May 15. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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Dictionaries in the plural, and is spelt " calasses." 

 Each quotes Grose, who refers the word to the 

 {jeiitlemans Magazine for May, 1784 ; but there 

 the above question only is asked, and is unan- 

 swered. It has been suggested that the callis may 

 be so called from its having been founded by some 

 merchant of the Staple of Calais, or from its en- 

 dowment being derived from donations to the 

 chalice, made by persons to the priest administer- 

 ing extreme unction. Calls was the old form of 

 ■chalice. — Vide Halliwell's Dictionary. J. P. Jun. 



Nashe's " Terrors of the Night" 4to. 1594. — 

 Can any correspondent oblige me with Notes, 

 critical, philological, or otherwise, illustrative of 

 the subjoined passages, which occur, among many 

 others scarcely less curious, in the above rare tract, 

 of which I am fortunate enough to possess a (not 

 quite perfect) copy? Speaking of Iceland, he 

 says,— 



" It is reported, that the Pope long since gaue them 

 a dispensation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inso- 

 much as for their vncessant frosts there, no wine but 

 was turned to red emayle as soone as euer it came 

 amongst them." — Z). iii. 



" Other spirits like rogues they have among them, 

 .destitute of all dwelling and habitation ; and they chil- 

 lingly complayne if a constable aske them Cheuela in 

 the night, that they are going vnto Mount Hecla to 

 warme them." — D. ii. 



What is emayle ? and is Cheuela for Qzd va Id f 

 Speaking of a vision of devils, he mentions some 

 "with 



■*' Great glaring eyes, that had whole shelues of Kentish 

 oysters in them ; and terrible wide mouthes, whereof not 

 one of them but would well haue made a case ioT 3Iole- 

 nax' great gloabe of the world." — D. iii. 



Is, then, Wyld's great Globe only a plagiarism 

 from Molenax ? J. Eastwood. 



Did Orientals ever wear Spurs? — In the second 

 -volume, p. 38., of Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, 

 are given some lines from Hyta, Guerras de Gra- 

 nada, &c., descriptive of the departure of Abdallah 

 Chico on his fatal expedition against Lucena. 

 These, enumerating all the braveries of the cor- 

 tege, amongst others, mention 



" Cuanto de Espuela de Oro, 

 Cuanta Estribera de Plata." 

 ^ow, unless this be an oversight of Hyta, his 

 spurs of gold and stirrups of silver require some 

 ■explanation, since the specification of both does 

 not leave us the alternative of supposing that the 

 ibrmer merely meant the sharp corners of the 

 shovel-stirrup, wliich we all know serve the Orien- 

 tal horseman of the present day as spurs. 



Was Hyta a Spaniard or a Moor ? A. C. M. 



Badges of Noblemen in the Fifteenth Century. — 

 What were the customary badges or cognizances 

 of De la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, executed 1450 ; 

 Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, and John Duke 



of Bedford, Protectors, temp. Henry VI. ; Cardi- 

 nal Beaufort; the Earls of Somerset, Salisbury, 

 and Arundel, temp. Henry VI. ; and Sir John 

 Fastolfe ? Buriensis. 



Sir Roger de Coverley. — In the first article of 

 the Number of the Quarterly Review just pub- 

 lished, on Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator^ 

 with Notes and Illustrations^ by W. Henry Wills, ifc 

 is stated, — 



" At the suggestion of Swift they took advantage of 

 a popular name, and derived the Knight's descent from 

 the inventor of the celebrated country-dance," &c. 



I should like to know the authority for this 

 statement respecting Swift, as, at the time of the 

 Spectator first appearing, he was certainly not on 

 good terms with either Addison or Steele. The 

 first Number of the Spectator was published on the 

 1st of March, 1710-11. In Swift's journal, sent 

 to Stella, be says, March 6lh, — 



" I have not seen Mr. Addison these three weeks : 

 all our friendship is over." 



On the 16th he says,— 



" Have you seen the Spectator yet ? a paper that 

 comes out every day. 'Tis written by Mr. Steele, who 

 seems to have gathered new life, and have a new fund 

 of .wit ; it is in the same nature as his Tatters, and they 

 have all of them had something pretty. I believe Ad- 

 dison and he club. I never see them," &c. 



C. DE D, 



Lines on Elizabeth. — No doubt some of your 

 readers will be able to tell me where I may find 

 these verses : — 



" Princeps Ellzabetha tuts Dea magna Britannis." 

 which is fathered upon Ascham ; and the follow* 

 ing, which report gives to Camden : — 



" Elizahetha suis Diva et Dea sola Britannis." 



Petbos. 



Twyford. — Simeon of Durham relates the his- 

 tory of the acts of a council held A. d. 684, in the 

 presence of King Egfrid, and presided over by 

 Archbishop Theodore, at a place called Twyfordy 

 near the river Alne [^JEttwyforda, quod signifcat 

 ad duplex vadmn.'] — Libellus, &c., p. 44. Is there 

 any vestige or record of the site of Twyford? 

 Camden mentions it when speaking of the North- 

 umberland coast : 



" The shore afterwards opens for the river Alaun, 

 which, still retaining the same name it had at 

 Ptolemy's time, is called by contraction Alne, oa 

 whose bank is Twifford, q. d. Two-fords, where was 

 held a synod under King Egfrid; and Eslington» 

 Alnwick," &c. 



Cetbep. 



Irish Titles of Honour : The Knight of Kerry ; 

 The O' Conor Don ; The O' Gorman Mahon.—W iM 

 somebody explain for me the origin of, and right 

 to, these titles, which do not receive the honour 



