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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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illustrated by a plan of the machine, would doubt- 

 less be a boon to many who have unsuccessfully 

 tried to understand it. $i\o//a&7js. 



View of Dumfries. — I have a modern litho- 

 graphed view of the town of Dumfries, said to 

 have been taken from an old engraving in some 

 printed book. It represents a small chapel (the 

 Crystal Chapel) on a height in the foreground, 

 and the walls of the town and the old church be- 

 hind. I have in vain sought for the original, and 

 have almost come to the conclusion that the 

 drawing is a forgery. Can any of your readers 

 who have access to the Bodleian, inform me whe- 

 ther anything of the kind is to be found in Gough's 

 Topographical Collections, which are there de- 

 posited ? Balivus. 



Edinburgh. 



" To pass the pikes." — What is the origin of 

 this phrase ? G. Taylor. 



May-day Custom. — Can any of your correspond- 

 ents inform me of the origin of a singular custom 

 which prevails in Huntingdonshire on May 1, viz. 

 that of suspending from a rope, which is hung 

 across the road in every village, a doll with pieces 

 of gay-coloured silk and ribbon, and no matter 

 what, attached to it; candlesticks and snuffers, 

 spoons and forks, being parts of those I saw the 

 other day in Summersham, St. Ives, and several 

 other places. Henrietta M. Cole. 



3. Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park. 



Mayderiburi. — The seal with which I close my 

 letter was purchased some years ago on the west 

 coast of Wales. It is engraved on brass ; the 

 upper part being much beaten down, as if struck 

 with a hammer when used, but the face is perfect. 

 The legend is, "s. ionis. de maydenbvri:" but 

 being engraved in the usual direction, it reads on 

 the impression from right to left. The "s." may be 

 read either as " sanctus" or " sigillum." The 

 figure is that of St. Christopher, bearing Christ 

 across a running stream. 



I have not been able to discover the locality 

 of Maydenburi, and therefore my questions to 

 such of your readers as are more skilled in me- 

 diaeval lore than myself, are, Where is this place 

 situated, and what was its previous destination, 

 monastic or otherwise ? and who was the original 

 proprietor of the seal ? H. E. S. 



Tewkesbury. 



Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl of Arundel. — 

 Can any one tell me why Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl 

 of Arundel and Surrey, who married Eleanora, 

 daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lan- 

 caster, relict of Henry Lord Beaumont, received 

 the sobriquet of " Richard with the Copped Hat ? " 



H. M. 



French Refugees. — During the time of the 

 French Revolution, 1789 — 1800, many families 

 emigrated to England, and received shelter and 

 support at an hospital then situate in Spital Fields. 

 I should feel obliged for any information relating 

 to the books or registers of that hospital wherein 

 would be found the names of the emigrants, and 

 also whether there is any publication relating to 

 them. J. F. F. 



Dublin. 



" Dilamgabendi." — What is the precise mean- 

 ing of the word Dilamgabendi ; is it of ancient 

 British origin, or to what language does it belong? 



A Traveller. 



Mr. Plumley. — In the Literary Intelligencer for 

 March, 1822, No. 131., in an article entitled 

 " Extremes Meet," it is said : 



" Mr. Plumley concludes one of his tragedies with a 

 dying speech and an execution. And gives an appen- 

 dix of references to the passages of Scripture quoted 

 in his plays." 



Who was Mr. Plumley, and what did he write ? 

 I cannot find any book to which the above pas- 

 sage can refer in the British Museum. C. L^ 



Designation of Works under Revieiv. — I shall be 

 much indebted to the Editor of " N. & Q.," or to 

 any of his correspondents, if he or they will inform 

 me of the designation under which the works, 

 whose names stand at the head of a review, should 

 be technically referred to by the reviewer. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



North-west Passage. — In 1612, Captain Thomas 

 Button made a voyage to discover the north-west 

 passage, and was afterwards knighted by King 

 James. Can any of your readers refer me to a 

 pedigree, or other particulars, of Sir Thomas 

 Button's family ? They appear to have been seated 

 at DufFryn, in Glamorganshire, as early as the 

 fourteenth or fifteenth century. Sir Thomas/ 

 daughter Ann married General Rowland Lang- 

 harne, of St. Bride's, Pembrokeshire, a noted cha- 

 racter in the civil war. Notary. 



Fountains. — Will some kind reader obligingly 

 state the names of any works that give represent- 

 ations or descriptions of foreign fountains ? 



Aquarius- 



Pope and John Dennis. — What is the authority 

 for the universal assumption that Pope wrote The 

 Nari-ative of Dr. Robert Norrisf It is said, in the 

 notes to the Dunciad, to have been published in 

 Swift and Pope's Miscellanies, vol. iii. This does 

 not prove that Pope wrote it. Farther, it is not 



