2'>4 S. VIII. Nov. 19. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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such as works on surgery and horticulture, and 

 that the superiors looked shyly even upon poetry. 



N. J. A. 

 [We have no means of deciding whether this was the 

 Benedictine Abbey of Quin9ay, forrnerly Quincy, situate 

 in a valley a mile or two from Poitiers, or the Abbey of 

 Quincy in Champagne, which belonged to the order of 

 Citeaux, a branch of the Benedictines. Both Abbeys 

 were for monks, not nuns. " Quin^ay, Quinciacum, en 



Poitou II y a une abbaye d'hommes, de I'ordre 



de St. Benoit." (Expilly.) " Quintiacum . . . . vulgo 

 Quingay nuncupatur .... Filibertus Abbas . . . Quin- 

 tiacum Monasterium .... Monachis implevit." (Vale- 

 sius.) "Quincy, abbaye d'hommes, de I'ordre de Citeaux, 

 en Champagne, diocese de Langres." — Expilly.] 



" Bobolink" and " Cocking an Eye." — What are 

 the meanings of "bobolink" and "cocking an 

 eye," met with in Mrs. Stowe's Minister's Woo- 

 ing f J. K. K. 



[Bobolink, or Boblink (^Icterus agripe7inis), is a lively 

 little bird, so called in the eastern and northern states 

 from its notes. It is highly esteemed by epicures. W. 

 Irving says, " The happiest bird of our spring is the 

 Bobolink. This is the chosen season of revelry for him. 

 He comes amidst the pomp and fragrance of the season ; 

 his life seems all sensibility and enjoyment, all song and 

 sunshine." — Wolfert's Boost. But the epithet is some- 

 times used to denote an idler or loafer, " Cocking an 



eye " must be left a Query. 1 



Srass at West Herling. — In the parish church 

 of West Herling in the Hundred of Giltcross in 

 this county there is a brass inserted in a flat stone 

 monumental slab in the aisle with this inscrip- 

 tion : — 



" Orate pro animabus Willi. Berdewell, Armigeri, et 

 Elizabethe uxoris ejus unius filiarum Edmundi Wych- 

 ynghara, et pro quibus tenentur, quorum animabus propici- 

 etur Deus." 



I am unable to decypher the meaning of the 

 words in italics, and should be obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who will explain their 

 meaning. John P. Boileau. 



Ketteringham Park, Wymondham. 



[The passive verb teneor appears to be here employed 

 in the sense of being bound, or under obligation, as in the 

 phrase lege teneri, " to be bound by law." " Pray for the 

 souls of William Berdewell, &c., and [pray for the souls of 

 those] _/br whom they are bound [to pray], to whose souls 

 may God be propitious I " May not this mean, Pray not 

 only for the souls of the parties themselves, but for the 

 souls of those for whom it was their duty, while living, 

 to pray, e. g. parents, benefactors, &c.] 



The Princess Borghese. — I require for a little 

 work I have in hand some particulars of the 

 death of the Princess Borghese (daughter of the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury), who died suddenly of fever 

 at Rome about, I think, 1846. I have been in- 

 formed that a memoir of the Princess was issued 

 at the time, but have not been able to meet with 

 it. W. S. 



[The Princess Borghese died at Rome in December, 

 1840, on which occasion was publishecf a i^wneraZ Oration, 

 delivered at the Solemn Obsequies of the Lady Gwenda- 



line Talbot, Princess Borghese, in the church of S. Charles 

 in the Corso, Dec. 23, 1840, by C. M. Baggs, D.D., Rome, 

 8vo. 1841. Also another pamphlet entitled Sur La Mart 

 Prematuree de Lady Gwendoline Catherine Talbot, Prin- 

 cesse Borghese, par Le R. P. Marie-Joseph De G^ramb, 

 Abbe et Procureur- General de la Trappe, Paris, 8vo, 

 1840. Both pamphlets are in the British Museum.] 



Moly and Colomhine. — In the twenty -sixth 

 Sonnet of Spenser, after enumerating the sweets 

 and ills of six plants, he continues : — 



" Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough ; 

 And sweet is moly, but his root is ill." 

 In another place the usual word Columbine as 

 applied to the flower, is spelt Cullambine. Bine 

 is clear as its most appropriate termination ; but 

 what has Cullam to do with the flower ? and what 

 is the plant, tree or flower, called Moly f W. P. 



[ Columbine comes from Columba, pigeon, because when 

 the outer petals of the flower are picked off the remain- 

 der presents an extraordinary resemblance to a pigeon. 



The Moly (^i^mK.v') " that Hermes once to wise Ulysses 

 gave " to preserve him from the charms of Circe is de- 

 scribed in the Odyssey (x. 304.) as having a black root, 

 and a flower as white as milk. ] 



" Soul is form and doth the body make." — In 

 what part of Spenser's Works is the following line 

 to be found ? I wish to see the context, and can- 

 not hit upon the line, " Soul is form and doth the 

 body make." W. P. 



[It is in the Hymn in Honour of Beautie, v. 133.] 



Portrait : K. B. 32. — I have an excellent por- 

 trait of a young officer of Marines (I think) who 

 served at the siege of Gibraltar, 1782. He is 

 leaning on a brass gun, upon the carriage of which 

 is marked K. B. 32. If you can tell me what this 

 means, perhaps I can at once tell who it is. Is it 

 Knight * of the Bath, No. 32. ? or is it the num- 

 ber and character of the gun ? for instance a 32- 

 pounder. H. Banfield. 



[Viewed in connexion with the siege of Gibraltar, we 

 apprehend that the gun-mark, " K. B. 32," must be taken 

 to signify a 32-pounder belonging to the King's Bastion, 

 " From the grand battery, along the sea-line, the town is 

 defended by the North, Montague's, Prince of Orange's, 

 King's, and South bastions. Montague's, Prince of 

 Orange's, and King's bastions have been erected lately. 

 The latter is a very complete piece of fortification, com- 

 manding the bay from New to Old Mole heads, and 

 mounting twelve 32-pounders," &c. Drinkwater's Hist, 

 of the Siege of Gibraltar, ed. 1785, p. 27.] 



Four Kings. — I have in my collection of Green- 

 wich Hospital portraits one of Matthew Lord 

 Aylmer, sometime governor of that noble insti- 

 tution, and on it is " Matthew Ailmer who en- 

 tertained the Four Kings on board the Royal 

 Sovereign, 1710." Who were the four kings ? 



R. H. S. 



[The newspapers merely give the locale of the Four 

 Kings, as their family names would doubtless puzzle the 



♦ When was this Order instituted? 



