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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 157. 



EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS. 



1. Where will I find the fullest relation of the 

 missions at Madura, and in the kingdom of Mara- 

 via (or Marawas) ? I am acquainted with the 

 notices of these missions that are scattered through 

 the early volumes of the Lettres curieuses et cdi- 

 Jiantes des Missions, but I am not aware whether 

 these notices have been collected in any easily 

 accessible form. 



2. Has there appeared an English translation of 

 the Journal of Alexander de Rhodes, the leader of 

 the Siara, Tonquin, and Cochin China mission ; or, 

 if not, are the Paris editions of 1666 and 1682 easy 



. of access ? 



3. There were various pamphlets published at 

 Paris in the years 1666, 1674, 1681, &c. by the 

 French missionaries, with whom the Jesuit fathers 

 refused to co-operate ; where will I find a detailed 

 list of these? One of the series was, if I mistake 

 not, published by Francis Pallu, Bishop of Helio- 

 polis; but I am not acquainted Avith the exact 

 title of it. 



I have been engaged in collecting notices of the 

 missions of the Jesuit fathers during the sixteenth 

 and seventeenth centuries, and will be greatly 

 obliged by any notices or references that would be 

 suggested by your readers. I feel sure that, in 

 the memoirs of the period, there must be much 

 curious information on the subject, with which we 

 are but little acquainted, and possibly there may 

 be, in the MSS. of the British Museum, some 

 curious letters bearing on the subject. Enivei. 



[In the Index to the Additional Manuscripts pre- 

 served in the British Museum, fol. 1849, p. 340., will 

 be found notices of several MSS. concerning the early 

 Jesuit missions. — Ed.] 



Hovellers or Uhvellers. — While staying at 

 Deal, Kent, this summer, I found that the name 

 given to the boatmen who go out to ships in dis- 

 tress is hovellers, or rather uhvellers. Can any of 

 your correspondents give me the etymology of this 

 term ? In some families the children are made to 

 say in their prayers, " God bless father and 

 mother, and send them a good uhvell to-night." 

 Can it be from off-fall, what falls off and is in 

 danger of being lost, or what is cast off, offal ? 



E.B.B. 



Timepiece. — I have a watch in my possession 

 which is evidently of considerable antiquity ; it has 

 no date marked upon it, but I have no doubt some 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." will be enabled to fix 

 upon the period of its manufacture by the de- 

 scription I can "give of it. The shape is oval ; 

 silver case with gold edges, opening on both sides, 

 containing sun-dial and magnetic needle ; the 



works are removable from the case, into which 

 they are fixed by a pair of springs. The main- 

 spring of the watch is vround up with cat-gut, the 

 case and dial-plate beautifully engraved with 

 martial emblems upon rich filagree work ; maker's 

 name, J. Barberet, a Paris. Joseph Knight. 



" Quando tandem." — In the British Critic for 

 January, 1828, there is an article entitled "Biblio- 

 theca Parriana," in which, vol. iii. p. 129. (after 

 quoting a passage in which Dr. Parr professes his 

 inability to account for the words Quando tandem 

 in an epitaph upon Cassander), the reviewer states, 

 somewhat irreverently, that they may be found "at 

 the tail of the thirteenth chapter of Jeremiah." 

 The Latin version which I possess has there : 

 " Usquequo adhuc." Jerome has the same read- 

 ing. Castellio : " deinceps aliquandiu non per- 

 gaberis ;" Tremel and Jun., " post quantum adhuc 

 temporis;" Joan. Clerc, " quamdiu adhuc poUuta 

 eris ;" Ver. Syr. Lat. Int., " quousq. tandem? con- 

 vertere ;" Ver. Arab. Lat. Int., "quousq. tan- 

 dem;" with which words Cicero's first Catiline 

 Oration commences. 



Can you refer me to any Latin translation of 

 Jeremiah xiii. which concludes with the words 

 "Quando tandem;" or do you suppose that the 

 reviewer's remark was ill-considered as well as 

 irreverent ? Quando Tandem. 



'■'■Memoires (Tun Homme d'Etat" — I shall be par- 

 ticularly obliged to any one who will furnish me 

 with the name of the author of a work entitled 

 Memoires tires des papiers (Tun homme d'etat, sur 

 les causes secretes qui ont determine la politique des 

 cabinets, dans les guerres de la Revolution. It was 

 printed at Paris between ] 830 and 1840. A. N". 



Door-head Inscriptions. — On the door-head of 

 the Plough Inn, Bondgate AVithout, Alnwick, 

 Northumberland, is the following inscription, cut 

 in the stone : 



" That which your Father old 



Hath purchased and left you to possess, 

 Do you dearly hold, 



To shew his worthiness. 

 1717." 

 Query : Has any collection of this class of in- 

 scription been published, as they are common on 

 old buildings ? K. Rawlinson. 



Quercus. — In Paxton's Botanical Dictionary, 

 Quercus is said to derive from the Celtic : quer, 

 fine ; and cuez, a tree — fine tree. Whence, then, 

 the Latin querent ? Surely not from the Gaulish, 

 or Celtic. 



Latin, Greek, Celtic, &c. &c. &c., are they not 

 all children of the wide-spread Indo- Germanic, or 

 Indo-Eui-opean family ? A. C. M. 



Collins. — Some notes contributed to Johnson 

 and Steevens's Shakspeare are, as is well known, 



