2"d S. No 30., July 26. '56.] 



NOTKS AND QUERIES. 



77 



when William of Malmesbury even gives a per- 

 sonal character of Hengist : 



" Vir qui successus suos non minus fraudibus quain 

 viribus urgeiis, multum genuine sajvitiic indulgens, 

 omnia cruentius quam civilius agere mallet." — Gest. Her. 

 Aug., lib. i. sec. 8. 



This quoted by Mac Cabe in a note, p. 127. 



E. E. Byng. 



Morning Dreams (2"'^ S. i. 392.) — Your corre- 

 spondent Sartor has, I think, misquoted a line 

 from Samuel Lover's songs of The Superstitions 

 of the Irish Peasantry, which begins with these 

 lines : 



" The eye of weeping 

 Had closed in sleeping, 

 And I dreamed a sweet dream yesternight." 



The concluding line of the song is, — 



" For I knew that the morning dream was true." 



The superstition is as old as Horace, who writes 

 (1st Book of Satires, 10th Satire, 31st line) : 



" Atqui ego, cum Grajcos facerem, natus mare citra, 

 Versiculos, vetuit tali me voce Quirinus, 

 Post mediam noctein visus, quum somnia vera." 



Tibullus also, in the fourth Elegy of his third 

 book, writes : 



" Dii meliora ferant, ne sint insomnia vera, 

 QujB tulit extrema proxima nocte quies." 



And Ovid {Epist. Heroides) ; 



" Namque sub Aurora, jam dormitante lucerna, 

 Tempore quo cerni somnia vera solent." 



Sec the Delphin Horace, p. 423. 



JUVEBNA, M.A. 



Dreams true after Midnight. — Orellius, com- 

 menting on Horace, Sat. i. 10. 33. (" Quirinus 

 post mediam noctem visus, quum somnia vera), 

 cites Moschus, 2. 2. : 



" NvKTOs ore rpiraTOv A.ax°5 icTTaTai, eYV'f' ^' ^"5" 

 Evre Kal arpeKitav Troiuaii'eTOi efiros oviipiav. 



A. A. D. 



Thomas Simon (P' S. xii.27. ; 2""^ S. i. 477.) — 

 As Simon was a citizen and goldsmith, his father's 

 name and his own age will be found in the record 

 of his apprenticeship and admission to the freedom 

 in the books of the Goldsmiths' Company, and 

 most likely other particulars. The officials of the 

 Company would doubtless willingly contribute to 

 the iamc of a member so eminent. The same 

 books will show whether his sons were admitted 

 to the freedom by patrimony. Hyde Clarke. 



Whitsunday (2"^^ S. i. 521.) — In enumerating 

 the Feasts, on which churches were decked with 

 flowers, Mr. Mackenzie AValcott having men- 

 tioned that of Pentecost, calls the English name 

 Whiteson-Day, and considers that name a cor- 

 ruption of the German pingsten, fiftieth. But 

 surely here is a twofold mistake. The word 

 should be Pfingsten, which hgs no apparent con- 



nection with the German word for fiftieth, which 

 is funfzigste. Still less conceivable is it that our 

 word Whiteson-Day, or Whitsunday, can have 

 been a corruption of Pfingsten, by any process 

 however ingenious. The received origin of the 

 name Whitsunday is from the appearance of the 

 neophytes on that Sunday and during the octave, 

 in the church, in the white garments which they 

 had received at their solemn baptism on the pre- 

 ceding Saturday, called Whitsun Eve. F. C. H. 



Odments (2"'^ S. i. 433.) — This word is still in 

 common use in various parts of the north of Eng- 

 land, particularly in the Deanery of Craven, in 

 the VVest Riding of Yorkshire. Your corre- 

 spondent Centurion will find it in both Brocket's 

 Glossary, and an anonymous one of the Craven 

 dialect. Q- 



Bloorasbury. 



The Weather (2"'' S. i. 431.) — The observation 

 of N. H. L. R. relative to a change in the prevail- 

 ing winds, corresponds with my own experience 

 on the same subject ; and this change is especially 

 remarkable in the west of England, where for- 

 merly the S.W. almost amounted to a " trade." 



A few yeai's ago, being at Dover, I learned 

 from the pilots that the S.W., which used to be 

 the prevalent wind, was no longer so, — easterly 

 winds now predominating ; as might be seen by a 

 reference to the book kept in the harbour-master's 

 office. 



I never made the refei*ence, therefore cannot 

 vouch for the truth of the assertion. Perhaps 

 your correspondent may have an opportunity of 

 so doing. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Burning of Books (2"*^ S. ii. 19.) — At the time 

 of the late Duke of York's connexion with Mrs. 

 Mary Anne Clarke, in the years 1808-9, I re- 

 member an amusing caricature by Rowlandson, 

 called " The Burning of the Books." It repre- 

 sented Mrs. Clarke ordering piles of books to be 

 burnt, which were brought on the shoulders of 

 several men, and flung into a large fire. The 

 books were lettered Memoirs o/ilfr*. C, of Col. 

 Wardle, the D. of York, &c.. and Mrs. Clarke was 

 represented saying ; " Burn away ! I would burn 

 the universe for the money. Not a single vestige 

 in print or manuscript shall be preserved, except 

 copies for Dr. O'Meara, and a few private friends." 



^ F.C.H. 



Port Jackson (2"'' S. ii. 50.)— I think there can 

 be no doubt that Port Jackson was so named 

 after Sir George Jackson, then second secretary 

 of the Admiralty. The claim of the " man at the 

 mast head" is negatived by the statement that 

 produces it ; for how could the " man at the mast 

 head" have had any share in discovering a 



