July 21. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Times prohibiting Marriage (Vol. xi., p. 475,). 

 , —Your correspondent G. R. M. has made a slight 

 error in ascribing the table of prohibited degrees 

 to Archbishop Hutton ; the " Matthew, Lord 

 Archbishop of Canterbury," referred to as having 

 first set forth that table is Archbishop Parker : 



" Abp. Parker, in 1563, compiled a table of the prohibited 

 degrees, which he ordereil to be set up in the churches of 

 his province of Canterbury." (See Dr. Pinnock's Laws 

 and Usages of the Church and Clergy, 12mo., Camb. 1855, 

 p. 748.) 



In the work just cited will be found much valu- 

 able information upon this subject. 



In the register of Wimbish, Essex, occurs the 

 following entry : 



" The Times when Marriages are not usually solemnized. 

 None but Lent and fast-days. 



TAdvent Sunday '\ TS dayes after Epiph. 



Ffrom < Septuagesima > until < 8 dayes after Easter. 

 (Rogation Sunday J (Trinity Sunday. 



The entry is made in a hand of about 1666 (the 

 date of the first entry in this volume) ; the words 

 not and none hut Lent and fast-days are interpo- 

 lated in a later hand ; at the same time the words 

 included in braces were partially crossed out. 



In the same registers is the following quaint 

 entry of a burial : 



« Sept. 29, 1766. 

 John Portnay (a thief and a robber)." 



There are also several other curious entries, of 

 which I may possibly send you a Note. 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



This point is sufficiently elucidated in Bing- 

 ham's Antiquities, b. xxii. c. iv. s. 1. ; Wheatly 

 On Common Prayer (edit. Bohn), pp. 397, 398. ; 

 and Shepherd On Common Prayer (edit. 1828), 

 vol. ii. pp. 337. et seq. In many of our northern 

 parishes, as noticed by Archbishop Sharpe, in a 

 charge delivered so late as 1750, and probably in 

 those of other portions of the kingdom, the ob- 

 servance of the former prohibited times certainly 

 exists at the present day as something more than 

 a bare feeling or remembrance ; for, in the loca- 

 lities indicated, as a sort of restriction I suppose 

 upon marriage in those seasons, or rather perhaps 

 in imitation of the practice of the Church before 

 the Reformation, it is still the recognised and ac- 

 knowledged custom to require double fees for its 

 celebration. This latter fact, however locally ap- 

 plicable, that parties so engaging in matrimony 

 are under the necessity of paying "smart money" 

 for their irregular proceeding, I am sure will 

 serve to convince K. P. D. E. that, in this single 

 instance at any rate, the distance is not so wide 

 as^ he would have us believe between " the Esta- 

 blished Church of England " and that Church to 

 which he would alone appropriate the title of 

 " Catholic." Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



No. 299.] 



Parochial Libraries (Vols. viii. ix. x. passim). 

 — Nathaniel Symonds, Esq., of Great Yarmouth, 

 who died in 1720, bequeathed forty shillings per 

 annum for fifteen years, to be laid out in the pur- 

 chase of religious books, such as the minister of 

 Great Yarmouth should think fit, half for Ormesby 

 St. Margaret, and half for Yarmouth or Burgh. 

 And to several other parishes he gave annuities 

 for the same purpose, to purchase religious books 

 for the poor. Vide Manship's Hist, op Yarmouth 

 {temp. Q. Elizabeth), lately edited by Chas. J. 

 Palmer, Esq., F.S.A., p. 250. No trace, however, 

 of this bequest, I believe, exists. In the parish 

 chest are two folios : Bishop Lake's Sermons and 

 Exposition of the 5\st Psalm, 1629; and Bishop 

 Jewel's Works, which has the following inscription 

 on one of its fly-leaves : " Ormisby S"' Margrate 

 owneth this booke," in a hand of the period of 

 James or Charles I., and this couplet : 



" Audi-mus fur-es quse inea sunt dicito Cur-es, 

 Imus transi-mus gaude-mus nilq. time-mus." 



E. S. Tatloe. 

 Ormesby St. Margaret. 



Arabic Grammar (Vol. xi., p. 323.). — As I 

 have seen no reply to his Query, I may inform 

 P. S. that my Arabic instructor at Cambridge, 

 Hana Araman Effendi, used Duncan Stewart's 

 (8vo., J. W. Parker, 1841) for his pupils, and I 

 have seen no simpler or better one since. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Ormesby St. Margaret. 



^^ Munchhauseii's Travels" (Vol. xi., p. 485.). — In 

 reply to your correspondent H. H. Breen, re- 

 specting the authorship of the Travels and Adven- 

 tures of Baron Munchhausen, I beg to state that 

 the story appeared in this country before Burger 

 published his German version in 1787. If your 

 correspondent will turn to the Gent. Mag. for 

 July, 1786 (p. 590), he will find a notice of the 

 second edition of Gulliver Revived, or, The Singular 

 Travels, Sfc. of Baron Munchhausen, small 8vo., 

 Oxford. H. Syer Cuming. 



" Orts" (Vol. xi., p. 501.). — This good old 

 word is not peculiar to Devonshire ; it is very 

 common in other counties, especially among school- 

 boys — experto credite. And Grose, in his Glos- 

 sary, affirms as much, thus defining the word : 



" Orts, fragments of victuals. Don't make or leave- 

 orts, i. e. Don't leave any fragments on your plate." 



Though not now deemed classical, it was, no 

 doubt, current coin — "verba valent ut nummi" — 

 in Shakspeare's days : 



" The fragments of her faith, orts of her love." 



Troilus and Cressida, Act V. Sc. 2. 



" Some slender ort of his remainder Timon." 



Timon of Athens, Act IV. Sc. 3. 



Charles Hook. 



