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Bridge and Shot. — 



"Was to show the two Archdeacons our remarkable 

 cloth-market : treated all three after the old manner at a 

 bridge and shot for 6d." — Thoresby's Diary, Nov. 4, 1701. 



What might this be ? Vebna. 



{^Brig-gate is the name of the place where the cloth- 

 market was holden at Leeds. Shot is of course the 

 reckoning. At this cloth -market there Avas an ordinary' 

 for the clothiers, called Brig-end-shots, where, for the 

 small sum of twopence, each person was entitled to his 

 pot of ale, a noggin o' porrage, and a trencher of either 

 boiled or roast meat. These cheap ordinaries are frequently 

 connected with markets, and in some localities can only- 

 he used by the salesmen. We have still remaining in 

 London the fish ordinary in Billingsgate Market, and the 

 poultry ordinary in Leadenhall Market.] 



PETER DETBAZATLLE. 



(2"^ S. V. 144.) 



My attention has been directed to a paragraph 

 of a highly libellous character published in The 

 Sussex Advertiser, ^c. of the 2nd instant, and pur- 

 porting to be copied from " N. & Q." 



The paragraph refers to my late friend Peter 

 C. Detrazaylle, Esq., and alleges that the deceased 

 had been in his youth guilty of an act of treason 

 to his native country, and that he had in conse- 

 quence been rewarded by a life-pension from the 

 British Government. 



I now hasten, as an intimate friend of the de- 

 ceased gentleman, and as a trustee to his will, to 

 give the most emphatic, unqualified, and authori- 

 tative contradiction to this statement, which is 

 utterly devoid of truth, and destitute of even a 

 shadow of foundation. 



M. Detrazaylle was a member of a noble family, 

 and many of his relatives became martyrs to their 

 Royalist principles : he never pursued or bore 

 arms against the Duke of York, and never held 

 place or pension from the English government. 

 If the scandalous paragraph of which I complain 

 be quoted from "N. & Q.," I have to request that 

 you will in your next publication assign to this 

 refutation an equally conspicuous position. 



T. K. Kma. 



10. Southampton Buildings, 

 Chancery Lane. 



"kespublica (momarchia) solipsorum." 

 (2°'i S. v. 146.) 

 In the year 1645, there was published at Venice 

 a satirical fiction against the Jesuits, entitled 

 Monarchia Solipsorum, with the pseudonym Lu- 

 cius Cornelius Europaus. A subsequent edition, 

 in 16.'51, ascribed the book to Melchior Inchofer, 

 a German Jesuit. (SeeBayle, Diet, "iNCHorEB.") 



In the first sentence of his first chapter the au- 

 thor expresses himself as undecided whether he 

 should call the government of the Solipsi a king- 

 dom, a monarchy, or a republic : hence, I suppose, 

 Dr. Barrow's misnomer. 



It is difficult to see the fitness of comparing 

 himself to Prometheus, under the circumstances, 

 but it is still more difficult to seize the point of his 

 allusion, in saying that he was like the chief in the 

 Republic of the Solipsi, — unless he referred to the 

 statement that the king was never seen to eat, and 

 was always served in secret (c. vii.). Possibly the 

 word Solipsi suggested the idea of solitude ; but it 

 is wrong to translate it by " men-by-themselves." 

 It simply means themselves alone : and was very 

 aptly chosen to designate the Jesuits, who seemed 

 to claim an exclusive monopoly in religious 

 matters. The author says that the name meant, 

 in the ancient language of the Magogs, " the Pro- 

 vidence of all the Gods." But Arnould elucidated 

 the title when, addressing the Jesuits, he said : — 



" It is well known that it is your character to be zeal- 

 ous to do good, provided you can do it alone, and that 

 nobody may share the glory of it with you; and if you 

 would be sincere, you would confess that one of your 

 Societj', who wrote the Monarchia Solipsorum, knew you 

 very well." — Morale Pratique. 



It is a clever exposition of the various abuses 

 which had crept into the Great Order — as stigma- 

 tised by the Jesuit Mariana (the famous tyranni- 

 cidal theologian), by Borgia, Vitelleschi, and other 

 generals of the Order, who hinted at downfall. 

 Even when the Jesuits, in their highest mundane 

 glory, had .celebrated with great pomp and cir- 

 cumstance the centennial anniversary of the Order, 

 an " infant of a hundred years," Vitelleschi, their 

 general, lamented that they were stricken with 

 " languor and old age ! " (Epist. iv., M. Vitelles. 

 edit. Ant. 1665.) Indeed, the severest animad- 

 versions upon the Jesuits will be found in their 

 own writers — in the words of their own generals, 

 whose conscientious remonstrance did honour to 

 their Institute. Elsewhere I have given copious 

 extracts on this topic. (Hist, of the Jesuits, iii. 

 p. 1. e< seq. and 574. et seq.) 



Andrew Steinmetz. 



MEANING or COBON. 



(2°'»S. V. 131. 175.) 



The term co7-on, as applied by Lambert (in 

 Foxe) to silver that has been assayed or*proved, 

 stands connected with the German horn, which is 

 applied in the same manner. 



The primary meaning of korn is grain ; for in- 

 stance, a grain of wheat. But korn also stands 

 for the grain or globule which remains in the 

 coppel, when a small quantity of gold or silver 

 has been tried and purified. And as the said 

 globule, having undergone this process, is conse- 



