388 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 72., May 16. '67. 



heard it employed seventy years ago was. some- 

 thing like this : Some one should tell a story that 

 was either incredible or presumptuous, or some- 

 how displeasing to the auditor, who interrupted 

 him by exclaiming, in an impatient tone, " Carry 

 me out and bury me decently." I suspect it may 

 have been Irish, for it was by old Irish people 

 that I heard it used ; but it seems so elaborate 

 and strange a style of reprimand that I cannot 

 but suspect that it must have been an allusion to 

 some story or circumstance once notorious, but 

 now forgotten. I am almost ashamed at throw- 

 ing up such a straw, but I confess I have a curi- 

 osity to know whether it could have had any 

 meaning. C. 



Ehrenhreitstein. — When did this name origi- 

 nate, as applied to the castle on the Rhine, and is 

 there any reason for the application, legendary or 

 historical ? A. C. C. 



Glastonbury Chronicles, Meaning of a Passage 

 in. — In the margin of William of Malmesbury's 

 Antiquities of Glastonbury, edited by Thomas 

 Hearne, there is the following note (p. 70.), in 

 reference to a piece of the true cross that had 

 been given by King Alfred to that monastery ; 

 and in the handwriting, Hearne thinks, of Gale 

 the antiquary : 



"Hoc ipsum lignum, intra biennium hoc, inmanu cujus- 

 dam sacerdotis R. deprehensum fuit; Regique delatum 

 Carolo, ipse cuidam ex Conn. ss. n. Portsmouth, dedit, 

 anno D. 1680." 



I am at a loss to know the exact meaning of 

 Conn. ss. n., and should be much obliged to any 

 of your readers who would give me a solution. I 

 am inclined to think that it means tliat the king 

 gave the relic to one of the relations, one of tlie 

 attendants, or one of the confessors of Louise de 

 Querouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth ; but it is 

 the exact meaning of these abbreviations that I am 

 in search of. Henry T. Riley. 



Mattheei Sutlivii de Presbyterio. — Can any one 

 of your contributors tell me whom Sutcliffe means 

 by " Italus ille," as the writer of a Puritanic trea- 

 tise de Politeia Civili et Ecclesiastica ? — 



"Italua ille," writes Sutcliife, "quod reliqui timidius, 

 illud apertfe et nulla circuitione usus professus est nihil 

 esse debere principibus cum Ecclesia administratioue ne- 

 gotu." 



M. W. J. A. 



Westcot, Smith, and Lee Families. — An old 

 correspondent would feel thankful for any in- 

 formation respecting either of the above men- 

 tioned families. 



A member of the Westcot family emigrated to 

 America some time during the great rebellion ; 

 and prior to, or after his departure, married Chris- 

 tiana, daughter of William Smith of Arawell. 



I am also anxious to know the pedigree of 



Samuel Lee of London, who was a petty officer in 

 the war of the American revolution, and was with 

 the English army at the battle of Lexington. 



Pedigrees, or information too voluminous for 

 insertion in " N'..& Q.," may be sent to me direct. 



D. M. Stevens. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, April 17, 1857. 



Mathematical Query. — Who first denoted the 

 sine, cosine, tangent, &c., of an angle A by the 

 abbreviations sin A, cos A, tan A, &c. ? Dean 

 Peacock and Sir David Brewster ascribe the in- 

 troduction of this notation to Euler. (Report of 

 the 3rd Meeting of the Brit. Association, p. 289. ; 

 Life of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. i. p. 349.). Dr. 

 Olinthus Gregory, on the contrary, ascribes it to 

 Thomas Simpson (^Hints on Mathematics, p. 114.) 



J. W. S. 



Old Philcenium. — Jeremy Taylor, in his sermon 

 on the Primate of Ireland, speaks of the ruins of 

 Pompey's theatre, and " the beautiful head of old 

 Philajuium." Who was " old Phllasnium ? " 



G. P. 



Ancient Tenure. — In Blunt's Ancient Tenures 

 is the following passage : — 



" Stanhow, 

 " Johanna" quae fuit uxor Johannis King tenet quandam 

 Serjantiam in Stanhow in Com. Norf. Serjantiam custo- 

 diendi imum Bracelettum deymerettum Domini Regis." 



I should be glad to know what it was Johanna 

 had to keep. C. dk D. 



" Letters from Buxton.'^ — In a passable imita- 

 tion of the Bath Guide, entitled " Letters from 

 Buxton, London and Buxton, 1786," are the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" The Ancient would own himself wanting in nous. 

 When he said that two thieves could not thrive in one 



house, 

 Could he get a day-rule from Elysium and look 

 At our foot- boy and scullion, our butler, our cook. 

 In concert, and knavish as lodging-house cats, 

 BeWs Calvinist mermaids, or Robinson's rats." 



The Ancient ? Bell ? Robinson ? W. S. P. 

 Dunchurch. 



Order in Council for regidating the Trade vjith 

 Spain during a Time of Restraint. — In the Cotton 

 Library (Vespasian, c. xiii. No. 98. p. 318.) is an 

 article described in the Catalogue as — 



" An Order of Council settling the Mode of Trading 

 to the Island of Guernsej' vath English Goods for the 

 Return of Spanish Goods." 



The paper has no date or endorsement. The 

 names subscribed to the order are : — 



" E. Clynton. 

 Fe. Knollis. 



Wm. Howard. 

 Wa. Myldmaye." 



The order, after reciting a petition from " the 

 Merchauntes trading Spct^ne,'' praying " that they 

 may be permitted to trade into the Island of 



