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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. Feb. 26. '59. 



consume all. 12. And the Devill at length will 

 carry away all." J- Y. 



Pie-grieche (2°<* S. vi. 403. 458.)— The meaning 

 of the word griesche or grieche is fully explained 

 by Roquefort in his Glossaire de la Langue Ro- 

 maney in v. It was both a substantive and an 

 adjective ; as a substantive it signified burden, 

 affliction, annoyance ; as an adjective it signified 

 burdensome, vexatious, annoying, troublesome. 

 Ducange cites the Low Latin griechia, in the 

 sense of " gravatio, onus," from a document of the 

 year 1269. The word greugia or greusia for gra- 

 vamen appears to be allied to it. Roquefort 

 mentions two old French poems, entitled La 

 Griesche dE'te and La Griesche d' Yver, in which 

 the inconveniences of each season are respectively 

 described. The butcher-bird was therefore called 

 the pie-grieche from its fierce and angry nature ; 

 and the ortie-grieche meant the " stinging nettle." 

 The translation of grieche by speckled is an entire 

 mistake. Griesche and its kindred forms appear to 

 be derived from gravo or gravis. The old Eng- 

 lish ivary-angle is, as H. F. B. has remarked (2"^ 

 S. vii. 38.), a corruption of the German wiirgengel. 

 The Italian greggio or grezzo, which is applied to 

 precious stones in their rough or unpolished state, 

 appears to correspond with the French gres, not 

 griesche ; and to be derived from the Teutonic 

 form, gries German, grit English. L. 



Crook and Crosier (2°^ S. vii. 107.) — It is not 

 correct to say that both these are " borne by the 

 bishop." By crosier, G. Williams understands 

 the cross. This is borne hefort an archbishop, 

 but never hy him. He carries a crook, the same 

 as other bishops ; this being an emblem, and a 

 very beautiful and expressive one, of the pastoral 

 charge which he has of the flock entrusted to him. 

 It has always been customary to call the crook 

 the crosier ; the term being, no doubt, derived 

 from the French word crosse, which means the 

 sapie. Some have lately affected to call it the 

 Pastoral Staff; but the old name has been too 

 long consecrated by familiar use, and is so much 

 more convenient, that there is little chance of its 

 being supplanted. F. C. H. 



Alleged Copy of Sentence on our Blessed Saviour 

 (2"* S. vii. 104.) — The learned historian of the 

 Holy Land, and author of a Life of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ, Christian Adrichomlus, gives the 

 following from ancient annals as the sentence of 

 Pilate upon our Divine Redeemer : — 



" Jesum Nazarenum subversorem gentis, contemptorem 

 Caesaris, et falsum Messiam, ut majorum suae gentis tes- 

 timonio probatum est, ducite ad communis supplicii lo- 

 cum, et cum ludibrio regias majestatis in medio duorura 

 latronum cruci aflSgite. I lictor expedi cruces." 



It is very doubtful if this can be any more de- 

 pended upon than the one printed in " N. & Q." 



from the Kolnische Zeitung. It seems much more 

 probable that no formal sentence was pronounced ; 

 and perhaps it was so ordered by divine dispen- 

 sation. Pilate all along shrunk from any pro- 

 clamation of guilt against our Blessed Saviour. 

 Again and again he declared that he found no 

 cause in him. If at last he was overpowered by 

 the clamours, and yielded to the threats of the 

 Jews, he seems still to have rather permitted the 

 crucifixion than pronounced any regular sentence. 

 The Gospel gives no Intimation of any such for- 

 mality. It is remarkable that all the four Evan- 

 gelists use the same words when recording our 

 Lord's condemnation, that Pilate delivered him up 

 to be crucified. The Jews saw that Pilate con- 

 sented, however reluctantly ; and they hurried 

 away their victim to Mount Calvary, Pilate merely 

 permitting what he no longer had the firmness to 

 refuse. F. C. H. 



As to the authority on which the document in 

 question is based, I know nothing ; but It is clear 

 to every one who carefully examines it, that it is 

 a palpable forgery. I remember the same docu- 

 ment, or a very similar one, going the round of 

 the newspapers about fifteen years ago. I cut it 

 out at the time, and have it in my possession yet, 

 but cannot lay my hand on it. K. P. D. E. 



" The Wolf in Shepherd: s Clothes'' (2»'' S. vii. 

 69.) — This epigram will be found in the curious 

 and rare book, entitled — 



" Pasquillorum Tomi Duo. Quorum primo versibus ac 

 rhythmis, altero soluta Oratione conscripta quamplurima 

 continentur, ad exhilarandum confirmandumque hoc per- 

 turbatissimo rerum statu pii lectoris animum, apprime 

 conducentia." 



The rarity of this volume has perhaps been ex- 

 aggerated : see, in Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature 

 (vol. i. 140-43.), an account of it by the learned 

 Maty, formerly of the British Museum. See also 

 Jortin's Life of Erasmus, li. 595. It is inserted 

 in the first volume of Henry Care's Weekly Pacrjuet 

 of Advice from Rome, p. 63., 4to. (Lond. 1679) : 



" We told you lately that Pasquin's Chaps were frozen 

 up with the Cold weather ; but he is now restored again 

 to his Speech, and the other night delivered this Epi- 

 gram : — 



" Non ego Romulea, etc. 



Which you may please thus to English : 

 " 'Tis nothing strange a Shepherd raigns in Rome, 

 For he that built it was a Shepherd's Groom : 

 Nor is it strange that Wolves in Rome abound ; 

 He suckt a Wolf that did that City found. 

 But this is rare, and far above my Skill, 

 How Wolves should keep the Flock secure from III." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



White Furlong, an Irish Cistercian Monk (2"*^ 

 S. vii. 130.) — In the list of the published works 

 of Crisostomo Henriquez in the Nouvelle Biogra- 

 phic Generale, I find mentioned Relatio illustrium 

 Virorum quos Ordo Cisterciensis hahuit in Hibernia 



