July 2. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



persons In whose libraries vellum-bound copies of 

 Junius have been found. V. B. 



Sir Heister Ryley. — Who was the author of the 

 Visions of Sir Heister Ryley, and whence did It 

 ■derive its name? It was published In 1710, and 

 consists of papers periodically published on serious 

 <subjedts. It was one of the many short-lived 

 periodicals that sprung up in imitation of the 

 Taller, and appears to have died a natural death 

 At the end of the so-called first volume. 



H. T. KlLEY. 



Effigies with folded Hands. — On the south side 

 of Llangathen Church, Carmarthenshire, is a huge 

 monument (of the style well designated as bed- 

 stead) for Dr. Anthony Rudd, Bishop of St. 

 David's, and Anne Dalton, his wife, 1616, with 

 their recumbent efBgles, and those of four sons 

 kneeling at their head and feet. From all these 

 ■figures the iconoclasts had smitten the hands up- 

 raised In prayer, and they have been replaced by 

 plaister hands folded on the bosom. The effect is 

 singular. Is there any other instance of such re- 

 storation ? E. D. 



Passage in Bishop Horsley. — In the Introduction 

 to Utrum Horum, a rather curious work by Henry 

 Care, being a comparison of the Thirty-nine Ar- 

 ticles with the doctrines of Presbyterians on the 

 one hand, and the tenets of the Church of Rome 

 on the other, is an extract from Dr. HakewiU's 

 Answer (1616) to Dr. Carier, " an apostate to 

 Popery." In it occurs the following passage : 

 *' And so, through Calvin's sides, you strike at the 

 throat and heart of our religion." Will you allow 

 me to ask if a similar expression Is not used by 

 Bishop Horsley in some one of his Charges ? 



s. s. s. 



[The following passage occurs in the bishop's Charge 

 to the clergy of St. Asaph in 1806, p. 26.: " Take es- 

 .pecial care, before you aim your shafts at Calvinism, 

 that you know what is Calvinism, and what is not : 

 that in that mass of doctrine, which it is of late be- 

 come the fashion to abuse under the name of Calvinism, 

 you can distinguish with certainty that part of it which 

 is nothing better than Calvinism, and that which be- 

 longs to our common Christianity, and the general 

 faith of the Reformed Churches ; lest, when you mean 

 only to fall foul of Calvinism, you should unwarily attack 

 something more sacred and of higher origin."^ 



^^ Marry come up .'" — What Is the origin of this 

 expression, found in the old novelists ? It perhaps 

 originates in an adjuration of the Virgin Mary. 

 If so, how did it gain its present form ? 



H. T. Riley. 



[HalHwell explains it as an interjection equivalent 

 *o indeed i Marry on us, marry come up, Marry come 



out, interjections given by Brockett. Marry and shall, 

 that I will ! Marry come up, my dirty cousin, a saying 

 addressed to any one who affects excessive delicacy.] 



Dover Court. — What is the origin of the ex- 

 pression of a " Dover Court, where all are talkert 

 and none are hearers?" There is a place called 

 by this name in the vicinity of Harwich ? 



H. T. Riley. 



[There is a legend, that Dover-Court Church in 

 Essex once possessed a miraculous cross which spoke, 

 thus noticed in the Collier of Croydon : 



" And how the rood of Dovercot did speak. 

 Confirming his opinions to be true." 

 So that it is possible, as Nares suggests, that this 

 church was the scene of confusion alluded to in the 

 proverb : " Dover Court ; all speakers and no hearers." 

 Fox, in his Martyrology, vol. ii. p. 302., states, that 

 " a rumour was spread that no man could shut the 

 door, which therefore stood open night and day ; and 

 that the resort of people to it was much and very- 

 great."] 



Porter. — In what book Is the word porter, 

 meaning the malt liquor so called, first found ? 

 I have an impression that the earliest use of it that 

 I have seen is in Nicholas Amherst's Terra Filius, 

 about 1726. H. T. Riley. 



[We doubt whether an earlier use of this word, as 

 descriptive of a malt liquor, will be found than the one 

 noticed by our correspondent ; for it was only abouC 

 1722 that Harwood, a London brewer, commenced 

 brewing this liquor, which he called " entire," or " en- 

 tire butt," implying that it was drawn from one cask 

 or butt. It subsequently obtained the name oi porter, 

 from its consumption by porters' and labourers.] 



Dr. Whitaker's Ingenious Earl. — 



" To our equal surprise and vexation at times, we 

 find the ancients possessed of degrees of physical know- 

 ledge with which we were mostly or entirely unac- 

 quainted ourselves. I need not appeal in proof of this 

 to that extraordinary operation of chemistry, by which 

 Moses reduced the golden calf to powder, and then 

 give it mingled with water as a drink to the Israelites ; 

 an operation the most difficult in all the processes of 

 chemistry, and concerning which it is a sufficient 

 honour for the moderns to say, that they have once or 

 twice practised it. I need not appeal to the mummies 

 of Egypt, in which the art of embalming bodies is so 

 eminently displayed, that all attempts at imitation have 

 only showed the infinite superiority of the original to 

 the copy. I need not appeal to the gilding upon those 

 mummies so fresh in its lustre ; to the stained silk of 

 them, so vivid in its colours after a lapse of 3000 years; 

 to the ductility and malleability of glass, discovered by 

 an artist of Rome in the days of Tiberius, but instantly 

 lost by the immediate murder of the man under the 

 orders of the emperor, and just now boasted vainly to 

 be re-discovered by the wildly crcentric, yet vividly 

 vigorous, genius of that earl who professes to teach law 

 to my lord chancellor, and divinity to my lords the 



