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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'«t S. V. 124., May 15. 'oS. 



everj' two words and at the beginning of each line is a 

 boar's head. This being a crest of the Campbells, it is 

 not improbable that the ring was that of the Earl of 

 Argyle."— Weber's Flodden Field, 358. w. 



E. H. A. 

 The Jeia and the Miraculous Host (2"^ S. v. 

 294.) — The legend of this miracle, which is said 

 to have taken place in Paris, was published in a 

 small 8vo. 1634, with superior copper-plates. It 

 was handed down orally for 343 years, when the 

 Jews' house became a Carmelite Monastery in 

 1631, and the narrative was published. Here the 

 penknife with which the host was pierced, and 

 some drops of the blood, were shown. A similar 

 tradition is kept alive at Brussels, where, at the 

 grand Kermass, a series of views in very beautiful 

 tapestry are exhibited in St. Gudule. The only 

 variation in the story is, that housebreakers were 

 employed to enter the church in the night and 

 steal the host in Brussels, while in Paris it was 

 brought out in the mouth of a woman who received 

 the sacrament. The host went through the same 

 indignities in both cases. It was stabbed, the 

 blood gushing out; flogged, and even boiled, but 

 still retained its original shape. As this miracle 

 is said to have taken place about the same period, 

 and many of the minute circumstances are similar, 

 it in all probability arose from one legend comme- 

 morated in various places. It ends in burning the 

 Jew, and of course in the confiscation of his 

 estate. I have a beautiful copy of the Paris ac- 

 count, 1634, and have seen the tapestry and its 

 history at Brussels. In how many other cities is 

 this legend observed ? George Offor. 



The work on this subject after which H. A. 

 inquires, is Histoire des Hosties Miraculeuses 

 qiCon nomme le Tres- Saint Sacrament de Miracle, 

 by Griffet, Bruxelles, 1770. Liturgicus. 



Seven generations witnessed by one Individual! 

 (2°* S. v. 334.) : — 



" There is indeed a circumstance that makes me think 

 myself an antediluvian. I have literally seen seven de- 

 scents in one family. I do not believe Oglethorpe can 

 boast of recollecting a longer genealogy. In short, I was 

 schoolfellow of the two last Earls of Waldegrave, and 

 used to go to play with them in the holidaj-s when I 

 was about twelve years old. They lived with their 

 grandmother, natural daughter of James II. One evening 

 while I was there came in her mother, Mrs. Godfrey, that 

 King's mistress, ancient in truth, and so superannuated 

 that she scarce seemed to know where she was. 1 saw her 

 another time in her chair in St. James's Park, and have 

 a perfect idea of her face, which was pale, round, and 

 sleek. Begin with her ; then count her daughter, Lady 

 Waldegrave; then the latter's son, the ambassador; his 

 daughter, Lady Harriet Beard; her daughter, the present 

 Countess Dowager of Powis; and her daughter, Lady 

 Clive ; there are six, and the last now lies in of a son, 

 and might have done so six or seven years ago, had she 

 married at fourteen. When one has beheld such a pedi- 

 gree, one may say, ' And yet I am not sixty-seven.' " — 

 Walpok to Mann, Letters, viii. 548. 



E. H. A. 



" The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven " (2"'' S. 

 v. 293.) — If my townsman, B. H. Cowpkr, will 

 consult the introduction to the Pilgrim s Progress 

 in Blackie's edition of Banyan's ^Vorks (v. iii. p. 

 44.), he will find proof that Dent was the teacher 

 calculated to excite the genius of Bunyan. The 

 extract Mr. C. gives is very striking, but not 

 more so than the following : — 



"How proud many, especially women, be of baubles. 

 For when they have spent a good part of the day in 

 tricking and trimming, picking and pinning, pranking and 

 pouncing, girding and lacing, and braving up themselves 

 in most exquisite manner, out they come into the streets 

 with their pedlar's shop upon their backs, and take them- 

 selves to be little angels — they are one lump of pride — 

 what will this profit them when their bodies are buried 

 in the dust, and their souls in hell-fire? What then will 

 they say of these doubled and re-doubled ruffs, strutting 

 fardingales, long locks, fore-tufts, shag haire, and new 

 fashions? They are pictures, puppets, and peacocks; 

 they spend the day and good part of the night also in 

 playing, prattling, babbling, cackling, prating, and gos- 

 sipping. Fie on this idle life." 



The whole volume abounds with food exactly 

 suited to Bunyan's appetite. My copy (1635) 

 bears his name on the title-page. It had a power- 

 ful effect upon him, but I have not been able to 

 trace the least plagiarism in all his works. 



" Manner and matter too was all mine own." 



Holy War. 



George Offor. 



He is a wise Child, Sfc. (2"^ S. v. 345.) — The 

 verses referred to by Mr. Carrington, — 



""EtTTti' Se ixyJTrip ^ikoreKVOi fiaKKov irarpos' 

 'H fjiiv yap avT^s olSev ov6', b S' oierai,"— 



are attributed to Euripides by Eustath., Ad Horn. 

 p. 1412., but to Menander by Stob., Anth. Ixxvi. 

 7. See Meineke, Fragm. Com. Gr., vol. iv. p. 

 261. Meineke, in his recent edition of Stobseus, 

 rightly considers them as Euripidean. 



The verses of Menander are in Fragm. Com. 

 Gr. ib. p. 145. They are from his comedy of the 

 Carthaginian. L, 



Dornicks and Hoching-women (2""^ S. v. 315.) — 

 The following may be useful to your corre- 

 spondent. Dornicks were a species of linen cloth 

 used at the table in Scotland, and, as Deo Dcce 

 rightly conjectures, were derived from "Doer- 

 nick," the Flemish Tournay, where they were first 

 made. Hocking-women ■• Hoc day, Hoke day, and 

 Hoke Tuesday, a festival celebrated by the Eng- 

 lish in commemoration of their having ignomini- 

 ously driven out the Danes. Spelman thinks that 

 it means deriding Tuesday, as " Hocken " in Ger- 

 man means to attack, to seize, to bind, as the 

 women do the men on this day, whence it is also 

 called " binding Tuesday." The exi)ression Hoke 

 or Hoke-tyde comprises both Monday and Tues- 

 day. Tuesday was the principal day. Hoke 

 Monday was for the men, and Hoke Tuesday for 

 the women. On both days the men and women 



