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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 220. 



nexed to the alphabet in primers and spelling- 

 books. 



The figure Eff appears to be the two Greek 

 letters e and r connected, and spelling the Latin 

 •word et, meaning and. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Misapplication of Terms (Vol. viii., p. 537.). — 

 The apparent lapsus noticed by your correspondent 

 J. W. Thomas, while it reminds one that — 



" Learned men, 

 Now and then," &c, 



is not so indefensible as many instances that are 

 to be met with. 



I have been accustomed to teach my boys that 

 legend (a lego, to read) is not strictly to be con- 

 fined to the ordinary translation of its derivative, 

 since the Latin admits of several readings, and 

 among them, by the usage of Plautus, to hearken ; 

 whence our English substantive takes equal license 

 to admit of a relation = a narrative, viz. " a thing 

 to be heard ; " and in this sense by custom has re- 

 ferred to many a gossip's tale. 



Having thus ventured to defend the use of le- 

 gend by your correspondent (Vol. v., p. 196), I 

 submit to the illuminating power of your pages 

 the following novel use of a word I have met with 

 in the course of reading this morning, and shall be 

 gratified if some of your correspondents (better 

 Grecians than myself) can turn their critical 

 bull's-eye on it with equal advantage to its em- 

 ployer. 



In the poems of Bishop Corbet, edited by Oc- 

 tavius Gilchrist, F.S.A., 4th edition, 1807, an edi- 

 torial note at p. 195. informs us that John Bust, 

 living in 1611, "seems to have been a worthy 

 prototype of the Nattus of Antiquity." (Persius, 

 iii. 31.) 



Our humorous friend in the farce, who was 

 "'prentice and predecessor" to his coadjutor the 

 'pothecary whom he succeeded, is the only sole- 

 cism at all parallel, that immediately occurs to 



Squeers. 



Dotheboys. 



P.S. — It would not be any ill-service to our 

 language to pull up the stockings of the tight- 

 laced occasionally, though I have here rushed in 

 to the rescue. 



Belle Sauvage (Vol. viii., pp. 388. 523.). — Mr. 

 Burn, in his Catalogue of the Beaufoy Cabinet of 

 Tokens presented to the Corporation of London, 

 just published, after giving the various derivations 

 proposed, says that a deed, enrolled on the Glaus 

 Roll of 1453, puts the matter beyond doubt : 



" By that deed, dated at London, February 5, 

 31 Hen. VI., John Frensh, eldest son of John Frensh, 

 late citizen and goldsmith of London, confirmed to 

 Joan Frensh, widow, his mother — • Totum ten' sive 



hospicium cum suis pertin' vocat' Savagesynne, alias 

 vocat' le Belle on the Hope ;' all that tenement or inn 

 with its appurtenances, called Savage's Inn, otherwise 

 called the Bell on the Hoop, in the parish of St. 

 Bridget in Fleet Street, London, to have and to hold 

 the same for term of her life, without impeachment of 

 waste. The lease to Isabella Savage must therefore 

 have been anterior in date ; and the sign in the olden 

 day was the Bell. ' On the Hoop' implied the ivy- 

 bush, fashioned, as was the custom; as a garland." — 

 P. 137. 



Zeus. 

 t 



Arms of Geneva (Vol. viii., p. 563.). — Berry's 

 Encyclopedia and Robson's British Herald give 

 the following : 



" Per pale or and gules, on the dexter side a demi- 

 imperial eagle crowned, or, divided pale wise and fixed 

 to the impaled line : on the sinister side a key in pale 

 argent, the wards in chief, and turned to the sinister ; 

 the shield surmounted with a marquis's coronet." 



Boyer, in his Theatre of Honour, gives — 



" Party per pale argent and gules, in the first a 

 demi-eagle displayed sable, cut by the line of partition 

 and crowned, beaked, and membered of the second. 



" In the second a key in pale argent, the wards 

 sinister." 



Broctuna. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



" Arabian Nights' Entertainments " (Vol. viii., 

 p. 147.). — There is a much stranger omission in 

 these tales than any Mr. Robson has mentioned. 

 From one end of the work to the other (in 

 Galland's version at least) the name of opium is 

 never to be found; and although narcotics are 

 frequently spoken of, it is always in the form of 

 powder they are administered, which shows that 

 that substance cannot be intended ; yet opium is, 

 unlike tobacco or coffee, a genuine Eastern pro- 

 duct, and has been known from the earliest period 

 in those regions. J. S. Warden. 



Richard I. (Vol. viii., p. 72.). — I presume that 

 the Richard I. of the " Tablet " is the " Richard, 

 King of England," who figures in the Roman Ca- 

 lendar on the 7 th February, but who, if he ever 

 existed, was not even monarch of any of the petty 

 kingdoms of the Heptarchy, much less of all Eng- 

 land. However, not to go farther with a subject 

 which might lead to polemical controversy, surely 

 Mr. Lucas is aware that a new series of kings 

 began to be reckoned from the Conquest, and that 

 three Edwards, who had much more right to be 

 styled kings of England than Richard could have 

 possibly had, are not counted in the number of 

 kings of that name ; the reason was, I believe, 

 that these princes, although the paramount rulers 

 of the country, styled themselves much more fre- 

 quently Kings of the West Saxons than Kings of 

 England. J- S. Warden. 



