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[No. 100. 



seen in Sir James Ware's Writers of Ireland (eel. 

 Harris, pp. 191-3), and in Dodd's Church History 

 of England, vol. iii. pp. 2S4-5. : Brussels, 174-2. 

 It is to be hoped that in the Bodleian Catalogue 

 something further has been stated respecting this 

 curious and very rare book than that it was written 

 by " M. Lominus, Theologus," who was merely an 

 imaginary divine. The real author was the famous 

 Peter Talbot, brother of " Lying Dick Talbot" 

 (the Duke of Tyrconnel and Viceroy of Ireland), 

 almoner to Catharine, queen of Charles II., and 

 titular Archbishop of Dublin. R. G. 



The work referred to, entitled BlackloancB Haresis, 

 olini in Felagio et Manichceis dainnatce, nunc denuo 

 7-enascentis, Historia et Confutatio, Gand. 1675, 

 4to., I have a copy of. It is written against the 

 Blackloists, the leaders of whom were Thomas 

 White, the follower of Sir Kenelm Digby, and 

 John Sargeant, the voluminous Roman Catholic 

 writer. The real author of the book was Peter 

 Talbot, the brother of Richard Talbot, Duke of 

 Tyrconnel. He also published the History of 

 Manicheism and Ptlugianism, in tuhich it is shown 

 that Thomas White and his Adherents have revived 

 those Heresies : Paris, 1674, 8vo. Jas. Ckossley. 



Corpse passing makes a Right of Way (Vol. iii., 

 pp. 477. 507. 519. ; Vol. iv., p. 124.).— This belief 

 is common in East Anglia, and such paths are 

 called Bierways. When the common lands at 

 Alby in Norfolk were enclosed, much difficulty 

 was experienced in stopping one road, on account 

 of its being an ancient bierway. In Norwich the 

 passage through a part of the city called the Bull 

 Close, is accounted public for this reason ; and a 

 very few years since a gentleman at AVhittlesey, in 

 Cambridgeshire, prevented a funeral from taking a 

 shorter road through his grounds, through fear of 

 its being afterwards esteemed a public thorough- 

 fare. E. S. Tayi-or. 



Horology (Vol. iv., p. 175.). — H. C. K, will 

 probably find all he requires in the Penny Cyclo- 

 pcedia (Articles " Horology" and " Penduhim "), 

 or in a two-shilling volume published by AVeale 

 last year, Denison on Clocks, Chimes, Sfc, or in 

 the other works enumerated below : — EUicott on 

 regulating Clocks, Ato., 1753 ; Vulliamy's Considera- 

 tions on Public Clocks, 4to., 1828; Derham's Arti- 

 ficial Clock Maker, 12m()., 1734 ; Berthoudi's Essai 

 sur V Horlogcrie, 4to., 2 vols. 1763. H. T. E. 



Clyst St. George. 



Curfew (Vol. ii., p. 103.). — In Charleston, the 

 capital of the state of South Carolina, a bell is 

 tolled twice every evening, at eight and ten o'clock 

 in summer, and at seven and nine in winter: this 

 custom dates from early times. At the ringing of 

 the second bell the watch for the night is set, and 

 our servants are prohibited from being abroad 

 after that hour without a permit from their mas- 



ters ; the first bell subserves no purpose, and is 

 merely rung in conformity to ancient usage. I 

 am inclined to think that our ancestors had this 

 bell rung in order to keep up the old custom of 

 the curfew bell of their cherished mother-country. 

 It is still a custom when "the first bell rings" for 

 the younger children of the family to say " Good 

 night," and retire to bed. This is the only prac- 

 tical use to which this early ringing is put, and a 

 capital custom it is, though rather distasteful to 

 the young folks when they are anxious to sit up a 

 little longer. H. H, B. 



Monte Cavallo, South Carolina. 



" Going the whole Hog" (Vol. iii., p. 250.). —A 

 querist asks information as to the origin of the 

 American figure of speech " to go the whole hog." 

 I apprehend its parentage belongs less to America 

 than to Ireland, where a " hog " is still the synonym 

 for a shilling, and a " tester " or " taster " for a 

 sixpence. Previously to the assimilation of the 

 currency of the two countries in 1825, a "white 

 hog" meant the English shilling or twelve pence, 

 and a "black hog" the Irish shilling of thirteen 

 pence. To "go the whole hog" is a convivial de- 

 termination to spend the whole shilling, and the 

 prevalence of the expression, witli an extension of 

 its applications in America, can be readily traced 

 to its unportation by the multitudes of emigrants 

 from Ireland. M. R***son. 



Belfast. 



John Bodley (Vol. iv., p. 59.). — " Burleigh, 



M. A." who is mentioned by S. S. S. as one of the 

 translators of the Bible in 1611, must have been a 

 different person to John Bodley, the father of the 

 celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley. In the very in- 

 teresting "History of English Translations and 

 Translators" prefixed to Bagster's English Hex- 

 apla, "Mr. Burgley of Stretford" is mentioned as 

 one, with this note : — 



" In the Lambeth MS. it is 'Mr. Henry Burleigh.* 

 It is added, one of that name was B. D. in 1594, and 

 D.D. in 1607."— P. 104. 



Townley, however, in his Illustrations of Biblical 

 Literature, 1821, vol. iii. p. 293 , supposes him to 

 have been the Francis Burleigh, D.D., who, ac- 

 cording to Newcourt, became vicar of Stortford, 

 or Bishop Stortford, in 1590. See Repertorium, 

 vol. i. p. 896. John I. Dredge. 



Among my matches in and about London (which 

 I shall always be glad to search for your corre- 

 spondents) is the following : 



" 23 July 1608, John Budhigh, Aldgate, prhiter, B 54, 

 free of tlie stationers and a freeman ; and Elizabeth 

 Hemp of Paul's Wharf, Sp. 30. St. Brides." 



J. S. B. 



Ancient Egypt, Language of (Vol. iv., p. 152.). 

 — In Adelun'i's Mithridates the titles of the best 



