The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Author: Various Editor: George Bell Release Date: December 24, 2011 [EBook #38405] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, AUGUST 30, 1851 *** Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES and QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. IV.--No. 96. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page The Caxton Memorial and Chaucer's Monument 145 NOTES:-- Collar of SS., by Edward Foss 147 Printing 148 Folk Lore:--Bible Divination in Suffolk--Mode of discovering Bodies of the Drowned--Somersetshire Rhyme 148 Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations 149 Minor Notes:--Cocker's Arithmetic--The Duke of Normandy--Anachronisms and Errors of Painters--The Ring Finger--The Od Force--New Costume for Ladies 149 QUERIES:-- Judges styled Reverend, &c. 151 Minor Queries:--Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)--Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take on Oath--Cockroach--Felton--Date of a Charter--Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman"--Godfrey Higgins' Works--Noctes Templariae--Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England--Marcus AElius Antoninus--Derivation of Pic-nic--Sir Thomas More's Knighthood--Portrait of Mandeville--Early History of Dingle--Language of Ancient Egypt--Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe--Names first given to Parishes--German Testament--The Man of Law--The Termination "Ship"--Nullus and Nemo--The noblest Object of the Work of Art--Poulster 151 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Rev. Caesar de Missy--F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor--"Carve out Dials"--Log Book--Lord Clydesdale--"Time is the Stuff of which Life is made"--"Yet forty Days"--The Empress Helena 153 REPLIES:-- Royal Library 154 The "Eisell" Controversy 155 Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 157 "House of Yvery" 158 On "Rack" in the Tempest 158 Richard Rolle of Hampole 159 Replies to Minor Queries:--Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest--"The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong"--Fairlight Church--Dogmatism and Puppyism--Was Stella Swift's Sister?--Charles Lamb's Epitaph--Meaning of Carnaby--Scandinavian Mythology, &c. 160 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 165 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166 Notices to Correspondents 166 Advertisements 167 THE CAXTON MEMORIAL AND CHAUCER'S MONUMENT. The result of the appeals which have recently been made to the sympathies of the present age for the purpose of erecting a Memorial to our first Printer, and of restoring the crumbling tomb of one of our earliest and greatest Poets, has gone near to prove that the admirers of Caxton and Chaucer are disposed to yield to the objects of their hero-worship little more than lip service. In short, the plan for the Caxton Memorial, and that for the restoration of Chaucer's Monument, have well nigh failed. The projectors of the former had, indeed, in the necessity of settling what the Caxton Memorial should be, to encounter, at the very outset of their undertaking, one difficulty from which the Chaucer Committee was free; and the uncertainty whether it should assume the form of the symbolical "lamp and fountain" so poetically suggested by the Dean of St. Paul's, or the ideal cast-iron statue of the Coalbrook Dale Company, may have had a sinister effect upon the Subscription List. Between the suggestive symbol and the fancy portrait there would seem to be little room for hesitation, since the former would merely veil a truth, while the latter would perpetuate a falsehood. But our readers have had before them a third, and, as it seems to us, a far more reasonable proposal, in that made by MR. BOLTON CORNEY for a collective impression of Caxton's original compositions: and we cannot but think that if that gentleman will take the trouble to enter into the necessary details as to the extent of such compositions, and the expense of transcribing and printing them, his scheme may yet be realised, and that too to the satisfaction of all the subscribers to the Caxton Memorial. The following communication indicates the favour with which MR. CORNEY'S proposal will probably be received by the followers of Caxton's art in this country. I have just read with great pleasure the article on "A Caxton Memorial suggested" in your Number for the 19th of July. I was particularly pleased with the "_proposed conditions_;" and as an humble follower of the art of which Caxton stands at the head, and as an enthusiastic admirer of that great and talented, and learned printer, I should feel great pleasure in becoming a subscriber, should anything of the kind be undertaken; and have no doubt but that many,--aye, as many as might be required to complete the subscription list, might be found among the printers of this country, who would feel proud to subscribe to such a "Memorial." If anything of the kind should be undertaken, the projectors might depend upon me becoming a subscriber. HENRY RYLETT, Printer. Horncastle, Aug. 18. 1851. The following letter, on the other hand, from a correspondent whose smallest suggestion deserves, as it will be sure to receive, the respectful attention of all who have the pleasure of knowing his high personal character and great acquirements, although pointing at what might be a fitting Memorial of one of the greatest of the Worthies of Westminster, clearly indicates that if MR. CORNEY'S scheme can be carried out it will have the benefit of the writer's encouragement and support: MR. BOLTON CORNEY'S letter is entitled to much attention. It is satisfactory to learn that the original design has been abandoned. The fountain and the illumination might be a very pretty idea, but it would have sorely puzzled some of our countrymen to connect that memorial in their minds with the name and services of the first English printer. Might not the funds that were raised be advantageously employed in founding a Caxton scholarship at Westminster School; or in the building or enlarging some school bearing Caxton's name, connected with Westminster? The spiritual wants of that city are great. If the statue be raised, which should not present a _bona fide_ resemblance to our celebrated printer, it would be worse than valueless--something like an imposture and it would have as little connexion with Caxton as the statue in St. Peter's bears to the great Apostle, though called by his name. MR. CORNEY'S proposal, of giving an impression of Caxton's original compositions, would unquestionably be his most enduring and glorious monument. These reprints would be dear, not only to the bibliographer, but to the philologist and men of letters generally. But the work would be an expensive one, and the editors should be far more liberally recompensed than by merely receiving a limited number of copies. As the subscription would probably be very limited, the work should be undertaken by the nation, and not by individuals; still, the funds already raised, if not otherwise expended for educational purposes, as before suggested, would serve as the foundation for accomplishing MR. CORNEY'S excellent suggestion. J. H. M. Our present purpose, however, is to call attention to a hint thrown out not only in the following Note addressed to ourselves (which, be it observed, has been in type for several weeks), but also in the pages of our learned and able contemporary the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, in an article from which we extract the most important passage, namely, that in the event of the failure of the projected Caxton Memorial, the funds subscribed might with propriety and good effect be applied (the consent of the subscribers being of course first obtained) to an object with which Caxton himself would so surely have sympathised, namely, the restoration of the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer: _Chaucer and Caxton._--"Not half" of the required 100_l._ "has yet been subscribed" for the restoration of Chaucer's monument. Chaucer was an especial favourite of Caxton; and as the first English printer seems for awhile destined to remain without "light and fountain," as once upon a time suggested by Dr. Milman, treasurer of the Caxton fund, possibly the subscribers to that fund would not object to the transmission of the sum required by the old monument of the poet, from the no monument of the printer? Will the Dean of St. Paul's ask for suffrages on the matter? Q. After alluding to the various proposals for the Caxton Memorial, and the correspondence between MR. BOLTON CORNEY and MR. BERIAH BOTFIELD in "NOTES AND QUERIES," Sylvanus Urban proceeds: "But the discussion will do good. If neither proposal can be carried out, we shall probably have a better suggestion than either. The money in hand is said to be _far short_ of the sum necessary to erect a statue or to print the works; if so, why not repair Chaucer's tomb with it? Nothing would be more agreeable to Caxton himself. He not only printed Chaucer's works, and re-imprinted them merely to get rid of errors; but, feeling that the great poet 'ought eternally to be remembered' in the place where he lies buried, he hung up an epitaph to his memory over that tomb which is now mouldering to decay. "'Post obitum Caxton voluit te vivere, cura Willelmi, Chaucer clare poeta, tui, Nam tua, non solum, compressit opuscula formis, Has quoque sed laudes jussit hic esse tuas.' "The epitaph, touching evidence of Caxton's affection for the poet, has disappeared. In a few years the tomb itself will have submitted to inevitable fate. What better mode of keeping alive the memory of both Chaucer and Caxton, or of doing honour to the pious printer, than by showing that even after the lapse of centuries his wishes for the preservation of Chaucer's memory in that place are not forgotten? If the fund is more than sufficient for the purpose, the surplus might be invested on trust to perform the wish of Caxton, by keeping Chaucer's monument in repair for ever."--_Gentleman's Magazine_, August, p. 167. Here we leave the matter for the present not, however, without the hope that the present age will do honour to the memories of two of our Illustrious Dead, and that few months will witness both a Caxton Memorial in the shape of a collective edition of his original writings, and the Restoration of the Monument of the Father of English Poetry. Notes. COLLAR OF SS. (Vol. ii., pp. 89. 475.) No less than nine long months have elapsed since you adopted my suggestion of limiting your columns, on the disputed question relative to the collar of SS., to a record of the names of those persons who, either on the monumental effigies or brasses, or in their portraits or otherwise, are represented as wearing that ornament; together with a short statement of the position held by each of these individuals in the court of the then reigning monarch, seeming to warrant the assumption. How is it that the invitation has not produced more than a single response? Is it that the combatants are more fond of discussing the probabilities of a disputed point, than of seeking for facts to aid in its illustration? I hope that this is not so, in an age that prides itself in its antiquarian and historical investigations; and I trust that, now the dismissal of the parliament has relieved many from onerous duties, your pages may benefit, not only on this but on other important subjects, by the vacational leisure of your learned contributors. That I may not myself be chargeable with a continuance of the silence of which I complain, I now offer to you no less than eleven of the earliest names, principally taken from Boutell's _Monumental Brasses_, but some suggested in your own pages, on whose monuments or otherwise the collar occurs. To most of these I have added a few particulars seeming to warrant the assumption; and I doubt not that some of your correspondents will supply you with similar hints as to those of whom I have as yet been unable to trace anything applicable to the subject of enquiry. 1. The first of these is in 1382, seventeen years before the accession of Henry IV. It appears on the brass of Sir Thomas Burton, in Little Castreton Church, in Rutlandshire. This knight, we find, received letters of protection on accompanying the Duke of Lancaster to France in 1369, when Edward III. revived his claim to that kingdom.[1] Being thus one of the retainers of the duke, the assumption of his collar of livery may be at once accounted for. [Footnote 1: N. Foedera, iii. 870.] 2. The next that we have is on the monument of John Gower in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark. The poet died in 1402, 4 Henry IV. It is more than doubtful whether he was a knight, and the only ground that I can suggest for his being represented with the collar of SS. is, that he was in some manner, perhaps as the court poet, attached to the household of the king. Of his transferred devotion to Henry IV. we have sufficient evidence in the revision of his _Confessio Amantis_, from which he excluded all that he had previously said in praise of his patron Richard II. 3. Sir Thomas Massingberd died in 1406, and on his monument in Gunby Church in Lincolnshire, both he and his lady are represented with collars of SS. Why, I have still to seek. 4. In 1407 there is a similar instance of a knight and his lady being so ornamented. These are Sir William and Lady Bagot, whose monument is in Baginton Chruch, Warwickshire. Boutell says that he was the first who received this decoration from the king. Be this as it may, the Patent Rolls contain sufficient to account for his and his wife's assuming King Henry's livery from gratitude for the restoration of his land, which he had forfeited as an adherent to Richard II.[2] [Footnote 2: Cal. Rot. Pat. 236. 243.] 5. Then follows Sir John Drayton, whose monument, dated in 1411, is in Dorchester Church, Oxfordshire. It may be presumed that he was in the king's household; as in the beginning of the reign of Richard II. he was keeper of the royal swans; and early in that of Henry IV., was serjeant of the king's pavilions and tents. Thomas Drayton, who was made Assayer of the Mint in the year of Sir John's death[3], was probably his son. [Footnote 3: Cal. Rot. Pat. 196. 259.; Devon's Issue Roll, 286.] 6. In the following year, 1412, we have the collar of SS. represented on the brass of Sir Thomas Swynborne in Little Horkeley Church, Essex. Two or three years before, and perhaps at the time of his death, the knight held the offices of Mayor of Bordeaux, and of the king's lieutenant in those parts. The last five of these are in the reign of Henry IV. In the reign of Henry V., I am not aware of any examples; but in that of Henry VI., we find five other instances. 7. In Trotton Church, Sussex, is the monument of Thomas Lord Camoys, who died in 1424, and of his wife; both of whom are distinguished by the collar. He was a Knight of the Garter, and commanded the left wing of the English army at the battle of Agincourt. 8. A monument, supposed to be that of Sir John Segrave, dated in 1425, occurs in Dorchester Church, Oxfordshire: of whom I can state nothing. 9. On the brass of John Leventhorpe, Esq., in the church of Sawbridgeworth, in Hertfordshire, the collar is also to be found. He died in 1433, and was one of the executors named in the will of King Henry IV.[4] [Footnote 4: Devon's Issue Roll, 334.] 10. The monument in Yatton Church, Somersetshire, representing a judge in his robes, is traditionally ascribed to Sir Richard Newton, who died Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1449. This is, I believe, the first example of a judge being represented with the collar of SS. 11. The silver collars of the king's livery bequeathed by the will of John Baret of Bury, may be presumed, although he did not die till after the accession of Edward IV., to be of the livery of Henry VI.; as he is not only represented on his tomb, which he had erected during Henry's reign, with the collar of SS.; but the chantry, also built by him, is profusely ornamented with the same collar, enclosing his monogram J. B. He probably received the privilege of wearing it during Henry's visit to St. Edmondsbury in 1433.[5] [Footnote 5: Bury Wills, Camden Soc. 15-14. 233.] I shall be glad to see a continuation of this list carried on through subsequent reigns, since it is only by the multiplication of examples that we shall be enabled to form a more correct conclusion on the various questions connected with this interesting subject. Will one of your correspondents kindly inform me where it appears that Richard II. ever wore the collar of SS.? EDWARD FOSS. PRINTING. This art cannot be assigned to any single year, but must rather be referred to a _decennium_; and the one in which we now are (1851--1860), is certainly the first decennium of the fifth century of the existence of the art. If anything were proposed in the way of celebration of this _anni_versary, probably the year 1855 would be chosen, not only as the year which touches the middle of the decennium, but as being very probably the year in which the printing of the Bible was completed. We have then a year or two to consider in what manner the spirit which anniversaries usually call up shall be turned to account. The following will probably be suggested. _A feed._ If we could call down Fust and Gutenberg to witness that within twelve hours after dessert and commonplaces are finished, an account of the dinner, as long as three epistles of St. Paul, would be about the world in something like a hundred thousand copies, such a celebration would have a strong point of interest about it. _A monument in sculpture._ That is to say, a lame subscription, a committee, five-and-twenty abusive paragraphs before the thing is done, one more when, ten years after, it is completed, and a short notice in the handbooks of London in all time to come. If these two modes are abandoned, many others would be proposed. Mine would be, a subscription to defray the expense of publishing, on a large scale, a book of fac-similes of early typography, to be sold at a cheap rate, with such prefatory matter as would form an accurate popular history of printing from 1450 to 1550. The great interest with which I saw plain working men looking at the treasures now exhibited in glass cases at the British Museum, made me think of this. Reference is frequently made upon the origin of printing, to the _fasciculus temporum_, or _Cologne Chronicle_. In one place I find a citation in support of the Gutenberg Bible having been commenced in 1450; in another citation it is only affirmed that printing was first done in that year. The only edition I have the means of consulting at this moment is that of Ratdolt, 1484. And here I find nothing about printing except that, of the year 1457 and thereabouts, it is said that "Artifices mira celeritate subtiliores solito fiunt. Et impressores librorum multiplicant in terra." In the preface Ratdolt says that he had printed the _fasciculus_ three times already, of which Hain mentions two. He says, moreover, that this fourth (Venice) edition was _cura et opera diligentiori_. Did Ratdolt, after inquiry, abandon the more specific account above cited, and content himself with the above sentence, as expressing all that could be verified; or, as I have sometimes supposed, do _different books_ circulate under the title of _fasciculus temporum_? Be this as it may, Ratdolt expressly refers to the great impulse which the mechanical arts in general received just about the time when printing became common. Now we may hope the same thing of the decennium on which we are entering, the beginning of which is made conspicuous by the great forcing-house of art, which has not yet got the name it is to keep. M. FOLK LORE. _Bible divination in Suffolk._--In Suffolk it is a practice on New Year's Eve to open a Bible at midnight, and the passage upon which they stick a pin will be the luck (good or bad) that attends them the following year. R. J. S. _Mode of Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned._--What must we think of the following, transcribed from the _Gentleman's Mag._, vol. xxxvii. p. 189.? Can such things be? "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1767. "An inquisition was taken at _Newbery_, _Berks_, on the body of a child near two years old, who fell into the river _Kennet_, and was drowned. The jury brought in their verdict _accidental death_. The body was discovered by a very singular experiment, which was as follows:--After diligent search had been made in the river for the child, to no purpose, a two-penny loaf, with a quantity of quicksilver put into it, was set floating from the place where the child it was supposed had fallen in, which steered its course down the river upwards of half a mile, before a great number of spectators, when the body happening to lay on the contrary side of the river, the loaf suddenly tacked about, and swam across the river, and gradually sunk near the child, when both the child and loaf were immediately brought up, with grabbers ready for that purpose." Is this experiment ever tried at the present time, and do there exist any authentic accounts of such trials and their results? * & ? Manpadt House. _Somersetshire Rhyme._--In Vol. iii., p. 206., there is mention of a traditional rhyme on Lynn and Rising. At Taunton, in Somersetshire, there is a similar tradition current: "Nertown was a market town When Taunton was a furzy down." This Nertown is a village adjoining Taunton, and lying on the north side of it. Its name is variously regarded as a corruption of Northtown Near-town, and Nethertown, of which the last is doubtless the right derivation. R. D. H. DICTIONARY OF HACKNEYED QUOTATIONS. Allow me to suggest the publication of a small work, which might be entitled "The Book of Hackneyed Quotations." Manifold would be its usefulness. Here information would be imparted to enquirers anxious to discover the source of such passages and the labours of other oracles, as well as of the editor of "NOTES AND QUERIES," would be thus in this department diminished. Reporters would by this means be enabled to correct mistakes; for, owing either to blunders in the delivery, or errors in the short-hand notes, rarely are quotations faithfully printed. The gentleman "totally unaccustomed to public speaking," and the orator of "unadorned eloquence," might from hence cull some flowers wherewith to embellish their speeches while to the practised author and the accomplished speaker such a collection might serve as an index expurgatorius, teaching them what to avoid as common-place, and so the recurrence of old friends, "familiar in our mouths as household words," would be more "like angels' visits, few and far between." An index referring to the rhyming or important words should be appended, and it would be advisable to subjoin translation of the few Latin and French citations. Surely it is "devoutly to be wished" that the proposed little work may find "a local habitation and a name," and that the idea may not vanish into thin air "like the baseless fabric of a vision." No doubt several of your correspondents who do not think that "ignorance is bliss," and that it is "folly to be wise," would gladly lend their aid, and the constant "cry" would be "they come." As to the title, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet:" but "somewhat too much of this." TT. Minor Notes. _Cocker's Arithmetic._--I have a copy of Cocker's _Arithmetic_, the 37th edition, 1720, with an engraved portrait of the author; respecting which there is the following manuscript note on the flyleaf:-- "Mr. Douce, of Bath, the literary antiquary and book-collector, showed me a copy of Cocker's _Arithmetic_, with the _frontispiece cut of the author_, which he said was very scarce. "J. P., April, 1823." Mr. Douce's copy (the first edition, 1678) is now in the possession of Mr. Rainy, an upholsterer in Bath, and is for sale. He asks 8_l._ 10_s._ for it. CRANMORE. _The Duke of Normandy._--The question relative to the late Duke of Normandy being the individual who was Dauphin of France, the son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and who was said to have died in the Temple, has never been as publicly and satisfactorily settled as it deserves. The high station and unquestionable integrity of the individuals of the Perceval family who instituted the inquiry, and in the most open manner laid the results of that inquiry before the public, constitute an unexceptionable guarantee for its genuineness and authenticity. The acute perception and accurate memory of Madame Tussaud carry great weight with them. She was asked by the writer of this paragraph, if she thought the person calling himself the Duke of Normandy was the same individual she had modelled when a child. Madame Tussaud replied with great emphasis, "I would take my oath of it for he had a peculiar formation on the neck which still remains. Besides something transpired between us, which he referred to, which was never likely to be mentioned to any one." The late Mr. Jeremy, the active and highly intelligent magistrate who presided in the court of Greenwich, and whose long experience adds value to his judgment, was of opinion that there were no traces of the impostor discovered by him during several scrutinising examinations which were held in his office, and that the members of the old French nobility who were present treated him with profound respect. He was supported through unknown channels, was twice shot at, and refused permission by the French government, though it was applied for by legal advocates of the highest standing, to bring the question before the legal tribunals. At first the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, who knew that the Dauphin was alive, opposed the Duke of Wellington's proposal to reinstate Louis XVIII. The Empress Josephine is also said to have been aware, that the Dauphine did not die in the Temple, and is reported to have said "Ah! legitimacy is nearer than you suppose." It is an unsettled historical question worthy the attention of the historian who has time to bestow on it. AEGROTUS. _Anachronisms and Errors of Painters._--Perhaps the commonest of all anachronisms of painters is that of representing St. John Baptist in a Holy Family, himself a child, adoring the infant Saviour, and carrying a slight cross or flag, with the motto "Ecce Agnus Dei." That John knew our Lord as an eminently holy man is clear frown his expostulation, "I have need to be baptized of Thee," &c.; but he himself most distinctly assures us that it was not till he saw the Spirit descending on Jesus like a dove that he knew him as the promised Messiah and Lamb of God. I have seen an engraving from an old Master (perhaps some of your correspondents may remember the painting itself) in which the mother of Zebedee's children comes forward to beg the boon on their behalf, James and John being represented as boys of seven or eight, one on each side of her. These errors of painters are perhaps excusable when they occurred at a time when the Bible was not in everybody's hands: but what excuse can we make for artist's blunders now? The _Illustrated News_ has lately given us prints from paintings by living artists, in one of which, "Noah's Sacrifice," a couple of fat ducks figure as _clean_ fowl at the foot of the altar; and in the other, the Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins have increased into two sevens; neither error being apparently noticed by the editor. It is said that no sea piece, however fine, is admitted to our exhibitions if the rigging is incorrect. Would it not be quite as advisable to exclude Scripture pieces with palpable blunders? P. P. _The Ring Finger._--The English Book of Common Prayer orders that the ring should be put "upon the _fourth_ finger of the woman's left hand;" and the spousal manuals of York and Salisbury assign this practical reason for the selection of the said finger: "Quia in illo digito est quaedam vena procedens usque ad cor."--Maskell, _Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England_, 2nd edition, Preface, page clv. note: Lond. 1846. Aulus Gellius tells us-- "Veteres Graecos annulum habuisse in digito accepimus sinistrae manus, qui minimo est proximus. Romanos quoque homines aiunt, sic plerumque annulis usitatos. Causam esse hujus rei Appianus in libris AEgyptiacis hanc dicit: quod insectis apertisque humanis corporibus, ut mos in AEgypto fuit, quas Graeci [Greek: anatomas] appellant, repertum est, _nervum quendam tenuissimum ab eo uno digito, de quo diximus, ad cor hominis pergere ac pervenire_. Propterea non inscitum visum esse, eum potissimum digitum tali honore decorandum, qui continens et quasi connexus esse cum principatu cordis videretur."--_Noctes Atticae_, lib. x. cap. 10. Other reasons are assigned by Macrobius; and the author of the _Vulgar Errors_ (book iv. ch. 4.) has entirely overthrown the anatomical fiction mentioned above. Can any one give me any further information than that contained in L'Estrange or Wheatly, or in the authors to which they refer? The fourth finger of the left hand is certainly "the least active finger of the hand least used, upon which, therefore, the ring may be always in view, and least subject to be worn out:" but this is a very unromantic and utilitarian idea. RT. Warmington, Aug. 9. 1851. _The Od Force._--As considerable interest appertains to the earlier manifestations of what is now termed Mesmerism, the following Note may not be altogether unworthy of a place. The experiment, upon which a subjective proof of the agency of the power of Od is founded, as described by Dr. Herbert Mayo in the supplementary chapter to the last edition of _Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions_, and alluded to by R. D. H. (Vol. iii., p. 517.), is another instance of there being "nothing new under the sun." In the _Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords_, first published at Paris in 1582, in the chapter "Des faux Sorciers et de leur Impostures" occurs the following passage, which I copy _verbatim et literatim_:-- "Autres ont une ruse, qu'ils semblent d'attacher un anneau d'or ou d'argent a un petit filet, qu'on suspend dans un verre a demy plain d'eaue, et puis l'ayant trempe pair trois fois, disent bellement ce verset du Psalme, autant de fois, 'Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti, incerta et occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi.' L'anneau bat contre le verre, et sonne autant d'heures qu'il en peut estre." W. PINKERTON. Ham. _New Costume for Ladies._--The following paragraph, extracted from a London paper (November, 1794) would lead to the conclusion that the agitation regarding costume now going on in America, is not entirely novel; the Turkish fashion having been introduced unsuccessfully into this metropolis in the last century:-- "The young ladies of _haut ton_, who have invented _Turkish_ fashions, will not be surprised if their _husbands_ should follow their example, and adopt the _Turkish taste for variety_.--No man of sense can be _long_ attached to such _absurdity_!" G. R. Thanet Place, Temple Bar, Aug. 20. Queries. JUDGES STYLED REVEREND, ETC. I read a Query not long ago as to the time when the title "Very Reverend" was first given to Deans. I would also offer a Query, When did the Judges lose the title of "Reverend" and "Very Reverend," and obtain that of "Honorable?" In the second volume of _The Year Books_ the approbation of the twelve judges to the publication of the reports is headed, "By the approbation of the _Reverend Judges_;" and the following is copied from the title-page: "_Le Premier Part de les Reports del Cases en Ley, que furent argues en le Temps de le tres Haut et Puissant Prince, Roy Edward le Tierce. Ore nouvelment Imprimes, Corriges et Amendes, avec les Notations and References de l' tres Reverend et tres Sage Juges de cest Royaulme, Brook et Fitzherbert. Printed, 1679._" In the title-page of the sixth volume we find "_Avec les Notations de le tres Reverend Juges, Brook et Fitzherbert_." Was this title, "Reverend," derived from the address given to judges when ecclesiastics filled judicial offices, or is it simply a title of respect applied to all persons to whom, on account of their position in society, respectful address is due; of which we have an example in Othello's address to the Venetian senators: "Most potent, grave, and reverend seniors." When did the address, "The Honorable," now given to the judges, come into use? How comes it that in Court the Puisne Judges are addressed by the title of "Lord," whereas the Master of the Rolls, who ranks before them, receives the title of "Your Honor?" The use of the title "Honorable" to the House of Commons, and to members within its walls, is familiar to us all. The worthiness and antiquity of the title is proved by its being given to one of the Persons of the Eternal Trinity in the Te Deum. F. W. J. Minor Queries. 93. _Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)._--They appear as booksellers merely and only, so far as I can make out, because the _promptorius puerorum_, or _medulla grammaticae_, printed by Pynson, in 1499, is said, in the colophon, to be at their expense. Neither Ames nor Dibdin gives any further evidence. The following is therefore worth a Note. It is from the _ad lectorem_ (or rather, the _adolescentibus studiosis_) of the _Multorum Vocabulorum equivocorum interpretatio Magistri Johannes de garlandia_: Paris, 1502, 4to. "Sed nihil tam arduum tamque difficile fuit quod labor improbus non vicerit. Ut videlicet mei amicissimo Fredericho Egmont morem gererem optatissimus: qui cum in vestra excellentissima anglie patria. Et librorum sit fidelissimus mercator et amicorum suorum amantissimus, nullum unque librum ex officina sua nisi perquam castigatus emittet." Query, was F. Egmont a printer as well as a bookseller? Granting that _officina_ means a shop, how can a mere bookseller sell none but correctly printed works? The writer of the above was himself a bookseller (Joh. Ant. Venetus). Of Peter above-mentioned, or rather of his name, the following is the history:--The colophon of the _promptorius_, of which there is a copy in the Grenville Library, runs as follows "... in expensis virtuosorum virorum Frederici Egmont et Petri post pascha, anno domini MCCCC nonagessimo nono, decima v'a die mensis Maii." Hence Hain and others have entered Peter post Pascha as an English bookseller, presuming that the words _post pascha_ cannot belong to the date, because the more definite day, "May 15," follows. But surely, among the varieties of the time when every man did what seemed good in his own eyes as to titles, colophons, &c., it may easily have happened that a double description of a part of the date may have occurred, one description containing more than the other. Query, Can any other instance be produced of this hypertautology?[6] At any rate, such a thing is more likely than that a bookseller should have been called _Peter After-Easter_. At the same time such whimsical things were done in the Latinization of names, both by their owners and by others for them, that no certain conclusion can be drawn. For example, more atrocious changes have been made than would be that of Easterby into _post pascha_. M. [Footnote 6: [We are glad to supply our correspondent with another instance of hypertautology, and from a work in great demand during this part of the year. On the cover of Bradshaw's _Railway Guide_ we read, "Eighth Month (August) 1st, 1851."]] 94. _Unlucky for pregnant Women to take an Oath._--In a police case, reported in _The Times_ of the 28th of May, a woman was called as a witness who, however, upon the book being tendered to her, positively refused to be sworn, with the remark, that it must be evident to the magistrate that she could not take an oath. The usher of the court said that the woman was pregnant, and that low women who were in that situation, entertained an absurd belief that it was unlucky to take an oath. What is the origin of this superstition? Is it common amongst the uneducated classes of society? COWGILL. 95. _Cockroach_ (Vol. i., p. 194.).--Having seen in "NOTES AND QUERIES" some interesting particulars on the subject of beetle mythology, I am induced to put a Query as to the derivation of the word "cockroach." The common appellation for this insect in the French islands is _ravet_, but the more correct one is _kakerlaque_. Does the affinity in sound between this latter term and "cockroach," slight though it be, warrant the supposition that the one may be derived from the other? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, May, 1851. 96. _Felton._--What has become of the letter said to have been found in Felton's hat when he stabbed the Duke of Buckingham? Upcott once had it, but it did not appear in the sale catalogue of his collection. ?? 97. _Date of a Charter._--Having been in the habit of making frequent consultations to the MSS. in the British Museum respecting the county of Wilts, I found a charter temp. Henry III., the date of which is given as "_Thursday next after the day whereon the King sent his daughter into Sicily_!" It is now three years since I last saw the original, and having mislaid my transcript, I quote from memory; but I believe I am correct in my rendering from the Latin. Can you, through the medium of your valuable publication, fix with accuracy this date, as I have not been able to do so. J. T. HAND. 29. Threadneedle Street, Aug. 13. 1851. 98. _Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman."_--Has any new evidence been discovered to prove the correct dates of the birth and decease of this "old English worthy?" On his own authority we learn that Rivenhall, near Witham in Essex, was the place of his nativity, and his remains were interred (about 1580?) in St. Mildred's church in the Poultry. Are any particulars known of Sir Richard Southwell, one of Tusser's patrons? EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. 99. _Godfrey Higgins' Works._--Have the works of Godfrey Higgins (the _Celtic Druids_ and the _Anacalypsis_) ever been reviewed, and where? if not, can any of your readers inform me what is the opinion generally entertained of these productions? OUTIS. 100. _Noctes Templariae._--In turning over yesterday a MS. volume in the University Library, I met with a tract of 8 pp., with the title, _Noctes Templariae: a Briefe Chronicle of the darke Raigne of the bright Prince of burning Love_. Stradilan is the name of the principal character in this most mad composition. As to the author, I shall be glad to receive information from those better acquainted with the fugitive literature of the seventeenth century than W. R. C. Cambridge. 101. _Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England._--On July 27th, 1733, commissioners were appointed to survey the officers of justice in England and Wales, and to inquire into their fees. Will any of your learned readers inform me whether these commissioners made any report of the returns of fees which they received in pursuance of their commission, and where is such report or returns deposited? This inquiry may lead to some important results. INQUIRER. 102. _Marcus AElius Antoninus._--Can you or any of your correspondents inform me what writer is concealed under the pseudonyme of Marcus AElius Antoninus, in the following title? "De scripto quodam cleri secundarii et leguleorum cololiensium plane detestabili, adversus Evangelii doctrinam et ordines Imperii nuper edito Querela Marci AElii Antonini Imperatoris, qui Philosophus a bonis literis magna laude cognominatus est. 1543." TYRO. Dublin. 103. _Derivation of Pic-nic._--Can any of your subscribers inform me of the derivation of the word "Pic-nic?" A. F. S. Nottingham, Aug. 12. 104. _Sir Thomas More's Knighthood._--I should, be glad of the date when the honour of knighthood was conferred on this eminent man and also the date of his admission into the privy council. If I am rightly informed, the records of the privy council are preserved only since 1540. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT 105. _Portrait of Mandeville, author of the Fable of "The Bees."_--Could any of your numerous readers inform me whether there is in existence any authenticated portrait of Dr. Bernard de Mandeville, author of the fable of "The Bees?" I have made a fruitless search for several years past. B. G. 106. _Dingle, early History of._--Any references to works, MS. or printed, containing notices of the early history of Dingle and its neighbourhood, in the county of Kerry, Ireland, will much oblige. R. H. 107. _Ancient Egypt, Language of._--What are the best standard works on the study of the language of ancient Egypt, as preserved in its monuments? What are the best works on its chronology? What translations exist of its "Ritual of the Dead?" I am acquainted with Lepsius Todtenbuch. What MSS. of it, _if any_, are preserved in British museums or libraries? have they been collated? I am acquainted with that in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, formerly in possession of the late Lord Kingsborough, which, I believe, has never been even lithographed; though among the members of that university are a Hincks, a Wall, and a Butcher. S. P. H. T. 108. _Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe._--None of the biographers of the famous Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter, the controversial writer, and founder of Chelsea College, state where he was born, or where interred. Faulkner, in his _History of Chelsea_, observes that he was probably a native of Devonshire; but there appears to be some ground for considering that he was of a family settled at Mayroyd, in the parish of Halifax in Yorkshire. In a conveyance of the estate, dated 29th January, 1581, the grantor is Matthew Sutcliffe, "Doctor of Civil Law, dwelling in London." He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Doctor of Civil Law: he died in 1629. In his will he desires to be buried in Exeter Cathedral. Probably the inscription on his tombstone, if still existing, might settle this uncertainty. I shall feel obliged to any of your correspondents who can throw any light on the subject. JAMES CROSSLEY. 109. _Names first given to Parishes._--Is there any means of ascertaining the time at which names were first given to parishes? and can any reason be given for the recurrence of one termination in a particular locality? Thus between Caistor and Brigg in Lincolnshire, a distance of about nine miles, there are, I understand, the several parishes or hamlets of _Clixby_, _Fonaby_, _Grassby_, _Ownby_, _Searby_, _Bigby_, _Barnetby_, _Wrawby_, and there are many others in the neighbourhood. Of course, I know the meaning of _by_, as a termination; but I wish to know why it occurs so often in one locality, when perhaps a few miles off you have as many _hams_ or _thorpes_. Can you suggest any probable derivation of _Swinhop_? F. B. Leamington. 110. _German Testament._--What is the most literal German translation of the New Testament? Is the translation published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1844 to be depended on? A. G. 111. _The Man of Law._--Who was the author of the following lines quoted by Mr. Serjeant Byles a short time since?-- "The man of law, who never saw, The way to buy or sell, Shall never rise, by merchandise, Or ever speed him well." They may not be quite correct, as I write from memory. W. W. KING. 112. _The Termination "Ship."_--What is the origin of the termination _ship_, in such words as consul_ship_, praetor_ship_, lord_ship_, and others? A. W. H. 113. _Nullus and Nemo._--I have two old quarto tracts, of eight pages each, printed, as seems both by the type and by an allusion contained in one of them, between 1520 and 1530, or thereabouts. They are part of a satirical controversy, the subject of which is very obscure, between _Nemo_ of Wittemberg, and _Nullus_ of Leipsic. Though printed, we must suppose, at the two places, the opponents have evidently clubbed for a woodcut to be common to the two title-pages. In this cut an unfortunate householder stands in an attitude of despair, surrounded by what are as much in our day as in his the doings of _nobody_, as broken crockery, hardware, &c. In the distance his kitchen is visible, in which two nobodies are busy with his meat and wine. A young woman is carrying an infant to the priest to be baptized; and from the way in which the worthy man holds up his finger, we may fear she has just confessed that it is nobody's child. Can any of your readers give any information? M. 114. _The noblest Object of the Work of Art._--Can any of your readers discover the answer to the adjoining riddles which I have met with, though I neither know its author nor answer?-- "The noblest object of the work of art, The brightest gem that nature can impart, The point essential in the tenant's lease, The well-known signal in the time of peace, The farmer's comfort when he holds the plough, The soldier's duty and the lover's vow, The planet seen between the earth and sun, The prize that merit never yet hath won, The miser's idol and the badge of Jews, The wife's ambition and the parson's dues. If now your noble spirit can divine, A corresponding word for every line, By the first letters plainly will be shown, An ancient city of no small renown." A. W. H. 115. _Poulster._--Can any one inform me if I am right in supposing that this word, used in the reign of George I. as an addition expressing trade, is the same as our _upholsterer_? D. X. Minor Queries Answered. _Reverend Caesar de Missy._--Can you furnish me with any particulars respecting the Rev. Caesar de Missy? Bishop Middleton, in his work on the Greek article, quotes once or twice some MS. notes of his, now in the British Museum; and a rare edition of the Septuagint (Basil, 1545), now in my possession, contains his autograph under date Londini, 1745. I have not met with his name in any biographical work, and should therefore be obliged by any information respecting his life and works. QUIDAM. [Caesar de Missy, a learned Prussian divine, was born at Berlin, 1703. Having settled in England, he was appointed in 1762 to be one of the French chaplains to George III., and died 1773. His valuable library, which was sold by Baker and Leigh in 1778, consisted of many books enriched with his MS. notes, some of which were purchased for his Majesty's library, some for the British Museum, and some by Dr. Hunter, who also bought several of his manuscripts. A biographical account of De Missy will be found in Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_, under _De Missy_ and a list of his works in Watt's _Bibliotheca Britannica_, art. _Missy_.] _F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor_ (Vol. ii., p. 263.).--"An acre sown with royal seed," &c. Would M. W. kindly say _where_ the passage in Beaumont is to be found? C. P. E. [The passage occurs in the poem entitled "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey." See Beaumont and Fletcher's _Works_, vol. ii. p. 709. edit. 1840.] "_Carve out Dials._"-- "----Carve out dials, quaintly, point by point, Thereby to set the minutes, how they run, How many make the Hour full, complete; How many hours bring about the Day." Where is the above quotation from? It heads an advertisement of the _Sam Slick Clocks_. G. CREED. [It will be found in Shakspeare's _King Henry VI._, Part III. Act II. Sc. 5.] _Log Book._--What is the origin of _Log Book_? G. CREED. [The Log _board_ no doubt gave rise to the Log _book_, as being more convenient for preserving a record of the ship's course, winds, and weather. Consult Falconer's _Dictionary of the Marine_.] _Lord Clydesdale._--Would you kindly inform me who was the "Lord Mar. Clydesdale," or "Clidsdale," whose name appears as a commoner of St. Mary's College, Winchester, in 1735; and in other Rolls about that date? MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. P.S. May I in your columns beg all Wykehamists to send to me, under care of my publisher, any information concerning their old school? [James, Marquis of Clydesdale, was afterwards fifth Duke of Hamilton, and second Duke of Brandon. See Douglas' _Peerage of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 473. 722.] "_Time is the Stuff of which Life is made._"--There is a phrase, "Time is the stuff that life is made of," which has been taken for a line of Shakspeare. A reference to Mrs. Clark's _Concordance_ shows that that supposition is erroneous. Can any of your readers inform me where the phrase may be found? H. [It occurs in Dr. Franklin's _Works_, vol. iii. p. 454., edit. 1806, in the article "The Way to Wealth, as clearly shown in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanack, intitled, Poor Richard Improved." He says, "But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says." Franklin may have quoted it from some previous author.] "_Yet forty Days_" (Jonah iii. 4.)--"Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown."--Septuagint (Baxter's edition) "[Greek: Eti _t r e i s_ hemerai]," &c.: "Yet _three_ days."--How is this? NEDLAM. [[Greek: Treis] is the common reading of the LXX. as [Hebrew: arbaiym] of the Hebrew. We know of no variants. J. H. Michaelis' account of the matter is, "Perperam vero LXX. hunc _quadragenarium_ dierum numerum in _triduanum_ commutarunt."] _The Empress Helena._--Most readers of general history are aware that the parentage of the renowned mother of the still more renowned Constantine has been claimed for two widely different sources,--a British king on the one hand, and an innkeeper of Bithynia on the other. In favour of the former, we have Geoffrey of Monmouth, Carte the English historian, and modern Welsh authors; for the latter, Gibbon and his authorities. The object of the present Query is threefold: 1. Will some one having access to Geoffrey be kind enough to favour me (in the original or a translation) with the exact statement of the chronicler to which Gibbon refers? 2. Are writers of intelligence and credit quite agreed that the tradition which assigns to the wife of Constantius a royal British parentage was "invented in the darkness of monasteries?" 3. Where is the question--one of interest in many ways--fully and satisfactorily discussed? H. [The statement will be found in Geoffrey's _British History_, book v. ch. 6.:--"After the decease of Coel, a petty prince of Caercolvin [Colchester], Constantius himself was crowned, and married the daughter of Coel[7], whose name was Helena. She surpassed all the ladies of the country in beauty, as she did all others of the time in her skill in music and the liberal arts. Her father had no other issue to succeed him on the throne; for which reason he was very careful about her education, that she might be better qualified to govern the kingdom. Constantius, therefore, having made her partner of his bed, had a son by her called Constantine." Thus far Geoffrey; and with him agree Baronius, Ussher, Stillingfleet, and Camden. The learned Lipsius' opinion of this tradition, in his letter to Mr. Camden, will be found in his _Epistles_, page 64. The traditions, however, is not mentioned by Gildas, Nennius, or Bede. Our correspondent will find a long discussion on this disputed point in Alban Butler's _Lives of the Saints_, August 18, Art. "S. Helen." See also Tillemont, _Hist. des Empereurs_, t. iv.] [Footnote 7: This petty king is probably the hero of the old popular ditty: "Old King Coel, Was a merry old soul," &c.] Replies. ROYAL LIBRARY. (Vol. iii., P. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 69.) I have delayed contradicting the stories told about the Royal Library in the _Quarterly Review_ of last December, and repeated in the _Illustrated Boswell_, and, I am sorry to say, still more gravely and circumstantially reproduced by the Editor of "NOTES AND QUERIES." I have delayed, I say, until I was enabled to satisfy myself more completely as to one of the allegations of _your_ Note. I can now venture to assure you that the whole story of the projected sale to Russia is absolutely unfounded; and that the Princess Lieven, whose supposed agency is the gist of the story, never heard a syllable about it, till my inquiry brought it to her notice, and that she has given it the most absolute contradiction. As there never was any such proposition, I need not say that the interference against it attributed to Mr. Heber and Lord Sidmouth is equally unfounded. The real history of the affair is this:--Mr. Nash, the architect, had rendered himself very agreeable to George IV. by his alterations and additions to the Pavilion at Brighton, and he managed to obtain (somewhat irregularly, I believe) the job of altering old Buckingham House, which was originally intended, or at least proposed, to be only an extensive repair and more commodious arrangement of the existing edifice. Under that notion, Mr. Nash had little difficulty in persuading the king that the space occupied by so large a library could not be spared for that purpose, if the house was to be arranged as a _palace_ both for private residence and for purposes of state; and as there was a very great jealousy in Parliament of the expense of Buckingham House, he was afraid to propose the erection of an additional building to receive the books. It was then that the scheme was hit on, I know not exactly by whom (but I believe by Mr. Nash), of giving the books to the British Museum. The principal part of the library occupied three large rooms, two oblong and one an octagon. The former were to have been absorbed into the living apartments, and the octagon was to be preserved as a _chapel_, which it was proposed to adorn with the seven _cartoons_ of Raphael from Hampton Court. All these, and several other schemes, vanished before Mr. Nash's larger views and increased favour, which led by degrees to the total destruction of the old house, and the erection of an entirely new palace, which however retains strong evidence of the occasional and piecemeal principle on which it was begun. But in the meanwhile the library was gone. _I know_ that some members of the government were very averse to this disposal of the library: they thought, and _strongly represented_, that a royal residence should, not be without a library; and that this particular collection, made especially _ad hoc_, should not have been, on any pretence, and above all on one so occasional and trivial, diverted from its original destination. It is very possible that Mr. Heber may have expressed this opinion; and I think I may say that Lord Sidmouth certainly did so: but, on the other hand, some of the king's advisers were not sorry to see the collection added to the Museum _pro bono publico_; and so the affair concluded,--very unsatisfactorily, as I thought and think, as regards the crown, to whom this library ought to have been an heirloom; and indeed I doubt whether it was not so in point of law. It is likely enough that the gift of the library may have been _partly_ prompted by a hope of putting the public in better humour as to the expenses of Buckingham House; but the idea of a _sale to Russia_ never, I am sure, entered the head of any of the parties. C. THE "EISELL" CONTROVERSY. (Vol. iv., pp. 64. 135.) I can easily suppose, after the space you have given to J. S. W. (Vol. iv., p. 64.) to sum up on the long-protracted controversy of the _Eisell_ interpretation, that you will scarcely permit it to be renewed. J. S. W.'s judgment, though given with much amenity and fulness, I cannot think satisfactory, as towards its close he evidently sinks into the advocate. Theobald, a most admirable annotator, has narrowed the controversy very properly, to the consideration whether Hamlet was here proposing possibilities or impossibilities. J. S. W. dwells on the whole of the dialogue between Hamlet and Laertes as a rant; and sinks all the lines and passages that would bring it down to sanity. But this seems to line singularly unjust. Imprimis, Hamlet is not enraged like Laertes, "who hath a dear sister lost," and is a very choleric, impetuous, and arrogant young gentleman. It is this quality which irritates Hamlet, who is otherwise in the whole of this scene in a particularly moralising and philosophic mood, and is by no means "splenetic and rash." Hamlet, a prince, is openly cursed by Laertes: he is even seized by him, and he still only remonstrates. There is anything but rant in what he (Hamlet) says; he uses the most homely phrases; so homely that there is something very like scorn in them: ---- "What wilt thou _do_ for her?" is the quietude of contempt for Laertes' insulting rant; and so, if my memory deceive me not, the elder Kean gave it; "_Do_ for her" being put in contrast with Laertes' braggadocio _say_. Then come the possibilities: "Woul't weep, fight, fast, tear thyself," (All, be it noted, common lover's tricks), "Would drink up eisell, eat a crocodile, I'll do't." Now the eating a crocodile is the real difficulty, for that looks like an impossibility but then, no doubt, the crocodile, like all other monstrous things, was in the pharmacopoeia of the time, and was considered the most revolting of eatables. Eat a crocodile, does not mean a whole raw one, but such as the alligator mentioned in the shop of Romeo's apothecary, probably preserved in spirits. Here we have possibilities put against the rant of Laertes; _the doing_ against _the saying_; the quietude of the philosophic prince, against the ranting of the robustious Laertes; things that _could be done_,--for Hamlet ends with "I'll do it." That is, he will weep, fight, fast, tear himself, drink bitterness, and eat monstrosities: and this is his challenge of Laertes to the true testimony of his love, in contrast to his wordy lamentation. But his quick imagination has caught an impetus from its own motion, and he goes on, "Nay, I will even outprate you;" and then follows his superior rant, not uttered with sincere vehemence, but with quiet and philosophic scorn; and he ends with the reproof of Laertes' mouthing; a thing particularly distasteful to him. And now, in accordance with this dignified contempt is his final remonstrance and his exit speech of-- "I lov'd you ever; but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself," &c. We thus see that there is no real rant in Hamlet; he is not outbragging Laertes; but institutes the possible, in contradiction to swagger and mouthing. The interpretation of _eisell_ thus becomes a matter of character, and to a great degree would determine an actor's mode of rendering the whole scene. This result I do not see that any of your correspondents have taken notice of; and yet it really is the main thing worth discussing. This interpretation too has the advantage of coinciding with Shakspeare's perpetual love of contrast; the hot, hasty, wordy Laertes being in strong contrast to the philosophic, meditating, and melancholy young prince; always true to his character, and ever the first in every scene by his own calm dignity. He never rants at all, but rides over his antagonist by his cool reasoning and his own magnificent imagination. The adoption of Theobald and Hickson's interpretation of the word _eisell_ becomes therefore of great importance as indicating the character of Hamlet. F. G. T. Many of your readers no doubt feel much indebted to your correspondent for his able summary of the _eisell_ controversy; an example which it is to be hoped will be followed in other cases. It has induced me to collect a few passages for the purpose of showing that Shakspeare was accustomed to make use of what may be termed _localisms_, which were frequently as occult as in the instance of the _eisell_; and that he was especially fond of establishing himself with the children of his brain in the particular country by means of allusion to the neighbouring seas and rivers. What appropriate signs are the Centaur and the Phoenix for the city of Ephesus, the scene of the _Comedy of Errors_! The Italian, Iachimo, speaks of-- "---- lips as common as the stairs That mount the capitol." And Petruchio alludes to the bursting of "a chestnut in a farmer's fire," an incident probably of common occurrence in the sunny south. In _Hamlet_, with which we are chiefly concerned, the king "gulps his draughts of _Rhenish_ down;" and the grave-digger talks of a flagon of _Rhenish_ having been poured by the jester upon his head, the wine with which Denmark would naturally be supplied. His majesty inquires: "Where are the _Switzers_? let them guard the door." And the student Horatio is judiciously placed at the university of Wittenburg. Constant mention is made in _The Merchant of Venice_ of the Rialto; and Portia, not unmindful of the remarkable position of the city, thus directs Balthazar: "Bring them, I pray thee, with imagin'd speed Unto the tranect, to the common ferry Which trades to Venice." What a fine Hebraism (Hazlitt remarks) is that of Shylock, where he declares, that he would not have given his ring "for a whole wilderness of monkeys!" And so, if the subjoined passage in _Othello_ relates to the ceremony of the Doge's union with the sea, may we not exclaim "What an admirable Venetianism!" "I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea's worth." The Moor has not travelled far to find the following simile: "Like to the Pontick sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontick and the Hellespont." Petruchio asserts in respect to Catherine: "---- Were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic waves, I come to wive it wealthily in Padua." In the Roman plays the Tiber is repeatedly noticed. The Thames occurs in _Merry Wives of Windsor_, and others. And in the Egyptian scenes of _Antony and Cleopatra_, the Nile is several times introduced. "Master Brook [says Falstaff], I will be thrown into Etna, as I have been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus." Antony exclaims: "Let Rome in Tiber melt!" while Cleopatra gives utterance to the same sentiment: "Melt Egypt into Nile! And kindly creatures Turn all to serpents!" In the last two passages it may be observed, that the hyperbolical treatment of the two rivers bears some analogy to that of the _eisell_; and it may also be pointed out, that although one of your correspondents has rashly maintained that the word cannot mean a river because the definite article is omitted before it, Thames, Tiber, and Nile here occur without. Upon the whole it must appear that there is some reason for adopting the motto: "Flow on, thou shining river." T. _Eisell_ will, I think, if examples from our old writers decide, be at least acknowledged to mean in Shakspeare what we now (improperly?) call vinegar, and not any river. In _The Goolden Letanye of the Lyf and Passion of our Lorde Jesu Criste_, edited from a MS. (No. 546.) in the library at Lambeth, by Mr. Maskell, _Monumenta Ritualia_, ii. 252., comes this entreaty:-- "For thi thirste and tastyng of gall and _eysyl_, graunte us to tast the swetnes of thi spirite; and have mercy on us." All through the sixteenth century, and ages before, _eisell_ was not only a housewife's word, but in every one's mouth--in the poet's as he sang, the preacher's as he preached, and the people's while they prayed. Surely, for this very reason, if Shakspeare meant Hamlet to rant about a river, the bard would never have made the king choose, before all others, that very one which bore the same name with the then commonest word in our tongue: a tiny stream, moreover, which, if hardly ever spoken of in these days of geographical knowledge, must have been much less known then to Englishmen. DA. ROCK. Buckland, Faringdon. Your correspondent J. S. W. well deserves the thanks of all those of your readers who have taken an interest in the discussion on the meaning of _eisell_ in _Hamlet_, for the able manner in which he has summed up the evidence put forward by the counsel on both sides. Perhaps he is correct in his conclusion, that, of twelve good men and true, nine would give their verdict for _eisell_ being "a river;" while but three would favour the "bitter potion." Nevertheless, I must say, I think the balance yet hangs pretty even, and I rather incline myself to the latter opinion, for these reasons: 1. There is no objection whatever, even in the judgment of its enemies, against _eisell_ meaning "a bitter potion," except that they _prefer_ the river as more to their taste; for the objection of MR. CAUSTON I conceive to have no weight at all, that "to drink up" can only be applied "to a definite quantity;" surely it may also mean, and very naturally, to drink "without stint." And _eisell_ need not be taken as meaning nothing more than "vinegar;" it may be a potion or medicament of extreme bitterness, as in the 111th sonnet, and in Lydgate's _Troy Boke_ quoted by MR. SINGER, such, that while it would be possible to sip or drink it in small quantities, or diluted, yet to swallow a quantity at a draught would be almost beyond endurance; and hence, I submit, the appropriateness of "drink up." 2. There is this objection against _eisell_ meaning a river,--Would the poet who took a world-wide illustration from _Ossa_, refer in the same passage to an obscure local river for another illustration? Moreover it does not appear to be sufficient to find any mere river, whose name resembles the word in question, without showing also that there is a propriety in Hamlet's alluding, to that particular river, either on account of its volume of water, its rapid flow, &c., or from its being in sight at the time he spoke, or near at hand. Can any of your readers, who have Shakspeare more at their fingers' ends than myself, instance any _exact parallel_ of this allusion of his to _local_ scenery, which, being necessarily obscure, must more or less mar the universality, if I may so speak, of his dramas. Could such instances be pointed out (which I do not deny) or at least any one exactly parallel instance, it would go far towards reconciling myself at least to the notion that _eisell_ is the river Essel. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford, July 28. LORD MAYOR NOT A PRIVY COUNCILLOR. (Vol. iv., pp. 9. 137.) I will not attempt to follow all the statements of L. M., because some of them are totally beside the question, and others contradict each other. I shall only observe that he totally mistakes _my_ argument when he says, as if in reply to me, that _it is not necessary to have the courtesy title of lord to be a privy councillor_. No one ever said any such thing. What I said was this, that the Mayor of London, like those of Dublin and York, had the courtesy title of _lord_, and that this title of _lord_ brought with it the other courtesy designation of _right honorable_, which latter being _also_ (but not _likewise_) the designation of privy councillors, had, as I suppose, occasioned the error now predicated of the Mayor of London being a privy councillor, which, I repeat, he is no more than any Lord John or Lady Jane, who have also the title of Right Honorable. L. M., however, states as a matter of fact, that "the Lord Mayor is always _summoned to council_ on the accession of a new sovereign." Now I assert, and I think have proved in my former note, that the Lord Mayor never was so _summoned to council_. I now add that he never has on any occasion entered the _council chamber_, that he has never taken the oath nor performed any act of a privy councillor, and that in short there is not the smallest doubt with any one who knows anything about the Privy Council, that the _Lord Mayor of London_ no more belongs to it than the _Lord Mayors of York or Dublin_, or the _Lord Provost of Edinburgh_, all of whom are equally styled Right Honorable, which title, I repeat, is the sole and silly pretence of this new-fangled hypothesis. C. "HOUSE OF YVERY." (Vol. iv., pp. 101. 136.) Observing the imperfect knowledge which Lowndes and your correspondents apparently have of the work called Anderson's _House of Yvery_, I send you a few Notes to clear up some points. It may be said there were two editions of this work; one containing the censorious comments of (I presume) Lord Egmont on the degraded state of the peerage; the second, that in which those comments were cancelled. To the first, no printer's name appeared in the title-page; to the second is the name of "H. Woodfall, jun." Lowndes has entirely mistaken the origin of the different paging in vol. i. The fact is, the original edition of the Introduction contained 41 pages of text, but the cancels reduced that number to 37; which p. 37., as Lowndes correctly remarks, is in the second edition misprinted 29. I possess both copies, with and without the cancels. By Lowndes we are led to believe that only p. xxxvii. was destroyed; but in truth they are p. xvi., and parts of pp. xv. and xvii., and nearly the whole of pp. xxxv.-vi., containing the anecdotes of the tailor's son and the apothecary's brother-in-law being sent, or intended to be sent, to foreign courts, as ambassadors from England. Another cancel occurs in vol. ii., of nearly the whole of pp. 444-5-6, which occasions Lowndes to say that pp. 446-7 are missing. The duplicate pages 453 to 460 are peculiar to the second edition only. One of my copies contains two additional plates, one of Wardour Castle, the other of Acton Burnell, evidently engraved for the work. The map of the baronies of Duhallow, &c., is only in one copy, viz. the original edition. Unfortunately, this original edition wants all the portraits of Faber, but it has the tomb of Richard Percival of 1190, beginning "Orate," as in Lowndes. It contains also a duplicate portrait of Sir Philip Percival, engraved by Toms in 1738 (who also engraved the Wardour and Acton Burnell Castles); and this duplicate is also in the other copy. Were I to form any judgment when this work was commenced, I should say about 1738, and that all the engravings for it were done by Toms; and the first edition was printed in 1742, without any printer's name, and that some copies were so bound up. The other copies remained in sheets until the next year, when Faber was employed to engrave the portraits, and till 1744 or 1747; 1747 being the latest date of Faber's plates. There is some curious information in these volumes, and I would recommend your readers to observe how much the conduct of the Catholics of Ireland, recorded in vol. ii. p. 271., resembles that of the Catholics of the present day. P. ON "RACK" IN THE TEMPEST. (Vol. iv., pp. 37. 121.) I think A. E. B. has not understood MR. HICKSON'S argument in reference to this word. Perhaps the latter may not have expressed himself very clearly; and not having by me his original paper on the subject, I cannot cite his exact words; but his argument I take to be to this effect:--In construction of the passage there is a double comparison, which, though perfectly clear to the intelligent reader, causes some confusion when a doubt is first raised as to the meaning of the word, and which can be cleared up only by a thorough analysis. "The cloud-capp'd towers," &c., are first compared with "the baseless fabric of this vision," _like which_ they "shall dissolve," and afterwards with "this insubstantial pageant," _like which_ (_having "faded"_) they shall "leave not a rack behind." A given object can be said to "leave behind" only that which was originally of its elements, and for this reason only a general term such as _wreck_ or _vestige_ will accord with the construction of the passage. I am sorry to find that any one should misquote Shakspeare for the purpose of obtaining a temporary triumph: probably, however, in the instance I am about to cite, A. E. B. has really fallen into the common error of regarding two similes as one. He says, giving the substance of Shakspeare's passage, "the globe itself shall dissolve, and, like this vision, leave not a wreck behind." What Shakspeare in substance _does_ say is, "The globe itself, _like this vision_, shall dissolve, and, _like this faded pageant, shall_ leave not a rack behind." A. E. B.'s question, therefore, "in what was the resemblance to the vision to consist, if not in melting, like it, into thin air?" is thus answered: The resemblance _does_ consist in _dissolving_, or "melting" away. My object in making these remarks is not to express an opinion on one side or the other, but to draw the attention of your readers to the real question at issue. I therefore say nothing as to whether Shakspeare may or may not have had a prevision of the nebular theory; though I cannot see that this would be in the least affected by our decision as to the meaning of this word, since the _wrack_ or _wreck_ of the world might well be represented by the "vapour" for which A. E. B. contends. As, however, this gentleman says such is its meaning "beyond all doubt," (a rather dogmatic way of settling the question, by the way, seeing that a doubt had been thrown upon it in the very paper he has engaged himself to answer,) I should like to be informed if there is any authority for the use of the word in Shakspeare, or his cotemporaries, as _mere_ "haze" or "vapour." I have generally understood it to mean a _particular_ description of cloud, or, as some say, more properly, the course of the clouds in motion. In fine, as Prospero did undoubtedly point to the dissolution of the globe and all that it contained, it is quite clear that it could in such case leave neither "cloud" nor "vapour," nor anything else behind it. The simple question then remains: Is the word _rack_, as elsewhere used by Shakspeare and his contemporaries, logically applicable there? A LOOKER-ON. Dawlish, Aug. 16. 1851. _Wolken Zug, English Term corresponding to._--Coleridge (_Death of Wallenstein_, Act V. Sc. 1.) gives the lines-- "Fast fly the clouds, the sickle of the moon Struggling, darts snatches of uncertain light." as a translation of "---- schnell geht Der Wolken Zug: die Mondessichel wankt Und durch die Nacht zuckt ungewisse Helle." In a note on this passage he says: "The words _wanken_ and _schweben_ are not easily translated. The English words by which we attempt to render them are either vulgar or pedantic, or not of sufficiently general application. So 'der Wolken Zug,' the draft, the procession of clouds, the masses of the clouds sweep onward in swift _stream_." On reading this, it struck me that the English word _rack_ exactly expresses the meaning of "der Wolken Zug." Malone, in his note on the _Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1., says: "_Rack_ is generally used for a _body of clouds_, or rather for _the course of clouds in motion_." I add a few instances of the use of this word, many of which are collected in the note I have referred to. In _Antony and Cleopatra_-- "That which is now a horse, even with a thought The _rack_ dislimns." In Fletcher's _Faithful Shepherdess_-- "shall I stray In the middle air, and stay The sailing _rack_." In Dryden's tenth _AEneid_-- "the doubtful _rack_ of heaven Stands without motion." The term _scud_, used by sailors, seems to express the same idea. X. Z. RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE. (Vol. iv., pp. 49. 116.) The productions of the writer known by the name of the Hermit of Hampole have been hitherto much neglected: they afford copious illustrations of ancient manners, and are very valuable in a philological point of view. I would especially name the _Speculum Vitae, or Mirrour of Life_, of which I possess two MSS. in entirely distinct dialects. Your Cambridge correspondent has shown that the Metrical Sermons contain interesting passages also illustrative of manners and as the extracts he has made have given occasion to some glossarial Queries from an Oxford correspondent, J. E., should they not be more satisfactorily answered by C. H., to whom they are addressed, perhaps the following attempt to resolve them may not be unacceptable. 1. By the _devenisch_ most probably the _Danish_ is meant, which we find elsewhere written _Deniske_, _Daniske_, and _Danske_. 2. _Guystroun_ should be _quystroun_, which is used by Chaucer in the _Romaunt of the Rose_, and signifies a _scullion_, as is evident from this passage. It is from the O. Fr. _quistron_ or _cuistron_. Thus in K. Alisaunder (Weber's _Metr. Rom._), v. 2511.: "Ther n'as knave no _quistron_ That he no hadde god waryson." 3. By _Chaunsemlees_ we may probably understand _schoon-semeles_, signifying, no doubt, _sandals_. 4. "Hir chere was ay _semand_ sori," which your correspondent says is "an expression very strange to English verse," is nothing more than the old form of _seeming_: her cheer was ever sorrowful or _sad-seeming_. The termination _and_ or _ande_, as well as _inde_, was formerly used where we now have _ing_. Examples are numerous of this form; as _semand_ and _semynd_, _spekand_, _strikinde_, &c. &c. In Gawin Douglas, _Eneados_, we have _glaidsembland_ for an appearance of joy or gladness, a _cheerful countenance_; and in b. ii. v. 159.: "As that drery unarmyt wicht was sted And with _eine_[8] blent about _semyn ful red_." [Footnote 8: Your correspondent's extract has _ane_; but _eyes_ are evidently meant.] There are other words which appear in an uncommon form in these extracts, for instance, _telid_ and _telith_, _hirched_ and _hirching_; and the following plural form I do not recollect to have observed elsewhere: "For ser deyntes and many _mes_ Make men falle in many _sicknes_." In the last line of the first page, _Salhanas_ should be _Sathanas_: "And so slew Jesu Sathanas," reminding us of the tradition mentioned by DR. RIMBAULT, "the Devil died when Christ _suffered_," not when he was _born_. S. W. Singer. Mickleham, Aug. 18. 1851. Replies to Minor Queries. _Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest_ (Vol. iii., pp. 443. 522.; Vol. iv., pp. 44. 92. 108.).--ERZA regrets extremely the mistake she has made with regard to the above poem. The person from whom, and the circumstances under which she received it, all tended to confirm her in her error till the last moment--with which, if the authoress of this beautiful poem were acquainted, ERZA is sure she would be forgiven. [To these regrets on the part of ERZA we have to add the expression of our own that our columns should have been made the medium of a statement which it is obvious originated in error. We regret also that, after the contradictions given to the first statement, ERZA should, without a positive knowledge of the real facts of the case, have reiterated in such strong terms the claims of Lady Flora Hastings to the authorship of a poem which it is now quite clear is really the production of Miss Barber.] "_The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong_" (Vol. iv., p. 125).--I cannot concur in MR. CROSSLEY'S conjecture that the _marks of quotation_ affixed to this line in the eighteenth book of the _Dunciad_ may have been a mere _error of the press_; because, in the first place, I do not find that the _Dunciad_ is more negligently printed than other works of the day. I should say rather less so; but (which is more important) any one who will look at the successive editions will, I think, be satisfied that the _remarkable typography_ of the line, carefully reproduced in _all_, could not be accidental. This matter is less trifling than it at first sight may seem, because there are several lines in Pope's works similarly marked as quotations, on which questions have arisen; and my belief is that everything so marked will turn out to have really been a _quotation_, though in this case, and in that other, "No Lord's anointed but a Russian bear," we have, as yet, failed to find the original. C. _Fairlight Church_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--The old church was Early English; the original windows were lancet-shaped. It was built, like all the adjoining churches, of stone; but it had been repaired with brick, and the roof of the tower had been covered with tiles instead of shingles. The earliest brick building in Sussex, after the Roman period, is Herstmonceux Castle, built by Sir Roger de Fynes, treasurer of the household to Henry VI. W. D. COOPER _Dogmatism and Puppyism_ (Vol. iv, p. 102).--The quotation your correspondent writes about to be found in MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S _A Man Made of Money_, p. 252.: "'Robert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential air of a scholar, 'Robert, what did Mr. Carraways mean when he said he hated dog--dogmatism?' Topps was puzzled. 'Robert, my dear,' Jenny urged, 'what--what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the weakness of Topps, never to confess ignorance of anything soever to his wife. 'A man should never do it,' Topps had been known in convivial seasons to declare; 'it makes 'em conceited.' Whereupon Topps prepared himself, as was his wont, to make solemn, satisfying, answer. Taking off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles of his brow, Topps said, 'Humph! what is dogmatism? Why, it is this, of course: dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.'" ED. STEANE JACKSON. Saffron Walden, Aug. 10. _Was Stella Swift's Sister?_ (Vol. iii., p. 450.; Vol. iv., p. 110.).--That Swift was the son of Sir William Temple seems to have been completely disproved by Mason. Swift was born in Dublin, 30th November, 1667, in the house of his uncle Godwin Swift, who, after the death of his younger brother, Jonathan, in the preceding April, took charge of his widow. Sir William Temple appears from his letters to have been abroad in a public capacity from 1665 to 1670. If therefore, there existed such consanguinity between Swift and Stella as to be a bar to their marriage, it must have arisen in some other way. Swift says that Stella "was born at Richmond in Surrey, on 13th March, 1681; her father being the younger brother of a good family in Nottinghamshire [Qy. Sir Wm. Temple? Sheen, where he resided, was close by], her mother of a lower degree." There can be little doubt that she was illegitimate. The question arises, who was her mother? On this point the Richmond registry might perhaps throw some light. _Has it ever been searched?_ In order that the supposed consanguinity should have existed, her mother must have been either Swift's mother, Abigail Swift (_nee_ Erick) of Leicestershire, or (what seems more probable) an illegitimate half-sister of Swift. It has been surmised, however, that an impediment to Swift's marriage of an entirely different nature from consanguinity may have existed; or that, feeling himself to be labouring under an hereditary disease, he may have been unwilling to propagate it. I am much inclined to think that the objection to the marriage of Swift and Stella, which certainly must have existed, was of this last description; and that it would have been equally strong the case of any other female. However this may be, I believe that full credit may be given to what Swift has stated respecting the perfect purity of his intercourse with Stella. "I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue, from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life."--Swift's _Works_, vol ix. p. 489. (_citante_ Mason). E. H. D. D. _Charles Lamb's Epitaph_ (Vol. iii., pp. 322. 459.).--It has been suggested to me by a lady who was an intimate friend of Lamb's, that Mr. Justice Talfourd was the author of this epitaph. The observation, however, was made without, I believe, any _certain_ knowledge on the subject. COWGILL. _Meaning of Carnaby_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--ARUN inquires as to the meaning of Carnaby as the name of a street. Carnaby is a surname probably deriving from the parish of Carnaby in Yorkshire. It has become a Christian name in the family of ---- Haggerston, Bart., since the marriage of an heiress of Carnaby's into that family. Streets are often called after proper names. [Dagger symbol] _Scandinavian Mythology_ (Vol. ii, p. 141.).--Your correspondent T. J. has called attention to the tradition-falsifying assertion of Mr. G. Pigott, that the custom with which the Scandinavians were long reproached, of drinking out of the skulls of their enemies, has no other foundation than a blunder of Olaus Wormius in translating a passage in the death-song of Regner Lodbrog. The following extracts from the curious and learned work of Bartholinus, _De Causis Contemptae a Danis Adhuc Gentilibus Mortis_, will, I think, show that the subject deserves further inquiry before we consent to place this ancient historical tradition in the category of vulgar errors. Speaking of the banquets of the beatified heroes in Valhalla, Bartholinus says: "Neque tamen ex communi animalium cornu elaborata pocula in Valhalla viserentur; sacratiora desiderabantur ex caesorum craniis inimicorum confecta, quae apud Danos vel ex Dania oriundos, alias quoque gentes, in summo erant pretio."--Lib. ii. cap. xii. p. 555. In proof of this assertion he quotes the following authors; Herodotus (lib. iv. cap. 65.) and Plato (Euthydemus), who attribute this custom to the Scythians. Aristotle is supposed to allude to it, _De Repub._ lib. vii. cap. 2. In the _Historia Miscellanea_, lib. vi., it is mentioned as a custom of the Scordisci; and similar customs are recorded of the Panebi by Nicolaus Damascenus, of the Essedones by Solinus and Mela, of the Boii by Livy (lib iii. cap. 24.), of the Celts by Silius Italicus (lib. ii.), of the Langobards by Paulus Diaconus (lib. i. cap. 27.). The last-mentioned author informs us that these skull cups were alled "scalae;" upon which Bartholinus remarks-- "Unde genus, undeque morem ejusmodi conficiendarum paterarum unde etiam nomen _scalae_ iis inditum, ex septentrione nempe traxerunt Langobardi manifestum facient Vaulundar qvidu. "Enn poer skalar &c. &c. h. e. Crania autem illa Quae pericraniis suberant Argento obduxit et Nidado tradidit." W. B. R. _Scandal against Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. iii., pp. 225. 285. 393.).--I do not recollect that either of your correspondents on this subject has brought forward the aspersion upon Queen Elizabeth's fair fame in precisely the same form in which the Jesuit Sanders places it in the following passage:-- "Hac Ecclesiae contra ipsam sententia, et Catholicorum novis incrementis quotidianis, non mediocriter offensa Elizabetha, convocatis ordinibus, leges valde iracundas et cruentas contra veteris fidei cultores promulgat: quibus primum cavetur, _ne quis Elizabetham haereticam, schismaticam, infidelem, usurpatricemve, sub poena capitis vocet_. Item. _Ne quis aliam quamcunque certam personam nominet, cui regnum vel in vita, vel post mortem ipsius, deberi dicatur, excepta Elizabethae naturali prole._ Ea enim sunt ipsa decreti verba. In eam enim homines vel adulationem vel necessitatem ita perduxit haeresis, ut quod illud nobilissimum regnum illegitimae illius regis sui proli aegre unquam concessit, nunc _naturali_, id est, _spuriae_, soboli reginae in cujus sexu fornicationis peccatum est foedius, non denegarint: pariter et reipublicae, ex proximi successoris ignoratione, extremum periculum, et Elizabethae incontinentiam prodentes."--Nicolai Sanderi _Hist. Schism. Angl._ lib. iii. Sec. Novae leges latae in Catholicos, ann. 1571, ed. 8vo. Col. Agr. 1628, p. 299. To some of your readers this passage may seem to indicate that the use of the equivocal word _naturali_ may have given colour, not to say occasion, to the whole scandal against Queen Elizabeth. By many, I apprehend, it will be acknowledged that _spuriae_ is not the only, if an allowable, interpretation. J. SANSOM. Oxford, July 22. 1851. _Meaning of "Deal"_ (Vol. iv., p. 88.).--I think the following may help to throw a little light upon the use of the word _deal_ as meaning _divide_. I was in Wensleydale about a month ago; and on inquiring where the boundary between the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire ran, was told, "On the top of Penhill, where God's water deals" (_i. e._ the rain divides). I may further add, on my own knowledge, that in the north-west corner of Suffolk, where the country is almost entirely open, the boundaries of the different parishes are marked by earthen mounds, from three to six feet high, which are known in the neighbourhood as _dools_ the word being probably derived from the same root. I have been told, however, that it should be spelled _duals_, and that the derivation of it was from the Latin _duo_ as marking two parishes; but I am sure that it is always pronounced by the country-people at a monosyllable, and therefore the chances are in favour of the former derivation being the right one. _A propos_ to Suffolk, another of your correspondents (Vol. iv., p. 55) lately mentioned the fashion the people there have of leaving out the _ve_ in the middle of the names of places. In this I can bear him witness also; but I do not think it is confined to those letters only: _e. g._ Eriswell, pronounced _Asel_; Wymondham (in Norfolk) _Wyndham_, &c. Among those names of places in which the _ve_ is left out, your correspondent has omitted Elved_e_n (commonly, though erroneously, Elved_o_n), which is always called and often spelled _Elden_. A. N. _"The Worm in the Bud," &c._ (Vol. iv., p. 86.).--This quotation is from Cowper's lines appended to the Bill of Mortality for the parish of All Saints, Northampton, for 1787: "Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age." I know not with whom the idea originated. The imagery is frequently used by Shakspeare, but with him never indicates disease or death. I can call to mind no similar expression in the classics. H. E. H. _Moore's Almanack_ (Vol. iv., p. 74.).--Your correspondent FRANCIS is in error as to the MSS. and correspondence of Henry Andrews being in the possession of his son, Mr. Wm. Henry Andrews. Mr. W. H. Andrews some time ago sold to me the whole of his father's MSS. correspondence, astronomical and astrological calculations, with a mass of very curious letters from persons desirous of having their "nativities cast." I have also some copies of Andrews' portrait, one of which shall be much at your service. Moore's _Almanack_ was known by that name long before Andrews had any connection with it, but he was for upwards of forty years its compiler for the Company of Stationers, whose liberal (?) treatment of Andrews may be collected from the following postscript to a letter addressed to me by his son:-- "My father's calculations, &c., for Moore's _Almanack_, continued during a period of forty-three years; and although through his great talent and management he increased the sale of that work from 100,000 to 500,000, yet, strange to say, all he received for his services was 25_l._ per ann.!! Yet I never heard him murmur even once about it; such was his delight in pursuing his favourite studies, that his anxiety about remuneration was out of the question. Sir Richard Phillips, who at times visited him at Royston, once met him in London, and endeavoured to persuade him to go with him to Stationers' Hall, and he would get him 100_l._; but he declined going, saying that he was satisfied." Andrews was also computer to the Board of Longitude, and Maskelyne's _Letters_ evidence the value and correctness of his calculations. The only materials left by Andrews for a memoir of his life I believe I possess, and some day I may find leisure to put them into order for publication. ROBT. COLE. _Scurvy Ale._--The Query (Vol. iv., p. 68.) "What was scurvy ale?" may perhaps be answered by an extract from a little work, _The Polar Sea and Regions_, published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. In the account of Baffin's voyage, in which he discovered the bay called after him Baffin's Bay, we are told that-- "Finding the health of his crew rather declining, he sailed across to Greenland, where an abundance of _scurvy grass boiled in beer_ quickly restored them; and the Lord then sent them a speedy and good passage homeward." Johnson explains scurvy-grass as spoonwort. W. FRASER. _Siege of Londonderry_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--Will you have the goodness to inform your correspondent that I have a pamphlet, printed soon after the famous siege was over, giving a particular account of it, though it altogether omits mentioning the name of an ancestor of mine who distinguished himself in the relief of that place. I shall be happy to afford E. A. any information or assistance he may require. B. G. _Salting the Bodies of the Dead_ (Vol. iv., p. 6.), about which MR. MCCABE asks, is a very old custom in England. Matt. Paris, in his description of Abbot William's funeral at St. Albans, A.D. 1235, tells us how-- "Corpus apertum est. &c. Et quicquid in corpore repertum est, in quadam cuna repositum est, sale conspersum. Et in coemiterio, est humatum. Corpus autem interius, aceto lotum et imbutum et multo sale respersum et resutum. Et hoc sic factum est circumspecte et prudenter, ne corpus per triduum et amplius reservandum, tetrum aliquem odorem olfacientibus generaret et corpus tumulandum, contrectantibus aliquod offendiculum praesentaret."--_Vitae S. Albani Abbatum_, p. 87. ed. Wats, Paris, 1644. DA. ROCK. Buckland, July 24. 1851. In the 86th and two following sections of the Second Book of Herodotus is the description of the ancient Egyptian methods of preserving the bodies of the dead. These were more or less embalmed with aromatic spices, according to the condition of the person, and then corned with saltpetre ([Greek: litron], _nitre_) for seventy days; strictly, _salted_. Is it possible that the early Christians, in adopting this practice, may have been influenced by that very obscure passage, Mark ix. 49.: "Every one shall be _salted_ with fire?" ALFRED GATTY. The custom of placing a plate of salt on the body of the dead is very general in Wales. I remember, when a child, inquiring the reason of the practice, and being told by an old woman that it was to prevent the body from swelling. My remark, that _any_ weight might answer the same purpose, was met by the reply; "there's no weight so heavy as salt gets when it is on the dead." This proves that some feeling of superstition mingles with the custom. Has not the use of salt in baptism, amongst the Italians &c., come allusion to the banishment of the evil spirit? SELEUCUS. _The Word "Repudiate"_ (Vol. iv., p. 54.).--That the use of the word _repudiate_, in the sense of refuse, repel, reject, abandon, disown, cast off, is by no means modern; and that such phrases as "I repudiate the idea," "I repudiate the sentiment," "I repudiate the proposal," are strictly correct, is evident from the use of the word by "standard classical authors" in the original language from which it has come down to us. Sallust, for instance, in his _History of Catiline's Conspiracy_, says that Lentulus advised him to seek assistance everywhere, even amongst the dregs of the populace; asking him at the same time, "Why, since the senate had already adjudged him to be an enemy to the republic, he should _repudiate the slaves_?" i. e., refuse to enrol them in his levies. "Cum ab senatu hostis judicatus sit, quo consilio _servitia repudiet_?"--_Sall. Cat._ 44. Cicero, in his Offices, in opposition to the opinion of the peripatetic school, that anger is implanted in us by nature for useful ends, lays it down as a principle, that "on all occasions _anger ought to be repudiated_;" that is, "cast out of the mind," and says that "it is to be wished that persons who are at the head of the state should be like the laws, which inflict punishment not in anger but in justice." "_Illa_ (iracundia) vero omnibus in rebus _repudianda est_."--_Cic. de Off._ I. xxv. 13. Cicero knew nothing of the Christian grace of "being angry and sinning, not;" he knew nothing of the severity of love. In another place he tells us that on one occasion Themistocles declared in the Athenian assembly, that he had a plan to propose which would be of great advantage to the state, but ought not to be made public. He was willing, however, to communicate it to any one person whom they might select. Aristides, rightly named the Just, being the person selected, Themistocles disclosed his plan to him: which was, secretly to set fire to the Lacedaemonian fleet in the dockyard of Gytheum, by which means they would effectually crush the power of the Lacedaemonians. Aristides returned to the assembly, and at once declared that Themistocles' plan was certainly very advantageous, but by no means honourable; whereupon the Athenians, rightly considering that what was not attended with honour, could not be attended even with advantage in reality, without hearing another word, "_repudiated the whole affair_;" that is, utterly rejected the proposal. "Itaque Athenienses, quod honestum non esset, id ne utile quidem putaverunt; _totamque eam rem_, quam ne audierant quidem, auctore Aristide, _repudiaverunt_."--_Cic. de Off._ III. xi. 12. In a third place, he relates that some persons forged a will of one Minucius Basilus, who had died in Greece; and, in order that they might the more easily obtain their end, put down Marcus Crassus and Quintus Hortensius, two of the most influential men in Rome at that time, as co-legatees with themselves, who although they suspected the will to be forged, yet did not _repudiate the little legacy_ coming to them through other persons' fraud, because forsooth they were not privy to the actual commission of the forgery. "Qui cum illud falsum esse suspicarentur, sibi autem nullius essent conscii culpae, alieni facinoris _munusculum non repudiaverunt_."--_Cic. de Off._ III. xviii. 4. A little further research might easily multiply instances, but I think these are quite sufficient to prove that we moderns are but following the ancients in using the word _repudiate_ without reference to any _obligation_ expressed or implied. F. F. F. _Repudiate, Ringlet, Outburst_ (Vol. iv., p. 54.).--Your correspondent H. C. K. has dealt, I fear, somewhat too harshly with "repudiate." Surely "repudiare" is "to reject what one is ashamed of, scorns, or disdains." Two instances immediately suggest themselves in _Cicer. pro Plancio_, 18 (44). 20 (50). In the former-- "Respuerent aures, nemo agnosceret, repudiarent," perhaps the word is a gloss upon "respuerunt." The latter, however, is unexceptionable: "Nunquam enim fere nobilitas, integra praesertim atque innocens, a Populo Romano supplex repudiata fuit." Why then should "repudiate" necessarily imply the notion of "obligation?" and why should I, if I "repudiate" the criticism of H. C. K., be held to "talk nonsense?" May I be allowed room for a couple of Queries? 1. Is our modern usage of "ringlet" found before the time of Milton? 2. What is the earliest authority for "outburst?" CHARLES THIRIOLD. Cambridge, July 29. 1851. _On the Letter "v"_ (Vol. iv., p. 55.).--I have read with pleasure the paragraphs in your "NOTES AND QUERIES" on "the letter _v_," and beg space for a further notice, with an especial reference to the patronymic of _Ray_ or _Wray_. One family uses the motto, "Juste et _V_rai," whose name is _Wray_; and another the same motto, whose name is _Ray_. And it will be remembered that John Ray, the naturalist, changed the orthography of his name from _Wray_ to _Ray_, as he concluded it had been formerly written; and in one of the letters published by the Ray Society[9], allusion is made to the adjective or substantive _vrai_, as if that distinguished philosopher and divine had either derived his name thence, or it had the same signification as that French word. Are we then to take this as an instance of the silent _v_ or _double u_ or _v_; and as any proof that families writing their names _Wray_ and _Ray_ were originally of one patronymic and one common root, and that presumptively Norman? [Footnote 9: Vide the _Correspondence of John Ray_. Edited by Edwin Lankester, M.D. London, 1848, pp. 65, 66.] Under a separate heading, perhaps you will also indulge me with a Query as to the coat of arms, under the portrait by Bathon, 1760, after W. Hibbart, of Joannes Rajus, A.M., prefixed to Dr. Derham's _Life of John Ray_, published by George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S.: London, 1760. The shield is, gules, on a fesse, between three crescents, three cross crosslets. Is it inferable that that coat was ever borne by patent or admissible prescriptive right, by any of his ancestors? Several families in the north of England, whence his father came, also have registered in respectable armories crescents against their names. The poor origin of John Ray is obviated, in some degree, by what is said in a Life of him, published in _The Portrait Gallery of British Worthies_, by Charles Knight. I suppose he himself used the armorials in question, and was related to the family of nearly the same name, bearing crescents, viz. Reay. The glasses of some of your correspondents may assist one more shortsighted than themselves. H. W. G. R., Presbyter, and Member of the Ray Society. 1. Mead Place, Derby, Aug. 2. 1851. I beg leave to correct a remark of W. S. W***. as to _Tiverton_, Devon, which was never pronounced _Terton_; it is Twiverton, near Bath, which is pronounced _Twerton_. S. S. _"Whig" and "Tory"_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--The name "Whig" is derived from the Celtic _ugham_, a sort of large saddle, with bags attached to it, in use among the freebooters of the borders of Scotland: hence those robbers were known to the Highlanders by the name of _Whiggam-more_, or "big-saddle thieves;" and when the Civil War broke out, the Highlanders and Irish, who supported the king, called themselves _a taobh Righ_, _i. e._ "the king's party," and gave the name of _Whiggamore thieves_ to their opponents. _Whiggammore_ and _taobh Righ_ soon became shortened to _Whig_ and _Tory_, and in aftertimes served to distinguish the supporters of the rival houses of Hanover and Stuart. The modern signification of the terms is different, _Whig_ being taken to mean "liberal," and _Tory_ "exclusive." FRAS. CROSSLEY. _Planets of the Months_ (Vol. iv., p. 23.).--I do not understand this Query. What is meant by "planets for the months?" There are twelve months, and in common parlance only seven planets. Nor do I see what is meant by "precious stones symbolizing _those_ planets." In heraldry, the arms of sovereigns and royal personages are blazoned by the names of the sun, moon, and planets, for colours, as those of noblemen are by precious stones. If this is what is asked after, the following table will explain it:-- _Colours._ _Pr. Stones._ _Planets._ Or Topaz Sol Argent Pearl Luna Sable Diamond Saturn Gules Ruby Mars Azure Sapphire Jupiter Vert Emerald Venus Purpure Amethyst Mercury C. _Baronets of Ireland_ (Vol. iv., p. 44.).--The two following extracts may throw some light upon the origin of the title of baronet. James I. probably adopted this title, which he found to have been so long existing in Ireland, for the new order of nobility he was about to establish. And it should be remembered that the order of baronet was instituted for the purpose of promoting the plantation of Ulster. The names mentioned in the second extract are probably those of the baronets whom Spenser mentions as being, in existence in his time. There was, thirty years ago, a "Baron of Galtrim;" perhaps there is still. EUDOX: "You say well, for by the increase of Freeholders, their numbers hereby will be greatly augmented; but how should it passe through the higher house, which still must consiste all of Irish?" IREN: "Marry, that also may bee redressed by ensample of that which I heard was done in the like case by King Edward III. (as I remember), who being greatly bearded and crossed by the Lords of the cleargie, they being there [_i. e._ in the Parliament of _Ireland_] by reason of the Lords Abbots, and others, too many and too strong for him, so as hee could not for their frowardnesse order and reforme things as hee desired, was advised to direct out his writts to certaine Gentlemen of the best ability and trust, entitling them therein Barons, to serve and sitt as Barons in the next Parlament. By which meanes hee had so many Barons in his Parlament, as were able to weigh down the Cleargie and their friends: the which Barons, they say, were not afterwards Lords, but onely Baronets, as sundry of them doe yet retayne the name."--Spenser's "View of the State of Ireland," in the _Ancient Irish Histories_, Dublin Edition, 1809, pp. 223, 224. "BARONETS. "Seint Leger, Baronet of Slemarge, meere Irish. Den, Baronet of Por man ston, waxing Irish. Fitz Gerald, Baronet of Burnchurch. Welleslye, Baronet of Narraghe. [Ancestor of the Duke of Wellington.] Husee, Baronet of Galtrim. S. Michell, Baronet of Reban. Marwarde, Baronet of Scryne. Nangle, Baronet of Navan." Campion's "Historie of Ireland," written in the yeare 1571, p. 12. (In the _Ancient Irish Histories_, Dublin edition, 1809.) T. J. _Hopkins the Witchfinder_ (Vol. ii., pp. 392. 413.).--Your correspondents will find some "curious memoirs" of this person in the _Anthologia Hibernica_ for June, 1793, p. 424. The memoirs are embellished with a plate "correctly copied from an extreme rare print in the collection of J. Bindley, Esq." R. H. _Plowden_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--From Burke's _Landed Gentry_, 1846, under "Plowden of Plowden" (A.D. 1194), it would appear that Edmund was of Wansted, Hampshire, and ancestor of the Plowdens of Lassam, Hants, and that he "was styled in his will, July 29, 1655, Sir Edmund, lord earl palatine, governor, and captain general, of the province of New Albion." I would suggest to your Transatlantic readers the interest that would be derived from a compilation of surnames in the United States; and in cases where it can be ascertained, the date of introduction, position of first immigrant, ancestry, and descendants. The names and subsequent history of those families who remained loyal during the American Revolution, are worthy of record; most of whom have, I believe, prospered in the world since the confiscation of their property. The names of the followers of William the Conqueror are often alluded to; but the "comers over" at the conquest of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are but seldom thought of, though they lend to their descendants' pedigree a degree of historical interest. A. C. _As lazy as Ludlam's Dog_ (Vol. i., pp. 382. 475.).--This proverb is to be found in Ray's first edition (1670), and is quoted in a little book entitled _Scarronides, et cet._, a burlesque on the second book of Virgil's _AEneid_. AEneas, reposing on the "toro alto," is likened to "Ludlam's curr, on truckle lolling;" whilst a marginal note says "'Tis a proverb, Ludlam's dog lean'd his head against a wall when he went to bark." Both here and in Ray the name is spelt _Ludl_a_m_. CRANMORE. _Pope and Flatman_ (Vol. iv., p. 132.).--The piece quoted by MR. BARTON had long since been pointed out by Warton (_Essay on Pope_), who has also collected many others which Pope _may_ have known and made use of, some which he _must_. V. _Spenser's Faerie Queene_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.).--The explanation of the stanza in question would occupy more space than I think you would spare me. It will suffice to note that a very sufficient one will be found in Todd's edition of _Spenser_ (1803) in vol. iii., at the close of canto ix. book ii.; and that the letter of Sir K. Digby is given at full length, before the editor's own commentary and explanation, in that place. V. Belgravia. _Bells in Churches_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--In reply to the inquiry whether there is still a law against the use of bells as a summons to divine services, except in churches, which has not been answered, permit me to quote the following sentences from a judgment of Lord Chief Justice Campbell, as reported in the _Times_ of August 14. "First, with regard to the right of using bells at all. By the common law, churches of every denomination had a full right to use bells, and it was a vulgar error to suppose that there was any distinction at the present time in this respect. At the same time, those bells might undoubtedly be made use of in such a manner as to create a nuisance; and in that case a Protestant church and a Roman Catholic one were equally liable." 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