Chapter I: Front Matter

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
St. Stephen's Day and Riley's Hoveden, by J. S. Warden 637

The Holy Trinity Church, Hull, by R. W. Elliot 638

MINOR NOTES:--Italian-English--American Names--
Rulers of the World in 1853--Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes 638

QUERIES:--

Derivation of Silo, by Augustus Strong 639

MINOR QUERIES:--Handwriting--Rev. Joshua Brooks--"New
Universal Magazine"--Francis Browne--Advent Hymn--Milton's
Correspondence--"Begging the Question"--Passage of Cicero 639

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Goldsmith's "Haunch of Venison" 640

REPLIES:--

School Libraries, by Weld Taylor, P. H. Fisher, &c. 640

Trench on Proverbs, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 641

Major Andre 643

Passage in Whiston 645

Helmets 645

Hampden's Death 646

Peter Allan, by Shirley Hibberd 647

"Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. 648

What Day is it at our Antipodes? 648

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Aceto-Nitrate of
Silver--On the Restoration of old Collodion 649

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court--
Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain--
Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"--
Cash--"Antiquitas Saeculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle,
Yorkshire--Character of the Song of the Nightingale--
Inscriptions in Books--Door-head Inscription--Fogie--Sir W.
Hewet--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge--The Crescent--
Abigail--Handbook to the Library of the British Museum--The
Arms of Richard, King of the Romans--Greek and Roman
Fortifications--Osbernus filius Herfasti--Devonianisms--Gentile
Names of the Jews--Longevity--Reversible Names--Etymology of
Eve--Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas--Binometrical
Verse--Gale of Rent 650

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c 655

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 656

Notices to Correspondents 656

Advertisements 657

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Notes.

ST. STEPHEN'S DAY AND RILEY'S HOVEDEN.

In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident which proved fatal to Leopold, Duke of Austria, the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii. p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, is twice stated to be _before_ Christmas Day, instead of after it. Is this an error of the author, or of translator?[1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen's martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now is? I cannot find, on reference to the authorities within my reach, that this last was the case. Mr. Riley does not notice the discrepancy at all.

In the translation of this Volume, a few errors have come under my observation, to which I beg to call Mr. R.'s attention: 1. In his note on Corumphira's prophecy, at p. 36., he seems to forget that the Mahometan year differs from the Julian by eleven or twelve days, and that in consequence A. D. 1186 does not correspond to A. H. 564; in fact, the old astrologer is perfectly correct in his chronology, more so than in his predictions, many of which were signally falsified in the course of the next few years. 2. A mountain frequently mentioned by his author as projecting into the sea at the boundary of Catalonia and Valencia, and called "Muncian," he says in a note at p. 151. is "probably Montserrat," which is far from either the sea or the frontier; the maps of Spain all show, near the town of Vinaros on the east coast, a hill on the sea-shore called "Monte Sia," which still, as then, forms the boundary in that direction between the two provinces. 3. In his note at p. 156. on "Mount Gebel," the translator says, "he (the author) probably means Stromboli;" surely the name of Mongibello, and the mention of Catania a few lines farther down should have shown him that Etna only could be meant, although part of the mistake is due to Hoveden himself, who talks of it as a separate island from Sicily. Mr. Riley's other geographical notes are generally {638} correct, though a little more pains might have greatly increased their number, to the elucidation of his author's account of the Crusaders' proceedings in the East. 4. At p. 249. a well-known passage from Horace is ascribed to Juvenal.

J. S. WARDEN.

[Footnote 1: The text in the _Scriptores post Bedam_ reads:--"Eodam anno die S. Stephani protomartyris _infra_ natale Domini."]

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THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL.

There is an error in the heading of one of the architectural notes appended to the _Proceedings of the Arch. Inst._ held at York in 1846. From the description which is given (p. 38.), it is plain that the above church is the one to which the note refers; not that of St. Mary's, which is the title of the article.

The material of the whole church is not, also, "brick with stone dressings," as the note informs us, only the chancel, south porch, and south transept; all the rest is of stone, and in a very sad state of repair. A few years ago, the south transept was restored; but the ornamental part was worked in such bad stone, that the crockets of the pinnacles have already begun to moulder away. It is a curious fact, that Bishop Lyttleton, who visited Hull in 1756 for the express purpose of "examining the walls of the town, and the materials of which the Holy Trinity Church is constructed," should have stated in the _Archaeologia_ (vol. i. p. 146.) that there did not appear to be "_a single brick_ in or about the whole fabric, except a few in the south porch, placed there of late years."

There is a matter of great archaeological interest connected with the part of the church which is built of brick; for, as there is reason to believe that the chancel was raised in the year 1285, there is good foundation for the supposition, that Hull was "the first town to restore in this country the useful art of brickmaking" (Frost's _Hull_, p. 138.). The walls of the town, which were erected by royal licence in 1322, and still standing with their gates and towers in the time of Leland and Camden, are described by them as being of brick. Leland also says (_Itin._, edit. Hearne, fol. 53.) that the greater part of the "houses of the town at that tyme (Richard II.) was made al of brike."

R. W. ELLIOT.

Clifton.

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Minor Notes.

_Italian-English_ (Vol. viii., p. 436.).--The following wholesale assassination of the English language was perpetrated in the form of a circular, and distributed among the British residents at Naples in 1832:

"Joseph the Cook, he offer to one illuminated public and most
particular for British knowing men in general one remarkable, pretty,
famous, and splendid collection of old goods, all quite new, excavated
from private personal diggings. He sells cooked clays, old marble
stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass sacrificing pots,
and antik lamps. Here is a stocking of calves heads and feets for
single ladies and amateurs travelling. Also old coppers and
candlesticks; with Nola jugs, Etruscan saucers, and much more
intellectual minds articles; all entitling him to learned man's
inspection to examine him, and supply it with illustrious protection,
of which he hope full and valorous satisfaction.

"N. B.--He make all the old thing brand new for gentlemans who has
collections, and wishes to change him. He have also one manner quite
original for make join two sides of different monies; producing one
medallion, all indeed unique, and advantage him to sell by exportation
for strange cabinets and museums of the exterior potentates."