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:notes and queries. 



[No. 212. 



MfjiIteS to Minav «aucrtc«. 



Lord CeciVs " Memorials " (Vol. viii., p. 442.). 

 — Cecil's " First Memorial " is printed in Lord 

 Somers's Tracts. It appears that Primate Ussher, 

 and, subsequently, Sir James Ware and his son 

 Robert, had the benefit of extracts from Lord 

 Burleigh's papers. Mr. Bruce may find the 

 " Examination " of the celebrated Faithfull Co- 

 mine, and " Lord Cecyl's Letters," together with 

 other interesting documents, entered among the 

 Clarendon MSS. in Pars altera of the second vo- 

 lume of Catal. Lib. Manuscr. Angl, et Hib., Oxon. 

 1697. R. G. 



Foreign Medical Education (Vol. viii., pp. 34L 

 898.). — In addition to the previous communica- 

 tions on this subject, I beg to refer your corre- 

 spondent Medicus to Mr. Wilde's Austria ; its 

 Literary, Scientific, and Medical Institutions, icith 

 Notes on the State of Science, and a Guide to the 

 Hospitals and Sanitary Institutions of Vienna, 

 Dublin : Curry and Co., 1842. j. D. M'K. 



Encyclopcedias (Vol. viii., p. 385.). — Surely 

 there must be many persons who sympathise with 

 Encyclop;Edicus in wishing to have a work not 

 encumbered and swollen by the heavy and bulky 

 articles to which he refers : perhaps there may be 

 as many as would make it worth the while of some 

 publisher to furnish one. Of course copyright, 

 and all sorts of rights, must be respected ; but 

 that being done, there would be little else to do 

 than to cut out and wheel away the heavy articles 

 from a copy of any encyclopaedia, and put the rest 

 into the hands of a printer. The residuum (which 

 is what we want) would probably be to a con- 

 siderable extent the same. When necessary ad- 

 ditions had been made, the work would still be of 

 moderate size and price. N. B. 



Pepys's Grammar (Vol. viii., p. 466.). — I am 

 unable to answer Mr. Keightley's Query, not 

 having the slightest knowledge of short-hand ; but 

 I always understood that the original spelling of 

 every word in the Diary was carefully preserved 

 by the gentleman who decyphered it. 



No estimate, however, of Pepys's powers of 

 writing can be formed from the hasty entries re- 

 corded in his short-hand journal, and, as I conceive, 

 they derive additional interest from the quaint 

 terms in which they are expressed. 



Bratbrooke. 



" Antiquitas Sceculi Juventus MundV (Vols. ii. 

 and iii. passim). — The following instances of this 

 thought occur in two writers of the seventeenth 

 century : 



" Those times which we term vulgarly the Old 

 World, were indeed the youth or adolescence of it . . . 

 if you go to the age of the world in general, and to the 



true length and longevity of tlihigs, we are properly the 

 older cosmopolites. In tliis respect the cadet may be 

 termed more ancient than his elder brother, because 

 the world was older when he entered into it. Nov. 2, 

 1647." — Howell's Letters, Uth edit. : London, 1754, 

 p. 426. 



Butler, in his character of "An Antiquary," 

 observes : 



" He values things wrongfully upon their antiquity, 

 forgetting that the most modern are really the most 

 ancient of all things in the world ; like those that 

 reckon their pounds before their shillings and pence, 

 of which they are made up." — Thyer's edit., vol. ii. 

 p. 97. 



jARLTZBERa. 



Napoleon's Spelling (Vol. viii., p. 386.). — The 

 fact inquired after by Henry H. Breen is proved 

 by the following extract from the Memoires of 

 Bourrienne, Napoleon's private secretary for 

 many years : 



" Je previensune fois pour toutes que dans les copies 

 que je donnerai des ccrits de Bonaparte, je retablirai 

 I'orthographe, qui est en general si extraordinairement 

 estropiee qu'il serait ridicule de les copier exactement." 

 — Mem. i. 73. 



c. 



Slack as a mourning Colour (Vol, viii., p. 411.). 

 — Mourning habits are said first to appear in Eng- 

 land in the time of Edward III. Chaucer and 

 Froissart are the first who mention them. The 

 former, in Troylus and Creseyde, says : 



" Creseyde was in widowe's habit black." 



Again : 



" My clothes everichone 

 Shall blacke ben, in tolequyn, herte swete, 

 That I am as out of this world gone." 



Again, in the Knights Tale, Palamon appeared 

 at a funeral 



" In clothes black dropped all with tears." 



Froissart says, the Earl of Foix clothed himself 

 and household in black on the death of his son. At 

 the funeral of the Earl of Flanders black gowns 

 were worn. On the death of King John of France, 

 the King of Cyprus wore black. The very men- 

 tion of these facts would suggest that black was 

 not then universally worn, but being gradually 

 adopted for mourning. B. H. C. 



Chanting of Jurors (Vol. vi., p. 315.). — No 

 answer has yet been given to J. F. F.'s Query on 

 this, yet the expression "to chant" was not an 

 unusual one, if we may believe Lord Strafford : 



" They collected a grand jury in each county, and 

 proceeded to claim a ratification of the rights of the 

 crown. The gentlemen on being empanelled were in- 

 formed that the case before them was irresistible, and 

 that no doubts could exist in the minds of reasonable 



