\"\n \"Dios d\u00e1 la ropa conforme al frio.\"\n \"Gott giebt die Schultern nach der B\u00fcrde.\"\n\nW. W.\n\nMalta.\n\n_Age of Trees_ (Vol. v., _passim_).--In the _Saturday Magazine_ of Dec. 29,\n1832, mention is made {194} of Owen Glendower's Oak, at Shelton, near\nShrewsbury,--a tree famed from the tradition attached to it, which states\nthat the celebrated chieftain whose name it bears overlooked, from its\nbranches, the desperate battle which took place between Henry IV. and Sir\nHenry Percy, on the 20th July, 1403.\n\n    \"There is no difficulty, in believing,\" says E. B., \"from the present\n    appearance of the tree, that it is old enough to have been of a\n    considerable size in the year 1403. Oaks are known to live to a much\n    greater age than this; and there are documents which prove that the\n    Shelton Oak was a fine large tree some centuries ago. It is perfectly\n    alive, and bears some hundreds of acorns every year, though it has\n    great marks of age, and is so hollow in the inside, that it seems to\n    stand on little more than a circle of bark. At least six or eight\n    persons might stand within it.\n\n    \"The girth at the bottom, close to the ground, is 44 feet 3 inches; at\n    five feet from the ground, 25 feet 1 inch; at eight feet from the\n    ground, 27 feet 4 inches. Height of the tree, 41 feet 6 inches.\"\n\nWhat is known of this old oak at the present time? If it has passed away,\nperhaps its memory may claim a place in your columns: if not, will some of\nyour correspondents give me some information respecting it?\n\nW. W.\n\nMalta.\n\n_Mummies in Germany_ (Vol. vi., _passim_).--In a large hall under the\nCapuchin convent at Florian, and only ten minutes' walk from Valetta, there\nis a collection of \"baked friars,\" as so termed in common parlance at this\nisland.\n\nThe niches in the walls are all filled, and when one of the order now dies,\nthat mummy which has been the longest exposed, or most decayed, is removed\nto make way for the remains of him who is lately deceased.\n\nWhat with the appearance of these mummies, and the smell which comes from\nthem, one visit will satisfy the most curious in such matters.\n\nYour correspondent CHEVERELLS will find a well-written description, in\nWillis's _Pencillings by the Way_, of a visit which he made to the Capuchin\nconvent near Palermo.\n\nW. W.\n\nMalta.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES\n\nWANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nBEDELL'S IRISH OLD TESTAMENT, Irish type, 4to., 1685. [A copy of\nO'Domhnuill's \"Irish _New_ Testament,\" Irish type, 4to., 1st edition, 1602\n(_being rare_), is offered in exchange.]\n\nPERCY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS. Nos. XCIII. and XCIV.\n\nSOUTHEY'S WORKS. Vol. X. Longmans. 1838.\n\nSCOTT'S CONTINUATION OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY. Vols. II. and III., or II.\nonly.\n\nCHRONON-HO-TON-THOLOGOS, by H. CAREY.\n\nTHE DRAGON OF WANTLEY, by H. CAREY.\n\nGAMMER GURTON'S STORY BOOKS, edited by AMBROSE MERTON. 13 Parts (Original\nEdition).\n\nHAYWARD'S BRITISH MUSEUM. 3 Vols. 12mo. 1738.\n\nTHEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. 1726.\n\nILLUSTRATED COMMENTARY ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. Vol. I. 1840. Knight.\n\nMENAGERIES--QUADRUPEDS: \"Library of Entertaining Knowledge,\" Vol. II.\n\nPETER SIMPLE. Illustrated Edition. Saunders and Otley. Vols. II. and III.\n\nHISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF QUEENS OF ENGLAND, by HANNAH LAWRANCE. Vol. II.\n\nINGRAM'S SAXON CHRONICLE. 4to. London, 1823.\n\nNEWMAN'S FERNS. Large Edition.\n\nENIGMATICAL ENTERTAINER. Nos. I. and II. 1827 and 1828. Sherwood & Co.\n\nNORTHUMBRIAN MIRROR. New Series. 1841, &c.\n\nBRITISH DIARY FOR 1794, by COTES and HALL.\n\nREUBEN BURROW'S DIARIE, 1782-1788.\n\nMARRAT'S SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL. New York.\n\nMATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENT (American).\n\nLEEDS CORRESPONDENT. Vol. V., Nos. 1, 2, and 3.\n\nMATHEMATICAL MISCELLANY. 1735.\n\nWHITING'S SELECT EXERCISES, with KEY.\n\nWALTON AND COTTON'S ANGLER, by HAWKINS. Part II. 1784.\n\nDE LA CROIX'S CONNUBIA FLORUM. Bathoni\u00e6, 1791. 8vo.\n\nANTHOLOGIA BOREALIS ET AUSTRALIS.\n\nFLORILEGIUM SANCTARUM ASPIRATIONUM.\n\nLADERCHII ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI, 3 tom. fol. Rom\u00e6, 1728-1737.\n\n*** _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send\ntheir names._\n\n*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be\nsent to MR. BELL, Publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNotices to Correspondents.\n\n_The number of_ REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES _waiting for insertion, compels us\nto omit our usual_ NOTES ON BOOKS, _and a number of very interesting\ncommunications_.\n\nSCH. T. C. D., _who has pointed out a curious error in Disraeli's_\nCuriosities of Literature, _has been anticipated by_ MR. BOLTON CORNEY _in\nhis_ Curiosities of Literature Illustrated, p. 144. _et seq._\n\nA. B. R. _Yes, as at present advised._\n\nS. W. L. _is assured that the communications to which he refers interest as\nlarge and intelligent a class of readers, as will feel an interest in the\ncommunication which he proposes to forward, and which we shall gladly\nreceive_.\n\nC. D. W. T. (Jun.) _is thanked: but the edition is too well known to all\nthe Communicators, to require that he should be troubled upon the subject_.\n\nJ. H. W._'s communication shall have early insertion. Our arrangements\nwould not admit of its appearing this week._\n\nTYRO. _The anonymous_ Life of Queen Anne _inquired after_ (Vol. vii., p.\n108.) _is a different work to that of Boyer's, and does not contain\none-third the quantity of letter-press. The descriptive matter of the_\nMetallick History _has been copied from Boyer, although the plates have\nbeen re-engraved_.\n\nMR. BROWN'S _Letter on_ MR. ARCHER'S _Services to Photography_; G. H. _on\nDifficulties in the Wax-Paper Process; and_ F. M. L. _on the Albumen\nProcess, are unavoidably postponed until next week_.\n\nA. B. _Your suggestions will be attended to in the_ NOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nENQUIRER (Edinburgh). _If you follow the instructions given in our former\nNumbers on the Collodion Process, you must meet with success. The deposit\nin negatives is often much blackened by adding an increased proportion of\nacetic acid to the pyrogallic solution--say two drachms to the ounce, so\nthat the solution shall be one-fifth of acetic acid. A_ long _exposure\noften weakens a negative; and, during the recent fall of snow, thirty\nseconds has produced an effective printing negative, whilst three minutes'\nexposure has given a negative picture so transparent as to be useless_.\n\nE. F. (Sheffield). _It is only in converting a positive picture into a\nnegative one, or in increasing the powers of a feeble negative, that the\nbichloride of mercury is recommended to be used. A perfectly good printing\nnegative will be procured by following the instructions we have given in\nour former Numbers._ DR. DIAMONDS'S Photographic Notes _will treat fully\nupon this subject_.\n\nOUR SIXTH VOLUME, _strongly bound in cloth, with very copious Index is now\nready, price 10s. 6d. Arrangements are making for the publication of\ncomplete sets of_ \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" _price Three Guineas for the Six\nVolumes_.\n\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES\" _is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country\nBooksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcel, and deliver them to\ntheir Subscribers on the Saturday_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{195}\n\nPHOTOGRAPHY.--Collodion (Iodized with the Ammonio-Iodide of Silver).--J. B.\nHOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 289. Strand, were the first in England who\npublished the application of this agent (see _Athen\u00e6um_, Aug. 14th). Their\nCollodion (price 9d. per oz.) retains its extraordinary sensitiveness,\ntenacity, and colour unimpaired for months: it may be exported to any\nclimate, and the Iodizing Compound mixed as required. J.B. HOCKIN & CO.\nmanufacture PURE CHEMICALS and all APPARATUS with the latest Improvements\nadapted for all the Photographic and Daguerreotype processes. 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Pall\nMall.\n\nN.B.--The name of Mr. T.'s preparation, Xylo-Iodide of Silver, is made use\nof by unprincipled persons. To prevent imposition each bottle is stamped\nwith a red label bearing the maker's signature.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO PHOTOGRAPHERS.--MR. PHILIP DELAMOTTE begs to announce that he has now\nmade arrangements for printing Calotypes in large or small quantities\neither from Paper or Glass Negatives. Gentlemen who are desirous of having\ngood impressions of their works, may see specimens of Mr. Delamotte's\nPrinting at his own residence, 38. Chepstow Place, Bayswater, or at\n\nMR. GEORGE BELL'S, 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nROSS'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE LENSES.--These lenses give\ncorrect definition at the centre and margin of the picture, and have their\nvisual and chemical acting foci coincident.\n\n_Great Exhibition Jurors' Reports_, p. 274.\n\n    \"Mr. Ross prepares lenses for Portraiture having the greatest intensity\n    yet produced, by procuring the coincidence of the chemical actinic and\n    visual rays. The spherical aberration is also very carefully corrected,\n    both in the central and oblique pencils.\"\n\n    \"Mr. Ross has exhibited the best Camera in the Exhibition. It is\n    furnished with a double achromatic object-lens, about three inches\n    aperture. There is no stop, the field is flat, and the image very\n    perfect up to the edge.\"\n\nCatalogues sent upon Application.\n\nA. ROSS, 2. 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Any lady or gentleman, sceptical of its effects in dyeing any\nshade or colour, can have it applied, free of any charge, at KERR &\nSTRANG'S, 124. Leadenhall Street.\n\nSold in Cases at 7s. 6d., 15s., and 20s. Samples, 3s. 6d., sent to all\nparts on receipt of Post-office Order or Stamps.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPROPOSALS FOR REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF\n\nST. MARY'S CHURCH,\n\nVINCENT SQUARE, WESTMINSTER.\n\n  _Incumbent._\n  REV. A. BORRADAILE.\n  _Churchwardens._\n  MR. G. PEARSE.\n  MR. G. PINK.\n\nST. MARY'S CHURCH, Vincent Square, Westminster, was erected in the year\n1837, and contains 1,200 sittings, of which 800 are free.\n\nThe pecuniary resources which were at the disposal of those by whose\nefforts this spacious Church was built were only adequate to provide what\nwas absolutely requisite for the performance of Divine Service.\n\nThere was, however, much cause for thankfulness that so large and\ncommodious a Church was raised in so poor a district as St. Mary's; and a\nhope was then entertained that the day would soon come when what was\nnecessarily left incomplete might be accomplished.\n\nFifteen years have passed away since the Church was consecrated; and the\ntime appears now to have arrived when an effort should be made to supply\nwhat is wanting, and to render the interior more convenient, to paint,\ncleanse, and colour it; and to impart to it that religious decency and\ncomeliness which befits the House of God.\n\nAn additional reason for this endeavour is supplied by recent events.\nChurches have arisen in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's, erected by the\nmunificence of pious founders, which are adorned with architectural beauty,\nand are among the best specimens of ecclesiastical fabrics that the present\nage has produced. St. Mary's suffers from the contrast: its deficiencies\nhave become more manifest; and the need of such an effort as has been\nmentioned is now felt more strongly.\n\nWhile, however, the exigencies of the case have increased, the means of\nsatisfying them have become less. Some of the less indigent portions of St.\nMary's District have been detached from it, and have been annexed to the\nother districts formed for more recent Churches. Thus the resources of St.\nMary's have been diminished; and circumstances of a local character render\nit undesirable, in the opinion of legal advisers, to press for the levying\nof a Rate for the improvement of the Church. Perhaps, however, the strength\nof the present appeal may eventually be found to lie in these difficulties,\nwhen they are more generally known.\n\nA COMMITTEE, therefore, has been formed, consisting of the Churchwardens of\nthe District, and other inhabitants, and of some personal friends of the\nIncumbent, the REV. A. BORRADAILE, whose zeal and energy in discharging the\nduties of the pastoral office in St. Mary's District for more than ten\nyears, through many and great difficulties, have been greatly blessed to\nhis flock, and command the respect and sympathy of those who have witnessed\nhis persevering exertions, and have seen the fruit of his labours.\n\nThe Committee are now engaged in an endeavour to raise funds for the\nreparation and improvement of the interior of St. Mary's Church; and they\ntrust that many may be found to approve and encourage the design.\n\nAn estimate has been prepared of the requisite expenditure by MR. H. A.\nHUNT, of 4. Parliament Street, which amounts to FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY\nPOUNDS. This sum, it is anticipated, will suffice to provide for lowering\nand refixing the whole of the Free Seats, and to make them more commodious\nfor the use of the poor; to improve the seats generally throughout the\nChurch; to alter and improve the position and character of the Pulpit and\nReading Desk; to paint, grain, and varnish the whole of the seats; and so\ngive an appropriate appearance to the Chancel of the Church.\n\n*** Subscriptions are received for \"ST. MARY'S VINCENT SQUARE FUND\" at\nMESSRS. HALLETT & CO., Little George Street, Westminster, or at 2. Warwick\nTerrace, Belgrave Road; or by the CHURCHWARDENS of St. Mary's; or W. J.\nTHOMS, Esq., 25. Holywell Street, Millbank, Treasurer; or by REV. DR.\nWORDSWORTH, Cloisters, Westminster, Secretary.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{196}\n\nTO ALL WHO HAVE FARMS OR GARDENS.\n\nTHE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE.\n\n(The Horticultural Part edited by PROF. 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With a\nMathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR\nSCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3.\nParliament Street, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFoolscap 8vo. price 6s.\n\nTHE PRACTICAL WORKING of THE CHURCH OF SPAIN. By the Rev. FREDERICK\nMEYRICK, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.\n\n    \"Pleasant meadows, happy peasants, all holy monks, all holy priests,\n    holy every body. Such charity and such unity, when every man was a\n    Catholic. I once believed in this Utopia myself, but when tested by\n    stern facts, it all melts away like dream\"--_A. Welby Pugin._\n\n    \"The revelations made by such writers as Mr. Meyrick in Spain and Mr.\n    Gladstone in Italy, have at least vindicated for the Church of England\n    a providential and morally defined position, mission, and purpose in\n    the Catholic Church.\"--_Morning Chronicle._\n\n    \"Two valuable works ... to the truthfulness of which we are glad to add\n    our own testimony: one, and the most important, is Mr. Meyrick's\n    'Practical Working of the Church of Spain.' This is the experience--and\n    it is the experience of every Spanish traveller--of a thoughtful\n    person, as to the lamentable results of unchecked Romanism. Here is the\n    solid substantial fact. Spain is divided between ultra-infidelity and\n    what is so closely akin to actual idolatry, that it can only be\n    controversially, not practically, distinguished from it: and over all\n    hangs a lurid cloud of systematic immorality, simply frightful to\n    contemplate. We can offer a direct, and even personal, testimony to all\n    that Mr. Meyrick has to say.\"--_Christian Remembrancer._\n\n    \"I wish to recommend it strongly.\"--T. K. _Arnold's Theological\n    Critic._\n\n    \"Many passing travellers have thrown more or less light upon the state\n    of Romanism and Christianity in Spain, according to their objects and\n    opportunities; but we suspect these 'workings' are the fullest, the\n    most natural, and the most trustworthy, of anything that has appeared\n    upon the subject since the time of Blanco White's\n    Confessions.\"--_Spectator._\n\n    \"This honest exposition of the practical working of Romanism in Spain,\n    of its everyday effects, not its canons and theories, deserves the\n    careful study of all, who, unable to test the question abroad, are\n    dazzled by the distant mirage with which the Vatican mocks many a\n    yearning soul that thirsts after water-brooks pure and\n    full.\"--_Literary Gazette._\n\nJOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJust published, fcap. 8vo., price 5s. in cloth.\n\nSYMPATHIES of the CONTINENT, or PROPOSALS for a NEW REFORMATION. By JOHN\nBAPTIST VON HIRSCHER, D.D., Dean of the Metropolitan Church of Freiburg,\nBreisgau, and Professor of Theology in the Roman Catholic University of the\nCity. Translated and edited with Notes and Introduction by the Rev. ARTHUR\nCLEVELAND COXE, M.A., Rector of St. John's Church, Hartford, Connecticut,\nU.S.\n\n    \"The following work will be found a noble apology for the position\n    assumed by the Church of England in the sixteenth century, and for the\n    practical reforms she then introduced into her theology and worship. If\n    the author is right, then the changes he so eloquently urges upon the\n    present attention of his brethren ought to have been made _three\n    hundred years ago_; and the obstinate refusal of the Council of Trent\n    to make such reforms in conformity with Scripture and Antiquity, throws\n    the whole burthen of the sin of schism upon Rome, and not upon our\n    Reformers. The value of such admissions must, of course, depend in a\n    great measure upon the learning, the character, the position, and the\n    influence of the author from whom they proceed. The writer believes,\n    that questions as to these particulars can be most satisfactorily\n    answered.\"--_Introduction by Arthur Cleveland Coxe._\n\nJOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPrinted by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New\nStreet Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and\npublished by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.\nDunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, February 19. 1853.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":22434}