Dec. 7. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" Patience on force is a medicine for a mad horse ;" 

 and it represents the female keeper of a brothel 

 receivin;^ whip-castigtition at a cart's tail, a pun- 

 ishment frequently inflicted of old upon women 

 of that description, as many authors testify : sol- 

 diers with halberds, &c., as before, raarch on either 

 side of the cart, which at the moment is passing 

 a house with rhe sign of the Half-moon hanging 

 out from the wall by ornamented iron-work. The 

 eight of spades is upon the proverb, "Two of a 

 trade can never agree ;" and in the engraving a 

 couple of fish-wives, who have thrown down their 

 baskets of plaise, flounders, &c., are fighting furi- 

 ously, while a man, behind, is obviously running 

 away with something he has stolen fi'oni them: the 

 background consists of gable-ended houses, part 

 of a street. 



These cards came to me from an old relative, 

 who very likely once had the whole pack, or deck, 

 as it was ibrmerly called ; but I never coidd find 

 more than tliese four, and T have been unable to 

 meet with, or hear of, any others like them. From 

 tlie costume and other circumstances, I am inclined 

 to think that they belong to the period of the 

 Civil War, or rather later ; and 1 remember, some 

 years ago, to have been shown twenty or thirty 

 cards of the latter end of the seventeenth century, 

 founded upon public events, one of them relating 

 to the celebrated " Virgins of Taunton Dean," 

 another to the Death of Monmouth, &c. I shall 

 be personally obliged by any information respect- 

 ing the cards I have described ; and, since a dis- 

 tinct Query may be desirable, I beg leave to ask 

 any of your readers, whether they know of the 

 existence of any other cards belonging to the same 

 set ? The Hermit of Holypout. 



Pretended Beprint of Ancient Poetry. — In a book- 

 seller's catalogue (J. Taylor, Blackfriars-road, 

 1824), I find mention of a work entitled Sundrie 

 Pleu.saunie Flowres of Poesie, newlie pinched from 

 the Hill Parnasse hij the hnnd of P. M., and verie 

 goodlie to snielle. It is said to have been " Ini- 

 prynted in London, in the yeare of oin- Lorde 1576," 

 and "Jie|)rinted i)y Davidson, 1823." The book- 

 seller's note records the fact, that "only two copies 

 were rejjrintcd from the original supposed to be 

 unique." I do not believe that any work with the 

 above title came from the press in the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. Query, Wiio was tlie enlightened individual 

 wlio produced the two copies ? 



EjjWAUD r. lllMHAUI-T. 



The Jews' Spring Gardens. — In the newspaper 

 called tlie Postman, Oct. 3. to 6. 1702, I read, 



" At Milcnd the g.u-dun and liousc called tlie Jews' 

 Sprint) G irdcn, is to be let. Enquire at Capt. lien- 

 dal's at ISIilend." 



Can any of your readers, acquainted with the 

 neighbourhood of London, afibrd me information 

 regarding this place, which was probably one of 

 amusement and promenade much used by the 

 Jews, many of the wealthier of whom, at that 

 time and long afterwards, resided in Goodman's 

 Fields ? Y. S. 



Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nohility. — 

 Sharon Turner (Eliz., book ii. chap. xxx. vol. iv. 

 p. 348.) mentions th.at there is a copy of Cardinal 

 Allen's Admonition to the Nobditij, &c., in the 

 Jesuit's College at Stoueyhurst, and but few others 

 in England. 



I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents 

 who can inform me where one is to be found. 

 There is not one either in the Bodleian or the 

 British Museum. James Bliss. 



" Clurimiet cenerabile nomen." — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me in what author the fol- 

 lowing lines are to be found ? They are quoted by 

 Burke in his speech on American taxation. 

 '• Cl.irum et venerabile nomcn 

 Gentibus, ct multum nostrse quod proderat urbi?" 



W. L. 



Whipping by Women. — In the accounts of the 

 constable of this parish for the year 1C41, there 

 are the Ibllowlng items: 



" Paid to two men for watching Ellen 

 Shaw, slie beinge accused for feloiiie - 3 



'■ Paid to a woman for whippinge y'^ 

 said Ellen Shaw 4 



'' Paid for bcare for her after she was 

 whipped .'3." 



Was it the usual custom for women sentenced 

 to whipping to be consigned to the ter.der mercies 

 of one of their own sex? J. Eastwood. 



Ecclesfield. 



Larig (Vol. i., p. 292.). — ILave we not a relic 

 of this word in the vulgar leanj, used of a tough 

 customer, one not easily taken in ? J. VI. 11. 



3IS. History of Winchester School. — 

 " In the year 1715, proposals were published for an 

 exact account of the History and Anti(|uities of this 

 College of St. Mary ; and large collections are made 

 for that end, now dormant in a private hand." — Raw- 

 linson's Enytish Topugrapher, p. C3., London, 1720. 



Can any of j-our readers tell me where this 

 invaluable MS. (if existing) may be found ? and 

 also what became of the late llcv. Peter Hall's 

 collections in manuscript ? 



JNIackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Benedicite. — When a priest saluted or was asked 

 for his blessing, he said " Benedicite," Bless ye, — 

 Domino, or, in worse Latin, nomen Dei. understood. 

 Can any one say why Benedicat or Bcncdicimini 

 was not used, as the use of Benedicite was iulended 



