Oct. 9. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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tivals yearly celebrated by the Cburch in honour 

 of the Virgin Mary, as Mr. Edwards will see by 

 reference to a Prayer Book : The Presentation of 

 Christ in the Temple, commonly called the Purifica- 

 tion of St. Mary the Virgin ; and I'he Annunciation 

 of the Blessed Virgin Mary. R. J. A. 



Passage in Jeremy Taylor (Vol. vi., p. 263.). — 

 Jeremy Taylor's " fiiir young German gentleman," 

 who desired his friends, when they wished for his 

 picture, to visit his dead body in the tomb, is 

 found in Camerarius, cent. i. cap. ii. p. 73. f 



Lancashire Sayings (Vol. vi., p. 174.). — K. may 

 be glad to learn that the answer " a layer-over 

 for young meddlers " is a common reply in Nor- 

 folk as well as Lancashire, when children imper- 

 tinently put the question, " What have you got 

 there ? " 



In Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, a " layer- 

 over " is explained " A gentle term for some in- 

 strument of chastisement." 



To lay-over or lay-on, is in Norfolk to beat. 

 So Shakspeare, " Lay on, Macduff." — Macbeth. 



E. G. R. 



Hammer (Vol. vi., p. 29.). — What is the mean- 

 ing of " Hammer " in names of places in Norway ? 



In Icelandic (the old Scandinavian) this word, 

 besides the name of the tool, so called also in 

 English, means also a rock or cliff, and probably 

 is applicable to the particular localities in the 

 names of which it occurs. W. C. Teeveltan. 



Wallington. 



Edith ofFinedon (Vol.vi., p. 185.), — A ques- 

 tion is asked respecting the figure on the sign at 

 Finedon. It is that of Edith, once lady of the 

 manor, and which with the lines were put up by 

 the late Sir English Dolben, Bart., a gentleman of 

 unsound mind. A. B. 



Harvesting on Sundays (Vol. vi., pp. 199. 278.). 

 — |A person may consult IBishop Jeremy Taylor's 

 Ductor Dubitantium, who, if I recollect right, is 

 in favour of attending to corn-harvest in pre- 

 carious weather. A. B. 



United Church of England and Ireland (Vol. vi., 

 p. 246.). — The authority for this phrase is the 

 fifth article of the Union — 



" That the churches of England and Ireland be 

 united into one Protestant episcopal church, to be 

 called The United Church of England and Ireland." 



M. 



Old Montague House (Vol.vi., p. 241.). — X. is in- 

 correct about old Montague House, Not a stone of 

 it remains inside or out. The print from the Ladies' 

 Pocket- Book, 1781, I have never seen. There are, 

 however, two others in my possession ; one by 

 Paul Sandly, published May, 1783, aquatinta; the 



other, taken with some variations from the same 

 drawing, engraved by James Fittler, and pub- 

 lished by G. Kearsley, October 1, 1780. This last 

 was, I think, published in the Copper-Plate Maga- 

 zine. E. H. 



Revolutionary Calendar (Vol. vi., p. 199.).^ 

 Perhaps your correspondent C. will accept the fol- 

 lowing as stop-gaps, until George Ellis's complete 

 version is recovered : 



Squeezy, Wheezy, Freezy; Snowy, Flowy» 

 Blowy; Seedy, Weedy, Meady; Wheaty, Heaty^ 

 Sweety. Jaydee. 



P. C. S. S. has a dim recollection of having 

 heard the rhyme " Grow-y " used to express 

 " Germinal." In the version of Mr. Ellis's drollery, 

 which was repeated to him many years a^o, the 

 months were arranged in quaternions. P. C S, S. 



^^ Patience, and shuffle the Cards'" (Vol. vi., 

 p. 290.). — We owe this saying to Cervantes. See 

 Don Quixote, part ii. chap, xxiii., which relate* 

 the adventure of the cave of Montesinos, "justly 

 esteemed one of the most exquisite of all the in- 

 ventions of Cervantes." My quotation is from the 

 interesting note in the edition entitled The His- 

 tory of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of 

 La Mancha ; translated from the Spanish, bif 

 Motteux. A new Edition, with copious Notes, SfC. 

 5 vols. 8vo.: Edinburgh, 1822. 



. King Louis XI. uses the same metaphor in a 



confidential whisper to Dunois, one of the Paladins 



of his court. See Quentin Durward, chap, viii., 



and note by the author. C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



Maiden-hair Fern (Vol.vi., pp. 30. 108. 180. 

 280.).— On the 25th October, 1848, I found that 

 most beautiful of the British ferns, the Adiantum 

 (Capillus Veneris) growing in the greatest luxu- 

 riance on some wet limestone rocks near the little 

 village of Aberthaw, on the coast of Glamorgan- 

 shire, about a quarter of a mile to the eastward 

 of the Coast Guard watch-house. As it was grow- 

 ing under the almost inaccessible ledges of the 

 rock, and in great abundance, probably it may still 

 continue to grace the British Flora for many years, 

 and escape the fate of the beautiful Asplenium 

 Marinum, which was wantonly destroyed on the 

 Red Rose Rocks, near Liverpool, in the summer of 

 1849. 



I would add that I collected some fronds nearly 

 eight inches in length, being the longest I have 

 seen, except from the Isle of Arran, co. Galway. 



F. B. 



Sandgate. 



Misprints in Prayer Books (Vol. vi., p. 170.). — 

 Although there is no rubric in the Litany for the 

 insertion of special petitions for any who desire 



