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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2"* S. X. Nov. 24. '60. 



Inquisitione ristampata, e da molti errori con ogni dili- 

 gentia corretta. In Vinegia appresso Girolamo Scotto. 



MDLXVII." 



I know of no better or fuller account of the 

 version than that contained in Townley's Biblical 

 Literature, vol. ii. 137-8. Malermi was a Camal- 

 dolese monk, and is said to have executed the 

 translation in eight months. G. M. G. 



Plaid and Tartan (2"* S. x. 228.)—" Plaid " 

 is the garment, " tartan " the checked material of 

 which it and the kilt are made. The " tartan " 

 denotes the clan to which the wearer of the plaid 

 and kilt belongs. W". C. 



Remarkable Chinese Prophecy : the Poo- 

 NANGS, A Nation with Tails (2"* S. x. 322.) — 

 With an eye to the present occurrences in China 

 you will think the following reference to the Eight 

 Years' Voyage of Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe of 

 Hoorn of sufficient interest to allow it an insertion. 



In the year 1623 the Dutch Commander Bon- 

 tekoe was cruising near the coasts of China, whither 

 he had been directed by the East India Company 

 in order to conclude a treaty of commerce and 

 friendship with the wily celestials. The Chinese 

 officials of course were procrastinating and shuffl- 

 ing (as is their wont), promising great things, and, 

 in the meanwhile, continually trying to burn the 

 Netherlands flotilla by letting fire-ships tied to- 

 gether float off the stream where it used to resort 

 to. Bontekoe upon this captured a pative vessel 

 bound for Manilla, and manned with 290 souls, 

 most of whom he transferred to his ship, the "Gron- 

 ingen." Now he says : — 



" More than once on that day I betook myself to my 

 cabin in great want of sleep, but fruitlessly, and every 

 time I came back upon deck the captives instantly made 

 room, and on both sides fell on their knees with hands 

 folded, indeed behaving like lambs. Now I was told 

 there circulated a prophecy amongst them to the pur- 

 port, that once their country would be conquered by red- 

 bearded men, and as I had a red beard myself, they 

 therefore seemed to look at me with the greater respect. 

 But this was only a bit of folk-lore, and of no great im- 

 portance." ' 



For a member of the nation, whose sons the 

 Chinese design as the red-haired devils, I need not 

 subjoin my supposition as to the probable fulfil- 

 lers of the above prediction ! 



In my article on the "Poonangs" a mistatement 

 occurs. It is not Mr, van Houtrop offered the 

 Sultan to find him out some specimina of natives 

 with tails ; but it is the Sultan who presented his 

 services in the case to the gentleman aforesaid. 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Estates op Waltham Abbey (2"^ S. x. 239.) 

 — Some account of the cartularies of Waltham 

 Abbey and their contents will be found in the 

 Collectanea Topographica et Oenealogica, vol. vi., 

 where I edited a series of original charters relat- 



ing to Alrichesey, now Arlsey, co. Bedford, from 

 the originals in the possession of Stacey Grimaldi, 

 Esq., F.S.A. The abbey possessed, not only the 

 advowson, but a manor at that place : the latter 

 from the time of the Confessor, or Earl Harold, 

 although at the time of the Domesday survey it is 

 described as Terra Episcopi Dunelmensis, to whom, 

 in some way unexplained, it appears to have been 

 temporarily alienated. This manor, however, is 

 rated as eight hides, whilst in the Testa de Neville 

 the abbat of Waltham holds only three hides at 

 Aylricheseye. (" Theydon Boyl " in p. 240. is an 

 obvious misprint for Theydon Boys, co. Essex.) 



John Gough Nichols. 



Derivation of Artillery (2"'' S. x. 70. 215.) 

 — The word " artillery " is doubtless derived as W. 

 L. Y. suggests, from " arc," a bow (French), and 

 " tirer," to draw ; and is used in that sense in the 

 following quotation : — 



" Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad," &c. — 1 

 Sam. XX. 40, 



Arthur Houlton. 

 Law and Poison (2"'* S. viii, 130.) — Possibly : 



Philocleon. oI/jloi SeiKaoi ' 



IlaJs av a aiTOKTeCvaiix.1 ; ttws ; fiore fJ-oi. ^ii^os 

 Offws TaxiCT' ri TTif a/ciov Tt/iAr)TtKdv. 

 Bdelycleon. "'AvOpbtnoi o6tos |u.rya ti Spatreiei kolkov. 



VespcB, V. 105. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Charles Martel (2"'^ S. x, 230.) — Northants 

 will find the ancestry of Charles Martel traced up 

 to St. Arnoul in Koch, Tables Genealogiques, and 

 other works of the same class. Meletes. 



Dedications to the Deity (2"^ S. x. 177. 217. 

 258.) — In the Arminian Controversy James I. 

 took an active part, and ordered his " ambassa- 

 dors to advise the States of Holland to beware in 

 time of heretical preachers, and not to suffer them 

 to creep into their State." His Majesty, both in 

 Latin and English, was pleased to inform them as 

 " a Christian King, the Defender of the Faith, 

 keeper and avenger of both the tables of the Law, 

 and nursing father of the Church," that he re- 

 quires a book written by Professor Vorstius to be 

 burned, and dedicates his own book, as near as 

 possible in the spirit of our subject, " To the honour 

 of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, The eter- 

 nal Sonne of the eternal Father." (^Declaration 

 against Vorstius, 1612.) G, N. 



The Penitent Pilgrim (Brathwaite's), 1644, 

 " To that immaculate Lambe Christ Jesus ; the 

 sole Saviour and Receiver of every penitent sin- 

 ner ; hath this poore 'pilgrime humbly here pre- 

 sented his penitential teares." G. Offok. 



"Stark-naked Lady" (2"^ S. x. 271.) — If 

 Mr. Smith had been a gouty subject, he would 

 have found its name under the familiar title (to 



