Mar. 4. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The Year 1854. — This year commenced and 

 •will terminate on a Sunday. In looking through 

 the Almanac, it will be seen that there are five 

 Sundays in five months of the year, viz. in January, 

 April, July, October, and December : five Mon- 

 days in January, May, July, and October; five 

 Tuesdays in January, May, August, and October ; 

 five Wednesdays in March, May, August, and 

 November; five Thursdays, in March, June, 

 August, and November ; five Fridays in March, 

 June, September, and December ; five Saturdays 

 in April, July, September, and December ; and, 

 lastly, fifty-three Sundays in the year. 



The age of her Majesty the Queen is thirty-five, 

 or seven times five ; and the age of Prince Albert 

 the same. 



Last Christmas having fallen on the Sunday, I 

 am reminded of the following lines : 



" Lordings all of you I warn, 

 If the day that Christ was born 

 Fall upon a Sunday, 

 The winter shall be good I say, 

 But great winds aloft shall be ; 

 The summer shall be fine and dry. 

 By hind skill, and without loss, 

 Through all lands there shall be peace. 

 Good time for all things to be done; 

 But he that stealeth shall be found soon. 

 What child that day born may be, 

 A great lord he shall live to be." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



A Significant Hint. — The following lines were 

 communicated to me by a friend some years ago, 

 as having been written by a blacksmith of the 

 village of Tideswell in Derbyshire ; who, having 

 often been reproved by the parson, or ridiculed by 

 his neighbours, for drunkenness, placed them on 

 the church door the day after the event they com- 

 memorate : 



" Ye Tideswellites, can this be true, 



Which Fame's loud trumpet brings ; 

 That ye, to view the Cambrian Prince, 



Forsook the King of Kings ? 

 That when his rattling chariot wheels, 



Proclaim'd his Highness near, 

 Ye trod upon each others' heels, 



To leave the house of prayer. 

 Be wise next time, adopt this plan, 



Lest ye be left i' th* lurch ; 

 And place at th' end of th' town a man 



To ask him into Church." 



It is said that, on the occasion of the late Prince 

 of Wales passing through Tideswell on a Sunday, 

 a man was placed to give notice of his coming, 

 and the parson and his flock rushed out to see him 

 pass at full gallop. E. P. Paling. 



Chorley. 



dhttrtaft 



EITERAHY QUERIES. 



Mb. Richard Bingham will feel grateful to 

 any literary friend who may be able to assist him 

 in solving some or all of the following difficulties. 



1. Where does Panormitan or Tudeschis (Com- 

 mentar. in Quinque Libros Decretalium) apply the 

 term nullatenenses to titular and Utopian bishops ? 

 See Origines Ecclesiastic®, 4. 6. 2. 



2. In which of his books does John Bale, Bishop 

 of Ossory, speaking of the monks of Bangor, term 

 them " Apostolicals ? " See Ibid., 7. 2. 13. 



3. Where does Erasmus say that the preachers 

 of the Roman Church invoked the Virgin Mary 

 in the beginning of their discourses, much as the 

 heathen poets were used to invoke their Muses ? 

 See Ibid., 14. 4. 15. ; and Ferrarius de Eitu Con- 

 cionum, 1. 1. c. xi. 



4. Bona (Rer. Liturg., 1. n. c. ii. n. 1.) speaks of 

 an epistle from Athanasius to Eustathius, where 

 he inveighs against the Arian bishops, who in the 

 beginning of their sermons said "Pax vobiscum .'" 

 while they harassed others, and were tragically at 

 war. But the learned Bingham (14. 4. 14.) passes 

 this by, and leaves it with Bona, because there 

 is no such epistle in the works of Athanasius. 

 Where else ? How can Bona's error be corrected? 

 or is there extant in operibus Athanasii a letter of 

 his to some other person, containing the expres- 

 sions to which Bona refers ? 



5. In another place (Rer. Liturg., 1. n. c. 4. n. 3.) 

 Bona refers to torn. iii. p. 307. of an Auctor An- 

 tiquitatum Litvrgicarum for certain formula ; and 

 Joseph Bingham (15. 1. 2.) understands him to 

 mean Pamelius, whose work does not exceed two 

 volumes. Neither does Pamelius notice at all 

 the first of the two formula, though he has the 

 second, or nearly the same. How can this also be 

 explained ? And to what work, either anonymous 

 or otherwise, did Bona refer in his expression 

 " Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum ? " 



6. In which old edition of Gratiani Decretum, 

 probably before the early part of the sixteenth 

 century, can be found the unmutilated glosses of 

 John Semeca, surnamed Teutonicus ? and espe- 

 cially the gloss on De Consecrat., Distinct. 4. c. 4., 

 where he says that even in his time (1250 ?) the 

 custom still prevailed in some places of giving the 

 eucharist to babes ? See Orig. Ecclesiast., 15. 4. 7. 



7. Joseph Bingham (16. 3. 6.) finds fault with 

 Baronius for asserting that Pope Symmachus ana- 

 thematized the Emperor Anastasius, and asserts 

 that instead of Ista quidem ego, as given by Ba- 

 ronius and Binius, in the epistle of Symmachus, 

 Ep. vii. al. vi. (see also Labbe and Cossart, t. iv. 

 p. 1298.), the true reading is Ista quidem nego. 

 How can this be verified ? The epistle is not ex- 

 tant either in Crabbe or Merlin. Is the argument 



