Mar. 13. 1852.] 



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Although it was for some time attributed to 

 this author, it became subsequently well known 

 to be the work of Miss Catherine Fanshawe, in 

 whose handwriting I have seen it, together with 

 another unpublished enigma of hers, iu the album 

 of a lady of my acquaintance. E. H. Y. 



" Troilus and Cressida" Act I. Sc. 3. (Vol. v., 

 pp. 178. 235.). — The meaning which your cor- 

 respondent wishes to give the word dividable seems 

 exactly the one wanted in this passage ; but need 

 we go so far from its apparent derivation as to 

 derive it from divitias, dare? — One of the mean- 

 ings of divido is to distribute, — why then should 

 not dividable mean distributive, distributing their 

 riches, &c. ? C. T. A. 



Lyndon Rectory, Uppingham. 



Stone-pillar Worship (Vol. v., p. 121.). — The 

 article " Hermae," in Smith's Antiquities, throws 

 some light on this subject. The pillar set up as a 

 witness (see Genesis there quoted, and the Classics 

 passim)* is of course closely connected with the 

 idea of sanctity attached to it. The Laplanders 

 in selecting the unhewn stone " in the form in 

 which it was shaped by the hand of the Creator 

 Himself," seem, to a certain extent, unwittingly 

 to have obeyed a command of the Creator : see 

 Exodus, XX. 25. A. A. D. 



John of Padua (Vol. v., pp.79. 161.). — lam 

 afraid we are not likely to obtain much additional 

 information about John of Padua. The only 

 account of him which I have ever met with is 

 contained in the Earl of Orford's Works (vol. iii. 

 p. 100. et seqq., edit. 1798). The warrant, dated 

 1544, is there copied from Rymer's Foedera ; and 

 from an expression which it contains, the inference 

 is drawn that " John of Padua was not only an 

 architect, but musician." I am not aware whether 

 or no there is any other authority for such infer- 

 ence, but, if there is not, I submit that the evi- 

 dence is far from conclusive. The words in the 

 warrant run thus : A fee of two shillings per diem 

 is granted to John, " in consideratione boni et fidelis 

 servitii quod dilectus serviens noster Johannes de 

 Padua nobis in architectura, ac uliis in re musica 

 inventis impendit ac impendere intendit." 



Now, Sir, 1 submit that res musica, in this pas- 

 sage, is used in the same sense as the Greek 

 ■^ HovariK^ for " the fine arts ; " and that the passage 

 can have no reference to the art of the musician. 



If John of Padua had been a musician, we 

 should most probably meet with his name in some 

 of the accounts of plays and pageants during this 

 reign ; and the silence of your correspondents 

 seems to imply that no information concerning 

 him is to be obtained from those sources. 



* Is it not as the witness and keeper of Holy Writ 

 that St. Paul calls the church StuAos kolI eSpalecixa r^y 

 a\r]9eias ? 



In the absence of further proof, then, I have no 

 hesitation in proposing to the critical readers of 

 " N. & Q.," a resolution that. It is the opinion of 

 this council that there is no sufficient evidence 

 that John of Padua was a musician. Ekica. 



Modem Greek Names of Places (Vol. iv., p. 

 470. ; Vol. v., pp. 14. 209.). — Your correspondent 

 L. H. J. T. says, at p. 209. : — 



" That with the utmost deference to Sir J. Emersox 

 Tennent, he must deny that Cos, Athens, or Constan- 

 tinople have been called by the Greeks Stance, Satines, 

 or Stamboul. These corruptions have been made by 

 Turks, Venetians, and Englishmen." 



This motle of expression would imply that the 

 opinion which he corrects was held by me, whereas 

 I have stated (Vol. v., p. 14.), even more ex- 

 plicitly than he, that — 



" The barbarism in question is to be charged less 

 upon the modern Greeks themselves, than upon the 

 European nations, Sclavouians, Normans, and Vene- 

 tians, and, later still, the Turks ; who seized upon 

 their country on the dismemberment of the Roman 

 empire. The Greeks themselves, no doubt, continued 

 to spell their proper names correctly ; but their in- 

 vaders, ignorant of their orthography, and even of their 

 letters, were forced to write the names of places in 

 characters of their own, guided solely by the sound." 

 J. Emerson Tennent. 



Beocherie, alias Parva Hibernia (Vol. v., 

 p. 201.). — Beocera-ig, i. e. the bee-keeper's island, 

 was one of the small islets adjacent to the larger 

 one, Avallon, whereon the Abbey of Glastonbury, 

 stood. Glastonbury was early resorted to by 

 Irish devotees ; St. Patrick and St. Bridget neces- 

 sarily resided there. Concerning Beocherie or 

 Bekery, we are told that there " olim sancta 

 Brigida perhendinavit" (MS. Ashmol. 790, quoted 

 in the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 22.). This accounts, 

 for the name Parva Hibernia. Beocera-gent, in 

 charter 652, is the name of some landmark or 

 boundary. There can be little doubt that we 

 should read beocera-geat, i. e. bee-keeper's gate, 

 as suggested by Mr. Kemble in the preface to the 

 third vol. of Codex Dipl. p. xxvi. The duties 

 and rights of the beocere, beo-ceorl, or bocheruSy 

 are described in the " Rectitudines singiilaruni 

 personarura," Thorpe's Anc. Laws, vol. i. p. 434. 



C. W. G. 



Ruffles, when worn (Vol. v., pp. 12. 139.). — 

 Planche, in his History of British Costume, says 

 that during the reign of Henry VIII., " the sleeves 

 were ruffed, or ruffled at the hand, as we perceive 

 in the portrait of Henry. They were not added to 

 the shirt till the next century. ^^ R. S. F. 



Perth. 



Long Meg of Westminster (Vol. ii., pp. 131. 172. ; 

 Vol. v., p 133.). — As an instance of this title 

 being applied (as Fuller has it) " to persons very. 



