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tates Americance ; and Prof. Rafn, to whom this 

 arduous labour was intrusted, has printed portions 

 of at least twenty MSS. referring to this subject, 

 with Latin translations. The rock, however, in 

 Rhode Island, which was originally supposed to 

 bear the name of one of the Norwegian chiefs, 

 " Thorfin," has been shown to be the work of 

 American Indians. There is also an article de- 

 serving of notice on this subject in the North 

 American Review, as also some notes by the Earl 

 of Ellesmere in his Gtiide to Northeim Ai-ch(eolog?/ . 



W. D. H. 

 " Sto7re Jug." — In a former number (2"* S. v. 

 96.) Mr. Phillott refers the slang expression, 

 " He's a Brick" to a classical origin. I would ad- 

 duce as a parallel instance the phrase " Stone 

 Jug," as applied to a prison. The word Kepa/xos 

 signifies both an earthen jug and a gaol. Ho- 

 mer uses it in both senses. See Iliad, v. 387. and 

 ix. 469. And so thieves' Latin is derived from 

 Plomeric Greek. T. Davies. 



Melboumes^of County Derby (2""i S. v. 294.) — 

 There seems good reason to suppose that the 

 Hardinges of King's Newton, which is situated in 

 the parish and manor of Melbourne, spring from 

 this f;imily. They are stated to have had " a 

 grant of the Melbourne arms, with variations, on 

 the ground of this claim of descent in 1711 ;" the 

 strras of Melbourne being " Gules, a chevron ar- 

 gent, between three escallops of the same," Those 

 of Hardinge are " Gules, on a chevron argent, 

 fimbriated or, three escallops sable." The Mel- 

 bournes of Dunmow will doubtless be the same 

 as those of Melbourne. Edmondson puts them 

 collectively as " Melbournes of Derby, and Staf- 

 fordshire, and Dunmow and Markes in Essex," 

 with precisely same arms as above, viz. " Gules, a 

 chevron between three escallop shells argent." 

 The genealogical references, British Museum, of 

 which there are several, are "Melbournes of Dun- 

 mow, /ro. Co. of Derby ^^ F. B. D. 



Franklin Arms (2"'* S. v. 234.) — The arms are 

 argent, on a bend, azure, three dolphins of the 

 field. W. H, WooLHousE. 



Blake Beried, -^Mu. Boys appears to stumble 

 at the expression " blake beried ;" is not the word 

 Make an old word meaning naked? Elisha Coles, 

 in his English Dictionary, edit. 1677, gives it as 

 such ; and I refer to the same authority for the 

 meaning of " black beried," as it cannot be uttered 

 to ears polite. 



Eclympasteyre. — Coles gives this word : Eclym- 

 fadery,^ son to Morpheus, the god of sleep. Coles 

 is rich in old words, taken, as he says, from Chau- 

 cer, Goiver, Pierce Ploughman, and Jidian Barns. 



M. E. Berry. 



The several Notes upon this passage of Chaucer 

 are very ingenious, but I fear your correspondents 



have overlooked the sarcasm intended by the poet. 

 It is very plain that it is not a question of the 

 state of burial at all : it is the far more important 

 one of the condition of the sonles after death. 



"I recke never, whan that tliey be beried. 

 Though that hir soules," — 



are doing what ? 



" Though that hir soules gon a blake beried." 

 Here the bodies are disposed of; they are buried; 

 but about the souls, that is the point. The sense 

 of the verse I take to be — 



" I care not when that they be buried, 

 Though their souls go a black berrying; " 



that is, " go gathering blackberries. In this sense 

 we have the full force of the reckless speech of 

 the Pardon ere. Fran. Crossley. 



Very recently I bought at a sale a copy of Tyr- 

 whitt's Chaucer. It is, I find, collated throughout 

 with " Mr. Wright's manuscript," and appears to 

 have been the property of a Mr. B. H. Wright. 

 Can any reader of " N. & Q." tell me what manu- 

 script of the Canterbury Tales this is?* 



I find the MS. reads " black bered " for " blake 

 beried ; " but the word bered does not seem to 

 have been quite clear in the manuscript, and a 

 note of interrogation is added. Tyrwhitt says all 

 the manuscripts except one, which reads " on 

 blake beryed," have it as he gives it, "blake 

 beried." A. Holt AVhite. 



Rhadamanthus and Minos (2"'^ S. v. 334.) — 

 The piece irhperfectly remembered by T. was pro- 

 bably the paper given in the Elegant Extracts, 

 book i. § 15, under the title of " Mis-spent Time, 

 how punished," and copied from The Guardian. 

 But the judge Rhadamanthus figures alone in the 

 amusing trials ; there is no mention of Minos. 



F. C. II. 



T. will find the tale in the last few sections of 

 the Gorgias of Plato. J. 



Old French Argot (2"'' S. v. 69. 119. 178.) — 

 Among other books advertised at the end of an 

 edition of De la Motte's version of the Iliad, 

 Amsterdam, 1738, is Voyage de Fanfreddin. Is 

 the book known, and does it afford a clue to the 

 explanation of "Fanfreddonnair" ? Anon, 



Fothergill Family (2"'^ S. v, 170. 321-2.) — The 

 eminent physician. Dr. Fothergill (see Chalmers's 

 Biographical Dictionary), resided, about 1766, at 

 Lea Hall, Wimboldsley, in this county. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Apsidal Churches. — Great Wymondley, near 

 Hitchen, Herts. (See 2"'> S. v. 107.) R. L. 



[* Mr. Wright's MS. means, of course, the MS. adopted 

 by Mr. Wright, which is the Harleian MS. No. 7334. — 

 Ed. « N. & Q."] 



