Mar. 5. 1853.] 



ISDTES AND QUEEIES. 



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Morecambe JEstuarium, still called, totidem Uteris 

 and idem sonans, Morecambe Bay, in which Ul- 

 verston is the chief town, so that of this point 

 there can be no doubt. Then comes Setantiorum 

 Partus, of which Montanus, Bertius, and subse- 

 quent geographers give Winandermere as the mo- 

 dern name, meaning of course the mouth of the 

 river through which Lake Windermere discharges 

 itself into Morecambe Bay. But I doubt this, for 

 there is no town of Windermere, nor indeed any 

 other, that Ptolemy could have called a harbour 

 (j)ortus), till we come to Lancaster, which I there- 

 fore incline to believe was the Fortius Setantiorum. 

 After this portiis comes Belisavia ^stuarium, by 

 which all interpreters understand the mouth of the 

 Ribble, which is probably the point that interests 

 Pkestoniensis, as Preston stands on that river. 

 The conjecture that Lancaster was the Partus 

 Setantiorum is corroborated by the latitudes and 

 longitudes given by Ptolemy, which, though not 

 to be absolutely relied on, are not to be disre- 

 garded, and which give to the three places, More- 

 cambe yEstuarium, Setantiorum Partus, and Beli- 

 sama JEstuarium, nearly the relative positions in 

 ■which we find Ulverston, Lancaster, and the 

 Ribble. C. 



Rubrical Query (Vol. vi., p. 509.). — Qu^stor 

 inquires the meaning of the words "if occasion 

 lie " in the Rubric immediately before the Offertory 

 in the Communion Service. I am under the im- 

 pression that " if occasion lie " here simply means, 

 in case there is necessity to do so; and for the 

 origin of this parenthetical clause I would refer 

 to the Rubric of 1549 (Keeling, Lit. Br., edit, of 

 1842, p. 178.), which provides : 



" That in cathedral churches, or places where there is 

 daily communion, it shall be sufficient to read this ex- 

 hortation once in a month, and in parish churches on 

 the week days it may be left unsaid." 



Showing clearly the mode in which the exhortation 

 was intended to be used. The real difficulty, 

 however, is not noticed by your querist, which is, 

 as to when " Public warning of the Communion " 

 is to be given. One Rubric says that this notice 

 is to be given "immediately after the Nicene 

 Creed ;" another prescribes that when this warning 

 is to be given, it shall be done " immediately after 

 sermon." On this point see Sharpe on Rubrics, 

 p. 62. ; and Wheatly on Common Prayer, chap. vi. 

 sect. viil. § 3. Enivbi. 



Rosa Mystiea (Vol. vii., p. 182.). — I do not 

 remember to have ever heard of such an insti- 

 tution ; but Rosa Mystiea is one of the many ap- 

 pellatives of the Virgin Mary in the Roman Ca- 

 tholic " Litanies of the Virgin." C. 



Portrait of Charles I. (Vol. vii., p. 185.). — It 

 may be confidently asserted that Vandyke never 



painted in enamel ; the enamels referred to were at 

 best only " after Vandyke." Nothing more fre- 

 quent, in both earlier and present times, than the 

 copying large oil portraits in enamel. C. 



"Time audi" (Vol. vii., p. 182.). — I cannot 

 answer Mr. Blackiston's Query fully, but he will 

 find, I think, in the miscellaneous correspondence 

 usually printed in Pope's and Swift's works, the 

 following anecdote, that some one having quoted 

 to Robert, Lord Oxford, the adage, 



" Time and I 'gainst any two, 



his Lordship replied. Impromptu, 



" Chance and I 'gainst Time and you." 



c. 



The Word « Partrf (Vol. vii., p. 177.). —I can 

 furnish a more ancient example of the use of this 

 word than the one given by your correspondent. 



In an old MS. "Booke of Recepts," in my 

 possession, of the year 1681-2, there occurs the 

 following singular prescription : 



" The Powder of Buggs. — Take the buggs and wash 

 them well in white wine, and putt them in a new 

 earthen pott, and set them in an oven till they be dry 

 enough for powder ; then beat them, and sift them,^ 

 and give ye party as much as will lye upon a groate 

 every morning in honey." 



Can any one inform me for what disease thi» 

 nauseous remedy was prescribed, and whether it. 

 be now excluded from the pharmacopoeia ? Per- 

 haps this oleaginous insect was formerly exhibited 

 in those cases for which cod liver oil is now sa 

 extensively used. G. 



Your correspondent E. D. might have gone 

 much farther back for an example of the use of 

 the word party for a particular person. In the 

 Tempest, Act III. Sc. 2., we have : 



" Col. I say by sorcery he got this isle. 

 From me he got it. If thy greatness will 

 Revenge it on him — for, I know, thou dar'st ; 

 But this thing dare not. 



Ste. That's most certain. 



Cat. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee. 



Ste. How now shall this be compass'd ? Canst thou 

 bring me to the party." 



Eeica. 

 Warwick. 



"Mater ait natce," 8fc. (Vol. vii., p. 155.). — In 

 reply to your correspondent who asks where the 

 following lines " Mater ait natse," &c. are to be 

 found, I refer him to the following note in Gres- 

 well's Account of Runcorn, p. 34. : 



" Leland, in his Itinerary, mentions an old woman, a 

 native of Over in Cheshire, who lived in the family of 

 Downes of Shrigley, and died at the age of 140 years. 

 Zuingerus reports of a noble lady of Worms, in the 



