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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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give alms in money, others in kind. Thus, some 

 of the farmers give corn, which the miller grinds 

 gratis. The daj's custom is termed " Gooding." 



In neighbouring parishes no corn is given, the 

 farmers giving money instead ; and, in some 

 places, the money collected is placed in the hands 

 of the clergyman and churchwardens, who, on the 

 Sunday nearest to St. Thomas's Day, distribute it 

 at the vestry. The fund is called St. Thomas's 

 Dole, and the day itself is termed Doleing Day. 



CUTHBEET BeDE. 



NOTES BY F. DOUCE IN A MS. OF THE HISTORY OF 

 THE THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE. 



" Jasper, Balthasar, Melchior, nomina sunt magorum, 

 Abyshai, Sobothai, Balchias sunt nomina robustorum." 



The sepulchre of the three magi is at Milan. 

 A view of it is given in Raymond's Mercurio 

 ItaJico, p. 243. ; but Cologne claims possession of 

 the bodies. 



See a great deal about the three magi collected 

 together in Calvor. Ritual. Eccles., ii. 288., where 

 all the different names by which they have been 

 called are given. 



See Dorrington's Journey through Germany, 

 pp. 328, 329. The people give things to the 

 priests to be touched by the sacred noddles of the 

 kings of Cologne, which are held by a pair of sil- 

 ver pincers. 



In the church of S. Eustagia at Milan they 

 show the tomb where the bodies of the three kings 

 were deposited before their removal to Cologne. 



Prayer to them in Sarum Horce, Pigouchet, 

 1498, h j. 



See Wolffi, Lect. Memorab., i. 12, 13. 



See particularly Schulting, Bihlioth. Ecclesiast., 

 ii. 181., on the travels of the three kings. 



Prayer to them at the end of Heures de Rome, 

 printed by Godar, n. d. 4to., vellum. 



The kings of Denmark have always borne a 



{)articular for the three kings of Co- 

 o^e, an example of which is the celebrated 

 drinking-horn in the Royal Museum at Copen- 

 hagen, which, in 1475, was dedicated to them by 

 Christian I., and is described at large, with an 

 engraving, in Jacob. Mus. Reg. 



On the three magi, as at the Moluccas, see 

 Jablonski, Opera, torn. ii. p. 265. ; and, query, 

 mentioned in any book of travels (those of Beh- 

 rens excepted, which are in German) to those 

 islands? Herman Crombach, Hist. SS. Regum 

 Magorum. See Menestrier, Art du Blason, 185. 

 Bapt. Mantuan., in his Fasti (Epiphania), denies 

 that the three magi were kings : 



" Nee reges, ut opinor, erant ; nee enim tacuissent 

 Historias sacrae autores genus istud honoris." 



^ No Scripture authority for the numher of those 

 kings or magi. See Raulicii, Sermones, fol. clxxii., 



who states that in the star appeared the image of 

 the Virgin Mary, with Christ in her arms. 



W. D. M. 



BROADSIDE : THE PERPETUAL ALMANACK, ETC. 



A few years ago I bought the following curious 

 broadside in the streets, and on referring it to an 

 octogenarian neighbour, my great authority on 

 all matters relating to the popular antiquities of 

 the district, he spoke of it as being current in his 

 youthful days. It is not easy to see by what 

 system of notation the spots on the cards can be 

 made to tally with the number of days in the 

 year ; the nearest approach I can make to it 

 being 364, to be obtained by counting the Knave 

 as 11, the Queen as 12, and the King as 13 : — 



" The Perpetual Almanack, or Soldier's Prayer-Book, 

 giving an Account of Richard Lane, a Private belonging 

 to the 47th Regiment of Foot, who was taken before the 

 Mayor of the Town for Playing at Cards during Divine 

 Service." 



" The Sergeant commanded the Soldiers at Church, 

 and when the Parson had read the prayers, he took his 

 text. Those who had a Bible took it out, but this Soldier 

 had neither Bible nor Common Prayer-Book, but pulling 

 out a pack of Cards, he spread them before him. He first 

 looked at one card, and then at the other ; the Sergeant 

 of the company saw him, and said, ' Richard, put up the 

 Cards, this is no place for them.' — 'Nevermind that,' said 

 Richard. When the service was over, the Constable took 

 Richard prisoner, and brought him before the Mayor. 

 ' Well,' says the Mayor, ' what have you brought that 

 Soldier here for ? ' — ' For playing at Cards in Church.' — 

 ' Well, Soldier, what have you to say for yourself ? ' — 

 ' Much, Sir, I hope. ' — ' Very good ; if not, I will punish 

 j'ou more than ever man was punished.' — ' I have been,' 

 says the Soldier, ' about six weeks on the march, — I have 

 had but little to subsist on, — I have neither Bible nor Com- 

 mon Prayer Book, — I have nothing but a pack of Cards, 

 and I hope to satisfj' your worship of the purity of my in- 

 tention.' — ' Very good,' said the Mayor. — Theia spreading 

 the Cards before the Mayor, he began with the Ace : 



" ' When I see the Ace, it reminds me there is only one 

 God. 



" ♦ When I see the Deuce, it reminds me of Father and 

 Son. 



" ' When I see the Tray, it reminds me of Father, Son, 

 and Holy Ghost. 



" ' When I see the Four, it reminds me of the Four 

 Evangelists that preached, viz., Matthew, Mark, Luke, 

 and John. 



" ' When I see the Five, it reminds me of the Five Wise 

 Virgins that trimmed their lamps. There were ten, but 

 five were wise, and five foolish, and were shut out. 



" ' When I see the Six, it reminds me that in Six days 

 the Lord made Heaven and Earth. 



" ' When I see the Seven, it reminds me that on the 

 Seventh daj' God rested from the works which He had 

 made and hallowed it. 



" ' When I see the Eight, it reminds me of the eight 

 righteous persons that were saved when God drowned 

 the world, viz., Noah and his wife, his three sons and 

 their wives. 



" ' When I see the Nine, it reminds me of the Nine lepers 

 that were cleansed by our Saviour. There were ten, but 

 nine never returned God thanks. 



" ' When I see the Ten, it reminds me of the Ten Com- 



