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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 283. 



cum plebe vivere permitteret, an e medio tolleret. Igitur 

 animi anceps ad Chrotildem matrem suam, qu£e hos pa- 

 truelos nepotes unicfc diligebat, misit Arcadium cum for- i 

 fice et gladio, optionem ei dans utrum incisis crinibus eos ! 

 vivere juberet, aut jugulari. Quse generose admodum 

 respondisse fertur, Satius sibi esse mortuos quara tonsos 

 videre." — Balthassaris Bonifacii, Ludicra Historia (4to., 

 Venetiis, 1652, pp. 80i), p. 494. 



As Bonifacius does not give page or chapter of 

 the authorities he cites, I have not been at the 

 labour of verifying them, especially as I think the 

 above passage must have been the original to the 

 author of The Wiggiad. H. B. C. 



U. U, Club. 



Greek and Roman Churches (Vol. xi., pp. 146. 

 192.). — There was an attempt at union between 

 the Eastern and Western Churches as late as the 

 Council of Florence, under Pope Eugenius IV., 

 in the early part of the fifteenth century ; when 

 the pope, under pressure of opposition from the 

 Council of Basil, thought to strengthen himself by 

 making an agreement with the Greek Emperor 

 and the Eastern Church. The Emperor, also in 

 jeopardy, and looking for aid against the Turks, 

 gladly availed himself of the invitation of Euge- 

 nius to come into Italy ; in which journey he was 

 accompanied by his brother, and the patriarch of 

 Constantinople, with several other bishops, and 

 nearly five hundred followers. (See Antonin. 

 Chron. tit. xxii. c. 11.) 



After much disputing and altercation about the 

 "Filioque" clause in the Nicene Creed, — pur- 

 gatory, the primacy, &c., — at length a sudden 

 agreement and union was brought about, nccord- 

 ing to which it was conceded by tlie Greek Church 

 that they would consent to the " Filioque " clause, 

 confess a purgatory after this life, and acknow- 

 ledge a superiority in the Pope over their patri- 

 arch ; whilst, on the other hand, it was conceded 

 by the Pope and the Greeks, that they might 

 celebrate the Eucharist in unleavened bread, and 

 administer to the laity in both kinds ; that they 

 might use their own form and custom in baptism ; 

 that their priests might marry, and wear beards, 

 &c. I Know Not may find farther particulars 

 in the acts of the Council of Florence in Phranza's 

 Chron., lib. ii. c. 13. ; in Sabellicus, JEimead. x. 

 lib. iii. ; or in Antoninus, as already cited. 



J. Sansom. 



Adamsoniana (Vol. viii-, p. 257. ; Vol.xi., p. 195.). 

 — I am much obliged to J. O. for introducing me 

 to John Adamson's Christ's Coronation, of the 

 existence of which I was not previously aware. 

 I have a little work, I suspect, by the same author 

 with the following title : 



" The Loss and Recovery of Elect Sinners, with the 

 difficulty of their coming back again to Glory, method- 

 ically held forth under the similitude of Captives ransomed 

 and returning from Slavery. By Mr. John Adamson, late 

 Preacher of the Gospel. '" I will open my mouth,' &c. — 



Ps. Ixviii. 2, 3, 4, Aberdeen, printed and sold by J. Boyle, 

 Head of the Broadgate, mdcclxxx." 



There had been a former edition. In a postscript 

 to an " Epistle to the Reader," we are informed 

 that the author was a native of the parish of 

 Aberdalgie near Perth, educated at the Grammar 

 School in Perth and the University of St. An- 

 drew's, and a preacher in the Presbytery of Perth, 

 until the fatal year 1712, when — 



" The flood of oaths and stream of apostacy brake into the 

 church and the sinful bands of association made among 

 themselves, holding the abjuration no ground of separ- 

 ation, and consenting that Jurors and Nonjurors should 

 mutually forbear to testify against each other." 



Then he left them and betook himself to the hills, 

 where he continued to preach for nearly twelve 

 years. He died at Lindores In Flfeshlre, May 30, 

 1725, not without leaving his — 



" Dying testimony against all the union-makers and 

 joiners therewith, against all oath-of-abjuration-takers 

 and the joiners with them, against all those that love 

 their own bellies more than our Lord Jesus Christ," &c. 



" Our faithful Adamson is dead and gone, 

 Hath left us destitute here to bemone 

 In grief our loss, with sin and misery 

 Opprest, without his friendly sympathy. 

 Who was a pastor and guide to those 

 Willing to hear him faithfully disclose 

 God's will most freely in his Word reveal'd ; 

 And His whole counsel never yet conceal'd ; 

 The heinous sins and dangers of his day. 

 With th' incumbent duties, would he display 

 To hearers high and low, rich, poor, and mean. 

 As oracles of God plainly contain. 

 Now Adamson's dead body lies in dust, 

 O that we mav our posting time improve, 



And ." 



But methlnks it is time to stop, as your readers 

 will probably think they have had enough. 



^ ^ E. H. A. 



Celebrated Wagers (Vol. Ix., p. 451. ; Vol. x., 

 pp. 347. 355.). — One of the Corbets of Sundorne 

 Castle, near Shrewsbury, made a bet that his leg 

 was the handsomest in the county or kingdom, and 

 staked on his part his magnificent estates against 

 what equivalent I never heard. He won. There 

 is a picture in Sundorne Castle representing the 

 measuring of sundry legs. Surely few wagers 

 are stranger than this ; such a chance of running 

 throu"-h a°property, or allowing another man's legs 

 to waFk off with it ! What a case of legging ! ! ! 



2. Lord Spencer cutting his coat tails off and 

 betting it should become the fashion. It was 

 even so — " The Spencers." W. J. C. 



" Corpse passing maJtes a right of way" (Vol. xi., 

 p. 194.)- — I never could find any law for this 

 assertion. I think It might probably have arisen 

 from such a passage being strong evidence of a 

 right of way, and therefore to be eschewed by all 

 proprietors of land. I remember its being said at 

 the time, when Lavlnia, Countess of Spencer, died 



