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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 131. 



p. 25.), is the proper name. I have read some- 

 where or another that Pagoda is a name invented 

 by the Portuguese from the Persian " Pentgheda," 

 meaning a temple of idols. Joss, applied to the 

 Chinese temples, seems to be the Spanish Dius 

 (Deus), as diurnal becomes journal. 



"The Fetiche of the African (says Mr. Milman) is 

 the Manitou of the American Indian. The word 

 Fetiche was first, I believe, brought into general use in 

 the curious volume of the President de Brosses' Du 

 Culte des Dieux Fetiches. The word was formed by 

 the traders to Africa from the Portuguese Fetisso, 

 chose fee, enchantee, divinee, ou rendant des Oracles." 



De B. p. 18 History of Christianity (3 vols. 1840), 



vol. i. p. 11. 



Query, Is this word the same as a common word 

 in Ireland (upon which Banim founded a tale), 

 ycleped fetch, which answers to the Scotch 

 ivraith ? Eikionnach. 



" And Eva stood and loept aloneT — A good many 

 years ago I deciphered on the marbled paper cover 

 of one of my school-books the lines of which the 

 following are what I yet retain in memory : 



" And Eva stood, and wept alone, 

 Awhile she paused, then woke a strain 

 Of intermingled joy and pain. 



Yes, O my mother ! thou art fled. 

 And who on this lone heart will shed 

 The healing dew of sympathy, 

 That stills the bosoms deepest sigh ? 

 Yes ! thou art fled, but if 'tis given 

 To spirits in the courts of heaven 

 To watch o'er those they love (for this 

 Must heighten even angels' bliss), 

 If blessing so refined and pure 

 Our mortal frailty can endure, 

 Oh ! may my mother's spirit mild 

 Watch over and protect her child." 



I have never since, through a tolerably exten- 

 sive course of reading, met with the poem to which 

 these lines belong, and have inquired of others, 

 without more success. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me of the name of the poem, and 

 of its author ? S. S. Warden. 



Hearnes Confirmation. — Baxter s Heavy Shove. — 

 Old Ballad. — In Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, 

 by Thomas Wright, Esq. (1851), vol. ii. p. 163., 

 mention is made of a work by the associate of the 

 notorious Hopkins, the " Witch-finder General," 

 one John Hearne, entitled, A Confirmation and 

 Discovery of Witchci'oft (1648). I should esteem 

 it a great favour if any of the numerous readers of 

 your valuable journal can inform me where a copy 

 of Hearne's work is to be found, as it appears to 

 be wanting in the British Museum, and several 

 other of the public libraries. I already happen to 

 possess a copy of Matthew Hopkins's Discovery of 

 Witches, 4to. (1647), an extraordinary little work, 



which Sir Walter Scott acknowledges he was ac- 

 quainted Avith but by name. 



There is a tract, too, by the celebrated author 

 of the Saints'' Rest, which I never yet could put 

 eyes on, though I have for some years " col- 

 lected" rather largely ; I allude to Baxtei''s Heavy 

 Shove, mentioned at page 99. of Lackington's 

 " Life," and in one or two other works ; but among 

 a very large collection of old editions of Baxter's 

 works possessed by me, it is not to be discovered. 

 If any of your correspondents can enlighten me 

 upon the subject I shall be much gratified. 



Though I have collected rather extensively 

 among the ballad lore of this country, I am sorry 

 to say I never could find out from what particular 

 ballad the annexed stanza is derived. It is to be 

 found, as an epigraph, in Poetical Memoirs, by the 

 late James Bird', 8vo. (1823) : 



" Brunette and fayre, my heart did share, 

 As last a wyfe I tooke : 

 Then all the wayes of my younge dayes, 

 I noted in a booke ! " 



Old Enylish Ballad. 



Charles Clakk. 

 Great Totham Hall, Essex. 



Gunpowder Mills. — When and where were the 

 first gunpowder mills erected in this country? 

 This Query was made in the Gentleman! s Magazine 

 for October, 1791, and does not appear to have 

 been answered. I think I have waited long enough 

 for a reply, and almost fear the Query must have 

 been foi'gotten. W. 



Macfarlane of that Ilk. — Who is the present 

 heir-male of this family ? The latest account of it 

 that I have been able to discover is contained in 

 Douglas's Baronage of Scotland (1 798). E. N. 



Armorial Bearings. — In the Court Manual of 

 Dignity and Precedence it is stated, that in the 

 year 1798, when the subject of armorial bearings 

 was before Parliament, 9458 families in England, 

 and 4000 in Scotland, were proved entitled to 

 arms. Are any of the relative parliamentary papers 

 still in existence, and where are they to be found ? 

 I have been unalsle to discover them in Hansard. 



E.K 



Scologlandis and Scologi. — In the Collections of 

 the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, published by 

 the Spalding Club, and under the heading "Ellon," 

 p. 310., there is given an 



" Inquisicio facta super terris Ecclesie de Ellon. 

 A. D. 1387," 



in which occur several times the two words Scolo- 

 glandis and Scologi. Neither of these words are 

 found in Ducange ; the nearest approach to either 

 being Scolanda, which is considered to be equiva- 

 lent to Scrut landa, namely, lands the revenue of 

 which is to be applied to the providing of church 



