Part 2
1. Ælfredi magni somnium de Sociis omnibus Academicis ad Episcopatum promovendis:
'With suppliant smiles they bend the head, While distant mitres to their eyes are spread.' _Byron._
Opus egregium perutile perjucundum ex membranis vetustissimis detritis tertium rescriptis, solertiâ plus quam Angelo-Maiana, nuperrime redintegratum.
2. Devorguillæ, Balliolensibus semper carissimæ, pudicitia laborans vindicatur.
3. Contra Kilnerum et Mertonenses disputatur, Pythagoram Cantabrigiæ nunquam docuisse:
'[Greek: Dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois] [Greek: Exapatônti muthoi].'--_Pind._
4. Wiccamici publicis examinationibus liberi, sibi et reipublicæ nocentes.
5. Magdalenenses semper ædificaturientes nihil agunt:
'Implentur veteris Bacchi.'--_Virg._
6. Orielensibus, ingenio, ut ipsi aiunt, exundantibus, Aula B. M. V. malevole denegatur:
'Barbara Celarent Darii.'--_Ars Logica._
7. De reditibus annuis Decani et Canonicorum Ædis Christi, sive de libris Canonicis.
8. Quæstiones duæ: An Alumni Ædis Christi _jure_ fiant Canonici? An Alumni Ædis Christi _re-verâ_ fiant Canonici?
9. Respondetur serenissimæ Archiducissæ de Oldenburg quærenti:
'What do the Fellows of All-Souls do?'
10. E Collegio Ænei Nasi legati Stamfordiam missi Nasum illum celeberrimum, Collegii [Greek: epônumos], solemni pompâ Oxoniam asportant.
11. Nummi ad ornandam faciem occidentalem Collegii Lincolniensis erogati unde comparati fuerint?
... 'Lucri bonus est odor ex re Qualibet.'--_Juv._
12. _Note._--The original heading of this chapter was altered in a later edition, and therefore is not reprinted here.
13. Ex Societatibus cæteris ejectos Aula S. Albani pessimo exemplo ad se recipit:
'Facilis descensus Averni.'--_Virg._
14. De Golgotha et de Golgothitis.
15. Prælectores an Prælectiones numero sint plures.
16. Viro venerabili S. T. P. R. prælegente pecunia a clientibus sordide admodum exigitur.
17. Magistri in Venerabili domo Convocationis necessario adsistentes more Attico [Greek: to triôbolon] recipere debent.
18. De Academicorum in Venerabili domo Convocationis sedentium podicibus igneo quodam vapore calefaciendis:
'Placetne vobis Magistri?'--[Greek: ho aei] Vice-Can.
19. De viris clarissimis Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Curatoribus.
'Scene II.--_Enter_ Quince the Carpenter, Snug the Joiner, Bottom the Weaver, Flute the Bellows-mender, Snout the Tinker, _and_ Starveling the Tailor.
_Quince._ Is all our company complete?'
_Shakspeare._
20. De matulis in Bibliothecâ studentibus copiosius suppeditandis:
'[Greek: Amis gar ên ourêtiasêis autê] [Greek: Para soi kremêsetai engus epi tou pattalou].' _Aristophanes._
21. De Bibliothecario et ejus adjutoribus.
'_Captain._ What are you about, Dick?
_Dick._ Nothing, Sir.
_Captain._ Thomas, what are you doing?
_Thomas._ Helping Dick, Sir.'
22. Examinantur Examinatores.
23. Cuinam eorum Doctoris Planissimi cognomen jure optimo concedendum sit.
24. De Dodd. {169}
25. De Magistris Scholarum.
'Who made that wond'rous animal a Soph?' _Oxford Spy._
26. Baccalaurei ad Clepsydram determinantes.
'Nor stop, but rattle over every word, No matter what, so it can not be heard.' _Byron._
27. De Vocum Great-go, Little-go, By-go, in concione quâdam nuperâ perperam felici usu.
'[Greek: Eti to auto hupokorizesthai; esti de hupokorismos hos elatton poiei k. t. l. eulabeisthai de dei].'--_Aristotle._
28. De statuà matronæ venerabilis [Greek: tês] Goose nuper defunctæ in medià Scholarum areà collocandà.
29. De statutorum nostrorum simplici perspicuitate.
'[Greek: Anarchaion te kai atelentaion to pan.]'
Ephraim Jenkins, apud the _Vicar of Wakefield_.
30. An Procuratorum pedissequi recte nominentur Bull-dogs?
31. De passere intra Templum B. Mariæ concionantibus obstrepente per statutum coercendo.
'[Greek: Ô Zeu basileu tou phthegmatos tournithiou].'
32. Typographium Clarendonianum famæ Universitatis male consulit, dum Cornelium Nepotem et alios, id genus, libellos, in usum Scholarum imprimit.
'Fama malum.'--_Virg._
'Quærenda pecunia primum.'--_Horat._
33. De celeberrimà Matronà Knibbs ex Horatii mente deificanda.
'Divina tomacula porci.'
34. Exemplo viri clarissimi Joannis Gutch probatur mortales errori obnoxios esse.
35. Petitur ut memoria viri prosapià ingenio et moribus spectatissimi Gulielmi Stuart oratione annuà celebretur.
'Integer vitæ scelerisque purus.'--_Hor._
'The merry poacher who defies his God.' _Oxford Spy._
36. Oxonià novo lumine vestità, gaudent Balænæ Atlanticæ, exulant meretrices, Procuratores otio enecantur.
'[Greek: Hôs ektos ômen têsde tês alampias].'
'Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna.'--_Virg._
37. Probatur Bedellum Academicum vero et genuino sensu esse quartum Prædicabile; quippe qui comes adsit Vice-Cancellario omni soli et semper. Doctissimus tamen Higgenbrockius Differentiam potius esse putat, eujus hæc sunt verba:
'Bedellus est de Vice-Cancellarii Essentia, Nec potest dispensari cum absentia: Nam sicat forma dat Esse Rei, Sic Esse dat Bedellus ei.'
Nec errat forsan vir clarissimus, si enim Collegii eujusvis Præfectum (genus) recte dividat Bedellus adstans (Differentia), fit illico Species optata.--_Dominus Vice-Can._
38. Tutorum et Examinatorum Oxoniensium petitio Mediolanum transmissa, ut Auctorum deperditorum restitutor nequissimus Angelus Maius, iste malè feriatus, oculis et virilibus mulctetur.
39. Statuto quamprimum cautum sit, idque sub poenis gravissimis, ne quis ad Universitatis privilegia admissus auctoris cujuspiam libros feliciter deperditos invenire audeat, inventos huc asportet, imprimat, imprimendos curet, denique impressos legat.
Hæc sunt et horum similia, Academici, quæ favore et Auspiciis vestris auctor sibi evolvenda destinat. Ei investigandi tædium, vobis delectatio, adsit, et honos et gloria. In quantam molem assurgat materies tam varia tam augusta non est in præsenti ut pro certo affirmetur. Spes est, ut omnia rite collecta, in ordinem breviter et [Greek: enkuklopaidikôs] redacta, voluminibus, formà quam vocant 'Elephant-Quarto,' non plusquam triginta contineantur.
Omnes igitur qui famam aut Academiæ aut suam salvam velint, moras excutiant, Bibliopolam nostrum integerrimum præsto adeant, symbolas conferant, deut nomina, ut hanc saltem a nobis immortalitatem consequantur, alià fortasse carituri."
J. B. O.
Loughborough.
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ANSAREYS IN MOUNT LEBANON.
In the romance of _Trancred_, Mr. D'Israeli mentions the Ansareys, one of the tribes of Lebanon, as worshipping the old heathen gods, Jupiter, Apollo, and Astarte, or Venus. A writer of fiction is certainly not expected to be bound to fact; but in such a matter as the present religion of an existing people, I feel doubtful whether to suppose this religion his own invention, or if he has any authority for it, and its connexion with pagan Antioch. A people to-day retaining the worship of the old gods of Greece and Syria, is a matter of great interest. I have looked into Volney's _Travels in Syria and Egypt_, and in some later writers, but none of them state the paganism of Tancred to be the religion of the Ansareys. It is, however, said to be a mystery, so not impossibly the account in _Tancred_ may be the reality. In the same work, the Sheikhs of Sheikhs, and his tribe, the Beni-Rechab children of Rechab, are said to be Jews on horseback, inhabiting the desert, and resembling the wandering Arabs in their mode of life. This also is curious, if there be such a people; and some of your readers acquainted with the history and manners of Syria may give information on these matters. The other tribes of Lebanon are singular and equally interesting:--the Maronites, Christians of the Roman Catholic sect, who, however, allow their priests to marry; the Metualis, Mahomedans of the sect of Ali; and the Druses, whose religion is unknown, and, as Lamartine tells us, was entirely so to Lady Hester Stanhope, who lived years in the middle of them. Volney divides the Ansareys {170} in several sects, of whom one worshipped the sun, another a dog, and a third had an obscene worship, with such lewd nocturnal meetings as were fabled of the Yesedee.
F.
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PRIMERS OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Little is known respecting the Primers of this reign, and yet several editions were published. My object will be to give some information on the subject, in the hope that more may be elicited from your correspondents.
There is an edition of the year 1559, 4to. Two copies only are known at present; one in the library at Christ Church, Oxford, and the other at Jesus College, Cambridge. It has been reprinted by the Parker Society. This Primer contains certain prayers for the dead, as they stand in that of Henry VIII., 1545. In short, with the exception of "An Order for Morning Prayer," with which it commences, this Primer follows the arrangement of that of 1545; some things, relative to saints, angels, and the Virgin Mary, having been excluded.
But I have in my possession another edition in 12mo. of this reign, of which I can trace no other copy. My book wants the title, and consequently I cannot ascertain its date. It was formerly in Gough's possession. I am inclined to think that it is earlier than the edition reprinted by the Parker Society.
Unlike the book of 1559, mine commences with the Catechism, but the subsequent arrangement is the same. The differences, when any exist, consist in a more literal following of the Primer of 1545. The Prayers for the Dead are retained as in the book of 1559. The Graces, also, are more numerous in my edition, and some of them are not found even in King Henry's book. One consists of an address, as from the master of the family, with an answer from the other members. In some respects this is similar to a form in King Edward's Primer, while in others it is altogether different. At the close of the Graces, the book of 1559 has the words "God save our Queen and Realm," while in my edition the reading is the same as in the book of 1545, "Lorde, save thy Churche, our Quene, and Realme," &c.
In "The Dirige" there is a very singular variation. In 1559 we find "Ego Dixi, Psalm Esaic xxxviii.;" in 1545 it is only "Esa. xxxviii.;" in that of 1546 the form is "Ego Dixi, Psal. Esa. xxxviii.;" and my edition has "Ego Dixi, Psal. xxxv.," being different from all the rest.
Some curious typographical errors are also found in my edition. In the Catechism the word king is substituted for queen. In the third petition in the Litany for the Queen, we have "That it may please thee to be hys defendour, and gevinge hym," &c.; yet in the previous clauses the pronoun is correctly used. It would seem that the printer had the Primer of 1545 or 1546 before him, and that in these cases he followed his copy without making the necessary alterations.
Such are the more remarkable differences between my edition and that of 1559.
There is a Primer of this reign in the Bodleian, quite different from mine and that of 1559. In this the Prayers for the Dead are expunged, and the character of the book is altogether dissimilar. Two copies of this book exist in the Bodleian, which have been usually regarded as different editions. From a careful examination, however, I have ascertained that they are the same edition. One copy has the title, with the date 1566 on the woodcut border; the other wants the title, but has the colophon, bearing the date 1575. The latter is the true date of the book, and the date on the title is merely that of some other book, for which the compartment had been used in 1566. Such variations are common with early books. I have several volumes bearing an earlier date on the title than in the colophon. Thus, the first edition of Sir Thomas Elyot's _Castle of Health_ has 1534 on the title, and 1539 in the colophon. The latter was the true date. It may be remarked that the two books in the Bodleian of 1575 will together make up a perfect copy.
Some of your correspondents may be able to mention another copy of the edition which I possess. I am very anxious to discover another.
THOMAS LATHBURY.
Bristol.
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Minor Notes.
_Objective and Subjective._--I tried, a little while ago, to show in your pages that this antithesis, though not a good pair of terms, is intelligible, and justified by good English usage. But I must allow that the writers who use these terms, do all that is possible to put those who justify them in the wrong. In a French work at least, recently published, I find what appears to me a curious application of the corresponding words in that language. M. Auguste Comte, in the preface to the third volume of his _Système de Politique Positive_, speaks of some of his admirers who had by their "cotisations," or contributions, supported him while he was writing the work; and he particularly celebrates one of them, Mr. Wallace, an American, adding:
"Devenu jusqu'ici le principal de mes souscripteurs, Wallace a perpétué _subjectivement_ son patronage _objectif_, en me leguant une annuité de cinq cent francs."
I must confess that the metaphysics according to which a sum paid by a living man is _objectif_, and a legacy _subjectif_, is beyond my depth. {171}
While I write, as if writers of all kinds were resolved to join in perplexing the use of these unfortunate words, I read in a journal, "objective discussion in the sense of hostile or adverse discussion, discussion which proposed _objections_." I think this is hard upon the word, and unfair usage of it.
W.
_Lucy Walters, the Duke of Monmouth's Mother._--The death of this unfortunate woman is usually stated to have taken place at Paris. The date is not given, and the authority cited is John Evelyn. But Evelyn's words have been misunderstood. He says, speaking of the Duke of Monmouth's execution:
"His mother, whose name was Barlow, daughter of some very mean creatures, was a beautiful strumpet, whom I had often seen at Paris; she died miserably, without anything to bury her."--_Diary_, July 15, 1685.
This passage surely does not imply that she _died_ at Paris? In the Parish Registers of Hammersmith is the following entry:
"1683, June 5, Lucy Walters bur."
which I am fully persuaded records the death of one of King Charles's quondam mistresses.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_General Haynau's Corpse._--A most extraordinary account has reached us in a private letter from Vienna to a high personage here, and has been the talk of our _salons_ for the last few days. It appears that the circumstance of the death of General Haynau presented a phenomenon of the most awful kind on record. For many days after death the warmth of life yet lingered in the right arm and left leg of the corpse, which remained limpid and moist, even bleeding slightly when pricked. No delusion, notwithstanding, could be maintained as to the reality of death, for the other parts of the body were completely mortified, and interment became necessary before the two limbs above mentioned had become either stiff or cold. The writer of the letter mentioned that this strange circumstance has produced the greatest awe in the minds of those who witnessed it, and that the emperor had been so impressed with it, that his physicians had forbidden the subject to be alluded to in his presence. Query, Can the above singular statement be verified? It was copied from a French paper, immediately after the decease of General Haynau was known in Paris.
W. W.
Malta.
_"Isolated."_--This word was not in use at the commencement of the eighteenth century, as is evident from the following expression of Lord Bolingbroke's:
"The events we are witnesses of in the course of the longest life appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and _unrelative_; if I may use such a word for want of a better in English. In French, I would say _isolés_."
The only author quoted by Richardson is Stewart.
R. CARY BARNARD.
Malta.
_Office of Sexton held by One Family._--The following obituary, copied from the _Derbyshire Advertiser_ of Jan. 27, 1854, contains so extraordinary an account of the holding of the office of sexton by one family, that it may interest some of your readers, and may be difficult to be surpassed.
"On Jan. 23, 1854, aged eighty-six, Mr. Peter Bramwell, sexton of the parish church of Chapel-en-le-Frith. The deceased served the office of sexton forty-three years; Peter Bramwell, his father, fifty years; George Bramwell, his grandfather, thirty-eight years; George Bramwell, his great-grandfather, forty years; Peter Bramwell, his great-great-grandfather, fifty-two years: total 223 years."
S. G. C.
_Sententious Despatches_ (Vol. viii., p. 490.; Vol. ix., p. 20.).--In addition to the sententious dispatches referred to above, please note the following. It was sent to the Emperor Nicholas by one of his generals, and is a very good specimen of Russian _double entendres_:
"_Voli[=a] V[=a]sch[=a]_, [=a] Varsch[=a]voo vsiat nemogoo."
"_Volia is your's_, but Warsaw I cannot take."
Also,--
"_Your will is all-powerful_, but Warsaw I cannot take."
J. S. A.
Old Broad Street.
_Reprints suggested._--As you have opened a list of suggested reprints in the pages of "N. & Q.," may I be allowed to remark that some of Peter Heylin's works would be well worth reprinting.
There is a work of which few know the value, but yet a work of the greatest importance, I mean Dr. O'Connor's _Letters of Columbanus_. A carefully edited and well annotated edition of this scarce work would prove of greater value than any reprint I can think of.
MARICONDA.
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Queries.
PICTURES FROM LORD VANE'S COLLECTION.
My family became possessed of six fine portraits at the death of Lord Vane, husband to that lady of unenviable notoriety, a sketch of whose life (presented by her own hand to the author) is inserted, under the title "Adventures of a Lady of Quality," in _Peregrine Pickle_. I quote from my {172} relation who knew the facts.[2] Lord Vane was the last of his race, and died at Fairlawn, Kent, probably about the latter half of the last century.[3] The successor to his fortune selected a few pictures, and left the remaining, of which mine formed a part, to his principal agent. Amateurs say they are by Sir Peter Lely: a fact I should be glad to establish. I have searched Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, and Knowle Park collections in vain for duplicates.
No. 1. is a young man in what appears to be a court dress, exhibiting armour beneath the folds of the drapery. Point lace neck-tie. 2. Do., in brocaded silk and fringed dress. Point lace neck-tie and ruffles. A spaniel introduced, climbing up his knee. 3. A youth sitting under a tree, with pet lamb. Point lace neck-tie and ruffles, but of simple dress. 4. A lady in flowing drapery. Pearls in her hair and round her neck, sitting under a tree. An orange blossom in her hand. 5. A lady seated in an apartment with marble columns. Costume similar to No. 4, minus the pearls in the hair. A kind of wreath in her hand. 6. A lady in simple, flowing drapery, without jewellery, save a broach or clasp on her left shoulder; holding a flower in her right hand. In all, the background is _very dark_, but trees and buildings can be traced through the gloom. The hands are models, and _beautifully painted_. Size of pictures, divested of their carved and gilt frames, four feet two inches by three feet four inches. If any of your readers can, from this description, give me any clue to the name of the artist, it will greatly oblige and be duly appreciated by an elderly spinster.
S. D.
[Footnote 2: [A correspondent in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for May, 1789, p. 403., who was intimately acquainted with Lord and Lady Vane, states that "though Dr. Smollet was as willing as he was able to embellish his works with stories marvellous, yet he did not dress up Lady Vane's story of her Lord. She wrote it as well as she could herself, and Dr. Shebbeare put it in its present form at her ladyship's request."]
[Footnote 3: Lord Vane died April 5, 1789, at his house in Downing Street, Westminster. He was great-grandson of that inflexible republican, Sir Henry Vane, executed on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662.--ED.]]
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BURIAL-PLACE OF THURSTAN, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
The church of All Saints, in Pontefract, county York, was some years ago partly restored for divine worship; and during the progress of the works, a broken slab was discovered in the chancel part of the church, upon which was cut an archiepiscopal cross, extending from the top apparently to the bottom. On the upper part of the stone, and on each side of the cross, was a circle or ring cut down the middle by a dagger; and bearing on the circle the following inscription in Old English characters:
"+ in . god . is . all ."
In the middle of the stone, and on each side of the cross, also appear a shield emblazoned with a rabbit or coney _sejant_.[4]
Beneath this part appears the commencement of the inscription, which seems to have run across the surface of the stone, "Orate pro anim...." Here the stone is broken across, and the lower part not found.
Can any of your numerous readers inform me if this stone could possibly be the tombstone of Thurstan, Archbishop of York? It is said that he resigned the see of York after holding it twenty-six years:
"Being old and sickly, he would have been made a monk of Pontefract, but he had scarcely put off his pontifical robes, and put on his monk's dress, when death came upon him and made him assume his grave-clothes; for he survived but eleven days after his resignation, dying Feb. 5, 1140."
Thurstan is stated to have been buried in the Monastery; but may he not have been buried in the church of All Saints, which was the conventual church of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist, and was situated adjoining the Grange, the site of the Priory? In the bull of Pope Celestine, "right of burial in this church was granted to the monks, saving the privileges of neighbouring churches." (_Ch. de Pontif._ fol. 8. a.)
GEORGE FOX.
[Footnote 4: In "N. & Q.," Vol. ix., p. 19., I find, under the head of "Wylcotes Brass," an answer to the inscription "In . on . is . all;" and as the inscription on the tombstone discovered in All Saints, Pontefract, was very legibly written "In God is all," may not one family be a branch of the other? Can you say where the quotation is from?]
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Minor Queries.
_Admiral Hopson._--In Tomkins' _History of the Isle of Wight_ (1796), vol. ii. p. 123., an anecdote is told of a native of Bonchurch named Hobson, who afterwards became Admiral Hobson. It is mentioned that he was _an orphan_, bound apprentice to a tailor; and that being struck with the sight of a squadron of ships off the Isle of Wight, he rowed off in a boat to them, and was received on the admiral's ship; that _the next day_, in an engagement with _the French_, when his ship was engaged yard-arm and yard-arm with the enemy, he climbed up the mast, clambered to the enemy's yard-arm, mounted to the top-gallant mast, and took down the flag. This created consternation in the enemy, who were soon defeated. Hobson was {173} promoted to be an officer, and ultimately became an admiral.
This is the story as told by Tomkins. I wish to know what was his authority.