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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 86. 



a double wall, in which all manner of combusti- 

 bles were put, which they kindled, and let burn 

 for the space of a few days. Being peculiarly 

 attached to this romantic spot, and anxious to 

 have any particulars regarding its history, perhaps 

 you would be so kind as give it a corner in your 

 valuable " Notes and Queries ;" whereby it may 

 be the means of gaining an answer to my Query. 



James C. 



Charles Dodd, the Ecclesiastical Historian. — 

 The catalogue of the Bodleian Library asserts 

 that this author's real name is Hugh Tootle. I 

 should like to know the authority for this state- 

 ment ? Tyro. 



Dublin. 



Usshe7-'s Works, by Dr. Elrington. — If you, or 

 any of your correspondents, can inform me when 

 the reniaining vokmie of the new edition of 

 Archbishop Ussher's works by Dr. Elrington, is 

 likely to be published, I shall esteem it a fa- 

 vour, as I am unable to learn from the book- 

 sellers. C. Paine, Jun. 



Family of Etfy the Artist. — In the Diary of 

 Ralph Thoresby, F. 11. S., 1702, vol. i. p. 366., 

 occurs the following passage : — 



" Evening sat up too late with a parcel of artists I 

 had got on my hands; Mr. Gyles, the famousest painter 

 of glass perhaps in the world, and his nephew, Mr. 

 Smith, the bell-founder (from whom I received the 

 ringing or gingling spur, and that most remarkable, 

 with a neck six inches and a half long); Mr. Carpenter 

 the statuary, and Mr. Etty the painter, with whose 

 father, Mr. Etty, sen', the architect, the most celebrated 

 Grinlin Gibbons wrought at York, but whether appren- 

 ticed with him or not I remember not well. Sate up 

 full late with them." 



Thoresby at this time was at York. Were 

 these Ettys ancestors of the late William Etty ? 

 In the " Autobiography " published in the 

 Art Journal, it is stated that his fixther was a 

 miller at York, but the account goes no farther 

 back. It would be interesting to ascertain how 

 far this was a case of hereditary genius. Is any- 

 thing known of the " Etty the Painter," and 

 "Etty, Sen., the architect," to whom Thoresby 

 alludes ? and are any of their works extant ? 



G. J. De Wilde. 



St. Hibhald. — Who was St. Hibbald, and where 

 is some account of him to be found ? He is re- 

 ported to have been buried at Hibbaldstowe, near 

 Kirton, in Lindsey. K. P. D. E. 



Uride derivaiur " Gooseberry Fool?" — I have 

 heard some wild guesses on this subject; the most 

 preposterous, perhaps, being that which would 

 connect the term with gooseberry /ood. 



Has not the French word foider, " to press," or 

 " squeeze," something to do with the matter ? 



T. J. T. 



Cheltenham, May 6. 1851. 



[Our correspondent will find ample confirmation of 

 the accuracy of his derivation in Tarver's P/iraseolopi- 

 cal Dictiojinry, where, under Fouler, he will find the 

 examples, " Fouler des pommes, du raisin, to press, to 

 crush, to squeeze apples, grapes."] 



Biography of Bishop Hrird. — The longest bio- 

 graphical sketch I remember to have seen of the 

 late Bishop Hurd, the friend and biographer of 

 Bishop Warburton, was in a work called the 

 Ecclesiastical Begister, or some such name, I 

 suppose of tlie date of 1809 or thereabouts. Can 

 any correspondent of "Notes and Queries" 

 direct me to the precise title and date of the work, 

 or point out any better sketch of the Bishop's 

 life ? F. K. 



[In the collected Works of Bishop Hurd, 8 vols. 8vo., 

 edit. 181 I, will be found an autobiographical sketch of 

 the Bishop, entitled " Son)e Occurrences in my Life," 

 discovered among his papers after his decease. Nichols' 

 L,iterary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. vi. 

 pp. 468 — ."j 12., contains a long and interesting account 

 of the Bishop. See also the Annual Register, vol. I. 

 p. 155.] 



Friday, why' considered unlucky. — Can any of 

 your readers tell lue why Friday is considered an 

 unlucky day? E. N. W. 



[There Is no doubt the belief of Friday being an 

 unlucky day originated in its being the day of the 

 Crucifixion. A very early allusion to this superstuion, 

 and which has not we believe been recorded by Brande, 

 will be found in Geoffrey de Vinsauf's " Lament for 

 Richard Cceur de Lion," who was killed on a Friday: 

 " O Veneris lacrymosa dies, O sidus amarum I 

 Ilia dies tua nox fuit, et Venus ilia venenum." 

 It is to this passage Chaucer refers in his Nomies 

 Preeste's Tale, v. 15,353., el seq., when he says: 

 " O Gaufride, dere niaister soverain. 

 That, whan thy worthy King Richard was slain 

 With shot, complalnedest his deth so sore. 

 Why ne had I now thy science and thy lore, 

 The Friday for to chiden, as did ye? 

 For on a Friday sothly slain was he."] 



The Lord Mayor a Frivy Councillor. — Can any 

 of your contributors inform me whether the prefix 

 "Right Honourable" is accorded to the title of 

 the Lord Mayor of London as a mere matter of 

 courtesy, or whether our Chief Magistrate is for 

 the time being ex officio a Privy Councillor, and 

 consequently " Right Honourable ?" 



If any authority for either position can be cited, 

 so much the more satisfactory. Legalis. 



[The Lord Mayor is never sworn as a Privy Coun- 

 cillor ; but on the demise of the Crown attends the 

 meeting of the Privy Coiuicil held on such occasion, 

 and signs the proclamation of the new Sovereign. On 



