Peb. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Postea in Euxinum nomen mutatum est, sive ob Graj- 

 corum urbes in ejus littore conditas, iinde hospitalior ea 

 ora facta est, sive ko-t eix^rnxia-iJibv solum : negat enim Ovid, 

 etiam suo sseculo nomen hoc ei vere convenire : 



* Euxinus falso nomine dictus adest.^" 



In the Penny Cyclop., art. Black Sea, this ex- 

 planation is called unsatisfactory ; but the writer 

 should have borne in mind, that Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and even America, are names of Greek 

 origin, as well as the Euxine. Tlie Turks, Arabs, 

 Rulsians, French, Germans, and English designate 

 it the Black Sea— probably from its stormy 

 character. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



CampheWs Poems. — 



« Sweet was to ns the Hermitage 



Of this unplough'd, untrodden shore ; 

 Like birds all joyous from the cage, 

 For man's neglect we loved it more." 



O'Connor's Child. 



The last line of the above extract is repeated 

 by the poet, in almost the same words, in his 

 "Lines on leaving a Scene in Bavaria :" 



" Yes ! I have loved the wild abode. 



Unknown, unplough'd, untrodden shore : 

 Where scarce the woodman finds a road, 

 And scarce the fisher plies an oar ; 

 For man's neglect I love thee more." 



R. V. T. 



Cold-protectors. — Our innate patriotism, now 

 breaking out in mysteriously-knitted "comforters," 

 finds a parallel in the winter campaign of 1760. 

 The then Dean of Gloucester has an advertisement 

 in a local paper (Journal, No. 1949., 1760) offering 

 " a warm flannel waistcoat to any volunteer, to 

 defend him against the inclemency of the approach- 

 ing season." E.. C. Wabde. 



Kidderminster. 



" Galore." — This word, now in common use, is 

 derived from the Irish go leor, i. e. in abundance. 

 An Oxford B. C. L. 



Creation of a Baronetess. — The following is a 

 curious instance of the creation of a baronetess in 

 her own right, which is recorded in the last page 

 of the Gentleman's Magazine for the year 1754, in 

 the list of " Foreigners who have received the 

 Dignity of English Baronets from our Kings :" 



" Created by King James II. 



« Sept. 9, 168G. Cornelius Speelman, of the United 

 Provinces, a General of the States of Holland; with a 

 special clause to the General's mother of the rank and title 

 of a baronetess of England." 



H.M. 



OLD ENGLISH MS. CHRONICLE. 



I send you some extracts from a MS. chronicle 

 of English history, in hopes that you will inform 

 me whether you, or any of your readers, recognise 

 them as coming from any known history. 



The MS. i^ small folio, and begins : " In ye 

 year fro ye begginning of ye worlde 3990, yer 

 was in ye noble lond of Greece a wort hi kyng." 

 And ends : " The Wennesday next aft"^ uppon the 

 morow, Edwarde, the noble Erie of March, was 

 chosen kyng in the cyte of London, and began for 

 to reygne," &c. 



From cap. xli. : 



" Yis Constantyn (the Gi*eat) first endowed ye 

 Chirche of Rome with possessions. And tlianne 

 yer was a voys yherd above in ye cyr yat sade yus, 

 Hodie infusum est venenii, in ecclid dei " (in margin 

 nota bene). 



King John is said to have died by poison. His 

 " Letter obligatory to ye Pope of Rome " is given 

 at full length in English. 



From cap. cvii. : 



"... Maister Robert Grostet, bisshop of Lin- 

 coln . . . because ye pope hadde provided his 

 nevew yt was a child to a curid benefice ... ye 

 said Robert wolde not admitte, and wroot ageea 

 to ye pope, yat he wold not, ne owed not admitte, 

 eny suche to have cure and rewle of soules that 

 cowde not rewle theymself, ne understand ye 

 English tunge ; wherefore ye said Robert was . . . 

 acursid, and he appelid fro ye pope's court to ye 

 court of hevene. And sone after ye said Robert 

 deide acursid ; and ii yeer after his deth, lie ap- 

 pend lik a bisshop to ye pope as he lay in his bed, 

 and saide, Surge miser veni ad judicia .... 

 And with ye pricke of his bisshoppis staf he 

 pricked ye pope . . unto ye herte, and in ye 

 morow ye pope was founde ded .... And be- 

 cause ye said Robert deide acursid notwithstond- 

 ing . . . miracles, ye court of Rome will not 

 suffre him to be canonized." 



From cap. cxlvi. : 



(j8) " Henry IV. as a defence for having put 

 the Archbishop of York to death, sent to the pope 

 the 'habergeon yat yarchblsshop was armed ynne 

 with these wordis : Pater vide si tunica hcec sit filii 

 tui an non.' And ye pope answerde .... Sive 

 hcec sit tunica filii mei an non scio quia f era pessima 

 devoravit fUium meum." (6th of Henry IV.) 



From the same chapter (3rd of Henry IV.) : 



(a) Richard II. was supposed to be still alive : 

 " And a frere menour of ye covent of Aylesbury 

 cam to ye kyng, and acusid a frere of ye same 

 hous, a prest ; and saide that he was glad of kyng 

 RIchardes life, and he was brought to ye kyng, 



