June 30. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



503 



January 10, 1608; and am at a loss to discover 

 the meaning of it. Can you, or any of your con- 

 tributors, give me a clue towards ascertaining if 

 there is any record of any proceedings connected 

 with this marriage ; when, and where it took place, 

 and if there was any issue of it ? — facts of great 

 importance in reference to a pedigree which I am 

 tracing. There are no parish registers of Wool- 

 avington of that date : 



" Item. I give to Agnes that I did a longe tyme take 

 for my wife, till of late she hath denyed me to be her 

 husband allthough we were maryed vr^^ oure friends con- 

 sent, her father, mother, and uncle at y*, and nowe she 

 sweartli she will never love me, neither wilbe perswaded 

 by preachers nor any other which hath happened within 

 theise fewe yeres, and Tobye Andrewes, the begynner, 

 which I did see with myne owne eyes, when he did more 

 then was fittinge, and this by the meanes of Robert Mus- 

 grove and theire abetters, I have lyved a miserable life 

 theise sixe or seaven yeres, and nowe I leave the revenge 

 to God, tenne poundes to buy her a greate horse : for I 

 could not theise many yeares please her with one greate 

 enough e. 



" Item. All my old apparell at the discretion of my 

 overseers." 



J. P. 



Jack Connor. — There is a smart but singularly 

 unsuccessful imitation of Fielding, entitled The 

 History of Jack Connor, 2 vols., Lond. 1752. Will 

 some one name the sinner ? C. Clifton Barrt. 



Norman Superstition in 1855. — The following I 

 extracted from the Journal des Debuts of June 5 

 last : 



" Le Journal de Fecamp rapporte le fait suivant, qu'on 

 dirait arri^r^ d'un sifecle : 



" ' Le nomm^ Vincent fils, cordonnier, s'est pendu ces 

 jours derniers a Cany. La foule de curieux qui assi^geait 

 le domicile de ce malheureux suicide, et la fureur de poss^- 

 der un petit bout de cette corde de pendu, k laquelle on 

 attribue tant d'influence, ^tait telle qu'on en est venu aux 

 mains, et que pendant quelques instans la circulation sur 

 la voie publique a ete interrompue.' " 



To make this Note a Query, I wish to ask what 

 superstition or magic could be connected with the 

 Corde de pendu, so as to induce a crowd of country 

 folk to fight for a bit of it ? And farther, how 

 old the superstition may be ? 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Quotation. — Whence are the following lines ? 



" No pent-up Utica contracts our powers, 

 But the whole boundless universe is ours ! " 



Pelicanus Americanus. 



Proverbial Queries. — At p. 241. of the first 

 volume of a little work entitled Laconics, pub- 

 lished by Charles Tilt of Fleet Street, I find the 

 following notice of a proverb : 



" For all the craft is not in the catching (as the proverb 

 says), but the better half at least in being catched." 



Can any of your readers explain this proverb, 



and tell me whence it derives its paternity ? What 

 is the source of the proverb, " Great wits have 

 short memories ? " F. L. S. 



" Two Pound Ten." — Thirty years ago, I saw 

 a humorous song in manuscript with this title. 

 Has it been printed ? Can any one supply a copy ? 

 It sets forth the misgivings of a man who lent a 

 casual fellow-passenger two pound ten until he 

 could open his portmanteau at the journey's end. 

 I remember the first verse, which illustrates the 

 old travelling expenses : 



" When to York per mail you start, 



Four-caped like other men : 



To the book-keeper so smart, 



' You pay down three pounds in part ; 



Two pound ten before you start ; 



Sum total, five pound ten." 



The last lines are as follows : 



" One exception proves a rule ; 

 He'll not find another fool, 

 To lend him two pound ten." 



M. 



TTie Oratorians. — Will any of your correspon- 

 dents be kind enough to inform me whether the 

 congregation of the oratory of St. Philip Neri was 

 ever established in England before its recent in- 

 troduction by Dr. Newman ? Is there any work 

 in English which gives a good account of the 

 rules and general character of the congregation ? 

 Which is the best obtainable Life of St. Philip ? 



J.E. 



Newbiggin, Morpeth. 



Crossing the Line. — What is the origin of the 



custom of shaving on crossing the line for the 



first time ? W. T. M. 

 Hong Kong. 



Books printed at Cologne. — In "N. & Q.," 

 Vol. xi., p. 216., I expressed a doubt whether Le 

 Platonisme Devoile was printed at Cologne, and 

 whether Pierre Marteau was the name of a real 

 publisher. I have since met with Le Porte- Feuille 

 dun Philosophe, a Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau 

 fils, 1770. It is a collection, in six volumes 12mo., 

 of tracts by Diderot, Boulanger, and others, which 

 I think would not at that time have been safe for 

 a French publisher to issue and avow. The paper 

 and binding look French. 



Mr. Whiteside, in his speech on the Maynooth 

 Grant, reported in The Times of June 7th, said : 



"When Sir Robert Peel was secretary for Ireland, 

 being rather above the common run of Irish secretaries, 

 and a man of literary tastes, he employed a gentleman of 

 considerable learning to draw up a catalogue of books 

 relating to Irish history, statistics, &c. In this catalogue 

 appeared De Burgh's Hibernia Dominicana, purporting to 

 be printed at Cologne. The copies were exceedingly 

 scarce," &c. 



I shall be obliged by any information as to the 



