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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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CONTENTS.
Notes:— Page
John Goodwin's Six Booksellers' Proctor nonsuited,
by James Crossley 553
Mr. Collier's Folio Shakspeare: A Passage in "As
You Like It," by Samuel Hickson 554
Notes on Books, No. III.—Laurence Humphrey,
President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of
Winchester, by S. W. Singer 554
Scoto-Gallicisms 555
On a Passage in "Cymbeline," Act IV. Sc. 2., by S.
W. Singer 556
Old Concert Bill, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 556
Minor Notes:—Note for Mr. Worsaae—Singular
Epitaph—Largesse—Brogue and Fetch—Taibhse—
Derivation of "Caul"—"Pandecte," an entire Copy of
the Bible 557
Queries:—
Boy Bishop at Eton 557
"Speculum Christianorum multa bona continens," by
W. Sparrow Simpson 558
Massacre of the Welsh Bards 558
Minor Queries:—Portrait of William Combe 558
—"Quod non fecerunt barbari," &c.—Lines on
English History—Windows—Angel-beast; Cleek;
Longtriloo—Royal Arms in Churches—"Cease, rude
Boreas"—Pictorial Proverbs—Inscription on George
Inn, Wansted—Learned Man referred to by Rogers
—Mormonism and Spalding's Romance—Carrs or
Calves—Stoup—Casper Ziegler and the Diaconate
—Inscription at Persepolis—"I do not know what the

truth may be"—Twittens—Clapper Gate—Jemmy—
Muffs worn by Gentlemen
Replies:—
St. Patrick, by D. Rock, &c. 561
Nashe's "Terrors of the Night" 562
Serjeant's Rings 563
The Old Countess of Desmond 564
A few Things about Richard Baxter, by Cuthbert
Bede 565
St. Botulph 566
Sir Richard Pole, the Father of Cardinal Pole 567
Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, by F.
Somner Merryweather 568
Ralph Winterton 569
Replies to Minor Queries:—Family of Bullen—
Wallington's Journal—The Amber Witch—Twyford
—The Ring Finger—Brass of Lady Gore—Gospel
Trees—"Who from the dark and doubtful love to
run"—Son of the Conqueror; Walter Tyrrel—Sir
Gilbert Gerrard—Fides Carbonarii—Line on
Franklin—Meaning of Royd as an Addition to
Yorkshire Names—Binnacle—Plague Stones—
Ramasshed—Yankee Doodle—"Chords that
vibrate," &c.—Derivation of Martinique—Anthony
Babington, &c. 569
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 574
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 575
Notices to Correspondents 575
Advertisements 575

Notes.
JOHN GOODWIN'S SIX BOOKSELLERS' PROCTOR
NONSUITED.

The London booksellers of the present day (good harmless men!) are
satisfied with endeavouring to put down heresies as to discounts. Their
predecessors, in the year 1655, set to work in good earnest, associated to
purify the faith by denouncing in an Index expurgatorius, under the
alarming titles of A Beacon set on Fire, and A Second Beacon set on Fire,
all publications of a blasphemous, heretical, or improper kind. Six
booksellers, viz. Luke Fawne, Samuel Gellibrand, Joshua Kirton, John
Rothwell, Thomas Underhill, and Nathaniel Webb, took the lead on the
occasion; and the battle waxed hot and fierce between them and the
apologists of the books condemned. Amongst the latter was the famous
John Goodwin, whose part in the controversy Mr. Jackson, in his elaborate
Life of him, has adverted to, and has noticed his pamphlet entitled The High
Presbyterian Spirit, written in answer to the Second Beacon Fired. John
Goodwin, however, published a second pamphlet in the same controversy,
neither noticed by Mr. Jackson, nor any one else that I am aware of, in
which he finishes up his first charge upon the unfortunate booksellers, and
lays on them with a vigour and determination that it does one good to see so
well bestowed, scattering their arguments and quotations to the winds, and
sending them back to their proper occupation of printing and publishing,
instead of clipping and suppressing. The title of this very rare pamphlet,
which is to be found in vol. xviii. of a collection of tracts (between 1640
and 1660) in ninety-six vols. 4to., made by President Bradshaw, and
containing many of his MS. notes and observations now in my possession,
is as follows:

"Six Booksellers' Proctor Nonsuited, wherein the gross Falsifications
and Untruths, together with the inconsiderate and weak Passages found
in the Apologie for the said Booksellers, are briefly noted and evicted.
And the said Booksellers proved so unworthy both in their Second

Beacon Fired, and likewise in their Epistle written in Defence of it,
that they are out of the Protection of any Christian or reasonable
Apologie for either. By J. G., a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
London printed for H. Cripps and L. Lloyd, 1655, 4to., pages 23."

I might give an extract or two from this very interesting tract, but do not
wish to trespass too much upon your space. Perhaps, next to Milton, there is
no writer of the time of the Commonwealth equal to John Goodwin, in
power and elevation of composition; and I am glad therefore to be able to
add one more to the series of his pamphlets which his biographer has with
so much industry and research enumerated at the close of the Life.
Jas. Crossley.

MR. COLLIER'S FOLIO SHAKSPEARE: A PASSAGE IN
"AS YOU LIKE IT."

It appears to me so obvious that the degree of authority to be conceded to
each particular correction or emendation in Mr. Collier's folio Shakspeare
must depend in a great measure on the general character of the proposed
alterations throughout the work, that I cannot help thinking it would be
desirable to reserve all controversy on such points until after the appearance
of the promised volume. Such a resolution I made for myself, and to it I
shall religiously adhere. This much only I shall say, that, of the specimens
given by Mr. Collier in the Athenæum,—sufficient at once to excite interest
and to gratify curiosity,—some of the corrections appear to be of that nature
that no conjecture could have supplied, while all are good enough to
command a deferential consideration.

Your correspondent A. E. B. has attempted a defence of the original reading
of two passages amended in Mr. Collier's folio. For the reason above given I
shall neither answer your correspondent, nor even say whether I think him
right or wrong; but it will not be overstepping the bounds I have prescribed
myself, if I take up a collateral point he has raised in reference to one of
these passages. To strengthen the case for the reading of the passage in
Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 4., "Whose mother was her painting," he cites a

passage from As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 5., in which he says, "mother is
directly used as a sort of warranty of female beauty!" Here is the passage:

"Who might be your mother,
That you insult, exult, and all at once,
Over the wretched?"

Shakspeare was, if I am not mistaken, one of those persons to whom a
mother was, as some one expresses it, "the holiest thing alive." He
concentrates this sentiment in the words of Troilus (Troilus and Cressida,
Act V. Sc. 2.):

"Let it not be believ'd for womanhood:
Think we had mothers."

And again, in those of Palamon (which I have no doubt are Shakspeare's) in
the Two Noble Kinsmen, Act V. Sc. 1.:

"I have been harsh
To large confessors, and have hotly ask'd them
If they had mothers? I had one, a woman,
And women t'were they wrong'd."

Now it seems to me that the same feeling is implied in Rosalind's reproof to
Phebe; and that there is no ground whatever for saying that mother is used
as a warranty for female beauty, but rather as one for feminine qualities.
Rosalind in effect says, "who might your mother be that you should be so
unfeeling?" And, as she tells her plainly she sees no beauty in her, it is
clearly to be inferred that it must have been for some other quality that her
mother was to be "warranty." Rosalind, in other words, might have said,
"Had you a mother, a woman, that you can so discredit the character of
womanhood as to exult, insult and all at once, over the wretched?"

It might however be contended, that Rosalind's question referred to the
rank, condition, or personal appearance of the mother. The latter only bears
upon this question; and with regard to that it may be said, that if beauty had
been transmitted to the daughter (independently of the questioner having
decided that it had not), the question was not needed. Rosalind, in short,

seeks for a better cause for Phebe's pride or want of feeling than her own
insufficient attractions, in the nature or quality of her mother. It will be
observed that, in this view, I have conceded that who may be taken with
something of the signification of what; but the answer to the question, taken
strictly, must be the name of some individual who might be known to the
Querist, and be in some measure a warranty for the disposition of the
daughter, though for no personal beauty but her own.
Samuel Hickson.

NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. III.—LAURENCE HUMPHREY,
PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD,
AND DEAN OF WINCHESTER.

In the year 1558 a handsome volume was printed at Basle, in folio in Greek,
by Jerome Frobenius and Nicholas Episcopius, with the following title:

"ΚΕΡΑΣ ΑΜΑΛΘΕΙΑΣ, Η ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ. ΤΩΝ ΕΞΗΓΗΣΕΩΝ
ΩΜΗΡΙΚΩΝ, ἐκ των του Ἐυσταθείου παρεκβολὼν
συνηρμοσμένων—i.e. Copiæ Cornu sive Oceanus Enarrationum
Homericarum, ex Eustathii in eundem commentariis concinnatarum,
Hadriano Junio autore."

To an Oxford man, independent of its merit as a compendium of the prolix
comment of Eustathius, this volume should be especially interesting, on
account of the prefatory dissertation "Ad Magdalinenses," entitled De
Græcis Literis et Homeri Lectione et Imitatione, by Laurence Humphrey.
This worthy was sometime Greek reader in the university, but went abroad
on account of religion at the accession of Queen Mary, and did not return
until happier times after her death. He seems to have been living at Basle
with Frobenius and Episcopius in honestissimo loco, but he could not avoid
often thinking of his native land,—of Newport-Pagnell in Bucks, where he
was born,—of Cambridge, where he received the rudiments of Latin and
Greek,—but more especially of Oxford, where he completed his education.
His feeling panegyric of his Alma Mater, shows him to have been at least
one of her grateful sons. The dissertation is highly creditable to him,

considering the period at which it was written; and the passage in which he
gives an account of the work is not devoid of interest.

"For the rest we give not Homer alone, but the Expositor Eustathius is
subjoined. Yet not entire but reduced into a compendium by a man of
untiring labour and noble learning—Hadrian Junius, not unknown to
you,—for he lived some time in England, dedicated his Greek Lexicon
to our royal Edward the Sixth, and has since published the Annals of
Queen Mary, his Animadversiones, and Centuries Adagiorum, which
issued from the press of Frobenius: he also effected this good work.
Therefore although I had rather have the whole of Eustathius than the
half, and to say the truth Epitomies never pleased me, yet because this
author is prolix, and difficult to meet with, this perfect compendium of
such an estimable work (which seems to me to be the best interpreter,
poetical-elucidator, Greek lexicon, and onomasticon), will be useful to
any one. I recommend, then, our Eustathio-Junian Homer to you."

In 1560 Laurence Humphrey seems to have been still at Basle; for in that
year he printed at the press of Oporinus, in 12mo., a work which he
dedicates to Queen Elizabeth, entitled Optimates, sive de Nobilitate,
ejusque Antiqua Origine, Natura, Officiis, disciplina, et recta Christiana
Institutione; at the end of which he printed the argument of Philo-Judæus,
περὶ ευγενείας, with a Latin version. This found favour in the eyes of an
English translator, and it was printed at London by Thomas Marshe in 1563,
16mo., under the following title:—

"The Nobles, or of Nobilitye. The original, duties, ryght, and Christian
Institucion thereof, in three Bookes. Fyrste eloquentlye written in
Latine by Laurence Humphrey, D. of Divinity and Presidente of
Magdaleine College in Oxforde, lately Englished. Whereto, for the
reader's commoditye and matters affinitye, is coupled the small
treatyse of Philo a Jewe. By the same Author out of Greek Latined,
now also Englished."

Antony à Wood gives a list of the writings of Laurence Humphrey, among
which is a life of Bishop Jewell in Latin: he also speaks highly of his
scholarship and proficiency in theology. After his return from abroad he
became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and President of his

college. In 1570 he was made Dean of Gloucester, and ten years afterward
Dean of Winchester. His divinity was strongly tinctured with Calvinism, but
he was a zealous and able defender of the Reformation. His death occurred
in 1589-90.
S. W. Singer.

SCOTO-GALLICISMS.

The following list of Scottish words derived from the French language is
chiefly taken from the pages of the Scottish Journal, a small weekly
periodical, published at Edinburgh, which came to a conclusion, after rather
less than a year's existence, in the summer of 1848. It is generally supposed
that most of these words were introduced during the time of Queen Mary's
minority, when French troops were sent to Scotland; but the first
appearance of some of them may unquestionably be referred to an earlier
period. Perhaps some of the readers of "N. & Q." may be able to
communicate other examples, which, however, as a reference to Jamieson's
Scottish Dictionary will show, are by no means very numerous.

Aschet. A large flat plate for meat. Fr. Assiette, a trencher plate.

Aumrie or Almerie. A cupboard; also, a place in churches and
monasteries where the sacred vessels and alms were deposited.
(Dunbar.) Fr. Armoire, aumonerie.

Braw or Bra'. Fine, handsome, gaily dressed. (Burns.) Fr. Brave.

Bonaillie. A parting glass with a friend going a journey. (Wallace.) Fr.
Bon allez.

Butterie Bejan (or Bajan). A term applied to a "freshman," or student
of the first year, at the Universities of St. Andrews and Aberdeen. Fr.
Butor, a booby or clod; and Bejaune, a novice. (Lamont's Diary, p.
114., note.)

Certie, Certy—By my. By my troth. Fr. Certes, certainly.

Cummer or Kimmer. A gossip. (Kelly.) Fr. Commère.

Dour. Hard or obstinate. (Douglas.) Fr. Dur.

Fasheous. Troublesome. (Baillie.) Fr. Facheux, facheuse.

Flunkie. A livery servant. Old Fr. Flanchier; same signification as
henchman (haunchman). (Quart. Rev., vol. lxxix. p. 344.)

Fracaw. Noise or uproar. Fr. Fracas.

Gardevine or Gurdyveen. A large bottle, and sometimes a celleret, for
holding wine. Fr. Garde-vin.

Gardyloo. A cry formerly raised by servants in Edinburgh, when they
threw dirty water, &c. from the windows after ten at night. (Smollett.)
Fr. Garde de l'eau.

Goo. A particular taste or savour. Fr. Goût.

Grange. A granary, &c. (used also in English). Fr. Grange.

Grosert, Groser, or Groset. A gooseberry. (Burns.) Fr. Groseille.

Gud-brither. Brother-in-law. Fr. Bon-frère.

Haveril. A simpleton, or April-fool. (Burns.) Fr. Avril.

Jalouse—To. To suspect. (Antiquary.) Fr. Jalouse.

Jigot. The hip-joint of lamb or mutton (used also in English). Fr. Gigot.

Jupe. A woman's mantle or pelisse. Fr. Jupe, a long coat.

Kickshaws. A made-up dish. Fr. Quelque chose.

Multiplepoinding. An action in Scottish law, somewhat similar to the
English bill of interpleader in Chancery. Fr. Multiplie-poindre.

Multure or Mouter. The fee for grinding grain. (Douglas.) Fr. Mouture.

Onding. A heavy fall of rain or snow. Fr. Ondée(?).

Petticoat tails. A species of cake baked with butter, sometimes called
"short-bread." (Bride of Lammermoor.) Fr. Petits gatelles (more
correctly, gateaux).

Ruckle or Rickle. A heap or collection. Fr. Recueil.

Servite or Servet. A table napkin. (Spalding.) Fr. Serviette.

Verity—Chair of. A pulpit. Fr. La chaire de vérité. (Croker's Boswell's
Johnson, p. 513.)

Vizzie, Vizy, or Visie. A scrutinising view, aim, or sight at the muzzle of
a gun. (Bride of Lammermoor.) Fr. Visée, aim.

Wallees or Valises. Saddlebags. (Godscroft.) Fr. Valise, a portmanteau.
E. N.

ON A PASSAGE IN "CYMBELINE," ACT IV. SC. 2.

It is so usual with Malone and some other commentators on Shakspeare to
impute the errors of the printer to the poet, that we often find the most
glaring instances of false grammar, and anomalies of construction, laid to
his charge, and defended as the practice of the time; and as his own
practice!

The following passage is an instance in point:

"Gui. Why, he but sleeps;
If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;
With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
And worms will not come to thee."

Steevens with reason says:

"This change from the second person to the third is so violent, that I
cannot help imputing it to the players, transcribers, or printers."

He proposed to read him for thee. Malone of course defends the absurdity.
We may, however, be assured that it is not attributable to the poet. Whoever
reads the passage with attention will perceive that the allusion in the last
line is not to Fidele, but to the fairies haunting his tomb. It should be
remembered that it was held that no noxious creatures would be found
where fairies resort.

The compositor, as in other cases, mistook the word, probably written "thē,"
and printed "thee" for "them."

Your correspondent Mr. Halliwell having noticed my approval of the
emendation of a passage in Coriolanus, found in Mr. Collier's copy of the
second folio, where "bosom multiplied" is happily corrected to "bissom
multitude," perhaps I may be permitted to say that I cannot subscribe to his
opinion, that "it is one of those alterations which no conjectural ingenuity
could have suggested." To me it appears that the steps are obvious by which
any intelligent reader of the poet might be led to make the correction. The
word which was mistaken by the printer for "bosome" occurs in a previous
scene of the play, where it is "beesome" in the folios; and a recollection of
this would naturally lead to the conjectured emendation. Indeed the word
appears to have been not unfrequently written "beasom," as we find it in
Huloet's Dictionary. The word "multitude" would suggest itself to any
attentive reader of the play, from its repeated occurrence in the 3rd Scene of
Act II.: and we must always suppose the writer to have been intent upon
correcting errata. The correction of "infuite comming" to "infinite cunning,"
in Measure for Measure, is, in my mind, an instance quite equal in
"conjectural ingenuity;" and we know that we owe it to that of the late Mr.
Sidney Walker.

I must candidly confess that the specimens of the corrections given by Mr.
Collier in his first two communications to the Athenæum gave me the same
dissatisfaction and apprehension that Mr. Halliwell appears to have
entertained; but I do not draw the same inference that gentleman seems to
do, from the occurrence of this one truly happy conjectural emendation. It

is, however, sufficient to convey a favourable notion of the acuteness of the
writer of the emendatory notes, and nothing more.
S. W. Singer

OLD CONCERT BILL.

The following curious bill (the original of which is in my possession) of a
benefit concert given by Signor Carbonelli, at Drury Lane Theatre, in 1722,
will enable us to form some opinion of the musical taste prevailing in
London in the first quarter of the eighteenth century:

"Drury Lane Theatre.
May 4.
SIGNOR CARBONELLI'S CONCERT.
Act I.
A New Concerto for Two Trumpets, composed and
performed by Grano and others.
A New Concerto, by Albinoni, just brought over.
Song, Mrs. Barbier.
Concerto, composed by Signor Carbonelli.

Act II.
A Concerto, with Two Hautbois and Two Flutes,
composed by Dieupart.
A Concerto on the Base Violin, by Pippo.
Song, Mrs. Barbier.
By desire, the Eighth Concerto of Arcangelo Corelli.

Act III.
Concerto, by Carbonelli.
Solo on the Arch-lute, by Signor Vebar.
Song, Mrs. Barbier.
New Concerto on the Little Flute, composed by
Woodcock, and performed by Baston.
Solo, Signor Carbonelli.

Finale. Concerto on Two Trumpets, by Grano and
others."

I should mention, that Signor Carbonelli was a celebrated violin player, and
a favourite pupil of Corelli. He was brought over to this country by his
patron, the first Duke of Rutland.
Edward F. Rimbault.

Minor Notes.
Note for Mr. Worsaae.—At page 204. of The Danes in England, Mr. W.
says:

"Towards Glasgow and Edinburgh the mountains are no longer called
'fell' and 'rigg.'"

The Campsie Fells, a fine range of hills within nine miles of Glasgow, are
an exception. These hills are never spoken of by the natives of the strath
except by the name of "fells" and the singularity of the name has often been
remarked to the writer of this note, especially by visitors to the valley.
Before being much acquainted with the deeds of the Vikings (except in the
general), he had come to the conclusion that the name must be Danish, from
its similarity to "Fjeld," with which, in connexion with "Fiords," he had
become familiar at a very early period.
Bruno.

Singular Epitaph.—The following epitaph occurs in Braunston churchyard,
Northamptonshire:

"To the Memory of William Borrows, Died 1703.

"'Tis true I led a single life,
And Nare was married in my life,
For of that Seck (sic) I nare had none:
It is the Lord; his will be done."
Cranmore.

Largesse.—I heard this old word used the other day in Northamptonshire,
by a servant who was leaving his employer, and who called upon one of his
master's tradesmen to ask him for largisse, as he termed it. Certainly the
peasants have preserved and handed down to the present time a vast number
of old words, customs, and legends. It proves how much they owe to oral
tuition.

A. B.

Brogue and Fetch.—There are a certain set of words which have become
naturalised in English, by those who speak it in Ireland; as, amadan, a fool;
brogue, a shoe (Ir. brog); palaver, fine speaking, soft talk (Ir. pi-labhradh).
These are all Irish words; but there are others which are not English, and yet
it is hard to make them out Irish. Brogue, meaning a broad Irish accent, is
an instance; fetch is another:

"In Ireland (says Mr. Banim) a fetch is the supernatural fac-simile of
some individual, which comes to assure to its original [or his friend or
relative] a happy longevity or immediate dissolution. If seen in the
morning, the one event is predicted; if in the evening, the other."

Taibhse (pr. thaivshe) is the Irish word, and perhaps fetch might be derived
from it by a sort of metathesis.
Eirionnach.

Derivation of "Caul."—

"Guianerius, cap. 36., De Ægritud. Matr., speaks of a silly, jealous
fellow, that, seeing his child new born, included in a kell (meaning a
caul), thought sure a Franciscan, that used to come to his house, was
the father of it, it was so like the friar's cowl, and thereupon threatened
the friar to kill him!"—Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec.
3.

By this may we judge that caul and cowl are cognate? Coif (Martial.), in
Latin Reticulum; whence a lady's reticule.
B. B.

"Pandecte," an entire Copy of the Bible.—Dr. Maitland, in his valuable
essays on the Dark Ages, has drawn attention to this use of the word
Pandecte, but was not at the time aware that it is so employed by any writer
before Alcuin (p. 194. n. 9. ed. 1844). It will be found, however, in the
following, extract from Bede's Chronicon (in Monument. Britan., p. 101. A).
The historian is speaking of certain presents which his abbot, Ceolfrith, was

carrying with him on his pilgrimage to Rome, when death cut it short at
Langres:

"Qui inter alia donaria quæ adferre disposuerat, misit ecclesiæ S. Petri
pandectem a B. Hieronymo in Latinum ex Hebræo vel Græco fonte
translatum."
C. H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

Queries.
BOY BISHOP AT ETON.

In Heywood's edition of the Statutes of King's College, Cambridge, and
Eton College (Longman, 1850), a MS. is quoted under the title of
Consuetudinarium vetus Scholæ Etoniensis (sic), Harl. MSS. 7044, p. 167.
From a MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

It is a sort of Fasti Etonenses, recording in somewhat quaint terms the old
customs which were then traditionary in the school. In the month of
November, according to this authority, "in die Sti Hugonis Pontificis solebat
Etonæ fieri electio Episcopi Nihilensis, sed consuetudo obsolevit."

Again, in the statutes as given by Mr. Heywood, p. 560., it is provided that
on the Feast of St. Nicholas, but "nullatenus in festo Sanctorum
Innocentium," the Episcopus puerorum Scholarium, who was to be elected
from among the boys every year for the purpose, might celebrate all the
divine offices except the "missæ secreta."

Can you, or any of your correspondents, inform me—

1st. What is the date of the MS. in question, with any further particulars of
its history?

2nd. What is "Pope St. Hugo's Day," and whether it was in any way
connected with the election of the boy bishop in other places as well as
Eton?

3rd. Whether any reason can be assigned why Holy Innocents Day, being
that on which the boy bishop was usually appointed, should have been
expressly excluded by the founder.
L. C. B.

"¶ SPECULUM CHRISTIANORUM MULTA BONA
CONTINENS."

I have a small black-letter tract which bears the above title: I am desirous of
learning the author's name, and that of the printer, together with the date
and place of its production. It extends from signature A 1 to G 8, and ends
abruptly on the verso of G 8 without any colophon. On the verso of the title
page is a small woodcut representing the Holy Dove hovering over the
Virgin, who is surrounded by nine kneeling figures, all under a depressed
arch, supported by two pillars whose shafts have a kind of chevron
ornament worked on them, somewhat similar to the pillars of the crypt of
Canterbury Cathedral. Perhaps if I give the title-page of this curious little
tract in extenso, it will be more easily identified:

"¶ Speculum Christianorum multa bona continens. Primo modo.
¶ De preceptis dei
¶ De septem vitiis captalibus
¶ De septem virtutibus his contrariis
¶ De octo tabulis: cu quibusda oronib' deuotissimis
¶ De modo se preparadi ad sacrametum eucharistie
¶ De effectu sacramenti
¶ De antichristo
¶ Expositio oronis duice: cum quoda bona notabili
¶ De Ramis. vii. vicioru capitaliu: et eorum remediis
¶ De contentu mundi: cum aliis notabilibus."

It should be noted that this table of contents is by no means a fair
representative of the subjects on which the pamphlet treats. On the verso of
page E iii. is the following curious passage:—

"¶ Peccata britonum et causa depositionis eorum. Negligentia
prelatorum | rapina potentu | cupiditas indicu | rabies periuriorum |
inordinatus cultus vestimentorum: detestanda luxuria | omne petm
publicum & notorium clamat vindicta ad deum. Sed precipue quattuor:
merces mercenarii, pctm sodomiticum, homicidium, oppressio
innocentiu. Heu heu heu quot clamores vindicte sunt nunc ante deum."

This passage is introduced without any farther connexion with the subjects
under discussion, than the mere heading of the section gives it. Permit me to
trouble you with one more extract, before I leave my Query in the hands of
your readers:

"¶ De duabus scalis: una dirigente ad celum:
et altera ad infernum.
¶ Scala ad celum ¶ Scala ad infernum
Perseverantia bona Desperatio
Patientia in adversis Obstinentia in peccatis
Obedietia in preceptis Furor in adversis
Patientia in vita Iniusticia facti
Cotritio et cofessi pcti Odiu boni et dilectio pcti
Cognito tui Ignorantia
Caritas Malicia."

On the recto of C vj.

Any information which some of your bibliographical correspondents may
give concerning this little work, will be very acceptable.
W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.

MASSACRE OF THE WELSH BARDS.

Barrington, in his Observations upon the Statutes, raises some historic
doubts whether that massacre of the Welsh bards, upon which Gray founded
his magnificent ode, actually occurred:—

"But", he says, "a manuscript history, written by Sir John Wynne of
Gwydir, authorises the supposed tradition of a massacre of the bards;
nor could the writer of that most admirable ode have made his bard so
warmly express, or his reader feel, the tyranny of Edward, if he had
not probably raised an indignation and fire in his own breast, and by
reading of other materials, which I have not happened to meet with."

Has the question of this real or pretended massacre been raised, or proved
beyond doubt?

As to Gray requiring "materials" for his fancy, poets even of inferior genius
contrive to weave a web out of airy nothings, and the liveliest description
by an old Cymric bard of the slaughters of the thirteenth century, will not
carry conviction of the truth of the narrative in the nineteenth.
H. T. H.

Minor Queries.
Portrait of William Combe.—Lonsdale the portrait painter, in a letter dated
January, 1826, addressed to a friend of Combe whilst living, says:

"I shall be much obliged if you will have the goodness to cause my
picture of the late Mr. Combe to be sent to me. Mr. C. borrowed the
picture of me to show to some friend, and kept it till his death."

Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me in whose possession the
portrait now is, and whether any engraving of Combe's portrait from that or
any other picture is now to be obtained?
E. T.

"Quod non fecerunt barbari," &c.—Who is the author of the epigram—

"Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barbarini,"

which commemorates the destruction of the Coliseum at Rome, both by the
barbarians who overran Italy about the middle of the fifth century, and, at a
later period, by certain Popes of the family of the Barberini?
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.

Lines on English History (Vol. iii., p. 168.; Vol. v., p. 405.).—I shall be
extremely obliged to Mr. Edward Charlton to procure me, if he can, a
copy of the above lines, and forward them, through Mr. Bell, to
An English Mother.
[We should also be most glad to receive from any correspondent who can supply it, the Metrical and
Logical History, asked for by our lamented correspondent Mæris, which commences—

"William and William, and Henry and Stephen,
And Henry the Second to make the First even."
Ed.]

Windows.—It has been said that the dates of many houses may be
ascertained by a comparison of the regulations of the window-tax with the
windows. The tax occasioned a marked change of style by diminishing the
number of windows. Then ingenuity was exerted to effect evasions by bays,
bows, and double or treble windows. These again were successively met by
alterations in the law. Could any one be induced to let in some light upon
the subject by examining the acts of parliament, and illustrating the result
by reference to examples in London houses?
C. T.

Angel-beast; Cleek; Longtriloo.—Can you, or any of your readers, inform
me what was the nature of the game at cards called Angel-beast, which was
in vogue in the seventeenth century? Also, the game of Cleek; can it be a
misprint of "Check?" Also, Longtriloo; is this an abbreviation of "Long
three card loo?"
R. B.

Royal Arms in Churches.—What is the origin of the common practice of
putting up the royal arms in churches?
E. M.
Oxford.

"Cease, rude Boreas."—Can any of your correspondents tell me why the
song, "Cease, rude Boreas," has been occasionally attributed to Falconer. I
remember seeing this song appended to an old edition of the Shipwreck,
with a prefatory remark stating that G. A. Stevens could not have written it,
as the moral of the verses was of too high an order for him. Occasionally
the last stanza is omitted, on account of the sentiment being somewhat
questionable; though it cannot be denied that the feelings there expressed
are exactly those of a sailor. In a few copies another stanza of a very
different tendency is inserted in its place; and at times I have seen the
commencement of the third stanza altered thus:

"Now all you at home in safety,
Shelter'd from the howling storm,
Tasting joys by heaven vouchsaf'd ye,
Of our state vain notions form."

I should wish to obtain some information regarding the authors of these
alterations, and when they first took place.
Βορέας.

Pictorial Proverbs.—I have now lying open before me a small 12mo. book
(binding modern) containing sixty-seven old prints (averaging in size 5¾ by
3¾ inch), but wanting a title-page. The subjects appear to be in the shape of
pictorial proverbs; they are evidently very old, the distich before each plate
is in Latin, which is again written in old German. The views in each
background are places generally in Germany, and the names are written on
the plate itself. In one only plate I discover the name "M. Merian, fe" (Qy.
Matts. Merian, or his daughter, of Frankfort?); and in some few others the
following mark, " ." All the plates seem done by the same person.

If you can enlighten me as to the authorship of them, I shall feel much
obliged.
H. S. S.

Inscription on George Inn, Wansted.—Will you kindly give me information
respecting the origin of the following inscription, which is affixed to the
side of the George Inn at Wansted?—

"In memory of ye cherry pey,
As cost half a guiney.
ye 17 of July,
That day we had good cheer,
I hope to see it maney a year.
1752. David Jersey."
W. H. B.

Learned Man referred to by Rogers.—Rogers, in his work on the Thirty-
nine Articles, published 1607, writes as follows:—

"A certain learned man (speaking of the religion here then professed,
and writing unto the lords of our late queen's council) doth say 'He'
(meaning the papist his adversary, who charged our church with
discord, and disagreements about matters of religion), 'he ought' (saith
he) 'if he had been able, to have brought out the public confession and

articles of faith, agreed in K. Edward's time; and have showed any in
England, that, professing the gospel, dissenteth from the same.'"

I shall be much obliged to any of the readers of "N. & Q." who can inform
me who was this "certain learned man."
C. C. C. C.
Corp. Chr. Coll., Camb.

Mormonism and Spalding's Romance.—The extraordinary spread of
Mormonism seems to stamp it as likely to prove a kind of second
Mahometanism in the world's history. Under these circumstances the origin
of the Book of Mormon is of course a literary curiosity. In a clever pamphlet
entitled Mormonism Exposed, by John Bowes (E. Ward, 54. Paternoster
Row, London), at pp. 30, 31. an account of the history of the book of
Mormon is given. Mr. Bowes quotes from Mormonism Unveiled, by E. D.
Hoare, to the effect that a Mr. "John Spalding" affirms that his (now
deceased) brother "Solomon Spalding" had written "an historical romance
of the first settlers in America, endeavoring to show that the American
Indians are the descendants of Jews, or the lost tribes. It gave a detailed
account of their journey from Jerusalem, by land and sea, till they arrived in
America, under the command of Nephi and Lehi; he also mentions the
Lamanites." Mr. J. Spalding, it is said, on reading the Book of Mormon, "to
his great surprise," found "nearly the same historical matter, names, &c., as
they were in his brother's writings;" and further says "according to the best
of my recollection and belief, it is the same as my brother Solomon wrote,
with the exception of the religious matter." The latter is obviously taken
from the Bible, with alterations and additions ad libitum.

Can any of your readers tell whether this romance of Solomon Spalding's
was ever published; or whether it is still in existence, and accessible for
reference, &c.?
C. H. D.

Carrs or Calves.—In 1 Esdras v. 55. there occurs the word carrs. This is
found in all copies of the Bible to which I have access, except one edited in
the last century by a Mr. Butley, of Ch. Ch. Oxon, where calves is read, and

a note given from Josephus apparently in support of it. I should be glad to
know whether there is any authority in the original for this alteration.
Eryx.

Stoup.—There is a holy-water stoup, in good preservation, on the exterior
of the north wall (by the nave door) of the church of Houghton-le-Spring,
Durham. What other examples are there of exterior stoups? Their usual
situation was within either the porch or the church.
Cuthbert Bede.

Casper Ziegler and the Diaconate.—There is a book in Latin with the
following title:—Casparis Ziegleri de Diaconis et Diaconissis Veteris
Ecclesiæ Liber Commentarius. Wittebergæ: Sumptibus Hæredum Jobi
Wilhelmi Fingelii. Anno 1678.

What copies of this book are known to be extant? Would a translation of the
whole, or selected parts, be useful at the present time, when attention is
being called to the subject?

What particulars are known about the life, religion, &c. of the author? At
the foot of the frontispiece are the following lines:—

"Omnis in hoc vultu vasti compendia juris,
Cæsarii, sacri, Saxonicique vides.
Non Divæ unius tam multum crede laborem,
Cujus vix umbram pingere possit homo."

Can any one give me the meaning of the last two lines? or information as to
what other authors have treated on the subject of the Diaconate?
W. H.

Inscription at Persepolis.—The following curious inscription I some years
ago made a note of by copying it, but neglected to mark whence I obtained
it. My extract stands thus—

Arabic Inscription.

dicas scis dicit scit audit expedit

facias potes facit potest facit credit
credas audis credit audit credit fieri potest
expendas habes expendit habet petit habet
judices vides judicat videt judicat est
non quodamque nam qui quodcunque sæpe quod non

It is said this was found by Captain Barth, engraven on marble, among the
ruins of Persepolis, and by him translated from the Arabic into Latin and
English.

Query, What does it all mean?
Thomas Lawrence.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

"I do not know what the truth may be."—Will some one tell me whence the
lines—

"I do not know how the truth may be;
I tell the tale as told to me"?
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.

Twittens.—Are not the narrow passages in Brighton so called? and what is
the meaning?
A. C.

Clapper Gate.—Steps, with a gate above, into Bushy Park are so called;
what is the meaning?
A. C.

Jemmy.—When and why was sheep's head baptized with the name
"Jemmy?" Does it apply to the entire sheep, or to the head only? I have
heard of a "James's head" as a refinement of "Jemmy's head," which would
make it seem as though the sheep was the "Jemmy."
Shirley Hibberd.

Muffs worn by Gentlemen.—Whilst looking over Hogarth's works, I
observed in two plates a male figure wearing a muff; in the "Rake's
Progress," pl. 4., and in the "Woman Swearing a Child." How long, and
within what limits, did this fashion flourish?
W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.

Replies.
ST. PATRICK.

(Vol. v., p. 520.)

Allowing himself to be led astray by such an untruthful guide as Ledwich,
your correspondent E. M. R. thinks that "there seems to be very great doubt
if St. Patrick ever existed in reality." Had E. M. R. sought for, he might
have found evidences of Ireland's apostle's existence beginning with the
very lifetime itself of that saint. 1st. We have a short work from St. Patrick's
own pen, the Confessio, which the best critics have allowed to be genuine:
it commences thus: "Ego Patricius peccator," &c. 2nd. A very old hymn,
shown by Dr. O'Conor to have been written c. A.D. 540 (Prol. in Rer. Hib.
Vet. Script., p. lxxxix.), tells us that: "Patricius prædicabat Scotis." (Ib., p.
xciii.). 3rd. The Irish monk Adamnan, who died A.D. 704, that is, almost a
half century before our Beda, in his Life of St. Columba, says: "Quidam
proselytus Brito homo sanctus, sancti Patricii episcopi discipulus," &c. (AA.
SS. Junii, t. ii. p. 197.). 4th. In the library of C. C. College, Cambridge,
there is a MS. of the seventh century, containing the early Irish canons:
"Synodus episcoporum id est Patricii, Auxillii, Issernini" (Nasmith's Cat. C.
C. C. C., p. 318.). 5th. The Antiphonal, once belonging to the Irish Bangor,
but now in the Ambrosian Library, Milan, a MS. of the end of the seventh
or beginning of the eighth century, and published by Muratori, has a
"hymnum Sancti Patricii magistri Scotorum" (Muratori, Anecd., t. iv. p.
89.). 6th. Cummian, writing about the Pascal question to the Abbot of Hy,
A.D. 634, says: "Primum (cyclum) illum quem sanctus Patricius Papa noster
tulit," &c. (Vet. Epist. Hibernicarum Syl., ed. Usserio, p. 21.). 7th. In the
very old Litanies, once used, as it seems, by some church among the
Britons living in this island beyond the reach of Anglo-Saxon control, we
find invoked St. Patrick, along with SS. Brindane, Gildas, Paterne,
Guinwaloc, Munna, Tutwal, German, and other lights of the Irish, as well as
our ancient British church (ed. Mabillon, Vet. Analect., p. 168.). 8th. St.
Gertrude, Abbess of Nivelle, died on the 17th March, A.D. 658; the writer of

her life was her cotemporary, and he expressly mentions St. Patrick (Vita S.
Gertrudis, ed. Mabillon. AA. SS. O. B., t. ii. p. 447.). 9th. Our own Beda did
insert St. Patrick's name in the Martyrology which he drew up (ed. Smith,
Bedæ Hist. Eccl., p. 351.); and another far-famed countryman of ours,
Alcuin, who, in some verses which he composed for being placed "Ad aram
SS. Patricii et aliorum Scotorum," says:

"Patricius, Cheranus, Scotorum gloria gentis,
Atque Columbanus, Congallus, Adomnanus atque," &c.
Opp. ed. Frobenio, t. ii. p. 219.

10th. A liturgical MS. in the British Museum, Nero, A, II. fo. 35. b., which
was first printed by Spelman, who calls it "codex vetustissimus" (Concil., i.
176.), speaks of St. Patrick as "archiepiscopus in Scotiis et Britanniis" (Ib.,
177.). 11th. The celebrated monastery of St. Gall (an Irish saint) still
possesses the fragment of what was once a missal, and written in the Irish
character. This codex must have been older than the ninth century, for it is
set down "inter libros Scottice scriptos" in a catalogue of the books
belonging to that library, made in the ninth century. Among the saints
enumerated in the canon of the mass is Patrick the bishop, "intercedentibus
pro nobis beatis apostolis Petro et Paulo et Patricio æpiscopo" (see the
fragment in Appendix A to Cooper's Report, p. 95.).

Pyrrho has had, and is likely always to have, followers in every age and
country: Hardouin would not allow that Virgil ever lived, but stoutly held
that the Æneid was "a fardel of monkish fictions" put together during the
middle ages: not "the bigoted Anglo-Saxons" of the eighth, but Dr. Ledwich
of the eighteenth century, denied the existence of the great St. Patrick; a few
weeks ago a correspondent of "N. & Q." asked "Is not the battle itself (of
Waterloo) a myth?" (Vol. v., p. 396.); and last week, another tells us that
"the saint (Patrick) certainly vanishes into 'an airy nothing,' if we are to
credit the above authors" (Dr. Ledwich and Dr. Aikin).

Who the Aikin may be, or what the work of his which E. M. R. has brought
forwards, I do not know; Ledwich's book now lies before me, and a more
prejudiced writer I have never met with. I think, however, that from the
above authorities it is clearly shown that, together with all the most learned

of early and modern times, we are still warranted in treating St. Patrick "as
a real actor in Irish ecclesiastical affairs."
D. Rock.
Buckland.

Sir James Ware—St. Patrick's Birth-place (Vol. v., p. 520.)—Permit me to
correct your correspondent E. M. R., who, by a strange mistake, calls Sir
James Ware "a Roman Catholic writer." He was a zealous member of the
church of Ireland: E. M. R. will see a memoir of him in Harris's edition of
Ware's Writers of Ireland.

With respect to the birth-place of St. Patrick, your correspondent may
consult Colgan's Trias Thaumaturga, Append. quinta ad vitas S. Patricii,
cap. ii. p. 221. et seq.; also the Life of St. Patrick by Harris in his edition of
Ware's Bishops of Ireland; and Dr. Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of
Ireland.

Ledwich was entirely unacquainted with the sources of Irish history, and is
no authority.
T.
Trin. Coll. Dublin.

NASHE'S "TERRORS OF THE NIGHT."

(Vol. v., p. 467.)

Mr. Eastwood's quotation from Nashe's Terrors of the Night regarding the
use of ale for the sacrament in Iceland, may have some light thrown upon it
by the following passages from the Icelandic sages and the learned editors
of the Historic Memorials of Greenland. We doubt if Nashe was correct in
saying that ale was granted for that purpose by the Pope in preference to
wine, on account of the "incessant frosts there;" for, in truth, the Icelanders
of the present day, as well as in former times, have no difficulty in
protecting liquids much more congealable, such as milk, from the winter's
frost. The abundance of warm springs, and the volcanic fires throughout the
island, render the temperature of the inhabited districts of Iceland much

warmer in winter than would be supposed from its high northern latitude.
The word "red emayle" no doubt means "red enamel," an apt simile enough,
and well understood in the writer's days. We do not find any mention of
"ale" ("öl") being ever used in Iceland for the celebration of the eucharist;
but a wine seems to leave been prepared from the Crowberry (Empetrum
nigrum), as is shown by the following extract from Bishop Paul's Saga, a
nearly cotemporary history; for the Saga in question is believed to have
been written by Bishop Magnus Gissurson (1215-1237), who succeeded
Bishop Paul in the see of Skalholt:—

"In Bishop Paul's days came Bishop John from Greenland to Iceland,
and remained during the winter in the eastern fiords; but afterwards he
journeyed late in Lent (langaföstu, long fast time) to Skalholt to meet
Bishop Paul, and he came there on Maunday Thursday (Skírdegi-
Skjærtorsdag), and these two bishops consecrated a large store of
Chrism, and had besides many confidential and learned conversations.
Bishop John taught the people to prepare wine from the crowberry
(krækiberium), as he himself had been instructed by King Sverrer. But
it so happened that the next summer few berries grew in Iceland; but a
man called Erick, who lived on a farm called Snorrastade, near
Skalholt, prepared a small quantity of the wine from these berries,
which succeeded well that summer."—Pp. 186, 187.

We confess that we are much inclined to agree with the learned Eggert
Olafsen's doubts as to the practicability of manufacturing a wine, to suit at
least our palates, from the acrid fruit of the Empetrum nigrum. It is said that
Boerhaave, gives a receipt for this purpose, and we have accordingly found
it in his forty-second Process of the Elementa Chemiæ, but this relates to
the general mode of producing wine from fruits; and Olafsen (p. 172. vol.
i.) tried it in vain with the crowberry when in Iceland in 1753. Still a species
of subacid drink, such as still prepared from this fruit by the Icelanders,
may have been dignified in olden times with the name of wine; but Olafsen
was certainly in error when he stated that Bishop Paul brought over to
Iceland, according to tradition, a native of the Canary Isles, to teach the art.
The Canary Isles were not then (A.D. 1203) known to Europe.

About the year 1186 King Sverrer forbade the importation of wine into
Bergen by the German traders, on account of the scenes of drunkenness and
riot that ensued therefrom; and he is said to have turned his attention to the
preparing of a home-made wine from the crowberry, as a substitute for the
foreign liquors he had forbidden. The learned editors of the Historic
Memorials of Greenland, in a note on the passage above quoted in Bishop
Paul's Saga, remark, that this was probably the kind of wine which is
traditionally said to have been used for the sacrament in Iceland when the
true juice of the grape could not be obtained. Huidtfeldt, in his Chronicle,
positively states that the Northmen in 1250 and 1290 sought and obtained
permission from the Pope to use mead, "mjod" (mulsum), and other similar
liquors, in the celebration of the sacrament, in consequence of the great
scarcity of wine in those countries. The editors further state that "within our
own times, during the disastrous war with England, it was proposed to
employ wine made from bilberries for the same purpose in Iceland."

The Synod of Roeskilde, according to Pontoppidan, Annal. Eccles. Dan. ii.
329. and iii. 538., forbids the use of any liquor but pure wine in the
sacrament in the following words:—

"Pastores sunt admoniti ad communionem uti, non musto aut aliis
liquoribus illicitis, sed puro vino, juxta institutionem."

Lastly, in Rymer's Fœdera, vol. x. p. 762., there is a petition from the
Bishop of Skalholt to the English government in 1440, stating the depressed
state of the commerce of Iceland at that period, and that no wine, beer, or
indeed any liquor except milk and water, was to be found in the country.
Such was its wretched condition, that he expresses his fear, unless supplies
were received from England, divine service, the celebration of the
communion, and of baptism, would soon cease.

From this last document it would seem that wine was no longer made in
Iceland from the crowberry, and that the fermented juice of the grape was
deemed absolutely necessary by the bishop of that day for the celebration of
the sacrament. We are not aware of any decree or bull of the court of Rome,
by which any other liquor than that obtained from the grape was permitted
to be used, as such would be entirely contrary to all the canons of the
church, and the opinions of all her theologians.

Edward Charlton.
Newcastle-on-Tyne.

The following quotation bears upon your correspondent J. Eastwood's
Query:—

"Gregorious episcopus, &c.
[Sigurdo archiepiscopo] Nidrosiensi.

Tuæ fraternitati quærenti, an deficienti in quibusdum ecclesiis
suffragancorum tuorum eucharistia propter frumenti penuriam simplex
oblata undecumque confecta populo, ut sub quadam decipiatur pietatis
specie, ac cervisiæ vel potus alius loco vini, cum vix aut nunquam
vinum reperiatur in illis partibus, sint tradenda, taliter respondemus,
quod neutrum est penitus faciendum, cum in hujus modi sacramento
visibilis panis de frumento et vini de uvis debeat esse forma in verbo
creatoris per sacerdotis ministerium consecrata, quod veritatem carnis
et sanguinis non est dubium continere, quamquam dari possit populo
panis simpliciter benedictus, prout in quibusdam partibus fieri
consuevit. Datum Viterbii v. Idus Maii, pontificatus nostri anno
undecimo." (A.D. 1237.)—Diplomatarium Norvegicum, p. 14.:
Christiania, 1847.

Emayle is no doubt enamel, used for ice, or frozen wine. Chevela is
answered in the Query. I may add a letter from the same Pope to the same
Archbishop on baptism in ale:—

"Cum, sicut ex tua relatione didicimus, nonnunquam propter aquæ
penuriam infantes terræ tuæ contingat in cervisia baptizari, tibi tenore
præsentium respondemus, quod cum secundum doctrinam
evangelicam oportet eos ex aqua et spiritu sancto renasci, non debent
reputari rite baptizati, qui in cervisia baptizantur. Datum Laterani, viii.
Idus Julii anno xv." (A.D. 1241.)—Ibid. p. 21.

The curious in this matter may find the practice of baptising in other liquids
than water denounced in other countries, in other bulls, and even by
councils.

De Camera.

SERJEANT'S RINGS.

(Vol. v., pp. 92. 110. 181.)

I send you the mottoes adopted by serjeants and judges, taken from the
Term Reports, being, with one exception, I believe, a perfect list from 1786
to the year 1832, when Mr. Colman's list, in the 5th Volume of "N. & Q.,"
begins. That exception is Lord C. B. Richards, whose motto is not given. I
have also made some additions to Mr. Colman's list.

1786. G. Bond Hæreditas a legibus.
1787. A. Thomson
Reverentia legum.
S. Le Blanc
1788. Lord Kenyon
Quid leges sine moribus.
R. Clayton
1794. S. Heywood
Legum servi ut liberi.
J. Williams[1]
1796. A. Palmer Evaganti frœna licentiæ.
S. Shepherd Legibus emendes.
1799. J. Vaughan Paribus se legibus ambæ.
J. Lens
Libertas sub rege pio.
J. Bayley
1800. Sir J. Scott (Lord Eldon) Rege incolumi mens omnibus una.
A. Chambre Majorum instituta tueri.
W. D. Best Libertas in legibus.
R. Graham
Et placitum læti componite fœdus.
A. Onslow[2]
1801. W. M. Praed Fœderis æquas dicamus leges.
1802. Sir E. Law (Lord
Positis mitescunt sæcula bellis.
Ellenborough)
1804. J. Mansfield Serus in cœlum redeas.

1805. Hic ames dici pater atque
T. M. Sutton[3]
princeps.
1807. G. Wood Moribus ornes, legibus emendes.
1808. W. Manley
A. Pell Pro rege at lege.
W. Rough
1809. R. H. Peckwell
Traditum ab antiquis servare.
W. Frere
1812. V. Gibbs Leges juraque.
1813. H. Dampier Consulta patrum.
J. S. Copley Studiis vigilare severis.
R. Dallas Mos et lex.
1814. J. B. Bosanquet Antiquam exquisite matrem.
1816. J. A. Park Qui leges juraque servat.
C. Abbott (Ld. Tenterden) Labore.
G. S. Holroyd Componere legibus orbem.
J. Burrough Legibus emendes.
J. Hullock Auspicium melioris ævi.
1817. W. Firth Ung loi, ung roi, ung foi.
W. Garrow Fas et jura.
1818. W. Taddy Mos et lex.
1819. J. Richardson More majorum.
V. Lawes
J. Cross Pro rege et lege.
T. D'Oyley
1820. T. Peake Æquâ lege.
1824. R. Gifford
Secundis laboribus.
W. Alexander
J. Littledale Justitæ tenax.
W. St. J. Arabin
Regi regnoque fidelis.
T. Wilde (L. Truro)
S. Gaselee
Bonis legibus, judiciis gravibus.
R. Spankie

1827. T. Andrews
H. Storks
E. Lawes
E. Ludlow More majorum.
H. A. Merewether
W. O. Russell
D. F. Jones
J. Scriven
H. J. Stephen Lex ratione probatur.
C. C. Bompas
1828. J. Parke Justitiæ tenax.
1829. E. Goulburn Nulla retrorsum.
N. C. Tindal Quid leges sine moribus.
W. Bolland Regi regnoque fidelis.
1830. W. E. Taunton
E. H. Alderson Nec temerè nec timidè.
J. Patteson
———
Omitted in List, Vol. v., p. 181.
1833. T. N. Talfourd Magna vis veritatis.
1841. J. V. Thompson Nec ultrà nec citrà.
W. Wightman Æquam servare mentem.
1842. C. Cresswell Leges juraque.
1844. F. Pollock Jussa capessere.
1850. Ld. Campbell Justitiæ tenax.
J. Jervis Venale nec auro.
———
Errata.
1843. N. R. Clarke
For metuis read metuit.
J. B. Byles
1847. For E. N. Williams read E. V. Williams;
and for libere read liberi. J. E.
Footnote 1:(return)

In 1847 his son, Mr. Justice E. V. Williams, adopted the same motto.

Footnote 2:(return)

Vol. v. p. 92. The motto of the Onslow family, "Festina lente," is erroneously given as the serjeant's
motto on his rings.

Footnote 3:(return)

Afterwards Lord Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND.

(Vol. v., pp. 145. 323.)

In your Number of "N. & Q." of April 3rd, there are some curious and
interesting remarks by the Knight of Kerry, respecting that wonder for
length of days, the old Countess of Desmond, in which he gives the copy of
an inscription on an ancient painting, stating that in the year 1614, and in
the 140th year of her age, she appeared at the court of King James, to seek
relief in consequence of the House of Desmond having been ruined by
attainder. That this statement in the inscription is erroneous, can, I think, be
proved by the following circumstances, which also seem to me to afford
some light on the most obscure parts of the question.

I have at this moment before me a work, which has been for many years in
the library of my husband (the Rev. E. A. Bray, the Vicar of this place), and
highly prized by us both, namely, a most perfect and beautiful copy of Sir
Walter Raleigh's History of the World, published in 1614. I here give the
date from the engraved title-page, which is of an allegorical description:

"THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD."
"AT LONDON: PRINTED FOR WALTER BVRRE."
"1614."

In this volume, Chapter V. (of "the first Booke of the first Part"), page 66.,
"Of the long Lives of the Patriarchs, and some of late memory," after
enumerating several celebrated persons who lived to great ages, Raleigh
thus speaks of the old Countess:—

"I myself knew the old Countess of Desmond of Inchiquin, in Munster,
who lived in the yeare 1589, and many years since, who was married
in Edward IV.'s time, and held her joynture from all the Earls of
Desmond since then; and that this is true, all noblemen and gentlemen
of Munster can witnesse."

From this passage I think it can be shown, that the reader can draw no other
inference than that the Countess of Desmond was dead at the time Sir
Walter Raleigh wrote it. In his heading to the chapter he speaks of some of
"late memory;" and the words "many years since" evidently mean that she
lived many years after 1589.[4] We do not know at what precise period the
above passage was penned; but we learn from Sir Walter's Preface, that he
composed this great and admirable work whilst a prisoner in the Tower
(from which he was liberated in 1616). In that preface he speaks with deep
feeling and regret for the loss of Prince Henry. He says the Prince read part
of the work; and that he wrote it "for the service of that inestimable" youth.
We know that Henry died in November, 1612. The passage, therefore, about
the "old Countess," which occurs in a very early part of the book, there can
be no doubt, was written before 1612, and the entire work published in
1614. If, therefore (as I think no one can doubt, from the manner in which it
is worded), the old lady was dead when Sir Walter wrote about her, it is not
possible she could have visited the court of King James in 1614.

As Raleigh says "I myself knew the old Countess of Desmond," and plainly
declares that she was married in the time of Edward IV., it is most probable
that he received this account from herself at all events, when he so strongly
appeals to the witness of "all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster" for
the truth of his statement, it is most unlikely he would have written thus
merely on common or casual report. The Knight of Kerry says, "There are
statements in existence of 1464 being the year of her birth." This is most
probably the correct date, which is perfectly consistent with Raleigh's
account of her marriage in the reign of Edward IV. It is likely she married
very young. There is every probability that Raleigh was well acquainted
with the "old Countess" when he was in Ireland, and acted so gallant a part
against the rebels in that country. Early in the spring of 1581, upon the Earl
of Ormond leaving Ireland, Captain Raleigh (for he was then only such),
with Sir William Morgan and another gentleman, received a commission to

succeed the Earl for a time in his government in Munster (the old lady's
county), and he spent the summer there of that year. It may be further
remarked, that the then Earl of Desmond and Sir John Desmond are among
the rebels, and that therefore the House of Desmond did suffer by attainder
in the reign of Elizabeth;[5] and more likely was it that the aged Countess
should sue at the Court of Elizabeth for relief, than twenty years after at that
of Jas. I.

If she came to England in 1589, Sir Walter Raleigh might have seen her in
her pilgrimage to his royal mistress in that year, as in that year (the next
after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, in which glorious service he bore a
distinguished part), among other honours conferred upon him, was that of
being appointed one of the gentlemen of her Majesty's Privy Chamber. In
1614 Raleigh was a prisoner in the Tower; and very improbable is it that,
even had she been living at that date and in England, the old Countess
would there have paid him a visit, to thank him for his mention of her in his
History of the World. And, finally, had she really been alive when he wrote
it, he might have referred to the lady herself, as a proof of what he said
about her being true, instead of referring to "all the noblemen and
gentlemen in Munster."

As the Knight of Kerry has expressed a wish to receive the opinions of
your readers who take an interest in the subject, I venture to offer the
foregoing remarks, in consequence of having the very valuable copy of
Raleigh's great work in our possession, and shall be happy if the few
observations I have made may be in any respect acceptable to him or to
your readers.
Anna Eliza Bray.
The Vicarage, Tavistock, Devon.
Footnote 4:(return)

In his History of the World, Raleigh frequently uses the word since as we use the word after.

Footnote 5:(return)

See Stow's Annales of England, p. 1217.

In a "Life of Old Parr," Harl. Misc., vol. vii. p. 79., are the following lines
about the old Countess, which may perhaps interest some of your readers:

"Sir Walter Raleigh, a most learned knight,
Doth of an Irish Countess (Desmond) write,
Of sevenscore years of age; he with her spake;
The Lord St. Albans doth more mention make,
That she was married in fourth Edward's reign;
Thrice shed her teeth, which three times came again."

At the bottom of the page is a note by Oldys, but it probably contains
nothing new to your correspondents who have so diligently investigated this
matter. He quotes however some remarks of Archbishop Usher on this
subject, which I do not remember to have seen noticed in your pages.
Erica.

The Knight of Kerry, in his very interesting letter, infers that if the old
Countess of Desmond was only eight or nine years old at the death of
Edward IV., she therefore could not have been married during the reign of
that monarch. Was it not, however, a not uncommon custom, at that period,
for royal and noble infants to be given in marriage at quite as early an age
as eight or nine, whenever it suited the views, political or otherwise, of their
parents or guardians?
C. E. D.

A FEW THINGS ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER.

(Vol. v., p. 481.)

Your correspondent Mr. Bealby mentions that in his visit to Kidderminster
in 1836, he was shown the house in the High Street in which Richard
Baxter is said to have resided: a few more particulars on the subject may
prove interesting.

It was a three storied, high gabled house, with low ceilinged rooms, lighted
by long ranges of casement. The exterior of the house displayed a goodly
proportion of wood-work, and appeared to be much in its original condition.

No garden or extra-ground was attached to it, another street (Swan Street)
running immediately at its back. Three or four years since the house fell
before the march of modern improvements, and none of its old features can
now be recognised. At the time of these alterations, the house was tenanted
by a shoemaker. An ascent of four or five steps led into the shop, the long
low window of which, projecting somewhat over the pavement, was tiled
above, and supported underneath by wooden pillars. These also served to
mark the boundary allotted to the display of the handiwork of the
basketmaker who plied his trade in the capacious cellar underneath the
shop.

Of course Mr. Bealby, while prosecuting in Kidderminster his inquiries
about Baxter, visited Caldwall Castle (close to the town), once the residence
of Sir Ralph Clare, Baxter's sturdy opponent. In an old map of the town, the
castle is represented as having eight towers; but only one of these now
remains, which is attached to a modern house. The tower is octagonal, built
of red sandstone, of massive proportions, and is in good preservation. It
contains two rooms lighted N. and S.; a turret staircase; and a groin-roofed
cellar, level with the ground, and with an exterior door. From this cellar an
underground passage is said to extend to St. Mary's Church, about a quarter
of a mile distant. Sir Ralph Clare was buried in St. Mary's, opposite to
where Baxter's pulpit then stood. The flat stone that covers his grave has
once again been restored to the light by the removal of the cumbrous
sleeping-box that concealed it,—thanks to the judicious alterations now
being carried on by the present vicar; alterations very different to those
"beautifyings" of 1786, in which Baxter's pulpit was sold as worthless
lumber. (Vide "N. & Q.,", Vol. v., p. 363.)

The Registers preserved in the vestry of St. Mary's attest the careful
neatness of Baxter in his official entries. The headings of the different
months are printed, and, in some cases, ornamented after the missal style.
Many of the burials are set down as those of "valliant souldiers," who fell in
the frequent skirmishes of those troublous times.

The row of elms on the south walk of the churchyard is said to have been
planted in Baxter's time,—perhaps by his own hand.

If Mr. Bealby would like a copy of my etching of Baxter's pulpit (referred
to at p. 363.), and would leave his address with the Publisher of "N. & Q.," I
should be happy to forward one to him.
Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

ST. BOTULPH.

(Vol. v., pp. 396. 475.)

As no one has hitherto answered the inquiries of A. B. touching St. Botulph,
I beg to forward you the following Notes. The earliest mention of him will
be found in the Saxon Chronicle, at the year 654. He is said to have then
commenced the building of a minster at Ycean-ho. The statement is
repeated by Florence of Worcester, who writes the name of St. Botulph's
convent Ikanho. Its locality is thus pointed out by Leland, Itinerary, i. 31,
32. ed. Hearne:—

"Some hold opinion that est of Lincoln were 2 suburbs, one toward S.
Beges, a late [of late] a cell of S. Mari abbay at York; the which place I
take be Icanno, wher was an house of monkes in S. Botolphes tyme,
and of this speketh Bede[?]. It is scant half a mile from the minster."

The same writer has informed us (viii. 68.) that St. Botulph died in Icanno
(15 Kal. Jun.), and that the monastery was soon afterwards destroyed by the
Scandinavian vikings. The authority on which this latter statement will be
found to rest is a "Life of St. Botulph," written or embellished by John
Capgrave, and included in his Nova Legenda Angliæ. I have now before me
a fine copy of the work (Lond. 1516); but very few of the events in which
St. Botulph is there said to have played a part belong to the sphere of
history. We learn that Botulphus and Adulphus were two noble brothers,
who in early life were sent into "Old Saxony" to be instructed in monastic
learning. Botulph there became acquainted with two sisters of an English
king, named Ethelmund ("regis australium Anglorum"), who, at their wish,
allotted to the monk a piece of barren ground, on which to build a convent
("locum quendam incultum et ab hominibus desertum Ykanho vocatum.")
Like other marshy spots, in which the ignis fatuus abounded, it was thought

to be infested by malignant spirits. These were soon, however, put to flight
("edito crucis signo"), and a convent, on the model of the house in which St.
Botulph had been reared, was planted in the midst of their domain. It
perished under Edmund (941-946); but the relics of St. Botulph, which had
been enshrined in his own foundation, were preserved, and afterwards
translated, in the time of Edgar (959-975), through the efforts of St.
Ethelwold. The head was sent to Ely, and the body equally apportioned to
the royal cabinet of relics and the abbey church of Thorne. The closing
passage is as follows:

"In libro ecclesie Sancti Botulphi juxta Aldersgate London habetur
quæ pars corporis Sancti Botulphi per bone memorie regem Edwardum
ecclesie B. Petri Westmonasterii est collata. Eodem etiam tempore, ut
in quibusdam locis scriptum inveni, per eundem monachum, jubente
episcopo Ethelwoldo, translata sunt apud Thornense monasterium ossa
Benedicti Biscop, abbatis venerabilis Wermuthensis, nutritoris Bede
presbiteri. Construxit autem Sanctus Ethelwoldus non longe a
monasterio Thornensi, in loco ubi beata virgo Christi Toua inclusa
fuerat, lapideam ecclesiolam delicatissimis cameratam cancellulis et
duplici area tribus dedicatam altaribus permodicis, undique usque ad
eius muros vallatam arboribus diversi generis. Sedem ibi heremiticam,
si permisisset Deus, sibi delegit."

Is there any other notice of this female solitary?
C. H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.
[Leland notices this female solitary. St. Tova, or Tona, was a Saxon saint, to whose memory a fair
chapel, called Thoveham, or Thona, half a mile from the abbey, was consecrated; and at this place
was the oratory of the Heremites. Lelandi Collectanea, vol. i. p. 28.; Willis' Mitred Abbies, vol. i. p.
187.—Ed.]

The earliest mention found of this saint is in the Saxon Chronicle, under the
year 654, when he began to build his minster at Ycean-ho, probably Boston
or Botulph's-town in Lincolnshire. His life was first put into regular form
by Fulcard, a monk of Thorney, who was made abbot of that monastery in
1068. Fulcard tells us in his preface what his materials were:

"Reperta sunt quædam in veteribus libris vitiose descripta, quædam ab
ipso præcipuo præsuli in privilegiis ejusdem cœnobii sunt breviter
annotata, cætera ex relatione veterum ut ab antiquioribus sunt eis
exhibita."

An early MS. of this life is in the Harleian collection, No. 3097. It was
printed (somewhat curtailed) by Capgrave in the Legenda Nova, and seems
to have furnished all that our antiquaries know about St. Botulph. Camden
indeed refers to Bede, iv. 3., as containing some mention of him; but I can
find no such passage, and I believe that Botulph is nowhere mentioned in
the Historia Anglorum. The remains of Botulph were taken up in the days
of King Edgar, and his head was allotted to Ely, while the rest of his bones
were divided between the abbeys of Thorney and Westminster. The cause of
his extended popularity it is difficult to discover. His fame even passed over
to Denmark, and an office is allotted to him in the Sleswick Breviary,
Britannia Sacra, vol. i. p. 370. It has been surmised that he was a patron
saint of seamen, and that his name indicates this character, i. e. boat-help!
See Allen's History of Lincoln, vol. i. p. 245. His brother Adulf was made
Bishop of Trajectum, probably Utrecht. Your correspondents may be
referred to Capgrave; to Leland, Collectanea, vol. i. p. 217., and vol. iii. p.
33.; and to Ellis's Monasticon, vol. ii. p. 596., and vol. vi. p. 1621. St.
Botulph's day is the 17th of June.
C. W. G.

SIR RICHARD POLE, THE FATHER OF CARDINAL POLE.

(Vol. v., pp. 105. 163.)

Without presuming to contravene the high authorities quoted by J. G. N. on
the pedigree of Sir Richard Pole, the father of the celebrated Cardinal Pole,
I am inclined to the belief that he descended from a common ancestor with
the Cheshire family of "Poole," as suggested by your correspondent I. J. H.
H. Wotton[6] says, in his pedigree of "Poole, baronets of Poole" (from
whom, by the way, the Poles of Shute collaterally derived):

"Robert Pull, alias Poole, alias De la Poole, lord of Barretspoole, 8
Edw. I., by Elizabeth, dau. to Hugh Raby, had issue Reginald and
others. Reginald had issue James, who died 1 Edw. II., leaving Robert
de Pull, his son and heir, who m., 2 Rich. II., the dau. and heir of
Thomas de Capenhurst. Sir John de Pull, Knight, his son, lived 8 Hen.
IV. and 3 Hen. V., and was father of Sir John Poole, of Poole, in
Wirrall, living about 19 Rich. II., who by a dau. of —— Mainwaring,
of Peover, had issue, 1. Sir Thomas Poole, Knight, lord of Poole and
Capenhurst, 35 Hen. VI. 2. Robert Poole, who left posterity. 3. Sir
Richard Poole, Knight, who had progeny; and 4. James, grandfather to
John Poole, of Stratford in Essex."

Is anything known further of the above Sir Richard Poole, Knight, or of his
"progeny"? From a comparison of the dates before given with that of the
time in which the father of the Cardinal flourished, it seems not improbable
(in the absence of direct proof to the contrary) that he removed into
Buckinghamshire, and was father of "Geoffry Pole," who married Edith St.
John, as shown. Cardinal Pole, however, was born (in 1500) at Stoverton
Castle in Worcestershire, and the fact that he was named Reginald, as borne
by the son of Robert, the first ancestor of "Poole" (as shown in the above
extract), as well as by other members of the baronet family, would tend to
confirm the supposition of a common ancestry. The reasons for the change
in the family bearing suggested by J. G. N. seem highly probable, besides
being the usual course adopted by younger sons for difference. I would here
suggest another Query: Was Sir Richard, or his son Henry, created Lord
Montague? Burke seems to be at variance with other testimony I have
found on the matter. He says:

"Sir Richard Pole, K.G., [was] summoned to Parliament in 1553
[Query, 1503], as Baron Montague: he m. Lady Margaret Plantagenet,
dau. of Geo. Duke of Clarence, and left issue four sons and one
daughter, viz. Henry, second Baron Montague (whose daughters and
coheirs were, Katherine, wife of Francis, second Earl of Huntingdon;
and Winifred, m. first to Sir Thomas Hastings, and, secondly, to Sir
Thomas Barrington). 2. Geffery, Sir. 3. Arthur. 4. Reginald, the
celebrated Cardinal. 5. Ursula, m. to Henry Lord Stafford."

In a list of attainders appended to the 2nd volume of Debrett's Peerage, the
date 1504 is given as the creation, and 1538 the forfeiture of the title.
Wotton says (vol. i. p. 32.):

"Sir Thomas Barrington, high sheriff of Essex and Hertford, 4 Eliz."
1561, "m. Winifred d. and coheir of Henry Pole, Lord Mountague (son
of Sir Richard Pole, Knight of the Garter" only), "by Margaret
Countess of Salisbury, dau. to Geo. Duke of Clarence, brother to King
Edward VI."

That "marvellous" historian, Sir Richard Baker, in his Chronicle (ed. 1696,
pp. 246. 271. 286., &c.), records, under the reign of Hen. VII. (cir. 1503):

"Prince Arthur, after his marriage, was sent again into Wales, to keep
that country in good order, to whom were appointed for councillors Sir
Richard Pool, his kinsman and chief chamberlain, Sir Henry Vernon,"
&c.

I find no trace of the title till 15 Hen. VIII. (1524):

"All this while King Henry had play'd with the French, but now he
seems to be in earnest, and therefore sends over the Duke of Suffolk
with an army, the four and twentieth of August, attended with the Lord
Montacute and his brother, Sir Arthur Pool, with many other knights
and gentlemen."

On the knighthood of this Sir Arthur I find, farther on,—

"On Allholland (Query, All-hallows) day, in the chief church of Roy,"
(the Duke) "made knights, Lord Herbert (son of the Earl of Worcester),
the Lord Powis, Oliver Manners, Arthur Pool, &c.

And now—

The 3rd Nov. (1538) Henry Courtney, Marquess of Exeter and Earl of
Devonshire, Henry Pool, Lord Montacute, Sir Nicholas Carew, of
Bedington, Knight of the Garter and Master of the Horse, and Sir
Edward Nevill, brother to the Lord Aburgenny, were sent to the Tower,

being accused by Sir Geoffry Pool, the Lord Montacute's brother, of
high treason. They were indicted for devising to promote and advance
one Reinald (Qy. Reginald) Pool to the crown, and put down K. Henry.
This Pool was a near kinsman of the king's (being the son of the Lady
Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heir to George, Duke of
Clarence). He had been brought up by the king in learning, and made
Dean of Exeter; but being after sent to learn experience by travel, he
grew so great a friend of the Pope's that he became an enemy to King
Henry, and for his enmity to the king was by Pope Julius III. made
cardinal. For this man's cause the lords aforesaid being condemned
were all executed; the Lord Marquess, the Lord Montacute, and Sir
Edward Nevill, beheaded on the Tower Hill the ninth of January; Sir
Nicholas Carew the third of March; two priests condemned with them
were hanged at Tyburn: Sir Geoffry Pool, though condemned also, yet
had his pardon."

I give this last quotation entire (hoping to be pardoned for its length), as it
affords a curious insight into the eventful history of the period; for, two
years later, I find it on record that—

"Reynold Pool, Cardinal, brother to the Lord Montacute, was with
divers others attainted of high treason; of whom Foskeue and Dingley
the tenth of July were beheaded, the Countess of Salisbury two years
after."

But I forbear quoting further the account of this same cardinal's pompous
"absolution of these realms," and "reconciliation to the church of Rome," all
which are given in "marvellous" detail by our worthy historian. I pass on to
observe, in conclusion, that, from the fact (as recorded in the first of the
foregoing historic extracts) that "Sir Richard Pool, chamberlain" to Prince
Arthur, was sent by him into Wales, I gather your correspondent I. J. H. H.
has been led to suppose him a Welsh knight. That he is called a kinsman of
the prince is also some confirmation of the statement afforded by J. G. N.,
that he became so by his mother's near connexion with the Countess of
Richmond, but his own alliance with the house of Plantagenet must have
taken place about the close of the fifteenth century (and I own this offers
some objection to my theory of his descent); it could not have occurred in

1513, as your correspondent states, since Cardinal Pole was, as I have
stated, born in 1500, and was therefore fifty-four years old at the
commencement of Mary's reign, viz. 1553-4, when proposals were made for
his marriage with the queen; for, says Sir Richard, once more, in speaking,
of "the marriages propounded for Queen Mary:"

"One was Cardinal Pool, of a dignity not much inferior to kings, and
by his mother descended from kings; but there was an exception
against him also, because four and fifty years old (as old a batchelor as
Queen Mary was a maid)," &c. &c.

May I be allowed to suggest another Query as to the value of the aforesaid
dignity of knighthood, since Lord Herbert and Lord Powis accepted it with
men of plainer name and "lesser note." I should feel obliged to any of your
correspondents for information on this point.
H. W. S. T.
Southampton.
Footnote 6:(return)

English Baronets, vol. ii. p. 546. ed. 1727.

PROCLAMATIONS TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF COAL.

(Vol. v., p. 513.)

I have recently, for a definite purpose, searched for facts relative to the
introduction of coal into domestic use, but I have not met with the case
referred to by Dr. Bachhoffner. So harsh a measure appears somewhat
inconsistent with other facts connected with the early history of coal. For
instance, a grant, dated 7th May, in the 34th of Edward I. tolerates the
introduction of sea-coal into London, but levies a toll of sixpence upon
every ship-load passing London Bridge: "De qualibet navata carbonis maris
venal. sex denarios" (Hearne's Liber Niger Scaccarii: Lond. 1774, 8vo. p.
480.), which toll was to be applied to the maintenance of the said bridge. A
few months after this, in 1306, was issued the proclamation prohibiting its
use; and on its being disregarded, was, as stated by Prynne, followed by a

Commission of Oyer and Terminer in the year 1307, a short time before the
death of Edward I. It is pretty evident that on the accession of Edward II. a
great change occurred in the opinion of the authorities respecting the use of
coal; for in the year 1308 fifty pounds (equal probably to 800l. of our
money) were paid from the Exchequer to provide wood and coal for the
king's coronation. (Issue Roll, Excheq., 1 Edw. II.) This sum was paid to
John Fairhod, Thomas de Hales, Thomas Wastel, Roger le White, and John
de Talworth. We cannot tell the quantity of coal used on that occasion; but,
in addition to the above sum we find Richard del Hurst of London
petitioning Parliament for the payment of ten shillings to him for sea-coal
supplied at the king's coronation. (Rot. Parl., 15 and 16 Edw. II., vol. i. p.
405.) Many facts might be given to show that coal was frequently used in
London during the reign of Edward II.; and unless we are to infer that the
king used without hesitation that which was denied to the citizens on pain
of death, we cannot suppose that any such stringent measure was in force as
to render the use of coal a capital offence. The period, therefore, in which
the case referred to by Dr. Bachhoffner occurred, was most probably during
the last few months of the reign of Edw. I. But I am not acquainted with any
record of the case, and, with Mr. Wilson, should feel obliged if any of your
correspondents can refer me to it. But perhaps the Doctor himself will
kindly answer the Query.
F. Somner Merryweather.

RALPH WINTERTON.

(Vol. v., pp. 346. 419.)

You mention that a Latin distich by Winterton may be found among the
Additional MSS. in the British Museum. And at p. 420. his publication of
Hypocrates is referred to, with a Query as to the Latin verse translation. As
this book (not I believe very common) is now before me, I transcribe the
title:

"'Ἱπποκράτους τοῦ Μεγαλοῦ ὁι ἀφορισμοι· πεζικοί τε καὶ
ἔμμετροι. Hippocratis Magni Aphorismi, soluti et metrici. Interprete
Joanne Heurnio medico Ultrajectino. Metaphrastis, Joanne Frero

Medico-Poëta et Radulpho Wintertono Medicinæ, et Poëseωs Græcæ
studioso, Anglis.

Alexandri Magni Apophthegma.

Βασιλικόν εσι, τὸν εὖ ποιουντα κακῶς ἀκούειν.

Regale est, bene cùm feceris, male audire.

Catabrigiæ. Excudebant Thomas Buck et Rogerus Daniel, MDCXXXIII."

The volume is 12mo., and dedicated to William [Laud?], Bishop of London.
Then follow "Reverendorum S. Theol. Professorum Censuræ," including
those of Thomas Comber, Dean of Carlisle, and Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge; Matthew Wren, Dean of Windsor, and Master of Peterhouse,
&c. The aphorisms are given each in the original Greek, with a metrical
version in the same language, followed by prose and metrical versions in
Latin.

At the end of my copy is bound up, as probably it was printed to
accompany the preceding,

"Epigrammata Regiorum Medicinæ Professorum, Cantabrigiensis
atque Oxoniensis, &c. In Rad. Wintertoni Metaphrasin nuper editam,
&c., quibus accedunt Epigrammata Therapeutica ejusdem, ad
malevolorum lectorum ægritudines."

Cantabrigiæ, same date and printers. One of the Epigrammata throws some
light on the Query in Vol. v., p. 420., as to the authorship of the Latin
version: Edward Hanburie, of Sidney College, says, addressing Winterton,
—

"Gratum opus hoc Medicis. Tu primus carmine Græco
Metiris."

The volume closes with some Latin elegiac verses by Winterton on the
death of his brother Francis, who, leaving the office of Gentleman of the
Privy Chamber to the Queen,

"In Castra transiit. Is pro patria mortuus, Custrinæ,
in finibus Silesiæ, honorifice, et sicut militem decuit,
sepultus est."

This supplementary volume is partly occupied with complimentary verses
by the fellows of King's, who address Winterton as

"Medicum a suis juxta statuta designatum."

Among these is one copy by Gulielmus Sclater, C. R. C., "Socius Inceptor
in Artibus;" and another by Johannes Sclater, C. R. C., quondam Socius, S.
T. B. 1613. I indicate these as having lately called the attention of your
readers to this family.
Balliolensis.

Replies to Minor Queries.
Family of Bullen (Vol. v., p. 127.).—There is a physician of that name, who
is, I believe, one of the professors in the Queen's College, Cork, and who
may probably be able to afford your correspondent E. A. G. the information
he wishes for. I have been informed that Dr. Bullen's father asserted that his
family was descended from the Boleyn family.
J. E.

Wallington's Journal (Vol. v., p.489.).—This volume is in my possession. It
contains much curious and interesting matter.
J. Godwin.
28. Upper Gower Street.

The Amber Witch (Vol. v., p. 510.).—In answer to a Query of A. N., this
book is a pure fiction. Some German biblical critics pretending to decide
that whole chapters, or whole books, of the Bible are spurious, from internal
evidence, Meinhold wrote the Amber Witch to show how little able they
were to judge of internal evidence in a much simpler case. Several of them
fell into his trap, and then the author avowed the work to be his own.
T.

Twyford (Vol. v., p. 467.).—There is yet, I am informed, a double ford at
Alnmouth, a little above the town. The ancient church, called Woden's
Church, stood at the mouth of the Alne. Here was found the cross with the
imperfect inscription in Anglo-Saxon runes, now preserved at Alnwick
Castle. I am not aware that any local tradition now connects the name of
Twyford with Alnmouth.
Edward Charlton.

The Ring Finger (Vol. v., p. 492.).—I have met with the following passage
in Adam's Antiquities (8vo. ed., p. 429.), which seems to assign another
origin to this custom than the one lately proposed in "N. & Q.":

"On this occasion" (i. e. the signing of the marriage contract) "there
was commonly a feast: and the man gave the woman a ring (annulus
pronubus) by way of pledge, Juvenal, vi. 27., which she put on her left
hand, on the finger next the least; because it was believed a nerve
reached from thence to the heart: Macrob. Sat. vii. 15."
Eryx.

Brass of Lady Gore (Vol. v., p. 412.).—This brass still exists, and
commemorates Maria Gore, Priorissa, 1436, attired simply as a widow.
Owing to its actual existence having been but recently known to collectors
of rubbings, no mention was made of it in the Oxford Manual. For the same
reason there is no notice of a very interesting brass of a bishop or abbot,
date end of fourteenth century, at Adderley, Salop. The editor of the above
work would take this opportunity of thanking Mr. W. S. Simpson for his
corrections ("N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 369.). The rubbing, or rather smudging,
from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible,
accounts for the mistakes. Any further corrections will oblige
The Editor of the "Oxford Manual of Brasses."
Gloucester.

Gospel Trees.—Several Numbers of "N. & Q." have contained interesting
notices of trees which are traditionally reported to indicate the standing-
places of out-door preachers. To me, there is something very pleasing and
picturesque—if nothing better—in these narrations; and I shall therefore be
glad to find them recurring in your pages, whether their claims are of
ancient or later date. Every reader of the vigorous poetry of Ebenezer
Elliott, a true member of the genus irritabile, will recollect Miles Gordon
"the Ranter" preacher, and how, in the poet's lines,—

"——The great unpaid! the prophet, lo!
Sublime he stands beneath the Gospel tree,
And Edmund stands on Shirecliffe at his side."

The context, too long to quote here, is a passage descriptive of the scenery
in the vicinity of Sheffield in one direction, unsurpassed for graphic scope,
freshness, and fidelity in the whole range of English rhyme. But the tree?
Hundreds of summer visitors climb the hill, and ask that question; and they

are pointed to an ash, which stands in a situation conspicuous enough, but
which neither the rest of "the trees of the wood," if they could speak, nor
the quarryman, who remembers it when a sappling can allow to be the
veritable "Gospel tree" of the poet, though, but for this memorandum in "N.
& Q.," it might arrive at that distinction in the course of another century. A
neighbouring tree, an oak, which those matter-of-fact judges, the
trigonometrical surveyors, have marked with a lofty pole, competes with
the aforesaid ash for the reverence of pilgrims but its claim is equally
apocryphal. If, however, when on the spot, "it is difficult," according to the
old adage, "to find the tree for the wood," as I experienced a few days since,
it will ever stand conspicuous enough, in the poet's page, and may even
serve to divert or recall attention to "Gospel trees," which have more than
poetical claim to that appellation.
H.

"Who from the dark and doubtful love to run" (Vol. v., p. 512.).—I presume
the lines imperfectly quoted by H. M. are to be found in the "Introduction"
to the Parish Register by Crabbe, and which, as the book is before me, I
will transcribe:

"Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain,
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun."
S. S. S.

Son of the Conqueror; Walker Tyrrel (Vol. v., p. 512.).—No other son of
William the Conqueror, except William Rufus, was slain by an arrow in the
New Forest. A grandson, however, of the Conqueror, Richard, son of Robert
Duke of Normandy, met with the same fate as Rufus, as stated by the
cotemporary chronicler, Florentius Wigornensis. (Edition of the Historical
Society, vol. ii. p. 45.) Immediately after describing the death of William
Rufus, he says:

"Nam et antea ejusdem Willelmi junioris germanus, Ricardus, in
eadem foresta multo ante perierat, et paulo ante suus fratruelis,
Ricardus, comitis scilicet Normannorum Rotberti filius, dum et ipse in
venatu fuisset, a suo milite sagitta percussus, interiit."

Probably Sir N. Wraxhall or his authority had read this statement hastily,
and had construed fratruelis brother instead of nephew, which is the correct
sense of the word.

Your correspondent asks further for the authority for the death of William
Rufus. Every historian of that day—Florentius Wigornensis and the Saxon
chronicler among others—gives the received account of his death, except
Suger, a Norman abbot, who says that Sir W. Tyrrel took a solemn oath to
him that he was not the slayer of the king, but that the arrow came from an
unknown hand.

There can, I think, be little doubt but that Sir W. Tyrrel's was the hand that
drew the bow; whether, however, he intended to kill the king or not, is a
point which it is probable, after the time that has elapsed, will never be
satisfactorily determined.
R. C. C.
Oxon.

Sir Gilbert Gerrard (Vol. v., p. 511.).—I beg to refer Mr. Spedding to
Erdeswick's Staffordshire, by Harwood (1820), p. 83., who states that Sir
Gilbert Gerrard died in 1592, and that he was buried in Ashley churchyard
in that county, under a handsome monument. Probably the inscription on it
will give the precise date, and some of your readers may be able to refer to
it, and send the communication to "N. & Q." His death must have occurred
between January 8, 1592, 34 Elizabeth, the date of his will as given in
Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 417., and the following April; if Dugdale is
right in saying that it was then proved. But on referring to the Baga de
Secretis, the contents of which are so excellently calendared by Sir Francis
Palgrave in the Appendices to his third, fourth, and fifth reports as deputy-
keeper of the Public Records, it appears that Sir Gilbert was named in a
commission of Oyer and Terminer, on March 22; that he signed a precept
under it for the return of the grand jury, on April 11; and that he signed
another precept to the lieutenant of the Tower for bringing up Sir John
Perrott before the justices, on June 12, all in 34 Elizabeth, 1592. (Fourth
Report, Appendix II. pp. 282, 283.) It would seem, therefore, that Dugdale
has erred in the date he assigns to the probate of Sir Gilbert's will. A search,
however, at Doctors' Commons will solve the difficulty.

Edward Foss.

Fides Carbonarii (Vol. iv., pp. 233. 283.; Vol. v., p. 523.).—The Collier's
Confession of Faith did not originate with Dr. Milner, but is at least three
hundred years old. Cardinal Hosius commends it highly (De auctor. sacræ
Script.: Opp. fol. 263.: Antverp. 1556), and so does Staphylus likewise
(Apologia, fol. 83.: Colon. 1562). Bellarmin gives another version of the
narrative, which he has taken from Petrus Barocius (De arte bene moriendi,
lib. ii. cap. ix. pp. 200-203.: Antverp. 1620). Your correspondents should
not have forgotten the concluding question and answer in what Crakenthorp
has styled "The Colliar's Catechisme" (Vigilius Dormitans, p. 187.: Lond.
1631). The entire of the conversation may be represented thus:

"What do you believe?"

"I believe what the Church believes."

"And what does the Church believe?"

"The Church believes what I believe."

"And what do you both believe?"

"The same thing."
R. G.

Line on Franklin (Vol. iv., p. 443.; Vol. v., pp. 17. 549.).—

"Eripuit Jovi fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis."

I do not exactly see the object of Mr. Warden's inquiry (if it indeed be
one), as your correspondent R. D. H. had already traced it from Cardinal
Polignac to Manilius; but, as perhaps Mr. Warden means to inquire where
he may have read it, I beg leave to inform him that line was first published
as anonymous in the Correspondence de Grimm et de Diderto, April, 1778,
and was lately reproduced in the Quarterly Review for June, 1850, with the
addition that it was from the pen of Turgot, as the authority, I presume, of
the Life, art. Turgot, in the Biographie Universelle.

C.

Meaning of Royd as an Addition to Yorkshire Names (Vol. v., p. 489.).—The
glossary to Hulton's Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey at once gives it thus:

"Roda, an assart, or clearing. Rode land is used in this sense in modern
German, in which the verb roden means to clear. The combination of
the syllable rod, rode, or royd, with some other term, or with the name
of an original settler, has, no doubt, given to particular localities such
designations as Huntroyd, Ormerod, &c., &c."

See also Lower On Surnames (3rd edit. i. 85.), and an elaborate note in Dr.
Whitaker's Whalley, referred to in his account of Ormerod (3rd edit. p.
364.).

In the sense which Dr. W. gives to Rode, or Royd, as "a participial
substantive of the provincial verb rid, to clear or grub up," that word will be
found singly, or in combination, near forests and chases from the
Lancashire Pendle to the Devonshire Dartmoor. It occurs also in Rodmore,
Rodleys, &c., in the forest district of Gloucestershire over Severn; and
Murray's Handbook may be referred to for Wernigerode, Elbingerode, &c.,
in the Hartz forest of Germany.

In Lancashire and Yorkshire the adjunct sometimes refers to the early
proprietor, as in Monkroyd, Martinrode, &c.; sometimes to the trees ridded,
as in Oakenrode, Acroyd, Hollinrode, Holroyd, &c.; sometimes to other
characteristics. Instances of all kinds will be found in the Whalley Coucher
Book, printed by the Chetham Society.
Lancastriensis.

Binnacle (Vol. v., p. 499.).—This word, which signifies the case or covering
of the compass, was until the last thirty years spelled and pronounced
"bittacle," and is derived, I should imagine, from the French word
habitacle, a little habitation, a hut, a covering. It is almost the only one of
our nautical terms which can be traced to a French origin.
C. K.

Plague Stones (Vol. v., p. 500.).—I have not observed that any of your
correspondents have noticed the stones near the romantic village of Eyam,
about four and a half miles E. N. E. of Tideswell in Derbyshire.

It is well known that this village suffered most severely from the plague;
and the inhabitants still revere the memory of their pastor Mr. Nompesson,
who nobly refused to desert his flock in the hour of danger, and fell a
sacrifice to his devotion. I became acquainted with these stones some years
ago, when on tour through Derbyshire, and, if I remember rightly, they are
about two and a half feet high, one foot and a half in diameter, with a
hollow place on the top like a dish, in which we were told the money of the
"plague village" people was placed for the food, &c. that was brought to
this boundary line by the people of the neighbourhood. The cavity in the
stone was of course full of water.
J. G. C.

Ramasshed (Vol. iii., p. 347.).—The Fr. ramas (as also ramon) is "boughs
formed into a besom or broom," Fr. rameau, from the Lat. ramus. To
ramass or ramash is "to put or sweep together, as with a broom." Thus,
Hackluyt, in his Preface to the Reader, speaks of volumes "most untruly and
unprofitablie ramassed or hurled to." To ramassh is also "to use a ramas or
a construction of ramasses" (in the case of Syr R. Guyldford) as a vehicle
for conveyance. The sleds first used for carrying travellers safely down
steep hills were probably composed of bough-hurdles, afterwards
transformed into barrows and other more convenient carriages.
Q.

Yankee Doodle (Vol. iv., pp. 344. 392.).—The citizens of the United States
do not recognise this, but "Hail, Columbia," as their national air.
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.

"Chords that vibrate," &c. (Vol. v., p. 539.).—

"Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure,
Thrill the deepest notes of woe."
"On Sensibility. To Mrs. Dunlop, of Dunlop."

Burns's Poems, ed. 1800, vol. iv. p. 404. Edw. Hawkins.

Derivation of Martinique (Vol. v., pp. 11. 165.).—Mr. Philip S. King's
statement, that Martinique was discovered on St. Martin's day, is at variance
with the account given by the historian of that island, who says that it was
discovered on the 15th June, 1502, during Columbus's fourth voyage. The
derivation of Martinique from Martin suggests itself so obviously, that, if
the discovery had been made on the day (November 11) consecrated to that
saint, it is not likely that the local historian would have gone out of his way
to fix upon a Caribbean expression, Martinina, as the origin of the name.
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.

Anthony Babington (Vol. v., p. 344.).—W. Kempe, the author of the Dutiful
Invective, must not be confounded (as is frequently the case) with William
Kempe the celebrated actor, and the reputed author of Kemp's Nine Daies
Wonder. The first-named Kempe was probably a schoolmaster at Plymouth.
See the Rev. A. Dyce's Introduction to his reprint of the Nine Daies Wonder
(Camden Society, No. 11.).

The Censure of a Loyall Subject, which your correspondent (following
Herbert) attributes to Kempe, is well known to have been the production of
George Whetstone, whose initials are at the end of the Dedication. A copy
may be seen in the Library of Lambeth Palace.

The execution of the "fourteen most wicked traitors" (Ballard, Babbington,
Tichbourne, &c.) formed the subject of many ballads and tracts, a few of
which I am enabled to enumerate:

1. A Proper New Ballad to the Tune of 'Weep, Weep,' by Thomas
Deloney, beginning:

"Rejoice in hart, good people all,
Sing praise to God on hye,
Which hath preserved us by his power,
From traitors tyranny."

Reprinted in Mr. Collier's Old Ballads (Percy Society, No. 1.).

2. "A Ballad of Rejoycinge for the Revealinge of the Quenes Enemyes.
Licensed to Edward Alde, August 24, 1586-7."

3. "A Joyfull Songe made by a Citizen of London in the Behalfe of all
her Majesties Subjects, touching the Joye for the taking of the Traitors.
Licensed to R. Jones, August 27, 1586-7."

4. "A Short Discourse, expressing the Substance of all the late intended
Treasons against the Queenes Majestie and Estates of this Realme by
Sundrie Traytors, &c. Printed by G. Robinson for Edward White."

This tract contains an interesting ballad by T. Nelson, whom Mr. Collier
calls "the ballad-writing bookseller." See Extracts from the Stationers'
Registers, vol. ii. p. 214. A copy is preserved in the library of Lambeth
Palace.
Edward F. Rimbault.

Seventh Son (Vol. iii. pp. 148. 149.; Vol. v., p. 412.).—Through the
information of a friend I awn able to add a curious "modern instance" to my
communication printed in the Number of "N. & Q." for May 1. In Saltash
Street, Plymouth, my friend copied, on the 10th Dec. 1851, the following
inscription on a board, indicating the profession and claims of the
inhabitant:—

"A. SHEPHERD,
THE THIRD SEVENTH DAUGHTER,

DOCTRESS."
H. G. T.
Weston-super-Mare.

"Venit ad Euphratem" (Vol. v., p. 512.).—The epigram referred to by your
correspondent H. M. runs thus:

"Venit ad Euphratem; rapidis perterritus undis,

Ut cito transivit, corripuit medium." S. Q.

Sneezing (Vol. v., pp. 364. 500.).—I have often seen, but where I cannot
now recollect, that the custom of saying "God bless you!" when any one
sneezed, arose from the fact that in the great plague of Athens sneezing was
an unfailing proof of returning convalescence. Your classical readers will
remember the anecdote told in the Anabasis of Xenophon (c. ii. sect. i.-v.). I
copy from Mitford, who has besides a note to the purpose:

"At daybreak the troops were assembled, and Chirosophus, Cleanor,
and Xenophon successively addressed them. An accident, in itself even
ridiculous, assisted not a little, through the importance attributed to it
by Grecian superstition, to infuse encouragement. Xenophon was
speaking of that favour from the gods which a righteous cause entitled
them to hope for against a perjured enemy, when somebody sneezed.
Immediately the general voice addressed ejaculations to protecting
Jupiter, whose omen it was supposed to be. A sacrifice to the god was
then proposed; a universal shout declared approbation; and the whole
army, in one chorus, sang the Pæan."—History of Greece, vol. v. p.
185. cap. xxiii. sect. iv.: Lond. 1835, 8vo.

We must not, however, forget that when Elisha restored the Shunamite's son
to life—

"The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes."—2
Kings, iv. 35.
Rt .

Rents of Assize (Vol. v., p. 188.).—Has not J. G. misquoted? Is not the line
—

"Regis ad exemplar, totus componitur orbis."
J. E.
Rochester.

Fire unknown (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 283. 331.).—In An Account of the Native
Africans of Sierra Leone, by T. M. Winterbottom: Lond. 1803, 2 vols.,
occurs the following note to vol. i. p. 75.:—

"It is said that the inhabitants of the Marian or Ladrone islands were
ignorant of the use of fire before they were visited by the Spaniards;
but even then they were acquainted with the mode of producing
intoxication by means of the wine of the cocoa-nut tree."
Zeus.

Newtonian System (Vol. v., p. 490.).—The author of the pamphlet entitled
The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis explained,
London, 1751, 8vo., was Bishop Horne. He wrote it before he had attained
majority, and many attacks were made upon it. It is not included in the
edition of his collected works in 6 vols. 8vo. 1809. Bishop Warburton, who
cordially disliked the Hutchinsonians, or, as he styled them, the English
Cocceians, mentions this tract in his Letters to Bishop Hurd:

"There is one book, and that no large one, which I would recommend
to your perusal; it is called The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's
Somn. Scip. examined. It is indeed the ne plus ultra of
Hutchinsonianism. In this twelve-penny pamphlet Newton is proved an
atheist and a blockhead. And what would you more?"—Warburton's
Letters to Hurd, edit. 1808, 4to. p. 63.

The anecdote as to Newton, Locke, and Lord Pembroke, p. 27., was first
told by Whiston, whose character for accuracy does not stand high,
particularly when Sir I. Newton, against whom he bore a grudge, is
concerned.
Jas. Crossley.

Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation (Vol. v., p. 344.).—Newton is celebrated
for having proved that all bodies attract one another with a force varying

inversely as the square of the distance. What resemblance has this to a
statement, that all bodies gravitate to the centre of the world, or, as
explained by Cicero, the earth? which at most only implies its rotundity.
Perhaps S. E. B. was joking, like Hegel, when he said that Newton called
5/A2 gravitation, and inferred that gravitation varied as 1/A2. Otherwise
modern philosophers, as e.g. Kepler, would have supplied much nearer
approximations to Newton's law.
Altron.

Rhymes on the Names of Places (Vol. v., p. 404.).—I remember hearing the
following verse in the neighbourhood of Nottingham:

"Eaton and Taton, and Bramcote o' th' hill,
Beggarly Beeston, and lousy Chilwell;
Waterside Wilford, hey little Lenton!
Ho fine Nottingham! Colwick and Snenton."

The villages whose names occur are all within a few miles of Nottingham.

The following rhyme I have also heard:

"Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred,
Strong i' th' arm and weak i' the head."
R. C. C.
Oxon.

Saint Wilfrid's Needle (Vol. v., p. 510.), where, according to Burton, "they
used to try maids whether they were honest," is not, as B. B. supposes, a
stone, but a narrow passage in the crypt beneath the central tower of Ripon
Minster. This crypt is of Saxon workmanship, and is probably either a part
of the original church built by Saint Wilfrid, or "the new work," which,
according to Leland—

"Odo, Archebishop of Cantewarbyri ... causid to be edified, wher the
Minstre now is."

This passage is said to have been used as a place of ordeal through which
maidens of suspected honesty were caused to pass,—a feat which none but

a virgin could accomplish.
K. P. D. E.

"Measure for Measure," Act I. Sc. 1. (Vol. v., p. 535.).—I should be sorry to
cast a cloud over the satisfactory elucidation which A. E. B. flatters himself
he has made of a passage in Measure for Measure, for, if not convincing, it
is unquestionably ingenious. I am afraid, however, there is one fatal
objection, of which, when pointed out, I doubt not your correspondent will
see the force. He says, "the demonstrative pronoun that, refers to the
commission which the Duke holds in his hand;" but is this the language we
in England use? Until the Duke presented the commission,—the act
indicated by the words "there is our commission,"—there cannot indeed be
much doubt that he held it in his hand; and while he did so, he would as
certainly have said this, as I speak of this pen with which I write.

Your correspondent challenges comment in assuming that his explanation
was satisfactory enough to preclude all correction. At the same time I must
confess I am altogether sceptical with regard to Mr. Halliwell's verb. As,
however, he has excited our curiosity, he will doubtless not object to satisfy
it. Mr. Singer's suggestion seems to me worthy of consideration; but, after
all, I feel that there is a degree of incoherency in the passage, and so
unsatisfactory a connexion between the words "and let them work" and that
which precedes, that I cannot help recurring to the idea that a line has been
lost,—an accident of not very uncommon occurrence.
Samuel Hickson.
St. John's Wood.

"Stunt with false care," &c. (Vol. v., p. 538.).—The lines alluded to, though
the first of them is incorrectly quoted, are from George Cox's brilliant
satire, Black Gowns and Red Coats; or, Oxford in 1834, respecting which
some information was recently furnished by your correspondents S. F. C.
(Vol. v., p. 297.) and C. W. B. (Vol. v., p. 332.) in reply. The work is perhaps
sufficiently scarce to warrant the citation of the whole passage, which
occurs at the commencement of Part V.:

"When Philip's son, in all a monarch's pride,
With tempting boons approach'd the barrel's side,

Full in the sun his glitt'ring trains display'd,
And sought to cumber with officious aid,
The Cynic sneer'd, and only begg'd in spite
The free enjoyment of the beams of light.
Such were the humble prayer, the meek request
That Oxford's sons might ask their tyrants best;
The full out-pouring on their blinded youth
Of Nature's sunbeams, and the light of truth,
Rest from the burking systems of the sect,
Who kill with care more fatal than neglect,
Who twist with force unnatural aside
The straight young branches in their heaven-ward pride,
With culture spoil what else would flourish wild,
And rock the cradle till they bruise the child."

The poem in question, which is equal in talent to anything that has appeared
since the days of Pope, was published by Ridgway in 1834, but is now
rarely to be met with, though I never heard of its being suppressed.
G. T. D.

The Lines on Chaucer (Vol. v., p. 536.).—The lines about which Eliza
inquires are not quoted by her quite correctly. They are by Mr. W. J. Fox,
and may be found in the little volume entitled Hymns and Anthems
(published by Chas. Fox, 1845), used at the Unitarian Chapel in South
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