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Vol. VI. — No. 148.] Sa.turday, August 28. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Ancient Popular Stories, by Richard John King - 183 



Saint Gaspard de Coligny, by Henry H. Breen - - 191 



Epigrams - - - - - . - 191 



Tiie Application of Photography to Archaeology, bv 



William J. Thorns - - - - - 192 



riiotography in the open Air - - - - 193 



Folk Lore : — Tlie Application of Toads to Cancers — 



Salt-Box— Burial Superstition— Spitting for Luck, &c. 193 



Minor Notes : — Cromwell Family — Macaulay's Young 

 LKvite — Lifting at Easter — Remarkable Trees— The 

 Ember Weeks — Shakspeare Folios - - - 193 



QunrtiEs : — 



Uncovering the Head and uncovering the Feet - - 195 

 " Paradise Lost " - - - - . - 195 

 John Clare, by A. H. Cowper - - - - 19G 

 Schoner's Account of the British Isles - - - 196 

 The Crystal Palace : who designed it ? -' - - 190 

 John Hales of Eton - ... - 197 

 Minor Queries : — Sovereigns dining in Public — Execu- 

 tioner of King Charles I Tradescant— Bishop Butler 



— Nicknatie — Lintot's House, the Cross Keys, Fleet 

 Street — " Statuta Exoniae"— Hooping-Cougli— Earl 

 Cornwallis — Epigram on Lord Palmerston — Optical 

 Curiosities — Keel-hauling, with an obsolete Adden- 

 dum — Harvesting on Sundays — Civilation — Veronica 

 Plant and Saint — Revolutionary Calendar - - 197 



JIiNou Queries Answered: — Edmond Howes — Medi- 

 seval Words — Saints' Days and Sundays — George 

 Chalmers — Sir William Denny — Scotch Psalms and 

 Paraphrases — Suffragan Bisltops ... 199 



Repi-IEs : — 



Surnames ....... 201 



Surnames assumed -.-..- 203 



English Bishops deprived, by John I. Dredge - - 203 



Saada's Sympathetic Magnetic Telegraph, by S. W. 



Singer - - - . - . - 204 



Mummies of Ecclesiastics - - . . . 205 



Ricliard Baxter, by H. M. Bealby, &c. - - - 205 



Hydrophobia, by William E. C. Nourse, &c. - - 206 



Similes Founded on the Magnetic Needle, by Joshua G. 



Fitch ....... 207 



Replies to Minor Queries : — M. BarriSre and the Quar- 

 terly Review — Lady Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth 

 Curie— Parallel Passages— Flemish Words in Wales 



— Pickigni— Large Families: Mrs. Honeywood — 

 Clock Mottoes— Was William the Conqueror buried 

 without a Coffin? — Six Thousand Years — Yolante 

 de Dreux — "Sacrum pingue dabo " — Similitude of 

 an Eagle in a Braken Stalk — MufTs worn by Gentle- 

 men — Dutch Porcelain — Queen Mary's Seal John, 



King of France, at Somerton - - - . 207 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 210 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . . - 210 



Notices to Correspondents - - - . 210 



Advertisements - - - . • -211 



Vol. VI. — No. 148. 



ANCXENT POPULAR STOBIES. 



Chulmleigh in Devonshire lias preserved a ver- 

 sion of an old Teutonic " saga," thus recorded by 

 Westcote (View of Devon., 1630) : 



" A poor labouring man inhabiting this town had 

 many children, and tliinking himself overburduncd by 

 such a multiplied blessing of God in that kind, ab- 

 sented himself from his wife and home seven years. 

 At the end whereof he returned, and in due course of 

 time his wife was well delivered of a very fruitful birth, 

 viz., seven sons : which, being so secretly kept as but 

 known to himself and his wife, he, despairing of Divine 

 Providence, resolveth to let them swim in our river ; 

 and to that purpose puts them all into a large basket, 

 and t^ikes his way towards the river. But the Countess 

 of Devon, having been somewhere abroad to take the 

 air, or doing rather some pious work, meets him with 

 his basket; and by some, no doubt Divine inspiration, 

 demands what he carried ? The silly man, stricken 

 dead, well near, with that question, answered, they 

 were whelps. ♦ Let me see them,' quoth the lady. 

 ' They are puppies,' replied he again, ' not worth the 

 rearing.' ' I will see,' quoth the good Countess ; and 

 the loather he was to show them, the more earnest was 

 she to see them : which he perceiving, fell on his knees 

 and discovered his purpose, with all former circum- 

 stances ; winch understood, she hasteth home with 

 them, provides nurses and all things necessary. They 

 all live, are bred in learning ; and being come to man's 

 estate, she gives each a prebend in this parish. Which 

 I think are vanished not to be seen ; but the seven 

 crosses near Tiverton, set up by this occasion, keep it 

 yet in memory." — P. 273. 



Westcote proceeds to quote Camerarius, ^yLo 

 gives a similar origin " to the noble race of 

 Welfes" (Guelphs, whelps). A more ancient ver- 

 sion occurs in Paul Warnefred De Gestis Lmigo- 

 bardorum, lib. i. c. 15. : 



" His temporibus quaedam meretrix, uno partti sep- 

 tem puerulos enixa, beluis omnibus mater crudelior, in 

 piscinara projecit necandos. . . . Contigit itaque ut rex 

 Agelmundus, dum iter caperet, ad eandem piscinam 

 deveniret. Qui cum equo retento miserandos infan- 

 tiilos miraretur, hastaque quam manu gerebat, hue 

 illucq. eos inverteret, unus ex illis, manu injecta, has- 

 tam regiam comprehendit. Rex, misericordia motus, 

 factumq. altius admiratus, eum magnum futurum pro- 



