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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 27. 1855., 



that address which made the name of the amiable Presi- 

 dent so justly celebrated. Every one of those addresses, 

 which have so much delighted the artists of Europe, 

 was written by Mr. Burke from hints furnished him by 

 Sir Joshua. For this service, Mr. Burke was known to 

 receive 4000/., and it is probable he received much more. 

 Sir Joshua's sight grew dim ; and the necessity of a fair 

 copy being made out- for him, not being able to read Mr. 

 Burke's crowded page, led to this discovery." 



'AMevs. 

 Dublin. 



2'he Running Thursday. — In a manuscript ac- 

 count of my family in the library here, there 

 occurs the following passage, speaking of Sir 

 Robt. Throckmorton ; 



" In 1687, he built a chapel at Congleton, wherein 

 divine service was celebrated, till, on Thursday, called 

 the ' Running Thursday,' anno 1688, it met with the fate 

 of all other new-erected chapels, and was pulled down by 

 a mob from Alcester." 



Can any body inform me what day this was, 

 and whether any recollection of it exists in other 

 Catholic neighbourhoods ? R. T. 



Bromsgrove. 



"Pilam Pedalem," ^c. — The following entry 

 occurs in a court roll dated April 4, the first of 

 Henry VIII. It is written in that part usually 

 appropriated to assaults and breaches .of excise. 

 I shall be thankful if any one will explain its 

 meaning : 



"Itin, p'sent et d'ant q'd Will'ms Welton se male gessit 

 in ludend. ad pilam pedalem et alia joca illicita." 



K. P. D. E. 



William Sviindell. — In a letter from Dr. Ho- 

 worth to Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Dugdale, 

 in Hamper's Life and Cori-espondence of that cele- 

 brated antiquary (p. 364., Letter cxxxvi.), I find 

 the following : 



" The 3'outh Will'" Swindell wholy employes his time 

 in writeing, and I have here sent you what he writ yes- 

 terday; and shall each fourteene dayes send you new 

 ones," &c. 



Can any of your correspondents give me any 

 information as to who this youth " William Swin- 

 dell" was, and of what family? C. J. Douglas. 



Calendar used for administering Oaths. — I 

 have a MS., formerly " e libris Roberto Salisbury 

 Cotton," which consists of a calendar of the 

 saints' days, a very full one, containing most of 

 the English saints, and just the commencement of 

 each of two Gospels, and that is all. Its use was 

 to administer oaths with, as we use the Testa- 

 ment. That this is the case is evident from the 

 numerous legal scribblings on many of the fly- 

 leaves ; among them is written : 



" Apud vRteres e Saxo Tarpeio projiciebatur. 



Qui testimonium falsum dixisse convincebatur." 

 " Et bene apud memores hujusce stat gratia facti. 



Jo. Lloyde." 

 No. 313.] 



Having never seen such a book before, I am 

 anxious to know whether they are common. 



J. C. J. 



Hackney. 



Caves at Inkerman. — I have heard from good 

 authority that among the caves of Inkerman are 

 old Christian chapels cut out of the rock by the 

 Arians, who fled there when persecuted by the 

 Athanasians. Can any of your readers confirm 

 this story ? H. A. B. 



Alma. — Have any of your readers noticed, 

 that among the books in the Book of Mormon is 

 one entitled "The Book oi Alma, the son of Alma 

 the First, and Chief Judge over the people of 

 Nephi"? ^H.A.B. 



Cohbett. — 



" The miser now shrugs and embraces his bags. 

 And laughs at the fool who has nothing but rags ; 

 ' I know unto death I shall go,' cries ' Old Cinder,' 

 ' But, d it, my gold-dust is better than tinder.' " 



At the time Cobbett was writing on the currency 

 question in the Weekly Register, these lines, and 

 four others preceding them, were penned by him 

 on the back of a U. note, on the occasion of its 

 being returned to a friend he was visiting at 

 Southampton by a tradesman, for the purpose of 

 being " backed." The relative to whom I am in- 

 debted for the above was present at the time they 

 were written, but the four lines, which preceded 

 those quoted, have escaped his memory. Is it 

 possible to get them supplied through the medium 

 of " N. & Q." ? The phrase " Old Cinder " evi- 

 dently refers to the ll. notes being burnt on their 

 recall. R. W. Hackwood. 



Arabic Particles from Hebrew Roots. — Sir 

 J. Mackintosh, in his Journal, at Tarala, March 1, 

 1811, writes, — 



" Mr. Lockett, a young officer, who is here on his way 

 to Bagdad, to perfect himself in Arabic, says that he will 

 derive the Arabic particles from Hebrew roots, upon 

 Home Tooke's principles." — Life, vol. ii. p. 90. 



Can any of your readers tell whether Mr. Lockett 

 ever published the result of his researches ? Q. 



Plague. — Haxthausen, in Trans- Caucasia, says 

 that " Armenian legends personify the plague as a 

 knight ; while Russians, Poles, Servians (and pro- 

 bably Slaavs in general) personify it as a virgin." 

 How is it, that Armorican legends show the latter 

 personification ? Did it arrive there from a 

 northern home, and afterwards pass eastward 

 through the great mingling of races in the heart 

 of Europe ? I cannot help suspecting that the 

 plague virgin is related to the Taurian goddess, to 

 whom strangers were sacrificed, when the Crimea 

 was much lower than now. Haxthausen's note 

 (p. 358.) is curious as touching the doctrine of 

 non-contagion. F. C. B. 



