Mae. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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p. 628.). attributes The Synagogue to Thomas Harvey, 

 first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire. 

 " There can be no doubt," adds Mr. Bliss, " but a Ch. 

 Harvie was the author of this poem, particularly as 

 Walton contributed some commendatory verses to it, 

 which were repaid by another copy prefixed to the 

 Compleat Angler by Harvie ; but whether this was 

 Christopher Harvey, the vicar of Clifton, or some 

 other, remains to be decided. If it was, it is at least 

 singular that. Wood, who was so inquisitive in these 

 matters, should have been ignorant of the circum- 

 stance." Harvey died before the 4th Sept. 1663, as 

 on that day Samuel Bradwall was instituted to the 

 vicarage of Clifton, void by the death of the last in- 

 cumbent. — See Sir John Hawkins' edition of The 

 Complete Angler, p. 186.; also " N. & Q.," Vol. vi., 

 pp. 463. 591.'] 



Dannocks. — Hedging-gloves made of whit-lea- 

 ther (untanned leather), and used by workmen in 

 cutting and trimming fences, are called in this 

 part of Norfolk dannocks. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents say whence the word is derived ? 



J. L. S. 



Edingthorpe. 



[" It should rather be Dornecks," says Forby, "which 

 is the proper Flemish name of Tournai, a Frenchified 

 name, long since universally substituted. Two hun- 

 dred years ago it was celebrated for its coarse woollen 

 manufactures, principally of carpets and hangings, 

 mentioned in some of our old comedies. Probably 

 thick gloves were another article of importation. Our 

 modern dannocks, indeed, are of thick leather, and 

 made at home by our own glovers. Dan. dorneck."~] 



Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. — In 

 the Church of All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

 (an erection dating at some period of the Protes- 

 tant dark ages), jhere is a magnificent Flemish 

 brass, of which the incumbent refuses to allow a 

 rubbing to be taken, on the ground that the pro- 

 cess would injure it ! Can any of your corre- 

 spondents tell me if it has been engraved, and 

 where ? J. H. B. 



[There is a beautiful representation of the very 

 curious plate of brass inlaid on the table monument of 

 Roger Thornton, the celebrated patron of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, temp. Henry IV., and still preserved in 

 the Church of All Saints in that town, engraved in 

 Brand's History of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, vol. i. p. 382. 

 Mention is also made by that author of another work 

 containing it, entitled Monuments in the Churches of St. 

 Nicholas and All Saints. ] 



Imperfect Bible. — A Bible has lately come into 

 my possession in an imperfect state. It is in 

 black letter, 4to., with the capitals commencing 

 the chapters in Roman letters. I wish to know 

 the date and printer. It begins at fol. 7., at the 

 end of the 6th verse of xvth chapter of Genesis, 

 " counted that to him for righteousness." There 

 are a number of engravings representing the in- 



Vol. IX. — No. 230. 



struments used in the temple and tabernacle, at 

 fol. 36. 38. 40. 62. 160. &c. There is no date, but 

 I think it is about 1590 or 1600. 



An Ignoramus on the Subject. 



[This imperfect Bible is one of the very numerous 

 series of editions of the Genevan or Puritan version, 

 commonly called the Breeches Bible. It is not a 4to. 

 but a pot folio, having six leaves to the sheet or signa- 

 ture, " Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Chris- 

 topher Barker, printer to the Queen's most excellent 

 Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1595. Cum privilegio." Our 

 correspondent's copy wants the title and preface (three 

 leaves), six leaves of Genesis, the title to the N. Testa- 

 ment, and at the end eleven leaves, including the two 

 tables. The translation may be identified by the last 

 word of 1 Cor. vi. 9., or by 1 Tim. i. 10. There is 

 another edition by the same printer, and of similar 

 size, in the year 1602 ; but the title to the second part 

 has " conteineth," instead of " conteining."] 



The Poem of a Helga." — At what date was this 

 poem, by Herbert, written ? Seeeocus. 



[This poem was commenced, as the author states in 

 his preface, " soon after the publication of the trans- 

 lations which he made from the relics of ancient Ice- 

 landic and Scandinavian poetry," issued in 1805.] 



" Merry weather s Tempest Prognosticator." — I 

 wish to know if there be a book published en- 

 titled " Merry weather's Weather Prognostica- 

 tion ?" I think, if I mistake not, I saw it among 

 the nautical instruments, &c. in the naval depart- 

 ment of the London Exhibition in 1851. I can- 

 not find here if there be any such book extant. 



J. T. C. 



Dublin. 



[The work is entitled An Essay explanatory of the 

 Tempest Prognosticator in the Building of the Great Ex- 

 hibition for the Works of Industry of all Nations, read 

 before the Whitby Philosophical Society, Feb. 27, 1851, 

 by George Merry weather, M. D., the Designer and 

 Inventor : London, John Churchill, Princes Street, 

 Soho, 1851.] 



Edward Spencer's Marriage. — Can any reader 

 supply me with particulars of the marriage of 

 Edward Spencer of Rendlesham, co. Suffolk, and 

 Grosvenor Square, who lived in the early part of 

 the last century, and whose daughters married the 

 Duke of Hamilton and Sir James Dashwood ? 



Charles Bridger. 



Keppel St., Russell Sq. 



[The following entry is given in Davy's Suffolk 

 Collections (Add. MSS. 19,097., p. 272.) : "Edward 

 Spencer, son of John Spencer, Esq., ob. 1718. Edward, 

 now living at Naunton Hall, is a barrister-at-law. He 

 married Anne, the only daughter of William Baker of 

 Layham, clerk, by whom he had issue Henry Spencer, 

 who died an infant, and Anne Spencer, their only 

 daughter, and now living." This extract is copied 

 from Hawes's MSS., the date of which, unfortunately, 

 is not given.] 



