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NOTES AND QUERIES, 



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deer ■which run over it, the Anglo-Saxon name 

 for a roe deer being ?•« ? I saw something in 

 your Notes in relation to it some time ago, but 

 nothing accounting for the name. Therefore 

 perhaps you will indulge my curiosity, and insert 

 the Query in another form ? One Ray. 



Randlb Cotgrave, of Cheshire, admitted 

 scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, on the 

 Lady Margaret's foundation, 10th Nov. 1587, is 

 author of a French and English Dictionary, pub- 

 lished 1611, and subsequently reprinted several 

 times. We shall be glad of any information re- 

 specting him. Was he son of Hugh Cotgrave, 

 Richmond Herald, who died in or about 1584 ? 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



RiCHARDs's Welch Dictionary. — I have lately 

 met -with a Welch and English Dictionary by 

 Thomas Richards, curate of Coychureh, published 

 at Bristol in 1753. It seems a valuable and well- 

 executed compilation, so far as a stranger can 

 judge. It is doubtless, however, well known to 

 your British readers, and I shall feel obliged if 

 they will communicate to " N. & Q." their opinion 

 of the book, as a work of authority or otherwise. 



C. 



"Albion Magazine." — A magazine under the 

 title of the Albion Magazine was published about 

 the year 1829, under the editorship of Mr. J. B. 

 Revis, I believe in Liverpool. If any correspon- 

 dent of " N. & Q." has a copy of the first number, 

 I should feel very much obliged by the loan of it 

 for a few days. William J. Thoms. 



40. St. George's Square, 

 Belgrave Road, S.W. 



Charles Johnston. — Where may I find any 

 biographical particulars of Charles Johnston, or 

 Johnson, the author of Chrysal ; or, the Adven- 

 tures of a Guinea ? Watkins does not give much 

 respecting him in his Biographical Dictionary ; 

 and the " Sketch of the Author's Life," prefixed 

 to (I believe) the last edition of Chrysal (3 vols. 

 12mo. London, 1822), is not much more explicit. 

 Wills, in his Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished 

 Irishmen, gives him only six or seven lines (vol. vi. 

 p. 211.). Abhba. 



catteries? Inttl) ^fn^bJcrS. 



Gerberti " De Arte Musica." — Can you give 

 me any information about the work of the Abbot 

 Gerbert, De Arte Musica a prima Eccles. JEtat., 

 etc. ? When published ? Whether procurable, 

 or where it can be seen ? R. F. S. 



[This work is entitled: "De Cantu et Musica Sacra a 

 prima EcclesijB JEtate usque ad prtesens Tempus. Auctore 

 Martino Gerberto, Monasterii et Cong. S. Blasii in Silva 

 Nigra Abbate S. Q. E. I. P. Typis San-Blasianis. 1774." 

 2 vols. 4to. There is a copy of it in the British Museum 

 and in the Bodleian Library. Gerbert divided his his- 



tory of church music into three parts : the first finishes 

 at the pontificate of St. Gregory; the second goes as far 

 as the fifteenth century; and the third to his own time. 

 In 1784, he published a worli of more importance, under 

 the title of "Scriptores Ecclesiastic! de Musica Sacra, 

 potissimum ex variis Italias, Galliae, et Germaniie Codi- 

 cibus collect!." 3 vols. 4to. This is a collection of all 

 the ancient authors who have written on music, from the 

 third century to the invention of printing, and whose 

 works had remained in manuscript. Forkel has given an 

 analysis of it in his Hisioire de la 3Iusique. Gerbert died 

 in 1793.] 



"King's Prerogative in Impositions." — Can 

 you acquaint me with the name of the " late 

 learned judge " who wrote or delivered the fol- 

 lowing discourse : — 



" A learned and necessary argument to prove that each 

 subject hath a propriety in his Goods. Shewing also the 

 extent of the King's Prerogative in Impositions upon the 

 Goods of Merchants exported and imported out of and 

 into this Kingdom. Together with a remonstrance pre- 

 sented to the King's most excellent Majesty by the 

 Honorable House of Commons in the Parliament holden 

 Anno Dom. 1610, Annoq. Regis Jacobi, 7. By a late 

 learned Judge of this Kingdome. London. Printed by 

 Eichard Bishop for John Burroughes, and are to be sold 

 at his Shop at the signe of the Golden Dragon neare the 

 Inner Temple gate in Fleet street, 1641." 



Edw. York. 



[This work is by Sir Henry Yelverton, appointed 

 Judge of the Common Pleas, May 10, 1625. This learned 

 argument, though written in 1010, was not published 

 till 1641, eleven years after the author's death, and re- 

 published in 12mo. 1658. It was edited by J. B., i. e. 

 John Brydall. See Foss's Judges of England, vi. 389., 

 for a valuable biographical notice of this eminent judge. 

 Consult also our last volume, p. 382.] 



" Regno delle due Sicilie." — The question, 

 " What is the real meaning of the iitle ' Regno 

 delle due Sicilie f" is I know repeatedly asked. 

 I have turned to several books of reference which 

 profess to explain " things not generally known," 

 but as yet have found no explanation of this 

 term. R. C. 



[In 1720, the Austrians added Sicily to the kingdom 

 of Naples. But the war of 1734, waged by France and 

 Spain against Austria, transferred the crown of Naples, 

 with this appendage, to a scion of the royal house of 

 Spain (the Infant Don Carlos), the new monarch assum- 

 ing the title of " King of the Two Sicilies." Hence the 

 terms " Regno delle due Sicilie," " Royaume des deux 

 Siciles," &c. 



The application of the term " Sicily " to the kingdom 

 of Naples as well as to Sicily the island is due to the 

 historical fact or tradition that a people called " Siculi " 

 inhabited for a while the South of Italy, passed over into 

 Sicilj', and there settled.] 



Old Tom. —What is the origin of " Old Tom " 

 as applied to cordial gin ? Anon. 



[When Messrs. Hodges, the celebrated distillers, carried 

 on business at Millbank, they had a partner named 

 Thomas Chamberlain, who manufactured the gin, and as 

 the firm were patronised by Thomas Norris when he left 

 their service and opened a gin palace in Great Russell 

 Street, Covent Garden, out of respect to his former master 

 he christened the cordial " Old Tom."] 



