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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 282. 



with Chethara ; " Argent, a chevron gules, be- 

 tween three horseplumes sable." Crest, " A demi- 

 griffin rampant gules, numbered and armed or." 

 I cannot say when the family became extinct in 

 the male line, but the pedigree I copied is as 

 follows : 



Geoffrey Chadderton of Nuthurst= 



Edmund Chadderton of=Margery, dausthter of — Cliffe of 

 Nuthurst. I Cheshire. 



George Chad-=Jane, daughter of 

 derton of I Edward Warren 

 Nuthurst. I of Poynton (or 

 I Courtou). 



William ChaddertoB,=Catherine, 



CO., 2nd son, Bi- 

 shop of Chester, and 

 afterwards of Lin- 

 coln. 



' I J 



Edward Dorothy. Evelyn. 

 Chad- 

 derton. 



daughter 

 of .John 

 Kevell of 

 Loudon. 



Jane, daughter=Sir Richard Brooke, 

 and heiress. of Norton , Che- 

 shire. 



Y. S. M. 



Kiselak (Vol. x., p. 366.). — Twenty years ago 

 the name of Kiselak was a familiar eyesore at all 

 the noted points of view in the Saxon Switzer- 

 land, the lake country of Upper Austria, and 

 other such picturesque districts. The owner of 

 it was said to be an official of some sort at Vienna 

 — a clerk in a government office, I think — • who 

 spent his vacations in making tours, and had a 

 mania for leaving unsightly memorials of his visits 

 in the shape of inscriptions on rocks, &c. I do not 

 know whether this will help to answer Juverna's 

 Query; but it may stand as a Note, if not as a 

 reply. J. C. R. 



House of Cohurg (Vol. xi., p. 166.). — I re- 

 member having seen it stated in the correspon- 

 dents' column of some newspaper, that the sur- 

 name of the Prince Consort is Biisici. A. B. 



Torquay. 



Short Sermon (Vol. ix., p. 589.). — There was a 

 much shorter sermon than Dean Swift's preached, 

 as I have often heard, by probably one of the most 

 eloquent preachers who ever adorned a pulpit, the 

 late Dean Kirwan. He was pressed (while suf- 

 fering from a very severe cold) to preach in the 

 Church of St. Peter's in Dublin, for I believe the 

 orphan children in the parish school ; he tried to 

 excuse himself, but at last yielded, ill as he was. 

 After mounting the pulpit, while the church was 

 crowded to suffocation, and having given out the 

 text, he merely pointed with his hand to the 

 orphan children in the aisle, and said,' " There 

 they are." It is said the collection on that occa- 

 sion exceeded all belief. Dean Kirwan left a son, 

 the present eloquent Dean of Limerick. 



Y. S. M. 



Oaths (Vol. X., p. 271.). — The origin of the 

 term " corporal oath " has been a subject of dis- 

 cussion in " N. & Q.," and still, I believe, remains 

 undecided. The following transcript of one of 

 the clauses of a record of Henry VI.'s time, pro- 



bably leads to the conclusion that tlie oath has 

 been called a corporal oath, because certain sacred 

 things, such as a book or reliques, were corporeally 

 touched by the person who took the oath at the 

 time it was taken : 



" Et si contingat dictum obsidem in hujusmodi custodia 

 mori, dabit alium filium suum abilem quern prefatus locum 

 tenens duxerit elegendum et ad majorem securitatem in 

 hac parte inveniendum et conventiories ac alia in biis in- 

 denturis contenta per se sues heredes et successores ut 

 predictum est faciendum fideliter et perimplendum pre- 

 fatus Ewegenius super sancta Dei evangelia et sanctorum 

 patrum reliquias per ipsum corporaliter tacta et deosculata 

 juramentum prestitit," &c. — " Treaty between tlie Lord- 

 Lieutenant of Ireland and Owen O'Neil, anno 3 Hen. VI.," 

 Insh Record Reports, vol. i. pp. 54 — 56. 



The term " affidavit in manu," which has been 

 adverted to in a former number of " N. & Q.," 

 may be farther explained by the definition which 

 is given in Cotgrave's Dictionary under the word 

 Main, as thus : " II toucha la main entre leurs 

 mains : he layed his hamds between theirs, or gave 

 them his hand that he would be theirs." And 

 also thus : " Prendre la main : a notary to take 

 the consent and receive the oath of parties that 

 agree to passe a contract." And also, " Jurer es 

 mains d'autruy : to sweare unto or (any way) to 

 take an oath ; for the old fashion was, that he 

 which took an oath held his hands within his that 

 received it." And also, " Hommage lige : is done 

 by the vassall ungirt, and bare-headed, with joined 

 hands layed on the Evangelists, and a kisse re- 

 ceived in the taking of his oath." 



James F. Fergusok. 



Dublin. 



Unregistered Proverbs (Vol. xL, p. 114.). — 

 " Peart as a pearmonger " does not belong to 

 Lancashire. I have often heard it in Oxon and 

 Bucks, and it is in Gay's New Song of New 

 Similes : 



" Pert as a pearmonger I'd be 

 If Molly were but kind ; 

 Cool as a cucumber would see 

 The rest of womankind." 



Costard signifying apple, may not the pertness of 

 the pearmonger arise from his dealing in a more 

 elegant fruit than the costermonger's ? Small 

 distinctions are often the grounds of large as- 

 sumptions ; " solicitor " is thought genteeler than 

 " attorney," and " Italian warehouse " than " oil- 

 shop." H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



" The DeviTs Progress " (Vol. x., p. 464.). — 

 " A Hebrew knelt in silent pi'ayer," &c. 

 I am pleased that F. C. B. has inquired concern- 

 ing this satire. His Query gives me hope that my 

 own, which appeared in " i\ . & Q." some weeks 

 since (the page I cannot give, as my copy is not 

 just now at hand), for its author may be answered. 



