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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 135. 



de Bellingen, in his Etym, des Prov. Frangais, 

 printed at the Hague, 1656. His words, as quoted 

 by Leroux de Lincy, are as follow : 



" On fait un conte qui a donne Torigine a ce pro- 

 verbe. Un charbonnier estant enquis par le diable de 

 ce qu'il croyait, luy respondit: ' I'oujours je crois ce 

 que r^glise croit.' De la est venu que lorsqu'on a 

 voulu marquer qu'un homme avail une foi ferme, mais 

 sans science, on a dit : ' La foi du charbonnier.' " 



Also, in P. J. Le Koux's Dictionnaire Comique, 

 1750: 



"Lafoidu charbonnier. Quand on parle d'une foi 

 implicite, qui fait croire a un Chretien en general tout 

 ce que I'eglise croit." 



In L andais'Djcf lonary, 4to. : 



" Jm foi du charbonnier, foi simple et aveugle qui ne 

 raisonne pas." 



Philip S. King. 



The Book of Jasher (Vol. v., p. 415.). — I have 

 a translation of a work thus named. It was pub- 

 lished by Noah and Gould, 144. Nassau Street, 

 New York, 1840. The publisher's preface men- 

 tions lUive's work as " a miserable fabrication ; " 

 claims, as the original of his own, a book " said 

 to have been discovered in Jerusalem at its cap- 

 ture by Titus," and preserved at Venice, 1613. 

 It also speaks of the " owner and translator" as 

 resident in England. I have a vague idea that I 

 heard from New York, at the time I received 

 my volume, that the Duke of Sussex had pos- 

 sessed a copy of the Book of Jasher, and that some 

 steps had been taken towards the translation by 

 order of His Royal Highness. I mention this 

 merely to lead inquiry : I cannot trust my memory 

 as to the verbal expression of a friend so many 

 years ago. 



I have long wished the Book of Jasher to obtain 

 a fair hearing, and a more critical examination 

 than I am qualified to make ; and I shall be happy 

 to lend it to your correspondent L. L. L. in fur- 

 therance of what I think an act of j ustice. 



F. C. B. 



Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed (Vol. v., 

 p. 436.).— Perhaps W. H. K. may deem the follow- 

 ing account of the foundation of Bideford Bridge 

 near enough to his purpose : 



" Before whose erection the breadth and roughness of 

 the river was such, as it put many in jeopardy : some 

 were drowned, to the great grief of the inhabitants, who 

 did therefore divers times, and in sundry places, begin 

 to build a bridge; but no firm foundation, after often 

 proof being found, their attempts came to no effect. 

 At which time Sir Richard Gornard was priest of the 

 place, who (as the story of that town hath it) was ad- 

 monished by a vision in his sleep, to set on the found- 

 ation of a bridge near a rock, which he should find 

 rowled from the higher grounds upon the strand. This 

 he esteemed but a dream ; yet, to second the same with 



some art, in the morning he found a huge rock there 

 fixed, whose greatness argued it the work of God ; 

 which not only bred admiration, but incited him to set 

 forwards so charitable a work : who eftsoons, with Sir 

 Theobald Grenvile, knight, lord of the land, an espe- 

 cial furtherer and benefactor of that work, founded the 

 bridge there, now to be seen, which for length, and 

 number of arches, equalizeth, if not excelleth, all others 

 in England," &c. — liisdon's Survey of Devon, s. v. 



BiDEFOllD. 



The traditions relating to St. Cuthbert and the 

 foundation of Durham Cathedral are too well 

 known to find a place in " N. & Q." J, Sansom. 



Wyned (Vol. v., pp. 321. 474.).— Read joiweJ for 

 wyned : " divers parcels of joined waynescott, 

 windowes, and other implements of household," 

 i. e. wainscot of joiner's work. I have no doubt 

 this is the true reading, having once made the 

 very same mistake myself in reading and printing 

 an inventory of this period. Spes. 



Siveet Willy O (Vol. v., p. 466.). — This song 

 was written by Garrick for the julDilee in honour 

 of Shakspere, which was held at Stratford-upon- 

 Avon In 1769, and was sung on that occasion by 

 Mrs. Baddeley. It is printed In Shakespeare's 

 garland, 1769; in the Poetical works of David 

 Garrick, 1785 ; and in the History of Stratford, 

 1806. Bolton CoKNEr. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We have received from Messrs. Rivington, four 

 volumes of their new and complete edition of The 

 Works and Correspondence of 7'he Right Honourable 

 Edmund Burke, and we do not know that a more 

 valuable contribution could be made to our stores of 

 historical and political literature, than this handsome 

 collection of the writings of one whom Sir Robert Peel 

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 statesmen of modern times." Dear to all lovers of ' 

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 of Johnson, who declared, "lie was the only man whose 

 common conversation corresponded with the fame 

 which he had in the world," and of Goldsmith, who 

 complained that — 



" He to party gave up what^was meant for mankind ; " 

 and that he 



..." too deep for his hearers still went on refining, 

 And thought of convincing, while they thought of 

 dining ;" — 

 the present aspect of the political world compels us to 

 look at him rather as a politician than as a man of 

 letters. Considering, therefore, not only the profoundly 

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 also the elevated tone of political morality which is 

 displayed in the writings of Edmund Burke — a wis- 

 dom and a morality rendered still more attractive by 

 the unrivalled eloquence with which they are enun- 

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