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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 250. 



Terrible, I believe). A very remarkable anec- 

 dote of his reply to that despot, on refusing, with 

 Roman haughtiness, to pay a slavish obeisance to 

 the barbarian, for which he was well nigh having 

 his hat nailed to his head, was once in existence. 

 Can any of your readers give me a copy of his 

 heroic answer, or direct me where to search for 

 it ? I have collected many particulars of Sir 

 Jeremy's life and family, but cannot find any 

 account of the fact I allude to, except that some 

 one has made use of it to the glorification of his 

 hero in a modern novel. A. B. 



" The Tales of the Fairies" — 



" The Tales of the Fairies, or the Comical Metamor- 

 phosis ; with the wonderful Operation of a Fountain in 

 the Gardens of Patagonia, in restoring lost Virginity. 

 London, printed in the year mdcclxiv.," 16mo., with 

 frontispiece, and plate at p. 140. 



By whom is the above, or to what does it refer ? 

 It seems political, and not what its title might in- 

 duce people to suppose. M. L. 



Cork. — In Oxfordshire, when a child exhibits 

 an overweening fondness for a parent, with a view 

 to gaining some coveted indulgence, it is usually 

 denominated "cork," or, as it is called by the 

 country people, "cark." "It is nothing but cork" 

 is a common expression from parent to child. Can 

 any of your readers define its origin ? Zz. 



Storm in Devon. — Bishop Hall, in his medi- 

 tation on the Invisible World, book i. sect. 6., on 

 "The Employments and Operations of Angels" 

 (Devotional Works, ed. Josiah Pratt, Lond. 1808, 

 p. 459.), has the following passage : 



" I could instance irrefragably in several tempests and 

 thunderstorms, which, to the unspeakable terror of the 

 inhabitants, were seen, heard, felt, in the western parts ; 

 wherein the translocation and transportation of huge, 

 massy stones and irons of the churches, above the possi- 

 bility of natural distance, together with the strange 

 preservation of the persons assembled, with other acci- 

 dents sensibly accompanying those astonishing works of 

 God, still fresh in the minds of many, showed them 

 plainly to be wrought by a stronger hand than Nature's." 



In a note at the words " ivestern parts" the 

 writer instances " the churches of Foye, Totness, 

 and Withycomb," adding, " of the same kind 

 were the prodigious tempests of Milan, an. 1521, 

 and at Mechlin, Aug. 7, an. 1527." Is there any 

 published account of the tempests at Foye, Tot- 

 ness, and Withycomb, to which the bishop here 

 alludes ? J. Sansom. 



[In the British Museum is the following pamphlet: 

 " To his Highness the Lord Protector, and to the Parlia- 

 ment of England," 4to., no place or date. This is a letter 

 without signature, written apparently by a Quaker, giving 

 a curious account of Gloucester Cathedral. An engraved 



frontispiece represents a church, with its interior visible, 

 struck by lightning, and the congregation scattered. Be- 

 neath it is the following inscription : "A most piodigious 

 and fearefuU Storme of Winde, Lightning, and Thunder, 

 mightily defacing Withicomb Church in Deuon, burning 

 and slayeing diverse Men and Women, all this in service- 

 time on the Lord's Day, Oct. 21, 1638." Mr. Davidson, 

 in his Bibliotheca Devoniensis, says, " This plate seems to 

 have been intended for one or the other of the two follow- 

 ing tracts ; but it has not been found affixed to any copy 

 of either of them." 1. " A True Relation of those sad and 

 lamentable Accidents which happened in and about the 

 Parish Church of Withycombe, in the Dartmoores in 

 Devonshire, on Sunday, 21st October, 1638," 4to., London, 

 1638 ; in the British Museum. 2. " A Second and more 

 exact Relation of those sad and lamentable Accidents 

 which happened in and about the Parish Church of 

 Wydecombe, neere the Dartmoores in Devonshire, on 

 Sunday the 21st of October last, 1638." 4to., London, 

 1638.] 



Remigius Van Lemput. — I shall feel much 

 obliged for any information of the descendants of 

 K.etuigius Van Lemput, the painter, who is stated 

 to have been disowned by the historical family of 

 that name still, or recently, existing at Antwerp, 

 on account of his adoption of the Protestant faith ; 

 and to have obtained his livelihood, during the 

 time of Cromwell, in London, by his knowledge 

 of painting, under the name of Remy. G. B. 



New York. 



[Remy's daughter was a paintress; and married 

 Thomas, brother of Robert Streater, appointed serjeant- 

 painter at the Restoration, who is frequently noticed by 

 Pepys in his Diary. Remy died in November, 1675, 

 and was buried in the churchyard of Covent Garden, as 

 his son Charles had been in 1651.] 



Translations of the Talmud, ^c. — Does there 

 exist a translation of the apocryphal Jewish books, 

 The Talmud, &c., in any of the modern languages ? 

 The information would much oblige K. 



[" Le Talmud de Babylone, traduit en langue Fran9aise 

 et complete par celui de Jerusalem et par d'autres monu- 

 mens de I'antiquite Judaique, par I'abbe L. Chiarini," 

 Voll. i. ii., 8", Leipz. 1831. There are two other trans- 

 lations in Latin : " Talmudis Babylonici codex Middoth, 

 sive de mensuris Templi ; Hebraic^ et Latine ; ex ver- 

 sione et cum commentariis, studio Constantini I'Empereur 

 ab Oppyck," 4to., Elzevir, Lug. Bat., 1630. "Talmudis 

 Babylonici codex Succa, sive de Tabernaculorum Festo ; 

 Hebraicfe et Latinfe ; ex versione et cum notis Fr. Bern. 

 Dachs, et Commentariis Joh. Jac. Crameri," 4to., Trajecti 

 ad Rhenura, 1726.] 



Letter to Active. — Is there anywhere extant a 

 copy of the entire letter of the Britons to Aetius ? 

 GeolFry of Monmouth, Nennius, and Bede give 

 the same portions, which appear to be copied from 

 some author who quotes only the fragments. I 

 refer to Dr. Giles's translations of the above au- 

 thors. W. B. Thurmond. 



[The entire letter is given by Polydore Virgil, but 

 without stating his authority. Its authenticity is doubt- 

 ful.] 



