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NOTES AND QUEHIES. 



[No. 132. 



Mr. Faber, •who was somewhat out of his way in 

 dealing with the thoughts and langunge of mediaeval 

 writers, catching a sight of this passage, bhmdered 

 between a bell and a belfry^ put campanum for 

 campanile, and thus got an idea of a " cock-on-a- 

 bell," and that this symbol meant a doctor. 

 Whereupon it occurred to him to set the world 

 right with the wonderful discovery which J. K. R. 

 has revived for the amusement of your readers. 



S. R. Maitland. 



Thomas Crawford (Vol. v., p. 344.). — In the 

 seventeenth century there were four professors of 

 philosophy in every university in Scotland. Thomas 

 Crawford was one of the professors in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh from 1640 to 1662. 



Thomas Crawford, educated at St. Leonard's 

 College, St. Andrew's, graduated A.M. 1621 . Suc- 

 ceeded Mr. Samuel Rutherford as Professor of 

 Humanity in the University of Edinburgh, 1625. 

 Appointed Rector of the High School of Edin- 

 burgli in 1630. Elected Professor of Philosophy 

 (or Regent) in the University of Edinburgh, 1640, 

 and continued in tliat office till his death, in 1662. 



He was the author of A Short History of the 

 University of Edinburgh, from 1582 to 1646, first 

 printed in 1808 ; and of Notes and Observations on 

 G. Buchanan's History of Scotland: Edinb. 1708, 

 8vo. pp. 187. 



Botli these posthumous publications are very 

 meagre. J. L. 



Coll. Edinburgh. 



Longevity (Vol. v., pp. 296.401.). — In the church 

 of Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, is tlie following in- 

 scription on a slab in the floor : — 

 " la memory of Elizabeth, y'= Daughter of Thomas 



Lewis, who departed this life the 31" day of May, 



1715, aged 141 years." 

 I was assured that the age of the deceased, as 

 here stated, is confirmed bv tlie parish register. 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 

 ! Temple, 



Theological Tract — The Hwnttjng of the Romish 

 Fo£ (Vol. ill., p. 61.). — Perhaps the following 

 tract is one of those about which S. G. Inquires : 



" The Huntyng and Fyndyng out of the Romish 

 Fox : whiche more than seven yeares hath bene hyd 

 among the Byshoppes of England, after th:it the 

 Kynges Hyghnes Henry VIII, had commanded hym 

 to be dry ven out of hys Ilealme. Written by Wyllyam 

 Turner, Doctour of Physicke, and formerly Fellow of 

 Pembroke College in Cambridge. Basyl, 1543." 



This tract has just been reprinted, with some 

 curtailments and amendments, and with a short 

 memoir of the author prefixed, by my friend, 

 Robert Potts, Esq., M.A., Trin. Coll., Cam. ; and 

 was published by J. W. Parker, London. The 

 copy from which this reprint has been made Is in 

 the library of Trinity College. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



Moke (Vol. v., p. 374.). — With the Editor of 

 "N. & Q." I think the interpretation of "muck" 

 for the old word used by Wyckliffe is " not satis- 

 factory:" I therefore suggest another, perhaps 

 equally questionable. Every rustic in grazing 

 districts knows, that In the hot season of the year 

 sheep are liable to be fearfully flyblown in their 

 living flesh ; and that the maggots thence result- 

 ing are called mokes, or mawks. Is not the 

 preacher's allusion In the text to certain shepherds, 

 or rather sheep of Christ's flock, who, rather than 

 give one of tlieir mokes to help one of their " needy 

 brethren," will allow themselves to "perish" and 

 "be taken of" these maggots? The term in 

 question is, or was formerly, in provincial use as 

 a metonym for lendiculosity in a figurative sense — 

 a tetchy, whimsical individual, being said to be 

 " maggoty," vulgo, mokey. Lendix has not, how- 

 ever, in all cases been treated with abhorrence ; 

 for one of the elder Wesleys not only printed a 

 book of rhymes with the title of Maggots, but 

 prefixed to It his portrait, with one of these animi 

 impetu concitari represented as creeping on the 

 forehead ! D. 



Ground Ice (Vol. v., p. 370.). — J. C. E. will 

 find a very elaborate and Interesting paper " On 

 the Ice formed, under peculiar Circumstances, at 

 the bottom of Running Waters," by the Rev. J. 

 Farquharson, in the Philosophical Transactions of 

 the Royal Society for 1835, Part II, p. 329. J. H. 



Hallamshire. 



Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley (Vol. v., 

 p. 345.). — I beg to suggest to your correspondent 

 J. M., that this nobleman was Richard Boyle^ 

 third Earl of Burlington, and fourth Earl of Cork, 

 who had a passion for architecture, and was the 

 architect of numerous buildings in the metropolis- 

 and other parts of the kingdom. He repaired 

 Inlgo Jones's church of St. Paul, Covent Garden. 

 He built the front of Burlington House in Picca- 

 dilly ; the dormitory at Westminster School ; the 

 Assembly Rooms at York ; and several villas and 

 mansions In various parts of the country, besides 

 publishing some archltectui'al works. Bishop 

 Berkeley was Introduced to him by Pope about 

 the year 1722, and I believe derived some benefit 

 from his patronage. His architectural pursuits 

 are alluded to by Pope in the epistle on the use of 

 riches, which was addressed to him. G. R. J. 



House at Welling (Vol. v., p. 368.). — Inquiry is 

 made about one of our old English poets, who is 

 said to have lived at the old house In Welling, 

 where there is a high yew hedge. 



I am the owner of the house referred to, and 

 have lived here since 1811, 1 have never heard 

 the report, but I think that it may have arisen 

 from the fact, that about eighty years ago a Major 

 Denham possessed the house. It is possible that 



