Jan. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tain lake in the west of Ireland in company with 

 those of a turkey. (See Zoologist, ub. sup.) 



\V. R. F. 

 Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 21. 1850. 



" Awat/, let nought to Love displeasing'" (A^ol. il., 

 p. 519.). — This song, usually entitled " Wiuifreda," 

 has been attributed to Sir John Suckling, but 

 with what justice I am unable to say. 



It has also acquired additional interest from 

 having been set to music by the first Earl of 

 Mornington, the father of the Duke of Welling- 

 ton. 



The author should certainly be known ; and per- 

 haps some of your correspondents can furnish a 

 clue by which he may be discovered. 



Bkaybrooke. 



Red Si7idon (Vol. ii., pp. 393. 495.). — I have 

 only just seen your correspondent, B. ^V.'s Query 

 respecting the " red sindon," and refer him to 

 Du Cange, where he will find — 



" Sindon pro specie panni [Cyssiis tenuis], &c." 



It was a manufacture that was used for dresses as 

 well as hangings, and is constantly mentioned in 

 inventions and descriptions of the middle ages. 



J. R. Planche. 

 Jan. 1. 1851. 



Coleridge and the Penroj Post (Vol. iii., p. 6.). — 

 Mr. Venables asks a question in a way that may 

 lead the reader to infer an answer, anil an unge- 

 nerous answer ; and he calls on Mr. Hill to give 

 him satisfaction, as if Mr. Hill had nothing better 

 to do than to inform Mr. Venables, and correct 

 Miss Martineau's blunders. If Mr. Venables had 

 taken an active part in bringing about the greatest 

 moral movement of our age, he would have known 

 that, amongst the hundred other illustrations ad- 

 duced by Mr. Ilill, was the very anecdote to which 

 he refers ; and that Mr. Hill quoted it, not once 

 or twice, but dozens of times, and circulated it, 

 with Coleridge's name, over the whole length and 

 breadth of the three kingdoms, by tens of thou- 

 sands of printed papers. Mr. Hill has not had a 

 tithe of the lionour he deserves — and never will 

 have — and I cannot remain silent, and see his 

 character questioned, though in matters too 

 trifling, I think, even to have occupied a corner 

 in " Notes and Queries." C. W. D. 



The Autograph of Titus Oates (Vol. ii., p. 464.). 

 — It may be seen in the Library of St. Jolin's 

 College, Cambridge. It is written at the end of 

 cvei-y chapter in "/I Confession of Foith, put forth 

 by the Hlders and Brethren of inuiii/ Congregations 

 of Christians (^baptized upon profession of Faith} 

 in London and the Country." r2mo. Loud. 1G88. 



J. R. 



Cambridge. 



Circnlntion of the Blood (ViA. ii., p. 475.). — The 

 passage in Venerable Bede referred to by J. Mn. 



may have been in a tract De Minutiune Sanguinis 

 sive de Phlehotomia ; (which occurs in the folio 

 editions, Basle, vol. i. p. 472. ; Colon., vol. i. 

 p. 898.). In the enumeration of the veins from 

 which blood may be taken, he says, — 



" De brachio tres, qui per tjtum corpus reddunt san- 

 guinem, capitanea linea, matricia, capsale." 



The subject of bleeding is again referred to in 

 Ecd. Hist., vol. iii., but not to the purpose. 



J. Eastwood. 

 Ecclesfield. 



True Bine (Vol.ii., p. 494.) — From documents 

 relative to the wars of the Scottish Covenanters, in 

 the seventeentli century, it appears that they as- 

 sumed blue ribbons as their colours, and wore them 

 as scarfs, or in bunches fastened to their blue 

 bonnets; and that the border English nicknamed 

 them ^^ blue caps" and "jockies." Hence the 

 phrase, " True blue Presbyterian." G. F. G. 



Cherubim and Seraphim. — Why are the cheru- 

 bim represented as a human head, with the wings 

 of a bird? And why have the seraphim no bodily 

 representation ? What, in fact, is the supposed 

 distinction between them ? Omega. 



[Our correspondent will find much curious informa- 

 tion on tliis subject, accompanied by some exquisite 

 woodcuts, in Mrs. Jameson's Poetry of Sacred and Le- 

 gendary Art.'\ 



Darcy Lever Church (Vol. ii., p. 494.), which is 

 referred to by your correspondent, is the first in- 

 stance, I believe, of the application of a new mate- 

 rial to the construction of an ecclesiastical edifice. 

 It is built throughout, walls, tower, and spire, 

 benches and fittings, of terra cotta from the Lady- 

 shore works. The architect is that accomplished 

 antiquary, Mr. Sharpe of Lancaster, who fur- 

 nished the designs of every part, from which 

 moulds were made, and in these the composition 

 forming the terra cotta was prepared, and har- 

 dened by the application of fire. The style is the 

 purest and richest Second Pointed, and the effect 

 of the pierced work of the spire is, as your corre- 

 spondent observes, very fine when seen from a 

 distance. There is a rich colour, too, in the mate- 

 rial, which has a remarkably ])leasing result upon 

 the eye. But a nearer approach destroys the 

 charm. It is found to be a " sham." The lines 

 of the mouldings, mullions, &c., are warped by the 

 heat attendant upon the ;)rocess of the manufac- 

 ture. The exquisite sharpness of outline pro- 

 duced by the chisel is wanting, and there is' (in 

 consequence of the impossibility of undercutting) 

 an absence of that effect of light and shade which 

 is the characteristic of the mediasval carvings. The 

 greatest shock is, however, experienced on an exa- 

 mination of the interior. What at first sight 

 appear to be highly elaborated oaken bench-ends 

 and seats are only painted eartlionware. In i>oint 

 of fact, it is a pot church. A similar and larjier 



