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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. NO 94, Oct. 17. '57. 



" Oh ! mean may seem this house of clay " (2°^ S. 

 iv. 256.) — This noble hymn was written by Mr, 

 T. H. Gill of Birmingham, and appears in the 

 Hymn Book of the Church of the Saviour in that 

 town. Will your correspondent oblige by saying 

 where he saw it, if not in the volume named ? 



ESTE. 



" Triforium., Derivation of (2"'* S. iv. 269.)— The 

 etymology of this much disputed word, owing to 

 the very limited use of the term, except in modern 

 times, no less than the original design of its eccle- 

 siastical construction, must remain a matter of 

 conjecture. Gervaise appears to be the only me- 

 diaeval writer who has adopted it (see Glossary) : 

 a choice therefore of derivations is all that I can 

 presume to offer your correspondents. 



Mr. Fosbroke describes triforia as "upper- 

 ways round the church for the convenience of 

 suspending tapestry and similar ornaments, on 

 festivals." Such an application of their use might 

 suggest the origin of the triple piercings (ter- 

 foro ?), or the sets of door-\ik.Q apertures (fores ?) 

 through which at intervals the "tapestry and 

 similar ornaments " would be displayed. Possibly, 

 however, your correspondent might prefer de- 

 riving this word from fori (Greek tto/joi, from 

 iropor, a passage,) defined (see Facciolati Lex.) : 

 " ParvjB illaj semitae intra naves, per quas nautae 

 ultro citroque discurrunt." Forus is (see Smith's 

 Lat. Diet.) a gangway in a ship : a definition 

 which may present indeed some analogy to the 

 high-pitched gangways of the nave, which in some 

 instances were galleries running round the entire 

 body of the church. I am aware that this is but 

 a partial analysis of a compound term, and as such 

 will probably be respected, as the tres would more 

 correctly refer to the architectural arrangement 

 of the windows or apertures that pierced the gal- 

 leries, than to the galleries themselves. 



Triforium has been conjectured to be a barba- 

 rous Latinisation of thoroughfare, a corruption 

 however deemed inadmissible (see The Glossary 

 of Architecture, s. v.). Opposed to the triforium, 

 or blind-story, as it is sometimes called, was the 

 clear-story, clerestory, through the transparent 

 windows of which light was introduced into the 

 body of the church. F. Phillott. 



'■'■Ere around the huge oak'' (2°'i S. iv. 251.) 

 — May I point out an error in the Note re- 

 specting this song, where it is said that it is 

 not in the original edition of the music in the 

 Farmer. It will be found at p. 10. This, how- 

 ever, in itself, need not weaken the presumption 

 that the air belongs to Michael Arne ; since, al- 

 though the music is said on the title-page to be 

 selected and composed by W. Shield, there is no 

 indication affixed to any one of the airs by which 

 to distinguish the selected from the original. 



That Mr. Shield's name appears on the single 



sheet copy of the music is hardly conclusive against 

 Mr. Arne's claim, when it is known what mistakes 

 are actually made upon such points. See, for in- 

 stance, in "N. & Q." (pt S. ii. 495.) Dr. Rim- 

 bault's answer respecting the musical authorship 

 of " The Owl is Abroad." A. R. 



Female Names borne by Men (2"'' S. iv. 128.) — 

 Bkamble tells us that there was a king of the 

 East Angles whose name was Anna. The last 

 king (so-called) of the House of Stuart, " Henry 

 IX." (Cardinal York) also bore a female name, 

 " Henry Benedict Maria Clement." Farther, 

 T. W. King, York Herald (2°" S. iv. 277.), speaks 

 of a gentleman at Caen, in 1584, named Anna 

 Wardell. All these are by-gone examples. I can 

 cite a living one in the person of Michael Henry 

 Mary Blount, of Mapledurham, a gentleman to 

 whom Mb. Carruthers acknowledges to have 

 been greatly indebted in preparing his last edition 

 of the Life of Pope for the press. The name will 

 be found in page 65. J. Doran. 



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R. C. L. In the passage in which Cassius says — 

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Errata. — 2nd S. iv. 284. col. 1. 1. 33., /or "tooke" read "looke;" 

 1. !>9. for " Rixbrum " read " Rixbeum." 



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