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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 3. 1855. 



in tbe BotUeian, we last week applied to a friend 

 at Oxford to consult it His reply is as follows : 



" I have looked at Douce's copy of the Poetry 

 of the Anti-Jacobin, and find the following Note 

 on the fly-leaf in his handwriting : 



" ' Presented to me by one of the elegant con- 

 tributors to this miscellany, with a key to their 

 names. F. D.' 



" Underneath he has written in pencil, No. 1. 

 Ellis, No. 2. Frere, No. 3. Canning ; and at the 

 head of the Introduction to the Knife Grinder is 

 written, ' No. 1.,' thus appearing to ascribe it to 

 Ellis alone. There is no other note about it in the 

 Tolume." 



Being thus disappointed, we ask, can any "of our 

 readers supply us with such a key ? 



Milton's (?) Sonnet on the Library at Cam- 

 bridge. — In " N. & Q." (Vol. iii., p. 37.) you have 

 printed a "Sonnet, Qu. Milton?" communicated 

 by Mr. C. Howard Kenyon, and stated by him 

 to be taken from a Collection, &c., 1628.* In 

 p. 142. of the same volume of " N. &. Q." Mr. 

 Jas. Crosslet inquired, if M. H. K. had the 

 Collection in his possession. Nothing farther has, 

 I think, been published about this Sonnet in your 

 pages. The matter appears to me well worthy of 

 farther examination. Could you ask Mr. H. Ken- 

 ton, by a private communication, to allow some 

 person to see the Collection ? or to give a farther 

 account of the volume and its contents in your 

 pages, adding some farther specimen of them ? 

 Or would you give me Mr. Kenyon's address, 

 that I may make the request to him personally ? 



Ring-taw, 8fc. — I may perhaps lay myself open 

 to the charge of taking " omne ignotum pro mag- 

 nifico," but will nevertheless hazard an inquiry 

 from your correspondents, whether various words 

 made use of in the common games of " marbles" 

 have appeared to them of easy derivation. Thus, 

 in this locality we have : 



Taw, with us restricted to the marble employed 

 to knuckle with, and which is often an 



Alley (Query, Alabaster?). 



Chuck, or ckully, employed when the taw gets 

 impounded in the ring. 



Fullock implies an unfair jerking forward of the 

 taw. 



Phobbo, or fobbo, precludes the correction of a 

 mishap : as " phobbo slips." 



Bullock, a cheat ; but, as I think, only when 

 cheating at marbles. 



Bell. To " bell a marble," is to run away with 

 it, but scarcely amounts to actual theft. 



* Collection of Recente and Witty Pieces by several 

 Eminente Hands. London : printed by W. S. for Simon 

 Waterton. 1628. 



No. 314.] 



Konnogs. The penalty which the vanquished 

 has to sutFer, consisting in the victor's shooting at 

 his closed knuckles with his taw. 



Bun-hole. A diniinutive form of the noble 

 game oPgolf, but played with marbles. 



Any addition to the above list, or suggestions 

 upon their probable derivation, will oblige J. K, 



Columbus' Relic. — A paragraph, extracted from 

 an American paper, went the round of the En- 

 glish newspapers in the latter part of the year 

 1851, stating that Captain D'Auberville, of th» 

 bark "Chieftain," of Boston, had come into pos- 

 session of one of the cedar kegs said to have been 

 cast overboard by Columbus in 1493, at the time 

 when he expected to be shipwrecked. The keg 

 had been found by a sailor; the locality Mount 

 Abylus, on the African coast. It contained a 

 piece of parchment, written over with Gothic 

 characters, addressed to Ferdinand and Isabella; 

 giving an account of the discovery of Cathay, &c., 

 and was signed by Columbus himself The para- 

 graph conitlnded by an assurance, that Captain 

 D'Auberville would guard the treasure carefully 

 until his return to Boston in the April or May 

 following. Has this story been verified ? If so, 

 where now is this precious document ? Has any 

 translation or fac-simile of it been published ? 



Alfred Ramsdebt. 



Halifax, Yorkshire. 



Uffenbach Library. — Can any of your readers, 

 acquainted with German libraries, inform me 

 where are now to be found the large collection of 

 MSS. which, in 1726, were in the library of 

 Zach. Conrad von Uffenbach ? It contained, 

 among other treasures, seventy-one tomes of MS. 

 letters of learned men of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries. M. P. 



Newton of Edgejield, co. Norfolk. — Any of 

 your readers who can furnish any account of this 

 family will much oblige. Their residence there 

 was probably between 1670 and 1730. S. E. Gr. 



Sedllia. — Can any of your contributors point 

 me to an example of sedilia in any church on the 

 Continent? 1 do not recollect any, either in 

 those of the churches in France or Italy which I 

 have seen, nor yet in those on the banks of the 

 Rhine. If I am correct in my view that these 

 exist, if at all, more rarely on the Continent thaa 

 in England, may I ask if any reason can be as- 

 signed for the difference ? 



What is the origin or intention of raising the 

 choirs in our cathedrals several feet above the 

 naves, as in Canterbury and our cathedral, and, 

 I believe, York Minster; so that the choir is 

 approached from the nave by some dozen stepst 

 through a screen, on which often tlie organ is 

 placed? At St. Peter's at Rome, the Duoino at 



