Chapter C: Mansfield Ingleby

Birmingham.

_The Saltpetre Man_ (Vol. viii., p. 225.).--In addition to the curious particulars of this office, I send you an extract from Abp. Laud's _Diary_:

"December 13, Monday. I received letters from Brecknock; that the
_saltpeter man_ was dead and buried the Sunday before the messenger
came. This _saltpeter man_ had digged in the Colledge Church for his
work, bearing too bold upon his commission. The news of it came to me
to London about November 26. I went to my Lord Keeper, and had a
messenger sent to bring him up to answer that sacrilegious abuse. He
prevented his punishment by death."

JOHN S. BURN.

_Major André_ (Vol. viii., p. 174.).--There is in the picture gallery of Yale College, New Haven, Conn., an original sketch of Major André, executed by himself with pen and ink, and without the aid of a glass. It was drawn in his guard-room on the morning of the day first fixed for his execution.

J. E.

_Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 182.).--A DOUBTER is informed that the _National Intelligencer_ (published at Washington, and edited by Messrs. Gales and Seaton) is the authority for my statement respecting Mrs. Singleton, and her advanced age. If A DOUBTER is desirous of satisfying himself more fully respecting its correctness, he has but {400} to write to the above-named gentlemen, or to the English Consul at Charleston, S. C., and his wish will doubtless be gratified. I cannot but hope that your correspondent's "fifty cents worth of reasons" for doubting my statement is now, or shortly will be, removed.

If A DOUBTER intends to be in New York while the present Exhibition is open, he will have an opportunity of seeing a negro of the age of _one hundred and twenty-four_, who once belonged to General Washington, and from whom he could very possibly obtain some information respecting the aged "nurse" of the first President of the United States mentioned in his note.

W. W.

Malta.

_Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. viii., p. 370.).--The passage for which your correspondent R. FITZSIMONS makes inquiry is to be found in the Eighth Eclogue, at the 44th and following lines:

"Nunc scio quid sit Amor," &c.

The application by Johnson seems to be so plain as to need no explanation.

F. B--W.

_Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead_ (Vol. viii., p. 292.).--Your correspondent H. P. will find the love charm, consisting of a fig-shaped excrescence on a foal's forehead, and called _Hippomanes_, alluded to by Juvenal, _Sat._ VI. 133.:

"Hippomanes, carmenque loquar, coctumque venenum,
Privignoque datum?"

And again, 615.:

"ut avunculus ille Neronis,
Cui totam tremuli frontem Cæsonia pulli
Infudit."

It was supposed that the dam swallowed this excrescence immediately on the birth of her foal, and that, if prevented doing so, she lost all affection for it.

However, the name Hippomanes was applied to two other things. Theocritus (II. 48.) uses it to signify some herb which incites horses to madness if they eat of it.

And again, Virgil (_Geor._ III. 280.), Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, &c., represent it as a certain _virus_:

"Hippomanes cupidæ stillat ab inguine equæ."

The subject is an unpleasant one, and H. P. is referred for farther information to Pliny, VIII. 42. s. 66., and XXVIII. 11. s. 80.

H. C. K.

This lump was called _Hippomanes_; which also more truly designated, according to Virgil, another thing. The following paragraphs from Mr. Keightley's excellent _Notes on Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics_ will fully explain both meanings:

"_Hippomanes_, horse-rage: the pale yellow fluid which passes from a
mare at that season [_i. e._ when she is horsing] (cf. _Tibul._ II. 4.
58.), of which the smell (_aura_, v. 251.) incites the horse.

"_Vero nomine._ Because the bit of flesh which was said to be on the
forehead of the new-born foal, and which the mare was supposed to
swallow, was called by the same name (see _Æn._ IV. 515.); and also a
plant in Arcadia (_Theocr._ II. 48.). With respect to the former
Hippomanes, Pliny, who detailed truth and falsehood with equal faith,
says (VIII. 42.) that it grows on the foal's forehead; is of the size
of a dried fig (_carica_), and of a black colour; and that if the mare
does not swallow it immediately, she will not let the foal suck her.
Aristotle (_H. A._, VIII. 24.) says this is merely an old wives' tale.
He mentions, however, the [Greek: pôlion], or bit of livid flesh, which
we call the foal's bit, and which he says the mare ejects before the
foal."--_Notes, &c._, p. 273. on _Georgic._ III. 280. ff.

With regard to the plant called _Hippomanes_, commentators, as may be seen from Kiessling's note on Theocritus, ii. 48., are by no means agreed. Certainly Andrews, in his edition of Freund, is wrong in referring Virgil _Georgic._ III. 283. to that meaning. The use of _legere_ probably misled.

E. S. JACKSON.

_Wardhouse, where was?_ (Vol. viii., p. 78.).--It probably is the same as Wardoehuus or Vardoehus, a district and town in Norwegian Finmark, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, inhabited principally by fishermen.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

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_.

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_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.

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_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.

PH.

Rangoon.

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