Oct. 2. 1852.] 



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library of Trinity College, Dublin; and I shall 

 have much pleasure in verifying any passages in it 

 which he may point out. Tyro. 



Dublin. 



Whipping of Women in England (Vol. vi., 

 Jjp. 174. 281.). — Extracts from the accounts of 

 the constables of Great Staughton, Huntingdon- 

 shire : 



" [169p] P* in charges, taking up a dis- 

 tracted woman, watching her, 

 and whipping her next day . 8 6 

 [17^.] Spent on nurse, London, for 

 searching the woman, to see 

 if she was with child, before 

 she was whipped, 3 of them . 2 

 P^ The. Hawkins for whipping 



2 people y' had the small-pox 8 

 [171|.] P*" for watching victualls and 



drink for Ma. Rlitchell . 00 02 06 

 P"J for whipping her . . 00 00 04 



[171f.] P'' for whipping Goody Barry 00 00 04." 



Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



" Works of the Learned'' (yo\.y\., p.271.).— M., 

 who inquires for an account of English literary 

 periodicals, will find the desired information in a 

 paper by Samuel Parkes, author of the well- 

 known Chemical Catechism and Chemical Essays. 

 His bibliographical paper has this title : " An 

 Account of the Periodical Literary Journals which 

 were published in Great Britain and Ireland, from 

 the Year 1681, to the Commencement of the 

 Monthly Review in the Year 1749," and was pub- 

 lished in the Quarterly Journal of Science, Liiera- 

 tnre, and the Arts, vol. xiii. pp. 36 — 60. and 289 — 

 312. In this, Avhich is a nearly complete account, 

 Mr. Parkes describes thirty-one distinct literary 

 journals previous to the Monthly Review. The 

 thii'tieth is the Literary Journal, published in 

 Dublin, 1744 to 1749, which deserves notice, not 

 only as an Irish production, but as filling up the 

 chasm between the discontinuation of the octavo 

 History of the Works of the Learned in 1743, and 

 the commencement of the Monthly Review in 1749. 

 It is now very rare. The library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, possesses only an imperfect copy ; but 

 there is a complete one in Archbishop Marsh's 

 Library, St. Patrick's, Dublin. The Irish Quar- 

 terly Review, No. VII, (for September, 1852), sup- 

 plies much interesting information as to this little 

 known periodical. Abterus. 



Dublin. 



Harvest Moon (Vol. vi., p. 271.). — It is true 

 that the moons during harvest are longer visible 

 than during any other part of the year, — one of 

 them more so than any other. For this there is 

 good reason. Whether or not the harvest moon 

 "appears larger than at any other part of the 



year" I cannot say, and I know no particular 

 reason why it should. 



Tlie cause of the harvest moons being longer 

 visible than any other is, that the moon's orbit is 

 different from the plane of the ecliptic. The moon 

 is never full in the signs of Pisces and Aries but 

 in our harvest months ; at this time the difference 

 in the time of her rising is little more than two 

 hours in seven days. When the moon is in the 

 opposite signs of Virgo and Libra, the difference 

 in the time of the moon's rising in seven days is 

 eight hours. So that when the moon approaches 

 her full In harvest, she rises with less difference 

 of time each night, and so more immediately after 

 sunset than at any other time of the year. 



In Ferguson's Astronomy, I think a detailed 

 account of the " Harvest Moon " will be found, if 

 E. A. S. wishes to have further information on the 

 subject. I have endeavoured to answer his Query 

 as concisely as I could. J. S. S. 



" De Laudibus Sanctce Crucis " (Vol. vi., p. 61.). 

 — In the several articles on this subject I am sur- 

 prised that the ill-fated Savonarola's volume, JW- 

 umphus Crucis, first published at Florence in 

 1492, has been omitted, both on account of the 

 theme and the author, of whom I tbink it right to 

 remark, that although the fatal victim to the pre- 

 judices of the period (1498), it was his dead, not 

 live and sensitive body, that was committed to the 

 flames, for he had been previously strangled, as 

 distinctly stated by his biographer, Picus Ml- 

 randola, the famous universal scholar, the friend, 

 too, of the unfortunate Dominican. (See Vita 

 Hieronymi Savonarolce, Paris, 1674, 12mo., ad 

 calcem.) Although happily much rarer in Eng- 

 land and other Protestant countries, these immo- 

 lations yet stain their records ; and the principle 

 was not formally renounced, or the law ejected 

 from our statute book, until 1678, when that en- 

 titled De Hceretico Comburendo was repealed; 

 but the halter, if not the stake, was the too fre- 

 quent infliction of religious dissent. Of these 

 aberrations of the human mind, the memory, it is 

 sometimes said, should be effaced. 



" Excidet ilia dies ajvo, nee postera credant 

 Specula ! nos certe taceamus ; et obruta multa 

 Nocte tegi propria; patiamur crimina gentis."' 

 Statius, Sylva, v. 



But I think that they should be held rather in 

 vivid recollection as deterrent Wtirnings, " Tristia 

 ad recordationem exempla ; sed ad prascavendum 

 simile utili documento sint," as we read in LIvy, 

 lib. xxiv. cap. 8. J. R. (Cork.) 



Furye Family (Vol.vi., pp. 175. 255.). — Your 

 correspondent W. R., Surbiton, has obligingly 

 furnished me with an answer to one part of my 

 inqtiiry, as to the wife of Captain Furye (for 

 which I thank him), but he does not state what 



