Part 6
_Perspective_ (Vol. ix., pp. 300. 378.).--I shall be glad of a reference to any work on Perspective which treats satisfactorily of that part of the subject on which I made my Note. I think if MR. FERREY will draw a lofty building on either side of a landscape, he will not be satisfied with its appearance, if he makes that side of it which is in the plane of the picture perfectly rectangular. I often meet with instances in which it is so drawn, and they produce the effect on me of a note out of time. MR. STILWELL's observation is only partially correct. There is one position of the eye, at a fixed distance from the picture, at which all the lines subtend equal angles at the eye with the corresponding lines of the original landscape. But a picture is not to be looked at from one point, and that at, probably, an inconvenient proximity to the eye. I have before me a print (in the _Ill. Lond. News_) of the interior of St. Paul's, of which the dome gives about as good an idea of proportion to the building, as the north part of Mercator's projection of the World. The whole building is depressed and top-heavy, simply because the perspective of lines in the plane of the picture is rectangular throughout. I have another interior (of Winchester Cathedral, by Owen Carter), which, being drawn on the same plan, gives the idea of a _squat tunnel_, unless looked at from one point of view, about eight inches from the picture. I feel that drawing these interiors so as not to offend the eye by either the excess or deficiency of perspective, is a great difficulty. But I think something may be done in the way of "humouring" the perspective, and approximating in our drawing to that which we know we see. The camera has thrown light upon the subject. We ought not to despise altogether the hints it gives us by its perhaps exaggerated perspective, in the case of parallel lines in the plane of the picture. I hope I may at least be able to draw out some more remarks upon a subject which I cannot help thinking, with Mr. INGLEBY, is in an unsatisfactory and defective state.
G. T. HOARE.
Tandridge.
"_Go to Bath_" (Vol. ix., p. 421.).--I have little doubt but that this phrase is connected with the fact of Bath's being proverbially the resort of beggars; and what more natural, to one acquainted with this fact, than to bid an importunate applicant betake himself thither to join his fellows? See also Fuller's _Worthies_ (co. Somerset).
I transcribe the passage for the benefit of those who have not the book at hand:
"_Beggars of Bath._--Many in that place; some natives there, others repairing thither from all parts of the land; the poor for alms, the pained for ease. Whither should fowl flock in a hard frost, but to the barn-door? Here, all the two seasons, being the general confluence of gentry. Indeed laws are daily made to restrain beggars, and daily broken by the connivance of those who make them; it being impossible when the hungry belly barks, and bowels sound, to keep the tongue silent. And although oil of whip {578} be the proper plaister for the cramp of laziness, yet some pity is due to impotent persons. In a word, seeing there is the Lazar's-bath in this city, I doubt not but many a good Lazarus, the true object of charity, may beg therein."
J. EASTWOOD, M.A.
R. R. inquires the origin of the above saying, but has forgotten the context, viz. "and get your head shaved." I have often heard it explained as an allusion to the fact, that, in former days, persons who showed symptoms of insanity were sent to Bath to drink the medicinal waters; the process of shaving the head being previously resorted to. The saying is applied to those who either relate "crack-brained" stories, or propose undertakings that raise a doubt as to their sanity.
N. L. T.
_Ridings and Chaffings_ (Vol. ix., p. 370.).--Though unable to give MR. THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER any information respecting the "Ridings and Chaffings" of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, I send the following note of a somewhat similar custom prevalent in Oxfordshire (I never heard of it elsewhere), thinking it may perhaps interest him and others of your correspondents.
I remember once, about three years ago, I was walking in Blenheim Park, with a friend then resident at Woodstock, when suddenly the stillness of a summer evening was broken by strange and inharmonious sounds, coming to us across the water from the old town. The sounds grew louder and louder, and in great surprise I appealed to my friend for an explanation; when I learned that it was a custom in that part of the country, whenever it was discovered that a man had been beating his wife, for the neighbours to provide themselves with all sorts of instruments, fire-irons, kettles, and pots, in fine, anything capable of making a noise, and proceed _en masse_ to the house of the offender, before whose door they performed in concert, till their indignation subsided or their arms grew weary; and that the noise we then heard was the distant sound of such music.
I do not know if my friend gave any name to this practice; if he did, I have since forgotten it. Doubtless, some of your Oxford readers can assist me.
R. V. T.
Mincing Lane.
At Marchington, in Staffordshire, the custom exists of having what is called a "Rantipole Riding" for every man who beats his wife. The ceremony is performed with great care and solemnity. A committee is formed to examine into the case. Then the village poet is employed to give a history of the occurrence in verse. The procession goes round in the evening with a cart, which serves as a stage on which the scene is acted and from which the verses are recited. The custom has been there observed, with so much judgment and discretion, that it has been productive of much good, and has now almost entirely put a stop to this disgraceful practice. I can remember several "ridings" in my younger days.
H. B.
MR. POTTER will find, upon referring to Vol. i., p. 245., that this custom prevails in Gloucestershire, with the substitution of _straw_ for _chaff_. I have seen the Gloucestershire version both in Kent and Sussex, and have received an explanation of it similar to MR. POTTER'S own supposition.
G. WILLIAM SKYRING.
Somerset House.
_Faithful Commin_ (Vol. ix., p. 155.).--Your correspondent W. H. GUNNER will find a detailed account of Faithful Commin in _Foxes and Firebrands_, a tract of which mention has been made in various Numbers of "N. & Q." It is there said to be extracted from the Memorials of Cecil Lord Burleigh, from whose papers it was transmitted to Archbishop Ussher. "The papers of the Lord Primate coming to the hands of Sir James Ware, his son, Robert Ware, Esq., has obliged the public by the communication of them."
[Greek: Halieus.]
Dublin.
_Heraldic Anomaly_ (Vol. ix., p. 430.).--TEE BEE'S description of the arms on St. John's Gate is somewhat defective. They are engraved, and more completely described, in Cromwell's _History of Clerkenwell_ [1828], p. 128.
W. P. STORER.
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_Odd Fellows_ (Vol. ix., p. 327.).--C. F. A. W. will find some of the Odd Fellows' secrets disclosed in a small volume entitled _A Ritual and Illustrations of Free Masonry, &c._, by a Traveller in the United States (third thousand): published by James Gilbert, 49. Paternoster Row, 1844. The Odd Fellows date from Adam, who was the odd and solitary representative of the human race before the creation of Eve.
KENNEDY MCNAB.
"_Branks_" (Vol. ix., p. 336.).--The word _branks_ does occur in Burns, and signifies "wooden curb," but it is not in that sense it is used by Wodrow. The _branks_ of the Covenanters was an iron collar and chain firmly fixed to a tree, or post, or pillar, about three feet from the ground. This was locked round the neck of the luckless offender, who was thus obliged to remain in a most inconvenient and painful crouching posture, being neither able to stand nor lie. Many of these are still to be seen in the neighbourhood of the residences of old Highland families who, ere Lord Hardwicke's Jurisdiction Act, exercised the powers of pit and gallows. There is one at the entrance to Culloden House, near Inverness.
KENNEDY MCNAB.
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