June 14. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



485 



ance of " a certain active Wliii;g-," would be 

 entitled to little credit in attacking the cliaracter 

 of the living, and ought surely to be scouted 

 when assailing the memory of the dead. In 

 Lowndes' Bib. Man. it is stated that 



" This miserable trash has been attributed to the 

 author of Hudibras." 



J. F. M. 



Voltaire's Henriade (Vol. ill., p. 388.).— I have 

 two translations of this poem in English verse, in 

 aildition to that mentioned at p. 330., viz., one in 

 4to., Anon., London, 1797; and one by Daniel 

 French, 8vo., London, 1807. The former, which, 

 as I collect from the preface, was written by a 

 lady and a foreigner, alludes to two previous trans- 

 lations, one in blank verse (probably Lockman's), 

 and the other in rhyme. J. F. M. 



Petworth Register (Vol. iii., p. 449.). — Your 

 correspondent C. H. appears to give me too much 

 creilit for diligence, in having "searched" after 

 this document ; for in truth I did nothing beyond 

 writing to the rector of the parish, the Rev. 

 Tliomas Sockett. All that I can positively say as 

 to my letter, is, that it was intended to be cour- 

 teous ; that it stated my reason for the inquiry ; 

 that it contained an apology for the liberty taken 

 in applying to a siranger; and that Mr. S.)ckett 

 did nut honour me witii any answer. I believe, 

 however, that I asked whether the register still 

 existed ; if so, what was its nature, and over what 

 period it extended ; and whether it had been 

 printed or described in any antir|uarian or topo- 

 graphical book. 



Perhaps some reader may have the means of 

 giving information on these points; and if he will 

 do so through tlie medium of your periodical, he 

 will oblige botli C. H. and myself. Or perhaps 

 C. II. may be able to inquire through some more 

 private ciiannel, in which case I sliould feel my- 

 self greatly indebted to him if he would have the 

 goodness to let nie^know the result.! 



j^_ J. C. Robertson. 



Beakesbourne. 



Apple-pie Order (Vol. iii., p. 330.). — The solu- 

 tion of J. H. M. to Mr. Sne.\k's inquiry is not 

 satisfactory. "Alternate layers of sliced pippins 

 and mutton steaks" might indeed make a pie, but 

 not an apple-pie. tiierefore tiiis puzzling phrase 

 must have had some other origin. An ingenious 

 friend of mine has suggested tliat it may [)erhaps 

 be derived from that expression which we meet 

 witii in one of the scenes of IlumU'l, " Cap a pied ;"' 

 where it means perfectly ap[)ointed. The transi- 

 tion Irom cap ii pied, or " cap ii pie," to apple-pie, 

 has rather a rugged apjiearance, orthographicaliy, 

 I admit ; but the ear soon becomes accustomed to 

 it in pronunciation. A. N. 



[Mk. RoiiF.iiT Snow and several other corre- 

 spondents have also suggested tliat tlie origin of the 



phrase " apple-pie order" is to be found in the once 

 familiar " cap a pied."] 



Durham Sword that hilled the Dragon (Vol. iii., 

 p. 42.5.). — For details of the tradition, and an 

 engraving of the sword, see Surtees' Histo?-y of 

 Durham, vol. iii. pp. 243, 244. 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Malentoitr (Vol. iii., p. 449.) — Your corre- 

 spondent F. E. M. will find the word Malentour, 

 or MalcBiitmir, given in Edmondson's Complete 

 Body of Heraldrji as the motto of the family of 

 Patten alias Wansfleet (sic) of Newington, Middle- 

 sex : it is said to be borne on a scroll over the 

 crest, which is a Tower in flames. 



In the "Book of Mottoes" the motto ascribed 

 to the name of Patten is Mai an Tour, and the 

 double meaning is suorgested, " Misfortune to the 

 Tower," and " Unskilled in artifice." 



The arms that accomp.any it in Edmondson are 

 nearly the same as those of William Pattyn alias 

 Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chan- 

 cellor temp. Hen. VI. — the founder of Magdalen 

 College, 0.xford. F.' C. M. 



The Bellman and his History (Vol. iii., pp. 324. 

 377.). — Since my former communication on this 

 suljject I have been referred to the cut of the 

 Bellman and his Dog in Collier's Roxhirghe Bal- 

 lads, p. 59., taken from tiie first edition of Dekker's 

 Belman of London, printed in 1608. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, May 17, 1851. ' 



" Geographers on Afrids Downs (Vol. iii., p. 372.). 

 — Is your correspondent A. S. correct in his quo- 

 tatitm ? In a poem of Swift's, " On Poetry, a 

 Rhapsody," are these lines: — 



" S > geographers, in Afrlc maps 

 With savage pictures fill tlielr gaps, 

 And o'er unhabitable downs 

 Place elephants for want of towns." 

 Swift's Works, ivith Notes by Dr. Hawksworth, 1 767, 

 vol. vii. p. 214. C. DE D. 



" Trepidation talk'd" (Vol. iii., p. 450.). — The 

 words attributed to Milton are — 



" That crystalline sphere whose balance weighs 

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

 Paterson's comment, quoted by your corre- 

 spondent, is exquisite: he evidently thinks there 

 were two trej)idations, one talked, the other first 

 moved. 



The trepidation (not a tremulous, but a turning 

 or oscillating motion) is a well-known hypothesis 

 addeil by the Arab astronomers to Ptolemy, in 

 explanation of the precession of the equinoxes. 

 This precession they imagined would continue 

 retrograile for a long period, after which it would 

 be direct for another long period, then retrograde 

 again, and so on. Tiiey, or their European fol- 

 lowers, I forget wliicli, invented the crystal heaven, 

 an apparatus outside of the starry heaven (these 



