Aug. 30. 1851.] 



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born, or wbere interred. Faulkner, in bis His- 

 tory of Chelsea, observes that be was probably a 

 native of Devonsbire ; but there appears to be 

 some ground for considering that he was of a 

 family settled at Mayroyd, in the parish of Halifax 

 in Yorkshire. In a conveyance of the estate, 

 dated 29tb January, 1581, the grantor is INIatthew 

 Sutcliffe, "Doctor of Civil Law, dwelling in Lou- 

 don." He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 and Doctor of Civil Law : be died in 1629. In his 

 will be desires to be buried in Exeter Cathedral. 

 Probably the inscription on bis tombstone, if still 

 existing, mJirht settle this uncertaintv. I shall 

 feel obliged to any of your correspondents who 

 can throw any light on the subject. 



James Ceosslet. 



109. Names Jirst given to Parishes. — Is there 

 any means of ascertaining the time at which names 

 were first given to parishes ? and can any reason 

 be given for the recurrence of one termination in 

 a particula.r locality ? Thus between Caistor and 

 Brigg in Lincolnshire, a distance of about nine 

 miles, there are, I understand, the several parishes 

 or hamlets of Clixby, Fqnahy, Grassby, Ownby, 

 Searby, Bigby, Bnrnetby, Wratrby, and there are 

 many others in the neighbourhood. Of course, I 

 know the meaning of by, as a termination ; but I 

 wish to know why it occurs so often in one locality, 

 when perhaps a few miles off you have as many 

 hams or thorpes. 



Can you suggest any probable derivation of 

 Swihhop ? F. B. 



Leamington. 



110. German Testament. — "WHiat is the most 

 literal German trauslation of the jSTew Testament ? 

 Is the translation published by the British and 

 Foreign Bible Society in 1844 to be depended 

 on ? A. G. 



111. The Man of Laxo. — Who was the author 

 of the following lines quoted by Mr. Serjeant Byles 

 a short time since ? — 



"The man of la-.v, who never saw, 

 The way to buy or sell, 

 Shall never rise, by merchandise, 

 Or ever speed him well." 

 They may not be quite correct, as I write from 

 memory. W. AY. King. 



112. The Termination " 5'Ai>." — What is the 

 origin of the termination ship, in such words as 

 Con3ul«/ny?, \>vx{ovship, lordship, and others ? 



A. W. H. 



113. Nullus and Nemo. — I have two old quarto 

 tracts, of eight pages each, printed, as seems both 

 by the type and by an allusion contained in one of 

 them, between 1520 and 1530, or thereabouts. 

 They are part of a satirical controversy, the sub- 

 ject of which is very obscure, between Nemo of 

 Wittemberg, and Nullus of Leipsic. Though 



printed, we must suppose, at the two places, the 

 opponents have evidently clubbed for a woodcut 

 to be common to the two title-pages. 



In this cut an unfortunate householder stands 

 in aa attit\ide of despair, surrounded by what are 

 as much in our day as in his the doings of nobody, 

 as broken crockery, hardware, &c. In the dis- 

 tance his kitchen is visible, in which two nobodies 

 are busy with his meat and wine. A young wo- 

 man is carrying an infant to the priest to be bap- 

 tized ; and from the way in which the worthy man 

 holds u]) bis finger, we may fear she has just con- 

 fessed that it is nobody's child. Can any of your 

 readers give any information ? M. 



114. 2"he noblest Object of the Work of Art. — 

 Can any of your readers discover the answer to 

 the adjoining riddle, which I have met with, though 

 I neither know its author nor answer? — 



" The noblest object of the work of art, 

 Tlie brightest gjni that nature can impart, 

 Tlie point essential in the tenant's lease, 

 The well-known signal in the time of peace. 

 The farmer's comfort when he holds the plough. 

 The soldier's duty and the lover's vow, 

 The planet seen between the earth and sun, 

 The prize that merit never yet hath won, 

 The miser's idol and the badge of Jews, 

 Tlie wife's ambition and the parson's dues. 

 If now your noble spirit can divine, 

 A corresponding word for every line. 

 By the first letters plainly will be shown. 

 An ancient city of no small renown." 



A. W. H. 



115. Poulster. — Can any one inform me if I ana 

 right in supposing that this word, used in the 

 reign of George I. as an addition expressing trade, 

 is the same as our upholsterer f D. X. 



iStfitor eaucrt'EjS ^n^tocrcU. 



Reverend Caesar de Missy. — Can you furnish 

 me with any particulars respecting the Rev. 

 CiBsar de Missy ? Bishop Middleton, in his work 

 on the Greek article, quotes once or twice some 

 MS. notes of his, now in the British Museum; 

 and a rare edition of the Septuagint (Basil, 1545), 

 now in my possession, contains bis autogra])h 

 under date Londini, 1745. I have not met with 

 bis name in any biographical work, and should 

 therefore be obliged by any information respecting 

 bis life and works. Quidam. 



[CfEsarde IMissy, a learned Prussian divine, was born 

 at Berlin, !70:3. Having settled in England, he was 

 appointed in 17fi2to l)c one of the French chaplains to 

 George III., and died 1773. His valuable library, 

 which was sold by Baker and Leigh in 1778, consisted 

 of many books enriched with his MS. notes, some of 

 which were purchased for his Majesty's library, some 

 for the British Museum, and some by Dr. Hunter, \yho 

 also bought several of his manuscrijjts. A biographical 



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