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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
to know of him, what perhaps, some of your readers 
do not, that he has unostentatiously rendered many 
considerable services not only to literature but to 
our social and political interests. In my humble 
opinion, his recent essay in your columns on The 
Taming of the Shrew is a contribution to our lite- 
rary history which you may be proud of having 
published. But I feel that I cannot too strongly 
protest against his derivation of “ News.” CH. 
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Dr. Whicheot and Lord Shaftesbury (No. 24. 
p- 382., No. 27. p. 444.).—I am obliged to “ Cont. 
Reear. Socius” for his notice of my inquiry. 
The Lord Chamberlain and Chancellor of Cam- 
bridge University mentioned in Lord Lauderdale’s 
letter to Dr. Whichcot, is the Earl of Manchester. 
Shaftesbury was never either Lord Chamberlain or 
Chancellor of Cambridge. 
I may mention that Whichcot’s intimacy with 
Lord Shaftesbury would probably have been 
brought about by his being incumbent of the 
church of St. Lawrence Jewry, Shaftesbury hav- 
ing his London house in the latter part of his life 
in Aldersgate Street. 
If it is not committing unpardonable trespass 
on that useful part of your publication in which 
books and odd volumes are asked for, I will go on 
to say that I should be glad to have a copy of the 
volume of Whichcot’s Sermons (1698) which the 
third Lord Shaftesbury edited, at a reasonable 
price. CH. 
Elizabeth and Isabel (No. 27. p. 439.).—Mr. 
Thomas Duffus Hardy, in his evidence on the 
Camoys Peerage case (June 18. 1838, Evidence, 
p- 351.) proved that the names of Isabella and 
Elizabeth were in ancient times used indifferently, 
and particularly in the reigns of Edward I. and 
Edward II. Mr. Hardy says in his evidence :— 
“In the British Museum there is a Latin letter 
of Elizabeth of Austria, 'Queen of Charles IX, of 
France, to Queen Elizabeth of England. In the 
Latin she is called Elizabetha, and she signs her 
name Ysabel. In the Chronicle de St. Denis, in the 
year 1180, it is stated, ‘Le jor martines espousa la 
noble’Roine Ysabel, ‘ Upon this day Queen Elizabeth 
was married; and in Rigordus de Gestis Philippi Au- 
gusti Regis Francorum it is stated, * Tune inuneta fuit 
Elizabeth uxor ejus venerabilis feemina;’ and Moreri 
says she is called * Elizabeth or Izabeau de Hainault, 
Queen of France, wife of Philippe Auguste.’ Camden, 
in his Remains, says, ‘Isabel is the same as Elizabeth “3 
that the Spaniards always translate Elizabeth into 
Isabel, and the French into Jzabeau.. I have seen in 
the British Museum a deed, in which the name Eliza- 
betha is written in Latin; on theseal itis Isabella. In 
the Inquisitiones post Mortem I have frequently seen 
Ysabella returned in one county and Elizabetha in an 
other for the same person. I haye something like a 
[No. 30. 
dozen other instances from Moreri, in which he says 
that Elizabeth and Isabella or Isabeau are the same, 
Elizabeth or Izabeau de France, dau. of Lewis VIII. 
and Blanche of Castella; Elizabeth or Isabelle d’Ara- 
gon, Queen of France, wife of Philippe III., surnamed 
le Hardie; Elizabeth or Isabeau de Baviére, Queen of 
France, wife of Charles VI.; Elizabeth or Isabeau d’An- 
gouléme, wife of King John of England; Elizabeth 
or Isabeau de France, Queen of England, dau. of 
Philippe 1V. ; Elizabeth or Isabelle of France, Queen 
of Richard II.; Elizabeth or Isabelle de France, Queen 
of Navarre; Elizabeth or Isabelle de Valois, dau. of 
Charles of France; Elizabeth or Isabelle de France, 
dau. of Philippe le Long, King of France; Elizabeth 
or Isabelle de France, Duchess of Milan; Elizabeth 
or Isabelle, Queen of Philippe V. of Spain.” 
Wu. Dureant Coorrr. 
81. Guildford Street, May 4. 1850. 
Elizabeth — Isabel. —The Greek word °EAivd er 
(Luke, i.5.&c.) from which Elizabeth, or Elisabeth, 
must have been adopted as a Christian name, is 
used by the LXX. (Exodus, vi. 23.) to express 
the Hebrew YIY*2N (Elisheba), the name of 
Aaron’s wife. This at once directs us to the verb 
YAY (shaba), or rather to its Niphal, ¥2¥/) (nishba), 
for the Kal form does not occur, to swear; for the 
combination of letters in YI! ON (4l-isshaba), 
God will swear, or God sweareth, is the same as 
that in the proper name. Now let us transpose 
the verb and its nominative case, and we have 
oy yaw? (Ishaba- El), which a Greek translator 
might soften into *Iodéea (Isabel). 
The use of ’EAcdSer both by the LXX. and the 
Evangelist, makes it probable that the mother of 
John the Baptist, who was of the daughters of 
Aaron (Luke, i. 5.), was known amongst her own 
people by the recognised and family name of 
Elisheba, as Anna no doubt would be Hannah 
(730), and Mary, Miriam (Mapiau, Luke, i. 27.). 
And this is confirmed by the Syriac version, the 
vernacular, or nearly so, of Our Blessed Lord and 
\\ (Elishéba). 
His disciples, which has - =~ 
Gesenius, in his Zezicon, explains Elisheba to 
mean “cui Deus est sacramentum,” “ que jurat 
per Deum, i.e. Dei cultrix: ef. Is. xix. 18.” I 
should rather take it to be a name expressive of 
trust in God’s promises or oath, such as Elijah, 
“the Lorp is my God;” Isaiah, “the Lorn is 
my salvation;” Ezekiel, “God strengtheneth.” 
Schleusner (Lex. N. 7.) says that others derived 
it from Ya (saba), saturavit; “sic in Alberti 
Gloss. N. T., p. 87. explicatur, @cod ov mAnowov7.” 
Wolfius, in his note on Luke, i. 5., refers to Witsii 
Miscellanea, tom. ii. p. 478., to which I must refer 
your correspondent “A.C.,” as I have not the 
book by me. 
Camden must, of course, have derived the name 
