Jan. 6. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the payment of passage- money, were called " Re- 

 demptioners." See the Quarterly Review^ vol. x. 

 p. 501. (note), and pp. 519-20.; Pickering's Vo- 

 cabulary (Boston, 1816), s. v. Redemptionee. 



Vbrtaur. 



'"Talented" (Vol. x., p. 323.).— Dr. Webster's 

 authority has not given currency to this new- 

 coined adjective, except with careless writers and 

 speakers. It is occasionally heard in conversa- 

 tion, or met with ia a hastily-written newspaper 

 article ; but I am not aware that its use is sanc- 

 tioned by any writer of approved style, English 

 or American. Veetaub. 



" He that fights and runs away" ^c. (Vol. x., 

 p. 333.). — The passage of TertuUian, quoted by 

 H. P. from Newman's Church of the Fathers, is to 

 be found in the De Fuga in Persecutione, sec. 10. 

 In the copy I use (Gersdorf's ed.) the Greek pro- 

 verb is given in a note : 



"'Av>)/> o ^tvyiav zeal iraXi-v fiaxT^c^Tai,'" 



B. H. C. 



This was already looked upon as an old saying 

 in the days of TertuUian, who, in his book De 

 Fuga in Persecutions, writes of it thus : 



" Sed omissis quidam divinis exhortationibus, ilium 

 magis Graecum versiculum secularis sententise sibi ad- 

 hibent — 



' Qui fugiebat, rursus praeliabitur,' — 

 at et rursus forsitan fugiat." — Cap. x. 



The " Greek verse" here spoken of by TertuUian 

 is deemed by one of his annotators, Rhenan, to 

 have been the following : 



" 'Ai'rjp 6 ^evywv koX ttolKiv fj.o-X'j'TeTa.L," 



and made either by or for Demosthenes as his 

 best answer for having left his shield behind him, 

 and run away at the battle of ChiBroaea. 



D. Rock. 



Newick, Sussex. 



. Mengrave Church (Vol. x., p. 405.). — If such 

 an act as referred to ever received the royal 

 assent, it would doubtless be found amongst the 

 private acts in the Parliament Office. . G. 



Parish Registers (Vol. x., p. 337.). — Me. 

 Blencowe's communication under this title has 

 rather astonished me, as he appears to have com- 

 pletely confounded parish registers and church- 

 wardens' accounts. One only of his extracts ap- 

 pears to be from a parish register, etractly so 

 called. 



The extracts at the beginnirig of his note appear 

 to be from books belonging to the parish of 

 Braintree, but this is not distinctly stated. As- 

 suming that I am correct in this supposition, may 

 I ask why chronological order was not observed, 

 instead of placing 1580 before 23 Hen. VIU., and 

 J574 after both ? 



The " almanvyvets," which he conjectures may 

 mean German music-books, should no doubt be 

 almanryvets, a name given to a light kind of 

 armour, because it was rivetted after the old 

 Almayne fashion. (Minshew ; Test, Vet., 622. ; 

 Sharp's Coventry Mysteries, 195.; HoUinshed, 

 Hist. Ireland, 56. ; Fairholt on Costume.) 



The notion that the parish paid for discharging 

 a " Popish priest " out of the ecclesiastical court 

 in 1585, nearly thirteen years after the accession 

 of Queen Elizabeth, is rather amusing ; but what 

 can be said respecting the supposition that ninety- 

 four quarts of wine were consumed in one year 

 for the communion in a town with a population of 

 about 2000? As Me. Blencowe is evidently 

 aware that Whitsun ales, and similar drinkings, 

 were customary at the period, is it not highly pro- 

 bable that a large portion of this wine was so 

 used ? 



The extracts from the corporation accounts of 

 Saffron Walden do not appear to me very apropos 

 of the subject-matter of Mb. Blencowe's Note. 



Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Salutation after Sneezing (Vol. x., p. 421.). — 

 While proceeding in a public vehicle from Bo- 

 logna to Milan in the year 1847, I happened to 

 sneeze, when a lady who sat near me called aloud 

 ""felicita" which attracted the notice of the other 

 passengers. Having been aware of the importance 

 attached to the omen, nothing farther occurred 

 than the whole passing over among us with a good- 

 natured smile. In Scotland some attention is yet 

 paid to it. As I have long understood, to sneeze 

 once is considered lucky ; twice in succession un- 

 lucky. G. N. 



Dictionary of Living Authors (Vol. x., p. 451.). 

 — Catalogue of five hundred celebrated Authors, SfC. 

 8vo., 1788. In the copy now before me is this 

 note : 



" A meagre and incorrect work, which we mention here 

 as chart-makers notice shoals to be avoided." — H. Home, 

 Int. to Bibliography, vol. ii. p. 422. 



My apology is due to the readers of " N. & 

 Q." if, as appears probable, I have committed an 

 error in attributing the compilation of this useful 

 work to the late William Upcott. My authority 

 for doing so, which might have been given at the 

 time to temper the assertion, was, simply, that in 

 the fly-leaf of my copy was written by a former 

 possessor, "By the late William Upcott," and 

 that I had more than once seen the same state- 

 ment made in booksellers' catalogues ; for instance, 

 in that I believe of Mr. John Gray Bell. 



The opinion of Mr. Coenet, that this work is 

 the joint compilation of John Watkins and Fre- 

 deric Shoberl, has every appearance of being the 



