Jan. 13. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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A Ryder. — Why is an additional clause added 

 to a resolution, &c. called " a ryder ? " I know- 

 enough of criticism to be aware of the canon, that 

 the most obvious meaning of a doubtful word or 

 sentence is generally the wrong one. Blackstone, 

 in describing the process of making a law, says : 



« The Bill is then ordered to be engrossed, or written 

 in strong gross hand, on one or more long rolls or presses 

 of parchment sewed together. When this is finished, it 

 is read a third time, and amendments are sometimes then 

 made to it ; and if a new clause be added, it is done by 

 tacking a separate piece of parchment on the bill, which 

 is called a ryder (Noy, 84.)."— Blaclistone's Comm., book i. 

 ch.2. 



Wm. Fbaser, B.C.L. 



Tor-Mohun. 



" CTokys of War." — John Barbour, Archdea- 

 con of Aberdeen, states that King Edward III. 

 had artillery in his first campaign against the 

 Scots in 1327, and calls the guns " crakys of 

 war." (Vide Metrical Life of Robert Bruce, 

 pp. 408, 409.) May we credit John Barbour on 

 this subject? K. A. 



Sestertium. — I shall be much obliged to any of 

 your classical correspondents who will kindly give 

 me some rule for determining the sum of the fol- 

 lowing figures. They occur in Cicero in Verrem : 



" HS. In millia - - Act II. 1. 2, 25. 



HS. CIoCIo - - - „ 1. 3, 32. 



HS. CIo - - - „ L 4, 17." 



F. M. MiDDLETON. 



Epigram in a Bible. — Who was the writer of 

 the following satirical epigram, found inscribed in 

 a Bible ? — 



" Hie liber est, in quo quserit sua dogmata quisque, 

 Invenit et pariter dogmata quisque sua." 



A.C. 



Eminent Men born in the same Year. — The 

 year 1769 was singularly productive of great men : 

 Wellington; his military rival Soult; the dis- 

 tinguished minister during their campaigns, Vis- 

 count Castlereagh ; the Emperor Napoleon I. ; 

 Chateaubriand ; Cuvier ; and Sir Walter Scott ! 

 Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." adduce the 

 names of seven persons equally famous of the same 

 age? N. L. T. 



Published Lists of the Users of Hair Poioder. — 

 Mr. Pitt, in his budget, 23rd Feb. 1795, when 

 laying a tax of \l. \s. per head on hair powder, 

 said the names of all those who wore hair powder 

 ■Would be published. (^Parl. Hist., vol. xxxi. 

 1313.) Have such lists ever been published? 

 If so, where may they be deposited ? As mention 

 has been made of Pitt, perhaps some of your 

 readers would tell why the editor (W. S. Hath- 

 away) omitted so many of Pitt's budgets ? I 

 refer to the edition of 1806. M. M. 



Legal Query. — Does 41 George III. c. 73. ex- 

 clude the ministers of the established Kirk of Scot- 

 land from sitting in parliament ? Would it ex- 

 clude those who have holy orders in the Episcopal 

 Church of Scotland ? William Fbaseh, B. C. L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Burial by Torch-light. — It is an idea very 

 generally prevalent that all burials by night are 

 illegal, and that none but the Royal family may be 

 buried by torch-light. A clerical friend informed 

 me that the same statement had been made to 

 him on the occasion of his using a candle to assist 

 him in reading the office at a late funeral. What 

 is the authority for it ? 



William Fbaseb, B. C. L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



'■'' Proverhes Gascons:" Translation wanted. — 

 Perhaps some correspondent, acquainted with the 

 Gascon tongue, who has access to a copy of the 

 following work, would kindly supply me with a 

 translation (English or French) of the Proverbs 

 on pp. 10 — 14. : Anciens Proverbes Basques et Gas- 

 cons, recueillis par Voltaire et remis au jour par 

 G.B.: Paris, 1845. A. Challsteth. 



Nitrous Oxide and Poetry. — I have before me 

 a letter written in 1808, and containing a passage 

 to the effect, that a Dr. Stancliffe repeated at the 

 house of the writer's father some " Lines written 

 after inhaling the nitrous oxide," by a living poet. 

 Can any reader of " N. & Q." refer me to the 

 lines and their author ? I have heard Southey 

 named ; but I find no evidence of the fact in his 

 printed poems. Dr. Stancliffe was, I believe, a 

 popular (Quaker ?) lecturer on chemistry at the 

 period alluded to. D. 



'■'■Whychcote of St. John^s." — Some years since 

 (Vol. iii., p. 302.) I submitted, under the foregoing 

 title, two Queries ; neither of which has been yet 

 answered. As I perceive "N. & Q." has now an 

 intelligent correspondent at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 to which place my Queries point, perhaps he could 

 answer one of them, viz. Who is the author of 

 Whychcote of St. John's f H. D. 



Latinizing Proper Names : Index Geographicus. 

 Some few years ago a work was published, in Lon- 

 don, if I mistake not, explaining the manner in 

 which modern proper names, more especially of 

 persons, ought to be Latinized, according to 

 classical usage. Not remembering either the 

 title or the publisher's name, I would feel greatly 

 obliged if any of your able correspondents could 

 favour me, through the medium of your valuable 

 pages, with this information ; also with the title 

 of the most copious Index Geographicus of the 

 names of countries, cities, towns, &c. in English 

 and Latin. A Plain AIan. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



