June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



589 



copy of Ascham's Letters (ed. Elstob), with many 

 dates and corrections in Baker's hand. There 

 may be something new in Kennett's biographical 

 notice of Ascham (Lansdowne MSS. 981. art. 41.) 



fflinav eauemsf. 



Symbolism in BaphaeFs Pictures. — In some of 

 the most beautiful pictures of " The Virgin and 

 Child" of Raphael, and other old masters, our 

 Lord is represented with His right foot placed 

 upon the right foot of the blessed Virgin. What 

 is the symbolism of this position ? In the Church 

 of Rome, the God-parent at Holy Confirmation is, 

 if I remember right, directed by a rubric to place 

 his or her right foot upon the right foot of the 

 person confirmed. Is this ceremony at all con- 

 nected with the symbolism I have noticed ? 



Wm. Feasee, B.C.L. 



" Obtains." — Every one must have observed 

 the frequent recurrence of this word, more espe- 

 cially those whose study is the law : " This prac- 

 tice on that principle obtains." How did the word 

 acquire the meaning given to it in such a sentence ? 



Y. S. M. 



Army Lists for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen- 

 turies. — Where are they to be found? Not at 

 the Horse Guards, as the records there go back 

 only to 1795. I want particulars of many officers 

 in both centuries; some of them who came to 

 Ireland temp. Charles I., and during Cromwell's 

 Protectorate, and others early in the last century. 



Y. S. M. 



Anonymous Poet. — 



" It is not to the people of the west of Scotland that 

 the energetic reproach of the poet can apply. I allude 

 to the passage in which he speaks of — 



' All Scotia's weary days of civil strife— 

 When the poor Whig was lavish of his life, 

 And bought, stern rushing upon Clavers' spears, 

 The freedom and the scorn of after years.' " 

 Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, vol. iii. p. 263. 

 Edin. 1819. 



Who is " the poet ? " Anon. 



John Bale. — Strype, in his Life of Parker, 

 book iv. sec. 3. p. 539. edit. 1711, speaking of 

 Bale, says : " He set himself to search many libra- 

 ries in Oxford, Cambridge," &c. 



Bale himself, in the list of his own writings, 

 enumerates " ex diversis bibliothecis." 



Did this piece contain any account of his re- 

 searches in libraries alluded to ? If so, has it ever 

 been published ? Tanner makes no mention of it 

 in his Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica. H. F. S. 



Cambridge. 



A short Sermon. — In an essay on Benevolence, 

 by the Rev. David Simpson of Macclesfield, it is 

 reported of Dean Swift, that he once delivered in 

 his trite and laconic manner the following short 

 sermon, in advocating the cause of a charitable 

 institution, the text and discourse containing 

 thirty-four words only : 



" He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the 

 Lord, and that which he hath given will He pay him 

 again. Now, my brethren, if you like the security, 

 down with your money." 



When and where did this occur, and what was 

 the result ? Henet Edwabds. 



Minav tiluttitsi foittfi 8nStoerrf. 



Quakers' Calendar. — What month would the 

 Quakers mean by " 12th month," a century and 

 a half since ? , D. 



[Before the statute 24 Geo. II., for altering the 

 Calendar in Great Britain, the Quakers began their 

 year on the 25th of March, which they called the first 

 month ; but at the yearly meeting for Sufferings in 

 London, Oct. 1751, a Committee was appointed to 

 consider what advice might be necessary to be given 

 to the Friends in relation to the statute in question. 

 The opinion of the Committee was, " That in all the 

 records and writings of Friends from and after the last 

 day of the month, called December, next, the com- 

 putation of time established by the said act should be 

 observed ; and that, accordingly, the first day of the 

 eleventh month, commonly called January, next, should 

 be reckoned and deemed by Friends the first day of 

 the first month of the year 1752." Consequently the 

 twelfth month, a century and a half since, would be 

 February. See Nicolas's Chronology, p. 169.] 



" Bodondo, or the State Jugglers" — Who was 

 the author of this political squib, three cantos, 

 1763-70; reproduced in Buddimaris Collection, 

 Edinburgh, 1785 ? In my copy I have written 

 Hugh Dalrymple, but know not upon what au- 

 thority. It is noticed in the Scots Mag., vol. xxv., 

 where it is ascribed to " a Caledonian, who has 

 laid about him so well as to vindicate his country 

 from the imputation of the North Briton, that 

 there is neither wit nor humour on the other side 

 the Tweed." J. O. 



[A copy of this work in the British Museum con- 

 tains the following MS. entry : " The author of the 

 three Cantos of Rodondo was Hugh Dalrymple, Esq. 

 He also wrote Woodstock, an elegy reprinted in 

 Pearch's Collection of Poems. At the time of his death 

 he was Attorney- General for the Grenades, where he 

 died, March 9, 1774. His daughter married Dr., 

 afterwards Sir John Elliott, from whom she was di- 

 vorced, and became a celebrated courtezan."] 



Bathlin Island. — Has any detailed account of 

 this island, which is frequently called Rahery, 



