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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 27., July 5. '56. 



Further : 



"Narni n'est pas f&onde senlement en noblesse, elle 

 I'est encore en savans, et en grand capitaines. Sana comp- 

 ter I'Empereur Nerva, elle a eu il n'y-a pas longtems, 

 h fameiix Gattamelnta, G6n6rdl des Armees des Venitiens, 

 qui les conduisit avec tant de sagesse, de hravoure, et de bnn- 

 heur, qu'apres avoir remporte une infinite de victoires, ces 

 svperbfs RepulAiquains bit firent elever une statug de bronze 

 dans PadouS, cette ville cilebre qu'il avoit prise, et unie au 

 Domaine de la Repidilique. Galeoto, Maxime Arcaiio, 

 Michel Ange Arroito, et une infinite d'autres, qui ont ho- 

 nor^ la r^publique* des Lettres dans les 16^ et 17^ si&les 

 €toient de Narni." References are given to Labal, Voy. 

 d'ltalie, torn. vii. p. 8G., and Topngrap. des Saints, p. 334. ; 

 but see also Zedler, Univ. Lex., Leipz. 1740. 



2. Serraglia. — Albert! says : 



" S^rail, palais qii'habitent les Empereurs des Turcs, et 

 la partie du Palais du Grand Seigneur, nomm^ le Harem, 

 ou les femmes sont renfermees. II se dit encore de toutes 

 les femmes qui sont dans le s^rail, et de leur suite. Sera- 

 glio abusivement, une maison, ou quelqu'un tient des 

 femmes de plaisir — une basse cour, oil Von enferme desbetes 

 farouches."~The Diz. della Ling. Ital, Bolog. 1824. (IVth 

 sign.) 



" Serraglio, diciamo ancora al Luogo murato, dove si 

 tengono serrata le fiere, e gli animali venuti da' paesi 

 Stranl. Lat., vivarium ; Gr., fworpo^eioi'." 



The Italians have evidently manufactured the 

 word seraglio from the Turk. ^\j^, sardy, the 



primary signification of which Ts a house, hotel; 

 2, a palace. The Pers. has tlie same word for a 

 palace or inn. It also occurs in the Turk, and 



P&ra., ^ji— : (oVj> karwdn- sardy, caravansary, a 



place appointed for receiving and loading cara- 

 vans ; a kind of inn, where the caravans rest at 

 night, being a large square building, with a spacious 

 court in the middle. The primitive signification, 

 therefore, of sardy is an oriental inn, which is 

 made up of four square walls, round which are 

 the rooms for travellers, the centre forming a 

 courtyard, and the sky the roof. Or it may be 

 thus : 1. a square building for travellers, an inn ; 

 2. a palace built in such a form ; 3. that part of a 

 palace where the females are kept; 4. a house 

 where women are shut up ; 5. a building where 

 beasts are caged like women in a seraglio. But, 

 query, may not serraglia, serraglio, be from ser- 

 rdre, to shut up, hide, conceal, from Lat. serare, 

 to lock, shut. 



3. St. Richard. — Chalmers (Biog. Diet., Lond. 

 1816) mentions a Richard (called sometimes Ar- 

 machanus and Fitz-Ralph), Archbishop of Ar- 

 magh in the fourteenth century, whose opinions 

 so displeased the friars that they procured him to 

 be cited before Pope Innocent VI. at Avignon. 

 The age was not prepared to listen to him, and 

 the Pope decided in favour of the friars. He 

 died at Avignon, not without suspicion of poison, 

 1360. See also Fox's Book of Ma7'tyrs. 



6. The Hoe. — The derivation given is pro- 



bably correct. The word is also found spelt 

 hogh. Richardson derives it from Anglo-Saxon 

 heah, and gives the following : 



" That well can witnesse yet vnto this day 

 The westerne hoyh. 



Spenser, F. Queens, b. 11. c. 10. 



" All doubtful to which party the victory would go, 

 Upon that lofty place at Plymouth called the Hoe 

 Those mighty wrestlers met." 



Draj'ton, Poly-Olbion, 5. 1. 



R. S. Charnock. 



St. Richard (2"^ S. i. 470.) — ■ Richard (de 

 Wyclie) was born at Droitwich, in Worcester- 

 shire. Having pursued a course of studies at 

 Oxford, Paris, and Bologna, and so perfected him- 

 self in the canon law, he was appointed by Ed- 

 mund, Archbishop of Canterbury, his chancellor, 

 and was also appointed Chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford. In 1245, he was elected (by the 

 chapter) Bishop of Chichester, in opposition to an 

 unfit nominee of Henry III. And Richard's 

 election was confirmed, as it had been promoted, 

 by Pope Innocent. The Bishop died in 1253, at 

 Dover, in his fifty-seventh year, and was after- 

 wards canonised by Pope Urban IV., a.d. 1261. 

 Mr. Boask may find a brief account of " Bishop 

 Richard " in Parker's Calendar of the Anglican 

 Church, in Brady's Clavis Calendaria, in Cosin's 

 Notes on the Book of Common Prayer, or in Mant, 

 Wheatly, or any other annotator on the English 

 Calendar, under the third of April, on which day 

 he died. J. Sansom. 



St. Richard was Bishop of Chichester, and died 

 at Dover, April 3, 1253, on which day he is still 

 commemorated in the English Calendar. He vras 

 appointed bishop in opposition to the nominee of 

 Henry III., and it was only by the interference of 

 the pope that he was allowed, after two years' de- 

 privation, to take possession of his see, which he 

 presided over more than five years, dying at the 

 age of fifty-seven. His emblems, in reference to 

 various legends connected with him, too long for 

 insertion here, are a plough and a chalice. 



NoBRis Duck. 



Cambridge. 



There is an account of a S.'Richardus, rex apud 

 Anglo- Saxones in Britannia, to be found in torn. ii. 

 Febr. p. 69. of the Acta Sanctorum of BolLindus. 

 I should think that he is most probably the Saint 

 Richard mentioned by your correspondent Mb. 

 BOASE.* 'AAwus. 



Dublin. 



[* For notices of St. Richard of the West Saxons, see 

 our 1»' S. iv. 475. ; v. 418.] 



