July 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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George III.'s busts ; and the legend " Voce 

 Populi." 



Keverse : The figure of Iliberuia seated, with 

 an olive branch in her right hand, and a spear in 

 her left ; also a harp at her side. Letjend : 

 " Hibernia." Exergue, " 1760." J.'N. C. 



20. Meaning of Whig and Toi~ij. — IMay I beg 

 sufficient space in your journal to inquire for the 

 exact etymology of the tei-ms "Whig" and " Tory ?" 

 We all know the exact time when these first came 

 into use. We all understand precisely the mean- 

 ing of the terms " Conservative," " Liberal," 

 "Kadical," "Peelite," "Protectionist," all of which, 

 ■with the exception of Peelite, are equally appli- 

 cable to things not political ; but Whig and Tory 

 can only be used in tliis one sense. From whence 

 then their derivation ? A Cleek of the House. 



21. '■'■Fortune, Infortune, Fort une." — In the 

 church of Notre Dame de Brou, near the town of 

 Bourg, in the department de I'Ain, the Ibllowing 

 inscription is engraved on the tomb of Marguerite 

 d'Autriche, the wife of Philibert le Beau, Prince 

 of Savoy : — 



" Fortune, Infortuiie, Fort une." 

 In this epitaph, the first two words are intel- 

 ligible enough, and allude to certain reverses of 

 fortune which had chequered the life of the prin- 

 cess ; but the expression fort une reads somewhat 

 enigmatical, and I shall be obliged to any of your 

 readers who can give the meaning of it. 



Heney II. Bkeen. 

 St. Lucia, June, 1851. 



22. Unde derivatur Stonehenge. — Antiquaries 

 and topographers generally (Stukeley and Sir 

 R. C. Hoare included) have been hitherto content 

 to consider this word as a compound of stan and 

 Aew^e, Anglo-Saxon; — that is, "hanging stone." 

 Now this etymology of the word has always ap- 

 peared to me very laisatisfactory. The cross 

 stones do not hang ; they lie on llie uprights, and 

 are kept in their places by mortice holes. An 

 ingenious friend of mine has, by what I consider 

 a happy train of reasoning, arrived at another and 

 a better conclusion. Evei-y one knows that our 

 German ancestors used the word horse adjectively. 

 And we still have it so in use to designate many 

 tilings as the largest of their kind ; as horse- 

 chestnut, horse-daisei/, horse-mushroom, horse-em- 

 met, &c. &c. llorsu and hengsi or hengist, are 

 convertible terms; or, if any difference, the latter 

 word is used for stallion. If so, then, is it not 

 reasonable to suppose that the stones of this 

 Druid temple would |)r()voke the largest idea of 

 magnitude, anil thence be called Stone-IIengst, or 

 more euphoniously, Stone-henge, — stallion stones? 



P.P. 



23. Marriage of Bishops. — I shoulil feel oblig<!d 

 to any of your correspondents who would supply 



me with an example from early Church history of 

 a bishop or priest marrying after ordination. 



Deacons were expressly allowed to marry by 

 the Council of Ancyra ; but I shoidd wish an 

 example of either of the others. 



Marriage after priestly ordination is now for- 

 bidden by the Greek church, and since the Council 

 of Trullo bishops must be celibate or continent. 



Second Query — What evidence is there that 

 bishops in early times, if already married, were 

 obliged to put away their wives ? It is said that 

 St. Gregory Nazianzen's father had children after 

 he was raised to the episcopate. Can this be 

 proved, and are there other instances? 



From the silence of early Church writers as to 

 any difference between the clergy and laity on 

 this point, I am much inclined to believe that the 

 Eoman requirement of celibacy was then confined 

 to the bishopric of Rome itself, and the imme- 

 diately adjoining country. 



St. Paul, in 1 Cor. ix. 5., says : 



" Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, 

 as well as the other apostles, and as the brethren of 

 the Lord and Cephas?" 



implying that he had power to marry even then ; 

 and our Saviour speaks of continence a; a gift 

 given only to certain persons. (St. Matthew, 

 chap. xix. ver. 11, 12.) A.B. C. 



Edinburgh, July 10. 1851. 



24. The Sign ^. — What is the meaning, and 

 whence the origin of the sectional sign ^, so much 

 used in the Bible, and also at the head of the ru- 

 brical instructions in the Book of Common Prayer? 



P.P. 



25. Early German Virgil. — I should like to 

 know if the following name is that of a well-known 

 publisher ; and whether the book, from which I 

 take the name, is known ? also, whether it is very 

 rare, and of literary value ? " Gedruckt zu 

 Fi-anhfurt am Main (lurch David Zvpffeln zum 

 Eisern Huth, 1559." 



I find this at the end of a curious German trans- 

 lation of Virgil into verse — short and easy flowing. 



There is a summary in verse, and a quaint 

 engraving to every book. Bound in wood and 

 leather. It has many odd peculiarities too long 

 to mention. 



In the Preface, this is said to be the second 

 edition, that the first was published "many years 

 ago, by a learned man." It must have been pub- 

 lished about the same time as Bishop Gawaiit (or 

 Gawin) Doiislas's, and is something like it. 



R. S. T. 



26. Fairlight Church.— In Diplock's New Guide 

 to Hastings, St. Leonards, and the Neighbourhood, 

 which, unfortunately, like most other works of 

 this class, is worse than useless to the architec- 

 tural visitor, it is stated that the old church at 



