May 22. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tering cause by attaching as many as possible to 

 Lis own party. There were several documents in 

 the collection of the late Josiah Trench, Esq., of 

 Windsor (1648 — 1652) signed by John Trenchard, 

 among the other regicides. Ewing, in his Norfolk 

 Lists, states that a portrait of him is in existence, 

 and that he was a serjeant-at-law, and at this 

 date (1688) M.P. for Thetford, being at that date 

 merely an esquire. In 1692, according to the 

 same authority. Sir John Trenchard was Secretary 

 of State; and his death took place in 1694. I 

 should be glad to add to these scanty notices, es- 

 pecially as regards the reason which rendered a 

 pardon necessary at this time. E. S. Taylor. 



DayesTtnan (Vol. i., p. 189.). — Bishop Jewell 

 writes : 



" M. Harding would have had us put God's word 

 to daying (i. e. to trial), and none otherwise to be obe- 

 dient to Christ's commandment, than if a few bishops 

 gathered at Trident shall allow it." — Replie to Harding, 

 Works, vol. ii. p. 424. ( Dr. Jelf's edit. ) 



" The Ger. Tagen, to appoint a day. 

 The D. Daghen, to cite or summon on a day 

 appointed." — (Wachter and Kilian.) 



And Dayesman is he, the man, "who fixes the 

 day^yrho is present, or sits as judge, arbiter, or 

 umpire on the day fixed or appointed." 



It is evident that Richardson made much use 

 of Jewell; but this word "daying" has escaped 

 him : his explanation of dayesman accords well 

 with it. Q. 



Bull; Dun (Vol. ii., p. 143.). — We certainly 

 do not want the aid of Obadiah Bull and Joe 

 Dun to account for these words. Milton writes, 

 " I affirm it to be a hull, taking away the essence 

 of that, which it calls itself." And a hull is, " that 

 which expresses something in opposition to what 

 is intended, wished,, or felt ;" and so named " from 

 the contrast of humble profession with despotic 

 commands of Papal bulls." 



"A dun is one who has dinned another for 

 money or any thing." — See Tooke, vol.ii. p. 305. 



Q. 



Algernon Sidney (Vol. v., p.447.). — Ido not 

 intend to enter the lists in defence of this " illus- 

 trious patriot." The pages of " N. & Q." are not 

 a fit battle ground. But I request you to Insert 

 the whole quotation, that your readers may judge 

 with what amount of fairness C. has made his 

 note from Macaulay's History. 



" Communications were opened between Barillon, 

 the ambassador of Lewis, and those English politicians 

 who had always professed, and who indeed sincerely 

 felt, the greatest dread and dislike of the French 

 ascendancy. The most upright member of the country 



party, William Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bed- 

 ford, did not scruple to concert with a foreign mission 

 schemes for embarrassing his own sovereign. This was 

 the whole extent of Russell's oiFence. His principles 

 and his fortune alike raised him above all temptations 

 of a sordid kind : but there is too much reason to be- 

 lieve that some of his associates were less scrupulous. 

 It would be unjust to impute to them the extreme 

 wickedness of taking bribes to injure their country. On 

 the contrary, they meant to serve her: but it is impos- 

 sible to deny that they were mean and indelicate 

 enough to let a foreign prince pay them for serving 

 her. Among those who cannot be acquitted of this 

 degrading charge was one man who is popularly con- 

 sidered as the personification of public spirit, and who, 

 in spite of some great moral and intellectual faults, has 

 a just claim to be called a hero, a philosopher, and a 

 patriot. It is impossible to see without pain such a 

 name in the list of the pensioners of France. Yet it 

 is some consolation to reflect that in our own time a 

 public man would be thought lost to all sense of duty 

 and shame who should not spurn from him a tempta- 

 tion which conquered the virtue and the pride of Al- 

 gernon Sidney." — History of Engla7id, vol. i. p. 228. 



AxGEENON Holt White. 

 Brighton. 



Age of Trees (Vol. iv., pp. 401. 488.). — At 

 Neustadt, in Wirtemberg, there is a prodigious 

 lime-tree, which gives its name to the town, which 

 is called Neustadt an der Linden. The age of this 

 tree Is said to be 1000 years. According to a 

 German writer, it required the support of sixty 

 pillars In the year 1392, and attained its present 

 size in 1541. It now rests, says the same au- 

 thority, on above one hundred props, and spreads 

 out so far that a market can be held under its 

 shade. It Is of this tree that Evelyn says it was — 



" Set about with divers columns and monuments of 

 stone (eighty-two in number, and formerly above one 

 hundred more), which several princes and nobles have 

 adorned, and which as so many pillars serve likewise 

 to support the umbrageous and venerable boughs ; and 

 that even the tree had been much ampler the ruins and 

 distances of the columns declare, which the rude sol- 

 diers have greatly impaired." 



There is another colossal specimen of the same 

 species In the churchyard of the village of Cadiz, 

 near Dresden. The circumference of the trunk is 

 forty feet. Singularly, though It is completely 

 hollow through age, Its Inner surface Is coated 

 with a fresh and healthy bark. Unicorn. 



Emaciated Monumental Effigies (Vol. v., p. 427.). 

 — In reference to your correspondents' observ- 

 ations on skeleton monuments, I may mention that 

 there Is one inserted In the wall of the yard of 

 St. Peter's Church, Drogheda. It is in high relief, 

 cut In a dark stone, and the skeleton figure half 

 shrouded by grave clothes Is a sufiiciently appalling 

 object. Beside it stands another figure still " in 

 the flesh." It Is many years since I saw the mo- 



