June 7. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



469 



The Image of both Churches (Vol. iii., p. 407.). 

 — There seems to be no doubt that this curious 

 book, respecting which Dr. Rimbadlt inquires, 

 was written by Dr. Matthew Pattenson, or Patte- 

 son (not Paterson). Gee, in his Foot out of the 

 Snare, published in 1624, the year after the pub- 

 lication of The Image of both Churches, in his 

 Catalogue of " English Bookes," mentions " The 

 Image of both Churches, by M. Pateson, now in 

 London, a bitter and seditious book." The author 

 is subsequently referred to as "F. (atber) Pate- 

 son, a Jesuit, lodging in Fetter Lane." 



See also the Preface to Foulis's History of the 

 Bomish Treasons and Usurpations, 1671, fol., and 

 Wood's AthencB, edit. Bliss, vol. iv. p. 139., in which 

 it is stated to have been mostly collected from the 

 answers of Anti-Cotton and Joh. Brierley, Priest. 

 In Dodd's Catholic Church History, vol. ii. p. 427., 

 folio edit., it is also attributed to Dr. M. Patten- 

 son, of whom some account is given, and who is 

 mentioned to have been Physician in Ordinary to 

 Charles L Jas. Ceossley. 



School of the Heart (Vol. iii., p. 390.).— Your 

 correspondent S. T. D. will find in the " Prefa- 

 tory Notice to the Synagogue," printed with Her- 

 bert's Temple, edit. Pickering, an account of 

 Ciiristopher Harvey and his works ; also in Wal- 

 ton's Angler, edited by Sir H. Nicolas. ot. 



Meaning of Mosaic (Vol. iii., p. 389.). — The 

 breast-plate of the Jewish High Priest, as com- 

 manded by Moses, was to be four square, and 

 that divided into twelve squares, to designate the 

 twelve tribes of Israel : from this circumstance, 

 the word Mosaic was derived as a term of Art, 

 being a series or congregate of small squares of 

 different coloured stones, applicable to the form- 

 ation of any tesselated figure. 



Vide 39th chap, of Exodus, from verse 8. to 

 14, inclusive. John Kentor. 



Glyn y mel, May 21. 18.51. 



Mosaic. — This word would appear to be de- 

 rived from the Greek, iiovrn ck fiua, to close by 

 pressure; Latin, musa vel musivum, that is, "opus 

 exiniia compositione tessellatum," a piece of ?e«sa- 

 luted or chequered work of superior manufacture, 

 in regard to the manner in which the small stones 

 or pieces of wood are closed or joined together. 



Franciscus. 



The Tradeseants (Vol. iii., pp. 119. 286. 353. 

 391.). — In common with several of your corre- 

 8[K)ndents, I have for some time past taken great 

 interest in the Tradeseants, and liave read with 

 much pleasure the letters of Dr. Klmbault, Mr. 

 SiNOKii, and Mil. Plnkekton. 



i have hitherto been unsuccessful in discovering 

 any I'urther particulars of the family of the Trades- 

 eants; but a few days since, in looking into a copy 



of Dr. Ducarel's tract on the subject, preserved 

 among the books in the Ashmolean Museum, I found 

 the following note in pencil, not very legibly written 

 in the margin of the tract, where Dr. Ducarel says 

 he has not been able to find any account in the 

 Lambeth Register of the death of the elder 

 Tradescant. " Consult (with certainty of finding 

 information concerning the Tradeseants) the Re- 

 gisters of apham, Kent." Since this note was 



written, the tract has been bound and the com- 

 mencement of several words cut off. Amongst 

 them is the name of the place of which the registers 

 are to be consulted. I imagine it to be Meapham 

 (apham is all that can be read). 



Perhaps some of your correspondents may have 

 an opportunity of consulting the registers of Mea- 

 pham, and should any information respecting the 

 Tradeseants be found there, the marginal note 

 will not have been without its use. 



I am looking forward with great interest to the 

 information which Mr. Pinkerton promises us on 

 the subject; and should this letter be the means of 

 directing him to a new source of information, it 

 will be a matter of great satisfaction to me. 



C. C. R. 



Line. Coll., Oxon. 



St. Johns Bridge Fair (Vol. iii., pp. 88. 287. 

 341.). — Having received the last polish at Peter- 

 borough Grammar School in 1840, and from a 

 three years' residence off and on, I am enabled to 

 speak to the fact of there being two fairs held at 

 Peterborough. 



One, commonly called St. John's Fair, is 

 usually held on the 1 8th July ; but whether it is 

 iilso called St. Johns Bridge Fair I am unable to 

 say, as this fair was always held in our holidays, 

 although it might be so termed. 



The other, commonly called " Bridge Fair," is 

 held in the early part of October, and is so called 

 from its proximity to the bridge. The piece in 

 which the fairs are held is called the Bridge 

 Close. Indeed I believe both these fairs were held 

 in the same piece, or at least close by each other, 

 although held at different times. 



I hope this may assist, but whether it is the 

 same spoken of at p. 88. I cannot say. J. N. C. 



A Tye (Vol. iii., p. 263.) is described by your 

 correspondent as a place where three roads meet. 

 Perhaps he means a place where one road divides 

 into two. The nucleus of old English towns will 

 be almost always found to consist of such a fork 

 of one road into two, requiring three principal 

 gates or entrances, and distinguisliing the plans of 

 towns from those of cities, in which four roads 

 meet, forming the Carlbix, and requiring lour 

 piincii)al gates. Is there any allinity of the words 

 two, tye, and town? The parallel case of the junc- 

 tion of two rivers into one affects the names of 

 places situated there, as Tiveiton. K. Th. 



