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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 95., Oct. 24. '67. 



lation of India. The titles of some were given, 

 but the only one I can recall to mind (for I have 

 not the paper to refer to) was The Sword the 

 Key to Heaven ! Surely it would be worth some 

 one's while to hunt this matter out, and in it we 

 might yet find the key to solve this horrible 

 enigma. It seems to have been a fated blindness 

 in our Indian government, that they should have 

 so disregarded this handwriting of fire, this mut- 

 tering under-set of the billow which has broken 

 with such fury over our heads, that even now this 

 eign of a coming time has been utterly forgotten. 

 Will any of your correspondents send you this 

 cutting from Allen's Mail for re-publication ? I 

 wish I could refer them to the date ; which, how- 

 ever, is not farther back than 1854. E. E. Btnq. 

 [ The Way to lose India is now not only circulated in 

 English, but extensively in native translations. The 

 Indian Press (we speak of the Bombay Gazette) complain 

 that Avhilst they are prevented from making comments 

 even on the conduct of Government, the law does not and 

 CANNOT touch this. The writer is stated to be a well- 

 known Civil Servant, whose name is given in the lead- 

 ing article of the above journal about six weeks ago. 

 We have not seen this mentioned in any of the English 

 papers.] 



Sidney's " Arcadia." — In my impression of this 

 work (the llth edit., 1662), two supplements are 

 furnished continuing the narrative from its ab- 

 rupt termination in the third book : the one in 

 the body of the volume by Sir W. A. ; the other, 

 at the end, by Ja. Johnstoun. The sixth book is 

 Baid to be " written by R. B. of Lincoln's Inn, 

 Esquire." Can you inform me of the names for 

 which the above initials, namely. Sir W. A. and 

 R. B. stand ? Charles Wtlie. 



[The addition to the third book is by Sir William 

 Alexander, afterwards Earl of Stirling. It was first pub- 

 lished separatel}' as A Supplement of a Defect in the Third 

 Part of Sidney's Arcadia, Dublin, 1621, fol., and after- 

 wards included in the Arcadia, London, 1633, fol. " Sir 

 William Alexander," says Mr. Crossley, " has attempted 

 to supply the defect in the third book as an imitator not 

 unworthy of Sidney." The sixth book is by Richard De- 

 ling, born in Dublin, 1613, and was written whilst a 

 student. He died in 1677. J 



Michael Scott. — I should be much obliged for 

 particulars or legends respecting Michael Scott, 

 the wizard, whose tombstone is in Melrose Abbey, 

 and who is mentioned in the Lay of the Last 

 Minstrel. When did he die? and why did he 

 obtain the appellation of a wizard ? At Abbots- 

 ford is shown the cast of a skull said to be his. 

 Was he ever disinterred ? and if so, in what year, 

 and for what purpose ? B. 



[Our correspondent cannot do better than consult a 

 valuable article on Michael Scott in the Penny Cyclo- 

 pcedia, and the following authorities quoted by the writer : 

 " Dempster, Historia Ecclesiastica Scotorum, which is full 

 of lies ; and Dr. Mackenzie's Lives of the Scottisfi Writers, 

 a compilation of the beginning of the last century, abound- 

 ing also in apocryphal matter, and destitute of anything 

 Uke critical spirit. There is a short article on Scott in 



Bayle ; and one of more detail in the Biographie Uni- 



verselle."'] 



" Missour.'" — What is the meaning of the fol- 

 lowing Scottish proverb, in Bohn's Handbook of 

 Proverbs : " He that forsakes missour, missour 

 forsakes him." Zeus. 



[A sad misprint in this useful book; for missour read 

 •measure. "He that forsakes measure, measure forsakes 

 him ; " that is, he who is immoderate in any thing, de- 

 sign, or action, shall meet with treatment accordingly. 

 See Kelly's Scottish Proverbs, p. 98.] 



" The Sectarian" Sfc. — Amongst many novels 

 which have served to attract notice, some may be 

 found of very great merit. We may, for instance, 

 mention The Sectarian, or the Church and the 

 Meeting-Home, 3 vols. 12mo., Lond., 1829, Col- 

 burn. The two first volumes are admirable ; the 

 third is, upon the whole, a failure. Is the author 

 known ? J. Mt. 



[By Andrew Picken, born at Paisley in 1788, author 

 of Tales and Sketches of the West of Scotland, and The 

 Dominie's Legacy. A short time previous to his death 

 appeared his Traditionary Stories of Old Families, in 

 2 vols., the first of a series intended to embrace the 

 legendary history of Great Britain and Ireland. He died 

 in November, 1833, and a novel entitled The Black Watch, 

 which he had just completed, was afterwards published.] 



Looting the Treasury. — What is the exact mean- 

 ing and origin of this phrase ? Ignoramus. 



[Plundering the treasury ; from " LUt, Loot, Hindus- 

 tani, plunder, robber^', pillage." See Wilson's Glossary of 

 Indian Terms. In the Political Magazine for 1781 will 

 be found five pages of Indian terms, given, as there stated, 

 in orderjthat its readers may understand the Debates, in 

 which Burke made an early attack upon the Company.] 



TOMB OF QUEEN KATHERINE PARR. 



(2°'J S. iv. 107.) 



An interesting account was given me some 

 years ago of the interment of Lady Catherine 

 Parr, Queen of King Henry VIII., by the daughter 

 of the late Mr. Brooks of Reading, who was pre- 

 sent at the finding of the body. 



After giving extracts from a MS. in the College 

 of Arms, London, intitled " A Booke of Buryalls 

 of trew and noble P'sons," Nos. 1.15. pp. 98, 99, 

 he says : 



" In the Summer of the year 1782 the Earth in which 

 Qu. K. Par lay inter'd was removed, and at the depth of 

 about two feet (or very little more) her leaden Coffin or 

 Chest was found quite whole, and on the lid of it when 

 well cleaned there appeared a very bad though legible 

 inscription of which the under written is a close copy : 



« K. P. 



\1H AND LAST WIFE OF KING HEN. THE VIIITH 



1548." 

 " Mr. Jno. Lucas (who occupied the land of Lord 

 Rrivers whereon the ruins of the chapel stand) had the 



