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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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who could refer ine to {he origin and meaning of 

 either or both of them. The former is also spelt 

 AnchOra and Enchura. J. Eastwood. 



Ecclesfield, 



Diogenes in his Tub. — It may be hypercritical, 

 but is there any authority for placing Diogenes in 

 the tub at the time of his interview with Alexander, 

 which took place at Corinth, as Landseer has 

 done in his celebrated dog-picture ? A. A. D. 



Topical Memory. — Where can I find the sub- 

 ject of "topical memory" treated of? Cic. de 

 Orat. 1. 34. alludes to it. A. A. D. 



St. PauVs Clock striking Thirteen. — Will you 

 allow me on this subject to put to men of science, 

 and to watchmakers, the a p/'ioi-i question— Zs the 

 alleged fact mechanicallij possible f Avena. 



A regular Mull — Origin of the Phrase. — "You 

 have made a regular mull of it," meaning a com- 

 plete failure. This exjiression I have often heard, 

 from my school days even to the present time. 

 Can you give me the origin of it? In reading a 

 very clever and interesting paper communicated 

 by J. M. Kemble, Esq., to the Archjeological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in the 

 volume of their proceedings for 1845, entitled, 

 " The Names, Surnames, and Nicnames of the 

 Anglo-Saxons," I found the following paragraph : 



" Two among the early kings of Wessex are worthy 

 of peculiar attention, viz., the celebrated sons of Cen- 

 berlit, Ca^dwealha and his brotlier Mul. Of the former 

 it is known, that after a short and brilliant career of 

 victory, ho voluntarily relinquished the power he had 

 won, became a convert to Christianity, and having re- 

 tired to Rome, was there baptized by the name Petrus, 

 and died while yet in the Albs, a few days after the 

 ceremony. His brother BIul, during their wars in 

 Kent, suffered himself to be surprised by the country- 

 people and was burnt to death, together with twelve 

 comrades, in a house where they had taken refuge." 



This " Note," I think, answers my Query. Do 

 you know of any other explanation? ^V.E.W. 



Register-hook of the Parish of Petworth. — Can 

 any reader of " Notes and Queries " assist in 

 discovering a document which was formerly quoted 

 by this title ? Ileylin used it for the reign of 

 Edward VI., but his learned editor (JNIr. Robert- 

 son) appears to have searched lor it in vain. 



C. II. 



St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Going to Old IVuston. — When a Huntingdon- 

 shire man is asked " If he has ever been to Old 

 Wcslon," and replies in the negative, he is inva- 

 riably told, " You must go before you die." Old 

 Weston is an out-oi-the-way vilhige in the county, 

 and liutil within a few year.s was almost inap- 

 proachable by carriages in winter; but in what 

 the jjoint of the remark lies, I do not know. 



AttUN. 



".(4s druJik as Chloe." — Who was Chloe, and 

 what gave rise to the expression ? J. N. C. 



Mai-h fur a Dollar, — AVhat is the origin of the 

 mark for a dollar, ,^.? T. C_ 



Stcponij (Vol. ii., p. 267.). — If not too stale by 

 this time, may I put a Query to any Worcester- 

 shire reader on the possible connexion of Stepony 

 ale with a well-known country inn in that county, 

 which must have startled many "a, traveller with 

 strange hippophagous apprehensions, viz., Stew- 

 poney ? B. 



Lincohi. 



Longuemlle MSS. — AVas the collection' of MSS. 

 possessed by Henry Viscount Longueville, and 

 catalogued in Cat. Lib. MSS. Anglias, 1G97, dis- 

 persed ; or, if not, where is it to be found ? 



E.T.B. 



York, May 13. 



Carling Sunday. — Carling Sunday, occurring 

 nowabouts, is observed on the north coast of 

 England by the custom of frying dry peas ; and 

 much augury attends the process, as indicated by 

 the difFerent effect of the bounding peas on the 

 hot plate. Is any solution to be given ? The 

 writer has heard that the practice originated in 

 the loss of a ship (freighted with peas) on the 

 coast of Northumberland. Carling is the founda- 

 tion beam of a ship, or the main beam on the keel. 



Lion Rampant holding a Crozier. — I met with 

 thia crest some time since on a private seal, 

 and should be glad to ascertain whether the de- 

 vice was borne by chancellors and archbishops 

 who exercised these functions contemporaneously, 

 the last of whom was the Archbishop of York, 

 who was also Lord Keeper froui 1621 to Nov. 

 1625. The motto on the seal is — 



" Malentour." 

 To this I cannot trace any meaning.' Perhaps 

 some of your heraldic antiquaries can favour me 

 with a solution of the above device of the motto ? 



F. E. M. 



ATonumental Symbolism. — On a monument 

 dated 1600, or thereabouts, erected to a member 

 of an ancient Roman Catholic i'amily in Leicester- 

 shire, there are etiigies of his chiklrcn sculjjtured. 

 Two of the sons are represented in a kneeling 

 posture, with their hands clasped and upraised;, 

 while all the others are standing, some cased in 

 armour, or otherwise. Can you, fi'om know- 

 ledge of heraldry, or any other source, decide con- 

 fidently what is the reason of the diilerence of 

 posture, or I'ather what it is intended to denote ? 



Reader. 



Ptolemy s Presents to the Sercniy-two. — Josephus- 

 (/!)(<. b. xii. ch. ii. sect. 15.) mentions, as among 

 the presents bestowed by Rtolemy on the Seventy- 

 two elders, "the furniture of the room in which 



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