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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 122. 



IV. To extract from the Mishneh, &c., the 

 really valuable comments of the rabbis. 



V. To make up the chronology into the follow- 

 ing four great unequal divisions, assigning the 

 particular years to each transaction falling under 

 these divisions ; viz., (a) Adam to Abraham, (b) 

 Abraham to David; (c) David to the transportation 

 of Judah to Babylon; (d) Transportation to Baby- 

 lon to Christ. 



VI. To collate all these important variations of 

 the Septuagint and of the Samaritan Pentateuch. 



VII. Critically to examine the introductions, 

 marginal quotations, and the analyses, as given in 

 the Chronological New Testament. 



I shall with pleasure present any gentleman 

 ■who will help me in any one of these particulars 

 with a copy of the New Testament at once, if he 

 will signify his wish for one, in a line addressed 

 to me, care of the Publisher, Mr. Blackader, 

 13. Paternoster Row. 



The Editor or thk " Chbonologic^u- New 



TjiSTAMENT." 



Trinity Square, Southwark. 



j^tnor cauciteS. 



Pasquinades. — Can any correspondent tell me 

 under whose reign the following pasquinade was 

 published ? 



The reigning Pope had erected a new order of 

 knighthood, and the crosses were very lavishly dis- 

 tributed ; upon which Pasquin said — 

 " In tempi men* leggiadri e piil feroci 

 S'apijiccavan' i ladri in suUe croci, 

 Ma in tempi men' feroci e piu leggiadri 

 S'appiccano croci in sopra ladri." 



L. H. J. T. 



Sir John Fenners Bequest of Bibles. — Sir John 

 Fenner, by will dated 1633, desired his executors 

 to employ monies in purchasing lands (which has 

 since produced 620Z. per annum, but now less than 

 that amount), the rent to be laid out every Easter 

 in buying Bibles and distributing money for and 

 amongst the poor of ten parishes in the metropolis. 

 I shall feel thankful for any information relating 

 to that benevolent gentleman communicated either 

 through your columns, or to me at 35. Gilford 

 Street, Kingsland lioad, London. 



Henry Edwards, 

 (a Subscriber from the beginning). 



Friday at Sea. — I have heard a story respecting 

 the superstition in which sailors hold Friday as a 

 day of departure. To disabuse them of this super- 

 stition, a ship — so runs the tale — was laid down 

 on a Friday ; launched on a Friday ; commanded 

 by a captain named Friday ; sailed on a Friday ; 

 and — so runs the story — was never heard of 

 afterwards ! 



Is there — I believe not — any truth in this 

 tradition ; and where may the earliest allusion to it 

 be found. ? 



Meaning of " Knarres.'^ — In a minister's ac" 

 count of the time of Edward II., relating to Caer- 

 narvonshire, is an entry for rent received "de 

 terra morosa et knarres : " the word is sometimes 

 written gnarres. What does it mean ? I believe 

 in Norfolk and in other counties a description of 

 scrubby woodland is known by the name of 

 carrs (Query spelling). We find ifnares-borough 

 in Yorkshire, and Xnares-dale in Northumberland, 

 iVar-borough in Leicester, iVizr-burgh and Nar- 

 ford in Norfolk. Taking^the n to be the expressive 

 letter, we have perhaps specimens of its softened 

 sound in the names of ^Snare-\a\\, Snar-gnte, 

 S^iares-hrook, &c., in various counties. Some of 

 your etymological readers may be able to explain 

 the derivation of these names, should they be con- 

 sidered to come from a common source, and with 

 that the sentence quoted above. J. Bt, 



Sir John Cheke. — May I hope for a reply to 

 my Queries — in what court poor Sir John Cheke 

 was forced to sit beside Bishop Bonner, at the 

 trials of the martyrs ? and at whose trials he was 

 present? His sad recantation took place in the 

 year 1556, and his death, from a broken heart, in 

 the year following ; so that his being compelled to 

 sit on the bench beside Bonner, must have been 

 at the trials which took place between those two 

 dates. I have Foxe, Fuller, and Strype's memoirs 

 of Sir John Cheke ; but I shall be grateful for 

 any information about him from any other old 

 volumes, or from private sources. C. B. T. 



Arms of Yarmouth. — What authority has Gwil- 

 Hm, in his Display of Hei-aldrie, p. 258., for as- 

 serting — 



" He beareth argent a chevron between three seals, 

 feet erected, sable erased. These armes doe pertaino 

 to the towne of Yarmouth in Norfolk." 



C. L P. 



Gt. Yarmouth. 



'■'■ Litera Scripta Manet." — This is a favourite 

 expression both with speakers and with writers. 

 Is it a quotation ? If so, I should be glad to learn 

 whence it comes. It can scarcely be part of a 

 verse, inasmuch as it contains a violation of a 

 well-known metrical canon : final a short before 

 sc. W. S. 



Linwood. 



Btdl the Barrel. — What is the origin and exact 

 meaning of the word bull in this phrase ? I made 

 a note of the passage in which I found it, thinking 

 that it might possibly be connected in some way 

 with Milton's "bullish." (See vol. iii., p. 241.; 

 vol. iv., p. 394.) 



