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[No. 155. 



The Maiden Hildegare (Vol. vi., p. 256.)-— This 

 personage is S. Hildegardis, a learned abbess of 

 S. Rupert in Bingen, on the Rhine. She was born 

 1099, and died 1178; but other dates are given. 

 She belonged to the class of visionaries, or misti- 

 cal extasists, so abundantly produced by the iron 

 conventual system of the Romish Church acting 

 on an irritable brain, a sensitive nervous system, 

 and a magnetic constitution. Her book of pro- 

 phecy was first published by Henry Stephens in 

 Paris, anno 1513, folio. The passages referred to 

 by Mr. Warde occur in the eleventh vision of the 

 third "Scivias," folio 112., and are as follows : 



•' Sex dies, sex numeri saeculi sunt ; sed in sexto 

 noua miracula mundo aedita suiU, ut etiam in sexto die 

 deus opera sua complevit .... Quinque dies, 

 quinque numeri saeculi sunt, in sexto nova miracula in 

 terrls propalata sunt velut in sexta die primus homo 

 formatus est : Sed nunc sextus numerus finitus est et 

 deuentum est in septimum numerum : in quo nunc 

 cursus mundi velut in septima die requiei positus est, 

 quia labor ille quem prius fortissimi doctores in pro- 

 funditate clausorum sigillorum sanctarum scripturarum 

 habuerunt : modo apertus existens aperte proferendus 

 est ; in lenitate verborum velut verba huius libri sunt, 

 quasi in septima quietis die. Sex enim dies operis 

 sunt : septima requiei est," &c. 



George Stephens. 



Copenhagen. 



' Church-Stile (Tol. vi., p. 339.).— There seems 

 every reason to believe that this reading is cor- 

 rect ; but, not being able to read short-hand, I 

 could only be guided by the decypherer's version 

 of the word. BRArsRooKE. 



Scriveners' Company of London (Vol. yi., p. 273.). 

 — " The Society of Scriveners of the City of Lon- 

 don" is in the full exercise of all its functions, and 

 not extinct, as J. K. supposes. 



The charters, records, and muniments are in the 

 custody of the clerk, and cannot be seen without 

 the consent of the master and wardens. 



Scrivener. 



The Progressive Development and Transmuta- 

 tion of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom (Vol. vi., 

 {,.7.). — With respect to Mb. C. M. Ingleby's 

 etter, perhaps the following account may be in- 

 teresting to some of the readers of " N. & Q." 



About fifteen years ago, I planted a purple 

 laburnum tree on my lawn, which for two or three 

 years produced nothing but the flowers of the 

 purple laburnum : the purple Cytisus, exactly as 

 Mr. Inglebt describes it, then made its appear- 

 ance, certainly without any grafting or budding, 

 or anything of that kind ; and three or four years 

 after that, the yellow laburnum. The three dif- 

 ferent flowers have since appeared every year, 

 and were this spring, if anything, more beautiful 

 aad abundant than ever. Somp of ihQ first shoots, 



indeed I may say all t\\e, first shoots of the purple 

 Cytisus have apparently died away, but have been 

 succeeded by others in other parts of the tree. 

 The yellow laburnum has always remained in the 

 same place, but a fi:esh shoot generally appears 

 every year. C— S. T. P. 



W Rectory. 



Loios Islands (Vol. vl., p. 336.). — 

 " On the 10th November ( 1 741 ) we were three leagues 

 south of the southernmost island of Lobos, lying in the 

 latitude of 6° 27' South. There are two islands of 

 this name; this called Lobos de la Mar, and another 

 which is situated to the northward of it, very much 

 resembling it in shape and appearance, and often mis- 

 taken for it, called Lobos de Tierra." — R. Walter's 

 (chaplain to the Centurion) Account of Lord Anson's 

 Voyage round the World, 10th edit. : London, 1772, 

 p. 253. 



There must be some mistake here surely, as 

 Brother Jonathan says he discovered these islands 

 about 1823 ! C. Horn. 



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