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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 147. 



Mathieu I have is a Paris edition, mdccxcvi., 

 " Impriinerie de Patris." The " Avis de i'Editeur" 

 may be acceptable to some of the readers of 

 " N. & Q.," to whom the book may not be known : 



«' II importe fort peu au public d'apprendre par quel 

 hasard cet ouvrage m'est totnbe dans les mains. 11 

 doit savoir que j'ai 6te plus de quatre ans dans I'irreso- 

 lution de le mettre au jour. Je puis compter sur une 

 douz line d'amis vertueux et eclaires. Quatre d'entre 

 eux voulaient que je le fisse imprimer ; quatre me pous- 

 saient a le bruler ; et le reste me disait d'en faire ce 

 que je jugerais a-propos. Un coup determina I'afFaire, 

 et ce coup fut pour rimpression. 



" Voici done cet ouvrage tel que je I'ai re9u, non-seule- 

 ment quant aux notes, qui sont de difFerentes mains, 

 et aussi souvent mal en ordre. Si cet ouvrage est bon, 

 je prie le lecteur benevole de savoir gre a la fortune de 

 sa publication: s'il est mauvais, et qui pis est, mediant, 

 je suis le premier a joindre ma voix a celle des hommes 

 zeles qui le decrieront." 



James Cornish. 



»ej)TtcjS ta i^t'nor caucrtci. 



The Man in the Moon (Vol. vi., p. 61.). — I beg 

 to remind your correspondent J. Bt. of two pas- 

 sages in Dante which are illustrative of the " Man 

 in the moon." 



Inf. XX. 124—126.: 



" Ma vieni omai ; che gia tiene il confine 

 D'amendue gli emisperi, e tocea I'onda 

 Sotto Sibilia, Caino, e le spine." 



Par. ii. 49—51.: 



" Ma ditemi : che sono i segni bui 

 Di questo corpo, che laggiuso in terra 

 Fan di Cain favoleggiare altrui?" 



On the former passage there is the following 

 gloss in the commentary of Jacopo dalla Lana, 

 published at Venice in 1476, under the pseudo- 

 nyme of Benvenuto da Imola : 



" Dice che Chayno elle spine cio e la luna ; perche 

 fabulose si dice che Chayno figliuo Dadam e nella luna 

 con uno fascio di spine in spalla Simile a quello chel 

 portava nel inondo a fare sul monte sacrificio a dio." 



Plutarch has a treatise " irepl rod eii^aivoy^&ov 

 ■KpoffiiiTTov r(f) kxikX'^ Trjs 2e\'^r'i7s." — Plutarchi Opera : 

 Lut. Paris, 1624, fol. torn. ii. p. 910. 



Clemens Alexandrinus {Sti-omat. lib. i.) quotes 

 Serapion for the tradition of the face which appears 

 in the moon being the soul of a sibyl. See Sibyl- 

 Una Oracula (Parisiis, 1607, 8vo.), pp. 97, 98. 



F. C. B. 



Collar of SS. (Vol. v., pp. 227. 255. &c.). — 

 If you will not be angry with me for reviving this 

 subject, I will just send a very short extract 

 which I met with to-day in reading "A few Ob- 

 servations on the Life of Sir John Banks " (who 

 was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common 

 Pleas in the reign of King Charles), in Lloyd's 



Statesmen and Favourites of England, published in 

 1665: 



'• He was one whom the collar of S. S. S., worn by 

 judges and other magistrates, became very well, if it 

 had its name from Sanclus, Simon, Simplicius ; no man 

 being more seriously /j/oi'S, none more singly honest" 



From this it appears that judges and magistrates 

 were entitled to wear this badge. 



John Branfili, Harrison. 

 Orchard Street, Maidstone. 



At Gaddesby Church, in this county, is a high 

 tomb against the north wall of the north aisle, re- 

 puted to be of the Segrave family, whereon is an 

 effigy of a knight bearing a collar of SS., which 

 must have been beautifully executed, but which, 

 from repeated coats of whitewash and the damp, 

 is at present so clogged up as to be scarcely dis- 

 cernible. 



" He is in armour, with a collar of SS., a large 

 dagger on his right side; at his feet a dog; his head 

 reclines on a helmet, and his hands, wbich are broken 

 oif, were uplifted in prayer. On the front [of the 

 tomb] are four blank shields." — Nichols's History of 

 Leicestershire, vol. iii. part ii. p. 99.5., in which the 

 above-mentioned tomb is engraved. 



Thomas L. Walker. 

 Leicester. 



Reverence to the Altar (Vol. vi., pp.33. 109.). — ■ 

 I do not quite agree with ^Ir. Bede that the 

 custom in Huntingdonshire, Pembrokeshire, and 

 no doubt many other places, of bowing to the 

 clergyman on entering church is a mere abuse of 

 the ancient reverence to the altar ; for the two 

 distinct usages may have coexisted. If it be 

 nothing but a " transfer of the mark of respect 

 from the altar to the clergyman," at all events it 

 received early sanction in some places; for example, 

 in certain " Statutes made by the Reverend the 

 Deane and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of 

 St. Patrick, Dublin, for the government of the 

 Viccars Choralls," it is ordered : 



" VI. That every Viccar, att his first entrance into 

 the choire, doe behave himself reverently, and doe ac- 

 customed obeyance to the Deane." 



And again : 



" XI. That every Viccar, att his goeing to read any 

 lesson, littanies, or to the Lord's table, shall, both goeing 

 and att his returne, expresse a civell obeydance {sic) ti> 

 the Deane." 



These rules were made in 1692. (Mason's Hist. 

 S. PatricKs Cath., p. 92.) A. A. D. 



Spanish Vessels wrecked on Irish Coast (Vol. vi., 

 p. 44.). — A letter from the inspecting general officer 

 of the Coast Guard, printed at p. 499. of vol.xx. of 

 the Illustrated London News, states that during the 

 present year the remains of two of these vessels 

 laecame distinctly visible on the Donegal coast, 



