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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 216. 



Cooh or Cooke. The great Sir Edward's own 

 ■baptismal register is tbus entered — 1551, Feb. 7. 

 ■** Edward Cooke genero." Surely this is con- 

 clusive. The same pronunciation was vulgarly 

 followed almost up to the present time. There 

 uiust be many who remember at the Norfolk 

 elections the cry of " Cook for ever," as well as 

 that of the opposite political party who threw up 

 their caps for Woodhortse ; for so Wodehouse was in 

 like manner pronounced. Again, the Hobarts, 

 another Norfolk family, were always called Hub- 

 harts ; and more anciently Bokenham, Buckenham, 

 Todenham, Tuddenham, and others I could name, 

 showing that in the Norfolk dialect the usage 

 "was in pronunciation to soften the o. 



Now as regards the sound of Cowper, the same 

 class of authorities, old deeds, court rolls, and 

 parish registers, appears to lead to a different con- 

 clusion from that of your other correspondents. 

 We have now no Cowper family of Norfolk origin ; 

 r)? Coopers we have multitudes : the names of whose 

 forefathers were written Couper or Coioper ; and 

 if written as pronounced, the analogical inference 

 is that the original pronunciation was Cowper, 

 Cooper being merely the modern way of spelling ; 

 and curiously enough, the parish of Hoo, in this 

 county, is called and now usually spelt How. 



G. A. C. 



Unhid (Vol. viii., p. 353.). — Unketh, uncouth, 

 are different writings of the same word. Jamieson 

 has uncoudi/, which he explains, dreary ; and 

 coudy, i. e. couth, couthy, nearly allied to cuth, 

 notus (see couth (could), uncouth, vnketh, in 

 Richardson ; and coudy, tmcoudi/, in Jamieson). 

 Lye has " Uncwid, solitary ; whence, perhaps, the 

 not entirely obsolete unhid." Grose also tells us 

 that, in the north, uncuffs and uncuds mean news. 

 It is very plain that these are all the same word, 

 differently written and applied. Q. 



Bloomsbiiry, 



To split Paper (Vol. viii., p. 413.).— 



" Procure two rollers or cylinders of glass, amber, 

 resin, or metallic amalgam ; strongly excite them by 

 the well-known means so as to produce the attraction 

 of cohesion, and then, with pressure, pass the paper 

 between the rollers ; one half will adhere to the under 

 roller, and the other to the upper roller ; then cease 

 the excitation, and remove each part." — From the Civil 

 Engineer and Architect''s Journal. 



A. H. B. 



La Flew des Saints (Vol. viii., p. 410.). — The 

 work which Moliere intended was in all proba- 

 bility the French translation of a Spanish work 

 entitled Flos Sarictorum. The author of it was 

 Alonso de Villegas. It was first printed at 

 Toledo in 1591, and an English version appeared 

 at Douay in 1615, Some idea of the contents 

 may be gathered from the following title : Flos 



Sanctonim, Historia General de la Vida, y Hechos 

 de Jesu Christo Dios y Sehor nuestro ; y de todos 

 los Santos, de que reza, y haze fiesta la Iglesia 

 Catolica, ^c. My copy is the Madrid edition of 

 1653. C. Habdwick. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury (Vol. viii., 

 p. 125.). — Could this have been Dr. William 

 Butler, of eccentric memory, born at Ipswich 

 about 1535, and buried in St. Mary's Church, 

 Cambridge, 1618 ? G. A. C. 



Major Andre (Vol. viii., p. 174.). — Two 

 nephews of Major Andre, sons of his sister, Mrs. 

 Mills, are resident in Norwich, both being sur- 

 geons there. Pei'haps, on application, your cor- 

 respondent Serviens would be able to obtain from 

 them some serviceable information regarding this 

 unfortunate officer. G. A. C. 



Wooden Tombs and Effigies (Vol. viii., p. 255.). 

 — In the church of Chew-Magna, co. Somerset, is 

 the effigy of Sir John Hautville, cut (says Collin- 

 son, vol. ii. p. 100.) in one solid piece of Irish oak. 

 He lies on his left side, resting on his hip and 

 elbow, the left hand supporting his head. The 

 figui'e is in armour, with a red loose coat without 

 sleeves over it, a girdle and buckle, oblong shield, 

 helmet, and gilt spurs. The right hand rests on 

 the edge of the shield. This monument was 

 brought many years ago from the neighbouring- 

 church (now destroyed) of Norton Hautville. Sir 

 John lived temp. Henry III. The popular story 

 of him is that he was a person of gigantic strength, 

 and that he carried, for a feat, three men to the 

 top of Norton church tower, one under each arm, 

 and the third in his teeth! (CoUinson, vol. ii. 

 p. 108.) J. E. J. 



FroissarCs Accuracy (Vol. viii., p. 494.), — The 

 accuracy of Froissart as an historian has never 

 been questioned, says T. J. This assertion ought 

 not to pass without a note. If T. J. will look 

 into Hallam's Lit. of Europe, ch. iii., he will find 

 that judicious and learned critic comparing Frois- 

 sart with Livy for " fertility of historical inven- 

 tion," or, in other words, for his unhesitatingly 

 supplying his readers with a copious and pictu- 

 resque statement of the details of events, where 

 they were palpably out of the reach of his know- 

 ledge. 



As a gleaner of chivalrous gossip, and a painter 

 of national manners, Froissart is perhaps un- 

 equalled. Take up his account of a campaign on 

 the Scottish borders, and he relates the proceed- 

 ings in his amusing style, as if he had been behind 

 every bush with the Scotch, and hunting for 

 them in vain with every English banner. But if 

 his accuracy be inquired into, he tells you that 

 Carlisle, which he calls Cardoel en Gales, is on 



