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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 250. 



The verses first appeared In the Morning Chro- 

 nicle, and I am not aware that they were ever 

 published elsewhere. If any reader of " N. & Q." 

 can inform me where I can find them, I shall be 

 much obliged ; and if in no other publication than 

 the Morning Chronicle, I beg to have the date of 

 the paper pointed out. 2. (1) 



Sir Hugh Myddleton's Brothers. — Can any of 



jour numerous correspondents furnish the names, 



jylaces of residence, &c. of all, or nearly all, the 



many brothers of the late Sir Hugh Myddleton ? 



A Constant Reader. 



Churches Erected. — Can you tell me by what 

 'means I can ascertain the number of new churches 

 that have been erected In each county, distin- 

 guishing those where the expense has been de- 

 frayed almost or entirely by individuals ? A. 



Salutation Customs. — In the Retrospective Re- 

 view, vol. ii. p. 240., I find the following : 



" The proud and pompous Constable of Castile, on his 

 visit to the English Court soon after the accession of 

 ■James I., was right well pleased to bestow a kiss on Anne 

 ■of Denmark's lovely maids of honour, ' according to the 

 ■custom of the country, and any neglect of which is taken 

 as an aflfront.' . . . VVe should like to know when tliis 

 passing strange custom died away — a question we will 

 beg to hand over to our friend ' N. & Q.' " 



In Hone's Year Book, col. 1087, this custom is 

 also noticed by a correspondent as follows : 



" Another specimen of our ancient manners is seen in 

 the French embrace. The gentleman, and others of the 

 male sex, laj'- hands on the shoulders, and touch the side 

 of each other's cheek ; but on being introduced to a lady, 

 they say to her father, brother, or friend, Fermettez-moi, 

 and salute each of her cheeks . . . And was not this 

 custom in England in Elizabeth's reign ? Let us read 

 one of the epistles of the learned Erasmus, which being 

 translated, is in part as follows : 



" ' . . . Although, Faustus, if you knew the advantages 

 of Britain, truly you would hasten thither with wings to 

 your feet ; and, if your gout would not permit, j'ou would 

 wish you possessed the heart [sic] of Daedalus. For, just 

 to touch on one thing out of many here, there are lasses 

 with heavenly faces ; kind, obliging, and you would far 

 prefer them to all your Muses. There is, besides, a prac- 

 tice never to be sufficiently commended. Tf you go to 

 any place, you are received with a kiss by all ; if you 

 depart on a journey, you are dismissed with a kiss; you 

 return, kisses are exchanged. They come to visit you, 

 a kiss the first thing ; they leave you, j'ou kiss them all 

 round. Do they meet you anywhere, kisses in abund- 

 ance. Lastly, wherever you move, there is nothing but 

 kisses. And if you, Faustus, had but once tasted them ! 

 how soft they are — hovr fragrant! on my honour you 

 would wish not to reside here for ten years only, but for 

 life.' " 



Perhaps some correspondent will answer the 

 Query of the editor of the Retrospective Review as 

 quoted above. Cid. 



Angier Family. — Is anything known of the 

 descendants of the celebrated Nonconformist 



minister John Angier ; and especially of his three 

 children? Elizabeth, born at Denton, June 24, 

 1634, became the wife of the Rev. Oliver Hey- 

 wood (afterwards her father's biographer), and 

 died in 1661. John was in holy orders, which 

 is about the only fact I have been able to glean. 

 There was also a third child, of whom I can learn 

 nothing. J. B. 



Heraldic. — What is the name of the family, 

 also what is the crest appertaining to the follow- 

 ing arms, viz. Argent, three pellets in bend voided, 

 a chief sa. ? " In the Heralds' College, London, 

 there is an old alphabet of arms, in which is : 

 Argent, three pellets in bend voided, a chief sa., 

 to the name of Hoyle, Yorkshire ;v but the heralds 

 say it is of no authority, and that they are as- 

 sumed from the arms of Orrell, viz. Argent, three 

 torteauxes in bend, between two bendlets sa., a 

 chief of the second. There are also in the arms of 

 O'Reilly of Ireland, as a second quartering : Ar- 

 gent, a chief sa., between a bend gemelles, three 

 torteauxes gu. Perhaps yourself, or some of your 

 readers, can enlighten me as to whether they are 

 the arms of Hoyle, or assumed, as the heralds 

 state. Fbesebick Kenneth. 



Clonea. 



Scottish Songs. — Are there any old words to the 

 airs of " The Yellow-haired Laddie," " The Bush 

 aboon Traquair," " The Banks o' the Tweed," 

 " Wandering Willie," and many more, equally 

 beautiful ? And if so, where are they to be 

 found ? Of course I don't mean words of the 

 age or style of Allan Ramsay. L. M. M. R. 



Ancient Punishment of the Jews. — I have a 

 copy of Barrington's Observations on the Statutes, 

 in which some former owner has written several 

 useful notes. On the " Statutum de Judaism© " 

 he says : 



"In death as in life, special indignities have been 

 applied to the Jews. The Inquisition burnt them apart 

 from other victims, and in the middle ages they were often 

 put to death in company with animals held to be un- 

 clean. Even so late as the year 1700, when the notorious 

 Brunswick gang of robbers were executed for sacrilege at 

 Zell, Jonas Meier was hanged with his head downwards 

 on a separate gallows with a dog by his side ; though it 

 does not appear that he was in any way different from the 

 rest, except as being a Jew." — See Fortrefflich Gedaeht- 

 niss der Gottlicher Regierung. 



Can any of your readers tell me where I can 

 see the book, or any other account of the case ? 



P. B. E. 



Ciudad Rodrigo. — In the late Lord London- 

 derry's Narrative of the Peninsidar War, he men- 

 tions. In his account of the siege of the above 

 fortress by the French under Massena, in 1810, 

 that a general assault was made by the besiegers 

 on the night between June 30 and July 1, and re- 



