Mar. 16. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Sir William Rider (No. 12. p. 186.).—“ H. F.” 
will find some account of the acts and deeds of Sir 
Thomas Lake and Dame Mary Lake his wife in 
the 13th Report on Charities, p. 280, as to their 
gifts to Muecleston in Staffordshire. In the 24th 
Report, p. 300, as to Drayton in the same county. 
Dame Mary Lake was also a benefactor to the 
parish of Little Stanmore, see 9th Report, p. 271. 
See also Stow’s Survey, 593. (ed. 1633.)  _-H. E. 
God tempers the Wind (No. 14. p.211.; No. 15. 
p- 236.).— The proverb is French: “A brebis 
tondue Dieu mesure le vent;” but I cannot tell | 
now where to find it in print, except in Chambaud’s 
Dictionary. ‘That is why Sterne puts it into the 
mouth of Maria. C. B. 
Complutensian Polyglot. — “ Mr. Jess” asks, 
(No. 14. p. 213.), “In what review or periodical 
did there appear a notice of the supposed discovery 
of the MSS. from which the Complutensian Po- 
lyglot was compiled ?” 
He will find an article on this subject in the 
Trish Ecclesiastical Journal tor April, 1847; from 
which I learn that there was a previous article, by 
Dr. James Thomson, one of the agents of the 
British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Biblical 
Review, a London periodical publication. Dr. 
Thomson, if I understand the matter aright, pro- 
fessed to have found at Madrid the MSS., so long 
supposed to have been lost. 
There is also an article on the same subject by 
Dr. Bowring, in the Monthly Repository, vol. xvi. 
(1821) p. 203. 
Tickhill, God help me (No. 16. p. 247.).— Of 
Tickhill I know nothing; but Melverley in this 
county goes by the soubriquet of “ Melverley, God 
help ;” and the folk-lore on the subject is this : — 
Weaade lies by Severn side, where that river 
flows under the Breiddon hills from the county of 
Montgomery into that of Salop. It is frequently 
inundated in winter, and, consequently, very pro- 
ductive in summer. They say that if a Melverley 
man is asked in winter where he belongs, the 
doleful and downcast reply is, “ Melverley, God 
help me ;” but asked the same question in summer, 
he answers quite jauntily, ‘ Melverley, and what 
do you think?” A friend informs me that the same 
story appertains to Pershore in the vale of Evesham. 
Perhaps the analogy may assist Mr. Jounson in 
tp to Tickhill. 
et me take this opportunity to add to my 
flim-flam on pet-names in your late Number, that 
Jack appears to have been a common term to de- 
signate a low person, as “every Jack;” “ every 
man-jack ;” “ Jack-of-all-trades ?” “ Jackanapes ;” 
&e, B. Ul. Kennepy. 
Shrewsbury, Feb. 18. 
Bishop Blaise (No. 16. p. 247.) — Four lives of 
the martyr Blasius, Bishop of Sebaste in Cappa- 
docia, are to be found in the Bollandine Acta 
Sanctorum, under the 3rd of February. It appears 
that the relics and worship of this saint were very 
widely spread through Europe, and some places 
seem to have claimed him as indigenous on the 
strength merely of possessing one of his toes or 
teeth. The wool-comb was one of the instruments 
with which he was tortured, and having become a 
symbol of his martyrdom, gave occasion, it would 
seem, to the wool-combers to claim him as their 
patron, and to ascribe to him the invention of their 
art See Ellis’s Brand’s Popular Antiquities, vol. i. 
pp. 29, 30; and query whether the veneration of 
St. Blaise by these artisans were not peculiar to 
Enyland. Blasius of Sebaste is said to have been 
a physician; in consequence of the persecution 
raised by Diocletian, he retired to a mountain 
named Argus, whither all the wild beasts of the 
country resorted to him, and reverentially attended 
him. But there is a legend of another Blasius of 
Czsarea in Cappadocia, who is represented as an 
owner of herds (8vv«ddos), and remarkable for his 
charity to the poor. His herdsman’s staff was 
planted over the spot where he was martyred, and 
grew into an umbrageous tree. 
This variation of legends favours the idea that the 
cultus of Blasius was founded upon that of some 
deity worshipped in Cappadocia, whose rites and 
attributes may have varied in different localities. 
C. W. G. 
Sangred — Judas Bell. —‘* Buriensis” inquires 
(p. 124.) what sangred is. This term is noticed in 
Rock’s Church of Our Fathers, t. ii. p. 372. In 
the very interesting “Extracts from Church- 
wardens’ Accounts,” p. 195., it is asked what 
“ Judas’ bell” was. I presume it to have been a 
bell called after, because blessed in honour of, the 
apostle St. Jude, who, in the Greek Testament, 
in the Vulgate, and our own early English trans- 
lations, as well as old calendars, is always called 
Judas, and not Jude, as a difference from Judas 
Iscariot. Crruas. 
La Mer des Histoires. — Mr. Sansom (No. 18. 
p- 286.) has inquired, What is known of Columna’s 
book, entitled Mare Historiarum?  Trithemius 
has made mention of the work (De Script. Eccles. 
DL.), and two manuscript copies of it are pre- 
served in the Royal Library at Paris. (B. de 
Montfaucon, Biblioth. Bibliothecar. MSS. tom. ii. 
p- 751. Par. 1739.) Douce very properly dis- 
tinguished it from La Mer des Histoires ; but, if 
he wrote “ Mochartus,” he was in error; for Bro- 
chart was the author of the Latin original, called 
Rudimentum Novitiorum, and published in 1475. 
As to the statement of Genebrard, that Joannes 
de Columna was the writer of the “ Mater His- 
toriarum,” I should say that the mistake was 
produced by confounding the words Mer and 
Mere. Mr. Sansom may find all the information 
