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NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



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Boeuf however may be derived from the Su.- 

 Goth. bo, Ice. hyr, a dwelling; and this is con- 

 firmed by an extract from the Memoires of the 

 Itoyal Society of Northern Antiquaries^ entitled 

 " Orthowraphe de quelques noms propres Nor- 

 diques," in which the writer says " Caldebekkr 

 became Caudebec ; Langibyr, Longbu ; and Turn- 

 byr, Tournebu" and from this we may have Tur- 

 nebus and Tournebceuf. Turnbyr, in Icelandic, 

 would translate " tower dwelling." The n^me 

 Turnbull is more probably another orthography of 

 Trumbull (by corruption, Trumble), which, sqp- 

 posing it to be a Celtic- Saxon compound, mijjht 

 mean " dwelling on the ridge or hill," (Cf. Cla- 

 ringbold and Claringbull). 



I shall be glad of any information as to the 

 meaning of the vocable " boeuf" in composition of 

 local and personal names. R. S. Charnock. 



Gilbert's " History of Dublin." — In Mr. 

 Gilbert's very interesting History of the City of 

 Dublin, of which three volumes have appeared 

 (1854-1859), there are sundry inaccuracies, which 

 might easily have been avoided; and to three of 

 which, as examples of what I have casually de- 

 tected, I beg, through the medium of " N. & Q.," 

 to draw his attention ; feeling assured that he will 

 be only too glad to have any mistakes rectified, 

 and thinking it well to notice them (as the author 

 has not done so in his lists of " errata ") for the 

 sake of the reader. Though not very serious mis- 

 takes, they should not be allowed to pq,ss without 

 observation : — 



1. Mr. Gilbert informs us, in vol. ii. p. 318, 

 that Sir William Fownes left a daughter, " who 

 married Robert Cope of Loughgall, co. Antrim." 

 I have good reason to know that Loughgall is 

 within three or four miles of the city of Armagh, 

 and far away from the county of Antrim. 



2. In p. 322. of the same volume we are told 

 that "the junior branch [of the Annesley family] 

 enjoyed the baronetcy of Altham in the Peerage of 

 Ireland." To this I may say, that all the baronet- 

 cies in the kingdom, if united in one man, would 

 not convert him from a commoner into a peer. 



3. In vol. iii. p. 287, the wife of the ill-fated 

 Lord Edward Fitzgerald is incorrectly spoken of 

 as " Lady Pamela Fitzgerald." 



Mr. (Gilbert's work, as I have said, is indeed 

 very interesting; but one must regret that he has 

 not thought proper to give, in the shape of foot- 

 notes, the authorities for his several statements. 

 It was well remarked of Sir James Emerson Ten- 

 nent's Ceylon (2"* S. ix. 316.), that " the author 

 is scrupulously careful in giving his authorities." 



B. E. S. 



A Cock-knee. — 



"A present was made me of a clach dun cetlach, or 

 cock-knee atone, believed to be obtained out of that part 

 of the bird." — Pennant's Voyage to the Hebrides, p. 232. 



CUTHBEBT BbPE. 



"PILGRIMAGE OF GOOD INTENT." 

 I have a book in my possession entitled The Pil- 

 grimage of Good Intent in Jacobinical Times, of the 

 name of the author of which I should be glad to be 

 informed. The title-page has unfortunately been 

 torn away, but I think the date of publication 

 was somewhere about 1794. It is an imitation of 

 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, but the dangers to 

 which the pilgrim Good Intent is exposed are all 

 those which might be supposed to confront a tra- 

 veller towards the Celestial City, during the pre- 

 valence of the revolutionary opinions derived from * 

 France in the end of the last century. Thus Mr. 

 Philosophy is represented as having erected a pa- 

 lace opposite to the House of the Interpreter foy 

 the purpose of inveiglinj; pilgrims and seducing 

 them into becoming his disciples. Good Intent i^ 

 induced, with a band of companions, to take up 

 his abode there; and after viewing the interior 

 of the palace, and the labours of Mr. Philosophy's 

 pupils, is nearly betrayed into surrendering the 

 Book which he had received from Evangelist, to 

 be consumed as a sacrifice before the shrine of 

 Atheism, but succeeds in making his escape and 

 arriving at the House of the Interpreter. In the 

 subsequent course of his journey he is assailed 

 by Lady Fashion and the Pleasures at the foot of 

 the Hill of Difficulty, and is afterwards beguiled 

 into the abode of the Moral Virtues, Philanthropy, 

 Mental Energy, and Sensibility, a rival establish- 

 ment to that of the Christian Virtues, occupying 

 the House Beautiful. A similar adaptation of the 

 Pilgrim's Progress to modern times pervades the 

 rest of the book. The narrative is well told, and 

 the 'allegories ingeniously chosen and supported. 

 I have never met with any other copy of the 

 work, nor seen it referred to anywhere ; but I 

 have heard an esteemed relative speak of it as 

 popular in the days of her childhood. She ascribes 

 its authorship to Hannah More, but in all the lists 

 of that lady's writings which I have seen no men- 

 tion is made of this book. Perhaps some reader 

 of "N. & Q." C9,u enlighten me ^s to its author- 

 ship. D. B. 



ZOPISSA: UNDE DERIVATOR? 



What is the etymology of this word ? In an in- 

 teresting communication addressed to the Times 

 (Oct. 24) on the subject of the Preservation of Stone, 

 of which the subjoined is an extract, — " an archi- 

 tect" comments on the use of the compound 

 called " zopissa," the origin of which may be 

 worth discussing in your pages ; few denoting the 

 tempering of the substances of which it was com- 

 posed, pitch and wax boiled up together, would 

 seem to be the more probable etymology. If 

 ZMpissa be the correct mode of spelling it, there 



