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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 115. 



Vade Mecum, Part 11. p. 283. third edit.) thus 

 gives the substance of the canon : — 



" 82. Whereas, among the venerable pictures, the 

 X.amb is represented as pointed at by the finger of his 

 forerunner [John the Baptist], which is only a symbol 

 or shadow; we, having due regard to the type, but pre- 

 ferring the anti-type, determine that he be for the future 

 described more perfectly, and that the portraicture of a 

 man be made instead of the old Lamb : that by this 

 we may be reminded of His incarnation, life, and death." 



And though I have not the precise edition at 

 hand to which Sir J. E. Tennent refers, yet on 

 turning to Labbe, I find that Johnson has cor- 

 rectly epitomized the canon in question. 



" In nonnullis venerabilium imaginum picturis, 

 agnus qui digito praecursoris monstratur, depingitur, 

 qui ad gratias figuram assumptus est, verum nobis 

 agnum per legem Christum Deum nostrum praemon- 

 strans. Anliquas ergo figuras et umbras, ut veritatis 

 signa et characteres eccleslae traditos, amplectentes, 

 gratiam et veritatem praeponimus, eum ut legis im- 

 plementum suscipientes. Ut ergo quod perfectum est, 

 vel colorum expressionibus omnium oculis subjiciatur, 

 ejus qui toUit peccata mundi, Christi Dei nostri hu- 

 mana forma characterem etiam in imaginibus deinceps 

 pro veteri agno erigi ac depingi jubemus : ut per 

 ipsum Dei verbi humillationis celsitudinem mente 

 comprehendentes, ad memoriam quoque ejus in came 

 conversationis, ejus passionis et salutaris mortis dedu- 

 camur, ejusque quae ex eo facta est mundo redemp- 

 tionis." — Labbe, Sacros. Concil. t. vi. p. 1177. Paris, 

 1671. 



W.Dn. 



, Itotten Row (Vol. i., p. 441. ; Vol. ii., 

 p. 235.). — May I be allowed to re-open the ques- 

 tion as to the origin of this name, by suggesting 

 that it may arise from the woollen stuff called 

 rateen ? A " Rateenrowe" occurs in 1437 in Bury 

 St. Edmund's, which was the great cloth mart of 

 the north-eastern parts of the kingdom ; and 

 where, at the same time, were a number of rows 

 named after trades, as " Lyndraper Row," " Mer- 

 cer's Row," " Skynner Rowe," " Spycer's Rowe," 

 &c. What is the earliest known instance of the 

 word ? BuRiENSis. 



Borough- Evglish (Vol. iv., pp. 133. 214. 235. 

 259.). — Watkins' Copyholds furnishes in its ap- 

 pendix a list of the customs of difi'erent manors, 

 and therein specifies those which are subject to the 

 custom of Borough-English. With regard to there 

 being any instance on record of its being carried 

 into effect in modern times, there must not be a 

 mistake between the custom which now exists, 

 and that which some authors assert was the origin 

 of it. The custom is, that the youngest son in- 

 herits in exclusion of his eldest brothers ; this is 

 exercised, or it could not exist. But the custom 

 to which reference has been made, as having been 

 stated by some authors to be the origin of the 

 existing custom of Borough-English, is not men- 



tioned by Littleton as such. He gives a difTerent 

 reason, namely : 



" Because the younger son, by reason of his tender 

 age, is not so capable as the rest of his brethren to 

 provide for himself." 



And Blackstone adduces a third from the practice 

 of the Tartars, among whom, on the authority of 

 Father Duhalde, he states that this custom of 

 descent to the youngest son also prevails, and 

 gives it in these words : — 



" That nation is composed totally of shepherds and 

 herdsmen ; and the elder sons, as soon as they are 

 capable of leading a pastoral life, migrate from their 

 father with a certain allotment of cattle, and go to seek 

 a new habitation. The youngest son, therefore, who 

 continues latest with the father, is naturally the heir of 

 his house, the rest being already provided for. And 

 thus we find that among many other northern nations, it 

 was the custom for all the sons but one to migrate 

 from the father, which one became his heir. So that 

 possibly this custom, wherever it prevails, may be the 

 remnant of that pastoral state of our British and Ger- 

 man ancestors, which CjBsar and Tacitus describe." 



T. CoPEMATf. 



Aylsham, Norfolk. 



Tonge of Tonga (Vol. iv., p. 384.). — This very 

 ancient family did not become extinct, as conjec- 

 tured by your correspondent J. B. (Manchester). 

 Jonathan Tonge of Tonge, gent., by will, dated 

 Sept. 7, 1725, devised his estate " to be sold to the 

 best purchaser," and appointed his brother Thomas 

 Tonge, gent., who had a family, one of his execu- 

 tors. In the year following, the whole estate 

 was purchased for 4350Z. by Mr. John Starky of 

 Rochdale, a successful attorney, in whose repre- 

 sentative it is now vested. The Tonges deduced 

 their descent from Thomas de Tonge, probably a 

 natural sou of Alice de Wolveley (herself the 

 heiress of the family of Prestwich of Prestwich), 

 living 7 Edw. II. 1314, as appears by an elaborate 

 pedigree of the family (sustained by original evi- 

 dences), in my possession, and at the service of 

 J. B. F. R. R. 



Milnrow Parsonage. 



Queen Brunehaut (Vol. iv., p. 193.). — "That 

 monster queen Brunehaut ! " For these two cen- 

 turies there have been writers, beginning with 

 Pasquier, and apparently gathering weight and 

 influence, who are by no means disposed to be- 

 stow that epithet upon Brunehaut, whose execu- 

 tioners were monsters certainly at any rate. C. B. 



" Essex Broad OalC' (Vol. v., p. 10.).— In " the 

 Forest," two or three miles from Bishop Stortford, 

 is the ruin of an old oak, from which the parish 

 no doubt takes its name of Hatfield Broad Oak. 

 There is a print of this tree in Arthur Young's 

 Survey of Essex. 



If the rural readers of " N. & Q." will observe 

 whether the finest specimens of oaks have their 



