May 27. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



495 



cap in the royal presence. He was nearly allied 

 to the Lord Treasurer Cecil Lord Burleigh, who 

 was his friend and powerful protector. Burleigh's 

 aunt Joan, daughter of David Cyssel of Stamford 

 (grandfather of the Lord Treasurer) by his second 

 wife, married Edmund Brown. She was half- 

 sister of Bichard Cyssel of Burleigh, the Lord 

 Treasurer's father. What connexion was there 

 between Edmund Brown and Anthony Brown of 

 Tolthorp ? 



Fuller (Ch. Hist., b. ix. p. 168.) says, he had a 

 wife with whom he never lived, and a church in 

 which he never preached. His church was in 

 Northamptonshire, and he died in Northampton 

 Gaol in 1630. 



From 1589 to 1592 he was master of St. Olave's 

 Grammar School in Southwark. G. B. Corner. 



Eltham. 



Commissions issued by Charles I. at Oxford. — 

 In Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 

 vol. ii. p. 604., it is stated that a commission was 

 granted to Lord Keeper Littleton to raise a corps 

 of volunteers for the royal service among the 

 members of the legal profession, " and that the 

 docquet of that commission remains among the 

 instruments passed under the great seal of King 

 Charles I. at Oxford." P. C. S. S. is very desirous 

 to know where a list of these instruments can be 

 consulted? P. C. S. S. 



Minax «auerteg foftf) gntftosrtf. 



Hogmanay. — This word, applied in Scotland 

 to the last day of the year, is derived by Jamieson 

 (I believe, but have not his Dictionary to refer to) 

 from the Greek 07/0 p-ovri. 



Can any of your correspondents north of the 

 Tweed, or elsewhere, give the correct source ? 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



[Our correspondent is probably not aware that 

 Brand, in his Popular Antiquities, vol. i. pp. 457—461. 

 (Bohn's edit.), has devoted a chapter to this term. 

 Among other conjectural etymologies he adds the 

 following : " We read in the Scotch Presbyterian Elo- 

 quence Displayed, that it is ordinary among some ple- 

 beians in the South of Scotland to go about from door 

 to door on New Year's Eve, crying Hagmena, a cor- 

 rupted word from the Greek ayia, p.i)vn, i. e. holy month. 

 John Dixon, holding forth against this custom once, in 

 a sermon at Kelso, says : « Sirs, do you know what 

 hagmane signifies? It is, the devil he in the house! 

 that's the meaning of its Hebrew original,' p. 102. 

 Bourne agrees in the derivation of Hagmena given in 

 the Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed. ' Angli,' 

 says Hospinian, ' Haleg-monath, quasi sacrum mensem 

 vocant.' DeOrigine Ethn., p. 81." See also an ingenious 

 essay on Hagmena in the Caledonian Mercury for Jan. 2, 

 1792, from which the most important parts have been 

 extracted by Dr. Jamieson in his art. "Hogmanay."] 



Longfellow's " Hyperion" — Can any of your 

 readers tell me why that magnificent work of 

 Longfellow's, which though in prose contains 

 more real poetry than nine-tenths of the volumes 

 of verse now published, is called Hyperion f 



MOBDAN GlLLOTT. 



[Hyperion is an epithet applied to Apollo, and is 

 used by Shakspeare, Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2. : 



" Hyperion to a satyr." 



Warburton says, " This similitude at first sight seems 

 to be a little far-fetched, but it has an exquisite beauty. 

 By the satyr is meant Pan, as by Hyperion Apollo. 

 Pan and Apollo were brothers, and the allusion is to 

 the contention between those gods for the preference in 

 music." Steevens, on the other hand, believes that 

 Shakspeare "has no allusion in the present instance, 

 except to the beauty of Apollo, and its immediate 

 opposite, the deformity of a satyr." Hyperion or 

 Apollo is represented in all the ancient statues as ex- 

 quisitely beautiful, the satyrs hideously ugly.] 



Sir Hugh Myddelton. — Where was Sir Hugh 

 Myddelton buried ? and has a monument been 

 erected to his memory ? I have searched several 

 encyclopaedias and other works, but they make 

 no mention of his place of sepulture. 



Hughson, I think, states it to be St. Matthew's, 

 Fridav Street : but I believe this is not correct. 



J. o. w. 



[There is a statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton, by 

 Carew, in the New Royal Exchange. See Cunning- 

 ham's Handbook of London, from which work we 

 learn (p. 327.) that " the register of St. Matthew's, Fri- 

 day Street, abounds in entries relating to the family of 

 Sir Hugh Myddelton." Cunningham does not mention 

 his burial-place; but in the pedigree of the family given 

 in Lewis's History of Islington, it is stated that he was 

 buried in the churchyard of St. Matthew, London.] 



Sangarede. — The expression " sangarede," or 

 " sangared," occurs in two ancient wills, one dated 

 1504, in which the testator bequeathed — 



" To the sepulkyr lyght vi hyves of beene to pray 

 ffor me and my wyfFe in y e comon sangered." — Lib. 

 Fuller, f. 70. 



In the other, dated 1515, this passage occurs : 



" I wyll y* lone my wyfF here a yeere daye for me 

 yeerly terme of her lyfe in the church of Mendlshm, 

 and after here decesse y e towne of Mendelyshm here a 

 sangarede for me and my wyfe in the church of 

 Mendlshm perpetually." 



I should be much obliged if you or one of your 

 correspondents could furnish me with an inti- 

 mation of the meaning of the term. Laicus. 



[Sangared, 1*. e. the chantry, or chanting, from the 

 Saxon sangere, a singer.] 



Salubrity of Hallsal, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. 

 — Between the 19th of February and the 14th of 



