Aug. 17. 1850.] 



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pains ami penalties to which the "contrary doers" 

 were liable, were at any time strictly enforced. 



James T. Hammack. 



Sanitary Laws of other Days (Vol. ii., p. 99.). — 

 The statute referred' to by T. S. D. in his article, 

 by which " it is ordeiijned y' no such slaughter of 

 best shuld be used or had within this cite," was 

 no doubt 4 & 3 Henry VII. c. 3., intituled " An Act 

 that no Butcher slea any Manner of Beast within 

 the walls of London." The penalty is only twelve- 

 pence for an ox or a cow, and eightpence for any 

 smaller animal. The act itself seems unrepealed, 

 but the penalties are too small at the present day 

 to abate the nuisance. C. R. See. 



Michael Scott, the Wizard (Vol.ii., p. 120.)._— I 

 have now Iving before me a small duodecimo, 

 Lugdini, 1584, entitled — 



" Albert! Magni de Secretis Mulierum libellus, 

 jcholiis auctus et a mendis repurgatus," 



to which is appended a work of the wizard's " ob 

 materia similitudinem," 



" Michaelis Scoti philosoplii De Secretis Naturae 

 Opusculum." 



E.S.T. 



Clerical Costume (Vol. ii., p. 22.). — Possibly the 

 answer to this Query may be found in the passage 

 from Bacon's History of Life and Death, in the 

 third part of the Insfnuratio Mao^vn. which I copy 

 below from Craik's Bacon and his Writings, vol. iii. 

 p. 4.5. : — 



" Some report that they have found great benefit in 

 tlie conservation of their health by wearing scarlet 

 w.iistcoats next their skin and under their shirts, as 

 well down to their nether parts as on the upper." 



From the quantitv of serge bought, as well as 

 from the nature of the material, I think it likely it 

 miLrht be required for the purpose here noticed by 

 Bacon, and not for an outer waistcoat. Aedn. 



The Curfew (Vol. ii., p. 10.3.). — As Xaboc can, 

 I imagine, only get a perfect list of the places 

 where the curfew is still rung by the contributions 

 of scattered correspondents, I will furnish my mite 

 by informing him that a very short time ago it 

 was rung at Stunninstcr Newton in Dorsetshire. 



J.Bt. 



Welsh Language ; Armenian Language (Vol. ii., 

 p. 136.). — .TAtti.TZUEBG will find no Welsh dic- 

 tionary with the part rcviTse<l. I possess a dic- 

 tionary in Welsh and English, in two volumes, by 

 Pugh, published in 1832, which is one of the best. 

 The one in two volumes by \\'altcrs is in English 

 and Welsh, and is also one of tiie best. The four 

 volumes would make; a goo(l dictionary. The best 

 grammar is, I think, I'ugh's. See the Welsh book- 

 seller in Holywell Street: I believe his name is 

 Williams. 



Father Chamick compiled the History of Ar- 

 menia from the historical works of several authors, 

 which was published at Venice in 1786; and in 

 1811 an abridijment thereof, which was translated 

 by Mr. Acdall, of Calcutta, in 1827. See Messrs. 

 Allen and Co.'s Catalogue of Oriental Worhs, at 

 whose house these, and translations of other works 

 (particularly the History of Vartan and the Me- 

 moirs of Ai-temi), may be procured. I think 

 Jarltzberg will find a dictionary in Armenian 

 and French. I saw a notice of one a short time 

 since. (See Bernard Quaritch.) In 1841, Peter- 

 man published at Berlin, Porta Ling. Orient, sive 

 Elenienta Ling. Syr., Chuld., Arab., &c. &c., which 

 I think ■ contains an Armenian grammar. See 

 Williams and Xorgate ; also a list of Klaproth's 

 works. Aredjid Kooez. 



Armenian Language (Vol. ii., p. 13fi.). — In 

 reply to Jarltzberg, I can answer that Lord 

 Bvron did not compose the English part of 

 Aucher's Armenian and English Grammar. A 

 very learned friend of mine was at St. Lazero, in 

 Venice, and knew both Aueher and Lord Byron. 

 Lord Byron was taking lessons in Armenian, and 

 a few of his exercises were introduced into Aucher's 

 Grammar,* which was written for Armenians to 

 learn English, with which language Aueher was 

 quite fiimiliar, having resided four years in Lon- 

 don. But a new Armenian and English Grammar 

 has recently been published. There is one, very 

 rare, in Armenian and Latin, and another in Ar- 

 menian, modern Greek, and Italian. I have just 

 seen John Bunyan's Pilgrinis Progress in vulgar 

 Armenian, with plates, published at Smyrna ; and 

 the Prayers of St. Nierses, in twenty-four lan- 

 guages, Venice, 1837, of which Armenian is one. 

 Several works in Armenian have been published 

 at Calcutta. Henry AVilkinson. 



Brompton, 



North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated (Vol. 

 ii., p. 55.). — The strong preference given to the 

 south side of the churchyard is traceable to two 

 principal causes ; first and chiefly, because the 

 churchyard cross was always placed here ; se- 

 condly, because this is the sunny side of the 

 churchyard. The cross, the emblem of all the 

 Christian's hopes, the bright sun shining on the 

 holy ground, figurative of the sun of righteousness, 

 could not fail to bring to mind the comforting as- 

 surance that they who slept around would one 

 day rise again. And as the greater part of the 

 congregation entered the church by the south and 

 princi|)al door, .another cause of the preference 

 was the hope that the sight of the resting pl.aces 

 of those of their friends and neighbours who had 

 died in the communion of the church, might re- 

 mind the survivors each time they repaired to the 

 house of ])rayer to remember them in their sup- 



