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N'OTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 288. 



formable to the Greek, but conveys most naturally 

 the image which our divine Saviour seems to have 

 intended. 



The verse in Ecclesiasticus xvii. appears as the 

 sixth in the Protestant translation. I find it 

 placed between brackets in the Bible of 1628, as 

 if it were considered an interpolation. It comes 

 from the Greek Complutensian or Alcala edition 

 of Cardinal Ximenes ; and is there literally thus : 

 " But he gave, dividing to them a sixth mind, and 

 a seventh word, the interpretation of his works." 

 The words occur differently in the Latin trans- 

 lation of Leo Juda, first printed at Zurich in 1543. 

 They are added to the next verse, which reads 

 thus: 



" Judgment, a tongue, eyes, ears, and a heart, he gave 

 them to think; in the sixth place also he gave them a 

 mind, bestowing, and in the seventh, speech for explain- 

 ing his works." 



" Judicium, linguam, oculos, aures et cor dedit eis ad 

 cogitandum, sexto quoque loco mentem donavit, imper- 

 tiens, et septimo sermonem operibus suis explicandis." 



But the passage is evidently an interpolated ex- 

 planation of the previous words. F. C. H. 



Commemoration of Saints (Vol. xi., p. 301.). — 

 I beg to inform A. O. H. that in those cases to 

 which he refers, where, in the office of any Saint, 

 a commemoration is made of one or more saints of 

 more ancient date, no office has been displaced ; 

 but the more ancient saint was either kept as a 

 simple, with one or two lessons, or had no lesson, 

 and was merely commemorated. The mass, how- 

 ever, has in many such cases been superseded. 



P. C. IIUSENBKTH, D.D. 



Kirhstall Abbey (Vol. xi., p. 186.). — In a small 

 History of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, republished 

 by Henry Washbourne, New Bridge Street, Black- 

 friars, 1847 (author's name or date of original 

 publication not stated), the following passage 

 occurs (p. 151.) : 



" The site of the monastery, together with some of its 

 circumjacent estates, were granted bj' 34 of Henry VIII. 

 and 1st & 4th of Edward VI. in exchange to Archbp. 

 Cranmer and his heh-s ; and were by that prelate settled 

 upon a person named Peter Hammond, in trust for his 

 grace's younger son. It is not supposed that the Arch- 

 bishop himself, in the midst of his arduous occupations, 

 ever visited this part of his acquisitions; nor is it re- 

 corded how the whole, so soon afterwards, passed out of 

 his family. That this did happen, however, is certain ; 

 for in the 26th of Elizabeth we find the property granted 

 by her Majesty to Edmund Downynge and Peter Asheton 

 and their heirs for ever. At a later period, but at what 

 precise time neither Dr. Whitaker nor others have ascer- 

 tained, the site and demesnes of Kirkstall, together with 

 the adjoining manor of Bramley, were purchased by the 

 Savilles of Howley ; and since then they have passed, by 

 marriage, with the other estates of that family, through 

 the Duke of Montague, to the Brudenels, Earls of Car- 

 digan; in whose immediate possession the ruins, and 

 part of the annexed grounds, now continue." 



T. C. S. 



The Schoolboy Formula (Vol. xi., p. 113.). — • 

 As I see that a Philadelphian correspondent has 

 given you his local version, I am emboldened to 

 offer mine, of what it was forty years ago in New 

 York. The practice was precisely what Uneda 

 describes. Of the formula I have heard but one 

 version : 



" Hana, mana, mona, mike ; 



Barcelona, bona, strike ; 



Hare, ware, frown, venae ; 



Harrico, warrico, we, wo, wac ! " 



I remember too, with some surprise now, the- 

 use of terms in boy's play, obviously of French 

 origin, for the occurrence of which among natives 

 of the United States, of English, Dutch, or New 

 England parentage, as were all ray playmates, I 

 can only account on the supposition that they 

 were parts of old English schoolboy traditions. 



At this moment I can only recall to mind two : 

 1. Of a top, staggering and beginning the spiral 

 motion preceding its fall : " She wizes" " She 

 wized out of the ring ; " evidently from viser. 2. 

 In playing marbles — seizing the moment of mak- 

 ing a shot, to regulate the next shot by claiming, 

 or forbidding a certain indulgence if needed — the 

 formula was " rowance," evidently " allowance," 

 for claiming ; for forbidding, '\fen rowance ;" and 

 so of another forbiddal, "/e// man in the play!" 

 "Fen" being evidently a corruption of "je de- 

 fends." W. 



Alpe (Vol. xi., p. 213.). — In Norfolk, and in 

 Surrey, the buUfiinch is called blood-olp or blood' 

 olph : the greenfinch, green olph. The Prom- 

 ptorium. Parvvlorum has " Alp bryde Ficedula." 

 Bailey's Dictionary, and many other dictionaries 

 and glossaries, have Sheldaple, a chaffinch. Now 

 as " sheld," or " shelled," means variegated or 

 spotted, whence Sheldrake, I think this ought to 

 be Sheld-alpe — a metathesis of a letter having 

 taken place. I have heard " sheld" applied to a 

 piebald horse. E. G. fi. 



Names of Illegitimate Children (Vol. xi., p. 313.). 

 — In " N. & Q." for April 21 is a communication 

 from Mr. Sansom, in which he says he has seen- 

 an entry in a parish register of the father's name 

 to an illegitimate child ; in many cases this is 

 wanted, and would be useful, but hoio the entry 

 can be made is the difficulty. If your correspon- 

 dent would give the form of entry, it would be 

 useful to myself, and no doubt to many other?,, 

 for it seems to me there is no column in which it 

 could be entered. I assume that all would agree 

 that the fathers name could not be entered as; 

 that of the parent, for clearly such entry would be 

 illegal. A. B. Clerk. 



Timothy Bright (Vol. vii., p. 407.). — A pedi- 

 gree of him will be found in Hunter's History of 

 South Yorkshire. J. S. (3) 



