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NOTES AND QUElilES. 



[•2'"i S. VII. May 14. '59. 



taking woodcocks described by Sonnini on BufFon 

 (article Becasse) : " Deux fortes perches at- 

 tacliees aux arbres servent a teiidre la pantiere 

 (the net) au moyen de deux anneaux de fer, par 

 Icsquels passent lea deux longs cordeaux qui vont 

 s'accrocher dans uiie espece de loge que Voiseleur 

 sest construite." Sometimes the cocks-hut was 

 merely an arbour made of boughs : " Le chasseur 

 cabane sous une feuillee epaisse .... les attend." 

 (Buffon, same article.) Thomas Boys. 



Enveluppe (Fr.) and Envelope (Eng.) (2"*^ S. iv. 

 195.) — The sound of the final syllable is long and 

 accented in French, short and unaccented in 

 English. We (French) say lup and not lope^ as 

 we pronounce g-^wi (globe), instead of globe. The 

 suppression of one of the ps, in the Anglicised 

 envelope, is indicative of your national long ante- 

 penultieme, substituted to our own national short 

 one. We are ever up, and rarely low ; rarely 

 groping; often hopping. Our women, though 

 sometimes they may be off, never elope. The long 

 5 we express by the double vowel au, not by the 

 single one o. We say homme, exactly as you say 

 chiim ; in our empuumer, the au is expressive of 

 the exact sound ovi in your word own. No less 

 characteristic of the difference between our re- 

 spective idioms (a word, by the bye, we pronounce 

 idiome, but with a circumflex accent [6] pointing 

 to the Greek root idiwua) is the nasal twang of our 

 first syllable in the word enveloppe ; a sound sja' 

 generis, never to be imitated or expressed by ang- 

 velope, nor by oTigveloppe neither : a sound pre- 

 eminently Keltic, perhaps Samskritic in its first 

 origin, and peculiar to our most central, most 

 Keltic, most Druidical provinces, " le Blaisois, le 

 pays Chartrain, VIsle de France." A true Alsa- 

 tian never fails to say dnntrez, for entrez ; and you 

 may be sure a Marseillese or a Toulousine is 

 within doors, whenever you hear a powerful voice 

 hallooing to you, in a sharp tone, inn-trdy I ! 



Philarete Chasles, Mazarinseus. 



Palais de I'Institut, Taris, Avril, 1859. 



Perpetual Curates (2"^ S. vii. 297.) — The best 

 authority that Abhba can refer to for information 

 as to the position of " perpetual curates," is Dr. 

 PhilUmore's edition of Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, 

 article Curate. Mr. Fonblanque talks nonsense 

 when he speaks of an " incumbent" as having " no 

 independent rule," &c. "Incumbent" is a popu- 

 lar generic name applied to all varieties of par- 

 sons having cure of souls, whether rectors, vicars, 

 or perpetual cui'ates. I imagine the only prac- 

 tical difference of position between a perpetual 

 curate and a rector or vicar, is, that he derives 

 his income from other sources 'tlian the great or 

 small tithes of his parish. For which reason also 

 he is obliged to content himself with his spiritual 

 title of " curate," not being entitled to the finan- 

 cial names of honour belonging to his more fa- 



voured brethren. In modern days, the prefix 

 " perpetual" has been added to distinguish him 

 from -the unhappy class referred to by Mr. Fon- 

 blanque in the passage quoted, and Avho are of so 

 " mobile" a character, that they may be " turned 

 off without warning" by their bishop. 



I beg to ask your correspondents when " cu- 

 rates" (the mobile sort) first came into existence ? 



Hii.TON IIenburny. 



Torture (2"'^ S. vii. 359.) — Although not able 

 to refer Mr. Kensington to any works illus- 

 trating the methods of torture employed in Eng- 

 land, yet, with your permission, I may inform him 

 that there are engravings with brief descriptions 

 of " some of the instruments used by the heathen 

 Romans in torturing the martyrs, &c.," in Alban 

 Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. i. ed. 1833. In 

 Limborch's History of the Inquisition, also, may 

 be found much information on the subject, par- 

 ticularly in B. 4. c. 29., vol. ii. pp. 212—226., ed. 

 1732., which also contains — facing p. 222. — an 

 engraving of various methods employed by the 

 successors of St. Dominic. 



Bertrand du Guesclin. 



The Maudeleyne Grace (2°o S. vii. 342.) — I 

 was told about twenty years ago by one of the 

 choristers of Magdalen College, then a boy, that 

 the music at present surig on May-day at 6 o'clock 

 a. m. at the top of Magdalen Tower could be pro- 

 cured at any of the Oxford music shops. lie also 

 told me that a great many people assembled at 

 the base of the tower to hear the music, and that 

 at the end of the performance the chorister boys 

 threw down stale eggs upon them, which had 

 been previously procured for the purpose from 

 the various egg-shops in Oxford ; and that, as 

 soon as the stale egg shower began, the delighted 

 listeners to the musical performance showed their 

 activity by running away. F. A. Carrington. 



George III. (2""^ S. vii. 372.) — In confirmation 

 of the melancholy catastrophe related in my com- 

 munication headed " George III.," I send you the 

 following extract : — 



" Kew Register. — Burial. 



" November 1, 1774. C. H., a native of Hanau, teacher 

 of languages, grew delirious and sliot himself, as set 

 forth in the coroner's warrant, signed by Charles Jemmet. 

 The hamlet buried him decently." 



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Unconsecrated Burial Grounds (2°'' S. vii. 295.) 

 — M. Saward seems to be under the impression 

 that dissenters had not formerly any objection to 

 burial in consecrated ground. In the parish re- 

 gister of Over, near Cambridge, there are several 

 entries of " phanaticks," " Quakers," and others, 

 buried in Mr. So and So's " orchard," " close," or 

 " field." And I have been told by a person living 

 there, that the objection to burial in consecrated 

 ground was so strong, that houses can be pointed 



