April 8. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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word being anciently used for advowson, as may 

 be seen by the glossary to Robert of Gloucester's 

 Works. C. H. 



I submit that this word means advowsoner, that 

 is, " owner of the advowson." Q. D. 



Word-minting (Vol. ix., p. 151.). — To Mr. 

 Melville's list of new words, you may add : 

 talented (Yankee), adumbrate (pedantic), service. 

 The latter word is of very late importation from 

 the French, within three years, as applied to the 

 lines of steamers, or traffic of railways. It is an 

 age of word- minting ; and bids fair to corrupt the 

 purity of the English language by the coinage of 

 the slovenly writer, and adoption of foreign or 

 learned words which possess an actual synonym 

 in our own tongue. Mr. Melville deserves our 

 thanks for his timely notice of such "contraband" 

 wares. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Your correspondent Mr. Melville will be 

 surprised to learn that the words deranged, de- 

 rangement, now so generally used in reference to 

 a disordered intellect, or madness, are not to be 

 found in any dictionary that I have seen. J. A. H. 



Fair Rosamond (Vol. ix., p. 163.). — The lines 

 which your correspondent C. C. inquires for are 

 from Warner's Albion's England, which first ap- 

 peared in thirteen books in 1586 : 



" Fair Rosamond, surprised thus ere thus she did 



expect, 

 Fell on her humble knees, and did her fearful hands 



erect : 

 She blushed out beauty, whilst the tears did wash 



her pleasing face, 

 And begged pardon, meriting no less of common 



grace. 

 * So far, forsooth, as in me lay, I did,' quoth she, 



1 withstand ; 

 But what may not so great a king by means or force 



command ? ' 

 ■ And dar'st thou, minion,' quoth the queen, ' thus 



article to me ? ' 



With that she dashed her on the lips, so dyed double 



red : 

 Hard was the heart that gave the blow, soft were 



those lips that bled." 



J. M. B. 



Death-warnings in ancient Families (Vol. ix., 

 pp.55. 114. 150.).— 



" As a Peaksman, and a long resident in the Isle of 

 Man, Peveril was well acquainted with many a super- 

 stitious legend; and particularly with a belief, which 

 attached to the powerful family of the Stanleys, for 

 their peculiar demon, a Ban-shie, or female spirit, who 

 was wont to shriek, < Foreboding evil times ; ' and 

 who was generally seen weeping and bemoaning her- 

 self before the death of any person of distinction be- 



longing to the family." — Peveril of the Peak, vol. ii. 

 p. 174. 



J. M. 



Oxford. 



Poets Laureate (Vol. ii., p. 20.). — Your cor- 

 respondent S. H. will find " an account of the 

 origin, office, emoluments, and privileges of poet 

 laureate" in a recent work entitled The Lives of 

 the Poets Laureate, with an Introductory Essay on 

 the Title and Office, by W. S. Austin, Jun., and 

 J. Ralph (Richard Bentley, 1853). 



From The Memoirs of William Wordsworth, 

 vol. ii. p. 403., it would appear that there is a 

 " very interesting literary essay on the laureates of 

 England by Mr. Quillinan." 



In the year 1803, it would appear that Lord 

 Hardvvicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, " offered 

 to create a laureateship in Ireland, with the same 

 emoluments as the English one," if Mr. Moore 

 would accept it. (Memoirs of Tom Moore, vol. i. 

 p. 228.) 



From Mr. Moore's Letter to his Mother, dated 

 May 20, 1803, we learn that — 



" The manner in which Mr. "Wickham communi- 

 cated the circumstance to me would disgust any man 

 with the least spirit of independence about him. I 

 accordingly, yesterday, after the receipt of my father's 

 letter, enclosed the ode on the birth-day, at the same 

 time resigning the situation." — Memoirs of Tom Moore, 

 vol.i. pp. 126 — 128. 



Leonard L. Hartley. 

 York. 



Brissot de Warville (Vol. ix., p. 209.). — Since 

 my last communication on the above subject, I 

 have obtained The Life of J. P. Brissot, 8fc, 

 written by himself, an 8vo. volume of pp. 92, pub- 

 lished by Debrett, London, 1794. It is a trans- 

 lation, the original of which I have never seen. 

 And if you do not think the subject exhausted, 

 perhaps you will spare a few lines for his own ac- 

 count of his name. 



" The office of an attorney was my gymnasium ; I 

 laboured in it for the space of five years, as well in the 

 country as in Paris. ... To relieve my weari- 

 ness and disgust, 1 applied myself to literature and to 

 the sciences. The study of the languages was, above 

 all others, my favourite pursuit. Chance threw in my 

 way two Englishmen, on a visit to my own country : 

 I learned their language, and this circumstance decided 

 my fate. It was at the commencement of my passion 

 for that language that I made the metamorphosis of a 

 diphthong in my name, which has been imputed to me 

 as so great a crime ; and, since I must render an ac- 

 count of every particular point, lest even the slightest 

 hold against me should be afforded to malignity, I will 

 declare the cause of the change in question. Born 

 the thirteenth child of my family, and the second of 

 my brothers in it, I bore, for the purpose of being dis- 

 tinguished from them, according to the custom of 

 Beance, the name of a village in which my father pos- 



