June 16. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



473 



Remarks' on Crowns (Vol. xi., p. 380.). — 

 "Richard II. In that most ancient original- pic- 

 ture of this king in the Choir of Westminster 

 Abbey," &c. This picture is now in the Jeru- 

 salem Chamber, situated immediately to the west 

 of the Abbey, and has been so for some time. 



J. S. s. 



Burial in the Chancel (Vol. xi., p. 409.). — 

 Unless I have misunderstood the recent act of 

 parliament regarding intramural interments, it 

 surely contains a prohibitory clause, whereby your 

 correspondent Presbyter need trouble himself no 

 farther as to the vested rights of vicar or im- 

 propriate rector, with regard to a place gf burial 

 in the chancel of his parish church. N. L. T. 



Hour-glass in Pulpits (passim), — Here is a 

 quotation from Dr. South's forty-ninth sermon, in 

 which the pulpit hour-glass is mentioned. It may 

 be new to some of your readers. Dr. South was 

 born 1633, and died 1716. 



" For my own part, I never thought a pulpit, a cushion, 

 and an hour-glass, such necessary means of salvation, but 

 that much of the time and labour which is spent about 

 them might be much more profitably employed in cate- 

 chising youth from the desk." 



J. A. H, 



" Our means secure us " (Vol. xi., p. 235.). — 

 Permit me to apologise, through the medium of 

 "N, & Q.," to Mr. Farrer, for ray unintentional 

 plagiarism so courteously pointed out by him. 

 His Note in Vol. viii., p. 4. (to which I have now 

 referred) had unaccountably escaped my notice, 

 and I am happy to find ray own view of the pas- 

 sage in Shakspeare supported by much more 

 copious and cogent arguments than I was able to 

 adduce. Stylites. 



Descent of Family Likeness (Vol. xi., p. 313.). 

 — Had J. W. written Charles II. for Charles I., 

 I should have had no difficulty in identifying the 

 hero of Dr. Gregory's anecdote as John, Duke of 

 Lauderdale, Lord High Commissioner of Scotland, 

 1662. ^ I have myself had an opportunity of 

 observing the Maitland nose in several of his col- 

 lateral descendants. W. K. R. B. 



Tidtchil or Quitchil (Vol. xi., p. 365.). — Halli- 

 well, in his excellent Archaic Dictionary, defines 

 this word to be "a narrow passage or alley;" 

 thus forming, at the entrance or outlet, two angles; 

 from the word " twit," which the same glossarist 

 explains to mean an angle. C. H. 



Author of " Words of Jesus" ^c. (Vol. xi., 

 p. 266.). — • I take leave to state that the name of 

 the writer of Words of Jesus, &c., is the Rev. R. 

 McDufF, the respected minister of the parish of 

 St. Madres, Perthshire. F. S. 



Dundee. 



Feast of St. John and St. James (Vol. xi., p. 325.). 

 — I have searched Paget's Churchman's Calendar, a 

 French Calendrier, and several Romish calendars, 

 for any account of a day dedicated jointly to St. 

 John and St. James. I regret to say that my 

 searches have been unattended by any satisfactory 

 result. In the Chronological Tables by William 

 Downing Bruce, published by Messrs. Longman 

 in 1847, I find that May 6 is described as dedir 

 cated to St. John ante Portam Latinam, and to 

 " St. J. Damascen." If the latter Saint be James, 

 the date required by F, C. B. will probably b^ 

 May 6, A.D. 1395. Juverna, M.A: 



-Quakers executed in. North America (Vol. ix., 

 pp. 305. 603. ; Vol. xi., p. 13.).— The first Quakers 

 who came to Boston arrived in May, 1656. The 

 laws against the sect were very severe in the Mas- 

 sachusetts colony, and every Quaker found in it 

 was liable to the loss of one of his ears. Four of 

 them were put to death. From the year 1664 to 

 1808, the Society of Friends held regular meetings 

 in Boston. This sect built the first brick meeting- 

 house in the town. Its site is believed to have 

 been somewhere in the neighbourhood of that on 

 which Brattle Street Church now stands. In 1708, 

 the Society sold their house of worship, and the 

 town authorities refused them permission to erect 

 a new one of wood. A second brick edifice was 

 erected on what was afterwards known as Quaker 

 Lane, now Congress Street. This meeting-house 

 was destroyed in the great fire of 1760, but was 

 immediately replaced. The building stood till 

 April, 1825, when it was sold and removed. It 

 had hardly been occupied for twenty years. A 

 neat stone edifice was soon erected in Milton 

 Place, which is occasionally used for public wor- 

 ship when an approved minister of the sect is lA 

 the city. How differently the members of the 

 Society of Friends are now regarded from what 

 they were by the Massachusetts colonists in 1675, 

 when a law was enacted subjecting every person 

 found at a Quaker meeting to be committed to 

 jail, " to have the discipline of the house, and to 

 be kept to work, with bread and water, or else 

 pay 5^." (Taken from Drake's History of Boston.) 



W. W. 



Malta. 



Watch Motto (Vol. xi., p. 299.). — The in- 

 scription mentioned by H. db Conbj a, viz. 



" Vado e vengo ogni giorno, 

 Ma tu andrai senza ritorno," 



may also be seen on a dial at Nice. Stylites. 



Brawn (Vol. xi., p. 366.). — " Their heart is as 

 fat as Brawn," Psalm cxix., v. 70., Prayer-Book 

 version by Tyndale, revised by Cranmer temp. 

 Edward VI. Brawn of 1709 could not, therefore^ 

 have invented the dish. P. P. 



