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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 52. 



it is not to be imagined how the polite rabble of this 

 town, who are acquainted with these objects, ridicule 

 his rusticity. I have known a fellow with a burden on 

 his head steal a hand down from his load, and slily 

 twirl the cock of a squire's hat behind liim ; and while 

 the oli'ended person is swearing; or out of countenance, 

 all the waj;-wits in the highway are grinning in ap- 

 plause of the ingenious rogue that gave him the tip, 

 and the folly of him who had not eyes all round his 

 head to prevent receiving it." — Spectator, No. 354. 



C. Forbes. 

 October 11. 



Michmg Mallecho. — The writer of the review 

 of Urqvliart" s Travels in tlie Quai't. Rev. for IMarcli 

 1850, wlio is, in all probability, identical with the 

 author of the Handhooh of Spain, felicitously sug- 

 gests that Micliing Mallecho is a mere misprint 

 for the Spanish words Mucho MalhecJio, much mis- 

 chief: Hamlet, iii. 2. Imagining tliat I had seen 

 this ingenious conjecture somewhere in print be- 

 fore, I referred to, and was disappointeil when I 

 found it not in Knight's Shakspeare (library ed.). 

 Recently, in looking over Dr. Maginn's acbnir.able 

 dissections of Dr. Farmer^s Essaij on the Learning 

 of Shakspeare, I discovered what I was in search of, 

 and beg to present it to the notice of your readers. 



"That the text is corrupt, I am sure; and I think 

 Dr. Farmer's substitution of mimichinrj malhecco, a most 

 unlucky attempt at emendation. In the old copies it 

 is munching malicho, in whicli we find traces of the true 

 reading, mudw malhecho, much mischief. 



" ' Marry, mucho malhccho — it means mischief.' " 



Fraser's Mar/aziiie, Dec. 1839, p. 654. 



J. M. B. 



caurri'c^. 



THE INQUISITION — TUE BOIIEitflAN rERSECDTION. 



My Query as to the authorship of The Adventures 

 of Guudentio di Lucca has drawn so satisfiietory a 

 reply from your correspondents (whom I beg to 

 tliank most heartily for the information they have 

 communicated), that I am induced to ask you to 

 aid me in ascertaining the authorships of the fol- 

 lowing works of which I have cojiies : — 



" Histoire de 1' Inquisition et son Origine. A Co 

 logiie, chez Pierre Marteau, ji.bc.xciii." 1 vol. I'Jnio. 



Is this (he same v,'ork as that mentioned in 

 Watt's Bib. Brit, as — 



" Tlie History of the Inquisition and its Origin, by 

 James Marsollier, 1693." 12mo. ? 



I have often searched for a copy of this work 

 ill English, but liave never found it. Was it ever 

 translated into English ? 



" L'InQUISIZIONE niOCESSATA OrEKA STORICA E CU- 



RiosA, Divisa in duo Tomi. In ColOsia Apprksso 

 Paulo dklla Tenaglia, m.dc. lxxxi. " 



I shoidd like to know something of the author- 

 ship of these volumes, and of the circumstances 

 under which they were published. 



" The Slaughter- House, or a brief description of the 



Spanish Inquisition, &c., gathered together by the pains 

 and study of James Salgado." N. D. 



The biographical dictionaries within my reacU 

 give no account of Salgado. Who was he ? 



" Historia Persecutionium Ecclesis Bohemicae jam 

 inde a primordiis Conversionis sua; ad Christianismum, 

 hoc est, 894, ad annum usque 1632, Ferdinando 

 Secundo Austriaco regnante, &c., anno Domini 

 CO 13 cxLviii." 1 vol. 32mo. 



I have an English translation of this small work, 

 published in 1650. Can any of your readers in- 

 form me who were the authors ? (The preface 

 concludes, "In our banishment in the year I6.'i2. 

 N. N. N., &c.") 



Iota. 



Liverpool, October, 1850. 



iJilt'iiar (Sucn'c^. 



Osnaburg Sishopric. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me who succeeded the late Duke 

 of York as Bishop of Osnaburg ? how the Duke 

 of York attained it? and whether there were any 

 ecclesiastical duties attached to it ? or whether 

 the appointment was a lay one ? B. M. 



Meaning of " JFa?'lief.'" — May I ask for a defi- 

 nition of the word "farlief," used in Devonshire 

 to designate some service or payment to the lord 

 of the manor by his copyholders, apparently analo- 



gous to the old feudal " relief" ? 



V. J. S. 



Maigaret Dyneley. — In Stanford Dingley 

 Church, Berkshire, there is a " brass" of Margaret 

 Dyneley, from whose family, I presume, the parish 

 has receiveel its appellation of Divglvj. As, how- 

 ever, I have not yet succeeded in obtaining any 

 account as to this lady or her ancestors, I should 

 feel obliged by any information which your learned 

 correspondents may be able to afford. J. H. K. 



Tristan d'Acunha. — Cosmopolite vAW be glad 

 to have references to any authentic sources of 

 information respecting the island of Tristan 

 d'Acunha. 



Production of Fire by Friction. — In most of the 

 accounts written by persons who have visited the 

 South Sea Islands, we meet with descriptions of 

 the method adopted by the natives to produce fire 

 by the rapid attrition of two bits of wood. Now 

 I wish to ask whether any person has ever seen 

 the same effect produced in this country by simi- 

 lar means Y If not, to what cause is the difficulty 

 — if such difficulty really exists — attributable ? 



