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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 89., Sept. 12. '57. 



Tuthill, whom I suppose to be the person here 

 alluded to, died of acute laryngitis." His death 

 caused a great sensation in the medical worhi, 

 and Dr. Fiirre of Charterhouse Square, who, (as 

 I think,) has now retired from business, but who 

 has paid great attention to this subject, ^yould 

 probably be able to give the best answer to the 

 inquiry. Geobge Okmerod. 



Sedbury Park. 



Copes (2"'' S. iv. 172.) — On this subject, M. 

 W. C. will find ona reason why copes " have fallen 

 into disuse," by referring to some notes of mine 

 attached to the Query : " When did copes cease 

 to be worn ? " (P' S. xii. 103.) 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



At more than one church in England vestments 

 are in use. The cope was last worn in the cathe- 

 dral of Durham, until Warburton in a rage threw 

 it off, because it interfered with his cauliflower 

 wig. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



« Yend" " Voach " (2"* S. iv. 150.) — May not 

 voacTi be another orthog. of poach, one sense of 

 which (according to Webster) is to tread soft 

 ground ? " You must not poach on my ground — 

 or on my corns." Palmer (Dial. Devon, Lond. 

 1837) does not give voach, but I find fulch, fulk, 

 to squeeze, and vease, to thrust, to squeeze ; and 

 vet or vetch, to fetch. (See the difTerent senses of 

 to fetch in Johnson.) Halliwell says, " Land is 

 said to be poached when it is trodden with holes 

 by heavy cattle." Palmer gives " To yen or yen 

 away, to throw. Sax. heajutn, the h being changed 

 for y, as in similar instances. In the pret. yandV 

 Heajian, however, signifies to mourn ; probably 

 hebhan (Lye gives heafan for he/an), to heave, is 

 meant, or heawan, to thrust. R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Painting on Glass for Magic Lantern Slides 

 (2"* S. iv. 129.) — In answer to C. L. H.'s in- 

 quiry, the best way is to get, at any artists' colour- 

 man's, the oil colours made up in small compres- 

 sible tin tubes : their price varies from Sd. to Is. 

 each. Mix the colour with a little white varnish, 

 according to the depth of tint desired, and lay it 

 on the glass as quickly as possible, because the 

 white varnish is a rapid dryer. Wash the brushes 

 in spirits of turpentine after finishing each tint. 

 Two or three trials with the varnish will soon put 

 C. L. H. in the way of using it. I would recom- 

 mend him (or her) to draw with a very fine 

 pencil the outlines in black before colouring the 

 picture. J. S. D. 



J. C. Frommamis " Tractatus de Fascinatione " 

 (2"* S. iv. 139.) — Many thanks to T. G. S., Edin- 

 burgh, for his kind information ; I would be glad 

 to know also where I could find any account of 

 the author. In glancing my eye over the work I 



was particularly struck at p. 627., as the account 

 of the changeling there given corresponds verbatim 

 with many legends of a similar nature current 

 among the peasantry in the south of Ireland. In 

 my copy there is a very curious plate facing the 

 title, representing persons bewitching children, 

 &c. It is divided into three compartments. 



R. C. 

 Cork. 



" Lover," as applied to a Woman (2"'' S. iv. 107.) 

 — Your correspondent, who requires a further 

 instance of this, will find one in the Faerie Queen, 

 book I. canto ii. stanza 42., wherein Fradubio, 

 narrating the fate of himself and Fidessa (both 

 changed into trees), says of the enchantress 

 Duessa : 



" Then brought she me into this desert waste, 

 And by my wretched lover's side me pight ; 

 Where now enclosed in wooden wals full faste, 

 Banisht from living wights, our wearie dales we waste." 



x.x.x. 



L-ish Dramatic Talent (2"^ S. iv. 105.) — With- 

 out the slightest desire to take away from the 

 confessedly high standing of the Irish people as a 

 literary one, nor from the remai'kable dramatic 

 talent given proof of by so many of Ireland's sons, 

 I cannot help thinking that your correspondent 

 " Abhba," gives them more than their due when 

 he ascribes to a native of the Emerald Isle, 

 Murphy, the authorship of one of our most popular 

 and celebrated comedies, the Heiress. If I am 

 not greatly mistaken the comedy in question is 

 not the production of Murphy, great as that 

 writer's reputation is as translator and dramatist; 

 nor is it that of any other Irishman ; but that it is 

 from the pen of General Burgoyne, an English- 

 man, whose surrender with the forces under his 

 command during the first American war is not 

 likely, — whatever the comedy may do for securing 

 to him a high character as a dramatic author, — 

 to add to his reputation and future fame as a mili- 

 tary officer. K. 



Arbroath. 



Misprints (2"^ S. iv. 47.) — A number of years 

 since there was pointed out to me by a friend in 

 a pocket New Testament by the King's Printers 

 in Edinburgh rather a ludicrous mistake, oc- 

 casioned by the omission of the letter r in the 

 word brother, making the passage Acts xii. 2. to 

 read, " And he killed James the bother of John 

 with the sword." I am sorry that I now forget 

 the exact year of the edition, which may date 

 about twenty-five years back. Mr. Offor, so 

 rich in Biblical curiosities, will likely be aware 

 of it. G.N. 



Irish House of Commons.— In " N. & Q.," P' S. 

 ix. 35., an inquiry was made by C. H. D. as to the 

 particulars of the title-page of a volume published 



