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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 139. 



thority for attributing to the late Lord Palmerston 

 the beautiful lines on the loss of his lady, begin- 

 ning,— 



" Whoe'er like me his heart's whole treasure brings." 

 Inda GATOR says they have been supposed to be 

 Hawkswortli's ; and S. S. S. (Vol. ii., p. 30.) that 

 they have been also attributed to Mason. I can 

 state, from the lest authority, that they are Lord 

 Palmerston's. My authority needs no extrinsic 

 confirmation, but I may as well observe that In- 

 DAGATOR has himself sufficiently disposed of 

 Hawksworth's claim, as his wife was still alive 

 when the lines appeared ; and the conjecture of 

 S. S. S. is obviously a confusion of Lord Pal- 

 merston's lines with those of Mason's (whose wife 

 died at Bristol), beginning — 



" Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear." 

 But another of your correspondents, A. B. (Vol. iii., 

 p. 28.), or your printer, has made a mistake on this 

 point which I cannot account for. A. B. says that 

 he inquired after the author of the lines begin- 

 ning— 



" Stranger, whoe'er thou art that vlewest this tomb ; " 

 and this statement is headed with a reference to 

 Indagator's inquiry about Lord Palmerston, to 

 which it had no reference whatsoever. I do not 

 remember to have seen A. B.'s inquiry, but it as- 

 suredly has nothing to do with Indagator's, which 

 I have now set at rest. C. 



Indian Jugglers (Vol. iv., p. 472.). — In looking 

 over some former Numbers I find an inquiry under 

 this head. N. will find a full account of some of 

 these wondei'ful and apparently inexplicable per- 

 formances in the Dublin University Magazine. 

 I have not a set to refer to, but the papers ap- 

 peared about three or four years ago. Este. 



Sons of the Conqueror (Vol. v., pp. 512. 570.), 

 — I believe after all that Sir N. Wraxall is right. 

 According to the old chroniclers, three members of 

 the Conqueror's family met their death in the New 

 Forest. 



1 . Richard, his second son, is said to have been 

 killed by a stag in the New Forest when hunting, 

 and to have been buried at Winchester in the 

 choir of the cathedral there. 



2. Henry, youngest son of Eobert, Duke of 

 Normandy, and grandson of the Conqueror, was 

 accidentally slain in the New Forest. 



3. William Rufus, third son of the Conqueror, 

 fell in a similar way and in the same place. 



J. R. W. 

 BTistol. 



Saint Wilfrids Needle (Vol. v., pp. 510. 573.).— 

 A very interesting account of this curious crypt 

 beneath the central tower of Ripon Cathedral will 

 be found in a pamphlet published twelve years 

 ago, entitled ^^ Septdchri a Romanis Constructi 

 infra Ecclesiam S. Wilfridi in civitate Reponensi 



Descriptio Auctore Ovl. D.Bruce. London, 1841." 

 A copy is in the library of the Society of An- 

 tiquaries, and another in the British Museum. 



D.W. 



Frehord (Vol. v., p. 440.). — It may possibly 

 assist the inquiries of your correspondents Spes 

 and P. M. M. to be informed that the right of 

 Frebord belongs to many estates in the midland 

 counties. In some instances in Leicestei-shire the 

 claim extends from the boundary hedge of one 

 lordship to the extent of twenty-one feet over the 

 land of the adjoining lordship : it is here under^' 

 stood to represent a deer's leap, and is said to have 

 been given with the original grant of the manor, 

 in order to secure to the lord a right to take the 

 deer he happened to shoot when in the act of 

 leaping from his domain into his neighbour's 

 manor. Kt. 



Aylestone. 



Royd (Vol. v., p. 571.). — The meaning of this 

 word may be further illustrated by reference to 

 Swiss etymology and history. The great battle of 

 Naefels (April 9, 1388) is celebrated on the first 

 Thursday of every April, on the spot where the 

 fiercest part of the struggle took place. Mount 

 Ruti, the meadow where the liberators of Switzer- 

 land met, on the lake of the Four Cantons, and 

 opposite Brunner, is called the Rutli : both words 

 being derived from a common root of common use 

 in the formation of names in German Switzerland, 

 Ruten-def richer, "to clear;" or, Ruthen, " to mea- 

 sure, gauge;" in short, "prepare for clearing;" 

 whence, perhaps, our Ruthyn and Rutland. H. P. S. 



Spy Wednesday (Vol. v., p. 511.).— Your cor- 

 respondent Mr. Chadwick is informed that the 

 Wednesday in Holy Week, i.e. the Wednesday 

 before Easter Sunday, is called Spy Wednesday. 

 The term has its origin in the fact, that Judas 

 made his compact with the Sanhedrim upon that 

 day for the betrayal of our Blessed Saviour. See 

 Matthew, xxvi. 3, 4, 5. 14, 15, and 16. Ceyrep. 



Booh of Jasher (Vol. v., pp. 415. 476. 524.).— ' 

 Hartwell Home, in his Introduction (vol.ii. partii. 

 pp. 132—138. ed. 1839), has with much diligence 

 exposed both Hive's original forgery (1751) and 

 the " unacknowledged reprint" (1829). He adds : 



" There is also extant a Rabbinical Hebrew Book 

 of Jasher printed at Venice in 1625, which is an ex- 

 planation of the histories contained in the Pentateuch 

 and Joshua. Barlocci, in his Bihlioth. Rabhinica, states 

 that it contains some curious but many fabulous things; 

 and particularly that this book was discovered at the 

 time of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 

 a certain place, in which an old man was shut up, m 

 whose possession a great number of Hebrew books 

 were found, and among them the Book of Jasher ; 

 which was first carried into Spain, and preserved at 

 Seville, whence finally it was taken to Naples, where it 

 was first published." — Vol. iii. p. 934. 



