Mar. 27. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



305 



• permitted to remain undetermined, if by any pos- 

 sibility it can be cleared up. 



I well knew the medical man who attended the 



. case, and gave evidence at the trial, — he was 

 cruelly assailed afterwards by some who had taken 

 a prejudice against him, and no doubt suffered in 



'his practice in consequence. T. D. P. 



, Hexameter on English Comities (Vol. v., p. 227.). 

 — The lines referred to by M. are to be found in 

 Grey's Memoria Technica and Lowe's Memories, 

 p. 172., and runs thus : 



." Nor cum-dur: we La-y6rk : che-de-not-linc : shrop 

 sta-le-rut norf : 

 Her-wo-wa-northa : Bed-hunt-camb-sufF: mon-gl- 



oxfo-buck-hart-ess : 

 Som-wilt-berk- Middlesex : corn-dev-dors-hamp-Sur- 

 rey-Kent Suss." 

 " Such as are contiguous southward are joined, as in 

 we la: 

 Such as are contiguous westward are hyphened, as 

 che-de," 



c. s. p. 



Fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen (Vol. v., 

 p. 152.). — Your correspondent Avho inquires about 

 an attendant of the Scottish queen who disap- 

 peared when she was in England, will find a 

 notice of the same person in the appendix to Tyt- 

 ler's History of Scotland, reign of Queen Mary. 

 There is a letter there from the English ambassa- 

 dor at Paris to his Court, with an account of the 

 -Queen Dowagei-'s visit to France : he mentions 

 that King Henry had been captivated by one of 

 the ladies in Mary's train, who, it was reported, 

 vras with child to him. The frail fair one left 

 with her mistress, but returned shortly thereafter. 

 I think she must be the person referred to in the 

 Orey Friars' Chronicle. J. F. 



Belfast. 



Ecclesiastical Geography (Vol. iv., p. 276.). — 

 Ajax, who asks the name of some work on this 

 subject, may perhaps find his wants supplied in 

 Geographia Ecclesiastica, Sfc, "Auberto Miraeo 

 auctore." D. K.ock. 



Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head (Vol. v., 

 pp. 175. 235.). — Mb. Wm. Dubrant Coopeb, in 

 " ]Sr. & Q.," has quite mistaken the subject of my 

 inquiry. I am well aware of the cavern, or old 

 copper mine, supposed to have been worked by 

 the Romans ; but the place I inquire about is of a 

 different description, in every respect, and is only 

 six feet across, and eight or ten feet high, and fitted 

 up as a place of worship, with a font, altar, seats, 

 &c. I hope some one who has seen it will lie able 

 yet to throw some light on the subject. L. G. T. 



Lichfield. 



" Wise above that ivhich is vrntten" (Vol. v., 

 pp. 228. 260.).— Professor Scholefield, in his va- 



luable Hints for an improved Translation of the 

 New Testament (p. 64. 3rd edit.), renders the 

 words rh /u)) virfp t yey poTrrai (ppoveT)/ (1 Cor. IV. 6.), 

 " not to be wise above that which is written," and 

 supports this rendering by clear and (to my mind) 

 satisfactory argument. C. P. Ph***. 



Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., pp. 175. 242. ; 

 Vol. v., p. 39.). — The origin of this fancy has not 

 yet been reached. The earliest mention of it that 

 I have met with is by Gascoigne : 



" And thus I sing with pricke against my brest. 

 Like Philomene .... " — Steele Glas, v. 145. 

 Again, in The Spanish Tragedy: 



. . . . " Haply the gentle nightingale 

 Shall carol us asleep ere we be ware, 

 And, singing with the prickle at her breast. 

 Tell our delight." 

 And in The Tivo Noble Kinsmen : 



" O for a pricke now like a nightingale. 

 To put my breast against." — Act III. Sc. 4. 



C. P. Ph***. 



Friday at Sea (Vol. v., p. 200.).— H. M. S. 

 " Wellesley," bearing the flag of the Earl of Dun- 

 donald, on leaving Plymouth for the West Indies, 

 got under way on Friday the 24th of March, 1848 ; 

 and, after she had got outside the breakwater, she 

 was recalled by the Port-admiral, and did not 

 leave again until the next day : it was to take in 

 the mail-bags, but the firm belief of the men was, 

 that the gallant admiral purposely left something 

 behind to avoid going to sea on such an unlucky 

 day as Friday. . W.B.M. 



Dee Side. 



I heard it stated the other day, in conversation, 

 that the ill-fated Amazon commenced her voyage 

 on a Friday. Can any of your readers say with 

 certainty if this was the fact ? W. Frasek. 



Latin Names of Towns (Vol. v., p. 235.).— I tran- 

 scribe, for the benefit of your readers, the full title of 

 the largest Geographical Dictionary which I know 

 to contain the information M. asks for. Dr. William 

 Smith's New Dictionary of Classical Geography 

 may be expected to supply the desideratum, in 

 regard to places known to the Greeks and llomans, 

 but will not, I presume, take up all the names in 

 Baudrand's Dictionary. Its title-page reads as 

 follows : 



" Novum Lexicon Geographicum, in quo universi 

 orbis oppida, urbes, regiones, provinciae, regna, emporia, 

 academise, metropoles, flumina et maria, antiquis et re- 

 centibus nominihiis appellatn, suisque distantiis descripta, 

 recensentur. Illudprimiim in lueem edidit Philippus 

 Ferrarius Alexandrinus, totius servorum ccetus su- 

 premus Pra?sul, S. T. D. atque in Ticinensi Academia 

 publicus Metaphysices et Mathematices Professor. 



" Nunc Vero 

 Michael Antonius Baudrand, Parislnus, prior corn- 

 men datarius de roboribus, de novo mercato, et de 



