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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. May 7. '59. 



Chapel Scala Cell (2°'» S. vi. 111.) — To the 

 three chapels here mentioned, viz. that at West- 

 minster, at Norwich, and at Boston, it would 

 appear that a fourth might be added. Mr. H. 

 Harrod, in a note to his " Extracts from Early 

 Norfolk Wills," printed in the first volume of the 

 Norfolk Archaology, 1847 (p. 268.), says : 



" I find also in the will of Tlio. Whytynge of Geywood, 

 yeoman, 1522 (Regr. Car^'e, 47.), a direction that his ex- 

 ecutors ' shall cause to be songe on my burj'all day, at 

 Scali Cell, in Lynne Byshopp, at the Freers Austyns y, 

 X masses.' " 



The same volume affords the following illustra- 

 tions of the esteem in which these chapels were 

 held : — 



Rome, p. 121. " Also I bequeth to a preeste to synge a 

 masse at Scala celi at Rome, for my sowle and all cresten 

 sowles, iiijs.". — Will of Juliana Drake, Carrow, 14 Hen. 

 VII. 



P. 258. " I'tm. volo^ere unu presbrin ad cur' Rome ad 

 transciend3 sta'coes ibm debitomodo ad[celebrand3 mi3's5 

 ad scalam celi p salute ale mee et p quib^ teneor, cui lego 

 p labore suo x"." — Joh. Wygman, Wickhampton, 1504. 



" Roger Aylemer, Squyer," in 1492, wills, " that Fryer 

 John Fyssher, of the convent of (Friars Minors, Norwich,) 

 be my prest, and go to the Court of Rome on pilgrimage, 

 and say mass for my sowle at Scali Cell, &c., and to have 

 ten marks when he goeth forth, and when he cometh 

 home, forty shillings." — Quoted, from Kirkpatrick's Re- 

 ligious Orders of Norwich, 121. 



Westminster, p. 124. " I will have as shortelj' as it may 

 be doon aft' my deceasse, for to have iij masses songe^itt 

 Westmynster ther, called Scala celi." — Marg. Norman, 

 Norwich, widow, 1516. 



Norwich (or, Lynn?), p. 267. " I will that myn ex ecu- 

 trice cause to be songe a mass at Scala celi, in the wor- 

 shipp of the name of Jhu," &c. — John Forster, S. Lynn, 

 Gent., 1517. 



Ache. 



"Drowning the Miller"" (2°* S. vii. 70.) —An 

 old Scotch proverb says, " O'er muckle water 

 drowned the miller." Millers (of water-mills, 

 almost the only kind known in Scotland,) are sup- 

 posed to be always anxious about a supply of 

 watgr, — 



" To them the breath of life." 



But as there may be too much even of a 

 thing, this proverb was intended no doubt to in- 

 culcate moderation on that honest fraternity. 

 The miller was, either actually or poetically, 

 '' drowned in his dam," as " the weaver was hanged 

 in his yarn," and "the devil flew away with the 

 little tailor." And from his unhappy fate it has 

 become a custom, whenever too much water is 

 applied, to quote or allude to the above proverb. 



J. P. O. 



Dryden (2"^ S. vii. 233. 301.)— In the first edition 

 of the Rival Ladies, printed by W. W. for Henry 

 Heringman, 1664, and in the edition printed by 

 T. W. for H. Herringman, 1693, the author's 

 name is spelt John Driden. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



Pot-galley (2"'^ S. vii. ;3l7.) — The apparatus 

 called a pot-galley, consisting of a long pole placed 

 in the top of a post, and used by market-gardeners, 

 &c. for drawing water, was in old Ger. called 

 brunn-galgen, to which pot-galley exactly cor- 

 responds. For Brunn is a well ; and so, in this 

 connexion, is pot, which answers to the Ij. puteua, 

 the Med.-L. putta^ the A.-S. pyt, pytt, the old 

 Eng. and Du. put, the Fr. puits, and the Romance 

 potz, pouiz, all which signify a well. 



Oalgen, in old Ger., (Wachter) was not only 

 " furca patibularis," a gallows, but " furca pute- 

 alis ; " i. e., the very apparatus for drawing water 

 of which we are now speaking ; " cum furca pu- 

 tealis nihil aliud sit quam arbor supra puteum sm- 

 pensa, unde amphora vicissim suspenditur." This 

 " arbor supra puteum suspensa " was also called 

 the "jugitm pvtei" the balance, pole, or cross- 

 beam of the well. 



To galgen also corresponded the old " barba- 

 rous " term galgo ; only that galgo sometimes 

 signified the prop or upright which supported the 

 cross-beam, not the cross-beam itself. (Du Cange 

 and Henschel on putiatorium). 



Traces of this meaning of galgen, galgo, as 

 something that is suspended, or something that 

 suspends, we find not only in pot-galley, the term 

 now under consideration, but in gallaces, braces, 

 suspenders, and in galley -hauk, a beam in a chimney 

 on which pot-hooks hang (Halliwell). 



Pot-galley, then, is only an English form of the 

 o\A Gerva&n hrunn-galgen. The A.-S. terms cor- 

 responding to pot-galley would be pyt and galga. 



Pot, pott, is in Sc. a pool, pond, or pit. It is 

 remarkable that in Sc. we find a phrase which, 

 though somewhat different in meaning, verbally 

 corresponds with brunn-galgen and pot-galley. 

 " Pit and gallows," or " pot and gallows" (Jamie- 

 son), was the old privilege of a baron to have on 

 his ground a pit for drowning women (!), and a 

 gallows for hanging men, convicted of theft. This 

 privilege was called '■'■furca et fossa," translated-, 

 in old Scottish deeds, furc and fos. Here the 

 furca is no longer " putealis," but " patibularis ; " 

 except that perhaps the furc was not far from the 

 fos. Thomas Boys. 



University Hoods (2"'^ S. vii. 75.) — Not seeing 

 any reply to the .question of Mr. John Ribton 

 Garstin as to the hoods worn for degrees con- 

 ferred by the Archbishops of Canterbury and Ar- 

 magh, I have the pleasure of Informing him that 

 persons receiving such degrees wear, by courtesy, 

 the hood of the Archbishop's University, accord- 

 ing to the degree. S. S. 



Br. John Leyden (2"* S. vii. 236.) — Permit me to 

 remind those who purpose paying a tribute to the 

 memory of Leyden, that his poems, exquisitely 

 beautiful as they are, are little known at the pre- 

 sent day : the only collected edition (by the Rev. 



