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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2nd s. X. Sept, 8. '60. 



name. She died May 27th, 1767, at Hampstead, 

 and was buried behind the Foundling Hospital, in 

 the ground belonging to St. George the Martyr. 

 Edward F. Rimbadlt. 

 CoKONATioN OF Edward IV. : Feast of St. 

 Leo (2'"» S. x. 106. 153.)— The doubt is not 

 about the Feast of St. Leo, the Pope, which is 

 rightly given by Sir Harris Nicolas as the 28th 

 June ; but as to the Feast of St. Leon, which he 

 assigns to 13th June on the authority of Cotton 

 MS., Domitian A. xvii. 



There is no mystification : the record is, " M"^ 

 qd die Dm'ca post fest'm so" Leonis, vigiliis 

 aptor^ petri e pauUi aiio Dni miiij Ixj," &c. This 

 shows that the Feast is not quite so cleai-ly fixed 

 for the 28 til as Mr. Wii^liams supposes, and the 

 doubt is not ended by a letter received by me 

 from Dr. T. W. N. Smart, in which he says : — 



" On referring to a Calendar at the end of a small 

 volume of ancient MS. prayers, illuminated, but without 

 date, I find in ' Juing ' as follows : — 

 ' 12th day. Saincte basille. 



13th „ Sainct leon. 



26tli „ Sainct johan. 



27th „ Sainct leon. 



28th „ Sainct pierre Vigl. 



29th „ Sainct pierre and paul.' " 



Two days in this month appear to have been 

 assigned to St. Leo, as well as the 11th of April 

 and 12th of November. Wm. Durrant Cooper. 



IsRAELiTisH CosTUMB (2°* S. X. 46.) — The 

 inner garment was the citoneth, usually translated 

 coat, but it was rather a shirt without collar or 

 sleeves.* (Gen. xxxvii. 3.) The priests were re- 

 quired to wear drawers, micnasim (Ex. xxviii. 

 42.), from which we may infer that they were not 

 in general use b.c. 1491. These descended half 

 way down the thigh. The Arabs wear a shirt 

 with very full sleeves, ckamees, but it is not pro- 

 bable that the Israelites then had sleeves, as their 

 citoneth resembled the Greek x'^^'*"') according to 

 the Septuagint. The Arabs wear drawers, dih'-keh, 

 reaching below the knee or to the ancle. Nei- 

 ther Hebrews nor Arabs wore anciently stockings, 

 but sandals must have been in common use with 

 the Hebrews at this early period, because they 

 constituted a legal symbol in the ceremony of 

 chalitzah, probably long before the promulgation 

 of the Mosaic law. (Gen. xxxviii. 8 — 12.; Deut. 

 XXV. 5 — 10.) The upper garment was termed in 

 Hebrew shimlah or beged, the lfx,dTiov of the Greek, 

 five or six cubits long and five or six feet broad. 

 In this the Hebrew slept, and when given as a 

 pledge it could not be retained beyond sunset. 

 (Ex. xxii. 25, 26. ; Deut. xxiv. 13.) A covering 

 for the head, as distinct from the shimlah, does 

 not appear to have been in use in 1491 bc, but 



* The "collar of a coat" (Job xxx. 18.) means the folds 

 of the citoneth ; it was fastened by a girdle, and the folds 

 formed a pocket. 



the priests wore a linen mitre. (Lev. xvi. 4.) Of 

 the other articles of dress, and of their colour, 

 texture, &c., information may be bad from Jahn. 

 (Arch. Bib. s. 118 — 135.) Some doubt attends 

 the supposed representations of Jews in the Egyp- 

 tian paintings ; and I am not aware of any illus- 

 trated works that can be relied on for the period 

 in question, because they introduce costume of a 

 much more recent period, after the Jews had come 

 into communication with Chaldeans, Persians, &c. 



T. J. Buckton. 

 Lichfield. 



Astir (2°* S. x. 171.) — The word astir is to 

 be found in Dr. Hyde Clarke's New and Compre- 

 hensive Dictionary of the English Language as 

 Spoken and W7-itten, published in 1855. It is 

 stated to mean stirring, and to be of Anglo-Saxon 

 origin. G, 



Edinburgh, 



"Astir. A Stirring. Active." — Mr. North 

 and the Editor of "N. & Q." overlooked that most 

 useful English dictionary called the Imperial Dic- 

 tionary, by Ogilvie : in the Supplement to which 

 is the word astir with the above meaning, 



George Offor. 



Hereditary Alias (2°* S. ix. 344. 413. 454. ; 

 x. 17.) — The replies of your able correspondents 

 under this head seem rather to have exceeded 

 the scope of the original inquiry ; the instances 

 adduced being rather the assumption of names 

 including or conferring some property qualifica- 

 tion, represented in the present day by the royal 

 licence to bear the name (and arms) of represen- 

 tative heiresses, accompanied also in some cases 

 by titular honours : one instance of which may be 

 noted in the recently extinct baronetcy of Mill of 

 Mottisfont, in this county — the late Sir John 

 Barker-Mill (as he was always designated) having 

 inherited the name and estates of the last baronet 

 of the first creation, through his mother, daughter 

 and heiress of Sir Charles Mill (who married J. 

 Barker, Esq., of Wareham), and who conse- 

 quently assumed her name in addition to his pa- 

 tronymic Barker, and had the baronetcy revived 

 in his favour in 1819, now, by his death, s. p., a 

 short time since, a second time extinct. Besides 

 the instances already given of the older form of 

 alias, there may be mentioned the " Alias Wil- 

 liams" of the Protector Cromwell, who was de- 

 scended from and bore the arms of that family ; 

 and a cursory glance through the pages of Burke's 

 Armory will reveal others, such as " Heriz alias 

 Smith;" "Herst alias Grove" (most probably a 

 synonym) ; " Norris alias Banks," &c. These, 

 and the names furnished by Mr. Carrington, 

 will be found generally bearing the arms of the 

 families assumed as '■'■aliases:" with reference to 

 one of which, " Pyt alias Benett," it is somewhat 

 singular (as proving the connexion sometimes to 



