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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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morial : and in all the old records and plans, the 

 green roads are called " warple-ways." Some of 

 the old plans are marked " worple way," some 

 " warple way." Can any of your readers tell me 

 the derivation and meaning of the word, and refer 

 me to an authority ? Wm. Smythe. 



Purlet. — Nelson, and the subsequent historians 

 of Islington, relate a marvellous story on the 

 authority of Purlet de Mir. Nat. x. c. iv. : 



" And as to the same heavings, or tremblements de 

 terre, it is sayde, y* in a certaine fielde neare unto y e 

 parish church of Islingtoun, in like manner, did take 

 place a wondrous commotion in uarious partes, y e 

 earthe swellinge, and turninge uppe euery side towards 

 y e midst of y e sayde fielde ; and, by tradycion of this, 

 it is obserued y* one Richard de Clouesley lay buryed 

 in or neare y* place, and y* his bodie being restles, on 

 y e score of some sinne by him peraduenture committed, 

 did shewe or seeme to signifye y' religious obseruance 

 should there take place, to quiet his departed spirit ; 

 Whereupon certaine exorcisers, if wee may so term y m , 

 did at dede of night, nothing lothe, using divers diuine 

 exercises at torche light, set at rest y e unrulie spirit of 

 y e sayde Clouesley, and y e earthe did returne aneare 

 to its pristine shape, neuermore commotion procedeing 

 therefrom to this day, and this I know of a verie cer- 

 taintie." — Nelson's Islington, 4to. 1811, p. 305., or 8vo. 

 1823, p. 293. 



The spelling of this extract seems at least as 

 old as the time of Cloudesley's death (1517), al- 

 though it would appear to be a translation ; and 

 though the exorcism is apparently spoken of as 

 having taken place long before the time of the 

 writer. From these and other circumstances, I 

 am led to suspect that Nelson was the victim of 

 a cruel hoax, particularly as I am unable to find 

 any such book as Purlet de Mir. Nat. in the 

 British Museum. 



Query, Does any such book exist ; and if so, 

 where ? Frideswide. 



Islington. 



Liveries, Red and Scarlet. — In a provincial 

 paper, I noticed a paragraph dating the origin of 

 wearing red coats in fox-hunting from a mandate 

 of Henry II., who it appears made fox-hunting a 

 royal sport, and gave to all distributors of foxes 

 the scarlet uniform of the royal household : this 

 also would involve another question as regards 

 the origin of scarlet being the colour of the royal 

 livery. Can any of your sporting or antiquarian 

 correspondents give me any authority for the 

 former, and any information about the latter ? 



W. E. W. RlJMBOED. 



Dr. Bragge. — I shall be much obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who will give me inform- 

 ation respecting Dr. Bragge, who flourished about 

 the year 1756 Who wa3 he? Where did he get 

 his degree ? Who were his chief dupes ? Where 



did he live ? He appears, from various inscrip- 

 tions round an engraved portrait, to have been a 

 great duping dealer in pictures. E. H. 



Chauncy, or Chancy. — Any reference to works 

 containing biographical notices of Charles Chauncy, 

 or Chancy, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, circa 1620, will oblige J. Y. 



Plaster Casts. — Ruby would be thankful for a 

 good receipt for bronzing plaster casts. 



"Streepa." — In the prophecy regarding the 

 birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 15.) the angel 

 says : 



" Kal olvov kclI (riKepa ov /j.t} 7Tijj." 



This is in the authorised version (I quote from 

 the original 1611 edit.) rightly rendered : 

 " And shal drinke neither wine nor strong drinke." 



Now, in the Golden Legend, fol. cxl. (Wynkyn 

 de Worde's edition, London, 1516) is this account : 



" For he shal be grete, and of grete meryte tofore 

 our Lord : he shall not drinke wyne, ne syder, ne 

 thynge wherof he myght be dronken." 



I need hardly remind your readers that o-'iKepa 

 was often used by the LXX translators for an 

 intoxicating liquor, as distinguished from wine, 

 viz. Levit. x. 9., Numbers vi. 3., &c, and in about 

 nine places ; but I do not remember " syder" as 

 the " thynge wherof he myghte be dronken." Can 

 any of your philological friends call to mind a 

 similar version ? I do not want to be told the 

 derivation of a'wepa, for that is obvious ; nor do I 

 lack information as to the inebriating qualities of 

 " syder," for, alas ! an intimate acquaintance with 

 Devonshire has often brought before my notice 

 persons "dronken" with that exhilarating be- 

 verage. Richard Hooper. 



St. Stephen's, Westminster. 



Dogs in Monumental Brasses. — Is there any 

 symbolical meaning conveyed in the dogs which 

 are so often introduced at the feet of ladies in 

 brasses, and dogs and lions at the feet of knights ? 

 One fact is worthy of notice, that while the omis- 

 sion of the dog is frequent in the brasses of ladies 

 (e.g. in that of Lady Camoys, 1424, at Trotton, 

 Sussex, and Joan, Lady Cobham, 1320, Cobham, 

 Kent, and several others), the lion or dog, as the 

 case may be, of the knight is scarcely ever left 

 out ; indeed, I have only been able to find two or 

 three instances. But again, in brasses later than 

 1460, the dogs and lions are seldom, if ever, found 

 either in the brasses of knights or ladies. Can 

 you afford me any information on these points ? 



B. H. Aeford. 



Tonbridge, Kent. 



