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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 269. 



St. Tellant (Vol. x., pp. 265. 334.). — In the list 

 of saints given by the Bollandists in the last volume 

 for the month of June, in their learned and truly 

 valuable AA. SS., a " Sanctus Tellanus, Abbas," 

 is noticed ; and his feast-day is set down as the 

 9th of January. In a tract, entitled De Prose- 

 cutions Operis Bollandiani quod Acta Sanctorum 

 insci'ihitur, and issued at Brussels a.d. 1838, but 

 now become excessively rare, among the Saints 

 whose lives are to be published occurs " Teleanus, 

 Ep. M. Landav. in Angl. 25 Nov." To me it 

 seems that the Rhosilli bell bears the name of 

 some home-born holy Briton — either the abbot, 

 or the martyred Bishop of LlandafF — and not of 

 any Flemish saint, as Seleucds imagines. In the 

 Natales Sanctorum Belgii, by Molanus, no saint 

 with a name anything like Tellant is to be found. 

 From a copy of the original inscription now be- 

 fore me, I find it is not Sancta but Sancte Tel- 

 lant, &c. D. Rook. 



Newick, Sussex. 



Etiquette Query (Vol. x., p. 404.). — The term 

 etiquette is misapplied by the Querist. It is 

 simply a question of rank and precedence. What 

 the lady acquired by marriage she loses by re- 

 marriage, the wife following the status of her 

 husband. The courtesy title not being the lady's 

 by birth, she cannot take the style or rank of 

 Honorable. G. 



An answer to the "Etiquette Query" may be 

 found at p. 635. of Dodd's Peerage for 1852. It 

 is there laid down that such ladies as the supposed 

 Mrs. Fergusson Jones lose both courtesy, title, 

 and precedence by contracting a second mar- 

 riage : " for it is held, that whatsoever in this 

 respect a woman gains by marriage, she loses by 

 marriage — ' eodem modo quo quid constituitur, 

 dissolvitur.' Nevertheless," goes on this authority, 

 for various reasons, " it is perhaps no very great 

 concession for the world to yield them the 

 courtesy-titles of their first husbands." 



Newspaper-readers may recollect a correspon- 

 dence not long ago on this subject, between the 

 Hon. Mrs. Norton the poetess (wife of the Hon. 

 G. Norton), and another Mrs. Norton, who had 

 prefixed the " Hon." to her name as having been 

 the wife of the Hon. Stewart Erskine : a corre- 

 spondence in which anything but courtesy was 

 conspicuous. R. H. G. 



Boohs to he reprinted (Vol. ix., p. 171.). — Irby 

 and Mangles' Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria 

 and Asia Minor., during the years 1817, 1818. 

 (Printed for private distribution.) Well written 

 and full of accurate information. It is much to 

 be regretted that the work was never published ; 

 and it would still bear reprinting. (Dr. Robinson's 

 Biblical Researches in PalestinCy vol. iii., Append., 

 p. 24.) Anon. 



Remarkable and authentic Prophecy (Vol. x., 

 p. 284.). — Allow me to suggest to your corre- 

 spondent A. B. R., that the circumstance, which 

 he describes as a " remarkable and authentic pro- 

 phecy," has no relation whatsoever to the present 

 Emperor of France. In 1823, when "Madame 

 Mere " uttered the language in question, the 

 grandson who occupied her thoughts as the future 

 Emperor of France, was not Louis Napoleon, but 

 the Duke of Relchstadt, King of Rome. In him 

 alone were then centred all the hopes of the 

 Bonaparte family ; and to him alone, until the 

 period of his death, did they continue to look for- 

 ward as to the restorer of their fallen dynasty. 

 True, if we examine the expression " grandson," 

 apart from the intention of Madame Mere, her 

 words assume the appearance of prophecy : but if 

 we take into consideration that the " greatness," 

 which she so fondly anticipated for the Duke of 

 Relchstadt, has never been realised ; and that the 

 "greatness" achieved by Louis Napoleon was 

 wholly undreamt of in her contemplation, your 

 correspondent will I think agree with me, that 

 the language quoted by him lacks the essential 

 ingredients of a true prophecy. Henry H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



Alefounders (Vol. x., pp. 307. 433.). — In the 

 Hale MS. (see Three Early Metrical Romances, 

 published by the Camden Society, p. xxxviii.), 

 which contains records of the Court Leet of Hale 

 in the fifteenth century, amongst persons fined we 

 have : 



" Thomas Layet, quia pandocavit semel \]d. Et quia 

 concelavit le fowtmdynge pot, iijd." 



The word is found in the early English Psalter, 

 edited by Mr. Stevenson for the Surtees Society, 

 vol. i. p. 39. : 



" Thou fanded mi hert and bi night seked ; 

 With fire me fraisted, and in me nes funden wicked- 

 hede." 

 Other versions are given in the notes, throwing 

 still more light upon the word : 



" With fir thou fondedest, and noht esse 

 Funden in me wickednesse." 



" Thou fonded mi hert 



And noht is funden in with me, 

 Wickednes nan for to be." 

 What sort of a vessel was the founding •Y>ot? It 

 seems to have been kept specially for the beer- 

 testing. John Robson. 



Archaic Words (Vol. ix., p. 491. ; Vol.x., 

 p. 24.).- _ _ 



Advyse agrees with the definition given by 

 Johnson to advised, &c. 



Beclepe is the A.-S. beclyppan, to clasp. 



Baying. We have a derivative of this in our 

 version of Job ix. 33., "any daysman," in the 



