2nd & N« 78., JtJNE 27. '67.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



511 



St. Auteste. — In Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte 

 Bronte, she speaks of Haworth church being de- 

 dicated to St. Auteste, and asks " who was he ?" 

 Can any of your readers answer the Query ? 



Clekicus Rusticus. 



[St. Auteste is a myth; for Haworth church or 

 chapelry is dedicated to St. Michael. It appears that at 

 the west end of the church, near the steeple, is the fol- 

 lowing modern inscription : " Hie olim fuit Monachorum, 

 Ccenobium ad honorem, Sancti Michaelis, et omnium 

 angelorum dicatum, Auteste Fundatore anno Christi sex- 

 centessimo." The origin of this fabulous antiquity of the 

 church is owing to another inscription in the south side 

 of the steeple, probably recopied from a more ancient 

 stone, which has a translation placed in juxtaposition : — 



" eBrate P 'bona Pray for y« 



^tatu <S\\tt&t Soul of 



Autest— 600." 



" Now every antiquary," says Dr. Whitaker in his 

 Loidis, " knows that this formulary of prayer, ' pro bono 

 statu,' alwaj-s refers to the living. I suspect that this 

 singular Christian name has been mistaken by the stone- 

 cutter for Austat, a contraction of Eustatius; but the 

 word ' Tod,' which has been misread for the Arabic nu- 

 merals 600, is perfectly legible. I suspect, however, that 

 some minister of the church has committed the two-fold 

 blunder, first, of assigning to the place this absurd and 

 impossible antiquity; and, secondly, from the common 

 form, ' Orate pro bono Statu,' of inferring the existence 

 here of a monastery." See also James's History of Brad- 

 ford, p. 359.] 



Sir Sackville Crowds Book of Accounts. — Wal- 

 pole, in his Anecdotes of Painting (vol. ii.), states 

 in a note, that at the sale of part of Thoresby's 

 Museum, he purchased Sir Sackville Crow's Book 

 of Accounts from the year 1622 to 1628, and that 

 he intended to print it along with other curious 

 papers. Can any one inform me if he did print 

 it, and where I can find it ? S. 



[It has not been published. The original is in the 

 British Museum, Addit. MS. 12,528.] 



Was Dancing denounced by the Ancients f — In 

 a tract of 24 pages, entitled An Appeal to Tem- 

 porising Christians, London, 1831, it is said : 



" The most worthy among the heathens guessed by 

 the light of Nature some things which we know from the 

 ordinances of God. Plato and Cicero denounced revelry, 

 and especially dancing, as earnestly as did Prynne or 

 Wesley." 



Is this true ? S. H. J. 



Afihow. 



[There have existed in all periods of the world's his- 

 tory three kinds of dance : — The Worship or Religious 

 Dance ; the Imaginative or Poetical Dance, the poetry of 

 motion ; and, thirdly, the Descriptive or Sensual Dance, 

 alluded to by Moses in the Bull-dance of the Israelites, and 

 described by Juvenal, Martial, and other Pagan writers. 

 For writers against the Sensual Dance, our correspondent 

 should consult John Northbrooke's curious work, A Trea- 

 tise against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, edited 

 by J. P. Collier, Esq., for the Shakspeare Society, which 

 abounds in quotations from the Fathers and the classical 

 writers, condemnatory of dancing and other idle pastimes. 



See also Archdeacon Nares's Remarks on the Ballet of 

 Cupid and Psyche, 1788, 12mo.] 



Tabard, or Talbot Inn. — As a small party at 

 the Bull Hotel, in Bishopsgate Street, were the 

 other day chatting over the curious reminiscences 

 of that ancient inn, I was astonished to hear a 

 gentleman speak of the Talbot in the Borough, 

 as in my London days we only knew of the said 

 inn by the name of the Tabard ; and many times 

 have I stood and gazed at the pilgrims, as they 

 were painted in all the splendour of the time upon 

 the signboard over the gateway. 



Now, will any one of your readers tell me when 

 and how the above corruption took place? I went 

 into the Borough, and saw that one of the old 

 signs still remains down the yard with the Tabard 

 on it, but the one with Chaucer painted in full 

 relief upon it, which was over the gateway, is, I 

 am informed, at the country house of Mr. Bidden, 

 of No. 1. Royal Exchange Buildings. 



John Sheppard. 



Lynn. 



[Aubrey, writing a little after the period of the great 

 fire of Southwark in 1676, says, " The ignorant landlord, 

 or tenant, instead of the ancient sign of the Tabard, put 

 up the Talbot, or dog ! " See also " N. & Q.," l»t S. x. 

 182.] 



Kcfilte*. 



POETKAITS or MART QUEEN OF SCOTS. 



(2'"> S. iii. 448.) 



The late George Chalmers possessed several 

 paintings of this unfortunate Queen, which are 

 thus described in his Sale Catalogue, Part iii. (sold 

 by Evans in 1849): 



"Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots, painted in Oil. 



"861. Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, painted by 

 Zucchero, curious and very interesting. 



"862. Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, painted by 

 Paileu for G. Chalmers, Esq., an engraving from which is 

 prefixed to Mr. Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary. 



" 863. Profile of Mary Queen of Scots, painted from a 

 silver medal executed in 1561, when Mary was Dauphi- 

 ness of France." 



In the Pinkerton Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 14., 

 is an extract from a letter from Mr. Davidson to 

 Pinkerton, dated December 3, 1794, in which the 

 writer, speaking of the portraits of Mary, says : 



" I never heard of any genuine picture of that queen. I 

 know Sir Robert Strange sought for one to engrave, but 

 in vain. There is a picture of her at Hamilton House, if 

 T recollect, a virago with red hair. It is said in the ac- 

 count of her execution, she for diversion wore hair of 

 diflferent colours. I recollect to have seen a miniature in 

 the King's collection, which belonged to the Duke of 

 Cumberland; but I did not believe it to be genuine. 

 The present Countess of Findlater showed me a copy she 

 had made of a miniature of Mary, from one which the 

 Countess of Warwick had, and which, she said, was to go 



