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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 243. 



Professor. He might as well have part of his 

 title in Sanscrit, as part in English and part in 

 Latin. 



I believe this mistake is made more frequently 

 by graduates of Cambridge than by those of 

 Oxford. Indeed, they have now created a new 

 degree, Master of Laws, with the initials LL.M. 

 (Legum Magister). But they are usually infe- 

 licitous in their nomenclature, as witness their 

 voluntary theological examination, now made com- 

 pulsory by all the bishops. E. G. R., M.A. 



Cambridge. 



Greek denounced by the Monks (Vol. ix., p. 467.). 

 — In his History of the Reformation (b. i. ch. iii.), 

 D'Aubigne says, — 



" The monks asserted that all heresies arose from 

 those two languages [Greek and Hebrew], and parti- 

 cularly from the Greek. • The New Testament,' said 

 one of them, ' is a book full of serpents and thorns. 

 Greek,' continued he, ' is a new and recently-invented 

 language, and we must be upon our guard against it. 

 As for Hebrew, my dear brethren, it is certain that all 

 who learn it immediately become Jews.' Heresbach, 

 a friend of Erasmus and a respectable author, reports 

 these expressions." 



Had there been more authority, probably D'Au- 

 bigne would have quoted it. B. H. C. 



In Lewis's History of the English Translation 

 of the Bible, edit. London, 1818, pp. 54, 55., the 

 following passage occurs : 



" These proceedings for the advancement of learning 

 and knowledge, especially in divine matters, alarmed 

 the ignorant and illiterate monks, insomuch that they 

 declaimed from the pulpits, that * there was now a 

 new language discovered called Greek, of which people 

 should beware, since it was that which produced all 

 the heresies ; that in this language was come forth a 

 book called the New Testament, which was now in 

 everybody's hands, and was full of thorns and briers : 

 that there was also another language now started up 

 which they called Hebrew, and that they who learnt it 

 were termed Hebrews.'" 



The authority quoted for this statement is Hody, 

 De Bibliorum Textibus, p. 465. 



See also the rebuke administered by Henry VIII. 

 to a preacher who had " launched forth against 

 Greek and its new interpreters," in Erasmus, 

 Epp., p. 347., quoted in D'Aubigne' s Reformation, 

 book xviii. 1. C. W. Bingham. 



Caldecotfs Translation of the New Testament 

 (Vol.viii., p. 410.). — J. M. Caldecott, the trans- 

 lator of the New Testament, referred to by your 



correspondent S. A. S., is the son of the late 



Caldecott, Esq., of Rugby Lodge, and was edu- 

 cated at Rugby School, where I believe he ob- 

 tained one or more prizes as a first-class Greek 

 and Hebrew scholar. After completing his studies 

 at this school, his father purchased for him a com- 



mission in the East India Company's service ; but 

 soon after his arrival in India, conceiving a dislike 

 to the army, he sold his commission and returned 

 to England. Being somewhat singular in his 

 notions, and altogether eccentric both in manner 

 and appearance, he estranged himself from his 

 family and friends, and, as I have been informed, 

 took up his temporary abode in this city about the 

 year 1828. Although his income was at that time 

 little short of 3001. per annum, he had neither 

 house nor servant of his own ; but boarded in the 

 house of a respectable tradesman, living on the 

 plainest fare (so as he was wont to say), to enable 

 him to give the more to feed the hungry and 

 clothe the naked. In this way, and by being fre- 

 quently imposed upon by worthless characters, he 

 gave away, in a few years, nearly all his property, 

 leaving himself almost destitute : and, indeed, 

 would have been entirely so, but for a weekly 

 allowance made to him by his mother (sometime 

 since deceased), on which he is at the present time 

 living in great obscurity in one of our large sea- 

 port towns ; but may be occasionally seen in the 

 streets with a long beard, and a broad-brimmed 

 hat, addressing a group of idlers and half-naked 

 children. I could furnish your correspondent 

 S. A. S. with more information if needful. T. J. 

 Chester. 



Blue Bells of Scotland (Vol. viii., p. 388. 

 Vol. ix., p. 209.). — Surely 8& of Philadelphia is 

 right in supposing that the Blue Bell of Scotland, 

 in the ballad which goes by that name, is a bell 

 painted blue, and used as the sign of an inn, and 

 not the flower so called, as asserted by Henry 

 Stephens, unless indeed there be an older ballad 

 than the one commonly sung, which, as_ many of 

 your readers must be aware, contains this line, — 

 " He dwells in merry Scotland, 

 At the sign of the Blue Bell." 

 I 'remember to have heard that the popularity of 

 this song dates from the time when it was sung on 

 the stage by Mrs. Jordan. 



Can any one inform me whether the air is an- 

 cient or modern ? Honore he Mareville. 



Guernsey. 



" De male quasitis gaudet non tertius hares " 

 (Vol.ii., p. 167.). —The quotation here wanted 

 has hitherto been neglected. The words may be 

 found, with a slight variation, in Bellochii Praxis 

 Moralis Theologian, de casibus reservatis, &fc, Ve- 

 netiis, 1627, 4to. As the work is not common,! 

 send the passage for insertion, which I know will 

 be acceptable to other correspondents as well as 

 to the querist : 



" Divino judicio permittitur ut tales surreptores 

 rerum sacrarum diu ipsis rebus furtivis non laetentur, 

 sed imo ab aliis nequioribus furihus prsfatae res ilhs 



