Chapter III: Part 3

_Maid._ Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out," &c.

This piece is signed "Sir John Davis."

S. WMSON.

_Cambridge Mathematical Questions_ (Vol. ix., p. 35.).--IOTA is informed that the questions set at the examination for honours, are annually published in the _Cambridge University Calendar_. He should consult the back volumes of that work, which he will probably find in any large provincial library.

These questions, with solutions at length, are also annually published by the Moderators and Examiners in one quarto volume. All the Senate House examination papers are annually published by the editor of the _Cambridge Chronicle_, in a supplement to one of the January numbers of that periodical.

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

P.S.--As I write from memory, I may have been guilty of some slight inaccuracy in details.

I think the _Cambridge University Calendar_ will contain all the mathematical questions proposed in the Senate House for the period mentioned. Those from 1801 to 1820 inclusively were also published by Black and Armstrong (Lond. 1836), to accompany the revised edition of Wright's solutions. The problems from 1820 to 1829 inclusive are reprinted in vol. v. of Leybourne's _Mathematical Repository_, new series, and in vol. vi. those for 1830 and 1831 are given. In 1849 the Rev. A. H. Frost arranged and published the questions proposed in 1838 to 1849. Perhaps this may be found satisfactory.

T. T. WILKINSON.

_Reversible Masculine Names_ (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 655.).--If you allow _Bob_, you cannot object to _Lol_, the short for _Laurence_. Lord Glenelg and the Hebrew abba will not perhaps be held cases in point, but _Nun_, _Asa_, and _Gog_, and probably many other Scripture names, may be instanced; and _Odo_ and _Otto_ from profane history, as well as the Peruvian Capac.

P. P.

_The Man in the Moon_ (Vol. vi., pp. 61. 182. 232. 424.).--

"As for the forme of those spots, some of the vulgar thinke they
represent a man, and the poets guesse 'tis _the boy Endymion_, whose
company shee loves so well, that shee carries him with her; others will
have it onely to be the face of a man as the moone is usually pictured;
but Albertus thinkes rather that it represents {185} _a lyon_, with his
taile towards the east and his head to the west; and some others
(Eusebius, Nieremb. _Hist. Nat._, lib. VIII. c. xv.) have thought it to
be very much like a _fox_, and certainly 'tis as much like a lyon as
that in the zodiake, or as Ursa Major is like a beare.... It may be
probable enough that those spots and brighter parts may show the
distinction betwixt the sea and land in that other world."--Bishop
Wilkin's _Discovery of a New World_, 3rd. edit., Lond. 1640, p. 100.

"Does the _Man in the Moon_ look big,
And wear a huger periwig;
Show in his gait, or face, more tricks
Than our own native lunatics?"
_Hudibras_, pt. II. c. iii. 767.

To judge from his physiognomy, one would say the Man in the Moon was a _Chinese_, or native of the Celestial Empire.

EIRIONNACH.

_Arms of Richard, King of the Romans_ (Vol. viii., p. 653.).--With respectful submission to MR. NORRIS DECK, and notwithstanding his ingenious conjecture that the charges on the border are pois, and the seal which he mentions in his last communication, I think the evidence that the border belongs to Cornwall, and not to Poictou, is perfectly conclusive.

1. The fifteen bezants in a sable field have been time out of mind regarded as the arms of Cornwall, and traditionally (but of course without authority) ascribed to Cadoc, or Caradoc, a Cornish prince of the fifth century. They occur in juxtaposition with the garbes of Chester, upon some of the great seals of England, and I think also upon the tomb of Queen Elizabeth; and they are, to the present day, printed or engraved on the mining leases of the duchy.

2. Bezants on sable are extremely frequent in the arms of Cornish families; but crowned lions rampant gules do not occur in a single instance of which I am aware, except in the arms of families named Cornwall, who are known or presumed to be descended from this Richard, and bear his arms with sundry differences. Bezants on sable are borne (_e.g._) by Bond, Carlyon, Chamberlayne, Cole, Cornwall (by some without the lion), Killegrew, Saint-Aubyn, Treby, Tregyan (with a crowned eagle sable, holding a sword), Treiago, and Walesborough, all of Cornwall; and it is to be remarked that bezants are not a common bearing in other parts of England, especially not on sable.

3. When Roger Valtorte married Joan, daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville (who was natural son of Henry I., and Earl of Cornwall nearly a century before Richard, King of the Romans, but never Earl of Poictou), he added to his paternal arms a border sable bezantée.

This is but a small portion of the evidence which might be adduced; but it is, I think, quite enough to justify the statements of Sylvanus Morgan, Sandford, Mr. Lower, and others, that the bezants pertain not to Poictou, but to Cornwall.

H. G.

_Brothers with the same Christian Name_ (Vol. viii., pp. 338. 478.).--If your various correspondents, who adduce instances of two brothers in families having the same Christian names (both brothers being alive), will consult Lodge's _Peerage_ for 1853, they will find the names of the sons of the Marquis of Ormonde thus stated:

"James Edward Wm. Theobald, Earl of Ossory, born Oct. 5, 1844.

"Lord James Hubert Henry Thomas, born Aug. 20, 1847.

"Lord James Arthur Wellington Foley, born Sept. 23, 1849.

"Lord James Theobald Bagot John, born Aug. 6, 1852."

The Christian name of the late Marquis was James; and whichever of his grandsons shall succeed the present possessor of the title, will bear the same Christian name as the late peer.

JUVERNA.

_Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter_ (Vol. ix., p. 105.).--Haccombe is doubtless the parish in the diocese of Exeter, where MR. W. FRASER will find the arch-priest about whom he is inquiring. Haccombe is a small parish, having two houses in it, the manor-house of the Carew family and the parsonage. It is said that, by a grant from the crown, in consequence of services done by an ancestor of the Carews, this parish received certain privileges and exemptions, one of which was that the priest of Haccombe should be exempt from all ordinary spiritual jurisdiction. Hence the title of arch-priest, and that of chorepiscopus, which the priests of Haccombe have claimed, and perhaps sometimes received. The incumbent of Bibury, in Gloucestershire, used to claim similar titles, and like exemption from spiritual jurisdiction.

J. SANSOM.

Since sending my Query on this subject, I have obtained the following information. The Rectory of Haccombe, which is a peculiar one, in the diocese of Exeter, gives to its incumbent for the time being the dignity of arch-priest of the diocese. The arch-priest wears lawn sleeves, and on all occasions takes precedence after the bishop. The late rector, the Rev. T. C. Carew, I am told, constantly officiated in lawn sleeves attached to an A. M. gown, and took the precedence due to his spiritual rank as arch-priest of the diocese. The present arch-priest and Rector of Haccombe is the Rev. Fitzwilliam J. Taylor. Does such an office, or rather dignity, exist in any other case in the Anglican Church?

WM. FRASER, B.C.L.

Tor-Mohun.

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_"Horam coram dago"_ (Vol. ix., p. 58.).--Your correspondent [Sigma]. is probably thinking of Burns' lines "Written in a wrapper, inclosing a letter to Captain Grose," &c.:

"Ken ye aught o' Captain Grose?
Igo et ago,
If he's among his friends or foes,
_Iram, coram, dago_."

It is not very likely, however, that this should be the first appearance of this "burden," any more than of "Fal de ral," which Burns gives to other pieces both before and after this. It may have a meaning (as I believe one has been found for "Lilliburlero," &c.), but I should think it more likely to be sheer _gibberish_.

By the way, how comes _burden_ to be used in the sense of "chorus or refrain?" I believe we have the authority of Shakspeare for so doing.

"Foot it featly here and there
And let the rest the burden bear?"

Is it the _bourdon_, or big drone? Certainly the chorus could not "bear a burden," in the sense of _hard work_, even before the time of Hullah.

J. P. ORDE.

In Chambers' _Scottish Songs_, Edinburgh, 1829, p. 273. is a piece beginning--

"And was you e'er in Crail toun?
_Igo and ago_;
And saw ye there clerk Fishington?
Sing _irom, igon, ago_."

And in _Blackwood_ for Jan. 1831 ("Noctes Ambrosianæ, No. 53.") is "A Christmas Carol in honour of Maga, sung by the Contributors," which begins thus--

"When Kit North is dead,
What will Maga do, Sir?
She must go to bed,
And like him die too, Sir!
Fal de ral de ral,
_Iram coram dago_;
Fal de ral de ral,
Here's success to Maga!"

I suspect that the "chorus or refrain" of the first of these ditties suggested that of the second; and that _this_ is the song which was running in your contributor's head.

J. C. R.

[We are also indebted to S. WMSON, F. CROSSLEY, E. H., R. S. S., and J.
SS. for similar replies. See Burns' _Works_, edit. 1800, vol. iv. p.
399., and edit. Glasgow, 1843, vol. i. p. 113.]

_Children by one Mother_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--In reply to the Query, "If there be any well-authenticated instance of a woman having had more than twenty-five children," I can furnish you with what I firmly believe to be such an instance. The narrator was a relative of my late wife, a man of the very highest character in the City of London for many years, and formerly clerk to the London Bridge (Old) Water Works, a mark by which he may possibly be recognised by some of your readers. I have heard him relate, that once, as he was travelling into Essex, he met with a very respectable woman, apparently a farmer's wife, who during the journey several times expressed an anxious desire to reach home, which induced my informant at length to inquire the cause of so great an anxiety. Her reply was, "Indeed, Sir, if you knew, you would not wonder at it." When, upon his jocularly saying, "Surely she could have no cause for so much desire to reach home," she said farther, that "The number of her children was the cause, for that she had _thirty_ children, it having pleased God to give to her and her husband fifteen boys; and because they were much dissatisfied at having no girl, in order to punish their murmuring and discontent, He was pleased farther to send them fifteen girls."

I. R. R.

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COLLODION PORTRAITS AND VIEWS obtained with the greatest ease and certainty by using BLAND & LONG'S preparation of Soluble Cotton; certainty and uniformity of action over a lengthened period, combined with the most faithful rendering of the half-tones, constitute this a most valuable agent in the hands of the photographer. Albumenised paper, for printing from glass or paper negatives, giving a minuteness of detail unattained by any other method, 3s. per Quire.

Waxed and Iodized Papers of tried quality.

Instruction in the Processes.

BLAND & LONG, Opticians and Photographical Instrument Makers, and
Operation Chemists, 153. Fleet Street, London.

*** Catalogues sent on application.

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PHOTOGRAPHY.--HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining Instantaneous Views, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds, according to light.

Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the choicest Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their Establishment.

Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used in the beautiful Art.--123. and 121. Newgate Street.

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HEAL & SON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS, sent free by post. It contains designs and prices of upwards of ONE HUNDRED different Bedsteads, in iron, brass, japanned wood, polished birch, mahogany, rosewood, and walnut-tree woods; also of every description of Bedding, Blankets, and Quilts.

HEAL & SON, Bedstead and Bedding Manufacturers, 196. Tottenham Court Road.

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Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the
Parish of St. Mary, Islington, 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, February 25, 1854.