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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 206. 



Hoog Moogende (High Mightinesses), given to the 

 States- General, and much ridiculed by some of our 

 English writers ; as in Hudibras ; 



' But I have sent him for a token 

 To your Low-country, Hogen Mogen.' 



It has been supposed that hugger-mugger, corrupted 

 from Hogen Mogen, was meant in derision of the secret 

 transactions of their Mightinesses ; but it is probable 

 that the former word was known in English l)efore the 

 latter ; and upon the whole it seems most probable that 

 hugger is a mere intensitive form of hug, and that 7nug~ 

 ger is a reduplication of sound with a slight variation, 

 ■which is so common In cases of this kind."] 



Balderdash. — What is the meaning and the 

 etymology of " balderdash ? " W. Fraseb. 



Tor-Mohun. 



[Skinner suggests the following etymology : " Bal- 

 derdash, /jo^ms mixtus, credo ab A.-S. hald, a.udax,balder, 

 audacior vel audncius, et nostro dash ; miscere, q. d. potus 

 temere mixtus." Dr. Jamieson explains it as " foolish 

 and noisy talk. Islandic, bulldur, stultorum balbuties." 

 Dr. Ogilvie, however, has queried its derivation from 

 the " Spanish balda, a trifle, or baldonar, to insult with 

 abusive language ; Welsh, baldorz, to prattle. Mean, 

 senseless prate ; a jargon of words; ribaldry; anything 

 jumbled together without judgment."] 



Lovell, Sculptor. — What is known of this 

 artist ? That he was in advance of the age he 

 flourished in is evinced by his beautifully ex- 

 ecuted engravings in Love's Sacrifice (fol. Lond. 

 1652), which for delicacy of work are far beyond 

 anything of the period. R. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



[Is the name Lovell, or Loisell ? for we find that 

 Strutt, in his Dictionary of Engravers, vol. ii. p. 101., 

 speaks of " P. Loisell having affixed some slight etcli- 

 ings, something in the style of Gaywood (if I mistake 

 not), to Benlowe's Theophilia, or Love's Sacrifice."'\ 



St. Werenf rid and Butler s "Lives of the Saints." 

 — One of your correspondents will perhaps ex- 

 plain the cause of an omission in Butler's Lives of 

 the Saints. The life of St. Werenfrid, whose an- 

 niversary is the 14th of August, is abstracted, 

 vol. iii. p. 492. His name occurs in the table of 

 contents ; and pages 493 and 494, where the life 

 should have appeared, are wanting ; still page 

 495 follows 492 correctly in type, so that the 

 former must have been reprinted after the cas- 

 tration of the leaf. Was the saint deemed un- 

 worthy of the place which had been allotted to 

 him ? J. H. M. 



[In the best edition of Butler's Lives (12 vols., 

 1812-13), the life of St. Werenfrid is given on Nov. 7. 

 He is honored in Holland on the 14th of August ; and 

 his life appears in Britannia Sancta on that day, but 

 in the Bollandists on the 28th of August.] 



3£lej3Tt?^, 



SIB W. HANKFORD — GASCOIGNe's TOMB. 



(Vol. viii., p. 278.) 



On reading Mb. Sansom's letter, it occurred to 

 me that I had seen a different account of the 

 master being shot by his park-keeper ; and on 

 search I found the following in 1 Hale's P. C. 

 p. 40., which I send, as it may tend to clear up 

 the question : 



" In the case of Sir William Hawksworth, related 

 by Baker in his Chronicle of the Time of Edward IV., 

 p. 223. {sub anno 1471), he being weary of his life, and 

 willing to be rid of it by another's hand, blamed his 

 parker for suffering his deer to be destroyed ; and com- 

 manded him that he should shoot the next man that 

 he met in his park that would not stand or speak. The 

 knight himself came in the night into the park ; and 

 being met by the keeper, refused to stand or speak. 

 The keeper shot and killed him, not knowing him to 

 be his master. This seems to be no felony, but ex- 

 cusable by the statute of Malefactores in Parcis." 



This account varies from Ritson's in the name 

 "Hawksworth" instead of " Hankford," and the 

 date 1471 instead of 1422. It seems plain that 

 Lord Hale had no idea that the person shot was a 

 judge ; and possibly the truth may be, that it was 

 a descendant of the judge that was shot. Even if 

 Hankford's death were in 1422, as stated by Ris- 

 don, the traditional account that he caused his 

 own death " in doubt of his safety" does not seem 

 very probable, as Henry V. came to the throne 

 in 1412-13. Probably some of your readers may 

 be able to clear up the matter. 



I was at Harewood the other day, and examined 

 a tomb there alleged to be that of the C.-J. Gas- 

 coigne. In the centre of the west end of the tomb 

 is a shield : first and fourth, five fleurs-de-lys 

 (France) ; second and third, three lions passant 

 gardant (England). — May I ask how these arms 

 happen to be on this tomb ? 



There are several other shields on the tomb, 

 but all are now undistinguishable except one ; 

 which appears to be a bend impaling a saltire, as 

 far as I can make it out : the colours are wholly 

 obliterated. The head of the figure has not a coif 

 on it, as I should have anticipated ; but a cap fit- 

 ting very close, and a bag is suspended from the 

 left arm. — Is it known for certain that this is 

 C.-J. Gascoigne's tomb ? S. G. C. 



Harrogate. 



Mb. Sansom need not have been very much 

 surprised that I should have omitted noticing a 

 tradition concerning Sir William Hankford, when 

 I was merely rectifying an error with reference to 

 Sir William Gascoigne. That I have not over- 

 looked entirely " the Devonshire tradition, which 

 represents Sir William Hankford to be the judge 



