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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(Nos; 95 
I have before said that the centre type of Eve’s 
Temptation is the most common, and to it the 
words especially refer, and seem at the place of 
their manufacture (most probably Nuremburg) to 
have been used for other centres without any 
regard to its fitness. The letters, as I can safely 
aver from some very perfect specimens, are 
DER SELEN INFRID WART}3 
in modern German “ der Seelen Infried wort.” To 
the German scholar the two latter words only 
require explanation. Infrid for Unfried, discord, 
disturbance, any thing in opposition to Frieden or 
peace. The Frid-stools at Beverley, Ripon, and 
Hexham, still bear the old theotise stamp. Wart, 
or ward, may be either the past tense of werden, 
to be (our was), or an old form of wéhren, to en- 
dure, to last: our English wear is the same word. 
The sense is pretty much the same in both read- 
ings alluding to Eve. In the first: 
(By her) the soul's disturbance came (was). 
By the second : 
(Through her) the soul’s disturbance continues. 
I may here observe that the words 1cu WART are 
particularly distinct on a helmet, pictured in the 
Journal of the British Archzxological Association, 
which the Secretary, Mr. Planché, in such matters 
the highest authority, regards as a tilting helmet. 
It may there have been in the original 1c WARTE, 
meaning I bide (my time). 
But the centres and this inscription are the 
least difficulty. A second, frequently met with, 
is by far more puzzling. I could not give your 
readers any idea of it without a drawing: however 
it is found imperfectly depicted on the plates I 
have before mentioned in Nash’s Worcestershire, 
and the Gentleman's Magazine, and I think I re- 
collect also a very rude copy in a volume of 
Hearne’s Miscellaneous Works, which I examined 
in the Gottingen Library, but whether belonging 
to the work or a MS. addition I cannot now call 
to mind. The fanciful and flowery form of its 
letters gives great scope to the imagination in 
assigning them their particular position in the 
alphabet, and the difliculty of reading them is en- 
hanced by the doubts of German archeologists 
whether they are initials or component parts of a 
sentence. Herr Joseph vy. Hammer Purgstall, how- 
ever, in his version RECORD DE scI-GnsI, or in full 
Recordamini de sancta Gnosi, deduces thence his 
principal proof of Gnostic heresy amongst the 
calumniated Templars, in which I am sorry to say 
he has been too servilely followed in England : e.g. 
by Mr. Godfrey Higgins, in his posthumous Ana- 
clypsis (p. 830 note), as well as by E. G. Addison, 
Lhe Temple Church (p. 57), and by Mr. R. W. 
Billings more especially, who tacks to his account 
of this building an “ Essay on the symbolical Evi- 
dences of the ‘Temple Church, where the Templars 
are proved Gnostic Idolators, as alleged by Edward 
Clarkson, Esq.” Had the learnedly hypothetic 
Austrian seen the engravings of the Crypt at Can- 
terbury Cathedral (Archeologia, viii. p.74.), and 
Ledwick’s remarks on it in conjunction with the 
carvings at Glendalloch (History of Ireland, p.174.), 
or those of Grymbald’s Crypt at Oxford, he might 
have been expected to have attributed their mon- 
strosities to his order, with as little hesitation and 
as thorough a contempt of chronology, or proved 
connection, as he has the curious and innocent 
sculptures of the church at Schéngrabern in Bo- 
hemia (vide Curiositéten, vol. viii. p. 501.). 
Wit11aM Bert, Phil. Dr. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Prince Madoc.— At p.57., “ANGLO-CAMBRIAN” 
refers to the Report of the Proceedings of the 
British Association at Swansea, in Aug. 1848, 
extracted from the Atheneum newspaper. In the 
course of a discussion which took place on Prof. 
Elton’s address, it was observed (if I recollect 
rightly) by the learned Dr. Latham, that a vocabu- 
lary of the so-called Welsh-Indian dialect has 
been formed, and that it contains xo trace of any 
Celtic root. J.M. T. 
December 10. 1849. 
St. Barnabas. — About the time of the Reforma- 
tion, it was strongly debated whether the festival 
days of St.Paul and St. Barnabas should be ad- 
mitted into the calendar; and, in the 2d Book of 
KX. Edward, the Conversion of St. Paul is put 
down in black, and St. Barnabas is omitted alto- 
gether! No wonder, therefore, if, in Suffolk, 
liberties were taken with the name of St. Barna- 
bas, and it was transferred to doggerel rhyme, to 
be repeated by children. Ape is 
Register of Cromwell's Baptism. —'The commu- 
nication of your correspondent C. W. G. at p. 103. 
of your last number, induces me to offer you the 
inclosed copy from the Register of All Saints’ 
Church, Huntingdon, of the birth and baptism of 
Oliver Cromwell : — 
« Anno Domini 1599 Oliverus filius Roberti Crom- 
well generosi et Elisabethe huxoris ejus Natus vice- 
simo guinto die Aprilis et Baptisatus vicesimo nono 
ejusdem mensis.” 
Then follow the words “England’s plague for 
many years,” written in a different hand. R.O. 
The Times. — A correspondent (Naso) informs 
us of the following fact, in the history of this 
widely circulated and influential journal; namely, 
that it is stated in that paper of the 12th of March, 
1788, that it was printed “ Logographically !” We 
wish our correspondent had furnished us with the 
precise words of this very curious statement. 
