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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 86. 



many ensraviiigs. (See Lessing's Sammtliche 

 Schriften^ 1839,\'o\. viii.) C. P. Pa***. 



Oxford, Whit-Monday. 



A KemUe Pipe (Vol. iii., p. 425.). — If Dr. 

 RiMBAULT will turn to vol. i., p. 10. of Campbell's 

 Life of Mrs. Siddons,\\e will find that the Kenible 

 of smoking notoriety alluded to in the proverb, 

 met his fate at a date long subsequent to the 

 Marian persecution. He was apprehended on a 

 chai-ge of implication in Titus Oates's plot, and 

 executed at Hereford, August 2d, 1679, being one 

 of the last persons who suffered death for their 

 religious opinions in England. He was hung, not 

 burnt, and his hand is still preserved in the Reli- 

 quary of the Roman Catholic Chapel at "Worcester. 

 " On his way to execution," says Mr. Campbell, 



" He smoked his pipe and conversed with his friends; 

 and in that county it was long usual to call the last 

 pipe that was smoked in a social company, a Kemble's 

 pipe." 



Speriend. 



Flemish Work on the Order of St. Frnnciscus 

 (Vol. i., p. 385.). — Your correspondent Jarltz- 

 BBRG may find a copy of the Wyngaert in the 

 library of the Maatscappij van Lelterkunde (Lit. 

 Soc.) in Leyden, and may read an account of the 

 work in vol. ii. pp. 151, 152. of the Society's Trans- 

 actions. The copy in my possession is entitled 

 Den Wi/ngaert van Sinte Fraticiscus vol [not vanl 

 schoone historien, legenden en deuchdelycke leer- 

 inghen alien menschen seer profytclych. Like most 

 of the works issued from the press of E(^kert van 

 Hombach, it is well printed on good paper ; the 

 leaves (not the pages) are numbered up to 418, 

 and besides there are six leaves without pagina- 

 tion for the index, as well as three for the pro- 

 logue, in which we learn why the work was called 

 Wyngaert. All the copies I have met with bear 

 the tlate 1518, though in Hultman's Catalogue, 

 p. 20. No. 92., we find 1578, probably an error of 

 tlie printer. In J. Koning's Catalogue, 1833, p. 17. 

 No. 59., we are referred to Bauer, Bihl. libr. rar., 

 vol. iv. p. 301. ; and to the Catalogue raisonne de 

 Crevenna, vol. v. p. 85., where we read : 



" Ce volume contient les vies des Saints dc I'ordre 

 de St. Franclscus, precedees decelledeson instituteur, 

 et n'cst point une traduction du Livre des Conformites 

 {Liber Cunformitatuni), quoiqu'il est probable qu'on ait 

 pris beaucoup de ce livre." 



Van Bleyswijk, in his Description of Delft, 

 vol. i. p. 339., says, — 



" The Franciscans bought up the work, in order to 

 suppress and destroy it : it is therefore no wonder that 

 copies of it are scarce." 



Unless you read it, says Professor Ackersdijck, 

 in his Archief voor Kerk. Gesch., you will hardly 

 conceive it possible for any one to write such a 

 mass of folly and absurdity. V. D. N. 



Navorsciieb, p. 179. June, 1851. 



Meaning of Tick (Vol. iii., p. 357.). —The fol- 

 lowing anecdote, as characteristic of the individual 

 as illuslrative of the above Querj', may perhaps 

 be considered deserving a corner in your Jour- 

 nal : — 



" A well-meaning friend calling one morning on 

 Richard B. Sheridan, wound up a rather prosy exor- 

 dium on the propriety of domestic economy, by express- 

 ing a hope, that tlie pressure of some difficulties from 

 which he had been temporarily removed, would induce 

 a more cautious arrangement in future. 



" Sheridan listened with great gravity, and thanking 

 his visitor, assured him that he never felt so happy, as 

 all liis affairs were now proceeding with the regtdarity 

 nf clocliicor/i, adding (with a roguish twinkle of the eye, 

 and giving bis arm the oscillating motion of a pendulum), 

 ' Tick, tick, tick I' It is needless to add, the Mentor 

 took a liasty leave of his witty but incorrigible com- 

 panion." 



M. W. B. 



Spelling of Britannia, Sfc. (Vol. iii., pp. 275. 

 463.). — i believe that there is no mistake as sup- 

 posed in the inscription on the Geo. III. shilling. 

 The double "t" is expressive of the plural " Britt." 

 for " Britanniarum," Have we not many similar 

 instances, e. g. " codd." for " codices," " libb." for 

 "libri;" or, one of every-daj occurrence, "pp." 

 for "pages?" W.M.N. 



Fossil Elk of L-eland (Vol. ii., p. 494. ; Vol. iii., 

 pp. 26. 121. 212.). — W. R. C. (a Subscriber) 

 will find some very interesting accounts of this 

 creature in Boate and Molyneux's Natural His- 

 tory of Ireland, p. 137. ; and in an>2xcellent paper 

 by Dr. Cane, in the Transactions of the Kilkenny 

 A}-chceologiral Society for the Year 1850, where 

 several works containing accounts of the animal 

 are referred to. An interesting memoir by Dr. 

 Hibbcrt on the discovery of the Megace7-os Hiher- 

 nicus, or fossil elk, in the Isle of JNlan, will be 

 found in the fifth number of the Edinburgh 

 Journal of Science, published in 1826.* R. II. 



"/n Time the Bidl," ^t. (Vol. iii., p. 388.). — The 

 quotation — 



" In time the bidl is brought to bear the yoke," 

 seems to be from Ovid, Tristia, iv. 6. 1. : 



" Tempore ruricola; patiens fit taurus aratri ; " 

 or Ar. Am. i. 471. : 



" Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci." 



P. J. F. G. 

 Cambridge, May 22. 1851. 



[N. B., E. C. H., and several other correspondents, 

 have furnished similar references to Ovid.] 



* Errata. — Query, should not the word " Roche- 

 non," in Vol. i., p. 380. col. 1., be " Rosbercon ? " and 

 should not " D. H. M'Carthy," in Vol. ii., p. 348. 

 col. 1., be " D. F. M'Carthy" (Denis Florence 

 M'Carthy)? Such errors, however trifling they may 

 now appear, may hereafter confuse. 



