Nov. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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names direct from the Etruscans, and so, if your 

 correspondent's derivations are just, they tend to 

 prove that the Etruscans were of the same race 

 with our brethren of Ireland. I have long thought 

 this probable, and perhaps Mu. C. will help to 

 settle the matter by telling me whether the very 

 common Etruscan senna or cennus has any mean- 

 ing, and what, in the Irish language. It occurs 

 in tiie words Porsenna, Rasenna, Dercennus, Me- 

 zentius, or Misenus (for those two words are cer- 

 tainly identical), and in others too numerous to 

 mention. E. West. 



' Dog Whippers (Vol. x.,' p. 188.). — To the 

 other notices of this extraordinary office, may be 

 added the following, which shows that it was 

 necessary even in the metropolitan cathedral : 



" For who can abide a scuruie peddling poet to plucke 

 a man by the sleeue at euerie third step in Paules Church- 

 yard, and when hee conies in to suriiey his wares, there's 

 iiotliing but jiurgations and vomits wmpt up in wast 

 paper ? 



" It were verie good the dog whipper in Paules would 

 haue a care of this in his nnsaverie visitation euerio Sater- 

 daj', for it is dangerous for such of the queen's Hedge 

 people as sliall take a viewe of them fasting." — Pierce 

 Pennilesse, Shultsp. Soc. Ed., p. 87. 



If any inference may be drawn from the pas- 

 sage, it seems that the duty was confined to clear- 

 ing tiie cathedral of dogs once a week preparatory 

 to Sunday. J. R. M., M. A. 



Sir Chudesley Shovel (Vol. xi., pp. 184. 514. ; 

 Vol. xii., pp.54. 134.). — In 



" A Consolatory Letter ivritten to the Lady Shouell, 

 on the Surprising and Calamitous Loss of her Husband 

 and Two only Sons. By G. C. (Gilbert Crokatt), M.A., 

 and Rector of Crayford. 1708." 



occurs the following : 



" It may be here expected that some account should be 

 given of the life of the renouned Admiral Shouell, and of 

 his two sons-in-law. As to the admiral, he was born in the 

 year IGoO, in the county of Norfolk, of an ancient family, 

 chiefly considerable for loyalty and plain downright 

 honesty, which was therefore natural and hereditary to 

 Sir Cloudesl}-. Nor was it inconsiderable for estate; 

 though that was lessened by their faithful adherence to 

 King Charles the First, of eVer blessed memory. How- 

 ever, the good old gentlewoman, Sir Cloudesley's mother, 

 being still alive, enjoys no contemptible competency; 

 which has been transmitted for many years from father 

 to son in the familj', and being by her son redeemed from 

 some incumbrances, was by his natural affection con- 

 tinued entire to his mother." 



The margin has — 



" The great design of this, is to correct some mistakes 

 and false stories concerning Sir Cloudesly's birth and 

 education." 



S. R. P. 



LucedcEmonian Black Broth (Vol. i., passim). — 

 This subject is repeatedly alluded to in the first 

 volume of " N. & Q." (which I have only now 



No. 316.] 



seen), but without much success in elucidating 

 the mystery (?) of its composition. Without seek- 

 ing for any recondite ingredients in the recipe, 

 inay we not suppose it possible that the meat was 

 boiled, or stewed, with harley ; and the whole, 

 fluid as well as solid, served up together at the 

 Lacedaemonian common table ? Barley contains 

 considerable nutriment, and may have been used 

 by the Spartans for other purposes than as bread ; 

 but when boiled, it turns the liquor Mack ; on 

 which account, all cooks, who deserve the appel- 

 lation, pour off the first water and add fresh. 

 This fact miglit not have been known to the 

 Lacedasmonians ; but if it was, it would have 

 accorded best with their system to disregard such 

 supei'fluous niceties. Arthur Hussky. 



iHWcellancouS. 



NOTES ON UOOKS, ETC. 



It has often been matter of surprise to us, that in these 

 days, when so many of our olden poets are reprinted, no 

 publisher has been found to give ns the works of Michael 

 Drayton, whose Nymplndia may, for its playful fancj', 

 bo justly placed side by side with The ilidsmnmer Night's 

 Dream. We are glad, however, to see it announced that 

 Mr. Collier is now engaged in editing the poetry of this 

 great contemporary of Sliakspeare. The work could not 

 be in better hands, and we shall look with impatience for 

 its appearance. 



Combining in himself the apparently anomalous quali- 

 fications of a skilful antiquary, and a good musician, Mr. 

 Chappell is pre-eminently fitted for the task to which he 

 has devoted the attention of so many year.^, namely, that 

 of giving his countrj-^men a history of their popular music 

 worthy of the subject. The volumes in which Mr. Chap- 

 pell published the first-fruits of his researches into the 

 history of our national songs, and the melodies to which 

 they were sung, have long been out of print, and a new 

 edition of them anxiously looked for. That want is at 

 length in the course of being supplied. We have now 

 before us the first four Parts of the Popular Music of the 

 Olden Time : a Collection of Ancient Songs, Sal/ads, and 

 Dance Tunes, illustrative of the National Music of England, 

 ivith short Introductions to the different Periods, and Notices 

 of the Airs from Writers of the Si.vteenth and Seventeenth 

 Centuries ; ivith a Short Account of the Minstrels ; by W. 

 Chappell, F.S.A. In these four parts (the entire work 

 will occupy sixteen) we have upwards of ninety of the 

 earliest English Melodies, treated in a style to delight the 

 antiquary by the vast amount of curious illustration 

 brought to bear upon their history ; and to gratify the 

 musician by the tasteful and appropriate manner in which 

 they have been harmonised by Mr. Macfarren. Are we 

 not then justified in prognosticating, that Mr. Chappell's 

 Work will find its way into every English home where 

 the fine old stirring melodies of our country are listened 

 to with delight .' 



Glasgow has always been famous for its punch — and 

 perhap.s, as a consequence, for the number and varietj' of 

 its social fraternities. These have now found a chronicle 

 in a goodly octavo volume, entitled Glasgow and its 

 Clidis, or Glimpses of the Condition, 3Ianners, Characters, 

 and Oddities of the City during the past and present Cen- 

 tury, by John Strang, LL.D. It would be doing great 



