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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. VII. Juke 25. '59. 



grams, together with a few Characters, called Par Pari, 

 or Like to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier (by J. 

 Heath;, 16mo. 1619." 



I copy tbe above from the Sale Catalogue of 

 the late Dr. Bliss's Library. Belater-Adime. 



Chandos Place, sometime the Abbot of Reading's. 

 —Serjeant Fleetwood, Recorder of London, in 

 one of his numerous letters to Lord Burlegb, 

 dated 12lh July, 1578, says : — 



"I went to Sir Warram St. Leger, his house is called 

 Chandos Place, somtyme it was the Abbot of Reding's. 

 The lodging is very faire inwards. I knokked very hard 

 but no man wold speake, and onles I shuld have broken 

 down the gate, I cold not gett in ; wherefore I depted 

 w'thout any suspicons, and went to the water, where I 

 gatt a Skuller, and then 1 perv'sed the waterside to se 

 light in the house, but there appered none ; for it was 

 told me yt all were in bedd. Wherupon I skulled over 

 to Paris Garden." 



From this it would seem that Chandos Place 

 was at the waterside, on the City shore of the 

 River Thames, and nearly opposite to Paris Gar- 

 den. Where was it ? Was it the same house that 

 is referred to by John Stow in the following pas- 

 sage from his Survey of London? (Queenhithe 

 Ward, p. 135. of Mr. Thoms's edition) : — 



" There is one great messuage, some time belonging 

 to the Abbots of 'Chertsey' in Surrey, and was their 

 Inn, wherein they were lodged when they repaired to the 

 Citie: it is now called 'Sandie House,' by what reason I 

 have not heard: I think the Lord Sands have been 

 lodged there." 



If it was the same house, which is right in its 

 name, Stow or Fleetwood ? And did it belong to 

 tbe Abbot of Reading, or to the Abbot of Chert- 



sey ; 



Geo. R. Coenbb. 



Sir James Adolphus (?) Oughton. — This gentle- 

 man was commander-in-chief in Scotland during 

 last century. Who was he, and whom did he 

 marry ? Sigma Theta. 



Coffins. — In what manner were the ancient 

 Hebrews buried ? The first mention of a coffin 

 that I find is in the last verse of the last chapter of 

 Genesis, where it is stated that Joseph died at 

 110 years of age, " and, being embalmed, he was 

 laid in a coffin in Egypt." Is the coffin, there- 

 fore, of Egyptian origin ? We have no mention 

 of coffins being used by the ancient Hebrews, 

 although we have accounts of their " burying." 

 Were the coffins of Egypt stone or wood ? 



S.Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Sir Richard Chiverton, Lord Mayor of London. 

 — I am desirous of obtAinIng some information 

 concerning the life and mayoralty of Sir Richard 

 Chiverton, Lord Mayor of London in 1657-58. 

 He was a liveryman of the Skinners' Company, 

 by whom the cost of the pageant was defrayed. 

 "He lived long, and was styled the Father of the 



City." I think it very probable that for many 

 years he was an inhabitant of Clerkenwell, as the 

 name of Sir Richard Chiverton occurs on the rate- 

 books of this parish in 1667-68, also in 1675. In 

 1677 he was residing on Clerkenwell Green, 

 where he paid 451. a-year rent for his mansion. 

 This year his wife died, and the old register of 

 burials in St. James's, Clerkenwell, records that 

 in " 1677, July 31, Sir Richard Chevertone's 

 lady was buried in the Chancel." Granger notes 

 that there is a portrait of Sir Richard Chiverton 

 extant, in which he is represented sitting in an 

 elbow chair. In « N. & Q." P' S. i. 180., the 

 name is incorrectly spelt Cliverton. W. J. Pinks. 



Catalogue of Lords who have compounded.— ~ 

 Some years since I saw the following note on the 

 margin of a pedigree : — 



" In the possession of [the late] Sir Thomas Gory 

 CuUum was a book entitled ' A Catalogue of the Lords, 

 Knights, and Gentlemen who have compounded for their 

 Estates.' " 



Has that Catalogue been printed, or is it 

 generally known ? Y. S. M. 



[This Catalogue was published in 1655 : " London : 

 Printed for Thomas Dring at the signe of the George ia 

 Fieetstreefneare Clifford's Inne." l'2mo. pp. 140. Another 

 edition, enlarged, Chester, 1733, 8vo. See " K & Q." 1" 

 S. iv. 406. 490 ; v. 68. 646.] 



Lateen Sails. — Will any of your readers be 

 kind enough to give the etymology of this word 

 lateen? It is the well-known triangular sail so 

 frequently meeting the eye in the Levant. 



CURIOSUS. 



[The origin of the word lateen has not yet been decided 

 by etj-mologists, and there are many competing deriva- 

 tions. Some Italian writers seem disposed to view the 

 lateen sail, without reference to shape, as simply that 

 which belongs to a bastimento latino, galley, &c. If a 

 Greek derivation is preferred, the Italian bastimento 

 latino may have been originally bastimento elatino, a 

 pine-built ship, from eAani'os, made "of pine (cf. io-Toi/ 

 eikari-vov, Hom.) Du Cange, also, regards latena as the 

 name of a species of skip, and cites " tres naves, quas 

 Latenas vocant." But Jal, who is a high authority in 

 all questions of nautical nomenclature, strenuously main- 

 tains that the Italian phrase vela latina (lateen sail) is a 

 contraction of vela " a la trvna,'" by which he understands 

 voile " a trois angles " (triangular) ; citing, in confirma- 

 tion, the old name of Sicily, TVinacria, so called from its 

 triangular form. Again, in some parts of Germany, 

 latten-fischerey is rod-fishing or angling ; and, as the long 

 yard of a lateen sail has very much the form and ap- 

 pearance of a fishing-rod, we might suppose vela latina, 

 or lateen sail, to have been originally equivalent to 

 latten-segel, that is, the kind of sail which is attached to 

 yards or rods of the shape in question. At present we 

 incline to the view first mentioned, which refers the 

 lateen sail, vela la'tina, to the lateen ship, bastimento 

 latino, galley, &c. It may be objected, indeed, that this 

 derivation leaves us where it found us. But; it should 



