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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

“When found, make a note of.”—Captain Cuttle.

CONTENTS.

Notes.

THE STATE PRISON IN THE TOWER.

A paragraph has lately gone the round of the newspapers, in which,
after mentioning the alterations recently made in the Beauchamp Tower and
the opening of its “written walls” to public inspection, it is stated
that this Tower was formerly the place of confinement for state
prisoners, and that “Sir William Wallace and Queen Anne Boleyn” were
amongst its inmates.

Now, I believe there is no historical authority for saying that “the
Scottish hero” was ever confined in the Tower of London; and it seems
certain that the unfortunate queen was a prisoner in the royal
apartments, which were in a different part of the fortress. But so many
illustrious persons are known to have been confined in the Beauchamp
Tower, and its walls preserve so many curious inscriptions—the
undoubted autographs of many of its unfortunate tenants—that it
must always possess great interest.

Speaking from memory, I cannot say whether the building known as the
Beauchamp (or Wakefield) Tower was even in existence in the time of
Edward I.; but my impression is, that its architecture is not of so early
a time. It is, I believe, supposed to derive its name from the
confinement in it of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in 1397. Of
course it was not the only place of durance of state prisoners, but it
was the prison of most of the victims of Tudor cruelty who were confined
in the Tower of London; and the walls of the principal chamber which is
on the first storey, and was, until lately, used as a mess-room for the
officers, are covered in some parts with those curious inscriptions by
prisoners which were first described in a paper read before the Society
of Antiquaries in 1796, by the Rev. J. Brand, and published in the
thirteenth volume of The Archæologia.

Mr. P. Cunningham, in his excellent Handbook, says:

“William Wallace was lodged as a prisoner on his first arrival in
London in the house of William de Leyre, a citizen, in the parish of All
Hallows Staining, at the end of Fenchurch Street.”

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Mr. Cunningham, in his notice of the Tower, mentions Wallace first
among the eminent persons who have been confined there. The popular
accounts of the Tower do the like. It was about the Feast of the
Assumption (Aug. 15) that Wallace was taken and conducted to London; and
it seems clear that he was forthwith imprisoned in the citizen’s
house:

“He was lodged,” says Stow, “in the house of William Delect, a citizen
of London, in Fenchurch Street. On the morrow, being the eve of St.
Bartholomew (23rd Aug.), he was brought on horseback to Westminster …
the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London accompanying him; and in the
Great Hall at Westminster … being impeached,” &c.

The authorities cited are, Adam Merimuth and Thomas de La More. His
arraignment and condemnation on the Vigil of St. Bartholomew are also
mentioned by Matthew Westminster, p. 451. Neither these historians, or
Stow or Holinshed, afford any farther information. The latter chronicler
says that Wallace was “condemned, and thereupon hanged” (Chron.,
fol., 1586, vol. ii. p. 313.). He was executed at Smithfield; and it is
not improbable that, if, after his condemnation, he was taken to any
place of safe custody, he was lodged in Newgate. The following entry of
the expenses of the sheriffs attending his execution is on the
Chancellor’s Roll of 33 Edw. I. in the British Museum:

“Et in expens t
misis fcis eosđ Vice^tes Willo le Walleys Scoto lat^one predone puplico
utlagato inimico et rebellione qui
in contemptu Scociam se Regem Scocie falso
fecāt nōiare t t ministros in
tībus Scocie intfecit at dux^t excercitū hostilit contr^a Regē judiciū Cur apud Westm dist^ahendo suspendendo decollando ej viscera concremando ac ej
corpus q^arterando cuj coris quartia ad iiij majores villas Scocie
t^asmittebantur hoc anno…. £xj s.
xd.“

The day of the trial, August 23, is generally given the date of his
execution. It therefore appears that the formidable Scot never was a
prisoner in the Tower.

The unfortunate Queen Anne Boleyn occupied the royal apartments while
she was a prisoner in the Tower. From Speed’s narrative, it appears that
she continued to occupy them after she was condemned to death. On May 15
(1536) she was (says Stow)

“Arraigned in the Tower on a scaffold made for the purpose in the
King’s Hall; and after her condemnation, she was conveyed to ward again,
the Lady Kingston, and the Lady Boloigne her aunt, attending on her.”

On May 19, the unfortunate queen was led forth to “the green by the
White Tower” and beheaded.

In the record of her trial before the Duke of Norfolk, Lord High
Steward (see Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records), she is
ordered to be taken back to “the king’s prison within the Tower;” but
these are words of form. The oral tradition cannot in this case be relied
upon, for it pointed out the Martin Tower as the place of her
imprisonment because, as I believe, her name was found rudely inscribed
upon the wall. The Beauchamp Tower seems to have been named only because
it was the ordinary state prison at the time. The narrative quoted by
Speed shows, however, that the place of her imprisonment was the queen’s
lodging, where the fading honours of royalty still surrounded Anne
Boleyn.

William Sidney Gibson.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

INEDITED LETTER FROM HENRY VIII. OF ENGLAND
TO JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND.

I lately transcribed several very interesting original manuscripts,
chiefly of the seventeenth century, but some of an earlier date, and now
send you a literal specimen of one evidently belonging to the sixteenth
century; although, notwithstanding the day of the month is given, the
year is not. If you think it worthy of a place in your very excellent
publication, you are quite at liberty to make use of it, and I shall be
happy to send you some of the others, if you choose to accept them. They
chiefly relate to the period when the Duke of Lauderdale was commissioner
for Scotch affairs at the English Court; and one appears to be a letter
addressed by the members of the Scottish College at Paris to James I. on
the death of his mother.

Thos. Nimmo.

Right excellent right high and mighty prince, our most dereste brother
and nephew, we recommende us unto you in our most hertee and affectuous
maner by this berer, your familyar servitor, David Wood. We have not only
receyved your most loving and kinde let^s declaring how moch ye
tendre and regarde the conservation and mayntennance of good amytie
betwene us, roted and grounded as well in proximitie of blood as in the
good offices, actes, and doyngs shewed in our partie, whiche ye to our
greate comforte afferme and confesse to be daylly more and more in your
consideration and remembraunce (but also two caste of fair haukes, whiche
presented in your name and sent by youe we take in most thankfull parte),
and give youe our most hertie thanks for the same, taking greate comforte
and consolacion to perceyve and understande by your said letters, and the
credence comitted to your said familyar servitor David Wood, which we
have redd and considered (and also send unto youe with these our letters
answer unto the same) that ye like a {511}good and uertuous
prince, have somoche to herte and mynde the god rule and order uppon the
borders (with redresse and reformacion of such attemptats as have been
comytted and done in the same), not doubting but if ye for your partie as
we intende for ours (doe effectually persiste and contynue in so good and
uertuose purpose and intente), not only our realmes and subjectts shall
lyue quyetly and peasably without occasion of breche, but also we their
heddes and gouernors shall so encrease and augment our syncere love and
affecōn as shall be to the indissoluble assurammente of good peace
and suretie to the inestimable benefit, wealth, and comoditie of us our
realmes and subjectts hereafter.

Right excellent right high and mightie prynce, our most derest brother
and nephew, the blessed Trynytie have you in his government.

Given under our signet at Yorke place besides Westminster, the 7th day
of December.

Your lovyng brother and uncle,

Henry VIII.

HANDBOOK TO THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM.

In the Report of the royal commissioners on the British Museum,
printed in 1850, we read—

“We are of opinion that, with reference to such a measure as the one
now suggested [giving information to persons at a distance as to the
existence of works in the library], and to other measures and regulations
generally affecting the use of the library, it is desirable to prepare
and publish a compendious Guide to the reading-room, as described
and suggested by lord Seymour at Q. 9521.”

The reference is erroneous. At Q. 9521. there is not a word on the
subject! At Q. 9522. we read—

“(Lord Seymour—to Antonio Panizzi, Esq.) You have heard
also some witnesses state that it would be a great advantage to
those who frequent the reading-room if they had put into their hands some
short printed guide to the reading-room, to tell them what books of
reference there were, and to tell them how they were to proceed to get
books, and other information, from the want of which they state they have
been at a great loss? (Mr. Panizzi.) I do not believe that it is
often the case that persons are at a loss for want of such a guide, but
it might be done,” etc.

Now, the suggestion of a short printed guide to the
reading-room was evidently considered as of some importance. The
principle of SUUM CUIQUE is also of some
importance. We observe that lord Seymour the examiner ascribes the
suggestion to some witnesses—but lord Seymour the reporter
claims the credit of it for himself! It is the after-thought of his
lordship of which I have to complain.

If we turn to the evidence, it will appear that Mr. Peter Cunningham
suggested a printed “catalogue of the books in the reading-room,” Q.
4800.—I must now speak of myself. When summoned before the
commissioners as a witness, I took with me the printed Directions
respecting the reading-room for the express purpose of pointing out
their inconsistency and insufficiency, and of advocating the preparation
of a guide-book.

I cannot repeat my arguments. It would occupy too much space. I can
only refer to the questions 6106-6116. The substance is this:—I
contended that every person admitted to the reading-room should be
furnished with instructions how to proceed—instructions as
to the catalogues which he should consult—and instructions
for asking for the books. On that evidence rests my claim to the
credit of having suggested a Guide to the reading-room. Its
validity shall be left to the decision of those who venerate the motto of
Tom Hearne—Suum cuique.

The trustees of the British Museum seem to have paid no attention to
the recommendation of the royal commissioners. They issue the same
Directions as before. After you have obtained admission to
the reading-room, you are furnished with instructions as to the mode of
obtaining it!—but you have no guide to the numerous catalogues.

What Mr. Antonio Panizzi, the keeper of the department of printed
books, says might be done, Mr. Richard Sims, of the department of
manuscripts, says shall be done. His Handbook to the library of
the British Museum is a very comprehensive and instructive volume. It
is a triumphant refutation of the opinions of those who, to the vast
injury of literature, and serious inconvenience of men of letters, slight
common sense and real utility in favour of visionary schemes and pedantic
elaboration.

There is no want of precedents for a work of this class, either abroad
or at home. As to the public library at Paris—I observe, in my own
small collection, an Essai historique sur la bibliothèque du roi,
par M. le Prince; a Histoire du cabinet des médailles, par M.
Marion du Mersan; a Notice des estampes, par M. Duchesne,
&c.

For a precedent at home, I shall refer to the Synopsis of the
contents of the British Museum. The first edition of that
interesting work, with the {512}valued autograph of G. Shaw, is now
before me. It is dated in 1808. I have also the sixtieth edition,
printed in this year. I cannot expect to see a sixtieth edition of the
Handbook, but it deserves to be placed by the side of the
Synopsis, and I venture to predict for it a wide circulation.

Bolton Corney.

FOLK LORE.

Derbyshire Folk Lore.—Many years ago I learned the
following verses in Derbyshire, with reference to magpies:

The opinion that a swarm of bees settling on a dead tree forebodes a
death in the family also prevails in Derbyshire.

In that county also there is an opinion that a dog howling before a
house is an indication that some one is dying within the house; and I
remember an instance where, as I heard at the time, a dog continued
howling in a street in front of a house in which a lady was dying.

It is also a prevalent notion that if the sun shines through the
apple-trees on Christmas Day, there will be an abundant crop the
following year.

I never heard the croaking of a raven or carrion crow mentioned as an
indication of anything, which is very remarkable, as well on account of
its ill-omened sound, as because it was so much noticed by the
Romans.

S. G. C.

Weather Superstitions.—If it rains much during the twelve
days after Christmas Day, it will be a wet year. So say the country
people.

“If there is anything in this, 1853 will be a wet year, for it has
rained every day of the twelve.” So wrote I under date January
9.

No one, I think, will deny that for once the shaft has hit the
mark.

R. C. Warde.

Kidderminster.

Weather Rhymes, &c.—The following are very common in
Northamptonshire:

Burton Hold, or Wold, is near Burton Latimer.

B. H. C.

Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire (Vol. viii., p. 382.).—The
custom referred to by Mr. Middleton, of ringing
the church bell early in the morning for the gleaners to repair to the
fields, and again in the evening for their return home, is still kept up
not only at Hildersham, but also in most of the villages in this
neighbourhood. I have heard this “gleaners’ bell” several times during
this present autumn; the object of course being to give all parties a
fair and equal chance. Upon one occasion, where the villages lie rather
close together, I heard four of these bells sounding their recall from
different church towers; and as I was upon an eminence from whence I
could see the different groups wending their way to their respective
villages, it formed one of the most striking pastoral pictures I have
ever witnessed, such, perhaps, as England alone can furnish.

Norris Deck.

Cambridge.

RAPPING NO NOVELTY.

It may be interesting to the believers in modern miracles to learn
that at all events “rapping” is no new thing. I now send you the account
of an incident in the sixteenth century, which bears a strong resemblance
to some of those veracious narrations which have enlightened mankind in
the nineteenth century.

Rushton Hall, near Kettering in Northamptonshire, was long the
residence of the ancient and distinguished family of Treshams. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, the mansion was occupied by Sir Thomas Tresham,
who was a pedant and a fanatic; but who was an important character in his
time by reason of his great wealth and powerful connexions. There is a
lodge at Rushton, situate about half a mile from the old hall, now in
ruins; but covered all over, within and without, with emblems of the
Trinity. This lodge is known to have been built by Sir Thomas Tresham;
but his precise motive for selecting this mode of illustrating his
favourite doctrine was unknown until it appeared from a letter written by
himself about the year 1584, and discovered in a bundle of books and
papers inclosed, since 1605, in a wall in the old mansion, and brought to
light about twenty years ago. The following relation of a “rapping” or
“knocking” is extracted from this letter:

“If it be demanded why I labour so much in the Trinity and Passion of
Christ to depaint in this chamber, this is the principal instance
thereof; That at my last being hither committed^[1], and I usually having my servants
here allowed me, to read nightly an hour to me after supper, it fortuned
that Fulcis, my then servant, reading in the Christian Resolution,
in the treatise of Proof that there is a God, &c., there was
upon a wainscot table at that instant three loud knocks {513}(as if it had
been with an iron hammer) given; to the great amazing of me and my two
servants, Fulcis and Nilkton.”

D. Jardine.

Minor Notes.

Bond a Poet, 1642, O.S.—In the Perfect Diurnall,
March 29, 1642, we have the following curious notice:

“Upon the meeting of the House of Lords, there was complaint made
against one Bond, a poet, for making a scandalous letter in the queen’s
name, sent from the Hague to the king at York. The said Bond attended
upon order, and was examined, and found a delinquent; upon which they
voted him to stand in the pillory several market days in the new Palace
(Yard), Westminster, and other places, and committed him to the
Gatehouse, besides a long imprisonment during the pleasure of the house:
and they farther ordered that as many of the said letter as could be
found should be burnt.”

His recantation, which he afterwards made, is in the British
Museum.

E. G. Ballard.

The late Harvest.—In connexion with the present late and
disastrous harvest, permit me to contribute a distich current, as an old
farmer observed to-day, “when I was a boy:”

Meaning that the prospect of the “yield” was not good enough to permit
the labourers to get drunk upon it.

R. C. Warde.

Kidderminster.

Misquotation.—In an article entitled “Popular Ballads of
the English Peasantry,” a correspondent of “N. & Q.” (Vol. v., p.
603.) quotes as “that spirit-stirring stanza of immortal John,”
the lines:

These lines were not written by John, but by Charles
Wesley. Here is the proof:

1st. A hymn of which the stanza quoted is the first, appears (p. 40.)
in the Collection of Hymns published by John Wesley in 1779; but
in the preface he says, “but a small part of these hymns are of my own
composing.”

2nd. In his Plain Account of Christian Perfection, he says:

“In the year 1749, my brother printed two volumes of Hymns and
Sacred Poems. As I did not see them before they were
published, there were some things in them which I did not approve of; but
I quite approved of the main of the hymns on this
head.”—Works, vol. xi. p. 376., 12mo. ed. 1841.

3rd. The lines quoted by your correspondent form the ninth stanza of a
hymn of twenty-two stanzas (which includes the six in John Wesley’s
Collection), written “after preaching (in a church),” and
published in “Hymns and Sacred Poems. In two volumes. By Charles
Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Bristol: printed and sold
by Felix Farley, 1749.” A copy is in my possession. The hymn is No. 194.;
and the stanza referred to will be found in vol. i. p. 306.

J. W. Thomas.

Dewsbury.

Epitaph in Ireland.—The following lines were transcribed
by me, and form part of an epitaph upon a tombstone or mural slab, which
many years past was to be found in (if I mistake not) the churchyard of
Old Kilcullen, co. Kildare:

J. F. Ferguson.

Dublin.

Reynolds (Sir Joshua’s) Baptism.—I have been favoured by
the incumbent of Plympton S. Maurice with a copy of the following entry
in the Register of Baptisms of that parish, together with the appended
note; which, if the fact be not generally known, may be of interest to
your correspondent A. Z. (Vol. viii., p. 102.) as well as to others among
the readers of “N. & Q.”:

“1723. Joseph, son of Samuel Reynolds, clerk, baptised July the
30th.”

On another page is the following memorandum:

“In the entry of baptisms for the year 1723, the person by mistake
named Joseph, son of Samuel Reynolds, clerk, baptized July 30th,
was Joshua Reynolds, the celebrated painter, who died February 23,
1792.”

Samuel Reynolds, the father, was master of Plympton Grammar School
from about 1715 to 1745, in which year he died. During that period his
name appears once in the parish book, in the year 1742, as “minister for
the time being” (not incumbent of the parish): the Rev. Geo. Langworthy
having been the incumbent from 1736 to 1745, both inclusive.

Query, Was Sir Joshua by mistake baptized Joseph? or was the
mistake made after baptism, in registering the name?

J. Sansom.

Oxford.

Tradescant.—The pages of “N. & Q.” have elicited and
preserved so much towards the history of John Tradescant and his family,
that the accompanying extract from the register of St. Nicholas Cole
Abbey, in the city of London, should have a place in one of its
Numbers:

“1638. Marriages.—John Tradeskant of Lambeth, co. Surrey,
and Hester Pooks of St. Bride’s, London, maiden, married, by licence from
Mr. Cooke, Oct. 1.”

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This lady erected the original monument in Lambeth churchyard upon the
death of her husband in 1662. She died 1678.

G.

Queries.

GRAMMAR IN RELATION TO LOGIC.

Dr. Latham (Outlines of Logic, p. 21., 1847, and English
Language, p. 510., 2nd edition) defines the conjunction to be a part
of speech that connects propositions, not words. His
doctrine is so palpably and demonstrably false, that I am somewhat at a
loss to understand how a man of his penetration can be so far deceived by
a crotchet as to be blind to the host of examples which point to the
direct converse of his doctrine. Let the learned Doctor try to resolve
the sentence, All men are either two-legged, one-legged, or
no-legged, into three constituent propositions. It cannot be done;
either and or are here conjunctions which connect words and
not propositions. In the example, John and James carry a basket,
it is of course quite plain that the logic of the matter is that
John carries one portion of the basket, and James carries the
rest. But to identify these two propositions with the first
mentioned, is to confound grammar with logic. The former deals with the
method of expression, the latter with the method of stating (in thought)
and syllogising. To take another example, Charles and Thomas stole all
the apples. The fact probably was, that Charles’ pockets contained
some of the apples, and Thomas’ pockets contained all the rest. But the
business of grammar in the above sentence is to regulate the form
of the expression, not to reason upon the matter expressed. A
little thought will soon convince any person accustomed to these subjects
that conjunctions always connect words, not propositions. The only
work in which I leave seen Dr. Latham’s fundamental error exposed, is in
Boole’s Mathematical Analysis of Logic; the learned author, though
he seems unsettled on many matters of logic and metaphysics, has clearly
made up his mind on the point now under discussion. He says:

“The proposition, every animal is either rational or
irrational, cannot be resolved into, Either every animal is
rational, or every animal is irrational. The former belong to pure
categoricals, to latter to hypotheticals [Query disjunctives]. In
singular propositions such conversions would seem to be allowable.
This animal is either rational or irrational, is equivalent
to, Either this animal is rational, or it is irrational.
This peculiarity of singular propositions would almost justify our
ranking them, though truly universals, in a separate class, as Ramus and
his followers did.”—P. 59.

This certainly seems unanswerable.

If Dr. Latham is a reader of “N. & Q.,” I should be glad if he
would give his reasons for adhering to his original doctrine in the face
of such facts as those I have instanced.

C. Mansfield Ingleby.

Birmingham.

THE CORONET [CROWN] OF LLEWELYN AP GRIFFITH,
PRINCE OF WALES.

A notice, transferred to The Times of the 5th instant from a
recent number of The Builder, on the shrine of Edward the
Confessor, after mentioning that “to this shrine Edward I. offered the
Scottish regalia and the coronation chair, which is still preserved,”
adds, “Alphonso, about 1280, offered it the golden coronet of Llewelyn,
Prince of Wales, and other jewels.”

Who was Alphonso? And would the contributor of the notice favour the
readers of “N. & Q.” with the authority in extenso for the
offering of this coronet?

The period assigned for the offering is certainly too early; Llewelyn
ap Griffith, “the last sovereign of one of the most ancient ruling
families of Europe” (Hist. of England, by Sir James Mackintosh,
vol. ii. p. 254.), having been slain at Builth, Dec. 11, 1282. Warrington
(Hist. of. Wales, vol. ii. p. 271.), on the authority of Rymer’s
Fœdera, vol. ii. p. 224., says: “Upon stripping Llewelyn
there were found his Privy Seal; a paper that was filled with dark
expressions, and a list of names written in a kind of cypher;” omitting,
it will be observed, any reference to Llewelyn’s coronet. That monarch’s
crown was probably obtained and transmitted to Edward I. on the capture,
June 21, 1283, or shortly after, of his brother David ap Griffith, Lord
of Denbigh, who had assumed the Welsh throne on the demise of Llewelyn;
the Princess Catherine, the daughter and heir of the latter, and de
jure sovereign Princess of Wales, being then an infant. Warrington
states (vol. ii. p. 285.) that when David was taken, a relic, highly
venerated by the Princes of Wales, was found upon him, called
Crosseneych, supposed to be a part of the real cross brought by
St. Neots into Wales from the Holy Land; and he adds that, besides the
above relic, which was voluntarily delivered up to Edward by a secretary
of the late Prince of Wales, “the crown of the celebrated King Arthur,
with many precious jewels, was about this time presented to Edward,”
citing as his authorities Annales Waverleienses, p. 238.; Rymer’s
Fœdera, vol. ii. p. 247.

There are some particulars of these relics in the Archæologia
Cambrensis; but neither that periodical, nor the authorities referred
to by Warrington, are at the moment accessible to me.

Cambro-Briton.

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Minor Queries.

Monumental Brass at Wanlip, Co. Leicester, and Sepulchral
Inscriptions in English.—In the church of Wanlip, near this
town, is a fine brass of a knight and his lady, and round the margin the
following inscription, divided at the corners of the slab by the
Evangelistic symbols:

“Here lyes Thomas Walssh, Knyght, lorde of Anlep, and dame Kat’ine his
Wyfe, whiche in yer tyme made the Kirke of Anlep, and halud the Kirkyerd
first, in Wirchip of God, and of oure lady, and seynt Nicholas, that God
haue yer soules and mercy, Anno Dni millmo
CCC^mo nonagesimo tercio.”

Mr. Bloom states, in his Mon. Arch. of Great Britain, p. 210.,
that—

“There are, perhaps, no sepulchral inscriptions in that tongue
(English) prior to the fifteenth century; yet at almost the
beginning of it, some are to be met with, and they became more common as
the century drew to a close.”

Is there any monumental inscription in English, earlier than the above
curious one, known to any of your correspondents?

William Kelly.

Leicester.

Influence of Politics on Fashion.—Can any one of the
numerous readers of “N. & Q.” explain the meaning of the following
passage of the note of p. 305. of Alison’s History of Europe, 7th
edition?—

“A very curious work might be written on the influence of political
events and ideas on the prevailing fashions both for men and women; there
is always a certain analogy between them. Witness the shepherd-plaid
trousers for gentlemen, and coarse shawls and muslins worn by ladies in
Great Britain during the Reform fervour of 1832-4.”

Henri van Laun.

King William’s College, Isle of Man.

Rev. W. Rondall.—Can any of your correspondents give
information respecting the Rev. William Rondall, Vicar of Blackhampton,
Devonshire (1548), who translated into English a portion of the writings
of the learned Erasmus?

Historicus.

Henry, third Earl of Northumberland.—The above nobleman
fell on the battle field of Towton (Yorkshire), 29th March, 1461, and was
interred in the church of St. Denys, or Dionisius, in York, where his
tomb, denuded of its brass, is still pointed out. Pray does an account
exist, in any of our old historians, as to the removal of the body of the
above nobleman from that dread field of slaughter to his mansion in
Walmgate in the above city, and of his interment, which doubtless was a
strictly private one? Again, does any record exist of the latter event in
any book of early registers belonging to the above church? Doubtless many
readers of “N. & Q.” will be able to answer these three Queries.

M. Aislabie Denham.

Piersebridge, Darlington.

“When we survey,” &c.—Where are the following lines
to be found?

Alledius.

Turnbull’s Continuation of Robertson.—Some years ago, a
continuation of Robertson’s work on Scottish Peerages was
announced by Mr. Turnbull, Advocate of Edinburgh.—I shall be glad
to be informed whether it as published; and by whom or where.

Fecialis.

An Heraldic Query.—Will any one of your contributors from
Lancashire or Cheshire, who may have access to ancient ordinaries of
arms, whether in print or in manuscript, favour me by saying whether he
has ever met with the following coat: Per pale, argent and sable,
a fess embattled, between three falcons counterchanged, belled or? It has
been attributed to the family of Thompson of Lancashire, by Captain Booth
of Stockport, and an heraldic writer named Saunders; but what authority
attaches to either I am not aware. Is it mentioned in Corry’s
Lancashire?

Heraldicus.

Osborn filius Herfasti.—Were Osborn, son of Herfast,
abbot of S. Evroult, and Osborn de Crepon (filius Herfasti patris
Gunnoris comitissæ), brothers? or were there two Herfasts?

J. Sansom.

Jews in China.—A colony of Jews is known to exist in the
centre of China, who worship God according to the belief of their
forefathers; and the aborigines of the northern portion of Australia
exercise the rite of circumcision. Can these colonists and aborigines be
traced to any of the nations of the lost tribes?

Historicus.

Derivation of “Mammet.”—The Rev. B. Chenevix Trench, in
his book on the Study of Words, 4th edition, p. 79., gives the
derivation of the old English word mammet from “Mammetry or
Mahometry,” and cites, in proof of this, Capulet calling his daughter “a
whining mammet.” Now Johnson, {516}in his
Dictionary, the folio edition, derives mammet from the word
maman, and also from the word man; and mentions
Shakspeare’s

“This is no world to play with mammets, or to tilt with
lips.”—Henry IV. (First Part), Act II. Sc. 3.

As both Dr. Johnson, the Rev. Ch. Trench, and many others, agree that
mammet means “puppet,” why not derive this word from the French
marmot, which means a puppet.—Can any of the readers of the
“N. & Q.” give me a few examples to strengthen my supposition?

Henri van Laun.

King William’s College, Isle of Man.

Non-recurring Diseases.—Among the many diseases to which
humanity is subject, there are some which we are all supposed to have
once, and but once, in our lifetime. Is this an unquestioned fact? and if
so, has anything like a satisfactory explanation of it been offered?

פ.

Warville.—There being no w in the French language,
whence did Brissot de Warville derive the latter word of his name?

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

Dr. Doddridge.—A poem entitled “To my Wife’s Bosom,” and
beginning

occasionally appears with the name of the Rev. Dr. Doddridge as the
author. Is it his?

M. E.

Philadelphia.

Pelasgi.—In an article which appeared some time ago in
Hogg’s Instructor, Thomas de Quincey, speaking of the Pelasgi,
characterises them as a race sorrowful beyond conception.—What is
known of their history to lead to this inference?

T. D. Ridley.

West Hartlepool.

Huc’s Travels.—I was lately told, I think on the
authority of a writer in the Gardener’s Chronicle, that the
travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in Thibet, Tartary, &c., was a pure
fabrication, concocted by some Parisian littérateur. Can any of
your readers confirm or refute this statement?

C. W. B.

The Mousehunt.—I should feel much obliged to any reader
of “N. & Q.” who would refer me to any mention of in print, or give
me any information from his own personal experience, respecting a small
animal of the weasel tribe called the mousehunt, an animal apparently but
little known; it is scarcely half the size of the common weasel, and of a
pale mouse-colour. It is said to be well known in Suffolk, whence,
however, after some trouble, I have been unsuccessful in obtaining a
specimen; young stoats or weasels having been sent me instead of it. I
could not find a specimen in the British Museum. Some years ago I saw two
in Glamorganshire; one escaped me; the other had been killed by a ferret,
but unfortunately I neglected to preserve it. Near the same spot last
year a pair of them began making their nest, but being disturbed by some
workmen employed in clearing out the drain in which they had ensconced
themselves, were lost sight of and escaped.

Mr. Colquhoun, in The Moor and the Loch, ed. 1851, says:

“The English peasantry assert that there are two kinds of weasel, one
very small, called a ‘cane,’ or ‘the mousekiller.’ This idea, I have no
doubt, is erroneous, and the ‘mousekillers’ are only the young ones of
the year, numbers of these half-grown weasels appearing in summer and
autumn.”

The only description I have met with in print is in Bell’s Life
of Dec. 7, 1851, where “Scrutator,” in No. 15. of his Letters “On the
Management of Horses, Hounds, &c.,” writes:

“I know only of one species of stoat, but I have certainly seen more
than one species of weasel…. There is one species of weasel so small
that it can easily follow mice into their holes; and one of these, not a
month ago, I watched go into a mouse’s hole in an open grass field.
Seeing something hopping along in the grass, which I took for a large
long-tailed field mouse, I stood still as it was approaching my position,
and when within a foot or two of the spot on which I was standing, so
that I could have a full view of the animal, a very small weasel
appeared, and quickly disappeared again in a tuft of grass. On searching
the spot I discovered a mousehole, in which Mr. Weasel had made his
exit.”

W. R. D. Salmon.

Lockwood, the Court Jester.—In some MS. accounts
temp. Edw. VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, now before me, payments to
“Lockwood, the king’s jester,” or “the queen’s jester, whose name is
Lockwood,” are of almost annual occurrence. He appears to have travelled
about the country like the companies of itinerant players.

Are any particulars known respecting him, and where shall I find the
best account of the ancient court jesters? I am aware of Douce’s work,
and the memoirs of Will. Somers, the fool of Henry VIII.

William Kelly.

Leicester.

Right of redeeming Property.—In some country or district
which I have formerly visited, there exists, or did recently exist, a
right of redeeming property which had passed from its owner’s hands,
somewhat similar to that prescribed to the Jews in Leviticus xxvi. 25.
&c., and analogous to the custom in Brittany, with which Sterne’s
beautiful story has made us {517}familiar. Can you help me to remember
where it is?

C. W. B.

Minor Queries with Answers.

Dictionary of Zingari.—Can you direct me to a glossary or
dictionary of this language? I have seen Borrow’s Lavengro, and am
not aware whether either of his other works contains anything of the
sort. I should imagine it cannot be a perfect language, since the
Rommanies located in our locality invariably use the English articles and
pronouns; but knowing nothing more of it than what I glean from casual
intercourse, I am unable to decide to my own satisfaction.

R. C. Warde.

Kidderminster.

Sir Robert Coke.—Of what family was Sir Robert Coke,
referred to in Granger, vol. iii. p. 212., ed. 1779, as having
collected a valuable library bestowed by George, first Earl of Berkeley,
on Sion College, London, the letter of thanks for which is in
Collins?

T. P. L.

Manchester.

Regium Donum.—What is the origin and history of the
“Regium Donum?”

Henri van Laun.

King William’s College, Isle of Man.

Who was the Author of “Jerningham” and “Doveton?” (Vol. viii.,
p. 127.).—Mr. Anstruther begs to decline
the compliment; perhaps the publisher of the admirable History of the
War in Affghanistan can find a head to fit the cap.

Oswestry.

Alma Mater.—In Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary I
observed he limits the use of that expression to Cambridge. I have been
accustomed to see it used for Oxford, or any other university. What is
his reason for applying it to Cambridge alone?

Ma. L.

Replies.

ALEXANDER CLARK.

(Vol. viii., p. 18.)

In communicating a few particulars about Alexander Clark, I must
disappoint your correspondent Perthensis;
my subject answering in no respect to Peter Buchan’s “drucken
dominie,” the author of the Buttery College. Alexander Clark, who
has fallen in my way, belongs to the class of “amiable enthusiasts;” a
character I am somewhat fond of, believing that in any pursuit a dash of
the latter quality is essential to success.

Clark was by profession a gardener; and as my friends in the north
always seek to localise their worthies, I venture to assign him to
Annandale. My first acquaintance with him arose from his {518}Emblematical Representation falling
into my hands; and, pursuing my inquiries, I found this was but one of
some half-dozen visionary works from the same pen. In his View of the
Glory of the Messiah’s Kingdom, we have the origin of his taking upon
himself the prophetic character; it is entitled:

“A Brief Account of an Extraordinary Revelation, and other Things
Remarkable, in the Course of God’s Dealings with Alexander Clark,
Gardener at Dumcrief, near Moffat, Anandale, in the Year 1749.”

“In the month of August, 1749,” says he, “at a certain time when the
Lord was pleased to chastise me greatly in a bed of affliction, and in
the midst of my great trial, it pleased the Almighty God wonderfully to
surprise me with a glorious light round about me; and looking up, I saw
straight before me a glorious building in the air, as bright and clear as
the sun: it was so vastly great, so amiable to behold, so full of majesty
and glory, that it filled my heart with wonder and admiration. The place
where this sight appeared to me was just over the city of Edinburgh; at
the same instant I heard, as it were, the musick bells of the said city
ring for joy.”

From this period, Clark’s character became tinged with that enthusiasm
which ended in his belief that he was inspired; and that in publishing
his—

“Signs of the Times: showing by many infallible Testimonies and Proofs
out of the Holy Scripture, that an extraordinary Change is at Hand, even
at the very Door,”—

he was merely “emitting what he derived directly, by special favour,
from God!”

“The Spirit of God,” he says on another occasion, “was so sensibly
poured out upon me, and to such a degree, that I was thereby made to see
things done in secret, and came to find things lost, and knew where to go
to find those things which were lost!”

This second sight, if I may so call it, set our author upon
drawing aside the veil from the prophetic writings; and his view of their
mystical sense is diffused over the indigested and rambling works bearing
the following titles:

“A View of the Glory of the Messiah’s Kingdom.” 1763.

“Remarks upon the Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecy.”

“A Practical Treatise on Regeneration.” 1764.

“The Mystery of God opened,” &c. Edinburgh. 1768.

“An Emblematical Representation of the Paradise of God, showing the
Nature of Spiritual Industry in the Similitude of a Garden, well ordered,
dressed, and kept, with Sundry Reflections on the Nature of Divine
Knowledge, 1779.”

In his Address to the Friendly Society of Gardeners, Clark
gives some account of his worldly condition; of his early training in
religious habits; his laborious and industrious devotion to his
profession, with which he seems to have been greatly enamoured, although
poorly paid, and often in straits. Subsequently to the great event of his
life—his vision—our subject appears to have come south, and
to have been in the employment of Lord Charles Spencer at Hanworth in
Middlesex. Like most of the prophets of his day, Clark was haunted with
the belief that the last day was approaching; and considering himself
called upon to announce to his acquaintance and neighbours that this
“terrible judgment of God was at hand,” he got but contempt and ridicule
for his pains:—more than that, indeed, for those raising the cry
that he was a madman, they procured the poor man’s expulsion from his
situation. Under all these discouraging circumstances, he maintained his
firm conviction of the approaching end of time: so strongly was his mind
bent in this direction, that “I opened the window of the house where I
then was,” says he, “thinking to see Christ coming in the clouds!”

“I was three days and three nights that I could not eat, drink, nor
sleep; and when I would close my eyes, I felt something always touching
me; at length I heard a voice sounding in mine ears, saying ‘Sleep not,
lest thou sleep the sleep of death:’ and at that I looked for my Bible,
and at the first opening of it I read these words, which were sent with
power, ‘To him that overcometh,'” &c.

Poor Clark, like his prototype Thomas Newans, laboured hard to obtain
the sanction of the hierarchy to his predictions:

“I desire no man,” he says, “to believe me without proof; and if the
Reverend the Clergy would think this worth their perusal, I would very
willingly hear what they had to say either for or against.”

The orthodoxy of the “Reverend the Clergy” was not, however, to be
moved; and Alexander Clark and his books now but serve the end of
pointing a moral. With more real humility and less presumption, there was
much that was good about him; but letting his heated fancies get the
better of the little judgment he possessed, our amiable enthusiast
became rather a stumbling-block than light to his generation.

J. O.

AMCOTTS PEDIGREE.

(Vol. viii., p. 387.)

Although I may not be able to furnish your inquirer with full pedigree
of this family, my Notes may prove useful in making it out.

From a settlement after marriage in 1663, of Vincent Amcotts of
Laughton, in the county of Lincoln, gentleman, I find his wife’s name to
be Amy; but who she was is not disclosed. It appears she survived her
husband, and was his {519}widow and relict and executrix living in
1687. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth married John Sheffield, Esq., of
Croxby, and I have noted three children of theirs, viz. Vincent, who died
s.p.; Christopher, who, with Margaret, his wife, in 1676 sold the Croxby
estate; and Sarah. What farther as to this branch does not appear,
although my next Vincent Amcotts may be, and probably was, a descendant.
This Vincent Amcotts was of Harrington, in the county of Lincoln, Esq.;
and who, from his marriage settlement dated May 16 and 17, 1720, married
Elizabeth, the third of the four daughters of John Quincy of Aslackby, in
the county of Lincoln, gentleman: and I find the issue of this marriage
to be Charles Amcotts of Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincoln, Esq.,
who died in 1777 s.p.; Anna Maria, whom married Wharton Emerson;
Elizabeth, who died previous to her brother Charles; and Frances, who
married the Rev. Edward Buckworth of Washingborough, in the county of
Lincoln, Clerk, Doctor of Laws.

After the death of Charles Amcotts, we find Wharton Emerson at
Kettlethorpe, having assumed the name of Amcotts: he was created a
baronet in 1796, the title being limited in remainder to the eldest son
of his daughter Elizabeth. Sir Wharton Amcotts married a second wife,
Amelia Campbell, by whom he had a daughter, but what became of her does
not appear. Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Sir Wharton Amcotts by
his first wife Anna Maria Amcotts, married in 1780 John Ingilby, Esq., of
Ripley, who in the next year was created a baronet: and they appear to
have had eleven children, viz. John Charles Amcotts, the present Sir
William Amcotts Ingelby, in whom both titles are vested, Elizabeth,
Augusta, Anna Maria, and Ann; which last three died in infancy; Diana,
Vincent Bosville, who died at a year old, and Julia and Constance. Thus
far my Notes extend.

W. S. Hesleden.

Barton-upon-Humber.

SIR RALPH WINWOOD.

(Vol. viii., p. 272.)

I have an original letter of Sir Ralph Winwood’s in French, addressed
“A Monsieur Mons^r Charles Huyghens, Secrétaire du Conseil
d’estat de Mess^rs les Estats à la Haye,” which, as it may
possibly be interesting to your correspondent H. P. W. R., I here
transcribe:

“Mons^r.—Vos dernières m’ont rendu tesmoignage de
vostre bonn’ affection en mon endroict. Car je m’asseure que vous
n’eussiez jamais recommendé vostre filz à ma protection si mon nom n’eust
esté enregistré au nombre de vos meilleurs et plus affectionnés amys. Je
m’en vay, dans peu de jours, trouver Sa Ma^té en son retour
d’Escoce, et j’espere sur la fin du moys de 7^bre de me rendre
à ma maison à Londres. Sur ce temps-là, s’il vous plaira d’envoyer
v^re filz vers moy, il sera le bien venu. Son traittement
rendra tesmoinage de l’estime que je fais de vostre amitié. De vous
envoyer des nouvelles, ce seroyt d’envoyer Noctuas Athenas. Tout
est coÿ icy. La mort de Concini a rendu la France heureuse. Mais l’Italie
est en danger d’estre exposée à la tirannie d’Espagne. Je vous baise les
mains, et suis, Mons^r, vostre plus affectionné
servit^r,

Rodolphe Winwood.

“De Londres, le 7^me de Juillet.”

The year is not indicated, but the allusion to the death of Concini
(the celebrated Maréchal d’Ancre, who was assassinated by order of Louis
XIII.) proves that this letter was written in 1617, and very shortly
before the death of the writer, which occurred on the 27th of October in
that year.

M. Charles Huyghens, to whom the letter is addressed, was probably the
father of Constantine Huyghens, the Dutch poet-politician, who was
secretary and privy counsellor to the Stadtholders Frederick Henry, and
William I. and II., and who, not improbably, was the son here mentioned
as recommended to the protection of Sir R. Winwood, and who, at that
date, would have been twenty-one years of age.

Constantine was himself the father of the still more celebrated
Christian Huyghens, the astronomer and mathematician. The seal on the
letter, which is in excellent preservation, is a shield bearing the
following arms: 1. and 4. a cross botonné, 2. and 3. three
fleurs-de-lis.

W. Sneyd.

Denton.

TRENCH ON PROVERBS.

(Vol. viii., p. 387.)

I hope that neither Mr. Trench nor his critic E. M. B. will consider
me interfering by my making an observation or two on the correct
rendering of the latter part of Ps. cxxvii. 2. Mr. Trench is perfectly
correct by supposing an ellipsis in the sentence alluded to, and the
words

should have been translated, “He will give to his beloved whilst he
[the beloved] is asleep.” The translation of the authorised version of
that sacred affirmation is unintelligible. Mr. Trench has the support of
Luther’s version, which has the sentence thus:

The celebrated German Jewish translator of the Old Testament agrees
with Mr. Trench. The following is Dr. Zunz’s rendering:

{520}

The following is the Hebrew annotation in the far-famed Moses
Mendelsohn’s edition of the Book of Psalms:

“The holy and blessed One will give it to his beloved, in whom He
delights, whilst he is yet asleep and without fatigue.”

I need not adduce passages in the Hebrew Psalter, where such
ellipsises do occur. E. M. B. evidently knows his Hebrew Bible well, and
a legion of examples will immediately occur to him.

Moses Margoliouth.

Wybunbury, Nantwich.

If E. M. B. will refer to Hengstenberg’s Commentary on the
Psalms, he will find that Mr. Trench is not without authority for his
translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2. I quote the passage from Thompson and
Fairbairn’s translation, in Clark’s Theological Library, vol. iii.
p. 449.:

“שנא for שנה is not the accusative, but
the preposition is omitted, as is frequently the case with words that are
in constant use. For example, בקר,
ערב, to which שנה here is
poetically made like. The exposition He gives sleep, instead of
in sleep, gives an unsuitable meaning. For the subject is not
about the sleep, but the gain.”

C. I. E.

Winkfield.

Has the translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., which Mr. Trench has adopted,
the sanction of any version but that of Luther?

N. B.

ON PALINDROMES.

(Vol vii., p. 178. &c.)

Several of your correspondents have offered Notes upon these singular
compositions, and Agricola de Monte adduces

as an example. As neither he nor Mr. Ellacombe
give it as found out of this country, allow me to say that it was
to be seen on a benitier in the church of Notre Dame at Paris. If it were
not for the substitution of the adjective ΜΟΝΑΝ for the adverb ΜΟΝΟΝ, the line would be one of the best
specimens of the recurrent order.

I notice that a correspondent (Vol. vii., p. 336.) describes the
Palindrome as being universally sotadic. Now, this term was only
intended to apply to the early samples of this fanciful species of verse
in Latin, the production Sotades, a Roman poet, 250 B.C. The lines given by Bœoticus (Vol. vi., p. 209.),

owe their authorship to his degraded Muse, and many others which would
but pollute your pages.

The hexameter “Sacrum pingue,” &c. given by Ω. Φ. (Vol. vi., p.
36.), is to be found in Misson’s Voyage to Italy, copied from an
old cloister wall of Santa Maria Novella at Florence. These ingenious verses are Leoline^[2], and it is noted
that “the sacrifice of Cain was not a living victim.”

I have seen it stated that the English language affords but one
specimen of the palindrome, while the Latin and Greek have many. The late
Dr. Winter Hamilton, the author of Nugæ Literariæ, gives this
solitary line, which at the best is awkwardly fashioned:

Is any other known?

Some years since I fell in with that which, after all, is the most
wonderful effort of the kind; at least I can conceive of nothing at all
equal to it.

It is to be found in a poem called Ποίημα
Καρκινεκὸν,
written in ancient Greek by a modern Greek called Ambrosius, printed in
Vienna in 1802, and dedicated to the Emperor Alexander. It contains 455
lines, every one of which is literal palindrome.

I have some hesitation in giving even a quotation; and yet,
notwithstanding the forced character of some of the lines, your readers
will not fail to admire the classic elegance of this remarkable
composition.

Charles Reed.

Paternoster Row.

Here is a Palindrome that surrounds a figure of the sun in the mosaic
pavement of Sa. Maria del Fiori at Florence:

Could any of your correspondents translate this enigmatical line?

Mosaffur.

E. I. Club.

Replies to Minor Queries.

The Claymore (Vol. viii., p. 365.).—I believe there is no
doubt that the true Scottish claymore is the heavy two-handed sword,
examples of which are preserved at Dumbarton Castle, and at {521}Hawthornden,
and respectively attributed to William Wallace, and to Robert the Bruce.
The latter is a very remarkable specimen, the grip being formed either of
the tusk of a walrus or of a small elephant, considerably curved; and the
guard is constructed of two iron bars, terminated by trefoils, and
intersecting each other at right angles. The blade is very ponderous, and
shorter than usual in weapons of this description.

The claymore of modern times is a broadsword, double or single-edged,
and provided with a basket hilt of form peculiar to Scotland, though the
idea was probably derived from Spain. Swords with basket hilts were
commonly used by the English cavalry in the reigns of Charles I. and II.,
but they are always of a different type from the Scotch, though affording
as complete a protection to the hand. I possess some half-dozen examples,
some from Gloucestershire, which are of the times of the civil wars.
There are many swords said to have been the property of Oliver Cromwell;
one is in the United Service Museum: all that I have seen are of this
form.

W. J. Bernhard Smith.

Temple.

Temple Lands in Scotland (Vol. viii., p. 317.).—Your
correspondent Abredonensis, upon a reference to
the undernoted publications, will find many interesting particulars as to
these lands, viz.:

1. “Templaria: Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and
Possessions of the Scottish Knights Templars, and their Successors the
Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, &c. Edited by James Maidment. Sm.
4to.
1828-29.”

2. “Abstract of the Charters and other Papers recorded in the
Chartulary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596; with an Introductory Notice
and Notes, by John Black Gracie. Sm. 4to. 1830.”

3. “Notes of Charters, &c., by the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of
Melrose, afterwards Earl of Haddington, to the Vassals of the Barony of
Drem, from 1615 to 1627; with an Introductory Notice, by John Black
Gracie. Sm. 4to. 1830.”

4. “Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica: Memoir of what has been already done,
and what Materials exist, towards the Formation of a Scottish Monasticon;
to which are appended, Sundry New Instances of Goodly Matter, by a Delver
in Antiquity (W. B. Turnbull). 8vo. 1842.”

The “Introductory Notices” prefixed to Nos. 2. and 3. give full
particulars of the various sales and purchases of the Superioritus,
&c., by Mr. Gracie and others.

T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

Lewis and Sewell Families (Vol. viii., p. 388.).—Your
correspondent may obtain, in respect to the Lewis family, much
information in the Life and Correspondence of Matthew Gregory
Lewis, two vols. 8vo., London, 1839, particularly at pp. 6. and 7. of
vol. i. He will there find that Matthew Lewis, Esq., who was Deputy
Secretary of War for twenty-six years, married Frances Sewell, youngest
daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell; that Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke
and Gen. Sir Thos. Brownrigg, G.C.B., married the other two daughters of
Sir Thos. Sewell; and that Matthew Gregory Lewis, who wrote the Castle
Spectre, &c., was son of Matthew Lewis, Esq., the Deputy
Secretary of War.

With regard to the Sewell family. The Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell, who
was Master of the Rolls for twenty years, died in 1784; and there is, I
believe, a very correct account of his family connexions in the
Gentleman’s Magazine for 1784, p. 555. He died intestate, and his
eldest son, Thos. Bailey Heath Sewell, succeeded to his estate of
Ottershaw and the manors of Stannards and Fords in Chobham, Surrey. This
gentleman was a magistrate for the county of Surrey; and in the spring of
1794, when this country was threatened by both foreign and domestic
enemies, he became Lieut.-Col. of a regiment of Light Dragoons
(fencibles), raised in Surrey (at Richmond) by George Lord Onslow,
Lord-Lieut. of the county, in which he served six years, till the
Government not requiring their services they were disbanded. Lieut.-Col.
Sewell died in 1803, and was buried in the church at Chobham, where there
is a monument to his memory. Of his family we have not farther knowledge
than that he had a son, Thos. Bermingham Heath Sewell, who was a cornet
in the 32nd Light Dragoons, and lieutenant in the 4th Dragoon Guards
during the war of the French Revolution. The History and Antiquities
of Surrey, by the Rev. Owen Manning and Wm. Bray, in three vols.
folio, 1804, has in the third volume much concerning the Sewell
family.

D. N.

Pharaoh’s Ring (Vol. viii., p. 416.).—The mention of the
ring conferred on, or confided to, Joseph by the Pharaoh of Egypt, as
stated in Genesis xli. 42., reminds me of a ring being shown to me some
years ago, which was believed by its then possessor to be the identical
ring, or at all events a signet ring of the very Pharaoh who promoted
Joseph to the chief office in his kingdom.

It was a ring of pure gold, running through a hole in a massive wedge
of gold, about the size, as far as I recollect, of a moderate-sized
walnut. On one of its faces was cut the hieroglyphic (inclosed as usual
with the names of Egyptian kings in an oval), as I was assured, of the
king, the friend of Joseph, as was generally supposed by the readers of
hieroglyphics: I pretend to no knowledge of them myself.

The possessor of the ring, who showed it to me, was Mr. Sams, one of
the Society of Friends, a bookseller at Darlington. Since railroads have
{522}whirled me past that town, I have lost my
means of periodical communication with him. He had, not long before I saw
him last, returned from the Holy Land, where he assured me he had visited
every spot that could be identified mentioned in the New Testament. He
had also been some time in Egypt, and had brought home a great quantity
of Egyptian antiquities. The lesser ones he had in the first floor of a
carver and gilder’s in Great Queen Street, between the Freemason’s Tavern
and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. He was then anxious that these should be bought
for the British Museum, and I think that at his request I wrote to the
Earl of Aberdeen to mention this, and that the answer was that there was
already so large a collection in the Museum, that more, as they must most
of them be duplicates, would be of no use.

What has become of them I know not. I was told that a number of his
larger antiquities, stone and marble, were for some time placed on
Waterloo Bridge, that being a very quiet place, where people might view
them without interruption. I did not happen to be in London that season,
and therefore did not see them.

J. Ss.

“Could we with ink,” &c. (Vol. iii., pp. 127. 180. 257.
422.).—Have not those correspondents who have answered this Query
overlooked the concluding verse of the gospel according to St. John, of
which it appears to me that the lines in question are an amplification
without improvement? Mahomet, it is well known, imitated many parts of
the Bible in the Koran.

E. G. R.

“Populus vult decipi” (Vol. vii., p. 578.; Vol. viii, p.
65.).—As an illustration of this expression the following anecdote
is given. When my father was about thirteen years old, being in London he
was, on one occasion in company with Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who,
calling him to him, laid his hand on his head, and said, “My little boy,
I want you to remember one thing as long as you live—the people of
this world love to be cheated.”

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

Red Hair (Vol. vii., p. 616.; Vol. viii., p. 86.).—It is
frequently stated that the Turks are admirers of red hair. I have lately
met with a somewhat different account, namely, that the Turks consider
red-haired persons who are fat as “first-rate” people, but those who are
lean as the very reverse.

M. E.

Philadelphia.

“Land of Green Ginger” (Vol. viii., p. 227.).—The
authority which I am able to afford Mr.
Richardson is simply the tradition of the place, which I had so
frequently heard that I could scarcely doubt the truth of it; this I
intended to be deduced, when I said I did not recollect that the local
histories gave any derivation, and that it was the one “generally
received by the inhabitants.”

To any mind the solution brought forward by Mr.
Buckton (Vol. viii., p. 303.) carries the greatest amount of
probability with it of any yet proposed; and should any of your
correspondents have the opportunity of looking through the unpublished
history of Hull by the Rev. De la Pryme, “collected out of all the
records, charters, deeds, mayors’ letters, &c. of the said town,” and
now placed amongst the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, I am
inclined to think it is very likely it would be substantiated.

In Mr. Frost’s valuable work on the town, which by the way proves it
to have been “a place of opulence and note at a period long anterior to
the date assigned to its existence by historians,” he differs materially
from Mr. Richardson, in considering that Hollar’s
plate was “engraved about the year 1630,” not in 1640 as he states. There
is also another which appeared between the time of Hollar and Gent, in
Meisner’s Libellus novus politicus emblematicus Civitatum,
published in 1638, which though not “remarkable for accuracy of design,”
is well worthy of notice. It bears the title “Hull in Engellandt,” and
also the following curious inscriptions, which I copy for the interest of
your readers:

“Carcer nonnunquam firmum propugnaculum. Noctua clausa manet in
carcere firmo; Insidias volucrum vetat enim cavea.”

“Wann die Eull eingesperret ist,

Schadet ihr nicht der Feinde list,

Der Kefig ist ihr nicht unnütz,

Sondern gibt wieder ihr Feind schütz.”

These lines refer to a curious engraving on the left side of the plan,
representing an owl imprisoned in a cage with a quantity of birds about,
endeavouring to assail it.

R. W. Elliot.

Clifton.

“I put a spoke in his wheel” (Vol. viii., p. 351.).—Does
not this phrase mean simply interference, either for good or evil? I
fancy the metaphor is really derived from putting the bars, or spokes,
into a capstan or some such machine. A number {523}of persons being
employed, another puts his spoke in, and assists or hinders them as he
pleases. Can a stick be considered a spoke before it is put
into its place, in the nave of the wheel at least? We often hear the
observation, “Then I put in my spoke,” &c. in the relation of an
animated discussion. May I venture to suggest a pun on the preterite of
the verb to speak?

G. William Skyring.

Pagoda (Vol. viii., p. 401.).—May not the word
pagoda be a corruption of the Sanscrit word “Bhagovata,”
sacred?

Bishop of Brechin.

Dundee.

Passage in Virgil (Vol. viii., p. 270.).—On this part of
Johnson’s letter, Mr. Croker observes:

“I confess I do not see the object, nor indeed the meaning, of this
allusion.”

The allusion is to Eclogue viii. 43.:

As the shepherd in Virgil had found Love to be not the gentle being he
expected, but of a savage race—”a native of the rocks”—so had
Johnson found a patron to be “one who looked with unconcern on a man
struggling for life,” instead of a friend to render assistance.

Supposing Johnson’s estimate of Lord Chesterfield’s conduct to be
correct, I cannot help thinking the allusion to be eminently happy.

J. Kelway.

To speak in Lutestring (Vol. viii., p.
202.).—Lutestring, or lustring, is a particular kind
of silk, and so is taffeta; and thus the phrase may be explained
by Shakspeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 8.:

Junius intended to ridicule such kind of affectation by persons who
were, or ought to have been, grave senators.

J. Kelway.

Dog Latin (Vol. viii., p. 218.).—A facetious friend,
alluding particularly to law Latin with its curious abbreviations, says
that it is so called because it is cur-tailed!

J. Kelway.

Longevity (Vol. viii., p. 113.).—I recollect seeing an
old sailor in the town of Larne, county Antrim, Ireland, in the year
1826-27, of the name of Philip Lake, aged 110, who was said to have been
a cabin boy in Lord Anson’s vessel, in one of his voyages. If any of your
correspondents can furnish the registry of his death it would be
interesting.

Fras. Crossley.

Mary Simondson, familiarly known as “Aunt Polly,” died recently at her
cottage near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, at the advanced age of 126
years.

M. E.

Philadelphia.

Definition of a Proverb (Vol. viii., p. 243.)—C. M. Ingleby inquires the source of the following
definition of proverb, viz. “The wisdom of many, and the wit of one.”

“To Lord John Russell are we indebted for that admirable definition of
a proverb: ‘The wisdom,’ &c.”—See Notes to Rogers’s
Italy, 1848.

The date is added since, in an edition of 1842; this remark makes no
part of the note on the line, “If but a sinew vibrate,” &c.

Q. T.

Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant (Vol. viii., p. 366.).—I
venture to suggest whether this expression may not be something more than
a bull, as . inclines
to call it. If any one will look at a physical map of Ireland at some
little distance, a very slight exercise of the “mind’s eye” will serve to
call up in the figure of that island the shape of a creature kneeling and
in pain. Lough Foyle forms the eye; the coast from Bengore Head to
Benmore Head the nose or snout; Belfast Lough the mouth; the coast below
Donaghdee the chin; County Wexford the knees. The rest of the outline,
according to the imagination of the observer, may assume that of an
elephant, or something, perhaps, “very like a whale.” Some fanciful
observation of this kind may have suggested the otherwise unaccountable
simile to Curran.

Polonius.

Ennui (Vol. vii., p. 478.; Vol. viii., p. 377.).—The
meaning of this admirable word is best gleaned from its root, viz.
nuit. It is somewhat equivalent to the Greek ἀγρυπνία, and
signifies the sense of weariness with doing nothing. It gives the lie to
the dolce far niente: vide Ps. cxxx. 6., and Job vii. 3, 4.
Ennui is closely allied to our annoy or annoyance,
through noceo, noxa, and their probable root nox,
νὺξ. It is precisely
equivalent to the Latin tædium, which may be derived from
tæda, which in the plural means a torch, and through that word may
have a side reference to night, the tædarum horæ: cf. Ps. xci. 5.
The subject is worthy of strict inquiry on the part of comparative
philologists.

C. Mansfield Ingleby.

Birmingham.

Belle Sauvage (Vol. viii., p. 388.).—Your Philadelphian
correspondent asks whether Blue Bell, Blue Anchor, &c., are
corruptions of some other emblem, such as that which in London
transformed La Belle Sauvage into the Bell Savage.

This is not the fact. The Bell Savage on Ludgate Hill was originally
kept by one Isabella Savage. A cotemporary historian, writing of one of
the leaders in a rebellion in the days of Queen {524}Mary, says, “He then
sat down upon a stone opposite to Bell Savage’s Inn.”

James Edmeston.

Homerton.

History of York (Vol. viii., p. 125.).—There is a
History of York, published in 1785 by Wilson and Spence, described
to be an abridgment of Drake, which is in three volumes, and may be a
later edition of the same work to which Mr.
Elliot alludes.

F. T. M.

86. Cannon Street.

Encore (Vol. viii., p. 387.).—If A. A. knows the meaning
of “this French word” I am a little surprised at his Query. Perhaps he
means to ask why a French word should be used? It probably was first used
at concerts and operas (ancora in Italian), where the performers
and even the performances were foreign, and so became the fashion. Pope
says:

It was not, I think, in use so early as Shakspeare’s time, who makes
Bottom anticipate that “the Duke shall say, Let him roar again,
let him roar again,” where the jingle of “encore” would have been
obvious. It is somewhat curious that where we use the French word
encore, the French audiences use the Latin word “bis.”

C.

“Hauling over the Coals” (Vol. viii., p. 125.).—This
saying I conceive to have arisen from the custom prevalent in olden
times, when every Baron was supreme in his own castle, of extracting
money from the unfortunate Jews who happened to fall into his power, by
means of torture. The most usual modus operandi seems to have been
roasting the victims over a slow fire. Every one remembers the treatment
of Isaac of York by Front-de-Bœuf, so vividly described in Sir
Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. Although the practice has long been
numbered amongst the things that were, the fact of its having once
obtained is handed down to posterity in this saying, as when any one is
taken to task for his shortcomings he is hauled over the
coals.

John P. Stilwell.

Dorking.

The Words “Cash” and “Mob” (Vol. viii., p. 386.).—Mr. Fox was right: mob is not genuine
English—teste Dean Swift! A lady who was well known to Swift used
to say that the greatest scrape she ever got into with him was by using
the word mob. “Why do you say that?” he exclaimed in a passion;
“never let me hear you say that again!” “Why, sir,” she asked, “what am I
to say?” “The rabble, to be sure,” answered he. (Sir W. Scott’s Works
of Swift, vol. ix.) The word appears to have been introduced about
the commencement of the eighteenth century, by a process to which we owe
many other and similar barbarisms—”beauties introduced to supply
the want of wit, sense, humour, and learning.” In a paper of The
Tatler, No. 230., much in the spirit, and possibly from the pen, of
Swift, complaint is made of the “abbreviations and elisions” which had
recently been introduced, and a humorous example of them is given. By
these, the author adds,

“Consonants of most obdurate sound are joined together without one
softening vowel to intervene; and all this only to make one syllable of
two, directly contrary to the example of the Greeks and Romans, and a
natural tendency towards relapsing into barbarity. And this is still more
visible in the next refinement, which consists in pronouncing the first
syllable in a word that has many, and dismissing the rest. Thus we cram
one syllable and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she
had bit off their legs to prevent their running away; and if ours be the
same reason for maiming our words, it will certainly answer the end, for
I am sure no other nation will desire to borrow them.”

I have only to add (see Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. ii., 1842)
that “mob is mobile.”

Cash appears to be from the French caisse, a chest,
cash.

J. W. Thomas.

Dewsbury.

Cash is from the French caisse, the moneychest where
specie was kept. So caissier became “cashier,” and
specie “cash.”

Mob, Swift tells us (Polite Conversation, Introd.), is a
contraction for mobile.

Clericus Rusticus has not, I fear, Johnson’s
Dictionary, where both these derivations are given.

C.

Ampers &. (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol. viii.
passim).—Mr. Ingleby may well ask
what “and-per-se-and” can mean. The fact is, this is itself a corruption.
In old spelling-books, after the twenty-six letters it was customary to
print the two following symbols with their explanations

Children were taught to read the above “et-cee, et cetera” and
“et-per-se, and.” Such, at least, was the case in a Dublin school, some
ninety years ago, where my informant, now many years deceased, was
educated. As se was not there pronounced like cee, but like
say, there was no danger of confounding the two names. In England,
where a different pronunciation of the Latin word prevailed, such
confusion would be apt to occur; and hence, probably, English teachers
substituted and for et; from which, in course of time, the
other corruptions mentioned by Mr. Lower were
developed.

E. H. D. D.

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The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts (Vol. viii., p.
293.).—The following account is taken from Burke’s Extinct and
Dormant Baronetcies of England, Lond. 1841:

“William Keate of Hagbourne, in Berkshire, left five sons. The second
son, Ralph Keate of Whaddon, in Wiltshire, married Anne, daughter of John
Clarke, Esq., of Ardington, in Berkshire, and had with other issue
Gilbert Keate, Esq., of London, who married, first, John, daughter of
Niclolas Turbervile, Esq. of Crediton, in Devon, and, secondly,
Elizabeth, daughter of William Armstrong, Esq., of Remston, Notts, and by
her had another son, Jonathan Keate, Esq., of the Hoo, in the county of
Hertford, which estate he acquired with his first wife, Susannah daughter
of William, and sister and heir of Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo and Kimpton,
both in Hertfordshire. Mr. Keate was created a baronet by King Charles
II., 12th June, 1660. Sir Jonathan was sheriff of the county of Hertford,
17 Charles II., and knight of the same shire in Parliament, in the
thirtieth of the same reign. By his first wife he had issue, Gilbert Hoo,
his heir, Jonathan, Susan, Elizabeth: all died sine prole. He
married, secondly, Susanna, daughter of John Orlebar, citizen of London,
but by her had no issue. He died 17th September, 1700. The baronetcy
became extinct in the person of Sir William Keate, D.D., who died 6th
March, 1757.”

Ἁλιεύς

Hour-glasses (Vol. viii., p. 454.).—In the church of
Wiggenhall, St. Mary the Virgin, the iron frame of an hour-glass, affixed
to a wooden stand, immediately opposite the pulpit, still remains.

W. B. D.

An iron hour-glass stand still remains near the pulpit in the church
of Ashby-Folville, in this county (Leicester). It is fixed to the wall
containing the staircase to the rood-loft.

In the old church of Anstey, recently pulled down and rebuilt, was an
ancient hour-glass stand, consisting of a pillar of oak, about four feet
high, the top of which is surmounted by a light framework of wood for the
reception of the hour-glass. This specimen is preserved in the museum of
this town.

William Kelly.

Marriage of Cousins (Vol. viii., p. 387.).—If there is
any foundation for such a statement as is contained in the Query of J. P.
relative to the marriage of cousins, it consists rather in the marriage
of first cousins once removed than of second cousins. It will be seen
that the latter relationship belongs to the same generation, but it is
not so with the former, which partakes more of the nature of uncle and
aunt with nephew and niece.

W. Sloane Sloane-Evans.

Cornworthy Vicarage, Totnes.

There is no legal foundation for the statement that marriage with a
second cousin is valid, and with a first cousin invalid. The following
quotation from Burn’s Ecc. Law by Phill., vol. ii. p. 449., will
probably be considered to explain the matter:

“By the civil law first cousins are allowed to marry, but by the canon
law both first and second cousins (in order to make dispensations more
frequent and necessary) are prohibited; therefore, when it is vulgarly
said that first cousins may marry, but second cousins cannot, probably
this arose by confounding these two laws, for first cousins may marry by
the civil law, and second cousins cannot by the canon law.”

J. G.

Exon.

Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle (Vol. viii., p. 271.), was the son of
Thomas and Margaret Waugh, of Appleby, in Westmoreland; born there 2nd
February, 1655; educated at Appleby school; matriculated at Queen’s
College, Oxford, 4th of April, 1679; took his degree of M.A. the 7th of
July, 1687; and elected Fellow on the 18th of January following. He
married Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. Mr. Fiddes, rector of Bridewell, in
Oxford, who was the only surviving child of John Machen, Esq., of
——, in the county of Oxford, by whom he left son, John Waugh,
afterwards chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle.

Karleolensis.

Marriage Service (Vol. viii., p. 150.).—I have been many
years in holy orders, and have always received the fee together with the
ring on the Prayer Book, as directed in the Rubric. The ring I return to
the bridegroom to place upon the bride’s finger; the fee (or offering) I
deposit in the offertory basin, held for that purpose by the clerk, and
on going to the chancel (the marriage taking place in the body of the
church) lay it on the altar. Note.—In the parish in which I first
ministered, the marriages had always been commenced in the body of the
church, as directed; in the second parish in which I ministered, that
custom had only been broken by the present incumbent a few years
since.

A Rector.

I have seen the Rubric carried out in this particular, in St. Mary’s
Church, Kidderminster.

Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

Hoby, Family of (Vol. viii., p. 243.).—In answer to Mr. J. B. Whitborne, I beg to state that the Rev. Sir
Philip Hoby, Baronet, was in the early part of the last century
chancellor of the archdiocese of Dublin. He was an intimate friend of
Archbishop Cobbe, and there is a picture of him in canonicals at
Newbridge, co. Dublin.

T. C.

Cambridge Graduates (Vol. viii., p. 365.).—Your
correspondent will find a list of B.A.’s of Cambridge University from the
years 1500 to 1717 in Add. MS. 5885., British Museum.

Glaius.

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“I own I like not,” &c. (Vol. viii., p. 366.).—The
lines—

are by Peter Pindar, whose works I have not, and so cannot give an
exact reference. The extract containing them will be found in Chambers’
Cyclopædia of English Literature, vol. ii. p. 298.

P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.

“Topsy Turvy” (Vol. viii., p. 385.).—This is ludicrously
derived, in Roland Cashel, p. 104., from top side t’other
way.

P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.

“When the Maggot bites” (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 304.
353.).—Another illustration of this phrase may be found in Swift
(Introduction to Tale of a Tub):

“The two principal qualifications (says he) of a fanatic preacher are,
his inward light, and his head full of maggots; and the two
different fates of his writings are to be burnt or worm-eaten.”

The word maggot is sometimes used for the whim or crotchet
itself; thus Butler:

So also it is used by Samuel Wesley (father of the founder of the
Methodists) in his rare and facetious volume entitled Maggots, or
Poems on several Subjects never before handled, 12mo., 1685.

William Bates.

Birmingham.

“Salus populi,” &c. (Vol. viii., p. 410.).—The saying
“Salus populi supreme lex” is borrowed from the model law of Cicero, in
his treatise de Legibus, III. 3. It is
made one of the duties of the consuls, the supreme magistrates, to regard
the safety of the state as their highest rule of conduct:

“Regio imperio duo sunto; iique præeundo, judicando, consulendo
Prætores, Judices, Consules appellantor. Militiæ summum jus habento,
nemini parento: ollis salus populi suprema lex esto.”

The allusion appears to be to the formula used by the senate for
conferring supreme power on the consuls in cases of emergency: “Dare
operam, ne quid respublica detrimenti caperet.” (See Sallust, Bell.
Cat. c. 29.)

L.

Aristotle regards the safety of the citizens as the great end of law
(see his Ethics, b. I. ch. 4.); and
Cicero (de Finibus, lib. ii. c. 5.) lays down a similar
principle.

B. H. C.

Theodoro Paleologus (Vol. viii., p. 408.).—The
inscription referred to was printed in Archæologia, vol. xviii.,
and with some account of the Paleologi to which a Querist was referred in
“N. & Q.,” Vol. v., p. 280. (see also pp. 173. 357.). It is
astonishing how much will be found in that “Californian mine,” if the
most excellent indices of the several volumes are only consulted. Your
correspondent could in the present case have pointed out the errors of
the inscription already in print had the indices to “N. & Q.”
attracted him.

J.

Worm in Books (Vol. viii., p. 412).—In reply to Alethes I beg to acquaint him that I have tried various
means for destroying the worm in old books and MSS., and the most
effectual has been the chips of Russia leather; indeed, in but one
instance have I known them fail.

Newburiensis.

The Porter Family (Vol. viii., p. 364.).—1. The reason of
the word Agincourt being placed above the inscription in Bristol
Cathedral is, that the Porter family were descendants of Sir William
Porter who fought at Agincourt.

2. Charles Lempriere Porter was the son of Dr. Porter.

3. This family was descended from Endymion Porter of classic and loyal
memory.^[3]

J. R. W.

Bristol.

Buckle (Vol. viii., p. 304.).—This word is in common use
by the artizans who work upon sheet-iron, to denote the curl which a
sheet of iron acquires in passing through a pair of rollers. The word has
been derived from the French boucle, a curl. The shoe-buckle has
got its name from its curved form. In the days in which every man in this
country, who was in easy circumstances, wore a wig, it was well known
that to put a wig in buckle, meant to arrange its curls in due
form.

N. W. S.

The “Forlorn Hope” (Vol. viii., p. 411.).—This is no
quotation; but the expression arose in the army from its leader or
captain, who, being often a disappointed man, or one indifferent to
consequences, now ran the “forlorn hope” either of ending his days or
obtaining a tomb in Westminster Abbey. From the captain, after a time,
the term descended to all the little gallant band. In no part of our
community will you find such {527}meaning expressions (often very slang
ones) used as in the army. A lady, without hearing anything to shock
“ears polite,” might listen to the talk of a mess table, and be unable to
understand clearly in what the conversation consisted. “He is gone to the
bad”—meaning, he is ruined. “A wigging from the office” (a very
favourite expression)—a reprimand from the colonel. “Wigging”
naturally arising from tearing the hair in anger or sorrow, and the
office of course substituting the place from whence it comes for the
person who sent it. Besides may others, quæ nunc, &c.

A Dragoon.

Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., p. 175., &c.).—

W. J. Bernhard Smith.

Temple.

Burial in Unconsecrated Ground (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii.,
p. 43.).—The following curious entry occurs in the parish register
of Pimperne, Dorset:

“Peregrinus quidam tempore pestes in communi campo mortuus eodem loco
quo inventus sepultus.”

There was a pestilence in England in 1625. In 1628 sixteen thousand
persons died of the plague at Lyons.

W. E.

I do not know whether the case recorded in London Labour and the
London Poor, vol. i. p. 411.—by the way, is that work ever to
be completed, and how far has it gone?—of a man buried at the top
of a house at Foot’s Cray, in Kent, has been noticed by any
correspondent.

P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.

Sangaree (Vol. iii., p. 141.).—I take it that the word
ought to be spelled sansgris, being derived from the French words
sans, without, and gris, tipsy, meaning a beverage that
would not make tipsy. I have been a good deal in the French island of
Martinique, and they use the term frequently in this sense as applied to
a beverage made of white wine (“Vin de Grave”), syrup, water, and nutmeg
with a small piece of fresh lime-skin hanging over the edge of the glass.
A native of Martinique gave me this as the derivation of the word. The
beverage ought not to be stirred after the nutmeg is put in it, as the
fastidious say it would spoil the flavour.

T. B.

Point of Etiquette (Vol. viii., p. 386.).—The title
Miss, without the Christian name, belongs to the eldest unmarried
daughter of the representative of the family only. If he have lost his
own children, his brother is heir presumptive merely to the family
honours; and can neither assume nor give to his daughter the titles to
which they are only expectants. The matter becomes evident, if you test
the rule by a peerage instead of a squirage. Even the eldest daughter of
a baronet or landed gentleman loses her title of Miss, when her brother
succeeds to the representation, provided he have a daughter to claim the
title.

P. P.

Etymology of “Monk” and “Till,” &c. (Vol. viii., pp. 291.
409.).—Will you allow me one word on these two cases? Monk
is manifestly a Greek formative from μονος, and denotes a
solitaire.

The proposed derivation of till, from to-while, is not
new; but still clearly mistaken, inasmuch as the word till is
found in Scotch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and others of the family. A
word thus compounded would be of less general use. Besides which,
to-while would scarcely produce such a form as till; it
would rather change the t into an aspirate, which would appear as
th.

B. H. C.

Forrell (Vol. vii., p. 630.).—Your correspondent T. Hughes derives this word (applied in Devonshire, as
he tells us, to the cover of book) from forrell, “a term still
used by the trade to signify an inferior kind of vellum.” Is it not more
natural to suppose it to be the same word which the French have made
fourreau, a cover or sheath? (See Du Cange, vv. Forellus,
Forrellus.)

J. H. T.

Dublin.

Parochial Libraries (Vol. vii., p. 507.; Vol. viii.
passim).—There is a library at Wimborne Minster, in the
Collegiate Church, which, on my visit two years since, appeared to
contain some valuable volumes, and was neglected and in very bad
condition.

θ.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Dr. Lardner has just published the third and concluding course of his
Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. The subjects treated
of in the present volume are Meteorology and Astronomy, and they
are illustrated with thirty-seven lithographic plates, and upwards of two
hundred engravings on wood. The work was undertaken with the very popular
object of supplying the means of acquiring a competent knowledge of the
methods and results of the physical sciences, without any unusual
acquaintance with mathematics; and in the methods of demonstration and
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