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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>« S. Yl. 140., Sept. 4. '58. 



though not damp, is almost entirely formed by 

 the outer wall of the house, and in which many 

 books are kept ? S. M. S. 



"^?i Effectual Shove." — There still appears to 

 be some obscurity respecting the real authorship 

 of this curious work. In " N. & Q." (2°'i S. vi. 

 80.), it is stated that a copy was sold by Sotheby 

 & Wilkinson, with the name of William Bunyan 

 on the title-page, and published in 1768. But at 

 the sale of the Second Portion of Dr. Bliss's li- 

 brary, we find it attributed, half a century before 

 that date, to Baxter : — 



" Lot 2538. Pourtrait of a Factious Priest (in verse). 

 A curious folio broadside, with fuU-lengtli portrait of Bp. 

 Burnet seated in his library, attended by Faction and 

 Satyr, folio. Engraved and printed at Amsterdam, 1710. 

 *»* Amongst the books is one lettered ' Baxter's Shove 

 to the Heavy Arst Christian.' " 



How are these two statements to be reconciled ? 



J. Y. 



Judgment of Character from Handwriting. — 

 This method of judging is generally supposed to 

 be quite a novelty, but in Gibber's Life of Andrew 

 Marvel I find this passage : — 



" The person to whom he addresses these verses was an 

 Abbot (probably Abbd) famous for entering into the 

 qualities of those whom he had never seen, and prognos- 

 ticating their good or bad fortune from an inspection of 

 their hand-writing." 



Is there any earlier mention of this species of 

 divination ? A. A. 



" Town and Country Magazine." — One is often 

 much annoyed, in reading works of a former age, 

 in finding persons specified by an initial, followed 



by a dash, as Mr. O , Mr. P , &c., thus 



leaving you, most probably, in perfect ignorance 

 of the individual implied. There was a monthly 

 periodical, the Town and Country Magazine, which 

 appeared in 1769, and ranged over a period of 

 fourteen years, or, I may rather say, most luxu- 

 riantly flourished, for at one period the monthly 

 sale was 14,000. It was fe chronique scandaleuse of 

 the time, every number exhibiting what it termed 

 a tete-d-tete or memoir of a lady and gentleman 

 whose illicit amours, or some such follies, excited 

 public attention, with their miniature portraits 

 placed in juxta-position. As one in almost every 

 instance can at best but conjecture, from the 

 cause above assigned, at this distance of time, the 

 persons alluded to, I beg to inquire if theri be 

 any key which would supply the deficiency ? E. 



American Dollars. — In a statement of the 

 Commercial Bank at Kingston, Canada, which 

 appeared in The Times a few weeks ago, the 

 columns were ruled for pounds, and also for dol- 

 lars, the former being preceded by the sign £, 

 and the other by $. This latter character seems 

 out of place in the accounts of a British depen- 



dency ; for it is the U crossed by S which was 

 adopted by the United States government when 

 souvenirs of Britain were at a discount with them ; 

 but it may surprise your readers to learn that I 

 was unable to find its origin during five years 

 that I made inquiry of business acquaintances in 

 New York, till I fell in with an old almanack 

 which gave the explanation. J. Mackintosh. 



St. Artnolles Shrine in Polles (St. Paul's). — 

 Who is St. Artnolle ? Is the name a corruption 

 of St. Erkenwald, noticed in Dugdale's St. Paufs, 

 by Ellis ? C. H. 



Martins Account of Long Melford. — Will 

 Mr. H. D'Avenet be so good as to say whether 

 Martin's description of the state of the parish 

 church of Long Melford, Suffolk (2°'' S. vi. 142.), 

 be in MS. or in print. If in MS., where is the 

 codex ; if in print, what is the title of the volume ? 



LlTCBGICUS. 



fBiinav ©itertc^ tniff) ^n^iazxi. 



St. MichaeVs Church, Durham. — Where was 

 St. Michael's church, mentioned in the following 

 extract from the last chapter of Symeon's History 

 as the resting-place for one night of the corpse of 

 Bishop William de Carileph previous to its inter- 

 ment in the precincts of the cathedral ? I do not 

 remember having seen any other reference to St. 

 Michael's church : — 



" Cujus corpus fratres qui cum eo fuerant Dunhelmum 

 transtulerunt ; quod occurrentes Monachi et Clerus ora- 

 nisque populus cum merore multo et planctu susceptuni 

 usque in ecclesiam Sancti Michaelis deportaverunt." — 

 Sym. Hist. Ec. Dun., Bedford's edition, p. 247. 



E. H. A. 



[The cathedral of Durham had formerly nine altars 

 dedicated to various saints. The outermost, towards the 

 north, was the altar of the Holy Arch-Angel St. Michael, 

 and it was no doubt to this part of the cathedral that 

 the monks, the clerks, and the whole population carried 

 the body of Bishop William de Carileph. For a descrip- 

 tion of the beautiful painted window over the altar of St. 

 Michael, see Sanderson's Hist, of Durham Abhey, 1767, 

 p. 114. There was also an altar in the same cathedral 

 dedicated to St. Cuthbert, which Symeon the old chro- 

 nicler (cap. xlix.) designates as the church of St. Cuth- 

 bert.] 



Bishop HaWs Arms. — The clergyman of a 

 neighbouring parish being anxious to restore a 

 brass which commemorates a lady of the name of 

 Ballard, nee Hall, I wish very much to ascertain 

 what were the arms of the famous Bishop Hall, of 

 Norwich, believing Mrs. Ballard to have been of 

 his family, and being unable to find any trace of 

 her at Godalming, whence, according to the brass, 

 she came. M. E, Miles. 



[Id Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy the arms of this 

 prelate are given. Sable, three talbots' heads erased, 

 argent, langued gules, on the authority of Blomefield's 



Norfolk.'\ 



