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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. No 52., Dec. 27. '56. 



95, Bedingfield, A, B ; Gibson, C. 



96, Shields, A ; Shiel, C. 

 114, Bedingfield, B.; Shid, Q. 

 142, Tubb, A ; Rivers, C. 



Tlie following names are also supplied : 60, 

 .Gibson ; 61, poulkes ; 70, Bissett ; 126, 'I'ftyleur ; 

 144, Wileocks ; 148, Nash. 



I hav.e no doubt, that the Tubb of A, is the 

 Jubb of B and C, elected to Oxford from West- 

 minste*', IT^^o ; as also Shields of A is the Shiel 

 of C, elected 1741 with Inipey and Markham. I 

 cannot verify the name 135, Varnan, in any way, 

 either in the Alumni Westmonasterieusis, or in the 

 List of Oxford Graduates: it may be a ijiistake for 

 Amyand, elected 1736. B.M- C. 



'gCHJP JUMPING DANCE, FEC 

 (2"'i S, ii. 188.) 



Evans, in bis Sk^ch of the Denominations of the 

 Christian World (15th ed,, 1827), gives an ac- 

 count of a somewhat sinj^ular sect caMed the 

 " Jumpers." I am not certain that any of this 

 fraternity now exist in England. The author of 

 the work named was present at one of the 

 " Jumpers' " meetings, which was held in the open 

 air, near Newport, in 1785. The preacher con- 

 cluded his sermon with the recommendation of 

 jumping, and immediately got down from his 

 chair, and commenced, with many others, jump- 

 ing with frantic fury for the space of three hours, 

 after which the meeting terminated. 



As an additional instance of jumping as an ac- 

 companiment of religious worship, 1 may mention 

 that it is a common practice among the congre- 

 gations of coloured Methodists in New York, and 

 other parts of the United States. Being told of 

 this practice, I attended one of their meetings in 

 New York in 1850. During the sermon much 

 excitement prevailed, and loud shouts arose at 

 intervals from all parts of the building. The 

 sermon ended, one of the usual tunes was sung, 

 accompanied, almost universally, with stamping of 

 the feet, keeping tolerably good time with the 

 measure of the strain. After a prayer, which 

 could hardly be heard amid the surrounding con- 

 fusion, a short interval of silence followed. Then 

 I was somewhat startled by seeing a venerable 

 " coloured sister," in one of the front pews, jump- 

 ing up and down with great rajndity for some 

 minutes. Shortly after, Oimid loud stamping of 

 the feet, I distinctly saw faer jump over the front 

 of the pew, and commencing from the pew she had 

 left, she made a series of trenofindous jumps up 

 and down the aisle, shouting the w'hole time with 

 a loud voice, and presenting a spectacle which I 

 shall not easily forget. She was soon joined by 

 otliers, and not knowing what might be the next 



part of the programme, I made a rapid exit, feel- 

 ing, when fairly outside, not a little thankful to 

 have effected my escape. I may add that it is a 

 well-known fact that at the same chapel I refer to, 

 during their revival meetuiffs, these zealous wor- 

 shippers oftein protract their services from 8 p.m. 

 to 7 or 8 o'clock next morning, singing, shouting, 

 \}VAy\\\g, jumping, &c., the whole time. 



Much curious information as to the connection 

 between the jum[)ing processions existing on the 

 Continent and the Dance of Death, may be found 

 in F. Donee's valuable Dissertation, ^c., on the 

 Dance of Death, 8vo., London, 1833, Pickering. 



Vox. 



The dance of the Jumpers, like the comic 

 dances and comic festivals of the Church, is the 

 corruption of that which is found in Hi>ly Writ. 

 Two kinds of dances are distinctly pointed out in 

 the Bible, the Worship Dance and the Phallus 

 Dance. The first is described in Exodus, ,ch. xv. 

 v. 20. Miriam the conductor takes a tambourine, 

 and so also all the women, and danc^ whilst 

 Moses and the Children of Israel answer them in 

 song. The second in Exodus, ch. xxxii. vv. 18. 

 25. : Moses, drawing near the camp, hears the 

 noise of singing, sees the bull, and the dancing ; 

 and the people were jiaked, for Aaron had made 

 them naked to their shame. In the Psalms al- 

 lusion is repeatedly made to the Church dance, 

 and in the Prophecies to the Phallus dance. In 

 2 Sam. c. vi. it is written that David girded him- 

 self with a linen ephod, and danced with all his 

 might before the Lord. This Michal, his wife, 

 chose to mis-describe, for which she suffered the 

 penalty, taunting him with being uncovered, as 

 one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth 

 himself. Those who now dance in worship found 

 their practice on the promises for the restoration 

 of ihe reMgious dance, H. J. Ga.umti,ett. 



*RU>EAUX FAMIX,Y. 



(2«^'S.ii. 468.) 



Preaux., Prideaux^ and Pratellis, may be synon. 

 From pratum, a meadow (Sp. prddo, G. pratei'), 

 dimin. pratulum, is Low Lat. pratellum, whence 

 De Pratellis ; from pratellum, by contrac. prateau, 

 and then preleau, pi. pi'eteav/x, may come Priteaux 

 and Prideaux.; and from pi-eteau, preteaux, by 

 contrac. preau, preaux (little meadows), Preaux, 

 also pre. If Preus refers to the same family, it 

 may be a corruption of PrSaux ; if otherwise, it 

 might come from Preux (from p-ohus^, courageous, 

 brave : " Les neuf preux,;" " Preux chevalier et 

 fenne-catholique;" "Les douze preux de Charle- 

 magne." {Hist. Fab.) If one of the Prideaux 

 family had be^en in the Holy Wars, it might ac- 



