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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2m §, No 21., May 24, °56, 
Hints or Rules for Training for Pedestrian 
Matches, §c.— 
“ The wise for cwre on exercise depend, 
God never made his work for man to mend.” 
I shall feel extremely obliged for any wrinkles 
on the above subject, knowing that you must 
number many amateur pedestrians among your 
subscribers and readers. J.B. N 
Bardados. 
“In necessariis unitas.”— Whence came the 
quotation, “In necessariis unitas,” etc.? It is 
ascribed to §, Augustine, and to Melancthon*; 
but where ? N. E. 
Pinor Queries with Answers. 
Meaning of “ Ribible” in Chaucer.—In a 
small edition of the Canterbury Tales, purporting 
to contain the substance of Tyrwhitt’s notes, I 
observe ribible to be referred to by the editor as 
the name of some unknown musical instrument. 
“ And playen songs on a small ribible.” 
Miller’s Tale. 
* Rode forth to summon a widow, an old ribibe.” 
Frere’s Tale. 
In the Indice sul Decamerone, contained in the 
Parnaso Italiano continuato, Leipsic, 1833, I notice 
the following : 
“Ribeba.t Strumento di corde a sonare, che pit co- 
munemente si dice Ribeca.” 
Evidently the “ rebeck.” 
“ And the joyous rebec’s sound.” — Allegro. 
Probably the name is originally Arabic; at least 1 
have some remembrance of a Syrian or Arabian 
instrument called arabehbah being mentioned in 
the notes to Seuthey’s Thalaba. Perhaps though, 
both name and thing went eastward in the time of 
the Crusades. G.F. B. 
New York. 
[Dr. Hawkins has the following apposite note on this 
ancient instrument: “ Rrerpie is by Mr. Urry in his 
Glossary to Chaucer, from Speght, a former editor, ren- 
dered a fiddle or gittern. It seems the rebeb is a Moorish 
word, signifying an instrument with two strings, played 
on with a bow. The Moors brought it into Spain, whence 
it passed into Italy and obtained the appellation of ribeca ; 
whence the English rebec, which Phillips and others after 
him render a fiddle with three strings. The rebeb, or re- 
bab, is mentioned in Shaw’s Travels as a Turkish or 
Moorish instrument now in use ; and is probably an im- 
provement on the Arabian pandura, described by Mer- 
sennus. (Hist. of Music, ii. 86.) The arabebbah noticed 
by Southey is a bladder and string, and is in the highest 
[* Our correspondent W. S. of Northiam (1: S. viii. 
281.), says this celebrated saving is from Melancthon; 
probably he can furnish the reference. } 
t Bruno proposes to Calandrino to win La Nicolosa’s 
heart by bringing his ribeba, and playing on it.”— 
Giornata 9, Noy. 5. 
vogue among the Bedoweens, and doubtless of great an- 
tiquity. See Nares’s Glossary, art. REBECK. | 
Visit of the King of Denmark, 1768. —I have 
in my possession a MS. entitled a Historical Re- 
lation of the Visit of his Danish Majesty to the 
University of Cambridge, 1768, with this note on 
the cover : 
“A manuscript intended for our most Gracious Queen 
Charlotte, but the scribe having made two or three 
omissions, another copy was made for Her Majesty, and 
a third for the Queen of Denmark, by the same hand.” 
I shall be obliged by any clue to the author of the 
MS., or references to any account of the same 
visit that may exist in MS. or in print ? 
Buriensis. 
fe short notice of the visit of Christian VII., King 
of Denmark, to Cambridge University, is given in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xxxviii. p. 442. But a more 
extended account is left in MS. by William Cole (Ad- 
ditional MS. 5834. pp. 462—466). An account of the 
illuminated Diploma of the University of Cambridge sent 
to His Danish Majesty will be also found in Addit. MS. 
6772. p. 181. His Majesty’s daily expenses whilst in 
England were computed at 10007. Cole says his tour to 
the Newmarket races cost 4000/7. ] 
Brief Account of the Kings of England. — 
“A Brief Account of the moral and political Acts of 
the Kings and Queens of England, from William the 
Conqueror to the Revolution in the yeags1688, with re- 
flections tending to prove the necessity of a Reform in 
Parliament. London, 1793.” - 
Such is the title of a work which appears to’ 
have been written by a mad republican. Is the 
author of it known? He seems to have lived in 
Norwich, for in the introduction he refers to the 
condition of the poor and working classes there, in 
the year 1793. The copy I have was presented by 
the author to “the Norwich Revolution Society ;” 
and on the fly-leaf are written the names of per- 
sons who were, I suppose, members of that associa- 
tion. The book is a curiosity as a specimen of 
the times in which it was written; of the wild 
Opinions then prevalent, and of the vague de- 
clamation by which they were sustained. 
Perhaps some Norwich reader of “N. & Q.” 
can afford the information I seek for. I would 
expect to hear that the historian of The Acts of 
the Kings und Queens was such an enthusiast that 
he figured in some of the state prosecutions of the 
time. W. B. MacCase, 
[This work is attributed to R. Dinmore, in Rodd’s 
Catalogue for 1834, which seems probable from another 
work of a similar character noticed in Watt’s Bibliotheca, 
as follows: “RicHARD Dixmors, An Expositor of the 
Principles of the English Jacobins, with Strictures on the 
Political Conduct of C. F. Fox and E. Burke; including 
Remarks on the Resignation of G. Washington. London, 
1796. 8vo. Is.” The author seems to have wasted his 
fragrance on the desert air, for nothing is known of his 
personal history in the ordinary works of reference. ] 
