Oct. 25. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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piece which some of your readers may explain. 

 The figure of Leviathan represents the upper part 

 of a man with a crown on his head, a sword in his 

 right hand, and a crozier in his left, the body and 

 arms being made up of small human figures in 

 various dresses. In the common editions the face 

 has a manifest resemblance to Cromwell (the work 

 was published in 1651), although it wears, as I 

 have said, a regal crown. But in the copy be- 

 longing to Trinity College Library, the face 

 appeals to be intended for Charles I. The en- 

 graving of this copy is very much worse than the 

 other, and is not worked into the same careful 

 detail by the artist, though the outline is the same : 

 and the text of the book is a separate and worse 

 impression, though the ei'rata are the same with 

 the other copies, as well as the date. How Hobbes 

 himself, or any other person, should come to print 

 the Leviathan in this manner, it seems difficult to 

 explain. 



I have also a small French translation of 

 Hobbes, De Corpore Politico, dated 1652, which 

 has a similar figure for a frontispiece, but with an 

 upright sword in the right, and a balance in the 

 left.'^hand. W.W. 



Cambridge. 



233. Broad Arrow or Arrow Head. — What is 

 the origin of the arrow head as a government 

 mark ? f 



234. Deep Well near Bansted Downs. — Mr. Ro- 

 bert Hooke, professor at Gresham College, writing 

 in 1674, savs he has — 



" seen at a gentleman's house, not far from Bansted- 

 Downs in Surrey, a well which is dug through a body 

 of clialk, and is near 3G0 feet deep, and yet dry almost 

 to the very bottom." 



Is this well still known, and can any of your cor- 

 respondents vindicate its situation, and give any 

 particulars relating to it ? The pamphlet in which 

 it is mentioned is curious, for it is " an attempt to 

 j)rove the motion of the earth [in its orbit] from 

 observations." It will be observed that the work 

 was written in the year 1674. AV. S. G. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



235. Upton Court. — About nine miles from 

 Reading, on the road to Newbury, and removed 

 about two miles from the high road, is an ancient 

 manor house called Upton Court. It is most 

 curious as to architecture, and is a most in- 

 teresting specimen of the houses of the gentry of 

 former days. It belonged to a Catholic family of 

 the name of Perkins. The chapel, in the house, and 

 the hiding-place for priests, can still be seen. It is 

 said that Pope wrote tiie Rape of the Lock there. 

 I shouhl be glad to know if any of your cor- 

 respondents can confirm this fact from authentic 

 evidence. A. E. 



236. Dej-ivation of Prog. — In Vol. iv., p. 175., 

 Pirog is stated to be the Russian custom of the 

 mistress of a family distributing on certain occa- 

 sions bread or cake to her guests. 



Query, Is this the origin of our slang word 

 prog, meaning provisions ? J. Ss. 



237. Metrical Historij of England. — I am 

 nearly an octogenarian, consequently I ought to 

 have something better, and humbly hope I have 

 something better, to employ my thoughts than 

 relics of old ditties and forgotten rhymes. Still 

 the recurring questions of numerous grandchildren 

 compel one to resort to long forgotten lore, and to 

 request those whose memory still survives to com- 

 pensate for the deficiencies of my own. I am pai-- 

 ticularly anxious to recover my lapsis in the fol- 

 lowing metrical, yet logical, history of England, 

 which I have long ago forgotten : 



"William and William, and Henry and Stephen, 

 And Henry the Second, to make the First even." 

 If either Mr. Halliwell, or Dr. Rimbadlt, will 

 favour me, they will confer a great obligation, and 

 add much to the hilarity of my ensuing Christmas 

 table. IVLeris. 



238. Finger Pillories in Churches. — Besides 

 some interesting monuments, &c., to be found in 

 the church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, there stands 

 under the western gallery a. finger pillo?-;/, or stocks 

 to confine the fingers only : it is fastened at its 

 right-hand extremity into the wall, and consists of 

 two pieces of oak ; the bottom and fixed piece is 

 three feet eight inches long; the width of the 

 whole is four and a half inches, and when closed 

 it is five inches deep : the left-hand extremity is 

 supported by a leg of the same width as the top, 

 and two feet six inches in length ; the upper piece 

 is joined to the lower by a hinge, and in this lower 

 and fixed horizontal part are thirteen perpen- 

 dicular holes, varying in size ; the largest are 

 towards tlie right hand : these holes are sufficiently 

 deep to admit the finger to the second joint, and a 

 slight hollow is made to receive the third one, 

 which lies flat; there is of course a corresponding 

 hollow in the top or movable part, which, when 

 shut down, incloses the whole finger. 



Its use is stated to have been for the punish- 

 ment of persons guilty of mal-])ractices during 

 divine service : trul}', a mischievous urchin, or a 

 lout of a farm servant, dragged off to the stocks, 

 must have been a scene extremely edifying to the 

 congregation, pai-ticularly if the offenders were 

 obstreperous, and had no inclination whatever to 

 be in a fix. 



(^ucry. Is there another known instance of 

 stocks for the fingers alone, and applied to similar 



purposes i 



Tiios. Lawrence. 



Ashi)y-de-la-Zouch. 



239. Stallmige Queries. — 1. What was the chris- 

 tian name, birth, and parentage of the Stallenge 



