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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>>'« S. VI. 145., Oct. 9. '58. 



Rigden, another intelligent bookseller of the town, 

 lias published one ; and if so, I presume it would 

 be carefully executed. J. Dacres Devi-in. 



Quaint " Address iu the Header" (2"" S. vi. 244.) 



— There can be little or no doubt the three lines 

 quoted by T. N. B. were ivritten by John Byrom, 

 as in the 2nd Part of the 1st vol. of his Remains, 

 edited by the late lamented Dr. Parkinson, and 

 published by the Chetbam Society, at p. 355. 

 is a copy of a letter to Mrs. Byrom, in which John 

 Byrom says, speaking of Hurlothrumho, 



" These three lines, according to one of the papers, are 

 on the title-page, 'Ye sons of nonsense read my Hurlo- 

 thrumbo,' SiC, only the author of Hurlo, to mend the verse, 

 has printed 'Ye sons of fii-e,' contrary, they say, to the 

 original MS. iu the Cotton Library." 



To this passage Dr. Parkinson has added this 

 note : — 



"From this it seems pretty clear bj' whom these three 

 lines were furnished. It maj' perhaps be a question whe- 

 ther Byrom did not supplj' more than these three lines 

 and the Epilogue to this whimsical extravaganza." 



C. DE D. 



Pisces Regales (2"^ S. vi. 232.)— In Queen 

 Elizabeth's Charter to the Borough of Boston, 

 Lincolnshire, dated 10th of Feb. 1573, the royal 

 fish enumerated are the same as those mentioned 

 by your correspondent Ready Penny, with the 

 exception of the " Chetas." In an English trans- 

 lation of this charter these royal lish are called 

 " sturgeons, whales, porpoises, dolphins, rigs, and 

 grampuses." This comprehends all that are named 

 in your correspondent's query, except the " Che- 

 tas." " Regis " being Anglicised " Rigs," and 

 "Graspecias" "grampuses;" upon what autho- 

 rity I cannot presume to say. 



PisHEY Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Lotus, ^'c. (2"'^ S. vi. 176.) — The following short 

 extract from The Times of Sept. 9th may afford 

 many of your readers an opportunity of seeing 

 the beautiful flowers of this wonderful plant, 

 which commands such extraordinary reverence in 

 the East : — 



"Kew Gaiidens. — The sacred Indian lotus of the 

 Hindoos, or Egyptian bean of the ancients, is now produc- 

 ing its flowers of marvellous and gorgeous beauty in the 

 tropical aquarium. A model of this magnificent plant 

 is in the Old Museum." 



Simon Wabd. 



Complutensian Pohjglott Bible (2'"* S. vi. 233.) 



— The copy on vellum, in 6 vols, folio, described 

 by Dibdin {Library Companion, 2nd edit., 1825, 

 p. 7.) as having passed from the possession of 

 Cardinal Ximenes himself, through the successive 

 ownership of Pinelli and Macarthy, to the library 

 of Air. Hibbert, I believe found a final resting- 

 place in the British Museum, and is perhaps that 

 which your correspondent inquires after. When 



Mr. Hibbert's books were sold by Evans in 1829, 

 Messrs. Pavne & Foss were the purchasers at the 

 price of 525Z. R. S. Q. 



Casting out Devils (2"'* S. vi. 207. 253). — My 

 family possess a quaint old caricature of the event, 

 which is too minute for the whole to be described. 

 In the centre, however, George Lukins and a cleri- 

 cal magistrate, in company with the devil, are 

 represented in one scale of a balance as outweigh- 

 ing the seven divines in the other, who are evi- 

 dently " found wanting." In one corner of the 

 engraving they are drawn as doing penance before 

 the bishop. 



I should be most happy to render any farther 

 information in my power to R. W. Hackwood if 

 he would publish his address. Xlvy. 



Suspended Animation (P' S. passim ; 2°* S. v. 

 453. 514.) — The following narrative is going the 

 round of the provincial press. I quote the Stain- 

 ford Mercury of August 27 : — 



" The Etoile Beige gives the following example of the 

 danger attending too precipitate interment. While the 

 clergyman was reciting the usual praj'ers over the coffin 

 of a child in the church of the Minimes at Brussels, the 

 supposed dead child, who had only fallen into a trance, 

 awoke, knocked at the side of the coffin, and uttered cries. 

 The coffin was opened, and the child taken to the hos- 

 pital." 



■ Some Belgian reader of " N. & Q." will per- 

 haps inform us whether the above be true. 



K. P. D. E. 



Banns of Marriage (2°'' S. vi. 268.) — At the 

 time N. B. refers to (1656) the use of the Book 

 of Common Prayer was not only forbidden under 

 severe penalties, but the clergy were also forbid- 

 den to perform any of the offices of the Church. 



In the " Little Parliament " of 1653 provision 

 was made for the future registration of marriages, 

 births, and deaths. In a iiote on this Dr. Lin- 

 gard in his History (edit. 1849, vol. viii. p. 408.) 

 says : — 



" And in all cases the names of the parties intending to 

 be married should be given to the registrar of the parish, 

 whose duty it was to proclaim them, according to their 

 wish, either in the church after the morning exercise on 

 three successive Lord's Daj's, or in the market-place on 

 three successive market days." 



It is possible that when the proclamation was in 

 the market-place, that the bellman published the 

 banns. G. W. N. 



Alderley Edge. 



The ceremony of calling the banns by the public 

 bellman owes its origin to the Cromwell dispen- 

 sation, an ordinance having gone forth from the 

 Roundhead rulers that such was to be the only 

 legal form of proclamation. Any one who has 

 been in the habit of consulting the parish registers 

 of the period will have no doubt seen frequent 

 notices referring to this subject. Here is one, 



