2"* S. VII. April 16. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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be suspended by a thick string held between the 

 teeth, and then struck with any hard substance, 

 the sound iviU appear greater than by hearing with 

 the ears. 



I have extracted the above from my little book 

 Chemical and Physical Magic for the use, such as 

 it may be, of correspondents who have written on 

 the subject of "Hearing with the Throat." 



Septimus Piesse. 



Culverkeys (2°'^ S. vii, 184.) — In considering 

 the derivation of this word, a hope was expressed 

 that some reader of "N. & Q." would tell us 

 " why the claw of a hawk or eagle should in old 

 English have been called a key.'^ It may now be 

 remarked that in the French language, to which 

 English falconry is indebted for so many" of its 

 terms, cle (a key) is the name given to the hind 

 claw of a bird of prey. " Cle. Ongle de derriere 

 d'un oiseau de proie," Bescherelle. The reason 

 appears to be, that with its hind claw the bird of 

 prey secures or, as it were, locks in its gripe what- 

 ever its talons have clutched. The term ales is 

 also applied in French to the small bones which 

 are found in the sutures of the skull, as if they 

 answered in some measure the same purpose as 

 the keystone of an arch. Thomas Boys. 



'' HouseV (2"* S. iv. 493.) — Andrew Stein- 

 METz's remarks upon Housel are illustrated by the 

 following extract from an inventory of " sylvyr 

 juells" formerly belonging to the church of Mel- 

 ton Mowbray, co. Leicester : 



" Item. Remaynyng in the church a Cresmatary of 

 selvyr, and a Hooselyng Coppe selver and gelt " 



I also find "a grett chalys gelt," among the 

 articles enumerated. Does not this tend to show 

 that there was a difference between a " Hooselyng 

 coppe" and "a chalys" ? Thos. Noeth. 



Leicester. 



Poll Books of Lincolnshire (2°* S. vii. 258.) — 

 I have several of these. The earliest is that of 

 the contest in 1723, when nearly the whole of the 

 electors were polled. I shall be happy to produce 

 it to C. J. R., and on receiving his address, pri- 

 vately, will make an appointment_in town for that 

 purpose. 'W. H. Lammin. 



Fulham. 



Gipsy Language of Indian Origin (2°* S. vii. 

 170.) — In the Archoeologia (vol. vii. pp. 388 — r 

 391.) there is a vocabulary of Zingara or gipsy 

 words, collected by Jacob Bryant, and transmitted 

 to the Society of Antiquaries in consequence of a 

 paper by Mr. Marsden on the identity of the 

 gipsy and Hindustanee languages, which will be 

 found in the same volume. E. H. A. 



Epitaph on the Duke of Marlborough (2°"* S. vii. 

 148.) — The Latin of this epitaph, and this trans- 

 lation of it, will be found in the second part of 



" The Fable of the Bees," in the sixth dialogue 

 between Horatio and Cleomenes. May I be al- 

 lowed to ask, whether there is any Memoir or Life 

 of Bernard Mandeville, M.D., the author of this 

 celebrated work, or any portrait of him in exist- 

 ence ? There is only a slight notice of him in 

 Gorton's Biog. Dictionary. D. W. S. 



Cheltenham. 



[See«N. &Q.,» 1" S. x. 129.] 



Quotation Wanted (2""^ S. vii. 279.) — The lines 

 are from Young's Night Thoughts, book ii. Add 

 " 'TYs greatly wise to talk with our past hours," 



to make the sense complete. The passage has 

 been beautifully illustrated by Blake. A man in 

 a sitting posture is examining the record-scrolls 

 of a set of little hours, represented as sprites ; 

 which are going up from him to Heaven on one 

 side of the picture, and coming down to him for 

 examination on the other. Some are dark ; others 

 with the white robes of innocence round them. 



This is real illustration. The embodying the 

 thoughts of the author, and even going beyond his 

 mere words. Blake followed Young into his idea, 

 and carried out some of its particulars to which 

 Young had not given utterance. 



Margabet Gattt. 



The Rev. Treadway Russell Nash, D.D. (2""» S. 

 vii. 173.) — This Worcestershire topographer, and 

 vicar of Leigh (near Malvern), is still remem- 

 bered by some of his former parishioners, who 

 have told me that he used to preach at Leigh 

 once a year, just before his tithe audit, his text 

 invariably being " Owe no man anything." On 

 these occasions (as I have been informed) he 

 drove from his residence at Bevere (in the parish 

 of Claines, near Worcester,) in a carriage-and- 

 four, " with servants afore him, and servants ahind 

 him." Leigh is a vicarage, held in conjunction 

 with the rectory of Bransford. Previous to his 

 holding the vicarage of Leigh, he had, for a few 

 years, held the vicarage of Ensham, in Oxford- 

 shire (in the gift of his brother-in-law, Mr. Mar- 

 tin), which he resigned in 1757 on the death of 

 his brother Richard. He was instituted to the 

 rectory of Strensham in 1797. Although Cham- 

 bers has given us " the best account of this worthy 

 topographer" in his Biographical Illustrations of 

 Worcestershire, it is singular that he omits all 

 mention of the Doctor's connection with Leigh. 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



Thomas Walkington, D.D. (2»« S. vii. 219.) — 

 It was the opinion of Hearne, Douce, Bliss, and 

 Thomas Rodd, that Dr. Walkington was the au- 

 thor of The Optick Glasse of Humours, first printed 

 in 1607; and I see no reason to question this de- 

 cision. Dr. Walkington was educated in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, where he took the degree of 

 Bachelor in Divinity, and was, in 1612, incor- 



