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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 64. 



" And as they more esteeme that merth 

 Tlian dread the night's annny. 

 So must we deeiiie our dayes on erth 

 But hell to heaueiily joye." 

 Good Mnrriiwe; see Farr's Select Poetry, §'c., p. 38. 



" High heaven, in mercy to your sad annoy, 



Still greets you with jrlad tidings of immortal joy." 

 Christian Year, " Christmas Day." 

 H. G. T. 



Ctdpi-it, Origin of the W<>9-d (Vol. ii., p. 475.). — 

 See Steplien's Commentaries on the Laws of Eng- 

 land, iv. 408. note (/?). C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, Dec. 14. 1850. 



Passage in Bishop Sutler (Vol. ii., p. 464.). — 

 The " peeulinr term" referred to by Bishop Butler 

 is evidently the verb " to blackguard." It is for 

 this reason that he inserts the condition, " when 

 the person it respects is present." We may abuse, 

 revile, vituperate an absent person ; but we can i 

 only '' blackguard " a man when he is present. I 

 The word " blackguard " is not recognised by I 

 Johnson. Richardson inserts it as a noun, but not I 

 as a verb. L. ^ 



Wat the Hare (Vol. ii., p. 315.). — Your corre- i 

 spondent K. asks what other instances there are , 

 of Wat as the name of a haref I know of one. 

 On the mnrket-house at Watton the spandrils of 

 an Elizabethan doorway have been placed, taken 

 from some old building in the town. This has a 

 hare on one side, a ton on the other, — a rebus of 

 the town name Watton. H. II. 



The Letter j; (Vol. ii., p. 492.). — Yerl for Earl, 

 and yirth for eaiih, &c., are, to this day, quite 

 common in Scottish orthoejiy among many of the 

 lower classes. ' G. F. G. 



Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Tioickenham Park ? 

 (Vol. ii., pp. 408. 468.). — To ihis question your 

 coiresi)ondent J. I D. replies with a quotation 

 I'rom Nichols (edition of 1823), who dates her 

 visit in 1592 or 1593. 1 had looked into Nichols's 

 first edition (1788) without liudiug tiie ^ibject 

 mentioned; and I am now inclined to think, as at 

 fiist, that it is altogether a misapprelieuKioii. Sir 

 Francis Bacon, in His Apologie in Certaine Impu- 

 tations concerning the late Earl of Essex, written 

 to the Right Hon. his very Good Lord the Earle of 

 Devonshire, Lord-lieulcnunt of Ireland." Lond. 

 1604, in 16mo. pp. 74., says, at p. 32. : — 



" A little before that time, being about the middle 

 of Michaelmas terme, her Maiestie had a purpose to 

 dine at my Lodge at Twickna Parke, at which time I 

 had (though I profcsse not to be a poet) prepared a 

 Sonnet, directly tending and alluding to draw on her 

 Maiesties reconciliation to my Lord," &c. &c. 



This I conceive to have reference to an intention 



of Elizabeth, rather than to an accomplished fact. 



At !>. 14. of this work. Bacon says he had sold 



Twickenham Park some time ago to Reynold 



Nicholas. I consider Lysons to have been the 

 first author who mentions the subject ; and at 

 Environs, vol. iii. (1795), p. 565 , there is a note : 

 " From the information of tlie Earl of Orford." 

 And I tlierefore conclude it to have been some 

 mistake of Lord Orford's. 



Your former Correspondent. 

 Dec. 27. 1850. 



Mock-Beggar (Vol. ii., p. 478.). — The origin 

 of this term was discussed in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine in 1840. Two localities so called were 

 cited (vol. xiv. p. 114.), with the opinion of Sir 

 William Burrell, that some buildings so named at 

 Brighton had been " a mendicant priory." An- 

 other writer (p. 331.) suggested that the term 

 was applied to country houses when deserted or 

 uno cupied ; or to rocks, as one near Bakewell, 

 where the semblance of a ham might attract a 

 wayfarer from the high roaciPonly to deceive his 

 expectations of relief. J. G.N. 



Cardinal Chalmers (Vol. ii., p. 493.). — The in- 

 sigina mentioned by your c(>rrespondent S. P., in 

 No 60., are very common among Rimian Catholic 

 ecclesiastics on the Continent, and are frequently 

 to be seen on tombs. The hat and tassels are 

 appropriated to Notaries Apostt)lie of the Holy 

 Roman See, as well as to Caidinals ; and the dig- 

 nity having some privileges attached to it, it is 

 sought after by ecclesiastics of standing. 



Hyde Clarke. 



Binsey, God help me 1 (Vol. i., p. 247.). — I 

 remember the same words respecting the village of 

 Binsey, half-wav between Oxford and Godstow. 

 During the winter and siting months it was 

 nearly all under water, like Port Meadow, on the 

 opposite side of the river : so if you asked a Bin- 

 seyite in winter where he came from, the answer 

 was as above; if in summer, "Binsey, where 

 else?" Chas. Paslam. 



Midivives Licensed (Vol. ii., p. 408.). — On this 

 subject I would refer S. P. II. T. to Burn's. i?cc/e- 

 siu.Uical Law,u\Mlnv the head of" Midwives," which 

 is all nearly that can be ascertained at present on 

 that head. Among other things it says in the oath 

 taken of them, — 



" You shall not in anywise use or exercise any 

 manner of witchcraft, charm, or sorcery, invocation, or 

 other prayers, than may stand with God's law and the 

 king's." 



M. C. R. 



Dr. Timothy Thruscross (Vol. ii., p. 441.). — 

 There are frequent notices of Dr. Thristcross, or 

 Thruscross, in Dr. Worthington's correspondence. 

 (See Vol. i. of satne, edited for the Chetham So- 

 ciety. Index, voc. "Thristcross.") Dr.Worthington 

 observes, p. 219., "1 ilid love to talk with woithy 

 Mr. Thir.stcross, who knew Mr. Ferrar and Little 

 Gidding." Jas. Crossley. 



