June 15. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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little known, and which has been translated, I 

 believe, into all the European languages ? AVhat 

 are the principal as well as the latest English 

 translations ? Jartzbebo. 



Clergy sold for Slaves. — Walker, in his Suf- 

 ferings of the Clergy, saj's, " There was a project 

 on foot to sell some of the most eminent" (of the 

 masters of colleges, doctors in divinity, &c.) " to 

 the Turks for slaves ; and a considerable progress 

 was made in that horrid purpose." And, writing 

 of Dr. Ed. Layfield, under the head of " London 

 Cathedrals," Walker again says, that " at last, in 

 the company of others, he was clapt on shipboard 

 under hatches;" and that "they were threatened 

 to be sold slaves to the Algerines, or to some of 

 our own plantations." Again, it is recorded in 

 Bishop Cosin's life, that by his will " he gave 

 towards the redemption of Christian captives at 

 Algiers, 500^ ; towards the relief of the distressed 

 loyal party in England, 800Z : " — upon which I 

 should be glad to put a Query ; viz., Is there 

 sufficient ground for supposing, that any of the 

 loy.al party were really sold for slaves during the 

 rebellion ? If otherwise, will Cosin's bequest throw 

 any light upon R.W.B.'s Query, vol. i., p. 441. ? 



J. Sansom. 



Meaning of Pallet. — About a mile from Hume 

 Castle, on the Scotch border, is a rock hill, which 

 is called Hume Pullet. 



The only other name of the kind in this disirict 

 is Kilpallet, in the heart of the Lammernmir hills, 

 on the borders of Berwickshire and East Lothian. 

 There was at this latter place once a religious 

 house of some kind, and a burying ground, now 

 hardly visible. 



What is the meaning of the word Pallet ? 



J. S. Q. 



Tobacco in the East. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me whether tobacco is indigenous to any 

 part of Asia ? Also, whether the habit of smoking 

 (opium or tobacco), now universal over the East, 

 dates there from before the discovery of America? 

 And if not, from what period ? Z. A. Z. 



Stephanus Brulifer. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents kindly refer me to a library containing 

 a copy of Stephanus Brulifer, in lib. iv. SenteiU. 

 Seraphici Doctoris Bonaventurce, 8vo. Basil. 1507 ? 



J. Sansom. 



iUcpItc^. 



ASINOHUM SEPULTllHA. 



To discover the origin of this pln-ase, your cor- 

 respondent (Vol. ii., p. 8-9.) need not go further 

 than tu his Bible. 



" Sopultiira asini st'pclietur, putrcfactiis et projectus 

 extra portas Jerusalem." — Jcrem. xxii. 19. : cf. xxxvi. 30. 



With regard to the extract given by Ducange, 



at the word " Imblocatus," from a " vetus formula 

 Excommunicationis praeclara," it is evident that 

 the expressions, — 



" Sint cadavera eorum in escam volatilibus coeli, et 

 bestiis terrs, et non sint qui sepeliant eos," 



have been derived from S. Jerome's Latin version 

 from the Hebrew of Psal. Ixxix. 2, 3. : 



" Dederunt cadavera servorum tuorura escam vola- 

 tilibus coeli; carnes sanctorum luorum bestiis terrse. 

 Etfuderunt sanguinem eorum quasi aquam in circuitu 

 Hierusalem, et non erat qui sepeliret." — Vide Jacobi 

 Fabri Stapulensis Quincuplex Psalterium, fol. 116. b., 

 Paris, 1513; Sabatier, torn. ii. p. 162. lb. 1751. 



KG. 



The use of this term in the denunciation against 

 Jehoiakim, more than six centuries b. c, and the 

 previous enumeration of crimes in the 22nd chap- 

 ter of Jeremiah, would seem sufficiently to account 

 for its origin and use in regard to the disposal of 

 the dead bodies of excommunicated or notorious 

 malefiictors, by the earliest Christian writers or 

 judges. The Hebrew name of the ass, says Pai-k- 

 hurst, is "derived from its turbulence when excited 

 by lust or rage ;" and the animal was also made 

 the symbol of slothful or inglorious ease, in the 

 case of Issachar, b.c. 1609: Genesis, xlix. 14. It 

 is thus probable some reference to such character- 

 istics of the brute and the criminal, rather than 

 any mere general allusion to throwing the dead 

 bodies of inferior or unclean animals (of which the 

 dog was a more common type) under any rubbish 

 beyond the ^H'ecincts of the city, may have been 

 intended, by specifying this aniuial in prescribing 

 an ignominious sepulture. Lamba. 



It can hardly have escaped the notice of your 

 Querist (although the instance is not one adduced 

 by Ducange), that the phrase, "burial of an ass" 

 [Heb. nioq nnnp] for " no burial at all," is as 

 old as the time of the prophet Jeremiah. (Vide 

 chap. xxii. 19.) The custom referred to being of 

 religious origin, might lead us to the sacred books 

 for the origin of the phrase denoting it ; and it 

 seems natural for the Christian writers, in any 

 mention of those whose bodies, like that of Jehoi- 

 akim, were for their sins deprived of the rites of 

 sepulture, to use the striking phrase already pro- 

 vided lor them in Scripture ; and as natural for 

 that phrase to continue in use even after the some- 

 what more civilised custom of " imblocation" had 

 deprived it of its original refi-Tcnce to " the dead 

 body's being cast out in tiie day to the heat, and 

 in the night to the frost." (Jer. xxxvi. 30.) 



J. J^ASTWOOD. 



This phrase is, I think, accounted for by the ass 

 being deprived of interment in consequence of the 

 uses made oi' its dead carcass. After a description 

 of the adaptation of his bones to instrumental 

 music, Aldrovandus continues as follows: — 



