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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 216. 



myths have in consequence attributed bloody 

 deeds to account for the cognizance of the bloody 

 hand. The Holte family of Aston Hall, near this 

 town, afibrds an instance of such a modern myth, 

 which has, I think, already appeared in " N. & Q." 

 The subject of modern myths would form a very 

 interesting one for your pages. 



An open hand occurs on tombs in Lycia. (Fel- 

 lowes' Lycia, p. 180) 



The Turks and Moors paint an open hand as a 

 specific against the evil eye. (Shaw's Travels in 

 Sarbary, p. 243.) 



The open hand in i-ed paint is of common oc- 

 currence on buffalo robes among the tribes of 

 North America, and is also stamped, apparently 

 by the natural hand dipped in a red colour, on the 

 monuments of Yucatan and Guatemala. (Stephen's 

 Yucatan.) Eden Warwick. 



Birmingham. 



Awk (Vol. vlii., p. 310.). — H. C. K. asks for 

 instances of the usage of the word awk. He will 

 find one in Richardson's Dictionary, and two of 

 ctto/dy : 



" The auke or left hand." — Holland's Plutarch. 



" They receive her aukly, when she ( Fortune) pre- 

 senteth herself on the right hand." — Ibid. 



" To undertake a thing awkely, or ungainly." — Ful- 

 ler's Worthies. 



Bloomsbury. 



Tenet (Vol. viii., p. 330.) waa used by Hooker 

 and Hall, and is also found in state trial, 1 Hen. V., 

 1413, of Sir John Oldcastle. Sir Thomas Browne, 

 though he writes tenets in his title, has tenent In 

 c. i. of b. vii. But these variations may be gene- 

 rally placed to the account of the printers In those 

 days. (See Tenet, in Richardson.) Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



Lovett of Astwell (Vol. viii., p. 363.). — Since I 

 wrote on this subject, I have consulted Baker's 

 excellent History of Northamptonshire, and I find 

 the pedigree (vol. i. p. 732.) fully bears out my 

 strictures on Betham and Burke's account of 

 Thomas Lovett, and his marriage with Joan Bil- 

 linger. With regard to Elizabeth Boteler, Mr. 

 Baker simply states that Thomas Lovett, Esq., of 

 Astwell, married to his first wife Elizabeth, daugh- 

 ter of John Boteler, Esq., of Watton Woodhall, 

 Herts ; but I observe that (Idem. vol. i. p. 730.) 

 there Is in Wappenham Church (the parish of 

 which Astwell is a hamlet) a brass to the memory 

 of " Constance, late the wife of John Boteler, Esq., 

 and sister to Henry Vere, Esq., who died May 16, 

 1499 :" this lady, I conjecture, was the mother of 

 Elizabeth Boteler, afterwards Lovett ; and her 

 daughter must have been heir to her mother, as 

 the arms of Vere and Green are quartered on her 



grandson Thomas Lovett's tombstone in the same 

 chui'ch ; as well as on another monument cf the 

 Lovetts, the inscription of which Is now obli- 

 terated. The pedigree of the Botelers In Clutter- 

 buck {Herts, vol. ii. p. 475.) does not give this 

 marriage ; but John Boteler, Esq., of Watton 

 Woodhall, who was of full age in 1456, and whose 

 first wife Elizabeth died Oct. 28, 1471, is said to 

 have married to his second wife Constance, daugh- 

 ter of Downhall of Gedington, co. North- 

 amptonshire. Can this be the lady buried at 

 Wappenham ? She was the mother of John Bo- 

 teler, Esq., of Watton Woodhall, Sheriff of Herts 

 and Essex in 1490 ; and therefore her daughter 

 would not be entitled to transmit her arms to her 

 descendants. Or could the last-mentioned John 

 Boteler, who died in 1514, have had another wife 

 besides the three mentioned in Clutterbuck? 

 There can be no question that one of the two 

 John Botelers of Watton Woodhall married Con- 

 stance de Vere, as the marriage is mentioned on 

 the monument at Wappenham. I hope some of 

 your genealogical readers may examine this point. 



Tewaes. 



Irish Rhymes (Vol. viii., p. 250.).— Li "The 

 Wish," appended to The Ocean of Young (after- 

 wards suppressed in his collected works, but quoted 

 by Dr. Johnson), are the following rhymes : 



" Oh ! may I steal 



Along the vale 



Of humble life, secure from foes." 



And again 



" Have what I have. 

 And live not leave." 



And yet again : 



" Then leave one beam 

 Of honest fame. 

 And scorn the labour'd monument." 



And in his " Instalment" (which shared the same 

 fate as "The Wish") : 



" Oh ! how I long, enkindled by the theme, 

 In deep eternity to launch thy name." 



Young was no " Milasian :" so these rhymes go 

 to acquit Swift of the Irishism attributed to him 

 by CuTHBBRT Bede ; as, taken In connexion with 

 those used by Pope and others, it is clear they 

 were not uncommon or confined to the Irish poets. 

 At the same time, I cannot think them either 

 elegant or musical, nor can I agree with one of 

 your correspondents, that their occasional use 

 destroys the sameness of rhyme. If poets were to 

 introduce eccentric rhymes at pleasure, to pro- 

 duce variety, the shade of Walker would I think 

 be troubled sorely. Alexander Andrews. 



Passage in Boerhaave (Vol. vll., p. 453.). — As 

 the passage is incorrectly given from memory, it 



