Chapter 4

_Darvon Gatherall._--I send you an extract from Southey's _Common-place Book_, which refers to Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from Wordworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_, where it is given as quotation from Michael Wodde, who wrote in 1554. He says:--

"Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's Prayer in English?... If we were sick of the pestilence, we ran to St. Rooke: if of the ague, to St. Pernel, or Master John Shorne. If men were in prison, they prayed to St. Leonard. If the Welshman would have a purse, he prayed to _Darvel Gathorne_. If a wife were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules; at London, to St. Uncumber."

Can any of your readers inform me who St. Uncumber was?

PWCCA.

[Poules is St. Paul's. The passage from Michael Wodde is quoted in Ellis' _Brand_, vol. i. p. 202. edit. 1841.]

_Angels' Visits_ (Vol. i., p. 102.).--WICCAMECUS will find in Norris's _Miscellanies_, in a poem "To the Memory of my dear Neece, M.C." (Stanza X. p. 10. ed. 1692), the following lines:--

"No wonder such a noble mind Her way to heaven so soon could find: Angels, as 'tis but seldom they appear, So neither do they make long stay; They do but visit, and away."

Mr. Montgomery (_Christian Poet_) long ago compared this passage with those cited by WICCAMECUS.

J.E.B. MAYOR.

_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216.).--On that interesting subject, "The Antiquity of Smoking," I beg to contribute the following "Note," which I made some years ego, but unfortunately without a reference to the author:--

"Some fern was evidently in use among the ancients: for Athenæus, in his first book, quotes from the Greek poet, Crobylus, these words:--

[Greek: 'Kai ton larung haedista purio temachiois Kaminos, ouk anthropos.']

'And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings: A chimney, not a man!'

"Now as, in a preceding line, the smoker boasts of his 'Idæan fingers,' it is plain that every man rolled up his sharoot for himself."

H.G.

_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., p. 216.).--_Herod_. lib. i. sec. 36. is referred to for some illustration, I suppose, of smoking through tubes. _Herodotus_ supplies nothing: perhaps _Herodian_ may be meant, though not very likely. Herb smoking was probably in use in Europe long before tobacco. But direct authority seems sadly wanting.

SANDVICENSIS.

"_Noli me tangere_" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 219. 250.).--In a New Testament published by the Portusian Bible Society is a small ill-executed print, called "Christ appearing to Mary," copied from a picture by C. Ciguani.

WEDSECNARF.

_Partrige Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 230.).--Mr. Partrige's reference to Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_ is quite unintelligible to those who have not access to the Oxford _reprint_ of that work. The reprint (I wish that in all other reprints a similar course was adopted) gives the paging of the original folio edition. I submit, therefore, that Mr. Partrige should have stated that the note he has made is from Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. ii. p. 310.

The grant to which Mr. Partrige refers is, I dare say, on the Patent Roll, 7 Edw. VI., which may be inspected at the Public Record Office, Rolls Chapel, on payment of a fee of 1s., with liberty to take a copy or extract in pencil gratuitously or a plain copy may be obtained at the rate of 6d. a folio.

The act of 1 Mary, for the restitution in blood of the heirs of Sir Miles Partrige, if not given in the {287} large edition of the Statutes, printed by the Record Commissioners, may no doubt be seen at the Parliament Office, near the House of Lords, on payment of the fee of 5s.

I believe I am correct in saying that no debates of that session are extant; but the proceedings on the various bills may probably be traced in the journals of the two Houses of Parliament, which are printed and deposited in most of our great public libraries.

C.H. Cooper.

Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1850

_City Offices._--The best account of the different public offices of the city of London, with their duties, etc., that I know of, your correspondent A CITIZEN (Vol. ii., p. 216.) will find in the _Reports of the Municipal Corporation Commissioners_.

W.C.

_Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--The claim set up on behalf of Father Paul to the honour of Harvey's discovery, which is noticed by your correspondent W.W.B., is satisfactorily disposed of in the life of Harvey in the _Biographia Britannica_, iv. 2548., note C. Harvey gave a copy of his treatise _De Motu Cordis_ to the Venetian ambassador in England. On his return home the ambassador lent the book to Father Paul, who made some extracts from it. After Father Paul's death, he was thought to be the author of these extracts and hence the story which your correspondent quotes. It might occasionally be convenient if your correspondents could make _a little_ inquiry before they send off their letters to you.

Beruchino.

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