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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 83. 



♦' During tlic following (t2tli) century Dionysins 

 Bar Salibi occupied the (Jacobite) patriarchal tlirone, 

 a man noted for piety and learning. He composed 

 several works on tlieological subjects, among which we 

 find a curious disquisition on bells, the invention of 

 which he ascribes to Noah. He mentions that several 

 histories record a command given to that patriarch to 

 strike on the bell with a piece of wood three times a 

 day, in order to summon the workmen to their labour 

 while he was building the ark. And this he seems to 

 consider the origin of church bolls, an opinion which, 

 indeed, is common to other Oriental writers." — Vol. ii. 

 p. 212. 



E. IT. A. 



Chiming, Tolling, and Pealing (Yol. iii., p. 339). 

 — Though the following has not, I fear, canonical 

 authority, nor is it of remote antiquity, still, as they 

 are not lines of yesterday, they may serve as one 

 Reply to Mb. Gattt's late Query on Chiming, 

 tolling, and pealing: — 



" To call the folk to church in time 



We chime, 



When joy and mirth are on the wing 



We riiiff, 



AVhen we mourn a departed soul 



We toll." 



I think it probable (though I have no direct proof 

 of it) that, the great bell, or tenor, was always 

 RUNG when a sermon was to be preached, which 

 was not the case when there was to be only 

 prayers. I believe it is so at this day at St. INlary's, 

 Oxford ; it is very certain that the great bell, 

 being so rung, is in some places called the Sermon 

 Bell, though I remember two legends on tenor 

 bells, which seem to imply that they were in- 

 tended to call to prayers, viz.: — 



" Come when I call. 

 To serve God all." 



" For Clirist, his flock, I aloud do call. 

 To confess their sins, und be pardoned all." 



The difference between ringing the tenor (or any 

 bell for prayers), and ringing it as a knoll, is, that 

 in the latter case the bell is set at every pull or 

 stroke, which causes a solemnity in the sound very 

 different from thut produced by the very reverse 

 mode of ringing it. Oh ! what language there is 

 in bells. In ringing, the bell is swung round; in 

 tolling, it is swung merely sufficiently for the 

 clapper to strike the side. Chiming is when more 

 bells than one are tolled in harmony ; if this be 

 correct, to toll can be applied only when one bell 

 is sounded, and Home Tooke's definition of the 

 word, from tollere, to raise tip, must be wrong 

 (humiliter loquor). 



With regard to the present use of the old 

 Sanctus Bell, which is callotl at Ecclesfield Tom 

 Tinkler, the same is often called the Tirig Tang. 



H. T. Ellacomde. 



Clyd St. George. 



Extraordinary North Briton (Vol. iii., p. 409.). 

 — In answer to the inquiries of the reviewer in 

 the Athenaxim of May 17, and your correspondent, 

 the writer of tlie Extraordinary North Bi'iton 

 appears to have been an individual of the'Viame of 

 William Moore, not, as apparently supposed, the 

 poet William Mason. I have, amongst a complete 

 series of the London newspapers of the day, a set 

 of the Ext)-aor dinar y North. Briton, beginning 

 Tuesday (May 10, 1768) and terminatinu with 

 the 91st No. (Saturday, January 27, 'l770). 

 Whether it was continue(l further I do not know. 

 The early numbers are published by Staples 

 Steare, 93. Fleet Street, and the subsequent ones 

 by T. Peat, 22. Fleet Street, and by AA'illiam 

 ]\Ioore, 55., opposite Ilatton Garden, Holborn. 

 The second and subsequent numbers are entitled, 



T'he Extraordina7-y North Briton, by W 



M . In the last three numbers the W 



M is altered to William Moore, and at the 



end of each is " London, printed and sold Ity the 

 author, W. Moore, N"o. 22., near St. Dunstan's 

 Church, Fleet Street." In the 90th number is the 

 following advertisement : 



" JMr. Moore thinks it highly incumbent on liim to 

 acquaint the public, that Thomas Brayne (who was 

 his shopman all last winter) is now publishing a spu- 

 rious paper under the same title in Holborn ; that they 

 may not he deceived, Mr. Moore's name will be in 

 front of every paper he writes. He begs leave further 

 to add, that Brayne sold several papers last week in 

 his name, and told those who purchased them, that 

 they were wrote by I\Ir. Moore, and that he published 

 for hiiu. In order that the public may not be de- 

 ceived by such low artifice, an affidavit of Brayne's 

 proceedings in this respect, will appear in the public 

 papers some time next week." 



I have also the papers published by Brayne, 

 which are advertised at the end to be "Printed and 

 Published by T. Brayne, No. 55., ojiposite Hatton 

 Garden, Holborn." 



I have referred to No. 4, for Friday, June 3, 

 1768, addressed to Lord Mansfield, noticed in the 

 AthencBum; but, with all due respect to the opinion 

 of the reviewer, I cannot see the slightest simili- 

 tude to the style of Junius. It appears to me to 

 be a very feeble performance, and by a very inferior 

 person. Indeed, the entire series of the Extra- 

 ordinary Noi-tli Briton seems poor and flat when 

 compared with its predecessor, the original and 

 famous North Briton. 



The attempt to show Mason to be Junius is 

 amusing and ingenious ; but the reviewer has 

 evidently failed in persuading himself, and there- 

 fore, amidst the many startling improbabilities 

 by whicii such an attempt is encompassed, is 

 scarcely likely to gain many converts to such a 

 theory. J.\mes Crosslet. 



Fitzpatriclis Lines on Fox. — 5Ir. Markland, in 

 your 78th Number (p. 334.), asks the true reading 



