July 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



some particulars will be found in the Archceologia, 

 vol. xxxiv. p. 17. John Evans. 



Wyle Cop (Vol. v., p. 44.).— Dr. Plot, in his 

 Natural History of Staffoi-dshire^ p. 110., says cop 

 is one of the names used in that county for a 

 mountain, and he lays down on his map " Mole 

 Cop," on the borders of Cheshire, and " Stile Cop," 

 netir Rugeley. And here allow me, with all re- 

 spect, to point out an error which Mr. Halliwell 

 has fallen into in his A?-chaic and Provincial Die- 

 tionai-i/. At p. xxviii. of the Preface he gives 

 White Kennett the merit of preserving many Staf- 

 fordshire words " probably now obsolete." I have 

 gone carefully through Kennett's MS. Glossary 

 (Lansd. MSS. 1033.), and find about a hundred 

 words assigned to that county ; but I have traced 

 them all (and many more not assigned) to Dr. 

 Plot's work published in 1686, from whence I 

 Lave no doubt Kennett derived them. 



Nor must Plot have more praise than he de- 

 serves, for inasmuch as many of the words relate 

 cither to iron works or coal mines, they occur in the 

 extracts which he gives from Dud Dudley's Metal- 

 liiin Martis, 1665, a small work till lately vei-y 

 rai e, but which has recently been accurately re- 

 printed by a gentleman intimately connected with 

 the iron trade of South Staffordshire. 



Chas. H. Bati.ey. 



SO. Clarence Street, Islington. 



Celebrated Fly (Vol. vi., p. 10.).— I think there 

 is little doubt but that this refers to the honey bee; 

 the prophet declaring in the Koran that " all flies 

 shall perish in hell fire except the bee." 1 forget 

 the reference, but could procure it if wanted. 



Metaouo. 



Mummy Wheat (Vol. v., p. 538.). — In the II- 

 In.sirated London News for Sept. 22, 1849, is a 

 description of mummy wheat (with an engraving) 

 grown by R. Enoch, of Stow-on-theWold, raised 

 from grains brought from Thebes by the family of 

 Sir William Symonds. 



I believe wheat of this description may be pro- 

 cured of any first-rate London seedsman. Some 

 was exhibited in the Crystal Palace. Metaouo. 



Squire Brown's Fox Chase (Vol. v., p. 537.). — 

 If I am not mistaken in the ballad referred to by 

 li. S., he will find some account of it in Edwards's 

 Tour of the Dove, stanza xvi., with the notes on 

 the stanza. II. N. E. 



SetKs Pillars (Vol. v., p. 609.).— Anon, will find 

 (he legend of Seth's pillars treated of in Stilling- 

 fleet's Oi'igines Sacrce, lib. i. R. P. L. 



Edmund Bohun (Vol. v., p. 539. ; Vol. vi., 

 p. 21.). — I have reason to believe, what indeed 

 the nnswer to my Query plainly shows, that the 

 *'• Collections, 1675 — 1692" ai-e not identical with 

 the "/?oe years' collections" mentioned in the 

 title of the Great Historical Dictionary. These 



were made with the express object there men- 

 tioned : the others appear to have been of a more 

 miscellaneous character. The copies of Bright's 

 Catalogue in the British Museum have not the 

 purchasers' names. May I hope that some kind 

 notist will yet answer the Query again ? 



S. W. Rix. 

 Beccles. 



Etymology of Mushroom (Vol. iii., p. 168. ; 

 Vol. v., p. 598.). — There appears no reason for 

 going to the Welsh for the root of this word, when 

 we have the French mousseron, " a white kind of 

 mushroom," as the obvious source. This was 

 pointed out in Thomson's Etymons of English 

 Words, though mousseron is there not very 

 happily derived from ^vktjs and dp'oifxa. 



John Evans. 



The Plant Hcemony (Vol. ii., pp. 88. 141. 173. 

 410.). — Milton, in the passage here referred to, 

 appears to allude to the opinion of those critics 

 who, dissatisfied with the annihilation of the plant 

 Moly by the allegorisers (see Pope's Odyssey, b. 10. 

 V. 361., Ascham's Works, 4to. p. 251., Richard- 

 son's Dictionary, art. Moly), identify it with the 

 Nymphsea lutea which grows in Thessaly or Ha- 

 monia (v. Apollon. Rhod. 1. iii. v. 1089.). There is 

 a dissertation on the subject in Wedelii Exercita- 

 tiones Medico-Pbilologicce. A Rosicrucian. 



Shahspeare, Tennyson, Sfc. (\6\. v., p. 618.). — 

 In connexion with A. A. D.'s quotation, "Cinerem 

 in flores mutari, idque contingere non nisi probis 

 ac pulchris," let me quote Sir John Mandeville's 

 origin of roses (cap. vi.) : 



" And betwene the citye (Bethleliem) and the 

 chirche, is the Felde Floridus ; that is to seyne, the 

 Feld florisched ; for als moche as a fayre mayden was 

 blamed with wrong, and sclaundred ; that sche had 

 don fornycacioun ; for whiche cause sche was demed 

 to the dethe, and to be brent in that place, to the 

 whiche sche was ladd. And as the fyre began t.) 

 brenne about hire, sche made hire preyres to oure 

 Lord, that als wissely as sche was not gylty of that 

 synne, that he wold helpe hire, and make it to bs 

 knowen to alle men, of his mercyfiille grace. And 

 whan sche hadde thus seyd, sche entred into the fuyer; 

 and anon was the fuyr quenched and oute ; and the 

 brondes that weren brennynge, becomen red roseres ; 

 and the brondes that weren not kyntlled, becomen 

 white roseres, fulle of roses. And theisc weren the 

 first roseres and roses, both white and rede, that evere 

 ony man saughe." — P. 83., ed. 1727. 



Bitton. 



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