Mar, 13. 1852.] 



NOTES AM) QUERIES. 



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ia small tract, Seven Letters written hy Sterne and 

 his Friends, hitherto unpublished, edited by Wil- 

 liam Durrant Cooper, 1844. M. T. R. 



ThouEfh not cotemporarv, there are some lively 

 notices of Sterne's journey to France in the London 

 JHugcczine for 1823, pp. 38. 387. Cowgill. 



SUcpIiCiS ta iBinav €L\xtviti. 



■ Collar of Esses. — As an original subscriber, and 

 the first Querist who opened tiie vexata qucstio of 

 Collar of Esses, I shall perhaps be doing you a 

 kind service, Mr. Editor, if I may be allowed to 

 step forward once more as a moderator between 

 the disputants, as I did (Vol. ii., p. 394.) between 

 Armiger and a much respected correspondent. 



There may be some excuse for H. B. as he con- 

 fesses (Vol. v., p. 182.) himself to be a, freshman in 

 the pages of " iST. & Q. ; " and therefore he is a 

 stranger to the tone of courtesy and good humour 

 which are so essential to the prosperity, mainte- 

 nance, and extension of your very useful periodical. 

 A little more experience in his readings, and less 

 of self'opiniatedness, would have spared him the 

 severe but merited remarks of Mr. L. Evans 

 (Vol. v., p. 207.). 



As of old all writers were wont to consider 

 their readers most courteous, so let those who 

 write for your pages reverse this rule — and then 

 there will be nothing contrary to such a tone, to 

 the injury of " N. & Q." S. S. 



Quid est Episcopus (Vol. v., p. 177.). — This 

 passage does not, as X. G. X. thinks, come from 

 Irenteus, but from St. Austin. I find the refer- 

 ence to it in Bingham's Antiquities (vol. i. p. 72. 

 cd. 1843), where the whole passage is thus quoted 

 at the foot of the page : 



'• Quid est episcopus, nisi ])rimus presbyter, id est, 

 suramus sacerdos?" — Aug. QuiBst. Vet. et N. Test. c. ei. 



F.A. 



Paper-making in England (Vol. v., p. 83.). — I 

 do not pretend to know anything of the history of 

 paper-making ; but it may be well to send you a 

 passage from Fuller's Worthies (vol. i. p. 224., 

 ed. Nuttall), which lately fell in my way: 



" Paper is entered as a manufacture of this county 

 [Cambridgeshire], because there are mills nigh Stur- 

 bridge fair, where paper was made in the memory of 

 our fathers. Pity the making thereof is disused : con- 

 siilering the vast sums yearly expended in our land for 

 paper out of Italy, France, and Germany, which might 

 be lessened, were it made in our nation." 



J. C. R. 



''Mother Damnable'' (Vol. v., p. 151.). — The 

 real name of this shrew does not appear to have 

 I'eached posterity, but she gave rise to the sign of 

 Mother lled-cap on the Hampstead Road, a.d. 



1676, and was probably the person represented 

 on that sign ; to her portrait, which may be found 

 in a book published by " Arnett, Westminster, 

 1819," entitled Portraits and Lives of Remarkable 

 and Eccentric Characters., are annexed the follow- 

 ing lines : 



«' You've often seen (from Oxford tipling house) 

 Th' effigies of Shipton fac'd Mother Louse, 

 Whose pretty pranks (tho' some they might excel) } 

 With this old trot's ne'er gallop'd parallel — 

 'Tis Mother Damnable ! that monstrous thing, 

 Unmatch'd by Macbeth's wayward women's ring. 

 For cursing, scolding, fuming, flinging fire 

 1' th' face of madam, lord, knight, gent, cit, squire ; 

 Who (when but ruffled into the least pet) 

 With cellar door-key into pocket get — 

 Then no more ale ; and now the fray begins ! 

 'Ware heads, wigs, hoods, scarfs, shoulders, sides, and 



shins ! 

 While these dry'd bones, in a Westphalian bag, 

 (Through the wrinkled weasan of her shapeless crag) 

 Send forth such dismal shrieks and uncouth noise. 

 As fills the town with din, the streets with boys ; 

 Which makes some think, this fierce slie-dragon fell \ 

 Can scarce be niatch'd by any this side hell. 

 So fam'd both far and near, is the renown 

 Of Mother Damnable of Kentish Town. 

 Wherefore this symbol of the cat's we'll give her, 

 Because, so curst, a dog, would not dwell with her." 



James Cornish. 



Miniature of Cromwell (Vol. v., p. 189.). — At. 

 the last meeting of the Society of Scottish Anti- 

 quaries, a curious jewel, belonging to the Earl of 

 Leven, and entailed in his lordship's family, was 

 exhibited by the Hon. Leslie Melville. It is be- 

 lieved to have been transmitted by the Speaker of 

 the House of Commons to the Earl of Leven on 

 the occasion of the surrender of Charles I., whea 

 the earl was in command of the army at Newark. 

 The jewel encloses a beautiful little miniature of 

 Oliver Cromwell. E. N^. 



Etymology of Church (Vol. v., p. 79.). — Gieseler, 

 in his Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte, vol. i., p. 1. 

 ed. 4., says that the word kirche (and consequently 

 church) is most probably derived from rb KvpiaK6i/. 

 In support of this opinion, he quotes Walafrid 

 Strabo, who wrote about a-d- 840 : 



" Si autem quaeritur qua occasione ad vos vestigia 

 haec Grascitatis advenerint, dicendum — praacipue a 

 Gothis, cum eo tempore quo ad fidem Christianam, 

 licet non recto itinere [i.e. by means of Arianism], 

 perducti sunt, in Grsecorum provinciis commorantes, 

 nostrum, i.e. theotiscum, sermonem habuerint." 



He adds that Ulphilas is evidence for the ge- 

 neral adoption of Greek ecclesiastical terms by 

 the Goths ; and he confirms the idea of a Greek 

 derivation by the remark that derivatives of 

 KvpLoxdv occur, not only in the Teutonic languages, 

 but in those of the Sclavonic nations, whose con- 



