May 10. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(Letter IV.), I read the following passage in re- 

 lation to a certain person : 



" His reason had not the merit of common me- 

 chanism. When you press a watch or pull a clock, 

 they answer your question with precision ; for they 

 repeat exactly the hour of the day, and tell you neither 

 more nor less than you desire to know." 



I believe this work was written about 1711. 

 Can you tell me when the self-striking clock was 

 invented, and by whom ? Jingo. 



Clark.ions " Richmond." — Can any of your 

 readers inform me who is in possession of the 

 papers of the late Mr. Clarlcson, the historian of 

 Richmond, in Yorkshire ? I wish to know what 

 were the ancient documents, or other sources, from 

 which the learned autlior ascertained some fiicts 

 stated in his valuable work. To whom should I 

 apply on the subject ? D. Q. 



" Felix quern faciunt" Sf-c. — I wish you could 

 tell me where I can find this line : 



" Felix quern facuuit aliena peiicula cautum." 



Effigies. 

 Whitehall. 



Sir Francis WindehanKs elder Son. — Sir Fran- 

 cis AVindebank, " of treacherous memory," it is 

 well known, died at Paris in September, 1646. 

 He had two sons ; what became of Thomas, the 

 elder f Francis, the second, was a colonel in the 

 royal army : he was tried for cowardice in surren- 

 dering Blechingdon House, in Oxfordshire, to 

 Oliver Cromwell without a blow ; and being found 

 guilty, was shot at Broken Hayes, near Oxford, 

 in April, 1645. I am anxious to make out the 

 fate of his elder brother. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Incised Slab. — I have a large incised slab in 

 my church, with the figures of a man (Richard 

 Grenewey) and his wife upon it, with the date 1473. 

 Following the date, and filling up the remainder 

 of the line of the inscription, is the figure of a 

 cock in a fighting attitude. Can any of your 

 readers enlighten me on the subject ? H. C. K. 



Etymology of Bcdsall. — Will you allow me to 

 ask some of your readers to give me the etymology 

 of Balsall? It occurs frecpiently about here, as 

 Balsall Temple, B. Sheet, B. Grange, B, Common, 

 and near Birmingham is Balsall Heath. It is 

 not to be confounded witii Beausall Common, 

 which also is near this place. F. R. 



Kenilworth. 



St. Olave's Churches. — In the Calendar of the 

 Anglican Church, Parker, Oxford, 18j1, at pp.267. 

 and 313., it is stated that Saint Olave helped King 

 Ethclred to dislodge the Danes from London and 

 Soutliwark, by destroying London Bridge ; and 

 that, in gratitude for tliis service, the churches at 

 each end of the bridge are dedicated to him; — on 



the Southwark side, St. Olave's, Tooley Street, is ; 

 but was there ever a church on the London side, 

 bearing the same name? — The nearest one to the 

 bridge is St. Olave's, Hart Sti-eet ; but that is 

 surely too distant to be called " at the end of the 

 bridge." E. N. W. 



Southwark, April 21. 1851. 



Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews. — As 

 the solution of many interesting topics in con- 

 nexion with Jewisii history is yet dependent on the 

 period of the institution of the Sabbatical and 

 Jubilee years, the following observations will not 

 perhaps be deemed unworthy of a " nook" in 

 your columns. A spark may blaze ! I therefore 

 tiirow it out to be fanned into a more brilliant 

 light by those of your readers whose studies pe- 

 culiarly fit them to inquire more searchingly into 

 the subject. The Jews, it has been remarked 

 by various writers, were ignorant of astronomy. 

 Both, however, the Sabbatical and Jubilee years 

 have been, as I conceive and will endeavour to 

 show, founded on astronomical observation, com- 

 memorative of no particular event in Jewish 

 history, but simply that of the moon's revolu- 

 tions ; for instance, with i-eference to the Sab- 

 batical year, allowing for a diflerence of four days 

 and a half, which occurs annually in the time of the 

 moon's position on the equator, it would require, 

 in order to realise a number corresponding to the 

 days (29) employed by the moon in her synodical 

 revolution round the earth, a period to elapse 

 of little less than six years and a half: thus ex- 

 hibiting the Jews' seventh or Sabbatical year, or 

 year of rest. This result, besides being instruc- 

 tive and commemorative of the moon's menstrual 

 course, is at the same time indicative, as each 

 Sabbatical year rolls past, of the approach of the 

 '■'■ finisher of the Seven Sabbaths of years," or year of 

 Jubilee, so desijjnated from its being to the chosen 

 people of God, under the Jewisli dispensation, a 

 year of " freedom and redemption," in comme- 

 moration of the moon's complete revolution, viz., 

 her return to a certain position at the precise 

 time at wiiich she set out therefrom, an event 

 which takes place but once in fifty years : in 

 other words, if the moon be on the equator, say, 

 on the first day of February, and calculating 

 twenty-nine days to the month, or twelve luna- 

 tions to the year, a cycle of fifty years, or " seven 

 Sabbaths of years," must elapse ere she will again 

 be in that position on the same day. 



HiPPAKCHUS. 



Limehouse, March 31. 1851. 



Arms of Isle of Man. — The arms of the Isle of 

 ^lan are gules, three legs conjoined in the fcss 

 point, &c. &c. or. These arms were stamped on 

 the old halfpence of the island, and we may well 

 call them the current coin. 



In an old edition of the Mythology of Natalis 



