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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 155. 



tive, and that all the wonder-working heroes of that 

 class have the intention of leading us to the same 

 mark ; yet 1 should think that we ought to be thank- 

 ful to those that caution us against such adventurers, 

 and show us at least whither they can lead us." 



Mesmer, of course, is well known ; but who were 

 tlie others of whom the Baron writes in such " in- 

 credulus odi " style ? H. W. G. 



Elgin. 



Trafalgar. — Should the accent be on the ulti- 

 mate or the penultimate ? The old song makes it 

 the latter. By the way, did Dibdin write this 

 song ? if not, who ? 



" 'Twas in Trafalgar's bay, 

 That night the Frenchmen lay." 



But then Scott has — 



" And launch'd the thunderbolt of war 

 O'er Egypt, Hafnia, Trafalg&r." 



W. T. M. 

 Hong Kong. 



Jewish Lineaments. — Observation has led me to 

 ■fancy that the Jewish lineaments wear out in the 

 face after conversion to Christianity. Is there any 

 foundation for this idea ? Alfred Gattt. 



Meaning of Pewterspear. — In my neighbour- 

 hood there is a by-way known as Pewterspear 

 Lane. Query, its meaning ? Had it been Pewter- 

 spoon, I would not trouble you. K. 



Jennings Family. — Can any of your readers give 

 an account of the several descendants of the 

 Thomas Jennings, of Wallybourne in Shropshire, 

 who married Eleonora, the daughter of Sir Row- 

 land Jay ; and also an account of the Somerset 

 and Cornish branches of that family beyond that 

 given in the Heralds' Visitations ? The first name 

 of the Somerset branch of the family that occurs 

 in the Heralds' Visitations is John, the grandson 

 of Thomas Jennings, of Wallybourne; and the 

 first of the Cornish branch is a Rowland Jennings. 



S. Jennings-G. 



Conditor Precum. — What does Donne mean by 

 saying, that there was an officer called " Conditor 

 Precum" among the Romans ? Ignokamtts. 



Roofs of Anglo-Saxon Church Towers. — Pro- 

 bably some of your readers have noticed the 

 marked resemblance of many towers of early 

 churches on the Rhine to the well-known tower 

 of Sompting Church. Having been much struck 

 by this, among other points of similarity, my dis- 

 may was great on reading in a note to IBloxam's 

 Gothic Architecture (p. 51.), that "in 1762 the 

 roof or spire which surmounts this tower was 

 reduced twenty-five feet." Mb. Bloxam cites as 

 hia authority Dallaway and Cartwright's Sussex. 



If this be true, the process of reduction has 

 resulted in the precise similitude of the four-gabled 

 steep tower-roofs of Andernach and Niederlahn- 

 stein, and many other picturesque old churches on 

 the Rhine, 



I am very desirous of knowing whether steep 

 roofs with eaves, pyramidal or two-gabled, or four- 

 gabled, were the coverings of the presumed Saxon 

 towers in England, a notion which perhaps the 

 MSS. sanction (at least those illuminations which 

 have been engraved) ; or, if not, what was th& 

 usual mode of surmounting such towers ; and espe- 

 cially what authority there is for assigning to such 

 towers as that of Earl's Barton Church, &c., a 

 battlemented parapet, or any construction not 

 terminating in eaves. H. G. T^ 



Weston-super-Mare. 



Nerd's Baths. — In a very interesting book, An 

 Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age r 

 by Thomas Moule, after noticing the exorbitant 

 luxury in the building of villas, in which the 

 Romans indulged themselves in the time of Augus- 

 tus, the author proceeds to show the extent to 

 which this taste was carried by Nero in his 

 " Golilen House." In describing the baths of this 

 extraordinary building, Mr. Moule writes as 

 follows : 



" The baths, equally magnificent in their plan, were 

 supplied with salt water from the Mediterranean, and 

 with warm water, conducted by rivulets from the hot 

 sjirings of Baife." — P. 5. 



Warm water conducted by rivulets from Baiae^ 

 to Rome ! How many miles are there between 

 Baiae and Rome ? 



For a description of the Aurea Domus Mr.^ 

 Moule refers generally to Suetonius, In his Life^ 

 of the Emperor Nero Claudius Ccesar. I find there 

 (c. 31.) the following passage: "Balineae marinis 

 et Albulis fluentes aquis," &c. How is the text 

 to be supported? or is it a slip in the author's 

 description ? F. W. J^ 



Late Brasses. — In the Gwydir Chapel, erected 

 by Inigo Jones in 1633, attached to the old church 

 at Llanrwst, N. W., are some curious brasses o€ 

 late date, now glazed over, and affixed to the 

 walls, which I saw this summer ; but unfortunately 

 not making a Note, am compelled to Query, of 

 some of your more exact correspondents, what are 

 the dates upon them ? One I recollect had the 

 name of the engraver upon it, "William Vaughan."" 



John Miland. 



Father Peire. — As a collateral descendant or 

 the celebrated Father Petre, I should be glad of 

 any legendary rhymes concerning him, even when 

 what / should consider libellous. I can with 

 truth subscribe myself M. D» 



