Nov. 1. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



339 



Mr. Foss has established tliat tlie younn; king lost 

 no tiine in dispensiivj; with the " well-pructised 

 wise directions" of Sir William Giiscoijrne. One 

 is really sorry to be oblirred to relincjuish belief in 

 the historical fonndatioii of the scene to which 

 Shakspeare has given such fine draniiitic effect in 

 liis noble lines. My object, however, in now 

 writing is to point out a circumstance in some 

 respects parallel, which occurred in the reign of 

 Edward I. In looking through the Abbreviaiio 

 Placltorum to-day, I find the record of a judgment 

 in Michaelmas Term, 33 Edw. I. (130-3), in which 

 a curious illnstration is given of the character of 

 that sovereign ; for it appears that Edward Prince 

 of Wales having spoken words insulting to one of 

 the king's ministers (when and to whom I wish I 

 could ascertain), the monarch himself firmly vin- 

 dicated the respect due to the royal dignity in the 

 person of its servants, by banishing the prince 

 from his house and presence for a considerable 

 time. This anecdote occurs in the record of a 

 complaint made to the king in council, by Roger 

 de Ilecham (in Madox the name occurs as llegham 

 or Ileigham), a Earon of the Exchequer, of gross 

 and upbraiding language having been contempt- 

 uously addressed to him by William de Brewes, 

 because of his judgment in favour of the delin- 

 quent's adversary. The record recites that such 

 contempt and disrespect towards as well the king's 

 ministers as himself or his courts are very odious 



to the king, and proceeds but I will give the 



original : 



" Qiieqnlilem (videlicet) contemptus et inohediencia 

 tam mliiistris ipsius Domini Regi quam sibi ipsi aut 

 cur' SUEB facta ipsi Regi valde sunt odiosn, et lioc ex- 

 presse nuper ap])aiuit idem Dils Rex (ilium suum 

 primos;enitum et carissiuium Edwardum Principem 

 WalliiE p ea quod quedam verba afrossa et acerba cui- 

 dam ministro suo dixerat, iib hosplcio siio fere p dimid 

 ann' amovit, nee ipsum filium suum in conspectu suo 

 venire pmisitqiiousq dicto miiiistro de pdicta transgress' 

 satisfecerat. Et qnia sicut honor et reverencia qui 

 ministris ipsius Di7i Re'^i ratione officii sui fiuiit ipsi 

 Regi attribuMntur sic de lecus et contemptus ministris 

 suis facta eiuem DiTo Rogi inferuntur." 



And accordingly the s.aid Edward was adjudged 

 to go in fall court in Westminster Ilall, and ask 

 pardon of the judge whom he had insidted ; and 

 for the contempt done to the kinir and his court 

 was then to stand committed to the Tower, there 

 to remain duriuLT tlie king's pleasure. (^Ahb. Plac. 

 lib. inqjres. p. 2.57.) 



Roger de llegham occurs as a Baron of the 

 Exchequer in 20 Edw. T., and died 2 Edw. II. 

 (Madox, ii. 58.) William Sidney Gibson. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



NOTE OX THE WORD " A5€XiJ)0!." 



_ I have attempted to ascertain the prlmnri/ sig- 

 nification of the word " aStA^jJos," for the purpose 



of laying down a rule for its right interpretation 

 in the sacred scriptures. If I have succeeded, we 

 may be enabled to understand rightly one or two 

 (lis|iuted passages in the Xew Testament, of 

 which I hope to treat in a subsequent number. 



Thus says Scapula on the word : 



" Adi\!pos, frater proprie, frater uterinus ; fit enim a 

 dictione 5e\(pvs, uterus ; et a significante vfjLOU, pro 



OfiO^€\lpUS." 



His etymologj^ as far as it goes, is quite correct : 

 but still, we must trace its ditferent parts up to 

 the fonntain-head, in order to understand the 

 word aright. Let us then first take away its pre- 

 fix a, and its constructive affi.x os, and the remain- 

 ing Se\ip will be found to be a compound word, 

 ilerivcd from tlie Sansci'it language, proving its 

 identity therewith by means of the intermediate 

 Semitic dialects. 



Chaldee did, situla, urna, a vessel for holding 

 liquor. Arabic dal, a fat woman. These primary 

 steps lead us to a passage in Isaiah li. 1., "the 

 hole of the pit .•" where the idea (not the word) is 

 contained, and forms a connecting link between 

 the Chaldee and Sanscrit ; where, by taking t for 

 d (a letter of the same organ), we have Sanscrit 

 ttd, a hole, pit, cause, origin, &c. ; talla, a young 

 woman, reservoir, pit, &c. ; Greek (from the Sy- 

 riac) TuMBa, a damsel, Mark v. 41. ; and by affixing 

 the Sanscrit pha, or pa, fruitfulness, nourishment, 

 drink, &c., we get talpa, a wife, bed, &c. Hebrew 

 dalaph, stillavit. Syriac dalpha, conjunctio venerea. 

 Delilah, a proper name. Judges xvi. 4. ^Xq thus 

 ascertain that h^K-cp relates to the fruit or fruitful- 

 ness, &c. of the womb : and by putting the con- 

 structive affix u5=:the Sanscrit as or us, we have 

 5eA(/)iis, uterus, &c. 



AVe now conie to the most important part of the 

 compound ao^Xtpo^, viz. the Sanscrit u = oixov, simnl, 

 at the same time ; and we find that this u refers 

 us to "a limit conclusive" (to that place, to that 

 time), and also to a " limit inceptive" {from that 

 place, from that time) ; consequently, \\\e primary 

 meaning of a-3eA-<|)-os, is what Scapula has defined 

 it to be, " fi'ater uterinus," a brother to, or from 

 the SAME womh. 



My deduction from hence is, that where the 

 context, or history, does not point us to a more 

 general sense of the word, i. e. to relatives such as 

 cousins, or to the whole human race adopting the 

 same term ; correct criticism seems to dem;iud the 

 signification of the word in its primary meaning. 



U'. R. B:EowN. 



Vicarage, Soathwicl<, near Onndle. 



LAMBERT, THE " ARCH-REBELL.'' 



IMr. JIallam {Const. Hist., vol. ii. p. 26. cd. 1850), 

 after some remarks on the execution of Vane, who 

 was bronght to trial tog(!llu'r with Lambert in 

 IGGl, asserts that the latter, " whose submissive 



