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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ninety -one, he still survives to fill to the universal 

 satisfaction and respect of the community in 

 which he resides. W. W. 



Malta. 



Rood-Lofis. — Staircases to rood-lofts remain 

 in S. Peter's, Oxford ; S. Michael's, Sopley ; 

 llochford, Essex; S. Mary's le Port, Bristol; 

 Hadleigh, Essex ; Hawkhurst. The doors remain 

 at Dorchester, Henley, &c. Rood-lofts remain at 

 Hinxton, Littleport, Guilden-Morden, W. AVick- 

 ham, Chippenham, Cherry Hinton, Over, Kirt- 

 ling, Quy, co. Camb. ; N. Crawley, Bucks ; Fel- 

 mersham, Tillbrook, Pertenhall, Clifton, Beds. ; 

 Drayton, Berks ; at Totness, Paington, Westham 

 (Sussex), Honiton; at Hawstead (Suffolk) with 

 the original sacring-bell, Edington *, CoUumpton, 

 UfTendon*, Bradninch; Dartmouth, Kenton, Plym* 

 tree*, Hartland, Long Sutton, Kingsbury Epis- 

 copi, Barnwell Dunster, Timberscombe, Minehead, 

 Winsham, Newark, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Syden- 

 ham, Hook Norton, Boddicote, Handborough, 

 Merevale, Knowle, Worm Leighton, Flamstead, 

 Little Malvern, Rodney Stoke, &c. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



(kutxUS. 



KING ALFRED S DESCRIPTION OF EUllOPB, AND THE 

 VOTAGBS OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN. 



This description of Europe, and these voyages, 

 are most interesting ; not only as the composition 

 of Alfred, but invaluable as historical documents, 

 — being authentic records of the nations located 

 between the Don on the east and the Rhine and 

 North Sea on the west ; the Danube on the 

 south and the White Sea on the north. — written 

 by a contemporary so early as the nintii century. 

 Tliese Anglo-Saxon documents have claimed and 

 received the attention, not only of Englishmen, 

 but of foreigners, as the following Note on the 

 various editions of one or more of them will prove. 

 As I received much valuable Information from 

 Mr. Hampson, Mr. Singer, and Dr. Bell, 

 through " N. & Q." for the improvement of the 

 notes to my quarto facsimile edition of these docu- 

 ments, as well as the cheap otie in octavo, I am 

 anxious, before I publish my notes on the whole 

 of Orosius, to ascertain, through the same medium, 

 if there be any other editions, or works giving 

 valuable information on the subject, besides those 

 which follow : — 



1598. Hakluyt. Fol. Lond. English, by Lambard. 

 1G59. Somner. Fol. Lond. Anglo-Sax. and Latin. 



Wulfstan, Diet, sub gedrync. 

 1678. Alumni Oxouienses. Fol. Oxon. Anglo-Sax. 



and Latin. 

 1709. Spelman. 8vo. Oxon. English. 



Those marked * beitfg coloured and gilded. 



1733. BussiBus. 4to. Havn. Anglo-Sax. and Latin. 

 1744. 2nd edit. id. Merely new title ? 

 1765. Murray. 8vo. Gcitt. Notes. 

 1773. Barrington. 8vo. Lond. Anglo-Sax. and English. 

 1773. Langebek. Fol. Hafn. Anglo-Sax. and Latin. 

 1786. Forster. 4to. Lond. English, with notes. 

 1796. Potoki. 4to. Bruns. Anglo-Sax. and French. 

 1800. Porthan. 12mo. Stock. Aiiglo-Sax. and Swedish. 



1807. Ingrain. 4to. Oxon. Anglo-Sax. and English. 



1808. Beckmann. 8vo. Giitt. Notes. 



1815. Rask. 8vo. Copen. Anglo-Sax. and Danish. 



Id. 2nd edit, 1834. 8vo. Id. 

 1822. Dahlmann. 8vo. Alton. German. 

 1834. Peterson. 8vo. Copen. Geog. notes Danish. 



1837. Zeus. 8vo. Mtinch. Die Deutschen und nachbav 

 st(Bmma. Notes. 



1838. Leo. 8vo. Halle. Anglo-Sax., and Glossary. 

 Germania. 



1846. Thorpe's Analecta. 12mo. Lond. Anglo- Sax., 

 and Glossary. 



1847. Ebeliffg. 4to. Leipz. Anglo-Sax. 



1852. Rafn (Munch). 4to. Copen. Anglo-Sax. and 

 Latin. 



1853. Thorpe's Orosius. 8vo. Lond. Anglo-Sax. and 

 English. 



I have not yet had an opportunity of perusing 

 Sprengel's Geschichte, Halle, 1792, nor Giese- 

 brecht's Wendische Geschichte, Berlin, 1843, 



Joseph Boswoeth. 



The Lodge, Islip, Oxford. 



MONSTER GUN (qUEEN ELIZABETh's POCKET 

 pistol) at DOVER. 



In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1767, voL 

 xxxvii. p. 499., I read the following letter to 

 " Me. Urban. 



" On the most southern point of the cliff which forms 

 the platform of Dover Castle, lies a brass gun, 24 feet 

 long without, and 22 feet long in the bore, beautifully 

 adorned with flowers, and emblematical figures, in relief, 

 and these inscriptions are raised on it in Roman capitals : 



'IAN TOLHVYS VAN VTREOHT. 1544.' 



" This I suppose to be the founder's name. Under it is 

 a shield, with six chevronels quartering a fess indented. 

 On a scutcheon of pretence a saltire cheque. Motto, 

 Sans Avltre. The arms oi England in a garter, with 

 'diev et mon droit.' 



" Then follows an inscription, of which some of your 

 readers may perhaps give us a translation : 



'BRECH 3CVRET AL MVER ENDE WAL 

 BIN ICH GEHETEN 

 DOEZ BERGH EN DAL BOERT MINEN BAL 

 VAN MI GESMETEN.' 



" By the help of SeweU's Dutch dictionary, I take the 

 literal meaning to be — To break down all fortifications 

 and walls am I commanded. Through hill and dale bores 

 (or pierces) my ball by me thrown (or discharged). I must 

 confess, however, I cannot find the word scuret, nor are 

 any of the words spelt according to the present ortho- 

 graphy.(*) 



* The literal translation of the inscription, though 

 pretty well understood by the querist of 1767, is as fol- 

 lows : — 



Brech (diminutive for Bregje, Bridget) rends [if] all 



