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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 288. 



diary. I want to know who lias the other volumes ? 

 My volume seems at one time to have been in the 

 library of the Rev. Matthew Wilks. John Bruce. 

 5. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square. 



First Ti'ipos Day at Cambridge. — On this day, 

 the first after Ash Wednesday, copies of verses 

 written by two undergraduates, whom the proc- 

 tors choose to honour (I (juote the Cambridge 

 Calendar), are distributed among the incepting 

 B. A.'s and company present. I want to know if 

 any copies of these are preserved in the university 

 registers or library. 



More especially I wish for a copy of one in 

 1845 or 1846, which I can at this distance of 

 time only describe, by stating that in it the Great 

 Western Railway was elegantly rendered Via 

 Briinellia, and the city of Bath Bladudis urbem. 

 It was, if I mistake not, a conversation in Latin 

 hexameters on Free Trade. E. G. R. 



Letters of George IV. — Could any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me where I am likely to have 

 met with some letters addressed by George IV". to 

 Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Bolton, which I 

 saw in print since the year 1836 ? C. (1) 



Sank, Sankey. — I have heard the expression to 

 sank (though only from old people) applied to 

 such menial offices as are required in the servants' 

 hall of a large fa-nily, such as attending to the 

 tire, laying the cloth, attending to the lights, &c. 

 In cases where no usher of the hall formed part of 

 the establishment, such and such of the men ser- 

 vants took it in turn to sank. I have also met in 

 old inventories with the " sankey chamber." Was 

 the word a known one, equivalent to lacky or 

 flunkey ? or was it (for it is obsolete now) merely 

 a localism in the North of England ? Sr. 



" Berta etas Mundi." — Could any of your 

 readers give me any information respecting an 

 old book, some fragments only of which I possess, 

 entitled Be7-ta etas Mildi f It is black-letter, and 

 profusely illustrated witli woodcuts of the popes, 

 abbots, &c., together with some of the marvels 

 which happened in those days, such as demons, 

 awful comets, &c. Two extracts in particular are 

 remarkable ; the wonders related in them occurred 

 in the reign of Henry III. : 



" Malefica queda au<iuriatrix in Anglia fuit, qua mortuo 

 demones horribiliter extraxerut du clerici psallerent, et 

 imponetes sup equu terribile p. ecra rapiut. Clamores 

 quos terribiles (ut ferut) p. qtuor ferme miliaria au- 

 diebat." 



" Ignea trahes mire magnitudinis in celo visa e inter 

 auatrale et orietalem plaga curres super solem ad occasum 

 verges sup' terra cecldit." 



J. ASHTON. 



" YoutKs Tragedy" " Youth's Comedy.'' — Can 

 any of your readers give me any account of the 

 author of the two following pieces ? — 



1. " Youtli's Tragedy : A Poem, drawn up by way of 

 Dialogue between Youth, the Devil, Wisdom, Time, Death, 

 the Soul, and the Nuncius. By T. S. 4to. 1671." 



2. " Youth's Comedy, or. The Soul's Tryals nnd 

 Triumph : A Dramatic Poem ; with divers Meditations 

 intermixed upon several subjects. Set forth to help and 

 encourage those that are seeking a heavenly Country. By 

 the Author of ' Youth's Tragedy.' 8vo. 1680." 



According to Lowndes, the author's name was 

 Sherman ; but some of your readers may perhaps 

 be able to give me some farther information con- 

 cerning him. R. J. 



Trawle-net. — When was the trawle-net first 

 spoken of? G. R. L. 



Thomas Morrison. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any account of Thomas Morrison of New 

 College, Oxford ? His name occurs in the cata- 

 logue of Oxford graduates as B.A. in 1726 and 

 M.A. 1730. R. J. 



Ritual of Holy Confirmation. — I should be glad 

 to learn where I could find Latin or other trans- 

 lations of the Ritual of Holy Confirmation, — 

 " The Chrism," or " the Seal," among the Arme- 

 nians, the Nestorians, the Jacobites, and the other 

 unorthodox churches of the East, and of Africa. 

 As they will be for the most part very brief, form- 

 ing merely an extract from the office of baptism, 

 they may perhaps be usefully inserted in " N. & Q." 

 William Eraser, B. C. L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



The Monmouth and the Foudroyant. — In the 

 town of Lostwithlel, Cornwall, is a public-house, 

 bearing as its sign 



« The Memorable Battle of the Monmouth and Fou- 

 droyant," 



with a picture of two vessels in action. 



Can you give me information concerning this 

 battle, the fame of which has thus been handed 

 down, probably by some gallant Cornishraan who 

 was engaged in the fight ? Anon. 



Heavenly Holes. — In the neighbourhood of Halt- 

 wistle, Northumberland, there are two small dells, 

 called respectively " High " and " Low Heavenly 

 Holes." In a recent evening lecture at the Royal 

 Institution, Mr. Sopwith, describing that part of 

 the " coal district of the North," said the local 

 name for Watershed was " Heaven's Water pro- 

 vision." Can any northern reader of " N. & Q." 

 tell me the oristin of these singular names ? 



W. M. M. 



Droitwich. 



Pnem by Semlegue (.?)•— In Les Belles Lettres 

 de Hier, iParis, 1730, I find the following lines, 



