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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 76. 



that a ship's gig may do to herself, or a gig on land 

 to a coach. As to Gig Hill, however, unless it has 

 a conical top, some other explanation must be 

 sought. N. B. 



[C, E. H., and numerous otlie^correspondents, have 

 also kindly replied to this Query.] 



Epigram against Burke (Vol. ili., p. 243.). — 



" Oft have I heard that ne'er on Irish ground, 

 A poisonous reptile ever yet was found ; 

 Nature, thou;^h slow, will yet complete her work, 

 She has saved her venom to create a Burke." 



The author of these lines was Warren Hastings 

 himself; liis private secretary (Mr. Evans) sat by 

 his side during the trial, and saw him write the 

 above. My authority is a niece of Mr. Evans, who 

 formed one of her uncle's family at the period of 

 the trial. N. M. 



Engraved Portrait (Vol. iii., p. 209.). — This is 

 the portrait of Samuel Clarke, the ejected minister 

 of Bennet Fink, London. I have three impres- 

 sions of this engraving now before me. Two of 

 these are in an illustrated Granger, and are in 

 different states, the earlier one having no shading 

 in the background. The third copy is prefixed 

 to — 



" A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines, 

 Famous ill their Generations for Learning, Prudence, 

 Piety, and painfulness in the work of the Ministry, &c. 

 By Sa. Clarke, Preacher of the Gospel in St. Bennet 

 Fink, London, 166-2." 4to. 



Very likely the same plate had been previously 

 used for some other of Clarke's numerous publi- 

 cations. At the end of the verses beneath the 

 portrait, my copies have " P.V.A.AL /eciY," which, 

 I suppose, are the initials of Peter Vinke. 



John I. Dredge. 



A full and interesting account of this worthy 

 divine is given in Granger, vol. v. p. 73. ; and 

 the quatrain will be found annexed to a brief 

 account of the same portrait in Ames's English 

 Heads, p. 43. J. E. Y. 



Salgados Slaughter-house (Vol. ii., p. 358.). — 

 Your corresponilcnt asks, Who was Salgado ? and 

 his question has not yet, I believe, been answered. 

 James Salgado, whose name does not appear in 

 any biographical dictionary, thougli it deserves to 

 do, and whose pieces are unnoticed in Peclc's Cata- 

 logue, though they should certainly not have been 

 omitted, was a Spanish priest, who renounced the 

 Roman Catholic belief, and was imprisoned by the 

 Inquisition, and after undergoing many sufferings 

 made his escape to England in the latter part of 

 the reign of Cliarles IL His history is contained 

 in An Account of his Life and Sufferings, in a 4to. 

 tract in my possession, entitled, A Confession of 

 Faith of James Salgado, a Spaniard, and sometimes 

 a Priest in the Church of Rome, London, 1681, 4to. 

 Watt and Lowndes both notice some of his pieces, 



but their lists are very imperfect, and do not comprise 

 the tract, of which your correspondent gives the 

 title, and which is also in my possession, and several 

 others which I have noted in my copy of his Con- 

 fession, but which it is perhaps unnecessary to 

 enumerate here. James Crossley. 



Mathews (iiotBIaWiew's) Mediterranean Passage 

 (Vol. iii., p. 240.). — I have a copy of this work, 

 and shall have pleasure in forwarding it to 

 Mekcdrii for perusal, if he will address a note to 

 me, which the publisher of "Notes and Queries" 

 will forward. Nibor. 



Oxford, March 29. 1851. 



The Mitre and the " Cloven Tongues" (Vol. iii., 

 p. 146.). — My attention has just been directed to 

 the remark of your correspondent L. M. M. R., 

 who adduces the miracle of the " cloven tongues 

 as of fire" as having supplied the form of the 

 mitre. 



This is an old explanation ; but your corre- 

 spondent does not appear to be aware that "cloven" 

 has been rejected by high classical authority, as 

 not being a correct interpretation of the word 

 Sia/xept^S/xevai. The exact translation is, " And 

 tongues as of fire appeared, being distributed to 

 them." The same verb is used in the passage, 

 " They parted my garments among them," — parted 

 or distributed — the exact equivalent. 



It appears to me that the translators have here 

 made an extraordinary blunder. They have, I 

 think, mistaken SuiixTipi^a for SnxiueoiTw. For the 

 peculiar meaning of the former verb I beg to refer 

 those wlio have not observed it, to Liddell and 

 Scott's Lexicon. The substitution of a letter here 

 (?) for c) would give to the Scripture term a signifi- 

 cance, which, thougli analogous to that of the 

 current translation, is immeasurably distant from 

 the exact interpretation. 



Hughes Fbazer Halle. 



Chudleigh, March 24. 1851. 



Slums (Vol. iii., p. 224.). — This word is, I take 

 it, an Americanism, being an abbreviation of seffZe- 

 ments. 



The back settlements and back slums arc used 

 synonymously. D. Q. 



" God's Acre" (Vol. ii., p. 56.). — On looking 

 back to some of your old numbers I find W. H. K. 

 has never been answered with regard to the 

 above application of the term to churchyards. 

 Longfellow (Liverpool edition, 1850, p. 36.) com- 

 mences one of his poems thus : 

 " I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls 

 The burial-ground God's Acre. It is just ; 

 It consecrates each grave within its walls, 



And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust." 

 Whether this may be any help to W. H. K., I 

 know not, but I cannot refrain from the Query — 

 What is the Saxon phrase alluded to ? W. H. P. 



