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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VII. Jan. 15. '59. 



J. B. GreenshielcTs " Pleasures of Home." — I 

 remember very well Mr. John Boyd Greenshields, 

 a member of the Edinburgh Bar, who died some 

 twenty years ago. He was a skilful advocate, 

 and an elegant writer of legal pleadings, some of 

 which I have perused with much pleasure. He 

 was also the author of a poem called, if I re- 

 member right, The Pleasures of Home, printed 

 privately. Have any of your readers seen this 

 performance? and where can a copy of it be 

 found ? T. 



Printing in Ireland. — Where may I find any 

 authentic records of the introduction of printing 

 into Ireland ? Abhba. 



[Dublin received the art of printing in 1551. Mr. 

 Ames observes that Ireland was one of the last European 

 states into which the art of printing was introduced; the 

 earliest book at present known being an edition of The 

 Soke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacra- 

 ments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Churche, folio. 

 It is a verbal reprint of the Common Prayer of Edward 

 VI. of 1549, and bears for Colophon " Ipiprinted by Hum- 

 frey Powell, printer to the Kynges maieste, in his Hygh- 

 nesse realme of Ireland, dwellynge in the Citee of Dublin 

 in the great toure by the Crane. Cum privilegio ad im- 

 primendum solum, anno Domini mdli." Powell con- 

 tinued to exercise the printing business in Dublin for 

 fifteen years or more, during which time he removed from 

 the river side to a more southern residence in St. Nicholas 

 Street. A fine and perfect copy of Powell's first produc- 

 tion may be seen in the library of Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin. Before his residence in Dublin, Powell practised the 

 art of printing in London, in the years 1548 and 1549, 

 and dwelt above Holborn Conduit, where he printed four 

 works. He was a member of the Stationers' Company, 

 and his name is inserted in the charter of 1556.] 



The Culver-key. — An American friend, who is 

 a warm admirer of Izaak Walton, writes to know 

 what the flower is which is so often alluded to 

 under this name in the Complete Angler ? In one 

 passage Izaak says : " Looking down the meadows 

 I could see a girl cropping cvlverheys and cow- 

 slips to make garlands." J, E. T. 



[Mrs. Jane Thompson in the Gent. Mag. for June, 1848, 

 p. 570., inquires after this flower, and states, that the 

 word culver-key is found in some dictionaries, and is there 

 merely called ' a meadow flower,' There is a flower in 

 great favour with children, which is in bloom about the 

 same time as the cowslip is, which I have heard suggested 

 is the flower in question. I have not learned the name by 

 which it is known in the neighbourhood of London, but in 

 Lincolnshire it is called ' Lady's fingers.' It is a trefoil, 

 and grows in thick patches ; the flower is yellow ; and 

 although before the cluster of flowers is fully expanded it 

 has some little resemblance to a clenched hand, it is much 

 more like the contracted claws of a bird's foot. Culver 

 being an obsolete name for dove or pigeon, renders it 

 probable that this may be the flower which Walton 

 alludes to." According to others it is the common Colum- 

 bine, Aquilegia vulgaris, which continues in flower from 

 the beginning of May till the end of July. See " N. & 

 Q." 1" S. vi. 293.] 



Chloroform and Diphtheria. — There are two 

 words, chloroformyl, or chloroform, and diphtheria, 

 which are in very frequent use. Will any reader 

 of " N. & Q." please to give me their derivation 

 and exact signification ? Ignorans. 



[According to Pereira, the name of chloroform was first 

 given to this liquid by Dumas, on account of its relation 

 to formic acid, of which formj'le is the base. Chloroform 

 has been regarded as a compound of chlorine -with, formyle. 

 — Diphthera (Ai<^fl«pa) is a hide or skin, anything made 

 of skin. The modern name diphtheria has probably been 

 applied to a malady which, as some practitioners think, 

 is only a malignant form of quinsy, on account of the 

 skin or membrane which forms in the throat, if the disease 

 is suffered to run its course.] 



1 



CONSECRATION OF BISHOP BABLOW. 



(2"'» S. vi. 526.) 



It does not seem certain from Mr. Massing- 

 berd's inquiry whether he asks respecting the 

 fact of Bishop Barlow's consecration, or the exact 

 date of that event ? If the latter, I have no remark 

 to ofler, which could supply the want of authority 

 for Godwin's assumption that it took place on the 

 22nd of February, 1535 ; but as the point of real 

 interest to those who feel any curiosity on the 

 subject lies in the former Query, I offer a few 

 observations in reference to it. 



In the volume of letters relating to the Sup- 

 pression of Monasteries, as published by the 

 Camden Society, there are several from this in- 

 dividual, written both before and after he was a 

 Bishop, in one entitled " from the writer to the 

 King," and bearing date a.d. 1533. He subscribes 

 himself his unworthy subject and oratour " Wil- 

 liam Barlo." In a subsequent letter addressed to 

 Cromwell (MS. Cotton. Cleop. E. iv. fol. 107.) 

 he adverts to having been " advouched by the 

 Quen's Gracious bountie to the Priorship of 

 Haverfordwest," and subscribes himself as prior 

 of the same. 



Farther letters (MS. Cotton. Cleop. E. iv. fol. 

 117-262.), and bearing date respectively " the 

 laste day of Merche," and 5th of April, 1536, are 

 subscribed W. Meneven (St. David's), and the 

 first of them prefers the writer's suit sustained by 

 reasons of utility to " the whole mysordered dio- 

 cesse " for " the translacion of the see from S. 

 Davyds to Kermerddyn " (Caermarthen). 



The testimony derived from these letters is of 

 that kind always considered most important, be- 

 cause undesigned and indirect, — here are a series 

 of original documents, being letters from the plain 

 priest, the Prior, and lastly " the Bishop," each 

 subscribed according to the present status of the 

 writer, all written before the figment of his non- 

 consecration, or the motive for it, could have had 

 any existence, and yet all testifying in the most 



