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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[aod s. VI. 145., Oct. 0. '58. 



across an inquiry by J. Ward, of Coventry, re- 

 specting the author of Mackey's Theory of the 

 Earth,, asking for information respecting other 

 works by him. This brought to my memory that 

 I had recently become possessed of several works 

 of the same author, of which I add a list ; and 

 any farther description of them, or their contents, 

 I should be happy to furnish. It may be that he 

 has previously obtained information ; if not, the 

 inclosed may be of service. 



" The j\Iytliologic.il Astronomy of tlie Ancients de- 

 monstrated by restoring to their F.ibles and Symbols 

 their original McaninK. 2nd Edit. Norwich, 1824. By 

 Sampson Arnold Mackey. 3 Plates." 



" Mythological Astronomy. Part II. Cont.iining the 

 Astronomical Explanation of the Hindoo Mythology, and 

 their celebrated Mystical Xumbers," &c. &c. 



" A Reply intended to be made to the various Dis- 

 putants, on an Essay on Chronology, which was read at 

 the Philosophical Society of Norwich, containing Astro- 

 nomical Proofs that the Sun stood still and hasted not to 

 go down for the space of a Day, and that the Shadows on 

 the Sundials went backwards Ten Degrees. By S. A. 

 Mackej', n. d." 



" Urania's Key to the Revelation : or the Analysation 

 of the Writings of the Jews, .as far as they are found to 

 have anj' Connexion with the Science of Astronomj'. By 

 A. Mackey. London. 1833." 



" A Companion to the Mythological Astronomj', &c., 

 containing a New Theory of the Earth and of PKanetary 

 Motion: in which is demonstrated that the Sun is vice- 

 gerent of his own System. 5 Plates. By S. A. Mackey. 

 Norwich, 1824." 



" Man's best Friend ; or the Evils of Pious Frauds. By 

 S. A. Mackej'. Norwich, 1826." 



" The Two Zodiacs of Tentyra and the Zodiac of Thebes, 

 explained bv S. A. Mackey of Norwich. Published May, 

 1832. 3 Plates." 



" A Lecture on Astronomy adjusted to its dependent 

 Science, Geology : in which is shown the plain and simple 

 Cause of the vast Abundance of Water in the Southern 

 Hemisphere. By S. A. Mackey. Loudon, 1832." 



Samdel Shaw. 

 Andover. 



George Henderson (2°^ S. vi. 158.) — Your cor- 

 respondent M. G. F. would gratify me much were 

 he to state, whether the proprietor of l.inds in 

 Greenlaw parish, about the end of the seventeenth 

 century, whose name was spelt " Hennysone," 

 was the father or grandfather of George Hender- 

 son, farmer at Kippetlaws ; and if he could give 

 me any extracts frona those deeds to which he re- 

 fers, it would be still more satisfactory. 



LIentanthes. 



Galea (2"'' S. vi. 245.) —-Bos {Antiq. Gracnrum, 

 iii. 2.) says that the ,^«Zm was often made of brass, 

 but chiefly of the skins of animals, hence called 

 XeovTiT) [7rep;K6^aAaia], a helmet made of lion's 

 skin; Taupeir;, of a bull's (Horn. JZ., x. 258.) ; al- 

 7ei7), a goat's (Eust. on Odys., p. 832. lin. 48. ; 

 Hesych. in a.'iy(ii)v) ; oXunreKer], a fox's ; KJi'€j), dog- 

 skin (Hom. //., iii. 336. ; Eust., p. 319. lin. 31.). 

 These were not "leathern helmets;" the shield, 

 saitiim, however, was covered with leather and 



iron plate. A helmet of bone is depicted in 

 Pompeii (U. K. S. ii. 64.) Cudo was a helmet of 

 ox-bide, galerus, of a wild animal's skin. The 

 cassis was a war- cap worn by the lloman cavalry 

 (Eschenburg's Manual, § 283.). 



But Ovid speaks of the cassis and galea as con- 

 vertible terms : — 



" H4c judice Minos, 

 Seu caput abdiderat cristata casside pennis. 

 In galea formosus erat." Met. viii. 24. 



The skin of a cat or weasel, oaAe'i), being the 

 first kind of defence from sun and rain for the 

 head, it continued to bear the same name after 

 the skins of other animals had been used, and 

 even after the application of brass and iron, as still 

 more effectual to resist cuts and blows in fighting. 

 (See Kitto's note on 1 Sam. xvii. 5.) 



T. J. BCCKTON. 



Schools with Chapels attached (2°* S. vi. 246.) — 

 For the benefit of your correspondent Bqeoticus, 

 I beg to state that there is a chapel attached to 

 Christ's Hospit.al, about which fact he seems doubt- 

 ful, and that there is 7wt one at Durham School, nor 

 is there likely to be one, although the subject was 

 broached by the head-master a few years ago. 



A. M. W. 



Unused Palimpsest (2'"' S. vi. 241.) — A most 

 interesting and valuable discovery ! May not 

 the prefixed ^p, respecting which Dr. Tregelles 

 inquires, be the initial of the word \fni(pos in its 

 mediaeval sense, " Vricpos, nota numeri .?" Thus 

 Theophanes (as cited by Du Cange) writes 'EkoJ- 

 Xvce ypaipeffOai 'EAAtji'io'ti rovs Stji^ociovs tS>v KoyoBeaiuv 

 KuihiKos, oAA 'ApaSi'ois avra Trapa(rrttiaive(r0ai, X'^P^^ '''^'^ 

 \l/ri<poiv. Viewed in this ligbt the i^ would answer 

 to our N°, or No., for numero or number; e.g. 

 ^. iff would be equivalent to N° 12. 



In the phrase toC '\ime6s ^Avraivlov KS/xriTOS, I 

 would suggest that KoVtjtoj is not to be viewed as 

 a proper name, but as the genitive of KS/xti^, tjtoj, 

 Lat. Comes. Such is the meaning of KS/xris in 

 modern Greek, quasi Count. In mediceval Greek, 

 KJ/UTjs is a title applied to various classes of per- 

 sons, noble, ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and mili- 

 tary : AioSapov Kofii^Tos, BuXSovtyov KofitiTa, 'loiawr)! 

 Ko/j-ris — the title being sometimes appended to the 

 Christian name without mention of any surname, 

 exactly as in the case presented by Dr. Tre- 

 gelles, 'Ai/twciou K<{/tT)Tos. So Comes in media3val 

 Latin : Henriciis Comes, Ludovicus Comes. K6ix->)s 

 Tfjs ^Xavrpas, Comes Flandrifc. 



The author of the note in pencil did not, perhaps, 

 intend to write "Comuto," but "Com7)to," insert- 

 ing, in his Italian version of the Greek, an eta 

 in correspondence with KduTjros (however pro- 

 nounced). So we sometimes see an omega in- 

 serted where the remaining type is roman, as in 

 crisecijs. 



May I be permitted to ask a question respecting 

 'iTTirfJj ? Is '\inr(6sy in the pbrase toD 'l-mnSs 'hvru- 



