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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 48. 



knows that at an earlier period of our history it 

 gave rise to Wat Tyler's insurrection. Tlic tax 

 was reiinposed severid times during the reign of 

 William III. ; and it appears from a statement of 

 the Lords in a conference which took phice with the 

 Conmions on the subject in the first of William's 

 reign, that the tax, previously to that time, was 

 last imposed in the 29th of Charles II. C. lloss. 



Wormwood Wine (Vol. ii., p. 242.). — If, as Mb. 

 Singer supposes, " Eisell was absynthites, or 

 wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter medicament 

 then much in use," Pepys' friends must have bad 

 a very singuUir taste, for he records, on the 24tli 

 November, 1660,— 



" Creed and Shepk'y, and I, to the Rlicnish wine 

 house, and there I did give them two quarts of worm- 

 wood wine." 



Perhaps the beverage was doctored for the 

 English market, and rendered more palatable than 

 it had been in the days of Stuckius. 



Braybbooke. 



Darvon Gatherall (Vol. ii., p. 199.). — Dervel 

 Gadarn (vulgarly miscalled Darvel Gatheren) was 

 S(>n or grandson of Hywel or Hoei, son to Eniyr 

 of Britany. He was the founder of Llan-dervel 

 Church, in Merioneth, and lived early in the sixth 

 century. The destruction of his image is men- 

 tioned in the Letters on the Suppression of Monas- 

 teries, Nos. 95. and 101. Some account of it also 

 exists in Lord Herbert's Henry VIII., which I 

 cannot refer to. I was not aware his name had 

 ever undergone such gross and barbarous corrup- 

 tion as Dai-von Gatherall. A. N. 



Darvon Gatherall (Vol. ii., p. 199.), or Darvel 

 Gatheren, is spoken of in Sir H. Ellis's Original 

 Letters, Series III., Letter 330. Hall's Chronicle, 

 p. 826. ed. 1809. J. E. B. Mayor. 



Darvon Gather all. —l send you an extract from 

 Southey's Common-place Book, which refers to 

 Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from 

 Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography, whore it 

 is given as a quotation from Michael Wodde, who 

 wrote in 1554. He says : — 



" Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's 



Prayer in English ? If we were sick of the 



pestilence, we ran to St. Rooke : if of the ague, to 

 St. Pernel, or Master John Shorne. If men were in 

 prison, they prayed to St. Leonard. If the Welshman 

 would have a purse, he prayed to Darvel Gutltorite. 

 If a wife were weary of a husband, she offered oats at 

 Poules; at London, to St. Uncumber." 



Can any of your readers inform me who St. 

 Uncumber was ? Pwcca. 



[Poules is St. Paul's. The passage from Michael 

 Wodde is quoted in Ellis' Brand, vol. i. p. 202. edit. 

 1841.] 



Angels' Visits (Vol. i., p. 102.). — Wiccamecus 

 will find in Norris's Miscellanies, in a poem " To 



the Memory of my dear Neece, M. C." (Stanza X. 



p. 10. ed. 1692), the following lines : — 

 " No wonder such a noble mind 



Her way to heaven so soon could find: 

 Angels, as 'tis but seldom they appear, 

 So neither do they make long stay; 

 They do but visit, and away." 



Mr. Montgomery (Christian Poet) long ago com- 

 pared this passage with those cited by Wiccame- 

 cus. J. E. B. Mayor. 



Antiquity of Smoking ^Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216.). — 

 On that intt-resting subject, "The Auti(|uity of 

 Smokinn;," I bog to contribute the following 

 " Note," which I made some years .ngo, but un- 

 fortunately without a reference to the author : — 



" Some fern was evidently in use among the ancients: 

 for Athenfeus, in his first book, quotes from the Greek 

 poet, Crobylus, these words : — 



' Kal Tov \dpvyy' ^Sicto irvpiw re/xax^oii' 

 Ka.fJ.ivos, ovK afSpanros.' 



' .\nd 1 will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings: 

 A chimney, not a man !' 



Now as, in a preceding line, the smoker boasts of his 

 ' Idajan fingers,' it is plain that every man rolled up 

 his sharoot for himself." 



H.G. 



Antiqiuty of Smoking (Vol. ii., p. 216.). — Herod. 

 lib. i. sec. 36. is referred to for some illustration, 

 I suppose, of smoking through tubes. Herodotus 

 supplies nothing: perhaps Herodian may be meant, 

 though not very likely. Herb smoking was pro- 

 bably in use in Europe long before tobacco. But 

 direct authority seems sadly wanting. 



Sandvicensis. 



" Noli me taiigere" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 219. 

 250.). — In a New Testament published by the 

 I'ortusian Bible Society is a small ill-executed 

 print, called " Christ .appearing to Mary," copied 

 from a picture by C. Ciguani. Wedsecnabf. 



Partrige Family (Vol. ii., p. 230.). — Mr. Par- 

 trige's refijrence to Strype's Ecclesiastical Memo- 

 rials is quite ttnintelligible to those who have not 

 access to the Oxford 7-eprint of that work. The 

 reprint (I wish that in all other reprints a similar 

 course was adopted) gives the paging of the ori- 

 ginal folio edition. I submit, therefore, that Mr. 

 Partrige should have stated that the note he has 

 made is from Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials, 

 vol. ii. p. 310. 



The grant to which Mr. Partrige refers is, I dare 

 say, on the Patent Roll, 7 Edw. Vl., which may be 

 inspected at the Public Record Office, Rolls Chapel, 

 on payment of a fee of Is., with liberty to take a 

 copy or extract in pencil gratuitously : or a plain 

 copy may be obtained at the rate of Gd. a folio. 



The act of 1 Mary, for the restitution in blood 

 of the heirs of Sir Miles Partrige, if not given in the 



