2'"i S. VIII. Aug. 13. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and imagines that the language of Darius approaches so 

 much to tho Vedic dialect, as to prove that the Veda 

 cannot be older than Darius. The premisses are wrong, 

 but still more the conclusion. For if we applied this 

 principle to other facts of Comparative Philology, we 

 might say, because the Lithuanian, as spoken at the pre- 

 sent day, approaches so much to the Sanscrit as to possess 

 in its declensions Sanscrit terminations, which have been 

 modified in the other Indo-European idioms; therefore 

 Sanscrit may not be much older than the Lithuanian, 

 which any traveller maj' still hear spoken in parts of 

 Prussia. But there is a Nemesis in every thing ; and in 

 the only instance where Dr. Latham attempts to give an 

 authentic specimen of cuneiform writing every letter 

 stands TorsY-TUEVY." 



The above extract is in the form of a note. 



I had just risen from a second or third perusal 

 of Professor Mliller's article, when the inquiry of 

 Ingir met my eye, and I have lost no time in copy- 

 ing out the learned writer's remarks, which have an 

 indirect bearing on one of Ingib's queries. 



Philologus. 



3^e^litS ta :^tnor iStxittitg. 



Robert Nelson (•2"« S. vii. 512.) — A family for- 

 merly settled in Yorkshire, and who a hundred 

 years ago bore the name of Nelson, have always 

 claimed Robert Nelson as of their family, though 

 they have no documents to prove the relationship. 

 They still bear, quarterly with their own, the 

 arms of Nelson, viz. or and sable, parted per pale, 

 a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis, two and one, 

 all counterchanged. There is reason to believe 

 that the or was argent formerly, as emblazoned in 

 a hatchment in the parish churcli of Kirkby Mal- 

 ham in Yorkshire, in which parish the family to 

 which I refer still retain Nelson property. N. R. 



CromwelVs Children ("2"* S. viii. 17. 5Q. 97.)— 

 My authority for stating that Oliver the younger 

 was killed in battle near Knaresborough is the 

 Squire Papers. 



Whitlocke says (p. 322. 2nd ed.) that Oliver 

 was killed near Appleby in July, 1648. Noble 

 repeals this (vol. i. p. 134.) Carlyle told us, be- 

 fore the discovery of the Squire papers, that, on 

 ransacking the old pamphlets, Whitlocke turns 

 out to be " indisputably in error." Cromwell, 

 writing after the battle of Marston Moor to 

 Colonel Valentine Walton to express condolence 

 with the latter on the death of his son, says : — 



" Sir, — God hath taken away j'our eldest son by a 

 cannon-shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated 

 to have it cut off, whereof he died. Sir, you know my 

 own trials this way: but the Lord supported me with 

 this, that the Lord took him into the happiness we all 

 pant for and live for." 



Squire says, meeting Colonel Cromwell again 

 after some absence, just on the edge of Marston 

 Battle, — 



" I thought he looked sad and wearied, for he had had 

 a sad loss ; young Oliver got killed to death not long 



before, I heard : it was near Knaresborough, and 30 more 

 got killed." 



Adopt this as true, and how thoroughly do we 

 understand the before-quoted letter of condo- 

 lence, and the allusion to Cromwell's " own trials 

 this way ! " The Cromwell pedigree in the Bih. 

 Top. Brit, disposes of young Oliver in the loose 

 way stated by your correspondent Cl. Hopper — 

 " di. young of the small pox during the Civil 

 War " — but gives no authority. The weight of 

 evidence among all these contradictory state- 

 ments is clearly with Squire. 



Will some correspondent kindly search the 

 register at Felstead, and verify or disprove the 

 statement in the Kentish Mercury that three of 

 the sons of Oliver Cromwell are buried there ? 



J. G. MOETEN. 



Cheam. 



St. Dominic and the Inquisition (2^^ S. viii. 117.) 

 — It has often been debated whether or no this 

 canonised saint of Rome was an inquisitor — the 

 controversy turning upon the earliest signification 

 of that unenviable title. The fact is, the cruel 

 persecutor of the Albigenses originated the idea 

 of the Inquisition," but did not live to witness the 

 establishment of it. Providence having, in 1221, 

 cut him short in his murderous career. Eight 

 years afterwards, or in 1229, the Council of Tou- 

 louse determined to establish a separate tribunal, 

 In exact accordance with the scheme originally 

 propounded by Dominic to Pope Innocent III., 

 for robbing of their lives, liberties, and properties 

 all those who refused to acknowledge the supre- 

 macy of the Romish Church — a mediasval ex- 

 ample of priestcraft which was quickly imitated 

 in Italy, Spain, &c. When Innocent constituted 

 Dominic an Albigensian " missionary," he in- 

 vested him at the same time with the title of 

 Inquisitor. In the last-mentioned capacity his 

 duty was not to punish, but simply to inquire into- 

 the number and quality of the " heretics," the 

 nature of their tenets, &c., and to denounce 

 them to the proper authorities, i. e. the bishops. 

 Finding, however, the bishops actuated in some 

 measure by the spirit of Christianity, and unwil- 

 ling to persecute their fellow creatures with such 

 rigour as he considered necessary, Dominic sug- 

 gested the establishment of that tribunal known 

 so well afterwards as The Inquisition — a tribunal 

 which, by pandering to the ambition of the chief 

 pontiffs (Honorius III. and Gregory IX.), soon 

 ridded itself as well of the control of the epis- 

 copal bodies as of the secular powers. Cf. Llo- 

 rente's History of the Inquisition of Spain, Svo. 

 Lond. 1 826 ; Limborch's History of the Inquisi- 

 tion, 2 vols. 4to. Lond. 1731 ; and Davie's HiS' 

 tory of the Inquisition, Svo. Lond. j3. 



Moldwarp (2'"» S. vii. 296.; viii. 98.) — Mold- 

 warp, German maidiverf ; as if from maul and 



