Nov. 24. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



415 



the last Duke of Buckingham. He died about 

 two years since, and lies bui-ied at Little Braxted 

 in Essex. He was taken prisoner during the 

 Duke of York's expedition to Holland, and from 

 friendships formed in the army, and associating 

 with the visitors at- Stowo, he was well furnished 

 with anecdotes. G. W. Johnson. 



Winchester. 



Marcaldis '■'■ Life of Mary, Queen of Scots" 

 (Vol. xii., p. 371.). — I have in my possession a 

 manuscript of Marcaldi's history ; the same, ap- 

 parently in all respects, as the one in the posses- 

 sion of Anon, of New Orleans. At least, the 

 extracts which he has given are to be found, word 

 for word, in my manuscript ; but, in mine, the 

 dedication is addressed "Al CI'"" Sig"'" il Sig' 

 Matteo Zane," and is dated in " Venetia, a viiij. di 

 Marz", M.D.LXxx." 



The manuscript, which appears to be original, 

 is written in a clear legible hand, of the sixteenth 

 century ; and the letter of dedication is signed, 

 " Franc" Marcaldi." 



Respecting this writer, whose name does not 

 occur in the Biogi-apliie Universelle, I have not 

 been able to meet with any information. 



W. Sneyd. 



Denton. 



» Cat in Pan" (Vol. xii., p. '268.). — There is a 

 cunning, which we in England call " the turning 

 of the cat in the pan ;" which is, when that which 

 a man says to another, he lays it as if another* 

 had said it to him : and, to say truth, it is not easy, 

 when such 'a matter passed between two, to make 

 it appear from which of them it first moved and 

 began. (Bacon's Essay of Cunning.'). ]i. 



" To turn a cat in the pan " is to turn a somer- 

 set, or "head over heels." I have heard the ex- 

 pression frequently used among children with this 

 meaning. William Fbaser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



" Perturbahantur" SfC. (Vol. xii., pp. 252. 293.). 

 — I beg leave to offer a substitute for P. R.'s 

 verse, which is not very canonically composed, and 

 to change what he facetiously calls a quatrain 

 into a quintain : 



"Ecce Sebastopolis, nondum Augustopolis ! 

 Confrateniantes, To Pasan, Maiiielonas 

 Fortunati ambo covripuere vias." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChKTHAM. 



Caryl of the '■'■Rape of the Lock." — It is always 

 to be regretted when questions asked are not an- 

 swered in " N. & Q." I refer, tlxerefore, to one 

 by C. (Vol. vii., p. 457.), who says that the Bape 

 of the Lock was written at the request of Mr. 

 Caryl, " stated by Pope " to have been private 



No. 317.] 



The other. 



secretary to James II.'s queen before the revo- 

 lution — that certain documents issued at St. 

 Germains in 1701 and 1707 are countersigned 

 "Caryl"— and asks if there be any doubt tlfat it 

 was the same person, and when he returned to 

 England ? In reply, I would direct his attention 

 to an article in 2'Ae Atheiiceum, published in July 

 last'year, wherein it is shown that it was the bio- 

 graphers or editors who made the assertion, not 

 Pope — that the Caryl of the Bape of the Lock 

 was not the secretary Caryl, but his nephew. 



C. R. 



Contemporary or cotemporary (Vol. xii., p. 102.). 



— The latter mode of spelling is fast creeping 

 into use, and is contrary to all analogy. The ter- 

 minal m in cum, like other terminal ?h'.s in Latin 

 derivatives, is cut off before a vowel, but never 

 before a consonant. Thus we have coequal, co- 

 eternal, coagulate, coeval ; but we never find 

 the m or its euphonious equivalent elided in con- 

 tingent, contagion, contemplate, &c. ; or, as the 

 FAon Latin Grammar hath it, commilito, contuber- 

 nails, cognatus. Why then should contemporary 

 be shorn ? Anon. 



Piei'ie Marteau (Vol. xii., p. 314.). — An 

 amusing volume, pp. 134., entitled Le Maine Se- 

 cularise, was printed " A Cologne, chez Pierre Du 

 Marteau, 1678;" so that it is one of the charac- 

 teristics of Peter, as well as his secrecy, that he 

 sometimes appeared with an addition to his 

 cognomen. G. N. 



"Papce" (Vol. xi., pp. 18L 285.). — In addition 

 to what has been already given, I would notice 

 the name Papey in London, as applied to priests ; 

 and it may possibly be found in other countries in 

 Europe. In Cunningham's Handbook of London 

 (1850), p. 377., the Papey, in Aldgate Ward, is 

 mentioned with a quotation from Stow, from 

 which I make the following extract : 



" Then come you to tlie Papey, a proper house, wherehi 

 sometime was kept a fraternity or brotlierhood of St. 

 Charity and St. John the Evangelist, called the Papeij 

 for poor impotent priests (for, in some languages, priests 

 are c-dWed papes), founded in the year 1430, for a master, 

 and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted 

 into the church of St. Augustine Papey-in-the-\ValI. The 

 brothers of this house becoming lame, or otherwise into 

 extreme poverty, were here relieved ; so as to have cham- 

 bers, with certain allowance of bread, diink, and coal. 

 Tiiis brotherhood was suppressed in the reign of Edward 

 YI. ; and the house was afterwards inhabited by Sir 

 Francis Walsiugham, jjrincipal secretary to Queen Eliza- 

 beth, and others " 



W. H. F. 



Baby used as an Adjective (Vol. xii., p. 233.). 



— To some instances adduced from Shakspeare, 

 add, as proof of its being colloquially so used, the 

 way in which fond king Jamie spoke of his son as 

 Baby Charles. — Letters in Dalrymple's Fortunes 

 of Nigel, passim, Y . B. N. J. 



