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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 13. 1855. 



so as they can attend to their callings. Tliis regulation 

 is highly proper, and upon it the security of the land de- 

 pends more than upon standing armies, to say nothing of 

 the saving to the state. When the Lnndwehr is engaged 

 in hostilities, it is then called the Landsturm. Although 

 formerly there was a kind of Landwehr, it was organised 

 for the first time in Austria in 1808 only, and in Prussia 

 in 1812-13. A more detailed account will be found in 

 Militair-Conversations-Lexikon, vol. iv. p. 513.] 



SEEVETUS AND COLLADOIf. 



(Vol. xii., pp. 165. 249.) 



Your correspondent E. H. A. will find some 

 interesting particulars of Servetus, and of his 

 celebrated work, the Christianismi Restitutio, in a 

 thin 8vo. volume, from the pen of George Sig- 

 mond, M.D., published in London in 1826, and 

 entitled The Unnoticed Theories of Servetus, a 

 Dissertation addressed to the Medical Society of 

 Stockholm. Dr. Sigmond has, or had, in his pos- 

 session a copy of this exceedingly rare work. 

 This very volume was regarded by its previous 

 possessor. Dr. Sims, President of the Medical 

 Society of London, as the identical copy secreted 

 and saved by CoUadon. Dr. Sigmond's little 

 volume is now out of print, and from his Intro- 

 duction, p. 22., I extract the following particulars : 



" The late Dr. Sims, for many years President of the 

 Medical Society of London, bequeathed to me his copy of 

 Servetus, to which he has prefixed the following note : 



" * The fate of this work has been not a little singular ; 

 all the copies except one were burned along with the 

 author by the implacable Calvin. This copy was secreted 

 and saved by D. Colladon, one of the judges. After 

 passing through the library of the Landgrave of Hesse 

 Cassel, it came into the hands of Dr. Mead, who endea- 

 voured to give a quarto edition of it ; but before it was 

 nearly completed it was seized by John Kent, messenger 

 of the press, and William Squire, messenger in ordinary, 

 on the 27th of May, 1723, at the instance of Dr. Gibson, 

 Bishop of London, and burnt, a very few copies excepted. 

 The late Duke de Valliere gave near 400 guineas for this 

 copy, and at his sale it brought 3810 livres. It contains 

 the first account of the circulation of the blood, above 

 seventy years before the immortal Harvey published his 

 discovery.' 



" In justice," adds Dr. Sigmond, " to the memory of 

 ray late valued friend, I must state my conviction that 

 this copy is not the original one ; at the same time I 

 firmlj' believe he imagined it to be that which he de- 

 scribed. Yet he was well known as an accurate man, as 

 a judicious collector of books; and indeed to him is the 

 Medical Society of London indebted for its valuable and 

 admirable library." 



What may b'e the evidence in favour of the 

 copy in the imperial library I know not, but that 

 bearing on Dr. Sigmond's copy is certainly de- 

 fective. Dr. Sims's accuracy was, however, so 

 great, and his knowledge of books so extensive, 

 that any statement from his pen like that pre- 



No. 311.] 



fixed to his copy, is worthy of respectful consider- 

 ation. It would have been interesting to learn 

 the grounds of Dr. Sigmond's dissent from the 

 opinion of his friend, but they are nowhere stated 

 in the volume to which I take the liberty of 

 directing E. H. A.'s attention. W. Munk, M.D. 

 Finsbury Place. 



*' TEUMPETEB UN US ERAT," ETC. 



(Yol. xji., p. 226.) 



The macaronic verses of infancy and early boy- 

 hood have had such a run in your pages, that it is 

 quite time those of a later age should take an 

 innings. When I was a schoolboy, the verses 

 asked for by X. ran as follows : 



" Patres conscripti took a boat, and went to Philippi ; 

 Boatum est upsettum, magno cum grandine venti. 

 Omnes drownderunt qui swim away non potuerunt. 

 Trumpeter unus erat, qui coatum scarlet habebat ; 

 Et magnum periwig, tied about with the tail of a dead 

 pig." 



Verses of this character are tolerably ancient. 

 Wright and Halliwell (Reliquce Antique, p. 91.) 

 give a set, of which the first ten verses are as fol- 

 lows : 



" Flen, flyys, and freris populum domini male caedunt, 

 Thystlis and brevis crescentia gramina lasdunt ; 

 Christe, nolens guerras, sed cuncta pace tueris, 

 Destrue per terras brevis, flen, flyyes, and freris. 

 Flen, flj'j'es, and freris, foul falle hem thys fyften yeris. 

 For non that her ys lovit flen, flyyes, ne freris. 

 Fratres Carmeli navigant in a bothe about Eli 



Non sunt in cceli, quia ' 



Omnes drencherunt, quia sterisman non habuerunt, 

 Fratres cum knyvys goth about and . . ." 



This is from a manuscript of the fifteenth century. 

 My omissions are put in cypher by Mr. Wright, 

 and are not producible. 



The following, taken by Halliwell from a manu- 

 script of the sixteenth century is worth quoting 

 entire. It is a breaking up song at Christmas ; 

 the third and fourth lines are exquisitely saucy : 



" Ante finera termini baculos portamus, 

 Capud hustiarii frangere debemus ; 

 Si preceptor nos petit quo debemus ire, 

 Breviter respondemus, non est tibi scire. 

 O pro [per?] nobilis doctor, now we youe pray 

 Ut velitis concedere to gyff hus leff to play 

 Nunc proponimus ire, withowt any ney, 

 Scolam dissolvere,! tell itt youe in fey. 

 Sicut istud festum merth is for to make, 

 Accipimus nostram diem owr leve for to take. 

 Post natale festum, full sor shall we qwake, 

 Quum nos revenimus, latens for to make. 

 Ergo nos rogamus, hartly and holle, 

 Ut isto die possimus to brek upe the scole." 



In Wright's Political SoTigs (p. 251.) there is a 

 triglott performance, Latin, French, and English, 

 of the time of Edward II. And this is enough 

 for one kick of the ball. M. 



