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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<is. NooO., Dec. 13. '56. 



The locality is well known in Monmouthshire, 

 seven miles S. W. from Chepstow, between the 

 Magor turnpike-road and the S.W.R., from both 

 of which Rogiet and Llanvihangel Eogiet ad- 

 jacent are conspicuous objects. 



Powel's Historie of Cambria, 1584, p. 133., gives 

 his deduction of the Gama^es of "Kogiade,"_ and 

 tlie mode in which he considers an early alliance 

 with Turbervile to have brought to the Gamages 

 their later and best estate of Coity, after interme- 

 diate extinction of the male descendants of Berk- 

 ralles, Stackpole, and De La Bere. 



A reference to the Inq. p. m. will explain the 

 Gamage property and tenure at Rogiet. As to 

 their early position, I find in a bond for twenty 

 marks, dated 10th Jan. 26 Hen. VI., three bonds- 

 men, Morgan ap Jenkin of Langeston, William 

 Walche of Lanwaren, Esquires, and Gilbert Ga- 

 mage of Roggiet, Gentilman, 



At Llanvihangel Rogiet a north chancel was 

 taken down about twenty years ago, and among 

 the ruins were found fine recumbent figures of a 

 knight in chain armour, and of a lady, on separate 

 slabs, both of which remain in the church. An 

 imperfect inscription, metrical, and in Longo- 

 bardic characters, runs round the border of the 

 Intter, and is believed not to have been previously 

 deciphered, — 



" ^ ANN IRTEL CI 



DEV . DE . SA . ALME . EYT . MERCI . 

 (KI?) PATER . ET . AVE . P . LI . DIRRA . 

 DE . PARDON . XL . JVRS . AVERA. AMEN." 



The (ki ?) necessary for the sense, seems to have 

 been blundered by the stonecutter. The limits of 

 " N. & Q." forbid conjectural remarks. 



Geo. Okmerod. 

 Sedbury Park. 



Authorised Versions of the liehrew Scriptures 

 (2"'^ S. ii. 429.) — The unpointed synagogue copies 

 are the only authorities admitted by the Jews ; 

 nevertheless they circulate the Pentateuch and 

 extracts from other parts of the Old Testament 

 and prayers, in the pointed Hebrew, with the 

 Chaldee version of Onkelos and the Talmudical 

 Hebrew Commentary of Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 

 Jarchi, called by abbreviation Rashi. To these 

 are sometimes added a German version printed in 

 the Hebrew character ; one held in much esteem 

 is that of the Jewish Plato, Moses Mendelssohn 

 (five vols., Berol. 1783), including the various 

 readings (D*"IQ1D J^pfl), and an additional com- 

 mentary (11X3). A similar work was published 

 at Offenbach in 1803, in five volumes 8vo., com- 

 prising nearly 2000 pages of text, version, and 

 commentary ; the translation in German being by 

 several persons taking separate portions of the 

 text. The only Hebrew Bible bearing any re- 

 semblance to the New Testaments of IBloomfield 

 or Alford, is a selection from the various readings 



of Kennicott and Bruns (1776-80), and De Rossi 

 (1784-8), by Doederlein and Meissner (1818). 

 But the system of recensions and criticism of the 

 Hebrew text commenced with the Jews after the 

 times of Ezra and Nehemiah, and prior to the 

 compilation of the Talmud ; the result of which is 

 comprised In the Masorah, and an account of it 

 may be seen in the Tiberias of Buxtorff (1620). 

 In the Introduction to the Old Testament by 

 Eichhorn (vol. i. § 115 — 127.), an admirable re- 

 sume of the Jewish critical labours Is given, and 

 the necessary authorities are specified with exact- 

 ness. Italian and Spanish versions, I believe, 

 also circulate amongst the Jews, but of these I 

 cannot speak from personal examination. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Liturgical Queries (2""i S. Ii. 309.) — 1. The 

 omission of the verse "Dissolve litis vincula" is not 

 peculiar to the English uses. I do not recollect 

 having seen it in any early copy, but in this I may 

 be wrong. In six copies of It which I have just 

 looked out among my books it is Avanting, viz. 



(1.) In an English Horce B. V. (use uncertain). 



(2.) In York HorcB. 



(3.) In Breviar. Sec. Consuet. Curcm Romance, 

 1494. 



(4.) MS. Breviar. Fratrum minor., fifteenth 

 century. 



(5.) Officium B. Virg. Plantin, circ. 1620. 



(6.) Breviarium Ordinis Pradicatorum, Paris, 

 1719. 



I fancy that the omission is more common than 

 otherwise. 



2. " Praise God from whom all blessings flow " 

 was printed as Bishop Ken's, in the Manual for 

 the Winchester Scholars; my copy, however, is 

 only of 1740, and so not conclusive ; there is, how- 

 ever, this additional proof, it was first put only at 

 the end of Bishop Ken's " Morning Hymn " in our 

 Prayer Book, and not among the Doxologies, as it 

 is now, and It never occurred before this hymn 

 was inserted. 



3. The " Morning Hymn " was inserted, I 

 imagine, first; for in a Prayer-book of 1801 and 

 1817, London, Nichols, King's Printer, there Is 

 the Morning Hymn, but not the Evening. In 

 another of 1833, they both occur, and probably 

 before this date. 



4. Several of the hymns at the end of the 

 metrical version have been added quite recently 

 (as well as alterations being made in other parts 

 of the Metrical Psalms, &c.). 



In the edit., London, 1763, we have none of 

 the four hymns for Holy Communion, but one 

 beginning " The Lord be thanked for his gifts." 

 There are also two Lamentations. 



In 1801, London, we have — 



1. Sacramental Hymn — The Morning Hymn. 



