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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"* S. No 81., Aug, 2. '56. 



In short, it was so terrible a sight that great numbers 

 turned their backs and screamed out, not being able to 

 look at the horrible scene. — Birmingham Register, 1765." 

 — G. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



" Dictionary of Gi'eek and Roman Geography" 

 edited by William Smith, LL.D. — As this work 

 will be the standard book of reference for ancient 

 geography, and it is to be expected that among 

 such a mass of information a few errors will 

 creep in, it is right for them to be corrected 

 ■when discovered. In the third section of the 

 article "Megara" (vol. ii. p. 313. col. 2.), where 

 the topography of the city and its port town is 

 described, the writer says (quoting fromPausanias, 

 Attica, 1. 41. sect. 4.), that there were temples of 

 " Isis, Apollo Agraeus, and Artemis Agrotera ; " 

 clearly showing, both from the punctuation and 

 construction of the sentence, that there were 

 separate temples of Apollo Agraeus and Artemis 

 Agrotera. Now, if your readers will turn to the 

 passage in Pausanias, they will find that the ori- 

 ginal Greek is — 



" Ou n-dppu Se toC 'YXAou it-v-^ixaroi 'IcriSos vabs KaX Trap avrov 

 ' A.iT6X\u>v6i e<7Ti (cai "AprefitSos." 



" And not far from the monument of Hyllus is a temple 

 of Isis, and beyond it one of Apollo and Artemis." 



But the passage that more distinctly affirms that 

 there was but one temple, occurs at the end of the 

 section : 



" Aio. ravra 'AAxafloui' Tbi^ IleAoTroj eni.x^ip-fi<TavTa. t<3 Oripita 

 KpaTrjirat re, koX <os e|3a<ri\€u(re, to lephv noirj<Tai tovto, 'Aypo- 

 Tepav 'KpTifLiv koX ' KiroWiava. 'Aypalov eTroi'O/ixao-ai'Ta." 



" For this reason Alcathus the son of Pelops attacked 

 the wild beast and overcame it, and after he became king 

 founded this temple, dedicating it to Artemis Agrotera 

 and Apollo Agraeus." 



From this passage there can be no doubt that 

 there was but one temple. Tac. 



Receipt for Making one of the Fair Sex, — The 

 following is taken from a MS. of the time of 

 Charles I. : 



" Ingredients of a Woman. — Joyn to a slender shape 

 a syren's head, the two eyes of a basilisk, the dazzling of 

 the sun, and the moon's inconstancy ; add to this odd 

 compound a smooth skin and a fair complexion, and you 

 will make a perfect woman." 



Z. z. 

 Origin of the Epithet " Turncoat" — 



" This opprobrious term of turncoat took its rise from 

 one of the first dukes of Savoy, whose dominions lying 

 open to the incursions of the two contending houses of 

 Spain and France, he was obliged to temporize and fall 

 in with that power that was most likely to distress him, 

 according to the success of their arms against one another. 

 So being frequently obliged to change sides, he humor- 

 ously got a coat made that was blue on one side, and 

 viMte on the other, and might be indifferently worn 

 either side out. While on the Spanish interest he wore 

 the blue side out, and the white side was the badge for the 

 French. From hence he was called Emmanuel surnamed 

 the Turncoat, by way of distinguishing him from other 



princes of the same name of that house." — Scots Maqa- 

 zine for Oct. 1747, p. 477—8. 



G.N. 



cauertejS. 



LITTLE BURGUNDY. 



We have in London, Little Britain, Petty 

 Frahce, and Petty Wales, to which I can now add 

 Little Burgundy. 



It was situate on the south side of St. Olave's, 

 now Tooley Street, opposite to the Bridge House, 

 now Cotton's Wharf, and between Glean Alley 

 and Joiner Street (on the old maps). The site is 

 now_ occupied by the London Bridge Railway 

 Station. 



In the Accounts of the Churchwardens of the 

 parish of St. Olave, Southwark, a.d. 1582, there 

 is " a list, conteyning the names of those godley 

 disposed parishyoners, that of their owne free 

 will, were contrybutors to the erecting of the 

 New Chureyarde upon Horseydowne " (now called 

 " The Old Churchyard "). The names are ar- 

 ranged according to the residences of the sub- 

 scribers, and among the then names of places in 

 the parish, I find " The Borgyney," in the locality 

 I have mentioned. 



I guessed that the Borgyney meant the Bur- 

 gundy, and I have recently confirmed that con- 

 jecture by the particulars for a grant by King 

 Henry VIII. to Robert Curson, in the thirty- 

 sixth year of his reign, of divers tenements (late 

 belonging to the Priory of St. Mary Overey) 

 situate in — 



" Petty Burgen, in the Parish of Saint Olave, in the 

 Borough of Southwark, viz. Two Tenements in tenure of 

 Lambert Deane, for a term of years, at the rent of Ixvj' 

 viijd ; a tenement in the tenure of William Throw, at will 

 of the lord, rent xxvj» viij<' ; a tenement in tenure of 

 Thomas Boland, at will of the lord, rent xxvj» viijd ; a 

 tenement in tenure of Dominick Hermon, at will of the 

 lord, rent xxiij' iiij^; a tenement in tenure of Robert 

 Bull, at will of the lord, rent vj' viij^ ; and seven cot- 

 tages in tenure of John Harward, at will of the lord, rent 

 XXX' viij*. The premises were very ruynous and sore in 

 decay, and were sold to Robert Curson for 100 marks." 



I shall be very glad of information respecting 

 this place and its name of Petty Burgundy, which 

 must be attributed to an earlier period than that 

 of King Henry VIII., probably to the reign of 

 King Edward IV., when the Burgundian envoys 

 may have had their residence in this place. 



In 1435 the Duke of Burgundy's heralds had 

 been treated with great indignity in London, and 

 lodged at a shoemaker's. Query where ? 



G. R. C. 



HAD QUEEN ANNE AN IRISH FOSTER-FATHER ? 



In a voluminous manuscript pedigree of the 

 Blennerhassetts of the county of Kerry in Ireland, 



