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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>d s. No 45., Nov. 8. '56. 



from the pages of our transatlantic brother — Noah 

 Webster. Whatever be the merit or demerit of 

 the deduction, to Webster it wholly belongs. In 

 how many other instances, indeed in how great a 

 portion of the entire work, it may be traced that 

 similar "conveyances," or "liftings," have been 

 perpetrated, I am not prepared to say. Certain 

 I am, in far too many to allow of an excuse under 

 the plea of general acknowledgment. Such ge- 

 neral acknowledgments are in value much on a 

 par with FalstafTs '• Master Shallow, I owe thee a 

 thousand pounds." 



To this same charge the Dictionary of Dr. Craik 

 is equally exposed, and our American brethren, 

 with all lovers of fair play, have just cause for 

 complaint. 



So also we have Latin Dictionaries founded or 

 hased on Fretmd, and no means afforded of dis- 

 cerning for how much of the superstructure the 

 builders are respectively indebted to the same 

 artist. 



Even that fur irifurcifer — Scapula — thought 

 it became him to say : 



"At vero ne thesauri illius, Herculeo sane labore com- 

 positi, autorem bene de Uteris meritum debita laude 

 fraudare, aut me alienis plumis venditare, videar, quid 

 illi acceptum feram, fateri non gravabor." 



And his acknowledgment amounts to this : 

 that whatever things he found more copiously 

 and more accurately set forth in the Thesaurus of 

 Henry Stephens, " ea inde potissimum deprompta 

 meo instituto accommodavi." 



In speaking of Richardson's Dictionary, the 

 writer omits to inform T. H. that in it he will find 

 the very curious historical etymology of our re- 

 nowned countryman, and prince of oriental scho- 

 lars. Sir William Jones. Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



Oldest Australian Colonist (2"^ S. ii. 307.) — 

 This paragraph alludes to Melbourne only, and 

 not to Australia generally. Victoria, of which 

 Melbourne is the capital, was founded but twenty- 

 one years since, and H. Waller might easily be 

 the oldest colonist; but the colonising of Aus- 

 tralia commenced in 1788, or six years before 

 Mr. Waller's birth. Circumnavigator. 



Parish Registers (2"^ S: II. 66. 151. 318.) — On 

 the authority of Mr. Sims's excellent Manual for 

 the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal 

 Professor, Sfc. (Russell Smith, 1856), I am able 

 to Inform E. G. R. that it was ordained — 



" by a constitution made bj' the archbishops and clergy 

 of Giinterbui-y, 25th of October, 1597, that parchment 

 register books should be purchased at the expense of 

 each parish, and that there should be transcribed, at the 

 same parish cost, from the paper books then in use, into 

 the parchment registers, not only the names of those who 

 had been baptized, married, or buried, during the reign 

 of the then Queen (which commenced 1558, a period of 



thirty -nine years prior to the mandate), but also the 

 names of those who thenceforth should be baptized, mar- 

 ried, or buried. Such transcripts to be examined, and 

 their correctness certified at the bottom of each page, by 

 the clergyman and churchwardens. Copies of the regis- 

 ters were to be forwarded annually, within one month of 

 Easter, by the respective churchwardens, to the registrar 

 of the diocese, that they might be faithfully preserved in 

 the episcopal archives. The constitution was approved 

 by the Queen, under the Great Seal of England, and 

 ordered to be observed in both provinces of Canterbury 

 and York."— P. 351. 



Those who are anxious to know how these 

 documents are preserved, and the exorbitant fees 

 charged for consulting them, should read pages 

 357-8. of the above work. As specimens, take 

 the following : 



Lincoln. "The duplicate parish registers are tied up 

 in the parcels in which thej' were sent, bundled into 

 boxes ; and those which have been written on parchment 

 were regularly cut up for binding modern wills." 



Lichfield. " The charge for searching the parish regis- 

 ter returns at Lichfield is six shillings and eight pence 

 for each year." 



K. P. D. E. 



Fowlers of Staffordshire (2°'^ S.ii. 307.) — In 

 answer to Wilfrid, allow me to give the follow- 

 ing extract from Edmondson's Heraldry : 



" Fowler (Thomas, of Staffordshire). Az. on a chev. 

 engr. (another, not engr.), betw. three lions pass. gard. 

 or, as manj' crosses form^e (another, moline,) sab. Crest. 

 A bird ducally gorged or. Another crest. A cubit arm 

 habited az. in the hand prpr. a leure vert, feathered arg., 

 lined or, twisted round the arm." 



Wilfrid will find the lineage in Burke's Landed 

 Gentry, where the arms are given as in Edmond- 

 son, with the crest, "An owl ducally crowned 

 or." Rust. 



Norwich. 



Of St. Thomas, Staffordshire : az. on a chevron 

 or, between 3 lions passant guardant as many 

 crosses formee (another gives crosses moline), 

 sable. Crest, a bird ducally gorged, or ; another 

 crest, a cubit arm habited, azure, holding a lure, 

 vert, feathered, argent, lined, or, twisted round 

 the arm. 



Unless the party can prove a descent from the 

 first grantee he has no right to use the arms. 

 Fowler being a very usual name. P- P. 



Hospital Out-patients (2°'' S. II. 69. 156.) — The 

 days for admission to the Leicester Infirmary are 

 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The popula- 

 tion of Leicester is about 67,000. 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Fagot : Ficatum, 8fc. (2"'^ S. i. 236.) — Your 

 correspondent says : " I know of no instance of i 

 and a being confounded in etymology." I can 

 1^11 him of one, very similar to the instance under 

 consideration. The common people, in the in- 

 terior of Lancashire, to this day, call a "fig-pie" 

 a " fag-pie." , Henry T. Riley. 



