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# Legenden von Rübezahl: Zwote Legende

Second of Musäus' "Legenden von Rübezahl", from Volksmährchen der Deutschen volume 2 (1783).
English-language translations of Legenden von Rübezahl: Zwote Legende include:
* "Legends Concerning Number-Nip: Legend II", translated by Thomas Beddoes in Popular Tales of the Germans (1791) (transcription project)
* "The History of the Lord of the Giant Mountains", translated anonymously in The Diverting History of Number Nip (1804) (scan needed)
* "The Gnome of the Hartz Mountains", translated anonymously in Endless Entertainment (1825) (external scan)
* "The King of the Hartz and the Tailor of Liebenau", translated anonymously in The Pocket Magazine (1827) (transcription project)
* "Rubezahl; or, The Mountain Spirit", translated by William Henry Fox Talbot in Legendary Tales, in Verse and Prose (1830) (external scan)
* "Legends of Rübezahl: II. The Rescued Lover", translated by Adolf Zytogorski in Select Popular Tales from the German of Musaeus (1845)
* "Legends of Rubezahl: Legend the Second", translated by William Hazlitt in Legends of Rubezahl, and Other Tales (1845)
* "The Turnip-Counter: Second Legend", translated by P. F. Johnson in Hutchings’ California Magazine (1859–1860) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
* "The Gnome and the Tailor", translated by Thomas Beddoes and Mark Lemon in Legends of Number Nip (1863) (external scan)
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Front Matter

LANCASHIRE LEGENDS,
Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c.
WITH AN APPENDIX
CONTAINING
A RARE TRACT ON THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES,
&c. &c.
BY
JOHN HARLAND, F.S.A.
AND
T. T. WILKINSON, F.R.A.S. &c.
LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS.
MANCHESTER: L. C. GENT.
1873.
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EDINBURGH AND LONDON
To
THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY;
of which body The Late John Harland, f.s.a. was so useful and worthy a Member,
This Volume is Dedicated
by the Surviving Editor
T. T. WILKINSON.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 1/Ashton Church and Ace of Spades

Part I: Legends and Traditions; Ashton Church and Ace of Spades.
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE CHURCH AND THE ACE OF SPADES.
Sir John Assheton, in the 5th Henry VI. (1426-27) became possessed of the manor of Ashton-under-Lyne, on payment of the nominal rent of one penny yearly. He is generally supposed to have founded the church about the year 1420. We find him assigning the forms or benches to his tenants: the names for whose use they are appropriated are all female. From this, and from Sir John Towneley's fixing that the greater part of the seats in Whalley Church should be occupied "first come first served," and his adding, that this would make "the proud wives of Whalley come early to church"—it would seem that seats in our churches were first put up for women. Eighteen forms or benches are mentioned for the occupation in Ashton Church of a hundred wives and widows, who are named, besides their daughters and servant wenches. Their husbands had not this privilege, being forced to stand or kneel in the aisles as the service required. In the windows there yet remains a considerable quantity of stained glass, but very much mutilated. Three or four figures on the north side represent a king, saints, &c. In the chancel are the coats and effigies of the Asshetons in armour, kneeling. In one part seems to have been portrayed the Invention of the Holy Cross by St Helen. At whatever period the church was built, the steeple must either have been erected afterwards, or have undergone considerable repairs in the time of the last Sir Thomas Assheton; for upon the south side are the arms of Assheton impaling Stayley. There is a tradition that while the workmen were one day amusing themselves at cards, a female ​unexpectedly presented herself. She asked them to turn up an ace, promising, in case of compliance, that she would build several yards of the steeple; upon which they fortunately turned up the ace of spades. This tale, says Mr Roby, in his "Traditions," may owe its origin to the following circumstances:—Upon the marriage of Sir Thomas Assheton with the daughter of Ralph Stayley, a considerable accumulation of property was the consequence. This might induce him to repair the church and perform sundry other acts of charity and beneficence. Whilst the work was going on. Lady Elizabeth Assheton, it is not improbable, surprised the workmen at their pastime, and might desire that her arms should be fixed in the steeple, impaled with those of her husband. The shape of an escutcheon having a considerable resemblance to a spade-ace, in all likelihood, gave origin to the fable.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 1/Barcroft Hall and the Idiot's Curse

Part I: Legends and Traditions; Barcroft Hall and the Idiot's Curse.
BARCROFT HALL AND THE IDIOT'S CURSE.
The Barcrofts of Barcroft were for many generations a most respectable Lancashire family. The Hall is not more than a mile from Townley, and the fine estate by which it is surrounded must have been often coveted by their more ancient and wealthy neighbours. Barcroft is still a good specimen of the later Tudor style, and its ample cellarage not only conveys an idea of the liberal hospitality of its former owners, but has given occasion for a tradition which is not to the credit of one of the last possessors. The tradition states that one of the heirs to Barcroft was either an idiot or imbecile; that he was fastened by a younger brother with a chain in one of the cellars, and that he was there starved to death. This ​younger brother reported the heir as dead long before he was released from his sufferings, and thus obtained possession of the property. It is added, that during one of his lucid intervals, the prisoner pronounced a curse upon the family of the Barcrofts, to the effect that the name should perish for ever, and that the property should pass into other hands. Some rude scribblings on one of the walls of the cellars are still pointed out as the work of the captive; and his curse is said to have been fulfilled in the person of Thomas Barcroft, who died in 1688 without male issue. After passing through the hands of the Bradshaws, the Pimlots, and the Isherwoods, the property was finally sold to Charles Towneley, Esq., the celebrated antiquary, in 1795.
# Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Contents

CONTENTS.
PAGE
PART I.
LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS.
PART II.
PAGEANTS, MASKINGS, AND MUMMINGS.
PART III.
SPORTS AND GAMES.
PART IV.
PUNISHMENTS—LEGAL AND POPULAR.
PART V.
POPULAR RHYMES, PROVERBS, SIMILES, &c.
PART VI.
MISCELLANEOUS SUPERSTITIONS & OBSERVANCES.
APPENDIX.
# Johnson v. Avery

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## Concurring Opinion

    Douglas

## Dissenting Opinion

    White
United States Supreme Court
393 U.S. 483
Johnson v. Avery
Argued: Nov. 14, 1968. --- Decided: Feb 24, 1969
Karl P. Warden, Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner.
Thomas E. Fox, Nashville, Tenn., for respondents.
Mr. Justice FORTAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Johnson v. Atlantic, Gulf & West India Transit Company

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United States Supreme Court
156 U.S. 618
Johnson v. Atlantic, Gulf & West India Transit Company

## Notes

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# Lays and Legends of Various Nations/Germany Part 2

←Germany: Part I
Germany: Part III→
* The Legend of Daniel’s Cave
* Rebundus in the Cathedral of Lubeck
* The Elves
* The Lord of Falkenstein
* The Story of the Popanz
* The Kobold in the Mill
* The Three Serpent-Leaves
* The Hunter Hackelnberg and the Tut-Osel
* The Bottle-Imp
* The Legend of Paracelsus
* Sir Tannhauser
* The Ancient Ballad of Sir Tannhauser
* Pepin
* Honesty is the Best Policy
* The Smith of Apolda
* The Riddle
* The Green Robe
* Hans Jagenteufel
* Index
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# Lays and Legends of Various Nations/Germany Part 3

←Germany: Part II
* Jacob Nimmernuchtern
* The Lady of Weissenburg
* The Monks and the Fisherman
* Legends of Rubezahl
** Rubezahl Transforms Himself into an Ass
** Rubezahl Makes a Fool of a Noble
** Rubezahl Sells Pigs
** How Rubezahl Entertained a Party of Guests
** Rubezahl Gives Orders for a Cloak
** Rubezahl Turns Wood-Cutter
** Rubezahl Changes Himself into a Spear
** Rubezahl Changes Leaves into Ducats
* The Knight on the Black Horse
* The Frog King; or Iron Henry
* The Flaming Castle
* The Wehr-Wolf
* The Juniper Tree
* The Crystal Ball
* The Maiden Without Hands
* The Three Miners of Kuttenberg
* Doctor All-Wise
* Index
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# Lays and Legends of Various Nations/Germany Part 1

Germany: Part II→
* Introduction
* Legends of the Kyffhauser Mountain
** The Cellar of the Old Knights in the Kyffhauser
** The Golden Knops of Flax
** The Wonderful Flower
** The Goat-Herd
** The Old New Married Couple
** The Enchanted Emperor
*** The Shepherd and the Emperor
*** The Emperor and the Musician
*** The Enchanted Emperor
* Song of the Unfaithful Maiden
* Gaffer Death
* The Lay of the Young Count
* Brother Merry
* Leonora
* The Maiden of Boyneburg
* St. Andrew’s Night
* The Little Shroud
* The Little Shroud by L. E. L.
* Ulrich and Annie
* The Sexton of Magdeburg
* The Mannikin and the Three Princesses
* Of One that Went Forth to Learn to be Afraid
* Abstract of the Romance of the Horny Siegfried
* The Stolen Pennies
* The Haunted Castle
* The Romance of Tyll Eulenspiegel; or, Howleglas
* Index
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# Lay v. Lay/Opinion of the Court

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* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
248 U.S. 24
Lay v. Lay
Argued: Nov. 4, 1918. --- Decided: Nov 18, 1918
Mr. William H. Watkins, of Jackson, Miss., for defendant in error.
Mr. John C. Bryson, of Vicksburg, Miss., for plaintiff in error.
Memorandum for the Court by the CHIEF JUSTICE.
The right to a fund resulting from the payment of an appropriation by Congress to satisfy a judgment for the value of property taken during the Civil War is the issue here involved. The contestants are the heirs at law of the original claimant and persons holding under an assignment by her of all her right to the claim or fund. The court enforced the assignment.
Under the assumption that the claimant was prohibited by the law of the United States (section 3477, Rev. Stats. [Comp. St. 1916, § 6383]) from making an assignment, the heirs at law prosecute error to correct the federal error thus assumed to have been committed. But the assumption indulged in as to the effect of the law of the United States is without merit. McGowan v. Parish, 237 U.S. 285, 294, 35 Sup. Ct. 543, 59 L. Ed. 955, and cases cited. This renders it unnecessary to consider whether, if the heirs at law were entitled to the fund, they would be liable to pay the full sum of the attorney's fee contracted for by the transferee and the duty to pay which the transferee and those in privity do not dispute.
Judgment affirmed.

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# Layne Bowler Corporation v. Western Well Works

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United States Supreme Court
261 U.S. 387
Layne Bowler Corporation v. Western Well Works
Argued: March 5, 1923. --- Decided: April 9, 1923
Messrs. Frederick S. Lyon, of Los Angeles, Cal., and William K. White, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.
Mr. C. E. Townsend, of San Francisco, Cal., for respondents.
Mr. David P. Wolhaupter, of Washington, D. C. (Messrs. Charles C. Montgomery and Raymond Ives Blakeslee, both of Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), amici curiae.
Mr. Chief Justice TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Lays and Legends of Various Nations

Published in monthly parts, with many of the translations by Thoms. Seven were produced, and at least one more, devoted to England, was being prepared when "the work came to an untimely end" as the publisher went bankrupt. Later in the year, they were sold as two unnumbered volumes: Germany (parts 1–3) in one volume, and France, Spain, Tartary, and Ireland in the other.
* Lays and Legends of Germany: Part I (March 1834) (transcription project)
* Lays and Legends of France (April 1834) (external scan)
* Lays and Legends of Ireland (May 1834) (external scan)
* Lays and Legends of Spain (June 1834) (external scan)
* Lays and Legends of Germany: Part II (July 1834) (transcription project)
* Lays and Legends of Tartary (August 1834) (external scan)
* Lays and Legends of Germany: Part III (September 1834) (transcription project)
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# Keeban

* Keeban, the original print by Little, Brown and Company
* Keeban, a facsimile by Grosset & Dunlap
# Keeban (Little, Brown and Company)

KEEBAN
By Edwin Balmer
Resurrection Rock The Breath of Scandal Keeban
In collaboration with William MacHarg
The Blind Man's Eyes The Indian Drum
CONTENTS
KEEBAN
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# Letter regarding the Nile II

THE SOURCES OF THE NILE.
To the Editor of the Atfienmim.
November 2Oth, 1869.
I enclose you a copy of a small map which I have had for many years in my possession, showing Captain Burton's theory respecting the sources of the Nile as far back as 1856. In that year he left England to command the Expedition for their discovery, which had been the object of his thoughts and studies for many previous years always a disciple of Ptolemy. Captain Speke joined him, and after three years of unheard-of difficulties and dangers, they returned, having discovered Tanganyika. Whilst they were absent, Captain Burton, being very ill for a short time, and experiencing a yearning to be alone, sent Captain Speke on a twenty days' march to try and find a lake, which his calculations, theories, and inquiries from the Arabs, assured him ought to be there. Speke sighted a water then, and subsequently found on his next expedition, but much farther north, a lake which he called Victoria Nyanza.
I quote a note from Captain Burton's ' Nile Basin,' p. 37, which is the pivot of the whole affair : ' I distinctly deny that any " misleading, by my instructions from the Royal Geographical Society as to the position of the White Nile," left me unconscious of the vast importance of ascertaining the Rusizi river's direction. The fact is, Captain Speke was deaf and almost blind. I was paralytic, and we were both helpless [he might have added penniless]. We did our best to reach it, and failed.'
Captain Burton always said from the first that the Nile must have many sources, and that there were probably waters south of the Tanganyika. In his 'Lake Regions' he speaks of a large river, Marungu, draining the southern countries towards the Tanganyika, and entering the lake at its southernmost point, which has now been proved by Dr. Livingstone. He was misled by Captain Speke's erroneous elevation of the lake, and by the more than probably wrong information received from the African chiefs, as interpreted by his negro servant Bombay. In short, Captain Speke determined to have his own lake at all hazards, and for a time he became master of the field.
I am anxious, before I sail to join Captain Burton at Damascus and I have not many days left to claim Captain Burton's proper position amongst the five explorers of the lakes, having already had a reminder that 'les absents ont toujours tort?' That position means, second to Livingstone as explorer, to whom he has shown the way to the Nile, and first as lake discoverer.
The outlines of the map I refer to were drawn for me in 1856, and where lakes are now correctly marked on maps stood pencil notes, which said, ' Should be water here,' 'Supposed site of a lake.'
The lakes and names were successively filled up for me in 1859 and 1864. Perhaps you may think it interesting enough to give it a place in your paper, and will kindly allow this letter to accompany it; or the letter by itself if there is no room for the map.
ISABEL BURTON.
# Letter recommending Ross Wilkins for United States District Judge

Rec'd 10 Nov. 1835 Pittsburgh 5th Nov 1835 Gen. A Jackson Pres. U States Dr Sir Having understood that the friends of Ross Wilkins Esquire of Michigan have named him to your excellency for an appointment to the office of United States judge of Michigan, I beg leave most respectfully to add my recommendation also on his behalf and with certainly feel much gratified if anything I may say can have any tendency to invite his nomination. During his residence in this state, the professional and political standing of Mr Wilkins were deservedly high. Possessing a vigorous and cultivated mind he sustained himself with great credit in discharging his professional duties which his frank and gentlemanly deportment towards all with whom he had intercourse secured to him the confidence and esteem of many valuable friends. I presume that I need scarcely add that Mr Wilkins was among the closest and most firm and consisting of your excellency's political friends and that his opinion always had great weight with the republican party in his native state Pennsylvania. In short believing that Mr Wilkins' reputation are fully adequate for the station named and that this appointment would greatly and his interesting family should he obtain the appointment. I hope I may not be considered is too impertanate when I thus urge his claim upon your excellencys most serious consideration.
I have the honour to be most respectfully yours John M Snowden
(notes on the envelope; Mr Snowden recommends R. Wilkins M. judge-Referred to the Secretary of State AJ)
# Letter recommending persecution of certain Muslims

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Many argue this letter was a forgery created by Marwan to force Uthman's resignation of the caliphate. Translation appeared in Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History (1821).
From Othman Ameir ul Moumenein, to the son of Abi Surrudje,
When the son of Abu Bukker and the memorialists shall arrive in Egypt, all the means of that government shall be exerted to cut off, impale and incarcerate, such of them as will be pointed out; providing that none be suffered to escape the chastisement due to his merits.
With respect to the pretended commission which they carry with them, let it be destroyed; and the functions of government continue to be exercised as before.
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# Letter regarding indictment and departure of Devyani Khobragade to Judge Scheindlin (9 January 2014)

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Dated: 9 January 2014
​Seal Omitted
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney Southern District of New York
The Silvio J. Mollo Building One Saint Andrew 's Plaza New York, New York 10007
January 9, 2014
BY EMAIL AND HAND DELIVERY
The Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin United States District Judge Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall Courthouse 40 Foley Square New York, New York 10007
Re: United States v. Devyani Khobragade
Dear Judge Scheindlin:
The Government respectfully writes to advise the Court that earlier today, the grand jury voted on and returned the enclosed Indictment charging Devyani Khobragade, the defendant, in two counts with visa fraud and making false statements in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1546, 1001, and 2.
There will not need to be an arraignment on the Indictment scheduled at this time. We understand that the defendant was very recently accorded diplomatic immunity status and that she departed the United States today. Therefore, the charges will remain pending until such time as she can be brought to Court to face the charges, either through a waiver of immunity or the defendant's return to the United States in a non-immune status. The time between now and the time that she is able to be brought before the Court is excluded automatically under the Speedy Trial Act, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 3161(h)(3)(A), which provides for the exclusion of any period of delay resulting from the unavailability of the defendant. In this case, the defendant is unavailable because her "whereabouts are known but [her] presence for trial cannot be obtained by due diligence or [she] resists appearing at or being returned for trial." 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(3)(B).
​We will alert the Court promptly if we learn that the defendant returns to the United States in a non-immune capacity, at which time the Government will proceed to prosecute this case and prove the charges in the Indictment.
Respectfully submitted,
PREET BHARARA United States Attorney
by: /s/
Amanda Kramer/Kristy Greenberg Assistant United States Attorneys (212) 637-2478/2469
cc: Daniel Arshack, Esq. (by email)
Enclosure
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