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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 161. 



having, when a boy, had my left hand most un- 

 pleasantly disfigured by them. They all, however, 

 disappeared in less than a fortnight, after being 

 well rubbed with a bean swad, and the pod 

 thrown away. C. — S. T. P. 



W Rectory. 



Misprint in Prayer Books (Vol. vi., p. 390.). — 

 In the editorial remarks on this subject, the rubric 

 ordering Jeremiah xii. to be read as the lesson on 

 the 30th of January is said to contain an evident 

 misprint, because " the twelfth chapter has no re- 

 ference whatever to the subject of the day." The 

 error, however, seems to be in this remark, for the 

 chapter is certainly not inapplicable to the oc- 

 casion, as may be seen from the summary given of 

 it by Wheatly : 



" Jeremiah's complaint to God of great mischiefs 

 done in church and state by false prophets and tyran- 

 nical rulers, with God's answer, giving the reason of 

 His permitting it, and threatening withal, in due time, 

 to punish the authors of these mischiefs, and to deliver 

 the righteous." 



This reason, therefore, for supposing a mistake to 

 exist, cannot be allowed to have any weight. 



With reference to the other remark, that in the 

 edition of 1661 the lesson is Zach. xii. and not 

 Jer. xii., I would remind the editor of " N. & Q." 

 that (as Wheatly tells us) " in the reign of 

 James II. a review was taken and several altera- 

 tions made in this office," an instance of which is 

 the substitution of the present hymn for the 

 Venite. So that the first edition cannot be taken 

 as a standard now. F. A. 



[We have since referred to Mr. Reeling's lAturgia 

 BritanniccB, and find that the Sealed Book of 1662 has 

 Jer. xii., as we conjectured it should be. This settles 

 the point ; for, as Mr. Keeling remarks in bis preface 

 (p. viii. ), " the forms of 1662 were approved by Con- 

 vocation ; while it does not appear tliat the alterations 

 made in the reign of 'James II., in the services of 

 May 29 and Jan. SO, rest upon the like authority."] 



In all, or nearly all, the ordinary copies, the 

 Epistle for the First Sunday after Easter ends 

 thus : " He that hath not the Son, hath not life," 

 the words " of God " being erroneously omitted 

 after " Son." In the editions published by the 

 Dublin Association for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge, the error is corrected. Altron. 



[The words " of God " appear in the Common Prayer 

 Book of 1 604 ; but are omitted in the Sealed Book of 

 1662.] 



Oasis (Vol. v., pp. 465. 521.). — As it seems 

 that "doctors disagree" on the quantity of this 

 word, I shall not presume to offer an opinion 

 on it; but the word suggests a Query on an- 

 other point. Does any classical writer use the 

 term in the sense now generally given to it, of 



a green island in the desert ? Herodotus uses 

 it as the proper name of what is now called the 

 Great Oasis, lying west of the Nile between the 

 parallels of 24° and 26°; but he never applies 

 that name to the Ammonian territory, nor does 

 Lucan, who gives a long description of the Temple 

 of Ammon and its surrounding district. It would 

 appear that the application of the name to every 

 similar locality is of comparatively modern date. 



J. S. Warden. 



Torn!) of John Buret (Vol. vi., p. 345.).— There 

 are several inaccuracies in the inscriptions on this 

 tomb as communicated by A. B. R. They are 

 correctly printed in the notes to the volume of 

 Bm-j/ Wills, issued by the Camden Society, where 

 is also a description of the tomb and what remains 

 of the embellished roof of the chantry chapel in 

 whichjt was placed. Buriensis. 



" Hell is paved with good Intentions^'' (Vol. ii.. 

 pp. 86. 141.). — May I be permitted a word with 

 your correspondents J. M. G. and C. ? This is an 

 old Spanish proverb, and I have the book now 

 open before me in which it was published, nearly 

 two hundred years ago. It is thus recorded : 

 " El infierno es bleno de buenas intenciones." 

 And thus explained : 



" Quiere dezir, que no ay pecador por malo que sea, 

 que no tenga intencion de meiorar la vida, mas la 

 muerte le sobreprende." 



This proverb signifies that there is no sinner, 

 how bad soever, but hath an intention to better 

 his life, although death doth surprise him. W. W. 



Malta. 



Emaciated Monumental Effigies (Vol. vi., p. 343.). 

 — Although scarcely worth the doing, yet I cannot 

 help correcting a slight inaccuracy of A. B. E., in 

 his statement respecting the emaciated marble 

 figure in Exeter Cathedral, which, perhaps, some 

 one of your Exeter contrilDutors may have done 

 ere this. The figure there referred to will be 

 found to be without the dagger, stated to be stick- 

 ing in its breast. 



The account, in other respects, is correctly in 

 accordance with that given by the officials in the 

 cathedral. H- H. 



The Meaning of " Tory " (Vol. iv., passi7n). — 

 May I be perniitted to refer your readers and cor- 

 respondents to an able article which was published 

 on the origin of this term, in the Saturday Maga- 

 zine of January 12, 1839 ? 



So much has appeared in " N. & Q." on this 

 subject, that I will confine myself to a brief 

 quotation : 



" Malone says that the term is derived from an Irish 

 word toree, give me (your money). The character of 



