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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. No 71., May 9. '57. 



distance, and of course giving the whole building. It 

 was noticed by my friend that the upper part of the spire 

 was darker than the lower, and he raised this Query, 

 " Whether was it caused by an optical or an atmospheric 

 effect ? " I said optical ; he said atmospheric ; and an ap- 

 peal was made to two or three gentlemen present, one of 

 whom, by the way, was a Cambridge Wrangler, and had 

 I presume made optics his study ; but they all, I think, 

 appeared to side with my friend, that the atmosphere was 

 mainly the cause of the phenomenon. I still maintained 

 my opinion, and mentioned as my authority Sir Charles 

 Bell, who wrote on the subject in one of the Bridge water 

 Treatises, I believe. As well as I can remember. Sir Charles 

 Bell said the effect was caused by a great portion of the 

 retina of the eye being opposed to the light from the sky, 

 and that when the eye is moved to look at particular por- 

 tions of the steeple, the reflected light from the steeple 

 falls upon the retina, where it is exhausted by the direct 

 and more powerful light from the sky. He then went on 

 to say, that if we look at a steeple, and droj) the eye to 

 examine a lower portion of it, the upper part infallibly is 

 darker; and this, while I am writing, I prove to be cor- 

 rect, for I am looking at the spire of St. Michael's Church 

 in this city. [ ?] In fact, from what Sir Charles Bell says, 

 I have always considered it an optical effect, and caused 

 by an exhaustion of the sensibility of the nerve of the 

 eye, and not by contrast. I then urged that I believed a 

 camera, as used by photographers, was a kind of artificial 

 ej-e, and probably would give the same effect, or I should 

 say receive the same, as the natural eye. My friend still 

 held his opinion, that it is an atmospheric effect alone ; 

 and he thought it arose from the atmosphere being more 

 opaque as it gets higher from the earth. Certainly a 

 camera, cannot have the movement of the natural eye, 

 and from Sir Charles Bell's description it appears the ef- 

 fect is partly caused by the eye moving from part to part 

 of the object. Perhaps some able correspondent of " N. 

 & Q.," will throw more light on this interesting subject, 

 and they will much oblige Henri. 



^t]^litS tfl Minav Hhntviti, 



Sir Richard Stapledon (2""* S. HI. 171.) — I am 

 much obliged for the prompt answer to my in- 

 quiry respecting Sir Richard Stapledon in " N. & 

 Q." for 28 Feb, last, Godwin, however, must be 

 incorrect in stating that this knight was murdered 

 with his brother in Cheapside in 1326, for there 

 are documents now in existence which prove that 

 he was alive in 1331, when he received the royal 

 permission to establish a Carthusian monastery 

 upon any of his lands in Devonshire. It is pro- 

 bable that he died about the latter date, for he 

 does not appear to have availed himself of the 

 privilege. William Wall, the bishop's nephew, 

 was undoubtedly beheaded with him, which may 

 have led to the mistake. 



Should your readers be able to give any further 

 information relative to Sir Richard Stapledon, it 

 would be gratefully received by J. Mn. 



Eliznhethan Tracts (2°^ S, Hi. 331.) : Campion's 

 "Decern Rationes" (P' S, xl. 166.) — I gladly 

 avail myself of the obliging offer made by Dunbl- 

 MBNSis, by requesting he will kindly furnish either 



in the pages of " N. & Q.," or in a communication 

 addressed to myself, a list of the Tracts in Durham 

 University Library, relating to the loyalty or dis- 

 loyalty of the Romanists in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth. 



In P' S. xi, 166. is a Query hitherto not 

 noticed, Campion's Decern Rationes. " There is 

 no copy of this edition in the British Museum or 

 the Bodleian. Can one be pointed out in any 

 public or private library ? " Of this rare work I 

 have recently bought a copy, which with other 

 contemporary tracts I shall, with your permission, 

 describe in a continuation of the General Literary 

 Index, BiBLioTHECAB, Chetham. 



P, S, — Who is the author of — 



" An Epistle of Comfort, to the Reverend Priestes, and 

 to the Honorable, Worshipful, and other of the Laye Sort, 

 restrayned in Durance for the Catholicke Fayth. No 

 date. Imprinted at Paris. 12mo."? 



In p. 202, is the following anecdote : 



" I omitt Judge Alephe, who sitting to keepe the place 

 when the other Judges retyred, while the Jurye consulted 

 aboute the condemnation of Father Campian and his com- 

 panye, pullinge of his gloue, founde all his hande and hys 

 seale of Armes bloodye without anye token of range 

 pricking or hurte ; and being dismaj'ed therwith because 

 with wipinge it went not awaye but still returned, he 

 shewed it to the gentle men that sat before him, who can 

 be witnesses of it till this daj'e, and haue some of them 

 vppon theyr faythes and credites auouched it to be true," 

 &c. 



Hops : HumUeyard (2""^ S. li. p. 392.) — I have 

 recently obtained the loan of Ihre's Lexicon Suio- 

 Gothicum, and in vol, i. col, 650,, ed, 1769, I 

 find, — 



" HumblegUrd, locus ubi lupulus plantatur, de quibus 

 plurima in variis Statutis medii recentiorisque asvi v. 

 IVexio Stadga de anno 1414, § 5. et Recessus Calmar anni 

 1474, § 11." 



If hops were a subject of legislation in Sweden 

 in 1414, one can scarcely think that they were 

 not introduced into England till a century after- 

 wards. Perhaps (as I quite agree that any sub- 

 ject started In " N. & Q." should be completely 

 exhausted) some correspondent may be able to 

 supply you with extracts from the statutes quoted 

 by Ihre, 



In voce Humle, Ihre quotes Salmasius for the 

 opinion that opulus or upulus is the correct form 

 of lupulus; li-om opulus comes hops, and the 

 French houblon, and thence, by the insertion of an 

 m, humle : unless, indeed, we believe that this 

 word is from the Persian hymel, lupulus, with which 

 agrees the Lat. Barb, humela, Fennarum humala, 

 Hungarorum coinlo. Junius, be continues, thinks 

 that the word is of German origin, from the root 

 happen, apprehendere, as the Belgians call it 

 happenkruyd. E. G. R. 



Style of the Authorised Version (2°'^ S. iii. 268.) 

 — A correspondent inquires whether any writer 



