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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



The Irvingiies (Vol. vl., p. 271.)-— B. H. A., who 

 inquires what works have been published relating 

 to the history, &c. of the Irvingites, is informsd 

 that the following book will give some idea of their 

 doctrines : The First and Last Days of the Church 

 of Christ, translated from the French of C. M. 

 Carre, by M, N". Macdonald Hume : published by 

 Goodall and Son, 30. Great Pulteney Street, and 

 16. Great College Street, Camden Town. There 

 is also a work published by them on the Liturgy 

 and Litany, to be got at the same place, which 

 might give B. H. A. much, or all, the information 

 required. By applying to the before-mentioned 

 persons, every information may be obtained. 



G. C. 



J3UJil and Black George (Vol. vi., p. 341.). — 

 When sending my Query (noticed by Mk. Forbes) 

 respecting these worthies, my notion was, as it 

 still is, that Junius had been misled by a failure 

 of memory. Mr. Forbes's suggestion is very re- 

 markable ; and if the union of Blifil and Black 

 George should be found in some apocryphal writer, 

 the fact will afford a curious illustration of the 

 reading of Junius. Varro. 



The Oak of Reformation (Vol. vi., pp. 254. 422.). 

 — It is a well authenticated fact, that this famous 

 tree stood on Household Heath, near the edge of 

 the hill, where Ket had established his camp, over 

 against Bishopgate Bridge, Norwich, in immediate 

 proximity with St. Michael's chapel, ever after 

 called " Ket's Castle." If East Anglia will re- 

 view the circumstances of this rebellion, as they 

 are detailed by Heylin, Strype, Fuller, Stow, and 

 Blomefield, he will find that it could not, in fact, 

 have stood anywhere else. It was a very old tree 

 when the " tanner-king " boarded it over for the 

 purposes of his "court of justice," and soon after 

 the suppression of the rebellion disappeared. 



COWGILL. 



Funeral Custom, SfC. (Vol. vi., p. 433.). — Since 

 the death of Sixtus V., in 1590, the intestines of 

 the Popes have been interred in the church of 

 SS. Vincenzo ed Anastasio, the parish church of 

 the Quirinal, and are commemorated by inscrip- 

 tions on stone near the high altar. 



The heart of James II. was placed in an urn in 

 the church of St. Mary, of Chaillot, near Paris : 

 his brain in an urn of bronze gilt, over his monu- 

 ment in the chapel of the Scotch College. In front 

 of this monument is a slab over the heart of his 

 queen ; another over the intestines of Louisa Maria, 

 his second daughter ; and on one side, another over 

 the heart of Mary Gordon of Huntly, duchess of 

 Perth. But I believe that there are instances of 

 the separate sepulture of the heart much anterior 

 to any of these. Cheverells. 



Erethenus, the River (Vol. vi., p. 389.). — I find 

 " Eretenus Fl." simply mentioned by name in 

 Arrowsmlth's Compendium of Ancient and Modem 

 Geography, 1831, chap. xii. sect. 26., thus: — 

 " The other cities of Venetia were Ateste Este, 

 a Roman colony, on Eretenus fl. ; Agno ; Verona 

 Verona, on the Athesis," &c., and laid down in 

 Arrowsmlth's Comparative Atlas, pi. xi., "lat. 45 '^ 

 18'; long. 11° 25'." It seems to have its source 

 in the Carnic Alps, not far from the point where 

 they are bisected by Benacus L., Lago di Garda ; 

 to flow due south between Verona and Vicentia 

 Vicenza, as far as Ateste Este ; and then, merging 

 into Togisonus Fl. Canal Bianco, to empty itself 

 into the Adriatic at Portus Brundulus, Porto Bron- 

 dolo. It is laid down as " lletenus Fl." in D'An- 

 ville's Atlas of Anc. Geog., mdcclxiv., published 

 by Laurie, Fleet Street, 1821, plate 6. 



The modern name, Agno, will probably be of 

 more service to F. W. J. than the sketchy track I 

 have drawn from the only books I have at hand. 



C. Forbes.. 



Temple. 



Hovellers (Vol. vi., p. 412.). — 



" Hoblers, hobellarii, are certain men that by their 

 tenure are to maintain a little light nagge for the cer- 

 tifying of any invasion made by enemies, or such like 

 peril], towards the sea-side, in Porchmouth, &c. Of 

 these you shall read an 18 Ed, III. stat. 2. cap. 7.; 

 and again, the 25th ejusdem, stat. 5. cap. 8., and 

 commeth of the French word hober; an old word, which 

 is, to move to and fro, to be stirring up and down." — 

 Minshastts. 



The word frequently occurs in the orders from 

 the Council to the captains of trained bands in 

 Kent, during the preparations for resisting the 

 Spanish Armada. 



This Is doubtless the origin of the term hovellery 

 applied to the light boats at Deal, Dover, &c., 

 which are always on the watch to run out, at the 

 first signal, to land passengers, &c., and, when the 

 weather permits, often ply about for that purpose, 

 far out at sea. A- 



Memoires d'un Homme dEtat (Vol.vi., p. 412.). 

 — L Homme d'Etat \t&s Prince Hardenberg ; but 

 the work is not, strictly speaking, his memoirs, but 

 a compilation made after his death from papers 

 found in his cabinet, and a good deal is therefore 

 apocryphal, — to be consulted, rather than confided 

 in. See an account of the work, and its tendency, 

 in the Quarterly Review for June, 1852. C. 



Uncertain Etymologies (Vol. vi., p. 434.). — 

 A. A. D. proposes that " N. & Q." should open its 

 pages to a list of all modern English words " whose 

 etymologies are in an unsatisfactory state." I, for 

 one, beg leave to enter my protest against what 

 would end by turning " N. & Q." into a " conjec- 

 tural dictionary of the English tongue." Those 



