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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 142, 



John liflgers, Protomartyr (Vol. v., p. 522.). — 

 Me. Knight will find some of the information he 

 requires, and perhaps be put on the trace of more, 

 in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1849, 

 p. 656. t 



Restive (Vol. v., p. 535.). — Your correspondent 

 J. li. is surely quite beside the mark, in his ob- 

 servations upon the word restive. He says, " We 

 find it defined in our dictionaries, " unwilling to 

 stir, inclined or determined to rest." I would ask 

 in what dictionary he has seen the last interpreta- 

 tion ? Johnson prefers spelling the word restiff; 

 as more resembling the cognate words restivus in 

 low Latin, restif in French, and restito in Italian. 

 Now those languages know nothing of rest, in the 

 sense of "repose," but only as a derivative from 

 the Latin resto ; which is not merely to " stand 

 still," but is occasionally equivalent to resisto. 

 See Gesner's Thesaurus for authorities. That rest 

 has two such unconnected meanings as "repose" 

 or " remainder" in our language, is owing to its 

 having come down to us from two unconnected 

 sources : viz. from the Saxon word for 7-est " sleep," 

 or " repose ; " and from the French reste, whose 

 source is resto. Restive neither means " deter- 

 mined to rest," nor "restless," but "reluctant ;" 

 if this last word be understood in its original sense, 

 and not merely as something passing in the mind. 

 " He felt rather restive " would mean, in the pas- 

 sage cited by J. R., " He felt rather disposed to 

 make resistance." H. W. 



Apple Sauce with Pork (Vol. v., p. 395.). — 

 Boniface inquires why and when the custom of 

 eating apple sauce with pork was first introduced ? 

 It is hoped that the following observation will 

 cause him to enjoy the viands with more relish. A 

 physician having been lately asked whether it was 

 advisable to take cod liver oil in lemon juice, re- 

 mai'ked that the acid would assist its digestion, 

 and that our forefathers must have been acquainted 

 with the theory, in eating green gooseberries with 

 mackerel, and apple sauce with pork and goose. 



C. T. 



Spanish " Veiwe Bowes " (Vol. vi., p. 10.). — The 

 " veiwe bowes " in the inventory quoted by your 

 correspondent J. O. B., no doubt were long bows 

 made of yew, of which wood that which came from 

 Spain was considered best for the purpose. Thus 

 Drayton (JPolyolb. 26.) says : 

 •' All made of Spanish yew, their bows are wondrous 



strong." 

 *' View " is the common name for " ycAv " in these 

 parts ; only yesterday a man was speaking to me 

 of the " view tree " in my garden : so also in the 

 churchwardens' accounts : 



1593. " Itm. for leadinge of cavthe to y* benche about 

 the vewe tree, &c. - - Jj' iiij''." 



J. Eastm'ood. 



Ecclesfield. 



'■^ Cane Decane" 8fc. (Vol. v., p. 523,). — lain 

 sorry to find Bavius has given to the couplet 

 beginning with these words an indelicate meaning 

 which the original does not require or even justify. 

 Canis cannot be applied to a woman but in the 

 very worst sense, but every one knows that a dog 

 has been used as an emblem of field sports from 

 the earliest ages. Talbots and greyhounds in 

 heraldry generally allude to sporting chai'acters or 

 offices ; and the punning couplet in question was 

 doubtless composed to reprove the sporting dis- 

 position of some aged dignitary. The " free trans- 

 lation" by Bavius appears to me no translation at 

 all, and is devoid of the pun and the reproof of 

 the original. Perhaps the following gives the 

 sense more truly, yet so imperfectly, that it is 

 scarcely worth inserting : — 



" CANE DECANE, ETC. 



Good Dean Grey, the sportman's lay 



111 becomes thy tresses grey ; 

 Grey-haired Grey ! thy tlieme be then. 



Not greyhounds, but grey-hair'd men." 



W. H. K. 



The Moon and her Influences (Vol. v., p. 400.), 

 — AV. H. will find information on the subject by 

 referring as follows : — Chambers s Edinburgh 

 Journal, Old Series, No. 360., New Series, Nos. 

 124. 208. 310.; Monthly Chronicle, vol. i. p. 60., 

 vol. ii. p. 209. : the Annuaire for 1833 contains 

 an article on the subject by Arago ; and facts and 

 fictions may be gathered from Maurice's Indian 

 Antiquities, p. 205. ; The Celestial Worlds Dis- 

 covered ; or. Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, 

 Plants, and Productions of the Worlds in the Pla- 

 nets, by Christianus Huggens, London, mdcxcviii. 

 and " Lake's Moon Story," which appeared in the 

 American newspapers about fifteen years since, 

 and which may be easily found with the aid of 

 some one familiar with the files. 



^ Shirley Hibberd. 



Bronze Medals (Vol. v., p. 608.). — Mr. Boase 

 will find his medal of Martinus de Hanna en- 

 graved in Bergmann's Medaillen auf beriihmsten 

 und ausgezeignetcn Manner des Kijnigthums 

 Oesterreichs, plate xiv. No. 69. I have only an 

 odd number of the work containing the engraving 

 but not the letter-press description, so that it is 

 possible it may contain information respecting 

 some of the other medals. It was published about 

 1842. 



The medal of D. Maria Aragonia is engraved 

 among the " Medailles coulees et ciselees en Italie 

 aux XV-^ et XVP Siecles," in the Tresor de Nu- 

 mismatique et de Glyptique, plate xxix. No. 4. The 

 description and a note upon it is given at p. 25., 

 where it is considered as struck in honour of 

 Blanche-Marie Sforza, daughter of Galeas Marie, 

 Duke of Milan, and of Bonne of Savoy, of whom 



