2'xi S. V. 127., June 6. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Visitation of Hertfordshire (2"^ S. v. 415.) — 

 This MS., lot 1018 (not 1109) of the Macartney 

 library, was sold to a person named Burnett (pro- 

 bably a fictitious name) for 121. J, Y. 



Quakers in the Army. — In 2°^ S. i. 392. I wrote 

 under this heading a Query, which, as it is short, 

 I may perhaps be allowed to reproduce. " In 

 vol. ii. p. 13. of Guizot's History of Richard 

 Cromwell and the Restoration of Charles the Se- 

 cond, translated by And. R. Scoble, I find the 

 following passage : ' Towards noon a great num- 

 ber of officers, mostly zealous Republicans, Ana- 

 baptists, or Quakers, came to dine with the 

 General,' &c. Surely no followers of George 

 Fox ever bore arms. The statement in the text 

 is a very strange one, and I should be glad to 

 see it explained." 



Now, had I referred to the original French, I 

 might have saved you the trouble of this Query ; 

 but I am not altogether sorry for having written 

 it, inasmuch as a reference to the original has 

 brought to light a mistranslation, which I doubt 

 not Mr. Scoble will be anxious to correct in any 

 future edition. The passage is as follows in the 

 original French (^Histoire du Protectorat, &c., 2''* 

 ed., ii. 13., 1856): — 



"Vers midi, les officiers affluerent chez le general, 

 quelques-uns republicains ardents, Anabaptistes, Quakers, 

 et [en?] se rejouissant hautement de ce qu'ils appre- 

 naient." 



That is to say, Quakers formed part of a crowd, 

 the rest of which was made up of officers, ardent 

 republicans, and Anabaptists. Jaydee. 



" When trees in calm air move, then speak the 

 dead'' (2"** S. v. 391.) — This verse in Hollings- 

 worth's Childe Erconwold alludes to a supersti- 

 tion which in my native Norway and throughout 

 Scandinavia is very common. If it exists in 

 England, it was probably first introduced by the 

 Danish invaders. This is the more probable as 

 I never heard of it in Germany. 



Having answered this question, permit me to 

 ask one. There is an allusion in the remarkable 

 Memoirs of Hollingsworth to his unpublished 

 poetical Anglo-Saxon MSS. Would their Editor, 

 Dr. Sexton, inform me of the nature of them ? 

 Are they in the old Anglo-Saxon alliteration, or 

 in modern metre with rhyme ? L. Severin. 



16. Colchester Street, 



Savage Gardens, Tower Hill. 



Cutting Teeth in advanced Age (2°* S. v. 30.) — 

 Mrs. Fussell, residing at Acton, nearly eighty 

 years of age, who was for many years toothless, 

 recently cut an entire set of new teeth. They 

 caused her a great deal of suffering. Such an 

 occurrence is said to be without precedent. ( Vide 

 "■Sun" Newspaper of May 24, 1858.) 



Cl. Hopper. 



Delphic Sword (2'"i S. v. 377.)— The couplet in 

 Dryden's Hind and Panther, referred to, is as 

 follows : — 



"Your Delphic sword, the Panther then replied. 

 Is double-edged, and cuts on either side." 



The allusion is to the AeX^x/c^ fidxaipa mentioned 

 by Aristotle near the beginning of his Politics. 



" There is (says Aristotle) a natural distinction between 

 women and slaves ; Nature makes nothing in a niggardly- 

 manner, as the brass-smiths make the Delphic knife; 

 but it always takes care that one thing should correspond 

 with another. Each instrument best performs its work, 

 when it answers one purpose, and not several." 



The context leads to the conclusion that the 

 Delphic knife was some species of cutting instru- 

 ment, which was " contrived a double debt to 

 pay," and thus economised expense. It is not 

 mentioned by any other writer. The sense in 

 which the expression is used by Dryden differs 

 somewhat from that which it seems to bear in 

 Aristotle. L. 



"Gladius Delphicus de re dicebatur ad diversos usus 

 accommodabili." (Erasmi, Adag. chil. ii. cent. 3. prov. 69.) 



M. D. 



Life ofS. Teresa (2"^ S. v. 414.)— Upon looking 

 over my collection of books, I find that I have 

 got a fine clean copy of the life of this saint ; but 

 the title-page appears to be different from that of 

 your correspondent J. M.'s copy. My one bears 

 to be : — 



" The Flaming Heai-t, or the Life of the Glorious S. 

 Teresa, foundresse of the reformation, of the Order of the 

 All-Immaculate Virgin-Mother, our B. Lady, of Monnt- 

 Carmel. Antwerpe, 1642." Sm. 8vo. 



It is dedicated " To the Princesse Henrietta- 

 Maria of France, Queen of Great Brittaine, by 

 M. T." 



On the title-page occurs the autograph of 

 " Jane Thwaites her book, God give her grace 

 thare into look and weir," written in an old hand. 



The work is not of common occurrence, and I 

 cannot find out the names of the translators. 



T. G. S. 



Legend of the Lutterells {^LuttrelW] (2°^ S. v. 

 330.) — This legend forms the groundwork of 

 "The Devil's Mill." {Legends and Stories of Ire- 

 land, by Samuel Lover, (new edition) : London, 

 1847, 2 vols. 8vo.). F. R. Stewart. 



AN EDITORIAL DIFFICULTY. 



Nothing in the business of an editor is more diflScult 

 than to hold the balance even between contributors who 

 are not themselves observant of the limits within which 

 the pages of his journal are open to discussion. A case 

 of this kind has just occurred, which we think it right 

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