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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of your readers may be able to furnish me with 

 notices of some others, which I shall be happy to 

 receive. The period of their services I should wish 

 to be during the reign of Geo. III., the armes of 

 service which they followed those which may be 

 styled pro oris et focis, the Militia, Fencible Ca- 

 valry, &c., which were raised for the defence of 

 Great Britain or Ireland, and whose duties termi- 

 nated with the duration of the wars then pending. 

 Of the examples with which I am acquainted, I 

 may produce, in the first place, Edward Gibbon, 

 who was a captain in the South Hants Militia, 

 commanded by Sir Thomas Worsley, Bart. From 

 the engravings we have of Gibbon, he seems to 

 have had but little of the military air or appearance, 

 nor do the duties of an officer seem to have been 

 quite congenial with his ideas, and he quotes Cicero 

 to that effect.* Secondly, I may mention Francis 

 Grose, the distinguished antiquary, who was for 

 many years captain and adjutant of the first 

 Surrey Militia, and I leave your readers to judge 

 of his military figure by the excellent portrait of 

 him by Bartolozzi, in vol. i. of Antiquities of Eng- 

 land, Lond., 1773. The last example which I shall 

 adduce is that of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 

 Bart, (and that I may not derogate from his titles, 

 he used to sign himself per legem terras Baron 

 Chandos), who was a most voluminous author, 

 and one of great versatility of talents. He held 

 a troop in the New Romney Fencible Light Dra- 

 goons for three years, 1795 — 1797. *. 

 Richmond, Surrey. 



iflfltnor ^titti, 



Salisbury Primer. — There was sold, in Mr, T. 

 Nisbet's Sale Rooms, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, 

 a very fine copy of the Salisbury Prymer, printed 

 in black-letter at Rouen, in 1538, and full of cuts. 

 It came from an old library in Aberdeenshire, 

 and had been in possession of the inheritors of the 

 family estate for upwards of two centuries and a 

 half. It was in the original sheep binding ; but 

 on the sides, on different pieces of leather, the 

 name of the first proprietor had been impressed : 

 "Katherine Campbell" on the one side, and 

 " Contes of Crufurde" on the other. In the Cata- 

 logue, one leaf (fol. 129.) was represented as want- 

 ing. This choice morsel for a bibliomaniac was 

 purchased by Mr. T. G. Stevenson, bookseller, 

 Edinburgh, at the moderate price of 12/. 14*. 66?., 

 for the Lord Lindsay, the AeiV-apparent of the 

 Earl of Craufurd. J. Mt. 



Picture Cleaning. — A curious MS. in my pos- 

 session, in the handwriting of the seventeenth 



* See Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon, by Lord Shef- 

 field, 5 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1814, vol. i. p. 137, and Epistol. 

 of Cicero ad Atticum, lib. v. epist. 15. 



century, being a kind of note-book, and abound- 

 ing in quaint recipes, experiments, and inventions 

 (to some of which the author appends prnbatum 

 est), among others gives the following valuable ! one 

 for cleaning oil-paintings ; which, if not already 

 employed in our National Gallery, might perhaps 

 serve, when that collection again requires scouring : 



" How to refresh and scowr old picturs that are wrought in 

 oyle. 



" Take the picture fro the frae, wipe off the dust very 

 cleane, and lay it levell upon a table, powreing good 

 sharp vineg'' all ov' it ; and theyr let it lye and soake for 

 three or fower howers ; if the vineg'' dry up, then powre 

 on more, continually keepeing it wett. Then take the 

 poud'' of a dry brick, well and finely searsed* (for fear of 

 scraeing f the picture), tyed up in a cours linnen ragg, 

 dip it well in a porrenger of vineg"", and with it rub and 

 scowre your picture very hard, all oV; when you thinke 

 it is cleane, with fair water or a wet clout wash away 

 th^ filth, and when it is well dryed, put it again into the 

 frae, and let it stand in the su for a day or two (for the 

 sun refresheth colours very much), rub it with a dry 

 woollen cloath untill it shine, then hang it up." 



A marginal note tells us : 



" This opposite receit will cause it to looke all most as 

 fresh as when it was new. . . . Some use to wash them 

 in soap, and then oyle or varnish them over, but that is 

 not good becaus the oyle or varnish will turne yellow, 

 and gather dust." 



Cl. Hopper. 



"Ideational," a new Word. — Dr. Carpenter, in 

 the last edition of his Principles of Human Physio- 

 logy (p. 546.), has introduced this word to express 

 a state of consciousness which is excited by cer- 

 tain subjective conditions of the cerebrum, in a 

 manner analogous to that state of consciousness 

 which is excited by a sensation through the in- 

 strumentality of the sensorium. 



Dr. Carpenter quotes Mr. James Mill as his 

 authority for the substantive form of the word, 

 riz. ideation. 



As the adjective form is so appropriate, and 

 expressive, it is to be hoped that it may come to 

 be admitted by psychologists. 



In the mean time, it may be useful to put on 

 record in " N. & Q." the introduction of this new 

 word. W. B. K. 



Sun Dial Motto. — The following I copied from 

 the sun-dial on an old house in Rye. Over the 

 dial : 



Tempus edax rerum." 

 Under it : 



" That solar shadow 

 As it measures life it life resembles too." 



H. E. P. T. 

 Hackney. - 



In Brading churchyard. Isle of Wight, on a sun- 

 dial, fixed to what appears originally to have been 



* Searsed, sifted. 



t Scraeing, scrameing or scraneing, i. e. scratching. 



