2"'! S. Vlll. Dec. 24. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES- 



511 



tbink we may gather from the following lines of 

 Cerisantes* : — 



" Amice, nil me sicut antea juvat 

 Pulvere vel Cyprio 

 Coiiiam nitenlem pectere ; 



Vel quas Britannus texuit subtiliter 

 Mille modis varias 

 Jactare ventis taanias ; 



Vel quam perunxit Frangipanes ipsemet 

 Pelle, manum gracilem 

 Cor&m puellis promere." 



The word FrancMpanne, or Fravgipane, is ap- 

 plied in French cookery to a sort of pastry com- 

 posed of almonds, cream, sugar, &c. In the VV^est 

 Indies it is used to designate the fruits of Flu- 

 miera alba L., and P. rubra L., because, accord- 

 ing to Merat and De Lens f, " on retrouve dans 

 ces fruits murs le gout de nos franchipanes." If 

 .these fruits are eatable, it is remarkable that 

 neither Sloane nor Lunan mentions the fact. 

 Frangipanier is, however, the French name of the 

 Plumiera. Dan. Hambury. 



Plough Court, Lombard Street. 



Contents of Old Book Covers. — J. E. F.'s ac- 

 count of the discovery of a picture within the 

 boards of a book cover, reminds me of an anec- 

 dote I heard in conversation some years ago. I 

 have forgotten who my authority was, but have 

 a strong impression that my informant had means 

 of knowing the details of the discovery from the 

 finder. 



I was told that a good many years ago, when 

 several of the books in the library of Lincoln 

 cathedral were being examined for the purpose of 

 selecting those that were in bad repair to be re- 

 bound, a slight inequality was detected in the 

 paper covering internally one of the boards of a 

 iblio volume. Curiosity caused this paper to be 

 removed, and displayed a number of thin gold 

 coins packed closely together. If my memory 

 does not betray me my informant said that they 

 were mostly ten shilling pieces of James I. and 

 Charles I. Dk. Dryasdust, F.S.A. 



Nicknames on Members of Parliament. — Per- 

 haps some correspondent would furnish additions 

 to the following: — The late Nicholas Fitzsimon, 

 son-in-law of the late Daniel O'Connell, at one 

 time represented the county of Dublin in Par- 

 liament. At the same time another Nicholas 

 Fitzsimon (afterwards Sir Nicholas, since' dead) 

 represented the King's County. The latter was 



* They form part of an ode addressed "Ad Vincentem 

 Victurum," which may be found at the end of the Latin 

 letters of Balzac (Balzacn Carminum Libri tres : ejusdem 

 Epistolm Selectee, ed. Mg. Menagio, Paris, 1650, 4to.) 



t Diet, de la Matiere Mcdicale, torn. v. 405. 



an exceedingly obese person, whilst his namesake 

 had a very deformed short leg and foot, and 

 was lame. In order to distinguish them in the 

 " House," the latter was called Mr. Foot-Simon, 

 whilst the member for the King's County was 

 known as Mr. Fat-Simon; nothing in the shape 

 of " nicknames " could be more appropriate. The 

 late Pierce Mahony, an attorney of Dublin, who 

 had an extensive practice, represented the borough 

 of Tralee (in Kerry) for a short time in Parlia- 

 ment, and contrived, in a fevr months, to intro- 

 duce so many Bills, that he was called Bill 

 Mahony, a name that he carried with him to his 

 grave. Two of the Wynns of Wales, uncle and 

 nephew, were in the " House ; " one was called 

 Bubble, from the extraordinary manner in which 

 he ppoke, whilst the other had a thin whistling 

 sort of utterance, which procured for him the 

 name of Squeak. No doubt hundreds may be 

 added to the above. S. Redmond. 



Liverpool. 



Beltane. — Numerous observances, relics of the 

 ancient Beltane festival, the Beal fire-worship of 

 the Celtic nations, are described as being still 

 practised on the '1st of May in the end of last 

 century and the beginning of the present. How 

 far are observances of this class still kept up ? 

 such as extinguishing the fires of a district on the 

 1st of May, and then kindling a need-fire ? Is the 

 lighting of bonfires on May-day, or on Hallow- 

 e'en (the 1st of Nov.), still kept up in many 

 localities ? A. F. 



Edinburgh. 



Square Words. — Having been defied to square 

 Queen and Crimea, I have assayed and done 

 them. As they are difiicult, I send them as a 

 contribution to the selection you have pub- 

 lished : — 



QUEEN CRIMEA 

 USAGE REMAND 

 EASES IMAGED 

 EGEST MAGPIE 

 NESTS ENEIDS 

 A D D E S T 



There are, I am satisfied, no other solutions. 



Clammild. 



Athenaeum Club. 



Machine Hexameters (P' S. xii. 470. ; 2"'' S. i. 

 57.) — I have taken the liberty of having a few 

 copies of this ingenious puzzle printed, under the 

 title of Carminarium Latinum ; and any of your 

 correspondents who may desire a copy can have 

 one by applying by letter to Mr. Heming, prin- 

 ter, Stourbridge, and enclosing Is. Id. in postage 

 stamps. 



It will be ready very shortly, but early applica- 

 tion should be made to ensure a copy. H. S. G. 



