April 16. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Lady High Sheriff (Vol. vii., pp. 236. 340.). — 

 Another instance may be seen in Foss's Judges of 

 England^ vol. ii. p. 51. — In speaking of Reginald 

 de Cornhill, who held the Sheriffalty of Kent 

 from 5 Richard I. to 5 Henry III., he says : 



« His seat at Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, ac- 

 quired the name of ' Sheriflfs Court,' which it still 

 retains ; and he himself, discontinuing his own name, 

 was styled Reginald le Viscount, even his widow being 

 designated Vicecomitessa Cantii." 



D.S. 



Nugget (Vol. vi., p. 171. ; Vol. vii., pp. 143. 272.). 

 — Nugget may be derived from the Persian, but 

 it is also used in Scotland, and means a lump, — 

 a nugget of sugar, for instance. And as Scotch- 

 men are to be found everywhere, its importation 

 into Australia and California is easily accounted 

 for. R. S. N. 



Epigrams (Vol. vii., p. 180.). — I beg to con- 

 firm the statement of Sckapiana as to the reading 

 John instead of Thomas in the line 



" 'Twixt Footman John and Dr. Toe." 



It may not be generally known that this epi- 

 gram came from the pen of Reginald Heber, late 

 Bishop of Calcutta, who was then a commoner of 

 Brazenoze College, and who wrote that extremely 

 clever satire called The Whippiad, of which the 

 same Dr. Toe (the Rev. Henry Halliwell, Dean 

 and Tutor) was the hero. 2'he Whippiad was 

 printed for the first time a few years ago, in 

 Blackwood's Magazine, 



I fancy the other facetious epigram given by 

 ScBAPiANA has no connexion with this, but was 

 merely inserted on the same page as being " si- 

 milis materia." B. N. C. 



Editions of the Prayer-Booh (Vol. vii., p. 91.). — 

 The following small addition is offered to Mr. 

 Spaeeow Simpson's list : 



1592. fol. Deputies of Chr. Barker. Trinity College, 



Dublin. 

 1607. 4to. Robert Barker. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 

 1611. folio. Robert Barker. Marsh's Library, Dubl. 

 1632. 8vo. R. Barker and the assignes of John Bill. 



Trin. Coll., Dublin. 

 1634. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 

 1634. 12mo. Same Printers. Marsh's Library. 



1638. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 



1639. 4to. Same Printers. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 

 1616. There is a Latin version, in Dr. Mockett's 



Doctrina et Politeia Ecclesice AnglicancB. 4to. 

 Londoni. Marsh's Library, Dublin. 



H. COTTOK. 

 Thurles. 



Portrait of Pope (Vol. vii., p. 294.).— Dr. Fal- 

 coner's portrait of Pope could not have been 

 painted by Joseph Wright of Derby, as that cele- 

 brated artist was only fourteen when Pope died ; 



consequently^, the anecdote told of the painter, and 

 of his meetmg the poet at dinner, must apply to 

 the artist named by Dr. Falconer, and of course 

 correctly, Edward Wright S. D. D. 



Passage in Coleridge (Vol. vii., p. 330.). — The 

 paper referred to by Coleridge will be found in 

 the Transactions of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, vol. iii. p. 463. It is the 

 " Description of a Glory," witnessed by Dr. Hay- 

 garth on Feb. 13th, 1780, when "returning to 

 Chester, and ascending the mountain which forms 

 the eastern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd." As 

 your correspondent asks for a copy of the descrip- 

 tion, the volume being scarce, I will give the fol- 

 lowing extract : 



" I was struck with the peculiar appearance of a 

 very white shining cloud, that lay remarkably close to 

 the ground. The sun was nearly setting, but shone 

 extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my 

 shadow was projected into it ; when a very unexpected 

 and beautiful scene was presented to my view. The 

 head of my shadow was surrounded, at some distance, 

 by a circle of various colours ; whose centre appeared 

 to be near the situation of the eye, and whose circum- 

 ference extended to the shoulders. The circle was 

 complete, except what the shadow of my body inter- 

 cepted. It resembled, very exactly, what in pictures 

 is termed a glory, around the head of our Saviour and 

 of saints : not, indeed, that luminous radiance which is 

 painted close to the head, but an arch of concentric 

 colours. As I walked forward, this glory approached 

 or retired, just as the inequality of the ground shortened 

 or lengthened my shadow." 



A plate " by the writer's friend, Mr. Falconer,'* 

 accompanies the paper. 



In my copy of the Transactions, the following 

 MS. note is attached to this paper : 



" See Juan's and De Ulloa's Voyage to South Americay 

 book vl. ch. ix., where phaenomena, nearly similar, are 

 described." 



I. H. M. 



Lowhell (Vol. vii., pp. 181. 272.). — This is 

 also surely a Scotch word, low meaning a light, a 

 flame. 



♦' A smith's hause is'aye lowin." — Scots, Prov. 



R. S. N. 



Burn at Croydon (Vol. vii., p. 238.). — This seems 

 to be of the same nature as the "nailburns" 

 mentioned by Halliwell (^Arch. Diet.), In Lara- 

 barde's Perambulation of Kent, p. 221., 2nd edit., 

 mention is made of a stream running under ground. 

 But it seems very difficult to account for these 

 phenomena, and any geologist who would give a 

 satisfactory explanation of these burns, nailburns^ 

 subterraneous streams, and those which in Lin- 

 colnshire are termed " blow wells," would confer 

 a favour on several of your readers. E. G. R. 



