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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VIII. Dec. 31. '59. 



right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round 

 about." Exodus xxix. 20. See also Leviticus, viii. 23. ; 

 xiv. 14., &c. 



C. W. Bingham. 



No Human Speech before the Flood without 

 Error (2"*^ S. viii. 379.) — Here is an oversight of 

 Sir T. Browne's editor, Wilkin, in reading hut for 

 not. What Browne evidently meant was : "there 

 is not one speech delivered by man, wherein there 

 is not an erroneous conception." ( Vulgar Errors, 

 i. 2.) He says there are " but six recorded," and 

 he discusses each sena^m, pointing out particu- 

 larly the erroneous conceptions involved in all of 

 them, without exception. The naming of Noah 

 Browne does not consider to be a speech. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



A Regiment all of one Name (2"* S. viii. 351.) — 

 During the French revolutionary war, a regiment 

 of volunteers was raised on the Border, all of whom 

 were Elliotts, and who invariably marched to the 

 old tune of 



" My name it's wee Tam Elliott, 

 And wha daur meddle wi' me." 



W. B. C. 

 Nelsons Car (2"* S. viii. 380.)— Nelson's fu- 

 neral car, which formei'ly stood in the Painted 

 Hall, Greenwich Hospital, was removed about 

 thirty-six years since, by order of Mr. Locker, 

 then Secretary and since Commissioner of the 

 Hospital. This order is understood to have given 

 great dissatisfaction. The place assigned for it 

 was a gallery at the foot of the dome, over the 

 chapel. It is believed, however, that very little 

 of it reached its destination, as the ear being in a 

 dilapidated state, large portions were given away 

 to those who applied, as mementos of the admiral. 



J. H. W. 



Prince Rupert (2°"^ S. viii. 418.) — Prince Ru- 

 pert's arms, crest, and supporters may be seen in 

 Guillim's Heraldry, 5th edition, folio, 1679; 

 Achievements of Dukes, folio 32. F. G. W. 



Naked- Boy Court (2"'^ S. ii. 38. ; iii. 254. 317. 

 456.) — With us, in Holland, the beautiful and 

 cold-like little plant, which almost appears to 

 shiver in its scanty dress of lanceolated leaves, 

 the graceful snowdrop, is called Jiaakfe mannetje, 

 naked mannikin, or sneeuw-manneije. There is so 

 much poetry in this unsophisticated name, that I 

 cannot but wonder at the prudery of the gentle- 

 man who, when our Queen asked him the Dutch 

 for her Schnee-gluckchen, diflSdently replied 

 '■'■ Sneeuwklohjen" which never was the popular 

 appellation. Are the naked-boys of Norfolk not 

 perhaps identical with our naakte mannetjesf or 

 does the similarity of thought not point to simi- 

 larity in growth, and, in our nations, to identity 

 of origin ? Who knows but a beautiful and touch- 

 ing legend is attached to the two kinds of flowers, 



— to snowdrop and autumnal crocus: the latter 

 only bearing fruit in Spring, the former cheering 

 our bleak meadows with the hopes of flowering 

 May ! J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Night (2"^ S. viii. 11. 57. 78.)— A correspondent 

 has already pointed out that, misled by the simi- 

 larity of title, I had hastily assigned my Glasgow 

 book to the author of Peter Faultless. 



The result of my inquiry is this : — Night, a 

 Poem, Glas. 1811, is the production of Mr. G. 

 Martin ; and Peter Faultless, by the Author of 

 Night, is the Corn-Law Rhymer's invective, d la 

 Byron, against the Monthly Reviewers for cut- 

 ting up his Night, now shown to have been 

 printed at London in 1830. 



If Elliott suppressed Peter Faultless, it was not 

 effectually done, for I have two copies of the 

 book. J. O. 



Scotch Clergy deprived in 1689 (2"'i S. viii. 

 329.)— 



"An Account of the present Persecution of the Church 

 in Scotland, in several Letters. London. Printed for S. 

 Cook. 1690," 

 and 



" The Case of the present afflicted Clergj' in Scotland 

 truh' represented, &c. Printed for J. Hindmarsh,' at the 

 Golden Ball, over against the Royal Exchange, in Corn- 

 hill. 1G90," 



are works which, though they do not contain a 

 list of the episcopal clergy deprived in 1689, give 

 the names of a great many, and particulars of 

 their sufferings. 



" Dr. Strachan, Professor of Theology, Edin- 

 burgh, and one of the ministers of the Tron 

 Church," is mentioned as " the first sacrifice." 



B.W. 



Birtsmorton Court, Worcestershire (2"*^ S. viii. 

 437.) — In reply to your correspondent H. W., 

 I know of no topographical work containing a 

 drawing of Birtsmorton Court. There is a short 

 description of it in Nash's Worcestershire, under 

 the "Collections for the Parish;" and a more full 

 account in Noake's Rambler in Worcestershire, 3rd 

 Series, published 1854. _ T. E. W. 



The "latter work describes the ancient tombs in 

 the adjoining church. 



Military Funerals (2°'' S. vii.496.) — To answer 

 A. C. LoMAx's queries I have looked through 

 several military works. The earliest account of 

 the procession, &c., that I have been able to trace 

 is contained in a folio work entitled The Compleat 

 Body of the A7t Military, by Richard Elton, Lieut.- 

 Colonel, published in 1688. In chap. 25. lib. iir. 

 pp. 190-192., A, C. LoMAx will find full instruc- 

 tions for " the ordering of a private company into 

 a funeral service ; " and in chap. 26. lib. in. p. 

 192. similar instructions, though more brief, for 



