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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 84. 



they were entertained." Was this a usual custom 

 of antiquity ? H. J. 



Buroneite (Vol. ii., p. 194.). — In an extract 

 from a statute temp. Hen. IV., it is stated that 

 " dukes, earls, barons, and haronettes might use 

 livery of our lord the king, or his collar," &c. 

 Query the meaning of the term huronette, in the 

 reign of Henry IV. ? B. de M. 



Meaning of " HcrnsJiaw." — HernsJiaw occurs in 

 Hamlet, 11. 2. Query, Wiiat is the derivation of 

 it ? It means, I believe, a young heron. Chaucer 

 (" Squire's Tale," 1. 90.) spells it " heronsewe." 

 As seice signifies a dish (whence the word sewer, 

 he who serves up the dinner), this word applied 

 to heron may mean one fit for eating, youuir and 

 tender. J. II. C. 



Adelaide, South Australia. 



Tlogan. — 



" Fi^r your reputation we keep to ourselves your 

 not hunting nor drinking hogan, either of which here 

 would be sufficient to lay your honor in the dust." 



This passage occurs in a letter from Gray to Horace 

 Walpole in 1737. Can any subscriber state what 

 "hogau" was, the not drinking of wliich was "to 

 lay your honor in the dust ? " 



Heuey Campkin. 



" Trepidation talk'd." — What mean the following 

 words in Milton, Paradise Lost, book iii. line 481 ? 



" Tiicy pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed. 

 And that crystalline sphere icliose. balance weighs 

 Tlie trepidation talk'd, and that first moved." 



By the last three words we may easily under- 

 stand tha pjrimum mobile of the Ptolenuiic astro- 

 nomy ; and trepidation is thus explained in the 

 Imperial Dictionary : 



" h\ the old aslr. a libratlon of the eighth sphere, or 

 a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascril)es to the 

 firmament, to account for the changes and motion of 

 the axis of the world." 



Newton, in his edition of Milton, is silent. 

 Bentley says in a note : 



" Foolish ostentation, in a thing tliat a child may be 

 taught in a map of these imaginary spheres. Talk'd, 

 not good Englisli, for called, styled, named." 



Paterson, in his Commentary on Paradise Lost, 

 1744, for tlie sight of which I am indebted to the 

 courtesy of the librarian of the Chetham Library, 

 says : 



" Trepidation, Lat., an astronomical T., a trembling, 

 a passing. Here, two imagined motions of those 

 spheres. Tlierefore Milton justly ridicules those wild 

 notions." 



Granting that trepidation and ivhose balance 

 weighs are understood, can any of your readers 

 explain the phrase trepidation tullCdf AV. B. H. 



Manchester. 



Lines on the Temple. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me if these lines, said to be the impromptu 

 production of some ])asser-by struck with the 

 horse and lamb over the Temple gates, have ever 

 been in print, and where? 



" As by the Templars holds you go, 

 The Horse and Lamb display'd 

 In emblematic figures show, 

 The merits of their trade. 



" That travellers may infer from hence 

 How just is their profession ; 

 The lamb sets forth their innocence, 

 The horse their expedition. 



" Oh ! happy Britons ! happy isle, 

 I\Iay wondering nations say, 

 AV'here you get justice without guile, 

 And law without delay." 



J.S. 

 Death. — I am making a collection, for a literary 

 purpose, of the forms or similitudes under which 

 the idea of Death has been embodied in different 

 nges, and among different nations, and shall be 

 highly obliged by any additions which your nume- 

 rous learned and intelligent correspondents may 

 be able to make to my stock of materials. Be- 

 ferences to manuscripts, books, coins, paintings, 

 and sculptures, will be highly acceptable. I must 

 confess that it has not yet been in my power to 

 trace satisfactorily the origin, or the earliest pic- 

 torial example, of the current representation of 

 Death as a skeleton, with hour-glass and scythe. 



S. T. D. 



Was Stella Swift's Sister? — Being last week on 

 a visit to Dublin, I went to see St. Patrick's 

 Cathedral there, when, contemplating the monu- 

 ments of the Dean and Stella, the verger's boy 

 infbi-med me, that after the death of the latter, 

 the Dean discovered that she was his own sister, 

 which occasioned hiui to go mad. Is there any 

 foundation for this ? J. H. S. 



John Mar-woode. — A house in the town of Ho- 

 niton, Devon, has the following inscription carved 

 above the dining-room mantelpiece : 



"John . Marwoode . Gut . Phifition. Bridget. 

 Wife . Buylded." 



From a marble tablet in the porch, J. M. appears 

 to have been " Gentleman Physician " to Queen 

 Elizabeth. Any information respecting him will 

 be acceptable to C. P. Pu***. 



[Dr. Thomas Marwood, of Honiton, was a phy- 

 sician of the first eminence in the West of England, 

 and succeeded in effecting a cure in a diseased foot 

 of the Earl of Essex, for which he received from 

 Queen Elizabeth, as a reward for his professional skill, 

 an estate near Honiton. From an inscripton on his 

 tomb in the parish church, it appears that " he diod 

 the 18th Sept., 1617, aged above 105." The house 



