Jan. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



25 



Arias Montanus." But in the title-page of my 

 copy Montanus is not mentioned. 



My co])y belonged to Jo. Sheldrake (who was 

 he ?) in 1663; to D. Hughes, of Queen's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1761 ; and to E. Tymewell Bridges 

 (as the family name was then spelled) in 1777. 

 The latter was a brother of the late Sir S. Egerton 

 Bridges. But the MS. note above mentioned 

 does not seem to be in the handwriting of either 

 of them. 



Will some learned reader of your work let me 

 know whether there be any, and what ground for 

 attributing the new translati(m, as it stands in this 

 volume, to Montanus ; or as Pagiiini's cf)rrected 

 by Montanus ? P. H. F. 



THE FROZEN HORN. 



(Vol. ii., p. 262.) 



The quotation from Heylin is good; "the 

 amusing anecdote from Munchausen " may be 

 better; but (he personal testimony of Sir John 

 Mandevillc is best of all, and, if I am not mistaken, 

 as true a traveller's lie as ever was told. ISIany 

 years ago I met with an extract from his antiquated 

 volume, of which, having j)reserved no copy, I 

 cannot give the admirable verbiage of the four- 

 teenth ceutui'y, but must submit for it the follow- 

 ing tame translation in the flat English of our 

 degenerate days. 



He testifies that once, on his voyage through the 

 Arctic regions, lat. * * *, long. * * *, the cold was 

 so intense, that for a while whatever was spoken 

 on board the vessel became frost-bound, and re- 

 mained so, till, after certain days, there came a 

 sudden thaw, which let loose the whole rabble- 

 ment of sounds and syllables that had been accu- 

 mulating during the suspense of audible speech ; 

 but now fell clattei'ing down like hailstones about 

 the ears of the crew, not less to their annoyance 

 than the embargo had been to their dismay. 

 Among the unlucky revelations at this denoue- 

 ment, the author gr;ively states that a rude fellow 

 (the boatswain, I think), having cursed the knight 

 himself in a fit of passion, his sin then found him 

 out, and was promptly visited by retril)utive jus- 

 tice, in tlie form of a sound flogging. If this salu- 

 tary moral of the fable be not proof sufficient to 

 authenticate both the fact in natural history, and 

 the veracity of the narrator, I know nothing in 

 the world of evidence that couM do so. It may 

 be added, that the authoi' of Iludihras, in his sig- 

 nidcant manner, alludes to the popular belief of 

 such an atmospheric phenomenon in the following 

 couplet : 



" WliLTc Trutli in person dotli appear, 

 Like words congcal'ii in nortliLMii air." 



Iluilibras, Hook i. Canto i. 



It is possible that Zachary Grey, in his copiously 



illustrated edition of the poem, may have quoted 

 Sir John jNIandev die's account of this notable ad- 

 venture, in his wanderings, like a true knight- 

 errant, through Scythia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, 

 Syria, Media, Persia, Chaldea, Greece, Dalmatia, 

 Belgium, &e. He wrote an Itinerary of his travels 

 in iOnglish, French, and Latin. In these he occu- 

 pied nearly forty years, and was long supposed to 

 have died in the course of them, but (as if his 

 person had been " congealed in northern air " and 

 suddenly thawed into warm life again) when he 

 re-appeared, his friends with difficulty recognised 

 him. J. M. G. 



Hallamshire. 



DOMINICALS 



(Vol. ii., p 154.) 

 I believe to have been that kind of customary 

 payment or oblation made on Sundai/x to the rector, 

 or his vicegerent, of the church where a person 

 heard divine service and received the sacraments : 



" Hostiensis dicit quod in pr^cipuis festivitatibus 

 tenetur quis offi-rre, et cogi potest; mjixime cum sit 

 quasi generalis consuetndo ubique terrctriim. . . . . et in- 

 telligit festivitates prEEcipuas, dies Doininicos, et alios 

 dies testivos." — Lyndwood, Prov., p. 21., not. e., ed. 

 Oxon. 1679. 



Though Lyndwood himself, as T understand him, 

 seems to douijt the cardinal's statement, that the 

 payment could be enforced, unless sanctioned by 

 local custom. 



Ducange, in v. "Denarius," 8vo. ed., Adel. 

 1774, says, the " Denarius de Palma" and " Dena- 

 rius Dominicalis " were the same : 



'■ Habeblt (vicarius) cum eis victum suum compe- 

 tentem, et ad vestes sil>i cmendas xi_ solidos Andega- 

 venses, et Denarium singulis diebus Domiiticis ecclesias- 

 ticd consuetudlne offere/idum," 



On this extract fi-om a charter he observes : 



" Erat itaque Denarius de Palniu, ille qui singulis 

 Diebus Domiiiicis et [lege a] fidelibus ofTerrebatur. 

 Cur auteni dictus ' de Palma' rion constat, nisi forte 

 sicdictus ruerit(|uod in manum seu /la/mrtm traderetur." 

 Denarius Dominicalis, idem. — Arest. IMS. a. HOT." 



It would seem also from his definition to be the 

 same as the payment called " Denaria Sacrameu- 

 torum," that is : 



" iidem denarii qui singulis offerrebantur Dominicii, 

 ideoque Sacramentorum diet!, quod tempore Sacro- 

 sanct! Missie Sacrilicii, pro exeellentia interdum nude 

 appellati Sacraraeutum, a fidelibus ofTerrentur. — Annul. 

 Bened., t. iv. p. 460'., n. 80. ad annum 104,')." 



Tiiese extracts sufliciently explain, perhaps, the 

 payment known by the different names of "Do- 

 minieals," " Palm-penny," and " Sacrament- 

 pence ; " and still indicated, probably, by the 

 weikly oU'ertory of our communion service. 



Of a kindred nature were the "Denarii pro 

 Reij^uestis," or "Denarii penpiisiti," sometimes also 



