June 8. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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sold to Jamaica ; the customs of the young men at 

 Albany, their adventurous outset in life, their 

 practice of robbing one another in joke (like a 

 curious story at Venice, in the story-book called 

 II Peccarone, and having some connection with 

 the stories of the Spartan and Circassian youth), 

 with much of natural scenery, are told without 

 pretension of style; but unluckily there is too 

 much interspersed relating to the author herself, 

 then quite young. C. B. 



Poem by Si?- E. Dyer (Vol. i., p. 355.). — " My 

 mind to me," &c. Neither the births of Breton 

 nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known ; nor, 

 consequently, how much older the one was than 

 the other. Mr. S., I conclude, could not mean 

 much older than Breton's tract, mentioned in 

 Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's 

 Helicon. The ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas 

 more than the present copy, and one stanza less. 

 Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is, 

 more probable than the new ones. 



" I see how plenty surftits oft." — P. 



suffers. — Var. 

 " I grudge not at another's gain." — P. 



pain. — Var. 

 " No worldly wave my mind can toss." — P. 

 wants. — Var. 



These seem to me to be stupid mistranscrip- 

 tions. 



" I brook that is another's pain."— P. 

 " My state at one doth still remain." — Viir. 

 Probably altered on account of the slight ob- 

 scurity ; and possibly a different edition by the 

 author himself. 



" Tliev beii, I give, 



Tiie'y lack, I Und."—P. 

 leave. — Var. 

 In this verse, 



" I fear no foe, I scnrn no friend." — P. 

 fawn. — Var. 



I think the new copy better. 



"To none of these I yield as thrall, 

 For why my mind dcsjjhel/i all." — P. 

 doth serve for. — Var. 

 The var. much better. 

 In this — 



•' I never seek by brll)es to please. 



Nor by (Jesscrt to give oll'ence. " — P. 

 deceit. — Var. 



I cannot understand either. 



So very beautiful and popular a song it would 

 be well worth gi.'lting in the true version. C. li. 



Monuiueiddl Brus-ies. — In reply to S. S. S. 

 (Vol. i., p. 405), i beg to inform him that the 

 "small dog with a collar and bells" is a device of 

 very connnon occurrence on brasses of the fifteenth 

 and latter part of the fourteentii centuries. The 

 Kcv. (J. BouteU's Mouuiaenlul lirun-tes of Eujrland 



contains engravings of no less than twenty-three 

 on whicli it is to be found ; as well as two exam- 

 ples without the usual appendages of collar, &c. 

 In addition to these, the same work contains etch- 

 ings of the following brasses : — Gunby, Lincoln., 

 two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the 

 lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon., 1403. 

 Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs 

 with collars and bells at her feet. 



The same peculiarities are exemplified on brasses 

 at Harpham, York., 1420 ; and Spilsby, Lincoln., 

 1391. I will not further multiply instances, as 

 my own collection of rubbings would enable me to 

 do. I should, however, observe, that the hypo- 

 thesis of S. S. S. (as to "these figures" being 

 " the private mark of the artist") is untenable : 

 since the twenty-three examples above alluded to 

 I are scattered over sixteen different counties, as 

 distant from each other as Yorkshire and Sussex. 

 Two examples are well known, in which the dog 

 so represented was a favourite animal: — Deer- 

 hurst, Gloc, 1400, with the name, "Terri," in- 

 scribed; and Ingham, Norfolk, 1438, with the 

 name " Jakke." This latter brass is now lost, but 

 an impression is preserved in the British Museum. 

 The customary explanation seems to me sufficient : 

 that the dog was intended to synd;olise the fidelity 

 and attachment of the lady to her lord and master, 

 as the lion at his feet represented his courage and 

 noble qualities. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



Queen's College, Cambridge, April 22. 1850. 



Fenhle Street. — A street so called in Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, lying in a part of the town formerly 

 much occupied by garden ground, and in the im- 

 mediate vicinitj/ of the hoime of the Dominican 

 Friars there. Also, a way or passage inside the 

 town wall, and leading between that fortification 

 and the house of the Carmelites or White Friars, 

 was anciently called by the same name. The 

 name of Fenlde or Fmkle Street occurs in several 

 old towns in the North, as Alnwick, Richmond, 

 York, Kendal, &c. Fenol and finugl, as ahofnul, 

 are Saxon words tov fennel ; which, it is very pro- 

 bable, has in some way or other given rise to this 

 name. May not the monastic institutions have used 

 fennel extensively in their culinary preparations, 

 and thus planted it in so great quantities as to 

 have induced the naming of localities therefrom. 

 I remember a portion of the ramparts of the town 

 used to be called Wormwood Hill, from a like cir- 

 cumstance. In Hawkesworth's Voyages, ii. 8., I 

 find it stated that the town of Funchala, on the 

 island of Madeira, derives its name from Funcho, 

 the Portuguese name for fennel, which grows in 

 great plenty u]ion the neighbouring recks. The 

 priory of Fitichale (fi-om Finkel), upon the Wear, 

 probably has a similar origin ; sed <ju. 



G. BOUCIIIEU IllCII.VttDSON. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850. 



