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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 85. 



cast-off phrases of astronomy have entered into 

 the service of poetry, and the empyreal heaven 

 with them), to cause tliis slow turning, or trepi- 

 dation, in the starry heaven. Some used tivo 

 crystal heavens, and I suspect that Paterson, 

 having some confused idea of this, fancied he found 

 them both in Milton's text. I need not say that 

 your correspondent is quite right in referring the 

 vforAs first moved to thQ primuin mobile. 



Again, balance in INIilton never weighs. Scale 

 is his word (iv. 997. x. 67G.) for a weighing appa- 

 ratus. Where he says of Satan's army (i. 349.), 



" In even balance clown they light 

 On the film brimstone," 



he appears to mean that they were id regular 

 order, with a right wing to balance the left wing. 

 The direcl motion of the crystal heaven, following 

 and compensating the retrograde one, is the 

 "balance" which " toas the trepidation called;" 

 and this I suspect to be the true reading. The 

 jTast tense would be quite accurate, for all the 

 Ptolemaists of Milton's time had abandoned the 

 trepidation. As the text stands it is nonsense ; 

 even if Milton did dictate it, we know that he 

 never saie it ; and there are several passages of 

 wbicli the obscurity may be due to his having had 

 to rely on others. Witness the lines in book iv. 

 993—1002. M. 



Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches 

 (Vol. iii., p. 370.). — I forward extracts from the 

 Registers of the parish of Saint Benedict in this 

 town relating to the baptism of Dissenters. (Mr. 

 Hussey, mentioned in several of the entries, was 

 Joseph Hussey, minister of a Dissenting congre- 

 gation here from 1691 to 1720. His meeting- 

 house on Hog Hill (now St. Andrew's Hill) in 

 this town was pillaged by a Jacobite mob, 29th 

 May, 1716. He died in London in 1726, and was 

 the author of several woi-ks, which are now very 

 scarce.) 



"1697. October 14'*'^. William the Son of RichM-il 

 Jaidine and Elisabethhis Wife was baptiz'd 

 in a Private Congregation by !\Jr. Hussey 

 in y* name of the Father the Son and tlie 

 Holy Ghost. 



Witnesses, Robert Wilson, 

 Rich'^. Jai'dine. 



" l'G98. Henery the Son of John and Sarah Shipp 

 was baptized in a Private Congregation by 

 Mr. Hussey December 1. 

 Elisabeth the Daughter oF Richard and 

 Elisabeth Jardlne was born y« twenty- first' 

 day of January and baptized the second day 

 of February 169^ in a Private Congre- 

 gation. 



" ITOft Walter the Son of Richard and Elisabeth 

 Jardine born July 23 and said to be bap- 

 tized in a Separate Congregation by Mr. 

 Hussey Aug. 20. 



" 1701. Elisabeth Daughter of Richard Jardine and 

 Elisabeth his wife born October 7. and 

 said to be baptized at a Private Congrega- 

 tion Novemb. ^'^. 



" 1702. June 22. Wiram the Son of Thomas Short 

 and Mary his Wife said to be baptized at a 

 Separate Congregation. 

 Jane the Daughter of Richard Jardine an(i 

 Elizabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a 

 Separate Congregation Dec. 21. 



" 1703. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and 

 Elisabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a 

 Separate Congregation, Mar. 31. 



" 1705. Alexander the Son of Alexander Jardine 

 and his Wife was as 'tissaid bap- 

 tized in a Separate Congregation July 1705. 



" 1706. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and 

 Elisabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a 

 Private Congregation Dec. 11. 



"1707. Nov. 11. John the Son of Alexander and 

 El is. Jardine was said to be baptized in a 

 Separate Congregation. 



" 1710. Aug. 23. Jofhn y« Son of Bryan and Sarah 

 Ellis was said to have been baptized in a 

 Separate Congregation. 

 Nov. 15. Nath. y* Son of Alexander and 

 Elisa Jardine was said to be baptiz'd in a 

 Separate Congregation. 



I have no recollection of having met with sdmilar 

 entries m any other Parish Register. 



C. H. COOFER. 



Redmng's Nest (Vol. iii., p. 408.). — I think 

 that upon further consideration C. J. A. will find 

 his egg to be merely that of a blackbird. While 

 the eggs of some birds are so constant Jn their 

 markings that to see one is to know all, others — 

 at the head of which we may place the sparrow, 

 the gull tribe, the thrush, a-nd the blackbird — are 

 as remarkable for the curious variety of their 

 markings, and even of the shades of their colour- 

 ing. And every schoolboy's collection will show 

 that these distinctions will occur in the same nest. 



I also believe that there has been some mistake 

 abotit the nest, for though, like the thrush, the 

 blackbird coats the interior of its nest with mud, 

 &e.,- it does not, like that bird, leave this coating 

 exposed, but adds another lining of soft dried 

 grass. Seleucus. 



Champnk (Vol. ill., p. 84.). — A correspondent, 

 C. P. Pn***., asks "What is Champak ?" He will 

 find a full description of the plant in Sir William 

 Jones's "Botanical Observations on Select Indian 

 Plants," vol. v. pp. 128-30. Works, ed. 1807. In 

 speaking of it, he says : 



" The strong aromatic scent of the gold-coloured 

 Champac is thought offensive to the bees, who are 

 never seCn on its blossoms ; but their elegant appear- 

 .ance on the black hair of the Indian women is men- 

 tioned by Rumphius ; and both facts have supplied 

 the Sanscrit poets with elegant allusions." 



D. C. 



