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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»a S. VIII. Nov. 12. '59. 



that the *' Sympathetic Powder " had ever been 

 prepared for the public : — 



" These are to give notice, that Sir Kenelm Digbie's 

 Sympathetica! Powder prepar'd b\' Promethean fire, curing 

 all greea wounds that come within the compass of a re- 

 medy ; and likewise the Tooth-ache infalliby (^sic) in a 

 very short time: Is to be had at Mr. Nathaniel Brook's 

 at the Angel in Cornhill." List of books sold by Nath. 

 Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, appended to Wit and 

 Drollery, 1661. 



B. H. K. 



Curious Marriage. — In the London Magazine 

 for May, 1735, p. 279., is the following entry of a 

 marriage : " — — Hargrave, Esq., of New Bond 

 Street, to Miss Reynolds and 8000Z. fortune." At 

 that period it was usual to insert the fortunes of 

 ladies along with their marriage, and also to state 

 the amount of money left by persons at their 

 death, but then marriages and deaths of great 

 and wealthy persons only found insertions in the 

 periodicals. When did it become general to in- 

 sert "Births, deaths, and marriages" in the news- 

 papers ? S. Redmond. 



Lady Mayoress of York. — There is an "ancient 

 right possessed by the wives of the Lord Mayors 

 of York which is, I think, worth recording in "N. 

 & Q.," more especially as it is now rarely, if ever, 

 exercised. By immemorial custom, the Lady 

 Mayoress can, if she choose, retain the prefix of 

 Lady before her surname for the remainder of her 

 life. 



The following rhyme is quoted as the authority 

 for this curious custom : — 



" The Mayor is a Lord for a year and a day, 

 But his wife is a Lady for ever and aye." 



The last instance I can call to mind of this right 

 being exercised, is that of the wife of the Right 

 Hon. James Woodhouse. This gentleman was 

 Lord Mayor three or four times, and at last died 

 during his year of office, about the middle of the 

 last century ; his wife survived him several years, 

 and was always known as Lady Woodhouse. 



I have heard of several other cases in which 

 the title was kept up, and doubtless some cor- 

 respondent could supply many more. 



J. A. Pn. 



Napoleon's Escape from Elba (2°'^ S. viii. 86. 

 382.) — P. sends the following cutting : — 



" The Political Gamot. — In 1815, the French news- 

 papers announced the departure of Bonaparte from Elba, 

 his progress through France, and his entry into Paris, in 

 the following manner : — ' March 9. The Anthropophagus 



has quitted his den March 10. The Corsican Ogre has 



landed at Cape Juan. — March 11. The Tiger has arrived 

 at Gap.— March 12. The^^onster slept at Grenoble. — 

 March 13. The Tyrant has passed through Lyons. — 

 March 14. The Usurper is directing his steps towards 

 Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen 

 en masxe, and surrounded him on all sides. — March 18. — 

 Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital ; he has 

 been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pur- 

 suers. — March 19. Bonaparte is advancing with rapid 



steps, but he will never enter Paris. — March 20. — Napo- 

 ^on will, to-morrow, be under our ramparts. — March 21. 

 ^he Emperor is at Fontainebleau. — March 22. His Im- 

 perial and Royal Majesty yesterday evening arrived at 

 the Tuileries, amidst the jojful acclamations of his de- 

 voted and faithful subjects.' " 



Catalogues. — As cataloguing seems to have be- 

 come a very fashionable amusement for public 

 bodies, perhaps the following circumstance may not 

 be uninteresting or profitless. I lately purchased 

 a scarce copy of Peter Ramus, and, on examining 

 it when sent home, it appeared to belong to a 

 college at Oxford. By way of testing this point, 

 I sent it as a present to that body, and received 

 a very pretty letter, stating that it was their pro- 

 perty, although not to be found in their Catalogue. 

 On farther inquiry it appeared, that the college 

 had employed a person to catalogue their library, 

 who had omitted from it such books as he wished to 

 purloin, thus rendering detection much more diffi- 

 cult. Perhaps this caution may not be altogether 

 useless just now. C. De la Pryme. 



Reform Club. 



^utxitS, 



JONES OP NATIiAND AND THE BEV. GEO. WATSON. 



When men of such high reputation as the Rev. 

 W^illiam Jones of Nayland speak in high terms of 

 commendation of any publication, we are naturally 

 anxious to become acquainted with its contents. 

 In the second lecture of Mr. Jones upon the Fi- 

 gurative Language of Scripture are the following 

 remarks upon the outward form of worship, in 

 which Christians are in the habit of turning to the 

 East : — 



" Here I would observe," he says, "that the figures of the 

 Scripture necessarily introduce something figurative into 

 our worship, of which I could give several instances. The 

 primitive Christians signified their relation to the true 

 light, and expressed a religious regard to it, by the out- 

 ward form of worshipping with their faces towards the 

 east ; because there the light arises out of darkness, 

 and there the day of true knowledge arose, like the sun, 

 upon such as lay buried in ignorance. To this day our 

 churches, especially that part which is appropriated to 

 the most solemn act of Christian worship, is placed to- 

 wards the east ; our dead are buried with their faces to 

 the east ; and when we repeat the articles of our faith, 

 we have a custom of turning ourselves to the east. The 

 primitive Christians called their baptism their illumina- 

 tion; to denote which a light was put into the hands of 

 the person after baptism, and they were admitted to hear 

 the lectures of the catechists in the church, under the 

 name of the illuminated. The festival of Christ's baptism 

 was celebrated in the month of January with the cere- 

 mony of a number of lighted torches. When the con- 

 verts repeated the confession of their faith at baptism, 

 thej' turned themselves to the east, and to the west when 

 they renounced the powers of darkness. In the modern 

 church of Rome this ceremony of worshipping to the east 

 has been abused, and turned into an act of adoration to 

 the altar; on account of which some Christians who have 

 heard of the abuse of this ceremony, without knowing 

 the use of it, have rejected that as an act of superstition. 



