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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<iS. N<>63., Mar. 14. '57. 



Sunbeam passing unpolluted through Pollution 

 (2»'i S. i. 114. 304. 44-2. 502.) — None of your cor- 

 respondents, I think, have noticed a remarkable 

 passa<i;e in Eusebius on this point, which is quoted 

 by Bishop Pearson, and is thus introduced by him 

 while treating of our Saviour's Passion, the sub- 

 ject of the Fourth Article of the Creed : 



" Far be it from us to think that the Deity, which is 

 Immutable, could suffer ; Which only hath Immortality, 

 could die. The conjunction with Humanity could put no 

 imperfection upon the Divinity'; nor can that Infinite 

 Nature, by any external acquisition, be any way changed 

 in Its intrinsical and essential perfections. If the bright 

 rays of the Sun are thought to insinuate into the most noi- 

 some bodies without any pollution of themselves, liow can 

 that Spiritual Essence contract the least infirmity bj' any 

 union with humanity? 



" Os ovS' TfKiaKOv c^wTos iraBoUv Tt aKTii/ey to. navra TrXrjpow- 

 <rat, KaX trMfiaTiov veiepiov Kal ov KaBapwv i<j>aiTT6nevai,' noKii 

 ■nXiov 7) aa-uifiaTOi tow @eov Svvaixis out' av nddoirrfv oixrCav 

 our' av /3A.a/3eiT) <rw(xaTos aCTiojiiaTws «n'a(f w/ieVij." — Euscb. De- 

 mon, Evang. 1. iv. c. 13. 



ElEIONNACH. 



The Sin of Gehazi (2"^ S. iii. 169.) — Perhaps 

 the following, from Thomas Aquinas (2*. qusest. 

 C, art. 1.), may be sufficient for the satisfaction 

 of your correspondent Mr. Eastwood : 



•'Ad quartum dicendum, quod Simon Magus ad hoc 

 emere voluit potestatem spiritualem, ut earn postea ven- 



deret Et sic illi, qui spiritualia vendunt, confor- 



mantur Simoni Mago in intentions : in actu vero illi qui 

 emere volunt. Illi autem qui vendunt in actu imitantur 

 Gehazi, discipulum Helisa3i, de quo legitur, 4 Rfg. V., 

 quod accepit pecuniam a leproso mundato; xxnde vendi- 

 tores spiritualium possunt dici non solum Symoniaci, sed 

 etiam Giezitce." 



J. Sansom. 



_ Vauxhall (2"^ S. iii. 120. 177.) — Mr. Foss, in 

 his account of Faukes de Breaute (Judges of 

 England, vol. ii. p. 256.), after stating that King 

 John, in reward for his services, gave him in mar- 

 riage Margaret, the widow of Baldwin de Ripariis, 

 Earl of Albemarle, with the wardship of her son, 

 Earl Baldwin, and the custody of his lands, pro- 

 ceeds thus : 



" Part of these were in South Lambeth, where he built 

 a hall or mansion-house, which was called by his name, 

 and is termed Faukeshall, or ' La Salle Fawkes,' in 10 Ed- 

 ward I. It is mentioned in the charter of Isabella de 

 Fortibus, Countess of Albemarle and Devon, and Lady of 

 the Isle of Wight, dated in 1293, by which she sold her 

 possessions to King Edward I." 



Both Mr. Foss and Mr. Cunningham quote the 

 ArchcBological Journal, vol. iv. p. 275., as their 

 authority ; and Mr. Cunningham adds, from 

 Lysons, vol. i. p. 321., the several grants of the 

 manor by the two succeeding kings, and how it 

 came again into the possession of Edward III. 



In the charter, dated August 4, 1363, by which 

 Edward the Black Prince, by permission of his 

 father, gave this property to the church of Can- 

 terbury, to found a chantry where two priests 

 were to pray for his soul (which is copied in the 



Rev. Canon Stanley's Historical Memorials of 

 Canterbury, pp. 128 — 131.), it is described " ma- 

 nerium nostrum de Faukeshalle juxta London." 

 The estate is still held by the dean and chapter of 

 the cathedral. 



Mr. Booker may therefore be satisfied that It 

 did not take its name from any family living in 

 the reign of James I. D. S. 



Portraits of Bishops (2°'* S. Hi. 148.)— I should 

 recommend to An Ecclesiastic the works of 

 Britton on several of the Cathedrals ; Granger's 

 Dictionary; Cassan's Lives of the Bishops ofSarum, 

 Winton, and Bath and Wells ; Skelton's Oxoniu 

 Illustrata. He will find it more difficult to ascer- 

 tain the birthplaces of bishops than to discover 

 their portraits. Evans in the Strand has a very 

 complete set. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Anonymous Portraits (2"'^ S. iii. 170.) — The 

 portraits your correspondent has are : 



No. 1., that of Paul Scarron ; see it in his 

 Whole Comical Works, translated by Mr. Thomas 

 Brown, &c., 8vo , 1700. 



No. 2., that of Joshua Sylvester, to be found in 

 the Diuine Weekes and Workes of Du Bartas, 

 translated by him, folio, 1641, with Vicar's lines ; 

 Corn. V. Dalen, Sculp. J. O. 



A Railway Query (2"^^ S. iii. 111. 176.) — G.J. 

 C. D. is a very awkward laughing-stock for J. L. 

 C. or C. A., or any other smatterer of dynamical 

 science. He can afford to let them laugh to their 

 heart's content, for he Is perfectly right in his 

 mechanics, as they are entirely wrong. It is de- 

 monstrable that a train running from the North 

 Pole southward, or from the South Pole north- 

 ward, at usual railway speed, would be very soon 

 off the rails. The only reason why no allowance 

 Is made by constructors of railways for the lateral 

 pressure caused by the earth's diurnal rotation, as 

 properly pointed out by G. J. C. D., is that where 

 railways at present exist that pressure Is very 

 small compared with the oscillations of the train 

 due to other causes. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



''Blindman's Holiday" (2"'^ S. HI. 137.)— There 

 is really nothing occult in " blindman's holiday," 

 If people could but be persuaded of it. When It 

 is too dark to continue one's daylight occupation, 

 and not dark enough to justify candles, we lay 

 aside the book, or pen, or brush, or needle, saying 

 "It Is blindman's holiday;" in other words, "I 

 must now be Idle because I cannot see to work." 

 But the chatty, pleasant, little Interval of twilight 

 which follows surely bears no resemblance to the 

 utter darkness of blindman's all day. The holi- 

 day, too, it must be remembered, ceases as soon as 

 it is really dark enough to have the candles in. 



P. P. 



