g""! S. No 79., July 4. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



" Mary ! think what lies before thee ! 

 Think yfhsitjirst thine eyes shall see, 

 Christ, the Lord of life and glory, 

 Crying * Ephatha ! ' to thee. 



" Think how blessed thy condition, 



Think what dawn shall chase thy night ; 

 Faith shall end in brightest vision, 

 Christ himself shall be thy light." 



OXFORD AND DR. JOHNSON. 



From the reverence entertained by Dr. Jobn- 

 son for the University of Oxford, and the honours 

 it conferred upon him while living, it would seem 

 natural and becoming that after his death the Uni- 

 versity should seek to perpetuate the memory and 

 the fame of so great a man by a statue worthy 

 both of him and of its own renown. For such a 

 memorial, however, I have looked in vain ; and 

 would now, after the lapse of so many years, seek 

 to revive the interest of the present age and of 

 future generations in all that was truly great and 

 noble in the character of one of England's 

 worthiest sons, by proposing that a statue should 

 be erected to him in the centre of the Bodleian 

 quadrangle, — a spot above all others, next to the 

 House of God, where his spirit would hover with 

 the greatest complacency. In such a situation he 

 would be seen by foreigners of all nations, as well 

 as by his own countrymen ; while all would re- 

 joice to see the University embodying, in ever- 

 lasting granite, the massive form of the giant of 

 English literature.* Bosweix, Juk. 



SHinav j!ot«rf« 



Gloves given on Reversal of Outlawry in 1464. 



— One Sir John Bell having been outlawed on 

 an indictment for murder, the outlawry was re- 

 versed on error brought, — 



" And he paid the fees of gloves to the Court, two 

 dozen for the officers of the Court (for these in all four 

 shillings), and in addition three pairs of furred gloves for 

 the three judges there, to wit, Markham, Chief Justice, 

 Yelverton and Bingham, and so the prisoner went to 

 God," Sec— Year Book, 4 Edward IV. 10. pi. 14. 



In the original the words are " ala a Dieu," &c., 

 a not uncommon termination to the reports of 

 acquittals in those days. I note them here to con- 

 trast them with the concluding words of another 

 case which occurred almost a hundred years earlier 



— in 1369. In that case, which is reported in the 

 Year Book, 43 Edward III. 34. pi. 43., the king 



* A subscription of 5s. from each of the 900 heads, 

 fellows, and scholars of the University, not to speak of the 

 commoners, who are probably twice as numerous, would 

 probably accomplish the object in a worthy manner; 

 but if the sum thus raised should be inadequate, there 

 must be many individuals throughout the British Empire 

 who would feel honoured by assisting to erect the statue. 



sought to recover an advowson from the Bishop 

 of Chester (as the Bishop of Lichfield was then 

 sometimes called) upon a very flimsy pretext, and 

 judgment was given for the bishop. The report 

 concludes, " and you bishop go to the very great 

 devil without day," " au tres graund deable sana 

 jour." Is this the fun of the court, or of the re- 

 porter, or of some subsequent copyist P A. S. J. 



Abbreviation wanted. — The word Professor will 

 not get itself properly shortened. It is an awful 

 prefix ; especially for a trisyllabic surname. It 

 has as many letters in it as Mr., Dr., M.A., and 

 Esq., put together. If N. & Q. had been in ex- 

 istence when I corrected the proofs of my evi- 

 dence before the Museum Commissioners, I should 

 have made my protest earlier. The constant oc- 

 currence of. *' Professor Augustus De Morgan " in 

 the head margin of page alter page made me feel 

 that " thrice to thine " and " thrice to mine " were 

 bad enough, but that " thrice again to make up 

 nine " was an enormity. Some journals usually 

 cut it down into Prof., which is ambiguous : it 

 may mean proficient, profitable, ov profound ; but 

 it may mean profuse, profane, or profligate. Now 

 in like manner as Mister becomes Mr., and Doctor 

 becomes Dr., why should not Pr. take the place 

 of Professor : this need no more stand for Prosy 

 than Dr. for Drony. Surely N. & Q., or * ?, so 

 fortunate in its own abbreviations, should set a 

 good example, save its own space (the word takes 

 half an inch in capitals), and cease to make a 

 certain class of contributors feel as if they were 

 being looked at through a microscope. 



A. De ]Morgan. 



General Todtleben. — In Hardwicke's Annual 

 Biography for 1856, p. 313., there is a long obitu- 

 ary notice of the above-named officer, in which it 

 is stated that — 



" In the death of General Todtleben, Sebastopol has 

 lost its greatest hero, and the loss of this Russian General 

 of Engineers, from the effect of a wound received on June 

 18, is an event of no mean importance to the Russians." 



This singular error should be corrected, and it 

 cannot be more readily done than by giving the 

 following quotation from the United Service Ga- 

 2re«e, of May 23, 1857: 



" General Todtleben. — This distlngnished Russian en- 

 gineer has fixed the first week in September for visiting 

 England and attending the banquet to be given to him 

 in London by the officers of the Koyal Engineers." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



Bristol Artillery Company. — In the beginning 

 of the year 1679 an artillery company was esta- 

 blished here. The Marquis of Worcester, Lord 

 Lieutenant of the city and county of Bristol, as 

 well as of the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, 

 and Monmouth, on March 6, 1678-9, communi- 

 cated to the mayor, Sir John Lloyd, his majesty's 



