Mat 17. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Sir John Banks, Lard Chief Justice in Charles I.'s 

 reign : also, whether any one of these settled at 

 Keswick : and also, whether Mr. Jolni Banks of 

 that place, the philosopher, as he was called, was 

 really a lineal descendant of Sir John B., as he is 

 stated to have been by the author of an old work 

 on the Lakes ? R. C. H. H. 



Sewell, Cleaning of. — It is usual in some deer- 

 parks in different parts of England, but more 

 especially, as far as my own knowledge goes, in 

 Kent, for the keepers, wlien they wish to drive 

 and collect the deer to one spot, to lay down for 

 this purpose what th.ey call sewells (£ ni:iy be 

 wrong as to the orthography), which are simply 

 long lines with feathers attached at intervals, 

 somewliat after the flishion of the tails of kites. 

 Tliese "sewells," when stretched at length on the 

 ground, the herd of deer will very rarely pass ; 

 but on coming up will check themselves suddenly 

 when in full career, and wheel about. The same 

 contrivance was in use in Virgil's time for the 

 same purpose, under the name oi'formido ( Gsor. iii. 

 372.) : — " Puniceajve agitant pavidos formidine 

 penna;." Can any of your readers help me to the 

 origin of the modern terra sewell ? IL C. K. 



• llectoiy, Hereford. 



Ahel represented luith Horns. — In one of the 

 windows of King's College Chapel, the subject of 

 which is the Death of Abel, the artist has given 

 him a pair of horns. Can any of your readers 

 explain this ? C. J. E. 



The Fifteen 0\s. — In the third pa;t of the 

 " Sermon of Good Works " is this passage : 



" Let us rehearse some other khids of papistical 

 superstitions and abuses; as of b^ads, of lady psalters 

 and rosaries, of fifteen oos, of St. Barnard's verses, of 

 St. Agathe's lettL-rs, of purgatory, of masses satisfactory, 

 of stations and jubilees, of feigned relics, of hallowed 

 beads, bells, bread, water, palms, candles, fire, and sucli 

 other; of superstitious fastings, of fraternities, of par- 

 dons, with such like merchandise, whlcli were so 

 esteemed and abused to the prejudice of God's glory 

 and comman Iments, that they were made most liigh 

 and most lioly things, whereby to attain to the eternal 

 life, or remission of sin. " 



I cite the above from the Parker Society's edition 

 of Arciibishop Cranmer's Miscellaneous Writings 

 and Letters, p. 148. It occurs also in Professor 

 Corrie's edition of tlie Homilies, p. 58. I shall be 

 glad to be informed what is meant by the " fifteen 

 Oo's," or "fifteen O's " (for so they are spelt in 

 the above edition of the Homilies). 



C. II. Cooper. 



Cambridge, April II. 1851. 



[The fifteen O's are fifteen prayers commencing with 

 the letter O, and will be found in Ilurte JJeatisaimt 



Virginis Marie, secundum usum ecdesi^v Sarum, p. 201. 

 edit. 1527.] 



Meaning of Pightle. — As I dare say you num- 

 ber some Suffolk men among your readers, would 

 any of them kindly inform me the meaning 

 and derivation of the word " pightle," which is 

 always applied to afield adjoining the farm-houses 

 in Suffolk? Philo-Stevens. 



[Phillips, in his New World of Words, has " Pigle or 

 PiGHTET,, a small Parcel of Land enclosed with a 

 Hedge, which in some Parts of England is commonly 

 call'd a Pingle. "] 



InscrijAion on a Guinea of George III. — 

 Round the reverse of a guinea of George III., 

 1793, are the following initials : — " m. e . f. et h. 



REX — F. D. B. ET L. D. S. R.' I. A. T. ET E." The 



earlier letters are sufliciently intelligible ; but I 

 should be glad to learn the meaning of the whole 

 inscription. J. H. C. 



Adelaide, South Australia. 



[Of the Faith Defender, of Brunswick and Lunen- 

 burg Duke, of the Holy Roman Empire Arch- 

 Treasurer and Elector.] 



Meaning of Oramho. — Sir Thomas Browne 

 {Beligio Medici, part ii. § 15. ed. 1678) says : 



" I conclude, therefore, and say, there is no happi- 

 ness under (or, as Copernicus will have it, above) the 

 sun, nor any Crambo in that repeated verity and bur- 

 then of all the wisdo.m of Solomon, All is vanity and 

 vexation of spirit." 



Query, What is the nieaning of crambe here, 

 and is it to be met with- elsewhere with a similar 

 meaning ? J. H. C. 



Adelaide, South -Australia. 



[Tlie words " nor any Crambo " mean that the sen- 

 timent expressed by Solomon is a truth which can- 

 not be too often repeated. Crabbe says, " Crambo is 

 a play, in rhyming, in which he that repeats a word 

 that was said before forfeits something." In all the 

 MSS. and editions of the Religio Medici, 1642, the 

 words " nor any Crambo," are wanting. See note on 

 the passage in the edition edited by Simon Wilkin, 

 F.L.S.] 



JOItN TRADESCANT PROBABLY AN ENGLISHMAN, 

 AND UIS VOYAGE TO RUSSIA IN 1618. 



(Vol. iii., pp. 119.286.353.) 



Dr. RiMBAULT justly observes that "the history 

 of the Tradescanls is involved in considerable ob- 

 scurity." He does not, however, seem to have 

 been aware that some light has been thrown on 

 thatof the elder John Tradescant by the researches 

 of Dr. Ilamel, in his interesting Memoir published 

 in the Transactions of the Imperial Academy of 

 St. Petersburg in 1847, Avilh the following title : — ■ 

 " TradcsciUJt dcr iElterc 1G18 in Ilussland. Der 



