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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'i S. VIII. Sept. 17. '5F 



9. " ' A lytulle lower, syr,' seyde hee, 

 ' And let us smalle go wyth thee, 

 Now are we bothe at con assyse ! ' " 



P. 53. 1. 1556. 



10. " And the knyght be there assente, 



Schulde wayne wj'th the wynde." — P. 9. 1. 246. 



Does wayne = swing ? 



11. " To mete as (hey were sett in halle, 



Syr Marrok was there ferre withynney-wys." 

 P. 19. 1. 531. 



Is withynney-ii'ys for witidn y wis ? E. S. J. 



Canterlniry Registers. — In Gorbam'ti Hist, of 

 Maidenhead CJiopel, p, 7., there occurs the follow- 

 ing note : — 



" The (Canterbury) Registers previous to that j-ear 

 (1279), were purloined by Archbishop Kilwardby, and 

 were carried by him to Rome, on his being made a car- 

 dinal. In Peckham's Regist. (f. 152. b.), there is a 

 curious record, dated 1283, of an appeal made hy the 

 Archbishop to the Court of Rome for the return of the 

 Registers, judicial processes, plate, &c., belonging to the 

 church of Canterbury, and unjustly detained by his 

 Holiness ! " 



Has an application for these muniments been 

 repeated in modern times, and might it be alto- 

 gether hopeless ? A. 



Chickens feed Capons; or a dissertation on the 



Pertness of our Youth in general Written 



by a friend of the person injured. Third edition. 

 London. 1731. 8vo. (Pp. 24.) Is anything 

 known of the parties, or of the circumstances ? M, 



Curious Prophecy. — In the year 1667, on the 

 8th of August, in the sepulchre of Bishop Chris- 

 tianas Ageda, who died on the 2nd of September, 

 1204, according to a statement made in the Gen- 

 tleman^ s Magazine of March, 1814, p. 214., was 

 found the following curious prophecy. The mi- 

 tred prophet was born at Paris on the 10th of 

 May, 1172: — 



"When these my prophecies shall be found, the sun 

 shall shine upon my native Kingdom of France, which *t 

 that lime shall be vinited to the Lion, viz. the King of 

 England, and shall pluck many feathers out of the 

 Eagle's wings, which shall then hold her glory, but will 

 be of no^uration, for in the century following it will 

 prove to her \itter destruction ; for there Avill be great 

 shedding of blood by the people of the kingdom ; there 

 shall be wars and fury which will last long ; provinces 

 divested of their people, and kingdoms in combustion ; 

 many strongholds and noble houses shall be ruinated, 

 and "their cities and towns shall be forsaken of their in- 

 habitants, and divers places their ground shall be un- 

 tilled, and there shall be great slaughter of their nobility ; 

 their sun shall be darkened, and never shine forth more, 

 for France shall be desolate, and her head person de- 

 stroyed; and there shall be much deceit and fraud 

 among her inhabitants, for they shall judge and kill one 

 another, whereupon shall ensue the aforesaid great confu- 

 sion among the kingdoms. And near this time there 



shall be great mutations and changes of kings arid rulers > 

 for the right hand of the world shall fear the left, and the 

 north shall prevail over the south. A great part of Italy 

 shall be desolate, but Venice shall be preserved. Rome 

 shall be burned and the Popedom destroyed, and Britain 

 shall rule that empire. In these times, a mercurial hero, 

 a son of the Lion, shall inherit the crown of the Fkur-de 

 Lis by means of the Kingdom of England. He shall be 

 a lover of peace and justice, and not swerve from the 

 same, and by his means the nation's religion and laws 

 shall have an admirable change. When these things 

 come to pass there shall be a firm alliance between the 

 Lion and the Eagle, and they shall have lived in peace 

 between themselves long times. In these times mortals, 

 wearied with war, shall desire peace. And all tliese my 

 prophecies shall be fulfilled before the end of the U'th 

 century from the time of our Blessed Saviour." 



I would feel obliged for any hints towards a so- 

 lution of this prophecy. 



T. C. Andehson, 

 II. M.'s 12th Regt., Bengal Army. 



Roast Lohster, — Mandeville, in his Fable of the 

 Bees, mentions " the cries of lobsters tied to a 

 spit." Is there any extant receipt for roasting a 

 lobster ? Dubius. 



" Anatomy of Melancholy " (Tegg, London, 

 1857.) — Democritus Junior aZzas Burton, apolo- 

 gising for the title of his able and learned book, 

 quotes the Anatomy of Wit, by Anthony Zara, 

 Pap. Episc. ; and Democritus Minor (alias un- 

 known to the writer), editor of this edition, quotes 

 Anatomy of Popery ; Anatomy of Immortulity ; and 

 Anatomy of Antimony (note, p. 4.) ; but omits 

 authors' names or authority : so in this, as in 

 many other cases, I turn to " IST. & Q." as my vade 

 mecum. 



Query. Should not Anatomy of Antimony be 

 Analysis of Antimony ? It is more like the nature 

 of the thing. Geokge Llotd» 



Discountenancing Bills of Exchange. — In 

 Strype's Stow, i. Part 3. p. 33., he gives an ac- 

 count of Grocers' Hall, and the attacks made on 

 the Bank of England when first established there, 

 and quotes a passage from the vindication of that 

 establishment, of which the following is a part : — 



"So far from obstructing Trade, that they had very 

 much incouraged, and enlarged it, by discountenancing 

 foreign and inland Bills of Exchange." 



Can any readers of " N. & Q." inform me whe- 

 ther this word was ever generally used, or is it an 

 error of the transcriber or the press ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Lieutenant- General Thomas Pearce. — Sir Ed- 

 ward Lovett Pearce, as I stated in 2"'' S. viii. 28., 

 was buried in the old graveyard of Donnybrook 

 in the year 1733. There also was subsequently 

 interred his brother, Lieutenant-General Thomas 

 Pearce, who had displayed great courage and abi- 

 lities in Spain and Portugal, and who, besides 

 being a Privy Councillor, was at one and the 



