April 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



341 



Vineyards in England (Vol. ii., p. 392.). — The 

 Lincoln ''Vine Closes" may as well be added to 

 tlie rest. They were given to the church here by 

 Henry I. See the charter, entitled Carta Hen. I. 

 de Vinea sua Line, in Dugdale (Culey's) vol. vi. 

 p. r272. Their site is a rather steep slope, facing 

 the south, and immediately east of the city. The 

 southern aspect of our hill was celebrated long ago 

 by some poet, as quoted by II. Huntingdon : 

 " Urbs in colle sita est, et collis vergit ad austrum." 



N.B One of the Abbey fields at Bullington, a 

 few miles east of Lincoln, is known as tiie Hop- 

 yard. The plant has never been cultivated in 

 these parts within memory, or the range of the 

 faintest tradition, but the character of the soil is 

 clayey, and perhaps not unsuitable. Were hop- 

 yards often attached to monasteries? The hcuse 

 at Bullington was of the order of Sempringham. 



B. 



Lincoln. 



Countess of Desmond (Vol. iii., p. 250.). — If your 

 correspondents on this subject should be wander- 

 ing to the south-east of London, they may be inte- 

 rested in knowing that there are two very striking 

 portraits of this lady in Kent, one at Knowle, near 

 Seven Oaks ; the other, which is the more remark- 

 able picture of the two, at Bedgebury, near Cran- 

 brook, the seat of Viscount Beresford. E. H. Y. 



St. Johns Bridge Fair (Vol. iii., pp. 88. 287).— 

 I cannot agree with the conjecture that this was 

 Peterborough Bridge Fair. On the conlines of 

 Gloucestershire and Berkrhire, at the distance of 

 about 77 miles from London, near Lechlade, and 

 on the road to Farringilon, is a St. John's Bridge, 

 near which was a priory or hospital. It is at this 

 place that the Thames first becomes navigable. 

 (Lelund's Itinerary, vol. ii. fo. 21, 22, 2.3.; vol. iv. 

 fo. 48.; Bowles's Post Chaise Companion, 1782, 

 pi. 28.; Lysons' Berkshire, vol. i. p. 193., and 

 map of county i)refixed; Collectanea Topngraphica 

 et Geiiealogtca, vol. i. p. .320. ; Parliamentary 

 G^izetteer, art. " Lechlade.") Whether there is or 

 ever was a fair at this place is more than I can 

 state; but jicrhaps some of your correspondents 

 dwelling in tli(jse parts can give information on 

 this point. C. II. Cooper. 



Caml)ridge, April 14. 1851. 



Paring the Nails unlucky on Sundays (Vol. ii., 



6511.; Vol. iii., p. 55.). — Compare Sir Thomas 

 rowne's Vulgar Errors, lib. v. cap. xxi. § x. 



Ache. 



Errata in Braithivuifs Latin Drinking-song 

 (Vol. iii., p. 297.). — It is well for us that iionest 

 IJiirnaby is not alive to visit upon us the scanda- 

 lous "negligences and ignorances" with which our 

 transcript of his song abounds ; and it is no 

 excuse perhaps to say, that the errors almost all of 



them exist in the MS. from luhence the transcript 

 icus made. Sensitive as he has shown himself 

 " upon the errata's,"' he would not have accepted 

 the apology from us which he makes for himself. 

 " Good reader, if this impression have errors in it, 

 excuse it. The copy was obscure ; neither was 

 the editor, by reason of his distance, and employ- 

 ments of higher consequence, made acquainted 

 with the publishing of it." 



" His Patavinus en-avit prelis, 

 Authorem suis lauranilo telis." 



The following corrections, which are necessary 

 to the sense, have been pointed out, and have no 

 doubt been already silently made by many of our 

 readers. 



Sic -'n MS. fnrsan. 



Stanza 3. hoc te amcenum hoc amoenum 



reparare 

 Stanza 4. memento 



gustabii 

 Stanza 5. solvet 



pot/s 

 Stanza 6. frigesiis 

 Stanza 8. succedant 



reperire 



moraento 



gustabis 



solvit 



pot!(S 



frigescis 



succed«nt 



Omit tlie comma between Domum and 

 feram, at)d disregard the erroneous punc- 

 tuation generally. 

 There may be other errors ; for, as it stands at 

 present, the song is infeiior to the other known 

 productions of the pleasant aulhor of the Itine- 

 RARiuM- We can only hope that its publication, 

 in even this im])erfect form, may lead to the dis- 

 covery of a better text ; and we must be content 

 if the lines of the author are applied to our 

 blunders : 



" Delirans Ute Sapiens Gottam, 

 Rcddit Coetum propter Cotem." 



" Quid si breves fiant longi? 

 Si vocales sint dipthoiigi? 

 Quid si graves sint acuti? 

 Si acceiitus fiant inuti ? 

 Quid si placide, plene, plane, 

 Fkegi frontem PmSClANl? 

 Quid si sedem muto sede ? 

 Quid si carmen clando pede ? 

 Quid si noctem seiisi diem ? 

 Quid si veprem esse viam ? 

 Sat est, Verl)uin declinavi, 

 Titubo — titnbas — titubavi." 



In the last line of the extract from " Phyllis 

 and Flora," hi?ic is printeil for huic ; inpares, in 

 the preceding line, is the correct reading for 

 impares. '■'■ Impur richtiger Inpar" (Scheller). 



S. W. S. 



fHtjSrcir.TiicnitS. 



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