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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 78. 



hibited degrees found in tbe Book of Common 

 Prayer ? J. O. M. 



Launcelot LyttJetov. — I shall be greatly obliged 

 to any gene;ilogist who can tell me who was that 

 Launuelot Lyttlelon, a Liclifield gentleman, whose 

 eldest daughter, Mary, married the Hon. Francis 

 lloper, and became the mother of the fourteenth 

 Lord Teynham. Was this Launcelot a descendant 

 of Sir Edward Lyttleton, temp. Eliz.,who married 

 a daughter of Sir William Devereux ? 



I could answer my own question by an inspec- 

 tion of the " Roper Iloll ;" but unfortunately that 

 is in Ireland, and I may not soon discover the 

 address of its possessor. PL G. R. C, 



Erechtlieum. 



The Antediluvians. — Can you or any of your 

 learned correspondents inform me of any work 

 likely to assist me in my researches into the 

 antediluvian history of our race ? The curious 

 treatise of Reimmanus, and the erudite essay of 

 J. Joachimus Maderus, I have now before me ; but 

 it occurs to me that, besides these and the more 

 patent sources of information, such as Bruckerus 

 and Josephus, there must be other, and perhaps 

 more modern, works which may be more practi- 

 cally useful. Perhaps the author of the elegant 

 essay on the subject in Eruvin may be able to 

 refer to such a work. G. A. J. 



Withers Haleluiah. — Mv. R. A. WiUmott, in 

 his Lives of Sacred Poets, has done himself credit 

 by doing justice to George Wither, .and vindicat- 

 ing his "claims as a poet, whom it has long been 

 the fiishion to underrate ; but who Southey said 

 "had the heart and soul of a poet in him." — {Life, 

 iii. 126.) 



In the Life, Mr. WiUmott says : 



"In 1641 appeared the Haleluiah, or Britain's 

 Second Rememhrancer . . . which book, now as scarce 

 as the first Remembrancer is common, I have not seen." 



It is therefore very probable that the work is 

 seldom to be met with. I have a copy, but it is 

 unfortunately imperfect; wanting a i'Qyr leaves 

 (only a few I imagine) at the end. There is no 

 index, nor table of contents, by which I might 

 ascertain the extent of the deficiency. The last 

 page is 478, and contains a portion of Hymn 60, 

 part iii. If any reader of " Notes and Queries " 

 would kindly inform me wliat is the number of 

 pa^es of the work, and where a copy may be seen, 

 he will oblige S. S. S. 



[The work consists of 487 pages, with an Index of 

 twelve more. A copy of it is in the Library of the 

 British Museum.] 



Voltaire's Henriade. — Is it known who is the 

 author of the English translation of this poem 



into blank verse, published in 1732. The pre- 

 face and the notes create a desire to know the 

 author. In one of the notes (17) he speaks of 

 something as being " proved at large in my His- 

 tory of Christianity now ready for the press." 

 I am not aware that any such work exists. Was 

 it ever published ? If not, what became of the 

 manuscript ? S. T. D. 



[Voltaire's Henriade was translated by John Lock- 

 man, a gentleman of c;reat literary industry, who died 

 Feb. 2, 1771. See Nichols's Dowyer, and Chalmers's 

 Biociraphical DictUmary. A list of his published 

 works will be found in Watt's Bibliolheca Britan.'j 



Christ-Crosse A. — In Tatbam's Fancie's Theater, 

 12mo., 1640, is a poem in praise of sack, wherein 



the following lines occur : 



" The very children, ere they scarce can say 

 Their Pater Nostcr, or their C/irist-crofse A, 

 Will to their Parents prattle, and desire 

 To taste that Drinke which Gods doe so admire." 



Can any of your readers inform me the meaning 

 of " Chi-ist- Crosse A" here mentioned? Does it 

 allude to some alphabet then in use ? Cato. 



[The alphabet was so designated, because in the old 

 primers a cross was prefixed to it. Nares tells us that 

 in French it was called Croix de par Dicu : and upon 

 reference to Cotgrave for an expression of that term, 

 we find, " The Christ's-cross-row ; or the hornbook 

 wherein a child learns it."] 



Apple-pie Order. — Spick and Span neio. — My 

 wife very much grudges my spending threepence a 

 week for the "Notes and Queries," and threatens 

 me with stopping the allowance unless I obtain 

 from some of your correspondents answers to tbe 

 two following Queries : — 



1. What is the origin of the phrase "Apple-pie 

 order ? " 



2. Ditto — of " Spick and span new ? " 



Jerry Sneak. 



[We leave to some of our friends the task of answer- 

 ing the first of the Queries which our correspondent 

 has put to us by desire of his " better-half." 



There is much curious illustration of the phrase 

 Spick and Spayi in Todd's Johnson, s. v. Spick : and 

 Nares in his Glossari/ siys, " Span-newe is found in 

 Chaucer : 



' This tale was ale spau-neice to begin.' 



Trail, and Cres., iii. 1671. 



It is therefore of good antiquity in the language, and 

 not having been taken from the French may best be 

 referred to the Saxon, in which spannnn means to 

 stretch. Hence span-neiv is fresh from the stretchers, 

 or frames, alluding to cloth, a very old manufacture of 

 the co\mtry ; and spick and span is fresh from the spike, 

 or tenter, and frames. This is Johnson's derivation, 

 and I cannot but think it preferable to any other." 



A very early instance of the expression, not quoted 

 by Todd, may be found in the Romance of Alexander : 



