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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 108., Jan. 23. '58. 



CTiarity Sermon. — In 1764 the Bishop of Clon- 

 ferfc preached for the Magdalen Charity in London, 

 and the collection amounted to upwards of 1200Z. 

 Was there ever a parallel instance ? 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Genealogy : Gallop and Paulet. — Can any cor- 

 respondent of " N. & Q." give me any informa- 

 tion respecting the descendants of Thomas Gollop, 

 who married " Frances," grand-daughter of Lord 

 Thomas Paulet, son of the first Marquis of Win- 

 chester ? 



Information, with dates, and the names of autho- 

 rities, is desired particularly concerning that por- 

 tion of the family subsequently located in the south 

 of Dorsetshire. 



I am already acquainted with what Burke, in 

 his Landed Gentry^ says of this family. Anglus. 



Seventeen Guns. — In the announcement of the 

 death of Mr, Colvin, late Lieut.-Governor of 

 North-western India — 



" The Right Honourable the Governor-General, in Coun- 

 cil, directs that the flag shall be lowered half-mast-high, 

 and that 17 minute-guns shall be tired at the seats of 

 Government in India upon the receipt of the present noti- 

 fication." (See Letters of " Indophilus " to the Times, 

 Dec. 25, 1857.) 



I have sought information two or three times 

 from " N. & Q." about the " Rules and Regula- 

 tions" (if there be any) of naval and military 

 salutes and honours ; but I suppose Mr. Editor 

 thinks the subject not worthy of a corner. I only 

 ask a spare one, for I want the information, and 

 do not wish it to end in smoke. 



We have a royal salute of 21 guns ; a double 

 royal salute of 42 guns ; and a variety of them up 

 to 101 guns. In the late Mr. Colvin's case, 17 

 minute-guns ! Why seventeen ? Was he not 

 worth more? Is the number rated by rank or 

 status f or does it run like the fancy of a clerical 

 friend, who ordered the minute-bell of his church 

 to rinw three times a day, and forty-seven tolls 

 each time, from the death to the interment of his 

 wife, "because," he said, "she was forty- seven 

 years of age " ? George Lloyd. 



" Uno eodemque ictu." — In Winged Words on 

 Chantreys Woodcocks, page 47, the Rev. W. G. 

 Cookesley (an Eton Master) writes — 



" Uno eodemque ictu nos auceps stravit ; at idem " 

 as a hexameter. What is the authority for the 

 scanning of the first two feet of this line ? H. B. 



Straw-bail : " a Man of Straw." — 



■ "In later times the 'good oath-takers' about West- 

 minster Hall were distinguished by a straw stuck in the 

 shoe; and hence, perhaps, the still common saying, 'a 

 man of straw.' " — Gent. Mag., Jan. 1858, p. 61. 



AVas the " good " oath-taker distinguished by a 

 straw stuck in the shoe, as the honest lads and 

 lasses waiting in the market-places to be hired on 



Statute days in the North of England are distin- 

 guished by a straw stuck in the mouth ? or did 

 the "common bayler" wear the straw concealed 

 in his shoe to ease his conscience when swearing 

 that he possessed a sufficient estate in land, re- 

 presented by the straw ? Llewelyn. 



The Manger at Bethlehem. — Most commenta- 

 tors suppose that the <p6.rvri of the second chapter 

 of St. Luke signifies something more than simply 

 " a manger.^' Kuinoel's interpretation is — 



" locus patens et subdialis, in quo domini pecora stabant, 

 et supellex rustica, qui locus Graecb avAij, Latinb cohors 

 dicebatur." 



Bloomfield says that it was — 

 " probably something like those hovels or sheds, covered 

 over-head, but open on the sides, which are found in our 

 farm-yards, and provided with a manger extending all 

 along : hence the hovel itself acquired the name v <^aTVTi, 

 from its principal use." 



But why reject the ordinary interpretation, 

 which is the most usual signification of the word ? 

 I am aware that the LXX. use it for the Hebrew 

 D"I3N ; but this word appears to be equally am- 

 biguous. Can any of your correspondents refer 

 me to passages in profane writers where ^arvrj 

 cannot mean simply a manger ov feeding-trough f 



Resupinus. 



William Flower, of Christ College, Cambridge, 

 B.A. in 1661, and M.A. in 1665. Any further 

 particulars respecting him will be acceptable to 



C. J. D. Ingledew. 



North Allerton. 



Yo7'kshire Ale. — Can any of your readers give 

 me any account of Giles Morrington, of North 

 Allerton, author of a poem in Praise of Yorkshire 

 Ale, published at York in 1697 ? 



C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Protestantism a Function of Romanism. — In the 

 Christian Remembrancer for January, 1858, in an 

 article on Hinduism, occurs the following pas- 

 sage : — 



" We remember a striking expression made use of by 

 the greatest writer, and by far the profoundest thinker, 

 of this day, that Protestantism is what mathematicians 

 call a function of Romanism." 



Can any one inform me who is the writer above 

 alluded to ? 'AAieus. 



Dublin. 



" The Advantages of Civilization." — By whom 

 is the poem, entitled The Advaritages of Civiliza- 

 tion, written ? and are the following lines to be 

 found in it ? — 



" When thus the diamond word of pride 

 In modest accents thus replied : — 

 'Deep in Golconda's mines we lay.'" 



If the above are not in that poem, perhaps some 

 of your correspondents will oblige me by stating 

 where they can be found ? Deva. 



