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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Allow (2'"> S. ii. 10.) — The meaning of this 

 word in the Baptismal Service most likely will 

 be the meaning usually attached to it by the 

 writers of the age in which the service was drawn 

 up. In the English version of the New Testa- 

 ment the word occurs five times, to express what 

 in the original are four different words : 



Luke xi. 48. — <rvvevS6KeiTe. 



Acts Xxiv. 15. — Trpoa-S^xovTOLl. 



Horn. vii. 15. — •yiftoo-Koj. 



liom. xiv. 22. — Soxif^afei ; also 1 Thess. ii. 4. 



In this last sense of " approving after trial," it 

 is used in the Prayer-Book version of Psalm xi. 

 6., where the authorised version has " trieth," and 

 the original }n3* ; but the most usual meaning 

 seems to have been " approve, be well pleased 

 with, take pleasure in." Cf. King Lear^ Act III. 

 So. 4. : 



" If your sweet sway 

 Allow obedience." 



There seems to be no objection to this meaning 

 in the passage referred to by E. G. R. ; for though 

 your pages are not the place to discuss the ques- 

 tion of infant baptism, I think that God nowhere 

 expressly commands it, though the Church in her 

 27th Article says it " is in anywise to be retained, 

 as most agreeable with the institution of Christ," a 

 phrase which seems exactly to correspond to the 

 " favourably alloweth " of the Baptismal Service. 

 J. Eastwood, M.A. 



Eckington. 



_ Canary (2°'^ S. i. 374. 440. ; ii. 34.)— Without 

 disputing the statement in Hebrews xiii. 12., or 

 the interpretation put upon it, I must call atten- 

 tion to the reading of John xix. 20., which, on 

 the authority of the best MSS., declares that " the 

 part of the city where Jesus was crucified was 

 nigh. ' " 'E77US ?iv 6 Toiros rrjs TrjAeoij, Sttov icrrav- 

 pcidf] 6 'iTjtroDs." This is the adopted reading of 

 Scholz and Tischendorff. Consequently Golgotha 

 or Calvary was within, and not without the city. 

 The present walls of Jerusalem were erected a.d. 

 1542 ; the previous walls, extending farther to 

 the north than these, were erected under Clau- 

 dius, forty-one years after Christ (Joseph. War, 

 V. 4. 2. Corap. Tacit. Hist., v. 12.). But in the 

 time of Christ there were two walls (neither coin- 

 ciding with the above). Of the outer one Scholz 

 found traces ; the inner one probably excluded 

 Calvary, which, if situated betwixt these two 

 walls, was not only, according to St. John, " part 

 of the city," but also " without the gate," accord- 

 ing to the Epistle to the Hebrews, which, how- 

 ever, does not say it was without the gate of the 

 city, but might, for the allegorical purpose of the 

 writer, be without the gate of the Temple ("Tera- 

 plum in modum arcis propriique muri," Tacit. 



1. C.) T. J. BOCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



The House of Brunswick and the Casting Vote 

 (2°'^ S. ii. 44.). — Sir Arthur Owen, Bart., of 

 Orielton, in the county of Pembroke, is the in- 

 dividual who is asserted to have given the casting 

 vote which placed the Brunswick dynasty upon 

 the throne of England. A lady now residing in 

 Haverfordwest remembers her grandmother, who 

 was staying at Orielton at the time when Sir 

 Arthur Owen rode to London on horseback, for 

 the purpose of recording his vote. He had relays 

 of horses at the different posting houses, and ac- 

 complished the journey in an incredibly short 

 space of time ; arriving at the precise juncture 

 when his single vote caused the scale to pre- 

 ponderate in favour of the descendants of the 

 Electress Sophia. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Cast of Oliver Cromwell (2"'' S. ii. 34.) — I do 

 not know of any cast of Oliver Cromwell being 

 preserved in the Tower. The original one, taken 

 after death, is, I believe, in the possession of 

 Henry W. Field, Esq., of H. M. Mint, a descen- 

 dant of the Lord Protector. Mercator, A.B. 



Reginald Bligh, A.B. (2"^ S. ii. 10.) — was 

 presented to the rectory of Romaldkirk in the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, April 7, 1787. I 

 have every reason to believe that he died and was 

 buried at Romaldkirk, but I am sure that the 

 present rector will give Messrs. C. H. & T. Coo- 

 per all the information about him that they 

 require. Mr. Bligh was related to the Captain 

 Bligh whose name has become famous from his 

 connection with the mutiny of the Bounty. 



Anon. 



Raid (2"d S. i. 213. 396. 522.) — Between a 

 place called Trumfleet Marsh and the north bank 

 of the river Don, near Kirk-Bramwith, about six 

 miles N.N.E. of Doucaster, is a portion of land 

 bearing the name of " The Rands." On the oppo- 

 site, or south bank, is Fishlake ; to the school of 

 which parish the Rev. Richard Rands alias Crab- 

 tree (so he writes himself) was a benefactor circa 

 1640. He mentions Fishlake as being " the place 

 of his nativity." C. J. 



Blood which will not wash out (2°'^ S. i. 461 ; 

 ii, 57,) — It is forty years, exactly, since I visited 

 the chapel of the Carmelites at Paris, alluded to 

 in the above pages. At that time the blood was 

 left in quantities all over the pavement and 

 benches, and on the walls. I was told, on the 

 spot, that the number of clergy massacred in this 

 small chapel was 102 ! Others were shut up and 

 murdered in the beautiful church of the convent ; 

 and the whole number thus sacrificed was 500 ! 

 With reference, however, to the original Querpr 

 as to the blood not washing out, my impression is 

 that in this case no attempt has been made to 



