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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 112. 



Court, for the entertainment of the Royal Family," &c. 

 — Daily Post, Monday, July 5. 1731, 



H.E. 



Ti-aditions from Rpmote Periods through few 

 Links (Vol. iii., pp. 206. 237.) : — 



" My greatest bo.ist in this line is, that I have con- 

 versed with Sir Isaac Herd, the celebrated herald, and 

 he had conversed with a person who was present at the 

 execution of Charles I." — Lord Campbell's Lives of 

 the Chief Justices, vol. ii. p. 304. note. 



E. 11. A. 



caurn'fg. 



DEODANDS AND THEIR APPLICATION. 



Blackstone states (1 Comm. p. 300.) that a deo- 

 .dand — 



"Is forfeited to the king to be applied to pious uses, 

 and distributed in alms by liis high almoner, though 

 formerly destined to a more superstitious purpose. It 

 seems to have been originally designed, in the blind 

 days of Po|)ery, as an expiation for the souls of such 

 as were snatched away by sudden death ; and for tliat 

 purpose ought properly to have been given to holy 

 church." 



The authorities for this latter statement are 

 Fitzh., Abr., tit. " Enditement," pt. 27., and 

 Staunf, P. C, 20, 21., neither of which books are 

 in my possession, nor in this remote district can I 

 train access to them. Hume, Lingard, Henry, and 

 JJapii), omit all mention of this change in the 

 destination of the deodand, at least so f;ir as I can 

 find. Fleta, who lived, according to Dr. Cowell 

 {Interpreter, in verb. " Fleta "), tern. Ed. II., 

 Ed. IIJ., or, according to Jacob {Law Die, in ver. 

 " Fleta "), tern. Ed. I., says that — 

 " This deodand is to be sold to the poor, and the price 

 distributed to the poor for the soul of the king and all 

 faithful people departed this life." — Interpreter, in ver. 

 " Deodand." 



It would therefore appe.nr that in Fleta's time 

 it was settled law that deodands went to the 

 Crown ; nor does this writer seem to take any 

 notice of their having been, at any time, payable 

 to the Church. Hawkins, East, and I think Hale 

 also, are equally silent upon the point. 



Can any of your readers kindly supply the in- 

 formation as to when deodands first ceased to be 

 given to the Church, and when they became the 

 property of the Crown ? Jonathan Peel. 



349. Hell Paved with the Skulls of Priests. — 

 The proverb " Hell is paved with good intentions" 

 (Vol. ii., pp. 8ti. 140.), brings to my recollection 

 a remark I once heard from the lips of a French 

 priest. He was addressing,' an audience chiefly 

 comj)osed of students in ilivinitj, and while de- 

 scanting on the peculiar dangers to which eccle- 



siastics are exposed, and the obstacles they have 

 to encounter at every step on the road to salvation, 

 he said there could be no doubt that by far the 

 greater number of them would incur eternal 

 damnation. "It was this" (added he, with an 

 emphasis which sent a thrill of horror through all 

 present), " It was this that made one of the curly 

 fathers assert, that Hell is paved with the skulls of 

 priests." I think the preacher mentioned Ter- 

 tuUian as his authority ibr this singular sentiment, 

 bat he only gave the words : " L'enfer est pave 

 de tctes de pretres." Can any of your readers 

 point out the precise passage referred to ? 



Henry H. Breen. 

 St. Lucia. 



350. Charib. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me what is the derivation and meaning of 

 the word Charib ? The Charibs were the ancient 

 inhabitants, as is well known, of the smaller West 

 Indian islands. W. J. C. 



St. Lucia. 



3.51. Thwnb Bible. — Can any of your readers 

 tfill me the history of the Thumb Bible, reprinted 

 by Longman, 1850 ? Who was " J. Taylor," who 

 seems to have been the author? He has strangely 

 spoilt Bishop Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns 

 at the conclusion of his book. Hermes. 



352. Tripos. — AVhat is the origin of the term 

 " tripos" as applied to the mathematical and 

 classical honour lists in the university of Cam- 

 bridge ? A. F. S. 



353. Louis Philippe and his Bag of Nails. — 

 Has any of your corres]X)ndents heard a story 

 about a bag of rusty nails which Louis Philippe 

 used to carry about with him ; with which he con- 

 sidered his fate as in some way connected ; and 

 which he lost a few days before February 24, 

 1 848 ? If so, is it known whether the story is well 

 authenticated ? R. D. H. 



354. Brass Statues at Windsor. — " The Brass 

 Statues at Windsor," sold in 1646 by order of the 

 House of Lords to pay the troops at Windsor: — 

 AVhat were these statues ? Watlen. 



355. Edmund Bohun. — Is it possible that some 

 Trans-atlantic notist may be able to supply a scrap 

 or two of intelligence respecting the brief career 

 of Edmund Bohun, as Chief Justice of South 

 Carolina, 1698-1701 ? I believe he died in the latter 

 year, and was buried at Charlestown. S. W. Kix. 



Beccles. 



356. Bishop Trelawney. — To what parliamen- 

 tarj' decision does Atterbury allude in the sub- 

 joined extract from the dedication to Trelawney, 

 Bishop of Winchester, prefixed to his Sermons in 

 four volumes, 1723? 



"This and another parliamentary decision, which 

 your lordship not long after with equal difficulty ob- 



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