Apkil 23. 1853.] 



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417 



it looks picturesque, from being entirely covered 

 with ivy. The tower, or rather the steeple, at 

 Henllan, near Denbigh, is still more remarkable, 

 from its being built on the top of a hill, and look- 

 ing down upon the church, which stands in the 

 valley at its foot. Cambrensis. 



God's Marks (Vol. vii., p. 134.)- — These are 

 probably the " yellow spots" frequently spoken of 

 m old writings, as appearing on the finger-nails, 

 the hands, and elsewhere, before death. (See 

 Brand's Popular Ant, vol. iii. p. 177., Bohn's edit.) 

 In Denmark they were known under the name 

 Dodirig-knib (dead man's nips, ghost-pinches), and 

 tokened the approaching end of some friend or 

 kinsman. Another Danish name was Dbdninge- 

 pletter (dead man's spots) ; and in Holberg's Peeler 

 Paars (book i. song 4.) Dodning-kncBp. See S. 

 Aspach, Dissertatio de Variis Superstitionibus, 4to., 

 Hafnia;, 1697, p. 7., who says they are of scorbutic 

 origin ; and F. Oldenburg, Om Gjenfcerd ellen 

 Gjengangei-e, 8vo., Kjobenhavn, 1818, p. 23. 



Geobge Stephens. 



Copenhagen. 



''The Whippiad" (Vol. vH., p. 393.). — The 

 mention of 2'he Whippiad by B. N. C. brought to 

 my recollection a MS. copy of that satire in this 

 library, and now lying before me, with the auto- 

 graph of "Snelson, Trin. Coll. Oxon., 1802." 

 There are notes appended to this copy of the 

 verses, and not knowing where to look in Black- 

 woods Magazine for the satire, or having a copy 

 at hand in order to ascertain if the notes are 

 printed there also, or whether they are only to be 

 found in the MS., perhaps your correspondent 

 B. N. C. will have the goodness to state if the 

 printed copy has notes, because, if there are none, 

 I would copy out for the "N. & Q." those that 

 are written in the MS., as no doubt they would 

 be found interesting and curious by all who value 

 whatever fell from the pen of the highly-gifted 

 Reginald Heber. 



Perhaps the notes may be the elucidations of 

 some college cotemporary, and not written by 

 Heber. J. M. 



Sir R. Taylor's Library, Oxford. 



The Axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn (Vol. vii., 

 p. 332.). — In Britton and Brayley's Memoirs of 

 the Tower of London, they mention (in describing 

 the Spanish Armoury) the axe which tradition 

 says beheaded Anne Boleyn and the Earl of Essex; 

 but a fjot-note is added from Stow's Chronicle, 

 stating that the hangman cut off the head of Anne 

 with one stroke of his swoi'd. Thos. Lawrence. 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



Palindromical Lines (Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366.). — 

 Besides the habitats already given for the Greek 

 inscription on a font, I have notes of the like at 



Melton Mowbray; St. Mary's, Nottingham ; in tlie 

 private chapel atLongley Castle; and at Hadleigh. 

 At this last place, it is noted in a church book to 

 be taken out of Gregory Nazienzen (but I never 

 could find it), and a reference is made to Jeremy 

 Taylor's Great Exemplar, "Discourse on Bap- 

 tism," p. 120. sect. 17. 



It may be worth noticing that this Gregory was, 

 for a short time, in the fourth century, bishop of 

 Constantinople; and in the Moslemised cathedral of 

 St. Sophia, in that city, according to Grelot, quoted 

 in Collier's Dictionary, the same words — with the 

 difference that " sin " is put in the plural, sic : 



"NIYON ANOMHMATA MH MONAN OYIN" — 



were written in letters of gold over the place at 

 the entrance of the church, between two porphyry 

 pillars, where stood two urns of marble filled with 

 water, the use of which, when it was a Christian 

 temple, must be well known. The Turks now use 

 them for holding drinking water, and have probably 

 done so since the time when the church was turned 

 into a mosque, after the conquest of Constantinople 

 by Mahomet II., in the fifteenth century. What 

 could induce Zeus (p. 366.) to call this inscription 

 " sotadic ? " It may more fitly be called holy. 



H. T. Eljlacombe. 

 Clyst St. George. 



These lines also are to be found on the marble 

 basins for containing holy water, in one of the 

 churches at Paris. W. C. Treveltan. 



The Greek inscription mentioned by Jeremy 

 Taylor is on the font in Rufford Church. H. A. 



Heuristisch (Vol. vii., p. 237.). — In reply to 

 H. B. C. of the U. U. Club, I beg to give the ex- 

 planation of the word heuristisch, with its cognate 

 terms, from Heyse's Allgemeines Fremdwurterbuch, 

 10th edition, Hanover, 1848 : 



" Heureka, gr. (von heuriskein, finden), ich hab' es 

 gefunden, gefunden ! Heuristik, /. die Erfindungs- 

 kunst ; heuristisch, erfindungskiinstlich, erfinderisch ; 

 heuristische Methode, entwickelnde Lehrart, welche den 

 Schuler zum Selbstfiiiden der Lehrsiitze anleitet." 



J.M. 



Oxford. 



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