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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 172. 



Coins in Foundations (Vol. vi., p. 270.). — I have 

 a manuscript notice of an early example of this 

 custom. It is in a hand of the earlier half of the 

 seventeenth century. The Bostonians knew better, 

 however, than to bury their "great gifts;" and all 

 who travel the Great Northern Railway will be 

 glad to preserve the names of the great givers, 

 who afforded so noble a relief to the tedium of 

 Boston station. 



" The buylding of Boston Steeple. 

 "Md. That in the yeere of o' Lord God 1309, the 

 steeple of Boston, on the Monday next following 

 Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners till Myd- 

 somer ; and by that time they were deeper than the 

 botham of the haven by fyve fote, and there they found 

 a ball of sande nigh a fote thick, and that dyd lye 

 uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick, and that 

 dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof 

 could not be known. And there, uppon Monday 

 nexte after the feast of St. John Baptist, was layd the 

 first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret Tyl- 

 ney, and thereuppon layd she \l. sterling. The nexte 

 stone was layd by S"' John Tattersall, prson of Boston, 

 who layd down thereuppon v?. sterling. And Richard 

 Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third 

 stone, and thereuppon v/. sterling. And these were 

 all the great guifts that at that time were given there- 

 unto. Remaining amongst the records at Lincolne. 



Tho. Turner." 



H. T. H. 



Sheffield. 



Fleshed, Meaning o/(Vol. vi., p. 578.). — John- 

 son (edit. 1823) glosses to flesh (from Sidney), to 

 harden In any practice. An old author, in a pas- 

 sage which I have lately read, though I cannot 

 now refer to it, talks of vice hemg fleshed (i. e. in- 

 grown) in a man. W. Barnes. 



Dorchester. 



Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543 

 (Vol. vii., p. 66.). — I know of no detailed account 

 of this prelate, and am unable to furnish any par- 

 ticulars in addition to those stated by A. S. A., 

 except that " he died in a convent of Jesuits at 

 Paris, on the 10th of November, 1551," as stated 

 by Ware, vol. i. p. 94. of his Works, Dublin, 1739. 

 I may also add the following remark, which I find 

 in a note, by M. Le Courayer, to his French trans- 

 lation of Fra- Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council. 

 of Trent (London, 1736), tome i. p. 221. : 



" La raillerie que fait de lui Fra- Paolo, en le loiiant 

 de bien courir la poste, et qu'il a tiree de Sleidan, vient 

 apparemment du nombre de voyages qu'il fit en Alle- 

 magne, en France, et ailleurs, pour executer differentes 

 commissions, dont il fut charge par les Papes." 



TrKo. 

 Dublin. 



Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting (Vol. vii., 

 p. Q5.~). — Karelvan Griander, Leven der heroemdste 



Schilders, Hollandsche en Vlaamsche (Lives of the 

 most celebrated Dutch and Flemish Painters). 

 This work is of the beginning of the seventeenth 

 century. A better work is the Levens der be- 

 roemdste Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Schilders, by 

 Immerzeel, published in 1836. H. v. L. 



Furmety or Frumenty (Vol. vi., p. 604.). — 

 Erica asks \i furmety can claim descent from the 

 once popular dish plum-porridge, mentioned in 

 the Taller and Spectator. 



Though not a direct answer, the following quo- 

 tation from Washington Irving's Sketch Book will 

 show that it was in request at the season when 

 plum-pudding abounds, notwithstanding the or- 

 thodoxy of its use on Mid-Lent Sunday. In his 

 account of the Christmas festivities at Bracebridge 

 Hall, speaking of the supper on Christmas Eve, he 

 says : 



" The table was abundantly spread with substantial 

 fare, but the Squire made his supper o? frumenty, a dish 

 made of wheat cakes boiled in milk, with rich spices, 

 being a standing dish in old times for Christmas Eve," 



W. H. Cotton. 



Etymology of Pearl (Vol. vi., p. 578. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 18.). — Sir Emerson Tbnnent inquires as to 

 the antiquity of the word pearl in the English 

 language. Pari occurs in Anglo-Saxon (Bos- 

 worth in v.), and corresponding forms are found 

 in the Scandinavian languages, as well as in the 

 Welsh and Irish. The old German form of the 

 word is berille. Richardson in v. quotes an in- 

 stance of the adjective pearled from Gower, who 

 belongs to the fourteenth century. The use of 

 union for pearl, cited by Sir E. Tennent from 

 Burton, is a learned application of the woixi, and 

 never was popular in our language. 



I may add that Muratori inserts the word perla 

 in the Italian Glossary, in his 33rd Dissertation 

 on Italian Mediasval Antiquities. He believes 

 the origin of the word to be Teutonic, but 

 throws no light on the subject. It appears from 

 Halliwell's Arch, and Prov. Dictionary, that 

 white spots in the eyes were anciently called 

 pearls. M'Culloch, Commercial Dictionary in v., 

 particularly speaks of the pear-shaped form of the 

 pearl ; and, on the whole, the supposition that 

 perula is equivalent to pear-ling, seems the most 

 probable. L. 



Folkestone (Vol. vi., p. 507.). — Various etymo- 

 logies have been given with a view of arriving at 

 the right one for this town. I have to inform you 

 that the places of that part of Kent where Folkes- 

 ton, so properly spelt on the seal of the ancient 

 priory, is situated, receive their etymologies from 

 local or geological distinctions. Folkeston forms 

 no exception to the general rule. The soil con- 

 sists of a most beautiful yellow sand, such as the 



