2"* S. VIII. Nov. 19. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



425 



of this book is a " Diarium Kerum gestarum in 

 Turri Londinensi," and on the 10th December, 

 1580, I find the following entry : — 



" Thomas Cotamus et Lucas Kirbseus presbyteri, Scau- 

 ingeri filiam ad uiiam horam et amplius passi ; ex quo 

 prior copiosum sanguinem e naribus emisit." 



On the 1st September, 1582 : — 



" Joannes Getterus Scauingeri filia cruciatus est." 



Although numerous other cases of torture are 

 mentioned, these three are the only instances of 

 the application of " the Scavenger's Daughter." 



C. Le Poer Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



Kentish Longtails (2°" S. viii. 377.) — It was 

 the inhabitants of Strode (or as some say a village 

 in Dorsetshire) who were thus elegantly adorned. 



Peter Pindar, in one of his anti- Georgian pro- 

 ductions * tells us that — 



" As Bechet, that good saint, sublimely rode 

 Heedless of insult through the town of Strode," 

 some wag, with more malice than wit, however, 

 " cut his horse's tail so flowing to the stump." 

 Whereupon the saint waxed wroth, and bestowed 

 upon that most unpolite and sacrilegious people 

 so potent a malediction that from that time to 

 this : — 



" The men of Strode are born with horses' tails." 

 It would have done Lord Monboddo's heart 

 good to have seen a few specimens of these " tail- 

 pieced" gentry ; but Peter's memory failed him 

 here, for if we turn to the Golden Legend, we find 

 that it was St. Augustine who arrived at a certain 

 town inhabited by wicked people — 

 " Who " (to quote the words of the quaint original) " re- 

 fused hys doctryne and prechyng uterly, and drof hym 

 out of the towne, castyng on h3'm the tayles of thornback, 

 or lykefysshes ; wherefore he besought the Almyghty God 

 to shewe hys jugement on them ; and God sent to them a 

 shamefuU token ; for the chyldren that were born after 

 in the place, had tayles; as it is sayd, tyll they had re- 

 pented them. It is said comynly that this fyll at Strode 

 in Kente ; but blyssed be Gode, at thys daye is no such 

 deformyte." 



Jupiter Juvenal. 



Your correspondent Folkestone will find an 

 amusing account of the Kentish men who were 

 represented as having tails, and which was very 

 generally believed by foreign nations, in Lam- 

 barde's History of Kent (1570). He says, quot- 

 ing— 



" Polydore Vergil (handling that hot contention between 

 King Henrie the seconde and Thomas Becket) saith, that 

 Becket (being at the length reputed for the king's enimie) 

 began to be so commonly neglected, contemned, and 

 hated, that when as it happened him upon a time to come 

 to Stroude, the inhabitants thereabouts (being desirous to 

 despite that good father) sticked not to cut the taile from 

 the horse on which he roade, binding themselves thereby 



* I am sorry I cannot give a more definite reference, 

 but I quote from memory. 



with a perpetual reproach: For afterward (by the will 

 of God) it so happened, that every one which came of 

 that kinred of men which had plaied that naughty pranke, 

 ■were borne with tailes, even as brute beasts bee," &c, &c. 



Columbus. 

 Old Print (2°'> S. vii. 157.) — 

 " Die Jesuiten gaben ntthmlich auf 1654einen Kalendar 

 heraus, dem ein Kupferstich beigefilgt ist, welcher die 

 Niederlage den Jansenisten darstellt. Der Pabst sitz in 

 der Mitte ; iiber ihm schwfebt die Taube ; er hort auf die 

 Worte der Religion und iibergiebt der gcistlichen Ge- 

 walt, welche, einer Minerva oder Koma gleichend, mifc 

 Helm und Schliisseln ihm zur Seite steht, das flammende 

 Strafeschwert. Der Konig thront von dem wie eine 

 sonnestrahlenden, gottlichen Eifer und der Eintracht 

 umgeben, welche einen Biindel Pfeile halt; zu seinen 

 Fussen betet die Frommigkeit. Er zeigt der mit dem 

 weltlichen Schwerte bewafFneten Gerechtigkeit die Feinde 

 an, welche schon fliehen, die Dummheit mit Eselsohren, 

 den Betrug, welchem die Maske entfallt, Jansen, in 

 bischoflichem Gewande, aber mit SatansflUgeln. Der 

 Irrthum halt sich die Augen zu gegen das ihm vorgehal- 

 tene Buch, gegen die Wahrheit der Schrift. Die Jan- 

 senisten, wohl Portraits, besonders die Nonne mit der 

 Brille, werden von dem leicht kenntlichen Calvin und 

 den seinigen freundlich aufgenomraen." — Reuchlin, Ge- 

 schichte von Port Royal, p. 615., Hamburg, 1839. 



The retort of the Jansenists will be found in 

 the next page. It is too long to quote, but well 

 worth reading. I think that in this, as in many 

 other stages of the controversy, they had the ba- 

 lance of wit on their side. H. B. C. 



U. D. Club. 



Bishop Gauden (2°'^ S. viii. 400.) — I possess a 

 copy of The Whole Duty of a Communicant, by 

 the Right Rev. Father in God, John Gauden, late 

 Lord Bishop of Exeter. It is the tenth edition, 

 1707. The imprimatur bears date, May 31, 1686. 

 The Dedication is to " The Lady Rich," pp. 150. 



Gilbert. 



Guildford. 



Walpurgis (2"^ S. viii. 270.) — Wachter trans- 

 lates this name " peregrinorum tutrix, a bergen, 

 servare, et wall, peregrinus, alienus (waUen, mi- 

 grare, errare, vagari)." He gives from the like 

 root, " loalafridus, ' peregrinorum assertor,' ^fiHe- 

 den, tueri;" and waltrudis, "peregrinis dilecta." 



R. S. Charnock. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Great Pyramid : Why was it ^ilt ? and Who built 

 it? J5y John Taylor. (Longman & Co.) 



It is impossible, within the very limited space which 

 we can devote to the subject, to convey to our readers 

 any idea of the amount of curious learning and ingenious 

 speculation displayed by Mr. Taylor in his endeavour to 

 solve the interesting Queries: "Why was the Great Py- 

 ramid built? " and, " Who built it? " His answer to the 

 first is, that the Great Pyramid was built as a standard 

 of length based upon the measure of the earth ; while 

 the porphyry coffer in the king's chamber was preserved 

 as the standard of all measures of capacity ; and to the se- 



