Oct. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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212. The Residence of William Peiiii. — I liave 

 been intbnneil that Chtitham House, oi)posite the 

 barracks at Kiiightsbridge, was the residence of 

 Penn. This house was built in 1688; it had for- 

 merly large garden grounds attached both in front 

 and behind. Another account inlbrmed me that a 

 house, now known as the '• Rising Sun," was the 

 honoured spot. This house has only of late years 

 been turned into a public-house; it is of neat ap- 

 pearance, and the date of 1611 is, or was till 

 lately, to be seen at the two extremes of the 

 coping. Query, Can either of these houses be 

 pointed out with certainty as having been the 

 residence of the great Quaker, and, if so, which ? 

 AVhy was the first-mentioned house called Chat- 

 ham House ? H. G. D. 



213. Martial's Distribution of Hours. — 



" Prima salutantes atque altera continet hora ; 

 Exercet raucos tertia causidicos. 

 In quintam varios extenrlit lloma labores, 



Sexta quies lassis " 



Martial, iv. 8. 



These lines are the forenoon portion of Martial's 

 well-known distribution of hours and occupation. 



Taking these hours then, for the sake of simpli- 

 fication, at the equinox, when they assimilate in 

 length to our modern hours ; and assuming it as 

 granted that " qnies lassis " refers to the noon-tide 

 siesta, and therefore that " sexta " cannot signify 

 any time previous to our twelve o'clock, or noon, 

 I wish to ask the classical readers of " Notes and 

 Queries" — 



1st. How far into the day are we carried by the 

 expression " in quintain ? " 



2nd. If no farther than to a point equivalent to 

 our eleven o'clock, a.m., in wliat way is tlie vacant 

 hour between that point and sexta, or noon, ac- 

 counted for by Martial '' A. E. E. 



Leeds. 



214. Moonlight. — A sermon of Dr. Pusey's 

 contains the following beautiful illustration of the 

 danger of much knowledge and little practice : 



" The pale cold lislit of tlie moon, wliicli enlightens 

 but warms not, putrilii;s wliat it falls upon." 



Will any one inform me wlietlier this is a physical 

 truth, or only an allowable use of a popular 



opinion , 



Philip Hedgeland. 



21.'>. Ash-sap given to new-horn Children. — 

 Lighlfoot, in his Flora Scotia, vol.ii. p. 642., says — 



"That in many parts of .Scotland (the Highlands), 

 at tile birth of a cliild the nurse or midwife puts one 

 end of a great stick of the ash-tree into the lire, and 

 while it is burning receives into a spoon the sup or 

 juice which oo/.es out at the other end, and administers 

 this as the first s])oonfiil of li((uor to the new-horn 

 babe." — Phillip's Sijlca Flora. 



Why ? G. Creed. 



216. Cochiey. — In John Minshieu's Ductor in 

 Linguas, jjublished in 1617, the origin of this word 

 is thus explained : — ■ 



" That a citizen's son riding with his father out of 

 London into the cauntry, and being a novice and 

 merely ignorant how corn and cattle increased, asked, 

 when he heard a horse neigh, what the horse did ? 

 His father answered, the horse doth neigh. Hiding 

 further he heard a cock crow, and said, doth the cock 

 ?ieiffh too ? " 



I should not have troubled you with this story 

 had I not been anxious to ascertain the real origin 

 of the word " Cockney," about which Johnson 

 seems to have been nearly as much in the dark as 

 I am. For any other and more rational explana- 

 tion I shall be much obliged, as well as by being 

 informed from what source Minshieu derived 

 this story of a cock and a horse, which I am con- 

 fident I have met with elsewhere, and which is 

 probably familiar to many of your readers. 



H, C. 



Workington. 



217. Full Orders.— This term is well understood 

 to mean those orders conferred in the church 

 which elevate a deacon to the rank of a priest, 

 capable of a full and entire performance of the 

 duties of the Chi-istian ministry. An interesting 

 point has recently been stirred afresh, touching 

 the validity of any ministerial commission which 

 does not draw its authority from the imposition of 

 episcopal hands. I am not proposing to start a 

 controversial question, unsuited to the quiet and 

 pleasant pages of " Xotes and Queries;" but 

 there branches out from this question a Query 

 solely relating to the Church of England, and 

 involving no dispute; and therefore I beg to ask, 

 whether our church holds that a bishop can confer 

 the full orders of the priesthood without any con- 

 comitant laying on of the hands of the presbytery? 

 The rubric, in the office for the Ordering of 

 Priests, says, " The Bishop iviih the Pr-iesfs 

 present shall lay their hands severally upon the head 

 of every one that receiveth the order of Priesthood ;" 

 and the Bishop then says, " Pteceive the Holy 

 Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the 

 Ciiurch of God, now committed unto thee by the 

 imposition of our hands," &c. Is, then, the aid of 

 the priests essential to the due performance of the 

 rite ? Does the expression " our hands " mean 

 both bishop's and priests' hands, as the joint in- 

 struments of conveying authority to do the work 

 and office of a priest?" Is there any instance of 

 an Anglican bishop ordaining a pi'iest without 

 assistance? I am aware that Beveridge considers 

 that the bishop's hands alone are suiiicient ; that 

 it has never been the jiractice in the Greek or the 

 Eastern churches for priests to take a part in the 

 ceremony of conferring " full orders ; " and that 

 the custom of their doing so is referred to_ a 

 decree of the Council of Carthage, a. x>. 398, which 



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