340 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 78. 



markable men wlio, at different periods, resided at 

 I^ambeth, and says tliat his house was in Calcott's 

 Alley, High Street, then called Back Lane, where 

 he seems to have enlightened his generation in 

 the threefold capacity of astrologer, physician, and 

 schoolmaster. J. C. B. 



Lambeth. 



" Tickhill, God help me " (Vol. i., p. 247. ; 

 Vol. ii., p. 452.). — Although I am full late 

 with my pendent, I am tempted to add the in- 

 stance of " Kyme God Knows," well known to 

 all explorers of the Fens. The adjunct, " God 

 knows," is supposed to be part of the following 

 verse : 



" It's Kyme, God knows, 

 Where no corn grows, 

 And very little hay ; 

 And if there come a wet time, 

 It weshes all away." 



If I misquote, perhaps some Fen man will set 

 me right. 



As to the " Lin('oln-heath where should 'un ? " 

 instanced by your corres|)ondent H. C. St. Croix, 

 in the No. ibr April 27, 1850, it is quite unknown 

 in this neighbourhood, and I believe must belong 

 to some other locale. B. 



Lincoln. 



Meaning of Tye (Vol. iii., p. 263.). — On or 

 contiguous to the South Downs, in Sussex, 

 there are several portions of land bearing this 

 designation, as Berwick Tye, Alfri.ston Tye, 

 'i'elscombe Tye, &c. They are all contiguous to 

 the villages from which they derive their names. 

 These lands were formerly held in common by 

 the tenants of the respective manors, and I 

 think the origin of the expression may be traced 

 to the tethering or tying-ui^ of cows, horses, 

 &c., for the double purpose of preventing their 

 straying, and of preserving the fences of the 

 neighbouring tenements. I offer this conjecture 

 with some diffidence, because the word is very 

 often founil in composition with proper names of 

 jilaces, as Lavortye, Brambletye, Holtye, Puxtye, 

 Ollantigh. The vulgar r.oticm, that it means a 

 space which originally measured ten acres, is, I 

 think, untenable. M. A. Lower. 



Lewes. 



Dutch Church in Nortcick (Vol. iii., p. 209.). — 

 Some interesting details connected with the esta- 

 blishment of the Dutch Church in Norwich, as 

 well as the first settlement of the Walloons in that 

 city, will be found in Blomefield's History of 

 Norfolk, vol. iii. p. 282. et seq., edit. 1806. 



J. Y. 



The Dutch Church, Norwich. — Some account of 

 this church m;iy be seen in Burn's History of the 

 Foreign Refugees, 1846. It is to be regretted, 

 however, that the registers and acts of vestry are 



missing. The seal of the church has lately been 

 discovered. J. S. B. 



Lost Manuscripts (Vol. Iii., pp. 161. 261 .). — In 

 pursuance of Ma. Mackenzie's suggestions re- 

 specting the search for lost manuscripts, permit 

 me to ask, if all hope must be considered as given 

 up of decyphering any more of those discovered 

 at IJerculaneum, or of resun)ing the excavations 

 there, that have been so long discontinued ? Per- 

 haps the improved chemical processes of recent 

 days might be found more successful in facilitating 

 the unrolling of the MSS., than the means re- 

 sorted to so long ago by Sir H. Davy. Can any 

 of your correspondents state whether anything 

 has been done lately with the Herculaneum MSS.? 



Eustace says that — 



" As a very small part of Herculaneum has hitherto 

 been explored, it is highly probable that if a general 

 excavation were made, ten times the number of MSS. 

 above mentioned (1800) might be discovered, and 

 among them, perhaps, or very probably, some of the first 

 works of antiquity, the loss of which has been so long 

 lamented." — Classical Tour, vol. i. 4to., p. 585. 



J. M. 



Oxford. 



The Circulation of the Blood (Vol. iii., p. 252.). 

 — In a paraphrase on Ecclesiastes xii. 1 — 6., en- 

 titled. King iSolomons Portraiture of Old Age, 

 by John Smith, M.D., London, 1676, 8vo., 1752, 

 r2mo., the author attributes the discovery of the 

 circulation of the blood to King Solomon. Mede 

 also finds the same anticipation of science in "the 

 pitcher broken at the fountain." Who was the 

 first to suggest the transfusion ot blood ? T .7. 



Allileration (Vol. iii., p. 165.) — Your correspon- 

 dent H. A. B., in quoting the seventh stanza from 

 Phiiieas Fletcher's Pury7Ze Island, observes, that the 

 second line, 



" A life that lives by love, and loves by light," 

 is " noticeable" for its alliteration. But the best 

 specimen that I have met with in English — after 

 having read much verse, and published a volume, 

 which my partial friends call poetry — will be 

 found in Quarles' Divine Emblems, hookii. em- 

 blem ii. Beyond all question, Quarles was a poet 

 that needed not "apt alliteration's artful aid" to 

 add to the vigour of his verse, or lend liquidity to 

 his lines. Quarles is often queei', quaint, and 

 querulous, but never prolix, prosey, or puling. 

 " We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands 

 Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: 

 We travel sea and soil ; we pry, we prowl, 

 We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. " 



Verily, old Francis must have had a prophetic 

 peep at the effects o( free trade, and the growing 

 greatness of Great Britain, in the gathering of the 

 Nations under a huge Glass Case in Hyde Park, 

 in the present year 1851 ! C. G. 



Edinburgh. 



