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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<» S. X. OoT. G. 'GO. 



^prouvait, a prendre le bat et a porter toutes les pieries 

 dont il aurait besoin, Le loup se soumit, se laisse bater, 

 porta autant de pierres qu'il en fallait au saint, et I'edi- 

 fice fut achev^. L'ermita^e dont je parle est en nna pos- 

 session : le miracle ra'a ^te raconte sur les lieux memes. 



" Ce S'. Herv^ est un saint fort obscur. II n'en est fait 

 mention que dans la vie des saints de Bretagne, par un 

 Be'uedictin dont j'ai oubliele nom. Je ne crois pas qu'on 

 lui ait ^leve d'autre temple qu'un chapelle qui existe en- 

 core, mais dans laquelle on ne voit plus son image. Le 

 representait-on comme S'. Remade, aceompagn^ d'un 

 loup bat^ charge de pierres ? p. 132." — AbrSge de VHis- 

 toire de Spa, par J. B. L. Liege, 1818, 12°. pp. 229. 



The author afterwards says that the founder of 

 Spa was named "Wolff, ou le loup," and that 

 " Wolff" and " loup " have the same signification 

 as Herve in the dialect of Bas-Breton. In a note 

 he adds : — - 



" Herve qui se dit en Breton Hoarv6 est compose de 

 deux mots Bretons Hoaru (fer) et Bled, en construction 

 vleci et par contraction ce (loup), et signiQe, le loup coideur 

 defer, le loup gris." 



Not knowing the Bas-Breton, I do not pro- 

 nounce upon the above etymology. I cannot 

 find the words in Gonidec's Dictionnaire Celto- 

 Breto7i, and the conversion, Bleci,=Vleci = ve, 

 seems to demand as much faith as that of the 

 wolf into an assistant mason. Fitzhopkins. 



Abbeville. 



Village Greens (2"^ S. x. 249.)— Paul Pry 

 might see that every village green has not the 

 growth of rushes, if he felt disposed to view the 

 beautifully rustic village of Havering-atte-Bower, 

 Essex. 



The palace of Edward the Confessor formerly 

 stood here, and now it is surrounded, not with the 

 cottages of the labouring population, but by the 

 once royal chapel and by the mansions of the 

 squires; the Manor House, the Bower House, 

 the Hall, the parsonage ; the stocks of bygone 

 days are still standing under an old elm of about 

 400 years' growth, which afforded a delightful 

 shade to the illustrious Queen Elizabeth. 



And yet the villagers on this green " graze their 

 donkeys, turn out their pigs, and feed their geese," 

 according to the royal grant from the crown, 

 which ordered : " that the green be for ever used 

 as and for feed and herbage to be agisted only by 

 cattle, but not at any time to be enclosed with 

 pale, rail, fence, or wall, or dug up, or converted 

 into tillage, or gravel taken therefrom ; but to re- 

 main as an ornament to the village of Havering 

 for ever." 



Within the walls of the little church on the 

 green, the court of King James I. attended when 

 Bishop Hall preached. R. R. F. 



Character of St. Paui.'s Handwriting (2°'^ 

 S. X. 198.) — The late Mark Stephen suggested 

 that St. Paul must have suffered from chronical 

 ophthalmia. And certainly the passages. Acts 

 xxiii. 1—6., 2 Cor. xii. 7., 1 Cor. xvi. 21., Gala- 



tians iv. 13. 16., vi. 11., Colossians iv. 18., &c., 

 are most easily interpreted under such a sup- 

 position. 



But it is only fair to state that the Dean of 

 Canterbury remarks on Galatians iv. 15., "the 

 inference ... of any ocular disease from these 

 words themselves seems to me precarious:" and 

 that Professor Jowett utterly ignores such an in- 

 terpretation as that of Mark Stephen. 



Surely, however, the Epistle would under any 

 circumstances have been written in the uncial 

 character. W. C. 



Families or Cary and Helyar (2°* S. x. 210.) 

 — A lady of my acquaintance has original inform- 

 ation regarding Colonel Cary, brother of the judge. 

 Sir Henry Cary (Cockington House, Devonshire,) 

 and Mr. Cary Helyar — prior to 1685 — but I must 

 leave it to your correspondent to procure it, if 

 required. C. H. 



Bishop (2"* S. x. 227.)— The following ex- 

 tract is from Blomefield's Norfolk, i. 407. : — 



" The Bishop of Norwich is the only abbot in England, 

 and now sits in Parliament by virtue of the Barony of 

 Hulme Abbe}' ; the baron)- 'formerly belonging to the 

 bishoprick being in the crown." 



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