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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 247. 



Bon pas, Bunker from Bon cceur, and Peabody 

 from Piebaudier. 



Buckalew is evidently a corruption of Buc- 

 cleugh, and Chism of Chisholm. 



A large family in Virtjinia and other southern 

 states spell their name Taliaferro, and pronounce 

 it Toliver. Have they any connexion with the 

 Norman Taillefer ? 



Ciirist is a family name among the Pennsylvania 

 Germans. It is pronounced Crist, like the first 

 syllable of christian. 



Pope and Dryden kept adjoining stores in Bal- 

 timore not long ago : the signs of two merchants 

 in adjoining stores in this city formed a short sen- 

 tence when read together, "Peter Schott" and 

 " Jonathan Fell." 



Col. Pancake was a military man of some note 

 here shortly after the Revolution ; fifty years ago 

 Captain John Pissant was an eminent political 

 character in Gloucester county, N. J. 



The name of Schoolcraft is said to be a corrup- 

 tion of Calcraft, arising from the fact that a Mr. 

 Calcraft kept school in or near Albany, N. J. 



Two merchants trading under the firm of 

 Swindler and Co., dissolved partnership in Co- 

 lumbia, S. C, about ten years ago. It is more 

 surprising that the partnership was ever formed. 



Mr. Pickup is the proprietor of an omnibus line 

 in this city. 



We have some names among us wearing a clas- 

 sical air. Mr. Cadmus keeps a shoe store : Pas- 

 torius is a name in use, being probably a trans- 

 lation, or attempt at it, by some German named 

 Schaeffer. Arcularius and Curtenius are New 

 York names, probably of Dutch origin. A Mr. 

 Cato has lately applied for the benefit of the In- 

 solvent Law. 



Mr. Violet Primrose is a respectable saddler in 

 our city, where we also have Mr. Rees Wall 

 Floww, who at one time lived in Garden Street. 



A family which has resided here for several 

 generations, and called itself Dipperwing, which 

 vras occasionally varied by others to Tipperwings, 

 has recently resumed its correct name, De Perven. 

 A tombstone enabled them to make the cor- 

 rection. 



Mr. Dickens's nom de plume, Boz, was borne 

 by a Philadelphlan about seventy years ago, at 

 which time the name of Susan Boz was fre- 

 quently entered in the index at the office of the 

 Recorder of Dees as a grantor or grantee of real 

 estate. 



Two persons in this city bear the name of 

 Wizzard. A Mr. Gambler has been nominated a 

 director of the public schools. 



A late California newspaper announces the 

 marriage of Mr. John Snook of San Francisco. 

 A small stream emptying into the Hudson River 

 is called Snookskill, which seems to imply that 

 the name Snooks is of Dutch origin. 



A respectable old Quaker family in this State 

 spell their name Livesey, but it is almost univer- 

 sally pronounced Loozeley. This corruption is 

 said to date from the time when the u and the V 

 were confounded ; but this does not explain the 

 introduction of the second l in Loozeley. 



A Mr. Gobble was plaintiff in an action of 

 ejectment brought in Centre County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, a few years ago; and John Gudgeon has 

 lately been arrested in Baltimore for a misde- 

 meanour. 



There is a family in this city named Mush. 



A Quakeress named Hannah Active recently 

 died here ; and the name of Catharine Fix appears 

 in the list of letters uncalled for at the Post- 

 Office. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



ANTIQUITIES OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES. 



There was published in London, in the year 1682, 

 a small book containing a variety of interesting 

 matters in biblical literature, and illustrating the 

 condition of the oriental churches, but of which 

 every copy that I have yet seen has evidently been 

 mutilated by the cancelling of a portion while at 

 press or before publication. The title is, — 



" Antiquitates Ecclesiae Orientalis, clarissimorura 

 vlrorum Card. B.irberini, L. Allatii, Luc. Holstenii, 

 Job. Morini, etc. Dissertationibus epistolicis enucleatae ; 

 Nunc ex ipsis Autographis editae. Quibus praefixa 

 est Jo. Morini, Congr. Orat. Paris, PP. [R. P. ?] 

 Vita. Londini, 1682, 8vo." 



The editor's name is not given, but a short address 

 to the reader tells us that the collection of epistles 

 had been found among the books of Father 

 Amelot of the Oratory, after his decease ; that the 

 entire had been purchased from his heirs, and 

 were now edited from the originals. The address 

 to the reader is followed by an index, or rather 

 enumeration of the epistles, ninety-four in 

 number ; but on examining the book itself we 

 find but ninety-three, although the paging and 

 signatures run regularly and without any apparent 

 deficiency. Not so, however, the numeration of 

 the epistles, the ninetieth being immediately fol- 

 lowed by the ninety-second. The ninety- first is 

 wanting, but from the index we learn that it is 

 related to the intended expedition of some English 

 Benedictines by a Catholic bishop : 



" D. de Sanes Episcopus Madoviensis, Cardinal! 

 Bagni monacbos aliquot Anglos Benedictinos con- 

 gregationis Madriticae cur urbe sua expelli velit de- 

 clarat." 



It may be that some copies got abroad before 

 this expurgation was effected ; if so, and that such 

 can now be found, some additional illustration 

 might be had of the incessant rivalry, perhaps 



