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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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But it seemeth they are taken after several manners ; For 

 Coffa and Opium are takfen down ; Tobacco but in Smoake; 

 And Betell is but champed in the Mouth, with a little 

 Lime. It is like there are more of them, if they were well 

 found out, and well corrected. Qucere o{ Henbane- Seed ; 

 of Mandrake; of Saffron, Root and Flower; of Folium 

 Indium; of Amberc/rice ; of the Assyrian Amonum, if it 

 may be had ; and of the Scarlet Powder, which thej' call 

 Kertnez ; ^a-nA (generally) of all such Things, as do in- 

 ebriate and provoke Sleep. Note that Tobacco is not 

 taken in Root, or Seed, which are more forcible ever than 

 Leaves." — Century viii. 738., edit. 1G58, p. 155. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 

 Mankind and their Destroyers (2"^ S. ii. 280.) — 



"Mankind pay best, 1. Those -who destroy them, 

 heroes and warriors. 2. Those who cheat them, states- 

 men, priests, and quacks. 3. Those who amuse them, as 

 singers, actors, dancers, and novel writers. But least of 

 all those who speak truth, and instruct them." 



Your correspondent will find this in the works of 

 Professor Thomas Cooper, of Charles Town. The 

 passage has been attributed, but incorrectly, to 

 the author of the Characteristics. 



Horace St. John. 



The passage relating to the creation and de- 

 struction of man, referred to by Mr. William 

 Bates (2°'* S. ii. 280.), and queried by him as a 

 saying of Franklin, is in reality a quotation from 

 IVistram Shavdy, vol. ix. chap, xxxiii. 



John Bookeh. 



Rose Leaves (2"'^ S. ii. 387.) — I believe that 

 the oriental process of making these beads consists , 

 in pounding the petals of the flowers in an iron 

 mortar, which gives the paste its black colour. 

 After being rolled or moulded into a spherical 

 form, the beads are dried, perforated with a red- 

 hot wire, and finally perfumed by being rubbed 

 with a little attar of rose. 



W. J. Bernhabd Smith. 



Temple. 



^^ Romance of the Pyrenees" (1" S. xi. 105.) — 

 The Romance of the Pyrenees, inquired after by 

 your coi'respondent Uneda, was written by Miss 

 Cuthbertson, author of Adelaide, and other ro- 

 mances. R. Inglis. 



" aieck " or " Cheque " (2"'' S. ii. 19. 377.) — I 

 must altogether differ from your correspondents 

 on this question. My experience, which is ample 

 for the decision of the point, is dead against them. 

 1 have found cheque almost universally used. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Precentor of the Province of Canterhury (2'"^ S. 

 ii. 389.) — In Palmer's Origines Liturgicce, edit. 

 1845, vol. i. p. 187., it is stated that, — 



" The ' Use ' or custom of Sarum derives its origin from 

 Osmund, bishop of that see in a.d. 1078. We are in- 

 formed that he built a new cathedral, collected together 

 clergy, distinguished as well for learning as for knowledge 

 of chanting ; and composed a book for the regulation of 



ecclesiastical offices, which was entitled the ' custom ' 

 book. The substance of this was probably incorporated 

 into the Missal and other ritual books of Sarum, and ere 

 long almost the whole of England, Wales, and Ireland, 

 adopted it. When the Archbishop of Canterbury cele- 

 brated the liturgy in the presence of the bishops of hia 

 province, the Bishop of Salisbury (probably in conse- 

 quence of the general adoption of the ' Use ' of Sarum) 

 acted as Precentor of the College of Bishops, a title which 

 he still retains." 



G. W. N. 



The Hollies, Wilmslow. 



Lollard (2"'' S. ii. 329.) — The Rev. J. Blunt, 

 in his Sketch of the Reformation in England, says 

 that the name Lollard was probably given to the 

 sect as being tares, lolium, amongst the wheat ; 

 and he quotes a passage from Eusebius, which 

 proves that heretics were spoken of as tares at 

 an early age : 



" fifaviwv SiKrfv \viJ.aivoiJi.evo>v Tov tlXiKpivri T^s aTro(TTo\iKrji 



SiSa.(rKa\Cas inopov." — Hist. Eccles. iv. c. 24. p. 187. 



F. M. Middxeton. 



Ellastone, Staffordshire. 



Imp used for Progeny (2""^ S. ii. 238.) — It ap- 

 pears to me not at all improbable that this word 

 was used (pedantically at first) in the times of 

 Elizabeth and James I., not with reference to its 

 Saxon origin, but as an abbreviation of the Latin 

 word impubes, " one who has not arrived at pu- 

 berty." Henry T. Riley. 



Clandestine Opening of Letters (2"^ S. ii. 47.) 

 — The late Ralph Allen, Esq. (the Squire All- 

 worthy of Tom Jones), founder of Prior Park, 

 owed his fortune to opening letters in the Bath 

 post-office, in which he was employed. These 

 letters gave an account of a conspiracy in favour 

 of the Pretender in the west of England. 



O. C. P. 



Marriage, its first Solemnisation in the Church 

 (2"« S. ii. 387.) — The decree of Pope Innocent 

 III., or rather of the Great Council of Latcran 

 convoked by that pope in 1215, regarded only the 

 universal publication of banns, which were already 

 in use in several countries. But it had always 

 been the custom to solemnise marriage before a 

 priest and receive from him the nuptial benedic- 

 tion. This is proved by reference even to the 

 early Fathers, as may be seen in the work of 

 Benedict XIV., De Synodo, lib. 8. It may sufiice 

 here to quote the words of St. Synesius, Bishop of 

 Ptolemais in the fifth century : 



" Fidelium nuptias palam in ecclesia fuisse semper ab 

 episcopo aut presbytero benedictas et sanctificatas." 



F. C. H. 



Furious Cocks (2""^ S. ii. 411.) — "Was not 

 Boileau said to have had injuries inflicted on him 

 by a turkey cock, when a child, that rendered him 

 incapable of becoming a husband ? T. X. R. 



