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NOTES AND QUERIES, 



[No. 74. 



plained or understood. The emendation wliich 

 I siigrgest is, I think, simple, easy, and intelligible; 

 and I can imagine how tlie word " addiint" arose 

 from (he mistake of a transcriber, by supposing 

 that the MS. was written thus : — acfvnt, with a 

 long f closely following the c, so as to resemble 



a ti. SCRIBLEBUS. 



Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. 

 Digby. — In page 18. of your current volume is a 

 poem of which I am anxious to know the author: 

 it is entitled the " Houre-Glasse." Among the 

 poems of Amaltheus I have discovered one so like 

 it, that it appears to be almost a translation. It 

 is curious, and but little known, so that I trust you 

 can find it a place in " Notes and Queries." 



" HOllOI.OGIUM rOLVEllUM, TUMULUS ALCIPPI. 



Perspieuo in vitro pulvis qui diviilit horas 

 Dum vagus augustum srepe rcctiriit iter, 



Olim eiat Alcippus, qui Galla' ut vidit ocellos, 

 Arsit, et est Cieco factus ab igne cinis. — 



Irrcipiiete cinis, miseros tcslabere amantes 

 More luo nulla posse quicte frui." 



H. A. B. 



Matter-of-fact Epitaph.— Maj I venture to ask 

 a place for tlie following very matter-of-fi\ct epi- 

 taph in the English cemetery at Leghorn? 



" Amstelodaitiensis situs £St liic Burr. Johannes, 

 Quatuor e lustris qui modo cratus crat: 

 Ditior anne auvo, an nierltis lioc iiesclo : tantas 

 Ca;ca tauien Clothe non toleravit opes." 

 •which may be tlnis freely rendered : 

 " Hevfi lie the remains of a Dutchman named Burr. 

 John, 

 Who baffled at twenly the skill of liis surgeon ; 

 Whether greater liis merits or weakh, 1 doubt 



which is, 

 But Clothe tlie blind couldn't bear such great riches." 



C. AV. B. 



<jaucrir.^. 



ANCIENT DANISH ITINEKARY: PROL IN ANGMAM. 



An ancient scholiast on Adam of Bremen, "pau- 

 luhnn Adamo ratione retatis inferior," according 

 to his editor, Joachim Maderus, supplies us with a 

 curious list of the stations in the voyages from 

 Ripn, in Denmark, to Acre, in the Holy Land. 

 Adam of Bremen's Ecclesiastical History dates 

 toward the end of the eleventh century, al out 

 1070. His text is as follows : — 



" Alterum (episcopatum) in Ripa ; qua; civltas alio 

 tangitur alvco, qui ab oceano influit, at per cjucm vela 

 torqiientur in Fresiam, vel in nostram Saxoniani, vel 

 certe in Angliam." 



The scholiast has this note : — 



" De Ripa in Flandriam ad Cuicfal vellficari potest 

 duobus diebus, et totidem noctibus ; de Cuicfal ad 



Prol in Angliayn duobus dicbiis et una nocte. Illud est 

 ultiniion caiint Angliie versus Avstrvm, et est processus 

 illuc (le Ripa angulesus inter Austruni et Occidenteni. 

 De Prol in Britanulam ad Sanctum INIattliiam, uno 

 die, — inde ad Far, juxta Sanctum Jacebuni tribus noc- 

 tibus. Inde Leskebonc duobus diebus inter Austrum 

 et Occidcntem. De Leskcbone ad Narvcse tribus die- 

 bus et tribus noctibus, angulariter inter Orientem et 

 Austrum. De Narvese ad Arruguen quatuor diebus 

 et quatuor noctibus, angulariter inter Aquilonem 

 et Orientem. De Arrugucn ad Barzalun uno die, 

 similitir inter Aquilonem et Orientem. De Barzalun 

 ad Marsiliam uno die et una nocte, fere versus Orien- 

 tem, declinaudo tameu ))arum ad plagam Australem. 

 De Marsilia ad Mezein in Siciliaui quatuor iliebus et 

 quatuor noctibus, anj;u!ariter inter Orientem et Aus- 

 ti um. De Mezein ad Acchareu xiiii dielius et totidem 

 noctibus, inter Orientem et .'Vustruui, magis appropi- 

 ande ad Austrum." 



We may fairly consider that the stations marked 

 in this itinerary are of great antiquity. " Piol in 

 Angliam" is, no doubt, Prawle Point, in Devon- 

 shire; a headland which must have been well 

 known to the Veneti long before the days of Adam 

 of Bremen. Its mention here is one among tlie 

 many proofs of the early importance of this coast, the 

 ancient " Littus Totonesium," the scene of one of 

 JMarie's fibliaux, and of some curious pai-sages in 

 Layamon's Brid, which are not to be icjuiid iu the 

 poein of AVace. I wish to ask, — 



\. Is the word "Prol" Saxon or British, and 

 what is its probable etymology ? 



2. AVhere was " Cuicfal in Fhmdriam," from 

 whence the voyage was made to Prol ? 



Richard John King. 



CHIMING, TOLLING, AND PEAL-BINGIN'G Or BELLS. 



Some of your clerical readers, as well as mj'self, 

 would probably be glad to have determined, what 

 are the proper times and measures in wliich the 

 bells of a church ought to be rung. There seems 

 to be no uniformity of practice in this matter, nor 

 any authoritative directions, by which the customs 

 tliat obtain may be either improved or regulated. 

 The terms chiming, tolling, and peal-ringing, 

 though now generally understood, do not intel- 

 ligibly afiply to the i'cw regulations about bells 

 which occur in the canons. 



I believe that chiming is the proper melhod of 

 summoning the congregation to the services of the 

 church : and tuUivg certainly appears to be the 

 most appropriate use of the bell at funerals. But 

 chiming the bells is an art that is not recognised in 

 the older rules respecting their use. For instance, 

 the Fifteenth Canon orders tlin.t on Wednesdays 

 and Fridays weekly, warning shall be given to the 

 people that litany will be said, by tolUiig of a hell. 

 And, on the other hand, though we toll at a funeral, 

 the Sixty-seventh Canon enjoins that — 



" After the party's deatli, there shall be rung ne 



