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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 169. 



that abounded in marshes at that early period, 

 when the rude Briton or the Saxon applied names 

 to places the most consonant to the aspects they 

 afforded them : nor is it likely they would give 

 the name of Lindentree to a small brook, where 

 such a tree never could have grown. 



As to the antiquity of the name of Lindes or 

 Lindesey, I should say Lindentree must be of 

 comparatively modern nomenclature. I should, 

 however, be glad to have the opinion of some of 

 your better-informed etymologists on the meaning 

 of the word, as it may decide a point of some im- 

 portance in genealogy. J. L. 



Berwick. 



Smock Marriage in New York. — In a curious 

 old book, entitled The interesting Narrative of the 

 Life of Oulandah Equiano, or Gustaims Vassa, the 

 African, loritten by himself and published in 

 London, by subscription, in 1789, I find the fol- 

 lowing passage : 



"While we lay here (New York, a.d. 1784) a cir- 

 cumstance happened which I thought extremely sin- 

 gular. One day a malefactor was to be executed on 

 a gallows, but with a condition that if any woman, 

 having nothing on but her shift, married the man 

 under the gallows, his life was to be saved. Tliis ex- 

 traordinary privilege was claimed ; a woman presented 

 herself, and the marriage ceremony was performed." — 

 Vol. ii. p. 224. 



Perhaps some of your New York correspondents 

 can say whether the annals of that city furnish 

 evidence of so extraordinary an occurrence. 



B,. Wright. 



The broken Astragaliis. — Where was the broken 

 astragalus, given by the host to his guest, first used 

 as the symbol of hospitality ? C. H. Howaed. 



Penardo and Laissa. — Who is the author of a 

 poem (the title-page of which is wanting) called 

 The History e of Penardo and Laissa, unpaged, in 

 seventeen caputs, with poems recommendatory, by 

 Drummond of Hawthornden and others, small 4to., 

 containing many Scotticisms ? E. D. 



St. Adulph (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.). — Capgrave, 

 quoting John of Tynemouth (?), says : 



" Sanctum igitur Adulphum audita ejus fama ad 

 trajecteasem ecclesiam in episcopum rex sublimavit." 



Query \. Who is the "rex" here mentioned? 



Query 2, "Trajecteasem:" ought this to be 

 applied to "Utrecht" or " Maestricht," or either? 

 Literally, it is " on the other side of the water." 



A.B. 



St. Botulph (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.).— Your cor- 

 respondent C. W. G. says : 



" His (St. Botulph's) life was first put into regular 



form by Fulcard , . . Fulcard tells us what his 

 materials were . . . An early MS. of this life is 

 in the Harleian Collection, No. 3097. It was printed 

 by Capgrave in the Legenda Nova." 



Query : Fulcard's life of the saint, or the life by 

 some other person : John of Tynemouth to wit ? 



A. B. 



Tennyson. — Mr. Gilfillan, in his Literary Gal- 

 lery, speaking of that fine poem "The Two 

 Voices," says that the following line — 



*' You scarce could see the grass for flowers" — 

 P. 308. 1, 18., 7th edit. 



is borrowed from one of the old dramatists. Could 

 you or any of your correspondents tell me what 

 the line is ? 



As also the Latin song referred to in " Edwin 

 Morris : " 



" Shall not love to me, 

 As in the Latin song I learnt at school, 

 Sneeze out a full God-bless-you right and left?" 

 P. 231. 1. 10., 7th edit. 



My last Tennyson Query is about the meaning 

 of— 



" She to me 

 Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf. 

 At eight years old." 



Princess, p. 15. 1. 18., 4th edit. 



H. J. J. 



Liverpool. 



" Ma Ninette," Sec. — Can any of your French 

 readers tell me the continuation, if continuation 

 there be, of the following charming verses ; as also 

 where they come from ? 



" Ma Ninette a quatorze ans, 

 Trois mois quelque chose ; 

 Son teint est un printemps, 

 Sa boucbe une rose." 



H. J. J. 



Astronomical Query. — You style your paper a 

 medium of communication between literary men, 

 &c. I trust this does not exclude one of my 

 sex from seeking information through the same 

 channel. 



We have had additions to our solar system by 

 the discovery of four planets within the last few 

 years. Supposing that these planets obey the 

 same laws as the larger ones, they must be at all 

 times apparently moving within the zodiac ; and 

 considering the improvements in telescopes within 

 the last seventy years, and the great number of 

 scientific observers at all times engaged in the 

 pursuit of astronomy both in Europe and North 

 America, I am at a loss to understand why these 

 planets were not discovered before. 



I suppose we may not consider them as new 

 creations attached to our solar system, because the 

 law of perturbations on which Mr. Herschel dis- 



