Feb. 1. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



85 



lb. p. 339. Erratum, line 9, in reference to 

 Mrs. Cxarrick's reopening of her house, for the first 

 time after iier husband's decease — for " 1701 " 

 read " 1781," obviously a printer's error. 



lb. p. 423. : 



" Cranmer's successor in the see of Canterbury was 

 Archbishop Whitgitt." 



Whitgift was GrindaVs successor, and Grindal 

 was preceded by Parker, who must be deemed 

 Cranmer's successor. Cranmer perished in 1556. 

 Parker was made archbishop in 1559. 



Mr. Jesse will not be angry, I am snre, with the 

 above notes, or need any apology for an attempt 

 to add to the value of his book. 



Henby Campkin. 



Reform Club, Jan. 10. 1851. 



Verstegan. — A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence 

 in Antiquities, concerning the most noble and re- 

 nowned English Nation. By the Study and Travel 

 of Richard Verstegan. — There is something so so- 

 norous and stately in the very sound of the title 

 of Master Richard Verstegan's etymological trea- 

 tise, that any bibliographical notice of it, I am 

 sure, will find a corner in " Notes and Queries." 

 The following MS. note is on a lly-leaf of my 

 copy, A.D. 1655 : — ■ 



" The first edition was printed at Antwerp, in 1605. 

 A full account of tliis work is given in Oldys's British 

 Librarian, pp. 299 312. It concludes with suggestions 

 for improving any future editions : namely, to add 

 those animadversions, in their proper places, which 

 have been since occasionally made on some mistakes in 

 it ; as those made by Mr. Sheringham on his fancy of 

 the Vit<E being the ancient inhabitants of the Isle of 

 Wight, &c. But more especially should be admitted 

 the corrections of the learned Mr. Somner, he having 

 left large m irginal notes upon Verstegan's whole book, 

 as we are informed by Bisliop Kennett, the late accu- 

 rate author of his Life. This advice has never been 

 acted upon." 



To this is subjoined a notice of Verstegan's 

 Poems. 



" There is a thin 12mo. volume of Poems by Richard 

 Verstegan, of wliicli only one perfect copy is known. 

 Dr. Farmer had it ; then a Mr. Lloyd, who disposed 

 of it, when it sold for 22/. Is. Mr. Faber now has it. 

 .Another copy, completed by M.S., had belonged to 

 T. Park, which was sold at Sotheby's, March II. 1821, 

 for II. 19*., and bought by Triphook." 



J. Yeowell. 



Hoxton. 



George Herbert and the Church at Leighton 

 Brint.swold. — Little Gidding. — So. le of your readers 

 may not be aware that George Herbert built tiie 

 ciiurchofLcightoiiHromswohi, 1.' ;( i, :is* well iis tliat 

 of Bemerton. The church stands about three- 



quarters of a mile to the right of the road from 

 Huntingdon to Thrapston, and a view of it is 

 given in Zouch's 4to. edition of Isaac Walton's 

 Lives ; it is stated, in a note, to be near Spalding, 

 for which read Spuldwick. Herbert desn-ed the 

 pulpit and reading-desk to be placed on opposite 

 sides of the church, and of the same height ; to 

 show that " preaching ought not to be esteemed 

 above pr.aying, nor praying above preaching." 



Query, What is the state of the interior now, 

 as to pews, &c. ? 



The nuns, if I may so call them, in the monastery 

 at Little Gidding, Hunts, employed themselves in 

 covering or in ornamenting the covers of books, 

 in patterns, with silver and coloured-silk threads : 

 a friend of mine in Surrey has a small volume so 

 ornamented by them. E. H. 



Norwich, Jan. 20. 



Etymology of Kobold. — At page 239. of Mr. 

 Bohn's edition of Keightley's Fairy Mythology, 

 we find that Mr. K., after heading a chapter with 

 " Kobolds," says in a note : — 



" This word is usually derived from the Greek 

 /C(i§o\oy, a knave, but as this is only found in lexico- 

 grap/iers, it may in reality be a Teutonic word in a 

 Greek form. " 



Surely, Mr. Keightley has forgotten the following 

 passages — 



1. Ar. Equites, 450. Dindf. [Conf. Ranee, 1015.] 



" KAEHN: K6ea\os ti. 



AAA. Travovpyos e7." 



2. Ejusdem fab., 635. : 



" Bepeffxf^ol rt koI K6Sa\oi Kal Mddinv." 



3. Plutus, 279. : 



" ais fji.68ci>v eT T« Kal pvaei kSSuXos." 



4. Aristotle, H. A. 8. 12. 12. [Bekker Oxen.] 

 says of a bird, 



" K6Sa\os Kal fj.ifj.riTris." 



In the 2nd passage Liddell and Scott call K(i§a\oi 

 " mischievous goblins," which is exactly equivalent 

 to " kobolds." 



The word is also used adjectively for " knavish 

 tricks," " rogueries." 



See Equites, 419. : 



" Kal, v^ Ai", i.\Kix 7* iffri fiov K6@a\a -raiShs oiroj." 



Ranse, 104 : — 



" ?i fjihv ftJffoXa 7' cCTtIi', is Ka\ (ToI 5o/cei." 



In Equites, 332. we find KoSaXtKiVfiara, " the 

 tricks of a ndgaAos." P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Judas Cup (Vol.ii., p. 298.). — In the Ancient 

 Monuments, Rites, and Customs of Durham, iKtb- 

 lishol by the Siirtees Society, we have the f()llow- 

 ing account of a "Judas Cup" in the refectory, 

 which is described as — 

 " A goodly great mazer, called Judas Cup, edged about 



