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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which he was reviewing (Kenrick's Ancient Egypt 

 undo- the Pharaohs) will show the origin of tiie 

 apparent ineonsisteiiey on which J. E. animadverts. 

 In that woik it is sai(l (vol. i. p. 100.) : 



" The roots of the Coptic language appear to have 

 been generally monosyllabic, and tlie durivatives have 

 been formed by a very simple system of prefixing, in- 

 serting, and affixing certain letters, which have usually 

 undergone but little change, not having been incor- 

 porated with the root, nor melted down by crasis, nor 

 softened by any euphonic rules." 



Again (vol. i. p. 107.), speaking of the supposed 

 connexion between India and Egypt : 



" The Siinscrit is the most polished and copious 

 language ever spoken by man; the Coptic, the most 

 rude of all wliich were used by the civilised nations of 

 anti(juity." 



Tlie writer in 7'he Times, curi-cnte calamo, has 

 thrown the contents of those two sentences together, 

 and somewhat strengthened tlie expressions of his 

 author, who does not call tlie Coptic system of in- 

 flexion rude, nor assert tliat it is totally different 

 from the Syro-Arabian system, but quotes the 

 opinion of Benfey, that the}- cliifer so much tliat 

 neither can have originated from the other, but 

 botli from a parent language. The distinctiiju 

 between a system of inflexion and one of affixes 

 and prefixes is not periinment. AVhat we call the 

 inflexions of tlie Greek vei-b were once, no doubt, 

 affixes ; but while, in the Greek, tiny have become 

 incorporated with ihe root, in the Coptic they stand 

 rigidly apart fioni it. HermapioiN. 



Lulhers Hymns (Vol. ii., p. 327.). — A writer 

 in the Parish Choir of September last (p. 140.) 

 has traced the words "In the midst of life we are 

 in death " to a higher source than tlie Salisbury 

 Service-book. It occurs in the choir-book of the 

 monks of St. Gall in Switzerjind, and was pro- 

 bably composed by Notker, siiriiamed the Stam- 

 merer, about the end of the ninth century, or (he 

 beginning of tlie tenth. C. II. 



St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Osnaburg Bishopric (Vol. ii., pp. 358. 484.). — 

 The occu])iers of this bishopric were princes eccle- 

 siastical of the empire, and had not only the 

 ordinary authority of bishops in tlieir dioceses, but 

 were sovereigns of their provinces and towns in 

 the same manner as vvcie the princes temporal. 



The bishopric of Osnaburg was founded by 

 Cliarlemagne, and was filled by various princes 

 until 162.5, when Cardinal Francis AVilliam, Count 

 of War(emburg, was elected by the eha]iter. 



By the Treaty of Osnalmrg, 1642, which was 

 ratified at the Peace of Westphalia, 1648, the 

 House of Brunswick resigned all claims to the 

 archbi.shoprics of IMagdeburg and Bremen, and 

 to the bishopries of ILilbei'stadt and Uatzbuig ; 

 and received the alternate nomination of the 

 bishopric of Osnaburg, which was declared to 



belong jointly to the Catholic and the Protestant 

 branch of Brunswick. 



Under this arrangement, on the death of Count 

 Wartemburg in 1662, Ernest Augustus I., the 

 sixtieth bishop, patriarch of the present royal 

 family of England, succeeded to the government 

 of Osnaburg, which he held for thirty-six years. 



Ernest Augustus II , sixty-second bishop, Duke 

 of Brunswick and Lunenburg, was made Duke of 

 York and Albany, and Bishop of Osnaburg, in 

 1716, in the room of Charles Joseph of Lorraine. 

 He died in 1748. 



Frederick, second son of George III., was ap- 

 pointed bishop at an early age ; he being called, in 

 a work dedicated to him in 1772, "An infant 

 bishop." 



By the Treaty of Vienna, the bishopric of Os- 

 naburg was made part of the kingdom of Hanover. 



The ancient territory of the Bishop of Osnaburg 

 consisted of Osnaburg, Iborg, Forstenau, Bostel, 

 Quakenburg, Vorde Gronsburg, Hunteburg on 

 the lake Dumiiier, ^Village, Melle, and Holte. 



In Halliday's History of the House of Giielph, 

 4to., 1821, at p. 133., the conditions of the Treaty 

 of Osnaburg relative to the bishopric are given at 

 length. 



Whilst preparing the above I have seen the 

 reply of F. E. at p. 447., and would beg to cor- 

 rect the following errors : — 



The Treaty of Osnaburg was 1642, not 1624. 



Halliday's House of Guelph was published 1821, 

 not 1820. 



lleference to the conditions of the treaty at 

 p. 133. is omitted. F. B. Hei-ton. 



Scandal asrainst Queen Elizabeth 



(Vol. 



p. 393.). — There is a current belief in Ireland 

 that the family of Mapother, in lloscommon, is 

 descended from Queen Elizabeth : and there are 

 many other traditions completely at variance with 

 the ordinarily received opinion as to her inviolate 

 chastity. A discussion of the matter might dis- 

 cover the foundation on which they rest. E. Ts. 



Pretended lieprird of Ancient Poetry (Vol. ii., 

 p. 463.). — The late Kev. Peter Hall was the per- 

 son at whose expense the two copies of the work 

 menti(uieil bv Dr. 1!imbaui.t were reprinted. At 

 the sale of tiiat gentleman's library, in May last, 

 one of these two reprints was sold lor 20s. Cato. 



Martin Family (Vol. ii., p. 392.). — If your cor- 

 respondent Clericus will refer to Moi ant's His- 

 tory of Essex, vol. ii. ]). 188., he will find stime 

 account of the family of Alartin. There do not 

 apjiear to be any families of the name of Cockerell 

 or Hopkins in the same neighbourhood. J. A. D. 



" Ge-ho" Meaning of. — I am a little girl, 

 only two years and five months old, and my kind 

 aunt 1*1 00 teaches nie to spell. Now I hear the 

 men, when driving their horses, say " Ge-ho ;" 



