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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cbeck her arrogant manner, with the scornful ex- 

 pression "Bow Bell!" evidently intending to re- 

 proach her as -a Cockney. She afterwards asks 

 her intended husband, Sir Petronel Flash, to 

 carry her out of the scent of Newcastle coal and 

 the hearing of Bow Bell. W. S. S. 



Fees /or Inoculation (Vol. iv., p. 231.). — For 

 the information of R. W. B. I beg to send you the 

 following extract from the vestry-book of this 

 parish : 



"22 Jan. 1772, 



" It is further ordered that such of the poor persons 

 belonging to this parish who like to be inoculated for 

 the small-pox may be inoculated at the expence of this 

 parish, not exceedin;^ five sliillings and threepence each 

 person, provided it is done within six weeks of the date 

 hereof. And that each jiersoa to be inocidated shall 

 first produce a certificate under the hands of one 

 justice and one churchwarden to the inoculating sur- 

 geon, and that the parish shall not pay for any one 

 inoculated without such certificate of the person be- 

 longing to Maidstone." 



John Branfiix Haeeisox. 



]VIaidstone. 



Salting of Infants (Vol. v., p. 76.).— 



" Thou wast not salted at all." 



" Et saliendo non salita eras." 



" Tenera infantiuin corpora dum adhuc uteri calorem 

 tenent, et primo vagitu laborios;e vitaf testantur exordia, 

 Solent ab obstetricibus sale contingi, ut sicciora sint et 

 restringantur." — Hieronymus. 



" Observat et Galenus De Sanit., i. 7. : * Sale 

 modico insperso cutem ivfantis densiorein soUdioremque 

 reddi.' " — liosenmuUer ad locum. 



C. B. 



Age of Trees (Vol. v., p. 8.). — Living near 

 the Forest of Dean, I wish to state that it is not 

 known that any trees exist there which can pos- 

 sibly be of anything approaching to the age of 

 Edward III.; that the word forbid savours of a 

 reservation of timber for the use of the mines, if 

 the privileges of the free-miners can really be car- 

 ried back to that time. The intelligence in Pepys 

 was derived from Sir John Winter, the person 

 who bought the whole forest in perpetuity from 

 Charles I., but was allowed by Charles II. only to 

 make the most of it he could in his own time. 

 Some trees may have survived the smash which he 

 made, but they must either have been young, or 

 worthless from age or decay. C. B. 



Objectioe and Snhjectioe (Vol. v., p. 11.). — I 

 would beg to refer X. to the first of the five Ser- 

 mons by W. H. Mill, D.D., preached before the 

 University of Cambridge, in Lent, 1844. When 

 he has carefully perused it, he will be enlightened 

 as to the precise meaning of the terms objective 

 and subjective; being made aware that there is one 

 great object of faith, though, with some writers, the 

 subject, man, may be made the most prominent. 



X. will there find that what he styles " exoteric 

 jargon" has, in the hands of so judicious a writer 

 and so excellent a divine as Dr. Mill, been 

 " translated into intelligible English." J. H. M. 



Parish Registers (Vol. v., p. 36.). — I am sorry 

 not to be able to agree with Me. Chadwick in 

 thinking " that no fee is legally payable for search- 

 ing the register-books of baptisms and burials, nor 

 even for making a copy," &c. It is quite certain 

 that even parishioners have no right to inspect the 

 parish books, except for ordinary parochial pur- 

 poses. In the case of Rex v. Smallpiece, 2 Chitt. 

 Mep. 288., Lord Tenterden said, " 1 know of no 

 rule of law which requires the parish officers to 

 show the books, in order to gratify the curiosity of 

 a private individual." Therefore the " genealo- 

 gical or archjeological inquirer " has in general no 

 right to inspect, much less copy the register- 

 books : consequently he must pay the fees de- 

 manded for being allowed to do so. J. G. 



Temple. 



"'275 Tuppence now" Sec (Vol. iv., pp. 314. 

 372.). — The lines quoted by Fanny I immediately 

 recognised as Thomas Ingoldsby's. On the ap- 

 pearance of Remigius' Query, I looked through 

 the Ingoldsby Legends as the most likely place to 

 find the lines in, but failed, in consequence of an 

 alteration of the last stanza, which in my edition 

 (the third, 1842) runs thus: 



•' I thought on Naseby, Marston Moor, on Worc'ster's 

 ' crowning fight ; ' 

 When on mine ear a sound there fell, it chill'd me 



with affright, 

 As thus in low unearthly tones I heard a voice begin, 

 ' This here's the cap of Giniral Monk ! Sir, please 

 put summut in I' " 

 " C<Btera desiderantur," Ingoldshy Legends, 2nd 

 Series, pp. 119, 120. 



Ed. S. Jackson. 

 Saffron Walden. 



Chatterbox (Vol. iv., p. 344.). — I doubt whether 

 your correspondent J. M. will succeed in limiting 

 the term chatter-box to the female sex. His ren- 

 dering buxom by womanly will hardly stand the 

 test of criticism. In the old matrimonial service, 

 as elsewhere, it originally signified obedient, com- 

 pliant, and was equivalent to the German biegsam. 

 It was applied indifferently to men and women. 

 Thus, in Chaucer's Shipmanne's Tale — 



" They wolden that hir husbondes shulden be 

 Hardy and wise and riche, and thereto free. 

 And buxom to his wife, and fresh a-bed." 



And in the Gierke'' s Tale, speaking of the vassals, 

 " And they with humble heart ful buxomly. 

 Kneeling upon hir knees ful reverently, 

 Him thonken all." 

 The peasantry in Cheshire, instead of chatter- 

 box, say chatter-6<wAc^. E. A. 



