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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-* S. VI. Ul., Sept. ll. -58. 



would not only oblige myself, but some far better 

 Romano -British antiquaries than A. A. 



Minat <&ueviei tut'tf) ^niiotrS. 



" As wise as the women of Mungret." — At 

 Mungret, not far from Limerick, was a monastic 

 foundation, of which the Psalter of Cashel gives 

 an almost incredible account : that it had " within 

 its walls six churches, containing, exclusive of 

 scholars, 1500 religious, 500 of whom were learned 

 preachers, 500 psalmists, and the remaining 500 

 wholly applied themselves to spiritual exercises." 



What is the meaning of the proverb, " As wise 

 as the women of Mungret ? " Abhba. 



[This saving is thus explained by Ferrarin his History 

 nf Limerick (ea. 1787), p. 186. : — 



" A deputation was sent from the college at Cashel to 

 this famous seminary at Mungret in order to trj' their 

 sliill iu tlie languages. The heads of the house of Mun- 

 gret ivere somewhat alarmed lest their scholars should 

 receive a defeat, and their reputation be lessened. They, 

 therefore, thought of a most humorous expedient to pre- 

 vent the contest, which succeeded to their wishes. They 

 habited some of their j'oung students lilce ivomen, and 

 some of the monks like peasants, in which dresses they 

 walked a few miles to meet the strangers at some distance 

 from each other. ^Vhen the Cashel professors approached, 

 and asked any question about the distance of Mungret, or 

 the time of the day, tliey were constantly answered in 

 Greek or Latin ; which occasioned them to hold a confer- 

 ence, and determined them not to expose themselves at a 

 place where even the women and peasants could speak 

 Greek and Latin."] 



Tenhose. — In Wynkyn de Worde's Stans Puer 

 ad Mensam (no date but 1518, 1524) is the follow- 

 ing passage (fifth stanza) : — 



" Grennyng and mowes at y table eschewe ; 

 Crye not to Jowde, kepe honestly scilence ; 

 Tenbose thy Jowes with mete it is not dewe; 

 With full mouth speke not, lest thou do offence." 



What can be the meaning of the word tenbose ? 

 I do not find anything like it in any of the 

 glossaries. A. A. 



[By tenbose the author probably meant t'enbose, that is, 

 to enbose. Halli well gives us " Enboce. To Jill out. (a.- 

 N.)." In this view of the word it is nearly equivalent to 

 emboss, in the old sense of causing to bulge out. 



" Tenbose thy Jowes with mete it is not dewe." 



Take detce, or due, in the old signification of right, 

 proper, Jitting (It. dovuto'), and the sense of the line will 

 be, « It is unbecoming to over-fill thy mouth with food."] 



Francis Kirhman. — What is known of this indi- 

 vidual, who appears to have kept a bookseller's 

 shop in the metropolis during the latter part of 

 the seventeenth century ? S. W. Brown. 



[Francis Kirkman, who styled himself Citizen of 

 London, was noted for publishing plays, farces, and drolls. 

 He dealt as largely in drollery of various kinds as Curll 

 did in bawdry and biography. Kirkman, indeed, had no 

 objection to trading in the former commodity, if he 

 thought it woitUl turn the penny. He has given us an 



epitome of his own chequered and eventful life in a work 

 entitled The Unlucliy Citizen e.vperinientallg described in 

 various Slisfortunes of an Unlucky Londoner, with a por- 

 trait and curious engravings, 8vo. 1G73. He also pub- 

 lished The Wits, or Sport upon Sport : in Selected Pieces 

 of Drollery digested into Scenes by way of Dialogue. In Two 

 Parts, 8vo. 1672, with his head prefixed, and inscribed 

 F. K., Citizen of London. Kirkman was in partnership 

 with Eichard Head, and verily they were a worthy pair. 

 Arcades umbo ! Head's work. The English Rogue, was so 

 licentious that he could not procure an imprimatur until 

 some of the grosser descriptions were expunged.] 



Bishop Brownrig. — Will any of your clerical 

 friends oblige me with some information as to the 

 Bishop Brownrig of whom Dr. Fuller, in his 

 British Worthies, pays the high compliment of 

 saying that " He carried so much in numerato 

 (ready cash) about him in his pockets for any dis- 

 course, and had much more at home, in his chest, 

 for any serious dispute " ? James Elmes. 



[Most of our biographical dictionaries contain some 

 account of Bishop Brownrig ; but especially Kippis's Biog. 

 Britannica, which appears carefully compiled. An in- 

 teresting notice of this prelate will also be found in the 

 Autobiography of Matthew Bobinson, edited by J. E. B. 

 Blayor, M.A., pp. 71. 130 — 146. Dr. Gauden, his suc- 

 cessor in the see of Exeter, published Memorials of Bishop 

 Brownrig, at the end of his Funeral Sermon, Lond. lUGO, 

 8vo.] 



Rev. F. W. Bobertson. — At what University 

 was the Rev. Frederick W. Robertson, M.A., 

 educated ? whose beautiful sermons, preached at 

 Trinity Chapel, Brighton, have so lately been 

 published. I think he died in 1854 or 1855. I 

 cannot find his name either in the Oxford, Cam- 

 bridge, or Dublin calendar, prior to that time. 



s. c. o. 



[Mr. Robertson matriculated at Brazenose College, 

 Oxford, and graduated B. A. 1841, M. A. 1844. He died 

 on August 15, 1853 ; and a short account of him is given 

 in The Gentleman^s Mag., Oct. 1853, p. 419., and some 

 particulars of his monument iu the same periodical for 

 Oct. 1855, p. 39C.] 



Clapper of Lazarus. — John Aubrey says: — 

 " Item, a mill-clack, or clapper of Lazarus." 

 What is the meaning of this ? J, 



[This singular phrase occurs iu Hollyband's French 

 and English Dictionarie, 4to., 1593 : " Le Cliquet de 

 I'huis, the hammer or ring of a doore : also, a lazarous 

 clapper." Cotgrave also notices the phrase : " Cliquet. a 

 lazers clicket, or clapper." Such clappers or clack-dishes 

 were originally used by lepers to warn other persons not 

 to approach them. They are frequently alluded to in 

 popular ballads and romances. In the Dutch ballad, 

 " Verholen Minne," we read : — 



"Die dagelijks mijn willetje doen, 

 En klinken de lazerus bellen." 

 In the German metrical version of the Seven Wise Mas- 

 ters a leporous king is spoken of as going — 



" Mit seinem stabe unde klepperlin." 

 See Hoffman's Hora: Belgicce, Pars II. Hollandische Volk- 

 lieder, where it is said that the best account of the life of 

 the lepers is that by Grimm in his Arme Heinrich. 

 Nares tells us that in a curious account of the escape of 



