2nd s. No 82., July 25. '67.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and Psalms of Dr. Henry King, Bishop of Chi- 

 chester, annis 1641-73, gives a letter under date 

 Dec. 13, 1639, addressed by the Bishop to his 

 " Noble and much esteemed Friend, Mr. Powell at 

 Fostill." 



This Mr. Powell the editor believes to have 

 been Richard Powell, of Forest Hill, near Ox- 

 ford ; and Fostill he considers to have been only 

 a following of a corruption of common parlance, 

 thus, Fo(rre)st-(h)iU. 



The writer speaks of Mr. Powell in this letter as 

 a friend of his deceased brother John, who was 

 Public Orator, Oxon ; Prebendary of Christ 

 Church there, and of St. Paul's, London ; Canon 

 of Windsor, and Rector of Remenham, co. Berks., 

 ob. Jan. 2, 1638-9. 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." give me any in- 

 formation or references by which to identify this 

 Mr. Powell ? James Knowles. 



[In the Life of Anthony a Wood, edit. 1848, p. 127., it 

 is stated that " A. VV. was born at Sandford neare Oxon, 

 in the house of John Powell, gent., which was a house 

 and preceptory somtimes belonging to the Knights Tem- 

 plars." To this passage Dr. Bliss has added the following 

 particulars of the Powell family: " The Powells were a 

 very ancient family long settled at, and possessing the 

 manor of, Sandford ; and the name will be regarded with 

 the greater interest from the certainty that it is the same 

 familj- with which Milton afterwards became connected 

 by marriage ; although the poet's father-in-law lived, it 

 is said, at Forest hill. I suspect there were two families, 

 nearly connected, but residing, the one at Sandford, the 

 other at Forest hill. 1 find in the Matriculation Kegis- 

 ter, marked PP., the following entries; the two latter 

 brothers-in-law of Milton : — 



" ' 1G28 Maij 23°. Aul. Alb. Gul. Powell Oxon. fil. Ed- 

 mundi Powell de Sanford in com. p'd. gen. an. nat. 12. 



" ' 1636. Mar. 10. ^des Christi. Thomas Powell, Oxon. 

 fil. 1"«. Rich'i Powell de Fforest hill in com. p'd. arm. an. 

 nat. 14. 



" ' 1640. Mali 18. Jacob. Powell, Oxon. fil. Rich'i Powell 

 de Fforest hill in com. Oxon. arm. an. nat. 14.'"] 



Lvcas who visited Gizeh in 1699. — Of what 

 family was the Lucas who visited and described 

 the Pyramids of Gizeh in the year 1699, and what 

 is the title of the work in which that description is 

 given ? A North Countetman. 



[Paul Lucas, a French traveller, was the son of a mer- 

 chant at Rouen, and born there in 1664. He first tra- 

 velled in the Levant as a jeweller, after which he en- 

 tered the Venetian service against the Turks. In 1699 

 he went to Egypt, and ascended the Nile as far as the 

 cataracts. He returned to Paris in 1703, and published 

 the narrative of his journey, entitled Voyage au Levant en 

 1699 ; contenant la Description de la haute et basse Egypte; 

 avec une Carte du Nile, 2 vols. 12mo., Haye, 1705, 1709 ; 

 Paris, 1714, 1781, which is frequently enlivened with a 

 dash of the marvellous. His works were edited by Bau- 

 delot Dairval, Fourmont, and Barrier. Lucas died in 

 Spain in 1737, whilst examining the antiquities of that 

 country.] 



" Fitting to a T" — In Boswell's Life of Br. 

 Johnson, the latter, after quoting a certain couplet, 

 is reported to have added, " You see they'd have 



fitted him [i. e. Warburton] to a T." What waa 

 the Doctor's meaning ? L. E. W. 



[The phrase has reference to th e T, or Tee square, an 

 instrument used in drawing and m.echanics, and so named 

 from its resemblance to a capital T.] 



Anonymous Poems. — Can you give me any in- 

 formation regarding the authorship of the follow- 

 ing work ? Jubal, a poem ia six cantos, by M. E. 

 M. J., author of Waldenhur:'^, published 1839. 



R. Inglis. 



[By Margaret Elizabeth IVIary Jones. Waldenhurg, 

 which was written when the la.dy was " onlj' in her four- 

 teenth year," has been dramati.sed under a different title. ] 



Hebrew Work. — Can ?iny of your readers say 

 if the printed book descrilaed below is valuable for 

 its rarity ? It bears date of the Jewish era 200, 

 A.D. 1440. In Home's Introduction, vol. v., it is 

 stated that the first Hebrew work ever printed 

 bears date 1477, thirty-seven years after this one. 



The volume contains the Pentateuch in Hebrew 

 and Chaldee, with points ; the five books of Can- 

 ticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and 

 Esther, besides the Haphtorah from the prophets. 

 The Keri and Chethib are marked in the m'argin. 

 At the back of the title-page given below are the 

 arms of some Jewish family. The title-page is as 

 follows : 



nnin ■•B^oin nij^nn 



'^'va'-apn ninix nninix 



Dinnn 

 |5J>^ IS DD iniN ijpnyn inioa nsn x? i*y *itJ>K 



INTssD"'! insn rh^^'a nnn Nin 



iv^'nNiQ n^3v: -in'ba nnjni ^^'i^r] n^ai 

 pih ixnp'' ^^ D*»y njK>3 



A translation of the above would oblige, and a 

 notice where any other copy of the same edition 

 can be seen. C. E. S. 



[We are indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Dr. 

 McCaul, of King's College, for the following transla- 

 tion of the Hebrew: "The five fifths of the Law cor- 

 rected accurately with all might and strength. We have 

 placed their signs, the signs of the chapters and the Kri 

 and Kthiv : with the Targum. So that eye has never 

 seen the like. We have transcribed it from a very old 

 book, purified seven times. Sons have seen it and have 

 blessed it. Sages and prudent and have praised it. And 

 of it we have seen, and have thus rendered letter for letter, 

 word for word, according to its points and accents, so that 

 it may be depended upon. And the beginning of ovx 



