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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 81. 



deeoased father.] — Anatomi/ of Melancholy, Part ii. Sec. 2. 

 Mem. 3. ad fin. 



I knew of" the following, but as it merely men- 

 tions Lindley as the residence of the family, it 

 would not have answered Dr. Rimbaui-t's Query. 



" Being in the country in the vacation time, not 

 many years since, at Lindly in Lecestershire, ir.y 

 father's house," &c. — Hid. Part ii. Stc. 5. Mem. 1. 

 subs. 5. 



C. Forbes. 



Barlaam andJosapliat (Vol. ili., pp. 135.278.). — 

 I do not know of any English translation of this work. 

 If any Middle Age version e.xists, it shouhl be pub- 

 lished immediately. A new and excellent German 

 one (by Fel x l^iebrecht, ]\Iunster, 1847) has lately 

 appeared, written, however, for Koniish purposes, 

 as much as from admiration of the work itself. 

 It would be well if some member of our own pure 

 bi'anch of the Church Catholic would turn his 

 attention to this noble work, and give us a faithful 

 but fresh and easy translation, with a literary in- 

 troduction descriptive of all the known versions, 

 &c. ; and a chapter on the meaning and limits of 

 the asceticism preached in the original. In this 

 case, and if published cheap, as it ought to be, it 

 would be a golden present for our youth, and 

 would soon become once more a folk-book. The 

 beautiful free Old Norwegian version (written by 

 King Hiikon Sverresson, about a. d. 1200) men- 

 tioned in my last has now been published in 

 Cliristiania, edited by the well-known scliolars 

 R. Kevser and C. II. linger, ami illustrated by an 

 introduction, notes, glossary, fac-simile, &c. (13ar- 

 laam.i ok Jo.saphats Saga. 8vo. Cliristiania, 18.51.) 

 The editors re-adopt the formerly received opinion, 

 that the Greek original (now printed in Bois- 

 sonade's Anecdota Grceca, vol. iv.) is not older 

 than the eighth century, and was composed by 

 Johaimes Daniascenus. But this must be decideil 

 by future criticism. George Stephens. 



Stockholm. 



Witte van Haemstede (Vol. iii..p. 209). — It may 

 be of use to the editors of the " Navorscher " to 

 know that Adrianus Hamstedius became pastor of 

 the Dutch church in Austin Friars, London, in 

 the year 1559. He succeeded Walterus Delaenus, 

 and resigned his office, one year after his sippoint- 

 ment, in favour of Petrus Delaenus, probably a 

 son of the before-named Walterus. 



I cannot answer the question as to whetl er 

 there still exist any descendants of Witte van 

 Haemstede ; but as late as 1740, Hendrik van 

 Haemstede was appointed pastor to the Dutch con- 

 gregation in London. He held the office until 

 the year 1751, when Ilenricus Putman succeeded 

 him. Edward F. Rimbault. 



The Dutch Church in Norwich (Vol. iii., p. 209.). 

 — The editors of the "Navorscher" will find the 



early history of this church in Strype's Annals of 

 the Reformation ; Blomefield's History of Noi-wich; 

 and in Burn's History of the Foreign Refvgees. 

 Dr. Hendrik Gehle, the pastor of the Dutch 

 church in Austin Friars, who is also the occasional 

 minister of the Dutch church at Norwich, would 

 be the most likely person to furnish information 

 as to its present state. Edward F. Rimbault. 



Fest Sittings (Vol. iii., p. 328.). — Festing is, I 

 presume, without doubt, a Saxon word. A "Fest- 

 ing-nian," among the Saxons, was a person who 

 stood as a surety or pledge for another. " Fest- 

 ing-penny " was the money given as an earnest or 

 token to servants when hired. 



In the word sittings there might be some refer- 

 ence to the statute-sessions, which were courts or 

 tribunals designed for the settlement of disputes 

 between masters and servants. R. Vincent. 



Quakers'' Attempt to convert the Pope (Vol. iii., 

 p. 302.). — I beg to refer B. S. S. to the Corre- 

 spondance inedite de Muhillon et de Moiilfaucon avec 

 V Italic .... edited by M. Valery, Paris, 1846, 

 vol. ii. p. 112. In a letter from the Benedictine 

 Claude Estiennot to Dom. Bulteau, dated Rome, 

 September 30, 1687, he will read : 



" Ce qu'on a dit ici des quakers d'Angleterre n'est 

 ni tout-a-l'ait vrai ni tout-a-fait faux. II est certain 

 qu'il en est venu un qui a fort prcsse pour avoir une 

 audience de Sa Saintete et se promettait de le pouvoir 

 convertir a sa religion; on I'a voiilu mettre au Pas- 

 sarelli; monseigneur le Cardinal Howard I'a fait 

 enfermer au couvcnt de sau)t-.)ean it Paul et le feia 

 sauver sans bruit pour lliouneur de la nation." 



C. p. Ph****. 



The Anti- Jacobin (Vol. iii., p. 348.). — As you 

 have so nuiny articles in the Anti-Jacobin owned, 

 I may mention that No. 14. was written by 

 Mr. Bragge, afterwards Bathurst. 



Wheiri was at Oxford, 1807 or 1808, it was 

 supposed that the simile in New Morality, " So 

 thine own Oak," was written by Mr. Pitt. C. B. 



Mi.'itletoe (Vol. iii., p. 192.).— 



" In a paper of Tho. Willisel's he names these fol- 

 lowing trees on which he foimd misseltoe growing, 

 viz. oak, ash, lime-tree, elm, hazel, willow, white beam, 

 purging thorn, quicken-tree, a|)ple-tree, crab-tree, 

 white-thorn." Vide p. 351. Philosophical Letters be- 

 tween tlie lute learned Mr. Ray and several of his In- 

 yenious Currespnndents, Sfc. : Lond. 1718, 8vo. 



R. WlLBRAHAM FaLCONER, M.D. 



Bath. 



Verbum Grmcnm. — The lines in Vol. i., p. 415., 

 where this word occurs, are in a doggrel journal 

 of his American travels, written by Moore, and 

 published in his Epistles, Odes, and other Poem.s. 

 They are introduced a})ropos to the cacophony 

 of the names of the places which he visited. D.X. 



