" 2. Fletcher.
" 3. Ditto.
" 4. Ditto.
Prologue and Epilogue, Ditto.
So far all is clear, and in this apportionment Mr. Urban's correspondent
and myself are agreed. My conviction here is as complete as it is of my
own identity. But beyond, at present, all is dark; I cannot understand
the arrangement; and I doubt if my friend, who has treated the question
with so much ability, is altogether satisfied with his own explanation.
In the meanwhile, I would suggest one or two points for consideration.
In those parts which I have set down as Shakspeare's, and in which this
writer imagines he occasionally detects "a third hand," does the metre
differ materially from that of Shakspeare's early plays?
It will be observed that, in Act iii., Scene 2., there are _two_
farewells, the second being a kind of amplification of the first; both,
however, being in the part which I ascribe to Fletcher. Is it not
probable that these were written at different periods? And supposing
Fletcher to have improved his part, might there not originally have been
a stronger analogy than now appears between this play and the _Two Noble
Kinsmen_?
The more it is tested the brighter shines out the character of
Shakspeare. The flatteries of James and Elizabeth may now go packing
together. The following four lines which I have met with in no other
edition of Shakspeare than Mr. Collier's, are worth any one of his plays
for their personal value; they show how he could evade a compliment with
the enunciation of a general truth that yet could be taken as a
compliment by the person for whom it was intended:
_Shakspeare on the King._
"Crowns have their compass; length of days their date;
Triumphs, their tomb; felicity her fate;
Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."
Samuel Hickson.
August 12. 1850.
* * * * *
MINOR QUERIES.
_The Abbé Strickland._--In the third volume of the _Castlereagh
Correspondence_, an Abbé Strickland figures as a negotiator between the
English Catholics and the court of Rome. His name is also mentioned
unfavourably in the "_Quarterly_" review of that work. Will some of your
readers direct me where further information can be had of him, and his
ultimate destination?
J.W.H. {199}
_Aerostation, Works on._--Will you have the goodness to inquire for me
among your readers and contributors, for the _titles of any works
on_--or references to good _articles in encyclopaedias or dictionaries_
on--or for remarkable isolated passages relating to--_Aerostation_, or
the arts of, or attempts at, flying, either by means of mechanical
wings, &c., or by the aid of balloons.
C.B.M.
_Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury._--Can any of the readers of "Notes and
Queries" point out the route which was pursued by Chaucer and his
fellow-travellers on the pilgrimage which his genius has immortalised?
Is the route of the old pilgrims' road laid down upon any early maps?
(it is not, I believe, marked on the Ordnance Survey;) and would it be
possible to traverse it at the present time? Any hints upon these
points, and any references to objects of interest on the line of road
inquired after, will be thankfully received by
Philo-Chaucer.
"_Ædricus qui signa fundebat._"--In a chronicle of Battel Abbey,
compiled in the twelfth century, there is a list of the abbey's tenants
in the town of Battel. Among many such names as Gilbertus Textor,
Godwinus Cocus, Rotbertus filius Siflet, Rotbertus de Havena, I find
that of "Ædricus qui signa fundebat." As this phrase is susceptible of
several widely different renderings, I shall be grateful to any of your
ingenious readers who will give me their opinions as to its actual
meaning. I may add that Ædric was living about the year 1170, so that
the phrase can have no reference to events connected with the battle of
Hastings.
M.A. Lower.
Lewes, July 30. 1850.
_Osmund the Waterman._--In his description of the _Flowering Fern
(Osmunda regalis)_, Mr. Newman observes, that "the rhizoma [root-stock],
when cut through, has a whitish centre or core, called by old Gerarde in
his _Herbal_, 'the heart of Osmund the waterman.' My lore is
insufficient to furnish my readers with the history of the said Osmund."
(_History of British Ferns_, by Ed. Newman, 2nd ed., p. 334.) Can any of
_your_ readers supply this deficiency?
J.M.B.
_Logic._--What is the earliest printed book on logic? meaning the first
which gives the common theory of the syllogism. Does it contain the
celebrated words _Barbara, Celarent_, &c. The difficulty will probably
arise from this, that each book has some _undated_ editions which are
probably earlier than the dated ones. Of books with dates there is the
exposition of Petrus Hispanus by Joh. Versor, in 1473, and the _Summulæ_
of Paulus Venetus, in 1474; the first I find in Hain (who had not seen
it), the second I have seen. Can any one of your readers go farther
back?
M.
_Darvon Gatherall?_--Can any reader adduce further information
respecting an image, called _Darvon Gatherall_, brought from Wales at
the Reformation, than what is mentioned in one of the treatises
published by the Camden Society?
W. Bell.
_Damasked Linen._--I should feel obliged for any information on the
earliest specimen of tablecloths being "damasked," and the history of
that manufacture. I have lately had shown me as "family curiosities" a
beautiful "damask service" of Flemish or Dutch work. The centre
contained a representation of St. George and the Dragon. The hero is
attired in the costume of the latter part of the seventeenth century
(?), with it cocked hat and plume, open sleeves and breeches, heavy
shoes and spurs: with this motto in German characters over him,
[German: Ben Gott ist Rath und That,]
"With God is counsel and deed."
At each corner of the cloth and napkins is a representation of a female
figure kneeling on a rock, with clasped hands, with a lamb by her side
(Query, St. Agnes?) On the border, at the top and bottom, St. George is
figured in armour stabbing with a spear an alligator; and then with a
sword, in the act of killing a bear.
On the side borders, he is receiving the attack of a lion on his arm,
covered with a mantle; and then, with a raised sword, cutting at the
proboscis of an elephant. I have seen, also, an older specimen, I think,
of the same manufacture; the subject being the "Bear and Ragged Staff,"
on alternate rows, with figures of trumpeters. I know not if this
subject is of sufficient interest for your "Notes and Queries," but I
trust you will make what use of it you please.
R.G.P.M.
_Flourish._--We are told that a writer _flourished_ at such and such a
time. Is any definite notion attached to this word? When it is said of a
century there is no difficulty; it means that the writer was born and
died in that century. But when we are told that a writer flourished
about the year 1328 (such limitation of florescence is not uncommon),
what is then meant? What are we to understand he did in or about 1328?
M.
_Drax Abbey and Free School._--Can you, or any of your intelligent
contributors, direct me where I can find any records of Drax Abbey, near
Selby, Yorkshire, or of the Free School in Drax, endowed by Robert Reed,
whom tradition states to heave been a foundling amongst the _reeds_ on
the banks of the Ouse, about half a mile distant. Such information will
place me under great obligation.
T. Dyson.
Gainsboro.
_Ancient Catalogue of Books._--A few days since I made the acquisition
of a curious old catalogue {200} of books, interleaved, and containing
about 200 pages, with the following title:
"Catalogus Variorum, in quavis Facultate et materia Librorum
incompactum Officinæ Joannis Maire, quorum Auctio publicè
habebitur in ædibus Joannis Maire, hora octavâ matutinâ et
secundâ postmeridiana ad diem ----, 1661. Lugduni Batavorum, ex
Typographia Nicolai Herculis, 1661."
On the back is the following notice to "buyers:"
"Monitos volumus Emptores, hosce Libros eâ vendi conditione, ut
cum eorum traditione pretium præsenti pecuniâ persolvatur. Et si
quis Libros à se emptos intra sex septimanarum spatium, à primà
Auctionis die numerandum, à Bibliopola non exegerit, eos cum
emptoris prioris damno aliis vendere integrum erit ac licitum.
"Monentur etiam et rogantur, ut antè meridiem ad horæ octavæ,
post meridiem vero ad secundæ punctum præsentes sese sistere
dignentur."
Can any of your readers give me particulars about this John Maire?
W.J.
Havre.
* * * * *
REPLIES.
SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORD "DELIGHTED."
(Vol. ii., pp. 113. 139.)
Although Mr. Hickson's notion of the meaning of _delight_, in the three
passages of Shakspeare he has cited, is somewhat startling, it was not
to be summarily rejected without due examination; and yet, from a
tolerably extensive acquaintance with old English phraseology, I fear I
cannot flatter him with the expectation of having it confirmed by
instances from other writers.
I believe that _lighted_ is rather an unusual form to express
_lightened_, _disencumbered_, but that it was sometimes used is
apparent; for in Hutton's _Dictionary_, 1583, we have "Allevo, to make
light, to light."--"Allevatus, lifted up, _lighted_." And in the
_Cambridge Dictionary_, 1594, "Allevatus, lifted up, _lighted_, raised,
eased or recovered." The use of the prefix _de_ in the common instance
of _depart_ for to _part_, _divide_, is noticed by Mr. Hickson; and
_demerits_ was used for _merits_ by many of our old writers as well as
Shakspeare. I find _decompound_ for _compound_ in Heylyn's
_Microcosmos_, 1627, p. 249., thus:--"The English language is a
_decompound_ of Dutch, French, and Latin."
These instances may serve to show that it is not at all improbable
Shakspeare may have used _delighted_ for _lighted==lightened==freed from
incumbrance_; and it must be confessed that the sense and spirit of the
passage in _Measure for Measure_ would be much improved by taking this
view of it.
On the other hand, it certainly does appear that the poet uses the
termination _-ed_ for _-ing_, in the passages cited by Mr. Halliwell,
where we have profess_ed_ for profess_ing_, becom_ed_ for becom_ing_,
guil_ed_ for guil_ing_, brood_ed_ for brood_ing_, and deform_ed_ for
deform_ing_: it was not unreasonable, therefore, to conclude that he had
done so in these other instances, and that delight_ed_ stood for
delight_ing_, and not for delight_ful_, as Mr. Halliwell implies. How
far the grammatical usages of the poet's time may have authorised this
has not yet been shown; but it appears also that the converse is the
case, and that he has used the termination _-ing_ for _-ed_; e.g.
long_ing_ for long_ed_, all-obey_ing_ for all-obey_ed_, discontent_ing_
for discontent_ed_, multiply_ing_ for multipli_ed_, unrecall_ing_, for
unrecall_ed_. Dr. Crombie (_Etymology and Syntax of the English
language_, p. 150.) says:
"The participle in _ed_ I consider to be perfectly analogous to
the participle in _ing_, and used like it in either an active or
passive sense, belonging, therefore, neither to the one voice
nor the other exclusively."
Supposing for a moment that Shakspeare used delight_ed_ for
delight_ing_, the sense of the passages would, I presume, be in _Measure
for Measure_, "the spirit affording delight;" in _Othello_, "if virtue
want no beauty affording delight;" in _Cymbeline_, "the gifts delighting
more from being delayed." Here we have a simple, and, in the last two
instances, I think, a more satisfactory meaning than Mr. Hickson's sense
of _lightened_, _disencumbered_, affords, even could it be more
unquestionably established.
I have, however, met with a passage in Sir Philip Sidney's _Arcadia_
(ed. 1598, p. 294.) which might lead to a different interpretation of
_delighted_ in these passages, and which would not, perhaps, be less
startling than that of Mr. Hickson.
"All this night (in despite of darknesse) he held his eyes open;
and in the morning, when the _delight_ began to restore to each
body his colour, then with curtains bar'd he himselfe from the
enjoying of it; neither willing to feele the comfort of the day,
nor the ease of the night."
Here, _delight_ is apparently used for _the return of light_, and the
prefix _de_ is probably only intensive. Now, presuming that Shakspeare
also used _delighted_ for _lighted_, _illuminated_ the passage in
_Measure for Measure_ would bear this interpretation: "the delighted
spirit, i.e., the spirit _restored to light_," freed from "that dark
house in which it long was pent." In _Othello_, "if virtue lack no
delighted beauty," i.e. "_want not the light of beauty_, your son-in-law
shows far more fair than black." Here the opposition between _light_ and
_black_ is much in its favour. In _Cymbeline_, I must confess it is not
quite so clear: "to make my gifts, by the dark uncertainty attendant
upon delay, more lustrous (delighted), more radiant when given," is not
more satisfactory than Mr. {201} HICKSON'S interpretation of this
passage. But is it necessary that _delighted_ should have the same
signification in all the three passages? I think not.
These are only suggestions, of course, but the passage from Sidney is
certainly curious, and, from the correct and careful manner in which the
book is printed, does not appear to be a corruption. I have not seen the
earlier editions. I have only further to remark, that none of our old
authorities favour DR. KENNEDY'S suggestion, "that the word represents
the Latin participle _delectus_."
Since the above was written, Mr. HICKSON'S reply to MR. HALLIWELL has
reached me, upon which I have only to observe that he will find _to
guile_ was used as a verb. Thus in Gower, _Confessio Amantis_, fo. 135.
ed. 1532:
"For often he that will begyle,
Is _gyled_ with the same gyle,
And thus the gyler is begyled."
We most probably had the word from the old French _Guiller_=tromper, and
the proverb is to the purpose:--
"Qui croit de _Guiller_ Guillot, Guillot le Guile."
Horne Tooke's fanciful etymology cannot be sustained. MR. HICKSON'S
explanation of "guiled shore," is, however, countenanced by the
following passage in _Tarquin and Lucrece_:--
"To me came Tarquin armed, so _beguil'd_
With outward honesty, but yet defil'd
With inward vice."
MR. HICKSON has, I think, conferred a singular favour in calling
attention to these perplexing passages in our great poet and these
remarks, like his own, are merely intended as hints which may serve to
elicit the _true_ interpretation.
S.W. SINGER.
Mickleham, August 20. 1850.
* * * * *
FAMILY OF LOVE.
I do not know whether the following Notes on "The Family of Love" will
be deserving a place in the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES;" as I may
possibly have been anticipated in much of what I send.
The Family of Love attracted notice as early as 1575, but not in such a
manner as to call for direct coercion. An apology was published for
them, from which it might be inferred that they possessed no distinct
opinions, but merely bound themselves to a more exalted interpretation
of Christian duties, on the principle of imitating the great love of God
manifested in their creation and retention. This principle, unrestrained
by any confession of faith or system of discipline, naturally attracted
to it the loose and irregular spirits that were at that time so
prevalent, and the sect became the receptacle for every variety of
opinion and disorder, exposing itself to more particular notice from its
contempt for outward observances, and its opposition to the civil
government. The _Evangelium Regni_ of Henry Nicholas, the acknowledged
founder of the sect, is written in such a manner as to include all
religious persuasions, and permits all parties to hold whatever
sentiments they please, if they merely declare themselves _members of
the Family of Love_.
"Omnes vos, O amatores veritatis! qui amabilem vitam charitatis
diligitis vocatmini et invitamini." (cap. 41.) ... "Omnes
peribunt, qui extra Christum extra communionem charitatis
manent." (Ibid.)
A confutation of this sect was written in the year 1579; the privy
council called upon the convocation of the year 1580 to notice it. We
find the sect still described in the publications of 1641, and
continuing under the same name with its preachers and congregations in
1645.
Bp. Cooper, in speaking of the sect in 1589 (_Admonition, &c._, p.
146.), terms them "that peevish faction of the 'Familie of Love,' which
have been breeding in this realm the space of these thirty years."
Fuller (_Ch. Hist._, 17th cent., p. 610.) says that in his time "they
had obtained the name of Ranters."
Leslie, in his _Works_ (vol. ii. p. 609.), considers the sect "identical
with that of the Quakers."
That this was not the case is evident, I conceive, from George Fox, the
father of the Quakers, having severely chastised this "Family of Love,"
because they would take an oath, dance, sing, and be cheerful. See
Sewel's _History of the Quakers_, iii. p. 88, 89, 344.
The founder of the sect, Henry Nicolai, was born at Munster, and
commenced his career about 1546 in the Netherlands; thence he passed
over to England, in the latter years of Edward VI.'s life, and joined
the Dutch congregation. But his sect did not become visible till some
time in the reign of Elizabeth.
In 1575 they presented a confession of their faith to parliament, along
with a number of their books, and prayed toleration.
Nicolai, or Nicolas, their founder, published a number of tracts and
letters in Dutch for the edification of his followers: and now I will
propose a Query, in hopes that some of your correspondents will solve
it. Is there extant any list of their writings as presented to
parliament in 1575, and has their confession been published, and when?
Perhaps the following works, none of which I am able to consult, would
furnish the means of solving my Query, all of which treat of the
subject:--
J. Hombeck's _Summa Controversiarum._ Godfr. Arnold's _Kirchen-
und Kitzer-historie._ Ant. Wilh. Bohm's _Englische
Reformations-historie._ Schroekh's _Kirchengesch. seit der
Reformation._
{202}
These sources would, I conceive, be useful to N.B., who inquires into
their tenets and lives.
I find I have omitted to mention one of their assailants, "the last and
most learned," Henry More, the English divine. See his _Mystery of
Godliness_, book vi., chap. 12-18.
[Hebrew: SP'T]
_The Family of Love._--In addition to the work of John Rogers, referred
to by DR. RIMBAULT (Vol. ii., p. 49.), the two following treatises,
which were also published in the year 1579, will present your readers
with much curious information respecting the "Family of Love." The first
is entitled,--
"A Confutation of certaine Articles delivered unto the Familye
of Loue, with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in
the sayd Familye, upon the same Articles, by William Wilkinson,
Maister of Artes, and student of Divinitye, &c. &c. At London:
Printed by John Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, Au. 1579."
In the _Epistle Dedicatorie_, dated Cambridge, September 30, 1579, and
addressed to Richard (Cox), Bishop of Ely, the author describes the new
doctrine as,--
"The most pestiferous and deadly Heresie of all others, because
there is not almost any one particular erroneous and
schismaticall phantasie, whereof the _Familie of Loue_ hath not
borrowed one braunche or other thereof, to peece vnto themselves
this their Religion."
A passage is then added which may serve in some measure as a reply to
N.B. (Vol. ii., p. 89.) It seems to slow that, however vile might be the
theology of this sect, their morals were not at least publicly
offensive.
"The encrease of this _Familie_ is great, and that dayly,
because the withstanders are not many; the defenders are wily as
serpentes, and would fayne in lyfe seeme innocent and
vnblameable. In profession of the one they boast very much: of
the other they walkyng very closely do iustifie themselues,
because fewe haue to finde fault with them, yet haue they their
lothsome spottes and ougly deformities, as in this booke to the
diligent reader playnely may appeare."
The "lothsome spottes" here intended are the 13th and 14th articles of
Wilkinson's indictment. They run as follows;--
(1.) "H.N. (i.e. Henry Nicholas) saith, It is lawfull for one of
his Familie to dissemble," (i.e., to conceal his religion when
questioned by the magistrate); and (2.) "H.N. maketh God the
Author of sinne, and the sinner guiltless," (but no proof is
alleged that this speculative impiety was carried out into
actual life).
The title of the second treatise to which I alluded is--
"A Confutation of monstrous and horrible Heresies, taught by
H.N., and embraced of a number who call themselves the Familie
of Love, by I. Knewstub. Imprinted in London, at the Three
Cranes in the Vinctree, by Thomas Dawson, for Richard Sergies.
1579."
He characterises the doctrine of the "Familists" as--
"A masse or packe of Poperie, Arianisme, Anabaptisme, and
Libertinisme. Respecting their morals we are told, that although
for their loosenesse of life, they are from the toppe to the toe
nothing but blottes, yet bragge they of all perfection, euen
vnto a verie deifying of themselues."
Some further light is thrown upon this point by a letter sent to
Knewstub from a "godly learned man, W.C." He says,--
"Howsoeuer, they seduce some goodly and zealous men and women of
honest and godly conuersation, placing them at the porch of
their synagogue to make a shewe of holinesse, and to stand there
as baites and stalles to deceiue others; yet, alas! who can
without blushing vtter the shame that is committed in the
inwarde roomes, and as it were in the heart of that synagogue of
Satan."
Appended to Knewstub's book is a further--
"Confutation of the doctrine of Dauid George, and H.N., the
father of the Familie of Loue, by M. Martyn Micronius, minister
of the woorde in the Dutche Churche, at London."
It was originally written in Latin during the reign of Edward VI. The
author charges the "Familists" with maintaining that--
"Idolatry, superstition, and outwarde vices are free and pure
vnto them, which, vnder the pretence of a certaine fayth and
inwarde puritie, boast that they knowe no sinne in the heart."
(Fo. 87 b.)
Two features particularly distinguish them from other sectaries of the
age: they professed obedience to the civil magistrate, whatever might be
his religion; and they argued in favour of unlimited toleration both in
regard to themselves and others.
C.H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.
* * * * *
TRANSLATION OF THE PHILOBIBLON.
L.S. (Vol. ii, p. 153.) inquires for a "translation of Robert de Bury's
_Philobiblon_." An English version of this famous treatise by Richard,
not Robert Aungerville (see, for the surname, Pits, p. 467.) de Bury,
Bishop of Durham in 1333, was published by Mr. Rodd in the year 1832.
The translator has not given his name, but he was Mr. John Bellingham
Inglis, formerly a partner in the house of Inglis, Ellis, and Co. It is
greatly to be desired that there should be a careful reprint of this
most interesting work, and that the first edition of 1473 should be
collated with MSS. The translation by Mr. Inglis might be revised, and
made to accompany the Latin text. Let us hope, however, that his notes,
if they be permitted again to appear, may be purified from scepticism
and profaneness.
The claim of Holcot to be the author of this tract, should be well
considered and decided upon; {203} and the errors of the learned
Fabricius (who had a manuscript copy in which the writer was styled
"Muiegervile", instead of Aungerville), which have been repeated by
Mansi, should be corrected. Dr. James, the first Bodleian librarian,
fell into a strange mistake when he imagined that his inaccurate reprint
at Oxford, in 1599, was the _second_ edition of this treatise. It was in
reality the _fourth_, having been preceded by the impressions, Colon.
1473; Spiræ, 1483; and Paris, 1500. So far as I remember, the editio
princeps has not been specified by Gough. (_Brit. Topog_. ii. 121.)
R.G.
I find I can answer the Query of L.S. (Vol. ii., p. l53.), who asks,
"Where can I procure a _translation_ of Robert de Bury's _Philobiblon_?"
A translation was published by Mr. Rodd, in 1832, of which the following
is the title:--
"Philobiblon: a Treatise on the Love of Books, by Richard de
Bury, Bishop of Durham, written in MCCCXLIV; and translated from
the first Edition, MCCCCLXXIII, with some Collations. London:
Printed for Thomas Rodd, 2 Great Newport Street, Leicester
Square, 1832."
This translation is a small 8vo. volume, of which there is a copy in the
Douce collection in the Bodleian; at the beginning of which copy, on a
fly-leaf, the words, "J.B. Inglis to his friend F. Douce, Esq.," are
written; and opposite, on the inside of the cover, there is written in
pencil, apparently in Douce's own hand, "I had read the MS. of this work
before it was printed."
There appears to have existed some difference of opinion with respect to
the authorship of the _Philobiblon_. Leland, in his _Itinerary_, ed.
8vo. Oxford 1744, vol. iii. pp. 77, 78, sub loc. _Saresbyri_, says,--
"Ex tabella in Sacello S. Mariæ. Orate pro anima Ricbardi Poure,
quondam Sarum Episcopi." ...
"Qui quidem Richardus Episcopus postea translatus fuit ad
Episcopatum Dunelmensem ... Incipit Prologus in Philobiblon
Richardi Dunelmensis Episcopi, _quem librum compilavit Robertus
Holcot_ de Ord. Prædicatorum _sub nomine dicti Episcopi_."
Still, however, in the appendix to vol. iv. of the _Itinerary_, p. 164.,
it is said:--
"Richardus de _Bury_, alias _Angravyle_ dictus, episc. Dunelm.,
scripsit Philobiblon."
Upon Leland's authority, the Bodleian catalogue ascribes the work in
question to Robertus Holcot. Watt, however (_Bibl. Brit._), seems to
imagine R. de Bury and Holcot to be the same person. His words are (vol.
i. c. 176 ):--"Bury, Richard. Dunelm., _alias_ Robertus Holcot, Bishop
of Durham, and Chancellor and Treasurer of England, in the reign of
Edward III.;" and again, under Holcot's name, "Holcot, Robert, _or_
Richard D. Bury."
The translator (J.B. Inglis) distinguishes in his Preface between these
contemporary writers, and considers R. de Bury to be the undoubted
author of this work passing under his name. In corroboration of his
opinion, Mr. Inglis refers to the _Biographical and Retrospective
Miscellany_; and, in order to prove that the work was finished in the
author's lifetime, he produces the words:
"Quod opus (Philobiblon) Aucklandiæ in habitatione sua
complevit, 24 die Januarii, anno a communis salutis origine
1344, ætatis suæ 58, et 11 suæ pontificatus."
and then adds:
"He died 14 April, 1345. Holcot died in 1349."
There appears to be some confusion about the _editions_, also, of the
_Philobiblon_. There is an edition, 4to. Par., apud Gaspar. Philippum,
1500; also edit. _secund_. 4to. Oxoniæ, 1598; and it is printed in the
_Philolog. Epist. ex Bibl. Melch. Goldasti_, ed. Lipsiæ, 1674. But prior
to all these is the edition "printed at Cologne, 1473," from which the
_translation_ is made, and which is described by Watt as "the editio
princeps, and a work of uncommon rarity."
Query. Why does the Oxford edition of 1598 call itself "editio
_secundo_?" If the Paris edit. of 1500 so far differ from that of 1473
as to entitle it to be considered a different work, had the second MS.
passed through Holcot's hands?
J. SANSOM.
The translation of Richard de Bury's _Philobiblon_, by Mr. Inglis,
printed in 1832 for the late Mr. Rodd, is an unsatisfactory performance.
The version is bald and spiritless, and some of the best passages of the
original are rendered in language that does no justice to the author's
meaning. His style is so peculiar, so allusive, and so full of metaphor
and quotation, and the work is luminous with "the sparks of so many
sciences," that a good translation is a desideratum.
I may inform your correspondent that one has lately been prepared and is
announced for publication, with a memoir of the illustrious bishop. I
may add that the _Philobiblon_ has been six times printed: the last
edition, if I remember rightly, was by Dr. James: but some old MS.
copies of this remarkable treatise on the Love of Books exist, with some
of which the text used by the translator should be collated. But, of the
publication announced, it would not become me to say anything more, as
the biographer is
Your faithful servant,
W.S.G.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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ETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES.
(Vol. ii., p. 153.)
The very satisfactory replies of Mr. WAY to some of the Queries of J.
MN., given at p. 169-70., make us wish for more, which I trust we shall
have, should he be supplied with the context in which the words occur;
without which it is difficult {204} to elucidate them fully. In the
meantime, I venture a few suggestions on some of the remaining words.
"In the fever or the _berebarde_,"
"_Berbi_, O.F., chancre, dartre; a _boil, bubo_, or _tetter_,
commonly attendant upon pestilent fever. 'Correpta fuit
vehementissima febri. Subtus ejus axillis detectis quoque
_Bubonibus_, magnam duritiem ac timorem præ se
ferentibus.'"--_Miraculi S. Francisci Solani, A.S._, tom. v.,
Julii, p. 909.
(See Bullein's _Dialogue bothe pleasant and pitiful, wherein is a goalie
regimente against the Fever Pestilence_, &c., 1578.)
"_Deale_," if an interjection (?), may possibly stand for "_Deâ_," or
"_Ouy Deâ_, Yes, truly! verily!" &c. (See Cotgrave in v. _Deâ_.)
"_Schunche away_".--To _shun_ or _shunche_ is used for to _shove_, in
Sussex. "I _shunched_ him away."
"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor _irspilles felles_"--that is, no
_skins having hard or bristly hair_ like that of goats.
"HIRCIPILUS, Durorum pilorum homines sicut hirci."--_Festus_.
Here the context clearly leads to this interpretation.
_Sabraz_, or _sabras_, is a _decoction_ or _infusion_. One of the
numerous terms which the apothecaries adopted from the Arabic, in which
_shabra_ is a drink.
_Sabe_, in O.F.; _saba_, Ital., an inspissated juice or decoction.
"_Sabaricio_, a kind of strong drinke made of barley."
I doubt whether Ducange is right in explaining _sabrierium_ in the
following passage, by _condimentum_, Gallicè _saupiquet_. It most
probably signified a beverage.
"In omnibus secundis feriis dent illis ova quatuor uniquique
clerico pinguia, cum bono _Sabrierio_."
S.W. SINGER.
[We take this opportunity of correcting two errata in the
Etymological Queries of our valued correspondent J. MN.
"Hete_n_este" should be "hete_u_este"--"Inclosed heteueste in a
stone coffin or tomb:" and in a later Query "isti_l_ed" should
be "isti_h_ed"--"Let their hesmel be istihed, al without
broach."]
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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Lord Richard Christophilus._--CH. (Vol. ii., p. 130.) will probably
find as much information as he requires, if he can consult a small
volume in the British Museum (catalogued under the head of "_Isuf,
Bassa_,") of which the title is--
"A True Relation of the Conversion and Baptism of Isuf, the
Turkish Chaons, named Richard Christophilus, 8vo. Lond. 1684."
Also, in the Bodleian Catalogue, under the head of "Bassa (Isuf)," CH.
may find--
"The History of Isuf Bassa, Capt.-General of the Ottoman Army at
the Invasion of Candia. 8vo. Lond. 1684."
In reference to the former of these volumes, there is a note in the
_Fasti Oxonienses_, ad ann. 1683, v. Thom. White, of which the following
is a copy:--
"Quære, if Tho. White, Lecturer of S. Andrew's Holborn,
published an Epistle to the Reader of 'A True Relation of the
Conversion and Baptism of Isuf, the Turkish Chaons, named
Richard Christophilus, in the presence of a full congregation,
Jan. 30, 1658, in Covent Garden, where Mr. Martin is Preacher.
Lond. 1658. 8vo.' Kenneth." (_Athenæ Oxon_. ed. Phil. Bliss,
1820, vol. iv. _Fasti_, coll. 392, 393.)
J. SANSOM.
_Poker._--Among the muniments of the corporation of Bodmin is a
certificate of the mayor and burgesses respecting the claims of the
inhabitants of the town to take wood in Dunmere Wood, belonging to the
Priory of Bodmin. The language of it seems to throw light on the origin
of the word _pocarius_, or _poker_, which has been so often noticed and
discussed. (_Antè_, Vol. i., pp. 185. 218. 236. 269. 281. 323. 369.) The
passage also illustrates the _Hook or Crook_ privilege, which has been
already satisfactorily explained. The date is A.D. 1525:
"We say, and for truth testify that the wood called Dynmure
Wood, was ever open and common to all burgesses and inhabitants
of Bodmin till now of late, as well for all manner kind of their
beasts to common therein, as to have their burden wood, to bear
and carry away upon their backs, of lop, crop, _hook_, _crook_,
and _bag_ wood; ... always reserving to the Prior the stems of
the trees for their fuel and building."
(See the _Bodmin Register_, collected by the Rev. John Wallis, of
Bodmin, and printed at Bodmin, 1827-1838, p. 303.)
I presume that _bag wood_ is such wood as can be cut with a hook or
crook, and bunched. In another nearly contemporary petition (Ibid. p.
306.), the same identical privilege is described by the townsmen as a
right to lop and crop with a hook and crook, and to carry away on their
backs, and "none other ways." This explains the former passage, and
shows that the wood was probably carried away on the back in a bag.
The woodward, who carried a bill for such purposes, would also carry a
bag, or _poke_, and might therefore be very appropriately called a
poker.
It will be seen in Halliwell's _Dictionary_, verb. "Bag" and "Bagging,"
and in the _Hereford Glossary_ (London, 1839), verb. "Bag," that
_bagging_ is sometimes used to signify cutting; and, more particularly,
cutting for burning.
I mention this, because it may be thought pertinent {205} to the present
inquiry; but as this use of the word has been plausibly supposed to be
derived from the Welsh _Bach_, a hook, it seems to have nothing to do
with a _poke_.
E. Smirke.
_Querela Cantabrigiensis_ (Vol. ii., p. 168.).--J.M.B. inquires whether
anything is known of the _authorship_ of the _Querela Cantabrigiensis_?
The tract in question appears to have been "written by Bruno Ryves," the
author of _Mercurius Rusticus_, and some few other treatises, in
connexion with which it is commonly bound. Ryves is described by Watt as
"a loyal divine," who was "born in Dorsetshire," and "died 1677." His
_Querela_ was first printed at Oxford in 1646. There was a second
edition in 1647.
In case J.M.B. do not himself intend to send out a new edition of this
tract, it is to be hoped that his Query may induce some one else to do
so. Indeed, a reprint of several similar pamphlets and short treatises,
belonging to the same period, might be brought out with great advantage
at this crisis. The series might begin with
"The Answere of the Vice-Chancellour, the Doctors, both the
Proctors, and other the Heads of Houses in the Universitie of
Oxford:
"(Agreeable, undoubtedly, to the joint and uniforme opinion of
all the Deanes and Chapters, and all other the learned and
obedient Cleargy in the Church of England:)
"To the humble Petition of the Ministers of the Church of
England, desiring Reformation of certaine ceremonies and abuses
of the Church. At Oxford: Printed by Joseph Barnes, and are to
be sold in Paule's Church Yard, at the sign of the Crowne, by
Simon Waterson, 1603."
J. Sansom.
"_One Bell_" (Vol ii., p. 166.)--In the sixth edition of the _Book of
the Church_ (I _believe_ references are also given in all editions since
the first), Southey gives us his authority for this, "Strype's
_Cranmer_, p. 266. (edition of 1694.)" The passage occurs in book ii.
chap. 26.: "The Duke of Somerset's death." I quote it from the reprint
by the Ecclesiastical History Society (vol. ii. p. 345.):
"He (Somerset) is generally charged for the great spoil of
churches and chapels; defacing ancient tombs and monuments, and
pulling down the bells in parish churches, and _ordering only
one bell in a steeple, as sufficient to call the people
together_, which set the commonalty almost into a rebellion."
R.B.
August 12.
_Fabulous Account of the Lion_ (Vol. ii., p. 142.).--Jarltzberg is right
in supposing that this is given by Philippe de Thaun. It is, however, of
older date. Turner (_History of England during the Middle Ages_, vol.
iv. chap. iv. p. 209.) gives part of a Latin version of it from the
"Physiologus" of a certain Theobald. The "Physiologus," which is in
substance the same as the "Bestiary" of Philippe de Thaun, occurs,
according to Mr. Turner's account of it, in MSS. of the eighth or ninth
century. Anglo-Saxon versions of "The Whale and the Panther" are in the
_Codex Exoniensis_. In the works of Hildebert, who died Abp. of Tours
1134, a poem called "Physiologus" is printed, which appears to be the
same as that ascribed by Turner to Theobald. The fable and application
of the Lion are the same as those given by Turner, with very trifling
variations.
Among the poems ascribed to Abp. Hildebert is an "Epitaphum Magistri
Theobaldi," who, I conjecture, is the same Theobald as the supposed
author of the "Physiologus." It is rather long; but there is nothing to
identify Theobaldus except the word "Dervensis." What place this
indicates I know not.
"Hoc vivente, locus Dervensis floruit, isto
Sublato, marcet nominis hujus odor."
_Opera Hildeberti_, p. 1322., Paris, 1708.
In the _Opera Hildeberti_ there occur some verses on the symbols of the
Evangelists. I subjoin them: though it is perhaps hardly worth while to
print any more on this subject.
ON THE SYMBOLS OF THE EVANGELISTS.
"Matthæum signat vir, bos Lucain, leo Marcum, Ales discipulum
qui sine sorde fuit.
"Matthæo species humana datur, quia scripto Indicat et titulo
quid Deus egit homo. Os vituli Lucam declarat, qui specialem
Materiam sumpsit de cruce, Christe tuâ. Effigiat Marcum leo,
cujus littera clamat Quantâ surrexit vi tua, Christi, caro.
Discipulum signat species aquilina pudicum, Vox cujus nubes
transit ad astra volans. Christus homo, Christus vitulus,
Christus leo, Christus Est avis, in Christo cuncta notare potes.
Est homo dum vivit, bos dum moritur, leo verò Quando resurgit,
avis quando superna petit."
_Hildeberti Opera_, Paris, 1708, p. 1318.
B.F.
_Pomfret on the Thames_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--In a former number N.
required to be informed where the Pons fractus, or Pountfreyt super
Thamis, was situate, from whence several documents were dated by Edward
II. This question has puzzled many learned antiquaries, and I do not
think has ever been properly resolved. Both Pons fractus and Pountfreyt
occur in Rymer's _Foedera_, tomus iii., p. 904. Lond. 1706. If you will
permit, I would hazard the conjecture that it was Kingston Bridge. Till
within the last two centuries, the only bridges across the Thames were
London and Kingston; and the latter in the thirteenth century appears to
have been in a ruinous condition. And I find in _Rot. Litterar.
Clausar_. {206} anno 7 Hen. III. (A.D. 1223) memb. 4. p. 558. "de ponte
de Kingeston," that Henry de St. Alban, and Matthew, son of Geoffry de
Kingston, are directed to repair the bridge, date Wednesday, Aug. 9,
1223 and there is also a recurrence to the same subject, memb. 15. p.
579., dated on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1223. I would therefore ask, with
submission to those who may be better informed, whether the bridge,
though ordered to be repaired by Henry III., may not have remained in
such a dilapidated state in the time of Edw. II., that it may then have
been styled "Pons fractus?"
¶.S.
_Walrond Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 134.).--Among my very numerous Notes
relating to the several families of this name, I find only the following
which appears likely to be of any interest to your correspondent in
connection with his Query.
"Mrs. Ureth, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Walrond, was married to
James Huish, Esq. of Sidbury, co. Devon, on the 25th July,
1684."
But it is probable that in so numerous a family there was more than one
colonel at that time. Your correspondent is, no doubt, aware that
Burke's _Landed Gentry_ states the names of the wife and children of
Colonel Humphrey Walrond, and that the monument of Humphrey Walrond,
Esq., who died in 1580, in the church of Ilminster, co. Somerset,
exhibits his coat armour quartering Polton, Fissacre, and Speke, and
impaling Popham and another coat, viz., Per fesse indented quarterly or
and sable, in each quarter an annulet counterchanged. This coat of arms
I shall be glad if your correspondent will enable me to assign to its
proper family.
S.S.S.
_Armenian Language_ (Vol. ii., p. 136.).--Jarltzberg may refer to two
works printed at the press of the Mechitaristican Society at Venice; 1.
_Quadro della Storia Letteraria di Armenia_, 1829; and 2. _Quadro delle
Opere di Vari Autori anticamente tradotte in Armeno_, 1825. He may also,
perhaps, be interested by another little work, printed at the same
place, 1825, entitled, _A brief Account of the Mechitaristican Society,
founded on the Island of St. Lazaro_, by Alexander Goode; in which work
it is stated (p. 26.) that "by Lord Byron's assistance a grammar of the
Armenian and English languages was composed by the Rev. Dr. Aucher;" and
that "this reverend gentleman has likewise compiled, with John Brand,
Esq., of the University of Cambridge, a dictionary of the Armenian and
English languages."
All these works are in the writer's possession and shall be lent to
Jarltzberg if he wishes to see them, and is not able to find them in any
library near him.
M.D.
_Genealogical Query_ (Vol. ii., p. 135)--Sir Philip Courtenay, first of
Powderham Castle, fifth son of Hugh, the second of that name, Earl of
Devon, by Margaret de Bohun, grand-daughter of King Edward I., married
Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Wake of Bisworth, co. Northampton, son of
Hugh, younger son of Baldwin Lord Wake, and had issue three sons and two
daughters, of which Margaret was married to Sir Robert Carey, of
Cockington, Knt. See _Cleaveland's History of the Family of Courtenay_,
pp. 265. 270.
S.S.S.
_Richard Baxter's Descendants_ (Vol. ii, p. 89.).--Your correspondent
W.H.B., who wishes for information respecting the descendants of the
celebrated Richard Baxter, describes him to have been a Northamptonshire
man; now this (supposing the Nonconformist divine of that name is meant)
is a mistake, for he was, according to his own account, a Shropshire
man. In a narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and
times, by himself, and published soon after his death under the title of
_Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_, 1696, he says,
"My father's name was Richard (the son of Richard) Baxter; his
habitation and estate at a village called Eaton Constantine, a
mile from the Wrekin Hill, and above half a mile from Severn
River, and five miles from Shrewsbury in Shropshire. A village
most pleasantly and healthfully situate. My mother's name was
Beatrice, the daughter of Richard Adeney of Rowton, a village
near High Encall, the Lord Newport's seat, in the same county.
There I was born, A.D. 1615, on the 12th of November, being the
Lord's Day, in the morning, at the time of divine worship, and
baptized at High Encall the 19th day following: and there I
lived from my parents with my grandfather till I was near ten
years of age, and then was taken home."
He was married on Sept. 10, 1662, to a Miss Charlton. They had no
children. The only descendant of Richard Baxter known to his
biographers, was his nephew, William Baxter, a person of considerable
attainments as a scholar and an antiquary. He was born in Shropshire in
1650. He published several works, and kept an academy for some years at
Tottenham Cross, Middlesex, which he gave up on being chosen master of
Mercer's School, London, where he continued for twenty years, and
resigned a short time before his death, which took place in 1723.
Baxter makes mention, at the close of his own Life and Times, of one
Richard Baxter, a Sabbatarian Anabaptist, and says of him, "that he was
sent to gaol for refusing the oath of allegiance, and it went for
current that it was I."
H.M. Bealby.
North Brixton.
_Duresme and Dunelm_ (Vol. ii., p. 108.).--Three _successive_ bishops,
Morton, Cosin, and Crewe, took the signature of Duresme after their
Christian names. Three _successive_ bishops, Barrington, {207}
Van-Mildert, and the present occupant of the see, have taken the
signature of Dunelm. I think, therefore, J.G.N. is mistaken in saying
that the Bishops of Durham have assumed the French and Latin signatures
alternately.
E.H.A.
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been sold.
INDEX OF THE CONTENTS:
African Lilies
Agapanthus
Anemones
Annuals
Apples
Apricot
Auriculas
Beans
Beet
Biennials
Black Fly
Books, list of, for Cottagers
Borage
Borecole
Box edgings
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Budding
Bulbs
Cabbage
Cactus
Calceolarias
Californian Annuals
Campanulas
Carnations
Carrots
Cauliflowers
Celery
Cherries
China Asters
China Roses
Chrysanthemums, Chinese
Chives
Clarkias
Clematis
Collinsias
Coleworts
Cress
Creepers
Crocus
Crown Imperials
Cucumbers
Cultivation of Flowers in Windows
Currants
Dahlias
Daisies
Dog's tooth Violets
Exhibitions, preparing articles for
Ferns, as protection
Fruit
Fruit Cookery
Fuchsias
Gentianella
Gilias
Gooseberries
Grafting
Grapes
Green Fly
Heartsease
Herbs
Herbaceous Perennials
Heliotrope
Hollyhocks
Honeysuckle
Horse-radish
Hyacinths
Hydrangeas
Hyssop
Indian Cress
Iris
Kidney Beans
Lavender
Layering
Leeks
Leptosiphons
Lettuce
Lobelias
London Pride
Lychnis, Double
Marigold
Marjoram
Manures
Marvel of Peru
Mesembryanthemums
Mignonette
Mint
Mushroom
Mustard
Narcissus
Nemophilas
OEnothera bifrons
Onions
Pæonies
Parsnip
Parsley
Peaches
Pea-haulm
Pears
Peas
Pelargoniums
Perennials
Persian Iris
Petunias
Phlox
Pigs
Pinks
Planting
Plums
Polyanthus
Potatoes
Privet
Pruning
Propagate by cuttings
Pyracantha
Radishes
Ranunculus
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Rockets
Roses
Rue
Rustic Vases
Sage
Salvias
Savoys
Saxifrage
Scarlet Runner Beans
Seeds
Sea Daisy or Thrif
Seakale
Select Flowers
Select Vegetables and Fruit
Slugs
Snowdrops
Soups
Spinach
Spruce Fir
Spur pruning
Stews
Stocks
Strawberries
Summer-savory
Sweet Williams
Thorn Hedges
Thyme
Tigridia Pavonia
Transplanting
Tree lifting
Tulips
Turnips
Vegetable Cookery
Venus's Looking-glass
Verbenas
Vines
Virginian Stocks
Wallflowers
Willows
Zinnias
Illustrated with several Woodcuts.
Published at the 'Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette'
Office, 5. Upper Wellington-street, Covent-garden, London,
at the rate of 3d. each copy, or 5s. for 25 for distribution amongst
Cottage Tenantry; delivered anywhere in London. on a Post-office
Order being sent to the Publisher, James Matthews, at the
Office, and made payable at the Post-office, 180. Strand. London.
* * * * *
Printed by Thomas Clark Shaw, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New
Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and
published by George Bell, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.
Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet
Street aforesaid.--Saturday, August 24. 1850.