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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 104., Dec. 26. '57. 



Nephi. — Where can I find this word out of the 

 book of Mormon ? B. H. C. 



Bibliographical Queries. — Please give me the 

 names of the authors of the following Tracts, 

 which, with others, are bound together in^a 12mo. 

 volume : — 



1. " A Letter from an Old Proctor to a Young One." 

 &c. Dublin, 1733. 



2. " Reasons why we should not lower the Coins now 

 ciurent in this Kingdom." Dublin, 1736. 



3. " Some Observations on the Present State of Ire- 

 land." &c. Dublin, 1731. 



4. "An Argument upon the Woollen Manufacture of 

 Great Britain," &c. Dublin, 1737. 



5. " The Year of Wonders ; being a Literal and Politi- 

 cal Translation of an Old Latin Prophecy, found near 

 Merlin's Cave." London, 1737. 



6. Agriculture, the Surest Means of National Wealth," 

 &c. Dublin, 1738. 



7. " The Distressed State of Ireland considered ; more 

 particularly with respect to the North." 1740. 



In the volume there is a copy of Swift's tract on 

 The Present Miserable State of Ireland, printed in | 

 1735, and embellished with a rude woodcut of the ! 

 author in his clerical costume. Abhba. ' 



^^ Pathomachia." — Can you give me any in- } 

 formation regarding the author of an old play j 

 having the following title, Pathomachia, or the ' 

 Battle of Affection, shadowed hy a feigned Siege \ 

 of the Citie of Pathopolis, a comedy, 4to., 1630? 

 According to Lowndes, the authorship has been ' 

 attributed to H. More. R. Inglis. | 



Marshall Pedigree. — Isabella Marshall, living | 

 dr. 1700, daughter and heiress of Thos. Marshall"' j 



of , married Montagu Garrard Drake of Sbar- \ 



deloes, co. Bucks. The pedigree of the above | 

 Marshalls (whose arms were Barry of six, or and | 

 sable, a canton ermine, quartering Brus, Hawke, 

 Brown) will be most acceptable to A. 



XZm^.— "Cliff" in Dansk, Is this Celtic or 

 Norse ? The traditionary Klint King over isles 

 of Moen, Steacus, and Rugen, was Jode of Up- 

 sala. He dwelt in a cave high up the face of 

 Moen, 400 feet high, and drove a curious chariot 

 with four jet black horses. The Moen peasants 

 offered to Jode the last sheaf after housing the 

 corn. The name points to Scandinavia ; the resi- 

 dence to geological changes ; the harvest custom 

 to Brittany. F. C. B. 



Three h'ish Ambassadors. — I have a copy of a 

 12mo. pamphlet, rather scarce, and entitled A 

 True and Faithful Account of the Entry and Re- 

 ception of Three Extraordinary Irish Ambassadors. 



[* In the pedigree of the Drake family in Lipscomb's 

 Bucks, iii. 155., it is stated that Montague Garrard 

 Drake, Esq., M.P. for Amersham, married, in 1719, Isa- 

 bella, daughter and heiress of Henry Marshall, Esq. Isa- 

 bella was buried at Amersham, June 30, 1744. — Ed.] 



London, 1716, p. 22. " The names of these three," 

 as the writer informs us in p. 5., " were Dr. Pratt 

 [afterwards Dean of Down], Provost of the Col- 

 lege [of Dublin], Dr. Barckley [the eminent meta- 

 physician and distinguished prelate], and Dr. 

 Howard [afterwards Bishop of Elphin], Two Fel- 

 lows thereof." Who was the writer of this hu- 

 morous production ? and what the object and the 

 result of the mission ? The ambassadors appear 

 to have met with at least one mishap; for "on a 

 sudden, near Northumberland House, in the 

 Strand, just where a new house is building, or au 

 old one repairing, the coach overturn'd, and down 

 fell the embassy." Abhba. 



Pulpit. — Where may be found the earliest 

 mention of this word, in its modern sense, as de- 

 noting a place adapted for preaching ? The gallery, 

 so called, which was erected at the west end of tlie 

 choir, was used, as your readers are aware, for lec- 

 tionary purposes, and was of a different construction. 

 From it the gospel and epistle were read. Pul- 

 pitum appears to have been, in mediaeval writings, 

 a convertible term, or, at any rate, to have de- 

 noted the rood-screen. The preachers of the early 

 church usually delivered their sermons from the 

 altar-steps, though sometimes the ambo was used 

 for these occasions. Perhaps some of your corres- 

 pondents will oblige me by stating what were the 

 material and form of the most ancient pulpits, and 

 when the canopies or testers were first introduced. 

 The use of the word "pulpit " occurs Nehemiah viii. 

 4. : " And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of 

 wood" (marginal reading, tower of ivood), which 

 must have been a spacious gallery of considerable 

 elevation, as " beside him stood, on his right hand 

 and on his left," no less than thirteen persons. 

 Continental pulpits are, many of them, of consider- 

 able size, admitting several persons. — See Glossary. 



F. Phillott. 



Jewels of S. Edward the Confessor. — Can any 

 of your correspondents tell me what has become of 

 the cross and chain that were taken out of the 

 shrine in Westminster Abbey in the reign of 

 James II. ? I have read or heard somewhere that 

 the shrine was again opened in the presence of 

 George IV., and that he took from the coffin two 

 rings, one of which he is said to have subsequently 

 worn. The other, I understood, was given by 

 him, together with the cross and chain above- 

 mentioned, to Louis XVIIL or Charles X. of 

 France. It would be interesting to know whe- 

 ther this be a true account, and what has been the 

 fate of these j e wels. J- V. 



Napoleon's Conversation with Lord Littleton 



A correspondent in Germany writes me that he 

 has discovered in the archives of one of the con- 

 tinental courts a pretended verbal account of the 

 conversation of Napoleon with Lord Littleton on 



