Nov. 23. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ladle Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, 

 Ffrance, and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c. 



H. T. Elxacombe. 

 Clyst St. George, Nov. 4. 1850. 



Cradock. — I should like to know whether the 

 MSS. of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which 

 afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still ac- 

 cessible ? Nichols refers to them as his authority 

 for Cradock's pedigree, as laid down in his Leices- 

 tershire (voL iv. part ii. p. 807.). H. T. E. 



McpTiciS to i^innr caurrtcS. 



REPL,IES Br GEORGE STEPHENS. 



I beg to encloze Se following scraps, purposely 

 written on slips, 'Sat '5e one may be destroyed and 

 not ^e ot5er if you should jjink fit so to do, and for 

 eaze ov printing. 



Pleaze to respect my or^ography — a beginning 

 to a better system — if you can and will. De types 

 required will only be '5e D, 'S, and J>, >, ov our 

 noble Anglo-Saxon mo'Ser- tongue, letterz in com- 

 mon use almost down to Se time ov Sfiakspeare ! 



If you will not be charmed, ov course you are 

 at liberty to change it. 



I have a large work in ^e press (translation/ 

 from ■ge A. -Saxon) printed entirely in ^is orj^o- 

 graphy. George Stephens. 



Stockholm. 



[Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known 

 scholarship, fails to remove our prejudices in favour of 

 the ordinary system of orthography.] 



On a Passage in "■The Tempest" (Vol. ii., 

 pp. 259. 2[»9. 337.). — Will you allow me to suggest 

 that tiie reading of the original edition is per- 

 fectly correct as it stands, as will be seen by sim- 

 ply italicising the emphatic words : — 



" Most busie least, when I doe it." 



The construction is thus merely an instance of 

 a common ellijjsis (here of the word busy), :ind re- 

 quires the comma after least. This is another 

 proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon 

 primitive texts. George Stephens. 



Saint, Legend of a (Vol. ii., pp. 2(57.). — The 

 circumstance alludi-d to is ))L'rlKips that in the 

 legend of St. Patrick. It was included by Vora- 

 gine in his life of that saint. See the "Golden 

 Legend" in init. George Stephens. 



Cupid and Psyche (Vol. ii., pp. 247.). — This 

 is probably an old Folk-tale, originally perhajis 

 an anti(iue philosophical temple-allegory. Apu- 

 leins appears oidy to have dressed it up in a new 

 shape. The tale is still current, but in a (bi-m 

 nut derived from him, among the Swedes, Norwe- 

 gians, Daneif, Scots, Germans, French, Wallachians, 



Italians, and Hindoos. See Svenska Folk-sagor 

 och Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade 

 och utgifna af G. O. H. Cavallius och G. Stephens, 

 vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323. 



George Stephens. 



Kongs Skuggsia (Vol. ii., pp. 296. 333.). — This 

 noble monument of Old Norse literature was 

 written at the close of the twelfth century by a 

 Norwegian of high rank, but who expresses his 

 resolution to remain unknown, in which he has 

 perfectly succeeded. He probably resided near 

 Trondhjera. See, for other information, the pre- 

 face to the last excellent edition lately published 

 by Keyser, Munch, and linger, as follows : — 



" Speculum Regale Konungs Skuggsja. Konge- 

 Speilat et philosophisk-didaktisk Skrift, forfattet I 

 Norge mod slutningen af det tolfte aarhuiidrede. Til- 

 ligemed et saintidigt Skrift om den norske kirkes 

 Stilling til Statem. Med to lithographerede Blade 

 Facsimile- A ftryck." — Cliristianla, 1848. 8vo. 



George Stephens. 

 Stockholm. 



The disputed Passage in the " Tempest" (Vol. ii., 

 pp.259. 299. 337.).— I am the "Comma" which 

 Me. Collier claims the merit of having removed, 

 and I humbly protest against the removal. I ad- 

 here to the reading of the folio of 1632, except 

 that I would strike out the final s in labours. The 

 passage would then read : 



" But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labour 

 Most busy least, when I do it." 



That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that 

 I am " most busy least" (an emphatic way of siiy- 

 ing least busy), " when I do it," to wit, the labour. 

 Mr. Hickson is ingenious, but he takes no notice 

 of — Comma. 



Viscount Castlccomer(Yo\. ii., p. 376.). — S. A. Y. 

 asks whether Lord Deputy Wandesford (not 

 Wanderforde) " ever took up this title, and what 

 became of it afterwards ?" He never did ; for on 

 the receipt of the patent, in the summer of 1640, 

 Wandesford exclaimed, "Is this a time for a 

 faithful subject to be exalted, when his king, the 

 fo\intain of honours, is likely to be reduced lower 

 than ever." A fevc months afterwards he died of 

 a broken heart. We are told that he concealed 

 the patent, and his grandson was the first of the 

 family — apparently by a fresh creation in 1706 — 

 who assumed the title. The neglect of si.xty-six 

 years, perhaps, rendered this necessary : Beatson 

 does not notice the first creation. The life of this 

 active and useful statesman, the friend and relative 

 of Strafford, was com{)iled from his duugtiter's 

 |)apcrs, by his descendant, Thomas Comber, LL.D. 

 Of this work Dr. Whitakcr availed himself in the 

 very interesting memoir which he has given of the 

 Lord Dep\ity, in his Histoi-y of Bichmondshire, 

 written, as we may suppose it would be by so de- 



