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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 71. 



appears (Wood's Athena, vol. iv. p. 230.) that he 

 •was ignoi'iint who the aulhor of this tract was. 



It is somewhat sinf;ular that the mistake in 

 ascribing Deus Justijicatus to Cudwoith sliouhl 

 liave been continued in Kippis's edition of the 

 Biographia Britaimica. It was so ascribed to 

 liini, first, as far as I can find, by a writer of tlie 

 name of Fancoiirt, in the preface to his Free 

 Agencx) of Accomituhle Creatures Examined, I^on- 

 don, 1733, 8vo. On his authority it was included 

 in the list of Cudworth's works in the General 

 Dictionary, 1736, folio, vol. iv. p. 487., and in the 

 Biogi-uphia Britannica, 1750, vol. iii. p. 1581., and 

 in the last edition by Kippis. Birch, in the mean 

 time, finding, no doubt, on inquiry, thiit there was 

 no ground for ascribing it to Cudworth, made no 

 mention of it in his accurate life jjrefixed to the 

 edition of the Intellectual System in 1742. 



liallyweli, the author, deserves to be better 

 known. In many passages in Ids works he gives 

 ample proof that he had fully imbibed the lofty 

 Platonism and true Christian spirit of his great 

 master. James Crosslet. 



Touchstone s Dial (Vol. ii., p. 405. ; Vol. iii., pp.52. 

 107.). — I am gratified to find that my note on 

 "Touchstone's Dial" has prompted Mr. Stephens 

 to send you his valuable communication on these 

 old-fashioned chronometers. The subjoined ex- 

 tract from Travels in America in the Year 1806, by 

 Thomas Ashe, Esq., is interesting, as it shows that 

 " Ring-dials " were used as common articles of 

 barter in America at the commencement of the 

 present century : — 



" Tlie storekeepers on the Alleghany River from 

 above Pittsburg to New Orleans are obliged to keep 

 every article which it is possible that tlie farmer nnd 

 manufacturer may want. Each of their shops exhibits 

 a complete niedley : a magazine, where are to be had 

 boti) a needle and an anchor, a tin pot and a large cop- 

 per boiler, a child'-' whistle and a piano-forte, a ritig- 

 dial and a clock," &c. 



J. M. B. 



Bivg Dials. — I was interested with the reference 

 to Pocket Sun-dials in " Notes and Queries," 

 pp. 52. 107. because it re-furnished an opportunity of 

 phicingin print a scrap of information on the sub- 

 ject, which 1 neglected to embrace when I first read 

 Mr. Knight's note on the passage in Shaksjieare. 

 About seventy years ago these small, cheap, brass 

 "Ring-dials" for the pocket weie manufactured 

 by the gross by a firm in SLcifield (jNlessrs. Proc- 

 tor), then in Milk Street. 1 well remember the 

 workman — an old nian in my boyhood — who had 

 been emj)lo\ ed in making them, as he said, "in 

 basketsful ; " and also his description of the modus 

 operandi, which was curious enough. They were 

 of different sizes and prices ; and their extreme 

 rarity at present, considering the number formerly 

 in use, is only less surprising than the commonness 



of pocket-watches which have superseded tliem 

 I never saw but one of these cheapest and most 

 nearly forgotten horologia, and which the old 

 bras;--turner, as I recollect, boasted of as "telling \ 

 the time true to a quarter of an hour 1 " L). 



Sheffield, Jan. 2. 1851. 



Cockade (Vol. iii., p. 7.).— The Query of A. E. 

 has not yet been satisfactorily answered ; nor can 

 I pretend to satisfy him. But as a small contribu- 

 tion to the history of the decoration in (juestion, 

 I beg to ofter him the following definition from 

 the Dictionnaire etymulogique ol' Roquefort, 8vo., 

 Paris, 1829 : — 



" CocAitDE. touffe de rubans que sous Louis XIII. 

 on portoit sur le feutre, et qui iniitoit la crete du coq." 



If this be correct, Apodliktes (p. 42.) must be 

 mistaken in attributing so recent an origin to the 

 cockade as the dale ot the Hanoverian succession. 

 The truth is, that from the earliest period of 

 heraldic institutions, colours have been used to 

 symbolise parties. The mode of wearing them 

 may have varied ; and whether wrought in silk, or 

 more economically represented in tiie stamped 

 leather cockade of our private soldier, is little to 

 the pur])ose. It will, however, hardly be con- 

 tended that our present I'ashion at all resembles 

 " la Crete du coq." F. S. Q. 



" The ribband worn in the hat " was styled " a 

 favour" previous to the Scotch Covenanters' nick- 

 naming it a cockade. Allow me to correct Apo- 

 di.iktes (p. 42.) : "The h\:\i:k favour being the 

 Hanoverian badge, the white Javovr that of the 

 Stuarts." The knots or bunches of ribbons given 

 as favours at marriages, &c., were not invariably 

 worn in the hat as a cockade is, but it was some- 

 times (see Hudibras, Pt. i. canto ii. line 524.) 

 " Wore in their hats like wedding garters." 



There is a note on this line in my edition, which 

 is the same as J. B. Colman refers to for the note 

 on the Frozen Horn (p. 91.). Bi-owen. 



Bvdbeck's Atlantica — Grenville copy — Tomiis I 

 Si?ie Anno. 1675. 1679. (Vol. iii., p. 26.). — Has any 

 one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitled 

 " Ad Biblio]iegos ? " — Not one of them. 



(Neither has the king's (George 111.) copy, nor 

 the Sloane copy, both in the Miiseum.) 



Has the copy with the date 1679, "Testimonia" 

 at the end? — 'Ihe Uestinionia. are jilaced after the 

 Dedication, before the text (they are inlaid). They 

 occupy fifteen pages. 



Ihne they a scjiarate Title and a separate sheet 

 oi' Errata ? — Neither the fme nor the other. 



Is there a duplicate copy of this separate Title 

 at the end of the Piefacel' — No. 



(The copy with the date 1675 has at the end 

 Testimonia filling eight pages, with a separate 

 title, and a leaf containing three lines of Errata.) 



Tomus 11. 1689. — How many pages of Tes- 



