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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 64, 



probable motive whi(ih may have led to tombs and 

 effigies, sometimes of an elaborate and costly cha- 

 racter, being phiced in such exposed positions, was 

 the desire of obtaining the prayers of the passers- 

 by for the soul of the deceased. It is worth 

 notice, that the usage seems in England to have 

 been very much limited to the I3tli, or early part 

 of the 14th century. I sliould, however, be very 

 glad if any one who may possess information 

 beai'ing on the subject would communicate it. 



Meaning of Venwcll or Venville. — Will you 

 allow me to make the following Query as to the 

 custom of "VenjwZZ" or " Veuwi7/e"? Risdon, in 

 his Survei/ of Devon, states it to be a right enjoyed 

 by the tenants of land adjoining to Dartmoor of 

 pasturage and cutting turf within the limits of the 

 forest. lie calls it " Fenfield, antieutly Fengfield," 

 but makes no allusion to the etymology of the 

 word, or to the origin of the custom. Some of 

 jour correspondents can most probably afford in- 

 formation on both these points. R. E. G. 



4. Lidlington Place, Harrington Square. 



Erasmus and Far el. — In D'Aubigne's History 

 of the Beformation, ii. 149. (White's TraTislation), 

 it is said that Erasmus " instead of Farellus would 

 often write Fallicns, thus designating one of the 

 frankest men of his day with the epithets of cheat 

 and deceiver." 



But ]Mr. Dyer, in his late Life of Calvin, spells 

 the word Phallicus^ and supposes it to allude to 

 some amorous propensities of the reformer. 



AVhich of these authorities are we to believe ? 



J. C. R. 



Eai'ly Culture of the Imagination. — I have 

 somewhere read, possibly in an article of the 

 Quarterly Review, the opinion very strikingly 

 expressed, and attributed to ilr. Lockhart, that 

 children's imaginative faculty ought to be more 

 prominently cultivated than their reason ; and, on 

 this ground, the reading oi Fairy Tales, The Ai-a- 

 bian Nights, &c. was reeonmieiuled for children. 

 Will any one kindly refer me to this passage ? 

 And, as it is wanted for an innnediate purpose, an 

 early insertion and reply to this query will oblige 

 ine. Alfred Gattt. 



Sir Thomas Bullens Drinking Horn. — Does 

 xany one know whether the drinking horn whica 

 belonged to Sir Thomas Bullen still exists ? By 

 the will it was directed to be kept as a heir-loom. 



P. 



Peter Sterry. — In the title-pcige and address to 

 the reader of Peter Sterry's Appearance of God to 

 Man in the Gospel, &c., and other his posthumous 

 discourses, 4to. 1710, mention is made of certain 



miscellaneous tracts, letters, &c., taken from 

 original MSS. left by him, whose publication 

 was made to depend on the success of the above 

 work. Sterry was spoken of by Baxter in compli- 

 mentary terms, notwithstanding his peculiar sen- 

 timents and manner of writing; and in a MS. 

 note on the title-page of Sterry's Discourse of the 

 Freedom of the Will, folio, 1675, he is said to have 

 been " chaplain first to Lord Brooke, afterwards 

 to Oliver Cromwell." If any of your readers can 

 say whether the " miscellaneous tracts," &c., were 

 ever published, and, if not, where the MSS. are 

 likely to be found, with any further information 

 concerning him, which is desired by many persons 

 deeply interested in his history and writings, it will 

 confer a favour on me. 



Lord Clarendon notices a work of Sir Harry 

 Vane (who was an associate of Sterry's), entitled 

 Love to God, &c.* I should also be glad to know 

 where that work may be found. J. P, 



" Words are Men's Daughters," Sfc. — 

 " AVords are mens daughters, but God's sons arte 

 things." 



Where does this verse occur ? Who was the 

 author ? Can any parallel passages be adduced ? 



T.J. 



Robert Henryson — Gawyn Douglas. — Com- 

 plete uniform editions of the poems of these 

 celebrated authors, accompanied with biographi- 

 cal notices and illustrative notes, being a desi- 

 deratum in Scottish literature, permit me to 

 ask, through the medium of your entertaining and 

 useful " Notes and Queries," if such publica- 

 tions be in contemplation by any of the various 

 literary societies, or individual member there- 

 of, in this kingdom ; and if so, are they likely to 

 appear soon ? T. G. S. 



Edinburgh, Dec. 31. 1850. 



Daj-by and Joan. — Can any of your readers 

 refer me to a copy of the ballad of Darby and 

 Joan ? There is a tradition in the parish of 

 Helaugh, near Tadcaster, that they were inha- 

 bitants of that village, and that the ballad is the 

 comjjosition of some poet who was a constant 

 visitor to the Duke of AA'^harton, when living in 

 the manor house. H. 



William Chilcot. — As I am about to reprint an 

 excellent little work, entitled, A Practical Treatise 

 concerning Evil Tlwiights, by William Chilcot, can 

 any of vour readers give me any account of his 

 life? The work was originally, I believe, printed 

 in Exeter, 1698, or thereabouts, as I find it in a 



[* The title of Vane's work is. Of the Love of God, 

 and Union with God, 4to. 1657. It is not to be found 

 in the Catalogues of the British IMuseum, Bodleian, 

 Slon College, Dr. Williams' Library, or London In- 

 stitution.] 



