July 21.1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of Pennsylvania. Probably the name is a corrup- 

 tion of the German Eyster. 



William Henry Hiss is a chairmaker in Balti- 

 more. 



Samuel Pother, of New York, cautioned his 

 fellow citizens in 1835 against two quack dentists 

 (the Brothers Crawcour), who had plugged some 

 of his teeth with their " Eoyal Mineral Succeda- 

 neum," and given him a wash for the others. Two 

 of his teeth came out in coughing, and the wash 

 salivated him. 



Messrs. Thunder and Rohr, two professors of 

 music in this city, are about performing Rossini's 

 " Stabat Mater." 



Notices of marriages and deaths, and of arrivals 

 at hotels, have furnished most of the following 

 names : 



Madder, Muszgnug, Maypole, Muckle, Macca- 

 bees, Manspeaker, Mumper, Moth, Most, Mint, 

 Midnight, Marrow, Moist, Measles, and Malady. 



Noggle, Neigh, Nettles, Nix, Noacre (perhaps 

 descended from John Lackland). 



Overland, Overstreet, Outwater, Outerbridge, 

 Onyx, Owner. 



Pavonarious, Pamphilion, Pippin, Peepear, Pick- 

 ing, Purse, Pistole, Peppercorn, Pike and Pluck, 

 Pique, Pitty, Poppy, Puling, Player, Poorman, 

 Pardon, Pottle, Pipkin, Patchman. 



Quibbleman, Quarters. 



Rhino, Register, Records, Rosin, Ruby, Red- 

 lion, Rump, Rumbolder, Rubber. 



See and Saw, Scout, Shaver, Sharper, Scamp, 

 Sixty, Shotgun, Servant, School, Sneer, Spleen, 

 Sour, SnufF, Simpers, Standing, Shade, Slow, Shoe, 

 Side and Sides, Shallow, Smock and Shirts, Stiff 

 and Stiffer, Sapp, Straw, Stretch and Stretcher, 

 Spitfathom, Snag, Snagg, Shad, Sherry, Sponge, 

 Stair, Springs, Straight, Spain, Spunk, Straw- 

 berry, Stamp, Shines, Saucerbox, Shroud, Stum- 

 ble, Shed, Scullion, Skeleton, Sleeper, Shingle, 

 Sell, Steamer, Sweeten, Snare, Steer, Stallion, 

 Stubblefeel, Smile, Showers, Sirjohn, Smack, 

 Stuck, Storms and Sinkhorn. 



Tart, Taunt, Tankard, Teal, Tallman, Thistle, 

 Tags, Threat, Thaw, Tongue, Toadvine, Tittle, 

 Tiller and Helm, Towel, Tubs, Turbot, Terrier, 

 Touchstone, Trap, Twingh, True, Trader, Tem- 

 pest, Twigger, Twin, Throne, Tweedle, Tyne. 



Upright. 



Vixen, Viper, Vizard, Vermillion. 



Wizard, Week, Watchman, Winternight, Wages, 

 Witherup, Wind, Wallower, Work and Worknot, 

 Wool, Wraith, Walnut, Whip and Whipper, Wom, 

 Warrant, Watte, Wart, Winkle, Wheat, Winegar 

 (the owner of which name should have taken old 

 Waller's advice to " spell it with a wee "). 



Yearly, Yeast, Yell, Yarn. 



For many of the names in this and the preced- 

 ing paper, I am indebted to the large and curious 

 No. 299.]] 



" Collection of Surnames" made by the late 

 Edward D. Ingraham, Esq., of this city. Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



LITERATURE OP HOLLAND. ) 



In the back of an old book I have just found 

 the following, which may interest the readers of 

 The Navorscher : 



1. A few small bits of vellum, containing frag- 

 ments of a translation of the Gospels or New 

 Testament, apparently from the fourteenth cen- 

 tury. The pieces belong to Matthew xiv. and xv. 

 I give an extract, ch. xiv. v. 19. &c. : 



" Brach. vfi gab sinen iugen di brot. ab' dl iugen gebl 

 de schare vn aire asse. vn sit gesetzo. vii ufburte di 

 aleybe. zwelf korbe vol brecke. ab' d' esznde zal waz fuf 

 tusth ma. nz genum •w[ro]e. vnde cleine." 



The dialect approaches the middle Saxon. Is 

 this translation known ? 



2. A fly-sheet on death, printed on one side, ap- 

 parently from the end of the fifteenth or begin- 

 ning of the sixteenth century. The one-half 

 (whether the upper or lower I cannot say) is 

 a large coloured wood-cut, representing King 

 Death, crowned, winged, and swinging a scythe, 

 dashing along on a white horse, people of all ranks 

 falling before him. The top and two sides are 

 much dipt, and below we read, — 



"Des Doots die onuersienlick is en snel Weest altoos 

 ghedachtich / soe doet ghy wel." 



Of the other half, which must have consisted of 

 four columns, each of about twenty-eight lines, 

 the first column seems to be cut away, as is half 

 of the last. The following is part of the second 

 (originally the third ?) column : 



" Dan thoenen hem die Helsche Personagien 

 Vrenden/ Maghen / drijuen dan curagien / 

 Sy douwent Hoeft / si strijcken Armen en Beenen 

 Na werck volcht loon dan sulcke strijt sulcke gagien 

 In manus tuas roept men dan alteenen 

 Al mach men yerst wat snorken ende weenen / 

 Noemter my eenen 

 Men ontbeert hem wel / dorst hy slichts scheyden." 



The last column ends — 



" Ghedruckt toe Cam — ," 



the rest cut away, probably Campen. Does this 

 old fly-sheet exist in Holland ? 



3. Some half-leaves of an edition of a half- 

 lexicographical comment in verse and prose, in 

 8vo. It has a gloss, in a Saxon dialect. Thus : 



" Vir sponsam diicit. sed nubit femina viro 

 Pro parit et loquitur de regit et remouetque 

 Conducit precium tradens prebensque ducatum 

 Duco leyden. vt cecus cecum ducit." 



"Ducere naribus significat rueken Secundo habere. ut 

 iobannes bonam ducit vitam. Tertio significat despon- 

 sare vt vir sponsam ducit. sed sponso femina nubit quarto 



