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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 227. 



Battle of Villers-en-Couche (Vol. viii. passim). 

 — A good account of this celebrated engagement, 

 with several authentic documents relating to what 

 happened on the occasion, will be found in that 

 very interesting little work, Risen from the Ranks, 

 by the Rev. E. Neale (London, Longmans, 1853). 

 James Spence Harry. 



" I could not love thee, dear, so much " (Vol. ix., 

 p. 125.). — These lines are from an exquisite mor- 

 ceau entitled To Lucasta, on going to the Wars, by 

 the gay, gallant, and ill-fated cavalier, Richard 

 Lovelace, whose undying loyalty and love, and 

 whose life, and every line that he wrote, are all 

 redolent of the best days of chivalry. They are 

 to be found in a 12mo. volume, Lucasta, London, 

 1649. The entire piece is so short, that I venture 

 to subjoin it : 



" Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde, 

 That from the nunnerie 

 Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, 

 To warre and armes I flie. 



" True, a new mistresse now I chase, 

 The first foe in the field ; 

 And with a stronger faith imbrace 

 A sword, a horse, a shield. 



" Yet this inconstancy is such, 

 As you too shall adore ; 

 I could not love thee, deare, so much, 

 Loved I not honour more." 



To the honour of Kent be it remembered that 

 Lovelace was Cantianus. 



[We are also indebted for Replies to E. L. Holt 

 "White, Geo. E. Frere, E. C. H., J. K. R. W., H. J. 

 Raines, M.D., F. J. Scott, W. J. B. Smith, E. S. T. T., 

 C. B. E., F. E. E., &c. * Lovelace (says Wood) made 

 his amours to a gentlewoman of great beauty and 

 fortune, named Lucy Sacheverel, whom lie usually 

 called Lux casta ; but she, upon a strong report that 

 he was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk (where 

 he had brought a regiment for the service of the French 

 ting), soon after married." — Wood's Athence Oxoni- 

 enses, vol. iii. p. 462. j 



Sir Charles Cotterell (Vol. viii., p. 564.). — Sir 

 Charles Cotterell, the translator of Cassandra, was 

 Master of the Ceremonies to Charles II. ; which 

 office he resigned to his son in 1686, and died 

 about 1687. I cannot say where he was buried. 

 I am in possession of a copy of — 



" The Memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first Wife 

 to Henry the Fourth, King of France and Navarre ; 

 compiled in French by her own most delicate and 

 Royal Hand, and translated into English by Robert 

 Codrington, Master of Arts : London, printed by 

 R. H. 1661." 



It is dedicated to " To the true lover of all good 

 learning, the truly honourable Sir Charles Cot- 

 terell, Knight, Master of the Ceremonies," &c. 

 On the fly-leaf of it is written, " Frances Cottrell, 



her booke, given by my honor'd grandfather Sir 

 Cha. Cottrell." This edition is not mentioned by 

 Lowndes ; he only speaks of one of the date of 

 1662, with a title slightly different. C— S. T. P. 



Muffins and Crumpets (Vol. ix., p. 77.). — Crum- 

 pet, according to Todd's Johnson, is derived from 

 A.-S. cnompeht, which Boswell explains, " full of 

 crumples, wrinkled." Perhaps muffin is derived 

 from, or connected with, the following : 



" Moffi.et. Moffletus. Mofletus Panis delicatioris 

 species, qui diatim distribui solet Canonicis praeben- 

 dariis ; Tolosatibus Pain Movfflet, quasi Pain molet 

 dictus ; forte quod ejusmodi panes singulis diebus 

 coquantur, atque recentes et teneri distribuantur." — 

 Du Cange. 



The latter part of the description is very appli- 

 cable to this article. 



Under Panes Prabendarii, Du Cange says, 

 "Innoc. Cironus observat ejusmodi panes Pra> 

 bendarios dici, et in Tolosano tractu Moufflets 

 appellari." (See " N. & Q ," Vol. i., pp. 173. 205. 

 253.) Zeus. 



Todd, for the derivation of crumpet, gives the 

 Saxon cnompehc. To crump is to eat a hard cake 

 (Halliwell's Archaisms). Perhaps its usual ac- 

 companiment on the tea-table may be indebted 

 for its name to its muff-like softness to the touch 

 before toasting. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



" Clunk" (Vol. viii., p. 65.). — The Scotch, and 

 English, clunk must have different meanings : for 

 Jamieson defines the verb to clunk " to emit a 

 hollow and interrupted sound, as that proceeding 

 from any liquid confined in a cask, when shaken, 

 if the cask be not full ; " and to guggle, as a 

 "straight-necked bottle, when it is emptying ;" and 

 yet I am inclined to believe that the word also 

 signifies to swallow, as in England. In the humo- 

 rous ballad of " Rise up and bar the door," clunk 

 seems to be used in the sense of to swallow : 

 " And first they eat the white puddins, and than they 



eat the black ; 

 The gudeman said within himsel, the Deil clunk 



ower ai that." 

 That is, may you swallow the devil with the black 

 puddings, they perhaps being the best to the good 

 man's taste. True, I have seen the word printed 

 " clink," instead of clunk in this song ; but errone- 

 ously I think, as there is no signification of clink 

 in Jamieson that could be appropriately used by 

 the man who saw his favourite puddings devoured 

 before his face. To clink, means to " beat smartly," 

 to " rivet the point of a nail," to " propagate scan- 

 dal, or any rumour quickly ;" none of which signi- 

 fications could be substituted for clunk in the ballad. 



Henry Stephens. 



Picts 1 Houses (Vol. viii., p. 392.). — Such build- 

 ings underground as those described as Picts' 



