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NOTES AND QUERIES: | |
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION | |
FOR | |
LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. | |
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. | |
VOL. III.--No. 85. SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 1851. | |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ | |
CONTENTS. | |
NOTES:-- | |
Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VIII.: The Armorican | |
Word "Menez" 473 | |
Folk Talk: "Eysell," "Captious" 474 | |
An Old Man whose Father lived in the Time of Oliver | |
Cromwell 475 | |
Minor Notes:--On a Passage in Sedley--On a Passage in | |
"Romeo and Juliet"--Inscription on a Tablet in | |
Limerick Cathedral 476 | |
QUERIES:-- | |
Princesses of Wales 477 | |
Minor Queries:--Lady Mary Cavendish--Covey--Book wanted to | |
purchase--The Devil's Bit--Corpse passing makes a Right of | |
Way--Nao, a Ship--William Hone--Hand giving the | |
Blessing--Tinsell, a Meaning of--Arches of Pelaga--Emiott | |
Arms--Well Chapels--Davy Jones's Locker--AEsopus | |
Epulans--Written Sermons--Pallavicino and the Conte | |
d'Olivares 477 | |
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Athelney Castle, | |
Somersetshire--Legend of St. Molaisse--Bogatzky 478 | |
REPLIES:-- | |
Greene's Groatsworth of Witte, by Rev. Thos. Corser 479 | |
The Dutch Martyrology 479 | |
Replies to Minor Queries:--Spick and Span New--Under | |
the Rose--Handel's Occasional Oratorio--Stone | |
Chalice--Thanksgiving Book--Carved Ceiling in | |
Dorsetshire--"Felix quem faciunt," &c.--The Saint | |
Graal--Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet--Sewell-- | |
Col-fabias--Poem from the Digby MS.--Umbrella--The Curse of | |
Scotland--Bawn--Catacombs and Bone-houses--Bacon and | |
Fagan--To learn by heart--Auriga--Vineyards in | |
England--Barker--The Tanthony, &c. 480 | |
MISCELLANEOUS:-- | |
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 487 | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 487 | |
Notices to Correspondents 487 | |
Advertisements 487 | |
Notes. | |
ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER, NO. VIII. | |
(Vol. iii., pp. 388. 420.) | |
_The Armorican Word "Menez."_ | |
I have been induced, in consequence of the scene of one of the | |
_Canterbury Tales_ being | |
"In _Armorike_ that called is Bretaigne," | |
to re-examine that tale (the Frankleine's) in the expectation that in | |
it, if anywhere, some light might be thrown upon this newly discovered | |
Chaucerian word "menez"; and I think I have succeeded in detecting its | |
use in the sense of _points_ or _summits_ of _rocks_ emerging from the | |
surface of the water. | |
But in weighing the probability of this being the true sense in which it | |
is used in the present instance by Chaucer, the wide applicability of | |
the word "means" in its usual acceptation of _instrument to an end_, | |
must not be lost sight of. There is scarcely the name of any one thing | |
for which "means" may not be made a plausible substitution; so much so, | |
that if a man were to ask for a hat to cover his head, his demand would | |
be quite intelligible if expressed by "a means" to cover his head. | |
I make this proviso as an answer to the probable objection, that | |
"menes," in its usual acceptation, gives sufficiently good sense to the | |
passage in question; it may do so, and still not be the sense intended | |
by the author. | |
The footing on which I wish to place the inquiry is this: | |
1st. We have an _Armorican_ word which it is desirable to prove was | |
known to, and used by, Chaucer. | |
2dly. We find this identical word in a tale written by him, of which the | |
scene is _Armorica_. | |
3dly. It bears, however, a close resemblance to another word of | |
different meaning, which different meaning happens also to afford a | |
plausible sense to the same passage. | |
The question then is, in case this latter meaning should not appear to | |
be better, nor even so good, as that afforded by the word of which we | |
are in search, shall we not give that word the preference, and thereby | |
render it doubly blessed, giving and receiving light? | |
In coming to a decision, it is necessary to take in the whole context. | |
Arviragus and Dorigene live in wedded happiness, until the former, | |
leaving his wife, takes shipping | |
---- "to gon and dwelle a yere or twaine | |
In Englelond, that cleped was _eke_ Bretaigne." | |
Dorigene, inconsolable at his loss, sits upon the sea-shore, and views | |
with horror the "grisly, fendly, rockes," with which the coast is | |
studded, in every one of which she sees certain destruction to her | |
husband in his return. She accuses the gods of injustice in forming | |
these rocks for the sole apparent purpose of destroying man, so favoured | |
in other respects, and she concludes her apostrophe in these words,-- | |
"Than, semeth it, ye had a gret chertee | |
Toward mankind; but how then may it be | |
That ye such _men[=e]s_ make, it to destroyen, | |
Which _men[=e]s_ don no good but ever anoyen?" | |
Undoubtedly, in the third of these lines, "menes" seems to have a | |
perfectly good meaning in the sense of instrument, or _means_ to | |
destroy. But, in the last line, the same sense is not so obvious--"means | |
to destroy" must _necessarily_ be destructive, and Chaucer would never | |
be guilty of the unmeaning truism of repeating--"means which do no good | |
but ever annoy." | |
Moreover, I am not aware that the accent is ever thrown upon the silent | |
_e_ where the signification of "mene" is an instrument-- | |
"She may be Godd[=e]s mene and Godd[=e]s whippe"-- | |
but in the lines under discussion the last syllable in both cases is | |
accented, agreeing in that respect with the _Armorican sound_--"menez." | |
Let us now examine whether the Armorican _sense_ is capable of giving a | |
perfect meaning to _both_ lines? That sense is, a rocky ridge or | |
emerging summit. Let us substitute the word _rock[=e]s_ for _men[=e]z_, | |
and then try what meaning the passage receives. | |
"If, quoth Dorigene, ye love _mankind_ so well ---- | |
---- ---- ----- how then may it be | |
That ye such _rock[=e]s_ make, _it_ to destroyen, | |
Which _rock[=e]s_ don no good but ever anoyen?" | |
Here the sense is perfect in both lines--a sense, too, that is in exact | |
keeping with Dorigene's previous complaint of THE USELESSNESS of these | |
rocks-- | |
"That semen rather a foule confusion | |
Of werk, than any faire creation | |
Of swiche a parfit wis[=e] God and stable; | |
Why have ye wrought this work unreasonable? | |
For by this werk, north, south, ne west, ne est, | |
There n'is yfostred man, ne brid, ne best; | |
_It doth no good_, to my wit, _but anoyeth_." | |
I therefore propose the following as the true reading of the passage in | |
question: viz., | |
---- "Ye had a great chertee | |
Toward mankind; but how then may it be | |
That ye swiche menez make, it to destroyen, | |
Which menez don no good, but ever anoyen?" | |
And if I have succeeded in making good this position we no longer stand | |
in need of a precedent for the same reading in the case of--"In menez | |
libra." | |
A. E. B. | |
Leeds, May 31. 1851. | |
P.S. I have been favoured, through the publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," | |
with an obliging note from S.S.S. (2), communicating some authorities, | |
of which the most germane to this subject are-- | |
1. From _Archaeologia Britannica_ (Edward Lhuyd. Oxford, 1707): "Armoric, | |
_Men_, a stone; _menez_, a mountain." | |
2. From Walter's _Welsh Dictionary_: "Welsh, _Maen_, a stone; _maen | |
terfyn_, a boundary stone; _maen mawr_, a large stone." | |
FOLK TALK: "EYSELL", "CAPTIOUS." | |
If folk lore be worthy of a place in your columns, folk talk should not | |
be shut out, and that the etymological solutions, gathered from this | |
source, which I have previously forwarded, have not appeared, is | |
doubtless attributable to some other cause than indifferentism to the | |
authority. I have found many inexplicable words and phrases, occurring | |
in the older writers, rendered plain and highly expressive by folk talk | |
definitions; and a glance at the relative positions of the common people | |
of this day, and the writers of the past, to the educated and scholarly | |
world of the nineteenth century, will suffice to show good reasons for a | |
discriminative reference to the language of the one, for the elucidation | |
of the other's expression. In common with the majority of your readers, | |
as I should think, I found the notes and replies on "eysell" and | |
"captious" to be highly interesting, and of course applied to the folk | |
talk for its definition. In the first case I obtained from my own | |
experience, what I think will be a satisfactory clue to its meaning, and | |
something more in addition. There is a herb of an acid taste, the common | |
name for which--the only one with which I am acquainted--is | |
_green-sauce_; and this herb is, or rather was, much sought after by | |
children in my boyish days. At a public school not a dozen miles from | |
Stratford-on-Avon, it was a common practice for we lads to spend our | |
holidays in roaming about the fields; and among objects of search, this | |
green-sauce was a prominent one, and it was a point of honour with each | |
of us to notify to the others the discovery of a root of green-sauce. In | |
doing this, the discoverer, after satisfying himself by his taste that | |
the true herb was found, followed an accepted course, and signified his | |
success to his companions by raising his voice and shouting, what I have | |
always been accustomed to write, "Hey-sall." I have no knowledge of the | |
origin of this word; it was with us as a school-rule so to use it; and I | |
have no doubt but that "ey-sell" was in Shakspeare's time the popular | |
name for the herb to which I allude. | |
Mixing much with the rural population of Warwickshire, I have, on many | |
occasions, seen the word "captious" used in the sense of carping, | |
irritable, unthankfulness, and self-willed; and, in my humble opinion, | |
such a rendering would be more in accordance with the character of the | |
fiction, and the poet's early teaching, than any definition I have yet | |
seen in your pages. | |
EMUN. | |
AN OLD MAN WHOSE FATHER LIVED IN THE TIME OF OLIVER CROMWELL. | |
[We are indebted to the kindness of the Rev. THOMAS CORSER for the | |
opportunity of preserving in our columns the following interesting | |
notice, from the _Manchester Guardian_ of the 19th August, 1843, | |
of the subject of his communication in our No. for May 31. (No. | |
83, p. 421.)] | |
Having heard of the extraordinary circumstance of an old man named James | |
Horrocks, in his hundredth year, living in Harwood, about three miles | |
from Bolton, whose father lived in the time of Oliver Cromwell, we took | |
an opportunity, a few days ago, of visiting this venerable descendant of | |
a sire who was contemporary with the renowned Protector. Until within | |
the last few years he resided at Hill End, a small estate left him by an | |
uncle when he was about twenty-six years old; but both his surviving | |
daughters being married, and himself growing feeble, and his sight | |
failing him, he left the land and went to reside with his eldest | |
daughter, Margaret, and his son-in-law, John Haslam, at a place called | |
"The Nook," near the Britannia, in Harwood. Here we found the old man, | |
surrounded with every comfort which easy circumstances and affectionate | |
friends can afford, and, to use his own language, "neither tired of | |
living, nor yet afraid to die." He is a remarkably good-looking old man, | |
with long, silvery locks, and a countenance beaming with benevolence and | |
good nature. He has nearly lost the use of his eye-sight, and is a | |
little dull of hearing, yet he is enabled to walk about. The loss of his | |
sight he regrets most of all, as it prevents him from spending his time | |
in reading, to which he was before accustomed; and, as he remarked, also | |
denies him the pleasure of looking upon his children and his old | |
friends. He converses with remarkable cheerfulness for one of his years. | |
As an instance, we may mention, that, on observing to him that he must | |
have been a tall man in his youth, he sprang up from his arm chair with | |
the elasticity of middle age, rather than the decrepitude usually | |
accompanying those few who are permitted to spin out the thread of life | |
to the extent of a century, and, with a humorous smile upon his | |
countenance, put his hands to his thighs, and stood as straight as an | |
arrow against a gentleman nearly six feet, remarking, at the same time, | |
"I don't think I am much less now than ever I was." He stands now about | |
five feet eight inches and a half. A short time ago, on coming down | |
stairs in the morning, he observed to his daughter, with his accustomed | |
good humour, and buoyancy of spirit, "I wonder what I shall dream next; | |
I dreamt last night that I was going to be married again; and who knows | |
but I could find somebody that would have me yet." His son-in-law is an | |
old grey-headed man, much harder of hearing than himself; and it | |
frequently happens, that when any of the family are endeavouring to | |
explain anything to him, old James will say, "Stop, and I'll _insense_ | |
him;" and his lungs seldom fail in the undertaking. | |
From this interesting family we learn, that William Horrocks, the father | |
of the present James, of whom we have been speaking, was born in 1657, | |
four years after Oliver Cromwell was declared protector, and one year | |
before his death. He would be two years old when Richard Cromwell, who | |
succeeded his father, resigned; and four years old when Charles II. was | |
crowned in 1661. The exact period of his first marriage we have not been | |
able to ascertain; but it is certain that his bride was employed as | |
nurse in the well-known family of the Chethams, either at Turton Tower, | |
or at Castleton Hall, near Rochdale. By this marriage he had four | |
children, as appears from the following memorandums, written in an | |
excellent hand in the back of an old black-letter Bible, printed in | |
1583: | |
"Mary, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born | |
the 15th day of September, and baptised the 23d day of the same | |
month, Anno Dom. 1683." | |
"John, the son of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born the | |
18th day of January, and baptized the 25th day of the same month, | |
Anno Dom. 1686." | |
"Ann, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Horrocks, was born the | |
14th day of March, and baptized the 23d day of the same month, | |
Anno Dom. 1699." | |
"William, the son of William and Elisabeth Horrocks, was born the | |
9th day of June, and baptised the 17th day of the same month, Anno | |
Dom. 1700." | |
At what time his wife died, we are also unable to ascertain; but there | |
is no doubt he remained a widower for many years, and at length married | |
his housekeeper, a comely blooming young woman, whose kindness to the | |
old man was unremitting, and he married her in 1741, at the age of | |
eighty-four, she being at the time only twenty-six. | |
This marriage evidently attracted much attention in the neighbourhood, | |
and we find that, about two years afterwards, the old man and his | |
youthful partner were sent for to Castleton Hall, the residence of a | |
branch of Humphry Chetham's family, where they were treated with great | |
kindness, and a portrait painter engaged to take their likenesses, which | |
are now in the possession of their son, and add much to the interest of | |
a visit to him. These portraits are well executed; and, of course, | |
appear rather like those of a grandfather and his grandchild than of | |
husband and wife, although he appears more like sixty than eighty-six. | |
In front of each painting is prominently inscribed the age of each of | |
the parties, and the date when the portrait was taken. Upon that of the | |
husband the inscription is, "AETA: 86--1743." And upon that of the wife, | |
"AETA: 28--1743." These, it appears, were taken two years after their | |
marriage, and preserved in the Chetham family, at Castleton Hall, as | |
great curiosities. | |
In the following year, the present James was born, as appears from the | |
following entry on the back of the same old Bible: | |
"James, the son of William and Elizabeth Horrocks of Bradshaw | |
Chapel, was born March 14th, 1744." | |
He will therefore complete his hundredth year on the 14th of next March. | |
He was born in a house near Bradshaw Chapel, which has long since been | |
removed. He was about twenty-seven years old when an uncle left him a | |
small estate in Harwood, called Hill End; and soon after he married, we | |
believe in 1773, and by that marriage had eight children. William, the | |
son of James and Margaret Horrocks, was born February 21, 1776; | |
Margaret, March 31, 1778; John, August 11, 1781; Simon, Dec. 23, 1783; | |
Matty, June 28, 1786; James, Jan. 13, 1789; Sarah, Sept. 22, 1791; and | |
Betty, Jan. 8, 1794. | |
Of these, the only survivors are Margaret, aged sixty-five, the wife of | |
John Haslam, with whom the old man now resides; and Betty, the youngest, | |
aged forty-nine, who is married, and has four children. | |
The old man was only eleven years old when his father died, and has no | |
recollection of hearing him mention any remarkable event occurring in | |
his lifetime. | |
On asking the old man how he came into possession of the portraits of | |
his father and mother, he stated, that, some years ago, he saw in the | |
newspapers a sale advertised of the property at Castleton Hall, and went | |
there before the day to inquire after the portraits, with the view of | |
purchasing them before the sale. The servants at the hall admitted him, | |
and he found they were not there. He then went to the house of the | |
steward, and found he was not at home; he, however, left a message, | |
desiring that the steward would send him word if there was any | |
probability of his being able to purchase the portraits. Accordingly, | |
the steward sent him word that they had been removed, with the family | |
portraits, to the residence of a lady near Manchester, where he might | |
have the satisfaction of seeing them. The old man cannot remember either | |
the name or the address of the lady. However, he went to the place, in | |
company with a friend, and saw the lady, who treated him with the | |
greatest kindness. She showed him the portraits, and was so much pleased | |
with the desire he manifested to purchase them, that she said, if she | |
could be certain that he was the heir, she would make him a present of | |
them, as his filial affection did him great honour. His friend assured | |
her that he was the only child of his mother by William Horrocks, and | |
she then gave them to him, although she parted with them with regret, as | |
she had no other paintings that attracted so much attention. His | |
recollection of the circumstances are so perfect, that he remembers | |
offering a gratuity to the servants for packing the portraits, which the | |
lady would not allow them to receive. | |
As an instance of the health and vigour of this remarkable old man, it | |
may be mentioned, that ten years ago, in the winter of 1832-3, he | |
attended at Newton, to vote for Lord Molyneux, then a candidate for | |
South Lancashire. He was then in his ninetieth year. He walked from | |
Harwood to Bolton, a distance of three miles. From thence he went to | |
Newton by the railway; and, having voted, he by some means missed the | |
train, and walked to Bolton, a distance of fifteen miles. On arriving | |
there he took some refreshment, and again set out for Harwood, and | |
accomplished the distance of twenty-one miles in the day, in the depth | |
of winter.--_Manchester Guardian_, Aug. 19, 1843. | |
MINOR NOTES. | |
_On a Passage in Sedley._--There is a couplet in Sir Charles Sedley's | |
poems, which is quoted as follows in a work in my possession: | |
"Let fools the name of loyalty divide: | |
Wise men and Gods are on the strongest side." | |
Does the context require the word "divide?" or is it a misprint for | |
"deride?" Of course, the latter word would completely alter the sense, | |
but it seems to me that it would make it more consistent with truth. The | |
word "divide" supposes loyalty to be characteristic of fools, and places | |
the Gods in antagonism to that sentiment; while the word "deride" | |
restores them to their natural position. | |
HENRY H. BREEN. | |
St. Lucia, April, 1851. | |
_On a Passage in Romeo and Juliet._--In the encounter between Mercutio | |
and Tybalt (Act III. Sc. 1.), in which Mercutio is killed, he addresses | |
Tybalt tauntingly thus:-- | |
"Good king of cats, &c., will you pluck your sword out of his | |
_pilcher_ by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears | |
ere it be out." | |
The first quarto has _scabbard_, all the later editions have _pilcher_, | |
a word occurring nowhere else. There has been a vain attempt to make | |
_pilcher_ signify a _leathern sheath_, because a _pilch_ was a _garment | |
of leather_ or _pelt_. To me it is quite evident that _pilcher_ is a | |
mere typographical error for _pitcher_, which, in this jocose, bantering | |
speech, Mercutio substitutes for _scabbard_, else why are the _ears_ | |
mentioned? The poet was familiar with the proverb "Pitchers have ears," | |
of which he has elsewhere twice availed himself. The _ears_, as every | |
one knows, are the _handles_, which have since been called the _lugs_. | |
Shakspeare would hardly have substituted a word of his own creation for | |
_scabbard_; but _pitcher_ was suggested by the play upon the word | |
_ears_, which is used for _hilts_ in the plural, according to the | |
universal usage of the poet's time. The _ears_, applied to a _leathern | |
coat_, or even a _sheath_, would be quite unmeaning, but there is a well | |
sustained ludicrous image in "pluck your sword out of his _pitcher by | |
the ears_." | |
S. W. SINGER. | |
_Inscription on a Tablet in Limerick Cathedral._-- | |
"Mementi Mory. | |
"Here lieth Littele Samuell Barinton, that great Under Taker, of | |
Famious Cittis Clock and Chime Maker; He made his one Time goe | |
Early and Latter, But now He is returned to God his Creator. | |
"The 19 of November Then He Seest, And for His Memory This Here is | |
Pleast, By His Son Ben 1693." | |
The correctness of this copy, _in every respect_, may be relied upon. | |
R. J. R. | |
Queries. | |
PRINCESSES OF WALES. | |
Blackstone, in his _Commentaries_, vol. i. p. 224., says, the heir | |
apparent to the crown is usually made Prince of Wales and Earl of | |
Chester; upon which Mr. Christian in a note remarks, upon the authority | |
of Hume, that this creation has not been confined to the heir apparent, | |
for both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were created by their father, | |
Henry VIII., Princesses of Wales, each of them at the time (the latter | |
after the legitimation of Mary) being heir presumptive to the crown. | |
Can any of your correspondents inform me upon what authority this | |
statement of Hume rests? or whether there exists any evidence of such | |
creations having been made? Do any such creations appear upon the Patent | |
Rolls? The statement is not supported by any writer of authority upon | |
such subjects, and, as far as your Querist's investigation has | |
proceeded, seems without foundation. It is one, however, too important | |
in connexion with royal titles to remain uncontradicted, if the fact be | |
not so. | |
G. | |
Minor Queries. | |
_Lady Mary Cavendish._--Information is requested respecting the | |
_ancestry_ of the Lady Mary Cavendish, who married a Lieutenant | |
Maudesley, or Mosley, of the Guards. She is thought to have been maid of | |
honour to Queen Anne. And a Sir Henry Cavendish, who was teller of the | |
Exchequer in Ireland some sixty years ago, was of the same family. | |
CAVENDO. | |
_Covey._--When the witches in this country were very numerous, Satan for | |
convenience divided them into companies of thirteen (one reason why | |
thirteen has always been considered an unlucky number), and called each | |
company a _covine_. Is that the etymology of the word _covey_, as | |
applied to birds? | |
L. M. M. R. | |
_Book wanted to purchase._--Can any one help me to find a little book on | |
"Speculative Difficulties in the Christian Religion?" I read such a book | |
about four years ago, and have quite forgotten its title and its author. | |
The last chapter in the book was on the "Origin of Evil." There is a | |
little book called _Speculative Difficulties_, but that is not the one I | |
mean. | |
L. M. M. R. | |
_The Devil's Bit._--In the Barnane Mountains, near Templemore, Ireland, | |
there is a large dent or hollow, visible at the distance of twenty | |
miles, and known by the name of the "Devil's Bit." | |
Can any of your readers assist me in discovering the origins of this | |
singular name? There is a foolish tradition that the Devil was obliged, | |
by one of the saints, to make a road for his Reverence across an | |
extensive bog in the neighbourhood, and so taking a piece of the | |
mountain in his mouth, he strode over the bog and deposited a road | |
behind him! | |
SING. | |
_Corpse passing makes a Right of Way._--What is the origin of the | |
supposed custom of land becoming public property, after a funeral has | |
passed over it? An instance of this occurred (I am told) a short time | |
since at Battersea. | |
R. W. E. | |
_Nao, a Ship._--Seeing it twice stated in Mr. G. F. Angas's _Australia | |
and New Zealand_, that "in the Celtic dialect of the Welsh, Nao (is) a | |
ship," I am desirous to learn in what author of that language, or in | |
what dictionary or glossary thereof, any such word is to be met with. | |
(See vol. ii., pp. 274. 278.) I doubt, or even disbelieve, the Britons | |
having had _any_ name for a ship, though they had a name for an osier | |
floating basket, covered with raw hides. And when they became familiar | |
with the _navis longa_ of the Romans, they and their Gaelic neighbours | |
adopted the adjective, and not the substantive. But the question of | |
_nao_ is one of fact; and having got the assertion, I want the | |
authority. | |
A. N. | |
_William Hone._--I wish to meet with the interesting and touching | |
account of the conversion of William Hone, the compiler of the _Every | |
Day Book_, and should be obliged to any one who would tell me where it | |
is to be found. | |
E. V. | |
_Hand giving the Blessing._--What is the origin of holding up the two | |
forefingers and thumb, and pressing down the third and little fingers of | |
the right hand in giving "the blessing," as we see in figures of | |
bishops, &c.? Is it a mystic allusion to the Trinity? | |
A. A. D. | |
4. Moray Place, Birkenhead. | |
_Tinsell, a Meaning of._--I wish to know if this word is still used by | |
the country-people in the midland counties, and on the borders of North | |
Wales, to denote _fire-wood_. In a Report dated in 1620, from a surveyor | |
to the owner of an estate in Wales, near the borders of Shropshire, the | |
following mention of it occurs: | |
"There is neither wood nor underwood on the said lands, but a few | |
underwoods in the park of hasell, alders, withie, and thornes, and | |
such like, which the tenants doe take and use for _Tinsel_ as need | |
requires." | |
The working people in Shropshire and Staffordshire still speak of | |
_tining_ a fire (pronounced _teening_). This is but a slight change in | |
the Anglo-Saxon word _tynan_, to light a fire. | |
S. S. S. | |
_Arches of Pelaga._--A young sailor, in his passage from Alexandria to | |
Trinadas, mentions a place under this designation. Query, Is there a | |
place correctly so called, or is this one of the misnomers not | |
unfrequent among seamen? | |
M. A. LOWER. | |
_Emiott Arms._--What are the arms of the family of Emiott of Kent? | |
E. H. Y. | |
_Well Chapels._--Will any of your learned readers be kind enough to | |
direct me to the best sources of information on this subject? | |
H. G. T. | |
_Davy Jones's Locker._--If a sailor is killed in a sea-skirmish, or | |
falls overboard and is drowned, or any other fatality occurs which | |
necessitates the consignment of his remains to the "great deep," his | |
surviving messmates speak of him as one who has been sent to "Davy | |
Jones's Locker." Who was the important individual whose name has become | |
so powerful a myth? And what occasioned the identification of the ocean | |
itself with the locker of this mysterious Davy Jones? | |
HENRY CAMPKIN. | |
_AEsopus Epulans._--I shall be much obliged by information respecting the | |
authorship and history of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to. | |
N. B. | |
_Written Sermons._--Information is requested as to when the custom of | |
preaching from written sermons was first introduced, and the | |
circumstances which gave rise to it. | |
M. C. L. | |
_Pallavicino and the Conte d'Olivares._--I have in my possession an old | |
Italian MS., 27 pages of large foolscap paper. It is headed "Caduta del | |
Conte d'Olivares," and at the end is signed "Scritta da Ferrante | |
Pallavicino," and dated "28 Genaro, 1643." Of course this Count | |
d'Olivares was the great favourite of Philip IV. of Spain; but who was | |
Pallavicino? Could it have been the Paravicino who was court chaplain to | |
Philip III. and IV.? or was he of the Genoese family of Pallavicini | |
mentioned by Leigh Hunt (_Autobiography_, vol. ii. p. 177.) as having | |
been connected with the Cromwell family? What favours the latter | |
presumption is, that a gentleman to whom I showed the MS. said at once, | |
"That is Genoa paper, just the same I got there for rough copies;" and | |
he also told me that the water-mark was a well-known Genoa mark: it | |
consists of a bird standing on an eight pointed starlike flower. | |
If any one can give me any likely account of this Pallavicino, or tell | |
me whether the MS. is at all valuable in any way, I shall owe him many | |
thanks. | |
CHARLES O. SOULEY. | |
Broadway, New York, May 10. 1851. | |
Minor Queries Answered. | |
_Athelney Castle, Somersetshire._--Can any of your readers inform me, | |
whether Athelney Castle, built by King Alfred, as a monastery, in token | |
of his gratitude to God for his preservation, when compelled to fly from | |
his throne, is in existence; or if any remains of it can be traced, as I | |
do not find it mentioned either in several maps, gazetteers, or | |
topographical dictionaries? It was situate about four miles from | |
Bridgewater, near the conflux of the rivers Parrot and Tone? | |
J. S. | |
Islington, May 15. 1851. | |
_Athelney._--In a visit which I recently paid to the field of | |
_Sedgemoor_ and the Isle of _Athelney_ in Somersetshire, I found on the | |
latter a stone pillar, inclosed by an iron railing, designed to point | |
the traveller's eye to the spot, so closely associated with his earliest | |
historical studies, with the burnt cakes, the angry housewife, and the | |
castigated king. The pillar bears the following inscription, which you | |
may think perhaps worthy of preservation in your useful pages:-- | |
"King Alfred the Great, in the year of our Lord 879, having been | |
defeated by the Danes, fled for refuge to the forest of Athelney, | |
where he lay concealed from his enemies for the space of a whole | |
year. He soon after regained possession of his throne, and in | |
grateful remembrance of the protection he had received, under the | |
favour of Heaven, he erected a monastery on this spot and endowed | |
it with all the lands contained in the Isle of Athelney. To | |
perpetuate the memorial of so remarkable an incident in the life | |
of that illustrious prince, this edifice was founded by John | |
Slade, Esq., of Mansell, the proprietor of Athelney and Lord of | |
the Manor of North Petherton, A. D. 1801." | |
J. R. W. | |
Bristol. | |
_Legend of St. Molaisse_ (Vol. ii., p. 79.).--Can you tell me anything | |
more about this MS., and in whose possession it now is? | |
R. H. | |
["The Legend of St. Molaisse" was sold in a sale at Puttick and | |
Simpson's, July 3, 1850, for the sum of L8. 15_s._] | |
_Bogatzky._--Who was Bogatzky, the author of the well-known _Golden | |
Treasury_? Any particulars of his life will be acceptable. | |
E. V. | |
[Bogatzky was a Polish nobleman, the pupil of the great Professor | |
Francke, and of a kindred spirit. He died at an advanced age in | |
1768. It is not generally known that Bogatzky published a Second | |
Volume of his _Golden Treasury_, which Dr. Steinkopff revised and | |
edited in 1812, to which he prefixed a short but interesting | |
account of the author. See also _Allgemeine Enyclopaedie von Ersch | |
und Gruber_, s.v.] | |
Replies. | |
GREENE'S "GROATSWORTH OF WITTE." | |
(Vol. iii., p. 140.) | |
In answer to MR. HALLIWELL's Query, "whether the remarkable passage | |
respecting Shakspeare in this work has descended to us in its genuine | |
state," I beg to inform him that I possess a copy of the edition of | |
1596, as well as of those of 1617 and 1621, from the latter of which the | |
reprint by Sir Egerton Brydges was taken, and that the passage in | |
question is exactly the same in all the three editions. For the general | |
information of your readers interested in Greene's works, I beg to | |
state, that the variations in the edition of 1596 from the other two, | |
consist of the words "written before his death, and published at his | |
dying request," on the title; and instead of the introductory address | |
"To Wittie Poets, or Poeticall Wittes," signed I. H., there are a few | |
lines on A 2, "The Printer to the Gentle Readers:" | |
"I haue published heere, Gentlemen, for your mirth and benefit, | |
Greene's Groateswoorth of Wit. With sundry of his pleasant | |
discourses ye haue beene before delighted: But now hath death | |
giuen a period to his pen, onely this happened into my hands which | |
I haue published for your pleasures: Accept it fauourably because | |
it was his last birth, and not least worth, in my poore opinion. | |
But I will cease to praise that which is aboue my conceit, and | |
leaue it selfe to speake for it selfe: and so abide your learned | |
censuring. | |
"Yours, W. W." | |
Then follows another short address, "To the Gentlemen Readers," by | |
Greene himself; and as this edition is so rare, only two copies being | |
known, and the address is short, I transcribe it entire for your | |
insertion: | |
"Gentlemen, The Swan sings melodiously before death, that in all | |
his life time vseth but a iarring sound. _Greene_, though able | |
inough to write, yet deeplyer searched with sicknesse than euer | |
heretofore, sendes you his swanne-like song, for that he feares he | |
shall neuer againe carroll to you woonted loue layes, neuer againe | |
discouer to you youth's pleasures. Howeuer yet sicknesse, riot, | |
incontinence, haue at once shown their extremitie, yet if I | |
recouer, you shall all see more fresh springs then euer sprang | |
from me, directing you how to liue, yet not diswading you from | |
loue. This is the last I haue writ, and I feare me the last I | |
shall write. And how euer I haue beene censured for some of my | |
former bookes, yet, Gentlemen, I protest, they were as I had | |
special information. But passing them, I commend this to your | |
fauourable censures, and like an Embrion without shape, I feare me | |
will bee thrust into the world. If I liue to ende it, it shall be | |
otherwise: if not, yet will I commend it to your courtesies, that | |
you may as wel be acquainted with my repentant death, as you haue | |
lamented my carelesse course of life. But as _Nemo ante obitum | |
felix_, so _Acta exitus probat_: Beseeching therefore to bee | |
deemed hereof as I deserue, I leaue the worke to your liking, and | |
leaue you to your delights." | |
Greene died in September, 1592; and this is curious, as being probably | |
the last thing that ever came from his pen. | |
The work commences on sig. A 4, the other three leaves being occupied | |
with the title and the two addresses. It concludes with Greene's "letter | |
written to his wife," and has not "Greene's Epitaph: Discoursed | |
Dialogue-wise betweene Life and Death," which is in the two later | |
editions. | |
I may here mention that I possess a copy of an extremely rare work | |
relating to Robert Greene, which has only lately become known, viz.: | |
"Greene's Newes both from Heaven and Hell. Prohibited the first | |
for writing of Bookes, and banished out of the last for displaying | |
of Connycatchers. Commended to the Presse by B. R." (Barnabee | |
Rich) 4to. bl. lett. Lond. 1593. | |
Concerning the great rarity of this interesting tract, which was unknown | |
to the Rev. A. Dyce when publishing his edition of Greene's works, your | |
readers may see a notice by Mr. Collier in his _Extracts from the | |
Registry of the Stat. Comp._, vol. ii. p. 233., apparently from the | |
present copy, no other being known. | |
THOS. CORSER. | |
Stand Rectory. | |
THE DUTCH MARTYROLOGY. | |
(Vol. iii., p. 443.) | |
Besides the copy of the above work mentioned by your correspondent J. H. | |
T., several others are known to exist in this country. Among them I may | |
mention one in the library of the Baptist College, Bristol. My own copy | |
was supplied by a London bookseller, who has likewise imported several | |
other copies from Holland, where it is by no means a scarce work. | |
The second illustrated edition was published twenty years after the | |
decease of Van Braght. The first edition, without engravings, now before | |
me, appeared in 1660, which was the edition used by Danvers. But Danvers | |
does not appear to have known its existence, when the first edition of | |
his treatise came out in 1673. The "large additions" of his second | |
edition in 1674, are chiefly made from the work of Van Braght. | |
The original portion of Van Braght's work is, however, confined to the | |
first part. The second part, _The Martyrology_, strictly so called, is | |
of much earlier date. Many single narratives appeared at the time, and | |
collections of these were early made. The earliest collection of | |
martyrdoms bears the date of 1542. This was enlarged in 1562, 1578, | |
1580, and 1595. This fact I give on the authority of Professor Mueller of | |
Amsterdam, from the _Jaarboekje voor de Doopsgezinde Gemeenten in de | |
Nederlanden, 1838 en 1839_, pp. 102, 103. | |
An edition, dated 1599, of these very rare books is now before me. It | |
has the following curious and affecting title: | |
"Dit Boeck wort genaemt: Het Offer des Heeren, Om het inhout van | |
sommige opgeofferde Kinderen Gods, de welcke voort gebrocht | |
hebben, wt den goeden schat haers herten, Belijdinghen, | |
Sentbrieuen ende Testamenten, de welcke sy met den monde beleden, | |
ende met den bloede bezeghelt hebben, &c. &c. Tot Harlinghen. By | |
my Peter Sebastiaenzoon, Int jaer ons Heeren MDXCIX." | |
It is a thick 12mo. of 229 folios, and contains the martyrdoms of | |
thirty-three persons (the first of which is Stephen), which were | |
subsequently embodied in the larger martyrologies. Each narrative is | |
followed by a versified version of it. A small book of hymns is added, | |
some of them composed by the martyrs; and the letters and confession of | |
one Joos de Tollenaer, who was put to death at Ghent in 1589. | |
In 1615, a large collection of these narratives appeared at Haarlem in a | |
thick 4to. volume. The compilers were Hans de Ries, Jaques Outerman, and | |
Joost Govertsoon, all eminent Mennonite ministers. Two editions followed | |
from the press of Zacharias Cornelis at Hoorn in 1617 and 1626, both in | |
4to., but under different editorship. The last edition was offensive to | |
the Haarlem editors, who therefore published a fourth at Haarlem in | |
1631. As its title is brief, I will give it from the copy in my library: | |
"Martelaers Spiegel der Werelose Christenen t' zedert A. D. 1524. | |
Joan, xv. 20. Matt. x. 28. Esai, li. 7. Joan xvi. 2. 1 Pet. iv. | |
19. [All quoted at length.] Gedrukt tot Haarlem Bij Hans | |
Passchiers van Wesbusch. In't Jaer onses Heeren, 1631." | |
This edition is in small folio. The title-page is from a copperplate, | |
and is adorned with eight small engravings, representing scenes of | |
suffering and persecution from scripture. The narratives of martyrs | |
extends from 1524 to 1624. It is this work which forms the basis of Van | |
Braght's. He added to it the whole of his first part, and also some | |
additional narratives in the second. To the best of his ability he | |
verified the whole. | |
These works are frequently referred to by Ottius in his _Annales | |
Anabaptistici_ under the titles "Martyrologium Harlemense" and | |
"Martyrologium Hornanum." | |
From a paper in the _Archivs fuer Kunde oesterreichischer | |
Geschichtsquellen_, I learn that a MS. exists in the City library of | |
Hamburgh, with the following title: | |
"Chronickel oder Denkbueechel darinnen mit kurtzen Begriffen, Was | |
sich vom 1524 Jar, Bis auff gegenwaertige Zeit, in der gemain | |
zuegetragen, vnd wie viel trewer Zeugen Jesu Christij die warheit | |
Gottes so riterlich mit irem bluet bezeugt. 1637." | |
The work appears chiefly confined to a history of the Moravian | |
Anabaptists: but from passages given by the writer, Herr Gregor Wolny, | |
it is evident that it contains many of the narratives given by Van | |
Braght. The earlier portion of the MS. was written previous to 1592, | |
when its writer or compiler died. Three continuators carried on the | |
narrations to 1654. The last date in it is June 7, 1654; when Daniel | |
Zwicker, in his own handwriting, records his settlement as pastor over a | |
Baptist church. Mention is made of this MS. by Ottius, and by Fischer in | |
his _Tauben-kobel_, p. 33., &c. For any additional particulars | |
respecting it, I should feel greatly obliged. | |
It does not appear to be known to your correspondent that a translation | |
of the second part of Van Braght's work has been commenced in this | |
country, of which the first volume was issued by the Hanserd Knollys | |
Society last year. A translation of the entire work appeared in 1837, in | |
Pennsylvania, U. S., for the use of the Mennonite churches, emigrants | |
from Holland and Germany to whom the language of their native land had | |
become a strange tongue. | |
E. B. U. | |
33. Moorgate Street, London. | |
Replies to Minor Queries. | |
_Spick and Span New_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--The corresponding _German_ | |
word is _Spann-nagel-neu_, which may be translated as "New from the | |
stretching needle;" and corroborates the meaning given by you. I may | |
remark the French have no equivalent phrase. It is evidently a familiar | |
allusion of the clothmakers of England and Germany. | |
BENBOW. | |
Birmingham. | |
_Under the Rose_ (Vol. iii., pp. 300.).--There is an old Club in this | |
town (Birmingham) called the "Bear Club," and established (ut dic.) | |
circa 1738, formerly of some repute. Among other legends of the Club, is | |
one, that in the centre of the ceiling of their dining-room was once a | |
carved rose, and that the members always drank as a first toast, to "The | |
health of the King," [under the rose], meaning the Pretender. | |
BENBOW. | |
_Handel's Occasional Oratorio_ (Vol. iii., p. 426.).--The "Occasional | |
Oratorio" is a separate composition, containing an overture, 10 | |
recitatives, 21 airs, 1 duet, and 15 choruses. It was produced in the | |
year 1745. It is reported, I know not on what authority, that the King | |
having ordered Handel to produce a new oratorio on a given day, and the | |
artist having answered that it was impossible to do it in the time | |
(which must have been unreasonably short, to extort such a reply from | |
the intellect that produced _The Messiah_ in three weeks, and _Israel in | |
Egypt_ in four), his Majesty deigned no other answer than that done it | |
must and should be, whether possible or not, and that the result was the | |
putting forward of the "Occasional Oratorio." | |
The structure of the oratorio, which was evidently a very hurried | |
composition, gives a strong air of probability to the anecdote. | |
Evidently no libretto was written for it; the words tell no tale, are | |
totally unconnected, and not even always tolerable English, a fine | |
chorus (p. 39. Arnold) going to the words "Him or his God we no fear." | |
It is rather a collection of sacred pieces, strung together literally | |
without rhyme or reason in the oratorio form, than one oratorio. The | |
examination of it leads one to the conclusion, that the composer took | |
from his portfolio such pieces as he happened to have at hand, strung | |
them together as he best could, and made up the necessary quantity by | |
selections from his other works. Accordingly we find in it the pieces | |
"The Horse and his Rider," "Thou shalt bring them in," "Who is like unto | |
Thee?" "The Hailstone Chorus," "The Enemy said I will pursue," from | |
_Israel in Egypt_, written in 1738; the chorus "May God from whom all | |
Mercies spring," from _Athaliah_ (1733); and the chorus "God save the | |
King, long live the King," from the _Coronation Anthem_ of 1727. There | |
is also the air "O! Liberty," which he afterwards (in 1746) employed in | |
_Judas Maccabaeus_. Possibly some other pieces of this oratorio may be | |
found also in some of Handel's other works, not sufficiently stamped on | |
my memory for me to recognise them; but I may remark that the quantity | |
of _Israel in Egypt_ found in it may perhaps have so connected it in | |
some minds with that glorious composition as to have led to the practice | |
referred to of prefixing in performance the overture to the latter work, | |
to which, although the introductory movement, the fine adagio, and grand | |
march are fit enough, the light character of the fugue is, it must be | |
confessed, singularly inappropriate. | |
I am not aware of any other "occasion" than that of the King's will, | |
which led to the composition of this oratorio. | |
D. X. | |
_Stone Chalice_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--They are found in the ancient | |
churches in Ireland, and some are preserved in the Museum of the Royal | |
Irish Academy, and in private collections. A beautiful specimen is | |
engraved in Wakeman's _Handbook of Irish Antiquities_, p. 161. | |
R. H. | |
_Thanksgiving Book_ (Vol. iii., p. 328.).--The charge for a | |
"Thanksgiving Book," mentioned by A CHURCHWARDEN, was no doubt for a | |
Book of Prayers, &c., on some general thanksgiving day, probably after | |
the battle of Blenheim and the taking of Gibraltar, which would be about | |
the month of November. A similar charge appears in the Churchwardens' | |
accounts for the parish of _Eye, Suffolk_, at a much earlier period, | |
viz. 1684, which you may probably deem worthy of insertion in your | |
pages: | |
"_Payments._ _l._ _s._ _d._ | |
"It. To Flegg for sweepinge and dressinge | |
upp the church the nynth | |
of September beeinge A day of | |
_Thanks-givinge_ for his Ma'ties | |
deliv'ance from the Newkett | |
Plot 00 03 00 | |
"It. For twoe _Bookes_ for the 9th of September | |
aforesaid 00 01 00" | |
J. B. COLMAN. | |
Eye, April 29, 1851. | |
_Carved Ceiling in Dorsetshire_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--Philip, King of | |
Castile (father to Charles V.), was forced by foul weather into Weymouth | |
Harbour. He was hospitably entertained by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who | |
invited Mr. Russell of Kingston Russell to meet him. King Philip took | |
such delight in his company that at his departure he recommended him to | |
King Henry VII. as a person of spirit "fit to stand before princes, and | |
not before mean men." He died in 1554, and was the ancestor of the | |
Bedford family. Sir Thomas Trenchard probably had the ceiling. See | |
Fuller's _Worthies_ (_Dorsetshire_), vol. i. p. 313. | |
A. HOLT WHITE. | |
The house of which your correspondent has heard his tradition is | |
certainly _Woolverton House_, in the parish of Charminster, near this | |
town. | |
It was built by Sir Thomas Trenchard, who died 20 Hen. VIII.; and | |
tradition holds, as history tells us, that Phillip, Archduke of Austria, | |
and King of Castile, with his queen _Juana_, or _Joanna_, were driven by | |
weather into the port of Weymouth: and that Sir Thomas Trenchard, then | |
the High Sheriff of the county, invited their majesties to his house, | |
and afforded them entertainment that was no less gratifying than timely. | |
Woolverton now belongs to James Henning, Esq. There is some fine carving | |
in the house, though it is not the ceiling that is markworthy; and it is | |
thought by some to be the work of a foreign hand. At Woolverton House | |
were founded the high fortunes of the House of Bedford. Sir Thomas | |
Trenchard, feeling the need of an interpreter with their Spanish | |
Majesties, happily bethought himself of a John Russell, Esq., of | |
Berwick, who had lived some years in Spain, and spoke Castilian; and | |
invited him, as a Spanish-English mouth, to his house: and it is said he | |
accompanied the king and queen to London, where he was recommended to | |
the favour of Hen. VII.; and after rising to high office, received from | |
Hen. VIII. a share of the monastic lands. | |
See Hutchins's _History of Dorset_. | |
W. BARNES. | |
Dorchester. | |
_"Felix quem faciunt," &c._ (Vol. iii., pp. 373. 431.).--The passage | |
cited by C. H. P. as assigned to Plautus, and which he says he cannot | |
find in that author, occurs in one of the interpolated scenes in the | |
_Mercator_, which are placed in some of the old editions between the 5th | |
and 6th Scenes of Act IV. In the edition by Pareus, printed at Neustadt | |
(Neapolis Nemetum) in 1619, 4to., it stands thus: | |
"Verum id dictum est: Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno | |
sapit." | |
I was wrong in attributing it to Plautus, and should rather have called | |
it _Plautine_. By a strange slip of the pen or the press, pericu_lum_ is | |
put instead of pericu_lo_ in my note. Niebuhr has a very interesting | |
essay on the interpolated scenes in Plautus, in the first volume of his | |
_Kleine Historische und Philologische Schriften_, which will show why | |
these scenes and passages, marked as supposititious in some editions, | |
are now omitted. It appears that they were made in the fifteenth century | |
by Hermolaus Barbarus. See a letter from him to the Bishop of Segni, in | |
_Angeli Politiani Epistolae_, lib. xii. epist. 25. | |
To the parallel thoughts already cited may be added the following: | |
"Ii qui sciunt, quid aliis acciderit, facile ex aliorum eventu, | |
suis rationibus possunt providere." | |
_Rhetoric. ad Herennium_, L. 4. c. 9. | |
"I' presi esempio de' lor stati rei, | |
Facendomi profitto l' altrui male | |
In consolar i casi e dolor miei." | |
Petrarca, _Trionfo della Castita_. | |
"Ben' e felice quel, donne mie care, | |
Ch' essere accorto all' altrui spese impare." | |
Ariosto, _Orl. Fur._, canto X. | |
S. W. SINGER. | |
_The Saint Graal_ (Vol. iii., p. 413.).--I see that MR. G. STEPHENS | |
states, that Mons. Roquefort's nine columns are decisive of Saint Graal | |
being derived from Sancta Cratera. I am unacquainted with the word | |
_cratera_, unless in Ducange, as meaning a basket. But _crater_, a | |
goblet, is the word meant by Roquefort. | |
How should _graal_ or _greal_ come from _crater_? I cannot see common | |
sense in it. Surely that ancient writer, nearly, or quite, contemporary | |
with the publication of the romance, Helinandus Frigidimontanus, may be | |
trusted for the fact that _graal_ was French for "gradalis or gradale," | |
which meant "scutella lata et aliquantulum profunda in qua preciosae | |
dapes cum suo jure divitibus solent apponi." (Vide Helinand. ap. | |
Vincentium Bellovacensem, _Speculum Historiale_, lib. 43. cap. 147.) Can | |
there be a more apparent and palpable etymology of any word, than that | |
_graal_ is _gradale_? See Ducange in _Gradale_, No. 3, and in | |
_Gradalis_, and the three authorities (of which Helinand is not one) | |
cited by him. | |
A. N. | |
_Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--The | |
_interpretation_ of this is probably from Jer. Taylor's own head. See, | |
for the history of the association in his mind, his sermon on the | |
"Marriage Ring." | |
"It is fit that I should infuse a bunch of myrrh into the festival | |
goblet, and, after the Egyptian manner, serve up a dead man's | |
bones as a feast." | |
Q. Q. | |
_Sewell_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--Allow me to refer H. C. K. to a passage | |
in the _Letters on the Suppression of the Monasteries_, published by the | |
Camden Society, p. 71., for an example of the word _sewelles_. It is | |
there said to be equivalent to _blawnsherres_. The scattered pages of | |
Duns Scotus were put to this use, after he was banished from Oxford by | |
the Royal Commissioners. | |
The word is perhaps akin to the low Latin _suellium_, threshing-floor, | |
or to the Norman French _swele_, threshold: in which case the original | |
meaning would be _bounds_ or _limits_. | |
C. H. | |
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. | |
_Col-fabias_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--This word is a Latinised form of the | |
Irish words Cul-{f}eabu{s} (cul-feabus), _i. e._ "a closet of decency" | |
or "for the sake of decency." | |
FRA. CROSSLEY. | |
_Poem from the Digby MS._ (Vol. iii., p. 367.).--Your correspondent H. | |
A. B. will find the lines in his MS. beginning | |
"You worms, my rivals," &c., | |
printed, with very slight variations, amongst Beaumont's poems, in | |
Moxon's edition of the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1840. They are | |
the concluding lines of "An Elegy on the Lady Markham." | |
W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. | |
_Umbrella_ (Vol. iii., pp. 37. 126.).--I find the following passage in | |
the fourth edition of Blount's _Glossographia_, published as far back as | |
1674. | |
"_Umbrello_ (Ital. _Ombrella_), a fashion of round and broad Fans, | |
wherewith the _Indians_ (and from them our great ones) preserve | |
themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little | |
shadow, Fan, or other thing, wherewith the women guard their faces | |
from the sun." | |
In Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_, 1708, it is thus noticed-- | |
"_Umbrella_, or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen, | |
commonly us'd by women to shelter them from Rain: also a Wooden | |
Frame cover'd with cloth to keep off the sun from a window." | |
"_Parasol (F.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women | |
carry over their heads." | |
And in Phillips's _New World of Words_, 7th ed., 1720-- | |
"_Umbrella_ or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen, which in | |
hot countries People hold over their heads to keep off the Heat | |
of the Sun; or such as are here commonly us'd by women to shelter | |
them from Rain: Also, a wooden Frame cover'd with cloth or stuff, | |
to keep off the sun from a window." | |
"_Parasol (Fr.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women | |
carry over their Heads, to shelter themselves from Rain," &c. | |
T. C. T. | |
_The Curse of Scotland_ (Vol. iii., p. 22.).--Your correspondent L. | |
says, the true explanation of the circumstance of the nine of diamonds | |
being called the curse of Scotland is to be found in the game of Pope | |
Joan; but with all due deference to him, I must beg entirely to dissent | |
from this opinion, and to adhere to the notion of its origin being | |
traceable to the heraldic bearing of the family of Dalrymple, which are | |
or, on a saltire azure, _nine lozenges of the field_. | |
There can be no doubt that John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl of | |
Stair, justly merited the appellation of the "Curse of Scotland," from | |
the part which he took in the horrible massacre of Glencoe, and from the | |
utter detestation in which he was held in consequence, and which | |
compelled him to resign the secretaryship in 1695. After a deliberate | |
inquiry by the commissioners had declared _him_ to be guilty of the | |
massacre, we cannot wonder that the man should be held up to scorn by | |
the most popular means which presented themselves; and the nine diamonds | |
in his shield would very naturally, being the insignia of his family, be | |
the best and most easily understood mode of perpetuating that | |
detestation in the minds of the people. | |
L. J. | |
_Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.; Vol. ii., pp. 27. 60. 94.).--Your | |
correspondents will find some information on this word in Ledwich's | |
_Antiquities of Ireland_, 2nd edit. p. 279.; and in Wakeman's _Handbook | |
of Irish Antiquities_, p. 141. Ledwich seems to derive the word from the | |
Teutonic _Bawen_, to construct and secure with branches of trees. | |
R. H. | |
_Catacombs and Bone-houses_ (Vol. i., p. 171.).--MR. GATTY will find a | |
vivid description of the bone-house at Hythe, in Mr. Borrow's | |
_Lavengro_, vol. i. I have no reference to the exact page. | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Bacon and Fagan_ (Vol. iii., p. 106.).--The letters B and F are | |
doubtless convertible, as they are both labial letters, and can be | |
changed as _b_ and _p_ are so frequently. | |
1. The word "batten" is used by Milton in the same sense as the word | |
"fatten." | |
2. The Latin word "flo" is in English "to blow." | |
3. The word "flush" means much the same as "blush." | |
4. The Greek word [Greek: bremo] is in the Latin changed to "fremo." | |
5. The Greek word [Greek: bora] = in English "forage." | |
6. _Herod._ vii. 73. [Greek: Bilippos] for [Greek: Philippos]; [Greek: | |
Bryges] for [Greek: Phryges]. | |
7. [Greek: Phalaina] in Greek = "balaena" in Latin = "balene" in French. | |
8. [Greek: Phero] in Greek = "to bear" in English. | |
9. "Frater" in Latin = "brother" in English. | |
Many other instances could probably be found. | |
I think that we may fairly imply that the labials _p_, _b_, _f_, _v_, | |
may be interchanged, in the same way as the dental letters _d_ and _t_ | |
are constantly; and I see no reason left to doubt that the word Bacon is | |
the same as the word Fagan. | |
[Greek: Philologos.] | |
_To learn by Heart_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--When A SUBSCRIBER TO YOUR | |
JOURNAL asks for some account of the origin of the phrase "to learn by | |
Heart," may he not find it in St. Luke i. 66, ii. 19. 51.? | |
"To learn by _memory_" (or by "_rote_") conveys to my own mind a very | |
different notion from what I conceive to be expressed by the words "To | |
learn by _heart_." Just as there is an evident difference between a | |
_gentleman in heart and feeling_, and a _gentleman in manners and | |
education only_; so there is a like difference (as I conceive) between | |
learning by heart and learning by rote; namely, the difference between a | |
_moral_, and a merely _intellectual_, operation of the mind. To learn by | |
_memory_ is to learn by _rote_, as a parrot: to learn by _heart_ is to | |
learn _morally--practically_. Thus, we say, we give our hearts to our | |
pursuits: we "love God with all our hearts," pray to Him "with the | |
spirit, and with the understanding," and "with the heart believe unto | |
righteousness:" we "ponder in our hearts," "muse in our hearts," and | |
"keep things in our hearts," i. e. "_learn by heart_." | |
J. E. | |
_Auriga_ (Vol. iii., p. 188.).--Claudius Minois, in his Commentaries on | |
the _Emblemata_ of Alciatus, gives the following etymology of | |
"Auriga:"-- | |
"Auriga non dicitur ab auro, sed ab aureis: sunt enim aureae lora | |
sive fraeni, qui equis ad aures alligantur; sicut oreae, quibus ora | |
coercentur."--_Alciati Emblemata_, Emb. iv. p. 262. | |
W. R. | |
Hospitio Chelhamensi. | |
_Vineyards in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.; Vol. iii., p. 341.).--Add to | |
the others _Wynyard_, so far north as Durham. | |
C. | |
_Barker_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.).--Mr. Barker lived in West Square, St. | |
George's Fields, a square directly opposite the Philanthropic Society's | |
chapel. | |
G. | |
_Barker, the original Panorama Painter._--MR. CUNNINGHAM is quite | |
correct in stating Robert Barker to be the originator of the Panorama. | |
His first work of the kind was a view of Edinburgh, of which city, I | |
believe, he was a native. | |
On his death, in 1806, he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Henry Aston | |
Barker, the Mr. Barker referred to by A. G. This gentleman and his wife | |
(one of the daughters of the late Admiral Bligh) are both living, and | |
reside at Bitton, a village lying midway between this city and Bath. | |
A SUBSCRIBER. | |
Bristol, June 2, 1851. | |
_The Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229. 308.).--ARUN's Query is fully | |
answered by a reference to Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_, | |
vol. ii. p. 379., where the bell is shown to be emblematic of the | |
saint's power to exorcise evil spirits, and reference is made to several | |
paintings (and an engraving given of one) in which it is represented. | |
The phrase "A Tantony Pig" is also explained, for which see further | |
Halliwell's _Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words_, s.v. Anthony. | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Essay on the Irony of Sophocles, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 389.).--Three | |
Queries by NEMO: 1. The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, now Bishop of St. | |
David's, is the author of the essay in question. 2. Cicero, _Tusc. | |
Disp._, i. 15. 39.:--_Errare_ mehercule _malo cum Platone ... quam cum | |
istis vera sentire_; (again), Cicero, _ad Attic._, l. viii. ep. | |
7.:--_Malle_, quod dixerim, me _cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum istis | |
vincere_. 3. The remark is Aristotle's; but the same had been said of | |
Homer by Plato himself: | |
"Aristot. [_Eth. Nicom._ l. i. cap. 6. Sec. 1. ed. Oxon.] is | |
reluctant to criticise Plato's doctrine of _Ideas_, [Greek: dia to | |
philous andras eisagagein ta eide]: but, he adds, the truth must | |
nevertheless be spoken:--[Greek: amphoin gar ontoin philoin, | |
hosion protiman ten aletheian.] | |
"Plato [_de Repub._, X. cap. 1. p. 595 b.]:--[Greek: Philia tis me | |
kai aidos ek paidos echousa peri Homerou apokolyei legein ... all' | |
ou gar pro ge tes aletheias timeteos aner.]" | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Achilles and the Tortoise_ (Vol. ii., p. 154.).--S. T. Coleridge has | |
explained this paradox in _The Friend_, vol. iii. p. 88. ed. 1850: a | |
note is subjoined regarding Aristotle's attempted solution, with a | |
quotation from Mr. de Quincey, in _Tate's Mag._, Sept. 1834, p. 514. The | |
passage in _Leibnitz_ which [Greek: Idihotes] requires, is probably | |
"_Opera_, i. p. 115. ed. Erdmann." | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Early Rain called "Pride of the Morning"_ (Vol. ii., p. 309.).--In | |
connexion with this I would quote an expression in Keble's _Christian | |
Year_, "On the Rainbow," (25th Sun. after Trin.): | |
"_Pride of the_ dewy _Morning_! | |
The swain's experienced eye | |
From thee takes timely warning, | |
Nor trusts else the gorgeous sky." | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_The Lost Tribes_ (Vol. ii., p. 130.).--JARLTZBERG will find one theory | |
on this subject in Dr. Asahel Grant's book, _The Nestorians; or, the | |
Lost Tribes_, published by Murray; 12mo. | |
C. P. PH***. | |
"_Noli me Tangere_" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 253. 379.).--There is an | |
exquisite criticism upon the treatment of this subject by various | |
painters, accompanied by an etching from Titian, in that delightful | |
book, Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_, vol. i. pp 354. 360.; | |
and to the list of painters who have illustrated this subject, add | |
_Holbein_, in the Hampton Court Gallery. (See Mrs. Jameson's _Handbook | |
to the Public Galleries_, pp. 172. 353., 1845.) | |
C. P. PH***. | |
"_The Sicilian Vespers_" (Vol. ii., p. 166.).--Your correspondent is | |
referred to _The War of the Sicilian Vespers_, by Amari, translated by | |
the Earl of Ellesmere, published very lately by Murray. | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol ii., pp. 216. 521.)--C. B. says, alluding to | |
JARLTZBERG's references, "there is nothing in Solinus;" I read, however, | |
in Solinus, cap. xv. (fol. 70. ed. Ald. 1518), under the heading, | |
"Thracum mores, etc.": | |
"Uterque sexus epulantes focos ambiunt, herbarum quas habent | |
semine ignibus superjecto. Cujus nidore perculsi pro laetitia | |
habent imitari ebrietatem sensibus sauciatis." | |
JARLTZBERG's reference to Herod. i. 36. supplies nothing to the point: | |
Herod. iv. 2. mentions the use of bone pipes, [Greek: physeteras | |
osteinous], by the Scythians, _in milking_; but Herodotus (iv. 73. 75.) | |
describes the orgies of the Scythians, who produced intoxicating fumes | |
by strewing hemp-seed upon red-hot stones, as the leaves and seed of the | |
Hasisha al fokara, or hemp-plant, are smoked in the East at the present | |
day. (See De Sacy, _Chrestom. Arabe_, vol. ii. p. 155.) Compare also | |
Plutarch de Fluviis (_de Hebro_, fr. 3.), who speaks of a plant | |
resembling Origanum, from which the Thracians procured a stupefying | |
vapour, by burning the stalks: | |
"[Greek: Epititheasi pyri ... kai ten anapheromenen anathymiasin | |
dechomenoi tais anapnoiais, karountai, kai eis bathyn hypnon | |
katapherontai.] [Opera Varia, vol. vi. p. 444. ed. Tauchn.]" | |
C. P. PH***. | |
_Milton and the Calves-Head Club_ (Vol. iii., p. 390).--Dr. Todd, in his | |
edition of Milton's _Works_, in 1809, p. 158., mentions the rumour, | |
without expressing any opinion of its truth. I think he omits all | |
mention of it in his subsequent edition in 1826, and therefore hope he | |
has adopted the prevailing opinion that it is a contemptible libel. In a | |
note to the former edition is a reference to Kennett's _Register_, p. | |
38., and to _"Private forms of Prayer fitted for the late sad times," | |
&c._, 12mo., Lond., 1660, attributed to Dr. Hammond. An anonymous | |
author, quoting the verbal assurance of "a certain active Whigg," would | |
be entitled to little credit in attacking the character of the living, | |
and ought surely to be scouted when assailing the memory of the dead. In | |
Lowndes' _Bib. Man._ it is stated that | |
"This miserable trash has been attributed to the author of | |
Hudibras." | |
J. F. M. | |
_Voltaire's Henriade_ (Vol. iii., p. 388.).--I have two translations of | |
this poem in English verse, in addition to that mentioned at p. 330., | |
viz., one in 4to., Anon., London, 1797; and one by Daniel French, 8vo., | |
London, 1807. The former, which, as I collect from the preface, was | |
written by a lady and a foreigner, alludes to two previous translations, | |
one in blank verse (probably Lockman's), and the other in rhyme. | |
J. F. M. | |
_Petworth Register_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--Your correspondent C. H. | |
appears to give me too much credit for diligence, in having "searched" | |
after this document; for in truth I did nothing beyond writing to the | |
rector of the parish, the Rev. Thomas Sockett. All that I can positively | |
say as to my letter, is, that it was intended to be courteous; that it | |
stated my reason for the inquiry; that it contained an apology for the | |
liberty taken in applying to a stranger; and that Mr. Sockett did not | |
honour me with any answer. I believe, however, that I asked whether the | |
register still existed; if so, what was its nature, and over what period | |
it extended; and whether it had been printed or described in any | |
antiquarian or topographical book. | |
Perhaps some reader may have the means of giving information on these | |
points; and if he will do so through the medium of your periodical, he | |
will oblige both C. H. and myself. Or perhaps C. H. may be able to | |
inquire through some more private channel, in which case I should feel | |
myself greatly indebted to him if he would have the goodness to let me | |
know the result. | |
J. C. ROBERTSON. | |
Beakesbourne. | |
_Apple-pie Order_ (Vol. iii., p. 330.).--The solution of J. H. M. to MR. | |
SNEAK's inquiry is not satisfactory. "Alternate layers of sliced pippins | |
and mutton steaks" might indeed make a pie, but not an apple-pie, | |
therefore this puzzling phrase must have had some other origin. An | |
ingenious friend of mine has suggested that it may perhaps be derived | |
from that expression which we meet with in one of the scenes of | |
_Hamlet_, "Cap a pied;" where it means perfectly appointed. The | |
transition from _cap a pied_, or "cap a pie," to _apple-pie_, has rather | |
a rugged appearance, orthographically, I admit; but the ear soon becomes | |
accustomed to it in pronunciation. | |
A. N. | |
[MR. ROBERT SNOW and several other correspondents have also | |
suggested that the origin of the phrase "apple-pie order" is to | |
be found in the once familiar "cap a pied."] | |
_Durham Sword that killed the Dragon_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--For details | |
of the tradition, and an engraving of the sword, see Surtees' _History | |
of Durham_, vol. iii. pp. 243, 244. | |
W. C. TREVELYAN. | |
_Malentour_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.)--Your correspondent F. E. M. will find | |
the word _Malentour_, or _Malaentour_, given in Edmondson's _Complete | |
Body of Heraldry_ as the motto of the family of Patten alias Wansfleet | |
(_sic_) of Newington, Middlesex: it is said to be borne on a scroll over | |
the crest, which is a Tower in flames. | |
In the "Book of Mottoes" the motto ascribed to the name of Patten is | |
_Mal au Tour_, and the double meaning is suggested, "Misfortune to the | |
Tower," and "Unskilled in artifice." | |
The arms that accompany it in Edmondson are nearly the same as those of | |
William Pattyn alias Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor | |
temp. Hen. VI.--the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford. | |
F. C. M. | |
_The Bellman and his History_ (Vol. iii., pp. 324. 377.).--Since my | |
former communication on this subject I have been referred to the cut of | |
the Bellman and his _Dog_ in Collier's _Roxburghe Ballads_, p. 59., | |
taken from the first edition of Dekker's _Belman of London_, printed in | |
1608. | |
C. H. COOPER. | |
Cambridge, May 17, 1851. | |
"_Geographers on Afric's Downs_" (Vol. iii., p. 372.).--Is your | |
correspondent A. S. correct in his quotation? In a poem of Swift's, "On | |
Poetry, a Rhapsody," are these lines:-- | |
"So geographers, in Afric maps | |
With savage pictures fill their gaps, | |
And o'er unhabitable downs | |
Place elephants for want of towns." | |
_Swift's Works, with Notes by Dr. Hawksworth_, 1767, | |
vol. vii. p, 214. | |
C. DE D. | |
"_Trepidation talk'd_" (Vol. iii., p. 450.).--The words attributed to | |
Milton are-- | |
"That crystalline sphere whose balance weighs | |
The trepidation talk'd, and that first moved." | |
Paterson's comment, quoted by your correspondent, is exquisite: he | |
evidently thinks there were two trepidations, one _talked_, the other | |
_first moved_. | |
The _trepidation_ (not a tremulous, but a turning or oscillating motion) | |
is a well-known hypothesis added by the Arab astronomers to Ptolemy, in | |
explanation of the precession of the equinoxes. This precession they | |
imagined would continue retrograde for a long period, after which it | |
would be direct for another long period, then retrograde again, and so | |
on. They, or their European followers, I forget which, invented the | |
_crystal_ heaven, an apparatus outside of the _starry_ heaven (these | |
cast-off phrases of astronomy have entered into the service of poetry, | |
and the _empyreal_ heaven with them), to cause this slow turning, or | |
trepidation, in the starry heaven. Some used _two_ crystal heavens, and | |
I suspect that Paterson, having some confused idea of this, fancied he | |
found them both in Milton's text. I need not say that your correspondent | |
is quite right in referring the words _first moved_ to the _primum | |
mobile_. | |
Again, _balance_ in Milton never _weighs_. _Scale_ is his word (iv. 997. | |
x. 676.) for a weighing apparatus. Where he says of Satan's army (i. | |
349.), | |
"In even balance down they light | |
On the firm brimstone," | |
he appears to mean that they were in regular order, with a right wing to | |
balance the left wing. The direct motion of the crystal heaven, | |
following and compensating the retrograde one, is the "balance" which | |
"_was_ the trepidation _called_;" and this I suspect to be the true | |
reading. The past tense would be quite accurate, for all the Ptolemaists | |
of Milton's time had abandoned the _trepidation_. As the text stands it | |
is nonsense; even if Milton did _dictate_ it, we know that he never | |
_saw_ it; and there are several passages of which the obscurity may be | |
due to his having had to rely on others. Witness the lines in book iv. | |
995-1002. | |
M. | |
_Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches_ (Vol. iii., p. 370.).--I | |
forward extracts from the Registers of the parish of Saint Benedict in | |
this town relating to the baptism of Dissenters. (Mr. Hussey, mentioned | |
in several of the entries, was Joseph Hussey, minister of a Dissenting | |
congregation here from 1691 to 1720. His meeting-house on Hog Hill (now | |
St. Andrew's Hill) in this town was pillaged by a Jacobite mob, 29th | |
May, 1716. He died in London in 1726, and was the author of several | |
works, which are now very scarce.) | |
"1697. October 14th. William the Son of Richard Jardine and | |
Elisabeth his Wife was baptiz'd in a Private Congregation by Mr. | |
Hussey in ye name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost. | |
"Witnesses, Robert Wilson, Richard Jardine. | |
"1698. Henery the Son of John and Sarah Shipp was baptized in a | |
Private Congregation by Mr. Hussey December 1. Elisabeth the | |
Daughter of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine was born ye twenty-first | |
day of January and baptized the second day of February 1698/99 in | |
a Private Congregation. | |
"1700. Walter the Son of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine born July | |
23 and said to be baptized in a Separate Congregation by Mr. | |
Hussey Aug. 20. | |
"1701. Elisabeth Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elisabeth his | |
wife born October 7. and said to be baptized at a Private | |
Congregation Novemb. 3d. | |
"1702. June 22. Miram the Son of Thomas Short and Mary his Wife | |
said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation. Jane the Daughter | |
of Richard Jardine and Elizabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a | |
Separate Congregation Dec. 21. | |
"1703. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife | |
said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation, Mar. 31. | |
"1705. Alexander the Son of Alexander Jardine and ... his Wife was | |
as 'tis said baptized in a Separate Congregation July 1705. | |
"1706. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife | |
said to be baptized at a Private Congregation Dec. 11. | |
"1707. Nov. 11. John the Son of Alexander and Elis. Jardine was | |
said to be baptized in Separate Congregation. | |
"1710. Aug. 23. John ye Son of Bryan and Sarah Ellis was said to | |
have been baptized in Separate Congregation. | |
"Nov. 15. Nath. ye Son of Alexander and Elisa Jardine was | |
said to be baptiz'd in a Separate Congregation." | |
I have no recollection of having met with similar entries in any other | |
Parish Register. | |
C. H. COOPER. | |
_Redwing's Nest_ (Vol. iii., p. 408.).--I think that upon further | |
consideration C. J. A. will find his egg to be merely that of a | |
blackbird. While the eggs of some birds are so constant in their | |
markings that to see one is to know all, others--at the head of which we | |
may place the sparrow, the gull tribe, the thrush, and the | |
blackbird--are as remarkable for the curious variety of their markings, | |
and even of the shades of their colouring. And every schoolboy's | |
collection will show that these distinctions will occur in the same | |
nest. | |
I also believe that there has been some mistake about the nest, for | |
though, like the thrush, the blackbird coats the interior of its nest | |
with mud, &c., it does not, like that bird, leave this coating exposed, | |
but adds another lining of soft dried grass. | |
SELEUCUS. | |
_Champak_ (Vol. iii., p. 84.).--A correspondent, C. P. PH***., asks | |
"What is Champak?" He will find a full description of the plant in Sir | |
William Jones's "Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants," vol. | |
v. pp. 128-30. _Works_, ed. 1807. In speaking of it, he says: | |
"The strong aromatic scent of the gold-coloured Champac is thought | |
offensive to the bees, who are never seen on its blossoms; but | |
their elegant appearance on the black hair of the Indian women is | |
mentioned by Rumphius; and both facts have supplied the Sanscrit | |
poets with elegant allusions." | |
D. C. | |
MISCELLANEOUS. | |
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. | |
The first volume issued to the members of the Camden Society in return | |
for the present year's subscription affords in more than one way | |
evidence of the utility of that Society. It is an account _of Moneys | |
received and paid for Secret Services of Charles II. and James II._, and | |
is edited by Mr. Akerman from a MS. in the possession of William Selby | |
Lowndes, Esq. Of the value of the book as materials towards illustrating | |
the history of the period over which the payments extend, namely from | |
March 1679 to December 1688, there can be as little doubt, as there can | |
be that but for the Camden Society it never could have been published. | |
As a publishing speculation it could not have tempted any bookseller; | |
even if its owner would have consented to its being so given to the | |
world: and yet that in the simple entries of payments to the Duchess of | |
Portsmouth, to "Mrs. Ellinor Gwynne," to "Titus Oates," to the | |
Pendrells, &c., will be found much to throw light upon many obscure | |
passages of this eventful period of our national history, it is probable | |
that future editions of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant narrative of it will | |
afford ample proof. | |
_The Antiquarian Etching Club_, which was instituted two or three years | |
since for the purpose of rescuing from oblivion, and preserving by means | |
of the graver, objects of antiquarian interest, has just issued the | |
first part of its publications for 1851. This contains twenty-one plates | |
of various degrees of merit, but all of great interest to the antiquary, | |
who looks rather for fidelity of representation than for artistic | |
effect. | |
CATALOGUES RECEIVED.--G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn), Catalogue, Part | |
LI., containing many singularly Curious Books; James Darling's (Great | |
Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue, Part 49. of Books chiefly | |
Theological. | |
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. | |
ALBERT LUNEL, a Novel in 3 Vols. | |
DR. ADAMS' SERMON ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRTUE. Any edition. | |
ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF BISHOP BUTLER. | |
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Vol. IV. | |
DENS' THEOLOGIA MORALIS ET DOGMATICA. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1832. | |
MARLBOROUGH DISPATCHES. Volumes IV. and V. | |
ART JOURNAL. 1839 to 1844 inclusive. Also 1849. | |
BULWER'S NOVELS. 12mo. Published at 6_s._ per Vol. Pilgrims of the | |
Rhine, Alice, and Zanoni. | |
STEPHANI THESAURUS. Valpy. Parts I. II. X. XI. and XXIX. | |
KIRBY'S BRIDGEWATER TREATISE. 2 Vols. | |
The _Second Vol._ of CHAMBER'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. | |
MITFORD'S HISTORY OF GREECE, continued by Davenport. 12mo. 8 Vols. | |
Published by Tegg and Son, 1835. Volume _Eight_ wanted. | |
L'ABBE DE SAINT PIERRE, PROJET DE PAIX PERPETUELLE. 3 Vols. 12mo. | |
Utrecht, 1713. | |
AIKIN'S SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS. 10 Vols. 24mo. Published by | |
Longmans and Co. 1821. Vols. I. V. and VIII. wanted. | |
CAXTON'S REYNARD THE FOX (Percy Society Edition). Sm. 8vo. 1844. | |
CRESPET, PERE. Deux Livres de la Haine de Satan et des Malins Esprits | |
contre l'Homme. 8vo. Francfort, 1581. | |
CHEVALIER RAMSAY, ESSAI DE POLITIQUE, ou l'on traite de la Necessite, de | |
l'Origine, des Droits, des Bornes et des differentes Formes de la | |
Souverainete, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de Telemaque. 2 Vols. | |
12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in 1719. | |
The same. Second Edition, under the title "Essai Philosophique sur le | |
Gouvernement Civil, selon les Principes de Fenelon," 12mo. Londres, | |
1721. | |
THE CRY OF THE OPPRESSED, being a True and Tragical Account of the | |
unparalleled Sufferings of Multitudes of Poor Imprisoned Debtors, &c. | |
London, 1691. 12mo. | |
MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF FRANCE. Vol II. 1830. | |
MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Vol. II. 1836. Sixth Edition. | |
JAMES'S NAVAL HISTORY. (6 Vols. 8vo.) 1822-4. Vol. VI. | |
HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. (8 Vols. 1818.) Vol. IV. | |
RUSSELL'S EUROPE FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. 4to. 1824 Vol. II. | |
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H. E. _The proper reading of the line referred to, which is from Nat. | |
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_See_ "NOTES AND QUERIES," No. 14. Vol. I., p. 211. | |
SILENUS. _The oft quoted lines_,-- | |
"He that fights and runs away," &c., | |
_by Sir John Menzies, have already been fully illustrated in our | |
columns. See_ Vol. I., pp. 177. 203. 210.; _and_ Vol. II., p. 3. | |
THE TRADESCANTS. _In_ C. C. R.'s _communication respecting this family_, | |
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING To Mesmerism. Part I. By the | |
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wrong. We thank him for this first instalment of his inquiry, and | |
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Medical Gazette._ | |
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important. That relating to the Witch of Endor is one of the most | |
successful we ever read. We cannot enter into particulars in this | |
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those who care nothing about Mesmerism, or _angry_ (for it has | |
come to this at last) with the subject."--_Dublin Evening Post._ | |
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one whose position gives him the best facilities, to ascertain the | |
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which we should have been glad to quote ... but we content | |
ourselves with referring our readers to the pamphlet | |
itself."--_Brit. Mag._ | |
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THE ARCHITECTURAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. | |
CONTENTS. | |
Introductory Address to our Readers. | |
The Great Exhibition and its Influence upon Architecture. | |
Design in Ecclesiastical Architecture. | |
Museums at Home and Abroad. | |
Ruskin and "The Stones of Venice." | |
Architectural Nomenclature and Classification. | |
Domestic Gothic Architecture in Germany. | |
Inventors and Authorship in relation to Architecture. | |
Assyrian Architecture. | |
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. | |
Classified List of Books recently published. | |
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW:--Chevreul on Colour. | |
BUILDINGS AND FURNITURE. | |
NEW INVENTIONS:--Machinery, Tools, and Instruments.--Materials, | |
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DETAILS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, measured and drawn from existing | |
Examples by J. K. COLLING, Architect. Continued Monthly. | |
CONTENTS. | |
Arches from Leverington Church, Cambridgeshire. | |
Details of ditto. | |
Tracery and Details from Altar Screen, Beverley Minster. | |
Parapet and Basement from St. Mary's Church, Beverley. | |
Seven Examples of Key Plates. | |
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List of volumes and pages in "Notes & Queries", Vol. I-III: | |
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| Notes & Queries Vol. I. | | |
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| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | | |
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| Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | | |
| Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | | |
| Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | | |
| Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | | |
| Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | | |
| Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | | |
| Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | | |
| Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | | |
| Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | | |
| Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | | |
| Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | | |
| Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | | |
| Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | | |
| Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | | |
| Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | | |
| Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | | |
| Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | | |
| Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | | |
| Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | | |
| Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | | |
| Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | | |
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| Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | | |
| Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | | |
| Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | | |
| Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | | |
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| Notes & Queries Vol. II. | | |
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| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | | |
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| Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1-15 | PG # 12589 | | |
| Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17-32 | PG # 15996 | | |
| Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33-48 | PG # 26121 | | |
| Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49-64 | PG # 22127 | | |
| Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65-79 | PG # 22126 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81-96 | PG # 13361 | | |
| Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | | |
| Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | | |
| Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | | |
| Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | | |
| Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | | |
| Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | | |
| Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | | |
| Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | | |
| Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | | |
| Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | | |
| Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | | |
| Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | | |
| Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | | |
| Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | | |
| Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | | |
| Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | | |
| Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | | |
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| Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | | |
| Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | | |
| Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | | |
| Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | | |
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| Notes & Queries Vol. III. | | |
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| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | | |
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| Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1-15 | PG # 15638 | | |
| Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17-31 | PG # 15639 | | |
| Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33-47 | PG # 15640 | | |
| Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49-78 | PG # 15641 | | |
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| Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81-95 | PG # 22339 | | |
| Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | | |
| Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | | |
| Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | | |
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| Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | | |
| Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | | |
| Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | | |
| Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | | |
| Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | | |
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| Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | | |
| Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | | |
| Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | | |
| Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | | |
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| Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | | |
| Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | | |
| Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | | |
| Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | | |
| Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-461 | PG # 36835 | | |
| Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | | |
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| Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | | |
| INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | | |
| INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. JAN.-JUNE, 1851 | PG # 26770 | | |
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