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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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this month's Fraser (p. 448.), by the writer of 

 an infrenious paper " On Shakspeare and his 

 County;" and the other in the hist Edinburgh 

 Review, by the castigator of the author of " Per- 

 version." 



Dr. Hyde Clarke has the word in his copious 

 little Dictionary. Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



Howe, Serjeant at- Latv (2"'* S. ii. 308.) — Allow 

 me to refer Tee Bee to Dugdale's Chronica 

 Series at the end of his Origines Juridiciales, and 

 to Wynne's Serjeanl-at-Laiv, for lists of the Ser- 

 jeants of the time of Henry VIH. There he will 

 find that John Roe was called Serjeant in the se- 

 cond year of that reign, 1510 ; and that no other 

 of the name received the degree of the coif during 

 its continuance. The Serjeant's arguments in 

 court are reported in the Year Booh, and by Dyer 

 as late as the thirty- second year, 1540. His name 

 is variously spelled in the Reports. 



This is the John Roo, of whom it is narrated 

 that having composed a "disguisyng" in his 

 youth, it was performed twenty years after, in 

 Christinas, 1526, at Gray's Inn ; and that, from its 

 supposed political tendency, it gave such offence 

 to Cardinal Wolsey, that he sent the author to 

 the Fleet Prison, and deprived him of his coif, 

 and rebuked and threatened the young gentlemen 

 who acted in it. By means of friends, however, 

 the cardinal was at last appeased, and the Ser- 

 jeant, being delivered from his incarceration, was 

 restored to his legal honours. See Hall's Chro- 

 nicle (1809), p. 719. Edward Foss. 



Burial in Unconsecrated Ground (P' S. v. 320. 

 &c.) — I enclose a newspaper cutting, which I 

 have just lighted upon, and cannot find that any 

 of your correspondents on this subject have 

 hitherto noticed this peculiarly remarkable case. 



" The following eccentric directions for his funeral are 

 contained in the will of the late Sir Charles Hastings, 

 Bart., who died in 1823: 'I desire my body may be 

 opened after my death, and buried without a coffin, upon 

 the Grove Hill, on a spot marked by me, wrapped up in 

 either woollen or oil-cloth, or any such perishable ma- 

 terials as will keep my body together until deposited in 

 my grave by six of my most deserving poorest labourers, 

 to whom one pound each will be given, free from the 

 legacj' tax. And several acorns to be planted over my 

 grave, that one good tree may be chosen and preserved, 

 and that I may have the satisfaction of knowing that 

 after my death my body may not be quite useless, but 

 serve to rear a good English oak. The tree to be weeded 

 and watered by the established gardener, who must every 

 now and then be rewarded by a trifle.' " 



C. W. Bingham. 



Aneroid (2°'* S. i. 114.) — This word, I believe, 

 is derived from &vev, " without," and ^eto, " to flow :" 

 because the instrument acts by the agency of 

 springs, and not of fluids, — such as spirits of wine 

 or mercury. Henbt T. Riley. 



Priests' Hiding-places (2"* S. i. 488., &c.) — 

 Two small chambers of this description were dis- 

 covered a few years since in the roof of Har- 

 boi'ough Hall, a very interesting half-timber 

 house midway between Hagley and Kidderminster. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



Sir Guy the Seeker (2°'^ S. ii. 289.) — This poem, 

 written by M. G. Lewis, was first published in his 

 Romantic Tales, 4 vols. 1808. It is reprinted in 

 Richardson's Local Historian's Table Book, Le- 

 gendary Division, vol. ii. I have a spare copy of 

 it printed separate, which I shall be glad to send 

 to R. G. if he will favour me with his address. 



Wm. Dodd. 



5. Bigg Market, Newcastle. 



Horse-talk (2"* S. i. 335. 395. 439.) — I am 

 told that the Dutch boor at the Cape, after loading 

 his beast with all sorts of epithets and terms of 

 reproach, usually finishes off by calling him an 

 Arminian ! — a curious instance of the extent to 

 which the odium theologicum may be allowed to 

 proceed. E. H. A. 



Bow or Bay Windows (2"* S. ii. 174.) — The 

 MS. you refer to contains a notice of other bay 

 windows in Henry VII.'s palace at Richmond. 

 For instance, the king's chambers are described 

 as — 



" Enhaunged all thre w'' riche and costely clothes of 

 Arras ; celyd, whightlymyd, and chekeryd, as the closet 

 was before discryvyd w' their goodly bay windowes 

 glasid set out." 



There is an error in your quotation ; the ori- 

 ginal speaks of " riche and goodly plate of gold 

 and of silver and gilte," not " regllte." 



I may add that the whole MS. is printed in the 

 second volume of the Antiquarian Repertory ; but 

 the quotations now made have been compared by 

 me (by the kind permission of one of the officers) 

 with the original MS. (1st M. 13. fo. 64 B.) in the 

 College of Arms. W. C. 



Richmond. 



How to frighten Dogs (2""* S. ii. 278.) — The 

 sudden adoption of some unusual or grotesque 

 attitude will often succeed in frightening dogs as 

 well as other fierce animals. Waterton relates his 

 own marvellous escape from a herd of buffaloes in 

 South America by an expedient of this kind. A 

 man still living related to me an adventure of his 

 own, which may be useful to know. He had to 

 cross a narrow bridge, and a savage dog appeared 

 at the other end, whom it seemed impossible to 

 escape. With great presence of mind he fixed 

 his eye steadily upon the dog, and gradually 

 lowered his head and shortened his figure by 

 crouching down low with his hands on his knees. 

 The dog stood still, and seemed astonished, whe« 

 the man began stamping hard with his feet, and in 



