2n'» S. VIII. Alg. 6. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



119 



S. Neot's Cartulary, was certainly C. Thoday ; and 

 Rogerus Decanus, of the Buslimead Cartulary, is 

 called in some charters Rogerus le Deen. 



Joseph Rix. 



Luther and Wesley (2"« S. vii. 475.) — 



" Sanct Paulus hat nicht so hoche prachtige Wort als 

 Demosthenes und Cicero, aber eigentlich und deutlich 

 redet er, und hat Wort, die etwas grosses bedeuten und 

 Anzeigen. Er hat Recht gethan, dass ers nicht sebr 

 kraus und bund gemacht hat, sonst wollte jdermann so 

 hoch reden." — Luther's J'ischreden, ii. 410., ed. Leipzig, 

 1845. 



Dr. Koller quotes the following from Luther, 

 but does not refer to the book : — 



" Man muss nicht die Buchstaben in der Lateinischen 

 Sprache fragen, wie man soil Teutsch reden, wie die Esel 

 thun, sondern man muss die Mutter im Hause, die Kinder 

 auf der Gassen, den gemeinen Mann auf dem Markte 

 darum fragen, und denselber auf das Maul sehen, wie sie 

 reden, und darnach dolmetschen, so verstehen sie es denn, 

 und merken, dass man Teutsch zu ihnen redet." — Faust 

 Papers, p. 9., London, 1835. 



•' ' Clearness,' he says to one of his lay-assistants, ' is 

 necessary for j'ou and me, because we are to instruct peo- 

 ple of the lowest understanding : therefore we, above all, 

 if we think with the wise, must yet speak with the vul- 

 gar. We should constantly use the most common, little, 

 easy words (so they are pure and proper) which our 

 language affords. When first I talked at Oxford to plain 

 people, in the castle or the town, I observed they gaped 

 and stared. This quicklj' obliged me to alter my style, 

 and adopt the language of those I spoke to, and yet there 

 is a dignity in their simplicity which is not disagreeable 

 to those of the highest rank." — Southey's Life of Wesley, 

 i. 310., London, 1858. 



The " lay-assistant" is not named, nor is it said 

 whence the extract was taken. I know few books 

 so slovenly in references as Southey's Life of 

 Wesley. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Coals, when First used in England (2""* S. viii. 

 95.) — The conjecture of R. respecting the early 

 introduction of sea-coal into the port of London 

 is not borne out by any historiographer of that 

 city. The export trade in Newcastle coals, which 

 were the first to be brought into London, dates 

 subsequently to the year 1357, when Edward III. 

 granted his famous licence to the burgesses of 

 Newcastle to extend their mining operations con- 

 siderably beyond the walls of their town. The 

 charters previously granted by King John (1213), 

 and by his son Henry III. (1234), only permitted 

 them to dig coal " for their own use, in the Castle 

 Moor" (vide Anderson's Origin of Commerce, 

 4 vols. 8vo., 1787; vol. i. pp. 206. 273. 340.; and 

 Northwick's History of London, 4to., London, 

 1773, p. 61.) Bishop Fleetwood also testifies to 

 the fact that coal was not in common use in Lon- 

 don 150 years before the publication of his Chro- 

 nicon Speciosum (fob, London, 1707.) It may be 

 doubted, too, whether the Fleete-ditch was really 

 navigable for barges, so far at least as Sea-coal 

 Lane, prioi* to the year 1606 ; when, as Pennant 



relates, " it was scoured and kept open at vast 

 expence," and many valuable Roman and Saxon 

 antiquities were discovered. Vide his Account of 

 London, 4to., London, 1793, pp. 229 — 230. /3. 



Watson (2°^ S. viii. 10. 94.) — John Farsyde, 

 afterwards John Watson of Bilton Park, acquired 

 that estate in 1755, under the will of his maternal 

 uncle George AVatson, of Bilton Park, Esq., who 

 died that year, and was son of John Watson of 

 New Malton, and grandson of George Watson of 

 Old Malton, who died 1732. The nephew, then 

 John Farsyde, assumed the name of Watson by 

 licence. 



The grandson of this gentleman, John Farsyde 

 Watson, died 1833, leaving an only daughter and 

 heir, the present owner of Bilton. 



Mr. Wood, who in 1813 took the name of Wat- 

 son, was grandson of Pleasance Watson, who was 

 an uncle of the said George Watson, who died in 

 1755. Upon the death of William Wood Watson 

 without issue, his cousin, Richard Baker of Eb- 

 berston, assumed the name of Watson by licence 

 dated 15 th August, 1817. 



These particulars are forwarded to " N. & Q." 

 to prevent any errors arising from the statement 

 of H. W., who says, " he believes a Mr. Farsyde 

 Watson did reside at Bilton," but that he is not 

 aware of any connexion between him and the 

 family of Watson who for some generations held 

 Malton Abbey at a nominal rent. Genealogical 

 questions should be answered with caution. D. 



Quotation Wanted (2"i S. viii. 69.) — Tillotson 

 alludes to Hobbes in the passage quoted by Libya. 

 I cannot give the reference, but the saying — 

 " When reason is against a man, a man will be 

 against reason" — is quoted by Rogers in his ar- 

 ticle on Anglicanism in the Edinburgh Review for 

 April, 1843, as Hobbes's. See "Essays" from the 

 Edinburgh Review, vol. iii. p. 77. David Gam. 



Halls ofGreatford (2"'' S. viii. 95.) — Will C. 

 state who is Lord Latimers, now possessing the 

 estate as mentioned in his reply. D. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Archceologia Cantiana ; heing Transactions of the Kent 

 Archceological Society. Volume I. (Printed for the So- 

 ciety.) 



Prevented from mingling with the great gathering of 

 belted earls and blue-eyed ladies, learned clerics and 

 profound antiquaries, who assembled at Rochester on 

 Wednesday last to celebrate the Annual Meeting of the 

 Kent ArchcBological Society, we were fain to content our- 

 selves with pondering over the handsomely printed and 

 beautifully illustrated volume of Transactions which that 

 Society has just issued. We must say that a volume 

 better calculated to vindicate the propriety of establish- 

 ing the Society, by showing the richness of the district 

 in matters of archasological interest, it would be hard 



