gnd §, No 26., Jung 28. *56.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
523 
Dr. 
not likely that the Kvitik der Reinen Vernunft, 
published at Riga in 1781, and which for some 
years was almost unknown in Germany, should 
have reached Oxford in its first year. H. B.C. 
U. U. Club. 
Cuckoo Superstition (2 §. i. 386.) — The 
popular belief in Norfolk is, that whatever you 
are doing the first time you hear the cuckoo, that 
you will do most frequently all the year. Another 
is, that an unmarried person will remain single as 
many years as the cuckoo, when first heard, utters 
its call. 
Milton says, in his sonnet to the nightingale : 
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day 
First heard before the shallow cuckoo’s bill 
Portend success in love ve 
Gamekeepers believe that hawks in the spring 
turn into cuckoos, and reassume their proper form 
when he ceases to be heard. This belief must | 
have prevailed in Sweden, for Linneus says of | 
the Cuculus Canorus in his Regnum Animale: “In 
faleonem transformari perperam asseritur.” 
E. G. R. 
Ague (2™ §. i. 386.) — A friend, to my know- 
ledge, has cured persons of this disease by ad- 
ministering a pinch of candle-snuff, not as a charm, 
but as a potent medicine. In the last visitation 
of the cholera, a paragraph went the round of the | 
papers, recommending charcoal from a burnt cork | 
as an eflicacious remedy. Carbon may prove a 
yery powerful drug when properly ‘administered. 
4 E. G. R. 
Olympia Morata (2™ §. i. 455.) — The version 
of the epitaph of Olympia Morata, given by 
onnet, being inaccurate, I send a copy of the 
iranscript I made of it in 1844, in the church of 
St. Peter at Heidelberg.* Bac B: 
“ Deo Imm. §. 5 
Et virtuti ac memoria Olympix Morate Fulvij 
Morati Ferrariensis philosophi filiz Andrew Gruntle 
rj Medic] cojugis, lectissix femine, ciii ingeniti ac sin 
gularis utriusq; linguze cognitio, in morib’ auté probitas 
stimumg; pietatis studiu supra comunem modum seper 
existimata sunt. Quod de eius vita hominu iudicium 
Beata mors, sanctissime ac pacatissime ab ea obita di 
vino quoq; confirmavit testimonio ; 
Obiit mutato solo A, salutis d. 1. y. sup. milles. ditat. 
xxix. 
hic ci marito et Amilio fre sepulta Gulielm’ Rascalo 
nus M.D. 
B.B. MM PP.” 
Inn, &c., Signs (2°" §. i. 372.) — The Fortunes 
of Nigel (vol. ii. ch.iv. p.54.). The following forms 
the motto to the chapter ; and whether authentic | 
or apocryphal, it is worth noting, even with the 
{* Our correspondent’s version of the epitaph is also 
given, without the abbreviations, in Noltenii, Comment. 
Tist. Critica de Olympia Morate Vita. Francof. 1775, 
8vo. p. 162.] 
Tatham’s Bampton Lectures in 1789. It is 
“old play” before one’s eyes, Jed. Cleisbotham, 
Cap. Clutterbuck, Dr. Dryasdust, &c., not for- 
gotten, as the possible rhyming sign to a possible 
ale-house : 
“ CHAPTER IY. 
“ Rove not from pole to pole—the man lives here 
Whose razor’s only equall’d by his beer; 
And where, in either sense, the cockney-put, 
May, if he pleases, get confounded cut. 
On the sign of an alehouse kept by a Barber.” 
C. D. Lamont. 
Occusional Forms of Prayers (2° §. i. 247.) — 
The following is a supplementary list to those be- 
fore given : 
Fast for supplicating Almighty God for Pardon of our 
Sins, and imploring his Blessing and Protection in the 
Preservation of His Majesty’s Sacred Person, and the 
Prosperity of his Arms at Land and Sea. By order of 
the Lords Justices. June 26. 1696. 
Fast. War. Dec. 18. 1745. 
| Thanksgiving. Signal Success by Sea and Land. De- 
feat of the French Army in Canada, and particularly 
by the taking of Quebec, and abundant Harvest. 
| 
| Nov. 29. 1759. 
| Thanksgiving. Battle of Waterloo. July 2. 1815. 
| Coronation Service. George TV. July 19. 1821. 
_ Ditto. King William TY. and Queen Adelaide. Sept. 8. 
i; L831. 
| Prayers to be continued during His Majesty’s Indisposi- 
| tion. 18387. 
Thanksgiving. Jind of War with Russia. May 4. 1856. 
The notices of those from the reign of William 
and Mary to Geo, III. in “ N. & Q.” are particu- 
larly scanty, as the most attention appears to be 
| given to the earlier forms. i. 8. Tayror. 
\@® Ormesby St. Margaret. 
Reprieve for Ninety-nine Years (2"* S. i. 465.) 
— Mr. Anprews inquires if any instance can be 
adduced of a person, capitally convicted, having 
experienced the grace of a suspension of his sen- 
tence for ninety-nine years? In ‘the year 1834, 
being at Gibraltar, an oflicer of the military staff 
_of that garrison was pointed out to me as having 
| obtained a respite under such circumstances for 
that period. His name was G , and having 
been engaged in a fatal duel, had placed him in 
that predicament. This was the report, and if I 
was misinformed, the recentness of the date will 
admit of its being contradicted. A. 
Punishment of a Scold (2° 8. i. 490.) —I would 
refer J. pg W., for a very interesting paper on 
| this and other ancient customs of Wiltshire (and 
other counties of England) in the 2nd part of the 
Journal of the Wiltshire Archeological Society, 
by a learned archeologist, Mr. IF’. A. Carrington, 
who therein describes the “cucking-stool” and 
the “trebuchets” used for regulating the tem- 
perament of the ‘“ungentle portion of the gentler 
sex.” According to this author, “ coking-stools ” 
were used at Wootton Basset, Kingston-upon- 
