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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 101. 



" Igual strenidad mantuvo liasta el ultimo punto de 

 la vida. Otorgo testamento dexaiido por albaceas a su 

 imiger IDoiia Catalina de Salazar, y al Licenciado 

 Francisco Nunez, que vivia en la misma casa : niando 

 que le sepultasen en las Monjas Trinitarias ; y murio 

 a 23 del expresado raes de Abril, de edad de 68 anos, 

 6 mcses, y 14 dias." 



The coincidence, however, of the renowned 

 Spaniard's death with that of our Shakspeare, who 

 certainly died apparently on the same day, the 23rd 

 of April, 1616, on which, as a singularity, Mr. 

 Frere, with others, dwells, wholly fails ; for, in fact, 

 that day in Spain corresponded not with the 23rd, 

 but the 13th, in England. It is forgotten that the 

 Ciregorian or Reformed Calendar was then adopted 

 in Spain, and tliat between it and the unreformed 

 style of England a difi'erence in that century ex- 

 isted of ten days : — thus, the execution of Charles I., 

 in our writers, and in the Book of Common Prayer, 

 is always dated on the 30th of January, while 

 oil the continent it is represented as on the 

 9lh of February. The Retbrmed Calendar was 

 adopted and promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII. 

 in 1582, while rejected by England, though ac- 

 knowledged to be correct, until 1751, because 

 Cdminy; from Kome. This dissraceful submission 

 to prejudice in repudiation of a demonstrated sci- 

 entific truth, practically sanctioned by a Napier, 

 a Newton, a Halley, &c., is still pursued in the 

 Greek churcli and Russian empire, where the 

 present day, the 17th of September, is the 5 th. 



J. E. 



Cork, Sept. 17. 



Story referred to hij Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., 

 p 208.). — Although unable to ])oint out the 

 source whence Jeremy Taylor derived the story 

 to which A. Tr. alludes, 1 m.ay be excused for 

 referring your correspondent to Don Quixote, 

 Part II. book III. chap, xiii., where the story, some- 

 what amplified, is given ; but with this difference, 

 that the staff is not broken by the injured person, 

 but by Signer Don Sancho Panza, Governor of 

 Rarataria, before whom the case is brought for 

 adjudication. That the story was founded on an 

 older one may be well inferred, from its being 

 stated that " Sancho had he.ird such a story told 

 by the curate of his village ; .and his memory was 

 so tenacious, in retaining everything he wanted 

 to remember, that there was not such another in 

 the whole island." C. II. CoorrE. 



Cambridge, Sept, 20. 1851. 



Gratjs Obligations to Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., 

 p. 204.). — I perfectly agi'ee with Rt. in his 

 admiration for Gray ; but, to my shame be it 

 spoken, am not very well read in Jeremy Taylor. 

 Ut. would oblige me, as well as other admirers of 

 " the sweet Lyrist of Peter-house," by furnishing 

 an example or two of the latter's obligations to 

 the bishop. 



Rt. will excuse me if I fail to perceive any 

 great degree of similarity between his two last 

 quoted passages from Gray and those from Cow- 

 ley, which he adduces as parallel. This refers 

 especially to the last instance, in which I trace 

 scarcely any similarity beyond that of a place of 

 education and a river being commemorated in 

 each. Would Rt. supply us with a few more 

 examples of borrowing Irom Cowley ? 



With Rt.'s wish lor a new edition of Gray, 

 " with the parallel passages annexed," I cordially 

 coincide. However, failing this new edition, lie 

 will allow me to recommend to his notice (if in- 

 deed he has not seen it) the Eton edition of the 

 poet, with introductory stanzas of great elegance 

 and lieauty, by another of Eton's bards, the Rev. 

 J. Lloultrie, author of that most pathetic little 

 poem "My Brother's Grave." K. S. 



Blessing hy the Hand (Vol. iv., p. 74.). — An 

 impression of the stamp on the bread used in the 

 Eucharist in Greece (mentioned in the above 

 Note) may be seen in the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford. It was cut off a loaf in the remarkable 

 monastery of Megaspelion in the Morea, by 



AV. C. Trevelyan. 



Sucre Cheveux (Vol. iv., p. 208.). — This is a 

 literal translation into heraldic language of the 

 name of the family which uses it for a motto : 

 Halifax = holy-hair, from the Anglo-Saxon hali, 

 or halig, and fax or feax. Tradition connects 

 the origin of the Yorkshire town of that name 

 with a head of singular length and beauty of hair, 

 found at or near the place where the Ilalifiix 

 gibbet used to stand. J. Eastwood. 



Pope and Flatman (Vol. iv., p. 210.). — E. V. 

 has entirely overlooked the very material circum- 

 stance that Flatman's poem was cited in your 

 periodical (Vol. iv., p. 132.) from a book published 

 in 1688, twenty-four years before the date he 

 assigns to the composition of Pope's ode. Flat- 

 man died Stli December, 1688, and Pope was born 

 22d May, 1688 ; so that he was little more than six 

 months old .at the time of FLatman's death. I have 

 now before me the 4th edition of Flai;man's Poems 

 and Songs, London, 8vo., 1G86 : "A Thought of 

 Death " occurs at p. 55. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, Sept. 20. 1851. 



Linteamina and Surplices (Vol. iv., p. 192.). — 

 In Goar's liittiale Grcecorum, the most complete 

 account is given of the ancient vestments of the 

 priesthood, from which, or rather from the same 

 source, those of the Romish and English churches 

 have been derived. The names of these vestments 

 arc (TToiX'^p'o'', oipuplov, fWLiJ.ai'iKia, iTmpa')(j]\wv, ^liv^, 

 UTToyovaTwv, (pfXtiviov, and ^inyova/nov. 



These were put on and taken oif in the presence 

 of the congregation, and a form of prayer appro- 

 priate to each vestment was repeated (/xuo-Ti/cwf) by 



