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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 77. 



having derived from that worli the statements 

 that the author oiMvncMmm was a Mr. "M— — ," 

 and that he was a prisoner in France. Accident 

 has within the last few days thrown in my way 

 the very volume of the Anecdotes in which this is 

 stated (vol. v., Anecdotes of Captivity, p. 103.); 

 and I find tliat I was mistaken only in supposing 



"M 's" place of confinement to have been the 



Bastile, whereas the time is said to have been the 



Keign of TeiTor, and therefore 

 Bastile cannot have been the place. 



of 



coui'se the 

 J. C. R. 



S^lfpTir^ ta iHi'nor ^ticrtci?. 



Tobacco in the East (Vol. ii., pp. 155. 231.).— 

 M. D. asks for "chapter and verse" of A. C. M.'s 

 reference to Sale's Koraii respecting tobacco. 



Had A. C. M. recollected that tobacco {Nico- 

 tiana) is an American plant, he would hardly have 

 asked whether " tobacco is the word in the ori- 

 ginal " of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his 

 Preliminary Discourse, § 5. p. 123. (4to. ed. 1734.) 

 Happily Reland, whom Sale quotes {Dissert. Mis- 

 ce/;.,vol.ii. p. 280.), gives his authority, the learned 

 oi-ientalist, Dr. Sike. who received the Hadeth at 

 Leghorn from Ibn Saleh, a young Muselman. It 

 says, in good Arabic, that in the latter^ days Mos- 

 lims, uudeservins; of the name, shall drink hashish 

 (hemp), and calf it tabak ; the last words, "y»*«Z 

 lehn tabciku" are no doubt a modern addition by 

 those who had heard of iamMko (the Romaic rav- 

 TraKov). As the use of hashish or hashishah (the 

 herb), more completely hashishnta fiikara, i. e. 

 Monk's Wort, a technical term for hewp, chewed 

 as a narcotic by fokirs (monks), was not known 

 till A. H. 608 (a. t>. 1211), it could not be men- 

 tioned in the Koran unless Mohammed were, as 

 Sale observes, " a prophet indeed." Tabakah, a 

 plate, dish, or shelf, is now sometimes used by 

 ignorant persons in the East for tambuko, of which 

 a complete account is given in tlie Karubaden, 

 or great treatise of Materia ^Medica in Per- 

 sian. Of that work, there is a beautifully written 

 copy, made, probably, for the late Mr. Colebrooke, 

 bv whom it was presented to the library of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society. I shall conclude by an- 

 other Query : What is the Greek word trans- 

 formed by Asiatic scribes into Karabudeii ? 



Anatolicus. 



Captain John Stevens (Vol. ii„ p. 359.). — This 

 ingenious man, as to whom your correspondent 

 inquires, was one of the hard-working translators 

 in the early part of the last century. The mate- 

 rials for his biography are very scanty. He was 

 a Roman Catholic, and at the Revolution followed 

 the fortunes of his abdicating master, in whose 

 service he accepted a commission, and acccmipanied 

 him in the wars in Ireland. He was also employed 

 in several other services, and died October 27, 



1726. See Biographia Dramaiica, vol. i. p. 691., 

 edit. 1812. He is not noticed in Chalmers's Bio- 

 graphical Dictionary, though as the continuator of 

 Dugdale's Monasticon he unquestionably ought to 

 have been. Watt gives a list {Bib. Brit., vol. i. 

 p. 880.) of his books and translations ; but it is, as 

 usual, very defective and erroneous. It does not 

 include his translation of Don Quixote, of Dupin, 

 o'^ An Evening's Intrigue (1707, 8vo.), and a great 

 number of other works; and it ascribes to him the 

 History of the Wars of Charles XII., King of 

 Sweden, London, 1715, which was written, as it 

 needs no great sagacity to discover, by Daniel 

 Defoe, though Chalmers and Wilson have not 

 noticed it. James Crosslet. 



MS. Catalogue of Norman Nobility (Vol. iii., 

 p. 266.). — The MS. Catalogue of Norman No- 

 bility referred to in No. 75., a document of great 

 value, is or was in the possession of Sir William 

 Betham, having been purchased by him about six 

 years ago, from Mr. Boone, of New Bond Street. 

 Your correspondent will find that Odardus de 

 Loges was infeotfed by Earl IJanulph the 1st in 

 the barony of Wigton in Cuniberhmd, in which 

 he was confirmed by Henry I. Bigod, whose name 

 was attached to the charter of Jbundation of St. 

 AA'erburg's Abbey, is elsewhere, according to Or- 

 merod, called Robert. M. J. T. 



Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III. (Vol. iii., 

 p.258.).— 



''Fro Venus Valanls might this palais see." 



(or) volant 

 ? Might Venus, voluns fro this palais, see. 

 (flying) 



4>cos. 



Comets (Vol. iii., pp. 223. 253.). — If your cor- 

 respondent S. P. O. R. wish to go fully into the 

 history of comets, and be not alarmed at the pro- 

 spect of three thick folios, through which I have 

 gone, I can assure him, with considerable interest, 

 let me recommend to him Theatrum Cometiaim, 

 Auctore Stamslao Lidjienietz Lubieniecio Bolitsio, 

 Amst., in 2 vols, (but generally bound in three) 

 folio. The first contains an unmense correspon- 

 dence, not merely with astronomers, but with 

 poets, critics, physicians, and philosophers, to 

 whom the indefatigable editor wrote for their 

 opinions on the subject of comets. The second 

 vol. gives a history of comets fi-om the Deluge to 

 1665, and is a repositoiy of everything bearing 

 upon the subject. From this work Bayle derived 

 his learning, when he wrote his most amusing 

 work on comets. James Cbosslet. 



Pope Joan (Vol. iii., p. 265.). — Nemo will find 

 much information on the question, " Whether 

 Pope Joan ever held the keys of St. Peter ? " in 

 Alexander Cooke's Dialogue between a ProtesfatU 

 and a Papist; manifestly provirtg that a Woman 



