June 16. 1855.] 



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to call them gules. Captain Crewkerne died in 

 1655, leaving daughters only; from one of them I 

 am descended, and I quarter the Crewkerne 

 arms amongst others. Y. S. M. 



Times prohibiting Marriage (Vol. xi., pp. 374. 

 411.). — With regard to the "times prohibiting 

 marriage," I may observe that when I was once 

 staying at Dymchurch, in Kent, I observed in the 

 register book of that parish, which commences 

 about 1630, the following heading, written in a 

 handwriting certainly of that date (probably of 

 the then incumbent) : 



" Mairimonium solemnizandum. 

 " A prima Dominica Adventus usque ad octavam Epi- 

 pbaniiB exclusive. 



"A Dominica 70* usque ad primam Dominicam vel 

 octavam Paschis inclusive. 



" A prime die Rogationum, usque ad 7"n»°» diem vel 

 usque ad octavam festi Pentecost, inclusive. ' 



" Conjugium Adventus prohibet, Hj^larique relaxat 

 Septuagena vetat, concedit Trina potestas." 



Something has evidently been obliterated or 

 omitted, intimating that the times above men- 

 tioned are the prohibited times. Of course I do 

 not hence infer that there was any actual law in 

 the Church to this effect made subsequent to the 

 Reformation. I only adduce it as testifying to 

 the feeling among the clergy a hundred years 

 after the Reformation, — a testimony which might, 

 doubtless, be strengthened by other similar in- 

 stances. 



While upon this subject I may remark (in case 

 it should be thought worthy of notice in " N. & 

 Q."), that in a neighbouring cliurch (St. Mary's 

 in the Marsh, near Romney), there was hung up 

 in the nave a printed paper respecting degrees of 

 marriage, purporting to have been first set forth 

 by Matthew, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and 

 subsequently ordered by John, Lord Archbishop 

 (I suppose Archbishops Hutton and Moore ?), in 

 Latin and English, with a rather quaint print, 

 showing a marriage as being solemnised in the 

 body of the church before proceeding to the altar. 



This paper may be common throughout the 

 diocese of Canterbury ; but I had never seen it 

 before. It was printed and sold by T. Wilkins, 

 No. 23. Aldermanbury. G. R. M. 



Ham. 



" Dowlas, Lochram, Polldavy" 8fc. (Vol. xi., 

 pp. 266. 333.). — In the following passage from 

 Howell's Familiar Letters, the last of these words 

 is applied in a more general sense than that as- 

 signed to it by Mr. Halliwell : — 



" There was as much difference between them, as 'twixt 

 a Scotch Pedlar's Pacli in Poland, and the Magazine of an 

 English Mercliant in Naples : tlie one being usually full 

 of tafFaty, silks, and satins ; the other of callicoes, thred- 

 ribbands, and such Poldavy ware," 



One of your correspondents (Vol. xi., p. 338.) 

 suggests that a selection from Howell's Letters 

 would be worth publishing. For my own part, I 

 should prefer to see a republication of the entire 

 volume, — aptly characterised as "a storehouse of 

 choice things," — under some able editorial care, 

 and think that such an enterprise would not be 

 unattended with success. I subjoin a few passages 

 in which I have Italicised certain words, which, 

 more or less intelligible by the context, I do not 

 find in Halliwell's Dictionary, or elsewhere. I 

 quote from the 9th edition, 1726, of which, by the 

 way, the eleventh, 1754, though called by Lowndes 

 " the best," does not appear, upon comparison, to 

 be more than a mere reprint, minus, I think, the 

 curious frontispiece. 



" I met with Camillo, your Consaorman here lately."^ 

 P. 55. 



" She had afterwards put the latter letter in her bosom, 

 and the first in her coshionetJ" — P. 178. 



" In Languedoc there are wines concustdble with those 

 of Spain."— P. 365. 



" He hath no cause to brag of; I hate such blateroons" 

 —P. 403. 



" I am sorry to hear of your achaques, and so often in- 

 disposition there." — P. 404. 



" I know that there are many who wear horns, and 

 ride daily upon coltstaves." — P. 455. 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Talented (Vol. xi., pp. 17. 92.). — To gifted 

 may be added good-natured, ill-natured, good- 

 tempered, and ill-tempered, all formed, like talented, 

 from nouns. 



Coleridge was wrong in calling talented a parti- 

 ciple-passive. It is evidently an adjective, and 

 all the words mentioned above are adjectives 

 though ending in ed. Uneda. 



Vincent Le Blanc's Travels (Vol. xi., p. 406.). 

 — I extract the following from an article on this 

 writer in the Supplement to the Biographic Uni- 

 verselle. The author of the article is M. Eyries : ; 



" Les voyages de Vincent Leblanc sont tres-decries : 

 Flacourt, Liidolf, La Martinifere I'accusent de raconter des 

 choses imaginaires. La Boullaye-le-Gouz et Tournefort 

 le traitent avec plus d'indulgence ; c'etait un homme trfea 

 ignorant, qui a racont^ sans discernement tout ce qu'il 

 entendait. Son excursion dans I'interieur de I'Afrique 

 mdrite d'etre examinee avec attention : c'est, avec sa de- 

 scription du Pegou et des royaumes voisins, ce que son 

 livre contient de plus interessant. En ge'neral, il a soin 

 d'avertir qu'il n'est pas alle dans tel pays dont il ne parle 

 que d'apres ce qu'il a appris de la bouche d'autmi." 



'AAtews. 



Dublin. 



^^Abra was ready," Src. (Vol. xi., p. 426.). — 

 These lines, which are slightly misquoted by your 

 correspondent A. B. C, will be found in Prior's 

 Solomon, or the Vanity of the World, book ii. 



J. K. R. W, 



