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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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for full 24 hours before any other kind of barometer known 

 on the coast." — Mobile Jiegister, March 1, 1857, 



w. w. 



. Malta. 



The Sound Dues. — I do not know exactly the 

 antiquity, as a payment to the King of Denmark, 

 of what are called the Sound Dues. If the fol- 

 lowing short passage in the Itinerarium Willelmi 

 dc Worcestre, published by Nasmith, may be relied 

 upon (p. 316.), they are of no older date than the 

 fifteenth century : 



" Elsynburg 1 sunt duo Castra ex opposito parte marls 



Elsyngnore J scituatae per duo miliaria dis- 



tancia in patria vocata Seland ; et regina Philippa fecit 

 Statutura quod omnis navis, transiens intra castella super 

 aquam Maris vocatam Nortesounde, solvet quaelibet navis 

 unum Utre auri Eegi Denmark pro tribute, et salvo vela- 

 bit, aliter enim Navis forisfactus regi." 



Philippa here alluded to was the youngest 

 daughter of our Henry IV., who was sent into 

 Denmark in the year 1405, the fifth of her father's 

 reign, and there espoused Eric X. 



Walsingham, p. 418., under that year, says : 



" In festo Conceptionis Sancla3 Maria;, domina Regis 

 filia prseconis voce proclamata est Eegina Daciaj, Nor- 

 wegia;, Suauiaj sive Suecise, in prsesentia nuntiorum qui 

 eam venerant petituri." 



Hall puts this marriage in Henry's seventh year 

 (edit. 1548, fol. 26. b.). He says : 



" In this yere Kyng Uenvy, not onely desiryng newe 

 afBnitie with forein princes, but also the preferment of his 

 line and progeny, sent the Lady Phylip, his yonger 

 doughter, to Ericke kj'ng of Denmark, Norwaj', and 

 Swethen, which was conveighed thither with great pompe, 

 and there with muche triumphe marled to the said kyng, 

 where she tasted both welthe and wo, joye and pain." 



H. E. 



" The Child of France." — As it may be asked 

 some years hence, why the above term was applied 

 to the Imperial Prince, M. De Villemain's ex- 

 planation should not be forgotten : " Because he 

 is the grandson of Universal Suffrage." W. W. 



Malta. 



THE earth's GYKATION. 



In reading over the Commentary of the learned 

 "Davidis Parei in Divinam ad Hebrajos S. Pauli 

 Apostoli Epistolam," I made a note of the follow- 

 ing illustration of chaps, i. and x. : 



" Fundasti terram, h. e. creasti, et sua gravitate, quasi 

 basin universi, immobilem imo loco fixisti. Metaphora 

 ab redifltio: quod fundament© iramoto innititur. Unde 

 falsm quorundam hypotheses de gyratione terre circa solem 

 refutanttir . . . . Ut enim architectus, sedificaturus domu', 

 primo supponit fundamentum : ita Deus universi funda- 

 raentum primo posuit terram." — Ed. Genevse, 1614. 



If the above can be taken as (at that period) a 

 fair specimen of the vie#s of Protestants regard- 

 ing the gyration of the earth round the sun, our 



wonder at the charge of heresy being preferred 

 by the Romish Church against Galileo in 1633, in 

 consequence of the boldness of his ideas in physics, 

 must be considerably modified. It would appear 

 that although Copernicus published his system in 

 1543, yet it yr&s first explained to the Germans by 

 Duncan Liddell, who was at one time a teacher at 

 Rostock, and ultimately a Professor at Helra- 

 stiidt, towards the end of the sixteenth century. 

 Tycho Brahe was contemporary and intimate with 

 Liddell : discussions regarding the earth's gyra- 

 tion must, consequently, have been general and 

 frequent throughout Germany while our author 

 was working at his Commentary. 



Is it probable that our author, along with other 

 Protestant clergymen, would be the first in their 

 expositions of the sacred text to stigmatise as 

 false the Copernican views regarding the earth's 

 motion ? And is it probable, moreover, that the 

 Romish priesthood, in their endeavours to restore 

 Galileo to greater soundness of faith, were, after 

 all, only taking a leaf out of the views of the 

 Reformed Church ? Can any of your readers in- 

 form me at what time Protestant clergymen in 

 Germany and Britain began generally to adopt 

 the true theory of the earth's motion in their ex.. 

 positions of the Bible ? John Husband. 



::^iu0r <hutxiti, 



Misfs and Fog's Journal. — Is it allowable to 

 ask questions about the Quarterly Review ? I 

 have been much amused by a paper in the present 

 Number on " English Political Satires," and in 

 the course of his narrative the writer speaks of 

 '■'■Mists, afterwards ^ Fog's' Journal." Was the 

 Quarterly Homer nodding when he wrote thus, 

 or did the Journal — which was once '* Mist's," 

 eventually become " Fog's ? " 



In Timperley's Encyclopcedia we read of the 

 1st No. of Mist's Journal being published on the 

 6th Dec. 1714, and that Mist died on the 20th 

 Sept. 1737. The Journal, we know, was subject 

 to severe prosecutions ; but had it ceased to ap- 

 pear before 1729, when we read : 



" 1729, April 5, Fog's Weekly Journal, No. 28. This 

 paper was written in opposition to the Government, and 

 became so popular that it continued to be published for 

 nearly eight j-ears." ? 



What say the learned contributors of " N. & 

 Q ? " What says Mr. Crossi.ey of Manchester, 

 who probably knows more upon such points of 

 our literary history than any other collector or 

 student of the present day ? F. J. 



'■'■ Carry me out and hiry me decently." — Do any 

 of your correspondents recollect to have heard 

 this phrase used as a kind of interjectional excla- 

 mation or objurgation ? The way in which I 



