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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 222. 



describe their positions, nor certify which of them 

 are still used: — Bedfordshire, St. Paul's, Bed- 

 ford; Cheshire, Nantwich; Cornwall, Egloshayle; 

 Devonshire, Chittlehampton, Harberton, Totnes, 

 South YVooton ; Dorsetshire, Frampton ; Glou- 

 cestershire, North Cerney, Cirencester, Cold Ash- 

 ton, Northleach, Pitchcomb, Winchcomb, Glou- 

 cester Cathedral ; Hampshire, Beaulieu Abbey 

 (fine Early Decorated), Shorwell, Isle of Wight ; 

 Oxfordshire, Coombe (1395), Oxford, Magdalene 

 College (1480), Oxford, St. Peter's; Somerset- 

 shire, Chedder, Kew Stoke, Nailsea, Stogumber, 

 Wrington ; Sussex, Clymping ; Warwickshire, 

 Coventry, Trinity Church ; Worcestershire, Wor- 

 cester Cathedral. C. R. M. 



The Glossai'y of Architecture supplies the fol- 

 lowing examples: — Beaulieu, Hampshire, c. 1260 

 (plate 166.), in the refectory; Combe, Oxford- 

 shire, c. 1370 (plate 166.); Magdalene College, 

 Oxford, c. 1480 (plate 166.), in the outer court ; 

 Frampton, Doi*set, c. 1450 (plate 167.); Holy 

 Trinity, Coventry, c. 1500 (plate 167.), restored 

 by Mr. Rickman. 



Are, or were, the pulpits in the refectories of 

 the monasteries of Beverley, Shrewsbury, and 

 Chester, referred to in the Glossary sub vac. Pul- 

 pit, of stone ? W. Sparrow Simpson. 



There are ancient stone pulpits still existing at 

 Beaulieu Abbey Church, now in use, a.d. 1260; 

 Wells Cathedral, in the nave, a.d. 1547; Magdalene 

 College, Oxford, a.d. 1480, in the south-east angle 

 of the first court, formerly used at the Univer- 

 sity Sermon on St. John Baptist's Day ; Combe 

 Church, Oxon., Perp. style : Frampton Church, 

 Dorset, a.d. 1450; Trinity Church, Coventry, 

 a.d. 1500. Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



To the list may be added that of Holy Trinity 

 Church, Coventry, which is a very fine specimen, 

 and furnished with bracket for the book. It ad- 

 joins the south aisle piers, and is in use. 



G. E. T. S. R. N. 



ANTIQUITY OF FIRE -IKONS. 



(Vol. viii., p. 587.) 



The invention of these domestic instruments, 

 called " tongs, fireshovels, and prongs " by Sir 

 T. Browne, dates from a very early period. The 

 "shovel" is the A.-S. fyr-sceofl. Lye refers to 

 " the fire-sholve " of the sixteenth century, which 

 he tells us was " made like a grate to sift the sea- 

 cole with," exactly as we see it constructed now. 

 (See Gage's Hengi-ave, p. 23.) The " poker" (see 

 Du Cange, v. Titionarium) is mentioned by Johan. 

 de Janua, in the thirteenth century. It had 

 formerly two massive prongs, and was commonly 

 called the " fire-fork." There is a poker of this 

 description, temp. Hen. VIII., in Windsor Castle, 



which is figured in Britton's Arcliit. Antiq., vol. ii. 

 p. 99. (See also Strutt's Horda Angelcynn, vol. ii. 

 pp. 62. 64., and Fosbrooke's Encyc. Antiq., pp.264. 

 305. 340.) The " tongs," A.-S. fyr-tang (see Du 

 Cange, v. Tenalea, Tenalcs, Tenecula), with which 

 Swift, mischievously directs us to stir the fire "if 

 the poker be out of* the way," are of the remotest 

 antiquity. They are frequently spoken of in the 

 sacred records, as by Isaiah, vi. 6. ; and we all 

 know to what purpose a similar weapon was ap- 

 plied by holy St. Dunstan. In fact, they are 

 doubtless coeval with fires themselves. The word 

 " tongs " is the old Icelandic, Nomena, or Ddnsk- 

 tunga, taxing, pi. tdngir, the Dan. tang, Scot, and 

 Belg. tangs, taings, Belg. tanghe, Alem. zanga, 

 Germ, zange, Gall, tenaille, Ital. tenaglia, &c. The 

 most ancient of the mytho-cosmogonic poems of 

 the elder Edda attribute to this implement an 

 origin no les3 than divine ; for in the Volo-spa, 

 st. vii., it is stated that when the mighty G£sir 

 assembled on Idavollr to regulate the courses of 

 the stars, to take counsel for the erection of tem- 

 ples and palaces, and to build furnaces, amongst 

 other tools, by them also then fabricated, tdngir 

 scupo, " they made tongs," for the use and delecta- 

 tion of the volundr a jam, or skilful blacksmith 

 (the Weyland smith of " Kenilworlh ") and care- 

 ful housewife of future days. Wm. Matthews. 

 Cowgill. 



Aetquis will perhaps find his question satis- 

 factorily answered by a visit to Goodrich Court, 

 Herefordshire, where the late Sir Samuel Meyrick, 

 with the industry and exactness which distinguished 

 that indefatigable antiquary, had arranged a series 

 of rooms illustrative of the domestic habits of the 

 twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, 

 and seventeenth centuries. 



It is so long ago since I saw these rooms (and 

 then but very cursorily), that I will not undertake 

 to say the series was complete from the twelfth 

 inclusive ; and when, recently, last there, the 

 family were at home, and nothing but the armoury 

 shown ; but from the evident care taken of that 

 unrivalled and magnificent collection by the present 

 proprietor, the series of appropriate furniture, 

 each genuine specimens of the period they repre- 

 sent, is doubtless preserved intact, though I un- 

 derstood that the chambers had been since fitted 

 up more consistently with the requirements of the 

 nineteenth century. Brookthorpe. 



ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. 



(Vol. vii., p. 407.) 



R. L. P. asks " What members of the British 

 language were present, when, in 1546, the English 

 commander Upton attacked and defeated the 

 famous corsair Dragut at Tarschien, in Malta?" . ; 



