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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°i S. VII. Jan. 15. '59. 



at thy meals, and no thanksgiving bestowed upon thy 

 Father for his bounty." — " Everi'body's Sermon," deli- 

 vered by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, July 26, 1858.— 

 Penny Pulpit, No. 2907. 



FiTZHOPKINS. 

 Garrick Club. 



Marshall Family (^"^ S. vi. 527.) — I beg to 

 inform your correspondent Belatee-Adime that 

 Marshall of Ivythorne, co. Somerset, bears " Ar- 

 gent, a fesse between three chessrooks sable, 

 charged with as many mullets of the first." Crest, 

 " a dexter arm embowed in armour proper, gar- 

 nished or, a scarf of the last and azure, holding in 

 the hand proper a broken tilting-spear of the se- 

 cond." My authority is Burke's General Armory. 

 The arms and crest were granted in 1573. 



S. POMICAN. 



Morland^s Pictures (2°* S. vi. 479.) — Morland 

 painted more than eight pictures representing the 

 sports of children, amongst which, besides those 

 enumerated by Styutes, are " Christmas Gam- 

 bols," " Christmas Holidays," " Children Nutting," 

 " Children Birdnesting," " Kite Entangled," &c. ; 

 but beyond their being of the same size, there is 

 nothing to show that they were painted to form a 

 series or set. They are all engraved, chiefly by 

 Morland's brother-in-law, William Ward, in the 

 mezzotinto manner, but are now rarely to be 

 met with, perhaps from their having once been 

 exceedingly popular, and in consequence de- 

 stroyed by framing, &c. I can give no informa- 

 tion as to the whereabouts of the pictures them- 

 selves, with the exception of " Children playing 

 at Soldiers," which was in the Manchester Exhibi- 

 tion, contributed by J. H. Galton, Esq. L. H. 



To rule the Roast (2-»^ S. vi. 338. 489.)— Halli- 

 well, in his Archaic and Provincial Dictionary, 

 explains this phrase as meaning " to take the 

 lead," and cites an example of it from Hall's 

 Union, 1548 : — 



"John, King of Burgoyn, which ruled the roast, and 

 governed both King Charles the French king and his 

 whole realm." 



The verses of Shakspeare, 2 Henry F/., Act I. 

 Sc. 1., likewise exhibit its meaning : — 



" Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast. 

 Hath given the dutchies of Anjou and Maine 

 Unto the poor king Reynier, whose large style 

 Agrees not with the leanness of his purse." 



No reasonable doubt can exist as to the correct- 

 ness of Richardson's explanation, that to "rule the 

 roast " is to be master of the feast. The alliter- 

 ation probably went for something. Johnson's 

 conjecture, that it was originally roist, which sig- 

 nified a tumult, and that it meant " to direct the 

 populace," has nothing to recommend it. His de- 

 rivation of rostir, French, from rastrum, is equally 

 unfounded. (See Diez, Roman. Worterbuch, in 

 rostire, p. 297.) The military expression roster, 



for a list showing the turns of duty, is a corrup- ' 

 tion, by the common soldiers, of the Latin word 

 rota. L. 



Dorsetshire Nosology (2""* S. vi. 522.) — The 

 complaint alluded to by your correspondent C. 

 W. B. is not a new disease, for I have seen it 

 mentioned in a letter dated 1666 : " a disease called 

 y^ riseing of y* lights." Nor is it peculiar to Dor- 

 setshire, for both the " nosology and the thera- 

 peutics " are found in Berkshire, and probably in 

 other counties. I have always considered the ex- 

 pression as indicative of a sense of fulness or 

 suffocation about the chest, but the modus ope?'- 

 andi of the remedy is not very intelligible. W. S. 



Communion Tokens (2"'^ S. vi. 432.) — I am 

 much obliged by the communications in your last 

 number. To these I beg to add another, received 

 privately, in which reference is made to Mr. 

 Boyne's recently published volume on Trades- 

 men's Tokens, as containing a notice of one, thus 

 described : — 



" b . THE . coMUNioN . cvpp = a communion cup. 

 " K . I.H.S., a cross rising from the h and seven stars." 



John S. Burn. 

 Henley. 



Anointing, 8fc. (2°'' S. vi. 441. 511,) — It is not 

 necessary that a Pope elect should have previ- 

 ously held the office of a Bishop. It has sometimes 

 happened that one has been elected Pope who 

 was not even in Holy Orders, and oftener one who 

 was not a bishop, as in the case of the late Pope 

 Gregory XVI. But in such case, the elect pre- 

 viously receives all the Holy Orders in regular 

 succession, and is finally consecrated bishop with 

 the usual anointing, though with a somewhat dif- 

 ferent ceremonial on account of his dignity. After 

 this follows his benediction and coronation as 

 Pope ; but as his Pontifical preeminence has no 

 reference to order, but is that o? jurisdiction, the 

 anointing is not repeated. He was already a bi- 

 shop, and remains Bishop of Rome ; though his 

 supreme dignity as Pope gives him jurisdiction 

 over the whole Church of Christ. F. C. H. 



Age of Tropical Trees (2"'» S. vi. 325. 402.) — 

 In an account of the baobab-tree (^Adansonia digi- 

 tata) in the Magazine Pittoresque for October last, 

 it is stated that — 



" La grande s&heresse et la chaleur du climat agissent 

 sur ces arbres comme le froid des hivers sur ceux de nos 

 regions ; ils perdent leurs feuilles et n'en reprennent que 

 dans la saison des pluies, c'est a dire, de Decembre h, 

 Juin." 



J. L. 



French Biographical Dictionaries (2°"^ S. vi. 

 471.) — In noticing M. Vapereau's Dictionnaire des 

 Contemporains a eulogium is passed on French 

 compilers of dictionaries biographical generally. 



