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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 152. 



Malone's account of the life is not elaborated in 

 tlie way we may be sure it would have been had 

 the author not been interrupted in his labours by 

 the hand of death. Boswell does not seem to have 

 possessed the whole of Malone's papers ; or, if he 

 did, he appears to have ai-ranged them somewhat 

 carelessly, many references occurring to most 

 valuable pieces of research, the pith of the research 

 itself being most unfortunately omitted. The late 

 Mr. Thorpe had, in one of his MS. catalogues, a 

 folio volume of Malone's Shakspeare MS. collec- 

 tions, which he sold for 51. 5s., and which has been 

 most generously placed in my hands by the gen- 

 tleman who purchased it. This volume contains 

 some curious notices, but I am satisfied the great 

 bulk of Malone's MSS. have, by some accident, 

 not yet been used. If any one can furnish me 

 with a note of any kind respecting them, I should 

 feel most obliged. J. O. Halliwell. 



Brixton Hill. 



rox's " HOOK of martyrs. 

 (Vol. vi., p. 220.) 



: Archdeacon Cotton's suggestive communica- 

 iion reminds me of my desire to ascertain precisely 

 bow many bond fide impressions there have been 

 of the celebrated Acts and Monumeids. If tide- 

 pages could be confided in, I should not ask for a 

 reply ; but it is not at present possible for me to 

 decide whether there have been any fictitious 

 reprints or not. I have some acquaintance with 

 the editions of 1563, 1570, 1576, 1583, 1596, 1610, 

 1631-2, 1641, and 1684; the last of which pro- 

 fesses to be the ninth impression, while the first- 

 named was certainly the earliest. In Murray's 

 very useful Manual of British Historians, p. 82., 

 it is stated, that up to 1684 "Lowndes and Watt 

 each give only nine editions, but together they 

 give eleven." This method of determining the 

 sum total, though it be an amusing one, is some- 

 what hazardous; and I am consequently led to 

 solicit assistance from any of your correspondents. 



I believe that the title-page of the reprint of 

 1641 (the last black-letter, and commonly con- 

 sidered the eighth edition) promises a restitution 

 of all that had been omitted in the second impres- 

 sion ; but is it not a fact, that, owing to malignant 

 Puritanical influence, the following most remark- 

 able declaration made by the confessor Careles 

 relative to our reformed Liturgy in King Edward's 

 days, is not to be found in any edition subsequent 

 to the first, until it was restored by the Rev. S. R. 

 Cattley not many years ago ? 



" And I now add thus much more, that the same 

 book, which is so consonant and agreeable to God's 

 V/ord, being set forth by common authority both of the 

 King's Majesty that is now dead, and the whole Par- 

 liament House, ought not to be despised of me, or of 

 any other private man, under pain of God's curse and 



high displeasure, and damnation, except they repent." — 

 ¥o\'s Acts and Mon.,-^. 1531. edit. 1. Conf. Scrivencri, 

 Actio in Schismaticos Anglicanos, p. 108. : Lond. 1762. 



R.G. 



^mar caticrtc^. 



Aber and Inver. — Aber is a common prefix in 

 names of places in Wales, and also in some parts 

 of Scotland ; it is never found, that I know of, in 

 Ireland ; it is generally applied to places at the 

 entrance of streams into the sea, or into other 

 streams. 



Inver is applied to places in much the same 

 situations in part of Scotland, mostly on the 

 western coast, though not exclusively. I do not 

 think it ever occurs in Wales; but there are a few 

 instances of it in Ireland, as in one noted instance 

 near the Achil Island. 



Would any of your correspondents favour us 

 with any account of those words, with their ety- 

 mology, and in what languages their roots are 

 certainly found ? The most contradictory are 

 assigned. Perhaps some one will verify or con- 

 tradict what I say of Aber not occurring in Ire- 

 land, and Inver not in Wales. Topos. 



" Patience, and shvffle the Cards'^ — What is the 

 origin of this saying? E. A. S. 



Adrian Scroop, the Regicide. — Can any of your 

 correspondents give me any information about the 

 family and the present representatives of Adrian 

 Scroop, hanged as a regicide after the Restoration? 

 He signed Charles I.'s death-warrant, and is men- 

 tioned in the lives of the regicides. L. 



Wake Family. — What issue had the Rev. Robert 

 Wake, who was Dean of Rocking from 1723 to 

 1725, beside William, who succeeded to the 

 baronetcy ? H. T. Wake. 



Glossary of old Scientific and Medical Terms. — 

 Being engaged in investigating the origin and de- 

 rivation of old scientific and medical terms, I should 

 feel much obliged by being directed to any work 

 which would throw any light on obscure alchemical 

 words : or if a book of the kind does not exist, 

 perhaps some of your readers might kindly assist 

 me^by any explanation of the following words: — 

 Aabam Acamech 



Abarnabas Acartum 



Abartamen Acadzir ' ^ 



Abesasum Accatum 



Abesum Aclunam 



Aboit, or Abit Adibat. 



Abric 



Sea Water. — The Pere Fournier, in his Hijdro- 

 graphie (Paris, 1643), says in book iii. chap. 31., 

 " Those of Greenland and of the Strait of Maine 

 drink sea water without any inconvenience, accord- 



