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CONTENTS. 



Notes :— ' 



Journal of the Expenses of John, King of France, in 

 England, 1359—60 



Way of indicating Time in Music 



Minor Notes : —A smart Saying of Baxter— Latin 

 Hexameters on the Bible— Ancient Connexion of 

 Cornwall and Phoenicia — Portrait of John Rogers, 

 the Proto-Martyr_"Brallaghan, or the Deipnoso- 

 phists " — Stilts used by the Irish . - - 



Queries: — 



Etymology of the Word " Devil," by Richard F. Little-' 

 dale .------ 



Forged Papal Seal - - - - " „ " 



A Passage in " All's Well that ends Well," by J. Payne 

 Collier ------- 



Surnames, by Mark Antony Lower _ - - 



Minor Queries: — Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph — St. 

 Wilfrid's Needle in Yorkshire— Governor of St. 

 Christopher in 1C62 — The Amber Witch —Coffins for 

 General Use — The Surname Bywater — Robert 

 Forbes — Gold Chair found in Jersey — Alteration in 

 Oxford Edition of the Bible — When did Sir Gilbert 

 Gerrard die?— Market Crosses— Spy Wednesday — 

 Viissemer's "Antiquities of Devonshire " — Will o' 

 Wisp — Mother of Richard Fitzjolin— Quotations 

 wanted— Sons of the Conqueror: William Rufus and 

 Walter Tyrell — Brass of Lady Gore - - - 



Minor Queries Answered : —Snnyth's MSS. relating to 

 Gloucestershire — Origin of Terms in Change-ringing 



Keseph's Bible— Proclamations to prohibit the Use 



of Coal, as Fuel, in London . - - - 



Replies : — 



Addison and his Hvmns, by J. H. Markland 

 Witchcraft: Mrs. Hickes and her Daughter, by James 



Crossley ------- 



Dodo Queries, by J. M. van Maanen . . - 



The Heavy Shove ------ 



Ground Ice, by William Bates - - - - 



Character of Algernon Sydney, by S. Walton - 

 Monument to the Memory of Mary Queen of Scots at 



Antwerp ------- 



Lord King ; the Sclaters ; Dr. Kellet, &c. 



Birthplace of St. Patrick - . - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : —Cabal — Portrait of Charles 

 Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough— The Word " Oasis" 



— Frightened out of his Seven Senses — Eagles' 

 Feathers— Arms of Thompson— Spick and Span-new 

 —Junius Rumours— Cuddy, the Ass— The Authorship 

 of the Epigram upon the Letter " H " — John Rogers, 



Protomartyr, &c " Gee-ho " — Twises — Ancient 



Timber Town-halls— Johnny Crapaud — Juba Issham 



— Optical Phenomenon — Bishop of London's House 



" Inveni Portum " — " Cane Decane " — Fides Car- 



bonarii — The Book of Jaslier— Sites of Buildings 

 mysteriously changed— Wyned— Sweet Willy O 



Miscellaneous : .— 

 Notes on Books, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



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Vol. v. — Xo. 135. 



JOURNAL or THE EXPENSES OF JOHN, KING OP 

 TRANCE, IN ENGLAND, 1359-60. 



Possibly some of the readers of *' N. & Q." may 

 remember that King John II. of France was taken 

 prisoner by Edward the Black Prince at the 

 battle of Poitiers, fought September 20, 1356. If 

 not, I would refer them to the delightful pages of 

 old Froissart, whei'e, in the version of Lord Ber- 

 ners, they will see chronicled at length, — 



" How Kyng John of Fraunce was taken prisoner 

 at the Batayle of Poycters ; how the Englyshmen 

 wan greatly thereat, and how the Prince conveyed the 

 Frenche Kyng fro Biirdeaux into Englande." 



I am induced to bring under the notice of your 

 readers a curious roll, containing one year's ex- 

 penditure (July I, 1359, to July 8, 1360) in- 

 curred by the French king during his captivity in 

 England. This important document has been 

 very recently printed in the Comptes de VArgen- 

 ierie, and edited from a MS. in the Bibliotheque 

 Rationale by M. Douiit d'Arcq for the Societe de 

 VHistoire de France. It may perhaps be well to 

 state, that after the battle of Poitiers the heroic 

 Prince Edward conducted his royal prisoner to 

 Bordeaux, where he remained till the end of 

 April, 1357. On the 24th of May following they 

 both made their entry into London, "the Frenche 

 Kynge mounted on a large whyte courser well 

 aparelled, and the Prince on a lytell blacke hob- 

 bey (haqiienee') by hym." John was lodged at 

 first at the Savoy Palace, but was removed shortly 

 afterwards to Windsor Castle, at which place he 

 was allowed to " go a huntynge and a haukynge 

 at hys pleasure, and the lorde Phylyp his son with 

 him." The document in question refers to the 

 years 1359 and 1360, when the king was confined 

 at Hertford Castle, at Somerton Castle in Lincoln- 

 shire, and lastly in the Tower of London. As 

 this document, which is so intimately connected 

 with a favourite portion of our history, has, I be- 

 lieve, received no notice from any English journal, 

 and as it moreover affords many valuable illus- 

 trations of domestic manners, and of the personal 

 character of the royal captive, I have made a few 

 extracts from it for insertion in " N". & Q.," in the 



