May 13. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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is stated by The Times of the following day to 

 have said on that occasion : 



" The Charts alluded to by the hon. gentleman were 

 most valuable, and had been made use of; but subse- 

 quent observations, and farther surveys, had in a great 

 measure superseded them at the present time." 



Ellum. 



Aristotle on living Law (Vol. ix., p. 373.). — 

 Your correspondent H. P. asks where Aristotle 

 says that a judge is a living law, as the law itself 

 is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis 

 is in Eth. Nic, v. 4. § 7. : 



" 'O yap SiKacTTTjs jSouAerat tivca oTov Z'ikcliov Zfj.tyvxoi'." 

 " The judge wishes to be justice incarnate." 



Your correspondent, however, probably had in 

 his mind the passage of Cicero, de Leg., iii. 1. : 



" Videtis igitur, magistrates banc esse vim, ut prajsit, 

 prajscribatcjue recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus ; 

 — vereque dici, magistratum legem esse loquentem, le- 

 gem autem mutum magistratum." 



The commentators compare an antithetical sen- 

 tence attributed to Simonides, — that a picture is a 

 silent poem, and that a poem is a speaking pic- 

 ture. L. 



Christ's or Cris Cross Itoiv (Vol. viii., p. 18.). — 

 The Alphabet. See The Romish Beehive, 319.: 



" In Bacon's Reliques of 

 the hallowing of churches, 

 is the following : ' There 

 pavement of the 



of ashes and sand where- 

 or Christ's Crosse, shall 

 Latin letUrs.' 



" Sir Thos. More, in 

 * Crosse Rowe was print- 

 I first went to school 

 Horn- Book (as it was 

 the Alphabet in a form 

 given, and the dame 

 ginners to learn our 

 that time the term was 

 seventy years since." 



D E FG H I K 

 L 



M 

 M 

 () 

 P 



a 



ii 

 s 



T 

 V 

 U 



\Y 

 X 

 Y 

 Z 



Rome, p. 257., describing 

 among other ceremonies 

 must be made in the 

 church a crosse 



in the whole Alphabet, 

 be written in Greek and 



his Works, p. 606. h, says, 

 ed on cards for learners.' 

 at a dame's, and had a 

 called), in which was 

 something like that here 

 called me and other be- 

 ' Cris Cross Row :' at 

 used, that is, about 



Goddard Johnson. 



Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version. — 

 Mr. T. J. Bockton (Vol. ix., p. 242.) observes, 

 in reference to the superscription n^JJn n^D^, 

 "For the_ chief performer on the neginoth," that 

 " the Syriac and Arabic versions omit this super- 

 scription altogether, from ignorance of the musical 

 sense of the words." And lower down he speaks 

 as if DIPTl} were expressed in the Syriac by the 

 word " church." I do not question the accuracy 

 of Mr. B.'s renderings of the Hebrew words, for 



they have been admitted for centuries ; but I wish 

 to observe that the translator of the Syriac should 

 not be lightly charged with ignorance of Hebrew, 

 as I can testify from an extensive acquaintance 

 with that venerable version. I therefore cannot 

 allow that the words were omitted by the ti'ans- 

 lator for that reason. Besides, whenever he found 

 a word untranslateable, he transferred it as it 

 was. Nor do I admit that nehiloth, in Psalm v., is 

 translated by the term "church." And this leads 

 me to remark, what seems to have been over- 

 looked by most writers, viz. that the Syriac ver- 

 sion omits uniformly the titles of the Psalms as 

 they are found in Hebrew.* The inscriptions 

 contained in the common editions of these Psalms 

 form no part of the translation. One of them 

 refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus ! 

 They are not always the same. I am acquainted 

 with at least three different sets of these headings 

 contained in the Syriac MSS. in the British Mu- 

 seum. Erpenius omitted them altogether in his 

 edition of the Psalter, and Dathe's follows his; for 

 which very substantial reasons are given by him 

 in the " Prajf. ad Lect." of his Psalterium Syria- 

 mm, pp. 36, 37., Hake, 1768. B. H. C. 



" Old Rowley" (Vol. ix., p. 235.). — The nick- 

 name of " Old Rowley," as applied to Charles II., 

 seems to be derived from Roland, and has refer- 

 ence to the proverbial saying, " A Roland for an 

 Oliver ;" the former name being given to Charles, 

 in contradistinction to the Protector's name of 

 Oliver. Roland and Oliver were two celebrated 

 horses, or, as some say, two pages of Charlemagne 

 possessing equal qualities : and hence, " I'll give 

 you a Roland for your Oliver " was tantamount 

 to "I'll give you as good as you send."f N". L. J. 



Wooden Effigies (Vol. ix., p. 17.). — I beg to 

 refer your readers to two figures which are in 

 excellent preservation, and I am not aware that 

 they have ever obtained public notice. In the 

 church at Boxted, near Sudbury, Suffolk, which 

 is the burial-place of the ancient family of Poley 

 of Boxted Hall, are, with several other interesting 

 monuments, the effigies of William Poley and 

 Alice Shaa, his wife. 



He is in armour," with a beard ; and the lady in 

 the dress of her day, with a long pendant from 

 her girdle, having suspended a small thick book 

 and the arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the 

 cover. At her feet a greyhound to fill up the 

 space, in consequence of the lady being short, and 

 their heads on the same line. There is an in- 

 scription in relief on the cushion on which the 

 lady rests her head, which states that he died 

 17th December, 1587, and the lady March 7, 



* Except the words "of David:" I am not sure 

 about these. 



[f See « N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.] 



