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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 180. 



- Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge 

 (Vol. vii., p. 282.). — There can be but one opinion 

 and feeling as to the want which exists for a really 

 good biography of this intellectual giant; but 

 there will be many dissentients as to the proposed 

 biographer, whose life of Hartley Coleridge cannot 

 be regarded as a happy example of this class of 

 composition. A life from the pen of Judge 

 Coleridge, the friend of Arnold and Whateley, is, 

 we think, far more to be desired. ©. 



Coniger, S^c. (Vol. yii., pp. 182. 241.). — Af 

 one extremity, the picturesque range of hills 

 which forms the noble background of Dunster 

 Castle, CO. Somerset, is terminated by a striking 

 conical eminence, well-wooded, and surmounted 

 by an embattled tower, erected as an object from 

 the castle windows. This eminence bears the 

 name of The Coniger, and is now a pheasant 

 preserve. Mr. Hamper, in an excellent notice of 

 Dunster and its antiquities, in the Gentleman^s 

 Magazine, October, 1808, p. 873., says: 



" The Conygre, or rabbit-ground, was a common 

 appendage to manor-houses." 



Savage, however, in his History of the Hundred of 

 Carhampton, p. 440., is of opinion that 



" Cimeygar seems to be derived from the Anglo- 

 Saxon Cyning, King; and the Mceso-Gothic Garas, 

 the same as the Latin Damns, a house, that is, the 

 king's house or residence. Mr. Hamper has some 

 notion that Conygre means a rahbit-ground, &c., but 

 Mr. H. does not go high enough for his etymology ; 

 besides, how does it appear that a rabbit-ground was 

 at any time an appendage to manor-houses? There is 

 no authority for the assertion." 



I give you this criticism on Mr. Hamper valeat 

 quantum, but am disposed to think he is right. 

 At all events there are no vestiges of any build- 

 ing on the Coniger except the tower aforesaid, 

 which was erected by the present Mr. Luttrell's 

 grandfather. Balliolensis. 



In the Irish language, Cuinicear, pronounced 

 *' Keenekar," is a rabbit-warren. Cuinin is the 

 diminutive of cm, a dog of any sort ; and from 

 the Celtic cu, the Greeks took their word kvw, 

 a dog. I am of opinion that the origin of rabbit 

 is in the Celtic word rap, i. e. a creature that 

 digs and burrows in the ground. 



Fras. Cbossley. 



Cupid crying (Vol. i., p. 172.). — I had no means 

 (for reasons I need not now specify) of referring 

 to my 1st Vol. of "N. & Q." until yesterday, for 

 the pretty epigram given in an English dress by 

 RuFUs; and as the writer in the Athenceum, whose 

 communication you quote on the same subject 

 (Vol. i , p. .308.), observes "that the translator has 

 taken some liberties with his text," I make no 

 apology for sending you a much closer rendering, 

 which hits off with great happiness the point and 



quaintness of the original, by a septuagenarian, 

 whose lucubrations have already been immor- 

 talised in " N. & Q." 



" De Cupidine. 

 Cur natum caedlt Venus ? arcum perdidit, arcura 



Nunc quis habet? Tusco Flavia nata solo : 

 Qui factum ? petit haec, dedit hie, nam lumine formae 

 Deceptus, matri se dari crediderat." 



" Cupid crying. 

 Wherefore does Venus beat her boy ? 



He has mislaid or lost his bow : — 

 And who retains the missing toy? 



Th' Etrurian Flavia. How so ? 

 She ask'd : he gave it ; for the child. 



Not e'en suspecting any other, 

 By beauty's dazzling light beguil'd, 



Thought he had given it to his mother." 



F. T. J. B. 



Westminster Assembly of Divines (Vol. vii., p. 260.). 

 — Dr. Lightfoot's interesting and valuable "Jour- 

 nal of the Assembly of Divines," from January 1, 



1643, to December 31, 1644, will be found in the 

 last volume of the edition of his Works, edited by 

 Pitman, and published at London, 182.5, in 13 vols. 

 8vo. I believe a few copies of the 13th volume 

 were printed to be sold separately. 



The MS. Journal in three thick folio volumes, 

 preserved in Dr. Williams's library, Redcross 

 Street, London, is attributed to Dr. Thomas 

 Goodwin. 



A MS. Journal, by Geo. Gillespie, from Feb. 2, 



1644, to Oct. 25, 1644, in 2 vols., is in the Advo- 

 cates' Library, Edinburgh. 



The Rev. W. M. Hetherington published a 

 tolerably impartial History of the Westminster 

 Assembly, Edinburgh, 1843, 12mo. 



The most important work, as throwing light 

 upon the proceedings of the Assembly, is the 

 Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie. The only 

 complete edition of these interesting documents is 

 that edited by David Laing, Esq., and published 

 in 3 vols, royal 8vo., 1841-2. John I. Dredge. 



Mr. Stansbuby will find the " Journal of the 

 Assembly of Divines," by Lightfoot, in the new 

 edition of his Works, vol. xiii. pp. 5. etseq. Some 

 further light is thrown upon the subject by a 

 parliamentary paper, printed " for the service of 

 both Houses' and the Assembly of Divines." A 

 copy of it is preserved in our University library 

 (Ff. xlv. 25.). I have referred to both these docu- 

 ments in A History of the Articles, 8fc., pp. 208-9. 



C. IIabdwick. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



The Journal kept by Lightfoot will be found in 

 the 13th volume of his Works, as edited by the 

 Rev. J. R. Pitman : London, 1825, 8vo. It should 

 be studied by all those who desire to see a revived 

 Convocation. S. R. M. 



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