2nd s. N* 32., Aug. 9. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



119 



tween the versicles above-named and the " Second 

 Collect, for Peace," in the Morning Service : 



« Then sshall follow three collects ; the first of the day, 

 ■which shall be the same that is appointed at the Com- 

 munion ; the second for Peace ; the third for Grace to 

 live well. And the two last collects shall never alter, 

 but daily be said at Morning Prayer throughout all the 

 year, as foUoweth ; all kneeling." 



The corresponding rubric in The Order for 

 Evening Prayer runs thus : 



"Then shall follow' three Collects; the tirst of the 

 Dav ; the second for Peace ; the third for Aid against all 

 Perils, as hereafter followeth ; which two last collects 

 shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration." 



It was unnecessary to repeat in the rubric pre- 

 fixed to the collects in the Evening Service 

 what had been explicitly stated in the correspond- 

 ing rubric in the Morning Service, namely, that 

 the collects should be said, all kneeling. M. A. 



Galilee (2"^ S. i. 131. 197. 243.) — In the In- 

 dex to the First Vol. of the New Series of " N. & 

 Q." the word " Galilee " is set down as being 

 synonymous with " porch." According to Mabil- 

 lon it is synonymous with " nave," as the following 

 extract will testify : 



" Idem Willelmus eodera anno, ordinationis sua3 secundo, 

 teloneum in fluvio Ligeris ad castrum Langey recuperasse 

 dicitur: cujus rei charta primaria facta est in Galilaa 

 monasterii, id est navi Ecchsue, et transcripta in libro 

 notitiarum." — Mabillon, Annales Benedictini, a. 1105. 

 § 100. vol. V. p. 477. Paris, 1713. 



W. B. MacCabb. 



Device of Crescent and Star on Ecclesiastical 

 Seals (S""* S. ii. 89.) — The seal of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Waterford referred to by the 

 Rev. James Graves, has been engraved by Mr. 

 Rich. Caulfield, in his Sigillai Ecclesia Hibernicce 

 Illustrata, Part ii. pi. 3., and described at p. 18. In 

 an explanation of the Crescent and Star, he refers 

 to p. 8., where it says that the " Star is the symbol 

 of the Epiphany, and that the Crescent signifies 

 the increase of the Gospel." Z. 



English Words terminating in "z7" (2"'* S. ii. 

 47.) — Your correspondent E. C. H. remarks on 

 the small number of English words having the 

 termination 27, and gives the five words yjenZ, civil, 

 council, evil, devil, as the only ones occurring to 

 him at the time. He may wish to be reminded of 

 the fifteen following words in addition, all having 

 the termination il : codicil, pencil, lentil, until, 

 cavil, stencil, pistil, tendril, tumbril, tranquil, tonsil, 

 vigil, basil, jonquil, nostril. T. J. E. 



Human Leather (2"'i S. ii. 68.) — The human 

 leather nailed on some of our old church-doors is 

 suid to have been originally the skins, or portions 

 of the skins, of Danes. The old Bohemian leader, 

 Ziska, ordered that his body should be flayed 

 after his decease, and the skin be converted into 



the head of a drum. These instances, however, 

 of making leather or parchment of human skin 

 are well known. With respect to specimens of 

 skin in museums, I know of only one example. In 

 the museum of the Philosophical Institution at 

 Reading, there was, some years ago, and perhaps 

 there still is, a small portion of the skin of Jeremy 

 Bentham. I remember that it bore a close re- 

 semblance to a yellow and shrivelled piece of 

 parchment. J. Doran. 



Ornamental Hermits. — Some of your earlier 

 volumes (P' S. v. vi.) contained Queries on this 

 subject. Is this note worth adding? 



" Archibald Hamilton, afterwards Duke of Hamilton 

 (as his daughter, Lady Dunmore, told me), advertised for 

 • a hermit' as an ornament to his pleasure grounds; and 

 it was stipulated that the said hermit should have his 

 beard shaved but once a vear, and that only partially." — 

 Rogers's Table-Talk, p. 77". 



A. A. D. 



Fairies (2"'' S. i. 393.) — It may interest some 

 to know, that the July number of the Spiritual 

 Herald contains an account of the fairy-seership 

 of an educated lady of our own time, not less re- 

 markable than that mentioned in "N. & Q." of 

 an untaught Cornish girl of 200 years ago. I 

 transcribe a few lines relating the commencement 

 of this fairy-seership, and also a curious mention 

 of Shakspeare : — 



" I used to spend a great deal of my time alone in our 

 garden, and I think it must have been soon after my 

 brother's death, that I first saw (or perhaps recollect 

 seeing) fairies. I happened one day to break (with a 

 little whip I had) the tlower of a buttercup ; a little 

 while after, as I was resting on the grass, I heard a tiny, 

 but most beautiful voice, saj'ing, 'Buttercup, who has 

 broken your house? ' Then another voice replied, 'That 

 little girl that is lying close by you.' I listened in great 

 wonder, and looked about me, until I saw a daisy, in 

 which stood a little figure not larger, certainly, than one 

 of its petals. 



" When I was between three and four years old, we 

 removed to London, and I pined sadly for my country 

 home and my fairy friends. I saw none of them for a 

 long time ; I think because I was discontented ; I did not 

 try to make myself happy. At last I found a copy of 

 Shakespeare in mj' father's study, which delighted me so 

 much (though I don't suppose I understood much of it), 

 that I soon forgot we were living where I could not see 

 a tree or a tlower. I used to take the book, and my little 

 chair, and sit in a paved yard we had (I could see the 

 sky there). One day, as I was reading the Midsummer 

 Night's Dream, I happened to look up, and saw before 

 me a patch of soft, green grass, with the fairy ring upon 

 it; whilst 1 was wondering how it came, my old friends 

 appeared, and acted the whole play (I suppose to amuse 

 me). After this, they often came, and did the same with 

 some of the other plavs." 



A. R. 



Council of Lima (2""^ S. i. 510.) — Clericxjs 

 (D.) will find some account of the decrees of the 

 Council of Lima in the Continuation of Fleury's 

 Hist. Eccles., vol. xxiv. 1. 176. ch. 72. F. C. fl. 



