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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 81., July 18. '57, 



The printer must have been remarkably Anglo- 

 Catholic to interpret "duly" by "daily !" 



In Arnold's History of Rome, vol. ii. p. 82, (4th 

 edit.), his printer makes the author say, 



"I propose, therefore, to trace success fulli/ the relations 

 of Rome with the several neighbouring states, from 389 

 to 412, beginning," &c. 



Mr. Stanley's Life scarcely bears out the prin- 

 ter's notion, that self-laudation was one of the 

 Doctor's characteristics : so let us read " succes- 

 sively " for " successfully." 



In a communication sent by an Oxford Under- 

 graduate to the Oxford Chronicle in Michaelmas 

 Term, 1855, the sentiments of St. Paul are assi- 

 milated to those of Joseph Smith by the simple 

 ellipse of " t." The last stanza but one of these 

 verses runs — 



" Death is past, and all its sorrows 

 Swallowed up in victory ; 

 Endless joys in bliss await them, 

 Life and immorality." 



Probably your correspondents could add many 

 similar instances. T. T. Jeffcock. 



Cockney, Origin of the Word. — A passage in 

 Burton (Anat. Mel., i. 2. 2. 3.) seems confirmatory 

 of the supposition that this word is derived from 

 Cocaigne, the " land of exquisite cookery." 



" Some draw this mischief on their heads by too cere- 

 monious and strict diet, being over-precise, cockney-like, 

 and curious in their observations of meats." 



Henry T, Riley. 



Curious Epitaph at Rouen. — The following 

 epitaph, copied from a tombstone in the south 

 aisle of Rouen Cathedral, may possess some in- 

 terest for your readers. The narrative which it 

 relates has probably no parallel with which the 

 English reader is familiar : 



" Par permission de messieurs de chapitre. 



" Cy gisent les corps de Jacques Turgis, Robert Tal- 

 lebot, et Charles Lebrasseur, natifs de Rouen, executes k 

 mort par jugement presidial d'Andely le xxv. jour d'Oc- 

 tobre, mil dcxxv. pour un pretendu assassinat dont its 

 furent faussement accuses et d^puys declares innocents du 

 diet crime, par arrest du grand conseil, donne & Poitiers 

 le dernier jour de decembre mil dcxxvii. suj'vant lequel 

 les corps deterres du dit lieu d'Andely, ont ete apportes 

 en ce lieu proche ceste chappelle des martirs innocents le 

 11 jour d'apuril mil dcxxviii., en laquelle se dira tous 

 les samedis h perpetuity une messe pour le repos de leurs 

 ames, avecq ung obit tous les ans, le xxx jour d'octobre, 

 jouxte la fondation qui en a este faicte ceans, suivant le 

 diet arrest du conseil. Priez Dieu pour leurs ames ! " 



Henry Daveney. 



Names of Slates. — The whimsical names now 

 in use, " Princesses, .Duchesses, Countesses, and 

 Ladies," are said to have been given by General 

 Warburton, the proprietor of some of the great 

 quarries in North Wales about a century ago. 

 Perhaps it is not generally known that before that 

 time names still more whimsical were used. The 



following list is taken from that very extraordi- 

 nary collection of curious information, a " portable 

 library," as some former owner of my copy haa 

 called it, Randle Holme's Academy of Armory 

 and Blazon. As Holme was a Cheshire man, we 

 may be pretty sure that he gives us the names 

 then used in the slate districts : 



" Names of Slates according to their several Lengths. 

 ^' Short Haghattee. 



Long Haghattee. 



Farwells. 



Chitts. 



Warnetts. 



Shorts. 



Shorts save one, or Short so won. 



Short Backs. 



Long Backs. 



Batchlers. 



Wivetts. 



Short Twelves. 



Long Twelves. 



Jenny why Jettest thou. 



Rogue why Winkest thou. 

 " The shortest Slate is about four Inches, all the rest ex- 

 ceed an Inch, one in length from the other; sometimes 

 less or more, according as the Work-man pleaseth." — • 

 Academy of Armory, &c., b. ill. c. v. p. 2C5. 



According to this explanation the " Long 

 Twelves " were about sixteen inches in length, 

 or twelve inches longer than "Short Haghattees;" 

 hence, probably, the name of "Long Twelves." 

 The largest slates, " Rogues," must have been 

 about eighteen inches long. There is nothing 

 said about the breadth. The largest slates now 

 used, " Princesses," I believe are about twenty- 

 four inches long. J. W. Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



The Maid of Zaragoza. — I have extracted the 

 following from The Times of July 6, for preser- 

 vation in " N. & Q. : " 



" The Spanish papers announce the death at Ceuta of 

 Agostina Zaragoza, the heroine whose share in the de- 

 fence of the city the name of which she bore, has been 

 recorded in a glowing chapter of SoutRey's History of 

 the Peninsular War, and immortalised by Byron's genius. 

 According to a note to Childe Harold, she was in her 

 22nd year when the siege occurred, so that she must have 

 been about 70 at her death. The Spanish papers merely 

 say that she was very young at the time of the siege. 

 She held the rank of ensign in the Spanish army, and 

 wore several decorations, the reward of her exploits in 

 the War of Independence. She was buried at Ceuta with 

 military honours." 



R. W. C. 



Burke's Systasis of Crete." — In Gunning's 

 Reminiscences (i. 214.) it appears that Bishop 

 Watson and the Cambridge scholars of that day 

 were puzzled with Burke's phrase " Systasis of 

 Crete." As his quotation from Burke is inac- 

 curate, the following extract is supplied : 



" The municipal army [meaning the National Guard], 

 which, according to their new policy, is to balance this 

 national army, if considered in itself only, is of a con8ti-> 



