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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'J S. N" 70., May 2. '57. 



Norfolk giant," who is a well-proportioned man 

 for his stature, is stated to be seven feet and a 

 half. I have never met with any of the fair sex 

 so tall as seven feet, but possibly such may exist. 



H. S. 



Dennison vel Denison Family. — Was Thomas 

 Dennison, Esq., of Leeds, who married in 1756 the 

 only daughter of "Langdale Sunderland, Esq.," 

 related, and in what degree, to William Denison, 

 Esq., also of Leeds, who purchased the estate of 

 Ossington, co. Notts ? C. R. 



" ArsenaV^ — Can some one of your correspon- 

 dents give me the etymology of this word ? Some 

 dictionaries tell us we derive the word from Arx 

 navalifi, some from Arx senatiis, while others con- 

 tent themselves with the modern Italian Arsenale. 

 None of these are particularly satisfactory to 



Roots. 



Rubrical Queries. — 1 . Will you, or some of your 

 numerous readers, kindly tell me what should be 

 done in the following case ? The rubric says that 

 the clergyman should stand on the north side of 

 the communion table to read the Commandments, 

 &c. Now, in some chapels, such as the one in 

 Baker Street, one in Quebec Street, &c., the com- 

 munion table is at the ivest end, and the minister, 

 therefore, stands on the south side. And in the 

 new church in the Bayswater road, which stands 

 north and south, he has to stand on the west side. 

 How is the minister to act, so as not to mistake 

 the rubric ? 



2. Some clergymen repeat the "Amen" after 

 every prayer, some only where it is printed in 

 roman letters, and some in neither case. Which is 

 right ? 



Answers to these questions will much oblige 

 one who, if not right, does not wish to be far 

 wrong ; and as he is no one of importance, he 

 thinks, instead of his name, he had better sign 

 himself your truly obliged on former occasions, 



T. 



Anagrams : " Johnny the Bear." — 



"Has any one who knows Johnny the Bear heard his 

 name thus anagrammatised without a smile? We may 

 be sure he smiled and growled at the same time when he 

 first heard it himself." — Southey 's Z)octor, ch. clxxix,, 

 p. 468, 



" But neither Bull nor Lion is King of all beasts ; for a 

 certain person, whose name being anagrammatised, ren- 

 dereth Johnny the Bear, is notoriously the King of the 

 Bears at this time : even Ursa Major would not dispute 

 his title." — Ibid., ch. cc. p. 532. 



Can anybody save me the trouble of puzzling 

 out the real name of " Johnny the Bear " ? 



Harry Leroy Temple. 



Pollio of Virgil. — The Count Joseph de Maistre, 

 referring to the Pollio of Virgil, speaks of it as 

 having been read at the Council of Nice. Query, 

 Does he refer to the address of Constantino to 



"the assembly of the Saints," as given by Euse- 

 bius ? ^ And was that address delivered to the 

 Council of Nice, or to some other assembly ? 



A. C. C. 

 Houses in Goldsmiths' Row. — May I beg the 

 favour of asking, through the medium of your 

 extensively read journal, where I can see a view 

 of the houses in Goldsmiths^ Row, West Cheap, be- 

 fore the fire of London ? Stow calls it — 



" The most beautiful frame of fair houses and shops that, 

 be within the walls of London or elsewhere in England, 

 betwixt Bread Street end and the Cross in Cheape, but is 

 within this Bread Street Ward ; the same was built by 

 Thomas Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriifs of London 

 in the year 149L It containeth in number ten fair 

 dwelling houses and fourteen shops, all in one frame, 

 uniformly built four stories high ; beautified towards the 

 street with the Goldsmiths' arms, and the likeness of 

 woodmen, in memory of his name, riding on monstrous 

 beasts, all which is cast in lead, richly painted over and 

 gilt; these he gave to the Goldsmiths, with stocks of 

 money to be lent to young men having those shops, &c. 

 This said front was again new painted and gilt over in 

 tlie year 1594, Sir Richard Martin being then Maj-or, 

 and keeping his Ma3'oralty in one of them, serving out 

 the time of Cuthbert Buckle in that office from the 2* 

 July till the 28th October." 



Amtiqdary. 



Handel and his Executor. — I was shown, the 

 other day, a skin of parchment, containing the 

 original legal release of Handel's executor, with 

 detailed statement of accounts, some of which af- 

 ford glimpses of the " ways and means " of the 

 celebrated musician. It came into the hands of 

 its present possessor as packing with a parcel 

 from London, and may be of no value beyond 

 that "vile use:" but this page is the place in 

 which to ask — Is the document used, or useful, 

 in a life of Handel ? H. 



"A Guide to Heaven." — Can any of your readers 

 supply me with any information as to the author- 

 ship of the under-mentioned little book (24rao.) ? 

 I rather suspect my copy is a reprint of some 

 other edition : 



"A Guide to Heaven from the Word. Good Counsel 

 how to close savingly with Christ. Serious Questions for 

 Morning and Evening ; and Rules for the due Observation 

 of the Lord's Daj'. John v. 39. — ' Search the Scriptures.' 

 Manchester, printed by T. Harper, Smithy Door." 



The fly-leaf lias — 



" Imprimatur, J. Hall, R. P. D., Lond. a Sac. Domest., 

 April 14, 1664." 



E. C. B. 



Cordon Bleu. — I should be glad to be in- 

 formed, through the medium of the columns of 

 " N. & Q.," what is the derivation of cordon bleu, 

 and whether first applied to male or female ar- 

 tistes ? S. D. S. 



Kitti/ Fisher. — As inquiries have been made 

 occasionally through your valuable publication 



