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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 200. 



— This expression surely has a 



Can any of your correspondents 



W. T. M. 



Pail the Piper. 

 firm foundation, 

 trace it ? 



Hong Kong. 



Greek Inscription upon a Font, mentioned by 

 Jeremy Tat/lor. — 



" This was ingeniously signified by that Greek in- 

 scription upon a font, wliich is so prettily contrived, 

 that the words may be read after the Greek or after 

 the Hebrew manner, and bo exactly the same : 



' Lord, wash my sin, and not ray face only.' " — Life of 

 Christ, part i. sect. 9. disc. 6., " On Baptism," vol. ii. 

 p. 235., Eden's edition. 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." state the bishop's 

 authority for this ingenious device ? A. Tatloe. 



Acharis. — The following is extracted from Dug- 

 dale's Monasticon : 



" Radulphus Wicliff armiger tenet in WiclifT duas 

 partes decimarum de dominicis quondam Acharis, quon- 

 dam ad 5. s. modo nihil quia ut diclt sunt inelusa; in 

 parco suo, ideo ad consilium," 



What is the meaning of the term Acharis, and 

 of the passage ? It is an extract from the Rentale 

 spiritualium Possessionum atqiie temporalium Prio- 

 ratus Sancti Martini juxta Richnund in agro Ebo' 

 racensi. A. W. H. 



Attainment of Majority. — ^Professor De Morgan 

 will, I am sure, permit me to put this question to 

 him : 



In a short treatise " On Ancient and Modern 

 Usage in Reckoning," written by him for the 

 Companion to the Almanac of 1850, he explains, at 

 page 9., the usage of attainment of majority in 

 these words : 



" Nevertheless in the law, which here preserves the 

 old reclioning, he is of full age on the 9th : though he 

 were born on the 10th, he is of age to execute a 

 settlement a minute after midnight on the morning of 

 the 9th." 



I want to have this statement reconciled with the 

 opening scene of Ben Jonson's Staple of Neivs, 

 where Pennyboy jun. counts, as his watch sti'ikes 

 — " one, two, three, four, five, six ! " — 

 " Enough, enough, dear watch, 

 Thy pulse hath beat enough 

 — The hour is come so long expected," &c. 



Then " the fashioner" comes in to fit on' the heir's 

 new clothes ; he had " waited below 'till the clock 

 stfuck," and gives, as an excuse, "your worship 

 might have pleaded nonage, if you had got 'em 

 on ere I could make just affidavit of the time." 



All these particulars are too verbatim to admit 

 of doubt as to the peculiar usage of that time ; and 

 from other sources I know that Ben Jonson was 

 right : but it is not alluded to in the treatise first 



mentioned, nor is it stated when the usage was 

 altered to " a minute after midnight." A. E. B. 

 Leeds. 



Ilurtmans Account of Waterloo. — In the note 

 to the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold, Stanza 29, 

 Lord Byron says : 



" The place where Major Howard fell was not far 

 from two tall and solitary trees, which stand a few 

 yards from each other at a pathway's side. Beneath 

 tliese lie died and was buried. The body has since 

 been removed to England." 



I have a copy on which one has written — 



" Hartman's account is full and interesting. He 

 was in conversation with Major Howard when he was 

 killed ; and afterwards gave directions for his burial. 

 Though no poet, he could describe graphically what 

 he saw and did." 



The position of Hartman, and his apparent 

 familiarity with Major Howard, seem to take him 

 out of the herd of writers on Waterloo ; but I 

 cannot learn who he was, or what he wrote. Can 

 any of your readers tell me ? The note may have 

 been made in mere wantonness, but it looks 

 genuine. G. D. 



Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury. — 

 When was Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, born ; who, Camden tells us, was the 

 " greatest ornament" of Higham Ferrers ? I have 

 seen his birth somewhere stated to have taken 

 place in the year 1360; but no day or month was 

 given. I should also be glad to know to what 

 extent he was a contributor towards the restoration 

 of Croydon Church, the tower and porch of which 

 bear his arms ? K. W. Elliot. 



Translation of Athenaus. — I find, in the Clas- 

 sical Journal, xxxviii. 11., published in 1828, that 

 an English translation of Athenacus had been com- 

 pleted before his death by R. Fenton, Esq., F.R.S., 

 author of the History of Pembrokeshire. The 

 writer farther says : " We have reason to believe 

 that the MS. is now In possession of his son, the 

 Rev. S. Fenton, Vicar of Fishguard in Pembroke- 

 shire." Has this version, or any part of it, ever 

 been published? P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



Passages from Euripides. — Rogers translates 

 two fine passages from Euripides : 



" There is a streamlet issuing from a rock," &c. 

 and 



" Dear is that valley to tlie murmuring bees," &c. 



Where is the original Greek to be found ? F. 



Anderson^ s Poyal Genealogies. — Is there any 

 memoir or biographical account extant of James 

 Anderson, D.D., the learned compiler of that most 

 excellent and valuable work bearing the above 

 title, and published in London, 1732, fol. ? G. 



