Dec. 16. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Philip Miller. — Can you or any reader of 

 " N. & Q." give me information as to the pa- 

 rentage and country of this celebrated gardener ? 

 Parkinson, in his Paradisus Londoniensis, pub- 

 lished in 1629, amongst the nurserymen of that 

 day, mentions his very good friend Master John 

 Miller. Was this John Miller connected with 

 Philip, and how ? Philip Miller is stated by some 

 biographers to have succeeded his father at the 

 Physic Gardens at Chelsea. C. M. L. 



[Mr. Rogers, in his Memoirs of Philip Miller, at the 

 end of The Vegetable Cultivator, p. 335., remarks : " Va- 

 rious are the conjectures as to the spot where Philip 

 Miller was born, and whence his family came, but nothing 

 certain can be ascertained respecting them. His father, 

 who was a Scotchman by birth, after having lived for 

 some time as gardener at Bromley in Kent, commenced 

 business on his own account as a market gardener near 

 Deptford." This agrees with a notice of Philip Miller 

 furnished by a correspondent of the Gentleman's Mag., 

 vol. liii. p. 322., who says : " I was much acquainted with 

 him for twenty years, and never discovered in him either 

 the dialect or any peculiarity of a Scotchman. His father 

 was a gardener near London before him ; and I always 

 understood that Mr. Philip Miller was bom near the 

 capital." The records of the Society of Apothecaries are 

 silent upon the subject of his having succeeded his father 

 as gardener of the feotanic Garden.] 



Spanish Songs. — Where are the translations of 

 two Spanish songs to be found, the one commenc- 

 ing, — 



She stood with an ivory comb, and told 

 Awakening Phoebus' locks of gold." 



and the other, — 



" To her sister Minguella then spoke Juanilla, 

 But the words that she said brought no peace to her 

 pillow ? " 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



[The latter song, entitled "Minguella's Chiding," from 

 the Romancero General of 1604, will be found in Lock- 

 hart's Ancient Spanish Ballads, edit. 1823, p. 188.] 



A Scotch Song. — The Abbe Morellet, in his 

 Memoirs, says, — 



" Franklin was very fond of Scotch songs ; he recol- 

 lected, he said, the strong and agreeable impressions 

 which they had made on him. He related to us that, 

 while travelling in America, he found himself beyond the 

 Alleghany Mountains, in the house of a Scotchman, living 

 remote from society, after the loss of his fortune, with his 

 wife, who had been handsome, and their daughter, fifteen 

 or sixteen years of age ; and that on a beautiful evening, 

 sitting before their door, the wife had sung the Scotch 

 air, ' So merry as we have been,' in so sweet and touching 

 a way that he burst into tears, and that the recollection 

 of this impression was still quite vivid, after more than 

 thirtj' years." 



Where are the words and music of this song to 

 be found ? UjNeda. 



Philadelphia. 



[The words and music of the song, " Sae merry as we 

 twa hae been," will be found in Johnson's Scots Musical 

 Museum, vol. i. p. 60.] 



" The Elements of Morality T — What is known 

 of the author of this book, translated from the 

 German by Mary Wollstonecraft, but, as she ad- 

 mits, considerably altered ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[A long biographical notice of the author, Chretien 

 Gotthilf Salzmann, will be found in the Biographic Uni- 

 verselle, s. v. The translation of this work produced a 

 correspondence between Mary Wollstonecraft and the 

 author ; and he afterwards repaid the obligation to her in 

 kind, by a German translation of the Rights of Woman.'] 



'■'■Officia Propria Sanctorum Hibernice." — Can 

 you give me any information respecting a 12mo. 

 volume, pp. 127, printed in Dublin in 1751, and 

 entitled Officia Propria Sanctorum Hibernice, &c., 

 Procurante A. R. P. Thoma de Burgo, Dubllniensi, 

 Ordinis Prsedicatorum, S. Theologiae Magistro, et 

 Protonotarlo Apostolico ? The book has been 

 sold, I believe, in times past at a very high price ; 

 but why ? Abhba. 



[We have before us a copy of this work from the librarj- 

 of Eichard Heber, sold in 1834 ; and on turning to the 

 catalogue of his sale we find it was knocked down for 4s. 

 But on the fly-leaf of this copy there is written in ink, 

 " 8/., Bradish," and underneath, in pencil, 41. 4s. It is 

 difficult to account for the difference in these prices.] 



" Now-a-days." — Is this awkward phrase any- 

 thing else than the expression " in our days," 

 pronounced quickly ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[See Richardson's Dictionary, and the examples. 

 " Now-a-days ; i. e. on, or in days, now — in these days."] 



3RejpltejS. 



HOI-T-LOAF MONET. 



(Vol. ix,, pp. 150. 256. 568. ;"Vol. x., pp. 36. 133. 

 215. 250.) 



Holy-loaf money has had bestowed upon it 

 more than one learned notice in some of the latter 

 Numbers of " N. & Q.," and until now I have been 

 hindered from answering the call made upon me 

 (Vol. X., p. 133.) by Mb. Collis about that ritual 

 observance. 



Should Mb. Collis be pleased to look into a 

 work of mine lately published, — 7%e Church of 

 our Fathers (t. i. p. 135.),— he will find some 

 illustrations, which perhaps may interest him, of 

 this liturgical practice as followed here in England, 

 all through the Anglo-Saxon period, and till the 

 last hour that the Sarum Use remained in force. 



The "Holy-loaf" and " Holy-loaf money" are, 

 in truth, two things quite distinct : the first was 

 the bread itself; the other, the piece of money, 

 usually stuck into a wax-taper, and thus carried 

 up along with the loaves and offered together with 

 them to the priest, every Sunday in the pariah 

 church. 



