NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[ No. 6. 
“ The timber I saw here was prodigious, as well in 
quantity as in bigness, and seem’d in some places to be 
suffered to grow only because it was so far off of any 
navigation, that it was not worth cutting down and 
carrying away ; in dry summers, indeed, a great deal is 
carried away to Maidstone and other parts on the 
Medway; and sometimes I have seen one tree on a 
carriage, which they call here a tug, drawn by two-and- 
twenty oxen, and even then this carried so little a way, 
and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take | £ 5 
| posed by me in your first number to the following 
up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years 
before it gets to Chatham; for if once the rains come 
in it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole 
summer is not dry enough to make the roads passable. 
Here I had a sight which, indeed, i never saw in any 
other part of England, namely, that going to church at 
a country village, not far from Lewes, I saw an ancient 
lady, and a lady of very good quality, I assure you, 
drawn to church in her coach with six oxen; nor was 
it done in frolic or humour, but mere necessity, the 
way being so stiff and deep that no horses could go in 
it.’— A Tour through Great Britain, by a Gentleman. 
London, 1724. Vol. i. p. 54. Letter II. 
Factotum. 
“ He was so farre the dominus fac totum in this 
juncto that his words were laws, all things being 
acted according to his desire.” — p. 76. of Foulis’ 
Hist. of Plots of our Pretended Saints, 2nd edit. 
1674. F. M. 
Birthplace of Andrew Borde. 
Hearne says, in Wood’s Athene, “ that the 
Doctor wasenot born at Pevensey or Pensey, but 
at Boonds-hill in Helmsdayle, in Sussex.” 
Should we not read “ Borde-hill?” That place 
belonged to the family of Borde for many gene- 
rations. It is in Cuckfield parish. The house 
may be seen from the Ouse-Valley Viaduct. 
J. F.M. 
Order of Minerva. 
“ We are informed that his Majesty is about to 
institute a new order of knighthood, called The 
Order of Minerva, for the encouragement of lite- 
rature, the fine arts, and learned professions. The 
new order is to consist of twenty-four knights and 
the Sovereign ; and is to be next in dignity to the 
military Order of the Bath. The knights are to 
wear a silver star with nine points, and a straw- 
coloured riband from the right shoulder to the 
left. A figure of Minerva is to be embroidered 
in the centre of the star, with this motto, ‘Omnia 
posthabita Scientizx.’ Many men eminent in lite- 
rature, in the fine arts, and in physic, and law, are 
already thought of to fill the Order, which, it is 
said, will be instituted before the meeting of par- 
liament.” — Perth Magazine, July, 1772. Scorvs. 
Flaws of Wind. 
The parish church of Dun-Nechtan, now Dun- 
nichen, was dedicated to St. Causlan, whose festi- 
val was held in March. Snow showers in March 
are locally called “ St. Causlan’s flaws.” Scorvs. 
QUERIES ANSWERED. 
DORNE THE BOOKSELLER AND HENNO RUSTICUS. 
Sir, — Circumstances imperatively oblige me to 
do that from which I should willingly be excused — 
reply to the observations of J. I., inserted in 
| page 75. of the last Saturday’s Number of the 
“ Norges AND QUERIES.” 
The subject of these are three questions pro- 
effect :—1. Whether any thing was known, espe- 
cially from the writings of Erasmus, of a bookseller 
and publisher of the Low Countries named Dorne, 
who lived at the beginning of the sixteenth cen- 
tury? Or, 2ndly, of a little work of early date 
called Henno Rusticus? Or, 3rdly, of another, 
called Of the Sige (Signe) of the End ? 
To these no answer has yet been given, although 
the promised researches of a gentleman of this 
University, to whom literary inquirers in Oxford 
have ever reason_to be grateful, would seem to 
promise one soon, if it can be made. But, in the 
| mean time, the knot is cut in a simpler way: 
neither Dorne, nor Henno Rusticus, his book, it is 
said, ever existed. Permit me one word of expos- 
tulation upon this. 
Tt is perfectly true that the writing of the MS. 
which has given rise to these queries and remarks 
is small, full of contractions, and sometimes diffi- 
cult to be read; but the contractions are tolerably 
uniform and consistent, which, to those who have 
to do with such matters, is proved to be no incon- 
siderable encouragement and assistance. A more 
serious difficulty arises from the circumstance, 
that the bookseller used more than one language, 
and none always correctly. Still it may be pre- 
sumed he was not so ignorant as to make a blun- 
der in spelling his own name. And the first words 
of the manuscript are these: ‘+ In nomine domi- 
ni amen ego Johannes dorne,” &c. &c. (In ndie 
domi amé ego Johanes dorne, &c.) From the 
inspection of a close copy now lying before me, in 
which all the abbreviations are retained, and from 
my own clear recollection, I am enabled to state 
that, to my full belief, the name of “ dorne” is 
written by the man himself in letters at length, 
without any contraction whatever; and that the 
altered form of it, “‘ Dom,” as applied to that par- 
ticular person, exists nowhere whatever, except in 
page 75. of No. 5. of the “ Norrs anp QueRiEs.” 
The words “henno rusticus” (héno rusticus) 
are found twice, and are tolerably clearly written 
in both cases. Of the “rusticus” nothing need be 
said; but the first x in “ henno” is expressed by a 
contraction, which in the MS, very commonly 
denotes that letter, and sometimes the final 
m. How frequently it represents » may be 
judged from the fact that in the few words 
already quoted, the final x in “amen,” and the 
first in “ Jchannes,” are supplied by it. So that 
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