Aug. 4. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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proves that Henry Goring of Kingston, who died 

 1642, was not the son of George Goring by Ann 

 Denny, for it expressly states that he was son of 

 Henry Goring of Horsham, by Elizabeth his wife ; 

 and a close attention to dates will show that 

 Henry Goring of Horsham could not have been a 

 son of George Goring by Ann Denny, through 

 whom the royal descent is obtained. 



It would add much to the value and credence 

 of such published descents if the authorities and 

 evidence were cited in the margin, for the state- 

 ment referred to is not supported by any previous 

 writers ; and since in genealogy " rien n'est beau 

 que le vrai," such errors only produce ridicule, 

 and at the same time inflict injury upon ancient 

 families. K.. A. G. 



Renown (Vol. xii., p. 9.). — R. Y. T. will find 

 the lines he wants in an admirable poem of Win- 

 throp Mackworth Praed. Unfortunately his ex- 

 cellent poems seem never to have been collected 

 in England ; but there is a small 8vo. volume 

 published in Boston, U. S. A. Many of the poems, 

 charades, &c. (and probably the above), reappeared 

 in the two volumes of the new series of the Penny 

 Magazine, which may be bought on any book- 

 stall. Is it necessary to say that Praed was a 

 coadjutor of Charles Knight, and Macaulay, and 

 others in Knight's Quarterly Magazine f Estb. 

 '^ Birmingham. 



Intercepted Letter of Father PatricKs (Vol. xi., 

 p. 477.). — Is not this letter a mere fabrication, 

 intended to excite prejudice against the Young 

 Pretender ? His devotion to the Virgin and St. 

 Winifred, the medal with the Pope's toe, and the 

 cap of liberty fallen of, the ardour of the poor 

 prince to cram his new supporters with polemics, 

 the point about resuming church lands and kin- 

 dling Smithfield fires, &c., savour too strongly of 

 the political squib to have come from any pen 

 but that of some unscrupulous Hanoverian. A 

 joke it cannot be called, for it was meant to do the 

 Jacobites a serious mischief; but surely it must 

 be a hoax played off to alarm the Protestants and 

 excite a horror of the Stuarts. The English 

 seems very modern for 1745. P. P. 



Vesica Piscis (Vol. xii., p. 29.). — Although 

 unable to inform J. C. J. when this pointed oval 

 yjdiS first adopted, I can nevertheless assure him 

 that its use was much earlier than the tenth cen- 

 tury, as it was the form of the seal of Wimburne 

 Monastery, founded by Cuthburga, sister of Ina, 

 king of Wessex, at the beginning of the eighth 

 century. " C. Hook. 



Ebrardus and Johannes de Garlandia (Vol. xi., 

 p. 486.). — My copy of Bates has p. 1. dirty, as if 

 it had once been exposed, while the title and de- 

 dication are on paper of a somewhat different 



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tint. Probably part of the edition has a reprinted 

 title and dedication. The lives have lists of works 

 of a very good character for the time. 



The Modus Laiinitatis of Ebrardus was printed 

 at least twenty-one times before 1500. But who 

 Ebrardus was I do not know. 



Of John Garland it seems plain, by comparing 

 Roger Bacon, Bale, Tanner, Wright {Anglo- 

 Norman Period, p. 16. ; see also Comp. Aim., 1846, 

 p. 13.), that Gerland, of the eleventh century, was 

 an astronomer and calendar computer ; and that 

 Garland, the cotemporary of Roger Bacon, who 

 heard him blow up right and left (vituperavit 

 omnes) as to whether it should be orichalcum or 

 aurichalcum, was the grammarian. But the two 

 are very often confounded. There were several 

 works of Garland, which were often printed in the 

 fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Tiie most 

 celebrated were the Liber synonymorum and the 

 Equivocorum interpretatio. 



The first work was latterly always accompanied 

 by the exposition of Galfridus Anglicus. The 

 following is a specimen, the poetry being Garland, 

 and the prose Galfridus : 



" Ambulo vel gradior, eo, vado, de ambulo, pergo, 

 Additur his spacior, vel itinero, vel proficiscor, 

 Predictis junge tendo, cum curro, movere." 



" Hie docet autor quod omnia ista verba que hie po- 

 nuntur sunt ejusdem significationis cum hoc verbo 

 ambulo. Ambulo-as-avi-are quod est verbum neutrum. 

 J? 



The Liber equivocorum has also a comment by 

 some other hand, which generally gives the differ- 

 ent English meanings. The following is a spe- 

 cimen : ■ . ,,^^ !Ti{ 

 " Glis animal, glis terra tenax, glis lapa vocatuj:,, > > 

 Ris animal, sis terra tenax, tis lapa vocatur ,^^{^ 

 Hie animal, hec terra tenax, hec lapa vocatur." 



" Autor hie docet equivocationem istius dictionis glis. 

 . . . . Nam glis est quoddam animal (anglice a dor- 

 mouse) .... Item glis est terra tenax (anglice 

 clave) .... Item glis est lappa . . . (anglice 

 a burre) . . . Quando est animal facit gliris in 

 genitivo " 



These writers are now rather distant than ob- 

 scure ; any one who walks back into their cen- 

 turies is sure to meet with them. 



A. De MoEGAif. 



Lines on gigantic Coal (Vol. xi., p. 465.). — The 

 author of verses on the above subject was the 

 late Paul Moon James, Esq., of Manchester. 

 They are entitled, " King Coal at the Great- 

 Exhibition," and are printed (p. 201.) in an un- 

 published collection of his poems, Manchester, 

 1853. C. L. B. 



Kendal. 



Cratch: Cafs Cradle (Vol. xi., p. 421.).— If 

 my memory serves me right, the " cat's cradle," 

 though giving a name to the game, was one of 



