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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 249. 



Coronation Crtstom (Vol. x., p. 13,). — Being at 

 a distance from books, I cannot refer to the " al- 

 terations " in the coronation form referred to, but 

 not specifically stated, by H. P. of Lincoln's Inn ; 

 but I can venture to say that his conclusion, " that 

 the consent of the people is asked in every coro- 

 nation-ritual except our own" is in the last point 

 erroneous. I know not what English coronation- 

 ritual he may have consulted, but I know, as a 

 matter of fact, that the sovereign is presented to 

 the acceptance of the people in a form technically 

 called The Recognition, which was, as I saw and 

 heard, responded to hy the people, not " by a re- 

 spectful silence," as H. P. describes the French 

 practice, but by a hearty popular acclamation. I 

 have seen this ceremony, and the rationale of it, 

 explained in, I think, a recent number of the 

 Quarterly Review. C. 



" Latten-jawed" (Vol. x., p. 53.). — I cannot 

 but believe that your correspondent FuRVus is 

 mistaken in the words latlen-jaived, and, conse- 

 quently, in his interpretation of them ; and that 

 the term really used, but mispronounced, was 

 leathern-jawed, which is common enough. 



Allow me to suggest that, in the preceding 

 pages, where Queen Elizabeth is described to have 

 been " of stature meane," this must have been 

 intended for " of stature meswe " or middle height, 

 since she is nowhere represented to have been 

 short. Neglectus. 



" Golden Tooth" (Vol. ix., p. 337.). — In this 

 part of the West of Scotland, when a young per- 

 son shed a tooth, it was customary for the parent 

 to give strict injunctions that the tongue was not 

 to be thrust into the cavity for a considerable 

 time, alleging as a penalty that it would prevent 

 another from growing in its place. We had not 

 advanited so far in the '■'■golden tooth" as those in 

 the "South of Ireland." It was with us probably 

 also as a '■'•lure" or stratagem, from the void felt 

 in the gum for some time after that circumstance 

 occurring, not to cause any distortion of face, to 

 which the contrary might have given rise. G. N. 



" Condendaque Lexica" Sfc. (Vol. ix., p. 421.). 

 — I cannot answer this question, but I can point 

 to a passage from which, perhaps, the sentiment 

 of the above words was borrowed. It is at the 

 back of the title-page of Buxtorf's great Rahhini- 

 cal Lexicon, as published in 1640 (or 1639, both 

 dates are given) : 



" JOS. SCALIGEK. 



Si quem dura manet sententia judicis olim, 

 Damnatum ^rumnis suppliciisque caput : 



Hune neque fabrili lassent ergastiila massa, 

 Nee rigidas vexent fossa raetalla maims : 



Lexica contexat ; nam csetera quid moror ? Omnes 

 Pcenarum fades hie labor unus habet." 



B. H. C, 



"2^i'5ij" (Vol. ix., p. 541.). — I wonder this 

 word is not in Stephens. Donnegan gives " same 

 signif as xop^h, a gut, hence catgut. From this 

 ' fides ' in Latin," which is used, as all know, of the 

 strings of a musical instrument. Probably related 

 to (TTTifw, to extend, stretch, whence cttiSV, extended, 

 wide. B. H. C. 



Grammars, 8fc. for Puhlio Schools (Vol. ix., 

 pp.8. 81. 209.). — The following may be added: 



" A Latin Grammar for the use of Westminster School. 

 1832." 



" Preces. Etonje, 1705 and 1816." 



" Catechesis cum Precibus in usum Scholse in Burgo 

 Gippovicensi. Gippovici (Ipswich), 1722." 

 . " Catechesis in usum Scholse Mercatorum Scissorum. 

 Preces. Per J. C. 1661, and 1804." 



" Preces Catechismus et Hymni in usum Scholee juxta 

 S. Pauli Templum. 1814." 



" Davidis Selecti Psalmi juxta Corturi Jonstoni ver- 

 sionem. Schol. Merc. Sciss., 1809. 



" Epigrammatum et Poematum Sacrorum etPsalmorum 

 Delectus. Ex Audoeno, Barlaeo, Buchanano. Gippovici, 

 1722." 



" TpQnotrf(riii-o--ro\oyia in usum Schol. Reg. Gram, apad 

 S. Edmundi Burgum. Ed. 11», 1717." 



In an advertisement attached to this latter 

 work is mentioned " 'OvofxacrriKov Bpaxv, in usum 

 Scholae Westmonasteriensis." 



I have also the following, and should like to 

 learn something of Neumayrus and Juvencius. 



" Enchiridion Juvenile, a NeumajTi • Methodo vita 

 Christianse ' leviter immutatum. Bathoniae, 1847." 



"Monita Paedagogica, a Juvencio leviter immutata. 

 Bathoniae." 



J. W. Hewett. 



"The Birch : a Poem" (Vol.vii., p. 159.; Vol.x., 

 p. 73.). — I fully agree with your correspondent 

 Mr. Hughes, in the probable emanation of this 

 poem from the King's School, Chester, probably 

 with some finishing touches from its muster, the 

 Rev. Thomas Bancroft, afterwards Vicar of 

 Bolton-le- Moors. I think that I have seen it in 

 his MS. folio of his own poetical compositions at 

 school, college, and in later life, mixed with others 

 by his pupils. 



The same correspondent recently inquired 

 (Vol. X., p. 40.) for the " Prolusiones PoeticcE, circa 

 1800." The real date of this elegant specimen of 

 the Chester press is 1788, and it is dedicated to 

 Bishop Cleaver as " the literary first-fruits of 

 the King's School." Excepting, however, a few 

 poems by Mr. J. Falconer and Mr. T. Park, pupils, 

 all was the work of Bancroft himself, or the late 

 Mr. William P. Greswell, who (as I believe) was 

 second master of the school, and certainly assisted 

 Bancroft in early co-operations and revisions con- 

 nected with the preparation of Falconer's Straho. 

 These early compositions by Greswell have not, 

 as far as I am aware, been noticed among the 

 effusions of his classical pen. Lancastriensis. 



