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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 286. 



article, the numerals have been corrupted in all ; and that 

 what we read vi in one, and xviii in another, should in 

 reality be xxx. See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. i. 

 p. 267.] 



Pindar. — Many years since a friend of mine 

 met, as he says, in casual reading, with the follow- 

 ing line : 



" 'O 5e Katpbs n-ovTO? e'^ei Kopv^oLv" 



with a reference to Pindar. Subsequent search 

 in that author's works failed to discover the pas- 

 sage. Is it in Pindar ? or where is the quotation, 

 genuine or not, to be found ? An elucidation of 

 this doubt will greatly oblige Classicus. 



[The following is the reference and correct reading : 



" . . . . 'O Se Kotpbs 6/xdia>; 

 HavTOS e^ei Kopv^iv." 



Pindar, Pythia, M€Ab9 9, trrp. S.] 



" Td be a butterfly" — Who was the author of 

 the beautiful Latin version of " I'd be a butterfly," 

 commencing " Ah sim papilio, natus in flosculo," 

 &c. ? It appeared in The Athenceum, and bore tlie 

 signature of " F. W.," and date of Jan. 1828 (?). 

 I have the copy lying before me, cut out of a 

 newspaper shortly after. The author is called 

 *' a highly distinguished scholar, a dignitary of the 

 Church of England." Y. S. M. 



[T&ere can be little doubt that the initials F. W. are 

 those of that well-known scholar, the late Rev. Francis 

 Wrangham, Archdeacon of Cleveland ; and the translation 

 will no doubt be found in his PsychcB, or Songs of Sutter- 

 flies, by T. H. Bajdy, Esq., attempted in Latin rhymes to 

 the same airs. Privately printed.] 



Pope Joan. — I am anxious to ascertain who 

 was the author of the following work : 



" Jesuitas Singulares S. S. Pontificiee Majestatis hoc 

 tempore vindices, falso el frustra negare, Papam Joannem 

 Vin. faisse mulierem. Editio altera non sine auctario, 

 1598." 



Clericus (D.) 



[In Catalogus Biblioihecce BodleiatuB, vol. ii. p. 416., 

 occurs the following notice respecting the authorship of 

 this work : " De auctore hujus libri non satis inter omnes 

 constat : confer tamen Gardes Flor., p. 369. H. Wittckin- 

 dus auctor esse dicitur."] 



Barratry. — Whence is this term derived? 

 What is its etymology ? W. M. 



Temple. 



[See Dr. Eichardson's Dictionary for the following 

 derivations : " Barhator, Baiiiiatry ; Fr. Barat, Ba- 

 rater ; It. Barrare ; Sp. Baratar; to cheat. A Cimbrico 

 Barattan, battle, fight, strife, contention, which word is 

 even now in use apud Gotho- Italos. But from the Dano- 

 Norman Buret, our lawj^ers have baretter, barettry 

 (Hickes). Skinner thinks that a barrator is one who 

 harasses the bar or court with importunate litigations." 

 Jamieson saj's, Barratrie, the crime of clergymen, who 

 went abroad to purchase benefices from the See of Eome 

 for monej' (Acts Ja. 1.). L. B. baratria, from old French, 

 barat, deceit. See also Rees's Cydopccdia, s. v. Baratry, 

 and Tomlins's Law Diet., art Barrator.] 



BepltCiS. 



■ST. outhbekt's remains. 



(Vol. xi., p. 255.) 



Dr. Lingard's small treatise, Remarks, Sfc, is 

 not so extremely scarce as F. C. H. would sup- 

 pose. The publisher, Heaton of Newcastle, who 

 died lately, had copies on hand always ; and I 

 purchased one for one shilling about half-a-dozen 

 years ago. With regard to Dr. Lingard's opinion 

 concerning the traditicm of the monks regarding 

 St. Cuthbert's body, I know nothing about " his 

 friend suppressing a page or two, which suffici- 

 ently disclosed his opinion ; " nor do I see how 

 that statement can be reconciled with Dr. Lin- 

 gard's words in his treatise : 



" I am strongly inclined to give credit to that part of 

 the tradition of the monks, which states that the body 

 was taken out of the grave during the reign of Queen 

 Mary. This will account for the opening in the masonry 

 at the end of the vault, which opening was filled up with 

 loose stones : a fact which proves that the grave had 

 been opened previouslj' to the investigation in 1827." — 

 Note to p. 43. 



The Remarks, ^t. of Dr. Lingard are directed 

 solely to exonerate the monks of Durham from 

 the charges of fraud and imposture made against 

 them by Mr. Raine. * He did not enter into the 

 merits of the tradition, because he could not, as 

 he was not acquainted with it. He says that if 

 the body, found in the vault in 1827, was some 

 other body buried there to deceive persons who 

 might search for St. Cuthbert's remains, difficul- 

 ties would arise " which those only who were in 

 the secret could be expected to solve" (p. 59.). 

 Then he gives what information he could gather 

 about the tradition. When F. C. H. represents 

 Dr. Lingard as writing to him, " that he did not 

 attach any credit to the asserted tradition of the 

 Benedictines," he makes the Doctor contradict his 

 published statement : 



" I am strongly inclined to give credit to that pai't of 

 the tradition of the monks, which states that the body 

 was taken out of the grave during the reign of Queen 

 Mary." 



The "remarkable corroboration" that F. C. H. 

 finds in Dr. Lingard's Anglo-Saxon Church, vol. ii. 

 p. 80., is indeed remarkable, because it corrobo- 

 rates either view. If it corroborates F. C. H.'s 

 view, it also corroborates me in my firm belief in 

 the tradition, inasmuch as the Doctor says : " The 

 reader will recollect that the vault had already 

 been entered, at least once, before it was opened in 

 1827." Dr. Lingard nowhere positively rejects 

 the tradition : nor does he give the opinion that 

 F. C. H. seems to find in the note in his Anglo- 

 Saxon Church, i. e. " That the tradition of the 

 monks could not be correct, for reasons which he 



