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NOTES AND QUERIES. Comggge 14., Aprit 5.56. 
for March 14, relates to the opening of the Lin- 
coln Lent Assizes for 1856: 
“ He (Lord Campbell) began his official duties as judge 
in that city, six years ago; and now, for the third time 
during that period, he had presided at a maiden assize. 
On each occasion he had been presented with a pair of 
white gloves, as a token of the innocence of the city, and 
he should again gladly claim them, knowing that so 
pleasing a claim would not be made in vain. — The City 
Sheriff (Mr. W. Kirk) then rose and presented his lord- 
ship with an elegant pair of white gloves, beautifully em- 
broidered and ornamented with Brussels lace, and having 
the city arms embossed in frosted silver on the back of 
each glove.” 
This custom has already been mentioned in the 
folk lore of “N.& Q.;” but the above extract 
deserves notice on account of the decorations of 
the gloves. Curupert Breve. 
The Atmospheric Railroad Anticipated.— 
First Voice. 
“ But why drives on that ship so fast, 
Without or wave or wind?” 
Second Voice. 
“ The air is cut away before, 
And closes from behind.” 
The Ancient Mariner. 
This is the exact principle of the atmospheric 
railroad ; and it is perhaps worthy of a Note as a 
curious fact, that such a means of locomotion 
should have occurred to Coleridge so long ago. 
W. J. Bernnarp SMITH. 
Temple. 
. Nomina Apostolorum. — 
* Petrus et Andreas, Jacobus pariterque Johannes, 
_ Thomas et Jacobus, Phillippus, Bartholomeus, 
Matheus, Symon, Thadeus ynde Mathias.” 
From “The Chronicle of Fortergall,” written 
circa 1560. Printed in The Black Book vA 
Taymouth, with other Papers from the Breadal- 
bane Charter Room. Edinburgh: Mpcccty. 
(Privately printed.) 
A. G. 
Edinburgh. 
Queries. 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
Dr. Hey, in his Lectures in Divinity (vol. ii. 
p- 28., Camb. 1841), has the following remarkable 
statement and notes : 
“In a church about thirty-five miles $.E. of Paris 
(Moret) are the ten Commandments in old French round 
the chancel. ‘The second is entirely left out; the ninth 
is, Give not up yourself to the flesh, and marry but once * ; 
the tenth, Desire not the goods of others, and lie not at all. 
Ihave two French Prayer-Books, in which the same in 
* «This is from the MS. travels of a friend. The lines 
in the Prayer-Books are, — 
* L’cettvre de chair ne desireras 
Q’en mariage seulement.’ ” 
substance is in French verse, but neither of them contains 
a regular decalogue, though one is large, and contains all 
the three creeds.”*  - 
On this I wish to found some Queries. 
1. Is this version of the Commandments still to: 
be found at the place mentioned ? 
2. What are the two Prayer-Books mentioned 
in the text? Are they two, or two copies of the 
Livre d Eglise . . . . de Reims, mentioned in the 
note? And what is this Livre d Eglise .... de 
Reims 2 
3. Is Dr. Hey’s statement correct? It does 
not appear to me that the ninth Commandment in 
the Prayer-Books, as given, is the same in sub- 
stance with the ninth Commandment, quoted in 
the MS. travels of Dr. Hey’s friend. Can he 
have confused q’en mariage seulement with un 
mariage seul? Or how is the discrepancy to be 
reconciled ? ANon. 
HIGGINBOTTOM FAMILY. 
Can you, or any of your kind contributors, 
supply me with information respecting the Hig- 
ginbottom family ? 
I have made inquiries in many places, but 
perhaps not in the best; and I gather that origi- 
nally they came from Germany, and settled about 
Hayfield or Glossop, in Derbyshire, being pro- 
bably connected with the production or manu- 
facture of woollen cloths, as the district I have 
mentioned is noted for sheep farming. Tradition 
gives the family a character of importance before 
or about the time of the Commonwealth, and of 
comparative insignificancy afterwards. 
Robson’s Heraldry gives the arms, “ Ar. a rose 
gu., barbed vert, seeded or. Crest, a dexter and 
sinister arm discharging an arrow from a bow.” 
Edmondson gives Higginson, “Or, on a fesse 
sa. a tower of the field. Crest, a tower.” 
The family appears to have spread along the 
neighbouring hills of Yorkshire (there was a 
clergyman many years ago at Saddleworth, rather 
notorious, but not for piety, and who was probably 
that parson “ who could read in no book but his 
own”) to Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man- 
chester. As wool would not support all of them, 
they began to manufacture skins, and in or about 
1700 there was a tanner of the name at Alt Hill. 
The name is no doubt German, and I have seen 
canting arms of the bow and arrow and an oak 
tree. 
Sir E. B. Lytton, in My Novel, alludes to the 
name as being originally ‘‘ Higges;” but the pas- 
sage is merely jocular. 
Fichur in the Lancashire dialect is the rowan or 
mountain ash. 
I see The Times in a leader on Covent Garden 
* «Livre d’Eglise . ... de Reims.” 
