2°-i S. V. 126., May 22. '68.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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His Majesty has thought fit to command the Lord Chanr 

 cellor, and his Lordsnip 15 hereby required to call tq- 

 gether his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of Middlesex 

 and Westminster.'and strictly to enjoin them in the most 

 effectual manner, that they and every of them dg make 

 the most diligent and careful inquiry and search for the 

 discovery of anything of this and the like sort, tending 

 in any wise to the corruption of the principles ^nd man- 

 ners of men, and to lay before his Lordship such dis- 

 coveries as from time to time may be made, to the end 

 that all proper methods may be taken for the utter sup- 

 pression of all such detestable practices," &c. 



Ej>WAKP F. RlMBAXJI-T. 



Paintings of Christ bearing the Cross (2^^ S. v. 

 378.) — In your editorial Note in reply tq this 

 question you have omitted to mention the cele- 

 brated altar-piece in Magdalen College, Oxford. 

 I believe the master is not known ; but it has been 

 engraved by Sherwjn, and ^Iso by Freeman for 

 Hewlett's Family Bible, 1811. Pr H. F. 



There is a painting of this subject in the chapel 

 of Magdalen College, Oxford. To whom this 

 picture is to be ascribed has been a matter of dis- 

 pute, but Sir Edmund Head and Mr. Ford agree 

 in attributing it to Ribalta, the great painter of 

 the Valencian school. Vide Sir E. Head's Hand- 

 book of Painting, vol. ii. p. 99., and Ford's Hand- 

 book, p. 445. W. H. Bliss. 



The name probably of CIma da Conegliano may 

 be added to the painters enumerated from Smith's 

 Catalogue Raisonn^ and Mrs. Jameson, in answer 

 to the Query, " What other masters besides 

 Eaphael have painted the subject of Christ bpar- 

 ing the cross ? " A picture of this subject, with 

 only the half-length of the single figure of our 

 Savipur introduced, but remarkably impressive in 

 treatment and sweet in colour, was in the Man- 

 chester Exhibition (No. 121.). It was attributed 

 by Mr. Brett, the proprietor, tp Raphael ; but 

 Mr. Scharf, with apparent reason, thinks it should 

 be ascribed to Cima da Conegliano, the friend and 

 follower of Bellini. Dr. Waagen, however, says, 

 " I do not venture to give a name to this picture, 

 but it is a work of noble and fine sentiment." 



Thomas F. Gulltck. 



Dinna you hear it? (2°^ S. v, 147.) — In refer- 

 ence to the story of Jessie Brown, to which I 

 formerly directed attention, I find the following 

 paragraph going the round of the papers : — 



" The Calcutta correspondent of the Nonconformist 

 saj's : — ' We have read with some surprise and amuse- 

 ment that wonderful story published in the English 

 papers about Jessie Brown and the slogan of the High- 

 landers, in Havelock's relief of Lucknow. I have been 

 assured by one of the garrison that it is a pure invention. 

 1. No letter of the date mentioned could have reached 

 Calcutta when the story is said to have arrived. 2. 

 There wqg no Jessie Brown in Lucknow. 3. The 78lh 

 neither played their pipes nor howled out the slogan as 

 they came in ; they had something else to do. 4. They 

 never marched round the dinner-table with their pipes- 

 the same evening at all.' " 



Even without the " articulate " contradiction 

 (to use a Scotch law phrase) the story bears 

 upon the face of it the stamp of fiction. I may 

 add that one of the most curious circumstances 

 connected with it was the appearance of songs 

 and ballads by Scotch writers who adopted tlie 

 stupid confusion of Slogan and Pibi'ack, The 

 " war-note " of the bagpipes was described as the 

 slogan of Lucknow. R. S. F. 



Quotqtions Wanted (2°^ S. v. 358.) — 

 " Battlements whose restless fronts bore stars." 

 The quotation referred to is from the Second 

 Book of Wordsworth's Esf^rsion, but it is not 

 quite correctly given by T. Q. C. It should be — ■ 



"... Tjiere, towers begirt 

 With hattlements th^t op their rpstjess fronts 

 Bore stars." 



Neither is this the beginning of the passage 

 quoted by De Quincey. Tfae whplp passage \9 

 too long, I fep, fpr insertion jn " '^- & Q-" 



IJoBT. Babk^bb. 



" j^/ea," in Local I((ims (2^^ S. v. 358.) — It 

 may help Mk. Lqweb in his research after the 

 meaning of this prefix, to know that the ancient 

 name of the mountain Sadflleback is Blen Cathara. 

 In that fancjful book. The Circles of Gomer^ ]^y 

 Row. Jones (LqiiiJ. 1771), ^re thpse depnitipns 

 (p. 25.) : ^ 



" Blaen Leveny, N. Wales, the enclosing spring-^ater 

 place. 5/end, the spring- waiter place in the side. Blen- 

 carn, Bkncoti;, and Blenkensop, W. Mor. and Cumb., on 

 the inclosing spring-water place confines, bapk pr bill, 

 and south part." 



Also p. 35., Appendix : — 



" A way or road ; a ford or water ^ay ; a bridge op 

 ferry ; a river bank or lane " 



is said tp have been in the dialept of the Duro- 

 trigae, " Ford ; rhyd ; hlan, Ian or lang.'' 



I have an impression that in one of the Guides 

 to the lake district (though not in Black's) the 

 njeaning of 5Zew- Cathara is given. J. Eastwood. 



P.S. Blen-corn=:a mixture of wheat and rye, 

 blended corn. (Yorks.) — Grose. 



Blaen, in Welsh, signifies head, top ; and is a 

 frequent component of many words, signifying 

 priority, preeminence. It occurs in names of 

 several places in Wales, to denote their sitnation 

 at the head of a river, pass, &c., as Blaencaron^ af 

 the head of River Caron : Blaengivrach^ of tHe 

 Gwrach ; Blaensawdd^y^^ pi tl^e Sawddyv^y. 



Edpn War'sv^c^:. 



This syllable in the Cumberland pames pf Bleu- 

 cogo, Blen, or Blincrake, Blencowe, Blenerhassef, 

 &c., is supposed by some local historians and ety- 

 mologists to be derived from and cqmpounded of 

 the twp Celtic words Bala and ain (or the Ice- 

 landic and Gothic Bal), the former signifying 



