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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 113. 



lib. vi. pp. 796, 797, 798. ; Scot's Discovery of Witch- 

 craft, cap. xi. ; Dee's Book of Spirits, with Dr. Meric 

 Casaubon's Preface; Churcliill's Vuijai/es, Sfc, vol. ii. 

 p. 528., second edition; Bailey's Dictionary, folio 

 edition, under the word ' cabala ; ' Jacob's Law Dic- 

 tionary, under the word 'cabal ; ' and British Librarian, 

 No. 6. for June, 1737, p. 340." 



The other instance I am adducing gives us 

 "cabal" in its common acceptation: — 

 " Set up committees of cabals 

 To pack designs without the walls." 



Part J II. Canto II. 945. 



I again copy a note from Dr. Grey : — 

 " .\ sneer prol)ably upon CliflTord, Ashley, Burlington, 

 Arlington, Lauderdale, who were called the C .'V B .^ L 

 in King Charles II. 's time, from the initial letters of 

 their names. — See Echard, vol. iii. p. '25i." 



Your correspondent E. H. D. D. may be glad of 

 these two quotations, and I quite agree with him 

 in ascribing an earlier date than tiiat mentioned 

 by Burnet to the word " cabal" in the sense of 

 " a secret council." The transition from its origi- 

 nal sense was easy and natural, and the application 

 to Kinir Charles's confidential advisers imrenious. 



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Warmington. 



Rectitudines Singularum Pcrsonarum (Vol. iv., 

 p. 442.). — In reply to the imiuiries of H. C. C, 

 let me refer him to pp. xi. and xxv. of the preface 

 and list of MsS. in vol. i. of the Ancient Laws, &;c. 

 of Eiiglaiid, edited by .Air. Thorpe, under the di- 

 rection of tiie late Record Comaiission. lie will 

 there find that the real JMS. sile of that document 

 is stated to be in the library of Corpus Christi, 

 Cambridge, and to be of the date of the tenth cen- 

 tury. It is not stated upon what ground so early 

 a date is assigned to it; but as so competent a 

 judge as the editor seems to give that date witliout 

 any expression of doubt, we may presume that j 

 there is satisfactory proof of the fact. I do not ^ 

 observe the document mentioned in W'anley's ca- i 

 talogue, and Nasmith's more recent one is not at 

 band to refer to. The matter contained in it does ; 

 not (at least in my judgment) necessarily indicate 1 

 so early a date, inasmuch as parallel, and even 

 . identical, rights and customs, connected with the 

 status of persons and tenure of laml, were in active 

 existence at a much later period of our history. ; 

 It would certainly be more satisfactory to know 

 ,the precise grounds, whetlier extrinsic or intrinsic, 

 on which the date has been fi.xed. 

 ^ With regard to the old Latin version, I will not 

 undertake to vindicate it except against one of the 

 'criticisms of H. C. C. He objects that laden^'is 

 ^ translated minare. The word " minare " is used in 

 the translation twice, once for driving, and once 

 'for leading; and 1 (juestion whetlier the translator 

 -^ could have found a more appropriate word to 

 , serve this double purpose than the authentic verb 



menare or minare, from which the French mener 

 has been derived. 



1 cannot so easily justify him for translating 

 "boc-riht" by "rectitudo testanienti ;" yet as the 

 power of testamentary disposition was one of the 

 most signal attributes of boc-riht, I cannot say 

 that he has much misrepresented the import of 

 the original word. 



The document, which is evidently a private 

 compilation, seems to be a custumal, or coustumier, 

 of a district, or some considerable portion of the 

 country. The German lawyers would call the 

 collection a landrecht in one sense of that term, 

 or, as the translator has culled it, a " landirectum." 

 The heading is by no means an appropriate one. 

 Whether the writer intended to compile a code of 

 the customs and obligations of land tenure, free 

 and unfree, coextensive with the Saxon name, or 

 merely to represent those of a certain district with 

 which he happened to be acquainted, is a matter ! 

 open to question. 



II. C. C. is ])erhaps not aware that the document 

 has been exatnined, corrected, translated into 

 German, and made the subject of a very masterly 

 dissertation, by Dr. Heiurich Leo, of Halle. It 

 is frequently referred to by Lappenberg in his 

 Anglo-Saxon History, and became known (at least 

 in the translation) to Sir H. Ellis in time to make 

 copious extracts from it in the second volume of 

 his Introduction to Domesday. E. S. 



Stanzas in C/iiklc Harold (Vol. iv , pp. 223. 

 285. 323.).— In reply to T. AV. I will merely refer 

 him and your other correspondents upon this 

 subject to page 391. of Moore's Life of Byron, 

 1 vol. edition, 1844, where will be found this pas- 

 sage, in Letter 323, addressed to Mr. Murray: — 



" What does ' thy waters v:asted them ' mean (in the 

 Canto)? That is not me. Consult the MS. always." 



I am fully aware this will not interpret the ! 

 meaning of the passage, but it will go far to satisfy 

 your correspondents that their emendations and 

 suggestions do not completely answer Lord Byron's 

 query in the letter referred to by Leon. 



London. 



The Island and Temple of yEgina (Vol. iv., 

 pp. 255. 412.). — Having been, some time since, 

 greatl}' pleased by a finj engraving of the ruined 

 Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius' in ^Egina (but un- 

 acconq^anied by any description), ami having had 

 a well executed water-colour drawing made there- 

 from, my interest was aroused on the subject, and 

 I searched among books within reach for parti- 

 culars on the subject of what there seems every 

 reason to regard as the oldest temple in Greece, 

 with the single exception of that of Corinth. 

 After a patient search I found Fosbroke's Foreif^cn 

 Topogi-uphy (4to. edition, 1828, pp. 3, 4, 5.) 

 to contain the best account of those interesting 



