Sept. 13. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



191 



as before the first French revolution, the Cagofs 

 had a particular place and door set apart for them 

 in the churches. Does not this look like their 

 being Paulicians forced into orthodox)-, or equally, 

 perhaps, Saracen Christians, similar to the Jew 

 Christians of Spain ? Kusxicus. 



138. Execution under singular Cir-cumstances. — 

 I have read somewhere, but failed to " make a note 

 of it " at the time, an anecdote of a singular oc- 

 currence at Winchester, to the following effect. 



Some years ago a man was apprehended near 



, in Hamjjshire, charged with a capital offence 



(sheep-stealing I believe). After being examined 

 before a justice of the peace, he was committed to 

 the county gaol at Winchester for trial at the en- 

 suing assizes. The evidence against the man was 

 too strong to admit of any doubt of his guilt ; he 

 was consequently convicted, and sentence of death 

 (rigidly enforced for this crime at the period al- 

 luded to) pronounced. Months and years passed 

 away, but no warrant for his execution arrived. 

 In the interval a marked improvement in the 

 man's conduct and bearing became apparent. His 

 natural abilities were good, his temper mild, and 

 his general desire to please attracted the attention 

 and engaged the confidence of the governor of 

 the prison, who at length employed him as a do- 

 mestic servant ; and such was his reliance on his 

 integrity, that he even employed him in executing 

 commissions not only in the city, but to places at 

 a great distance from it. After a considerable 

 lapse of time, however, the awful instrument, 

 •which had been inadvertently concealed among 

 other papers, was discovered, and at once for- 

 warded to the high sheriff, and by the proper au- 

 thority to the imfortunate delinquent himself. 

 My purpose is brief relation only ; suffice it to say 

 the unhappy man is stated under these affecting 

 circumstances to have suffered the last penalty of 

 the law. 



Query, Can any of your readers inform me if 

 this extraordinary story is founded on fact ? 



M. W. B. 



139. Uhynsnult and Sappldra. — Whence did 

 Steele derive the story of tliese personages in the 

 Spectator (No. 491.) ? A similar story is told by 

 Jeremy Taylor, from John Chokier (Duct. Duhit., 

 book ill. chap. ii. rule 5. quaist. 3.) ; and that of 

 Colonel Kyrke furnishes another parallel. 



A Te. 



140. MalleCs Second Wife. — I should be glad 

 to know in what year the second wife of ^lallet 

 died. It is stated that he returned from abroad 

 shortly before his death, without his wife. F. 



141. Proverb, ivhnt constitutes one? — What dis- 

 tinguishes a proverb, and is essential to its being 

 such, as distinct from a short familiar sentence ? 



QUEKE. 



142. Presant Famibj. — Any information re- 

 specting the ancient family of Presant, which is 

 now nearly extinct, will oblige Sylla. 



143. The Sei'pent represented icith a human 

 Head. — Is Raphael the only ])ainter who dejiicts 

 the serpent with a human head tempting Eve ? 

 and what is the origin of the legend? G. Creed. 



144. Dr. Wotton. — Is there any gencaloiricnl 

 connexion between Sir Henry Wotton, the Vene- 

 tian ambassador, and the Rev. Henry Wotton of 

 Suffolk, father of the eminent Dr. AVilliani Wot- 

 ton ? And where is the pedigree to be found ? 



S. W. Rix. 

 Beccles. 



145. KoA.ogo5aKTuXoj. — In the seventh book of 

 Oiigen's Philosophumena, chap, xxx., speaking of 

 Marcion, the writer says : 



" When therefore Marcion, or any of his currish fol- 

 lowers, barks at the Demiurgus, bringing forward these 

 arguments about the opposition of good and evil, they 

 must be told that neither the Apostle Paul, nor Mark 

 6 KoXoSo'SdicrvKos (i.e. the stump-fingered), promul- 

 gated any such doctrines ; for nothing of the kind is 

 found written in the Gospel according to Mark." 



Is this epithet of Mark the Evangelist men- 

 tioned by any other of the fathers, or is it known 

 how it originated ? It is also to be remarked tiiat 

 Luke, not Mark, according to the received opinion, 

 was the evangelist whose authority Marcion ad- 

 mitted, and whose text he tampered with to suit 

 his own views. Is Origen supported in his ac- 

 count of the matter by any other writer ? 



C. W. G. 



146. Essex's Expedition to Ireland. — It is a 

 matter of history that the celebrated Earl of Essex 

 in Queen Elizabeth's time left London in March 

 1599, in command of a great expedition against 

 Ireland, accompanied by a numerous train of no- 

 bility and gentry and other retainers. 



At what office and to what quarter is one to 

 apply for the piirpose of discovering the Muster 

 Boll made upon that occasion ? There must be some 

 documents, hills, letters, &c., relating to that ex- 

 pedition, the object of the querist being to as- 

 certain whether his own name, "Jackson," can be 

 found in any of these document?, as he has reason 

 to think that an ancestor of his was one of the 

 battle-axe guards in Dublin at that period. J. 



147. Decretorum Doctor. — Is this title given at 

 either of our universities? And what is its pre- 

 cise meaning? It not uncommonly occurs in the 

 documents of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 

 and that it is not the same as Doctor of Laws may 

 be concluded from the following examples: — 

 The pulilicalion of a Pope's Bull by the Bishop of 

 London, in the chapel of his palace in London on 

 May IG, 1503, is stated to have been made "Prae- 



