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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S, X. Sept. 1. '60. 



" a young ■woman " in many parts of England by 

 persons who, though in humble station, are not 

 therefore necessarily vulgar, had acquired, even 

 before the time of the Spectator, a meaning equi- 

 valent to that of another noun with the same 

 initial, which no gentleman would utter in a lady's 

 drawing-room, although it occurs fi'equently in 

 the Authorised version, and even in one of the 

 Sunday Lessons. I 'might send W. C. to John- 

 son's Dictiotuxry under the words " Ride," "Rider," 

 " Riding-habit," and Riding-hood," and ask why 

 we talk of " riding on horseback " ; but perhaps 

 he will allow me to ask him, instead of doing this, 

 the two following questions: — 1. Might I say, 

 in a lady's drawing-room, that " I had driven from 

 Bayswater to Charing Cross in an omnibus " ? Or 

 if it would be a vulgarism to acknowledge that I 

 had travelled in an omnibus, might I, without in- 

 curring the imputation of vulgarity, remark, that 

 the railway carriage, which brought me to town 

 from Edinburgh, having been newly painted, 

 though very handsome to look at, was very un- 

 comfortable to ride in f Sejnescens. 



Floyd, John, the Jesuit (2°^ S. ix. 13. 55. 

 112. 151.) — Among a number of works written 

 by Jesuits mentioned in Wia arret of the Parliament 

 of Paris of 6th August, 1762, as having been the 

 subject of denonciations, censures, &c., by the uni- 

 versities, archbishops, bishops, and provmcial and 

 general assemblies of the clergy of France, and by 

 some popes, are the following : — 



"29 Novembre, 1643, centre quatre ecrits de Jean 

 Floyde, de la dite Soci^t^ (de J^su), intituMs : le premier, 

 Hermani Leomelii spongia; le second, Querinionia Eccle- 

 siee Anglicancs ; le troisifeme, Appendix ad illustrissimum 

 i)ominum Archiepiscopum Parisiensem ; le quatrifeme, De- 

 ftnsio Decreti." — p. 354. vol. xxii. of the Recueil General 

 des Anciennes Lois de France, by Isambert, &c. Paris. 

 8v6. 



Eric, 



Ville- Marie, Canada. 



Maqnetic Declination (2""* S. x. 62. 131.)-- 

 Besides the fact of magnetic variation, there is 

 that of the existence of a magnetic pole ; which, 

 three or four years ago, a naval captain ascer- 

 tained to be then at 70° N. lat. and 97° W. long. 

 The subject of the ignorant fixing of the vanes, to 

 which J. O. N. R calls attention, is really of con- 

 siderable interest. It does not, after all, require 

 much science to direct the vane due N". with the 

 exactest nicety. For example, it is a simple pro- 

 blem enough to draw a meridian line ; the right 

 angles to which are of course N. and S. It is a 

 pity, therefore, that the public should be, as your 

 correspondent alleges, frequently misled by indi- 

 cators which are generally taken for granted to be 

 mathematically correct. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



" Where is the north?" Though such an old 

 question may excite a smile, yet as the vanes are 



not to be aflfected by the magnetic variation, will 

 J. O. N. R. or other student in such matters give 

 a plain rule by which any artificer or fixer of the 

 cardinal points of a vane or weathercock may 

 know where, and how, to find " the fixed and in- 

 variable geographical or true north ?" 



N. E. W. S. 



Nelson of Chaddleworth (2"'' S. x. 127.) — 

 Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk (8vo. iv. 

 316.), mentions a monumental inscription in the 

 church of St. Andrew the Apostle, Norwich, in 

 memory of " Thomas Nelson, 1695, aged 84." 

 And in the account of Sporle Church (8vo. vi. 

 119.), he says : — 



" In the chancel, ... lie several gravestones ; one in 

 memory of William Nelson, late of Little Dunham, Avho 

 died 27 January, 1718, aged 59. Another for Dorothy 

 wife of Thomas Nelson, daughter of Thomas Prettj'man, 

 Gent., and Dorothy his wife, 31 Januarj', 1711, 32. And 

 a third for Barbara, wife of Thomas Nelson, who died 12 

 May, 1725, aged 35." 



Other members of the Nelson family are men- 

 tioned by Blomefield, but do not appear to be the 

 subjects of Mr. Nelson's inquiry. 



Herus Frater. 



Seson Family (2""* S. x. 128.) —This name is 

 doubtless merely another orthography of the 

 French name (Le) Sesne, " the Saxon." Seson is 

 also the O. Fr. form of saison. R. S. Charnock. 



Centenarianism (2"^ S. ix. 438. ; x. 15. 129.)— 

 The notices of old-old people given by your corre- 

 spondents refer to military men. In casually 

 looking over a day or two ago Crockford's Clerical 

 Directory for the present year, my eye rested on 

 the name of the Rev. J. R- Holden, Rector of 

 Upminster, Essex. This gentleman is recorded 

 as of Queen's College, Oxon., B.A. 1772, M.A. 

 1774, Deacon and Priest, 1773, both by the Bp. 

 of London, and instituted in the benefice of Up- 

 minster, 1799. Supposing him to have been 

 twenty-three years of age when he was admitted 

 to deacon's orders, he would now be 110. I ;ire- 

 sume there must be some error in the dates, al- 

 though they all appear concurrent ; but I bring it 

 under the notice of your correspondents J. R. M. 

 D. and M. S. R., as a case affording ready facili- 

 ties for testing their several theories. 



John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



Commemoration Sermons (2°* S. x. 128.) — 

 Newark furnishes a remarkable instance. On the 

 night of the 11th of March, 1643, during the 

 second si§ge of the town. Alderman Hercules 

 Clay dreamt three times that his house was in 

 flames, roused his family and servants, and with 

 them hurriedly left the dwelling. Not long after 

 they had gone a bomb from the Parliament bat- 

 tery, on a hill outside the town, did fall on the 

 roof and burst through all the floors. In grati- 



