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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 156. 



title-page, whicli gave some minute particulars of 

 the Man of Ross. I think the book was descrip- 

 tive of the town and neighbourhood, and should 

 like to be informed of the title of it. 



John Miland. 



Whipping-post. — During a recent pedestrian 

 excursion, I noticed in the retired village of Key- 

 ham, about six miles from this town, an ancient 

 whipping-post. 



We know that these instruments of punishment* 

 were very numerous in the reigns of Elizabeth 

 and James I. Taylor, the water-poet, says : 



" In London, and within a mils I ween, 

 There are of jails or prisons full eighteen ; 

 And sixty whipping-posts, and stocks and cages." 



As this, however, is the only instance in which 

 I have met Avith the instrument, may. I inquire if 

 specimens are of frequent occurrence in other 

 parts of the counti'y ? Leicestbiensis. 



Sir Edward Oshadiston. — I shall be much 

 obliged to any one of your readers who will inform 

 me who Sir Edward Osbadiston was, with brief 

 particulars of when he lived and died ? In his 

 portrait, drawn by Mores Griffith, and engraved 

 by S. Sparrow, lie appears in armour, with a large 

 beard and bald head- The portrait was pub- 

 lished In 1801 by Edward Harding, Pall Mall, and 

 is in quarto. Geoege Munfokd. 



Sir John Hynde Cotton. — Reference to any ac- 

 count of the part played by this gentleman in the 

 rebellion of 1745 would be thankfully received. 



J. W. 



Lists of M. P.^s. — "What work contains the most 

 perfect lists of M.P.'s subsequent to the writs 

 already published by government, and previous to 

 the Long Parliament ? J. W. 



The Word " ojf."— What part of speech is "off" 

 in these sentences : " I am badly off; " " I am 

 well off?" What is its exact meaning, and unde 

 derivatur? Jeunger C. Sxmons. 



Hereford. 



The Verbs '■'■lay" and " Z«e." — Can any one 

 explain by what authority the two verbs lay and 

 lie are now used as if synonymous ; or rather, 

 perhaps, why the latter has become almost 

 obsolete ? In my younger days I learned that 

 I might lay down my book, and should lie 

 down in my bed ; but at present I find the last- 

 named action written "lay" down by authors far 

 too numerous to particularise (indeed, with scarcely 

 an exception), and who would be highly affronted 

 if denied to be well-educated persons. Is the 

 change, above alluded to, a reformation of our 

 language Introduced by the much vaunted "school- 

 master " of modern times ? A. H. 



" Wind in and wind out." — It Is very usual with 

 the peasantry of Kent, when the wind is in any 

 point of N. or E., to say that the wind Is out; and 

 when it blows from any point of S. or W., to say that 

 the wind is in. I could not for some time account 

 for the origin of the expression ; but I am of 

 opinion that it may be attributed to the fact, that 

 the East Kent people know that a wind blowing 

 from N. or E. is favourable to outward-hound 

 vessels, and the contrary wind favourable to the 

 inward-hound. Can any one find a better solution 

 for the terms m and out; or say whether such winds 

 are so called in any other county ? A. B. M. 



Wootton. 



What was the Origin of the Pointed Arch ? — 

 Has it ever occurred to any of your readers that 

 the Idea of the pointed arch may have originated 

 from the form which the hands take when raised 

 in prayer ? By uniting the hands at the tips of 

 the fingers, and opening them so as to bend the 

 second joints, we have an exact representation of 

 this arch ; and the shortening of the fourth and 

 fifth fingers affords not a very unapt representation 

 of the perspective when looking along a succession 

 of arches. It would be an elevating thought, if 

 we could feel, while viewing the nave of a Gothic 

 cathedral, that the arches which are uplifted in 

 such sublimity and beauty, are in truth a gigantic 

 representation of the hands of man uplifted in 

 prayer to his Maker and Benefactor. T. B. H. 



"Worcester. 



Eva, Princess of Leinster. — She is described as 

 eldest daughter and heiress of Dermot Mac Mur- 

 rongh. King of Leinster, and wife of Richard de 

 Clare, second Earl of Pembroke, 1149 — 1176; 

 married 1170, and living 1192. Who was her 

 mother ? Dermot eloped with Dearbhoryil, daugh- 

 ter of King of Meath, and wife of O'Rourke, 

 Prince of Breffni, and carried the not unwilling 

 princess to his capital. Ferns. Was Eva the oft- 

 spring of this connexion ? A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



" Music has charms" Sj-c. — 



ON SEEING A MISER AT A CONCERT IN SPRING GARDENS. 



" Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, 

 To calm the tyrant and relieve th' opprest : 

 But Vauxhall's concert's more attractive pow'r 

 Unlock'd Sir Richard's pocket at threescore ; 

 O strange effect of music's matchless force, 

 T' extract two shillings from a miser's purse !" 



Who is the author of the above ? And who is 

 Sir Richard ? R. J. A. 



Monument at Modstena. — In the monastery at 

 Modstena, Sweden, is a monument with a repre- 

 sentation of our Saviour on the cross, to the 

 memory of Phillipa, daughter of Henry IV. of 



