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•NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 129. 



inform me whether it ever appeared as an appendix 

 to any work of Wordsworth's on the English lakes? 



J. J. A. WOESAAE. 



Alitor caueitci. 



Taylor Family. — A great favour would be 

 ccnferred by any AVorcestershire correspondent 

 who could furnish any information as to the family, 

 arms, place of burial, of Samuel Taylor, who was 

 JNJayor of Worcester in 1731-32, and again in 

 1737. Are any descendants or conne>nons still 

 resident in that neighbourhood ? The information 

 is required for genealogical purposes. 



E. S. Tatlob. 



Analysis. — Is algebra rightly termed analysis? 

 Edgar Poe, a very queer American author, main- 

 tains the negative : he also enters into the question 

 as to whether games of skill and chance are useful 

 to the analytical powers, and gives the preference 

 to draughts over chess, and to whist over either. 

 But he seems to think the chief applications of 

 analysis are to the interpretation of cryptographies, 

 the disentanglement of police puzzles, and the 

 solution of charades ! 



There is, however, plausibility in his theory that 

 a good analyst must be both poet and mathemati- 

 cian. This is Ruskin's " imagination penetrative :" 

 sucU a faculty belonged to the minds of Verulam 

 and Newton, of Kepler and Galileo. I do not, 

 however, see the necessity of Ruskin's threefold 

 division of the " imaginative faculty." Would not 

 "imagination analytic and creative " suffice ? 



Mortimer Collins. 



Old Playing Cards. — In 1763 Dr. Stukeley 

 exhibited to the Antiquarian Society a singular 

 pack of cards, dating before the year 1500. They 

 were purchased in 1776, by Mr. Tutet, and on his 

 decease they were bought by Mr. Gough. In 

 1816 they had passed into the possession of Mr. 

 Triphook, the bookseller. Query, where are they 

 uow ? Edward E. Rimbault. 



Canongate Marriages. — According to the New- 

 gate Calendar, vol. ii. p. 269., there seems to have 

 existed, about the year 1745, a soi't of Gretna 

 Green in the Canongate of Edinburgh. It is long 

 since I read that famous work, but I made an 

 excerpt at the time, which is as follows : 



" It was customary for some of the ministers of the 

 Church of Scotland, who were out of employment, to 

 marry people at the ale-houses, in the same manner 

 that the P'leet marriages were conducted in London. 

 Sometimes people of fortune thought it prudent to 

 apply to these marriage brokers ; hut, as their chief 

 business lay among the lower ranks of people, they 

 were deridingly called by the name of ' Buckle the 

 Beggars.' Most of these marriages were solemnized 

 at public-houses in the Canongate." 



This statement "conies in such a questionable 

 shape," and from so "questionable" a quarter, 

 that really one cannot be blamed for queslioning- 

 it. Surely the ministers referred to must have 

 been men deprived of their charges? Can any 

 correspondent of " N. & Q." speak to this subject? 

 I am certain that the Scottish clergy of that age 

 would never have suffered any Buckle the Beggars 

 to rank with them as regular preachers, though 

 " out of employment." R. S. F. 



Perth. 



Devil, Proper Name. — Will any of vour cor- 

 respondents kindly inform me whether there are 

 any pei'sons now existing of the name of Devil ; 

 or who bear the devil on their coat of arms ? In 

 1847 I saw upon the panel of a carriage in London 

 the devil's head for a crest. To what family does 

 this belong? "Robin the Devil" is mentioned in 

 Rokeby, cant. vi. st. 32. The following is li'om the 

 Monthly Mirror, August, 1799: 



" Formerly there were many persons surnamed 'the 

 Devil.' In an ancient hook we read of one llogerius 

 Diabolus, Lord of Montresor." "An English monk, 

 Willelmus, cognomento Diabolus. Again, Hughes le 

 Diable, Lord of Lusignan. Robert, Duke of Nor- 

 mandy, son of William the Conqueror, was surnamed 

 ' the Devil.' In Norway and Sweden there were two 

 families of the name of ' Trolle,' in English, ' Devil;' 

 and every branch of these families had an emblem of 

 tlie devil for their coat of arms. In Utrecht there was 

 a family called ' Teufel ' (or Devil); and in Brittany 

 there was a family of the name of ' Diable.' " 



W. R. Deehe Salmon. 



IIendu7'ucus dii Booys ; Helena Leonora de 

 Sieveri. — Their portraits engraved by Cornelius 

 Vischer from paintings by Vandyke. Who were 

 they ? G. A. C. 



Can a Clergyman marry himself? — If a clergy- 

 man were to perform the marriage service in his 

 own case, would it be valid ? lias such an oc- 

 currence ever been known ? Constant Reader. 



Ground Ice. — Has any satisfactory explanation 

 been given of the mode in which the peculiar sub- 

 stance termed ground ice is formed in certain 

 rivers. I am most familiar with it as seen in the 

 Wiltshire Avon. It is seen in some rivers in Lin- 

 colnshire, where I am told it is called ground-gru. 

 One who has noticed it in the Teviot says, that the 

 inhabitants there call it "sludge." 



The fact of ice being formed at the hotfom of 

 streams, where we should expect a higher tem- 

 perature, is so curious an anomaly, that it would 

 be desirable to collect instances where and at what 

 depths it is observed. J. C. E. 



Astrologer- Royal. — I remember, in a former 

 volume of "N. & Q.," some mention is made of 

 Almanacks, Astrologers, &c. It escaped me at 

 the time to tell you that the ancient office of 



