Dec. 18. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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who have thought seriously of the formation of 

 language, will, I think, be of opinion that the ety- 

 mological portions of " JN". & Q." have not been 

 the most shining or most useful. We have had 

 some pages of contest whether devil, diahle, diavolo 

 were not derived from the Sanscrit, instead of 

 from the Greek UaSoXos ; and a correspondent, 

 NoTA, in Vol. vi., p. 462. (with, I admit, many 

 daily instances in his favour), thinks that the 

 " leading article " of a newspaper really means a 

 leaden one ! May I be permitted to say, as we are 

 talking typographically, that I do not think the late 

 Note a Nota bene. C. 



Father Petre (Vol. vi., p. 362.). — What can your 

 correspondent M. D. mean by calling himself " a 

 collateral descendant " of Father Petre ? As to 

 rhymes about him, he will find plenty in the 

 volumes called State Poems. C. 



Perhaps M. D. may not know the following, 

 although I am afraid he would consider them 

 libellous : 



1. " Father Petre's Policy Discovered ; or the Prince 

 of Wales prov'd a Popish Perkin." 



2. " Dialogue between Father Petre and the Devil." 



3. " The Last Will and Testament of Father Petre." 

 The first two are contained in A Second Collection 



of the Newest and most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, 

 Songs, ^c. against Popery and Tyranny, 1689, 4to.; 

 the third in The Muses' Farewell to Popery and 

 Slave7-y, 1689, 8vo. Edward F. Rimbault. 



Shakspeare Emendations : " I am put to knorc " 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 135. 423. 468.).— Mb. Singer's in- 

 stances of put for constrained are decisive on that 

 point ; but in this passage oi Measure for Measure 

 my difficulty is, that '■'■ constrained to know" does 

 not suit the circumstances : it is at least a very 

 forced expression. I am glad to find so intelligent 

 a critic as Mb. Singeb concurring in my doubts as 

 to " and all at once," in As You Like It (Act III. 

 Sc. 5.). His conjecture of " and rail at once" is 

 ingenious, "v^ry near the text, and it makes sense 

 of what was nonsense ; but I myself cannot but 

 suspect that the true word must have been a 

 stronger one. Rail is an anticlimax after insult. 

 It is something, however, to have a meaning, 

 though a feeble one. C. 



The Redbreast (Vol. vi., p. 345.). — The red- 

 breast is called the " Farewell Summer " in De- 

 vonshire. There was a plaintive and very pretty 

 air published four or five years ago : the words 

 began with — 



" Little bird of bosom red, 

 Welcome to my humble shed, 

 What if little tho' it be, 

 There's enough for you and me." 



w. c. 



Harlow. 



Lady-day in Harvest (Vol. vi., p. 399.). — Mr. 

 H. Edwards is not satisfied with my remarks on 

 Lady-day in harvest at p. 350., and seems to ima- 

 gine that the term applies to the feast of the 

 Assumption, i. e. August 15th. But I feel more 

 than ever satisfied that the term applies to the 

 feast of the Nativity of our Lady, September 8, 

 from having read the other day that in Switzer- 

 land this day is commonly known as " the festival 

 of our Lady of September." P. A. F. 



Dr. Robert Clavering (Vol. vi., p. 413.). — Dr. 

 Robert Clavering, bishop of Peterborough, was 

 the son of William Clavering, Esq., and born at 

 Brown's Park, Northumberland, in 1671. He was 

 admitted at Lincoln College, Oxford, June 26, 

 1693, at the age of twenty-one ; having graduated 

 previously at Edinburgh Academy, after a resi- 

 dence of three or four years, he was permitted to 

 take his M.A. degree at Oxford, May 20, 1696. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Bishops' Marriages (Vol. iv., p. £99.). — There 

 was a Query made some time since in " N. & Q." 

 concerning the name of a bishop who was three 

 times married. It may assist the inquirer to learn 

 that the bishops who have been married three 

 times, were Dr. Burnet and Dr. Gooch ; and the 

 only bishop who married four wives was Dr. 

 Thomas, of Lincoln, the prelate, I think, about 

 whom your correspondent made the Query, 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Mistletoe (Vol. vi., pp. 219. 449.).— On the 3rd of 

 September last I saw the mistletoe growing on the 

 pine fir, on the Swiss side of the Simplon Pass ; 

 but whether or no it was the Pinus Cembra, men- 

 tioned by your correspondent Pwcca at p. 219., 

 having no knowledge of botany, I am unfortu- 

 nately unable to say. Erica. 



Warwick. 



Wife of Stanislaus Augustus II. of Poland 

 (Vol. vi., p. 341.). — Is W. E. correct in supposing 

 that this king was ever married ? No allusion is 

 made t,o his wife in Betham's Genealogical Tables, 

 published in 1795; and I have referred to the 

 Gotha Almanacks from 1792 to 1799 both inclu- 

 sive (the earliest which are in my possession), 

 but though the other members of the family are 

 named, no mention is made of any wife. 



F. B. Relton. 



Sending to Coventry (Vol. vi., p. 318.). — Hutton, 

 in his History of Birmingham, gives a different 

 origin to this expression, which he says arose as 

 follows : — 



The day after Charles I. left Birmingham, on 

 his march from Shrewsbury, in 1642, the Parlia- 

 mentary party seized his carriages, containing the 



