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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. No 59., Feb. 14. '57. 



The engine works three times as long as the horse : 

 hence, to do the same work in a day as an engine of one 

 horse-power, 4*5 horses would be required : (33,000 x 3 

 = 99,000; 99,000-7-22,000=4-5). The power of a man 

 may be estimated at l-5th of the real power of a horse, 

 or, 4400 lbs. raised one foot per minute." — The Steam- 

 Engine, Edin. 1838, p. 197.] 



Who was St. Anyan ? — The township of Gland- 

 ford Brigg is supplied with water from St. Anyan's 

 spring, in Wrawby township. Who was St. An- 

 yan ? I find no mention of this saint In any of 

 my books of reference. I have not Butler nor 

 Bolland at hand. J. Sansom. 



[St. Anian, in French Agnan, was Bishop of Orleans, 

 and died a.d. 453. He is commemorated on Nov. 17th. 

 See Butler's Lives, under that date.] 



'■'■ Fancernes." — I should be glad to have an 

 explanation of the word " pancernes," In the sub- 

 joined passage. Speaking of the Polish army, the 

 historian says : 



" Les gendarmes, surtout, que Ton distingue en hous- 

 sards et pancernes." — Histoire de Charles XII., par M. 

 de Voltaire, ed. par M. Catty, p. 48., Dulau & Co, 1852. 



F. S. 



[The Panceres, Pantzernen, or Panzernen, or Pantzer- 

 Reuter; in Polish Pancerznicy or Korazwy; in Latin, 

 Equites levis armaturm loricatt, were a body of light 

 c.nvalrv in the Polish army, strictly called cuirassiers. 

 They wore on the head a strong brass or iron helmet, 

 whioh descended almost to their shoulders, and carried 

 a sabre, bow and arrows, and sometimes muskets, or at 

 least pistols. (See Zedler, Universal Lexicon.') Accord- 

 ing to Du Cange, it was a military cloak worn over the 

 breast-plate: " Sagum militare, quod paticericB seu loricffi 

 superinduebatur." In voce Panceronus.l 



Emblems Illustrated. — Can any one refer me 

 to an illustrated bonk of emblems ? I am well ac- 

 quainted with Dr. Husenbetli's valuable work, but 

 I want to see the emblems portrayed. A. S. 



[The early Christian and Medieval Sj'mbols and Em- 

 blems with illustrations will be found in The Calendar of 

 the Anglican Church Illustrated, published by J. H. Parker, 

 1851.] 



HERBERT S 



laepltjrf. 



JACUL.4. PRUDENTUM : ' 

 LIFE." 



(2"^ S. ii. 88.) 



The Middle Hill MS. (9527 C. art. 8., D. art. 3.) 

 does not contain the "outlandish proverbs" at 

 large, but merely a list of " Books and MSS. be- 

 longing to [Ferrar's godson] Mr. John Maplctoft." 

 In 1735, as I suppose, these MSS. were at Mr, 

 Bunhury's of Great Catworth, where J. J. (whom 

 I now know to have been John Jones of Welwyn 

 [see Peckard's Preface, and Nichols' Lit. Anecd., 

 i. 638.]) appears to have seen them. He commu- 

 nicated an account of them to Peck. (See Lives of 

 Nicholas Ferrar, Append., pp. 289 n., 300—303.) 



Now we know from Mrs, Collett's letter to her 

 son Edward (Ibid., 313 n.) the high esteem in 

 which Herbert's works were held at (ridding ; and 

 from Gidding Dr, John Mapletoft (afterwards the 

 Gresham Professor) must have derived his two 

 MS. collections of proverbs, one of which we 

 know from Jones's catalogue professed to be a 

 work of Herbert's. The arguments brought for- 

 ward by Me. Yeowell do not appear sufficient to 

 shake the concurrent testimony of this Giddinjj 

 MS., and of the title-pages of the first and second 

 editions. For, 1. That the number of proverbs is 

 greater In the second edition than in the first may 

 be accounted for by supposing that the book was 

 circulated (as indeed we know that It was) in MS. 

 copies, and that the owners of copies considered 

 themselves to be at liberty to add such proverbs 

 as they met with from time to time, 2. The ir- 

 regular paging of the second edition need not 

 make us suspect foul play. Nothing is more 

 common than such Irregularities in books of that 

 century : thus Hickman's Historia Quinq-Articu- 

 laris Exarticulata (Svo., 1673, a curious book) 

 runs on from 46. to 353. 3. Perhaps the " Prayers 

 before and after Sermon" were Intended for pri- 

 vate use. Or if not, I see nothing in The Country 

 Parson, or elsewhere, to prove that Herbert would 

 scruple to use prayers of his own composition 

 before and after sermon, and these prayers seem 

 to be altogether In his tone. 4. Not even does 

 Walton, much less do Oley or Peck<ird, profess to 

 give a complete account of Herbert's works. 

 5. The erasure of the initials G. H. in the Bod- 

 leian copy is the only argument for Mr. Yeo- 

 well's view which seems to me to be of weight. 

 Perhaps other MS. notes may be found, which 

 may help to clear up the difficulty. 



From Herbert to Ferrar is but a step. Since I 

 printed Jebb's Life of Ferrar, I have learnt that 

 the "Dr. Jebb" whose name it bears was the 

 well-known editor of Aristides, who was connected 

 with the Cotton family. I have also obtained 

 access to The Christians Magazine, or a Treasury 

 of Divine Knowledge, vol. ii., 1761, London, J. 

 Newbery and J. Coote, in which several poems 

 (chiefly translations) of Bishop Turner's are 

 printed, and at p. 356. seq. his life of Ferrar. It 

 is badly edited, some passages being curtailed, and 

 some expressions altered for others of a newer 

 mint ; but enough is left to make it abundantly 

 plain that Dr. Jebb merely retouched Turner's 

 life. The two copies, however, supply one an- 

 other's omissions, and may together enable us to 

 reconstruct the original with some degree of pro- 

 bability. But I will not abandon the hope that 

 John Ferrar's MS., or at least Peck's transcript of 

 it, may yet be discovered, and make useless, all the 

 tasteless compilations which have rather obscured 

 than illustrated the history of the Gidding family. 

 Peckard tells us that most of Peck's papers passed 



