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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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



Dennistoun, I came to this passage, " A copious 

 bowl of punch, champaigne, ziges, &c., to cele- 

 brate the anniversary of St. Andrew (1753)." 



Florence. 



Fuchseger. — I lately had the opportunity of 

 seeing two valuable paintings (representing the 

 story of the Prodigal Son) by Fuchseger. Can 

 you tell me anything of this painter ? I cannot 

 find his name either in Bryant or Pilkington. 



Julian. 



Portraits on stained Glass. — In the Chapel of 

 S. Basil, or the Holy Blood, at Bruges, were 

 formerly seven stained-glass windows, 1483, 1496, 

 1500, and 1684 ; these were sold at the period of 

 the French Revolution for fourteen francs a-piece, 

 and carried to England by the purchaser. They 

 represent — ■ 



1. Philip the Bold and Margaret de Maele. 



2. Jean sans Peur and Margaret of Bavaria. 



3. Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal. 



4. Charles the Bold and Isabella of Bourbon. 



5. Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian. 



6. Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Spain. 



7. Charles V. and Isabella of Portugal. 



Can any one give information as to what has 

 become of them, and, if in existence, where? 



W. H. J. W. 

 Bruges. 



Curse in Westminster Hall. — In Dugdale's 

 Baronage (edit. 1675) it is stated that Humphrey 

 Earl of Essex and Hereford was present, in the 

 37th year of Henry III., " when that formal curse 

 was denounced in Westminster Hall against the 

 violation of Magna Charta, with hell, hook, and 

 candle." Can any of your readers refer me to a 

 description of any such ceremony ? 



Vicar Choral 



Eucharistic Wine mingled with Ink. — Among 

 the various superstitious usages connected with 

 the Eucharist was that of signing solemn docu- 

 ments with ink mingled with the consecrated wine. 

 What early writers mention this practice, and 

 what instances of it can be cited ? I can find no 

 allusion to it in Bingham. A. Tatlor, M.A. 



Turning to the East. — What are the reasons 

 usually adduced for turning towards the East (as 

 many congregations do, and particularly I think in 

 villages), at the repetition of our Church Creeds ? 

 Many adopt this practice, and know not why. 



EUSTICCS. 



[The learned Bishop Sparrow, in his Rationale upon the 

 Book of Common Prayer, 1661, p. 44., has given two rea- 

 sons for the observance of this ancient practice: 1. The 

 East is the most honourable part of the world, being tlie 



region of light, whence the glorious sun arises, which is 

 emblematical of the Sun of Righteousness. 2. As the 

 Jews in their prayers looked towards the mercy-seat; so 

 the Christians turned towards the principal part of the 

 Church, the altar, of which the mercy-seat was but a 

 type. The most curious and learned treatise on this 

 practice will be found in Gregorii Fosthttma : or Certain 

 Learned Tracts, written bj"^ John Gregorj', M.A., 4to., 1671, 

 chap, xviii., who states that " our forefathers lived and 

 died in the belief that the second coming of the Son of 

 Man would be in the East," as shown in the following 

 quotation from Lib. Festivalis in Dedicatione Ecclesice : 

 " Lete us thinke (so the priest used to say on the Wake- 

 days) that Christ dyed in the Este, that we may be of 

 the nombre that he dyed for. Also let us thinke, that he 

 shall come out of the Este to the doome. Wherefore let 

 us pray heretily to llim and besel}', that we may have 

 grace of contrition in our hearts of our misdeeds with 

 shrift and satisfaction, that we may stonde that day on 

 the right honde of our Lord Jesu Christ." Consult "also 

 Bishop Kaye on Tertullian, p. 402. ; and on Clement of 

 Alexandria, p. 452. ; Bishop Stillingfleet's Eccles. Cases, 

 p. 382. ; Staveley on Churches, p. 155. ; Wheatly on the 

 Common Prayer, and "N. & Q.," 1" S. viii. 592.] 



" The DiueVs Neckerchiefs neere JRedriffe." — 

 Gerard, in his famous Herball, describing the 

 Water Gladiole, says : 



" 1 found it in great plentie, being in companie with a 

 worshipfuU gentleman, Master Robert Wilbraham, at a 

 village 15 miles from London, called Bushey. It groweth 

 likewise by the famous riuer Thamesis, not far from a 

 peece of ground called the Diuel's neckerchiefe neere 

 Redriffe by London." 



Kedriif is, of course, Rotherhithe ; but where 

 are we to look for the "Devil's Neckerchief?" 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



[The Devil's Neckerchief at Rotherhithe appears to 

 have been a zig-zag piece of swampy ground, and being 

 located in a filthy situation received the appellation of 

 his Satanic Majesty's necktie. It has become, by habit 

 and perversion, Neckinger, as the common vulgar phraso 

 muckinger is applied to a pocket-kerchief. Neckinger 

 Mills, the spot of land and water, &c. is the ground 

 whence the name originated.] 



"Mumpsimus" and ^^ Sumpsimus." — Will some 

 compassionate reader of " X. & Q." furnish a re- 

 ference to the original authority for the story of 

 the old priest who refused to change his old 

 " Mumpsimus " for their new " Sumpsimus " ? 



A. B.R. 



Belmont. 



[The story is thus narrated by Camden in his Remains 

 (edit. 1674, p. 358.) : " King Henry VIIL, finding fault 

 with the disagreement of preachers, would often say, 

 ' Some are too stiflt in their old 3Ittmpsimus, and others 

 too busie and curious in their new Sumpsimus ;' haply 

 borrowing these phrases from that which Master Pace, 

 his secretary, reporteth in' his book, De Fructu Doctrina, 

 of an old priest in that age, which alwaj-s read in his 

 portass [breviary] Mumpsimus, Domine, for Sumpsimus: 

 whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now 

 had used Muvtpsimus thirty years, and would not leave 

 his old Mtimpsimus for their new Swnpsimus."'\ 



