2"i S. VII. Maiu 26. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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As to Christian that has always been a favourite 

 feminine appellation in Scotland, and it is only in 

 late years that Christina has been substituted. 

 To meet with Christian as a male appellation has 

 been very rare in this country, though general in 

 other parts of Europe. R. R. 



Watermarks in Paper (2"** S. vi. 434. 491. ; vii. 

 110.) — According to L. D. R. in the Navorseher, 

 vol. vi. pp. 56, 57., the Transactions of the Pro- 

 vincial Society of Arts and Sciences in North-Bra- 

 bant (Handelingen van het Provinciaal Oenootschap 

 van Kunsten en Wetcnschappen in Noord- Brabant), 

 's Hertojienbosch, 1848, vol. iv. pt. i., contain, on 

 pp. 64. 89. and 90., much that ought to be con- 

 sulted on the subject. A facsimile of watermarks 

 is also given. Jonkheer W. J. C. Rammelman 

 Elsevier states {Navorscher, vol. vi. p. 57.) that 

 the Leyden archives possess the registers on the 

 Poortersboeken, written on paper with watermarks, 

 from 1364 — 1795. Of some towns, adds he, the 

 Treasury -Accounts (Thesauriers-Rekeningen) bear 

 a still earlier date. 



At Haarlem the querist could be referred to 

 the following authorities, consultable (if I may 

 coin the word) either in the Town-House or in 

 the City-Library, viz. : — 



1. " Fac-Similes of the Papermarks in the Registers 

 of the Haarlem Cathedral from 1400 — 1600, and of those 

 in the Treasurj'^-Accounts of the same place from 1417 — 

 1475, copied by J. Koning." 



2. " Fac-Similes of the Papermarks in the ' Spiegel 

 onzer Behoudenis ' and other curious Works Haarlem 

 possesses, drawn by J. Koning." 



3. " Engraved Fac-Similes of Papermarks, Print, and 

 Pictures in the First Productions of the Press." An in- 

 teresting work, 67 sheets in folio. 



J. L. A. T., the gentleman whose communi- 

 cations we translate from the Navorscher, vol. vi. 

 p. 315., concludes with the assertion that in Eng- 

 land even the art was invented of adulterating 

 watermarks in paper. J. H. van Lennjsp. 



Zeyst. 



P.S. Will you allow me to add, that the word 

 Donete, on p. 111. of this volume, col. 1., line 22., 

 ought to be spelt Dorrete ? 



Prometheus by Call (2"'^ S. vii. 199.)— This will 

 probably be found in Lyra Hellenica, a small 

 volume published about 1841 or 1842 by Grant of 

 Cambridge. A version of parts of the play will 

 be found in the first volume of the Cambridge 

 University Magazine, pp. 237 — 245. 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Psalm CXXXVII. by the Earl of Bristol (2'"i 

 S. vii. 126.) — John Digby, first Earl of Bristol 

 (born 1580, died 1652,) an account of whom is 

 given in Wood's Athen. Oxon. (iii. 338. edit. Bliss), 

 is the person inquired for by D. P. C. According 

 to Wood, the Earl had " several scatter'd copies 

 of English verses flying abroad," but it does not 



appear that these were ever collected for publica- 

 tion. Psalm cxxxvii. was printed (but without 

 author's name) in both the editions of James Clif- 

 ford's Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in 

 the Cathed7-als, S^c, London, 1663, 1664, into 

 which it obtained admission as having been set to 

 music as an anthem by Henry Lawes. There are 

 several (and some not unimportant) verbal varia- 

 tions between Cliflbrd's copy and that transcribed 

 by D. P. C. Another of Lord Bristol's poems, 

 " Grieve not, dear love," was also set to music 

 by Henry Lawes, and included by him in his first 

 book of Ayres and Dialogues, published in 1653. 



W. H. Husk. 

 Clerical Baronets (2°* S. vii. 86.) — Please add 

 the following to the list of thirty-eight names 

 lately given by A. T. L. : — 



Creation. Succession. 

 Bloomefield, Thos. Eardley Wilmot - 1807 1858 

 Bunbury, John Richardson - - 1787 1851 

 Foster, Cavendish Hervey - - 18.31 1857 

 Hayes, John Warren - - - 1797 1851 



Sir Christopher Bellew (cr. 1838, sue. 1855,) is 

 in orders in the Roman Catholic Church. Abhba. 



Rev. Timothy Sheppard (2"" S. vii. 155.)— Could 

 Mb. Rix kindly point out, or clear up the diffi- 

 culty there appears in his reply concerning Ti- 

 mothy Sheppard of Braintree. Wilson, in his 

 History of the Dissenters, says it was Timothy 

 Sheppard (not Thomas Sheppard) that was chosen 

 for the church at Poor Jewry. Is Mb. Rix able 

 to give any information respecting the church at 

 Braintree where Sheppard ended his days ? 

 Ford's Funeral Sermon contains no notice of Shep- 

 pard. Any information relating to the early days 

 of John Mason, M.A., of Water-Stratford, Bucks 

 (the friend of T. Sheppard), would be acceptable. 

 ' Z. 



Horse-healing by Tunnestrick (2°"^ S. v. 356.) — 

 <^^ — (p writes in the Navorscher, vol. ix. p. 83. : — 



" To this question 1 can only reply by communicating 

 that of a case noticed in the Nederlandsche Mercurius for 

 January', 1772, where it is stated, that 



" ' On December the 30th, 1771 [and thus not on Janu- 

 ary, 1772], Mr. Tunnestrik experimented in the presence 

 of the Prince Stadholder and sundry professors, by driv- 

 ing in an iron spike into a horse's head, and afterwards 

 pulling it out with a pair of pincers. Hereupon he poured 

 certain spirits, by him invented, into the wound, by 

 means of which the horse within six minutes was whole 

 again, and not even a scar remained to be seen.' " 



J. H. van Lennbp. 



Zeyst, 



" Alas for thee, Jerusalem;' ^-c. (2"'^ S. vii. 171.) 

 — The author of these lines is the Rev. John 

 Guthrie, A.M., pastor of the Evangelical Union 

 Church of this town, and one of the professors of 

 the Theological Academy of that body. The poem 

 is entitled " The Redeemer's Tears." It appeared 

 first in The Day Star, a magazine of the denomi- 

 nation, and has since been printed in the bjmn 



