2nd s. No 103., Deo. 19. '67.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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memory at Markshall in Essex, with the following in- 

 scription : " Here lieth the bodye of Marie Waters, the 

 daughter and co-heire of Robert Waters of Lenham, in 

 Kent, esquire, wife of Robert Honywood, of Charing, in 

 Kent, esquire, only husband, who had at her decease law- 

 fully descended from her 367 children : 16 of her own 

 body, 114 grandchildren, 228 of the third generation, and 

 nine in the fourth. She lived a most pious life, and in a 

 Christian manner died heere at Markishall in 93 yeare of 

 her age, and in 44 of her widdowhood, 11th of May, 1620." 

 This inscription in Latin is preserved in Hasted's MS. 

 Collections, Addit. MS. 5480, p. 66. in the British Mu- 

 seum. Consult also Nichols's Topographer and Genealo- 

 gist, vols. i. and ii., for some curious genealogical notices 

 of the posterity of Mary Honywood, taken from a MS. 

 of Peter Le Neve's in the Lansdowne Collection. The 

 following singular story is related of this remarkable 

 lady. At one time she fell into so low, desponding state 

 of mind, she was impressed with the idea that she should 

 be damned, and exclaiming in a paroxysm of the malady, 

 " I shall be lost as surely as that glass is broken," she 

 flung thrice with violence a glass which she happened to 

 have in her hand on a marble slab, hy which she was 

 standing; but the glass rebounded each time, and did 

 not break. The story adds, that the circumstance wrought 

 a complete cure, and had more effect in composing her 

 mind than the reasoning of all the great divines whom 

 she had consulted. 3 



Heins. — Was there a portrait-painter nanaed 

 Heins living about the year 1750? If so, was he 

 an artist of any eminence ? Arthur Do Cane. 



[There was a German artist of the name of Heins who 

 lived many years at Norwich, where he practised as a 

 portrait-painter and an engraver. His son, who was 

 born at Norwich about 1740, became a better artist than 

 his father, both in oil and miniature. He also engraved 

 in a good style, but died j'oung at Chelsea in 1770. — 

 Pilkington's Dictionary.'] 



MAUNDY THURSDAY AND HOUSEL. 



(2"'i S. iv. 432.) 



All the dictionaries and early authorities give 

 this spelling of the word — not lAannday, 



E. G. R., from his remarks, evidently considers 

 Maundy Thursday as a Protestant festival : hence 

 his difficulties, both as to the word itself, and the 

 anachronism which he infers. 



Maundy Thursday is essentially a Roman Ca- 

 tholic festival. In Alban Butler's Feasts and 

 Fasts the great importance of the festival is 

 most solemnly impressed upon his readers. On 

 that day the Church of Rome celebrates the insti- 

 tution of the Eucharist — the Mass (according to 

 her views) — the great Christian sacrifice which 

 she considers absolutely essential to the true pos- 

 session of a priesthood by the followers of Christ. 



" Tantum ergo Sacramentum 

 Veneremur cernui ; 

 Et antiquum Documentum 

 Novo cedat Ritui," * 



* Parige lingua, or hymn, sung during the procession on 

 Maundy Thursday. 



It were needless to expatiate on the dogma 

 therein involved. I give in the note below the 

 early, and of course the present, view of the sub- 

 ject, as expressed by one of Rome's most esteemed 

 and venerated teachers.* 



The epistle in the Mass of Maundy Thursday is 

 taken from 1 Cor. xi.f In verse 24. are these 

 words : " Take, eat;" in Latin, " Accipite et man- 

 ducater I submit that this word manducate is 

 the true original of Maundy. The special appli- 

 cation of the word by the old writers seems to 

 leave no doubt in the mind that maundye was used 

 to signify the Coeim Domini, the Last Supper, as 

 we term it, or " the Supper of the Lord " accord- 

 ing to the old writers. Sir T. More, in his Answer 

 to the first parte of the poysoned booke which a 

 nameles hereticke hath named the Supper of the 

 Lord,^' observes : — 



" In hys seconde parte, which I call hys seconde course, 

 he treateth the maundye of Christ with hys apostles upon 

 the Sheare Thursday, wherein our Saviour actually dyd 

 institute the blessed Sacrament, and therein verylye gaue 

 hys owne verye fleshe and bloude to hys twelve apostles." 

 — Workes, p. 1038. 



In like manner, Fryth : — 



" That is to say, he admitted him (saith S. Auste) unto 

 the maundye, wherein he did betake and deliver unto the 

 disciples ye figure of his body and bloud." — Workes, 

 p. 127. 



From the " Testival" it is evident that the people 

 called the day Sheare Thursday ; because an- 

 ciently " people would that day shere theyr hedes, 

 and clypp theyr berdes ; " not, as I take it, in 

 order " so to make them honest against Easter- 

 day," but as a sign of grief and humiliation on the 



* St. Francis of Sales exclaims : — " ! qui communie 

 selon I'esprit de I'Epoux, s'aneantit soi-meme, et dit k 

 Notre Seigneur: Machez-moi, dig^rez-moi, ane'antissez- 

 moi, et convertissez-moi en vous ! Je ne trouve rien au 

 monde de quoi nous aj'ons tant de domination que la 

 viande, que nous aneantissons pour nous conserver; et 

 Notre Seigneur estvenu jusqu'k cet excfes d'amour que de 

 se rendre viande pour nous," &c. — UEsp. de St. F. de 

 Sales, p. 448. ed. 1747. 



" Oh ! he who receives the Sacrariient according to the 

 spirit of the Spouse, annihilates himself, and saj's to Our 

 Lord : Chew me, digest me, annihilate me, and convert 

 me into Thee I I find nothing in the world which we 

 more thoroughly possess, and over which we have more 

 control, than meat whicW we annihilate for our support ; 

 and Our Lord has come to that excess of love as to make 

 himself ineat for us. And we, what sliould we not do in 

 order that He may possess us ? Let Him eat us ; let Him 

 chew us — qu'il nousmdche; — let Him swallow us and 

 swallow us again — qu'il nous avale et ravale ; — let Him 

 do with us what He likes." 



t The general correspondence between the Protestant 

 church service and the Mass, as to the lesson from the 

 Gospels and Epistles, &c., suggested to King James the 

 First the somewhat irreverent opinion that the Protestant 

 service was but " an ill-said Mass." I give this fact on 

 the authority of the controversialists. It is quite pos- 

 sible that the British Solomon made the observation. 



