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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 77. 



letter of Queen Mary of Scotland, printed in the 

 State Trials, and lately reprinted by Lord Camp- 

 bell in his Lives of the Chancellors, tit. Sir C. 

 Hatton. I may as well add (though I do not 

 believe the fa(;t) that my grandmother (herself a 

 Devereiix) repeated to me the tradition of a son 

 of Queen Elizabeth's having been sent to Ireland. 



C. 



The Tanthony (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229.). — I am 

 obliged to A. for the trouble he has taken in 

 reference to my Query ; but perhaps I may be 

 correct in my suggestion, for on looking into the 

 second volume of the Archceological Journal the 

 other day, I accidentally found an account of 

 the discovery of a figure of St. Anthony at Mer- 

 thyr, near Truro, in which it is mentioned that 



" Under the left arm appears to have passed a staff, 

 and the pij;, with a Inrge bell attached to its neck, 

 appears in front of the figure." — P. 202. 



I shall be much obliged to anybody who will 

 settle the point satisfactorily. The fair held on 

 old St. Andrew's Day is always called in Kim- 

 bolton and the neighbourhood " Tandrew" fair, 

 so why not " Tanthony" for " Saint Anthony ?" 



Aeun. 



The Hippopotamus (Vol. iii., p. 181.). — Your 

 correspondent Mr. E. S. Taylor will find in 

 Vol. ii., p. 458., an example of the word iTnrorrJTa/xos 

 cited from Lucian, a writer anterior both to 

 Horapollo and Daniasuius. In the same page is 

 a reference to the story of the wickedness of the 

 hippopotamus in Plutarch ; so that Horapollo and 

 Dan)ascius, doubtless, borrowed from a common 

 source, or repeated a current fable, to be found in 

 niany writings then extant. L. 



Tu Autem (Vol. iii., p.265 ). — The words " Tu 

 autem, Domine, miserere nostri," " But Thou, 

 O Lord ! have mercy upon us," were originally a 

 form of prayer used by the preaclier at the end of 

 his discourse, as a supplication for pardon for any 

 sinful pride or vainglory, into which he might 

 have been betrayed in addressing his congregation. 

 Hence the words " tu autem," as Pegge properly 

 says, came to denote a hint to the reader to leave 

 oil". 



The custom is still in constant use among the 

 members of the cathedral church of Durham. At 

 tlie public dinners given by the canons, in what is 

 there called "hospitality residence," one of the cho- 

 risters comes in after dinner, dressed in his official 

 costume, and, taking his station behind the canon 

 in residence, reads, in ihe manner which is now 

 well known as intoning, eight verses of the 119th 

 Psalm, first saving, " Here beginneth the — part 

 of the 119th Psalm." 



When the eight verses are concluded, the canon 

 turns round to the chorister, saying " tu autem," 

 giving him a shilling ; to which the chorister re- 

 plies, "Domine miserere nostri," and retires. 



The explanation of the words, as originally em- 

 ployed, is given by liupertus JDe Divinis Officiis, 

 lib. i 0. xiv. : 



DE " TU AUTEM DOMINE." 



" Quodque in fine dicit, ' Tu autem Domine mise- 

 rere nostri,' hoc innuit, ne ipsum quidem bonum 

 officium prfedicandi sine alicujus vel levis culpae pulvere 

 possa pagi. Nam, nt ait B. Augustinus, ' Verbum 

 prsdicationis securius aiiditur quam dicitur. PrEcdi- 

 cator quippe cijm bene dicere se sentlt, difficile nimis 

 est ut non quantulumcunque spiritu elatlonls tangat ; 

 et quia quasi per terram ambulat et pedes ejus pulvere 

 sordidantur, idcirco misericordia Dei indiget, ut in hac 

 parte lavetur, etiamsi mundus sit totus.' " 



From this explanation it is plain, that the Monk 

 of St. Albans, writing to the abbot — 



" Si vis, veniam ; Sin autem, tu autem," 

 would be understood to express — 



" If you wish, I will come ; but if otherwise, there 

 is an end of the matter." 



T. C. 



Durham, April 8. 1851. 



Places called Purgatory (Vol. iii., p. 241 .). — There 

 is a farm-house still called " Purgatory," about 

 two miles south of Durham, east of the London 

 road, and close to the left bank of the river Wear. 

 The farm is part of the estate of a highly respect- 

 able family, which has, I believe, always been 

 lioman Catholic. No reason for the name is 

 known in the neighbourhood. T. C. 



Durham, April 8. 1851. 



Sweai-ing by Sicans, Sfc. (Vol. ii., p. 392. ; Vol. 

 iii., pp 70. 192.). — In addition to what has already 

 appeared on this subject, the following extract 

 from Tyrwhitt's Glossary to Chaucer will, I hope, 

 be acceptable. 



" Ale and 15red. This oath of Sire Thopas on ale 

 and bri'd was perhaps intended to ridicule the solemn 

 vows, which were frequently made in the days of chi- 

 valrie, to a peacock, a pheasant, or some other noble 

 bird." — See M. de Sainte Palaye, Sicr Fauc. Chevul, 

 Mem. iii""'. 



This practice is alluded to in "Dunbar's Wish 

 that the King were Johne Thomsonnis man" (MS. 

 Maitland, st. v.) : 



" I would gif all that ever I have 

 To that condition, so God me saif, 

 That ye had vowit to the swan 

 Ane yelr to be Johne Thomsonnis man." 



And so in the Prol. to the Contin. of the Canterb. 

 T., ver. 452., the Hosteler says: 



" I MAKE A vowE TO THE PECocK, ther shall wake a 

 foule mist." 



The instance given in Vol. iii., p. 192., is recorded 

 by Monstrelet, Hist, de France, Charles VII. 



T.J 



Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office (Vol. iii., 

 pp. 186. 2G6.). — In a MS. on parchment, now 



