Mae. 27. 1852.] 



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a premunire for extending his jurisdiction over 

 tlie Mayor of Thetford, "and was fined for it, 

 with part of which fine 'tis said the beautiful 

 painted glass windows in King's College Chapel at 

 Cambridge were purchased." — Hist, of Norfolk, 

 8vo. edit,, ii. 52. ; iii. 546. 



There is good foundation for the statement that 

 this bishop " was condemned in the premunire " 

 (Coke's Reports, xii. 40, 41.); butlquestion if there 

 be authentic evidence that he " redeemed the pun- 

 ishment of that offence by the glasing of the King's 

 College Chappell windows in Cambridge." Bishop 

 Nykke is no doubt the prelate to whom Feme al- 

 ludes. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Quotation Wanted (Vol. v., p. 228.). — " Cvjus vita 

 despicitur," &c., is from S. Gregor. Magn. Homil. 

 xii. in Eoangelia, § 1. J. C. 11. 



The Great Bowyer Bible (Vol. v., p. 248.).— J. S. 

 is informed that this illustrated Bible is now in 

 the hands of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, and may 

 be seen at their sale-rooms in Piccadilly. 



F. S. Q. 



Showing the White Feather (Vol. v., p. 274.). — 

 The white feather is the sign of the cross-bred 

 bird ; you will never see one in my tail. 



Gamecock. 



John Lord Berkelei/ (Vol. v., p. 275.) never 

 was Bishop of Ely. John Lord Berkeley of Strat- 

 ton, the second son of John Berkeley, was a British 

 admiral ; he died on the 27th of July, 1696-7, not 

 more than thirty-four years of age, during eight of 

 ■which he had filled the office of admiral. See 

 Rose's Biographibal Dictionary. Tybo. 



Dublin. 



History of Commerce (Vol. v., p. 276.).— C. I. P. 

 \vill, I think, find much of the information required 

 in David Macpherson's Annals of Commerce, Lon- 

 don, 1805, 4 vols. 4to. particularly in vols. iii. and 

 iv. ; also in The History of European Commerce 

 with India, by the same author, London 1812, 4to. 

 Neither of them is entered in the Bodleian Cata- 

 logue. C. I. R. 



Game of Curling (Vol. v., p. 13.).— The third 

 volume of Tytler's Lives of Scottish Worthies 

 (No. 37. of the Family Library) contains a series 

 of antiquarian illustrations, of which the last is 

 devoted to " Ancient Scottish Games and Amuse- 

 ments." The author refers particularly to the MS. 

 accounts of the Lord High Treasurer during the 

 reign of King James IV. (1488—1513), in which, 

 however, there appears to be no notice of the 

 "roaring game." The origin of this favourite 

 amusement is certainly involved in mystery, and 

 I have repeatedly failed in my endeavours to as- 

 certain the meaning of the name by which the 

 game is known. On consulting the abridgment of 



Jamieson's Dictionary for the derivation, I find the 

 following : — 



" Perhaps from Teut. Icrollen, kruU-en, sinuare, 

 flectere, whence E. curl ; as the great art of the game 

 is to make the stones bend or curve in towards the 

 mark, when it is so blocked up that they cannot be di- 

 rected in a straight line." 



E.N. 



Ancient Trees (Vol. iv., pp. 401. &c.). — Not- 

 withstanding the assertion of Dr. Johnson, many 

 fine specimens of timber have long existed to the 

 north of the Tweed. At p. 20. of the Edinburgh 

 Antiquarian Magazine (Edin. 1848) will be found 

 a " List of Scottish Trees, of remarkable magni- 

 tude, as they existed in 1812," including nume- 

 rous examples of the oak, larch, ash, elm, beech, 

 silver fir, Scots fir, sycamore, chesnut, black 

 poplar, and yew. One of the largest in the cata- 

 logue is the great yew at Fortingal, in Perthshire, 

 measured by the Hon. Judge Barrington in 1768, 

 when its circumference was no less than fifty-two 

 feet. E. N. 



Paring the Nails, ^c. (Vol. v., pp. 142. &c.). — 

 " Now no superfluity of our food, or in general no 

 excrementitlous substance, is looked upon by them (the 

 Egyptian priests) as pure and clean ; such, however, 

 are all kinds of wool and down, our hair and our nails., 

 It would be the highest absurdity therefore for those 

 who, whilst they are in a course of purification, are at 

 so much pains to take off the hair from every part of 

 their own bodies, at the same time to cloath themselves 

 with that of other animals. So when we are told by 

 Hesiod ' not to pare our nails, whilst we are present at 

 the festivals of the Gods,' we ought so to understand 

 him as if he designed hereby to inculcate that purity 

 with which we ought to come prepared, before we 

 enter upon any religious duty, that we have not 

 to make ourselves clean, whilst we ought to be occu- 

 pied in attending to the solemnity itself." — Plutarch's' 

 Treatise of Isis and Osiris, translated by Squire, 

 p. 5. 1744. 



This note will show the great antiquity of these 

 nail-paring and hair-cutting superstitions. What 

 is there does not come from Egypt ? 



A. Holt White. 



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