Wallington.
_Divining Rod_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The inquirer should read the
statement made by Dr. Herbert Mayo, in his letters _On the Truths contained
in Popular Superstitions_, 1851, pp. 3-21. To the facts there recorded I
may add, that I have heard Mr. Dawson Turner relate that he himself saw the
experiment of the divining rod satisfactorily carried out in the hands of
Lady Noel Byron; and some account of it is to be found, I believe, in an
article by Sir F. Palgrave, in the _Quarterly Review_.
[mu].
_Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--His arms are engraved
on a plate dedicated to him by Willis, in his _Survey of the Cathedrals of
England_, 1742, vol. i. p. 284., and appear thus, _Argent, on a chevron
gules, three besants_; but in a MS. collection by the late Canon Rowling of
Lichfield, relating to bishops' arms, I find his coat thus given,--_Argent,
on a chevron engrailed gules, three besants_. The variation may have arisen
from an error of the engraver. It appears from Willis that Dr. Waugh was a
fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; and the entry of his matriculation would
no doubt show in what part of England his family resided. He was
successively Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill; Prebendary of Lincoln; Dean
of Gloucester; and Bishop of {401} Carlisle; to which latter dignity he was
promoted in August, 1723.
[mu].
_Pagoda_ (Vol. v., p. 415.).--The European word pagoda is most probably
derived, by transposition of the syllables, from _da-go-ba_, which is the
Pali or Sanscrit name for a Budhist temple. It appears probable that the
Portuguese first adopted the word in Ceylon, the modern holy isle of
Budhism.