April 5. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(c.) For stopping Blood. 

 " Our Blessed Saviour was born in Bethlehem 

 and baptized in the liver Jordan. 



' The waters were wild and rude. 

 The child Jesus was meek, mild, and gcod.' 

 He put His foot into the water.s, and the waters 

 stopped, and so shall thy blood, in the Name," &c. 



(i-y.) For the Tooth-ache. 



" All glory I all glory ! alt glory ! be to the Father, 

 and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. 



" As our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was walking 

 in the garden of Gethsa neiie, He saw Peter weeping. 

 He called him unto Him, and said, Peter why, weepest 

 thou ? I'eter answered and said. Lord, I am grie- 

 vously tormented with pain, the pain of my t.ioth. 

 Our Lord answered and said. If thou wilt believe in 

 Me, and My words abide with thee, thou slialt never 

 feel any more pain in thy tooth. Peter said, Lord, I 

 believe, help Thou my unbelief In the Name, fee. 



" God grant M. N ease from the pain in his teeth." 



(e.) For Fits. — Go into a cliiitch at midnight 

 and walk three times round the communion table. 

 This was done in this parish a few years since. 



(y.) An inhabitant of tliis parish told me that 

 his f'atlier went into Lydford Churcli, at twelve 

 o'clock at night, and cut off some lead from every 

 diamond pane in the windows; with which he 

 made a heart, to be worn by his wife afflicted wiih 

 "breast ills" i. e. sore breasts. 



(g.) The skin cast by a snake is very useful in 

 extracting thorns, &c. from the body, but, unlike 

 other remedies, it is repellent, not attractive; hence 

 it must always be applied on the opposite side 

 to that on which the thorn entered. In some 

 cases where the skin has been applied on the same 

 side, it has forced the thorn completely through tiie 

 hand. 



Lent Lilies. — Oak Wehs, Sf-c. — In this part of 

 Cornwall, the native yellow narcissus, known in 

 most counties, and in the books, as daffodils (the 

 "Daffy Down Dilly" of your correspondent. Vol. iii. 

 p. 220.), are called only by the name of Lent lilies, 

 or simply Lents, and are commonly sold by tlie poor 

 children, frequently in exchange for pins. The 

 pleasing name reminds one of Alichaelmas Daisy 

 {Chrysanthemum'), Christmas rose {Helleborus 

 tii^er), and the beautiful pasque flower {Anemone 

 puLiulilla). 



The common beetle called cockcliafer is here 

 known only as the oak-web, and a smaller beetle 

 as fern-web. It seems hard to guess why they 

 should be named web (which in Anglo-Saxon 

 means weaver), as they do not, I think, furm any 

 cocoon. H. G. T. 



Launccston. 



THE THRENODIA CAROLINA OF 8IB TDO. IIESDERT. 



Tiie Threnodia Carolina of sir Thomas Herbert 

 is a jewel of historical composition, and I am per- 



suaded that a new edition of it, if formed on a 

 collation of the best manuscripts, and illustrated 

 by extracts from the principal historians of the 

 same period, would not only be received by the 

 public with thanks, but with expressions of sur- 

 prise that so rare a treasure should have been 

 suffered to remain in such comparative obscurity. 

 There are four manuscripts of the work in 

 public libraries, two of which I am enabled to 

 describe. 



1. Tiie Harleian Ms. in the British Museum, 

 No. 7396. 



This Ms. is In folio. The preliminary leaves 

 have the notes marked 1, 2, 3 — the second bein"- 

 in the handwriting of sir "William Dugdale. The 

 narrative occuj)ics thirty-sl.x p.ages, with interlinear 

 corrections and addithjns. This Ms. does not 

 contain the words This brief narrative^ &c. nor 

 the letter dated the 3d Nov. 1681. 



"THllENOniA CAROLINA." 



(1) " This book contains S' Tho. Herberts memoirs 

 being the ori;;inal in his own hand sent to S' W"" Dug- 

 dale in 1678." 



(2) " A true and perfect narrative of the most re- 

 markable passages relating to king Cliarles the first 

 of blessed memory, written by the proper hand of S' 

 Thomas Herbert baronet, who attended upon his ma''» 

 from Newcastle upon Tine, when he was sold by the 

 Scotts, during the whole time of his greatest afflictions, 

 till his death and buriall ; w'^'^ was sent to me S' \Vill"> 

 Dugdale knight, garter principall king of amies, in 

 Michaellmasse Terme a°. 1678, by the said S' Thomas 

 Herbert, from Yorke, where he resideth." 



"VERITAS ODIUM PARIT." 



(3) " Court passages in the two last yeares of the 

 raigne of king Charles the first, during y= time of his 

 affliction." 



2. The Harleian Ms. in the British Museum, 

 No, 4705. 



This Ms. is in small folio. It was formerly in 

 the possession of Peter le Neve, norroy. A pre- 

 liminary leaf has the subjoined attestation by sir 

 \Villiam Dugdale. The narrative is much more 

 ample and circumstantial than In the former Ms., 

 but it Is not all in the handwi liiiig of sir Thomas 

 Herbert. The letter dated 3 November 1681, 

 and the relations of Huntington, Cooke, and Fire- 

 brace, are added in the handwriting of Dugdale; 

 also, the names of persons who corresponded with 

 Cliarles I. while be was a prisoner in the Isle of 

 Wight. The passages transcribed by the Rev. 

 Alfred Gatty appear In this J\Is. — also in the 

 edition of 1702. The edition of 1813 is a verbatim 

 reprint of the first ami second articles of that of 

 1702. It was edited by Mr. George Nicol. 



'' CAROLINA TIIKENODIA." 



" This booke coiitaineth a large answer to a short 

 letter sent by S' Will'" Dugdale kn' (garter; principall 

 king of armes) unto S' Thomas Herbert baronet, re- 



