Jan. 22. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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from the custom of exorcism, which was retained 

 in the Anglican Church in the First Prayer-Book 

 of King Edward VI., and is still commonly ob- 

 served In the baptismal services of the Church of 

 Rome. When the devil was going out of the pos- 

 sessed person, he was supposed to do so with re- 

 luctance : " The spirit cried, and rent him sore, 

 and came out of him : and he was as one dead ; 

 insomuch that many said, He is dead." (St. Mark, 

 iiik 26.) The tears and struggles of the infant 

 would therefore be a convincing proof that the 

 Evil One had departed. In Ireland (as every 

 clergyman knows) nurses will decide the matter 

 by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to 

 remain silent and unlachrymose. Rt. 



Warmington. 



Americanisms (Vol. vi., p. 554.). — Tlie word 

 bottom, applied as your correspondent Uneda re- 

 marks, is decidedly an English provincialism, of 

 constant use now in the clothing districts of Glou- 

 cestershire, which are called " The Bottoms," 

 whether mills are situated there or not. E. D. 



Butch Allegorical Picture (Vol. vi., p. 457.). — 

 In the account I gave you of this picture I 

 omitted one of the inscriptions, which I but just 

 discovered; and as the picture appears to have 

 excited some interest in Holland (my account 

 of it having been translated into Dutch * , in the 

 Navorscher), I send you this further supplemental 

 notice. 



I described a table standing under the window, 

 on the left-hand side of the room, containing on 

 the end nearest to the spectator, not two pewter 

 flagons, as I at first thought, but one glass and one 

 pewter llagon. On the end of this table, which is 

 presented to the spectator, is an inscription, which, 

 as I have said, had hitherto escaped my notice, 

 having been partially concealed by the frame — a 

 modern one, not originally intended for this pic- 

 ture, and partly obscured by dirt which had ac- 

 cumulated in the corner. I can now make out 

 very distinctly the following words, with the date, 

 which fixes beyond a question the age of the 

 picture : 



" Hier moet men gissen ^ j 



Glasen te wasser 



Daer in te pissen 



En sou niet passen. 

 1659." 



I may also mention, that the floor of the chamber 

 represented in the picture is formed of large red 

 and blue square tiles; and that the folio book 

 standing on end, with another lying horizontally 

 on the top of it, which I said in my former descrip- 

 tion to be standing on the end of the table, under 



the window, is, I now see, standing not on the 

 table, but on the floor, next to the chair of the 

 grave and studious figure who sits in the left-hand 

 corner of the room. 



These corrections of my first description have 

 been in a great measure the result of a little soap 

 and water applied with a sponge to the picture. 



James H. Todd, D.D. 



Trill. Coll., Dublin. 



Myles CoverdaJe (Vol. vi., p. 552.). — I have a 

 print before me which is intended to represent 

 the exhumation of Coverdale's body. The fol- 

 lowing is engraved beneath : 



" The Remains of Myles Coverdale, Bishop of 

 Exeter, as they appeared in the Chancel of the Church 

 of St. Bartholomew, near the Exchange. Buried 

 Feb. 1569. Exhumed 23d Sept. 1840. 



Chabot, Zinco., Skinner Street." 



If I am not mistaken, his remains were carried to 

 the church of St. Magnus, near London Bridge, 

 and re-interred. W. P. Stoker. 



Olney, Bucks. 



* With some corrections in the reading of the in- 

 scriptions. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



One of the most beautifully got up cheap publi- 

 cations which we have seen for a long time, is the new 

 edition of Byron's Poems, just issued by Mr. Murray. 

 It consists of eight half-crown volumes, which may be 

 separately purchased, viz. Childe Harold, one volume ; 

 Tales and Poems, one volume ; and the Dramas, Mis- 

 cellanies, and Don Juan, &c,, severally in two volumes. 

 Mr. Murray has also made another important contri- 

 bution to the cheap literature of the day in the re- 

 publication, in a cheap and compendious form, of the 

 various Journals of Sir Charles Fellows, during those 

 visits to the East to which we owe the acquisition of 

 the Xanthian Marbles. The present edition of his 

 Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, and more par- 

 ticularly in the Province of Lycia, as it embraces the 

 substance of all Sir Charles's various journals and 

 pamphlets, and only omits the Greek and Lycian in- 

 scriptions, and lists of plants and coins, and such plates 

 as were not capable of being introduced into the present 

 volume, will, we have no doubt, be acceptable to a very 

 numerous class of readers, and takes its place among 

 the most interesting of the various popular narratives 

 of Eastern travel. 



Most of our readers will probably remember the 

 memorable remark of Lord Chancellor King, that " if 

 the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, it might 

 be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man." Yet 

 notwitlistanding this high eulogium on the character 

 of the saintly Bishop Wilson, it is painful to find that 

 his celebrated work. Sacra Privata, has hitherto been 

 most unjustifiably treated and mutilated, as was noticed 

 in our last volume, p. 414. But here we have before 

 us, in a beautifully printed edition of this valuable 

 work, the good bishop himself, what he thought, and 



