Oct. 19. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



349 



Tax money was gathered into a hrass shield, and 

 the jingling (schel) noise it produced, gave to the 

 pieces of silver exacted the name of schellingen 

 (shillings). Saxo-Grammaticus, lib viii. p. 267., 

 citatus apud Grimm, 1. 1. p. 77. The reference is 

 too curious not to note it down : — 



" Huic (Fres'u-e) Gotricus non tarn arctam, qiiam in- 

 usitatam pensionem imposuit, de cujus tonditione et 

 modo summatim referam. Primum itaque ducentorum 

 quadraginta pedum longltudinem habentis asdificii 

 strtictura dispoidtur, bis seiiis distincta spatiis, quorum 

 quodlibet viceiiorum pedum intercapediiie teiideretiir, 

 praedictae quantitatis summam totalis spatii dispendio 

 reddente. in hujus itaque aedis capite regie considente 

 qua^store, sub extremara ejus pattern rntundus e re^xone 

 clipeus exbibetur. Fresonibus igitur tributum daturis 

 mos erat singuios nummos in hujus scuti cavum conji- 

 cere, e quibus eos duntaxat in censum regium ratio 

 computantis eligeret, qui eniinus exactoris aures cla- 

 rioris soni crepitaculo perstiinxissent quo evenit, ut id 

 solum £es quafstor in fiscum supputando eolligeret, cujus 

 casum remotiore auris indicio persensisset, cujus vero 

 obscurior soiuis citra computantis defuisset auditum, 

 recipiebatur quidera in fiscum (!!!), sed nullum summse 

 pr^stabat augmentum. Conipluribus igiturnummorum 

 jactibus quajstorias aures nulla sensibili sonoritate 

 pulsantibus, accidit, ut statam pro se stipem erogaturi 

 multam interdum a-rls partem inani pensione consu- 

 merent, cujus tributi onere per Karolum postea liberati 

 produntur." 



Janus Dousa. 



Huis te Manpadt. 



Small Words (Vol. ii., p. 305.). — Some of your 

 correspondents have justly recommended correct- 

 ness in the references to authorities cited. Allow 

 me to suggest the necessity of similar care in 

 quotations. If K. J. P. B. T. had taken the pains 

 to refer to the passage in Pope which he criticises 

 (Vol. ii., p. 305.), he would have spared himself 

 some trouble, and you considerable space. Tiie 

 line is not, as he puts it, " And ten small words," 

 but — 



" And ten low words oft creep in one dull line." 



a difference which deprives his remarks of much 

 of their applicability. *. 



Bilderdijh the Poet (Vol. ii., p. 309.). — There 

 are several letters from Southey, in iiis Life and 

 Correspoiidence^ written while under tiie roof of 

 Biiderdijk, giving a very agreeable account of the 

 poet, Lis wife, and his family. 4>. 



Foul or a Physician (Vol. i., p. 137.; vol. ii., 

 p. 315.). — Tiie writer wiio has us(>(l this expres- 

 sion is Dr. C'hcyne, and he probably altered it 

 from the alliterative form, " a man is a fool or a 

 physician at forty," which I have frwpiently heard 

 m various parts of England. Dr. Clieyne's words 

 are : " I think every man is a fool or a jjhysician 

 at thirty years of age, (that is to say), by that 

 time he ought to know his own constitution, and 



unless he is determined to live an intemperate and 

 irregular life, I think he may by diet and regimen 

 prevent or cure any chronical disease; but as to 

 acute disorders no one who is not well acquainted 

 with medicine should trust to his own skill." 



Dr. Cheyne was a medical writer of the last 

 century. A. G t. 



Wat the Hare (Vol. ii., p. 315.). — In the in- 

 teresting, tliougli perhaps somewhat partial, ac- 

 count of the unsuccessful siege of Corfe Castle, 

 during the civil wars of the seventeenth century', 

 which ]is given in the Mercurius Rusticus, there is 

 an anecdote whicli will give a reply to the Query 

 of your correspondent K. The commander of the 

 Parliamentarian forces was Sir Walter Erie ; and 

 it was a great joke with his opponents that the 

 pass-word of "Old Wat" had been given (by 

 himself I believe) on the night of his last assault 

 on the castle. The chronicler informs us that 

 " Old Wat " was the usual notice of a hare being 

 found sitting ; and the proverbial timidity of that 

 animal suggested some odious comparisons with 

 the defeated general. 



I have not the book at hand, but I am pretty 

 sure that the substance of my information is 

 correct. C. W. Bikgham. 



Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford. 



Law Courts at St. Albans (Vol. i., p. 366.). — 

 Although unable to answer 2., perhaps I may do 

 him service by enabling bim to put his Query 

 more correctly. The disease which drove the law- 

 yers from London in the 6th yar of Elizabeth 

 (1563) was not tXiQ sweating sickness (which has not 

 returned since the reign of Edward VI.), but a 

 plague brought into England by the late garrison 

 of Havre de Grace. And it was at Hertford that 

 Candlemas term was kept on the occasion. See 

 Heylyn, Hist. Ref, ed. Eccl. Hist. Soc. ii. 401. 



J. C. R. 



The Troubles at Frankfort (Vol. i., p. 379.).— 

 In Petheram's edition of this work, it is shown 

 thatWhittingham, dean of Durham, was most likely 

 the author. That Coverdale was not, ajipears from 

 tiie circumstance that the writer had been a party 

 in the " Troubles," whereas Coverdale did not re- 

 side at Franktbrt during any part of his e.xile. 



J. C. R. 



Standing during the Reading of the Gospel 

 (Vol. ii., p. 246 ).— 



" Aiiostolica auctorltate mandamus, dum sancta 

 Evangelia in Ecclesia recitantur, ut Sacerdotes, et 

 ctEteri omnes prcsentcs, non sedentes, sed venerabiliter 

 curvi, in conspectu Evangelii stantes Dominica verba 

 intente audiant, et fideliter adorent." — Anastasius, i., 

 apud Grat. Decret. De Cuitsecrat. Disl., ii. cap. 68. 



J. Be. 



