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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2°<i S. X. July 28. '60. 



•which the subject is John Bull surrounded by 

 sharpers, who propose to him to play at various 

 games of cards. O. P. 



Ojld Ballad: " Up jumped the Mackerel." — 



In the Memorials of Thomas Hood, recently pub- 

 lished, the following verse of a ballad often sung 

 by Hood is given ; — 



" Up jumped the mackerel, 



With his striped back, — 

 Says he, * Reef in the mains'] and haul on the tack. 



For it's windy weather. 



It's stormy weather. 

 And when the wind blows, pipe all hands together — 

 For upon my word, it's windy weather ! ' " 



A correspondent of the London Revieiv gives 

 two more verses (from memory). Can any of 

 your readers supply the whole ? or has it ever 

 been printed ? F. W. N. 



S. VAN Son, a Painter. — Can any of your 

 readers or correspondents tell me what is known 

 of a painter, S. van Son, probably Dutch ? I have 

 two magnificently-painted cabinet pictures of that 

 master in my possession, but have looked in vain 

 for his name in Pilkington, Bryan, Houbraken, 

 and Weyermens. They all mention J. van Son 

 and N. van Son, but no other. The S is distinct, 

 even under a magnifying glass, and cannot pos- 

 sibly be mistaken. Henri van Laun. 



Heidelberg Castle. — In Longfellow's Hy- 

 perion allusion is made to a history of this Castle 

 by a Frenchman, Charles de Grainberg. Is there 

 such a work ; and what is its title, date, and place 

 of publication ? Sigma Theta. 



[The following are the titles of Count Carl von Grain- 

 berg's works : — 1. Guide dans les Ruines du Chateau de 

 Heidelberg. Heid., oblong fol. [1840?] 2. Notice de la Ga- 

 lerie des Aniiquites du Chateau de Heidelberg. Heid., 

 IGmo. •1847. 3. Das Heidelberger Fass. Vierte Avflnge. 

 Heid., 8vo. 1848.] 



Richard Adams : Dr. Andrewes. — Can you 

 give me 4||^ account of the two following poets 

 and their works : "1. Richard Adams, author of 

 Poems in Harl. MS. 3889. 2. Dr. Andrewes, 

 author of Poems in Harl. MS. 4955. Do these 

 volumes contain any poem of length? R. Inglis. 



[The Harleian MS. 3889. is a small quarto volume with 

 a few poems written at each end. One of them, addressed 

 " to the most accomplished Lady Madame Binlosse," is 

 signed E. Adams, and several others R. A. and A. R. 

 Some, however, are transcribed from Carew and other 

 writers. In the first leaf is the date of 1645, but not 

 united with the name of Adams. 



The Harleian MS. 4965. is a large folio volume of 

 poems by various authors, uniformly and fairly tran- 

 scribed. Most of them by Ben Jonson, Dr. Donne, and 

 Dr. Andrewes. What Dr. Andrewes it was is not clear. 

 A poem at p. 87., dated London, August 14, 1629, and 

 signed Franc. Andrilla, seepos to prove that his name was 



Francis, consequently it was not the Bishop, whose name 

 was Launcelot. The first poem is entitled "The Uni- 

 versal Sacritice," and is curiously formed on the Lord's 

 Prayer, which is so contrived as to run down the middle, 

 between two other columns. This paraphrase, consisting 

 only of two columns, was printed in our 1" S. v. 195. ; 

 but the version in the Harl. MS. has a third column. It 

 has sometimes been ascribed to James I. Consult also 

 vol. i. p. 147. of our 1st Ser. for another poem falsely as- 

 cribed to Bishop Andrewes. We trust some of our readers 

 will be able to clear up this obscure point of literary his- 

 tory.] 



Artillery (1 Sam. xx. 40.) — What is the ety- 

 mology of this word ? and what is the earliest 

 example of its use in any of the cognate Euro- 

 pean languages ? J. J. 



[Several etymologies have been proposed, some of them 

 very fanciful. We incline to the opinion of Menage, who 

 derives " artillerie " from the old Fr. verb artiller or artd- 

 lier, which signified to fortify (" rendre fort par art, et 

 gamier d'outils et d'instruments de guerre "), It ought, 

 however, to be borne in mind that between artiller and 

 arhV/erie^there occurs in Romance the intermediate word 

 artilha, a fortification. ^Vith regard to the earliest use of 

 the word artillery, or indeed of any word, we feel some 

 hesitation in ofiering examples. Laying out of the ac- 

 count the med. Latia artelaria, artellaria, artillarla, &c., 

 and the med. Greek apreKapia, we find veri/ old examples 

 in Romance, e.g. " Per on devia venir la dita artilharia e 

 carretas " and " ladita artilheria et engins." Chron. des 

 Albigeois, cited by Raynouard.] 



Plan of Boulogne. — I have in my possession 

 a MS. plan of Boulogne, and the preparations for 

 the invasion of England by Napoleon I. : it has the 

 following title : — 



" Plan de Boulogne et des environs avec les details re- 

 latifs h I'expedition projetee contre I'Angleterre, par 

 I'Erapereur Napoldon. Dessine par Lebeau Toussaint." 



Will you kindly inform me whether (if genuine) 

 it is of any value ? H. D. 



[We would recommend our correspondent to submit 

 his MS. to the Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts 

 of the British Museum.] 



Bibliography of Pboverbs, Maxims, etc. — 

 Is there any work on this subject ? Delta. 



[We can at present only refer our correspondent to 

 Nopitsch, Literatur der Sprichworter, 8vo., Nuremberg, 

 1 822, but of which we believe there is a more recent and 

 enlarged edition, and Duplessis, Bibliographie Paremio- 

 logiqiie, 8vo. Paris, 1847. We hope to find in Mr. Bolm's 

 new edition of Lowndes, under the word " Proverbs," a 

 copious list of works on this subject. Delta may also 

 consult the Prefaces to Ray's work, and " N. & Q." 1" S. 

 V. 397.; X. 389.; xi. 18.] 



THE FLAMBARD BRASS AND ITS SUPPOSED 

 WANT OF EVANGELICAL TEACHING. 

 {Concluded from p. 53.) 

 The token of redemption used to be set up 

 everywhere, out of, as well as in church ; and be- 

 neath it often might be read words like this : — 



