2''d S. VII. June 11. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



485 



Cant Words (2'"» S. vii. 217. 283.) ; Knights of 

 the Short Sword. — • 

 " Et I'autre chevalier de la petite esp^e." * 

 Dolon. — 



" Dolon seu Dolo, baculus inclusum tegens eusem 

 vel pugionem ; cujusmodi baculis monachi perigrinantes 

 quondam utebantur. Ein Stab darin eine klinge, eine 

 heimlkhe wehr, stilet, dolch. Plutarchus in Gracchis 

 \ri<TTpiKov fi<^iStoi' appellat. Sueton. Claud, xiii. Eeperti 

 et equestris ordinis duo in publico, cum dolone et vena- 

 torio cultro prcestolantes. — Fabri, Thesaurus Eruditioms 

 Scholaslica, Lipsiaj, 1710. 



" Pila manu, ssevosque gerunt in bella dolones." 



Virg. JEn. vii. 6G4. 

 Which Vondel translates : — 

 " Zy voeren scbichten, en bun palsters in de hant, 

 En steecken met een scbacht, gelijck Sabynen dragen, 

 Met een langwerpigh en ront yser voor beslagen." 

 " Tabernarius in semita noctu supra lapidem lucernam 

 posuerat ; quidem pra;teriens sustulerat ; tabernarius eum 

 consecutus lucernam reposcebat, et fugientem retinebat; 

 ille llagello, quod in manu habebat, in quo dolor inerat, 

 verberare tabernarium cceperit ut se mitteret, &c. — ff. ix. 

 iii. 52. 



FlTZHOPKINS. 



Garrick Club. 



Vale of Red Horse (2°* S. vii. 28.) — Shortly 

 after the inquiry of your correspondent Cabal- 

 LARius respecting the above ingenious delineation 

 of a horse in the turf by the side of a hill, near 

 Tysoe, Warwickshire, I happened to observe in. an 

 old and obsolete Gazetteer the following solution of 

 tho point in question. Still I hesitated to com- 

 municate it, thinking perhaps a more modern ex- 

 planation might have been offered to you : — ■ 



" A tract of land is so called from the figure of a horse 

 cut by the 'Side of a hill, near Tj'soe, out of red-coloured 

 earth ; the trenches that form it being cleansed and kept 

 open by a neighbouring freeholder, who enjoys divers 

 lands by that service." 



The same work also, speaking of the white horse 

 at Cherhill near Calne, says it occupies nearly an 

 acre of ground, and was, it is supposed, made by 

 the Saxons, whose device is a white horse. 



I should not trouble you on this occasion, but 

 that I feel how incumbent it is upon readers of 

 your valuable miscellany to contribute, even in so 

 slight a degree, to the purpose of answering in 

 general all your queries. Sigma. 



Hearing unth the Teeth (2"^ S. vii. 258.) — It 

 is a well-known practice with engineers, when 

 they suspect a leakage or other mischief inside the 

 cylinder of a steam-engine, to take some small 

 piece of iron between the teeth, and pressing it 



" * Un filou, un coupeur de bourse, parco que les filoux 

 se servent de couteaux pour couper les bourses. Oudin, 

 dans son Dictionnaire, au mot Ep^e, dit : Compagnon, es- 

 tafier, officier de la courte espee, It. Taglia-horsa. Le meme 

 Oudin dans son Dictionnaire fran9ois-espanol, et dans ses 

 Curiosites fran^oises, aux mots Espee et Gentilhomme, 

 marque* en termes exprfes que c'est un proverbe vulgaire." 

 — Reffnier, Sat. X. p.. 130, ed. Paris, 1854. 



firmly against the outside of the cylinder, stop 

 the ears with the hands, when all that passes in- 

 side the cylinder becomes distinctly audible. 



N. J. A. 

 Coglan's '■'Art of Memory'' (2"^ S. vii. 442.)— 

 The communication of your correspondent W. B. 

 S. refers evidently to the same person, whose lec- 

 tures I recollected better than his name. It was 

 no doubt, Coglan, My only object in this addi- 

 tional Note, is to mention that he must have pub- 

 lished his system soon after I heard his lectures. 

 For, very recently, I saw the following in the list 

 of a London dealer in old books : 



" Coglan (T.) System of Mnemonics, 8vo., half calf, 

 , Is. 1813." ' 



I immediately wrote for it ; but, as usual, the 

 answer was that it was sold. F. C. H. 



Form of the Old Divisions of Land (2°* S. vii. 

 373.) — Our forefathers doubtless took a hint from 

 the meandering tendency of natural watercourses, 

 and gave their furrows and ditches that curvi- 

 linear form which added so greatly to their effi" 

 oiency for purposes of drainage. Straight sur- 

 face-drains were more liable to be obstructed, 

 especially in heavy rains. The form of the drains 

 determined that of the selions, furlongs, &c., which 

 they bounded. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



Persecution in the Cevennes under Louis XIV. 

 (2"'i S. vii. 395.) — T. J. A., in addition to Col. 

 Cavallier's Memoirs of the Wars of the Cevennes^ 

 will find much curious information in a ti'act en- 

 titled — 



" A wonderful Account from Orthez, in Bearnes and 

 the Cevennes, of Voices heard in the Air, Singing the 

 Praises of God, in the words and tunes of the Psalms 

 used by those of the Keformed Religion, at the time of 

 their cruel and inhuman Persecution by the French King, 

 credibly attested by Juriou and other Ministers, 8vo. 

 London, by Preston, 1706." 



George Offor. 



Sir William Weston (2"'^ S. vii. 317. 405.) — I 

 am obliged to Mr. Thompson for his communica- 

 tion, but if he will refer again to my Query he 

 will see that the Sir AYilliam Weston of whom I 

 inquired was buried at Callow-Weston, Gilling- 

 ham, CO. Dorset, where his family had been seated 

 for many generations. His monumental inscription 

 is given in Hutchins' Dorset, but no complete his- 

 tory of the family. C. J. Robinson. 



Stochs (2"'^ S. vii. 335.) — In this ancient city I 

 have seen the stocks used, at least on two occa- 

 sions within the last twelvemonths, as a punish- 

 ment for drunkenness. 



They are moveable, and when used are brought 

 out of the town hall, in which they are kept, and 

 placed in the public street in front of that build- 

 ing, with a police officer in attendance. On the 



