Feb. 19. 1853.J 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



191 



They are, in fact, short cylinders set perpendicu- 

 larly in a frame, "flat-candlestick "-wise, four or 

 six in a row ; and were fired by a train of powder 

 running from touch- hole to touch-hole, as a part 

 of the entertainment (a feu-de-juie, I suppose) at 

 the public grounds at Norwich some twenty years 

 q,go, as 1 remember. B. B. Woodward. 



St. John's Wood. 



"Pompey the Little." — You mentioned lately the 

 author oiPompey the Little (Vol. vi., pp. 433. 472.). 

 There is a curious note respecting him attached 

 to the entry of another anonymous publication of 

 his, " Philemon and Hydaspes, relating to a Con- 

 versation with Hortensius upon the subject of 

 false Religion, 2nd edit., 8vo., 1738," m. Bibliotheca 

 Parriana, p. 85., which I transcribe : 



"Mem. These tracts are supposed to be wrote by 

 H. C, Esq., of Mag. Coll., Cambridge.— J. Hether- 

 ington. Mr. Coventry wrote Pompey the Little. He 

 took orders, and became vicar of Edgware, Middlesex; 

 and he often preached from a folio volume of Tillot- 

 son's Sermons, which lay in the pulpit from week to 

 week. He died of the small-pox. When living at 

 Stanmore I heard much of his pleasantry, his polite- 

 ness, and his integrity. I first read this book at the 

 Rev. Dr. Davy's house in Norfolk, in August, 1816. 

 This copy was most obligingly sent to me by Mr. 

 Holmes, keeper of an academy at Stratford-upon- 

 Avon, Thursday, Feb. 13, 1817.— S. P[arr]." 



BaLLIOIiEKSIS. 



Eagles supporting Lecterns (Vol. vi., pp. 415. 

 543.). — Are not many, or most of the so-called 

 eagles on lecterns in churches, pelicans ? The 

 symbolical significance of the pelican " vulning its 

 breast," as the heralds have it, is well known. 

 Some of these, which I remember well, have the 

 beak bent down upon the breast ; and beneath it, 

 instead of the indications of plumage elsewhere 

 visible, a strip cross-hatched ; in sign, as I have 

 supposed, of the flowing blood. B. B. Woodwakd. 



St. John's Wood, 



Lady Day in Harvest (Vol. vi., p. 589.). — The 

 Gotha Almanac gives Aug. 15 for Maria Him- 

 melfahrt, or the Assumption ; and Sept. 8 for 

 Maria Geburf, or the Nativity. I happened to be 

 going up the Rigi last year on the 5th August, 

 and found that to be the day of pilgrimage to 

 Mary zum Schnee, or Notre Dame des Neiges, 

 who has a chapel which is passed in the ascent. 



J. P. O. 



Inscriptions in Churches (Vol. vil., p. 25.), — 

 NoKRis Deck's extract, assigning these inscrip- 

 tions to the reign of Edward VI., is valuable ; but 

 he need not have dissented from your account of 

 the colloquy between Elizabeth and Dean Nowell, 

 as you clearly hinted that "similar inscriptions 

 had been previously adopted" (Vol. vi., p. 511.), 



The colloquy occurred in the fourth year of Eliza- 

 beth's reign ; but, from the following extract, her 

 Majesty's proclamation was observed in Ireland 

 two years previously : 



" In 1559, orders were sent to Thomas Lockwood, 

 Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, to remove out of this 

 church all relics and images, and to paint and whiten 

 it anew ; putting sentences of Scripture on the walls 

 instead of pictures, which orders were observed, and 

 men set to work accordingly on the 25th May of the 

 same year, which was the second of Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign," — Lynch's Life of St. Patrick, p, 208., edit. 

 1828. 



J.Y. 

 Hoxton. 



Macavlay's Young Levite (Vol. i., pp. 26. 167. 

 222. 374., &c.). — I find another, and an apt illus- 

 tration of more recent date, to be added to those 

 already given from Burnet, Bishop Earle, and. 

 Beaumont and Fletcher. Betty Hint, the " wait- 

 ing wench " in Macklin's Man of the World, enter- 

 tains matrimonial designs on Sidney, the chaplain : 



" I wish she was out of the family once ; if she was, 

 I might then stand a chance of being my lady's 

 favourite myself; ay, and perhaps of getting one of my 

 young masters for a sweetheart, or at least the chaplain: 

 but as for him, there would be no such great catch, if I 

 should get him. I will try for him, however," &c. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Passage in Wordsworth (Vol. vii., p. 85.). — I 

 can refer your Edinburgh correspondent, who asks 

 for " an older original for Wordsworth's graceful 

 conceit," to the following lines by Henry Con- 

 stable, an Elizabethan poet, who published, in 1594, 

 a volume of sonnets entitled Diana ; and whose 

 " ambrosiac muse" is lauded by Ben Jonson in 

 his Underwoods (Gifford, vol. viii. p. 390.) : 



" The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly singe. 

 Made of a quill pluckt from an Augell's winge." 



These lines, which I find in the notes to Todd's 

 Milton (vol. V. p. 454., edit. 1826), being addressed 

 " To the King of Scots whom as yet he had not seen," 

 must have been written before 1603, and were 

 first printed from a MS. volume by Todd in his 

 first edition, 1801 ; where Wordsw9rth, who was 

 no reader of scarce old tracts like " Diana Prim- 

 rose's Chain of Pearl," may very probably have 

 seen them. W. L. N. 



Bath. 



Smock Marriages (Vol. vL, p. 561.). — In re- 

 ference to your remark on this article, I remember 

 that a Scotchman once told me that in the Scotch 

 law of marriage there is a clause providing that 

 "all under the apron string " at the time of mar- 

 riage shall be considered legitimate ; and that in- 

 stances have been known where children born out 



