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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>>d s. X" 72., May 16. '57. 



tions from Addison, Prior, &c., to show how the 

 word was employed. No one of these quotations, 

 however, indicates the amount, nor gives the 

 slightest notion of the origin of the peculiar ap- 

 plication of the word. Thus Prior says : 



« The miser must make up his plum, 

 And dares not touch the hoarded sum." 



Richardson (suh voce) intimates that no ex- 

 planation of the origin of the phrase can be given, 

 but in the Supplement lately published, he ha- 

 zards the supposition that it means " (perhaps) a 

 plumper, a, plump sum." In Mandeville's notes on 

 his Fable of the Bees, I find a passage which 

 slightly modifies the notion conveyed, by trans- 

 ferring it from the possession to the possessor. 

 " If an ill-natured miser who is almost a plumb, 

 and spends but fifty pounds a year," &c. — P. 83. 



Lethrediensis. 



'^'■TheJIeraldry of Nature. — Who was the au- 

 thor of The Heraldry of Nature ? date 1785 — a 

 satirical peerage. Anon. 



Rev. — Naylor, a Belief ced Clergyman in Not- 

 tinghamshire. — I wish to find the Christian name 

 and benefice of a clcrgyn\jin of the name of Nay- 

 lor, who held a living in the county of Notting- 

 ham in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. 

 How is this information to be obtained ? Perhaps 

 the clerical readers of " N. & Q." in the county of 

 Notts will kindly consult their registers for the 

 name. Henry Patrick, the father of Bishop 

 Symon Patrick, married the daughter of this Mr. 

 Naylor, about the year 1625. A. Taylok, M.A. 



3fr. Carbier. — Narcissus Luttrell (^Brief His- 

 torical Relation, vi. 199.) noticing the embarcation 

 of the Morocco ambassador under the date of Au- 

 gust 7, 1707, says : 



" The captain of the ship takes with him one Mr. Car- 

 bier, a Cambridge schollar, and a great proficient in the 

 Oriental languages, who goes under her majesties protec- 

 tion to improve himself iu the Arabick." 



Any further particulars respecting Mr. Carbier 

 will be acceptable to 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper . 

 Cambridge. 



:^m0r caucrtcjS luitib '^xxi^txi. 



Alchemical and Cabalistic Lore. — I shall feel 

 obliged by any of your correspondents afibrding 

 me information as to works, in any language, pub- 

 lished on alchemy and the Cabala, or kindred sub- 

 jects. Some, of course, I am already acquainted 

 with ; but I am desirous of obtaining all the in- 

 formation I can on these subjects. T. Lampray. 



[We will venture to refer our correspondent to Schmie- 

 der's Geschichte der Alchemic, 8vo., Halle, 1832, for much 

 information on the subject of alchemy. For lists of works 

 on^indred subjects, he cannot do better than consult the 



Bibliollieca 3Iagica et Pneumatica of Dr. J. G. T. Grasse, 

 published at Leipsic in 1843, and the six volumes of 

 Horst's Zauber-Bibliothek, Mainz, 1825.] 



" O Sapientia." — If this be the first of seven 

 anthems preceding Christmas, why is the day set 

 for December 16 in the Anglican calendar? The 

 last of the seven, by this arrangement, falls on 

 December 22. Are these anthems used in the 

 cathedrals of England, or anywhere else, in public 

 service ? A. C. C. 



[The greater autiphons (seven in number) in the Ko- 

 man calendar are commenced on December 17, and said 

 in the following order up to the 23rd, the day before 

 Christmas Eve : — 17th. O Sapientia. 18th. O Adonai. 

 19th. O Radix Jesse. 20th. O Clavis David. 21st. O 

 Oriens Splendor. 22nd. Kex Gentium. 23rd. Em- 

 manuel. The Anglican calendar, however, following tho 

 Sarum use, commences them on December IG, and ends 

 with the 23rd, probably omitting the 21st, St. Thomas's 

 festival. See Martene, De Antiquis JEcdesia; Ritibus, 

 lib. iv. p. 90., edit. 1788. A metrical version of these 

 antiphons will be found in The Church Hymnal (Bell and 

 Daldy), and an English translation, with the old Church 

 music, has been published in the Book of hitroits, 1847 

 ( Burns). See also The Church Hymn and Tune Booh, by 

 W. J. Blew, M.A., and Dr. Gauntlctt, 4to. 1852.] 



Postage and Bill Stamps. — Who invented the 

 plan of punctured divisions in the sheets of stamps, 

 and what price was given for the patent ? 



A. A. D. 



[The machine was invented by Mr. Henry Archer in 

 the autumn of 1847, and on the 5th August, 1853, a vote 

 of 4000Z. for Archer's Patent Perforating Machine was 

 agreed to, and appears in the Finance Accounts laid 

 before Parliament in 1854, p. 114., as having been voted 

 and paid " for the Purchase of the Right of the Patentee 

 of the Invention of a Machine for the Perforation of 

 Postage Labels, &c."] 



Watling Street : The Milky Way. — Chaucer, 

 in bis " House of Fame," ii. 427., says : 



" Lo there ! (quod he) cast up thine eye, 

 Se yondir, lo, the galaxie, 

 The whiche men clepe The Milky Way, 

 For it is white, and some parfay, 

 Ycallin it lian Watlinge strete," &c. 



Whence comes the name Watlinge strete ? Tyr- 

 whitt's note in the glossary to his edition of 

 Chaucer, — 



" Watlinge street, name of an old street in London," 

 is pure nonsense. F. A. Leo. 



Berlin, 



[Watling Street is the name of one of the four great 

 roads by which the southern part of Britain was formerly 

 traversed. They are named in the Anglo-Saxon Laws, 

 Watlinga Strcete, which runs from the coast of Kent 

 through London to Cardigan ; Fosse, leading from Corn- 

 wall to Lincoln ; Hikenilde Strcete, leading from St. 

 David's to Tynemouth ; and Erminge Strcete, which runs 

 from St. David's to Southampton. The 3//% Way is 

 called Watling Street, not only by Chaucer, but bj* the 

 author of The Compluynt of Scotland, who speaks of the 

 comet as appearing " oft in the quhyt circle, called cir- 



