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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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shop in Holborn, long before the Exhibition was 

 opened. W. J. Bebnhaed Smith. 



Temple. 



Pedigree (2'^^ S. iv. 69.) — Those who speculate 

 so boldly on this word, seem to overlook the early 

 xuodes of spelling it ; which rather countenance 

 the suggestion that it is to be referred to pied de 

 grue. It is found as pedegru, petygru, pedegrw, 

 pedygru, pedegrewe, petygowe, and pedicru. 



Cranmer Family (2^ S. iv. 68.) — Your cor- 

 respondent Mr. James Knowi.es will find in 

 Thoroton's Hist, of Notts, s. v. " Aslacton," a pe- 

 digree of the Archbishop's branch oi the Cranmer 

 family for ten descents, viz. from Hugh de Cran- 

 mer (c. Ed. I. ?) to Thomas Cranmer de Aslacton, 

 great nephew of the archbishop, who married 

 Alice, daughter of John Lucy, ux. 1. ; and Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of Thomas Hutchinson, relict of 

 Will. Brookesby, ux. 2. This Thomas (the last of 

 the Cranmers of this branch) appears to have died 

 8th Dec, 1 Eliz. J. Sansom. 



A Watery Planet (2"^ S. iv. 127.) — By a 

 "watery planet" we may understand a planet 

 that was supposed to produce an excess of aqueous 

 humours in patients under its influence. 



When " Mr. Havers " wrote in his cash or day 

 book that he " was stroken with a waterye planet," 

 and withdrew from bis " comptinge house " to his 

 chamber, " his face and brest being all wett," 

 there is good reason for inferring from the symp- 

 toms that his malady was no other than a mitigated 

 form of the sweating sickness ; and the very ex- 

 pression that he employed, — " stroken with a 

 waterye planet " — points to this conclusion. We 

 throw in a qualifying term, and say "a mitigated 

 form," because the patient did not die till the 

 third day ; and the regular disease, when it killed, 

 made tnuch shorter work. Its last appearance, 

 as an epidemic, was in 1551,, 



There is extant, by Dr. Caius, A Bake or Coun- 

 seill against the disease commonly called the sweate, 

 or sweating sicknesse (1552), in which the Doctor 

 expressly indicates sidereal influences as one cause 

 of tiie disease. " To this mai be ioyned the evel 

 disposition of constellation, whiche hath a great 

 power and dominion in al erthly thinges." (Fo. 

 13. verso.) This, then, is the explanation of the 

 " waterye planet." 



But if in those days not only popular opinion, 

 but medical science, imputed human maladies to the 

 stars, bow could George Lord Carevv be at a loss 

 to understand the phrase "stroken w* a waterye 

 planet ? " It is very possible that at the period 

 when bis Lordship penned the account of " Mr. 

 Havers" and his malady, 1615, the sweating sick- 

 ness had well nigh died out ; and the old Ciea of 

 its originating in the watery influences of a planet 



may have been one of which, as he expressed him- 

 self, he was " merelye ignorant." But Havers 

 may have retained the notion, and niay have ap- 

 plied it to his own case. The power of the stars 

 over the afiairs of men found credit with some 

 persons up to a far later period. Thomas Bots. 



Artillery and the Bow.' — I have an indistinct 

 recollection of a Query in your pages respecting 

 the simultaneous use of artillery and the bow. I 

 have not " N, & Q." at hand, and send the follow- 

 ing " on chance : " 



" Now mariners do push 



With right good will the pike, 



The hailsliot of the harquebush 



The naked slaue doth strilte. 



Through targe and body right 



That downe he falleth dead, 



His fellow then ia heauie plight 



Doth swimme away afraid. 

 To bathe in brutish bloud 



Then fleeth the grey goose wing. 

 The halberdiers at hand be good, 



And hew that all doth ring. 

 Yet gunner play thy part, 



Make hailshot walk againe, 

 And fellows row with like good heart, 

 That we may get the maine. 



Our arrowes all now spent, 

 The negroes 'gan approach." 



Voyage of H. Baker to Guinie, 1562. 

 Hakluyt, p. 133., edit of 1589. 



E. H. E. 



''Teed;' '' Tidd" (2°^ S. iv. 127.)— On the 

 title-page of my copy of Spelman's Glossary is the 

 name of a former owner of it, " Chr. 2'heed;" 

 and in the text at the word Theada is this mar- 

 ginal note : 



« Fortasse ex hiac nomeu meum Theed originem capit." 



Theada, Theoda, Theuda, is from the Sax. Dtob, 

 " people, nation, or province." 



Deadman (ib. 128.) is, according to Halliwell, 

 a west country word for "scirecrow;" may it 

 not, however, as a surname, be connected with 

 the above ? J. Eastwood. 



" Flash r "Argot" (2°^ S. iv. 128.")— Ros- 

 trenen (Diet. Franc. Bret., Rennes, 1732), under 

 " Argot," refers to — 



"JVarquois, I'argot, le Jargon des Gueux; Narquois, 

 filou, adroit. Cest unfin narquois." 



Bescherelle {Diet Nat., Par., 1845), under 

 " Narquois;' says : 



«Ce mot, dans le xvii sihde, a e'te synonyme d'argot. 

 On dissiit parlar le narquois, savoir le narquois, pour dire 

 Parler et entendre le jargon qu'employaient entre eux 

 les voleurs et les escrocs. II est employ^ ainsi dans 

 Taltement des Reaux, torn. i. p. 139." Also ''Narquois, 

 homme fin, subtil, ruse, qui se plait h. troniper les autres, 

 ou a s'en moquer," from " Narquin, mendiant, voleur, 

 coupeur de bourses." 



Menage, under " Narquois," says ; 



" On appelle ainsi le jargon des Gueux. Du mot nar- 

 quin, qui sigoifioit mendiant, contrefaisaat le soldat d^- 



