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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 89. 



of the insect typified man's rise to life and glory, 

 a bright and glorious being, without spot or trace 

 of earthly stain. The Greeks from this notion 

 named the butterfly "Psyche." A careful ex- 

 amination of the anatomy and physiology of the 

 insect world will show the strict and amazing 

 beauty of this simile. Tee Bee. 



Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor (Vol. iv., 

 p. 9.). — Your printer has misprinted clamour in- 

 stead of your own expression demvr. Let me 

 add that there was neither clamour nor even denmr 

 on that occasion — all went off' quietly in the usual 

 course. There is also an omission of two words 

 in a subsequent line, which, though easily supplied, 

 I may as well notice. 



" The proclamation is that of the peers alone, 

 but assisted by the others" should rather be 

 " the proclamation is that of the peet'S alone, but 

 assisted by the ex-Privy Councillors and others,'' 

 as this marks the distinction between the two 

 classes of assistants more strongly. C. 



" Suum cuique tribuere," ^-c. (Vol. iii., p. 518.). 

 — Your correspondent M. D. will find the passage 

 in Cic. Offic, i. 5. Y. V. S. 



Sydenham. 



Meaning of Complexion (Vol. i., p. 352.). — 

 Addison says in Cato : 



" 'Tis not a set of features or complexion, 

 The tincture of a skin that I admire." 

 Here he uses the word complexion as something 

 distinct from " tincture of the skin." The colour 

 of the hair and iiides commonly indicates tlie 

 colour of the skin. If they are dark, the skin is 

 ordinarily dark; and if blue or light, the skin is 

 ordinarily fair. I have seen flaxen hair and sur- 

 passing whiteness of skin with eyes as black as 

 death. S. II. 



Gillingham (Vol.iii.,pp.448.505.).— As a means 

 of furnishing your correspondent Quidam with some 

 historical and local data that may tend to identity 

 the ]ilace where that memorable council was con- 

 vened, by which the succession to tlic English 

 crown was transferred from the Danish to the 

 Saxon line, I would refer him to Lambard's 

 Perambulation of Kent, published in 1596, pp. 351, 

 352, 353., as adducing strong evidence in favour 

 of the council alluded to having been held at 

 Gillingham next Ch.atham. Franciscus. 



Nao, a Ship (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 509.).— I perfectly 

 agree with Gomee that the early Britons must have 

 possessed vessels more capacious than osier baskets 

 or cyry-glau before they were able to transport 

 warlike assistance to their brethren the Armoricans 

 of Gaul; but I can inform Gomer and A. IST. in 

 addition, that a much older term for a ship was made 

 use of by the first inhabitants of Britain, namely 

 Nuf, from whence no doubt the Latin Navis 

 sprang ; and from the same root the Welsh word 



Nawf a swim (now iised), was derived. Tliis 

 term Naf is handed down to us in one of the 

 oldest British triads, but which has been always, 

 in my opinion, improperly interpreted. In speak- 

 ing of the three master works of the island of 

 Britain, is the ship of Nefydd Naf Neifion (or 

 Noah) ; the translation is simply this — 



Nefydd naf neifion. 



i. e. The ship constructor of the ship of ships. 

 Here you have the hero personified by his avo- 

 cation, and the 7ioun from which the proper name 

 is derived, both in the singular and plural number; 

 in the latter sense it is made use of by D. ab 

 Gwilym in the following couplet : 



" Y nofiad a wnaeth Neifion 

 O Droia fawr draw i Fon." 



" The swimming that the ships performed 

 From great Troy, afar, to Mona." 



John Fentgn. 

 Glyn y mel, Fishguard, June 27. 1851. 



John Perrot (Vol. iii., p. 336.). — I possess a 

 neatly written MS., of 88 pp. small 8vo., entitled 

 A Primmer for Children, written bi/ a suffering 

 Servant of God, John Perrot ; corrected, ammended, 

 and made mo7-e easie : London, in the Yeare 1664. 

 The only notice of him after this date is in p. 290. 

 of Sewel's History of the Quakers : 



" Perrot now walked in an erroneous path, grew 

 worse from time to time ; even to that degree that, 

 being come into America, he fell into manifold sen- 

 sualities and woiks of the flesh ; for he not only wore 

 gawdy apparel, but also a sword : and being got into 

 some place in the government, he became a severe 

 exacter of oaths." 



E.D. 



Snech up (Vol. i., p. 467. ; Vol. ii., p. 14.). — Snech 

 up is a stage direction for hiccup, which Sir Toby 

 was likely to observe after his " pickle herring." 

 Davis is ([uite right in following Theobald. A word 

 for Theobald. Every commentator is indebted to 

 him, and almost every one has abused him, from 

 Warburton and Pope to Coleridge, and without 

 Theotjald's notes and most sagacious amendments, 

 ordinary readers would be puzzled to read Shak- 

 speare. The booksellers, I am glad to see, had 

 sense enough to see Theobald's merit, and gave 

 him a far larger sum for his edition than has been 

 paid to most of his successors. S. H. (2) 



Meaning of Senage (Vol. iv., p- 6.). — Have the 

 kindness to inform W. H., that in my extracts 

 from the Parish Account Book of St. Peter's Man- 

 croft in this city, under the years 1582 and 1588, 

 arc entered as follows : — 



" 1582. P'' to the Bisshopp for Senage Money . . xxjf/. 

 1588. P* for Senage and Proxage to the Bisshopp, ixc/." 



In Cowel's Law Dictionary, by Thomas Manley, 

 folio, 1701, under the terni " Senege," he says : 



