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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>'i S. VII. May 21. '59. 



was also specially, in old French, the hank or har- 

 der of a pit or moat : " Sur le bord de la fosse," 

 Cotgrave ; " Le bord est comma un digue qui 

 contient I'eau," Landais. In this latter and more 

 modern authority we have both the terms of which 

 Bordyke appears* to consist, hord, and digue or 

 dyke. 



Since the early part of the present century the 

 town of Tunbridge has been greatly enlarged and 

 improved ; and when I paid a flying visit to the old 

 school in 1850 time would not allow of my ascer- 

 taining what traces of the moat had survived re- 

 cent changes. But the willow-bed was there. 



Hasted states that the outermost moat had a 

 draiobridge over it at the N. end of the town. 

 This was probably at the spot where, as I have 

 indicated, the moat crossed at the top of the main 

 street. The street, as I remember it, narrowed at 

 its upper end ; the opposite houses had there far 

 less breadth of roadway between them than lower 

 down. This contraction of a street or roadway is 

 no unusual indication of the spot where once was 

 the entrance of a mediaeval stronghold. 



Thomas Bots. 



"An Ould Facioned Love" (2"'^ S. vii. 375.) — 

 Malone wrote on the fly-leaf of his copy of this 

 book, " This is not a translation o'f AmyntcB Oau- 

 dia; and Watson's Amyntce Gaudia is not a trans- 

 lation of Tasso's Amintasy The same writer 

 attributed the authorship of this poem to John 

 Trussell, who has some commendatory verses pre- 

 fixed to Robert Southwell's Triumph over Death, 

 1595. Edward F. IIimbault. 



Spelling of the Name Dryden (2"'' S. vii. 233. 

 301. 384.) — In the burial certificate of Sir John 

 Phillipps, the first baronet of Ficton Castle, which 

 is preserved in the College of Arms, it is stated 

 that " Sir Richard Phillipps his sonne and heire, 

 now Barronet, married Elizabeth, Da', of Sir 

 Erasmus Drayii^en, of Cannons Ashby, in y^ county 

 of Northampton, K'. and Barronet." Lady Phil- 

 lipps was aunt to the illustrious poet. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Pedigree of our Saviour (2°^ S. vii. 377.) —The 

 best modern commentators, following all antiquity, 

 and in later times Patritius, De Evangel, have 

 decided that both S. Matthew and S. Luke trace 

 the genealogy of our Saviour through Joseph : 

 the former giving his pedigree by royal succes- 

 sion, the latter by direct personal descent. S. 

 Matthew desired to show that Christ was King of 

 the Jews : he therefore traces his descent from 

 those who were by right, though not all in fact, 

 Kings of David's line. S. Luke intended to ex- 

 hibit our Lord as the Son of Man, the promised 

 seed of the woman, and accordingly furnishes us 

 with his natural and personal pedigree up to 

 David, and thence to the first man, Adam. And 



if it be asked what has Joseph's genealogy to do 

 with Christ, seeing that he was not Joseph's na- 

 tural son, the answer is obvious. In the first 

 place, he was Joseph's son by law, and from him 

 inherited legally all his supposed father's rights. 

 And, secondly, Joseph being "a just man," mar- 

 ried, according to law, his nearest of kin — so that 

 his and Mary's ancestors were in fact the same. 

 The difficulty respecting Jacob and Heli is met 

 by the supposition that these were brothers ; and 

 that, on the death of one of them without issue, 

 the survivor married the widow, and Joseph, the 

 son, was called indifferently son of Jacob and son 

 of Heli. See Wordsworth's G7'eek Test., S. 

 Matthew, i. 1. W. J. D. 



Dr. Wolcott {Peter Pindar') (2"'* S. vii. 280.) — 

 Although the Query relating to Dr. Wolcott refers 

 only to his artistic performances, the following 

 brief notice of his boyish days may not be altoge- 

 ther without interest to some of your readers. 

 Edward Long, the historian of Jamaica, a native 

 of Cornwall, thus speaks of him in a MS. memoir 

 of his (E. L.'s) early life. After alluding to the 

 kind disposition of Mr. Wolcott, the family me- 

 dical attendant, a bachelor, and living with an 

 elder sister of the name of Roberts at Fowey, he 

 mentions that 



"There came an aunt of the doctor, from Biddeford I 

 think, and brought with her a clumsy but arch-looking 

 boy, since his age of manhood well known by the name 

 of Peter Pindar. He, at this early period, showed a de- 

 gree of quickness in repartee and sarcastic jokes, which 

 was the first dawning of that satiric humour he after- 

 wards displayed. As he was removed to Liskeard we 

 soon became schoolfellows. I do not recollect that he 

 was remarkable there for anything so much as negligence 

 of his dress and person." 



C. E. L. 



Hatchis, or Hachich (2"'^ S. iii. 96.) — M. De 

 Lamartine wrote no book on that subject. Only 

 his name was most daringly appended to the 

 English translation of Dr. Lallemant's excellent 

 and fanciful, though very serious and scientific 

 work on Indian hemp {Hashisch) and its effects ; 

 a very well-written and suggestive book, rather 

 in the style of your own Opium-eater's studies, 

 vagaries, and exquisite fancies, 



Philakete Chasles, Mazarinseus. 

 Ma}' 6, Palace of the Institute, Paris. 



Impression of Seal (2°^ S. vii. 85.) — The 

 Italian jewellers do this by holding a card over 

 the flame of a taper, and placing the end of the 

 stick of sealing-wax on the top of the card till a 

 sufficient quantity is melted off to form the seal. 

 By this means the wax is not inflamed, and is free 

 from the blacks which will arise more or less in 

 combustion, or by contact with the flame of a 

 candle. The card is slowly moved about so as 

 not to catch fire, and is then split, and the l;lack- 

 ened part thrown away. A. A. 



