Dec. 7. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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are said at St. Peter at Rome, also for the same 

 purpose. 



Can any of your readers inform me where that 

 church is in the south of France ; and when such 

 prayers and masses were first said ? 



It is also understood that this church was the 

 last whose bell tolled in England for mass, and 

 in which any rites of the Roman Catholic religion 

 were celebrated after the Reformation. 



S. S. N. H. 



in 39 Eliz., 1597, and the close of the pedigree, 

 translated into English, is as follows : 



Sir John Newton, Kt. — 



Isleplte^. 



HOLME MSS. THE CRADOCKS. 



(Vol. ii., p. 429.). 



In answer to the Query of IMb. Ellacombe, 

 " I should like to know whether the MSS. of Ran- 

 dle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards 

 were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible ? " 



1. The MSS. alluded to are those oi four suc- 

 cessive antiquaries of that name, of whom an 

 account will be found in Ormerod's Hist. Chesh., 

 vol. ii., under " Tranmere." 



2. The person intended was not Dr. Latham, 

 but Mr. William Latham, of Eltham, afterwards 

 of Quenby Hall, Leicestershire, brother of Dr. 

 Latham, of Romsey, the naturalist. 



3. The Holme MSS. were never in tlie posses- 

 sion of Mr. Latham ; but if JMr. Ellacombe will 

 refer to Dr. Gower's prospectus, reissued by Mr. 

 Latham in 1800, he will find a correct statement 

 of their having been obtained by Bishop Gastrell 

 for the Earl of Oxford, and " eventually for the 

 mighty emolument of the public." (p. 40.) 



4. These MSS. (being part of the Harleian 

 Collection), are accfs.iible to visitors of the read- 

 ing room at the Museum, and extend, in the 

 Harleian Catalogue, from No. 1920. to No. 2180. 

 inclusive. 



5. With respect to Cradoch.s, as connected with 

 Cheshire, Mr. E. will find notice in Ormerod's 

 Hist. Chesh., iii. 236., of the tomb of Sir John 

 Cradoek in Nantvvicii Church, as lately, and per- 

 haps now, remaining, and an account of \ts former 

 state in Chahjncr's and Ilolnui's Church Notes, Harl. 

 MSS. 2151., and in Oi-dinart/ of Anns in Kings 

 Vale Royull, 1656, arms assigned to Cradoek: — 

 " Argent, on a chevron azure three garbs, or. 

 Partridge (IIi.st. of Nantivich, 1773) names him 

 Sir David, and states that the arms were not 

 then discoverable." Piatt's later History quotes 

 Derrick's Letters for naming him Sir Roger. 



The pedigrie ol' Nkwton, previously Cradock, 

 will b(! f(>und atlenglii in Lcwys Dwnn's VisiUition 

 of Wales (vol. i. p 145.), published by the late 

 Sir Siimuel Meyrick, uruler the auspices of the 

 Welsh MSS. Society. It places Newton in Pciii- 

 brokeshire, and dillcrs in some other respects from 

 Mb. Em.acomue's account. The entry was made 



I 

 Henry Newton of 



Hanham, Somerset- 

 shire. 



I I . 



2 Jolin New- Frances, wife 

 ton of Frusto. of William 

 Lord Cobham. 

 Lancasteiensis. 



antiquity of smoking. 



InVol. ii., p. 286., an allusion is made by a 

 correspondent to the following verses of the comic 

 poet Crobylus, in reference to the antiquity of 

 smoking : 



A. " 'E7(!l) Se Trpbs "TO, BepfjLO. ravff vTrepPoXij 

 Toils SaKrv\ovs Sri-novdiv Ifialovs exw, 



Kal rb)/ \dpv'yy' V)SiaTa irvptci Tefxaxiois. 



B. " Kd/xivus, ovK dvOpwiTos." 



Athen I. p. 5. F. 



The two last verses are thus rendered in the 

 passage referred to : 



"And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings ; 

 A chimney, not a man." 



Athenaus is describing the fondness of the 

 ancient gourmands for eating their food extremely 

 hot. As they had no forks, but, like the modern 

 Orientals, carried their food to their mouth with 

 their fingers, one Pithyllus used gloves in order to 

 avoid burning his fingers. (lb. I. p. 6. D.) 



In the second lino there is a pun upon the word 

 ISaios, which is explained to mean "cold" — the 

 allusion being to the Idfean Dactyli. (See Meineke, 

 Fragm. Com. Gr., vol. iv. p. 568. Lobeck, Agla- 

 oph. p. 1181.) The passage is to be translated 

 thus : 



A. "My fingers are fire-proof against these exceed- 

 ingly hot morsels, and I delight in burning my throat 

 with slices of fish. 



B. " A furnace, not a man." 



In V. 3. irupiw is the word properly applied to 

 steaming in a vapour-bath ; and refiaxos, or 

 Te/.iaxwi', is a slice or cutlet of fish. (See Aristoph. 

 Nub. 339.) In v. 4. Ka/xLvos must not be rendered 

 " chimney." It is a furnace or oven, and not even 

 a stove or hearth, as Scott and Liddell remark in 

 V. The ancient Greeks, and probably the Romans 

 likewi.se, were unacquainted with chimneys. 

 (See liwkmnnn. Hist, of Lnviitions, art. "Chim- 

 neys," and Smith's Diet, of Greek and Rom. Ant., 

 art. " House.") The meanings of the Latin word 

 caminus are explained by Beckmann (lb., vol. i. 

 p. 301. ed. Bohn). Tiie sliort poem of Kdfitvos f) 

 K(paixl<:, attribuled to Homer (Epig. 14.), illustrates 

 the meaning of the word Kafuvor. In these verses 

 it is a furnace used for baking ])otterv. 



Crobylus was not earlier than Olynip. 114. 

 n. c. 324. (See Meineke, lb., vol. i. p. 490.) 



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