2n'» S. VII. Feb. 19. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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sition. This proves that the song was at least as old 

 as that famous year. It commences as follows : — 



" Let Poets and Historians 

 Record the brave Gregorians 



In long and lasting lays ; 

 While hearts and voices joining, 

 In gladsome songs combining, 



Sing forth their deathless praise." 



It is set for two voices, and there is a transpo- 

 sition for the flute at the foot. J. M. 



[The single sheet referred to by our correspondent is a 

 copy of a song contained in the following work : — The 

 Musical Century, in one hundred English Ballads, the 

 Words and Music of the whole by Henry Carey. 2 vols, 

 fol. Lond. 1737—40 ; 2nd edit. 1740 ; 3rd edit. 1743. The 

 work itself is not a uniformly printed book, but merely a 

 collection of songs struck off from plates engraved and 

 published by Carey at different periods from about the 

 year 1720.] 



Fabled Spear (2°'^ S. vii. 89.) — The allusion 

 is to the story of Telephus, who received an in- 

 curable wound from Achilles, and was informed 

 by the oracle that it could only be cured by the 

 person who had inflicted it. Achilles in conse- 

 quence healed the wound with the rust of the 

 spear with which he had pierced Telephus. See 

 Dr. Smith's Diet, of Myth, and Biogr. art. " Tele- 

 phus." L. 



Execution of Charles I. (2°^ S. vii. 69.) — Per- 

 mit me to suggest that no doubt many prints, 

 woodcuts, &c. are in existence, which would help 

 to supply the information E. M. requests. A note 

 worthy the attention and investigation of any in- 

 terested in this subject is given in E. Warburton's 

 History of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, iii. p. 

 400., where it is stated, as a refinement in the 

 humiliation, that — 



" The block was so low the king was forced to lie on the 

 ground. I have seen two prints of the time in which the 

 king is thus represented. This has not, I think, been 

 generally noticed." 



S. M. S. 



Church Pitle (2°* vii. 90.) — In Newcourt's 

 Repertorium Ecclesiaslicum Parochiale Londinense 

 .... The Second Volume ; comprising ail the 

 County of Essex, London, 1710, folio, this word 

 occurs several times : — 



" Ramsey Vicarage, Terrier, 1637 . . . One croft or 

 pightle of land of 4 acres," p. 484. 



" Toppesfield Rectory, Terrier, 1637 ... A garden with 

 a pightle of two acres," p. 607. 



See also pp. 6. ii. 40. 330. 688. 



It is spelt pikle in three places, pp. 79. 196. 

 410. 



« Boxted Vicarage. It is said that the Vicarage-house 

 standeth in a small pikle, containing about an acre," 

 p. 79. 



" Matching Vicarage, Terrier, 1610 . . A little pikle," 

 p. 410. 



HoUoway's derivation of the word from piccolo 

 does not seem very satisfactory. If pightle be the 



old form, it would be more natural to connect it 

 with pight, i. e. pitched, fixed, or settled, as it 

 means a close, croft, or enclosed field. 



Let me now make a query with regard to the 

 following words which have caught my eye in 

 turning over this Repertorium : — 



" East Mersey Rectory. By two Terriers exhibited, one 

 in 1610, the other in 1637, it appears that this Parsonage 

 is a Manor, and has Court-Leet and Court-Baron," 

 p. 413. 



" Witham Vicarage. There belongs to this Vicarage 

 the View of Frank- pledg, and a Court- Baron at every 3 

 weeks end," p. 676. 



"ToUeshunt- Knights Rectory. Terrier . . . A Chase- 

 way leading from the Church-Chase to a Croft called 

 Parson's Hoo-Croft, p. 606." 



« Roding Alta Rectory. Terrier, 1610 . . . One Hop- 

 pet of about a rood, and the Church-yard," p. 501. 



What are View of Frank-pledg, Court-Leet*., 

 Cotirt-Baron, Church- Chase, Hoppetf\ Is the 

 last a small hop-garden ? Clebic. 



Turner's Oil of Talc (2°* S. vi. 500.) — In ad- 

 dition to what is stated in reply to this question, 

 I refer Libya to some of our early Dispensatories, 

 in which oil of talc is named as one of the prepar- 

 ations in use during the seventeenth century. In 

 one of these works by Dr. Schroder, 1669, I find 

 talcum described " as a stone in shops like the 

 specular stone, but thinner, scaly, greenish, re- 

 sisting fire, and fixed ; it is called by some the 

 star of the earth." The best comes from Venice : 

 it is chiefly used externally for a fucus. Among 

 the preparations is — 



" Oil of Talcum distilled, or the Cosmetic of Hartman. — 

 Take of talcum calcined moist with vinegar, brought to a 

 mucilage; distil it by a luted retort, and a large receiver 

 at the bare fire. First there comes forth distilled vinegar, 

 then a white oil. — The Virtues. You may wash the hands 

 with the vinegar, and anoint with the oil. Note. The}' 

 say, if the face be first well washed, it will stay on a 

 month," 



I do not find any oil of talc called " Turner's." 



S. B. 



Cant (2"'^ S. vi. 458. ; vii. 72.) — There is an- 

 other version, of the anecdote (as related by your 

 correspondent Exul) of the supposed origin of 

 the word, thus given in the Trans, of the Liver- 

 pool Lit. and Phil. Soc. for 1 848, p. 58. : — 



" An extract from the Mercurius Publicus referred td 

 the Reverends Oliver and Ezekiel Cant, two Scotch 



\_* The view of Frank pledge or court leet was a court of 

 record held once in the year and not oftener, within a 

 particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward 

 of the leet, being the King's Court, granted by charter to 

 the lords of those hundreds or manors. Its original in- 

 tent was to view the frank pledges, i. e. the freemen 

 within the liberty; who, according to the institution of 

 King Alfred, were all mutually pledged for the good be- 

 haviour of each other. — Blackstone's Commentaries, iv. 

 173.] 



[t Halliwell has « Hoppit, a small field, generally one 

 near a house, of a square form. Essex."'] 



