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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in literature, and science and art. The pedigree 

 is one of the most perfect on record. But Lord 

 Bacon himself, "who knew everj'thing" else, knew 

 nothing of his own name. Samoht Nehceeb. 



Meaning of Bacon (Vol. ii., pp. 138. 247.). — As, 

 on reconsideration, I perceive there is some doubt 

 as to the meaning of the word bacons in Foulques 

 Fitzwarin, I send you the passage in which it 

 occurs, that your readers may form their own 

 opinion concerning it : — 



" Pus apres, furent les portes de lo chastel, qe 

 treblees ereiit, ars e espris par feu que fust illumee dc 

 bacons e de grece." 



I must in addition add, that I was mistaken as 

 to the meaning of hosebaunde, which was possibly 

 only the French mode of writing husband. 



B. W. 



Cockade (Y (A.m., p. 7.). — The black cockade 

 worn by the officers of the army and navy is the 

 relic of a custom which probably dated from the 

 Hanoverian succession ; the black cockade being 

 the Hanoverian badge, the white that of the 

 Stuart. In Waverley, when the hero for the first 

 time meets the Baron Bradwardine, he is accosted 

 by the latter thus : — 



" And so ye have mounted the cockade? Right, 

 right ; though I could have wished the colour dif- 

 ferent." 



Apoduktes. 



Erechlheum Club. 



Form of Prayer for King's Evil. — Mr. Lath- 

 bury, in his Convocation, p. 361., states that this 

 form appeared in Prayer-book of 1709. This 

 was not, however, its earliest appearance, as it is 

 found in a quarto one bearing date 1707, printed by 

 the Queen's printers, Charles Bill and the Execu- 

 trix of Thomas Newcomb. It occurs immediately 

 belbre the Articles, and is simply entitled, " At 

 the healing." N. E. K. (a Subscriber.) 



[I Prayers at the Healing may be found in Sparrow's 

 Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canona, §-c., p. 223. 

 ■4to. 1661. Consult also, Nichols's Anecdoten of Bowi/er, 

 p. .573. ; The Antiqvary^s Portfolio, vol. ii. p. 179. ; 

 Aubrey's Letters, vol. i. p. 250. ; Nichols's Literary 

 Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. pp. 495 — 

 505. ; Christian Observer (1831), p. 119.] 



'' Aver."— Hogs not Pigs (Vol. ii., p. 461.).— In 

 Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, the thin oat-cake 

 (common in many mountainous parts of England) 

 is called " aver- cake,'" or " haver-eake." The 

 Loyal Dales Volunteers were surnamed "^ The 

 Haver-cake Lads." Previously to seeing the 

 Note of G. M., I imagined the "^aver" to be de- 

 rived from " avena" (Lat.), " avoine" (Fr.). What 

 dictionai-y defines " aver " (French) as denoting 

 the annual stock or produce of a farm 2 D. 2. 



E. M., in his Note on J. Mn.'s remarks on hogs, 

 mentions that the term aver, averium, is still used 

 in Guernsey. Is not this word closely connected 

 with the Eber of the German Jagers? E. H. K. 



Pilgarlic (Vol. ii., p. 393.). — Sir John Denham 

 spelt this word Pee^-garlick — it may be found in 

 one of his Directions to a Painter — but the pas- 

 sage in which it appears is scrtrcely fit for quota- 

 tion. The George of the couplet referred to was 

 Albemarle, who had been wounded during the 

 fight in the part of his person which Hudibras 

 alludes to when he tells us that one wound there 

 " hurts honour more 

 Than twenty wounds laid on before." 

 Denham seems to compare Albemarle's wounded 

 buttocks to a peeled onion ! The resemblance 

 (to Denham) would account for his use of the 

 word in this instance ; but it is pretty evident 

 that the word was not coined by him. We must, 

 at least, give him credit for a witty application 

 of it. 



Carlisle. 



Collar of Esses (Vol. ii., p. 393.). —With re- 

 ference to the suggestion in No. 54., to give 

 examples of effigies bearing the collar, I beg to 

 mention those at Northleigh Church, Oxon. The 

 following extract is from the Guide to Neighbour" 

 hood of Oxford : — 



" In Northleigh church, beneath an arch between the 

 chancel and a cbapel, is a fine perpendicular tomb, with 

 two recumbent figures in alabaster, — a knight in ar- 

 mour, with the Collar of SS ; the lady with a rich 

 turlian and reticulated head-dress, and also with the 

 Collar of SS. The figures are Lord and Lady Wilmot; 

 and attached to the monument are two small figures of 

 angels holding shields of arms ; on one is a spread 

 eagle, on the other three cockle shells, with an en- 

 grailed band." 



JasPer. 



Filthy Gingram (YoX.W., p. 467.). — The name 

 " toad-ilax " is evidently put by mistake, in Owen's 

 Dictionary, for " toad-stool," a fungus, the Aga- 

 ricus virosus of Linnajus. The common name 

 in the North of England is " poisonous toad-stool." 

 It is a virulent poison. See * 248. 407, 408., in 

 Sowerby's English Fungi. D. 2. 



Toad -flax, the yellow Antirrhinum, certainly 

 does stink. C. B. 



The Life and Death ofClancie, by E. S. (Vol. ii., 

 p. 375.). — There is a copy in the Bodleian Library. 



J. O. H. 



''Rab. Surdam" (Vol. ii., p. 493.). — Ebineksis. 

 gives the above as the inscription on a tomb-stone, 

 and requests an explanation. It is very probable 

 that the stone-cutter made a mistake, arvd cut 

 " Rab. Surdam " instead of " Rap. Surum," which 

 would be a contraction for " Rapax Snorapn," 

 alluding to Death or the Grave. It seems im- 



