July 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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might, I understand, be Anglicised thus : " Who 

 dares say the Sun tells a lie ? " T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



[The motto is taken from Virgil, Georg., lib, i. 

 1. 463. : " Solem quis dicere falsum audeat." The 

 other motto was not very complimentary to its cotem- 

 porary, " Sol clarior Astro."] 



"Zowure " Boards. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N". & Q." inform me the origin of the word 

 louvre, as applied to louvre boards of churches ? 



Ina. 



Wells. 



[This word is variously written louvre, loovre, lover, or 

 lanterti, from the French I'ouvert. It is sometimes 

 termed afomeril. In Withal's Dictionary, pp. 195. 215., 

 we read of " The lovir or fomerill. ... A loover where 

 the smoake passeth out." And in the Antiquarian i?e- 

 pertory, vol. i, p. 69., occurs the following passage : 

 " Antiently, before the Reformation, ordinary men's 

 houses, as copyholders and the like, had no chimneys, 

 but fleus, like" leuvar holes," See also Glossary of Ar- 

 chitecture, s. v.] 



ABBET OF ABEEBROTHOCK. 



(Vol. ix., p. 520.) 



Will J. O. kindly state how and in what respect 

 " that fine old ruin, the Abbey of Aberbrothock," 

 has been " brushed up ? " All lovers of the re- 

 mains of ancient architecture in Scotland, and in- 

 deed everywhere, will be delighted to hear that a 

 spirit of reverence and love for the monuments of 

 past ages (such fragments of them as still exist) 

 is not quite dead in Scotland, nay, in fact is re- 

 viving. This is manifested, not as combined with 

 a spirit of blind attachment to old abuses and 

 superstitions, but as a refined feeling for the pure 

 and the beautiful in art, as it was developed in a 

 region and at a time often supposed to have been 

 sunk in barbarism. The " brushing up " at Aber- 

 brothock does not mean. It is to be hoped, mutila- 

 tion and defacement. In that case, may it spread, 

 like a mania, all over the land ! AH Scotsmen, I 

 said, in whose breasts a spark of genuine taste or 

 cultivated intellect dwells, and whom no distance 

 from their country, no length of absence^ from it, 

 can render indifferent and cold towards their native 

 land, will be delighted to learn that Aberbrothock, 

 in its fallen and mutilated state, still has some 

 , friends and protectors left. May Holyrood Chapel 

 and other ruined structures meet with like atten- 

 tion from a government that ought to care for them, 

 or, better still, from the awakened public spirit 

 of the country at large ! This regard of Scotsmen 

 for their country, manifested in various ways. Is 

 too often sneered at in England, and stigmatised 

 as a piece of disloyalty or wild fanaticism (parti- 



cularly if it should take the form of saying that 

 the terms of the Union have not been observed), 

 although the persons who do so forget, or possibly 

 have yet to learn, that such feelings of nationality 

 are the very life-blood of national honour and in- 

 dependence in all countries, and ought to be che- 

 rished and watchfully fostered by statesmen, not 

 discouraged and neglected. England would never 

 have become the great power she is if she had not 

 been aided and seconded by her proud, high- 

 spirited sister, Scotland, in building up the now 

 world-embracing state of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. In all reason, therefore, the just complaints 

 lately made in Scotland, as to the neglect of the 

 fine old national monuments of its past history, 

 ought to meet with attention, as forming part and 

 parcel of a now common inheritance of glory. 



Rhadamanthus. 



KEPEINTS or EARLY BIBLES. 



(Vol. ix., p. 487.) 



Your respected correspondent, the Rev. R. 

 Hooper, M.A., has introduced a most interesting 

 question, which has not yet been satisfactorily 

 resolved, — Which Is the first edition of our in- 

 valuable and justly venerated translation of the 

 sacred Scriptures? In 1611 there were two, if 

 not more, editions of the German version pub- 

 lished by the King's printer, Robert Barker. And 

 in the same year several editions of the authorised 

 translation for the Church Service in royal folio, 

 issued from his press ; two of which, Dr. Cotton 

 tells us, are in the British Museum. Some in- 

 formation may be gleaned from a rather violent 

 controversy between Thomas Curtis and Rev. E. 

 Cardwell in 1833. No discovery has been made 

 of the original manuscript. According to The 

 London Printers' Lamentation, 4to,, 1660*, this 

 MS., attested by the translators, was in possession 

 of the printers. Bill and Barker, March 6, 1655. 

 It does not appear to have been subsequently 

 heard of. Many copies of the printed editions, 

 bearing the date of 1611, are now to be found in 

 our public libraries, and all ought to be carefully 

 collated. This, with the history of the translation, 

 and the alterations made In it to the present time, 

 would be a deeply interesting volume. I possess 

 a list of errata found in collating my own copy, 

 which is a remarkably fine one. These are at the 

 service of any gentleman who has leisure and 

 desire to undertake so good a work. 



Mr. Hooper will be gratified to know that a 

 collation of our early translations was published, 

 accompanied by the authorised texts from the 

 copy bearing the date of 1611. This was accom- 



* Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany. 

 Dr. Cotton's List. 



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