Jan. 1. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Smith. — Of what fomily was Smith, con- 

 fessor of Katherlne of Bra^^anza, burled in York 

 Minster ? and what are the arms on his tomb ? 

 AVhere can information be obtained as to a Judge 

 Smith, supposed to have been of the same family ? 



A. F.B. 



Diss. 



Termination " -j7w." — What is the derivation of 

 the termination " -itis," used principally in medical 

 words, and these signifying inflammation, as Pleu- 

 ritis, vulgo pleurisy, inflammation of the pleura, 

 &c. ? Adsum. 



Louk Hen. — In two or more parishes in Nor- 

 folk was a custom, or modus, of paying a loak hen 

 in lieu of tythes of fowls and eggs. I shall feel 

 obliged to any of your correspondents who can 

 inform me what constituted a loak hen ? G. J. 



Etymological Traces of the Social Position of our 

 Ancestors. — I remember reading an account of the 

 traces of the social position of our Saxon ancestors 

 yet remaining in our English customs, whicli in- 

 terested me much at the time, and which I would 

 gladly again refer to, as, Captain Cuttle's invalu- 

 able maxim not being then extant, I neglected 

 "making a note of it." 



It described the Norman derivation of the names 

 of all kinds of meat, as beef, mutton, veal, venison, 

 &c.; while the corresponding onnna/*' still retained 

 their original Saxon appellations, ox, sheep, calf, 

 &c. : and it accounted for this by the fact, that 

 while the animals were under the care of the Saxon 

 thralls and herdsmen, they retained of course their 

 Saxon names ; but when served up at the tables 

 of their Norman lords, it became necessary to 

 name them afresh. 



I think the word heronsewes (cf. Vol. iii., pp.450. 

 207. ; Vol. iv., p. 76.) is another example, which 

 are called harnseys at this day in Norfolk ; as it is 

 difficult, on any other supposition, to account for 

 an East- Anglian giving a French appellation to so 

 common a bird as the heron. E. S. Taylor. 



Loche's Writings. — In an unpublished manu- 

 script of Paley's Lectures on Lockers Essay, it is 

 stated that so great was the antipathy against the 

 writings of this eminent philosopher, at the time 

 they were first issued, that they were " burnt at 

 Oxford by the hands of the common hangman." 

 Is this fact recorded in any Life of Locke ; or how 

 may it be ascertained ? Tiiere is no notice of it, 

 I believe, in either Law's Life, or in that of Lord 

 King. George Munford. 



East Which. 



Passage in Gothe^s " Faust." — Has the following 

 passage from the second part of Faust ever been 

 noticed in connexion with the fact that the clock 

 in Gothe's chamber stopped at the moment that 



Vol. VII. — No. 166. 



he himself expired ? If it has not, I shall con- 

 gratulate myself on having been the fii'st to point 

 out this very curious coincidence : 



" llephistopheles. Die Zeit wild Herr, der Gries hier 

 liegt im Sand, 



Die Vhr steht still 



Chorus. Steht still ! Sie schweigt wie 



Mltternacht 

 Der Zeiffer fiillt. 



Mephistopheles. Er fiillt, es ist vollbracht." 



Faust, der Tragodie Zweiter Theil, Flinfter Act. 



W. Fraseb. 



Schomherg's Epitaph hy Swift. —^ A correspon- 

 dent asks whether the epitaph alluded to in 

 the following extract from the Daily Courant of 

 July 17, 1731, is given in any edition of Swift's 

 Works. 



" The Latin Inscription, composed by the Rev. Dr. 

 Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, and ordered by the Dean 

 and Chapter to be fixed up in the Cathedral of the said 

 Church, over the place where the body of the great 

 Duke of Scliomberg lies, has been with all possible 

 care and elegance engraved on a beautiful table of 

 black Kilkenny marble, about eight feet long and four 

 or five broad ; the letters are gilded, and the whole is 

 no%v finished with the utmost neatness. People of all 

 ranks are continually crowding to see it, and the In- 

 scription is universally admired." 



The Daily Gazetteer of Saturday, July 12, 1740, 

 gives a detailed account of the rejoicings in Dublin 

 on the Tuesday preceding, being the anniversary of 

 the battle of the Boyne, and a particular account of 

 the bonfire made by Dean Swift in St. Kevin's 

 Street, near the watch-house. E. 



The Burial Service said hy Heart. — Bishop 

 Sprat (in his Discourse to his Clergy, 1695, for 

 which see Clergyman's Lnstructor, 1827, p. 245.) 

 relates that, immediately after the Restoration, a 

 noted ringleader of schism in the former times was 

 interred in one of the principal churches of 

 London, and that the minister of the parish, being 

 a wise and regular conformist, and afterwards an 

 eminent bishop, delivered the whole Office of Burial 

 by heart on that occasion. The friends of the de- 

 ceased were greatly edified at first, but afterwards 

 much surprised and confounded when they found 

 that their fervent admiration had been bestowed 

 on a portion of the Common Prayer. Southey 

 (^Common- Place Book, iii. 492.) conjectures that 

 the minister was Bull. This cannot be, for Bull, 

 I believe, never held a London cure. Was it 

 Hackett ? And who was the noted ringleader of 

 schism ? J- K* 



Shaws Staffordshire MSS. — Can any of your 

 Staffordshire correspondents furnish information 

 as to the present depository of the Rev. Stebbing 

 Shaw's Staffordshire MSS., and the MS. notes 

 of Dr. Thomas Harwood used in his two editions 



