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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ S. VII. Feb. 5. '69. 



unworthy of examination, but which contained the 

 bulk of his riches. 



Can you, Sir, or any of your numerous readers 

 and correspondents, give any farther illustration 

 of the uses to which " Calais Sand" was applied 

 in those days. R. Fm. 



^^ Dutra" and " 31an{con'' {Hudibras, Part ii. 

 canto 1.) — What are the modern appellations of 

 these ? Edward King. 



Daille. — A pamphlet, entitled A Few Words 

 with the Archdeacon of Bath, Bristol, 1818, con- 

 tains a harsh attack on the Archdeacon for trying 

 to break up a Missionary Meeting, because dis- 

 senters were, joined with churchmen at it, and an 

 earnest defence of John Wesley. The author 

 says : 



" Warburtoa and Daille, two of the greatest theolo- 

 gians of the last century, brought all the strength of 

 human learning against those whom they called ' the 

 Methodists,' but their worldly wisdom was as weak 

 against the work of God as the ribaldry of Foote and 

 Lavington." 



Who was Daille ? I know only one great theo- 

 logian Daille, and he certainly did not write 

 against the Methodists, as he died before John 

 Wesley was born, and probably would have con- 

 curred with him had he lived later. M. M. 



Scandal against Queen Elizabeth. — At the last 

 meeting (Jan. 27.) of the Society of Antiquaries, 

 some documents from the Lansdowue MSS. were 

 read by Mr. Carrington, being the depositions 

 taken before two justices in Wiltshire regarding 

 certain scandalous rumours touching the queen's 

 majesty, circulated in or about the fifth year of 

 her reign. These rumours went to the extent 

 that the queen had been gotten with child by the 

 Lord Robert (Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leices- 

 ter), who had in consequence fled the realm. I 

 believe that the curiosity of former historical in- 

 quirers has been very naturally raised by these or 

 similar scandals uttered in disparagement of our 

 " Virgin Queen ;" and that the subject at one time 

 engaged the attention of the late Sir Harris Ni- 

 colas. May I inquire whether any such investi- 

 gations or discussions are to be found in print ? 



J. G. N. 



Breaking the Left Arm : a Punishment. — In 

 the curious tract of Nicholas Upton, De Studio 

 Militari, lib. iv. p. 145. (London, 1654), and in 

 the chapter, " de meretricibus ejiciendis," mention 

 is made of this barbarous punishment. He spe- 

 cially orders that no woman of the above descrip- 

 tion shall be suffered to dwell within the precincts 

 of any camp, leaguer (" obsidionibus villarum"), 

 or fortalice, but shall remain at least the distance 

 of a league from the same, on pain of breaking 

 the left arm (" sub poena fracture sinistri brachii 

 dicte meretricis"), if after one warning ("post 



unam monitionem") she be found in the aforesaid 

 prohibited place. Is it possible so cruel and un- 

 manly a custom could ever have prevailed? Is 

 there any mention of it in any other author ? 

 Upton was a canon of Salisbury in the reign of 

 Henry VL A. A. 



Poet's Corner. 



Ilugonis Pia Desidei'ia. — I have a copy, Ant- 

 werp, 1628, sm. 8vo., cuts by Christopher v. 

 Sichem. Will anybody be so good as to inform 

 me whether this was the first appearance of these 

 cuts?"" — how far they are the same as the cuts in 

 Quarles' Emblems, which I know by recollection 

 they resemble? — in what other works they (or 

 some of them) may be found ? I have got them 

 in a chap-book, " Turpins Edition of Wright's 

 Spiritual Songs and Poems for Children. Price 

 Sixpence, bound and gilt." Who was the author, 

 " J. Wright," as he stands on the title-page ? 



N. B. 



Thomas Burwell, of Peterhouse, B.A., 1623-4, 

 M.A. 1627, spiritual chancellor of Durham, 1631, 

 was afterwards impeached in respect of the pro- 

 ceedings against Peter Smart, Pi-ebendary of 

 Durham, survived the Restoration, and was cre- 

 ated LL.D. by royal mandate, 1661. When did 

 he die ? C. H. & Thompson Coopbb. 



Cambridge. 



The River Aide. — Having met with the name 

 Aide as that of a small river near Framlingham 

 in Suffolk, and being unable to find mention of 

 any such river in Camden's Britannia, 1 should 

 be glad to know if any change of name has oc- 

 curred, and whether any family of that name held 

 land on its banks at the time Doomsday Book 

 was compiled. C. C. 



[The Aide, a majestic river, rises near Framlingham, 

 and runs south-east to Aid borough (formerly called 

 Aldeburgh, from the river Aide), where having ap- 

 proached a small distance of the sea, it suddenly takes a 

 southern direction, and discharges itself below Orford 

 into the German Ocean.] 



Erasmus Smith. — I shall be glad of any reli- 

 able particulars respecting the biography of Eras- 

 mus Smith, the founder of the schools in Ireland 

 which bear his name. He was an alderman of 

 London, and died about 1669. Was he a member 

 of the Church, or a Nonconformist? 



Alfred T. Lee. 



[Erasmus Smith was the son of Sir Roger Smith, alias 

 Heriz, of Withcock, co. Leicester, by his second wife Anne, 

 daughter of Thomas Goodman of Aldgate. Erasmus be- 

 came one of the aldermen of London, as well as an eminent 

 Turkey merchant. Upon the settlement of Ireland he made 



[* The first edition was published at Antwerp, 1624. 

 See " N. & Q." 1« S. iv. 404.— Ed,] 



