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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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engender flesli in olcle soris, or in filthi soris wher no 

 good flesh wil grow." 



" Ffor the evyll Heryng. 

 " Take the juce of whyte eleb (eileber?), the ioyce 

 of camemel, and mary of caluis (marrow of calves), oyle 

 of eggs, venyger, all medylyd well to gether warme. Putt 

 hyt in to thy erys, not long taryg ther in Isopp both 

 sangs sodyn wyth eggs and camamel, and take the fume 

 therof hoote (eagerly)." 



Hereupon arises another Query : What is meant 

 in the last recipe by sangs ? T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Portrait of our Blessed Saviour (2°^ S. iii. 289.) 

 — Though I cannot now refer to the article, I 

 well recollect a very able inquiry by the late 

 Charles Butler of Lincoln's Inn, on the authen- 

 ticity of the various portraits of our Blessed Re- 

 deemer. The article appeared either in the Ca- 

 tholic Gentleman^s Magazine or the Catholic Spec- 

 taior, between thirty and forty years ago ; but I 

 remember distinctly that after a learned and im- 

 partial investigation, the writer concluded against 

 the authenticity of every one of them — the 

 Veronica was not included in his inquiry — and 

 he added that they were generally given up by 

 the learned. F. C. H. 



Mason's Short-Hand (2°* S. iii. 255.) — It may 

 be interesting to Mk. Charles Reed to know 

 that the " scarce and curious work " entitled 

 Zeiglographia, which he lately picked up in a 

 curiosity shop at Sevenoaks, gave occasion for, 

 perhaps, the very earliest advertisement which is 

 to be foimd in any English newspaper. 



In the article on advertisements which appeared 

 in 97th vol. of the Quarterly Review (June, 1855), 

 the author of that very interesting paper observes 

 that, — 



" The very first advertisement we have met with, after 

 an active search among the earliest newspapers, relates to 

 a book which is entitled ' Irenodia Gratulatoria, an 

 Heroick Poem, &c., printed by Tho. Newcourt, 1652.' 

 This appeared in the January number of the Parlia- 

 mentary paper, Mercurius Politicus, &c." 



If the able writer of the article in question Lad 

 extended his researches to the earlier numbers of 

 that same newspaper, he would have discovered 

 that the earliest advertisement is to be found in 

 the 18 th number of the Mercurius Politicus for 

 Oct. 3rd to 10th, 1650. It is printed in column, 

 on the margin of the last page, and is as follows : 



" Zeiglographica, or a new art of Short-writing never 

 before published, more easie, exact, short, and speedy, 

 then any heretofore. Invented and composed by Thomas 

 Shelton, being his last 30 years study. Allowed by Au- 

 thority, and printed bj' M. Simmons in Aldersgate Street, 

 and there to be sold next door to the Golden Lyon, 

 1650." 



In the following (19th) number of the same 

 newspaper this advertisement is repeated, as 

 before, on the margin of the last page, together 



with another advertisement, printed in much 

 larger type, on the broad page, after the last para- 

 graph of news, which runs thus : 



" Emanuel, or God with us ; a very pious and judicious 

 Treatise, written bj' John Canne, and printed by Mat. 

 Simmons; wherein (besides many other eminent Par- 

 ticulars) England's late Victory over the Scots at Dunbar 

 is excellently set forth." 



Mat. Simmons was the printer of the Mercurius 

 Politicus, who availed himself of this means of 

 puffing his newly printed books. 



Walter Sneyd. 



Denton. 



The Brittox, Devizes (2"'^ S. ii. 299. 431.) — The 

 most probable derivation of this name is the me- 

 diaeval Latin word Bretexa (in French, bretesque), 

 an embattled tower of defence, generally of wood, 

 and placed on a bridge (see a woodcut of one in 

 Archceological Journal, vol. i. p. 306.) ; or, a tower 

 attached to the outworks of a fortification, where 

 a sentinel kept watch to announce arrivals or 

 examine strangers. The narrow street in Devizes 

 now bearing this name is at a little distance 

 from the Castle on the town side, where an out- 

 work of this kind may perhaps have been placed. 

 That it was something connected with military 

 defence appears from an entry in the chamber- 

 lain's books during the Civil Wars, where amongst 

 various expenses for bringing powder, strengthen- 

 ing town-walls, mounting great ordnance, &c., is 

 an item of" 18^. 9.s. 8rf. for repairing the Brittox..' 

 Perhaps it was an embattled gateway crossing 

 like the gates of York or Temple Bar, the larger? 

 street into which the alley now called the Brittox 

 runs. J' I'^' J- 



The reference given by R. H. B. to the deed of 

 1302, mentioned by Mr. Kite in one of his very 

 interesting papers on Devizes (in vol. ii. of ihe 

 Wilts A7'chceological Magazine), seems to give a 

 clue to the derivation of " Brittox." The street 

 is there called " La Britasche." Mr. Kelham, in 

 his Norman Dictionary, has " Britask, a fortress 

 with battlements." We frequently find ch and k 

 convertible letters, and it would be curious to as- 

 certain whether the site of this street ever formed 

 a part of the fortifications of Devizes. 



F. A. Cabkington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Memorials of former Greatness (2"'* S. ii. 460.) 

 — Over the Digby vault in Sherborne Church, 

 Dorset, are still to be seen, I believe, portions of 

 a suit of armour formerly belonging to one of that 

 family, consisting of a helmet, greaves, and gaunt- 

 let, accompanied, if I remember rightly, by a 

 banner, thougli much decayed. The " good mor- 

 glay " of " Sir Bevis of Hamptoune," of legendary 

 fame, is still preserved in Arundel Castle, and is 

 described as a formidable two-handed weapon, 



