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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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was considered by the Hindus as a god, and the 

 father of the goddess Usbas, " the dawn." The 

 word occurs on p. 551. of Prof. Miiller's book. 



The root div, " to shine," has been the parent 

 of many words : the Sansk. deva, " god ;" the Latin 

 \ Deus, dies, and divus, Sfc; the Lithuanian dieoas ; 

 the Greek Zeus ; the German zio or tyr ; the Zend 

 daeva, " a demon ;" and the modern Persian dev, 

 " a demon." 



The Sanskrit numeral ekn (pron. ayka), " one," 

 presents some affinity to ace ; and the Sansk. dwi, 

 Zend dwa, Greek and Latin duo, is not a bad de- 

 rivation for the German daus, as well as our two 

 and deuce. F. P. 



Early MS. discovered at Cambridge '(2"'' S. 

 X. 428.) — The following extract from the Cam- 

 bridge correspondence of The Daily Telegraph of 

 the 2nd of April last will answer this Query : — 



" Some time ago Mr. Henry Bradshaw, F.S.A., Fellow 

 of King's College, discovered among the MSS. in the Uni- 

 versity library, of which he is the keeper, a curious quarto 

 volume, respecting which a very erroneous account has 

 found its way into some of the public prints. The contents 

 of the volume in question are : The Gospels according to 

 the version of St. Jerome, in the Latin language, but written 

 in Irish characters of the eighth or ninth century; the 

 concluding portion of a mass according to the ancient 

 Scottish rite, in a handwriting of the eleventh century ; 

 and a small cartulary of the clerics of Deer in the county 

 of Aberdeen. The last portion is the most interesting. 

 It is chiefly in the ancient Gaelic language, and may be 

 referred so far back as the middle of the twelfth cen- 

 tury — one of the grants bearing date the 8th j'ear of 

 King David (1131-2.) Mr. Bradshaw intends, I believe, 

 to edit the volume for the Cambridge Antiquarian So- 

 ciety, and not, as has been stated, for the Spalding Club. 

 I may add that Mr. Bradshaw possesses an almost un- 

 rivalled collection of books — many of them of excessive 

 rarity — relating to the history and antiquities of Ire- 

 land." 



D.T. 



An article in the last number of the Saturday 

 Review will answer the Query put by A5. A de- 

 scription of the volume may also be seen in the 

 new Catalogue of Cambridge MSS., vol. iii. p. 

 530. (Cambridge, 1858, 8vo.) H. B. 



Singular Curb for Sore Eyes : Animal 

 Remedies (2°^ S. x. 338.) — 



" Bentley at this period corresponded with many of the 

 most learned men in Europe, and received from them all 

 that homage which his wide-spreading reputation de- 

 manded. From one of these letters it appears that, in 

 1707, his candlelight studies had injured his sight, which 

 was restored by the application of the insects called 

 multipedoE. To this benefit he pleasantly alludes in two 

 Latin elegiac couplets : — 



" ' Quod liceat Veli doctas mihi volvere chartas, 

 Ponitur haec vobis gratia, Multipedae. 

 At vobis maneat crebris, precor, imbribus uda 

 Subque cavo quercus cortice tuta domus.' 



" ' That learn'd Deveil's deep page I may peruse, 

 Ye things of many feet, to you I owe. 

 Moist be your darkling cells with fVequent dews. 

 And safely snug, the rough oak's rind below.' 



" The cure of which the things of many feet obtained 

 the credit was so effectual, that to his remotest old ago 

 Bentley's sight remained unimpaired, notwithstanding 

 the intense exertion of his eyes in reading small type and 

 decyphering scarce legible manuscripts." — Lives of Il- 

 lustrious Worthies of Yorkshire, by Hartley Coleridge, 

 p. 98. 



In the letter above alluded to, Bentley writes 

 to his friend : — 



" Sed qua ratione oculis meis malefactum rogas ? Her- 

 cle non usque adeo canis annisque obsiti sumus. Sed quia 

 noctu ad lucernam et quidera luce satis maligna, in lecto 

 supinus legere jam olim consueveram, nihil parcens mi- 

 sellis : Hinc illis prima mali labes. Verum baud longa 

 mora contemptissimi animalculi beneficio, quam credo 

 Multipedam vocant, simulilli acumen suum, et nos libros 

 (in primis autem tuos) resumpsimus." 



Whereupon follows the epigram which the bio- 

 grapher translates. E. H. A. 



Lord Pembroke's Port Wine (2"'* S. x. 386.) 

 — The reputation of Lord Pembroke's " Port 

 wine " has been handed down through successive 

 generations, and the receipt as carefully pre- 

 served. 



The receipt was in the first instance given to 

 an ancestor of the present Marquis Townsend by 

 the Earl of Pembroke, and by the former noble- 

 man to the Rev. Arthur Branthwayt, the rector 

 of StifFkey in Norfolk, with whose descendants it . 

 now remains, and is as follows : — 



" To make a Hogshead of Port Wine. 

 " Twenty-seven Gallons of rough Cider ; 

 Thirteen gallons of Bone Carlo Wine ; 

 Three gallons of Brandy." 



H. D'Aveney. 

 Knights of Malta (2"^ S. x. 411.) — If Con- 

 stant Reader will state the particular point on 

 which he requires information, I shall be happy to 

 furnish it by letter, as it would, I fear, occupy 

 too large a space in the columns of " N". & Q." 

 to enter fully into the present constitution of the 

 English branch of the Order of S. John of Jeru- 

 salem. 



I may, however, briefly add Ijhat the Langue, 

 ever since its formal reorganisation in 1826, has 

 continued to fill up all the great ofiices, elect 

 members, and to exercise all the functions of a 

 corporate body. J. W. Bryans. 



Royal U. S. Institution, 

 Whitehall Yard. 



Sir Clement Cotterell (2"* S. x., foot note, 

 365.) was hereditary Master of the Ceremonies at 



the Court of St. James s. 



P.P. 



The Bridge at Montreal (2°<* S. x. 410.) — 

 The boulders distributed over the course of the 

 river St. Lawrence, are erratic blocks of granite 

 with the corners exfoliated by weathering. They 

 are brought down by packed ice. I must not 

 supply you with extracts from text-books, and 

 will therefore simply refer F. C. B. to Lyell's 



