April 16. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Annuellarius (Vol. vii., p. 358.). — Annuellarius, 

 sometimes written Annivellarius, is a chantry 

 priest, so called from his receiving the annualia, 

 or yearly stipend, for keeping the anniversary, or 

 saying continued masses for one year for the soul 

 of a deceased person. ^ J. G. 



Exon. 



Ship^s Painter (Vol. vii., p. 178.). — Your cor- 

 respondent J. C. Gr. may find a rational derivation 

 of the word painter, the rope by which a boat is 

 attached to a ship, in the Saxon word punt, a 

 boat. The corruption from punter, or boat-rope, 

 to painter, seems obvious. J. S. C. 



Trwe Blue (Vol. iii., passim). — The occurrence 

 of this expression in the following passage in 

 Dryden, and its application to the Order of the 

 Garter, seem to have escaped the notice of the 

 several correspondents who have addressed you on 

 the subject. I quote from The Flower and the 

 Leaf, Dryden's version of one of Chaucer's tales : 



" Who bear the bows were knights in Arthur's reign, 



Twelve they, and twelve the peers of Charlemain ; 



For bows the strength of brawny arms imply, 



Emblems of valour and of victory. 

 ' Behold an order yet of newer date, 



Doubling their number, equal in their state; 



Our England's ornament, the Crown's defence, 

 - In battle brave, protectors of their prince ; 

 I Unchang'd by fortune, to their sovereign true. 



For which their manly legs are bound with blue. 



These of the Garter cali'd, of faith unstain'd, 

 I In fighting fields the laurel have obtain'd. 



And well repaid the honors which they gain'd." 



Henbt H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



" Quodfuit esse'' (Vol. vii., pp. 235. 342.).— In 

 one of Dr. Byrom's Common-place Books now in 

 the possession of his respected descendant, Miss 

 Atherton, of Kersal Cell, is the following arrange- 

 ment and translation of this enigmatical inscrip- 

 tion, probably made by the Doctor himself: 



" Quod fuit esse quod est quod non fuit esse quod 

 esse 

 Esse quod est non esse quod est non est erit esse. 



Quod fuit esse quod, 



Est quod non fuit esse quod. 



Esse esse quod est, 



Non esse quod est non est 



Erit esse. 

 What was John Wiles is what John Wiles was not. 

 The mortal Being has immortal got. 

 The Wiles that was but a non Ens is gone. 

 And now remains the true eternal John." 



I take this opportunity of mentioning that my 

 friend, the Rev. Dr. Parkinson, Canon of Man- 

 chester, and Principal of St. Bees, is at present 

 engaged in editing, for the Chetham Society, the 

 Diary and unpublished remains of Dr. Byrom ; 



and he will, I am sure, feel greatly indebted to any 

 of your correspondents who will favour him with 

 an addition to his present materials. O. G. 

 ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 179. art. Townshend) 

 seems to have some memoranda relating to Byrom^ 

 and would perhaps be good enough to communi- 

 cate them to Dr. Parkinson. James Crossley. 



I have seen the above thus paraphrased : 

 " What we have been, and what we are. 

 The present and the time that's past, 

 We cannot properly compare 

 With what we are to be at last. 



" Tho' we ourselves have fancied Forms, 

 And Beings that have never been ; 

 We into something shall be turn'd. 



Which we have not conceived or seen." 



C. H. (a Subscriber.) 



Subterranean Bells (Vol. vii., pp. 128. 200. 328.). 

 — In a most interesting paper by the Rev. W. 

 Thornber, A.B., Blackpool, published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Historic Society of Lancashire and 

 Cheshire, 1851-2, there is mention of a similar 

 tradition to that quoted by your correspondent 

 J. J. S. 



Speaking of the cemetery of Kilgrimol, two miles 

 on the south shore from Blackpool, the learned 

 gentleman says : 



" The ditch and cross have disappeared, either ob- 

 literated by the sand, or overwhelmed by the inroads of 

 the sea ; but, with tradition, the locality is a favourite 

 still. The superstitio loci marks the site : ' The church,' 

 it says, ' was swallowed up by an earthquake, together 

 with the Jean la Cairne of Stonyhill ; but on Christ- 

 mas eve every one, since that time, on bending his ear 

 to the ground, may distinguish clearly its bells pealing 

 most merrily.' " 



BKOCTUNAt 



Bury, Lancashire. 



Spontaneous Combustion (Vol. vii., p. 286.). — 

 I presume H. A. B.'s question refers to the human 

 body only, because the possibility of spontaneous 

 combustion in several other substances is, I believe, 

 not disputed. On that of the human body Taylor 

 says: 



" The hypothesis of those who advocate spontaneous 

 combustion, is, it appears to me, perfectly untenable. 

 So far as I have been able to examine this subject, 

 there is not a single well-authenticated instance of such 

 an event occurring : in the cases reported which are 

 worthy of any credit, a candle or some other ignited 

 body has been at hand, and the accidental ignition of 

 the clothes was highly probable, if not absolutely 

 certain." 



He admits that, under certain circumstances, 

 the human body, though in general " highly diffi- 

 cult of combustion," may acquire increased com- 

 bustible properties. But this is another questicMa 



