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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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directed any attention to this word yet, and ap, 

 although the root in the words Karimat and Akram 

 appears the same, the analogy to vcrimdr is not 

 very obvious, I may mention that on searching 

 further I have found the adjective C/cr, with the 

 various meanings, weighty., precious, esteemed, 

 honourable. I leave it to Orientalists to tell us if 

 VCRIMDE is a compound or an inflexion of Ucr. 

 I regret that owing to a peculiarity in my hand- 

 writing, De Gauley was twice substituted for De 

 Sauley in my last note, Vol. v., p. 149. W. II. S. 

 Edinburgli. 



Lines on Woman. — 

 *' Oh, woman ! thou wert born to bless 



The heart of restless man ; to chase his care ; 

 To charm existence by thy loveliness, 

 Bright as a sunbeam — as the morning fair. 

 If but thy foot trample on a wilderness, 

 Flowers spring up and shed their roseate blossoms 

 there." 



Will any of your readers be kind enough to 

 favour me with the completion of the above stanza, 

 as well as to state who is the author of the same ? 



J. T. 



Penkenol. — John Aubrey, the antiquary, in his 

 Collections for North Wilts, Parti, p. 51. (Sir 

 Thomas Phillips's edition), describing the stained 

 glass in Dauntsey Church, uses the following ex- 

 pression : 



" Memorandum. The crescents in these coats : 

 Therefore Sir John [Danvers] was not the penkenol." 



The word is correctly printed from the original 

 MS. Can any of your readers explain its mean- 

 ing ? J. E. J. 

 Fairfax Family Mansion. — On the right-hand 

 side of the road between Tadcaster and Thorpe 

 Arch, Yorkshire, extends the domain of the 

 Fairfax family. The mansion, a comfortable old 

 fashioned red-brick Tudor-looking structure, 

 stands some two hundred yards back in the 

 grounds through which, from the road to the 

 front door of the house, extends a fine avenue 

 of chestnuts, terminated at the roadside by a 

 pair of venerable, rusty, and decaying iron 

 gates ivhich are kept closed; the entrance °to the 

 park being by a sort of side gateway of insignifi- 

 cant and field-like appearance further on. Can 

 any of your readers give me the facts, or the local 

 tradition which accounts for this peculiarity ? I 

 believe it is a family incident of somewhat his- 

 torical interest, and a subject on which I am 

 desirous of information. G. W. 



Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer. 

 — In the Le^al Observer of the 24th April, I find 

 the following : 



" Law Piior.ioTiox. — Mr. James Wilde has been 

 appointed to the office of Postman, in the Court of 



Exchequer. The Postman is the senior counsel with- 

 out the bar attending the court, and has pre-audience of 

 the attorney and solicitor-general in making tlie first 

 motion upon the opening of the court. The Tubman 

 is the next senior counsel without the bar. The Post- 

 man and Tubman have particular places assigned them 

 by the Chief Baron in open court." 



'My Query is, from whence and at what date 

 these two offices sprang into existence, with a list 

 of the persons who have occupied them. And it 

 would be as well to inquire what their duties are: 

 for although Stephen's Blackstone derives the names 

 from the places in which the individuals themselves 

 sit, still the explanation hardly conveys sufficient 

 to gather what their duties are. 



John Nurse Chadwick. 



Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains. 

 — What chronicle narrates the circumstances of 

 the second disinterment of King Arthur's bones in 

 Glastonbury, temp. Edw. I. (a.d. 1298) ? II.G.T. 



Stukeley the Antiquary, and Boston. — In Anec- 

 dotes of British Topography, ^-c. (Lond. 17G8), 

 occurs the following, speaking of Boston : — 



"The Churchwardens' account from 1453 to 1597, 

 and the town-book, wrote by Mr. John Stukeley, 1676, 

 one of his (Dr. Stukeley's) ancestors, are in the hands 

 of the Doctor's son-in-law, Mr. Fleming." 



Query, into whose hands have the above records 

 fallen ? Did Stukeley leave a family ? 



The name of " Wm. Stukeley " is appended to 

 sundry parish records, anno 1713, at Boston. I 

 believe he practised here for some years. 



Thomas Collis. 



Letters of Arthur Lord Balmerino. — Can any 

 one inform me if there are any letters extant of 

 Arthur, seventh Lord Balmerino, and where they 

 are deposited ? W. Pblham A. 



Rochester. 



Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumber- 

 land. — Is any portrait known of Thomas Percy, 

 Earl of Northumberland, who was beheaded at 

 York, a.d. 1572, for the part he took in the "Rising 

 in the North ? " E. Peacock, Jr. 



Neivtonian System, — Is it known who was the 

 author of a satirical pamphlet against Newton : 

 The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero s '■'■ Som- 

 nium Scipionis''' explained, London, 1751, 8vo. ? 

 And has an absurd story which it contains, relative 

 to Newton, Locke, and Lord Pembroke visiting 

 Patrick, the barometer-maker, to be shown that 

 the mercurial vacuum was not a perfect one, ever 

 been told elsewhere ? M. 



Antiquity of Vanes. — We are informed by Baron 

 Maseres, as quoted by Lingard, that the Danes, in 

 the last invasion by Sweyn, 1013, had vanes in the 

 shape of birds or dragons fixed on their masts, to 

 point out the direction of the wind. Is there any 



