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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na S. No 109., Jan, 30. '58. 



this phrase more than once; e.g. page 133., "Now 

 these are, no doubt, wilful interpolations of Cy- 

 prian, all of them, mind you, occurring in one and 

 tlie same passnge," &c. Is this classical English ? 

 My impression is that it is a vulgarism. H. B. 



MedicRval Interments. — Information is requested 

 respecting any work which gives an authentic 

 and satisfactory account of English funerals in 

 the middle ages, especially funerals of the humbler 

 classes. The object is to obtain a particular ac- 

 count of the pall, when a pall was used, and also 

 of the bier. The fuller the details, the more ac- 

 ceptable will be the reference. T. B. 



Hugh Stuart Boyd. — Can you give me any in- 

 formation regarding the author^of a work with the 

 following title : — 



" The Fathers not Papists, or Six Discourses by the 

 most eloquent Fathers of the Church, with numerous Ex- 

 tracts from their Writings ; translated from the Greek by 

 Hugh Stuart Boyd ; London, 8vo., 1834." 



I understand the author of the work here men- 

 tioned was the son of Mr. H. Boyd, one of the 

 supposed authors of Junius. X. 



Egyptian Sculptors : Jews forbidden to read 

 Ezekiel. — In a late number o\ Household Words 

 it is stated (en passant) that the ancient Egyptian 

 sculptors were compelled, on pain of death, to 

 carve the same human figure on every occasion, 

 irrespective of the proportions of the individual to 

 be represented. 



It is also stated in another part of the same 

 excellent miscellany, that in olden times no Jew 

 under thirty years of age was permitted to read the 

 "vision of Ezekiel" (Ezek. ch. i.) wherein the 

 wheels, &c., are mentioned. Can you, or any of 

 your correspondents, inform me of the authority 

 or authorities for either or both of the above 

 statements? J. H. Leech. 



Ennis. 



Edward Phillips. — ^Edward Phillips, the author 

 of Theatrum Poetarum, is said to have died be- 

 tween 1694 and 1698. Can you give me the 

 exact date of his death, and inform me where he 

 is buried ? X. 



Dogs driven mad by Cold. — In the Gentleman's 

 Magazine for January, 1736, I find it stated : — 



" In Poland they have had so much frost, that the 

 Vistula was frozen over above a month; and that the 

 cold was so severe, that the dogs were driven inad by it." 



Is there any other evidence of dogs getting 

 mad from intense cold ? J. B. S. 



Woodhayne. 



Counts of the Holy Roman Empire. — Is any list 

 published of the Counts of the Holy Roman Em- 

 pire in Great Britain? and does this title yet 

 continue to be conferred ? Oxoniensis. 



_ A Story of the late American War. — Dr. Guth- 

 rie, in his new book on The City, its Sins, Sfc, 

 Sermon IV., tells a story which bears on the face 

 of it such an appearance of improbability, if not 

 of fabrication, that I should really be very much 

 obliged to anyone who would inform me whether 

 it is founded on fact or no ? lie says that in the 

 war with America we took a prize, which was sent 

 home under the command of a British lieutenant, 

 and with an English crew and sufficient men to 

 overpower the prisoners, if they attempted to retake 

 the vessel. After some time the American cap- 

 tain accosts our officer on deck and requests him 

 to surrender ; he naturally prepares to resist this 

 cool demand, whereupon the Yankee draws a 

 pistol from his belt (an odd thing to have allowed 

 him to keep), and informs. him that he may as 

 well surrender as all his men are drunk below. 

 The gallant young officer resisted, and was shot 

 dead. The whole crew had been drenched with 

 rum and laudanum. He must have been an 

 astonishing young man ; for by this account he 

 would seem to have navigated the ship, kept watch, 

 attended to the signals, &c., &c., all himself, for 

 his men were all drunk below. 



1 should be obliged for the names and date, if 

 there is any truth in the tale. J. C. J. 



Permanent Settlement of Lord Comwallis. — At 

 p. 24. of the article on the " Prospects of the 

 Indian Empire," in the present number of the 

 Edinburgh Review, are the following remarks : — 



" But even from this participation in the agricultural 

 improvement of the country, the Government is debarred 

 by the Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis, ex- 

 tending over 149,782 square miles of the most fertile part 

 of Bengal, with a population of forty million souls .... 

 In fact, from the concession of the Permanent Settlement 

 in 1793, we undertook to govern India with only a por- 

 tion of the fiscal resources of the country." 



Perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q." coulft 

 give some information as to the Provisions of the 

 Act to which allusion is here made, and the cir- 

 cumstances under which it was passed ? C. K. 



Platonic Love. — 



" Oh Plato ! Plato, you have paved the way 

 With your confounded fantasies to more 

 Immoral conduct by the fancied sway 



Your system feigns o'er the controlless core 

 Of human hearts, than all the long array 

 Of poets and romances." 



Don Juan, Canto i. st. 11 G. 



The phrase "Platonic Love" is trite. Some of 

 your correspondents seem to be well read in 

 Plato. I am not, and shall be obliged by being 

 referred to the passages on which it is founded, 



E. H. L. 



" The Candidates'' : a Caricature. — Some 

 twenty years ago I made a note of a caricature 

 which hung in a bed-room of " The Crown " at 

 Stone, in Staffordshire. It is entitled "The 



