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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2°i S. VI. 152., Nov. 27. '58. 



"Zt/ing by the tvalV (P' S. yii. 332.; 2""^ S. vi. 

 325.) — Whatever may be the origin of this phrase, 

 it seems to have been confined in its use to the 

 district of East Anglia, and is noticed in the Glos- 

 saries of Grose, Forb)', and Moore. The latter, in 

 his Suffolk Words, says, " ' Bi/ the loalls^ dead and 

 not buried; 'A lie bi the walls.'" The earliest 

 instance of the phrase I recollect occurs in the 

 Romance of Ilavelok :' 



" Thar was sorwe, tvo so it sawe, 

 Hwan the children bith waive 

 Lei/en, and sprauleden iu the blod." — (y. 473.) 



In a ballad, also, of the fourteenth century, 

 printed by Ritson in his Ancient Songs (p. 46.), 

 we meet with the same expression : 



" Whon that ur lyf his leve hath lauht, 

 Ur bodi Uih bounden bi ilie loowe, 

 Ur richesses alle from us ben raft, 

 In clottes colde ur cors is throwe." 



E,itson does no't attempt to explain the meaning. 

 It is probable that some similar expression may be 

 found in the Danish or Swedish languages. In the 

 Dutch is a phrase v/hich seems somewhat akin, — 

 " aan de laager wal zyn," " to be brought to a low 

 ebb." AC. 



The exact phrase, in the mouth of a Suffolk 

 peasant, would be, " He lay by the walls." Is it 

 not a corrupted form of some expression in which 

 occurred the Anglo-Saxon word "wajl," death; 

 gen. " wseles ; " so meaning, " He is laid low by 

 death?" S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



Hope (2"'i S. vi. 372.) — The curious work of 

 Thomas Hope, Ari Essay on the Origin and Pro- 

 spects of Man, will be found reviewed at con- 

 siderable length in four numbers of the Literary 

 Gazette, that for June 18, 1831, and the three 

 following. It appears that but a small number of 

 copies were printed, and that, even when the re- 

 view was written, not a copy was to be obtained 

 by the public. It was published by Murray in 

 1831, in three volumes octavo. F. C. H. 



AlUni the Mathematician (2"« S. vi. 372.) — He 

 appears to be one of those celebrities who abound 

 in Leland, Bale, &c., whose fame has been rescued 

 from oblivion, and nothing else. The following 

 is what is printed in Leland, and Bale and Pits 

 can say no more : — 



"Aubinus [Philippus] philosophus et mathematicus 

 insignis, hiculenta prajclari ingenii exempla multa isidis 

 in Vado, non sine laude, exhibuit. Inter qua; et ilhid 

 non erat minimum, quod, Alphousi exempluni secutus 

 honestissiraum, Canones TaUdarum perscripserit." 



But Tanner adds the following note : — 



"Philippus Aubinus, alias Worcestrius, monachus, dein 

 subprior, et taudem G Jan. jicclxjocvii prior Wigovniensis 

 evasit. Wharton, ^.-S., torn. i. 549. As to the Canones, 



he adds — Lib. i. atque alia addit MS. Leland Trin. Obiit 

 7 Jul. Mccxcvi. Whart. ). c. Bal. xii. 02. ex Lelando. 

 Pits. Append, p. 891." 



By the dates supplied by Wharton, and the date 

 of the Alfonsine Tables (1252), we may conjecture 

 that Aubin introduced the Alfonsine Tables into 

 England, and gained much credit thereby. The age 

 in which he lived put importers, translators, and 

 even transcribers, nearly on the footing of au- 

 thors, and frequently confounded them. So that 

 it seems the Alfonsine Tables were soon intro- 

 duced into England. A. De Moegan. 



St. Blain's Chapel (2"^ S. vi. 283.) — The best 

 way of thanking Me. Habwood Pattison for his 

 acceptable notice of a venerable piece of ecclesias- 

 tical antiquity, St. Blain's Chapel, is to comply 

 with his request, and answer his question about 

 that " curious cupboard, in the east wall, on one 

 side of the altar." No doubt it was-nn " Almerye," 

 or Ambry, the uses and position of which are thus 

 accurately set forth in that valuable work, The 

 Ancient Monuments, liites, and Customes ivithin 

 the Monastical Church of Durham, Sfc, edited by 

 the Surtees Society : — 



" In the noi'tli side of the Quire there is an Almerye, 

 neere to the High Altar, fastened in the wall, for to lay 

 any thinge in pertaininge to the High Altar. Likewise 

 there is another Almerye in the south side of the Quire 

 nigh the High Altar, enclosed in the wall, to sett the cha- 

 lices, the basons, and the crewetts in, that they did mi- 

 nister withall at the high masse, with locks and keys for 

 the said Almeryes." — P. 11. 



Those " vestiges of erections to the south of the 

 nave wall," are, to my thinking, the ruins of an 

 ankoridge or house for an ankret: such build- 

 ings were much oftener attached to churches and 

 chapels than is, at present, imagined. D. Rock. 



Brook Green. 



The Works of Francis Qtiarles (2"'^ S. vi. 201. 

 299. 330.) — The three tracts, to which the title of 

 The Profest Royalist, and the dedicatory epistle 

 cited in ray former communication, are prefixed, 

 are separate publications, with distinct paginations 

 and title-pages, dated as follows: — 



"TheLoyall Convert, Oxford, 1G45." 



"The New Distemper, written by the author of The 

 Loyall Convert, Oxford, 1645." 



" The Whipper Whipt: incerti Atithoris. Qui Mockat, 

 Mockabitur [s. 1.], 1G44." 



Other copies of each of the three tracts are to 

 be found also in the Library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin. "AAieij. 



Dublin. 



Lascellcs' Liber Eiberiiice (2"'^ S. vi. 287. 350). 

 — A valuable exposition of the contents of this 

 work, and some just remarks upon the manner of 

 its compilation, written by the late James F. 

 Ferguson, Esq., of tha Exchequer Record depart- 

 ment in Dublin, will be found in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine for September, 1854. J. G. N. 



