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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. VII. April 9. '59. 



citata Dec. A. t>. mdcoxvii. In iisum Scholarum. Lon- 

 dini: Excudit B. Motte; Impensis Edm. Palmer, Biblio- 

 poloe Stamfordiensis ; venundatur apud S. Ballard ad 

 Globum casruleum in vico Little Britain dicto, mdccxviii." 



S. H. H. 



St. John's Wood. 



Renovation in Old Age (2°^ S. vii. 215.)— Your 

 correspondent G. N., in his very interesting Note 

 of the Scotch elder, whose hair, having been white, 

 is now returning in his old age to its former colour, 

 black, asks for authenticated instances of a similar 

 departure from the ordinary course of nature. I 

 can give him none from personal acquaintance ; 

 but perhaps I may be permitted to recal to bis 

 memory the instance related ^^by the Rev. C. 

 Southey, in his Life and Correspondence of his 

 father, the poet laureate : — 



" One circumstance connected with the latter years of 

 his life," saj's the biographer of Kobert Southey, " de- 

 serves to be noticed as very singular. His hair, which 

 previously was almost snowy white, grew perceptibly 

 darker, and I think, if anything, increased in thickness, 

 and a disposition to curl." — Vol. vi. p. 320. 



R. Wallis. 



Hull. 



Art of Memory (2""* S. vii. 257.)— Nearly fifty 

 years ago I attended a series of lectures by an 

 mtelligent and respectable man, whose name was 

 Colgan, or something like it, and I made notes of 

 each lecture, which I still preserve. I do not 

 know that his system was ever published in any 

 other way than by his lectures, given in various 

 parts of the kingdom. I presume that this is the 

 system alluded to by Ben-Simonides, as it an- 

 swers his designation of a " local, or topical 

 system." I can only say that I have used it ever 

 since, with great satisfaction. It is far superior 

 to Grey's mcmoi'ia technica, and also an improve- 

 ment on the more recent system of Feinagle, 

 which it somewhat resembles. Its great merit is 

 its simplicity and easy application. For remem- 

 bering numbers, dates, lists of persons or things, 

 heads of argument, lectures, sermons or speeches, 

 it is invaluable, as I can attest from constant ex- 

 perience to the present time. It may be applied 

 to history, geography, and indeed every pursuit 

 where memory is called upon for particular exer- 

 tion. F. C. H. 



Gloucestershire Churches (2"^ S. vii. 216.) — 

 Cubberley church, although much out of repairj 

 and disfigured with pews, is well worth the notice 

 of the antiquary. It is about three miles from 

 Cheltenham, and contains several cui-ious monu- 

 ments, viz. a cross-legged figure (not in chain 

 armour, and therefore I suppose later than the 

 first Crusade,) of one of the Berkeley family, to 

 whom the manor of Cubberley formerly belonged ; 

 also the effigy of the wife of the same, and one 

 other female figure, all full length. There is an- 

 other figure of a woman, but smaller than life. 



In one of the walls is a small triangular (Saxon ?) 

 niche, containing a half-length figure of a man in 

 chain-mail, holding what appears to be a heart, 

 but may be a shield. This manor, I believe, be- 

 came the property of the Castleman family (who 

 were they ?) wlio intermarried with the Berke- 

 leys. The remains of the old " place" may still 

 be seen. It was here that Charles II. halted for a 

 night's rest in his flight from Worcester's fatal 

 field. C. C. B. 



" Hop-plance" (2""^ S. vii. 218.)— It would ap- 

 pear from your correspondent's communication 

 that the term " hop-plance" is singular, not plural ; 

 and also that a hop-plance is something to be dis- 

 tinguished from a hop-garden. Otherwise one 

 might view hop-plance as simply a corruption of 

 " hop-lands," or " hop-plants." 



In the absence of any additional authority for 

 the use of this expression, it may be suggested 

 that hop-plance, a hop-plance (singular), as dis- 

 tinct from a hop-garden, may signify a new hop- 

 ground ; a hop-ground recently set, as distinguished 

 from a hop-ground that has come into bearing. 



The Fr. planche is occasionally employed in a 

 horticultural sense, to signify a bed in a garden, 

 whether for flowers, vegetables, or herbs ; " une 

 planche de pavots," " une planche de chicoree," 

 " une planche de petits pois." May not a hop- 

 plance, then, have been originally a ho\)-planche, 

 a plot of ground set with young cuttings of the 

 hop, not yet a hop-garden in bearing ? 



There are, however, the two mediaeval words, 

 mansuagium, a mansion, and plantagium, a plan- 

 tage or plantation ; and some persons may think 

 that plance has the same relation to plantagium 

 as manse to mansuagium — plantagitan, plantage, 

 plance. In this case the distinction would still hold 

 good ; hop-plance, the ground recently planted ; 

 hop-garden, the same ground when in bearing. On 

 the whole, however, the derivation from planche 

 seems preferable. Thomas Boys. 



Wearing Cochades (2°'' S. vii. 158.)— Mr. Timbs, 

 in his Popular JE?-?-ors Explained (new edit., p. 220., 

 1857), gives the following article, with which he 

 was favoured by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster : — 



" It is difficult to ascertain the origin, or to define the 

 meaning, of the cockade as worn by gentlemen's servants. 

 The most feasible suggestion is, that it was first adopted 

 at the period of the wars of York and Lancaster, when 

 the retainers of either party were known by the white or 

 red roses borne in their caps. In after times, military 

 and naval officers followed the practice, and designated 

 their servants by the cockade, which has a certain re- 

 semblance to the old badge of the rose. At the present 

 day, the right to wear a cockade seems to be confined to 

 the servants of all those in any way connected with the 

 army or nav}', or the military or naval defence of the 

 countrj': this latter class includes the militia, the lieu- 

 tenant, the deputy- lieutenants, &c., of each county, and 

 various other persons." 



Philo. 



