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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 153. 



' Pere Fournler also tiays (on the authority of 

 Claudian) that the English are so fond of the sea 

 " qu'ils se plaisoient mesme a porter des habits de 

 couleur de mer." E.*N. W. 



Southwark. 



. " A Hair of the Dog that hit you." — Was it cus- 

 tomary with our forefathers to cure a victim of 

 dog's teeth with a hair of the offending animal ? 



The " hair of the dog " now means, the " wee 

 sup o' whiskey " which is taken as a cure, by one 

 who has been a victim of '• dog's nose." Tecede. 



f^Bihere Papaliter, to drink like a Pope. What 

 Piscator gave origin to this expression ? R. W. F. 



. " Caudam deme, volat." — Who was the author of 

 the following lines : 



" Caudam deme, volat: caput aufer, splendet inarmis; 

 Totum same, fluit ; viscera tolle, dolet." 



(^Answer Vulturnus.^ 

 J. R. Relton. 



Oblations. — In Herrick's Fairy Land (Clarke's 

 edit., London, 1844, vol. ii. p. 73.) occur the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" They have their book of homilies ; 

 And other scriptures, that design 

 A short but righteous discipline. 

 The bason stands the board upon 

 To take the free oblation ; 

 A little pindust which they hold 

 More precious than we prize our gold. 

 Which charity they give to many 

 Poor of the parish, if there's any." 



The use of the word " oblation," for alms offered 

 for the poor, is curious. Does it occur in this 

 sense in other writers of the seventeenth century? 



W. E. 



Eieh7^eis. — Sandys (Travels, pp. 67, 68.) says: 

 ' " Into the same hue do they dy tlieir eiebrels and 

 eye-browes," &c. 



Eieireis appears to mean eyelashes. Is the word 

 found in any dictionary, and what is its derivation ? 

 In Halliwell I find " eye-brekea=:eyelids," North. 

 Also " eye-breen= eyebrows," Lane. Integer. 



Huguenots in Ireland. — I am very anxious to 

 obtain information relative to the settlement of 

 Huguenots in different parts of Ireland. Can any 

 of your numerous correspondents direct me to 

 MSS. or printed works which furnish materials in 

 extenso, or incidental, and which throw light on 

 this eventful movement ? Clericus (D.) 



The Duchesse de Chevreuse swimming across the 

 Thames. — Allow me to inquire if any reader of 

 " N. & Q.'' can refer me to some account of this 

 feat, performed by the Duchess of Chevreuse, and 

 (celebrated by Sir John Mennis in his Musarum 

 Delicice, Lond. 1656, pages 49 and 50. Her hus- 



band, the Duke of Chevreuse, was ambassador 

 extraordinary from Louis XIII., to be present at 

 the solemnisation of the marriage of Charles I, 

 with Henrietta Maria, on May 13, 1625 ; and he 

 was elected K.G. July 4, and installed Dec. 13, 

 1625. The Duchess was a great favourite with 

 Charles I.'s queen, and was present when Prince 

 Charles * was inaugurated K.G. in 1638, and the 

 queen and the duchess were the only persons 

 allowed to be seated while the election of the 

 young prince was proceeding. (Parentalia of Sir 

 C. Wren.) She had while in France rendered her- 

 self obnoxious to the hatred of Richelieu, and the 

 sanguinary cardinal had despatched his guards to 

 arrest her, when, finding herself very closely pur- 

 sued, she crossed the river Somme a la nage, and 

 escaped to Calais and England : but what induced 

 her to swim across the Thames does not appear. 

 She was very beautiful, and was a woman of most 

 licentious gallantry. Her greatest favourite in 

 England was the first Duke of Buckingham (the 

 favourite of James I.), who was assassinated by 

 Felton in 1628. Much may be seen concerning 

 this lady in Memoires du Cardinal de lletz, 

 Memoires de Guy Joli et Mme. la Duchesse de 

 Nemours, Finetti Philoxenis, &c. 



The Duke of Chevreuse died in 1657; the 

 Duchess in 1679, aged seventy-nine years. *. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



" Hardened and Annealed." — ■ Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me whence the annexed 

 quotation is taken ; it occurs in the Rev. C. J. 

 Abraham's Lenten Lectures, lect. xv. : 



" Like as an earthly parent sends us out into the 

 world by degrees to be 'hardened and annealed, while 

 on the stithy grows the steel.' " 



H.T- 



Cawarden Family. — I should feel greatly obliged 

 to any of your readers who would refer me to 

 pedigrees (MS. or printed) of the Cawarden or 

 Carwardine family of Herefordshire. C. K. P. 



Newport, Essex. 



The Dutch East-India Company. — The common 

 source of information on the early voyages of the 

 Dutch East-India Company is the work entitled 

 liecueil des voiages qui ont servi a V etablissernent et 

 aux progres de la compagnie des hides Orientales, 

 form.ee dans les Provinces- Unies des Pdis-Bas, 

 which was edited by Constantin de Renneville, and 

 printed at Amsterdam in 1702, 1725, &c. 



On an examination of the Begin ende voortgangh 

 van de vereenhigde Nederlantsche geoctroyeer de 

 Oost-Indische Compagnie, 1646, oblong folio, two 

 volumes, it proves to be the original of the French 

 Avork — a circumstance which seems to have escaped 

 all our bibliographers. 



* Charles II., then eight years old. 



