April 24. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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not Icelandic for pirate, but only for Scandinavian 

 pirate ; which assumption I should doubt. 



But I wish to be informed in what edition of 

 Art Froda, and at what page thereof, the words 

 Vikingr Skotar may be found. A. N. 



The Abbot of Croyland's Motto. — Will you 

 allow me to call Mb. Lower's attention to a pas- 

 sage in his English Surnames, vol. ii. p. 122., 3rd 

 edition, which he has passed over without com- 

 ment, but which struck me as requiring some 

 editorial notice : 



" The motto of John Wells, last abbot of Croyland, 

 engraved upon his chair, which is still extant, is : 

 " ' Benedicite Pontes, Domine.' 

 " ' Bless the Wells, O Lord 1 ' " 



Reading " Domino" for " Domine " would make 

 the first line of this inscription plain enough, as a 

 quotation from the canticle " Benedicite, omnia 

 opera ; " but what are we to think of the second 

 line ? Could not the worthy abbot have given 

 the pun upon his name in English, without using 

 those particular words, or placing them in such a 

 position that they actually look as if they were in- 

 tended as a translation, word for word, of their 

 Latin companions, in defiance of all the laws of 

 grammar ? C. Foe^es. 



Temple. 



Apple Sauce with Pork. — Why and when was 

 the custom of eating apple sauce with pork first 

 introduced ? Bouifacb. 



Gipsies. — In Shinar, or the province of Ba- 

 bylon, are the mountains of Singares, and the 

 city and river of Singara. Have they anything to 

 do with the origin of Zingari, the Italian name 

 for gipsies ? L. M. M. R. 



Breezes from Gas Works. — Why do secretaries 

 to provincial gas companies call small pieces of 

 coke breezes ; and why do they by letters offer to 

 sell " breezes at tenpence per sack f " My resi- 

 dence is not far distant from the works of one of 

 these ^olian gas companies ; and when the wind 

 is in the east, I inhale breezes which my senses tell 

 me do not blow from " Araby the blest." X.Y. Z. 



The Phrase " and tye.^^ — The clerk in a parish 

 in the north-west part of Sussex frequently makes 

 use of an expression which I cannot understand, — 

 nay more, he is unable to explain it himself ! The 

 expression is used by several of the old men in the 

 parish, though by none of them so often as by the 

 clerk. "Well, master, how are ye to-day?" He 

 answers, " Middling, thanky'e and tye." He brings 

 these two words in at the end of most sentences. 

 If you ask him whether there are many people in 

 the church, he will say, " Fairish number anc? tye" 

 or, " No, not many and tye." 



Can any of your correspondents say if they have 

 heard it elsewhere, or tell the meaning of it ? 



Nedlam. 



Stonehenge, a Pastoral, by John Speed. — Is any 



MS. of this dramatic pastoral known to exist ? It 



was acted, according to Wood, before the President 



and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1635. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



" Buro — Berto — Beriora." — A gold ring was 

 found in France, in the province of Artois, between 

 thirty and forty years ago, bearing the following 

 inscription : 



" buro + berto + beriora. '* 



The ring is of a proper size for a man's finger, 

 is plain, and rounded on the outside. The words 

 are on the inner side, which is flat. They are 

 well engraved, and very distinct. The character 

 is the black letter of the fifteenth century. Per- 

 haps, through the medium of " N. & Q.," a satis- 

 factory interpretation of the three words may be 

 obtained, which has been long sought in vain. 



A. F. A. W. 



^Prentice Pillars. — "Deaths by Fasting," and 

 " Genevra's Chest," have reminded me of another 

 tradition, no doubt equally groundless. It is said 

 by the vergers that one of the circular windows in 

 the transepts of Lincoln Minster was designed by 

 an apprentice ; and that the master, mortified at 

 being surpassed, put an end to his own existence. 

 There is another " 'prentice window " at Melrose : 

 a similar anecdote is connected with two pillars in 

 Roslyn Chapel. And there may have been many 

 more of these clever apprentices and foolish archi- 

 tects, but can one case be substantiated ? C. T. 



Archer Bolls: Master of Archery. — In George 

 Agar Hansard's Book of Archery, 8vo. London, 

 Longman andOrme, 1840, p. 151., it is stated that 

 " Her Gracious Majesty, Alexandrinar Victoria" 

 has her name inscribed upon the Archer Bolls. 

 Query, what are the Archer Rolls ? 



It is further said : 



" That illustrious lady, in imitation of the warrior 

 race of monarchs from whom she springs, has given a 

 proof of real British feeling, by the appointment of a 

 Master of Archery among her household officers." 



I confess I can find no authority upon which 

 this assertion is founded. I have looked into the 

 Calendar of the time, and have consulted ofiicers 

 of the present household upon the existence of the 

 office, without success. 



I should be glad to ascertain the point, being 

 engaged on a manuscript concerning the practice 

 of archery. Toxophiius. 



Witchcraft: Mrs. Hicks and her Daughter. — In 

 the Quarterly for March 1852, in the article on 

 " Sir Roger de Coverley," mention is made of 

 "Mrs. Hicks and her daughter," who were exe- 

 cuted at Huntingdon in 1716 for " selling their: 

 souls to the devil, making their neighbour vomit 

 pins, and raising a storm by which a certain ship 



