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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. No 107., Jan. 16. '58. 



Magazine, and, not finding it in " the Confessions," 

 now inquires for its locus in quo, as the law-phrase 

 has it. P.H. F 



Stroud. 



London during the Commonwealth (2"^ S. iv. 

 470.) — Mr. Offoe will find the passage about St. 

 Michael's church, and the " ugly-shapen sight " 

 there, in a much older book than Howell's Londi- 

 nopolis ; namely, Stow's Survey of London. 



Jaydeb. 



Maunday Thursday (2"'^ S. iv. 432.)— In old 

 books this name is spelt Maundy, but the correct 

 modern spelling is Maunday. The name is de- 

 rived from the pious custom of Popes, Kings, 

 Bishops, and superiors of religious houses washing 

 the feet of some poor persons on this day, in imi- 

 tation of our Lord's humbly washing the feet of 

 his disciples. For this holy ceremony a beautiful 

 form of Antiphons, Gospel, and portions of Psalms 

 with ■ Versicles and Prayers, is appointed in the 

 Koman Missal. The first Antlphon begins with the 

 words of our Blessed Saviour : '■'■Mandatum novum 

 do vobis ;" and hence the day has received the 

 ^ name of Maunday, quasi Mandatum Thursday. 



Tombland Fair at Norwich arose, it is true, 

 from the assemblage of religious pilgrims and 

 visitors to the cathedral, for the offices of Holy 

 Week ; but they brought no provisions with them 

 for distribution on Easter Day. On the contrary, 

 they required such provisions as the solemn fast 

 of Holy Week permitted ; and for their supply 

 booths and stalls were put up to sell fasting fare ; 

 but this, alas ! has long since been supplanted by a 

 feasting fair. It is a perfect disgrace to the city 

 of Norwich that this most solemn and sacred week 

 continues to be profaned by all the orgies of a 

 fair, and its attendant amusements and excesses. 

 The fair, it is true, is interrupted on Good Friday, 

 but the sacred days of Maunday Thursday and 

 Holy Saturday are disgraced with every unhal- 

 lowed profanation, to the grief of every sensible 

 and pious Christian. How much better would it 

 be, and more creditable to a Christian city, to 

 transfer these amusements to the festive week of 

 Easter, rather than suffer them to disturb and in- 

 sult the solemn recollections of the agonies and 

 death of our Redeemer in that most holy and 

 hiemorable week of the Christian year. F. C. H. 



Bigot (P' S. v. 277. 331. ; ix. 560.) — Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes, the American poet, has well 

 written, that "the mind of a bigot is like the 

 pupil of the eye ; the more light you pour upon 

 it, the more it contracts." W. W. 



Malta. 



Separation of Sexes in Church (2°^ S. iii. 108., 

 &c.) — I have seen the sexes separated in a Lu- 

 theran Church, I think at Cologne. And the 

 Moravians do the same. P. P. 



Reply to Tennyson Query (2'"^ S. iv. 386.) — 



" That carve the living hound, 

 And cram him with the fragments of the grave." 



My interpretation of this obscure passage is, 

 that the first line alludes to a surgical experiment 

 on a living dog ; and that the second line refers 

 to dogs being fed with the refuse of the dissecting 

 room, as shown in Hogarth's picture of the " Re- 

 ward of Cruelty," where a dog is battening on the 

 heart of the murderer, whose body is undergoing 

 dissection. Alfred Gatty. 



*' Cantus et e curru," Sfc. (2"^ S. v. 13.)-. These 

 lines are found in TibuUus, lib. i. eleg. viii. v. 21. 

 22. The last clause is explained by the following 

 extract from Macleane's Juvenal (Sat. vi. v. 442., 

 note) : — 



"It seems the ignorant supposed that the witches 

 charmed the moon away, and that noise would drown 

 their incantations." 



H. J. (2.) 



" Cantus et e curru Lunam deducere tentat ; 

 Et faceret si non a3ra repulsa sonent." 



TibuUus, Eleg. I., viii. or ix. 20. 



The last line refers to a superstition prevalent 

 among the ancients, that eclipses of the moon were 

 caused by magic arts, and tliat loud noises broke 

 the charm. They thought that the moon was 

 dragged down to the earth by the spells of the 

 sorcerer, and compelled to distil some potent virus 

 on the herbs used for the " charmed pot." 



See the commentators on the above passage, 

 and on Juvenal, Sat. vi. 440. — 



" Tot pariter pelves, tot tintinnabula dicas 



Pulsari. Jam nemo tubas nemo cera fatiget ; 

 • Una laboranti poterit succurrere Lunse : " 



and the references in Forbiger's note to Virgil, 

 Eel. viii. 69.— 



" Carmina vel cajlo possunt deducere Lunam." 



Zeus. 

 Biographical Queries (2°"* S. v. 31.) — John 

 Balguy, A.M., the fiither of Dr. Thomas Balguy, 

 Archdeacon of Winchester, was perpetual curate 

 of Lamesley with Tanfield in the Bishopric 

 of Durham, from 1711 to 1729, in which year he 

 was preferred to North- Allerton. The presump- 

 tion is that the Archdeacon of AVinchester was 

 born either at Lamesley or Tanfield. At all 

 events this information may be a clue to Mb. 

 Ingledew's researches. The vicar of North- 

 Allerton died at Harrogate, Sept, 22, 1748, a;tat. 

 63, M. I., Knaresborough. (Vide Surtees's Hist, 

 of Durham, vol. ii. p. 207.) G. Y. Gerson, Ebor. 



Ancient Signet Ring (2"'' S. iv. 511.) — A sleep- 

 ing lion surrounded by the owner's name, or the 

 motto " Wake me no more," is a favourite device 

 for mediaeval seals. " Ici dort le lion " is a less 

 common motto than " Wake me no man." P. P. 



