2'"» S. VIII. Dec. 31. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



539 



"the ordering of a regiment to a funeral occa- 

 sion." In both cases the systems then followed 

 very much resemble the general one now the rule 

 of the service. The rear (that is, the junior ranks) 

 marched in front, with arms reversed, and at the 

 grave fired three volleys. This is sufficient to 

 show that the custom is not a modern institution ; 

 but whence its origin is yet to be ascertained. 

 Should A. C. LoMAx desire a copy of the chap- 

 ters alluded to, I shall be happy to give him at- 

 tention. M. S. li. 

 Brompton Barracks. 



Grosseteste's " Castle of Love" (2"^ S. viii.416.) 

 — On a close consideration it would appear that 

 by " fourty times" we are to understand " forty 

 hours." " Times, hours." (Halliwell, Wright.) 

 Cf. Dan. time, SweJ. timme, an hour. The meaning 

 of the passage cited by Mr. OrroR will then be 

 evident. 



" For from the rode for our nede, 

 Right into helle he gede ; 

 Fourty times there he wes, 

 Er that he to aryse ches " (chose). 



That is, during the whole interval of forty 

 hours, from the time when He died upon the 

 cross to the time when He was pleased to rise 

 from .the dead, his spirit abode in the place of de- 

 parted souls. 



So Pearson On the Creed : — " When all the 

 Bufferings of Christ were finished on the cross, 



and his soul was separated I'rom his body 



his soul went to the place where the souls of men 

 are kept who die for their sins." (Ed. 1849, p. 

 473.) So also the Articles of 1552, which Pear- 

 son cites : — " V/hile dead," (that is, from the 

 period when our Lord expired upon the cross to 

 the period of his resurrection), " his spirit was 

 with the spirits detained in prison." (p. 428.) 



But how can this make " forty hours? " Our 

 Lord, it is sufficiently clear, expired upon the 

 cross about three o'clock on the afternoon of 

 Good Friday ; and as, on the morning of Easter 

 Sunday, his resurrection was an ascertained fact 

 " at the rising of the sun " (Mark xvi. 3.), nay, 

 " when it was yet dark" (John xx. 1.), the re- 

 surrection can hardly have taken place later on 

 that morning than four or five o'clock ; and this 

 would make the whole space of time thirty-seven 

 hours, or thirty-eight at the utmost. 



The full discussion of this point would be far 

 too extended for your pages. Otherwise it might 

 easily be shown how, by a confusion of the Ro- 

 man and Jewish computations of time, the idea 

 may have very possibly arisen that the whole in- 

 terval, from our Lord's death to his resurrection, 

 extended to the full period of " fourty times," or 

 forty hours. Thomas Boys. 



Hammer Cloth (2"^^ S. viii. 381. 407. 439.) — 

 Richardson, in his 8vo. Did., adopts the explana- 



tion of Pegge, and I think he is right. He 

 writes : — 



" Hammer Cloth, or Hammer -boa; Cloth : cloth to cover 

 the box in front of the carriage (on which the driver sits, 

 he should have said), in which a hammer and other im- 

 plements, to prevent or remedy accidents in travelling 

 were put. Since called the coach-box.'^ 



I have myself rode in a four-wheeled chaise 

 with a relation whose profession carried him all 

 over the country, who always provided himself 

 with all these utensils in the box under his seat. 

 How much more necessary would they be, con- 

 sidering the state of the roads, when coaches were 

 first introduced, about the middle of the sixteenth 

 century. * 



Hammer is a word common to all northern lan- 

 guages. Hammock appears first in the form of 

 hamae'a, which Hackluyt calls a Brazilian bed, 

 used by the Spaniards and by themselves while in 

 the country. This word the Dutch, Germans, 

 Swedes, and Danes, seem to have transformed 

 into hang-mat. 



But your correspondent, Mb. Oede, has no doubt 

 hammock- cloth is the correct reading. I have. 



I leave the interpretation of shin-cloth to some 

 learned member of the Philological Society. Q. 



Old Graveyards in Ireland (2°'^ S. viii. 69.) — 

 I copied the following from an Irish periodical 

 some years ago, but cannot now say the name of 

 it. It is an epitaph on Edward Moiley, viz. : — 



" Sacred to the memory of the benevolent Edward 

 MoUej', the frieriil of humanitj', and father of the poor. 

 He employed the weaith of this world only to secure the 

 riches of the next ; and leaving a balance of merit on the 

 Book of Life, he made Heaven debtor to Mercy." 



The words in Italics are so in the publication ; 

 and I can only ask some local correspondent of 

 "iST. & Q.," — Is it possible? George Lloyd. 



Kentish Longtails (2"" S. viii. 377. 425.) — A 

 very valuable little treatise on the Domesday 

 Book, by James F. Morgan, M.A., intituled Eng- 

 land under the Norman Occupation (Williams & 

 Norgate), has the following suggestion (p. 40.) 

 on this subject : — 



" There was a mile peculiar to Kent, as well as a cus- 

 tomary field admeasurement. These long tales are possi- 

 bly' the longtails of which this countj' used to be so 

 proud." 



Notes appended refer to the proverb about 

 " Kentish miles, " and quote from Drayton, 

 Longtails and Liberty. B. B. Woodward. 



" Decanatus Christianitatis" (2°** S. viii. 415.) — 

 The. term Christianitas, which in a larger sense 

 included all Christian people, sometimes implied 

 the clergy : " Christianitas, pro Clericatu." The 

 Christianitatis Decanus was the Dean who pre- 

 sided over the clergy of a particular district. 

 " Christianitatis Decanus, qui in suo districtu 

 prseesfc Christianitati. Philippus, Decanus Chris- 



