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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2">* S. V. 130., June 26. '68. 



Jobn, or rather his predecessor, Andrew the Ve- 

 netian, purchased the title of King of Poland of 

 Grifine, widow of Lesko the Black, in 1290, and 

 the Kings of Bohemia challenged the title down 

 to 1339. J.E. 



Walls of Troy Ci"'^ S. v. 219.)— Is not this 

 another designation of the Julian Bower found in 

 some localities ? There is a very fine example of 

 the latter on the Alkborough Hills, near Burton- 

 Stather, Lincolnshire. A drawing of it is prefixed 

 to a work called 2%e Terra Incognita of Lincoln- 

 shire, which I would copy for Mr. Trollope if I 

 had the ability. The authoress was a Miss Hat- 

 field, who was a governess in the Sheffield family 

 at Normanby in the above neighbourhood. 



W. H. Lammin. 

 Fulham. 



Pig's Marrow and Pig's Milk (2°* S. v. 391. 

 465.) — Plutarch says that the Egyptian priests 

 abstained from certain sorts of food, not upon 

 superstitious or frivolous grounds, as some have 

 supposed, but for sound moralj physical, and his- 

 torical reasons. As to pig : — 



"'0;u.oi(os Se KaX ■njv Jiv aviepov f<oov T77oi);'Tai, a>i /itaAi<TTa 

 yap oxfvfcrdai, SoKel rijs (rfArifij? </)6ti'ov<jT)s ' koI T(Sv to yoXa 

 tnvovTtov i^avdel to. cwfiaTo Kenpav Koi i/rupiKa; TpaxvTijTa?." — • 



De Isidc et Osiride, viii. ed. Tauchnitz, iii. 7. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Chap Books (2"^ S. v. 435.) — A chap-book is 

 a little book printed for the hawkers or chapmen, 

 and. sold by them at wakes, fairs, and market- 

 places. 



The term chapmen means a dealer in small 

 wares. It is now only used for a purchaser, one 

 who bargains for purchase, but anciently signified 

 a seller also, being properly ceapman, market man, 

 or cope man, one who barters with another. The 

 following curious illustrative passage is extracted 

 from The Pleasant and stately Morall of the Three 

 hordes and Three Ladies of London, 1590 : — 



" Wea. — ' What wares do ye sell ? ' 



" Sim. — ' Truely child 1 sel Ballades : soft — Whose 

 wares are these that are up already ? I paid rent for my 

 standing, and other folkes wares shall be placed afore 

 mine? This is wise indeed ! ' 



" Wit. — ' O the fineness of the wares (man) deserve to 

 have good place.' 



" Sim. — ' Thev are fine indeed ; who sels them, can ye 

 tell ? Is he free ? ' 



" TFit. — ' Our maisters be ; we wait on this ware, and 

 yet we are no Chapmen.' 



" Sim. — • Chapmen, no that's true, for ye are no men, 

 neither chapmen norchopmen, norchipmen, norshipmen; 

 but if j'e be chappers, choppers, or chippers, ye are but 

 chapboyes, and chapboyes ye are double."— (Sig. B. 4.) 



Chepe and Cheping are the old names for a 

 market where things were bought and sold, from 

 whence the names of several places where markets 

 were held are derived, as Chipping Barnet, Chip- 

 ping Norton, Cheapside, Eastcheap, &c. 



Thus it is that the little books sold on the 

 stalls of fairs and market places, and mixed with 

 the wares of the chapman, became in time the 

 chap or cheap-hooks of the people. 



Edwahd F. Rimbault. 



Archbishops Fi-ancis and Narcissus Marsh (2""* 

 S. V. 415.) — As my Memoirs of the ArchbisJiops of 

 Dublin is here referred to, I beg leave to add to 

 its details some particulars that may aid, though 

 not satisfy, the inquirer's object. I do not think 

 that Drs. Francis and Narcissus Marsh, though 

 in this order successive Archbishops of that pro- 

 vince, were related to each other, at least by any 

 close link of kindred. They were descended from 

 diflferent counties of England, and educated at 

 different colleges, while I must admit each to 

 have mainly been indebted for such promotion to 

 the same illustrious nobleman, Lord Chancellor 

 Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. 



There is, however, at present before me a copy 

 of the Diary of Primate Narcis.sns, written lay 

 himself, and ending in 1696, three years after 

 the death of Archbishop Francis ; and in this 

 interesting document, which commences with a 

 solemn adjuration of the Holy Trinity, he states 

 his father to have been William Marsh (who lived 

 upon his own estate in Wiltshire, yielding up- 

 wards of 60Z. per annum), and his mother, Grace 

 Colburn, of a Dorsetshire family ; that he had 

 two brothers and two sisters, older than himself, 

 then living, it may be presumed from the con- 

 text. He adds that the daughter of one of hia 

 brothers, Grace Marsh, made a run-away match 

 with the Reverend Charles Proby, Vicar of 

 Castleknock ; but in no manner does he allude 

 to his predecessor. Archbishop Francis. I am 

 not at this moment aware of any connexion be- 

 tween our present eminent phjsician, Sir Henry 

 Marsh, and either of the above prelates. 



John D'Ai.ton, 



Pearls found in Britain (2""^ S. v. 400.) — Our 

 English oysters most certainly do produce pearls, 

 though I cannot say that I have seen any to equal 

 those found in the fresh-water mussels. I once 

 met with one about the size of a No. 7. shot, in 

 oyster-sauce, when dining in Lincoln's Inn Hall ; 

 and well remember a friend on Circuit finding 

 another at Stafford, which had been escalloped 

 together with its parent moUusk, — an operation 

 which had not improved its lustre. It was of 

 elongated form, and nearly as large as a horse 

 bean. W. J. Bbbnhard Smith. 



Walden Familt/ (2""* S. v. 455.) — Persons of 

 this name were located in several of the south- 

 eastern counties of England, circa temp. James II. 

 Sims' s Index contains references to Heralds' Visi- 

 tations of diflferent branches of the family in 

 Essex, Huntingdon, Kent (many), Surrey and 

 Sussex. John Ribton Garstin. 



