Jan. 13. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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yentilated at dinner parties, religious or ordinary, 

 all over England, have been seized upon, perfectly 

 analysed, and set at rest, ages ago, by "the 

 Schoolmen." I particularly recommend to him, 

 for example, the Decalogue, in our countryman 

 Alexander of Hales. D. P. 



Begbrook. 



J. F. does not state what branch of the School 

 philosophy he wishes to study. If it be ethical 

 philosophy, he cannot have a, more favourable 

 initiation into ethics than in the Secunda Secundce 

 of the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas. I cannot 

 boast of having read the Summa through ; but 

 I use it for constant reference, and scarcely ever 

 rise from its perusal without the acquisition of 

 some new idea, or a suggestion of some new 

 trains of thought. The angelic doctor certainly 

 not only compiles but thinks, and they who enter 

 into his full discussions of every subject will be 

 constrained to think too. If J. F. is in earnest 

 about studying the Schoolmen, I venture to recom- 

 mend him especially to commence with the Secunda 

 Secundce. Some previous knowledge of Aristotle's 

 method and style is desirable. 



William Frasee, B. C. L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Sandbanks (Vol. x., p. 508.). — The force of 

 gravitation which brings down the silt from a 

 river is opposed at or near its mouth by another 

 force, that of the tide of the estuary or sea into 

 which such river flows. Where these two coun- 

 teracting forces meet, the sediment contained in 

 the river-water settles and forms a bar across the 

 river's mouth, and sandbanks beyond it, the op- 

 position of the two streams (river versus tide) 

 producing quiescence and facilitating the deposit 

 of which sandbanks are composed. These sand- 

 banks, the origin of deltas, are deserving of close 

 attention, as their accretion constitutes a natural 

 chronometer, whereby the age of the river itself 

 may be approximately estimated, by ascertaining 

 the quantity of deposit accumulated in a given 

 time, and therefrom inferring the ratio of the time 

 of the aggregate accumulation of the whole sand- 

 bank. T. J. BuCKTOlf. 

 Lichfield. 



Brasses restored (Vol. x., p. 535.). — Would 

 Me. Richardson or W. W. oblige me by giving 

 the composition of the ball, which being rubbed 

 upon black paper, placed over an engraved brass, 

 produces a perfect fac-simile, and the metallic 

 appearance of the original, or say where it can be 

 purchased ? Sob. 



Clay Tobacco-pipes (Vol. ix., p. 872. ; Vol. x., 

 pp. 23. 48. 211.). — I have the bowls of two clay to- 

 bacco-pipes of very small size and peculiar shape ; 

 strangely enough, they were both found in church- 



yards in this county (Somerset), within five miles 

 of each other ; they are cast in the same mould, 

 and have on the heel the potter's name impressed, 

 "lEFFRY HVNT." The Small size of the bowl, 

 and the use of v for v in the stamp, point to some 

 antiquity. Perhaps some reader of " N. & Q." 

 who may be acquainted with the time and place 

 at which Jeffry Hunt exercised his useful calling, 

 will communicate a note thereon. 



Arthur Paget. 



Churches dedicated to St. Pancras (Vol. x., 

 p. 508.). — Z. asks for the localities of the twelve 

 churches dedicated in honour of St. Pancras. 

 Here are eight of them ; some other correspondent 

 can probably supply the others. 



Exeter ----- Devon. 

 Widecomb-in-the-Moor - - Devon. 

 Pancrasweek - - - - Devon. 

 Chichester - - - . - Sussex. 

 Wroot - - ■ - - - Lincolnshire. 

 Coldred Kent- 

 London, St. Pancras, New Road - Middlesex. 

 Do. St. Pancras, Soper Lane 

 (incorporated with St. Mary-le- 

 Bow) ----- Middlesex. 



The best representation of St. Pancras I have met 

 with is in the magnificent brass of Prior Nelond 

 at Cowfold In Sussex : he is drawn with a youth- 

 ful countenance, holding a book and a palm branch, 

 and treading on a human figure, probably intended 

 for one of his pagan persecutors. Norris Deck. 

 Cambridge. 



Your correspondent Z. states, that there are 

 twelve churches in England dedicated to St. Pan- 

 cras, and wishes to know where they may be 

 found. I suppose he has some authority for the 

 specific number which he has mentioned, although 

 he has not informed us of it. I send you the fol- 

 lowing list comprising ten, which are all that I can 

 discover, but probably some other correspondent 

 may be able to supply the other two. 



Alton Pancras - - - - Dorset, 



Arlington ----- Sussex. 



Chichester Sussex. 



Coldred Kent. 



Exeter - „ . . . Devon. 



London, Soper Lane - - - Middlesex. 



St. Pancras Middlesex. 



Pancrasweek . - . - Devon. 



Widecome-in-the-Moor - - Devon. 



Wroot ----- Lincoln. 



F. B— w. 



[Our correspondents have overlooked the old St. Pan- 

 cras Church, near Kentish Town.] 



Oxford Jeu dEsprit (Vol. x., pp. 364. 431.).— 

 In a copy of Johannis Gilpini iter, latine redditum, 

 in my possession, I find a MS. note, referring 

 the authorship either to Robert Lowe, of Mag- 

 dalen College ; or to John Caswell, of New Inn 

 Hall. That note was inserted on the authority of 



