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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 102. 



9. Was his body brought to England, and are 

 any memorials of him preserved, such as his 

 sword, pistols, &c. ? His spurs were lately in the 

 possession of a gentleman near Glasgow. 5- 



walker's suffjeki>"gs of the clekgy. 



Is it the intention of the Ecclesiastical History 

 Society to publish a new edition of "Walker's 

 Sufferings of the Clergy f At the lime when the 

 society was instituted it was on the list of works to 

 be published by them. 



Surely, if that is the case, somewhat might be 

 done to correct the many inaccui-acies, and, in 

 other ways, increase the value of a work which has 

 preserved the memory of some of the most exalted 

 acts of Christian heroism that England has ever 

 witnessed. 



Will the editor of " Notes and Qtjebies " 

 open his pages to receive notes and corrections 

 for a future edition of The Sufferings of the 

 Clergy f Dryasdust. 



[It is believed that the trading speculation, miscalled 

 a Society, lias ended with considerable loss to both 

 undertakers and subscribers; and is not likely to pub- 

 lish any more of the works which figured in its rhodo- 

 montade prospectus. Certainly it is very desirable 

 that there should be a new, careful, and critical edition 

 of Walker ; and any assistance which can be rendered 

 by " Notes and Queries " will be at the service of 

 anybody who' will undertake such a work. It would 

 be well, however (and it is mentioned here with general 

 reference to all such cases, though it is particularly 

 applicable to the present), if the learned doctor would 

 specify some mode by which the readers of " Notes 

 AKD QuEiiiEs" may address him directly. The Editor 

 suggests this, not to save himself trouble, or because he 

 grudges room (or rather would grudge room if he had 

 it) for many voluminous and important communica- 

 tions, which would be very valuable to the Doctor, but 

 which, from length, and want of general interest, could 

 not be inserted in this little work. It is probable 

 that he would by this mode obtain many communi- 

 cations which the writers would not send to " Noteb 

 AND Queries," from being aware that they could not 

 be inserted. There woula be nothing in this to pre- 

 vent his maintaining liis incognito ; and, therefore, the 

 Editor ventures to request his correspondents to send 

 to " Notes and Queries" anything that is brief, and 

 may promise to be of general interest ; and to address 

 anything which may be more voluminous to Dr. 

 Dryasdust, at our publisher's, No. 186. Fleet Street.] 



" iStinor Oticn'c^. 



207. Colonies in England. — Can any of your 

 correspondents give me any information about a 

 colony of Spaniards said to exist at Brighton ; of 

 Flemings in Pembrokeshire ; of Frisians in Lan- 

 cashire ; of Moors in (I think) Staffordshire ; and 

 of some Scandinavian race, with dark eyes and 



dark hair, at Yarmouth in Norfolk. I should 

 feel thankful for the mention of other colonies be- 

 sides these, if any more exist, as I believe many 

 do, in other parts of England. Theophylact. 



208. 13nxt07f's Tj-anslation of the " Treatise on 

 Hebreio Accents" hy Klias Levifa. — John Buxtorf 

 the elder, in his Bihliotheca jRahlinica (printed 

 along with his useful book -De Ahhreviaturis He- 

 hraicis : Basil, 1630), p. 345., speaking of the 

 curious and valuable work on the Hebrew Accents, 

 by K. Elias Levita, called 



□ytO 21D 1SD. ' 

 says, " Habemus cum Latine a nobis translatum." 

 Can any of your readers inform me whether this 

 translation was ever printed ; and, if not, whether 

 the MS. of it Is known to exist? 



James H. Todd. 

 Trin. Coll. Dublin. 



209. The Name " Bolert." — Can any of your 

 readers ofl'er any suggestions as to how the name 

 " Robert," and its various diminutives, became 

 connected with so much diablerie ? 



Besides the host of ^oi-goblins, AoJ-thrush, 

 ^oi-with-thc-lantern, and the Yorkshire Dohbies, 

 we have those two mysterious wights Robin Hood 

 and Bobin Goodfellow, and " superstitious fa- 

 vourite" the Bobin Redbreast. It is a term also 

 frequently applied to idiotcy (invariably among 

 our lower orders linked with the idea of super- 

 naturalism). Hobbil in the northern and Dobbin 

 in the midland districts of England are terms 

 used to denote a heavy, torpid fellow. The French 

 Robin was formerly used in the same sense. 



Saxonicus. 



210. Meaning of '•'■ Artrizde" — In Halliw ell's 

 Archaic Dictionary., p. 821. col. 2., there is a quota- 

 tion from Middleton's Epigrams and Sutyres, 1608. 

 Will you, or any of your readers, be kind enough 

 to inform me what is the meaning of the word 

 " Art'rizde " which occurs in the cjuotatinn, and 

 also give some information as to the book from 

 which it is quoted ? Dyce professes to publish all 

 of Middleton's known works, but in his edition 

 (1840) there are no epigrams to be found. 



QUiESO. 



211. Sir William Griffith of North Wales.— 

 Elizabeth, daughter of William Fiennes, Constable 

 of Dover Castle, wlio w.as slain at the battle of 

 Barnet, 10 Edw. IV., married, according to the 

 pedigrees of Fiennes, " Sir William Griffith, of 

 North Wales, Knt." It appears there were several 

 persons of this name, and one styled Chamberlain 

 of North Wales, but no such wife is given to him. 

 Can any of your Welsh genealogists identify the 

 Sir William Griffith by reference to any evidence 

 or authorities, manuscript or otherwise, which state 

 the marriage, and show whether Elizabeth Fiennes 

 had any issue? G. 



