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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 218. 



correct, though a little more pains might have 

 greatly increased their number, to the elucidation 

 of his author's account of the Crusaders' pro- 

 ceedings in the East. 4. At. p. 249. a well-known 

 passage from Horace is ascribed to Juvenal. 



J. S. Warden. 



THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL, 



There is an error in the heading of one of the 

 architectural notes appended to the Proceedings 

 of the Arch. List, held at York in 1846. From 

 the description whicli is given (p. 38.), it is plain 

 that the above church is the one to which the note 

 refers ; not that of St. Mary's, which is the title 

 of the article. 



The material of the whole church is not, also, 

 " brick with stone dressings," as the note informs 

 us, only the chancel, south porch, and south tran- 

 sept ; all the rest is of stone, and in a very sad 

 state of repair. A ^q-w years ago, the south tran- 

 sept was restored ; but the ornamental part was 

 worked in such bad stone, that the crockets of the 

 pinnacles Lave already begun to moulder away. 

 It is a curious fact, that Bishop Lyttleton, who 

 visited Hull in 1756 for the express purpose of 

 "examining the walls of the town, and the mate- 

 rials of which the Holy Trinity Church is con- 

 structed," should have stated in the ArchcBologia 

 (vol. i. p. 146.) that there did not appear to be " a 

 single brick in or about the whole fabric, except a 

 few in the south porch, placed there of late years" 



There is a matter of great archaeological interest 

 connected with the part of the church which is 

 built of brick ; for, as there is reason to believe 

 that the chancel was raised in the year 1285, there 

 is good foundation for the supposition, that Hull 

 TTas " the first town to restore in this country the 

 useful art of brickmaking" (Frost's Hull., p. 138.). 

 The walls of the town, which were erected by 

 royal licence in 1322, and still standing with their 

 gates and towers in the time of Leland and Cam- 

 den, are described by them as being of brick. 

 Leland also says (Itin., edit. Hearne, fol. 53.) that 

 the greater part of the " houses of the town at 

 that tyme (Richard II.) was made al of brike." 



R. W. Elliot. 



CKfton. 



Italian- English (Vol. viii., p. 436.). — The fol- 

 lowing wholesale assassination of the English lan- 

 guage was perpetrated in the form of a circular, 

 and distributed among the British residents at 

 Naples in 1832 : 



" Joseph the Cook, he offer to one illuminated public 

 and most particular for British knowing men in general 

 one remarkable, pretty, famous, and splendid collec- 



tion of old goods, all quite new, excavated from private 

 personal di}i;gings. He sells cooked clays, old marble 

 stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass 

 sacrificing pots, and antik lamps. Here is a stocking 

 of calves heads and feets for single ladies and amateurs 

 travelling. Also old coppers and candlesticks ; with 

 Nola jugs, Etruscan saucers, and much more intel- 

 lectual minds articles ; all entitling him to learned 

 ' man's inspection to examine him, and supply it with 

 illustrious protection, of which he hope full and valo- 

 rous satisfaction. 



" N. B. — He make all the old thing brand new for 

 gentlemans who has collections, and wishes to change 

 him. He have also one manner quite original for 

 make join two sides of diBerent monies; producing one 

 medallion, all indeed unique, and advantage him to 

 sell by exportation for strange cabinets and museums 

 of the exterior potentates." 



V. T. Sternberg. 



American Names. — In the Journal of Thomas 

 Moore, lately published in Lord John Russell's 

 memoirs of the poet, is the following passage, 

 under date of October 18, 1818 : 



" Some traveller in America mentions having met a 

 man called Romulus Riggs ; whether true or not, very 

 like their mixture of the classical and the low." 



The name was borne by a very respectaV)le man, 

 who, in the year 1801, was in partnership with his 

 brother Remus Riggs, as a broker in Georgetown, 

 in the district of Columbia. Romulus, who sur- 

 vived his brother, afterwards became an eminent 

 merchant in Philadelphia, where he died a few 

 years ago. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Rulers of the World in 1853. — Perhaps the 

 following table, which I have recently met with in 

 a foreign journal, may be thought of sufficient in- 

 terest to make a Note of. In these unsettled 

 times, and in case of a general war, how much 

 might it be changed ! 



There are at present eighty-three empires, 

 monarchies, republics, principalities, duchies, and 

 electorates. 



There are six emperors, including his sable 

 highness, Faustin I. of St. Domingo ; sixteen kings, 

 numbering among them Jamaco, King of all the 

 Mosquitoes, and also those of Dahomey and the 

 Sandwich Islands; five queens, including Rana- 

 valona of Madagascar, and Pomare of the Society 

 Islands ; eighteen presidents, ten reigning princes, 

 seven grand dukes, ten dukes, one pope, two 

 sultans, of Borneo and Turkey ; two governors, of 

 Entre Rios and Corrientes ; one viceroy, of Egypt ; 

 one shah, of Persia ; one imaun, of Muscat ; one 

 ameer, of Cabul ; one bey, of Tunis ; and lastly, 

 one director, of Nicaragua. W. W. 



Malta. 



