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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. Vlll. Nov. 12. '59. 



October 6, 1285, Phillip III., called the Bold, 

 King of France, died, 



November 26, 1504, Isabella of Spain, patron of 

 Columbus, died. 



November 26, 1703, Kidder, Bishop of Bath and 

 Wells, a learned Oriental scholar and eminent 

 prelate, with his wife, buried in the ruins of the 

 episcopal chapel at Wells in the great storm of 

 that year. Jamhs Elmes. 



Blackheath. 



I send the following list of births to fill up 

 some of G. W. S. P.'s vacant dates : — 

 March 12, Bishop Berkeley, born 1684. 

 April 6, Andrew Dacier, born 1651. 

 October 6, Louis Philippe, born 1773. 

 November 26, Cowper, born 1731. 



, Earl of Chatham, born 1708. 



George Burgess. 

 18. Lincoln Street, Mile End Eoad. 



Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards 

 of Norwich ; born July 1, 1574 ; died Sept. 8, 

 1656, set. 82. 



Frederick VIII. King of Denmark, born Octo- 

 ber 6, 1808 (present sovereign), 



Fred Jean Joseph Cilestin de Schwarzenberg, 

 born at Vienna, April 6, 1809, Cardinal Arch- 

 bishop of Prague. 



Joseph Othmar Rauscher, born at Vienna, Oc- 

 tober 6, 1797, now Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna. 



I shall be able in a few days to answer the other 

 questions. W. B. G. 



Permit me to cast one stone on G, W. S. P.'s 

 cairn, by enabling him to fill up one of the va- 

 cant dates with the birth of the famous Scottish 

 divine. Dr. Thomas Chalmers, on March 17th, 

 1780. D. S. 



Judges Black Cap (2-"» S. viii. 130. 193. 238.) 

 — The Query of your correspondent W. O. W., 

 as to the origin of the English custom of a judge 

 putting on a black cap when he passes sentence 

 of death, has not yet received an answer. 



Covering the head was a sign of grief and 

 mourning, not only among the Hebrews, but also 

 among the Greeks : see Odyssey, viii. 85. ; Eurip. 

 Hec, 405, ; Orest. 42. 280. ; Suppl. 122. Among 

 the Romans it was an established custom for a 

 person who performed a sacrifice to cover the 

 head : see Virg. ^«., iii. 404-9. ; Serv. JEn..^ ii. 

 166., iii. 407.; Victor de Orig. Gent. Rom., 12.; 

 Plut. Qucest. Rom., 10. 



The covering of the head as a part of the cere- 

 mony of execution by hanging, according to the 

 story of Horatius in Livy (i. 26.), must be con- 

 sidered as a custom originating partly in humane 



motives, and partly m the convenience of the 

 executioner. Grimm, D. R. A. (p. 684.), re- 

 marks that this custom obtains in several kinds of 

 (^pital execution. It is well known that soldiers 

 who are shot under the sentence of a court mar- 

 tial have their eyes bandaged. 



The use of the black cap by the judge, in pass- 

 ing sentence, is purely symbolical. It seems pe- 

 culiar to England ; but the date of its introduc- 

 tion has not yet been traced. L. 



Stamford Hill (2°"^ S. viii. 158.) — Idem sonans 

 is not always a safe guide, still less similiter sonans. 

 The places called Sandford Street, &c., in the 

 neighbourhood, are so named from the proprietors 

 of the land ; an old family who have been gene- 

 rous benefactors to the charities of the parish. 

 Long before their time Stamford Hill was so 

 called in the survey of the manor, 4tli Edward 

 VI,, 1549; in an indenture of lease from Thomas, 

 Earl of Cleveland, 28th Aug. 1638 ; and also in 

 the Survey of the Parliamentary Sequestrations, 

 1652. It is said to have been originally called 

 Stanford Hill, from stan (Ang.-S.), a stone, or 

 paved ford (vadvm stratum), which existed here 

 before the bridge was built over the Hackney 

 Brook. A. A. 



Do Horses tremble when they see a Camel (2""^ S. 

 viii. 354.) — Herodotus (i. 80. ; vii. 87.) refers to 

 this fear when he says that the horse cannot bear 

 (avex^rai) either the sight or the smell of a camel. 

 He has a like dread of the elephant, on which 

 some very interesting particulars are supplied in 

 Sir J. Emerson Tennent's last work on Ceylon. 

 Familiarity with these animals, however, soon 

 subdues this natural shyness in the horse. (Lar- 

 cher's Herod., n. vii. 87.) T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Original of the Faust Legends (2"'* S. viii. 87. 

 191.) — See Hewitt's Ennemoser, vol. ii. p. 142. 

 For the legend of St. Theophilus, Ennemoser re- 

 fers to the Acta SS., 4th Feb. ; also to Sender 

 and Horst. Eirionnach. 



Liberavi aniniam meavi (2°'' S. viii. 108. 157.) — 

 Although this expression has been both well dis- 

 cussed and amply illustrated in your columns, 

 the exact words, as occurring in any work of au- 

 thority, have not yet been produced ; and this was 

 the original subject of inquiry (p. 109.). They 

 are, however, used by *S'. Bernard ; to whose writ- 

 ings one of your correspondents refers, as pro- 

 bably containing the similar terms, "Dixi: et 

 salvavi animam meam." The words now in ques- 

 tion, " liberavi animam meam," occur in S. Ber- 

 nard's letter to the Abbe Suger (Sugerius Ab- 

 bas), wherein the saint strenuously dissuades that 

 powerful ecclesiastic from a course which he was 

 bent upon pursuing, but which Bernard deemed 



