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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 92., Oct. 3. '57. 



who, like his Saturnian majesty of the Roman, 

 figures in Hindu mytbology as the god of gods, 

 any connexion with that of their reputed proge- 

 nitor ? Perhaps some of your Sanscrit, or ori- 

 ental lexicologists will do me the favour to give its 

 etymon, with some explanation of the word. 



F. Phillott. 



Clerical Wizards. — In an extremely virulent 

 low-church pamphlet. The Divine Authority of 

 Bishops Examined, London, 1706, it is said : — 



" About fiftj' years ago two persons episcopally or- 

 dained, were hung upon their own confessions as wizards : 

 one for commanding his familiar to sink a ship, by which 

 the whole crew perished ; and the other for causing the 

 great blight which in 1643 spoiled more than half the 

 corn in Norfolk. Some said they had lost their wits by 

 drink, and, if so, they may have only confessed their 

 delusions and wishes — pretty wishes ! " 



Is there any foundation for the above ? M. A. 



" Croydon Complexion ,-" " Black Dog of Bun- 

 gay" — John Londe, archdeacon of Nottingham, 

 writing in 1579, and relating to John Foxe, the 

 martyrologist, the penance at St. Paul's Cross of 

 one whose opinions were obnoxious to him, and 

 whom he terms " a scullion of the Pope's black 

 guard," states that the man stood "with owt 

 blushing, for his Croydon complexyone wolde not 

 suiTer him to blush, more then the black dogge of 

 Bungay." I can understand the first allusion, 

 which evidently refers to the manufacture of char- 

 coal, for which Croydon was then famous ; but 

 has the expression, " a Croydon complexion," been 

 elsewhere noticed in our old writers ? And 

 where can I find any other mention of " the black 

 dog of Bungay ?" John Gocgh Nichols. 



Monument in Mexico. — Madame De Stael, in 

 her Germany, Part iv. Chapter ii., has the follow- 

 ing passage : 



" The inhabitants of Mexico, as they pass along the 

 great road, each of them carry a small stone to the grand 

 pyramid which they are raising in the midst of their 

 country. No individual will confer his name upon it: 

 but all will have contributed to this monument which 

 must survive them all." 



Has this pyramid been mentioned by any an- 

 cient traveller in Mexico ? XJneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



" Go to Bath." — In The Office of the Justices 

 of the Peace, by William Lambard, 2nd edit, 

 1588 (p. 334.), I read : 



" Such two Justices may * * * * Licence diseased 

 persons (living of almes) to trauell to Bathe, or to Suck- 

 stone, for remedie of their griefe." 



Is this the origin of the expression, " Go to 

 Bath"?"' C. MansfieIvD Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



[* See " N. & Q.," 1" S. ix. 577. —Ed.] 



Charles Wesley. — In Note vli. to the first vo- 

 lume of Southey's Life of Wesley, is the following 

 passage respecting Charles Wesley, from the Rev. 

 Thomas Jackson's life of him : 



" It does not appear that any person beside himself, in 

 any section of the universal church, has either written so 

 many hymns or hymns of such surpassing excellence. 

 Those which he published would occupy about ten or- 

 dinarj'-sized duodecimo volumes ; and the rest, which he 

 left in manuscript, and evidently designed for publication, 

 would occupy, at least, ten more." 



Have these manuscript hymns, or any portion 

 of them, been published ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Marquis de Montandre. — Fran9ois de Rouche- 

 foucault. Marquis de Montandre, was appointed 

 Master-General of the Ordnance in Ireland in 

 1738. How did it happen that so important a 

 situation was bestowed by King George II. on a 

 foreigner, even though he was a Huguenot ? 



Y. S. M. 



Chairman's casting Vote. — The committee of 



the W Mechanics* Institute, having lately 



met for the transaction of business, a motion and 

 amendment were made and seconded: the vote 

 being taken, it was found that five had voted for 

 the motion and five for the amendment ; one for 

 the latter being the vote of the chairman, which 

 he claimed as a member of the committee ; he 

 then gave his casting vote for the amendment, 

 which was declared to be carried. Has the chair- 

 man of any Society the right to exercisetwo votes, 

 if no mention is made in the rules of that Society 

 whether he is to have two or only the casting 

 vote ? Ignoramus. 



Impressions on the Eye. — What is the meaning 

 of the following, from the Neiv York Observer ? 

 Are our friends " over the water" hoaxing us, as 

 is their wont, or is there a shxuJe of truth in the 

 details of the experiments said to have been made? 



" The astonishing and intenselj'^ interesting fact was 

 recently announced in the English papers of a discpverj', 

 that the last image formed on the retina of the eye of a 

 dying person remains impressed upon it as on a daguer- 

 rean plate. Thus it was alleged that if the last object 

 seen by a murdered person was his murderer, the portrait 

 drawn upon the eye would remain a fearful witness in 

 death to detect the guilty, and lead to his conviction. A 

 series of experiments have recently been made (Aug. 

 1857) by Dr. Pollock of Chicago, as we learn from the 

 Democratic Press, to test the correctness of this state- 

 ment. In each experiment that Dr. Pollock has made he 

 has found that an examination of the retina of the eye 

 with a microscope reveals a wonderful as well as a beau- 

 tiful sight, and that in almost every instance there was a 

 clear, distinct, and marked impression. We put these 

 facts upon record in the hope of wakening an interest in 

 the subject, that others may be induced to enter upon 

 these interesting experiments, and the cause of science be 

 advanced. The recent examination of the ej^e of J. H. 

 Beardsley, who was murdered in Auburn, conducted by 

 Dr. Sandford, corresponds -with those made elsewhere. 



