Nov. IL 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



393 



Querard quotes a third work, Histoire de Ceaar- 

 Germanicus, published by De Beaufort in 1741, 

 under the initials "M. L. de B.," and adds, 

 " Beaufort a eu part a une traduction de la Bib- 

 liotheque britannique, La Haye, 1733-47," which 

 is an earlier publication, by five years, than his 

 Dissertation on the Roman history. 



Henry H. Breen. 

 St. Lucia. 



Genoa Register (Vol. x., p. 289.). — I know of 

 no place where to search for a burial at Genoa in 

 1790. The foreign registers at the Bishop of 

 London's office do not comprise any from Genoa, 

 nor indeed any so early as 1790, with the exception 

 of those from Moscow, Oporto, and Lisbon, which 

 commence respectively 1706, 1716, and 1721. 



J. S. Burn. 



Bishop, Reference to (Vol. x., p. 306.). — The 

 writer of Cautions for the Times, who evidently 

 lives on Doubts and Difficulties, was no doubt re- 

 ferring to a story about Bishop Butler, whose 

 baptism and ordination were questioned, merely 

 because he was born of dissenting parents, and ill- 

 informed people did not know where to find the 

 register in either case. A few years ago the Rev. 

 Walter Blunt set both doubts at rest. Though 

 the baptismal register of the parish where he was 

 born hus been mutilated, in order, it w(mld seem, 

 to make the doubt, a perfect manuscript exists in 

 the diocesan register-office. As to his ordination, 

 a record of that exists in the handwriting of the 

 prelate who ordained him, and who held a special 

 ordination for that sole purpose. W. Denton. 



Welkin, Maslin (Vol. x., p. 182.). — A welkin 

 is a tripod (usually iron) pot, similar to the 

 melting vessel used by pipe-layers. I hear that 

 this description of utensil is or was employed in 

 the low countries (Lincolnshire, &c.) on account 

 of the scarcity of coal, for baking cakes or po- 

 tatoes, the method adopted being to place the pot 

 on a previously heated hearth, and to rake the 

 embers round it. There were cast with each two 

 nose-like projections, to which was attached a 

 handle, like that of a bucket. 



An old brazier informs me that three-legged 

 pots made of the same metal as tops, generally 

 called bell-metal, were formerly known as maslin 

 pots, or maslins. Furvus. 



Books chained in Churches (Vol. viii., pp. 93. 

 206. 273. 328.; Vol. x., p. 174.).— As several notes 

 have appeared in your pages on this usage, I send 

 the following extract from the Testamenta Vetusta, 

 •which, whilst it is an instance of the presence of 

 secular books in churches, carries back the custom 

 to an earlier period than the Reformation, and 

 •will serve to show that " the authority for this 

 ancient custom" could not have been " an act of 



convocation which assembled in 1562," which did 

 but sanction the use of certain books, and not au- 

 thorise the custom itself. It would no doubt be 

 easy to trace the usage much farther back : 



" I Willi and bequeth to the Abbot and convent of 

 Hales-Oweyn, a boke of myn, called Catholicon, to theyr 

 own use for ever; and another boke of myn, wherein iv 

 contaigned the ' Constitutions Pro\Tncial,' and ' Ue Gestis 

 Romanorum,' and other treatis therein, which I wuU be 

 laid and bounded with an yron chayn, in soin convenient 

 parte within the saide church, at my costs, so that all 

 preests and others may se and rede it whenne it pleasith 

 them. . . . Also I bequeth a boke called Fasciculus 

 Morum to the church at Eniield ; also I bequeth a bok« 

 called Medulla Graminatica to the church of King's 

 Norton." — Will of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, 1481. 



I speak from memory, but I believe that a good 

 copy of the original edition of the authorised 

 version of the Bible is still attached to a chain at 

 Cumnor, near Oxford ; and that in one of the 

 churches at Abingdon will be found in a side 

 chapel the remains of some half dozen volumes at 

 least of works similarly chained. W. Denton. 



The Seven Senses (Vol. iv., p. 233. ; Vol. v., 

 p. 521.).- 



" They received the use of the five operations of th» 

 Lord, and in the sixth place He imparted them under- 

 standing, and in the seventh speech, au interpreter of th» 

 cogitations thereof. — Ecclesiasticus xvii. 5. 



WiiiiiiAM Fraser, B. C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Good Times for Equity Suitors (Vol. x., 

 p. 173.). — The following is, I believe, the true- 

 story. When Sir T. More was promoted to the 

 office of Lord Chancellor, Chancery was clogged 

 with suits, some of which had been of nearly 

 twenty years' standing ; but at the end of his. 

 second year not one was pending. His successor,. 

 Sir Thomas Audley, was far from being a man^ of 

 such dispatch, which gave rise to the following 

 lines : 



" When More two years had chancellor been, 

 No more suits did remain ; 

 The same shall never more be seen, 

 ,'Till More be there again." 



CliERICUS (D.)i 



Simmels (Vol. ix., p. 322.). — Simnels, not 

 simmels, is the correct name of a sort of cake con- 

 sidered as a delicacy by our ancestors. In the 

 island of Jersey the name is still applied to a kind 

 of thin biscuit made of the finest wheaten flour 

 and water; the paste is, I believe, at first par- 

 boiled, and after having been glazed with white 

 of egg, baked in the oven. The impostor Lambert 

 Siranel, in the reign of Henry VII., is said to have 

 been the son of a baker of Oxford. Did he derive 

 his name from his skill in making this particular 

 delicacy, or did it derive its appellation from 

 him ? HoNOBE db Mabevux*. 



Guernsey. 



