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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[•No. 198. 



The tomb may have been erected some time 

 afterwards by " I. R.," probably a relative of the 

 " Henry llogers," the date of whose death is com- 

 memorated. T. J. 



Bath. 



Boohs worth/ to he reprinted (Vol. vii., pp. 153. 

 203.). — In addition to those previously mentioned 

 in " N. & Q.," there is one for which a crying 

 necessity exists for a new edition, namely, The 

 Complmjnt of Scotland. It is often advertised 

 and otherwise sought for ; and when found, can 

 only be had at a most extravagant price. It was 

 originally written in 1548 ; and in 1801, a limited 

 impression, edited by Dr. Ley den, was published; 

 and in 1829, "Critiques upon it by David Herd, 

 and others, with observations in answer by Dr. 

 Leyden," to the number of seventy copies. The 

 Complaynt of Scotland and Sir Tristi-em, an edition 

 of which was edited by Sir Walter Scott, and 

 published in 1804, are two of the oldest works of 

 which the literature of Scotland can boast. 



Inverness. 



Napoleon's Thunderstoi'm. — The passage of the 

 Niemen by the French army, and its consequent 

 entry on Russian territory, may be said to have 

 been Napoleon's first step towards defeat and ruin. 

 A terrible thunderstorm occurred on that occasion, 

 according to M. Segur's account of the Russian 

 campaign. 



When Napoleon commenced the retreat, by 

 which he yielded all the country beyond the Elbe 

 (and which, therefore, may be reckoned a second 

 step towards his downfall), it was accompanied by 

 a thunderstorm more remarkable from occurrinor 

 at such a season. Odelben says : 



" C'etait un phenomene biLMi extraortlhiaire dans un 

 pareil salson, et avec le froid qu'on venalt d'eprouver," 

 &c. — Odelben, Camp, de 1813, vol. i. p. 289. 



The first step towards his second downfall, or 

 third towards complete ruin, was his advance upon 

 the British force at Quatre-Bras, June 17, 1815. 

 This also was accompanied by an awful thunder- 

 storm, which (akhough gathering all the forenoon) 

 commenced at the very moment he made his at- 

 tack on the British rear-guard (about two p. m.), 

 when the first gun fired was instantaneously re- 

 sponded to by a tremendous peal of thunder. 



Thunder, to Wellington, was the precursor of 

 victory and triumph. Witness the above-men- 

 tioned introduction to the victory of Waterloo ; 

 the terrible thunder, that scattered the horses of 

 the dragoons, the eve of Salamanca; also, the 

 night preceding Sabugal. And perhaps some of 

 the Duke's old companions in arms may be able 

 to add to the category. 'A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Istamhoul — Constantinople. — Mr. (afterwards 

 Sir George) Wheler, who took holy orders and 



became rector of Houghton-le- Spring in the 

 diocese of Durham, makes the following remarks 

 in his Journey into Greece, &-c. (fob, Lond. 1682), 

 p. 178. : 



" Constantinople is now vulgarly called Stumhol by 

 the Turks ; but by the Greeks more often IstampoU, 

 which must needs be a corruption from the Greek 

 either from Constantinopolis, which in pro- 

 cess of time might be corrupted into Stanpolis or Istan- 

 poH; or rather, from it being called iroAis /car' i^oxrivo. 

 For the Turks, hearing the Greeks express their going 

 to Constantinople by ets t)]vk6\iv, which they pronounce 

 Is-tin-polin, and often for brevity's sake Stiiipoli, might 

 soon ignorantly call it IntatipoU or Slambol, according 

 as either of them came into vogue first. And there- 

 fore I think theirs is a groundless fancy wlio fetch it 

 from the Turkish word Istamboal, wliich signifies a 

 city full of or abounding in the true faith, the name 

 being so apparently of Greek original." 



W. S. G. 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



^uttitS. 



STRUT-STOWEES, AND YEATUERS OR YABDERS. 



In the Collection of divers curious Historical 

 Pieces printed by the Rev. Francis Peck at the 

 end of his Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell, is — 



" Some account of the Murder of the Hermit of 

 Eskdale-sidc, near Whitby, in Com. Ebor. by William 

 de Bruce (Lord of Ugle Barnby), Ralph de Peircy 

 (Lord of Snealon), and one Allatson, a Gent., and of 

 the remarkable penance which the Hermit enjoyned 

 them before he died." 



The Story is briefly this: — On the 16th Oc- 

 tober, 15 Henry II., De Bruce, De Peircy, and 

 Allatson were hunting the wild boar in Eskdale- 

 side, where was a chapel and hermitage, in which 

 lived a monk of Whitby, who was a hermit. The 

 boar being hotly pursued by the dogs, ran into 

 the chapel and there laid down and died. The 

 hermit shut the door on the hounds, who stood at 

 bay without. The three gentlemen coming up, 

 flew into a great fury, and ran with their boar- 

 staves at the hermit and so wounded him that he 

 ultimately died. The three gentlemen, fearing 

 his death, took sanctuary at Scarborough, but the 

 Abbot of Whitby being in great favour with the 

 king, removed them out of sanctuary, whereby 

 they became liable to the law. The dying hermit 

 (he survived till the 81 h December), on the 

 abbot's proposing to put them to death, suggested 

 the following penance, to which, in order to save 

 their lives and goods, they consented, and to which 

 the abbot likewise agreed : 



" You and yours shall hold your lands of the Abbat 

 of Wliitby and his successors after this manner, viz. 

 upon the eve [or morrow before] Ascension Day, you, 

 or some of you, shall come to the wood of Stray- Head, 

 which is in Eskdale-side, by sun-rising, and there shall 



