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_"O Leoline," &c._ (Vol. v., p. 78.).--If no one sends in better information, I beg to inform H. B. C. that I have had the lines he alludes to for many years in MS. as the composition of Aaron Hill. He was a dramatist, but I observe that the _Cyclopædia_ says only two of his dramatic pieces are now remembered, _Algira_ and _Zara_, both of them adaptations from Voltaire. He was born 1684, and died 1750. My verses differ slightly from the version of H. B. C.

"Let never man be bold enough to say,
Thus, and no farther, shall my _footsteps_ stray.
The first _crime_ past _compels_ us into more,
And guilt _grows_ fate, that was but choice before."

HERMES.

[O. P. W. has forwarded a similar reference to Aaron Hill.]

_The Ballad on the Rising of the Vendee_ (Vol. iv., p. 473.).--It is by Smythe, the member for Canterbury, and was published in his _Historic Fancies_.

R. D. H.

_House at Welling_ (Vol. iv., p. 502.).--Your correspondent appears to have made a confusion between _Welling_ in Kent and _Welwyn_ in Herts. Of this latter place Young, the author of the _Night Thoughts_, was rector, and the house in which he resided is now standing.

A. W. H.

_Pharetram de Tutesbit_ (Vol. iv., p. 316.).--Pharetram de Tutesbit must be a quiver manufactured by a person of the name of Tutesbit. This indeed is conjecture, as I have not been able to find any allusion to the word; but it does not appear that there is any place of that name.

_Flectatas sagittas_ may be translated arrows ready dressed, or _fletched_. A _flecher_ is one who fashions and prepares arrows; hence the common use of the word as a proper name now-a-days.

H. G. R.

Preston.

_Ruffles, when worn_ (Vol. v., p. 12.).--These appendages to our ancient costume were originally termed _handruffs_. They may be traced in some of our early monumental effigies. The earliest _written_ notice of them, that I remember, is in the following extract from an inventory of Henry VIII.'s apparel quoted by Strutt:

"One payer of sleves, passed over the arme with gold and silver,
quilted with black silk, and _ruffled_ at the hand with strawberry
leaves and flowers of gold, embroidered with black silk."

In the reign of Elizabeth, the _handruffs_ are seen pleated and edged with rich lace; and in the three succeeding reigns, they were generally worn of fine lawn or cambric. When the Hanoverian race ascended the English throne, many changes took place in the national costume; but the _ruffle_ was retained, and continued during the century.

Some of your readers may recollect the print of Garrick's Macbeth, with cocked hat of the last London cut, bag-wig, full court dress and _ruffles_!

In 1762, the rage for large ruffles was beginning to decline. A writer in the _London Chronicle_ for that year (p. 167.) says (speaking of the gentlemen's dress):--

"Their cuffs cover entirely their wrists, and only the _edge of
their ruffles_ are to be seen; as if they lived in the slovenly
days of Lycurgus, when every one was ashamed to show clean linen."

The French Revolution of 1789 very much influenced the English fashions in costume; the cocked-hat and ruffles were discarded to make room for the ugly "round hat" and "small cuffs" of the Parisian butchers.

It would be difficult to fix upon the period for the total disuse of any particular fashion. Fashions of a "hundred years ago" may still be seen in some of our country churches; and I should not be surprised to find _ruffles_ among their number.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Allen of Rossull_ (Vol. v., p. 11.).--There seems some little doubt about the arms of Allen of Rossull. A MS. at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, gives the following as the arms of the family:--Allen, Ross_all_ (not Ross_ull_, though sometimes Rushall, Rossal, &c.): argent, a chevron engrailed azure, between three griffins' heads erased; on a chief of the second an anchor, or, between two bezants.

The windows of Ushaw College, Durham, however, frequently present a coat far different from this, surmounted by a cardinal's hat. The arms there are Argent, a cross gules for the college of Douay;--impaling for the founder, William Allen, argent, three conies in pale sejant, sable. The first seems to have belonged to the family; the last--if assumed by the cardinal himself--seem singularly indicative of his peculiar propensity for endeavouring to undermine sound doctrine by his heretical works and acts.

G. S. A.

_Serjeants' Rings_ (Vol. v., pp. 59. 92. 110.).--The happiest motto which comes to my recollection is that adopted by the first serjeants who were called after the decision of the Court of Common Pleas in January, 1840, overturning the warrant issued by King William IV., which opened the court to all members of the bar. Five new serjeants were then called, who gave rings with this motto, in allusion to the restoration of their rights:--

"Honor nomenque manebunt."

Is your correspondent E. N. W. right as to Serjeant Onslow's motto? As all the serjeants called at the same time have the same motto inscribed on the rings they respectively give, it is not likely, if others were joined in the same call with him, that a motto should have been adopted which applied only to one of the number. If indeed he happened to be called alone, it is possible he may have used it; but I am inclined to think E. N. W. has confounded the motto _of the family_ with that of the serjeant.

EDWARD FOSS.

_Clerical Members of Parliament_ (Vol. v., p. 11.).--John Horne Tooke, the reformer, who was in priest's orders, having been presented to the borough of Old Sarum by Lord Camelford, in February, 1801, an act was passed (41. Geo. III. c. 73.) to exclude the clergy from parliament; but as it did not vacate the seat of any member then elected, Mr. Tooke remained in the house till the dissolution in June, 1802. In the course of the debate, the case of Mr. Edward Rushworth, member for Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in 1784, was referred to. He was in deacon's orders, and a petition presented against his return, but was allowed to retain his seat. He is supposed to have been one of the _two_ ministers of the Church of England alluded to by Sir James Johnstone in his speech in the debate on the Test and Corporation Acts, 8th May, 1789, as then being members of the House.

W. S. S.

_Cabal_ (Vol. iv., pp. 443. 507.).--The following extract from a curious book in my possession, entitled _Theophania; or severall Modern Histories represented by way of Romance_ (see "N. & Q." Vol. i., p. 174.), shows a much earlier use of this word than that of Burnet's. The date of _Theophania_ is 1655:

"He was at length taken prisoner, and, as a sure token of an
entire victory, sent with a strong guard into _Sicily_; where
_Glaucus_ and _Pausanias_, fearing time might mitigate the queen's
indignation, caused his process to be presently dispatched; and
the judges, being all of the same Cabal, without consideration of
his many glorious achievements, they condemned him to an
ignominious death."--_Theophania_, p. 147.

T. HENRY KERSLEY, B.A.

_Latin Verse on Franklin_ (Vol. iv., p. 443.; Vol. v., p. 17.).--The line on Franklin--

"Eripuit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis,"

was written by Turgot, Louis XVI.'s minister and controller-general of finance. This verse, however, so happily applied to the American philosopher and statesman's double title to renown, is merely the modification of one in the _Anti-Lucretius_ of Cardinal Polignac, the 37th of the first book, "Eripuitgue Jovi fulmen, Phoeboque sagittas," which again had for its model that of Marcus Manilius, a poet of the Augustan age. It is the 104th of his _Astronomicon_, where he says of Epicurus (lib. v.), "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, viresque Tonanti." This appears to be the original source of the phrase, so far as I could trace it. Turgot, though highly appreciated by his sovereign, and promoted to the prime ministry in consequence, was only suffered to hold the responsible situation for a short time, from August, 1774, to May, 1776, when he fell a sacrifice to court intrigues, which the weak king had not the energy to resist, while emphatically saying, "Il n'y a que Turgot et moi qui aimions le peuple." This eminent statesman's advocacy of the freedom of commerce, state economy, and general liberty of the subject, exposed him not only to courtly but to popular hostility. The French were certainly ill prepared for such innovations on their policy or habits, nor, I may add, even now, notwithstanding the constantly alternating schemes of government, from despotic to constitutional, in the long interposed period, do they appear fully to appreciate, or anxious to introduce these desirable improvements.

J. R. (Cork.)

_Job_ (Vol. v., p. 26.).--The Rev. T. R. BROWNE interprets one of the Persepolitan inscriptions as representing the coronation and titles of Job. As no previous commentator had supposed Job to be a Persian prince, and as (among other unexpected results) it would follow that the poem bearing his name was a translation into Hebrew by some unknown hand, I hastened at once to the Bodleian to examine the authorities on which MR. BROWNE bases his interpretation.

On one glance at the work cited (_Kaempferi Amoenitatum Exoticarum Fasciculi V._) it was plain enough that Kaempfer had made his transcription so carelessly, that barely _one letter in a hundred_ was correct; and, on turning to Niebuhr's copy of the same inscription (plate xxiv. A.), and to Porter's (vol. i. plate xliv. p. 631.), my suspicions were amply confirmed. But the most singular part was to come. Aided by the minute identifications which MR. BROWNE gives of the words which he translates, _Aiub taij_, I discovered that the reverend gentleman had mistaken two letters for two words. His whole theory, therefore, falls to the ground.

As some of your readers may like to know the real interpretation of this inscription, I give the translation of Rawlinson as amended from Westergaard's notes, and which is undoubtedly correct:

"The great God Ormazd, who has given this world, who has given
that heaven, who has given mankind, who has given life to mankind;
who has made Xerxes king, both the king of the people, and the
law-giver of the people. I am Xerxes the king, the great king, the
king of kings, the king of many-peopled countries, the supporter
also of this great world, the son of King Darius the Achæmenian,"
&c.

RECHABITE.

_Poniatowski Gems_ (Vol. v., pp. 30. 65.).--I thank M--N for his note, but it does not at all afford the information I seek. My Query referred to the _original_ sale in London of the gems. Lord Monson's collection, to which M--N refers, was, I believe, purchased by his lordship from a dealer who bought them at the original sale, the date of which I seek.

A. O. O. D.

_Sleck Stone, Meaning of_ (Vol. iii., p. 241.; Vol. iv., p. 394.).--The expression _sleck-stone_ has, I think twice, been spoken of in "N. & Q." as equivalent to whet-stone: this is a mistake. The first word is possibly misprinted in the work in which it is found, but at all events the thing intended is a _sleek-stone_ (Old Fr. _Calendrine_) an implement formerly used by calendrers; often, if not always, made of glass, and in shape much like a large mushroom: it is used reversed, the stalk forming the handle. Those which I have seen were about four inches in diameter, some more and some less. Sleek-stones are now, I believe, entirely superseded by machinery.

R. C. H.

_Bishop Bridgeman_ (Vol. v., p. 80.).--The matriculation registers of the University of Cambridge, could MR. CLAY ascertain the year Bridgeman entered (and this might be found by searching them), will give his age at that time, the Christian names of his parents, and their place of residence. I do not know whether it is the case at Cambridge, but at Oxford one has to pay half a guinea for an extract from the archives. Surely these important records should be more accessible to the student in this respect.

CRANMORE.

_Bow Bell_ (Vol. v., p. 28.).--In _Eastward Hoe_, by Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman, printed 1605, Girtred, the proud daughter of the citizen Touchstone (Act I. Sc. 1.), taunts her modest sister Mildred, who is endeavoring to check her arrogant manner, with the scornful expression "Bow Bell!" evidently intending to reproach her as a Cockney. She afterwards asks her intended husband, Sir Petronel Flash, to carry her out of the scent of Newcastle coal and the hearing of Bow Bell.

W. S. S.

_Fees for Inoculation_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--For the information of R. W. B. I beg to send you the following extract from the vestry-book of this parish:

"22 Jan. 1772.

"It is further ordered that such of the poor persons belonging to
this parish who like to be inoculated for the small-pox may be
inoculated at the expence of this parish, not exceeding five
shillings and threepence each person, provided it is done within
six weeks of the date hereof. And that each person to be
inoculated shall first produce a certificate under the hands of
one justice and one churchwarden to the inoculating surgeon, and
that the parish shall not pay for any one inoculated without such
certificate of the person belonging to Maidstone."

JOHN BRANFILL HARRISON.

Maidstone.

_Salting of Infants_ (Vol. v., p. 76.).--

"Thou wast not salted at all."

"_Et saliendo non salita eras._"

"Tenera infantium corpora dum adhuc uteri calorem tenent, et primo
vagitu laboriosæ vitæ testantur exordia, solent ab obstetricibus
sale contingi, ut sicciora sint et restringantur."--_Hieronymus._

"Observat et Galenus _De Sanit._, i. 7.: '_Sale modico insperso
cutem infantis densiorem solidioremque reddi._'"--_Rosenmuller_ ad
locum.

C. B.

_Age of Trees_ (Vol. v., p. 8.).--Living near the Forest of Dean, I wish to state that it is not known that any trees exist there which can possibly be of anything approaching to the age of Edward III.; that the word _forbid_ savours of a reservation of timber for the use of the mines, if the privileges of the free-miners can really be carried back to that time. The intelligence in Pepys was derived from Sir John Winter, the person who bought the whole forest in perpetuity from Charles I., but was allowed by Charles II. only to make the most of it he could in his own time. Some trees may have survived the smash which he made, but they must either have been young, or worthless from age or decay.

C. B.

_Objective and Subjective_ (Vol. v., p. 11.).--I would beg to refer X. to the first of the five _Sermons_ by W. H. Mill, D.D., preached before the University of Cambridge, in Lent, 1844. When he has carefully perused it, he will be enlightened as to the precise meaning of the terms _objective_ and _subjective_; being made aware that there is one great _object_ of faith, though, with some writers, the _subject_, man, may be made the most prominent. X. will there find that what he styles "exoteric jargon" has, in the hands of so judicious a writer and so excellent a divine as Dr. Mill, been "translated into intelligible English."

J. H. M.

_Parish Registers_ (Vol. v., p. 36.).--I am sorry not to be able to agree with MR. CHADWICK in thinking "that no fee is legally payable for searching the register-books of baptisms and burials, nor even for making a copy," &c. It is quite certain that even parishioners have no _right_ to inspect the parish books, except for ordinary parochial purposes. In the case of Rex _v._ Smallpiece, 2 Chitt. _Rep._ 288., Lord Tenterden said, "I know of no rule of law which requires the parish officers to show the books, in order to gratify the curiosity of a private individual." Therefore the "genealogical or archæological inquirer" has in general no _right_ to inspect, much less copy the register-books: consequently he must pay the fees demanded for being allowed to do so.

J. G.

Temple.

_"'Tis Tuppence now," &c._ (Vol. iv., pp. 314. 372.).--The lines quoted by FANNY I immediately recognised as Thomas Ingoldsby's. On the appearance of REMIGUS' Query, I looked through the _Ingoldsby Legends_ as the most likely place to find the lines in, but failed, in consequence of an alteration of the last stanza, which in my edition (the third, 1842) runs thus:

"I thought on Naseby, Marston Moor, on Worc'ster's 'crowning
fight;'
When on mine ear a sound there fell, it chill'd me with affright,
As thus in low unearthly tones I heard a voice begin,
'This here's the cap of Giniral Monk! Sir, please put summut in!'"

"_Cætera desiderantur_," _Ingoldsby Legends_, 2nd Series, pp. 119,
120.

ED. S. JACKSON.

Saffron Walden.

_Chatterbox_ (Vol. iv., p. 344.).--I doubt whether your correspondent J. M. will succeed in limiting the term _chatter-box_ to the female sex. His rendering _buxom_ by _womanly_ will hardly stand the test of criticism. In the old matrimonial service, as elsewhere, it originally signified _obedient_, _compliant_, and was equivalent to the German _biegsam_. It was applied indifferently to men and women. Thus, in Chaucer's _Shipmanne's Tale_--

"They wolden that hir _husbondes_ shulden be
Hardy and wise and riche, and thereto free,
And _buxom_ to his wife, and fresh a-bed."

And in the _Clerke's Tale_, speaking of the vassals,

"And they with humble heart ful _buxomly_,
Kneeling upon hir knees ful reverently,
Him thonken all."

The peasantry in Cheshire, instead of chatter-_box_, say chatter-_basket_.

E. A.

_Churchill the Poet_ (Vol. v., p. 74.).--If Churchill was, as C.R. states, "already imprudently married," how could he be eligible to a scholarship in Trinity? I believe, in Churchill's days, a Westminster scholar was entitled, as of course, to a Fellowship in Trinity. Married men, as undergraduates, are, I suspect, of recent date in the universities, even as Fellow Commoners or Pensioners.

J.H.L.

_Hieroglyphics of Vagrants and Criminals_ (Vol. v., p. 79.).--Consult Mayhew's _London Labour and London Poor_ for an elucidation of these signs.

CRANMORE.

_Paring the Nails_ (Vol. iii., p. 462.).--The following Rabbinical quotation on the subject of paring the nails, is certainly curious as bearing on the superstitions connected with the nails:

"Ungues comburit sanctus; justus sepelit eos; impius vero spargit
in publicum, ut maleficæ iis abutantur."--_Nidda_, 17. 1.

W. FRASER.

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When speaking of the translation of Huc's _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China_, which we noticed some few weeks since, we gave our readers the best possible evidence of the value of the work. That Messrs. Longman have done wisely in including a condensed translation of these interesting _Recollections of a Journey through Tartary, Thibet, and China_, from the practised pen of Mrs. Percy Sinnett, in their _Traveller's Library_, we cannot therefore doubt; and we shall be much surprised if the book does not prove to be one of the most popular in the admirable series of which it forms the 14th and 15th Parts.

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