Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which, upon examination, he pronounced to be a 

 mass of raspberry seeds. He took some or all of 

 them with him, saved them, and obtained a crop 

 of raspberry plants. So far I believe my memory 

 to be correct, but further it fails me. I cannot 

 find the memorandum I made at the time, and 

 now forget the locality. 



I thM, however, that the nursery grounds were 

 near Southampton, and that the facts were re- 

 corded in the local papers. E. H. 



The Book of Destinies (Vol. vi,, p. 245.). — The 

 work inquired after by Cykus Redding is the 

 Cymbalum Mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers. 

 The English translation was, I think, made from 

 the French edition published by Prosper Marchand. 

 I have a copy, but it is mislaid. 



In 1841, a selection from the works of Des 

 Periers, including the Cymhalum Mundi, with a 

 key, and biographical and bibliographical notices, 

 was published by Gosselin, Eue St. Germain des 

 Pres, Paris. R. J. R. 



Gradus ad Parnassum (Vol. vl., p. 233.). — 

 Barbier (Diet.) says that this work is by " Le Peie 

 Aler, Jesuite." R. J. R. 



" Lord Stafford mines" (Vol. vi., p. 222.).— 

 " Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, 

 The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt," &c. 

 See Alnwick Castle, a Poem, by Fitz- Greene 

 Plalleck, the American poet. 



MSS. 



Epigram hy Owen (Vol. vi., pp.191. 280.). — 

 J. R. R. would have been at no loss " to what and 

 whom " his first epigram refers, had It not escaped 

 his recollection that Charles I. of Spain took for 

 his device the pillars of Hercules, with the motto 

 "Plus ultra" (in contradistinction to the "Nihil 

 ultra" of the ancients), in allusion to the discovery 

 of the New World, which the covetous man seeks 

 in his eager desire to participate in the " diggings." 



J. J. A. B. 



Penzance. 



Episcopal Sees (Vol. ill., pp. 168. 409.). — The 

 Almanack du Clei'ge de France for 1852 contains 

 no such statistical account of the episcopal sees in 

 Roman Catholic Christendom as might fairly have 

 been expected from the following announcement 

 in the preface to last year's publication : 



" Si les dimensions du volume actuel n'avalent pas 

 depasse toutes nos previsions, nous y aurions fait entrer 

 un travail complet sur tous les sieges episcopaux du 

 monde catholique. Nous avons du, a notre grand 

 regret, renvoyer cette statistique a Vannee prochaine, 

 ainsi que divers," &c. 



E. H. A. 



Chronogram (Vol. v., p. 585.; Vol.vi., p. 97.). — 

 I send you another specimen of a chronogram, 



from Fuller's Worthies, if you think it worth in- 

 serting : 



" lohannes PrlDeaVXVs EpIsCopVs 7 „. „ 

 VVIgornlffi IfflortVVs est ^ ^"' 



E. H. A. 



Spur Sunday (Vol. vi., p. 242.). — The verb 

 " spur " is the one almost invariably used in York- 

 shire to denote the publication of " banns of mar- 

 riage." To put In the spurrivgs ( ? speerings or 

 askings) is to give notice to the clergyman to 

 publish the banns ; " to be spurred up" is to 

 have had the banns published for three Sundays. 

 Mr. Hunter, in his Glossary of Hallamskire 

 Words, says : 



" To spurr is an old English word, equivalent to 

 ask. In one of the Martin Marprelate tracts, an inter- 

 locutor in a dialogue says, ' I pray you, Mr. Vicker, let 

 me spurre a question to you, if I may be so bold.' " 



Again, in Lillie's Mother Bombie : 



" I'll be so bold as spur her ' what might a body call 

 her name.'" 



J. Eastwood. 



Ecclesfield, Sheffield. 



Statuta ExonicB (Vol. vi., p. 198.). — In the 14 

 Edw. I. a statute of this kind was passed, but no 

 heading to it among the obsolete acts ; and Im- 

 mediately afterwards follows Its provisions, under 

 the term " Articuli Statuti Exonlas." 



There may have been other statutes passed at 

 Exeter about the same period, which might give 

 rise to the term " Statutes of Exeter." The only 

 one I have seen occurs in the collection of public 

 statutes, published, Avith an index and appendix, In 

 1786, by the Queen's Printers, but, as before ob- 

 served, there may have been other statutes passed 

 at that place which have not come under my 

 notice. John Nurse Chadwick. 



" The Boiled Pig " (Vol. vi., p. 101.). — I have 

 heard from an old Hanoverian that the name of ^« 

 the author of this poem was Lloydd. I wished to 

 have seen a copy of the poem, in which, perhaps, 

 you can assist me. G. E. F. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Dr. Bell, whose long residence in Germany, and in- 

 timate acquaintance with the popular literature of that 

 country, entitle him to speak with great authority upon 

 all questions relating to the mythology of the Teu- 

 tonic races, has just published a little volume, which 

 will be read with great interest by all who, to use the 

 words of Mr. Keightley, "have a taste for the light 

 kind of philosophy " to be found in the subject. It is 

 entitled Shakspeare's Puck and his Folk Lore, illustrated 

 from the Superstitions of all Nations, but more especialltf 



