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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 277. 



These have become scarce, and are not to be met 

 with in the British Museum, Bodleian, Lambeth, 

 or Cambridge University libraries. 



2, AVatt {Bihl Brit.) and Cooke {Preachers 

 Assistanf) ascribe to him an Accession Sermon on 

 Psalm Ixxii. 15., with the title Ad Testimonium, 

 published in 1686. This is not included in the 

 ordinary lists of his works in the Biographia Bri- 

 tannica, &c.'; but there is no accurate list extant. 



I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents 

 who will inform me if they possess copies of the 

 Prayers or Sermon* in question, or can direct me 

 to any library which contains them. 



Alexander Tatlor, M.A. 

 "5. Blomfield Terrace, Paddington. 



'Wo7'ks on India. — A civil engineer who is 

 going to India will be obliged if any of the 

 readers of "JST. & Q." will refer him to the best 

 books, maps, &c. on the physical features of that 

 country, particularly with reference to its en- 

 gineering wants and capabilities, or descriptive 

 of engineering works actually executed. 



This information is wished for especially with 

 regard to the presidency of Madras ; and if it be 

 addressed C. E., care of Mr. G. Bell, 186. Fleet 

 Street, on or before the 18th of this month, it will 

 be thankfully received. 



Story of the Mind Man. — There is, if I recol- 

 lect rightly, in an old jest-book, a story of a blind 

 man whose basket is stolen from him, and he beats 

 a post, thinking it the thief. If any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." can give the reference to 

 this, it will confer a peculiar favour. S. D. L. 



Stone-Henge. — Where is the Stone forming 

 " Stone-Henge " supposed to have been quarried ? 

 How many of the upright stones are now capped? 



MiMMI. 



Athenseum Club. 



Flexible Moulds for Electrotype. — Can any of 

 your scientific correspondents give me a good 

 receipt for the above, so that casts much undercut 

 can be copied in one mould? G. E. T. S. R. N. 



Leamington. 



Society of Friends or Quakers. — When the 

 name of any member of this sect of Christians is 

 mentioned in the public journals, or any other 

 print, why is the fact that he is a member of this 

 religious body invariably appended, the same care 

 never being bestowed in publishing the religious 



[* The Sermon is in the British Museum, in a volume 

 of Sermons collected by Letsome, and entered in the new 

 catalogue of " King's Pamphlets : " the press-mark 226, 



profession of the individuals of any other com- 

 munity ? G. DrMOND. 



[We presume that it simply arises from the fact that 

 the Friends as a religious body are seldom found taking 

 an active part in the political, scientific, or literary insti- 

 tutions of the country, although of late j'ears there have 

 been a few honourable exceptions. In tlie cause of hu- 

 manity, such as their efforts for the abolition of slavery, 

 this marked distinction is not so generalh' observable. 

 Besides, they are more ensily distinguished from other 

 sects by their peculiar dress.] 



Bishops in Chess. — What was the original 

 name of those pieces which we call bishops ? 

 Vida's lines are : 



" Inde sagittiferi juverffes de gente nigranti 

 Stant gemini, totidem pariter candore nivali ; 

 Nomen Areiphilos Graii fecere vocantes, 

 Quod Marti ante alios cari fera bella lacessant 

 Continub hos inter rex, necnon regia conjux 

 Clauduntur medii." 



D. S. B. 



['Ap7ji^iA.os is an Homeric epithet, signifying fond of 

 battle, or devoted to Mars. The poet seems to have sub- 

 stituted it for the usual word eJphiii or alphin, for the'sake 

 of the metre, and this very appropriately, as the polemic 

 traverses of chess are a mimicry of the tactics of war : 



" In either line the next partitions claim 

 Two archers, Areiphili their name, 

 Belov'd by Mars ; to whose distinguish'd care 

 Belongs the guard of each imperial pair : 

 The guards inclosing, and the pairs inclos'd, 

 Are white and white to black and black oppos'd." 

 In Rees's Cydopcedia, we read that " the piece called the 

 bishop has been termed by English writers alphin, aufin, 

 &c., from an Arabic word signifying an elephant ; some- 

 times it was named an archer : by the Germans the hound 

 or runner; by Russians and Swedes the elephant; by 

 Poles the priest; and by the French the fou, or fool. 

 When it was first introduced cannot be exactly ascer- 

 tained; as in Caxton's time this piece was stj'led the 

 elphin. Probably the change of name took place after the 

 Reformation." Sir Frederic Madden, however, in Ar- 

 chcBologia, vol. xxiv. p. 225., has given the most satisfac- 

 tory account of the original names of this piece : he says, 

 " The original name of the piece (bishop) among the 

 Persians and Arabs -was Pil or Phil, an elephant, under 

 the form of which it was represented by the orientals ; 

 and Dr. Hyde and Mr. Douce have satisfactorily proved 

 that hence, with the addition of the article al, have been 

 derived the various names of alfil, arfil, alferez, alphilus, 

 alfino, alphino, alfiere, avfin, alfyn, awfyn, alphyn, alfyn, 

 as used by the early Spanish, Italian, French, and English 

 writers."] 



Godderten. — What is the signification of the 

 word godderten, or goddert, which I have re- 

 cently met with in a MS. of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury ? T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



[Nares, in his Glossary, speaks of goddard as a kind of 

 cup or goblet, made with a cover or otherwise, but states 

 that he can find no certain account of the origin of the 

 name. Godard, according to Camden, means godly the 

 cup; and appears to have been a christening cup.] 



