Chapter III: Part IV: of Pursuits of Literature himself."

Of Owen, who published Part I., our author says: {379}

"Hither the sly little fellow got crony Becket to send his satirical
trumpery;"

which is further explained in the following note:

"Becket's back door is in an alley close to his house; here have I
often seen little M*th**s jog in and sit upon thorns for fear of being
seen, in the back-parlour, chattering matters over with old Numscull.
After passing through many hands, the proof sheets at last _very slily_
reached little M*th**s that he might revise the learned lumber."

After alluding to several pieces published by Mathias, our unmerciful critic adds in another note:

"It is very remarkable how strongly the characteristic features of
identity of authorship are marked in these several pieces; the little
man had not even the wit to print them in a different manner, yet
strange to tell, few, very few, could smell the he-goat!

"Who reads thy _hazy weather_ but must swear,
'Tis Thomas James M*th**s to a hair!"

MERCURII.

_Dutch Books_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--MARTINUS is probably aware that the library of the Fagel family is now a part of the University Library of Dublin, and that it contains a very fine collection of Dutch literature, in which it is very possible some of the books of which he is in search may be found.

The auction catalogue prepared in 1800, when the library was to have been sold by auction, had it not been purchased by the University of Dublin, is printed, and a copy of it is at his service, if he will inform me through you how to send it to him.

This library contains many rare tracts and documents well worthy of Mr. Macaulay's attention, if he is about to continue his history of the Revolution; but I have not heard whether he has made any inquiry after them, or whether he is aware of their existence. There is a curious MS. catalogue of them in the possession of the University, which was too voluminous to be printed, when the library was about to be sold.

HIBERNICUS.

_Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves_ (Vol. i., p 214.).--There can be no doubt that the bishop's reference is incorrect, and the suggestion of T. J. (Vol. iii., p. 291.) to consult the reprint of 1840 affords no aid in setting it right; for there we find (p. 178.) a note as follows:

"There was no Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves, nor is there any work in
this name in Goldasti."

I have, however, consulted Mr. Bowden's _Life and Pontificate of Gregory VII._, in order, if possible, to find a clue; and in a note in vol. ii. p. 246. of that work is a statement of the hesitation of the Pope on the doctrine of the eucharist, with a reference as follows:

"Vid. _Egilberti_ archiep. Trevir. epist. adv. Greg. VII., in Eccardi
Corp. historic. Medii Aevi. t. ii. p. 170."

This reference I have verified, and found in the epistle of Egilbertus the passage which, no doubt, Bishop Cosin refers to, and which Mr. Bowden cites:

"En verus pontifex et sacerdos, qui dubitat si illud quod sumatur in
dominica mensa sit verum corpus et sanguis Christi!"

So much for that part of the difficulty, but another still remains. Was there ever an Egilbertus, or Engilbertus, Archbishop of Treves? To solve this question I consulted a list of the Archbishops of Treves in the _Bibliotheque Sacree_ of Richard et Giraud, and I there find the following statement:

"_Engelbert_, grand-prevot de Passau, fut intrus par la faveur de
l'empereur Henri IV., et sacre par des eveques schismatiques. Il mourut
en 1101."

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Charles Lamb's Epitaph_ (Vol. iii., p. 322.).--According to Mr. Thorne (_Rambles by Rivers_, 1st series, p. 190.) the inscription in the churchyard at Edmonton, to the memory of Charles Lamb, was written "by his friend, Dr. Carey, the translator of 'Dante.'" Mr. Thorne gives an anecdote concerning this inscription which I venture to transcribe, in the expectation that it may interest your correspondent MARIA S., and others of your numerous readers.

"We heard a piece of criticism on this inscription that Lamb would have
enjoyed. As we were copying it, a couple of canal excavators came
across the churchyard, and read it over with great deliberation; when
they had finished, one of them said, 'A very fair bit of poetry that;'
'Yes,' replied his companion, 'I'm blest if it isn't as good a bit as
any in the churchyard; rather too long, though.'"

By "Dr. Carey," of course, is meant the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A., Vicar of Bromley Abbots, Staffordshire, and Assistant Librarian in the British Museum, as he was the translator of "Dante," and an intimate friend of Charles Lamb.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, April 28. 1851.

_Charles II. in Wales_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.).--In answer to DAVYDD GAM'S Query, it may be observed that I have never heard of the tradition in question, nor have I met with any evidence to show that Charles II. was in any part of Wales at this period. In "The true Narrative and Relation of his most sacred Majesty's Escape from Worcester," _Selection from the Harleian Miscellany_, 4to., p. 380., it is stated that the king meditated the scheme of crossing into Wales from White Ladies, the house of the Penderells, but that "the design was crossed." One of the "Boscobel Tracts," at p. 137., treating of the same period, and compiled by the king himself in 1680, mentions his {380} intention of making his escape another way, which was to get over the Severn into Wales, and so get either to Swansea, or some other of the sea towns that he knew had commerce with France; beside that he "remembered several honest gentlemen" that were of his acquaintance. However, the scheme was abandoned, and the king fled to the southward by Madeley, Boscobel, &c., to Cirencester, Bristol, and into Dorsetshire, and thence to Brighton, where he embarked for France on the 15th Oct., 1651.

Lancaiach is still in possession of the Prichard family, descendants of Col. Prichard.

There is a tradition that Charles I. slept there on his way from Cardiff Castle to Brecon, in 1645, and the tester of the bed in which his Majesty slept is stated to have been in the possession of a Cardiff antiquary now deceased. The facts of the case appear in the _Iter Carolinum_, printed by Peck (_Desiderata Curiosa_). The king stayed at Cardiff from the 29th July to the 5th August, 1645, on which day he dined at Llancaiach, and supped at Brecon.

J. M. T.

"_Ex Pede Herculem_" (Vol. iii., p. 302.).--The following allusion to the foot of Hercules occurs in _Herodotus_, book iv. section 82.:

"[Greek: Ichnos Herakleos phainousi en petrei eneon, to oike men bemati
andros, esti de to megathos dipechu, para ton Turen potamon.]"

ALFRED GATTY.

The origin of this phrase is connected with the following story:--A certain Greek (whose name has for the present escaped me, but who must have been ready to contribute to the "NOTES AND QUERIES" of his time) was one day observed carefully "stepping" over the [Greek: aulos] or footrace-course at Olympia; and he gave as a reason for so doing, that when that race-course was originally marked out, it was exactly six hundred times as long as Hercules' foot (that being the distance Hercules could run without taking breath): so that by ascertaining how many times the length of his own foot is contained, he would know how much Hercules' foot exceeded his foot in length, and might therefrom calculate how much Hercules' stature exceeded that of ordinary men of those degenerate days.

J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

This proverb does not appear to be of classical origin. Several proverbs of a similar meaning are collected in Diogenian, v. 15. The most common is, [Greek: ek ton onuchon ton leonta], _ex ungue leonem_. The allusion to Hercules is probably borrowed from some fable.

L.

_Bucaneers_ (Vol. i., p. 400.).--Your correspondent C. will find an interesting account of the Bucaneers in a poem by M. Poirie St. Aurele, entitled _Le Flibustier_, and published by Ambroise Dupont & Co., Paris, 1827. The Introduction and Notes furnish some curious particulars relative to the origin, progress, and dissolution of those once celebrated pirates, and to the daring exploits of their principal leaders, Montauban, Grammont, Monbars, Vand-Horn, Laurent de Graff, and Sir H. Morgan. The book contains many facts which go far to support Bryan Edwards's favourable opinion. I may add that the author derives the French word _flibustier_ from the English _freebooter_, and the English word _bucaneer_ from the French _boucanier_; which latter word is derived from _boucan_, an expression used by the Caribs to describe the place where they assembled to make a repast of their enemies taken in war.

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia, March, 1851.

_God's Acre_ (Vol. iii., p. 284.).--By a _Saxon_ phrase, MR. LONGFELLOW undoubtedly meant _German_. In Germany _Gottes-acker_ is a name for churchyard; and it is to be found in Wachter's _Glossarium Germanicum_, as well as in modern dictionaries. It is true there is the other word _Kirchhof_, perhaps of more modern date.

"GOTS-AKER. Caemeterium. Quasi ager Dei, quia corpora defunctorum
fidelium comparantur semini. 1 Cor. xv. 36., observante Keyslero in
_Antiq. Septentr._ p. 109."--Wachter's _Gloss. Germanicum_.

Very interesting are also the other allegorical names which have been given to the burial-places of the dead. They are enlarged upon in Minshew's _Guide to Tongues_, under the head "Churchyard."

"Caemeterium (from the Greek), signifying a dormitory or place of
sleep. And a Hebrew term (so Minshew says), Beth-chajim, _i. e._ domus
viventium, 'The house of the living,' in allusion to the resurrection."

Our matter-of-fact "Church-_yard_ or inclosure" falls dull on the ear and mind after any of the above titles.

HERMES.

_God's Acre._--The term _God's Acre_, as applied to a church-garth, would seem to designate the consecrated ground set apart as the resting-place of His faithful departed, sown with immortal seed (1 Cor. xv. 38.), which shall be raised in glory at the great harvest (Matt. xiii. 39.; Rev. xiv. 15.). The church-yard is "dedicated wholly and only for Christian burial," and "the bishop and ordinary of the diocese, as _God's minister, in God's stead accepts it_ as a freewill offering, to be severed from all former profane and common uses, to be held as holy ground," and "to be _God's storehouse_ for the bodies of His saints there to be interred." See "Bishop Andrewes' Form of Consecration of a Churchyard," _Minor Works_, pp. 328-333., Oxf., 1846.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

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P.S. When was the name of _Poet's Corner_ first attached to the south transept of Westminster Abbey?

Jermyn Street.

_Abbot Eustacius_, of whom J. L. (Vol. iii., p. 141.) asks, was the Abbot of Flay, and came over from Normandy to England, and preached all through this kingdom with much effect in the beginning of John's reign, A. D. 1200, as Roger Hovedene tells us, _Annal._, ed. Savile, London, 1596, _fos._ 457. _b_, 466. _b._ Wendover (iii. 151.) and Matt. Paris _in anno_, mention him.

D. ROCK.

_Vox Populi Vox Dei_ (Vol. iii., p. 288.) is, I find, a much older proverb in England than Edward III.'s reign, for whose coronation sermon it was chosen the text, not by Simon Mepham, but Walter Reynolds, as your correspondent ST. JOHNS rightly says. Speaking of the way in which St. Odo yielded his consent to the Abp. of Canterbury, circ. A. D. 920, William of Malmesbury writes: "Recogitans illud proverbium, _Vox populi vox Dei_."--_De Gestis Pont._, L. i. fo. 114., ed. Savile.

D. ROCK.

_Francis Moore and his Almanack_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.).--Mr. Knight, in his _London_, vol. iii. p. 246., throws a little light on this subject:

"The renowned Francis Moore seems to have made his first appearance
about the end of the seventeenth century. He published a _Kalendarium
Ecclesiasticum_ in 1699, and his earliest _Vox Stellarum_ or _Almanac_,
as far as we can discover, came out in 1701," &c.

But Mr. Knight is not sure that "Francis Moore" was not a _nom de guerre_, although at p. 241. he gives the portrait of the "Physician" from an anonymous print, published in 1657.

A. A.

Abridge.

There is an Irish edition published in Drogheda, sold for threepence, and _embellished_ with a portrait of Francis Moore. Can Ireland claim this worthy? Many farmers and others rely much on the weather prophecies of this almanack. A tenant of mine always announces to me triumphantly that "Moore is right:" but his triumphs come at very long intervals.

K.

I can answer part of H. P. W.'s Query. Francis Moore's celebrated _Almanack_ first appeared in 1698. We have this date upon his own confession. Before his _Almanack_ for 1771 is a letter which begins thus:

"Kind Reader,

"This being the 73rd year since my Almanack first appeared to the
world, and having for several years presented you with observations
that have come to pass to the admiration of many, I have likewise
presented you with several hieroglyphics," &c.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

That such a personage really did exist there can be little doubt, Bromley (in _Engraved Portraits, &c._) gives 1657 as the date of his birth, and says that there was a portrait of him by Drapentier _ad vivum_. Lysons mentions him as one of the remarkable men who, at different periods, resided at Lambeth, and says that his house was in Calcott's Alley, High Street, then called Back Lane, where he seems to have enlightened his generation in the threefold capacity of astrologer, physician, and schoolmaster.

J. C. B.

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Professor De Morgan has just furnished a new contribution to _L' Art de verifier les Dates_, in the shape of a small but most useful and practical book, entitled _The Book of Almanacks, with an Index of Reference, by which the Almanack may be found for every year, whether in the Old Style or New, from any Epoch Ancient or Modern up to_ A. D. 2000. _With means of finding the Day of any New or Full Moon from_ B. C. 2000 _to_ A. D. 2000. An example will show, better even than this ample title-page, the great utility of this work to the historical enquirer. Walter Scott, speaking of the battle of Bannockburn, which was fought on the day of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 1314, says,

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Now, should the reader be desirous of testing the accuracy of this statement, (and how many statements have ere this been tested by the fact of the moon's age!), he turns to Professor De Morgan's Index, which at 1314 gives Epact 3., Dominical Letter F., Number of Almanack 17. Turning to this almanack, he finds that the 24th June was on a Monday; from the Introduction (p. xiii.) and a very easy calculation, he learns that the full moon of June, 1314, would be on the 27th, or within a day, and from a more exact method (at p. xiv.), that the full moon was within two hours of nine A.M., on the 28th. So that Sir Walter was correct, there being more than half moon on the night of which he was speaking. Such an instance as the one cited will show how valuable the _Book of Almanacks_ must prove to all historical students, and what a ready test it furnishes as to accuracy of dates, &c. It must take its place on every shelf beside Sir H. Nicolas' _Chronology of History_.

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Such an announcement is calculated to stir every heart that can respond to the claims of poetry, or feel grateful for the delight which it affords to every cultivated mind. It summons us, like the sound of a trumpet, "To the rescue!" It cannot be that the first and almost the greatest of English bards should ever be allowed to want a fitting memorial in our "Poet's Corner," or that the monument which was erected by the affectionate respect of Nicholas Brigham, nearly three centuries ago, should, in our time, be permitted to crumble into dust.

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It is thought that there can be no difficulty in raising such a sum, and that multitudes of people in various conditions of life, and even in distant quarters of the globe, who venerate the name of Chaucer, and have derived instruction and delight from his works, will be anxious to contribute their mite to the good deed.

The Committee have therefore not thought it right to fix any limit to the subscription; they themselves, with the aid of several distinguished noblemen and gentlemen, have opened the list with a contribution from each of them of Five Shillings, but they will be ready to receive any amount, more or less, which those who value poetry and honour Chaucer may be kind enough to remit to them.

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In a few days will be published, in One handsome Volume 8vo., profusely Illustrated with Engravings by Jewitt,

Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England;

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