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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 197. 



tended for a forthcoming work on tlie " Homes of 

 American Statesmen," will be gratefully received 

 for the author by Joseph Stansbubt. 



26. Parliament Street 



Norman of Winste7\ — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents afford information bearing on the family 

 of Norman of Winster, county of Derby ? 



" John Norman of Winster, county of Derby, 

 married, in 1715 or 1716, to Jane {maiden name t^&v- 

 ticularly wanted). The said J. Norman married 

 again in 1723, to Mary" (maiden name wanted 

 also). 



I shall be particularly obliged to any one afford- 

 ing such information. W. 



Sir Arthur Aston. — I shall be much obliged, 

 should any of your very numerous correspondents 

 be able to inform me in which part or parish, of 

 the county of Berkshire, the celebrated cavalier 

 Sir Arthur Aston resided upon his return from the 

 foreign wai-s in which he had been for so many 

 years engaged ; and previously to the rupture be- 

 tween Charles I. and the Houses of Parliament. 



I believe one of his daughters, about the same 

 period, married a gentleman residing in the same 

 county : also that George Tattersall, Esq., of 

 Finchampstead, a family of consideration in the 

 same county of Berkshire, was a near relative. 



Chartham. 



'■'■Jamieson the Piper" — I am anxious to ascer- 

 tain who was the author of the above ditty ; it 

 ■was very popular in Aberdeenshire about the 

 beginning of this century. The scene, if I remem- 

 ber rightly, is laid in the parish of Forgue, in 

 Aberdeenshire. Possibly some of the members of 

 the Spalding Club may be able to enlighten me 

 on the subject. Bathensis. 



'■'■Keiser Glomer." — T have a Danish play enti- 

 tled Keiser Glonier^ Frit oversatte afdet Kyhlamske 

 vech C. Bredahl: Kiobenhavn, 1834. It is a mix- 

 ture of tragedy and farce : the former occasionally 

 good, the latter poor buffoonery. In the notes, 

 readings of the old MS. are referred to with 

 apparent seriousness ; but Gammel Gumbo's Saga 

 is quoted in a manner that seems burlesque. I 

 cannot find the word " Kyhlam" in any dictionary. 

 Can any of your readers tell me whether it signi- 

 fies a real country, or is a mere fiction ? The 

 work does not read like a translation ; and, if one, 

 the number of modern allusions show that it is 

 not, as it professes to be, from an ancient manu- 

 script. M. M. E. 



Tieck's Comadia Divina. — I copied the follow- 

 ing lines six years ago from a review in a Munich 

 newspaper of Batornicki's Ungbttliche Comodie. 

 They were cited as from Tieck's suppressed (zu- 

 riickgezogen) satire, La Comodie Divina, from 



which Batornicki was accused of plundering freely,, 

 thinking that, from its variety, he would not be 

 detected : 



" Spitzt so hoch ihr konnt euer Ohr, 

 Gar wunderbare Dinge kommen liier vor, 

 Gott Vater identificirt sich mit der Kreatur, 

 Demi er will anschauen die absolute Natur ; 

 Aber zum Bewustseyn kann er nicht gedeilien, 

 Drum muss er sich mit sich selbst entzweien." 



I omitted to note the paper, but preserved the 

 lines as remarkable. I have since tried to find 

 some account of La Divina Comedia, but in vain. . 

 It is not noticed in any biography of Tieck. Can 

 any of your readers tell me what it is, or who 

 wrote it ? M. M. E. 



Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez — Stream 

 like that in Bay of Argastoli. — Can any of your 

 readers oblige me by stating where the best in- 

 formation may be met with concerning the very 

 remarkable fossil trees on the way from Cairo to 

 Suez ? And, if there has yet been discovered 

 any other stream or rivulet running from the 

 ocean into the land similar to that in the Bay of 

 Argastoli in the Island of Cephalonia ? H. M. 



Presbyterian Titles (Vol. v., p. 516.). — Where 

 may be found a list of " the quaint and uncouth 

 titles of the old Presbyterians ? " 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B. a. 



Mayors and Sheriffs. — Can you or any of your 

 readers inform me which ought to be considered 

 the principal oflicer, or which is the most import- 

 ant, and which ought to have precedence of the 

 other, the mayor of a town or borough, or the 

 sheriff of a town or borough ? and is the mayor 

 merely the representative of the town, and the 

 sheriff of the Queen ; and if so, ought not the re- 

 presentative of majesty to be considered more 

 honourable than the representative of merely a 

 borough ; and can a sheriff of a borough claim to 

 have a grant of arms, if he has not any previous ? 



A Subscriber. 



Nottingham. 



The Beauty of Buttermere. — In an article con- 

 tributed by Coleridge to the Morning Post (vid. 

 Essays on his own Times, vol. ii. p. 591.), he says: 



" It seems that there are some circumstances attend- 

 ing her birth and true parentage, which would account 

 for her striking superiority in mind and manners, in a 

 way extremely flattering to the prejudices of rank and 

 birth." 

 What are the circumstances alluded to ? 



R. W. Elliot. 



Clifton. 



Sheer Hulk. — Living in a maritime town, and 

 hearing nautical terms frequently used, I had al- 

 ways supposed this term to mean an old vessel, , 



