Dec. 23. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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sense of umpire. Both are syngenesiac with the 

 A.-S. bcfiiiia, a judge. 



Foule is but a misspelling of full. 



Halowes is still retained in the substantive sense 

 in the vernacular calendar as "All-Hallows' Eve," 

 &c. 



Lowable is the French louaUe, if it be not rather 

 loveahle. 



Mowing is "making mouths," according to 

 Johnson, and can hardly be considered archaic, 

 at least not obsolete. 



Nosethrylless is the A.-S. nore-jjynel, nostril, i. e. 

 nose-hole. 



Payne was, I suspect, in pronunciation the same 

 with the A.-S. pinan ; and is hardly obsolete, since 

 we could say to-day "to pine thereon," &c. 



Rather, A.-S. na'Snn, means, primarily, "that 

 which comes first." 



Shenship, A.-S. rcynbe, ashamed; rcype, condi- 

 tion ; i. e. a state of being ashamed. 



Shepster, A.-S. rcyp, a patch, a piece. Thus, in 

 St. Matt. ix. 16., Niper cla'Ser Fyp, a piece of new 

 €loth. 



Speed, A.-S. rpeb, prosperity. 



Stickle, A.-S. rcicel, a sting. So the passage 

 given by Nevus would signify "the conflict — 

 provoked by the Pope." 



Wair is the A.-S. piep, a pond, and our English 

 wear or weir. 



Warying, A.-S. vynmey, cursing, from wergian. 



Welowi/ing is drooping, like a willow. 



Wonders is our wondrous, in all but spelling. 



I. H. A. 



Baltimore. 



St. George's, Hanover Square ("Vol. x., p. 425.). 



— The house in which Lord Chancellor Covvper 

 died, is, by an error of the printer probably, given 

 as 23. It should be 13. It may be the fact, that 

 the house in question was what is now known as 

 No. 13.; but was it so described at the time? 

 Even after the middle of last century no numbers 

 are prefixed to the names in the rate-books of the 

 respective occupants. D. 



Leamington. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. vi., p. 412., &c.). 



— The origin of this custom may perhaps be 

 found in the Scriptures, Deut. vi. 9. : " Thou 

 shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and 

 on thy gates." Jahn says : 



" The gates not only of houses, but of cities, were cus- 

 tomarily adorned with the inscription which, according 

 to Deut. vi. 9., xi. 20., was to be extracted from the law 

 of Moses ; a practice in which may be found tlie origin of 

 the modern mezuzaw, or piece of parchment inscribed 

 with Deut. vi. 5 — 9., xi. 13 — 20., and fastened to the 

 door-post." — Upham's Translation, Ward's ed., sec. 35. 



There is an interesting note in the Pictorial 

 Bible on Deut. vi. 9., and another in Ainsworth's 

 annotations on the passage. It appears that the 



custom still prevails in oriental countries, of in- 

 scribing passages from the Koran upon the en- 

 trances of their buildings. Among the Greeks 

 and Romans it was common to place an inscription 

 over the entrances of temples, &c. Examples of 

 these are still in existence. Perhaps the most ce- 

 lebrated was that over the temple of Apollo at 

 Delphi, " Know thyself." 



The best writers have av.ailed themselves of the 

 idea. Thus Dante, in a celebrated passage in the 

 Inferno, represents an inscription over the en- 

 trance, which consists of nine lines, of which the 

 last is that famous one, — 



" Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch' intrate ! " 

 " Abandon every hope, ye who enter here ! " 



And John Bunyan, with admirable tact, places 

 over the wicket-gate the words, — 



" Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." 



In addition to the inscriptions already civen, I 

 remember over the Grammar School, Welling- 

 borough : 



" *iAojiia9e(7i multum debeo, barbaris autem nihil." 

 I forget where the following comes from : 



" Love not prid. Vnto the poore be helpynge. 

 And be not wearye of wel doinge. 

 Sir William Herioke, Knight, Fovnder hereof, 1613." 



but I think it is in Leicestershire. B. H. C. 



SoutKs Sermons (Vol. x., p. 324.). — The story 

 alluded to, in the first passage of which N. L, T. 

 desires an explanation, viz. " A coal, we know, 

 snatched from the altar, once fired the nest of the 

 eagle, the royal and commanding bird," is told by 

 Phaedrus, in the twenty-eighth fable of his first 

 book, Vulpis et Aquila : 



" Quamvis sublimes debent humiles metuere, 

 Vindicta docili quia patet solertife." 



The eagle would not restore the fox's cubs which 

 she had carried away to her nest, and thereupon, 



" Vulpes ab ara rapuit ardentem facem, 

 Totamque flammis arborem circumdedit." 



H.L. 



N. L. T. will find the subject of Wolsey's disso- 

 lution of the forty monasteries, by consent of 

 Henry VIII. and Pope Clement VII., for the 

 purpose of founding his colleges at Ipswich and 

 Oxford, referred to at greater length in the in- 

 troductory address "To the Reader" of Spelman's 

 treatise De non temerandis Ecclesiis, Oxford, 1841, 

 pp. 49 — 55. There are several references also 

 which will, no doubt, enable him to ascertain all 

 the particulars he desires. J. Sansom. 



The Inquisition (Vol. x., p. 120.). — Colonel 

 Lehmanowski (not Lemanouski as your corre- 

 spondent has it) is, and has been for several years, 

 a clergyman in good standing in the Lutheran 



