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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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way. As to the preparation for this festival, you 

 may easily imagine all the innocent mystery it 

 occasions, and what hiding up of work, &c., there 

 is, when any one comes in ; and what secret shop- 

 ping ! for the shops are crowded for the week 

 before. And then when the presents have come, 

 what guessing there is who could have sent 

 them ; for I ought to have stated that they are all 

 sent anonymously, or at most with some attempts 

 at poetry with them ; but all have the universal 

 G. M. v., or " Good-morrow Valentine," upon 

 them. 



I have only to add that this year the festival has 

 been kept more religiously than ever. W. 



Norwich. 



Cure for Toothache. — In Staffordshire and 

 Shropshire, the following superstition prevails. A 

 mole-trap must be watched, and the moment it is 

 sprung, and whilst the poor mouldwarp is in ex- 

 tremis, but before life is extinct (for on this latter 

 condition the success of the charm depends), his 

 hand-like paws are to be cut off, and worn by the 

 patient. A dexter paw must be used should the 

 offending tooth be on the right side of the jaw, and 

 the contrary. A case of this came under my 

 notice the other day at Buildwas on the Severn. 

 This appears to point to the Italian amulet in the 

 form of a hand, against the Evil Eye. I have seen 

 a mole's paw mounted in silver in London. 



W. J. Bebnhakd Smith. 



Temple. 



Derbyshire Folk Lore. — It is a custom at the 

 town of Bakewell, when a country beauty has 

 been won by one of her many wooers, to hang 

 upon the doors of the unsuccessful swains on the 

 evening of the wedding-day a wreath of boughs 

 and flowers : poor exchange for that " golden 

 garland" the wedding-ring. P. M. M. 



Temple. 



ANECDOTE KELATED BY ATTERBURT. 



Can any additional particulars be obtained or 

 corroborations furnished, of the anecdote con- 

 tained in the following extract ? 



" Among Smith's books in the Bodleian Library 

 is The Historie of the Council of Trent, edit. 1620, 

 London, folio ; and on the blank leaf opposite the title 

 are the following notes in Dr. Atterbury's hand : 



• When Dr. Duncorabe was sick at Venice, Father 

 Fulgentio, with whom he was in the strictest intimacy, 

 visited him ; and finding him under great uneasiness 

 of mind, as well as body, pressed him to disclose the 

 reason of it ; asking him, among other things, whether 

 any nobleman under his care had miscarried, or his 

 bills of return had failed him ; and proffering in the 

 latter case what credit he pleased at Venice. After 

 many such questions and negative answers, Dr. Dun- 



combe was at last prevailed with to own his uneasiness, 

 and to give this true account of it to the father. He 

 said that he had often begged of God, that he might 

 end his life where he might have opportunity of re- 

 ceiving the blessed Sacrament according to the rites 

 and usages of the Church of England ; that consider- 

 ing he spent his life in travelling chiefly through 

 Popish countries, this was a happiness he could never 

 reasonably promise himself; and that his present de- 

 spair of it, in the dangerous condition he was in, was 

 the true occasion of that dejection which Father Ful- 

 gentio observed in him. Upon this the father bid himt 

 be of good cheer, told him he had the Italian transla- 

 tion of the English Liturgy, and would come the next 

 day with one or two more of his convent, and admi- 

 nister it to him in both kinds, and exactly according 

 to the English usage: and what he promised, he per- 

 formed the next day. Dr. Duncombe receiving it at his 

 hands ; who, outliving his distemper, and returning^ 

 into England, told this story often to my Lord Hatton, 

 Captain Hatton's father, in the hearing of the Captain,, 

 about the years 1660, 1661, and 1662. This I had 

 from Captain Hatton's mouth in the year 1669. 



' Fa. Atterbury, Oct. II, 1701. 



"'In March, 1709, I met Captain Hatton again,, 

 and put him in mind of this story, which I desired 

 him to repeat ; which he did without varying in any 

 circumstance, but one only, viz. That Fulgentio did 

 not actually administer the Sacrament to Dr. Dun- 

 combe, the Doctor refusing to accept a kindness of 

 that dangerous nature, which might involve Fulgentio 

 in trouble, unless he were in the utmost necessity. 

 But recovering from that time, he made no use of 

 Fulgentio's proffer. He added, that Fulgentio told 

 Dr. Duncombe that there were still in the convent 

 seven or eight of Father Paul's disciples, who met 

 sometimes privately to receive the Sacrament in both 

 kinds.' " — Atterbury's Correspondence, vol. i. pp. 51, 52. 



Wm. Fraser, B.C.L. 



Phrenology partly anticipated. — Lavater, in the 

 third volume of his Physiognomy, quotes the fol- 

 lowing passage from Claramantius on Conjecture' 

 respecting Mans Moral Character and Secret 

 Affections, in ten books, Helmstadt, 1665 : 



" A square form of forehead is the sign of superior 

 talents and sound judgment ; for it arises from the 

 natural figure of the head, in the anterior part of which 

 judgment carries on its operations," 



UnedA. 



Philadelphia. 



The first Pre-Raffaelite. — 



" Upon asking how he had been taught the act of ai 

 cognoscento so very suddenly, he assured me nothing 

 was more easy. The whole secret consisted in a strict 

 adherence to two rules: the one, always to observe the 

 picture might have been better if the painter had taken- 



