2»"»S. VIII. SEPr.24.'69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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direct line. He was born in the lifetime of his 

 great-grandmother, and had several great-grand- 

 children about him at the period of his decease. 

 As the circumstance has some connexion with 

 these topics, I may here mention that the father 

 of the late incumbent of a neighbouring chapelry, 

 the father of whom died below the age of seventy 

 years, only a few months ago, was ordained (I be- 

 lieve by Bishop Sherlock of London) in the reign 

 of George II. And, as to our large families, I 

 was lately requested by one of my parishioners to 

 make out his family pedigree ; and, to my great 

 astonishment, I found that from his great-grand- 

 father alone had sprung upwards of 250 indivi- 

 duals. But I have rambled away from the proper 

 subject of this Note, though I dare say these gos- 

 sipping details may prove of interest to many of 

 the readers of " N. & Q." Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



Extraordinary Birth (1»' S. ii. 459. ; iii. 64. 

 192. 347.) — "N. & Q." has from time to time 

 chronicled many extraordinary births ; perhaps, 

 however, the following is the most extraordinary 

 of all. But one other circumstance is required to 

 render it the most wonderful birth of modern 

 times. The one thing wanting is, that it should 

 be true ; for clearly the story is fable from begin- 

 ning to end. 



" On the 2d of August, at Johnson, Trumbull county, 

 Ohio, Mrs. Timothy Bradley was delivered of eight chil- 

 dren — three boys and five girls. They are all living, 

 and are healthy, but quite small. Mr. B.'s family is en- 

 creasing fast: he was married six years ago to Miss 

 Mowery, who weighed 273 pounds on the day of their 

 marriage. She has given birth to two pair of twins, and 

 npw eight more, making twelve children in six years. It 

 seems strange, but nevertheless is true, Mrs. B. was a 

 twin of three ; her mother and father both being twins, 

 and her grandmother the mother of five pair of twins." 

 —New York Tribune. 



Quoted in the Stamford Mercury^ Sep. 2, 1859. 



It may be as well to remark that the greatest 

 number of children produced at one birth, of 

 which there is any well-authenticated record, is 

 five (see "N. & Q." P' S. ii. 459.) ; and of these 

 five children, three were still-born, and the other 

 two lived but a few hours. K. P. D. E. 



Liverpool, Cespoole, Lerpoole (2"'* S. viii. 110. 

 198. 239.)— The question respecting "Cespoole" 

 is of some interest, and much more might be said 

 about it. Will our correspondent W. C, who 

 now feels satisfied that the word is Lerpoole, oblige 

 by sending the best fac-simile he is able of the 

 word as it stands in the " Diary," under cover to 

 the Editor of " N. & Q." P G. Y. 



The Vulgate of 1482 (2'^'^ S. viii. 128.) — I 

 happen to possess a black-letter copy of the Vul- 

 gate similar to that described by J. C. G. L., 

 only its date is 1484, and the number of lines in 



each column is fifty-six. It is well margined with 

 manuscript marks and annotations in Latin in a 

 very old hand. At the close of the Apocalypse 

 there are these lines : — 



" Fontibus ex Grascis, Hebreorum quoque libris 

 Emendata satis et decorata simul 

 Biblia sum pns* superos ego testor et astra. 



Est impressa nee in orbe mihi similis. 

 Singula quaeque loca cum concordantibus extant 

 Orthographia simul quam bene pressa manet." 



Then follows the imprint : — 



" Exactum est incly ta in urbe Venetiarum sacrosanctum 

 Bibliae volumen integerrimis expolitusque litterarum ca- 

 racteribus. Magistri Johannis dicti Magni, Herbort de 

 Selgenstat Aleraani ; qui salva ocium pace ausum itlud 

 afiirmare, ceteros facile omnes hac tempestate superemi- 

 net. Olympiad! bus dominicis. Anno d. mcccclxxxiiii. 

 pridie Kalendas Maij." 



I cannot speak as to the rarity of this edition, 

 further than that I have found it in no catalogue, 

 and that it is not noted in the Dictionnaire Biblio- 

 graphique (Paris, 1790), though no less than six-, 

 teen editions of the Vulgate (of the fifteenth 

 century) are given. 



I have a small folio edition of the Vulgate, also 

 printed at Venice, 1542, with brief notes. My 

 copy contains the preface of Isodorus Clarius, 

 which is very rare, as it was afterwards struck 

 out of the impression by order of the Council of 

 Trent. H. B. 



FiU-garlick (2°"^ S. viii. 229.) —The derivation 

 of this term seems one of those that it is impos- 

 sible to guess at. The way in which Chaucer 

 speaks of pulling garlick evidently points to some 

 popular anecdote which gave meaning to the 

 phrase. 



On the arrival of the pilgrims at Canterbury 

 the Pardoner is cajoled by the buxom Tapster, 

 and having made a nocturnal appointment with 

 her he gives her money to purchase a good supper. 

 He returns at the appointed time only to find his 

 place occupied by a more favoured lover, who 

 eats his goose, drinks his caudle, and beats him 

 with his own stafi", driving him out to spend the 

 night under the stairs in fear of the dog. This 

 Chaucer calls pulling garlick : — 



" And ye shall hear how the Tapster made the Par- 

 doner pull 

 Garlick all the long night till it was near end day." 

 Prol Merch. 2nd Tale, 122. 



The specific meaning of the term Pilgarlick 

 seems, one put upon by those from whom better 

 treatment was to be expected. H. W. 



Very (2"^ S. viii. 200.)— Is not this word, at 

 least in its intensive sense, derived from the 

 Greek ept- ? In the expression " Very God of 

 Very God " it must be derived from Verus. 



P. J. F. GANTIIiliON. 



• This contraction 1 cannot decipher. [It is a contrac- 

 tion for both penes KoAprasena. — Ed.] 



