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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 73. 



diuin of intercommunication with, will be much 

 appreciated by 



Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie. 

 [Our correspondent is certainly mistaken in sup- 

 posing this poem to be in Stowe's handwriling. We 

 have the best possible autliority for assuring him that 

 it is not. ] 



FOLK LORE. 



Moths called Soitls. — While I am upon this 

 subject, I may as well mention that in yorkshire 

 the couiitry-pe()]ile used in my youth, and perhaps 

 do still, cnll night-Hyinjj while moths, especially 

 the Hepialus himiidi, which feeds, while in the 

 grub state, on the roots of docks and other coarse 

 plants, " souls." Have we not in all this a rem- 

 nant of " Psyche?" F. S. 



[This latter paragraph furnishes a remarkable coin- 

 cidence with the tradition from tlie neighbomhood of 

 Truro (recorded by Mk. Thoms in his Folk Lore of 

 Shakspeare, Atlunaum {'Ho. lO-ll.) Oct. 9. 1847) wliich 

 gives the name of Piskei/s both to I he fairies and to 

 moths, which are believed by many to be departed souls. ^ 



Holy Water for the Hoopms; Cough (Vol. iii., 

 p. 179.). — In one of the principal towns of York- 

 shire, half a centui-y ago, it was the practice for 

 persons in a respectable class of life to take their 

 children, when pfflicted with the hooping cough, 

 to a neighbouring convent, where the priest al- 

 lowed them to drink a small cjuanlily of holy 

 water out of a silver chalice, which the little suf- 

 ferers were strictly forbidden to touch. By Pro- 

 testant, as well as Roman Catholic parents, this 

 was regarded as a remedy. Is not, the super- 

 stition analogous to that noticed by Mr. Way? 



Eboracomb. 



Daffy Down Dilly. — At this season, when the 

 early s]jring tlowers are showing themselves, we 

 hear the village children repeating these lines: — 

 " Daft" a down dill lias now come to town. 

 In a yellow petticoat and a green j^own." 

 Docs not this nui-sery rhyme throw light upon 

 the charactei' of the royal visitor alluded to in 

 the snail char.n recorded by F. J. H, (p. 179.)? 



Eboracomb. 



PR. MAITLAND S ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES 

 RELATING TO MESMERISM. 



I know more than one person who would second 

 the request that I am about to make through 

 " Notes and Queries" to Dr. Maitland, that he 

 would publish the remaining parts of his Illustra- 

 tions and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism : he 

 would do so, 1 know, at once, if he thought that 

 anybody would benefit by them ; and I can bear 

 witness to Part I. as having been already of 

 some use. It is high time that Christians should 

 be decided as to whether or no they may meddle 



with the fearful power whose existence it is im- 

 possible to ridicule any longer. Dr. Maitlasd has 

 suggested the true course of thought upon the 

 subject, and promised to lead us along it ; but it 

 is impossible at present to use anything that he 

 has said, on account of its incompleteness. In 

 tracing the subject through history. Dr. Maitland 

 would no doubt mention the " 0^(})aAji|/i/x«', or Um- 

 bilicani," of the fourteenth century, whose prac- 

 tices make a page (609 ) of Waddington's History 

 of the Church read like a sketch of Middle-age 

 Mesmerism, (contemptuously given. Also, in Wash- 

 ington Irving's Lije of Mahomet, a belief some- 

 what similar to theirs is stated to have been 

 preached in the seventh century (^Bohtis Rc' 

 j)rint in Shilling Series, p. 1-91.) by a certain Mo- 

 seiluia, a false prophet. 



I may a<]d that Aliss Martiiieau's new book. 

 Letters on the Development of Mans Nature, by 

 Atkinson and Murtineau, which cannot be called 

 sceptical, for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the 

 innnediate cause of my writing to-day. 



A, L. R, 



iHiiior DntcS, 



Original Warrant. — The following warrant 

 from the original in the Surrenden collection may 

 interest some of your correspondents, as bearing 

 upon more than one Query that has appeared in 

 your columns : — 



" Forasmuch as S"' John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant 

 of the Tower, hath heretofore receaved a warrant from 

 the Lis. of tliecounsell, by her IVla'" comniandmenl, for 

 the reuioviiige of Wright the Preist out of the lower, 

 to Frauiingliam Castle, and for that, since then, it is 

 tliouglit more convenient, that he be removed to the 

 Cliiicke — 1 heise therefore slialbe to require now (sic) 

 to enlarge him of his iuiprisonmeut in tlie Tower, and 

 to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop 

 of London, to be committed by his Lp, to the Clincke, 

 because it is for her M" speciall service, — for doinge 

 whereof, this shalbe your warrant. 

 " From the court at 

 " Oatlands this 29 



" of September, 1603. 



" Ro. Cecyll. 

 " To Mr. Anthony Deeringe, 

 '* Deputy Lieutenant of the lower of London." 



" 2. October, 1602. 

 " I have receyed Mr. Wryght from INIr. Derynge, 

 Deputy Lieutenaunl, and have comitted him to the 

 Clincke according the dii-ection from Mr. Secretary 

 above expressed. 



" liic. London." 

 L. B. L. 



Gloves. — Prince Rupert. — In your First Vol., 

 pp. 72. 405., ami in other places in Vol. ii., there 

 are notices with respect to the presentation of 

 gloves. If what is contained in the following 



