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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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adopted by the natives at all, can hardly be deemed one 

 of their corruptions. It is deservedly becoming obsolete, 

 by Hindoo assuming on all late occasions its place." 



In his Grammar, he says : 



" The word Gentoo has puzzled me, and perhaps others, 

 to account for. It may probably be deduced from 

 Hindoo : d, t, we already know, are interchangeable ; and 

 from Hintoo, might not Gentoo, Jintoo be formed by the 

 Portuguese or Dutch ? Since we observe that Jerusalem, 

 jacinth, are also written Hierusalem, hyacinth," &^c. 



Todd {Johnson), quoting Halhed (Code of 

 Oentoo Laws, Pref., p. xxi.), gives a long note on 

 this word. E,. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



A QUERY ABOUT A SNAIL. 



(2"'' S. iii. 11.) 



It gives me peculiar pleasure to " confer a very 

 great favour " on J. O. Halliwell, whose praise 

 is with all antiquaries. I am the fortunate pos- 

 sessor of three different editions of that rare and 

 curious volume, The Shephardes Kalendar. Ca- 

 pitulo xlvij. is " Of an assaute ageinst a Snayle." 

 Only one of these editions has the woodcut. It is 

 a walled city : upon one of the towers is a snail, 

 head out, horns up, and a woman with several 

 armed men attacking it. Under this are the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" \ The Woman speketh with an hardy courage. 



" Go out of this place thou right vgly beast 

 Which of the vynes, the burgenings doth eate 

 And buddes of trees both more and least 

 In dewy mornynges, ageynst the weate 

 Out of this place, or I shall thee sore beate 

 With my distafFe, betwene thy homes twayne 

 That it shall sowne into the Realme of Spayne. 



" The men ofarmes with theyr feai'se countenaunce. 

 " Horrible Snayle lightly thy homes downe lay 

 And from this place, out fast loke that thou ryn 

 Or with our sharpe wepons, wee shall the fray 

 And take the castell that thou Ij'est in 

 We shall the flay, out of thy foule skyn 

 And in a dyshe, with onyons and peper 

 We shall the dresse, and with stronge vyneger. 

 ^ There was neuer yet any Lumbarde 

 That dyd thee eate, in such manar of wyse 

 And breke we shall thy house stronge and harde 

 Wherfore get the hens, by our aduyse 

 Out of this place of so ryche edyfice 

 We thee require, yf it be thy will 

 And let vs haue thys towre that we come tyll. 



" The Snayle speketh. 



"\\ am a beast of right great maruejde 

 Upon my backe, my house reysed I here 

 I am neither fleshe, ne bone to auayle 

 As well as a great oxe, two homes I were 

 If that these armed men, approche me nere 

 I shall them sone vanquishe euery chone 

 But they dare not, for feare of me alone." 



What can all this mean ? The Shepherd's Ka- 

 lendar is one of the most curious compilations of 



our olden literature, — astronomy, philosophy, "The 

 X Commaundes of the Deuyl," what Lazarus 

 saw (while dead) in " the parlies infernals of hell," 

 amply replenished with woodcuts. It was as well 

 known in France, under the title of Le Calendrier 

 des Bergers, and is mentioned in that exceedingly 

 interesting work of M. Nizard, Histoire des Livres 

 Populaire (Paris, 1854), vol. i. p. 146. He gives 

 a very accurate copy of the cut, or probably the 

 old cut itself, with the French poem, and adds : 



" Ceci, je la repete, est pour moi une enigme que je 

 laisse a de plus habiles a deviner." 



There may be some connexion between this 

 battle and the nursery rhyme : 



" Snail, snail, come out of your hole, 

 Or else I'll beat you as black as a coal." 



I hope that Mr. Halliwell, or some of your 

 readers, may be able to solve this enigma. 



George Offor. 



Hackney. 



ARTILLERr. 



(2"'» S. ii. 328. 414.) 



Colleges and parish churches possessed their 

 armouries. At Winchester, in 1458, we find the 

 following entries of interest : 



£ s. d. 

 " For two new guns of iron bought at Lon- 

 don, each having three chambers - - G 8 

 For one staff gun of latten with two cham- 

 bers 14 



For 20 lbs. of gunpowder - - - 20 



For making bands and staples weighing 



lib. for the great gun - - - - 

 To a workman during three daj's cham- 

 bring the great gun - - - -028" 



In 1415 are the following items : 



" For 12 bows bought at London for my 



lord the bishop, &c. &c. - - - 22 8 



For 6 dozen arrows feathered with pea- 

 cocks' and other birds' feathers - - 1 8 2 



For 6 dozen of barbed heads - - - 8 8 



For a silver-gilt bracer weighing 2oz. Iqr. 



with making and gilding - - - 11 G 



For a lace of green silk and a knop of gold 



vrire 004" 



In " Artillery-place " in Westminster, the men 

 of St. Margaret's used to practise at " the Butts " 

 set up by the parish in obedience to Q. Elizabeth's 

 ordinance. John Locke, in 1679, records " shoot- 

 ing with the long bow and stob ball in Tothill- 

 fields," and in the beginning of the last century it 

 was " made use of by those who delight in mili- 

 tary exercises." 



In 1548 the vestry of St. Margaret's paid Mr. 

 Lentall — 



" For making clean 11 pair of harness 9 daggers and 8 

 bills price every harness Is. 4d. — 14s." 



In 1562, the church possessed a streamer of 



