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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Book truly says, " La rose du nord est plus belle 

 que celle du midi" — the master's woi'k. Benbow. 

 Binninghain. 



St Bartholomew (Vol. v., p. 129.). — Thanking 

 you for the information given, may I further in- 

 quire if any of your correspondents are aware of 

 the existence of any copy or print from the picture 

 in the Church of Notre Dame, at Paris, of St. 

 Bartholomew healing the Princess of Armenia (see 

 Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art) ; and where 

 such may be seen ? Regedonum. 



Sun-dial Inscription (Vol. v., p. 79.). — The 

 following inscription is painted in huge letters 

 over the sun-dial in front of an old farm-house 

 near Farnworth in Lancashire : 



" Horas non numero nisi serenas." 

 Where are these words to be found ? Y. 



History of Faction (Vol. v., p. 225.). — In my 

 copy of this work, published in 1705, 8yo., for- 

 merly Isaac Heed's, he attributes it to Colonel 

 Sackville Tufton. I observe also that Wilson 

 (Zi/e of De Foe^ vol. ii. p. 335.) states, that in his 

 copy it is ascribed, in an old handwriting, to the 

 same author. Jas. Cbossley. 



Barnacles (Vol. v., p. 13.). — May not the use of 

 this word in the sense of spectacles be a corruption 

 of hinoculis ; and has not binnacle (part of a ship) 

 a similar origin ? J. S. Warden. 



Family Likenesses (Vol. v., p. 7.). — Any one who 

 mixed in the society of the Scottish metropolis a 

 few years ago must have met with two very hand- 

 some and accomplished brothers, who generally 

 •wore the Highland dress, and were known by the 

 name of " The Princes." I do not mean to enter 

 into the question as to whether or not they were 

 the true representatives of " Bonnie Prince 

 Charlie," which most persons consider to have 

 been conclusively settled in the negative by an 

 article which appeared in the Quarterly Review : 

 but most assuredly a very strong point of evidence 

 in favour of their having the royal blood of Scot- 

 land in their veins, was the remarkable resem- 

 blance which they bore — especially the younn^er 

 brother — to various portraits of the Stuart 

 family, and, among the rest, to those of the " Merry 

 Monarch," as well as of his father Charles I. 



E.N. 



Merchant Adventurers to Spain (Vol. v., p. 276.). 

 — C. J. P. may possibly be assisted in his inquiries 

 by referring^ to De Castros' Jews in Spain, trans- 

 lated by Kirwan, pp. 190 — 196. This interest- 

 ing work was published by G. Bell, 186. Fleet 

 Street, London, 1851. W. W. 



La Valetta, Malta. 



Exeter Controversy (Vol. v., p. 126.). — This 

 controversy was one of the many discussions relat- 

 ing to the Trinity which have engaged the theo- 



logical activity of England during the last two 

 hundred years. It arose in consequence of the 

 imputed Aritmism of some Presbyterian ministers 

 of Exeter, the most conspicuous of whom were 

 James Peirce and Joseph Hallet. It began in 

 1717, and terminated in 1719, when these two 

 ministers were ejected from their pulpits. Your 

 correspondent who put the question will find some 

 account of this controversy in Murcli's History 

 of the Presbyterian Churches in the West of 

 England, — a work well worth the attention of 

 those who take interest in the antiquities of Non- 

 conformity. T. H. Gill. 



Corrixpted Names of Places (Vol. v., p. 375.). — 

 When my father was at one time engaged in col- 

 lecting the numbers drawn for the Sussex militia, 

 he began by calling out for tiiose men who be- 

 longed to the hundred of Mayfield ; and though 

 he three times repeated his call, not a single man 

 came forward. A person standing by suggested 

 that he should say " the hundred of Mearvel," and 

 give it as bi'oad a twang as possible. He did so ; 

 when nineteen out of twenty-three present answered 

 to the summons. Hurstmonceau^ is commonly 

 pronounced Harsmouncy ; and I have heard 

 Sompting called Summut. G. Blink. 



Poison (Vol. v., p. 394.). — Junius, Bailey, and 

 Johnson seem all to agree that our word poison 

 comes from the French poison. I am inclined to> 

 think, with the two first-mentioned lexicographers, 

 that the etymon is ir6(ns, or potio. Junius adds, 

 that " Ita Belgis venenum dicitur gift, donum ;"^ 

 and it is curious that in Icelandic eitr means both 

 poison and gift. In the Antiquitates Celto-Scan- 

 dicce (p. 13.), I find the following expressions: — 

 " Sva er sagt, at Froda vaeri gefinn banadryckr." 

 " Mixta portioni veneno sublatum e vivis tradunt 

 Frotonem." Should it not be potioni, inasmuch 

 as "bana," in Icelandic, signifies to kill, if I do not 

 err, and " dryckr " is drink ? Certainly, in Anglo- 

 Saxon, "bana" (whence our bane) and "drycian'* 

 have similar significations. C. I. R, 



Is there any possible doubt that poison is 

 potion ? Menage quotes Suetonius, that Caligula 

 was potionatus by his wife. It is a French word 

 undoubtedly. C. B. 



Vikingr Skotar (Vol. v., p. 394.). — In the Anti- 

 quitates Celto-Scandicce it is stated (p. 5.), that 

 after the death of Guthormr, and subsequently to 

 the departure of Harald (Harfagr) from the He- 

 brides, " Sidan settug i Idndin vikingar margir 

 Danir oc Nordmenn. Posthac sedes ibi occupant 

 pirata? plurimi, Dani a;qua ac Normanni." The 

 word vikingar, the true Icelandic word for pirate, 

 often occurs in the same saga, but not combined 

 with skotar, though this latter term is repeated, 

 signifying " the Scotch," and also in composition 

 with konungr, &c. C. I. R. 



