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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, N» 27., July 5. '56. 



commissioners (Jesuits) through the breadth and 

 length of Czechia, who found, in almost every vil- 

 lage, piles of books, obnoxious to tyrannic and 

 bigoted rule, and had them consumed by fire. 

 Considering what flight Czechian literature had 

 taken shortly after the spreading of the Reforma- 

 tion, — Petrarca's Poems, for instance, being first 

 translated into Czechian, — this atrocity struck a 

 fierce blow at the nascent literature of the great 

 Panslavic race. I saw once a copy of a huge 

 volume in fol. max. in the Czechian language, in 

 one of the villages of that country, printed also at 

 that period. I think it related to some geographi- 

 cal subject. As I do not believe that any book so 

 large had been then printed in any other part of 

 Europe, I would wish to learn the title. It must 

 especially have excited the attention of those 

 Jesuitic incendiaries. J. Lotsky, Panslave. 



15. Gower Street, London. 



MedicBval Parchment (P' S. vii. 155. 317.) — 

 I am desirous, with F. M., of knowing some means 

 of preventing parchment from crumpling when 

 moistened by the application of colour ; but, as I 

 cannot refer to the MSS. mentioned by E. G. B., 

 I shall be much obliged to any one who will, 

 either through these columns or by letter, give 

 me the information I seek. John P. Stilwell. 



Dorking. 



Isle of Man (2"'' S. i. 454.) — To assist in de- 

 ciding this question I contribute a mite of informa- 

 tion culled from the pages of Heylin, Hearne's 

 Curious Discoveries, Mona Antigua 7-estaurata, and 

 Campbell's Survey. 



This island by Ptolemy is called Monceda, or the 

 further Mona, to distinguish it from that which 

 we call Anglesey or Mona. By Pliny it is called 

 Mo7iabia or Movapia ; by Orosius and Beda Me- 

 navia ; and by Gildas, an old British writer, Eu- 

 bonia. Mona, the name by which it was generally 

 known to the Romans (Campbell says), is evidently 

 no more than the softening of the British appella- 

 tion Mon, or Tir Mon, " the furthest land," the 

 ancient Britons calling it Manaw Menaw, or more 

 properly main au, " the little island," the inhabit- 

 ants mailing and the English man. 



It had a second name also, derived from its 

 being almost covered with wood : this was Tnis 

 Touil, or as the moderns write it, Ynys Dywylh, 

 " the shady island ; " and from the Druids having 

 taken shelter there, a third, Ynys y Cedeirn, or 

 the " Land of Heroes." R. W. Hackwood. 



Blood which will not wash out (2"'^ S. i. 374.) — 

 Has Mr. Cowper ever visited Holyrood, where 

 the stains of Rizzio's blood are shown on the floor 

 in the passajie near the back stairs, leading from 

 Queen Mary's room ? The legend runs that they 

 cannot be removed by soap, water, and a scrub- 



bing brush. I am sufiicient of an infidel to be- 

 lieve that no effort has ever been made to remove 

 them, and that, on the contrary, the stains have 

 been from time to time carefully renewed by 

 blood procured from some of the slaughter-houses 

 in " Auld Reekie." Apropos of this subject, was 

 it ever known that any two of the guides at Holy- 

 rood Palace could be found to agree as to the 

 exact number of stabs inflicted on Rizzio before 

 life was extinct ? I trow not. Sceptic. 



Cow and Snuffers Ql^^ S. i. 372.) — Your cor- 

 respondent E. E. Byng will find the " Cow and 

 Snuficrs " mentioned in the Irish song of " Looney 

 M'Twolter," introduced in an old farce, whose 

 author has escaped my memory : 



" Judy's my darling, my kisses she suffers, 



She's an heiress, that's clear, 



For her father sells beer, 

 Och ! he keeps the sign of the Cow and the Snuffers, 



Oh ! she's so smart, 



From my heart 



I can't bolt her ; 

 Oh ! Whack ! Judy O'Flanajran, 

 She's the girl for Looney M'Twolter." 



JUVEKNA. 



Punishment of dishonest Bakers (2nd S. i. 332.) 

 — Queen Elizabeth, by a charter in the forty-first 

 year of her reign, granted (inter alia^ to the cor- 

 poration of Andover, Hants, power to make and 

 have, within their borough and hundred, the 

 assize and assay of bread, wine, and ale, and 

 other victuals, and to punish bakers and others 

 breaking the said assize ; " that is to say, to draw 

 such bakers and others offending against the said 

 assize upon hurdles through the streets of the 

 borough or town and hundred aforesaid, and to 

 otherwise chastise them in manner as in our city 

 of London is accustomed concerning such bakers 

 and other such like offenders." "W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



fiatitt^ ta C0rrc!Sp0iiftent*. 



Owinr/ to the number of articles of interest waiting for insertion we 

 have this week been compelled to omit our usual Notes on Books. 



A. Mt. Received. Many thanks, 



D. B. Has, we think, not copied quite accurate!;/ some of the words. If 

 he would entrust us with the original document we sJiould doubtless be 

 enabled to answer his question. 



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