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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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« All wch wee humbly leave to yOr Lordspps honble 

 consideracons. 



" Dated att Welles, xj Junij, 1632. 

 « Yor Lordpi)'3 humble Servaunts to be comanded." 



Ina. 

 Wells. 



■Minax ^ateg. 



The Lancashire Witches in King Charles Vs 

 Eeign. — Sir Willam Pelham writes, May 16, 

 1634, to Lord Conway : 



Y" greatest news from y« country is of a huge pack of 

 Witches, w^i" are lately discovered in Lancashire, whereof 

 'tis sayd 19 are conde'mned, and y» there are at least 60 

 already discovered, and yet dayly there are more revealed ; 

 there are divers of them of good ability, and they have 

 done much harme. I heare it is suspected y' they had a 

 hand in raysing y<= greate storme wherein his Maygesty 

 was in so greate danger at Sea in Scotland." 



The original is in H. M.'s State Pap.er Office. 

 ■°. W. IT. S. 



The Prefix Wall. — 



1. Wall, in walltree and some other compound 

 words, is obviously connected with vallum, a wall. 



2. Walleyed is wheeleyed (Scotice ringleyed) ; 

 for in Scotland we have wallee or wellee, a spring 

 boiling out of the ground, and Burns writes 

 "whiles in a weel it dimpled," — this wall is a 

 cognate with volvo, to roll. 



3. The Kapvov fiaa-iXiKSy is ^dxavos, balanus, wal- 

 nut, i. e. Baal's nut ; Jugla7is, is Jove's nut ; 

 wall/lower is Baal's flower, as girofiee, Fr. Gilli- 

 fiower, Eng. is Jupiter's flower. Again, validus 

 means powerful as Baal ; vale, be under the care 

 of Baal : finally, <pa.Ka.iva, Balsena ; »aUfif{), Germ. ; 

 whale, Eng. and Dan., is Baal's fish, the fish pre- 

 pared by God for Jonah. In Isaiah xlvi. 1. 

 "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth," the Latin 

 runs "Concidit BIl (Juppiter), corruit Nebo (Mer- 

 curius), and in Acts xiv. 12., Paul through Bil 

 suggests Jupiter, and Barnabas through Nebo or 

 Nabo suggests Mercury ; Paul's eloquence, how- 

 ever, efiected a transposition of the names. This 

 wall is allied to Baal. John Husband. 



HavelocKs Stone. — The following may interest 

 General Havelock's friends : 



" A stone said to have been brought by y« Danes out of 

 their own country, and known as ' Haveloc's stone,' forms 

 a land-mark between Grimsby and y^ Hamlet of Wellow." 

 — Hist, of Lincolnshire, ii. 243. 



F. L. 



Origin of a Habit. — 



" The ladies are just now attiring themselves in a very 

 neat walking wrapper or ' duster,' which certainly com- 

 mends itself to good taste, and sits very gracefully upon 

 a form begirt with hoops. This ' habit,' however, is not 

 original with the ladies. It originated with a class, of all 

 others, perhaps, most estranged from the sex. We mean 

 the ' Zouaves,' that dauntless, yet isolated body of French 

 troops, who went up the Malakoff hill amid the storm of 

 iron rain. They first introduced the style of dress for 



fatigue purposes, and called it ' burnous.' Those worn by 

 the ladies are an exact pattern of the Zouave fatigue. 

 Strange, is it not, that delicate woman should adopt the 

 war-worn fashions of the bloodiest troops in all the world, 

 and sport in fashion what originated in the necessities of 

 the campaign of the Crimea." 



I take the above cutting from a recent journal, 

 merely for the purpose of remarking that the 

 habit therein described did not have its origin in 

 the necessities of the late Crimean campaign. The 

 peculiar and becoming costume of the Zouaves, 

 from their formation as a military body under 

 their present organisation, has undergone no 

 change; and as to the "burnous," it was known 

 in the Levant some ages ago. W. W. 



Malta. 



Typographical Mutations. — I dare say there 

 are readers of " N. & Q." old enough to remember 

 the time when certain popular works appeared, in 

 which almost every ^material word was printed 

 with a capital letter. To have abandoned that 

 display is certainly an improvement : but is not 

 the opposite peculiarity ungrateful in the appear- 

 ance of- a bo'ok-page? I allude to the printin^^ 

 such terms as " trades' hall," " literary society, 

 " mechanics' institute," &c., without capitals : to 

 me this act of typographical sans cvlotism is a per- 

 petual eyesore, even in a newspaper. But m^ 

 main purpose at this moment is to " make a note ' 

 of a still newer freak of the compositor. I have 

 before me William Wordsworth; a Biography, a 

 most delightful volume ; except that, perhaps, the 

 " linked sweetness " is sometimes too " long drawn 

 out." Now, throughout the whole of these five 

 hundred pages there does not occur, I believe, 

 except in quotations, a single colon ! Charles 

 Lamb charged Gifibrd with perpetrating strange 

 tricks with the contributions to The Quarterly, b^ 

 merely "clapping a colon before a therefore. 

 But is not this Biography the first specimen of a 

 modern book the text of which does not contain a 

 colon at all ? I make no remark on the actual 

 value or importance of this stop, nor on the theory 

 and practice of punctuation in general. D. 



Blowing from Cannon. — Kenneth Mackenzie, 

 Esq. was committed to Newgate, by the Right 

 Hon. Lord Viscount Stormont and the Lords of 

 the Privy Council, October 23, 1783, on a charge 

 of murder. He was tried under a special com- 

 mission, by virtue of statute 33 Hen. VIII. chap. 

 22., which enacts, " that persons committing mur- 

 der in any of His Majesty's forts, &c. beyond the 

 seas, may be tried by a jury in England." The 

 indictment charged that he did " at Fort Moree, 

 on the coast of Africa, August 4. 1782, feloni- 

 ously, &c." "by discharging at him a certain 



gun called a cannon." The evidence proved that 

 the culprit was tied to the gun. The Attorney 

 General (who conducted the prosecution) said, 



