Feb. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cept the whirlpool, the Maelstrom, be connected 

 with it. In Norfolk ea, ee are frequently changed 

 for oa, oo. Thus "sheaf" and "reek" are in 

 Norfolk " shoaf " and " roke ; " and " smeath," a 

 table land, is evidently from " smooth." 



Can this change of vowels have taken place in 

 this word, and " meals " signify " moles," from the 

 shelf of sand projecting like a mole ? or can any 

 correspondent suggest a better etymology ? 



E. G. R. 



[The quotation given above Is omitted in the folio 

 edition of Bailey, 1735; but is correctly given in 

 Phillips's New World of Words : — " Meales, or Males, 

 the shelves or banks of sand on the sea-coasts of Nor- 

 folk : whence Ingom-meals, the name of a sandy shore 

 in Lincolnshire." The word Meales, or 3Ialls, is how- 

 ever obviously connected with the Icelandic M'61, which 

 Helmboe, in his recently-published work, Det Norske 

 Sprogs. &e., defines " coarse sand ; a sandy or stony 

 place."] 



Haughmond Abhey, Salop. — I should feel obliged 

 for any particulars of the history, or a reference to 

 any work that contains a full account, of these fine 

 ruins. Hulbert does not give by any means a de- 

 tailed notice in his History of Salop. Salopian. 



[Some account of this abbey, with two engraved 

 views of it, will be found in the Beauties of England 

 and Wales, vol. xiii. part i. pp. 17&-82. Consult also 

 Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 107. 3 



" As flies to wanton boys." — Can you inform 

 me from what writer is the following quotation 

 in Mary Wolstoncraft's Travels in Sweden) ? — 



" As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods ; 

 They kill us for their sport." 



J. P. 

 [Shakspeare's King Lear, Act IV. So. 1.] 



Quotation wanted. — Who is the author of the 

 following lines ? — 



" Three poets in three distant ages born, 

 Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : 

 The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, 

 The next in majesty ; in both the last. 

 Tlie force of Nature could no further go ; 

 To make a third, she joined the former two." 

 Of course it is obvious who were the three poets 

 the greatest the world has produced. A. S. A. 

 Wuzzeerabad. 



[These lines are by Dryden, and are frequently pre- 

 fixed to Paradise Lost. They are little more than a 

 translation of a distich by Salvaggi : — 



" Graecia Masonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem : 

 Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem."] 



Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man. — I feel much 

 obliged by your prompt answer to the Query 

 about this prelate (Vol. vi., p. 130.) -^ but some 

 additional information appears necessary. If 

 Bishop Stanley was appointed to this see in 1542, 



Vol. VII.— "No. 174. 



who was the possessor of it subsequently to the 

 death of Bishop Huan Hesketh, or Blackleach, in 

 1510, a period of thirty-two years ? Bishop Stan- 

 ley's consecration does not appear in Cranmer's 

 Register, which throws some doubt on the year 

 1542 as having been that of his appointment to the 

 episcopate. A. S. A. 



[Huan Hesketh, or Blackleach, was consecrated in 

 1487, and died in 1510. The see was vacant twenty 

 years. The next bishop was William Stanley, who was 

 consecrated March 4, 1530.] 



Ecjjltc^. 



OLD SATCHELS. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 10. ICO.) 



Your correspondent Sigma having called atten- 

 tion in your pages to that respectable character 

 Old Satchels, I should be sorry to see him dis- 

 missed with the dry bibliographical Note of 

 T. G. S. If any proof were wanting of Captain 

 Walter Scot's claim to more respectable notice, 

 we have it in the fact of his book having reached 

 a third edition : and, with your permission, I will 

 take the liberty of supplying a few "jottings," fur- 

 nished and suggested on turning over the reprint 

 of 1776. 



The whole title, or titles, of this curious pro- 

 duction runs thus : 



" A true History of several Honorable Families of 

 the right honorable Name of Scot in the Sliires of Rox- 

 burgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out 

 of ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our 

 Fathers, by Captain Walter Scot, 



An old Soldier and no scholler, 

 And one that can write nane, 

 But just the letters of his name. 

 4to., pp. 60. End of First Part. Edinburgh : Printed 

 by the Heirs of And. Anderson, printer to his most 

 sacred Majesty's City and College, 1688, and reprinted 

 by Balfour and Smellie, 1776." 



" Satchel's Post'ral, humbly presented to his noble 

 and worthy Friends of the Names of Scot and Elliot, 

 and others. Part II., 4to., pp. 97. Edinburgh as 

 above, 1688 and 1776." 



Lockhart, in his Life of Scott, has told us with, 

 what enthusiasm Sir Walter welcomed a copy of 

 the first edition of this " True History," procured 

 for him by Constable; and its rarity is accounted 

 for by the author himself, when he says, — 

 " Therefore begone, my book, stretch forth thy wings 

 and fly 



Amongst the nobles and gentility : 



Thou'rt not to sell to scavingers and clowns. 



But giv'n to worthy persons of renown. 



The number's few I've printed in regard 



My charges have been great, and I hope reward ; 



I caus'd not print many above twelve score, 



And the printers are engag'd that they shall print no 

 more." — Post'ral, p. 97. 



