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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 57., Jan. 31. '57. 



to be the first, I send you the following extract, 

 which seems to have been overlooked. It is taken 

 fromWmgsEphemerisfor Thirty Fears, London, 

 lB69, in my possession, and follows as an adver- 

 tisement immediately after the dedication : 



" Cocker's Conipleat Arithmetician, which hath been nine 



years his Studie and Practice. The Piece bo long 



and so much expected. 

 Hodder's Vulgar Arithmetick made easie. 

 Decimal Arithmetick. 



Of both which there have been several Impressions. 

 Cocker's several Copie-books. 

 Daniel's Copie book, containing 77 Plates. 

 Gery's Copie-book, containing fourty Plates. 

 Sea-Plates. 



Dr. Turner's Conipleat Bone- Setter enlarged. 

 His Dentifrices to cure the Tooth- ach, cleanse the 



Teeth, and sweeten the Breath. 

 Buckworth's Lozanges. 

 All sold by Thomas Rooks, at the entrance into the 



Exchange from Bishops-gate-street." 



The above appears to make it very clear that 

 an edition was published at least as early as 1669. 



J, C. WiTTON. 



Bath. 



- Hatchis (2""^ S. iii. 30.) — I do not think that 

 Eremite's question can be more satisfactorily an- 

 swered than by the foUowino; extract from our 

 great authority on " Materia Medica " : 



" Cannabina, KdwaPi^, hemp, C Indica, chnrrus ; gun ■ 

 jah ; bang, subjee or sidhee ; majoon hashisch. 

 In India, Caubul, Syria, Northern Africa, and other 

 parts of the world, the cannabina are used for the purpose 

 of intoxication. They are both swallowed and smoked. 



" JVote. — For a very interesting account of the effects 

 of Indian hemp, see Dr. Moreau's work, entitled Du 

 Hachis et de V Alienation Mentale, Etudes Psycholngiques, 

 Paris, 1845 ; reviewed in Forbes' British and Foreign Me- 

 dical Review, vol. xxiii., 1847." — Pereira's 3Iateria Med. 



I have an indistinct recollection of an interest- 

 ing sketch by, I think, Lamartine, describing the 

 peculiar effects of the hemp. G. H. Kinqsley. 



Eremite will find a precise account of this in a 

 Irochure, entitled Hachish, written, I believe, by 

 Lamartine, and publislied some eight years since. 

 The Arabic has hasfiish, " a" species of Euphor- 

 biuni, and hashish, dry herbage, hay or grass, the 

 powder of the leaves of hemp, from which they 

 prepare an inebriating electuary." 



R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Adult Baptisms (2""* S. iii. 29.) — Oxoniensis 

 should have given the dates and places of pub- 

 lication of the editions of Occasional Services 

 which he has examined, and so have furnished 

 a clue towards explaining the omission he com- 

 plains of. It is hardly likely that he would con- 

 tent himself with looking at the title-pages and 

 not examining the body of the works themselves, 

 but in the " Offices " as supplied by the Oxford 

 University press (a.d. 1838), the office in ques- 



tion Is omitted in the list on the title-page, though 

 given at full length (for I have had to use it 

 more than once) in the book itself I have done 

 occasional duty in a great number of churches, 

 and this, or a precisely similar " book of offices," 

 has been always the one forthcoming. 



J. Eastwood. 

 Eckington. 



Time of Year when our Saviour tvas Born (2""^ 

 S. iii. 37.) — The following extract from Alford's 

 Greek Testament, as it no doubt rests on good au- 

 thority, may give some clue to the inquiries as to 

 the temperature at that epoch. He says the Magi 

 were addicted to astronomy, and astronomical 

 calculations prove that a remarkable conjunction 

 of planets took place just before our Saviour's 

 birth, a.u.c. 747, May 20th, there was a con- 

 junction of Jupiter and Saturn in 20° of Pisces, 

 close to the first point of Aries (the part in which 

 the signs, according to the astrologers, denoted 

 glorious and mighty events). On the 27th Oct., 

 another conjunction of the same occurred in 

 16° of Pisces, and on Nov. 12. a third, in 15° 

 of the same sign. On the two last occasions the 

 planets would be so near as to appear as one star 

 of surpassing brightness. Supposing the Magi to 

 have seen the first of these conjunctions, they saw 

 it actually m the east, for on the 20th May it 

 would rise shortly before the sun. If they then 

 took their journey, and arrived at Jerusalem in a 

 little more than five months (the journey of Ezra 

 from Babylon took four), and if they performed 

 the journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem (re- 

 maining in Jerusalem to inquire of the Sanhe- 

 drim from the October to the November conjunc- 

 tion) in the evening as is implied, the November 

 conjunction in 15° of Pisces would be before them 

 in the direction of Bethlehem, coming to the me- 

 ridian about 8 o'clock p.m. It would be very in- 

 teresting to know more of this curious calculation, 

 which would thus make the nativity to have oc- 

 curred about the 1st of November, reckoning the 

 same interval as between our Christmas Day and 

 Epiphany. E. S. Taylor. 



Pretender Ticket (2"^ S. ill. 30.) — An engrav- 

 ing of this, with notices of the persons wliose 

 names it bears, by Richard Almack, may be found 

 in the Gent. Mag. for January, 1828, vol. xcviii. 

 part i. ' E. S. Taylor. 



" Wagessum" (2'"> S. ii. 509.) —With little hope 

 of throwing light on what has left Sir P. Wood in 

 the dark, I venture to throw out for consideration 

 whether this obsolete word be not some Inflection 

 of the Saxon WcBg-es, a wave (or waves, plur), 

 and that the grant of wagessum may refer to some 

 limit washed by the waves, or to "high water 

 mark." The space between high and low water- 

 mark is, I believe, held to belong to the crown, 



