June 28. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



525 



wall Afterward the priests ami rulers of 



the Jews coine togetlier, and abuse it with all villany. 

 They crown it wiih a thorn, make it drink esel and 

 gall, and stick it to the heart with a spear. Out issueth 

 blood ill great quantity ; the powers of Heaven are 

 shaken; the sun is darkened; the moon loseth her 

 light." 



CUDTN GwTN. 



English Sapphics (Vol. iii., p. 494.). — A beau- 

 tiful specimen of this measure, far superior in 

 rhythm to the attempt of Dr. Watts, appeared 

 in the Youth's Magazine twenty- five years ago. 

 It consisted of the Psalm " By the Waters of 

 Babylon." I remember the last verse only. 



" Dumb be my tmeful eloquence, if ever 

 Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion ; 

 Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, 

 Land of my fathers." 



H.E.H. 



Mints at Norwich — Joseph Nohhs (Vol. iii., 

 p. 447.). — I beg to inform Cowgill that the 

 operation of the Mint of the Great Recoinage of 

 1696-7 was performed in a room at St. Andrew's 

 Hall, in tliis city; but the amount there coined, 

 or at any of the other places mentioned, I am not 

 able to inform him. The total amount said to be 

 recoined was 6,882,908^. Ids. Id. 



£ s. d. 



The amount at the Tower - 5,091,121 7 7 

 And in the Country Mints - 1,791,787 12 



£9,882,908 19 7 



Tiie following are the names of persons em- 

 ployed in the Mint at Norwich : — 



Francis Gardener, Esq., Treasurer. 



Thomas Moore, Gent., Warder ; Thomas Allen, 

 his clerk. 



Anthony Redhead, Gent., Master Worker ; Mr. 

 Beaser, his clerk. 



AVilliam Lamb, Comptroller; Mr. Samuel Oliver, 

 Lis clerk. 



Heneage Price, Gent., Kinu's clerk. 



Mr. Rapier, Weigiier and Teller. 



Henry Yaxley, Surveyor of the Meltings. 



Mr. fjohn Young, Deputy Graver. 



John Seabrook, Provost, and Master of the 

 Moneyers. 



Mr. Hartstongue, Assay Mnster, and his servnnt. 

 — His brother, Kdger, and Loiterer of the Hall- 

 Crowns, Siiillings, and Sixpences. It is said crowns 

 were not struck here, and I have never seen one of 

 this Mint. 



Tiie wiiole of the work was finished here, Sep- 

 tember 29, 1G98. 



In pulling uj) the floor of an old house, in Tomb- 

 land, in 1847, a quantity of the silver coin minted 

 here was discoveri!il, wliicii, from the aj)peariince 

 of the coins, were never in circulation: tiiey were 

 sold to Mr. Cooper, silversmith, in London Street, 



for about 20/. No doubt the coins were ab- 

 stracted from the Mint during the process of 

 coining. 



In the Register of Burials at St. Gregory's is 

 the following entry, a.d. 1717 : 



" Joseph Nobhs, Parish Clerk of S'. Gregory's, 

 aged 89, was buried Nov^ 4, 1717, being the year fol- 

 lowing the last entry in his Chronology. He was then 

 89 years of age, and, what is somewhat remarkable, 

 that is the age of the present Clerk of S'. Gregory's." 



G. H. L 



P. S. Some other matters relative to this Mint 

 are among my memoranda. 

 Norwich, June ) 6. 1851. 



Voltaire, where situated (Vol. iii,, p. 329.). — 

 Your correspondent V. is informed, that the fol- 

 lowing particulars on the subject of his Query 

 are given in a note to the article "Voltaire," in 

 Querard's France Litteraire, vol. x. p. 276. : — 



" Voltaire eat le noin d'un petit bien de famille, qui 

 appartcnait a la mere de I'auteiir de la ' Hcnriade,' 



— Marie Catherine Daumart, d'une famille noble du 

 Poitou." 



Henry H. Breen. 

 St. Lucia, May, 1851. 



Meaning of Pitcher (Vol. iii., p. 476 ). — I must 

 say I can see no dilliculty at all about j9(7c^er. If 

 the r at the end makes it so strange a word, leave 

 that out, and then you will have a word, as it 

 seems, quite well establisiied — pijlche, toga pel- 

 lice: Lye. Skinner ih'mks pilchard may be derived 

 from it. 



" Pilch, an outer garment generally worn in 

 cold weather, and made of skins of fur. ' Peliciuni, 

 a pylche.' {Nominale MS.) The term is still 

 retained in connected senses in our dialects. 'A 

 piece of flannel, or other woollen, put under a 

 child next the clout is, in Kent, called a pilch ; 

 a coarse shagged piece of rug laid over a saddle, 

 for ease of a rider, is, in our midland parts, called 

 a pilch.' (MS. Laiml. 1033.) 'Warme pilche and 

 warme shon.' {MS. Digby, 86.) ' In our old drama- 

 tists the term is applied to a butTor leather jerkin; 

 and Shakspeare h:\spilcher for the sheath of a 

 sword." (Halliwell's Dictionary.) 



" Pilche, or pitcher, a scabbai-il, from pylche, a 

 skin coat, Saxon. A jMlche, or leather coat, seems 

 to have been tiie common dress for a carman. 

 Coles has ' a ])ilch for a saddle, instratiim,' 

 which explains that it was an external covering, 

 and probably of leather. Kersey also calls it a 

 covering for a saddle; but he likewise gives it the 

 sense of 'a piece of flannel to be wrapt about a 

 young child. It seems, therefore, to have been 

 used for any covering." (Nares' Glossary.) 



C.B. 



Catalogues of Coins of Canute (Vol. iii., p. 326.). 



— The following is a copy of the title-page of the 

 work referred to by BO|Ueas : — A Catalogue of the 



