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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Externally, dwarf walls on which rest too-fall 

 roofs, forming narrow lean-to's, supply the place 

 of the walls removed. In the interior the spaces 

 enclosed remain open and plain recesses, in rear of 

 the present communion tables. 



Beneath these unsightly adjuncts vaults have 

 been erected, to which they serve as protections, 

 but the bodies there deposited can only rest in 

 part within the churches. There are no vestiges 

 indicative of sepulchre, but the hollow beneath is 

 easily detected by the common process of sound- 

 ing ; and that they were built subsequently to the 

 church may be without difficulty discovered at 

 the junction of the walls. 



The position in society of persons who could be 

 so strangely permitted to disfigure and invade the 

 most revered parts of the sacred edifice for their 

 own imagined benefit, is a question certainly 

 worthy the attention of antiquaries. 



H. D'AVENET. 



Hereditary Alias (2"* S. Ix. 344. 413.) — 

 Disciples of the " Judicious Hooker" will not need 

 to be reminded that his family had the " here- 

 ditary alias" of Vowell, or, to write more in- 

 telligibly, bore two surnames. 



In JMr. Keble's edition of Hooker's Works there 

 is prefixed to Walton's life of him " The Pedigree 

 of Vowell als Hooker of Exeter," from which it 

 would appear that his fether and other members 

 of his family bore these names. 



The great divine himself probably contented 

 himself with the name by which he is so well 

 known to posterity, but from a Note communi- 

 cated to the editor by the Rev. Dr. Oliver (a 

 Roman Catholic clergyman, well known in Exe- 

 ter as a local antiquary, concerning whose works 

 I see a Quei-y at p. 404. of the current vol. of 

 "N. & Q.") we lenrn concerning Hooker's uncle 

 John that " in early life he used to sign himself 

 John Vowell alias Hoker, but in late years, John 

 Hoker alias Vowell." (Keble, 2nd ed. p. 9.) 



This gentleman was first chamberlain of Exeter, 

 where his portrait is preserved. In 1568 he was 

 elected M.P. for Athenry in the Irish Parliament, 

 and he represented Exeter in the English Parlia- 

 ment of 1571. 



He is mentioned in Ware's Writers of Ireland 

 (book il. ch. 5.) as " John Hooker or Vowell, a 

 Devonshire man." See also Prince's Worthies of 

 Devon, 387, 8., for an account of his Works. 



Is tills " alias '' still in use ? When in Exeter 

 last year I noticed that the name Hooker is still 

 common there. Sir Wm. Hooker of Kew is of an 

 Exeter fixmily. John Ribton Garstin. 



Dublin. 



Ride v. Drive (2"** S. ix. 326. 394.)— I have been 

 amused by the discussion which has been carried 

 on as to the propriety of the expression " riding 

 in a carriage." If those who object to it had 



read the Bible carefully, or even listened to it 

 when read in the church, they would scarcely 

 have spoken of the phrase so contemptuously, one 

 of them even calling it a vulgarism. I would 

 refer them in particular to 2 Kings, ix. 16., 

 "So Jehu rode in a chariot"; and x. 16., 

 " So they made him ride In his chariot." Several 

 other passages might be quoted from that " well of 

 English undefiled," the Authorised Version of the 

 Bible, but your readers will probably think these 

 sufficient. Senescens. 



Paul Hiffernan (2"<i S. Iv. 190.; Ix. 314.) — 

 Whether by HlflTernan or not, the lines are from 

 Seneca, and the ingenious perversion shows that 

 they were not mistranslated in ignorance : — 



" At ille vultus ignea torquens face, 

 Unum inter omnes quasrit et sequitur Lichan. 

 Complexus aras, ille, tremebunda manu. 

 Mortem metu consumpsit, et parum sui 

 Pcente reliquit: dumque tremebundum manu 

 Tenuit cadaver, Hac manu, hac, inquit ferar, 

 • 'O fata! victus? Herculem perimit Lichas. 

 Ecce alia cladcs, Hercules perimit Lichan. 

 Facta inquinentur : fiat hie summus labor.' 

 In astra missus fertur, et nubes vago 

 Spargit cruore ; talis in ccelum exsilit 

 Arundo, Getica visa dimissa manu ; 

 Aut quam Cydon excussit : inferius tamea 

 Et tela fugient : truncus in pontum cadit, 

 In saxa cervix: funus ambobus jacet." 



Hercules Oetceus, a. iii. v. 808. 



The Italian quotation is from Lodovico Dolci's 

 translation, 12mo. Venetia, 1560. I do not know 

 whether it is inserted for display, or to mislead 

 the reader. The following will show that the 

 English is taken from the Latin, not the Italian : — 



" Ma egli nel suo volto 

 Mostrando ardente face, ;; 



Era tutti solamente 

 Si mise a seguir Lica. 

 Ed egli, pien di tema 

 Abbracciando gli altari 

 Con la tremeute mano, 

 Mori per lo spavento 

 Prima ch' avesse morte, 

 Tel che poco rimase 

 Di lai : quando lo prese," &c. 

 " . . . . nondimeno il corpo 

 Cadde nel mar : e la sua testa e '1 collo 

 Percosse sopra i sassi." — P. 312. b. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Ventilate (2'"' S. ix. 443. 490.)— Your corre- 

 spondents have hardly explained the precise 

 reason of the present prevailing use of the word 

 " ventilate." The Americans some ten years ago 

 invaded Mexico, and there first heard the Spanish 

 word ventilar, ventilado, which signifies to discuss, 

 examine, sift thoroughly, and the use of this 

 word, with many others, has since then gradually 

 crept into the American Idiom, and from America 

 come over again to us. I speak with some cer- 

 tainty, as I was in Mexico during the whole of 



