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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'d p. X. Sept. 1. 'GO. 



holy hermit, founder of the religious congregation 

 of that name in 1 1 19. It is related in his life that 

 a wolf served him by carrying materials for him 

 when building a church : hence the trowel in the 

 saint's hand, and the wolf carrying stones in pan- 

 •niers. F. C. H 



Star (2°<' S. x. 129.)— In answer to E. G. R.'s 

 question whether any of the Jewish documents 

 called " Stars " have been printed ? it will pos- 

 sibly be sufficient to refer the inquirer to the 

 learned John Selden's Titles of Honor, in the 

 2nd edition of which (1631, folio, pp. 939-941.) is 

 a specimen in Hebrew and English of one of these 

 instruments, &c. 



This and other specimens in Latin and French 

 are given in Dr. Tovey's Anglia Judaica, or His- 

 tory and Antiquities of the Jews in England, Ox- 

 ford, 1738, 4to. p. 32." s. s., where curious and 

 valuable information will be found on the subject, 

 but much too long to suit your pages. 



Prynne's 



" Short Demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued bar- 

 red Remitter into England. Comprising ^n exact Chro- 

 nological Relation of their first admission into, their 

 iil-deportment, Misdemeanors, Condition, Suflferings, Op- 

 pressions, Plunders by popular Insurrections, and regal 

 Exactions ; and their total final Banishment by Judg- 

 ment and Edict of Parliament out of England, never to 

 return again," &c. 



of which the 2nd edition appeared in 1656, 4to., 

 is believed to be the main source of reliable in- 

 formation on the history of the Jews in England ; 

 excepting the above work of Dr. Tovey, who, at 

 pp. 261-279., gives an amusing account of Oliver 

 Cromwell's proceedings in relation to their read- 

 mission into England. D. B. 



Clever (2"^ S. x. 67. 138.) —Your correspon- 

 dent has remarked on the provincial application 

 of this word as denoting material, rather than 

 mental superiority ; such a use does not seem to. 

 be confined to Lancashire. I remember hearing of 

 a Somersetshire farmer who observed to my friend, 

 when admiring some goodly proportions of a pig, 

 " I tell e what, zur, he'd make a very clever gris- 

 kin." Whether this said animal could trace his 

 pedigree to the "learned pig" I know not, but I 

 understood the farmer to have the character of 

 being a far better judge of mutter than of mind. 



F. Phillott. 



TiMBs's " Anecdote Biography " (2"* S. x. 

 123.) — Without entering into any general defence 

 of the anecdote of Crabbe alluded to by your cor- 

 respondent Parathina, allow me to remark that 

 " Beccles" in the passage quoted. Is a mistake for 

 " Bristol" Cowper's arm chair is In the Philoso- 

 phical Institution of that city. Be. 



Rutherford Family (2°'^ S. ix. 403.) — 

 Douglas, in his Peerage (ed. 1764), under the 

 titles Lord Rutherford and Earl of Teviot, 



gives the history of those lines, which were ulti- 

 mately ennobled, from the earliest tradition to 

 1738. 



Wood's edition starts with William Ruther- 

 ford, of Quarryholes *, father of the first Lord 

 Rutherford, falling back afterwards upon the 

 earlier history of the family, and bringing It down 

 to the present day. 



In NIsbet's Heraldry (vol. I. pp. 176—178., ed. 

 1816), a short account is given of the leading 

 branches of this family, and their arms differ- 

 enced ; and in the Appendix (p. 209.) a history 

 of that of Lord Rutherford. 



William Galloway. 



Edinburgh. 



Bastard (2"'^ S. x. 44.) — Eric quotes an as- 

 sertion to the effect that the great Conquistor, 

 William, added " Bastard'' to the subscription of 

 his name, thinking the same no abasement either 

 to his title or reputation. The epithet was thought 

 of in like manner for many long years after Wil- 

 liam's time. When Richard III. appointed his 

 Illegitimate son, John of Gloucester, to be Captain 

 of Calais, he styled him, in the deed of appointment, 

 "our dearly beloved bastard," and praised him 

 for the nimbleness of his wit, the agility of his 

 limbs, and his proneness towards good manners. 

 These qualities are indeed noticed (Rymer, under 

 date March 11, 1485,) as motives for the nomina- 

 tion of John to the distinguished office in ques- 

 tion. The term " bastard" is often used in wills 

 as late as the seventeenth century, without any 

 implication of disgrace. Legacies to the base 

 born are mingled with bequests to legitimate 

 children, and one family name seems often to have 

 been common to both. Some curious examples 

 of this may be met with in the singular collection 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, edited for the 

 Chetham Society by the Rev. G. J. Piccope. 



Has the derivation of "bastard" been satisfac- 

 torily determined ? Is it from the Greek fiaa-ffdpa. 

 (meretrix, harlot), or is it from bass and aerd (low 

 nature), or has It any reference to the bassara 

 worn by the vivacioua^riestesses of Bacchus ? 



I remember a distich which marks a nice dis- 

 tinction In illegitimacy. The varieties were " Man- 

 ser, Nothus, et Spurlus," thus classified : — 

 " Manseribus, scortum ; Notho, Moechus dedit ortum. 



Ut seges e spica, sic Spurius est ab Amica." 



According to this arrangement of quality, Wil- 

 liam the Norman was " Gulielmus Spurius." Who 

 was John of Gloucester's mother ? J. Doran. 



Witty Renderings (2°^ S. Ix. 116. 246. 332. 

 413. 512.) — I have not seen the following among 

 your collection. The motto of the Merchant Tay- 



* His Lady was Isabel Stewart, daughter of James 

 Stewart of Traquair: not Earl of Traquair, as in 3"'^ S. 

 X. 5., the earldom only coifting into existence in the per- 

 son of his grandson. Sir John Stewart of Traquair. 



