Oct. 29. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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short, neither of them giving any reason for their 

 respective quantities. T. 



Book Reviews, their Origin. — Dodsley published 

 in 1741 The Public Register, or the Weekly 

 Magazine. Under the head of " Records of Lite- 

 rature," he undertook to give a compendious 

 account of " whatever works are published either 

 at home or abroad worthy the attention of the 

 public." Was this sinall beginning the origin of 

 our innumerable reviews ? W. Cbamp. 



Ma7'tyr of Collet Well— One. James Martyr, in 

 1790, bought of George Lake the seat called 

 Collet Well, in the parish of Otford. Can any 

 reader of " IST. & Q." tell from what family this 

 Martyr spi'ans?, and what their armorial bearings 

 are? Q. M. S. 



Black as a Mourning Colour. — Can any of your 

 correspondents kindly inform me when black was 

 first known in England, as the colour of mourning 

 robes ? We read in Hamlet : 



" 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 

 Nor customary suits of solemn black, 

 That can denote me truly." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



The Word " Mardel," or " Mardle" whence de- 

 rived? — It is in common use in the east of Nor- 

 folk in the sense of to gossip, thus : " He would 

 mardel there all day long," meaning, waste his 

 time in gossiping. J. L. Sisson. 



Analogy between the Genitive and Plural. — In a 

 note by ilev. J. Bandinel, in Mr. Christmas' edi- 

 tion of Pegge's Anecdotes of the English Language, 

 1844, the question is asked at p. 167. : 



" Why is there such an analogy, in many languages, 

 between the genitive and the plural? In Greek, in 

 Latin, in English, and German, it is so. What is the 

 cause of this?" 



Can you point me to any work where this hint 

 has been carried out ? H. T. G. 



• Hull. 



Ballina Castle. — Where can I see a view of 

 Ballina Castle, in the county of Mayo ? and what 

 is the best historical and descriptive account of 

 that county, or of the town of Castlebar, or other 

 places in the county ? O. L. 11. G. 



Henry I.'s Tomh. — Lyttleton, in his History of 

 England, quoting from an author whose name I 

 forget, states that no monument was ever erected 

 to the memory of this king in Reading Abbey. 

 Man, on the contrary, in his History of Reading, 

 without quoting his authority, states that a 

 splendid monument was erected with recumbent 

 figures of Henry and Adelais, his second wife ; 



which was destroyed by the mistaken zeal of the 

 populace during the Reformation. 



Which of these statements is the true one ? 

 And if Man's be, on what authority is it probably 

 founded ? Pemdrokiensis. 



"For man proposes, hut God disposes." — This 

 celebrated saying is in book i. ch. xix. of the 

 English translation of De Lnitatione Christi, of 

 which Hallam says more editions have been pub- 

 lished than of any other book except the Bible. — 

 Can any of your correspondents tell me whether 

 the saying originated with the author, Thomas A. 

 Kempis ? A. B. C. 



Garrick Sti'eet, May Fair. — In Hertford Street, 

 May Fair, there is fixed in the wall of a house 

 (No. 15.) a square stone on which is Inscribed: 



" Garrick Street, January 15, 1761." 



I shall be glad to know the circumstances con- 

 nected with this inscription, which is not in any 

 way alluded to in the works descriptive of London 

 to which I have referred. C. I. E. 



The Forlorn Hope. — The " Forlorn Hope " is 

 the body of men who volunteer first to enter a. 

 besieged town, after a breach has been made in . 

 the fortifications. That I know : but it is evi- 

 dently some quotation, and if any of your readers 

 should be able to give any information as to its 

 origin, and where it is to be found, I should, as I 

 said before, be much obliged. Fenton. 



Mitred Abbot in Wroughton Church, Wilts. — 

 Not very long ago, while this church was under 

 repair, there was discovered on one of the pillars, 

 behind the pulpit, a fresco painting of a mitred- 

 abbot. I have corresponded with the rector on 

 the subject, but unfortunately he kept no drawing 

 of it ; and all the information he is able to aflTord 

 rae is, that " the vestments were those ordinarily 

 pourtrayed, with scrip, crosier," &c. Such being the 

 case, I have troubled "N. & Q." with this Query, 

 in the hope that some one may be able to give me 

 farther information as to date, name, &c. 



RUSEIX GOLE.- 



Reynolds Portrait of Barretti. — Can any of • 

 your correspondents Inform me where the portrait 

 of Barretti, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, now Is ? 



Geo. R. Coeneb.. 



Crosses on Stoles. — When were the three . 

 crosses now usually embroidered on priests' 

 stoles In the Roman Catholic Church introduced ? 

 Were they used in England before the Reform- 

 ation ? In sepulchral brasses the stoles, although 

 eiiibroidered and fringed, and sometimes also 

 enlarged at the ends, are (so f^ir as I have ob- 

 served) without the crosses. If used, what was 

 their form ? H. P. 



