2°o S. VI. 139., Aug. 28. '58.] 



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Chapel Scala Cell (2°a S. vi. 111.)— The chapel 

 of Scala Cell was originally founded at Windsor ; 

 but in 150-t, Pope Julius, at the instance of Henry 

 VII., removed it to Westminster, and the number 

 of its priests was then increased from seven to ten. 

 Margaret of Richmond, the king's mother, ob- 

 tained an indulgence for it, by which they who 

 heard or said mass in it had equal remission of 

 sins as in the Scala Cell at Rome. See Dugdale's 

 Moitn.sticon, i. 320. ; Rymer's Fcedera, vols. v. 4., 

 xii. 565. 591. 672., xiii. 102.; and " N. & Q." i. 

 366. 402. 455., ii. 285. 451. \Y. B. 



In "N. & Q." (P' S. ii. 285.), I pointed out a 

 similar bequest to this altar at Westminster. The 

 "author or editor" of the article in the Surrey 

 Archaol. Soc. Proc. will of course be able to cor- 

 roborate his note, to which F. S. A. alludes ; but I 

 venture to add some authorities : — 



" Boston. la 1526, Henry VIII. procured for the 

 brethren and sisters of Our Lady's Guild in S. Botolph's 

 church at Boston, a confirmation of the ancient privilege, 

 that any one coming on Friday to S. Mary's Chapel 

 should have as much remission as if he went to the Chapel 

 of Scala Cceli at Rome." — Foxe's Acts and Mon. v. 364 -5. 



" Westminster. Pope Alexander VI. and Pope Julius, 

 in 150-1, granted the same indulgences to persons visiting 

 S. Mary's Chapel, built by Henry VII., as were enjoyed 

 by those worshipping at Our Lady's Chapel of Scala 

 Cceli in Rome. — Rj'raer, Feed. v. p. iv. ; Dugdale, Monas- 

 ticon, i. 320. 



• " Xbrwich. Our Lady's Chapel in the Church of the 

 Austin Canons, at Xorwich, was called Scala Coeli ; being 

 ' the only chapel, except that of the same name at West- 

 minster, and that of Our Lady in S. Botolph's at Boston, 

 that I find to have the same privileges and indulgences 

 as the Chapel of Scala Cceli at Rome," &c. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.. 



Berners Street Hoax (2"'' S. vi. 69. 117.) — 

 There is a graphic account of it in No. 143. 

 (May, 1842) of the Quarterly Review.* To the 

 derivation, which is highly probable, it may be 

 added that hocus pocus is a noun substantive older 

 than the Restoration. Phillips, ia his World of 

 Words, makes it mean a conjuror ; not, as in later 

 times, a conjuration. A. De Morgan. 



Arms of Bruce and the Earls of Carrick (2°^ S. 

 vi. 135.) — Your correspondent A. S. A. of Bar- 

 rackpore, E. I., will find some interesting infor- 

 mation which may be of use to him in the compil- 

 ing of his " Synopsis of the Peerage of Scotland," 

 in reference to the Carricks, from the examination 

 of a small work, entitled 



" Some Account of the Ancient Earldom of Carrick, by 

 Andrew Carrick, E.sq., M. D. ; to which is prefixed No- 

 tices of the Earldom after it came into the Families of De 

 Bruce and Stewart, by James Maidment, Esq., Advo- 

 cate," 



publi-shed at Edinburgh in 1857. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



[• By the late J. G. Lockhart, Esq.— Ed.] 



Lines in " Eikon Basilike" (2°'^ S. v. 393.) — In 

 my copy of Eikon Basilike, printed at the Hague 

 by Samuel Brown, 1648 (forming the second part 

 of RelirjuicB Sacrce CarolincB), the lines quoted by 

 J. C. Wilson occur, with several elegies, at the 

 end of the book. I have no doubt that the lines 

 written in J. C. Wilson's copy are taken from a 

 printed one. There are two obvious mistakes, 

 however : the one in the 5th line : — 

 " Yet in that space," &c. — 

 for " space," read span. And again in the last 

 line : 



" . . but 3 kingdoms' shame," — 

 read " the kingdom's shame." O. R. Ceockett. 



Sanscrit MSS. (2"'» S. v. 236. 366.) — I was 

 very much obliged to A. B. for giving me the in- 

 formation respecting the Sanscrit MSS. Since 

 that time I have found another lettered " Han'u- 

 m'an Natak," that must have come into my pos- 

 session at the same period. Any explanation of 

 the above title which A. B. would be kind enough 

 to furnish would be acceptable. E. H. A. 



Heraldry and Etymology (2°'' S. v. 524.) — 

 Though I dislike referring to a by-gone vol., still 

 as absence from home has hindered my seeing " N. 

 & Q." for some time, you will, perhaps, allow me 

 to thank Messes. B. Smith and C. Hoppee for 

 correcting me as to Gwillim's mention of " Lions 

 Coward." But, although the family of Rowch (if 

 still existing) bears these arms, I must yet consi- 

 der the charge so very rare a one as to retain my 

 opinion that the living dog is likelier to prove G. 

 C. G.'s point than the dead lion. P. P. 



Births Extraordinary (2"'> S. v. 17. 376.) — 



" The Italian Medical Gazette states that a woman, 

 aged 30, was delivered of five daughters at a birth on the 

 15th ult. at Rovigo, after a pregnancy of seven months. 

 One lived only two hours, and the others dropped off one 

 by one in the course of forty-eight hours. Three of the 

 latter had, the above-named journal asserts, a full comple- 

 ment of front and back teeth." — Lancet, July 10, 1858. 



"The wife of a grocer at Roubaix (Nord), named Cas- 

 telain, gave birth last week (May 23 — 29, 1858,) to four 

 children, a boy and three girls, all alive and perfectly 

 formed. She had already had twins on a former occasion, 

 and has six children living. Those just born lived seve- 

 ral days, and were all christened at the same time, the 

 ceremony being attended by an immense number of per- 

 sons, but they have all since died." — Papers, June 2, 

 1858. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Early Lists of the Army (2""' S. v. 343.)— AVill 

 F. H. K. kindly inform J. H., the original querist, 

 where the " List of Officers claiming to the Sixty 

 Thousand Pounds" (Lond., 1663) he mentions 

 (2"'« S. v. 4GG.) may be seen ? J. H. 



Falcon and Fetterlock (2"'' S. vi. 91.) — A good 

 representation of this badge may be found in the 

 Glossary of Architecture, vol. iii. p. 137. (184G.) 



Hilton Henbuet, 



