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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 166. 



Sudbury House, Derbyshire : 



" Omne Bonum Dei Donum." 

 At Verona : 



" Patet Janua, Cor magis." 

 The next I have seen somewhere : 

 " Detur digniori." 



H. T. Ellacombe. 

 Clyst St. George. 



Crostt and Pile (Vol.vr., pp. 386. 513.). — The 

 pile is invariably on the obverse or head side of a 

 coin ; and pile or poll both mean the head, from 

 whence the "poll tax" and "poll groat" — a tax 

 paid by the head, or a personal tax, of which we 

 have an historical example of its collector in the 

 case of Wat Tyler. 



Ruding, in Annals of the Coinage, vol. ii. p. 119., 

 8vo., edit. 1819, states that Ed. I. a.d. 1304, in the 

 delivering out the stamps for the coinage, orders 

 that three piles and six crosses shall be given. It 

 is well known to all numismatists that all, or most 

 early coins, both Saxon and English, had a head 

 on the obverse and a cross on the reverse — the 

 latter being placed on the coins as symbolical of 

 Christianity. * 



Pile also means the hair, or any filament : as the 

 " pile of velvet, the nap of woollen cloth," &c. And 

 Jamieson, in his Scotch Dictionary, says : 



" Pile. The soft hair which first appears on the 

 chins of young men." 



Coles, Ashe, Webster, and others give the same 

 meaning. 



The superstitious effect of the cross as a charm 

 or amulet is well known ; from whence the saying : 



" I have never a cross in my purse to keep the Devil 

 away." 



Again : 



" Priests were coin-proof against the Devil, they 

 never being without money ; of course, always had a 

 cross in their pocket." — Gilpin's Beehive of the liomish 

 Church, 1636, p. 251. 



And Nash, in the Supplication of Pierce Penni- 

 less to the Devil, makes Pierce to say : 



" Whereas your impious excellence hath had the 

 poore tenement of my purse anytime this half year for 

 your dancing schole, and he, notwithstanding, hath re- 

 ceived no penye nor crosse for farme," &c. 



And the poet Skelton says : 



*' and in his pouche, 



The Devil might dance therein for any crouche." 



P. 71. 



Trusting the above will be satisfactory toD.W. S., 

 I beg to conclude, thinking you will say I have 

 already made " much ado about nothing." 



GoDDARD Johnson. 



Rhymes upon Places (Vol. vi., p. 281.). — Per- 

 haps you will think the following rhymes upon 

 places worth insertion : 



" I stood upon Eyemouth Fort, 

 And guess ye what I saw? 

 Fairmiside and Furmintong, 

 Neuhouses and Cocklaw, 

 The fairy fouk o' Fosterland, 

 The witches o' Edincran, 

 The hly-rigs o' Restonj 

 But Dimse dings a'." 



Near the seaside village of Eyemouth, in Ber- 

 wickshire, is a promontory marked with a succes- 

 sion of grassy mounds, the remains of a fort built 

 there in the regency of Mary of I^orraine. A 

 number of places are represented as visible from 

 the fort : but here fact is not strictly adhered to. 



Fosterland once existed in the parish of Bunkle 

 as a small village ; but even its vestiges are not 

 now visible on the brown moor where it once 

 stood. Edincran, pi-operly Auchinchran, is an 

 estate in the vicinity of Fosterland, as is Reston 

 also. There is a variation as follows : 



" The fairy fouk o' Fosterland, 

 The witches o' Edincran, 

 And the rye-kail o' Reston 

 Gar'd a' the dogs die." 



The rye-kail alluded to must have been a broth 

 chiefly made from rye, which grain, it is well 

 known, is sometimes so much tainted as to be poi- 

 sonous. C. Benson. 



Birmingham. 



^Apuiov (Vol. vi., p. 509.). — Probably your cor- 

 respondent is aware of the explanation given by 

 Dr. Wordsworth in his book on the Apocalypse, 

 but does not think it satisfactorj'. Still, as he 

 does not allude to it, I venture to transcribe it : 



" The Apocalypse abounds in contrasts. For example, 

 the LAMB, who is always called 'A/j-vhs, never 'Apyiov, 

 in St. John's Gospel, is called 'Apviov, never 'Afxfhs, in 

 St. John's Apocalypse, in which 'Apviov occurs twenty- 

 nine times. And why does 6 Ajxvos here become t5 

 'Apviov? To contrast Him more strongly with rh 

 Qrjplov, that is, to mark the opposition between the 

 LAMB and the Beast." 



To this a note is appended : 



" This contrast is even more striking in the original, 

 where it is aided by an exact" correspondence of syl- 

 lables and accents. On one side are — 



' 'H irdpvrj Kol rh Qripiov : ' 

 On the other — 



' 'H Jiv/jLtpT] Kol rh 'Apviov.' 

 See Rev. xxi. 2.9., xxii. 17." — Is the Church of Rome 

 Babylon? p. 58. : London, 1851. 



A. A.D. 



'Apviov and ayivhs both denote a lamb. In John i. 

 29. 36., the latter is applied to Jesus by John the 



