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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'i S. N" 40., Oct. 4. '56. 



Kalends (2"'^ S. ii. 110. 236.) — Allow me to 

 inquire of your correspondents Mr. Pattison, 

 J. M. G., and S. S. S., whether the name of a 

 church footpath, which they write calends, ought 

 not to be written scallenge; and whether the 

 word does not properly refer to the covered gate- 

 way, called in other places the " lich-gate," and 

 not to the footpath ? In parts of Herefordshire, 

 this word (which at Bromyard is stated to be 

 pronounced calends) is certainly known as scal- 

 lenge : see the explanation in the Herefordshire 

 Glossary, where it is conjectured to be a corrup- 

 tion of scallage from scalagium. L. 



Hops (2"'' S. ii. 243.)— Fuller is nearer the 

 truth than the old Rhymer quoted by your corre- 

 spondent Me. Yeowell. 



I have before me an original lease of lands in 

 Lynchesore in High Hardres, Kent, granted by 

 Henry Dygges, Gent., to John Heryng, dated 

 March 8, 4 E. IV., 1463-4. Among the cove- 

 nants, there is an agreement for the tenant to 

 have every year a certain quantity of wood for 

 fuel ; always excepting that reserved for hop- 

 poles. The exact words are : " evry yere duryng 

 the terme, an acre of wode competent and of the 

 best fewell, excepte Hope tymbre." 



This certainly seems to contradict the assertion 

 that the cultivation of hops was first introduced 

 in 1524 : for we have here great care taken of 

 underwood for the supply of hop-poles as early as 

 1464. L. B. L. 



Queen Anne's Foster Father {and Nurse) (2"'' S. 

 ii. 86. 154. ) — I cannot pretend to unravel the dif- 

 ficulty referred to by your correspondents C. M. B, 

 and A. B. R. : but as the latter doubts the ex- 

 istence of a " Mrs. Buss," and suggests that the 

 name was either a familiar or pet name, and that 

 Mrs. Buss might still be Mrs. Barry, it may throw 

 some light on this point if he is informed that a 

 Roman Catholic family named Buss was for some 

 generations located at Ufton, and not Upton (as 

 stated by R. O. L. (2"'* S. ii. 181.) Some of them 

 were doubtless tenants to the Perkinses of Ufton 

 Court, as I know they were to the succeeding pro- 

 prietors, and they are not yet extinct in the 

 neighbourhood. If any members of the Perkins 

 family were connected with the household of the 

 Duke of York, this would account' for the em- 

 ployment of Mrs. Buss in the capacity of nurse. 



R. W. 



Reading. 



General Epistles (2°^ S. ii. 209.) — From the 

 time of Eusebius seven have been classed toge- 

 ther as catholic or genei'al epistles, namely, those 

 of James, Peter, Jolm, and Jude. fficumenius 

 {Proleg. in Jacob.) treats catholic as equivalent to 

 iyuvKMoi, circular, not being addressed to one per- 

 son, city, or church separately, in which Leontius 



(De Sectis, cap. ii.) concurs. Noesselt has adopted 

 an opinion {Armot. in Jacob.) that it was equiva- 

 lent to uncanonical. Others fancy that they were 

 called catholic because agreeing with the catholic 

 church. The opinion of (Ecumenius and Leon- 

 tius is also that of Clement of Alexandria and 

 Origen. See Davidson's Introd. N. T., iii..296 — 

 302., where the conflicting views of the best 

 critics are discussed as to the more modern use 

 of the term catholic. It is to be observed that 

 the second and third of John, being epistles to 

 private persons, were not styled catholic at first, 

 but "were added to 1 Peter, 1 John, and Jude, 

 when the term catholic seems to have acquired 

 another meaning." 



The Epistle of Peter was not addressed to 

 Gentiles, his mission being confined to the He- 

 brews, some of whom he calls the dispersed so- 

 journing as strangers in Pontus, Galatia, &c. (1 Pet. 

 i. 1.). Compare John vii. 35., where also Hebrews 

 are meant, and not Gentiles. 



In the Gamara to the Babylonian as well as to 

 the Jerusalem Mishnah (Sanhedr. c i.) " the sons 

 of the exile or dispersion of Babylon " are men- 

 tioned, so also " the sons of the dispersion of 

 Media," and " the sons of the dispersion of 

 Greece." These had a chief, through whom of- 

 ficial communications were made with the au- 

 thorities in Jerusalem (Joseph. Ant. xviii. 8., xix. 

 5. 7.), The Arabarchus of Juvenal (i. 130.) was 

 a Nni^J EJ'n, " Prince of the dispersion" at Alex- 

 andria. (Confer. Cicero, Ep. ad Attic, ii. 17.) 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Thomas Simon (2°'' S. ii. 115.) — I am disap- 

 pointed in not finding any notice of Thomas Si- 

 mon in my lists of French refugees. It may, 

 however, be useful to Anon, to know that Pierre, 

 son of Pierre Simon, native of London, was mar- 

 ried to Anne Germain, daughter of the late Gilles 

 Germain of Guernsey, at the Walloon Church in 

 Threadneedle Street, Sept. 12, 1611. At the 

 Savoy French Chapel are the two following 

 matches : 



" Daniel Simon and Ester Ferrant, 1685. 

 Mr. Pierre Simond and Susanne Grotesse de la Buf- 

 fiere, 1725." 



Also: 



" Daniel Simon and Marthe le Page, 1695, at Hunger, 

 ford Chapel." 



"iPhilipe Simon and Anne Jacob, W" of Pasquier Henrie, 

 1610, at the London Walloon Church.".' 



"Pierre Simon and Eliz. Cook, 1705, Southampton 

 French Church." 



J. S. Burn. 



Crooked Naves (2"^ S. i. 158.) — The church 

 of the Holy Trinity at Stratford-upon-Avon is an 

 instance of this peculiarity of structure. A. B. 



Hamilton Terrace. 



