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Vol. v. — No. 126.] Saturday, March 27. 185^. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — ' Page 



Pilgrimages to tlie Holy Land - - - - 289 



Surnames ------- 290 



License to make Malt in isgc, by Julius Partrige - 291 



Where Lollard was buried, and what became of his 

 Bones - - - - - - - 292 



Dean Swift's Library - - - - - 292 



Folk Lore : — Churching of Women — Wassailing Or- 

 chards in Sussex — Lucky Omens — Lambs — Key 

 Experiments ----_. 293 



- Minor Notes :— Rhymes connected with Places — French 



Dates — " Black Book of Scone " — Cracked Glass 



Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England - - 293 



Queries : — 



Legal Worthies, Queries respecting - - - 294 

 Town Halls, by J. H. Parker - . . . 290 

 Minor Queries: — Chasseurs Britanniques — Knights 

 Templars and Freemasons — St. Cliristoplier — 

 Arnold Bilson's Wife — Exeter Controversy — Educa- 

 tion in the Time of Elizabeth — Sword swallowing 



Livy quoted by Grotius — Eleanor, Lady of the Ring 



— Catalogue of Pictures — " Well bobbit, Blanch of 

 Middleby" — Letter to a Brigadier-General— Dr. Fell — 

 Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln — Almas-cliffe — .Amyclae 



— Cynthia's Dragon Yoke — London Genealogical 

 Society — The Article " An "— Black Gowns and Red 

 Coats; — Coleridge's "Friend" — Wycherley's Verses 



on Plowden and Lady Sunderland - - . 295 



Minor Queries Answered: — "SaUisbury Welsh Pedi- 

 gree Book "— The Earl of ErroU— Heraldic— Family 

 of Grey— Coinage of Richard HI. — Edward Bagshaw 



— Couched, to couch — Marriage of Mrs, Claypole - 297 



Replies : — 



Original Letter of General James Wolfe - - 29S 



Earl of Chepstow ------ 300 



Deaths from Fasting ----- 301 



Burning Fern brings Rain - - _ -301 



The Fish called " Vendace " - . - . 302 



Macaronic Poetry ------ 302 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Cooper's Miniatures of 

 Cromwell — The Vellum-bound Junius — Sept- 

 Many Children— Hog's Norton — Cromwell's Skull 



— Eliza Fenning— Hexameter on English Counties — 



Fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen— Ecclesiasti- 

 cal Geography — Llandudno, on the Great Orme's 

 Head — " Wise above that which is written "—Night- 

 ingale and Thorn — Friday at Sea — Latin Names of 

 Towns — Gospel Trees — Gospel Oaks — "He that 

 runs may read "—Wild Oats — Portrait of Mrs. Percy 

 —Traditions of a Remote Period ; the Chamberlaine 

 Family —St. Bartholomew— John Rogers, Proto- 

 martyr; Descendants inquired for— English Trans- 

 lation of the Canons—" Arborei foetus alibi," &c 



Horn-blowing— " God's Love"— Plague Stones — 

 Melody of the Dying Swan— Cimraerii — Stoke — 

 King's College Chapel Windows — Quotation wanted 



— Showing the White Feather —John Lord Berkeley 

 —History of Commerce— Game of Curling— Ancient 

 Trees — Paring the Nails, &c. - - . . 303 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements » - 



- 309 

 • 310 



- 310 



Vol. V.--K"o. 126. 



riLGEIMAGES TO THE HOLY I-AND. 



In an article in the Retrospective Review (2nd 

 Series, vol. ii. p. 234.) it is stated that the first 

 book ever printed concerning Pilgrimages to the 

 Ploly Land was the Peregrinatio Bernhardi de 

 BreydenbacJi, Moguntiae, 1486 ; and in the Pre- 

 face to the Pylgrymage of Sir Richard Guyl- 

 forde to the Holy Land in 1506, lately published 

 by the Camden Society, the learned editor 

 remarks that the work of Bernhard de Breyden- 

 bach, Opus transmarincs Peregrinationis ad ve- 

 nerandum et gloriosum Sepulchrum dominicum in 

 Jhermalem (fol. Mogunt. 1486), is believed to 

 be the first book of travels that was printed. 

 Having by me notes of five works printed earlier 

 than that of Breydenbach just mentioned, — and all 

 of these, with one exception, being Pilgrimages to 

 the Holy Land, — I forward them for publication 

 in " N. & Q.," and probably some of your corre- 

 spondents may be able to add to the list. 



1. Ludolf von Smhen (" Ludolphus parochialis 

 ecclesicB in Suchen rector"), De terra sancta et 

 itinere Jhierosolymitano. — Three undated editions, 

 but in all probability printed before 1480, are 

 mentioned in Brunets Manuel du Lihraire. A 

 German translation, entitled. Von dem gelobten 

 Land vnd Weg gegen Iherusalem, was published at 

 Augsburg in 1477 in 4to. The author travelled 

 about the year 1340. "His journal," observes 

 Dr. Kobinson (Biblical Researches in Palestine, 

 iii. p. 11.), "is written with great simplicity, and 

 has something of the marvellous ; but is decidedly 

 the best itinerary of the fourteenth century." 



2. Marco Polo, the celebrated Eastern traveller, 

 wrote an account of his peregrinations in Italian, 

 about the year 1300. A German translation was 

 printed at Nuremberg as early as 1477, with the 

 following title : Hie hebt sich an das Puch des edeln 

 Ritters vnd Landtfarers Marcho Polo; in dem er 

 schreibt die grossen wunderlichen Ding dieser Welt. 

 (In folio.) 



3. Sir John Mandeville. Both French and 

 Italian editions of the well-known " Marvaylous 

 Travailes " of this worthy knight were printed in 

 1480. (See Brunet id suprJ) 



