June 26. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



617 



alluded to by Liebig, in bis Letters on Chemistry, 

 1st series [2nd edit, by Gardner, p. 16.] 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Stoup (Vol. v., p. 560.) — In answer to the in- 

 quiry of CuTHBEET Bede, I beg to inform him that 

 an extei-ior stoup, in excelient preservation, is to 

 be found on the outer wall of the south porch of 

 Hungerton Church, Leicestershire. The inquiry 

 confirms the belief I have always entertained, that 

 examples of exterior stoups are rarely met with 

 in the ecclesiastic architecture of England. Kt. 



Aylestone. 



Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Vol. v., p. 532.).— 

 The note which appears in p. 532. hns induced me 

 to look out a rare old printed copy of " The Quack 

 Doctor's Speech," which is in n)y possession, and 

 which was spoken by the witty Lord Rochester, 

 in character, and mounted on a stage ; it is alto- 

 gether a very humorous and lengthy address, par- 

 taking of the licence of language not uncommon 

 to the courtiers of that period, abounding in much 

 technical phraseology, and therefore unsuited for 

 an introduction into your pages in extenso. The 

 titles assumed, however, are in character with the 

 pretensions claimed by virtue of being the seventh 

 begotten son of a seventh begotten father ; and 

 may perhaps prove an interesting addition to the 

 collection of instances recorded by your corre- 

 spondent Henry Edwards : 

 " Gentlemen, 

 " I, VVaitho Van Clauterbauck, High German Doc- 

 tor, Chymist and Dentrificator — Native of Arabia 

 Deserta, Citizen and Burgomaster of the City of Bran- 

 dipolis — Seventh son of a Seventh son, unborn Doctor 

 of above sixty years' experience, having studied over 

 Galen, Hypocrates, Albumazer, and Paracelsus, am 

 now become the iEsculapius of this age. Having been 

 educated at twelve Universities, and travelled through 

 fifty-two Kingdoms, and been Counsellor to the Coun- 

 sellors of several grand Monarchs, natural son of the 

 wonder working chymical Doctor Signior Hanesio, 

 lately arrived from the farthest parts of Utopia, famous 

 throughout all Asia, Europe, Africa, and America, 

 from the Sun's oriental exaltation to his occidental 

 declination, out of mere pity to my own dear self and 

 languishing mortals, have by the earnest prayers and 

 entreaties of several Lords, Dukes, and honourable 

 Personages been at last prevailed upon to oblige the 

 World with this Notice, &c. &c. 



" Veniente occurrite morbo — Down with your dust. 



Principils obsta — No cure no money. 

 Querenda Pecunia Premium — Be not sick too late, 

 " You that are willing to render yourselves immor- 

 tal, Buy this pacquet, or else repair to the sign of the 

 Pranceis, in Vico vulgo dicto RatclifFero, something 

 south-east of Templum Dancicum, in the Square ol" 

 Profound Close, not for from Titter Tatter Fair ; and 

 you may hear, see, and return Re-infecta." 



A , Kt. 



Aylestone. 



At my father's school was a Yorkshire lad, 

 who was to be educated classically, because he 

 was intended for the medical profession. The 

 cause assigned was, that " he was the seventh son 

 of a seventh son;" and the seventh son of a 

 seventh son " maks the bigg'st «' doctors" 



c. c. c. 



The Number Seven (Vol. v., p. 533.). — Mb. 

 Henry Edwards is quite right in his conjecture 

 that the number seven, so often used in the Old 

 and New Testament, is generally put to mean 

 " several," " many," or an indefinite number. 

 Hence the number seven was esteemed a sacred, 

 symbolical, and mystical number. There were 

 seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, seven days in the 

 week, seven sacraments, seven branches on the 

 candlestick of Moses, seven liberal arts, seven 

 churches of Asia, seven mysterious seals, seven 

 stars, seven symbolic trumpets, seven heads of the 

 dragon, seven joys and seven sorrows of the blessed 

 Virgin, seven penitential psalms, seven deadly 

 sins, seven canonical hours, &c. &c. 



'' Septenarius numerus est numerus universita- 

 tis,"_ says J. de Voragine. See also, Bede, Du- 

 ranti, and Rhabanus Maurus, on the mystical 

 explanation of this number. A curious French 

 MS. belonging to the latter part of the thirteenth 

 century has a singular illustration of the number, 

 seven. It is a miniature : a wheel cut into seven 

 rays, and composed of seven concentric cordons. 

 The rays form seven compartments, divided into 

 as many cordons, containing in each cordon one of 

 the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, one of 

 the seven sacraments, one of the seven spiritual 

 arms of justice, one of the seven works of mercy, 

 one of the seven virtues, one of the seven deadly 

 sins, and one of the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost. 



Ceyrep. 



Commentators (Vol. v., pp.512. 570.). — The 

 original verses are Young's : — 



" How commentators each dark passage shun, 

 And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 



Tlie Love of Fame, Satire vii- 



L.X.R. 



Banning or Bayning Family (Vol. v., p. 536.). 

 — This surname is traced in Ireland on record 

 from the time of Richard II., while the native 

 annalists represent it with that Milesian prefix 

 which old Alvary so ingraciously attaints — " O 

 datur ambiguis." These annalists mark Patrick 

 "O'Balnan" Bishop of Connorin 1152, and Gelasius 

 " O'Banan" Bishop of Clogher in 1316. The records 

 that I have alluded to spell the name " Bannyn," 

 or "Banent." In 1620 Creconnaght "Bannan" 

 •was seised of lands in Ulster; and in the army 

 raised for the service of King James, while in this 

 country in 1689, William Bannan was a quarter- 

 master in Colonel Nicholas Purcel's regiment of 



