July 15. 1854.] 



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tells us that two very good acts had lately been 

 procured for the benefit of the subject ; one " for 

 disbanding the army," " the other a bill of habeas 

 corpus, whereby the government could not any 

 longer detain men in prison at pleasure as for- 

 merly ; both which bills were such spokes in their 

 chariot wheels that made them drive much 

 heavier." J- O. 



Peculiar Customs at Preston (Vol. ix., p. 562.). 

 — Anon, may rest assured he has been made the 

 victim of a hoax about widows' caps, disuse of 

 mourning, &c., in Preston. These matters are 

 just as much conformed to by all persons laying 

 the smallest claim to respectability in Preston as 

 elsewhere ; and the old excuse from an unpunctual 

 tailor, " Sorry to disappoint you, sir, but we had 

 a large order for mourning," is just as common 

 here as in other places. If Anon, will tell us what 

 other strange customs he has heard imputed to 

 us, we shall be able to inform him through your 

 columns whether or not he has been deceived. 



P.P. 



WorTis on Bells (Vol. ix., p. 240.). — ^In re- 

 ference to the list of works on bells, I beg to in- 

 close you the following extract, which perhaps 

 may interest some of your correspondents, the 

 Rev. H. T. Ellacombe among them : 



" Sacerdotes Graeci jam inde ab iis temporibus, quibus 

 sub Turcica tyrannide esse cceperunt ecclesiae Grieese, 

 ligneo instrumento, quod Uvkov vocant, ad Graecos in 

 ecclesiam convocandos, utuntur. Illud ita describit L. 

 Allatius de Templis (Epist. I.) : ' Est lignum binarum 

 decempedarum longitudine, duorum digitorum crassitu- 

 dine, latitudine quatuor, quam optime dedolatum, non 

 fissum, aut rimosum ; quod manu sinistra medium tenens 

 Sacerdos, vel alius, dextra malleo ex eodem ligno, cursim 

 hinc et inde transcurrens, modb in unam partem, mode in 

 alteram, prope vel eminus ab ipsa sinistra, ita lignum 

 diverberat, ut ictum nunc plenum, nunc gravem, nunc 

 acutum, nunc crebrum, nunc extentum edens, perfecta 

 musices scientia auribus suavissimfe moduletur.' " — Suiceri 

 Thesaurus, vol. ii. p. 448. 



This instrument was called the 'S.-hnavrpov ; and 

 there is a mention of it, as Suicer tells us, under 

 the article " Uixov num. ili. Typicum SabsB, cap. v." 



Allatius Leo, who is quoted above, was librarian 

 of the Vatican about 1600, and perhaps his book 

 De Templis Grcecorum may, if extant, furnish 

 some useful particulars to the Rev. H. T. Ella- 

 combe, or any of your subscribers who may be 

 interested on the subject. W. B. H. 



Add to Mr. Ellacombe's list the following, 

 which I observe in Mr. Petheram's Catalogue, 

 No. V. : — Campanologia, or a Key to the Art of 

 Ringing, by Jones, Reeves, and Blakemore, bds. 

 As. 6d., scarce. (No date.) E. H. A. 



Madame de Stael (Vol. ix., p. 451.). — It was 

 not Fichte who helped A. W. Schlegel to write 

 against Nicolai, but Schlegel who helped Fichte 



to do so, so far as that can be called help, 

 which consisted in conducting Fichte's piece of 

 humorous satire through the press, and prefixlno- 

 a few remarks to it, explanatory of the reasons 

 which led Schlegel to edit it during the author's 

 lifetime. The title of the work in question, by 

 Fichte in ridicule of Nicolai (Schlegel, no mean 

 judge, does not think it dull), is as follows : — 

 Frederick NicolaVs Lehen und sonderbare Mei- 

 nungen ; ein Beitrag zur Literargeschichte des ver- 

 gangenen und zur Pddagogik des angeTienden 

 Jahrhunderts ; von Johann Gottlieb Fichte ; her- 

 ausgegeben von August Wilhelm Schlegel. It was 

 first printed at Tubingen in 1801, and forms part 

 of the eighth volume of Fichte's Collected WorTis^ 

 published at Berlin in 1846. Like your corre- 

 spondent R. A., I also cannot find any mention of 

 this dispute in Madame de Stael's De L Allemagne. 



J. Maceat. 

 Oxford. 



Query on SoutKs Sermons (Vol. ix., p. 515.). — 

 The " W. W.," after whom Me. W. H. Gunner 

 inquires, as referred to by South in vol. ii. p. 152. 

 of his Sermons, was William Wright, a barrister, 

 and the Recorder of Oxford, author of^ Letter to 

 a Member of Parliament, occasioned by a Letter 

 to a Convocation-man, together with an Inquiry 

 into the Ecclesiastical Power of the University of 

 Oxford, particularly to decree and declare Heresy, 

 occasioned by that Letter. London : W. Rogers, 

 1697. 



The pamphlet is occasionally to be met with, 

 and is not distinguished by more " insolence " or 

 "virulence" than was usual in the controversies 

 of that period. The writer was a warm partisan 

 of William of Holland, and an opponent of con- 

 vocational action : he was therefore not unlikely 

 to incur Dr. South's anger. 



William Fraseb, B. C. L. 



Bakers^ Talleys. — These, which are spoken of 

 as obsolete in England, in an article in " N. & Q." 

 on "Scottish Female Dress" (Vol. ix., p. 271.), 

 are in daily use here, and have been from time 

 immemorial. The fact that our bakers are nearly 

 all Germans, a race distinguished for their honesty, 

 may have contributed to their continued use. A 

 few bakers have lately introduced the plan of 

 selling tickets by the quantity, marked with par- 

 ticular sums of money, to be received back on the 

 delivery of the bread. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Hatherleigh Moor (Vol. ix., p. 538.).— The lines 

 quoted by your correspondent (with the important 

 difference of the word " all," instead of " then," in 

 the last but one), were long preserved in old, but 

 not ancient MS. by an inhabitant of Hatherleigh, 

 and were inserted in the Devonshire Chronicle by 

 Mr. Edwards, the respected parish clerk, in 1849. 



