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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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transcribe every chapter, together with the pre- 

 face, &c., of the said book, as then prepared for 

 the press by the order of Dr. Matthew Tindal, 

 Fellow of the said College, together with the pro- 

 positions*, part of which were dictated to him by 

 the Doctor, and part transcribed from original 

 papers which he knew to be written in the hand 

 of Dr. Matthew Tindal. {MS. penes me.) 



Cl. Hoppek. 



Coincidences of Ideas. — Some time since you 

 inserted an epitaph ending — 



" Think what a woman should be — she was that ! " 



I find an epitaph by Philip Quarles on Lady 

 Luchyn, ending thus : 



" She was — but room forbids to tell thee what — 

 Sum all perfection up, and she was — that." 



I quote from specimens of Quarles's poetry pre- 

 fixed by Reglnalde Wolfe {alias Thomas Frognal 

 Dibdin, D.D.) to his edition of Judgment and 

 Mercy, p. xliv., 8vo., Lond. 1807. See notice of 

 Dr. Dibdin in the obituary of the Gent. Mag. for 

 Jan. 1848, vol. xxix. p. 89. Y. B. N. J. 



Prefixes of " Pit " and " BaV — A correspond- 

 ent enumerated a number of names of places 

 beginning with Pit lying near each other in Fife- 

 shire, and asks if an equal number of such names 

 can be found near each other in any other 

 quarter. I give the following as occurring in the 

 lower part of Forfarshire : Pitairly, Pitcundrum, 

 Pitcur, Pitewan, Pitforthie, Pitempon, Pitento, 

 Pitermo, Pitendriecih, Pitkennedy, Pitkerro, Pit- 

 levie, Pitlochrie, Pitmudie, Pitmuies, Pitnappie, 

 Pitpointie, Pitscandly, Pittarrow, Pittruchie. And 

 while on this subject, I may be allowed to notice 

 the very many places in the lower part of Forfar- 

 shire whose names begin with Bal, as Balamanoch, 

 Balbenchly, Balbinny, Balbirnie, Balboydie, Bal- 

 burnie, Balcathy, Balconnel, Baldardo, Baldonkie, 

 Baldovan, Baldovie, Baldowrie, Baldragon, Bal- 

 four, Balfield, Balgay, Balgarthno, Balgarthsho, 

 Balglassie, Balgavies, Balgello, Balgillo, Bal- 

 gownie, Balgray, Balhall, Balharry, Balhousie, 

 Balhungie, Balintore, Balkaneh, Balkello, Bal- 

 kemback, Balkeerie, Balkiellie, Ballo, Balloch, 

 BalHnshoe, Ballindarg, Ballochburn, Ballochy, 

 Ballumbie, Ballantyne, Ballownie, Ballochs, Bal- 

 meath, Balmldity, Balmadies, Balmashanner, Bal- 

 muUie, Balmuckety, Balmydown, Balmuir, Bal- 

 mossie, Balmachie, Balnillo, Balnamoon, Balna- 

 briech, Balnaboth, Balnagarrow, Balnakiellie, 

 Balrownie, Balruddery, Balstout, Balshando, 

 Balwhindry, Balwyllo, Balzeordie. I understand 

 that Pit in the Gaelic means a field, and Bal a 

 hamlet. I scarcely know a topographical work 

 that would be more interesting than to trace the 

 origin of such names, for no doubt they had been 



* /. e. Kight Propositions which precede the affidavit. 



given in accordance with the peculiarities of the 

 place in which each of them is situated. IIow 

 many cui*ious traditions must be connected with 

 many such names! I wish some good Gaelic 

 scholar would undertake the task, and afford us 

 amusement at least from a source that has hitherto 

 been entirely neglected. I have taken the above 

 names from the new Valuation Roll of the county 

 of Forfar, just published. Stufhuun. 



Booh Note : Susanna Lady Dormer. — Em- 

 bossed upon the cover of Welles' Soule^s Pro- 

 gresse to the Celestiall Canaan, 1639, is this 

 inscription : 



"Read this booke for the sake of Susanna Lady 

 Dormer, who is not lost but gone before to the Celestiall 

 Canaan." 



Burke does not mention this lady in the Dormer 

 pedigree. Dunelmensis. 



Irish Moustaches. — Among the 



" Statutes and Ordinances made and established in a 

 Parliament holden at Trymme, the Friday next after the 

 Feast of the Epiphany, in the five-and-twentieth year of 

 the reign of King Henry the Sixth, before John, Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, the King's Lieutenant of Ireland, Anno 

 Dom. 1447," 



is the following enactment of the Irish parliament : 



« Chap. IV. 



" An Act that he that will be taken for an Englishman 

 shall not use a beard upon his upper lip alone ; the offender 

 shall be taken as an Irish enemy, — Rot, Pari., cap. 20. 



" For that now there is no diversity in array betwixt 

 the English Marchours and the Irish enemies, and so by 

 colour of the English Marchours the Irish enemies do 

 come from day to day to other into the English counties 

 as English Marchours, and do rob and pill by the high- 

 ways, and destroy the common people by lodging upon 

 them in the nights, and also do kill the husbands in the 

 nights, and do take their goods to the Irishmen. Where- 

 fore it is ordained and agreed that no maner man that 

 will be taken for an Englishman shall have no beard 

 above his mouth, that is to say, that he have no hairs upon 

 his upper lip, so that the said lips be once at least shavin 

 every forthnight, or of equal growth with the neather 

 lip. And if any man be found among the English con- 

 trary hereunto, that then it shall be lawful to every man 

 to take them and their goods as Irish enemies, and to 

 ransom them as Irish enemies." 



This enactment was repealed by the statute 

 11 Charles I. cap. 6. (Irish.) F. A. Carrington. 

 Ogbourne St. George. 



MUSICAL ACOUSTICS. 



Mr. Dyce in his letter to H. R. H. Prince Al- 

 bert respecting the National Gallery, asks the 

 question, " Is there a science in music ? " and re- 

 plying to his own query, boldly decides " there is 

 not" There may be a science of mugiq falsely sq 



