MISCELLANEOUS.

"that close behindSome frightful fiend did tread."

"that close behind

Some frightful fiend did tread."

I cannot help fancying that the objection is attributable to a notion that evil spirits haunt the spot in which, possibly from very early times, such interments took place as my sexton described. As a suggestion towards a full solution of this popular superstition, I would ask whether persons who formerly underwent ecclesiastical excommunication were customarily buried on the north side of churchyards?

Alfred Gatty.

Ecclesfield, June 28. 1850.

I can only give from recollection a statement of a tradition, that when Jesus Christ died he turned his head towards the south; and so, ever since, the south side of a church has the pre-eminence. There generally is the bishop's throne, and the south aisle of ancient basilicas was appropriated to men. Simple observation shows that the supposed sanctity extends to the churchyard,—for there the tombstones lie thickest.

I find that my source of information for thetradition was Cockerell's last lecture on Architecture,Athenæumfor 1843, p. 187. col. 3.

A.J.H.

"Men are but Children," &c.—R.G. (Vol. ii., p. 22.) will find the line about which he inquires in Dryden'sAll for Love; or, The World well Lost, Act iv. Sc. 1.

Dolabella (loq.):"Men are but children of a larger growth,Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,And full as craving too, and full as vain."

Dolabella (loq.):

"Men are but children of a larger growth,

Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,

And full as craving too, and full as vain."

J.R.M.

King's College, London, July 12. 1850.

Ventriloquism(Vol. ii., p. 88.).—Mr. SANSOM will find some curious information touching the words [Hebrew: 'or], [Greek: eggastrimuthos], &c., in Dr. Maitland's recentIllustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism, pp. 55. 81. The Lexicons of Drs. Lee and Gesenius may also be consulted, under the word [Hebrew: 'or]. The former of these lexicographers would rank the Pythian priestess with "our modern conjurers."

C.H.

St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

Cromwell's Estates—Magor(Vol. i., p. 277. 389.).—As the South Wales line is now open as far as Chepstow, it may not be uninteresting to V. to know, that it diverges from the coast between Chepstow and Newport, in order to pass Bishopston andMagor, the last of which he rightly placed in Monmouthshire.

SELEUCUS.

Vincent Gookin(Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii. p. 44.) is described in aNarrative of the late Parliament(Cromwell's Parliament, d. 1656), in theHarleian Miscellany, as

"One of the letters of land in Ireland, receiving three hundred pounds per annum."

He and three other Irish members, Colonel Jephson, Ralph King, and Bice, are classed together in this tract, which is hostile to Cromwell, as

"Persons not thought meet to be in command, though they much desire it, and are of such poor principles and so unfit to make rulers of as they would not have been set with the dogs of the flock, if the army and others who once pretended to be honest had kept close to their former good and honest principles."

Vincent Gookin voted for the clause in the "Petition and Advice" giving the title of "King" to Cromwell.

CH.

All-to brake(Vol. i., p. 395.).—The interpretation given is incorrect. "All-to" is very commonly used by early writers for "altogether:"e.g., "all-to behacked," Calfhill'sAnswer to Martiall's Treatise of the Cross, Parker Society's edition, p. 3.; "all-to becrossed,"ibid.p. 91.; "all-to bebatted,"ibid.p. 133., &c. &c. The Parker Society reprints will supply innumerable examples of the use of the expression.

The two of Mr. Hunter'sCritical and Historical Tracts, which we have had the opportunity of examining, justify to the fullest the expectations we had formed of them. The first,Agincourt; a Contribution towards an authentic List of the Commanders of the English Host, in King Henry the Fifth's Expedition, in the Third Year of his Reign, Mr. Hunter describes as "an instalment," we venture to add "a very valuable instalment," from evidence which has been buried for centuries in the unknown masses of national records, towards a complete list of the English Commanders who served with the King in that expedition, with, in most cases, the number of the retinue which each Commander undertook to bring into the field, and, in some instances, notices of events happening to the contingents. The value of a work based upon such materials, our historical readers will instantly recognise. The lovers of our poetry will regard with equal interest, and peruse with equal satisfaction, Mr. Hunter's brochure entitledMilton; a Sheaf of Gleanings after his Biographers and Annotators, and admit that he has bound up the new biographical illustrations and critical comments, which he has gathered in that pleasant field of literary inquiry, the life and writings of Milton, into a goodly and a pleasant sheaf.

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