7th S. XI, JAN. 17, '91.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Gunton. St. Peter.-"The parish registers commence in 1759."-Vol. ii. p. 8. Benacre. St. Michael.-"The registers commenee in 1727."-Vol. ii. In the following instances Mr. Suckling makes no mention of the parish records : Fordley. Halesworth. Henham. Shipmeadow. Ilketshall. St. Andrew's, St. James. S. Elmham. St. Michael. S. Elmbam. HENRY R. PLOMER. 61, Cornwall Road, Bayswater. (To be continued.) it is quoted in King James's 'Reules and Cauteles,' published in that year in the Essays of a Prentice' Montgomerie's Poems,' by Irving, p. xiv). Bumbler (D. only mod.). Ante 1584. Polwart, 'Flyting' To crabe thee, Bumbler, by thy mind. (Montgomerie's Poems,' by Irving, p. 109): Burn, sb. 3, b, "skin and birn." 1648, 'Scotish Pasquils,' iii. 55: Let skin and birne, when they are gone, Like Jason's fleece hing on the throne. Cager, one who cages (not in D.). 1889, Browning, 'Asolando,' p. 37: Boy Cupid's exemplary catcher and cager. Calentured, seen as in a calenture (not in D.). 1820, Wordsworth, To Enterprise' ('Works,' iv. 185, edit. 1837): Hath fed on pageants floating through the air THE 'NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY': ADDENDA the expedition played an important part." AND CORRIGENDA. (See 7th S. v. 504; vi. 38, 347; vii. 12; viii. 4, 114; ix. 224; x. 3, 183.) Brathit (not in D.). Circ. 1505, Douglas, ' King Hart,' i. st. 27: His buirtlie bainer brathit up on hicht. When ye haue slayn the boore and will do him right, F. ii. b.: Yit my chylde of the boore for to speke moore Bremish, adj. (not in D.). Circ. 1600, Sir R. Aytoun, Proclaim'd through all his bremish bounds. My bak that sumtime brent hes bene As blak smyth brukit was his pellat. Douglas, 'Pal. Hon., i. st. 58: Pulland my hair, with blek my face they bruik, Buirtlie Buirdly, Burly? (Acc. to D.: "Buirdly" is probably a modern perversion of the earlier Scotch buirly," goodly, stout, "burly.") Circ. 1505, Douglas, King Hart,' i. st. 28: His buirtlie bainer brathit up on hicht. With stelit stevynnis and bowand bulge of tre. Bumble, sb., 1. Montgomerie's Flyting' is here quoted with the date 1597. It was written ante 1584, as Chafe, v. 8, to spoil, by heating, &c. (latest in D., 1485). with fluidis chaffit and wet" ("corruptum undis," 1513, Douglas, En.,' i. iv. 37: "Than was the quheit, Virg.). Clamantly (not in D.). 1890, J. Stalker (in Expositor, p. 250), "Plenty of work clamantly calling for new workers." Clamp, v. 2, to patch (Scotch). The quotation from 'Symmie and his Bruder, is dated "ante 1800." As this poem is in the Bannatyne MS., its date is "ante 1568." 1606, Birnie, Blame of Kirk Burial,' dedication, "They have dared clamp the sincere twist of God's truth with the torne clouts of their brain-sicke superstitions." R. D. WILSON. YORKSHIRE WITCHCRAFT.-The following story, as told by the heroine, a native of the West Riding, is, I think, too good to be lost: "I was roastin' a goose for t' feast afore t' fire, an' while I was tonnin' t' spit, an' baästin' t' bod, I los' all t' use i' me 'ands and feät, an' stook fast to me chair, an' could neither ton or baäst t' bod, an' so it wor all bont as black as a coäl. Me oud man jus' then came in oot at gardin, an' said, ' A Hannah, lass, what art a doin' off for to let t' goose bon?' So I said, 'A John, I'm sure oud Bessy Taylor hes bewitched me.' So John says, 'I'll tell thee what we mun do, Hannah; we mun stoäve her oot; an' if it be Bessy Taylor as 'as done it, thou'll see in t' marnin' by t' look on 'er 'ands.' So that night John got a coäf heart an' some straw, an' he made all t' winders an' doärs up to kep 'em air tight, an' stuck t' heart full o' pins, an' said to me, Now we'll bon t' witch oot; but when she comes to t' doär, thou mus'n't on any account let 'er in.' So we set it afire; an' while it wor bonnin', oud Bessy came to t' doar, an' rattled at it, an' begged on John to let 'er in, an' t' more she shouted an' screamed, t' harder t' heart bonned. Next marnin' all t' skin wor bont off'n Bessy's 'ands, an' then we knew it wor' 'er 'at 'ad bewitched me; but we hed stoäved her oot, so she could niver do ought to me again." W. M. E. FOWLER. EXECUTIONS AT KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.-The following is a sad record, if true. It is drawn from the European Magazine for the year 1785: "Very near thirty years ago a remarkable execution happened no further off than Kingston upon Thames, in Surrey. One Gregory was hanged for horse-stealing, and at the same time no less than eleven of his own sons were hung by his side on the same gallows, for repeated crimes of the same nature; and, what is yet more singular, one Coleman, with his five sons, were hung on the same gallows the same moment, in all eighteen in number." Some of your readers may be in a position to know if the foregoing statement is correct. WILLIAM ANDREWS. II.* N. BRETON: ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS AND LATIN NOUNS.-In a note on p. 87 in my reprint of 1886 of the first edition of Scot's 'Witchcraft,' 1584, I have shown that Scot placed the word Filios in the objective because it came after the English verb doo interpret. I gave other examples from him, as also an example of the ablative after the English preposition in, as "in Circulo Salomonis." Nash, as I then said, did the same. now give the fifty-sixth stanza of Breton's' Amoris Lacrime,' where the metre seems to determine whether the writer shall follow this rule or leave it alone. I copy from the second or 1597 edition: The schollers come with Lacrimis Amoris, I re In hearts engraven come with Dolor mortis. It is, however, Tonitru in the “Sidneiana” print of the 1591 edition, which thus gives us three in the ablative after "with" or "in," though in the last line we have "with Dolor" in order that the line may scan. BR. NICHOLSON. [* For I. see 7th S. x. 321.J AND UG PARALLEL PASSAGES IN BYRON FosCOLO. I once quoted to the late Dean Stanley the following stanza from 'Childe Harold, referring to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, as applicable to Westminster Abbey, though Thucydides tells us that dvdpŵv yàp éπɩḍavŵv nâσα y rápos :— In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Though there were nothing save the past, and this, Canto iv. stanza liv. Which have relapsed to chaos :-here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo with his woes; Here Machiavelli's earth returned to whence it rose. There is the same idea in Ugo Foscolo's fine poem 'I Sepolcri,' describing the effect which the sight of the tombs of great men must have on the mind of the beholder, amongst whom his own remains now repose. Only a few lines can be cited from it : Ma più beata che in un tempio accolte Vv. 30-38. Quindi trarrem gli auspici. Ugo Foscolo died in 1827, and was buried in Chiswick churchyard. In 1871 his remains were exhumed and reinterred in the church of Santa JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. Croce. DANIEL LYSONS, M.D., D.C.L.-This eminent physician, then practising at Gloucester, married on Dec. 6, 1768, Mary, daughter of Richard Rogers, Esq., of Dowdeswell, co. Gloucester (Par. Reg. of Kensington, co. Middlesex). Dr. Lysons died at Bath, March 20, 1800 (Gent. Mag., 1800, vol. Ixx. part i. p. 392). DANIEL HIPWELL. 34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell. THE LION AS AN EMBLEM.-In vol. vii. pt. ii. p. 117 of the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology, the writer speaks of "two lions sejant rampant, emblematical of the Corpus Christi.” Christ is figured under the cross, the lamb, the fish, and the lion. I have not before seen it stated that this figure of the lion is an emblem of the Holy Sacrament, and in this particular position of "sejant rampant." Fairholt, in his 'Dictionary of Terms in Art,' p. 271, says that rampant sigwhich might signify rest. nifies magnanimity, but he does not explain sejant, Are there any other examples known which might justify this allusion to the Sacrament? The pedestals of fonts are sometimes decorated with lions: e. g., the stem of the font at Theberton is supported by figures and lions sejant alternately; at Westleton the pedestal is supported by lions sejant. Found in this position, I presume the lion sejant represents the human soul after baptism; sometimes the pedestal is decorated with angels and human figures. In other parts of churches the lion is found in another position: e. g., on the north door of St. Matthew's Church, Ipswich, "at the termination of the moulding on either side is a lion......these lions are guardant and sejant, with the forelegs elevated, and tails erect." According to Fairholt guardant signifies prudence; the sejant position of the forelegs down in some instances, and elevated in others-indicates a difference, but what? Lions are also found crowned, whether sejant, or rampant, or guardant, &c. The crowning is more unusual. Has it any special reference to royalty, from gifts to the building or any other relation, as apart from the lion being the emblem of Christ, called in Scripture the Lion of Judah, or the beast itself being regarded as the king of beasts? H. A. W. is sometimes the case, it is not stated on the titlepage. It is not that the paper is unusually good and the type of unusual excellence, for, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so. The one unerring criterion is a very minute, thin, horizontal stroke on the left-hand side only of the letter 1, and a little above the middle. It is not found in capital nor in italic l's. In confirmation of what I here say, I will refer to Thurot,' De la Prononciation Française' (Paris, 1881), and to Devic's 'Dict. Etymol. des Mots d'Origine Orientale,' published as a supplement to Littré's supplement to his own dictionary. In the first-mentioned work "Imprimerie Nationale" is on the title-page; in the second work this establishment is not mentioned. custom has existed. F. CHANCE. No other printing press is allowed to have l's of this kind. It is a privilege of the Imprimerie Nationale, and any infringement of this privilege is severely punished. At the same time, wellknown publishers may acquire the right of selling a work printed at this press, and then they have the right also of suppressing the title-page with THE UNION WITH IRELAND.-During the cease-ing one of their own instead. But they cannot get "Imprimerie Nationale" upon it and of substitutless discussions of the Home Rule question we have rid of this marked 1. I do not know how long the heard a good deal lately of an union of hearts." It may interest some of your readers to know that this expression was used in the same connexion during the debate on the Marquis of Rockingham's motion for the removal of the causes of Irish discontent by a redress of grievances in May, 1779. While referring to an allusion to an union of the two countries which had been made by a former speaker, the Duke of Richmond is said to have declared that "he was for an union, but not an union of legislature, but an union of hearts, hands, of affections and interests" (Parliamentary History,' vol. xx. 650). I should perhaps add that the duke subsequently became convinced of the necessity of an union of legislature." G. F. R. B. The EARLY JOURNALISTS.-Some interest may attach to the following in these days of that new journalism which is not so very unlike the old. original may be found in the Record Office (Domestic, Charles I., ccxxiv. 47) :— "One of Mr. Christopher fosters petitions in his prayer before his Sermon, Oct: 24: 1632: At Oxford. Sweet Jesus wee desire thee, and humbly increase [sic] thy divine Majesty to inspire the Curranto-makers with the Spirit of truth, that one may know when to praise thy blessed and glorious name and when to pray vnto thee; for we often praise and Laude thy holy name for the King of Swedens victories and afterwardes we heare that there is noe such thing, and we oftentimes pray vnto thee to relieue the same King in his distresses, and we Likewise heare that there is noe such Cause." GOLDEN SUNDAY.-The following extract from the Standard of the 23rd of December may be new to many of your readers, as the anniversary has not been already noticed in the pages of 'N. & Q.': "Golden Sunday,' as the last Sunday before Christmas is called by German shopkeepers, owing to its being the chief day on which the public make their Christmas purchases, has this year been less busy than usual. To-day, however, business has been brisker, and some shops, especially those of the dealers in Pfefferkuchen, were so full that buyers had to wait at the doors. Pfefferkuchen, a kind of gingerbread, apples, and nuts are as indispensable portions of the Christmas fare in every home in Germany as roast beef and plum pudding are in England." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. THE REV. CHARLES HERLE.-It does not appear to have been noted that Charles Herle, the distinguished Puritan divine and Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, who was born in Cornwall (cf. 'Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' 234, 235, 1227, and 'Collectanea Cornubiensia,' 351), held for a time the Cornish rectory of Creed, to which he was presented by royal letters patent by Charles I. on April 19, 1625 (Rymer's 'Foedera,' vol. xviii. p. 639). R. THE BROAD CHURCH IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.-Mrs. Oliphant, in her 'Memoir of Principal Tulloch,' while referring to the projected scheme of a particular publication on the above subject that had been considered by both Arnold and Tulloch, goes on to say, "No such volume, so far as I am aware, was ever published." Such a book, however, did appear. It consists of selec- Forces,' printed in London in the latter month, is the copy of a letter from "J. T.," dated May 15, 1643, which says: "Whereas severall writings largely exprest the death of Sir Ralph Hopton, and how he was taken, stript, and for greedinesse of plunder let passe, I can assure you there is no certainty in any of it: but for certain he is under his name for the raising of money towards the yet alive, for I have seen many Warrants issued forth payment of the souldiers, since those untruths have been set abroad." And in Sir John Denham's ballad 'A Western AHOLIBAMAH.-There are not many to whom between May 17 and 24, 1643) there is satirically Wonder' (written, there is reason to conclude, this name has been given. "1639, December 28, was buried Aholibamah Howkins."-Aylestone (Leicestershire) Register. H. G. GRIFFINHOOFE. 34, St. Petersburg Place, W. "LIARS SHOULD HAVE GOOD MEMORIES."-This proverbial expression is given by Hazlitt, but without any illustration. He gives also "A liar should have a good memory "without noticing that this proverb is to be found in Ray's collection. Charles I. uses it in his Εἰκών Βασιλική, 1648, p. 103, reprint 1880: "As liars need have good memories, so malicious persons need good inventions, that their calumnies may fit every man's fancy; and what their reproaches want of truth, they may make up with number and show." Compare what Quintilian says in his 'Institutio Oratoria,' iv. 2, § 91 : "Utrobique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota, quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere, quæ falsa sunt; verumque est illud, quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere." described a fight at a spot between Launceston and There Hopton was slain, again and again, These are doubtless only a few examples out of Aueries. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. INDRA WITH THE THUNDERBOLT.-The myth of Indra holding the vajra (thunderbolt) in his hand is well exemplified in the Vedas; but has Indra ever been represented in Indian art with his vajra; and has the vajra ever been represented by itself? The dorje of the northern Buddhists in Tibet is derived from the Indian vajra, and its form is known (see Monier-Williams's 'Buddhism,' London, 1889, p. 323); but what about its Indian prototype? H. GAIDOZ. 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris. NOVELS OF LADY CHARLOTTE BURY.-Will any one give the names of all the novels written by Lady Charlotte Bury? MACROBERT. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. A FREQUENTLY "KILLED" ROYALIST GENERAL. -In Mr. R. N. Worth's new edition of his History of Plymouth' is (p. 96) an extract from a Civil War tract, 'Good News from Plymouth,' under date February 20, 1642/3, which relates the supposed killing of Sir Ralph Hopton, the King's Lieutenant-General of Horse in the West, [Alla Giornata; or, to the Day,' 1826; *Flirtation,' during an assault; and it is added: "As Hopton 1828; Separation,' 1830; *A Marriage in High Life,' was not killed in any such way, probably the 1828; Journal of the Heart,' 1830; *The Disinherited whole story is apocryphal." This is too large a and the Ensnared,' 1834; *Journal of the Heart,' second deduction from the circumstance, for it is a curiousMemoirs of a Peeress,' by Mrs. C. F. Gore, edited by series, 1835; *The Devoted,' 1836; *Love,' 1837; and striking testimony to the estimation in which Lady C. Bury, 1837; The Divorced,' 1837; Family this commander was held by his enemies, that the Records,' 1841; and The Two Baronets' (posthumous), motto of the Parliamentarian news-makers appeared 1864. Those works to which the asterisk is affixed were to be "When in doubt, kill Hopton." The earliest published anonymously, or were announced as by the instance of this which I have noted is in 'Diur- author of some other anonymous work.] nall Occurrences,' under date Sunday, December 5, 1642:-"It was likewise this day reported, that Sir Ralph Hopton is either dead, or dangerously sicke." In Special Passages' five months later is given a rumour (p. 321) from Exeter, under date May 6, 1643, of Hopton's death after a fight on Roborough Down, Devon; and in 'A True Relation of the Proceedings of the Cornish MICHAEL ANGELO.-Will anybody tell me who wrote the article on Michael Angelo which was published in the Edinburgh Review, October, 1857 ? LÆLIUS. POBBIES.-Half a century ago this name was applied in the West Riding of Yorkshire to the bread scalded with milk which was a customary breakfast for a child. I do not find it in Wright and Halliwell's 'Dictionary.' Pobs is there said =pottage in the Craven dialect. K. T. A. E. P. R. DOWLING. HUGH, BISHOP OF LINCOLN.-Can any reader of of references to accounts of these rick-burning CPL. days. "COLLICK BOWLS."-I have found in some old lists of plate in the seventeenth century notices of "Collick bowls." Can any of your readers tell me F.S.A. what this means? MONOGRAM.-At Arundel House, Fulham, there is an ancient leaden cistern standing against the side of the house. Upon its front are the date 1703 and an earl's coronet. Beneath is an intricately wrought monogram, composed of the three letters C. J. L. It is possible also there may be a D. Their correct order I cannot say. Very meagre materials exist respecting the history of the house. Presumably the monogram was that of a former resident. Can any reader suggest the name of the earl? Please reply direct. CHAS. JAS. FERET. 49, Edith Road, West Kensington, W. DAIKER.-Wright, in his 'Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English,' says, "Daiker, v., to saunter. North." Will any North-Country reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly tell me whether the word is still in use, and in the sense Wright assigns to it? J. DIXON. H. B.'S CARICATURES.-Is there any published catalogue or list of these, to enable a collector to test the incompleteness of his series ? W. C. J. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.-I should be grateful for some information concerning Sir John Falstaff. Has any monograph been written about him? Has this type been reproduced by any other author except Shakespeare? Is Falstaff and Fastolf, who fought at Agincourt, Orleans, and Patay, the same person? Where could I obtain the information I M. PARIS. require? Trieste. [A Life of Sir John Falstaff,' by Robert Brough, illustrated by Cruikshank, was published in 1858.] Bishop of Lincoln ? Duddington, Stamford. F. COVENTRY. [MR. COVENTRY may be referred to the Nouvelle Biocanum ' of Stubbs; and Le Neve's 'Fasti,' continued by graphie Générale'; to the Registrum Sacrum AngliSir T. Duffus Hardy.] SPANISH ARMADA. -Can some of your readersTM refer me to any west-country newspaper or article dealing with the descent of those representatives of Drake, Frobisher, and Hawkins who took part in, or were present at, the ceremonies connected W. C. J. with the Armada celebration at Plymouth this year? St. Stephen's Club. RESTORING ENGRAVINGS.-Can any of your readers kindly inform me of a book dealing with. the cleaning and restoring engravings? M. A. J. "DAYS AND MOMENTS QUICKLY FLYING."-TheE. Caswall, with the exception of the last verse :hymn thus beginning was composed by the Rev. "As the tree falls," &c., which, according to 'Hymns Ancient and Modern,' was added by the first two lines are identical with the following compilers. Has it ever been pointed out that the couplet in Ray's Collection of English Proverbs,' p. 196, Bohn's Handbook of Proverbs' ?— As a man lives, so shall he die; As a tree falls, so shall it lie. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. The Paddocks, Palgrave, Diss. DREAM ANTICIPATING THE ASSASSINATION OF SPENCER PERCEVAL.-In the report on the MSS. of Sir J. M. Wilson, Bart., of Charlton House, Kent, by Alfred J. Horwood, Appendix to 'Fifth Report of Historical MSS. Commission,' p. 305, the following entry occurs : "Sir T. Spencer Wilson's daughter Jane married the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, who was shot by Bellingcopy of the account of a dream by a gentleman in Devonham. The assassin was hung. At Charlton House is a shire (several days before the event) three times in one CARMICHAEL FAMILY.-Who was the Major night, in which he seemed to see the act of assassination John Carmichael, of the 6th Dragoon Guards, who, came down, he recognized from inspection the place, the according to Debrett, 1829, laid claim to the dor-murderer, and his victim, and the dresses worn by them mant earldom of Hyndford? TINTO. ARCHITECTURAL FOLIAGE.-Can any of your readers help me with instances of the use of leaves or flowers in architecture? I have no need of examples of the vine, wheat, rose, lily, oak, thorn, herb bennet (Geum urbanum), or ivy; but I should be grateful for any others, and where they are to be found employed. Replies, either pri and the place of it. On going to London after the news at the time." This dream is, I believe, well known; but is there trustworthy evidence as to its truth? W. E. BUCKLEY. FOLK-LORE.-Sir Walter Scott in 'The Antiquary' makes old Caxon say to Monkbarns, on the occasion of Steenie Mucklebackit's funeral, "It's no expected your honour suld leave the land; it's |