June 8. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Worm of Lamhton (Vol. i., p. 453.). — See its 

 history and legend in Surtees' History of Durham, 

 vol. ii. p. 173., and a quarto tract printed by Sir 

 Cuthbert Sharp. Gr- 



" A. C." is informed, that there is an account of 

 this "Worme" in The Bishoprick Garland, puh- 

 lished by the late Sir Cuthbert Sharpe in 1834 ; | 

 it is illustrated with a view of the "Worm Ilill, and ' 

 a woodcut of the knight thrusting his sword with 

 great nonchalance down the throat of the Worme. i 

 Only 150 copies of the Garland were printed. 



^ W. N. • 



Shakspeares Will (Vol. i., pp. 213, 386, 403, 

 461, and 469.). — I fear if 1 were to adopt Mr. 

 Bolton Corney's tone, we should degenerate into 

 polemics. 1 will therefore only reply to his ques- 

 tion, '■'■Have I wholly mistaken the whole affair?" 

 by one word, " Undoubtedly." The question raised 

 was on an Irish edition of Malone's Shakspeare. 

 'Mr. Bolton Corney reproved the querists for not 

 consulting original sources. It appears that Mr. 

 Bolton Coi-ney had not himself consulted the 

 edition in question ; and by his last letter I am 

 satisfied that he has not even yet seen it : and it is 

 not surprising if, in these circumstances, he should 

 have " mistaken the whole affair." But as my last 

 communication (Vol. i., p. 461.) explains (as I am 

 now satisfied) the blunder and its cause, I may 

 take my leave of the matter, only requesting !Mr. 

 Bolton Corney, if he still doubts, to follow his own 

 good precept, and look at the original edition. C. 



Josias Ibach Stada (Vol. i., p. 452.). — In reply 

 to G. E. N., I would a(sk, is Mi-. Hewitt correct 

 in calling him Stada, an Italian artist ? I have no 

 hesitation in saying that Stada here is no personal 

 appellation at all, but the name of a town. The 

 inscription " Fudit Josias Ihach Stada Bremensis " 

 is to be read. Cast by Josias Ibach, of the town of 

 Stada, in the duchy of Bremen. All your readers, 

 particularly mercantile, will know the place well 

 enough from tlie discussions raised by Mr. Hutt, 

 member for Gateshead, in the House of Commons, 

 on the oppressive duties levied there on all vessels 

 and their cargoes sailing past it up the Elbe ; and 

 to the year 1150 it was the capital of an inde- 

 pendent graffschaft, when it lapsed to Henry the 

 Lion. William Bell. 



The Temple, or A Temple. — I have had an 

 opportunity of seeing the edition of Chaucer re- 

 ferred to by your correspondent P. H. F. (Vol. i., 

 p. 420.), an<l likewise several other black-letter 

 editions (]52;3, 1561, 1587, 1598, 1602), and find 

 tiiat they all agree in reading " the temple," which 

 Caxton's edition also adopts. The general reading 

 of "temple" in the modern editions, naturally 

 induced me to suspect that Tyrwhitt had made the 

 alteration on the authority of the manuscripts of 



the poem. Of these there are no less than ten in 

 the British Museum, all of which have been kindly 

 examined for me. One of these wants the pro- 

 logue, and another that part of it in which the line 

 occurs ; but in seven of the remaining eight, the 

 reading is — 



" A gentil maunciple was ther of a temi)le ;" 



while one only reads " the temple." The question, 

 therefore, is involved in the same doubt which I 

 at first stated ; for the subsequent lines quoted by 

 P. H. F. prove nothing more than that the person 

 described was a manciple in some place of legal 

 resort, which was not disputed. Edward Foss. 



Bawn (Vol. i., p. 440.). — If your Querist re- 

 o-ardiniT a "Bawn" will look into Macnevin's Con- 

 fiscation of Ulster (Duffy : Dublin, 1846, p. 171. 

 &c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a 

 sort of court-yard, which might be used on emer- 

 gency as a fortification for defence. They were 

 constructed either of lime and stone, of stone and 

 clay, or of sods, and twelve to fourteen feet high, 

 and sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and 

 with the addition of " flankers." 



W. C Tbeveltan. 



"Heigh ho! says Roivley" (Vol. i., p. 458.). — 

 The burden of "■Heigh ho! says Rowley" \s 

 certainly older than II. S. S. conjectures; I 

 will not say how much, but it occurs in a jeu 

 d'esprit of 1809, on the installation of Lord Gren- 

 ville, as Chancellor, at Oxford, as will be shown 

 by a stanza cited from memory : — 

 " Mr. Chinnery then, an M. A, of great parts, 

 Sang the praises of Cliancelloi Grenville. 

 Oh ! he pleased all the ladies and tickled their hearts ; 

 But, then, we all know lie's a Master of Arts, 

 With his rowly powly, 

 Gammon and spmach, 



Heigh ho I says Rowley." 



Chethamensis. 

 Wimpole Street, May 11. 1850. 



Arabic Numerals. — As your correspondent 

 E. V. (Vol. i., p. 230.) is desirous of obtaining any 

 instance of Arabic numerals of early occurrence, 

 I would refer him, for one at least, to Notices of 

 the Castle and Priory of Castleacre, by tlie Rev. 

 J. H. Blooin : London ; Richardson, 23. Cornhill, 

 j 1843. In this work it appears that by the acumen 

 1 of Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rochester, the date 

 j 1084 was found impressed in the plaster of the 

 ' wall of the priory in the following form: — 

 1 1 



I 4X8 







The writer then goes on to show, that this was 

 the regular order of the letters to one crossing 

 himself after the Romish fashion. E. S. T. 



Pusan (Vol. i., p. 440.) — May not the meaning 



