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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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2. Lord's Prayer, but no Lamentation. 



In Oxford, 1834, we have none for Holy Com- 

 munion ; no Lamentation ; both Morning and 

 Evening Hymns. 



Cambridge, 1835, one for Sacrament ; no La- 

 mentation ; both Morning and Evening Hymns. 



In Oxford, 1837, we have three Hymns for 

 Holy Communion and two Lamentations. 



In Oxford, 1843, we have four hymns for Holy 

 Communion ; three for Easter ; one Lamentation, 

 and Morning and Evening Hymns. J. C. J. 



German Concordance (2""^ S. ii. 432.) — There 

 is a German concordance under the following 

 title : 



" Gottfr. BUchner's biblische Real- und Verbal-Hand- 

 Concordanz, oder exegetisch-homiletisches Lexicon. (8th 

 edition, edited by H. L. Huebner, 8vo., Halle, 1850.) 

 Price 12s." 



W. AND P. 



Nicknames of American States (2°'* S. ii. 309.) — 



New York is the Empire State. >^ 



Massachusetts, the Bay State, Steady Habits. 



Rhode Island, Banners State, or Green Mountain ^ 



Boys ; called also Little Rhody. $ !-3 



Vermont, Plantation. 

 New Hampshire, the Granite State. 

 Connecticut, Freestone State. 



Maine, Lumber State. -* * 



Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. 

 New Jersey, the Jersey (pronounced Jarsey) Blues. 

 Maryland, Monumental. 

 Virginia, the Old Dominion. 

 North Carolina, Rip Van Winkle. 

 South Carolina, the Palmetto State. 

 Delaware, Little Delaware. 

 Georgia, Pine State. 

 Ohio, the Buckeyes. 

 Kentucky, the Corn Crackers. 

 Alabama, Alabama. 



Tennessee, the Lion's Den or Red Horses. 

 Missouri, the Purkes or Pukes. 

 Illinois, the Suckers. 

 Indiana, the Hoosiers. 

 Michigan, the Wolverines. 

 Arkansas, the Toothpickers, and the Bear State. 

 Louisiana, the Creole State. 

 Mississippi, the Border Beagles, or Swellerheads. 

 Wisconsin, the Badgers. 



St. John Crookes. 

 Sunderland. 



Letter to Lord Monteagle (2°"* S. ii. 248. 314. 

 415.) — Since my communication on this subject, 

 I have been informed, from the best authority, 

 that the incised slab on Lady Selby's monument, 

 at Ightham, is an exact copy of a contempora- 

 neous engraving in the British Museum. Query, 

 Was that engraving taken from a design of Lady 

 Selby's, and therefore recopied on her monument, 

 to commemorate her skill as a designer ? The 

 words, " whose art disclosed," in the inscription, 

 might readily be applied to this fact ; or did she 

 work in tapestry a copy of the engraving ? Per- 

 haps it is hardly worth a Query, but the very 



questionable theory having been raised, that she 

 wrote the mysterious letter to Lord Monteagle, it 

 is as well to trace out the whole history of this 

 representation on the monument. L. B. L. 



The Boomerang (2"'* S. ii. 407.) — I was some- 

 what startled at the minor Note on this subject ; 

 but after some trouble found the passage in Pliny 

 refei-red to, which is in book xxiv. chap, xiii., and 

 not Ixxii., as stated in this minor Note. The 

 words "ipsum per sese cubitu proprius adlabi," 

 can never be rendered " will fall back again to- 

 ward the thrower," of its own accord. Adlabi is 

 to glide foriaards, or to the object aimed at ; and 

 this is clear from the word " etiamsi," although the 

 stick thrown fell short of its object from want of 

 strength of the thrower. Holland rightly trans- 

 lates the passage as follows : 



" Also that a staff made thereof, if a man do fling it at 

 any beast whatsoever, although it chance to light short for 

 default of strength in his arms who flung it, will not- 

 withstanding etch forward, and roll from the place where 

 it fell upon the earth, and approach near to the beast 

 aforesaid : of so admirable a nature is this holly tree." 



T. P. 

 •Clifton. 



Durham College (2°"^ S. ii. 412.) — The charter 

 for Cromwell's College at Durham is printed 

 (from Baker's MS., xiii. 259—268.) in Grey's 

 Examination of NeaVs Fourth Volume (Lond. 

 1739), Append. No. 67. pp. 111. seq. See also 

 Ibid. No. 66. p. 109. ; Peck's Historical Pieces, 

 p. 60. ; Baker's MSS., xxv. 218., xxviii. 445., 

 xxxviii. 432. ; Aubrey's Lives, p. 560. ; Calamy's 

 Account, ^c. (2nd ed.), p. 754. Some of these 

 references, with others, are to be found in Mr. 

 Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. iii. p. 473. 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Mankind and their Destroyers (2""* S. ii. 280. 

 459.) — The fact on which the profound remarks 

 of " Professor Thomas Cooper, of Charles Town," 

 wherever that may be, and of the author of Cha- 

 racteristics is based, is one that any man with a grain 

 of talent for observation must have had forced upon 

 him : so that to say Mr. A. B. or C. was the first 

 to remark it, only means that the annotator first 

 noticed it in the pages of such or such a writer. 

 Bishop Butler, in his Analogy, instances the fact 

 of the sun always rising in the east ; but I should 

 be afraid to say that this was an original observ- 

 ation of his. However, to carry back the research 

 a generation before " the author of the Character- 

 istics," and several before the days of " Professor 

 Thomas Cooper," we find Jeremy Taylor, in his 

 sermon for Sir George Dalstone, saying truly, but 

 without I imagine any great claim to originality : 



" In this world men thrive by villany, and lying and 

 deceiving is accounted just; and to be rich is to be wise, 

 and tyranny is honorable ; and though little thefts and 



