2°'> S. NO 98., Nov. U. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



397 



said to grow at Hastings, Eye, and Pevensey, in 

 Sussex ; neai' Lyd and Walmer Castle, Kent ; 

 Sandown Beach, Hampshire ; near Penzance ; in 

 Lincolnshire, Shetland, and Ireland ; and pro- 

 bably in many other places. 



Ray and Gerard called the plant Pisum mnri- 

 num, Linna3us Pisum maritimus ; but modern bo- 

 tanists have removed it to the genus Lathyj'us, 

 and it is now called Lathyrus maritimus. 



The plant belongs to the natural order Legu- 

 minosce, popularly known by bearing what are 

 called papilionaceous or butterfly-shaped flowers, 

 and having a seed-vessel technically named a 

 legume, of which the common pea is a well-known 

 example. 



The slight difference between the Geneva Pi- 

 sum and Lathyrus need not be explained, being 

 only interesting to botanists. D. S. K. 



Etymology of "-Envelope" (2""^ S. iv. 279.) — 

 Latin, iuvolucrum,involvere ; Low Latin, involpare ; 

 Italian, inviluppare, inoiluppo ; French, enveloppe ; 

 English, envelope. Involpare is on the authority 

 of Bescherelle. If, among the learned correspon- 

 dents of •* IST. & Q.," some one can furnish a satis- 

 factory account of this word, it will remove the 

 only difficulty in tracing envelope from involvere. 



The Spanish envolver was in old Spanish envoi' 

 car, which, being of the first conjugation, brings 

 us so much the nearer to involpare. But where 

 can involpare have got its p ? Is the p a modifi- 

 cation of the second v in involvere ? Very pro- 

 bably. Or is it from implicare, which may also 

 have something to do with envolcar ? Conf. Ital. 

 involgere. 



We are reminded by Dr. Richardson that the 

 word envelope is spelt by Chaucer envolupe. Our 

 forefathers, then, probably had the word direct 

 from the Italian inviluppo, without the intervention 

 of any French medium. Respecting carrenare, an- 

 other word used by Chaucer, I have shown the 

 same, (2"'» S. iii. 299.). ' Thomas Boys. 



John Spilshury (2°'* S. iv. 308.) — One of the 

 ministers ejected on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1662, 

 was John Spilsbury, of Bromsgrove, Worcester- 

 shire. His son for many years presided over a 

 dissenting congregation at Kidderminster, and 

 died (I believe) in 1727. The son of this last, 

 Francis Spilsbury, was born in 1706, and was 

 educated at Glasgow University. He was after- 

 wards a dissenting minister at Kidderminster, 

 Bromsgrove, and Worcester ; and finally at 

 Salters' Hall, London. He died March 3, 1782. 

 I have no doubt that your correspondent will find 

 farther particulars in Wilson's History of Dissent- 

 ing Churches, a book to which I have not, at pre- 

 sent, access. Rbsupinus. 



Hunger inMell (2°^ S. iv. 331.) —In that ex- 

 traordinary poem called •' the Ten Commandments 



of the Devil," Satan entices his votaries to sin by 



the following promise : — 



" Thou shalt lie in frost and fire with sickness and hun- 



GKR, 



And in a thousand peices thou shalt be torn asunder ; 



Yet shalt thou die ever, and never be dead ; 



Thy meat shall be toads, and thy drink boiling lead," 



Lazarus is said to have described the pains of 

 Hell as seen by him while under the dominion of 

 death, inter alia — 



" Here followeth the vi. paine of Hell. The vi. paine, 

 said Lazarus, that I haue seene in Hell is in a vale a 

 floud foule.and stinking at the brim, in which was a 

 table with towels right dishonestly, whereas gluttons 

 beene fed with toads and other venomous beasts, and had 

 to drinke of the water of the said floud." 



The description is followed by a frightful wood- 

 cut, in which ugly devils are incessantly active in 

 cramming down the throats of their prisoners toads 

 and abominable things. These, with many other 

 extraordinary tales, are contained in that very 

 amusing and once popular work, The Kalender of 

 Shepherds, printed by Caxton and all our early 

 printers. It was used as an educational work to 

 the time of Charles the First. My copy, fine and 

 perfect, bears the date of 1631. To terrify the 

 glutton it says — 



" The which bringetli every man and woman unto the 

 kitchin of infernal gulf, there to be fed and made satiate 

 with the devil, the chief cook of the kitchen of hell." 



Over the Lord's Prayer is inscribed " Here fol- 

 loweth the history of the Pater Noster Row." In 

 the wood-cut is the sentence "And lead vs not 

 into temptation," while in the text the old trans- 

 lation is continued, " and let us not be led into 

 temptation." G. OrroR. 



Hackney. 



Locusts in England (2°'> S. iv. 267.) — On the 

 16th August last, on returning from the morning 

 service at our church, I found a locust settled 

 on the door-post. It was of a bright green 

 colour and about three inches in length. I cap- 

 tured the beautiful creature and confined it under 

 a reversed finger-glass. The fumes of burned 

 tobacco made it insensible for a time, but it re- 

 covered in a few hours, and the next day was per- 

 mitted to fly away. M. G. 



Cromer. 



As no correspondent has noticed the remarks 

 of Mr. Taylor, I may be permitted to say that 

 there is not the slightest reason for doubting that 

 the insect in question is the true locust (Gryllus 

 migratorius). I have one before me at this mo- 

 ment, which was picked up alive near this place 

 (Sheffield) on September 6 last, about the time 

 when others were met with in widely distant parts 

 of the country : indeed one was exhibited at the 

 recent meeting of the British Association which 

 had just been found in the College grounds at 



