Dec. 7. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



461 



" Owen on his Book. 

 " When fresh at Oxon I a salting got ; 

 At Winton I'd been pepper'd piping hot; 

 If aught herein you find that s sharp and niee, 

 'Tis Oxen's seasoning, and Winton's spice." 



I subjoin also an epitajih* from the chapel of 

 Our Ladye in Gloucester Cathedral, translated by 

 the same hand. 



" Eliziibetha loquitur. 

 " Conjugis effiglem sculpsisti in marraore conjux 

 Sic me imniortalem te statuisse putas ; 

 Sed Christus fuerat vivL'nti spesque fidesque 

 Sic me mortalem non sinit esse Deus." 



" Say, didst thou think within this sculptured stone 

 Thy faithful partner should immortal be? 

 Fix'd was her faith and hope on Christ alone, 

 And thus God gave her immortality.*' 



F. T. J. B. 

 Deanery of Gloucester. 



Epigram on the late Bull. — Pray preserve the 

 following admirable epigram, written, it is said, by 

 one of the most accomplished scholars of the uni- 

 versity of Oxford : — 



" Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras : 

 Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius." 



Thus translated : 



" The wise man and the Pius have laid us under bann ; 

 Oh Pious man unwise! oh impious Wise-man!" 



S. M. H. 



Bailie Nicol Jarvie (Vol. ii., p. 421.). — When 

 we spoke recently of Charles Mackay, the inimitable 

 Bailie Nicol Jarvie of one of the Terryfieations 

 (though not by Terry) of Scott's Rob Boy having 

 made a formal affidavit that he was a real " Edin- 

 burgh Gutter Bluiil," we suspect some of our 

 readers themselves suspected a joke. The affidavit 

 itself has, however, been printed in the Athencpiim, 

 accompanied by an amusing commentary, in which 

 the documenc isjustly pronounced " a very curious 

 one." Here it is : 



" .At Edinburgh, the Fourteenth day of November, 

 One thousand eight hundred and fifty years. 



" In presence of John Stoddart, Esq., one of Her 

 Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of Edin- 

 burgli, appeared Charles Mackay, lately Tlieatre Royal, 

 residing at number eleven Drummond .Street, Edin- 

 burgh ; who being solemnly sworn and examined de- 

 pones, that he is a native of Edinburgh, having been 

 born in one of tlie houses on the north side of the High 

 Street of said city, in the month of October one 

 thousand seven lunidred and eighty-seven Tliat the 

 deponent left Edinburgh for Glasgow wlien only about 

 nine years of age, wliere he sojourned for five years; 

 thence he became a wanderer in many lands, and 



• On Klizal)elb Williams, youngest daughter of 

 Miles (.Smith), and wife of Jolin Williams, E^q., died 

 in child-bed at tlie age of seventeen. The al)Ove Miles 

 .Smith, was Bishop of (iloster during the latter part of 

 Henry VIII. and part of Elizabeth's reigu. 



finally settled once more in Edinburgh a few months 

 before February eighteen hundred and nineteen years, 

 when the drama of Rob Roy was first produced in the 

 Theatre Royal here. That the deponent by his own 

 industry having realised a small competency, he is now 

 residing in Edinburgh ; and although upwards of 

 tlireescore years old he finds himself ' hale and hearty,' 

 and is one of the same class whom King Jamie deno- 

 minates 'a real Edinburgh Gutter Bluid.' All which 

 is truth, as the deponent shall answer to God. 



" Chas. Mackat, B. N. Jarvie. 

 " John Stoddart, J. P. 



" John Middleton, M.D.E., Witness. 



" Walter Henderson, Witness." 



Hogs not Pigs (Vol. ii., p. 102.).— J. Mn.'s re- 

 mark on " hogs, lambs a year old," reminds me 

 that the origin of this rustical word still lingers in 

 the remote west, among the Irish and the High- 

 land Gaels, whose gnaih-beai'la, vernacular tongue, 

 furnishes the neglected key of many a dark cham- 

 ber. The word to which I allude is " og," adj. 

 young; whence " ogan," a young man ; " oige," a 

 virgin. 



In these islands we still apply the old French 

 term " aver," averium, in Guernsey, to the hog or 

 pig; in Jersey, to a child. In France "aver" 

 denoted the animal produce or stock on a farm ; 

 and there were " averia lanata" likewise. Similar 

 apparently whimsical adaptations of words will not 

 shock those who are aware that " pig" in England 

 properly means a little fellow of the swine species, 

 and that " pige " in Norse signifies a little maid, 

 a damsel. G. M, 



Guernsey. 



The Baptized Turk. — Your correspondent CH. 

 (Vol. ii., p. 120), who inquired about Lord 

 Richard Christophilus {al. Isuf Bassa), a converted 

 Turk, m.ay be interested in a curious account of 

 another convert to Christianity, which has lately 

 fallen in my way, if he be not already in possession 

 of the (almost legendary) narrative. I allude to 

 a small 8vo. volume, entitled : 



" The Baptized Turk ; or, A Narrative of the happy 

 conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo, the onely son of a 

 silk merchant in the isle of Tsio, from the delusions 

 of that great Impostor Mahomet, unto the Christian 

 Religion ; and of his admission unto Baptism, by Mr. 

 Gunning at Excester-house Chappel, the 8th of No- 

 vember, 1657. Drawn up by Tho. Warmstry, D. D., 

 Loud. 1658." 



Dr. Warmstry was Dean of Worcester. His con- 

 version of the Turk Dandulo is mentioned in the 

 Lansdiiume MSS. (986., p. 67.), and also in the 

 AlhencE Oxonienses. The narrative is dedicated to 

 " The Right lIonoural>le the Countess of Dorset, 

 the Honourable the Lord George, and the Worshipful 

 Pliilip Warwick, Esq., tiritncsses at the bai)tism of 

 Signior Dandulo the convert." 



Tiiere appears to have been "a ])icture of the 

 said Daudulo in a Turkish habit [)ut before it;" 



