Mar. 15. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



205 



In the Townley Mysteries, Ascensio Domini, 

 p. 303., the Virgin Mary calls upon St. John to 

 protect her against the Jews, — 



" Mi fleslie it qwakes, as lefe ou lynde. 

 To .sliontt the shiow res sharper than thorne," — 



explained iu the Glossary, " sconce or ward 

 oti." Sewel, in his English and Dxitch Dictioimry, 

 1766, gives — "to sliuiit (a country word for to 

 shove), schuiven." I do not find "shunt," how- 

 ever, in the Provincial Glossaries: in some parts 

 of the south, " to shun " is used in this sense. 

 Thus, in an assault case at lleigate, I heard the 

 complainant say of a man who had hustled him, 

 "He kept shunning me along: sometimes he shunt 

 me on the road," that is, pushed me oti' the footpath 

 on to the highway. 



I hope that the Philological Society has not aban- 

 doned their project of compiling a complete Pro- 

 vincial Glossary: the difficulties of such an under- 

 taking might be materially aided through the 

 medium of " Notes and Qukries." 



Albert Wat. 



THE CHAPEL OF LORETTO. 



Among the aerial migrations of the chapel of 

 Loretto, it is possible that our own country may 

 hereafter be favoured by a visit of that celebrated 

 structure. In the mean time, as I am not aware 

 that the contributions of our countrymen to its 

 history have been hitherto commemorated, the fol- 

 lowing extract from a note, made by me on the 

 spot some years ago, may not be unsuitable for 

 publication in " Notes and Queries." As I had 

 neither the time nor the jjatience which the pious, 

 but rather prolix, Scotchman bestowed upon his 

 composition, I found it necessary to content my- 

 self wiih a mere abstract of the larger portion. 



The stoi-y of tiie holy House of Loretto is en- 

 graved on brass in several languages upon the walls 

 of the church at Loretto. Among otiiers, there 

 are two tablets with the story in English, headed 

 "The wondrus llittinge of the kirk of our blest 

 Lady of Laurcto." It couunences by stating that 

 this kirk is the chamber of the house of the Blessed 

 Virgin, in Nazareth, where our Saviour was born; 

 that after the Ascension the Apostles hallowed and 

 made it a kirk, and " S. Luke framed a pictur to 

 har vary liknes thair zit to be seine;" that it 

 was " haunted witli muckle devotione by tiie foike 

 of tiie land wiiar it stud, till the people went 

 after tiie errour of JMahomet," when angels took 

 it to Slavonia, near a place called Flunien: here 

 it wxs not honoured as it ought to be, and they 

 took it to a wood near llecanati, belonging to a 

 laiiy named Laurelo, wiieiice it took its name. 

 On account of the thieveries here committed, it 

 was again taken up and phurcd near, on a s[)Ot 

 belonging to two brothers, who ijuarrelletl about 



the possession of the oblations offered there ; and 

 again it was removed to the roadside, neiir where 

 it now stands. It is further stated that it stands 

 without founiiations, and that sixteen persons be- 

 ing sent from Recanati to measure the foundations 

 still remaining at Nazareth, they were louiid 

 exactly to agree : 



" And from that fini fourth it has beine surly keii'd 

 that this kirk was the Canimber of the B. V. whereto 



! Christian begun thare and has ever efter had muckle 

 devotione, for that in it daily she hes dun and diis 



j many and many mu-akels. Ane Frier Paule, of Sylva, 

 an eremit of muckle godliness who wond in a cell neir, 

 by this kirk, whar daily he went to niattins, seid that 

 for ten zeirs, one the eighth of Septenil er, tweye hours 



, before day, he saw a light descende from heaven upon 

 it, whelk he seyd was the B. V. wha their shawed 



I harselfe one the feest of her birthe." 



Then follows the evidence of Paule Renalduci, 

 whose grandsire's grandsire saw the angels bring 

 the house over the sea: also the evidence of Fran- 

 I cis Prior, whose grandsire, a hunter, often saw it 

 in the wood, and whose grandsire's grandsire had 

 a house close by. The inscription thus termi- 

 nates : — 



" I, Robt. Corbingfon, priest of the Companie of 

 lesus in the zeir jincxxxv , have treulie translated the 

 premisses out of the Latin stoiy hanged up in the seid 

 kirk." 



S. Smirke. 



FOLK LORE. 



I 



" Xettle in Dock our (Vol.iii., p. 133.).— If your 

 correspondent will refer to The Literary Gazette, 

 March 24, 1849, No. 1679., he will find that I 

 gave pretiisely the same explanation of that ob- 

 scure passage of Chaucer's Troilus and Creseide, 

 lib. iv., in a paper which I contributed to the 

 British Archaological Association. 



Fkas. Crosslet. 



[We will add two further illustrations of this passage 

 of Chaucer, and the popidar rhyme on which it is 

 founded. The first is from Mr. Akerman's Glossary 

 of Procincial Wunis and Phrasts in Use in JViltshtn; 

 wliere we read — 



" When a child is stung, lie plucks a dock-leaf, and 

 laying it on the part affected, sings — 

 ' Out 'ettle 

 In dock 

 Dock shall ha a new smock ; 

 Ettlc zhant 

 Ha' narriin." " 

 Then follows a reference by Mr. Akerman to the 

 passage in Troilus anil Cresiiilv. — Our second illustra- 

 tion is from Chaucer himself, wlio, in his Testamtnt of 

 l.oce (p. 482 ed. Urpy), has the following passage: 



" Ye wete well l.adie eke ((juotli 1), that 1 have not 

 plaid raket, Nettle in, Dockc out, and with the wea- 

 thei'cocke waved " 



Mr. Akerman's work was, we believe, published in 



