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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 1. 1855. 



ventory of the plate then and there found. These 

 I transcribed, not being aware that they had 

 already been printed in the above useful work. 

 But how ? Take as a specimen from the latter 

 document the four following items : 



" Item, a white bolte" instead of a white holle 

 (bowl). 



" Item, a alte cupe," instead of a alle cupe (ale 

 cup). ^ 



" Item, anasers vi," instead of masers vi, i. e. 

 goblets. See Halliwell's Arch. Diet., in voce. 



"Item, a salvidge roche." In Dugdale the 

 former word is omitted, and without it the latter 

 has no meaning. A salvidge roche is simply a 

 salver wrought or embossed ; but the scribe was 

 not an adept in orthography. 



Great pity is it that such a publication, upon 

 which so much money, labour, and research have 

 been expended, should have such blemishes. 



Charles Hook. 



Hebrew Acrostick on the Name of Prince Albert, 

 composed by a Christian, on the occasion of lay- 

 ing the foundation of the Midland Institute at 

 Birmingham, November 22, 1855 : 



Translation. 

 " Albert, the Prince, has come from the palace of the 

 Queen, 



To found in the city of the cities, high over all the 

 earth, 



In peace 'a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sm*e 

 foundation,' 



A temple for the assembly, * in wisdom, in understand- 

 ing, and knowledge ; ' 



♦The head of the corner; from Jehovah's hand, and 

 marvellous ! ' 



Bring, men of renown and honour, the offerings of your 

 hands and hearts." 



Lichfield. 



" Pursuits of Literature." — In the first edition of 

 this work the following passage occurs in the notes : 

 *' Shall the revenues of a royal foundation be 

 intrusted to a spruce, antiquated democrat ? " 

 Mr. James Lambert (some time Greek Professor) 

 was at that time Bursar of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. Mr. L, was well acquainted with Ma- 

 thias, and when he next saw him, said, " I do not 

 take it kind of you, Mathias, to have gibbeted 

 me as you have done." M. said not a word, but 

 in subsequent editions the passage stood : " Shall 

 the revenues of royal foundations be intrusted to 

 the favourers of democracy ? " I heard this from 

 Mr. L.'s own mouth. Rdsticus. 



No 318.] 



SeldevLS " Table- Talk." — I have pointed out a 

 place or two in which Boswell has made Johnson 

 talk inaccurately about arithmetic. Milward, 

 Selden's Boswell, has perhaps done the same. 

 The passage is as follows : 



"A subsidy was counted the fifth part of a man's 

 estate ; and so fifty subsidies is five-and-forty times more 

 than a man is worth." — TaUe-Talk, " Subsidy." 



Here five-and-forty subsidies (additively) more 

 than he is worth is confounded with five-and- 

 forty times more than (as much as) he is worth. 

 This passes without comment in all editions, even 

 in that of 1854, 



Independently of the very apparent error of 

 language, I suspect there is an error of meaning 

 in Selden's own mind. He is arguing on the 

 great power lodged in the hands of a perpetual 

 parliament ; and he seems to imply tliat five sub- 

 sidies would swallow up an estate, forgetting that 

 each subsidy would be less than the preceding 

 one, as being the fifth of what there is, not of 

 what there was. And thus I have heard persons 

 argue as if a legacy duty of ten per cent., exacted 

 at ten transitions, would exhaust the whole fund. 



A. De Morgan. 



" All the Go." — In looking over the Diction- 

 naire Comique, par Philibert Joseph le Roux, A 

 Lion, MDcciiir., I find the following : 



"Go. Tout de go. Voyez Tout Brandis. J'entrerai 

 tout de go dans la taverne." — Don Quich,, p. 2. 



And on referring to '' Brandis " I find : 



"Brandis. Tout Brandis. Mot de Pa3'sans; qu'ils 

 employent pour donner a connoitre que quelque chose est 

 large, vaste, grande et ouverte. Mol. Fest. de Pier. lis 

 ont des manches otl j'entrerais tout brandis. C'est-k-dire 

 tout entier, sans y toucher, facilement, de plein faut." 



Is it not probable that this is the original of our 

 "All the go?" D.D. 



" MINNE " AND MINNESINGERS. 



Will you permit me to ask some better scholar 

 than myself, through your pages, the real, true, 

 and original meaning and derivation of the 

 German word "Minne" — the word from which 

 the Minnesangers derived their name ? I desire 

 this more particularly, as a modern German 

 author, of no slight talent, Herlbert Ran, has, in 

 his Deutsche Erzdhlungen, started the following 

 fancy, very pretty, but I think hardly true : 



" Die Deutsche Minne, dass heisst, das stille, sehnende 

 Denken an die Geliebte, das susse Erinnern an die Holde." 

 ..." Und wie win bei alien Volkern der Erde um- 

 sonst nach einem Ausdrucke suchen, welcher dem Worte 

 ' Minne ' entsprache, so haben wir auch das Jugend- 

 liche, Traumerische, das Zarte und Innige, das Tiefe, und 



