Aug. 25. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



155 



Cabbages (Vol. ix., pp. 424. 576.). — Allow 

 me to amend the answers to the Queries re- 

 spectuig the date, &c., of the introduction of 

 this esculent into England, by referring C. H. to 

 some Observations on the State of Horticulture in 

 England in Early Times, by the late Mr. T. H. 

 Turner. At p. 14. he will find this passage : 



" Little can be said with certainty respecting the va- 

 rieties of culinary vegetables cultivated in England pre- 

 viously to the fifteenth century. The cabbage tribe was 

 doiibtless well known in the earliest times, and generally 

 reared during the Middle Ages.'' 



I can certainly corroborate this statement, having 

 met with many notices of the "plantsB olerum" in 

 documents of the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- 

 turies. 



Perhaps Evelyn alluded to some peculiar tribe 

 of the plant, as having been introduced from Hol- 

 land about a hundred years from his time. J. Bt. 



Anagrams (Vol. xii., p. 15.). — Antonius Sanc- 

 tinius Lucensis wrote himself " Constantius Si- 

 lanius Nicenus." I give this because I think it 

 does not appear in Baillet's Auteurs deguises. 

 This treatise, which should be at hand to all those 

 who are much concerned with the tricks of au- 

 thors, was first published in 1690, and is in the 

 sixth volume of Le Monnoye's edition of the 

 Jvgemens des Savons, Paris, 1722, 4to. M. 



Piazzetta and Cattini (Vol. xii., p. 126.). — I 

 think your correspondent Ormond will find the 

 four engravings are after Piazzetta, by Cattini ; if 

 so, they are four out of sixteen, published at 

 Venice in 1754. 



John Baptist Piazzetta was born at Venice in 

 1682, and died in 1754. J. Cattini was an en- 

 graver, and I believe a very little emanated from 

 his burin ; indeed, he is but little known. Some 

 other correspondent probably can furnish his 

 birth and death. 



The productions of Piazzetta were chiefly of a 

 sacred character, and there are some clever studies 

 of heads still extant, from his pencil, unengraved. 

 I either have, or had recently, three, in chalk on 

 grey paper. He was a pupil of Molinari, and 

 studied under one of the Caracci, Guercino, &c. 

 Some of his figures are much in the style of the 

 inimitable Michael Angelo Buonarotti. Your 

 correspondent's work, when complete, is probably 

 worth \l. lis. 6t?., or thereabouts. C. Hamilton. 



P. S. — If Obmond wishes to complete his 

 work, I should advise him to apply either to 

 Messrs. Colnaghi, Tiffin, or Evans. 



Orator Henley (Vol. xii., p. 44.)- — Several 

 volumes of sermons in MS. by this celebrated 

 orator are in the library of the Corporation, 

 Guildhall. E. W. O. 



Camberwell. 



2Jo. 304.] 



Ells Family, Sfc. (Vol. xii., p. 105.) — The arms 

 of the family of Smith in the county of Oxford 

 are — Argent, on a fesse dancette between three 

 roses gules, a martlet or for difference ; which coat 

 now forms part of tlie arms of Brasenose College. 

 A full account of the family may be found in the 

 appendix to Churton's Lives of Bp. Smyth and Sir 

 Richard Sutton. Thompson Coopbb. 



Cambridge. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



We last week took occasion to remark upon the poetical 

 tendencies of the publishing world at the present moment. 

 We may now state that the same spirit has been influ- 

 encing the antiquaries, who, throughout the whole 

 length and breadth of the land, have been revelling in 

 that poetry of archaeology, their annual excursions. 

 The meeting of the Archaological Institute at Shrewsbury, 

 though commencing with wet and dreary weather, was 

 well attended, and the excursions to Hawkstone, Moreton, 

 Corbet Castle, Wroxeter, Buildwas Abbey, Wenlock 

 Abbey, Atcham Church, Stokesay Castle, Branfield 

 Priory, Stanton Lacy, and Ludlow Castle ; and the ad- 

 mirable papers by Kev. Mr. Petit on Buildwas Abbey ; 

 Mr. Bloxam on St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury; Mr. 

 Scharf on the Decoration of Ancient Churches; Mr. 

 Wynne on Roman Vestiges at Wroxeter; and Mr. 

 Kemble on the Heathen Graves of Northern Germany ; 

 combined with the hospitable entertainment they received 

 from their Shrewsbury friends to make the meeting pass 

 off with satisfaction to all parties. 



The ArcluBological Association have not gone so far 

 a-field, the Isle of Wight being the scene for the present 

 year's excursion. The Earl of Perth and Melfort having 

 been prevented by illness from presiding, that duty de- 

 volved upon Mr. Pettigrew. Papers by Mr. Planche on 

 the Lords of the Isle of Wight, Mr. Black on the Newport 

 Charters, and excursions to Carisbrook, Netley Abbey, 

 Shalfleet, the Roman Villa near Brixton, the ancient 

 British town of Gallibury, the barrows on Wroxall 

 Downs, Southampton, &c., formed the staple of the pro- 

 ceedings. 



The Somerset Archwologists met on Tuesday at Dunster 

 Castle, in a picturesque and famous locality, which was 

 believed to be impregnable until stormed by IBlake. 



The Cambrian Archaological Association will hold its 

 ninth j'early meeting at Llandilo Fawr, on Monday next 

 and five following days, under the presidentship of Lord 

 Dynevor. 



While on this subject we may announce that a pro- 

 posal is in circulation for the establishment of a Society 

 to be called The Middlesex Archceological Society, for the 

 purpose of investigating the history and antiquities of 

 the metropolis and metropolitan county. So soon as a 

 sufficient number of members have been enrolled, a 

 general meeting is to be held for the purpose of deter- 

 mining the rules, and of appointing the office-bearers of 

 the Society. Gentlemen desirous of becoming members 

 are requested to signify their intentions to any of the 

 members of the Provisional Committee, or to Geo. Bish 

 Webb, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., 6. Southampton Street, Covent 

 Garden, Honorary Secretary {pro tern.). The Annual 

 Subscription is to be Ten Shillings, and the Life Com- 

 position Five Pounds. It is obvious that the metro- 

 politan county affords materials of the most valuable 

 and interesting character for the investigation of the 



