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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ad g. No 89,^ Sept. 12. '57, 



Writing tinth the Foot, Sfc. (2"'» S. ni. 226. 271. 

 319.) — In the list of " Curiosities in a Room ad- 

 jacent to the Library" of St. John's College, 

 given by the Rev, J. Pointer in his Oxoniensis 

 Academia (p. 94.) is this : " Mouth-writing, Toe- 

 writing, and Elbow-writing." This was more than 

 a century ago. Are these curiosities still pre- 

 served? and what is the "elbow-writing," and 

 how was it effected ? 



Other curiosities are : — 



" Mr. Parry's writing like Printing (what was this?) ; 

 A Hat made with Cloves; Piece of a Unicorn's horn, 

 very curiously turbinated ; A Flea chain'd, a Silver chain 

 of 30 Links, and but one Inch long ; Cocoa Nut, that is 

 Meat, Drink, and Cloth ; Virginian Spiders, with bodies 

 as big as Nutmegs ; The New Testament and Psalms, in 

 a very small vol. of Short-hand Writing ; A letter from a 

 Deaf and Dumb Lady; A Written Picture of King 

 Charles I., taking up the whole Book of Psalms ; Several 

 curious works of the Nuns of Gedding." 



And among the curiosities in the library is 

 The History of the Bible, illustrated with various 

 cuts, by the Nuns of Gedding. This appears to 

 be the " Seventh Work" of Nicholas Ferrar. See 

 Mayor's Nicholas Ferrar, pp. 148, 149., and note ; 

 and Appendix, p. 353. See also, A Life of Nicholas 

 Ferrar (abridged from Peckard, and published by 

 Masters, 1852), p, 127. and note. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



St. Ann (2"'> S. iv. 150.) — St. Ann is not ac- 

 counted the patron saint of wells. Some local 

 reason may probably be found in each case for the 

 various wells bearing her name. St. Ann is the 

 patroness of ostlers, grooms, and stable boys. 

 Her protection is invoked against the pressure of 

 poverty, and she is the particular patroness of the 

 city of Brunswick ; but no accounts connect her 

 name with fountains or wells. F. C H. 



" Bring me the wine,*' SfC. (2"'' S. iv. 149.) — 



" Bring me the wine, the goblet give, 

 Let me at length begin to live ; 

 Let the red juice in my cup swim, 

 And not a sigh sully its brim. 



Morn and eve by the goblet's flow 



The weary-wing'd hours I number, 

 Till the dream-giving grape and my fancy's glow 

 Show me the rose in slumber. 



" Bid me not tell who lit this flame. 

 Lips must not breathe the maiden's tiame ; 

 Musk in her locks, sleep in her eyes, 

 Who, witliout hope, looks on her, dies. 



Morn and eve, &c. 

 - " Harp of my soul, thy lays awhile 

 Soothe me like Morna's languid smile ; 

 You of the bow ! you of the spear ! 

 Court the death fray — fright the dun deer. 



Morn and eve," &c. 



The above are the Wotds adapted t6 a Persian 

 air, according to the copy I possess in MS. I 

 have some recollection of seeing the first two 

 verses In print, but where I do not now know. The 

 third is certainly by another hand. I procured 



my copy from a clever though neglected musician ; 

 and shall be happy to furnish B. with a copy if he 

 wishes it. J. S. D. 



Chinese Inscriptions found in Egypt (2"'' S. il. 

 387.) — Mr. Fortune, who appears to have great 

 experience in ancient Chinese porcelain, states in 

 A Residence among the Chinese from 1853 to 1856, 

 that the Chinese vases found in Egyptian tombs 

 are not older than the time of the Ming dynasty 

 (fourteenth to seventeenth century) ; the inscrip- 

 tions upon them being from poets of that time ! 



He also observes that the Chinese seals found 

 in Ireland "are from 1000 to 2000 years old;" 

 and that they are very rare in China now. J. P. 



" Teed," " Tidd" (2"^ S. iv. 127. 177.)— This, I 

 have no doubt, is a local name from the parishes 

 named Tyd in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, 

 which, though spelt Tyd, are pronounced Tidd, 

 and not Tide as some would infer from the spell- 

 ing. Whether Teed be a corrupt pronunciation 

 of Tidd, I am unable to say. 



We want much a list of the local pronuncia- 

 tions and corruptions of the names of places, in 

 order to derive properly the surnames taken from 

 them. Thus, Alsager, in Cheshire, Is pronounced 

 Auger. I know a fatnily who spell their name 

 Algar, and pronounce It Auger. Godalming is, 

 or was, pronouticed Godliman : hence the name 

 of the street In London, and also the surname, and 

 not from the Puritanical views the first person 

 so called entertained. The village of Cahiecote, 

 in Norfolk, Is called Cor-cote, or Cocket. Hence, 

 besides the six ways of spelling the surname, Cal- 

 decot, Caldlcot, Caldecote, Caldlcote, Caldecott, 

 Caldicott, are four corruptions, Corcote, Cawcutt, 

 Corkett, Cockett. 



I hope the Philological Society, in their Dic- 

 tionary, will so far follow and enlarge upon the 

 plan of N. Bailey, as to include all proper names. 

 And in doing so, with the names of villages, ham- 

 lets, hundreds, &c., they should give the ancient 

 way of spelling them ; the present, and the cor- 

 rupt and local methods of pronouncing them, and, 

 where it can be ascertained, the derivation. With 

 respect to the surnames, they should give the 

 derivation ; and where this cannot be ascertained, 

 or in the case of any remarkably singular name, 

 the locality In which It occurs — as persons ac- 

 quainted with the dialect may often be able to 

 conjecture how they have been corrupted : for 

 instance, no one acquainted with the parish of 

 Caldecote, In Norfolk, would for one Instant doubt 

 the derivation which I have given above of the 

 four corrupt forms. Of course the Registrar 

 General, who In the course of twenty years must 

 have had a birth, death, or marriage in every 

 family In his registers, should publish a complete 

 list of surnames, In order that the numerous col- 

 lectors and originators of etymologies might for- 



