364 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ndS.X. Nov. 10. 'GO. 



the following charm, written by his father on a 

 scrap of paper, and which he was told constantly 

 to carry about him : — 



" When Bortron (or Bertron) sat on a marble stone 

 near the gates of Jerusalem, Jesus said to him, ' What 

 troubleth thee, O Bortron ? ' He answered and said, 'I 

 am troubled with the toothache.' Jesus said, 'Arise, 

 and follow me, and thou shalt be healed of thy pain ; and 

 not thou only, but every one that shall carry these lines 

 for my sake.' — Amen." 



I will add a Query. From what legend is this 

 derived ? A8. 



Charms fob Ague and Tooth-ache (2"'* S. 

 X. 184.) — I well remember when resident in Staf- 

 fordshire between forty and fifty years ago, hearing 

 of the charm for the ague mentioned at the above 

 reference. I had my account from a priest who 

 found a young woman of his flock possessed of 

 the charm ; and upon his convincing her of the 

 sinfulness, as well as folly, of wearing it, she al- 

 lowed him to break it open, when the same worcfe 

 were found written inside : — 



" Ague, farewell, 

 Till we meet in hell." 



When the late Cardinal Weld began his clerical 

 career as an humble missionary priest at Chelsea, 

 he related to me a similar case which had just 

 occurred in his flock. He learned from a young 

 woman that she had a charm for the toothache. 

 When he exhorted her to destroy it, she said the 

 person of whom she purchased it had solemnly 

 warned her never to open the sealed paper ; for 

 that if she did, her toothache would return. 

 However, the exhortations of the good priest pre- 

 tailed : she handed it to him to open, and was 

 horrified to read the infernal compact written 

 within, and to think that she had been so long 

 carrying it about her. The words were these : — 

 " Good Devil, cure her. 

 And take her for your pains." 



F. C. H. 



A Fall-of-the-Leaf Saying. — At the fall of 

 the leaf cows will eat the fallen leaves in their pas- 

 tures. This makes the milk bitter, and prevents 

 it from keeping ; and, on this point,'! heard a Hun- 

 tingdonshire woman use the following saying : — 



" Farmers' wives I when the leaves do fall, 

 'Twill spoil your milk, and butter, and all." 



CUTHBEBT BeDE. 



The Sabbath Sun. — ^ It is a popular belief at 

 Amsterdam, the residence of more than 25,000 

 Jews, that no Saturday ever sets without the sun's 

 having shown itself at least for one moment. Be- 

 fore breaking its fast, the Israelite population of 

 Amsterdam knows nothing better to while away 

 the time, which hangs so heavily on its law-bound 

 hands, than to imlh, and a rainy day of course is 

 quite a misfortune on their Sabbath. In Saxony 

 the popular proverb says, that the sun always 



shines of a Saturday, because on Satmday poor 

 people have to dry their shirt (not shirts !) 



J, H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst. 



ST. GEORGE'S IN THE EAST ANtlCIPATED, 



Among the petitions to King and Council in 

 the Chancery division of our Records at the Na- 

 tional repository is a curious pendent (of the early 

 part of the reign of Henry VI.) to certain eccle- 

 siastical outbreaks which have lately attracted 

 public attention in town, and which would pro- 

 bably interest the readers of " N. & Q." 



" Au Roi nostre Soverein et a son tressage Conseill. 

 " Supplie tres humblement vostre humble oratour John 

 Huntyngdon Gardein de la College de nostre dame de 

 Mauncestre en Gounte de Lancastre que come il et ses 

 compaignons Chapelleins et clercs de mesme le College 

 disoient la hoeure de complyne en leglise dicele College 

 mescredy proschein devant le fest de Seint Marc darrein 

 passez la viendrent Edward Wever du Counte de Cestre 

 Chivaler Thomas fil3 Thomas del Bothe de Barton du dicte 

 Counte de Lancastre et Nicholl frier du dit Thomas fll3 

 Thomas Richard del Bothe et Roger del Bothe son frier et 

 Thomas fil3 Hugh de Barton du dit Counte de Lancastre per 

 Commaundement du dit Thomas le pier ovesque plusours 

 gent3 disconu3 au nombre de xl. persounes ove force et 

 armes et entrerent le choeure de la dicte esglise pour y avoir 

 noticement de la personne de Thomas Barbour un des clercs 

 du dit college au fyn que le dit complyn finiz ils purroient 

 avoir pris acelluy clerc alant de mesme esglise vers lahitacion 

 des suisdit3 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs pour avoir batu'5 

 et 7iaufre'i le dit clerc encountre la pees du Roi nostre sove- 

 rein Seigneur et ce perceivantj les bonnes gents de la Ville 

 de Mauncestre viendroient pour accompaigner mesmes 

 les Gardeins Chapelleins et clercs a leur dicte habitacion 

 et ce veiant3 les suisdit^ Edward Thomas fil3 Thomas et 

 Nicholl son frier Richard et Roger et Thomas fil3 Hugh 

 que pour lors ne purroient ils accompler leur malvoys 

 purpos continuant3 lour malice fesoient assembler en le 

 dit feste de Seint Marc John Buron de la dit Connte de 

 Lancastre Chivaler Robert del Bothe Robert del Holt 

 William Masse de Workesley et William Lever Esquiers 

 de mesme le Counte de Lancastre ovec plusours autres a 

 la nombre de Cynk Cent3 personnes disconu3 arraie3 en 

 fence de guerre en manere de novell insurreccion en- 

 countre la pees le Roi nostre soverein seigneur suisdit et 

 les dit3 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs et lour servitours en 

 la dicte habitacion alors esteant3 obsideront et eux ma- 

 nasseront quen caas quils isseroient hors de lour dicte 

 habitacion pour aler a la dicte esglise amesriant ovesque 

 eux le dit Thomas Barbour clerc de mesme la college qil 

 seroit batu3 que jame3 ne aideront lui mesmes peront les dit3 

 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs pour double de lour mortes 

 ne auseront aler a mesme lesglise pour divine service y 

 faire mes pour eschuier le perill que purroit avenir fesoient 

 fermer les buys de icele esglise et les dit? Edward Thomas 

 fil5 Thomas et Nicholl son frier Richard Roger et Thomas 

 fil3 Hugh John Robert et Robert William et William et 

 les ^utres malefeisours suisdit3 uncore continuant3 lour 

 malice les fenestres de mesme lesglise debruserent et la 

 dicte esglise entrerent pour avoir tue3 ou malement trete3 

 aucun des dit 3 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs que la deing 

 purroit avoir estee trove en grande affraie sibien des dit3 

 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs come des inhabitant3 de- 

 dein3 mesme la ville de Mauncestre et de toute la pais la 

 Environ peront les dit3 Gardein Chapelleins et Clercs 



