Mar. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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the size of an ordinary chess-board, and formed 

 entirely of opaque and transparent amber and 

 chased silver. The counters are amber likewise ; 

 and on each is a cameo head of the kings of Eng- 

 land from the Conquest to James I. It is an 

 exquisite piece of workmanship, even if it had no 

 traditional interest to recommend it. Anon. 



Ancient Chattel Property in Ireland (Vol. xl., 

 p. 97.). — Even at the close of the seventeenth 

 century, the value of Irish moveables was remark- 

 ably small. In a relation of the suflFerings of the 

 Quakers during that period, entitled — 



" The Great Cry of Oppression : written by one who, 

 in obedience to the Lord's Call, is come out of Mistery 

 Babylon, and is known by the Name of William Stock- 

 dale;* 1683." 



— we have lists of various properties seized for 

 non-payment of tythes, with their values. Though 

 we may suppose them rated as highly as possible, 

 to make the case more distressing, we find the 

 following : — Two lambs and one sheep, worth six 

 shillings ; two lambs, worth two shillings ; a mare, 

 worth one pound ; two cheeses, worth four shil- 

 lings ; four small flitches of bacon, worth nine 

 shillings and tenpence ; a horse, worth one pound ; 

 a cow, worth one pound ten shillings. 



The names of many of the persecuted indicate 

 a Puritan origin : I find " Blessing Sandham," 

 " Deliverance Goulby," " Noblest Dunscome," 

 " Treverse Lloyd," and " Melior Heel," settled in 

 or near Dublin. K. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



" Creavit angelos in coilo," S^c. (Vol. xi., p. 105.). 

 — In Augustin's Enarratio, in Psalmum cxiviii. 8. 

 sect. 10. tom. iv. p. 1250 d. of the Benedictine 

 edition (Antwerp, 1700), the following passage 

 occurs : 



" Qui fecit in ccelo angelum, ipse fecit in ten-S, vermi- 

 culum : sed angelum in coelo pro habitatione ccelesti, ver- 

 miculum in terra pro habitatione terrestri." 



This may probably have been the origin of the 

 passage referred to by A Naturalist : and Au- 

 gustin, who often expresses sentiments of a simi- 

 lar kind in different parts of his writings, may 

 possibly have the very words quoted by your cor- 

 respondent in some other part of his voluminous 

 works. T. Chevallier. 



Durham. 



" The Savage" (Vol. x., p. 364.).— This work 

 was republished in this city about eight or ten 

 years ago. No more than one volume was ever 

 published. I endeavoured some months ago, with- 

 out success, to discover the name of the author. 

 "Piomingo" is, of course, a nom de plume. About 

 the time that the second edition appeared, I saw 

 it spoken of in a newspaper as the first book 



* This, in a sort of colophon. 



written by a native of Tennessee. It was originally 

 published in weekly numbers, afterwards bound 

 up in a volume. 



There is much talent in many of the essays; 

 and the writer, whoever he was, wielded a vigo- 

 rous_ pen. The work is blemished by sceptical 

 opinions upon religious subjects. This, probably, 

 was a recommendation to the person who repub- 

 lished it. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Distributing Money at Marriages (Vol, xi., 

 p. 62.). — In every part of Scotland with which I 

 am acquainted, the marriage ceremony is per- 

 formed at the residence of the bride. About the 

 time it is expected the young couple are to start 

 on their marriage jaunt, all the boys and girls of 

 the neighbourhood assemble in front of the house, 

 and amuse themselves by calling out, " Bell money, 

 bell money, shabby waddin, shabby waddin, canna 

 spare a bawbee." These shouts are more than 

 redoubled when the door is opened to let the 

 bride and bridegroom out, who are accompanied 

 to the carriage by most of the company ; and as 

 the pushing and shoving of the crowd would be 

 very inconvenient, some one of the party at this 

 moment showers a quantity of coppers and small 

 silver amongst them, thereby drawing their at- 

 tention away from the " young folks," who, under 

 cover of this " diversion," are driven off. 



W. B. C. 



Signor Carolini, Dr. Barnveldt, and the Author 

 of " Key to the Dunciad" (Vol. xi., p. 98.). — The 

 speculative conjecture of S. R. is worth consider- 

 ation. As he gives the motto from Carolini, — 

 " Oat comes the book, and the Ket/ follows after." 



1 send that to " The Key," to which he only re- 

 fers from memory : 



" How easily two wits agree, 

 One finds the Poem ; one the Key." 



S. C. B. 

 Double Christian Names (Vol. x., pp. 18. 133. 

 276. 413.). — I am not aware that any one of 

 your contributors has hitherto produced an in- 

 stance of a double christian name so early as 



2 Hen. V., ann. 1414. In a MS. chronicle re- 

 cently intrusted to me by your correspondent 

 J. S. D., — which we have discovered to be un- 

 doubtedly the " namelesse old MS." quoted by the 

 historian Speed, in his Hist, of Great Brit., b. vii. 

 ch. 12. p. 193. b., — " Maister William Harri 

 Chicheli " is mentioned as Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury. 



Mr. J. Cough Nichols, in his Topographer and 

 Genealogist, par. xv. (June, 1854) p. 275., gives 

 us a yet earlier instance, temp. Hen. IV., viz., 

 " Sir Thomas-Richard Ellys, of Kyddal, who, ia 

 1408, levied troops in Yorkshire," &c. In the 

 same page Mr. Nichols gives us a later instance, 



