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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 119. 



rehersid. A come is with tway tittels this wyse : be- 

 tokynynge a longer teste : and the sentens yet either is 

 imperfet : or els, if it be perfet : ther cummith more 

 after, longyng to it : the which more comynly cannot 

 be perfet by itself without at the lest summat of it : 

 that gothe a fore. A parenthesis is with tway crokyd 

 virgils ; as an olde mone, and a new bely to bely : the 

 whyche be set theton afore the begynyng, and thetother 

 after the latyr ende of a clause; comyng within an other 

 clause : that may be perfet : thof the clause, so comyng 

 betwene : wer awey, and therfore it is sowndyde comynly 

 a note lower, than the utter clause, yf the sentens can- 

 not be perfet without the ynner clause, then stede of 

 the first crokyde virgil a streght virgil wol do ver)' 

 wel ; and stede of the later must nedis be a come. A 

 playne poynt is with won tittel this wyse . and it cumeth 

 after the ende of al the whole sentens betokynynge a 

 longereste. An interrogatif is with tway tittels, the 

 upper rysing this wyse ? and it cumeth after the ende 

 of a whole reason : wheryn ther is sum question axside. 

 the whiche ende of the reson, triyng as it were for an 

 answere: risyth upwarde. we have these rulis in englishe: 

 by cause they be as profytable, and necessary to be kepte 

 in every mother tonge, as in latyn. Sethyn we (as we 

 wolde to god : every precher wolde do) have kept owre 

 rulis both in owre englishe, and latyn : what nede we, 

 sethyn owre own be sufficient unogh : to put any 

 other exemplis." 



It is evident that what the writer of this book 

 calls the virgil, is our comnna : and his come, our 

 colon. There is nothing, however, allusive to our 

 semicolon. 

 1541. Cranraer's B/We. Here we find the comma, 



colon, and period, and also the note of 



interrogation, but not the semicolon. 

 1597. Gerard's Herbal contains the comma, colon, 



semicolon, and period, 

 1604. First part of Shakspeare's Henry IV., 4to. 



Here the comma, colon, and period are 



used, but not the semicolon. 

 1631. Baker's Well-spring of Science also uses 



the comma, colon, and period, but not 



the semicolon. 

 1636. Record's Ground of Arts. Here all the stops 



now in use are found. 

 1639. Cockeram's English Dictionary defines the 



comma, colon, and period, but not the 



semicolon. The latter, however, is used 



in the preface. 

 1650. Moore's Arithmetic employs all the four 



common stops. 

 1670, Blount's Glossographia defines the four 



common stops. 

 Generally speaking, the stops now in use maybe 

 found in books from about 1630. So much con- 

 cerning punctuation. P. T. 



rAPEKS OF PEBJUET. 



(Vol. ii., pp. 182. 316.) 

 Your correspondent S. R. will find that in Ire- 

 land, as well as in England, the custom prevailed, 



during the reign of Elizabeth, of inflicting a pun- 

 ishment for various crimes, by the public expo- 

 sure of the delinquents with papers about their 

 heads. The following "sentence" for adultery, 

 which has been transcribed from the Booh of the 

 Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Causes (deposited 

 amongst the records of the Court of Exchequer 

 in Ireland, 1570—1574, p. 22.), goes so fully into 

 detail, that it may supply to S. R. the graphic 

 account which he requires : — 



" First, that he (Henry HunchcliiFe) shall not come 

 into, nor kepe, nor use the company of Constance 

 Kyng hereafter, and shalbe bounde to the same effecte 

 in a bond of recognizance of a lOOZ., otherwise to be 

 committed to prison ; there to be kept in such sort 

 that neyther he to hir, nor she to him, shall have access 

 in anywise. Secondlie, that upon Saterdaie next en- 

 seweing at ix of the clocke in the mornyng, he, the 

 said Eyland, alias Hunchcliffe, shall come unto the 

 crosse in the highe strete of Dublin, having on a white 

 shete from his sholders downe to the ground, rounde 

 aboute him, and a paper about his head whereupon 

 shalbe written for adultery leavyng his wyfe in England 

 alyve and marryeng w"' an other here, and a white wande 

 in his hand, and then and there goe up unto the highest 

 staire of the crosse, and there sitte duryng all the time 

 of the markette untill yt be ended ; and furder decreed 

 that Constance Kyng shall not hereafter in anywise 

 resort or have accesse unto him, or kepe him company, 

 and to performe the same they toke hir othe w'=*' she 

 gave upon the holie evangelists ; and furder, after y^ 

 Hunchcliffe hath done his penance as above they de- 

 creed he shold goe to prison againe, there to remayne 

 and abide untill y' shall please the commissioners to 

 take furder order in this cause." 



The book contains other entries of a similar 

 kind. J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



%tJfMti to Mivitix ^ntviti. 



Rev. Thomas Adams, D.D. (Vol. v., p. 80.). — 

 In addition to the sermons enumerated, I possess 

 two more in small quarto : — 1. " Preached at the 

 triennial visitation of the R. R. father in God, the 

 Lord Bishop of London, in Christchurch : text, 

 15 Actes 36 : London, 1625." 2. " The holy choice. 

 at the chappell by Guildhall, at the soleiimitie of 

 the election of the Rt. Hon''*'' the Lord Maior of 

 London : text, 1 Actes 24. 1625." E. D. 



Wiggan, John (Vol. v., p. 78.). — John Wiggan, 

 M.D., the editor of Aretceus (Oxon. fol. 1723), 

 was in 1721 a student of Christ Church. M. D. 



^^ Poets beware!" (Vol. v., p. 78,). — The words 



" Poets beware ! never compare 

 Women to aught in earth or in air," &c. 



are the first of a song by Thomas Haynes Bayly, 

 written for and arranged to music by T. A. Raw- 

 lings, in The Musical Bijou for 1830, edited by 



