June'23. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



485 



2nd. Nicolas, unmarried. 



3rd. Marnraret, married Euseby Catesby of Cas- 

 tor, in CO. Northampton. 



The record that I possess a copy of is continued 

 down to Elizabeth Howland, who married Ro- 

 therby Russell, son of the martyred Lord Wm. 

 Russell. Any information relative to the pilgrim 

 John Howland would gratify many of his descend- 

 ants, and none more than John A, Howland. 



Providence, Rhode Island, U. S. A., 

 May 21, 1855. 



P. S. — Arms were confirmed to Richard How- 

 land, D.D., son and heir to John Howland of 

 London, gent., by patent dated June 10, 1584, 

 27 Elizabeth. 



Any information in " N. & Q." would meet my 

 eye, as I have the pleasure of regularly seeing 

 that publication. 



Minor ^uttiei, 



*' Baron Munchhause7i." — Where shall I find the 

 best-authenticated account of the origin of the 

 book of travels and adventures, published under 

 the name of Baron Munchhausen ? In the En- 

 glish authorities which I have had the means of 

 consulting, it is stated that the world is indebted 

 for it to the poet Burger, who took down the ad- 

 ventures from the oral relation of Munchhausen, 

 and published them with his own improvements 

 in 1787, under the title of Wunderhare Abentheuer 

 und Reisen des Herr Von Munchhausen. But in a 

 French edition, published by M. Gratet Duplessis 

 in 1852, the publisher seems to think that the 

 work was originally composed in English ; and 

 that Burger's version is only a translation, with 

 fresh matter supplied by himself. M. Duplessis, 

 in his notice of Munchhausen, says : 



" On ne sait pas bien au juste quel ecrivain, plus ou 

 moins habile, se chargea le premier de faire connaitre au 

 monde, par la vole de la presse, les exploits incroyables 

 du baron ; on attribue la premiere redaction de ces aven- 

 tures a un certain Raspe, conservateur du musee des 

 m^dailles a Cassel, qui s'etait enfui en Angleterre, empor- 

 tant avec kii une partie des tr^sors numismatiques con- 

 fi^s h. sa garde. Rasp^ publia son ouvrage en Anglais, vers 

 1785. Le livre eut beaucoup de succfes." 



Is there anything known respecting Raspe ? 

 His adventure reads like a bit of hfunMiausenism. 



Heney H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Book of Common Prayer. — When was the ser- 

 vice for September 2, commemorative of the Fire 

 of London, discontinued ? I have it in an edition 

 of 1729. B. H. C. 



The Crucifixion. — How is it that, in pictures of 

 the Crucifixion by the great masters, the two 

 thieves are generally represented as crucified with 



cords, and our blessed Lord alone is fixed to the 

 cross with nails? Does this arise from tradition, 

 symbolism, or what? The crucifixion with cords 

 was a punishment among the Romans, and wns a 

 more lingering death. William Fbasee, B.C.L. 

 Alton, Staffordshire. 



Beating the Bounds. — Can any of your readers 

 give any information as to the origin of the old 

 custom of beating the bounds of the boroujrli, still 

 practised in some parts of the West of England ? 



R. P. 



Lincoln's Inn Fields. 



Kidleyhenders. — The boys in this country call 

 ice which undulates beneath the foot of the skater 

 "kidleyhenders." Is this word used in En;;land, 

 and what is its derivation ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



" Vigil of St. Mark" — Can any of your readers 

 inform me who wrote The Vigil of St. Murk, a 

 dramatic tale ? This very beautiful poem is in 

 Blackwood's Magazine, Oct. 1821, vol. x. p. 341, 



11. J. 



Glasgow. 



Douglas's " Edivin." — Can any of your readers 

 give me any account of the Rev. Mr. Douglas, 

 author of Edwin the Banished Prince, a tragedy, 

 1784? Was he a clergyman in the Established 

 Church of England ? R. J. 



Glasgow. 



Pope. — Has any collection of pieces written in 

 praise or blame of Pope been published ? Could 

 not a supplemental volume of such writings be 

 issued uniformly with his Works f B. H. C. 



^^ From the reptile and brute," Sec. — Can any 

 reader of " N. & Q." inform me who was the 

 author of some verses in which there are the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" From the reptile and brute of mere instinct to man, 

 Are all proofs of the wisdom of Nature's great plan : 

 Who implanted that love for our dear native home, 

 Which pervades all mankind wheresoever they roam." 



And where the verses are to be found ? E. E. 



Early Byzantine Picture. — Could any of your 

 correspondents inform me what is the subject of a 

 very early painting I have (Byzantine). There is 

 a bishop just going to be beheaded. In front of 

 him is a crowd of men ; some on horseback, with 

 turbans on their heads, like Arabs ; among whom 

 stands a martyr without his head, which is lying 

 on the ground. A saint, or the Deity, is hovering 

 over the bishop. J. C. J. 



A Passage in the Life of Erasmus. — In a 

 volume entitled Vita Virorum Selectorum, being a 

 collection of biographies by various authors, there 



