IVIay 29. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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celebrated travestie on the Speech of Ajax to the 

 Grecian Chiefs, also in the Buchan dialect : 

 « The wight an' doughty captains a', 

 Upo' their doups sat down ; 

 A rangel o' the commoun fouk 

 In bourachs a' stood roun." 

 I think Forbes states that his place of business 

 on Tower Hill was " hard by the shop of Robbie 

 Mill." (See Chalmers' Life of Ruddiman.) Forbes 

 is supposed to have died about the year 1750. 



HrPADICASCULUS. 



Gold Chair found in Jersey. — I find in Lowndes' 

 Bibliogi-apher s Manual the following : 



" The most wonderfuU and strange Finding of a 

 Chayre of Gold, neare the Isle of larsie, with the true 

 Discourse of the Death of eight seuerall Men : and 

 other most rare Accidents thereby proceeding.- Lon- 

 don, 1595, 4to. 14 pages, including not only the title- 

 page, but a blank leaf before it, as was frequent about 

 this time." 



Can any one inform me where I can obtain a 

 sight of this tract ? I have searched the multi- 

 voluminous catalogue of the British Museum, that 

 of the Bodleian, Grenville, Douce, and other col- 

 lections, but in vain ; and can find no trace of it 

 anywhere. R. P. M. 



Alteration in Oxford Edition of the Bible. — In 

 the stereotype edition of the Bible, in 8vo., printed 

 at Cambridge, for the British and Foreign Bible 

 Society, I find the word Judah, 2 Chron. xxi. 2., 

 substituted for Israel. This latter word is the 

 reading of every copy of the authorized English 

 version that I have been able to consult, including 

 the 12 mo. edition printed for the British and 

 Foreign Bible Society at Oxford. 



No doubt Judah is the right word in this pas- 

 sage. The context requires it; and it is the read- 

 ing of forty Hebrew MSS., and of all the ancient 

 versions, except the Chaldee. It is also the read- 

 ing of the old English version by Coverdale. But 

 it has not been adopted by King James's transla- 

 tors. How has this deviation from their text crept 

 into an edition emanating from a University press ? 



Jerome. 



JVJien did Sir Gilbert Gerrard die f — A war- 

 rant was issued on the 1st of July, 1594, to the 

 Lord Treasurer and Sir John Fortescue (see 

 Burghley's Diary) " to inquire what profits had 

 been taken for the office of the RoUs betwixt the 

 time of the death of Sir Gilbert Gerrard and the 

 entry of Sir Thomas Egerton." Now Sir Thomas 

 Egerton entered on the 10th of April, 1594, and 

 I have reason to believe that the office had been 

 vacant for about a year. But I can find no notice 

 of Sir Gilbert's death. He was a member of 

 Gray's Inn; admitted in 1537, barrister 1539, 

 ancient 1547, reader 1554, serjeant 1558, attorney- 

 general 1559, Master of the Rolls 1581 ; and 



during the interval between the death of Lord 

 Chancellor Hatton (Nov. 22, 1591) and the ap- 

 pointment of Lord Keeper Puckering (May 28, 

 1592) one of the commissioners for hearing causes 

 in Chancery, James Spedding. 



Mai-ket Crosses. — Have these interesting crosses 

 occupied the attention of any one ? Is there any 

 work exclusively upon them ? When was the old 

 Market Cross, at Bury St.- Edmund.-j, taken down ? 

 Is there any view of it extant, and where is it to be 

 seen ? What is the meaning of the passaire from 

 Gage's valuable History of Thingoe Hundred, 

 page 205. : 



" Henry Gage, &c., married at the Market Cross, in 

 the parish of St. James, St. Edmund's-bury, 11th 

 February, 1655." 



Was any religious edifice standing on this spot 

 at that period ? C. G. 



Paddington. 



Spy Wednesday. — I observed the other day, 

 under the Spanish News in The Times of Wed- 

 nesday, the 14th April, 1852, the following para- 

 graph : 



" It being Spy Wednesday, the Bourse remained 

 closed." 



Can any correspondent inform me the meaning 

 of " Spy Wednesday," it being a term I have never 

 yet heard so applied ? John Nurse Cuadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



Passemers " Antiquities of Devonshire." — In 

 Bagford's MS. Collections on Writing, Printing, 

 &c., in the British Museum (Ayscough's Cat., 

 No. 885.), at fo. 102., among writers on Devon- 

 shire appears the following : 



" Id. Ye antiquitates of ye same countey is collected 

 out of ye antient bookes belonging to ye Bishopprick 

 of Exeter, by one Mr. George Passemer, vicar of 

 Awliscombe, in ye said countey." 



Can either of your correspon lents state whether 

 ISIr. Passemer's work is known to be in existence? 



J. D. S. 



Will O' Wisp. — Notwithstanding the steam- 

 engine may be said to have done almost as much 

 towards destroying the gaseous exhalations of our 

 bog-lands by the means of drainage, as it has 

 done towards the amelioration of the stagnant 

 moors and intellectual morasses of society, it can 

 hardly have dispelled every Ignis Fatuu^ from 

 every quagmire, any more than it has even yet 

 chased the ignorance from every dull head. The 

 object of this communication is to ask for the 

 names of a few specific localities where tiiat noted 

 misleader of the benighted — Will 0' Witp — still 

 continues to manifest his presence ? D. 



Mother of Richard Fitzjohn. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me who was the mother of Richard 



