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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No, 71. 



" "ASiKov Se Kol ax<ip'<TToy, 'miroiroTajJiOU cwxas S6o, 

 Kara /SAe'irocTar, ypd<pou(nv." 



He there mentions the idea of the animal con- 

 tending; against his father, &c. ; and as he flourished 

 in the beginning of the fifth century, it is probable 

 that he is the source from which Damascius took 

 the story. 



I have in my cabinet a large brass coin of the 

 Empress Ptacilia Severa, wife of Philip, ou which 

 is depicted the Hippopotamus, with the legend 

 6AECVLARES. AVGG., showing it to have been 

 exhibited at the saecular games. E S. Taylor. 



Specimens of Foreign English. — Several ludi- 

 crous examples have of late been communicated 

 (see Vol. ii., pp. 57. 138.), but ni)ne, perhnps, com- 

 parable with the following, which I <'opied about 

 two years since at Havre, from a Polyglot adver- 

 tisement of Various Local Regulations, for the 

 convenience of persons visiting that favourite 

 watering-place. Amongst these it was stated 

 that — 



" Un arrangement pent se /aire avec le pUoie, pmir de 

 promenades a rames." 



Of this the following most literal version was 

 enounced, — 



" One arrangement c.in make himself with the pilot 

 for the walking with roars" (sic). 



Albebt Wat. 



St. Clare. — In the interesting and amusing 

 volume of Rambles beyond Railways, M. W. Wilkie 

 Collins has attribuied the church of St. Cleer in 

 Cornwall, with its Well and ruined Oratory, to 

 St. Clare, the lieroic Virgin of Assisi ; but in the 

 elegant and useful Calendar of the Anglican Church, 

 the same church is a.scribed to St. Clair, the Martyr 

 of Rouen. My own impression is, that the latter 

 is correct; but I note the circumstance, that some 

 of your readers better informed than myself, m;iy 

 be enabled to answer the Query, which is the 

 right ascription? When Mr. Collins alluded to 

 the fate of Bishop Hippo, devoured by rats, I pre- 

 sume he means Bishop Hatto, commemorated in 

 the " Legends of the Rhine." 



Beriah Botfield. 



Norton Hall, Feb. 14. 1851. 



Dr. Dodd.-— On the 13th February, 1775, 

 Dr. Dodd was inducted to the vicarage of Wing, 

 Bucks, on the presentation of the Earl of Chester- 

 field. On the 8th February, 1777, he w:is arrested 

 for forging the Earl's bond. Dr. Dodd nevei 

 resided at Wing ; but, during the short period he 

 lield the living, he preache'd there four times. 

 The tradition of the jjarish is, that on those oc- 

 casions he preached from the following texts ; all 

 of them remarkable, and the second and fourth 

 especially so with reference to the subsequent 

 fate of the unhappy man, whose feelings they may 

 reasonably be supposed to embody. 



The texts are as follows : — 



1 Corinthians xvi. 22. " If any man love not the 

 Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha." 



Miciih vii. 8. " Rejoice not against me, O mine 

 enemy; wlien I fall. 1 shall arise; wlien 1 sit in dark- 

 ness, the Lord shall be a light imto me." 



Psalm cxxxix. 1,2. " O Lord, thou hast searched me 

 and known me. Thou kno«-est my down-sitting and 

 mine up-vising, thou understandest my thought afar 

 off." 



Deuteronomy xxriii. 65, 66, 67. " And among these 

 nations thou shalt find no ease, neither shall the sole of 

 thy foot liave rest ; but the Lord sliall give thee there 

 a trembling lieart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of 

 mind: and thy life shall hang in douht hefure thee; 

 and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none 

 assurance of thy life : In the morning thou shalt say, 

 Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, 

 Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine 

 heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of 

 tliine eyes wliich thou shalt see." 



Q. D. 



Ha's of Cardinals and Notai-ics Apostolic (Vol. iii. 

 p. 169.). — An instance occurs in a MS. in this 

 college (L. 10. p. 60.) circa temp. Hen. VIIL, of 

 the arms of "Doctor Willm. Haryngton, ])ro- 

 tlionotaire aposlolik," ensigned with a bLick Lat, 

 having three tassels pendant on each side : theje 

 appendages, however, are somewdiat different to 

 those attached to the Cardinal's liaf, the cords or 

 strings not being fretty. I have seen somewhere 

 a series of arms having the same insignia ; but, at 

 present, I cannot say where. 



Thos. Wm. King, York Herald. 



College of Arms, Feb. 17. 1851. 



Huron Munchausen! s Frozen Horn. — 

 " Till the Holy Ghost came to thaw their memories, 

 that the words of Christ, like the voice in Plutarch 

 tliat had become frozen, might at length become 

 audible." — Hammond's Sermons, xvii. 



These were first published in 1648. E. H. 



Contracted Names of F^aces. — Kirton for Cre- 

 diton, Devon ; ^Vilscombe for Wiveliscombe, 

 Somersetshire ; Brighton for Brighthelmstone, 

 Sussex ; Pomfret for Pontefract. Yorkshire ; 

 Gloster for Gloucester. J. W. H. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. 



(Continued f?-om Vol. iii., p. 139.) 

 (43.) Is there any valid reason for not dating 

 the ])ublication of some of Gerson's treatises at 

 Cologne earlier than the year 1470? and if good 

 cause cannot be shown for withholding from them 

 so high a rank in the scale of typographic being, 

 must we not instantly reject every cfl'ort to ex- 

 tenuate Marchand's obtuseiiess in asserting with 

 reference to Ulric Zell, " On ne voit des editions 

 de ce Zell qu' en 1494 ? " (Hist, de rivip., p. 56.) 



