July 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Defendants having notice thereof should show cause unto 

 this Court the last day of the term, why they should not 

 be restrained from burning briclcs and lime in the places 

 therein particularly mentioned. And whereas by a sub- 

 sequent order of the 7th instant, for the reasons therein 

 contained, it was ordered that the time for showing cause 

 should be enlarged until this day, they submitting that 

 all things should stay in the meantime. Xow upon 

 Opening of the matter this present day unto the Right 

 Honble. the Lord High Chancellor, &c., by Mr. Solicitor 

 General, and Mr. Wilbrahara, being of counsel with 

 the defendants Milliard, Cock, and VVhitaker, who came 

 to show cause against the said order of the 4th instant, 

 and alleged that the Right Honble. William Lord Berkley 

 being seised of several fields in the parish of St. George, 

 Hanover Square, part of a farm called Hay Hill Farm ; 

 they, the said Defendants, did on the 8th day of April last 

 enter into articles of agreement with the said Lord 

 Berkley, and with the Honble. John Berklc}' his son and 

 heir apparent, for part of a certain field called Brickfield, 

 parcel of the said Hay Hill Farm, to build upon at the 

 yearly rent of 420Z. for a term of ninety-four years. That 

 there being some brick earth upon part of the said ground, 

 thereby apprehending that they had good right by virtue 

 of the said articles to have the benefit thereof, to make 

 the same into bricks, or to dispose thereof to any person 

 so to do, they sold the same to the Defendant Whitaker, 

 with liberty to make and burn the same into bricks upon 

 the said ground, under the restriction in the said articles 

 as to the time of burning the said bricks. That they are 

 restrained by the said articles from setting fire to any 

 bricks that shall be made on the said ground before the 

 1st day of July next, or to continue the said burning 

 longer than the last day of August, at which time it was 

 apprehended that the plaintiffs and others the inhabitants 

 of the neighbouring houses would be gone to their re- 

 spective country seats. That it hath been usual in all 

 undertakings for buildings where fresh ground hath been 

 broken up to make and burn bricks, or any part thereof 

 whereon brick earth hath been found, notwithstanding 

 there hath been several houses near adjoining to such 

 bricks, inhabited at the same time, and particularly in 

 May Fair and Grosvenor Buildings, in the last of which 

 there is at present bricks making and intended to be burnt 

 on the ground belonging to the said defendants. That 

 the time for burning the said bricks being so short, and 

 the uncertain inconvenience of the same depending upon 

 the Avind; they apprehend that the same will be but 

 little if any annoyance to the plaintiffs, and will not 

 damage their furniture, and hope they shall not be re- 

 strained from burning the said bricks and making all the 

 advantage they can of the said ground. That as to burn- 

 ing the lime on the said ground, they the said defendants 

 are not concerned therein. Whereupon, and upon hearing 

 of Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Brown, Mr. Welder, and 

 Mr. Clarke of Counsel with the said Defendants, and an 

 affidavit of the said Defendants Hilliard and Cock and 

 Whitaker read, and what was alleged on both sides, his 

 Lordship doth allow the cause now shown, and doth order 

 that the said order of the 4th instant be discharged. 



SHinav ^attS, 



" Worship." — In Sir D. Brewster's Life of 

 Newton, just published, is Newton's creed, from 

 the long-suppressed Portsmouth papers, Tliis 

 creed contains an exemplification of the old use of 

 the word worship. According to Newton, Jesus 



No. 298.] 



Christ is not, as matter of obligation, an object of 

 prayer, but he is an object of worship. An illus- 

 tration or two of this word may lead to others, and 

 especially to the suggestion of the question, what 

 changes it has undergone. 



Theodore Hook, who often produced bits of 

 reading in his novels, refers in one of them to a 

 proclamation of James I., against dignitaries al- 

 lowing the use of higher modes of address than 

 were due to them. AH I remember is, that com- 

 plaint is made of your honour being used towards 

 those who were only entitled to worship. We 

 know that city magistrates are called " your 

 worship," while to this day the squire is nothing 

 less than "his honour.". 



The city companies are all worshipful. The 

 worshipful Company of Skinners has the motto, 

 " To God alone be all glory ; " the Leathersellers 

 read " Honor et gloria ; " the Drapers, " Honour 

 and glory ; " but the worshipful company of Fish- 

 mongers read, " All worship be to God only." 

 This company is one of the oldest ; was it wor- 

 shipful when it took this motto, which reads so 

 strangely in connexion with its own style ? Is the 

 higher meaning of the word the oldest of all ? 



Works of the seventeenth century treat worship 

 as applicable to men, and even to abstract ideas ; 

 wise men worship the sciences. In our day it 

 means prayer. The gradual changes of meaning 

 have introduced confusion into many phrases ; the 

 worship of images, for example. M. 



Cutting of Teeth in advanced Age. — In a Com- 

 mon-place, written by one Thomas Rawlins of 

 Pophills, between the years 1724 and 1734, occur 

 the following entries : 



« There lives in Mill Street, in Belfast, in Ireland, 1731, 

 one Jane Hooks, of one hundred and twelve years of age, 

 who has her memory and appetite as well as when she 

 was but twenty years old, and has got a new sett of teeth, 

 w«>» has drove 'out all y<= old stumps." 



" Rob*. Lyon, of y" city of Glasgow, aged one hundred 

 and nine years, who was in the service of King Charles I., 

 and who has got a new set of teeth, and recovered his 

 sight in a wonderfuU manner." 



" Mrs. Page, at y" Royal Oak in Barnaby Street, 

 Southwark, aged ninety years and upwards, has lately 

 bred six great teeth in y« upper jaw, in June, 1732, which 

 is an extraordinary and preternatural instance ; had not 

 a tooth in her head these twenty years past." 



"Margaret White, of Kirkaldy in Scotland, aged 

 eighty-seven, who had been toothless for many years, has 

 just got eight new and fresh teeth. April, 1732." 



Cl. Hoppeb, 



Errors in SirWalter Scott's Novels'. — One of your 

 correspondents remarks on Mr. Maclise's anachro- 

 nism, in introducing a Franciscan friar into his pic- 

 ture of the "Marriage of Strongbow." Has not Sir 

 Walter Scott committed the same error in Ivanhoe, 

 by making the disguised Wamba style himself 

 "a poor brother of the Order of St. Francis?" 



