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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. No 104., Dec. 26. '57. 



of access to their proceedings, I will lend him the 

 paper, if he will send me his address. 



W. Beaumont. 

 Warrington. . 



Bobert Raise (2"* S. iv. 472.)— I copy from my 

 MS. English Episcopate, in which the diocese of 

 London was published this month : — 



"1459. Robert Halse, D.D., consecrated 27 Nov. in S. 

 Clement's Church, Coventry. He was the second son of 

 Judge Halse and Margaret Mewy of Wliitchurch ; edu- 

 cated at Exeter College ; Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 

 March 23, 1445 ; Proctor, 1432 ; Prebendary of St. Paul's, 

 July 6, 1455 ; Archdeacon of Norfolk, Feb. 14, 1448, and 

 2forwich, 1456; Dean of Exeter, 1457. He was eminent 

 for promoting none but the best of his clergy. He died 

 Dec. 80, 1490, and was buried at Lichfield. 



" Arms : Arg. between 3 griffins' heads erased, a fess, 

 sable." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



A Family supported hy Eagles (2"'^ S. Iv. 385.) 

 — The story here related reminds me of another 

 very similar. It is related in the life of Thuanus, 

 the historian, that when he was passing through 

 part of France, on an embassy from Henry III. to 

 the King of Navarre, he was entertained for some 

 days at the seat of a certain bishop on his journey. 

 At the first repast it was observed, with some 

 surprise, that all the wild-fowl or game brought to 

 table wanted either a head or wing, a leg, or 

 some other part ; which occasioned their host 

 pleasantly to apologise for the voracity of his 

 caterer, who always took the liberty of first tast- 

 ing what he had procured before it was brought 

 to table. On perceiving the increased surprise of 

 his guests, he informed them that in the moun- 

 tainous regions of that district, the eagles were 

 accustomed to build amongst the almost inacces- 

 sible rocks, which can only be ascended by ladders 

 and grappling ; irons. The peasants, however, 

 when they have discovered a nest, erect a small 

 hut at the foot of the rock, in which to shelter 

 themselves from the fury of the birds when they 

 convey provisions to their young; as also to watch 

 the times of their departure from the nest. When 

 this happens, they immediately plant their ladders, 

 climb the rocks, and carry off what the eagles 

 have conveyed to their young, substituting the 

 entrails of animals and other offal. The prey has 

 generally been mutilated before they can get at 

 it ; but in compensation for this disadvantage, it 

 has a much finer flavour than anything the mar- 

 kets can afford. He added that, when the young 

 eagles have acquired strength enough to fly, the 

 shepherds fasten them to the nest, that the parent 

 bird may continue to supply them the longer 

 with food. Three or four eagles' nests were in 

 this way suflicient to furnish a splendid table 

 throughout the summer; and so far from mur- 

 muring at the ravages of these birds, he thought 

 himself very happy in being situated in their 

 neighbourhood. N. L. T. 



The Guillotine (1" S. xil. 319. ; 2"'^ S. iv. 264. 

 339.) — The following notice of this machine, 

 " wbicli was introduced in France by Mons. Guil- 

 lotin, a physician, and a member of the National 

 Assembly in 1791," is taken from a London 

 monthly publication of 1801 : — 



" The guillotin, known formerly in England as a 

 * maiden,' was used in the limits of the forest of Hard- 

 wicke, in Yorkshire, and the executions were generally 

 at Halifax. Twenty-five criminals suffered by it in the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth ; the records before that time 

 were lost. Twelve more were executed by it between 

 1623 and 1650 ; after which, it is supposed that the pri- 

 vilege was no more respected. That machine is now 

 destroyed ; but there is one of the same kind in the Par- 

 liament House at Edinburgh, by which the regent Mor- 

 ton suffered. 



" Prints of machines of this kind are to be met with in 

 many old books in various languages, even so early as 

 1510, but without any descriptions. One of them is re- 

 presented in Holinshed's Chronicles : that of Halifax ma^' 

 be seen in the borders of the old maps of Yorkshire, par- 

 ticularly those of Mole, in 1720." 



William Winthrop. 



Malta. 



Triforium, Derivation of (2"* S. iv. 269. 320. 

 481.) — The acceptable theory on the etymology 

 of the above word advanced by your correspond- 

 ent M. H. E,., induces me to remark that in a 

 Note recently offered for insertion in " N. & Q.," 

 but which did not appear, triforium was suggested 

 as a corruption of iraforium, the latter being, in 

 classic orthography, a variation of transforium (?), 

 from transforo or fero, as in the cognate English 

 compounds traverse (a cross-beam), /ravel, tradi- 

 tion. The Italian etymology, which did not occur 

 to me, is far preferable. 



If I remember rightly, trifarium was another 

 reading proposed, as I saw no reason why the 

 secoBrf syllable should not be just as corruptible 

 as the first. But the observations I then ven- 

 tured to make were offered for the sake of ex- 

 hausting the process of etymological conjecture, 

 not from any conviction of, or confidence in, the 

 legitimacy of my theories. F. Phillott. 



Bamfylde Moore Careic (2"^ S. iv. 401.) — In 

 Timperley's Dictionary of Printers and Printing, 

 Robert Goadby of Sherborne (the printer of the 

 edition mentioned by F. S. Q.) is stated to have 

 been the author of the Life of Bamfylde Moore 

 Curew. I have heard that it was written by 

 Mrs. Goadby, from the relation of Bamfylde Moore 

 Carevv himself. There have been editions of the 

 Life published at London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, 

 Exeter, &c. : some of these, I apprehend, are by 

 different authors or compilers, although I have 

 had no opportunity of comparing them excepting 

 by the titles in the Bibliotheca Devoniensis. Carew 

 died in 1758 ; Goadby in 1778, aged fifty-seven. 



T. P. 



Tiverton. 



