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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(and §, Nos, June 21. 56, 
I found that each page of the old Missal had 
two columns, each being 132 in. high, by 32 wide. 
Each column contained thirty-nine lines, and of 
course in each page there were seventy-cight. 
The letters were 2th of an inch high, just double 
the height of those copied by LX. Each line of 
a column took me ten minutes to write in letters 
like those of the original, being 2th of an inch 
high. A large proportion of these were to be in 
red, and some were in blue. Thus each page on 
an average would occupy thirteen hours; but 
much depended upon the number of initial letters, 
these being in the Lombardic character, and either 
in red, blue, or burnished gold. Besides the 
forming of the letters, there were many large 
initial letters to be illuminated, some in borders 
of two inches square, and others smaller, with 
endless devices of flowers, flourishes, and painted 
borders. ‘The whole is executed on vellum, and 
matches the original Missal with tolerable success. 
It is now complete, and very valuable. F.C. H. 
Person referred to by Pascal (2"4 S. i. 412.) — 
The original of Pascal is as follows: 
© Qui aurait eu ’amitié du roi d’Angleterre, du roi de 
Pologne, et de la reine de Suéde, aurait-il eru pouvoir 
manquer de retraite et d’asile au monde? ” 
A foot-note indicates the three sovereigns as 
follows : 
“ Pascal fait ici allusion sans doute & Charles Ier . 
forcé de se retirer dans Vile de Wight en 1647; A Jean 
Casimir . “obligé de chercher un asile en Silesie 
en 1655; enfin 4 la reine Christine, qui abdiqua en 1654.” 
Pensées Diverses, No. xxix. 
It is clear that Pascal did not allude to any real 
individual, but merely to a possible case. The 
Edinburgh translation conveys the idea that there 
Was a man who was the friend of these three so= | 
vereigns, and who notwithstanding was reduced to 
destitution at last. Pascal wrof®: 
“He who should have had the hienfehip of, &e., 
would he have believed it possible that he could want a | 
refuge and an asylum on earth?” 
The moral is, that three cotemporary sovereigns | 
were actually so helpless themselves, that a man 
might have possessed the friendship of all three, 
and yet have been utterly destitute. C. H.S. 
Punishment in England (2™ S. i, 411.) —In 
reply to R. W. Hackwoop the following extract 
from No. 674. of the Universal Spectator may 
serve to show that the punishment of “ pressing ” 
was not often resorted to, even in the reign of 
George II., and it was quite abolished by the 12th 
of George III. c. 20., which provides that all per- 
sons refusing to plead shall be held to be guilty: 
“Sep. 5, 1741. On Tuesday was sentenced to death at 
.the Old Bailey, Henry Cook, the shoemaker of Stratford, 
for robbing Mr. Zachary, on the highway. On Cook’s re- 
fusing to plead, there was a new press made, and fixed in 
the proper place in the pressyard, there having been no 
person pressed since the famous Spiggot the highwayman, 
which is above twenty years ago. Burnworth, alias 
Frasier, was pressed at Kingston, in Surrey, about six- 
teen years ago, 
J. DE W. 
There is no hoax atall inthe case. The “ Peine 
forte et dure” or pressing to death, as described 
| by R. W. Hacxwoop, was well known to the 
English law. It first appears on the statute books 
8 Henry IV., and was abolished by statute 12 
George III. c. 20., which enacts that persons 
standing mute, shall be convicted of the offence 
charged. See Blackstone’s Commentaries, under 
the head of Arraignment and its incidents, and 
Hale’s Pleas of the Crown, ii. 329. 
W. J. Bernwarp Sita. 
Temple. 
“ The Tune the old Cow died of” (2"°S. i. 875.) 
—I beg to offer another version of the song, 
| which is the one I have always heard, and which 
throws a little more light on this grave question : 
© Jacky Whaley had a cow, 
And he had nought to feed her; 
He took his pipe, and played her a tune, 
And bid the cow conseeder. 
“ The cow considered very well, 
And gave the piper a penny, 
To play the same tune over again, 
And ‘Corn riggs are bonnie.’ ” 
| Now, though the first tune is still a desidera- 
| tum, we may fairly infer that the cow died of one 
of the two, and so far a step is gained in the 
inquiry. F.C. H. 
Cliefden House (2 8, 1, 432.) — 
| “Cliefden House was built by Charles Villiers, Duke of 
| Buckingham, in the reign of Charles II. That nobleman 
died in the latter end of the last (seventeenth) century, 
and in 1706 it was purchased by the first Earl of Orkney, 
who very much improved it, and from whom it descended 
by marriage to the Earl of Inchiquin.” 
See Boydell’s Hist. of the River Thames, fol., 
Lond. 1794. R. S. Caarnock. 
. Major André (1* S. passim ; 2° 8. i, 256.) — 
| Since writing my last note, which appeared in 
“N. & Q.” under date of March 29, I have seen 
a copy of the National Intelligencer, published at 
| Washington, March 25, giving a brief notice of a 
| work just issued from the press, and bearing the 
following title: 
“<«Life of Capt. Nathan Hale, the Martyr Spy of the 
American Revolution. By J. W. Stuart: Hartford, F. A. 
Brown, 1856.’ 
“ This work has its origin in a praiseworthy attempt on 
the part of-its author to throw around the name of Hale 
that pitying tenderness and regret which have embalmed 
alike in the hearts of friends and foes the memory of the 
unfortunate André. Of equally melancholy fate, the 
British and the American spy have not been sharers 
either of equal commiseration or of equal renown. Eng- 
land sent an embassy across the seas to reclaim from a 
