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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 234. 



and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all 

 things, and to invent all things." — Exod. xxxv. 35. 



And Christian women are reminded that all their 

 skill in such work is the gift of God. The learned 

 Benedictine Rupertus has a comment upon this 

 passage of Exodus, so apposite that its substance 

 may appropriately conclude this Note : 



" Disce hinc, artes omnes, etiam mechanicas, esse 

 dona Dei, saltern naturalia, neque in iis ut suis, suaque 

 industria inventis aut partis, homini gloriandum esse 

 (q. d. vanitatem observare), sed illas Deo adscribendas, 

 ab eoque petendas, et in ejus obsequium expendendas 

 €sse." 



F. C. HlJSENBETH, D.D. 



The passage which your correspondent R. H. G. 

 quotes from the Council of Ancyra, a.d. 314, is 

 not to be found in the canons of that Council, 

 which are printed in their original Greek, with 

 several Latin translations, in Labbe's Concilia, 

 vol. ii. p. 513. The meaning of the sentence does 

 not seem very abstruse ; but before any suggestion 

 is made for its interpretation, it will be desirable 

 to ascertain to what Council it belongs. L. 



Divining Rod (Vol. viii., pp. 350. 400.). — Your 

 correspondents do not tell us what was discovered 

 in the places to which the rod pointed in the 

 hands of the ladies named ; but although they 

 cannot for a moment be suspected of wilfully 

 deceiving, may there not have been, as in table- 

 turning, an unconscious employment of muscular 

 force? I have long since read, and have tried 

 with success, the following mode of producing the 

 effect : — Holding the rod in the usual position, 

 one branch of the fork in each hand, and grasping 

 them firmly, turn your hands slowly and steadily 

 round inwards, i. e. the right hand from the right 

 to left, and the left from left to right — the point 

 of the rod will then gradually descend till it points 

 directly downwards. J. S. Warden. 



Orange Blossoms (Vol. viii., p. 341.). — The 

 compliment of Captain Absolute to Mrs. Mala- 

 prop in The Rivals, contains, I have no doubt, the 

 allegorical reason of the employment of these 

 flowers on bridal occasions ; and in that view they 

 seem highly appropriate, at least in our colder 

 climates — where we often see many "flowers" 

 still on the parent stem, while the "fruit" has 

 attained its full perfection. J. S. Warden. 



"Hip, hip, hurrah!" (Vol. viii., pp. 88. 323. 

 605.). — Allow me to correct two mistakes with 

 reference to the notes on this subject. The note 

 ascribed to Dr. Burney, in a copy of Hawkins's 

 History of Music, in the British Museum, is in 

 the handwriting of Sir John Hawkins, as are all 

 the other notes scattered through the five volumes. 

 These MS. notes have been included in the recent 

 reprint of this valuable work. In the hurry of 



transcribing, Mr. Chappell (as your correspondent 

 A. F. B. suggests) misread the MS. note. In 

 future we must read " hop drinkers," and not 

 " hep drinkers." Edward F. Rimbault. 



Belgium Ecclesiastical Antiquities (Vol. vii., 

 p. 65.). — The inquiry of Ajax has only been re- 

 cently brought under my notice. In reply, I refer 

 him to Recueil Heraldique et Historique des Families 

 de Belgique. This is the finest work on the antiqui- 

 ties, civil, military, and ecclesiastic, of that country : 

 it was printed at Antwerp by Rapell fils, and is 

 in five large 4to. volumes. I saw a copy sold in 

 Malines for about 37. : it is now become more 

 scarce, and probably could not be obtained under 

 4Z. Henry Daveney. 



MiZteTlmtaug. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Faussett Collection has, as our readers are pro- 

 bably aware, become the property not of the public, 

 but of a private individual, Mr. Joseph Mayer, F.S. A., 

 of Liverpool, who, with praiseworthy liberality, has 

 resolved to make the Collection as useful as possible 

 to the public. He has therefore determined to pub- 

 lish, under the title of Saxon Antiquities from the 

 Kentish Tumuli, Mr. Faussett's copious MS. accounts 

 of the opening of the Barrows, and of the discoveries 

 made in them ; accompanied by numerous illustrations 

 of the more important objects themselves, especially of 

 the world-renowned Gold Brooches, which exhibit 

 such exquisite specimens of the artistic skill of our 

 ancestors. The work will appear under the editorship 

 of Mr. C. Roach Smith, who will illustrate Mr. 

 Faussett's discoveries by the results of kindred inves- 

 tigations in France and Germany. The subscription 

 price is Two Guineas, and the number of copies will, 

 as far as possible, be regulated by the list of sub- 

 scribers. 



A few months since The Athenceum announced the 

 discovery at Lambeth, some time previously, of a 

 number of documents of the Cromwellian period. 

 This announcement attracted the attention of some 

 French literary man, probably M. Guizot, who appears 

 to have made some inquiries on the subject, which re- 

 sulted in a paragraph in the Journal des Debats, not, 

 indeed, contradicting the fact of the discovery, but 

 denying its importance. Can any of our readers throw 

 light upon this matter ? Had our valued corre- 

 spondent Dr. Maitland still held office at Lambeth, 

 there would probably not have been any doubt left as 

 to the value or worthlessness of any MSS. discovered 

 under the archiepiscopal roof, — albeit, found as we 

 have understood these to have been, not in the depart- 

 ment of the librarian, or, indeed, of any of the officials, 

 but in some out-of-the-way tower. Have these docu- 

 ments been examined ? If so, what are they ? If not, 

 why does not the Society of Antiquaries send a de- 

 putation to the archbishop, and request his permission 

 to undertake the task. Probably their labour would 



