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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 191. 



T638. Upon it are several impalements by dimi- 

 diation. Sandford (whose book seems to me to be 

 strangely over-valued) gives no explanation of 

 tiiem. No doubt they were copied from the original 

 tomb. > 



In Part II. of the'Trwirfe to the Architectural 

 Aniiqidties in the Neighbourhood of Oxford, at 

 p. 178., is figured an impalement by dimidiation 

 existing at Stanton Harcourt, in the north tran- 

 sept of the church, in a brass on a piece of blue 

 marble. The writer of the Guide supposes this 

 bearing to be some union of Harcourt and Beke, 

 in consequence of a will of John Lord Beke, and 

 to be commemorative of the son of Sir Richard 

 Harcourt and Margaret Beke. It is in fact com- 

 memorative of those persons themselves. Har- 

 court, two bars, is dimidiated, and meets Beke, a 

 cross moline or ancree. The figure thus produced 

 is a strange one, but perfectly intelligible when 

 the practice of impaling by dimidiation is recol- 

 lected. I know no modern instance of this method 

 of impaling. I doubt if any can be found since 

 the time of Henry VIII. D. P. 



Begbrook. 



Worth (Vol. vil., p. 584.). — At one time, and 

 in one locality, this word seems to have denoted 

 manure ; as appears by the following preamble to 

 the statute 7 Jac. I. cap. 18. : 



" Whereas the sea-sand, by long triall and experi- 

 ence, hath bin found to be very profitable for the bet- 

 tering of land, and especially for the increase of corne 

 and tillage, within the counties of Devon and Corn- 

 wall, where the inhabitants have not commonly used 

 any other worth, for the bettering of their arable grounds 

 and pastures." 



I am not aware of any other instance of the use 

 of this word in this sense. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



" Elementa sex," Sfc. (Vol. vii., p. 572.). — The 

 answer to the Latin riddle propounded by your 

 correspondent Effigy, seems to be the word 

 pulres ; divided into utres, tres, res, es, and the 

 letter s. 



The allusion in putres is to Virgil, Georgic, 

 i. 392. ; and in utres probably to Georgic, ii. 384. : 

 the rest is patent enough. 



I send this response to save others from the 

 trouble of seeking an answer, and being disap- 

 pointed at their profitless labours. If I may ven- 

 ture a guess at its author, I should be inclined to 

 ascribe it to some idle schoolboy, or perhaps school- 

 master, who deserved to be whipped for their 

 pains. C. W. B. 



"A Diasii 'Salve;" Sfc. (Vol. vH., p. 571.).— 

 The deliverance desired in these words is from 

 treachery, similar to that which was exhibited by 

 the fratricide Alfonso Diaz toward his brother 



Juan. (Vid. Senarclsei Historiam veram, 1546 ; 

 Actiones et Monimenta Maj-tyrum, foil. 126 — 139. 

 [Geneva?], 1560; Histoire des Martyrs, foil. 161 — 

 168., ed. 1597; M'Crie's Reformation in Spairiy 

 pp. 181—188., Edinb. 1829.) 



The " A Gallorum ' Venite,' " probably refers 

 to the singing of the " Venite, exultemus Domino," 

 on the occasion of the massacre of St. Bartholo- 

 mew. R. G. 



Meaning of " Claret" (Vol. vii., pp. 237. 511.). 

 ^Old Bartholomew Glanville, the venerable Fran- 

 ciscan, gives a recipe for claret in his treatise De 

 Proprietatibus Herum, Argent., 1485., lib. xix. 

 cap. 56., which proves it to be of older date than 

 is generally supposed : 



" Claretum ex vino et melle et speciebus aromaticis 

 est confectura ........ 



Unde a vino contrahit fortitudinem et acumen, a sp&. 

 ciebus autem retinet aromaticitatem et odorem, sed a 

 melle dulcedinem mutuat et saporem." 



II. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



" The Temple of Truth" (Vol. vii., p. 549.).— 

 The author of this work, according to Dr. Watt, 

 was the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon, rector of God- 

 stone, Surrey. 'AXievs, 



Dublin. 



Wellborne Family (Vol. vii., p. 259.).— The fol- 

 lowing is from the Totvn and Country Magazine 

 for 1772: 



" Deaths. — Mr. Richard Wellborne, in Aldersgate 

 Street, descended in a direct male line from the youngest 

 son of Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who flourished 

 in King Henry III.'s time, and married that king's 

 sister." 



There is now a family of the name of Wellborne 

 residing in Doncaster. W. H. L. 



Devonianisms (Vol. vii., p. 544.). — While a resi- 

 dent in Devonshire, I frequently met with localisms 

 similar in character to those quoted by J. M. B. ; 

 but what at first struck me as most peculiar in 

 common conversation, was the use, or rather abuse, 

 of the little preposition to. When inquiring the 

 whereabouts of an individual. Devonians ask one 

 another, " W^here is he to ?" The invariable reply 

 is, " To London," " To Plymouth," &c., as the case 

 may be. The Cheshire clowns, on the other hand, 

 murder the word at, in just the same strange and 

 inappropriate manner. 



The indiscriminate use of the tQrm. forrell, when 

 describing the cover of a book, is a solecism, I 

 fancy, peculiarly Devonian. Whether a book be 

 bound in cloth, vellum, or morocco, it is all alike 

 forrell in Devonshire parlance. I imagine, how- 

 ever, that the word, in its present corrupt sense, 

 must have originated {rom. forrell, a term still used 

 by the trade to designate an inferior kind of vellum 



