Jan. 25. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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See my Fasti Ecclesicn Hibeniicce, vols, i., ii., and 

 iv., for a few more particulars, if required. 



H. Cotton. 

 Thurles, Ireland, Jan. 20. 1851. 



Erasmus and Farel (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — la my 

 Life of Calciit, p. 46., I mention that Erasmus 

 named Farel, Phallicus ; and infer that he pro- 

 bably did so from some manifestation of. amorous 

 propensities on the part of that reformer. 



A querist in your last number (J. C. R.) points 

 out that D'Aubigne, or his translator, spells the 

 word Fullicus, and refers it to the deceitful cha- 

 racter of Farel. 



Phallicus is a Greek word, and has a meaning — 

 4)oAAiK({c, of or belonging to the (puWoc. Fallicus, 

 to the best of my knowledge, is neither Greek nor 

 Latin, and has no meaning. Erasmus, in his 

 epistles, constantly spells the word Phallicus. (See 

 Epp. 698. 707. &c. Leyden, ed. 1706.) And that 

 I was justified in drawing from it an ini'erenue 

 which is in analogy with its meaning, the followiTig 

 passages, in the last of the epistles just cited, will 

 establish : — 



" Hunc stomachum in me concepit (Phallicus) quod 

 in spongia dubitein de Liitheri spiritu : prcEterea quod 

 scripserim, quosdam sordidos, et impurce vitce se jacti- 

 tare nomine Evangel ii." 



And a little farther on — 



" At tamen quicquid hactenus in me blateravit 

 Phallicus, non minus vane quam virulente, t'acite con- 

 donabitur liominis niorbo, mode posthac sumat mures 

 Evunyelii prcecone clignos." 



Thos. H. Dyer. 

 London, Jan. 20. 1851. 



Early Culture of the Imagination (Vol. iii., p. 38.). 

 — The interesting article to which 1\Ie. Gatty 

 refers will be found in the Quarterly Meview, 

 No. XLI. Sir Walter Scott, in a letter ad- 

 dressed to Edgar Taylor, Esq. (the translator of 

 German Fairy Tales and Popular Stor-ies by 

 M.M. Grimm), dated Edinburgh, 16th Jan. 1823, 

 says — 



" There is also a sort of wild fairy interest in tliem 

 [the Tales] which makes me tliink them fully better 

 adapted to awaken the imagination and solten the 

 heart of childhood, than the good-boy stories which 

 have been in later years composed for them. In the 

 latter case, their minds are, as it were, put into the 

 stocks, like their feet at the dancing-school, and the 

 moral always consists in good moral conduct being 

 crowned with temporal succtis. Truth is, I would 

 not give one tear shed over Little Uetl Riding- Uonrt 

 for all the benefit to be derived trom a hundred His- 

 tories of Jenuny Goodchild Jn a word, I 



think the selfish tendencies will be soon enough accjuired 

 in this aiithmelical age ; and that, to make the higher 

 class of character, our wild fictions — like our own 

 simple music — will Lave more ellect in awakening the 

 fancy and elevating the disposition, than the colder and 



more elaborate compositions of modern authors and 

 composers." 



F. R. R. 

 Milnrow Parsonage. 



Early Culture of the hnaginntion (Vol. iii., 

 p. 38.). — Mr. Alfred Gatty will find what he 

 inquires for in the 74th volume of the Quarterly 

 Revietv, "Children's Books." With the iirefatory 

 remarks of that article may be compared No. 151. 

 of the Rambler, "The Climacterics of the Mind." 



T. J. 



William Chilcot (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — Mr. Hooper 

 is referred to the History of Tiverton, by Lieut. 

 Col. Harding, ed. Boyce, Tiverton ; Whittaker, 

 London, 1847, vol. ii., B. III., p. 167., (or an ac- 

 count of the family of Chilcot alias Comyn ; to 

 which most likely the author belonged, and was 

 probably a native of Tiverton. As Mr. Hooper 

 may not have ready access to the book. I send the 

 substance of an extract. Robert Chilcott alias 

 Comyn, born at Tiverton, com. Devon, merchant, 

 and who died, it is supposed, at Isleworth, com. 

 ISliddlese.x, about a. d. 1609, " married Ann, d. of 

 Walter Cade of London, Haberdasher, by whom 

 he had one son, William, who married Catherine, 

 d. of Thomas Billingsly of London, Merchant, 

 and had issue." Certain lands also in Tiverton, 

 A. D. 1680-90, are described as "now or late of 

 AVilliam Comyns alias Chilcott." — Ibid. p. 61. 



If the first edition of the work were in 1698, 

 most likely the author was a grandson of the above- 

 named ^Villiam Chilcot and Catherine his wife, 

 which the Tiverton registers might show. If the 

 search prove unsuccessful there, try that of Wat- 

 ford, Herts, where a branch of the same family 

 was settled, and to which there are monuments in 

 Watford churchyard. E. A. D. 



By and Bye (Vol. li., p. 424.).— Surely this 

 means " by the way." Good by may mean " Bon 

 voyage." S. S. 



Mocker (Vol. ii., p. 519.). — In some of the 

 provincial dialects of England, and in the Scotch 

 of the lowlands of Scotland, there are a good 

 many Dutch words. Maker, in Dutch, means a 

 large hammer. 'I'his is probably the word used by 

 the old cottager of Pembridge, and spelt Mocker 

 by AV. M. G. F. G. 



Edinburgh. 



Was Colonel Heirson a Cobbler? (Vol. iii., 

 p. 11.). — Hume's History relates that "Colonel 

 Hewson supjiressed the tumult of London appren- 

 tice.';, Novendier, 1659;" and that "he was a man 

 who rose from the profession of a cobbler to a liigh 

 rank in the army." 



Colonel .rohn Ilewson was member for Gnild- 

 foi'd fi-om Septendier 17, 1656, to January 27, 

 1658-59. (Bray and Manning.) Gilbert. 



