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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 158. 



extract from Old Fabyan is of more general value 

 to Englishmen : 



" Whose noble Mother susteynyd not a little 

 oysclauuder and obsequye [sic : obloquy is the reading 

 of later editions] of the comon people sayinge that he 

 was not the naturall sone of Kynge Henrye [Vlth.] 

 but chaiigyd in the cradell, to hyr great dyshonour and 

 heuinesse, which I overpasse." — Vol. ii. fol. cciv. b. 

 Ed. 1516. 



Charles Thiriold. 



Cambridge. 



Galliards (Yol. vi., p. 311.). — This kind of 

 dance is often mentioned by Shakspeare ; in Twelfth 

 Night, Act I. Sc. 3., and in Henry V., Act I. Sc. 2. 

 In this latter play in Reid's edition, b. xii. p. 309. 

 note 3, reference is made to the poem of the Or- 

 chestra, by Sir Jno. Davis, and a quotation made 

 describing this dance. 



In Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, b. iv. 

 p. 386. note, reference is made to a work by John 

 jDowIand, entitled Lachrymce, or Seauen Teares, 

 figured in seauen passionate Pauans, with diuers 

 other Pauans, Galiards, and Alamands. In this 

 work the several airs are distinguished by appel- 

 lations, as if they were the favourites of particular 

 persons, as " The King of Denmark's Galiard, the 

 Earl of Essex' Galiard," &c. 



He informs us, p. 387., that — 



" The Galliard is a lively air in triple time ; Bros- 

 sard intimates that it is the same with the Romanesca, 

 a favourite dance with the Italians." 



E.G.B. 



Maltese Dialect (Vol. iv., p. 383.). — 

 " There has been much discussion," says a recent 

 writer in the English EncyclojicBdia, " on the language 

 spoken by the Maltese ; as it is written, the subject is 

 one of some difficulty. Mr. Schlierig, an Oriental 

 scholar, and a person who by a residence of several 

 years at Malta is entitled to full confidence, has ex- 

 amined the arguments of those who attempt to trace 

 it to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and other ancient 

 nations, and comes to the conclusion that all its words, 

 with the exception of a very few, are purely Arabic, 

 and conform in every respect to the rules, nay, even the 

 anomalies of the Arabic grammar. A Maltese finds 

 no difficulty in making himself understood anywhere 

 on the Mediterranean coasts of Africa and Asia, — a cir- 

 cumstance which is of no small importance in commer- 

 cial intercourse, and which might be improved by a 

 systematic cultivation of the Maltese- Arabic language, 

 to the great advantage of the Maltese people. The 

 Arabic language was introduced by the Saracens, who 

 had long held almost exclusive occupation of the island, 

 when it was reduced by Count Roger the Norman." 



The Rev. Mr. Badger has also written that the 

 vernacular Maltese comprehends the complete 

 Arabic alphabet, with the exception of some of 

 the dentals, and the sound of the gutturals has 

 been preserved pure in many villages of the 

 country, and of the neighbouring island of Gozo. 



In Valetta the whole dialect is more corrupt, 

 being mixed up with a greater portion of the 

 foreign words commonly used in Italian. The 

 late Sir Grenville Temple, Bart., entertained the 

 same opinion with reference to the Maltese dialect. 

 Should these references not be satisfactory to 

 Theophtlact, I can give him some other autho- 

 rities. W. W. 



Malta. 



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

 351.). — I send you an extract from Jeremy Taylor 

 on this subject : 



" Constantine forbad all labour but the labours of 

 husbandry : but affirms the Lord's day to be the fittest 

 for dressing or setting of vines, and sowing corn. Leo 

 and Anthemius, emperors, forbad all publick pleasures, 

 vexatious suits or actions, arrests, and l:iw-days, ap- 

 pearances in courts, advocations, and legal solemnities, 

 on the Lord's day. The third Council of Orleans per- 

 mitted waggons, and horses, and oxen to travel iipon 

 Sundays, but forbad all husbandry, that the men might 

 come to church. In an old synod held at Oxford I 

 find that on the Lord's day conceduntur opera carru- 

 carum et agricuUur<B ; and I find the like in an old in- 

 junction of Queen Elizabeth, corn may be carried on 

 Sundays when the harvest is unseasonable and hazard- 

 ous. In these things there was variety ; sometimes 

 more, sometimes less was permitted; sometimes fairs 

 and markets, sometimes none : in which that which we 

 are to rely upon is this : 



" 1. That because it was a day of religion, only such 

 things were to be attended to, which did not hinder 

 that solemnity which was the publick religion of the 

 day. 



" 2. Nothing at all to be admitted which was directly 

 an enemy to religion, or no friend." — Duct. Dub,, 1. ii. 

 c. ii. n.61. p. 278. 



R. J. Allen. 



Hoh, Meaning of (Vol. vi., p. 341.).— This is, 

 no doubt, the same word as hope, as in the instance 

 mentioned by your correspondent, Hohkirk or 

 Hopekirh. A hope is " the side of a hill, or low 

 ground amidst hills." — Bailey. " According to its 

 original signification, a recess, from the Isl. hop^ 

 recessus. The situations of Hope Bowdler, Hope- 

 say, Hopton, ^asthope, MillicAope, Middlehope, 

 Fresthope, and Wilderhope, accord with this de- 

 rivation. These places lie between hills, in se- 

 cluded parts of the county. At a later era, the 

 Islandic word gave birth to one of more general 

 application, and what primarily signified merely a 

 remote or circumscribed spot, grew into use to 

 denote a farm, an orchard, a house. Teut.-Germ. 

 hof villa, hortus; A.-Sax. hope, domus." — Ilarts- 

 horne, Salopia Antiqua, p. 467. R. J. Allex. 



Webster notices the Danish word hob, a heap, 

 and the Welsh hob, that which swells. If the 

 places mentioned by C. J. stand upon hills, a de- 

 rivation from these words will be satisfactory. For 



