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“ To the Lord Steward of our Household, 
the Treasurer, Comptroller, Cofferer, 
Clerke of our Grene Clothe, Clerke of 
our kechyn, and to all other our hed 
Officers of our seid Houshold and to 
every of theym.” 
As to Sir Christopher Hatton, I would refer 
AnTiquarius, and all others whom it may con- 
cern, to Sir Harris Nicolas’s ably written Memoirs 
of the “ Dancing Chancellor,” published in 1846. 
Hatton had ample means for the building of 
Holdenby, as he was appointed one of the Gentle- 
men Pensioners in 1564, and ‘between that time 
and his appointment as Vice-Chamberlain in 1577 
(five years prior to the period referred to by 
Antiquarius), he received numerous other gifts 
and offices. Josrru Burtt. 
ADVERSARIA. 
Printers’ Couplets. 
It may not perhaps be generally known that the 
early printers were accustomed to place devices or 
verses along with their names at the end of the 
books which they gave to the public. Vigneul- 
Marville, in his Wélanges d Histoire et de Littérature, 
relates that he found the two following lines at the 
end of the “ Decrees of Basle and Bourges,” pub- 
lished under the title of “ Pragmatic Sanction,” 
with a Commentary by Come Guymier, — Andre 
Brocard’s Paris edition, 1507 : — 
“ Stet liber hic, donce fluctus formica marinos 
Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem.” 
The printers, it would appear, not only intro- 
duced their own names into these verses, but also 
the names of the correctors of the press, as may 
be seen in the work entitled, Commentaritis Andree 
de Ysernia super constitutionibus Sicilia, printed 
by Sixtus Ruffingerus at Naples in 1472 : — 
“« Sixtus hoe impressit: sed bis tamen ante revisit 
Egregius doctor Petrus Oliverius. 
At tu quisque emis, lector studiose, libellum 
Lxtus emas; mendis nam caret istud opus.” 
G. J. K. 
Charles Martel. 
Mr. Editor, — Perhaps the subjoined note, ex- 
tracted from M. Collin de Plancy’s Bibliothéque 
des Légendes, may not be without its value, as 
tending to correct an error into which, according 
to his account, modern historians have fallen re- 
specting the origin of the surname “ Martel,” borne 
by the celebrated Charles Martel, son of Peppin 
of Herstal, Duke of Austrasia, by his Duchess 
Alphéide*:— 
* This same Alphéide, or Alpaiide, as she was fre- 
quently called, though but scurvily treated by pos- 
terior historians, is honoured by contemporary chroni- 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 6. 
“Jt is surprising,” he says, “that almost all our 
modern historians, whose profound researches have 
been so highly vaunted, have repeated the little tale of 
the Chronicle of St. Denis, which affirms that the sur- 
name of Martel was conferred on Charles for having 
hammered (maréelé) the Saracens. Certain writers of 
the present day style him, in this sense, Karle-le- Marteau. 
The word martel, in the ancient Frank language, never 
bore such a signification, but was, on the contrary, 
merely an abbreviation of Martellus, Martin.” * 
From a legend on this subject given by M. de 
Plancy, it would appear that Charles received the 
second name, Martel, in honour of his patron saint 
St. Martin, 
Not having at present an opportunity of con- 
sulting the works of our own modern writers on 
early French history, I am ignorant if they also 
have adopted the version given in the Chronicle of 
St. Denis. Mr. Ince, in his little work, Oudlines 
of French History, states, that “he received the 
surname of Martel, or the Hammerer, from the 
force with which he hammered down the Saracens 
—martel being the name of a weapon which the 
ancient Franks used, much resembling a hammer,— 
and from his strokes falling numberless and effec- 
tual on the heads of his enemies.” Query.— 
Which of the two is the more probable version ? 
Perhaps some one of your numerous correspond- 
ents may be enabled to throw additional ght on 
this disputed point. G. J. K. 
BODENHAM AND LING. 
Referring to Booxworm’s note at p. 29, I beg 
to observe that the dedication negativing Boden- 
ham’s authorship of Politeuphuia is not peculiar to 
the edition of 1597. I have the edition of 1650, 
“ printed by Ja. Flesher, and are to be sold by 
Richard Royston, at the Angell in Ivye Lane,” in 
which the dedication is addressed as follows: — 
“To his very good friend Mr. Bodenham, N. L. 
wisheth increase of happinesse.” ‘The first sen- 
tenee of this dedication seems to admit that Bo- 
denham was something more than patron of the 
work :—‘“ What you seriously begun long since, 
and have always been very caretul for the full 
perfection of, at length thus finished, although 
perhaps not so well to your expectation, I present 
you with; as one before all most worthy of the 
same: both in respect of your earnest travaile 
therein, and the great desire you have continually 
had for the generall profit.” 
In Brydges’ Censura Literaria, Bodenham is 
spoken of as the compiler of The Garden of the 
Muses, and editor of the Wit’s Commonwealth, the 
clers as the second wife of Peppin, uxor altera. See 
Frédégaire. 
* Légendes de U’ Histoire de France, par J. Collin de 
Plancy, p. 149. (notes.) Paris, Mellier Fréres. 
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