Mar. 22. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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paper be not generally known, it may claim an 

 interest with some of your readers : — 



" At the Court of Whitel»all, the 23rd of October, 

 1678. Present 



The King's most excellent Majesty, 



His Highness Prince Bupert, 



Lord Archbp. of Canteibury," 



[with twelve others, who are named.] 



" Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the 

 Consecracon of all Bps for them to make prcsei.ts of 

 Gloves to all Persons that came to the Consecracon 

 Dinners, and others, w"^"" amounted to a great SuITi of 

 ]\Jonev, and was an unnecessary burden to them. His 

 Ma*'° Ihis day, taking tlie same into his consideraoon, 

 was thereupon pK'asVi to order in Council, that for the 

 future there shall be no such distribucon of Gloves; 

 but that in lieu thereof each Loid Bp before his Con- 

 secracon shall here.ifter pay the Sum of 50/. to be 

 employ'd towards the Rel)uilding of the Cathedral 

 Church of St. Paul. And it was further ordered, that 

 his Grace the Lord Archbp of Canterbury do not pro- 

 ceed to consecrate any Bp before he bath paid the sd 

 Sum of 501. for ihe use aforesaid, and produced a Re- 

 ceipt lor the same from the Treasurer of the Money for 

 Rebuilding the said Chmcli for the time being, w'^^ as it 

 is a pious work, so will it be some ease to the respec- 

 tive Bps, in regard the Expense of Gloves did usually 

 farr exceed that Sum. 



" Phi. Lloyd." 

 Tanners MSS. vol. '282. 112. al. 74. 



One of your correspondents, I think, some time 

 back, asked for notices of Prince Rupert posterior 

 to the llestoration. Besides the mention made of 

 him in this paper, Echard speaks of liis having 

 the command ol' one squadron of the English fleet 

 in the Dutch war. J. Sansom. 



Inscription on a Gun (Vol. iii., p. 181.). — Your 

 notes on " the Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes " 

 remind me of an old gun, often handled by me in 

 my youth, on the stock of which the following 

 tetrastick was en-nailed: — 



" Of all the sports as is, 

 I fancies most a gun ; 

 And, after my decease, 

 I leaves this to my son." 

 Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed 

 through Doctors' Commons, I know not. C. W. B. 



Richurd III. (Vol. iii., pp. -206-7.). — The 

 statement by Mk. U.arrison, that Kicliard was 

 not a '' hunchback," is curiously "backed " by an 

 ingenious conjecture of that very remarkable nuxn, 

 Doctor .John Wallis of Oxford, in his Grummatica 

 Lingure Anglicunce, first published in 10.53. The 

 pa.ssage occurs in the 211 section of chapter 14, 

 " De Hlymologia." VVallfH is treating of the 

 woi'ds croiik, cronc/i, cro.s.s, &c., and says : 



" nine hum criils.iilo de militibus (iicebatur ad helium 

 ((|U(id vocant) sanctum consiiript's (l)ro reciiperanda 

 terra sancta) qui a ter jo gustabunt furiuain Crucis ; et 



liichardus olim Rex Angllas dicebatur crouch -bached, 

 non quod dorso fuerit inciirvato, sed quod a tergo 

 gestare gestiebat formani Crucis." 



G. F. G. 



Edinburgh. 



Lines hi/ Pope. — -On the back of a letter in my 

 possession, written by the poet Gray, are the fol- 

 lowing lines in the handwriting of bis friend 

 Mason : — 



" By Mr. Pope. 

 " Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine. 

 To Painter Kent gave all this coin. 

 'I'is the first coin, I'm bold to say, 

 That ever Churchman gave to Lay." 

 " Wrote in Evelyn's book of coins given by Mr. 

 Wood to Kent : he had objected against the word 

 pio in Mr. Pope's father's epitaph." 



If these lines are not already in print, perhaps 

 you will insert them amongst your " Notes " as a 

 contribution from IIobert Hotchkin. 



Thimbleby Rectory, March l.'J. 1851. 



Origin of St. Andreitfs Cross in connexion with 

 Scotland. — John Lesley, bishop of Ross, reports, 

 that in the night before the battle between Athel- 

 stan, king of England, and Hungus, king of the 

 Picts, a bright cross, like that whereon St. Andrew 

 suffered, appeared to Hungus, who, having ob- 

 tained the victory, ever after bore that figure. 

 This happened in 819. Vide Geid. Mag. for 

 Nov. 1732. E. S. T. 



Snail -eating (Vol. iii., p. 207.). — Your corre- 

 spondent C. \V. B. does not seem to be aware that 

 " a ragout of boror (snails) " is a regular dish 

 with Englisii gypsies. Vide Borrovv's Zincali, 

 part i. c. v. 



He has clearly not read Mr. Borrow's remarks 

 on the subject : 



" Know then, O Gentile, whether thou be from the 

 land of Gorgios (England), or the Busiie (Spain), that 

 the very gypsies, who consider a ragout of snails a 

 delicious dish, will not touch an eel because it bears a 

 resemblance to a snake ; and that those who will feast 

 on a roasted hedgehog could be induced by no money 

 to taste 3 squirrel I " 



Having tasted of roasted hotchivvitclui (hedge- 

 hog) myself among the "gentle Kommanys," I 

 can bear witness to its delicate fatness; and 

 though a ragout of snails was never offered for 

 my accejitance, I do not think that those who 

 consider (as most "Gorgios" do) stewed eels a 

 delicacy ought to be too severe on "Liniacotror 

 phists ! " Hermes. 



Snail -eating. — Perhaps you will permit me to 

 remark, in reference to the coininunication of 

 C. W 1j., that snails are taken mcdirinally occa- 

 sionally, and are supposed to be e.xiremely 

 strengllicniMg. 1 have known them eagerly 

 sought after fitr the meal of a consumptive pa- 

 lient. As. a matter of taste, too, they are by 



