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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Guernezey with Inglish commodytles, for the re- 

 torne of Spanyshe commodyties during the time 

 of this present restreynt," proceeds to make cer- 

 tain regulations. The first of which is — 



" That every subject of the Queene's Majesty maye 

 shippe and transport to the Island of Garnesey out of 

 this realme in English vessels all manner of commodyties 

 of this Realme usuallie shipped for Spayne, Portingall, 

 and Fraunce, except such as be prohibited by the Lawes 

 of this Realme." 



For the due observation of the order, certain 

 authorities are given to " John Marshe, Esquier, 

 Governor unto the Company of the Merchaunt 

 Adventurers, Thomas Aldersey, William Tower- 

 Sonne, and Richard Boudler, Merchaunts adven- 

 turers; Robert Love, William Wydnell, Thomas 

 Bramley, and Richard Stap, Merchaunts trading 

 Spayne." 



There is a proviso containing a saving in favour 

 of goods shipped under certain jTormer orders. 



Query, What is the date of this order ? Am I 

 correct in supposing it to be 1571 ? Meletes. 



" Pvpilla Oculi." — I have a MS. copy of J. de 

 Burgh's Pupilla Octdi, of about the beginning of 

 the fifteenth century. He was rector of Colling- 

 ham in 1385, and Chancellor of Cambridge. 



1. Did he write any more books? 



2. The colophon of my MS. is " Hunc tracta- 

 tum compilavit Johannes de Burgo, rector ec- 

 clesiaB de CoUingham : cujus animse propitietur 

 Deus. Amen." Does this occur in the printed 

 copy by Hopyl, 1510 ? 



3. The book has belonged to various Welch- 

 men, but more anciently to some church. " Iste 

 liber pertinet ecclesise Sancti Sainellio (or Da- 

 niellio)." Is there any church in Wales, dedi- 

 cated to S. Daniel, or one of a similar name ? 



J. C. J. 



Bolton Abbey. — On the west front of Bolton 

 Abbey, built by Prior Moone in 1520, there are 

 two sculptured quadrupeds. Do they represent 

 the greyhounds who pulled the " Boy of Egre- 

 mona into the " strid," or wolves, in honour of 

 Earl Hugh Lupus f Mr. J. H. Dixon, in his 

 Stories of the Craven Dales, thinks they are the 

 arms of William de Meschines (i. e. de mes chiens) ; 

 but this cannot be, unless his arms were different 

 from those of his elder brother Ranulph, who suc- 

 ceeded his cousin Richard, only son of Hugh, in 

 the earldom of Chester, which were " Or, a lion 

 rampant, his tail erected, gu." Those of Hugh 

 Lupus were " Az, a wolf's head erased, ar." 



K. W. Dixon. 



Seaton Carew, co. Durham. 



Passage in Malebravche. — In a Letter to Dr. 

 Priestley, London, 1789, is the following : — 



" Malebranche held rightly that as spirit preceded 

 matter, all the qualities of spirit must also have been 

 more ancient than those of matter ; and, consequently, 



that the affections, morals, volitions, thoughts, truth, 

 care, memory, feeling, were before length, depth, breadth, 

 and solidity." 



The reference to Malebranche is rather wide. 

 Can any of your correspondents furnish me with 

 a closer to the original ? H. S. 



Edgbaston. 



Hyman Hurwitz. — Where can be obtained any 

 particulars relative to Hyman Hurwitz, who, in 

 1 820, published Vindicice Hebraicce ; or a Defence 

 of the Hebrew Scriptures, as a Vehicle of Revealed 

 Religion, SfC. ? J. W. 



Barton-on-Humber. 



Author of " Anti-Sanderus." — Who was the 

 author of Anti-Sanderus, 4to., Cantab., 1593 ? 

 Was Dr. William Covel, or Cowell, the author ? 

 It is not mentioned in the list of his works given 

 by Watt. Yk. 



Line in Chaucer. — Some of your readers may 

 possibly be well enough acquainted with Chaucer 

 to tell me where a line of his is to be found con- 

 taining the words, " Keep the narrow path," or 

 " Keep the highway." I am certain of the sense, 

 but not of the exact woj^s. K. I. C. 



Ghost Stories wanted. — I shall be glad to be 

 referred to any account of the ghost of James 

 Simpson, a stocking-weaver, which appeared at 

 Manchester about forty years ago, and predicted 

 something about the spots in the sun. Also of a 

 ghost which appeared recently at Tew. T. B. 



Omnium Gatherum. — Does any body know 

 when, and by whom, the term " Omnium ga- 

 therum " was first used in print ? I think I know 

 myself, but I should be glad to exercise other 

 people's ingenuity first of all. H. L. J. 



Tolbooth. — Will any of your philologists give 

 me the derivation of this word ? I had thought 

 that the use of the term was confined to Scotland, 

 but in Strype's Life of Whitgift, vol. i., it occurs 

 in the following extract from the Register of the 

 University of Cambridge, a.d. 1572, Jan. 27. : 



" Johannes Browning, M.A., et socius collegii S. Trini- 

 tatis per D. Vice-Cancellarium, de assensu praeposi- 

 torum scil. D.D. Pearne, Hawford, Kelke, Mey, Whit- 

 gyfte, Harvey, Shepherd, Goade, Aldriche, committitur 

 career! le Talbothe eo quod prohibitur p. D. Whitgyfte 

 deputatum D. Vice-Cancellarii ne concionaretur, quia 

 accusabatur de suspicione corrupts doctrinae per ipsum 

 prolataj, ea tamen prohibitione non obstante concionatus 



M. W. J. A. 



To be worth a Plum. — Can anyone furnish an 

 explanation of this expression ? The word plum, 

 in the usually received acceptation of 100,000?., 

 first came under lexicographical cognizance, I be- 

 lieve, in Johnson's Dictionary. He speaks of it as 

 used " in the cant of the city," and gives quota- 



