Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * {285} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 204.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Extinct Volcanos and Mountains of Gold in Scotland 285 Thomas Blount, Author of "Fragmenta Antiquitatis," &c., by J. B. Whitborne 286 "Give him a Roll."--A Plea for the Horse, by C. Forbes 287 Dream Testimony, by C. H. Cooper 287 Shakspeare Correspondence 288 MINOR NOTES:--Epitaph from Stalbridge--Curious Extracts: Dean Nowell: Bottled Beer--A Collection of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the Lord Bacon--Law and Usage--Manichæan Games --Bohn's Hoveden--Milton at Eyford House 289 QUERIES:-- Earl of Leicester's Portrait, 1585 290 Early Use of Tin 291 St. Patrick--Maune and Man, by J. G. Cumming 291 Passage in Bingham, by Richard Bingham 291 MINOR QUERIES:--"Terræ filius"--Daughter pronounced Dafter--Administration of the Holy Communion --Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead--A Scrape--"Plus occidit Gula," &c.--Anecdote of Napoleon--Canonisation in the Greek Church--Binometrical Verses--Dictionary of English Phrases --Lines on Woman--Collections for Poor Slaves-- The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers-- "Like one who wakes," &c. 292 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Glossarial Queries --Military Knights of Windsor--"Elijah's Mantle" 294 REPLIES:-- Milton and Malatesti, by S. W. Singer 295 Attainment of Majority 296 John Frewen 296 "Voiding Knife," "Voider," and "Alms-Basket," by W. Chaffers 297 The Letter "h" in Humble 298 School Libraries, by Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., &c. 298 Dr. John Taylor 299 Portrait of Sir Anthony Wingfield, by John Wodderspoon, &c. 299 Barnacles 300 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Precision in Photographic Processes--Tent for Collodion--Mr. Sisson's Developing Solution--Mr. Stewart's Pantograph 301 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--George Browne of Shefford--Wheale--Sir Arthur Aston--"A Mockery," &c.--Norman of Winster--Arms of the See of York--Roger Wilbraham Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection --Pierrepont--Passage in Bacon--Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral--Lord North-- Land of Green Ginger--Sheer, and Shear Hulk-- Serpent with a Human Head--"When the maggot bites"--Definition of a Proverb--Gilbert White of Selborne, &c. 301 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 306 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 306 Notices to Correspondents 306 Advertisements 307 * * * * * Notes. EXTINCT VOLCANOS AND MOUNTAINS OF GOLD IN SCOTLAND. It is by some supposed that the Hill of Noth, in the parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, had at one time been a volcano in full operation: others, again, maintain that the scoria found on and in the neighbourhood are portions of a vitrified fort, which had at one time stood on its summit. I am not aware that the matter has been investigated since our advancement in the science of geology has enabled us to have a more intimate knowledge of these things than formerly. The last statistical account of Scotland has suffered severely in its Aberdeenshire volume, in consequence of the temporary deposition of the "seven Strathbogie clergymen." The accounts of their several parishes were written by parties only newly come to reside in them, and who appear to have taken little interest in it; and Rhynie is one of these. Those who argue for its having been a volcano, say that it is very possible that there may at one time have been an electric or magnetic chain connecting it with subterranean fire in some other quarter of the world; and that by some convulsion of nature, the spinal cord of its existence had been broken, and life became extinct. This hypothesis has been acted on, in accounting for the earthquakes which occur at Comrie in Perthshire. The great storm which devastated the princely estates of Earl Goodwin in Kent (circa anno 1098), and now so well known to mariners as the Goodwin Sands, is also said to have laid waste the parish of Forvie, in Aberdeenshire. On the occasion of the great earthquake at Lisbon in 1755, a flock of sheep were drowned in their cot in the neighbourhood of Lossiemouth, near Elgin, by the overflowing of the tide, although far removed from ordinary high-water-mark. Assuming this mountain to have been a volcano, are there any others in Great Britain? While on the subject of mountains in that quarter, there is another which also demands attention for quite a different reason, the Hill of Dun-o-Deer, in the parish of Insch: a conical hill of no great elevation, on the top of which stand the remains of a vitrified fort {286} or castle, said to have been built by King Gregory about the year 880, and was used by that monarch as a hunting-seat and where, combining business with pleasure, he is said to have meted out even-handed justice to his subjects in the Garioch. It has long been the popular belief that this hill contains gold; and that the teeth of sheep fed on it assume a yellower tinge, and also that their fat is of the same colour. Notwithstanding this, no attempt at scientific investigation has ever been made. The operations on the line of the Great North of Scotland Railway, now in progress in the immediate neighbourhood, may possibly bring something to light. This line passes for many miles through a country particularly rich in recollections of the "olden time"--cairns, camps, old chapels, druidical circles, sculptured stones, &c. and where ancient coins, battle-axes of all the three periods, urns and elf-arrow heads, Roman armour, &c., have been disinterred by the ordinary labours of the field. Within a short distance of its route lies the Hill of Barra, where the famous battle was fought, anno 1308, between the "Bruce" and the "Comyn;" the Bass at Inverary, the Hill of Benachie, with the remains of a fortification on its summit, said to have been erected by the Picts; the field of Harlaw, famed in song, where the battle was fought in 1411, in which Donald of the Isles was defeated. There are many traditional ballads and stories relating to Benachie and Noth. There is a ballad called "John O'Benachie" and another, "John O'Rhynie, or Jock O'Noth" and they do not appear in any collection of ancient ballads I have seen. It is said that long "before King Robert rang," two giants inhabited these mountains, and are supposed to be the respective heroes of the two ballads. These two sons of Anak appear to have lived on pretty friendly terms, and to have enjoyed a social crack together, each at his own residence, although distant some ten or twelve miles. These worthies had another amusement, that of throwing stones at each other; not small pebbles you may believe, but large boulders. On one occasion, however, there appears to have been a coolness between them; for one morning, as he of Noth was returning from a foraging excursion in the district of Buchan, his friend of Benachie, not relishing what he considered an intrusion on his legitimate beat, took up a large stone and threw at him as he was passing. Noth, on hearing it rebounding, coolly turned round, and putting himself in a posture of defence, received the ponderous mass on the sole of his foot: and I believe that the stone, with a deeply indented foot-mark on it, is, like the bricks in Jack Cade's chimney, "alive at this day to testify." Legendary lore and fabulous ballads aside, it would indeed be strange if something interesting to the antiquary does not turn up in such a mine as this. It is curious, however, that in all the operations antecedent to covering Great Britain with, as it were, a network of iron, so very few discoveries should have been made of any importance, either to the antiquary or geologist. ABREDONENSIS. * * * * * THOMAS BLOUNT, AUTHOR OF "FRAGMENTA ANTIQUITATIS," ETC. Being on a visit to some friends on the confines of the county of Salop, bordering on Herefordshire, I took the opportunity long cherished of visiting the spot where lie the remains of the author of _Boscobel; Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Ancient Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of Manors, &c._, and copied the following inscription from his monument, in the chancel of the ancient church of Orleton in the latter county. I believe it has never been published; and although neither Note nor Query is connected with it, it may serve to fill up a corner in your valuable miscellany, and thus preserve from the oblivion of a retired country church, a memorial of one well known to the antiquarian world of literature. It is on a brass plate inserted in a stone monument against the wall of the chancel: "D.O.M. Hic seminatur Corpus Animale Spiritale resurrecturum THOMÆ BLOUNT. De Orleton in agro Herefordiensi Armigeri, Ex interiori Templo Londini J Cti. Viri priscis Moribus avitæ Fidei, Vitæ integerrimæ, Pietatis solidæ, Fidelitatem, Dilectionem, Amorem, Charitatem, In Principem, Suos, Amicos, Omnes, Illibate coluit. Uxorem duxit Annam Filiam Eadmundi Church Armigeri E Maldoniâ East Saxonum. Unicâ Corporis prole. (Elizabetha) Mentis multiplici (Libris utilissimis) Familiam propagavit, perennavit Famam. Requiem, Lector, si fas ducis, huic apprecare Et melior abi. Obiit Decembris 26, 1679. Ætatis 61. ---- Pientissima Coniunx moerens Posuit." The village of Orleton is celebrated for a very large annual fair, which occurs on April 23; and a saying is connected therewith: "That the cuckoo always comes on Orleton fair-day;" which has doubtless arisen from the circumstance, that this "messenger of spring" generally arrives in this country by that day. J. B. WHITBORNE. * * * * * {287} "GIVE HIM A ROLL."--A PLEA FOR THE HORSE. We learn, from the comedy of the _The Clouds_, that the Athenians were accustomed to refresh their horses after a race by allowing then to roll on the ground; for Pheidippides, the wild young man of the play, who spent much of his own time and of his father's money on the "turf," and who is shown in the opening scene fast asleep in bed, dreaming of his favourite amusement, says very quietly, "[Greek: Apage ton hippon exalisas oikade] [32]-- an order which he had probably often given to his groom at the Hippodrome, the Newmarket or Ascot of Athens. I have often seen racing, I have often seen hunters brought home after a hard day's work, and I have read of forced marches, &c. made by cavalry and artillery; but never yet have I heard of an English Houyhnhnm, either at home or abroad, who was invited to refresh himself after his labours, civil or military, classically, with a _roll_. Dobbin, that four-footed Ofellus, "Rusticus, abnormis sapiens, crassâque Minervâ," whenever he has the luck to spend his summer Sunday's _otium cum dignitate_ in a paddock, invariably indulges in a baker's dozen, without waiting for an invitation to do so, and without saying "with your leave" or "by your leave." They ordered this matter better in Africa some fifty years ago, and I hope they still continue so to order it. By one of the stipulations of the hollow Peace of Amiens, the colony of the Cape of Good Hope was restored by Great Britain to the Batavian Republic, which immediately appointed Mr. J. A. de Mist its Commissary-General, and despatched him to receive the ceded territory from the hands of the English, to instal the new Governor, General J. W. Janssens, into his high office, and to reorganise the constitution of the colony. Having fulfilled these duties, Mr. De Mist determined to make a tour of inspection, and he accordingly travelled _on horseback_ nearly 4500 English miles through the interior. Among his suite was a Dr. Lichtenstein, the physician and _savant_ of the party, who afterwards published an account of the expedition. The extract that I am about to make from his work may at first sight appear unnecessarily long; but I wish the "courteous reader" to bear in mind that I do not cite it for the sake of parading a long rambling comment on five short words of Aristophanes, but for that of bringing forward additional evidence, to prove that a dry roll may occasionally be of as much service in recruiting the strength and spirits of that noble animal, the horse, when jaded by violent exertion or long-protracted toil, as our English nostrums, a warm mash or a bottle of water. Dr. Lichtenstein says,-- "Our road led us soon again over the Vogel river and here we were obliged to supply ourselves with water for the whole day, since not a drop was to be met with again till the Melk river, a distance of ten hours [ = 50 English miles]. When we had filled our vessels, and our cattle had drunk plentifully, we proceeded on our way. "It is difficult for an European to form an idea of the hardships that are to be encountered in a journey over such a dry plain at the hottest season of the year. All vegetation seems utterly destroyed; not a blade of grass, not a green leaf, is anywhere to be seen; and the soil, a stiff loam, reflects back the heat of the sun with redoubled force; a man may congratulate himself that, being on horseback, he is raised some feet above it. Nor is any rest from these fatigues to be thought of, since to stop where there is neither shade, water, or grass, would be only to increase the evil, rather than to diminish it. "Yet the African horses are so well accustomed to hardships, although they have in fact much less innate strength than the European, that it is incredible what a length of way they will go, in the most intense heat, without either food or drink. It is, however, customary for the riders to dismount at intervals, when the saddles are taken off, and the animals are suffered to roll upon the ground and stretch out their limbs for a short time. This they do with evident delight, and after they have well rolled, stretched, and shaken themselves, they rise up and go on as much refreshed as if they had had food and drink given them. On arriving at a farm, the invitation of the host, who comes immediately to the door, is, 'Get off, Sir, and let him roll.' A slave then appears, takes the horse, and leads him backwards and forwards for a few minutes, to recover his breath, and he is then unsaddled and left to roll. "These rollings were then the only refreshment we could offer our horses, and both they and their riders were, when towards evening they arrived at the Melk river, exceedingly exhausted."--_Travels in Southern Africa in the Years 1803-1806_. By Henry Lichtenstein, Doctor in Medicine and Philosophy, &c. &c. Translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre: London, Henry Colburn, 1812; vol. i. chap. xxv. C. FORBES. Temple. * * * * * DREAM TESTIMONY. On Saturday the 30th of July, 1853, the dead body of a young woman was discovered in a field at Littleport, in the Isle of Ely. The body has not yet been identified, and there can be little doubt that the young woman was murdered. At the adjourned inquest, held on the 29th of August, before Mr. William Marshall, one of the coroners for the isle, the following extraordinary evidence was given: "James Jessop, an elderly, respectable-looking labourer, with a face of the most perfect stolidity, and {288} who possessed a most curiously-shaped skull, broad and flat at the top, and projecting greatly on each side over the ears, deposed: 'I live about a furlong and a half from where the body was found. I have seen the body of the deceased. I had never seen her before her death. On the night of Friday, the 29th of July, I dreamt three successive times that I heard the cry of murder issuing from near the bottom of a close called Little Ditchment Close (the place where the body was found). The first time I dreamt I heard the cry it woke me. I fell asleep again, and dreamt the same again. I then woke again, and told my wife. I could not rest; but I dreamt it again after that. I got up between four and five o'clock, but I did not go down to the close, the wheat and barley in which have since been cut. I dreamt once, about twenty years ago, that I saw a woman hanging in a barn, and on passing the next morning the barn which appeared to me in my dream I entered, and did find a woman there hanging, and cut her down just in time to save her life. I never told my wife I heard any cries of murder, but I have mentioned it to several persons since. I saw the body on the Saturday it was found. I did not mention my dream to any one till a day or two after that. I saw the field distinctly in my dream and the trees thereon, but I saw no person in it. On the night of the murder the wind lay from that spot to my house.' "Rhoda Jessop, wife of the last witness, stated that her husband related his dreams to her on the evening of the day the body was found." In Mr. John Hill Burton's _Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland_, is a chapter entitled "Spectral and Dream Testimony," to which the above evidence will be a curious addition. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _"Priam's six-gated city," &c._--In the prologue to Troilus and Cressida occurs-- " . . . Priam's six-gated city, Dardan and Tymbria, Ilias, Chetas, Trojan, And Antenorides, with massy staples, And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts." What struck me here was the omission of the only gate of Troy really known to fame, _the Scæan_, which looked on the tomb of the founder Laomedon; before which stood Hector, "full and fixed," awaiting the fatal onslaught of Achilles; where Achilles, in turn, received his death-wound from the shaft of Paris; and through which, finally, the wooden horse was triumphantly conveyed into the doomed city. The six names are shown to be taken by Shakspeare in part from Caxton, and in part from Lydgate: and in Knight's edition we are told that they are "pure inventions of the middle age of romance-writers." Let us examine this assertion. The names are to be found pretty nearly as above, but with one important difference, in Dares' _History of the Trojan War_. My authority is Ruæus, the Delphine editor of Virgil (see his note at _Æn._ II. 612.). Now Dares (perhaps the oldest of the profane writers whom we know) was a Phrygian, who took part in the Trojan war, and wrote its history in Greek: and the Greek original was still extant in the time of Ælian, from A.D. 80 to 140. Of this, now lost, a Latin translation still survives, by some attributed to Cornelius Nepos, and by some regarded as spurious; but, either way, its date must be long antecedent to "the middle age of romance-writers." It was doubtless from this Latin history that Caxton or Lydgate, or both, derived directly or indirectly the names they adopted; and yet it is to be noted that they give respectively the names of _Chetas_ and _Cetheas_ to one of their gates, and omit the well-known _Scæan_, which Dares expressly mentions; for I presume that no principle of philology will sanction the identification of _Scæan_ with either of the terms used by these two writers. I have trespassed somewhat on your space, but let me hope the subject may be farther elucidated. The points I wish to put forward are, Shakspeare's omission of the Scæan gate, and the proposition by Knight (for a proposition it is, though in a participular form), that these six names are "pure inventions of the middle age of romance-writers." W. T. M. Hong Kong. _On the Word "delighted" in "Measure for Measure," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 241.).--Inasmuch as the controversy respecting this word seems to be over, and no one of the critics and commentators on Shakspeare's text appears to have the slightest clue to the real meaning and derivation, I will enlighten them. But, first, I must say, I am surprised that DR. KENNEDY should (though he has certainly hit on the right meaning) be unable to give a better account of the word than that in Vol. ii., pp. 139. 250. And as to the passage quoted (Vol. ii., p. 200) by MR. SINGER from Sidney's _Arcadia_, I beg to inform him that the word _delight_, which occurs therein, is a misprint for _daylight_! We find, in the Latin, the substantive _deliciæ_, delight, pleasure, enjoyment; and the adjective (derived from the same root, and _guiding us to the original meaning of the substantive_) _delicatus_, which amongst other meanings, has that of tender, soft, gentle, delicate, dainty. As the early English scholars were not very particular about the _form_ of the words they introduced from the Latin, or indeed of those which were purely English, for they changed them at their pleasure,--and that this is the case, I presume no one at all versed in the literature of the time of Henry VIII. will dispute,--it requires no great exertion of fancy to believe, that, finding {289} the substantive _deliciæ_ Englished _delight_, they rendered the adjective _delicatus_ delighted. The _fact_ that they _did_ use the words _delight_ and _delicate_ as synonymous, is proved by a passage in "a boke named the _Gouernour_ deuised by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyght, Londini, 1557;" in which, at folio 203., p. 1., we find Titus, the son of Vespasian, who was ordinarily termed "the delight of mankind," called "the delicate of the world." We are therefore to conclude that the words _delicate_ and _delighted_ were used indifferently by writers of the age of Shakspeare, as well as by those previous to him, to express the same thing; and that by the phrase "delighted spirit" in _Measure for Measure_, "delighted beauty" in _Othello_, "delighted gifts" in _Cymbeline_, we are to understand, exquisitely tender, delicate, or precious. I cannot agree with DR. KENNEDY that _deliciæ_, _delicatus_ come from _deligere_ rather than _delicere_; since, if my memory does not deceive me, the former is as often, if not oftener, used by good writers to express to drive away, to upset, to remove from, or detach--as to select or choose--which is the only meaning the word has akin to _deliciæ_; whereas _delicere_ is actually used by one of the earlier Latin poets for to delight. The word _dainty_, I may inform DR. KENNEDY, is from the obsolete French _dein_ or _dain_, delicate; which probably came from the still older Teut. _deinin_, _minuta_ (vid. Schilter). H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Epitaph from Stalbridge._--The following epitaph from the churchyard of Stalbridge, Dorsetshire, may perhaps be thought worthy of preservation, if it be not a hackneyed one: "So fond, so young, so gentle, so sincere, So loved, so early lost, may claim a tear: Yet mourn not, if the life, resumed by heaven, Was spent to ev'ry end for which 'twas given. Could he too soon escape this world of sin? Or could eternal life too soon begin? Then cease his death too fondly to deplore, What could the longest life have added more?" C. W. B. _Curious Extracts.--Dean Nowell--Bottled Beer._--I was somewhat hasty in assuming (see Vol. vii., p. 135.) that bottled beer was an unknown department in early times, as the following extract will show. It is from Fuller's _Worthies of England_, under "LANCASHIRE," the subject of the notice being no less a person than the grave divine Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, author of the Catechism, whose fondness for angling is also commemorated by Izaak Walton. Fuller, having noticed the narrow escape which Nowell had from arrest by some of Bishop Bonner's emissaries in Queen Mary's reign, having had a hint to fly whilst fishing in the Thames, "whilst Nowell was catching of fishes, Bonner was catching of Nowell," proceeds to say,-- "Without offence it may be remembered that, leaving a bottle of ale, when fishing, in the grass, he found it some days after no bottle, but a gun, such the sound at the opening thereof: and this is believed (casualty is the mother of more inventions than industry[1]) the original of bottled ale in England."--Nuttall's edit., vol. ii. p. 205. BALLIOLENSIS. [Footnote 1: Fuller might have quoted the Greek proverb, [Greek: Tuchê technês esterxe kai technê tuchês.]] _A Collection of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the Lord Bacon_ (i. 422. edit. Montagu), with the ensuing exceptions, is taken out of the _Essays_, and in regular order: No. 1. p. 33. of the same volume. No. 2. p. 21. No. 3. p. 5. No. 4. p. 8. No. 51. My reference is illegible: the words are,--"Men seem neither well to understand their riches nor their strength: of the former they believe greater things than they should; and of the latter, much less. And from hence, certain fatal pillars have bounded the progress of learning." No. 68. pp. 173. 272. 321. No. 69. p. 185. No. 70. p. 176. No. 71. Vol. vi., p. 172. The Charge of Owen, &c. Nos. 72, 73. Vol. vii., p. 261. The Speech before the Summer Circuits, 1617. S. Z. Z. S. _Law and Usage._--In _The Times_ of September 1, the Turkish correspondent writes as follows: "Mahmoud Pasha declared in the Divan of the 17th that 'he would divorce his wife, but would not advise a dishonourable peace with Russia.' This is an expression of the strongest kind in use amongst the Turks." It is worth a Note that, in spite of polygamy and divorce, a common proverb is monogamic, and divorce is spoken of as the greatest of unlikelihoods. M. _Manichæan Games._--Take any game played by two persons, such as draughts, and let the play be as follows: each plays his best for himself, and follows it by playing the worst he can for the other. Thus, when it is the turn of the white to play, he first plays the white as well as he can; and then the black as badly (for the other player) as he can. The black then does the best he can with the black, and follows it by the worst he can {290} do for the white. Of course, by separating the good and evil principles, four persons might play. M. _Bohn's Hoveden._--By way of expressing my sense of obligation to Mr. Bohn and his editors for the _Antiquarian Library_, perhaps you will suffer me to point out what appears to be an inaccuracy in the translation of Roger de Hoveden's _Annals_? At p. 123. of vol. ii., the word _Suuelle_ (as it appears to stand in the original text) is translated into _Swale_: but surely no other place is here meant than the church of St. Mary's at _Southwell_[2] (or _Suthwell_, _Sudwell_, _Suwell_, or _Suell_, as variously spelt, but never _Swale_), in Nottinghamshire. I would also notice a trifling error (perhaps only a misprint) at p. 125.; where we are informed in a note, that the Galilee of Durham Cathedral is at the _east_ end, whereas its real position is at the _west_. J. SANSOM. Oxford. [Footnote 2: The seal of the vicars of Southwell, ann. 1262, had in its circumference the words "Commune sigillum Vicariorum Suuell."--Vid. Thoroton's _Nottinghamshire, North Muskham_, ed. 1796, vol. iii. p. 156.] _Milton at Eyford House, Gloster._--In the British Museum (says Wilson in his description of Christ's College, Cambridge) is the original proclamation for Milton's appearance after the Restoration. Where was he secreted? I find this note in my book:--At Eyford House, Gloucestershire, within two miles of Stow-on-the-Wold, on the road to Cheltenham, a spring of beautiful water is called "Milton's Well," running into a tributary of the Thames. The old house, &c., at the time would be out of the way of common information. P. J. * * * * * Queries. EARL OF LEICESTER'S PORTRAIT, 1585. There is at Penshurst, among many other interesting memorials of the Dudleys, an original portrait of Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, with the following painted upon it: "Robert, E. of Leicester, Stadtholder of Holland, A.D. 1585." After this comes the ragged staff, but without its usual accompaniment, the bear. Under the staff follow these enigmatical lines, which I request any of your correspondents to translate and explain. I send you a translation in rhyme; I should thank them the more if they would do the same: as to explanation, the longer the better. "Principis hic Baculus, patriæ columenque, decusque, Hoc uno, ingratos quo beet, ipse miser." This ragged staff by Leicester's potent hand, Brought succour, safety, to this threaten'd land: One thing alone embitters every thought, He to ungrateful men these blessings brought. Now for a word of commentary: and first as to "Stadtholder of Holland, A.D. 1585." The good woman who showed the picture informed us that it was painted by order of the stadtholder, and presented to Leicester; if so, there would have been a _jussu provinciarum foederatarum depictus_, or something of that sort; but no such compliment was to be expected from the Dutch, for they hated him, complained of his conduct, memorialised the queen against him: see the pamphlets in the British Museum, 4to. 1587, C. 32. a. 2. But though it was most unlikely that the Dutch or their stadtholder should have presented this picture to Leicester, it well accorded with Leicester's vanity and presumption, and still more with that vanity and presumption as displayed in his conduct as commander-in-chief of the forces in Holland, to call himself _The Stadtholder_, and to order his painter to put that title under his portrait. The verses may now be referred to in support of this view of the subject. Leicester therein represents himself as unhappy, because he had bestowed blessings on the ungrateful Dutch. In conclusion, take the following full-length portrait of Leicester's indignation (_Leicester, a Belgis vituperatus, loquitur_): "This ragged staff my resolution shows, To save my Queen and Holland from their foes: Still deeply seated in my heart remains One cause, one fruitful cause, of all my pains; 'Tis base ingratitude--'tis Holland's hate. My presence sav'd that country, chang'd its fate. But the base pedlars gain'd my sov'reign's ear, And at my counsels and my courage sneer; They call me tyrant, breaker of my word, Fond of a warrior's garb without his sword. A servile courtier, saucy cavalier, Bold as a lion when no danger's near, They say I seek their country for myself, To fill my bursting bags with plunder'd pelf; They say with goose's, not with eagle's wing, I wish to soar, and make myself a king. Dutchmen! to you I came, I saw, I sav'd: Where'er my staff, my bear, my banner wav'd, The daunted Spaniard fled without a blow, And bloodless chaplets crown'd my conquering brow. Dutchmen! with minds more stagnant than your pools, (But in reproachful words more knaves than fools), You will not see, nor own the debt you owe To him who conquers a retreating foe. Such base ingratitude as this alloys My triumph's glory, and my bosom's joys." V. T. Tunbridge Wells. * * * * * {291} EARLY USE OF TIN. Mr. Layard, in his work upon Nineveh and Babylon, in reference to the articles of bronze from Assyria now in the British Museum, states, that the _tin_ used in the composition was probably obtained from Phoenicia; and, consequently, that _that_ used in the Assyrian bronze may actually have been _exported_ nearly _three thousand_ years ago from the British Isles. The Assyrians appear to have made an extensive use of this metal; and the degree of perfection which the making of bronze had then reached, clearly shows that they must have been long experienced in the use of it. _They_ appear to have received what they used from the Phoenicians. _When_ and _by whom_ was tin first discovered in our island? Were the _Celtic tribes_ acquainted with it _previously_ to the arrival of the Phoenicians upon our shores? It is said that the Phoenicians were indebted to the Tyrian Hercules for their trade in tin; and that this island owed them its name of _Baratanac_, or Britain, the land of tin. Was the _Tyrian Hercules_, or, as he was afterwards known and worshipped, as the Melkart of Tyre, and the Moloch of the Bible, was _he_ the _merchant-leader_ of the first band of Phoenicians who visited this island? _When_ did _he_ live? G. W. Stansted, Montfichet. * * * * * ST. PATRICK--MAUNE AND MAN. Amongst the many strange derivations given of the name of Mona or Man (the island), I find one in an old unpublished MS. by an unknown author, of the date about 1658, noticed by Feltham (_Tour through the Isle of Man_, p. 8.), on which I venture to ground a Query. The name of the island is there said to have been derived from Maune, the name of the great apostle of the Mann, before he received that of Patricius from Pope Celestine. Now if St. Patrick ever had the name Maune, he could not have given it to the island, which was called Mona, Monabia, and Menavia, as far back as the days of Cæsar, Tacitus, and Pliny. I have not access to any life of St. Patrick in which the name Maune occurs; but in the _Penny Cyclopædia_, under the head "Patrick," I find it said, "According to Nennius, St. Patrick's original name was Maur," and I find the same stated in Rose's _Biographical Dictionary_. But the article in the latter is evidently taken from the former, and I suspect the Mau_r_ may in both be a misprint for Mau_n_.[3] Can "N. & Q." set me right, or give me any information likely to solve the difficulty? I may as well notice here that amongst the many ways in which the name of this island has been pronounced and spelt, that of _Maun_ seems to have prevailed at the period of the Norwegian occupation. On a Runic monument at Kirk Michael, we have it very distinctly so spelt. With regard to the name Mona, applied both to Man and Anglesea, I have little doubt we may find its root in the Sanscrit _man_, to know, worship, &c., whence we have Manu the son of Brahma, Menu, Menes, Minos, Moonshee, and Monk. The name Mona would seem to have been applied to both islands, as being specially the habitation of the Druids, whose name probably came either from the Celtic _Trow-wys_, wisemen, or the Saxon _dru_, a soothsayer, very close in signification to the Sanscrit _mooni_, a holy sage, learned person. As connected with this idea I may ground another Query: Might not these two Monas, the abode of piety and wisdom, be the true, [Greek: makarôn nêsoi], the _Fortunatæ Insulæ_ of the ancients? J. G. CUMMING. Castletown. [Footnote 3: In _Monumenta Historica Britannica_ the passage reads "Quia _Maun_ prius vocabatur." In a note from another MS. the word is spelt _Mauun_.--ED.] * * * * * PASSAGE IN BINGHAM. MR. RICHARD BINGHAM, whose new and improved edition of his ancestor's works is now printing at the Oxford University Press, would feel sincerely obliged to any literary friend who should become instrumental in discovering the following passage from one of the sermons of Augustine: "Non mirari debetis, fratres carissimi, quod inter ipsa mysteria de mysteriis nihil diximus, quod non statim ea, quæ tradidimus, interpretati sumus. Adhibuimus enim tam sanctis rebus atque divinis honorem silentii." Joseph Bingham (b. x. ch. v. s. 11.) cites those words as from "Serm. I., inter 40. a Sirmondo editos," which corresponds with Serm. V. according to the Benedictine edition, Paris, 1689--1700, tom. v. p. 28.; but no such words occur in that sermon. The passage is daggered by Grishovius, who first gave the citations at length; neither has MR. R. BINGHAM hitherto been able to meet with it, though a great many similar desiderata in former editions he has discovered and corrected. An answer through "N. & Q." will oblige; still more so if sent direct to his present address, 57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London. MR. BINGHAM would also be glad to be informed where Athanasius uses the term [Greek: diakonos], generally for any minister of the church, whether deacon, presbyter, or bishop? Joseph Bingham (b. ii. ch. xx. s. 1.) cites the tract _Contra Gentes_, but the expression is not there. {292} The earlier a reply comes the more acceptable will it be. 57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square. * * * * * Minor Queries. _"Terræ filius."_--When was the last "Terræ filius" spoken at Oxford; and what was the origin of the name? W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Daughter pronounced Dafter._--In the Verney Papers lately printed by the Camden Society is a letter from a Mistress Wiseman, in which she spells _daughter_ "daftere." It is evident that she pronounced the _-augh_ as we do in laughter. Is this pronunciation known to prevail anywhere at the present day? C. W. G. _Administration of the Holy Communion._--Which side, _north_ or _south_, is the more correct for the priest to commence administering the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper? Give the authority or reasons in support of your opinion. I cannot find any allusion in Hook's _Church Dictionary_, or in Wheatly's _Common Prayer_; and I have seen some clergymen begin one end, some the other. CLERICUS (A.). _Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead._--I have searched some time, but in vain, in order to find out what the _lump_ or _love charm_, taken out of a foal's forehead, was called. Virgil mentions it in _Æneid_, lib. iv. 515., where Dido is preparing her funeral pile, &c.: "Quæritur et nascentis equi de fronte revulsus, Et matri præreptus, _amor_." Tacitus also makes mention of it continually. I have no doubt but that through your interesting and learned columns I shall obtain an answer. It was not _philtrum_. H. P. _A Scrape._--What is the origin of the expression "Getting into a scrape?" Y. B. N. J. _"Plus occidit Gula," &c._--Can any of your correspondents direct me where the following passage is to be found?-- "Plus occidit gula, quam gladius." T. _Anecdote of Napoleon._--I remember to have heard of a young lady, one of the _detenus_ in France after the Peace of Amiens, having obtained her liberation through a very affecting copy of verses of her composition, which, by some means, came under the notice of Napoleon. The Emperor was so struck with the strain of this lament, that he forwarded passports, with an order for the immediate liberation of the fair writer. Can any of your correspondents verify this anecdote, and supply a copy of the verses? BALLIOLENSIS. _Canonisation in the Greek Church._--Does the Greek Church ever now canonise, or add the names of the saints to the Calendar? If so, by whom is the ceremony performed? ANTONY CLOSE. Woodhouse Eaves. _Binometrical Verses._--Who made the following verse?-- "Quando nigrescit nox, rem latro patrat atrox." It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion? C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _Dictionary of English Phrases._--Is there in English any good dictionary of phrases similar to the excellent _Frasologia Italiana_ of P. Daniele? G. K. _Lines on Woman._--W. V. will be glad to know if any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." can tell where the following lines are to be found?-- "Not she with traitrous kiss her master stung, Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue; _She_, when apostles fled, could danger brave, Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave." _Collections for Poor Slaves._--I have met with the following memorandum in a parish register, and have seen notices of similar entries in others: "1680. Collected for the redemption of poor slaves in Turkey, the sum of 2s. 8d." Can you refer me to the king's letter authorising such collections to be made? W. S. Northiam. [Some information upon this point will be found in "N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 441.; Vol. ii., p 12.] _The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers._--Where will be found the answer made by the Earl of Oxford when impeached in the reign of Queen Anne for creating in one day twelve peers? S. N. _"Like one who wakes," &c._--Can any of your readers supply the authorship and connexion of the following lines?-- "Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep, Unto the cares of morning." C. W. B. _Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed._--Can any one favour me with a parallel or similar case, in respect to bells, to what I recently met with at Berwick-upon-Tweed? The parish church, which is the only one in the town, and a mean structure of Cromwell's time, is without either tower or {293} bell; and the people are summoned to divine service from the belfry of the town-hall, which has a very respectable steeple. Indeed, so much more ecclesiastical in appearance is the town-hall than the Church, that (as I was told) a regiment of soldiers, on the first Sunday after their arrival at Berwick, marched to the former building for divine service, although the church stood opposite the barrack gate. My kind informant also told me that he found a strange clergyman one Sunday morning trying the town-hall door, and rating the absent sexton; having undertaken to preach a missionary sermon, and become involved in the same mistake as the soldiers. But more curious still was the news that there is a meeting-house in Berwick belonging to the anti-burghers, who are dissenters from the Church of Scotland, which has a bell, for the ringing of which, as a summons to worship, Barrington, Bishop of Durham, granted a licence, which still exists. I was not aware that bishops either had, or exercised, the power of licensing bells; but my informant will, I doubt not, on reading this, either verify or correct the statement. At the time when the bell was licensed, the congregation were in communion with the Church of Scotland. ALFRED GATTY. _The Keate Family, of the Hoo, Herts._--I shall be obliged to any of your readers for information respecting the _Sir Jonathan Keate, Bart._, of the Hoo, Hertfordshire, who was living in the year 1683; also for any particulars respecting his family? I especially desire to know what were his relations to the religious parties of the time, as I have in my possession the journal of a nonconformist minister, who was his domestic chaplain from 1683 to 1688. G. B. B. Cambridge. _Divining-rod._--Can any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." supply instances of the use of the divining-rod for finding water? I know several circumstances which might incline one, in these table-turning days, to inquire seriously whether there be any truth in the popular notion. G. W. SKYRING. _Medal and Relic of Mary Queen of Scots._--I have in my possession a medal, the size of a crown piece, of base metal, with perhaps some admixture of silver. On one side of this are the arms of Scotland with two thistles, and the legend-- MARIA ET HENRICUS DEI GRATIA R: ET R: SCOTORUM, and the reverse, a yew-tree with a motto of three words, of which the last seems to be VIRES, the date 1566, and the legend-- EXURGAT DEUS ET DISSIPANTUR INIMICI. Associated with this for a very considerable period has been a small wooden cross, which is said to have been made from the yew-tree under which Mary and Darnley had been accustomed to meet. I have been told that there is some farther tradition or superstition connected with these relics: if there be, I shall be glad to be informed of it, or of any other particulars concerning them. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Bulstrode's Portrait._--Prefixed to a copy in my possession of _Essays upon the following Subjects: 1. Generosity, &c._, by Whitelock Bulstrode, Esq., 8vo. Lond. 1724, there is a portrait of the author, bearing this note in MS.: "This scarce portrait has sold for 7l." It is engraved by Cole from a picture by Kneller, in oval with armorial bearings below, and is subscribed "Anno Salutis 1723, ætatis 72." I am at a loss to suppose it ever could have fetched the price assigned to my impression by its previous owner, and should feel obliged if any of your correspondents would state whether, from any peculiar circumstances, it may have become rare, and so acquired an adventitious value. It does not appear to have been known to Granger. While the two names are before me, I venture to inquire how the remarkable interchange occurred between that of _Whitelock Bulstrode_ the Essayist, and _Bulstrode Whitelock_ the Memorialist, of the parliamentary period. Was there any family connexion? BALLIOLENSIS. _The Assembly House, Kentish Town._--Can any of your antiquarian correspondents give me a clue as to the date, or probable date, of the erection of this well-known roadside public-house (I beg pardon, tavern), which is now being pulled down? I am desirous of obtaining some slight account of the old building, having just completed an etching, from a sketch taken as it appeared in its dismantled state. Possibly some anecdotes may be current regarding it. I learn from a rare little tome, entitled _Some Account of Kentish Town_, published at that place in 1821, and written, I believe, by a Mr. Elliot, that the Assembly House was formerly called the Black Bull. The writer of this Query asked "one of the oldest inhabitants," who was seated on a door-step opposite the house, _his_ opinion concerning its age: considering a little, the old gentleman seriously said he thought it might be two or three _thousand_ years at least! This opinion I am afraid to accept as correct, and I would therefore seek, through the medium of "N. & Q.," some information which may be more depended upon. W. B. R. Camden New Town. _Letters respecting Hougomont._--Could any reader of "N. & Q." kindly furnish the undersigned with certain Letters, which have recently {294} appeared in _The Times_, on "The Defence of Hougomont?" Such letters, extracted, would be of much service to him, as they are wanted for a specific purpose. The letters from Saturday, Sept. 10, _inclusive_, are _already_ obtained: but the letters on the subject previous to that date are wanting, and would greatly favour, if it were possible to have them, ARAN. Swillington. _Peter Lombard._--Mr. Hallam, in his _Literature of Europe_ (vol. i. p. 128.), says, on the authority of Meiners (vol. iii. p. 11.): "Peter Lombard, in his _Liber Sententiarum_, the systematic basis of scholastic theology, introduces _many_ Greek words, and explains them rightly." Having, however, examined this work for the purpose of ascertaining Peter Lombard's knowledge of Greek, I must, out of regard to strict truth, deny the statement of Meiners; for only one Greek word in Greek letters is to be found in the _Liber Sententiarum_, and that is [Greek: metanoia]: and so far frown Peter explaining this word rightly, he says, 'Poenitentia dicitur a puniendo" (lib. IV. dist. xiv.); an etymological notion which caused Luther to think wrongly of the nature of repentance, till he learnt the meaning of the Greek word, which he received with joy as the solution of one of his greatest difficulties in Romanism. I do not consider the introduction of such Latinized church words as _ecclesia_, _episcopus_, _presbyter_, or even _homoöusius_, as evincing any knowledge of Greek on the part of Peter Lombard, wherein he appears to have been lamentably deficient, as the great teacher and authority for centuries in Christian dogmatics. Your correspondents will greatly oblige me by showing anything to the contrary of my charge against Peter Lombard of being ignorant of Greek. T. J. BUCKTON. Birmingham. _Life of Savigny._--Is there in French or English any life or memoir of Savigny? C. H. _Picture by Hogarth._--Some years since a gentleman purchased at Bath the first sketch of a picture said to be by Hogarth, of "Fortune distributing her favours." Shortly afterwards a gentleman called on the purchaser of it, and mentioned to him that he knew the finished painting, and that it was in the panelling of some house with which he was acquainted. I am desirous of finding out for the family of the purchaser, who died recently, 1st, whether there is any history that can be attached to this picture and 2ndly, to discover, if possible, in whose possession, and where, the finished painting is preserved. J. K. R. W. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _Glossarial Queries._--In a Subsidy Roll of 25 Edward I., in an enumeration of property in the parish of Skirbeck, near Boston, Lincolnshire, upon which a _ninth_ was granted to the king, I find the following articles and their respective value. What were they?-- "3 alece, 18s. 1 bacell cum
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