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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<i S. X. Oct. 20. '60. 



and ' one in ordinary type.* Dr. T. gives a very 

 interesting account of it in his Notitia, with spe- 

 cimens of the text and its important readings. 

 Among others it omits Mark xvi. 9 — 20, John 

 vii. 53. to viii. 11., and 1 John v. 7. In Acts xx. 

 28. it has "the church of God,"" and in 1 Tim. iii. 

 16. " who was manifested." The edition of the 

 New Testament portion for general use will be 

 published at a price which will bring this ines- 

 timable treasure within the reach of all students. 

 The Notitia contains a beautiful facsimile of the 

 original of part of Luke chap. xxiv. B. H. C. 



Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton (2'^ S. 

 ix. 427.) — See Blackwood's Magazine for March 

 and April last for a perfect vindication of our 

 immortal hero from the charges of Southey, Lord 

 Brougham, Captain Brenton and others, with re- 

 ference to Caraccioli. Fuit. 



Barm and Yeast (2"<* S. x. 229. 298,)— Barm 

 is, I think, a provincialism peculiar to the Mid- 

 land Counties. In Norfolk, from whence I write, 

 a labourer would not, I should suppose, know what 

 harm meant. G. W. M. 



Painting at Tatton Hall (2"^ S. x. 248.) — 



The letters " S. I. C." stand, I think, for St. lago 



Compostella, and the portrait represents a knight 



of St. James of Compostella. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



MS, Life of Dr. George Hickes (2"'* S. x. 

 268.) — Although unable to give Mr. Yeowell 

 any information into whose hands the above MS. 

 has fallen, I take leave to say he will find in a 

 volume of sermons written by Dr. William Hop- 

 kins, and published by Dr. Hickes in 1708, a life 

 of the former divine by the latter. In this life 

 are many interesting anecdotes of Dr. Hickes 

 himself. Dr. Hopkins was a prebendary of the 

 Worcester Cathedral when Dr. Hickes was pro- 

 moted to the deanery ; and there sprung up be- 

 tween them the closest intimacy and enduring 

 friendship. At the anniversary of the Worcester 

 Architectural Society, presided over by Lord 

 Lyttelton, held at this time last year, a paper was 

 read by a member upon the character of these 

 worthies. J. M. Gutch. 



Worcester. 



Milton on the University Carrier (2""^ S. x. 

 155.) — I have only just met with N. T.'s com- 

 munication headed " Milton's Paradise Lost" in 

 which he says " I confessed myself unable to make 

 sense" of the "lines on the Cambridge Carrier." 

 I beg to inform N. T. that I had not, and supposed 

 no one had, any doubt about the meaning of 



[* Since this was in type, we have seen it stated by 

 Tlie Daily Telegraph's Correspondent at St. Petersburgh 

 that the first volume has iust been published, — Ed. " N. 

 & Q."] •■ ' 



"more weight" in Hobson's mouth ; the difficulty 

 with them lying in the poet's remark, " As he were 

 prest to 'death." Of this I offered two solutions, 

 and N. T. has not offered any. Thos. Keightley. 



Parish or Parhissii (2"^ S. x, 226.)— 



" Les habitants du Barrois sont norom^s Barisienses, 

 comme ceux de Paris Parisienses. Or, le Barrois ^tait la 

 frontifere qui sdparait la Lorraine de la Champagne. Le 

 territoire des Parisiens Aait aussi une fiontifere qui sepa- 

 rait les Senones et les Carnutes des Silvanectes, la Gank 

 CeUique de la Gaule Belgique. 11 est certain que toutes 

 les positions geographiques dont les noms se composent 

 du radical Bar ou Par sont situees sur des frontiferes. II 

 faudrait done en conelure que Parisii et Barisii signifient 

 habitants de fronti^res, et que lapeuplade admise chez les 

 Senones ne dut son nom de Parisii qii'a son etablissement 

 sur lafrontiere de cctie iiation." 



So at least says M. V. Deale in his Rechei-ches 

 sur le Culte d'Isis chez les Parisiens., as extracted 

 at p. 82, vol. viii. of the JBibliotheque de Poche par 

 une Societede Gensde Letti'es, &c. Under " Curi- 

 osites Philologiques," same work and same vol. 

 p. 94. same section, gives this, sub verb. : — 



" Cocagne. L'indigo n'a commence a etre connu en 

 France que vers la fin du seizierae sifecle. Jusqu'alors on 

 y teignait en bl«u avec des coques de pastel (the hulls of 

 the woad?) ; c''est a Id culture et au commerce du pastel que 

 le pays de Lauragnais ont le nom de pays de Cocagne, h, 

 cause du grand nombre de coques qui s'y faisaicnt, et des 

 benefices considerables qu'on en retirait. Cocagne s'ecri- 

 vait autrefois Coquaigne. 



" Li pais si a non Coquaigne, 

 Ki plus i dort plus i gaaigne, 

 C'est le fabliau de Coquaigne." 



The couplet is perhaps a proverb. 



" Le pays se nome Coquaigne, 

 Qui plus y dort plus il gagne." 



Cockney is of course a man of Coquaigne (Co- 

 queney or Coqney being likely the older form) ; 

 so we may suppose le pays de Lauragnais is really 

 the old Cockney-country, and not anywhere within 

 the sound of Bow-bells : but the wary member of 

 a society of French " gens de lettres " has not 

 given his authority, and- has not signed his name, 

 so we do not yet know what manner of man it 

 is who has pierced into the soul of this Pick- 

 wickian mystery. C. D. L. 



Guernsey Market guilt without Money : 

 Mr. Stephenson at Shap Fells (2"'' S. x. 230.) 

 — If your correspondent J. H. will turn to Mr. 

 Duncan's pamphlets on Currency, he will find 

 full particulars of the Guernsey market, and how 

 it was built without money. A similar instance 

 of an issue of paper based upon labour may be 

 adduced. Mr. Stephenson, when carrying the 

 railway over Shap Fells in Cumberland, found his 

 workmen and navvies so far removed from shops, 

 that he was obliged to organise a well-managed 

 truck system ; and instead of leaving them to the 

 mercies of a chance collection of hucksters, whose 

 sole inducement to the speculation must have been 



