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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 67. 



memoranda by that son relating to his father and 

 to Walter Scott. Amongst other matters it states, 

 that the original manuscript of that romance was 

 submitted to Mr. Suott before it was published, 

 and that he retained it a long time before he pub- 

 lished his Waver let/ Novels. Wr. Strutt,jun., ac- 

 cuses him of taking hints and facts from his pa- 

 rent's work. He also stated that the story of the 

 Illuminator in Queen HoolHall is mainly an ac- 

 count of the life of his fiither. The three volitmes 

 I gave to my friend and patron, Mr. John Broadly, 

 whose very |[fine and choice library was sold by 

 auction after his death, with the copy of the work 

 referred to. I am desirous of ascertaining in 

 whose possession these volumes are ? I have a 

 beautiful miniature portrait of Joseph Strutt. 



J. Brixton. 

 17. Burton Street, Jan. 21. 1851. 



Ca7'dinaVs Monument. — Passing into the church 

 of St, Saviour, Southwark, yesterday by the 

 centre door on the south, I observed on a pillar to 

 the right, a sculpture of a cardinal's hat with the 

 usual cord and tassels properly coloured, beneath 

 which was a coat of arms, quartering alternately 

 three lions and three llcur-de-lis. There is no 

 name or date upon it. It would be interesting to 

 know to whom it refei's. J. D. A. 



Names Bacon and Fagan. — The very curious 

 and interesting information which has come to 

 light in the rejjlies to my Query about the origin 

 of the patronymic Bacon, emboldens me to put 

 another question upon the subject. 



I have long suspected, but have been unable to 

 prove, that the names Bacon and Fagan were ori- 

 ginally one and the same. Bacon, it appears, is 

 a Saxon word, meaning " of the beech tree." 

 Fagan, I presume, is as undoubtedly from the 

 Latin "de fogo," "of the beech tree." 



The approximation of sound in these names is 

 sufficiently evident. That the letters C and G 

 have been connnonly convertible between the 

 Latin and Saxon is Avithout doubt. Query : 

 Have B and F been at all used convertibly ? 

 Or can any of your readers, by any other means, 

 strengthen the probability, or prove the truth, of 

 my conjecture ? Nocab. 



Blunder. — What is the origin of this word ? In 

 Woolston's First Discourse on Miracles (Lond. 

 1729), at p. 28., I find this passage : — 



" In anolhcr place he intimates what are meant by 

 oxen and slieep, viz., the literal sense of the Scrip- 

 tures. And if the literal sense be irrational and non- 

 sensical, the metaphor we must allow to be proper, in- 

 asmuch as nowadays dull and foolish and absurd stuff 

 we call Bulls, Failings, and Bhinders." 



This would seem to imply that in Woobton's 

 days blunder was the name of some animal ; but 

 in no dictionary have I been able to find such a 

 signification attributed to it. The Germans use 



the words hoch and pudel in the same sense as our 

 word blunder. C. W. G. 



Prince of Wales' Feathers. — The establishment 

 of " De Navorscher " is a matter of great impor- 

 tance to all students of our early history, and the 

 liberal intention of its projectors, to bring under 

 the notice of their countrymen all Queries likely 

 to be ansAvered by them, is one calculated to clear 

 up many obscure points in our early history. Sir 

 H. Nicolas concludes his valuable papers on the 

 Badge and Mottoes of the Prince of AVales 

 {ArchcBologia, vol. xxxi. p. 372.) by expressing his 

 belief that both the former, namely, the Feathers, 

 and the mottoes, " /c/j Dien"" and " Iloumout," 

 were derived from the House of Hainault, possibly 

 from the Comte of Ostrevant, which formed the 

 appanage of the eldest sons of the Counts of that 

 province. Perhaps I may be allowed, through 

 your columns, to invite the attention of the cor- 

 respondents of " De Navorscher " to this point. 



Effessa. 



Portrait of Ben Jonson. — Ritson, the well- 

 known antiquary, possessed an original painting 

 of Ben Jonson. It was afterwards purchased by 

 W. Fillinghara, Esq., of the Inner Temple, a gen- 

 tleman well known for his love of the early drama; 

 and whilst in his possession it was engraved by 

 Ridley in 8vo. What has become of the painting? 

 Can any of your readers point out its locality at 

 the present time ? Edward F. Rimbaui.t. 



Robert Burton, otherwise Democritus Junior, the 

 author of that glorious book The Aimtomy of 

 Melancholy, is stated by Wood to have been born 

 at Lindley, in Leicestershire. Plot, however, in 

 his Natural History of Staffordshire, 1686, p. 276., 

 gives the place of his birth, Fald, in the latter 

 county ; and, furthermore, says he was shown the 

 very house of his nativity. Can any of your cor- 

 respondents throw any light upon this subject? 



Edward F. Rimbatjlt. 



Blowen, Origin of the Name. — You have fallen 

 into a very general error in spelling my name 

 (pp. 71. 76.) with the terminal r, "Blower," in- 

 stead of " Blowen." Perhaps some one of your 

 genealogical readers can inform me of the origin 

 and descendants of the family with this scarce 

 name, thus spelt, " Blowen." Are we a branch of 

 the Blowers (as you appear to think we must be), 

 that useful family of alarmists, whose services in 

 early times were so necessary ? or are we the de- 

 scendants of the Flanders "Boleyns," Anglican- 

 ized "Bloyen?" 



Query, Did Anna Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII. , 

 ever spell her name so ? 1 need not to be reminded 

 that some lexicographers define " Blowen " to be 

 a rude woman. Query, origin of that appellation, 

 so used ? 



We have been citizens and liverymen of 

 London from Richard Blowen, who married, at 



