Mat 31. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Dr. Owens Works (Vol. i., p. 276.)-— The editor 

 oi XheWorks of John Owen is informed, that in the 

 valuable librarjof George Offer, Esq., of Hackney, 

 will be found a thicli volume in manuscript of 

 unpublished Sermons on the Fifty-third Chapter 

 of Isaiah, iu the Doctor's own band-writing, 

 and apparently prepared for publication. The 

 same library also contains two scarce pieces by 

 Dr. Owen, which it is thought have never been 

 reprinted: 1. The Stedfastness of Promises, and 

 the Sinfulness of Staggering, opened in a sermon 

 preached at JMargaret's, in Westminster, before the 

 Parliament, Feb. 28, 1649, being a Day set apart 

 for Solemn Humiliation throughout the Nation. 

 By John Owen, Minister of the Gospel. Lon<ion, 

 1650. 4to. pp.54. — 2. God's Work in Founding 

 Zio^h and his People's Duty thereupon. A Sermon 

 preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at 

 the opening of the IPai-liament, Sept. 17, 1656. 

 By John Owen, a Sei'vant of Jesus Christ in the 

 Work of the Gospel. Oxford, 1656. 4to. pp.48. 



J. Y. 



Hoxton. 



Bactrian Coins (Vol. iii., p. 353.). — Has your 

 correspondent read the book by Masson On the 

 Coins, Sf'C. of Affghanistan, published by Professor 

 H. H. Wilson ? There are also references to 

 authorities in Humphrevs On Ancient Coins and 

 Meduls. ' C. B. 



Bactria. — Bloweji will find some trustworthy 

 information respecting Bactria in Professor Las- 

 sen's Indische Alterthumskunde, Zweiter Band, pp. 

 277. et seq. Bonn, 1849 ; and a list of authorities 

 on the Gr£eco-Bactrian coins iu the same work, 

 pp. 282. 283. (notes). C. H. 



Baldrochs (Vol. iii., p. 328.). — On looking over 

 a vestry book belonging to South Lynn in this 

 town, commencing at 1605, and ending in 1677, 

 I find some Churchwardens' Accounts, and amongst 

 them the two following entries, which may, I trust, 

 assist "A Churchwarden," and lead to an eluci- 

 dation of this word : — 



" 1610. 



" Junua. 17. ffb' a halledrich to y' great Bell, xxid. 



"1618. 



" Novemb. &2. Item, to' mendine of j* baldericke tot 

 y" foore bell, vjd." 



From these eiitries It seems that the " baldrock " 

 was something attached to the great bell. 



In most of the recent English Dictionaries the 

 word is applied to furniture, and to a belt or 

 girdle. But in a Latin Dictionary published at 

 Cambridge in 1693, 1 find iu the Anglo-Latin part 

 the following : — 



English. A bawdrick of a hell clapper. 



Latin. Uopali corrigia. 



And the English of " Uopali Corrigia " seems 

 (notwithstanding the English version given with 



it) to be "pteces of leather," or " thongs of lea- 

 ther " to the bell clapper, but for what purpose used 

 I do not know. John Nurse Chadwick. 



P.S. The word "corrigia" is taken from the 

 word " corium," a skin of leather. 



[Were not these leather coverings? — that for the 

 rope, to prevent its cutting the ringer's hands (as we 

 constantly see), anil also to prevent his hand slipping; 

 and that for the clapper, to muffle it — straps of leather 

 girded round them.] 



TuAutem (Vol. iii., pp. 265. 308.).— The " Tu 

 Autem," still remembered at Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge, and yet lingering at the ptiblic dinners of 

 the canons of Durham, is the last fragment of 

 what was once a daily, or at least an almost daily, 

 religious form or service at those ancient places ; 

 and it is rather strange that such a fragment 

 should have remained so long in the collegiate 

 and cathedral refectory without having preserved 

 any remembrance of its real origin and meaning. 

 If Bishop Hendren or Father Holdfast would 

 forego their favourite pursuits for a few minutes, 

 and look into your interesting and improving 

 miscellany, they might inform you that in the 

 Romish Breviary — which, no doubt, has pre- 

 served many ancient religious services — there is 

 a form entitled Benedictio mcnsce. As the gene- 

 rality of your readers may not have the Breviaiy 

 at hand, 1 send you so much of the service as may 

 suffice for the present purjjose. 



" BENEDICTIO MENS^. 



" Ante prandium Siicerdos benedicturus msnsam, incipit, 

 Benedicite, et alii repetunt, Benedicite. Deinde dicit 

 Oculi omnium, et alii prosequuntur. In te sperant, 

 Domine, et tu das escain illoruni in tempore opportune " 

 &c. i!^c. Then " Gloria Patri " &c., and '• Pater noster" 

 &c. &c. 



" Posted Sacerdos dicit : 

 " Oremus. 



" Benedic Domine nos, et hrec tua dona, qufe de tua 

 largitate sumus sumpturi. Per Christum Dorainum 

 nostrum. Amen. 



" Deinde Lector. Jube Domine benedicere. Bene- 

 dictio. Meusa; coelestis partlcipes faciat nos Rex aeterns 

 gloriae. Amen. 



" Post prandium agiintur gratia: hoc motto. Dido a 

 Lectore, Tu autem Domine miserere nobis. Deo 

 gratias, omnes mngunt. 



" Sacerdos incipit. Confiteantur tibi Domine omnia 

 opera tua. £t Sancti tui benedicant tibi. Gloria 

 Patri, &c. 



" Posted Sacerdos absolute dicat : .,4gimus tibi gratias, 

 omnipotens Deus, pro universis beneficiis tuis, &c. 



" Deinde ultcrnutim dicitur Psatmtis. ^fiserere mei 

 Deus. 



" Vel Psalmus 116." (in our version, 117.), &c. &c. &c. 



The service then proceeds with very jnuch re- 

 petition. The performance of the whole would 

 probably occupy twenty minutes. 



