NOTES AND QUERIES: 



A MEDimi OF INTER-C03IMUNICATI0N 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" VThen founds make a note, of." — Captain Cuttle. 



Vol. IV. — ]No. 105.] Saturdat» November l. 1851. 



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COJ^TENTS. Page 



The Claims of Lileraiure --.,.,. 337 

 Notes; — 



Daniel Defoe anJ the " Mercntor," by James Crossley- 388 

 Punishment of Edward Prince of Wale.*, by King 

 Edward I.^ for Disrespect to a Judge, by William 

 Sidney Gibson ---.__ 33g 

 Note on the Word " ASjAawf." by T. K. Brown - 339 



Lambert, the "Arch-Kebell," by Ricliard John King - 3:'.9 

 The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Uorney ... 340 

 Minor Notes: — A Hint to Catalogue Makers — Virgil 

 and Goldsmith — MeiUaJ Almanac — Merlin and the 

 Electric Telegraph ..... 340 



Qberies : — 



Bishop Bramhall and BliHon - - , . 341 



The Sempills of Beltrus: Robert SempiH . - 343 



Descendants of John of Gaunt . - - . 343 



Minor Queries: — Uocky Chasm near Gaeta : Earth, 

 quake at the Cruciiixion — Cavalcade — A .Sept of 

 Hibernians — Yankee Doodle — Seventeenth of No- 

 vember: Custom — Chatter-box — Printing in 1449, 

 and Siiakspeare^ Texts l>ef(>re Serijious — Paradyse, 

 Hell, Purgatory — Dead Letter — Dominus Bathnrst, 

 &c. — Grammar Schouls — Fermilodum — Lord Hun- 

 g^rford — Consecration of Bishops ia Sweden . 343 



Minor Qi'EIUIs Answered: — Etfigy of a Pilgrim — 

 *' .^ioder^ Universal Historv" — Origin ofEvil — Nolo 

 Kpiscopari — Authors of the Homilies — Fantily of 

 Hotham of Yorkshire— Vogelweide — Meaning of 

 Skeatta ...... 



Keplies : — 



Marriage of Ecclesiastics, by Henry Walter, &c. 



Lord Strafford and Archbishop Usshec . , . 



Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotlan(J . 



Anagrams .....-., 



'J'he Locusts of the New Testament . . - 



.;;_ The Soul's Errand, by Dr. Edward F. RimbauU 



The Two Drs. Abercrombie . . . ,. 



Reijlies tr» Minor Queries ; — Dacre Monument at Hurst, 

 inonceux — Bo(»k-plates — Sermon of Bishop Jeremy 

 Taylor — Moonlight — Flatinan and Pope — Berlin 

 Time — Uuined Churches — Italia.:i Writer on Political 

 Economy — Death of Carli, &c. 



I4lSCELL.\NEOUS : — . 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sec. - ■» 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . - 



Notices to Correspondents . , . 



Advertisements . . . . , 



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THE CI.AIM.S OF LITERATURE. 



Tl»is day two years, on presenting to the public, and 

 to the Literary Men of England, the first number of 

 Notes and Querie-s, as "a medium by which niiicli 

 valuable information might become a sort of common 

 property among those who can appreciate and use it," 

 we ventured to say, " We do not anticipate any liokU 

 ing liack by those whose ' Notes ' are most worth liav. 

 ing, or any want of ' (Queries ' from tliose best able to 

 answer them. Whatever may be the case in other 



things, it is certaiti that those who are best informed 

 are generally the most ready to communicate know- 

 ledge and to confess ignorance, to feel the value of such 

 a work as we are attempting, and to understand that, 

 if it is to be well done, they must help to do it. Some 

 cheap and frequent means for the inSerchange of 

 thought is certainly wanted by those who are en;,'aged 

 in Literature, Art, and Science ; and we only hope to 

 persuade the best men in all, that we ofTer them the 

 best medium of communication with each other." 



How fully these anticipations have been realised, 

 how all the " best men " fiave. come forward, we ac- 

 knowledge with feelings of gratitude and pride. May 

 we now hope that, in thus forming one fresh bond 

 of union among the lovers and professors of Literature 

 in this country, we have contributed towards a recog- 

 nition of Literature as an honourable profession, and 

 hastened the time when the claims of Litera,ture, 

 Science, and Art to some of those honorary distinctions 

 hitherto exclusively conferred upon the Naval, Mili- 

 tary, or Civil Servants of the. Crown, will be admitted 

 and acted- upon. For as we hojd with Chaucer, 



" That he is gentil who doth geatil dedes ; " 

 so we would have those men especially honoured, 

 whose "gentil dedes" in Literature, Science, and Art 

 tend to elevate the minds, and thereby promote the 

 happiness of their fellow-men. 



Tliat gallant gentleman. Captain Sword, whose good 

 services we readily acknowledge, has hitherto mono- 

 polized all the honours which the sovereign has thought 

 proper to distribute. We ^vpuld fain see good Master 

 Pen now take his fair share of tliera * ; and the present 

 moment, when Peace has just cekl)rated her Jubilee 

 in the presence of admiring millions, is surelv the 

 fittest moment that could be selected for the establish- 

 ment of some Order (call it of Victoria, or Civil INIerit, 

 or what you will) to honour those followers of the Arts 

 of Peace to whose genius, learning, and skill the great 





* We are glad to find that the views we have here 

 advocated, have the support of the leading journal of 

 Europe. Vide T/ie Times of Wednesday last. 



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