June 4. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Capital Punishments (Vol. vii., pp.52. 321.). — 

 The authorities to which W. L. N. refers not 

 being generally accessible, he would confer a very 

 great obligation by giving the names and dates of 

 execution of any of the individuals alluded to by 

 him, who have undergone capital punishment in 

 this country for exercising the Roman Catholic 

 religion. Herein, it is almost needless to remark, 

 I exclude such cases as those of Babington, Bal- 

 lard, Parsons, Garnett, Campion, Oldcorne, and 

 others, their fellows, who suffered, as every reader 

 of history knows, for treasonable practices against 

 the civil and christian policy and government of 

 the realm. Cowgill. 



Thomas Bonnell (Vol. vii., p. 305.). — In what 

 year was this person, about whose published Life 

 J. S. B. inquires, Mayor of Norwich ? His name, 

 as such, does not occur in the lists of Nobbs, 

 Blomefield, or Ewing. Cowgill. 



Passage in the First Part of Faust (Vol. vii., 

 p. 501.). — Mr. W. Fraser will find good illus- 

 trations of the question he has raised in his second 

 suggestion for the elucidation of this passage in 

 The Abbot, chap. 15. ad fin. and note. 



A few weeks after giving this reference, in an- 

 swer to a question by Emdee (see " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. i., p. 262.; Vol. ii., p. 47.), I sent in English, 

 for I am not a German scholar, as an additional 

 reply to Emdee, the very same passage that Mr. 

 Fraser has just forwarded, but it was not in- 

 serted, probably because its fitness as an illus- 

 tration was not very evident. 



My intention in sending that second reply was 

 to show that, as in Christabel and The Abbot, tlie 

 voluntary and sustained effort required to intro- 

 duce the evil spirit was of a physical, so in Faust 

 it was of a mental character ; and I confess that I 

 am much pleased now to find my opinion sup- 

 ported by the accidental testimony of another 

 correspondent. 



It must, however, be allowed that the peculiar 

 wording of the passage under consideration may 

 make it difficult, if not impossible, to separate the 

 earnest from the magical form in which Faust's 

 command to enter his room is given. Gcithe's in- 

 tention, probably, was to combine and illustrate 

 both. 



As proofs of the belief in the influence of the 

 number three in incantation, I may refer to Virg. 

 Eel. viii. 73— 78.; to a passage in Apuleius, which 

 describes the resuscitation of a corpse by Zachlas, 

 the Egyptian sorcerer : 



" Propheta, sic propitiatus, herbulam quampiam ter 

 ob OS corporis, et aliam pectori ejus imponit." — Apul. 

 Metamorph., lib. ii. sect. 89. (Regent's Classics); 



and to the rhyming spell that raised the "White 

 Jjady of Avenel at the Corrie nan Shian. (See 

 The Monastery, chaps, xi. and xvii.) C. Forbes. 



Sir Josias Bodley (Vol. vii., p. 357.). — Your 

 correspondent Y. L. will find some account of the 

 family of Bodley in Prince's Worthies of Devon, 

 edit. 1810, pp.92 — 105., and in Moore's History 

 of Devon, vol. ii. pp.220— 227. See also "N. & Q.," 

 Vol. iv., pp. 59. 117. 240. J. D. S. 



Claret (Vol. vii., p. 237.). — The word claret is 

 evidently derived directly from the French word 

 clairet ; which is used, even at the present day, as 

 a generic name for the " vins ordinaires," of a 

 light and thin quality, grown in the south of 

 France. The name is never applied but to red 

 wines ; and it is very doubtful whether it takes its 

 appellation from any place, being always used ad- 

 jectively — "rm clairet," not vin de clairet. I am 

 perhaps not quite correct in stating, that the word 

 is always used as an adjective; for we sometimes 

 find clairet used alone as a substantive ; but I con- 

 ceive that- in this case the word vin is to be under- 

 stood, as we say " du Bordeaux," "du Champagne," 

 meaning " du vin de Bordeaux," "du vin de Cham- 

 pagne." Fan clairette is the name given to a sort 

 of cherry-brandy ; and lapidaries apply the name 

 clairette to a precious stone, the colour of which is 

 not so deep as it ought to be. This latter fact 

 may lead one to suppose that the wine derived its 

 name from being clearer and lighter in colour than 

 the more full-bodied wines of the south. The word 

 is constantly occurring in old drinking-songs. A 

 song of Olivier Basselin, the minstrel of Vire, 

 begins with these words : 



" Beau nez, dont les riibis out coute mainte pipe 

 De vin blanc et clairet." 



By the way, this song is the original of one in 

 the musical drama of Jack Sheppard, which many 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." may remember, as it 

 became rather popular at the time. It began thus : 



" Jolly nose, the bright gems that illumine thy tip. 

 Were dug from the mines of Canary." 



I am not aware that the plagiarism has been 

 noticed before. Honore de Mareville. 



Guernsey. 



notes on books, etc. 



Now that the season is arriving for the sportsman, 

 angler, yachtsman, and lover of nature to visit the 

 wild and solitary beauties of Garnle Norge, nothing 

 could be better timed than the pleasant gossiping 

 3Ionth in Norway, by J. G. HoUway, which forms this 

 month's issue of Murray's Railway Library; or the 

 splendidly illustrated Norway and its Scenery, com- 

 prising the Journal of a Tour by Edward Price, Esq., 

 and a Road Book for Tourists, with Hints to Anglers 

 and Sportsmen, edited by T. Forster, Esq., which forms 

 the new number of Bohn's Illustrated Library, and 



