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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 231. 



verses differ from those quoted in Brand, from an 

 Almanack printed at Basle in 1672, I here give 

 the Guernsey copy : 



" Je tc donneray ugne doctryne 

 Qui te vauldra d'or ugne myne ; 

 Et sordement sur moy te fonde, 

 Car je dure autant que ce monde : 

 Et sy te veulx byen advertir 

 Et que je ne veulx point mentir. 

 De mortaylle guerre ou chertey. 

 fA line appears to be lost here] 

 Si le jour St. Paul le eonvers 

 Se trouve byaucob descouvert, 

 E'on aura pour celle sayson 

 Du bled et du foyn a foyson ; 

 Et sy se jour fait vant sur terre, 

 Ce nous synyfye guerre ; 

 S'yl pleut ou nege sans fallir 

 Le chier tans nous doet asalir; 

 Si de nyelle faict, brunes ou brouillars, 

 Selon le dyt de nos vyellars, 

 Mortalitey nous est ouverte." 



Another line appears to be omitted here ; then 

 follow immediately the lines on St. Vincent's 

 Day. Edgar MacCulloch. 



Guernsey. 



The following is copied from an old manuscript 

 collection of curiosities in my possession. I should 

 "be glad to know the author's name, and that of 

 the book* from which it is taken : — 



" Observations on Remarkable Days, to hnow how the 

 whole Year will succeed in Weather, Plenty, $-c. 



" If it be lowering or wet on Childermas or Innocence 

 Day, it threatens scarcity and mortality among the 

 weaker sort of young people ; but if the day be very 

 fair, it promiseth plenty. 



" If New Year's Day, in the morning, open with 

 dusky red clouds, it denotes strifes and debates among 

 great ones, and many robberies to happen that year. 



" It is remarkable on Shrove Tuesday, that as the 

 sun shine little or much on that day, or as other wea- 

 ther happens, so shall every day participate more or 

 less of such weather till the end of Lent. 



" If the sun shines clear on Palm Sunday, or Easter 

 Day, or either of them, there will be great store of 

 fair weather, plenty of corn, and other fruits of the 

 earth . 



" If it rains on Ascension Day, though never so 

 little, it foretells a scarcity to ensue that year, and sick- 

 ness particularly among cattle ; but if it be fair and 

 pleasant, then to the contrary, and pleasant weather 

 mostly till Michaelmas. 



" If it happen to rain on "Whitsunday, much thun- 

 der and lightning will follow, blasts, mildews, &c. 

 But if it be fair, great plenty of corn. 



J** The Shepherd's Kalendar, by Thomas Passenger. 

 See " N. & Q..," Vol. viii., p. 50., where many of his 

 observations are quoted Ed.] 



" If Midsummer Day be never so little rainy, the 

 hazel and walnut will be scarce, corn smitten in many 

 places ; but apples, pears, and plums will not be hurt. 



" If on St. Swithin's Day it proves fair, a temperate 

 winter will follow ; but if rainy, stormy, or windy, 

 then the contrary. 



" If St. Bartholomew Day be misty, the morning 

 beginning with a hoar frost, then cold weather will 

 soon ensue, and a sharp winter attended with many 

 biting frosts. 



" If Michaelmas Day be fair, the sun will shine 

 much in the winter ; though the wind at north-east 

 will frequently reign long, and be very sharp and nip- 

 ping." 



Ruby. 



BINGHAM S ANTIQUITIES. 



(Vol.ix., p. 197.) 



I be<r to send to your correspondent Mr. Ri- 

 chard Bingham the following replies to his seven 

 Queries. 



1. If there be any use in verifying so slight a 

 vei'bal reference to Panormitan, one of whose 

 huge folios, Venet. 1473, I have examined in vain, 

 perhaps the object might be attained by the as- 

 sistance of such a book as Thomassin's Veins et 

 Nova Ecclesim Disciplina, Jin the chapter " De 

 Episcopis Titularibus," torn. i. 



2. Bishop Bale's description of the monks of 

 Bangor is to be found in his Scriptor. Britann. 

 Catal. Compare Richard Broughton's True Me- 

 morial of the ancient State of Great Britain, 

 pp. 39. 40, ed. an. 1650. 



3. I should think in his Colloquies, and most 

 probably in the Peregrinatio Religionis ergo. 

 Erasmus, in his Modus orandi Deum, also observes 

 that "quidam in concionibus implorant opem 

 Virginis," and condemns the " vestigia veteris 

 Paganismi." (sigg. u and * 2, Basil, 1551.) 



4. Respecting the existence of what is called 

 the Epistle of St. Athanasius to Eustathius, Car- 

 dinal Bona was right and Bingham in error. 

 Vide St. Athan., Opp. ii. 560, ed. Bened. 



5. Bingham was seriously astray in consequence 

 of his misunderstanding Bona, who does not by 

 any means refer to Pamelius, but to the anony- 

 mous author of the Antiquitatwm Liturgicarum 

 Syntagma, who is believed to have been Floren- 

 tius Vanderhaer. If Pamelius is to be introduced 

 at all, the reference in Bingham should be, not to 

 " torn. iii. p. 307.," but to i. 328-30. I would re- 

 mark too that, in the heading of one of the ex- 

 tracts subjoined, "ex Vita Ambrosiana," should 

 be " ex Ritu Ambrosiano." 



6. Joannes Semeca did not nourish a.d. 1250, 

 but died in 1243. Suicer wrongly refers to 

 " Dist. iv. cap. iv.," and Harding, more inaccu- 

 rately, to " Dist. iv. can. iv. (Bp. Jewel's Worhs y 



