May 29. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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council, or is not privy to our secrets." Cole, in 

 his English Dictionai-y, 1 685, defines Cabal, " a 

 secret council : " and Bailey derives Cdballer from 

 cahaleur (French), " a party man ; " and To cabal, 

 from cabuler (French), " to plot together private- 

 ly, to make parties;" and Cabal, from "a junto, 

 or private council, a particular party, a set, or 

 gang." 



I find among my papers a scrap relating to the 

 derivation of the word Whig. I do not know 

 where I took it from ; but the origin which it gives 

 to this much-used word is new to me, and may be 

 to some others of your readers also : 



" The word Whig was given to the Liberal party in 

 England by the Royalists in Crom well's days, from 

 the initial letters of their raotto, • We hope in God."* 



P.T. 



Stoke Newlngton, 



Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peter- 

 horoiigh (Vol. v., p. 441.). — There is a very fine 

 portrait of Charles Earl of Peterborough (the 

 famous Earl) at Drayton House, in Northampton- 

 shire, the ancient seat of the Mordaunt family, 

 and which is now in the possession of VVm. Bruce 

 Stopford, Esq. J. B. 



A full-length portrait of the Earl of Peter- 

 borough, by J. B. Vanloo, is in the collection of 

 the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley. The picture 

 belonged to the father-in-law of the present owner, 

 the late W. S. Poyntz, Esq., of Midgham. 



J. P., Jr 



The Word " Oasis'' (Vol. v., p.'465.).— I beg to 

 inclose Mr. Temple an instance of the use of the 

 above word in English poetry ; it will be found in 

 a poem entitled Hopes of Matrimony, by John 

 Holland, author of Sheffield Park, published by 

 Francis Westley, 1822, and now lies before me. 

 " Is there a manly bosom can enfold, 



A human heart, so withered, dead, and cold, 



As not to feel, or never to have felt. 



At genial Love's approach, its ices melt? 



No — in the desert of the dreariest breast, 



Some verdant spots its presence have confest ; 



Though parch'd and bloomless, and as wild as bare, 



A rill of nature once meander'd there ; 



E'en where Arabia's arid waste entombs 



W^hole caravans, the green oasis blooms." 



Oasis will be found also in Lempriere's Classical 

 Dictionary, but not in the same sense as above. 



M.C.R. 



The word Oasis, about which your correspondent 

 H. L. Temple inquires, is marked in Bailey's 

 edition of Facciolati's Latin Dictionary (in the 

 Appendix) Oasis, making the a short. ^ 



Frightened out of his Seven Senses (Vol. iv., 

 p. 233.). — A passage containing the words "seven 



senses" occurs in the poem of Taliesin called 

 Y Byd Maivr, or the Macrocosm, of which a 

 translation may be found in vol. xxi. p. 30. of The 

 British Magazine. The writer of the paper in 

 which it is quoted refers also to the Mysterium 

 Magnum of Jacob Boehmen, which teaches " how 

 the soul of man, or his ' inward holy body,' was 

 compounded of the seven properties under the in- 

 fluence of the seven planets :" — 



" I will adore my Father, 

 My God, my Supporter, 

 Who placed, throughout my head 

 The soul of my reason, 

 And made for my perception 

 My seven faculties, 



Of fire, and earth, and water, and air, 

 And mist, and flowers, 

 And the southerly wind, 

 As it were seven senses of reason 

 For my Father to impel me : 

 With the first I shall be animated. 

 With the second I shall touch, 

 With the third I shall cry out, 

 With the fourth I shall taste, 

 With the fifth I shall see, 

 "With the sixth I shall hear. 

 With the seventh I shall smell ; 

 And I will maintain 

 That seven skies there are 

 Over the astrologer's head," &c- 



"W. Fraser. 



Eagles' Feathers (Vol. v., p. 462.). — The 

 author quoted alludes to Pliny, Nat. Hist. b. x. 

 c. 4. : 



" Aquilarum pennae mixtas reliquarum alitum pen- 

 nas devorant." 



K. 



The allusion concerning which ARNCLirFE in- 

 quires is explained by the following p.assage in 

 A Thousand Notable Things of Sundarie Sorts, Sfc, 

 printed by John Haviland, mdcxxx. 



" ^ligus writes, that the quilles or pennes of an 

 Eagle, mixt with the quilles or pennes of other Fowles 

 or Birds, doth consume or waste them with their 

 odour, smell or aire." — P. 48. 



Edward Peacock, Jun. 

 Bottesford Moors. 



Arms of Thompson (Vol. v., p. 468.). — It may 

 be interesting perhaps to Jattee to know that I 

 have a book-plate with the arms described : " Per 

 pale, argent and sable, a fess embattled between 

 three falcons, countercharged, belled or." Under- 

 neath is engraved, "William Thompson, of Humble- 

 ton, in Yorkshire, Esq., 1708." The crest, a 

 sinister arm in armour, grasping a broken lance, 

 on a torse of the colours. Spes. 



Spick and Span-new (Vol. iii., p. 330.). — In 

 Dutch, spyker means a warehouse, a magazine : 

 and sponge (spangle) means anything shining 



