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| ------------------------------ 2 | | 1 Sarah = George d'r. wife of widow Brough. George d'd Long of 7 July, Clapham 1846, Park æt. 39. Academy, 1846."
[Footnote 5: Seventh in direct lineal male descent from the protomartyr.]
E. D.
_English Translation of the Canons_ (Vol. v., p. 246.).--The Queries of M. on this subject have arisen out of an error, which I fancy must be his own. After quoting the clause of the 36th Canon, _quodque eodem taliter uti liceat_, he says:
"The English translation, to which subscription is now made, has the following rendering of the second clause: 'And that the same may be lawfully used.' The word 'taliter' seems to be not rendered at all."
Of course I cannot tell on what authority he says this; but he is certainly wrong: for in the Oxford edition (1844) of the _Homilies and Canons_ this clause stands thus: "and that it may lawfully _so_ be used." And so it is printed in Hodgson's _Instructions_, p. 8., and in the Instructions to be observed by Candidates for Holy Orders in the Diocese of London: and I myself not long ago subscribed to it in this form. There is then no difference here at all; the Latin being rendered by the English, not only fully, but literally. I will only add, that the grammatical meaning of _taliter_, or _so_, appears to me in this place to be plain enough, without requiring a "theological controversy" to determine it.
F. A.
_"Arborei foetus alibi," &c._ (Vol. v., pp. 58. 189.).--I am afraid I did not make myself intelligible in my former communication. Certainly W. A. C. does not understand me. The question is, are we justified in translating _alibi atque_ "otherwhere than," in like manner as we translate _aliter atque_ "otherwise than?" W. A. C. takes for granted that the line in question refers to only one district. But that is the very point in doubt. The "head master's" translation makes it refer to two.
W. S.
_Horn-blowing_ (Vol. v., p. 148.).--In reference to this practice, I may state that a similar custom prevails here (Gainsborough, Lincolnshire), but on the 29th May, or "Royal Oak Day." For some days previously the boys collect all the birds' eggs they can find or purchase, and early in the morning of the 29th, they may be seen returning from the woods in crowds, with an ample supply of oak. They next procure a large quantity of flowers, with which they construct a garland in the form of a crown, the apples of the oak being all gilded, surrounded by flowers and festoons of birds' eggs. The garland is then suspended across the street, and every little urchin being provided with a horn, some the natural horn of the cow, others of tin, similar to those formerly used by the guard of the mail coaches, they keep up throughout the day a most terrible blowing of horns; the doleful noise being ill in accordance with the festivity and rejoicing which the garlands are presumed to indicate. I have been unable to learn the origin or import of this singular custom.
T. DYSON.
Gainsborough.
"_God's Love_" (Vol. v., p. 272.).--If T. S. will refer to Wood's _Athenæ Oxon._, vol. iii. col. 698. edit. 4to., he will find all account of the author of _God's Love_. Wood records an edition of 1659. In the _Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica_, No. 594., was one dated 1679; but I have now before me the _first_, which neither Wood nor his editor appear to have heard of. The title:
"God's Love and Man's Vnworthiness: whereunto is annexed a Discourse between the Soul and Satan. With several Divine Ejaculations. Written by John Quarles. London: Printed for John Stafford, and are to be sold at his house in S. Bride's Church-yard; and by Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and John Holder, at the Blue Anchor, in the New Exchange. 1651."
Collation: the minde of the frontispiece: 8 lines verse. The frontispiece, or engraved title: _God's Loue, Man's Vnworthiness_, by Io. Qu. "Lord, what is man," &c. _Ps._ viii. 4. An engraved portrait of the author, kneeling and saying, "O giue salvation vnto Israell out of Sion!" (this unknown to Granger or Bromley: the latter records _three_ other portraits of the author.) Then the title, as given before. The dedication: "To my much honoured and esteemed Friend, Edward Benlowes, Esq." To the Reader. To my Muse: "Tel me, presumptuous Muse, how dar'st thou treat." _God's Love_, &c., pp. 1. to 66. A Dialogue, &c., pp. 67. to 108. Pp. 109, 110. wanting in my copy, but probably blank, as the catch-word "Divine" agrees with "Divine Ejaculations," which commence on p. 111. and end at p. 160., thus concluding the volume.
P. B.
_Plague Stones_ (Vol. v., p. 226.).--One of these stones is (I believe) still standing at Bury Saint Edmunds. In a paper read to the Bury and West Suffolk Arch. Inst. (vide vol. i. p. 42. of the _Society's Proceedings_) Mr. S. Tymms says:
"The small-pox has been a frequent visitor of Bury in its most terrible forms. In 1677, says Gillingwater (_Hist. Bury_, 226.), it was so prevalent that the people resorting to the market by the Rislygate Road, were accustomed to dip their money in water (tradition says vinegar) which had been placed in _the cavity of the ruined base of the boundary cross_ situate at the bottom of Chalk Lane, with the view of preventing any infection being conveyed to the neighbouring towns and villages."
My attention has been frequently called to a stone of similar description standing in the parish of Stuston in this county, by the side of the Ipswich and Norwich turnpike; it is called in Kirby's _Suffolk Traveller_, 1st ed. pp. 52-3., a "Stuston Stone" and "The White Stone," and is nearly equidistant from Diss and Eye, between two and three miles.
J. B. COLMAN.
_Melody of the Dying Swan_ (Vol. ii., p. 476., footnote; Vol. v., p. 187.).--
"Sed neque Cygni canunt," says Leland, in his _Cygnea Cantio_, "nisi flante zephyro vento geniali quidem illo, si quicquam Æliani judicio tribuendum."
In the work itself, which is a poetical panegyric on King Henry VIII., the following lines occur:
"Strepitum dedit sonorum Cygnorum niveus chorus canentûm, Concussis alacri vigore pennis. Applausus placuit mihi canorus."
The last line, however, seems only to apply to the applauding sound of the wings, and not to intimate that any music was produced by them.
C. I. R.
_Cimmerii_ (Vol. v., p. 188.).--The belief that the Cymry are descended from Gomer can prove very little as to the restlessness of those who hold it; and if it is making progress, the opinion must be supported by probability: consequently a mere denial will not dispel the illusion. Authors quite as remarkable for their matter-of-fact opinions as A. N. may be, have not rejected the connexion of the Cymry with Gomer. For instance, Volney, in his attacks on Scripture history, when examining Gen. x. on Gomer, adopts an argument in support of this paternity, though not in its Biblical sense, viewing Gomer as a chief. As it is not an unusual circumstance for a nation to adopt the name of its patriarch or founder (and on this point I would refer to a note to Gibbon's _Decline_, chap. lxiv.), I trust I shall be excused for believing myself descended from Gomer, until decided evidence is adduced that I am not.
Pompeius Festus I am unacquainted with; but on consulting Plutarch, in Mario, the following contradictory statements may be seen: "The Germans called banditti _Cimbri_;" and, "Hence, therefore, these barbarians who came into Italy first issued; being anciently called _Cimmerii_, and afterwards _Cimbri_, and the appellation was _not at all from their manners_."
That the old Germans may have called robbers _Cimbri_, does not prove that word implies _robbers_, or anything of the kind; but it indicates that the intrusion of the old Germans on the lands of the Cimbri caused the invaded to make reprisals on the invaders; and then the injured Germans connected or identified the Cimbrian name with that of enemy or robber.
GOMER.
_Stoke_ (Vol. v., pp. 106. 161. 213.).--I think that the towns and parishes of _Tawstock_, _Culmstock_, _Tavistock_, _Plymstock_, _Stockton on Tees_, _Severn Stoke_, _Stoke in Teignhead_, _Stoke on Tern_, _Stoke on Trent_, must have received their names from a _stockade_ of some kind _in_ the rivers near which they are situated. There is at a ford across the river Severn, about half a mile from Welsh Pool, a weir made of stakes and brushwood erected a few yards above the ford, for the sole purpose of diminishing the force of the current, and spreading the water into a stream of an uniform depth. I conjecture that in ancient times the fords of our larger rivers were kept in a passable state during the winter season by weirs of this description, and that there were fords in the rivers at the places above mentioned. There is near Nuneaton the chapelry of _Stock in Ford_, but I am not sufficiently acquainted with that place to be able to conjecture from what circumstance it may have derived its name. I infer that one meaning of the word _stoke_ is _wood_ of any kind, from the fact that the opening through which coals are introduced under the larger boilers in our houses is called a _stoke-hole_, from the wood formerly used for fuel.
S. S. S. (2).
_King's College Chapel Windows_ (Vol. v., p 276.).--See Blomefield's _History of Norfolk_, vol. i. p. 406., and vol. ii. p. 388. At the latter reference, under the head of Richard Nykke or Nix, Bishop of Norwich, 1500, occurs this passage: "This bishop incurred a premunire for extending his jurisdiction over the Mayor of Thetford, and was fined for it. With part of the fine, it is said, the beautiful windows in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, were purchased." The statement is given at greater length at the first of the above-quoted references. I never heard of the story before I met with it in Blomefield.
T. H. L.
Mr. Blomefield, referring to Richard Nykke, Bishop of Norwich (1500-1535), says he incurred a premunire for extending his jurisdiction over the Mayor of Thetford, "and was fined for it, with part of which fine _'tis said_ the beautiful painted glass windows in King's College Chapel at Cambridge were purchased."--_Hist. of Norfolk_, 8vo. edit., ii. 52.; iii. 546.
There is good foundation for the statement that this bishop "was condemned in the premunire" (Coke's _Reports_, xii. 40, 41.); but I question if there be authentic evidence that he "redeemed the punishment of that offence by the glasing of the King's College Chappell windows in Cambridge." Bishop Nykke is no doubt the prelate to whom Ferne alludes.
C. H. COOPER.
Cambridge.
_Quotation Wanted_ (Vol. v., p. 228.).--"_Cujus vita despicitur_," &c., is from S. Gregor. _Magn. Homil._ xii. in _Evangelia_, § 1.
J. C. R.
_The Great Bowyer Bible_ (Vol. v., p. 248.).--J. S. is informed that this illustrated Bible is now in the hands of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, and may be seen at their sale-rooms in Piccadilly.
F. S. Q.
_Showing the White Feather_ (Vol. v., p. 274.).--The white feather is the sign of the cross-bred bird; you will never see one in my tail.
GAMECOCK.
_John Lord Berkeley_ (Vol. v., p. 275.) never was Bishop of Ely. John Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the second son of John Berkeley, was a British admiral; he died on the 27th of July, 1696-7, not more than thirty-four years of age, during eight of which he had filled the office of admiral. See Rose's _Biographical Dictionary_.
TYRO.
Dublin.
_History of Commerce_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--C. I. P. will, I think, find much of the information required in David Macpherson's _Annals of Commerce_, London, 1805, 4 vols. 4to. particularly in vols. iii. and iv.; also in _The History of European Commerce with India_, by the same author, London 1812, 4to. Neither of them is entered in the Bodleian Catalogue.
C. I. R.
_Game of Curling_ (Vol. v., p. 13.).--The third volume of Tytler's _Lives of Scottish Worthies_ (No. 37. of the _Family Library_) contains a series of antiquarian illustrations, of which the last is devoted to "Ancient Scottish Games and Amusements." The author refers particularly to the MS. accounts of the Lord High Treasurer during the reign of King James IV. (1488-1513), in which, however, there appears to be no notice of the "roaring game." The origin of this favourite amusement is certainly involved in mystery, and I have repeatedly failed in my endeavours to ascertain the meaning of the name by which the game is known. On consulting the abridgment of Jamieson's _Dictionary_ for the derivation, I find the following:--
"Perhaps from Teut. _krollen_, _krull-en_, sinuare, flectere, whence E. _curl_; as the great art of the game is to make the stones bend or curve in towards the mark, when it is so blocked up that they cannot be directed in a straight line."
E. N.
_Ancient Trees_ (Vol. iv., pp. 401. &c.).--Notwithstanding the assertion of Dr. Johnson, many fine specimens of timber have long existed to the north of the Tweed. At p. 20. of the _Edinburgh Antiquarian Magazine_ (Edin. 1848) will be found a "List of Scottish Trees, of remarkable magnitude, as they existed in 1812," including numerous examples of the oak, larch, ash, elm, beech, silver fir, Scots fir, sycamore, chesnut, black poplar, and yew. One of the largest in the catalogue is the great yew at Fortingal, in Perthshire, measured by the Hon. Judge Barrington in 1768, when its circumference was no less than fifty-two feet.
E. N.
_Paring the Nails, &c._ (Vol. v., pp. 142. &c.).--
"Now no superfluity of our food, or in general no excrementitious substance, is looked upon by them (the Egyptian priests) as pure and clean; such, however, are all kinds of wool and down, our hair and our nails. It would be the highest absurdity therefore for those who, whilst they are in a course of purification, are at so much pains to take off the hair from every part of their own bodies, at the same time to cloath themselves with that of other animals. So when we are told by Hesiod 'not to pare our nails, whilst we are present at the festivals of the Gods,' we ought so to understand him as if he designed hereby to inculcate that purity with which we ought to come prepared, before we enter upon any religious duty, that we have not to make ourselves clean, whilst we ought to be occupied in attending to the solemnity itself."--Plutarch's Treatise of _Isis and Osiris_, translated by Squire, p. 5. 1744.
This note will show the great antiquity of these nail-paring and hair-cutting superstitions. What is there does not come from Egypt?
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