REPLIES

"And may my due feet never fail," &c.,

I am somewhat puzzled to understand the expression,

"With antique pillars massyproof."

Now what is "proof,"—a substantive or adjective? If the latter, no edition is rightly stopped; for, of course, there should be a comma after "massy;" and then I somewhat doubt the propriety of "proof" for "proved," unless joined with another word, as "star-proof," "rain-proof."

If "proof" is a substantive, "massy proof" is in apposition to "antique pillars," and is very meaningless. Can any of your readers suggest an explanation?

H.A.B.

"Mooney's Goose."—As a pendant to "Ludlam's dog," I beg to insert the proverb of "Full of fun andfooster, like Mooney's goose," with the hope that your acute and ingenious correspondent D.V.S. may be able to throw some light upon "Mooney." Let me add that D.V.S. has perhaps somewhat misconceived my brief comment on Ludlam, which my regard for conciseness has left some deal obscure; and it does not appear worth while to go over the ground again. I repeatedly heard "Dick's hat-band" quoted by Lancashire friends exactly as given by Southey. Does not the variation "cobbler's dog" tend to prove the alliterative principle for which I had been contending?

J.M.B.

Translation of the Philobiblon.—Where can I procure a translation of Robert de Bury'sPhilobiblon?

L.S.

Achilles and the Tortoise.—Where is the paradox of "Achilles and the Tortoise" to be found? Leibnitz is said to have given it solution in some part of his works.

There is also a geometrical treatment of the subject by Gregoire de S. Vincent. Will some reading man oblige me with information or reference concerning it.

[Greek: Idiotaes.]

Dominicals.—I am desirous of obtaining information on a subject of much interest to Exeter.

An ancient payment is made to the rectors of each parish within the city of Exeter, called "Dominicals," amounting to 1d.per week from every householder within the parish. Payments of a similar nature are made in London, Canterbury, and I believe Worcester. Can any of your numerous readers state the origin of Dominicals, and give any information respecting them.

W.R.C.

Yorkshire Dales.—A Pedestrian would be much obliged by being informed if there is any map, guide, or description published, that would serve as a hand-book to the Dales in the West Riding of Yorkshire, between Lancashire and Westmoreland.

In theEdinburgh Cabinet Library, vol. iii. p. 383., art. "China," it is stated that three species of tobacco have been found in India and in China, under circumstances which can leave no doubt of their being native plants.

Dr. Bigelow (American Botany, 4to., vol. ii. p. 171.) tells us thatNicot. fructicosais said to have been cultivated in the East prior to the discovery of America. Linnæus sets down the same as a native of China and the Cape of Good Hope. Sir G. Staunton says that there is no traditional account of the introduction of tobacco into China; nor is there any account of its introduction into India2; though, according to Barrow, the time when the cotton plant was introduced into the southern provinces of China is noted in their annals. Bell of Antermony, who was in China in 1721, says,

"It is reported the Chinese have had the use of tobacco for many ages," &c.—Travels, vol. ii. p. 73., Lond. ed. 4to. 1763.

Ledyard says, the Tartars have smoked from remote antiquity (Travels, 326.). Du Halde speaks of tobacco as one of the natural productions of Formosa, whence it was largely imported by the Chinese (p. 173. Lond. ed. 8vo. 1741).

The prevalence of the practice of smoking at an early period among the Chinese is appealed to by Pallas as one evidence that in Asia, and especially in China, the use of tobacco for smoking is more ancient than the discovery of the New World. (SeeAsiat. Journ., vol. xxii. p. 137.)

The Koreans say they received tobacco from Japan, as also instructions for its cultivation, about the latter end of the sixteenth century. (Authority, I think, Hamel'sTravels, Pink. Coll., vii. 532.) Loureiro states that in Cochin China tobacco is indigenous, and has its proper vernacular name.

Java is said to have possessed it before 1496. Dr. Ruschenberg says,

"We are informed the Portuguese met with it on their first visit to Java."—Voy. of U.S.S. Peacock, vol. ii. p. 456, Lond. ed. 8vo. 1838.

Crauford dates its introduction into Java, 1601, but admits that the natives had traditions of having possessed it long before. (Indian Archipelago, vol. i. pp. 104. 409, 410. 8vo.) Rumphius, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, found it universal even where the Portuguese and Spaniards had never been.

Savary, in hisParfait Négociant, states that the Persians have used tobacco 400 years, and probably received it from Egypt. (SeeMed. Chir. Review, 1840, p. 335.)

Olearius found it fully established in Persia, 1637, only about fifty years after its arrival in England. (Lond. 1662, in fol. p. 322.) Chardin states, the Persians smoked long before the discovery of America, and had cultivated tobacco time immemorial.

"Coffee without tobacco is meat without salt."—Persian Proverb, Sale'sKoran, Preliminary Discourse, 169. ed. 8vo.

In 1634 Olearius found the Russians so addicted to tobacco that they would spend their money on it rather than bread. (See edit. above quoted, lib. iii. p. 83.)

According to Prof. Lichtenstein, the Beetjuanen smoked and snuffed long before their intercourse with Europeans. (Med. and Chir. Rev., 1840, p. 335.)

Liebault, in hisMaison Rustique, asserts that he found tobacco growing naturally in the forest of Ardennes. Libavius says that it grows in the Hyrcinian forest. (Ibid.)

Dr. Cleland shows the three last to be falsehoods(?).

Ysbrants Ides found tobacco in general use among the Ostiaks and other tribes passed in his route to China, 1692. (Harris'sColl., fol. vol. ii. pp. 925. and 926.)

The story told of Amurath IV. punishing a Turk for smoking seems to be a mistake, since Amurath only began to reign 1622; whereas Sandys relates the same story of a certain Morad Bassa, probably Murat III., who began to reign1576, and ended 1594. If this be the case, the Turks were smokers before tobacco was known in England.—In Persia smoking was prohibited by Shah Abbas. There were two princes of this name. The first began his reign 1585 A.D., died 1628: the second began 1641, died 1666. The proclamation against smoking was probably issued by the first, since (as before mentioned) in 1634 Olearius found the custom firmly established. If so, the Persians must have been early smokers. Smoking seems to have obtained at a very remote period among several nations of antiquity. Dr. Clarke quotes Plutarch on Rivers to show that the Thracians were in the habit of intoxicating themselves with smoke, which he supposes to have been tobacco. TheQuarterly Reviewis opposed to this.

Lafitau quotes Pomp. Mela and Solin to show the same; also Herodotus and Maximin of Tyre, as evidences to the same custom prevailing amongst the Scythians, and thinks that Strabo alludes to tobacco in India. (See, for the Scythians, theUniversal History.) Logan, in hisCeltic Gaul, advances that smoking is of great antiquity in Britain. He says that pipes of the Celts are frequently found, especially at Brannocktown, co. Kildare, where in 1784 they were dug up in great numbers; that a skeleton dug out of an ancient barrow, actually had a pipe sticking between its teeth when found. (FromAnthol. Hibern., i. 352.) Halloran says Celtic pipes are found in the Bog of Cullen. In form, these pipes were very similar to those in use at this day.

Eulia Effendi mentions having found a tobacco pipe, still in good preservation, and retaining a smell of smoke, embeded in the wall of a Grecian edifice more ancient than the birth of Mahomet. (Med. Chir. Rev.1840, p. 335.) This Dr. Cleland proves to be a lie(?). He proves the same of Chardin, Bell of Antermony, Mr. Murray, Pallas, Rumphius, Savary, &c.

Masson describes a "chillum," or smoking apparatus, found embedded in an ancient wall in Beloochistan. (Travels, ii. 157.)

Dr. Yates saw amongst the paintings in a tomb at Thebes the representation of a smoking party. (Travels in Egypt, ii. 412.)

There is an old tradition in the Greek Church, said to be recorded in the works of the early Fathers, of the Devil making Noah drunk with tobacco, &c. (Johnson'sAbyssinia, vol. ii. p. 92.)

Nanah, the prophet of the Sikhs, was born 1419. Supposing him fifty when he published hisOrdinances, it would bring us to 1469, or 23 years before the discovery of America by Columbus. In theseOrdinanceshe forbade the use of tobacco to the Sikhs; but found the habit so deeply rooted in the Hindû that he made an exception in their favour. (Masson'sBeloochistan, vol. i. p. 42.) Should this be true, the Hindû must have been in the habit of smoking long before the discovery of America, to have acquired so inveterate a predilection for it.

If the prophecy attributed to Mahomet be not a fabrication of after times, it is strongly corroborative, and goes to show that he was himself acquainted with the practice of smoking, viz.

"To the latter day there shall be men who will bear the name of Moslem, but will not be really such, and they shall smoke a certain weed which shall be called tobacco."—See Sale'sKoran, ed. 8vo. p. 169.

Query. Is tobacco the word in the original? If so, it is a stumbling-block.

Lieut. Burns, in hisTravels, has the following curious statement:

"The city of Alore was the capital of a great empire extending from Cachemere to the sea. This was conquered by the Mahomedans in the seventh century, and in the decisive battle they are reported to have brought fire, &c., in their pipes to frighten the elephants."

Lieut. Burns conjectures that they must have smoked bang, &c., tobacco being then unknown.

Buchanan's account of the cultivation and preparation of tobacco in Mysore, carries with it a conviction that these elaborate processes were never communicated to them by Europeans, nor brought in any way from America, where they have never been practised. They strike one as peculiarly ancient and quite indigenous.

The rapid dissemination of tobacco, as also of forms and ceremonies connected with its use; its already very extensive cultivation in the remotest parts of the continent and islands of Asia, within a century of its introduction into Europe, amounts to the miraculous; and particularly when we see new habits of life, and novelties in their ceremonies of state, at once adopted and become familiar, to such otherwise unchangeable people as the orientals are known to be. Extraordinary also is the fact that the forms and ceremonies adopted should so precisely coincide (in most respects) with those in use among the American Indians, and should not be found in any of the intermediate countries through which we must suppose them to have passed. Who taught them the presentation of the pipe to guests, a form so strictly observed by the Red Men of America, &c.? But the "narghile," the "kaleoon," the "hookah," the "hubble-bubble," whence came they? They are indigenous.

Great stress is laid on the silence of Marco Polo, Rubruquis,—the two Mahomedans, Drake, Cavendish, and Pigafelta; also of theArabian Nights, on the subject of smoking,—and with reason; but, after all, it is negative evidence: for we have examples of the same kind the other way. Sir Henry Blount, who was in Turkey in 1634, describes manners and customs very minutely without a single allusion to smoking, though we knowthat twenty years previously to that date the Turks were inveterate smokers. M. Adr. Balbi insists likewise on the prevalence of the Haïtian name "tambaku" being conclusive as to the introduction of tobacco from America. This, however, is not exactly the case: in many countries of the East it has vernacular names. In Ceylon it is called "dun-kol" or smoke-leaf; in China, "tharr"—Barrow says, "yen."

The Yakuti (and Tungusi?) call it "schaar." The Crim Tartars call it "tütün." The Koreans give it the name of the province of Japan whence they first received it. In the Tartar (Calmuc and Bashkir?) "gansa" is a tobacco-pipe. In America itself tobacco has many names, viz. "goia," "gozobba" or "cohobba," "petun," "y'ouly," "yoly," and "uppwoc." Are there any proofs of its growing wild in America? At the discovery it was every where found in a state of cultivation. The only mention I have met with is in Drake'sBook of the Indians3, where he says it grew spontaneously at Wingandacoa4, and was called by the natives "uppewoc." Does not this very notice imply something unusual? and might not this have been a deserted plantation?

The Indians have always looked to Europeans for presents of tobacco, which they economise by mixing with willow-bark, the uva-ursi, &c., and there are some tribes totally unacquainted with its use. M'Kenzie says, the Chepewyans learnt smoking from Europeans, and that the Slave and Dogrib Indians did not even know the use of tobacco.

In mentioning the silence of early visitors to the East on the subject of smoking, I might have added equally the silence of the Norwegian visitors to America on the same subject.

A.C.M.

Exeter, July 25. 1850.

Footnote 2:(return)There is no positive notice of its introduction into Turkey, Persia, or Russia?

There is no positive notice of its introduction into Turkey, Persia, or Russia?

Footnote 3:(return)Book iv., p. 5., ed. 8vo., Boston.

Book iv., p. 5., ed. 8vo., Boston.

Footnote 4:(return)Virginia.

Virginia.

The tobacco-plant does not appear to be indigenous to any part of Asia. Sir John Chardin, who was in Persia about the year 1670, relates in his travels, that tobacco had been cultivated there from time immemorial. "Honest John Bell" (of Antermony), who travelled in China about 1720, asserts that it is reported the Chinese have had the use of tobacco for many ages. Rumphius, who resided at Amboyna towards the end of the seventeenth century, found it universal over the East Indies, even in countries where Spaniards or Portuguese had never been. The evidence furnished by these authors, although merely traditional, is the strongest which I am aware of in favour of an Asiatic origin for the use of tobacco.

Mr. Lane, on the other hand, speaks of the "introduction of tobacco into the East, in the beginning of the seventeenth century of our era," (Arabian Nights, Note 22. cap. iii.), "a fact that has been completely established by the researches of Dr. Meyer of Konigsberg, who discovered in the works of an old Hindostanee physician a passage in which tobacco is distinctly stated to have been introduced into India by the Frank nations in the year 1609." (VideAn Essay on Tobacco, by H.W. Cleland, M.D. 4to. Glasgow, 1840, to which I am indebted for the information embodied in this reply to Z.A.Z., and to which I would beg to refer him for much curious matter on the subject of tobacco.)

My own impression is, that the common use ofhempin the East, for intoxicating purposes, from a very early period, has been the cause of much of the misconception which prevails with regard to the supposed ante-European employment of "tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco," in the climes of the East.

J.M.B.

These lines (see Vol. ii., p. 102.) are printed in the collected editions of the poems of Coleridge. In an edition now before me, 3 vols. 12mo., Pickering, 1836, they occur at vol. ii. p. 147. As printed in that place, there is one very pointed deviation from the copy derived by Mr. Singer from the Crypt. The last line of the first stanza runs thus:

"Andthe sly devil did not take his spouse."

In theGentleman's Magazinefor February, 1848, there is a poem by Coleridge, entitled "The Volunteer Stripling," which I do not find in the collected edition above mentioned. It was contributed to theBath Herald, probably in 1803; and stands there with "S.T. Coleridge" appended in full. The first stanza runs thus:

"Yes, noble old warrior! this heart has beat high,When you told of the deeds which our countrymen wrought;O, lend me the sabre that hung by thy thigh,And I too will fight as my forefathers fought."

"Yes, noble old warrior! this heart has beat high,

When you told of the deeds which our countrymen wrought;

O, lend me the sabre that hung by thy thigh,

And I too will fight as my forefathers fought."

I remember to have read the following version of the epigram descriptive of the character of the world some twenty or thirty years ago; but where, I have forgotten. It seems to me to be a bettertextthan either of those given by your correspondents:

"Oh, what a glorious world we live in,To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in;But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own,'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

"Oh, what a glorious world we live in,

To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in;

But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own,

'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

J. Bruce.

Mr. S.W. Singer, for an agreeable introduction to whom I am indebted to "Notes and Queries," having expressed a wish (Vol. ii.,p. 122.) "to see and peruse" the rare and amusing satire, entitledEccius dedolatus, authore Joanne-francisco Cottalembergio, Poeta Laureato, I shall willingly forward to him a quarto volume which contains two copies of it, at any time that an opportunity may present itself. In the meanwhile, he may not have any objection to hear that these are copies of distinct impressions; neither of them intentionally recording place or printer.

Four separate and curious woodcuts decorate the title-page of one exemplar, which was certainly printed at Basil, apud Andream Cratandrum. The topmost woodcut, dated 1519, is here misplaced; for it should be at the bottom of the page, in which position it appears when employed to grace the title of the facetiousResponsioof Simon Hess to Luther. The second copy is in Gothic letter, and has typographical ornaments very similar to those used at Leipsic in the same year. A peculiar colophon is added in the Basle edition; and after the words "Impressum in Utopia," a quondam possessor of the tract, probably its contemporary, has written with indignation, "Stulte mentiris!" The duplicate, which I suppose to be of Leipsic origin, concludes with "Impressum per Agrippun Panoplium, Regis Persarum Bibliopolam L. Simone Samaritano et D. Juda Schariottide Consulibus, in urbe Lacernarum, apud confluentes Rhenum et Istrum."

Professor Ranke, referred to by Mr. Singer, was mistaken in assigning "March, 1520," as the date ofEccius dedolatus. The terms "Acta decimo Kalendas Marcii" are, I believe, descriptive of Tuesday, the 20th of February, in that year.

Perhaps Mr. Singer may be able to communicate some tidings respecting the Apostolic Prothonotary Simon Hess, of whom I have casually spoken. Natalis Alexander (Hist. Eccles., viii. 105. Paris, 1699) attributes the humorous production which bears his name ("Lege et ridebis," declares the original title-page) to Luther himself, amongst whose works it may be seen (tom. ii, fol. 126-185. Witeb. 1551); and it is a disappointment to read in Seckendorf, "HessusSimon. Quis hic fuerit, compertum mihi non est." (Scholia sive Supplem ad Ind. i. Histor., sig. 1. 3.Francof. 1692.)

R.G.

Hiring of Servants(Vol. ii., p. 89.).—It was provided by several old statutes, the first of which was passed in 1349, that all able-bodied persons who had no evident means of subsistence should put themselves as labourers to any that would hire them. In the following year were passed several other acts relating to labourers, by one of which, 25 Edward III. stat. i. c. i., entitled, "The Year and Day's Wages of Servants and Labourers in Husbandry," it was enacted that ploughmen and all other labourers should be hired to serve for the full year, or other usual terms, and not by the day; and further,

"That such labourers do carry openly in their hands, in market towns, their instruments of labour, and be there hired in a public place, and not privately."

For carrying into effect these provisions, it would be necessary to have certain days, and a fixed place set apart for the hiring of servants. In the former particular, no days would be so convenient as feast days: they were well known, and were days commonly computed from; they were, besides, holidays, and days for which labourers were forbidden to receive wages (see34 Edw. III. c. 10. and 4 Henry IV. c. 14.); so that, although absent from labour, they would lose no part of the scanty pittances allowed them by act of parliament or settled by justices. As to the latter requirement, no place was so public, or would so naturally suggest itself, or be so appropriate, as the market-place.

Thus arose in our own land the custom respecting which W.J. makes inquiry, and also our statute fairs, or statutes; thus called on account of their reference to the various "Statutes of Labourers." I was not aware that any usage to hire on all festivals (for to such, I take it, your correspondent refers) still existed in England. As to France, I am unable to speak; but it is not improbable that a similar custom in that country may be due to causes nearly similar.

Arun.

George Herbert.—J.R. FOX (Vol. ii., p. 103.) will find in Major's excellent edition of Walton'sLivesthe information he requires. At p. 346. it is stated that Mrs. Herbert, the widow of George Herbert, was afterwards the wife of Sir Robert Cook, of Highnam, in the county of Gloucester, Knt., eight years, and lived his widow about fifteen; all which time she took a pleasure in mentioning and commending the excellences of Mr. George Herbert. She died in the year 1653, and lies buried at Highnam; Mr. Herbert in his own church, under the altar, and covered with a gravestone without any inscription.

And amongst the notes appended by Major to theseLives, is the following additional notice of Herbert's burial-place. The parish register of Bemerton states that

"Mr. George Herbert, Esq., parson of Inggleston and Bemerton, was buried the 3rd day of March, 1632."

"Thus he lived and thus he died," says Walton, "like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of almsdeeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life, which I cannot conclude better than with this borrowed observation:

"'—All must to their cold graves;But the religious actions of the justSmell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.'"

"'—All must to their cold graves;

But the religious actions of the just

Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.'"

Altered from a dirge written by Shirley, attachedto hisContention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Lond. 1659, 8vo. See Percy'sReliques of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 284.

J.M.G.

Worcester, July 22.

Lord Delamere(Vol. ii., p. 104.).—In Mr. Thomas Lyte'sAncient Ballads and Songs, 12mo. 1827, is a ballad, taken down from tradition, entitledLord Delamere. It begins as follows, and though different from the opening lines given by Mr. Peacock, I am inclined to think that it is another version of the same ballad:

In the parliament house,A great rout has been there,Betwixt our good kingAnd the Lord Delamere;Says Lord DelamereTo his Majesty full soon,Will it please you, my liege,To grant me a boon?

In the parliament house,

A great rout has been there,

Betwixt our good king

And the Lord Delamere;

Says Lord Delamere

To his Majesty full soon,

Will it please you, my liege,

To grant me a boon?

After nine more stanzas, the editor remarks,

"We have not, as yet, been able to trace out the historical incident upon which the ballad appears to have been founded, yet those curious in such matters may consult, if they list,Proceedings and Debates in the House of Commons for 1621 and 1622, where they will find that some stormy debatings in these several years have been agitated in Parliament regarding the corn laws, which bear pretty close upon the leading features of the above."

Edward F. Rimbault.

Execution of Charles I.(Vol. ii., p. 72.).—P.S.W.E. is referred toAn exact and most impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to law), of twenty-nine Regicides, &c., 1660.

Therein he will find minutes of the trial andconvictionof one "William Hulett, alias Howlett," on the charge of having struck "the fatal blow." How far the verdict was consistent with the evidence (or, indeed, the whole proceedings of that court with the modern sense of justice), abler judges than I have long since determined.

On behalf of the prisoner Hulett, witnesses ("not to be admitted upon oath against the king") deposed that the common hangman, Richard Brandon, had frequently confessed (though he had also denied) thathehad beheaded the king. One of these depositions, that of William Cox, is so remarkable that I am induced to transcribe it. If it be true, "Matfelonensis" is certainly justified in saying, "We need hardly question that Richard Brandon was the executioner."

"William Coxexamined."When my Lord Capell, Duke Hamilton, and the Earl of Holland, were beheaded in the Palace-yard, in Westminster, my Lord Capell asked the common hangman, said he, 'Did you cut off my master's head?' 'Yes,' saith he. 'Where is the instrument that did it?' He then brought the ax. 'Is this the same ax; are you sure?' said my Lord. 'Yes, my Lord,' saith the hangman, 'I am very sure it is the same.' My Lord Capell took the ax and kissed it, and gave him five pieces of gold. I heard him say, 'Sirrah, wert thou not afraid?' Saith the hangman, 'They made me cut it off, and I had thirty pound for my pains.'"

"William Coxexamined.

"When my Lord Capell, Duke Hamilton, and the Earl of Holland, were beheaded in the Palace-yard, in Westminster, my Lord Capell asked the common hangman, said he, 'Did you cut off my master's head?' 'Yes,' saith he. 'Where is the instrument that did it?' He then brought the ax. 'Is this the same ax; are you sure?' said my Lord. 'Yes, my Lord,' saith the hangman, 'I am very sure it is the same.' My Lord Capell took the ax and kissed it, and gave him five pieces of gold. I heard him say, 'Sirrah, wert thou not afraid?' Saith the hangman, 'They made me cut it off, and I had thirty pound for my pains.'"

William Franks Mathews.

Charade(Vol. ii., p. 120.).—I think I can answer Mr. Gatty's Query as to the authorship of the charade in question. A schoolfellow of mine at Charterhouse wrote the following:

"What's that which all love more than life,Fear more than death or mortal strife;That which contented men desire,The poor possess, the rich require,The miser spends, the spendthrift saves,And all men carry to their graves?"

"What's that which all love more than life,

Fear more than death or mortal strife;

That which contented men desire,

The poor possess, the rich require,

The miser spends, the spendthrift saves,

And all men carry to their graves?"

This was taken from the original copy, and it was certainly his own invention while at school, and was written about five years ago. I have not seen him since, and do not like therefore to give his name.

While on the subject of charades, can any of your correspondents inform me of either the authorship or the answer of the following:

"Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt—Sooth! 'twas a fearful day!The Rufflers of the camp and courtHad little time to pray.'Tis said Sir Hilary utter'd thereTwo syllables, by way of prayer—The first to all the young and proudWho'll see to-morrow's sun;The next, with its cold and quiet cloud,To those who'll meet a dewy shroudBefore to-day's is gone:And both together to all bright eyes,That weep when a warrior nobly dies."

"Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt—

Sooth! 'twas a fearful day!

The Rufflers of the camp and court

Had little time to pray.

'Tis said Sir Hilary utter'd there

Two syllables, by way of prayer—

The first to all the young and proud

Who'll see to-morrow's sun;

The next, with its cold and quiet cloud,

To those who'll meet a dewy shroud

Before to-day's is gone:

And both together to all bright eyes,

That weep when a warrior nobly dies."

I quote from recollection, so perhaps have omitted part, but believe it to be pretty correct. I heard it at the same time as the one quoted in No. 31., and believe both to be hoaxes, as no answer I have heard (including that given in No. 35.) can be considered satisfactory. The former charade was attributed at the time to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was reported that a reward of 100l.was promised for the correct answer, and I know that a clergyman sent him an answer with that belief. Among the answers suggested was "Tapir," taken in its various significations, which I think was as near the mark as "Church," as given in No. 35.

I have never heard any answer suggested to Sir Hilary's dissyllabic prayer.

B.H.C.

Discursus Modestus(Vol. i., pp. 142. 205.).—Such of your readers as have been making inquiries and suggestions respectingDiscursus Modestuswillbe glad to hear that a copy exists in the British Museum. Its title is as follows:

"A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English Iesuits, and of Fa. Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholick Faith in England: for a caueat to all true Catholicks, ovr very louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very uncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4.Vidi calumnias quæ sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocentium, et neminem consolatorem.—Newly imprinted, 1601."

At the end of the Preface are the initials W.W., making it clear that Watson, the author ofImportant Considerationsand theQuodlibets, was the writer, and accounting for the connection which seemed to exist between theDiscursusand theQuodlibets.

The two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes (Resp. ad Apol.pp. 7. 117.) are to be found in p. 13. But the question now arises, from what earlier book the quotations are taken, as they both appear in theSparing Discoveryin Latin, and not in English? Did the Jesuits publish a work containing such statements? or are we to accept them as their opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson?

James Bliss.

"Rapido contrarius orbi" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest passages in Ovid:

"Nitor in adversum nec me qui cætera vincitImpetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."

"Nitor in adversum nec me qui cætera vincit

Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."

C.B.

"Isabel" and "Elizabeth."—At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., "Notes and Queries," are questions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and "Elizabeth."

The following, from theEpigrammaton Joannis Dunbari, Lond. 1616, may amuse some of your readers:

"AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH."Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:Verè Electoris nomine dignus erat.""AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM."El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat:Hine meritò Elisabeth nobile nomen habet.Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo,Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri."

"AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH.

"Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:Verè Electoris nomine dignus erat."

"Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:

Verè Electoris nomine dignus erat."

"AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM.

"El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat:Hine meritò Elisabeth nobile nomen habet.Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo,Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri."

"El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat:

Hine meritò Elisabeth nobile nomen habet.

Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo,

Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri."

Scotus.

Hanap(Vol. i., p. 477.).—"A cup raised on a stem, either with or without a cover." (Arch. Journ.vol. ii. 1846, p. 263., where may be found an interesting account of old drinking vessels, &c., many of them curiously named.)

Jarltzberg.

Cold Harbour(Vol. ii., p. 60.).—There is a place bearing that designation at Gosport, running along side of Portsmouth harbour, between the town of Gosport and the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard. I am at present aware of none other.

J.R. Fox.

The "Percy Society" has just issuedThe Anglo-Saxon Passion of St. George, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library. It is a work highly creditable to the Society; and in the interesting Introduction prefixed to it by the Editor, the Rev. C. Hardwick, M.A., Fellow of St. Catharine's Hall, he has gratified our national prejudices by showing the favour which the Saint from whom we take

"Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George"

enjoyed in England before the Norman Conquest. Mr. Hardwick's brief notice of the Anglo-Saxon allusions to Saint George is complete and most satisfactory.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell, on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the Miscellaneous Collections of the late Rev. J. Sundius Stamp, including several thousand Autograph Letters of ever period and class. We need scarcely add that the autographs are classed and catalogued with Messrs. P. and S.'s usual tact.

We have received the following catalogues:—Bernard Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue of Italian and French Books; William Brown's (130. and 131. Old Street, St. Luke's) Catalogue of Books connected with Wesleyan Methodism.

THE NEWE LIFE OF VIRGINEA, DECLARING THE FORMER SUCCESSE AND PRESENT STATE OF THAT PLANTATION; being the Second Part of Nova Britannia. Published by the Authoritie of His Majestie's Councell of Virginea. London; imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for William Welby, dwelling at the Signe of the Swan in Paul's Churchyard. 1612.

[A liberal price will be given for a copy in good condition.]

Letters, stating particulars and lowest price,carriage free, to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.

Volume the First of Notes and Queries,with Title-page and very copious Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen.

The Monthly Part for July, being the second of Vol. II., is also now ready, price 1s.

Our valued Correspondent at Cambridge is assured that we could afford some a satisfactory explanation of the several points referred to in his friendly remonstrance.

CAMBRIAN ARCHÆOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING will be held at DOLGELLAU, August 26th to 31st, 1850.

President.—W.W.E. Wynne, Esq., F.S.A. John Williams, Llanymowddwy, Mallwyd, W. Basil Jones, Gwynfryn, Machynileth,General Secretaries.

ROCHEFOUCAULD'S MAXIMS, WITH NOTES.

Just published, in Fcp. 8vo. Price 4s.6d.cloth.

MORAL REFLECTIONS, SENTENCES, AND MAXIMS of Francis Duc de la Rochefoucald. Newly translated from the French. With an Introduction and Notes.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW.

An Historical Magazine has long been the great desideratum of our literature. Amongst many periodical publications, each appealing to some peculiar or exclusive class, no one has given special attention to that branch of knowledge which engages the feelings of all classes.

The Gentleman's Magazine has stepped forward to occupy this vacant post. Arrangements have been effected to secure for its pages contributions from gentlemen eminently conversant with the various branches of historical study, and every endeavour is made to render it a WORTHY ORGAN AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HISTORICAL AS WELL AS OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL LITERATURE. In its ORIGINAL ARTICLES, historical questions are considered and discussed; in its REVIEWS, prominent attention is given to all historical books; its HISTORICAL CHRONICLE and NOTES OF THE MONTH contain a record of such recent events as are worthy of being kept in remembrance; its OBITUARY is a faithful memorial of all persons of eminence lately deceased; and these divisions of the Magazine are so treated and blended together as to render the whole attractive and interesting to all classes of readers.

Every Number is illustrated by several Plates and Vignettes.

Seven Numbers of the new undertaking are before the public, and present a fair example of what the work will henceforth be.

The following important subjects have been treated of in some of the recent articles:

History of the first appearance of the Gypsies in Europe.Curious Deductions from the History of our most common EnglishWords, as illustrative of the Social Conditions of our Anglo-Saxonand Anglo-Norman forefathers.Recovery of the long lost Accusation of High Treason made byBishop Bonner against Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet.Unpublished Letters of Archbishop Land, illustrative of theCondition of England in 1640.Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig,on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of theGowrie Conspiracy.Alleged Confession of Sir Walter Raleigh of his intention toretrieve his fortune by Piracy.Three Papers containing New Facts relating to the Life andWritings of Sir Philip SidneyThe Authorship of the fabricated English Mercurie, 1588, longesteemed to be the earliest English Newspaper.Chronicle of Queen Jane.The Maids of Taunton—Mr. Macaulay and William Penn.The Banquet of the Dead—Funeral of Francis I.Two Papers on Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Elizabeth,with illustrative Plates.Documents relating to the Execution of James Duke of Monmouth.Account of the Funeral of Amy Robsart.The Price paid to Charles II. for Dunkirk.Expenses of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson, and of the Man of Ross;and Letters of Pope and Lady Wortley Montague.Notices of the Society of Gregorians alluded to by Pope.Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?Inaccuracy of the Common Division into Acts of King Lear, MuchAdo About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.The Christian Iconography and Legendary Art of the MiddleAges; with especial regard to the Nimbus and Representationsof the Divinity; with many illustrations.Facts for a New Biographia Britannica, consisting of unpublishedDocuments relating to John Locke, Anne Duchess of Albemarle,Nat. Lee, Captain Douglas, Sir S. Morland, Dr.Harvey, Dr. A. Johnstone, Betterton, Rowe, Arbuthnot, Dennis,and Gilbert West.Unknown Poem by Drayton.Minutes of the Battle of Trafalgar.Memoirs of Jaques L. S. Vincent, a celebrated French Protestantwriter, of Vincent de Paul, and of Paul Louis Courier.The Coins of Caractacus.Memoir of Inigo Jones as Court-Dramatist of James I. andCharles I.; with illustations.Original Letter of Princess Elizabeth to George IV. relating tothe Duke of Cambridge at Hanover.History of Rambouillet.Mediæval Literature of Spain.Sávitri, an Historical Poem from the Sanscrit.Injustice of Southey to Mrs. Barbauld.The Lives of Dr. Chalmers, Southey, Chantrey, Mahomet, Tasso,Ochlenschläger, Plumer Ward, and Dr. A. Combe.The Report of the Commissioners on the British Museum andthe present state of the Library Catalogue.On Prisons and Prison Discipline.On the Copyright of Foreigners and Translators.On the Primeval Antiquities of Denmark; with illustrations.On the Discovery of a singular Roman Temple at the source ofthe Seine.History of Pottery; with engravings.Villa and Tomb of a Female Gallo-Roman Artist.Full Reviews of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices; Boutell's ChristianMonuments in England, with illustrations; Green's Livesof the Princesses; the Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca;Inkersley's Romanesque and Pointed Architecture in France;Cutt's Monumental Slabs and Crosses, with illustrations;Garbett's Principles of Design in Architecture; Merivale'sHistory of the Romans; Col. Mure's Language and Literatureof Greece; Recollections of Lord Cloncurry; Evelyn's Diary;Townsend's State Trials; and shorter Reviews of many otherimportant books.Every Number contains Notes of the Month, or comments uponall passing literary events; Reports of Archaeological Societies;and Historical Chronicle.The well-known Obituary includes, in the last seven numbers,Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge; the Rt. Hon. SirRobert Peel; the Earls of Carnarvon, Macclesfield, and Roscommon;the Lords Alvanley, Aylmer, Colville, Godolphin,and Lord Jeffrey; Bishops Coleridge and Tottenham; Hon.John Simpson; Adm. Sir C. Hamilton, Bart.; Hon. and Rev.Sir Henry Leslie, Bart.; Sir Felix Booth, Bart.; Sir JamesGibson Craig, Bart.; Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart.; Sir CharlesForbes, Bart.; Sir Thomas Cartwright, G.C.H.; Lieut.-Gens.Sir John Macdonald, Sir James Bathurst, and Sir JamesBuchan; Major-Gen. Sir Archibald Galloway; General Craven;Col. Weare; Sir M. I. Brunel; Admirals Sir J. C. Coghill,Schomberg, and Hills; the Deans of Salisbury, Hereford,and Bristol; the Rev. Canon Bowles; Rev. W. Kirby, F.R.S.;Rev. Doctor Byrth; Revs. E. Bickersteth, T. S. Grimshawe,and J. Ford; Mr. Serjeant Lewes; William Roche, Esq.;John Mirehouse, Esq.; W. C. Townsend, Esq., Q.C.; ThomasStapleton, Esq.; T. F. Dukes, Esq.; J. P. Deering, Esq. R.A.;Wordsworth; Ebenezer Elliott; J. C. Calhoun, Esq.; ColonelSawbridge; Lieut. Waghorn; Miss Jane Porter; Mrs. Bartley;Madame Dulcken; Thomas Martin, of Liverpool; C. R.Forrester (Alfred Crowquill); M. Gay Lussac; Mr. JohnThom; Mr. John Glover; Mr. R. J. Wyatt; Madame Tussaud.

History of the first appearance of the Gypsies in Europe.

Curious Deductions from the History of our most common English

Words, as illustrative of the Social Conditions of our Anglo-Saxon

and Anglo-Norman forefathers.

Recovery of the long lost Accusation of High Treason made by

Bishop Bonner against Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet.

Unpublished Letters of Archbishop Land, illustrative of the

Condition of England in 1640.

Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig,

on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of the

Gowrie Conspiracy.

Alleged Confession of Sir Walter Raleigh of his intention to

retrieve his fortune by Piracy.

Three Papers containing New Facts relating to the Life and

Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

The Authorship of the fabricated English Mercurie, 1588, long

esteemed to be the earliest English Newspaper.

Chronicle of Queen Jane.

The Maids of Taunton—Mr. Macaulay and William Penn.

The Banquet of the Dead—Funeral of Francis I.

Two Papers on Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Elizabeth,

with illustrative Plates.

Documents relating to the Execution of James Duke of Monmouth.

Account of the Funeral of Amy Robsart.

The Price paid to Charles II. for Dunkirk.

Expenses of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.

Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson, and of the Man of Ross;

and Letters of Pope and Lady Wortley Montague.

Notices of the Society of Gregorians alluded to by Pope.

Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?

Inaccuracy of the Common Division into Acts of King Lear, Much

Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.

The Christian Iconography and Legendary Art of the Middle

Ages; with especial regard to the Nimbus and Representations

of the Divinity; with many illustrations.

Facts for a New Biographia Britannica, consisting of unpublished

Documents relating to John Locke, Anne Duchess of Albemarle,

Nat. Lee, Captain Douglas, Sir S. Morland, Dr.

Harvey, Dr. A. Johnstone, Betterton, Rowe, Arbuthnot, Dennis,

and Gilbert West.

Unknown Poem by Drayton.

Minutes of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Memoirs of Jaques L. S. Vincent, a celebrated French Protestant

writer, of Vincent de Paul, and of Paul Louis Courier.

The Coins of Caractacus.

Memoir of Inigo Jones as Court-Dramatist of James I. and

Charles I.; with illustations.

Original Letter of Princess Elizabeth to George IV. relating to

the Duke of Cambridge at Hanover.

History of Rambouillet.

Mediæval Literature of Spain.

Sávitri, an Historical Poem from the Sanscrit.

Injustice of Southey to Mrs. Barbauld.

The Lives of Dr. Chalmers, Southey, Chantrey, Mahomet, Tasso,

Ochlenschläger, Plumer Ward, and Dr. A. Combe.

The Report of the Commissioners on the British Museum and

the present state of the Library Catalogue.

On Prisons and Prison Discipline.

On the Copyright of Foreigners and Translators.

On the Primeval Antiquities of Denmark; with illustrations.

On the Discovery of a singular Roman Temple at the source of

the Seine.

History of Pottery; with engravings.

Villa and Tomb of a Female Gallo-Roman Artist.

Full Reviews of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices; Boutell's Christian

Monuments in England, with illustrations; Green's Lives

of the Princesses; the Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca;

Inkersley's Romanesque and Pointed Architecture in France;

Cutt's Monumental Slabs and Crosses, with illustrations;

Garbett's Principles of Design in Architecture; Merivale's

History of the Romans; Col. Mure's Language and Literature

of Greece; Recollections of Lord Cloncurry; Evelyn's Diary;

Townsend's State Trials; and shorter Reviews of many other

important books.

Every Number contains Notes of the Month, or comments upon

all passing literary events; Reports of Archaeological Societies;

and Historical Chronicle.

The well-known Obituary includes, in the last seven numbers,

Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge; the Rt. Hon. Sir

Robert Peel; the Earls of Carnarvon, Macclesfield, and Roscommon;

the Lords Alvanley, Aylmer, Colville, Godolphin,

and Lord Jeffrey; Bishops Coleridge and Tottenham; Hon.

John Simpson; Adm. Sir C. Hamilton, Bart.; Hon. and Rev.

Sir Henry Leslie, Bart.; Sir Felix Booth, Bart.; Sir James

Gibson Craig, Bart.; Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart.; Sir Charles

Forbes, Bart.; Sir Thomas Cartwright, G.C.H.; Lieut.-Gens.

Sir John Macdonald, Sir James Bathurst, and Sir James

Buchan; Major-Gen. Sir Archibald Galloway; General Craven;

Col. Weare; Sir M. I. Brunel; Admirals Sir J. C. Coghill,

Schomberg, and Hills; the Deans of Salisbury, Hereford,

and Bristol; the Rev. Canon Bowles; Rev. W. Kirby, F.R.S.;

Rev. Doctor Byrth; Revs. E. Bickersteth, T. S. Grimshawe,

and J. Ford; Mr. Serjeant Lewes; William Roche, Esq.;

John Mirehouse, Esq.; W. C. Townsend, Esq., Q.C.; Thomas

Stapleton, Esq.; T. F. Dukes, Esq.; J. P. Deering, Esq. R.A.;

Wordsworth; Ebenezer Elliott; J. C. Calhoun, Esq.; Colonel

Sawbridge; Lieut. Waghorn; Miss Jane Porter; Mrs. Bartley;

Madame Dulcken; Thomas Martin, of Liverpool; C. R.

Forrester (Alfred Crowquill); M. Gay Lussac; Mr. John

Thom; Mr. John Glover; Mr. R. J. Wyatt; Madame Tussaud.

THE MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST,

Being the Second Number of the New Volume,

Was Published on the 1st of the Month, price 2s. 6d.

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