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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 84. 



Anonymoua Ttavennas (Vol. i., p. 124.). — "W. C.'s 

 Query lius not received inucli elucidation as yet ; 

 as a small contribution, I may remark tliat the 

 Benedictine Dom. Porclieron brought the MS. to 

 light, and published it at Paris, 1686, 8vo., under 

 the title, Anonymi Jlaveimatii, qui circa smculum 

 septimuvi vixit, de Geographid Uhri qiiiuqtw, with 

 a dedication to the Uuc de Bourbon, son of the 

 great Conde. My authority is, the Correspondence 

 inedite de MahUlon et de Moutfaucon avec V Italic, 

 par M. Valery, Paris, 1846, vol. ii. pp. 2, 3. 5. 



" Puucis abhinc diebus prodlit ab uno e nostri's crutus 

 in lucem Aiionynius Ravcnnas, qui ante aiinos circiter 

 milh de Gcographia scripsit iibros quinque. [Michel 

 Germain a Gattola, Dec. 31. 1686.] Je vous destine 

 un volume in Svo. que notre cher Dom. Placide Por- 

 cheron vient de doniier au public, c'est un Anonyme 

 de Ilaveune, Goth ou Grec de naissance, qui vivuit il 

 y a milk ans .... [the same, to Magliabcchi, Jan. 10. 

 1687.]" 



The editor gives the date 1688, and the form 

 4to., for this book ; the date is evidently a mis- 

 print. C. P.Ph***. 



The Lion, a Symbol of the Resiiri-ection (Vol. i., 

 pp. 383. 472.). — As Jarltzberg has not replied 

 to Mr. Eastwood's Query, permit me to refer 

 the latter to Sacred Latin Poetn/ Selected, by 

 R. C. Trench, London, 1849, pp. 67. 152. 153. : 



"The Middle- A^e legend, that the lion's whelps 

 were born dead and first roused to life on the third day 

 by the roar of their sire, was often alluded to in con- 

 nexion with, and as a natural ty|)c of the llesurrection. 

 Adam de S Victore {De SS. Evangelistis, verse 25.): 

 "' Est leonis rugientis 



Marco vultus, resurgentis 

 Q lo claret potentia: 

 Voce Patris exeitatus 



Surgit Christus ' 



" Again, De liesurrectione Domini, verse 54. : 

 " ' Sic de Jutla Leo forlis, 

 Fractis portis dira? mortis 

 Die surgit tertia, 

 Rugiente voce Patris . . . .' 

 " Hugo de S. Victore {De Best., lib. ii. cap. 1.): 

 " Cum leaena parit, suos catulos mortuos parit, et ita 

 cusfoilit tribus diebus, donee veniens Pater eorum in 

 faciem eorum exhalet, et vivificentur. Sic Omnipotcns 

 Pater Filium suum tertia die suscitavit a mortuis.' 



" Hildebert {De Leone) : 

 " ' Natus non vigilat dum Sol se tertio gyrat, 

 Sed dans rugitum jjater ejus suscitat ilium: 

 Tunc quasi vivescit, tunc sensus quinque capescit." 



C. P. Ph***. 



Paring the Nails, S)-c. (Vol. ii., p 511. ; Vol. iii., 

 p. 55.). — The legend that I have heard in Devon- 

 shire differs from that quoted in Vol. ii. It ran 

 thus: 



" Friday cut hair, Sunday cut horn, 

 Better that man liad never been born." 



The meaning given to It was, that cutting horn 

 was a kind of ivorli, .and therefore a breach of the 

 Sabbath ; and that cutting hair on the Friday 

 was, like a hundred other things, thought un- 

 lucky on a Friday, from some obscure reference to 

 the great sacrifice of Good Friday. Sir Thomas 

 Browne shows that this was perhaps the continu- 

 ation of ancient superstition ; and it is jieculiarly 

 remarkable that amongst the Pomans the Dies 

 Veneris (Friday) should have been thought un- 

 lucky for hair-cutting. His reference to the crime 

 of Mannsses, "of observing times," enters into no 

 detail, and tlie text is evidently a general condem- 

 nation of superstitious observances. I may as well 

 here remark that Browne's reference to Manasses, 

 1 Chron. xx.xv., in my edition (1686), is erroneous: 

 it should be 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. C. 



Meaning of Gig-Hill (Vol. iii., pp. 222. 283.).— 

 Your correspondent N. B., p. 283., has doubtless 

 aptly illustrated Shakspeare's use of the word gig, 

 but not as a local name, where " there is no indi- 

 cation of anything in the land to warrant it ;" but 

 if your querist K., p. 222., will refer to Bailey's 

 Dictionary, article " Gig Mill," " a mill for the 

 fulling of woollen cloth," he will find the key to 

 the local name ; and full information as to the 

 illegality and injurious tendency of Gig Mills, 

 witii an order for their suppression, &c., wilt 

 be found in the statute 5 & 6 Edward VI., c. 22, 

 intitled, " An Act for the putting down of Gig 

 Mills." The presence of such mills previous to 

 the suppression would give the name to the sites 

 now known as " Gig's llills." Bi.owen. 



The Mistletoe on the Oak (Vol. ii., pp. 163. 

 214.; Vol. iii., pp. 192. 226.). — Mr. Buckman 

 calls the Poplar and Lime native, and the Syca- 

 more and llobinia foreign trees, and adds that 

 the two latter are comparatively recently intro- 

 duced. 



Without doubt, all four are foreign, except the 

 Asp among Poplars, which is a native tree. And 

 the Sycamore was introduced into England long 

 before the Lombardy, and 1 think before any of 

 the Poplar tribe. 



I have seen the Mistletoe propagated by seed 

 inserted, with an upward cut of a knife, under 

 the bark of an apple-tree. 



On the Oak 1 have never seen the Mistletoe. 

 The late Mr. Loudon, when shown it on an oak 

 on the estate of the late Miss Woods, of Shop- 

 v.^yke, near Chichester, said he had only seen it in 

 one other instance. A. Holt White. 



For much learned lore relating to this remark- 

 able plant, see the Encyclopcedia ]\Ietropolitana. 

 Your querist Acue may be assured that the 

 IMistleloe may be often found in the counties 

 of Devon and Somerset growing on oaks, and 

 frequently on old apple-trees in neglected 



