2nd s. N" 40., Oct. 4. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Early Illustrated English Versions of Ariosto 

 (2"*^ S. ii. 173.) — The first English translation of 

 Ariosto is that of Sir John Harington, of which 

 the following is the title : — 



" Orlando Furioso in English Heroical "Verse, by John 

 Ilaringto. Imprinted at London, by Richard Field, 

 dwelling in the Black-friers by Ludgate, 1591. Folio, 

 pp. 49G." 



The title is in the middle of a neat frontispiece, 

 well executed, by Coxon ; in which are introduced 

 portraits of Harinoton and Ariosto ; full-length 

 figures of Mars, Venus, and Cupid. There are 

 other ornamental devices, and a portrait of the 

 author's favourite dog, to which an allusion is 

 made in the notes to Book xli. Each book is pre- 

 ceded by a curious engraving, showing the prin- 

 cipal incidents described by the poet at one view. 



It was again " Imprinted at London, by Richard 

 Field, for John Norton and Simon Waterson, 

 1607;" and " now thirdly revised and amended, 

 with the addition of the author's Epigrams : 

 London, printed by G. Miller, for J. Parker, 1634." 

 The frontispiece to the third edition was re-en- 

 graved, and the portraits and figures reversed. 

 The other prints are from the same copper-plates, 

 but have undergone the process of re-touching. 

 Edward F. Rimbault. 



Mortuaries (2"'^ S. ii. 172.) — 



" Mortuaries. — The second best animal was of old paid 

 upon the death of any person to the incumbent, in satis- 

 faction for all tithes designedly or undesignedly sub- 

 tracted by the deceased during his lifetime. But now, by 

 Stat. Hen. VIII. c. 6., no man shall pay a mortuary except 

 he died possessed of goods to the value of ten marks. If 

 he have ten marks, but under 30/., he shall pay 3s. 6c?. ; 

 if above 30/. and under 40/., then 6s. 8d. ; if above 40/. 

 then he shall pay 10s. ; but nowhere more than hath been 

 accustomed." — Johnson's Vade Mecnm, i. 255. [203.] 



I presume mortuaries are seldom claimed, ex- 

 cept where persons die worth 40Z. They are due 

 to the clergyman of the parish where such persons 

 die. I have myself claimed and received them for 

 parishioners who have been burled elsewhere. 



E. h. a. 



Sir Edmund Andros (2"'' S. ii. 209.) — - Ancient 

 family records confirm the truth of the on dit 

 given by Mb. Hopper, in reference to the first 

 Andros, who settled in Guernsey. His Christian 

 name was " John," and he accompanied Sir Peter 

 Meautis thither, in the capacity of his lieutenant, 

 A.D. 1543. 



The said " John," great-grandfather of Sir Ed- 

 mund Andros, figures at the root of the family 

 pedigree as John Andros, or Andrews, born at 

 Northampton. No mention, however, is made of 

 the purticidar family of either of those names from 

 whom this ancestor of the present Guernsey fa- 

 mily descends. The circumstance of its having 

 from time immemorial borne the former name is, 

 doubtless, attributable to the fact that Aftidros is 



better adapted to the pronunciation of the natives 

 of the island than Andrews, the w of which — a 

 stranger to their language — is denied the hospitable 

 privilege of naturalisation. 



A family of the name of Andrews, or Andrew, 

 of Northampton, bears the same arms as those of 

 Andros, or Andrews, of Guernsey, but heretofore, 

 as already stated, of Northampton. But this re- 

 markable coincidence leads to the probability, 

 rather than to the certainty, of the fact that the 

 ancestors of the latter family were originally of 

 the house of the former. C. A. 



" Take a hair of the dog that bit you " (2"'» S. ii. 

 239.) — For the information of 11. W. B. I send 

 the following. As the song is very short I send 

 you the whole of it ; the date of the same may be 

 surmised from its reference to Lilly the astro- 

 loger : 



" If any so wise is that sack he despises. 

 Let him drink his small beer and be sober, 

 And while we drink and sing. As if it were spring. 

 He shall droop like the trees in October. 

 But be sure, over night, if this dog you do bite, 

 You take it henceforth for a warning. 

 Soon as out of your bed, to settle your head, 

 With a hair of his tail in the morning. 



" Then be not .so silly To follow old Lilly, 

 There's nothing but sack that can tune us, 

 Let his Ne assuescas be put in his cap-case, 

 Sing Bibito Vinum Jejtimis. 

 Then if any so wise is, &c." 



Dot. 



It appears that our amusing diarist derived a 

 benefit from this proverbial recipe. Pepys says, 

 under April 3, 1661 : 



" Up among my workmen, my head akeing all day 

 from last night's debauch. At noon dined with Sir W. 

 Batten and Pen, who would have me drink two good 

 draughts of sack to-day, to cure me of my last night's 

 disease, which I thought strange, but I think find it 

 true." 



J. Y. 



" Stunt" (2"'^ S. ii. 237.) — Ray gives the s*ame 

 definition of this word as Halliwell does, and derives 

 It from the A.-S. stunt, which Bosworth explains to 

 mean blunt, stupid, foolish. Ray calls it a Lin- 

 colnshire word. He hints at its derivation from 

 the verb to stand ; and In Lincolnshire anything 

 which seems to have stopped short of its full growth 

 is called stunted or stinted. The proverb, ''''He's as 

 stunt as a burnt 'wong,^' is rendered In the south- 

 eastern division of Lincolnshire " as tough as a 

 burnt wong;" wong {thong') meaning a slip of lea- • 

 ther, generally whit-leather. One of the meanings 

 o{ tough, as given by Webster, is stiff, not flexible; 

 and certainly a leather wong that had been burnt 

 and shrivelled up would be anything but flexible ; 

 it would be stifi", stunt, and obstinate to change. 



PisHET Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



